[{"text": "Ilmen () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Ilmenskoye Rural Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,156 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Ilmen is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 17 km northwest of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rudnya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kozlovka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kozlovskoye Rural Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 490 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Kozlovka is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 35 km northwest of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lemeshkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krutoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Lemeshkinskoye Rural Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Krutoye is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 19 km west of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ilmen is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lemeshkino () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Lemeshkinskoye Rural Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,181 as of 2010. There are 14 streets. Geography. Lemeshkino is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 25 km north of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Borodayevka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lopukhovka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Lopukhovskoye Rural Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 939 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Lopukhovka is located 30 km southwest of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ushinka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Dassler brothers feud was a conflict between two brothers and their respective shoe manufacturers, Adolf (\"Adi\") and Rudolf (\"Rudi\") Dassler, in the latter half of the 20th century. Their feud led to the creation of Adidas and Puma, two of the largest shoe manufacturing companies in the world, and started a long-lasting rivalry between the two companies, reflected in rivalries between football clubs and a culture of animosity between Puma and Adidas employees that divided their home town. The most notable event that fuelled the rivalry was the \"Pel\u00e9 Pact\", where both agreed not to sign a deal with Pel\u00e9 for the 1970 World Cup, feeling that a bidding war for the most famous athlete in the world would become too expensive, only for Puma to break the pact and sign him. History. Rudolf was born in 1898 in Herzogenaurach, part of the German Empire (today part of Bavaria, Germany), to a middle-class family. His brother Adolf was born in 1900. In 1919, they founded the shoe manufacturing company Gebr\u00fcder Dassler Schuhfabrik, or Geda for short. (\"Gebr\u00fcder\" translates into English as \"brothers\".) Both brothers became members of the Nazi party in 1933. Geda became a success during the 1930s"}, {"text": "and 1940s, which was demonstrated in the 1936 Olympics where the legendary African-American runner Jesse Owens wore Geda shoes as he won a gold medal. Geda's operations were paused throughout World War II, as Rudolf was drafted into the German army and Geda's shoe factory was converted into a weapons factory. After the war ended, Rudolf returned, and Geda's operations resumed. In 1948, after over 30 years of working together, Adolf and Rudolf abruptly shuttered Geda and separated. Two reasons for the feud that are cited are strife between their respective wives, who did not get along, yet were forced to live in the same villa, and Rudolf's increasing suspicion that his brother Adi was behind his conscription into the army and thus his short imprisonment by the Allies. In 1948 Rudolf established Puma, which was initially named Ruda (short for ) but later was renamed Puma after the animal. In 1949, Adolf established Adidas, likewise named for himself (). Geda's workforce and resources were split between the brothers. Adidas kept the factory by the train station and two-thirds of Geda's employees, as most employees preferred Adolf's emphasis on product development over Rudolf's sales-oriented approach. Rudolf kept the factory on"}, {"text": "W\u00fcrzburger Street and the remaining third of the workforce. In the following three decades, both Adidas and Puma rose to dominance and signed deals with athletes such as Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier (Adidas) and members of the Brazil national football team (Puma). Adidas introduced shoes customized for different sports, and grew rapidly. Puma, driven by Rudolf's sophisticated sales approach, kept chasing Adidas throughout these decades. Rudolf died in 1974 followed by Adolf in 1978. The brothers were buried at opposite ends of Herzogenaurach's cemetery. Division within Herzogenaurach. The river Aurach divides Herzogenaurach; Puma's factory was to the south and Adidas's factory to the north. Puma and Adidas were the biggest employers there, and at least one person from each family worked for one of these companies. Employees of the two firms and their families avoided speaking to each other; they patronized separate bars, bakeries and barber shops. From people's habit of looking at each other's shoes to see whether they were affiliated with Adidas or Puma, Herzogenaurach got the nickname \"the town of bent necks\". The two biggest football clubs in Herzogenaurach, FC Herzogenaurach and ASV Herzogenaurach, were sponsored by Puma and Adidas respectively. As a result, a strong"}, {"text": "sporting and personal rivalry formed between the players and the fans of each of these teams. World Cups. West Germany was allowed to participate in the 1954 World Cup, the first to be televised; Adidas and Puma worked to change people's perception of their sporting brands and achieve international exposure. Since the rift between the West German national team's manager, Sepp Herberger, and Rudolf prevented Puma from sponsoring the West German national team, Adidas sponsored the team and supplied kits and boots to its players. The West German team defeated the favorites, Hungary, and won its first World Cup. As a result, Adidas received positive international coverage. Adidas was able to get a hold in the international shoe market and grow faster and become bigger than Puma. In the 1970 World Cup, Puma won the business battle. The most famous athlete in the world at that time was Brazilian footballer Pel\u00e9, and prior to the tournament the Dassler brothers agreed the \"Pel\u00e9 Pact\" where neither company would sponsor Pel\u00e9 with the belief that a bidding war would become too expensive. Puma however would break the pact, and pursuant to a sponsorship deal, Pel\u00e9 asked the referee to delay the start"}, {"text": "of Brazil's game against Peru so that he could tie his shoes, and thus all the cameras were focused on his Puma King boots. Pel\u00e9 led Brazil to glory, winning the 1970 World Cup, and his star power greatly contributed to the improvement of Puma's image in the eyes of the public and led to an increase in sales. Legacy. Praised as a shrewd marketing move by Puma, the Pel\u00e9 deal fuelled the Dassler brothers' rivalry, and many business experts credit the rivalry and competition between Adidas and Puma for transforming sports apparel into a multi-billion pound industry. The breaking of the Pel\u00e9 Pact is featured in Barbara Smit\u2019s book, \"Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sports\"."}, {"text": "Betty Hilton (born Elizabeth Evelyn Clements, 12 February 1920 \u2013 3 July 2017) was a British tennis player of the post-World War II era. She reached the women's doubles final at the 1949 French Open alongside Joy Gannon. Clements also reached the quarterfinals in singles at the 1946 French Open and the quarterfinals at the 1949 and 1950 Wimbledon Championships. Career. Clements reached her first singles quarterfinal and doubles semifinal at the 1946 French Championships. In 1947 she reached her first Wimbledon doubles semifinal with partner Jean Bostock falling to Doris Hart and Pat Todd who went on to win the championships. The next year Clements partnered Kay Menzies and reached the third round. Clements partnered Joy Gannon in 1949 at Wimbledon and reached the semifinals for the second time in her career, they lost to Louise Brough and Margarent du Pont. At the 1948 British Hard Court Championships Clements won the women's singles title defeating Pamela Bocquet 6\u20131, 6\u20134 in the final. At the 1949 Scandinavian Indoor Championships Clements won the women's doubles title with Jean Quertier. In 1949 and 1950 Clements reached consecutive singles quarterfinals at Wimbledon, in 1949 falling to Margaret du Pont and in 1950 falling"}, {"text": "to Pat Todd. Personal life. Clements married Raymond Hilton on 2 September 1942, he died during WWII. Clements played under the name Hilton until her second marriage to Andrew James Christopher Harrison on 19 June 1950 and Clements briefly played under the name Harrison until she retired later that year. Career statistics. Grand Slam performance timelines. Doubles. R = tournament restricted to French nationals and held under German occupation. 1In 1946 and 1947, the French Championships were held after Wimbledon."}, {"text": "Maloye Matyshevo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Matyshevskoye Rural Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 42 as of 2010. Geography. Maloye Matyshevo is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 34 km northwest of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Matyshevo (settlement) is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Matyshevo () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Matyshevskoye Rural Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,523 as of 2010. There are 14 streets. Geography. Matyshevo is located 32 km west of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Matyshevo (settlement) is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Matyshevo () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Matyshevskoye Rural Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 134 as of 2010. Geography. Matyshevo is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 30 km northwest of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Matyshevo (selo) is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mityakino () is a rural locality (a selo) in Rudnyanskoye Urban Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 39 as of 2010. Geography. Mityakino is located in forest steppe, 21 km south of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Beryozovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novokrasino () is a rural locality (a selo) in Osichkovskoye Rural Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 122 as of 2010. Geography. Novokrasino is located east from the Shchelkan River, 15 km north of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Osichki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Village Vanguard is a book store chain that is run by Village Vanguard Corporation in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The concept of the store is \"A playful book store\" (ja:\u904a\u3079\u308b\u672c\u5c4b). Although it is a book store, it carries a wide variety of products other than books, such as CDs, DVDs, and SPICEs, which makes it close to being a variety store. History. Village Vanguard was founded by in 1986. The first Village Vanguard store opened in the Tenpaku ward of Nagoya. The store was named after Village Vanguard, a jazz club located in New York City. This is because Kikuchi first planned on playing jazz in the bookstore, which actually never happened. Stores. Village Vanguard has 358 shops in total all across Japan, with each store having a completely different layout. The layout of products is one of the biggest characteristics of this store; instead of making the layout simply by category, they locate their product based on the employee's creativity. Lists. Books. Although Village Vanguard is distinct as a bookstore, their book sales only makes up for around 30% of their total sales. Unlike a majority of the chain book stores, their line up of books varies at every"}, {"text": "store, because the selection of books is curated by the manager. Collaborations. Village Vanguard is known for collaborating with various properties and aspects of pop culture. This has included bands, companies, YouTubers, and more. The merchandise varies time to time, and they produce things such as clothing, key chains, towels to bowls, sandals etc. SPICE. SPICE is a term used in Village Vanguard which stands for Select, Pop, Intelligence, Culture and Entertainment. It is used to refer to all the products except books, CDs and DVDs, things such as toys, clothes and accessories."}, {"text": "Novy Kondal () is a rural locality (a selo) in Gromkovskoye Rural Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 104 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Novy Kondal is located in steppe, 44 km southwest of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gromki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Osichki () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Osichkovskoye Rural Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 555 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Osichki is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 19 km north of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tarapatino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Podkuykovo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Osichkovskoye Rural Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 347 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Podkuykovo is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, 10 km north of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Barannikovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Goldschmiedplatz is a 2.31-hectare urban open space at the northern end of Schlei\u00dfheimer Stra\u00dfe in Munich's Hasenbergl district. It was originally a combined bus and train stop and is now a meeting place for residents and activity area. The founding family Goldschmied from the 14th century gave the square its name. Location. The 23,100 m2 Goldschmiedplatz is located at the eastern end of the Hasenbergl settlement in the far north of the city of Munich and borders directly on the Panzerwiese, a heath area of around 200 hectares, to the east. In the south lies the residential area \"Nordhaide\". Schlei\u00dfheimer Stra\u00dfe, coming from the city centre in the south, ends in a loop around Goldschmiedplatz. With a length of more than eight kilometres, it is the second longest road in the city and forms the current end point of the \"F\u00fcrstenachse\" (princely axis). On this road the Bavarian electors once drove in carriages from Schleissheim Palace, about three kilometres to the north, to the Munich Residence. Along the visual and historical princely axis of Schlei\u00dfheimer Stra\u00dfe, between Goldschmiedplatz and D\u00fclferanger, there is a promenade with various thematic activity areas into which the Goldschmiedplatz is also integrated. The axis, which"}, {"text": "runs along the middle section of Schlei\u00dfheimer Stra\u00dfe, can only be seen today from the city centre to Goldschmiedplatz. From there you can see the towers of the Munich Frauenkirche, 10 km away. To the north, Fortnerstra\u00dfe branches off from Goldschmiedplatz and to the west Aschenbrennerstra\u00dfe and Kugystra\u00dfe. Utilisation. The Goldschmiedplatz is a multifunctional open space for leisure and residential activities. The centre is formed by the \"Blauer Punkt\" (Blue Point), the 25 m2 tram house managed by a residents initiative of the \"Diakonie Hasenbergl\" with the roofing of the former stop. A number of private and public events take place here, such as a regular flea markets or the \"Hasenbergl-Nord\" residents get-together. There is also a barbecue area, a viewing platform and a climbing playground for children. There is also a community garden supervised by Green City. For sporting activities, a volleyball court, table tennis, two chess fields, a boules court, a summer curling track and a large skate park are integrated into the surrounding park. Here you will also find a sculpture by Hanns Goebl and the Hasenbergl Monument, which commemorates the electoral hunt in the 18th century. According to the Development Plan No. 40 Part 1 of"}, {"text": "6 December 1966, the area is designated as a public transport area. The Goldschmiedplatz is governed by the green spaces charter of the state capital Munich. As part of the \"Historische Sichtachse Schlei\u00dfheimer Stra\u00dfe\" (historical visual axis), the square is a place of cultural history and occasionally a location for cultural events."}, {"text": "Razlivka () is a rural locality (a selo) in Rudnyanskoye Urban Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010. Geography. Razlivka is located in forest steppe, on the right bank of the Tersa River, 15 km west of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ilmen is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Russkaya Bundevka () is a rural locality (a selo) in Rudnyanskoye Urban Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 194 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Russkaya Bundevka is located in steppe, 19 km west of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ilmen is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Regional Super50 was the 46th edition of the Regional Super50, the domestic limited-overs cricket competition for the countries of the Cricket West Indies (CWI). The tournament started on 6 November 2019, with the final taking place on 1 December 2019. The tournament featured the six regular teams of West Indian domestic cricket (Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, the Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Windward Islands), the Combined Campuses and Colleges team and the West Indies Emerging Team. The national teams of the United States and Canada also took part. Combined Campuses and Colleges were the defending champions. Following the conclusion of the group stage matches, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago and the West Indies Emerging Team had progressed to the semi-finals. In the first semi-final, the West Indies Emerging Team beat Barbados by three wickets in a rain-affected match. The second semi-final saw the Leeward Islands beat Trinidad and Tobago by four wickets to advance to the final. The West Indies Emerging Team won the tournament, beating the Leeward Islands by 205 runs in the final."}, {"text": "Sadovy () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Rudnyanskoye Urban Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 231 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Sadovy is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Shchelkan River, 8 km north of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Podkuykovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sosnovka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Sosnovskoye Rural Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 582 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Sosnovka is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Tersa River, 32 km west of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Matyshevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Trade unions in Saint Helena emerged in the late 1950s in the flax industry and subsequently played a prominent role in the island's democratisation in the 1960s. The Saint Helena General Workers Union was the island's sole trade union throughout the latter half of the 20th century. In the 21st century, workers are mostly organised in the public sector in staff associations for nurses, teachers and public servants. History. In June 1958 the British Labour Party member of parliament, Cledwyn Hughes, visited the island and later reported to the Colonial Office that workers were living in \"appalling poverty.\" At a public meeting during the visit, discussion ensued on the need for a trade union. The Saint Helena General Workers Union (SHGWU) was established on 23 July 1958 and on 22 September 1958 a strike launched at the Sandy Bay flax mill. In 1968, proposals to sell the island's largest commercial company, Solomon and Co., to a South African firm were met with demonstrations by the SHGWU. The union was concerned that given the population's mixed heritage, sale to a South African firm would allow apartheid to emerge. In 1973, the union's membership was reported at 1,100 \u2013 at that time"}, {"text": "around 20% of the island's population. From 2000. In 2001, the Saint Helena General Workers Union was estimated to have 700 members. In 2013, during the construction of the Saint Helena Airport, workers went on strike over employment terms and conditions; it was reported as the first industrial action on the island in half a century."}, {"text": "Stary Kondal () is a rural locality (a selo) in Gromkovskoye Rural Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 78 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Stary Kondal is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Medveditsa River, southwest of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gromki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ay\u015fe Seitmuratova (also romanized as Aishe or Ayshe; Crimean Tatar Cyrillic: \u0410\u0439\u0448\u0435 \u0421\u0435\u0438\u0442\u043c\u0443\u0440\u0430\u0442\u043e\u0432\u0430; 11 February 1937 \u2013 1 June 2025) was a Crimean Tatar civil rights activist. Biography. Seitmuratova was born in Crimea on 11 February 1937, seven years before the mass deportation of the Crimean Tatar nation from Crimea (or S\u00fcrg\u00fcnlik), and survived her family's deportation to Uzbekistan as a child. She was Muslim. Because of her ethnicity, Seitmuratova was designated a \"special settler\". After academic opportunities for which she was overqualified were denied to her because of this designation, she became an active member of the Crimean Tatar civil rights movement. After advocating for some of the most draconian restrictions on Crimean Tatar civil rights to be lifted and meeting with Soviet leadership, she continued to lobby Moscow for the right of return. She enrolled in the history faculty at Samarkand University in 1957. She joined the Crimean Tatar national movement in Samarkand Oblast in 1964. Two years later, in 1966, she was arrested for \"inciting national hatred\", receiving three years of probation. In the meantime, she continued her activism and studies as a graduate student at the Institute of History of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences in"}, {"text": "Tashkent, where she also worked as a lecturer. She was arrested again in 1971, charged \"spreading deliberately false ideas that defame the Soviet state and public order,\" and sentenced to three years in prison in July, which she spent in a camp in Mordovia, being released in June 1974. She emigrated from the Soviet Union in November 1978, moving first to Vienna and then to the United States in 1979, where she acquired citizenship. She met U.S. president Ronald Reagan in 1982 and 1988 and participated in many human rights conferences. She became a journalist for the BBC, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America, talking about the issues affecting the Crimean Tatar people and their history, including of russification efforts by Russia. Seitmuratova was able to return to Crimea in 1990, living there for the rest of her life. Despite not supporting the Russian annexation of Crimea, she was highly critical of some of the actions of Mustafa Dzhemilev and his Mejlis faction. She died in Russian-occupied Crimea on 1 June 2025, at the age of 88."}, {"text": "The 2019 Brest Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Brest, France between 21 and 27 October 2019. Singles main-draw entrants. Other entrants. The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt: The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:"}, {"text": "Tersinka () is a rural locality (a selo) in Rudnyanskoye Urban Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 67 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Tersinka is located in forest steppe, on the right bank of the Tersa River, 13 km southeast of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tersinka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ushinka () is a rural locality (a selo) in Lopukhovskoye Rural Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 112 as of 2010. Geography. Ushinka is located 27 km southwest of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lopukhovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 2019 European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships took place in Rin Grand Hotel, Bucharest, Romania from 18 to 27 October 2019. Medal table. Ranking by Big (Total result) medals Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)"}, {"text": "Elections to Cumbria County Council were held on 7 May 1981. This was on the same day as other UK county council elections. The council size was increased to 83 members following a boundary review. The Labour Party gained control of the council from the Conservative Party."}, {"text": "Yagodny () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Osichkovskoye Rural Settlement, Rudnyansky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 62 as of 2010. Geography. Yagodny is located 27 km northwest of Rudnya (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kozlovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Hubert Hurkacz was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title. Ugo Humbert won the title after defeating Evgeny Donskoy 6\u20132, 6\u20133 in the final. Seeds. All seeds receive a bye into the second round."}, {"text": "Sander Gill\u00e9 and Joran Vliegen were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title. Denys Molchanov and Andrei Vasilevski won the title after defeating Andrea Vavassori and David Vega Hern\u00e1ndez 6\u20133, 6\u20131 in the final."}, {"text": "The 2019 COSAFA Under-17 Championship is the 8th edition of the COSAFA U-17 Championship, an association football tournament organised by the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) involving teams from Southern Africa for players aged 17 and below. Officials. Referees Assistant Referees Venues. The tournament was played in Blantyre : Mpira Stadium and Kamuzu Stadium Group stage. All times are local, MUT ()."}, {"text": "The 2019 Latrobe City Traralgon ATP Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard court. It was the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Traralgon, Australia between 21\u201327 October 2019. Singles main draw entrants. Other entrants. The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate: The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:"}, {"text": "Marco Zacchera (born 10 October 1951 in Verbania) is an Italian politician. He was elected at the Chamber of Deputies for five legislatures (XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI) with the right-wing parties National Alliance (1994, 1996, 2001, 2006) and The People of Freedom (2008). Zacchera served as Mayor of Verbania from June 2009 to April 2013."}, {"text": "Jordan Thompson was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title. Marc Polmans won the title after defeating Andrew Harris 7\u20135, 6\u20133 in the final. Seeds. All seeds receive a bye into the second round."}, {"text": "Jeremy Beale and Marc Polmans were the defending champions but only Polmans chose to defend his title, partnering Evan King. Polmans lost in the first round to Marcelo Tom\u00e1s Barrios Vera and Alejandro Tabilo. Max Purcell and Luke Saville won the title after defeating Brydan Klein and Scott Puodziunas 6\u20137(2\u20137), 6\u20133, [10\u20134] in the final."}, {"text": "Elections to Cumbria County Council were held on 2 May 1985. This was on the same day as other UK county council elections. The whole council of 83 members was up for election and the Labour Party lost control of the council, which fell under no overall control."}, {"text": "Football at the 2019 Military World Games was held in Wuhan, China from 16 to 27 October 2019. Venues. Below the list of different venues of the football tournament."}, {"text": "The 2019 Tennis Challenger Hamburg was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Hamburg, Germany between 21 and 27 October 2019. Singles main-draw entrants. Other entrants. The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate: The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: The following players received entry as lucky losers:"}, {"text": "As of 07 2025, Uganda Airlines operates flights to the following destinations:"}, {"text": "This was the first edition of the tournament. Botic van de Zandschulp won the title after defeating Bernab\u00e9 Zapata Miralles 6\u20133, 5\u20137, 6\u20131 in the final. Seeds. All seeds receive a bye into the second round."}, {"text": "This was the first edition of the tournament. James Cerretani and Maxime Cressy won the title after defeating Ken Skupski and John-Patrick Smith 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final."}, {"text": "Elections to Cumbria County Council were held on 4 May 1989. This was on the same day as other UK county council elections. The whole council of 83 members was up for election and the council remained under no overall control."}, {"text": "Mikul\u00e1\u0161 Man\u00edk (born 26 May 1975), is a Slovak chess Grandmaster (GM) (2006), Slovak Chess Championship winner (2003). Biography. In 2000s Mikul\u00e1\u0161 Man\u00edk was one of the leading Slovak chess players. In 2003, he won Slovak Chess Championship. Mikul\u00e1\u0161 Man\u00edk has achieved many successes in international chess tournaments, winning or sharing first places among others in L\u00e1zn\u011b Bohdane\u010d (1996), Litomy\u0161l (1997), Tatransk\u00e1 Lomnica (1998), Pardubice (1998), Tatrza\u0144skie Zr\u0119by (2001), Vienna (2003), Pre\u0161ov (2004), \u010cesk\u00e1 T\u0159ebov\u00e1 (2006). Mikul\u00e1\u0161 Man\u00edk played for Slovakia in the Chess Olympiads: Mikul\u00e1\u0161 Man\u00edk played for Slovakia in the European Team Chess Championship: In 2006, he was awarded the FIDE Grandmaster (GM) title."}, {"text": "Stephanie D. Coleman (born April 13, 1988) is a Chicago politician. Coleman is the current alderman of Chicago's 16th ward, taking office as a member of the Chicago City Council in May 2019. She defeated incumbent alderman Toni Foulkes in the 2019 Chicago aldermanic elections. She is also the Democratic Party Committeeman in the 16th ward. Since June 2023, she has been the chair of the Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus. Early life and career. Coleman was born on April 13, 1988. She is the daughter of Shirley Coleman, who as an alderman for the Englewood area from 1991 to 2007. Due to this background she has sometimes used the nickname \"Daughter of Englewood.\" She attended Emannuel Christian School and Chicago Military Academy High School, and later received her B.A. in business management from Robert Morris University and her M.S. in non-profit management from Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. Since 2016, she has been City Vice-Chair in the Cook County Young Democrats. Prior to being elected to office, she also served as an aide to Cook County Commissioner Dennis Deer. She first ran for office in the 2015 Chicago aldermanic election against Toni Foulkes, and lost by a narrow margin in"}, {"text": "the run-off election. She challenged Foulkes again in 2019, and this time won with 67% of the vote in the run-off. Chicago City Council (2019\u2013present). Coleman took office on May 20, 2019. She is a member of the Black Caucus and the Progressive Caucus in City Council."}, {"text": "Rodney Scott Woolf (born December 26, 1961) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for the Los Angeles Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Mount Union Purple Raiders."}, {"text": "Ferdinand Paleologus (; June 1619 \u2013 2 October 1670) was a 17th-century English-Greek freeholder, sugar or cotton planter and churchwarden and possibly one of the last living members of the Palaiologos dynasty, which had ruled the Byzantine Empire from 1259 to its fall in 1453. Ferdinand was the fourth and youngest son of Theodore Paleologus, a Greek soldier and assassin who moved to England in the late 16th century. Ferdinand supported the royalist side in the English Civil War (1642\u20131651), but emigrated to Barbados during (or possibly before) the conflict, perhaps fleeing punishment as the royalists were being defeated or perhaps seeking his fortune with relatives of his mother, who lived on the island. Ferdinand is first attested on the island in 1644 and he quickly integrated himself with its elite. He cultivated cotton or sugar and possibly pineapples and was influential in the affairs of the local St. John's Parish Church, for which he became a vestryman and then a churchwarden. Ferdinand constructed a great mansion called Clifton Hall, named after the home he had lived in with his family in Cornwall. Clifton Hall, though radically changed since Ferdinand's time, remains to this day one of the largest, grandest"}, {"text": "and oldest great houses in Barbados. By the time of his death in 1670, Ferdinand had become known on the island as the \"Greek prince from Cornwall\", a nickname he would be remembered by for centuries. The current marker for his gravesite at St. John's Parish Church, which erroneously gives the date of his death as 1678 instead of 1670, was erected in 1906 and is a local tourist spot. Biography. Early life. Ferdinand Paleologus was the fourth son of Theodore Paleologus by his wife, Mary Balls, and was baptised in the Church of St. Andrew in Plymouth on 15 June 1619 (meaning he was probably born in early June), the baptismal register recording him as \"Ffardinando son of Theodore Paleologus an Ittalian\".' Ferdinand's full name appears to have been William Ferdinand Paleologus, but the only known reference to the name William comes from documentation of his election as vestryman in 1649, most other sources referring to him simply as Ferdinand Paleologus.' As the son of Theodore Paleologus, Ferdinand might have been one of the last living descendants of the Palaiologos dynasty, rulers of the Byzantine Empire from 1259 to 1453. The lineage of Ferdinand and Theodore can be verified"}, {"text": "as true with the exception of an ancestor called John, purported to be the son of Thomas Palaiologos but absent in contemporary sources, making their descent from the emperors plausible, but somewhat uncertain.' None of Theodore's and Ferdinand's contemporaries doubted their imperial descent.' Ferdinand had three older brothers; Theodore (who died in infancy), Theodore Junior and John Theodore, and two older sisters; Dorothy and Mary. After his baptism in 1619, the next record of Ferdinand is his name appearing on the list of soldiers present at St Michael's Fort in Plymouth Sound in 1639.' Before then he had likely lived with his father Theodore and his sisters Dorothy and Mary, first in Plymouth and then in Landulph, Cornwall.' This listing suggests that Ferdinand, at age 19, had chosen to support the royalist side in the English Civil War of 1642\u20131651 (the opposite side of his brother Theodore Junior). Unlike Theodore Junior, Ferdinand was not a commander in any capacity but a common soldier. What happened to Ferdinand immediately after 1639 is unclear, since he is absent from army lists compiled by both the parliamentarists and the royalists in 1642 (though these army lists are lists of officers only).' It is"}, {"text": "possible that he was either one of the royalists who chose to flee to Barbados to avoid punishment in England or that he had escaped to Barbados already before the war broke out.' A likely explanation is that Ferdinand sought his fortune with his relatives, the Balls family from Suffolk, from which his mother had been.' There were no less than three plantations owned by the Balls family on Barbados, including the largest plantation on the island. Ferdinand, and the Balls family before him, were some of the earliest settlers on the island,' which had only been discovered around 1620.' The British had first settled the island in 1627.' Life in Barbados. Ferdinand's presence in Barbados is first attested on 26 June 1644, when he and his older brother John Theodore are attested as witnesses to a deed. Ferdinand gradually integrated himself with the Barbadian elite. Some time before 1649, he had become a freeholder, probably with the support of the Balls family, and he married Rebecca Pomfrett, daughter of a local landowner. He built and owned an estate called Clifton Hall, named after the home he and his family had lived in while in Landulph, and owned a small"}, {"text": "cotton or sugar plantation. Clifton Hall is located on the heights of Saint John, near St. John's Parish Church, which Ferdinand supported throughout his life. Clifton Hall still stands today and remains recognised as one of the largest, grandest and oldest great houses on Barbados. Clifton Hall has changed radically since Ferdinand's time, most of the rooms and exterior dating to renovation and construction projects in the early 19th century. Only the kitchen and staff quarters, alongside two small rooms currently used as changing rooms for the swimming pool, remain intact from the 17th century. In 1649, Ferdinand was elected to the vestry of St. John's parish. In the early years of the island, such vestrymen were powerful establishment figures. Over the years, he gradually added to his property, being recorded as purchasing more land in July 1662. On a 1685 map of Barbados, a plantation labelled the \"Paleologus and Beal\" plantation, to the west of St John's Church, is marked with the drawing of a pineapple, meaning that Ferdinand might have cultivated pineapples in addition to cultivating sugar or cotton. Like other owners of plantations, Ferdinand would have employed slaves at his plantation. In the late 17th century, at"}, {"text": "least 2000 slaves were imported to Barbados each year. By 1655, Ferdinand was a churchwarden and in 1656 and 1660 he was a trustee. He also concerned himself with affairs unrelated to the church, being attested as a lieutenant in 1654 and as a surveyor of the highways in 1660.' He became known on the island as the \"Greek prince from Cornwall\", and was long remembered by that nickname after his death.' Death. Ferdinand was recorded as absent from a meeting of the vestry in January 1670, probably on account of ill health. His condition would worsen over the course of the following months and on 26 September that year, he made a will, which begins: In the will, half of Ferdinand's estate was willed to his wife Rebecca and the other half to his son, Theodore (who is identified by the odd spelling Theodorious).' Theodore's inheritance was to be employed for his \"maintenance and education, together with the increase of his Estate, until he attains the age of fourteen years\". Ferdinand's sisters Dorothy and Mary were willed twenty shillings each and further money and items of value were willed to Ferdinand's godson Ralph Hassall and his friend Edward Walrond.'"}, {"text": "The will was amended on 2 October, to state that Rebecca was to inherit the entire estate if Theodore died before her without children of his own. The will was witnessed by men of influence on Barbados; Tobias Bridge, George Hanmer and Thomas Kendall. The same witnesses were present when the will was amended, in addition to Abraham Pomfrett, Rebecca's brother. Various inaccurate dates for Ferdinand's death have been provided over the years, mostly on account of the crabbed handwriting in some of these documents. The date provided on his gravestone (erected in 1906) wrongly gives his date of death as 3 October 1678. It is likely that he died on, or soon after, the date his will was amended, 2 October 1670. He was buried at the cemetery of St. John's Parish Church. Legacy. Gravesite. On 13 October 1819, a hurricane swept over Barbados. Among the locations damaged were St John's church and while removing disturbed bodies to new burial sites, the body of Ferdinand was discovered. According to Henry Bradfield, a 19th century historian of Barbados: The lead coffin was opened a second time, on 3 May 1844, to \"test the truth of the tradition\", wherein Ferdinand's skeleton"}, {"text": "was again found to have been of exceptional size and imbedded in quicklime, sometimes used in burials to speed up the disintegration of corpses if there was fear that a disease might spread. The body being buried with the feet pointing to the east is, despite local legend and the writings of historians on Barbados, not a strange Greek custom but the common practice for burials in England. Ferdinand's gravesite is used for publicity on Barbados today, with holiday brochures referring to the monument there as \"one of the oldest on Barbados\" and visitors to St John's church immediately being confronted with signs pointing to it. The monument is recent however, erected in 1906, and since Ferdinand's body was moved in the 20th century, it marks his current burial site, not the original 1670 site. The monument's text, clearly based on the text on the tombstone of his father in Cornwall, reads: In popular culture and memory. If Ferdinand and his father were genuine members of the Palaiologos family, Ferdinand was one of the last living members of the dynasty. Ferdinand was only survived by his son, Theodore, who in turn was only survived by his daughter, Godscall, who disappeared"}, {"text": "from history. Local tradition has it that the provisional government in Athens sent a letter to the authorities on Barbados in the aftermath of the Greek War of Independence (1821\u20131829), inquiring if a living branch of the Palaiologos dynasty still lived on the island. The letter supposedly requested that if that was the case, the head of the family should be provided with the means of returning to Greece, with the trip paid for by the Greek government. With Ferdinand's last known living descendants dead or missing in the 17th century, it was ascertained that there were no living Palaiologoi on Barbados. Patrick Leigh Fermor's \"The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands\" (1950) briefly mentions the fate of Ferdinand and his family, stating the following: In 1958, Ferdinand's tombstone caught the eye of the Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, who that same year published an article on supposed sightings of Ferdinand's ghost on Barbados. Ferdinand's grave appears in Carpentier's novel \"Explosion in a Cathedral\" (1962), which explores the impact of the French Revolution on the Americas. Carpentier's novel centers on siblings Sofia and Carlos, and their cousin Esteban, who live in an old mansion in Havana. One evening around"}, {"text": "1790, the French merchant and adventurer Victor Hugues enters their mansion and tells the main characters of the various wonders and sights he has come across on his travels, notably \"on Barbados, the tomb of a nephew of Constantine XI, the last emperor of Byzantium, whose ghost appears on stormy nights to solitary wanderers...\". Ferdinand's son Theodore is a central figure in a series of novels by British author Jane Stevenson. In \"The Pretender\" (2002), Theodore is called Lieutenant Theodore Paleologue and is described as the son of \"Sir Ferdinando\", living in Restoration England. In the novel, Theodore's parents are depicted as particularly lenient slave owners."}, {"text": "Sara Wesslin (born 7 November 1991) is a Skolt Saami journalist and news anchor from Finland and a strong advocate of the Skolt Sami language, her grandmother Olga's mother tongue. She took on the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture to secure funding from Finland for the Nordic Resource Centre for the Sami languages. In October 2019, she was one of the \"inspiring and influential women\" featured in the BBC's \"100 Women\". Wesslin has used her media resources and access to popular culture to help revive the Skolt S\u00e1mi language. She has also focused on teaching it to women who she believes play a huge role in keeping the language in their family. In June 2020, she was shortlisted for the One Young World Journalist of the Year Award. Background. Wesslin, born in Finland in the early 1990s, is a journalist with the Finnish broadcasting authority Yle where she started to work in the newsroom in 2013. Based in Inari in the far north of Finland, she is one of just two journalists who currently broadcast on radio and television in the Skolt Sami language, the other being Erkki Gauriloff. She now writes stories and presents the news in Skolt"}, {"text": "Sami, Northern Sami, and Finnish. Wesslin has assisted Tiina Sanila-Aikio, president of the Finnish S\u00e1mi Parliament, who has also contributed to the revival of the Skolt Sami language and culture. In 2006, few people under 30 could speak Skolt S\u00e1mi. In the intervening years Wesslin has promoted the use of the language in government, media, and in Finnish professional life. When she was featured in the BBC's \"100 Women\", Wesslin was surprised that she had been included, commenting: \"When you think about the world nowadays, when endangered languages are dying all the time and disappearing, it\u2019s kind of a privilege that I can do my work in Skolt S\u00e1mi which is spoken by around 300 people.\" She explained that television news in Skolt Sami had been welcomed by the audience, especially those who do not use the Internet, as they could now follow it in their mother tongue."}, {"text": "The TAIAN TA5450/TAS5450 is a 25 ton transporter erector launcher that primarily carries ballistic missiles. However, it is also able to carry other weapon systems such as rockets and conventional missiles. Despite sometimes being called the TA5450, the actual official designation of the vehicle is the TAS5450. The TA5450 is actually the designation of the vehicle's base chassis, while the TAS5450 refers to the vehicle itself. Description. The TA5450/TAS5450 is an 8x8 TEL configuration. As it is around the same size as its cousin, the TA580/TAS5380 and the WS2400, the relatively small size of the TA5450/TAS5450 means that it could only carry a maximum payload equal to the curb weight of the vehicle itself. Contrast this to the much larger WS2500 and the WS2600, which could mount far heavier payloads due to the larger size of the TELs. Because of its payload, the TA5450/TAS5450 primarily carries the DF-15B and the DF-15C short range ballistic missiles. However, it is just as possible for the TA5450/TAS5450 to carry the A200, A300 and the WS-2 rocket systems. It has also been reported that Sudan has acquired the TA5450/TAS5450 TEL systems."}, {"text": "Elections to Cumbria County Council were held on 6 May 1993. This was on the same day as other UK county council elections. The whole council of 83 members was up for election and the council remained under no overall control."}, {"text": "Tumapaqrisiq Kallonna (also spelled Tumapa'risi' Kallonna or Tumaparisi Kallonna) was a \"karaeng\" or monarch of early Gowa, ruling from c. 1511 to late 1546, and the first ruler described in detail by the \"Gowa Chronicle\". He introduced written records and laws into the kingdom, and began its expansion by conquering and establishing ties with its Makassar neighbours. He was also credited with internal reforms, including the introduction of the \"sabannaraq\" or harbormaster, the first bureaucratic post in the kingdom. Under the reigns of his sons and other descendants in the sixteenth century, Gowa continued its expansion and reforms and would become the preeminent power of the South Sulawesi Peninsula."}, {"text": "Cota is a genus of pygmy grasshoppers in the family Tetrigidae. There are five described species in \"Cota\". (see also older ) Species. These five species belong to the genus \"Cota\":"}, {"text": "Thomas William Allen, (9 May 1862 \u2013 30 April 1950) was an English classicist, scholar of Ancient Greek and palaeographer. He was a fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1890 until his death sixty years later. He is best known for his editions of Homer for Oxford Classical Texts and work on Greek palaeography. Early life and education. Allen was born on 9 May 1862 at 103 Camden Road Villas, Camden Town, London, the eldest child of Thomas Bull Allen, a wholesale tea dealer, and his wife Amelia Le Lacheur, daughter of William Le Lacheur. His sister Edith married another classicist John Percival Postgate, who was her tutor at Girton College, Cambridge. Details about Allen's upbringing are lacking, but he was educated at Amersham School and by private tutors before going up to University College London in 1880. In June of the next year he was elected to a classical scholarship at The Queen's College, Oxford, matriculating on 28 October 1881. He earned honours: first class in Mods (Honour Moderations) 1882 and first class in \"Literae Humaniores\" 1885. After receiving his B.A. in 1885 he was made a Fellow of University College London the same year, a rare honour."}, {"text": "He began teaching, standing in as a temporary professor of Humanity in the University of Edinburgh for the 1885\u20136 school year. Academia and research. Allen became keenly interested in Greek manuscripts and published his first notes on the subject in 1887. He would later write in the preface to his magnum opus: \"My interest in palaeography and philology began with the man to whom I dedicate this book, my only teacher.\" That man was Alfred Goodwin (1849\u20131892), Professor of Greek at University College London. Allen also dedicated his first book \"Notes on Abbreviations in Greek Manuscripts\" (1889) to him. Goodwin was much respected and was considered by many to be a remarkable and stimulating teacher. Allen became a close friend and assisted Goodwin in his work on a new edition of the Homeric Hymns by collating a number of manuscripts. Goodwin had conceived the edition as a two-volume production, with text and commentary, but after his premature death, only notes to about four hundred lines of the text could be located. Allen was asked to assume responsibility for seeing what remained through the press, a task that entailed considerable labour on his part, though out of modesty he omitted his"}, {"text": "name from the title page (\"Hymni Homerici\", ed. Goodwin [Oxford, 1893]). In the Michaelmas Term 1887 Allen was elected to a Craven Fellowship at Oxford. Under the new scheme of 1886, the Craven Fellow was to receive \u00a3200 annually for two years and was \"required to spend at least eight months of each year of his tenure of the Fellowship in residence abroad for the purpose of study at some place or places approved by the electing Committee.\" Allen had proposed to the electors three lines of study: \"a collation of MSS. of the \"Iliad\", a collection of materials bearing upon palaeography generally, and, in cases where is seemed useful, cataloguing of manuscripts.\" He followed his proposal and spent the bulk of 1888 and 1889 primarily in Italy combing the libraries for relevant manuscripts. His first book \"Notes on Abbreviations in Greek Manuscripts\" (1889) offered the result of his palaeographical investigations and was well received by England's greatest expert on the subject Sir Edward Maunde Thompson. Although not a comprehensive work, it was then the best study of the topic in English and is still a useful guide for students. The next year he would publish his second book \"Notes"}, {"text": "on Greek Manuscripts in Italian Libraries\" (1890), which offered useful \"rough lists,\" providing pertinent details not available in published catalogues, which were often inadequate, or did not exist. The Convocation at Oxford had authorized an expenditure of \u00a3500 for the production of the report, the large sum being indicative of their satisfaction with his first publication. Not only were these trips productive in terms of providing the young scholar with a wealth of palaeographical experience, but at the end of his travels, while in Florence, he would meet his future wife Miss Laura Hope. Following these labors he was awarded a M.A. in 1889 and elected Fellow of The Queen's College in 1890. As for the latter election, the Senior Tutor at the time wrote that it \"was made without examination, a compliment which has never before been paid to anyone by this college. In the 1890s Allen focused his labours on what would be his life's work, the texts of Homer and the Homeric Hymns. During the latter part of the decade he began a working relationship with David B. Monro, a leading Homeric scholar and Provost of Oriel College, Oxford. In 1896 Monro published his Homeric text \"Homeri"}, {"text": "Opera et reliquiae\", which included the version of the Homeric Hymns that Allen had edited three years earlier. At the start of the next year, the Delegates of Oxford University Press announced \"a standard and uniform series\" of \"Oxford Classical Texts\", with the responsibility for Homer being assigned to Monro and Allen. The fruit of their collaboration would be published five years later, a two-volume edition of the \"Iliad\", \"Homeri Opera\" I-II (1902). During this decade Allen was struggling financially, and as a result was forced to delay his wedding four years until 1894. Even then, after they moved into their new residence at 6 Canterbury Road, his wife's aunt and sister took part of the house and contributed towards expenses. Allen twice applied for more remunerative positions, first for the chair of Humanity at the University of Edinburgh in 1891 and then for the chair of Greek at the University of Glasgow in 1899, both of which he failed to obtain. Fortunately, he was appointed a visiting lecturer at Royal Holloway College in 1893, a position he held until 1918, and which would bring in additional monies. In the first decades of the twentieth century Allen published his editions"}, {"text": "of Homeric texts. He brought out revised versions of his Oxford Classical Text of the \"Iliad\" (2nd ed., 1908; 3rd ed. 1920), the \"Odyssey\" (1st ed. 1908; 2nd ed. 1917/1919), and the Homeric Hymns (1912). He collaborated with E. E. Sikes, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of St John's College, Cambridge, to bring out an edition of the Homeric Hymns (1904) with an English introduction and running commentary. He produced a similar edition (with commentary) of the Catalogue of Ships (1921), a catalogue in Book 2 of Homer's \"Iliad\" (2.494-759), which lists the contingents of the Achaean army that sailed to Troy. Finally, in 1931 he published his \"edito maior\" of the \"Iliad,\" a three-volume work, with the first volume containing solely introductory materials (in English). All of his editions of Homer were praised at the time and were the products of years of labour, but they have subsequently been criticized; Nigel Wilson has suggested that his \"classification of the \"Iliad\" manuscripts was essentially flawed ... There is so much inaccuracy in what Allen states ... that one cannot trust him at all\". Despite this criticism, they remain in print as the official Oxford edition. His only monograph was \"Homer: The"}, {"text": "Origins and the Transmission\" (1924), a collection of his more important articles, revised and augmented. In the preface he offers a frank assessment: \"Time was when I intended to write a book on Homer, a continuous book which should cover the whole subject and solve the whole question\u2014his age, personality, method, theme ... As time went on I was discouraged by the failure, so it seemed to me, of my contemporaries, English and foreign, and by the discovery of my own incapacity. I should like to put this last down to the drawbacks of the teaching profession (which are real) and the tutor's rusty pen. But I cannot conceal from myself that I might have overcome these obstacles had I been more of what literary people call in their own case a creative artist\" (p. 5). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1922. Allen was a very conservative text critic. Two years after his publication of Goodwin's edition, he offered a \"sequel\" that was to provide the text-critical principles he had followed. He first characterizes the efforts of earlier editors: \"The Greek classics have been read, studied, and edited for above four hundred years; the simple"}, {"text": "and easy corrections that the early editors, Greeks and Italians, made in their texts have been followed by the more learned but of necessity less and less certain attempts of Frenchmen, Dutchmen, Germans, English, who have provided every ancient writer with an accumulation of alternative readings which exceeds in bulk his own words.\" He then offers his own criteria for textual emendation: \"To lay down the canons that determine a good emendation is not an easy task. I will content myself with stating one principle, not the only one, but that which is in most danger of being overlooked, namely, that no emendation is certain the passing of which into the actual documentary reading cannot be explained according to recognized graphical laws. If this condition be unfulfilled, not the most brilliant or witty substitute for the text can be accepted. The datum, the evidence given by the MSS., is that from which we start, and to which we come back; to depart therefrom is to compose, to rewrite the author, to write better than the author. We are tied by the document, and within the radius of graphical change about it lies the field for our invention.\" Personal. Allen married"}, {"text": "Laura Charlotte Hope, the eldest daughter of William Hope, a recipient of the Victoria Cross for bravery during the Crimean War, and his wife Margaret Graham. They were engaged on 27 February 1890, a couple of months after they had met in Florence, but would not marry until 1894. They had one child, a daughter, Charlotte Allen, born in 1896. Mrs. Allen would become a devoted member of the newly formed Christian Science movement, which had only begun to hold public services in London the year that Charlotte was born. It is not clear what T. W. Allen's religious beliefs were, but apparently he was never baptized, a neglect that apparently cost him a Studentship at Christ Church, Oxford. Unfortunately, it was his wife's adherence to the tenets of the new healing faith from America that resulted in the great disaster of his life. In December 1919, twenty-three-year-old Charlotte became critically ill and died, the tragic result of following the rule to not seek medical help for illness. It was a loss from which he never fully recovered. Laura Allen died on March 25, 1936, at Oxford. Her death notice ended: \"Whom have I in heaven but thee: and there"}, {"text": "is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of thee\" (Ps. 73:24, Coverdale trans.). Allen was old-fashioned in tutorials, but was the patron of a dining society, a lover of fine food and wine, and a much-respected and courteous member of college life. He died on 30 April 1950, at his home, 24 St Michael's Street, Oxford. His funeral was held at Queen's College Chapel on May 4, the service being conducted by the Rev. D. E. Nineham."}, {"text": "The International Federation of Civil Servants was a global union federation bringing together trade unions representing civil servants. History. Two international conferences of unions of civil servants were organised by the Austrian Association of Public Employees, and held in Vienna in 1923 and 1924. These led to the establishment of the International Federation of Civil Servants and Teachers in 1925, with headquarters in Paris. In 1927, the International Federation of Trade Unions sponsored the creation of a new Teachers' International Trade Secretariat, and the unions of teachers decided to leave the International Federation of Civil Servants and Teachers, to join the new organisation. As a result, the federation shortened its name to the \"International Federation of Civil Servants\". In 1935, the federation merged into the International Federation of Employees in Public Services, which renamed itself as the \"International Federation of Employees in Public and Civil Services\". 1925: F. S. Noordhoff 1931: Charles Laurent"}, {"text": "The Apostolic Nunciature to Djibouti is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Djibouti. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador. The title Apostolic Nuncio to Djibouti is held by the prelate appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Ethiopia; he resides in Ethiopia. Pope John Paul II established the Apostolic Delegation to Djibouti on 26 March 1992 as part of a broader reorganization of its representation in the region. The Holy See's interests in the region was previously the responsibility of the Apostolic Delegation to the Red Sea Region."}, {"text": "Xerophyllum is a genus of African groundhoppers in the tribe Xerophyllini. There are at least two described species in \"Xerophyllum\". Species. These two species belong to the genus \"Xerophyllum\":"}, {"text": "Susan Ashworth was a 19th-century British artist and educator, active between 1860 and 1880, who divided her career between London and Edinburgh. Sources vary as to Ashworth's place of birth but agree that after spending time in Edinburgh she lived in London for a time before retiring to Edinburgh. Biography. Ashworth was baptised in 1829 in Salford, Lancashire, the daughter of Thomas Alfred Ashworth, a clerk in holy orders, and his wife Harriet, n\u00e9e Halstead. By the time Susan was eleven, her mother had moved, with Susan and her younger brothers Whitfield, Alfred, Horatio and Howard, to London, possibly as a result of Thomas Ashworth's embrace of the Irvingite doctrine. By the age of twenty-one Susan had been enrolled in classes for women at the Government School of Design in London for some years and had won prizes within the school's examinations, and exhibited designs for fabrics at the 1851 International Exhibition. She was among the first female students to be awarded a scholarship to further her studies in 1852. Returning to Edinburgh, Ashworth was appointed head of the Trustees' Academy, a Government School of Art and now part of the Edinburgh College of Art, on the retirement of Robert"}, {"text": "Scott Lauder in 1861. Ashworth painted flowers, landscapes and still-life pieces in both oils and watercolours and between 1864 and 1873 was a regular exhibitor with the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, showing some 27 works there. She also exhibited at least two pieces with the Royal Society of British Artists at their Suffolk Street gallery in London between 1874 and 1880. Ashworth returned to London in the mid-1870s and continued to paint, exhibiting at the Society of Female Artists until 1880. She died in Hampstead in 1894."}, {"text": "Lophotettix is a genus of South American groundhoppers or pygmy grasshopper. There are about five described species in \"Lophotettix\". Species. These five species belong to the genus \"Lophotettix\":"}, {"text": "Jebu Donga () is a 1975 Indian Telugu action film directed by V. Madhusudhana Rao starring Sobhan Babu and Manjula Vijayakumar in the lead roles. The film was released on 14 August 1975. Reception. The film collected in its second week, in the first two weeks, in the third week, in the first three weeks and the film's final collection exceeded . It was the second highest-grossing film of the year 1975 behind another Sobhan Babu film, Soggadu. Legacy. The title of the film was used for the 1987 Chiranjeevi film Jebu Donga."}, {"text": "The Taian HTF5680A1 is a large transporter erector launcher with a 12x12 configuration. The vehicle comes in two primary variants. The conventional HTF5680 is a 12x12 flatbed vehicle for transport purposes. However, the most common and famous variant is the HTF5680A1 which carries ballistic missiles, most famously, the DF-26 intermediate-range ballistic missile. Description. The HTF5680A1 is a 35-ton TEL that is produced and developed by the Taian Special Vehicle company and is currently one of the main workhorse of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force. The HTF5680A1 has a dimple on the roof in order to better accommodate the DF-26 ballistic missile it carries. Like the WS2600, the large size of the HTF5680A1, allows it to carry ballistic missiles with far heavier payloads. The most common type of ballistic missile the HTF5680A1 carries, are IRBMs such as the aforementioned DF-26. The DF-26 missile itself is an IRBM with a range, and is capable of striking Guam. The warhead of the DF-26 have made it suitable for anti-ship usage. Although it is meant for conventional hard surfaced roads, the HTF5680A1 has some degree of cross-country mobility and can travel over rugged terrain, which makes it less vulnerable to counterattacks and far"}, {"text": "more lethal."}, {"text": "Academy of Architecture may refer to:"}, {"text": "Leaded copper is a metal alloy of copper with lead. A small amount of lead makes the copper easier to machine. Alloys with a larger amount of lead are used for bearings. Brass and bronze alloys of copper may have lead added and are then also sometimes referred to as leaded copper alloys. Leaded copper and its alloys have been used since ancient times. Applications. Leaded copper alloys are used to make electrical connectors and mechanical bearings, especially in the automotive industry where high performance and reliability are required. Mechanical bearings can have high lead content. Such high lead content alloys are unsuitable for welding or brazing. Machined alloys. Alloys with around 2-4% lead are used for machined copper applications, where the lead content lubricates the copper and makes it easier to machine. These include high-quality electrical connectors where a high current capacity and low electrical resistance are required. Such connectors are used in industrial automation and the automotive industry. Brasses (copper alloyed with zinc) may also be leaded for the same reason. Cast and sintered alloys. High-strength casting copper alloys typically contain less than 2% lead. Bearing alloys are often cast or sintered onto a steel backing. Softer alloys"}, {"text": "with a higher lead content are also used, for example in bushes where conformance to the opposite bearing surface is important. Some casting alloys have over 20% lead content but, due to their toxicity, they are no longer used. Toxicity. When lead alloys wear, lead is released into the environment. It is a toxic heavy metal and in recent times the use of leaded copper alloys has been reduced. History. Signs of leaded copper use are found in the manufacture of ancient Egyptian faience. By 1500 BC leaded copper could be found across the Old World from East Asia to Africa and Europe. Enigmatic entries in a Chinese manuscript, the \"Kao Gong Ji\" dating from around 300 BC, were deciphered by scholars in 2022, and seem to indicate that a pre-prepared copper-lead alloy named \"Xi\"(\u91d1) may have been used in the preparation of ancient bronzes. Another copper-tin-lead alloy named \"Jin\"(\u9521) was also tentatively identified as a pre-prepared component of Chinese bronzes. This part of the manuscript relates to an attempt to standardise the quality of bronze manufacture."}, {"text": "The men's football tournament at the 2019 Military World Games was held in Wuhan from 16 to 27 October. Group stage. Group A. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group B. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group C. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "Siang was a major kingdom on the South Sulawesi peninsula (in modern-day Indonesia) from the 10th to the 16th century. By the time it first appeared in the European written records in the 1540s, it was the most important kingdom on the west coast of South Sulawesi, with smaller kingdoms acknowledging its authority. A Portuguese observer Manoel Pinto estimated that its capital had a population of about 40,000 in 1545. Its power declined in the middle of the sixteenth century with the rise of Gowa and Talloq, and it was no longer heard of by the end of the century."}, {"text": "The Memorial to the Victims of the Shoah (lux.: Shoah, hb.: \u05d4\u05b7\u05e9\u05c1\u05d5\u05b9\u05d0\u05b8\u05d4 - ha'Schoah) was inaugurated on 17 June 2018 in the city of Luxembourg. The monument commemorates the persecution, deportation and murder of native Jews and those who fled to Luxembourg during the National Socialist dictatorship. The 17th of June 2018 was chosen for the inauguration because 75 years earlier, on the 17th of June 1943, the last deportation train with Jews had left Luxembourg, and the location, Boulevard Roosevelt, because the first synagogue of Luxembourg existed nearby. Monument and commemorative plaque. The sculpture by the Franco-Israeli artist Shelomo Selinger is intended to be both monument and memorial to the same person and to remind the Jewish population of the inhumanity of the Nazis and to contribute to the fact that such crimes must never be repeated. The monument was erected on Roosevelt Boulevard between the cathedral and the former monastery of St. Sophia. The State and the City of Luxembourg paid a total of 325,000 Euros for this monument. The monument is made of grey-pink granite. Following the inauguration of the Schoah monument, a plaque in Luxembourgish and French was unveiled in the vestibule of the train station,"}, {"text": "commemorating the deportation trains during the Second World War: \"\u201cEr\u00ebnner Dech beim Laanschtgoen drun, datt vun 1941 bis 1943 vun d\u00ebser Gare 658 jiddesch M\u00e4nner, Fraen a Kanner an d'Nazi Ghettoen a Lager d\u00e9port\u00e9iert goufen, wou si kalbliddeg \u00ebmbruecht gi sin.\u201c\" History. The permanent presence of Jews in Luxembourg has been documented since 1276. There is said to have been a first settlement in front of the Sankt-Ulrich-Tor. The Jewish cemetery in Clausen was built in 1817 and in 1823 at the Seminarg\u00e4ssl behind the cathedral (see Ons Stad Nr. 25 of 1987) the first synagogue was solemnly inaugurated. It was built in Moorish-Byzantine style according to the plans of Professor Levi from Karlsruhe. After years of searching a new synagogue at the corner of Rue Aldringen - Rue Notre Dame could be moved into in 1894. This synagogue was destroyed by the Nazis in autumn 1943. In 1927 a total of 1771 people of Jewish descent were in Luxembourg, by 1935 there were 3144, 870 of whom were of Luxembourg nationality. In 1940, about 3700 Jews (about one percent of the total population) lived in Luxembourg. Of the 3700 Jews living in Luxembourg, only about 2500 survived. From 16"}, {"text": "October 1941 to 17 June 1943, 658 Jewish women, men and children were deported in seven transports (see main article: The Holocaust in Luxembourg). In 1969, on the initiative of the \"Comit\u00e9 Auschwitz Luxembourg\", a monument in honour of the Shoa victims was erected in F\u00fcnfbrunnen. It consists of granite stones broken by prisoners in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp during the war. The monument depicts a tortured Person. In 2012, the Luxembourg government under Jean-Claude Juncker commissioned the University of Luxembourg to draw up a report on the role of the Luxembourg administration during the Second World War. According to the Artuso report, 1300 Jews living in Luxembourg in 1940 were deported to death camps. In 2013, MemoShoah, one of the associations actively involved in historical recollection work, was founded. Chairman: Henri Juda. On 9 June 2015, the Luxembourg Parliament adopted a motion for a resolution and apologised to the Jewish community of Luxembourg for the suffering inflicted upon it during the Nazi occupation of Germany. The monument was inaugurated on 17 June 2018 in the presence of Grand Duke Henri and his wife Maria Teresa. Speeches were given by the Mayor of the City of Luxembourg, Lydie Polfer, the"}, {"text": "President of the Consistoire isra\u00e9lite de Luxembourg, Albert Aflalo, and the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel. Fondation Shoah. With the erection of the monument, a foundation (Fondatioun Shoah) was also set up, which received a foundation capital of 250,000 euros from the Luxembourg state."}, {"text": "Congressional archives consist of records and personal papers that document the history and activities of the United States Congress. The National Archives and Records Administration\u2019s Center for Legislative Archives collects and preserves the official administrative and legislative records of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. The personal papers of individual senators and representatives, broadly called congressional collections, are the private property of members of Congress. Many members choose to donate their papers to repositories where their records are preserved and made available to the public. Overview. The information resources documenting the legislative branch of the United States government are important for the understanding the role Congress plays in making the Nation\u2019s laws and representing the views of the people in the federal government. The records and personal papers are created in many formats, including paper documents and photographs, electronic files, e-mails, databases, social media posts, videos, and more. Permanent records of the House of Representatives and the Senate reside in the National Archives and Records Administration\u2019s Center for Legislative Archives. The personal papers of members of both chambers are preserved at archival repositories throughout the United States. Official Records of the U.S. Congress. The official records of"}, {"text": "Congress are created in the standing, select, and joint committees of the Senate and House of Representatives. These records document committees\u2019 organization, functions, and legislative intent and history. Records include bill and hearing files, meeting minutes, correspondence with executive agencies and interested parties, staff research files, and more. The National Archives and Records Administration\u2019s Center for Legislative Archives maintains physical custody of the records and makes them available to the public in accordance with House and Senate rules. In the House, the chair of each committee transfers non-current records of the committee to the Clerk. The Clerk delivers the records to the Archivist of the United States for preservation in the National Archives and Records Administration. These records remain the permanent property of the House and are subject to rules and orders of the body. Most records are closed from public viewing for 30\u201350 years depending on their nature and content. In the Senate, official records filed with the Secretary of the Senate are transferred to the National Archives. The Senate continues to own their records and determine the rules of access. Senate records are closed for 20 years, and records with personal information or relating to investigations, executive sessions,"}, {"text": "or nominations, are closed for 50 years. Personal Papers of Members of the U.S. Congress. Any files created by a congressional office are considered the Member\u2019s property. These typically include legislative files, constituent services files, political campaign and leadership files, personal papers, and office management files. Members\u2019 personal papers may be donated to an archival repository of their designation and are dispersed in repositories throughout the country. History. Prior to the 1930s, no centralized means of archiving the records of Congress existed. Then in 1937 the Senate began to transfer records to the National Archives and Records Administration. The House of Representatives began to do the same in 1946. In 1977, the congressionally mandated National Study Commission on Records and Documents of Federal Officials, known as the Public Documents Commission, recommended that presidential and congressional papers should be defined as public property. Congress passed the 1978 Presidential Records Act to make the presidential records public property, but the ownership of congressional records was more complex. The Senate took steps to better manage its official records first by creating the Senate Historical Office in 1975 and then with a 1980 mandate that most of its confidential records be opened 20 years"}, {"text": "after their creation. The records created in Member offices remained the private property of each member. There have been thousands of Members of Congress and preservation of the significant volume of congressional archival materials remains a challenge. In 1985, the National Archives established the Legislative Archives Division, renamed the Center for Legislative Archives in 1988. Steps to improve congressional records management and preservation continued, and in 1990, the Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress was created to advise Congress and the Archivist of the United States on the preservation of the records of Congress. The committee is chaired by the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate and includes the Senate and House historians, the Archivist of the United States, and appointed public members who represent historians, political scientists, congressional archivists, and others responsible for legislative records. It meets twice a year. In 1992, The Documentation of Congress was published based on the work of the Task Force on Congressional Documentation of the Society of American Archivists\u2019 Congressional Archivists Roundtable. The Documentation of Congress provided detailed recommendations for improving the documentation of congressional functions. In 2008, the House of Representatives passed House Concurrent Resolution 307, declaring"}, {"text": "that papers of Members are \u201ccrucial to the public\u2019s understanding of the role of Congress in making the Nation\u2019s laws and responding to the needs of its citizens.\u201d Repositories for Personal Papers of Members of the U.S. Congress. Names of repositories that hold congressional papers are available through the National Archives and Records Administration\u2019s Center for Legislative Archives and the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress. Lists of Personal Papers of Members of Congress by State. List of Locations of West Virginia Congressional papers List of Locations of Ohio Congressional papers"}, {"text": "Elections to Cumbria County Council were held on 1 May 1997. This was on the same day as other UK county council elections. The Labour Party gained control of the council, which had been under no overall control."}, {"text": "The Witches' Well is a monument to accused witches burned at the stake in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is the only one of its kind in the city. The memorial drinking fountain is attached to a wall at the lower end of the Castle Esplanade, below Edinburgh Castle, and located close to where many witches were burned at the stake. During the high point of witch hunting in the early modern period, 32% of accused witches came from the Lothian area. Design and history. The well was commissioned by Sir Patrick Geddes in 1894, and designed by Geddes' friend John Duncan. The bronze relief features a foxglove plant, a snake curled around the heads of Hygeia, the Greek goddess of good health, and her father Aesculapius, god of medicine. Other parts of the well feature trees, healing hands, and the evil eye. The water spout, now dry, is located beneath the snake's head. In the top left and bottom right are the Roman numerals for the years 1479 and 1722 respectively, the time period during which most witches were persecuted in Scotland. The model for the Well is held by the City Art Centre in Edinburgh. The building upon which it"}, {"text": "is affixed (now containing the Tartan Weaving Mill) was built in 1851, for the Castlehill Reservoir. The 1851 building replaced its 17th-century predecessor, constructed when act of parliament in 1624 enabled the bringing of fresh water into the city from the nearby Pentland Hills. In 1674 the reservoir was connected to 12 wells around the city, eventually closing in 1992, and converted into the Tartan Mill in 1996. There have been repeated calls for a newer, permanent memorial to those accused as witches. In 2016, Edinburgh World Heritage called for a new memorial for Edinburgh, and in 2017, Dr Julian Goodare of the University of Edinburgh and Professor Lynn Abrams of the University of Glasgow called for a new memorial for Scotland. In 2019 those calls were repeated by Dr Goodare and Louise Yeomans, as directors of the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft. Plaque and inscription. The plaque above the fountain was mounted on the wall in 1912. The inscription reads: The inscription has been criticised for historical inaccuracy, in the assumption that those killed had magical powers."}, {"text": "Al Bataeh Club is a professional football club from Al Bataeh, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The team joined the UAE football league in 2019\u201320 season. History. Founded in 2012, the club started its sporting activities with table tennis and athletics. The football team was established in 2013 as a youth academy and competed in many youth tournaments. In 2019, the club joined the UAE football league system in the UAE First Division League, while its first season was interrupted due to COVID-19 pandemic, it consistently performed well, finishing 3rd in both of their first two seasons. The club would secure promotion in 2021 after finishing second in the 2021\u201322 season, becoming one of the fastest clubs to get promoted as they only spent three seasons in the second tier. Pro-League record. Notes 2019\u201320 UAE football season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Arab Emirates. Key Current squad. \"As of UAE Pro League:\""}, {"text": "Theodore Paleologus (; \u2013 21 January 1636) was a 16th and 17th-century Greek nobleman, soldier and assassin. According to the genealogy presented on Theodore's tombstone, he was a direct male-line descendant of the Palaiologos dynasty, which had ruled the Byzantine Empire from 1259 to its fall in 1453. Though most of the figures in the genealogy can be verified to have been real historical figures, the veracity of his imperial descent is uncertain. Born in Pesaro around 1560, Theodore was forced into exile after being convicted for the attempted murder of a man called Leone Ramusciatti. He lived in exile for many years and went on to become a proficient soldier and hired assassin. In 1597, Theodore arrived in London, hired by the authorities of the Republic of Lucca to kill a man named Alessandro Antelminelli. After failing to track down Antelminelli, Theodore stayed in England, possibly for the rest of his life. In 1600, Theodore was hired by Henry Clinton, the Earl of Lincoln, ostensibly as \"Master of the Horse\" but in reality probably as a henchman and assassin. At the time, Clinton was perhaps the most hated nobleman in the entire country. Theodore probably accompanied Clinton on his"}, {"text": "visits around the country, most of them having to do with Clinton's frequent battles with the law. In Clinton's service, Theodore also met the famous captain and explorer John Smith, whom he gradually helped introduce back into society after Smith had elected to live as a recluse. While living in Plymouth in 1628, Theodore was offered employment by the Duke of Buckingham, George Villiers, almost as hated as the now deceased Earl of Lincoln, but Villiers was assassinated soon thereafter. Theodore was then invited by a Sir Nicholas Lower to stay with him at his house, Clifton Hall, in Landulph, Cornwall. There, Theodore lived until his death in 1636. He was buried at Landulph and was survived by five of the six or seven children whom he had with his wife, Mary Balls. Of these children, only Ferdinand Paleologus, who later emigrated to Barbados, is known to have had children of his own. Biography. Early life. Born in Pesaro in the north central east coast of Italy around 1560, Theodore Paleologus was the son of Camilio Paleologus, about whom very little is known. The name of his mother is not known. Theodore's family might have been late-surviving descendants of the"}, {"text": "Palaiologos dynasty, which ruled the Byzantine Empire from 1259 to 1453. They claimed descent from Thomas Palaiologos (Camilio being Thomas's supposed great-great-grandson), a brother of the final emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos, through a son called John, whose existence can not be confirmed through contemporary sources. All other purported ancestors (descendants of this John) of the later Paleologus family can be verified through contemporary records. On account of the absence of evidence for John's existence, English Byzantininst Donald Nicol wrote in 1974 that \"Theodore\u2019s claim to be a descendant of Thomas Palaiologos [...] must be held unproven\". John Hall, author of a 2015 biography on Theodore, believes that it would be wrong to \"dismiss Theodore's claim out of hand\" on account of a single missing link. During his early life, Theodore lived with his two uncles, Camilio's brothers, Scipione and Leonidas Paleologus, in Pesaro. In 1578, the three found themselves embroiled in a scandal, as they were convicted for the attempted murder of Leone Ramusciatti, a man who was also of Greek descent. After failing to kill him, in an attempt to avoid arrest, they barricaded themselves in a church. Contemporary records from Pesaro refers to the three as a something"}, {"text": "akin to a gang, and alludes to a previous (successful) murder committed by them. The fate of Scipione is unknown, but Leonidas was executed. Theodore, who is referred to as a minor (though he was obviously old enough to partake in the crime, probably 16\u201318 years old) was spared the death penalty and instead banished not only from Pesaro, but from the entire Duchy of Urbino. Career as an assassin. Theodore is not attested again until nineteen years later, upon his arrival to England in 1597. If Theodore's own later account is to be believed, some of the time in exile was spent fighting for the Protestants in the Netherlands, alongside the famous general Maurice of Nassau, as part of the Dutch Revolt. Theodore arrived in England as an assassin, hired to track down and kill Alessandro Antelminelli, a 25-year old citizen of the Republic of Lucca in Italy. Antelminelli's father and three brothers had been captured, tortured and executed in Lucca on charges of treason one year prior. Though Antelminelli had been absent during the time of the supposed crime, he had nonetheless been summoned to stand trial for his supposed complicity. Understanding that being at the trial would"}, {"text": "mean certain execution, he had instead fled to England and assumed the alias of \"Ambergio Salvetti\", claiming to be from Florence. As \"Salvetti\", Antelminelli became a comrade of the diplomat and poet Henry Wotton. Around 40 years old, Theodore was by this point in time evidently well-established as an assassin. At some point between 1578 and 1597, he had been pardoned at Pesaro and had been allowed to return to his hometown, as proven by a letter addressed to \"Signor Teodoro Paleologo\" in Pesaro, dated 1597. The tone of this letter, signed by the senior magistrate of Lucca, Francesco Andreotti, speaks to Theodore's apparently impressive reputation: The authorities at Lucca had first hired another assassin to kill Antelminelli, Marcantonio Franceotti. Franceotti had been paid 200 pounds in advance, but had failed to track down Antelminelli and suggested that the authorities at Lucca commission a \"more seasoned killer\". Franceotti recommended Paleologus, and is probably the same person as the one who personally delivered the Lucchese message (\"the bearer of this\" referred to in the letter). Like Franceotti before him, Paleologus also failed to find and kill Antelminelli. Despite further attempts to kill him until at least 1627, Antelminelli eventually died of"}, {"text": "natural causes in 1657. In the service of the Earl of Lincoln. After failing to track down Antelminelli, Theodore chose to stay in England. To earn money, he entered into the service of Henry Clinton, the Earl of Lincoln, in 1599. Theodore would spend many years living at Clinton's castle, Tattershall Castle in Lincolnshire. The castle had once been denounced by King Henry VIII as \"one of the most brutal and beastly [castles] of the whole realm\" and the town it overlooked, also called Tattershall, was scarcely more than a village at this point in time, having suffered a drastic depopulation in the late 16th century. Henry Clinton was almost sixty years old and one of the most brutal, feared and hated feudal lords in Britain. Clinton is frequently described as waging war on his neighbors and is often credited with rioting, abduction, arson, sabotage, extortion and perjury. At one point, Clinton even expanded his castle walls into the nearby churchyard. Clinton officially hired Theodore as his Master of the Horse, but he clearly had intended uses for Theodore beyond the Italian's skills with horses, and presumably knew of Theodore's previous work. It is thus likely that Clinton's real intended"}, {"text": "use for Theodore was as a soldier and assassin. Theodore himself probably entered Clinton's service due to his advancing age, hoping to find a safer and more stable profession than his many years as a hired killer. Clinton was often at London due to his frequent entanglements with the law, during which Theodore, as Master of the Horse, would likely have accompanied and escorted him. While staying at Tattershall, Theodore met his future wife, Mary Balls. Mary had been born in Hadleigh, Suffolk (she is known to have been 24 years old in 1599) and had no known friends or family outside that town, making her sudden appearance at Tattershall in 1599 somewhat puzzling. The only certain previous link between her family and Tattershall is her father, William Balls, being recorded as a witness to a legal document in Tattershall in 1585. William might thus have been known at the Tattershall household in some capacity. Mary conceived Theodore's first child , and she married him in Cottingham, East Yorkshire on 1 May 1600, at which point she was several months pregnant. It is possible that the reason for the wedding being so late, only six weeks before the birth of"}, {"text": "their child, was Theodore accompanying Clinton on one of his law-related trips to London. The ceremony took place in the Church of St. Mary in Cottingham, where the marriage register records the marriage of \"Thedorus Palelogu\" and \"Maria Balle\". The couple might have chosen to marry at Cottingham, nearly seventy miles away from Tattershall, due to Cottingham being under the rule of the Duke of Suffolk, Clinton's feudal superior. Because of the relation between the duke and the earl, the priest in Cottingham might have avoided asking awkward questions in regards to Mary's pregnancy. Their first child, named Theodore, was baptised on 12 June but died an infant on 1 September. During their time in Lincolnshire, Theodore and Mary had further children. Baptismal records at Tattershall confirms the baptisms of three of their five, possibly six, later children. On 18 August 1606, their daughter Dorothy (identified in the records as \"\"Dorathie\", daughter of \"Theodore Palalogo\") was baptised, followed by Theodore Junior (\"Theodore Palalogo\", son of \"Theodore Palalogo\") on 30 April 1609 and John Theodore (\"John Theodore\", son of \"Paleologo Theodore\") on 11 July 1611. There is also a partially legible entry for \"Elizabeth, daughter of Theo ...\" from August 1614,"}, {"text": "likely another child of Theodore. Since no further records are known of this Elizabeth, she is likely to have died in infancy. On 14 May 1600, Francis Norreys, the son of Clinton's wife Elizabeth Morrison by a previous marriage, wrote to the Secretary of State, Robert Cecil, in the hope that he would intervene in Clinton's affairs, since Clinton had recently ordered that Elizabeth be confined to Tatershall Castle. The letter references an \"Italian murderer\", likely Theodore. With Clinton pressured to release her as more and more letters describing her situation came in to Cecil, Elizabeth was released later that year. A passage of Norreys's message reads: During his time at Tattershall, Theodore also met and befriended John Smith (later a famous captain and explorer in the Americas). After Smith had served as a soldier in the Netherlands, he had returned home to Lincolnshire in 1600 and, tiring of the company of the locals, lived as a recluse, constructing a small wooden house a decent distance away from any major town or village. In his own writings, Smith describes how he was befriended by a \u201cThaedora Polalaga, Rider to Henry Earle of Lincolne\u201d and describes the man as an \u201cexcellent"}, {"text": "horseman\u201d and a \u201cnoble Italian gentleman\u201d. Theodore taught Smith Italian and skill at arms, and might have encouraged him to return to the battlefield. In Philip L. Barbour's \"The Three Worlds of Captain John Smith\" (1964), Theodore is thought to be the culprit behind filling \"John Smith's fancies with further adventurous notions\" through legends of the Ottoman Turks. In Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler's \"Captain John Smith\" (2006), Theodore is credited with \"igniting the spirit of the Crusaders\" in Smith. Smith would later partake in military campaigns against the Ottomans before his more famous ventures in the Americas (such as the establishment of Jamestown, Virginia and his encounter with Pocahontas). Later years. Clinton died on 29 September 1616. After Clinton's death, there are no further records of Theodore at Tattershall, or anywhere else for several years. It is possible that he was quickly evicted by Clinton's son and successor, Thomas Clinton. It is possible that the family lived with Mary's relatives, the Balls family, during this time or that the children were placed in the service of some higher class household, a common practice in regards to adolescents. Another possibility is that Theodore spent much of the time between 1609 and"}, {"text": "1621 fighting in the Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War. Theodore is attested as living in Plymouth from 1619 onwards. On 15 June 1619, a fourth son, Ferdinand, was baptised at the Church of St. Andrew in Plymouth, the event being recorded in the baptismal register as the baptism of \"Ffardinando son of Theodore Paleologus an Ittalian\". The rest of his family was with him at Plymouth, with a document confidently placing Theodore Junior there at least as early as 1623. Theodore was a householder (landlord) in Plymouth, rated in 1628 at a halfpenny a week. That same year, Theodore, now in his mid-sixties, offered his services to the Duke of Buckingham, George Villiers. On account of corruption, enormous wealth and incompetence (for instance having supported unsuccessful wars with France and Spain), as well as interference with the politics of King Charles I, Villiers was, like Henry Clinton before him, one of the most hated men in all of England. Though the unmarried daughters Dorothy and Mary, and the young Ferdinand, probably lived with Theodore and Mary, the older sons were not at home in 1628, with Theodore Junior, aged 19, making his own life elsewhere and John Theodore probably"}, {"text": "still being in service. In Theodore's letter to Villiers, he describes himself as \"capable as one who has lived and shed his blood in war since his youth, at the pleasure of the late Prince of Orange, and other diverse English and French lords who have seen and known me and can bear witness\" and calls himself a gentleman of a good family, worthy of the name he bears on account of his many accomplishments, but \"unlucky in the misfortune experienced by my ancestors and myself\". Theodore met Villiers in Plymouth and had seemingly been promised a rather generous employment, but on the 23 August that same year, Villiers was assassinated, leaving Theodore once more without an employer. Shortly thereafter, Theodore was invited by Sir Nicholas Lower, a rich Cornish squire, to join him at his home in Landulph, Cornwall, probably on account of Theodore's supposedly exalted lineage. Lower's home, Clifton Hall, was divided to accommodate two families after Mary and the Paleologus daughters (and probably Ferdinand) moved in shortly after Theodore. At Clifton Hall, Theodore probably served the Lowers as a scholar of history and the Greek language, possibly helping to educate their children. Theodore stayed with his family"}, {"text": "and the Lowers at Clifton Hall for the rest of his life. His wife, Mary Balls, was buried in Plymouth on 24 November 1631 and would have been 56 years old at the time of her death. As per the brass plaque which marks his grave in the Church of St Leonard & St Dilpe in Landulph, Theodore died on 21 January 1636. The brass plaque prominently displays a coat of arms reminiscent of that of the Palaiologos emperors of Byzantium, displaying the imperial double-headed eagle. According to the registers at Landulph, Theodore was buried on 20 October 1636, but this is probably an error since it seems unlikely that his body remained unburied for nine months. The inscription of Theodore's tombstone reads: Family and children. With his wife Mary, Theodore had six, possibly seven, children: According to some genealogies, Theodore was married to another woman before Mary. This previous marriage would have taken place on 6 July 1593 on the island Chios, his bride being \"Eudoxia Comnena\", a daughter of the nobleman Alexius Comnenus and his wife Helen Cantacuzene (both parents possessing surnames of Byzantine imperial dynasties). Eudoxia was to have died on 6 July 1596, three years after"}, {"text": "the wedding, in childbirth, and the couple's only child was said to have been a girl named \"Theodora Paleologus\", married in 1614 in Naples to \"Prince Demetrius Rhodocanakis\". Though this genealogy has been accepted by some historians in the past, and notably convinced the papacy and the British Foreign Office, it originates from forgeries created in the 1860s by the London-based Greek merchant Demetrius Rhodocanakis, who claimed that one of Theodora's descendants was Dr. Constantine Rhodocanakis (a real historical figure), who Demetrius in turn claimed was his ancestor. Demetrius's forgeries were revealed when he published a biography on Constantine Rhodocanakis in 1872, wherein a portrait of Constantine was exposed to actually be a portrait of the author himself, dressed in a costume. His genealogy had been thoroughly debunked by the early 20th century. Legacy. Theodore's grave was accidentally opened in 1795, revealing an oak coffin. Inside, his body was discovered in a good enough state to ascertain that Theodore was far above common height and had possessed an aquiline nose and a long white beard reaching low on his breast. His well-preserved body means that he had probably been embalmed before being buried. To this day, Theodore's tomb brings many"}, {"text": "Greek visitors to Landulph. Greek Orthodox memorial services have been observed for him twice, first in the late 20th century by the Welsh-born archimandrite Barnabas (1915\u20131995) and then in 2007 by Archbishop Gregorios, head of the Greek Orthodox community in Britain. Barnabas's service for Theodore in the late 20th century was the first service of any kind conducted in Theodore's name since his burial in 1636. Gregorios's rite, conducted on 18 April 2007, involved draping Theodore's grave in silk ribbons with the colors of the Greek flag, and also displaying flags with the double-headed eagle. The rite was not technically a full traditional memorial rite, since Theodore was not Orthodox, but included chants and incense. The two rites were evocations of ancient Byzantium never before seen in Landulph. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, a member of the modern Greek royal family, visited Theodore's tomb together with his wife, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1962. Theodore has sometimes figured in popular culture. In the novel \"Sir John Constantine\" (1906) by Arthur Quiller-Couch, a band of Cornish squires called the \"Constantines\" are descended from Theodore. The novel is purported to be the 1756 memoirs of Sir John Constantine Paleologus, who with the rest"}, {"text": "of the Constantines go on several adventures. John Constantine is described as having white hair and an aquiline nose, clearly based on descriptions of the real Theodore Paleologus. In an earlier novella by Quiller-Couch, \"The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem\" (1900), a girl named Julie Constantine, also a fictional descendant of Theodore, features in the plot, alongside the actual grave of Theodore himself. During World War I, playwright William Price Drury wrote and produced a play called \"The Emperor's Ring\", in which the central plot revolves around a delegation from various states in the Balkans arriving to Landulph to bend the knee to a living descendant of Theodore, an aged miner called Simon Paleol in the play. After a telegram arrives informing the delegation of the death of Simon's only son in the trenches, their hopes are dashed and as Simon grows more and more tired of the delegation hoping for him to take his place on the throne of Greece, he grabs Theodore's old signet ring, a priceless heirloom, and throws it in the Tamar river. \"The Emperor's Ring\" was later reworked to a short story, published in 1919 with the title \"All the King's Men\". \"All the King's Men\""}, {"text": "also features a passage inspired by the opening of Theodore's grave, with the addition that his body crumbles to dust as the grave is opened. The novel \"Days Without Number\" (2003) by Robert Goddard is a thriller with supernatural elements and incorporates fictional modern descendants of Theodore as a central plot element. In the novel, Theodore's Paleologus descendants battle with James Bond-style villains through murders, seductions and car and speedboat chases, all in order to find a lost stained glass window with an inscription supposedly containing the date of the Second Coming, preserved by the Knights Templar through the ages."}, {"text": "Noel Gadiano Cabangon (born December 25, 1963) is a Filipino folk singer and composer, known for composing socially-relevant songs. In 1987, he formed the group \"Buklod\" together with Rene Boncocan and Rom Dongeto. Early life and education. Noel Gadiano Cabangon was born on December 25, 1963, in Rosario, La Union. At the age of ten, he began his musical career and learned to play the guitar that he borrowed from a neighbor. He made a name for himself in the local music scene in 1982 beginning in little-known folk houses and bars. He graduated from the Philippine Women's University with a degree in Popular Music in 2024. Music career. In 1987, he formed the group \"Buklod\" together with Rene Boncocan and Rom Dongeto. They produced three albums: \"Bukid at Buhay\", \"Tatsulok\", and \"Sa Kandungan ng Kalikasan\". The band wrote and performed songs about the environment, human rights, and politics. After the group disbanded, Noel Cabangon went on to record six solo albums; perform solo at music bars and private events; compose songs for the movies and for other artists; and enter the local theater industry as a musical director, as a composer or sometimes as an actor. He wrote the"}, {"text": "book \"Ang Bayan Ko at Lupa: Awit ng Diwa\" in 2005, and co-authored \"Ako'y Isang Mabuting Pilipino (I Am A Good Filipino)\" in 2012. Cabangon played Jesus Christ in a local production of \"Jesus Christ Superstar\" in 2000."}, {"text": "The Dannie Heineman Prize of the G\u00f6ttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities has been awarded biennially since 1961 for excellent recently published publications in a new research field of current interest. It is awarded to younger researchers in natural sciences or mathematics. The prize is named after Dannie Heineman, a Belgian-US philanthropist, engineer and businessman with German roots."}, {"text": "Mingo Swamp is a long 4th order tributary to the South River in North Carolina, located in Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, and Sampson counties. Mingo Swamp, along with the Black River, forms the South River. Course. Mingo Swamp rises about 2.5 miles northeast of Coats, North Carolina on the Black Creek divide on the Johnston-Harnett County line. Mingo Swamp begins flowing in a southwest direction, then flows southeast to meet the Black River and form the South River, approximately 1 mile northeast of Falcon, North Carolina. Watershed. Mingo Swamp drains of area and receives about 48.1 in/year of precipitation."}, {"text": "M\u00e1ximo G\u00f3mez is a Santo Domingo Metro station on Line 1. It was open on 22 January 2009 as part of the inaugural section of Line 1 between Mam\u00e1 Ting\u00f3 and Centro de los H\u00e9roes. The station is between Hermanas Mirabal and Los Ta\u00ednos. This is a ground level station, built next to Avenida M\u00e1ximo G\u00f3mez. It is named in honor of M\u00e1ximo G\u00f3mez."}, {"text": "The WS2600 is a 22.5 ton 10x10 transporter erector launcher (TEL) used by the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force of the People's Republic of China. It is, along with the smaller WS2500, one of the principal mobility platforms in mounting China's medium-range ballistic missiles. It is a general purpose heavy duty missile transporter developed from the original WS2500 and is built by Wanshan Special Vehicle. Its other contemporary is the larger HTF5680A1. Description. The WS2600 is a heavy duty TEL co-developed by a joint Chinese and Belarusian venture. The WS2600 is slightly bigger than the WS2500 and a larger version of the original WS2400 with an additional axle to support the increased payload. Due to its larger size, the WS2600 is able to carry much heftier missiles, of which its most common payload is the DF-21C medium-range ballistic missile and the DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile. Both the WS2500 and WS2600 form one of the main TEL carriers of China's MRBM and ASBM stockpiles. Like the WS2500, the TEL has a 4-door cab, which allows the WS2600 to easily accommodates the driver and seven additional passengers."}, {"text": "Emmanuel Appiah may refer to:"}, {"text": "Meeku Maathrame Cheptha () is a 2019 Indian Telugu-language comedy drama film written and directed by Shammeer Sultan, and produced by Vardhan Deverakonda and Vijay Deverakonda under the banner King of the Hill Entertainment. The film features Tharun Bhascker and Abhinav Gomatam in lead roles while Anasuya Bharadwaj, Vani Bhojan, and Avantika Mishra play supporting roles. The film marks the debut of Sultan as director and Deverakonda as producer, who also makes a cameo appearance. Premise. It revolves around a man who lies to his fianc\u00e9e and then his friends help him cover up the lies, which leads to humorous situations. Soundtrack. The soundtrack is composed by Sivakumar and lyrics by Rakendu Mouli. Shammeer Sultan and AsurA. Reception. Suresh Kavirayani of \"Deccan Chronicle\" rated the film 3 stars of 5, and praised the performances of the cast. \"Tharun Bhascker steals the acting honours [...] Abhinav Gomatam does a fantastic job and is on par with Tharun Bhascker\". \"The Hindu\" critic Y. Sunitha Cowdhary opined that though the film had situational humour and interesting dialogues, it is only entertaining in parts. A reviewer from \"News18 India\" called the film, \"Smartest Black Comedy of the Year\". The reviewer rated the film 3.5/5"}, {"text": "and stated: \"There is a sneakingly sinuous feel of a Guy Ritchie crime thriller in this Telugu gamechanger of a film. Except that Ritchie's characters are more laconic.\""}, {"text": "The Women's football tournament at the 2019 Military World Games was held in Wuhan in China from 17 to 26 October. Group stage. Group A. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group B. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "Sun Menahem (or Menachem, ; born 7 September 1993) is an Israeli professional footballer who played as a defender. Early life. Menahem was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a Jewish family. Club career. He made his professional Israeli Premier League debut for Hapoel Nir Ramat HaSharon on 11 May 2013 in a game against Bnei Yehuda. On 21 June 2015 Menhem signed a four-year deal with Maccabi Haifa. On 8 October 2018 he extended his contract with the club for three more years. International career. He received his first call-up to the Israel national football team in October 2019 for Euro 2020 qualifiers against Austria and Latvia. He made his debut on 15 October 2019 in a game against Latvia. He substituted Taleb Tawatha in the 79th minute as Israel won 3\u20131. Honours. Club. Maccabi Haifa"}, {"text": "The 2019 Lima Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the thirteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Lima, Peru between October 21 and October 27, 2019. Singles main-draw entrants. Other entrants. The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate: The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:"}, {"text": "Cristian Gar\u00edn was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title. Thiago Monteiro won the title after defeating Federico Coria 6\u20132, 6\u20137(7\u20139), 6\u20134 in the final. Seeds. All seeds receive a bye into the second round."}, {"text": "Guido Andreozzi and Guillermo Dur\u00e1n were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title. Ariel Behar and Gonzalo Escobar won the title after defeating Luis David Mart\u00ednez and Felipe Meligeni Alves 6\u20132, 2\u20136, [10\u20133] in the final."}, {"text": "Liath (, \"grey\") is a restaurant in Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland. It is a fine dining restaurant that was awarded one Michelin star for 2020. It won a second star in 2022. The head chef is Damien Grey. It is the successor to Heron and Grey, which stood on the same site between 2015 and 2019."}, {"text": "Willie Hunter is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Clark Atlanta University from 1990 to 1996. Hunter played college football at Fort Valley State College and also played professionally for the Atlanta Spartans of the Atlantic Coast Football League in 1964. After teaching and coaching football in the Atlanta Public Schools system for 33 years, he resigned in 1989 and was hired as the defensive coordinator at Clark Altana. In January 1990, Hunter succeeded William M. Spencer as head coach after Spencer was fired."}, {"text": "Ilay Eliyau Elmkies (or Elmakayes, ; born ) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Israeli Premier League club Ironi Tiberias. He has been capped by the Israel national team. Early and personal life. Elmkies was born and raised in Nahariya, Israel, to an Israeli family of both Mizrahi Jewish and Sephardi Jewish (French-Jewish) descent. He also holds a French passport, on account of his Sephardi Jewish (French-Jewish) ancestors, which eases the move to certain European football leagues. Elmkies speaks Hebrew and English and has quickly mastered German. A film looking at the Jewish experience in the German village of Hoffenheim during World War II aired in 2018 at the Sinsheimer Citydome. He played a leading role, and provided commentary in all three languages. Club career. A 1899 Hoffenheim youth product in Germany, Elmkies was promoted to the club's senior reserve team 1899 Hoffenheim II in 2019. International career. He also plays for the Israel national Under-21 team since 2019. Elmkies received his first call-up to the senior Israel national team in October 2019 ahead of the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifiers matches against Austria and Latvia. He made his senior debut on 15 October 2019 in"}, {"text": "a home match against Latvia; he was substituted in the 76' minute, as his native Israel won 3\u20131. On 7 September 2020, he scored his first goal \u2013 an equalizer in the 91' minute for the senior Israeli squad in a 2020\u201321 UEFA Nations League home match against Slovakia, that ended in a 1\u20131 draw. \"Scores and results list Israel's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Elmkies goal\"."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 San Jose State Spartans men's basketball team represented San Jose State University in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Led by third-year head coach Jean Prioleau, they played their home games at the newly-renamed Provident Credit Union Event Center in San Jose, California as members of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 7\u201324, 3\u201315 in Mountain West play to finish in tenth place. They lost in the first round of the Mountain West tournament to New Mexico. Previous season. The Spartans finished the season 4\u201327, 1\u201317 in Mountain West play to finish in last place. They lost in the first round of the Mountain West tournament to Air Force. Schedule and Results. Source !colspan=9 style=| Regular season !colspan=9 style=| Mountain West tournament"}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Ohio University Bobcats men's basketball team represented Ohio University for the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bobcats were led by first-year head coach Jeff Boals, who was a 1995 graduate of Ohio University. The team played their home games at the Convocation Center in Athens, Ohio as a member of the East Division of the Mid-American Conference. They finished the season 17\u201315, 8\u201310 in MAC play to finish in last place in the East division. As the No. 8 seed in the MAC tournament, they defeated Central Michigan in the first round before the tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous season. The Bobcats finished the 2018\u201319 season 14\u201317, 6\u201312 in MAC play to finish in last place in the East Division. As the No. 10 seed in the MAC tournament, they were defeated in the first round by Northern Illinois. On March 13, 2019, head coach Saul Phillips was fired. He finished his five-year tenure at Ohio with an 81\u201377 overall record. Five days later, the school named Ohio alum Jeff Boals, head coach at Stony Brook, as their new head coach. Offseason. Recruiting class. Walk-on in 2019-20 Preseason. The preseason coaches'"}, {"text": "poll and league awards were announced by the league office on October 31, 2019. Ohio was picked last in the MAC East. Preseason rankings. West Division. MAC Tournament Champions: Bowling Green (6), Toledo (2), Buffalo (1), Kent State (1), Miami (1), NIU (1) Source Schedule and results. !colspan=9 style=| Exhibition !colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| MAC regular season !colspan=9 style=| MAC Tournament All games from ohiobobcats.com. \"Final 2019\u201320 statistics\" Statistics. Team statistics. Source Player statistics. Source Awards and honors. All-MAC Awards. Source"}, {"text": "The K\u00e9carpoui River () is a salmon river in the C\u00f4te-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It flows south and empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Location. The K\u00e9carpoui River is a narrow river, long. The mouth of the river is in the municipality of Gros-M\u00e9catina in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality. The K\u00e9carpoui Archipelago is a group of islands in the Gulf opposite the river mouth. \"K\u00e9carpoui\" is an Innu language word meaning \"porcupine river\". Description. The \"Dictionnaire des rivi\u00e8res et lacs de la province de Qu\u00e9bec\" (1914) says of the river, Basin. The K\u00e9carpoui River basin covers . It lies between the basins of the V\u00e9co River to the west and the Saint-Augustin River to the east. It is partly in the unorganized territory of Petit-M\u00e9catina and partly in the municipalities of Gros-M\u00e9catina and Saint-Augustin. The Lac-Robertson Generating Station, which is powered by a dam on the V\u00e9co River, is in the K\u00e9carpoui basin. Environment. A map of the ecological regions of Quebec shows the K\u00e9carpoui River in sub-regions 6o-T, 6n-T and 6m-T of the east spruce/moss subdomain. Vegetation in the basin is dominated by conifers. Mammals include black bear, moose, boreal woodland caribou, wolf, fox, lynx, muskrat,"}, {"text": "mink, otter and porcupine. There are seabird colonies on the many islands and islets near the river mouth. Fishing. The K\u00e9carpoui River is recognized as an Atlantic salmon river. The river bed is composed of medium-sized rocks. Salmon swim up the river for . They average in weight. In 2013\u20132017 an average of 7 salmon were reported caught each year. The Pourvoirie Kecarpoui/Kecarpoui Outpost provides outfitting services. They do not have an exclusive right. They offer 6-day guided fishing expeditions that visit the V\u00e9co, Kecarpoui, Saint-Augustin, Coxipi, Ch\u00e9catica, Napetipi rivers and the Baie des roches."}, {"text": "The 2019 Liuzhou Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament for men and fourth edition for women. It was the part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour and 2019 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Liuzhou, China between 21 October and 3 November 2019. Men's singles main draw entrants. Other entrants. The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: The following player received entry as a lucky loser: Women's singles main draw entrants. Other entrants. The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: The following player received special exempts into the singles main draw: The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: The following players received entry as lucky losers:"}, {"text": "Lalruatdika Lalsim (born 12 September 1996) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 8 October 2018, for Mizoram in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 3 January 2020, for Mizoram in the 2019\u201320 Ranji Trophy."}, {"text": "Eurypepla calochroma, commonly known as the Geiger tortoise beetle, is a species of tortoise beetle. It is found in Florida, Central America and the Caribbean. This specific beetle only feeds on the Geiger tree (\"Cordia sebastena\") throughout all of its life stages. Description. The Geiger tortoise beetle is a small (about one centimeter) long beetle. The biology has been described Larvae are small, brown, slimy, and worm like and have an accumulation of feces on the abdomen. Pupae are shell-like, and when the adult emerges from the pupal stage they come out as a round-shaped beetle that is overall yellowish. But, as adults mature, they become a bright iridescent green color. Mature adults can change color from their normal green color to blues, purples, yellows, and browns based on light levels. Habitat and distribution. This beetle can be found in Southern Florida from Palm Beach to Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties, in the Bahamas and smaller Caribbean islands, Central America. They live in areas where Geiger Trees (\"Cordia sebastena\") are found, such as open woodlands, grasslands, wetlands, and even gardens. Behavior. Behavior in Larvae. Larvae face their fecal shield up at potential predators to deter them and to use them as"}, {"text": "an umbrella to protect their fragile bodies. Larvae eat the leaves, fruit, and flowers of the Geiger tree. Behavior in Adults. Adults eat the leaves, fruit, and flowers of the Geiger tree. Adults live on and crawl around these trees and often fly from tree to tree. They often hide and sleep under the leaves, for that is where their green color camouflages into the best. Some strange behaviors have been noted and studied by researchers at Florida Atlantic University High School. To startle predators who are trying to consume beetles, they will vibrate their heads up and down against a neck collar at high frequencies that make buzzing noises."}, {"text": "Bruno Storti (9 July 1913 \u2013 10 January 1994) was an Italian trade unionist and politician. Born in Rome, Storti studied law at the University of Rome before becoming a civil servant. He was one of the leading founders of the Ministry of Defence staff union, then became the national secretary of the National State Federation. This was affiliated to the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL), and Storti was elected to serve on its executive. Storti was a religious Catholic, and in 1948 he left the CGIL to become deputy general secretary of a new Catholic workers' trade union federation. In 1950, this became part of the Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions (CISL), with Storti becoming its assistant general secretary in 1954, and then general secretary in 1958. The CISL was affiliated to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), and in 1959 Storti was elected to its executive committee. In 1965, he became president of the ICFTU, serving until 1972. Storti was a member of the Christian Democracy, and in 1958 he was elected as a deputy for Rome. From 1959, he also served as a Member of the European Parliament, and on the International Labour"}, {"text": "Organization's Workers' Group. Storti retired as leader of the CISL in 1977, and became president of the National Council for Economics and Labour, serving until 1989."}, {"text": "Radu Albot was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina won the title after defeating Denis Istomin 6\u20133, 5\u20137, 7\u20136(7\u20135) in the final. Seeds. All seeds receive a bye into the second round."}, {"text": "Kent Craig \"Skeets\" Lambert (February 27, 1891 \u2013 December 13, 1982) was an American football player and a college football and college basketball coach. He served as the head football coach (1913\u20131914) and basketball coach (1913\u20131915) at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin. Lambert was a graduate of Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he starred as a member of the football team. He was also a member of the basketball, baseball, and track teams at Wabash. Lambert played professionally for several teams in the Ohio League during the 1915 and 1916 seasons."}, {"text": "Vesco is a surname and can refer to:"}, {"text": "Gong Maoxin and Zhang Ze were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title. Mikhail Elgin and Denis Istomin won the title after defeating Nam Ji-sung and Song Min-kyu 3\u20136, 6\u20134, [10\u20136] in the final."}, {"text": "Lobsang Pandan (born 7 January 1996) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 13 October 2019, for Arunachal Pradesh in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy."}, {"text": "Rifatullah Shinwari (born 22 December 1994) is an Afghan cricketer. He made his List A debut for Boost Region in the 2019 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament on 16 September 2019. He made his Twenty20 debut for Band-e-Amir Dragons in the 2019 Shpageeza Cricket League on 14 October 2019."}, {"text": "George T. Marinkovich (December 8, 1928 \u2013 December 7, 2022) was an American football player and coach of football and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Western Montana College\u2014now known as the University of Montana Western\u2014for one season, in 1968, compiling a record of 3\u20134. Marinkovich played college football at both Rutgers University and Montana State University, winning an NAIA Football National Championship at the latter as a member of the 1956 Montana State Bobcats football team. Marinkovich died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on December 7, 2022, one day before his 94th birthday."}, {"text": "Nao Yoshioka (born March 2, 1988) is a soul singer and songwriter from Osaka, Japan, now based in Tokyo. Early life. Yoshioka was born in Osaka, Japan on 2 March 1988. Her father studied painting and eventually became an interior designer. Her mother was an illustrator before becoming a dress designer. Yoshioka's parents encouraged her and her two older sisters to explore creative pursuits. Yoshioka attended an arts high school and studied painting and sculpture, eventually joining a band as a vocalist. Yoshioka entered a debut recording competition sponsored by a music vocational school and won. She then worked with a vocal trainer and learned more about blues and soul music. After problems at school and coping with her parents' divorce, Yoshioka struggled to concentrate on her musical ambitions. She eventually dropped out of high school and moved to New York City to pursue a career as a singer. Early career and debut album. Yoshioka broke into the soul scene while spending two and a half years in New York City beginning in 2009. In 2011 she reached the Top Dog Round at the Apollo Theater Season Final and the final stage of the McDonald's Gospelfest. She came to wider"}, {"text": "notice in 2012 when she was discovered by Naoki Yamanouchi, Sweet Soul Records' CEO, who released her single \"Make the Change.\" Her debut album \"The Light\", released 13 November 2013, included a number of original songs, a duet with Brian Owens on a cover of \"Ain't No Mountain High Enough,\" and covers of \"At Last,\" \"A Change is Gonna Come,\" and \"His Eye is on the Sparrow.\" The album was an international effort, recorded in the U.S., the Netherlands, and Japan, with songwriting, arranging, and production collaborations from Owens, Dani Elliott, ORLY, the Netherlands' Shirma Rouse, and Hiroyuki Matsuda. International career. In May 2014, Yoshioka and Owens debuted at Blue Note Tokyo, and in August of that year she was invited to perform at the Meet the World Beat summer festival hosted by Osaka radio station FM802, which selected Yoshioka's music for \"Heavy Rotation\" programming whereupon her music was played in heavy rotation for the entire month. On 8 April 2015 her second album, \"Rising\", was released in Japan by Sweet Soul Records and Yamaha Music Communications. Shortly thereafter, on 17 July 2015, \"The Light\" was released in the U.S. and Canada by Purpose Music Group and NIA Distribution. In"}, {"text": "2015 she received a SoulTracks Readers' Choice Award as Best New Artist. In the summer of 2016, Yoshioka performed at her first major US music festival, Capital Jazz Fest, alongside artists including Lalah Hathaway and Marcus Miller. Her third album, \"The Truth\", released in 2016, also included many collaborations. The album's U.S. re-release (4 September 2018) received glowing reviews, noting that she was the first Japanese soul singer to make waves in the birthplace of the music she's devoted her career to. Rolling Stone called the album \"impeccable neo-soul.\" Yoshioka's collaborators on the album included Khari Mateen, Musicman Ty, and Carolyn Malachi. The lead single \"I Love When\" hit the Top 40 (#32) on the Urban Adult Contemporary Billboard chart. SoulBounce debuted the single \"Spark\" on 27 August 2018. In 2018, Yoshioka moved to New York City. Additional recognition in the UK arrived that year too, as in January 2019 she was awarded the 2018 Bright Star Award (UK and international Soul and Reggae) for Best International Artist. Yoshioka performed at the Blue Note in New York in April 2019, a few months before the August 16 release of her fourth album, \"Undeniable\", again on Sweet Soul Records. The single"}, {"text": "\"All In Me\" premiered at PopMatters August 9, SoulTracks debuted her video single \"Got Me\" on July 27, and Earmilk featured the single \"Liberation\" produced by Eric Roberson. Other bookings in 2019 included San Jose Jazz's Summer Fest."}, {"text": "Patrick Moser (born 25 May 1969) is a Swiss writer, translator, art historian, and museologist. He is the founder and curator of the Museum \"Le Lac\" Le Corbusier. Early life. Moser began studying literature at the University of Lausanne. After completing his formal education, he began teaching and studying translation and interpretation. In 2001, he obtained a post-graduate degree in museology from the University of Geneva for his thesis \"From the dwelling house to the exhibition space \u2013 example of the Villa \"Le Lac\" Le Corbusier\". Moser became a translator. His work is noted by Kenneth Branagh, for whom Moser translated an adaptation of Shakespeare's \"Love's Labour's Lost\" into French. Moser translated for Martin Scorsese\u2019s film \"Gangs of New York\" and Tim Burton\u2019s \"Big Fish\". He translated for the Swiss documentary \"\" (In the blind spot - Hitler\u2019s secretary) by Andr\u00e9 Heller and Othmar Schmiderer. In 2010, Moser created, according to Le Corbusier's wish in one of his last letters (1965), a museum at the Villa \"Le Lac\", in Corseaux, Switzerland. Photographers Erling Mandelmann and Ren\u00e9 Burri contributed to the creation of the museum by lending their works for the first two exhibitions in 2010 and 2011. In 2015, on"}, {"text": "the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the architect's death, Moser invited Daniel Libeskind, Mario Botta, Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, SANAA, Rudy Ricciotti, Bernard Tschumi, Gigon/Guyer, Alvaro Siza and Rafael Moneo to an extension project of the Villa \"Le Lac\" \u2013 a competition of ideas and imagination in honour of one of the 20th century's greatest architects. In 2013, Moser was invited to the Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg, Sweden to present his research on the links between architecture and literature. Several conferences followed, notably at Doctor Curutchet's Villa in La Plata, Argentina (2015), and at the Mies van der Rohe house of the Weissenhof Siedlung in Stuttgart (2016) as part of the Franz\u00f6sische Wochen im Grossraum Stuttgart (Weissenhofwerkstatt im Haus Mies van der Rohe). In 2017, the University of Lausanne entrusted him with curating the in situ exhibition \"From BFSH 2 to Anthropole - 1987-2017\" on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Building of the Faculties of Human Sciences II. He participated in the round table on 3 November at EPFL to mark the 75th anniversary of the Swiss Association of Interior Architects (VSI). ASAI with Jacques-Xavier Aymon (EAD interior designer, HEAD emeritus professor), Yves Corminboeuf (HES"}, {"text": "industrial designer, specialist in sustainable development), Thomas Juguin (SSA graduate acoustician), Bruno Marchand (Dr \u00e8s Sciences, EPFL architect, EPFL professor), Corinne Mosimann (interior architect) and Victor Vieillard (lighting designer). In 2018, he collaborated with the Archives de la construction moderne and Archizoom (EPFL) on the exhibition \"Habiter la modernit\u00e9 - Villas du style international sur la Riviera l\u00e9manique\" at the Atelier de Grandi (6 Sept. - 29 Nov. 2018) and participated on 4 October 2018 in the round table \"Habiter la modernit\u00e9\" with Jo\u00eblle Neuenschwander, Paola Tosolini, Salvatore Aprea, Christophe Flubacher and Cyril Veillon. In 2019, a plea in favour of towers and skyscrapers in Switzerland came with the exhibition \"De Bel-Air \u00e0 Babel\" at the Villa \"Le Lac\" Le Corbusier for which Moser analysed five towers built or planned between 1930 and 1970 in Lausanne, Vevey, Montreux and Aminona, works by five major 20th century architects: Jean Tschumi, Ren\u00e9 Del\u00e9chat, Alphonse Laverri\u00e8re, Hugo Buscaglia and Philippe Gaillard. In 2019, Moser was invited to the AHA! Festival in Gothenburg to give a lecture at the Chalmers University of Technology on the Essence of Villa \"Le Lac\". Publications. Moser is the inventor of the nanotext - a literary genre between haiku"}, {"text": "and short story - short, dense, polysemic and cinematographic. In 2002, after many adjustments, Moser published a collection of nanotexts, \"La Saveur des Mots\", a work of generic exploration, experimentation and discovery. In 2003 came his second nanotext opus, \"Icare\" followed by, \"Tu ne voleras point\" in 2005. This last collection was awarded the 2005 Jean Amaury Prize. In 2010, Moser published \"Epilogue\", a play that became a comic strip thanks to a collaboration with David Delcloque, a French graphic designer and illustrator (Boulogne-sur-Mer). With \"Epilogue\", nanotextual writing found its first theatrical and comic application. In 2010, Moser initiated a series of bibliophile publications on architecture, exhibition catalogues and specialized works. Although the titles are in French, the publications are bilingual (French\u2013English) or trilingual (French-German-English)."}, {"text": "The 2010 San Jose mayoral election was held on June 8, 2010, to elect the Mayor of San Jose, California. It saw the reelection of Chuck Reed. Because Reed won an outright majority in the initial round of the election, no runoff election needed to be held. Municipal elections in California are officially non-partisan."}, {"text": "Robert Ganley (1949-December 23, 2000) was an American city manager from Maine. Ganley was the city manager of South Portland, Maine (1981\u201386) and neighboring Portland, Maine (1986-2000) for nearly twenty years. Early life and education. Ganley was born in Woburn, Massachusetts. While attending nearby Burlington High School, Ganley played baseball, basketball, and was captain of the football team. He attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he wrote for the Daily Collegian and was a member of the Beta Kappa Phi fraternity. In 1972, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a master's degree in public administration. He was then drafted into the U.S. Army and worked in the Provost marshal's office at Fort Meade. During his time in South Portland city government, he earned a M.A. in public administration from the University of Southern Maine. Municipal administration. After two years in the Army, he returned to Massachusetts and worked for the town of Burlington. In 1976, he moved to South Portland, Maine and was appointed assistant city manager. Five years later, he was appointed city manager. In the summer of 1987, homeless residents of Portland protested the lack of sufficient shelter. At the time, the city operated one"}, {"text": "shelter with 53 beds. To protest this, activists camped out in Lincoln Park. Ganley \"initially resisted the demands of protesters to open a new shelter, and even threatened to arrest protesters if they did not leave their encampment.\" Eventually, Ganley acknowledged that the city government \"would do its part\" to help those experiencing homelessness, which led to the city reopening funding for shelters. Ganley is credited with helping bring the Portland Sea Dogs baseball team to the city and the building of the stadium in which they play (Hadlock Field). Following his death in late 2000, the team named a luxury suite in Ganley's honor. In 2006, the team inducted Ganley into their Hall of Fame. In December 2000, Ganley died suddenly from a heart attack. He was replaced the next year by Joe Gray as Portland's City Manager. In April 2001, Congressman and Portland resident Tom Allen delivered a memorial speech in his honor to the U.S. House of Representatives."}, {"text": "The Apostolic Nunciature to Eritrea is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Eritrea. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador. The Nuncio resides in Sudan and usually holds the title Apostolic Nuncio to Sudan as well. The title Apostolic Nuncio to Eritrea is held by the prelate appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Sudan; he resides in Sudan."}, {"text": "Perozdukht (also spelled Perozduxt) was a late 5th-century Sasanian princess, who was captured after the defeat and death of her father Peroz I by the forces of the Hephthalite ruler Akhshunwar in 484. Perozdukht afterwards became a member of the Hephthalite court and bore the Hephthalite king a daughter, who later married Peroz I's son Kavad I."}, {"text": "The Military ranks of the Albanian Kingdom were the military ranks used by the Royal Albanian Army. Throughout its short history, the Albanian Kingdom had two ranks systems. The first rank system lasting from 1929 till 1936, with the second lasting till the end of the kingdom in 1939."}, {"text": "Instituto de Estad\u00edstica y Cartograf\u00eda de Andaluc\u00eda (IECA) is a public organization which coordinates and announces statistics and cartography in Andaluc\u00eda. In 2019 it was named Elena Manzanera D\u00edaz as the directress."}, {"text": "Fackson U. Shamenda (born 18 September 1950) is a Zambian trade unionist and politician. Shamenda worked for the postal service, and in 1979 he became the leader of the National Union of Communication Workers. In 1982, he became the regional representative for the Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International, then from 1994 he served as its African representative. In 1991, Shamenda was elected as president of the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions, and also as president of the Southern Africa Trade Union Co-ordination Council. In 2000, he was elected as president of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the only African ever to hold the post. Shamendra was a supporter of the Patriotic Front. In 2011, he stood down from his trade union posts, and was elected to the National Assembly of Zambia, representing Ndola Central. He was immediately appointed as Ministry of Labour and Social Security, and served until 2015, when he retired."}, {"text": "Joseph P. McGee (1902\u20131958) was an American football and basketball coach. He is credited with instituting basketball at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, where he later served as head football coach, from 1934 to 1937, compiling a record of 13\u201318. McGee was also the head coach of the revived Providence Steamrollers of the American Association of football. McGee later owned a garage and car rental service as the Narraganset Hotel in Providence. He died in 1958 of a heart attack."}, {"text": "Boris Bobrovnikov (born October 29, 1960) is a founder of the IT company CROC. He started studying at Moscow Geological Exploration Institute in 1977, graduated in 1982, and obtained a Ph.D. in geophysical engineering in 1985. Career and public activities. During his university studies, Boris worked in the academic department and later became a senior researcher of the Geological Institute\u2019s Research Force. He occupied his position between 1986 and 1989, followed by a research position at the Oceanology Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1989 to 1990. Counting a part-time job in the academic department, Boris had over ten years of experience in geophysics. Three of those, according to him, were spent in a tent on annual expeditions, doing his instrument geophysics research. When he was a senior student, he became a captain of the University Alpine Skiing Team. In 1990, in partnership with George Galperin, he became a founder and director of the Medicine, Culture and Sport Association, a network of 18 gyms in Moscow with up to 350 employees. The association operated in various fields, from unique medical and wellness services to exploration works abroad. Mainly in the new area of biomechanical stimulation. In 1992, he"}, {"text": "founded CROC, an IT company that provides a comprehensive IT offering, including complex technological projects and managed B2B services. On April 29, 2003, he introduced IT Leader, Russia\u2019s first IT national industry award for organizations and CIOs who directly contributed to the promotion of innovative information technology in Russia. Boris is doing some sports \u2013 kitesurfing, windsurfing, wakeboarding, diving, and heliskiing. He likes industrial music. In December 2022, Boris Bobrovnikov resigned as CEO and sold all his shares to the company's top management."}, {"text": "Damayanthi is a 2019 Kannada mythological comedy horror film written and directed by Navarasan. The film is produced by Sri Lakshmi Vrushadhri Productions and is touted to be a mythological horror-comedy. The horror-comedy thriller set in the 80s, has Radhika, who features in three shades. The film has G. K. Reddy, in a pivotal role, along with Saurav Lokesh (Bhajarangi Loki), Anusha Ravi, Raj Bahadhur, Sadhu Kokila, and Tabla Nani as part of the cast. The movie was reported to be inspired by the 2017 Telugu movie \"Anando Brahma\" and released two weeks after the release of the official Kannada remake of the Telugu movie \"Anando Brahma\" which is \"Mane Maratakkide\". The film is also being dubbed into Tamil and Malayalam with the same title and in Telugu language as \"Samharini\". Production. In an interview with \"The Times of India\", Radhika said that \"I'm playing the role of a girl, who comes to the help of the people. This is a double shaded character in the movie. Bajrangi Loki is playing negative shade in the movie. Our scenes have come up very well,\". Shashikala, the famous voice behind Nagavalli\u2019s character featuring Soundarya in Apthamitra, has now dubbed for Radhika Kumaraswamy"}, {"text": "in this film. The makers conducted voice tests with 23 dubbing artistes, and finally decided to bring Shashikala on board. \u201cEven Radhika, who usually dubs for her films, felt that she will not be able to do justice with her voice, and then we decided to go with Shashikala. We were told that she has not been working for the last three years. However, she considered our request and completed dubbing for the film. With her voice, the character played by Radhika now reaches another level,\u201d director Navarasan said in an interview with The New Indian Express. Soundtrack. Soundtrack was composed by R. S. Ganesh Narayanan."}, {"text": "Andrew Green (born 1970) is a male retired boxer who competed for England at the commonwealth games. Boxing career. Green was the National Champion in 1994 after winning the prestigious ABA lightweight title, boxing out of the Phil Thomas School of Boxing ABC. He represented England in the lightweight (-60 Kg) division, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He turned professional on 22 February 1996 and fought in 9 fights until 1999."}, {"text": "Roman Griffin Davis (born 5 March 2007) is an English actor. He is best known for his title role in the film \"Jojo Rabbit\" (2019), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. Early life and career. Davis was born on 5 March 2007 in London. He is the son of cinematographer Ben Davis and writer-director Camille Griffin. He lives with his parents and brothers, twins Gilby and Hardy, in East Sussex. He went to school at Cumnor House and Cranbrook grammar school, Sussex, until 2020. Davis made his acting debut in the 2019 satirical black comedy film \"Jojo Rabbit\" directed by Taika Waititi. His twin brothers are also in the film as Hitler Youth clones. Davis was nominated for various awards for his performance in \"Jojo Rabbit\" and won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer and the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Breakthrough Performance. He starred in the 2021 comedy \"Silent Night\" directed by his mother Camille Griffin. In February 2024, he was attached to the film \"500 Miles\", along with actor Bill Nighy, to be directed by Morgan Matthews."}, {"text": "Henry \"Harry\" George Grey (1851-1925) was an English missionary, author, and theologian who served as the third Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Grey was the second son of Admiral George Grey (1809-1891) and a grandson of Prime Minister Earl Grey. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, graduating BA in 1873 and MA in 1876. After a training curacy in the London slums, from 1876 to 1885 Grey served as Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Oxford, a parish in the mostly working-class suburb of St Ebbe's. Grey returned to the metropolis in 1885, being licensed by the Bishop of Rochester to the curacy of St James, Clapham Park. Grey's work here was brief, as the greatest part of his ministry (1887-1909, with a break 1900-05) was spent as an agent of the Church Missionary Society in British India, particularly areas which would later become Pakistan, including Quetta, Amritsar, Lahore, and Gojra. He began work in this field just as Bishop Valpy French was leaving it due to ill-health. Grey's work in the region was described by Thomas Ewing as earnestly labouring 'in a more honourable part of the master's field'. Grey returned to England and served as Principal of Wycliffe"}, {"text": "Hall, Oxford in succession to Francis Chavasse from 1900 to 1905, during which time he completed a number of scholarly works and was licensed by the Bishop of Oxford as to take services on the site of what was to become St Andrew's Church, Oxford. Although Grey resigned as Principal in 1905 for a second tour of service in India, he returned within five years to resume the post at Wycliffe Hall in 1910. He worked intermittently during this time and beyond (until 1923) as Examining Chaplain for Chavasse, who had moved to serve as second Bishop of Liverpool. The final years at Wycliffe were clouded by the First World War, during which the hall served to house refugees from Serbia and trainees from the Royal Flying Corps. It was Grey's second cousin once removed, Edward Grey, who for most of the war was directing British foreign policy. This may have been the reason for the Flying Corps' stationing at Wycliffe. On the death of another cousin, Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, Harry became heir presumptive to the earldom of Grey, though he was outlived by the 5th Earl, so never inherited the title or estate. After living at the"}, {"text": "Hannington Hall from 1915 to 1921, and suffering acutely from arthritis, Grey finally left Oxford, concluding an association with the city which had lasted over fifty years, to live with his sister, Mary Elizabeth Grey at Moreton Pinkney Manor House. Following Grey's death in 1925, Chavasse (now in retirement in Oxford) published a biographical tribute to his old friend which includes a selection of Grey's sermons."}, {"text": "The Gulfstar 43 is an American sailboat that was designed by Vince and Richard Lazarra as a cruiser and first built in 1971. Production. The design was built by Gulfstar Yachts in the United States, between 1971 and 1978, but it is now out of production. Design. The Gulfstar 43 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig or optional ketch rig, a raked stem, a vertical transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed long keel. It displaces and carries of ballast. The boat has a draft of with the standard long keel fitted. The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines diesel engine. The fuel tank holds and the fresh water tank has a capacity of . This model was introduced in 1971 and ten were built before production ended in 1973. It has a length overall of , a waterline length of and a beam of . The boat has a draft of with the standard keel and a hull speed of . This model was introduced in 1976 and 80 were built before production ended in 1978. It has a length overall of"}, {"text": ", a waterline length of and a beam of . The boat has a draft of with the standard keel and a hull speed of . Improved model. See also. Similar sailboats"}, {"text": "Pfaffst\u00e4tten is a railway station in the town of Pfaffst\u00e4tten in Lower Austria."}, {"text": "Gumpoldskirchen is a railway station in the town of Gumpoldskirchen in Lower Austria."}, {"text": "The 2017 Ironman 70.3 World Championship was a long distance triathlon competition held on September 9\u201310, 2017 in Chattanooga, Tennessee that was won by Javier Gomez of Spain and Daniela Ryf of Switzerland. The championship was organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) and it marked the first time the race was held on two separate days, splitting the days of competition between male and female competitors. For Ryf it was her third Ironman 70.3 World Championship win. This was Gomez's second 70.3 championship win having won also in 2014."}, {"text": "The 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election was the 17th quinquennial legislative election held in West Bengal, to elect all 294 members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly. This electoral process of 292 seats unfolded between 27 March to 29 April 2021, taking place in eight phases. Voting for the two remaining constituencies was delayed to 30 September 2021. The incumbent All India Trinamool Congress government led by Mamata Banerjee won the election by a landslide, despite opinion polls generally predicting a close race against the Bharatiya Janata Party, which became the official opposition with 77 seats. For the first time in the history of Bengal, no members from INC and Communist party were elected. Background. Electoral system. Outlined in Article 168 of the Constitution of India, the West Bengal Legislative Assembly is the only house of the unicameral legislature of West Bengal, not a permanent body, and subject to dissolution. The assembly term lasts for five years unless it is dissolved earlier. Members of the Legislative Assembly are directly elected by the people, and the tenure of the Sixteenth West Bengal Legislative Assembly was scheduled to end on 30 May 2021. Previous general election. In the 2016 election, the All"}, {"text": "India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC) retained its majority in the Legislative Assembly with 211 seats. The Indian National Congress won 44 seats and the Left Front won 33 seats from their alliance, while the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha won 3 seats each out of the total 294 seats. Political developments. Since the by-elections held for the Kanthi South seat in 2017, it became evident that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had overtaken the Left Front as the primary opposition party in the state. According to various political analysts, the shifting of the Left Front and other opposition voters towards the BJP caused the party's vote share to significantly increase. In spite of widespread violence, the BJP emerged as the second largest party in the 2018 elections to the state panchayats mainly due to the shifting of the Left Front's voter base. The long-held stereotype of Bengali Hindus being averse to right-wing politics was shattered when the BJP won the 2018 assembly elections in Tripura, another Indian state with a Bengali Hindu majority, ruled till then by CPI(M)-led alliance of Communist parties since 1993. In the 2019 general elections, the BJP increased its number of Lok"}, {"text": "Sabha seats from 2 to 18, and took 40% of the vote share, an increase from 11% in the 2016 elections. Trinamool Congress (TMC) was reduced from 34 to 22 seats, Indian National Congress (INC) was reduced from 4 to 2 seats, and for the first time since their individual inceptions, no party from the Left Front (namely CPI(M), CPI, AIFB & RSP) was able to win a single seat from the state. This was the best ever performance of the BJP in the state (where it had never won more than 2 seats) in terms of both seats & voteshare. Public anger towards corruption and hooliganism of a section of TMC cadres in rural areas during the 2018 panchayat elections, religious polarisation by BJP fueled by resentment of a section of Bengali Hindu society towards Mamata Banerjee's tactics of Muslim appeasement, and large scale support of the Rajbongshi and Matua communities for granting Indian citizenship to exclusively non-Muslim Bangladeshi immigrants over fears of a demographic change fuelled by infiltration of undocumented Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh, allegedly supported by Mamata Banerjee have been cited as important reasons behind the rise of BJP in West Bengal alongside the decline of Left"}, {"text": "Front. With Narendra Modi becoming the only non-Congress prime minister to remain in power for two consecutive terms (amounting to ten years) without depending on the support of the National Democratic Alliance, and the BJP fulfilling the wish of its founder Shyamaprasad Mukherjee by revoking the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and long standing promise of resolving the Ayodhya dispute in favour of Hindus, the party considered the formation of a BJP-led state government in West Bengal (a state which has historically never voted for right-wing parties in large numbers) for the first time as a means of paying homage to Mukherjee, who hailed from there. A BJP victory in West Bengal would have also demoralised Mamata Banerjee's attempts of creating a non-BJP non-Congress alliance of regional parties that might play an important role in the upcoming general elections. BJP increased their seats in the assembly from 3 to 53 when the West Bengal Legislative Assembly was dissolved through defections from TMC, INC, and Left Front leaders, and by-elections from 2016 to 2021. A prominent defector in December 2020 was Suvendu Adhikari, who was a long-time associate of Mamata Banerjee, and a state cabinet minister who was dissatisfied over"}, {"text": "the rising influence of her nephew Abhishek Banerjee in the party. However, Adhikari revealed that he was in contact with the BJP since 2014 after he joined the party. His father Sisir Adhikari, the MP from Kanthi, also defected from TMC to BJP. Another cabinet minister, Rajib Banerjee, also joined BJP. However, the TMC won the Kharagpur Sadar seat from BJP and Kaliaganj seat from the INC, while retaining the Karimpur seat in the by-polls held later in 2019 after Abhishek Banerjee employed Prashant Kishor as the election strategist of Trinamool Congress for the upcoming polls. Elections to municipal bodies of West Bengal (which include 112 municipalities and the municipal corporations of Kolkata, Howrah, Bidhannagar, Chandannagar, Asansol and Siliguri) could not be held as scheduled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Political issues. COVID-19. The pandemic became an election issue. The government was accused of \"fudging\" the count of positive cases and deaths in the region, and the AITC-led state government and BJP-led union government blamed each other for the surge in COVID-19 infections over the course of the campaign. The BJP accused Mamata Banerjee of not attending COVID-19 emergency management meetings held during the months of"}, {"text": "election campaigning, despite the second wave of infections, and for also holding election rallies. Sanjukta Morcha held the first Brigade rally ahead of polling in West Bengal. In mid-April, TMC requested holding the remaining phases of the elections in a single phase amid the rising number of COVID cases, but it was rejected by the Election Commission of India (ECI). Cyclone Amphan. In May 2020, a year before the 2021 elections, Cyclone Amphan hit the state. After it passed, widespread allegations of mismanagement and relief scam were reported. Protests broke out in some districts over the allegations, and the opposition made it an election issue ahead of the Assembly polls. Citizenship, immigration and refugee issues. In 2019, the BJP-led Union Government passed the CAA in Parliament, promising citizenship to immigrants and refugees belonging to religious minorities in Bangladesh, and providing them with rehabilitation. The BJP's Bengali booklet released in January 2020 claimed that the National Register of Citizens was implemented to identify allegedly undocumented illegal Muslim immigrants, but religiously persecuted Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, Jains, Parsi, and other religious minorities would be \"shielded\" by the CAA. Other issues. Polarisation amongst various religious, linguistic, and caste communities were also likely to"}, {"text": "play a role in this election. Both TMC and BJP had promised schemes for various communities. Although previously mobilized by Left governments against elites under the \"class\" narrative, the Dalits of West Bengal began to assert their identity politically. Religious polarization is particularly intense in districts bordering Bangladesh, such as North 24 Parganas. Arguments regarding who are native to the state and constituencies were also likely to impact the elections. Dissatisfaction and defection of many TMC leaders to BJP, allegedly due to rising influence of Abhishek Banerjee and Kishor in party administration was also likely to impact the elections. An event was organised by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs in Kolkata's Victoria Memorial to commemorate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's 125th birth anniversary, which was attended by PM Narendra Modi and CM Mamata Banerjee among others. A large number of BJP activists were present in the crowd. Just as Banerjee got up to speak, BJP supporters started chanting \"Jai Shri Ram\" which prompted the CM to abandon her speech. This incident led to a political slugfest between the BJP and the TMC ahead of the upcoming elections. Meanwhile, Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh made controversial remarks about Netaji. Mamata claimed that"}, {"text": "the BJP had \"insulted Netaji and Bengal\" by their actions. The BJP leadership criticised Banerjee while the Left Front and the Congress backed her and condemned the BJP for the incident of Victoria Memorial. Not only political personalities but also non-political people from different levels of the society, including Netaji's grandnephew Sugata Bose, condemned the incident of chanting religiopolitical slogans by BJP supporters which was unlikely for an apolitical event dedicated to Netaji. Schedule. The election schedule was announced on 26 February 2021, and the election was held in eight phases from 27 March 2021 to 29 April 2021. Votes were counted on 2 May 2021. On the day of announcement, the ECI declared that physically disabled and elderly voters would get the benefit of postal voting and the time limit for voting was extended by one hour. Due to polling abnormalities, re-polling for booth number 88 in Jangipara was held in the fourth phase. The elections in Jangipur and Samserganj were adjourned due to the death of the INC candidate in Samserganj and Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) candidate in Jangipur. Polling for these two seats was originally rescheduled to 13 May 2021, but as that day was Eid, it"}, {"text": "was pushed back to 16 May. Later on ECI adjourned polling for both constituencies and it took place on 30 September. Repolling at the Amtali Madhyamik Siksha Kendra polling station in Sitalkuchi was conducted on 29 April, after CISF personnel were fired on 10 April. Parties and alliances. All India Trinamool Congress +. Both factions of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) expressed support for TMC in the assembly election. TMC allotted three seats in the Darjeeling to GJM, but its two factions, namely Bimal and Binoy, declared fielding their candidates in each of the three seats. RJD, Shiv Sena, and JMM also endorsed Trinamool for the election. TMC supported Independent candidate in Joypur after their candidate's nomination was cancelled. Sanjukta Morcha. On 28 January 2021 Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury announced that seat-sharing talks between the Congress and Left Front had concluded for 193 seats and that the remaining 101 seats would be decided at a later point. Out of the 193 seats agreed upon by 28 January 92 went to Congress and 101 to the Left Front. Left Front & Congress announced from a rally at the Brigade Parade ground on 28 February 2021 that they would form an"}, {"text": "alliance called Sanyukta Morcha with a newly-formed outfit called ISF. ISF initially claimed that they secured 30 seats from the Left Front's quota. After the final seat sharing agreement was concluded, it was announced that the Left Front would contest 165 seats, Congress 92 seats, and ISF 37 seats. Left Front chairman Biman Bose announced the candidates for the first and second-phase elections on 5 March alongside INC and ISF leaders, leaving seats for them in the list. INC revealed its first list of 13 candidates for the first two phases on 6 March. Left Front announced its second list of candidates on 10 March, consisting of several new and young faces from All India Students Federation (AISF), All India Youth Federation (AIYF), Students' Federation of India (SFI), and Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), along with ex-ministers of the Left Front government and ex-MPs; Bose also nominated DYFI West Bengal state president Minakshi Mukherjee as the CPI(M) candidate for the Nandigram seat, which was kept vacant in the first list published on 5 March. On 14 March, INC revealed their second list of 34 candidates on 14 March, and ISF their first set of 20 candidates. Sanyukta Morcha announced"}, {"text": "15 more candidates on 17 March consisting of 9 from the Left Front, 2 from INC, and 4 from ISF. INC revealed their third list of 39 candidates on 20 March, and two more on 22 March. National Democratic Alliance. Five hill-based parties pledged support to BJP ahead of the assembly election: Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF), Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists, Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL), Gorkhaland Rajya Nirman Morcha, and SUMETI Mukti Morcha. Hindu Samhati, a right-wing organisation in West Bengal, had withdrawn their support from the BJP at first to contest the elections on their own, but eventually they supported the BJP. BJP allotted the Amta constituency seat to the president of Hindu Samhati to contest under the symbol of BJP. BJP also allotted the Baghmundi constituency, bordering Jharkhand, to the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU). Others. Shiv Sena initially said that they would contest in around 100 seats, but later on 4 March 2021 announced that they would not contest and would support Mamata Banerjee and TMC. Surveys and polls. Exit poll. On 27 March, the ECI banned the publication of surveys and exit polls until 7:30 pm on 29 April to prevent influencing voters, but"}, {"text": "the ban ended half an hour earlier. \"NK Digital Magazine\" exit poll predicted victory for TMC in general election for the Samserganj seat and by-election for the Bhabanipur seat. \"Ekhon Biswa Bangla Sangbad\" predicted TMC's victory in all three seats where elections took place on 30 September. Opinion poll. A number of pre-poll surveys for the elections were published by different agencies and groups in the span of one year until 27 March. Most polls contradicted each other regarding the possible outcome. \"NK Digital Magazine\" opinion poll predicted victory for TMC in Jangipur and Samserganj. They also conducted a pre-poll survey across poll-bound Assembly constituencies that predicted TMC's victory. Election. COVID-19 guidelines. The ECI issued various health guidelines for conducting the elections, including the use of masks, sanitisation of the polling booths, use of thermal scanners before entering the polling booths, maintaining social distancing, and so forth. The maximum number of voters for each polling station was lowered to 1000 from 1500. After COVID-19 cases increased in the state, the ECI issued warnings for all recognised state and national political parties to strictly follow COVID-19 guidelines, and banned all political rallies, public meetings, street plays and \"nukkad sabhas\" from 7"}, {"text": "pm to 10 am starting from 16 April. On 22 April 2021, before the seventh and eighth phases of voting, the ECI forbade roadshows, and added that at most 500 people were allowed in public meetings. On 27 April, they issued a notification over banning victory processions on and after the day the votes were counted. Security preparations. After several instances of violence, threats, and murders before the polls were announced, the ECI and the Home Ministry ordered twelve companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) to be deployed in West Bengal on 20 February. At least 125 more CAPF troops were dispatched to reach West Bengal on 25 February to focus on sensitive zones. 60 companies of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), 30 companies of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), 25 companies of the Border Security Force (BSF) and five companies each of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). The total number of central forces rose to 725, before a final total of 1,000 companies after the third phase of polling. In the second phase of election, Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure was implemented across areas in the Tamluk"}, {"text": "and Haldia subdivisions. After the fourth phase of polling, the ECI deployed an extra 71 companies of central forces. Results. The election results for 292 constituencies was announced on 2 May 2021 after counting of votes began at 8:00 am (UTC+5:30), while the results for 2 constituencies was delayed until 3 October. Results by party. ! colspan=\"2\" rowspan=\"3\" |Political Parties ! colspan=\"4\" |Results of remaining Constituencies<br>(declared on 3 October) ! colspan=\"6\" |Complete Results of 294 Constituencies ! colspan=\"2\" |Popular vote ! colspan=\"2\" |Seats ! colspan=\"3\" |Popular vote ! colspan=\"3\" |Seats !Votes ! Contested !Won||Votes|| % || \u00b1pp ||Contested ||Won ||+/\u2212 ! colspan=\"12\" | ! colspan=\"12\" | Controversies. Communist Party of India (Marxist) supporters and leaders accused No Vote To BJP campaign and CPIML Liberation of leading to the victory of All India Trinamool Congress. Relations between CPIM and CPIML Liberation weakened after 2021 West Bengal Legislative Election. No Vote To BJP campaign. No Vote To BJP was a non-partisan, Anti-BJP political campaign in West Bengal. The campaign motto was \"We requested to all peoples of the West Bengal, \"vote for anyone in the election, but not vote for the BJP on the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.\".\" Nandigram controversy."}, {"text": "On 18 January Mamata Banerjee announced at a rally in Nandigram that she would contest the upcoming assembly elections from Nandigram. Hours later, Suvendu Adhikari said he would defeat the CM by a margin of at least 50,000 votes or quit politics. On the eve of polling in Nandigram, the ECI ordered the transfer of the sub-divisional police officer of Haldia and the circle inspector of Mahishadal in Purba Medinipur district to non-election assignments and imposed Section 144 in that constituency. A day after the polling, stray clashes took place between workers of the TMC and the BJP in some parts of Nandigram. The votes were counted on 2 May. All eyes were set on the updates of high-voltage Nandigram constituency. 17 rounds of counting was to be done before declaring the winner. Mamata Banerjee was trailing in initial rounds. The EC informed that announcement of results for Nandigram would be delayed because of problem in server. In the 16th round, when the counting of votes in Gokulnagar panchayat area started, Mamata fell behind. After the 16th round, the counting of 17th round was delayed by an hour. Postal ballots were being counted at that time. At the end of"}, {"text": "the seventeenth round, it was announced that Mamata Banerjee had won by a margin of 1,200 (or 3,717) votes. Though later, it was declared that Suvendu had defeated (his) former party leader by approximately 1,956 votes. Mamata banerjee continued to claim that she won Nandigram, Security was beefed up in the vicinity of the Haldia counting centre amid fears of unrest. Mamata Banerjee alleged that the returning officer of Nandigram constituency was threatened and the two observers sitting inside the counting centre were very biased. The ECI wrote a letter to the West Bengal chief secretary and directed them to take all appropriate measures to keep a strict watch and regularly monitor the security provided to the returning officer in Nandigram. Since Adhikari was declared winner, TMC workers protested outside the counting centre. Central Forces protected Adhikari's car while before it left the area. TMC workers alleged that the counting was stopped for three hours, the result was overturned after a power outage, and their agent was assaulted and thrown out from the counting centre by central forces. On 14 July, the High Court issued a notice to Adhikari, the ECI, the state electoral officer, and the returning officer with"}, {"text": "a direction to keep all election-related records intact until the case was heard on 12 August. Adhikari went to the Supreme Court seeking transfer of Banerjee's election petition case outside the state. On 12 August, Adhikari's lawyers submitted before the court of Justice Sarkar that the legislator has approached the Supreme Court seeking transfer of the case from West Bengal. In keeping with the respondent's prayer, Justice Sarkar adjourned the hearing to 15 November. On that date, Adhikari filed a petition in the Calcutta High Court seeking adjournment of the case. The High Court asked him to file a written statement explaining the reason for his no-confidence in the High Court by 29 November and it was decided that the next hearing would be held on 1 December. Reactions and analysis. For the first time since the creation of the state through division of Bengal Presidency, the state legislative assembly does not have any members from the INC or Left Front, who dominated and shaped the politics of the state until 1998 when the TMC was founded and overtook the INC as the main opposition party in the state. Opinion polls and exit polls predicted a tight race between the"}, {"text": "TMC and BJP, and that TMC would win around 150 seats, BJP 140, with the remaining for Morcha. TMC won over 200 seats, while BJP overall performed poorly. Although it was the best ever performance of the state BJP in terms of both seats (before 2016, it never had more than 1 seat in the state Legislative assembly) & voteshare (at the height of the Ram mandir agitation, BJP managed to win 11.34% of votes in the 1991 election), it wasn't as phenomenal as it was in 2019. BJP's vote share fell from 40% in the 2019 elections to 38%. Reasons given were: The TMC increased its vote share from 43% in 2019 elections to 48% in the election. Reasons given were: The combined vote share of INC and Left Front fell from 11% in the 2019 general elections to 8% in this elections. Reasons given were: Veteran BJP leader Tathagata Roy lashed out at the party leadership on Twitter for viewing the ground conditions in the state through what he called KDSA (i.e. Kailash Vijayvargiya, Dilip Ghosh, Shiv Prakash and Arvind Menon) and questioned the party's decision to field \"Nogorer noti\"s (), referring to actresses Payel Sarkar, Tanushree Chakraborty"}, {"text": "and Srabanti Chatterjee, who were seen in a boat ride with TMC leader Madan Mitra in the past. He also specifically blamed Dilip Ghosh's many controversial remarks, most notably his misogynistic comments against Goddess Durga, the most widely revered Hindu deity in Bengali Hindu society in his attempt to glorify Lord Rama, the most widely revered Hindu deity in North Indian Hindu society & the ideological poster-boy of the RSS-BJP alongside Hanuman since the days of the \"Ram-mandir\" movement to justify the 'holier-than-thou' attitude of the Bengali Hindu supporters of BJP over the Bengali Hindus who don't support the BJP at a media conclave while campaigning for the elections, to be responsible for the party's poor performance. His \"Nogorer Noti\" remark drew widespread criticism online. The average winning margin of all the candidates in this election stood at 26,964 votes, while the same for AITC candidates was 31,760 votes. This loss was stated by the media to be Modi's personal failure. In view of the popular slogan \"\"Khela Hobe\", Mamata Banerjee declared that her party would observe 16 August as \"Khela Hobe Divas\", which the BJP tried to link with Direct Action Day. She also launched a government scheme named"}, {"text": "\"Khela Hobe\"\" which granted 5,00,000 INR and free footballs among 25,000 sporting clubs in the state to promote sports in economically poorer sections of society. Countering Shah's claim that BJP would come to power in West Bengal by winning around 200 or more seats out of the 294 seats in the state legislative assembly, Kishor publicly declared that he would resign from his job if BJP managed to win more than a 100 seats in this elections. Although he delivered his promise, Kishor declared his retirement from on being an election strategist on 2 May, citing personal reasons. Allegations of partial Election Commission. Election strategist Prashant Kishor who helped TMC in the elections, accused the Election Commission of being partial and helping the BJP saying, \"I have never seen a more partial Election Commission... It did everything to help the BJP... From allowing the use of religion to scheduling the poll and bending the rules, the ECI did everything to help the BJP.\" Aftermath. Violence. Politically motivated violence in West Bengal took place since before the 2021 West Bengal elections. In June 2019, 2 Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers were killed in Bengal. The party had blamed Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP)"}, {"text": "for it. Indian Home Minister and BJP member Amit Shah said that more than 300 BJP members were killed due to the political violence as of December 2020 and that \"investigation in those cases hasn't moved an inch\". After results were announced, post-poll violence broke out in some areas of the state. In reality it was continuation of the violence which took place across the state during the election. In recent times, the first occurrence of post-poll violence in the state was recorded in 2019 when BJP members targeted TMC staff and forcibly occupied or vandalised local TMC offices, mainly at the behest of the newly elected Barrackpore MP Arjun Singh. On May 2, the results had just started showing signs of Trinamool returning to power when the men arrived, going house to house, ransacking them, breaking some. By the end of the day, 40 families of a colony located on KPC Medical College grounds in Jadavpur had fled. All BJP supporters or workers say TMC threats had kept them away for two-and-a-half months . Government formation. Mamata Banerjee took an oath as the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the third time on 5 May 2021 at the Raj"}, {"text": "Bhawan in Kolkata. She expanded the cabinet on 10 May 2021 when 43 TMC leaders were sworn in as ministers. 17 new people were in the Third Banerjee ministry. Vacant seats. TMC candidate Kajal Sinha from Khardaha died from COVID-19 after polling but before the results of the state assembly elections were announced, in which he emerged victorious. The ECI deferred the elections to two assembly seats in West Bengal in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. The polling had been rescheduled earlier to 16 May 2021 due to the death of two contestants from the Samserganj and Jangipur constituencies. Mocking this decision, the TMC said \"The Election Commission, though late, finally woke up. But when demands were made repeatedly to arrange the election in one day by combining 2\u20133 phases, then they remained silent.\" Two BJP MLAs \u2013 Nisith Pramanik from Dinhata and Jaganath Sarkar from Shantipur constituencies \u2013 resigned after the election results, as they were sitting MPs from Cooch Behar and Ranaghat, respectively, and wanted to continue as MPs. Jayanta Naskar, TMC MLA of Gosaba, died from COVID-19 on 19 June after testing negative for the disease. Appointments. Adhikari, with the support of 22 MLAs, was elected as"}, {"text": "Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly on 10 May 2021. BJP MPs Subhash Sarkar from Bankura, John Barla from Alipurduar, Nisith Pramanik from Coochbehar, and Shantanu Thakur from Bangaon were made ministers-of-state in the Union Caninet after the polls. Incumbent Cabinet ministers from the state, Babul Supriyo from Asansol and Debasree Chaudhuri from Raiganj, resigned from their positions due to their failure in rallying the voters from their respective constituencies to vote for BJP. After the Cabinet reshuffle, Supriyo stated that he was quitting politics and his position as an MP, but after meeting the leaders of BJP, he decided to retain his position as an MP. He later joined TMC, stating that he wanted to remain in politics but his political participation was being restricted by BJP due to his defeat from Tollyganj and the party's poor performance in Asanol. Abhishek Banerjee was promoted from the president of state TMC's youth wing to all-India general secretary. Long time RSS activist and Balurghat MP Sukanta Majumdar succeeded Dilip Ghosh as the president of the state BJP unit, while Ghosh was made one of the national vice-presidents of the party. Defections. The Union Home Ministry decided to provide"}, {"text": "Y+ category security to Sisir Adhikari and his son Dibyendu Adhikari. East Bardhaman MP Sunil Mondal, who had earlier defected from TMC to BJP alongside Adhikari in 2020, declared in August that he was \"always with the TMC\". Adhikari demanded that the speaker Biman Banerjee dismiss Mukul Roy from the legislative assembly according to the anti-defection law, but TMC stated if Adhikari's father Sisir Adhikari can remain the MP from Kanthi even after switching from TMC to BJP in early 2021, then why Roy should be allowed to as well. Four other MLAs \u2013 Soumen Roy from Kaliaganj, Biswajit Das from Bagda, Tanmoy Ghosh from Bishnupur and Krishna Kalyani from Raiganj switched from BJP to TMC following Roy without being disqualified from their membership. All-India president of Congress's women's wing and its national spokesperson and former Silchar MP Sushmita Dev joined TMC, and was followed by Luizinho Faleiro. After joining TMC, Supriyo resigned as MP on 19 October. 2021 by-polls. The ECI deferred the elections in Samserganj and Jangipur constituencies due to the death of two candidates. AITC MLA Sovandeb Chattopadhyay from Bhabanipur resigned after the election to allow Mamata Banerjee to contest a by-election in the constituency. In the"}, {"text": "beginning of September, the ECI announced that general elections for Jangipur and Samserganj assembly seats and by-election for Bhabanipur seat would be held on 30 September and votes would be counted on 3 October. The time limit for filing nominations was set from 6 September until 13 September for Bhabanipur only. Mamata Banerjee filed hers on 10 September. A total of 12 candidates contested in Bhabanipur by-poll. Kishor enrolled himself as a voter from Bhabanipur, but he did not cast his vote. A total of 52 central forces companies were deployed to the three poll-bound Assembly constituencies' booths. Section 144 was enforced in Bhabanipur on 28 September. On the eve of polling, the Commission deployed an additional 20 companies of central forces in Bhabanipur. On 28 September, the ECI announced that remaining by-polls would be held on 30 October and votes counted on 2 November. On 30 September the first report of violence came from Samserganj, and Congress candidate Jaidur Rahaman was accused of carrying out a bombing in this constituency. TMC activists raised \"go back\" slogans surrounding him while he inspected booths on polling day. Central forces were accused of kicking TMC leader Habibur Rahman, the outgoing councilor of"}, {"text": "Ward 20 of Dhulian Municipality under Samserganj Assembly. Priyanka Tibrewal, BJP candidate of Bhabanipur, was accused of violating the ECI's model code of conduct by travelling across the area with many cars and people at once. After she claimed to have caught fake voters, Firhad Hakim pointed out that as a candidate she had no right to check their identities. BJP leader Kalyan Chaubey's car was allegedly vandalised in Bhabanipur and BJP blamed TMC for the act. Police released CCTV footage of the incident, claiming it had nothing to do with politics. BJP claimed that Chaubey was their candidate's election agent but according to Commission sources, he was the agent of a Hindustani Awam Morcha candidate. The vehicle he used to get to the polling constituency was not registered by the EC. BJP lodged a total of 23 complaints against TMC over the voting process in Bhabanipur, but the ECI dismissed all of them. A total of 697,164 voters were eligible to cast their votes in the three constituencies. The voter turnout for Samserganj, Jangipur, and Bhabanipur was recorded at 79.92%, 77.63%, and 57.09% respectively. Results were announced on 3 October, with TMC winning the three seats. Mamata Banerjee won"}, {"text": "the Bhabanipur Assembly seat by a margin of 58,835 votes over the BJP candidate. TMC led in all wards of Bhabanipur, including wards 70 and 74, where BJP led in the last assembly polls. On the same day, TMC officially announced a list of candidates for upcoming assembly by-elections to four seats. The Model Code of Conduct was imposed in Nadia, Cooch Behar, Khardaha, and Gosaba. The ECI initially deployed 27 companies of central forces for the remaining by-elections. A week before the by-elections, an additional 53 companies entered the state. Later, the ECI decided to deploy a total of 92 CAPF companies. On the last day of the Dinhata by-election campaign, Dilip Ghosh and Sukanta Majumdar met the deputy inspector general of police, Shailendra Kumar Singh, at the Border Security Force sector headquarters of Sonari in Cooch Behar. This was controversial because the Chief Minister could not even hold administrative meetings with Cooch Behar district officials, as the model code of conduct was in effect. Reacting to this, Hakim said \"Recently, the Ministry of Home Affairs has increased the jurisdiction of BSF to 50 km. Taking advantage of this, the BJP leaders went to pull the BSF chief over"}, {"text": "to their side.\" TMC lodged a complaint with the ECI. A TMC deputy went to the district magistrate's chamber and complained that the BSF-BJP meeting had violated the model code of conduct. On polling day, central forces were accused of intimidating voters at booth 296 in Dinhata and some other booths in Kharadaha and Gosaba. In Kharadha, the central forces prevented TMC candidate Sovandeb Chattopadhyay from entering a booth, who alleged that they unfairly demanded to see double vaccination certificates from voters. The problem was resolved after informing the matter to the presiding officer. During the election campaign, Joy Saha, BJP candidate of Khardaha, used a picture of the deceased TMC leader Kajal Sinha in his campaign. On election day, he claimed to have caught two fake voters red-handed, which was proven false. When he claimed to have caught a fake voter and BJP supporters started harassing the man, a fight broke out between the TMC and the BJP over the incident. Joy Saha's personal security guards baton charged TMC activists, injuring the Sinha's son in the process. Gosaba registered highest voter turnout among four constituencies. The results of the four constituencies was announced on 2 November, with TMC winning"}, {"text": "all seats. TMC's Sovandeb Chattopadhyay and Subrata Mondal won Khardaha and Gosaba, respectively, by huge margins. Udayan Guha, who lost the Dinhata seat by a margin of 57 votes during the assembly election, won the seat in the bypolls by a margin of 164,089 votes. TMC also won the Santipur seat, where Braja Kishor Goswami was the TMC candidate, from the BJP by a considerable margin of votes."}, {"text": "Daniel 'Danny' Costello (born 1975 died 25 February 2025) was a male retired boxer who competed for England. He died 25 February 2025. Boxing career. Costello was three times National Champion in 1994, 1995 and 1996 after winning the prestigious ABA flyweight title, boxing out of the Hollington ABC. He represented England and won a bronze medal in the flyweight (-51 kg) division, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He turned professional on 26 October 1996 and fought in 7 fights until 2004."}, {"text": "The de-Tatarization of Crimea (; ; ) was initiated by the Russian Empire and perpetuated by the Soviet Union. Following the Russian Empire's annexation of the Crimean Khanate in 1783, a variety of legal and practical measures were implemented to subjugate the indigenous Crimean Tatars, who are a Turkic ethnic group. This process of \"de-Tatarization\" manifested in many ways throughout Crimea, intensifying significantly during the Soviet Union's Stalinist era: the Crimean Tatar language was suppressed and supplanted by the Russian language, especially by renaming Crimean toponyms; the government settled Russians and other Slavs in the region and promoted Tatarophobia amongst them, such as by describing Crimean Tatars as traitorous \"Mongols\" with no authentic connection to the peninsula; and, ultimately, as many as nearly half a million Crimean Tatars were deported in a campaign of ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide. During 1783\u20131917, nearly 4 million Muslims were forced to emigrate from Crimea, primarily to the Ottoman Empire. Prior to 1783, Crimean Tatars made up 95% of the Crimean population. Manifestations. Topography renaming. The of districts, raions, villages, and geographic features in Crimea bearing Crimean Tatar names were given Slavic and communist names shortly after the deportation of the Crimean Tatars by"}, {"text": "the Soviet regime, per a decree of the Crimean Regional Committee mandating such renaming. Most places in Crimea still bear the post-deportation names, many redundant, that were imposed in the 1940s to remove traces of Crimean Tatar existence. Very few localities Bakhchysarai, Dzhankoy, , Alushta, Alupka, and Saky were given their original names back after the fall of the Soviet Union. Propaganda. Soviet party officials in Crimea indoctrinated the Slavic population of Crimea with Tatarophobia, depicting Crimean Tatars as \"traitors\", \"bourgeoisie\", or \"counter-revolutionaries\", and falsely implying that they were \"Mongols\" with no historical connection to the Crimean peninsula (despite their Greek, Italian, Armenian, and Gothic roots). A 1948 conference in Crimea was dedicated to promoting and sharing anti-Crimean-Tatar sentiments. Amet-khan Airport. The attempts to paint Amet-khan Sultan as a Dagestani contrary to his Crimean origins has faced backlash from the Crimean Tatar community. Despite the flying ace being born in Crimea to a Crimean Tatar mother and always identifying himself as Crimean Tatar, the Russian Federation named a Dagestani airport after him while naming Crimea's main airport after Ivan Aivazovsky instead, ignoring numerous petitions from the Crimean Tatar community requesting that the airport bearing Amet-khan's name be in his homeland."}, {"text": "Governor Miller may refer to:"}, {"text": "As of the 2010 U.S. Census there were 11,813 ethnic Koreans in Harris County, Texas, in the Houston area, making up 4.2% of the county's Asian population. In 2015 Haejin E. Koh, author of \"Korean Americans in Houston: Building Bridges across Cultures and Generations,\" wrote in regards to the census figure that \"community leaders believe the number is twice as large.\" History. In 1970 the official census figure for people of Korean origins in the entire state was 2,090. Bruce Glasrud, a historian, stated that the real figure may be higher as some previous Korean immigrants were counted as Japanese, as Korea was then under the Empire of Japan. Kristopher \"Kris\" Ahn, who immigrated to Houston in 1975, recalled that, at that time, there was one travel agency and grocery store each operated by ethnic Koreans in Houston and that a cohesive Korean ethnic community had not yet formed. Gigi Lee, another immigrant in that era, stated that her family went to a store owned by ethnic Japanese people to get ethnic Korean products, and that the ethnic Korean community at the time numbered about 500. Dr. Sam Jae Cho also stated that in the early 1980s that a Korean"}, {"text": "community had not yet solidified, and that a Korean church had a relatively small meeting area. As of 1983 there were about 10,000 ethnic Korean people in Houston. In 1990 there were 6,571 ethnic Koreans, making up 6% of the county's Asian population. In 2000 this figure had increased to 8,764, making up 4.5% of the county's Asian population. The number of Koreans increased by 35% from 2000 to 2010. In 2008 the estimated number of ethnic Koreans, which were about 5% of all persons of Asian origin in the area, was about 15,000. The heads of area ethnic Korean organizations estimated that the population was around 30,000. In 2018 older ethnic Koreans protested against plans to include North Korea in Olympic ceremonies. Geography. Spring Branch has a large ethnic Korean population, and therefore it houses multiple Korean businesses and institutions. Economy. By 2008 a Super H Mart supermarket, a part of a Korean American chain, opened in Spring Branch. Purva Patel of the \"Houston Chronicle\" wrote that this supermarket attracted development to the area. Organizations and institutions. Circa 2011 there are about twenty ethnic Korean organizations in the Houston area. They include Korean American Society of Houston (KASH), the"}, {"text": "Korean American Association of Houston (KAAH), the Korean American Chamber of Commerce (KAAC), the Korean Student Associations (KSA) at the University of Houston (UH), and the Korean-American Energy Exploration and Production Society. The Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association also maintains a chapter for South Texas. The KAAH uses Korean as its primary medium on its website and in operations as most of its members are first generation immigrants. The predecessor of KASH, Korean American Young Professionals Association (KAYPA), was established in 1985 with John H. Kim (born 1959 in Austin, Texas) as the first president. The KAAC, established in 1974, originally was Korean-medium. Kris Ahn, who became the KACC president in 1995, perceived it and another organization as cannibalizing one another's purposes. Haejin Koh, wrote that \"sustaining both organizations would be difficult and perhaps unnecessary.\" Kris Ahn made English the primary medium of the KAAC, and Haejin Koh wrote that \"In 2006 the two organizations came to serve separate constituencies and flourished.\" The Korean Community Center of Houston (KCCH), which occupies a two story building in Spring Branch formerly used for medical offices, held its formal opening ceremony on March 12, 2011. $500,000 was spent for acquisition and $900,000 for"}, {"text": "renovation, and the government of South Korea, the City of Houston, and ethnic fundraising provided money for this purpose. Prior to the opening of the center, a house in Spring Branch was used as a community center. The ethnic fundraising for such a center began around 1976 and in 2009 area Korean organizations made a drive to have the center established. The building was put up for sale after Hurricane Ike had damaged it. The storm damage increased the necessary costs of renovation. The Korean School, Seoul Baptist Church of Houston, local fundraising, ethnic Koreans in other countries, and seed money made up $100,000, $120,000, $200,000, $200,000, and $300,000, respectively. A U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grant worth $500,000 also supported the building. The Korean Cultural Center, the Korean School, and the KAAH offices are in the building. Hyunja Norman created a political advocacy organization for Korean Americans, Woori Juntos, which was in existence by 2020. The name includes the Korean and Spanish names for the English word \"we\". There is also a Korean Senior Center. Education. The Houston Korean School (\ud734\uc2a4\ud134\ud55c\uc778\ud559\uad50), located in the community center, provides supplementary Korean education. In 2011 it was the first and"}, {"text": "largest tenant in the community center, and it had 175 students that year. The Korean school previously held classes at a church. There the Houston Community College (HCC) also has a facility, where it holds English as a second language (ESL) classes. an after school program was planned. about 200 students at HCC were South Korean citizens. Recreation. KASH organizes the Korean Festival (K-Fest), held every year at Discovery Green in Downtown Houston. It originated as the \"Kimchi Fest\", spearheaded by the KACC, in 2007. It received its current name in 2009 and expanded its scope. K-Fest includes K-Pop, Korean dance, Korean food, American-Korean fusion food, taekwondo, and other Korean cultural performances. Politics. In 2018 Harris County did not offer Korean translations of election ballots. The office of the Harris County Clerk chose not to allow volunteer Korean translators inside polling places, citing state law, although they were allowed in the parking lot. In 2021 the Texas Legislature redrew U.S. House of Representatives boundaries so that the Korean community in Spring Branch was divided between two different districts, reducing their political representation. Religion. the oldest ethnic Korean church is the Korean Christian Church of Houston. In September 2007 Chul Chung,"}, {"text": "the senior pastor, returned to South Korea after he resigned. In 2008 there was discord among factions in the church and around 100 people were expelled from the church. The members who were suspended or expelled instead attended services at the Korean Senior Center. In 1999 the Houston area had over 1,000 Korean Catholics. The Korean Catholic church is St. Andrew Kim Catholic Church in Spring Branch, named after Andrew Kim Taegon. Seoul Baptist Church of Houston is an ethnic Baptist church in the area. On December 25, 2001, the Korean Community Church in The Woodlands, with Presbyterian Korean-language services and non-denominational English services, opened. It opened to serve ethnic Koreans in The Woodlands, Conroe, Huntsville, Kingwood, and Spring. Transportation. In May 2014 Korean Air started a flight from Incheon International Airport near Seoul to George Bush Intercontinental Airport. The KACC supported this effort. The airline canceled the service in 2017, stating that there was not enough demand for the flight."}, {"text": "The 2020 Copa Verde was the seventh edition of the football competition held in Brazil. Featuring 24 clubs, Acre, Amazonas, Distrito Federal, Esp\u00edrito Santo, Mato Grosso do Sul and Par\u00e1 have two vacancies; Amap\u00e1, Goi\u00e1s, Mato Grosso, Rond\u00f4nia, Roraima and Tocantins with one each. The others six berths was set according to CBF ranking. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the tournament was rescheduled, starting only on 20 January 2021 and ending on 24 February 2021. In the finals, Brasiliense defeated Remo 5\u20134 on penalties after tied 3\u20133 on aggregate to win their first title and a place in the third round of the 2021 Copa do Brasil. Schedule. The schedule of the competition is as follows. Bracket. <section begin=Bracket /><section end=Bracket /> Finals. \"Tied 3\u20133 on aggregate, Brasiliense won on penalties.\""}, {"text": "Lytechinus semituberculatus, commonly known as the green hedgehog or green sea urchin, is a sea urchin found in the coast of the Galapagos Islands. It is recognizable by its green coloration. Its conservation status is unknown."}, {"text": "Mabel Bianco (born 1941) is an Argentine physician who has devoted her career to fighting for women's access to improved health services and sex education. In 1989, she established the Foundation for Studies and Research on Women (\"Fundaci\u00f3n para Estudio e Investigaci\u00f3n de la Mujer\"; FEIM), and has continued to serve as its president. She has been an activist in Latin America and the world, introducing policies addressing breast cancer, HIV/AIDS, reproductive rights and gender reform in the UN. Early life. Born in Buenos Aires in 1941, Bianco studied medicine at the Universidad del Salvador (1958\u20131964), earned a master's degree in public health from Colombia's Universidad del Valle in 1968 and specialized in epidemiology and medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (1971\u20131972). Career. After teaching at the University of Buenos Aires public health school (1972\u20131976), she created the Epidemiological Research Centre (\"Centro de Investigaciones Epidemiol\u00f3gicas\") at the National Academy of Medicine in 1981. Working as an advisor at the Argentine Ministry of Health from 1983, she created a programme on Women, Health and Development and assisted in ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. She promoted a study on"}, {"text": "maternal mortality which revealed that in the absence of family planning, poor women risked unsafe abortions. Following a change of government in 1989, Bianco left the health ministry. That year she founded FEIM in order to promote women's reproductive rights as a means of improving access to safe abortion. Despite concrete improvements, in most cases, abortion continued to be illegal in Argentina. At the international level, in 1985 she was a delegate at Nairobi's World Conference on Women and has since served as a board member of PAHO, WHO, UNICEF, UNIFEM and UNFPA. She also participated in the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, the 1992 UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing, and the 1995 UN World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen. A pioneer in research on the prevention of HIV|AIDS, she helped establish UNAIDS in 1994. Bianco headed the Argentine HIV/AIDS programme (2001\u20132002) and participated in the AIDS and STD Control Project (LUSIDA) financed by the World Bank. In 2012, she established and co-chaired the Committee of NGOs on the Condition of Women from Latin America and the Caribbean. She has also created and chaired a"}, {"text": "number of other groups, including the Argentine Women's Health Network HERA (Health, Empowerment, Rights, and Accountability). Awards. Among the many awards and distinctions received by Mabel Bianco are: References."}, {"text": "Kelly Oliver (born 1973) is a male retired boxer who competed for England. Boxing career. Oliver was four times National Champion in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995 after winning the prestigious ABA light-heavyweight title, boxing out of the Bracebridge ABC. He represented England in the light-heavyweight (-81 kg) division, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He turned professional on 20 January 1996 and fought in 23 fights until 2008."}, {"text": "The 2006 San Jose mayoral election was held on June 6 and November 7, 2006, to elect the Mayor of San Jose, California. It saw the election of Chuck Reed. Incumbent mayor Ron Gonzales was term limited. Because no candidate managed to receive a majority of the vote in the initial round of the election, a runoff election was held between the first round's top-two finishers. Candidates. Advanced to runoff Eliminated in first round"}, {"text": "Twist is a 2021 British crime drama film directed by Martin Owen and co-produced by Noel Clarke and Jason Maza, who also stars in the film. The film, based on the 2014 Tom Grass novel \"Twist\" which is itself an adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1838 novel \"Oliver Twist\", stars Rafferty Law, Michael Caine, Noel Clarke, Lena Headey, Rita Ora and Sophie Simnett. \"Twist\" was released on Sky Cinema on 29 January 2021 and was met with negative reception from critics. Plot. A thief named Tom Chitling steals an envelope from a safe and escapes from guards, but is thrown off a building by an unseen assailant. The envelope is stolen while Tom is left to die. Years before, a boy named Oliver lived with his mother Molly and their hobby was painting. After Molly dies from unknown causes, Oliver runs away scared due to not knowing anyone else. He teaches himself to free run and gets the nickname \"Twist\". One day while graffiti spraying on a traffic warden's van, the police chase him and he meets Dodge and Batesey (The Artful Dodger and Charles Bates). They escape to their den near the Truman Brewery where Twist meets Fagin, their carer."}, {"text": "The next morning, Twist draws a giant graffiti painting on a building. Fagin sends Red (Nancy Lee) to invite Twist (who is smitten with her) to his for dinner. Meanwhile, Fagin meets with a friend of his named Sikes (Bill Sikes) revealing she pushed Chitling. Twist stays with the family and Fagin reveals his plan to steal from art dealer Dr. Crispin Losberne who took everything from Fagin. They then steal his phone and Batesey makes a copy. Meanwhile, Red, as a distraction, asks to be an intern for Losberne, so the next day Fagin gets the blueprints to Losberne's gallery. Twist meets Sikes and her dog Bull's-Eye. Fagin explains that Losberne once went into partnership with a Mr. Issac Solomon who Losberne also betrayed. Red plants a small bomb in Losberne's bathroom to steal a lost painting by William Hogarth. The bomb floods the basement and causes the painting to have to be moved. Back at base, Twist finds out that Red and Sikes are a couple upsetting him. At a pub, Red appears and Sikes\u2019 goons attack the group while Dodge plays Ever Fallen In Love in the jukebox. Twist and Red escape to a pool where the"}, {"text": "two kiss and run through the park. Twist is arrested by the traffic warden from earlier and is interrogated by Detectives Brownlow and Bedwin who tell him about Chitling. Twist is let free and gets back to base. Batesey is planning to get in a box to steal the painting while it's on the move but because he's claustrophobic, Twist switches places with him. Losberne finds out about the thieves and this causes Twist to fall out the van. Sikes picks Batesey up and apparently kills him. Twist gets back to base and asks \"What happened to Tom Chitling?\" and Sikes reveals that she killed Tom. Fagin makes a plan to break into the auction building. Disguised, the group sneak in and Fagin plants a gun in Losberne's chair. This causes a big evacuation. Twist steals the painting and escapes with Dodge. Batesey, who is still alive, reveals that Sikes tried to kill him and meets them at the base where Twist reveals he made a duplicate of the painting and has hidden the real one. He and Red escape and Sikes shoots Fagin. She then chases them to a rooftop and is shot by Fagin and falls off the"}, {"text": "building. A week later, Twist meets Bedwin and Brownlow at a caf\u00e9 and leaves them the envelope and a key. He then calls Brownlow hinting that the painting was right next to them the whole time. The envelope reveals the true owners of the painting and the key leads them to a locker owned by Losberne (who is arrested) which houses many stolen artwork. Fagin is revealed to be Issac Solomon and leaves the gang. It's also revealed that when Twist was in the van, he snuck a painting by his mother and it goes on display at the National Gallery. The film ends with Twist telling the gang to stop stealing and start selling paintings while he and Red start a relationship. Production. It was announced in October 2019 that a new take on the Charles Dickens novel had begun filming, with Raff Law cast to play the titular Twist. Michael Caine was cast as Fagin, with Lena Headey and Rita Ora cast as female renditions of Bill Sikes and Artful Dodger, respectively. David Walliams, Franz Drameh and Sophie Simnett were also cast. The film was produced by Pure Grass Films, along with Unstoppable Film and Television, and First"}, {"text": "Access Entertainment Film and Television. The UK-based company Koala FX was responsible for the digital make up and advance clean up. Music. Ora wrote a song for the film entitled \u201cFlame\u201d. The soundtrack was composed by Neil Athale and produced by Tom Linden who also wrote a song for the film (credited as TL) alongside Laura Greaves entitled \u201cGet Back Up\u201d. Release. Sky Cinema distributed the film within the United Kingdom, with Saban Films distributing within North America. Originally, the film was set for a 2020 release. However, the film was pushed to 2021. It was released on 29 January. The Vaccines\u2019 unreleased song Wanderlust from their 5th LP Back In Love City was played during the trailer. Reception. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 9% score, based on 34 reviews, with an average rating of 3.40/10. Its critic consensus reads, \"The real Twist in this lunkheaded Dickens update is the involvement of Michael Caine, who hopefully got another terrific house out of it.\" Peter Bradshaw of \"The Guardian\" gave it two stars out of five, saying that 'the action and comedy are under par'. Clarisse Loughrey of \"The Independent\" gave it one out of five stars, writing, 'With its"}, {"text": "hectic pace and textbook needle drops \u2013 The Fratellis' \"Chelsea Dagger\" makes an appearance \u2013 \"Twist\" never really functions as much more than another Guy Ritchie homage.'"}, {"text": "Aliaksandra Chepeleva (born 28 February 2003) is a Belarusian figure skater. She is a two-time Belrusian national champion (2018, 2019). On the junior level, she is the 2018 Open Ice Mall Cup silver medalist."}, {"text": "Si Jiahui ( ; born 11 July 2002) is a Chinese professional snooker player. After training at the Wiraka Billiard Academy in Foshan, he moved to the United Kingdom aged 16 and earned a two-year tour card through the 2019 Q School for the 2019\u201320 and 2020\u201321 seasons. He lost his tour card after ending the 2020\u201321 season outside the top 64 in the world rankings, and competed as an amateur during the 2021\u201322 season, during which he defeated Shaun Murphy 6\u20135 in the first round of the 2021 UK Championship. After rejoining the professional tour at the start of the 2022\u201323 season, he reached his first ranking quarter-final at the 2022 European Masters. At the 2023 World Snooker Championship, Si won three qualifying matches to reach the tournament's final stages at the Crucible Theatre for the first time. He then defeated Murphy, Robert Milkins, and Anthony McGill as he progressed to the semi-finals, becoming the first Crucible debutant to reach the last four since Andy Hicks in 1995. Although he led 14\u20135 in the semi-final, he lost 15\u201317 to the eventual winner Luca Brecel; this nine-frame deficit was the largest lead overturned in the history of the World Championship."}, {"text": "He advanced from 80th to 36th in the world rankings after the tournament. Si reached the first ranking final of his career at the following season's 2024 German Masters, but lost 5\u201310 to Judd Trump. Si achieved his first maximum break in professional competition in his 6\u20132 win against Judd Trump in the semi-final of the 2024 Wuhan Open. In his second ranking final, Si lost against Xiao Guodong. Early life. Born on 11 July 2002, in the district of Zhuji, in Zhejiang, Si resided with his parents in Hangzhou. He competed in table tennis tournaments as a child, winning second place in a school tournament and competing in other tournaments in the city. He became interested in cue sports after his father opened a pool club dedicated to Chinese eight-ball. Si showed talent at the sport, and his father pressured him to excel at it. By age 10, Si was practising for 13 hours a day under the supervision of his father and beating all other players at the club. Si entered a nine-ball tournament in Shanghai for elementary school students, where he was runner-up. At the tournament, his father met another father whose son was training at a"}, {"text": "snooker academy in Guangdong. In September 2013, aged 11, Si left school and moved to Guangdong, accompanied by his father, where he began playing snooker. At age 12, he began training at the Wiraka Billiard Academy in Foshan, where he was coached by Roger Leighton. At 14, he defeated former world number one Ding Junhui 3\u20132 in a national tournament. At age 16, Si moved to the United Kingdom. He joined Victoria\u2019s Snooker Academy in Sheffield, a stable of mostly Chinese players managed by former snooker journalist Victoria Shi. Other players at the Academy upon Si's arrival included Zhao Xintong, Yan Bingtao, and Fan Zhengyi. Career. Si received a two-year professional tour card through the 2019 Q School for the 2019\u201320 and 2020\u201321 seasons. However, he was relegated from the World Snooker Tour after finishing the 2020\u201321 season 92nd in the snooker world rankings, below the cut-off at 64th position. Si spent the 2021\u201322 season competing as an amateur, but earned top-up places in ranking tournaments through his high placement in the 2021 Q School Order of Merit. At the 2021 UK Championship, he defeated former world champion Shaun Murphy 6\u20135 in the first round. In a BBC radio interview"}, {"text": "after the match, Murphy objected to amateur players featuring in professional events, saying that he had \"lost to someone who shouldn\u2019t even be in the building\". The World Snooker Tour issued a statement disagreeing with these remarks, and Murphy subsequently apologised for \"taking the shine off\" Si's win. Towards the end of the season, Si won the 2022 World Snooker Federation Open amateur event, defeating Lee Stephens 5\u20130 in the final. This win earned him a two-year professional tour card for the 2022\u201323 and 2023\u201324 seasons. At the 2022 European Masters, he defeated Anthony McGill and Daniel Wells to reach his first quarter-final at a ranking event, which he lost 2\u20135 to Kyren Wilson. Ranked 80th in the world rankings, he qualified for the main stage of the 2023 World Snooker Championship after defeating Florian N\u00fc\u00dfle 10\u20137, Tom Ford 10\u20135, and Jordan Brown 10\u20137 in the qualifying rounds. In the first round at the Crucible Theatre, Si defeated Murphy 10\u20139. On this occasion, Murphy commented on how well Si had played, saying he had been \"fabulous\". Si defeated Robert Milkins 13\u20137 in the second round and McGill 13\u201312 in the quarter-finals, becoming the first Crucible debutant to reach the World"}, {"text": "Championship semi-finals since Andy Hicks in 1995 and the youngest player to do so since Ronnie O'Sullivan in 1996. Si lost 15\u201317 to Luca Brecel in the semi-finals after Brecel, from 5\u201314 down, won 12 of the last 13 frames. Si advanced from 80th to 36th in the world rankings as a result of his performance at the tournament. Si reached the first ranking final of his career at the following season's 2024 German Masters, but lost 5\u201310 to Judd Trump. At the 2024 World Championship, he defeated Mark Williams 109 in the first round and then lost 913 to Jak Jones in the last 16. The 2025 Masters marked his first appearance at the tournament, but Si lost in the first round to Mark Allen 26. At the 2025 World Championship, Si advanced to the quarter-finals where he was defeated by O'Sullivan 913. Personal life. Si lives in Sheffield during the snooker season. He did not see his family or his friends during the COVID-19 pandemic; after the 2023 Welsh Open, he visited China for the first time in three years. During the 2020\u201321 season, he dyed his hair blue."}, {"text": "Tengchan Sangma (born 18 May 1991) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 14 October 2019, for Meghalaya in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 26 December 2019, for Meghalaya in the 2019\u201320 Ranji Trophy."}, {"text": "Wallam Kynshi (born 23 May 1989) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 14 October 2019, for Meghalaya in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 9 December 2019, for Meghalaya in the 2019\u201320 Ranji Trophy."}, {"text": "Theo Germaine is an American actor, best known for playing James Sullivan on the Netflix television series \"The Politician\". Career. Germaine acted in plays at Steppenwolf and The Goodman in Chicago before being cast in 2019 in \"The Politician\" on Netflix and \"Work in Progress\" on Showtime. They starred alongside Kevin Bacon in the 2022 slasher film \"They/Them\", which centers on an LGBTQ conversion therapy camp. One of their most recent films they starred in is a hybrid fiction-documentary \"Desire Lines\" \"(2024)\" about the \"unwritten history of transmasculine sexuality\" that was part of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Personal life. Germaine was born in Murphysboro but grew up largely in Monticello, Illinois with two younger siblings. Germaine is transmasculine and non-binary and uses \"they/them\" and \"he/him\" pronouns. Germaine medically and socially transitioned as a teen. They worked at a coffee shop in Chicago before temporarily relocating to Los Angeles, California for \"The Politician\". Germaine\u2019s background includes theatre, dance, comedy, and circus work. On the LGBTQ&A podcast, Germaine explained, \"I joke and tell people my first memories are \"The Lion King\" and gender dysphoria. I remember being three years old and being in daycare and we were all lying down on"}, {"text": "our mats and trying to nap, and I remember not being able to nap because I would always just sit there and think about gender.\""}, {"text": "Temjentoshi Jamir (born 12 February 1985) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 14 October 2019, for Nagaland in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 9 November 2019, for Nagaland in the 2019\u201320 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 3 January 2020, for Nagaland in the 2019\u201320 Ranji Trophy."}, {"text": "Paulli is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Brunn-Maria Enzersdorf is a railway station serving the town of Brunn am Gebirge in Lower Austria."}, {"text": "Vikash Yadav (born 3 February 1988) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 16 October 2019, for Bihar in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy."}, {"text": "The Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1989 by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It covers research and best practices concerns on development, processing, evaluation, applications, and performance of construction materials in civil engineering. It consists of four sections: cementitious material, asphalt, geo-materials, and hybrids (which encompass steel, timber, masonry, and composite materials). Abstracting and indexes. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Ei Compendex, ProQuest databases, Civil engineering database, Inspec, Scopus, and EBSCO databases. External links."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the club's first season back in the Russian Professional Football League, the third tier of football in Russia, since 1996. Anzhi finished the previous season bottom of the Russian Premier League and where initially relegated to the Russian National Football League for the 2019\u201320 season. However, on 15 May 2019, the club failed to earn a Russian Football Union license for the 2019\u201320 season, recalled their appeal against the decision on 29 May 2019, dropping down to the Russian Professional Football League. Season events. On 3 June, Magomed Adiyev left the club after his contract had expired. On 26 June, Anzhi confirmed that they had received a license to play in the Russian Professional Football League for the 2019\u201320 season, and that they were still unable to register new players due to outstanding debts. On 28 September, Anzhi were docked six-points due to debt owed to former player Yannick Boli. On 28 October, Valeri Barmin was dismissed as manager of Anzhi, with Artur Sadirov being appointed as Caretaker Manager the same day. On 1 April, the Russian Football Union extended the suspension of football until 31 May. On 15 May, the Russian Football"}, {"text": "Union announced that the Russian Professional Football League season had ended as of the result on 17 March 2020, due to COVID-19 pandemic."}, {"text": "Octopus oculifer, also known as the Gal\u00e1pagos octopus, is a species of octopus endemic to the coast of the Gal\u00e1pagos, and has been identified in the Revillagigedos ecoregion, living between 0-50 m deep."}, {"text": "Wenxin Chongde is a metro station on the Green Line operated by Taichung Metro in Beitun District, Taichung, Taiwan. The station name is taken from its location at the intersection of Wenxin and Chongde Roads."}, {"text": "Perchtoldsdorf is a railway station serving the town of Perchtoldsdorf in Lower Austria."}, {"text": "Seo So-yung (born 2 March 1981) is a South Korean swimmer who represented South Korea at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Career. She finished 41st in the women's 50 metre freestyle with a new national record of 27.30, 19th in the women's 4 \u00d7 100 metre freestyle relay and 18th in the women's 4 \u00d7 200 metre freestyle relay."}, {"text": "Fifteen Rabbits () is a 1929 survival and adventure novel by the Austrian writer Felix Salten. The novel depicts a year in the life of a colony of rabbits (in the original German version, hares) in the same forest where Bambi dwells. As the title indicates, there are 15 hares/rabbits who feature in the story, but not all of them survive to the end. Although \"Fifteen Rabbits\" is a story of a collective, the young Hops is the main character, with his beloved Plana. Publication history. \"Fifteen Rabbits\" was first published in German language, serialized in \"Neue Freie Presse\" newspaper from August 20 till October 10, 1929, and later that year by the Zsolnay company in Vienna as a book. In 1930, the novel was published in the United States in an English translation by Whittaker Chambers, and republished in 1942 with illustrations by Kurt Wiese, and in 1976 illustrated by John Freas. In the United Kingdom, Chambers\u2019 translation was published with illustrations by Sheila Dunn in 1943. After Salten was forced to exile to Switzerland, his new publisher put out new editions of his work with novel illustrations, and in 1938, \"F\u00fcnfzehn Hasen\" was published with drawings by Hans"}, {"text": "Bertle. These illustrations have since then been used in translations, too, including the Dutch, French, and Swedish one. In total, the novel has been translated at least into 11 languages, and other illustrations have been created as well. Interpretation. As the other forest novels by Salten, also \"Fifteen Rabbits\" can be interpreted as an allegorical depiction of the diaspora of the Jewish people (\"interpretatio judaica\"). This was noted, among others, by Salten's archenemy Karl Kraus who mocked the \"hares with the Jewish manner of speaking\" (German: \"j\u00fcdelnde Hasen\"). The humans (called \"He\" by the animals) treat the animals in the forest like God in the Old Testament: both protecting and punishing. The discussions that Hops has with older hares may be modelled after the debates between youths and men that occur at a Talmud school; it is notable that the female hares do not take part in these dialogues. The subjects of these debates concern aspects that are central for the Jewish life in a diaspora: threats and persecution."}, {"text": "Wenxin Zhongqing is a metro station on the Green Line operated by Taichung Metro in North District, Taichung, Taiwan. The station name is taken from its location at the intersection of Wenxin and Zhongqing Roads. Taichung Metro is planning for a transfer to the Orange Line at this stop."}, {"text": "Sandeep Yadav (born 15 December 1989) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 16 October 2019, for Railways in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy."}, {"text": "Rizovouni is a village and a community of Epirus in the municipality of Ziros in the Preveza regional unit. Its former name, \"Podogora\" (until 1927), is of Slavic origin and means at the foot (or root) of the mountain. The late modern \"Rizovouni\" attributes to the Greek content of the Slavic word. The community, which consists of the villages Rizovouni and Ziropoli, has a population of 614 (2021). Its area is . The area is characterized as semi-mountainous. The climate is generally Mediterranean type. Geography. Rizovouni was an independent community until 1997, when it was absorbed into the municipality of Thesprotiko with the homonymous village. Thesprotiko consists of the following municipal districts and villages: Thesprotiko (Lelova), Rizovouni (Podogora), Galatas (Boulimeti) and Zervo, Papadates, Meliana, Assos (Nasari), Nikolitsi, Elia (Dara) and Platania, Polystafylo (Rousiatsa). Geographically, the municipality is located in a valley called \"Little Lakka Souliou\", where the amphitheatricality of the villages, the olive groves, the orange groves and generally the rich vegetation are combined. The valley is formed between the Thesprotian Mountains (Baldenesi) to the west at an altitude of 1250 meters and Tsuka Podogora-Zarkorachi to the east at an altitude of 1270 meters. It also includes Lake Mavri, which"}, {"text": "was dried up around 1960 and part of Lake Ziros. The valley is crossed by a river, called \"Ampoulas\" (water source). Rizovouni extends to the east up to Ziros Lake. Part of the lake area belongs to Rizovouni as well as agricultural land in the surrounding area of Tseropolis. Similarly, in the eastern part of the village lies Kastri, a hill about 180 m high with archaeological and historical interest: there lie the ruins of the ancient city of Vatia or Vaties, a colony of the Ilians from the 8th century BC., as well as the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, formerly a cathedral of the Kastri Monastery of Rizovouni (today's metochi of prophet Elias). The present church was built and decorated in [1670], but is based on the central aisle of an Early Christian basilica, from which several parts are preserved. Rizovouni today. There is a day nursery, a kindergarten and an elementary school in Rizovouni. There is also an Education Club, a Women's Club, and in the past there was a former Sports Club (XAER and DOXA Rizovouniou). Residents' occupations are split between micro-farming and livestock, technical occupations and few services. Sights. In Rizovouni there"}, {"text": "are many churches and picturesque chapels, natural springs, orchards with oranges, small olive groves, flower gardens. Rizovouni offers beautiful mountain tours along the amphitheatrical village, at Kastri and Ziros Lake. Winter is rarely snowy, but rainfall is very common."}, {"text": "\"Faith\" is a song by Swedish duo Galantis and American singer-songwriter Dolly Parton featuring Dutch singer-songwriter Mr. Probz, from Galantis' third studio album \"Church\", which was released in early 2020. The song was released on 25 October 2019, through Big Beat and Atlantic Records. It is a remake of John Hiatt's 1987 song \"Have a Little Faith in Me\". Background. The song was co-written by Samuel James, who co-wrote the closing single on the movie \"Abominable\", sung by Bebe Rexha, and produced by Worcester natives David Saint Fleur and Eric Aukstikalnis. Samuel James said the song began by taking John Hiatt's song, \"Have a Little Faith in Me\", and rewriting the verse, lyrics and melody. He said: \"Almost all the credit on this record goes to David Saint Fleur. David has this crazy idea, what did we took this song, and flipped it and made a dance track.\" James said Saint Fleur showed it to the members of Galantis, who loved it and wanted to record it. According to James, Saint Fleur also wanted to approach Parton. At the beginning, no one thought she would work on this plan, but Saint Fleur insisted, and finally was able to play it"}, {"text": "for her. Samuel James noted that \"she fell in love with it\". \"It's so unbelievable. That's the fun thing about music, you know, sometimes that can happen\", he added. According to him, the song has evolved greatly from the original recorded version, and that while he was originally singing on it, his only vocal presence on the final product is that he's singing uncredited on the chorus, and that his voice is unrecognizable. \"This song has been such a journey. There's an orchestra from the Netherlands. A five-piece orchestra. I'm psyched for people to hear it. John Hiatt gave his blessing, and he's tough!\", he said. Dolly Parton explained the genesis of the song seen from her side: \"I was on the phone with a Christian, talking about a song called \"Faith\" and an album called \"Church\". I knew I was in the right place.\" According to \"Rolling Stone\", she added: \"As soon as I heard it, I thought, 'Yes! This is a song that the world needs right now. [...] It's all about uplifting mankind and believing in a higher power. All the things we need in this dark, ol' dreary world right now.\" After making an expectedly long-shot"}, {"text": "call to the singer, and as soon as she said yes to the song, Karlsson immediately flew to Nashville, United States, to record her vocals. She later commented on the lyrics: \"I 'Dolly-ized' it a bit and wrote some more spiritual things inside\". Meanwhile, Mr Probz recorded his verse separately. Parton said: \"We talked back-and-forth and patted each other on the back from afar\". On 12 October 2019, she first made hints about the track during a press conference at the Grand Ole Opry, where she was celebrating 50 years as a member. When asked about upcoming songs, she name-dropped two Christian acts before revealing her feature with Galantis. She said: Then, Galantis announced the release of the song via their social media on 16 October. They invited their fans to pre-save it by leading a link on their post. After this date, Mr Probz has repeatedly mentioned Dolly Parton in his interviews. In his day, he saw the singer more in her films rather than through her songs, because country music was just not often played on Dutch radio and TV. A few days before the release, Galantis appeared on The World's Biggest Dance Show, hosted by BBC Radio"}, {"text": "1 and syndicated across seven countries, to tease \"Faith\" to an audience of over 18 million listeners. Then, they posted on 22 October via their social media a teaser, again encouraging fans to pre-save the single. Once the song was released, they made it clear that they were proud of the fact that it turned out to be a true collaborative experience. Linus Ekl\u00f6w, the other half of Galantis, led via e-mail the following message: \"[Parton] has always been one of our dream collaborators, but we honestly thought getting her on the song was a total longshot\". The duo also said: \"It's important for us to have meaning behind our music. Our album \"Church\" doesn't necessarily refer to a building or specific religion, but instead to people banded together in similar belief for a better humanity. Whether it's advocating peace, change, or just lifting each other up - that is our \"Faith\" and \"Church.\"\" According to Dolly Parton, this collaboration came in \"divine order\" for her. It's not her first foray into electronic music (as she has charted \"Billboard's\" Disco (and its successor Dance Club Songs) Chart, dating back to 1979), after hearing dance remixes of her songs, such as"}, {"text": "\"Peace Train\" and \"Baby I'm Burnin'\". After \"Faith\", the singer affirmed, confessing to \"Rolling Stone\", that she wouldn't be opposed to make more dance music songs: \"I always know inside myself what's right and what's wrong to do, and this felt really right. [...] I'm open to doing more with them and continue with this \u2014 if this does well.\" Concerning its commercial performance, and according to Nielsen Music, \"Faith\" earned 4,000 downloads and 1.8 million streams in the US during the first week succeeding its release. It also entered at the end of this week the US Dance/Electronic Digital Songs chart as No. 1, which was a first for Dolly Parton. At \"Billboard\u2019s\" Dance/Mix Show Airplay, the song reached number 1 in its 21 December 2019 issue, giving Parton her first number one on this chart, as well as the fifth top ten and first number one for Galantis and the third top ten and second number one for Probz. The singer also performed the song in a gospel medley at the Country Music Association Awards in Nashville, on 13 November 2019. Critical reception. The song has received positive reviews from several publications. Many of them deemed \"Faith\" an"}, {"text": "EDM song. Effectively, Cillea Houghton of American country radio \"KEAN-FM\" called the single \"an EDM production\" and \"a feel-good jam made for the club with its infectious techno-style beat\" and with \"Parton's voice [which] still shines even with autotune on lyrics that make her a loyal and encouraging companion as she sings [her chorus]\". Annie Reuter of \"Billboard\" called the song a \"dance-ready track\" with the presence of \"thumping beats and hand-clapped rhythms [which] replace the piano for a sing-along earworm\". She also wrote that \"Parton [put] her own interpretation on the track, [transforming] the original piano ballad into a club jam with the help of Swedish EDM duo Galantis and Dutch rapper Mr. Probz\". Kat Bein of the same publication deemed the song \"an uplifting dance-pop gem\" which shows \"a soaring [Dolly Parton] performance with just a taste of country twang\", featuring \"Galantis' sonic hallmarks, [namely] a glittery production, booming vocals and a sky-high chorus\". \"Dancing Astronaut\" staff described the song as \"a tailor-made for the airwaves, and a fun step outside the norm for Parton\". Concerning the composition, they considered the track as \"a moodlifter, with Galantis employing a m\u00e9lange of cheery chord progressions and rich basslines over"}, {"text": "a mid-tempo foundation\". They noted the presence of \"flecks of woodwind and violin [which] tie the atmosphere together, making for an ideal complement to the balanced tones of their A-list collaborator and Dutch vocal sensation Mr. Probz\". Mike Wass of \"Idolator\" noted the song \"an euphoric anthem\", which is \"the clubland 2019 with a splash of twang and gospel, transforming it into something new entirely. \"DJ Mag Latinoam\u00e9rica\" described the final product as \"the typical mood lifter that producers usually bring, with cheerful progressions and energizing bass lines, combining the voice of the legendary country music singer and the talented Dutchman Mr. Probz\". Writing for \"Your EDM\", Matthew Meadow deemed the single \"a perfect, feel-good tune that fits [Galantis] style perfectly\". He added that \"the little vocal embellishments atop the cheery synths make [the track] one of the brightest songs that the Swedish duo have ever released\". John Cameron of \"EDM.com\" described the song as \"an upbeat tune\" which \"falls somewhere into the tropical house category, with an infectious bounce that makes it undeniably danceable\". Chris DeVille of \"Stereogum\" noted that it \"sounds like no other Dolly Parton song in history\" and described her vocals as \"sometimes processed beyond recognition\","}, {"text": "deemed as \"hyper-processed and streaked with neon\". He also remarked the presence of \"a gospel choir\" in the song. \"BroadwayWorld\" TV News Desk described \"Faith\" as \"an uplifting call for unity and hope set to signature Galantis production\". Writing for the daily newspaper \"Knoxville News Sentinel\", Kelli L. Krebs deemed the song \"an epic [and] dance-floor anthem\". Music video. The official music video of the song was released through Galantis' YouTube channel. Directed by Dano Cerny, and shot in Franklin, United States, it shows Dolly Parton driving a bus that suddenly breaks down. Parton encourages discouraged passengers not to give up and, little by little, when the song starts again in the first verse of Mr Probz, they begin to listen the advice of the singer. They dance in the bus, but also outside it, in the street, at about in. Then Parton delivers her couplet from the driver's seat while Galantis dominates the crowd from the top of the bus. \"iHeartRadio\" wrote that it \"features an uptempo rhythm and an incredible dance troupe to go with\". Calling from the music video, Parton said: \"They were trying to track me down. I guess Linus [Ekl\u00f6w] and Christian [Karlsson], who are"}, {"text": "Galantis, had this song and they supposedly both were fans of mine. Somebody said 'Do you think we can find her? 'Do you think she'd do it?\" During the shooting of the video, she confessed to \"Entertainment Tonight\": \"I thought, 'Why can't I fit in there? I've been everywhere else. Why can't I go there? I'm driving the bus, and I guess it's kinda like traveling life's highways. If I was the bus driver, I'd have to shine. [...] I can't dance. They surrounded me with such good dancers, so it made me look like I was all into that.\""}, {"text": "Callava is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Ronald Meitei Longjam (born 10 August 1997) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 13 October 2019, for Manipur in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy."}, {"text": "In machine learning, a variational autoencoder (VAE) is an artificial neural network architecture introduced by Diederik P. Kingma and Max Welling. It is part of the families of probabilistic graphical models and variational Bayesian methods. In addition to being seen as an autoencoder neural network architecture, variational autoencoders can also be studied within the mathematical formulation of variational Bayesian methods, connecting a neural encoder network to its decoder through a probabilistic latent space (for example, as a multivariate Gaussian distribution) that corresponds to the parameters of a variational distribution. Thus, the encoder maps each point (such as an image) from a large complex dataset into a distribution within the latent space, rather than to a single point in that space. The decoder has the opposite function, which is to map from the latent space to the input space, again according to a distribution (although in practice, noise is rarely added during the decoding stage). By mapping a point to a distribution instead of a single point, the network can avoid overfitting the training data. Both networks are typically trained together with the usage of the reparameterization trick, although the variance of the noise model can be learned separately. Although this"}, {"text": "type of model was initially designed for unsupervised learning, its effectiveness has been proven for semi-supervised learning and supervised learning. Overview of architecture and operation. A variational autoencoder is a generative model with a prior and noise distribution respectively. Usually such models are trained using the expectation-maximization meta-algorithm (e.g. probabilistic PCA, (spike & slab) sparse coding). Such a scheme optimizes a lower bound of the data likelihood, which is usually computationally intractable, and in doing so requires the discovery of q-distributions, or variational posteriors. These q-distributions are normally parameterized for each individual data point in a separate optimization process. However, variational autoencoders use a neural network as an amortized approach to jointly optimize across data points. In that way, the same parameters are reused for multiple data points, which can result in massive memory savings. The first neural network takes as input the data points themselves, and outputs parameters for the variational distribution. As it maps from a known input space to the low-dimensional latent space, it is called the encoder. The decoder is the second neural network of this model. It is a function that maps from the latent space to the input space, e.g. as the means of"}, {"text": "the noise distribution. It is possible to use another neural network that maps to the variance, however this can be omitted for simplicity. In such a case, the variance can be optimized with gradient descent. To optimize this model, one needs to know two terms: the \"reconstruction error\", and the Kullback\u2013Leibler divergence (KL-D). Both terms are derived from the free energy expression of the probabilistic model, and therefore differ depending on the noise distribution and the assumed prior of the data, here referred to as p-distribution. For example, a standard VAE task such as IMAGENET is typically assumed to have a gaussianly distributed noise; however, tasks such as binarized MNIST require a Bernoulli noise. The KL-D from the free energy expression maximizes the probability mass of the q-distribution that overlaps with the p-distribution, which unfortunately can result in mode-seeking behaviour. The \"reconstruction\" term is the remainder of the free energy expression, and requires a sampling approximation to compute its expectation value. More recent approaches replace Kullback\u2013Leibler divergence (KL-D) with various statistical distances, see \"Statistical distance VAE variants\" below. Formulation. From the point of view of probabilistic modeling, one wants to maximize the likelihood of the data formula_1 by their chosen"}, {"text": "parameterized probability distribution formula_2. This distribution is usually chosen to be a Gaussian formula_3 which is parameterized by formula_4 and formula_5 respectively, and as a member of the exponential family it is easy to work with as a noise distribution. Simple distributions are easy enough to maximize, however distributions where a prior is assumed over the latents formula_6 results in intractable integrals. Let us find formula_7 via marginalizing over formula_6. formula_9 where formula_10 represents the joint distribution under formula_11 of the observable data formula_12 and its latent representation or encoding formula_13. According to the chain rule, the equation can be rewritten as formula_14 In the vanilla variational autoencoder, formula_6 is usually taken to be a finite-dimensional vector of real numbers, and formula_16 to be a Gaussian distribution. Then formula_7 is a mixture of Gaussian distributions. It is now possible to define the set of the relationships between the input data and its latent representation as Unfortunately, the computation of formula_20 is expensive and in most cases intractable. To speed up the calculus to make it feasible, it is necessary to introduce a further function to approximate the posterior distribution as formula_22 with formula_23 defined as the set of real values"}, {"text": "that parametrize formula_24. This is sometimes called \"amortized inference\", since by \"investing\" in finding a good formula_25, one can later infer formula_6 from formula_1 quickly without doing any integrals. In this way, the problem is to find a good probabilistic autoencoder, in which the conditional likelihood distribution formula_19 is computed by the \"probabilistic decoder\", and the approximated posterior distribution formula_29 is computed by the \"probabilistic encoder\". Parametrize the encoder as formula_30, and the decoder as formula_31. Evidence lower bound (ELBO). Like many deep learning approaches that use gradient-based optimization, VAEs require a differentiable loss function to update the network weights through backpropagation. For variational autoencoders, the idea is to jointly optimize the generative model parameters formula_32 to reduce the reconstruction error between the input and the output, and formula_23 to make formula_34 as close as possible to formula_20. As reconstruction loss, mean squared error and cross entropy are often used. As distance loss between the two distributions the Kullback\u2013Leibler divergence formula_36 is a good choice to squeeze formula_34 under formula_20. The distance loss just defined is expanded as formula_39 Now define the evidence lower bound (ELBO):formula_40Maximizing the ELBOformula_41is equivalent to simultaneously maximizing formula_42 and minimizing formula_43. That is, maximizing the"}, {"text": "log-likelihood of the observed data, and minimizing the divergence of the approximate posterior formula_44 from the exact posterior formula_45. The form given is not very convenient for maximization, but the following, equivalent form, is:formula_46where formula_47 is implemented as formula_48, since that is, up to an additive constant, what formula_49 yields. That is, we model the distribution of formula_1 conditional on formula_6 to be a Gaussian distribution centered on formula_52. The distribution of formula_53 and formula_18 are often also chosen to be Gaussians as formula_55 and formula_56, with which we obtain by the formula for KL divergence of Gaussians:formula_57Here formula_58 is the dimension of formula_13. For a more detailed derivation and more interpretations of ELBO and its maximization, see its main page. Reparameterization. To efficiently search for formula_41the typical method is gradient ascent. It is straightforward to findformula_61However, formula_62does not allow one to put the formula_63 inside the expectation, since formula_64 appears in the probability distribution itself. The reparameterization trick (also known as stochastic backpropagation) bypasses this difficulty. The most important example is when formula_65 is normally distributed, as formula_66. This can be reparametrized by letting formula_67 be a \"standard random number generator\", and construct formula_68 as formula_69. Here, formula_70 is"}, {"text": "obtained by the Cholesky decomposition:formula_71Then we haveformula_72and so we obtained an unbiased estimator of the gradient, allowing stochastic gradient descent. Since we reparametrized formula_6, we need to find formula_29. Let formula_75 be the probability density function for formula_76, then formula_77where formula_78 is the Jacobian matrix of formula_6 with respect to formula_76. Since formula_69, this is formula_82 Variations. Many variational autoencoders applications and extensions have been used to adapt the architecture to other domains and improve its performance. formula_83-VAE is an implementation with a weighted Kullback\u2013Leibler divergence term to automatically discover and interpret factorised latent representations. With this implementation, it is possible to force manifold disentanglement for formula_83 values greater than one. This architecture can discover disentangled latent factors without supervision. The conditional VAE (CVAE), inserts label information in the latent space to force a deterministic constrained representation of the learned data. Some structures directly deal with the quality of the generated samples or implement more than one latent space to further improve the representation learning. Some architectures mix VAE and generative adversarial networks to obtain hybrid models. It is not necessary to use gradients to update the encoder. In fact, the encoder is not necessary for the generative model. Statistical"}, {"text": "distance VAE variants. After the initial work of Diederik P. Kingma and Max Welling, several procedures were proposed to formulate in a more abstract way the operation of the VAE. In these approaches the loss function is composed of two parts : We obtain the final formula for the loss: formula_97 The statistical distance formula_95 requires special properties, for instance it has to be posses a formula as expectation because the loss function will need to be optimized by stochastic optimization algorithms. Several distances can be chosen and this gave rise to several flavors of VAEs:"}, {"text": "Tanush Gusain (born 7 February 2001) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 13 October 2019, for Uttarakhand in the 2019\u201320 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 8 November 2021, for Uttarakhand in the 2021\u201322 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 24 February 2022, for Uttarakhand in the 2021\u201322 Ranji Trophy."}, {"text": "The Realme X2 Pro is a smartphone from the Chinese smartphone manufacturer Realme, released in October 2019. Specifications. The phone measures 161 mm \u00d7 75.7 mm \u00d7 8.7 mm (6.34 in \u00d7 2.98 in \u00d7 0.34 in) and weighs 192 grams (7.02 oz). It has an aluminum frame with Gorilla Glass 5 on the front and back. The display is a 6.5-inch Super AMOLED with 1080 by 2400 pixel resolution, 90 Hz refresh rate, and a maximum brightness of 1000 nits. The phone shipped with ColorOS 6.1, based on Android 9.0 (\"Pie\") but was upgraded to Realme UI 1.0 between March and April 2020. It contains a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ system on a chip, and an Adreno 640 GPU. The phone has a rear-facing quad-camera array, with one 64 MP f/1.8 wide-angle lens (26 mm full-frame focal length equivalent), one 13 MP f/2.5 telephoto lens (52 mm equivalent), one 8 MP f/2.2 ultra-wide-angle lens (16 mm equivalent), and one 2 MP f/2.4 depth sensor. The three higher-resolution cameras are equipped with phase-detection autofocus. It also has a front-facing 16 MP f/2.0 wide-angle lens (25 mm equivalent). The phone was sold in 3 variations: 6 GB RAM and 64 GB storage,"}, {"text": "8 GB RAM and 128 GB storage and 12 GB RAM and 256 GB storage. The 6 GB/64 GB configuration was only available in the Indian market. Reception. The phone received mostly positive reviews from critics. \"TechRadar\" gave it a score of 4.5/5, praising the phone's battery, speakers, and display with a 90 Hz refresh rate, while criticizing the software, image quality, and in-built gestures. \"The Verge\" described the phone as Realme's first phone with high-end specs. \"Android Authority\" gave it a review of 9.3/10, praising its display, internals, charging-speed, and camera setup, while criticizing the color OS and low-light camera performance. It also described the X2 Pro as having flagship specs. Controversy. The smartphone's original operating system, \"ColorOS 6.1,\" allowed the unlocking of the phone's bootloader, allowing support for custom Android ROMs such as Lineage OS. When the phone upgraded to realme UI 1.0, in the first weeks any users with locked bootloader could no longer unlock, but soon Realme released an official method to unlock the bootloader. References. \"Realme X2 Pro: Price in Pakistan, Full Specifications & Features\""}, {"text": "All Together Now is a 2020 American drama film directed by Brett Haley, from a screenplay by Haley, Marc Basch, and Matthew Quick. It is based upon the novel \"Sorta Like a Rockstar\" by Quick. It stars Auli\u02bbi Cravalho, Justina Machado, Fred Armisen, Carol Burnett, Judy Reyes, Taylor Richardson, Rhenzy Feliz, Gerald Isaac Waters and Anthony Jacques. It was released on August 28, 2020, by Netflix. Plot. High school senior Amber Appleton lives in Portland, Oregon with her mother Becky. They are temporarily homeless after Becky's boyfriend Oliver is abusive, so they end up sleeping in the school bus she drives. Amber is very busy, including volunteer teaching an ESL class and working in an old age home, where she has bonded with Joan, a resident. She also plans an annual school variety show, the proceeds going to charity. Amber is invited to audition for the drama program at Carnegie Mellon University, her deceased father's alma mater. With Becky's encouragement, she spends money they had been saving for rent for the flight. Unfortunately, Becky is fired when it is discovered that they have been living in the bus. She decides to return to Oliver, but Amber refuses to join her."}, {"text": "Sleeping on a park bench, Amber subsequently gets robbed. Confiding in her friend Ty about her situation, he takes Amber to his family's vacation house to stay and help her prepare for her audition. She tells him that her father's death caused her mother to struggle and for them to be evicted and move in with Oliver, who eventually became abusive. Becky, who is an alcoholic, frequently suffers relapses while with him. With the help of Donna, the mother of her friend Ricky, Amber tells Becky that she does not feel safe living with Oliver. They have an argument, Becky leaves and Amber stays at Donna's house. The following morning, police officers come to Amber's high school to inform her that her mother and Oliver have been killed in a single-car, drunk driving car accident. On the day of her audition, Amber discovers that her dog Bobby is sick. She misses her flight to Pittsburgh to take him to the vet, where she learns he requires an expensive surgery. She drops out and begins working full-time in order to afford the surgery, forgoing a rescheduled audition at the college and losing contact with her friends. Ty confronts her and accuses"}, {"text": "her of rejecting help from others, so they stop speaking. Amber plans to skip the variety show, but Ty surprises her at work, revealing that the proceeds will go towards paying for the dog's surgery. All of Amber's friends perform in the show, including the students from her ESL class. At the end of the evening, the fundraiser is still $2,000 short, but suddenly receives an anonymous donation of $200,000. At the home, Joan reveals that she is the one who made the donation, as she considers her family. Amber gets another audition at Carnegie Mellon, and she and Ty share a kiss before she leaves. Production. Development. In August 2013, Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired screen rights to \"Sorta Like a Rock Star\" by Matthew Quick, and would produce and finance the film, with Temple Hill Entertainment and Gotham Group producing, with Laura Sandler and Amanda Harlib writing the film. In March 2016, it was announced Miguel Arteta would direct the film, with Ol Parker writing the script. In July 2017, it was announced Bryce Dallas Howard would direct the film, replacing Arteta and Fox Searchlight Pictures no longer involved. In November 2017, Netflix acquired distribution rights to the film,"}, {"text": "with Quick writing the screenplay. Casting. In July 2019, Auli\u02bbi Cravalho joined the cast of the film, with Brett Haley replacing Dallas Howard who departed due to scheduling conflicts. In September 2019, Carol Burnett, Fred Armisen, Rhenzy Feliz, Justina Machado, Judy Reyes, Gerald Isaac Waters, Taylor Richardson, and Anthony Jacques had joined the cast of the film. Filming. Principal photography began in October 2019 in Portland, Oregon. Neighborhoods in northeast Portland have been used to film. Some of the homes used for filming were in the same neighborhoods as those featured in Fred Armisen's work, \"Portlandia\". Release. \"All Together Now\" was released on August 28, 2020. Critical reception. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critics consensus reads: \"Elevated by Auli'i Cravalho's charming performance, \"All Together Now\" is an uplifting drama that stays largely on the right side of the line between sweet and cloying.\" On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 64 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews."}, {"text": "The Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It covers foundations, retaining structures, soil dynamics, slope stability, dams, earthquake engineering, environmental geotechnics, geosynthetics, groundwater monitoring, and coastal and geotechnical ocean engineering. Papers on new and emerging topics within the general discipline of geotechnical engineering are encouraged, as well as theoretical, practice-oriented papers and case studies. History. The journal began publication in 1956, but its origin goes back to the publication of the first volume of \"Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers\" in 1892. The journal changed names in 1996. If was formerly known as the \"Journal of Geotechnical Engineering\". Indexes. The journal is indexed in Ei Compendex, ProQuest, Civil engineering database, Inspec, Scopus, and EBSCOHost."}, {"text": "Clara Copponi (born 12 January 1999) is a French professional road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She was the 2024 European scratch race champion. She rode in the women's team pursuit event at the 2019 UEC European Track Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. 3rd Overall The Women's Tour 1st La Choralis Fourmies F\u00e9minine 1st Stage 1 The Women's Tour 2nd Grand Prix International d'Isbergues 4th Ronde van Drenthe 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 5th Le Samyn 6th Omloop van het Hageland 10th Classic Brugge\u2013De Panne 10th Gent\u2013Wevelgem 5th La Choralis Fourmies F\u00e9minine 8th Gent\u2013Wevelgem 9th Grand Prix International d'Isbergues 4th Road race, European Road Championships 5th Overall RideLondon Classique 10th Road race, National Road Championships 1st Schwalbe Women's One Day Classic 4th Surf Coast Classic 8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad"}, {"text": "Union 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, Union District was home to 1,261 people. Geography. Union District is located in the eastern part of Mason County, between Jackson County, Putnam County, and the Kanawha River. To the north, it is bounded by Cologne District; to the east by the Western District of Jackson County, formerly Union and Ripley Districts; to the south by the Buffalo-Union District of Putnam County, formerly Buffalo and Union Districts; and to the west by the Kanawha River and Arbuckle District in Mason County. At nearly fifty-five square miles, Union is the third-largest of Mason County's ten magisterial districts, following Clendenin and Arbuckle Districts. The terrain is steep and hilly, except for the bottomlands along the Kanawha and on Thirteenmile Creek. Although rough, the soil through most of the district is a fertile mixture of various clays, that in the bottoms consists of a mixture of white clay and black loam. The hills are suitable for livestock and pasturage. Streams. The main streams in Union District"}, {"text": "are Thirteenmile Creek, which drains nearly the entire district, and Arbuckle Creek, which arises in northern Putnam County, then flows northwest into Union District, joining the Kanawha at Grimms Landing. The headwaters of Thirteenmile Creek arise in southwestern Jackson County. Numerous tributaries join the main branch of Thirteenmile Creek in its upper course, including Peppermint Creek in Jackson County; as well as Little Spruce Run, Bee Run, and Spruce Run, with its tributaries, Horse Cave Run and Little Horse Cave Run; the McCoy Fork or Baker Branch, Yeager Fork, and Poplar Fork, part of which forms the boundary with Cologne District. Just above Nat, Thirteenmile is joined by the Mudlick Fork, a sizable creek by itself, which was named by Daniel Boone during the period that he lived in Mason County, and earned his living by hunting and trapping. The Mudlick Fork arises in the easternmost corner of Mason County, and its upper waters and some of its tributaries extend into the northern part of Putnam County. In its course, the Mudlick is joined by the Bailey Branch, the Beech Fork and its tributary, the Warner Branch, which enter Mudlick just below Tribble; Sapsucker Run, with its tributary, the Bill"}, {"text": "King Branch, which join the Mudlick above Elmwood; and Wolf Creek. In its lower course, as it approaches the western end of the district, and turns northward, Thirteenmile is joined by Buzzard Creek, and its tributary, Little Buzzard Creek; Cabin Creek, Tom Allen Creek, and the Rocky Fork, part of which forms a portion of the boundary between Union and Cologne Districts, before flowing into Thirteenmile at Waterloo. From here, Thirteenmile continues north into Cologne District, where it empties into the Kanawha River at Leon. Communities. There are no incorporated towns in Union District, but there are a number of unincorporated communities, including Arbuckle, Capehart, Deerlick, Elmwood, Grimms Landing, Gunville, Nat, Stevens, Tribble, Waterloo, and Yeager. Roads and travel. The only highways in Union District are West Virginia Route 62, which follows the Kanawha Valley between Point Pleasant and Buffalo, in Putnam County, passing through the western part of the district, and West Virginia Route 87, which follows the northern part of the boundary between Cologne and Union Districts, as it travels between Baden in Cologne District, and Evans in Jackson County. The Kanawha River Railroad operates travels through the Kanawha Valley in the southwestern part of Cologne District. Leasing"}, {"text": "its lines from Norfolk Southern, the railway carries freight from southeastern West Virginia to central Ohio. This line was originally part of the Kanawha and Michigan Railroad. Until the twentieth century, a ferry operated between Grimms Landing and McCausland on the western shore of the Kanawha. History. The first European settler in Union District was Jesse Van Bibber, who first came to the Ohio Valley as a soldier serving in Colonel Andrew Lewis' force of Virginia Militia during Lord Dunmore's War, and was commended for his bravery at the Battle of Point Pleasant, in 1774. Van Bibber, his brother, John, and their families settled in Mason County a few years after the end of the War of Independence, at a time when Indians still traveled on both sides of the Ohio. About 1788 or 1789, two of the Van Bibber children were killed in an attack on John Van Bibber's cabin. A third was captured in a separate incident, and lived for a year with an Indian family, before escaping and returning to Point Pleasant. Around this period, Jesse Van Bibber befriended Daniel Boone, who lived at Point Pleasant from 1788 to 1795. They hunted together in the land that"}, {"text": "would become Union District, where Boone bestowed the name of \"Mudlick\" on the largest tributary of Thirteenmile Creek. Van Bibber built his cabin on Thirteenmile Creek, probably soon after the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, which forced the Indians out of the Ohio Valley, effectively ending the threat of Indian raids in the Kanawha Valley. William Arbuckle, the brother of Matthew Arbuckle, settled in Union District in 1797. He had attempted to do so as early as 1792, but was compelled to take refuge in Fort Randolph at Point Pleasant due to the continuing threat posed by the Indians. Like Jesse Van Bibber, Arbuckle was a veteran of the Battle of Point Pleasant. He went on to serve under Andrew Lewis during the War of Independence, then joined George Rogers Clark on his expedition to the northwest. Soon after settling along Thirteenmile Creek, Arbuckle saw an Indian shoot a recluse named Samuel Lewis near the latter's cabin at the mouth of Big Sixteenmile Creek, on the west bank of the Kanawha. Lewis was the last settler shot by an Indian in the Kanawha Valley. Arbuckle and his wife nursed Lewis back to health, and he settled near the falls of Thirteenmile"}, {"text": "Creek, afterward known as \"Lewis Falls\". More settlers arrived around 1800, and began to spread up the valley of Thirteenmile Creek to the Mudlick Branch. James Ringsbury and Samuel Smith built a water-powered grist mill in 1822, adding a saw mill to the original construction a few years later. The first church was organized in 1823 by Francis Wilson, a Methodist minister who had come to the area in 1818; another minister, William George, organized the Harmony Baptist Church in 1832. The latter year saw the death of John Harrison from cholera; he was the first victim of the great epidemic that swept through the region in 1832. The district's first post office was established in 1837, under the name of \"Arbuckle\". It originally stood below the mouth of Eighteenmile Creek, just within the present limits of Mason County, but in 1856 it was moved two miles downriver, to the current location of Arbuckle village. 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. Union Township"}, {"text": "was originally named in honor of Jesse Van Bibber, the first settler of the district, but in the midst of the patriotic fervor of the Civil War, it was soon renamed \"Union\", a name it came to share with districts in twenty-three other counties, including all three of Mason County's neighbors in West Virginia. Like the other townships, Cologne was converted into a magisterial district in 1872. Because Mason County's boundaries have been relatively stable since the formation of Putnam County in 1848, Union is the only district that has had a significant boundary change since its inception. Originally, the upper waters of Thirteenmile Creek lay in Mason County. In 1866, a trapezoidal section, including the upper course of Thirteenmile and the village of Rockcastle, was removed from the easternmost portion of Union Township, and attached to Ripley District in Jackson County. In the late nineteenth century, Union District was still heavily forested, and contained a vast supply of commercially valuable timber. In 1882, \"Hardesty's Biographical Atlas of Mason County\" described various oaks, hickory, sugar [maple], pine, [tulip] poplar, walnut, locust, beech, and sycamore, some of the latter, along Thirteen, attaining an enormous size. An immense quantity of timber is"}, {"text": "every year floated to market upon the waters of Thirteen, being caught at the mouth of the creek in the booms constructed by the Oxley Stave Company, of Cincinnati. The district's iron ore and metallurgical coal were also being commercially exploited."}, {"text": "Admir Malki\u0107 (born 28 June 1986 in Croatia) is a Croatian footballer who is currently playing for NK Novigrad. Club career. Malkic started his senior career with NK Pomorac 1921. In 2007, he signed for HNK Rijeka in the Croatian First Football League, where he made over four appearances. After that, he played for Croatian clubs NK Istra 1961 and NK Grobni\u010dan, and Jordanian club Al-Hussein SC, and Omani clubs Sohar SC and Dhofar Club, and Emirati club Al Urooba, and Omani club Al-Nahda Club."}, {"text": "The cinema of Mauritius refers to films made in Mauritius or by Mauritius-related filmmakers or companies. Mauritian cinema does not have a long-established and continuous tradition and organization. However, there have been recent efforts to encourage international filmmakers to shoot on the island and establish an indigenous film industry. Both Western and Indian films are watched by Mauritians. Filmmaking in Mauritius. Filmmaking in Mauritius started with \"sporadic attempts at making home movies in the 1950s\". In 1986 a Mauritius Film Development Corporation (MFDC) was established, under the aegis of the Ministry of Arts and Culture, to encourage the development of a film industry in Mauritius. The MFDC helped foreign directors obtain permits to shoot on the island. The popularity of the Bollywood movie \"Kuch Kuch Hota Hai\", filmed in Mauritius in 1997, prompted other Bollywood producers to take advantage of the island's scenery. However, for a long time the MFDC lacked the organizational stability to provide consistent support for local filmmakers. In 2007, the \"\u00cele Courts International Short Film Festival\" was established, run by the non-profit organization Porteurs d'Images. In 2013, a Film Rebate Scheme was established to provide both local and international filmmakers with a financial incentive to shoot"}, {"text": "on the island, and the terms of the rebate were extended in 2016. In October 2017, the Government initiated a Mauritius Cinema Week, and a second edition of the event was held in 2018. Other recent developments include the creation of private film school in 2019 and other festivals. Film audiences in Mauritius. Films in Mauritius are predominantly broadcast or released in French, with some in English or Indian languages. In 2006, \"B\u00e9nar\u00e8s\", directed and written by Barlen Pyamootoo, became the first film in Mauritian Creole. The Star Cinema within the Bagatelle Mall of Mauritius in Moka contains six screens, with a total seating capacity of 1,200. Other film theaters include the Cine Klassic Movie Theater and Cinema Star at the Caudon Waterfront, and Cinema ABC in Rose Hill."}, {"text": "Shari Bossuyt (born 5 September 2000) is a Belgian professional racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Women's World Tour team . She rode in the women's team pursuit event at the 2019 UEC European Track Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. 1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships National Junior Road Championships 1st Time trial 1st Road race EPZ Omloop van Borsele 1st Stage 2 1st Points classification 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships 2nd Overall Watersley Womens Challenge 1st Stage 2, Time Trial 7nd Overall Belgium Tour 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 2nd Overall Belgium Tour 1st Youth classification 8th Dwars door Vlaanderen 9th Le Samyn 10th Overall Bloeizone Frysl\u00e2n Tour 1st Young rider classification 10th Nokere Koerse 5th Classic Brugge\u2013De Panne 6th Overall Tour de Normandie F\u00e9minin 1st Stage 3 10th Gent\u2013Wevelgem UEC European Championships 2nd Points race UCI World Championships 1st Madison (with Lotte Kopecky) UEC European Championships 2nd Points race"}, {"text": "Doug Ford is the 26th and current premier of Ontario (), Canada. He won a majority in the 2018 Ontario general election, as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PCPO) caucus in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and was sworn in as premier on June 29, 2018. He was re-elected with an increased majority in 2022, and again after calling a snap election for February 27, 2025. Elections. 2018 Ontario general election. Ford won the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election on March 10, 2018. He represented Etobicoke North. In the 2018 Ontario general election held on June 7, 2018, Ford won a majority government with 76 of the 124 seats in the legislature with approximately 56.67% of potential voters voting. 2022 Ontario general election. Ford led the Progressive Conservatives to another majority government in the 2022 provincial election. The PCs gained seven more seats than they had won in 2018. 2025 Ontario general election. Ford won an 80 seat majority in the 44th Ontario general election. Originally scheduled by election date laws to be held by June 4, 2026, Ford triggered an early provincial election, called a snap election, for Feb. 27, 2025 after meeting with"}, {"text": "Ontario's lieutenant-governor. Policies. Economic policy. In June 2019, Rod Phillips, who served as Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, replaced Vic Fedeli as Ontario's finance minister. Andrea Khanjin was appointed as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks in June 2018. Starting in January 2019, those who are working full-time and earning less than $30,000 a year would pay no provincial income tax, in the new LIFT program but minimum wage would be frozen at $14 per hour. They eliminated 3 legislative offices including the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO), child and youth advocate and French language services commissioner positions. The surtax on the highest earning Ontarians that would have generated about $275 million in revenue, was cancelled. The proposed French language university was cancelled as were three university satellite campuses. Fedeli served as minister until he was moved to economic development in June 2019 in a major cabinet shuffle. According to CTV News Queen's Park Bureau Chief, Colin D'Mello, Premier Ford removed Fedeli as Finance Minister on June 20, 2019 in the \"wake of a disastrous budget rollout that's left the Progressive Conservative government drowning in negative publicity.\" Minister Fedeli tabled the Ford government's"}, {"text": "first budget on April 11, 2019. According to the \"Sault Star\", Fedeli was demoted from \"highly-touted finance post\" and \"blamed\" for the \"failure to sell voters on the $163.4-billion budget and the cost of breaking a 10-year deal that ultimately expands beer and wine sales in grocery stores, costing taxpayers $1 billion.\" NDP Timiskaming-Cochrane MPP, John Vanthof, said that the 2019 budget failed northern Ontario by not providing funds for Highway 69, the Ring of Fire, expanded broadband access, and cuts to Indigenous Affairs, Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs, and more. Vanthof said that there \"will be beer in corner stores, drinks at 9 in the morning, tailgate parties, and blue licence plates, but when the fog is cleared, there is also an over $500 million cut to the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines.\" In the fiscal year 2019, the publicly funded Legal Aid Ontario will receive $133 million less than previously, representing a funding cut of 30 per cent, as part of the Ford government's deficit cutting plan, presented in the April 2019 budget. On September 11, 2019, Chief Justice of Ontario George Strathy said that the \"cuts to Legal Aid"}, {"text": "Ontario will force many people to self-represent...What we judges can say is that reducing legal representation for the most vulnerable members of society does not save money. It increases trial times, places greater demands on public services, and ultimately delays and increases the cost of legal proceedings for everyone.\" The deficit. From about 1989 to 2018, Ontario has reported a deficit almost every year; the province's net debt increased to approximately $311.6 billion (by October 2018); and Ontario's net debt\u2010to\u2010GDP ratio grew from 13.4% to about 40.5% in 2018\u201319. According to an April 11, 2018 Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) report, which was based on figures provided by the Ford government, the revised estimate of Ontario's deficit was $11.7 billion in 2018-2019 and it was projected to decrease by $1.4 billion in 2019-2020 mainly because of \"the removal of the $1 billion contingency reserve.\" At that time it was projected that the deficit would be \"completely eliminated in 2023\u20132024 with a small surplus of $0.3 billion.\" By October 2019, the Financial Accountability Officer, Weltman, said that the FAO had been in error when they\u2014and the Ford government\u2014had projected a $11.7-billion deficit that was reported in the spring 2019 budget. By"}, {"text": "June 2018, Ontario had \"Canada's second-highest public debt per person and a growing budget deficit\", according to \"The Economist\". The Ontario Finance Department reported in October 2018, that Ontario's public debt per person at $23,014, had surpassed that of Quebec at $21,606 in the fiscal year 2017\u20132018. Newfoundland and Labrador public debt per capita at $27,761, was the highest in Canada. By 2019, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce reported that Ontario's debt was over $348 billion\u2014representing about 41% of provincial GDP of almost $850 billion. Ontario's GDP is much larger than any of the other provinces and is almost half of Canada's GDP. \"When combined with the federal debt (approximately $680 billion), the debt-to-GDP ratio for Ontarians nears 80 percent.\" In October 2019, Financial Accountability Office said that the deficit had increased from $3.7-billion deficit in 2017\u2014at the end of the Liberal administration\u2014to $7.4 billion in 2018 under Premier Ford. The deficit had almost doubled partly because of \"cancelled climate-change initiatives and subsidizing hydro bills\" according to the \"Hamilton Spectator\". Economic Development and trade. Minister Smith tabled Bill 47: Making Ontario Open for Business Act, 2018, which was passed on November 21, 2018. According to the \"Toronto Sun\", Bill 47"}, {"text": "strips \"part-time workers of two paid sick days a year and prevent[s] a rise in the minimum wage to $15 an hour on January 1, 2019.\" NDP critic said that this \"will incent employers to turn full-time positions into cheaper part-time work\". The Ontario government abruptly cut all its provincial annual funding\u2014representing $5 million\u2014to the Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine (OIRM) in May 2019. Minister Smith, said that the \"private sector will step up and fund stem-cell research.\" Scientists told \"CBC\" that the private will only invest in the stem-cell field when \"their studies reach a late phase\", until then \"government funding is crucial.\" OIRM scientists who are \"working on treatment of premature babies\" said the cuts were \"extremely short-sighted and uninformed\". In June 2019, Vic Fedeli was appointed as Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade. Prabmeet Sarkaria is Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction in the economic development ministry. Michael Parsa and Donna Skelly were appointed as Parliamentary Assistants to the Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation, and Trade (Trade) in June 2018. Trump tariffs. In January 2025, Ford began to state that he would need a \"clear mandate\" from voters to respond to"}, {"text": "the tariffs on Canadian imports to the United States threatened by new President Donald Trump, calling the 2025 Ontario general election. Ford was caught on video saying that on the day of the 2024 U.S. presidential election he was \"100% happy\" that Trump won, until Trump threatened tariffs on Canada. During the election campaign, his party promised to invest $10 billion in cash-flow support for Ontario employers, $3 billion in payroll tax and premium relief, $120 million to support approximately 18,000 bars and restaurants, $40 million for a new Trade-Impacted Communities Program, $300 million to expand the Ontario Made Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit, and $600 million for the Invest Ontario Fund. Ford also advised the new PM, Mark Carney, on strategies to mitigate the trade war, and appeared on multiple American news shows. Transportation. On April 10, 2019, Premier Ford and Minister Yurek announced Ontario's transit plan for the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)\u2014one of the largest metropolitan areas in Canada. The $30 billion dollar project would include the $10.9 billion Ontario Line, the $5.5 billion Scarborough Subway Extension, the $5.6 billion Yonge Subway extension to Richmond Hill, and the $4.7 billion Eglinton West extension. The province would provide $11.2 billion"}, {"text": "in funding and \"wants to own the lines but leave the city and TTC to operate the subway system.\" Premier Ford said, \"We are making the biggest and largest investment in new subways in Canadian history.\" The City of Toronto had already spent $224 million of public money on its own \"planning and design of transit infrastructure in Toronto.\" The City raised concerns about delays considering the city manager\u2014Chris Murray's \"sweeping\" April 16 transit expansion report, \"which also suggests several projects may now be in limbo, including two Scarborough transit lines and Mayor John Tory's signature SmartTrack plan.\" In a December 13, 2018, City Council meeting, Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) CEO Rick Leary, said that he had not had any \"direct negotiations or discussion\" with the province on what \"it would look like if the province uploaded the subway system\"\u2014bringing the \"TTC's subway system under provincial ownership\". While there were clear financial benefits to the city, the council voted to \"reaffirm their desire to keep the entire TTC \u2014 subways and all\" and requested more clarity from the province. The studies and plans for the TTC's proposed \"desperately needed extension known as the Relief Line\", had begun in the late"}, {"text": "2010s. By early 2019, the planning for the Relief Line was \"well underway and construction was scheduled to begin in 2020, with projected completion in 2029.\" In April 2019, Ford put the Relief Line project on hold in favour of the Ontario Line, which would use a different route with significant lengths of at-grade or elevated track. On September 25, 2024, Ford promised to build a traffic tunnel under the Highway 401 to relieve congestion. On October 21, 2024, Ford tabled a bill granting the province authority to remove bike lanes from several arterial roads in Toronto. The bill would also require municipalities to get provincial approval before replacing any automotive lanes with bike lanes. Toronto City Council formally opposed the plan, citing an estimated cost of $48 million to remove the bike lanes on Bloor, Avenue, and Yonge. On November 21, Ford's government made several amendments to the bill which the opposition claimed would protect the province from liability if a cyclist were injured or killed due to the removal of the lanes. The bill passed on November 25, 2024. Ford's bill has faced opposition from local politicians and cycling advocates on grounds of provincial overreach and potential safety"}, {"text": "impacts to cyclists. Toronto City Council has announced its intention to challenge the bill on legal grounds. Social services. On November 15, 2018 the government announced that they were eliminating three watchdog legislative offices including the child and youth advocate. One of the biggest cuts, announced in the 2019 budget, was the $1 billion cut\u2014over a four-year period\u2014to the Ministry of Community and Social Services. In February, 2019 the government had announced changes to the Ontario Autism Program, which had over 20,000 children on a waiting list. Under Minister MacLeod and Fee, changes were made in \"how children qualified, based on age and family income\". During the revamping of the Program, support for children already receiving service, was clawed back which meant that families had to pay most of the bills for \"very expensive behavioural therapies.\" This \"outraged those in the autism community\". The protests included a \"huge rally at Queen's Park that could be heard inside the legislature and inundated Tory MPPs and Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod with complaints.\" In response, the Ford government \"scrambled to pour more money into the program and in early May [2019] announced consultations that would help shape further reforms to the system,"}, {"text": "moving toward one based on need.\" \"The Hamilton Spectator\" said that of all the \"policy snafus\", the funding of services for families of children with autism, was the one that bothered Ford the most. On August 8, 2019 the Ford government severed the funding for court-ordered autism services for eight families with adult children with \"severe\" conditions who are at \"serious risk of harm\", who had been receiving the funding since 2004. Lawyers Scott Hutchison and Mary Eberts served notice of intent to sue in an 18-page letter to Social Services Minister Smith and Premier Ford \"for breach of contract, negligence, and breach of Charter rights.\" It was formally filed in court on October 1. Those long-standing payments of about $1.7 million annually were the result of litigation against the previous provincial administrations, who had committed to continue the funding \"until a co-ordinated transition to other services had been made, in a way that provided alternative services with which the families were satisfied\", according to \"The Star\". Faced with a backlash against \"a botched revamp of autism services\" in February 2019, the government had doubled the annual funding to $600 million for autism services but this did not restore the"}, {"text": "funding for these eight families. Healthcare. In July 2018, Premier Ford named Rueben Devlin, an orthopedic surgeon who was CEO of Toronto's Humber River Hospital and a \"key Tory adviser\" and former Ontario PCs president\u2014to a $348,000 a year three-year appointment on the Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine, to curb hospital overcrowding. Devlin is the Ford family's \"closest health-care adviser.\" Health costs in Ontario were over $60 billion annually, according to TVO's Steve Paikin. Devlin is tasked with the selection of the other Council members, and with \"ending hallway medicine, dental care for seniors, improved mental-health services), all while ensuring stable, long-term funding for the system\u2014Premier Ford's election promises. Since coming into power in June 2018, Premier Ford's government put an approved injection site in Toronto\u2014and several other places\u2014on pause while Health Minister Christine Elliot, studied the issue. In February 2019, the NDP said that two sets of leaked documents show that the Ford government was creating a health \"super agency\" that \"would be in charge of managing health services, quality improvement, patient relations, digital health and tissue donation and transplants, among other responsibilities.\" The documents said that \"long-term care inspections\" and the Ontario's \"air ambulance service\""}, {"text": "Ornge would be \"outsourced\". According to a CTV News report, Minister Elliot was \"forced to make assurances\" that these services would not be \"privatized\". The first document, which was leaked at the end of January, was a \"draft version of the Progressive Conservative government's upcoming health-care transformation legislation.\" CTV News said \"local health integration networks, Cancer Care Ontario, eHealth Ontario, the Trillium Gift of Life Network and other government health agencies\" would be \"rolled into\" the super agency. Minister Elliot said that the December 13 assistant deputy ministers workshop document, which made references to outsourcing laboratories, \"inspections, licensing, devices\" and Ornge, were options and that these services would not be privatized. The NDP said that the super agency was described in the leaked documents as having the \"competency and capacity to effectively partner with public and private sector entities.\" The documents show that MyCare groups is being created as a \"new model\" of \"integrated care delivery\" with the goal of providing \"patients with seamless, co-ordinated care and a single team of providers for all their care needs.\" Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliot tabled the controversial Bill 74: The People's Health Care Act. Its first reading was on February 26, 2019"}, {"text": "and it received Royal Assent on April 18, 2019. In spite of 2018 election promises that \"not a single person will lose their job\" under his PC government, Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliot office announced in June 2019 that 416 workers would be laid off, as 20 health agencies, including 14 local health integration networks (LHINs), Cancer Care Ontario, eHealth Ontario were merged into one new super-agency called Ontario Health. With the merger \"another 409 vacant positions will be eliminated.\" These changes are estimated to save \"$350 million a year by 2021-22\". A \"CBC News\" report said that the average wait times in Ontario hospitals set a new June record of an average of 16.3 hours waiting in emergency rooms in 2019, compared to 14.4 hours in June 2018, based on Health Quality Ontario data. More restructuring was announced by the Health ministry in September and no more job losses are anticipated. On November 18, 2024, Ford's government tabled a bill to ban supervised injection sites from operating within 200 meters of a school or child-care centre. The bill would also require municipalities get approval from the provincial health minister and federal government before launching new facilities. In a news"}, {"text": "conference for the bill, Health Minister Sylvia Jones stated, \"I want to be very clear, there will be no further safe injection sites in the province of Ontario under our government.\" Education. In early July 2018, then Education Minister, Lisa Thompson, told Queen's Park reporters that starting in September 2018, Ontario schools would no longer be using the sex education curriculum in use since 2015, but would be reverting to the previous curriculum. One of the election campaign promises by the Ford government was to \"scrap\" the 2015 sex education curriculum. Premier Ford's government said that \"it did not order the cancellation.\" By August 2019, the Ministry of Education, following \"widespread consultations\" made \"only minor tweaks\". The \"health lesson plan being brought to schools in the fall\" of 2019 \"is similar to the one Ford crusaded against.\" On October 11, 2019 Minister Lecce reached a deal with CUPE school support workers, which has to be ratified by CUPE members and averted a pending strike. Premier Ford had said that he would cap \"all public sector wage settlements at one per cent per year\". The three-year agreement with CUPE was for a \"one per cent wage increase annually for the duration"}, {"text": "of deal.\" A clause in the agreement clause in the agreement says that if \"higher increases are negotiated by other education unions\", their union will be able to increase to more than one percent. CUPE also had $58.3 million restored for the \"hiring of educational assistants\" with an additional $20 million for hiring \"more custodians and clerical workers.\" As well, CUPE's sick leave provisions remained untouched. In August 2018, in response to \"incidents on campuses across North America where speakers faced protests\", then Minister Fullerton announced that all \"publicly-assisted\" colleges and universities were required to \"develop and publicly post its own free speech policy by January 1, 2019\". The policy must meet a \"minimum standard specified by the government.\" These standards must include the Chicago principles. Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) has the authority to gather the mandatory self-reporting by colleges and universities and to monitor colleges and institutions on compliance. An article in \"The Hamilton Spectator\" cited examples of protests against controversial speakers in Ontario, such as Jordan Peterson, a University of Toronto professor and Lindsay Shepherd, who was disciplined after showing a Peterson video to her students at Wilfrid Laurier University. Fullerton said that free speech"}, {"text": "had become a campaign issue. She said the government was \"constantly\" hearing from students and faculty \"that free speech was being stifled on Ontario campuses.\" Francophone Affairs. Mulroney voted in support of the Ford government's September 2018 proposal to use Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, commonly called the \"notwithstanding clause\", to overrule a judge's decision that legislation intended to shrink the size of Toronto City Council was in fact in violation of Charter rights. For this position, she faced widespread condemnation from constitutional experts and politicians of all parties, particularly with respect to her duty to ensure the sanctity of the judicial process as Attorney General. In November 2018 Ford announced cuts which included cancelling a \"French language university and cut the post of provincial commissioner for French language affairs.\" Ontario's francophone population represents from 550,000 to 744,000 people in a province of 14 million, according to \"The New York Times\" with many concentrated in Sudbury, Ontario, in northern Ontario and near the Ontario-Quebec border in eastern Ontario. The Ford government again came under criticism from the Franco-Ontarian community for its perceived inaction during the 2021 Laurentian University Financial Crisis and its support of the"}, {"text": "large cuts to the university. Indigenous Affairs. In the April 2019 budget, funding for the Ministry of Indigenous Affairs was cut in half. Minister Rickford released a May 9, 2019 statement saying that the Ontario Government was \"committed to do everything in its authority to support the relocation\" of the Kashechewan First Nation. which is located north of Fort Albany, Ontario on the James Bay coast. The community has had flooding and infrastructure problems for many years and in April 2019, had to evacuate 2,500 members by plane when a state of emergency was called again. APTN reported, in the presence of 300 community members, both the federal and provincial governments signed the Framework Agreement with Kashechewan First Nation to commit to moving the reserve. The federal Minister of Indigenous Services Seamus O'Regan said the relocation process would probably take about eight years to complete. Northern Development and Mines. A July 7, 2018 article in \"Policy Options\" said that newly elected Premier Ford, had said that \"resource development within Northern Ontario's Ring of Fire mining area [would] be a priority for his government.\" In Verner, Ontario on September 17, 2019, Premier Ford told the press that the development of the"}, {"text": "Ring of Fire development \"remains a top priority for the Progressive Conservative government.\" The development project is located in the remote, mineral-rich James Bay Lowlands of Northern Ontario, in the Kenora District, approximately northeast of Thunder Bay. In August, Greg Rickford, who is Ontario's Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines (MENDM), said that the Ford government was dissolving the 2014 regional framework agreement between the nine Matawa First Nations and the province. By September, Rickford said that they were working with individual communities on a transportation corridor that Rickford called a \"corridor to prosperity\" from the Ring of Fire\u2014Ring of Fire as a \"major economic opportunity\"\u2014to transportation hubs in the south. However, the 2019 budget cut more than $500 million to the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. Energy. In July 2018 Minister Rickford tabled Bill 2: Urgent Priorities Act, which received Royal Assent in the same month. The first session of the 42nd Legislature was on July 11 and Bill 2, which passed into law on July 25, was the Ford Government's first piece of legislation. Bill 2\u2014an omnibus bill\u2014was \"criticized by both \"business groups and unions\". It legislated an end to the strike between York University and"}, {"text": "Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), cancelled the White Pines Wind Project wind farm contract, and gave Ontario government \"veto power over compensation at Hydro One.\" Hydro One. On July 25, 2018, the Ford government passed Bill 2 which \"put a severe dent into the operations of Hydro One\", a former Crown corporation which went public in November 2015. The Toronto-based Hydro One is the province's \"largest electricity transmission and distribution service provider\" with \"nearly 1.4 million customers\". Hydro One was established under the \"Business Corporations Act\" Crown corporation under the Government of Ontario. Bill 2 places a cap on the compensation allowed for executive members of the board of directors, and gave Ford's provincial government a \"direct say in the naming of directors\" representing a major shift from what was agreed upon between shareholders and the government when Hydro One went public three years earlier. Under Premier Ford, the CEO and the entire board of directors were replaced. The former CEO, Mayo Schmidt was replaced by Tim Hodgson, a Ford appointee, who took on his new position in August 2019 with an annual salary of $120,000. Hydro One was in the process of acquiring American energy firm Avista Inc.,"}, {"text": "when \"U.S. regulators scuttled\" the purchase \"costing the Toronto-based company a $140 million termination penalty.\" The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission said that they blocked the purchase of Avista because of concerns about the independence of Hydro One from the Ontario provincial government. Reducing Ontario consumer electricity costs by 12% was one of the campaign promises made by the Conservative party. government had promised to cut consumers' electricity prices 12%. By July 2019, this has not happened, according to \"The Record.\" Critics raised concerns that Hydro One will not experience stability as Premier Ford's government has a \"record of reaching in to exert control.\" On March 21, 2019 Minister Rickford, tabled Bill 87, the Fixing the Hydro Mess Act which was given Royal Assent on May 9. Bill 87 overhauled the Ontario Energy Board and eliminated the Liberal's 2017 Fair Hydro Plan which the PC's said would save $442 million. The Liberal Plan \"subsidized electricity with borrowed money\" in response to a \"public outcry over soaring hydro rates, particularly in rural areas.\" The Liberals created the Ontario Power Generation Inc (OPG Trust) as the Financial Services Manager to manage the debt. Bonnie Lysyk, the Auditor General released a special report"}, {"text": "on October 17, 2017, which said the \"structure of the plan\" was in violation of the provincial government's accounting rules. She said that the Plan, which committed the government to discount consumer electricity rates for ten years, would cost the province \"$21 billion in interest over the next 30 years.\" The 2017 AG report said that it would cost $4 billion more on the $18.4 billion loan to use the Ontario Power Generation (OPG Trust) than if the province took out the loan because the province would have a lower interest rate than the OPG Trust. The Ford government said that they would maintain [the] 25 per cent time-of-use rates, that was part of the Liberal's Fair Hydro Plan. Under the newly structured Conservative plan, the debt financing \"would move onto the government's books\" from the OPG trust. Provincial\u2013municipal relations. In September 2018, Ford announced that he would use the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms' \"notwithstanding\" clause to override the ruling of a Superior Court judge which said that Ford's legislation, decreasing the size of Toronto City Council just before the municipal election, was unconstitutional. As Ontario's AG, Mulroney voted in support of the Ford government's use of Section"}, {"text": "33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. According to the \"Globe and Mail\", \"constitutional experts and politicians of all parties\" criticized her decision as a violation of the sanctity of the judicial process as Attorney General. In October 2020, the Ford government passed the Supporting Ontario\u2019s Recovery Act, 2020, which including a section that banned municipalities in the province from using ranked ballots for their mayoral and city council elections. The move came as multiple cities in the province were planning to switch from first-past-the-post to ranked ballots for the 2022 local elections. Toronto City Council. The Ford government passed the \"Better Local Government Act\" into law on August 14, 2018. Premier Ford announced the controversial bill on September 27, on the last day for candidate registration for the October 22, 2018 Toronto municipal election, newly elected Premier of Ontario Doug Ford introduced the Better Local Government Act (Bill 5) which requires that Toronto use the same ridings for all its elections\u2014municipal, provincial, and federal\u2014effectively reducing the Toronto City Council from 47 seats to 25. Bill 5 passed on August 14, 2018. Toronto is Ontario's capital city and the largest city in Canada with a population of 2.7"}, {"text": "million. The number of Council seats had just been expanded following approximately four years of consultations and debates. Ford said that these reductions would lower the cost to taxpayers by $CDN 25 ($USD19.1) million dollars in Toronto's $CDN11.1 ($USD8.5) billion dollar budget. Bill 5 reset the positions of regional municipality chairs as by appointment not be election in Peel, York, Niagara and Muskoka. Housing. Bill 23, More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022. Minister Clark introduced Bill 23, More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022, an omnibus bill intended to increase Ontario's housing supply that was described as \"one of Premier Ford's \"largest pieces of legislation\" to date. Bill 23 would make sweeping changes affecting nine laws and \"every aspect of planning and development\" in the province. By November 25, Ford announced a rollback of some of Bill 23's most controversial changes to existing statutes that would have undermined environmental concerns. Environment. On June 7 after winning the election, Ford said that \"very first item\" on his agenda would be to cancel the federal carbon tax and provincial cap-and-trade programs in order to prevent motorists from being \"gouged at the pumps\". According to a June 28, 2018 article in \"The Economist\", Ontario,"}, {"text": "with \"Canada's second-highest public debt per person and a growing budget deficit\", Fords' \"poleaxing of cap and trade\" would result in C$2.8bn worth of pollution permits owned by companies that could result in lawsuits. The article said that Ontario would lose C$2bn a year from the sale of pollution permits under its cap and trade program, which represents 1.3% of Ontario's revenue. In November 2018, the Ford government announced that it was eliminating three provincial watchdog groups including the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO) to cut costs. Then Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO), Dianne Saxe, had just submitted her 4-volume 339 page 2018 Environmental Protection Report, entitled \"Back to Basics, to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Saxe was a \"vocal critic\" of the Ford government's \"actions on climate change\"\u2014\"their vow to fight a federal carbon tax, pulling out of more than 700 renewable energy contracts and moving to end the Ontario Green Energy Act.\" Bill 57, also known as the Restoring Trust, Transparency and Accountability Act transferred the Environmental Commissioner Officer's duties to the Auditor General of Ontario. Ford's government withdrew the province from the Western Climate Initiative emissions trading system, which had been implemented by the previous Liberal government."}, {"text": "Infrastructure. As Minister, McNaughton introduced Bill 32, the Access to Natural Gas Act in the fall of 2018. It was passed into law that December. Bill 32 was intended to make it possible to expand access to natural gas expand access to natural gas throughout rural and Northern Ontario including to First Nations communities. Premier Ford said in a statement released on September 17, 2018 that \"cancelling the cap-and-trade carbon tax\" had caused the price of natural gas to decrease in Ontario. Premier Ford announced the new legislation and explained how it differed from the previous government's 2017 taxpayer-funded $100 million Natural Gas Grant Program\u2014through which\u2014according to Premier Ford, \"private sector companies were limited from participating in natural gas expansion, portions of which were instead managed by the [Natural Gas Grant Program].\" Bill 32, The Access to Natural Gas Act passed into law in 2018, to \"encourage more private gas distributors to partner with communities to develop projects that expand access to affordable and efficient natural gas.\" On September 18, 2018, the city of North Bay learned that the Natural Gas Grant Program funding of over $8.6 million had been cancelled for a natural gas project that would have extended"}, {"text": "\"services to as many as 350 homes in the north shore area of Trout Lake.\" In January 2019, Minister McNaughton announced that the Ford government would provide $27 million to Northeast Midstream towards the construction of their Nipigon LNG gas plant. The plant would be capable of converting natural gas into a liquid form, that can be trucked to consumers. The project will create between 700 and 2,800 jobs in the region. In May 2019, Minister McNaughton announced that the Ontario's Government \"committed up to $63.7 million\" to Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT) with support from other levels of government. The not-for-profit, publicly-funded SWIFT project to develop a regional fibre optic network, has been one of the key initiatives of the Western Ontario Wardens' Caucus (WOWC) representing upper-tier municipalities in southern Ontario from Dufferin to Windsor. Through SWIFT, federal, provincial and local municipalities \"subsidize the construction of an open-access, high-speed broadband network in Southwestern Ontario, Caledon and the Niagara Region.\" COVID-19 pandemic. Initial outbreak. In December 2019, an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China; it spread worldwide and was recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020."}, {"text": "The first confirmed case in Canada was in Ontario\u2014reported on January 27, 2020. On March 17, Ford declared a state of emergency in Ontario, closing bars and restaurants (with the exception of take-out and delivery services), as well as libraries, theatres, cinemas, schools and daycares and all public gatherings of more than 50 people (later reduced to 5 people on March 28). Furthermore, the government announced on March 17 that Ontario had \"some evidence of community transmission\" of COVID-19. On March 23, Ford announced that all \"non-essential\" businesses be ordered closed starting 11:59 p.m. On March 24. Ford also stated that schools would remain closed past the original April 6 opening date (on May 19 it was announced that schools would remain closed until the following school year in September). A list of 74 \"essential\" businesses was published later in the day on March 23. On March 25, Ford and Finance Minister Rod Phillips introduced a $17-billion response package that includes an influx of cash for the health sector, direct payments to parents and tax breaks for businesses. Third wave. On April 9, 2021, Ford received his first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at a local pharmacy in Toronto,"}, {"text": "and encouraged eligible Ontarians to get vaccinated. Amid growing case numbers in mid-2021, the government moved to introduce a third province-wide stay at home order. As part of the response, Ford announced on April 16, 2021, that outdoor amenities including playgrounds would be closed, and that he would be authorizing police to require pedestrians and drivers to explain why they are not at home and provide their home address and other relevant details. The regulations raised concerns about a re-legalization of carding. The government experienced significant backlash with the new enforcement measures, with some commentators \u2013 such as the \"National Post\"'s Randall Denley, a former PC politician \u2013 equating the province to a \"police state\" Members of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Table described the new restrictions as \"absolute madness\", and not based on science questioning the need to restrict \"safe options from people as you do nothing to impact the places where the disease is spreading\". After dozens of police services across the province announced that they would refuse to enforce the new measures, Ford promptly rolled back the new enforcement provisions the next day and reopened playgrounds, while keeping other outdoor amenities closed. Over the weekend following the introduction"}, {"text": "of new orders, calls for Ford's resignation over his handling of the COVID-19 crisis grew, In April 2021, Ford revealed that he had been in isolation following contact with one of his staffers, who had contracted COVID-19. Ford announced on April 30, 2021, that he had asked the federal government to stop international students from coming into the province in an effort to curb the third wave. Omicron variant. During the emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in December 2021 and January 2022, Ford's government announced in December 2021 new restrictions on indoor settings. After growing calls for third or booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines, the government allowed all Ontarians over 18 years of age to receive a third dose on December 20, 2021. On January 3, 2022, Ford announced that Ontario would be moving into modified Step 2 on January 5, closing indoor dining, gyms, movie theatres and schools. Disputes with other politicians. In October 2023, Ford publicly stated that MPP Sarah Jama had a \"long and well-documented history of antisemitism\" and \"hateful views\", and that she \"publicly support[ed] the rape and murder of innocent Jewish people,\" and called for her to resign. In response, Jama served Ford's"}, {"text": "office a cease and desist letter and threatened to sue him for libel. In April 2024, Doug Ford called for the reversal of the Speaker's ban on wearing keffiyeh in the legislature, which was imposed after an unidentified MPP complained about Sarah Jama donning a Palestinian keffiyeh at the start of the Gaza war. The motion to overrule the ban did not receive unanimous consent and remained in effect."}, {"text": "Gustavo A. Ponce (born 20 April 1952 in Venezuela) is a Venezuelan mathematician. Education and career. Ponce graduated from the Central University of Venezuela with a bachelor's degree in 1976. At the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University he graduated with a master's degree in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1982 with thesis \"Long time stability of solutions of nonlinear evolution equations\" under the supervision of Sergiu Klainerman (and Louis Nirenberg). Ponce was a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley from 1982 to 1984, an assistant professor at the Central University of Venezuela from 1984 to 1986, and an assistant professor at the University of Chicago from 1986 to 1989. He was from 1989 to 1991 an associate professor at Pennsylvania State University and is since 1991 a full professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was a visiting professor for brief periods at many academic institutions, including the University of Bonn in 1989, the University of Paris-Sud in 1997 (and again in 2003 and 2012), MSRI in 2001, the Instituto Nacional de Matem\u00e1tica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in 2002 (and again in 2010), the Institute for Advanced Study in 2004, the Institute"}, {"text": "Henri Poincar\u00e9 in 2009, the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2011, the University of the Basque Country in 2015, and IHES in 2016. Ponce does research on nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) using PDE solutions to equations in mathematical physics, such as the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations of hydrodynamics. He was on the editorial boards of Transactions of the AMS from 2006 to 2014 and the Memoirs of the AMS from 2006 to 2014. In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker with talk \"On nonlinear dispersive equations\" at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society."}, {"text": "Pedro Lugo Mart\u00ednez (born 1 August 1960), better known as El Nene, is a Cuban singer. He specializes in both son cubano and rumba, having sung for La Monumental, Clave y Guaguanc\u00f3 and Conjunto Chappott\u00edn. He is also the founder and lead vocalist of J\u00f3venes Cl\u00e1sicos del Son, a traditional son septet founded in 1994. In 2006, he formed another son septet, Son del Nene, in which he is also the lead vocalist. He has recorded albums in collaboration with Celeste Mendoza, Tata G\u00fcines, Estrellas de Areito, Zanja All Stars and rumba ensembles such as Rapsodia Rumbera and Team Cuba de la Rumba."}, {"text": "The Sorceress and the Cygnet is a fantasy novel by Patricia A. McKillip. It was first published in hardcover by Ace Books in May 1991, with a paperback edition following from the same publisher in January 1992. The first British edition was published in hardcover and trade paperback by Pan Books in June 1991, with a standard paperback edition following from the same publisher in May 1992. It was subsequently combined with its sequel \"The Cygnet and the Firebird\" into the omnibus collection \"Cygnet\", issued in trade paperback by Ace Books in March 2007. Summary. Corleu of the Wayfolk stands out from his kin due to his blond hair and obsession with his people's myths, according to which a war was once fought between the Cygnet, the Gold King, the Blind Lady, the Dancer, and the Warlock, resulting in the Cygnet's victory and the others' exile. These characters are now commemorated in the constellations and the patron signs of the regional hold settlements. Today, the sign of the Cygnet is borne by Ro Holding, and the remaining signs by the other holdings under its rule. When Corleu and his companions, including his beloved Tiel, are bespelled and trapped in a"}, {"text": "timeless swamp, his knowledge enables him to cross into the parallel world where the mythic figures exist and seek help. Meeting a tinker who is actually the fearsome Gold King, he is tasked with seeking the Heart of the Cygnet, which he is told might release his people from their limbo. The King's true motive is to free his ancient allies and turn the tables on the Cygnet in their age-old war. With the aid of the sorceress Nyx Ro, estranged heir to Ro Holding, whom he must keep ignorant of his goal, Corleu begins his journey. He encounters the Fire Bear in its lair, catches the Blood Fox by its shadow, and evades a female warrior, Meguet, whose fate seems bound with his. At each step of the journey another legendary character is awakened; the Blind Lady, the Dancer, and the Warlock. The Ro clan works against the questers, aware that if the Gold King prevails and the Cygnet falls, the balance keeping peace among the holds will be upset, and all who live will be doomed. Their efforts are continually countered by the wily king, and all the players gather for the endgame in a final confrontation at"}, {"text": "Ro Holding, Nyx's home. Reception. Sybil Steinberg in \"Publishers Weekly\" notes that \"[w]ith strong, archetypal characters and a powerful command of symbolism, McKillip ... depicts the human conflict between the desire for power and the need for love. Inspired imagery and a perfectly paced plot mark this fantasy as one of the year's best.\" \"Kirkus Reviews\" calls the novel \"a subtle, well-crafted tale redolent of magic and mystery, in which mythic figures are made flesh, and mortals are conscripted for an otherworldly contest. ... The prose is rich, without wordiness; the background mythology (only hinted at here) is original, tantalizing, and convincing. Winner of the World Fantasy Award, McKillip knows what so many other fantasy writers do not, or have forgotten: less is more.\" Jackie Cassada in \"Library Journal\" praises the book for its \"imaginative worldbuilding, strong male and female characters, and an intense (though sometimes esoteric) style.\" Delia Sherman in \"The New York Review of Science Fiction\" calls it \"[b]eautifully written ... lyrical and humorous ... rich, evocative prose.\" Barbara Rickards in \"Magill Book Reviews\" writes that \"McKillip has created a world where passing time, real and imaginary, encircles itself, like the age rings of a tree. ... This"}, {"text": "is a tale spun with stunning and powerful imagery [that] will keep the reader enthralled, and not even Corleu will be able to break the spell McKillip casts.\" Grace Baun in \"School Library Journal\" notes that the book \"is not a simple novel\" and that \"[t]he intricately woven plot laced with surrealist qualities will appeal to mature fantasy lovers.\" The book was also reviewed by Tom Whitmore and Carolyn Cushman in \"Locus\" no. 363, April 1991, Andy Sawyer in \"Paperback Inferno\" no. 91, August/September 1991, Jim England in \"Vector\" no. 163, October/November 1991, Baird Searles in \"Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine\" v. 15, no. 14, December 1991, Alan Stewart in \"SF Commentary\" no. 71/72, April 1992, and Jessica Yates in \"Vector\" no. 171, February/March 1993. Awards. The novel was nominated for the 1992 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, and placed twelfth in the 1992 Locus Poll Award for Best Fantasy Novel."}, {"text": "Pedro Lugo may refer to:"}, {"text": "Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems is a 2019 nonfiction book by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both professors of economics at MIT. It was published on November 12, 2019 by PublicAffairs (US), Juggernaut Books (India), and Allen Lane (UK). The book draws from recent developments in economics research to argue solutions to the issues facing modern economies and societies around the world, including slowing economic growth, immigration, income inequality, climate change, globalization and technological unemployment. It is their second collaborative book since the publication of their book \"Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty\" (2011) and their first since becoming a married couple in 2015. The book's publication comes a month after Banerjee and Duflo were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, shared with Harvard University professor Michael Kremer. Summary. Banerjee and Duflo draw from recent developments in economics research to argue solutions to the issues facing modern economies and societies around the world, including slowing economic growth, immigration, income inequality, climate change, globalization and technological unemployment. The book argues against the idea that immigrants lower wages and take jobs from native workers. They also argue that"}, {"text": "people in poverty often make more sound financial decisions than is normally attributed to them. Publication and promotion. In October 2019, Banerjee traveled to India to promote the book, with speaking engagements in the capital of New Delhi and his hometown of Kolkata. The trip included a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his official residence, 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, in New Delhi. Duflo spoke about the book at the London School of Economics on November 5, 2019. Reception. \"Publishers Weekly\" praised the book, writing, \"Banerjee and Duflo's arguments are original and open-minded and their evidence is clearly presented. Policy makers and lay readers looking for fresh insights into contemporary economic matters will savor this illuminating book.\" \"Kirkus Reviews\" gave the book a positive review, calling it \"Occasionally wonky but overall a good case for how the dismal science can make the world less\u2014well, dismal.\" In his review for \"The Guardian\", Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis praised the book and called it a \"methodical deconstruction of fake facts\" and an \"excellent antidote to the most dangerous forms of economics bashing.\" Nicholas Kristof wrote that Banerjee and Duflo \"demolish the traditional arguments against higher taxes on the wealthy in"}, {"text": "an incisive book.\" The book has received praise from economists such as William Easterly, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Robert Solow, Daron Acemoglu, Pinelopi Goldberg and Raghuram Rajan as well as from legal scholar Cass Sunstein."}, {"text": "In Hindu cosmology, the Karanodaka (IAST: ) or the Garbhodaka (IAST: ), also referred to as the Causal Ocean, is the origin of material creation. It is the place in the spiritual sky where Mahavishnu lies down and creates the material world. The Causal Ocean is the border between the spiritual and material worlds. Literature. The Bhagavata Purana offers the following details regarding the Causal Ocean: The above text also talks about this ocean with regards to the hiranyagarbha, the golden cosmic egg of creation: Mahavishnu is described to lie down in the Causal Ocean. The water of the Causal Ocean is also referred to as the \"Karana Ocean\", and is regarded as wholly spiritual since it originated from the body of Mahavishnu. The sacred Ganga is mentioned to have its source from this ocean, stated as the reason for its purifying effect. Balarama is described to expand into the great serpent known as Shesha. He is stated to repose on the Causal Ocean. He serves as the bed upon whom Vishnu reclines. The serpent is also stated to serve as the deity's paraphernalia, including such items as the umbrella, slippers, bedding, pillow, garments, resting chair, residence, the sacred \"gayatri\""}, {"text": "thread, as well as his throne. During the time of creation, after Vishnu is described to have been sleeping for a while, the first emanations from the breathing of this deity are the personifications of the Vedas, who awake him from his slumber. The \"Dashavatara Stotram\" mentions the Garbhodaka ocean:"}, {"text": "This is a timeline of the Oirats, also known as the Kalmyks or Dzungars."}, {"text": "The Procuress is an oil-on-panel painting by the German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder, created in 1548. The style of the painting is the Northern Renaissance. There are three characters depicted in the painting: the young man, who gives a bag of money to the procuress \u2013 the protagonist of the composition, and a young woman who will marry the man. The wicked appearance of the procuress creates a deleterious and ensnaring aura that captures attention immediately. The painting is now housed in Georgian National Museum, in Tbilisi, Georgia. However, it had an exceptionally long and dangerous journey before getting back to the museum. The estimated value of \"The Procuress\" is more than $40 million. History. The first known owner of the painting was the Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, who brought \"The Procuress\" to Georgia in the 19th century. However, the next proprietor became the private collector Alexandre Korganoff at the beginning of the 20th century, who later sold it to the Georgian painter and art collector Dimitri Shevardnadze. Later, Shevardnadze housed the painting in the in Tbilisi. In March 1921, Georgian public benefactor, historian, and archeologist Ekvtime Takaishvili left for Paris, France with the Georgian Republic"}, {"text": "government-in-exile members after The Bolshevik Russia's Red Army annexed and terminated Georgia's independence. Takaishvili gathered some of the precious pieces from the Georgian treasury and took them with him to France, to safeguard national invaluable objects from the flames of warfare. The painting was protected in Paris not only from the Soviets but also from the Nazis. Adolf Hitler considered Lucas Cranach the Elder to be the painter with the most German panache. He chased after Cranach's paintings and owned multiple of his works. In 1946, \"The Procuress\" was safely returned to Georgia, together with other treasures. From 1969 it spent a decade in Moscow for restoration and finally returned to Georgia only to mysteriously vanish for the next decade. Return. In July 1994, five armed people broke in to the Museum of Arts in the middle of the night to seize \"The Procuress\" and a few other renowned paintings. Blackouts were routine in 90s Georgia and the alarm system was out on the night of theft too. This eased the job for the robbers, who tied up and locked guards one by one, consequently leaving the museum without making much noise. The overall chaos in the city helped the"}, {"text": "criminals to vanish together with \"The Procuress\". On May 10 of 2004, Georgian prosecutor Valeri Grigalashvili, was requested to the Chapidze Clinic by one of the most authoritative \u201cthieves in law\u201d \u2013 Gogi Chikovani. After clarifying that he would not be charged, Chikovani offered a trade to the prosecutor. That same year, armed and masked special force police surrounded his house in Tbilisi and broke in. They forced the family members to sign falsified documents and stole everything they could. The items that special police mugged included Chikovani's family ring and crucifix, which were priceless for him. He promised to return \"The Procuress\" in exchange to these items. As promised, Georgian state police found \"The Procuress\" near the Matrimonial palace on the left embankment of the river Mtkvari. Exactly a decade after its disappearance, \"The Procuress\" was returned to the government and again placed in the Georgian National Museum."}, {"text": "Jared Dines (born October 6, 1989) is an American YouTuber and musician who is known for metalcore-themed and adjacent videos, covers, parodies, and his own original music. He is a member of Canadian metalcore band Oni, and a frequent collaborator with musicians such as Howard Jones and Matt Heafy. Career. Youtube. Dines worked as a recording engineer before pursuing YouTube full time. He started his YouTube channel to promote his band, They Charge Like Warriors, in 2011. His first major success on the platform came in 2014 when he published \"10 Styles of Metal\". Previously only averaging a few hundred views per video, \"10 Styles of Metal\" was picked up by local news outlets and highlighted by online music journalists. It would later garner millions of views. As a response, Dines began to produce more skit-based content. He gained further popularity from his metal covers of pop songs. His following grew as he collaborated with other artists such as Rob Scallon. Dines, in competition with Steve Terreberry, became known for playing guitars with an unusual amount of strings. In 2017, he was scammed when trying to purchase a 17-string instrument from a fraud luthier. However, Dines was later gifted a"}, {"text": "custom 18-string guitar which he demoed at the 2018 NAMM Show. Terreberry responded with a 20-string guitar in 2019. At the conclusion of their feud, Terreberry and Dines participated in a charity auction of the instruments. The 18-string was purchased by Philip Kaplan after Dines' auction initially failed. Musicianship. In 2015, Dines co-founded the band Rest, Repose with Ryan \"Fluff\" Bruce. He left the project in 2019 to focus on his group Daddy Rock. Dines was also a member of metalcore band Dissimulator. In 2018, Dines toured with heavy metal band Trivium. He partly replaced front man Matt Heafy, who had to leave the tour prematurely due to his wife being close to giving birth. Dines and Trivium further collaborated on a cover of \"Better Now\" by Post Malone. In October 2019, he performed on stage with Breaking Benjamin. In April 2020, Dines appeared on the cover of \"Guitar World\" magazine, the first YouTuber to do so. In 2020, Music Man released his signature Stingray guitar. On December 4, 2020, he released a collaborative EP with Trivium vocalist and guitarist Matt Heafy under the name Dines X Heafy. The video for \"Dear Anxiety\", which is the first track, was released"}, {"text": "on the same day to coincide with the release of \"Dines X Heafy\". In March 2021, Dines joined with vocalist Howard Jones and producer Hiram Hernandez to release \"The Blade\" as part of a new project named Sion. Their self-titled debut album was released on November 26, 2021. Their first album was released that November. As of 2024, they were working on their sophomore album. Dines was a touring member of metalcore band Oni. In 2024, he joined the band as a permanent member. Discography. Solo work. List adapted from Spotify."}, {"text": "Unpregnant is a 2020 American female buddy road comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, based on the novel of the same name by Ted Caplan and Jenni Hendriks. It stars Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira, with Alex MacNicoll, Breckin Meyer, Giancarlo Esposito, Sugar Lyn Beard, and Betty Who. The film follows a pregnant teenager, Veronica (Richardson), who discovers that she cannot get an abortion in her home state of Missouri without her parents' permission and subsequently convinces her former friend Bailey (Ferreira) to take a road trip with her to Albuquerque so she can get one there. It was released on September 10, 2020, by HBO Max. Plot. Seventeen-year-old Veronica Clarke takes a pregnancy test at school and is interrupted by her former best friend, Bailey Butler who sees that the test is positive. Initially, not knowing whose it is, Bailey offers to give a ride to a clinic where she can get an abortion if she needs one. Then, she assumes Veronica will be keeping the baby, subsequently disposing of the test. Veronica decides to get an abortion and then discovers it is forbidden in Missouri without parental consent. She quickly formulates a plan to"}, {"text": "get to Albuquerque, New Mexico where clinics will perform abortions without parental involvement, but lacks funds to make it all the way. Meeting with her boyfriend Kevin, she is shocked when he reacts to the pregnancy news by proposing. He also confesses he realized the condom had broken. Veronica pretends she will consider the proposal, taking the ring with her. She then goes to Bailey who agrees to drive her to Albuquerque. At their first stop Veronica tries to pawn her engagement ring and is stopped by Kevin, who has been following her. Learning that Veronica needs the money for an abortion, the sympathetic pawnshop broker agrees to buy her ring. Veronica and Bailey head to Texas though they fight over their former friendship which Bailey fails to realize is because Bailey's father was ashamed of her nerdy pursuits as a child. While stopping at a diner Bailey is frightened by the arrival of local sheriffs. She reveals that the Firebird they are driving belongs to her mother's boyfriend. The girls escape detection when a fellow patron named Jarrod creates a scene. Jarrod later gives them a lift, introducing them to Matthews, a race car driver, who offers to drop"}, {"text": "them off at the closest bus station. Matthews turns out to be a woman (Kira), who Bailey is immediately attracted to. Bailey then reveals she's a lesbian and later has her first kiss with Kira. Before Kira can drive them to the station a young couple, overhearing their need for a ride to Albuquerque for the abortion, offers to drive them all the way. Bailey and Veronica wake up in the morning at the couple's house, where they discover that the couple are actually pro-lifers trying to stop Veronica from having the abortion. They manage to escape the pro-lifers by stealing their GMC Yukon and faking their own deaths. Arriving at the nearest bus station they discover it is out of order but stumble across a mechanic shop run by anti-government survivalist Bob. Hearing Veronica needs an abortion he agrees to drive her to the clinic in an old Lincoln limo. During the ride, Veronica's friends call and urge her to say the pregnancy test belongs to Bailey. Wanting to protect herself Veronica agrees that Bailey is the most likely suspect. Bailey overhears, triggering a fight between them about the dissolution of their friendship. Bailey leaves while Veronica continues on"}, {"text": "to her appointment. When Veronica realizes Bailey has gone to see her estranged father, she reschedules the appointment and follows Bailey. Arriving at a flower shop Bailey's father works in, Veronica witnesses their awkward reunion, and comes to Bailey's defense when her father treats her coldly. At the clinic, Kevin surprises them and threatens to tell everyone about the abortion unless Veronica stays with him, but she tells him to go ahead and do it. After the abortion, they realize they have no more cash and make calls to their respective mothers who get them plane tickets home. At home, Veronica's mother admits to being confused by her decision but reiterates her love for her daughter. At school the next day Veronica learns that Kevin never revealed her abortion to her friends, but she decides to tell them anyway. She also decides to continue her friendship with Bailey and goes to sit with her at lunch. Some time later, the two go on another road trip to Roswell, New Mexico. Production. In June 2019, it was announced HBO Max would distribute the film, with Rachel Lee Goldenberg directing from a screenplay by Ted Caplan and Jenni Hendriks based upon their"}, {"text": "own novel of the same name. Greg Berlanti served as a producer under his Berlanti Productions banner. In September 2019, Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira joined the cast of the film. In October 2019, Sugar Lyn Beard joined the cast of the film. Filming. Principal photography began on October 15, 2019, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and wrapped on November 19, 2019. Release. The film was released on September 10, 2020, on HBO Max. Reception. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The site's critics consensus reads: \"\"Unpregnant\" puts a compelling twist on the road trip comedy -- and treats its sensitive subject with heart.\" On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, based on reviews from 11 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". Inkoo Kang of \"The Hollywood Reporter\" wrote, \"Largely fueled by Richardson and Ferreira\u2019s charisma and chemistry, \"Unpregnant\" is an amiable if uneven ride.\" Natalia Winkelman of \"The New York Times\" wrote, \"Its driving force may seem topical, but the story's heart is timeless: the harmony between longtime friends.\" Accolades. \"Unpregnant\" was nominated for the 2021 GLAAD Media Award for"}, {"text": "Outstanding TV Movie."}, {"text": "Mohammed Ali Shaker Ali Al-Mahri (Arabic: \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0634\u0627\u0643\u0631 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0627\u0647\u0631\u064a; born 27 April 1997), known as Mohammed Shaker, is an Emirati footballer who plays for the United Arab Emirates national football team and Khor Fakkan as a centre-back. Honours. Al Ain"}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Arkansas Razorbacks women's basketball team represented the University of Arkansas during the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Razorbacks, led by third-year head coach Mike Neighbors, played their home games at Bud Walton Arena and competed as members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Preseason. SEC media poll. The SEC media poll was released on October 15, 2019. Schedule. !colspan=9 style=| Exhibition !colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| SEC regular season !colspan=9 style=| SEC Tournament"}, {"text": "Little Wolford is a hamlet and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. With the neighbouring parish of Great Wolford it is part of 'The Wolfords'. Little Wolford is significant for its Grade II* listed 15th- to 16th-century Little Wolford Manor. History. According to \"A Dictionary of British Place Names\", Wolford derives from the Old English 'wulf' with 'weard', meaning a \"place protected against wolves\". \"The Concise Oxfordshire Dictionary of English Place-names\" adds that 'weard' might mean \"guard\", and as such might here be unique usage, as an \"arrangement for protection, [or] fence\", the whole name perhaps \"enclosure to protect flocks from wolves\". In the \"Domesday Book\", the settlement is variously listed as 'Ulware', 'Ulwarda' and 'Wolwarde', and in 1242 as 'Parva Wulleward'. In 1086, after the Norman Conquest, Little Wolford was in the Hundred of Barcheston and county of Warwickshire. There were three Tenants-in-chief to king William I: Bishop Odo of Bayeux, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (Count of Meulan), and Robert de Stafford. Bishop Odo retained Gerald as his lord, who had acquired the title from the 1066 lord Aelfric (uncle of Thorkil) \u2013 the manor contained three villagers, one ploughland with 0.5 men's"}, {"text": "plough team, and of meadow. The land of the Count of Meluan had Ralf as lord, again acquiring the title from the 1066 lord Aelfric - the manor contained three villagers, five smallholders, two slaves, and four ploughlands with one lord's plough team and one men's plough team. De Stafford had three manorial lands. Firstly, one where he was also Lord, this acquired from the 1066 lord Vagn (of Wootton), which contained eight villagers, eight smallholders, four slaves and a priest, with ten ploughlands, six men's plough teams and a mill. Secondly, one with Ordwy as lord, acquired from the 1066 lord Alwy, which contained four villagers, four smallholders, six ploughlands, and two lord's and one men's plough teams. Thirdly, where Alwin was the lord in 1066 and 1086, which contained four villagers, three smallholders, a slave, and two ploughlands with one lord's and one men's plough teams. By the 13th century there were four fields, each two cultivated under a two-field system of crop rotation, and as virgates. A corn mill and fulling mill existed. There were further smaller virgates, one at Pepperwell (then Yperwelle), signified by Pepperwell Lane today at the south-east of the parish. By the beginning"}, {"text": "of the 17th century there were two watermills, one perhaps on Nethercote Brook which divides today's parishes of Little and Great Wolford. The fields were evident as late as 1940 through aerial photography which indicated a ridge and furrow system of ploughing. This medieval or post-medieval system of cultivation was shown by earthworks which continued beyond the parish. After Robert de Stafford died (c.1100), his manor at Wolford passed through his sister Milicent de Stafford (who married Hervey Bagot), to her son Hervey de Stafford, who had adopted his mother's name. The manor was divided in 1242 at the time of the later Robert de Stafford, becoming Great and Little Wolford. Ownership stayed with the Stafford family, including the 15th-century Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham. In 1521, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, was executed by Henry VIII for treason. The year before he had, through trustees, sold the manors to Henry's courtier, Sir William Compton. The manors of Great and Little Wolford stayed in the Compton family until 1819, however, at about 1600 they were bought by Robert Catesby, the leader of the group of English Catholics who planned the failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot. They were then, in"}, {"text": "1605, transferred to a Thomas Spencer and an Edward Sheldon, by Catesby, Sir Thomas Leigh, and Lord Ellesmere whose wife was sister to the second wife of Henry, Lord Compton. Because of transaction inconsistency, the manors reverted to the Compton family. In 1819 they were sold, by Charles Compton, Marquess of Northampton, to the 1st Baron Redesdale, subsequently passing to his son John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Earl of Redesdale. The unmarried earl then left the manors to Bertram Mitford, created Baron Redesdale in 1902. After his death in 1916, the manors passed to David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, the father of the Mitford sisters. Sir Nathaniel Brent (c.1573 \u2013 1652) was the son of Anchor Brent of Little Wolford. He was in 1616 the ambassador at the Hague, in 1622 the warden of Merton College, Oxford, and afterwards commissary of the diocese of Canterbury. During the 19th century Little Wolford was part of the Brailes division of the Kington Hundred, and described as a hamlet of Great Wolford. In 1801 parish population was 229. By 1841 Little Wolford contained 274 inhabitants in 53 houses, in a parish area of , in which were of common land or waste. The industrialist, politician"}, {"text": "and lord of the manor Sir George Philips in 1844 purchased Little Wolford Manor, formerly in the possession of the Ingram family. Directory listed trades and occupations in 1850 included five farmers, two in the same family, a brickmaker, shoemaker, blacksmith, a corn miller, and two carpenters. By 1896 Little Wolford Manor House was the property of Juliana, Countess of Camperdown, n\u00e9e Juliana Cavendish Philips (1812\u20131898), the sole landowner and wife to Adam Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown. Land area was in which lived, in 1891, 178 people. There was a post box but no post office. The nearest money order office was at Long Compton, the nearest telegraph offices at Moreton-in-Marsh and Shipston-on-Stour. A National School for 70 children was erected in 1874 by Lord Redesdale; its average 1896 attendance was 61. Trades and occupations listed in 1896 included six farmers, a shoemaker, two graziers and a blacksmith & farrier. Population in 1901 was 181. In 1912 Little Wolford Manor House was the property of the Earl of Camperdown, who was the parish sole landowner. The National School was now a Public Elementary School (Education Act 1902), with an average attendance of 57. Trades and occupations listed were eight"}, {"text": "farmers, two graziers and a shoemaker. Although described as a hamlet of Great Wolford (under 'Wolford') in 19th and 20th-century trade directories, Little Wolford and Great Wolford had attained separate parish status under the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1866, which established new civil parishes for the purposes of the New Poor Law of 1834, and collection of poor rate. Governance. Lowest tier of local government is direct democracy through Little Wolford Parish Meeting, whose remit is more limited than a parish council. The next higher tier of government is Stratford-on-Avon District Council, to which Little Wolford sends one councillor under the Brailes and Compton ward, above this, Warwickshire County Council, where Little Wolford is represented by the seat for the Shipston division of the Stratford-on-Avon area. Little Wolford is represented in the UK Parliament House of Commons as part of the Stratford-on-Avon constituency, its 2019 sitting MP being Nadhim Zahawi of the Conservative Party. Prior to Brexit in 2020, it was part of the West Midlands constituency of the European Parliament. Geography and community. Little Wolford civil parish has no amenities, and is entirely rural, of farms, fields, and dispersed businesses and residential properties, the only nucleated settlement being"}, {"text": "the hamlet of Little Wolford. It approximates an oval in shape, north to south, and east to west at its widest. It is at the south of Warwickshire, and borders the Todenham parish of Gloucestershire at the north-west. Adjacent Warwickshire parishes are Burmington at the north, Long Compton at the east, Barton-on-the-Heath at the south, and Great Wolford at the west with the boundary defined by the course of Nethercote Brook, a tributary of the River Stour. Most of the southern part of the parish is part of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The A3400 road runs north to south through the parish, locally from Shipston-on-Stour at the north to Chipping Norton at the south. The only other parish roads, apart from farm and residential tracks and cul-de-sacs, is the minor road running east from the A3400 to the village of Cherington, and the minor Little Wolford Road running from the A3400, south through Little Wolford hamlet, then west along the boundary of the AONB to the village of Great Wolford. Running south off Little Wolford Road is Pepperwell Lane which dog-legs east to the A3400. The county town and city of Gloucester is to the south-west."}, {"text": "Closest towns to the hamlet are Moreton-in-Marsh, to the south-west, and Shipston-on-Stour, to the north. The neighbouring village of Great Wolford is to the south-west. The nearest railway station is at Moreton-in-Marsh on the Cotswold Line of the Great Western Railway. Bus services operate within Little Wolford. A stop in the hamlet includes connections to Shipston-on-Stour and Burmington on a circuitous village Shipston Link service. The only other stop, on the A3400, includes connections to Shipston-on-Stour, Stratford upon Avon, Chipping Norton, Whichford, Long Compton, and Lower Brailes. Landmarks. Within Little Wolford is one Grade II* and nine Grade II listed buildings and structures. Little Wolford Manor House (Grade II* listed in 1987), within the hamlet on Little Wolford Road, with its attached bakehouse and gateway, dates to the late 15th or early 16th-century, but with later additions and changes. Of limestone courses, with earlier parts of ashlar, it is of two storeys and L-plan, previously U-plan until the early 19th century. At the rear of the house is a 17th-century gabled range with a timber framed jetty with oriel windows. Attached is the 17th-century bakehouse, and a cottage. On the opposite side of the road from the Manor House, and"}, {"text": "just north of Rosary Lane on a private road, is The Hollows (listed 1987), a late 18th century limestone farmhouse, 'L-plan' of two storeys. There are three bays, each with casement windows, and a gabled porch off centre to the right. Between these two buildings, and at the west side of Little Wolford Road at its junction with Rosary Lane, is a wellhead (listed 1987) which probably dates to the 19th century. Set into the pavement wall, and recessed within a structure of coursed limestone which includes fragments of architectural elements, it comprises an iron trough fed by a \"beast head\". Inset within the structure face, and to the right of the trough is a Victorian post-box. On the A3400 there are four Grade II lodges. The northernmost, at the junction with the road to Cherington, is Broadmoor Lodge (listed 1987), possibly designed by Edward Blore as part of his scheme for the now demolished Weston House. It dates to c.1830 and is of coursed limestone in two storeys with a gabled and buttressed porch with Tudor-arch-style portal, and an upper sill course with gargoyle at each corner below a castellated parapet. To the north of Broadmoor Lodge is a"}, {"text": "2011 Grade II listed milepost. Farther south is a house listed in 1987 as Double Lodges, divided into two residences. Dating to c.1830, of two storeys in coursed limestone and T-plan, it is in Tudor domestic style, with dutch gables with two-light mullion windows, and a porch on its front face at right angles to the road. Farther south still is Bedlam Lodge (listed in 1987 with its attached buildings). This dates to the mid-19th century, and is built of coursed limestone in T-plan, and is of one storey and an attic in Tudor domestic style. There are mullioned windows and a gabled porch. The listed rear range outbuilding to the lodge contains a kitchen and a \"small dog kennel with 4-centred arch.\" Farthest south is Weston Lodge (listed 1987), dating to c.1830, and again possibly designed by Edward Blore as part of his scheme for Weston House. It is built in coursed limestone and in two storeys in Tudor domestic style, with a gabled and buttressed porch with Tudor-arch-style portal, and an upper sill course below a castellated parapet with \"polygonal corner turrets\". The windows are mullioned with hood moulds, the one on the ground floor facing the road,"}, {"text": "a bay. To the rear is a one-story gabled range. At the head of the drive at Weston Lodge are two gate piers (listed 1987), both probably dating to the early to mid-19th century. Both of limestone, they are surmounted by poppy-head finials. Two levelled former earthworks of banks and ditches signifying enclosures, photographed by the Warwickshire National Mapping Project in 1947, are to the east from the hamlet and A3400 road (), and which, according to Pastscape, \"are presumed to be the remains of copse enclosures\" and \"appear to be a ornamental Park land feature\" at what was the south-east edge of the formal park of the now nonexistent Weston House, until the 18th century a deer park which was established by Henry VIII."}, {"text": "SS \"Sinaia\" was an ocean liner built in 1924 in Whiteinch, Glasgow by Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd.for the Fabre Line. Its first visit to Providence, Rhode Island, was made on June 28, 1925. The liner carried Kahlil Gibran's body from Providence, Rhode Island, to Lebanon in 1931. In 1939 \"Sinaia\" left the port of S\u00e8te with Spanish Republicans seeking asylum in Mexico. \"Sinaia\" was scuttled in 1944."}, {"text": "Song Seok-chan (born 18 May 1965) is a South Korean field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Kim Yeong-jun (born 15 August 1967) is a South Korean field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Kim Jong-gap (born 4 January 1966) is a South Korean field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Jeong Bu-jin (born 16 May 1963) is a South Korean field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Josephine Erin Dooley (born 21 January 2000) is an Australian cricketer who plays for the South Australian Scorpions in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL). A right-handed wicket-keeper-batter, Dooley also plays for the Melbourne Renegades in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL). Early life. Dooley attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School in Brisbane, Queensland. International tours. Dooley's first taste of representative honours occurred in November 2017 when she was selected to play a Twenty20 for the Governor-General's XI at Drummoyne Oval against a touring England team. She was then selected in Australia's Under 19 squad for a tour of South Africa in April 2018, and named in the first official Australia A women's squad which toured India in October 2018. Following her second appearance for the Governor-General's XI, playing a 50-over match against a touring New Zealand team in February 2019, Dooley was again part of Australia's Under 19 squad in March 2019 which would tour New Zealand. Later that year, she toured England in June and was selected for a home series against India A in December, both as a member of the Australia A squad. Her third appearance for the Governor-General's XI occurred in January 2020, playing a Twenty20"}, {"text": "against a touring Indian team. Domestic career. Women's National Cricket League. Dooley made her WNCL debut on 18 February 2018, playing for the Queensland Fire in a 31-run loss to the Western Fury. She managed a breakout performance in the first match of the following season on 21 September 2018, finishing with an unbeaten half-century to help her team secure a one-wicket win over New South Wales. Ahead of the 2020\u201321 WNCL season, Dooley departed Queensland and joined South Australia. She recorded her maiden century on 19 March 2021, scoring 116 from 112 balls in a 61-run win against Tasmania. Women's Big Bash League. In the lead-up to WBBL|04, Dooley sustained a broken finger injury, delaying her maiden Big Bash appearance. She debuted for the Brisbane Heat on 26 December 2018 in a five-wicket victory against the Perth Scorchers at Optus Stadium. Dooley top-scored for the Heat in her third WBBL appearance, making 44 not out off 30 balls to help defeat the Hobart Hurricanes by 58 runs on 31 December 2018 at UTAS Stadium. She earned her first Player of the Match award in her team's next fixture, a 43-run win against the Adelaide Strikers at Harrup Park on"}, {"text": "5 January 2019, scoring 48 not out from 33 balls. Dooley would go on to be a member of the Heat's championship team which defeated the Sydney Sixers in the final on 26 January at Drummoyne Oval. On 19 May 2019, the Melbourne Renegades announced the signing of Dooley for WBBL|05, providing her with the chance to establish herself as a wicket-keeper\u2014a position already occupied by Beth Mooney at the Heat. Her strongest contribution of the season came in a four-wicket semi-final loss at Allan Border Field against her former team, top-scoring for the Renegades with 50 not out off 42 balls. Personal life. Dooley is the daughter of Jon and Leanne. She has three brothers: Patrick, Louis and Will. Patrick is also a cricketer, currently in the Big Bash League for the Hobart Hurricanes. In April 2024, Dooley suffered a stroke whilst holidaying in Hawaii and was medically evacuated to Australia."}, {"text": "Jeong Gye-seok (born 17 August 1966) is a South Korean field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Andr\u00e9 Jourdain (13 June 1935 - 16 September 2019) was a French politician. Jourdain was the Senator for Jura from 1989 to 2001. He was the Mayor of Sapois, Jura between 2001 and 2014."}, {"text": "Kim Jae-cheon (born 19 June 1968) is a South Korean field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Dwayne Parish is an American poet. He was born in Fairfield, California on Travis Air Force Base and grew up in Vallejo, California. He moved to Richmond in 1992. At age 55, he was named the first poet laureate of Richmond, California in 2012. He prefers to write in the acrostic form. Parish also served on the Richmond Arts & Culture Commission. Parish was succeeded as poet laureate by Dont\u00e9 Clark, Lincoln Bergman, and Brendan Quintanilla, who served concurrently."}, {"text": "Kwon Sun-pil (born 7 July 1967) is a South Korean field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The H. C. Keck House, also known as the Mount Olivet Parsonage, is a historic building located in the Eliot neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States. Built in 1899 by German American carpenter Henry C. Keck, it illustrates the settlement of Albina by ethnic Europeans and is a good example of the use of the Queen Anne style in that period. As the presence of African Americans in Albina increased, the house was purchased by Mount Olivet Baptist Church in 1929 to be its parsonage. In that role, the house was home to locally prominent civil rights leaders Rev. Jonathan L. Caston (in residence 1929\u20131932) and Rev. J. James Clow (in residence 1936\u20131963). The house was relocated in 1929 as part of its acquisition by the church, and again in 2001 to preserve it from demolition. It was inscribed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002."}, {"text": "Mo Ji-yeong (born 23 June 1964) is a South Korean field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Ji Jae-gwan (born 20 March 1960) is a South Korean field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Kim Man-hoe (born 15 May 1967) is a South Korean field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Marie Moentmann (1900\u20131974) was a 15-year-old girl who lost her hands and full use of both arms in a factory accident in 1915 in St. Louis, Missouri. She became a center of public attention in what the \"St. Louis Post-Dispatch\" called an \"extraordinary case.\" Charity events were held on her behalf while she recovered, and gifts from the public flooded her hospital room. The company where she had been employed as an under-age worker quickly settled her suit for damages. She was fitted with artificial hands, which she learned to use with proficiency. She had trouble finding employment but was eventually set up in business by a friend. The accident. Marie Moentmann was severely injured on November 5, 1915, when she was working on a rotary stamp press or a printing press at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, 610\u2013612 South Seventh Street, St. Louis. She had begun working there at the age of 14. The first news stories about the accident gave Marie's age as seventeen. She was pushing burlap bags into a cylinder roll with a stick. One bag went into the roll crooked, and Marie tried to straighten it out with her right hand. Her fingers were"}, {"text": "caught; she grasped her wrist with her right hand, but her fingers were caught, the roll continued to turn, and both hands were \"terribly mangled.\" The cylinders were studded with small spikes to hold the bags. The \"St. Louis Star\" reported: Nettie McManus, ... who stood at the next machine, screamed when she saw her companion's plight. Edward Wright, foreman, ... turned off the power, and released the rolls and extricated the girl's hands. She retained consciousness, although every one of the thirty girls who were working in the second floor factory room with her became hysterical, [and] several fainted. Marie was able to walk into an elevator and entered an ambulance before losing consciousness. Police officer Frederick Proehl escorted the girl to the hospital, and on the way she refused to look at her mangled, bandaged hands in her lap, stating, \"Do not talk about the accident. Do not talk about my hands.\" Proehl said Marie had been working at the factory for a year, \"and because of her sweet, sunny disposition and blonde prettiness [she] is a great favorite.\" She earned $5.80 or $5.90 per week. At the hospital, her right arm was amputated below her shoulder and"}, {"text": "her left arm at the wrist. At first, she was not told of the extent of the operation, doctors believing the shock of knowledge might kill her; she believed only that the tip of a finger was severed. No one visiting her was permitted to speak of the extent of her injuries. On December 17 another operation was performed under local anesthetic, which Marie was able to watch. She made good progress until January 3, 1916, when she fell ill with pneumonia. It was a \"long siege,\" but she was sent home later in the month. On March 3 the next year, Dr. Robert Wilson cut a small section of bone from her right arm, at no charge, so she could be fitted with a prosthetic arm. Mrs. C.A. Lange contributed $50 for the device, with the balance to come from Marie's funds. Public reaction. Efforts to assist Marie and her family began quickly. One of the first was an invitation to a play at the Shenandoah Theater, \"Little Lord Fauntleroy,\" which she attended via ambulance on November 25 with her sister, Mrs. Theresa Wilenauer. A \"bridge and 500\" party was given at the Planters Hotel for her benefit. More"}, {"text": "than a thousand tickets were sold at $1 each. Loretta Wand was the chief organizer. From $1,200 to $1,400 was raised from more than eight hundred \"society women\" who attended. The money was to be paid to the girl at $10 a week, and a hundred women said they would each contribute fifty cents a week. Later in the month, the organizers gave her a bank book with the sum of $1,085.72. On Christmas Eve, 1915, she attended a benefit matinee given for her at the New Grand Central Theater. She received scores of Christmas gifts from well-wishers, many of which she gave away to fellow patients. Criminal and civil law. At the insistence of State Factory Inspector A. Sidney Johnston, assistant City Prosecuting Attorney Wilson on December 16 issued four charges against E.W. Hummert, superintendent of the factory: The punishment could be a fine or a term in the workhouse (jail). Johnston warned Hummert to cease operation of all machines in the factory which were not protected by guards. Marie Moentmann filed suit against Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills of Atlanta, Georgia, on January 21, 1916, asking $100,000 in damages. She alleged the \"managers of the factory should not"}, {"text": "have employed a girl under 16 years old to work at the machine\" and that \"safety appliances were removed, increasing the hazard of operation.\" Her petition claimed that she was \"made helpless for life and will be wholly unable to care for herself.\" On May 20, 1916, the case was settled, with $21,000 paid by the company, $16,000 to the girl and $5,000 to her parents, who were to pay all outstanding debts for Marie's medical care and legal expenses. When the young woman became an 18-year-old adult in September 1918, during World War 1, she invested her settlement in U.S. Liberty Bonds. Superintendent Hummert pleaded guilty to two charges of violating the state labor law and on June 9 was fined $25 and costs on each. Inspector Johnson advised leniency because the company had paid a \"large sum\" to the victim and was \"taking precautions\" to act within the law from then on. Workers' compensation. Factory inspector Johnston blamed the State of Missouri for the incident because of \"false economy\" within the state factory department. He said there were only seven inspectors to check every establishment in the state, and only four in St. Louis. They were paid \"only"}, {"text": "$100 a month\" in the fees which they collected from the sites they visited, thus there was \"no incentive ... to become proficient, particularly when the department is on a political basis and a fee basis.\" Johnston said that \"safety experts\" should be paid at least $150 to $250 a month. He urged the passage of a workers' compensation law. After Marie and her family settled with Fulton Bag, the \"St. Louis Post-Dispatch\" noted editorially that the case was \"an extraordinary one\" whose \"prompt and handsome settlement\" should not be used as an argument against adoption in Missouri of a state compensation law in case of industrial accidents. The newspaper said: It has been a notorious fact that, in very many cases of injury to workmen, no one has been benefited by litigation except the lawyers. Meritorious cases have been appealed, time after time, until the resources and hopes of the injured workers were exhausted. Not even doctors' or hospital expenses have been paid. The accident was used by Maurice J. Cassidy, secretary of L.U. 315, writing in \"The International Steam Engineer,\" to argue against the provisions of Missouri's workmen's compensation law, by which, he said, \"Miss Moentmann would have"}, {"text": "had a hard road to travel under any compensation law now in existence. These laws, as now written, enrich the insurance companies and \"beggar\" the workers.\" Marie Moentmann herself said three years later: If the accident which deprived me of my hands and parts of my arms has resulted in throwing all the safety devices possible around the dangerous machinery in factories which employ boys and girls, and has brought about the passage of just compensation laws for the care of those who are maimed for life in such employments, then I am happy that my misfortune has accomplished some benefit for others. It is good to realize that the sacrifice was not in vain. Later life. In the first months of her recovery, suggestions were made that she be trained as a singer to earn her living. In May 1916, she said she had considered studying for the law so she could \"fight for people who became unfortunate like myself, but ... it would take such a long time, and I haven't had much school work.\" In 1919 at age 18, Moentmann told a reporter: I keep myself well supplied with books. I guess there are not many patrons"}, {"text": "of the Public Library who make any better use of their cards than I do. I always have a supply on hand, and then I keep informed as to the newer ones. ... The player piano, which depends upon the exercise of the feet rather than the hands, is my most popular musical instrument, and I keep up with the good rolls. And there is my typewriter with its double keyboard, which does not require so much shifting. By 1931, with the help of a friend, contractor H. Hinrichs Jr., Moentmann had become \"saleswoman, manager and nominal owner of an electrical refrigerator sales business at 5542 South Grand boulevard.\" She had become adept at using her artificial hands, which were \"controlled by cords motivated chiefly by her shoulder muscles.\" She told reporter Marguerite Martyn that she had \"cast about all these years in search of an occupation\" and that she had once worked at the information desk at the Railway Exchange Building (St. Louis) and that she had taken courses at Washington University in St. Louis night school in English, literature, history and story telling. She gave up the latter, she said when she \"came to realize that gestures with"}, {"text": "the hands are so much a part of story telling, especially to children, that I saw it was hopeless.\" She did keep on singing, with a church choir, but not as a professional. She said she enjoyed her new work, adding: Having to depend so much on mechanical devices, I have a great appreciation of mechanical perfection, and these ice machines are just wonderful, the things they do and the way they control themselves. And then I love meeting people. That is what I liked about that information job. Other people's problems take my mind off my own. Family. Marie Moentmann was born in St. Louis on September 6, 1900, to William and Marie Moentmann, both natives of Germany, or Czechoslovakia. News reports described the father as a street cleaner; the 1910 census said he was a printer in a bag factory. She had older siblings, Theresa and William, and a younger sister, Charlotte. She lived with her family during most of her life, her mother dying in 1933. In October 1941, a marriage license was issued in St. Louis to Marie E. Moentmann of 8404 Michigan Avenue and Frank A. Wayt of 8106-A South Broadway. She outlived her husband"}, {"text": "and died as Marie E. Wayt at age 73 on July 15, 1974. Interment was at Trinity Lutheran Cemetery."}, {"text": "Han Jin-su (born 16 December 1965) is a South Korean field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Lee Heung-pyo (born 1 October 1966) is a South Korean field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The Red Cross Medal of Merit was awarded to men and women, Serbian and foreign nationals, in two classes. Decorations of the Serbian Red Cross Society had the rank of state decorations. History and criteria. The Red Cross Medal of Merit was instituted in 1912, it was awarded by the Board of the Red Cross Society, with the approval of the Chancellor of Royal Orders, for exceptional merit and services rendered to the Serbian Red Cross in time of war or peace, and for care and assistance to the sick and wounded, philanthropy and personal merit. The Medal of Merit was awarded in two Classes (Silver Medal and Bronze Medal). It was first awarded in 1912 during the First Bakan War, In 1933 the awarding of the Bronze Medal ceased and a senior Class of Gold Medal was introduced to replace it. Appearance. The front features the emblem of the Red Cross with the inscription \"\" (For Services to the Serbian Red Cross) and the coat of arms of Serbia. The reverse of the medal displayed the Maid of Kosovo motive, offering water to the dying knight Pavle Orlovi\u0107, based on the painting by the Serbian artist Uro\u0161 Predi\u0107, the"}, {"text": "scene is based on the central figure of the respective poem, part of the Kosovo cycle in the Serbian epic poetry."}, {"text": "Whakat\u0101ne District is a territorial authority district on the North Island of New Zealand. The Whakat\u0101ne District Council is headquartered in the largest town, Whakat\u0101ne. The district falls within the Bay of Plenty Region. Victor Luca has been the mayor of Whakat\u0101ne since the 2022 local elections. The district has an area of 4465 square kilometres, of which 4450 square kilometres are land. The population was as of History. A Whakatane County Council was established in 1876, and covered a wider area than the present district, including \u014cp\u014dtiki. Whakatane Road Board was established at the same time. The county was split into Whakatane and Opotiki counties in 1900, and the Road Board was made part of Whakatane County. In 1913, the Whakatane Harbour Board was established, and in 1914, Whakatane Town became a separate entity from Whakatane County. The town became Whakatane Borough in 1917. Kawerau Town and Murupara Town District split in 1954 and 1955, and both became boroughs in 1962. In 1976, Whakatane County, Whakatane Borough and Whakatane Harbour Board amalgamated to form Whakatane District. This expanded in 1989 by amalgamating with Murupara Borough, and taking parts of Opotiki and Taupo districts. Populated places. Whakat\u0101ne District consists of"}, {"text": "the following towns, localities, settlements and communities: Demographics. Whakat\u0101ne District covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Whakat\u0101ne District had a population of 37,149 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 1,449 people (4.1%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 4,458 people (13.6%) since the 2013 census. There were 18,210 males, 18,852 females and 84 people of other genders in 13,185 dwellings. 1.8% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. The median age was 40.2 years (compared with 38.1 years nationally). There were 7,776 people (20.9%) aged under 15 years, 6,324 (17.0%) aged 15 to 29, 15,837 (42.6%) aged 30 to 64, and 7,218 (19.4%) aged 65 or older. People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results were 62.3% European (P\u0101keh\u0101); 48.6% M\u0101ori; 3.9% Pasifika; 4.3% Asian; 0.5% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 2.1% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as \"New Zealander\". English was spoken by 96.2%, M\u0101ori language by 17.5%, Samoan by 0.2% and other languages by 5.5%. No language could be spoken by 2.2% (e.g. too young to talk). New Zealand Sign Language was known by 0.5%."}, {"text": "The percentage of people born overseas was 12.8, compared with 28.8% nationally. Religious affiliations were 29.3% Christian, 0.4% Hindu, 0.2% Islam, 9.1% M\u0101ori religious beliefs, 0.4% Buddhist, 0.4% New Age, and 1.2% other religions. People who answered that they had no religion were 52.2%, and 7.5% of people did not answer the census question. Of those at least 15 years old, 3,861 (13.1%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, 16,800 (57.2%) had a post-high school certificate or diploma, and 7,572 (25.8%) people exclusively held high school qualifications. The median income was $35,600, compared with $41,500 nationally. 2,463 people (8.4%) earned over $100,000 compared to 12.1% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 13,185 (44.9%) people were employed full-time, 4,275 (14.6%) were part-time, and 1,365 (4.6%) were unemployed. Sister cities. Whakat\u0101ne has a friendship agreement with Shibukawa, Gunma, Japan."}, {"text": "Park Jae-sik (born 15 March 1967) is a South Korean field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Yu Seung-jin (born 20 January 1969) is a former South Korean field hockey player and currently the head coach of the China national field hockey team. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics. He is the head coach of Monarch Mart Padma."}, {"text": "The men's pommel horse competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics was held at Earls Court Exhibition Centre on 12 and 13 August. It was the seventh appearance of the event. There were 121 competitors from 16 nations, with each nation sending a team of up to 8 gymnasts. The event ended in a three-way tie for the gold medal, with all three winners from Finland: Paavo Aaltonen, Veikko Huhtanen, and Heikki Savolainen. It was the third time the medals had been swept in the event (United States in 1904, Switzerland in 1924). Another three-way tie would occur in 1988. It was Finland's first victory in the event, and first medal since 1928. Background. This was the seventh appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). One of the top 10 gymnasts from 1936 returned: seventh-place finisher Michael Reusch of Switzerland. Reusch had won the 1938 world championship, the last before World War II; there had not yet been another since the war, so he was the reigning champion. Argentina, Cuba, Denmark, and Egypt each"}, {"text": "made their debut in the men's pommel horse. The United States made its sixth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games. Competition format. The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of up to eight gymnasts (Cuba and Argentina had only 7; Mexico only 5). All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus, with the scores summed to give a final total. The scores in each of the six apparatus competitions were added together to give individual all-around scores; the top six individual scores on each team were summed to give a team all-around score. No separate finals were contested. For each exercise, four judges gave scores from 0 to 10 in one-tenth point increments. The top and bottom scores were discarded and the remaining two scores summed to give the exercise total. If the two scores were sufficiently far apart, the judges would \"confer\" and decide on a score. Thus, exercise scores ranged from 0 to 20, apparatus scores from 0 to 40, individual totals from 0 to 240, and team scores from 0 to 1,440."}, {"text": "Sin Seok-gyun (born 21 March 1966) is a South Korean field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Josua Vici (born 20 February 1994) is a Fijian professional rugby union player. He plays as a winger for the US Colomiers in Pro D2 having previously played for the Houston SaberCats in Major League Rugby and previously for the Fiji 7s team internationally. Vici is from Niudua in Kadavu Province. In 2016 he was selected for the training squad for the 2016 Olympics, but was dropped from the squad. In 2017 he was selected for the Fiji national rugby sevens team as a replacement for Savenaca Rawaca."}, {"text": "Ratu Savenaca Tamaibeka (died 6 March 1959) was a Fijian civil servant and rugby union international. He captained the Fiji national rugby union team on their second overseas tour in 1928. Biography. Tamaibeka started his rugby career in 1914, becoming one of the best players in the territory. Described in official documents as a brilliant rugby player, he was also noted to be the \"first Fijian to use his powerful running ability to football advantage\". He played in Fiji's first-ever international match on 18 August 1924 against Samoa in Apia, scoring Fiji's second try \"with three opponents hanging on to him\" as they won 6\u20130. He captained the team that went on the second overseas tour to Tonga in 1928. He played his tenth and final match for Fiji against Samoa on 21 September 1928. Outside of rugby, Tamaibeka joined the Posts and Telegraphs department in 1916. He later moved to the Medical Department, where he worked until being appointed Roko Tui of Macuata Province in 1939, a role he held until going on leave prior to retirement in 1946. He lost a leg in 1941. He died in Suva in March 1959."}, {"text": "Wien Atzgersdorf is a railway station serving Atzgersdorf in the 23rd District of Vienna."}, {"text": "Roberta Sarah Karmel ( Segal; May 4, 1937 \u2013 March 23, 2024) was an American attorney and the Centennial Professor of Law, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of International Business Law, at Brooklyn Law School. She was the first female Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Early life and education. Karmel was born in Chicago, Illinois, grew up in its Austin neighborhood, and has one sister. Both of her parents had also been born in Chicago, and her father was a lawyer. She had by her own account a liberal New York Jewish background, which initially made her pro-government intervention in the economy; a sentiment that changed over time. She attended Austin High School, graduating in 1955, and the University of Michigan in 1955. She received a B.A. from Radcliffe College (\"cum laude\"; American History and Literature; 1959). She married her husband Paul Karmel, who died in 1994, after her sophomore year of college. She earned an LL.B. from New York University School of Law (\"cum laude\"; 1962), where she was on the \"NYU Law Review\". Her law school class had about 4% women. Career. Karmel served as an enforcement attorney, Branch Chief, and Assistant Regional"}, {"text": "Administrator in the Securities and Exchange Commission's New York Regional Office from 1962 to 1969. She later served as a Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission from September 1977 to February 1980, and was the first female SEC Commissioner in the SEC's 48-year history. Having been appointed at 40 years of age, she was one of the youngest Commissioners ever appointed. She practiced law in New York City at Willkie Farr & Gallagher (1969\u201372), Rogers & Wells (1972\u201377; 1980\u201386), and Kelley Drye & Warren (1987\u20132002). Karmel was an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School from 1973 to 1977 and from 1982 to 1985, and was a full professor there starting in 1985. She was Centennial Professor of Law, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of International Business Law, at Brooklyn Law School. She taught securities regulation. Karmel served as a public director of the New York Stock Exchange from 1983 to 1989, the third woman to serve on its board of directors. She was a Fulbright Scholar in 1991-92. Karmel was a trustee and Chair of the Practising Law Institute. She was Co-Chair of the International Coordinating Committee of the Section of Business Law of"}, {"text": "the American Bar Association and Chair of the AALS Section on Securities Regulation. She was a member of the Advisory Committee on capital markets law to Unidroit, a member of the American Law Institute, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Karmel wrote 50 articles in books and legal journals, and has written a regular column on securities regulation for the \"New York Law Journal\". Her book entitled \"Regulation by Prosecution: The Securities and Exchange Commission vs. Corporate America\" was published by Simon and Schuster in 1982. Her book \"Life at the Center: Reflections on Fifty Years of Securities Regulation\" was published by Practising Law Institute in 2014. Karmel received the William O. Douglas Award from the Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni, the Direct Women Award from the Sandra Day O'Connor Board of Excellence, the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the American Bar Association, and the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from \"Marquis Who's Who\". Death. Karmel died in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York at the age of 86 on March 23, 2024 due to pancreatic cancer."}, {"text": "The East African Athletics Championships, also known as the Zone V Championships, was an international athletics competition between East African nations, organised by the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA). It was established in 1995, the same year as two other regional championships: the West and North African Athletics Championships and the African Southern Region Athletics Championships. The competition succeeded the East and Central African Championships as the premier regional athletics competition for the region. All the events at the championships were in outdoor track and field. Events. The competition programme featured 32 regular athletics events: seven track running events, two obstacle events, three jumps, and four throws for both the sexes. Several events were held irregularly. Women did not compete in the steeplechase or hammer throw, and pole vault was not available as an event for either sex."}, {"text": "The Northman is a 2022 American epic action drama film directed by Robert Eggers, who the screenplay with Sj\u00f3n. Based on the legend of Amleth from \"Gesta Danorum\" by Saxo Grammaticus, the film follows Amleth, an exiled Viking prince who sets out on a quest to avenge the murder of his father at the hands of his uncle at the height of the Viking Age. It features an ensemble cast of Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gustav Lindh, Ethan Hawke, Bj\u00f6rk, and Willem Dafoe. Eggers and Skarsg\u00e5rd, who both also produced, had met to discuss possible collaborations; Eggers decided to make the film his third project after meeting with Skarsg\u00e5rd, who had wanted to make a Viking film for several years. Much of the cast joined in October 2019 and filming took place in locations throughout Iceland, Ireland, and Northern Ireland from August to December 2020. The film is heavily influenced by Norse mythology. \"The Northman\" premiered at TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on April 18, 2022, though it had already been released theatrically in some European and South American countries beginning on April 13. It was released in the United States on April 22. It"}, {"text": "received widespread critical acclaim but underperformed at the box office, grossing $69.6 million on a net budget of $70 million. It later found an unexpected amount of financial success on VOD and home media, allowing it to recoup a large portion of its box office losses. Plot. In AD 895, King Aurvandill \"War-Raven\" returns to the island of Hrafnsey, reuniting with his wife, Queen Gudr\u00fan, and his heir, Prince Amleth. To prepare Amleth for his eventual accession to the throne, the father and son participate in a ceremony overseen by Aurvandill's jester, Heimir. Heimir tells Amleth that his destiny is fixed and cannot be escaped, and Amleth vows to avenge his father if Aurvandill is ever slain, rather than live his life in shame. The next morning, Amleth's bastard uncle Fj\u00f6lnir stages a palace coup, beheads Aurvandill, sacks the hillfort and carries away Gudr\u00fan. Amleth narrowly escapes Fj\u00f6lnir's assassins and flees by boat, swearing vengeance. Several years later, an adult Amleth is an ulfhednar (berserker) within a band of Vikings. After attacking a village in Gar\u00f0ar\u00edki, he encounters a Seeress in the temple of Svetovit; the Seeress orders Amleth to remember his oath of vengeance and tells him that his"}, {"text": "fate is intertwined with that of a Maiden-King. Soon after, he learns that \"Fj\u00f6lnir the Brotherless\" has lost his throne to Harald of Norway and now lives as a sheep farmer in Iceland. Branding himself as a thrall, a slave, Amleth sneaks aboard a ship taking them to Iceland. He encounters an enslaved Slavic woman named Olga, who claims to be a sorceress. They are taken to Fj\u00f6lnir's farm, where Amleth learns his mother married Fj\u00f6lnir and bore him a son named Gunnar. One night, Amleth follows a vixen and encounters a he-witch, who facilitates a seance between Amleth and the skull of Heimir, whom Fj\u00f6lnir has also murdered. Heimir tells Amleth about Draugr, a magical sword that can only be drawn at night or at the Gates of Hel. Amleth enters a barrow and obtains the blade from its owner, the undead Mound Dweller. He hides the sword upon his return to the farm. The next day, Amleth is selected to compete in a game of knattleikr against another farm. The game turns violent when the leader of the opposing team brutalizes the competition until only he and Amleth are left. Gunnar (looking up to Amleth, not knowing he"}, {"text": "is his half-brother), is almost killed in trying to draw away the opposing player; but Amleth saves him, furiously beating his opponent to death. As a reward, Fj\u00f6lnir's adult son, Th\u00f3rir, grants him overseer duties and allows him to choose a woman. During the evening celebrations, Amleth and Olga make love; they promise to overcome Fj\u00f6lnir together. Over several nights Amleth kills prominent members of Fj\u00f6lnir's estate in unnatural ways, arranging their impaled body parts into the shape of a horse in a gruesome display. This makes Fj\u00f6lnir and the entire estate believe they are under attack from an evil spirit. Olga mixes the food supply with fly agaric, a potent hallucinogen. Christian slaves are believed by Th\u00f3rir to be responsible. This allows Amleth to enter Fj\u00f6lnir's house. Amleth reveals his identity to Gudr\u00fan, who replies that she was Aurvandill's slave and that Amleth was conceived by rape. Gudr\u00fan also reveals that she masterminded Fj\u00f6lnir's coup because she wanted both Aurvandill and Amleth dead; she tries to seduce Amleth, who, after a moment, rejects her. Enraged, Amleth kills Th\u00f3rir, and cuts out his heart. Gudr\u00fan reveals Amleth's true identity to Fj\u00f6lnir and calls for Amleth's death. Fj\u00f6lnir decides to kill"}, {"text": "Olga, but Amleth offers to trade Olga's life for Th\u00f3rir's heart. Amleth allows himself to be captured, and is tortured for the location of Th\u00f3rir's heart. Amleth is released from his restraints by a flock of ravens sent by Odin and Olga rescues him. Amleth decides to abandon his quest for revenge, and the two decide to escape by boat to his kinsmen in the Orkney Islands. Aboard the vessel Amleth has a vision, and realizes that Olga is pregnant with twins, one of whom will be the Maiden-King prophesied by the Seeress. Realizing that Olga and their children will never be safe while Fj\u00f6lnir lives, Amleth, despite Olga's pleas, jumps overboard and swims ashore reasoning that he cannot escape his fate. Back at the farm, Amleth kills Fj\u00f6lnir's remaining men and frees the slaves. While searching for Fj\u00f6lnir, Amleth is attacked by Gudr\u00fan and Gunnar and kills them in self-defense after being wounded. Fj\u00f6lnir, discovering his wife and son dead, coldly tells Amleth to meet him at the Gates of Hel: the crater of the volcano Hekla. Amleth and Fj\u00f6lnir engage naked in a fierce Holmgang (duel) until Fj\u00f6lnir is beheaded and Amleth is simultaneously stabbed. As he dies,"}, {"text": "Amleth has a vision of Olga embracing their two children, whom she tells him are safe, before urging him to let go. A valkyrie carries Amleth through the gates of Valh\u00f6ll. Production. Development. Born to a Swedish family, Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd had been fascinated with Viking history and mythology since childhood, and had long sought a Viking-themed project with the help of producer Lars Knudsen. In 2011, Skarsg\u00e5rd was attached to a Warner Bros. epic with the working title \"The Vanguard\", which ultimately did not materialize. Robert Eggers became interested in making a Viking film following a 2016 trip to Iceland with his wife Alexandra Shaker, who is a fan of Old Norse sagas. During the trip, Eggers met Bj\u00f6rk, who in turn introduced him to Sj\u00f3n. In 2017, Skarsg\u00e5rd met Eggers to discuss future projects, and the discussion turned to a Viking Age\u2013themed film. Eggers subsequently reached out to Sj\u00f3n, and the two began researching and writing the screenplay. The story of \"The Northman\" was based primarily on the legend of Amleth as written by Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus, known as the direct inspiration for William Shakespeare's \"Hamlet\". Eggers cited the \"Poetic Edda\", the \"Prose Edda\", \"Egil's Saga\", \"Grettir's Saga\","}, {"text": "the \"Eyrbyggja saga\" and the \"Saga of Hrolfr Kraki\" as additional influences. Archaeologist Neil Price at Uppsala University, folklorist Terry Gunnell at the University of Iceland and Viking historian J\u00f3hanna Katr\u00edn Fri\u00f0riksd\u00f3ttir served as historical consultants on the film. Eggers also acknowledged 1982's \"Conan the Barbarian\" as a source of inspiration. In October 2019, it was announced that Eggers would direct an epic Viking revenge saga, which he would also co-write with Sj\u00f3n. Skarsg\u00e5rd, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd (Alexander's brother) and Willem Dafoe were in talks to join the film. They would all be confirmed in December, along with the addition of Claes Bang to the cast. The film was officially in preparation in December 2019, and would begin filming in Belfast in 2020. In August 2020, Bj\u00f6rk, along with her daughter \u00cdsad\u00f3ra \"Doa\" Barney, Kate Dickie and Ethan Hawke joined the cast of the film. In September 2020, Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd announced he had dropped out of the film due to scheduling conflicts and was replaced with Gustav Lindh. Filming. Principal photography was to begin in March 2020, but it was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming, most of which took place in Northern Ireland, started in"}, {"text": "August 2020 and wrapped early in December, lasting 87 days. King Aurvandill's village was constructed at Torr Head on the coast of County Antrim, while Fj\u00f6lnir's farm was built at Knockdhu near Larne. The scenes in the Land of the Rus were filmed at Portglenone, the Clandeboye Estate, Shane's Castle and on the River Bann. The Hightown quarry outside Belfast stood for the volcano Hekla, where the film's climactic fight takes place. Brief sequences were filmed in Iceland at the Sv\u00ednafellsj\u00f6kull glacier and the town of Akureyri. Post-production. The film, originally planned to cost around $65 million, ended up costing between $70\u201390 million to produce. Eggers found the editing process to be the most difficult of his career. Feedback from test screenings indicated that the film's first act was too slow. More feedback showed that audiences found the Old Norse dialogue difficult to understand, which resulted in most of it being replaced in ADR sessions. The final cut was eventually approved on November 3, 2021. Music. For the film's score, Eggers brought former Tri Angle record label artists, Robin Carolan and Vessel (Sebastian Gainsborough), for composition and production. They researched extensively on the history of Viking music, including discussions with"}, {"text": "ethnographer Poul H\u00f8xbro, and used instruments based on Nordic folk music, such as tagelharpa, langspil, kravik lyre, and s\u00e4ckpipa. They further experimented with the instruments they had, to create that ethnic Nordic sound, which includes the 40-member string ensemble mimicking the sound of an archaic instrument called bullroarer. The score album was released by Back Lot Music on April 15, 2022, and featured 43 tracks. On July 1, Sacred Bones Records released the album in CD, vinyl and cassettes. Marketing. The film's advertising campaign briefly attracted notoriety due to a series of posters commissioned for the New York subway system that did not include the film's title. Within a day of the subject going viral on Twitter, the posters were removed. Tie-in media. A 160-page book written by Simon Abrams and Eggers about the film's production and research, titled \"The Northman: A Call to the Gods\", was originally scheduled to be released on September 6, 2022, but was later pushed back to November 8. Release. Theatrical. \"The Northman\" was originally scheduled to be released on April 8, 2022, but was later pushed back to April 22. It was distributed by Focus Features in United States and by Universal Pictures internationally."}, {"text": "Special screenings were held in several cities worldwide ahead of the theatrical release: in Stockholm at Rigoletto Cinema on March 28, in Hamburg at Astor Film Lounge on March 30, in Rome at Cinema Troisi on April 1, in London at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on April 5 and in Belfast at Cineworld on April 6. The world premiere took place in Los Angeles at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 18. Wide releases began early in some countries: on April 13 in Denmark, Norway and Sweden; on April 14 in Czech Republic, Ecuador, Iceland, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Uruguay; and on April 15 in the United Kingdom and Lithuania. Home media. \"The Northman\" was released on VOD on May 13, 2022, on digital on June 6, 2022, and on Blu-ray, DVD and Ultra HD Blu-ray on June 7, 2022, by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment in the United States. Reception. Box office. \"The Northman\" grossed $34.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $35.4 million in other territories \u2013 for a worldwide total of $69.6 million on a budget of $70\u201390 million. In the U.S. and Canada, \"The Northman\" was released alongside \"The Bad Guys\" and \"The"}, {"text": "Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent\", and was projected to gross $8\u201315 million from 3,223 theaters in its opening weekend. It made $5 million on its first day, including $1.4 million from Thursday night previews. The film went on to debut to $12.3 million in its opening weekend, finishing fourth at the box office. \"Deadline Hollywood\" noted that \"The Northman\" and \"The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent\" were targeting the same demographic, which impeded their debuts. The film earned $6.4 million in its second weekend, finishing fourth; $2.9 million in its third weekend, finishing sixth; $1.75 million in its fourth weekend, finishing seventh; and $1.1 million in its fifth weekend, finishing 10th. It dropped out of the box office top 10 in its sixth weekend with $249,660. Outside the U.S. and Canada, the film earned $3.4 million from 15 international markets in its opening weekend. It made $6.3 million in its second weekend after expanding to 41 markets, $4.5 million in its third weekend, $2.2 million in its fourth, $2.5 million in its fifth, $2.9 million in its sixth, and $1.4 million in its seventh. Home media performance. Eggers commented on the film's underwhelming box office, stating that \"[The film] met"}, {"text": "the expectations of a bad marketplace ... Am I disappointed that, three to four weeks in, we're on VOD because that's the way things are done in the post-COVID world? Yeah. But it's doing great on VOD, so there you go.\" In its debut weekend on PVOD in the U.S., the film was the top-rented title on iTunes, third on Vudu and fourth on Google Play, making about the same amount of revenue as \"The Bad Guys\" and \"The Lost City\", despite grossing much less than both in theaters. \"IndieWire\" wrote that \"\"The Northman\" looks like the type of film that, even with lower theatrical returns, is greatly elevated by that exposure.\" The following week, it finished third on the iTunes and Vudu charts, and fifth on Google Play. In its debut week on the DVD/Blu-ray market, the film debuted at the No. 1 spot on both the NPD VideoScan First Alert chart (which tracks combined DVD and Blu-ray disc unit sales) and the Blu-ray disc sales chart for the week ending June 11, 2022. On September 28, 2023, \"Deadline Hollywood\" reported the film \"approached breakeven thanks to overindexing on Premium VOD\". Focus Features' president of production and acquisitions, Kiska"}, {"text": "Higgs, also stated that the film was \"OK for us in the end\", though she noted that costs were shared by New Regency, and Focus Features' wasn't \"front and center on production of [the film]\". Critical response. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 90% of 372 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 7.7/10. The website's critical consensus reads: \"A bloody revenge epic and breathtaking visual marvel, \"The Northman\" finds filmmaker Robert Eggers expanding his scope without sacrificing any of his signature style.\" Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 82 out of 100 based on sixty critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"B\" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak gave it a 75% positive score (with an average 3.5 out of five stars), with 56% saying they would definitely recommend it. \"MovieZine\"'s Alexander Kardelo gave the film a four out of five score and particularly praised Skarsg\u00e5rd's performance and Eggers' direction. \"The Guardian\"'s Peter Bradshaw gave a five out of five score, praising the film's nihilistic tone and performances by the cast, stating, \"It's entirely outrageous, with some epic visions"}, {"text": "of the flaring cosmos. I couldn't look away.\" \"Digital Spy\"'s Gabriella Geisinger also gave a five out of five score, praising Eggers's visionary direction and the film's grisly and surreal atmosphere and claiming, \"The world created in \"The Northman\" is so totally absorbing\". \"IndieWire\"'s David Ehrlich called the film \"primal, sinewy, gnarly-as-fuck,\" \"grab-you-by-the-throat intense\" and \"never dull.\" \"Total Film\"s Matt Maytum commented that the film is a \"truly distinctive, unmissable epic\" in his review, ultimately giving it a five out of five stars. \"The Independent\"s Clarrise Loughrey gave it five out of five stars, and stated in her review that the film was a \"beautiful risk\". \"RogerEbert.com\"s Robert Daniels gave it three out of four, and praised the direction, cinematography and cast performances, but found that the film \"often stumbles when it searches for profundity.\" \"The Austin Chronicle\"s Richard Whittaker called the film an \"extraordinary feat of cinema,\" commending the direction. \"The New York Times\"s A.O. Scott praised the world-building and cinematography, writing, \"Eggers's accomplishment lies in his fastidious, fanatical rendering of that world, down to its bed linens and cooking utensils.\"\" The New Yorker\"'s Richard Brody found that the film \"offers no synesthesia, no evocation of any sense beside"}, {"text": "vision\" and criticized Eggers's direction, ultimately concluding, \"\"The Northman\" merely serves up its raw material both half-baked and overcooked.\"\"\" \"Rolling Stone\"'s K. Austin Collins wrote that \"It's an oft-stunning visual feast,\" but added, \"It is also an instructive example of how the most visionary intentions can't always enliven an otherwise rote story.\" Christopher Howse in \"The Spectator\" commends the \"great store\" Eggers sets \"by material authenticity\". Howse was less fond of the persistent \"slittings, maimings and disembowellings\". \"Violence in the foreground is like flak concealing what lies behind; perhaps it should have been even longer with less action\", is his overall critical assessment. In December 2024, \"Collider\" ranked the film at number 7 on its list of the \"10 Best Fantasy Movies of the 2020s,\" with Robert Lee III writing that it is \"a perfect example of how fantasy movies do not always have to be colorful and family-friendly in their execution, being a brutal and striking R-rated fantasy film filled with violence and bloodshed at every corner. Its violence serves a greater purpose than simply being eye-candy, however, as it helps create a sense of realism for this folk tale adventure, treating Amleth's story as a sort of powerful"}, {"text": "mythos to be passed down across generations of Viking warriors.\""}, {"text": "The Najran conflict was a poorly documented conflict over Najran in the early 1930s fought between the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd. In the winter of 1931/1932, in response to a Yemeni unit invading Najran and destroying Saudi property, Khalid bin Luwai arrived in Najran with his forces and clashed with Yemeni troops. As a result of the clash, the Yemeni troops were forced to withdraw from Najran. Historical accounts. All known details are provided on page 322 of St John Philby's 1955 book \"Saudi Arabia\", which gives the following account:The conflict is also mentioned on page 54 of Nadav Safran's 1988 book \"Saudi Arabia: The Ceaseless Quest for Security\", which gives a similar account, likely based on that of Philby: Commentary. In an enquiry in 2017, the Correlates of War project was unable to find any further information, and found that \"The Times\" did not contain any mention of such incident. They went on to add the following statement:"}, {"text": "Roman Gladyshevskii () \u2013 Ukrainian scientist in the field of crystal chemistry of inorganic compounds, Doctor in Chemical Sciences, Professor, Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology, Honored Scientist and Engineer of Ukraine, Vice-rector for Science and Research, Director of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Biography. Born on September 19, 1958 in Lviv. In 1980 he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Ivan Franko State University of Lviv and received the qualification \u201cChemist. Teacher of Chemistry\u201d. In 1980-1981 he worked as an Engineer at the Scientific Research Institute for Materials (Lviv), in 1982-1988 he was successively Postgraduate Student, Engineer, and Research Assistant at the Department of General Chemistry of Lviv Polytechnic Institute. In 1987 he defended his PhD thesis \u201cPhase equilibria and crystal structures of compounds in REM-Co-Ga systems, where REM is a metal of the yttrium subgroup\u201d. In 1988-1990 he was engaged as Research Assistant at the Department of Physics of Semiconductors of the Ivan Franko State University of Lviv. Over the next eight years (1990-1997) he worked as"}, {"text": "Research Assistant at the Laboratory of Crystallography and the Department of Physics of Condensed Matter of the University of Geneva (Switzerland), and as Professor at the Laboratory of Materials Structure of the University of Savoy (Annecy, France). In 1997 he entered doctoral (Professor) studies at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Ivan Franko State University of Lviv. In 2001 he defended his doctoral (Professor) thesis \u201cIntermetallics and oxides: from ideal to real crystal structure\u201d. In 2000-2005 he worked as Associate Professor (academic title obtained in 2004), and then Professor (academic title obtained in 2008). Since 2006 he has been the Director of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. In 2014-2025 he worked as Vice-rector for Science and Research of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. In 2012 he was elected Corresponding Member, and in 2021 Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the specialty \u201cCrystal Chemistry\u201d. Academic and professional service. His scientific and organizational activities are focused on systematic studies of the interaction of components in metallic systems and the crystal structures of intermetallic compounds, with the aim to further strengthen the scientific school \u201cCrystal Chemistry\u201d,"}, {"text": "which he has headed since 2006. His scientific works combine the study of phase diagrams, crystal structures, and physical properties in order to discover relationships between the composition, structure and properties of inorganic compounds, in particular intermetallics and high-temperature superconductors. To date, with his participation, phase equilibria in 150 multicomponent systems have been studied, more than 990 new inorganic compounds have been synthesized and their crystal structures determined, 96 new structure types have been discovered and physical properties, including electrical, magnetic, of more than 420 compounds and materials based on them, have been investigated. Particular attention received aluminides, gallides, silicides, and germanides containing rare-earth elements, and multicomponent cuprates. The main experimental methods used in his research are X-ray powder and single-crystal diffraction. He contributed to the development of a \u201cholistic view\u201d of crystalline inorganic substances, which is used in the \"PAULING FILE\" database (\"Inorganic Materials Database\") and a classification of structure types of inorganic compounds (\"Gmelin Handbook\") and high-temperature superconductors (\"Academic Press\"), proposed a crystal chemical algorithm for experimental studies of phase diagrams, new schemes of relationships between structure types, and methods of structural analysis taking into account the features of the \u201creal structure\u201d (he determined a number of modulated"}, {"text": "and composite structures), developed new methods for the synthesis of superconducting Bi-2212 and Bi-2223 ceramics and technologies for the manufacture of superconducting ribbons based on Tl-1223. Co-author of a series of monographs published by \"Springer-Verlag\" (\"Landolt-B\u00f6rnstein\" series) and \"Walter de Gruyter\", devoted to the systematics of crystal structures of inorganic compounds. In total, he has co-authored 23 monograph volumes, 4 review articles, 19 patents, more than 400 scientific articles and abstracts of 600 conference reports. He manages research projects with funds of the state budget, as well as grants from the International Center for Diffraction Data (ICDD, USA) and the Company \u201cMaterial Phase Data System\u201d (MPDS, Switzerland), he conducts joint research with scientists from the V.I. Vernadsky Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the NAS of Ukraine (Kyiv), Educational and Scientific Institute \u201cUkrainian State University of Chemical Technology\u201d (Dnipro), Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Dresden, Germany), Institute of Low Temperature and Structural Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Wroc\u0142aw, Poland), Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic), University of Savoy (Annecy, France), and the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Today he teaches the lecture courses \u201cInorganic Chemistry\u201d and \u201cCrystal Chemistry\u201d at Lviv University. He is the author/co-author of"}, {"text": "the current curricula of the following disciplines in the specialty \u201cChemistry\u201d: \u201cInorganic Chemistry\u201d, \u201cCrystal Chemistry\u201d, \u201cComputational Methods in Chemistry and Materials Science\u201d, \u201cMethods to Determine Crystal Structures\u201d (Bachelor\u2019s degree), \u201cApplied Crystal Chemistry\u201d, \u201cFunctional Materials\u201d, \u201cPhysical Properties of Inorganic Materials\u201d (Master\u2019s degree), and \u201cSystems with Unique Physical Properties\u201d, \u201cModern Trends in Chemistry\u201d (for the preparation of a Doctor of Philosophy degree). He is the guarantor of the educational and scientific program of a Doctor of Philosophy degree in specialty 102 Chemistry at Lviv University, which was awarded an exemplary level of accreditation by the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education in 2020. He has published 31 educational and methodological works, including manuals on crystal chemistry in Ukrainian, English and French. In 2007-2015, he co-managed student programs within the framework of the Leonard Euler scholarship of the DAAD Foundation (Technical University of Munich, Germany). Together with the company \u201cMaterial Phases Data System\u201d (MPDS, Switzerland) within the framework of the project \u201cTraining of specialists in the field of natural sciences\u201d, he organized the courses \u201cPhase Diagrams and Phase Transitions\u201d (in English) by the leading researcher at the Department of Quantum Matter Physics of the University of Geneva (Switzerland) Dr. E. Giannini"}, {"text": "and \u201cStructural Chemistry for Materials Scientists\u201d by the Honorary Director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Dresden, Germany), Professor Yu. Grin. In 2010, he was elected Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine, and in 2015 Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Higher School of Ukraine. Supervisor of 18 candidate theses and PhD theses, and consultant of 2 doctoral theses defended at Lviv University, as well as consultant of 5 theses defended abroad. Co-director of the bilateral Ukrainian-German program for postgraduate students of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solid State Physics (Dresden, Germany, 2012-2016). He has repeatedly delivered plenary lectures at international conferences, among which the International Workshop on Tl- and Hg-Based Superconducting Materials (Cambridge, England, 1997), Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association (St. Louis, USA, 1997), XLVI Zjazd Polskiego Towarzystwa Chemiczhego (Lublin, Poland, 2003), 15, 16, 19, 21 International Conference on Solid Compounds of Transition Elements (Krakow, Poland, 2006, Dresden, Germany, 2008, Genoa, Italy, 2014, Vienna, Austria, 2018, Wroc\u0142aw, Poland, 2021), XXXV Journ\u00e9es d\u2019Etude des Equilibres entre Phases (Annecy, France, 2009), XV International Seminar on Physics and Chemistry"}, {"text": "of Solids (Szklarska Por\u0119ba, Poland, 2009), 65 Konwersatorium Krystalogr\u00e1ficzne (Wroc\u0142aw, Poland, 2024). He delivered reports at the International Conference on Innovation and Development of International Education (Beijing, China, 2016), the Ukrainian World Congress (Kyiv, 2016), the meeting of the Polish Academy of Arts (Krakow, Poland, 2020, online), the workshop \u201cRestructuring Science, Education and Innovation in Ukraine\u201d, which was organized by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine of the USA (2022, online), a seminar of the Department of Education of the University of Oxford (Great Britain, 2024, online). In total, he has participated in more than 200 scientific forums. He took the initiative to award the Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, Professor of Cornell University (USA) Roald Hoffmann \"Doctor Honoris Causa\" of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, for his outstanding contribution to the development of world science, strengthening the authority of Ukraine in the international community, and active cooperation with Lviv School of Crystal Chemistry. Member of the Scientific Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (since 2023); member (since 2006), chairman (since 2022) of the Expert Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on Certification of Scientific Staff in Chemical"}, {"text": "Sciences and Chemical Technologies; member of the Commission on Scientific Objects Constituting the National Heritage of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (since 2020); member (since 2003), deputy chairman (since 2024) of the Scientific Council on Challenges in \u201cInorganic Chemistry\u201d of the NAS of Ukraine; member of the Scientific Coordination Council of the Section of Chemical and Biological Sciences of the NAS of Ukraine (since 2022); member of the Permanent Commission on Scientific Directions of the Section of Chemical and Biological Sciences of the NAS of Ukraine (since 2020); member of the Committee on the National Prize of Ukraine named after Borys Paton (since 2015); head of the Scientific Section \u201cChemistry and Chemical Technologies\u201d of the Western Scientific Center of the NAS of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (since 2017); head of the Ukrainian Crystallographic Committee (since 2004); editor-in-chief of the international journal \u201c\"Chemistry of Metals and Alloys\"\u201d (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv); deputy editor-in-chief of the \u201c\"Ukrainian Chemical Journal\"\u201d (V.I. Vernadsky Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv) and \u201c\"Proceedings of the Shevchenko Scientific Society\"\u201d; member of the editorial boards of \u201c\"Visnyk of Lviv University, Chemical"}, {"text": "Series\"\u201d, \u201c\"Physics and Chemistry of Solid State\"\u201d (Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk) and \u201c\"Physical and Chemical Mechanics of Materials\"\u201d (G.V. Karpenko Institute of Physics and Mechanics, NAS of Ukraine, Lviv); editor of a special issue of \u201c\"Journal of Alloys and Compounds\"\u201d (2004); chairman of the organizing committees of the International Conference on Crystal Chemistry of Intermetallic Compounds (since 2002), International Conference \u201cModern Trends in Teaching Chemistry\u201d, School of Young Scientists \u201cDiffraction Methods\u2026\u201d, All-Ukrainian Competition of Young Researchers \u201cCrystals\u201d; representative of Ukraine in the International Union of Crystallographers (IUCr) and the European Crystallographic Association (ECA); full member and member of the Presidium of the Shevchenko Scientific Society; president of Lviv Regional Junior Academy of Sciences; Honorary Ambassador of Lviv. Co-founder of the Ukrainian-Swedish Scientific Consulting Company \u201cStructure-Properties\u201d (2001)."}, {"text": "Los Medallistas (English title: \"Golden Dreams\") is a Colombian drama television series produced Caracol Televisi\u00f3n that aired from 8 February 2023 to 15 May 2023. The show is produced by Juan Carlos Villamizar, and directed by Luis Orjuela, Juan Carlos V\u00e1squez, and M\u00f3nica Cifuentes. The series is based on real events about the lives of three athletes who achieved Olympic Glory. It stars Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Barreto, Paola Valencia, and Mayra Luna. Plot. The series follows the lives, struggles and achievements of Yuri Alvear (Mayra Luna), Ingrit Valencia (Paola Valencia) and \u00d3scar Mu\u00f1oz (Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Barreto), three Olympic medalists born in different regions of Colombia and from families of limited economic resources. Production. The production of the series revolves around the 2020 Summer Olympics, and was confirmed on 15 October 2019. Filming of the series concluded on 21 December 2019."}, {"text": "Ranjit Rai (born 8 April 1969) is an Indian-born Canadian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Dale Wright may refer to:"}, {"text": "The Basketball Champions League rankings are the competition's criteria for ordering teams and leagues according to their performance with the aim to give an objective process for determining the participation of clubs each season. Ranking calculation. The clubs receive 2 points for a win and no points for a defeat from the regular season and the following stages. Bonus points are added to the number of points scored in a season. Since the 2020\u201321 season, 3 points were awarded instead of 2 points for a regular season win due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the change of competition format. Bonus points are allocated for: Country coefficient. The country coefficient is used to rank the basketball leagues of Europe, and thus determine the maximum number of clubs from an association that will participate in the Basketball Champions League. This coefficient is determined by the results of the clubs of the leagues in the Basketball Champions League games over the past three seasons. The number of points awarded each season is divided by the number of clubs that participated for that association in that season. This number is then rounded up to one decimal place (e.g. would be rounded to 2.7). Current"}, {"text": "ranking. The ranking below takes into account of each league's performance in European competitions from 2022\u201323 to 2024\u201325. As of May 2025 the ranking is as follows: NR No rank (league did not enter in any of the seasons used for computing coefficients) Top leagues by period. The following data indicates the three top-ranked leagues in each three-year period. The table shows the ranking of nations with respect to the total number of years in the top three of the rankings: Club ranking. The club coefficient is either the sum of the points earned by the club in the Basketball Champions League over the previous three seasons. This ranking is used by the BCL to determine a club's seeding in club competition draws. Current ranking. The top 25 clubs as of May 2023 are as follows: Top club by period. The following data indicate the top-ranked clubs in each 3-year period."}, {"text": "Kiyoshi Igusa (born November 28, 1949) is a Japanese-American mathematician and a professor at Brandeis University. He works in representation theory and topology. Education and career. He studied at the University of Chicago and Princeton University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1979, under the direction of Allen Hatcher. From 1981 to 1983, he was a Sloan Fellow, and since 2012 he is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 1990, he gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto (Topology Section). Personal life. Igusa's father, Jun-Ichi Igusa, was also a mathematician. Igusa is married to Gordana Todorov, with whom he is a frequent collaborator."}, {"text": "Pun Kwok-shan, MH, JP (; born 1961) is a Hong Kong politician. He is vice-chairman of the New People's Party and member of Civil Force. He is also a former member of the Sha Tin District Council for Tin Sum. Biography. Pun was first elected to the Sha Tin District Council in 2003 in a three-way contest in Tin Sum for local-based Civil Force. He was re-elected in 2007 and retired in 2011. His seat was replaced by Lau Kong-wah, member of both Civil Force and the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), who went on contest the ill-fated 2012 Legislative Council election in the newly created District Council (Second) constituency. Pun returned to the Sha Tin District Council in 2013 Tin Sum by-election when Lau Kong-wah resigned to take the position of Under Secretary of the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs. He won the seat by taking 2,432 votes. Under his leadership of Civil Force. The group allied with Legislative Councillor Regina Ip's New People's Party in 2014 when he was elected vice-chairman of the party. He was also elected to the Election Committee in 2016. He lost his seat in Shatin District Council"}, {"text": "in 2019 following a rout of pro-Beijing candidates amidst the 2019\u201320 Hong Kong protests. In March 2021, Pun protested against H&M, a company that boycotted cotton from Xinjiang after suspected human rights concerns. However, Pun was spotted wearing shoes from Nike, another company which boycotted cotton from Xinjiang."}, {"text": "Louisiana's 29th State Senate district is one of 39 districts in the Louisiana State Senate. It has been represented by Democrat Jay Luneau since 2016, succeeding fellow Democrat Rick Gallot. Geography. District 29 covers a narrow majority-black swath of Central Louisiana, incorporating parts of Bienville, Grant, Jackson, Lincoln, Natchitoches, Rapides, and Winn Parishes. The district snakes its way through much of Alexandria, Pineville, Natchitoches, Winnfield, Jonesboro, Arcadia, Grambling, and Ruston. The district overlaps with Louisiana's 4th and 5th congressional districts, and with the 11th, 13th, 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 26th, and 27th 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 2020 BWF season was the overall badminton circuit organized by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) for the 2020 badminton season to publish and promote the sport. The world badminton tournament in 2020 consisted of:<br> 1. BWF World Tour (Grade 2) 2. Continental Circuit (Grade 3) BWF Open Tournaments: BWF International Challenge, BWF International Series, and BWF Future Series. The tournaments \u2013 Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, Super 100, International Challenge, International Series, and Future Series were all individual tournaments. The higher the level of tournament, the larger the prize money and the more ranking points available. The 2020 BWF season calendar comprised these six levels of BWF tournaments. Schedule. This is the complete schedule of events on the 2020 calendar, with the champions and runners-up documented. Retirements. Following is a list of notable players (winners of a main tour title, and/or part of the BWF Rankings top 100 for at least one week) who announced their retirement from professional badminton, during the 2020 season:"}, {"text": "Kahlil Lewis (born August 31, 1997) is an American former professional football wide receiver. He was selected with the 15th overall pick in the 2nd round of the 2020 XFL draft. In the summer after his senior year of college, he spent time on the Seattle Seahawks and Atlanta Falcons roster before being waived a week before the season began. Lewis played four years of college football at the University of Cincinnati from 2015 to 2019. Early life. Lewis grew up in Miami, Florida. His father died when he was three years old. Lewis attended Miramar High School, where he played football and basketball. He averaged 15 points per game on the basketball court but decided to focus on football in college. Rated a three star recruit, Lewis committed to Cincinnati over offers from Ohio State, West Virginia, Louisville, Nebraska and his hometown Miami Hurricanes. College career. As a freshman at Cincinnati, Lewis largely played backup wide receiver and caught three passes for 53 yards. In his sophomore season in 2016, Lewis made 48 receptions for 605 yards and five touchdowns. As a junior, he was the team's primary receiver and had 61 catches for 676 yards and seven touchdowns,"}, {"text": "though the team finished 4\u20138. As a senior, Lewis had 56 receptions for 782 yards and nine touchdowns. On October 27, 2018, Lewis had 12 catches for 174 yards and two touchdowns against SMU. In his final game at Nippert Stadium, Lewis caught nine passes for 203 yards and three touchdowns in a win against East Carolina. He helped the Bearcats defeat Virginia Tech 35\u201331 in the 2018 Military Bowl and scored a touchdown on a fumble recovery. Professional career. Atlanta Falcons. Lewis was briefly signed by the Atlanta Falcons but waived in the preseason. Seattle Seahawks. He was picked up by the Seattle Seahawks but waived on September 2, 2019. Houston Roughnecks. Lewis was selected 15th overall by the Houston Roughnecks in the 2020 XFL draft. On February 8, 2020, in his XFL debut for Houston against the Los Angeles Wildcats, Lewis had five catches for 45 yards and a touchdown but garnered attention for vomiting on the field. He finished the season with 24 receptions for 220 yards and a touchdown. He had his contract terminated when the league suspended operations on April 10, 2020. Hamilton Tiger-Cats (first stint). Lewis signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the CFL"}, {"text": "on February 2, 2021. He was released on June 10, 2021. Philadelphia Stars. Lewis signed with the Philadelphia Stars of the United States Football League on April 30, 2022, and was subsequently transferred to the team's inactive roster. On February 23, 2023, Lewis was released by the Stars. Hamilton Tiger-Cats (second stint). On March 8, 2023, Lewis signed with the Tiger-Cats for his second stint with the team. On June 3, 2023, Lewis was released by the Tiger-Cats."}, {"text": "Filip Prokopyszyn (born 10 August 2000) is a Polish professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team . In October 2019, he won the bronze medal in the men's elimination race event at the 2019 UEC European Track Championships. 2nd Scratch, UCI Junior Track World Championships 2nd Scratch, UEC European Junior Championships UCI Junior Track World Championships 2nd Scratch 2nd Points race UEC European Junior Championships 2nd Scratch 3rd Madison (with Damian Papierski) 3rd Kilometer National Track Championships 1st Madison (with Daniel Staniszewski) 1st Elimination race 2nd Scratch, European Games 3rd Elimination, UEC European Track Championships 1st Elimination race, National Track Championships 3rd Madison (with Bartosz Rudyk), UEC European Under-23 Championships 3rd Elimination race, UEC European Under-23 Championships"}, {"text": "The North Popo Agie River (also known as the North Fork Popo Agie River) is a river in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States, that serves as part of the boundary of the Wind River Indian Reservation. Its headwaters are at Lonesome Lake in the Wind River Range, and it flows eastward until its end near Lander when it joins the Middle Popo Agie River to form the Popo Agie River. Fishing. The river is considered a Class 2 fishery by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, meaning it has very good trout waters of statewide importance. Species found here include rainbow trout, brook trout, cutthroat trout and mountain whitefish."}, {"text": "This is a list of military installations in Saudi Arabia."}, {"text": "Dar\u00edo Ariel Sarmiento (born 29 March 2003) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a winger for Tigre. Club career. Estudiantes. Sarmiento joined Estudiantes in 2009, after spells with Defensores de Bosques and Independiente. He made his debut in senior football at the age of sixteen, after manager Gabriel Milito promoted him into Estudiantes' first-team squad during the 2019\u201320 campaign. After going unused on the substitute's bench for Primera Divisi\u00f3n fixtures with Patronato and Arsenal de Sarand\u00ed in September, Sarmiento's bow arrived on 5 October 2019 in a goalless draw at home to Hurac\u00e1n; replacing Diego Garc\u00eda after sixty-seven minutes to become the club's second youngest debutant. Seven more appearances came in his breakthrough season. On 31 December 2020, Estudiantes vice president Mart\u00edn Gorostegui confirmed that transfer negotiations were underway with Premier League club Manchester City for Sarmiento, two days after the player had renewed his contract through to 31 December 2021. Manchester City. On 30 April 2021, Estudiantes announced that Sarmiento would join Manchester City on 1 July, for a reported initial fee of \u00a35.2million. Girona (loan). On 30 July 2021, Sarmiento was loaned to Spanish club Girona, also owned by the City Football Group, for one year."}, {"text": "Montevideo City Torque (loan). In July 2022, Sarmiento was loaned to Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n side Montevideo City Torque for six months. Because of injuries, he never played and returned to Manchester City for his rehabilitation. Tigre. On 24 July 2024, he returned to Argentina, joining Tigre permanently, signing a contract until 2026. International career. Sarmiento regularly featured for the Argentina U16s, including at the Montaigu Tournament and Torneo de Desarrollo; winning both competitions. He also appeared for the U17s under Pablo Aimar. In December 2020, Sarmiento received a call-up from the U20s."}, {"text": "Walter Sandys may refer to:"}, {"text": "The 2020 Campeonato Paraense was the 108th edition of Par\u00e1's top professional football league. The competition started on 22 January and ended on 6 September. Paysandu won the championship for the 48th time. On 19 March 2020, the governor of Par\u00e1 and the FPF suspended the Campeonato Paraense indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil. Format. The champion and the best placed team not qualified via CBF ranking qualify to the 2021 Copa Verde. The champion, the runner-up and the 3rd-placed team qualify to the 2021 Copa do Brasil. The best two teams who isn't on Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A, S\u00e9rie B or S\u00e9rie C qualifies to 2021 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie D. Group stage. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Final stage. Semi-finals. \"Paysandu won 4\u20133 on aggregate and advanced to the finals.\" \"Remo won 3\u20130 on aggregate and advanced to the finals.\""}, {"text": "Thomas Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys, was an English peer. The son of William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, Sandys succeeded his father and was summoned to Parliament in 1543. Sandys married Elizabeth, daughter of George Manners, 11th Baron Ros. They had two sons: His older son Henry having died in his lifetime, Sandys was succeeded by his grandson William Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys."}, {"text": "Stafford is a town in the Borough of Stafford, Staffordshire, England. The unparished area contains 141 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest grade, 15 are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. This list contains the listed buildings in the central area of the town; those in the town but outside this area are in Listed buildings in Stafford (Outer Area). Most of the listed buildings in this area are houses and associated structures, shops and offices, hotels and public houses, and churches with items in the churchyards. The earliest buildings, other than the churches, are timber framed, or have timber framed cores. The other listed buildings include the foundations of an ancient chapel, a surviving portion of the medieval town walls, commercial buildings, civic buildings, schools and colleges, a shelter, a former cinema, war memorials, and telephone kiosks."}, {"text": "Christina McDowell (born March 14, 1985) is an American author, actress, and filmmaker, best known for her debut novel, \"After Perfect\". Early life. McDowell was born on March 14, 1985, in Washington, D.C., to Gayle L. (n\u00e9e McDowell) Prousalis and Thomas T. Prousalis, Jr., a prominent Washington, D.C., securities attorney and former decorated Air Force fighter pilot. McDowell had a privileged upbringing as the middle of three sisters, and the family resided in the wealthy Washington, D.C., suburb of McLean, Virginia around the corner from \"Hickory Hill,\" the well-known Kennedy Estate. McDowell was an honors graduate of St Andrew's Episcopal High School a private school in suburban Washington, D.C. McDowell attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, but did not graduate, withdrawing from the university after her freshman year due to her father's legal troubles, resulting in her family's financial collapse. Writing. On December 26, 2013, McDowell penned an op-ed for the \"LA Weekly\" criticizing the Hollywood film \"The Wolf of Wall Street\" and lambasting Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese for glorifying greed and \"psychopathic behavior\" that destroyed families like her own. Her \"LA Weekly\" op-ed went viral receiving more than 3.7 million page views and generating international coverage, including"}, {"text": "a piece in \"The Guardian\". Less than a month after McDowell's op-ed was initially published, publishing houses expressed interest in McDowell writing a book about the events of her life, her father's legal troubles, and her subsequent downward spiral. Her 2015 memoir, \"After Perfect\", details her family's implosion and her personal experience with poverty, depression, drug addiction, and redemption. \"People\" magazine wrote that it was \"a brutally honest, cautionary tale about one family's destruction in the wake of the Wall Street implosion.\" The book was listed as a must-read in publications and digital journals including the \"Village Voice\", \"PopSugar\", Oprah's \"O\" magazine, and \"People Magazine\". In interviews, McDowell has discussed the transformative power of writing and how crafting her memoir was a form of catharsis. McDowell's second book, \"The\" \"Cave Dwellers\", about high society in Washington, D.C., was released by Simon and Schuster in 2020. Other work. In the years since her author debut, McDowell has become an advocate for restorative justice and criminal justice reform. McDowell is the co-producer (with Matthew Cooke) of the 2018 documentary, \"Survivor's Guide to Prison\" about mass incarceration in America. Additionally, she is involved with the non-profit InsideOUT Writers (a creative writing organization for"}, {"text": "incarcerated youth), and POPS (an LA-based non-profit that provides support for kids and teens with family members in prison). In 2004, McDowell featured as the love interest in the music video for the song \u201dPain\u201d by Jimmy Eat World. Miscellaneous. McDowell owned a small Havanese dog named Zelda Fitzgerald."}, {"text": "Linda Biehl (born 1943) is an American philanthropist and mother of Amy Biehl, an activist who was murdered in 1993 in South Africa. She is the co-founder and director of the United States-based Amy Biehl Foundation (with husband Peter Biehl) and the South African-based Amy Biehl Foundation Trust. Early life. Biehl was born in 1943 in Chicago. She met her late husband Peter at Whittier College in California and they had four children together. Before the death of her daughter Amy, she ran an American Indian art gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Philanthropy. After the 1993 death of her daughter Amy in South Africa, the Biehl's supported the amnesty appeal, to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, by those convicted of Amy's murder. After a tour of the Cape Town townships, the couple started developing projects to continue their daughter's work. They followed in 1994 by creating the Amy Biehl Foundation. Linda continued her work after Peter passed away from colon cancer in 2002. In 2008, Biehl was awarded the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo in Bronze in South Africa, an award from the President. The same year she was announced as the first Greely Scholar"}, {"text": "at University of Massachusetts Lowell. She, along with husband Peter, was awarded the Aline and Norman Felton Humanitarian Award in 1999. In 2016 Biehl was hired as a consultant with Tyler Perry's Atlanta based production company to work on a movie about Amy's life and the relationship the family has with the two men convicted of her murder. The movie, \"The Year of the Great Storm\", was still in production as of January 2019."}, {"text": "Stafford is a town in the Borough of Stafford, Staffordshire, England. The unparished area contains 141 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest grade, 15 are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. This list contains the listed buildings in the outer area of the town, including the suburb of Baswich; those in the central area are in Listed buildings in Stafford (Central Area). The listed buildings in this area include churches with memorials in the churchyards and other related structures, houses and associated structures, buildings forming part of HM Prison Stafford, a former windmill, a road bridge, a former public house, the remains of Stafford Castle, a former hospital, schools, a former library, a boundary post, war memorials, and three bridges over the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal."}, {"text": "John Villiers Villet (born 3 November 1954 in Ceres, Western Cape) is a former South African rugby union player. Playing career. Villet made his provincial debut for Western Province in 1977. He however, only became a regular member of the Western Province team during the 1982 season as he and centres like Peter Whipp, Willie du Plessis, Colin Beck and others, were vying for places in the team. In 1982 Villet and Du Plessis formed a more regular partnership and were they part of the successful Currie Cup winning team. Villet made his debut for South Africa, replacing Du Plessis (who retired at the end of 1982) as Danie Gerber's centre partner, against the touring England team on 2 June 1984 at the Boet Erasmus Stadium in Port Elizabeth. He also played in the second test against the English, but then suffered a serious knee injury, effectively stopping him from playing any further test matches."}, {"text": "The murder of Kathleen Jo Henry occurred on September 4, 2019, in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. The murder occurred at a local TownePlace Suites hotel, room 323, operated by Marriott International. Overview. The murder of Kathleen Henry, who was also sexually assaulted before her death, made international news when it was revealed that her alleged killer, Brian Steven Smith, recorded her death in both still photograph as well as numerous videos which he recorded on an SD card. Henry's remains were found along Alaska's Seward Highway on October 2, 2019. Detectives with the Anchorage Police Department recognized Smith from a previous investigation involving him, and obtained a warrant for his arrest. On October 8, 2019, Smith was arrested at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, where he arrived after returning from a trip. Smith was subsequently booked into an Anchorage jail. Police have stated that they discovered thirty-nine photos and twelve videos related to Henry's assault and murder on the SD card, which was found by a woman on a phone she had earlier stolen from Smith's truck. On October 17, 2019, Smith was charged with the murder of a second woman, Veronica Abouchuk, whom Smith allegedly confessed to killing. Smith"}, {"text": "allegedly admitted to her death, and told authorities where they could find her body. Kathleen Jo Henry. Kathleen Jo Henry was born December 22, 1988, in Bethel, Alaska. An Alaska Native woman from the Yup'ik Eskimo village of Eek, Henry obtained her GED in 2012, while incarcerated in Alaska's Highland Mountain Correctional Center, a state prison in the Anchorage neighborhood of Eagle River. A divorcee who was single at the time of her death, Henry struggled with addiction and criminal run-ins with law enforcement over the years. She was a frequent user of Facebook and other social media, and enjoyed writing poetry. At the time of her death, she was 30 years old. Suspect. Brian Steven Smith was identified as the suspect in the murder of Kathleen Henry, based on photograph and video evidence obtained by the Anchorage Police Department. Since then, Smith has been implicated in another murder, and authorities consider him a serial killer. His past in both the United States, as well as in South Africa, is the subject of an ongoing, international investigation. Smith is also known to have expressed racist views on Quora posts For example, he claimed that black people are far more likely"}, {"text": "to commit crimes: \"White people don\u2019t assume it, everyone assumes it when they look at police crime statistics. Wherever black people go in the world, there is an immediate rise in crime. It is a statistical fact that blacks are \u00b1 600% more likely to violate the law.\" Brian Steven Smith (b. March 23, 1971) was born in South Africa, in the Queenstown area, and later immigrated to the United States. Smith became a U.S. citizen in September 2019. In 2019, Smith was arrested in Anchorage, Alaska, after he returned from an out of state trip, and was charged with the sexual assault and murder of Kathleen Jo Henry that past September, at a Marriott International affiliate, where he was an employee and had rented a discounted room from September 2\u20134. Police believe the murder of Henry occurred on September 4, 2019. On October 17, 2019, Smith was charged with murdering a second woman, Veronica Abouchuk, after allegedly confessing to her murder and telling authorities where they could find her body. The Police already had discovered the remains of Abouchuk on the 18th, likely before questioning. Detectives with the Anchorage Police Department, as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation,"}, {"text": "continued to look into Smith's past. Trial. On February 22, 2024, a jury found Smith guilty on all 14 charges against him. On July 12, 2024, Smith was sentenced to 226 years in prison."}, {"text": "The Apostolic Nunciature to Kuwait is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Kuwait. 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 Kuwait is usually also the Apostolic Nuncio to Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen and Apostolic Delegate to the Arabian Peninsula upon his appointment to said nations."}, {"text": "The Nibroc Trilogy, a set of three plays about the challenges of a young couple living in Kentucky and Florida in the 1940s and early 1950s, is the best-known work of the American playwright Arlene Hutton. The individual plays were first produced between 1999 and 2006. Both the individual works and the trilogy as a whole have received critical acclaim, and the first part of the series, the two-character work \"Last Train to Nibroc\", has so far received about 100 productions and is Hutton's most frequently produced play. Plot summaries. Last Train to Nibroc. In the first play of the trilogy, \"May and Raleigh meet in 1940 on an eastbound train that carries the bodies of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathaniel West. Unable to enlist because of a medical condition, he wants to be a writer; she wants to be a missionary and they discover they are from neighboring towns in Kentucky. In this boy-meets-girl romance... two young people navigate through the tough times of a country at war discovering what they have to give up to get what they really want.\" See Rock City. In the second play of the trilogy, \"when WW II victory overseas brings unexpected consequences"}, {"text": "at home, a young Kentucky couple is forced to face hidden truths and find uncommon solutions to the challenges of a new post-war America.\" Gulf View Drive. In the final play of the trilogy, \"ten years into their marriage, May and Raleigh live in an island community off the gulf coast of Florida. Their dream house shrinks as relatives descend, further testing the couple's love in this romantic, humorous, and insightful glimpse of life in the 1950s.\" Background. \"Last Train to Nibroc\", the first play of the trilogy, was inspired by Hutton's learning, from a book about S.J. Perelman, that the legendary writers F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathaniel West, Perelman's brother-in-law, not only died within a day of one another in 1940, but that their corpses may very well have been shipped back for burial to the East Coast on the same train. Said Hutton, \"I didn't want to write about bodies, so I put a young man and woman on the train... My parents would have been falling in love about that time.\" Though she states that the couple in the trilogy \u2013 May and Raleigh \u2013 are not based on her parents, she freely drew upon family lore"}, {"text": "for the setting and many minor incidents in the play. The title of the play, for instance, refers to Corbin, Kentucky, located in her parents' state of origin, where the real-life annual Nibroc Festival is held (\"Nibroc\" is \"Corbin\" spelled backwards). While writing it, Hutton thought of the work as \"a really old-fashioned play that nobody would want to see.\" However, \"Last Train to Nibroc\" turned out to be the playwright's most frequently produced play, having received about 100 productions. Hutton had originally intended to write only the first work, but later continued the story of the protagonists through the second and third parts of the trilogy. Eventually, the trilogy had a ten-year history of development and regional performance. Critical reception. \"Washington Post\" critic, Celia Wren, called Last Train to Nibroc \"a sneakily compelling love story\" and \"intimate, wise and surprising, with a delightful penultimate narrative twist,\" stressing that during the course of the narrative both characters change believably. In \"The New York Times\", D.J.R. Bruckner wrote: \"'Last Train' is not about events; it is about character. And when you leave this performance after 90 minutes of seeing these people reveal depths of feelings they are trying to hide, you"}, {"text": "might think you could easily enjoy another few hours of this.\" Chris Jones of \"The Chicago Tribune\" awarded Last Train to Nibroc four stars, calling it \"the surprise don\u2019t-miss of summer.\" Jones also wrote, \"What makes the writing in this play so seductive is the way that Hutton forges such strong but needy and yet inquisitive characters, and how she makes them emblematic of the sweeping change that beset America in the 1940s. In reaching for those bigger social observations, she never compromises their individuality nor their humanity\u2026 'Last Train to Nibroc' most closely recalls the work of Horton Foote, although Hutton is very much her own writer.\" David C. Nichols of the Los Angeles Times called the play \"a graceful wartime romance\" and observed that \"Had Arlene Hutton been around during Broadway's golden age, her finely wrought plays might rank with those of William Inge or Horton Foote. Among postmodern dramatists, Hutton\u2026 stands apart, relying on traditional techniques in an era where such values grow ever rarer\u2026 'Nibroc' takes its achingly lovely journey straight to the heart.\" In a review of See Rock City, Eric ReeL (sic), the critic of Society Eight o Five, called it \u201ca play worth"}, {"text": "seeing more than once\u201d and \u201cthe \u2018don\u2019t miss\u2019 sequel\u201d to the first play. Philip Brandes of The Los Angeles Times wrote, \u201cWith so many dramas these days built around bad behavior \u2014 the worse the better, it seems \u2014 it's a downright anomaly to come across a genuinely compelling story about ordinary people trying to do their best.\u201d Charles Donelan of the Santa Barbara Independent wrote \"there\u2019s something extraordinary happening at the Rubicon with See Rock City that makes it utterly irresistible. Hutton\u2019s writing has wings...\" He added that the play was an \"unusually well-crafted and moving drama.\" In his review of Gulf View Drive, directed by Katherine Farmer, which won an Ovation Award for Best Production at the Rubicon Theatre, Brandes wrote that the third play \"fittingly conclude[s] a three-year project\" to present the entire trilogy, and that the third play \"thoroughly satisfies on its own merits.\" He noted that adding the character of the hero\u2019s sister, Treva, \"brings significantly more complexity to this chapter, with seemingly unrelated plot threads that take their time converging in an artfully constructed denouement.\" Marilyn Stasio of Variety, however, wrote that the play covers so much socio-historical ground that it \"tends to sag"}, {"text": "from the weight of its responsibilities. But the spine of the central relationship holds it up.\" The trilogy has been compared to the plays of Pulitzer Prize winner William Inge, as well as to the work of film director Frank Capra and even that of Jane Austen. Eric ReeL observes that \"Hutton\u2019s trilogy\u2026 builds an extended narrative with a psychological and emotional journey that offers a whole considerably more satisfying than the sum of its parts\u2026 it is not only a work that captures a period in our history, and the timeless story of a young couple living through that history, but she has captured the essence of an entire era in the history of American theatre.\" Stasio believes that the three plays will attract audiences looking for \"'event theater' that eschews flashy effects, demanding instead a long-term commitment to deserving characters caught up in trying circumstances.\" Gina Bellafante in The New York Times calls the three parts of the work \"exquisitely quiet, gently reaching plays\" that \"ought to be seen by anyone who doubts the capacity of front porch drama to tell a meaningful story beyond its own perimeters.\""}, {"text": "Maggie Browne, the pen-name of Margaret Andrewes n\u00e9e Hamer (1864-1937), was an English author of fiction and non-fiction children's books, who is best known today for \"Wanted, a King\", an \"Alice in Wonderland\"-type story. Early life and education. Browne was born Margaret Hamer in 1864 in Leeds, Yorkshire, the daughter of John Hamer (1837\u20131906), a Yorkshireman from Halifax who owned a bookselling business in Leeds, and Sarah Sharp Hamer, n\u00e9e Heaton, a writer of children's books. John Heaton, Hamer's maternal grandfather, was also a bookseller in Leeds. John Hamer joined the staff of Cassell's, the publishers, in the 1860s, where he was publishing manager from 1867 till 1900. By 1871, the family had moved to Islington, in London. Hamer's younger brother, Sam Hield Hamer, also became an editor at Cassell; he is credited with \"discovering\" Arthur Rackham as an illustrator. He wrote under the name of Sam Browne. Career. Browne's first five books were published in 1884, when she was twenty, by Cassell, the publisher where both her father and brother worked. \"Chats About Germany\" was mentioned among forthcoming publications in September 1884. It was one of a series from Cassell of books for young readers about other countries, at"}, {"text": "a time when \"everybody nowadays is expected to know a little about German and much about Germany.\" It was well received, and was described by reviewers as \"a pleasantly chatty volume, not too learned\", in which \"all manner of odds and ends of information are brought together, and the simplicity and ease of the author's narrative should make her work popular with children.\" \"Chats About Germany\" was re-issued in 1889, when one reviewer considered it \"perhaps the best of the series\", and described Maggie Browne as \"so able a writer\". \"Little Mothers And Their Children\" and \"Our School Day Hours\" (both 1884) were two of the four volumes, printed separately, that comprised Cassell's \"Album for Home, School and Play\". In \"Little Mothers\", \"all the amusing \"make-believes\" of little girls as to their dollies are quaintly set forth.\" It was \"narrated in the simplest of language\", and \"deserves to be very popular in the nursery\". Browne's two other 1884 titles, \"Our Pretty Pets\" and \"Creatures Tame\", were also part of an album by Cassell, \"My Own Album of Animals\". They were \"written in an easy simple style, and in a way likely to attract and amuse children.\" \"Wanted, a King, Or,"}, {"text": "How Merle Set the Nursery Rhymes to Right\" (1890) is the best-known of Browne's works in the 21st century, with its own entry in the second edition of \"The Oxford Companion of Children's Literature\". As the subtitle indicates, the book features nursery rhymes and their characters, which the heroine, Merle, encounters in a place called Endom as she dreams while in bed recovering from a fall. Contemporary reviews praised her \"lively and imaginative work. The author is to be most heartily congratulated on having made the very most of a novel idea. She has written a real fairy book, such as ought to make her popular in all the nurseries of the country ... they will ask Miss Maggie Browne for more.\" The \"Gloucester Journal\" described the author as \"a young lady who is known and loved in the world of juvenile literature\", who \"succeeds where others may fail because she is in thorough sympathy both with her task and with her young readers\", and wrote, \"everybody is made happy, by means which the madcap ingenuity of the author renders equally probable and satisfactory.\" Some reviewers recognised it as \"a clever story of the \"Alice in Wonderland\" type in which"}, {"text": "Miss Maggie Browne has shown a keen appreciation of the likings of children... There is much genuine humour in this brightly-woven tale...\" Lewis Carroll reportedly owned a copy \"as part of his collection of 'books of the \"Alice\" type'.\" A modern scholar notes differences between Merle and Alice, describing Merle as \"an original and engaging character, courageous and defiant in her determination to vanquish the autocratic Grunter Grim.\" Instead of \"adapting and acquiescing\" as Alice had done, \"Merle is encouraged to 'Defy, Deride, Desist, Deny' ... [her] successes reveal the ways that nonsense and imagination can oppose socially imposed expectations and constraints.\" A dramatised version of \"Wanted, a King\" by Maude Scott was produced at the St. Pancras People's Theatre, London, in 1928. Browne followed \"Wanted, a King\" with \"Pleasant Work for Busy Fingers\", which appeared in 1881. As \"The Graphic\" pointed out, \"Not all children love reading as mothers and nurses find to their cost when a wet day keeps the little ones prisoners. To solve their perplexities, in steps Miss Maggie Browne with a most useful little Manual, 'Pleasant Work for Busy Fingers' (Cassell) which will teach restless children to make the most delightful things out of the"}, {"text": "humblest material - paper, beads clay and so forth. Founding her volume on a German original, Miss Browne presents her subject in most practical form with numerous and diagrams likely to convince the slowest pupil.\" \"Two Old Ladies, Two Foolish Fairies and a Tom Cat\" (the hardback edition of previously serialised \"The Surprising Adventures of Tuppy and Tue\" 1897) was reviewed in \"Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper\", which wrote: \"Children are who are lucky enough get this pretty book will rejoice in a treasure. Two young fairies leave fairyland to find out whether children have forgotten the fairies. They take with them Cinderella's slippers and other fairy properties. Their adventures are many but in the end find that the children love fairy stories as much as ever they did. They will certainly be fond of this one\". Browne's stories also appeared in \"Little Folks\", Cassell & Co's \"magazine for the young\". Some, including \"The Surprising Adventures of Tuppy and Tue\" and her last known published work, \"The Book Of Betty Barber\", were serialised in \"Little Folks\" in 1896 and 1901, respectively, before being issued in book form with illustrations by Arthur Rackham (\"Tuppy and Tue\" renamed \"Two Old Ladies, Two Foolish Fairies"}, {"text": "and a Tom Cat\", published by Cassell in 1897, and \"The Book of Betty Barber\" published by Duckworth & Co in 1910). \"The Scotsman\" described it as \"a charming story of the fantastical adventures of some very fantastical children\", while \"The Tatler\" explained that \"Betty had written the book so that when she was grown up and stupid she would know what her children would like or dislike. ... And then followed such a wonderful time ...: such adventures, such curious surprises, such unexpected excursions into Sum Land, Music Land, Paint Land, Nonsense Land, until at last [the] book comes to an end, and then one wants to turn back and read it all over again.\" Personal life. Browne's older brother, William Heaton Hamer (1862\u20131936) was a medical man who was Medical Officer of Health for London and was knighted for his work in 1923. In 1896, Browne married Herbert Edward Andrewes a stockbroker and former member of the Indian Civil Service. Herbert was an older brother of Frederick William Andrewes who had married Margaret's sister, Phyllis Mary Hamer, the previous year. Herbert and Margaret had two children \u2013 Ursula Andrewes (born 1899), a university lecturer and Humfrey Andrewes (born"}, {"text": "1902), an electrical engineer. Browne died on 11 January 1937 at North Grove, Highgate leaving \u00a37,250 6s 8d. * \"Little Mothers And Their Children\" * \"Our School Day Hours\" * \"Creatures Tame\" * \"Our Pretty Pets\""}, {"text": "Clifford L. Muse, Jr. (born April 27, 1944, in Highstown, New Jersey) is an African American historian and archivist. He is currently Howard University's archivist and associate director at the Moorland\u2013Spingarn Research Center. He is most well known for his involvement in the diversity issues of the archive profession as well as his research and writings on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Frederick Douglass. Career. Dr. Muse was born in Highstown, New Jersey, where he also attended high school. He graduated from Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, and Howard University. He worked as an archivist in the Office of the Presidential Libraries in the National Archives and Records Service (NARS) and was the senior archivist on the Richard Nixon Presidential Materials Project. In 1981, Muse began working at Howard University. He has remained an adjunct faculty member at Howard, as well as The Catholic University of America, for over 30 years. He teaches courses on American history, archives and information management. He specializes in studying black history around the world and has contributed heavily to Moorland-Spingarn's impressive collection. Affiliations. He is a member of many organizations, including the American Historical Association (AHA), Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC), Association"}, {"text": "of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA), and the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (ASALH). He is also a career-long member of the Society of American Archivists and was influential in creating diversity committees, task forces, and even in the roundtable. Along with 8 other SAA members, Muse helped to form the Archivists and Archives of Color Roundtable in 1987. He has written numerous articles and book reviews in many publications. He is most well known for his articles on Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, Jr. He has also written heavily on the history of Howard University and his articles, \"Howard University and U.S. Foreign Affairs During the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration, 1933-1945\" and \"Howard University and the Federal Government During the Presidential Administrations of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928-1945\" are heavily cited by historians and academics. In 1995, he co-authored \"Howard in Retrospect: Images of the Capstone\", a history of Howard University, with Thomas Battle."}, {"text": "Nina Angelovska (born 13 July 1988 in Skopje) was the Minister of Finance in North Macedonia. She is also an entrepreneur, UNCTAD eTrade for Women Advocate and president of the Macedonian E-commerce Association. She co-founded and led the first deal platform and e-commerce company in Macedonia, Grouper.mk. She made a successful exit when the Polish Group Asseco SEE acquired her company, Grouper.mk. Early life and career. Angelovska was educated in Skopje at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University where she obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in E-business at the Faculty of Economics. Angelovska graduated as student of the year and was awarded Frank Manning for best student in the generation in economic sciences in 2010. Angelovska won a national contest for most innovative business plan and co-founded Grouper.mk in 2011, known as the first Macedonian deal platform and a leading Macedonian e-commerce company. Angelovska obtained her doctorate degree in 2016 in Management at her alma mater. Before joining the Government, Angelovska was heading Grouper.mk as a CEO and was also working as a consultant in digital economy, business development and e-commerce. Grouper employed 20 people and had 200,000 customers in 2018. In 2016 Angelovska was recognized in \"100 Female Founders"}, {"text": "in Europe\", a list composed by the German startup magazine The Hundert. In 2018 she was named Forbes 30 Under 30 in E-commerce and Retail for Europe. In 2019 UNCTAD recognized her as one of the seven global advocates for Women in eTrade. Political career. In August 2019 Angelovska was appointed Minister of Finance in North Macedonia. She was appointed by the Prime Minister Zoran Zaev who had previously surprised critics by undertaking the finance role in addition to that of prime minister. On 24 September 2019 the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development announced seven \"eTrade for Women Advocates\" from the developing world. The others were Nazanin Daneshvar, Clarisse Iribagiza, Xiaofei Yao, Patricia Zoundi Yao, Claudia de Heredia and Helianti Hilman. It was announced on the periphery of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Angelovska interviewed Candace Nkoth Bisseck about \"eTrade for Women Advocates\" for Forbes in 2020. Her 2020 budget for North Macedonia increased spending by 50% investing in human capital (health, education etc.) whilst planning to also cut the national debt in relation to GNP."}, {"text": "The Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program was initiated by the United States Army in 2019 to develop a successor to the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopter as part of the Future Vertical Lift program. The UH-60, developed in the early 1970s, has been in service since June 1979. Like the UH-60, FLRAA variants would also serve United States Special Operations Command and the United States Marine Corps. Under the existing Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR-TD) program, the Army has been gathering data from flying prototype designs that could fill the FLRAA role. The Army posted a request for information (RFI) in April 2019, which was intended to identify interested manufacturers. According to the RFI, the Army plans to bring the FLRAA into service in 2030, in anticipation of retiring the UH-60 after a 50-year life. On December 5, 2022, the Army selected the Bell Textron V-280 Valor powered by Rolls-Royce engines for the FLRAA contract award. The award was protested by the Sikorsky-Boeing team, however the Government Accountability Office denied the protest. Design goals. According to the RFI, the Army has set a per-unit cost goal of $43 million (in 2018 dollars). The Army envisions combat scenarios where"}, {"text": "a future scout helicopter being developed under the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program and unmanned drones would control an area or corridor, which would then allow FLRAA to insert troops. FLRAA is intended to be more agile and faster than the existing UH-60. Competition history. FLRAA is part of the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program; in 2016, Major General William Gayler declared the first FVL aircraft would fill the medium-lift role. The proposed FLRAA program schedule overlaps with the FARA procurement, which is also part of FVL. FARA would provide a light-lift helicopter for the armed reconnaissance/scout role that was previously filled by the Bell OH-58 Kiowa until its retirement in 2014. On April 4, 2019, the Army released a formal request for information and outlined its proposed schedule for FLRAA: The FVL program is headed by Brigadier General Wally Rugen; according to Rugen, based on the data gathered during JMR-TD with the Bell V-280 Valor and the Sikorsky\u2013Boeing SB-1 Defiant, the Army was ready to move on to open competition for the FLRAA contract. In March 2020, the Army awarded competitive demonstration contracts to Bell and Sikorsky/Boeing, who would proceed to complete conceptual designs and explain how the"}, {"text": "FLRAA requirements were met by the Valor and Defiant candidate designs, respectively. On 8 February 2024 the US Army ended development of FARA, while FLRAA development is continuing. FLRAA passed Milestone B in the acquisition process in August 2024."}, {"text": "The 2002 San Jose mayoral election was held on March 5, 2002, to elect the mayor of San Jose, California. It saw the reelection of Ron Gonzales. Because Gonzales won an outright majority in the initial round of the election, no runoff election needed to be held."}, {"text": "Sir Walter Sandys (\u20131435) was an English politician, MP for Hampshire. Sandys was the eldest son of Sir John Sandys . He married firstly Agnes, daughter of Thomas Warrener; and secondly Margaret, daughter of John Erleigh, widow of John Seymour. He served as High Sheriff of Hampshire 1410\u201311 and 1423\u201324, MP for Hampshire in the Parliament of April 1414, and JP for Hampshire 1416\u201324 and 1431 until death."}, {"text": "The 2001\u201302 NCAA Division III men's ice hockey season began on October 19, 2001 and concluded on March 16, 2002. This was the 29th season of Division III college ice hockey. The NCAA expanded the tournament to nine teams. They did this to allow both the east and the west to each receive one at-large bid. The new tournament alignment had all three western teams playing in one quarterfinal (with a First Round game between the 2nd- and 3rd-ranked teams) while the six eastern teams were arranged over the other three quarterfinal series. 2002 NCAA Tournament. <br>"}, {"text": "The ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Czech Republic is the official representative of the president and the government of the Russian Federation to the president and the government of the Czech Republic. The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Prague. There are consulates general in Brno and Karlovy Vary, and an honorary consul based in Ostrava. The post of Russian ambassador to the Czech Republic is currently held by , incumbent since 19 February 2016. History of diplomatic relations. Diplomatic exchanges between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia began with the formal establishment of relations on 5 June 1922. Relations were maintained throughout the twentieth century, with a brief break after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, until the reestablishment of relations in 1941. With the repudiation of communism, the country officially became the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic in 1990. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, a new ambassador, , was appointed as representative of the Russian Federation. He continued as ambassador until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia and its separation into the states of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Lebedev continued as representative to"}, {"text": "the Czech Republic until 1996, while a new ambassador, Sergey Yastrzhembsky, was appointed Russian ambassador to Slovakia in June 1993."}, {"text": "Colin Beck may refer to:"}, {"text": "Rick Olson may refer to:"}, {"text": "Criminals are people who commit crime. Criminals or The Criminals may also refer to:"}, {"text": "94th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, was a Scottish air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) formed around Edinburgh during the period of international tension leading up to the outbreak of World War II. It defended Eastern Scotland during the early part of the war and then served in the North African Campaign. The regiment continued in the postwar TA until amalgamated in 1955 Origin. The Territorial Army was rapidly expanded following the Munich Crisis, particularly the Anti-Aircraft (AA) branch of the Royal Artillery (RA). 94th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA was among the new units raised in the spring of 1939. It was based on an existing battery (228 (Edinburgh) AA Bty) commanded by Major Sir Eric Hutchison, 2nd Baronet of Hardiston, drawn from 71st (Forth) AA Regiment in Dunfermline. The new Regimental Headquarters (RHQ) was formed at Turnhouse, and two additional batteries were raised: 291 AA Bty at Turnhouse and 292 AA Bty at Musselburgh. It was mainly recruited from men working in banks, insurance, law and other professions in the city of Edinburgh. The new regiment formed part of 36 (Scottish) AA Brigade in AA Command's 3rd AA Division, defending Eastern Scotland. World War II. Mobilisation and Phoney"}, {"text": "War. In June 1939, as the international situation worsened, a partial mobilisation of AA Command's TA units was begun in a process known as 'couverture', whereby each unit did a month's tour of duty in rotation to man selected AA gun and searchlight positions. On 24 August, ahead of the declaration of war, AA Command was fully mobilised at its war stations. 94th AA Regiment and its three batteries accordingly mobilised at Edinburgh under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchison. There was little action for AA Command during the period of the Phoney War, which allowed it to continue building up its strength and equipment, for which 3rd AA Division was given a high priority. 228 AA Battery of 94th AA Rgt was one of the few units to see any action. The battery was deployed to defend Aberdeen, and at 13.50 on 7 March 1940 a Heinkel He 111 of the \"Luftwaffe\" was spotted by the Royal Air Force (RAF). The gunners calculated the height of the intruder as , climbing to , which was beyond the Fuze range of their guns, but they passed the information to the RAF, which 'scrambled' some Spitfires. The fighters flew out over the"}, {"text": "guns while the gunners continued to track the target, calculating that the gun time-of-flight to the Heinkel was 28 seconds. While the fighters flew out to sea to gain height, the battery fired three salvoes of rounds at fuze settings of 22, 28 and 30 seconds to direct them to the target. Although the Heinkel took avoiding action, the fighters shot it down at a height of . This was a novel application of the use of 'pointer' rounds developed for AA-fighter cooperation during World War I. On 1 June 1940, all RA units equipped with the older 3-inch or newer 3.7-inch and 4.5-inch guns were designated as Heavy AA (HAA) regiments to distinguish them from the new Light AA (LAA) regiments appearing in the order of battle. Although there were some night raids on Scottish cities, the main action in the Battle of Britain and the subsequent Blitz was over Southern England and there were few chances of action for the Scottish AA defences in 1940. Western Desert. In January 1941 the regiment left AA Command and became part of the War Office Reserve to mobilise for overseas service. In March it was joined by its own Signal Section,"}, {"text": "but 228 HAA Bty became independent. In May, 228 HAA Bty embarked for Gibraltar where it joined a newly-formed 13th HAA Rgt. 94th HAA Regiment also sailed in May 1941, arriving in Egypt on 13 June 1941, equipped with 3.7-inch HAA guns. The absent 228 Bty was replaced on 23 July by 261 Bty from 84th (Middlesex, London Transport) HAA Rgt, from Arnos Grove in North London, which had been operating independently. Shortly afterwards the regiment moved up to join 12 AA Brigade with the Western Desert Force (WDF). This brigade was responsible for AA defence of the port of Mersa Matruh and several landing grounds (LGs), and air raids took place almost nightly. In September 1941 the WDF made a small advance to Halfaya Pass and 12 AA Bde moved up to Sidi Barrani to protect nearby LGs. Eighth Army was now formed to take over from the WDF while the Desert Air Force (DAF) took over the air units. In October 12 AA Bde was also given responsibility for protecting the railway that was being extended across the desert. Operation Crusader. Eighth Army's new offensive into Libya (Operation Crusader) began on 18 November and 12 AA Bde advanced"}, {"text": "to the Libyan\u2013Egyptian frontier. General Erwin Rommel's counter-attack caused confusion, with retreating units driving through the LGs and both Eighth Army and 12 AA Bde's HQs. Eighth Army then attacked again, capturing Sidi Rezegh and the LGs around Gambut on 23 November, which 12 AA Bde moved up to defend. Small-scale air raids were opposed by AA guns and fighters in cooperation and damage was negligible. In December the brigade moved forward to Antelat, which suffered a damaging air raid in mid-January, although three of the 10+ attacking fighter-bombers were shot down.. Because of heavy rain, the RAF decided to evacuate Antelat and concentrate at Msus. Brigade HQ was just pulling out when Rommel launched his counter-offensive on 20 January, and the HQ convoy came under shellfire; two troops of 261 (London Transport) HAA Bty on the airfield were unable to move their guns in the mud and were captured. Rommel kept advancing, so the retreat continued. As 12 AA Bde fell back from the advanced LGs in a series of defensive deployments, its guns joined the garrisons of the 'boxes' that formed the British Gazala Line Battle of Gazala. The Battle of Gazala began on 26 May, and Rommel's"}, {"text": "Axis forces quickly broke into the British position, though the boxes held out, with 3.7-inch HAA guns firing in ground support. Eventually, Eighth Army was forced to evacuate the boxes and retreat towards Egypt, slipping away during the night of 17 June. During the long retreat to the El Alamein position, 12 AA Bde under Brigadier Percy Calvert-Jones fell back in a series of rearguard actions at LGs, in the course of which it concentrated a sizeable body of AA units and some motorised infantry. Eighth Army seized upon this collection to act as a blocking force, reinforcing it with additional infantry. 'Calforce' held defensive positions at 10 LGs, providing its own artillery support from AA guns sited for ground tasks. It also developed dummy LGs, complete with fake AA positions. Calforce remained in position during the First Battle of El Alamein and was not withdrawn from the front line until later in September. Alamein to Tunis. After 12 AA Bde was withdrawn from its front line commitments, it reorganised for the planned offensive (the Second Battle of El Alamein). 94th HAA Regiment continued as part of the brigade, comprising RHQ, 291 and 292 Btys with 16 x 3.7-inch guns,"}, {"text": "and the regimental workshop of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME). The reformed 261 (LT) HAA Bty was further back with 69th (Royal Warwickshire Regiment) HAA Rgt in 2 AA Bde. 12 AA Brigade's role once again was to move up behind Eighth Army's advance and defend the DAF's LGs as they came into use, with batteries working under the command of the DAF tactical wing to which they were allocated. The 11-day battle to break through the Axis lines opened on 23 October, and after the break-out the airfields at Gambut and El Adem were quickly secured, 12 AA Bde's units following close behind. The brigade developed an efficient system of providing rolling support for the DAF's tactical wings as they made long shifts forwards to maintain contact with the advancing army. This involved the RAF, Royal Engineers (RE) airfield construction teams, and local ground defence units as well as the AA units; all were represented in the joint reconnaissance parties that followed closely behind the leading battalions. They selected new sites for landing strips or renovated old ones, maintaining radio contact through RAF or RA channels with the main body so that movement orders could be passed"}, {"text": "to the following AA batteries. Movement was usually by 'leap frogging' from previously occupied LGs, though sometimes an AA battery was waiting in a hidden concentration area ready to move forward. RAF transport aircraft flew ground staff, equipment and battery staffs to the new locations. Within a few hours the AA positions were manned and the fighter squadrons would arrive. 12 AA Brigade had 20\u201330 separate convoys moving on any given day, and by November it was providing cover for six RAF wings and one US Army Air Force (USAAF) Group, and also manning dummy airstrips, compete with flare-paths, aircraft, flash simulators and people. As the advance progressed the retreating Germans took greater pains to make abandoned LGs unusable; at one field near 'Marble Arch', 2000 mines had to be lifted by the RA/RE/RAF teams. 12 AA Brigade followed Eighth Army all the way to Tripoli, which fell on 23 January 1943. 2 AA Brigade followed up behind to protect the Lines of Communication, taking over responsibility for 94th HAA Rgt, which was left to defend Tripoli. By now 261 (LT) HAA Bty had rejoined the regiment, bringing it back to a strength of 24 guns. Disbandment. 94th HAA Regiment"}, {"text": "took no part in the Sicilian or Italian campaigns: it remained in North Africa under Middle East Forces protecting the bases. By 1944 the air threat in the Mediterranean had diminished and the AA units' manpower was urgently required for other tasks. The Middle East AA Group began to be run down, and 94th HAA Rgt was placed in suspended animation on 26 July 1944. Postwar. When the TA was reconstituted in 1947 the regiment was reformed at Edinburgh, initially as 494 (Mixed) Heavy AA Regiment (City of Edinburgh). ('Mixed' indicated that members of the Women's Royal Army Corps were integrated into the unit). It formed part of 62 AA Brigade (the former 36 (Scottish) AA Bde). On 1 January 1954 the regiment was amalgamated with 471 (Mixed) HAA Rgt (Forth) \u2013 the former 71 (Forth) HAA Rgt that had supplied the initial battery for its formation in 1939. 494 Regiment provided R (City of Edinburgh) Battery in the combined unit. The following year AA Command was disbanded and there were wholescale reorganisations among AA units of the TA. R (City of Edinburgh) Bty was split from 471 HAA Rgt to join with a number of LAA units in the"}, {"text": "Lothians to form 432 LAA Rgt. A further round of amalgamations in 1961 saw 432 LAA Rgt transferred to the Royal Engineers."}, {"text": "Mozammel Haque () is a Bengali masculine given name of Arabic origin. It may refer to:"}, {"text": "The men's rings competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics was held at Earls Court Exhibition Centre on 12 and 13 August. It was the seventh appearance of the event. There were 121 competitors from 16 nations, with each nation sending a team of up to 8 gymnasts. The event was won by Karl Frei of Switzerland, with his countryman Michael Reusch earning silver; they were the nation's first medals in the event. Zden\u011bk R\u016f\u017ei\u010dka of Czechoslovakia took bronze. Background. This was the seventh appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). Two of the top 10 gymnasts from 1936 returned: sixth-place finisher Michael Reusch of Switzerland and eighth-place finisher (and 1932 competitor) Heikki Savolainen of Finland. No world championship had been held since World War II; Alois Hudec, who did not compete in 1948, was still the reigning world (1938) and Olympic (1936) champion. Reusch had finished second at the 1938 world championship. Argentina, Cuba, Denmark, and Egypt each made their debut in the men's rings. The United States made its sixth appearance, most"}, {"text": "of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games. Competition format. The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of up to eight gymnasts (Cuba and Argentina had only 7; Mexico only 5, with one not starting in the rings; and Austria had one gymnast of its 8 not start in the rings). All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus, with the scores summed to give a final total. The scores in each of the six apparatus competitions were added together to give individual all-around scores; the top six individual scores on each team were summed to give a team all-around score. No separate finals were contested. For each exercise, four judges gave scores from 0 to 10 in one-tenth point increments. The top and bottom scores were discarded and the remaining two scores summed to give the exercise total. If the two scores were sufficiently far apart, the judges would \"confer\" and decide on a score. Thus, exercise scores ranged from 0 to 20, apparatus scores from 0 to 40, individual totals from 0 to 240, and team scores from 0"}, {"text": "to 1,440."}, {"text": "Tanya McDowell is an American woman who served five years in prison after a plea deal related to falsifying her residence to change school districts. McDowell and her six-year-old son were homeless, McDowell didn't have an address to get her son into a good school, so she lied on admission papers to ensure her son could have an education. McDowell has said she was never informed of the zoning rules in place in Norwalk, CT and had no knowledge that this would send her to prison. After the school board found out about the lie, McDowell's son was removed from the school. McDowell was then charged for five years in prison on the accounts or federal larceny as well as other criminal charges. She was also arrested and charged for offering drugs and prostitutes to undercover police officers. McDowell was charged with seven counts in total. McDowell had a previous record of bank robbery and weapons crimes. McDowell has received national media attention from articles and viral social media posts juxtaposing aspects of her case with Felicity Huffman's 14 day sentence for a federal crime as part of the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal. The misleading nature of some media"}, {"text": "attention led to a Snopes fact-checking entry which argued the Huffman and McDowell cases were not directly comparable. Felicity Huffman is an actress best known for her role on ABC's \"Desperate Housewives.\" Huffman was charged with fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud after she paid Rick Singer $15,000 to raise her daughters SAT scores to admit her to a good university. Huffman pleaded guilty to her counts of fraud, but only set 14 days in prison, also paying a $250,000 fine. McDowell and Huffman's cases are often compared because of the differences in the parties involved and how the two women were charged with different sentences for committing similar crimes under very different circumstances. Articles comparing the two cases have determined that the two cases are too different to truly compare. McDowell was facing other charges along with larceny, which gave her a longer sentence than Huffman who was just sentenced under fraud. Prosecutors from the U.S. attorney's office in Boston in Operation Varsity Blues cited McDowell's case as well as five others in their arguments for the length of prison time for convictions in the admissions scandal. Her case has also been cited in discussions of possible barriers"}, {"text": "to legitimate employment, educational zoning, university admission criteria, and increased oversight and scrutiny in public housing."}, {"text": "Kate Himrod Biggers (1849\u20131935) was an American suffragist. She served as president of the Oklahoma Woman's Suffrage Association. Life. Biggers n\u00e9e Himrod was born on July 15, 1849, in Waterford, Pennsylvania. She married Thomas B. Biggers in 1874 and the couple moved west, living in Painterhood, Kansas, then the Chickasha, Indian Territory, finally settling in Marlow, Oklahoma, in 1910. Biggers joined the local suffrage association in Chickasha. In 1904 the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) helped form the \"Woman Suffrage Association of Oklahoma and Indian Territory\". Biggers served as the group's first president from 1904 through 1911. The name was changed to the \"Oklahoma Woman's Suffrage Association\" in 1907 and was part of the NAWSA. In 1910 Biggers ran unsuccessfully for the post of Oklahoma Commissioner of Charities and Corrections against the incumbent, Kate Barnard. In 1916 Biggers helped establish the \"Neighborly Home Demonstration Club of Stephens County\". In 1918 she served as vice president of the \"Marlow Suffrage Club\". After the death of her husband, Biggers returned to Waterford, Pennsylvania where she died on August 27, 1935."}, {"text": "MiMi Aung (, ; born 1968) is a Burmese-American engineer. Currently, she is director of technical program management for Amazon's Project Kuiper, an initiative to increase broadband internet access through an array of satellites in low Earth orbit. Aung was born in the United States, where her parents met, though her family returned to Burma when she was 2 years old. After spending her childhood in Burma and Malaysia, Aung returned to the United States at age 16 and studied engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she received her Bachelor's and master's degrees. In 1990, she joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). She was a lead engineer on the Mars Helicopter \"Ingenuity\", the first extraterrestrial aircraft. On February 18, 2021, Ingenuity arrived on Mars, and on April 19 it took its first 39-second flight. Aung said, it \u201cwas an incredible moment\u201d and \u201cThis morning our dream came true.\u201d The flight was being compared to the first flight in 1903 of the Wright brothers' airplane, a small piece of which was carried by the helicopter to Mars. Early life and family. MiMi Aung's parents met in the United States when they were studying for their doctorates. Her mother,"}, {"text": "Hla Hla Sein, was the first woman from Myanmar to earn a doctoral degree in mathematics. Her father, Thein Aung, received his doctorate in chemistry. Aung was born in Illinois and returned to Myanmar with her parents when she was two and a half years old. When she was 11, the family moved to Malaysia, where she attended St. Christopher's School. At the age of 16, her parents arranged for her to return to the U.S. and stay with some friends in Illinois while she finished her education. Her two younger sisters were not born in the U.S. and so could not emigrate there. Aung is married and has two children. Education. Interested in mathematics at a young age, Aung studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana\u2013Champaign, where she earned her bachelor's degree, followed by a master's degree in 1990 with a focus on communications and signal processing. During her master's program, she was introduced to JPL's work in deep space exploration and its relationship to signal processing after a conversation with one of her professors. Research and career. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). In 1990, Aung joined JPL, where she worked on various projects related to"}, {"text": "spaceflight and the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN). Deep Space Network (DSN). Aung started her career working in the Radio Frequency and Microwave Subsystems Section of the DSN, where she developed and tested algorithms for the Block V Receiver. She deployed the digital receiver at each of the world's three DSN complexes, before working on monopulse radar systems. These systems were used in combination with the 34-meter antennas for the DSN. She worked on the 240-GHz radiometer for the Earth Orbiting System Microwave Limb Sounder. Aung's next project involved the StarLight two-spacecraft interferometer, for which she designed the autonomous formation radio frequency flying sensor. She was selected as the project element manager of the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF)'s formation flying program., but after funding for the TPF was indefinitely delayed in 2006, the project was postponed and was eventually formally canceled in 2011. In 2003, Aung was made technical group supervisor of the Guidance, Navigation, and Control Sensors Group. In this capacity she created sensor technologies for spaceflight missions. She became increasingly interested in autonomous space exploration and was made manager of the section in 2010. She was also a member of the \"Psyche\" spacecraft project team. In 2013 she"}, {"text": "became Deputy Manager of the Autonomous Systems Division. Mars helicopter project. Since 2015, Aung has been the lead for Mars helicopter technology demonstration development and oversees the diverse team that designed, built, tested and flew Ingenuity. Other team members include chief engineer Bob Balaram, originally from India, and chief pilot H\u00e5vard Grip, originally from Norway. The atmosphere on Mars is only 1% of the atmospheric density on Earth, so a key question was how to generate enough lift for flight. The helicopter had to be very light-weight, and its blades had to be able to spin much faster than they would need to do on Earth. In addition, the helicopter could not be controlled by someone on Earth because radio signals take too long to get to Mars. As a result, engineers at JPL equipped Ingenuity with a computerized system that allows it to stabilize itself and navigate on its own. The first flight tests of the Mars Helicopter took place within the JPL space simulator in early 2019. The total cost of the helicopter was around $23 million, with a weight less than 1.8 kg. The helicopter was attached to the belly of the \"Perseverance\" rover and launched from"}, {"text": "Cape Canaveral in Florida on July 30, 2020, as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission. The rover successfully landed in Jezero Crater on Mars on February 18, 2021, and two days later, JPL received its first status report from \"Ingenuity\" via the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The helicopter was successfully deployed on April 3, 2021. Ingenuity Mars flights. On April 19, 2021, Ingenuity made the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another planet. The team at JPL confirmed the flight succeeded after receiving data from the helicopter via the rover at 6:46 a.m. EDT (3:46 a.m. PDT). The helicopter completed its technology demonstration after three successful flights. For the first flight, Ingenuity took off, climbed to about above the ground, hovered in the air briefly, completed a turn, and then landed. After that, the helicopter successfully performed additional experimental flights of incrementally farther distance and greater altitude. \"Ingenuity\" had been operating on Mars for sols ( total days; ) before retirement, when all four of its rotor blades was damaged, causing NASA to retire the craft. Amazon Kuiper Systems. In July 2021, after 30 years at JPL, Aung left for a new role as director of technical program management"}, {"text": "at Amazon's Kuiper Systems. This project is an initiative to improve broadband internet access to communities around the world using a network of satellites in low Earth orbit. Awards and public engagement. For her accomplishments, Aung has been: Aung is an expert for The Planetary Society and has written for \"Spaceflight\". During the development of the helicopter, Aung installed a webcam in the cleanroom at JPL that allowed the public to watch the team's progress. Aung was featured in the 2019 documentary \"Space Queens\", along with several other women who were inspired by Apollo 11. The archival footage mentioned her involvement in the Mars 2020 project and, in particular, her work on the Ingenuity helicopter. On 24 April 2023, Aung spoke at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her lecture \"The Sky\u2019s Not the Limit: My Journey into Space Exploration and STEM,\" described her personal journey as a space engineer."}, {"text": "Sir Walter Sandys ( \u2013 29 August 1609) was an English politician, MP for Stockbridge. Sandys was the younger son of Thomas Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of George Manners, 11th Baron Ros. He was educated at the Inner Temple, entering in 1555. He married Mabel, daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton. They had one son, Sir William Sandys . He served as MP for Stockbridge in the Parliament of 1563\u201367, as a JP in Hampshire, as High Sheriff of Hampshire 1576\u201377 and 1591\u201392, and was knighted in 1591. In the 1590s, Sandys was involved in a long dispute with his nephew William Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys, claiming that Lord Sandys had seized by force his manor in Mottisfont. Dissatisfied with the arbitration of the case, he remonstrated personally with the Lord Chief Justice. Sandys died on 29 August 1609 in Winchester."}, {"text": "Jean Ernest Mercier (17 September 1840 16 May 1907) was a translator, historian and French politician Life. Jean Ernest Mercier was the grandson of a sub-prefect, mayor of the department of Doubs, and the son of a military surgeon who took part in the French conquest of Algeria. On completion of his studies at the college of La Rochelle he followed his father to Algeria. His interest in the national history led him to join the Algerian Historical Society in 1863. He was appointed military-interpreter of the Arabic language, attached to the superior commander of Sebdou (province of Oran), in 1865, then interpreter-judicial near the justice of peace of El Harrouch in 1866 and T\u00e9n\u00e8s in 1869, before becoming sworn in as an interpreter-translator of Constantine in 1871. In 1870 he was elected lieutenant of the 2nd company, then captain commanding Tenes' militia. He became a lieutenant in the 7th Territorial Battalion, commanding the 3rd company in 1876. He became vice-president of the Archaeological Society of Constantine in 1875, as well as a member of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 asiatique de Paris in 1878 and of the eastern section of the school of letters of Algiers in 1881. Elected city councilor of"}, {"text": "Constantine in 1881 and re-elected in 1884, he was unanimously elected mayor in 1883, 1896 and 1900."}, {"text": "The Annunciation is a 1495 oil on panel painting by Cima da Conegliano, now in the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg, Russia."}, {"text": "Jos\u00e9 Mariano Beninc\u00e1 Beltrame (born 13 May 1957) is a Brazilian federal police commissioner and former Secretary of Security of Rio de Janeiro. Biography. Beltrame was born in Santa Maria, in a family of Italian descent. He graduated in Law from the Federal University of Santa Maria as well as Business and Public Administration from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. He specialized in Strategic Intelligence at the Salgado de Oliveira University and the War College. He attended the Intelligence course of the National Secretary of Public Security and Police Intelligence Data Analysis, Guardian System programs. Public life. Beltrame joined the Federal Police in 1981 as an agent, mainly in the area of narcotics repression He served in the intelligence sector, fighting organized crime in several states. He taught classes and lectures at the Postgraduate Course in Intelligence and Public Security at the Federal University of Mato Grosso. In the Rio de Janeiro Federal Police he served as Superintendence and he was the coordinator of Mission Support, head of the Intelligence Service and Interpol. Projects. Beltrame was one of the creators of the Pacifying Police Unit, the UPPs, applied in the state of Rio de Janeiro and with"}, {"text": "possible expansion to the state of Pernambuco and others. In November 2010, he was one of the main articulators of the Vila Cruzeiro favela takeover operation and following the invasion to Complexo do Alem\u00e3o at Rio de Janeiro, in 2007. In this operation, over 42 tonnes of cannabis, 330 kg of cocaine, crack, heavy weaponry, large amounts of ammunition, cars and motorcycles, as well as disruption in drug trafficking with the arrest of several drug trafficking chiefs."}, {"text": "State Route 271 (SR 271), also known as Belfast Farmington Road, is a short long north\u2013south state highway in Marshall County, Tennessee. It serves as a connection between the communities of Belfast and Farmington. Route description. SR 271 begins in Belfast at an intersection with US 431 (SR 50). It winds its way north to cross a bridge over a creek before passing through mix of rural farmland and hilly wooded terrain for several miles. The highway then crosses another creek before entering Farmington and coming to an end at an intersection between US 31A (SR 11) and SR 64. The entire route of SR 271 is a rural two-lane highway."}, {"text": "William Saunders (January 17, 1806 \u2013 June 30, 1851) was a poet and writer in Welsh, whose work won prizes at eisteddfodau in Carmarthen and elsewhere. He was a printer by trade. Birth and education. William Saunders was born on 17 January 1806 at Gwarcwm, Llanllwni, Carmarthenshire, the son of a farmer, Evan Saunders. He went to school in the local village of Castellhywel and then to Carmarthen Grammar School. After completing school, he became apprenticed to a printer in Carmarthen. He later joined the workforce of Samuel Williams, a printer in Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. Poetry and printing. While working in Aberystwyth, Saunders gained prominence for his nature poems and for metrical translations. He won eisteddfod prizes in Carmarthen and other places. His titles included \"Y Gwanwyn\" (Spring), \"Yr Haf\" (Summer), \"Yr Hydref\" (Autumn), \"Y Gaeaf\" (Winter), \"Y Daran\" (Clap) and \"Y M\u00f4r\" (The Sea). In 1830 Saunders moved to the printing and publishing firm of William Rees (1808\u20131873) in the smaller market town of Llandovery, Carmarthenshire. He continued to work there until his death, on 30 June 1851. Namesake. Another poet and author named William Saunders, not known to be related to him, wrote in English in the mid-20th century."}, {"text": "North Cove is an unincorporated community in Pacific County, Washington, United States. North Cove is mostly residential, with some vacation rentals and a general store being the only commercial properties. The community suffers from the extreme coastal erosion of Cape Shoalwater, which has been diminished drastically in size, with the ocean claiming dozens of structures over the last 100 years and remaining a substantial threat. Establishment. The United States established a military reservation on Cape Shoalwater in 1854 after negotiating with Chief Ma-Tote of the Shoalwater Bay Tribe for the land. In 1858, the Willapa Bay Light was built on the site, becoming one of the earliest light houses in the state. Even with the lighthouse in operation, ships continued to have difficulty navigating the waters around Cape Shoalwater, and the government decided to build the Shoalwater Bay Lifesaving Station in 1878. Captain George Johnson was assigned to keep the station, and he left his land claim near current day Raymond, Washington to purchase near Cape Shoalwater. The town of North Cove was platted on this property in February 1884 by his wife, Lucy Johnson. The town was in a beneficial position, as it was a convenient rest stop for"}, {"text": "ships making the voyage between Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. Mrs. Johnson began opening her home to travelers, and soon opened it officially as the Hotel Norwood. At the time, the town also had a general store, a post office, a Knights of the Maccabees events hall, and over a dozen homes. A cannery also opened in 1909, providing employment for many residents. Coastal erosion. By 1920, the Coast Guard decided to begin moving equipment from the military reservation to Tokeland, Washington due to erosion at North Cove (The United States Life-Saving Service merged with the United States Revenue Cutter Service to form the United States Coast Guard in 1915). The Willapa Bay Light was lost to erosion in 1940. By 1950, the entire station was in jeopardy of falling into the ocean, and the facility was relocated to Tokeland, with buildings being salvaged when possible but otherwise left to the ocean. By 2016, 60 residential properties and 537 land parcels totaling over had eroded into the ocean. North Cove has been nicknamed \"Washaway Beach,\" and its loss of over of land per year has led to it being labeled the fastest-eroding shoreline on the West Coast. The nearby communities"}, {"text": "of the Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation and Tokeland have also been affected by the rapid erosion of the north shore of the bay. The community continues struggling to slow the rapid coastal erosion through ongoing efforts to maintain shorelines, including portions of Washington State Route 105. Efforts to stabilize the shoreline using dynamic revetment, which employs natural materials such as driftwood and cobble to dissipate wave energy, are showing promise. In 2016, a life-long resident started dumping basalt cobble which creates a foundation for the driftwood and the dune vegetation. Geography. North Cove lies at the end of Cape Shoalwater, at the mouth of Willapa Bay. It is south of Grayland Beach State Park along State Route 105."}, {"text": "The Archangel Raphael and Tobias with Two Saints is an undated oil painting by Cima da Conegliano, now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. To the left of the composition is Saint James the Great and to the right is Saint Nicholas of Bari. It measures 162 cm (63.7 in) by 178 cm (70 in). The central pair include the fish carried by Tobias, and the dog below, from the narrative subject of Tobias and the Angel, very popular at the time. Documented in the church of Santa Maria della Misericordia in Venice, in the 19th century it passed to the art market, and was transferred from the original wood panel to canvas."}, {"text": "Governor McDonald or MacDonald may refer to:"}, {"text": "Gotthard Jedlicka (6 May 1899 \u2013 9 November 1965) was a Swiss art historian and writer. Biography. Jedlicka was born on 6 May 1899 in Z\u00fcrich. He studied art history in Z\u00fcrich, Grenoble and Paris and became a teacher in a secondary school in Winterthur. He earned a doctorate in 1928 and was promoted to professor in 1934. From 1939 to 1965 he was professor of art history at the University of Zurich. Besides, he was an editor of the magazine \"Galerie und Sammler\" and of the art book series of Scherz-Verlag. He was also an editor of the Swiss monthly magazine \"Werk\". Moreover, he wrote several art books and monographies about artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec, \u00c9douard Manet and Pieter Brueghel the Elder. His work is preserved by the Zentralbibliothek Z\u00fcrich. In 1951, Jedlicka became a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature. He died on 9 November 1965 in Duisburg. He was buried at Enzenb\u00fchl Cemetery."}, {"text": "The 2020 XFL season was the first season in the reboot of the XFL, and the second in the history of the XFL brand created and owned by professional wrestling magnate Vince McMahon, coming 19 years after the 2001 XFL season. The season began on February 8, 2020, with the DC Defenders hosting and defeating the Seattle Dragons. The league planned to have a ten-week regular season through April 12, with division championships April 18 and 19, with the XFL Championship scheduled for April 26 in Houston. In March 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the XFL announced that the league would be canceling the rest of the season, ahead of the league's suspension of operations and bankruptcy filing a month later. Background. In the 2017 ESPN \"30 for 30\" documentary \"This Was the XFL\", McMahon openly mused about reviving the XFL, noting that changes would need to be made compared to 2001 in order to make it viable and relevant in the modern era. McMahon had purchased the trademarks of the defunct United Football League and an alternative brand, \"UrFL\" (Your Football League), in early 2017. The following year, the director of the documentary, Charlie Ebersol"}, {"text": "(son of Dick Ebersol), would go on to help form the Alliance of American Football (AAF) in 2018, hoping to beat the revived XFL in being the first to play (they did by a year). While the league was able to launch in 2019, a year before the XFL's first season, it went bankrupt before its first season finished after it twice lost its major investors. On December 15, 2017, \"Bleacher Report\" columnist Brad Shepard reported that McMahon was seriously considering a revival of the XFL, with an expected announcement on January 25, 2018. In a statement to \"Deadspin\", WWE did not confirm or deny the rumors, but did state that McMahon was establishing a new company known as Alpha Entertainment, which would \"explore investment opportunities across the sports and entertainment landscapes, including professional football.\" On December 21, 2017, WWE issued a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission, stating that McMahon had sold $100 million worth of WWE stock to fund Alpha Entertainment. Alpha Entertainment is headquartered next door to WWE headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. On January 25, 2018, Alpha Entertainment announced a new incarnation of the XFL, which would begin with a 10-week inaugural season beginning in January"}, {"text": "or February 2020. In a press conference, McMahon stated that the new XFL would be dissimilar to its previous incarnation, stating that \"There's only so many things that have 'FL' on the end of them and those are already taken. But we aren't going to have much of what the original XFL had.\" McMahon stated that the league would feature eight teams as a single entity owned by Alpha (the previous XFL was also a single-entity league), which had been revealed in 2019. Alpha Entertainment was established in order to keep the league's management and operations separate from that of WWE. McMahon is prepared to invest as much as $500 million, five times as much as his investment in the 2001 XFL. The XFL's decision to nix cheerleaders is in part due to changing attitudes regarding women's participation in entertaining sports fans. He liquidated an additional $270 million in WWE stock (representing a 4% stake in WWE) in March 2019 to provide additional funding for the league. McMahon stated that he wanted to play in existing NFL markets but did not identify potential cities specifically and did not rule out any specific cities. McMahon also did not rule out playing"}, {"text": "on artificial turf. The original XFL avoided artificial playing surfaces (as most such surfaces then were more carpet-like); however, the technology has advanced considerably since 2001, with modern artificial turfs mimicking real grass more closely. John Shumway from KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh and local media from Orlando and San Diego both inquired about potential teams in their respective cities, but McMahon (while stating that \"I love Pittsburgh\") declined to name any cities for teams. McMahon also stated that teams would have new identities compared to recycling old identities from the old league. The league sent solicitations to thirty metropolitan areas as potential locations for a team. Teams. As with the 2001 XFL, the 2020 XFL operated eight teams, all centrally owned by the league's holding company, Alpha Entertainment LLC, as a single entity. Alpha Entertainment was spun off from WWE to keep the league's finances separate from the publicly traded professional wrestling enterprise, with McMahon the sole proprietor. The emergence of the Alliance of American Football created issues selecting cities to host XFL teams, as many potential candidates became home to AAF teams (notably Orlando, the next largest city without an NFL team and an acceptable stadium. Orlando was also one"}, {"text": "of the original XFL's most successful markets and second in attendance for the 2019 AAF season). Not wanting teams to compete against other spring football teams in the same market, the XFL chose different cities than the AAF. Commissioner Oliver Luck announced the eight host cities and stadiums for the first franchises on December 5, 2018, and also announced the starting date of February 8, 2020, the weekend after Super Bowl LIV, as the league chose to focus on placing teams in large media markets, selecting five of the top seven largest media markets in the U.S.; based on 2017 census bureau estimates, all eight XFL markets have over 2.9 million residents each (the smallest being St. Louis). This was seen as a stark contrast to the other emerging spring football league, the Alliance of American Football, which primarily chose markets without NFL teams, seen as a decision to avoid competing with existing fan bases; three of the AAF's markets (Birmingham, Memphis, and Salt Lake, the first two of which had teams in the first XFL) had populations less than half that of St. Louis's. The only 2020 XFL market which did host an NFL team was St. Louis, which"}, {"text": "in 2015 saw its NFL team (the Rams) return to Los Angeles. Two of the original league's metropolitan areas also received teams in the revival: New York and Los Angeles. All eight teams received new brandings on August 21, 2019: the New York Guardians, DC Defenders, Tampa Bay Vipers, St. Louis BattleHawks, Dallas Renegades, Houston Roughnecks, Seattle Dragons, and Los Angeles Wildcats. Names and logos for the XFL teams were to be revealed in early June but were delayed over two months from that date. The XFL filed trademarks for five potential team names for its Seattle-based franchise in late June, including one for the eventually chosen name Seattle Dragons, but not for any of the other seven teams. The names, logos and colors for all eight teams were revealed on August 21, 2019, in a livestreamed special. The 2020 XFL Draft was held on October 15 and 16, 2019. Training camps began in November. Besides the eight competitive teams, the XFL had operated a centralized practice squad and farm team, which operated as a full team with a coaching staff and a 40-man roster (encompassing offensive and defensive players but no special teams) but did not play any on-the-record"}, {"text": "games against the other eight teams. The team shared practice facilities with the Dallas Renegades and was internally known as \"Team 9\". Team 9 replenished itself after Week 5 when the team's members were assigned to rosters when it expanded to 57 players each; but the season ended abruptly. Full stadium capacity. The large stadiums with multiple decks only open the lower bowl for XFL games, similar to the former AAF games and MLS matches played in large stadiums. The XFL has a target stadium size of 30,000 seats, so that in the event of playoff games, the upper decks can be opened to increase capacity. Team 9. Team 9 was a specialized team that acted as a hybrid farm team and practice squad for the league, and was inspired by a similar scheme employed by NFL Europe. It held a maximum of 40 players at a time and was meant to prepare players for call up to one of the XFL's 8 teams to fill roster vacancies due to injuries of other players or if the teams see a player as a \"hidden gem\". The team shared practice facilities and support staff with the Dallas Renegades but maintained its"}, {"text": "own coaching staff; its head coach was Bart Andrus, who was assisted by Pete Kuharchek (defense) and Peter Vaas (offense). Team 9 did not include the specialist positions of kicker, punter, or long snapper, who were instead reserved in a separate \"player pool.\" During the first two weeks of the season, teams were encouraged to use players from Team 9 to fill roster spots, but were not required to do so, as they may prefer to sign a player unaffiliated with the XFL or re-sign a player who participated in their preseason camps but was cut. After Week 2, exclusively using Team 9 players to fill rosters became a requirement, with Team 9 constantly replenishing itself by adding new players from outside the XFL. On March 10, each team's maximum roster size increased from 52 to 57 players and the majority of Team 9 was dispersed. Team 9 was to reload to approximately 36 players. Players and coaches. Each XFL team had 52 players regular-season roster, far more than the 38 in the original XFL and comparable to the size of the 53-man NFL rosters; 46 of those 52 were active on any given game day. XFL did not have"}, {"text": "the same eligibility requirements for players as the NFL. Currently the NFL requires all players to be at least 3 years removed from high school to be eligible for a team's roster. Almost all prospects then participate in NCAA football for the 3-year waiting period. This eligibility requirement is an agreement between the NCAA and the NFL. The NFL, in exchange for not signing young players who would ordinarily play in the NCAA, is allowed nearly unlimited access to scout and recruit college players. In the league's inaugural season, safety Kenny Robinson, who had run into eligibility issues that led to him being expelled from college, chose to play in the XFL instead of transferring to another college; Robinson was a success in the XFL and was ultimately selected in the 2020 NFL Draft. The first head coach and general manager, Dallas's Bob Stoops, was announced February 7, 2019, with the coaches for Seattle (Jim Zorn), Washington (Pep Hamilton), and Tampa Bay (Marc Trestman) following later in the month. Kevin Gilbride named New York's head coach/general manager on April 16, while Jonathan Hayes was announced as the head coach and general manager of the St. Louis franchise two days later."}, {"text": "Winston Moss was announced as Los Angeles's head coach on May 7. The last of the inaugural head coaches, Houston's June Jones, was hired May 13 and introduced May 20. Draft. The 2020 XFL Draft was held October 15 and 16, 2019, via conference call. Seventy-one players were allocated to each team in separate position drafts: one marquee quarterback allocated by the league to each team, ten skill positions, ten offensive linemen, ten defensive linemen and/or linebackers, ten defensive backs, and thirty players of any position. Due to the structure of the draft, there was no true first overall selection. A supplemental draft was held in late November. Compensation. The XFL used a standard form contract paying $2,725 per week for each player on the active roster, $1,040 of which is guaranteed. A $2,222 victory bonus is paid to the players on each game's winning team; this feature is a carryover from the original XFL. The contracts expire at the end of the season, freeing players to sign with any other league. Players are also paid $1,040 per week during the preseason and through the playoffs if their team does not qualify. Starting quarterbacks make an annual salary of up"}, {"text": "to $495,000, with the average XFL quarterback earning $125,000. In contrast to the original XFL, players' health insurance is covered by the league. Plans were for the league to offer contracts between one and three years in length. Signing for a longer term would make the player eligible for a loyalty bonus above and beyond their tiered salary; in return, the player would not be allowed to play in any other league during the spring, summer, or autumn months, nor is the contract guaranteed. The overall salary cap will be approximately $4,000,000 per team. The XFL chose a more flexible salary structure so as not to overpay for the lower ends of the roster and to be more competitive for better starting quarterbacks. Head coaches were eligible for up to a $500,000 salary, with each team having a football operations staff of 25 people. Player movement. On March 10, each team's maximum roster size increased from 52 to 57 players and the majority of Team 9 was dispersed. Team 9 was to reload to approximately 36 players. Season structure. Preseason. Minicamps were held at each team's discretion in December 2019. The Wildcats hosted their minicamp at the University of Nevada,"}, {"text": "Las Vegas while the Renegades hosted theirs at Arlington High School. The Vipers hosted their minicamp at the renovated Plant City Stadium, which also served as the team's headquarters and practice venue during the season. The XFL held its training camps in Houston, Texas, from January 4\u201322, 2020. Each team trained at a different stadium in the city, with the hometown Houston Roughnecks using their game stadium, TDECU Stadium. The other seven were as follows: The eight teams held informal scrimmages against each other. The league did not initially plan to host exhibition games, but the television networks requested preseason matchups in order to conduct trial runs for their broadcasts. These were held during the day midweek in late January and were closed to the public. Regular season. The league is divided into two divisions, East and West. Each team was given a ten-game schedule with no bye weeks, playing two games against each division rival (one home and one away) and one game against each team in the other division. Cancellation. As the COVID-19 pandemic began to escalate in major American cities, there were concerns in regards to the spread of COVID-19. On March 11, the state of Washington"}, {"text": "imposed social distancing measures prohibiting the gathering of 250 or more persons. The league initially stated that a Seattle Dragons game against Los Angeles would be held behind closed doors as scheduled. McMahon was planning on defying a similar guideline issued by New Jersey and going ahead with a game between the Houston Roughnecks and New York Guardians at MetLife Stadium with a full crowd, as New Jersey governor Phil Murphy had not made those guidelines mandatory at the time and the league was expecting a large attendance. After the National Basketball Association suspended all games after two players tested positive of the virus, further social distancing measures were announced elsewhere and an unnamed Dragons player developed symptoms of the virus (he later tested positive). The next day, the XFL announced it too canceled the remainder of their regular season. Playoffs. The playoffs were to feature four teams, two from each division. In contrast to the 2001 XFL (which used a crossover approach in which teams faced the opposite division), the 2020 XFL would feature two division games, with the top two teams in each division facing off against each other to determine who represents the division in the XFL"}, {"text": "Championship. On February 13, 2020, the XFL formally announced that the name of the game would be the \"XFL Championship\" (reviving the alternate title of the first XFL Championship, which was also known as the Million Dollar Game) and would be held at TDECU Stadium in Houston, Texas. The league initially had hoped that the social distancing measures would expire later in the season to allow the championship to be held. Any hope of resuming the season ended on April 10 with the league terminating almost all of its remaining employees and suspending operations. Season schedule. Playoffs. The playoffs were scheduled to start on April 18 with the East Division semifinal and end with the championship game on April 26. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic however, the XFL couldn\u2019t complete the regular season nor the postseason. Attendance. Announced attendance figures for each home game. In the weekly columns, dashes (\u2014) indicate away games, while bold font indicates the highest attendance for each week. Star of the Week. The Star of the Week is a weekly award given out by the XFL. The XFL selects eight nominees (one from each team) based on who they feel had the best performance, or"}, {"text": "the performance that had the most impact, of that week in XFL play and the public votes on their choice. The two winners from Saturday and Sunday's polls go against each other, and once again the public votes for the winner. Midseason awards. The midseason awards are given out by the XFL at the end of Week 5. These awards are given out first by the league selecting four nominees, and the public votes on who should win. The XFL also selected a mid-season All-XFL Team for the best players at each position. The Houston Roughnecks had the most number of players on the All-XFL midseason team with 6, with the St. Louis BattleHawks and Dallas Renegades tied for second at four players. The Tampa Bay Vipers had three, and the other four teams with two each. League finances. On December 15, 2017, \"Bleacher Report\" columnist Brad Shepard reported that McMahon was seriously considering a revival of the XFL, with an expected announcement on January 25, 2018. In a statement to \"Deadspin\", WWE did not confirm or deny the rumors, but did state that McMahon was establishing a new company known as Alpha Entertainment, which would \"explore investment opportunities across"}, {"text": "the sports and entertainment landscapes, including professional football.\" On December 21, 2017, WWE issued a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission, stating that McMahon had sold $100 million worth of WWE stock to fund Alpha Entertainment. Alpha Entertainment was headquartered next door to WWE headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. On January 25, 2018, Alpha Entertainment announced a new incarnation of the XFL, which would begin with a 10-week inaugural season beginning in January or February 2020. McMahon stated that the league would feature eight teams as a single entity owned by Alpha (the previous XFL was also a single-entity league), which had been revealed in 2019. Alpha Entertainment was established to keep the league's management and operations separate from that of WWE. McMahon is prepared to invest as much as $500 million, five times as much as his investment in the 2001 XFL. He liquidated an additional $270 million in WWE stock (representing a 4% stake in WWE) in March 2019 to provide additional funding for the league. Partnerships. The XFL ran test games with community colleges in Mississippi, Your Call Football (YCF) and The Spring League (TSL) during their spring 2019 seasons, to experiment with rule changes. The XFL"}, {"text": "even had a preliminary discussions with TSL about their league becoming the \"Official 'D-League' of the XFL\". Gambling. In February 2020, the XFL announced that DraftKings would be the official daily fantasy sports provider of the league and an \"authorized gaming operator\". McMahon has a minority investment in the company. Luck stated he anticipated mobile sports betting to be legal in many states by the 2020 launch date, much like it is in New Jersey, and hoped to integrate legal sports betting as part of the XFL. Every state hosting an XFL team, except Florida which has an existing law banning sports betting, has either introduced or passed legislation for the legalization of sports betting. \"California also has a pending voter referendum that could legalize sports betting.\" In December 2019, Luck stated he was cooperating with the Las Vegas sportsbooks in providing official information for betting purposes. The XFL's main broadcast partner has an official partnership with gambling operators, with ESPN partnered with Caesars Entertainment to use its sportsbook information during telecasts (including displaying lines and the over/under directly on the score bug in-game). The league also announced that it is partnering with Genius Sports on an integrity program to"}, {"text": "\"protect the league from illegal activity\". The agreement includes monitoring of all pre-game and live betting markets, including alerts and analysis of odds movements. The XFL also has an in-house gaming app service called \"PlayXFL\" where fans can win cash prizes for correctly predicting the exact score of select XFL games each week. Additionally, fans attending an XFL game can opt-in to play a 4-Question Pick'em contest about the game they are attending for the chance to win prizes, including merchandise and tickets, from the applicable home team. Broadcasting. This was the first year (and the only year of the contract due to no season games in 2021 or 2022) of a three-year agreement with ESPN and Fox Sports to carry all 43 regular season and playoff games. During the regular season, ABC was scheduled to air ten Saturday games, five of them ended up being televised, and three Sunday games, airing only one of the four Sunday games. ESPN was to air six Sunday games, airing only two of them, and ESPN2 was to air two Sunday games, airing only one of the two. Fox was to air seven Saturday games, five of the seven being televised, one Sunday"}, {"text": "game, which was televised, and two Thursday games, neither being played. Fox's main cable sports network, FS1, was to air nine Sunday games, with only four being played, and FS2 was to air one Saturday game, which was not played. ESPN and Fox were both scheduled to air one semifinal each, and ESPN was to air the championship game. All three never made the air. Vegas Stats & Information Network produced supplemental \"BetCasts\" for iHeartRadio for two games each week, which featured commentary from a sports betting perspective. Viewership. \"In millions of viewers\" Signees to other professional leagues. After the XFL season was cut short on March 12, 2020, players were allowed to sign with National Football League (NFL) or Canadian Football League (CFL) teams beginning on March 22. NFL signings. St. Louis BattleHawks safety Kenny Robinson was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the fifth round of the 2020 NFL draft, as the only NFL Draft-eligible player who played in the XFL in 2020. Also, the following players signed with NFL teams: CFL signings. The following players signed with CFL teams:"}, {"text": "A statue of Charles Devens by Olin Levi Warner, sometimes called General Charles Devens, is installed along the Charles River Esplanade, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Description and history. Previously, the bronze sculpture was installed outside the Boston State House, until 1950. It was designed in 1894, cast in 1895, and dedicated in 1986. The statue measures approximately 7 x 3 x 3 ft, and rests on a granite sculpture measuring approximately 7 x 3 x 3 ft. It was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1997."}, {"text": "The 2019 KIOTI TRACTOR Tour Challenge was held from November 5 to 10, at the Pictou County Wellness Centre in Westville Road, Nova Scotia. It was the second Grand Slam event of the 2019\u201320 season. In the men's tier 1 final, Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario defeated Brad Gushue of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador to win his 5th Grand Slam. In the tier 2 final, Korey Dropkin defeated Tanner Horgan to earn a spot at the 2020 Canadian Open in January. In the women's tier 1 final, Anna Hasselborg of Sundbyberg, Sweden defeated Kerri Einarson of Gimli, Manitoba to win her 3rd Grand Slam. In the tier 2 final, Kim Min-ji defeated Jestyn Murphy to earn a spot at the Canadian Open. Qualification. The Tour Challenge consists of two tiers. For the Tier 1, the top 15 teams on the World Curling Tour Order of Merit rankings as of October 1, 2019 are invited. In the event that a team declines their invitation, the next-ranked team on the order of merit is invited until the field is complete. For the Tier 2, 16 teams are invited including the next top ranked OOM teams and regional teams. Men."}, {"text": "Tier 1. Top Order of Merit men's teams as of October 1: Tier 2. Order of Merit teams: Regional teams: Women. Tier 1. Top Order of Merit women's teams as of October 1: Tier 2. Order of Merit teams: Regional teams: Men. Tier 1. Teams. The teams are listed as follows: Round-robin standings. \"Final round-robin standings\" Round-robin results. All draw times are listed in Atlantic Time (). Draw 1. \"Tuesday, November 5, 7:00 pm\" Draw 2. \"Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 am\" Draw 3. \"Wednesday, November 6, 12:00 pm\" Draw 4. \"Wednesday, November 6, 4:00 pm\" Draw 5. \"Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 pm\" Draw 6. \"Thursday, November 7, 8:00 am\" Draw 7. \"Thursday, November 7, 12:00 pm\" Draw 8. \"Thursday, November 7, 4:00 pm\" Draw 9. \"Thursday, November 7, 8:00 pm\" Draw 10. \"Friday, November 8, 8:00 am\" Draw 11. \"Friday, November 8, 12:00 pm\" Draw 12. \"Friday, November 8, 4:00 pm\" Draw 13. \"Friday, November 8, 8:00 pm\" Tiebreakers. \"Saturday, November 9, 8:30 am\" Playoffs. Quarterfinals. \"Saturday, November 9, 4:30 pm\" Semifinals. \"Saturday, November 9, 8:30 pm\" Final. \"Sunday, November 10, 4:30 pm\" Tier 2. Teams. The teams are listed as follows: Round-robin standings. \"Final round-robin standings\" Round-robin results. All"}, {"text": "draw times are listed in Atlantic Time (). Draw 1. \"Tuesday, November 5, 7:00 pm\" Draw 2. \"Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 am\" Draw 3. \"Wednesday, November 6, 12:00 pm\" Draw 4. \"Wednesday, November 6, 4:00 pm\" Draw 5. \"Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 pm\" Draw 6. \"Thursday, November 7, 8:00 am\" Draw 7. \"Thursday, November 7, 12:00 pm\" Draw 8. \"Thursday, November 7, 4:00 pm\" Draw 9. \"Thursday, November 7, 8:00 pm\" Draw 10. \"Friday, November 8, 8:00 am\" Draw 11. \"Friday, November 8, 12:00 pm\" Draw 12. \"Friday, November 8, 4:00 pm\" Draw 13. \"Friday, November 8, 8:00 pm\" Tiebreakers. \"Saturday, November 9, 8:30 am\" \"Saturday, November 9, 12:30 pm\" Playoffs. Quarterfinals. \"Saturday, November 9, 4:30 pm\" Semifinals. \"Saturday, November 9, 8:30 pm\" Final. \"Sunday, November 10, 4:30 pm\" Women. Tier 1. Teams. The teams are listed as follows: Round-robin standings. \"Final round-robin standings\" Round-robin results. All draw times are listed in Atlantic Time (). Draw 1. \"Tuesday, November 5, 7:00 pm\" Draw 2. \"Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 am\" Draw 3. \"Wednesday, November 6, 12:00 pm\" Draw 4. \"Wednesday, November 6, 4:00 pm\" Draw 5. \"Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 pm\" Draw 6. \"Thursday, November 7, 8:00 am\" Draw 7. \"Thursday,"}, {"text": "November 7, 12:00 pm\" Draw 8. \"Thursday, November 7, 4:00 pm\" Draw 9. \"Thursday, November 7, 8:00 pm\" Draw 10. \"Friday, November 8, 8:00 am\" Draw 11. \"Friday, November 8, 12:00 pm\" Draw 12. \"Friday, November 8, 4:00 pm\" Tiebreakers. \"Friday, November 8, 8:00 pm\" Playoffs. Quarterfinals. \"Saturday, November 9, 12:30 pm\" Semifinals. \"Saturday, November 9, 8:30 pm\" Final. \"Sunday, November 10, 12:30 pm\" Tier 2. Teams. The teams are listed as follows: Round-robin standings. \"Final round-robin standings\" Round-robin results. All draw times are listed in Atlantic Time (). Draw 1. \"Tuesday, November 5, 7:00 pm\" Draw 2. \"Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 am\" Draw 3. \"Wednesday, November 6, 12:00 pm\" Draw 4. \"Wednesday, November 6, 4:00 pm\" Draw 5. \"Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 pm\" Draw 6. \"Thursday, November 7, 8:00 am\" Draw 7. \"Thursday, November 7, 12:00 pm\" Draw 8. \"Thursday, November 7, 4:00 pm\" Draw 9. \"Thursday, November 7, 8:00 pm\" Draw 10. \"Friday, November 8, 8:00 am\" Draw 11. \"Friday, November 8, 12:00 pm\" Draw 12. \"Friday, November 8, 4:00 pm\" Draw 13. \"Friday, November 8, 8:00 pm\" Tiebreakers. \"Saturday, November 9, 8:30 am\" Playoffs. Quarterfinals. \"Saturday, November 9, 12:30 pm\" Semifinals. \"Saturday, November 9, 8:30 pm\" Final."}, {"text": "\"Sunday, November 10, 12:30 pm\""}, {"text": "Nicholas K. Blomley (born 1962) is a British-Canadian legal geographer. He is a Professor and former Chair of Geography at Simon Fraser University. Career. In 1989, Blomley joined the faculty of Geography at Simon Fraser University (SFU) as a temporary replacement for a professor. He ended up impressing the department and was hired full-time. In 1994, Blomley published \"\"Law, Space, and the Geographies of Power\" through the Guilford Press. This book examined the geographies of law through critical theory. In 1997, Blomley began to develop a computerized geographical information system with data on Vancouver's downtown eastside land market as a way to combat gentrification. The next year, he petitioned then University president Jack Blaney to review the university's decision regarding support for criminology graduate student Russel Ogden, apologize, and pay him full compensation for his court appearances. In 2001, he co-edited \"The Legal Geographies Reader\" alongside Richard Thompson Ford and David Delaney. The next year he sat on the Graduate Urban Studies Steering Committee, which introduced SFU's inaugural graduate diploma in urban studies. Between May 2003 to May 2007, Blomley helped referee manuscripts for the \"Southeastern Geographer\" journal. In 2004, Blomley published \"Unsettling the City\" through Routledge. The book focused"}, {"text": "on how problems facing gentrification and Indigenous land claims are generated through modern concepts of property and ownership. In 2010, he published \" Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow.\" The book would go on to win the Hart Socio-Legal Studies Association book prize. During the 2011\u201312 academic year, Blomley sat on the Graduate Student Activity Committee of the Law and Society Association. He was also promoted to Chair of the geography department. The next year, Blomley sat on the Editorial Advisory Board for the \"Territory, Politics, Governance\" Journal. In 2017, Blomley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for his research in legal geography. In 2018, Blomley, Natalia Perez, and Andy Yan began a pilot study on evictions in the private rental housing market in Metro Vancouver. The study found that Maple Ridge had the highest number of tenant disputes that more than doubled the Metro average. As well, his paper \" Land use, planning, and the \"difficult character of property\"\" was shortlisted for the AESOP Best Published Paper Award 2018. The next year, he sat on the Graduate Studies Committee and on the Executive Board of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research"}, {"text": "Council funded research project \"Landscapes of Injustice\" He was also selected to sit on the Application and Nomination Review Committee for the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. and awarded a grant for two research projects."}, {"text": "Mari Spirito is an American curator based in Istanbul and New York City. She is the founding director of Protocinema, a non-profit arts organization that presents site-aware exhibitions internationally, including in Istanbul, New York, Tbilisi, Paris, Seoul, New Delhi, Moscow, Basel, and Lima. Career. Spirito received her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Early in her career, she co-founded a gallery in New York and worked at 303 Gallery, where she was a director from 2000 to 2012. In 2011, she established Protocinema, which presents contemporary art in diverse, often unconventional spaces. The organization's exhibitions aim to foster cross-cultural dialogue and contextual sensitivity. The name 'Protocinema' was inspired by a concept from Werner Herzog's documentary \"Cave of Forgotten Dreams\" regarding early human efforts to depict motion through art. According to Spirito, Protocinema engages with questions of representation, communication, and perception. Spirito has curated and advised on various international art programs. In 2012, she was an advisor to the second Mardin Biennial in Turkey. In 2014, she guest-curated for Artspace Sydney, focusing on contemporary Turkish art. From 2014 to 2018, Spirito programmed Art Basel's 'Conversations' in Basel and Miami Beach, a series of panel discussions featuring artists, curators,"}, {"text": "and cultural figures. She served as director of Alt Art Space in Istanbul from 2015 to 2017, curating exhibitions and public programs including the Turkish premiere of Rodney Graham and a group exhibition featuring Aykan Safo\u011flu, Hasan \u00d6zg\u00fcr Top, and Hera B\u00fcy\u00fckta\u015f\u00e7\u0131yan. Spirito launched Protocinema\u2019s Emerging Curator Series in 2015, hosting year-long exhibitions and mentorship programs at 5533 in Istanbul. She was part of the International Advisory Committee for the inaugural High Line Plinth Commissions in New York in 2017. Spirito has served as an associate curator for the Onassis Cultural Center, where she curated \"Nature of Justice\" (2018), a visual arts response to Aristophanes\u2019 play \"The Birds\", co-produced with St. Ann's Warehouse. She has participated in curatorial training and research programs, including ICI\u2019s Curatorial Intensive in Bangkok and was awarded the 2012 SAHA Research Award for the project \"Ancient Works / Asar-\u0131 Atika\". Spirito served as a jury member for the 2018 Beirut Art Residency and curated \"Under\" (2018), a public commission by Hale Tenger launched during Dubai Art Week. She is Vice President of the Board at Participant Gallery in New York, serves on the advisory board of Collectorspace in Istanbul, and was a former board member of"}, {"text": "the New Art Dealers Alliance."}, {"text": "Jay Won (born March 18, 2000), professionally known as Sinatraa, is an American esports player and content creator. Won began his career as a player in the game \"Overwatch\". He initially competed for Selfless Gaming and later joined the San Francisco Shock team prior to the Overwatch League inaugural season in 2018. In the 2019 season, Won's performances led to him being awarded the Most Valuable Player and won the 2019 Overwatch League Grand Finals. Won also represented Team USA in the Overwatch World Cup from 2017 to 2019. In the 2019 Overwatch World Cup, Won helped the team to claim the championship title. Due to his performance throughout the tournament, Won received the Most Valuable Player award. In April 2020, Won made a transition to the emerging competitive scene of \"Valorant\", signing with the Sentinels. However, he faced suspension in March 2021 following allegations of sexual abuse. Following, Won continued to stay involved in the gaming industry as a content creator. \"Overwatch\" career. Professional career. After achieving rankings of second in North America and fifth in the world on \"Overwatch\" competitive mode, Won received an opportunity to try out for Selfless Gaming, an esports team based in Georgia, United"}, {"text": "States. Although he initially did not secure a spot on the team, he was given another chance a few weeks later. Following a review of his performance by head coach and co-owner Brad Rajani, he was ultimately signed to the team. However, Selfless Gaming disbanded on July 7, 2017, leading to the conclusion of Won's association with the team. With the inception of the Overwatch League approaching in 2018, scouts from the twelve franchises sought to sign players to complete their teams. Won attracted significant attention and sparked a bidding war between NRG Esports and Cloud9. Initially inclined to join the London Spitfire, Cloud9's Overwatch team, Won eventually reconsidered his decision after further discussions with NRG and his parents. He opted to sign a contract worth per year with NRG's San Francisco Shock, three times the league's minimum salary, forging a reunion with head coach Rajani, who became the head coach of the Shock. Due to being 17 years old at the time, Won was ineligible to participate in league matches until he reached the age of 18. He made his Overwatch League debut on March 21, 2018, against the Florida Mayhem. Despite a loss in that match with a"}, {"text": "score of 2\u20133, Won quickly demonstrated his skills and solidified his status as one of the league's premier damage players. As he and his teammate Matthew \"super\" DeLisi became eligible to compete around the same time, the team achieved an 11\u20139 record in the latter half of the season 3. In the 2019 season of the Overwatch League, teams primarily utilized compositions consisting of three tanks and three supports during the first three quarters of the season. During this time, Won, who typically played as the damage hero Tracer, made a transition to playing as the tank hero Zarya. The San Francisco Shock, with Won's contributions, achieved impressive results, posting a perfect +28 map differential in Stage 2, reaching all three stage finals, and securing one stage title. In July 2019, just before the final stage of the season, the league introduced a role lock system, requiring teams to adhere to a composition of two tanks, two supports, and two damage players. Following this change, Won primarily played as the damage hero Doomfist. He concluded the season as the leader in hero damage dealt per 10 minutes and played a crucial role in helping the team achieve a regular season"}, {"text": "record of 23\u20135. Won received recognition as a Role Star for DPS and received the Overwatch League Most Valuable Player award. After a loss to the Atlanta Reign in the first round of the 2019 season playoffs, the San Francisco Shock made their way through the lower bracket to secure a spot in the 2019 Grand Finals. In the Grand Finals against the Vancouver Titans on September 29, 2019, Won played in two out of the four maps as the Shock clinched a 4\u20130 victory and emerged as the champions. Following this Grand Finals win, Won and his San Francisco Shock teammate, Matthew \"super\" Delisi, appeared on \"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\" on October 7, 2019 to talk about their victory. Won announced his retirement from professional Overwatch on April 28, 2020, citing a \"lost passion for the game\". In recognition of his MVP award, the Overwatch League released a commemorative in-game skin for the hero Zarya on June 16, 2020. However, in March 2021, following sexual assault allegations that emerged, the Overwatch League offered refunds for the skin and removed the OWL Championship and MVP badges from the skin. National team career. Won was selected as a member"}, {"text": "of Team USA in the 2017 Overwatch World Cup (OWWC). Although the team faced defeat against Team South Korea in the quarterfinals, Won's performance throughout the World Cup caught the attention of NRG Esports CEO Andy Miller, ultimately leading to his signing there. Won was once again selected to represent Team USA in the 2018 Overwatch World Cup. Despite securing the top seed after the group stage, the team experienced a loss in the quarterfinals against Team United Kingdom. In the 2019 Overwatch World Cup, Won once again selected to represent Team USA, marking his third consecutive year participating in the tournament. Joining forces with his San Francisco Shock teammates Matthew \"super\" Delisi and Grant \"moth\" Espe, Team USA showcased their prowess as they navigated through the competition, emerging victorious in every match they played. The team's performance culminated in a sweeping victory against Team China in the OWWC finals on November 2, 2019, securing USA's first OWWC title. Won's contributions earned him the title of OWWC Most Valuable Player. Alongside super and moth, he became one of the four few individuals to have won both Overwatch League and Overwatch World Cup titles. \"Valorant\" career. In April 2020, Won joined"}, {"text": "the Sentinels \"Valorant\" team, marking his transition into the game after retiring from professional \"Overwatch\". Within a few months, he established himself as one of the top players in the Valorant scene. In the PAX Arena Invitational finals, a North American tournament, Won led all players in assists at 122 and ranked fourth in kills-per-round at 0.90. Sentinels emerged victorious in the final of the tournament on July 26, 2020, defeating Cloud9. Won continued his winning streak by securing another tournament victory on August 2, as Sentinels triumphed over Team SoloMid at the 30Bomb Summer Cup final. During the Pop Flash tournament, the fourth and final North American Ignition Series event, Won delivered an outstanding performance in the group stage against Immortals, earning 402 Average Combat Score, 32 kills, and 11 first bloods. Sentinels secured the tournament title by defeating Team Envy 3\u20130 in the grand final on August 30. At this point in his career, Won had recorded over 700 assists in professional play, making him the only player worldwide to surpass the 600-assist mark. Won went on to achieve two more tournament victories with Sentinels, winning the JBL Quantum Cup in December 2020 and the Valorant Champions Tour"}, {"text": "North America Challengers One in February 2021. Following sexual assault allegations against Won in March 2021, he was suspended by Riot Games while they conducted their investigation into the matter. The Sentinels organization also suspended Won until their internal investigation was completed. On May 17, 2021, Riot Games announced a competitive ruling stating that Won would remain suspended for a total of six months, with the suspension period ending on September 10, due to his alleged failure to fully cooperate with the investigation. As a result of the suspension, Sentinels acquired Tyson \"TenZ\" Ngo to replace Won in the starting roster. In April 2022, Won announced his intention to return to the \"Valorant\" competitive scene. However, he did not secure a team signing after the announcement and continued his work as a content creator. In January 2023, Won joined the free agent team Untamable Beasts, which participated in the Valorant Challengers North America open qualifier, ultimately failing to qualify. Personal life. Won was born on March 18, 2000, in Shoreline, Washington. He developed a love for video games from a young age, particularly first-person shooters like \"Halo 3\", \"Call of Duty\" and \"Counter-Strike\". In 2014, he won his first cash"}, {"text": "prize in esports, earning $200 in a \"Counter-Strike\" tournament. In high school, he was set to play varsity as the starting second baseman for their baseball team, but he dropped out of traditional high school to pursue a career in esports. As an online name, Won chose \"Sinatraa\", which was inspired by Logic mixtape \"\", with an added \"a\" since \"Sinatra\" was already taken. In August 2018, he threw the first pitch at an Oakland A's game. In March 2021, Won's ex-girlfriend accused him of sexual assault, which he denied. On April 12, 2022, \"Dot Esports\" reported that a police investigation followed, but no advancement was made in the investigation. Further reading."}, {"text": "The Bacchic Cassone was a 1505\u20131510 panel painting by Cima da Conegliano, produced as the front panel of a decorated cassone. It is now split into four portions, one in a private collection, two in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (\"Bacchant\" and \"Drunken Silenus\") and one in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan (\"Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne\")."}, {"text": "Gustavo Su\u00e1rez Pertierra (born 1949) is a Spanish jurist and politician. He served as Minister of Education and as Minister of Defence during the governments of Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez. Biography. Born on 27 February 1949 in Cudillero. He earned a PhD in Law at the University of Valladolid. He lectured in canon law at the University of Oviedo and the University of Valladolid, later holding the Chair of Canon Law at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He briefly served as President of the University Socialist Grouping (ASU) in the 1980s. He served as Undersecretary of Defence from 1984 to 1990 and as Secretary of State of Military Administration from 1990 to 1993. He was appointed Minister of Education and Science in 1993. In 1995, after a cabinet reshuffle, he changed portfolio and assumed the post of Minister of Defence on 3 July, in replacement of Juli\u00e1n Garc\u00eda Vargas. He ran as candidate to deputy 2nd in the PSOE list in Asturias for the 1996 general election and became a member of the 6th term of the Congress of Deputies (1996\u20132000). He presided over the Elcano Royal Institute from 2005 to 2012. In 2018, Su\u00e1rez Pertierra was appointed President of the"}, {"text": "UNICEF's Spanish committee in replacement of ."}, {"text": "The Oregon Ducks men's ice hockey is a college ice hockey program that represents the University of Oregon. The Ducks play off campus at 2,700-seat The Rink Exchange. They are a member of the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) at the ACHA Division I level. The team is independent within the ACHA. The University does not currently have an NCAA varsity team, and thus the club team is the highest level of hockey offered by the University. History. The Ducks have been playing since 1989 and are a student-run, student-focused organization supported primarily by member dues as well as donations. Since the club's start, the team has won six PAC-8 Championships at the Division II level in ten appearances. In the spring of 2022, it was announced that the Ducks will be moving up to the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division I. In their first season at the Division I level, they finished with 9 wins and 18 losses."}, {"text": "Governor Lincoln may refer to:"}, {"text": "Statler Fountain is a 1930 fountain designed by Ulysses Anthony Ricci, installed in Boston's Statler Park, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The Art Deco fountain features a bronze statue of a woman. It was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1993."}, {"text": "Dave Sampson (born March 8, 1989) Is a Canadian singer-songwriter and recording artist from Sydney, Nova Scotia, and based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Early life and education. Sampson was born and grew up in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He attended St. Francis Xavier University. Career. For ten summers, beginning in 2010, Sampson attended Gordie Sampson's four-day Songcamp in Ingonish, Cape Breton. He moved to Halifax in 2011 and began playing in local clubs and bars while attending university. In 2014 he independently released his debut album \"No Pressure No Diamonds\", which was co-produced by Gordie Sampson, Dylan Guthro and Carleton Stone. Sampson contributed to Classified's 2016 single \"No Pressure\", featuring Snoop Dogg; this song was awarded Song of the Year at the 2017 East Coast Music Awards. Also in 2017 a music video which he co-created with the band Port Cities was nominated for a Music Nova Scotia Award. Nova Scotia-based Sonic Publishing offered Sampson a publishing administration deal in 2019; he was the first addition to their newly created publishing division, Sonic Entertainment Group. Sonic Publishing also administers works by Adam Baldwin, Alan Doyle, Dave Sampson, Matt Andersen, and Matt Mays. On October 4, 2019, Sampson released his new record"}, {"text": "\"All Types of Ways\", recorded in Nashville with fellow Cape Breton native, Gordie Sampson. In October that year he was awarded his first gold record for his work Classified's \"No Pressure\", and also was one of five prize-winning finalists in the RBC Emerging Musician Program. Sampson has also co-written with Gordie Sampson, Donovan Woods, Alan Doyle, Matt Andersen, Neon Dreams, and Caitlyn Smith. On April 16, 2022, Dave Sampson played live in the town of Sydney, Nova Scotia."}, {"text": "The Knight in Black is an oil on canvas portrait painting of an unknown male subject by Giovanni Battista Moroni, from \"c.\" 1567. It is held in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, in Milan. History. The first written reference to the work shows it was probably in Secco Suardo's collection with other portraits produced for his family by the same artist. At the end of the 18th century, it was still in the family, namely with Caterina Terzi Secco Suardo in Bergamo, shortly before passing to Barbara Secco Suardo Mosconi of the same city and then to the latter's husband Giovanni Mosconi. In 1845 it was left to the Moroni counts in Bergamo, before being acquired by Luciano Scotti, son of Giulia Casanova and Annibale Scotti. In 1952 it was moved to Milan, where it remained for ten years before being donated to its present owner. Description and analysis. As in many other portraits by Moroni of the same time, the subject of the painting is anonymous. He seems to be from the nobility, because of his fine clothing, has a beard and is portrayed standing, life-sized, dressed in black according to the fashion of the time, refined even more by"}, {"text": "a curled white collar. He has one hand holding the hilt of the sword tied at his waist, while the other hand is on his chest. The clothing has an extraordinary drapery, specially adequated for the composition which is based on a single colour. He wears a black hat on his head, decorated with an elegant and light black feather that stands out diaphanously in the background. The man is portrayed while looking straight at the viewer, with a confident attitude. He is probably inserted in the context of a house, with the presence of a gray background with pilasters, on which his shadow is also hinted."}, {"text": "Jason Watson (born May 2000) is a Group 1-winning British jockey who was Champion Apprentice in 2018. Watson was born in Brighton, to a postman father. He started riding at a riding school in Lewes at age 6, under the tutelage of ex-jump jockey Ray Goldstein. He left school at 13 to be home-schooled. His first ride was on Breakheart, trained by Gary Moore, at Kempton in February 2017. He came second. His first win came on Many Dreams, again for Moore, at Salisbury in May, his fourth ride. In total in 2017 he rode two winners from 41 rides. In August 2018, he won his first major race, the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood on the Hugo Palmer trained Gifted Master, and began to be noticed for the number of competitive handicaps he was winning at major courses. His main source of winners was Andrew Balding, but he rode for at least 55 different yards. He was coached by former Derby winning jockey John Reid. He recorded 77 wins between 5 May and 20 October, which placed him tenth in the overall jockey rankings, and won him the Champion Apprentice title. His total was higher than the previous three champions"}, {"text": "under the newer, shorter jockeys' championship season and the highest since Paul Hanagan who rode 81 in 2002. He went on to register 111 wins for the calendar year, riding out his claim by early October, and his success led some to suggest he \"could be out of the ordinary\" and led to bookmakers cutting his odds to be the 2019 Champion Jockey outright. On collecting his trophy for Champion Apprentice, he stated that was his ambition. He finished the season with a win in his first group race - the Premio Lydia Tesio on God Given for Luca Cumani. Watson rode as first jockey for trainer Roger Charlton from the start of 2019 until July 2021. The partnership did not begin well as he was thrown from his horse in a race at Kempton Park in January 2019. He fractured four vertebrae, three in his neck and one in his spine. Recovery took three months and a five-day a week rehabilitation programme. After recovery, he won two Group 2 races in France over the summer and a second Group 1 in the Preis von Europa on Aspetar. In consecutive days in October 2019, he won his first British Group"}, {"text": "1 - the Fillies' Mile on Quadrilateral - and the Cesarewitch Handicap on Stratum. Major wins. Great Britain Germany Italy Great Britain"}, {"text": "James Learmonth, Lord Balcomie (1600\u20131657) was a 17th-century Scottish judge and Senator of the College of Justice. Life. He was born at Balcomie Castle near Crail, the eldest son of Sir John Learmonth (1567-1625) of Balcomie and Birkhill and his wife, Elizabeth Myreton of Randerston. He was descended from James Learmonth (1504-1547) Provost of St Andrews and Master of the Household to King James V. His grandfather Sir James Learmonth was killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547. His father's main claim to fame was as one of the twelve Gentleman Adventurers of Fife, whose plan to usurp the Clan Macleod from the Isle of Lewis seriously backfired and apart from the loss of at least 80 lives, resulted in the imprisonment of John Learmonth for six months. His second claim to fame was as a co-signatory to the Union of crowns in 1606. James inherited Balcomie Castle, a small Scottish tower house on the death of his father. James was trained as a lawyer and admitted to the Scottish bench as an advocate. In 1627 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice in place of Archibald Acheson, Lord Glencairnie. He died in unusual circumstances,"}, {"text": "dying unexpectedly at 9am on 26 June 1657 whilst sitting on a bench in Parliament Hall next to St Giles Cathedral, much to the grief of those around him. He was buried with much pomp at Greyfriars Kirkyard with over 500 mourners in his funeral procession. Lord Balcomie's distinctive 17th century monument has been reinscribed to Lord Balcomie's descendant John Learmonth, Lord Provost of Edinburgh in the 1830s. It lies in the inaccessible sealed section to the south known as the \"Covenanters Prison\". Family. He married Margaret Sandilands daughter of Sir William Sandilands of St Monans. Their children included John Learmonth, Lord Balcomie, Regent of St Andrews University. He died young and the estate then passed to the eldest daughter who married Sir William Gordon of Lismore thereafter known as William Gordon of Balcomie. Trivia. His family home, the Balcomie estate is now a golf course and is home to the Crail Golfing Society."}, {"text": "Jason Watson may refer to:"}, {"text": "Armaan Zorace is a Hollywood film director, producer and screenwriter. Career. Inspired by the works of Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg, Zorace made his debut in 2011 with the short film \"God Is Dead\", which was nominated for an award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. In 2019 he began directing the horror film \"Wraith\". The film is set to feature a live Islamic exorcism according to horror website \"Bloody Disgusting\". As of 2019, he is also working on a superhero movie \"Gamma Man\" . He is currently producing a film with Matt Reeves titled \"Switchboard\"."}, {"text": "The 2019 Yongchuan International Tournament () was the 5th edition of the Yongchuan International Tournament, an invitational women's football tournament held in Yongchuan District, Chongqing, China. Unlike the previous editions of the tournament where each team played all the other teams, 2019 tournament was played in bracket format where the winners of the first round played each other and the losers of the first round played each other to determine the standings. Participants. In September 2019, the participants were announced. Match results. All times are local, CST ()."}, {"text": "The Rona Cup is an annual ice hockey tournament held in Tren\u010d\u00edn, Slovakia. The first installment of the Rona Cup was in 1994. <br>"}, {"text": "Air Board may refer to:"}, {"text": "Saint Francis with the Blood of Christ is a c. 1490-1495 tempera and gold on panel painting by Carlo Crivelli, signed at bottom right \". On the reverse is a heraldic emblem. It is now in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan. Description. It shows Francis of Assisi (with his stigmata visible) collecting blood pouring from the side of Christ in a cup, with the column, the ropes and the stick with the vinegar-soaked sponge from the Flagellation and Passion of Christ. Christ himself holds a cross, from which hang other Instruments of the Passion (crown of thorns, whip, nails). The subject is a rare one in painting, mainly appearing in works from the Veneto such as Giovanni Bellini's \"The Blood of the Redeemer\" (National Gallery, London) and Carpaccio's \"Christ between Four Angels\" (Udine). With St Francis as an active character, Crivelli's treatment of the theme differs from the ideas of Giacomo della Marca and thus represents a highly rare and personal idea provided by an unknown commissioner. Probably for private devotion by a Franciscan friar and only 20 cm by 16.3 cm in size, the painting's commissioner is unknown. Traces of a hinge on the canvas support suggest it"}, {"text": "once had a lid, whilst a recent restoration has revealed the artist's signature from beneath later overpainting - its use of the title \"MILES\" means it post-dates 1490, when the artist was granted that title by Ferdinand of Aragon."}, {"text": "The Walnut Street Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Waterloo, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2019. At the time of its nomination the district consisted of 111 resources, including 91 contributing buildings and 20 non-contributing buildings. The district is largely a residential area located between the central business district and the former location of the Illinois Central Railroad round house and shops. The neighborhood was originally platted as the Railroad Addition in 1860 and as the Cooley Addition in 1865. Buildings date from c. 1880 to 1981. Single-family houses are largely wood-frame construction with a few brick. Architectural styles include Queen Anne, Italianate, Shingle, Bungalow, variations on the American Foursquare, and those in a vernacular mode. Multi-family dwellings include double houses, identical houses, and apartment buildings. There are also a few commercial buildings on East Fourth Street and two churches. Walnut Street Baptist Church (1908) is individually listed on the NRHP. Two local architects, Mortimer Cleveland and Clinton Shockley have buildings in the district. The district is significant as an early residential neighborhood outside of the original riverfront town. It was initially a middle to upper-middle-class"}, {"text": "single-family residential neighborhood. During a period of rapid growth and industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with an influx of immigrants that required low-cost housing close to factories and streetcar routes, the neighborhood's fortunes changed. The multi-family dwellings and the commercial buildings were constructed from this time and into the mid-20th century. Urban Renewal projects in the 1960s sought to revitalize the area by widening U.S. Route 63 and removing dilapidated houses. As a result, there are several vacant lots."}, {"text": "Leif Eriksson is an outdoor statue by Anne Whitney at the west end of the Commonwealth Avenue Mall in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Installed in 1887, it was the first public sculpture to honor the Norse explorer in the New World. Description. The bronze is tall and stands on a red sandstone pedestal high, with a small stonework boat at the base. The granite around the sculpture originally served as a fountain, but has since been converted to a flower bed. The work contains runes as well as the English inscription \"Leif the Discoverer, Son of Erik, who sailed from Iceland and landed on this continent, AD 1000.\" It depicts Leif as a young man lifting his left hand in front of his brow. In a letter to the Boston Art Commission, the sculptor described the posture as a \"man of the old world shading his vision against the glare of the new.\" History. The memorial was commissioned by the baking powder magnate Eben Norton Horsford, prompted by conversations with Ole Bull and others, to promote the idea of Norse exploration of North America. Its dedication on October 29, 1887 included a big parade through Boston Common to Faneuil Hall,"}, {"text": "where Governor Oliver Ames and other dignitaries spoke. Whitney corresponded with Frederick Law Olmsted about the placement of the monument and its landscaping. The monument was moved, soon after November 1917, to allow for the realignment of Commonwealth Avenue. The site was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1993. Corrosion was treated in 2007 and an acrylic protective coating was applied. Copies. Late in 1887, a copy, \"Leif, the Discoverer\" by Anne Whitney, was placed in Juneau Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Bertha Palmer requested the plaster cast of the statue for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. This was bronzed and displayed there, then later at the Smithsonian Institution, until it was placed in storage. Eventually the bronzed plaster was incorporated into the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts."}, {"text": "Landscape with the Temptation of St Anthony is a 1617 oil on panel painting by Flemish artist Roelandt Savery (1576 - 1639). It is in the J. Paul Getty Museum collection in Los Angeles, California, USA. There are multiple other paintings with this title, including"}, {"text": "The ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Slovak Republic is the official representative of the president and the government of the Russian Federation to the president and the government of Slovakia. The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Bratislava. There is also an honorary consul based in Ko\u0161ice. The post of Russian ambassador to Slovakia is currently held by , incumbent since 23 October 2020. History of diplomatic relations. Diplomatic exchanges between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia began with the formal establishment of relations on 5 June 1922. Relations were maintained throughout the twentieth century, with a brief break after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, until the reestablishment of relations in 1941. With the repudiation of communism, the country officially became the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic in 1990. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, a new ambassador, , was appointed as representative of the Russian Federation. He continued as ambassador until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia and its separation into the states of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Lebedev continued to as representative to the Czech Republic until 1996, while a new ambassador, Sergey"}, {"text": "Yastrzhembsky, was appointed Russian ambassador to Slovakia in June 1993."}, {"text": "The women's sprint competition at the 2019 UEC European Track Championships was held on 17 and 18 October 2019. Results. Qualifying. The top 8 riders qualified for the 1/8 finals, 9th to 24th places qualified for the 1/16 finals. 1/16 finals. Heat winners advanced to the 1/8 finals. 1/8 finals. Heat winners advanced to the quarterfinals. Quarterfinals. Matches are extended to a best-of-three format hereon; winners proceed to the semifinals. Semifinals. Winners proceed to the gold medal final; losers proceed to the bronze medal final."}, {"text": "The Saint Augustine Altarpiece was a mixed-technique 1454\u20131469 panel altarpiece by Piero della Francesca, now split up and dispersed. It is thought that it contained thirty panels, of which only eight are known to survive, divided between five museums in four countries. It was commissioned for what was then the church of Sant'Agostino (now renamed) in Piero's home town of Sansepolcro. The altarpiece reused an older Gothic framework, but was adapted so that the picture space of the main tier was continuous. The smaller panels use the older style of gold ground painting. The altarpiece seems to have been broken up by the early 17th century, one panel being recorded in a collection in 1608. In 2024 all the panels known to survive were reunited, for the first time since at least the 19th century, at an exhibition in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan, running until 24 June. This was largely possible because of the closure for renovation of the Frick Collection in New York; this has four of the eight survivals. History. It is the artist's third known major altarpiece, following his \"Polyptych of the Misericordia\" (c. 1444\u20131464) and \"Polyptych of Perugia\" (c. 1460\u20131470). It was intended for"}, {"text": "the church of Sant'Agostino (now rededicated as Santa Chiara) in Sansepolcro. The Augustinians there signed a contract with the artist on 4 October 1454, with Angelo di Giovanni di Simone d'Angelo's signature and that of the artist. He received the last payment on 14 November 1469. The Augustinians probably took the incomplete work with them when they moved out of the church. It was then completed in its new location before being broken into pieces, possibly during the 1550s. Separate panels are recorded in private hands in the early 16th century. In the first half of the 19th century the main panels of the work were in Milan, as shown by wax stamps on their reverses authorising their export from Austrian Lombardy and also the seals of a number of collectors from Milan. Towards the end of the 19th century, several panels appeared as separate lots at an art dealership, leading them to be split between a number of mainly private collections, which later passed to their present public collections or institutions. Main register. The four standing saints flanked a missing central scene, thought to have been a \"Coronation of the Virgin\". To the right of \"Saint Michael\" and to"}, {"text": "the left of \"Saint John\" can be seen traces of the lowest step of the throne from the lost central panel, and on Saint Michael part of the Virgin's shoe. High on the sides of the same panels the tips of angel's wings has been overpainted to match the rest of the background. These make it likely that the central panel showed the Virgin kneeling at the bottom of a stepped throne, to be crowned by God, enthroned at the top. This composition was popular at the time, seen for example in Fra Angelico's \"Coronation of the Virgin\" in the Louvre (1430s). Smaller panels. From the predella, only a \"Crucifixion\" survives, cut down at both sides; the figures at the edges can be seen to be incomplete. The panels were probably as wide as the standing saints above. It is now thought that the three half-length saints were placed vertically within the piers at either side of the framework."}, {"text": "The 5th Battalion, King's Regiment (Liverpool) (5th King's) was a volunteer unit of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) of the British Army. It traced its heritage to the raising in 1859 of a number rifle volunteer corps in Liverpool, which were soon consolidated into the 1st Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC). It was affiliated to the King's Regiment (Liverpool), and became its 1st Volunteer Battalion of the regiment. In 1908 the battalion was transferred to the new Territorial Force as the 5th Battalion, King's Regiment (Liverpool). It saw active service on the Western Front during World War I, as did its second line second-line battalion, and even a garrison battalion. Before World War II it again formed a second line battalion. Both served in home defence, but the 5th King's landed in Normandy on D Day as part of a specialist beach group 1939. When the Territorial Army was reduced in 1967, the 5th King's became a company of the Lancastrian Volunteers. Volunteer Force. The 1st Lancashire RVC of three companies was raised in Liverpool, Lancashire, by Nathaniel Bousfield, one of the originators of the Volunteer movement; his commission as Captain-Commandant dated 11 June 1859 was the first to be issued"}, {"text": "in the new Volunteer Force. A Liverpool cotton broker, he had made several attempts since 1852 to raise a volunteer unit in the city, and in 1855 had founded the Liverpool Drill Club from young men in the cotton trade who drilled twice weekly in his warehouse. Other corps quickly followed and in May 1860 a number of these units in the Liverpool area were grouped together as the 1st Administrative Battalion, Lancashire RVCs: These units (except the 22nd) were consolidated on 27 December 1861 to form the eight-company 1st Lancashire RVC. The 14th (Edge Hill) Lancashire RVC of two companies was formed in the Edge Hill area on 10 November 1859 and known as the 2nd Sub-Division until December. It initially joined the 2nd Admin Battalion, but transferred to the new 1st RVC in December 1861. The 74th (St Anne's) Lancashire RVC formed in the St Anne's area on 2 July 1860 was also absorbed into the 1st Lancashire RVC in 1862. A cadet corps of the RVC was formed in April 1865, but disbanded in 1884. The Rev John Howson was appointed Honorary Chaplain in 1865, but later transferred to the 80th (Liverpool Press Guard) Lancashire RVC. Cardwell"}, {"text": "Reforms. Under the 'Localisation of the Forces' scheme introduced by the Cardwell Reforms of 1872, volunteer battalions were brigaded with their local regular and Militia battalions. Sub-District No 13 (County of Lancashire) was formed in Northern District with headquarters at Liverpool and the following units assigned: The 1st Lancashire RVC became a volunteer battalion of The King's (Liverpool Regiment) under the Childers Reforms on 1 July 1881 with 10 companies, and was redesignated as the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the regiment on 1 March 1888. Two more companies were sanctioned in 1883, followed by a 13th in 1900 when the Volunteers were expanded during the Second Boer War. While the sub-districts were referred to as 'brigades', they were purely administrative organisations and the volunteers were excluded from the 'mobilisation' part of the Cardwell system. The Stanhope Memorandum of December 1888 proposed a more comprehensive Mobilisation Scheme for volunteer units, which would assemble in their own brigades at key points in case of war. In peacetime these brigades provided a structure for collective training. Under this scheme the Volunteer Battalions of the King's (Liverpool Regiment), together with VBs from other regiments based in Lancashire and Cheshire formed a large and unwieldy"}, {"text": "Mersey Brigade. By 1900 the brigade consisted only of the 1st\u20136th and 8th Volunteer Bns King's. Territorial Force. When the Volunteers were subsumed into the new Territorial Force (TF) under the Haldane Reforms of 1908, the battalion became the 5th Battalion, King's Regiment (Liverpool), on 1 April 1908, It remained in the Liverpool Brigade, assigned to the TF's West Lancashire Division. It was headquartered at 65 St Anne Street in Liverpool, which served as the drill hall for the eight-company battalion. World War I. Mobilisation. At the outbreak of World War I the West Lancashire Division had just begun its annual training and when mobilisation was ordered on 4 August 1914 the units were sent back to their drill halls. The 5th King's mobilised at St Anne St under the command of Lieutenant Colonel J. M. McMaster and went to its war station guarding the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, then joined the rest of the Liverpool Brigade at Canterbury in Kent. The TF was intended to be a home defence force for service during wartime and members could not be compelled to serve outside the country. However, on 10 August 1914 TF units were invited to volunteer for"}, {"text": "overseas service and the majority did so. On 15 August, the War Office issued instructions to separate those men who had signed up for Home Service only, and form these into reserve units. On 31 August, the formation of a reserve or 2nd Line unit was authorised for each 1st Line unit where 60 per cent or more of the men had volunteered for Overseas Service. The titles of these 2nd Line units would be the same as the original, but distinguished by a '2/' prefix. In this way duplicate battalions, brigades and divisions were created, mirroring those TF formations being sent overseas. 1/5th King's. In October 1914 the West Lancashire Division concentrated in Kent. However, the division was progressively broken up to reinforce the British Expeditionary Force fighting on the Western Front. The 1/5th King's was one of the units that left, landing at Le Havre on 22 February 1915 and joining 6th Brigade in 2nd Division. It served with 2nd Division in the following actions: On 15 December 1/5th King's transferred to 99th Brigade, still in 2nd Division, but left on 7 January 1916 to rejoin its brigade in the West Lancashire Division, which were being reformed in"}, {"text": "France as 165th (Liverpool) Brigade and 55th (West Lancashire) Division respectively. It remained with this formation until the end of the war, taking part in the following engagements: The battalion was at Ath in Belgium when the Armistice with Germany came into force on 11 November. 1/5th King's was demobilised on 13 June 1919. 2/5th King's. The 2/5th Bn King's was formed at Liverpool in September 1914. In November it was sent to Blackpool, and in February 1915 it went to Canterbury where the 1st and 2nd Line Liverpool Brigades had been temporarily combined under a single commander. The 2nd Line brigade and division were numbered as 171st (2/1st Liverpool) Brigade in 57th (2nd West Lancashire) Division on 1 August 1915. Until November the infantry only had obsolete .256-in Japanese Ariska rifles with which to train; then they were given salvaged Lee\u2013Enfield .303-inch rifles in poor condition. At this time 57th (2nd WL) Division formed part of Second Army of Central Force in Home Forces, but in July 1916 it moved into the Emergency Reserve around Aldershot, with 2/5th King's at Bourley. In September it moved to Woking. In January 1917 57th (2nd WL) Division was released for service with"}, {"text": "the BEF, and the units crossed to France in February, taking their place in the line on 25 February. The division took part in the Second Battle of Passchendaele (26 October\u20137 November) during the Third Ypres Offensive. By early 1918 the BEF was suffering a manpower crisis and 2/5th King's was broken up on 1 February 1918 to reinforce other battalions of the regiment: 2/6th (Rifles), 2/7th, 11th (Service) (Pioneers) and 12th (Service). 3/5th King's. The 3/5th King's was formed at Liverpool in May 1915 and moved to Blackpool in the Autumn. Its role was to train reinforcement drafts for the 1st and 2nd Line battalions. By early 1916 it was at the training camp at Oswestry. It was redesignated 5th (Reserve) Bn, King's, on 8 April 1916, and on 1 September it absorbed 6th (Reserve) (Rifle) Bn. It formed part of the West Lancashire Reserve Brigade at Oswestry for the rest of the war. The battalion was disbanded on 12 June 1919. 25th King's. The remaining Home Service men of the TF were separated when the 3rd Line battalions were raised in May 1915, and were formed into Provisional Battalions for home defence. The men of 5th King's joined"}, {"text": "with those from the 6th (Rifle) Bn to form 43rd Provisional Battalion at Sheringham in Norfolk. It joined 3rd Provisional Brigade in the defences of East Anglia. The Military Service Act 1916 swept away the Home/Foreign service distinction, and all TF soldiers became liable for overseas service, if medically fit. The Provisional Brigades thus became anomalous, and their units became numbered battalions of their parent units. On 1 January 1917 43rd Provisional Battalion became 25th Battalion, King's in 223rd Bde. Part of the role of the former provisional units was physical conditioning to render men fit for drafting overseas, and 25th Kings landed at Calais as a 'Garrison Guard' battalion on 7 May 1918. In France it was attached to 59th (2nd North Midland) Division at Estr\u00e9e-Cauchy, and on 16 June it joined 176th (2/1st Staffordshire) Brigade in that formation. By mid-July the 'Garrison Guard' title had been dropped and it became a fighting battalion, serving with 176th Bde at the Battle of Albert (21\u201323 August) and the final advance in Artois and Flanders. On 21\u201322 October Fifth Army was closing up to the Schelde and 59th (2nd NM) Division tried to establish bridgeheads across the river. A chain stretching"}, {"text": "across the river was found at Esquelmes and a ferry extemporised; 25th King's went across, but the men found themselves waist deep in marshy ground on the far bank. Nevertheless, they made contact as ordered with Second Army at Pecq. By the Armistice the battalion had reached Velaines, north-east of Tournai. 25th King's continued serving after the war, and was finally disbanded in Egypt on 28 March 1920. Interwar. When the TF was reconstituted on 7 February 1920, 5th King's was reformed. It was planned to have been amalgamated with 6th (Rifle) Bn, King's, by 1922, but the order was rescinded. 5th King's did however carry the '(Rifle)' subtitle until 1937. The parent regiment altered its title to King's Regiment (Liverpool) from 1 January 1921, and the TF was reorganised as the Territorial Army (TA) later that year/ The battalion continued in 165th (Liverpool) Infantry Brigade in 55th (West Lancashire Division. After the Munich Crisis of 1938, the TA was doubled in size and most units formed duplicates. The 5th King's was ordered to raise a duplicate battalion on 31 March 1939, and this was formed in May. It was designated 9th Battalion, taking the number of a TF battalion"}, {"text": "that had fought in World War I and had afterwards been converted into the divisional engineers. World War II. 5th King's. The TA was mobilised on 1 September 1939, and war was declared on 3 September. 5th King's remained in 165th (Merseyside) Bde of 55th (WL) Division, which was organised as a motor division. However, it did not go to France with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and remained in the UK. After the BEF was evacuated from Dunkirk, 55th (WL) Division was converted into a conventional infantry division in June 1940, serving in II Corps in East Anglia. It remained in home defence, and in January 1942 it was placed on a lower establishment, indicating that it would not be deployed oversea 5th King's left 55th (WL) Division on 16 April 1943, and on 18 July it joined 163rd Infantry Brigade of the 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division. This division eased to exist on 14 December 1943, when divisional HQ became HQ Lines of Communications for 21st Army Group, and many of it units were assigned roles in the forthcoming Allied invasion of Normandy (Operation Overlord). 5th King's was assigned to No 5 Beach Group as its infantry component,"}, {"text": "and landed with it on Sword Beach on D day (6 June 1944). After the successful completion of the assault landing phase of Overlord, 5th King's continued to serve with 21st Army Group on line of communication duties for the remainder of the . The battalion was placed in suspended animation in 1945. 9th King's. 9th King's mobilised in 164th Brigade of 55th (WL) Division. After the division was reduced to lower establishment, the battalion left on 17 September 1942 to join 206th Independent Infantry Bde. This was initially attached to 46th Division, but that formation was preparing to embark for the Allied invasion of North Africa (Operation Torch), so from 1 December 1942 206th Bde was attached to 43rd (Wessex) Division, which was training for Overlord in Kent. 9th King's returned to 55th (WL) Division on 12 April 1943 joining 165th Bde. The division served in Northern Ireland from 21 December 1943 until July 1944. When it returned to the UK, 9th King's left the division. Most formations in Home Forces were by now committed to supplying reinforcements to the units fighting overseas. 9th King's passed into suspended animation on 21 March 1946. Postwar. When the TA was formally"}, {"text": "reconstituted on 1 January 1947, the 5th and 9th battalions were amalgamated and reformed as 5th King's. Its successor in the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve from 1967 was B (King's) Company, Lancastrian Volunteers. Honorary Colonels. Successive Earls of Derby served as honorary colonel of the battalion during its existence:"}, {"text": "Brian Bartlett (born October 1, 1953) is a Canadian poet, essayist, nature writer, and editor. He has published 15 books or chapbooks of poetry, three prose books of nature writing, and a compilation of prose about poetry. He was born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and lived in Fredericton from 1957 to 1975. While a high-school student and an undergraduate he attended the informal writers workshop the Ice House (a.k.a. McCord Hall or Tuesday Night); there and elsewhere he benefited from the generosity and friendship of writers such as Nancy and William Bauer, Robert Gibbs, Alden Nowlan, A.G. Bailey, Kent Thompson, Fred Cogswell, David Adams Richards, and Michael Pacey. After completing his B.A. at the University of New Brunswick, including an Honours thesis entitled \"Dialogue as Form and Device in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats,\" Bartlett moved to Montreal Quebec, and stayed there for 15 years. He completed an M.A. from Concordia University, with a short-story-collection thesis (advisor: Clark Blaise), and a PhD at Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al (dissertation: \"Speech and Address in the Poetry of A.R. Ammons\"). In 1990 he relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia to teach Creative Writing and English at Saint Mary's University. https://www.writers.ns.ca/members/profile/24< http://www.stu-acpa.com/brian-bartlett.html https://www.writersunion.ca/member/brian-bartlett During his"}, {"text": "final dozen years of teaching, Bartlett edited several other poets' selected works, a compilation of essays on one poet, and \"Collected Poems of Alden Nowlan\". After 28 years leading workshops in several genres (poetry, non-fiction prose, fiction), teaching many fields of literature (including environmental writing) as well as overseeing the Saint Mary's Reading Series, Bartlett retired from teaching in 2018. A long-time dedicated reader of Thoreau, he has given presentations at Thoreau conferences in Concord, Massachusetts; Gothenburg, Sweden; and Reykholt, Iceland. His writing of poetry and prose, and his editing, continue. His wife, Karen Dahl (b. 1963), was a Senior Manager for the Halifax Regional Library system; their children are Josh (b. 1997) and Laura (b. 2000)."}, {"text": "Khaled Abdel Razik (born 1975) is an Egyptian chess player. Career. Razik has represented Egypt at multiple Chess Olympiads, including 2008, 2010 and 2012. He qualified for the Chess World Cup 2009, where he was defeated by Alexander Morozevich in the first round."}, {"text": "Lindsay Bowne is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for Cronulla-Sutherland. Bowne came to Cronulla via Grafton, having been a NSW Country Firsts representative player. Playing as a center and winger, Bowne featured in first-grade at Cronulla for two seasons. He was Cronulla's leading try-scorer in the 1992 NSWRL season, with a total of nine tries. As of 2018 he is the track manager at Tamworth Jockey Club."}, {"text": "H\u00e9ctor Jair Real Cobi\u00e1n (born July 13, 1981) is a Mexican football manager. Between 2014 and 2016 he was the manager of Inter Playa del Carmen. Subsequently, the technician served as head of the C.F. La Piedad and Real Zamora. On April 26, 2019 he was appointed as coach of Alacranes de Durango. H\u00e9ctor Jair Real is nephew of Jos\u00e9 Luis Real, who is another football coach and former player."}, {"text": "Ken Ebb is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for Cronulla-Sutherland. Ebb, an Engadine Dragons junior, played first-grade with Cronulla from 1989 to 1992. In his first two seasons he played off the bench whenever he broke into first-grade, then in 1991 and 1992 he made several appearance as starting lock."}, {"text": "The Arrol Gantry was a large steel structure built by Sir William Arrol & Co. at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland. It was built to act as overhead cranes for the building of the three \"Olympic\"-class liners. Beardmore's gantry at Dalmuir. From 1900 to 1906, Arrol had constructed a shipyard for William Beardmore and Company at Dalmuir on the Clyde. This included a large gantry structure over the building berth. In 1906 it was used for the construction of the pre-dreadnought battleship , then the largest battleship launched on the Clyde. The Beardmore gantry was long, wide and high, spanning a single building berth. The structure was of two long steel truss girders, supported on ten pairs of steel truss towers, braced by cross trusses above. Nine electric cranes were provided, with four jib cranes along each side girder, each having a 5-ton capacity and 30 foot jib. These were travelling cranes and could be moved along the girder, or grouped together to share a heavier lift. They were intended to place the main hull plates into position, with a dedicated gang for each crane, forming the plates and riveting them into place. A central 15 ton"}, {"text": "travelling gantry crane was also provided, for lifting machinery along the centreline of the hull. The Belfast gantry would be very similar to this first gantry, although larger at long and spanning two building berths. The central girder between the berths allowed the addition of a larger cantilever crane. The Beardmore gantry had used tapered towers, with size and strength proportional to the load upon them. The base of each was spread into a triangular arch, giving a more stable base and also allowing a railway line to be laid through the towers, bringing construction materials. For the Belfast gantry, the towers were more parallel, with straight inner faces. This allowed temporary working platforms to be attached and relocated upwards as a hull was constructed, giving an additional working space and easy access to the outside of the hull, even with heavy equipment. The access within the gantry was also improved, with long sloping walkways and electric lifts, rather than the previous slow and hazardous use of ladders. Construction. The Belfast gantry was commissioned by the White Star Line and Harland and Wolff and built by Sir William Arrol & Co. in 1908. It was feet long, feet wide and"}, {"text": "feet high. It was an essential part of the infrastructure needed for the construction of the and and remained in use until it was demolished in the 1960s to create space for storage and car parking. Before the Gantry, the northern end of the Queen's Island shipyard had four building slipways, each with gantry cranes above them. The cranes formed three crosswise gantries over each slip, with jib cranes working from each upright. To make space for the two new slipways, three of the old slipways were given up. No 1 slipway remained and continued in use, with its original gantries, and was used for building liners such as the . The two new slipways were numbered 2 & 3. There were nine slipways at Queen's Island before this, eight afterwards but the other remained numbered as 5...9 and there was no longer a No 4 slipway. The Gantry was built on three rows, apart, of eleven steel truss towers with three large truss girders between them, and lighter crosswise Warren trusses above this. The large girders provided runways for a pair of 10-ton overhead cranes above each way and lighter 5-ton jib cranes from the sides. Along the centre"}, {"text": "line ran a light Titan crane, with a reach of 135 feet and able to carry a 3-ton load at full radius, and 5 tons closer in. The cranes were electrically-powered and built by Stothert & Pitt of Bath. Access to the high girders was provided by three long ramps and also electric lifts for the shipyard workers. As Harland and Wolff were primarily a commercial yard, there was no need for the huge Titan cranes being built at this time for the naval shipyards of the Clyde, where heavy lifts of armour plate, or even entire turrets, were needed. \"Olympic\"-class liners. \"Olympic\" and \"Titanic\" were built together, with \"Olympic\" in the No 2 slipway. \"Olympic\" was launched first, in October 1910, with \"Titanic\" seven months later. To provide better photographs against the steelwork of the gantry, \"Olympic's\" hull was painted white during building, then repainted after launch. \"Titanic\" was painted in White Star's black hull livery from the outset. was then constructed on the \"Olympic\" ways. World War I. At the outbreak of World War I, Harland and Wolff were still engaged in building passenger liners and the Belgian Red Star Line's 27,000 ton was almost completed on the"}, {"text": "adjacent No 1 way. had been launched from the No 2 way in July, a fortnight before the outbreak of war. A further liner, yard number 470, had been laid down there, but work had hardly started. 14 inch monitors. When the Royal Navy wished to build the 14 inch monitors as coastal bombardment ships, these building ways were the most immediately available. The monitors were fairly small, of around 6,000 tons and quite short, but they also had protective anti-torpedo bulges which gave them an extremely broad beam of . This would require equally wide building slips, which the Olympic slips could provide. The monitors were so short that the first two of them, \"Admiral Farragut\" and \"General Grant\", could be built simultaneously on the same slipway. \"Farragut\" was launched on 15 April 1915, with \"Grant\" following on 29 April. The limited lifting capacity of the gantry's cranes required the 4-inch armour plate to be installed in particularly small pieces, compared to in a warship building yard. To install their US-supplied turrets, the hulls were taken to the COW yard on the Clyde. 12 inch monitors. A second group of monitors was also built. These were the 12 inch"}, {"text": "monitors and used guns taken from \"Majestic\"-class pre-dreadnought battleships. Although their 12-inch guns were now quite old, they had been sufficiently advanced over other guns at the time that they were still worth re-using. They had been the first British battleship main guns to use wire-wound construction and also the first to fire cordite propelling charges. As originally mounted, their elevation of 13\u00bd\u00b0 only permitted a range of , which would leave the monitors within range of German coastal defences; with this increased to 30\u00b0, a range of was expected. Eight of these monitors were built, five by Harland and Wolff and four of them on slips 1 and 3 of the Queen's Island yard. Like the 14 inch monitors, these monitors had prominent anti-torpedo bulges to their hulls and required a wide building slip, but were short enough that two could be built simultaneously on the large liner slips. \"Glorious\". was laid down as a 'large, light cruiser' on 1 May 1915 and launched almost a year later on 20 April 1916. A class of small 6 inch gun-armed monitors was also designed, to use the secondary armament removed from the s. As the 14-inch monitors were now almost"}, {"text": "complete, it was hoped to build this whole class of five on a single large slipway. However the number 2 slipway was needed immediately for \"Glorious\". Slipway 5, at the southern end of Queen's Island, was used instead to build three of them, working around the keel of the postponed , and the other two at the across the water. \"Terror\". A second batch of 15 inch-armed monitors were built, with a more developed design than the earlier \"Marshals\". Both were built by Harland and Wolff, at the Govan yard and on the third slip at Queen's Island. The \"Marshal\" monitors had been so unsuccessful, largely owing to their slow speed and their unreliable diesel engines, particularly for , that it was decided to remove their turrets for re-use on the new high-speed monitors. \"Ney's\" turret was removed at Elswick and the mount converted for greater elevation, then shipped to Belfast for installation by Harland and Wolff's floating crane. Both of these monitors had a successful WWI career and served into WWII. Disuse. The Gantry was in use into the 1960s, but the shipyard was then reorganised to provide a larger building space. Work on large ships then took place"}, {"text": "in a large dry dock at the end of the Musgrave channel on the south-eastern side of Queen's Island, served by a pair of Goliath cranes, \"Samson\" and \"Goliath\". A gallery at Titanic Belfast is dominated by a steel scaffold which stands high and alludes to the Arrol Gantry: however, the original gantry was nearly four times the height of the gallery's representation. In popular culture. The Gantry dominated the skyline of Belfast and became an important local landmark, as \"Samson\" and \"Goliath\" would do again fifty years later. The poet Louis MacNeice's autobiographical poem \"Carrickfergus\" describes his birthplace: <poem> \"I was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries To the hooting of lost sirens and the clang of trams:\" </poem> This is somewhat anachronistic, as MacNeice was born just before the construction of the Gantry and his family had moved to nearby Carrickfergus before \"Olympic's\" launch."}, {"text": "Anders S\u00f8rensen (born 20 February 1962) is a Danish professional golfer. Professional career. S\u00f8rensen qualified for the European Tour before the 1988 season. In his first two seasons, he made the cut in slightly more than half the events and recorded two top-10s. In 1990, his third season, would be a marked improvement. He recorded the best result of his career at the first event of the year, the Atlantic Open held in Porto, Portugal. S\u00f8rensen entered the fourth round in second place. With the collapse of overnight leader Ronald Stelten, an American player, S\u00f8rensen took a two shot lead to the 71st hole. He would falter down the stretch, however, and wind up in a six-way playoff. On the first playoff hole, in gale-force winds, he and four other competitors would make bogey or worse; Stephen McAllister's par won the event. Despite the disappointing finish, he would go on to his best year. He would make the cut in 21 of 26 events including that year's Open Championship. He finished a career-best 40th on the Order of Merit. The following three seasons saw S\u00f8rensen play steady but not improve on his 1990 performance. He finished between 74th and 84th"}, {"text": "on the Order of Merit every year. His highlight was a second-place finish at the 1993 Hohe Brucke Austrian Open. Again, this result was resolved in a playoff; he lost to Ronan Rafferty's par on the first hole. His 1995 and 1996 seasons were his last on the European Tour. He missed the cut in the easy majority of events and did not finish in the top 125 of the Order of Merit either season. He would not play full-time on the European Tour after the 1996 season. Professional wins (2). Swedish Golf Tour wins (2). Source: Playoff record. European Tour playoff record (0\u20132) Results in major championships. \"Note: S\u00f8rensen only played in The Open Championship.\" CUT = missed the half-way cut<br> \"T\" indicates a tie for a place Sources: Team appearances. Amateur Professional"}, {"text": "Patiscus is a genus of crickets in the subfamily Euscyrtinae. Species can be found in Asia, with records from India, China, Indo-China, the Philippines and New Guinea. Species. \"Patiscus\" includes the following species:"}, {"text": "Euscyrtodes is a genus of crickets in the subfamily Euscyrtinae. Species can be found in Asia, with records from Taiwan, Vietnam and Java. Species. \"Euscyrtodes\" includes the following species:"}, {"text": "The Union of Mining and Energy (, IGBE) was a trade union in West Germany which existed from 1946 until 1997. History. In the early 20th-century, there were several miners' unions in Germany, the most important being the Union of Miners of Germany. All German unions were forcibly dissolved by the Nazis in 1933. The union was founded in 1946, covering only the British Occupation Zone. From 1948, it began covering the mining industry in the whole of West Germany and adopted the name IG Bergbau. In 1960 the union added \"and energy\" to its name. In 1990, the East German Wismut Industrial Union, representing uranium miners, merged into IGBE. By 1996, the union had 335,317 members, but 49% of these were not active - either retired or unemployed. In 1997, the union merged with the IG Chemie-Papier-Keramik, and Gewerkschaft Leder, to form the IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie. 1946: August Schmidt 1953: Heinrich Imig 1956: Heinrich Gutermuth 1964: Walter Arendt 1969: Adolf Schmidt 1985: Heinz-Werner Meyer 1990: Hans Berger 1946: Willy Agatz 1948: Heinrich Imig 1953: Heinrich Gutermuth 1956: Fritz Dahlmann 1964: Heinz Oskar Vetter 1969: Karl van Bark 1971: Helmut Gelhorn 1978: Hans Alker 1984: Heinz-Werner Meyer 1985: Walter"}, {"text": "Beer 1988: Hans Berger 1990: Klaus S\u00fcdhofer"}, {"text": "Thelma Finlayson (\"n\u00e9e\" Green; June 29, 1914 \u2013 September 15, 2016) was a Canadian entomologist. She was one of the first female scientists to work at a federal government's research branch and was Simon Fraser University's first professor emerita upon her retirement in 1979. Early life and education. Finlayson was born on June 29, 1914. Finlayson earned her Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of Toronto in 1932. She later received a certification in Taxonomy and Biological Control by ARPE in 1971 and an LLD from Simon Fraser University in 1996. Career. After graduating, Finlayson attempted to earn a position at Dominion Parasite Laboratory, which she was refused based on her gender. She eventually changed their minds and became one of the first female scientists to enter the federal research branch. While she was originally an unpaid volunteer, in the end Finlayson earned $50 a month as long as she worked weekends and holidays. However, her position was short-lived as she married fellow entomologist Roy Finlayson and was subsequently requested to leave. This was at the same time that WW2 ended and women were displaced from the workforce. As her husband was chronically ill and unable to work,"}, {"text": "she refused the request and set a human rights precedent for the Federal Civil Service regarding her right to work. She was also subsequently promoted to Research Scientist in 1964. Finlayson stayed with Dominion Parasite Laboratory until 1967 when she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. She became Simon Fraser University's (SFU) first female faculty member in the Department of Biological Sciences. While at SFU, she helped found their Centre for Pest Management, which led to two species of insects being named after her. The insects are an oakworm moth (named \"Anisota finlaysoni\") and a wasp (named \"Mesopolobus finlaysoni\"). Originally an assistant professor and curator of entomology, Finlayson was promoted to full professor in 1976. She was also Director and President of the Entomological Society of BC. Upon her retirement, she became SFU's first Professor Emerita. Despite retiring, Finlayson stayed involved with SFU. In 1983, she was appointed as Special Advisor at the SFU Academic Advice Centre which she held until 2012. She also established the Finlayson Chair in Biological Control. In 2005, Finlayson was the recipient of the Order of Canada. Two years later, she received the 2007 YWCA Women of Distinction. In 2010, she was the recipient of the"}, {"text": "Chancellor's Distinguished Service award. In 2012, SFU honoured Finlayson by naming their new student centre after her. The next year, she was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of Ontario. Finlayson died on September 15, 2016."}, {"text": "Clinicians routinely check the pupils of critically injured and ill patients to monitor neurological status. However, manual pupil measurements (performed using a penlight or ophthalmoscope) have been shown to be subjective, inaccurate, and not repeatable or consistent. Automated assessment of the pupillary light reflex has emerged as an objective means of measuring pupillary reactivity across a range of neurological diseases, including stroke, traumatic brain injury and edema, tumoral herniation syndromes, and sports or war injuries. Automated pupillometers are used to assess an array of objective pupillary variables including size, constriction velocity, latency, and dilation velocity, which are normalized and standardized to compute an indexed score such as the Neurological Pupil index (NPi) or the Quantitative Pupillometry index (QPi). Pupillary evaluation. Pupillary evaluation involves the assessment of two components\u2014pupil size and reactivity to light. Neurological Pupil index (NPi). The Neurological Pupil index, or NPi, is an algorithm developed by NeurOptics, Inc., that removes subjectivity from the pupillary evaluation. A patient's pupil measurement (including variables such as size, latency, constriction velocity, dilation velocity, etc.) is obtained using a pupillometer, and the measurement is compared against a normative model of pupil reaction to light and automatically graded by the NPi on a scale"}, {"text": "of 0 to 4.9. Pupil reactivity is express numerically so that changes in both pupil size and reactivity can be trended over time, just like other vital signs. The numeric scale of the NPi allows for a more rigorous interpretation and classification of the pupil response than subjective assessment. Interpreting the Neurological Pupillary index (NPi). Each NPi measurement taken is rated on a scale ranging from 0 to 4.9. A score equal to or above 3 means that the pupil measurement falls within the boundaries of normal pupil behavior as defined by the NPi. However, a value closer to 4.9 is more normal data than a value closer to 3. An NPi score below 3 means the reflex is abnormal, i.e., weaker than a normal pupil response, and values closer to 0 are more abnormal than values closer to 3. A difference in NPi between Right and Left pupils of greater than or equal to 0.7 may also be considered an abnormal pupil reading. Validity of score indices in pupillometry. More than 100 studies published in peer-reviewed academic journals indicate the effectiveness of automated pupillometry and the NPi scale for use in critical care medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, emergency medicine, and"}, {"text": "applied research settings. Others: Clinical equivalence between NPi and QPi indexes. Several clinical publications have demonstrated the clinical equivalence of the QPi (Quantitative Pupillary Index) and NPi (Neurological Pupillary Index) in critical care settings. These indices have been studied in various contexts, including the assessment of comatose patients following cardiac arrest (CA) and the evaluation of traumatic brain injury (TBI). The first abstract, titled \"Comparison between Neurological Pupil Index and Quantitative Pupillometry Index to prognosticate outcome after cardiac arrest\", by Pasetto et al., investigated the prognostic accuracy of QPi and NPi in predicting unfavorable neurological outcomes after CA. This prospective observational study revealed significant correlations between QPi and NPi values. The study concluded that both indices are interchangeable for assessing neurological outcomes in CA patients, further supporting their reliability in clinical practice. A second abstract, \"Equivalence between Quantitative Pupillary Index (QPi) and Neurological Pupil Index (NPi) in Critical Care Settings\", by Blandino Ortiz et al., also highlighted the equivalence of the two indices across diverse neurocritical applications. This study demonstrated that QPi and NPi provide strongly correlated results when used to monitor pupillary reactivity, reinforcing their role as reliable tools for early decision-making in neurocritical care. A third abstract, \"Quantitative"}, {"text": "Pupillometry Index (QPi) in Comatose Patients After Cardiac Arrest\", by Zorzi et al., expanded on these findings by evaluating the QPi and NPi in a larger cohort of 98 patients across two centers. This study showed strong correlations between the indices over multiple time points (e.g., Ps = 0.70 at 24 hours, Ps = 0.68 at 72 hours, p < 0.001). A QPi \u2264 2 at 72 hours demonstrated a specificity of 100% for predicting UO, further underscoring its prognostic value. The authors concluded that QPi and NPi are strongly correlated and can be interchangeably used for prognosticating neurological outcomes in comatose patients after CA. Together, these studies reinforce the equivalence and utility of QPi and NPi as interchangeable tools in critical care, particularly for monitoring pupillary reactivity and predicting neurological outcomes in patients with acute brain injuries or post-cardiac arrest comas."}, {"text": "Nikolai G. Petrusevich (1838\u20131880) was a Russian general, geologist, geographer, and scientist, notable for being a humanitarian officer in the Russian Army and a geographer of Afghanistan. He is credited with discovering the Sarygamysh Depression in 1876. He died at the siege of Dengil Teppe. Military career. In 1865, as captain, he took up service with the Karachai, where he learned the local language, the local customs, abolished serfdom, organized schools for gifted children, and even helped Muslims make their pilgrimage. In the early 1870s, when he was just a colonel, he was active in Turkey. He called the Ottoman Empire \"rascals and thieves,\" because they had been merely enslaving exploiters of \"Khivans, Bokharans, Persians.\" On the other hand, he also criticized the Russian Army for barbarism and cruelty, writing... Petrusevich also acted in a scientific capacity for the Russian Army, surveying the northern Afghanistan border."}, {"text": "The Castle of the Pico (in Italian Castello dei Pico) is a castle in the city center of Mirandola, in the province of Modena, Italy. Famous in Europe as a legendary impregnable fortress, it belonged to the House of Pico della Mirandola, who ruled over the city for four centuries (1311-1711) and who enriched it in the Renaissance period with important pieces of art. The castle, that dominates the long Costituente square and Circonvallazione boulevard (built in place of the ancient walls, demolished during the 19th century), was restored in 2006 after many years of neglect, but was then severely damaged by the 2012 Northern Italy earthquakes, which made it unusable again. History. Origins. The first evidence of the castle's existence dates back to the year 1102, although probably a primitive settlement was during the Lombards era and around the year 1000. The castle was located in a strategic position along the Imperial Romea route (which connected Germany to Rome), and it was later expanded to form a large quadrilateral surrounded by a moat. Renaissance period. In 1500 Giovanni Francesco II Pico della Mirandola built the massive keep called \"il Torrione\" (the Big Tower), known to be unconquerable; the city"}, {"text": "was under sieges several times, including the most famous, the siege of 1510-1511 winter by Pope Julius II and the siege of 1551 by Pope Julius III. The Pico family obtained the title of dukes in 1617 and enriched their castle, until it became one of the most important and sumptuous palace in the Po Valley: among the most important works of art collected in the wing called \"la Galleria Nuova\" (the New Gallery) there were several paintings by the Venetians Jacopo Palma il Giovane e Sante Peranda. The castle hosted Pope Julius II, Emperor Leopold I, Aldus Manutius, Borso d'Este and Ercole d'Este, Rodolfo Gonzaga, and Emperor Francis I. Decadence. After the House of Este took over in 1711, the city of Mirandola began to decay. A few years later, due to lightning, in 1714 the outbreak of artillery and gunpowder in the keep destroyed much of the castle and seriously damaged all the buildings and churches in the city center. Towards the end of the 18th century, the Dukes of Modena destroyed many other parts of the castle. Modern era. On 24 February 1867 the Italian government established that the urban belt of the city of Mirandola ceased"}, {"text": "to be considered as a fortified work, thus ceasing to be subject to military servitude the land adjacent to the works themselves. At the beginning of the 20th century, around the 1930s, the city council attempted to rebuild the ancient keep of the castle (destroyed by fire in 1714), creating a massive neo-Gothic tower overlooking on the main square. The modern tower is characterized by dovetail merlons, typical of the pro-Imperial faction of the Ghibellines. After the Second World War the castle was inhabited by 52 families (about 200 people), while the lounges were used for parties and carnivals. After years of absolute neglect and degradation, the castle was restored and reopened to the public in 2006, with a new Civic Museum and a cultural center, including an auditorium and other exhibition spaces. 2012 earthquakes. Due to the serious damage suffered after the 2012 Emilia earthquake (estimated at about 10 million euros only for the municipal property, the castle has become unpracticable and closed to tourists, despite the urgent security works. After Minister of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Massimo Bray promised the return of the historical-artistic-cultural heritage of Mirandola, in April 2016 - four years after the earthquake - the"}, {"text": "city council approved a first recovery plan, with an estimated expenditure of about 4 million euros funded by the Emilia-Romagna region. The damage to the twentieth century part amounts to about 600,000 euros, while only the safety had cost 400,000 euros. All the collections of ancient cartographic maps and gold coins were temporarily transferred to the bank vault of the Unicredit in Modena, while all the paintings are temporarily housed in the Ducal Palace of Sassuolo. Description. Ducal Palace of Mirandola. The largest surviving original structure of the castle of the Pico family is made up of the remains of the Duke's Palace, which overlooks the southern side of the castle, in front of the Teatro Nuovo. In the past, in this widening of the Costituente square, was organized the market of the horses. The facade is characterized by a noble portico resting on ten columns of pink marble, made on behalf of Alexander I Pico. From the portico, through an arched door profiled in ashlar, is the entrance to the inner courtyard and the \"Galleria Nuova\". On the western part the building there are the remains of the sixteenth-century \"bastion of the castle\", reinforced in 1576 by Fulvia da"}, {"text": "Correggio and connected to the mighty walls with a starry plan with 8 points that defended the city. On the first floor of the ducal palace, there is the elegant and majestic Carabini Hall, with 17th century decorations, that hosted the Civic Museum. Prisons. From the ground floor, descending a few steps, there are the prisons, made of thick masonry with a barrel vault, on whose thick walls are visible graffiti and drawings made by prisoners. Next to the prisons, another exhibition space was created for temporary exhibitions. Galleria Nuova. The central body of the castle is made up of the magnificent \"Galleria Nuova\" (the New Gallery) whose northern fa\u00e7ade was erected by the duke Alessandro II Pico della Mirandola in 1668. The New Gallery, which dominates from above the Circonvallazione boulevard, consists of an elegant and noble loggia, closed at the sides by two buildings, profiled in ashlar and with large and harmonious serlian windows tripartite. The New Gallery was frescoed by Biagio Falcieri and arranged to house a precious picture gallery composed of over 300 works of art by extraordinary artists such Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Caravaggio, Titian, Paolo Veronese, and many others) purchased in November 1688 by"}, {"text": "duke Alessandro II Pico from the lawyer Giovan Pietro Curtoni of Verona (1600-1656) at the price of 15,000 Venetian ducats. Many of these masterpieces were sold in Bologna by the last duke Francesco Maria II Pico to support himself during his exile, others were lost with the devastating explosion of the keep in 1714, while other works (including many portraits of Pico and the paintings of the cycles \"Age of the World\" and \"History of Psyche\" by Sante Peranda) were taken away in 1716 to the Ducal Palace of Mantua, where are still nowadays. Other pieces of art are at the Estense Gallery in Modena. Keep. The keep, known as the \"Torrione\", was an impressive tower designed by Giovanni Marco Canozi from Lendinara (son of Lorenzo Canozi) and was built in 1499-1500 during Giovanni Francesco II Pico. The tower, which had walls 18 feet thick and was 48 meters high, was considered impregnable because it was completely detached and isolated from the castle: it could only be accessed through a drawbridge located on the third floor. On the night of June 11, 1714, during a thunderstorm that broke out around 1:30, lightning struck the roof of the tower, causing the"}, {"text": "powder magazine in which 270 barrels of gunpowder were kept to deflate. The shock wave caused very serious damage throughout the city and marked the beginning of the decline of Mirandola. The precious state archives of the Duchy of Mirandola were almost lost: a legend says that the inhabitants of Mirandola reused for months the ancient papers of the Pico family to wrap food. In 1783, Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena ordered the further demolition of the Ducal Palace of Mirandola, the lowering of the starry walls of the city and the burying of the moats. Shortly afterwards all the other towers were demolished (except the Clock Tower in the main square) and some fortifications outside the walls. Other demolitions of the city walls took place during the Napoleonic era, while the definitive disappearance of all fortifications (walls and ramparts) dates back to the period from 1876 to 1896 as a decision of the municipal administration to combat unemployment: the land freed, the medieval historical finds found and the resulting material were all sold. Square Tower. The Square Tower (\"Torre di Piazza\"), later called Tower of the Hours (\"Torre delle Ore\") or Clock Tower (\"Torre dell'Orologio\"), was located at"}, {"text": "the extreme north-east point of the castle and directly overlooked today's Costituente Square, next to the Teatro Nuovo at the corner with Giovanni Tabacchi street, i.e. at the exact point where the newspaper kiosk (now converted into an exhibition window) was located. In 1837 the mayor of Mirandola, Count Felice Ceccopieri, had the clock transferred from the tower to the Town hall of Mirandola. The tower, the last remaining survivor of the Mirandola fortress, was unexpectedly demolished in 1888, as it was considered a place of decay. Before the 2012 earthquake, the municipal administration planned to reconstruct \"in a current key\" the historically documented and no longer existing building volume of the tower, which will be a reference for the revival of the historic core of the city and for the \"renewed civic sense of places and details\". Teatro Greco. In 1789 Count Ottavio Greco Corbelli asked and obtained from Duke Ercole III d'Este to set up a modern theatre inside the castle of Mirandola, where the militias of the Duchy of Modena were housed at the time. For this theatre, based on a project by the architect Giuseppe Maria Soli, two halls were adapted, creating a room decorated with"}, {"text": "three tiers of boxes and with horseshoe-shaped cavea. Great scenic apparatus were also prepared, as required by the theatrical tradition of the late eighteenth century. The Greco Corbelli Theatre, officially inaugurated on September 29, 1791, fell into decline in the last two decades of the 19th century until its complete closure in 1894. However, the local chronicles record an extraordinary film projection made on October 31, 1896 (the first in Italy ever, just a year after the first experiments of the Lumiere brothers) by the inventor-photographer from Mirandola Italo Pacchioni (who was born inside the castle in 1872), considered a pioneer of Italian cinema. More recently, inside the former Greco theatre, the Pico Cinema was set up, closed at the end of the 1980s. Exhibitions. Civic museum. In 2006, following the reopening of the Pico castle to the public, the Civic Museum of Mirandola (before housed at the municipal library \"Eugenio Garin\", located first in Giuseppe Garibaldi square and then in the former Jesuit convent in Francesco Montanari street) was rebuilt and divided into 12 rooms, dedicated to archaeological items found in Mirandola, religious commissions, antique furniture and paintings (including a fine \"Madonna and Child\" attributed to Guercino), numismatics (coins"}, {"text": "of the mint of Mirandola and medals of Pisanello and Niccol\u00f2 Fiorentino). Other sections of the museum were dedicated to the Pico family and to the princes of the House of Este, with ancient portraits including a precious portrait of Alfonso IV d'Este by Justus Sustermans and a portrait of Alessandro I Pico by Sante Peranda. A specific room was dedicated to the famous Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, important humanist philosopher from the Rennassance, and to his nephew Giovanni Francesco II Pico, man of letters. In the last part of the museum were exhibited numerous portraits of politicians and writers of the 19th century, as well as a section dedicated to music and the local municipal orchestra. The museum was also enriched by prints from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, various goods from the ancient Mount of Piety of the Franciscan monks and a collection of military relics (weapons, shields and armor of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries). Biomedical museum. Since 2010, the castle permanently hosted the traveling exhibition \"Mobilmed\", which shows the history of the Mirandola Biomedical District, a great source of income in the Mirandola area. However, following the serious damage caused by the earthquake of 2012,"}, {"text": "the exhibition was moved to Odoardo Focherini street. Cassa di risparmio di Mirandola Foundation. On the top floor of the castle was the headquarters of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Mirandola, whose premises housed a rich collection of prints and historical maps of the city of Mirandola (part of the Giulio Cesare Costantini fund) and ancient weapons of the Duchy of Mirandola. Leica Hall. Also on the top floor was the Leica Hall, where the Mirandola Photographic Society set up frequent exhibitions of artistic photographs, taken by professionals and fan of photography and Leica cameras."}, {"text": "John Smith ( \u2013 13 August 1870) was an English banker, vegetarianism activist, writer, and spiritualist. Based in Malton, he managed the York City and County Bank for three decades and was also an agent of the London Assurance Company. Smith was a leading advocate of vegetarianism in 19th-century Britain, serving as president of the Hull Vegetarian Association and promoting dietary reform through public lectures and publications. His influential works include \"Fruits and Farinacea\" (1845) and \"The Principles and Practice of Vegetarian Cookery\" (1860). He was also active in the spiritualist movement and attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1849. Biography. Early life and career. Smith was born in Knaresborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, around 1795. He later settled in Malton, North Riding of Yorkshire. He worked for three decades as manager of the York City and County Bank in Malton. He was also an agent of the London Assurance Company. Vegetarianism. Advocacy. Smith adopted a vegetarian diet around 1835. He was influenced by a paper titled \"Manifestation of Mind\", which emphasised the cognitive and emotional capacities of animals, including their ability to experience pleasure and pain. Smith attended the first annual meeting of the Vegetarian Society in 1848, held"}, {"text": "at Hayward's Hotel in Manchester. That same year, his advocacy helped inspire the formation of a vegetarian association in Malton, with James Simpson serving as its president. In 1855, Smith gave a lecture in York, and the following year became president of the Hull Vegetarian Association. During his tenure, he persuaded the editor of the \"Hull Advertiser\" to adopt a vegetarian diet. At a meeting of the Vegetarian Society in 1850, Smith addressed criticisms of the use of animal products such as milk and eggs. He presented ethical and physiological arguments in favour of vegetarianism while defending the pragmatic inclusion of such products during transitional phases. He advocated a fruit- and grain-based diet as the ideal, while acknowledging the challenges of fully adopting it. Writings. In 1845, Smith published \"Fruits and Farinacea\", a work promoting vegetarianism, which he dedicated to Dr William Lambe, a long-standing advocate of the diet. The book received widespread attention in the contemporary press. A second edition was published in New York in 1854, edited and annotated by American physician Russell Thacher Trall. An abridged edition was published posthumously in 1873, edited by Francis William Newman. In 1860, Smith published a lacto-ovo vegetarian cookbook, \"The Principles"}, {"text": "and Practice of Vegetarian Cookery\", written at the request of James Simpson and dedicated to him. A second edition appeared in 1866 under the title \"Vegetable Cookery\". Other interests. Smith lectured on scientific topics and spiritualism. In 1849, he attended the Paris Peace Conference. Personal life and death. Smith was married to Mary Smith. He died at his home, the Mount in Malton, on 13 August 1870, aged 75. Several local businesses closed on the day of his funeral as a mark of respect. Legacy. \"Fruits and Farinacea\" was among the works that influenced Scottish vegetarian activist John Davie to adopt vegetarianism. In his 1898 work \"Fifty Years of Food Reform\", vegetarian historian Charles W. Forward described \"Fruits and Farinacea\" as \"the most comprehensive and complete work on the subject published in England up to that date\". Historian James Gregory has referred to the book as a \"major text\" for the vegetarian movement."}, {"text": "Markus Jones (born January 10, 1996) is an American football linebacker who is a free agent. He previously played in the NFL for the Green Bay Packers and the Baltimore Ravens. Jones played college football for the Angelo State University Rams. Early life. Jones played football for the Crowley High School Eagles with 90 tackles and 7 sacks during his senior season. He also played basketball and competed in track and field, recording a 6'8\" high jump in 2014. College career. Jones signed with the Division II Lone Star Conference Angelo State Rams of San Angelo, Texas in 2014 as a defensive end, earning numerous accolades over the course of his collegiate career. As a senior, Jones recorded 84 tackles including 36.5 tackles for loss, the highest number recorded across all divisions of NCAA football. Jones also made 17.5 sacks in 2018, breaking the Angelo State sack record with a total of 37 career sacks, in addition to two blocked kicks and four forced fumbles. In January 2019, Jones competed in the annual East-West Shrine Game after being named the 2018 winner of the Gene Upshaw Award as the best offensive or defensive lineman in Division II football. During practices,"}, {"text": "Jones received significant attention after pushing offensive tackle Paul Adams to the ground during one-on-one drills. Professional career. After the 2019 NFL draft, Jones signed with the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent. Following an injury to Ravens quarterback Robert Griffin III, Jones was waived and subsequently claimed off waivers by the Packers. Jones made a strong preseason showing, including two back-to-back turnover plays versus the Kansas City Chiefs. Jones did not make the Packers roster at the end of the preseason. In October 2019, Jones was selected in round 8 of 30 during open portion of the 2020 XFL Draft by the St. Louis BattleHawks. Following the XFL draft, Jones spent a December 2019 mini-camp with the BattleHawks before being traded by St. Louis to the Dallas Renegades at the end of mini-camp. Following the XFL's January 2020 league-wide training camp in Houston, Jones was waived by the Renegades and assigned to the XFL's Team 9 practice squad, also in Dallas, Texas where he trained until the XFL suspended operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. He had his contract terminated when the league suspended operations on April 10, 2020. Jones signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL on"}, {"text": "December 17, 2020. He was released on July 20, 2021. Personal life. Jones graduated from Angelo State University in December 2018 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science and minors in Biology and Psychology. He is married to a fellow Angelo State graduate."}, {"text": "Jesse Hallikas (born April 14, 1997) is a Finnish ice hockey left winger currently playing for Ketter\u00e4 of Mestis. Hallikas previously played nine games for SaiPa of Liiga during the 2016\u201317 season, scoring one goal. He signed for Ketter\u00e4 on April 29, 2019."}, {"text": "This Storm may refer to:"}, {"text": "Hezi Shai (; born 1954) is a former tank commander in the Israeli Defense Forces. During the 1982 Lebanon War, he was one of five Israeli soldiers declared missing in action after their tanks were hit during the Battle of Sultan Yacoub. Shai and his tank crew became separated and he walked into a camp of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine \u2013 General Command, a pro-Syria Palestinian militant organization headed by Ahmed Jibril. He was taken captive and smuggled into Syria. His whereabouts and even the fact that he was alive were unknown to the Israeli defense establishment for the next two and a half years. Later a nephew of Jibril captured by the Israelis hinted to Shai's existence. Following extensive negotiations mediated by Austrian diplomats, Shai and two other captured Israeli soldiers were released in May 1985 in exchange for 1,150 Palestinian and Lebanese security prisoners held by Israel. The Jibril Agreement, involving as it did so many Palestinian prisoners, many of whom were serving life sentences for mass murder, was not popular in Israel, but Defense Minister Yitzchak Rabin convinced the Israeli Cabinet to approve the deal. Biography. Hezi Shai was born in Nes Ziona,"}, {"text": "Israel, to Shlomo and Doris Shai, both immigrants from Baghdad. He has four sisters. He studied at a national-religious school in Pardes Katz. Shai served as a staff sergeant and tank commander during his army service. He led a course for tank commanders. Following his discharge from the army, he began working for Bank Leumi, where he met his wife, Iris. Shai has three children and resides in Holon. His son Omer, born one year after Shai's release, was named in honor of Dr. Herbert Amry, the Austrian diplomat who mediated the release. Battle of Sultan Yacoub and captivity. On 9 June 1982, three days after the 1982 Lebanon War broke out, Shai was called up with other reservists. Shai commanded a tank deployed in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub. The eleven-tank convoy was surrounded by Syrian and Palestinian forces and engaged in heavy fighting throughout the night of 10\u201311 June. When ordered to retreat to Israeli lines, Shai's tank, which was the last in the convoy, was hit by an enemy shell and its turret was entangled in a tree. The crew, consisting of Shai, Zechariah Baumel, Zvi Feldman, and Arye Lieberman, abandoned the tank and hid in an"}, {"text": "orchard. They came under fire again and were separated. Shai wandered into a camp occupied by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine \u2013 General Command (PFLP-GC), a pro-Syria Palestinian militant organization headed by Ahmed Jibril, and was taken prisoner. Shai recounted in an interview: \"On the way down I entered a Jibril camp. Someone approached and asked, 'Who are you?' I replied in Arabic that I was with the Iraqi forces. There were artillery forces below and I said, 'I am with the cannons', I spoke the word 'cannons' in Hebrew with an Arab accent. I simply forgot the Arabic word. The guy told me to go, but someone else heard me and told me to wait. He came out and saw me and said, 'You are an Israeli.' The jig was up\". Shai was questioned by gun-wielding PFLP-GC members, then blindfolded and shoved into the trunk of a car. He was bound hand and foot and the car drove off. After a half-hour drive, Shai was pulled out, and his captors began slapping him. Then they applied red iodine to his face and covered his head and eyes. He later realized that this was a subterfuge used"}, {"text": "to smuggle him into Damascus. \"For the first three months of my captivity I thought I was in Beirut, when I was actually in a residential neighborhood in Damascus\", he said. Shai was held for two years in a dirty bathroom in a Damascus apartment. He wore pajamas and his legs were chained. The bathroom, measuring , contained a toilet, a faucet, and a bed, and was fitted with a heavy iron door. Shai spent hours lying on his back thinking about his wife and family. Sometimes he paced the small area, and he also began cleaning the wall tiles and sealing the cracks with soap to prevent the incursion of roaches. He was able to obtain a Tanakh and also fashioned small houses and cars out of matchsticks to maintain his sanity. Shai was interrogated frequently by his captors and asked to see a Red Cross representative, but his request was denied. At one point he started a hunger strike to force them to bring in the Red Cross, but gave up when he saw it was not working. His captors continually played mind games with him, making him doubt his wife's loyalty. When they told him, eight months"}, {"text": "after his capture, that they had kidnapped two other Israeli soldiers, he contemplated suicide in order to \"screw them\", figuring his captors would demand a high price for his return. Two years into his ordeal, Shai was transferred to a larger cell. He was briefly given over to interrogation by the Syrians, who \"beat him with broomsticks and subjected him to electric shocks\" before returning him to the Jibril group. Prisoner exchange. For the first two and a half years of his captivity, the Israeli defense establishment did not know that Shai was alive and assumed him dead. The only hint that an Israeli soldier was being held prisoner came one month after the Battle of Sultan Yakoub, when a Jibril officer reported to \"Ad-Dustour\", a Lebanese newspaper, that his group was holding a prisoner named \"Tetsi Shai\". This information was not acted upon by the Israeli Intelligence Community. In September 1982, Israel opened negotiations with the PFLP-GC through a foreign mediator for the return of two Israeli soldiers, Yosef Grof and Nissim Salem, who had been captured by the PFLP-GC on the Beirut-Damascus highway. Four other soldiers abducted with Grof and Salem had already been repatriated in an earlier"}, {"text": "prisoner exchange. While Jibril did not mention that his group was holding Shai, Shmuel Tamir, the lead negotiator, began to suspect Shai was alive when Jibril's nephew was apprehended by Israel and hinted to that effect. The Israelis found the \"Ad-Dustour\" report in their intelligence files and began to pressure Syria. The President of Austria appointed Dr. Herbert Amry, Austrian ambassador to Greece, to conduct the lengthy negotiations with the PFLP-GC, and Amry began shuttling between Tel Aviv and Syria. On 5 July 1984, Amry visited Shai, took his picture, and asked him to write a letter to his wife. Amry presented proof of Shai's existence at an Israeli press conference a few days later. The brokered deal, known as the Jibril Agreement, called for PFLP-GC to release the three Israeli soldiers in exchange for 1,150 Palestinian and Lebanese security prisoners being held by Israel. Involving as it did so many Palestinian prisoners, many of whom were serving life sentences for mass murder, the Jibril Agreement was not popular in Israel. Jewish residents of the West Bank were incensed that Palestinians convicted of killing settlers were being set free, and protests were staged. Defense Minister Yitzchak Rabin claimed that an"}, {"text": "Entebbe-style rescue operation had not been possible, so he \"had no choice\" and had negotiated \"the best terms we could\", and convinced the Israeli Cabinet to approve it. Minister without portfolio Moshe Arens supported Rabin in the vote, but later regretted it. Many of the released prisoners went on to participate in the First Intifada and committed further attacks against Israeli civilians. Grof, Salem, and Shai were delivered to Red Cross representatives at the Geneva Airport on 20 May 1985. In the years following his release, Shai suffered from post-traumatic stress, having difficulty concentrating and sleeping, and \"getting angry and upset over every little thing\". His impatience, fear of authority figures, and recurring dreams of being in captivity persisted for many years. Banking and public speaking career. Shai works as a project manager in Bank Leumi's main branch in Tel Aviv. He also speaks before Israeli soldier groups, gives interviews to media on prisoner negotiations, and visits families of captured soldiers to offer encouragement."}, {"text": "The Ontario was a steam driven sidewheeler steamboat, launched in 1817, and the first such craft to see active service on the Great Lakes, at Lake Ontario. \"Ontario\" departed Sackets Harbor, New York on its maiden voyage sometime in April 1817. Financed by the late Robert Fulton's estate, the \"Ontario\" was built with the hopes that it would fare well commercially, and prove efficient on the often windy and turbulent Great Lakes. Her time on the lake delivering people and goods proved a success, and helped to usher in a new era of maritime commerce. Description. The \"Ontario\" was in length, had a beam of , an depth of hold with a capacity of 240 tons. The ship's chief carpenter was Ashel Roberts. The engine for \"Ontario\" was a low pressure 21 horsepower crosshead, built in New York City by the J. P. Allair Works. Her boilers were long and in diameter, with a steam cylinder of in diameter with a stroke. Her paddle wheels had a diameter of . \"Ontario\" was also outfitted with two masts and schooner style sails to assist the engine when the wind was effective enough. Construction. Preliminary to the construction of the \"Ontario\", articles"}, {"text": "of agreement were drawn up in 1815 for Harris Fulton and William Cutting of New York, the executors of the estates of the late Robert Fulton, Robert Livingston, and Charles Smyth, Thomas Duane and David Boyd, who were now the owners of the rights and privileges of steamboat navigation in New York State. The agreement gave Smyth and Joseph C. Yates the sole right for employment of steam navigation on Lake Ontario. The \"Ontario\" was built by Charles Smyth, David Boyd, John DeGraff, Eri Lusher, and Abraham Van Santvoord, who petitioned the New York State Legislature for the rights to incorporate and be the sole steamboat operators on Lake Ontario, which would give them a monopoly on steam navigation. The courts decided against their claims. The \"Ontario\" was the first such steamboat placed on lakewater, subject to high winds and swells, and one of the main reasons for her construction was to \"test the power of steam against wind and wave\". Her construction was financed by a grant from the heirs of Robert Fulton, and marked the beginning of an important era in steamboat navigation. Before \"Ontario\"s appearance on the Great Lakes, steamboat navigation had been confined to rivers. With"}, {"text": "the Fulton rights assigned to them, Smyth and Lusher proceeded, having already invested a substantial amount of capital, and formed a partnership. The articles were finalized on January 16, 1817. When its proceeds exceeded 20 percent, and with the help of the U.S. Navy, the Ontario Steamboat Company was established, which held a $200,000 capital. Subsequently, construction of \"Ontario\" commenced at Sackets Harbor, using a large quantity of surplus lumber and supplies left there after the War of 1812 by, and purchased from, the U.S. Navy. Service history. The date \"Ontario\" was launched is not the same date of her actual maiden voyage across the lake, which occurred shortly thereafter. Dates for the maiden voyage of \"Ontario\" vary and are not absolutely conclusive. According to a letter, dated April 22, 1817, mailed from Sackets Harbor, her maiden voyage occurred on April 16, 1817. Newspaper accounts vary and cover the event in general terms. When the \"Ontario\" was launched, untested in rough waters, it was assumed that the enormous weight of the paddle wheels and shaft were enough to keep the apparatus in place on their bearings. Still, the large and momentous waves lifted and heaved the paddle wheels off from"}, {"text": "their bearings, which tore away the wooden coverings, forcing the captain to turn about and discontinue the voyage. After making the necessary repairs the shaft was securely held on its mounts. The first commander of the \"Ontario\" was Captain Francis Malaby, of the U.S. Navy. \"Ontarios\" first commissions involved trips between Ogdensburg on the Saint Lawrence River, and Lewiston across the lake on the Niagara River, cruising at an average speed of 5 mph. \"Ontario\"s unprecedented journeys were announced by the various local newspapers and she was greeted with cheers and celebration wherever she arrived. The \"Ontario\" remained in operation until 1832, and was dismantled in Oswego, New York, that year."}, {"text": "Pamela \"Pam\" Minick (n\u00e9e Martin; born June 27, 1953) is an American rodeo and western-lifestyle television personality. Life. Pam Minick and her sister were raised on a ranch of five acres of land in Las Vegas, Nevada. The family had no horses at first. When Minick was nine and her sister was seven, they decided they wanted some horses to ride. After their mother acquired two Palomino horses for them, they learned to ride at the local 4-H. Career. Minick was Miss Rodeo America in 1973. She was the Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) World Champion breakaway roper in 1982. She also qualified for the Women's National Finals Rodeo in team roping. Minick still competes in barrel racing and team roping. She qualified for the Women's National Finals Rodeo 11 times. She is a rodeo sports commentator. She has been a commentator or interviewer in over 1,000 shows. These include rodeo, equestrian, and country music shows. In 1992, Minick co-announced for the major rodeo the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, becoming the first women to announce a major professional rodeo. She and her husband Billy are part owners of Billy Bob's Texas, known nationally as the \"World's Largest Honky Tonk\""}, {"text": "and is located in the Fort Worth Stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas. Minick held the position of marketing director for over 25 years; she also acted as the face of the venue. Minick also has a television and film career. She is an actress in both television and movies. She also has served as the president of the WPRA. Minick's popularity in all her roles increased attendance in the sport. Personal. Minick married her husband Billy on May 29, 1983. They live on a ranch in Argyle, Texas. She is the stepmother to Billy's four children from a previous marriage; Cheyenne, Cody (deceased), Brandy and Concho, as well as the step-grandmother to his five grandchildren. Pam's Las Vegas birth announcements always describe her as \"Atomic Blonde\"."}, {"text": "Kena Marcela Romero Soto (born 31 October 1987) is a Colombian footballer who plays as a forward for Millonarios FC.She was a member of the Colombia women's national team. International career. Romero played for Colombia at senior level in the 2011 Pan American Games."}, {"text": "Mahendra Siregar (born 17 October 1962 in Jakarta) is the chief of the Financial Services Authority (OJK) of Indonesia. He previously served as Deputy Foreign Minister and was formerly the Indonesian Ambassador to the United States. On 25 October 2019, he was appointed as the deputy minister of foreign affairs supporting Indonesian foreign minister Retno Marsudi in the second Jokowi cabinet appointed two days earlier on 23 October. Earlier, he had been appointed as Ambassador to the US by President Joko Widodo in 2018. He took up his post in Washington DC in early 2019. Mahendra is a respected economist in Indonesia who has held various senior positions within the Indonesian bureaucracy. Early life. Mahendra Siregar's family background is Sumatran. His parents are from the Angkola group, part of the Batak people from South Tapanuli in North Sumatra, and the Minangkabau group in West Sumatra. He is married to Ita Siregar. Mahendra undertook tertiary education, first, at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta. He later graduated with a Masters in Economics from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, in 1991. Work with government. A summary of Mahendra Siregar's work with the government is as follows: Following Mahendra's appointment as deputy minister"}, {"text": "of foreign affairs in October 2019, it was reported that President Jokowi had indicated that he should take on two main tasks: concluding trade negotiations with the United States on specific matters and taking steps to support the Indonesian palm oil industry. Outlining his duties to the media, Mahendra noted a US review of the Generalized System of Preferences was underway and that Indonesia's involvement would need immediate attention. A successful outcome, he observed, could lead to a doubling of Indonesia's trade with the US within five years. Mahendra said that his second main task would focus on \"neutralizing the EU's unfriendly position\" on the palm oil industry in Indonesia. Earlier in the year, in March, the EU had decided to phase out the use of palm oil by 2030 because of deforestation concerns. Indonesia planned to engage the EU on the policy. A short time later, in early December 2019, Mahendra took steps to voice concern on behalf of Indonesia about the way that the narrative about palm oil issues in Indonesia was presented in the international media. In response to a report aired on international CNN reports entitled \"Borneo is burning: How the world's demand for palm oil"}, {"text": "is driving deforestation in Indonesia\", Mahendra claimed that the report was not constructive and provided a false narrative. He noted that the Indonesian government was taking steps to address the problem and that the Indonesian government's efforts should receive international support. Other positions. Other positions that have been held by Mahendra Siregar include the following:"}, {"text": "JAG is an Australian women's and men's clothing brand sold throughout Australia, including freestanding, concession stores, and online. JAG was founded in 1972 on Chapel Street in Melbourne by Adele Palmer. Expansion. Following the jeans boom of the '70s, JAG was the first Australia Jeans brand to launch in the US market in 1978. JAG developed a star-studded following including Mick Jaggar, Jackie Onassis, Steve McQueen and Frank Sinatra. In 2001 the Colorado Group purchased JAG and relaunched the brand with the Elizabeth Jagger campaign in 2002. In 2013, APG & Co which consists of Sportscraft, SABA and Willow, purchased JAG."}, {"text": "Divine Carcasse (Divine Body) is a 1998 Beninese ethnofiction film directed by the Belgian filmmaker Dominique Loreau. Mixing fiction and ethnography, the film follows a 1955 Peugeot: initially owned by Simon, an expatriate European philosophy lecturer, the car comes to be owned by Joseph, who uses it as a taxi until it is abandoned at a mechanic's workshop. There it is scavenged for parts used by the artist Simonet Biokou to create a sculpture of the ram god Agbo. The car is caught between commodity fetishism and post-colonial fetish spirituality:"}, {"text": "J\u00fcrgen Rottmann (born October 8, 1941) is a Chilean ornithologist and conservationist. He is a founding member of the Chilean Committee for the Defence of Flora and Fauna and director of the Chilean Union of Ornithologists. He is the founder of the Raptor Rehabilitation Center located at his own farm in Talagante and scientific director of the Gaviotin Chico Sustainability Foundation. Early life and career. Born in Santiago in 1941, Jurgen Rottmann is the son of the German immigrants Kurt Rottmann and Greta Sylvester. The middle sibling of two sisters: Katarina and Veronica Rottmann, he grew up in Las Condes when it was a rural area, now a borough of Santiago close to the Cordillera de los Andes. Married to Rebeca Chavez, his lifelong partner, with whom he has two daughters and two sons. J\u00fcrgen Rottmann showed marked interest in nature from a young age and studied veterinary sciences at University of Chile as the only option open to him to become a naturalist in Chile in the 1960s. In 1972 he became the director of the National Forest Corporation. Soon after assuming the directorship, he published the first list of endangered birds in Chile. In 1978 he extended the"}, {"text": "list to mammals. The revised list used as a starting point the report he presented at the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference in 1973. Author of wildlife books. J\u00fcrgen Rottmann is the author and collaboration of numerous wildlife publications including a 1986 book about Chilean birds titled \"Aves de Chile\", where he a collaborated with the photographer Thomas Daskam. He also authored a Chilean wildlife series published in 1995. In 1989, 300 copies of his book \"Bosques de Chile\" were donated to the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile. The book and its detailed description of the Chilean forest was the result of extensive travel to remote locations in Chile. His 1990 bilingual book \"The Chilean Altiplano in collaboration\" with the wildlife photographer Nicol\u00e1s Piwonka, was also donated to the Chilean National Library. Earnings from sales of the book were donated to the World Wide Fund for Nature. Promotion of environmental awareness. J\u00fcrgen Rottmann was part of the team of the nature documentary \"La Tierra en que Vivimos ,\" made in Chile by the Televisi\u00f3n Nacional de Chile shown in the 1980s. Also during the eighties, the Chilean newspaper \"El Mercurio\" published a popular Sunday column titled \"Chile: cosas de"}, {"text": "mirar\" with text by J\u00fcrgen Rottmann and photography by his friend Thomas Daskam. The National Geographic Magazine called J\u00fcrgen Rottmann \"the David Attenborough of Chile\" in a featured article about is conservation efforts as the Director of the Gaviotin Chico Sustainability Foundation. The foundation is dedicated to the preservation of the tiny desert bird called Gaviotin Chico or Peruvian Tern whose habitat is the coastline from northern Chile to Peru where the Atacama Desert meets the Humboldt Current at the Pacific Ocean. J\u00fcrgen Rottmann won the \"Premio Naturaleza Ladera Sur\" in 2023, an award given to people who have dedicated their lives to educate, raise awareness and promote the care of nature and the environment in Chile, the same year he participated in a nature conservation podcast series talking about his lifelong conservation efforts. and in an interview about the behaviour of urban birds."}, {"text": "Cornell Square is a public park at 1809 W. 50th Street in the New City community area of Chicago, Illinois. Opened in 1905, the park was one of many planned by the South Park Commission to provide parks in dense, poor South Side neighborhoods. The park was named for Paul Cornell, one of the Commission's board members. As with the South Park Commission's other early parks, landscape architects the Olmsted Brothers designed the park's layout while D. H. Burnham and Company designed its facilities. The park originally included a fieldhouse with gymnasium facilities, a swimming pool, athletic fields, and walking paths. The fieldhouse has a Beaux-Arts design and includes a painting of Ezra Cornell, the founder of Cornell University and Paul Cornell's cousin. The park was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 2005."}, {"text": "Ball of Wax may refer to:"}, {"text": "The Vicarious Hypothesis, or hypothesis vicaria, was a planetary hypothesis proposed by Johannes Kepler to describe the motion of Mars. The hypothesis adopted the circular orbit and equant of Ptolemy's planetary model as well as the heliocentrism of the Copernican model. Calculations using the Vicarious Hypothesis did not support a circular orbit for Mars, leading Kepler to propose elliptical orbits as one of three laws of planetary motion in \"Astronomia Nova\". History. In 1600, Johannes Kepler met and began working with Tycho Brahe at Ben\u00e1tky, a town north of Prague where Brahe's new observatory was being built. Brahe assigned Kepler the task of modeling the motion of Mars using only data that Brahe had collected himself. Upon the death of Brahe in 1601, all of Brahe's data was willed to Kepler. Brahe's observational data was among the most accurate of his time, which Kepler used in the construction of the Vicarious Hypothesis. Predecessors. Ptolemy. Claudius Ptolemy's planetary model consisted of a stationary earth surrounded by fixed circles, called deferents, which carried smaller, rotating circles called epicycles. Planets rotated on the epicycles as the epicycles traveled along the deferent. Ptolemy shifted the Earth away from the center of the deferent and"}, {"text": "introduced another point, the equant, equidistant to the deferent's center on the opposite side of the Earth. The Vicarious Hypothesis uses a circular orbit for Mars and reintroduces a form of the equant to describe the motion of Mars with constant angular speed. Copernicus. Nicolaus Copernicus broke from the geocentric model of Ptolemy by placing the Sun at the center of his planetary model. However, Copernicus retained circular orbits for the planets and added an orbit for the Earth, insisting that the Earth revolved around the Sun. The Sun was positioned off-center of the orbits but was still contained within all orbits. Kepler adopted Copernican heliocentrism in the construction of the Vicarious Hypothesis so that his measurements of the distances to Mars were taken relative to the Sun. Development. Kepler's construction of the Vicarious Hypothesis was based on a circular orbit for Mars and a heliocentric model for the planets. After receiving longitudinal observation data from Tycho Brahe, Kepler had twelve observations, two being his own, in which Mars was at opposition to the Sun. From these twelve observations, Kepler chose four to form the basis of the Vicarious Hypothesis because they had a relatively uniform distribution across his proposed"}, {"text": "circular orbit for Mars. In this sense, the Vicarious Hypothesis functions as a fit to observational data. Kepler used these four observations to determine the eccentricities of the Sun and equant of his proposed orbit. Unlike the Ptolemaic System, in which the Earth and equant were assumed equidistant to the center of the orbit, the Vicarious Hypothesis placed the equant where the time and location of the observation would match. Using the Vicarious Hypothesis, Kepler determined the eccentricities of the Sun and equant to be 11,332 and 7,232 arbitrary units, respectively, for the Martian orbital radius of 100,000 units. Using these positions for the Sun and equant, the model constructed using the Vicarious Hypothesis agreed with the twelve observations within 2' of arc, a level of accuracy better than any other previous model. While the heliocentric longitudes of this model proved to be accurate, distances from the Sun to Mars, or latitudes of Mars, challenged the model. In his book, \"Astronomia Nova\", Kepler determined that the eccentricity of the Sun, based on latitudinal oppositions, should be between a range of 8,000 and 9,943, conflicting with the eccentricity of 11,332 determined by the Vicarious Hypothesis. To accommodate the latitudinal data, Kepler"}, {"text": "modified the Vicarious Hypothesis to include a bisected eccentricity, making the Sun and equant equidistant to the center of the orbit. This resolved the error in the latitudes of Mars but introduced a longitudinal error of 8' of arc in some parts of the Mars orbit. While an 8' error still had better accuracy than previous models, corresponding to approximately one-fourth the diameter of the Moon, Kepler rejected the Vicarious Hypothesis because he did not believe it was accurate enough to model the true orbit of Mars. Historical significance. The errors in latitude and longitude of the Mars orbit made Kepler realize that false assumptions were made using the Vicarious Hypothesis. In particular, Kepler amended the hypothesis to exclude the circular orbit. Kepler realized that he could fix the error by reducing the spread of the central region of the circular orbit, creating an ellipse. He used calculations previously made with the Vicarious Hypothesis to confirm the elliptical orbit for Mars. Kepler published his results in \"Astronomia Nova\", in which he introduces the elliptical orbit for planets as his first law of planetary motion."}, {"text": "Willa Nasatir (born 1990) is an American visual artist and photographer. In 2017, Nasatir presented a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum organized by Jane Panetta. Life and work. Willa Nasatir was born in 1990 in Los Angeles, California. She attended Cooper Union and received a BFA degree in 2012. Nasatir was a recipient of the Louis B. Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2015. She uses a spectrum of material and optical technics to make images. From soaking prints in water, sanding them down, burning and freezing them, then rephotographing them through translucent textured screens. Nasatir does not manipulate the images on the computer, letting the surreal effects happen entirely in the camera."}, {"text": "The 1998 San Jose mayoral election was held on June 2 and November 3, 1998, to elect the Mayor of San Jose, California. It saw the election of Ron Gonzales. Incumbent mayor Susan Hammer was term limited. Because no candidate managed to receive a majority of the vote in the initial round of the election, a runoff election was held between the first round's top-two finishers. Candidates. Advanced to runoff Eliminated in first round"}, {"text": "The Rivian R1S is an all-electric seven passenger, mid-size, off-road SUV manufactured by Rivian. Customer deliveries started in 2022, after 10 years under development. Depending on the configuration, it has either two or four electric motors. Design. With a 0 to 60 mph (0 to 97 km/h) time of 3 seconds, due to its combined output power, the R1S shares 91% of its components with the company's R1T, noted for its low center of gravity. The vehicle is equipped for semi-autonomous driving according to level 3 and designed for road traffic and off-road driving. Powertrain. As announced in 2018, the R1S was designed to three three battery capacities and power outputs; all planned versions included four traction motors, in which each wheel is driven by an independent traction motor, allowing full-time all-wheel drive with torque vectoring. The quad-motor version (QM) uses electric traction motors developed by Robert Bosch GmbH, but these are carried on the vehicle's frame; the R1S does not use wheel hub motors like the Lordstown Endurance. As delivered in 2022, the QM R1S has a combined output of and , split and front/rear. Rivian has announced plans to reduce prices by offering dual-motor (DM) versions starting in"}, {"text": "2024, with independent traction motors for the front and rear axles, using \"Enduro\" motors developed by Rivian for the EDV. DM versions will be offered with two different battery capacities (standard and large) for the R1S, with slightly greater corresponding range as the weight and efficiency should improve with two motors. Maximum output of the dual-motor version is expected to be > and >, which is a decrease from the quad-motor version; a \"Performance Dual Motor\" (PDM) option was added in April 2023, which raises output to approximately through a software modification. Production of the \"Enduro\" motor drive units began in February 2023; most have been used to ramp up EDV production, but DM R1S SUVs with the Large battery pack were first delivered to customers in May 2023. The extended range (\"Max Pack\") battery has been delayed until 2023. In addition, the smaller (\"Standard\") battery is not scheduled to be delivered until 2024; the Standard battery will use lithium iron phosphate (LFP) chemistry to reduce costs by eliminating nickel and cobalt. Consumption and performance. The 2022 Rivian R1S was rated by the EPA with a consumption of for the combined city+highway driving cycle and a total range of when"}, {"text": "equipped with the \"Large\" 135 kWh battery and quad-motor drivetrain. Acceleration from 0 to was tested by \"Motor Trend\" in August 2022 at 3.1 seconds on all-season tires and 3.2 seconds on all-terrain tires. Corresponding elapsed times and trap speeds were 11.6 sec at on all-season tires, slowing to 11.8 sec at with all-terrain tires. Storage and towing. Total enclosed cargo volume is when the second and third rows of seats are folded down. A \"frunk\" under the hood, where the engine is in most conventional internal combustion engine vehicles, adds of lockable storage. In addition, there is a small compartment underneath the cargo floor. Towing capacity is .<ref name=\"rivian.com/r1s\"></ref> Interior. Pet comfort mode maintains a user-selected temperature inside the car when the driver is away from the vehicle. A five-passenger option deleting the third row was discontinued in March 2022 before production vehicles began to be delivered; all R1Ss are seven-passenger, three-row vehicles. Third-row seating was reported to be \"a little tight for adults\", with low cushion height resulting in most people adopting a posture with knees higher than their hips. In their review, \"Motor Trend\" reported that the glass roof was not equipped with a sunshade and the"}, {"text": "resulting insolation made its reviewers uncomfortable during comparison testing in the desert at temperatures exceeding . They also criticized the infotainment system, which is not equipped with Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. Chassis. The vehicle has an air suspension which allows for a maximum ground clearance of , with individual wheels cross-linked to reduce body lean during cornering. In addition, there is a \"Camp Mode\" that allows the vehicle to level itself when parked on irregular terrain. Maximum wading depth in water is . Compared to the R1T, which has a wheelbase, the R1S rides on a shorter wheelbase and has a shorter rear overhang, improving departure and breakover angles. This also results in a turning circle that is nearly smaller for the R1S. Trim levels. The entry-level trim was called the Explore package, which included matte-black interior finishes and heated vegan leather seats. In August 2022, Rivian announced it had discontinued the Explore package citing low demand, simplified assembly and supply chain constraints that would be alleviated with a single option. By eliminating the base trim, Rivian effectively increased prices. The Adventure package upgrades the interior with heated and cooled perforated vegan leather seats, Chilewich woven floor mats, wood"}, {"text": "or vegan leather accents, and a premium Rivian Elevation sound system designed by Meridian Audio which includes a removable Bluetooth speaker. The limited-availability Launch edition included the Adventure package, the large battery, an exclusive Launch green color, and an option to upgrade wheels and tires at no additional cost. History. The Rivian R1S debuted as a prototype model first shown at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November 2018. The prototype shown in LA was said to be in \"production form\". By December 2019, Rivian had raised $1.3 billion in new funding for this and the R1T Truck. Delivery delays. The first two R1S vehicles were delivered to the CEO, R.J. Scaringe, and the CFO, Claire McDonough, in December 2021. Rivian announced in mid-June 2022 that there would be a delay for some deliveries of its R1S electric SUV. The company cited the delay was due to supply chain issues and limited service infrastructure. Deliveries to customers began in late August 2022. The first vehicles to be released were equipped with the large (135 kWh) battery and quad-motor drivetrain. Price changes. In March 2022, Rivian announced the price of the R1S would increase by 20%, jumping to $84,500 from $70,000"}, {"text": "for the base model. After receiving negative feedback, Rivian honored the original prices for pre-orders made before the price increase. In August 2022, Rivian cancelled the base Explore trim level, forcing people who pre-ordered the Explore to either cancel or upgrade to the more expensive Adventure trim."}, {"text": "The 9th term Sejm and the 10th term Senate was the legislature of the Republic of Poland following the 2019 Polish parliamentary election held on 13 October 2019 which returned 460 deputies to the Sejm and 100 senators to the Senate. The Parliament of Poland held its inaugural meeting on 12 November 2019. Its term ended on 12 November 2023."}, {"text": "is a five-member Japanese rock band formed in 2013 and mainly active in Osaka. the band currently consists of vocalist Yudai Takenaka, guitarists Kaito Yamada and S\u00f4jir\u00f4 Oki, drummer Negi and bassist Keigo. Novelbright released their debut EP, \"Skywalk\" (2018), and \"En.\" (2019), and the band has released four studio albums \"Wonderland\" (2020), \"Opening Declaration\" (2021), \"Assort\" (2022), and \"Circus\" (2024). History. 2013\u20132016: Formation and early career. In July 2013 it the group was formed with its original members, including Yudai, as a copy band of One Ok Rock. In July 2016, Kimunii and Takuya withdrew. 2017\u20132019: \"Skywalk\" and \"EN.\". In January 2017, Kaito, S\u00f4jir\u00f4 and Negi. joined the group. It was independent record label Emperor Mode. The band's first single under Morning Light, was released on 5 January 2017. The band's second single Count on me, was released on 13 August 2017. The band's third single Like a hawk Flying in the Night Sky, was released on 25 December 2017. The band's single Walking with you, was released on 30 August 2018. The band's second single To Hikari, was released on 27 September 2018. In October 2018, The band's first mini album \"Skywalk\", was released on 3 October 2018."}, {"text": "In December 2018, bassist Yutaro withdrew. In January 2019, bassist Keigo joined replace Yutaro. The band's single Dear Sir, Dear You was, released on 7 August 2019. The second single Two Shadows, was released on 1 September 2019. In September 2019, The band's second mini album \"EN.\", was released on 3 September 2019. In October 2019, it was announced that the band had signed to Emperor Driver 2020\u20132021: First album \"Wonderland\" and \"Opening Declaration\". The band's single Runner's High, was released on 5 January 2020. The band's single second Kimiiro Note, was released on 21 April 2020. The band's single third Dream Fireworks, was released on 27 May 2020. The band's single fourth Photo Album, was released on 26 July 2020. The band's first debut album \"Wonderland\", was released on 27 May 2020. In August 2020, it was announced that the band had signed to major Universal Sigma was announced. The band's single Sunny Drop, was released on 17 August 2020. The band's single second I just asked for you, was released on 30 November 2020. The band's single third Evening Primrose, was released on 11 December 2020. The band's single fourth Fairy Tale, was released on 19 February 2021."}, {"text": "The band's single fifth Hummingbird, was released on 10 April 2021. The band's single sixth Love Knot, was released on 26 April 2021. The band's single seventh Pandora, was released on 28 April 2021. The band's single eighth Opening Declaration was released on 15 May 2021. The band's second album \"Opening Declaration\", was released on 24 April 2021. The band's single The Last Hope, was released on 8 July 2021. 2021\u20132022: \"Assort\". The band's single Life Squall, was released on 23 July 2021. The band's single second Sword of Kindness, was released on 4 September 2021. The band's single third Seeker, was released on 25 October 2021. The band's single fourth 1ROOM, was released on 15 November 2021. On 10 November 2021, it was announced for Tour Novelbright, will be held from June 23 to 24, 2022. The band's single fifth Okey Dokey!!, was released on 2 December 2021, in collaboration with Pok\u00e9mon Unite. The group was briefly renamed \"NovelUNITE\" specifically for this collaboration. The single sixth The Warrior, was released on 23 February 2022. The band's single seventh Aitoka Koitoka, was released on 22 April 2022. The band's single eighth Fanfare, was released on 5 May 2022. The band's"}, {"text": "third studio album \"Assort\", on 18 May 2022. The band's single Why, was released on 10 August 2022. It was announced first Summer Sonic Chiba from 20 August 2022. The band did the opening theme song \"The Warrior\" for the anime Salaryman's Club and the opening theme song \"Last Scene\" and ending theme song \"Pride\" for the anime Yowamushi Pedal: Limit Break. 2023\u2013present: \"Circus\". The band's single first Unwillingly was released on 15 March 2023. The band did the opening theme song \"Cantabile\" for the anime \"Ao no Orchestra\". The band's single Obyssey was released on 15 October 2023. The band's single Sound of Snow was released on 21 December 2023. The band's single Awesome Life was released on 29 March 2024. The band's fourth studio album \"Circus\" on 3 April 2024. The band single Iyn was released on 22 October 2024. Musical style and songwriting. Novelbright musical style has been described as Rock and J-pop Novelbright cites bands such as All Time Low, Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet for My Valentine, Coldplay, Green Day, Metallica, One Ok Rock and 5 Seconds of Summer. Band members. Current members Former members"}, {"text": "Governor Emerson may refer to:"}, {"text": "Governor Fleming may refer to:"}, {"text": "Governor Harrison may refer to:"}, {"text": "Anaides is a genus of scavenger scarab beetles in the family Hybosoridae."}, {"text": "Governor Lewis may refer to:"}, {"text": "Governor Mechem may refer to:"}, {"text": "Bobby Puleo (born 1974) is a regular-footed American professional skateboarder and artist. Life. Born in Clifton, New Jersey, Puleo began skateboarding at 10. His first board was the Skull and Sword Powell Peralta board, which he received for Christmas in 1984. Puleo started coming to New York at 16 to skate street spots, like the Brooklyn Banks and others. In 1998, Puleo moved to West 108th Street. Since childhood, Puleo has been a collector of found objects. Skateboarding career. Puleo has been a professional skateboarder for over 20 years, Puleo's first pro deck was on Mad Circle skateboards. Puleo was skating a lot with filmer Aaron Meza for the FTC Penal Code 100A video released in 1996. Scott Johnston and Meza introduced Puleo to Justin Girard who put him on Mad Circle. Before Mad Circle, while riding for Metropolitan, Puleo got put on Stereo. In 2018, Puleo sat down with Transworld Skateboarding to talk about his favorite skateboarder: Mark Gonzales. Artistic practice. Building upon his lifelong interest in collecting found objects, Puleo creates collages and assemblages. Puleo also practices photography and has an interest in graffiti. Puleo has shown his art throughout the United States and has an instagram account"}, {"text": "dedicated to his art: Gutter Gallery In 2003, Puleo opened a show: \"These Eyes Have Eyes,\" at Space 1026 Gallery in Philadelphia. In 2021, Puleo had a solo show of his assemblages titled \"Flat Earth\" presented by Hey Check This Out gallery in NYC."}, {"text": "Violence against women in Thailand includes but is not limited to domestic violence, rape, sex trafficking, and murder. Violence against women impacts the individual as well as the family in long-term psychological and physical manners. Gender traditionalism and other Thai cultural values and practices in Thailand shape and perpetuate violence against women in Thailand. Types of violence. Domestic violence. In 2013, the Ministry of Public Health reported 31,866 domestic violence cases in Thailand. The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes domestic violence in intimate partner relationships where there is emotion, physical, and/or sexual abuse. According to a study conducted in 2005 by the WHO, 1 in 6 Thai women in heterosexual intimate partner relationships have experienced or encountered domestic violence in their lifetime. The percentage of Thai women who experienced domestic violence in this study is significantly higher than the 2.9% that a 2009 study conducted by the Reproductive Health Survey in 2009 found. However, the 2009 study only asked one question about physical partner violence versus the several questions asked in the WHO survey. Overall, this study concluded that domestic violence is a serious problem and public health issue that should be addressed by Thai society since its findings determined"}, {"text": "that the effects of domestic violence impact Thai women's overall quality of life and extend beyond the realm of health. The study surveyed Thai women in central, southern, northern, and northeastern Thailand through simple random sampling. The study reported that there are three forms of domestic violence: psychological, physical, and sexual. Lower socioeconomic income of Thai women in relationships and their decision-making power in relationships have a positive correlation to higher chances of domestic violence. Psychological and physical. According to the study conducted by the WHO in 2005, 60-68% of the Thai women who have faced domestic violence reported to have experienced psychological violence. These violences included being insulted or made to feel bad, being humiliated or belittled, and being threatened to hurt. 52-65% of the Thai women who faced domestic violence reported to have experienced physical violence in 2005. These violent acts included being slapped or thrown, pushed or shoved, hit with a fist, kicked, dragged or beaten, burned, or threatened to use a weapon. Sexual. 62-63% of Thai women who have experienced domestic violence reported to have experienced sexual violence in 2005. These acts included being physically forced to have sex, sexual intercourse prompted by fear, being forced"}, {"text": "to do degrading or humiliating sexual activity. In 2017, a study approved by the Ethics Review Committee for Research Involving Human Research Subject at Chulalongkorn University found that psychological and physical violence were actually more prevalent than sexual violence. This difference in results between 2005 and 2017 can be due to new policies and campaigns against domestic violence launched in Thailand in the past 10 years before the study was conducted. In 2007, criminal law B.E. 2550 section 276 shifted its language surrounding who can legally be considered a victim of sexual assault/abuse. The language before 2007 stated, \"any person who commits sexual intercourse with a woman who is not his wife, and against the latter's will, by threatening her, or doing any act of violence..., shall be punished to imprisonment...\" The law omitted the phrase \"with a woman who is not his wife\", in order to legally recognize victims of sexual assault or abuse whose rapist was their husband. Rape. According to statistics provided by the Royal Thai Police, there were 2,535 rape cases reported in 2017. While this number was lower than the 3,240 rape cases reported in 2015, there was a significant rise from the 2,109 rape"}, {"text": "cases reported in 2016. In an effort to raise awareness surrounding rape and sexual assault and to reduce its frequency, the Crime Suppression Division or CSD recognized rapists in Thailand as \"No.1 public enemy\". According to the literature, rape in Thailand is typically characterized as a violent act done onto women by men. However, in 2019, the CSD chief, Pol Maj Gen Jirabhop, reported that in recent years, reported rapes have been more varied. Jirabhop mentioned many rape victims are under-aged and some rapes are even being committed by monks. In a 2016 Op-Ed column written in the Bangkok Post, Paisarn Likhitpreechakul mentioned that many lesbian women in Thailand are raped as a corrective \"cure\" to their sexual orientation. Impact. On individuals. In 2017, 29% of women who are victims of domestic violence reported that they were hospitalized as consequence of domestic violence. 26.1% were forced to have sexual intercourse after fighting/arguing with their partner. 46.7% of women who are victims of domestic violence in Thailand reported to have been physically injured. These injuries included cuts/bites (15.9%), scratch/bruises (74.8%), sprains (56.1%), burns/deep cuts (6.5%), broken eardrum or eye injuries (11.2%), and broken bones/teeth (6.5%). The impact of domestic violence against"}, {"text": "women in Thailand extends beyond physical injury. 61% of women who are victims of domestic violence reported that they could not concentrate at work following their experience(s) with domestic violence. 12.2% reported that they had to take a day's leave from work, 23.9% reported loss of confidence and low self-esteem, 12.2% reported they did not go to work because of shame, and 9.5% reported that their partner stalked them while at work. On families. In 2017, 49.6% of women who experienced domestic violence reported that their children witnessed the violence. These women expressed their anxieties that their children would perpetuate the cycle of domestic violence in their lifetimes. Perpetuation of violence against women. Gender traditionalism. There are traditional socialized gender roles, and a patriarchal system that created and foster them, in Thailand. Two major sources of gender traditionalism are Thai Buddhism and traditional Thai family values. Thai Buddhism. Buddhism is not Thailand's official religion, but 93% of the Thai population is Buddhist. Thailand's 2017 constitution mandates that the Thai government assists the Theravada school of Buddhism and guards Buddhism against all forms of desecration. Within Thai Buddhism, women are inherently inferior to men. Women's major role in Thai Buddhism is"}, {"text": "to provide support for monks (who are always men) and temple activities\u2014this, along with providing offering, is one of the only ways for a woman to earn religious merit. Women's \"lower karma\" subjects them to a life of suffering from which they should endure with bravery so that they can eventually be reborn as a man in their next lifetime. Women in Thailand who've experienced domestic violence are often given advice from Buddhist monks to be patient and compassionate with their perpetrators as the victims' suffering is a product of bad karma from a past life. Thai family values. In traditional Thai families, husbands are subjected to the role of head and master of the household. Wives are subjected to roles of being gentle, pure, obedient, and subordinate in relation to the husband. These roles can be traced back to eighteenth and nineteenth century legislation in Thailand that recognized wives as property of husbands that could be subjected to corporal punishment or sold. More traditional Thai family values emphasize the dichotomy of public and private in Thailand. Families are encouraged by tradition to keep family conflicts and problems within the family in order to maintain family honor. Families are also"}, {"text": "encouraged by tradition to hide their expression of feelings and thoughts to others. Thai television dramas (lakhon). Rape and other forms of sexual violence are highly prevalent in Thai television dramas or \"lakhon\", which are one of the main forms of domestic primetime television entertainment. Sexual violence is often portrayed in lakhon as being administered by then men as a justified act to women who misbehaved\u2014especially in the \"revenge\" genre of lakhon. Sexual violence in lakhon are often justified in the show as consequence to bad karma or fate and gendered social punishment\u2014painting the sexual violence as inevitable and ethical."}, {"text": "Representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (i.e., LGBTQ) characters and themes in South Korean film and television remains a relatively small part of the country's overall media landscape. Discussions about such portrayals have grown both in academia and public LGBTQ movements. The South Korean LGBTQ rights movement, which gained momentum in the 1990s, contributed to increased visibility of queer characters and relationships in film and television. While South Korea has historically been less accepting of LGBTQ identities, attitudes are gradually changing. A study conducted at Chonnam National University found a growing acceptance of homosexuality in South Korea. The advent of social media, has facilitated the cultural consumption and creation of LGBTQ narratives, leading to increased representation in cinema and television. Activism and queer cinema have often intersected, as seen in initiatives like the Korean Queer Film Festival, which began in 1998. The festival underscores the close ties between activism and representation in South Korean media. History of LGBTQ media in South Korea. Efforts by organizations such as the Rainbow Foundation and Chingusai have helped shape public attitudes and foster greater representation of LGBTQ themes in South Korean media. Scholars Pil Ho Kim and C.Colin Singer categorize the progression"}, {"text": "of LGBTQ portrayals into three distinct periods: the Invisible Age (1945\u20131997), the Camouflage Age (1998\u20132004), and the Blockbuster Age (2005-early 2010s). Invisible Age (1945\u20131997). During this period, filmmakers who included homosexual themes often did so subtly, embedding them in ways that were not immediately apparent to heterosexual audiences. In erotic films specifically, lesbian and trans characters were included but not portrayed in ways that made LGBTQ themes \"visible on its own terms.\" Examples of films from the \"Invisible Age\" include: Camouflage Age (1998\u20132004). The Camouflage Age saw increased LGBTQ representation, but queerness was often relegated to the background or justified by external factors to avoid controversy. Notable films include: Activists debated the merits of this \"masking\" strategy. Some argued it allowed for greater acceptance by depoliticizing LGBTQ themes, while others contended it reinforced heteronormativity by making queerness conditional or secondary. This period also saw significant milestones, such as the public coming out of actor Hong Suk-chon in September 2000 and the appearance of trans woman Harisu in a widely publicized commercial in March 2001. Some other films during this time period included \"Bongja\" (2000), \"Flower Island\" (2001), \"Desire\" (2002), \"Wanee and Junah\" (2002) and \"Road Movie\" (2002). Blockbuster Age (2005\u2013early"}, {"text": "2010s). The Blockbuster Age marked a shift toward more explicit depictions of LGBTQ themes in mainstream media, coinciding with broader societal debates about LGBTQ rights. Such as the historic passing of an anti-discrimination bill that includes sexual orientation. Key representations include: One of the most notable shifts during this era was the use of LGBTQ themes in more mainstream Korean dramas. LGBTQ themes began surfacing within dramas such as \"The First Shop of Coffee Prince\" (2007), \"Antique\" (2008) and \"Personal Taste\" (2008), but really surfaced fully in \"Life is Beautiful\" (2010). Examples of South Korean queer cinema. Below is a list of some of the films and television series that have had LGBTQ themes:"}, {"text": "Thai queer cinema is a category of Thai films that in some way represent non-normative gender and sexuality. In other words, the narratives explored in Thai queer cinema go beyond heterosexual relationships and the male-female gender binary. The classification of this genre of Thai film as \"queer\" rather than LGBT, is used by film scholars, Brett Farmer, Oradol Kaewprasert, Karl Schoonover, and Rosalind Galt, in an effort to fully capture the range of Thai gender and sexuality, or phet (Thai: \u0e40\u0e1e\u0e28, RTGS: phet) portrayed in film which may not be accurately represented through Western LGBT terminology. Thai language scholar, Monruedee Laphimon, defines phet as gendered desires, expressions, behaviors, and sexual activities within a spectrum of masculinity and femininity. Thai gender and sexuality scholar Peter A. Jackson coined the term \"gendered sexuality\" to discuss the lack of separation between the concepts of gender and sexuality in Thailand. Jackson argues that for this reason, while the use of some English LGBT terminology has been adopted in Thailand, the meaning carried by these terms is not the same as their Western counterparts. Film scholar, Brett Farmer, uses the term \"vernacular queerness\" to discuss how phet is represented in Thai queer cinema, highlighting how"}, {"text": "many films illustrate non-normative sexual desire and behavior but do not define the relationships nor the character's sexual identity. Thai queer cinema had its start in the 1980s with films such as \"The Last Song\" (1985), \"Tortured Love\" (1987), and \"I Am a Man\" (1987), part of the first wave of Thai queer cinema, and continued through the post-1997 Thai Film Revival, also called the new wave of Thai cinema. Currently, queer narratives are very popular in the Thai film industry. Prominent Thai film critic for the Bangkok Post, Kong Rithdee, says that since the mid 1990s, queer narratives have become central to Thai cinema. Within an international context, Lisa Daniels, an international film-festival director, has identified Thailand as one of the leading producers of queer cinema in the world. Within the genre of Thai queer cinema exist many sub-genres in both independent and commercial films. The sports film sub-genre was one of the first Thai queer cinema sub-genres to garner commercial success during the new wave of Thai cinema. Sports films center storylines revolving around sports and prominent films in this sub-genre include \"The Iron Ladies\" (2000) and \"Beautiful Boxer\" (2003). Teen dramas, also called melodramas, are another popular"}, {"text": "sub-genre of queer cinema in Thailand that portray the non-normative relationship and gender expression of teenagers. Prominent queer teen drama films include \"Love of Siam\" (2007) and \"Yes or No\" (2010). Art-house films are another prominent sub-genre of Thai queer cinema. Art-house films like \"Tropical Malady\" (2004) and \"Supernatural\" (2014) have garnered critical success in the international film festival circuit. Thai film directors, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Thunska Pansittivorakul, have been recognized both in Thailand and internationally as key figures in the Thai queer cinema genre. History. The first wave of Thai queer cinema. The first Thai film to feature a central queer narrative was the film \"The Last Song\" (1985). This film marked the beginning of what Thai cinema scholar, Oradol Kaewprasert, calls the \u201cfirst wave of Thai queer cinema.\u201d Other prominent films included in the \u201cfirst wave of Thai queer cinema\u201d include \"Tortured Love\" (1987), a sequel to \"The Last Song\" (1985), and \"I Am A Man\" (1987), a Thai remake of the American play \"The Boys in the Band\" (1968). This era of queer film was dominated by narratives that showed queer characters as people deserving sympathy from the audience and featured storylines dominated by stereotypes about the"}, {"text": "lives of queer people centering loss and depression, and often ending in the suicide of the queer character. Films in the first wave also often explicitly named \u201cbad karma\u201d as an explanation for the source of a character\u2019s queerness. Thai cinema scholar, Oradol Kaewprasert, identified the following three films as the seminal films of the \u201cfirst wave of Thai queer cinema.\u201d \"The Last Song\" (1985) (dir. Pisal Akkrasenee). \"The Last Song\" (1985) was the first Thai film to center a queer storyline and the first Thai film to feature a kathoey actress as the leading role in a film. The film garnered substantial commercial success and was a top earning film in the box office the year that it was released in theaters. The plot revolves around a kathoey cabaret performer, Somying, who falls in love with an aspiring singer who leaves her for a cisgender woman. The loss of the love of her life leads Somying to commit suicide on stage during her final cabaret performance. The film\u2019s director, Pisal Akkrasenee, a heterosexual man, stated in an interview that he wanted \"The Last Song\" (1985) to capture the tragic experience of being kathoey in Thai society. \"Tortured Love\" (1987)"}, {"text": "(dir. Pisal Akkrasenee). \"Tortured Love\" (1987), is the sequel to the film \"The Last Song\" (1985) and was produced in large part due to the commercial success of its predecessor. However, \"Tortured Love\" (1987) did not end up being nearly as successful. The plot of the film revolves around Somying\u2019s, who committed suicide at the end of \"The Last Song\" (1985), twin brother. The twin brother attempts to seek revenge on Somying\u2019s former lover, Boonterm, for his role in Somying\u2019s suicide, however, in the process Boonterm falls in love with Somying\u2019s twin brother. The film ends with Boonterm deciding to reject all sexuality and become a monk. \"I Am a Man\" (1987) (dir. Ml. Bandevanop Devakul). \"I Am a Man\" (1987) is a Thai adaptation of the American play \"The Boys in the Band\" (1968) and was named one of the 100 essential Thai films by the National Film Archive of Thailand. The plot of the film is similar to that of the play from which it was adapted, in which the storyline revolves around a birthday party. Through the main character, Toey\u2019s, birthday party, the film depicts varying representations of male queerness in the eight party guest who make"}, {"text": "up the films other principal characters. New wave of Thai Cinema. The new wave of Thai cinema, identified by film scholars Mary J. Ainsley and Katarzyna Ancuta, began following the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis which led to an increase in Thai nationalism and idealization of Thai history and culture. This period marked a turning point for Thai cinema in that films began to reflect new realities and global influences. Beginning in 1997, the Thai film industry drastically increased in size, slowly becoming the largest film industry in the region. Director Nonzee Nimibutr's film \"Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters\" released in 1997 is viewed by many film scholars as the first film in the new wave of Thai cinema. In 2000, the underdog sports film about a volleyball team made up Kathoey and gay players, \"The Iron Ladies,\" was released. \"The Iron Ladies\" is considered the first queer film of the new wave of Thai cinema and also a turning point for queer cinema in Thailand. \"The Iron Ladies\" (2000) lead to new genres of film and more positive representations of queer and Kathoey individuals. The 2006 Thai coup d'etat that led to the ousting of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was"}, {"text": "another factor in the increased representation of queer individuals in Thai film. The new Thai government, installed after the coup, was more open and liberal than the previous culturally conservative government that was known for censoring films that did not represent a proper Thai morality. Sub-genres. Teen dramas. The teen drama sub-genre, sometimes called melodramas, depict non-heterosexual relationships between teens and young adults. This sub-genre of Thai Queer Cinema has become popular since the commercial success of the first Thai queer teen drama, \"Love of Siam,\" in 2007. Thai pop culture scholar, Amporn Jirattikorn, argues that the popularity of this film sub-genre with the heterosexual teen girl demographic has led to the production of many boys' love television dramas in Thailand. Notable queer teen dramas include \"Love of Siam\" (2007) and \"Yes or No\" (2010). \"Love of Siam\" (2007) (dir. Chookiat Sakveerakul). \"Love of Siam\" (, Rak Haeng Sayam) is a film released in 2007. The plot of \"Love of Siam\" revolves around the story of Mew (Witwisit Hiranyawongkul) and Tong (Mario Maurer) childhood friends who go on to have a romantic relationship. Film scholar, Brett Farmer, uses the term \"vernacular queerness\" to discuss the relationships portrayed in the film;"}, {"text": "meaning, that while the film does not explicitly define the relationship between Mew and Tong as a gay relationship, it explores the possibilities of love outside of heterosexual relationships. \"Love of Siam\" was one of the first Thai films to portray a romantic relationship between two teenage boys and one of the first on-screen same-sex kisses. Film scholar, Brett Farmer, identified \"Love of Siam\" as one of the first examples of what he calls \"independent commercial films,\" low budget films that have widespread commercial success and become top-grossing films at the box office. Sports Films. Sports films are films where sports, either individual or team, are central to the film's narrative. Many times sports films feature an underdog narrative, where a character or group of characters who are presented as unlikely to achieve success overcome an obstacle and by the end of the film become successful in their endeavor. Film scholars, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt, argue that by placing queer characters in sports films queerness can become the source of the underdog narrative. Sports films have become a popular sub-genre of Thai queer films through box-office record-breaking films including, \"The Iron Ladies\" (2000) and \"Beautiful Boxer\" (2004). \"The Iron"}, {"text": "Ladies\" (2000) (dir. Yongyoot Thongkongtoon). \"The Iron Ladies\" (Thai: \u0e2a\u0e15\u0e23\u0e35\u0e40\u0e2b\u0e25\u0e47\u0e01; RTGS: Satree Lek) is a film released in 2000 that is based on the true story of a Thai volleyball team making it to the national championships four years prior in 1996 and marked the beginning of a new era of queer film making in Thailand. The film was the highest-grossing Thai film the year it was released and the second highest-grossing film in Thailand of all time. The plot of the film follows an underdog volleyball team composed of kathoey and feminine queer men who make it to the Thai national volleyball championships in the face of discrimination with the help of their lesbian coach. Film scholar, Serhat Unaldi, stated that \"The Iron Ladies\" (2000) is one of the first Thai films where kathoey and queer people are depicted positively and where community between queer people leads to character happiness and success. The plot of \"The Iron Ladies\" (2000) stands in contrast to previous films portraying kathoey characters which centered loss and elicited sympathy from the audience. Academic and film scholar, Brett Farmer, points to this film as a turning point for queer cinema in Thailand and as the"}, {"text": "beginning of the still very popular and commercial kathoey comedy genre of the Thai film industry. Art-house. Art-house films are films that are usually independently produced and not intended for a mass market. The art-house film sub-genre is the most internationally critically acclaimed of any Thai queer cinema film genre with many films from this genre, including \"Tropical Malady\" (2004) and \"Supernatural\" (2014) being featured in international film festivals. Film scholar, Sophia Siddiqi, argues that some independent Thai filmmakers choose to make art-house films in order to include restricted explicit sexual content that is censored by the Thai government. All Thai films must be submitted to the Film Censorship Board, which is a part of the Ministry of Culture, before being distributed to commercial movie theaters. \"Tropical Malady\" (2004) (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul). \"Tropical Malady\" is a film released in 2004 and directed by Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The film \"Tropical Malady\" (2004) is split into two separate narratives: the first half of the film is grounded in reality and focuses on the intimate relationship between two men in Northern Thailand and the second half shifts into an allegorical fantasy featuring a tiger in a forest, that draws on Thai"}, {"text": "folklore. Queer film scholars Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt, argue that through the shift from realism to fantasy just as the two male lead characters are about to kiss in front of a Thai flag, director Apichatpong Weerasethakul highlights the limitations of non-normative sexual desire in modern rural Northern Thailand. Schoonover and Galt also argue that the film is a dipthyc, meaning that the film consists of two parallel narratives that are \"hinged\" together and lead the audience to create a \"third space\" where the two film narratives are compared against each other. The film won the Jury Prize, or Prix du Jury, at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. \"Supernatural\" (2014) (dir. Thunska Pansittivorakul). \"Supernatural\" is a film released in 2014 and is Thai film director, Thunska Pansittivorakul's, first full-length fiction film. The film \"Supernatural\" explores the parallels between the marginalization of Thai gay men and Burmese refugees in Thailand at the hands of the Thai nationalist state. \"Supernatural,\" a science fiction film set in a dystopian future, was in some part inspired by George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four according to an interview with Pansittivorakul. Due to explicit scenes featuring queer eroticism the film was not distributed in mainstream movie"}, {"text": "theaters in Thailand, as explicit depictions of both heterosexual and same-sex sexual acts are censored by the Thai government. The film was instead released in the international film circuit. Key figures. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (born July 16, 1970). Apichatpong Weerasethakul (; Aphichatphong Wirasetthakun) is a Thai film director who was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1970 and was raised in the rural northeastern province, Khon Kaen, Thailand. He studied architecture at Khon Kaen University graduating with a B.A. in 1994 and then studied film making at the Art Institute of Chicago, receiving a master\u2019s degree in 1997. Weerasethakul began his career in directing experimental short films and documentary shorts. He founded his own production company in 1999, called Kick the Machine productions and began making full length films both documentary and fiction. Weerasethakul\u2019s films are commonly classified as independent art-house cinema and have garnered global critical acclaim through international film festival screenings and awards. Weerasethakul, who is gay himself, is known to explore themes of sexuality, gender, religion, and politics through fantasy and allegory in his films. While the majority of his films lack clear definitions of LGBT identity, queer desire is often central to Weerasethakul\u2019s film narratives. He is also"}, {"text": "known for drawing on his experiences growing up in rural Northern Thailand. Some notable Apichatpong Weerasethakul films include: Thunska Pansittivorakul (born 1973). Thunska Pansittivorakul () is a Thai film director who was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1973, and was raised near the Thailand-Malaysia border. He studied art education at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok before beginning his filmmaking career. Through his films, Pansittivorakul, who is openly gay, commonly explores discrimination and oppression of expressions of gender, sexuality, and religion deemed not acceptable by the Thai State. He began his filmmaking career in documentary shorts with \"Private Life\" (2000) and founded his own production company called Sleep of Reason Films in 2012. Notable Pansittivorakul films include: Pansittivorakul\u2019s first full length documentary \"Happy Berry\" (2004), won the grand prize at the 4th Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival in 2004. Other notable and critically acclaimed full-length documentaries by Pansittivorakul include \"The Terrorist\" (2011) and \"This Area is Under Quarantine\" (2008). \"This Area is Under Quarantine\" (2008) explores religious and military tensions between Buddhists and Muslims in the south of Thailand through depictions of explicit queer sexual intimacy between a young couple, a buddhist boy and a muslim boy. List of Thai films with"}, {"text": "queer content. Below is a list of Thai films that in some way represent non-normative gender and sexuality. A B C D F G H I J K L M P R S T W Y"}, {"text": "Half Moon is a summit located in Okanogan\u2013Wenatchee National Forest, in Okanogan County, of Washington state. The mountain is part of the Methow Mountains, which are a subset of the Cascade Range. Half Moon is situated on Kangaroo Ridge which is approximately two miles east and within view of the North Cascades Highway at Washington Pass. The nearest higher neighbor is Wallaby Peak, to the south. Precipitation runoff from the peak drains into Early Winters Creek, and Cedar Creek, both of which are tributaries of the Methow River. Geology. The North Cascades features some of the most rugged topography in the Cascade Range with craggy peaks, ridges, and deep glacial valleys. Geological events occurring many years ago created the diverse topography and drastic elevation changes over the Cascade Range leading to various climate differences. These climate differences lead to vegetation variety defining the ecoregions in this area. The history of the formation of the Cascade Mountains dates back millions of years ago to the late Eocene Epoch. With the North American Plate overriding the Pacific Plate, episodes of volcanic igneous activity persisted. In addition, small fragments of the oceanic and continental lithosphere called terranes created the North Cascades about 50"}, {"text": "million years ago. Half Moon is located in the Golden Horn batholith and composed of granite like many of the peaks in the Washington Pass area. During the Pleistocene period dating back over two million years ago, glaciation advancing and retreating repeatedly scoured the landscape leaving deposits of rock debris. The U-shaped cross section of the river valleys is a result of recent glaciation. Uplift and faulting in combination with glaciation have been the dominant processes which have created the tall peaks and deep valleys of the North Cascades area. Climate. Weather fronts originating in the Pacific Ocean travel northeast toward the Cascade Mountains. As fronts approach the North Cascades, they are forced upward (Orographic lift) by the peaks of the Cascade Range, causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall onto the Cascades. As a result, the west side of the North Cascades experiences high precipitation, especially during the winter months in the form of snowfall. Because of maritime influence, snow tends to be wet and heavy, resulting in avalanche danger. During winter months, weather is usually cloudy, but due to high pressure systems over the Pacific Ocean that intensify during summer months, there"}, {"text": "is often little or no cloud cover during the summer."}, {"text": "Ericka Elizabeth Gracia Micolta (born 30 July 1989) is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays as a defender for Super Liga Femenina club CD El Nacional and the Ecuador women's national team. International career. Gracia capped for Ecuador at senior level during the 2018 Copa Am\u00e9rica Femenina."}, {"text": "Don Clarke (born 1955 in Johannesburg) is a South African singer-songwriter, also known as The Songteller. Clarke is notable for his music contribution to South African culture with songs that celebrate South African sport (Kick It Up), tell the story of heroes and support social issues (Zuma Must Fall). His large music contribution to the South African film industry, including most of the Leon Schuster's films. One of his early songwriting credits, \"Sanbonani,\" was a national hit record for P J Powers in 1986. \"The Long Walk is Over,\" an ode to Nelson Mandela (co-written with Kalla Bremer) won the Grand Prize in the Great American Song Contest in 2013, now part of the memorial collection held at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory Repository. Promoting conservation in South Africa. Don is known for his sometimes controversial views on issues like poaching, hunting and politics. His music has been used by non-profits and in projects by John Varty, the conservationist. Convening the \"Legends\" stage at South Africa's longest-running annual music festival, Splashy Fen. Biography. Early life. Born in Johannesburg in 1955, Don Clarke grew up in Westville, South Africa, outside Durban in Kwa-Zulu Natal. He learnt to play the guitar"}, {"text": "and wrote song lyrics from childhood. He started high school at Hilton College in 1969, but completed his education at Westville Boys' High School. On leaving school, he earned income writing adverting jingles. Personal life. Don set up a music studio in Westville in 1979, and befriended a teenage Roy Ndlovu who ran errands. Roy died under strange circumstances in 1981. The song, \"Slowboats\" documents the story, with information provided by the artist. He married business partner Denise Britz, dance choreographer known for the floorshow cabarets and supper club theatre at Durban's Ruby Tuesday, Millionaire's and The Wild Coast Sun. Don Clarke contributed original, often humorous songs to her risque dance routines. One, \"Jingle Bells\"- is seasonal uptake which has been updated over the years. Don Clarke married Wendy Stacey in August, 2010. The couple live in Howick, in the KZN Midlands of South Africa. Wendy is a founding member of the Drakondale Girls' Choir School. The choir feature regularly in Don Clarke's recent music, notably on \"Till You're Free Again\"\",\" the song written for the 2018 Leon Schuster film, \"Frank and Fearless\". The film and the song both draw attention to the illegal trade in rhino horn. Interests and"}, {"text": "projects. Don Clarke writes, records and produces music from his home studio in Howick. He is a conservationist, columnist for the Drakonteur, and supports local music. He and Dicky Roberts have convened the \"Legends of the Fen\" stage at Splashy Fen (South Africa's longest running music festival) since 2016. The initiative has seen South African legends like Steve Fataar, Brian Finch and PJ Powers return to the festival over recent years. He has recently finished writing his first book, \"Once Upon a Crutchmullet\"\".\"He produces music through his studio, Monkeyshine Music, and is making a name for himself as a painter. Activism. Conservation. Don Clarke is public about his anti-hunting stance. He has a Facebook page called The Trophy Room and added his Mission Statement to his video channel under the song, \"Voortrekker Weep\", dedicated to John Varty, South Africa's best known conservationist and wildlife film maker. The song protests the 2019 shooting of an iconic elephant in Namibia. John Varty credited Don Clarke with the music to his song, \"The\" \"Messiah\" \"- Greta Thunberg.\" It is performed by Don Clarke and Ru Nyathi and supports the controversial activist. The Clarke catalogue includes many songs that protest ecological issues, including \"You're"}, {"text": "Not Alone\", another Varty dedication, and \"Roaring\". In 2018, a rhino charity used \"Till You're Free Again\" without charge for promotional purposes. Politics. \"Sanbonani\" was an anti-apartheid reconciliation song in 1986. Clarke has continuously spoken out publicly against corruption and inefficiency in the government through his column, vlogs and songs. EFF support for land expropriation triggered an Open Letter to Julius Malema, Clarke responded to the government lockdown measures with a series of Vlogs expressing his complaints and songs like \"Zuma Must Fall\" went viral after it was adopted by marching protesters. \"Mr Ramaphoza\" asks the new president not to \"sell a lie for votes.\" Social. South Africa is a multi-cultural society. Don Clarke works with local talent whenever collaboration is required and has written lyrics in multiple languages, like those written for Afrikaans singers like Laurika Rauch, Danie Niehaus, Leon Schuster and Rosie Doring. He recorded \"My Vok Maralise\" as his Afrikaans speaking alter ego, Donny the Dutchman. 1999, Don Clarke and Kala Bremer wrote the words and music for \"Die\" \"Nostalgie\"\",\" a popular song (in Afrikaans) recorded by Laurika Rauch on her cd 19 Treffers in 21 Jaar. In 2015, a group of musicians from Durban united to"}, {"text": "record \"Dig a Little Deeper\"\",\" a song about tackling xenophobia. \"The Long Walk is Over\" features Thembiso Sithole, Wendy Ndlovu Calvin Sthembiso & the Guns & Moses Choir, Underberg Primary School Choir, Rosa de Castro Doran, Callie Barrow, Derrik Swanepoel and Wendy Clarke. His recent song, \"A Virus and a Flower\" features , another local singer. Much of his catalogue concerns social issues, like his latest release, \"A Sad, Sad Song\" which is about the recent Covid-19 lockdown. Songwriting. In 1986, Don Clarke's song \"Sanbonani\", performed by PJ Powers, won SABC's National Song Festival. He has produced a large body of work since then, and continues to write for artists, films and productions. He produces music and continues to perform. Adult Art - The Band Years. Adult Art, was formed in 1990, with Ronnie McNamara, Shaun Herbert, Wayne Rathbone, Gavin Bramley and Dave Atkinson. It was mainly a studio band, founded to record and promote the songs Don Clarke had written. Several of the band's songs appeared on the soundtrack for the 1991 Leon Schuster movie \"Sweet 'n Short\". The band released three albums in the 1990s. including \"Acoustic Flush\" on the BMG Africa label in 1992. Adult Art disbanded"}, {"text": "in 1997, and reformed in 2010 under a new name, \"Crutchmullets\" Works. Track information below the table. \"*Oh Schucks! I'm Gatvol\" Tracks and Credits : (lyrics: \"Going Home\", \"Sanbonani\", \"Gatvol\") / (music: \"Going Home\", \"Sanbonani\", \"Naastin Theme\", \"Bakgatland\", \"Rambo Nation\", \"Gatvol\", \"Oh Schucks we wanna go Home\", \"Dig a Little Deeper\", \"I don't want to sit next to Manto\") / (performer: \"Going Home\", \"Sanbonani\", \"Naastin Theme\", \"Bakgatland\", \"Rambo Nation\") 2010 Soccer Safari Album Information. Written by Don Clarke, performed by Crutchmullets unless otherwise stated Tracklist: Kick it Up, Hey-Na Africa, Run for Cover, Khuthela Bo! (ft Leon Schuster), Vuvuzela Mamba (ft Alf \"Shorty\" Ntombela), Gig a Little Deeper, Siyabonga, Nkosi Sikilele Vuvuzela, Webabo, F For Woodwork (ft Alf \"Shorty\" Ntombela), Sinamandla, Keeper, Khuthala Bo! (Afrohouse Remix), We're All In Pain. Further reading. Leon Schuster Frank and Fearless Laurika Rauch Gray Hofmeyr"}, {"text": "Philip Gips (March 28, 1931 \u2013 October 3, 2019) was an American graphic designer and film poster artist. A native of The Bronx, Gips graduated from the Cooper Union, in addition to the Yale School of Art and Architecture. His most notable works were for the film posters of Roman Polanski's \"Rosemary's Baby\" (1968), Michael Ritchie's \"Downhill Racer\" (1969), and Ridley Scott's \"Alien\" (1979). All three were voted to \"Premiere\" magazine's 50 Best Movie Posters of All Time list. Among his many other film poster credits are \"Tommy\" (1975), \"Kramer vs. Kramer\" (1979), \"All That Jazz\" (1979), and \"Sophie's Choice\" (1982). Gips also created the logo for the sports channel ESPN. Gips died on October 3, 2019, at the age of 88. He was buried at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York."}, {"text": "Patrick Day (August 9, 1992 \u2013 October 16, 2019) was an American professional boxer. He died from brain trauma sustained in a knockout loss against Charles Conwell. Early life and education. Day was born to Haitian immigrants in Freeport, New York, and was the youngest of four sons. His father was a doctor who used to box as a child, while his mother, Lyssa, was a translator at the United Nations. During his professional boxing career, he earned an associate degree in nutrition from Nassau Community College, and a bachelor's degree in health and wellness from Kaplan University. Career. Day started boxing in 2006 under the guidance of former firefighter and boxing trainer Joe Higgins. In 2012, he won the New York Golden Gloves tournament. His amateur record was 75\u20135, including two national amateur championships. He was recognized as the number-one ranked amateur boxer in the United States in the 152-pound division, and served as a 2012 United States Olympic team alternate. Day rose to be a top-10 ranked light middleweight for the WBC and IBF. He also captured the regional WBC Continental Americas light middleweight title. Day won 17 of his 22 professional fights, with four defeats and one"}, {"text": "draw. Death. Day suffered a traumatic brain injury during a knockout loss to Charles Conwell in a USBA super welterweight title bout on October 12, 2019, and died four days later. Boxing announcer Michael Buffer described Day as a \"wonderful young man\" and that \"everyone in the boxing community is crushed\", while WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman said boxing had lost a \"brave, kind and wonderful friend\". Conwell posted an open letter online that expressed his sorrow and regret."}, {"text": "Salvador Balbuena Bruna (c. 1949-1950 \u2013 9 May 1979) was a Spanish professional golfer who won the 1976 Portuguese Open on the European Tour. He died of a heart attack on the eve of the 1979 French Open in which he was due to play. Professional career. Balbuena joined the European Tour before the 1976 season. He won the first event of the year, the Portuguese Open. In addition to winning his first tournament as a European Tour member, it was also the first golf tournament he had ever played outside his home country. Balbuena led by 5 strokes at the half-way stage and won by 4 shots from Sam Torrance. The following week he was joint leader after three rounds of the Spanish Open before fading after a final round 78. Two weeks later, at the French Open, he again led after three rounds and finished runner-up to South Africa's Vincent Tshabalala after a final round 72. The following week he made his British tour debut in the Piccadilly Medal where he had a top-10 finish. For the remainder of the season, he would miss only one cut, and finish 20th on the Order of Merit. Balbuena was selected"}, {"text": "for three team events during the season, representing Spain in the Philip Morris International and Continental Europe in the Double Diamond International and the Hennessy Cognac Cup. In November he became the first non-American to win the Morocco Grand Prix, finishing three strokes ahead of three Americans. Balbuena played in his first major championship, the 1977 Open Championship at Turnberry, having qualified automatically by virtue of his 20th place in the 1976 Order of Merit. After his impressive first season in 1976, the following two seasons, 1977 and 1978, were similarly consistent. Although he did not win he recorded a number of top-10s finishes, including a third-place finish at the 1978 Spanish Open. Death. On 9 May 1979, tragedy struck. Balbuena was having dinner with fellow Spanish golfers Antonio Garrido, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Ca\u00f1izares, and Manuel Pi\u00f1ero in Lyon, France, the day before the French Open began. He suddenly had a heart attack and was rushed on an ambulance. He died on his way to the hospital. He was 29 years old."}, {"text": "Sargis Khachatryan (; born 23 October 1964) sometimes also listed as Sarkiz Khachaterian, is an Armenian former Armenian footballer who played as a forward. He was documented to have spent a few months with Lechia Gda\u0144sk making his debut against Sok\u00f3\u0142 Pniewy on 13 May 1993. He made a total of 12 appearances in the II liga during the 1992\u201393 and 1993\u201394 season. He scored one goal for Lechia, coming in the Polish Cup. When he made his debut, Khachatryan was the first player not from Poland to play for Lechia Gda\u0144sk."}, {"text": "The first season of Australian reality television series \"Lego Masters\" premiered on the Nine Network on 28 April 2019. Hamish Blake was announced as host and Ryan \"The Brickman\" McNaught was announced as Judge. Production. Auditions for the series opened in June 2018, however no network had commissioned it at that time, filming would take place between October and December. The series was commissioned in July 2018 by the Nine Network, The series was officially confirmed at Nine's Upfronts in October 2018, also announcing the series will be hosted Hamish Blake. The season was sponsored by Lego, Honda, Kmart and the a2 Milk Company."}, {"text": "The Simon Brothers Company is a historic six-story building in Omaha, Nebraska. It was built in 1919 by J.L. Carnecie & Sons for its namesake, a wholesale grocer whose president was Jacob Simon Sr., and designed by architect John Latenser Sr. It was acquired at auction by the Shade Island Hospital Trust Company in May 1932, and it belonged to the Remnik Corporation from December 1932 to July 1941. It was then acquired by the Ford Brothers Van and Storage Company, who sold it to the Ray A. Ford Real Estate Company in 1955, and it was acquired by the Dodge Street Limited Partnership in 1996. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 1, 1999."}, {"text": "The BFI Gallery was the British Film Institute's contemporary art gallery dedicated to artists' moving image housed within BFI Southbank, the BFI's flagship venue in London, previously known as the National Film Theatre. The space was funded by the BFI with Arts Council England support and opened on 14 March 2007, to coincide with the reopening of the site. Its programme of new commissions, events and associated artists' film screenings was curated by Elisabetta Fabrizi, BFI Head of Exhibitions. The programme included exhibitions by Michael Snow, John Akomfrah, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pierre Bismuth, Jane & Louise Wilson, Peter Campus, Patrick Keiller, Phil Collins, Matt Collishaw, Yvonne Rainer, Julian Rosensfeld, Michel Gondry, Deimantas Narkevicious, Mark Lewis. Film programmes linked to the gallery exhibitions included a retrospective of the films of Sergei Paradjanov and of Michael Snow. As stated in the BFI Annual Review 2010-11: The Gallery was closed as part of the BFI's review of all its activities following the Government's decision to cut grant-in aid by 15% over four years. The space vacated by the Gallery was redeveloped to house the BFI Reuben Library which opened in 2012. A commemorative book, 'The BFI Gallery Book', was published in January 2011."}, {"text": "Varma Voitto Kallio (3 April 1920, Helsinki \u2013 25 October 2003) was a Finnish Government Counsellor () and politician who served as Minister of Education in Kalevi Sorsa's government in 1974, from 1 June to 9 September, representing the Finnish Social Democratic Party."}, {"text": "Zuni Maud (born Yitzhok Moyed; 1891 \u2013 1956) was a Yiddish-American cartoonist, satirist, calligrapher and co-founder of the first Yiddish-language puppet theatre in the United States. Early life and education. Zuni Maud (\u05d6\u05d5\u05e0\u05d9 \u05de\u05d0\u05d5\u05d3) was born Yitzhok Moyed in the shtetl of Wasilk\u00f3w, in what is now Poland. His father was a gabbai. He studied at cheder, yeshiva and Talmud Torahs in Bialystok, Bielsk and Warsaw. While at these schools he would illustrate the studied Jewish texts, leading to disciplinary problems. Yiddish press and theatre. He came to the United States in 1905 with his brother; he became Isaac Maud at Ellis Island. He did odd jobs while studying art at night at Cooper Union and the anarchist social center, the Ferrer School. While working as a messenger boy, he was given the nickname Sunny; he kept the name, but Yiddishized it to Zuni. In 1907 with other young intellectuals he founded the Yiddish magazine \"Di Yungt\" and later they started a satirical magazine, \"Der Kibitzer\". His drawings in these journals were one or more panels and were about Jewish life; his first comic story in Yiddish was in 1910. From 1916-1920 he was the entertainment section editor of Forverts,"}, {"text": "as well as a cartoonist for several other newspapers. In 1924, he joined friends Yosl Cutler and Jack Tworkov to be set and costume designers for Maurice Schwartz's production of Abraham Goldfaden's \"Di Kishefmacherin\". They created puppets for the show and decided to launch a puppet theatre. The trio expanded their early work during a summer spent in the Catskills, at a summer home of left wing painters and writers, who offered opinions. In 1925 the trio opened the Modjacot (a portmanteau of their names) Spiel Theatre, the first Yiddish puppet theatre in America. Tworkov dropped out very soon, and the amalgam name became Modicot. The \"semi-creepy Yiddish speaking puppets\" were grotesque and sets tended to the surreal. Plays were delivered with an artful and sharp satire of Yiddish life, with a left-wing political outlook, but maintaining a comic edge. Collaborating with Cutler, their work was always infused with social commentary, surrealism, cubism and cynical humor. The plays articulated \"the clash between tradition and modernity marking Yiddish life in New York,\" and \"skewered everything from contemporary politics to Jewish life.\" In 1929 Modicot toured for three years, first in America, then Europe, with visits to London, Paris, Vilna, Warsaw, Amsterdam"}, {"text": "and finishing in the Soviet Union. The European tours were well received. In Vilna they played to 75 sold-out performances in one month. In Warsaw the Yiddish press had unmitigated praise for Modicot, recommending it to \"all Jewish workers,\" and noting: The entire program is full of extraordinary folk humor, wonderful ideas, and splendid technique. We have truly Jewish wrinkles and gestures, words and mumbles, signs and groans, which came about from Jewish sources and a Jewish way of life. Cutler and Maud had differing but complementary personality profiles:Cutler is the opposite of Maud. Maud is difficult, Cutler\u2014easy. Maud is stubborn, Cutler\u2014acquiescent. Maud is brutally critical, Cutler\u2014naive and mild. The poet Zishe Vaynper also commented on how different their personalities were, writing that their artistic work together created a kind of harmony which brought them to their artistic goal. He further stated that they were the only artists who brought an element of fun into the proletarian movement. A versatile artist he illustrated many books, mainly children's, worked as a set designer for the Yiddish theatre and was a noted calligrapher. He is now recognized, also, as a sculptor, book designer, poster artist and a writer of parodies and short"}, {"text": "stories. Retrospective. In 2015 the theatre collective Great Small Works performed \"Muttergang and Other Cheerful Downfalls\", a bilingual Yiddish-English revisiting of Maud and Cutler's artistic works, re-working original scripts and using puppets and actors. Their work has recently been considered to be a model for changing power relationships. Later life and death. Upon returning from the 1933 European tour Maud and Cutler had a \"tragic\" split up, for unknown reasons. Maud, described as having \"a certain melancholy,\" largely disappeared from the theatre world. After a failed one man art show, he devoted his time to painting for himself at the family bungalow colony in the Catskills. He was pro-communist. During his tours of the Soviet Union, he met and befriended many Jewish writers. In 1956 he was informed that Stalin had executed many of his friends. He died that night of a heart attack. \"Since then he has disappeared into the nether world of Yiddish history.\""}, {"text": "Reba Buhr (born November 7, 1987) is an American voice actress who has worked on English dubbed anime series, Western animated TV series, and video games. She hosted the news segment Disney 365 on the Disney Channel from 2011\u20132012. Some of her roles include Misty in \"Pok\u00e9mon Masters\", Rose Lavillant and Juleka Couffaine in ', Jennifer Record in ID-0, Yukie Kanoko in \"Godzilla Singular Point\", Milo in Revisions, and Kohiruimaki Karen/LLENN in \"Sword Art Online: Alternative Gun Gale Online\". Buhr is also a singer, having studied Theater and Voice at Occidental College, and has performed live at Disney's California Adventure as Jasmine in ', among other shows."}, {"text": "The Somali Dervish was an epic film directed by Said Salah and Amar Sneh between 1983 and 1985. It is one of the few full-length feature films to have been produced in Somalia. With a budget of $1.8 million, the 4-hour-and-40-minute epic followed the life of Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, leader of the Somali Dervish movement. Seven languages were used for film dialogue: Somali, Arabic, Italian, English, and three regional dialects. The movie included an actual descendant of Mohammed Abdullah Hassan as its star, Sheikh Osman Mohamoud Omar, and featured hundreds of actors and extras. Once thought to be lost, the movie was found in the National Film Archive of India in late 2019."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Auburn Tigers women's basketball team represented Auburn University during the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Tigers, led by eighth-year head coach Terri Williams-Flournoy, played their home games at Auburn Arena and competed as members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Preseason. SEC media poll. The SEC media poll was released on October 15, 2019. Schedule. !colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| SEC regular season !colspan=9 style=| SEC Tournament"}, {"text": "The Sanford Hotel, also known as the Conant Hotel, is a historic seven-story building in Omaha, Nebraska. It was built as a hotel for Dr. Harold Gifford, an ophthalmologist, self-professed socialist, and real estate investor, in 1916\u20131917. The hotel was managed by Harley Conant, who renamed it the Conant Hotel in 1939. The building was designed in the Chicago school style by architect John Latenser Sr. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since September 26, 1985."}, {"text": "The 2020 AFL draft consisted of the various periods where the 18 clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL) could trade and recruit players following the completion of the 2020 AFL season. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the National, Pre-season and Rookie drafts were held as a \"virtual event\" on 9 and 10 December. Previous trades. Since 2015, clubs have been able to trade future picks in the next year's national draft during the trade period. As a result, a total of 40 selections for the 2020 draft were traded during the 2019 trade period. Further trades of future picks can be made before or during the 2019 national draft. The selection order for each of these picks is tied to the original club's finishing position in the 2020 season. List changes. Moved to Rookie List. As part of the revised AFL Collective Bargaining agreement, clubs could now move up to two players from their Senior List on to their Rookie List without having to redraft them through the rookie draft. Pre-draft selections. As part of their 2019 draft concessions, were able to prelist players from their Academy zone. 2020 national draft. Rookie elevations. Clubs were able"}, {"text": "to promote any player who was listed on their rookie list in 2020 to their 2021 primary playing list prior to the draft. 2021 pre-season draft. The 2021 pre-season draft was held on the afternoon of Thursday, 10 December 2020 prior to the commencement of the rookie draft."}, {"text": "Barbashi () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 33 as of 2010. Geography. Barbashi is located 94 km northwest of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Svetly Yar is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Green Bay Phoenix men's basketball team represented the University of Wisconsin\u2013Green Bay in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Phoenix, led by fifth-year head coach Linc Darner, played their home games at the Resch Center in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin and the Kress Events Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin as members of the Horizon League. They finished the season 17\u201316, 11\u20137 in Horizon League play to finish in third place. They defeated Oakland in the quarterfinals of the Horizon League tournament before losing in the semifinals to Northern Kentucky. On May 17, 2020, head coach Linc Darner was fired. He finished at Green Bay with a five-year record of 92\u201380. Previous season. The Phoenix finished the 2018\u201319 season 21\u201317 overall, 10\u20138 in Horizon League play to finish in a tie for fourth place. In the Horizon League tournament, they defeated UIC in the quarterfinals, before falling to top seeded Wright State in the semifinals. They received an invitation to the CIT, where they defeated East Tennessee State in the first round, FIU in the second round, Cal State Bakersfield in the quarterfinals, Texas Southern in the semifinals, before falling to Marshall in the championship game. Schedule and"}, {"text": "results. !colspan=12 style=| Exhibition !colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Horizon League regular season !colspan=12 style=| Horizon League tournament Source"}, {"text": "Bolshiye Chapurniki () is a rural locality (a selo) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 3,228 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Bolshiye Chapurniki is located 19 km southwest of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Malye Chapurniki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gromki () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 47 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Gromki is located 161 km northeast of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Leshchev is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Dubovoye () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Dubovoye is located 95 km southwest of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kapkinka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "I Corps Band or America's First Corps Band (officially referred to as the 56th Army Band) is an American military band maintained by the United States Army and is attached to the Army's I Corps in United States Army Forces Command. It is currently one of two Army bands in the Pacific Northwest, the other being the 133d Army Band (Washington Army National Guard) based at Camp Murray. The 56th is currently based at Joint Base Lewis\u2013McChord outside of Tacoma, Washington. Ensembles. These ensembles include: Performances. Outside ceremonial performances, the band also performs throughout the Tacoma community, which frequently include K-12 schools as well as community concerts and parades. A member of the band often performs at the regimental ball of the Military Police Corps in Tacoma, Washington. It also performs at the annual international band concert with the Naden Band of Maritime Forces Pacific and Navy Band Northwest at the Bremerton Performing Arts Center. Being a music entity, the jazz band of the I Corps Band has performed on multiple media networks such as KNKX, which is the National Public Radio's jazz-based radio format for the Seattle metropolitan area. In May 2014, during a concert by the band that"}, {"text": "was streamed live at a high school in Oswego, Illinois, the band held a Q&A with the local students who saw the band during an assembly. In the summer of 2016, it performed at a memorial service in Enoggera, Queensland, Australia as part of the Talisman Saber exercise. Lineage. The lineage of the band is as follows:"}, {"text": "Dubovy Ovrag () is a rural locality (a selo) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 2,091 as of 2010. There are 12 streets. Geography. Dubovy Ovrag is located 29 km southwest of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bolshiye Chapurniki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ivanovka () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 998 in 2010. There are 18 streets."}, {"text": "Bob Kjer Jakobsen (March 8, 1918 in Portland, Oregon \u2013 May 27, 2002) was a \"Los Angeles Times\" press photographer who was active from the 1930s to the 1960s. Significance. Jakobsen's most famous photograph won the 1942 Associated Press annual photo contest for California and Nevada, and fourth place in the national Associated Press contest in 1943. It was selected by Edward Steichen for the 1955 Museum of Modern Art world touring exhibition \"The Family of Man\", which was seen by 9 million visitors. When in 1940, the United States expanded its military, units were deployed to expanded Pacific bases, including the 251st Coast Artillery (1,200 National Guardsmen), ordered into service on Sept. 16, 1940, which was transferred to Hawaii. The anti-aircraft unit later was responsible for downing at least two attacking Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Five photos of the men boarding the luxury liner \"Washington\" by \"Los Angeles Times\" staff photographer Jakobsen appeared in the Nov. 17, 1940, \"Los Angeles Times\" Sunday rotogravure section, the lead being his tightly cropped picture of Pvt. John Winbury farewelling his tearful little boy. Jakobsen's was 'Picture of the Week' in the Nov. 25, 1940, issue of \"Life\""}, {"text": "magazine, captioned; \"The dock in Los Angeles harbor was crowded with 743 other men, all dressed like Robert's father, who were saying goodbye to other boys and girls like Robert and other women like Robert's mother. Robert's father called him \"Butch\" and told him to chin up, but Robert was not to be consoled.\" During World War II Jakobsen produced publicity material for the Navy, in particular for the United States Maritime Service Training Station at Avalon. Another of his \"Los Angeles Times\" photographs, from June 22, 1947, showed the tanker S. S. Markay on fire after it exploded in Los Angeles Harbor. Personal life. Jakobsen met his future wife Lucia Hammer (1917\u20132007) at a photography club in Portland. They were married for eighteen years."}, {"text": "Kanalnaya () is a rural locality (a station) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 377 as of 2010. There are 5 streets."}, {"text": "Kirova () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 2,616 as of 2010. There are 45 streets. Geography. Kirova is located 28 km west of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chapurniki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krasnopartizansky () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 97 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Krasnopartizansky is located 70 km southwest of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Abganerovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 2019 Petit Le Mans (formally known as the 2019 MOTUL Petit Le Mans for sponsorship reasons) was the 22nd running of the Petit Le Mans, and was held on October 12, 2019. It was the last race in the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship, and the last race of the 2019 Michelin Endurance Cup, and was run at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia. The race was won overall by the #31 Whelen Engineering Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R after its sister car fell out with brake failure with less than 30 minutes remaining. The distance covered was a race record. Background. International Motor Sports Association's (IMSA) president Scott Atherton confirmed the race was part of the schedule for the 2019 IMSA SportsCar Championship (IMSA SCC) in August 2018. It was the sixth consecutive year the event was held as part of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The 2019 Petit Le Mans was the last of twelve sports car races of 2019 by IMSA, and it was the last of four rounds held as part of the Michelin Endurance Cup. The race took place at the 12-turn, Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia on October 12, 2019. As the final race for the 2019"}, {"text": "season, the race concluded IMSA's 50th anniversary season. Scott Atherton would retire from his position as President of the International Motor Sports Association following the event. In his final race as president, Scott Atherton served as the events grand marshal. John Doonan would replace Scott Atherton as president of the International Motor Sports Association beginning in 2020. This would be the final race for the Ford GT as Ford was ending their factory involvement following the 2019 season. The Nissan Onroak DPi made its final appearance as Jon Bennett would retire from full time driving. The Chevrolet Corvette C7.R and Porsche 911 RSR also entered their final IMSA events, ahead of the switch to new-generation GTE machinery for both manufacturers in 2020. Chevrolet would transition to the Chevrolet Corvette C8.R, while Porsche introduced the Porsche 911 RSR-19. Heading into the final race of the season, Dane Cameron and Juan Pablo Montoya led the DPi Drivers' Championship with 274 points; the duo held a twelve-point advantage over Pipo Derani and Felipe Nasr in second. With 235 points, Matt McMurry led the LMP2 Drivers' Championship, ahead of Cameron Cassels. In GTLM, Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor led the Drivers' Championship with 304"}, {"text": "points, 12 points ahead of Patrick Pilet and Nick Tandy. The GTD Drivers' Championship was led by Mario Farnbacher and Trent Hindman with 264 points, 32 points clear of Zacharie Robichon in second. Acura, Porsche, and Lamborghini were leading their respective Manufacturers' Championships, while Acura Team Penske, PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, Porsche GT Team, and Meyer Shank Racing each led their own Teams' Championships. Entries. A total of 34 cars took part in the event split across 4 classes. 11 cars were entered in DPi, 2 in LMP2, 9 in GTLM, and 12 in GTD. In DPi, Juncos Racing made its first appearance since the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park round. Graham Rahal substituted for Alexander Rossi in the No. 7 Acura Team Penske entry due to a clash with the Bathurst 1000. In GTLM, Risi Competizione returned for the first time since the season opening round at Daytona. In GTD, Park Place Motorsports were absent due to not having a spare chassis. Montaplast by Land-Motorsport and Precision Performance Motorsports made their first appearances since the Watkins Glen round. Compass Racing skipped the event. Marco Seefried joined Bryan Sellers and Corey Lewis in the Paul Miller Racing entry. Parker Chase joined Jack Hawksworth"}, {"text": "and Richard Heistand in the No. 14 AIM Vasser-Sullivan entry. Practice. There were four practice sessions preceding the start of the race on Saturday, three on Thursday and one on Friday. The first two sessions on Thursday morning and afternoon were 60 minutes and 75 minutes in length, while the third held later that evening ran for 90 minutes, and the fourth on Friday morning lasted one hour. In the first practice session, Felipe Nasr set the fastest lap in the No. 31 Cadillac at 1 minute, 09.093 seconds, 0.642 seconds faster than Ricky Taylor's No. 7 Acura. Dane Cameron in the No. 6 Acura was third, and Colin Braun was fourth in the No. 54 Nissan. Matthieu Vaxiviere was fifth fastest for Konica Minolta Cadillac while Timo Bernhard in the No. 77 Mazda was sixth. Gabriel Aubry led LMP2 in the No. 52 PR1/ Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca 07. The GTLM class was topped by Richard Westbrook's No. 67 Ford GT with a lap of 1 minute, 16.810 seconds, 0.092 seconds faster than James Calado's No. 62 Ferrari 488. Dirk M\u00fcller was third in the No. 66 Ford GT and Nick Tandy was fourth fastest in the No. 911 Porsche."}, {"text": "In GTD, Bill Auberlen in Turner Motorsport's No. 96 BMW M6 lapped fastest with a time of 1 minute, 19.306 seconds, with Jack Hawksworth second in the No. 14 Lexus. The session was red flagged two times. 6 minutes into the session, Hawksworth stopped on track with a puncture. The final stoppage came when Marco Seefried crashed the No. 48 Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini into the tire barrier at turn three. In the second practice session, Cameron was fastest with a time of 1 minute, 09.095 seconds, ahead of the No. 85 Cadillac of Tristan Vautier and Albuquerque's No. 5 Mustang Sampling car. van der Zande placed the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac entry fourth and Ricky Taylor's No. 7 Acura rounded out the top five. Aubry led LMP2 in the No. 52 PR1/ Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca 07. Daniel Serra led GTLM in the No. 62 Ferrari with a 1-minute, 16.708 seconds lap. Antonio Garc\u00eda's No. 3 Corvette was second. Dixon in the No. 66 CGR Ford GT was third. Felipe Fraga No. 33 Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 was fastest in GTD, while Morad was 0.409 seconds slower in the No. 29 Land-Motorsport Audi. Chris Miller caused the first caused"}, {"text": "the session's first stoppage when he spun his No. 84 JDC-Miller Cadillac at turn 10a and got beached in the gravel trap. Later, Nunez, Marks, and Piedrahita spun and got their cars beached at turns 6 and 10a, respectively. The third practice session ran at night and saw Derani's No. 31 Cadillac set the fastest time overall at 1 minute, 09.455 seconds. Albuquerque was almost two-tenths of a second behind in second, with the No. 7 Team Penske Acura of Ricky Taylor was third. Vautier in the No. 85 Cadillac was fourth and Jarvis' No. 77 Mazda was fifth. Ren\u00e9 Binder necessitated the showing of a red flag when he spun and beached the No. 50 Juncos Racing in the gravel trap at turn 10a halfway through the session. Aubry was the fastest LMP2 driver in the PR1/ Mathiasen Motorsports entry. In GTLM, M\u00fcller was fastest in class with a lap of 1 minute, 16.552 seconds. Blomqvist was second-fastest in the No. 25 BMW M8 and Briscoe took third in the No. 67 Ford GT. In GTD, Auberlen was again fastest in the class, followed by Jeroen Bleekemolen's No. 33 Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3. Nasr led the final session in"}, {"text": "the No. 31 WER car with a lap of 1 minute, 08.419 seconds. Ricky Taylor's No. 7 Acura was second-fastest. The No. 5 Cadillac of Albuquerque set the third-quickest lap. van der Zande's No. 10 Cadillac, along with Bernhard's No. 77 Mazda car were fourth and fifth. Misha Goikhberg necessitated the showing of a red flag when he spun and beached the No. 85 JDC-Miller Cadillac in the gravel trap at turn 10 with 17 minutes remaining in the session. Aubry was fastest again in LMP2. Calado's No. 62 Ferrari was fastest in GTlM while, Robby Foley, driving the No. 96 Turner Motorsport BMW M6, was the fastest driver in GTD. Qualifying. Friday's afternoon qualifying session was broken into three sessions that were scheduled for 15 minutes each. Cars in GTD were sent out first before those grouped in GTLM and DPi/LMP2 had two separate identically timed sessions. All cars were required to be driven by one participant and the starting order was determined by the competitor's fastest lap. IMSA then arranged the grid so that the DPi, LMP2, and GTLM cars started in front of the GTD field. Felipe Nasr in the No. 31 Cadillac set a new track"}, {"text": "record to clinch pole position with a time of 1 minute and 08.457 seconds. He was joined on the grid's front row by Ricky Taylor's No. 7 Acura who was 0.141 seconds slower. Filipe Albuquerque qualified the No. 5 Cadillac in third, ahead of Dane Cameron's fourth-placed No. 6 Acura. The two Mazdas were fourth and fifth (the No. 77 car driven by Bernhard in front of the No. 55 vehicle of Tincknell). Trummer's No. 84 Cadillac took sixth and van der Zande's No. 10 Cadillac qualified seventh. Pigot's No. 50 Juncos Racing Cadillac took eighth, ahead of Goikhberg in the No. 85 JDC-Miller MotorSports Cadillac and the No. 54 CORE Autosport Nissan driven by Jon Bennett rounded out the DPi qualifiers. In LMP2, Masson set the fastest time in the Performance Tech Motorsports entry, with his fastest lap being 0.131 seconds faster than McMurry in the No. 52 PR1/ Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca. In GTLM, James Calado in the No. 62 Ferrari set a new category track record to take pole position with a time of 1 minute and 15.639 seconds. Garc\u00eda in the No. 3 Corvette set the second fastest time, but would start at the back of the"}, {"text": "GTLM field after his car failed the post-qualifying technical inspection where it was discovered that the Corvette was found to not have complied with mandated ride height. As a result, Philipp Eng would start in second position followed Vanthoor's No. 912 Porsche in third. In GTD, Corey Lewis took his second consecutive pole position of the season with a lap of 1 minute and 19.530 seconds. He was joined by Ben Keating's No. 33 Mercedes-AMG on the grid's front row with his best lap being 0.135 second slower, and Jeff Westphal drove the No. 63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari to third place. Justin Marks qualified the No. 86 Acura fourth, ahead of Christina Nielsen's fifth placed No. 57 Acura. The No. 96 Turner Motorsport BMW failed to record a time due to Robby Foley spinning at turn 10a and beaching the car at the gravel trap on his outlap. The No. 29 Montaplast by Land-Motorsport and No. 47 Precision Performance Motorsports entries lost all their lap times due to both teams crew touching their respective cars. Qualifying results. Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and by . Race. Post-race. Cameron and Montoya took the DPi Drivers' Championship with"}, {"text": "302 points. They were five points clear of Derani and Nasr. With 270 points, McMurry won the LMP2 Drivers' Championship, 11 points clear of Cassels. Bamber and Vanthoor took the GTLM Drivers' Championship with 330 points. They were 17 points clear of Pilet and Tandy in second. Garc\u00eda and Magnussen were third with 317 points. Farnbacher and Hindman won the GTD Drivers' Championship with 283 points, 21 points ahead of Auberlen and Foley. Robichon was third with 262 points. Acura, Porsche, and Lamborghini won their respective Manufactures' Championships, while Acura Team Penske, PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, Porsche GT Team, and Meyer Shank Racing won their respective Teams' Championships. Race Results. Class winners are denoted in bold and ."}, {"text": "Krasnoflotsky () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 225 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Krasnoflotsky is located 36 km south of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Trudolyubiye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lugovoy () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 467 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Lugovoy is located 49 km southwest of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Privolzhsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The siege of Caen took place during the Hundred Years War when English forces under King Henry V laid siege to and captured Caen in Normandy from its French defenders. Background. Following his victory at Agincourt in 1415, Henry had returned to England. The battle, although ensuring that the French would not face the English in open battle again, had not furthered Henry's claim to the French throne, and he therefore set about raising another, even larger, army. In March 1417 at Southampton, Henry began to assemble a force of some 12,000 men at arms and archers, together with about 30,000 supporting men; gunners, engineers, miners, armourers and other auxiliaries. A huge quantity of stores included all kinds of siege engines, artillery and gunpowder. On 23 July, the whole force began to embark on a fleet estimated at 1,500 ships, finally setting sail for France on 30 July. The siege. The English army landed on the coast of Normandy near Deauville. Henry's plan was to capture and garrison the major cities and towns of Lower Normandy, before moving on towards Paris. His first objective was the city of Caen, the second largest in Normandy with a population of up to"}, {"text": "40,000. The recently improved defensive walls had a total of twelve gatehouses and thirty two towers. The upper or old town with its castle, the Chateau de Caen, stood on a hill, overlooking the lower or new town, which was almost completely surrounded by a loop in the River Orne. The French garrison began demolishing buildings outside of the walls to avoid giving cover to the attackers, however two large monasteries were still being prepared for demolition when the English vanguard, led by Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence, arrived. Clarence took over the Abbey of Sainte-Trinit\u00e9 as his headquarters. A story says that a monk from the other monastery, the Abbey of Saint-\u00c9tienne or \"Abbaye aux Hommes\" (\"Men's Abbey\"), came to Clarence at night, begged him not to allow the French troops to destroy the church and offered to show him a way over the abbey walls. The abbey, which had a commanding view over the town, was captured and Henry later installed guns on the roof. Having installed a prefabricated bridge over the river, Henry began the siege on 18 August with an artillery barrage on the lower town. The English cannon were so large that the shock"}, {"text": "of firing broke the abbey windows. The larger guns fired solid stone balls or hollow iron shells filled with combustible material, while the smaller guns fired showers of lead shot. Henry also attempted to undermine the walls, but the defenders set up bowls of water on the ramparts so that by observing the ripples, they could detect the English digging and countermine, fighting the attackers underground. The commander of the French garrison, Guillaume de Montenay, having refused to surrender, Henry planned an assault on 4 September. The attack was mounted on the lower town from two opposite directions, one led by the king and one by the Duke of Clarence. After crossing the moat by filling it with fascines, the English scaling ladders proved to be too short and the wall was only crossed with considerable difficulty, against the efforts of the defenders, who showered them with quicklime, rocks and boiling water. In the course of the siege, an English knight, Sir Edward Sprenghose, managed to scale the walls, but fell and was burned alive by the city's defenders, who threw burning straw down on him. Thomas Walsingham wrote that this was one of the factors in the violence with"}, {"text": "which the captured town was sacked by the English. Clarence's men broke through first, a soldier called Harry Ingles being the first over the wall. After fierce house to house fighting led by Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick shouting \"A Clarence, a Clarence, a St George!\", were able to clear the defenders from the ramparts and open the gates for the king's men to enter. The rules of war at that time meant that a garrison that refused to surrender was at the mercy of the successful attackers. English chroniclers are at pains to praise Henry, who ordered that no women or priest should be harmed or churches plundered; however, his men forced anyone they could find into the market place, where they massacred between 1,800 and 2,000 people. According to one account, Henry ordered a halt to the killing when he came across the headless body of a woman with a baby in her lap. His soldiers were then turned loose to pillage the town. The castle, encumbered with by a thousand refugees from the earlier fighting, surrendered on 20 September without being either bombarded or assaulted. De Montenay handed over the keys to Henry, who gave generous"}, {"text": "terms to the defenders. The soldiers were allowed to leave with their horses, arms, equipment and up to 2,000 \"\u00e9cus\" of coin each. Civilians were allowed to leave with only the clothes they were wearing, or they could stay and swear fealty to Henry. About 700 citizens are known to have left the city, and de Montenay and his soldiers went on to join the defenders of Falaise. Aftermath. While the siege was still in progress, Clarence had written to the Lord Mayor of London saying that English settlers would be required to populate the town and when they later arrived, they were allocated vacant houses to live in. In the following months, Henry went on to capture Argentan, Falaise and Cherbourg. Turning east, he then besieged Rouen, then considered to be France's second city. The desperate Siege of Rouen lasted from July until January 1419, but its capture secured the whole of Normandy as a base from which he could press on towards Paris. Henry finally died in 1422 at the Siege of Meaux. Caen remained in English hands until 1450 when it was besieged and taken back during the French reconquest of Normandy in the closing stages of"}, {"text": "the war."}, {"text": "Malye Chapurniki () is a rural locality (a selo) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 805 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Malye Chapurniki is located 19 km west of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bolshiye Chapurniki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nariman () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,426 as of 2010. There are 32 streets. Geography. Nariman is located 57 km west of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zarya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novosad () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 508 as of 2010. Geography. Novosad is located 43 km southwest of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Privolzhsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Privolzhsky () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,220 as of 2010. There are 21 streets. Geography. Privolzhsky is located 43 km southwest of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novosad is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Privolny () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,608 as of 2010. There are 18 streets. Geography. Privolny is located 75 km southwest of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Abganerovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tommy Brann (born December 23, 1951) is an American politician from Michigan. Brann is a Republican member of Michigan House of Representatives from District 77. Early life. Thomas Michael Brann was born on December 23, 1951. Brann's father is John Brann, a former restaurateur. He graduated from East Grand Rapids High School. He is a third-generation resident of Kent County. He is of Irish Descent. Career. Brann is the owner of Brann's Steakhouse and Grille. At 19, Brann started his first restaurant business. Brann is the author of Mind Your Own Business. After Michael Moore and Seth Rogen criticized the film \"American Sniper\", Brann banned the two from visiting his restaurants, describing their criticism as \"hateful\" against the United States Armed Forces and military sniper Chris Kyle, who was portrayed in the film. Political career. On November 6, 2016, Brann won the election and became a Republican member of Michigan House of Representatives for District 77. Brann defeated Dana Knight. In 2018 and 2020, as an incumbent, Brann won the reelection served House District 77. On October 10, 2021, Brann co-sponsored House Bill 5444. Brann supported U.S. Representative Peter Meijer during the District 3 House of Representatives elections in 2022."}, {"text": "In the 2022 Michigan Senate election, Brann was defeated by Winnie Brinks in a race form representing Michigan's 29th Senate district. Brann is currently running against State Representative John Fitzgerald in the 2024 Election racing for the 83rd District which spans from Wyoming to Grand Rapids. Personal life. Brann is married to Sue Brann for 50 years, whom he met through his restaurant, according to his website. He describes himself as an Independent Republican. He is currently running in the 2024 83rd District against John Fitzgerald."}, {"text": "Prudovy () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 329 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Prudovy is located 53 km southwest of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kanalnaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Raygorod () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 2,848 as of 2010. There are 45 streets. Geography. Raygorod is located 15 km northwest of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Svetly Yar is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sadovy () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 53 as of 2010."}, {"text": "Severny () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 264 as of 2010. There are 10 streets."}, {"text": "Solyanka () is a rural locality (a selo) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 238 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Solyanka is located 32 km southwest of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Posyolok Solyanoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tinguta () is a rural locality (a station) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. According to the 2010 census, the population was only 10 people. Geography. Tinguta is located 55 km southwest of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Prudovy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nicole Karen Charcopa Sevillano (born 1 April 2000) is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as either a right-back or a right winger for Independiente del Valle and the Ecuador women's national team. Club career. Born in Guayaquil, Charcopa began her career with Fundaci\u00f3n Conaviro in 2014. She subsequently played for Rocafuerte and \u00d1a\u00f1as before joining in 2017, where she won two consecutive Serie A Femenina titles. Charcopa moved to Deportivo Cuenca for the 2019 season, and also helped the club win the league championship. After a one-year spell at El Nacional (which also ended in league title), she returned to Cuenca in 2021. Ahead of the 2022 campaign, Charcopa agreed to a deal with Independiente del Valle. On 18 January 2024, she was announced at Santos on a one-year deal, becoming the first Ecuadorian to play for the women's team. International career. Charcopa represented Ecuador at under-20 level in the 2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship. In March 2018, she was included in Wendy Vill\u00f3n's 23-woman squad for the 2018 Copa Am\u00e9rica Femenina. Honours. Uni\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola Deportivo Cuenca El Nacional Santos"}, {"text": "Trudolyubiye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 85 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Trudolyubiye is located 33 km south of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Khonch Nur is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Swartz Printing Company Building is a historic two-story building in Omaha, Nebraska. It was built in 1910 for the Swartz Printing Company, a commercial printing press and book publisher owned by Maynard T. and Milton J. Swartz. The building was designed by architect Jacob M. Nachtigall. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 3, 2007."}, {"text": "Tsatsa () is a rural locality (a selo) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,551 as of 2010. There are 11 streets. Geography. Tsatsa is located 46 km southwest of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novosad is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Chapurniki () is a rural locality (a station) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,514 as of 2010. There are 44 streets."}, {"text": "Chervlyonoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Svetloyarsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 2,314 as of 2010. There are 23 streets. Geography. Chervlyonoye is located 37 km west of Svetly Yar (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kanalnaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Joel Larway (born May 14, 1968, in Columbus, Ohio, United States) is an American curler from Mukilteo, Washington. He is a and a three-times United States men's curling champion (1992, 2001, 2004). Personal life. His brother Jason is a curler too. The two brothers curled together for many years."}, {"text": "Weight Watchers or WW is a commercial program for weight loss based on a point system, meals replacement and counseling. Description. The Weight Watchers diet tries to restrict energy to achieve a weight loss of 0.5 to 1.0 kg per week, which is the medically accepted standard rate of a viable weight loss strategy. The dietary composition is akin to low-fat diets or moderate-fat and low-carbohydrate diet depending on the variant used. Contrary to several other diets, Weight Watchers does not focus on the calories but simplifies food selection with a points-based system named \"SmartPoints\", where each food type is assigned a point value calculated according to their nutrient and energy density. A point equals 50 cal. The point values system define both a quality scale and a quantity limit: a food with low point values, such as high fiber carbohydrates, lean proteins, legumes, can be consumed more freely and in higher quantities, whereas food items with higher point values must be eaten with parsimony or avoided. Most fruits and vegetables are \"free\", as they have a zero points value, and thus can be consumed at will. The parent company also produces meal replacements, which are \"plug-in\" meals that can"}, {"text": "be instantly consumed instead of the usual diet. Weight Watchers claims that meal replacements have been shown to outperform calorie-controlled diets, as there is less margin for errors and less decision-making and cooking skills are required. The dieters are also recommended to engage in regular physical activity as part of a broader lifestyle change to complement their dietary changes, which mirrors the US national recommendations since 2013. In addition to the diet and related consumable products made by the brand, the Weight Watchers includes counseling via weekly or monthly meetings, calorie targets, and online support. For children, online support, especially via social media, has shown mixed results. Efficacy. The Weight Watchers diet claims to produce weight loss comparable to other diets supervised by a nutrition professional. The scientific soundness of commercial diets by commercial weight management organizations (CWMOs) varies widely, being previously non-evidence-based, so there is only limited evidence supporting their use, including Weight Watchers, due notably to high attrition rates. Weight Watchers claims to result in modest weight loss in the long-term, similarly to other commercial diets, non-commercial diets and standard care, although Weight Watchers may have less cardiovascular and glucose-lowering benefits than other diets such as low-carbohydrates. In"}, {"text": "a trial comparing 4 weight loss diets, the drop-out rate for the Weight Watchers diet was 35% (compared to others which had up to 50% drop-outs). Two systematic reviews found that Weight Watchers was the most cost-effective commercial diet . History. Jean Nidetch, a housewife and mother living in Queens, New York City, conceived the original Weight Watchers diet and program in the 1960s, after her dissatisfaction with other weight loss programs, all of which failed except the \"Prudent Diet\", a diet developed in the 1950s by Dr. Norman Jolliffe, head of the New York City Board of Health's Bureau of Nutrition. Bringing inspiration from this successful but frustratingly difficult to sustain diet because of the lack of communication and its discouragement of peers discussions, Nidetch designed the original Weight Watchers around the same nutritional principles favoring lean meat, fish, skim milk, and fruits and vegetables, and banning alcohol, sweets, and fatty foods, but with the additional scheduling of support groups to foster discussion and motivation. It thus had lists of allowed and prohibited foods, and was more structured than subsequent versions of the Weight Watchers program, such as recommending weighing food portions, prohibiting skipping meals or counting calories, before"}, {"text": "later adopting a more flexible point based system, while keeping the group support meetings and personalized coaching which differentiated this diet from its predecessor. In commercials, a furry orange monster named Hungry Monster appears to help people make healthier food choices. , over a million members attend its weekly group meetings over the world. In 2018, Weight Watchers was ranked by \"U.S. News & World Report\" as 1st in \"Best commercial diet\", \"Best Weight-Loss Diets\" and \"Best Fast Weight-Loss Diets\" and 2nd in \"Easiest Diets to Follow\"."}, {"text": "The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (often abbreviated as IDOP) is an observance within the Christian calendar in which congregations pray for Christians who are persecuted for their faith. It falls on the first Sunday of November, within the liturgical period of Allhallowtide, which is dedicated to remembering the martyrs and saints of Christianity. The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church is observed by many Christian denominations, with over 100,000 congregations honoring the holiday worldwide. Congregations focus on \"praying for individuals, families, churches, or countries where Christians are facing hard situations.\" Additionally, many congregations donate funds from their collection of tithes and offerings on the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church to NGOs that support human rights of persecuted Christians, such as Voice of the Martyrs, International Christian Concern, and Open Doors. History. The persecution of Christians has increased in the modern era. According to a 2019 review chaired by the Church of England's Bishop of Truro, Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world. The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church originated in the 20th century to raise awareness of the increasing violence, torture, death, \"worship restrictions, public"}, {"text": "humiliation, and social isolation\" that some Christians face in atheist states, such as in North Korea, as well as in South Asia and the Middle East; the observance was spearheaded by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the World Evangelical Alliance, and the Southern Baptist Convention. It has since been observed in many Christian denominations, such as the United Methodist Church and certain Catholic parishes. The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church falls on the first Sunday of November, within the liturgical period of Allhallowtide, which is dedicated to remembering the martyrs and saints of Christianity. The November observance has been promulgated by many NGOs that champion human rights for Christians, including Voice of the Martyrs, Open Doors, and International Christian Concern. Victims of persecution, including believers and missionaries, have also advocated to spread the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church."}, {"text": "Gerald Alfano Mayhew (born December 31, 1992) is an American professional ice hockey winger who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League (AHL). Early life. Mayhew was born on December 31, 1992, in Wyandotte, Michigan, to Gerald and Catherine Mayhew. He grew up about 20 minutes outside of Detroit and Joe Louis Arena, and would frequently attend Detroit Red Wings games through his childhood. Mayhew's favorite ice hockey players were Steve Yzerman and Brett Hull. Unlike many youth hockey players in Michigan, Mayhew declined the opportunity to play minor ice hockey for the Little Caesars organization, preferring instead to focus on his school team. He attended Roosevelt High School in Wyandotte, leading their ice hockey team to a state championship in 2011. That year, he scored 48 goals and 57 assists and was crowned Michigan's \"Mr. Hockey\", an award given to the top boys' ice hockey player in the state. Playing career. Mayhew attended high school at Theodore Roosevelt High School (Michigan) where he won the 2011 Michigan High School Athletic Association ice hockey state championship. Undrafted, Mayhew would play four years of university hockey with the Ferris"}, {"text": "State Bulldogs of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association before turning professional by signing an amateur tryout agreement with the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League on March 9, 2017. Mayhew played the remainder of the 2016\u201317 season with the Wild, scoring six goals and seven points in 17 appearances with the club before being inked to an AHL contract for the following season. After being re-signed for another season, Mayhew put up 60 points in 71 games, and was rewarded with a two-year, two-way contract by the Minnesota Wild, Iowa's National Hockey League affiliate, on May 10, 2019. After putting up six points in the first four games of the 2019\u201320 season, Mayhew was called up by the Wild on October 13. He made his NHL debut on October 15, scoring a goal in a 4\u20132 loss against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Leaving the Wild organization after five seasons, Mayhew was signed as a free agent to a one-year, two-way $800,000 contract with the Philadelphia Flyers on July 28, 2021. Starting the 2021\u201322 season with AHL affiliate, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, Mayhew collected 9 goals in 24 games. Recalled to the NHL, Mayhew featured in 25 games for the"}, {"text": "struggling Flyers, recording a career best 6 goals, before he was claimed off waivers by the Anaheim Ducks on March 20, 2022. On July 15, 2022, Mayhew was signed as a free agent to a one-year, two-way contract with the Florida Panthers. He remained in the Panthers organization for two seasons, playing exclusively with AHL affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers. As a free agent leading into the 2024\u201325 season, Mayhew was belatedly signed to a one-year AHL contract with the Rockford IceHogs, affiliate to the Chicago Blackhawks, on October 27, 2024."}, {"text": "The 1973 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania as a member of the Ivy League during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their third year under head coach Harry Gamble, the Quakers compiled an overall record of 6\u20133 with a mark of 5\u20132 in conference play, placing in a three-way tie for second in the Ivy League. Jim Bumgardner and Glenn Casey were the team captains. Penn played home games at Franklin Field, adjacent to the university's campus in Philadelphia."}, {"text": "Sailing is a popular sport and recreational activity in Australia with its varied coastline and often warm climate. Australian Sailing is the peak body in charge of sailing as recognised by the International Sailing Federation In 2017-18 there were over 80,000 registered sailors and over 16,000 events held across the country. Clubs. Sailing Clubs are common in Australia. Large cities have significant numbers of clubs catering to boats from off the beach dinghies to serious ocean racing. Sydney for example, has over 40 sailing clubs. Most moderate sized towns with sailable water nearby have a sailing club. Many clubs hold weekly races, annual championships and annual races. Sailing Associations. Australia has a large number associations ranging from one design class associations, which sail boats bound by strict rules to open associations for development and broad communities of boats. Associations are generally at a national level with state based subsidiaries, although some associations are state based where they represent classes or communities that are only found in one state. In 2019, Sailing Australia affiliated ### class and other associations, although not all class associations are affiliated. Associations often hold annual state and national championships. Major events. The Sydney Hobart Yacht Race"}, {"text": "is the premier blue water Australian race, starting on Sydney Harbour on Boxing Day every year. The race attracts a wide variety of boats from supermaxi yachts to small private boats. The race was first held in 1945. The Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race starts on 27 January in Port Phillip Bay. Racers trace a course down the rugged west coast of Tasmania and along the south coast to Hobart. Hamilton Island Race Week held in the Whitsunday Islands in Queensland in August is Australia's largest offshore regatta attracting over 250 boats. Historical racing events. Australia hosted the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne and the 2000 Olympics in Sydney including the respective sailing events. In 1983, Australia sailing in Australia II defeated the United States of America in the America's Cup, ending their 132-year stranglehold on the cup. This is considered one of the greatest moments in Australian sports history. The following America's Cup was held in 1987 in Perth with Australia losing the cup. Sailing around the states. Australian Capital Territory. Competitive sailing is based around Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. New South Wales. Sydney is a mecca for sailing with Sydney Harbour, Botany Bay and Pittwater providing abundant sheltered"}, {"text": "water for sailing races for boats from small dinghies to large keel boats. Australia Day regatta is held on 26 January every year. It is the world's oldest continuously held regatta, first held in 1837. Sailing was popular in Sydney from as early as 1900. Joshua Slocum commented in his account of his first around the world voyage that sailing was a popular sport. Queensland. Sailing on Moreton Bay. Whitsunday Islands offer excellent cruising. Brisbane to Gladstone yacht race Bay to Bay yacht race South Australia. There are a number of off-the-beach sailing clubs along Adelaide's metropolitan coastline on the eastern side of the Gulf St Vincent with other clubs at major towns along the coast. Major yacht clubs are located in marinas around Port Adelaide and North Haven. The Lake Eyre Yacht Club is notable as its events take place on a dry lake, which is only infrequently filled. In 2010, it held a regatta for the first time in over 20 years. South Australia offers excellent cruising grounds within Spencer Gulf and St Vincent Gulf with numerous islands, and the coasts of the Eyre, Yorke and Fleurieu peninsulas, as well as the coast of Kangaroo Island. Tasmania. Sailing"}, {"text": "in Tasmania focuses on the sheltered waters of the Derwent River around Hobart as well as in Launceston. The Royal Hobart Regatta is held on the Derwent River annually in February. It was first held in 1838 and involves a wide range of water sports including sailing. The Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race is held annually beginning on 27 December. Northern Territory. Darwin has two yacht clubs, the Darwin Sailing Club and the Dinah Beach Cruising Yacht Association. The Darwin Ambon Yacht Race is held in August annually. Victoria. In Victoria, sailing is centred on Port Phillip Bay and Western Port Bay. Sail Melbourne is an annual sailing Regatta run by Yachting Victoria at various yacht clubs around Port Phillip Bay. Sail Melbourne is a Grade 1 International Sailing Federation event and is the largest off the beach regatta in the Southern Hemisphere. Western Australia. Sailing centred on the Swan River in Perth. The Fremantle to Bali yacht race and rally is a 2500 km yacht race starting in May."}, {"text": "Bazki () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Bobrovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 280 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Bazki is located on the Belaya Nemukha River, 22 km south of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rastopinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Beryozki () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Zimnyatskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 151 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Beryozki is located on the Don River, 5 km north of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Serafimovich is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Blinovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Proninskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 62 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Blinovsky is located on the Tsutskan River, 60 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Peschany is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bobrovsky 1-y () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Ust-Khopyorskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 190 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Bobrovsky 1-y is located 47 km west of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zimovnoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Adam Charlap Hyman (born 1989) is an American designer and artist. He is the co-founder and partner of Charlap Hyman & Herrero, an architecture and design firm based out of New York City and Los Angeles. His grandfather is pianist and composer Dick Hyman. Education. Hyman graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2011 with a BFA in Furniture Design and Art History. Career. From 2010 to 2011, Charlap Hyman was a fellow of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, where he worked as a Conservation Assistant and a Curatorial Assistant. In September 2011, he worked for Polo Ralph Lauren as a Furniture Design Consultant. In his 4 years at Ralph Lauren Home, Charlap Hyman collected, researched, and archived historical reference material. In October 2014, Charlap Hyman and his fellow RISD classmate Andre Herrero co-founded Charlap Hyman & Herrero, an architecture and design firm. Charlap Hyman runs the office in New York City, while Herrero runs the office in Los Angeles. Charlap Hyman & Herrero works internationally for a range of clients and industries, producing architecture, interior design, product design, furniture design, and fine art. Adam's brother, Alexander, works for the company running the business side"}, {"text": "of the operation. Adam Charlap Hyman was listed in the 'Art & Style' Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2018. Every year from 2021 through 2024, Charlap Hyman & Herrero has been listed as one of \"Architectural Digest\"'s top 100 most talented architecture and design firms."}, {"text": "Bobrovsky 2-y () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Bobrovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 526 as of 2010. There are 15 streets. Geography. Bobrovsky 2-y is located on the Don River, 14 km south of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zatonsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Michael O'Connor (born February 25, 1996) is a Canadian professional football quarterback. He has played for the Toronto Argonauts, Calgary Stampeders, and BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football with the UBC Thunderbirds from 2015 to 2018 where he led the team to a Vanier Cup championship in 2015. College career. Penn State. O'Connor received several scholarship offers to play football and was named ESPN's sixth-ranked quarterback in the 2014 recruiting class. The 4-star recruit ultimately chose Pennsylvania State University to play for then-head coach, Bill O'Brien, and the Nittany Lions. O'Brien had resigned to accept a position as the Houston Texans' head coach, but O'Connor elected to continue with his decision to enroll at Penn State anyway. He redshirted during his first season there behind the incumbent starter, Christian Hackenberg. Near the end of the 2014 season, O'Connor announced his intention to transfer schools. UBC. On February 12, 2015, it was formally announced that O'Connor had committed to play for Blake Nill and the UBC Thunderbirds. As a freshman starter, he had immediate success, starting in all eight games, posting 165 completions on 276 pass attempts for 2383 yards, 13 touchdowns, and five interceptions"}, {"text": "to lead UBC to a 6\u20132 regular season record. He led the team to a perfect 4\u20130 record in the post-season, including UBC's 51st Vanier Cup championship win where he was named the game's most valuable player. Professional career. Toronto Argonauts. Attracting the attention of professional leagues, O'Connor was ranked as the 17th best prospect in the Canadian Football League's Central Scouting Bureau Final Rankings. Consequently, he was drafted in the third round, 20th overall, in the 2019 CFL Draft by the Toronto Argonauts and signed with the team on May 17, 2019. He began the 2019 season on the Argonauts' injured list, but dressed in his first professional game on July 6, 2019, against the BC Lions. With Argonauts eliminated from the playoffs, O'Connor took his first regular season snaps under centre on October 26, 2019, against his hometown Ottawa Redblacks. In that game, he threw his first career touchdown pass; an 11-yard completion to Rodney Smith. Smith had thrown the ball into the stands, but the fan who retrieved it threw the keepsake back to Argos staff members. O'Connor dressed for nine games his rookie season, and saw snaps in two. He completed 15 passes out of 25"}, {"text": "attempts for 173 yards and a touchdown. He did not play in 2020 due to the cancellation of the 2020 CFL season and he became a free agent in 2021 following the completion of his rookie contract. Calgary Stampeders. On the first day of free agency in 2021, O'Connor signed with the Calgary Stampeders on February 9, 2021. He initially began the year as the backup quarterback, but was relegated to the third-string position following strong performances by Jake Maier. O'Connor dressed in six regular season games but did not attempt a pass as he ran the short-yardage team where he had four rush attempts for five yards. He became a free agent upon the expiry of his contract on February 8, 2022. BC Lions. On the first day of free agency, on February 8, 2022, O'Connor signed with the BC Lions. He began the season as the backup quarterback to fellow Canadian quarterback Nathan Rourke. When Rourke suffered a significant foot injury in Week 11 O'Connor was named the starting quarterback the following week. Unfortunately, he suffered a groin injury in the second quarter and was ruled out for the remainder of the game. He sat out one game"}, {"text": "due to injury, but did not see any playing time upon his return to the lineup following the team's acquisition of Vernon Adams. He became a free agent upon the expiry of his contract on February 14, 2023. Personal life. O'Connor was born to Debbie Lavigne and John O'Connor and he grew up in Ottawa. He was named after his uncle who died in a vehicle collision two months before he was born."}, {"text": "Bolshoy () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Bolshovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,322 as of 2010. There are 30 streets. Geography. Bolshoy is located on the Tsutskan River, 49 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zatonsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Buyerak-Popovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Buyerak-Popovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 499 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Buyerak-Popovsky is located near the Don River, 14 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Buyerak-Senyutkin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Buyerak-Senyutkin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Buyerak-Popovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 134 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Buyerak-Senyutkin is located 16 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Buyerak-Popovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Varlamov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Proninskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 297 as of 2010. There are 11 streets. Geography. Varlamov is located 71 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pronin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Glubokovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kletsko-Pochtovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. Geography. Glubokovsky is located 96 km southeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krasnoyarsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gorbatovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Gorbatovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 364 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Gorbatovsky is located 68 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gorbatov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Old Is New is the fourteenth and final studio album by American band Toto (though counted as the 15th album overall with \"Toto XX\" being canonized as a studio album rather than as a compilation album). It was released as part of the band's \"All In\" box set on November 30, 2018, and separately on April 3, 2020. The tracks \"Devil's Tower\", \"Spanish Sea\" and \"Oh Why\" feature deceased band members and brothers Jeff (who died in 1992) and Mike Porcaro (who died in 2015). Track listing. All tracks are written by Steve Lukather, David Paich, Steve Porcaro and Joseph Williams, except where noted. Personnel. All credits sourced from liner notes: Toto Additional musicians Technical personnel:"}, {"text": "Grushin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Zimnyatskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 120 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Grushin is located 17 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zimnyatsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gryazinovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tryasinovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 38 as of 2010. Geography. Gryazinovsky is located 33 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Perepolsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gryaznushkin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kletsko-Pochtovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Gryaznushkin is located 85 km southeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chernopolyansky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Druzhilinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kletsko-Pochtovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. Geography. Druzhilinsky is located 64 km southeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kozinovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "WNJK (105.9 FM, \"Jess FM\") is an adult contemporary formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Burgin, Kentucky, serving Nicholasville, Richmond, Danville, and Lexington in Kentucky. WNJK is owned and operated by Choice Radio NJK Corporation. Live Sports. Wilmore, Kentucky-based Asbury University (AU), entered into an agreement with Choice Radio Corporation, on November 16, 2018. WNJK would carry AU's men's and women's basketball games live, along with the \"Asbury Sports Minute\", airing twice daily. During AU's 2019/2020 athletic season, WNJK will add live coverage of baseball and softball games to the broadcast docket, which includes men's and women's basketball games."}, {"text": "Andre Maurice Powell (born June 5, 1969) is an American former professional football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the New York Giants. He was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the eighth round of the 1992 NFL draft. He played college football at Penn State University."}, {"text": "Yendovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kletsko-Pochtovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 167 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Yendovsky is located 64 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kletsko-Pochtovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zatonsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Buyerak-Popovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 180 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Zatonsky is located south from Don River, 11 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Serafimovich is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zimnyatsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Zimnyatskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,834 as of 2010. There are 25 streets. Geography. Zimnyatsky is located in steppe, 22 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Grushin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The TTC Krong Pa Solar Power Plant is a solar power plant built on Chu Gu commune, Krong Pa district, Gia Lai province, Vietnam. TTC Krong Pa solar plant has an installed capacity of 49 MW (69 MWp), started in March 2018, energized on November 4, 2018, inaugurated in December 2018. The factory is built on an area of 70.23 hectares of hilly land in the Chu Gu commune, that provides the nation's electricity system with an output of 103 million kWh a year, meeting the equivalent electricity demand of about 47,000 households. emissions are reduced by about 29,000 tons per year. The factory is located next to National Route 25, 4 kilometers west of Phu Tuc town, Krong Pa district, 131 kilometers from Pleiku city, and 90.5 kilometers from Tuy Hoa city, Phu Yen province."}, {"text": "Zimovnoy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Ust-Khopyorskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 80 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Zimovnoy is located on the Don River, 49 km west of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. 1-y Bobrovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 1994 San Jose mayoral election was held on June 7, 1994, to elect the mayor of San Jose, California. It saw the reelection of Susan Hammer. Because Hammer won an outright majority in the initial round of the election, no runoff election needed to be held."}, {"text": "Ignatov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Terkinskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 118 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Ignatov is located in steppe, 61 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Orlinovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Izbushensky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Ust-Khopyorskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010. During World War 2 it was the sight of the famous Charge of the Savoia Cavalleria at Izbushensky, when an Italian cavalry division charged on horseback against their Soviet enemies. Geography. Izbushensky is located 42 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rybny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Karagichev () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Srednetsaritsynskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Karagichev is located 36 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Srednetsaritsynsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Wenhua Senior High School is a metro station on the Green Line operated by Taichung Metro in Xitun District, Taichung, Taiwan. National Wen-Hua Senior High School, the station's namesake, is located nearby. A mixed-use building is being construction in conjunction to the north of the station and will be connected by a bridge."}, {"text": "Kepinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tryasinovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 133 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Kepinsky is located 12 km south of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. 2-y Bobrovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Korsunov () is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Korsunova (). It may refer to:"}, {"text": "No Sin on the Alpine Pastures (German: Auf der Alm da gibt's koa S\u00fcnd) is a 1974 West German comedy film directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb and starring Alena Penz, Alexander Grill and Rinaldo Talamonti. It is part of the cycle of Bavarian sex comedies made during the era Location shooting took place in Austria."}, {"text": "No Sin on the Alpine Pastures (German: Auf der Alm, da gibt's ka S\u00fcnd) may refer to:"}, {"text": "A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Goulburn on 16 August 1890 because of the death of William Teece (). Candidates. The Goulburn Evening Penny Post described the election as a magnificent triumph for free trade and a crushing defeat for protection. Antony Green lists both candidates as independents, stating \"neither candidate seemed particularly committed to Free Trade or Protection, the contest being one between two local identities.\" Results. <includeonly> William Teece () died.</includeonly>"}, {"text": "Wenxin Yinghua is a metro station on the Green Line operated by Taichung Metro in Xitun District, Taichung, Taiwan. The station name is taken from its location at the intersection of Wenxin and Yinghua roads."}, {"text": "Rainbow Mist is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins compiling recordings from 1944 originally released by Apollo Records that was released by the Delmark label in 1992. Reception. Allmusic reviewer Scott Yanow stated \"For his recording session of February 16, 1944, the great tenor invited some of the most promising younger players (including trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, bassist Oscar Pettiford, and drummer Max Roach) and the result was the very first bebop on records. ... Also on this highly recommended CD are four titles matching together the tenors of Hawkins, Ben Webster, and Georgie Auld (with trumpeter Charlie Shavers included as a bonus) and a session from Auld's big band, highlighted by Sonny Berman's trumpet solo\". Personnel. \"Tracks 1-6: Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra: Recorded in New York City on February 16, 1944 (tracks 2, 3 & 5) and February 22, 1944 (tracks 1, 4 & 6) Tracks 7-10: Auld/Hawkins/Webster Sextet: Recorded in New York City on May 17, 1944 Tracks 11-14: Georgie Auld and His Orchestra: Recorded in New York City on May 22, 1944"}, {"text": "Volleyball at the 2019 Military World Games is held in Wuhan, China from 16 to 26 October 2019."}, {"text": "David Alexander Conway Jr. (January 6, 1945 \u2013 January 22, 2008) was an American football placekicker who played college football at University of Texas and played in one game for the Green Bay Packers in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the Longhorns for the 1964\u201366 seasons. Conway was drafted in the 7th round of the NFL draft by the San Diego Chargers (173rd overall), but was sent to the Green Bay Packers, and only played in one game with them - a wild one against the Giants in which Green Bay's coach Dan Devine had his leg broken."}, {"text": "De viaje con los Derbez (English: \"Derbez Family Vacation\") is a Spanish-language documentary comedy television series co-produced by Lionsgate, 3Pas Studios, and Wallin Chambers Entertainment. It premiered on 18 October 2019 on Amazon Prime Video worldwide, except for United States, and Puerto Rico, where it streams on Vix since the third season. The series revolves around the Derbez family on their trips to various destinations. In October 2023, the series was renewed for a fourth season, that premiered on 24 November 2023. Production. On 4 December 2020, the series was renewed for a second season and premiered on 20 May 2021. On 20 May 2022, Eugenio Derbez announced that the series was renewed for a third season. The third season premiered on 7 April 2023. On 31 October 2023, it was announced that the series was renewed for a fourth season. The fourth season premiered on 24 November 2023."}, {"text": "Governor Almond may refer to:"}, {"text": "Taichung City Hall is a metro station operated by Taichung Metro located in Xitun District, Taichung, Taiwan. It is on the Green Line. The planned Blue Line will intersect with the Green Line at this station. Around the station. The station is at the intersection of Taiwan boulevard and Wenxin road two major thoroughfares of Taichung City. It serves the city's \"7th Redevelopment Zone\", the commercial center of the city. Taichung City Hall, the station's namesake, is located nearby. Two mixed-use buildings were being constructed to the east and west of the station in 2019."}, {"text": "This is a list of the orders and decorations of the Principality of Serbia (1804 \u2013 1882)."}, {"text": "Joshua Michael Kindred (born 1977) is an American lawyer and former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska. He served on the court from 2020 to 2024. He resigned after being accused of sexual misconduct. Education. Kindred graduated from the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts. He then attended the Willamette University College of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the \"Willamette Law Review\". He graduated in 2005 with a Juris Doctor degree. Career. After law school, Kindred served as a law clerk to chief justice Paul De Muniz of the Oregon Supreme Court from 2005 to 2007. He was in private practice with the Seattle-based law firm Lane Powell from 2007 to 2008. From 2008 to 2013, Kindred served as an assistant district attorney and violent unit supervisor for Alaska. He was environmental counsel to the Alaska Oil and Gas Association from 2013 to 2018, and from 2018 to 2020 he was the regional solicitor for the United States Department of the Interior's Alaska Region. Federal judicial service. On October 16, 2019, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Kindred to serve as a United"}, {"text": "States district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Alaska. On November 21, 2019, his nomination was sent to the Senate. President Trump nominated Kindred to the seat vacated by Judge Ralph Beistline, who assumed senior status on December 31, 2015. A hearing on his nomination before the Senate Judiciary Committee was held on December 4, 2019. Alaska's Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski praised Kindred\u2019s nomination. On January 3, 2020, his nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate. Later that day, he was re-nominated to the same seat. On January 16, 2020, his nomination was reported out of committee by a 12\u201310 vote. On February 11, 2020, the Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 52\u201341 vote. On February 12, 2020, his nomination was confirmed by a 54\u201341 vote. He received his judicial commission on February 18, 2020. Kindred resigned on July 8, 2024. On the day of his resignation, the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit released a report finding that Kindred had engaged in judicial misconduct by creating a sexually hostile workplace environment for clerks employed in his chambers, by having an inappropriate"}, {"text": "sexualized relationship with a clerk during and after her time working for Kindred, and for having \"deliberately lied\" to investigators. The Council stated that Kindred was asked to voluntarily resign and he did so. On September 12, 2024, the Judicial Conference of the United States referred Kindred to the United States House of Representatives for impeachment, despite Kindred's resignation. An impeachment and subsequent conviction would bar Kindred from holding office in the future. The Judicial Conference of the United States described Kindred's behavior as \"reprehensible,\" and stated that it was so severe it warranted review by the United States Congress. Personal life. In October 2013, Kindred married lawyer Talitha \"Tali\" Birch, daughter of Alaska politician Chris Birch.They divorced in 2023. They have two children."}, {"text": "Climate change and agriculture are complexly related processes. In the United States, agriculture is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG), behind the energy sector. Direct GHG emissions from the agricultural sector account for 8.4% of total U.S. emissions, but the loss of soil organic carbon through soil erosion indirectly contributes to emissions as well. While agriculture plays a role in propelling climate change, it is also affected by the direct (increase in temperature, change in rainfall, flooding, drought) and secondary (weed, pest, disease pressure, infrastructure damage) consequences of climate change. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is a regulatory, research, and support body in American agriculture. They work to understanding the impact of climate change on farming and to helping American farmers adapt. USDA research indicates that these climatic changes will lead to a decline in yield and nutrient density in key crops, as well as decreased livestock productivity. Climate change poses unprecedented challenges to U.S. agriculture due to the sensitivity of agricultural productivity and costs to changing climate conditions. Rural communities dependent on agriculture are particularly vulnerable to climate change threats. Native communities are also vulnerable, and the Intertribal Agricultural Council (IAC) documents, supports, and advocates"}, {"text": "for the reintegrative practices of Native American and Alaskan agricultural producers. The IAC is particularly focused on the economic impact and potential of regenerative farming practices for native people. The US Global Change Research Program (2017) identified four key areas of concern in the agriculture sector: reduced productivity, degradation of resources, health challenges for people and livestock, and the adaptive capacity of agriculture communities. Large-scale adaptation and mitigation of these threats relies on changes in farming policy. Livestock and crop production systems. Projections for crops and livestock production systems reveal that climate change effects over the next 25 years will be mixed. The continued degree of change in the climate by midcentury and beyond is expected to have overall detrimental effects on most crops and livestock. Climate change will exacerbate current biotic stresses on agricultural plants and animals. Increases of atmospheric carbon dioxide (), rising temperatures, and altered precipitation patterns will affect agricultural productivity. Increases in temperature coupled with more variable precipitation will reduce productivity of crops, and these effects will outweigh the benefits of increasing carbon dioxide. Effects will vary among annual and perennial crops, and regions of the United States; however, all production systems will be affected to"}, {"text": "some degree by climate change. Livestock production systems are vulnerable to temperature stresses. An animal's ability to adjust its metabolic rate to cope with temperature extremes can lead to reduced productivity and in extreme cases death. Prolonged exposure to extreme temperatures will also further increase production costs and productivity losses associated with all animal products, e.g., meat, eggs, and milk. Grazing lands used for rearing livestock are under increased threats of wildfire. Soil carbon will be depleted during droughts, depriving crops of an essential element of productivity. In 2012, the US experienced a drought that greatly reduced yield of key crops and livestock in the Great Plans and Midwest region. Average yields of commodity crops (corn, soybean, rice) will decline due to the increased temperature whereas other crops (wheat, hay) could potentially increase yield due to anticipated rainfall in certain regions. Effects on horticulture crops will be variable. The Southwest region of the United States is one of the hottest and driest regions in the country. Farmers have identified surface and groundwater shortages as being the cause of diminished crop yields. Climate models indicate the likelihood of a decade-scale drought is incredibly high, posing unprecedented stress to the agro-ecosystem. Weeds,"}, {"text": "diseases, pests and pollinators. Changing pressures associated with weeds, diseases, and insect pests, together with potential changes in timing and coincidence of pollinator lifecycles, will affect growth and yields. The potential magnitude of these effects is not yet well understood. For example, while some pest insects will thrive under increasing air temperatures, warming temperatures may force others out of their current geographical ranges. Increased global temperature in similar landscapes restricts agricultural opportunities for sustainable pollination patterns, decreases agricultural movement into habitable areas, and reduces climate buffering during environmental threats. Several weeds have shown a greater response to carbon dioxide relative to crops; understanding these physiological and genetic responses may help guide future enhancements to weed management. Soil and water impacts. Agriculture is dependent on a wide range of ecosystem processes that support productivity including maintenance of soil quality and regulation of water quality and quantity. Multiple stressors, including climate change, increasingly compromise the ability of ecosystems to provide these services. Key near-term climate change effects on agricultural soil and water resources include the potential for increased soil erosion through extreme precipitation events, as well as regional and seasonal changes in the availability of water resources for both rain-fed and irrigated"}, {"text": "agriculture. Agricultural systems depend upon reliable water sources, and the pattern and potential magnitude of precipitation changes is not well understood, thus adding considerable uncertainty to assessment efforts. A regional climate model estimated that California will experience increased heavy precipitation events and change in the form of precipitation (predominantly rain as opposed to snow). Changes in the water management system will be essential for preventing water scarcity and reducing stress on the agricultural system. Extreme weather. The predicted higher incidence of extreme weather events will have an increasing influence on agricultural productivity. Extremes matter because agricultural productivity is driven largely by environmental conditions during critical threshold periods of crop and livestock development. Improved assessment of climate change effects on agricultural productivity requires greater integration of extreme events into crop and economic models. Changes in precipitation patterns can cause dry periods to lengthen and rain to become heavier, even in the same area. On one hand, there is an increase in flooding, which can destroy crops and livestock, pollute water, and damage infrastructure. On the other hand, drought can impact the water supply and increase the risk of wildfires. Human actions on agricultural vulnerability. Comprehensive, preventative measures and the implementation of"}, {"text": "regenerative practices by farmers and producers can greatly reduce the vulnerability of agriculture to climatic change. As certain crops and breeds of livestock become less productive and viable due to climate change induced shifts in weather patterns and nutrient availability, farmers must find more resilient alternatives, capable of adaption to temperature changes and water availability. This means farmers are obliged to make new investments and learn new practices to ensure their properties and operations remain profitable and productive. And as the farmers are coping with the new transformations, they are also facing new threats in the form of new and more dangerous diseases, pets, insects. Role of the US Department of Agriculture. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the federal office that regulates, monitors, and supports agricultural activity in the United States and manages food stamp and child nutrition programs. They have offices across the U.S. and aim to promote American agrarian activity, rural development, and natural resource conservation. Climate change is one of their areas of interest. They try to find innovative solutions to climate-change induced problems in the agricultural industry and rural communities. The USDA is also responsible for implementing many of the programs outlined within the"}, {"text": "Farm Bill. The Farm Bill designates spending in key areas of agriculture. It has been reviewed and renewed in some form approximately every five years since 1933. Sustainability and conservation are often two key categories of the bill. The current farm bill funds programs like the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP), Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), and Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG). These programs assist farmers looking to switch to more sustainable production methods. The current bill in effect was signed in 2018, and a new version was delayed until 2025 due to disagreements on overall spending, SNAP cuts, crop subsidies, and Federal crop insurance. The USDA lists land conservation as one of their key focuses for sustainability. As of early 2025, their programs particularly target the preservation of privately owned lands to decrease their environmental impacts while increasing the land's productivity. One prominent program on this topic is the Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) program. The CIG program awards yearly funds to organizations around the country for the development of new solutions that advance the conservation of private lands. The USDA also directs much of the federally funded agricultural research in the US. The \"USDA Science Blueprint\", released"}, {"text": "in February 2020, is a road map for the research that the USDA believes is needed to help the agricultural industry adapt to climate change. Cuts to USDA's scientific funding and the loss of research capacity due to the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) being moved away from the Washington D.C. region during the first Trump Administration, raised some concerns regarding the USDA's continued ability to conduct this proposed research. Role of the Intertribal Agricultural Council. The Intertribal Agricultural Council (IAC) has worked since 1987 to conserve and develop Indigenous agricultural resources and practices. They work with and represent 574 tribes in the continental US and Alaska. The IAC has numerous programs to improve the lives and farming endeavors of Native Americans on and off reservations, and they collaborate with the USDA to represent native farmers and assist native farmers in accessing USDA resources. One of their main focuses is improving and expanding regenerative agriculture and conservation efforts while respecting traditional Native American farming practices through programs like the \"574+ Strong\" program. The IAC runs several programs that study regenerative agriculture practices and the financial implications of sustainable agriculture practices for Native"}, {"text": "Americans on native lands. One such program was a three-year project with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to study regenerative farming practices of Indigenous farmers and their economic viability and impacts. This large-scale project included staff from the IAC and the EDF, instructors from Minnesota State's Farm Business Management (FBM) program, and native producers who were in the process of or considering implementing regenerative practices. It examined native farmers and producers' business choices and financial opportunities to find benefits to transitions to more regenerative and sustainable practices as well as patterns in barriers to accessing the resources and support needed for those transitions."}, {"text": "The BP Solar 1 Power Plant is a solar power plant built on Phuoc Huu commune, Ninh Phuoc district, Ninh Thuan province, Vietnam. The plant has an installed capacity of 45 MVA. Construction of the power plant started in June 2018, and it was inaugurated January 2019. The power plant is built on an area of over 62 hectares, consisting 124,380 panels in total. It also has a total capacity of 46 MWp, providing 74 million kWh per year to the Vietnamese power grid."}, {"text": "Kenneth James Price (born April 7, 1950) is a former American football linebacker who played for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at University of Iowa."}, {"text": "In quantum computing and quantum information theory, the Clifford gates are the elements of the Clifford group, a set of mathematical transformations which normalize the \"n\"-qubit Pauli group, i.e., map tensor products of Pauli matrices to tensor products of Pauli matrices through conjugation. The notion was introduced by Daniel Gottesman and is named after the mathematician William Kingdon Clifford. Quantum circuits that consist of only Clifford gates can be efficiently simulated with a classical computer due to the Gottesman\u2013Knill theorem. The Clifford group is generated by three gates: Hadamard, phase gate \"S\", and CNOT. This set of gates is minimal in the sense that discarding any one gate results in the inability to implement some Clifford operations; removing the Hadamard gate disallows powers of formula_1 in the unitary matrix representation, removing the phase gate \"S\" disallows formula_2 in the unitary matrix, and removing the CNOT gate reduces the set of implementable operations from formula_3 to formula_4. Since all Pauli matrices can be constructed from the phase and Hadamard gates, each Pauli gate is also trivially an element of the Clifford group. The formula_5 gate is equal to the product of formula_6 and formula_7 gates. To show that a unitary formula_8"}, {"text": "is a member of the Clifford group, it suffices to show that for all formula_9 that consist only of the tensor products of formula_6 and formula_7, we have formula_12. Common generating gates. Hadamard gate. The Hadamard gate formula_13 is a member of the Clifford group as formula_14 and formula_15. \"S\" gate. The phase gate formula_16 is a Clifford gate as formula_17 and formula_18. CNOT gate. The CNOT gate applies to two qubits. It is a (C)ontrolled NOT gate, where a NOT gate is performed on qubit 2 if and only if qubit 1 is in the 1 state. formula_19 Between formula_6 and formula_7 there are four options: Building a universal set of quantum gates. The Clifford gates do not form a universal set of quantum gates as some gates outside the Clifford group cannot be arbitrarily approximated with a finite set of operations. An example is the phase shift gate (historically known as the formula_22 gate): formula_23. The following shows that the formula_24 gate does not map the Pauli-formula_6 gate to another Pauli matrix: formula_26 However, the Clifford group, when augmented with the formula_24 gate, forms a universal quantum gate set for quantum computation. Moreover, exact, optimal circuit implementations of"}, {"text": "the single-qubit formula_7-angle rotations are known."}, {"text": "The Women's Volleyball tournament at the 2019 Military World Games is held in Wuhan, China from 16 to 22 October. Preliminary round. Group A. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group B. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "Gebel Ramlah is a region in the Western Desert of southern Egypt that was occupied throughout the African Pastoral Neolithic. Archaeological research has focused primarily on individual burial sites and six pastoral cemeteries, including the earliest known infant cemetery in the world. The Gebel Ramlah cemeteries were active during the Final Neolithic in the fifth millennium BC. Ongoing excavation has uncovered over 200 human burials and elaborate grave goods. Research studies have been done on the pottery, mollusk shells, archaeobotanical remains, and skeletal remains found throughout the sites. Excavation. Archaeological excavation began at Gebel Ramlah in 2001, under the Combined Prehistoric Expedition (CPE) group, which has done archaeological work throughout the south Western Desert in Egypt since the 1970s. CPE was founded by Fred Wendorf, and since his retirement has been directed by Romuald Schild. Both have been involved in archaeological work at Gebel Ramlah and directly associated sites in the region. Gebel Ramlah was first discovered in 2000 by polish archaeologist Micha\u0142 Kobusiewicz, and excavation of the first three cemeteries was done in 2001 and 2003. The excavations were led by Kobusiewicz, alongside fellow archaeologists Jacek Kabacinski and Joel D. Irish. These cemeteries were the first Neolithic cemeteries found"}, {"text": "in the Western Desert, and thus the earliest known in the region. They are known by their site names E-01-2, E-03-1 and E-03-2. In 2008, the signs of another cemetery were spotted by archaeologist Marta Osypinska. The location was excavated during a 2009 CPE field season, by Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny and Jacek Kabacinski. It was confirmed to be another cemetery, site E-09-4. Two other cemeteries were also excavated during this 2009 field season at Gebel Ramlah, both under the site name E-09-02 (one of these being the unique Gebel Ramlah infant cemetery). These too were discovered and excavated by Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny and Jacek Kabaci\u0144ski and their CPE team. Excavation of various individual burial sites and habitation sites from throughout the Neolithic have also been excavated by CPE teams at Gebel Ramlah since its discovery, but research and publication on these sites is limited. One habitation site was excavated alongside the associated cemetery sites in 2001. Environment. Archaeologists working at Gebel Ramlah and other Western Desert sites use a four period system to categorize the human occupations of the region during the African Humid Period. Geological research has found evidence for unique climatic and environmental variations within each of these humid phases,"}, {"text": "as well as dry periods between them. Gebel Ramlah, or \"sandy mountain\", is located in the south of Egypt's Western Desert, near the Sudanese border. It is a 100 meter high hill, overlooking a playa directly to its south. During the intermittent humid periods of the African Neolithic, the desert playa was filled with water and fostered a lush savanna landscape. Human occupation at Gebel Ramlah revolved around this paleo-lake. Evidence of habitation on the edges of the paleo-lake suggest that human settlements relied on the lake and its resources throughout the Neolithic. These individuals were responsible for the extensive burials of Gebel Ramlah, with all of its known burial and cemetery sites within a kilometer of the lake shore. Dating of some material from the most recent upper levels of settlement areas matches the Final Neolithic timeline of the cemeteries. Stratigraphic and geologic studies in the Gebel Ramlah playa indicate that around 6050 BC (marking the start of the Middle Neolithic), a major climatic shift left the regional landscape semi-desertified. Bodies of water were shrinking, and vegetation suffered. Therefore, people could no longer rely solely on hunting and intensive gathering for subsistence. It was at this point that pastoralism"}, {"text": "was likely adopted as a widespread means for subsistence in the playa region. This semi-arid climate continued until the end of the Final Neolithic in the region, at which point intensifying desertification drove inhabitants out. Early, Middle, and Late Neolithic occupation. Archaeology throughout in the Western Desert shows a wide span of Neolithic occupation, such as in Nabta Playa where early occupation dates back to 7500 BC. Nabta Playa is just 20 kilometers northwest of Gebel Ramlah, and findings from the two regions are often compared. At Gebel Ramlah, the earliest known burials have been dated to the late Early Neolithic, around 6500 BC. Burials dated to the Middle and Late Neolithic are scattered throughout the area as well. These are individual burials or sometimes burial clusters, predating the use of large-scale cemeteries in the region. An extensive lithic refitting was done with a collection of 190 associate lithic artifacts found on the surface near the infant cemetery of site E-09-4. Because all of the flakes and tools produced in this knapping were found together with the core, archaeologists hypothesize that the tools were made for practice or training, not to be used. The tool styles and knapping processes evident"}, {"text": "in these refits are associated with Late Neolithic technology, designated by extensive flake production and retouched flake tools. Final Neolithic occupation. It is thought that the Bunat El Asnan people of the Gebel Ramlah region were \"trans-huming\" pastoralists. During the wet season they traveled to uplands where they could graze their cattle, while during the dry season they lived in permanent settlements on the paleo-lake. These individuals were some of the last to inhabit the Western Desert before drought and desertification finally intensified enough to drive them out. Some travelled up the Nile into northern Africa, potentially setting the stage for Ancient Egyptian civilizations. There are cultural elements found in the Final Neolithic of Gebel Ramlah which overlap with or are potential precursors for Ancient Egyptian elements, such as astronomical knowledge and the production of amulets. Additionally, it has been argued that the evidence for passive burial conservation in Gebel Ramlah cemeteries could be a precursor for Ancient Egyptian mummification, perhaps being based in similar protective beliefs. Cemeteries and burial practices. E-01-2, E-03-1 and E-03-2. The first three Final Neolithic cemetery sites discovered at Gebel Ramlah were excavated in 2001 and 2003, and are known by their site names E-01-2,"}, {"text": "E-03-1 and E-03-2. These cemeteries, all very similar, are within a few meters of one another. Altogether they contain 69 individuals, some buried individually and some in group graves. There are more than double the number of women than there are men, possibly because as herders men were more likely to die far from the settlement protecting their animals. Additionally, 22% of the individuals are children, including neonates. Archaeologists have interpreted these cemeteries as being used by extended families, those Final Neolithic trans-humanist groups with settlements on the edges of the paleo-lake. It is hypothesized that group graves within the cemeteries were used by direct family units. The diversity of individuals throughout the cemeteries indicates a lack of social differentiation. There was no bias between men, women, and children in terms of quantity and quality of associated grave goods. All burials are tightly clustered, with each cemetery being under ten meters across. A specific burial style was employed in these cemeteries. Individuals were placed on their right side facing south, with the knees bent and the hands positioned over the face. They were buried in oval pits, and outlines within the pits indicate that they were once lined with some"}, {"text": "sort of woven, basket-like material. In some instances, secondary inhumations are present in the cemeteries as well, where disarticulated skeletal remains were brought in from elsewhere and placed in a common grave. 896 artifacts and grave goods were found associated with the burials. These include flint and agate tools, stone objects, abundant and diverse jewelry items (beads, bracelets, pendants, amulets), sheets of mica, stone palettes, bone tools and needles, shells, pottery (including intricate caliciform beakers), ochre, and ochre containers. The close proximity of burials throughout the cemeteries meant that older remains were often disturbed when new individuals were being buried. In these cases, some remains were found to be disturbed or incomplete. However, there is also compelling evidence of attempts to preserve the skeletal remains within these disturbed burials. For example, there are individuals whose teeth were found backwards, out of order, and even carefully placed in an eye socket or nasal cavity. They were likely put back into the older, skeletonized skulls after being upset in later grave-digging. In another case, an individual's own radius and ulna were inserted between their humerus and bracelets, to keep the jewelry in place after apparent disruption. These instances show an effort to"}, {"text": "ensure that remains and burial features were kept complete and together, likely indicated a significance of the human body's integrity in and after death. The remains of one male individual in this cemetery group showed signs of great physical strain that indicates bending and lifting heavy objects. This type of skeletal stress is different than what results from herding, and thus what is typically seen in the remains of pastoralist Gebel Ramlah men. Archaeologists theorize that this individual may have taken part in the construction of Saharan megalithic structures erected nearby during the Final Neolithic. E-09-4. Around 600 meters from the previously described cemeteries, cemetery E-09-4 was discovered in 2008. Artifacts clustered on the surface were indicative of established Gebel Ramlah Final Neolithic burial practices, including a stone palette, red ochre, and modified shells from the Red Sea. Further research and excavation in 2009 showed that the cemetery was extremely poorly preserved. Although no human bones preserved, the presence of said burial-related artifacts and remnants of ovular grave pits allowed two graves to be confirmed, with likely evidence for multiple others. E-09-02. Site E-09-02 is a burial complex containing two cemeteries, both discovered by archaeologists in 2009. The larger of"}, {"text": "the two was used for the majority of adults, juveniles, and children older than three. The second, however, was an exclusively \"infant\" cemetery. Most of these individuals were newborns who died during or shortly after birth, though any children under three were also buried here. These cemeteries were likely used simultaneously by one Gebel Ramlah group, as burial practices were similar and radiocarbon dating shows use at the same time (between 4500 and 4300 BC). The infant cemetery has been the main focus of publication on site E-09-02. There are various cases around the world of early infant inhumation, but the presence of an entire cemetery set aside for infants, this early, is unique. The adult cemetery contains at least 60 individuals. In comparison, the infant cemetery has 39 individuals, within 32 graves. Although mostly infants, there are two adults and one juvenile (around 14 years old) as well, each buried alongside an infant. One of the adults and the juvenile were both confirmed to be female, while the other adult was unidentifiable. It is likely that these individuals are mothers who died in or shortly after childbirth, along with their child. Like the previously described cemeteries, these burials are"}, {"text": "tightly packed. In the infant cemetery, all 32 graves are packed within a space of six meters by eight meters. The infant remains were often in fairly poor condition, due to exposure as well as the delicacy of infant bones in general. This limits aDNA study and exact aging of the remains. Additionally, research is limited by a lack of artifacts. Unlike in the previously described cemeteries, grave goods are fairly uncommon. Red ochre was present in most graves, but other than this there were only a few scattered shells (from the Nile and Red Sea), one hippopotamus ivory bracelet, 3 pieces of limonite and one piece of malachite. Archaeologists suspect that the individuals who used the E-09-04 burial complex were culturally distinct from those using the previously described cemeteries, and though likely pastoralists as well, were not as mobile and spent more time at Gebel Ramlah. This is evidenced by the fact that all of the infants remains are primary burials, meaning the remains were immediately buried there and not transferred from elsewhere later after death. This detail has led archaeologists to hypothesize that women and children lived permanently at the Gebel Ramlah settlements, while men traveled in seasonal,"}, {"text": "trans-humanist pastoralism patterns. Some mobility is further suggested by certain exotic items used as grave goods, such as shells from the Nile River and Red Sea. Several infant remains showed signs of burning. This burning of the deceased was likely intentional, with the remains being placed into pits that contained burning fires before being fully buried and covered. However, archaeologists have been unable to determine why this was done. Pottery. With its large and unusual cemetery sites, Gebel Ramlah is beneficial to archaeologists in understanding the use of funerary pottery within the Neolithic Western Desert region. However, some limitations are found in the relatively small amount of pottery excavated from the burial sites. An analysis of Gebel Ramlah's pottery assemblage was done by Maria C. Gatto. Production. It appears that temper wasn't intentionally added to the clay, which was also common practice in early Nubian and Egyptian ceramics. The high quality of local clay made temper unnecessary. Small sand particles and occasional shale fragments were likely already in the clay when it was collected. Clay is present within some nearby hills (including Gebel Ramlah itself), as are sand and shale similar to those found in the ceramics. Thus, Gatto hypothesizes"}, {"text": "that the pottery was made within or nearby Gebel Ramlah. Considering the consistent water supply needed for pottery work, this is potentially significant. During the Final Neolithic when this production was occurring, we know that the Gebel Ramlah paleo-lake was drying up and water was most likely becoming more limited. Erosion on the pottery made certain analyses of shaping and design difficult, but comparative study has led archaeologists to believe that coiling and pinching techniques were used to form the vessels found at Gebel Ramlah, with potential paddle and anvil methods as well. The works were typically either smoothed or burnished. Some seem to have been coated with a thin layer of clay around the rim after being shaped, creating a black-topped outer layer once the vessel was fired. Decoration. The most elaborate vessels found at Gebel Ramlah's burial sites are large, tulip-shaped (or caliciform) beakers, with wide flared rims. The beakers are typically decorated with geometric patterns, such as curved bands, triangles, and diamonds. Ripple and zigzag textures are commonly seen within these shapes. The caliciform beakers, as well as the black-topped ware discussed previously, are specifically characteristic of the later Egyptian Badarian culture, possibly indicating a connection. However,"}, {"text": "similar caliciform beakers have been discovered throughout Egypt and from various Neolithic phases. Only around a fourth of the vessels found within Gebel Ramlah burial sites were caliciform beakers, produced specifically as funerary pieces. The rest were offerings that originally had a utilitarian purpose (mend holes indicate their previous use). These vessels include pots, bowls, jars, and cups. Many were medium-sized bowls- often more simply constructed than the elaborate funerary beakers. Notably, over half of the pre-used vessels were still decorated, typically with a ripple pattern. Gatto hypothesizes that perhaps decorated vessels held a greater significance and were more likely to be selected as funerary offerings. In different Gebel Ramlah cemetery sites, however, the percentages of funerary pieces, pre-used pieces, and decorated pieces differ. Spatial differences. Groupings of burials within various cemeteries can be attributed to family units within the large extended family that populated Gebel Ramlah. Thus, Gatto hypothesizes that spatial groupings of different pottery styles could be connected to the unique preferences and traditions of different families. Regional comparisons. Some of the intricate shapes and designs of Final Neolithic pottery at Gebel Ramlah differ greatly from even Late Neolithic productions of the region just before. In fact, pieces"}, {"text": "like the ripple-decorated caliciform beakers most closely resemble Nubian pottery. Gatto hypothesizes that, perhaps, individuals from farther out in the Nubian Nile valley were moving toward Gebel Ramlah and surrounding regions (where water sources were slightly more reliable) as water dwindled during the Final Neolithic. If true, these individuals may have introduced Gebel Ramlah populations to their own pottery styles and techniques (and vice versa). Comparison with better studied Late and Final Neolithic sites in Nubia and upper Egypt also help to supplement for the minimal testing done on Gebel Ramlah Pottery. The analysis of pottery from sites such as Nabta Playa helped to form hypotheses concerning the impacts of different firing temperatures on the unique local clay used in these ceramics, as well as the formation of features such as the previously described black-topped layer. Mollusk shell artifacts. A zooarchaeological study was done by Aldona Kurzawska to identify the mollusk shells used as various grave goods in the originally excavated cemeteries, sites E-01-2, E-03-1 and E-03-2. 142 shell artifacts were present throughout the burials (with no gifting discrimination by age or gender). Some whole and partial unmodified shells were present, while others had been shaped into bangles, beads, pendants,"}, {"text": "and nose plugs. Kurzawska separates the assemblage into its identifiable gastropods and bivalves, as well as unidentifiable artifacts. Occasionally, shells throughout these categories were found still coated with ceremonial red ochre. Publications on more recently excavated Gebel Ramlah cemeteries also occasionally make mention of mollusk shell artifacts. Gastropods. Within the assemblage, Kurzawska found evidence of \"Lambis truncata sebae\", \"Cypraea pantherina\", and genus \"Nerita\" (likely \"Nerita orbignyana\" and \"Nerita sanguinolenta\"). Various individuals of these different species were found covered with a layer of ochre colorant. All are species originating in the Red Sea. This is most likely evidence of trading systems within Gebel Ramlah society, in this case as far as the Red Sea coast. According to Kurzawska, it could also indicate direct mobility to these regions by Gebel Ramlah inhabitants. \"Nerita orbignyana\" and \"Nerita sanguinolenta\" are two species of common name \"nerite\". The \"Nerita\" sp. individuals were used as beads, with holes drilled in the small gastropod shells. Of the 57 specimens throughout the burials, 51 were found together, near the skull of an individual in cemetery E-01-2. Thus it is likely these beads originally were associated within a jewelry piece, possibly a necklace. A specimen of drilled \"Nerita\" sp."}, {"text": "was also cited in the infant cemetery at site E-09-02. \"Lambis truncata sebae\" has a much larger shell than the Nerita species. In this assemblage, these shells were cut to form bangles. 28 bangles made of the species were found throughout the original cemeteries (23 complete, five incomplete). \"Cypraea pantherina\" has the common name \"panther cowry\". Two individuals of \"Cypraea pantherina\" were found throughout the original cemeteries, one in E-01-2 and one in E-03-2, both in association with specific burials. Both specimens were modified such that the lips were widened and inner columellas removed. Kurzawska hypothesizes that this was perhaps done to make the shells into containers, but its true purpose in this context is unknown. At cemetery site E-09-4, three \"Cypraea pantherina\" were found on the surface. They showed similar modifications to those at E-01-2 and E-03-2. One of these specimens does show direct evidence of having been used as a container for malachite colorant, with visible green malachite traces remaining. Bivalves. The only bivalve species identified in the original cemeteries is \"Chambardia rubens arcuata,\" which originates in the Nile River (freshwater). Like the Red Sea mollusks, the presence of this Nile species also indicates trade or travel. 16"}, {"text": "specimens were present within the first cemeteries, some whole and some fragments. Two valves found in E-03-2 contained the remnants of green pigment. According to Kurzawska, this indicates they were likely used as either containers or pallets for colorants. Since most of the valves showed no signs of modification or use, there is uncertainty surrounding other roles this species may have played in funerary tradition and general culture. It is possible the shells were used as spoons or small dishes. The mollusk itself may have been eaten, as well. Nile River bivalves have also been cited as present within the cemeteries of site E-09-02. Unidentifiable. Some heavily modified shells could not be identified in the original cemetery assemblage. Small disc-shaped beads, carved pendants, and thin nose-plugs all made with shell were unable to be identified in this study. The various artifacts were, however, determined to be made of marine shell. Kurzawska states that they likely all originated from the Red Sea, like the other identified marine shells in the assemblage. The small disc-shaped beads are all around 0.4 cm in diameter. Most of them were located together, associated with a burial in cemetery E-01-2. They were likely strung together in"}, {"text": "a necklace or other jewelry piece. Nine ovular shell pendants were found associated with an adult female buried in cemetery E-01-2. A triangular pendant was found in another burial within the same cemetery. Two small shell nose-plugs (used for septum piercings) were found, one buried with an adult female in cemetery E-01-2, the other on the surface of E-03-1. Archaeobotany. An archaeobotanical study was done at Gebel Ramlah cemetery sites E-01-2, E-03-1 and E-03-2 by Maria Lity\u0144ska-Zaj\u0105c. Minimal botanical remains were found, and few samples were collected in general: 20 samples from E-01-2, four from E-03-1, and two from E-03-2. These were collected from various different site locations, including under skeletal remains, within pottery vessels and bone containers, within fire pits, and generally within burials/burial areas. Some of these were soil samples, which did not always contain botanical evidence. One of the E-01-2 samples, two of the E-03-1 samples, and both of the E-03-2 samples did not contain any botanical remains. Other samples were taken in places where heavy charcoal was visibly noticeable in the soil. Wood. The majority of the remains found were the charcoal remnants of wood from fires. Many of these charcoal fragments were very small, and"}, {"text": "60% (over 512 pieces) were unidentifiable. The identified fragments were only identifiable to the genus level, and they all fall within two tree genera still common in the region today. 38% (274 pieces) are \"Tamarix\" sp., and 2% (21 pieces) are \"Acacia\" sp. Many of the larger, identifiable fragments were collected from fire pit features. According to Lity\u0144ska-Zaj\u0105c, these charcoal wood fragments were primarily used, most likely, for fire and fuel. Some acacias can be used to make colorants, so this is also a possibility considering the evidence of colorants as grave goods as well. Seeds and grains. Also in the assemblage were two identifiable seeds (of the genus \"Grevia\") and one identifiable grain (sorghum, or \"Sorgum bicolor\"). Sorghum is a domesticated grain that is commonly found in nearby sites, such as Nabta Playa. Sorghum's presence at Gebel Ramlah provides further evidence for its role as an early gathered domesticate in the region. \"Grevia\" sp. are trees and shrubs, with edible fruits. Lity\u0144ska-Zaj\u0105c hypothesizes that these fruits may have been imported from elsewhere. Physical anthropology. Joel D. Irish has done extensive physical anthropological analysis on the human remains of Gebel Ramlah. His research conducted at Gebel Ramlah includes both analysis"}, {"text": "of craniometry and dental morphology. Poor preservation can sometimes limit skeletal analyses, but the quantity of burials still allows extensive physical research. The inhabitants of Gebel Ramlah, located in between upper Egypt to their north and Nubia to their south, naturally show physical traits characteristic of both of these populations. In general, morphological study indicates that Gebel Ramlah populations were the product of sub-Saharan and North African admixture. Moreover, despite cultural variations, particularly variations in burial practices between cemeteries, physical assessments indicate that differing populations within Gebel Ramlah likely had the same origins and genetic basis. Dental and cranial morphological studies consistently cluster Gebel Ramlah individuals as being most similar to Lower Nubians, however Upper Egyptian comparisons fall closely behind and there are similarities and differences with both of these populations. Furthermore, Gebel Ramlah individuals were also considerably taller than Egyptian populations, suggesting a primary genetic input from Nubian populations. However, these trends and averages do not fully reflect the physical anthropology of Gebel Ramlah inhabitants. Individuals were not homogeneous, with some displaying more sub-Saharan physical traits, others more northern African traits, and with many even showing a different combinations of these features. This is potentially rooted in the trans-humanist"}, {"text": "pastoralist lifestyle used by many inhabitants of Gebel Ramlah, meaning groups were not isolated from distant populations. Additionally, located near the Nile, Gebel Ramlah was essentially a cultural crossroads for groups both north and south of the Sahara. This likely allowed for a regular gene flow of northern and southern genetic groups. The overall craniometric and other morphological indicators at the Gebel-Ramlah site, show these inhabitants were intermediate between Europeans and sub-Saharan Africans. Irish also found that Gebel Ramlah inhabitants seemed to have exceptionally good health, superior to Egyptians who came after. Other than their superior height, there was also a lack of detectable skeletal disease (as well as trauma). In his studies of cemeteries E-01-2, E-03-1 and E-03-2, he found that all 17 subadults showed no sign of disease, and only four of 50 adults had detectable diseases or disorders. Dentition. Dental studies are indicative of dietary trends within Gebel Ramlah populations. Angled wear on teeth is potentially associated with intensification of food preparation. Habitation sites nearby confirm that technologies such as grinding stones and pottery were in use, allowing food to be cooked and made less tough. Teeth were more likely to grind against one another when food"}, {"text": "was made softer. The use of grinding stones likely added sand to food (such as grains) that also worked to grind down teeth. However, the angle of tooth wear was greater than that seen in agricultural populations. According to Irish, this could indicate the primary extensive gathering of wild plants, perhaps alongside the use of a few semi-domesticated foods. The continued use of primarily wild plants is also supported by a lack of caries on the teeth of Gebel Ramlah individuals. Caries form as a result of heavily consuming domesticated plant foods that are high in carbohydrates. In fact, no caries were found in any Gebel Ramlah remains. Typically a small percentage of caries form even within fully hunter-gatherer societies. Archaeologists are not sure how these lesions were entirely prevented, but Irish suggests that other factors may have been at play as well, such as oral cleansing. He also hypothesizes that the grinding of teeth crowns reduced the surface area where caries could form."}, {"text": "No Sin on the Alpine Pastures (German: Auf der Alm, da gibt's ka S\u00fcnd) is a 1950 Austrian comedy film directed by Franz Antel and starring Maria Andergast, Inge Egger and Rudolf Carl. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gustav Abel."}, {"text": "Milton Harris is an American mathematician and economist and is the Chicago Board of Trade Professor of Finance and Economics Emeritus at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Harris is an expert in the fields of corporate finance, corporate contract law, and applied economics. He is particularly interested in the economic theory of information and its effect on the firm and on organizations in general, and has done fundamental research in these areas. Harris began his career in mathematics. He graduated from Rice University in 1968 with a degree in mathematics and went on to practice as a mathematician at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory before returning to an academic career. He earned his A.M. in 1973 at the University of Chicago in 1973 and completed his Ph.D. under supervisor William A. Brock in 1974. Harris taught at a variety of academic institutions before moving to the University of Chicago. He was the Nathan and Mary Sharp Professor of Finance and Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Science at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University from 1983 to 1987. He was also the director of the Ph.D. program there during that time. Harris joined The Booth"}, {"text": "School of Business in 1987. He was the Associate Dean of Ph.D. Studies from 1997 to 2004. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Finance Association."}, {"text": "The Charlestown Civil War Memorial, also known as the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, is an outdoor granite monument and sculpture by Martin Milmore, commemorating the men of Charlestown, Boston, who fought to preserve the Union during the American Civil War. The memorial is installed in the Training Field in Charlestown, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Description and history. The memorial, executed in granite, was designed in 1871 and dedicated in 1872. The sculpture measures approximately 12 x 9 x 8 ft, and depicts three figures: an allegorical female representing Liberty, carrying laurel wreaths in both hands, standing over two men, one a sailor and the other a soldier. The sculptural group is mounted on a pedestal and a base measuring 18 x 13 x 13 ft. The work was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1993."}, {"text": "Varma Agnes Lahtinen (24 December 1894\u20131 July 1976) was a Finnish actress. She appeared in about 80 Finnish films between 1937 and 1970. Lahtinen starred in six Pekka Puup\u00e4\u00e4 films, among others."}, {"text": "Over and Over is the debut extended play by South Korean singer Kim Ji-yeon (also known as Kei). It was released on October 8, 2019 by Woollim Entertainment and distributed by Kakao M. The EP contains six tracks, including the lead single \"I Go\". Background and release. On September 27, 2019, Woollim Entertainment announced Kei would make her solo debut with the extended play \"Over and Over\", under her real name Kim Ji-yeon. The album and the lead single \"I Go\" music video were released on October 8. Composition. The lead single \"I Go\" was composed by Junzo and TAK and written by Junzo and ARRAN. It is a song with \"a beautiful piano melody and hopeful sounds of string instruments.\""}, {"text": "Go Live (stylized as GO LIVE) is the fourth extended play by South Korean\u2013Japanese boy group ONF, released on October 7, 2019 by WM Entertainment and distributed by Stone Music Entertainment. The extended play contains five tracks in pop and dance-pop genres, and was largely produced by their long-time collaborator and production team MonoTree with additional composition from Justin Reinstein and ORORI. In addition, member Wyatt and MK also contributed both lyrics and composition to the lead single \"Why\". Upon its release, the extended play became the group's fourth consecutive top-ten entry on the Gaon Album Chart, and their first to chart outside South Korea as the EP made its debut at number thirty-eight on the Oricon Albums Chart. It was the group's first release as a sextet since the departure of former member Laun on August 23, 2019, shortly after the first teaser for the group's release. To further promote the extended play, the group revealed a music video for the lead single \"Why\" on the same digital release day and appeared on several South Korean television music programs to perform the song. Similar to their previous releases, \"Why\" remained largely uncharted in their native country. Background and release."}, {"text": "On August 23, 2019, WM Entertainment released the first teaser video for ONF's upcoming mini-album, featuring ONF member J-Us and filmed in Berlin, Germany. Shortly after, the label issued a statement announcing that member Laun terminated his contract with the agency for personal reasons, thus leaving the group during their comeback preparation. Following teaser videos featuring the remaining members were released over the next weeks, with the release's title to be \"Go Live\" and \"Why\" as the lead single on September 23. The extended play was scheduled to be released on October 7, with the tracklisting being revealed later on September 25. The label then released \"Go Live\" both digitally and physically on October 7, along with the music video for \"Why\". Promotion. Similar to their previous release, ONF held a comeback showcase at the Yes 24 Live Hall in Gwangjin District, Seoul, where the group performed live \"Why\", \"Asteroid\" and \"Twinkle Twinkle\" for the first time. The group then proceeded to appear on \"M Countdown\" to promote the song on October 10, along with another album track \"Moscow Moscow\". They then continued to appear on \"The Show\", \"Show! Music Core\", \"Music Bank\", \"Inkigayo\" and \"Show Champion\" to perform \"Why\""}, {"text": "between October and November 2019. ONF then revealed a special performance video for \"Why\" and a self-made video for \"All Day\" on October 21, followed by a lyric video for \"Moscow Moscow\" on November 4. The group then had another performance for \"Moscow Moscow\" on January 4, 2020 at \"Show! Music Core.\" Both the aforementioned track and \"Why\" were later sampled for the group's participation in \"Road to Kingdom\", the male counterpart reality television program of \"Queendom\" that features seven rising boy groups competing with live performances of their previous singles and new recording."}, {"text": "Go Live may refer to:"}, {"text": "Falmouth was launched in 1806 at Liverpool as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. After the British slave trade ended in 1807, she became a West Indiaman until a privateer captured her in 1812. Slave ship. \"Falmouth\" first appeared in \"Lloyd's Register\" (\"LR\") in 1806 with Sherwood, master, Lett & Co., owners, and trade Liverpool\u2013Africa. Captain William Sherwood acquired a letter of marque on 5 June 1806. Captain William Sherwood sailed from Liverpool on 28 June 1806. Between 1 January 1806 and 1 May 1807, 185 vessels cleared Liverpool outward bound in the slave trade. Thirty of these vessels made two voyages during this period. Of the 155 vessels, 114 were regular slave ships, having made two voyages during the period, or voyages before 1806. \"Falmouth\" acquired captives at Bonny Island. She arrived at Montego Bay on 14 January 1807. There she landed 395 captives. She left on 22 April and arrived back at Liverpool on 14 June. She had left Liverpool with 63 crew members and she suffered three crew deaths on the voyage. West Indiaman. \"LR\" for 1807 showed her master changing to R.Watson. \"LR\" for 1808 showed him sailing \"Falmouth\" between Liverpool and"}, {"text": "Jamaica. He sailed from Cork on 11 November 1807 as part of the Jamaica fleet. In 1812 her master changed from R. Watson to M. Hill. Her trade was still London\u2013Jamaica. Fate. \"Falmouth\" reached Portland, Maine in mid-September 1812. The American privateer \"Thomas\" had captured \"Falmouth\" as she was sailing from London to Jamaica. United States sources gave the value of \"Falmouth\"s cargo as $200,000. The \"Register of Shipping\" (\"RS\") for 1813 showed her master as W.Hill, her owners as Litt & Co., and her trade as Liverpool\u2013West Indies. The entry carried the notation \"Captured\". \"LR\" continued to carry \"Falmouth\", Hill, master, Jerwarris, owner, for a number of years. However the ship arrivals and departures data in \"Lloyd's List\" had no mention of a \"Falmouth, Hill\"."}, {"text": "is a Japanese kickboxer, currently competing in the super lightweight division of Krush. A professional competitor since 1999, he is the former Krush Super Featherweight champion, the former AJKF Lightweight champion and the 2003 AJKF Lightweight Tournament winner. Kickboxing career. AJKF. AJFK lightweight champion. Otsuki challenged the reigning AJKF lightweight champion Aou Hayashi at AJKF 2003 1th.BOUT - KICK ENERGY on January 4, 2003. He was awarded a third-round technical knockout, after knocking Hayashi down three times by the 1:32 minute mark. After capturing the AJKF lightweight title, Otsuki participated in the 2003 AJKF lightweight tournament. Otsuki was booked to face Takahito Fujimasa in the quarterfinals, which were held on March 8, 2003. He won the fight by a first-round knockout. Otsuki faced Susumu Daig\u016bji in the penultimate bout of the tournament on May 23, 2003. He won fight by a third-round knockout. Otsuki advanced to the tournament finals, held on the same day, where he faced Tsogto Amara. He won the fight by a second-round technical knockout. Otsuki faced Andrea Ronchi in a non-title bout at AJKF 2003 KNOCK DOWN on September 27, 2003. Ronchi retired from the fight at the end of the fourth round. Otsuki made his"}, {"text": "first AJKF lightweight title defense against Takahito Fujimasa at AJKF 2004 Wilderness on January 4, 2004. He won the fight by a first-round knockout, stopping Fujimasa with a spinning backfist near the end of the opening round. Otsuki vacated the title on September 25, 2004. Post title reign. Otsuki challenged the reigning WPKC World muay thai champion Satoshi Kobayashi at AJKF Survivor on January 4, 2005. He won the fight by a third-round knockout. Otsuki faced Masami Yamamoto at AJKF Solid Fist on November 12, 2006. He won the fight by unanimous decision, with scores of 30\u201328, 30\u201328 and 30\u201329. Otsuki next faced Jon Sung Min at AJKF New Year Kick Festival 2007 on January 4, 2007. He won the fight by a first-round knockout. Otsuki's two-fight winning streak was snapped by Hiromasa Masuda at AJKF: Departure Norainu FINAL on March 9, 2007, who beat him by unanimous decision. Otsuki suffered his second consecutive loss on June 17, 2007, as Kupee Wor.Steera beat him by unanimous decision at AJKF's Thailand event. Otsuki was booked to face Kanongsuk Weerasakreck in the quarterfinal bout of the AJKF 60 kg tournament, which was held on August 25, 2007. He won the fight by"}, {"text": "a fifth-round technical knockout. Otsuki advanced to the semifinals, held on October 25, 2007, where he faced Naoki Maeda. He won the fight by unanimous decision. Otsuki fought Masahiro Yamamoto in the tournament finals, which were held on the same day. He lost the fight by unanimous decision. Krush. Early Krush career. Otsuki made his K-1 promotional debut against David Douge at K-1 WORLD MAX 2008 World Championship Tournament FINAL 8 on July 7, 2008. He won the fight by a third-round knockout. Otsuki made his second K-1 appearance against Ryuji Kajiwara at K-1 World MAX 2008 World Championship Tournament Final on October 1, 2008. He won the fight by unanimous decision, with scores of 30\u201328, 29\u201328 and 30\u201329. Otsuki made his Krush debut against Naoki Ishikawa at Krush 2 on March 14, 2009. He won the fight by a third-round knockout, flooring Ishikawa with a right hook late in the round. After winning his promotional debut, Otsuki was scheduled to participate in the 2009 Krush lightweight grand prix. Although he beat Hiroshi Iwakiri by a first-round technical knockout in the opening round of the tournament, he lost a majority decision to Masahiro Yamamoto in the quarterfinals, which were held"}, {"text": "on the same day. Otsuki faced Akihiro Kuroda at Krush \u00d7 Survivor on March 13, 2010. He won the fight by unanimous decision, with scores of 30\u201328, 30\u201328 and 30\u201329. Otsuki was unable to build on this victory however, as he lost a unanimous decision to Yoshimichi Matsumoto on May 2, 2010. Otsuki returned from a three-year absence from the sport to face Taishi Hiratsuka at Krush 34 on November 10, 2013. He won the fight by a first-round knockout. Otsuki was next booked to face Tomohiro Oikawa in Oikawa's retirement fight at SHOOT BOXING 2013 on December 23, 2013. He won the fight by unanimous decision, after two extra rounds were contested. Otsuki extended his winning streak to three straight fights at Krush 37 on April 1, 2014, as he beat Junpei Aotsu by split decision, after an extra round was contested. Krush super featherweight champion. His three fight winning streak earned Otsuki the chance to challenge the reigning Krush Super Featherweight champion Kan Itabashi at Krush 41 on May 11, 2014. He won the fight by unanimous decision, with scores of 28\u201326, 28\u201326 and 29\u201326. Otsuki faced Hiroshi Momoi at NKB 2014 Kissui Series VOL.3 on June 15,"}, {"text": "2014. He won the fight by a first-round technical knockout, stopping Momoi with a combination of punches after just 55 seconds. Otsuki vacated the title on October 17, 2014 as he was unable to make a title defense in the mandated time. Otsuki faced Leona Pettas, in his first fight post-title reign, at Krush.50 on April 1, 2015. He won the fight by unanimous decision, with all three judges scoring the bout 27\u201325 in his favor. NKB and KNOCKOUT. Otsuki faced Akira Takemura at NKB Yamato Damashii Series VOL.2 on April 11, 2015. He won the fight by a first-round stoppage, as Damashii's corner threw in the towel at the 1:36 minute mark. Otsuki next faced Hideki Soga at NJKF WINNERS 2015 2nd on May 17, 2015. He won the fight by unanimous decision, with scores of 49\u201347, 50\u201346 and 49\u201347. Otsuki made his REBELS promotional debut against Yasuyuki at REBELS.38 on September 16, 2015. He lost the fight by a third-round technical knockout. Otsuki next faced Taison Maeguchi at NO KICK NO LIFE 2016 on March 12, 2016. Maeguchi won the fight by a third-round technical knockout. Otsuki faced Hideki Soga at NJKF Superkick on April 10, 2016. He"}, {"text": "won the fight by a third-round knockout. Six months later, at SIAM WARRIORS SUPERFIGHTS on October 22, 2016, Otsuki won the ISKA Muay Thai Intercontinental Super Lightweight title with a first-round knockout of Saen Kransi. Otsuki was next booked to face Starboy Kwaythong Gym at the inaugural KNOCK OUT event on December 5, 2016. He won the fight by a first-round knockout. Otsuki traded wins and losses over his next four fights. He first lost to Yuto Tsujide by a first-round knockout at HOOST CUP KINGS KYOTO 2 on March 5, 2017. Otsuki next beat Mitsuru Nakao by a first-round knockout at KNOCK OUT vol.5 on October 4, 2017. Two months later, at KNOCK OUT 2017 in Ryogoku on December 10, 2017, Otsuki suffered a third-round stoppage loss to Hikaru Machida. Otsuki rebounded from this loss with a second-round knockout of Yuma Yamaguchi at KNOCK OUT 2018 OSAKA 1st on May 3, 2018. Otsuki faced Yosuke Morii at KNOCK OUT SUMMER FES.2018 on August 19, 2018. Morii won the fight by a late second-round knockout. Otsuki faced the Shootboxing Japan lightweight champion Renta Nishioka at SHOOT BOXING S-cup 65 kg World TOURNAMENT 2018 on November 16, 2018. He lost the"}, {"text": "fight by unanimous decision, with scores of 28\u201327, 28\u201326 and 28\u201326. Otsuki was booked to face Reo Nomura at NKB Shutsujin Series vol.2 on April 13, 2019. He won the fight by unanimous decision, with scores of 30\u201328, 30\u201327 and 30\u201327. Return to Krush. Otsuki faced Hitoshi Aketo at Krush 121 on January 23, 2021, in his promotional debut to Krush, following a two-year absence from competition. He won the fight by a third-round knockout, flooring Aketo with a right overhand. Otsuki faced Hisaki Higashimoto at Krush 143 on November 26, 2022. He lost the fight by split decision, after an extra fourth round was contested. Otsuki faced Katsuji at the July 9, 2023, NO KICK NO LIFE event. He lost the fight by a fifth-round knockout. Kickboxing record. ! style=background:white colspan=9 | ! style=background:white colspan=9 | ! style=background:white colspan=9 | ! style=background:white colspan=9 | ! style=background:white colspan=9 | ! style=background:white colspan=9 |"}, {"text": "Beta Ethniki 2000\u201301 complete season."}, {"text": "Jaw/\u0106ehu'pa, also known as His Fight/Oki'cize-ta'wa, was a Hunkpapa (H\u00fa\u014bkpap\u021fa) Lakota Winter count keeper and Ledger art artist Commonly known as Jaw (\u0106ehu'pa), a name which he allegedly received from a white brother-in-law, was born somewhere on the northern Great Plains of the United States to a Sans Arc (Itazipcola, Hazipco - 'Those who hunt without bows') father and a Hunkpapa mother, both bands of the then free roaming Teton (Th\u00edt\u021fu\u014bwa\u014b) Lakota. He lost his mother when he was very young and was subsequently raised by his maternal grandmother. His childhood name was Ma'za-ho'waste (Loud-sounding Metal), and at the age of 17 he was given the name of Oki'cize-ta'wa (His Fight), which was his true name among his people. He was given this name after taking part in a fight for the first time. He had been out with a war party once before gaining recognition for being an exceptional horse raider, but this was his first experience in actual warfare. Jaw participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. He followed Sitting Bull into the Canadian exile, returning and surrendering to the United States in early January 1881. Jaw was settled on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation"}, {"text": "where he would live the remainder of his life. His military prowess not only gained him celebrity among the Lakota people, but also among white artists and ethnologists. In 1884, American artist DeCost Smith was compelled to paint him due to his accolades.The warrior-artist is best known today on account of music ethnologist Frances Densmore (1867\u20131957) who had interviewed Jaw in 1911/1912 and was the recipient of several of his works. A highly prolific artist, Jaw is known to have drawn several ledger books, one of which is currently housed in the collections at the South Dakota State Historical Society in Pierre, South Dakota. He has been identified as the principal artist of the Macnider and the Amidon ledgers, both dated about 1885. The Amidon Ledger, so named because it had been found in a storage box at the Slope County Court House in Amidon, North Dakota in 1985 and subsequently sold. In 2016, prior to being dismantled and sold to collectors as individual drawings, the ledger was scanned and inventoried by the Plains Ledger Art Project of the University of California San Diego, Department of Ethnic Studies. 87 or more of the 107 drawings found in the ledger book"}, {"text": "have been attributed to Jaw. Jaw was one of the principal Lakota experts on traditional life. He was in his late fifties/early sixties when he worked with Densmore, singing to her the songs of his life as a warrior, and painting on muslin the scenes from his early life as a hunter, horse stealer, and ritual healer. Densmore was not the only non-Native with whom Jaw shared his stories. From 1885 to 1910, Mary Collins worked as a missionary at Little Eagle, on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. In her papers are drawings made on used pages torn from a ledger book. Several depict the war and horse-stealing exploits of a man whose name is written on the drawings as Okicinintawa. The pictorial autobiography presented in those drawings shows that he was a member of the Lakota Miwa'tani Society. He wears the long red feather-bedecked wool sash of that military brotherhood. In one of these drawings he counts coup on a Crow man and woman, while in another he steals horses. Family and death. Jaw was married at least twice. By his first wife Corn (Wa-hu-wa-pa), born about 1852, there are two daughters documented, Killing of a White Buffalo (Pte-san-o-pi-win)"}, {"text": "and Looks Behind (Ha-ki-kta-win), both likely born during the Canadian exile. His wife and daughters appear to have died soon after they had been settled on Standing Rock Agency and by 1885 he had a new wife, \"Fear her Knife (Tamalakakipapi)\", born about 1851."}, {"text": "Katharine A. Robson Brown is an Academic, professor and researcher in Biological Archeology and Engineering. She is Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact at the University College Dublin. She is also a co-chair of the Space Academic Network, a Board member of the UK Life and Biomedical Sciences Association, and a member of the Space Partnership Board. Career. Robson Brown joined the faculty at the University of Bristol in 1997 after earning her PhD. She was elected into a Phyllis and Eileen Gibbs Travelling Research Fellowships. In her early years at Bristol, she developed the UK's first tomography laboratory within a forensic or physical anthropology department. From 2005 until 2010, Robson Brown was a founding member of the Human Tissue Authority. In 2005, she was a co-chair of HTA's Import and export working group and Public display working group, as well as a lay member in HTA's Authority. During the 2011\u201312 academic term Robson Brown worked alongside geologist Nicholas Minter and biologist Nigel Franks to examine how nest architecture is influenced by factors both social and environmental. The next academic term, Robson Brown earned a University Research Fellowship. The 2015\u201316 academic year resulted in Robson Brown collaborating with the Radiocarbon"}, {"text": "Accelerator Unit at the University of Oxford to examine six mortuary chests within Winchester Cathedral. She was later the recipient of Bristol's 2016/17 Engagement Award for her research project \"Skeletons: Our Buried Bones,\" in collaboration with Bristol Museums. She was appointed Director of the Jean Golding Institute in August 2017. With her appointment, Robson Brown earned one of four APEX awards from the Royal Society to research how bones respond to stress. The next year, she was named Turing University Lead after Bristol joined the Alan Turing Institute. In 2019, Robson Brown and Heidi Dawson-Hobbis found that remains left behind in Winchester Cathedral belonged to 23 Anglo-Saxon kings and queens, rather than 11 people that was originally thought. That year also brought about a collaboration between the Jean Golding Institute and Strathmore University Business School in Kenya. She was also co-director of the Human Spaceflight Capitalisation Office in Harwell. In March 2024 she was appointed as the Vice President for Research, Innovation and Impact at UCD."}, {"text": "Rex George Keeling Jr. (September 9, 1943 \u2013 June 3, 2010) was an American football punter in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the Cincinnati Bengals. He played college football at Samford University."}, {"text": "No Sin on the Alpine Pastures (German: Auf der Alm, da gibt's ka S\u00fcnd) is a 1915 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten, Emmy Wyda, and Lupu Pick. Location shooting took place in the Bavarian town of Bad Reichenhall."}, {"text": "Larry Melvin Masinter is an early internet pioneer and ACM Fellow. After attending Stanford University, he became a principal scientist of Xerox Artificial Intelligence Systems and author or coauthor of 26 of the Internet Engineering Task Force's Requests for Comments. Masinter, who was raised in San Antonio, Texas, is now retired, with wife Carol Masinter, and working on projects for fellow Parkinsons patients. Stanford. Masinter received his PhD from Stanford University in 1980, writing a dissertation on \"Global Program Analysis in an Interactive Environment.\" His advisor was Terry Winograd. Masinter then worked on the PDP-10 version of Lisp and worked with Bill van Melle on Common Lisp. Xerox PARC. Masinter went to work for Xerox PARC in 1976. In 1981, Warren Teitelman and Masinter published a paper on Interlisp in \"IEEE Computer\". Masinter documented the failed attempt in 1982 to port Interlisp to the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix on the VAX. This led to the initial Interlisp IDEs, for which Masinter was initially known. Masinter later helped develop the URL standard, along with Mark McCahill and Tim Berners-Lee. While at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1980s, he began working on online document formats and accessibility options"}, {"text": "and helped define many of the standards used today. In 1992, an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Software System Award recognized the team of Daniel G. Bobrow, Richard R. Burton, L. Peter Deutsch, Ronald Kaplan, Larry Masinter, Warren Teitelman for their work on Interlisp. Masinter became an ACM fellow in 1999 for his work on Interlisp and creation of World Wide Web standards. Adobe. After Xerox, Masinter worked at AT&T Labs and Adobe for 18 years, doing pioneering work on document management and location technologies. He helped publish the PDF MIME type. At Adobe, Masinter was highly active in documenting a number of internet standards and contributed to a number of peer-reviewed journals. His work allowed tools such as the Apache HTTP Server to integrate MIME seamlessly. Masinter presented at the University of California, Irvine TWIST conference. He also collaborated with Nick Kew on the book \"The Apache Modules Book: Application Development with Apache\" and with Kim H. Veltman on her book, \"Understanding New Media: Augmented Knowledge & Culture\". Internet Engineering Task Force RFCs. Masinter was involved with the IETF, helping to set standards from 1994 to 2017 primarily in URIs and HTTP. His contributions include the following:"}, {"text": "Temple B'nai Israel is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 4901 North Pennsylvania, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in the United States. The congregation is the oldest active Jewish congregation in Oklahoma. History. Early years. Jewish people were present in Oklahoma City since its founding in 1889 with the first minyan for High Holy Day services being held in 1890, but no formal synagogue was known to be formed for another 13 years, however, in 1901 the Hebrew Cemetery Association of Oklahoma City was incorporated with land being purchased at the Fairlawn Cemetery. The congregation was founded in May 1903 (one year before the founding of Emmanuel Synagogue, first affiliated with the Orthodox movement, later starting in 1946 with the Conservative movement)) but it met at St. Luke's Methodist Church and other local churches until it constructed its own building in 1907. This building was located at 50 Broadway Circle and was dedicated on January 17, 1908 (only about 2 months after Oklahoma became a state). For the congregation's first high holiday services in 1903, the service was led by a student rabbi from the Reform movement's Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Harry Friedman, while regular Shabbat services were led"}, {"text": "by Gus Paul (the city attorney of Oklahoma City). The following year, the congregation hired its first full-time rabbi, Arthur Lewisohn (also a student at HUC), but his tenure was short, and by November he had to leave the position due to his health. He did a few months later in March 1905 at the age of 23. Lewisohn's death did not stop the congregation from holding its first confirmation service for six graduates, said at the time to be the first Jewish confirmation services held in the Oklahoma and Indian territories. The congregation called its longest-serving rabbi, Joseph Blatt in 1906 who served until 1946. Rabbi Blatt is remembered for his classical reform approach, interfaith efforts (including guest speaking at many churches in Oklahoma City), but also for his strident defense of the Jewish community in the face of anti-semitic accusations by the \"Guthrie Daily Leader\" newspaper (accusations that the state capitol's move from Guthrie to Oklahoma City was inappropriately orchestrated by a group of prominent Jewish businessmen in Oklahoma City). Rabbi Blatt responded that the newspaper's claims were slanderous and that they were a \u201ca disgrace to the civilization of our state.\u201d Rabbi Blatt was also remembered for"}, {"text": "his work in helping to organize congregations in Tulsa, Enid, Shawnee and Ardmore, at times even serving as a kind of circuit preacher of sorts, as well as his opposition towards Zionism, as recalled by his successor Rabbi Levinson: (he was) \"staunchly opposed to Jewish nationalism and died broken-hearted (in 1946) in the thought that the Reform movement had made peace with political Zionism.\" He was even described as being a \"bitter anti-zionist\" by Rabbi Randall Falk of Tulsa. Mid- and late 20th century. Joseph Levenson served as rabbi for 30 years, from 1946 to 1976. Major events during his rabbinate included the congregation's move into its current building (at what was then the edge of Oklahoma City, near NW 50th & Penn) in 1955, as well as a tornado hitting the synagogue in 1970; necessitating significant repairs. It was during the rabbinate of Rabbi Levenson that the congregation moved decided towards a Zionist orientation, in contrast to the classical reform's non-Zionist tradition. In 1950, Rabbi Levenson was called for duty as a US Air Force reservist, so Rabbi Israel Kaplan served as interim rabbi seventeen months. Rabbi Levenson also produced a radio program called \"Voice of Judaism\" in the"}, {"text": "1950s and was active in the National Conference of Christian and Jews] David A. Packman served as rabbi of the Temple from 1976 to 2004 His years of service were marked by increased involvement by the congregation in interfaith efforts, most notably Oklahoma City's annual Interfaith Thanksgiving service. Rabbi Packman was also an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ inclusion in society. Rabbi Packman served as Rabbi Emeritus until his death in 2020. 21st century. Rabbi Barry Cohen began his rabbinate in Oklahoma in 2004 and served until 2012. It was also in 2004 that synagogue building was bombed by a member of Aryan Nations but only minor damage was done to the building with no injuries. The assailant was later sentenced to 39 years in prison. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the congregation began holding all of its worship services and educational programming via online streaming services, as well as providing resources to enable members in social isolation to have the needed supplies to celebrate Passover and later the High Holy Days at home. The congregation began indoor in-person services with limited capacity starting on March 5, 2021 and eventually full-capacity later that year. </ref> Current programs. Today the congregation"}, {"text": "holds weekly Shabbat evening services, monthly Shabbat morning services and a variety of special observances for Jewish holidays. It is led by Rabbi Vered Harris. The congregation also hosts the Erna Krouch Pre-school (the oldest continuously operated in Oklahoma City), a Hebrew school, and a Religious Education program for youth and adults. The congregation also has an active social justice program which focuses on issues related to hunger, poverty, LGBTQ equality and the rights of refugees. Temple B'nai Israel has also had an active program of educating potential adult converts to Judaism, including not only non-Jewish spouses of Jewish members, but also those who had no previous Jewish background. The congregation in the past, under Rabbi Packman, also performed official conversions of children who were raised as Jews but who did not have Jewish mothers. Torah scrolls. The congregation currently has five Torah scrolls, including the recently restored Bendorf Torah (which had been rescued from a burning synagogue in Jugenheim in Germany and later made its way to the USA) Building. The current building for Temple B'nai Israel was built in 1955 in a modern style, designed by architect Norman Berlowitz. The building was expanded in 1962 (more Sunday school"}, {"text": "rooms and Krouch Hall), 2000 (a gymnasium) and 2004 (a chapel addition). The building includes a main sanctuary, a fellowship hall (which can be also used as overflow seating for high holiday services), classrooms, offices, a library, a gym and a smaller chapel. Art and other visual displays are scattered throughout the building. The building is located on a 8.77 acre campus with a pool and a playground. Rabbis. The following individuals have served as rabbi of Temple B'nai Israel:"}]