[{"text": "Extinction Rebellion Youth (abbreviated as XRY and shortened to XR Youth) is the autonomous youth wing of the global environmental movement Extinction Rebellion (XR), made up of activists under the age of 30. It has the stated aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse. XR Youth was established in the United Kingdom in February 2019 by a collective of young environmental activists from XR. In contrast to the rest of XR, the youth wing is more centred around climate justice and consideration of the Global South and indigenous peoples. As of September 2020, there are over 200 branches globally, including over 80 in the UK. History and structure. A youth wing\u2014XR Youth\u2014of Extinction Rebellion formed in February 2019. In contrast to the main XR, its main focus is centring the youth voice on topics around climate justice, in solidarity with youth in the Global South and indigenous peoples. By October 2019 there were 55 XR Youth groups in the UK and another 25 elsewhere. All XR Youth comprise people born after 1990, with an average age of 16, and"}, {"text": "some aged 10. Similarly to the main XR, XRY is a loosely networked, decentralised, grassroots movement. XRY organises on both a local, national and international level, with each level of the organisation and each local group maintaining a relationship with their counterparts in main XR. Many activists are part of affinity groups, small groups of usually between 8 and 12 protesters to carry out and join actions. Actions in the United Kingdom. National actions. Southampton Oil Blockade. From around 4am on the 1st April 2022, a group of XR Youth rebels blockaded the Esso Hythe Oil Refinery in Fawley, Southampton. Two activists locked themselves onto a pink boat which blockaded the entrance to the refinery for eight hours. The activists claimed they were holding ExxonMobil to account in the name of justice and solidarity for those most affected by the climate crisis, for the refinery workers (who went on strike a week later) and for the activists futures. The group called for an end for new fossil fuel projects and the phasing out of the current system, particularly ExxonMobil's expanding of diesel production facilities and the laying of a large bore pipeline aiming to supply Heathrow Airport with greater quantities"}, {"text": "of fossil fuels. Both activists were later arrested and held in Southampton Police Station. G7 Cornwall Climate Summit. Between the 10 and 13 June 2021, around 60 XR Youth rebels traveled down to the G7 Climate Summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall. They joined with XR in a series of peaceful protests around St Ives & Falmouth, urging the world leaders to take the action needed on the climate and ecological emergency. The group wanted to highlight that 2021 is a critical year for climate action, especially in the run up to COP26 which took place later that year in November in Glasgow. Bristol. Clifton Suspension Bridge. On the evening of Thursday 27 August 2020, two members of local group XR Youth Bristol locked their arms together and lay down on the Clifton Suspension Bridge, blocking traffic and causing the police to seal off the bridge to all vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians. The two activists were both arrested shortly after 11pm on suspicion of wilful obstruction of the highway and conspiracy to cause a public nuisance. The action was part of a series of protests by XR advocating for the UK Parliament to pass the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill. XRY"}, {"text": "Bristol then remained just off of the bridge to protest until Friday afternoon, but the police kept the bridge closed until Tuesday 1 September. Summer Uprising. During XR UK's Summer Uprising of July 2019, members of XR Youth from across the South West occupied College Green and were joined by musician Billy Bragg. XRY also joined Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate on a march around the city centre. Cambridge. Rebel for Justice. From 16 to 23 February 2020, local group XR Youth Cambridge held a week-long roadblock on Trumpington Road at the Fen Causeway. Their environmental demands were aimed at University of Cambridge, Cambridge City Council, and Cambridgeshire County Council. Trinity College. On 17 February 2020, members of main Extinction Rebellion and XR Youth dug up a lawn outside Trinity College to protest the college's role in plans for a development involving a lorry park at Innocence Farm, Suffolk. Petrol stations. On Saturday 18 January 2020, XR Youth Cambridge shut down a BP petrol station on Elizabeth Way for a day long protest including music, dancing and pop-up art. A spokesperson for the group said they are not \"blaming and shaming motorists\", but instead \"just asking them to address our"}, {"text": "concerns because it's just such an urgent issue.\" One older member of main XR was injured when a car drove into him. On Friday 21 February 2020, members of XR Youth Cambridge set up a blockade of a Shell petrol station on Newnham Road to protest greenwashing by the company. The activists blocked any cars from entering by holding up a large banner displaying the message 'Life or Death.' Several activists climbed on top of the station's forecourt canopy to bear signs and notices. Furthermore, one protester poured molasses onto the shell logo from the roof, giving it the appearance of being coated in oil. Oxford. Westgate Shopping Centre. On Friday 21 and Saturday 22 August 2020, local group XR Youth Oxford staged a protest at Westgate Shopping Centre against fast fashion. Actions included a die in, banner drops and speeches. Black Friday 2019. In response to Black Friday sales, Extinction Rebellion Youth Oxford staged an upcycled fashion catwalk to protest fast fashion. London. In October 2019, XR Youth and XR Families violated a 'protest ban' by the Metropolitan Police and blockaded the UK headquarters of Google and its subsidiary YouTube, calling for them to stop donating to groups promoting"}, {"text": "climate denial. Members of XR Youth scaled to the top of the revolving doors of YouTube's offices and draped a banner reading: \"YouTube Stop Platforming Climate Change Denial\". An investigation by \"The Guardian\" had revealed the week before that Google had made substantial contributions to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington, despite its insistence that it supports action on the climate emergency. Actions elsewhere. Australia. On Saturday 10 April 2021, members of Extinction Rebellion Youth Australia participated in a national day of action 'to stop black deaths in custody'. Rallies were held in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, protesting the Australian Government's failure to implement the changes recommended by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Melbourne. On Friday 26 March 2021, members of Extinction Rebellion Youth Melbourne blocked the West Gate Freeway using a six-metre-high metal tripod. They displayed a sign reading 'We refuse to be the last generation.' Police confirmed that a 17-year-old from Frankston would be charged with multiple counts including obstructing a roadway. The young person stated in an Instagram post: \"When injustice is law, we have a responsibility to rebel against those unjust laws, to show our dissent to a broken"}, {"text": "system\". During Extinction Rebellion's Autumn Rebellion in Melbourne, on 27 March 2021, several hundred women and their supporters (including Extinction Rebellion Youth activists) marched through Melbourne's CBD to the front of Flinders Street Station as part of the Extinction Rebellion women's march - where several women then glued on at and occupied the Flinders and Swanston Street intersection. According to an Instagram post by Extinction Rebellion Youth Australia, one 17-year-old activist was arrested 'for refusing to move off the Flinders and Swanston Street intersection'. The young person was quoted as saying \"How can we truly find justice when justice cannot be served to First Nations Peoples [...] and people of all genders?\" Brazil. Amazonas. On 23 September 2019, Extinction Rebellion Youth Brazil held a 'public class' in Manaus to share information about the climate crisis. They displayed signs reading 'N\u00c3O H\u00c1 PLANETA B!' (\"No Planet B!\") and 'EMERG\u00caNCA CLIM\u00c1TICA' (\"Climate Emergency\"). Federal District. In September 2019, members of Extinction Rebellion Youth Brasil and Fridays for Future Brasil displayed a banner reading 'SOS AMAZONIA' at the Ministry of the Environment (Brazil)."}, {"text": "The first season of \"\u00bfQui\u00e9n es la m\u00e1scara?\" premiered on August 25, 2019, and lasted for 8 episodes. On October 13, 2019, Camale\u00f3n (actor Vadhir Derbez) was declared the winner, and Lechuza (actress and singer Patricia Manterola) the runner-up. Panelists and host. The judging panel consists of actor and comedian Adri\u00e1n Uribe, singer Yuri, actress and comedian Consuelo Duval, and singer Carlos Rivera. Omar Chaparro hosted the show. Throughout the season, various guest panelists appeared as the fifth judge in the judging panel for one episode. These guest panelists included football coach Miguel Herrera (episode 6), actress Paz Vega (episode 7), and actress Michelle Renaud (episode 7)."}, {"text": "The Bruce Mine Headframe is the headframe of a former underground mine in Chisholm, Minnesota, United States. It was built 1925\u201326 and operated until the mine closed in the early 1940s. The Bruce Mine Headframe was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 for its state-level significance in the theme of engineering. It was nominated for being the last standing example of the headframes that once proliferated on the Mesabi Range. Most of the other headframes were dismantled as open-pit mining overtook underground mining as the dominant extraction method in the region. The Bruce Mine Headframe is adjacent to the Mesabi Trail. After six years of planning and negotiation for access rights, the non-profit Chisholm Beautification Association began developing a park around the headframe in 2018. The Chisholm Beautification Association worked with multiple entities to establish historic interpretive signage, pathways, and other park amenities at Bruce Mine Headframe Park and Trailhead. On Friday, August 4, 2023 Chisholm Beautification Association hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony in celebration of the completion of the park. The historic headframe is owned and operated by the city of Chisholm. An outdoor recreation hub, the trailhead serves as a launching pad for the"}, {"text": "paved Mesabi Trail, Redhead Mountain Bike Park, and the Chisholm ATV Trail System."}, {"text": "Governor Carter may refer to:"}, {"text": "Jennifer Paige Togliatti (born 1967) is the chairwoman of the Nevada Gaming Commission since 2021 and a former Senior Nevada state court judge who is a former nominee to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. Education. Togliatti earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and her Juris Doctor from the California Western School of Law. Legal career. Togliatti previously served as a Deputy District Attorney for Clark County, Nevada. Judicial service. State court service. Togliatti spent nearly two decades as a judge on Nevada's Clark County District Court, serving as Chief Judge from 2011 to 2014. She was previously a Las Vegas Justice of the Peace. She served as a Senior Judge on the Nevada District Court and a private mediator and arbitrator for complex civil litigation cases and mass torts. She retired on January 2, 2019. Expired nomination to federal district court. On October 16, 2019, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Togliatti to serve as a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. On November 21, 2019, her nomination was sent to"}, {"text": "the Senate. President Trump nominated Togliatti to the seat on the United States District Court for the District of Nevada vacated by Judge James C. Mahan, who assumed senior status on June 29, 2018. Her nomination was welcomed by Nevada's two senators, Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen. On January 3, 2020, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate. On February 13, 2020, her renomination was sent to the Senate again. On March 4, 2020, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On May 14, 2020, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 15\u20137 vote. On January 3, 2021, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate. Potential renomination under Biden. She has been mentioned as possibly being renominated to the district court under President Joe Biden. Nevada Gaming Commission. In October 2021, Togliatti was appointed by Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak as chairwoman of the Nevada Gaming Commission. She is the first woman to chair the commission."}, {"text": "South Korean singer Hwasa has released two extended plays, one single album, twenty-six singles (including 16 as a featured artist), four promotional singles and one soundtrack. Songwriting credits. All song credits are adapted from the Korea Music Copyright Association's database unless stated otherwise."}, {"text": "The Secret Carrier (German: Der Geheimnistr\u00e4ger) is a 1975 West German comedy film directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb and starring Willy Millowitsch, Brigitte Mira and Sybil Danning. Location shooting took place in Rhodes. Synopsis. A mild-mannered Cologne accountant is recruited to take part in a secret mission."}, {"text": "This is a list of deputy speakers of the Regional Representative Council, the upper house of Indonesia. This list includes preceding bodies, such as the deputy speaker of the Senate of the United States of Indonesia."}, {"text": "William Moge (1911 \u2013 January 18, 2002) was an American football, basketball and baseball coach. He also played halfback in football, third base in baseball and guard in basketball at Providence College graduating in the class of 1938. He served as the head coach in all three sports at American International College during the early 1940s. He then served as the basketball and football coach at Westfield High School. His 1947 and 1948 WHS football team won the Western Massachusetts Class A title and defeated the Georgia Class A champions in the Peanut Bowl in Columbus, Georgia. In 1950, he would begin his tenure as the head football coach at Chicopee High School. Bill Budness was a senior captain of his in 1959. In 1958 he would lead the team past Holyoke High to win Chicopee's first AA Conference title (20-0). In 1959, Moge coached against Holyoke star quarterback and future NFL player Archie Roberts losing the matchup (36-6). In his last game as head coach in 1983, the football field at Szot Park was named in his honor on the morning of the game. He later served as the head football coach of the Holyoke Bombers of the Atlantic"}, {"text": "Coast Football League for part of one season in 1965. In 1984, Moge was inducted into the Providence Friars athletic hall of fame."}, {"text": "Joshua Jacob Keur (born September 4, 1976) is an American former professional football player who was a tight end for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans. He never played in a regular season NFL game."}, {"text": "Kireyevsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tryasinovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Kireyevsky is located 30 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tryasinovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kletsko-Pochtovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Kletsko-Pochtovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,065 as of 2010. There are 25 streets. Geography. Kletsko-Pochtovsky is located 69 km east of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Otrozhki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kozinovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kletsko-Pochtovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 30 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Kozinovsky is located 68 km southeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Logovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Korotovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Srednetsaritsynskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 186 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Korotovsky is located 37 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Srednetsaritsynsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kotovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Bolshovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 201 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Kotovsky is located on the Tsutskan River, 43 southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bolshoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krutovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Krutovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 521 as of 2010. There are 14 streets. Geography. Krutovsky is located 51 km west of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yelansky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kundryuchkin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Terkinskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 11 as of 2010. Geography. Kundryuchkin is located 52 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nizhnyanka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lastushinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kletsko-Pochtovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 21 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Lastushinsky is located 85 km southeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Podpeshinsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lebyazhy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kletsko-Pochtovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Lebyazhy is located 92 km southeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vyezdinsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Malakhov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Proninskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 57 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Malakhov is located 83 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Khokhlachev is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Minayevsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tryasinovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Minayevsky is located 31 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tryasinovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Jia Aoqi (, born March 26, 1992) is a Chinese Sanda kickboxer, currently competing in the featherweight division of Wu Lin Feng. A professional competitor since 2015, he was the 2019 WLF 67 kg World Cup winner. As of April 2023, he is the #1 ranked super featherweight according to Combat Press. Kickboxing career. Wu Lin Feng. WLF 2019-20 World Cup. Aoqi faced Hamza Essalih at on June 29, 2019. It was the first bout of the Wu Lin Feng Group A and D round robin, with the eventual group winner qualifying for the 2019-20 tournament final. He won the fight by a second-round technical knockout. Aoqi next faced the former Enfusion 67 kg champion Ilias Bulaid at on August 31, 2019. The fight was ruled a draw after the first three rounds, with Aoqi being awarded the unanimous decision after an extra round was contested. Aoqi next faced Wei Ninghui at on October 26, 2019, in the final bout of the group A and D round robin. He won the fight by a dominant unanimous decision, with all of the judges scoring the fight 30\u201327 in Aoqi's favor. These three victories earned Aoqi a place in the , which"}, {"text": "was held on January 11, 2020. Aoqi faced Tawanchai PK Saenchaimuaythaigym in the semifinals of the one-day tournament. He won the fight by a second-round knockout, stopping Tawanchai with a flurry of punches fifty seconds into the second round. Aoqi advanced to the tournament finals, where he faced the defending champion Petchtanong Banchamek. He won the fight by unanimous decision, with all of the judges scoring the fight 29\u201328 for him. Aside from winning his first professional title, Aoqi was awarded a prize of $100,000 as well. Losing streak. After capturing the World Cup title, Aoqi was booked to face Liu Xiangming at Wu Lin Feng 2020: King's Super Cup 2nd Group Stage on June 13, 2020. He lost the fight by a second-round knockout, as Xiangming stopped him with a head kick. Despite this loss, Aoqi was scheduled to face the pound for pound talent Wei Rui at on September 23, 2020. He lost the fight by unanimous decision. Aoqi next faced Ji Xiang at on November 28, 2020. He lost the fight by a second-round knockout. Regardless of these losses, Aoqi was scheduled to take part in the , which was held on January 23, 2021, in Macao,"}, {"text": "China. He faced Ji Xiang in the quarterfinal bout and was able to avenge his loss, as he won the fight by unanimous decision, with scores of 29\u201328. Aoqi faced another former opponent, Liu Xiangming, in the tournament semifinals. He suffered his second career loss to Xiangming, who won the fight by unanimous decision. Continued WLF career. Aoqi faced Hu Yafei at on May 29, 2021, in the first round of the group A Gold Belt qualification tournament. He won the fight by decision. Aoqi next faced Er Kang at on July 3, 2021. He won the fight by unanimous decision, with scores of 30\u201327. Aoqi faced Wang Pengfei at on September 30, 2021, in the final round of the group tournament. He won the fight by unanimous decision. These three wins earned Aoqi a place in the final tournament of the Golden Belt contender league. He faced Wei Ninghui in the semi-final bout at on November 27, 2021. He won the fight by unanimous decision, with scores of 29\u201328. Aoqi faced Meng Gaofeng at Wu Lin Feng x Huya Kung Fu Carnival 6 on July 9, 2022. He won the fight by unanimous decision, with score of 29\u201328. Aoqi"}, {"text": "faced Wacharalek Or.Kwanmuang at Wu Lin Feng 531 on September 24, 2022. Wacharalek was deducted a point before the start of the bout for missing weight. Aoqi won the fight by unanimous decision. He twice knocked his opponent down, once in the second and once in the third round. Aoqi was expected to face Mikel Sortino in the quarterfinals of the -67 kg Wu Lin Feng tournament at on February 4, 2023, but was forced to withdraw with an undisclosed injury. Aoqi faced David Mejia in a -69 kg catchweight bout at Wu Lin Feng 539 on June 24, 2023. He lost the fight by decision. Aoqi faced Mejia in a rematch, with the Wu Lin Feng World -67 kg title on the line, at on January 27, 2024. Aoqi faced David Mejia for the vacant Wu Lin Feng World -67 kg title at on January 27, 2024. He won the fight by unanimous decision. Titles and achievements. Professional. Ranking Fight record. ! style=background:white colspan=9 | ! style=background:white colspan=9 |"}, {"text": "Mostovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tryasinovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 97 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Mostovsky is located 12 km south of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. 2-y Bobrovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Luke Massey (born 7 July 1970) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for Cronulla-Sutherland. He is the son of rugby league administrator and coach Ron Massey. A forward, Massey played his junior football with De La Salle and debuted for Cronulla in the 1989 NSWRL season. He was a member of Cronulla's first-grade team for four seasons, playing as either a hooker or prop."}, {"text": "Nizhnyanka () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Terkinskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 24 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Nizhnyanka is located 49 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kundryuchkin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Albert Paone (born ) is a former American football player and coach of football, baseball, and wrestling. He served as the head football coach at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa from 1971 to 1973, compiling a record of 9\u201315\u20133. Paonoe was also the head baseball coach at Simpson for one season, in 1969, tallying a mark of 6\u201312. He played a single season of professional football for the Des Moines Warriors of the Professional Football League of America. A native of Alliance, Ohio, Paone graduated from Simpson College in 1966. He was an assistant football coach and head wrestling coach at Dowling Catholic High School in West Des Moines, Iowa from 1966 until 1969, when he returned to Simpson as defensive coordinator for the football team under head coach John Sullivan. Paone was as an assistant football coach at Colorado State University from 1975 to 1976."}, {"text": "Nikulichev () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Terkinskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Nikulichev is located on the Archeda River, 58 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Poselsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novoalexandrovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Zimnyatskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 137 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Novoalexandrovsky is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Protok River, 6 km north of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Berezki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novopavlovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Peschanovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 83 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Novopavlovsky is located 80 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pronin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Janderson Santos de Souza (born 26 February 1999 in Barreiras), simply known as Janderson, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Remo, on loan from Cear\u00e1. Club career. Joinville. Janderson made his league debut against Cruzeiro on 21 March 2017. He was part of the youth squad from 2016 until August 2018, when he was loaned to Corinthians. Corinthians. After good performances at the 2019 Copa S\u00e3o Paulo de Futebol J\u00fanior, Corinthians reached a deal to sign him officially. He made his professional debut in a 2019 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A home match against Chapecoense on May 1. Janderson went on to score his first goal on October 16 against Goi\u00e1s. Atl\u00e9tico Goianiense. Janderson made his league debut against Cear\u00e1 on 30 August 2020. He scored his first league goal against RB Bragantino on 11 October 2020, scoring in the 28th minute. Gr\u00eamio. Janderson made his league debut against EC S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 on 2 February 2022. He scored his first league goal against Guarany on 6 February 2022, scoring in the 3rd minute. Cear\u00e1. Janderson made his league debut against Guarani de Juazeiro on 15 January 2023. He scored his first league goal against Maracan\u00e3 on"}, {"text": "28 January 2023, scoring in the 80th minute."}, {"text": "Orlinovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Terkinskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 171 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Orlinovsky is located 57 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Terkin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Otrozhki () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Otrozhkinskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 543 as of 2010. There are 12 streets. Geography. Otrozhki is located 85 km east of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Prilipkinsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Perepolsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tryasinovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2010. Geography. Perepolsky is located 34 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gryazinovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Peschany () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Peschanovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 616 as of 2010. Geography. Peschany is located 67 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Posyolok otdeleniya 3 sovkhoza Ust-Medveditsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pimkin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Terkinskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Pimkin is located 47 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nizhnyanka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pichugin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Zimnyatskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 119 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Pichugin is located 15 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Podolkhovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Podgorny () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tryasinovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 33 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Podgorny is located 38 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kepinsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Podolkhovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Zimnyatskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 127 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Podolkhovsky is located in forest, 15 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pichugin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Podpeshinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kletsko-Pochtovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 27 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Podpeshinsky is located 12 km south of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. 2-y Bobrovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kathryn Celia Davis (born 1978) is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims. Education. Davis earned a Bachelor of Science from Boston University and a Juris Doctor, \"cum laude\", from the Temple University Beasley School of Law. Career. During 2001\u20132002, she was a project assistant at Jones Day. From 2003\u20132004, Davis was a law clerk to Judge Rayford Means of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, Criminal Trial Division. In the summer of 2004 she was a summer associate at McKissock & Hoffman and then from 2005\u20132007, she worked as an associate for the same firm. From 2007\u20132008, Davis was an associate at Burns White. From 2008\u20132020, Davis was a lawyer at the United States Department of Justice. She joined the United States Department of Justice Civil Division in 2008 as a trial attorney and served as senior counsel in the Federal Programs Branch from 2014\u20132020. Since 2018 she has been a professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School, where she teaches a course in legal research and writing. Claims court service. On October 16, 2019, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Davis to"}, {"text": "serve as a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims. On November 19, 2019, her nomination was sent to the United States Senate. President Trump nominated Davis to the seat on the United States Court of Federal Claims vacated by Judge Charles F. Lettow, who assumed senior status on July 13, 2018. On January 3, 2020, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the Senate. On February 4, 2020, she was renominated to the same seat. A hearing on her nomination before the Senate Judiciary Committee was held on February 12, 2020. On May 14, 2020, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 12\u201310 vote. On December 2, 2020, the Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 51\u201344 vote. Her nomination was confirmed later that day by a 51\u201345 vote. She received her judicial commission on December 16, 2020. She was sworn into office on December 18, 2020."}, {"text": "Thalu is an Australian children's post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama television series made for National Indigenous Television (NITV) and ABC Me, broadcast in April 2020. All cast members are Indigenous Australians, and the children are first-time actors. There are guest appearances by seasoned actors Elaine Crombie, Trisha Morton-Thomas, and Hunter Page-Lochard. It was filmed in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Synopsis. The ten-part series focuses on a group of Indigenous children who undertake a journey to save their country from the threat of a mysterious dust cloud and its inhabitants, the Takers. The group have to travel to the powerful location of Thalu, collecting eight sacred stones and a key and meeting friends and enemies along the way. Page-Lochard described it as \"its own little Dreaming, its own little spirit world where Indigenous people inhabit, and there's folklore characters and characters with different stories that reflect the land and the world that they come from\". Production. The series was co-commissioned by NITV and ABC Children's (a partnership previously exercised for \"Little J & Big Cuz\" and \"Grace Beside Me\"), with principal funding from Screen Australia in association with Screenwest and the Western Australian Regional Film Fund, and with support from NITV,"}, {"text": "ABC, and the Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF). The working title of the project was \"Neomad\", with the initial intention of basing the story on the interactive Aboriginal graphic novel and three-part series of that name set in Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula). \"Thalu\" is the Ngarluma word for \"totem\", and is used to refers to ceremonial sites, often important for the regeneration of key species. The series was filmed in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and the cast are from Roebourne (known as Ieramugadu to the local people). Each character has been written with input from the young cast member to reflect their personality, sense of humour and culture. Beck Cole and Sam Paynter workshopped ideas with the local elders and young people to produce ideas for the storyline, starting in 2018. There was a great deal of community collaboration on the project, which was described as \"an unprecedented, top-to-bottom model for community consultation\". The elders who consulted on the series appear as The Nannas in the series. Words from the local language, Ngarluma, are used in the script. \"Thalu\" was directed by Amie Batalibasi, Dena Curtis (producer, writer and director, including directing \"8MMM Aboriginal Radio\"), Ngarluma artist Tyson Mowarin,"}, {"text": "and Hunter Page-Lochard, and created for National Indigenous Television (NITV) and ABC Me. Writers included Nayuka Gorrie, Beck Cole, Sam Paynter, David Woodhead, and Donald Imberlong. Shooting took eight weeks, done entirely on location in the Pilbara. The show was produced by Tyson Mowarin and Robyn Marais from Weerianna Street Media, in association with the ACTF. Mark O'Toole, who has been head writer and producer on series such as \"Spicks and Specks\", \"Black Comedy\", and children's comedy program \"You're Skitting Me\" was executive producer, and helped to develop the storyline. The series music was composed by Ned Beckley and Josh Hogan. Broadcast. \"Thalu\" premiered on 20 April 2020 on NITV, and was made available on SBS on Demand as well as ABC iview. Accolades. In February 2020, \"Thalu\" was nominated in the Screen Diversity and Inclusion Network (SDIN) Awards, but lost out to Blackfella Films' documentary film \"Maralinga Tjarutja\", directed by Larissa Behrendt, when the awards were announced a year later. On 1 December 2020, Ned Beckley and Josh Hogan won the APRA AMCOS / Australian Guild of Screen Composers award for Best Music for Children's Television in the Screen Music Awards. \"Thalu: Dreamtime Is Now\". In 2018, Ngarluma artist"}, {"text": "Tyson Mowarin wrote and directed an 18-minute VR experience called \"Thalu: Dreamtime Is Now\". The story involved a spirit guide called Jirri Jirri, who introduces some of the spirits and traditional custodians according to the Dreaming stories of the Ngarluma people. \"Thalu: Dreamtime Is Now\", was shortlisted in the Best Digital Product category in the 2019 First Nations Media Awards."}, {"text": "Srepok 1 is a solar power plant built on the land of Ea Wer commune, Buon Don district, Dak Lak province, Vietnam. The Srepok 1 power plant has a capacity of 100 MWP installed. It construction was started in October 2018, and completed in March 2019. The power plant is built on an area of 120 hectares. It is also close to the Srepok River, hence the name of the plant. Media coverage. Some newspapers, such as Tuoi Tre, etc. reported on the inauguration of the solar power plant on March 9, 2019, calling it \"the largest solar power plant in Vietnam\"."}, {"text": "Monasky v. Taglieri, 589 U.S. ___ (2020), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that a child's \"habitual residence\" under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction should be determined based on the totality of the circumstances specific to the case, and should not be based on categorial requirements (e.g. such as an agreement between the parents). This case is notable as the fourth case heard by the Supreme Court concerning the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Previously, this case was only the second Hague International Child Abduction case heard en banc in history (by the entire panel of judges because of its exceptional public importance) by a US Court of Appeals. \"Monasky\" was also the first case in which the United States Supreme Court substantively addressed the meaning of the definition of \"habitual residence\" as contemplated by The Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Background. Case history. After Michelle Monasky and Domenico Taglieri met and married in the United States, they moved to Italy in 2013 due to Taglieri's employment. Monasky became pregnant in mid-2014 while her"}, {"text": "marriage was already experiencing difficulties, including alleged incidents of domestic violence against her (which continued through her pregnancy and afterward, she claims). Shortly before their daughter was born, Monasky informed Taglieri that she would not tolerate his abusive behavior any further and that she intended to return to the US with their child as soon as she was physically able. After yet another altercation between the spouses in late March 2015, Monasky went to the Italian police with her daughter and was placed in a domestic violence safe house. As soon as she was able to obtain a US passport for her daughter, Monasky left Italy with her daughter for Ohio. Legal issues. There were two circuit-split issues presented in Monasky v. Taglieri: 1) whether the standard on appeal is the highly deferential \u201cclear error\u201d review (if habitual residence is seen as a truly and only a factual question) or \u201cde novo\u201d (if it is really a mixed question of law and fact, or otherwise an issue of \u201cultimate fact\u201d); and, 2) whether the \u201cshared parental intent\u201d standard for determining an infant's habitual residence can be proven when the parents never agreed or had a meeting of the minds on"}, {"text": "where the infant should be raised. In lower courts. Taglieri petitioned an Italian court for custody of the child. In Monasky's absence, the court ruled in his favour. He then requested an order from a District Court that Monasky return the child to Italy, which was also granted. Monasky applied for stays from both the Sixth Circuit and Supreme Court, but when both were denied she complied. A three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit upheld the lower court's ruling, as did the full \"en banc\" Circuit. At the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court held oral arguments on December 11, 2019. Monasky was represented by Amir Tayrani, an attorney for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Taglieri was represented by Andrew Pincus, an attorney for Mayer Brown. Majority opinion. On February 25, 2020, the Supreme Court affirmed the ruling by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Writing for the court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg noted that a child's \"habitual residence\" (as the term is used by the Hague Convention) should be determined by the totality of the circumstances specific to each individual case, not on categorical requirements such as an actual agreement between the parents. Ginsburg noted that the Hague Convention does not"}, {"text": "define \"habitual residence\" and that courts should conduct a fact-driven inquiry based on the unique circumstances of each case and common sense, which is how courts in other countries have enforced it. In addition, Ginsburg noted that Monasky's argument that an actual agreement between the parties was necessary to determine \"habitual residence\" was unpersuasive and would lead to problems in adjudicating custody cases. The majority opinion also held that the trial court's determination of habitual-residence is a mixed question of law and fact, and should be judged on appeal only by a clear error standard. Concurrence. Thomas. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an opinion concurring in part with the majority opinion and concurring with the judgment. He agreed with Ginsburg that an actual agreement is not necessary to determine habitual residence and agreed that the habitual-residence inquiry is fact-specific. However, he argues that the decision should be grounded firmly in the text of the treaty itself and that less weight should have been given to how other countries' courts have interpreted the term \"habitual residence\". Alito. Justice Samuel Alito wrote an opinion concurring in part with the majority opinion and concurring with the judgment. Like Thomas, Alito agreed with Ginsburg that"}, {"text": "an actual agreement is not necessary to determine habitual residence and agreed that the habitual-residence inquiry is fact-specific. He also agreed with Thomas's opinion that the decision should be grounded in the text of the treaty and that the interpretations of the country's courts is not necessary. In addition, Alito argues that the question of \"habitual residence\" is not a pure question of fact and notes that the standard of review of appeal should be based on abuse of discretion, not clear error as was stated in the majority opinion."}, {"text": "Veintea\u00f1era, divorciada y fant\u00e1stica is a 2020 Mexican comedy film directed by No\u00e9 Santill\u00e1n-L\u00f3pez. The film is produced by All About Media, and stars Paulina Goto, and Vadhir Derbez. It's a spin-off of the 2016 film titled \"Treintona, soltera y fant\u00e1stica\". The film premiered on 13 March 2020, and during the COVID-19 pandemic it remained in the first place of the national box office, breaking a record for a Mexican film and according to Imcine's 2020 Statistical Yearbook, it was the most streamed Mexican film of the year."}, {"text": "Hamish and Andy's \u201cPerfect\u201d Holiday is a comedy miniseries following Australian comedians Hamish Blake and Andy Lee, on their trips to various international locations in an attempt to find the \"perfect holiday\". The series premiered on 17 November 2019. The series made its streaming debut on Stan in June 2022, alongside the duo's previous series \"True Story with Hamish & Andy\". Format. Hamish and Andy will travel across United States, Alaska and Canada in 17 days to create their \u201cPerfect Holiday\u201d, however their activities on their adventure are decided by one for the other which will end in idiotic, extraordinary and dangerous results."}, {"text": "The Cam Hoa solar farm is a solar power plant built on the land of Cam Hoa commune, Cam Xuyen district, Ha Tinh province, Vietnam. The Cam Hoa solar farm has an installed capacity of 50 MWp. Construction of the power was started in January 2019, and completed in June 2019. Cam Hoa solar power project has been recognized as the first solar power project in Ha Tinh province. The power plant also has a working area of roughly 50 hectares."}, {"text": "Angel Esquire is a 1908 crime mystery novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. The wealthy owner of a gambling establishment leaves his money to whichever of his potential heirs can solve a complex puzzle. The title comes from the Scotland Yard detective Christopher Angel, who becomes involved with the case."}, {"text": "Edward Hulvey Meyers (born 1972) is an American attorney serving as a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims. Education. Meyers earned his Bachelor of Arts from Vanderbilt University and his Juris Doctor, \"summa cum laude\", from the Columbus School of Law, where he served as Associate Editor of \"The Catholic University Law Review\". Career. Upon graduation from law school, Meyers served as a law clerk to Judge Loren A. Smith of the United States Court of Federal Claims. From 2006 to 2012, he was in private practice at Kirkland & Ellis. From 2012 to 2020, he was a partner at Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner in Washington, D.C., where his practice focused on litigating bid protests, breach of contract disputes, and copyright infringement matters. Meyers has been a member of the Federalist Society since 2003 and the American Bar Association since 2006. Claims court service. On October 16, 2019, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Meyers to serve as a judge for the United States Court of Federal Claims. On November 19, 2019, his nomination was sent to the Senate. President Trump nominated Meyers to the seat vacated by Judge Lawrence J. Block, who retired"}, {"text": "on January 8, 2016. On January 3, 2020, his nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate. On January 6, 2020, his renomination was sent to the Senate. A hearing on his nomination before the Senate Judiciary Committee was held on January 8, 2020. On March 12, 2020, his nomination was reported out of committee by a 15\u20136 vote. On September 21, 2020, the Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 65\u201325 vote. On September 22, 2020, his nomination was confirmed by a 66\u201327 vote. He received his judicial commission on October 20, 2020."}, {"text": "Collingwood Lakeshore Estates is an organized hamlet in the Rural Municipality of McKillop No. 220, Saskatchewan, Canada. It is on the eastern shore of Last Mountain Lake approximately north of Regina. Government. Collingwood Lakeshore Estates has a three-member organized hamlet board that is chaired by Francesca Carteri-Bitz. The board reports to the Rural Municipality of McKillop No. 220 as its administering municipality."}, {"text": "The John T. Lewellyn House in Wales, Utah was bui (GOOD)lt in 1875. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. I (GOOD)t is located at 15 N. State St. in Wales, on the northeast corner of Center St. and State St. It is a one-and-a-half-story brick hall and parlor plan house, about in its main section. A one-and-a-half-story rear \"T\" extension was built at the same time. It was deemed \"significant as an outstanding example of Utah folk/vernacular architectural design.\" The brick is laid in common bond and there is an interesting quirk in local brickwork that is evident in this house:The Lewellyn house is built of locally fired brick. The brickyard was located south of town and produced a high quality red product found extensively throughout the town - indeed, brick is the main building material in Wales. Clay with a high ferrioxide content produces the red brick, it is durable and requires only a moderate burning temperature. The brick bonding here is the common type. Wales brick homes have one curious feature which should be mentioned here. Several \"header\" (bricks place side by side with heads exposed) rows have missing bricks - a"}, {"text": "condition which suggests that holes are present in the walls. In fact, the holes caused by the absence of these headers do not go all the way through the wall, but only one brick length and are closed by the second layer of bricks. One local explanation is that these holes were used by the masons to secure their scaffolding and then never filled in. This could be the case, though there is no direct evidence for this explanation. Also known as the Lamb House, it was sold by Llewellyn to the Lamb family in 1885 for the \"respectable\" price of $1,000, and remained in the Lamb family at least until 1980."}, {"text": "Posyolok otdeleniya 2 sovkhoza Ust-Medveditsky () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Peschanovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 59 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. The settlement is located 75 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Peschany is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Posyolok otdeleniya 2 sovkhoza Ust-Medveditsky () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Peschanovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 63 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. The settlement is located 75 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Peschany is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Poselsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Terkinskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was eight as of 2010. There are two streets. Geography. Poselsky is located on the Archeda River, 53 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nikulichev is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Prilipkinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Otrozhkinskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 67 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Prilipkinsky is located 89 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ostrozhki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pronin () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Proninskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 844 as of 2010. There are 36 streets. Geography. Pronin is located 71 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Varlamov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rubashkin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Gorbatovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 140 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Rubashkin is located near the Krivaya River, 63 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gorbatovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rybny () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Ust-Khopyorskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 203 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Rybny is located 42 km west of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ust-Khoperskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sebryakov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tryasinovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. Geography. Sebryakov is located in steppe, 5 km from the left bank of the Medveditsa River, 35 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Podgorny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Srednetsaritsynsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Srednetsaritsynskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 644 as of 2010. There are 19 streets. Geography. Srednetsaritsynsky is located 35 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Karagichev is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Wilhelm Vorwerg (1899\u20131990) was a German art director who designed the sets for over fifty films including a number of Rialto Film's series of Edgar Wallace adaptations in the 1960s."}, {"text": "Karen Void (born c. 1939) is a 1978 National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame trick rider inductee. Life. Karen Vold was born Karen Womack c. 1939, in Phoenix, Arizona. She is the daughter of ProRodeo Hall of Fame rodeo clown Andy Womack. Vold's family owned a riding stable just north of Phoenix. She would guide visitors riding out in the desert. One of the ladies who worked in the stable owned a Palomino and a trick riding saddle. Vold learned her first three tricks from her. Vold's parents divorced when she was 8 years old. Her parents bought her a horse and saddle to help deal with the situation. She was about 10 years old, and she practiced trick riding on that horse. Her father ended up having to leave to rodeo as a clown for six years due to the death of rodeo clown Jasbo Fulkerson. Vold said \"When he came back and saw how serious I was about trick riding, he sent me to Colorado to take lessons from world champion trick rider Dick Griffith.\" After she turned 10 years old, she began learning trick riding. Vold competed in her first professional rodeo when she was 14"}, {"text": "years old. She married Harry Vold in 1972; she was his second wife. They had one daughter, Kirsten, who runs the ranch now. Career. Vold was a performing trick rider for 17 years. She assisted in forming \"The Flying Cimarrons\", which brought the event back into the spotlight many years. The formation of teams for trick riding was also innovative and enhanced the process of hiring riders. When Vold got married, she retired from performing. However, she still was involved in the sport through coaching and clinics. Then she helped run the ranch she owned with her hall of fame husband, Harry until his death in 2017. For 28 years she taught trick riding with one of her former students, Linda. They opened the Red Top Ranch Trick Riding School in Avondale near her ranch, about 20 miles from Pueblo, Colorado."}, {"text": "The 2019 Cotabato earthquakes were an earthquake swarm which struck the province of Cotabato on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines in October 2019. Three of these earthquakes were above 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale with a Mercalli intensity of VIII. More than 40 people have been reported dead or missing and nearly 800 were injured as a result of these events. Tectonic setting. Mindanao lies across the complex convergent boundary between the Sunda plate and the Philippine Sea plate. Part of the oblique convergence between these plates is taken up by subduction along the Cotabato Trench. The strike-slip component of the convergence is accommodated partly by the Philippine fault system and partly by the Cotabato Fault System, a network of mainly NW-SE trending sinistral (left-lateral) strike-slip faults that form the boundary between the Cotabato Arc and the Central Mindanao Volcanic Belt. In the area of the October 2019 earthquakes series, the individual faults include the NW-SE trending South Columbio Fault, North Columbio Fault, M'Lang Fault, Makilala\u2013Malungon Fault and Tangbulan Fault, and the SW-NE trending Makilala Fault and Balabag Fault. Major earthquakes. October 16. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) reported that an earthquake of 6.3"}, {"text": "magnitude was recorded at 19:37 PST () with a depth of 10.0 km kilometers (recorded as 6.4 at a depth of 12.8 km by the USGS). The epicenter was 7 kilometers ENE of Columbio, 22 kilometers southeast of Tulunan, Cotabato where the earthquake was felt at Intensity VII. VII was also reached at M'lang and Kidapawan. Intensity VI was reached at Tacurong, Santo Ni\u00f1o in South Cotabato, and Digos in Davao del Sur. The earthquake was a result of sinistral movement on a NW-SE trending strike-slip fault. Philippine government seismologist Renato Solidum described the quake as \"moderately powerful\". The National Tsunami Center issues a statement saying no present tsunami threat from the earthquake. Three malls in Davao City reported damage following the earthquake. In General Santos, the Gaisano Mall was mostly gutted following a fire triggered by the earthquake. 143 buildings were damaged and one was destroyed. The damaged buildings included 40 houses, 70 schools, 7 health facilities, 10 commercial buildings, and 2 places of worship. October 29. On October 29, a 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck Mindanao at a depth of 14.0 km, according to the USGS, and 7 km according to PHIVOLCS. The maximum perceived shaking was VII on both"}, {"text": "the PEIS and MMS scales. This intensity was reached in Tulunan, Makilala, Kidapawan City, Digos, and Malungon. This earthquake was caused by movement on a different, but related, strike-slip fault to the October 16 event. Magnitude 6.6 A major fire broke out in General Santos. There were power outages in many parts of Cotabato and locally in South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, and Sarangani. At least ten deaths were reported, with a minimum of another four hundred injured. The fatalities were reported in Arakan, Carmen, Tulunan, Makilala, Digos, and Magsaysay. School classes were suspended in parts of North Cotabato, South Cotabato, and Sultan Kudarat. October 31. On October 31, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck Mindanao at a depth of 10 km according to the USGS, with the epicenter located 1 km south of Kisante. A maximum perceived shaking of VII (PEIS) was reported from Tulunan, Makilala, Kidapawan City, Santa Cruz, Matanao, Magsaysay, Bansalan and Digos. Some buildings in Davao and Soccksargen were seriously damaged and some collapsed. The death toll of these two quakes (October 29 and 31) was raised to 24, with 563 people injured, and 11 still missing. More than 300 aftershocks were recorded after the earthquake. Magnitude 6.5"}, {"text": "A hotel in Kidapawan City collapsed following the earthquake; according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), no one was inside when the earthquake struck. The Davao City government suspended the classes on all levels. Affected residents in Makilala, Cotabato were seen begging on the highway for basic needs such as rice and tents. According to the NDRRMC, about 30,000 families or 150,000 individuals were affected by the earthquake. December 15. The Cotabato sequence was followed by an earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.8 (ANSS) or 6.9 (PHIVOLCS), on December 15 at 14:11 PST with an epicenter in the neighboring province of Davao del Sur. It had a hypocentral depth of between 22.4 km (ANSS) and 3.0 km (PHIVOLCS) and a maximum felt intensity of VII MMI or VII PEIS. The greatest damage was reported from the towns of Matanao, Magsaysay, Hagonoy and Padada. The earthquake caused 13 deaths and a further 210 people were injured. Analysis using InSAR data. The sequence of four earthquakes has examined using Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR). One study used information only from Sentinel-1, while the other also included information from ALOS-2. InSAR interferograms can be used to detect and quantify"}, {"text": "ground deformation associated with an earthquake, allowing the location and orientation of fault ruptures, epicenters and slip distributions to be estimated. For the second and third earthquakes in the sequence no information was recorded by either of the satellites between the events, so these events had to be analysed together. Sufficient data were available to allow the other two earthquakes to be analysed separately. The two studies give similar results, confirming that the first and last major earthquakes in the sequence were caused by rupture along NW-SE trending left-lateral strike-slip faults, while the second and third resulted from rupture along SW-NE trending right-lateral strike-slip faults nearly orthogonal to the other two. One of the studies matched the four interpreted ruptures to known faults. The first event is interpreted to have ruptured the M'lang Fault, the second the Makilala Fault, the third the Balabag Fault and the last the Makilala-Malungon Fault. The observed sequence of earthquakes rupturing orthogonal strike-slip fault sets has been compared to the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. Landslides. The earthquake sequence triggered a large number of landslides and rockslides. Municipalities affected by landslides include Kidapawan City, Antipas, Arakan, Makilala, M'Lang and Tulunan in Cotabato province; Magsaysay, Bansalan, Malalag,"}, {"text": "Matanao and Kiblawan in Davao Del Sur. Three fatalities were caused by landslides triggered by the October 29 shock with a further six people reported missing. Two fatalities were caused by landslides triggered by the October 31 shock, with a further five people reported missing. Reactions. International. The US Ambassador to the Philippines, Sung Kim, and the EU delegation to the Philippines both offered their condolences to the Filipino people. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi also sent his message of sympathy to Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. The Chinese government has donated \u00a53 million yuan (roughly equivalent to \u20b122 million pesos) to support the disaster relief efforts in Mindanao. Meanwhile, the Spanish Consulate in the Philippines pledged to donate up to 35,000 euros to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and 70,000 euros to assist people in water, hygiene and sanitation. Domestic. The Provincial Government of South Cotabato, Sarangani and the City of General Santos was one of the first to initiate to help the citizens with blankets, trapal, food and water near the epicenter of the earthquake swarm, most especially in the Municipalities of Makilala, Tulunan, M'lang and City of Kidapawan. Local citizens in"}, {"text": "Soccsksargen acted in both giving donations in the government processes and privately giving donations across the highway in Makilala, Tulunan and Kidapawan. The Davao City Government also helped the affected areas. The Island Garden City of Samal Government also went to Cotabato Province to give relief goods and drinking water. The Bangsamoro Government also went to the affected areas to give relief goods. The municipal government of Datu Saudi Ampatuan also went to the area to share donations to help the affected people. Among other institutions that immediately helped where banks, malls, universities and schools in Soccsksargen and Davao Region to assist their fellow Mindanaoans in crisis."}, {"text": "Starosenyutkin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Proninskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 82 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Starosenyutkin is located 184 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yagodny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Terkin () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Terkinskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 836 as of 2010. There are 15 streets. Geography. Terkin is located in steppe, 53 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Orlinovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tryasinovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Tryasinovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 673 as of 2010. There are 18 streets. Geography. Tryasinovsky is located 32 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gryazinovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Royal Ceremonies of the Twelve Months (, , also known by Pali/Sanskrit loanwords as \"phraratchaphithi thawathotsamat\", ) is a historical description of the annual royal ceremonies undertaken throughout the year by the monarchy of Siam (now Thailand). They are described in the Palace Law of the Ayutthaya Kingdom (14th\u201318th centuries), and mentioned in the 15th-century \"Thawathotsamat\" epic poem. The ceremonies received renewed interest from the monarchy and aristocracy during the middle Rattanakosin period. During the reign of King Mongkut (Rama IV, 1851\u20131868), Prince wrote an epic poem about the ceremonies, titled Khlong Phraratchaphithi Thawathotsamat (), which was first published in book form in 1920. Mongkut's successor King Chulalongkorn (Rama V, r. 1868\u20131910) wrote and published, in prose, a treatise on the ceremonies titled Phraratchaphithi Sip Song Duean in 1888. The kings, as well as Chulalongkorn's successor King Vajiravudh (Rama VI, 1910\u20131925) modified and updated many of the ceremonies. The practices ceased following the abolition of absolute monarchy in 1932, but some ceremonies were revived during the reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, especially with the re-popularisation of the monarchy during the 1960s\u20131970s. The Royal Ploughing Ceremony is one of the few royal ceremonies that are still held annually today. One"}, {"text": "of the obsolete ceremonies among the Ceremonies of the Twelve Months was the Triyampawai swing ceremony."}, {"text": "Tyukovnoy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Krutovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 158 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Tyukovnoy is located 57 km west of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yelansky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Claudio Roca (born 26 April 1994 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actor, best known in his native country for telenovelas as \"Cachito de cielo\" (2012), the second season \"Se\u00f1ora Acero\" (2015), \"La Do\u00f1a\" (2016\u20132017), and \"Muy padres\" (2017). He studied acting and dramaturgy at the Televisa Centro de Educaci\u00f3n Art\u00edstica, and Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York, United States."}, {"text": "Ugolsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Otrozhkinskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 86 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Ugolsky is located 90 km southeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Otrozhki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ust-Khopyorskaya () is a rural locality (a stanitsa) and the administrative center of Ust-Khopyorskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 960 as of 2010. There are 18 streets. Geography. Ust-Khopyorskaya is located in steppe, 41 km west of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rybny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "John P. Roth (born 1952 or 1953) is an American government official who served as the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller) from January 2, 2018 to January 20, 2021 and also served as the Acting United States Secretary of the Air Force from January 20, 2021 to July 28, 2021 and the Acting United States Under Secretary of the Air Force from June 1, 2019 to October 18, 2019. He served as the Acting Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) from January 20, 2017 to June 1, 2017."}, {"text": "Fomikhinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Srednetsaritsynskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 91 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Fomikhinsky is located 31 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Karagichev is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Khovansky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Buyerak-Popovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 169 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Khovansky is located near the Don River, 20 km west of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Buyerak-Senyutkin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Khokhlachev () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Proninskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 101 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Khokhlachev is located 85 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pichugin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bette M. Cato (May 9, 1924 \u2013 January 18, 1996) was an American politician who served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989. She was a member of the Democratic Party. Early life and career. Cato was born in Irby, Washington, in 1924. She attended Eastern Washington College and earned a Bachelor of Arts in education. She settled in Alaska in 1957, working as a teacher in Kenai. After moving to Valdez she became the president of the Valdez American Federation of Teachers and later served as the Vice President of AFT Alaska. Political career. Cato was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1980. In June 1981, Cato helped elevate Republican legislator Joe L. Hayes to the House speakership. By 1985, Cato was the House Transportation Committee chair. Following a diagnosis of diverticulitis in 1989, Cato declared her intention to resign in October of that year. Her resignation took effect on December 31, 1989, and governor Steve Cowper appointed Eugene G. Kubina to Cato's seat. Personal life. Cato's husband Jack predeceased her. The couple had one son. Bette Cato died in on January 18, 1996, of cancer complications, at Phoenix Memorial Hospital."}, {"text": "Chebotarevsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Bolshovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 109 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Chebotarevsky is located on the Tsutskan River, 45 km southwest of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kotovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Chernopolyansky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kletsko-Pochtovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 24 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Chernopolyansky is located 85 km southeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kremenskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Chumakov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tryasinovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 11 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Chumakov is located 35 km northeast of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Perepolsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lady Harry is a 1978 play by Norman Krasna. It had its world premiere in London. Plot. An aristocrat is murdered so someone can pretend to be her husband. Reception. The \"Guardian\" called it \"dreadful\"."}, {"text": "Yagodny () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Krutovskoye Rural Settlement, Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 28 as of 2010. Geography. Yagodny is located on the left bank of the Krivaya River, 184 km west of Serafimovich (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nizhnekrivskoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "MacPheat Park is an organized hamlet in the Rural Municipality of McKillop No. 220, Saskatchewan, Canada. It is on the eastern shore of Last Mountain Lake approximately north of Regina. Government. MacPheat Park has a three-member organized hamlet board, chaired by Doug Clark. The board reports to the Rural Municipality of McKillop No. 220 as its administering municipality."}, {"text": "Bunny is a play by Norman Krasna. In April 1970 Krasna announced it would go to Broadway and would be produced by Leland Hayward. \"We're hoping for a big name\" said Krasna who said the play was about a 35-year-old woman \"who gets around.\" The play did not go to Broadway. There was a London production in 1972 starring Eartha Kitt. \"The Guardian\" called it \"about amusing as an eyewitness account of the Black Death\". It was sent to Ellen Burstyn to appear in or direct. She decided to direct a production put on at the Actors Studio in 1979."}, {"text": "Off-Broadway is a 1982 American play by Norman Krasna. The show's 1982 production by The Whole Theater Company in Montclair, New Jersey was directed by Jose Ferrer. Plot. Cathy, an actor, falls for David. Reception. \"It tries,\" said \"The New York Times\"."}, {"text": "AFAC can refer to:"}, {"text": "Robyn J. Blader is an American brigadier general in the Wisconsin Army National Guard and a practicing attorney in Wautoma, Wisconsin. Personal. Blader is married to Edward Lucht. They have two children. Military career. Blader originally enlisted in the United States Army Reserve. She later joined the Wisconsin Army National Guard and was commissioned an officer through the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps. After serving as a radio channel operator, she eventually joined the Military Police Company. Later, she became a judge advocate and eventually a military judge. From 2011 to 2012, Blader was deployed to serve in Operation Enduring Freedom. In 2018, she was named Assistant Adjutant General for Readiness and Training of the Wisconsin Army National Guard. Awards she has received include the Bronze Star Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal with oak leaf cluster, the Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal with four oak leaf clusters, the National Defense Service Medal with service star, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal with service star, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal with silver hourglass and 'M' devices, the Army"}, {"text": "Service Ribbon, the Overseas Service Ribbon and the NATO Medal."}, {"text": "The borders of Venezuela are the international borders that Venezuela shares with neighboring countries. Venezuela borders with 14 countries totaling 5,161 kilometers which includes territories of France (Martinique and Guadeloupe), the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba, Cura\u00e7ao and Bonaire), the United Kingdom (Montserrat) and the United States (Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands). Venezuela has the seventh largest number of land and maritime borders after France, China, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States and Italy. Bordering countries. The lengths of the borders Venezuela shares with different countries, running counter-clockwise around Grenada to Caribbean Netherlands, are listed below: Total list. This is a list of countries and territories by land and maritime borders bordering Venezuela. The number and identity of other countries and territories that neighbor it are listed. Land borders and maritime boundaries are included and are tabulated separately and in combination. For purposes of this list, \"maritime boundary\" includes boundaries that are recognized by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which includes boundaries of territorial waters, contiguous zones, and exclusive economic zones. However, it does not include lake or river boundaries, which are considered land boundaries. Also included is the number of"}, {"text": "unique sovereign states that a country or territory shares as neighbors. If the number is higher due to multiple dependencies or unrecognized states bordering the state, the larger number is shown in brackets. Footnotes are provided to provide clarity regarding the status of certain countries and territories."}, {"text": "Maya Choudhury is an Indian actress who appears in Manipuri films. For her performance as Anna Martin in the 2024 film \"Oneness\", she received the Best Supporting Actor (Female) award at the 17th Manipur State Film Awards in 2025, marking the first award of her career. Some of her notable films are \"Basantagee Nongallamdai\" trilogy, \"Oneness,\" \"Meichak\", \"Kunti\", \"Mr. Lakhipyari, Liklaai, Tomthin Shija\", \"Imoinu\" and \"Saklon Amada\". Career. In 1998, Maya Choudhury made her acting debut in the celluloid film \"Meichak,\" directed by Laimayum Banka Sharma. Later that year, she participated in Miss Manipur 1998, where she was placed \"2nd runner-up\", winning 5 other subtitles. It was then followed by two other celluloid films before she got married. She made her comeback to acting after marriage with films like \"Basantagee Nongallamdai\" and \"Kunti\", for which she credited her husband and family for their support. Maya's comeback in the industry is marked by \"Leikhamton\" and supporting roles in films like \"Imoinu, Tomthin Shija, Hiyai\", and \"Pandam Amada,\" while the latter was selected for the \"18th International Dhaka Film Festival 2019\", the \"18th Third Eye Asian Film Festival 2019,\" \"Mumbai\", and \"the Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival 2020.\" Notable Critical Response (2024). In"}, {"text": "2024, Maya Choudhury appeared as a protagonist playing the role of Anna Martin in the film \"Oneness\", directed by Priyakanta Laishram, which is the first Manipuri film to explore same-sex relationships. The film made its world premiere at South Asia's biggest queer film festival, KASHISH Pride Film Festival 2024, Mumbai and later got official selections and screened at the 14th Bangalore Queer Film Festival 2024, the 2nd Eikhoigi Imphal International Film Festival 2025, and the 2nd Northeast India Film Festival Manipur 2025. The film also got recommendations from Elle Magazine and Mid-Day. Upon release, Maya got critical acclaim for her performance as Anna Martin. \"The Sangai Express\" praised her performance, writing that she \"delivers one of her most powerful performances in ONENESS.\" \"Manipur Wiki\" penned, \"Maya Choudhury shines as another stand out star of the film, delivering outstanding performances throughout.\" and stating that, \"This performance is arguably the best of her career.\" \"E-Pao\" praised her performance, writing, \"Maya's portrayal is both subtle and impactful, capturing the essence of a mother's love and resilience.\" \"Imphal Review of Arts and Politics\" described it as \u201cperhaps the finest performance of her illustrious career\u201d, praising her emotionally nuanced portrayal of a conflicted mother, considering"}, {"text": "her role as one of the strongest elements of the film, contributing significantly to its impact.\"Signpost News\" highlighted Maya Choudhury\u2019s role as a key emotional anchor in \"Oneness\", noting her \u201ctransformative arc\u201d as one of the film\u2019s most impactful elements. In an interview with \"The Asian\" \"Age\", Maya commented, \"I've been doing films for more than two decades. But for the first time, this film\" \"(Oneness), which is also based on a true story, stirs up the deepest feelings in my heart.\" She received her first pan-Northeast India nomination for Best Actress \"- Northeast\" at the Prag Cine Awards 2025 for her performance in the film. Her performance as Anna Martin in \"Oneness\" was recognized by \"Screen Echoes Manipur\" as one of the Best 8 Performances in Manipuri Cinema in the Last Decade. At the 17th Manipur State Film Awards in 2025, she received the Best Supporting Actor (Female) award for \"Oneness\". Presented by the Government of Manipur and the Manipur State Film Development Society, the award marked the first recognition in her 28-year-long acting career. Controversy. In 2024, Maya Choudhury became the subject of online criticism and trolling following a promotional interview for the film \"Oneness\". During the interview,"}, {"text": "she remarked she does not watch films in which she does not star, a statement that was misinterpreted and contributed to heightened backlash against the film. The controversy occurred amidst broader resistance to the film\u2019s subject matter in Manipur."}, {"text": "USS \"John E. Kilmer\" (DDG-134) is a planned \"Arleigh Burke-class\" (Flight III) Aegis guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. The ship was authorized for construction by Bath Iron Works on 27 September 2018. On 16 October 2019, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer announced that the ship will be named in honor of United States Navy Hospital corpsman John E. Kilmer, who was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill during the Korean War and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in the battle."}, {"text": "Nancy Hiller (July 2, 1959 \u2013 August 29, 2022) was a cabinetmaker, period furniture maker, and author based in Bloomington, Indiana. Hiller owned and operated NR Hiller Design: Custom Furniture and Cabinetry, taught woodworking classes, and was the author of several books including \"Making Things Work: Tales from a Cabinetmaker's Life\". Early life and education. Nancy Hiller was born on July 2, 1959, in Miami Beach, Florida to Herbert Hiller and Mary Lee Adler. Hiller moved to England with her mother and sister in 1971 after her parents' divorce. She started building furniture out of necessity and for additional income while living as a young person in London in the late 1970's. Inspired to learn the craft, she earned a Certificate in Furniture Making from the City & Guilds of London in 1980. After graduation, she worked for Roy Giffiths building antique kitchens in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. She went on to work briefly in the wood shop at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford Airbase outside of London. Upon returning to the United States, she attended Indiana University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1993 and a Master of Arts degree in 1996, both in Religious studies. Career. Woodworker. In"}, {"text": "1995 Hiller founded NR Hiller Design, Inc. She is inspired by 19th- and 20th-century architecture and furniture, and specializes in restoration and period work. She enjoys custom work on old houses and antique architecture. Her work has been featured in \"Popular Woodworking\", \"Old-House Journal\", and \"Fine Woodworking.\" Educator. Hiller has taught woodworking and cabinetmaking workshops at Kelly Mehler School of Woodworking in Berea, Kentucky, and Marc Adams School of Woodworking in Franklin, Indiana. Author. Hiller has written articles for journals including Fine Woodworking, Popular Woodworking, and Huffington Post, She has authored the books \"English Arts and Crafts Furniture (2018), Making Things Work: Tales from a Cabinetmaker's Life\" (2017)\",\" \"Historic Preservation in Indiana: Essays from the Field\" (2013), \"A Home of Her Own\" (2011), and \"The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History\" (2009). Publications. \"English Arts and Crafts Furniture: Projects & Techniques for the Modern Maker\". Published in 2018, this book is an in-depth depiction of the furniture of the Arts and Crafts movement. This book includes historical lessons as well as drawings and photos to illustrate the traditional construction methods. She describes the founding principles, the people such as William Morris and John Ruskin, and links the methods of construction to"}, {"text": "the philosophy of the movement. \"Making Things Work: Tales from a Cabinetmaker's Life\". First published in 2017, this book is a reflection of Hiller's decades-long career as a cabinet maker. This book is a series of short essays about making things from wood and about running a one-woman business in a traditionally male field. Death. Hiller died on August 29, 2022, of pancreatic cancer at her home in Bloomington, Indiana."}, {"text": "Margaret Brock Reef is a reef in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's coastal waters on its south-east coast about west of the headland of Cape Jaffa and about south-west of the town of Kingston SE. It is the site of both a navigation aid which operated as a staffed lighthouse from 1872 to 1973 and as an automatic beacon onward to the present day, and a rock lobster sanctuary declared under state law in 1973. It is named after the barque \"Margaret Brock\" which was wrecked there in 1852. Description. Margaret Brock Reef is located about west of the headland of Cape Jaffa and about southwest of the town of Kingston SE. The reef stands above a seabed located above the depth contour and parts of it are above sea-level at low tide. The portion of the reef which is shown on a chart published in one source as being shallower than depth extends for about in a north\u2013south direction with the northern end being located about north of the former lighthouse platform. At low tide, the highest part of the reef can dry to a height of above sea-level. Formation, geology and oceanography. Margaret"}, {"text": "Brock Reef was formed about 6000 to 7000 years ago by rising sea level. The reef and two islands to its south, Baudin Rocks and Penguin Island, are remnants of a former dune system known as the Robe Range which extended from what is now Cape Jaffa to what is now Cape Banks in the south. The range is composed of a \"crumbly rock\" known as Bridgewater Formation calcarenite which is described in some sources as being aeolianite. One source describes the reef as being \"an extensive danger\" because of the presence of water depths less than , and because a vessel's crew may not see the reef's edge as waves may not break there and as the sea for a distance up to to the reef's west will form waves in stormy weather that break. History. European discovery. Margaret Brock Reef was seen by the Baudin expedition in April 1802. In 1826, \"Sesostris\", a ship carrying convicts to the colony of New South Wales and under the command of a Captain Drake sighted the reef on the way to Sydney. The barque \"Margaret Brock\" was wrecked on the reef on 23 November 1852. A chart prepared by Thomas Lipson,"}, {"text": "the South Australian Government harbor master, showing the location of the reefs to the west of Cape Jaffa including Margaret Brock Reef as well as the location of the wreck of \"Margaret Brock\" was published in The South Australian Government Gazette on 7 April 1853. Naming. The name \"Sesostris Reef\" was used for the reef from 1826 onwards to at least the late 1870s. In particular, it was used in one publication, \"The Australian Directory\", until 1878, but was replaced by the name \"Margaret Brock Reef\" in the 1879 edition. The name \"Margaret Brock Reef\" was in use in South Australia by 1865. Shipwrecks. Ships wrecked on the reef include the brigantine \"Maria\" in 1840, the barque \"Margaret Brock\" in 1852, the schooner \"Agnes\" in 1865, the fishing vessel \"Thunderbird\" in 1964 and the fishing vessel \"Explorer\" in 1977. Navigation aids. The Cape Jaffa Lighthouse, also called the Margaret Brock Reef lighthouse in some sources, was built on part of the reef which is dry at low tide. Construction commenced in 1868 and the light was first used in January 1872. In 1973, its role was degraded after the commissioning of a new lighthouse at Robe. In 1975, the portion"}, {"text": "of the structure consisting of the lantern room and the keepers' accommodation was dismantled and re-erected in Kingston SE for use by the National Trust of South Australia as a museum. The platform remaining on the reef now accommodates an automatic beacon and is known as the Margaret Brock Reef Light. Protected area status and other designations. Margaret Brock Reef is the site of a sanctuary where fishing for southern rock lobster is prohibited at all times. It was originally proclaimed in 1973 to amend an earlier statute, the state's \"Fisheries Act 1971\", and subsequently was re-proclaimed under the state's \"Fisheries Management Act 2007\". The sanctuary occupies the area within a radius of of the navigation aid located on the former lighthouse platform. The rock lobster sanctuary was listed as a marine protected area from 2008 to 2014 on the Australian government's Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database (CAPAD)."}, {"text": "Governor Swift may refer to:"}, {"text": "The intertextual production of the Gospel of Mark is the viewpoint that there are identifiable textual relationships such that any allusion or quotation from another text forms an integral part of the Markan text, even when it seems to be out of context. Overview. It is commonly maintained that the Gospel of Mark was originally written in Koine Greek, and that the final text represents a rather lengthy history of growth. For more than a century attempts have been made to explain the origin of the gospel material and to interpret the space between the related events and the final inscripturation of the contents of the Gospel. C. H. Dodd asserted the earliest Christians shared oral accounts about Jesus but in order to make sense of what looked like failure on the part of Jesus\u2019 arrest, trial and crucifixion they were driven to interpret those memories in the light of Scripture. Dodd justified this model of how the stories evolved before becoming part of a written Gospel by pointing to passages in the Acts of the Apostles. The Dodd camp's viewpoint has resulted in scholarship where the emphasis has been on the growth and not on the making of the"}, {"text": "Gospel to the extent that certain data beliefs and assumptions concerning the Gospel have become so dominant that very little progress has been made in the history of interpretation of the Gospel (see e.g. Peabody 1987:3ff). However some scholars, following the work of Alfred Suhl, have taken the intertextual production of the written Gospel seriously. The intertextuality of the Gospel of Mark has been recognized by scholars such as Thomas L. Brodie, Willem S. Vorster, Dennis R. MacDonald, and Bartosz Adamczewski. Traditional view. It is normally argued that the followers of Jesus transmitted his words and deeds by telling and retelling things he did and said, in view of the folkloric nature of many of the stories of and about Jesus, the aphoristic character of many of his sayings, the many parables he apparently told his followers, and the role of oral communication in that period. Therefore, it is probable that Mark was informed about the story of Jesus by way of tradition. It is also probable that his audience would have known these traditions and others, such as the institution of the Lord's Supper, and controversy stories. Thus it is argued that Mark based his written story of Jesus"}, {"text": "on traditional material which he received and decided to put into written form. This is also the way in which the origin of the material was explained in the early church. The earliest witness to the authorship of Mark is the quotation from Papias of Hierapolis (c 140 CE) in the history of Eusebius (\"Hist Eccl\" III 39:15), according to which the Gospel was based on \"memory\" of the things Peter had told Mark (see Breytenbach 1992). Karl Ludwig Schmidt asserted that the accounts of the New Testament were to be regarded as fixed written versions of oral Gospel tradition. Using form criticism, Schmidt showed that an editor had assembled the narrative out of individual scenes that did not originally have a chronological order. Precursor texts and intertextual relationships. In Mark we have a text, written in Greek with different allusions to and quotations from precursor texts. These include parables, miracle stories, controversy stories, bibliographies, stories of cult heroes, speeches about the future, stories of suffering and resurrection stories. In addition Mark apparently knew themes, words, phrases and stories from the Old Testament. He must have had acquaintance with the Elisha cycle and with other performers of miracles. He must"}, {"text": "also have known the economic, political and other cultural codes of his time. We still do not know exactly how Mark went about creating his story of Jesus \u2014 that is, how he made his Gospel, but some scholars such as Willem S. Vorster argue for an intertextual production of the Gospel. Vorster writes: The relationship between the final text of the Gospel of Mark and precursor and other texts is an intertextual relationship. There is no causal relationship between this new text and the texts out of which Mark made his text. Mark quoted other texts, and his story alludes to other texts and absorbed other texts. This is how his story becomes meaningful and different from other stories with the same theme when the reader interprets Mark's texts in the light of other texts known to him/her. There is no reason to doubt that the written Gospel of Mark echoes many different precursor texts and intertextual relationships. Other scholars that also argue for the making of the Gospel are: Whereas Matthew and Luke use the Old Testament within a promise-fulfilment scheme, Vorster, following Alfred Suhl, argues that Mark's use of the Old Testament is totally different. Allusions to"}, {"text": "and quotations from the Old Testament are usually absorbed into Mark's story in such a manner that, except for a few cases where he specifically mentions the origin of the quotation, the allusions and quotations form part of the story stuff. They are so embedded into the story that, if it were not for the references in the margins and a knowledge of the Old Testament, the reader would not have noticed that Mark uses an allusion or a quotation (see ). This is best seen in Mark's story of the passion of Jesus. It has often been noticed that psalms of lamentation such as Psalms 22, 38 and 69 concerning the suffering of \"the just\", are knitted into the passion narrative in such a manner that one can say that the passion narrative of Mark is narrated in the language of the Old Testament. The point is, however, that the allusions and 'quotations' form such an integral part of the passion narrative that it is impossible for the na\u00efve reader to realize that the text is enriched by its intertextual relationships concerning the suffering of the Just. One possible inference from the use of the Old Testament in the"}, {"text": "Gospel of Mark is that the author created a new story with the aid of intertextual codes that helped him to communicate his own point of view. The Old Testament quotations and references formed part of the new story that Mark created in order to convince his readers of his point of view concerning Jesus and the implications of Jesus' life, works and words for the prevailing situation. Midrashic production. In addition to the many studies on the texts behind and in the Gospel of Mark, some scholars that argue for the Gospel as the rewriting of Old Testament stories are: Robert M. Price, and Daniel Boyarin have noted the Jewish mode of scriptural interpretation termed midrash, embedded in the Gospel of Mark. John Shelby Spong also sees a midrashic production of the Gospel, but clarifies his use of the term \"midrashic\"\u2014as \"interpretation\" or \"literary borrowing\"\u2014which is divergent from the traditional usage of the term \"midrash\", Spong writes: I have used the word midrash only as the modifying adjective, midrashic, both to indicate the broadness of the way I am employing this concept and also to leave the word midrash to its special Jewish understanding. Philip S Alexander holds that"}, {"text": "in modern usage the term \"midrash becomes simply a fancy word for 'Bible interpretation'\" and therefore its usage should be discontinued. Nathanael Vette also addresses the problem of definition and sides with those who believe that what is often being labelled as \u201cmidrash\u201d is more like the Greco-Roman literary practice of \u201cmimesis\u201d, that is, literary imitation, or simply \u201ca creative use of Scriptural material\u201d. Comparison with Jewish apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. A justification for the comparison of the Gospel of Mark with Jewish apocrypha and pseudepigrapha is given by Nathanael Vette, following 's work \"Use and Interpretation of Mikra\": that these writings have in common the imitation of the styles and forms of the Old Testament (OT) biblical literature and can be read as if they are attempting to imitate that biblical world. Scripture is not primarily addressed directly in order to be explicitly interpreted in these writings but acts as an underlay that helps shape narrative episodes. Vette also borrows from Dimant the terms to describe these two types of Scripture reference: expositional and compositional. Most scholarship has attended to the expositional use of Scriptures in the Gospel of Mark, seeking to explain how the Gospel can be interpreted through"}, {"text": "its Scriptural references; but Vette seeks to redress that balance by examining the compositional function of biblical texts in the Gospel. Mark and Old Testament context. A possible conclusion about the use of the Old Testament in the Gospel is that Mark had no respect for the original context of the quotations and allusions to Old Testament writings in his text. This can be seen in the story of John the Baptist at the beginning of the Gospel. The first quotation () does not come entirely from Isaiah the prophet, as Mark asserts. It is a composite reference to , and which he connects to Isaiah the prophet. The quotation is taken out of context and worked into his story of John and Jesus in order to show the relationship between the two. The beginning of the Gospel does not prove the fulfillment of the Old Testament, it characterizes John as the predecessor of Jesus. Only at a later stage does the reader realize the resemblance between the apocalyptic John and the apocalyptic Jesus. John Dominic Crossan and Howard Clark Kee argue that Mark's citation of scripture is not representative of ignorance or editorial sloppiness, but rather represents combinations and"}, {"text": "alterations of scripture texts that cohere with Mark's intent to create a new story to communicate his own point of view. Contra Mark as only compiling \"Jesus tradition\". Mark did not hesitate to use the Old Testament out of context, therefore it is probable that he did the same with the \"Jesus tradition\" he received. This underscores the argument that he retold tradition for his own purposes. By doing this Mark created a new text from other texts, traces of which can be seen in his text. Mark was not a conservative redactor; he not only reshaped his story of Jesus by retelling the story for the sake of a particular situation, he also told it from his own perspective. However, whether Mark transmitted tradition conservatively or creatively is of little significance, even eyewitnesses shape their messages for their own purposes. Jan Vansina (1985:5) observes: [M]ediation of perception by memory and emotional state shapes an account. Memory typically selects certain features from the successive perceptions and interprets them according to expectation, previous knowledge or the logic of 'what must have happened', and fills the gaps in perception. This is all the more true of the Jesus tradition which has been"}, {"text": "shaped by putative eyewitnesses as well as those who retold the tradition for their own purposes and in their own circumstances. That is already clear from the different versions of the same stories of and about Jesus in the canonical gospels. First of all we do not have any eyewitness reports; furthermore, the retelling of the Jesus tradition was done in different circumstances for different purposes. This is, for instance, confirmed by the 'same' version of the 'same' parable in different contexts in the different gospels. Retelling of the 'same' event or word of a specific person involves creativity. Bart Ehrman argues that an understanding of how memory\u2014especially memory in oral cultures\u2014 works is crucial to understanding the production of the Gospel of Mark."}, {"text": "Margaret Brock may refer to."}, {"text": "Elise Marie Lindqvist (born 23 February 1936) is a Swedish volunteer at Klara Church, and a lecturer. After a lifetime of abuse and violence, and having been prostituted since the age of 16, she converted to Christianity, and is now helping prostitutes on Malmskillnadsgatan in Stockholm. Elise Lindqvist's life is described in the book \"\u00c4ngeln p\u00e5 Malmskillnadsgatan (Angel of Malskillnadsgatan)\", which she wrote together with Antima Linjer. Scandinavian human rights lawyers worked closely with her in the development of the Nordic Model approach to prostitution. Biography. Until age 58. Elise Lindqvist had a difficult upbringing, experiencing sexual violence starting from age 5. She furthermore was threatened, locked-in, and moved around many times. It was believed that she might be mentally impaired, even though she only had suffered an injury to her hearing system. Her mother left her father, who was an alcoholic. After that, things became worse for Elise. She ran away from home when she was 14, lived with another family, and finished school. At age 16, she \"worked\" as a prostitute for the first time. She says that her stepmother was the first person to prostitute her out. She later got married, and had a daughter. Her husband"}, {"text": "was abusive towards her though. She tried to cope with this by taking prescription drugs and drinking alcohol. Eventually, she divorced him. Transformation and volunteering. After a breakdown at age 58, she was sent to M\u00f6ssebergs health resort in Falk\u00f6ping. The resort was run by Daga and Larseric Janson, who took care of Elise for a whole year. In the mid-1990s, Elise got involved with Klara Church and Friends of Klara Church in Stockholm. The pastor of the perish, Carl-Erik Sahlberg, has centered the social work of the church on helping the homeless and prostitutes. Elise works with the prostitutes on Malmskillnadsgatan every Friday night. She said in an interview that \"her greatest joy is to see the transformation of girls who left the street and fought on\". She is most commonly called \"The Mother\", but sometimes also \"Steel Grandmother\" and \"The Angel\". Medial attention, prizes, and book release. In the documentary \"Angel of Malmskillnadsgatan\" by Peter Gaszynski on SVT2 that was aired on 24 February 2012, Eliset talked about her volunteer work among addicts and prostitutes. In the spring of 2012, she was awarded the Vitsipp Prize by the Christian Democrats in Huddinge, for her commitment to helping the"}, {"text": "vulnerable women on Malmskillnadsgatan in Stockholm. In the fall of 2013, her autobiography \"Angeln of Malmskillnadsgatan\", written in collaboration with co-worker Antima Linjer, was published. The book and her work on Malmskillnadsgatan received a lot of attention, in connection with her appearance on the TV program Skavlan. In an interview on Nyhetsrummet.se, she comments on the book as follows: \"It was not easy to open up like that; you expose yourself completely. But I want to reach those who wander around with shame and guilt, who may live a destructive life with addiction, violence, and terror, just as I did myself. I want to tell them that there is help out there.\" Elise Lindqvist received the Scandinavian Human Rights Committee's dignity award in 2013. At the Svenska Heroes gala on 18 December 2015, Lindqvist was hailed and named Swedish Hero for her life's work. Nordic Model approach on prostitution. Scandinavian human rights lawyers worked closely with Elise Lindqvist in the development of the Nordic Model approach to prostitution. This goal of the judicial approach on prostitution is to protect women and children from commercial sexual exploitation. The Nordic model has been adopted by Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Canada, France, Northern Ireland,"}, {"text": "Ireland, and Israel."}, {"text": "Suriyawong may refer to:"}, {"text": "Carl Wurzinger (1 June 1817, Vienna - 16 March 1883, Vienna) was an Austrian history painter and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Life and work. His father was the caretaker for an estate. In 1832, at the age of fourteen, he became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts. He exhibited his first works in 1844. Three years later, he left Vienna to continue his education in Italy. He remained there for nine years. Upon his return home in 1856, he became a professor at the Academy; specializing in history painting. After that point, he concentrated almost exclusively on his teaching, rather than painting. His few works were meticulously done and historically accurate, but received very little critical attention. He was eventually appointed a Senior Professor. He was named a Knight in the Austrian Order of Franz Joseph and the Bavarian Order of Saint Michael. He was also presented with the Order of St. Gregory the Great. In 1910, a street in the W\u00e4hring district of Vienna was named after him."}, {"text": "Bradley Cardinale is an American ecologist, conservation biologist, academic and researcher. He is head of the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management and Penn State University. Cardinale's work has focused on the conservation and restoration of biodiversity in natural systems, as well as the ecological design of human engineered systems that benefit from biodiversity. He uses mathematical models, lab- and field-based experiments, observational studies of natural ecosystems, and meta-analyses of existing data to examine how human activities impact Earth's biological diversity, and to protect and manage species, their ecosystems, and the services they provide to society. He has written over 120 scientific papers, as well as a textbook on conservation biology. Cardinale is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Ecological Society of America. In 2014, Cardinale was named by Thomson Reuters as one of The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds. Early life and education. Cardinale was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1969. He studied at Arizona State University where, in 1993, he received a B.S. in biology. After receiving his bachelor's degree, Cardinale went on to receive an M.S. in Fisheries and Wildlife in 1996 from Michigan State University where he helped"}, {"text": "develop methods for restoring coastal wetlands in the Great Lakes. He then went on to complete a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Maryland in 2002 where he led projects focused on the restoration of biodiversity and ecosystem processes in degraded streams in the Appalachian Mountains. Following his Ph.D., Cardinale completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Career. In 2005, Cardinale joined the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara as an assistant professor, becoming associate professor in 2010. In 2011, he left the University of California, Santa Barbara to join the University of Michigan, where he became a full professor in 2015. He served as coordinator of the Conservation Ecology Program at the University of Michigan from 2012 to 2014. He left the University of Michigan in 2021 to join Penn State University as head of the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management. In 2013, he was elected by the U.S. National Academy of Science as one of three U.S. representatives on the inaugural Science Committee of the United Nations initiative Future Earth. Future Earth was a reorganization of the United Nations Environmental Programme"}, {"text": "(UNEP) that merged five discipline-based global change programs into a single, multidisciplinary research program. Between 2009 and 2013, Cardinale helped form the U.S. National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), assisting with selection of the core aquatic sites, and serving on the Pacific-Southwest Domain Science Committee. He was also co-PI with Walter Dodds and Margaret A. Palmer on the proposal that established the Stream Observational and Experimental Network (STREON) \u2013 a coordinated set of national climate change experiments that were ultimately eliminated from NEON as part of budget cuts and descoping. Cardinale received the Hynes Award for New Investigators from the Society for Freshwater Science in 2003. He also received the Burton V. Barnes Award from the Sierra Club in 2015 for his leadership in organizing academic scientists at 13 state-universities in Michigan to speak out against anti-biodiversity legislation that was intended to make state lands more accessible to fracking, lumbering, and mining. That effort ultimately led to the legislation being vetoed by Michigan's governor. In 2016, Cardinale was appointed as the director of Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR). CIGLR is one of 16 Cooperative Institutes across the U.S. that are funded by NOAA to link government research labs to"}, {"text": "university partners, non-governmental organizations, and private business partners who help them accomplish their research and development goals. Research and work. Cardinale's research focuses on the conservation and restoration of biodiversity, as well as the use of ecological design to improve human engineered ecosystems. Most of his work has focused on the management of biodiversity in freshwater habitats (streams, lakes, wetlands), though he has worked in ecosystems as diverse as grasslands, forests, and kelp beds. Work from the Cardinale Lab has received extensive recognition in the popular media, leading to numerous interviews on U.S. National Public Radio (NPR), and coverage in Reuters, the British Broadcast Corporation (BBC), and the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC). Conservation biology. A significant part of Cardinale's research has focused on developing a key argument for biodiversity conservation, which is that biodiversity is the foundation for a healthy planet. His work has shown that loss of biodiversity impacts important ecological processes that are essential to the productivity and stability of ecosystems, as well as the goods and services they provide to humans. Cardinale and his colleagues have developed a suite of mathematical models to describe how the biological traits of species, interactions among species, and the structure of"}, {"text": "entire food webs influence essential processes like primary production, decomposition, and nutrient cycling. He has tested the predictions of these models in both field and lab-based experiments, primarily using freshwater organisms as model systems. His experiments were among the first to show that biodiversity enhances the efficiency and productivity of ecosystems through niche partitioning among species, and via facilitative interactions that cause diverse communities to be greater than the sum-of-their-parts. These mechanisms had long-been presumed to operate in nature, but empirical evidence was lacking. Cardinale is perhaps best known for his leadership in organizing major data syntheses that have helped foster a consensus about the probable consequences of biodiversity loss for humanity. He has organized numerous working groups funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the United Nations Environmental Program, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, and the Socio-Economic Environmental Synthesis Center. In these working groups, Cardinale and his colleagues have assembled extensive datasets of thousands of experiments and observational studies that have quantified how changes in biodiversity impact a wide variety of ecological processes and ecosystem services for organisms inhabiting 30 biomes on 5 continents. Their syntheses have led to publication of 15 formal meta-analyses. In 2012,"}, {"text": "Cardinale organized and led an invited review for a special issue of Nature dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit in which his colleagues and he synthesized over 1,700 papers that have examined biodiversity's impact on 34 ecosystem goods and services. This synthesis revealed a remarkable level of generality in how biodiversity impacts the functioning of Earth's ecosystems and the services they provide to society. Restoration ecology. Cardinale has also conducted considerable research on the restoration of ecosystems and their biodiversity. During his early graduate studies, Cardinale worked on restoration of Great Lakes coastal wetlands in Lake Huron that had been drained for agriculture. He showed that, once hydrologic connectivity is re-established, the vegetation of drained wetlands could be restored from existing seed banks that had survived nearly a hundred years of farming in agricultural soils. He also showed that certain forms of stocking and augmentation could help re-establish natural invertebrate communities that form the base of the wetland food webs. Later in his graduate studies, Cardinale turned attention towards stream restoration where he experimentally tested common techniques that are used to restore streams in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. His work helped determine"}, {"text": "which techniques statistically enhance the recovery of biodiversity and important ecological processes, and which techniques have the highest success rates for restoration. In the early 2010s, Cardinale worked on collaborative projects with biologists and geomorphologists to evaluate the success of gravel augmentation in restoring spawning habitat for endangered Chinook salmon. Working in a restored section of the Merced River in central California, he and his students demonstrated that gravel augmentation does, in fact, enhance spawning habitat for Chinook. But the practice also leads to abnormally mobile streambeds that can damage salmonid eggs, reduce the abundance and alter the composition of food items, and change feeding rates, survival and growth of native fish, including juvenile salmon that hatch from spawning beds. In 2017, Cardinale established the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR), which brings together academic institutions with government agencies and private businesses who work together on achieving sustainable use of the Great Lakes. With funding from NOAA and the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, CIGLR and its 40+ scientific staff have worked on restoring Great Lakes Areas of Concern, restoration of coastal fish habitat, management of invasive species, and remediation of coastal zones impacted by harmful algal blooms and hypoxia."}, {"text": "Ecological design. A final portion of Cardinale's research program lies at the intersection of ecology and engineering where he has used principles of ecological design to improve the efficiency and sustainability of human engineered ecosystems. He has completed a number of experiments and published several key papers showing that the composition of species in biological communities can be manipulated to maximize removal of pollutants from freshwater. In 2011, he published a paper in Nature showing that streams managed to maximize biodiversity of algae are more efficient at removing nutrient pollutants like nitrates from the water than less diverse systems. Soon after, he extended this work to consider emerging contaminants, and showed that certain combinations of species could be manipulated to maximize removal of titanium-dioxide nanoparticles from stream water. Cardinale has also examined how biological communities can be engineered to maximize erosion control, and minimize the loss of sediments from stream bottoms and riverbanks. He and his research group have shown that enhancing plant diversity of native vegetation along streambanks creates complex rooting systems that help reduce the chance of bank sloughing and failure. In addition, they have shown that small insects that live on the bottom of streams can bind"}, {"text": "rocks together as they spin nets to construct their homes, and these nets significantly reduce the probability of streambed erosion during floods. Since 2013, Cardinale has been studying how ecological design might be used to improve the efficiency and sustainability of algal biofuel systems. He and his lab group have shown that certain combinations of species can maximize the production of algal feedstocks, and that species combinations can be developed such that they are complimentary in their recycling of expensive fertilizers that are used to cultivate algae in outdoor ponds. Further, he has shown that nesting complimentary species within more diverse communities of algae can help alleviate problems associated with pathogens, parasites, and predators that often cause feedstocks to crash."}, {"text": "Nadakhali is a village within the jurisdiction of the Nadakhali police station in the Budge Budge II CD block in the Alipore Sadar subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography. Area overview. Alipore Sadar subdivision is the most urbanized part of the South 24 Parganas district. 59.85% of the population lives in the urban areas and 40.15% lives in the rural areas. In the northern portion of the subdivision (shown in the map alongside) there are 21 census towns. The entire district is situated in the Ganges Delta and the subdivision, on the east bank of the Hooghly River, is an alluvial stretch, with industrial development. Location. Nadakhali is located at . It has an average elevation of . Demographics. According to the 2011 Census of India, Nadakhali had a total population of 1,132, of which 561 (50%) were males and 571 (50%) were females. There are 571 people in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Nadakhali was 705 (69.87% of the population over 6 years). Civic administration. Police station. Nadakhali police station serves a population of 192,118, spread over parts of the"}, {"text": "Budge Budge I and the Budge Budge II CD blocks. Transport. A short stretch of local roads link Nadakhali to the Budge Budge Trunk Road. Budge Budge railway station is located nearby. Education. Howri Dinanath School, located nearby, in a Bengali-medium high school with facilities from class V to class X. Healthcare. Lakshmibala Dutta Rural Hospital, with 30 beds, at Bakrahat, is the major government medical facility in the Budge Budge II CD block."}, {"text": "Bob Pringle (11 August 1941 \u2013 July 1996) was a left-wing activist and construction worker in the Builders Labourers Federation who was active in left-wing campaigns in the 1960s and 1970s in New South Wales. Robert Arthur Pringle was born in Toowoomba, Queensland on 11 August 1941. He helped the green bans, Aboriginal Tent Embassy and protests against the Springboks. He drowned while swimming in 1996. A wake was held in Harold Park Hotel, and his funeral service was held on 7 August 1996. He was survived by his step-daughter Jane."}, {"text": "Thorsten Jonsson (1910\u20131950) was a Swedish writer, journalist and translator. Jonsson grew up in a small village in V\u00e4sterbotten. He studied at Stockholms h\u00f6gskola and then worked as journalist for various newspapers, including \"Dagens Nyheter\". In 1943 he became \"Dagens Nyheters\" correspondent in United States. A selection of his articles as a correspondent were published in the book \"Sidor av Amerika\" in 1946. Jonsson was praised for his translations of American writers like Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck and wrote several essays on contemporary American literature. Six studies were published in the book \"Sex amerikaner: Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Caldwell, Farrell, Saroyan\" in 1942. As a writer he published two books of poems, two short story collections and the acclaimed novel \"Konvoj\", published in 1947. \"Dimman fr\u00e5n havet\", a book of four stories set in America, an essay collection and his collected short stories were published posthumously."}, {"text": "Christine Renee Drazan ( Deboy; born May 28, 1972) is an American politician who serves in the Oregon House of Representatives from the 51st district as a member of the Republican Party. She served from the 39th district from 2019 to 2022, before losing in the 2022 Oregon gubernatorial election to Democrat Tina Kotek. During her tenure in the state house she served as the minority leader from 2019 to 2021, and again since 2025. Drazan was born in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and educated at Eagle Point High School and George Fox University. During the 1990s she worked for Speaker Mark Simmons. She was elected to the state house in the 2018 election and reelected in the 2020 election. During her tenure as minority leader, she engaged in various parliamentary tactics to thwart legislation supported by Democrats. Early life and education. Christine Renee Deboy was born to Perrliee and Dale E. Deboy in Klamath Falls, Oregon. She graduated from Eagle Point High School and George Fox University. She worked as the director of communications for Mark Simmons, the Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, in the 1990s. She married Daniel Joseph Drazan on May 17, 1997, with whom she"}, {"text": "has three children. Drazan is Christian. Career. Oregon House of Representatives. Elections. Bill Kennemer, a member of the state house from the 39th district retired during the 2018 election. Drazan defeated John Lee, Seth Rydmark, and Ken Kraft for the Republican nomination and defeated Democratic nominee Elizabeth Graser-Lindsey in the general election. She defeated Democratic nominee Tessah Danel and Libertarian nominee Kenny Sernach in the 2020 election. On March 5, 2024, Drazan announced her candidacy for the Oregon House of Representatives representing the 51st district, which became her home district after the 2020 redistricting cycle. Christine won her race and is the current Representative for Oregon House District 51. She was elected for a second time as minority leader for the 2025 legislative session. Tenure. During Drazan's tenure in the state house she served on the Healthcare committee. Drazan was selected to replace Carl Wilson as the Minority Leader on September 16, 2019, and served until she was replaced by Vikki Breese-Iverson on November 30, 2021. During her time as Minority Leader the Republicans refused to attend legislative meetings in order to deny a quorum so that legislation could not be passed. Drazan participated in these quorum denials and left"}, {"text": "the state. She also forced the readings of the entirety of legislation as a delaying tactic. She was appointed to the six-member committee to redraw the districts following the 2020 United States census with equal representation from the Democratic and Republican parties as a compromise created to have the Republicans stop using delaying tactics against legislation. Speaker Tina Kotek later reversed her decision and restored the Democratic majority on the committee redrawing the congressional districts. She made a motion for Kotek to be censured due to this, but it failed with thirty-three representatives voting against and fourteen voting in favor. Gubernatorial campaign. One of Drazan's aides stated on November 23, 2021, that she was going to run for the Republican nomination in the 2022 gubernatorial election. She announced her campaign on January 4, 2022, and resigned from the state house on January 31, where her seat was filled by James Hieb. Trey Rosser was her campaign manager. She won in the Republican primary against eighteen other candidates with 23% of the vote. During 2022 her campaign raised $2,101,788.27 and spent $2,542,604.18. She lost the election to former Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives Tina Kotek. Political positions. Drazan opposed"}, {"text": "emissions trading legislation in 2020, and demanded a referendum on the legislation. She supports the usage of an independent redistricting commission for redrawing districts. She opposed a COVID-19 vaccination mandate. Drazan opposes allowing transgender athletes to participate in gender-specific sporting events. Drazan does not support Donald Trump's claims of having won the 2020 presidential election and stated that \"Donald Trump did not win. Joe Biden did. He is our president\". Drazan received a lifetime score of 20% from the Oregon League of Conservation Voters. She was endorsed by Oregon Right to Life during the 2022 election. She opposes Measure 114 and received an \"A\" rating from the NRA Political Victory Fund."}, {"text": "The men'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": "Mozammel Haque (1955/1956 \u2013 12 January 2023) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Natore-4 constituency during 2001\u20132006. Career. Haque was elected to parliament from Natore-4 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) candidate in 2001. He received 111,626 votes while his nearest rival, Md. Abdul Quddus of the Awami League, received 79,450 votes. He was the president of Gurudaspur Upazila unit of BNP. Haque contested the 2008 general election as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party but lost to Quddus of the Awami League. Haque received 115,409 votes while Quddus received 160,549 votes. Haque boycotted the 2014 election along with the rest of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Md. Abdul Quddus was elected unopposed from Natore-4. Haque was an alternate candidate of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party from Natore-4 in the 2018 general election. The nomination went to Abdul Aziz, chairman of Gurudaspur Upazila, who lost to Md. Abdul Quddus. Death. Haque died in Gurudaspur Municipality, Natore District on 12 January 2023, at the age of 67."}, {"text": "Dongaria is a village and a gram panchayat within the jurisdiction of the Nodakhali police station in the Budge Budge II CD block in the Alipore Sadar subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography. Area overview. Alipore Sadar subdivision is the most urbanized part of the South 24 Parganas district. 59.85% of the population lives in the urban areas and 40.15% lives in the rural areas. In the northern portion of the subdivision (shown in the map alongside) there are 21 census towns. The entire district is situated in the Ganges Delta and the subdivision, on the east bank of the Hooghly River, is an alluvial stretch, with industrial development. Location. Dongaria is located at . It has an average elevation of . Demographics. According to the 2011 Census of India, Dongaria had a total population of 7,425, of which 3,794 (51%) were males and 3,631 (49%) were females. There were 711 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literates in Dongaria was 5,367 (79.94% of the population over 6 years). Civic administration. CD block HQ. The headquarters of the Budge Budge II CD block"}, {"text": "are located at Dongaria. Transport. A short stretch of local roads link Dongaria to the Budge Budge Trunk Road. Budge Budge railway station is located nearby. Education. Dongaria Anumati Balika Vidyalaya is a Bengali-medium higher secondary school. Healthcare. Lakshmibala Dutta Rural Hospital, with 30 beds, at Bakrahat, is the major government medical facility in the Budge Budge II CD block."}, {"text": "Samuel Jacob Farraway (born 1986) is an Australian politician who served in the New South Wales Legislative Council from October 2019 to December 2024 and as the Minister for Regional Transport and Roads in the second Perrottet ministry between December 2021 and March 2023. He is a member of the NSW Nationals. Farraway resigned from the Legislative Council after he was preselected as The Nationals candidate for Calare in July 2024 for the 2025 federal election, but was unsuccessful. He had also previously contested for federal parliament as a Senate candidate in the 2019 federal election, and unsuccessfully ran for party pre-selection for Calare for the 2016 federal election. Background. Farraway was born in Bathurst Base Hospital in 1986 to Warren and Leanne Farraway, and is the eldest of five children. Warren Farraway was involved in the automotive trade. In 1988, Warren and Leanne Farraway purchased a Hertz car rental franchise in Bathurst. Sam started to manage the family-run Hertz business in 2004. After operating for 30 years, the Farraway family sold the business in 2018. For over 10 years prior to his appointment as a member of the Legislative Council, Farraway was the president of Bathurst Agricultural, Horticultural and"}, {"text": "Pastoral Association, which runs the annual Royal Bathurst Show. In 2015 he won the young entrepreneur of the year at the Carillon Business Awards. Political career. In 2007, Farraway met Kerry Bartlett, the then-federal Liberal MP for Macquarie, prior to the 2007 federal election. Farraway helped out in Bartlett's election campaign, by being the booth captain, packing booth kits, staffing pre-poll centres, and had a picture of Barlett's face on his car for five weeks. Bartlett ultimately lost his seat at the election. Three years later, in 2010, Farraway met John Cobb, the then-federal Nationals MP for Calare, prior to the 2010 federal election. Again, Farraway helped out with the election campaign and became the booth captain, performing the same tasks as he did for Bartlett's campaign. Cobb comfortably retained his seat in the election. In 2012, 18 months after the election, Farraway joined the Nationals after Cobb's recommendation. After joining the Nationals, Farraway was the chair of the party's Bathurst branch, Bathurst State Electoral Council, Calare Federal Electorate Council, and a central executive member of the party. He was also the campaign manager for Cobb's election campaign in the 2013 federal election and for Paul Toole's election campaign in"}, {"text": "the 2019 New South Wales state election. , he is also the senior vice chair of the NSW Nationals. Following Cobb's retirement in February 2016, Farraway unsuccessfully contested the Nationals' preselection for the federal seat of Calare for the 2016 federal election, which was contested by Andrew Gee instead. During the 2019 half-Senate election in May, Farraway contested unsuccessfully as a candidate for New South Wales in an unwinnable 5th position of the Coalition ticket. In March 2019, Niall Blair announced his intention to resign from New South Wales Legislative Council and would do so when a replacement was found. Farraway won the party's preselection in September 2019 to fill Blair's upcoming vacancy. Blair resigned from the Council on 16 October 2019, and Farraway was appointed as a member of the Legislative Council the following day on 17 October 2019. In December 2021, Farraway was sworn in as the Minister for Regional Transport and Roads in the Perrottet ministry. He held the position until the Liberal-National Coalition lost the 2023 state election in March that year. On 20 July 2024, Farraway was preselected as the Nationals candidate for Calare for the 2025 federal election, after Gee had resigned from the"}, {"text": "party two years earlier. On 9 December 2024, Farraway resigned from the Legislative Council and was succeeded in the Legislative Council by former member for Monaro Nichole Overall. At the federal election in May 2025, Farraway came first on first preference votes. However, after preference distributions, he ultimately lost to Gee, who was contesting as an independent candidate."}, {"text": "Ekkadiki Ee Parugu is a 2019 Indian Telugu-language web series starring Aryan Rajesh, Shashank, Pavani Gangireddy, Kalpika Ganesh and Chandra Vempaty . It was directed by Abhilash Reddy Kankara. The premise of this thriller drama which revolves around Madhur Anand (Shashank), a popular chef, whose wife Vaishnavi (Pavani) goes missing. The investigating officer (Aryan Rajesh), who himself is recovering from the recent death of his wife, suspects Madhur to be the perpetrator. The series premiered on ZEE5 to positive reviews. It was dubbed and released in Tamil as \"Thadam\". Premise. Madhur Anand, a renowned chef, files a police complaint that his wife, Vaishnavi has gone missing. The investigating police officer who himself is recovering from the recent death of his wife suspects foul play, but he doesn't know if he has enough clues to suspect anyone yet. When he begins to investigate the case, things go terribly wrong when he discovers that Madhur Anand might be lying. If this isn't enough, Madhur himself sets out to unravel the mystery about Vaishnavi's life just before her death. The rest of the story is about finding who killed Vaishnavi and what were the circumstances that led to her death. Release. The web"}, {"text": "series was released on online streaming platform Zee5 on January 8, 2019. Reception. Hemanth Kumar of \"Firstpost\" praised the performances of Aryan Rajesh and Pavani Gangireddy but termed it a convoluted web-series and said it would have been better as a film, as the director's initial intention. He criticised the narrative and said that the performances in a few scenes were amateurish, but it worked well in its emotional scenes."}, {"text": "Abdul Mottaleb Akanda was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament of Gaibandha-4. Career. Mottaleb Akanda was renowned for his contributions to the education and welfare in Gobindaganj in Gaibandha District. Later, Akanda was elected to parliament from Gaibandha-4 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. He diverted flood relief to Mahimaganj Union, even though the union voted for Abdul Latif Prodhan, a Bangladesh Awami League politician, chairman of the Union Parishad. Death. Akanda died on 11 March 2006 from a heart attack."}, {"text": "The following is a list of Christian human rights non-governmental organisations (or list of Christian human rights NGOs) that raise awareness about the persecution of Christians and advocates for them. It does not include political parties, or academic institutions."}, {"text": "Chongfa Temple () is a former Buddhist temple located within the Renmin Park, in Tianning District of Changzhou, Jiangsu, China. History. The temple traces its origins to a vegetable garden, founded by Chen Gaoren () in the Sui dynasty (581\u2013619) and would later become a Buddhist temple. In the Baoda period (943\u2013957) of the Southern Tang dynasty (937\u2013976), it was known as \"Dasheng Temple\" (). It was renamed \"Sengqie Temple\" () at the dawn of Northern Song dynasty. In 1125, Huizong Emperor honored the name \"Chongfa Chan Temple\" (). In the reign of Hongwu Emperor (1368\u20131398) of the Ming dynasty (1368\u20131644), its name was changed to \"Chongfa Buddhist Temple\" (). Because the southeast corner of the temple had a bell tower, it was also more commonly known as \"Bell Tower Temple\". The temple was devastated by the Taiping Rebellion during the ruling of Xianfeng Emperor (1850\u20131861) in late Qing dynasty (1644\u20131911), and was restored and rebuilt in Guangxu period (1875\u20131908). After the establishment of the Communist State, the wing-room was demolished, only the Mahavira Hall survived. In December 1987, it was designated as a \"Municipality Protected Historic Site\" by Changzhou government. Architecture. The Mahavira Hall is three rooms wide with"}, {"text": "single-eave gable and hip roof. A stone inscription named \"On the Reconstruction of Bell Tower in Chongfa Temple\" () which was made in 1827 are embedded in the west wall. Now it is used as a teahouse."}, {"text": "Ukishima (written: or ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Martin S. Fiebert (born 1939), is an emeritus professor at California State University, Long Beach in the Department of Psychology. He has published more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Early life and education. Fiebert was born in the Bronx, New York in 1939. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science in 1956, and received his B.S. degree from Queens College, City University of New York in 1960. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Rochester in 1965 and completed his thesis, \"Cognitive Styles in the Deaf\", under the direction of Professor Emory L. Cowen. Research and career. Fiebert is known for his work on a series of annotated bibliographies which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive as men in their relationships with spouses or male partners. He has also published a series of articles that explore the early history of psychoanalysis. In particular, he examined the relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung in a paper entitled \"Sex, Lies, and Letters\" as well as a paper examining the history of Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler's relationship, which was published in the Adlerian journal, \"Individual Psychology\". Other major areas in which he has published"}, {"text": "include friendship, meditation, interracial dating, and social media behavior, particularly Facebook activities. Fiebert has been involved in the area of Transpersonal Psychology as a student, teacher, and researcher. He was influenced by the writings and had personal interactions with such teachers as Ram Dass, Swami Satchidananda, and Chogyam Trungpa. He was also a student of Ralph Metzner, from whom he learned basic Agni Yoga techniques developed by Russell Schofield. Most recently, he has engaged with the teachings and techniques of a Tibetan master, Djwhal Khul. Fiebert has been a faculty member at California State University, Long Beach since 1965. He retired as a full professor in 2016 and is currently teaching in the Psychology Department as an adjunct faculty. From 2001 to 2003, Fiebert served as the president of the Long Beach Chapter of the California Faculty Association. Awards and honors. Fiebert was selected in 2018 to give the annual Honorary Legacy Lecture at CSULB. His presentation focused on the Top Ten Highlights of his academic career. In 2016 he was invited to present the Keynote speech at the Toronto Domestic Violence Symposium."}, {"text": "Wasantha Kumaravila (born December 31, 1955, as [Sinhala]) is a Sri Lankan actor, film producer, stunt performer, and stunt director. He is most notable for his role as \"Wasantha\" in the soap opera \"Nilanjana\", directed by Suki Jeyaram. Early life. He was born on 31 December 1978 in Kalutara. He has one elder brother who acted in few stage dramas. Kumaravila is married to his longtime partner Aruni and the couple has two daughters, Mahima and Tharushi. Career. At the age of 14, Kumaravila met stunt director Sarath Silva. With the guidance of his brother and Silva, Kumaravila was selected to play in a fight in the 1992 film \"Kiyala Wadak Na\" directed by Hemasiri Sellapperuma. It was a small stunt act lasted about 45 seconds. In 1997, a film production crew came to Sri Lanka for the filming of stunt movie \"Bloodsport III\" starred by Daniel Bernhardt. Kumaravila joined with the film crew and had a three months international camping. After the film, he moved to stage dramas, where he performed as a professional stunt artist. In international cinema, Kumaravila first starred as a martial artist in the Hollywood movie \"Jackpot Part 3\" under the guidance of veteran film"}, {"text": "director Chandran Ratnam. He also joined with some Italian, German, Pakistan and Indian films, where he gained lot of experience. In 2003, he co-produced the film \"Underworld\" with Arjuna Kamalanath. In 2004, with the help of fellow stuntmen, Kumaravila produced the film \"Underworld\". The film was directed by Sudesh Wasantha Pieris and starred Arjuna Kamalanath along with former stunt directors Rex Kodippili, Cletus Mendis and Robin Fernando. However, screening of the film abandoned after 14 days due to 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami disaster. In 2016, along with Sanjeewa Kumara, Kumaravila produced the film \"Ran Sayura\". In 2019, he produced his second cinema production, \"Maanaya\". On 8 July 2016, he established a stunt school at Bellanvila. In television, he made few notable roles in the serials: \"Ranthili Wewa\", \"Sakuge Lokaya\" and \"Bandhana\". In 2025, he appeared in the historical film \"Devi Kusumasana\" as an actor and stunt director. In the film, he introduced cable stunts to Sri Lankan cinema."}, {"text": "Learnmore Manyenyeka (born 22 August 1993), formerly known as Long John the Comedian, now known professionally as Learnmore Jonasi, is a Zimbabwean stand-up comedian, actor and MC. He is also known as \"The Village Boy\" and has won the 2019 National Arts Merit Awards as the Outstanding Comedian of the Year and the 2019 Savanna Comic Choice Awards as the Pan African Comic of the Year. He was people's choice award winner in Steve Harvey's Stand Up Spotlight competition in 2019. In 2020 he won the National Arts Merit Awards as the Outstanding Comedian of the Year. Early life and education. 1993 - 2010. Learnmore was born 22 August 1993 as Learnmore Mwenyeyeka at Dangamvura Hospital in Mutare, Manicaland, Zimbabwe. He never met his father and does not know his name. His mother, Memory Mwanyenyeka, is a Kindergarten teacher in South Africa. He was raised by his grandparents, Partson Mwanyenyeka, a government pensioner and Lillian Mwanyenyeka in Chimanimani. During the years 1999 to 2000, he went to Chimanimani Primary School between Grade 1 and 2. When his grandfather was retrenched from work, in 2000, they moved to Mutare where he continued his education at Sheni Primary School from Grade 3"}, {"text": "up to the time he sat his ZIMSEC Grade 7 Certificate. In 2006, he joined Chimanimani High School, and in 2010, he sat his ZIMSEC General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level. Career. 2011 - present. After completing his O level in 2010, he went to Harare to start his comedic journey but he did not have any relatives there where he could stay. In 2011 he traveled to Bulawayo to find a comedy club but found none. In 2012 he left for Harare where he performed for the first time on 9 October 2012 at the \"Simuka Comedy Night\" hosted at Book caf\u00e9. He was booed by the audience. For almost two years, he couldn't make people laugh at the open mic yet he kept coming back every Monday to perform. In 2014, he then went back to Bulawayo, where a new comedy club called \"Umahlekisa\" had been formed. He was helped by the founder, Ntando Van Moyo with stage time and honing skills to be a better comedian. He became affectionately known as \"The Village Boy from Chimanimani\" because of his village jokes. In October 2014, he began his first international tour in South Africa at The Box Comedy"}, {"text": "Club hosted at Pop Art Theatre Johannesburg. In December 2015 he performed his first one man show titled \"The Longest Yard\" at Alliance Francaise Harare. 27 February 2016 was the first time he opened for Barry Hilton. In the same year, he was invited to perform at the \"African Comedy Festival\" at the Hippodrum Auditorium in Golders Green in the United Kingdom. While in the United Kingdom, he did a course with Laughing Horse to improve on his skills. On 22 June 2016, he hosted his second one man show titled \"The Village boy\" at the Reps Theatre in Harare, Zimbabwe. On 27 April 2017, Learnmore performed in a three day comedy festival at the Swaziland International Comedy Festival, hosted by Chigubu. On 2 March 2018 he headlined the \"Major Moves Comedy Nights\" in Botswana at Zambezi Towers. On 29 June, he performed in Uganda at the \"Kampala Comedy Festival\", hosted by Okello Okello. In July 2018, he performed in Rwanda at the \"Kigali International Comedy Festival\" along several Ugandans and Daliso Chaponda. In April 2019, Learnmore headlined at the \"Free Your Mind's (FYM)\" monthly stand-up comedy show, hosted by Courage the Comedian in Namibia. In the same month, he"}, {"text": "won the National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA). On 3 May 2019 he performed at the \"Hicofest\", in Botswana. On 7 September 2019 he won the Pan African Comic of The Year Awards at the 9th South African Savannah Comics Choice Awards in Johannesburg, South Africa at the Lyric Theatre. He dedicated his award to the people affected by Cyclone Idai that hit the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe in March. In November, he was the people's choice award winner in the \"Steve Harvey's Stand Up Spotlight Competition.\" In March 2020 he won his second NAMA Award as Outstanding Comedian of the Year. In October 2020, Learnmore won the Best Stand up Comedy Award at the All The Laughs Comedy Awards hosted in Atlanta. He was then nominated in three categories; People's Choice Awards, Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment and Male Personality of the Year for in the 6th annual Zimbabwe Achievers Awards South Africa (ZAA SA) and he won as Male Personality of the Year during the award ceremony in December. In 2021, Learnmore was part of the cast of the second season of \"Savanna Virtual Comedy Bar\" hosted by Comedy Central on DStv. In May 2024, Learnmore entered the nineteenth season"}, {"text": "of \"America's Got Talent\" where he got a Golden Buzzer from Terry Crews, before reaching the finals and coming in 5th place overall."}, {"text": "One of the purposes of the Digital Economy Act 2017 was to introduce a mandatory age verification system for internet pornography. In 2019, following several delays and setbacks, the government repealed the section of the Act that would have introduced the system. Background. With the passing of the Digital Economy Act 2017, the United Kingdom became the first country to pass a law containing a legal mandate on the provision of an Internet age verification system. Under the act, websites that published pornography on a commercial basis would have been required to implement a \"robust\" age verification system to prevent minors from accessing their sites. The regulator would have been empowered to fine those who fail to comply up to \u00a3250,000 (or up to 5% of their turnover), to order the blocking of non-compliant websites, and to require those providing financial or advertising services to non-compliant websites to cease doing so. After a series of setbacks, the planned scheme was eventually abandoned in 2019, and the legislative provisions creating it were repealed by the Online Safety Act 2023. Their new bill will affect all websites and internet by 25 July 2025. Delays and setbacks. The British Board of Film Classification"}, {"text": "(BBFC) was planned to be charged with enforcing the scheme. The implementation of the law was initially delayed multiple times to allow the BBFC to draft and receive approval for official guidelines regarding the age verification requirements. Following the passage of the Online Pornography (Commercial Basis) Regulations 2019 (which established a legal definition for the types of websites that would be subject to the requirements), implementation was again rescheduled, this time for a planned start date of April 2019. In March 2019, reports stated that there was still no firm date for the implementation of this policy, which had been beset by many technical problems. A BBC report at the time described implementation of the scheme as being \"in a holding pattern\". Key issues with the implementation included what constituted an effective means of age verification, as well as concerns over the possibility that online age verification providers could collect excessive personally identifiable information and process it for other purposes\u2014potentially in violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). \"AgeID\", a service proposed by internet pornography company MindGeek, was singled out by critics due to concerns that offering this service could unduly enhance its market position. The BBFC suggested that"}, {"text": "a system of gift card-like vouchers, purchased in person with ages checked by the retailer (identically to other age-restricted purchases such as alcohol) could provide a more anonymous and secure solution to age verification. Technical concerns included the use of VPNs and DNS over HTTPS, both of which make it more difficult to perform man-in-the-middle attacks such as those required for effective Internet blocking. On 17 April 2019, regulators stated that the law would officially be effective from 15 July 2019. However, on 20 June, the government announced that it had decided to delay implementation yet again, this time for another six months, for reasons including the government's failure to notify the scheme to the European Commission, and further concerns with technical issues. Abandonment and repeal. On 16 October 2019, the Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan stated that the government had abandoned the mandate altogether, in favour of replacing it with a forthcoming wider scheme of Internet regulation based on the principles expressed in the Online Harms White Paper. The mandate was formally repealed by section 212 of the Online Safety Act 2023, which came into force immediately upon that act receiving royal assent on 26 October 2023. Legal action. In"}, {"text": "January 2020, a group of age verification companies started a legal action against the government, seeking a judicial review of its decision to suspend the age verification scheme. The companies included AgeChecked Ltd, AVSecure, AVYourself and VeriMe. The plaintiffs contended that the Digital Economy Act 2017 gave the government the power to delay implementation but not to abandon it, and sought around \u00a33 million in damages. In July 2020, they won permission for a judicial review."}, {"text": "Alexandra Joel (born Susan Lea Joel in 1953) is an internationally published Australian author and the former editor of Harper's Bazaar and Portfolio. Also she is a psychotherapist. Early life and education. Joel was born at St Margaret's Hospital, Darlinghurst on 11 December 1953 and was formerly known as Susan Lea Joel. She is the daughter of The Hon Sir Asher Alexander Joel KBE, AO. Alexandra attended Abbotsleigh School for Girls from 1962 to 1971 and completed her Arts degree with Honours in Government at the University of Sydney in 1976. In 2002 she was awarded a graduate diploma from the Australian College of Applied Psychology, subsequently establishing a counselling and psychotherapy practice. Career. Alexandra Joel spent six months as an international intern on the staff of Congressman James H. Scheuer (D) in Washington, D.C., returning to Australia to work as a reporter and newsreader on a regional television station in Queensland. In 1978 she became the executive director of ITQ8. At the time she was the only female board member of an Australian television station. She was also a director of Mason Stewart Publishing (prior to its acquisition by British company Emap in 1997) and a director of the"}, {"text": "Asher Joel Media Group. From 1979 to 1998 she contributed feature articles, interviews and reviews for major national and metropolitan publications including \"The Australian\", \"Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend Magazine\", \"Cleo\" and \"Harper's Bazaar\". She was appointed editor of \"Harper's Bazaar\" in 1988. In 1991 she became the editor of \"Portfolio\", Australia's first magazine for working women. Her appointments have included: Bibliography. Her book, \"Rosetta: A Scandalous True Story\", was a biography of her unknown great-grandmother who ran away with a Chinese fortune teller named Zeno the Magnificent. It has been optioned for a mini-series by Matchbox Pictures, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal. \"Rosetta: A Scandalous True Story\" was described by the \"Sydney Morning Herald\" as a 'thrilling study of reinvention'. \"The\" \"Australian\" called Joel herself 'a mesmerising storyteller'. Her previous two books, \"Best Dressed: 200 Years of Fashion in Australia\" and \"Parade: The\" \"Story of Fashion in Australia\" both detailed the development of fashion, style and national identity. \"The Paris Model\", was published by HarperCollins Australia on 20 January 2020 and subsequently in the United States and Canada. It has also been published in Germany, Romania and Hungary. \"The Royal Correspondent\", was published by HarperCollins Australia on 3 February 2021,"}, {"text": "in September 2021 in the United States and Canada and is to be published in the UK on 25 May 2023. Alexandra's latest novel \"The Artist's Secret,\" was published by HarperCollins Australia on 4 January 2023 and will be published in the United States and Canada on a date to be announced."}, {"text": "Duenuge Disan Pedris was a Ceylonese, entrepreneur and mine owner. He was a successful graphite mine owner and trader. Making his fortune in mining and expanded into other ventures, D. D. Pedris became one of the wealthiest men in the island at the time. The execution of his only son Captain Henry Pedris by the British colonial government under martial law during the 1915 riots, initiated the movement toward independence and providing motivation and a martyr for those who pioneered the movement. Born in Galle, he started his business ventures in 1872 by venturing into graphite mining and later open several mines in Galle, Kaluthara and Aluthgama areas. He later expanded into agriculture, real-estate and trading. A Buddhist, D. D. Pedris was a member of the Theosophical Society. In 1882, he married Mallino Fernando Pedris, daughter of Peace Officer Margris Fernando of Karandeniya, they had four daughters and one son. His brother-in-law was N. S. Fernando Wijesekara were leading businessmen of the time. Following the death of his son, Pedris built the Isipathanaramaya Temple in Havelock Town in his memory."}, {"text": "Isabel Sanford's Honeymoon Hotel is an American sitcom that was broadcast in first-run syndication in January 1987. The stripped series, airing five days a week, was created to showcase Isabel Sanford's comedic skills, but it failed to attract an audience and was quickly cancelled. The title of the series may have likely been inspired by an episode from the tenth season of \"The Jeffersons\" called \"Honeymoon Hotel\". Premise. Isabel Scott is a divorcee who runs Isabel's Honeymoon Hotel, a once profitable but now debt-ridden inn. Accompanying Isabel are her ex-husband K.C., her niece Jolie, her assistants Martha and Carlton, Mel the bartender, and Agnes the chambermaid. Cast. Casey Kasem was the program's announcer. Guest stars included Lydia Cornell, Kelly Monteith, David Lander, and Marcia Wallace. Series development. It was produced by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group in association with Fred Silverman. The plan was to have 100 new episodes made by the fall of 1987. It debuted as a \"pilot week\" on several stations in January 1987. However, DEG went bankrupt before production was to fully start, thereby cancelling the show."}, {"text": "Bulgakov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Sukhodolskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 11 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Bulgakov is located on the left bank of the Bulgakov Erik, 21 km SSE of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Talovy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Persatuan Sepakbola Tojo Una-Una, also known as Pestu Ampana, is an Indonesian football club based in Ampana, Tojo Una-Una Regency, Central Sulawesi. They currently play at Liga 4."}, {"text": "Burkovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Frunzenskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 866 as of 2010. There are 32 streets. Geography. Burkovsky is located 16 km west of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gospitomnik is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Veliky Oktyabr () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Kuybyshevskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 550 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Veliky Oktyabr is located 15 km southwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vyazovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "This is a list of the best-selling singles in 2018 in Japan, physical and digital sales are taken from Oricon yearly chart."}, {"text": "Verkhnepogromnoye () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Verkhnepogromenskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,963 as of 2010. There are 26 streets. Geography. Verkhnepogromnoye is located on the Caspian Depression, on the east bank of the Volgograd Reservoir, 39 km northeast of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Volzhanka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Volzhanka () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Verkhnepogromenskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 166 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Volzhanka is located near the left bank of the Volga River, 41 km NNE of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rakhinka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vondo () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Rakhinskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 28 as of 2010. Geography. Vondo is located 52 km northeast of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rakhinka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vosmoye Marta () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Krasnooktyabrskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 19 as of 2010. Geography. Vosmoye Marta is located 81 km northeast of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krasny Oktyabr is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vtoraya Pyatiletka () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Krasnoslobodsk, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 714 in 2010."}, {"text": "Vyazovka () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kuybyshevskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 167 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Vyazovka is located 64 km northeast of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rakhinka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma is a book written by Indian author Gurcharan Das and published by Penguin Random House. The book is centrally focused on why to be good in our day to day, private, and public life and the essence of Dharma, a key concept in Indian philosophy for righteousness, with reference to Indian epic Mahabharata. Synopsis. Book uses the examples from Hindu Epic, Mahabharata, to illustrate and demonstrate that how becoming good is difficult for an ordinary man. Book simplifies the lessons from the epic in various chapters and uses characters like Yudhisthira, Krishna, Arjuna and Karna to explain the importance of Dharma i.e. righteousness. Reception. The book was widely welcomed by several Indologists, columnists, commentators and several businessmen. Sanjaya Baru, writing for \"Outlook India\" had commented that the book reflects a new Gurcharan Das who is reflective, humane, deeply spiritual and secular\u2014a renaissance man. According to him, Gurcharan voiced our(Indian's) despair about inequities and the amorality of public life and the books echoed voices for new India. Further, he wrote:Gurcharan offers us a secular reading of a great epic. The underlying materialism of its spiritual world is also illustrated.Meghnad Desai,"}, {"text": "British labour politician, writing for Indian Express had asserted that Das did not retell the story as has often been done and instead, he took episodes and characters who pose moral and ethical questions. Desai also criticised Indian university system for not having good library for studying Sanskrit, in the context that author had to go Chicago for an year to study Sanskrit to prepare this book. A K Bhattacharya had explained the book as Gurcharan Das\u2019 quest for the true meaning of Dharma, as expounded in \"Mahabharata.\" In the column for Business Standard, Bhattacharya wrote:So, Krishna, as Das has argued in a different context, was using \u201cevil\u201d to fight \u201cevil\u201d. The question is: Was that really evil and whether it was not Dharma? Debating the relevance or irrelevance of Dharma in such a battle indeed became a little meaningless. There is little doubt that \"Mahabharata\" as an epic raises intricate issues pertaining to the relevance of human action in a given role and in the context of pre-ordained fate. The debate over Dharma is also relevant. But Das would have done better if he had narrated the story of \"Mahabharata\" in all its details, instead of grappling with the"}, {"text": "ideas of Dharma or Nishkama Karma Yoga.N Chandra Mohan, for \"Hindustan Times\", wrote that Das certainly thinks that a healthy dose of Dharma may restore trust in the system. Additionally, he wrote that this book will certainly make \"Mahabharata\" accessible to a whole new generation. Translation. Book was translated in Hindi as \"Acchai Ki Kathinai\" and was published by Penguin Random House."}, {"text": "Gospitomnik () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Frunzenskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,005 as of 2010. There are 20 streets. Geography. Gospitomnik is located north from Zapornoye Lake, east from Sudomoyka Erik, 18 km west of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Maslovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Shamim Kaisar Lincoln is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament of Gaibandha-4. Career. Lincoln was elected to parliament from Gaibandha-4 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in a May 2006 by-election following the death of incumbent Abdul Mottaleb Akanda."}, {"text": "Zakutsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Frunzenskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,446 as of 2010. There are 27 streets. Geography. Zakutsky is located 18 km southwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Burkovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zayar () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Krasnoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 147 as of 2010. There are 19 streets. Geography. Zayar is located 9 km southeast of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kalinina is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zvyozdny () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Verkhnepogromenskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 245 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Zvyozdny is located 26 km northeast of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Volzhsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zonalny () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kirovskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 70 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Zonalny is located near the Gniloy Erik, 18 km northwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krasny Buksir is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 1825 Michigan Territorial Council election was held in the Territory of Michigan to elect the members of the territory's legislative council. Background. The First Michigan Territorial Council had nine members, selected by the president of the United States from a slate of 18 people chosen in a general election. The council wrote a memorial to Congress complaining that \"much inconvenience is experienced from the small number that forms\" the council and that \"the duties imposed on the present members are extremely arduous\". They asked for an increase in size to 13, the same as the legislative council for Florida Territory. Congress expanded the size to 13 in an act of February 5, 1825, to be selected by the president from a slate of 26 people chosen in a general election. Election. In an act of April 13, 1825, the legislative council divided the territory into six districts and apportioned the 13 seats among them. It also set the date for the election of the next council as the \"last Tuesday of May next, ... and thereafter ... biennially\". The date for the election in the sixth district, comprising the more remote counties of Brown, Crawford, and Michilimackinac was set"}, {"text": "as \"the last Thursday of June next\". The election was thus held on May 31, 1825, for districts one through five, and on June 30, 1825, for the sixth district. When certifying the results, the canvassers, William Woodbridge, the territory's secretary, and Robert Abbott, its treasurer, expressed uncertainty over how the results should be interpreted. They believed that the Act of Congress of February 5, 1825, gave the right to vote for all 26 positions \"to all, and to each of the qualified voters of the Territory\" and that the top 26 overall vote-earners, regardless of district, ought to be certified as elected. They felt that the legislative council may have overstepped its power to \"regulate the manner of election\" by restricting voting to a subset of the 26 positions in each district. Concluding that they were not obligated to resolve the question, they certified two separate sets of results, which they termed the \"General Ticket System\" and the \"District System\". Territorial Governor Lewis Cass submitted the District System results to Secretary of State Henry Clay on December 2, 1825. In a later letter, he recommended to Clay that the tie vote in the fifth district be broken in favor"}, {"text": "of Zephaniah W. Bunce on the grounds that he was an incumbent member of the council. On March 9, 1826, President John Quincy Adams announced the appointment of Bunce, William A. Burt, Henry Connor, Sidney Dole, Laurent Durocher, Abraham Edwards, Robert A. Forsyth, Robert Irwin Jr., Hubert Lacroix, Wolcott Lawrence, William F. Moseley, John Stockton, and Andrew G. Whitney to the second Michigan Territorial Council. General ticket system results. The first set of results certified by the canvassers counted all votes cast for a person throughout the territory, irrespective of district. These results were not submitted to the secretary of state by Governor Cass. District system results. The second set of results certified by the canvassers included only votes cast within the district where a candidate resided. These are the results Governor Cass submitted to the secretary of state for use by the president when selecting the members of the council."}, {"text": "Franti\u0161ek Seraf Sequens (; 21 November 1836 \u2013 14 June 1896) was a Czech church and history painter. Biography. Sequens was born on 21 November 1836 in Plze\u0148. After completing his primary education at the Realschule in Prague, he became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts. The following year (1854), he transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he studied with Wilhelm Kaulbach. Later, he attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. His principal instructor there was Joseph van Lerius. In 1860, he returned briefly to Prague. He then spent seven years in Rome; by courtesy of a scholarship. He initially created history paintings, but eventually became associated with the Nazarene movement and devoted himself entirely to religious works. Many of his portraits of saints were stylized after Early Roman and Byzantine models. He returned to Plze\u0148 in 1868, where he married the daughter of a local pianist, Josef Gerlach. They settled in Prague and he developed a working relationship with the architect, Josef Mocker. In 1880, he succeeded Jan Swerts as Professor of Religious and History Painting at the Prague Academy. He also served as Rector there for the years 1882 to 1883,"}, {"text": "1884 to 1885, 1886 to 1887 and 1890 to 1893. His lectures were very popular. Of his ninety-eight students, the best known include Lud\u011bk Marold, Franti\u0161ek Kupka, Viktor Oliva, and Maxmili\u00e1n Pirner. After 1875, he was a member of the Christian Academy and headed the art department there. He was also an active member of the committee for planning the renovation of St. Vitus Cathedral. From 1880, he sat on the supervisory commission for the City of Prague Museum. He was elected a member of the in 1890. Sequens died on 14 June 1896 in Prague, at the age of 59."}, {"text": "Cullen House is a property, about south-west of the coastal town of Cullen in Moray, Scotland. It was the seat of the Ogilvies of Findlater, who went on to become the Earls of Findlater and Seafield, and it remained in their family until 1982. Building work started on the house in 1600, incorporating some of the stonework of an earlier building on the site. The house has been extended and remodelled several times by prominent architects such as James Adam, John Adam, and David Bryce. It has been described by the architectural historian Charles McKean as \"one of the grandest houses in Scotland\" and is designated a Category A listed building. The grounds were enlarged in the 1820s when the entire village of Cullen, save for Cullen Old Church, was demolished to make way for improvements to the grounds by Lewis Ogilvie-Grant, 5th Earl of Seafield; a new village, closer to the coast, was constructed for the inhabitants. Within the grounds are a bridge, a rotunda and a gatehouse, each of which is individually listed as a Category A structure. Twice in its history, the house has been captured and ransacked. It was taken by forces acting under the orders"}, {"text": "of the Marquess of Montrose in 1645 during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It was attacked again by a group of Jacobites during the rising of 1745, shortly before they were defeated at the Battle of Culloden. Cullen House was inherited by Nina Ogilvie-Grant-Studley-Herbert, the 12th Countess of Seafield, in 1915. She did not use it as her primary residence, nor did her son Ian Ogilvie-Grant, who inherited it on her death in 1969. By the time it was designated a listed building three years later it had become dilapidated, and its contents were auctioned off shortly afterwards. In 1982, it was purchased by Kit Martin, a specialist in saving historic buildings. Martin worked with the local architect Douglas Forrest to convert the house into fourteen individual dwellings, retaining much of the original interior of the building. The house was badly damaged by fire in 1987, after which it underwent an extensive two-year programme of restoration. The subdivided house is still in use today as domestic accommodation. History. Initial construction. Set on a clifftop above the Cullen Burn, Cullen House was built by the Ogilvies of Findlater, whose seat had previously been at Findlater Castle on the coast about"}, {"text": "to the east. In 1482, the Ogilvies were granted the lands of Findochty and Seafield, and by 1543 they changed their patronage from the parish church at Fordyce to Cullen Old Church, which they helped to elevate to the status of a collegiate church. Buildings from around this time, which served as accommodation for the church's canons, stood on the site of the current house. These probably incorporated some of the stonework of an earlier medieval building on the site, known as Inverculain, which is mentioned in records of 1264, and is thought to have been home to Marjorie, Countess of Carrick, the mother of Robert the Bruce. On 20 March 1600, building upon some of the structure of the canons' lodgings, work was started on a large new L-plan tower house for the laird, Sir Walter Ogilvy, and his wife Dame Margaret Drummond. The family continued to prosper: in 1616, Walter Ogilvy was created Lord Ogilvy of Deskford, his son James was further elevated to become the first Earl of Findlater in 1638. The house was nearly destroyed in 1645 during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, when it was captured by the Farquharsons of Braemar acting on the"}, {"text": "orders of the Marquess of Montrose. It was thoroughly plundered, and would have been burned down had the Countess of Findlater not paid Montrose a large ransom. Extension, modification and Jacobite assault. In the centuries following its initial construction, the house underwent a series of renovations, extensions and modifications. A tower was added in 1660, shortly after the third earl inherited it. In 1701 the fourth earl was created the first Earl of Seafield, and in 1709 the architects Alexander McGill and James Smith were asked to submit plans for a complete remodelling in the Palladian style. These were drawn up, but in the end less radical extensions and modifications were executed to the north and west wings, between 1711 and 1714. The house was ransacked for a second time during the Jacobite rising of 1745. James Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Findlater had travelled with his wife to Aberdeen to meet the Duke of Cumberland who was pursuing the Jacobite Army led by Charles Edward Stuart. In their absence, a group of Stuart's supporters forced their way into the house on 8 April 1746 and ransacked it, carrying off as much as possible and destroying what could not be easily"}, {"text": "transported. Three days later, continuing his pursuit that would end at the Battle of Culloden, Cumberland arrived at the scene accompanied by Findlater to find the doors of the house forced open, the windows broken, and broken furniture and discarded papers strewn around the grounds. Findlater subsequently petitioned the British Parliament for the sum of \u00a38,000 in compensation for the losses incurred, but it is not clear whether he ever received any payment. Architects James and John Adam worked on the house from 1767 to 1769, installing the main staircase and building the gatehouse, and John Baxter made more internal modifications, including the building of the large bow window in the east facade, between 1777 and 1778. In 1780, the fourth earl commissioned Robert Adam to provide a design for an entirely new house; this was not carried out, nor were James Playfair's 1788 designs for an extensive remodelling in \"the Saxon style\". Playfair's walled garden was constructed in the grounds in that year. Detailed records survive showing the layout of the house's gardens in 1760. There were walled courts lined with flower borders, roses and fruit trees, and a classical arrangement of rectangular plots laid out symmetrically on either"}, {"text": "side of an avenue. Thomas White, a landscape architect from Nottinghamshire, drew up plans for new and extensive landscaped gardens in 1789, although these were only partially executed. Between 1820 and 1830, Ludovick Ogilvy-Grant, 5th Earl of Seafield extended the gardens considerably by demolishing the entire village of Cullen, and building a new planned town for its inhabitants, laid out by George MacWilliam with alterations by Peter Brown and William Robertson, nearer the coast. The only remaining building from the original village is Cullen Old Church. Later in the nineteenth century, the Great North of Scotland Railway hoped to cut through the house's grounds, but the earl refused his permission, forcing the company to build a viaduct, long and high, through the town of Cullen itself; the line was eventually opened in 1886. The house's current baronial revival appearance is largely the result of the extensive remodelling that was carried out from 1858 to 1868 by David Bryce, who worked to homogenise the disparate styles of the different parts of the building, and redesigned much of the interior. By the time Bryce had finished working on the house, it had a total of 386 rooms. Deterioration and renovation. Renovation work"}, {"text": "was carried out on the house in 1913 by Robert Lorimer, and in 1915 it was inherited by Nina Ogilvie-Grant-Studley-Herbert, the 12th Countess of Seafield, who later gained a reputation as the wealthiest woman in Britain after Queen Elizabeth II. Since she spent most of her time at her home in Nassau in the Bahamas, the house was not her primary residence. The house was open to the public for part of the year in the 1960s. Ogilvie-Grant-Studley-Herbert died in 1969, and her estates passed to her son, Ian Ogilvie-Grant. He also lived elsewhere, and used the house commercially to host shooting parties and private functions. In 1972 it was designated a Category A listed building. By this time it had become quite dilapidated, and its contents were sold off in 1975. Included in the sale was a collection of eighteenth-century paintings by Scottish artists working in Italy, including work by Cosmo Alexander. In 1982 the house was purchased by Kit Martin, an architectural designer who specialises in saving derelict historic buildings. He and the local architect Douglas Forrest set about repairing and restoring the structure, and together they converted it into fourteen separate private homes. On 17 June 1987,"}, {"text": "two years after the renovations had been completed, a fire broke out in the south wing which was being fitted out for new owners. Firefighters fought to contain the blaze, and although they managed to put it out within three hours, severe damage was caused to the south-east corner and the west wing. Restoration work was carried out over the course of the next two years, using photographic records and material recovered from the fire to restore the external masonry to its original appearance. Specialist joiners and plasterers were brought in to work on the interiors, but some of the building's internal features including an early seventeenth-century painted ceiling in the second salon were irreparably damaged. The subdivided house remains in use as privately owned domestic accommodation . Architecture. Cullen House is a large, ornately decorated and turreted house, which was built in several stages over several centuries. It is described by the architectural historian Charles McKean as an \"enormously complicated structure\", and \"one of the grandest houses in Scotland\". Exterior. The seventeenth-century L-plan tower house, which itself incorporated stonework from earlier buildings on the site, has been extended by the addition of wings to the north and south. The"}, {"text": "original entrance to the tower house is in the south-west angle of its west courtyard, in a single-bay, four-storey facade. Above are two tourelles supported by corbels, one of which bears the initials SVO and DMD, representing Sir Walter Ogilvy and his wife, Dame Margaret Drummond, for whom the house was built. This entrance has now been blocked and replaced by a window. The earliest section of the north wing, of five bays and three storeys in height, extends to the left of the door. Built in the early seventeenth century, its roof was raised in the eighteenth, and its windows were replaced with larger sash and case windows in the Georgian style. The roof line is broken by five dormer heads, carved with foliage and Corinthian capitals. In the centre of the wing is another entrance, designed by David Bryce and carved by Thomas Goodwillie, and described by architectural historians David Walker and Matthew Woodworth as \"exuberant\" and \"wildly boisterous\". This features pilasters, more carved foliage, a heraldic plaque and a pair of sculptural lions rampant. Beyond this block, there is a rectangular eighteenth-century extension, with a protruding gable end that was heavily baronialized in the nineteenth century. There"}, {"text": "are two-storey tourelles on each corner, and busts and carved figures, also by Goodwillie. The original seventeenth-century part of the west wing has seven bays, and three carved dormer heads, decorated with figures that depict Faith, Hope, and Charity; all three originally had carved mottoes, but the inscription for Charity has been lost. The original seventeenth-century windows were mostly replaced with larger ones in the eighteenth century, but some of the original ones were blocked and have been retained as decorative features. At the west end, there is another extension, also baronialized in the nineteenth century, with more tourelles, a round staircase tower, and carvings of Father Time holding a scythe and flanked by figures representing Youth and Old Age. The house's east facade, again heavily baronialized, has another entrance, recessed into the centre of the north wing, also with a flamboyantly carved doorway by Goodwillie; this is very similar to its counterpart on the other side of the wing, but without the lions. To either side of the doorway are a pair of four-storey towers, one with a datestone showing 1668, and there is a square bartizan as well as three more triangular dormer heads. To the left side"}, {"text": "of the east facade is the rear of the original tower house, which has an early seventeenth-century tourelle, and another dormer head featuring a carved sun. The south facade looks onto the clifftop and the Cullen Burn below. At its right end is a staircase tower attached to the original tower house, to the left of which is a very large bow window. Left of this is a section of five bays, which is part of the eighteenth-century building work and has been little altered since, save for the addition of a single tourelle, and an elaborate staircase tower which can be seen prominently from the gorge below and is known as the Punch Bowl. Beyond the north wing is a U-plan service court, two storeys high with a bellcote on its north facade. Built in the late eighteenth century, it originally housed the kitchen and laundry, and has been converted into six apartments and an architectural studio. Interior. The main house has been divided into seven separate apartments. Efforts were made during the restoration to retain as many of the building's historical features as possible, and each of the principal rooms was retained intact within one of the apartments."}, {"text": "There is a square entrance hall in the north wing, with a fireplace decorated with blue and white Delftware tiles. Beyond this is a two-storey stair hall, with a staircase and ceiling, both by James Adam, and an elaborately carved wooden door, dated 1618, with its original key and lock. Many of the house's original public rooms retain original Victorian ceilings; others, which were damaged in the fire of 1987, have been restored or reproduced. A grand Jacobean painted ceiling, depicting the siege of Troy and bearing the royal arms of Scotland (suggesting that it predated the 1603 Union of the Crowns), was destroyed by the fire. It has been replaced by a painting of bubbles and astronauts by Robert Ochardson. Grounds. The house's grounds contain several structures which are Category A listed in their own right. These include a bridge, gatehouse, and a temple. Leading off the house's west courtyard is a bridge built between 1744 and 1745 by William Adam, which crosses the gorge of the Cullen Burn. It has a single arch, with a span of and a height of , and is built of granite ashlar with rubble spandrels. At the south-east entrance to the estate"}, {"text": "is a gatehouse known as the Grand Entrance, which was built by James Adam between 1767 and 1768. This wide entrance for carriages is built in the form of a triumphal arch. Ionic columns support a pediment with armorial decoration in the tympanum. On top there are carved lions, rampant at the apex, and recumbent to the sides. There are entrances for pedestrians in the walls flanking the archway, which connect to several single-storey lodges. On a hilltop at the north end of the grounds there is a garden feature in the form of a Grecian temple pavilion made of polished ashlar. An open rotunda with a leaded roof and a plasterwork ceiling is supported by eight Ionic columns, which sit atop the walls of a round basement tearoom. There was originally a statue depicting either Pomona or Pheme at the centre of the rotunda. The tearoom has a round-arched doorway, flanked by matching windows. It was constructed in 1822 by William Robertson, following 1788 original designs by James Playfair which are still in the Seafield estate's archives. The statue was lost between 1939 and 1945, and the floor of the rotunda has collapsed; the round pediment of the statue"}, {"text": "now lies in the centre of the ruined tearoom. The structure was stabilised between 1977 and 1978, and restored in 1981 after it was threatened with demolition. The grounds include a walled garden from 1788, designed by James Playfair. There are also several estate buildings, many of which were designed by Robertson, and by his nephews Alexander and William Reid who continued his practice after his death. These include an ice house, a garden house, a laundry, and cottages for staff such as gardeners."}, {"text": "Kalinina () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Krasnoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 427 as of 2010. There are 33 streets. Geography. Kalinina is located 14 km southeast of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krasny Sad is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kashirin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kuybyshevskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Kashirin is located 22 km southwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Stakhanovets is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kilyakovka () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Akhtubinskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 280 as of 2010. There are 42 streets. Geography. Kilyakovka is located 10 km northwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lesnaya Usadba is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kim Kyoungin (born 1972) is a Korean poet. She is noted in the literary world for her provocative poems and known as a \"poet who breaks mirrors.\" Kim published two poetry collections, \"Hanbamui qwil-teu\" (\ud55c\ubc24\uc758 \ud03c\ud2b8 Quilt of Midnight) in 2007 and \"Yaedeura, modeun ireumeul saranghae\" (\uc598\ub4e4\uc544, \ubaa8\ub4e0 \uc774\ub984\uc744 \uc0ac\ub791\ud574 Everyone, Love All the Names) in 2012. Life. Kim was born in Seoul in 1972. Her grandfather is Kim Dong-in, a famous author known for \"Gamja (\uac10\uc790, Potato)\" and \"Baettaragi (\ubc30\ub530\ub77c\uae30, Boat's Departure).\" He had about thirty descendants, and Kyoungin is the only one who is pursuing her career in literature. As a child, she enjoyed reading and writing very much, so many told her to become a writer like her grandfather. During her middle school Korean class, she found and read \"Bulgeun san (\ubd89\uc740 \uc0b0, Red Mountains)\", also written by her grandfather, in her textbook, and truly realized her grandfather's literary legacy for the first time. She mostly wrote in prose until high school, but started writing poems unlike her grandfather, after reading Kim Su-young's poems. When Kim was attending Gye-seong Girls' High School, she belonged to a literature club and won the prose category of many writing contests."}, {"text": "Later she entered Hanyang University Graduate School in 1994 to study Korean literature and get down to writing poetry. Her career as a poet began after the literary journal \"Munye Joongang\" published seven of her poems, including \"Yeonghwaneun ohu dasutsiwa yeosutsi sa-i-e sangyeong doenda (\uc601\ud654\ub294 \uc624\ud6c4 5\uc2dc\uc640 6\uc2dc \uc0ac\uc774\uc5d0 \uc0c1\uc601\ub41c\ub2e4, Film Plays Between Five and Six in the Afternoon)\" in 2001. She published two poetry collections, \"Hanbamui qwil-teu\" in 2007 and \"Yaedeura, modeun ireumeul saranghae\" in 2012. She has been teaching writing in university since 2012. Writing. Style. Kim is noted in the literary world for her provocative and fascinating poems and known as a \"poet who breaks mirrors.\" That being said, critics have pointed out that her poems do not try to criticize or judge, but offer a warm consolation. Rather than sending a direct message, they aim to show how weak and helpless people really are. Kim's poetry describes the indefinable essence of existence or frustrating relationship<ins>s</ins> in which communication is impossible, but the poet said that \"we can accept each other even when we don't understand each other.\" \"Hanbamui Qwil-teu\" (2007). In her first poetry collection, images related to water appear quite often\u2014such as cloud, blood, and"}, {"text": "roots. These images remind the readers of 'deep water' and 'submergence\"\"', creating a dark and fearful mood. In addition, by juxtaposing the images of 'water' and that of 'desert', Kim embraces the past and present, reality and dream, consciousness and unconsciousness, and artificiality and nature. \"Amudo pi heuliji anneun jeonyuk (\uc544\ubb34\ub3c4 \ud53c \ud758\ub9ac\uc9c0 \uc54a\ub294 \uc800\ub141, Evening Where No One Bleeds)\", a poem with what is actually a paradoxical title, serenely depicts a forlorn capitalist society where the petit bourgeois live without true communication. It reveals the anxiety, loneliness, and alienation of modern men who are faced by crime and violence, and develops these personal feelings into the problems of the modern society as a whole. \"Yaedeura, modeun ireumeul saranghae\" (2012). The poet's second poetry collection goes further than her first one, which aims to break mirrors and the gaze of others, to talk about the chaos and fear caused by the broken mirrors. The broken mirrors represent a world without order where we are untethered from our fixed selves. The image of 'collapsing stairways' alludes that there is death under the stairways, and describes a fear of losing our identities. However, the death here is closely related to life, to"}, {"text": "matters at hand, such as redevelopment. In \"Jaegaebal Guyeok (\uc7ac\uac1c\ubc1c\uad6c\uc5ed, Redevelopment Area)\", families and residents who have to move due to redevelopment are not to end up with despair, but to raise their voices and tell their own stories. Works. \u300a\ud55c\ubc24\uc758 \ud03c\ud2b8\u300b, \ub79c\ub364\ud558\uc6b0\uc2a4, 2007 / \"Hanbamui qwil-teu\" (Quilt of Midnight), RH Korea, 2007 \u300a\uc598\ub4e4\uc544, \ubaa8\ub4e0 \uc774\ub984\uc744 \uc0ac\ub791\ud574\u300b, \ubbfc\uc74c\uc0ac, 2012 / \"Yaedeura, modeun ireumeul saranghae\" (Everyone, Love All the Names), Mineumsa, 2012 Awards. Webzine Seeinkwangjang Award for New Poetry (\uc6f9\uc9c4 \uc2dc\uc778\uad11\uc7a5 \uc2e0\uc791\uc2dc \uc791\ud488\uc0c1, 2011), for her poem \"\"\"Amudo pi heuliji anneun jeonyuk.\""}, {"text": "was a career military officer and a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Biography. Sawada was the third son of a farmer in what is now the Kamobe neighborhood of the city of Kochi, K\u014dchi Prefecture. After attending military preparatory schools in K\u014dchi and Hiroshima, he graduated from the 18th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1905, serving as a junior officer in an artillery regiment. In 1910, he was sent to the Artillery Engineering School, and to the 26th class of the Army War College in 1914. On graduation, he was assigned to the Record and Documentation Bureau of Imperial Japanese Army General Staff, where he was assigned to the task of compiling an official record of the Russo-Japanese War. In January 1918, while still under the General Staff Office, he was assigned to accompany Japanese forces in the Japanese intervention in Siberia, and was assigned to the staff at Vladivostok and Omsk. Already fluent in the French language, he also studied then Russian language, until he was forced to return to Japan due to typhus in February 1921. In November 1922, despite being an expert in Soviet affairs, he was assigned"}, {"text": "as a military attache to Greece. In August 1926, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and served as an instructor at the Army Staff College. he became director of the Harbin Special Agency from November 1928. In October 1930, he was promoted to colonel. From August 1931, Sawada was commander of the IJA 24th Field Artillery Regiment. He returned to teach at the Staff College from March 1933, and was then assigned as chief-of-staff of the Guards Artillery Division. From March 1935, he was promoted to major general and commanded the IJA 1st Field Artillery Brigade. Sawada was then sent as a military attache to Poland in December 1935, returning to Japan in March 1938. While serving in Poland, Sawada advocated the formation of a German-Polish-Japanese alliance against the Soviet Union. He was promoted to lieutenant general in March 1938. In July 1938, he was assigned command of the IJA 4th Division. Although active in combat in the Second Sino-Japanese War both before and after Sawada's term as commander, while Sawada was in command, the division was a garrison force for Chahar Province in Inner Mongolia. He returned to the General Staff in September 1939, becoming Vice Chief-of-Staff from Wang"}, {"text": "Jingwei Government. He returned to Japan in October 1942 and retired one month later. Although retired, he continue to serve as a member of the Military Research Committee until the end of the war. After the surrender of Japan, Sawada was arrested by the American occupation authorities and charged with command responsibility for war crimes in conjunction with the execution of surviving airmen of the Doolittle raid who had been captured in China. He was found guilty by the US Military Commission in Shanghai and was sentenced to five years in prison with hard labor. The sentence was notably lenient since the commission took into account that Sawada had protested the death sentences of the three prisoners who were illegally executed, but was overruled. He was returned to Tokyo's Sugamo Prison to serve his sentence. He was released from prison in January 1950. He died in 1980 at the age of 93."}, {"text": "Kirovets () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Kirovskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 723 as of 2010. There are 41 streets. Geography. Kirovets is located on the Akhtuba River, 20 km northwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tretya Karta is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kletsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Kletskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,666 as of 2010. There are 35 streets. Geography. Kletsky is located on the north bank of the Kletskoye Lake, 28 km southwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pryshchevka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kolkhoznaya Akhtuba () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Akhtubinskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,261 as of 2010. There are 33 streets. Geography. Kolkhoznaya Akhtuba is located 5 km west of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Meliorator is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Golden Landis Von Jones (born November 13, 2000), known professionally as 24kGoldn, is an American rapper. He initially saw recognition for his 2019 single \"Valentino\", which marked his first entry on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and led him to sign with Barry Weiss' Records, an imprint of Columbia Records. His 2020 follow-up single, \"Mood\" (featuring Iann Dior) yielded further success as it peaked atop the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and led his debut studio album \"El Dorado\" (2021), which saw moderate commercial reception. Early life and education. Golden Landis Von Jones was born on November 13, 2000, in San Francisco, California, to Kimberly Landis, an Ashkenazi Jewish mother, and Torino Von Jones, an African-American Catholic father. He has a younger sister named Sage Landis Von Jones. Both of his parents worked as fashion models before he was born. He was raised celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah, and attended Hebrew school. As a child, 24kGoldn acted in commercials. He sang in the choir in middle school and high school, and, with that, the importance of music in his life grew with his \"own growth\". Before he realized he could do"}, {"text": "music professionally, he planned on becoming a hedge fund manager. 24kGoldn attended Lowell High School, a selective public high school, where he graduated in 2018. 24kGoldn attended the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, joking that they accepted him because of a double entendre in \"Valentino\", where he joined the Beta-Sigma Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, as a Spring 2019 initiate. He initially took a leave of absence from school to pursue his rap career. 24kGoldn stated that he was not anticipating \"that things were going to happen so fast when I came to USC\", and did not think he would finish University, but he wanted to round off the school year to further develop the relationships he made, stating his love for being on campus, and that being a student kept him \"grounded\". Career. In 2017, 24kGoldn released his first music video for his first song, titled \"Trappers Anthem\". In January 2019, he released the single, titled \"Valentino\", which received over 350 million plays on Spotify. He received his first record deal through producer D.A. Doman. 24kGoldn got his big break through his \"high-energy\" single \"Valentino\". However, in 2020, the artist said that \"those ['Valentino'] were"}, {"text": "recorded over a year ago and don't exactly reflect the person I have become since then\". In November 2019, 24kGoldn released his debut extended play (EP), titled \"Dropped Outta College\", and he signed a record deal with Records, LLC and Columbia Records. In 2020, 24kGoldn gained further attention with single, titled \"City of Angels\", which was officially released to US alternative radio on March 31; as well as he follow with an official remix of the song by English singer-songwriter Yungblud, released in May 2020. On May 20, 24kGoldn was featured on the remix of Olivia O'Brien's single \"Josslyn\". On August 11, 2020, he was included on \"XXL\"s 2020 Freshman Class, placing in the tenth position after receiving the most fan votes. Later that same month, 24kGoldn's July 2020 single, titled \"Mood\" (featuring Iann Dior), hit the charts. It went on to peak at number one on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. In October 2020, these four episodes of \"Halloween in Hell\", a fictionalised musical horror podcast that Jones starred in, were released. The series also starred Iann Dior, Machine Gun Kelly, Dana Dentata, Phem and Tommy Lee. On March 26, 2021, he released his first studio album, titled \"El"}, {"text": "Dorado\". The album features thirteen songs, with guest appearances from Future, Iann Dior, Swae Lee and DaBaby. Lil Tecca and Travis Barker appear on deluxe edition tracks. On March 11, 2024, he announced an upcoming EP, \"Growing Pains\", along with its cover artwork. It was released on March 15, 2024. Artistry. 24kGoldn's music spans a variety of genres, motivated by his want \"never ... to be constricted by one genre\". Regarding his style, he stated: \"depending on what song you listen to, my music can be described different ways\". He attributes his \"maturity and development\" to rapper Paypa Boy & 24Kay, and Reckless Rinoe who initially got him into recording music."}, {"text": "Kochetkovo () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kuybyshevskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 185 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Kochetkovo is located 10 km south of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pervomaysky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krasny () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Kuybyshevskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 67 as of 2010. There are 14 streets. Geography. Krasny is located 13 km southwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nevidimka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Amine Amiri (born 30 March 1994) is a former professional Moroccan snooker player. Career. Amiri played on the World Snooker Tour for the first time in 2019\u201320, after winning a gold medal in the African Games. His first match as a professional came in the 2019 English Open where in the first round he lost 4\u20130 to Barry Hawkins. Barring a second round exit in the 2020 Gibraltar Open, he exited in the first round of every tournament he entered over his two-year tour card. He also drew Judd Trump twice during his debut season, being whitewasted in both instances. With only one win to his name, he fell off the tour after the 2020-21 season and did not attempt to regain his tour card via the 2021 Q School."}, {"text": "Krasny Buksir () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Kirovskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 236 as of 2010. There are 16 streets. Geography. Krasny Buksir is located 16 km west of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Morozkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krasny Oktyabr () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Krasnooktyabrskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,246 as of 2010. There are 22 streets. Geography. Krasny Oktyabr is located 75 km northeast of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rassvet is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krasny Partizan () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Krasnooktyabrskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 33 as of 2010. Geography. Krasny Partizan is located 65 km northeast of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Maksima Gorkogo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krasny Sad () is a rural locality (a \"khutor\") and the administrative center of Krasnoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 869 in 2010. There are 18 streets. Geography. Krasny Sad is located 12 km southeast of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pervomaysky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krivusha () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kletskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 128 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Krivusha is located near the River, 38 km southwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Plamenka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kuybyshev () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Kuybyshevskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 2,468 as of 2010. There are 44 streets. Geography. Kuybyshev is located on the right bank of the Akhtuba River, 6 km south of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Srednyaya Akhtuba is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Afua Adwo Jectey Hesse is a Ghanaian surgeon and the first Ghanaian-trained female doctor to become a paediatric surgeon. In August 2010, she became the first Ghanaian and second African to be elected President of the Medical Women's International Association (MWIA). Education and training. Afua Hesse was born on 11 September in Kumasi. She had her secondary level education at the Wesley Girls' Senior High School in Cape Coast. Then furthered at the University of Ghana Medical School where she trained to become a medical doctor. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCSE), UK, and the West African College of Surgeons (FWACS) as well as a Foundation Fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons (FFGCS). She is also a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons (FICS). She holds a Level 8 Diploma of the Chartered Management Institute, London, UK She also holds a certificate in Health Management Administration for Senior Health Practitioners from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), a Certificate in Health Management, Planning and Policy from University of Leeds. Career. She is a woman of many firsts. She was the first female Paediatric Surgeon in Ghana"}, {"text": "as well as the first woman surgeon from her alma mater and served as the President of the Medical Women's International Association, another first for a Ghanaian in the 91-year history of the Association which is the first International Professional Women's Association. She is a professor of surgery at the University of Ghana Medical School and has served in various capacities at both the Medical School and the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital with over three decades of experience. She was the first female to serve as Head of the Department of Surgery, Director of Medical Affairs, Head of the Paediatric Surgery Unit and subsequently the Acting CEO of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital on the retirement of Nii Otu Nartey. She was the first female Honorary Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association. She lectures at both undergraduate and post graduate levels at the University of Ghana Medical School and is a reviewer for various International peer-reviewed medical journals. She has undertaken several assignments including serving as a Consultant for the Ministry of Health, serving on boards of some companies and tertiary institutions and the Ghana Medical Association and the University Community in various capacities. Currently, she is co-founder and President"}, {"text": "of the Accra College of Medicine, Ghana's leading private Medical school which graduated its first cohort of doctors in 2020. Selected publications. Afua Hesse has written and contributed chapters to several important publications. She has over thirty publications to her credit. Recognition. Afua Hesse has been honoured by several appointments, positions and awards. In 2010, she received the Millennium Excellence Award for Medical Leadership and in 2017, she won Glitz Africa Excellence in Health Award. Personal life. Afua Hesse is married to Adukwei Hesse, an Internal Medicine Specialist as well as a Minister of the Presbyterian Church and the co-founder of the Accra College of Medicine with whom she has four children."}, {"text": "Shangri-La is a four-part television documentary miniseries, directed by Morgan Neville and Jeff Malmberg, that aired on Showtime from July 12 to August 2, 2019. The series concerns the Shangri-La recording studio in Malibu, California and its owner, record producer and Def Jam Records co-founder Rick Rubin. A \"work-in-progress\" cut of the docuseries was screened at the 2019 SXSW Festival. The miniseries was nominated for Best Music Film at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. Critical reception. According to Metacritic, which assigned a weighted average score of 73 out of 100 based on 9 critics, the series received \"generally favorable\" reviews. \"Time\" called the series \"flawed but sublime.\" Tim Goodman of \"The Hollywood Reporter\" called the miniseries \"inspiring and oddly riveting\" and said, \"There is more creativity, weirdness, thoughtfulness and ambition \u2014 both achieved and failed \u2014 in the new Showtime docuseries \"Shangri-La\" than in a good portion of recent TV dramas.\" Goodman also felt, however, that series should have got \"a little dirtier and messier in the examination\" of Rubin's mid-career years. On November 20, 2019, the miniseries was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Music Film at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards."}, {"text": "Lebyazhya Polyana () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Kirovskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 950 as of 2010. There are 28 streets. Geography. Lebyazhya Polyana is located 23 km northwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kirovets is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ali Kadar was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a member of parliament for Jessore-1. Career. Kadar was elected to parliament from Jessore-1 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. In March 2005, his son attacked on duty traffic officers in Manik Mia Avenue, Dhaka and injuring one officer, who required stitches. He served as the president of Benapole Customs Clearing and Forwarding Agents Association. He had previously served as the Benapole Union Parishad Chairman. Death. Kader died on 30 June 2017 in New York City, United States."}, {"text": "Christoph Girardet is a German filmmaker and artist. He lives and works in Hanover. Biography. Girardet studied fine arts and film/video from 1988 to 1993 at the Braunschweig University of Art under Gerhard B\u00fcttenbender and Birgit Hein. He had produced videos, video-installations and films since 1989. He collaborated with Volker Schreiner and often works with Matthias M\u00fcller. Christoph Girardet works primarily with found footage. It serves as source material for his visual research, in the course of which he initially dissembles and deconstructs scenes, before reassembling them in a way such that the actual structures and internal mechanisms of their content are rendered visible. In 2000 Girardet received a scholarship for the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York and in 2004 the Villa Massimo scholarship in Rome."}, {"text": "Alessandro Pajola (born 9 November 1999) is an Italian professional basketball player for Virtus Bologna of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He is also a member of the senior Italian national team. Standing at , he plays at the point guard position. Pajola is widely known for his defensive ability. Professional career. Virtus Bologna (2015\u2013present). Pajola joined Virtus Bologna in 2015, becoming an important supporting cast player in 2016\u201317, when the club was in Serie A2. On 19 June 2017, the Black V won the playoffs, beating Trieste by 3\u20130, thus returning to the top series after only one year. Pajola's importance in the team grown up season after season, becoming one of Virtus' most prominent player in 2020\u201321 season. In June 2021, after having knocked out 3\u20130 both Basket Treviso in the quarterfinals and New Basket Brindisi in the semifinals, on Virtus defeated 4\u20130 its historic rival Olimpia Milano in the national finals, winning its 16th national title and the first one after twenty years. On 21 September 2021, the team won its second Supercup, defeating once again Olimpia Milano 90\u201384. After an outstanding game in the final, Pajola was named MVP of the"}, {"text": "tournament. Moreover, after having ousted Lietkabelis, Ulm and Valencia in the first three rounds of the playoffs, on 11 May 2022, Virtus defeated Frutti Extra Bursaspor by 80\u201367 at the Segafredo Arena, winning its first EuroCup and qualifying for the EuroLeague after 14 years. However, despite having ended the regular season at the first place and having ousted 3\u20130 both Pesaro and Tortona in the first two rounds of playoffs, Virtus was defeated 4\u20132 in the national finals by Olimpia Milan. On 29 September 2022, after having ousted Milano in the semifinals, Virtus won its third Supercup, defeating 72\u201369 Banco di Sardegna Sassari and achieving a back-to-back, following the 2021 trophy. However, despite good premises Virtus ended the EuroLeague season at the 14th place, thus it did not qualify for the playoffs. Moreover, the team was defeated in the Italian Basketball Cup final by Brescia. In June, after having ousted 3\u20130 both Brindisi and Tortona, Virtus was defeated 4\u20133 by Olimpia Milan in the national finals, following a series which was widely regarded among the best in the latest years of Italian basketball. At the end of the regular season, on 10 May 2023, Pajola renewed his contract with Virtus"}, {"text": "through 2026. On 24 September 2023, after having ousted Olimpia Milano in the semifinals, Virtus won its fourth Supercup, and the third in a row, defeating 97\u201360 Germani Brescia. Despite an impressive first half of the season, Virtus ended the EuroLeague regular season at the 10th place, qualifying only for the play-in, where after having defeated 67\u201364 Anadolu Efes, it lost against Baskonia 89\u201377, not qualifying for the playoffs. Moreover, the Black V placed first during the Italian regular season but, after having knocked out Tortona by 3\u20132 and Reyer Venezia by 3\u20131, it lost the third consecutive final against Milan by 3\u20131. In the following season Virtus ended the EuroLeague at the 17th place, after a disappointing regular season. After arriving first in the national championship season, Virtus eliminated Venezia 3\u20132 and their arch-rival Milan 3\u20131, reaching their fifth finals in a row. They then defeated Brescia 3\u20130, claiming the Italian championship title for the 17th time. For Pajola, this was the second \"scudetto\" of his career."}, {"text": "The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) is an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to the study of the Anthropocene as a geological time unit. It was established in 2009 as part of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS), a constituent body of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). As of 2021, the research group features 37 members, with the physical geographer Simon Turner as Secretary and the geologist Colin Neil Waters as chair of the group. The late Nobel Prize-winning Paul Crutzen, who popularized the word 'Anthropocene' in 2000, had also been a member of the group until he died on January 28, 2021. The main goal of the AWG is providing scientific evidence robust enough for the Anthropocene to be formally ratified by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) as an epoch within the Geologic time scale. History. Prior to the establishment of the Anthropocene Working Group in 2009, no research program dedicated to the formalization of the Anthropocene in the geologic time scale existed. The idea of naming the current epoch 'Anthropocene' rather than using its formal time unit, the Holocene, became popular after Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer published in May 2000 an article on the \"IGBP Global"}, {"text": "Change Newsletter\" called \"The 'Anthropocene'.\" Later in 2002, Crutzen published a commentary on \"Nature\" titled \"Geology of Mankind\" where he further stressed the idea \"to assign the term \u2018Anthropocene\u2019 to the present, in many ways human-dominated, geological epoch, supplementing the Holocene,\" with starting date in the late 18th century (at the onset of the Industrial Revolution). Soon after Paul Crutzen published his influential articles, a debate over the beginning of the Anthropocene took place between supporters of the Early Anthropocene Hypothesis, a thesis originally promoted in 2003 by the palaeoclimatologist William Ruddiman dating the beginning of the Anthropocene as far back as the Neolithic Revolution, and supporters of more recent starting dates, from European Colonization of the Americas, to the late 18th century, to the post-WWII Great Acceleration. The discussion over the beginning of the Anthropocene was crucial for the 'stratigraphic turn' that the Anthropocene debate took in the following years. In February 2008, Jan Zalasiewicz and other members of the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London published a paper that considered the possibility to \"amplify and extend the discussion of the effects referred to by Crutzen and then apply the same criteria used to set up new"}, {"text": "epochs to ask whether there really is justification or need for a new term, and if so, where and how its boundary might be placed.\" The article raised the possibility of studying the Anthropocene as a discrete geological unit\u2014a possibility that later led to the establishment of the AWG. In 2009, the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy established an Anthropocene Working Group to \"examine the status, hierarchical level and definition of the Anthropocene as a potential new formal division of the Geological Time Scale.\" Some authors have labelled this moment as 'stratigraphic turn' or 'geological turn', in that the establishment of the AWG acknowledged the Anthropocene as an object of geological interest in the scientific community. The AWG has been actively publishing ever since then. The first in-person meeting of the AWG took place in October 2014 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (HKW), with several other work meetings at HKW to follow in subsequent years. The AWG became a close collaborator of the HKW's and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science's decade long Anthropocene Project. Within the framework of that project, HKW was able to acquired in 2018 about 850 000 Euros financial support for a systematic"}, {"text": "assessment of potential candidates for the Anthropocene's Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) by the AWG through means of a special appropriation from the German Bundestag. While large parts of the funding sum were dedicated to GSSP research, the AWG was obliged to contribute to HKW's Evidence & Experiment program to publicly share and discuss their research findings. In 2020, Colin Waters, previously secretary of the AWG, became the new chair, replacing the paleobiologist Jan Zalasiewicz who had previously been chair of the AWG from 2009 to 2020, while Simon Turner became the new secretary of the group. In 2024, Jan Zalasiewicz replaced Colin Waters again as chair of the AWG, while Simon Turner remained in his role as secretary of the working group. Research. The Anthropocene Working Group is one of four workings groups part of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (the other three being the Pleistocene\u2013Holocene boundary working group, Middle/Late Pleistocene boundary working group, and Early/Middle Pleistocene boundary working group). The AWG members (including Paul Crutzen, who was awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1995 for his researcher on ozone depletion; John McNeill, a pioneering researcher in the field of environmental history; and Naomi Oreskes, author"}, {"text": "of the book \"Merchants of Doubt\") have diverse disciplinary backgrounds, ranging from international law, archaeology, and history to philosophy, natural science, and geography. Since no direct funding supports the research program, communication among members happens mostly through email, whereas meetings are usually founded by hosting institutions. As for most of the epochs in the Phanerozoic (the current Eon, starting 539 million years ago), determining the beginning of the Anthropocene by locating and agreeing upon its lower boundary is a necessary step in its process of formal recognition as a geochronological/chronostratigraphic unit. A lower boundary is defined by locating a GSSP (informally known as 'golden spike') in the stratigraphic section of a stage, the chronostratigraphic taxonomic equivalent of an epoch. Alternatively, if a 'golden spike' cannot be located, a GSSA can be agreed upon, although this methodology is usually implemented for Precambrian boundaries. There is a specific set of rules that a GSSP must fulfill in order to be recognized as a valid primary geologic marker. A central object of research for the AWG is establishing \"when\", \"where\", and \"how\" to locate the lower boundary of the Anthropocene. This means assigning a starting date to the Anthropocene (and an end to"}, {"text": "the Holocene), locating primary as well as auxiliary markers defining Anthropocene geologic record, and determining the proper methodology to implement in the overall process of formalization (GSSP or GSSA, what proxies to use as markers, etc.). Although debates on the taxonomical level of the Anthropocene in the chronostratigraphic chart / geologic time scale (Stage/Age, Series/Epoch, or System/Period) have occurred, the AWG has been considering the Anthropocene to best fit the requirements to be taxonomically recognized as an epoch. In January 2014, the Geological Society of London published \"A Stratigraphical Basis for the Anthropocene,\" a collection of scientific essays dedicated to assessing and analyzing the anthropogenic signatures defining the Anthropocene, and its requirements to be recognized as a distinct chronostratigraphic unit from the Holocene. The volume constitutes a landmark publication for the AWG, collecting a preliminary body of scientific evidence for the Anthropocene, and establishing research areas and trajectories retraced in the following years. In February 2019, the AWG published \"The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit: A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate.\" It represents an extensive summary of evidence collected supporting the case of formalization of the Anthropocene as a geological time unit. The synthesis comprehends evidence"}, {"text": "ranging from stratigraphy, lithostratigraphy, mineralogy, biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, to climatology, Earth system science, and archaeology. The monograph also links the Anthropocene to the question concerning anthropogenic climate change, and the role of human technology and the technosphere in impacting the functioning of the Earth system. In the first chapter, the authors also provide a genealogy of the term 'Anthropocene,' and a statement of the role of the AWG as a scientific research program. In May, 2019, the AWG completed a binding vote determining two major research questions: Both questions received a positive response, with 29 votes in favor, 4 votes against, and no abstention (33 votes received out of 34 potential voting members). On July 11, 2023, the AWG proposed Crawford Lake, Canada as GSSP candidate site of the Anthropocene series in a joint press conference with the Max Planck Society. Media. In 2016 seven prominent members of the AWG \u2013 Erle Ellis, John McNeill, Eric Odada, Andrew Revkin, Will Steffen, Davor Vidas and Jan Zalasiewicz \u2013 were interviewed in the feature documentary \"Anthropocene\" which showed on campuses and at film festivals worldwide and helped the term gain public attention. The documentary was the first feature-length film about the new epoch,"}, {"text": "and was described by Earth.com as one of the top ten documentaries to help raise environmental awareness. While the seven AWG members formed a broad consensus about the Anthropocene's history and the term's significance, they took contrasting views when invited by director Steve Bradshaw to consider the Anthropocene either as a tragedy \u2013 with extinctions and upheavals \u2013 or as a dark comedy."}, {"text": "Maksima Gorkogo () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Krasnooktyabrskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 367 as of 2010."}, {"text": "Maksima Gorkogo () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Sukhodolskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 21 as of 2010."}, {"text": "Maslovo () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Frunzenskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 461 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Maslovo is located 17 km west of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Burkovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nevidimka () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kuybyshevskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 35 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Nevidimka is located 18 km southwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chapayevets is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Georgios Tzovaras (; born 3 November 1999) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a winger for Super League club Atromitos."}, {"text": "Novenky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Akhtubinskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 283 as of 2010. There are 18 streets. Geography. Novenky is located 9 km west of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rybachy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pervomaysky () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Krasnoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 451 as of 2010. There are 16 streets. Geography. Pervomaysky is located 9 km southeast of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kuybyshev is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Genome sequencing of endangered species is the application of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies in the field of conservation biology, with the aim of generating life history, demographic and phylogenetic data of relevance to the management of endangered wildlife. Background. In the context of conservation biology, genomic technologies such as the production of large-scale sequencing data sets via DNA sequencing can be used to highlight the relevant aspects of the biology of wildlife species for which management actions may be required. This may involve the estimation of recent demographic events, genetic variations, divergence between species and population structure. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are useful to examine the role of natural selection at the genome level, to identify the loci associated with fitness, local adaptation, inbreeding, depression or disease susceptibility. The access to all these data and the interrogation of genome-wide variation of SNP markers can help the identification of the genetic changes that influence the fitness of wild species and are also important to evaluate the potential respond to changing environments. NGS projects are expected to rapidly increase the number of threatened species for which assembled genomes and detailed information on sequence variation are available and the data will advance"}, {"text": "investigations relevant to the conservation of biological diversity. Methodology. Non-computational methods. The traditional approaches in the preservation of endangered species are captive breeding and the private farming. In some cases those methods led to great results, but some problems still remain. For example, by inbreeding only few individuals, the genetic pool of a subpopulation remains limited or may decrease. Phylogenetic analysis and gene family estimation. Genetic analyses can remove subjective elements from the determination of the phylogenetic relationship between organisms. Considering the great variety of information provided by living organisms, it is clear that the type of data will affect both the method of treatment and validity of the results: the higher the correlation of data and genotype, the greater is the validity likely to be. The data analysis can be used to compared different sequencing database and find similar sequences, or similar protein in different species. The comparison can be done using informatic software based on alignment to know the divergence between different species and evaluate the similarities. NGS/Advanced sequencing methodologies. Since whole-genome sequencing is generally very data-intensive, techniques for reduced representation genomic approaches are sometimes used for practical applications. For example, restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) and double"}, {"text": "digest RADseq are being developed. With those techniques researchers can target different numbers of loci. With a statistical and bioinformatic approach scientists can make considerations about big genomes, by just focusing on a small representative part of it. Statistical and computational methods. While solving biological problems, one encounters multiple types of genomic data or sometimes an aggregate of same type of data across multiple studies and decoding such huge amount of data manually is unfeasible and tedious. Therefore, integrated analysis of genomic data using statistical methods has become popular. The rapid advancement in high throughput technologies allows researchers to answer more complex biological questions enabling the development of statistical methods in integrated genomics to establish more effective therapeutic strategies for human disease. Genome crucial features. While studying the genome, there are some crucial aspects that should be taken in consideration. Gene prediction is the identification of genetic elements in a genomic sequence. This study is based on a combination of approaches: de novo, homology prediction, and transcription. Tools such as EvidenceModeler are used to merge the different results. Gene structure also have been compared, including mRNA length, exon length, intron length, exon number, and non-coding RNA. Analysis of repeated sequences"}, {"text": "has been found useful in reconstructing species divergence timelines. Application and case studies. Genomic approach in gender determination. In order to preserve a specie, knowledge of the mating system is crucial: scientists can stabilize wild populations through captive breeding, followed by the release in the environment of new individuals. This task is particularly difficult by considering the species with homomorphic sex chromosomes and a large genome. For example, in the case of amphibians, there are multiple transitions among male and/or female heterogamety. Sometimes even variation of sex chromosomes within amphibian populations of the same specie were reported. Japanese giant salamander. The multiple transitions among XY and ZW systems that occur in amphibians determine the sex chromosome systems to be labile in salamanders populations. By understanding the chromosomal basis of sex of those species, it is possible to reconstruct the phylogenetic history of those families and use more efficient strategies in their conservation. By using the ddRADseq method scientists found new sex-related loci in a 56 Gb genome of the family Cryptobranchidae. Their results support the hypothesis of female heterogamety of this species. These loci were confirmed through the bioinformatic analysis of presence/absence of that genetic locus in sex-determined individuals. Their"}, {"text": "sex was established previously by ultrasound, laparoscopy and measuring serum calcium level differences. The determination of those candidate sexual loci was performed so as to test hypotheses of both female heterogamety and male heterogamety. Finally to evaluate the validity of those loci, they were amplified through PCR directly from samples of known-sex individuals. This final step led to the demonstration of female heterogamety of several divergent populations of the family Cryptobranchidae. Genomic approach in genetic variability. Dryas monkey and golden snub-nosed monkey. A recent study used whole-genome sequencing data to demonstrate the sister lineage between the Dryas monkey and vervet monkey and their divergence with additional bidirectional gene flow approximately 750,000 to approximately 500,000 years ago. With <250 remaining adult individuals, the study showed high genetic diversity and low levels of inbreeding and genetic load in the studied Dryas monkey individuals. Another study used several techniques such as single-molecule real time sequencing, paired-end sequencing, optical maps, and high-throughput chromosome conformation capture to obtain a high quality chromosome assembly from already constructed incomplete and fragmented genome assembly for the golden snub-nosed monkey. The modern techniques used in this study represented 100-fold improvement in the genome with 22,497 protein-coding genes, of which"}, {"text": "majority were functionally annotated. The reconstructed genome showed a close relationship between the species and the Rhesus macaque, indicating a divergence approximately 13.4 million years ago. Genomic approach in preservation. Plants. Plants species identified as PSESP (\"plant species with extremely small population\") have been the focus of genomic studies, with the aim of determining the most endangered populations. The DNA genome can be sequenced starting from the fresh leaves by doing a DNA extraction. The combination of different sequencing techniques together can be used to obtain a high quality data that can be used to assembly the genome. The RNA extraction is essential for the transcriptome assembly and the extraction process start from stem, roots, fruits, buds and leaves. The \"de novo\" genome assembly can be performed using software to optimize assembly and scaffolding. The software can also be used to fill the gaps and reduce the interaction between chromosome. The combination of different data can be used for the identification of orthologous gene with different species, phylogenetic tree construction, and interspecific genome comparisons. Limits and future perspectives. The development of indirect sequencing methods has to some degree mitigated the lack of efficient DNA sequencing technologies. These techniques allowed researchers"}, {"text": "to increase scientific knowledge in fields like ecology and evolution. Several genetic markers, more or less well suited for the purpose, were developed helping researchers to address many issues among which demography and mating systems, population structures and phylogeography, speciational processes and species differences, hybridization and introgression, phylogenetics at many temporal scales. However, all these approaches had a primary deficiency: they were all limited only to a fraction of the entire genome so that genome-wide parameters were inferred from a tiny amount of genetic material. The invention and rising of DNA sequencing methods brought a huge contribution in increasing available data potentially useful to improve the field of conservation biology. The ongoing development of cheaper and high throughput allowed the production of a wide array of information in several disciplines providing conservation biologists a very powerful databank from which was possible to extrapolate useful information about, for example, population structure, genetic connections, identification of potential risks due to demographic changes and inbreeding processes through population-genomic approaches that rely on the detection of SNPs, indel or CNV. From one side of the coin, data derived from high throughput sequencing of whole genomes were potentially a massive advance in the field of"}, {"text": "species conservation, opening wide doors for future challenges and opportunities. On the other side all these data brought researchers to face two main issues. First, how to process all these information. Second, how to translate all the available information into conservation's strategies and practice or, in other words, how to fill the gap between genomic researches and conservation application. Unfortunately, there are many analytical and practical problems to consider using approaches involving genome-wide sequencing. Availability of samples is a major limiting factor: sampling procedures may disturb an already fragile population or may have a big impact in individual animals itself putting limitations to samples' collection. For these reasons several alternative strategies where developed: constant monitoring, for example with radio collars, allow us to understand the behavior and develop strategies to obtain genetic samples and management of the endangered populations. The samples taken from those species are then used to produce primary cell culture from biopsies. Indeed, this kind of material allow us to grow in vitro cells, and allow us to extract and study genetic material without constantly sampling the endangered populations. Despite a faster and easier data production and a continuous improvement of sequencing technologies, there is still a"}, {"text": "marked delay of data analysis and processing techniques. Genome-wide analysis and big genomes studies require advances in bioinformatics and computational biology. At the same time improvements in the statistical programs and in the population genetics are required to make better conservation strategies. This last aspect work in parallel with prediction strategies which should take in consideration all features that determine fitness of a species."}, {"text": "Rainbow of Hong Kong () is a non-profit organisation advocating for LGBT rights in Hong Kong. It was founded on 1 December 1991 and registered as a charity in 2011. History. Rainbow of Hong Kong was originally based in Mong Kok, but after one year of operation it moved its headquarters due to financial problems. Until 2007, the organisation received funding from the AIDS Trust Fund Council in the suburb of Jordan, with much of the money going towards the development of Hong Kong's first social services centre for members of the LGBT community, which opened on 30 July 2007. The centre provides counselling, volunteer training, and LGBT awareness classes."}, {"text": "Ancient pathogen genomics is a scientific field related to the study of pathogen genomes recovered from ancient human, plant or animal remains. Ancient pathogens are microorganisms, now extinct, that in the past centuries caused several epidemics and deaths worldwide. Their genome, referred to as ancient DNA (aDNA), is isolated from the burial's remains (bones and teeth) of victims of the pandemics caused by these pathogens. The analysis of the genomic features of ancient pathogen genomes allows researchers to understand the evolution of modern microbial strains that can hypothetically generate new pandemics or outbreaks. The analysis of aDNA is carried out by bioinformatic tools and molecular biology techniques to compare ancient pathogens with the modern descendants. The comparison also provides phylogenetic information of these strains. Reconstructing ancient pathogen genomes through NGS technologies. Pathogen DNA detection in ancient remains can be achieved with laboratory or computational methods. In both cases, the procedure starts with the extraction of DNA from ancient specimens. The laboratory methods are based on the construction of NGS libraries and the subsequent capture-based screening. Computational tools are used to map the reads obtained by NGS against a single- or multi-genome reference (targeted approach); alternatively, metagenomic profiling or taxonomic assignment"}, {"text": "of shotgun NGS reads methods can be applied (broad approach). Isolating ancient DNA. The limited preservation and thus low abundance, the highly fragmented and damaged state and the presence of modern DNA contamination and environmental DNA background makes the retrieval of ancient DNA (aDNA) a challenging procedure. In order to efficiently recover aDNA, DNA is generally isolated from tissues that contain a high quantity of aDNA, like bone and teeth, which are abundant in archaeological record. The preservation of pathogens across different anatomical elements is very variable according to the type of pathogen and its tissue tropism, its route of entry into the body and the resulting disease. Pathogens that cause chronic infections in their hosts typically produce diagnostic bone changes as opposed to acute blood-borne infections. Therefore, for that infections that have caused the death of the host in the acute phase, the preferred sampling material is the inner chamber of the teeth since this is a tissue that is highly vascularized during life. aDNA is characterised by damages that are accumulated over the course of time: the evaluation of DNA 'damage pattern' through computational tools is useful to authenticate ancient pathogen DNA since the same pattern is not"}, {"text": "found in modern contaminants. The most represented chemical damage that affects the DNA post-mortem is the hydrolytic deamination of cytosines, converting them in uracils, which are then read as thymines. Due to this reaction, ancient DNA contains an unexpected proportion of cytosine to thymine transitions, in particular at the ends of the molecules. Other common DNA modifications, besides the deamination of cytosine into thymine (this occurs when cytosines were methylated), is the presence of abasic sites and single-strand breaks. aDNA is extensively fragmented (most of the fragments are less than 100 base pairs long): this tendency can be used as a quantitative measure of authenticity, as modern contaminant molecules are expected to be longer. To exploit this characteristic feature of ancient DNA, improved silica-based extraction protocols with modified volume and composition of the DNA-binding buffer were introduced. Construction of DNA libraries. In order to be sequenced with second generation sequencing methods, template molecules have to be modified through ligation of adaptors. Both the steps of library construction and the PCR amplification that follows are subject to errors. In particular, adaptor binding biases can occur and the relative efficacy of PCR enzymes in amplifying the construct can be variable. There are"}, {"text": "three most common types of aDNA libraries. The double-stranded DNA library uses double-stranded DNA templates and firstly requires a step for the repair of the ends of aDNA fragments. Then, fragments are ligated to double-stranded adaptors and the resultant nicks are filled in. This method has some limitations, like the presence of a fraction of constructs that do not contain both the different adaptors and the possible formation of adaptor dimers. To overcome this latter problem, a method for the construction of an A-tailed library was developed. In this method, aDNA is end-repaired and then an adenine residue is added to the 3' ends of the strands, which can facilitate the ligation of the template with adaptors that contain a tailor of thymine. Furthermore, the use of these T-tailed adaptors prevents the formation of adaptor dimers. The type of adaptor that is typically used is double-stranded and has a Y shape, which means that it has a region located at the T-tailed end where it is complementary and a region at the other end where it is non-complementary. The use of this type of adaptors allows to generate a template of aDNA flanked by different non-complementary adaptor sequences at each"}, {"text": "end that are useful for the unidirectional sequencing. Another strategy is based on the use of single-stranded DNA libraries. In this method, DNA is first denatured to generate a single strand through heat and then ligated to a single-stranded biotinylated adaptor. The DNA strand is then used as a template by a DNA-polymerase which produces the complementary strand. Subsequently, a second adaptor is ligated at the 3' end of the complementary strand and the full construct is amplified through PCR and then sequenced. The purification step is performed using streptavidin-coated paramagnetic beads which allow minimising the DNA loss during this phase of the procedure. Enriching libraries for aDNA. Different methods (called enrichment methods) have been developed to improve accessibility to endogenous DNA in ancient remains. These approaches can mainly be divided into three types: those used during library construction, by preferentially incorporating aDNA fragments characterised by the high level of damage, those applied after library construction, by separating exogenous and endogenous fractions through annealing to pre-defined sets of probes (in solution or on microarrays), or those based on targeted digestion of environmental microbial DNA using restriction enzymes and primer extension capture (PEC). Selective uracil enrichment. During the construction of the"}, {"text": "library, the ssDNA fragments are bound through a biotinylated adaptor to streptavidin-coated beads. In the polymerase extension step, the DNA strand complementary to the original template is generated. In this kind of enrichment, the constructs undergo phosphorylation at the 5' end, to enable the ligation of a non-phosphorylated adaptor (ligation between the 3' end of the adaptor and the 5' end of the newly synthesized strand). DNA is then treated with uracil DNA glycosylase (UDG) and endonuclease VIII (USER mix): UDG generates abasic sites at cytosine that were deaminated into uracils post-mortem, endo VIII cuts at the resulting abasic site. This cleavage generates new 3' termini, which are then dephosphorylated, resulting in 3'OH ends that can be used as starting points for a new step of extension. This results in the elongation of the damaged strand, from the damaged region towards the bounded bead: while the new DNA molecule is synthesised, the original fragment is displaced. As a result, the dsDNA molecules newly formed no longer contain the adaptor bound to the beads, leaving in the supernatant a dsDNA library of the strands that originally harboured deaminated cytosines, available for further amplification and sequencing. The undamaged DNA template fraction remains"}, {"text": "attached to the paramagnetic beads. Extension-free target enrichment in solution. This approach is based on in solution target-probe hybridization to screen for only a single microorganism, after the construction of the library. It is a species-specific assay that requires heat denaturation of DNA libraries and the construction of a probe DNA library using long-range PCR if fresh DNA material from closely related species is available, or through custom design and synthesis of oligonucleotides. This method is useful when the microorganism to target is known, for example, when the hypothesis exists for the causative agent of an epidemic or in presence of skeletal lesions in the studied individuals. Solid-phase target enrichment. Another enriching strategy applied after constructing the library is the direct application of microarrays. They are applied for a wide laboratory-based pathogen screening that searches simultaneously for various pathogenic microorganisms. This kind of approach is favourable for those pathogens that leave no physical skeletal evidence and whose presence cannot be easily hypothesized \"a priori\". The probes are designed to represent conserved or unique regions from a range of pathogenic viruses, parasites or bacteria. Since microarrays contain sequences derived from modern strains of ancient pathogens, the limits of this method are"}, {"text": "the poor detection of the most divergent genomic regions and the omission of regions with important genomic rearrangements or unknown additional plasmids. Whole-genome enrichment. The whole-genome in-solution capture (WISC) allows the characterization of the entire genome sequence of ancient individuals. This technique is based on the use of a genome-wide biotinylated RNA probe library generated through \"in vitro\" transcription of fresh modern DNA extracts from species closely related to the target aDNA sample. The heat-denatured aDNA library is then annealed to the RNA probes. To improve stringency and reduce enrichment for highly repetitive regions, low-complexity DNA and adaptor-blocking RNA oligonucleotides are added. The library fraction of interest in then recovered through elution from streptavidin-coated paramagnetic beads (to which the RNA probes are bound). Computational analysis. The analysis of sequence data obtained by NGS relies on the same computational approaches used for modern DNA, with some peculiarities. A widely used tool to align reads from aDNA against reference genomes is the PALEOMIX package, which can quantify DNA damage levels through mapDamage2 and perform phylogenomic and metagenomic analyses. It is important to consider that the alignment will always exhibit substantial fractions of nucleotides mismatched that do not result from sequencing errors or"}, {"text": "polymorphisms but from the presence of damaged bases. For this reason, the acceptance threshold for read-to-reference edit distance should be chosen according to the phylogenetic distance to the reference genome. Probabilistic aligners that take into account the damage pattern of aDNA have been developed to improve alignments. MALT. Studies of the ancient DNA of pathogens is restricted to skeletal collections that change their appearance as a result of infections. A pathogen linked to a known epidemiological context is identified through screening without prior knowledge of its presence. Methods include broad-spectrum molecular approaches focused on pathogen detection via fluorescence hybridization-based microarray technology, identification via DNA enrichment of certain microbial regions or computational screening of non-enriched sequence data against human microbiome data sets. These approaches offer improvements but remain biased in the bacterial taxa used for species-level assignments. MEGAN alignment tool (MALT) is a new program for the fast alignment and taxonomic assignment method to the identification of ancient DNA. MALT is similar to BLAST as it computes local alignments between highly conserved sequences and references. MALT can also calculate semi-global alignments where reads are aligned end-to-end. All references, complete bacterial genomes, are contained in a database called National Center for Biotechnology"}, {"text": "Information (NCBI) RefSeq. MALT consists of two programs: malt-build and malt-run. Malt-build is used to construct an index for the given database of reference sequences. Instead, malt-run is used to align a set of query sequences against the reference database. The program then computes the bit-score and the expected value (E-value) of the alignment and decides whether to keep or discard the alignment depending on user-specified thresholds for the bit-score, the E-value or the per cent identity. The bit-score is the requires size of a sequence database in which the current match could be found just by chance. The higher the bit-score, the better the sequence similarity. E-value is the number of expected hits of similar quality (score) that could be found just by chance. The smaller is the E-value, the better is the match. MALT allows the screening of non-enriched sequence data in the search for unknown candidate bacterial pathogens that are involved in past disease outbreaks and for the exclusion of the environmental bacterial background. MALT is very important because it offers the advantage of genome-level screening without selection of a particular target organism, avoiding errors that are common to other screening approaches. To authenticate the candidate taxonomic"}, {"text": "assignments complete alignments are needed, but the target DNA is often present in a low amount so a small number of a marked region may not be sufficient for identification. This approach can detect only bacterial DNA and viral DNA, so it is not possible to identify other infectious agents that may be present in a population. This method is useful for studies dealing with the identification of pathogens responsible for ancient and modern disease, especially in cases for which candidate organisms are not known \"a priori\". Applications. Ancient pathogen genomics as a tool against future epidemics. One interesting application of the different sequencing techniques available nowadays is the investigation of historical disease outbreaks to provide an answer to important and long-standing questions in epidemiology, pathogen evolution and also human history. So, much effort is spent to find more and more information about the aetiology of infectious diseases of historical importance, such as plague and the cocoliztli epidemic, to describe the geographic spread of viruses and to try defining the pathogenic mechanism of these infectious agents that are actually active elements of the evolutionary process. Today \"Y.pestis\" and \"S. enterica\" seem to be harmless to humans, but scientists are still"}, {"text": "interested in the long-term tracing of genetic adaptation of these bacteria and accurate quantification of rates of their evolutionary change. This is because they can extract from this knowledge of the past the right ideas to develop a strategy against future epidemics. Being perfectly aware of the fact that bacteria and viruses are one of the most variable elements in nature, prone to unlimited mutational events, and taking for granted that it is impossible to manage all the external factors that can influence the development of a pathogenic virus, nobody is talking about defeating a new possible outbreak of plague or any other infective agent of the past: here the aim is to define a strategy, a \"guideline\", to be more prepared when a new dangerous pathogen will come. The contribution of the environment in infections is to be defined and factors such as human migration, climate change, overcrowding in cities or animal domestication are some of the major causes that contribute to the emergence and spread of disease. Of course, these factors are unpredictable and this is a reason why researchers are trying to bring relevant information from the past, that can be useful, today and tomorrow. While they"}, {"text": "continue to develop strategies to defeat emerging threats using diagnostic, molecular and advanced tools, they are still looking back at how ancient pathogens have evolved and adapted through historical events. The more it's known about the genomic basis of virulence in historical diseases, the more it can be understood about the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases today and in the future. Ancient infections and human evolution. The analyses of phylogenic relationships between the human host and viral pathogens suggest that many diseases have been coevolving with humans for millennia, since the very start of human history in Africa. In particular, the long-term interaction with pathogens is considered a selection that can be very strong since not all the individuals could survive in touch with all infectious agents that they had met over the years: the natural selection by pathogens is implicated in the evolution of species. This interaction has been already used to track human population movements and to reconstruct human migration flows within and out of Africa. A pretty new application and interpretation of this feature is using aDNA to better understand human evolution. Many tropical infections probably played a significant role in the human evolutionary process. The"}, {"text": "correlation between humans and viruses can be understood if it is seen as a \"fight\" that continues for millennia and that is not still won by anyone: when viruses have changed their features in order to be infective for the other \"fighters\", humans had to find a strategy to increase their fitness and survived among changes. In this continuous challenge through the years, next to infective diseases and other illnesses afflicting modern human society, cancer recently represents one of the most enigmatical ailments. Scientists are investigating if neoplastic diseases are restricted to postindustrial human society or if their origins can be found further back in time, maybe into prehistory. The difficulty is that cancer, lethal and fast, leaves very few indications in skeletons in those cases that succumb to death shortly, and even no signs of existence at all, in the case of extraskeletal tumours. Anyway, the knowledge about the aetiology of cancer is incomplete and microorganisms are taking their part with the role of their infection: migration movements in the past could have brought with them viruses, so possible reservoir of tropical disease as well as predisposition to cancer. For this reason, molecular analytical techniques are applied to archaeological"}, {"text": "remains to study hominin evolution, but also to improve the research in understanding the epidemiology and aetiology of tumours. Information derived from the aDNA can be used to anchor pathogen mutations and reconstruct back from the presence of microorganisms the evolutionary process, it can be useful to develop new vaccines or to discover possible future pathogenic threats. Past pandemics are much more than just ancient history. What happened in the past is not all history, there is something hidden that can still drive human genetic diversity and natural selection, something that went in contact with humankind hundreds of years ago but that can still have an impact on global human health. Since epidemics are one of the most frequent phenomena that have affected and potentially devastated human populations, it is important to detect, prevent and control potential infective agents. After all, archaeologists, geneticists, and medical scientists are concerned in exploring the influences of pathogens that can contribute, threatening or improving, human health and longevity. Evolution and phylogenesis of \"Yersinia pestis\". \"Yersinia pestis\" is a gram-negative bacterium and belongs to the family of Enterobatteriaceae. Its closest relatives are \"Yersinia pseudotuberculosis\" and \"Yersinia enterocolitica\", which are environmental species. They all possess the"}, {"text": "plasmid pCD1, which encodes for a type III secretory system. Among chromosomal protein-coding genes, their nucleotide genomic identity rates 97%. They are different in terms of their virulence potential and transmission mechanisms. \"Y. pestis\" is not a human-adapted bacteria. Its main reservoirs are rodents (like marmots, mice, great gerbils, voles and prairie dogs) and it is transmitted to humans by the flea. One of the most studied vectors of this pathogen is \"Xenopsylla cheopis\". After the bite of an infected flea, the bacteria enter into the host organism and travel to the closest lymph node, where bacteria replicate causing the large swellings called buboes. Bacteria can also disseminate into the bloodstream (causing septicaemia) and to the lung (causing pneumonia). The pulmonary disease has a direct human-to-human transmission. It has been determined that \"Y. pestis\" became so dangerous because of the acquisition of \"ymt\" (yersina murine toxin). This gene is present on the pMT1 plasmid and allowed the survival of the bacterium in the flea vector and facilitated colonization of the midgut in arthropod, giving rise to the past millennium large-scale pandemics. Early evolution and divergence from \"Yersinia pseudotuberculosis\". \"Y. pestis\" is distinguishable from the other two species because of its"}, {"text": "pathogenicity and transmission mechanism. These differences are given by two plasmids: pPCP1, that confer to the bacterium its invasive properties in humans and pMT1, which is involved in flea colonisation (along with some loss of function on bacterial chromosomal genes). Samples dated on the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age allowed identifying a first genetic divergence between \"Y. pseudotuberculosis\" and \"Y. pestis\" ancestors. The characteristics that confer to \"Y. pestis\" its virulence were absent in these strains: they lack of \"ymt\", a gene necessary to the colonization of the vector; also, they presented an active form of genes required for biofilm formation (inactive in the pathogen \"Y. pestis\") and an active flagellin gene, that is an inducer of immune response (is a pseudogene in \"Y. pestis\"). The comparison of a draft of the genome and the two plasmids (pCD1 and pMT1) with samples of Black Death victims (1348\u20131349) in the East Smithfield burial ground underlined a very high genetic conservation of the sequence: only 97 single-nucleotide differences over 660 years. \"Y. pestis\" microevolution. The London 6330 individual strain owns mutations absent in other isolates of the same period (1348\u20131350): the reason may be either the presence of multiple strains circulating in"}, {"text": "Europe at the same time or the microevolution of one single strain during the pandemic. Three major outbreaks of plague. There are three pandemic outbreaks of \"Y. Pestis\": The strains associated with the Justinian Plague appear on a novel branch, which is phylogenetically distinct from the second and the third plague pandemics. The first strain of \"Y. pestis\" found during the second outbreak survives and give rise to modern branch 1 strains associated with the third pandemic outbreak. The first plague bacteria and the second and third plague strain have a common ancestor. Linkage between 2nd and 3rd pandemics. In a recent study, genomes of \"Y. pestis\" from three samples resumed in Barcelona (deceased between 1300 and 1420), Ellwangen (between 1486 and 1627) and Bolgar city (between 1298 and 1388). The date of death of the individuals analysed was determined thanks to radiocarbon dates; the last one was confirmed by the presence of a coin produced only after the year 1362. Of 223 samples from 178 individuals, only one for each site had a suitable amount of DNA and was finally selected for the whole genome sequencing of the bacillus (through a genome-capture assay, using as a draft \"Y. pseudotuberculosis\""}, {"text": "genome and pMT1 and pCD1 from \"Y. pestis\"). The alignment with a \"Y. pestis\" phylogeny tree created with previously known ancient genomes revealed an increase genetic diversity outside of China in comparison to what was previously thought; all the three new genomes mapped in Branch 1 and possess two SNPs associated to the Black Death (all the genomes of \"Y. pestis\" dated to the Black Death map in Branch 1). The Barcelona strain has no differences with the London strain; the two individuals from which the genome was obtained died of plague with a distance of some months (spring and autumn 1348) underlining the presence in Europe of a single wave of plague with low genetic diversity. The Ellwangen strain maps in a sub-branch of Branch 1 and is ancestral to a previously sequenced strain (L'Observance). It descends from the one circulating in London and Barcelona during the Black Death but also have additional mutations. It is therefore considered a lineage diverged from Branch 1 before the 16th century (Ellwangen outbreak) and with no known modern descendants. In comparison with isolates from the Black Death, the Bolgar city strain presents: The Bolgar City strain possesses SNPs associated to the Black"}, {"text": "Death and can be an evidence of a movement of plague towards east; These findings give credit to one of the models that try to explain the linkage between 2nd and 3rd pandemic: in this scenario, there was a single exit of plague to Europe (causing the Black Death) that after a radiation event, travelled eastward to establish in former soviet union and Asia, from which it spread in the 18th century to give raise to the 3rd pandemic. Another hypothesis is that the 3rd pandemic's lineage may have been generated by a pre-existing genetic variability in \"Y. pestis\" strains in China: this hypothesis is actually supported by the correlation between following waves of the pandemic in Europe and climatic fluctuations that would have allowed its spread in the continent. This model can't explain the genetic diversity of the Black Death (four different lineages at least, that would have required the introduction from Asia of four different strains). Again, there are two models that try to explain the multiple plague outbreaks in Europe following the black death: Both models can be valid and nowadays we're not able to demonstrate one over the other. However, the Ellwangen strain genome sequenced in"}, {"text": "this study may be considered a proof of the second hypothesis due to the geographical position of the city that tends to exclude the possibility of an introduction of plague from eastward. Modern \"Y. pestis\" strains. Sequencing of \"Y. pestis\" genomes allowed to discover a variation event preceding Black Death that gave rise to many strains that circulate today. \"Salmonella enterica\" genomes analysis. A series of 16th epidemics in Mexico, called the \"huey cocoliztli\" in the native Nahuatl language, caused high mortality in indigenous Aztec population, leading to demographic collapse. These epidemics are considered among the worst epidemics in the history of Mexico and the causes have remained a mystery for over 500 years. A group of scientists from Harvard and Max-Planck Institute published a study in the journal of \"Nature ecology and Evolution,\" and they suggest \"Salmonella\" \"enterica\" as a good candidate for the strong epidemic in Mexico during the 16th century. Many studies suggest that this bacterium has been introduced in the Indigenous populations by Europeans. The group of scientists analyzed the aDNA extracted from the teeth of 24 skeletons buried in a cemetery in the city of Teposcolula-Yucundaa and they found in 10 of the 24 skeletons"}, {"text": "aDNA traces of \"Salmonella enterica\". Also, to demonstrate that the bacterium was introduced in Mexico by the Europeans, they analyzed five individuals that were buried before the influx of Europeans. The results revealed that there was no evidence of \"Salmonella enterica\" in the pre-contact era. Analysis of \"Salmonella enterica\" genomes. The scientists performed the extraction of the aDNA from the teeth of 24 indigenous individuals' remains from the contact era epidemic cemetery and of 5 individuals buried in the pre-contact era cemetery. The extraction was performed according to the protocol for aDNA extraction. The group of researchers examined, in parallel, also a soil sample of the cemeteries to get an overview of the environment microorganisms that could have penetrated the samples. After the extraction, the genomes were sequenced using Illumina genome analyzer. Then, using a bioinformatic tool, called MALT, the researchers performed an analysis of metagenomic sequences data. This program lets the researchers align the extracted sequences with a reference without specifying a precise target. The researchers performed MALT run two times: one using the complete bacterial genomes that were available through NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) RefSeq as a reference, and the second run was carried out using"}, {"text": "the full NCBI Nucleotide database to screen for viral DNA. The result of the screening process was positive for the presence of \"Salmonella enterica\" DNA in 10 sequences up to 24 collected from the samples and three tooth sample had a high amount of reads assigned to S. \"enterica\". In particular, the major \"S. enterica\" strain present in the samples is the S. Paratyphi C. This strain causes enteric fever in human individuals. In the pre-contact era samples, they did not find any evidence of S. \"enterica\", supporting the hypothesis that \"S. enterica\" was not a local bacteria. A further analysis was carried out to identify the classical pattern of damage of aDNA in the three positive tooth samples and this was conducted by mapping the data sets to the \"S.\" Paratyphy C genome reference. The results were positive and supported the thesis of \"S.enterica\" as the cause of cocolitzli. To go in-depth with the analyses and confirm the thesis, the researchers conducted further experiments and computational analysis. They performed a whole-genome target array and in-solution hybridization capture using probes that include the modern \"S. enterica\" genome differences and using \"S\". Paratyphi C as reference. The hybridization was successful for"}, {"text": "the ten positive samples, while the other samples resulted negative for the ancient DNA."}, {"text": "Peschanka () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Krasnoslobodsk, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 542 as of 2010. Geography. The village is located on the left bank of the Sudomoyka Erik, 19 km WSW from Srednyaya Akhtuba."}, {"text": "Personality traits are patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that reflect the tendency to respond in certain ways under certain circumstances. Personality is influenced by genetic and environmental factors and associated with mental health. Beside the environment factor, genetic variants can be detected for personality traits. These traits are polygenic. Significant genetic variants are present for most of the behavioral traits. There is a consistency in detection of genetic variants and genomic association for traits derived from pedigree. Personality trait research has been conducted both for humans and non-human animals like dogs. Trait theory. For humans, the Big Five personality traits, also known as the five-factor model (FFM) or the OCEAN model, is the prevailing model for personality traits. When factor analysis (a statistical technique) is applied to personality survey data, some words or questionnaire items used to describe aspects of personality are often applied to the same person. For example, someone described as conscientious is more likely to be described as \"always prepared\" rather than \"messy\". This theory uses descriptors of common language and therefore suggests five broad dimensions commonly used to describe the human personality and psyche. The five factors are: Methods. The methods mostly used in genomics"}, {"text": "of personality traits' studies are two: analytic methods and non-analytic ones (such as questionnaires). Analytic. Analytical techniques that can be used to measure genomics of personality include: Non analytic. Non-analytic methods mainly use approach is that of questionnaire, here discuss: Questionnaires: As previously mentioned, questionnaires were often used as another tool to analyze the association of a behaviour to genetic variances. In some studies, questionnaires were indirectly given at the owners of the animals involved in the experiment and in other studies they were directly given to the patients involved. These questionnaires were: Some examples of questions are: 'Do you often feel lonely?', to which individuals answered 'yes' (recorded as cases) or 'no' (controls); other questions are based on the quality of social interactions as: 'How often are you able to confide in someone close to you?' (cases were defined as those who answered 'Never or almost never', controls were defined as those who answered 'Almost daily'). Correlation with psychiatric disorders. Scientists demonstrated that most of personality traits cluster together and they also cluster with most neuropsychiatric disorders and are therefore related. In research, scientists used linkage disequilibrium regression score to investigate the correlation between personality traits and psychiatric disorder."}, {"text": "According to LDSC, there is a positive correlation between major depression disorder and neuroticism and a small correlation between schizophrenia and neuroticism; these correlation have also been confirmed in twins studies. Also, neuroticism and openness show strong genetic correlation. Besides, scientists found that there is a positive correlation between first principal component and all psychiatric disorders, but first principal component showed negative correlation with conscientiousness and agreeableness. Personality features are highly linked with mental, social and physical outcome. For example, scientists realized that schizophrenia and bipolar disorders cluster with openness. Moreover, they demonstrated that ADHD shows the highest correlation with personality trait especially extraversion. Recently, the negative correlation between neuroticism and loneliness was identified as well as a strong correlation between anxiety and neuroticism. Plus, narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism have association with low agreeableness. In general, neuroticism and other personality traits show negative correlation, while openness, extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness shows positive correlation. Example for the genes that they find to be correlative are: Within 8p23.1, MTMR9 has intronic variant which has association with extraversion and also with neuroticism shows inverse association. Another one is 12q23.3, WSCD2 which is found for extraversion, by using GWAS, it had been shown that"}, {"text": "this locus has association with bipolar disorder. In addition, L3MBTL2 is associated with both schizophrenia and neuroticism. Another gene is DRD4 which has association with both ADHD and novelty seeking behavior."}, {"text": "Human somatic variations are somatic mutations (mutations that occur in somatic cells) both at early stages of development and in adult cells. These variations can lead either to pathogenic phenotypes or not, even if their function in healthy conditions is not completely clear yet. The term mosaic (from medieval Latin \"musaicum\", meaning \"work of the Muses\") has been used since antiquity to refer to an artistic patchwork of ornamental stones, glass, gems, or other precious material. At a distance, the collective image appears as it would in a painting; only on close inspection do the individual components become recognizable. In biological systems, mosaicism implies the presence of more than one genetically distinct cell line in a single organism. Occurrence of this phenomenon not only can result in major phenotypic changes but also reveal the expression of otherwise lethal genetic mutations. Genetic mutations involved in mosaicism may be due to endogenous factors, such as transposons and ploidy changes, or exogenous factors, such as UV radiation and nicotine. Somatic mosaicism in healthy human tissues. Somatic mosaicism arises a result of somatic mutations: genomic (or even mitochondrial) alterations of different sizes ranging from a single nucleotide to chromosome gains or loss within somatic"}, {"text": "cells. These alterations within somatic cells begin at an early stage (pre-implantation or conception) and continue during aging, giving rise to phenotypic heterogeneity within cells, which may lead to the development of diseases such as cancer. Novel array based techniques for screening genome-wide copy number variants and loss of heterozygosity in single cells showed that chromosome aneuploidies, uniparental disomies, segmental deletions, duplications, and amplifications frequently occur during embryogenesis. Yet not all somatic mutations are propagated to the adult individual, due to the phenomenon of cell competition. Genetic alterations involving gains or loss of entire chromosomes predominantly occur during anaphase stage of cell division. But these are uncommon in somatic cells because they are usually selected against due to their deleterious consequences. Somatic variations during embryonic development can be represented by monozygous twins since they carry different copy number profiles and epigenetic marks that keep on increasing with age. Early research on somatic mutations in aging showed that deletions, inversion, and translocations of genetic material are common in aging mice and aging genomes tend to contain visible chromosomal changes, mitotic recombination, whole gene deletions, intragenic deletions, and point mutations. Other factors include the loss of methylation, increasing gene expression heterogeneity correlating"}, {"text": "to genomic abnormalities, and telomere shortening. It is uncertain if transcription-based DNA repair takes part in the maintaining of somatic mutations in aging tissues. In some cells, the somatically acquired alterations can be reversed back to wild type alleles by reversion mosaicism. This can be due to endogenous mechanism such as homologous recombination, codon substitution, second-site suppressor mutations, DNA slippage, and mobile elements. Somatic cancer-associated mutations in normal tissues. The advent of Next-Generation Sequencing technologies has increased the resolution of mutation detection and has led to the revelation that older individuals not only accumulate chromosomal alterations but also abundant mutations in cancer driver genes. Age-associated accumulation of chromosomal alterations has been documented with a variety of cytogenetic approaches, from chromosome painting to single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays. Numerous studies demonstrated that the clonal populations might lead to loss of organismal health through the functional decline of tissue and/or the promotion of disease processes, such as cancer. This is the reason why the aberrant clonal expansion (ACE) resulting from cancer-associated mutations are common in noncancerous tissue and accumulate with age. This is universal in most organisms and affects multiple tissues. In the hematopoietic compartment mutations include both large structural chromosomal alterations"}, {"text": "and point mutations affecting cancer-associated genes. Some translocations appear to occur very early in life. The frequency of these events is low in people younger than 50 years (<0.5%), but this frequency rapidly increases to 2% to 3% of individuals in their 70s and 80s. This phenomenon was termed clonal hematopoiesis. A number of environmental factors, such as smoking, viral infections, and pesticide exposure, may contribute not only through mutation induction but also by modulation of clonal expansion. Otherwise, the detection of somatic variants in normal solid tissues has historically proved difficult. The main reasons are the generally slower replicative index, clonally restrictive tissue architecture, difficulty of tissue access, and low frequency of mutation occurrence. Recently, the analysis of somatic mutations in benign tissues adjacent to tumors revealed that 80% of samples harbors clonal mutations, with increased frequency associated with older age, smoking, and concurrent mutations in DNA repair genes. With the advent of NGS, it has become increasingly clear that somatic mutations accumulate with aging in normal tissue, even in individuals who are cancer-free. This suggested that clonal expansions driven by cancer genes are a near-universal feature of aging. NGS technologies revealed that the clonal expansions of cancer-associated mutations"}, {"text": "are very common condition in somatic tissues. Human somatic variations in brain. Through several recent studies a prevalence of somatic variations, both in pathological and healthy nervous systems, has been highlighted. Somatic aneuploidy such as SNVs (single-nucleotide variations) and CNVs (copy number variations) have been particularly observed and linked to brain disfunctions when arising in prenatal brain development; anyway those somatic aneuploidy have been observed in rates of 1,3-40%, potentially increasing with age and for this reason they have been proposed as a mechanism to generate normal genetic diversity among neurons. The confirmation of that hypothesis has been obtained through studies of single-cell sequencing, which allow a direct assessment of single neuronal genomes, so that a systematic characterization of somatic aneuploidies and subchromosomal CNVs of these cells is possible. Using postmortem brains of both healthy and diseased humans it has been possible to study how CNVs change among these two groups. It emerged that somatic aneuploidies in healthy brains are quite rare, but somatic CNVs instead aren't. These studies also showed that clonal CNVs exist in both pathological and healthy brains. This means that some CNVs can arise in early development without causing diseases, even though, when compared to the"}, {"text": "CNVs arising in other cell types such as lymphoblast, the brain's ones are more often private. This evidence could be given by the fact that, while lymphoblasts can generate clonal CNVs for a long period as they continue to proliferate, adult neurons do not replicate anymore, so the clonal CNVs they are carrying must have been generated in an early development stage. Data highlighted a tendency in neurons for the loss, rather than for the gain of copies when compared to lymphoblasts. These differences could suggest that the molecular mechanisms of CNVs arising in that two cell types are completely different. L1-associated mosaicism in brain cells. The retrotransposon LINE-1 (long interspersed element 1, L1) is a transposable element that has colonized the mammalian germline. L1 retrotransposition can happen also in somatic cells causing mosaicism (SLAVs \u2013 L1-associated variations) and in cancer. Retrotransposition is a copy and paste process in which the RNA template is retrotranscribed in DNA and integrated randomly in the genome. In humans there are around 500.000 copies of L1 and occupy 17% of genome. Its mRNA encodes for two proteins; one of them in particular has a reverse transcriptase and endonuclease activity that allows the retrotransposition in"}, {"text": "cis. Anyway most part of these copies are rendered immobile by mutations or 5\u2019 truncation, leaving just about 80\u2013100 mobile L1 per human genome and just about 10 are considered hot L1s so able to mobilize efficiently. L1 transpose using a mechanism called TPRT (target primed reverse transcription) it's able to insert a L1 endonuclease motif, target site duplications (TSD) and a poly-A tail with a cis preference. It has been seen in the past that there's L1 mobilization in neural progenitors during foetal and adult neurogenesis suggesting that the brain may be a L1 mosaicism hotspot. Moreover, some studies suggested that also non-dividing neurons can support L1 mobilization. This has been confirmed by single-cell genomic studies. Single-cell paired-end sequencing experiments found out that SLAVs are present both in neurons and glia of hippocampus and frontal cortex. Any neural cell has a similar probability to contain a SLAV, suggesting that somatic variations are a random phaenomenon, not focused on a specific group of cells. SLAVs occurrence in the brain is estimated to be of 0.58\u20131 SLAVs per cell and to involve 44\u201363% of the brain cells. Since experiments showed that a half of the analyzed SLAVs lack target site duplication"}, {"text": "(TSD), another kind of L1-associated variant might occur. In fact those sequences don't have an endonuclease activity, but still have endonuclease motifs so that they can be retrotransposed in trans. An application of the study of somatic mosaicism in the brain could be the tracing of specific brain cells. Indeed, if the somatic L1 insertions occurs in a progenitor cell, the unique variant could be used to trace the progenitor cell's development, localization, and spreading through the brain. On the contrary, if the somatic L1 insertion occurs late in development, it will be present just in a single cell or in a small group of cells. Therefore, tracing somatic variations could be useful to understand at which point of development they have occurred. Further experiments are necessary to understand the role of somatic mosaicism in brain function, since small groups of cells or even single cells can affect network activity. Human somatic variations and the immune system. Human somatic mutations (HSMs) are intensively exploited by the immune system for the production of antibodies. HSMs, recombination in particular, are indeed the reason why antibodies can identify an epitope with such high specificity and sensitivity. Antibodies are encoded by B cells. Each"}, {"text": "antibody is composed of two heavy chains (IgH, encoded by IGH gene) and two light chains (IgL, encoded by either IGL or IGK gene). Each chain is then composed of a constant region (C) and a variable region (V). The constant region (C) on the heavy chain is important in the BCR signaling and determines the type of immunoglobuline (IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, or IgM). The variable region (V) is responsible for the recognition of the target epitope and is the product of recombination processes in the related loci. After exposure of an antigen, B cells start developing. B cells genome undergoes repeated recombination processing on the Ig genes until the recognition of the epitope is perfectioned. The recombination involves the IGH locus first and then the IGL and IGK loci. All IGL, IGK, and IGH genes are the product of the V(D)J recombination process. This recombination involves the variable (V), diversity (D) and joining (J) segments. All three segments (V, D, J) are involved in the formation of the heavy chain, while only V and J recombination products encode for the light chain. The recombination between these regions allows the formation of 1012\u20131018 potential different sequences. However, this number"}, {"text": "is an overestimation, since many factors contribute to limit the diversity of the B cell repertoire, first of all the actual number of B cell in the organism. Cardiac mosaicism. Somatic mosaicism has been noted in the heart. Sequencing suggested mosaic variation in the gap junction protein connexin in three patients out of 15 might contribute to atrial fibrillation although subsequent reports in larger numbers of patients found no examples among a large panel of genes. At Stanford, a team led by Euan Ashley demonstrated somatic mosaicism in the heart of a newborn presenting with life threatening arrhythmia. Family-based genome sequencing as well as tissue RNA sequencing and single cell genomics techniques were used to verify the finding. A model combining partial and ordinary differential equations with inputs from heterologous single channel electrophysiology experiments of the genetic variant recapitulated certain aspects of the clinical presentation."}, {"text": "Plamenka () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kletskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 340 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Plamenka is located 31 km southwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Shchuchy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Clinical metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) is the comprehensive analysis of microbial and host genetic material (DNA or RNA) in clinical samples from patients by next-generation sequencing. It uses the techniques of metagenomics to identify and characterize the genome of bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses without the need for a prior knowledge of a specific pathogen directly from clinical specimens. The capacity to detect all the potential pathogens in a sample makes metagenomic next generation sequencing a potent tool in the diagnosis of infectious disease especially when other more directed assays, such as PCR, fail. Its limitations include clinical utility, laboratory validity, sense and sensitivity, cost and regulatory considerations. Outside of clinical medicine, similar work is done to identify genetic material in environmental samples, such as ponds or soil. Definition. Next-generation sequencing uses the techniques of metagenomics to identify and characterize the genome of bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses without the need for a prior knowledge of a specific pathogen directly from clinical specimens. The capacity to detect all the potential pathogens in a sample makes metagenomic next generation sequencing a potent tool in the diagnosis of infectious disease especially when other more directed assays, such as PCR, fail. Laboratory workflow."}, {"text": "A typical mNGS workflow consists of the following steps: Applications in Infectious diseases. One way to detect these pathogens is detect part of their genome by metagenomics sequencing (Next Generation Sequencing-mNGS), which can be targeted or untargeted. Targeted. Because of that, the sensitivity to detect microorganisms that are being targeted usually increases, but this comes with a limitation of the amount of identifiable pathogens. Untargeted. The untargeted analysis is a metagenomic Shotgun sequencing approach. The whole DNA and/or RNA is sequenced with this approach using universal primers. The resultant mNGS reads can be assembled into partial or complete genomes. These genome sequences allow to monitor hospital outbreaks to facilitate infection control and public health surveillance. Also, they can be used for subtyping (identificate a specific genetic variant of a microorganism). Untargeted mNGS is the most promising approach to analyse clinical samples and provide a comprehensive diagnosis of infections. Various groups have validated mNGS in Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), such as meningitis or encephalitis, sepsis and pneumonia. This method can be very helpful in the settings where no exact infectious etiology is suspected. For example, in patients with suspected pneumonia, identification of the underlying infectious etiology as in COVID-19 has"}, {"text": "important clinical and public health implications. The traditional method consists on formulating a differential diagnosis on the basis of the patient's history, a clinical presentation, imaging findings and laboratory testing. But here it is suggested a different way of diagnosis; metagenomic next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a promising method because a comprehensive spectrum of a potential causes (viral, bacterial; fungus and parasitic) can be identify by a single assay. Below are some examples of the metagenomic sequencing application in infectious diseases diagnosis. Examples. Diagnosis of meningitis and encephalitis. The traditional method used to the diagnosis of infectious diseases has been challenged in some cases: neuroinflammatory diseases, lack of diagnostic tests for rare pathogens and the limited availability and volume of the Central Nervous System (CNS) samples, because of the requirement for invasive procedures. Owing to these problems, some assays suggest a different way of diagnosis, which is the metagenomic next-generation sequencing (NGS). Summarising, NGS can identify a broad range of pathogens in a single test. Some studies evaluate the clinical usefulness of metagenomic NGS for diagnosis neurologic infections, in parallel with conventional microbiologic testing. It has been seen that the highest diagnostic yield resulted from a combination of metagenomics NGS of"}, {"text": "CSF and conventional testing, including serologic testing and testing of sample types other than CSF. Sometimes neurologic infections remain undiagnosed in a proportion of patients despite conventional testing. The results of metagenomic NGS can also be valuable even when concordant with results of conventional testing, not only providing reassurance that the conventionally obtained diagnosis is correct but also potentially detecting or ruling out coinfections, specially in immunocompromised patients. Study of antimicrobial resistance. Nowadays to detect resistances of different microbes is used a technique called Antibiotic Sensitivity (AST), but several studies have discovered that bacterial resistance is in the genoma and it is transferred by horizontal way (HGT), so sequencing methods are being developed to ease the identification and characterization of those genomes and metagenomes. For the moment exist the following methods to detect antimicrobial resistances: Metagenomic sequencing methods have provided better results than genomics, due to these present fewer false negatives. Within metagenomics sequencing, functional metagenomic is a powerful approach for characterizing resistomes; a metagenomic library is generated by cloning the total community DNA extracted from a sample into an expression vector, this library is assayed for antimicrobial resistance by plating on selective media that are lethal to the wild-type"}, {"text": "host. The selected inserts from the surviving recombinant, antimicrobial-resistant host cells are then sequenced, and resulting sequences are subsequently assembled and annotated (PARFuMS). Functional metagenomics has enabled the discovery of several new antimicrobial resistance mechanisms and their related genes, one such example is the recently discovered tetracycline resistance mechanism by tetracycline destructases. It is important to incorporate not only the antimicrobial resistance gene sequence and mechanism but also the genomic context, host bacterial species and geographic location (metagenome). Pandemic preparedness. Potentially dangerous pathogens such as ebolaviruses, coronaviruses etc., and the closest genetic relative for unknown pathogens, could be identified immediately, prompting further follow-up. Its role in the future of pandemic preparedness is anticipated and could exist as the earliest surveillance system we may have to detect outbreaks of unknown etiology and to respond in an opportune manner. Clinical microbiome analyses. The use of mNGS to characterize the microbiome has made possible the development of bacterial probiotics to be administrated as pills, for example, as a treatment of \"Clostridioides difficile\"-associated diseases. Human host response analyses. The studying of genes expression allows to characterize a lot of infections, for example infections due to \"Staphylococcus aureus\", Lyme disease, candidiasis, tuberculosis and influenza. Also,"}, {"text": "this approach can be used for cancer classification. RNAseq analysis have a lot of other purposes and applications such as to identify novel or under appreciated host\u2013microbial interactions directly from clinical samples, to make indirect diagnosis on the basis of a pathogen specific human host response and to discriminate infectious versus noninfectious causes of acute illness. Challenges. Clinical utility. Most of the metagenomics outcomes data generated consist of case reports which belie the increasing interest on diagnostic metagenomics. Accordingly, there is an overall lack of penetration of this approach into the clinical microbiology laboratory, as making a diagnosis with metagenomics is still basically only useful in the context of case report but not for a true daily diagnostic purpose. As of 2018, cost-effectiveness modelling of metagenomics in the diagnosis of fever of unknown origin concluded that, even after limiting the cost of diagnostic metagenomics to $100 \u2013 1000 per test, it would require 2.5-4 times the diagnostic yield of computed tomography of the abdomen and pelvis in order to be cost neutral and cautioned against \u2018widespread rush\u2019 to deploy metagenomic testing. Furthermore, in the case of the discovery of potential novel infectious agents, usually only the positive results are published"}, {"text": "even though the vast majority of sequenced cases are negative, thus resulting in very biased information. Besides, most of the discovery work based in metagenomic that precedes the diagnostic-based work even mentioned the known agents detected while screening unsolved cases for completely novel causes. Laboratory validity. To date, most published testing has been run in an unvalidated, unreportable manner. The \u2018standard microbiological testing\u2019 that samples are subjected to prior to metagenomics is variable and has not included reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing for common respiratory viruses or, routinely 16S/ITS PCR testing. Given the relative costs of validating and performing metagenomic versus 16S/ITS PCR testing, the second one is considered an easier and more efficient option. A potential exception to the 16S/ITS testing is blood, given the huge amount of 16S sequence available, making clean cutoffs for diagnostic purposes problematic. Furthermore, almost all of the organisms detected by metagenomics for which there is an associated treatment and thus would be truly actionable are also detectable by 16S/ITS testing (or 16S/ITS-NGS). This makes questionable the utility of metagenomics in many diagnostic cases. One of the main points to accomplish laboratory validity is the presence of reference standards and controls when performing"}, {"text": "mNGS assays. They are needed to ensure the quality and stability of this technique over time. Sense and sensitivity. In clinical microbiology labs, the quantitation of microbial burden is considered a routine function as it is associated with the severity and progression of the disease. To achieve a good quantitation a high sensitivity of the technique is needed. Whereas interfering substances represent a common problem to clinical chemistry or to PCR diagnostics, the degree of interference from host (for example, in tissue biopsies) or nonpathogen nucleic acids (for example, in stool) in metagenomics is a new twist. In addition, due to the relative size of the human genome in comparison with microbial genomes the interference can occur at low levels of contaminating material. Another challenge for clinical metagenomics in regards to sensitivity is the diagnosis of coinfections where there are present high-titer pathogens that can generate biased results as they may disproportionately soak up reads and make difficult to distinguish the less predominant pathogens. In addition to issues with interfering substances, specially in the diagnosis area, accurate quantitation and sensitivities are essential as a confusion in the results can affect to a third person, the patient. For these reason, practitioners"}, {"text": "currently have to be keenly aware of the index-swapping issues associated with Illumina sequencing which can lead to trace incorrectly barcoded samples. Since metagenomics has typically been used on patients for whom every other test to date has been negative, questions surrounding analytical sensitivity haven been less germane. But, for ruling out infections causes being one of the more important roles for clinical metagenomics it is essential to be capable to perform a deep enough sequencing to achieve adequate sensitivities. One way could be developing novel library preparation techniques. Cost considerations. As of 2018, the Illumina monopoly on high-quality next-generation sequencing reagents has meant that the sequencing reagents alone cost more than FDA-approved syndromic testing panels. Also additional direct costs of metagenomics such as extraction, library preparation, and computational analysis have to be considered. In general, metagenomic sequencing is most useful and cost efficient for pathogen discovery when at least one of the following criteria are met:"}, {"text": "Prikanalny () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Kirovskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 96 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Prikanalny is located near the Gniloy Erik, 22 km northwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Starenky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pryshchevka () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kletskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 165 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. Pryshchevka is located 31 km southwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kletsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rakhinka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Rakhinskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 2,493 as of 2010. There are 46 streets. Geography. Rakhinka is located on the east bank of the Volgograd Reservoir, 49 km northeast of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhnepogromnoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Repino () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kletskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 269 as of 2010. Geography. Repino is located on the bank of the Repin Erik, 45 km southwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krivusha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Hardan can refer to:"}, {"text": "Rybachy () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Frunzenskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 201 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Rybachy is located 10 km west of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novenky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rybovodny () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Kirovskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 162 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Rybovodny is located west of the Gniloy Erik, south from Zelyony Island, 25 km northwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Prikanalny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sakharny () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Frunzenskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 169 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. Sakharny is located 23 km west of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Peschanka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Anniversary of the Unification of Italy () is a national day that falls annually on 17 March and celebrates the birth of Italy as a modern nation state, which took place following the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy on 17 March 1861. However, the complete unification of Italy took place only in the following years. In 1866 the Veneto and the province of Mantua were annexed after the Third Italian War of Independence, then in 1870 Lazio after the capture of Rome, and finally in 1918 Trentino-Alto Adige and Julian March after the First World War. In this regard, the National Unity and Armed Forces Day (Victory Day) was also established, which is celebrated annually on 4 November, recalling the Italian victory in the First World War, a war event considered to complete the process of unification of Italy. The anniversary of the birth of the Italian state was solemnly celebrated in 1911 (50 years), in 1961 (100 years), and in 2011 (150 years). With the Law of 23 November 2012, n. 222, on the subject of \"Regulations on the Acquisition of Knowledge and Skills in the Field of 'Citizenship and Constitution' and on the teaching of the"}, {"text": "hymn of Mameli in schools\", the establishment every 17 March of the \"National Unity, Constitution, Anthem and Flag Day\" was definitively approved on an annual basis. While remaining a working day, 17 March is considered a \"day promoting the values linked to national identity\". History. The anniversary of the unification of Italy recalls the promulgation of law no. 4671 of the Kingdom of Sardinia with which, on 17 March 1861, following the session of 14 March of the same year of the Chamber of Deputies in which the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy bill of 26 February 1861 was approved, Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy officially proclaimed the birth of the Kingdom of Italy, assuming the title of king of Italy for himself and his successors: Borrowing from the old Latin title \"Pater Patriae\" of the Roman emperors, the Italians gave to Victor Emmanuel II the epithet of \"Father of the Fatherland\" (). After his death, many initiatives were destined to raise a permanent monument that celebrated the first king of a united Italy, creator of the process of unification and liberation from foreign domination with Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Giuseppe Mazzini. The result was"}, {"text": "the construction of the Victor Emmanuel II Monument in Rome, called for synecdoche \"Altare della Patria\" (English: \"Altar of the Fatherland\"). 50th anniversary. In 1911, between March and April, the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Kingdom of Italy was celebrated with a series of exhibitions in Rome, Florence and Turin. In the latter city, the International Exhibition of Industry and Labor was held. In the capital, whose mayor at the time was Ernesto Nathan, the ethnographic exhibition of the regions was organized (inaugurated on 21 April) and the International Review of Contemporary Art, the Victor Emmanuel II Monument, the bridge Victory Emmanuel II was inaugurated on the Janiculum, the lighthouse of the Italians of Argentina. In Florence the \"Exhibition of the Italian portrait from the end of the 16th century to 1861\" and the International Floriculture Exhibition was held from March to July. The volume \"The Three Capitals: Turin-Florence-Rome\" written by Edmondo De Amicis in 1898 was published in support of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary. The Accademia dei Lincei, under the guidance of Pietro Blaserna, published the work \"Cinquant'anni di storia italiana\" in three volumes describing the political, economic and civil life history of Italy from"}, {"text": "1861 to 1911. 100th anniversary. The celebrations of the centenary began in 1959 with the visit to Italy of General Charles de Gaulle, from 23 to 27 June, to celebrate the memory of the Franco-Piedmontese alliance that allowed the victorious Second Italian War of Independence, which constituted the spring from which two years later national unification took place. During this visit, military magazines and demonstrations were organized on the battlefields of Magenta, Solferino and San Martino, and a visit to the Victor Emmanuel II Monument in Rome. In 1961, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the unification of Italy, three exhibitions were organized in Turin: the Historical Exhibition of the Unification of Italy, the Exhibition of Italian Regions and the International Labour Exhibition also known as Expo 61. Roberto Rossellini, author of numerous historical period films, directed two films centred on the Risorgimento: the celebratory \"Garibaldi\", in which he reconstructs the expedition of the Thousand, and the more intimate \"Vanina Vanini\", set in the times of the Carbonari uprisings. 150th anniversary. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary on 17 March 2011, celebrations were held throughout Italy and a national holiday was proclaimed with schools, offices and suspended"}, {"text": "work activities. Moreover, in order to avoid burdens on public finance and private companies, the juridical and economic effects of the suppressed holiday of 4 November were shifted to that date, or each employee had to deduct a day of leave required by the annual vacation sum. The celebrations for the 150th anniversary began on 5 May 2010 in Quarto dei Mille, with the participation of the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano. The town was chosen because it was from Quarto dei Mille that the Expedition of the Thousand, headed by Giuseppe Garibaldi, began on 5 May 1860. On 11 May 2010, President Napolitano attended in Marsala a historical reenactment of the arrival of the Thousand in the city. Napolitano went later to Salemi and Calatafimi to honour, together with Ignazio La Russa, the fallen of the battle of Calatafimi, which took place on 15 May 1860. The celebrations came alive on 17 March 2011, on the occasion of President Napolitano's visit to Turin. During the three-day visit, the 'Fare gli Italiani' exhibitions (curated by Walter Barberis and Giovanni De Luna) and 'Stazione futuro' (curated by Riccardo Luna) at the OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni in Turin, and 'La"}, {"text": "Bella Italia' (curated by Antonio Paolucci) at the Palace of Venaria were inaugurated. Over 2,000,000 visitors attended the Turin celebrations. With the law no. 222 of 23 November 2012 concerning the \"Rules on the acquisition of knowledge and skills in the field of Citizenship and Constitution, and on the teaching of the national anthem in schools\", the institution of the National Unity Day, the Constitution, the anthem, and the flag were approved: 160th anniversary. The celebration of the 160th anniversary on 17 March 2021 took place during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, which had resulted in the deaths of more of 100,000 Italians. The Italian government has designated 18 March been the Day in Memory of the Victims of the COVID-19 pandemic. National Unity Day. With the Law of 23 November 2012, n. 222, on the subject of \"Regulations on the Acquisition of Knowledge and Skills in the Field of 'Citizenship and Constitution' and on the teaching of the hymn of Mameli in schools\", the establishment every 17 March of the \"National Unity, Constitution, Anthem and Flag Day\" was definitively approved on an annual basis. While remaining a working day, 17 March is considered a \"day promoting the values linked"}, {"text": "to national identity\"."}, {"text": "Standartny () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Krasnoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 229 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Standartny is located 7 km east of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zayar is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Phil Green is an American politician from Michigan. Green is a Republican member of Michigan House of Representatives from District 67. Education. In 1999, Green earned a BS degree in Bible/Biblical Studies from Pensacola Christian College. In 2009, Green earned a MA degree in Biblical Exposition from Pensacola Theological Seminary. Career. Green was a pastor and a chaplain. In 2012, Green became a school administrator. On November 6, 2018, Green won the election and became a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives for District 84. Green defeated William Shoot with 67.04% of the votes. Following redistricting, Green ran in the 67th district in 2022, winning reelection. He was reelected in 2024. Personal life. Green's wife is Marun. In 2012, Green moved back to Michigan. Green lives in Millington, Michigan."}, {"text": "Shui-an Temple is a metro station on the Green Line operated by Taichung Metro in Nantun District, Taichung, Taiwan. The station name is taken from Shui-an Temple, which is located nearby. Initially, the station was known as Wenxin Daye Station (\u6587\u5fc3\u5927\u696d\u7ad9), but was renamed on August 18, 2020."}, {"text": "Wenxin Forest Park is a metro station on the Green Line operated by Taichung Metro in Nantun District, Taichung, Taiwan. The station name is taken from Wenxin Forest Park, a park that houses Fulfillment Amphitheater, which is located nearby."}, {"text": "Lee Yeo-jin (born 3 November 1987) is a South Korean announcer and SBS 8 News's weather caster. She was also a former student at Seoul Women's University, Seoul, South Korea. She is currently married to fellow SBS anchor and reporter, Kim Hyun-woo since 15 December 2019. They welcomed their first child together, a son, on 22 August 2020."}, {"text": "The Paramedic () is a 2020 Spanish psychological thriller film directed by , written by David Desola and H\u00e8ctor Hern\u00e1ndez Vicens and starring Mario Casas and D\u00e9borah Fran\u00e7ois. Taking place in Barcelona, its plot follows a psychopathic paramedic (Casas) with his girlfriend Vane (Fran\u00e7ois) and a newly acquired disability, as he was rendered paralytic from the waist down in the wake of an ambulance accident. \"The Paramedic\" was released on September 16, 2020, by Netflix. Plot. \u00c1ngel Hern\u00e1ndez is a paramedic who lives with his girlfriend Vanesa (Vane) Fran\u00e7ois. \u00c1ngel is unempathetic towards his patients and steals from them, selling the more valuable items to a local fence. At home, he is possessive and controlling towards Vane. The couple is trying for a baby without success. \u00c1ngel tells Vane it's her fault and even suggests her inability to get pregnant is psychosomatic. He then takes a fertility test and discovers that he has a low sperm count, but does not tell Vane. One day, while taking an injured patient to a hospital, the ambulance (driven by his colleague Ricardo) is involved in an accident, and \u00c1ngel is left paralysed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair. He blames Ricardo"}, {"text": "and is unable to forgive him. His disability puts a strain on his relationship with Vane, and he becomes increasingly paranoid that she is cheating on him. He seems to enjoy berating, mocking, and gaslighting her. Vane works at a call centre at night, and \u00c1ngel installs spyware on her phone to keep tabs on her. Via the phone spyware, he overhears a conversation between Vane and her friend, who tells her that \u00c1ngel is abusive and that Vane should leave him. When Vane returns home that day, \u00c1ngel has cooked her favourite meal and is apologetic about how he has treated her. They try to have sex but do not succeed because \u00c1ngel is unable to feel anything. While showering, Vane discovers from his laptop that he has been spying on her. Disgusted, she packs up and leaves for good. Several months pass, but \u00c1ngel is still obsessed with Vane. He stalks her and eventually sees her kissing Ricardo, with whom she has begun a relationship. Later, \u00c1ngel observes the couple shopping for baby things and realises she is pregnant with Ricardo's baby. \u00c1ngel meets Vane in the street and tells her that he has boxed up her remaining"}, {"text": "possessions and asks if she would like to come and pick them up. However, on their arrival at the apartment, \u00c1ngel injects Vane, causing her to lose consciousness. When she awakes, she finds herself gagged and tied to a bed. \u00c1ngel uses Vane's phone to send Ricardo a message, telling him she does not want to have their baby and asking him not to contact her. Ricardo later approaches \u00c1ngel to say he does not believe Vane sent the message and is worried because he can't find her. \u00c1ngel injects Vane with an epidural so that she temporarily loses the use of her legs. He presents her with an engagement ring (actually stolen from one of his former patients) and talks of their future together raising their (Vane's) baby. Vane makes an escape attempt, but he overpowers her. His elderly neighbour hears Vane scream and comes to investigate. When the old man threatens to call the police, \u00c1ngel stabs him to death and pays his friend the fence to dispose of the body. \u00c1ngel also goes over to Ricardo's house and kills him. A few days later, the police arrive at \u00c1ngel's apartment and advise him that they are investigating"}, {"text": "Ricardo's death and the disappearance of Vane (whom Ricardo had reported as a missing person). \u00c1ngel manages to satisfy the police that he knows nothing about either. Vane manages to escape while \u00c1ngel is out of the apartment. Although with only partial use of her legs, she succeeds in dragging herself down the staircase of the building, but when the lift stops on the landing, \u00c1ngel exits. They struggle, but Vane stabs him with a screwdriver, and he falls several flights down the stairwell. In the final scene, \u00c1ngel is in hospital, now completely paralysed, unable to talk, and breathing through a tube in his throat. Vane appears, fully recovered and visibly pregnant. She tells the helpless \u00c1ngel that from now on, she will be taking care of him. His fate is left unknown as Vane wheels him out of the hospital with a sinister smile on her face. Production. The screenplay was penned by , , and David Desola. The film is a Babieka Entertainment and Zabriskie Films production. Shooting locations in Catalonia included Lleida. Release. \"The Paramedic\" was released on September 16, 2020, by Netflix. Reception. Rub\u00e9n Romero Santos of \"Cineman\u00eda\" rated the film 3\u00bd out of 5"}, {"text": "stars, rallying laggards to join the Mario Casas bandwagon, highlighting the transformation experienced by the actor from \"Three Steps Above Heaven\" to \"The Paramedic\", in which he plays a \"wheelchair-bound inhuman sociopathic demon\". Raquel Hern\u00e1ndez Luj\u00e1n of \"HobbyConsolas\" rated the film with 80 points ('very good'), deeming it to be \"a very successful film with strong performances and a great ending\", also praising Casas' acting transformation, while warning that the film is not precisely reinventing the wheel."}, {"text": "Nantun is a metro station on the Green Line operated by Taichung Metro in Nantun District, Taichung, Taiwan."}, {"text": "Feng-le Park is a metro station on the Green Line operated by Taichung Metro in Nantun District, Taichung, Taiwan. The station name is taken from Fengle Sculpture Park, located nearby. Accidents and Incidents. On 10 May 2023, a construction crane fell 30 floors from a construction site of Highwealth Construction Corp onto a moving Green Line train south of Feng-le Park metro station, Taichung, Taiwan, killing 1 and injuring 10 passengers onboard."}, {"text": "Ahsanul Haq Mollah (known as Pancha Mollah; died 12 December 2003) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a four-term Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Kushtia-1 constituency. He served as the state minister of post and telecommunication in the second Khaleda Zia cabinet during 2001\u20132003. Suffering from liver cancer, Mollah was taken to Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok on 23 November 2003. He was later declared clinically dead and he died after his arrival in Dhaka on the way to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University. His son, Bachhu Mollah, was later elected in a by-election for the vacant position of Jatiya Sangsad membership representing the Kushtia-1 constituency."}, {"text": "Gustav, Count of Schlabrendorf (22 March 1750 \u2013 21 August 1824), described in various sources as a \"citizen of the world\" (\"Weltb\u00fcrger\"), was a political author and an enlightenment thinker. During or shortly before the first part of 1789 he relocated to Paris from where he enjoyed a ringside seat for the unfolding phases of the French Revolution, which, initially, he enthusiastically supported. He backed the revolutionary precepts of \"Liberty, Equality and Brotherhood\". He soon had reason to become mistrustful of the revolution's radicalisation, however, and during the \"Terror\" (\"Terreur\") period spent more than 17 months in prison, avoiding a terminal rendezvous with the guillotine only through an administrative oversight. He subsequently wrote several critical works about Napol\u00e9on Bonaparte. It was a reflection of his increasingly idiosyncratic lifestyle that by the 1820s he was becoming known as \"The Hermit of Paris\" (or, in certain more scholarly contemporary sources, \"Eremita Parisiensis\"): he was happy to endorse the soubriquet, on occasion using it to describe himself. Life. Provenance and early years. was born in Stettin, at that time a recovering war-ravaged port city in the Prussian Province of Pomerania (and since 1945 a Polish city known internationally by its Polish-language name as"}, {"text": "Szczecin). He was the third son of Ernst Wilhelm von Schlabrendorf by his marriage to Anna Carolina von Otterstaedt, from the aristocratic . The two families had been close for a number of generations. Soon after Gustav's birth, his father was appointed First Minister of Silesia. As a result of the promotion the family moved, in 1755, to the Silesian capital, Breslau (as Wroc\u0142aw was known at that time). The job of integrating the prosperous and recently annexed Silesian territories into the Kingdom of Prussia was a major challenge, but it was one for which Ernst Wilhelm von Schlabrendorf was apparently well rewarded in various ways. On 20 March 1763 the king made him a special gift of 50,000 Thalers. By the time he died in 1769 his family was, by the standards of the time and place, conspicuously wealthy. Gustav von Schlabrendorf spent most of his childhood in Silesia. He received a thorough and comprehensive schooling from and then, in 1767, moved on to Hochschule (university) level education in Frankfurt am Oder where he remained till 1769. Between 1769 and 1772 he continued his studies at Halle. He had enrolled to study Law, which would have provided a conventional"}, {"text": "preparation for a career in public administration. Gustav von Schlabrendorf, however, interpreted his curricular opportunities more widely, studying ancient and Modern Languages along with Philosophy and the Arts. He was also drawn to Freemasonry which had arrived in Prussia from England and Scotland earlier that century. In 1777 he was accepted into the lodge in Leipzig. Travels. His father's death at the end of 1769 left Gustav von Schlabrendorf well provided for. Since 1766 he had also been receiving income from a benefice in Magdeburg which his father had set up for him back in 1753. He could therefore afford to broaden his education with a succession of lengthy trips across the German lands, the Swiss Confederacy, France and England. In the end he based himself in England for six years. He was, in particular, intrigued and impressed by the uniqueness of the country, by its constitutional structure, its highly developed industries and, not least by its philanthropic institutions based around its national church For some of his time in England he was accompanied by the distinguished anglophile aristocrat, Baron vom Stein. During this period he also established what would become a long-lasting friendships with the enlightenment philosopher, Friedrich Heinrich"}, {"text": "Jacobi. and the radical old-Etonian polemicist Horne Tooke. Paris. Shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution, von Schlabrendorf relocated to Paris. He took a room in the \"H\u00f4tel des Deux Siciles\" to which his carriage driver had delivered him. As matters turned out this hotel would become his home for the next thirty years. Several high-profile French intellectuals associated with the enlightenment ideals underpinning the unfolding revolution which von Schlabrendorf anticipated with enthusiasm became personal friends. These included the Marquis de Condorcet, Louis-S\u00e9bastien Mercier and Jacques Pierre Brissot. (Two of these three would be dead by the end of 1795.) In addition, he quickly became a part of the network of politically aware German expatriates living in the city. Among these exiled democrats and revolutionaries were the writer-polymath Georg Forster, the Schwabian physician and commentator Johann Georg Kerner, the political journalist from Silesia, and more briefly, the youthful revolutionary Adam Lux. Von Schlabrendorf was older and richer than most of the others: he tended to take a lead in offering advice and looking after the material needs of his German radical friends in Paris. Victim of the revolution. Gustav von Schlabrendorf greeted the outbreak of the French Revolution as"}, {"text": "\"die Erl\u00f6serin des rein Menschlichen\" (\"loosely \"the salvation of all humanity\"\"). His circle greeted the Storming of the Bastille with enthusiasm. Government, especially in Bourbon France, was out of touch with the increasingly prevalent enlightenment precepts in which they believed. However, as the revolution unfolded on the streets of Paris the \"moderate\" revolutionaries found themselves marginalised after the Girondins were replaced by better organised Jacobin hardliners. Gustav von Schlabrendorf and his circle found themselves under intensifying suspicion. In the summer of 1793 von Schlabrendorf was arrested. At about the same time he broke off his brief but passionate engagement with Jane, the sister of the Scots-born reformist Thomas Christie. In prison he found that the inmates divided into \"two classes of men: men of rank and foreigners\". Determined to keep a low profile, he \"shunned the former and associated wholly with the latter\", attempting to be identified as a sort of transnational member of the revolutionary \"Sans-culottes\" faction. He continued to be a generous benefactor to needy friends and fellow inmates. He was able to entrust his wealth to , who had been able to avoid imprisonment and probable execution by escaping to Switzerland Oelsner was now able to conserve"}, {"text": "von Schlabrendorf's property and, later, to return it despite his own financial difficulties. Meanwhile von Schlabrendorf awaited his execution with evident equanimity. Various reports later surfaced as to how he managed to avoid death at this stage: the most colourful contends that on the morning when his name appeared on the list of prisoners to be placed on the cart for transportation to the guillotine he was unable to find his shoes. According to the anecdote that later emerged, on account of this difficulty his jailor agreed that it was unreasonable that he should be executed without his boots on his feet, and he was accordingly left off that day's cart, in order to be taken with the next day's batch for execution instead. However, on the next day, as he awaited the call, duly prepared and booted, his name was not called. His execution had evidently been forgotten, and although he feared being summoned for death each day thereafter, in the end he was able to leave the prison alive. That happened only after the fall of Robespierre, at which point a large number of surviving detainees were released. Gustav von Schlabrendorf, who by this time had been imprisoned"}, {"text": "for almost eighteen months, now returned to his room at the \"H\u00f4tel des Deux Siciles\" in the fashionable Rue de Richelieu, where he would live out the rest of his life. A Paris Diogenes. Even though from now on he showed a growing reluctance ever to leave his hotel, von Schlabrendorf quickly resumed his role as a support and focus of intellectual ideas, both through face to face discussion and through his habit of making generous financial provision to those who turned to him whether they deserved it or (in the view of at least one biographer) not. In his city-centre hotel room he himself led an existence of bizarre austerity. His increasingly eccentric lifestyle led to him being described by friends and admirers as a \"Parisian Diogenes\" (\"Diogenes von Paris\"), a soubriquet which according to some observers he rather liked. He was also a regular letter writer. Letters survived, which is one of several reasons that he made a major contribution to the detailed knowledge and understanding of the French Revolution across Germany as the nineteenth century progressed towards a more democratic future. That was important because German reformers and revolutionaries who set forth their proposals in 1848, not"}, {"text": "just in 1848 but also during the decades that followed, drew much of their understanding of the French Revolution from the writings of Gustav von Schlabrendorf. Women. Unusually for those times, but significantly in the context of twentieth century developments, many of his interlocutors and correspondents were women. One who has left a particularly large footprint in history for English-language readers was Mary Wollstonecraft (1759\u20131797), like him an enthusiastic backer, at the outset, of the French Revolution who at the end of 1792 came to Paris in order better to understand what was happening. She quickly came into contact with von Schlabrendorf's circle of mainly foreign-born intellectuals during the period of more than two years that she spent in Paris. According to one of Wollstonecraft's biographers \"the rich Silesian Count von Schlabrendorff ... was living 'on almost nothing' in order to avoid adverse comment on his wealth\". Subsequently von Schlabrendorf would recall her \"charming grace ... [and face] ... full of expression... There was enchantment in her glance, her voice and her movement... [She was] the noblest, purest and most intelligent woman I ever met\". A [female] biographer quoting von Schlabrendorf's reaction also points out that he was \"a susceptible"}, {"text": "man and was [at the time]... engaged to Jane Christie\". Indeed there were famously plenty of men who were charmed by Mary Wollstonecraft, and no doubt there will have been other woman to whom von Schlabrendorf was attracted. But there is no record that large numbers of women visited him during his eighteen months in prison awaiting the guillotine: according to an entry in Wilhelm von Humboldt's diaries, Mary Wollstonecraft often did. Long war. He was constantly troubled by the erosion of his hopes, and those of his friends, in the positive power of the revolution, and devoted much energy and resource to charitable and humanitarian ventures. A devout protestant, he backed a bible society and the protestant minority more generally, committing resources to the education and welfare of the poor. Meanwhile he took a lively interest in events back in his homeland. Prussia was under sustained attack from the French revolutionary armies. After Napoleon's successful power grab in 1799 the French military machine became increasingly effective. In 1806 the Prussian government would be forced to abandon Berlin. The king took refuge in East Prussia. Meanwhile, in Paris von Schlabrendorf spent generously to improve the conditions of compatriots who had"}, {"text": "been taken prisoners of war by French troops. In 1803 he received an \"invitation\" from the Prussian government to return \"home\" to Silesia, since he was Silesian vassal [of the King of Prussia]. When he failed to comply he was threatened with confiscation of his substantial Silesian landholdings. The confiscation was then formally enacted, on 7 September 1803, by means of a confiscation decree enacted by the Silesian authorities, based at this stage in Glogau on account of the disruption caused by the war. Wilhelm von Humboldt's diaries report that throughout this time he paid close attention to current issues and developments, engaging constantly in intense political discussions, providing inspiration, and endlessly displaying to friends and visitors alike a singular flair for finding unexpected counter-arguments. Confiscations. In Silesia, despite the order to confiscate von Schlabrendorf's lands having come into effect, there are signs that at least some in the government were keen to minimise unpleasantness. A letter dated 3 November 1803, from , the Prussian Minister for Silesia, urged von Schlabrendorf to lose no time in visiting his homeland, even if he would only stay for four weeks, in order to demonstrate his respect for The king's wishes. The letter"}, {"text": "concludes with a personal postscript: \"I repeat my very simple request. Take care for your own interests and make then small sacrifice of a brief change in your usual lifestyle.\" But Schlabrendorf remained unmoved, pleading ill-health. Nevertheless, following intercessions made on his behalf, the authorities decided to substitute a temporary sequestration of his property. The Prussian ambassador in Paris, Girolamo Lucchesini, was mandated to visit von Schlabrendorf to plead with him to accede to the request that he return, if only briefly, to Silesia. A meeting took place in February 1804, but von Schlabrendorf had by now, he indicated, become convinced that the entire matter resulted from family intrigues orchestrated by his relatives, and again refused to leave Paris. Later that year, during the summer, von Schlabrendorf persuaded the Prussian authorities that he really was keen to return home, but he made a plea that he might be granted a further brief deferral. The king was reportedly persuaded, and on 26 August 1804 granted a six week extension. Somehow at the end of the six week period Gustav von Schlabrendorf was still in Paris, however. One source, possibly having regard to something von Schlabrendorf himself subsequently asserted, indicates that he"}, {"text": "wanted to return to his homeland and take part in the wars of liberation in his homeland but did not receive the necessary exit documentation from the French authorities. In 1805 matters became more serious, when the Prussian authorities deprived him of the benefice income he had been receiving from Magdeburg since 1766. He had, in fairness, not been diligent in fulfilling his benefice commitments. By a cabinet decree of 24 September 1805, the lifting of the sequestration of his Silesian land was made expressly conditional upon his returning \"home\". Still von Schlabrendorf was unmoved, his own lifestyle being frugal, but he was nevertheless concerned that he was no longer able to be as generous as before to others. Following a succession of crushing military defeats the Treaties of Tilsit in July 1807 left Prussia much diminished territorially. A massive monetary \"tribute\" was also levied. French armies had captured Berlin the previous year, forcing the Prussian king to move the court to K\u00f6nigsberg. Nevertheless, Prussia still had an army which enforced a measure of respect among the great powers, and towards the end of 1807 the king's younger brother, the soldier-diplomat Prince William arrived in Paris on a mission to"}, {"text": "try and persuade the emperor to ameliorate the terms imposed at Tilsit. The size of the \"tribute\" levied on Prussia was indeed reduced in 1808, though opinions differ over how far this represented a personal achievement by Prince William. For Gustav von Schlabrendorf Prince William's time in Paris was certainly not wasted. The prince was accompanied to Paris by the celebrity-polymath Alexander von Humboldt who had recently returned from a five year trip through \"the Americas\". Von Humboldt was, like von Schlabrendorf, a committed letter writer, and the two were friends. It was arranged that Gustav von Schlabrendorf, who was evidently incentivised by the prospect of meeting the king's brother to leave his hotel room, should be presented to the prince. The prince was greatly entertained and charmed by this erudite Prussian: during his stay in Paris, von Schlabrendorf became a frequent guest at the prince's table. Von Schlabrendorf was able to use his new friendship with the king's younger brother to have the confiscation of his Silesian states revoked. On Napoleonic France and Europe. Gustav von Schlabrendorf's best known work, which appeared - initially without attribution - in 1804 was entitled \"Napoleon Buonaparte and the French People under his"}, {"text": "Consulate\" (\"Napoleon Bonaparte und das franz\u00f6sische Volk unter seinem Konsulate\"). Longer than a political pamphlet but shorter than many books of the period, for a long time the powerfully written criticism was widely, if incorrectly, attributed to the musician Johann Friedrich Reichardt, another disillusioned former backer of the French Revolution who by this stage was making no secret of his hostility to the Bonapartist r\u00e9gime. It was indeed von Schlabrendorf's friend, Reichardt who smuggled the manuscript out of France and saw to its publication. Gustav von Schlabrendorf, who once had so admired the French Revolution seemed to have become an uncompromising francophobe during the intervening fifteen years, leading one biographer to puzzle over his reluctance to return to Silesia. Taking some of the observations in this publication at face value, one can be driven to conclude that there was nothing to keep him in Paris apart from inertia driven by a powerful disinclination to submit to changes in his routine. The French, he wrote, were a fundamentally rotten nation (\"...eine \"grundausverdorbene\" Nation\") characterised by a complete return to \"the great all-consuming tyranny of sensuality and egotism in the heart of every individual [which] renders all laws powerless and ineffective\". There"}, {"text": "were good reasons why von Schlabrendorf might have been hesitant about acknowledging authorship of the work. According to several commentators, von Schlabrendorf's \"open criticism of Napoleon\" triggered no adverse consequences [in Paris] because the authorities did not regard this quirky eccentric as a serious opponent. The failure of the French censors to take him seriously may very well have saved his life. The fact that Schlabrendorf wrote and voiced his opinions chiefly For German expatriates and readers, using the German language, while censors based in Paris and the public opinion for which they cared tended to be affected primarily by what was uttered and written in French, was no doubt also a factor. On the far side of the Rhine his published views on Napoleon's actions drew plenty of attention. The book's German readers, including Goethe, Karl B\u00f6ttiger and Johannes von M\u00fcller were confronted \u2014 in many cases for the first time \u2014 with a book written in Paris, at the heart of the Napoleonic project, that uncompromisingly insisted that far from promoting the democratic development of Europe, Napoleon was in the process becoming a major threat. Several further editions quickly appeared in both German and English. The book was"}, {"text": "a sensation with readers because of the way in which, as early as 1804, it exposed the brutality of the authoritarian Napoleonic tyranny, even before the relaunch of his r\u00e9gime as the French Empire in May 1804. Between the book's appearance during 1804 and Napoleon's fall ten years later, von Schlabrendorf's warnings proved prescient. In the characteristic phraseology of von Schlabrendorf's biographer, Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, von Schlabrendorf's trenchant opinions were \"like a shining meteor in a politically gloomy sky of that time\". It was also in 1804 that he produced his \"Letter to Bonaparte\". The tone was even more shrill, though the text was again in German. The 65 page unattributed \"letter\" was sent, it said, from \"one of [the emperor's] formerly most ardent supporters in Germany\". On the title page, where normally the author, printer and/or publisher would have been identified, was written simply \"Deutschland, Anfangs Juny, 1804\" (\"Germany, early June 1804\"). In it von Schlabrendorf condemned Napoleon's hypocrisy and murderous cruelty: More eccentric yet. Following the publication of his attacks on Napoleon, von Schlabrendorf's behaviour became, year by year, more idiosyncratic than ever. Several more German-language passionate diatribes against Napoleon were published, and it may reflect"}, {"text": "von Schlabrendorf's growing awareness of the threat of arrest that he took greater care than before to conceal his authorship. In his 1806 offering \"Napoleon Buonaparte wie er leibt und lebt und das franz\u00f6sische Volk unter ihm\" (\"loosely, \"Napoleon Buonaparte: how he lives and how the French people live under him\"\") - ostensibly published in \"Petersburg\" by an unidentified publisher and, again, scripted by an unidentified author - he used the Corsican spelling of the emperor's name which might have been a quiet device for emphasizing Napoleon's non-French provenance and may also have been an attempt to distance the publication from others that he had recently had published. In a further subterfuge the book was described as a \"translation from the English\" though in fact, when the English version did appear, it was a translation from the German original text undertaken by von Schlabrendorf's East Anglian friend, the lawyer diarist Henry Crabb Robinson. In any event, the French authorities had already concluded that von Schlabrendorf was \"more mysterious than alarming\" and the French censors still failed to pounce. His hotel room continued to be a focus for German and French intellectuals, artists and diplomats, but the occupant's quirky habits and"}, {"text": "absence of personal hygiene began to feature in letters and reports from some of his visitors, along with speculation as to whether or not he ever bothered to wear any appropriate undergarments. His beard simply grew and grew. Alexander von Humboldt would recall, in a letter to his brother, that during his later years Gustav von Schlabrendorf would eat nothing except fruit. Nor, it would appear, did he waste money on heating his room. \"That overcoat is undoubtedly still the one that we knew in the last century\", confided Wilhelm von Humboldt after a visit to the \"H\u00f4tel des Deux Siciles\" in 1813. Von Humboldt's relationship with von Schlabrendorf may have been affected by the fact that Caroline von Humboldt, his wife was (and is) widely believed to have been Gustav von Schlabrendorf's mistress since as early as 1804. (Wilhelm and Caroline von Humboldt operated what was, even by the standards of those times, a famously \"open\" marriage.) Fame. By the time allied armies took Paris in March 1814 Gustav Schlabrendorf's authorship from Paris of a series of German-language polemical yet scholarly anti-Napoleon books and tracts was no secret. In Prussia and the westerly German speaking lands that had been"}, {"text": "part of the French empire till 1813 he was something of a celebrity. The advancing Prussian forces greeted him with enthusiasm and the invitation to return \"home\" to Prussia was renewed. (However, somehow he was unable to obtain the necessary travel documents.) After the coalition armies entered Paris, it is reported that the assistance he rendered the military was so important that The king awarded him the (recently inaugurated) Iron Cross. Later years. After the Napoleonic Wars ended, Gustav con Schlabrendorf lived on for nearly ten years, as far as visitors could tell under ever more reduced circumstances, any available funds being spent on scholarship or charity. He nevertheless remained in the city-centre \"hermitage\" he had created for himself over the previous twenty years. Paris had become an international city: there were more visiting foreign diplomats and politicians, writers and artists, Germans and Frenchmen. His pungent book-lined hotel room was busier than ever. Many sought advice. Some sought and received \"financial support\". According to a recollection attributed to his friend , at one point, surrounded by his books and manuscripts, he remained in his hotel room without a break for nine years. He frequently renewed his assurances that he intended"}, {"text": "to come \"home\" to Prussia, but that never happened. Inertia prevailed. His recurring mistress, Caroline von Humboldt, had named one of the von Humboldts' eight recorded children after him back in 1806 and remained a regular visitor and companion ten years later. She would later describe Gustav von Humboldt as \"simply the most human human being I ever knew\" In the aftermath of the war, with his Silesian estates restored to him, von Schlabrendorf was able to resume his generous giving to friends in need, prisoners of war rendered destitute and other good causes, but it is not clear that his fortune held out for as long as he did. During his final few years he set out to try and crystallise his ideas on paper: the focus was increasingly on his writing. He engaged intensively on creating a \"general languages\" teaching theory and on etymological studies more broadly. This never led to any published conclusions, but traces of his theories and conclusions found their way into the public realm via papers and books produced subsequently by his friends. During the summer of 1824 Gustav von Schlabrendorf fell seriously ill. With great difficulty his doctor succeeded in prising him away"}, {"text": "from his hotel room and he moved to Batignolles, which at that time was a country village to the north of the city. The purpose of the move was to enable his health to benefit from the clean country air. However, the move came late in the day, and on 21 August 1824 he died at Batignolles. His final big project had involved collating his writings concerning the French Revolution. He intended to bequeath this to a Prussian university. A will setting forth his intentions had been prepared but, not for the first time in the life of Gustav von Schlabrendorf, stated intentions had not been followed through: the legal requirements for validation of the document had not been completed. When he died his most recent valid will dated from 1785, and his death was followed by disputatious exchanges between his relatives even though, apart from his books and papers, he had managed to die bereft of worldly assets. The Prussian embassy had to pay most of the costs associated with his funeral. His papers were sold off: the whereabouts of most of them is unknown. Afterlife. His body was buried at the \"P\u00e8re Lachaise Cemetery\" (as Paris's largest cemetery"}, {"text": "has subsequently become known). Some time later the remains were moved to the \"Chemin Bohm\" cemetery and reinterred close to the tomb of the Prussian soldier-ambassador . There (in 2019) they remain. The main tombstone was removed sometime around 1900 but parts of the grave's stone surround can still be seen and the grave plot has not yet been recycled."}, {"text": "Stord Idrettslag is a sports club located in Stord, Norway. The club was founded as Stord Turn og idrettslag (Stord T&IL) on 30 March 1914, and today it has sections for athletics, basketball, gymnastics, handball, football, orienteering, volleyball, skiing, speed skating and swimming. The club formerly had a section for wrestling. History. The club was founded on 30 March 1914 as \"Stord Turn og idrettslag\". In 2001, this name was changed to the current name, \"Stord Idrettslag\". Football. History. The men's football team currently plays in 3. divisjon, the fourth tier of the Norwegian football league system. They played in the second tier for two consecutive seasons in 1989 and 1990. Stord/Moster and Stord Sunnhordland FK (2002\u20132006). In 2002, Stord's senior team merged with Moster IL and created \"Stord/Moster\". The goal for the merger was to create a new elite team which could have wider support inn the Sunnhordland region. Stord/Moster won the 2003 3. divisjon, but lost to Norheimsund IL in the playoff to the 2. divisjon. In 2006, the club got new owners and changed its name from Stord/Moster to Stord Sunnhordland on 15 March 2006. In December 2006, it was decided to discontinue the club. Its spot"}, {"text": "in the league system and its squad was transferred back to Stord IL. The chairman of the new limited company Sunnhordland Toppfotball, which now supported the club, said that Stord Sunnhordland had \"been a club without soul\". Recent years (2007\u2013present). In the 2013 season, Stord Fotball promoted to the third tier, but were relegated back to the fourth tier in the following season. They repeated this feat in 2015 through winning their group in the 2015 3. divisjon, but a twelfth-place finish in the 2016 2. divisjon saw Stord relegate back to the 3. divisjon, where they currently plays. Recent men's football seasons. Source: Handball. The men's team in Stord Handball currently plays in the third tier of Norwegian handball. The team played twelve consecutive seasons in the top flight before they were relegated from the 2010\u201311 season."}, {"text": "Shin Shifra (); is the pen name of Shifra Shifman Shmuelevitch (1931 \u2013 9 February 2012), a poet, translator, writer, editor and literary academic. Shifra won multiple literature awards. Biography. Shin Shifra, the fifth of eight children, was born in Tel Aviv and raised in Bnei Brak, in a veteran Jerusalemite family. Her father was among the first new age Jewish teachers in The Land of Israel. She studied at the Talpiot high school gymnasium for girls in Tel Aviv, and graduated from the Levinsky Seminar for Teachers in Jaffa. In addition, she studied Kabbalah, Jewish philosophy, Hebrew literature, Sumerian and Akkadian. Her first poems were published in 1953. Shifra was on the management board of the defunct voluntary association \"Amanut La\u2019am\"; she established \"The Center for Arab Children's Literature\" in collaboration with The Arab Academic College for Education in Israel \u2013 Haifa, under the leadership of Naim Araidi. She taught creative writing for high school students, and Ancient Near East literature at the Tel Aviv University and the Levinsky College of Education In 1964 she married the ex-Lehi member Matityahu Shmuelevitch. Shifra Shifman Shmuelevitch died in 2012, at the age of 80, and was buried at the Yarkon Cemetery"}, {"text": "alongside her husband. Her personal archive is kept at the Gnazim Archive of the Hebrew Writers Association at the Tel Aviv central public library Beit Ariela. The thread that connects her translation work with many of her other works is the connection to the place (the Land of Israel and the Middle East). According to her, she became interested in the literature of the ancient Middle East as a result of delving into the work of Nissim Aloni. This connection was central to the ideology of the group called the Canaanites, and that Shafra was close to her friends, and in particular to Yonatan Ratosh. She testified about him that he edited her first poems, and that she published some of his letters after his death, and to Aharon Amir. She was an editorial board member at the \"New Rainbow\" association. Literary works. Shifra's greatest work, done in collaboration with Prof. Jacob Klein of the Bar-Ilan University, is the anthology of Ancient Near East poetry, on which they spent 15 years in its translation to Hebrew from Sumerian and Akkadian. It includes epic poetry, myths and song cycles such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, En\u00fbma Eli\u0161 and a Tammuz-Ishtar song"}, {"text": "cycle. This translation is quite unique in its coverage of works from the Ancient Near East, vs. the vast majority of ancient literature translations to Hebrew, that covers works of Western culture. The translation reveals the common base of the ancient near east mythology and the Genesis creation narrative and flood narrative, and brings to light a unique feminine narrative. In her last years, Shifra published adaptations for children and young adults of the Sumerian and Akkadian cultural heritage. In \"The Epic of Gilgamesh\", she chose to present the stories of the myths via a fictitious Assyrian narrator, Kerdi-Nergal, who recites tales to King Ashurbanipal. The common thread connecting Shifra's translations and many of her other works is the geographical location affinity linking the Land of Israel to the Middle East. She recalled that her initial interest in the literature of the Ancient Near East was sparked by her delving into the works of Nisim Aloni. This connection was central to the ideology of the Canaanism movement, with whose members she was closely associated, especially to Yonatan Ratosh and Aharon Amir. Shifra attested that Ratosh had edited her early poems. Shifra was also on the editorial team of Ratosh's periodical"}, {"text": "\"The New Keshet\". Shifra's poetry was translated into several languages, and her original works and translations were published in periodicals and literary supplements. Works. Translations. In Those Far Days \u2013 an anthology of Sumerian and Akkadian poetry, translated into Hebrew by Shifra and Prof. Jacob Klein, published in 1996 by Am Oved and The Israeli Center for Libraries' project for translating Exemplary Literature to Hebrew. Poetry. Poetry books published in Hebrew: A Woman\u02b9s Song, Machbarot Lesifrut, 1962 [Shir Isha] The Next Step, Machbarot Lesifrut, 1968 [Ha-Tza\u02b9ad Ha-Ba] Desert Poems, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1972 [Shirei Midbar] Drimias Memorial Candles (Poems 1973\u20131985), Am Oved, 1987 [Hatzavim Nerot Neshama] A Woman Who Practices How to Live, Zmora-Bitan, 2001 [Isha She-Mit\u02b9amenet Be-Lichyot: Shirim 1986\u20131999] Whispering Silk, Zmora-Bitan, 2007 [Meshi Lachashta Li] Prose. Prose Books published in Hebrew: Adult's Books. The Sand Street (stories), Hakibbutz Hameuchad/ Yedioth Ahronoth, 1994 [Rehov Ha-Hol] Woman Is Just an Arena (stories), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2012 [Isha Hi Rak Zira] Children and Young Adults. The Epic of Gilgamesh (young adults), Am Oved, 2000 [Alilot Gilgamesh] The Tales of Anzu the Great Eagle (children), Am Oved, 2009 [Alilot Anzu Ha-Nesher Ha-Gadol] The Descend of Ishtar to the Underworld (young adults), Am Oved, 2012"}, {"text": "[Alilot Inanna-Ishtar Ba-Sh\u02b9ol] Non-fiction. Non-fiction books published in Hebrew: Editing. Jewish Literature in the Hebrew Language \u2013 by Yonatan Ratosh; introduction, notes and references by Shin Shifra, Hadar 1982 The Beginning Days \u2013 by Yonatan Ratosh; edited by Shin Shifra, Hadar 1982 Pseudonyms. Shifra published an article titled \"No Intercourse, and With No Delight \u2013 on the Problem of the Alien Lover in Israeli Literature\" in the May 1972 edition of the periodical \"Aleph\", under the pseudonym \"Yosef Dotan\". Further reading. Shin Shifra, \"In the Meadow in the Soft Grass\", in \"Whence did I Inherit my Poetry \u2013 writers and poets on their sources of inspiration\", edited by Ruth Kartun-Blum, Yedioth Ahronoth Books, 2002, pp. 129\u2013147"}, {"text": "The Imagineering Story is a documentary miniseries created, directed and executive produced by Leslie Iwerks. The series is focused on Walt Disney Imagineering and takes an in-depth look at the history and creation of the Disney theme parks and attractions around the world. The series premiered on Disney+ at the launch date of November 12, 2019. Production. Originally announced as a feature documentary in 2013, The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger announced that the film was being revamped as a series of six one-hour episodes for the upcoming Disney+ streaming service. In April 2019, the series was formally announced. In August 2019, it was announced that Angela Bassett would be narrating the series. Release. \"The Imagineering Story \" premiered on November 12, 2019, on Disney+, in the United States and in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2020. A supplemental book based on the series written by Iwerks entitled \"The Imagineering Story: The Official Biography of Walt Disney Imagineering\" was published by Disney Editions on November 8, 2022. Reception. Critical reception. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating for the series with an average rating of 6.84/10, based on 13 reviews. Metacritic, which uses a"}, {"text": "weighted average, assigned a score of 62 out of 100 based on 7 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". Joel Keller of \"Decider\" praised the series for depicting the construction and development of Walt Disney World in Florida, and the achievements of Disney employees working at Walt Disney Imagineering, but claimed that the documentary could have been more lively. Melissa Camacho of \"Common Sense Media\" rated the documentary 3 out of 5 stars, stating: \"\"The Imagineering Story\" is a documentary series about the creative teams that conceptualize, design, and build Disney theme parks and their best attractions. It highlights the importance of pushing boundaries and being creative, and the role of STEAM principles in this process.\" Gretchen Smail of \"IGN\" rated the series 6,5 out of 10, praised the documentary and found it interesting for providing information and anecdotes on the history of Disney parks, stated that the series forms a tribute to the people who created and worked on Disney's parks and attractions that highlights their innovative contributions, but claimed that the documentary does not engage with the history of The Walt Disney Company with enough balance."}, {"text": "Starenky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kirovskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 243 as of 2010. Geography. Starenky is located 24 km northwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Prikanalny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Stakhanovets () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kuybyshevskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 51 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Stakhanovets is located 11 km southwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kashirin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sukhodol () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Sukhodolskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,334 as of 2010. There are 23 streets. Geography. Sukhodol is located 14 km southeast of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Shumrovaty is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Talovy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Sukhodolskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 26 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Talovy is located 17 km southeast of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sukhodol is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Trety Reshayushchy () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Frunzenskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 334 as of 2010. There are 15 streets. The name of settlement which means \"Third Decisive\" is very unusual and is probably related to the Soviet tradition of naming third year of five-year plan \"decisive\". Geography. Trety Reshayushchy is located 14 km west of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rybachy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Men's Volleyball tournament at the 2019 Military World Games is held in Wuhan, China from 20 to 26 October. Preliminary round. Group A. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group B. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "Tretya Karta () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Kirovskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 483 as of 2010. There are 16 streets. Geography. Tretya Karta is located near the Pakhotny Erik, 19 km northwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kuybyshev is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tumak () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kletskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 279 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Tumak is located 37 km southwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pryshchevka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators is a 2019 book by the American journalist Ronan Farrow. He recounts the challenges he faced chasing the stories of Harvey Weinstein's decades of rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse of women and the case against him. Farrow argues that Weinstein was able to use Black Cube, a private Israeli intelligence service, to successfully pressure executives at NBC News to kill the story there, leading him to take it to \"The New Yorker\", where it was published and helped spark the international #MeToo movement exposing sexual abuse, mostly of women, in many industries. The title refers to the practice of catch and kill, in which disreputable media companies purchase stories so that they can bury them. The book is published by Little, Brown and Company, and, according to Farrow, \"was exhaustively vetted by Sean Lavery, a senior fact checker at \"The New Yorker\"\". Background. Catch and kill media practice. Catch and kill is a covert technique\u2014usually employed by tabloid newspapers\u2014to prevent an individual from publicly revealing damaging information to a third party. Using a legally enforceable non-disclosure agreement, the tabloid purports to buy exclusive rights to \"catch\" the damaging"}, {"text": "story from the individual, but then \"kills\" the story for the benefit of the third party by preventing it from ever being published. The individual with the information frequently does not realize that the tabloid intends to suppress the individual's story instead of publishing it. The practice is distinct from using hush money, in which the individual is bribed by the third party to intentionally conceal the damaging information. The \"National Enquirer\" and its parent company American Media Inc. (AMI) have attracted attention for using the practice. Farrow's journalism. Farrow has a varied background, including work for the United States Department of State, but turned to journalism in the mid-2010s. He hosted \"Ronan Farrow Daily\", a television news program on MSNBC, then the investigative segment \"Undercover with Ronan Farrow\" on NBC's \"Today\". Abuse allegations against Bill Cosby and Woody Allen. In May 2016, \"The Hollywood Reporter\" published a guest column by Farrow in which he drew comparisons between the long-term absence of journalistic inquiry into the rape allegations leveled against Bill Cosby and the sexual abuse allegations levied against his father Woody Allen by Farrow's sister, Dylan Farrow, who was seven at the time of the alleged abuse. Farrow detailed"}, {"text": "first-hand accounts of journalists, biographers, and major publications purposefully omitting from their work decades of rape allegations targeting Cosby. Similarly, Farrow recounts the efforts of Allen's publicist, Leslee Dart\u2014co-CEO and co-founder of a public-relations firm\u2014to mount a media campaign focused on countering Dylan's allegations, while working at vindicating her father:Every day, colleagues at news organizations forwarded me the emails blasted out by Allen's powerful publicist, who had years earlier orchestrated a robust publicity campaign to validate my father's sexual relationship with another one of my siblings. Those emails featured talking points ready-made to be converted into stories, complete with validators on offer\u2014therapists, lawyers, friends, anyone willing to label a young woman confronting a powerful man as crazy, coached, vindictive. At first, they linked to blogs, then to high-profile outlets repeating the talking points\u2014a self-perpetuating spin machine. Farrow believed his sister Dylan and related his concerns with their father going back to when they were young children. In closing, he expressed his view that media culture actively discourages victims of abuse from coming forward. He states that victims are pressured to remain silent by threat of \"having those tough newsroom conversations, making the case for burning bridges with powerful public figures\""}, {"text": "as well as \"going up against angry fans and angry publicists\". Abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein, start of #MeToo. In October 2017, \"The New Yorker\" published an investigative article by Farrow detailing allegations of sexual misconduct against film producer Harvey Weinstein five days after \"The New York Times\" published the findings of its own investigation into Weinstein by the journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. A year prior, NBC had decided against airing Farrow's initial findings. \"The New Yorker\" won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for Farrow's reporting, sharing the award with Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey at \"The New York Times\". Farrow was included in \"Time\" magazine's \"100 Most Influential People in the World\" list in 2018. The Weinstein allegations of abuse\u2014against a rich powerful man by numerous women whose careers were in ways directed by him\u2014kickstarted an international #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault. The movement began to spread virally in October 2017 as a hashtag on social media in an attempt to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of misogyny, sexual assault, and harassment, especially in the workplace. It followed sexual-abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Abuse allegations against Eric Schneiderman, and Leslie Moonves. In May"}, {"text": "2018, \"The New Yorker\" published an article by Farrow and fellow reporter Jane Mayer stating that, during his term in office, the New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had physically abused at least four women with whom he had been romantically involved, and that he had habitually abused alcohol and prescription drugs. Schneiderman resigned the following day. Mayer and Farrow reported that they had confirmed the women's allegations with photographs of contusions and with statements from friends with whom the alleged victims had confided subsequent to the claimed assaults. Though he denied the allegations, Schneiderman stated that he resigned because they \"effectively prevent me from leading the office's work\". Two months later, in July 2018, \"The New Yorker\" published an article by Farrow stating that six women had accused CBS CEO Leslie Moonves of harassment and intimidation, and that dozens more described abuse at his company. In September 2018, Moonves stepped down as Chairman of CBS after multiple women brought forth sexual misconduct allegations against him. Moonves allegedly destroyed evidence of his sexual misconduct. Further developments. On August 23, 2018, \"The New Yorker\" published an article by Adam Entous and Farrow stating that top aides of the Trump White"}, {"text": "House circulated a conspiracy memo entitled \"The Echo Chamber\" about Obama aides. On September 14, 2018, Farrow and Jane Mayer published information pertaining to an allegation of sexual assault by United States Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. The woman making the allegation was revealed to be professor Christine Blasey Ford, who would go on to testify during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing against Kavanaugh, before his successful confirmation to the Supreme Court. In early 2019, Farrow said he and another journalist received demands from American Media, Inc. (AMI) that sought to extort or blackmail him. In the \"New York Times\" Ben Smith wrote in 2020 that some quotes in the book were denied by sources in the two chapters dealing with Matt Lauer's relationship with a subordinate \u2013 which unquestionably had led to Lauer admitting wrongdoing, apologizing and leaving NBC. Brooke Nevils says in the book that Lauer additionally used some intimate positions which she hadn't agreed to use. Reviews. Overall, the book has received positive reviews. \"The New York Times\", \"The Guardian\", \"Los Angeles Times\", and NPR all reviewed the book positively, praising its reporting as important. Erin Keane also wrote in \"Salon\" that \"Catch and Kill\" was a"}, {"text": "\"cinematic page turner\", adding that a \"compelling book that readers can't help but want to finish can make an impact.\" In a review for \"The Hollywood Reporter\", Stephen Galloway called the book a \"monumental work of journalism\", but also wrote that its writing style was lacking. Adaptations. \"Catch and Kill\" was adapted into a nine-episode podcast based on interviews Farrow did for the book; the podcast was produced by Farrow and Pineapple Street Media. The podcast was later adapted by HBO Documentary Films into a six-part documentary miniseries, \"\", that aired in July 2021."}, {"text": "Pik Sovetskoy Gvardii (, meaning \"Soviet Guard Peak\"), is a mountain in the Anyuy Range. Administratively it is part of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation. This high mountain is the second highest point of The Anyuy Mountains. It was named after the Soviet Guards."}, {"text": "Tutov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Akhtubinskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 84 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Tutov is located near Pakhotny Erik, 11 km northwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bruny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tyrly () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kirovskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 41 as of 2010. There are two streets. Geography. Tyrly is located 20 km northwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tretya Karta is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Chapayevets () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Sukhodolskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 205 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Chapayevets is located 17 km south of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Malyayevskiye Dachi is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Shumrovaty () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kuybyshevskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 63 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Shumrovaty is located 13 km south of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sukhodol is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Shchuchy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kletskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 239 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Shchuchy is located 33 km southwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Plamenka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "97.5 Brigada News FM (DXZC 97.5 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by Brigada Mass Media Corporation. Its studios and transmitter are located at Ground Floor, Aspilla Bldg., Quirino Dr., Kidapawan."}, {"text": "Yamy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kletskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 400 as of 2010. There are 17 streets. Geography. Yamy is located 40 km southwest of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Peschanka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime was initially published on 2 January 1854 as the New South Wales Reports of Crime and was initially published several times per week by the Office of the Inspector General of Police for distribution to all police stations. The NSW State Archives and Records describe it as containing \"details of crimes committed, persons to be apprehended, descriptions of stolen property and rewards offered, lists of regimental and ships deserters, and other police notices concerning recovery of property, apprehension of suspects previously sought, and dismissals of police officers for unsatisfactory conduct\". From 5 March 1862 the title was changed to the New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime, was published weekly and was said to contain the substance of information received in cases of felony and misdemeanors with description of offenders, &c. and every particular which may lead to their apprehension\". The gazette continued to be published until 14 July 1982, however records after 1930 are not publicly available. Digitisation. The gazette has been digitised and made available on Trove from 4 June 1862, to 31 December 1930."}, {"text": "Supervision is the third studio album by English singer Elly Jackson, known professionally as La Roux. It was released on 7 February 2020 through Jackson's own independent label Supercolour Records. It is her first album recorded entirely as a solo act, following 2014's \"Trouble in Paradise\", on which former member Ben Langmaid still contributed to a number of songs. Musically, \"Supervision\" continued the style of the preceding album, exploring the music of the 1980s and referencing funk and disco. The album was met with mixed to positive reviews upon its release. Some critics praised its musical direction and production while others critically reflected on its repetitiveness. The record achieved only moderate commercial success, reaching no. 20 in the UK and no. 85 in Germany. \"Supervision\" was preceded by three singles: \"International Woman of Leisure\", \"Gullible Fool\", and \"Automatic Driver\", but none of them made an impact on the charts. Background and recording. In spring 2015, Jackson announced that she had begun working on the third La Roux album and that she wanted it to be \"futuristic and innovative\". Later that year, the singer revealed that she intended to give it a \"more earthy, more organic [and] more soulful\" sound. In"}, {"text": "August 2015, Elly shared that she was already working with \"a lot\" of material and that she wanted the new album to be \"even warmer [than the previous record], very energetic and quite loose\". In early 2016, she confirmed that working on the album was \"coming along nicely\". At the end of 2017, the singer experienced a panic attack while on holiday with her long-term partner and subsequently ended the 10-year relationship. Around the same time, Jackson realised that she was repeating the same negative patterns she had previously adopted when making music. The working relationship she had with her then-collaborator started to impact the recording process in a negative way and slow it down. Eventually, three years into making the album, she decided to scrap the largely finished project. The singer explained that the process \"started to take a long time, which wasn't in my control, and I felt it didn't represent the person I was after coming out of all the relationships ending \u2014 anxiety around my voice, lacking confidence\". She did not like that the album was becoming \"too collaborative\" and \"co-controlled\" again. Jackson started working on the album from the beginning on her own and composed"}, {"text": "brand new material in four months in the first half of 2018. Majority of it was written between February and April, and recorded by August 2018. The first two songs written for the final version of the album were \"Do You Feel\" and \"Automatic Driver\". The new material was created in Jackson's own studio at her house in South London's Brixton/Herne Hill area and each song reportedly took five hours to record. Jackson only worked with a guitar, a bass and a computer, and found it beneficial to have limited equipment. She later described working in solitude as \"freeing\" and described the making of the album as \"very cathartic\" and \"a joy from start to finish\". The album was produced by Jackson herself and Dan Carey, whom she had known since recording sessions for the first La Roux album. The last mixes took place in the summer of 2019, before the material was mastered at Abbey Road Studios. Composition, style and lyrics. Jackson was committed to keeping the album's running time within the standard length of an LP record, between 40 and 48 minutes, which resulted from her distaste for long music albums. In March 2019, she revealed that the"}, {"text": "album would consist of nine tracks, but eventually it ended up having eight, after a song called \"People Around Here\" was excluded from the track list. \"Supervision\" is a synthpop and dance-pop album that incorporates funk, reggae, disco, house, britpop, and sophisti-pop. It retains the 1980s-inspired sound of Jackson's previous works, adding influences from the 1970s and the 1990s, and taking \"a more groove-based approach\". The critics noted references to the music of such artists as George Michael, Nile Rodgers and Michael Jackson. Jackson explained that the album's title has a double meaning and indicates that she \"can literally see clearly now\" and that she does not need supervision as an artist anymore. \"Do You Feel\" is about Elly's longtime friend, keyboardist Mickey O'Brien, who has been supportive of her during hard times. Jackson explained that it is \"a security blanket song for her when I can't be there. And (...) a song about everybody else who maybe needs somebody to be there. I guess it's a song to make you feel less alone\". \"Automatic Driver\" is about being in a relationship and realising that things are not going right anymore. Jackson said that the song \"is about finding out"}, {"text": "who in a relationship is on autopilot. In our case, it turns out it was both of us\". The album's closing track, \"Gullible Fool\", has been described by Elly as the \"song [she's] needed to write [her] entire life\" and \"the most special and meaningful song on the record\". She said that it \"encapsulates a cycle of a life, (...) describes the feeling of being overly trusting, and living under the assumption that you shouldn't need to protect yourself if you are nice to people. [It] covers several times in my life when I've been bullied and it's taken me totally by surprise, and then moves into the build of the inner fortress to a place of safety and joy\". Release and promotion. In mid-October 2019, the album's title, tracklist and release date emerged on a number of online music retailers, although no official announcement had been made. On 30 October 2019, Jackson posted a teaser of the upcoming lead single \"International Woman of Leisure\", which was released the following day as her first musical output in over five years. The accompanying music video was directed by Nova Dando. The singer simultaneously announced the new album and confirmed its release"}, {"text": "date. \"Gullible Fool\" was released as the second single on 5 December 2019, along with its music video directed by Sam Bell. The third and final single, \"Automatic Driver\", was released on 24 January 2020, two weeks before the album. The music video, directed by Valentin Guiod, premiered on the same day. A remix of \"Automatic Driver\" by American rapper and producer Tyler, the Creator was released on 16 April 2020. The album was released independently on Jackson's own Supercolour Records on 7 February 2020, licensed to distributing company Believe, after she and her previous label Polydor parted ways in 2015. \"Supervision\" was released in multiple formats and was accompanied by a special limited edition magazine which Jackson dubbed \"fantazine\". The singer announced that she was going to tour Europe in February and North America in March 2020 to support the album. The North American leg of the tour was postponed until November 2020, but it was eventually cancelled. Critical reception. \"Supervision\" received generally mixed to positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 67, based on 13 reviews, which indicates"}, {"text": "\"generally favorable reviews\". The album was praised for its \"refreshingly consistent sound and (...) its focus on substance rather than style\". It has been repeatedly described as \"coherent\", \"consistent\", and \"infectious\". The critics tended to select \"International Woman of Leisure\", \"Gullible Fool\", \"Do You Feel\" and \"Automatic Driver\" as the album's highlights. On the other hand, some reviewers also picked \"Automatic Driver\" as one of the worst tracks on \"Supervision\". In a more neutral review, Ben Devlin of \"musicOMH\" reflected that \"\"Supervision\" is at times frustrating [but] also contains some of La Roux's best music to date\". \"The Independent\"s Roisin O'Connor described the album as \"lifeless\" and \"lacklustre\", concluding that it is \"certainly not a bad album, but it's a far cry from the bristling pop genius of Jackson's best work\". Some reviewers described the record as \"repetitive\" and \"samey\", with \"never enough distinction between the album's tracks\" which they found sound too similar to each other. Other critics reflected that \"the lack of variety\", \"the lack of surprise elements and adventurous sound in the music itself mars some efforts\". \"USA Today\" listed the album as the fifth best of 2020. Commercial performance. \"Supervision\" debuted at number 20 on the"}, {"text": "UK Albums Chart selling 3,347 copies. It also charted at no. 7 on the Vinyl Albums Chart, no. 3 on the Independent Albums Charts, no. 8 on the Downloads Chart, and no. 7 on the Albums Sales Chart in the UK. In Germany, it debuted at number 85. Track listing. All tracks written by Elly Jackson, and produced by Jackson and Dan Carey. Notes Personnel. Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"Supervision\"."}, {"text": "Mikko Helisten (born June 15, 1975) is a Finnish former ice hockey centre. Helisten played one season in the SM-liiga for Tappara during the 1995\u201396 season. He played 34 games and registered one assist. He also played in the 1. Divisioona for Oulun K\u00e4rp\u00e4t, Junkkarit HT, Ketter\u00e4 and KOOVEE."}, {"text": "Razriady (; also \"razriadnye knigi\", \"razriad books\") were a kind of register books in traditional Russian office work in the 15th to 17th centuries. These were annual records that included the appointment of the noblemen to various posts, as well as descriptions of major military campaigns, information on the weddings of rulers and their relatives, on receptions of ambassadors, on awards for service, etc. The originals of razriad books were burned in 1682 in order to fight against \"mestnichestvo\"; however, some copies and compilations (of varying quality) were preserved. The \"razriady\" are one of the most important sources in the history of the early-modern Russian state. History. The Russian word \"razriad\" can be translated as \"section, division, category\". Thus, it denoted both the appointment to various posts, and, in the 17th century, the type of territorial\u2013military organization. An early type of \"razriad\" books was the so-called \"service books\", which had been maintained since at least 1475. However, in the beginning they were maintained irregularly, and there are no records for some years. Then the entries become regular and quickly increase in their size. Records of the appointment of nobles to various military, administrative and court posts were recorded in this"}, {"text": "service books, and this was usually done shortly after the events. The originals of the \u201cservice books\u201d were not preserved. Partially, they were annihilated in fires, and then destroyed during the abolition of \"mestnichestvo\" in 1682. However, various copies have been preserved (more than 120 are known), which were made by various nobles for use in disputes over appointments. According to the tradition of \"mestnichestvo\" the high post occupied by the ancestor of the nobleman allowed him not to obey another nobleman whose ancestors did not reach such high ranks. Then these service books were used as material for compiling shorter official \"sovereign \"razriady\"\", as well as for various kinds of reduced editions created on a private initiative. The known copies of \"razriad\" books often contain information from other sources, for example, compilations from chronicles, from various documents, etc."}, {"text": "Acacia faucium is a tree belonging to the genus \"Acacia\" and the subgenus \"Juliflorae\" that is native to north eastern Australia. Description. The tree typically grows to a maximum height of . It has acutely angular and rather scurfy branchlets that are sparsely and minutely haired on young plants. Like most species of \"Acacia\" it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The rather chartaceous phyllodes are straight or slightly sickle shaped and are widest above the middle with a length of and a width of and are glabrous to slightly hairy on younger plants with parallel longitudinal nerves. The simple inflorescences occur as cylindrical flower-spikes that are in length and are moderately densely packed with yellow flowers. After flowering cartilaginous brown-black seed pods form that have a linear with a length of around and a width of about . The pods are glabrous and straight with a powdery white coating and thick, yellowish marginal nerves and longitudinally arranged seeds inside. The pale brown seeds are in length and around wide with a yellow and folded funicle. Distribution. It is endemic to the eastern-central parts of Queensland where it has a disjunct distribution. It is found as far north as the"}, {"text": "headwaters of Torrens Creek catchment in the White Mountains where it is often situated in sandstone gorges but is also found further to the south around north of Clermont where it grows in broken country."}, {"text": "Ekaterina Rogovaya (born 7 October 1995) is a Russian professional racing cyclist. In October 2019, she won the gold medal in the women's team sprint event at the 2019 UEC European Track Championships."}, {"text": "Lea Sophie Friedrich (born 7 January 2000) is a German professional track cyclist. In October 2019, she won the silver medal in the women's team sprint event at the 2019 UEC European Track Championships. National Junior Track Cycling Championships 1st 500m Time Trial 1st Keirin 1st Individual Sprint 2nd Team Sprint UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships 2nd 500m Time Trial 2nd Team Sprint 3rd Individual Sprint European Junior Track Cycling Championships 2nd Team Sprint 2nd Individual Sprint 2nd 500m Time Trial UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships 1st 500m Time Trial 1st Keirin 2nd Team Sprint 3rd Individual Sprint 1st Team Sprint, National Track Cycling Championships National Junior Track Cycling Championships 1st 500m Time Trial 1st Keirin 1st Individual Sprint 1st Team Sprint European U23 Track Cycling Championships 1st 500m Time Trial 1st Keirin 2nd Individual Sprint European Track Cycling Championships 2nd Team Sprint 2nd Keirin 3rd Individual Sprint UCI Track Cycling World Cup Team Sprint \u2013 Minsk Team Sprint \u2013 Glasgow UCI Track Cycling World Championships 1st 500m Time Trial 1st Team Sprint European U23 Track Cycling Championships 1st 500m Time Trial 1st Keirin 1st Individual Sprint 1st Team Sprint"}, {"text": "Belokamenka () is a rural locality (a selo) in Ilovatskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 271 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Belokamenka is located in steppe, on the east bank of the Volgograd Reservoir, 61 km northwest of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ilovatka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sumayhan Al-Nabit (, born 27 March 1996) is a Saudi Arabian professional footballer who plays as a winger for the Saudi Arabia national team as well as for Pro League side Al-Ahli. Career. Al-Nabit began his career at his local club Al-Lewaa in Baqaa. On 14 August 2011, he left Al-Lewaa and joined the youth team of Al-Ahli. He spent 6 years at Al-Ahli and represented the team at every level besides the first team. On 18 July 2017, he left Al-Ahli and signed a 2-year contract with Medina based club Ohod. On 7 January 2019, Al-Nabit dropped down a division and signed a 6-month contract with Abha. Following Abha's promotion to the Pro League, Al-Nabit renewed his contract for a further year. On 2 January 2020, Al-Nabit signed a pre-contract agreement with Al-Taawoun and was set to join them following the expiry of his contract. On 1 February 2020, Al-Taawoun announced that they bought the remainder of his contract. On 23 January 2023, Al-Nabit signed a pre-contract agreement with former club Al-Ahli. He officially joined the club following the conclusion of the 2022\u201323 season. \"Scores and results list Saudi Arabia's goal tally first.\" Honours. Abha Al-Ahli"}, {"text": "Belyayevka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Belyayevskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 430 as of 2010. There are 16 streets. Geography. Belyayevka is located 31 km southwest of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novaya Poltavka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bolshiye Prudy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Gmelinskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 30 as of 2010. Geography. Bolshiye Prudy is located in a steppe of the Transvolga Region, on the bank of the Bolshoy Pond, 46 km southeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pervomaysky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Valuyevka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Valuyevskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,071 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Valuyevka is located 21 km southwest of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Shpaki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Verbny () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Gmelinskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 205 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Verbny is located in steppe, 49 km southeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gmelinka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Verkhny Yeruslan (, ) is a rural locality (a selo) in Kanovskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 511 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Verkhny Yeruslan is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Yeruslan River, 6 km northeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Staraya Poltavka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Verkhnyaya Vodyanka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Verkhnevodyanskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 594 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. Verkhnyaya Vodyanka is located in steppe, on Transvolga, 56 km southeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pervomaysky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bakhrahat is a village and a gram panchayat within the jurisdiction of the Bishnupur police station in the Bishnupur II CD block in the Alipore Sadar subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Along with a Boys' School, Bakhrahat also has the Bakhrahat Girls' High School, which is situated on Borokachari Road. Geography. Area overview. Alipore Sadar subdivision is the most urbanized part of the South 24 Parganas district. 59.85% of the population lives in the urban areas and 40.15% lives in the rural areas. In the southern portion of the subdivision (shown in the map alongside) there are 15 census towns. The entire district is situated in the Ganges Delta and the subdivision, on the east bank of the Hooghly River, is an alluvial stretch, with industrial development. Location. Bakrahat is located at . It has an average elevation of . Demographics. According to the 2011 Census of India, Bakrahat had a total population of 3,419, of which 1,744 (51%) were males and 1,675 (49%) were females. There were 293 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Bakrahat was 2,896 (92.64% of"}, {"text": "the population over 6 years). Civic Administration. CD block HQ. The headquarters of the Bishnupur II CD block are located at Bakrahat. Transport. A short stretch of local roads link Bakrahat to the National Highway 12. Education. S.L.Bajoria Foundation High School is an ICSE, ISC coeducational school at Sanjua, PO Bakrahat. Bakrahat High School is a boys only institution. Ariapara High School on Bakrahat Road, Ariapara, is a Bengali-medium coeducational school, established in 1949. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. Healthcare. Lakshmibala Dutta Rural Hospital, with 30 beds, at Bakrahat, is the major government medical facility in the Budge Budge II CD block."}, {"text": "Gmelinka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Gmelinskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 2,017 as of 2010. There are 24 streets. Geography. Gmelinka is located 40 km southeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pervomaysky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Marcus King (born March 11, 1996) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was initially known as lead singer, guitarist, and founder of The Marcus King Band. His 2020 album \"El Dorado\" recorded under his own name received a nomination for Best Americana Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. Early life. Marcus King was born in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. His father, Marvin King, was a well-known blues guitarist in South Carolina who also played with gospel acts, and his grandfather was also a regionally popular musician. Marcus began playing guitar at a very early age, and at age eight he started playing shows with his father. At age eleven, he played guitar on one of his father's albums. King started playing music with his own band in his teens, juggling club gigs at night and school in the morning as he and his bandmates brainstormed with what they called \"soul-influenced psychedelic Southern rock.\" Deciding to pursue a career in music, King dropped out of high school in his junior year and got his GED. King took an academic approach to music, studying his favorite guitar players, particularly The Allman Brothers Band co-founder Duane Allman, B.B."}, {"text": "King, Albert King, Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard. King studied jazz theory and jazz performance with Steve Watson at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, South Carolina. He received some notable early attention in 2014 after a video of him jamming at Norman's Guitars racked up millions of views on YouTube. Career. In 2019, King announced his debut solo album, \"El Dorado\", produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys at his Easy Eye Studio in Nashville. The album is a genre-bending release that was released on January 17, 2020, by Fantasy Records. On release, Associated Press declared \u201cEl Dorado already stands out as a definite high point of 2020.\u201d On 26 August 2022, King released his second album \"Young Blood,\" again produced by Dan Auerbach. Melinda Newman of \"Billboard\" called it \"a staggeringly confident work.\" It debuted at number one in the \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums Chart and was ranked as the 12th best guitar album of 2022 by \"Guitar World\" readers. Personal life. King married Briley Hussey in a lavish ceremony on February 19, 2023, at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, Tennessee."}, {"text": "Thomas Harper (3 May 1786 \u2013 20 January 1853) was an English trumpet player, playing in important concerts of the day. Life. Harper was born in Worcester. From the age of about ten he lived in London, where he studied the trumpet and the horn under Eley, and soon joined the volunteer band of the East India Company, of which his master was director. He continued in the band for about 18 years. Harper was appointed inspector of musical instruments to the company, and held this post until his death. He played in small London theatre orchestras, until about 1806, when he was engaged as principal trumpet at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and at the English Opera House. In 1820 he performed at the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival. in 1821 he succeeded Hyde at the Concerts of Antient Music and at the Italian Opera. From this time he took part in important orchestral concerts and musical festivals in town and country. Harper was an active member of the Royal Society of Musicians, and was first trumpet at concerts of the Philharmonic Society until 1851. He played in the orchestra at the London funeral of Carl Maria von Weber in"}, {"text": "1826. He regularly took part in charity concerts. A critic in \"The Musical Times\" (volume 1, page 133) wrote: 'For purity and delicacy of tone and for wonderful facility of execution no rival has approached him. His imitation of the voice part in \"Let the bright Seraphim\" [from Handel's \"Samson\"] may be pronounced one of the greatest achievements in the whole range of musical executive art'. A benefit concert was given for Harper on 15 December 1834. It was conducted by Sir George Smart and the overtures for Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream, for Beethoven's Fidelio and Weber's Jubilee were performed at The London Tavern, Bishopsgate, London. In 1836 he published the book \"Instruction for the trumpet: with the use of the chromatic slide, also the Russian valve trumpet, the cornet \u00e0 pistons or small stop trumpet, and the keyed bugle, in which the rudiments of music and the various scales, are clearly explained in a series of examples, preludes, lessons, solos, duets, etc. for each instrument\". Harper was taken ill at Exeter Hall in London during a rehearsal of the Sacred Harmonic Society on 20 January 1853, and died a few hours later. Harper's eldest son, Thomas (1816\u20131898) succeeded his"}, {"text": "father in his appointments as principal trumpet; the second, Charles (1819\u20131893) was principal horn in notable orchestras; the youngest, Edmund (c.1821\u20131869), was a horn player, pianist and organist. References. Attribution"}, {"text": "Zheleznodorozhny Razyezd 1062 () is a rural locality (passing loop) in Gmelinskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. As of 2010, its population was 7."}, {"text": "Lucius Junius Brutus; Father of his Country is a Restoration tragedy play by Nathaniel Lee from 1680. It depicts the life of Roman statesman Lucius Junius Brutus. It was first staged at the Dorset Garden Theatre by the Duke's Company. The original cast included Thomas Betterton as Lucius Junius Brutus, William Smith as Titus, Joseph Williams as Tiberius, John Wiltshire as Collatinus, Thomas Gillow as Valerius, Henry Norris as Horatius, William Fieldhouse and Thomas Percival as Fecilian Priests, James Nokes as Vindicius, Thomas Jevon as Fabritius, Mary Slingsby as Sempronia, Mary Betterton as Lucretia and Elizabeth Barry as Teraminta. It was published the following year by Jacob Tonson, and dedicated to the Earl of Dorset. Reception. The play became controversial at court and was suppressed after its third performance due to some lines from the character of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (last king of Rome) that were taken to be a reflection on King Charles II. Legacy. It served as an inspiration for the play \"The Tragedy of Brutus; or, The Fall of Tarquin\" by John Howard Payne."}, {"text": "Ilovatka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Ilovatskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,434 as of 2010. There are 22 streets. Geography. Ilovatka is located in steppe, on the east bank of the Volgograd Reservoir, 55 km west of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Belokamenka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kalinino () is a rural locality (a selo) in Novopoltavskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 296 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Kalinino is located in steppe, 16 km from Novaya Poltavka, 25 km west of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novaya Poltavka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The International Commercial Experiment Cubes (ICE Cubes) service is a commercial service that offers access to space for research, technology and education. It allows public or private entities to run their experiments on board the International Space Station for access to microgravity. Examples of potential fields of research include pharmaceutical development, microbiology, stem cells, radiation, materials science, 3D printing, fluid sciences, and art. The service also allows to demonstrate and validate technologies in microgravity. Overview. The ICE Cubes Service stems from a commercial agreement between Space Applications Services and the European Space Agency (ESA). The ICE Cubes Facility (ICF) is the first European commercial research facility in the ISS. It was installed in June 2018 and it houses modular experiments on different disciplines. Researchers have continuous live remote access to their payloads via Internet to directly read data and send commands. History. From June 2015 to January 2018, the ICE Cubes Facility (ICF) was developed, manufactured, assembled and tested by Space Applications Services in Belgium, partially under a European Union Horizon 2020 grant. On 21 May 2018, the ICF was launched with a Cygnus Spacecraft (CRS OA-9E mission). On 6 June 2018, NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold installed the facility into"}, {"text": "the EPM rack inside the European \"Columbus\" module. The first experiments (so-called \"Experiment Cubes\") were launched on the SpaceX Dragon supply vessel and then installed inside the ICF by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst. They included science, technology and art projects provided by the International Space University (ISU) and international collaborators. In parallel, a partnership agreement for the launch and exploitation in orbit of the ICF was signed with ESA on 20 June 2017, and the first European Commercial Access Service to the ISS officially opened its doors for business. One of the ISU Experiment Cubes, Hydra-2, was a research experiment on methane-producing microorganisms to investigate their activity in microgravity conditions. Researchers hope these microorganisms could be used for biomining of asteroids to produce methane to fuel future space missions. Hydra-2 returned to Earth in January 2019. The second International Space University cube was an interactive art installation. The artistic cube contained a kaleidoscope linked to an installation on the ground that is activated by the heart pulse of participants. The images produced by the device are then sent down to the ground installation on Earth and displayed in real-time. The other experiment is RUSH, a technology demonstration payload for radiation"}, {"text": "tolerant electronics. Hydra-3 is still hosted inside the ICF. Successive experiments studied some aspects of plant germination, demonstration of spectroscopic diagnostics and recovery of cybersecurity functions on commercial electronics in space. In March 2019, ICE Cubes became an implementation partner at the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), a non-profit organization that manages the ISS United States National Laboratory. In October 2019, UK Science Minister Chris Skidmore announced the launch by the UK Space Agency of a contest to identity and match-fund business ideas taking advantage of space. ICE Cubes was chosen as one of the hosts for the launch of the selected projects. In December 2020, Cube#6 - Kirara was launched on SpaceX CRS-21 and installed in the ICF. Kirara is the first experiment for COVID-19 drug discovery research on the International Space Station. It tests a COVID-19 medicine in microgravity in order to better understand how remdesivir interacts with its delivery substance cyclodextrin so that the drug's efficiency can be improved. The ICF and the Experiment Cubes. The ICE Cubes Facility is mostly composed of the ICE Cubes Container, which is permanently housed into the EPM rack, and of the ICE Cubes Framework, which hosts"}, {"text": "the Experiment Cubes. The Framework can slide in and out of the Container, and the Experiment Cubes are simply plugged onto the Framework, which minimizes the crew time for installation/removal. The ICF provides the Experiment Cubes with two power lines, real-time and differed communications (via internet), and temperature regulation (forced air flow). The Experiment Cubes can be built with commercial off-the-shelf products and be integrated together to permit larger experiments. The ICF can accommodate up to twenty \"plug-and-play\" 1U (10x10x10 cm) Experiment Cubes or a smaller number of larger ones within the ICF Containers, plus some additional Experiment Cubes inside the Columbus cabin, either wired or via Wi-Fi."}, {"text": "Kano () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kanovskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 407 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Kano is located in steppe, on Transvolga, on the left bank of the Solyonaya Kuba River, 17 km southeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Suyetinovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kozhushkino () is a rural locality (a selo) in Novokvasnikovskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 56 as of 2010. Geography. Kozhushkino is located on the right bank of the Yeruslan River, 6 km north of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhny Yeruslan is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kolyshkino () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kolyshkinskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 545 as of 2010. There are 15 streets. Geography. Kolyshkino is located on the east bank of the Volgograd Reservoir, 50 km west of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ilovatka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ianniello is a surname of Italian origin. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Bachhu Mollah is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Kushtia-1 constituency. Career. Mollah was elected to parliament from Kushtia-1 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in March 2004 in a by-election, following the death of the incumbent, Ahsanul Haq Mollah, who was also his father. Mollah protected smugglers in Kushtia District. He laid seize to a unit of Bangladesh Rifles to force them to release a drug smuggler they had caught. He was sued in 2007 for attacking and looting houses after Bangladesh Nationalist Party came to power in 2001."}, {"text": "Korshunovka () is a rural locality (a selo) in Gmelinskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2010. Geography. Korshunovka is located in steppe, 61 km southeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gmelinka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "E. Mark Gold (often written \"E Mark Gold\" without a dot, born 1936 in Los Angeles) is an American physicist, mathematician, and computer scientist. He became well known for his article \"Language identification in the limit\" which pioneered a formal model for inductive inference of formal languages, mainly by computers. Since 1999, an award of the conference on Algorithmic learning theory is named after him. Academic education. In 1956, he got a B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology, in 1958, he got a M.S. in physics from Princeton University. In Jan 1965, got his Ph.D. from UCLA, supervised by Abraham Robinson. Scientific career. In 1962 and 1963, he worked at Unified Science Associates, Pasadena, on physics problems. About in 1963, he turned to mathematics, working for Lear Siegler, the RAND Corporation, Stanford University, the Institute for Formal Studies, Los Angeles, and the Oregon Research Institute. About in 1973, he moved to Montreal University and about 1977 to University of Rochester. In 1991, he published from Oakland."}, {"text": "Steffie van der Peet (born 10 September 1999) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist. In October 2019, she won the bronze medal in the women's team sprint event at the 2019 UEC European Track Championships. 3rd Team sprint, UEC European Championships 1st Team sprint, UEC European Championships 2nd Team sprint, UEC European Championships 3rd Keirin, UCI World Championships 3rd Team sprint, UEC European Championships 2nd Team sprint, UCI World Championships 3rd Team sprint, UEC European Championships 1st Team sprint, UEC European Championships 1st Keirin, UEC European Championships"}, {"text": "Afaz Uddin Ahmed (born 1925 or 1926, died 18 July 2021) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a member of parliament for Kushtia-1. Career. Ahmed was elected to parliament from Kushtia-1 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 2008 and served till 2014. Ahmed died from COVID-19 in Dhaka in July 2021, at age 95, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh."}, {"text": "The 2003\u201304 B Group was the 48th season of the Bulgarian B Football Group, the second tier of the Bulgarian football league system. A total of 16 teams contested the league. League table. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "The following is a list of succulent invasive plants of South Africa as per the South African Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries."}, {"text": "Aleksei Poluyan (; 1965\u20132010) was a Russian actor. His most famous role was that of the sadistic Captain Zhurov in Alexey Balabanov's anti-communist horror movie \"Cargo 200\". Poluyan died from alcohol abuse in 2010."}, {"text": "Wat Arun (, ) is one of two \"khwaeng\" (subdistrict) of Bangkok Yai District, Bangkok, apart from Wat Tha Phra. It can be considered an important area in terms of history and tourism. History. The area is named after Wat Arun, an ancient temple on the Chao Phraya River, the world's famous temple. Its striking \"prang\" (Khmer-style pagoda) became one of the important symbols and landmarks of Bangkok and Thonburi side, as well as being a seal of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). It is said that when King Taksin returned from Chanthaburi to go to Ayutthaya with his fleets. He sailed along the Chao Phraya River and arrived at this temple at the time of the rising sun, hence the name \"Wat Chaeng\" or official name \"Wat Arun\", which means \"Temple of Dawn\". When King Taksin established the new capital of Siam (now Thailand), Thonburi, on the left bank of the Chao Phraya River, where confluence of Khlong Bangkok Yai and Chao Phraya River, that is the current location here (including expanding to nearby areas were Bangkok Noi and Thon Buri Districts in present day). His palace was situated next to Wat Arun on the banks of Chao"}, {"text": "Phraya River, which it now has become part of the Royal Thai Navy Headquarters under the name Thonburi Palace. Bangkok Yai District Office used to be located in the area of Wat Hong Rattanaram, another prominent temple in this subdistrict in the year 1915. Until the year 1988, it moved out to be situated at the current location is on Ratchadaphisek Road near Tha Phra Intersection in the area of Wat Tha Phra Subdistrict. Geography. Wat Arun is the eastern part of the district surrounded by water except on the west side, Itsaraphap Road is the dividing line between its area and Wat Tha Phra. Neighbouring subdistricts are (from the north clockwise): Siriraj and Ban Chang Lo of Bangkok Noi District (across Khlong Mon), Phra Borom Maha Ratchawang of Phra Nakhon District (across Chao Phraya River), Wat Kanlaya of Thon Buri District (across Khlong Bangkok Yai), and Wat Tha Phra in its district. Places. Since it is a historic area, it is therefore full of many ancient and historical sites, consisting of Thonburi Palace, also known as Phra Racha Wang Derm (Old Palace) in Thai, the former lodging of King Taksin next to the Wat Arun and Wichai Prasit Fort,"}, {"text": "the old fort that used to protect Bangkok, it was built since the reign of King Narai of Ayutthaya era by Greek noble who served in the Ayutthaya royal court Constantine Phaulkon. The local prominent temples, in addition to Wat Arun and Wat Hong Rattanaram, include Wat Molilokkayaram, formerly it was known as Wat Tai Talat since it is located at the tip of the market near Thonburi Palace, as well as Wat Khruea Wan, which is the official cremation place of the Royal Thai Navy. Opposite to Wat Molilokkayaram, it is another ancient and important Muslim house of worship Tonson Mosque. It used to be the place where Chularatchamontri (chief of Muslim in Thailand) Chaem Phromyong led King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) to visit in 1946. Royal Thai Navy Convention Center, the official convention hall of Royal Thai Navy, it was built as the venue for the APEC 2003 to hold a grand dinner for the participants and as a viewing facility for the Royal Barge Procession. The Royal Thai Naval Institute is historic building, older than 100 years, located next to the Royal Thai Navy Convention Center. It was undergoing major renovations in 2002 along with the construction"}, {"text": "of Royal Thai Navy Convention Center. Taweethapisek School is a high school for boys in Soi Itsaraphap 42 near Ratchadamnoen Commercial School. It was established on July 19, 1895 by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) on a special occasion that he reigned for twice as much as his grandfather King Phutthaloetla Naphalai (Rama II). The area is served by the Itsaraphap Station of the MRT Subway, whose Blue Line runs under the Itsaraphap Road near Wat Hong Rattanaram and historic Muslim quarters Kudi Charoenphat, Phadungtham Islam Mosque and Charoenphat Bridge. Itsaraphap and Arun Amarin Roads considered as the main road of the area, while Wang Doem Road is a minor road."}, {"text": "A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Goulburn on 1 June 1946 because of the resignation of Jack Tully () to be appointed Agent-General for New South Wales in London. Results. <includeonly> Jack Tully () resigned to be appointed Agent-General for New South Wales in London.</includeonly>"}, {"text": "The Xerez Cromlech (), also known as the Xarez Cromlech, is a megalithic complex that is believed to date back to the 5th or 4th millennium BCE. It is situated near the town of Monsaraz in the \u00c9vora district of the Alentejo region of Portugal, close to the Spanish border. The present site of the cromlech is not its original location. Due to the construction of the Alqueva Dam for hydroelectric purposes, which led to the flooding of the original site from 2002, it was transferred from an area that is now under water to its present site close to the Orada Convent. This was the only monument to be moved, with the dam leading to the disappearance of prehistoric engravings and the Roman \"Castelo da Lousa\". Layout. Although it has much in common with megalithic stone circles, the Xerez cromlech is, in fact, square. There has been some dispute about the authenticity of the square layout or even whether it is a cromlech at all. When first discovered, the stones had been widely dispersed due to agricultural work and an initial topographical survey only identified 12 stones that could be part of a cromlech, although the present layout has"}, {"text": "55. As the original site is now under water it is unlikely that the dispute will ever be resolved. It is acknowledged that the square shape results solely from interpretations by Jos\u00e9 Pires Gon\u00e7alves, a doctor and an amateur archaeologist from Reguengos de Monsaraz, previously responsible for identifying the nearby Menhir of Outeiro, who identified the stones as a cromlech in 1969, having been alerted to the existence of the central phallic stone by two local residents, Jos\u00e9 Cruz e Leonel Franco. Menhirs. The 55 menhirs are of different types of granite of local origin. These are mainly between 0.37 and 2.1 meters in height, with varying shapes (ovoid, slightly flattened, cylindrical, sub-square, conical or polyhedral). Originally raised and put into position by Gon\u00e7alves and others in 1972, they are arranged around a large phallic menhir, which is about 4.5 meters high and weighs 7 tons. Seven menhirs, including the central one, are decorated with different motifs that show strong similarities to the designs identified in other monuments of the same type in the region, such as the better-known Almendres Cromlech. 1998 excavation. In 1998, as part of the efforts to minimize the impact on Portugal\u2019s heritage resulting from the"}, {"text": "construction of the dam, M\u00e1rio Varela Gomes of the New University of Lisbon (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) excavated the site, identifying a diverse set of highly fragmented items, including lithic artefacts (trapezoids and flakes in silica, silicon shale, quartz and quartzite), and some fragments of ceramic containers, such as decorated cups. At the time, Gomes apparently saw no reason to contradict the findings of Gon\u00e7alves. The architectural complexity of the site, the decorations on some of the menhirs and the archaeological materials collected suggested use of the area in the Late Paleolithic, a first phase of construction of the site in the early and middle Neolithic, and redesign in the late Neolithic (including placement of the central menhir). The complex is believed to have been used throughout the Chalcolithic. Transportation. In November 2001, three months after the dam's floodgates were closed, the whole complex was dismantled and the stones were stored for more than two years. The present location was chosen because of the availability of government land and the fact that there would also be room to build a planned archaeology museum, which remained unbuilt in 2023. The reconstruction of the cromlech was carried out on 24-25 June 2004"}, {"text": "to coincide with the summer solstice."}, {"text": "Heinz Geese (6 April 1930 in Bonn \u2013 23 April 2008), also Heinz Gieese) was a German composer, pianist, conductor and arranger. As a conductor he led the Gro\u00dfes Unterhaltungsorchester of the broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) on radio and recordings. Geese was also composer of musicals and performed as a pianist. Geese died in Bonn at age 78."}, {"text": "Arab Center for Consultancy & Economic Studies () is an Emirati organization headquartered in Abu Dhabi and specialized in preparation of economic feasibility studies. Its primary aim is to support the economic development of UAE, and to improve the environment for investment in UAE as well as the Middle East. It was founded by Atef Elromhe in November 2006. History. Arab Center for Consultancy & Economic Studies was founded by Atef Elromhe in November 2006 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Objectives. The objectives of the organization are: Products and services. Arab Center for Consultancy & Economic Studies is a service-based organization with large and diverse portfolios of products and services. It primarily specializes in preparation of feasibility studies of the Economic, Operational and Human Resource aspects of a project idea. As of 2019, these offerings fall into the categories of: Region served. Services and consultancy of Arab Center for Consultancy & Economic Studies are available primarily in its home country of United Arab Emirates, Gulf Cooperation Council countries and the Middle East region. All major cities of the emirate Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ras al-Khaimah, Ajman, Fujairah and Umm Al Quwain are served by the organization."}, {"text": "Vitali Kiryushchenkov (born January 31, 1992) is a Belarusian professional ice hockey forward currently playing for Metallurg Zhlobin of the Belarusian Extraleague. Kiryushchenkov previously played for HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League during the 2013\u201314 KHL season. He played thirty regular season games and scored two goals and one assist."}, {"text": "Pauline de Meulan (2 November 1773 \u2013 1 August 1827) was a French writer and journalist, known especially for her work on education and her liberal position in the aftermath of the French Revolution. French literary critic Sainte-Beuve described her as the best and most important moralist since Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Biography. Pauline de Meulan was the daughter of Count Charles de Meulan, an advisor to the King and collector-general of Paris, later of Marguerite de Saint-Chamans. Her father died early in the French Revolution, likely due to stress. The family lost much of their fortune during the Revolution, and de Meulan began writing as a way to financially support her family. With the help of Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard, she began writing for the magazine \"Le Publiciste\" in 1799. She also began publishing novels in 1799. She published \"Les Contradictions\" in 1799, a novel about a young man during the aftermath of the French Revolution. She also translated the very popular epistolary novel \"Memoirs of Emma Courtney\" by English writer Mary Hays. She married Fran\u00e7ois Guizot in 1812. The couple seemed strange since she was 14 years older than Fran\u00e7ois and both had very different characters, as stated by Gabriel de Broglie"}, {"text": "in the following table taken from his book \"Guizot\": The couple worked together on several major projects, including a journal on education called \"Les Annales de l'\u00c9ducation\". The journal ran six editions from 1811 until 1814. She also assisted in editing and writing \"Abailard et H\u00e9loise: essai historique\" with her husband. Pauline Guizot died in 1827 of tuberculosis. Before her death, she arranged for her husband's second marriage to her niece, \u00c9lisa Dillon."}, {"text": "Cyanophosphaethyne is an unstable molecular compound with structural formula N\u2261C\u2013C\u2261P. It can be considered as cyanogen with one nitrogen atom replaced by phosphorus. It has been made as a dilute gas. Cyanophosphaethyne has been tentatively detected in the interstellar medium. Other structural isomers, such as C\u2261N\u2013C\u2261P (isocyanophosphapropyne), C\u2261C-N\u2261P (azaphosphadicarbon), and N\u2261C\u2013P=C (isocyanophosphavinylidene), have not been observed. The molecule has linear molecular geometry (C\u221ev molecular symmetry). Production. Cyanophosphaethyne can be produced by heating cyanogen azide and phosphaethyne gases to 700 \u00b0C: N\u2261C\u2013N3 + H\u2013C\u2261P \u2192 N\u2261C\u2013C\u2261P + HN3 Another method is to heat anhydrous methyl cyanide with anhydrous phosphorus trichloride: N\u2261C\u2013CH3 + PCl3 \u2192 N\u2261C\u2013C\u2261P + 3HCl Properties. The dipole moment is 3.5 Debye. Having a large dipole makes the molecule easier to detect by certain types of spectroscopy than many other phosphorus containing molecules. The bond lengths are C\u2261N = 1.159 \u00c5, C\u2013C = 1.378 \u00c5, and C\u2261P = 1.544 \u00c5."}, {"text": "Shen Fan (Chinese: \u7533\u51e1; born 1952) is a Chinese contemporary artist currently based in Shanghai. He creates work of temperament of the classical Chinese literati arts with intuition. Early life. Shen Fan\u2019s childhood years were spent in the countryside. Around the age of ten, he went to Shanghai for study and finished elementary school and middle school. For the following six years, Shen did farm work in the countryside, planting all sorts of corps, and he would practice painting and calligraphy by himself when he was not working. At the end of six years, he went back to Shanghai, where he became a product designer. Career. While Shen Fan graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Shanghai Light Industry Institute (now: Shanghai Institute of Technology) In 1986, the artist began to work in abstract painting around 1982, using such materials as Chinese ink, watercolor and oil paint. With the reform and opening-up policies initiated by Deng Xiaoping, the art scene in China underwent a profound change as the sudden availability of Western art publications prompted many artists to adopt the Western style, including abstraction, as a new mode of art creation. Rooting his work in Eastern philosophy in his"}, {"text": "pursuit of modernity, Shen represents the rich tradition of abstraction in Shanghai as one of its most important and pioneering figures in the art world. Style. Shen Fan began disassembling concrete forms and space in painting in the 80s, and started creating abstract painting works. Since the late 1990s, Shen Fan has endeavored to bring Chinese painting elements into a wide variety of mediums and materials including ceramics, neon light, metal, and music, expanding the boundaries between traditional and new media. He is one of the earlier Chinese artists who amalgamate classical aesthetics into the contemporary context to explore contemporary Chinese cultural expressions. Shen Fan\u2019s works are composed of various series with distinctive features, and ever-evolving materials, while maintaining the temperament of the classical Chinese literati arts. His installation works of 2006 go back to Huang Binhong period and re-analyse the use of space and brush strokes of classical Chinese landscape paintings. Through interactions among vision, touch, text and so on, Shen Fan provides an integrated way of viewing, which embodies his shifted and more wholesome viewing logic."}, {"text": "Sam Falk (January 19, 1901 \u2013 May 19, 1991) was an Austrian-American photojournalist. He worked for \"The New York Times\" from 1925 to 1969, and also contributed to various other publications. Life and career. Born in 1901 in Vienna and emigrating early in life to America, Sam Falk was a self-taught photographer who at 16 years old sold his first photo of lightning taken with a simple box camera, to the \"New York Morning World\" for $10. Two years later he left school to work for a commercial photographer, and for him covered the Shamrock IV-Resolute yacht race. He joined the staff of \"The New York Times\" in 1925 and remained for more than 40 years. In the 1940s he pioneered the use of 35-mm photography at the \"Times\" finding the usual press camera cumbersome, like the Anniversary Speed Graphic with 5-inch Graflex Optar f4.7 telephoto that he used to record a stumbling steeplechase horse throwing its rider at the Far Hills Races, N.J. He had to purchase his own 35mm camera, such was the prejudice against them at the newspaper, though editor Lester Markel liked his 'miniature' format pictures and often gave him 35mm assignments. The smaller camera became"}, {"text": "accepted after the \"Herald Tribune\" announced that their photographers were switching to the compact camera. Falk also used a Rolleiflex medium-format camera. Portraiture. Falk toured with President Calvin Coolidge and covered the Lindbergh kidnapping trial, but after being switched from straight news in 1951, much of his photography for the \"Times\" was for features on well-known personalities, amongst whom were Edward Albee; Bernard Baruch: Albert Einstein; Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld; Julie Harris; Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York City; John D. Rockefeller; Eleanor Roosevelt: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.; Arthur Rubenstein; Beverly Sills; Arturo Toscanini; the United Nations General Assembly; and Andy Warhol. Street photography. Falk documented street life in the United States and in Austria (around 1955); England; Paris, France; and Italy from the 1940s to the 1960s. Falk photographed landmarks of New York City, such as Central Park; Chinatown; Grand Central Station; Greenwich Village; Harlem; John F. Kennedy International Airport; and Times Square. On April 2, 1951 Falk made black-and-white pictures for The New York Times Magazine of amateur photographers photographic landmarks in the metropolis. These images were the subject of a rephotography exercise carried out 68 years later, in digital colour, over April 1\u20133, 2019 by Tony Cenicola,"}, {"text": "a \"Times\" staff photographer, and paired with Falk's originals for an installment of the newspaper's 'Past Tense', an archival storytelling project. Magazines. Later in his career, Falk retired from the newspaper in 1969 and went to San Francisco to work for the Sunday The New York Times Magazine and was President of the New York Institute of Photography. He regularly did photographic materials and equipment tests and reviews for magazines and published technical articles in Popular Photography and other mass-circulation magazines, and in books and manuals. Recognition. Falk's photograph of striking longshoremen was selected by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art's world-touring exhibition \"The Family of Man\" that was seen by 9 million visitors. Falk was only able to make the photograph after buying the strikers beers all round. He died May 1991 of heart failure at the Sunrise Health Center in Sunrise, Florida, survived by his wife, Anne."}, {"text": "Los Ta\u00ednos 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 M\u00e1ximo G\u00f3mez and Pedro Livio Cede\u00f1o. This is an underground station, built below Avenida M\u00e1ximo G\u00f3mez."}, {"text": "Pentelow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Andrew George Little (28 September 1863 \u2013 22 October 1945) was an English historian, specialising in the Franciscans (known as the Greyfriars) in medieval England. He was Professor of History at the University College of South Wales, Cardiff, between 1898 and 1901 (having previously been the college's first history lecturer there since 1892). He was thereafter a visiting lecturer (1903\u201320) and then reader (1920\u201332) in palaeography at the University of Manchester. He was president of the Historical Association from 1926 to 1929, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1922. Select publications. For a full bibliography down to 1938, see \"An address presented to Andrew George Little, with a bibliography of his writings\" (1938). His books included:"}, {"text": "K\u00fcchenmeister is a German surname. Notable people with this surname include:"}, {"text": "This is a list of Greek Twenty20 International cricketers. In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Greece and other ICC members after 1 January 2019 will be eligible for T20I status. This list comprises all members of the Greece cricket team who have played at least one T20I match. It is initially arranged in the order in which each player won his first Twenty20 cap. Where more than one player won his first Twenty20 cap in the same match, those players are listed alphabetically by surname. Greece played their first T20I matches during the 2019 Hellenic Premier League in October 2019. \"Statistics are correct as of 27 August 2024.\""}, {"text": "Jain artwork ruins have been discovered at sites in Afghanistan. According to Pratapaditya Pal, these pieces were found along with coins during road construction projects, and they \"almost certainly were imported from India\", likely ancient Gujarat for stylistic reasons. It shows the base of a Svetambara altarpiece for a Jina along with his protective deity, the four armed Hindu goddess of wisdom and learning, Saraswati. It is likely from the 10th-century or later, states Pal. According to Charles DiSimone, the more complete \"Gilgit Dirghagama manuscripts\" recently discovered in 1990s, near the border area of Pakistan and Afghanistan is a Sarvastivadin Buddhist text. This manuscript uses Jains as the chief \"Anya-tirthikas\" (followers of another faith) to explain the imperfections in Jainism and the perfection of the Buddha. The text is in Sanskrit with some Prakrit and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, written in proto-Sarada script. It reflects an interpretation \u2013 or perhaps more accurately misinterpretation, states DiSimone \u2013 of Jainism as preserved by a 7th- and 8th-century Buddhist school in the Central Asian region."}, {"text": "Governor Lawrence may refer to:"}, {"text": "The 2019 Canad Inns Women's Classic was held from October 17 to 20 at the Portage Curling Club in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba as part of the World Curling Tour. The event was held in a triple-knockout format with a purse of $60,000. In the final, Elena Stern of Switzerland defeated Rachel Homan of Ottawa, Ontario by stealing one in an extra end to claim the title. Teams. The teams are listed as follows: Knockout brackets. Source: Knockout results. All draw times listed in Central Time. Draw 1. \"Thursday, October 17, 10:00 am\" Draw 2. \"Thursday, October 17, 1:30 pm\" Draw 3. \"Thursday, October 17, 5:00 pm\" Draw 4. \"Thursday, October 17, 8:30 pm\" Draw 5. \"Friday, October 18, 10:00 am\" Draw 6. \"Friday, October 18, 1:30 pm\" Draw 7. \"Friday, October 18, 5:00 pm\" Draw 8. \"Friday, October 18, 8:30 pm\" Draw 9. \"Saturday, October 19, 10:00 am\" Draw 10. \"Saturday, October 19, 1:30 pm\" Draw 11. \"Saturday, October 19, 5:00 pm\" Draw 12. \"Saturday, October 19, 8:30 pm\" Playoffs. Source: Quarterfinals. \"Sunday, October 20, 10:00 am\" Semifinals. \"Sunday, October 20, 2:00 pm\" Final. \"Sunday, October 20, 6:00 pm\""}, {"text": "Space Applications Services is an independent Belgian company founded in 1987, with a subsidiary, Aerospace Applications North America, in Houston, USA. Its aim is to research and develop innovative systems, solutions and products and provide services to the aerospace and security markets and related industries. Its activities cover crewed and uncrewed spacecraft, launch/re-entry vehicles, control centres, robotics and a wide range of information systems. The company is EN 9100 certified (for Space Flight Systems & Ground Support Equipment) and serves clients worldwide. It is owned and managed by its founders, Richard Aked and Leif Steinicke. History. Space Applications Services was founded in 1987. The initial business line was Human Spaceflight focused on the definition of the European Manned Space Infrastructure. In 1995 a Robotics Team was reestablished, closely followed in 1999 by the Future Projects and Exploration Team and in 2000 by the Flight systems, Avionics and Embedded Systems Teams. The uncrewed spacecraft business line was established in 2001 with focus on Earth Observation Systems Ground Segments. In 2004 Aerospace Applications North America was established in Houston focusing on human machine interaction, systems and technology. Expanding into uncrewed space systems the Earth Observation Systems Team was established in 2001. In"}, {"text": "2004, Space Applications Services created a subsidiary company in Houston, Texas, the United States of America, called \u201cAerospace Applications North America, Inc.\u201d (AANA), specialized in Human Machine Interface. In 2005 the company established a Services business line providing specialist technical services to institutional and non-institutional customers. In 2009 a Knowledge Management team was added(since renamed Artificial Intelligence) and a research office was established in the Netherlands. The company is currently organized in a Systems Department comprising a Flight Systems Division, a Ground Systems and Software Division and a Technology, Applications and Robotics division, a Services Department and a Business Innovation Unit. Since 2019, the company is a member of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF). Main products and services. The company focuses on robotics and mechanisms, ground segment, exploration systems, avionics, and services. ICE Cubes (International Commercial Experiment Cubes). The International Commercial Experiment Cubes or ICE Cubes Service is a commercial service that offers access to space for research, technology or education. It allows public or private entities to run their experiments on the interior of the International Space Station for access to microgravity. Examples of potential fields of research include pharmaceutical development, microbiology, stem cells, radiation, materials science, 3D printing,"}, {"text": "fluid sciences and art. The service also allows to demonstrate and validate technologies in microgravity. ICE Cubes service stems from a partnership between Space Applications Services and the European Space Agency (ESA). In March 2019, ICE Cubes became an implementation partner at the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), a non-profit organization that manages the ISS United States National Laboratory. Hotdock. HOTDOCK is a Standard Interface device for robotic manipulation providing redundant mechanical, power, data and thermal coupling capabilities between payloads and spacecraft or between spacecraft modules. It is considered an essential building block to support the emerging LEO/GEO robotic servicing market (spacecraft maintenance and reconfiguration, large structures assembly in space). It is also targeted to support the robotic needs of future exploration missions. Lunar exploration. LUVMI, a lightweight (about 45 kg), low-cost rover with four wheels and adjustable suspension system that is being developed to study the characteristics of the moon's water ice and the volatiles in the lunar crust and atmosphere by drilling into the ground and performing the measurements in-situ. The company is part of a European aerospace consortium that was awarded a one-year contract by ESA to study a lunar lander mission proposal"}, {"text": "that would launch by 2025. The purpose of the mission would be to demonstrate the ability to mine lunar regolith and extract resources from it, also called in-situ resource utilization (ISRU). The other partners are ArianeGroup and PTScientists. Space Applications Services will provide ground segment and communications services. Ground segment. Space Applications Services is the company behind Yamcs - a framework for command and control over spacecraft, satellites, payloads, ground stations and ground equipment."}, {"text": "\"Uneventful Days\" is a song by the American musician Beck. It was released on October 17, 2019, as the second single from his fourteenth studio album \"Hyperspace\". Music video. Dev Hynes directed the music video for \"Uneventful Days\". \"Rolling Stone\" described the song's music video as surreal. The music video contains references to Beck's past music videos, including \"Devils Haircut\" (1996) and \"Sexx Laws\" (1999), and stars Evan Rachel Wood, Tessa Thompson and Alia Shawkat."}, {"text": "\"Dark Places\" is a song by the American musician Beck. It was released on November 7, 2019 as the third single from his fourteenth studio album \"Hyperspace\". A lyric video was also created for the song, made by Eddie Obrand. \"Consequence of Sound\" described the video as \"dreamy\". Critical reception. Tom Breihan of \"Stereogum\" called \"Dark Places\" \"a slow, ambling song, built from both an acoustic-guitar strum and a rich, hazy synth sound. Beck, singing as high as his voice will let him go, reflects on a breakup\", as evidenced by the lyrics \"Time moves on, and on and love, it goes / Now she\u2019s gone, and all I see are shadows\". He thought that the song sounded closer to the album \"Sea Change\", rather than \"Midnite Vultures\". \"Exclaim!\" described the song as \"more than a little smooth\"."}, {"text": "\"Everlasting Nothing\" is a song by the American musician Beck. It was released on November 14, 2019, as the fourth single from his fourteenth studio album \"Hyperspace\". Beck and Pharrell Williams wrote and produced \"Everlasting Nothing\", and played all the instruments on it. Beck sings, plays guitar and piano, while Williams plays drums and keyboard. It also features a choir. Beck had already performed \"Everlasting Nothing\" twice in 2013, both at shows in California. Critical reception. Claire Shaffer of \"Rolling Stone\" wrote that the song \"combines Beck's guitar-laden folk-pop with some quirky Pharrell additions: sci-fi synthesizers, calming bongos and staccato drum machines give it a distinctively space-age vibe\". \"Stereogum\" wrote that the song \"could've easily been a pretty good \"Morning Phase\"-type song, but it keeps twisting and adding on more interesting musical choices, and it's all the better for it\"."}, {"text": "Krasny Yar () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Krasnoyarskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 697 as of 2010. There are 16 streets. Geography. Krasny Yar is located in steppe, on Transvolga, on the east bank of the Volgograd Reservoir, 72 km northwest from Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Belokamenka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kurnayevka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kurbayevskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The total population was 666 inhabitants as of 2010. There are 18 streets. Geography. Kurnayevka is located in steppe, on the bank of the Volga River, 55 km southwest of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kolyshkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lyatoshinka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Lyatoshinskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 632 as of 2010. There are 11 streets. Geography. Lyatoshinka is located on the left bank of the Yeruslan River, 21 km northeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lugovskoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Melovoy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Novotikhonovskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 84 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Melovoy is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Solyanka River, 51 km south of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Torgunsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Shawne Fielding (born in El Paso, Texas, United States, on 27 June 1969) is an American-Swiss actress and model who has appeared in US, German, and Swiss television series and movies. Notably, Fielding had been married to Thomas Borer, former Swiss ambassador to Germany, and twice to American billionaire Charles Addison Williams of Sammons Enterprises, her current husband again. Early days. Fielding attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Advertising with a minor in Psychology. She was also Miss Dallas USA and 6th runner-up to Miss Texas USA and Mrs. Dallas America. Fielding won Mrs. Texas America, and was also the 3rd runner-up at Mrs. America. Life and career. Though born in Texas, Fielding became strongly integrated into Swiss society, and has been featured in the Carnival of Basel. On 12 August 2001, at the in Saignelegier, where she was present as an official ambassador of the , she was presented by the Jurassic with the Unspunnenstein, which had been stolen by the Beliers in 1984 from the Museum of the Jungfrau Region in Interlaken. Fielding received the Unspunnenstein, a large stone of Swiss historical significance used in the Unspunnenfest that led to"}, {"text": "the final formation of Switzerland\u2019s 26 cantons. In addition, Fielding's portrait and clothing are displayed in the National History Museum, Berlin, the Swiss National Museum, and the Audrey Hepburn Museum. She has also been named as a cult figure (\"Kultfigur\") in Europe. Marriage to Borer. From 1999 to 2014, Fielding was married for the second time to Thomas Borer. The couple gained much media attention in Germany and Switzerland, with Fielding continuing to be in the media long after the \"Borer Affair\". Her photo gallery, for example as \"Cowgirl from the Alps\", as \"Cinderella\", and as \"Gunslinger\" in the journal \"\", led in 2001 to diplomatic complications, in the course of which the dismissal of Thomas Borer as ambassador loomed. After an apology from Fielding, the affair was, however, shelved. Fielding also caused a sensation when she took legal action against a photomontage showing her scantily dressed and \"topless\", which had even gained attention at a White House press briefing. She won her lawsuit against the publication in the Berlin district court, and the court banned another reprint of the controversial photos in 2001. During the Borer affair, in which the \"Sonntagsblick\" newspaper imputed her then husband in an illicit"}, {"text": "sexual affair with the Berlin-based , she stood by her husband. Subsequently, she suffered a miscarriage in 2002 and lost their child. The Swiss government recalled their ambassador in Germany back to Bern under the impression that he could no longer fulfill his duties as a philandering media spectacle. He was subsequently recalled to Bern to become the ambassador-at-large for refugee camps. Borer escaped the imminent recall by his own resignation. Borer and Fielding filed a claim for damages in the US court system against the Ringier publishing house, which had to apologize in public and pay compensation reportedly in the millions of Swiss francs. In 2010, Fielding filed for divorce from Borer, ending a troubled marriage. The couple have two children together. Relationship with Sch\u00f6pf. From 2014, Fielding lived with her partner , a former professional ice hockey goalie, in , in the canton of Schwyz. In 2018, she and her partner took part in the RTL show \"The Summerhouse of the Stars \u2013 Battle of the Celebrity Couples\" (German: \"), and came in 2nd. Remarriage to Williams. Fielding left Sch\u00f6pf in July 2020. On 25 September 2020, the couple were re-engaged and wed in a civil ceremony in"}, {"text": "2022. The couple married in Hawaii on 27 July 2022. Fielding currently lives in both Dallas, Texas, and Kilchberg, Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland. In April 2025, Fielding announced that she plans to star in \" (\"Battle of the Reality Stars\"), a German reality TV series, starting on 7 May 2025. Family. Shawne Fielding's children are Roman Borer-Fielding (born May 27, 2003) and Ruby Borer-Fielding (born August 17, 2007). Her maternal grandfather is C. L. Sonnichsen, and her first cousin is , a photographer based in New York and S\u00e3o Paulo. Residences. Fielding has resided in, and designed, restored and/or decorated the interior of the following historical residences: Philanthropy. Fielding is also involved in philanthropy and charity work. She is currently President of the Swiss Foundation Kids with a Cause Europe. She was an ambassador for the SOS Children's Villages, Ambassador for the Swiss Expo.02 and honorary director of UNICEF Germany for special projects. She has been supporting the LGBT community since the early 1990s as a board member for AIDS Arms in Dallas, Texas, as the honorary chairman of DIFFA, and as an ambassador for AIDS Hilfe Schweiz. Selected filmography. The following are some of the TV series and films in which"}, {"text": "Fielding has appeared:"}, {"text": "Nizhnyaya Vodyanka () is a rural locality (a selo) in Verkhnevodyanskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Nizhnyaya Vodyanka is located in steppe, on Transvolga, on the right bank of the Vodyanka River, 55 km southeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhnyaya Vodyanka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Koll Guitar Company is an American guitar manufacturing company based in Portland, Oregon. The company, established in 1986 by Saul Koll, produces electric and semi-acoustic guitars. The company is known for its \"Glide\" series (which has had improvements such as the \"Superior\"), and for its experimental designs for musicians such as David Torn, Elliott Sharp, Henry Kaiser and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Other models by Koll are the Troubadour and the Super Cub, designed in the 1950s style. History. Koll began playing guitar at the age of 12, and discovered Irving Sloan's book, \"Classic Guitar Construction\", at a Southern California library. While attending college at San Diego State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in sculpture, Koll began experimenting with guitar construction. After college, he began his professional luthier career at instrument repair shop, The World of Strings in Long Beach, California, where he was tutored by Jon Peterson and Glen Mers. In 1986, Koll founded the \"Koll Guitar Company\" and subsequently relocated from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon, where the company is currently based. Since 2015, most of Koll's guitars have been hand-built in-house by Saul Koll himself."}, {"text": "Novaya Kvasnikovka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Novokvasnikovskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 603 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Novaya Kvasnikovka is located on the left bank of the Yeruslan River, 13 km north of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mirnoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novaya Poltavka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Novopoltavskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 990 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Novaya Poltavka is located in steppe, on Transvolga, 10 km southwest of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Staraya Poltavka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novy Tikhonov () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Novotikhonovskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 354 as of 2010. There are 11 streets. Geography. Novy Tikhonov is located in steppe, 44 km south of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Posevnoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Orlinoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Gmelinskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 73 as of 2010. Geography. Orlinoye is located in steppe, 47 km southeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gmelinka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pervomaysky () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Gmelinskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 313 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Pervomaysky is located in steppe, 41 km southeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gmelinka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mike Kelly (born 20 November 1967) is an American-Australian professional basketball coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the Otago Nuggets of the New Zealand National Basketball League (NZNBL). He played college basketball for Orange Coast College and Westmont College before playing professionally in Australia. He played 13 seasons in the National Basketball League (NBL) between 1993 and 2006, winning an NBL championship with the South East Melbourne Magic in 1996 while earning grand final MVP honours. In 1997 and 1998, he earned back-to-back NBL Best Defensive Player selection. He moved into coaching after retiring as a player, where he served as a college assistant for seven years before returning to the NBL in 2013. In 2018, he won an NBL championship as an assistant with Melbourne United. Two years later, he won NBL Coach of the Year as head coach of the Cairns Taipans. He was appointed head coach of the South East Melbourne Phoenix in 2023 but left in October 2024 after starting the 2024\u201325 NBL season with a 0\u20135 record. High school and college. Kelly grew up in Costa Mesa, California. He attended Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California, and helped"}, {"text": "the basketball team earn the 1985 CIF Championship with a 29\u20130 record before beginning his collegiate career at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa. Following a two-year tenure at OCC, he was recruited to play at Westmont College in the GSAC. Kelly served as team captain for the Warriors and was a two-time All-GSAC player. He helped Westmont win the 1988 NAIA District III Championship, with the team earning a trip to the NAIA National Tournament. In 50 games with the Warriors, he averaged 14.2 points per game, 17th on the Warriors all-time list. He also averaged 5.5 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.5 steals per game. He graduated from Westmont in 1989 with an economics and business degree. Professional career. Following his college career, Kelly spent one year in Taiwan playing for the Lucky Cement Basketball Team before moving to Australia. He first played for the Griffith Demons in New South Wales state league division two before playing in the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL) for the North East Melbourne Arrows (1991\u20131993) and the Nunawading Spectres (1994\u20131995). The Arrows won the 1993 ABA national championship. Kelly debuted in the National Basketball League (NBL) during the 1993 season with a"}, {"text": "two-game stint with the Hobart Devils. During the 1994 NBL season, he had a two-game stint with the South East Melbourne Magic. His first full season in the NBL came during the 1996 season, playing 33 games for the South East Melbourne Magic and helping the team win the NBL championship behind his grand final MVP performance. He continued with the Magic in the 1997 season and the 1998 season, where he won the NBL Best Defensive Player both years. For the 1998\u201399 NBL season, Kelly joined the Victoria Titans. For the 1999\u20132000 NBL season, Kelly joined the Townsville Crocodiles. He played five seasons for the Crocodiles. For the 2004\u201305 NBL season, Kelly joined the Wollongong Hawks. He spent two seasons with the Hawks, playing 37 games in 2004\u201305 and four games in 2005\u201306. He also served as assistant coach with the Hawks in 2005\u201306. Coaching career. After his final NBL season, Kelly returned to the U.S. for seven years, where he served as assistant coach in the college ranks. His first season was in 2006\u201307 with Vanguard University under head coach Fred Litzenberger. After two years at the NAIA level, Kelly joined Utah Valley University for the 2008\u201309 season."}, {"text": "He spent five seasons with Utah Valley at the NCAA Division I level. Kelly returned to Australia in 2013. He served as an assistant coach with the Townsville Crocodiles in 2013\u201314 and 2014\u201315. For the 2015\u201316 NBL season, Kelly joined Melbourne United as an assistant coach. He served in the role for three seasons, helping United win the 2017\u201318 NBL championship. In April 2018, Kelly was appointed head coach of the Cairns Taipans. The team endured a 14-game losing streak in the 2018\u201319 NBL season and finished last with a 6\u201322 record. In his second year in Cairns, Kelly's team improved to third on the ladder with a 16\u201312 record. He was subsequently named NBL Coach of the Year for the 2019\u201320 season. The Taipans went on to lose 2\u20131 to the Perth Wildcats in the semi-finals. Days after being named Coach of the Year, he re-signed with the club on a two-year deal. In the 2020\u201321 NBL season, the Taipans returned to the bottom of the ladder with an 8\u201328 record. Kelly parted ways with the club in May 2021. On 26 July 2021, Kelly was announced as the associate head coach of the Perth Wildcats on a two-year"}, {"text": "contract. On 30 March 2023, Kelly was appointed head coach of the South East Melbourne Phoenix. In the 2023\u201324 NBL season, the Phoenix finished 10th with a league-worst 10\u201318 record. On 13 October 2024, he parted ways with the Phoenix after starting the 2024\u201325 NBL season with a 0\u20135 record. On 23 January 2025, Kelly was appointed head coach of the Otago Nuggets of the New Zealand National Basketball League (NZNBL) for the 2025 season. Personal life. Kelly and his wife Annette have three children."}, {"text": "Maurizio Cornalba (born 17 January 1947) is an Italian mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. Cornalba completed his undergraduate studies at University of Pisa in 1969 and his graduate studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1970. He was a postdoc at Princeton University from 1970 to 1971 and an assistant professor at the University of Pisa from 1971 to 1976; he was on leave of absence for the academic year 1971\u20131972 at Princeton University, for the academic year 1974\u20131975 at Harvard University, and for the academic year 1975\u20131976 at the University of California, Berkeley. At the University of Pavia he was a full professor from 1976 to 2017, when he retired as professor emeritus. Cornalba's research deals with the geometry of algebraic curves and the geometry and topology of moduli spaces. He was in 1993/94, 2005 and 2007 at the Institute for Advanced Study, in 1995 at the Institut Henri Poincar\u00e9, in 1998 at the University of Amsterdam, and in 1984/85 at Brown University. In 1975 he received the Bartolozzi Prize. He is a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (elected in 1990 a corresponding member and in 2005 a full member), the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze"}, {"text": "e Lettere (elected in 2000), and the (elected in 2011). In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker with talk \"Cohomology of Moduli Spaces of Stable Curves\" at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. He was one of the co-authors for Guido Castelnuovo's \"Opere matematiche: memorie e note\", published in 4 volumes by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei from 2002 to 2007, and for Phillip Griffiths's \"Selected works\", published in 4 volumes by the American Mathematical Society in 2003."}, {"text": "Peschanka () is a rural locality (a selo) in Novopoltavskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 146 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Peschanka is located on the right bank of the Yeruslan River, 16 km south of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novaya Poltavka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "\"Soaked\" is a 2018 song by Benee. \"Soaked\" may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Laurence Joseph Hayek (15 July 1934 \u2013 15 July 2004), a.k.a. Larry Hayek, was an Austrian-born English microbiologist. He was the son of the economist and political philosopher Friedrich August Hayek (1899\u20131992). Life. Born Lorenz Josef Heinrich Erich von Hayek on 15 July 1934 in Vienna, Austria. He was brought up in Britain, where his father worked at the London School of Economics, and was naturalized, together with his sister, on 18 July 1938. During the war the LSE was evacuated to Cambridge, and Hayek was found a place at King's College School, Cambridge, with the help of John Maynard Keynes (1883\u20131946), his father's friend and fellow economist. After the war Laurence Hayek finished school at Westminster School, and studied medicine at King's College, Cambridge. He performed his National Service as cadet and 2nd Lt. He became GP and then pathologist at Middlesex Hospital. He married Esca Drury, a nurse, in 1961, they had three children, Ann, Catherine and Crispin. In 1974 the family moved to Devon, where he was consultant microbiologist at Torbay Hospital. He was a council member of the Association of Clinical Pathologists and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Pathology. Laurence"}, {"text": "retired in 1999 yet spent much of his remaining years taking locums in other hospitals. He spent a good deal of his time promoting his father's work. He and Esca were keen campanologists. Hayek died unexpectedly in 2004 in Dartington, Devon on the morning of his 70th birthday with his family with him."}, {"text": "Posevnoy () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Novotikhonovskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 35 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Posevnoy is located 36 km south of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novy Tikhonov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Abdul Momin (1929 \u2013 16 July 2004) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Netrokona-4 and Netrokona-2 constituencies. He also served as the food minister. Personal life and death. Momin was married to Rebecca Momin. Momin died on 16 July 2004 in Bangladesh Medical College Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh."}, {"text": "Posyolok Valuyevskoy Opytno-Meliorativnoy Stantsii () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Novotikhonovskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 28 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. The settlement is located on the right bank of the Solyonaya Kuba, 16 km south of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Peschanka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Saltovo () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Saltovskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 932 in 2010. There are ten streets. Geography. Saltovo is located in steppe, on Transvolga, on the bank of the Yeruslan River, 26 km northeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lyatoshinka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Suyetinovka () is a rural locality (a selo) in Kanovskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 45 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Suyetinovka is located in steppe, on Transvolga, on the left bank of the Kuba River, 27 km southeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tsvetochnoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 season is Reggio Emilia's 46th in existence and the club's 9th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian basketball. Overview. The 2019-20 season was hit by the coronavirus pandemic that compelled the federation to suspend and later cancel the competition without assigning the title to anyone. Reggio Emilia ended the championship in 12th position. Kit. Supplier: Adidas / Sponsor: GrissinBon Players. <section begin=roster/>The team composition is the same as the last game played on February 9 before the interruption of the championship due to the coronavirus pandemic. Dererk Pardon and Gal Mekel left the team before the early end of the season. The first due to an injury that compromised the rest of the season, while Mekel was transferred to Unicaja M\u00e1laga. Current roster. <section end=roster/> Depth chart. <section begin=depthchart/> <section end=depthchart/>"}, {"text": "Torgun () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Torgunskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 752 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Torgun is located in steppe, on Transvolga, on the left bank of the Vodyanka River, 64 km southeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhnyaya Vodyanka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Alexander Belsches, Lord Tofts MP (c. 1610 \u2013 1656) was a 17th-century Scottish judge and Senator of the College of Justice. Life. He was son of John Belsches (1580-1631) an advocate, and his wife, Janet Craig, daughter of Thomas Craig of Riccarton, Lord Advocate of Scotland. In 1621 his father purchased the estates of Over Tofts and Nether Tofts in Berwickshire. In 1625 his father remarried (Janet presumably being dead) to a Marjory Kae. He inherited the Tofts estates (east of Hawick) in 1631. In 1644 Alexander was a Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed. In July 1646 he was knighted by Charles I of England and created a Senator of the College of Justice taking the title Lord Tofts. In December 1648, from Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight, King Charles wrote from his imprisonment pre-execution to gran Belsches a pension of \u00a3200 per annum. In September 1650 he became Sheriff of Berwickshire. He died in 1656. Family. He married Jean Skene daughter of John Skene of Hallyards, a Clerk of Session. They had no children. His brother John Belsches inherited the Tofts estates but had to sell it off in sections to repay Alexander's debts. The bulk of"}, {"text": "the estate was bought by Sir William Purves (Solicitor General for Scotland) in 1673 who renamed the estate as Purves Hall. Artistic recognition. He was portrayed by Sir John Baptist de Medina."}, {"text": "Fermy 2 sovkhoza Vodyanovsky () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Verkhnevodyanskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 95 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. The settlement is located on the steppe, in the Transvolga region, 196 km east of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zaprudnoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Fermy 3 plemzavoda Parizhskaya Kommuna () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Torgunskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 54 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. The settlement is located on the right bank of the Solyanka River, 71 km southeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Torgun is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kharkovka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kharkovskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 920 as of 2010. There are 16 streets. Geography. Kharkovka is located in steppe, on the Caspian Depression, 31 km southeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gmelinka is the nearest rural locality. Germany bombed and landed in Kharkovka"}, {"text": "Abu Abbas (died 31 August 2009) was a politician of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Netrokona-2 constituency during 1991\u20131995 and 2004\u20132006. In November 2008, the Anti-Corruption Commission filed a case against Abbas accusing him of concealing wealth information."}, {"text": "Tsvetochnoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Gmelinskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 89 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. History. The village was founded as a small farmstead named \"Blumenfeld (am Mius)\" by Volga German colonists on the banks of the Yeruslan River. The parish was Lutheran and it was severely effected by the Povolzhye famine in 1921. Geography. Tsvetochnoye is located in steppe, on Transvolga, on the left bank of the Kuba River, 35 km southeast of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gmelinka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Cherebayevo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 585 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Cherebayevo is located in steppe, on Transvolga, near the Volgograd Reservoir, 74 km northwest of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Limanny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Shpaki () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Novotikhonovskoye Rural Settlement, Staropoltavsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 132 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Shpaki is located in steppe, near the left bank of the Yeruslan River, 22 km southwest of Staraya Poltavka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Valuyevka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Roy Odhier (born 23 September 1964) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Paul Sewe Omany (born 29 April 1965) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "This is a list of all matches of the Japan national rugby union team. Overall. Japan's overall Test match record against all nations, updated to 20 November 2021, is as follows:"}, {"text": "The Chapel of St. Catherine () is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Old Goa in the same compound as Se Cathedral and the Church and Convent of St. Francis of Assisi. It was built in 1510 in the Baroque architectural style, and has a brown and white facade. It faces the Mandovi River and is part of the World Heritage Site, Churches and convents of Goa. The chapel is not functional. History. It was erected by Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese conqueror, in 1510 to commemorate his victorious entry to the city of Goa on St Catherine's Day. Pope Paul III granted it status of cathedral in 1534 and it was rebuilt. The chapel was expanded in 1550 at the order of the governor Jorge Cabral, and a new altarpiece was installed as well."}, {"text": "Charles Oguk (17 June 1964 \u2013 5 January 2020) was a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "John Eliud Okoth (born 12 December 1958) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Bonita Sharma () is a Nepali health and nutrition activist. She runs Social Changemakers and Innovators (SOCHAI) and in 2019 was listed as one of the BBC's \"100 Women\". Early life. Sharma was born in Nepal. She studied for a BA in Public Health at Purbanchal University and took a master's degree in Nutrition from Tribhuvan University. Career. Bonita Sharma founded Social Changemakers and Innovators (SOCHAI) in 2017. It is a non-profit organization which aims to eradicate malnutrition and to encourage good health, particularly for women and children. In order to reduce child deaths from malnutrition, she introduced a bracelet called Nutribeads (Poshan Maala) which helps mothers to plan meals for their children. In 2016, Nutribeads won the Asia Pacific Youth Innovation Challenge. With the profits raised from selling the bracelets, SOCHAI was able to provide aid to mothers and children affected by disaster in the Morang district of eastern Nepal. SOCHAI is also producing Red Cycle bracelets with 28 beads so that women can plan their menstrual cycle using different colours. Sharma writes on issues affecting women such as nutrition, abortion and COVID-19. Sharma's name was announced on the BBC's \"100 Women\" list in 2019 and she is a"}, {"text": "UNESCO Female Champion as part of the Malala Fund for Girls\u2019 Right to Education. She also won the Zero Hunger category award of the Lead 2030 Challenge presented by One Young World, which gave her $50,000. Bonita is also awarded the Goalkeeper Global Goals Progress Award 2020 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."}, {"text": "Samuel Ngoyo (born 16 January 1963) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Sanjiwan Goyal (born 26 December 1964) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Victor Owino (born 5 July 1968) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Samson Oriso (born 23 January 1965) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Blizhnemelnichny () is a rural locality (a khutor) Nizhnechirskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 106 as of 2010. Geography. Blizhnemelnichny is located 35 km southeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Blizhnepodgorsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tokumaru (written: or in katakana) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Inderjit Singh Matharu (born 1 September 1969) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Blizhneosinovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Blizhneositinovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 639 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. Blizhneosinovsky is located on the left bank of the Chir River, 32 km southeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Buratsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 2020 Women's European Water Polo Championship was the 18th edition of the major European water polo tournament for national teams. It was held at the Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary, from 12 to 25 January 2020. Spain defeated Russia 13\u201312 in the final to win their second title. Host. LEN announced the choice of Budapest as host for the competition on 9 July 2016. All the matches were played at the Danube Arena. Qualification. Twelve teams were allowed to the tournament. The qualification was as follows: Format. The twelve teams were split in two groups with six teams each. The first four teams of each group played each other in the quarterfinals in cross group format, the remaining teams played for places nine to twelve. Draw. The draw of the preliminary round's pools took place in Budapest on 22 October 2019. The teams were drawn into two groups of six. The first batch included the best two teams of the previous edition; the teams ranked third and fourth were in the second batch, the fifth and the sixth in the third batch and the qualification winners in the fourth batch.<ref name=\"draw/pots\"></ref> With the play-offs winners determined on 26 October,"}, {"text": "the draw resulted in the following groups: Preliminary round. \"All times are local (UTC+1).\" Knockout stage. Bracket. 5th place bracket Final standing. 1 Spain qualified for the Olympics by finishing second in the 2019 World Championships. Statistics and awards. Awards. The awards were announced on 26 January 2020."}, {"text": "William Martin Wetzel (born January 29, 1958) is an American former professional football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the New York Jets. He played college football at Tulane University."}, {"text": "Blizhnepodgorsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Nizhnechirskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 120 as of 2010. Geography. Blizhnepodgorsky is located 37 km southeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Blizhnemelnichny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Samson Muange (born 15 September 1961) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Buratsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Lysovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 556 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. Buratsky is on the right bank of the Liska River, 47 km southeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novomaximovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Verkhneaksyonovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Verkhnesolonovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 145 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Verkhneaksyonovsky is located on the right bank of the Aksenets River, 82 km southwest of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Posyolok otdeleniya 3 sovkhoza Krasnaya Zvezda is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Verkhneosinovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Nizhneosinovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 141 as of 2010. Geography. Verkhneosinovsky is located near the two Rivers, 17 km northwest of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Starikovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Verkhnesolonovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Verkhnesolonovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 770 as of 2010. There are 16 streets. Geography. Verkhnesolonovsky is located 33 km south of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nizhnesolonovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Verkhnechirsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Novomaximovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 778 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Verkhnechirsky is located in steppe, near the right bank of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir, 54 km southeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novomaximovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Dobrinka () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Dobrisnkoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 754 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Dobrinka is located on the bank of the Levaya Dobraya River, 40 km northeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lobakin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Dom Otdykha 40 let Oktyabrya () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Nizhnechirskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2010. Geography. The settlement is located 57 km southeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Suvorovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zhirkovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Blizhneositinovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 308 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Zhirkovsky is located on the Dobraya River, 9 km northeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Surovikino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Constantine Cominato Arianiti (Italian: \"Constantino Cominato Arianiti\", Albanian: \"Kostandin Komneni Arianiti\"; 1456/1457 \u2013 8 May 1530) also known as Constantine Komnenos Arianites, was a 15th and 16th-century Albanian nobleman, military leader, diplomat and pretender who lived most of his life in exile in Italy due to the conquest of his homeland by the Ottoman Empire. Constantine sought to establish himself as a leader among the Christian Balkan refugees in Italy and claimed lordship over various former Christian lands in Greece, using the titles Prince of Macedonia, Duke of Achaea and Despot of the Morea. The son of Gjergj Arianiti, an Albanian lord who had fought alongside the Albanian national hero Skanderbeg against the Ottomans, Constantine was taken to Italy for his safety in 1469, after the death of his father. In Italy, Constantine was noticed by Pope Sixtus IV, who provided him with a pension, and he quickly made a successful career for himself. In 1489, he married into the Palaeologus-Montferrat family, a branch of the Byzantine imperial Palaiologos dynasty, through marriage to Francesca of Montferrat, a probably illegitimate daughter of Boniface III, Marquis of Montferrat. The marriage resulted in Constantine's wealth and status increasing, and also paved the way"}, {"text": "for his tenure as regent of Montferrat, on behalf of Boniface's young son William IX, from 1495 to 1499. In the early 16th century, Constantine served as a diplomat to the popes and the future Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, with both parties finding him to be a talented ambassador. Following his assumption of the titles 'Prince of Macedonia' and 'Duke of Achaea', to which he had no real claim, in the 1490s, Constantine partook in various schemes to organize expeditions against the Ottoman Empire, being involved in at least three separate crusade-related plans throughout his life. At some point between 1502 and 1507, Constantine assumed the title 'Despot of the Morea', previously legitimately used by Andreas Palaiologos, another title which he had no genealogical claim to. Despite his tenuous association with these titles, Constantine adamantly defended his use of them and, as seen through the roles he was expected to play in the various schemes he engaged in, was ready to risk his life to enforce his claims. In 1514 of 1515, Constantine was appointed as the local governor of the town of Fano in the March of Ancona by Pope Leo X. Constantine may have aspired to become"}, {"text": "a leading figure among the many Balkan refugees in the March of Ancona, but any such dreams did not come to fruition. Instead, papal taxation policies made Constantine, as the governmental representative, disliked, and contemporary writings mock his insistence on his high-sounding titles. He was removed from office by Leo in 1516, following a riot by the locals, but was reinstated by Pope Clement VII in 1524, whereafter Constantine governed Fano from a mountain fortress at Montefiore Conca until his death in 1530. His only son, Arianitto Arianiti, continued his father's pretensions by using the title 'Prince of Macedonia', but relinquished Constantine's other titles. Biography. Background and early life. Constantine Cominato Arianiti was born in 1456 or 1457 as the son of Gjergj Arianiti (or 'George Komnenos Arianites'). Constantine's mother was Pietrina Francone from Apulia, a daughter of Oliviero Francone, an Aragonese officer in Lecce. Constantine had numerous siblings, including two brothers George and Thomas, and several sisters. Through Gjergj, Constantine and his siblings claimed descent from both Albanian and Byzantine noble families. Gjerg had been an Albanian military leader and lord, governing the settlements of Cerminitza and Catafigo in the vicinity of the city of Ragusa. Their family, the"}, {"text": "Arianiti, claimed to be the same family as the earlier Byzantine Arianites family, originally from Constantinople; modern scholars variously accept or cast doubt on this connection. Through the use of 'Komnenos', Constantine's family also proclaimed a connection to the Komnenos dynasty of emperors, which had ruled the Byzantine Empire 1081\u20131185. Later historians, such as George Francis Hill, have deemed the use of that name a 'false assimilation' of the name of the famous dynasty. The Arianiti had grown increasingly influential in Albania just prior to the conquest of the country by the Ottoman Empire. Three of Constantine's sisters were married to highly influential figures: his sister Angelina was the wife of Stefan Brankovi\u0107, the Despot of Serbia, his sister Gojisava was the wife of Ivan Crnojevi\u0107, the Lord of Zeta, and his sister Donika was the wife of the Albanian national hero Skanderbeg, who led the Albanian resistance against the Ottomans from 1443 to 1468. Their father Gjergj was an ally of Skanderbeg against the Ottomans, though he also sought to depose Skanderbeg in favor of himself, being defeated, pardoned and received back as an ally once again after such a rebellion in 1456. After the death of both Skanderbeg"}, {"text": "and Gjergj in 1468, the Ottomans slowly managed to crush the Albanian resistance, successfully having incorporate the country into their empire by 1479. During the long and drawn-out process of Ottoman conquest, many of the Albanians who chose to remain Christian fled across the Adriatic Sea to Italy. Among these refugees was Constantine, who was taken to Italy for his safety in 1469, at the age of twelve. Early career and claims. Constantine would go on to have a successful career in Italy. In his youth, he was noticed by Pope Sixtus IV (1471\u20131484), who provided him with a pension of 32 a month. From the 1490s onwards, Constantine sought a leadership position among the many Christian Balkan refugees in Italy, following in his father's footsteps. Though his father had only claimed connection to Albania itself, Constantine had wider aspirations and began claiming to be the rightful ruler of the regions of Macedonia and Thessaly. To cement his claim, Constantine began to use the title 'Prince of Macedonia', and later also added 'Duke of Achaea', presumably adding the Peloponnese to the regions he claimed lordship over. Although the assumption of Constantine's Greek titles may appear to be nothing more than"}, {"text": "bombastic and ephemeral pretensions, Constantine was adamant in defending them and ready to risk his own life in attempting to make them a reality. In 1494, Charles VIII of France purchased the title 'Emperor of Constantinople' from Andreas Palaiologos, the nephew of the final Byzantine emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos (1449\u20131453) and claimant emperor and Despot of the Morea, as part of preparations for a crusade (which ultimately never took place). In the autumn of 1494, Charles and his ambassador, Philippe de Commines, who was a friend of Constantine, met with Constantine in Montferrat and agreed to a plan in which Constantine and Martin Albaro, the bishop of Durazzo, were to stir up a rebellion in Albania as a diversion for Charles' invasion of the Ottoman Empire. The records of these meetings are the first time Constantine's claimed titles are attested. Constantine apparently boasted of his titles to Commines, stating that his rightful lands, Macedonia and Thessaly, \"had once been the inheritance of Alexander the Great. As a reward for stirring up rebellion in Albania, Commines hoped that Charles, upon victory against the Ottomans, would reward Constantine by making him the \"King of Macedonia\". Albaro travelled to Venice to make preparations,"}, {"text": "but the plan was doomed before it even began given that Albaro proved to be unable to keep it a secret and the information soon leaked to the Ottomans. Alarmed, the Venetian government arrested Albaro in January 1495 and assured the Ottomans that Venice had nothing to do with the plans. Constantine had also been in Venice at the time, but managed to escape imprisonment by fleeing on a ship to Apulia. Constantine had been in Montferrat since 1486, in service to his niece Marija Brankovi\u0107, who was married to Boniface III, Marquis of Montferrat. In Montferrat he also met Francesca of Montferrat, presumably an illegitimate daughter of Boniface, whom he married 1489. The advantageous marriage resulted in Constantine being granted his own castle and accompanying lands, increasing his status and wealth considerably. After Boniface's death in 1494, Marija became the regent for her and Boniface's young son William IX. After Marija herself died in 1495, Constantine became the regent and guardian of his nephew. Constantine's regency in Montferrat lasted for five years. In 1499, Louis XII of France deposed Constantine during the Second Italian War, on account of \"lukewarmness in the French cause\", and had him imprisoned in the"}, {"text": "city of Novara. Constantine shortly thereafter managed to escape imprisonment, fleeing south to Pisa where he was appointed to a military command. Papal and German diplomat. From 1501 onwards, Constantine served the Papacy as a diplomat, travelling between Italy and Germany. Although opinion of him later appears to have soured, Constantine initially appears to have been highly skilled, as records exist of Constantine receiving praise both from the popes and from Maximilian I, the King of the Romans (who would later rule as Holy Roman Emperor 1508\u20131519). The contemporary Venetian historian Marino Sanuto the Younger recorded that Constantine, in addition to being tall and black-haired, was also a skilled speaker. In 1504, Constantine was sent by Pope Julius II (1503\u20131513) as an ambassador to Maximilian. Constantine's diplomatic ability impressed Julius to such an extent that his monthly pension was increased to 200 and he was put in charge of his own detachment of papal soldiers. The negotiations in which Constantine was involved eventually resulted in the formation of the unsuccessful League of Cambrai in 1508, an alliance to counteract the Ottomans and the Republic of Venice. According to the historian Jonathan Harris, Constantine's involvements in these affairs illustrates his willingness"}, {"text": "to make good on his claims in Greece and aspire to his father's role of anti-Ottoman leadership. Constantine's contemporaries appear to have respected his claims to lands in Greece, given that Maximilian referred to Constantine by both 'Prince of Macedonia' and 'Duke of Achaea' when sending him back as an ambassador to Rome in 1504. After the death of Andreas Palaiologos in June 1502, Constantine added 'Despot of the Morea' to his claimed titles. It is unclear when exactly Constantine began to claim this title, though it may have begun only a few months after Andreas's death given that a letter from Antonio Giustiniani, Venetian ambassador to the Pope, mentions a 'despot' in command of a cavalry unit in October 1502. It is certain that the title was in use by October 1507, when it is among the titles applied to him during his diplomatic travels to Germany. Though Constantine had met Andreas while he was still alive, they were not genealogically related, which makes it unclear on what grounds he could claim to be Andreas's successor as despot. Perhaps he derived his claim through his connection to the Komnenos dynasty, or possibly through his marriage to Francesca of Montferrat."}, {"text": "The ruling family of Montferrat, the house of Palaeologus-Montferrat, were distant relatives of Andreas, being descended from emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos (1282\u20131328). The title of 'Despot of the Morea' was also claimed by Fernando Palaiologos, possibly an illegitimate son of Andreas. Governor of Fano. In 1514 or 1515,Pope Leo X (1513\u20131521) made Constantine the governor of the town of Fano in the March of Ancona. The March of Ancone was a strip of territory facing the Dalmatian coast across the Adriatic Sea, making it a natural launching point for an invasion of the Ottoman Empire's lands in the Balkans. It is probable that Leo intended to use it as such, and appointed Constantine as governor of Fano as part of planning a new crusade. In September 1513, Leo had issued crusade indulgences for the first time in many years and the pope had concentrated efforts on promoting unity among the monarchs of Europe. In 1515, Leo had begun preparing a fleet in Ancona and in 1517, plans were made for a Papal contingent to sail from Ancona and meet up with the fleets of Spain, Portugal and England. Rumors were circulating that Leo had also offered to crown Francis I"}, {"text": "of France (1515\u20131547) as Emperor of Constantinople if he agreed to lead the crusade. Francis was already claiming that title, through inheritance from Charles, and is recorded to have publicly stressed his imperial claim as late as 1532. Although no crusade ultimately took place this time either, there might also have been another practical reason for Constantine's appointment in Fano. Given the March of Ancona's proximity to the Balkan coastline, the region, along with the southern region of Calabria and the city of Venice, was a natural point of settlement for refugees from Albania and Greece. The port in the city of Ancona was a particularly popular arrival point, and though many refugees moved on and settled elsewhere, there were a considerably number who stayed. By 1520, records indicate that there were about two hundred Greek families living in Ancona. Through using the architectural styles of their homelands and retaining traditions and customs, the refugees and their descendants in Ancona continued to foster links with their pasts. Though Constantine would ultimately not succeed in gaining control of the regions he claimed to be the rightful ruler of, he may have aspired to be accepted by the Balkan refugees in Fano"}, {"text": "and the rest of the March of Ancona as a leadership figure. If Constantine had such aspirations, they were not successful. Constantine was not popular among the people of Fano, being disliked not only by the Italians but also by the Albanians and Greeks, who were mostly discontent over the heavy taxations by the Papacy owing to the recent wars in Italy. Though this was thus not Constantine's fault, his high-sounding titles were also a source of mockery among some of the populace. In the comedy \"La Cortigiana\" by the contemporary author, playwright, satirist and poet Pietro Aretino, Constantine's titles are explicitly mocked in the text. In the early 1525 edition of \"La Cortigiana\", the relevant passage reads \"If noble blood were all that was needed to bring honor to men who don't deserve it, then the king of Cyprus and the prince of Fiossa wouldn't be in such bad shape. Signor Constantino would get the principality of Macedonia back; he'd think it beneath his dignity to be governor of Fano\" and the later, more restrained, 1534 edition reads \"But who is more noble than Signor Constantine who was despot of the Morea and prince of Macedonia and now is"}, {"text": "governor of Fano?\", a more sarcastic and implied, rather than overt, mockery. In 1516, the townsfolk of Fano began rioting, forcing Constantine to flee to the castle. The affair led Leo to depose Constantine and install Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, as the governor of Fano in Constantine's stead. Constantine was reappointed as governor of Fano by Pope Clement VII (1523\u20131534) in 1524. During his second tenure as governor, Constantine lived in the nearby mountain village of Montefiore Conca, also granted to him by Clement, rather than in Fano itself, given that the castle in Montefiore Conca was nearly impenetrable. Constantine died in Montefiore Conca on 8 May 1530 and was buried in Santi Apostoli or Sant'Agostino in Rome. Two of Constantine's claimed titles, 'Prince of Macedonia' and 'Duke of Achaea', were inscribed on his tomb. The precise location of his grave is not known. Constantine's son Arianitto continued his father's aspirations and pretensions, though the only of his father's titles he is attested to have used was 'Prince of Macedonia'. Family. With his wife Francesca, Constantine had one son and six daughters. The names of the children were:"}, {"text": "Zryanin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Lysovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 27 as of 2010. Geography. Zryanin is located near the Liska River, 33 km northeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lysov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kachalin () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Kachalinskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 422 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Kachalin is located on the Liska River, 38 km northeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ostrov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kiselev () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Lobakinskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 258 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Kiselev is located on the Dobraya River, 35 km north of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lobakin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lobakin () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Lobakinskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,022 as of 2010. There are 22 streets. Geography. Lobakin is located near the Dobraya River, 28 km north of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dobrinka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Shinnosuke (written: , , , , , , , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:"}, {"text": "Lysov () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Lysovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 371 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Lysov is located on the left bank of the Liska River, 31 km ENE of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zryanin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Me is the autobiography of the English singer, pianist and composer Elton John. It was released on 15 October 2019 by Macmillan Publishers. It was ghostwritten by journalist Alexis Petridis, who worked on the book with John for three and a half years. Overview. The book recounts events from John's childhood in Pinner through to his final tour, Farewell Yellow Brick Road. He describes his depression and suicide attempts as well as drug addiction and his prostate cancer diagnosis. He admits he spent his whole career \"trying to show my father what I'm made of\". He explains the reasons behind his advocacy against AIDS. Comments on Michael Jackson. In the book, despite being good friends with him, John said that the American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson was \"genuinely mentally ill\" and \"disturbing to be around\". The comments arose from a lunch John hosted to introduce his husband David Furnish to Jackson in 1993. Publication. \"Me\" was released by Macmillan Publishers on 15 October 2019. Excerpts read by Taron Egerton (who portrayed John in the biographical film \"Rocketman\") aired on BBC Radio 4's \"Book of the Week\" in the first week of its release. Reception. Hadley Freeman, a writer for \"The Guardian\","}, {"text": "called the book \"racy, pacy and crammed with scurrilous anecdotes\", saying: \"Elton makes fun of no one more than himself. He is utterly, astonishingly, hilariously self-lacerating.\" \"Variety\" dubbed the book \"deeply dishy\". A \"Time\" review said: \"Like John\u2019s songs, \"Me\" overflows with whimsical characters, twisted humor, winking self-aggrandizement and stark pathos. True to his spirit, it's a little silly and over the top, but it's also an absorbing and unfettered joy.\" In \"The Daily Telegraph\", Neil McCormick said: \"If you are in the market for an autobiography crammed with sex, drugs and rock and roll, Elton is clearly your man.\" In \"The Times\", Will Hodgkinson said that John's \"sad, funny memoir reveals the insecurities that drive his needy behaviour.\""}, {"text": "Cheng Okon Efiong-Fuller (born 15 April 1980) professionally credited as Cheng Fuller is a Nigerian actor, model, film-maker and marketing professional who gained prominence as the inaugural Vice President of Marketing of Nigerian indigenous retail chain, Hubmart stores. He is also known for his recurring role as Barrister Taylor on DSTV's long-running telenovela, Tinsel, as well as his role in the movie Celebrity Marriage, co-starring alongside Tonto Dikeh, Jackie Appiah, Kanayo O. Kanayo, Odunlade Adekola, Felix Ugo Omokhodion and Roselyn Ngissah. He is the co-founder of Pandemonium Pictures. Early life. Fuller was born on 15 April 1980 in Calabar, Cross River State, southern Nigeria. He was born to the family of Emmanuel Okon Efiong-Fuller and Josephine Okon Efiong-Fuller. His father Emmanuel was a celebrated academician, and his mother Josephine who passed on in 1994 was a lawyer. While in secondary school, Fuller represented his school severally at debates and science competitions as well as in musical competitions as a member of the school choir, Hope Waddell Glorious Voices. He went on to study Soil Science in the university, graduating in 2003. Career. Fuller began his professional career in 2004, taking up employment with the advisory firm KPMG, where he led"}, {"text": "teams and worked in teams that delivered advisory services to leading companies in the telecommunications, oil and gas, financial services, Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), aviation, and Infrastructure, Government and Housing (IGH) sectors. In 2010, Fuller began working at DDB Lagos, serving as Director, Strategy & Business, where he managed the MTN account and later moved to Insight Publicis, serving as the Associate Client Services Director. In 2012, he set up a Marketing Advisory services firm, \"Re\u2019d\u2019Fyne Business Solutions\", which he later abandoned during the Nigerian economic recession of 2014. In 2015, he began working with Hubmart stores, as the pioneer Vice President of Marketing. He achieved a number of notable milestones including the set up and roll out of three additional stores. In the same year, Fuller began appearing as Barrister Taylor on the long-running DSTV series, \"Tinsel\". He has gone on to feature in several notable television series, including playing the role of the titular character in \"Frank's Teens\", and other roles in \"Hotel Majestic\", \"Eve\" and the Basketmouth-produced \"My Flatmates\". Fuller has starred in full-length Nollywood productions as well, including \"Forlorn\", \"Badamasi: Portrait of a General\" and he co-starred with Kenneth Okolie in \"Drifted\". In December 2019,"}, {"text": "Fuller was inducted into the fellowship of the Nigerian Institute of Management Consultants. Politics. In early 2014, Fuller registered in the People's Democratic Party (PDP) Ward 11, Calabar South Constituency 2, and campaigned for a seat in the Cross River State House of Assembly representing the constituency. He however lost his nomination at the party primaries. Pandemonium Pictures and Film making. In June 2019, Fuller co-founded an audio-visual production company, Pandemonium pictures with his friend and business partner. The company commenced pre-production on some movie and television projects and is involved in the set up of an independent content broadcast platform for Nigerian film content. In November 2019, it was announced that Pandemonium pictures had begun production on a new film, \"Black Fate\". On 23 November 2019, he released a short film, \"Endless\" on the Pandemonium Pictures imprint. The movie had a domestic violence theme, and is the first chapter in the 13 chapter series. In January 2020, Pandemonium pictures began production on a feature film, \"The Three Ms\" and a television series, \"The Benjamins\". Personal life. On 23 November 2019, he married his wife Khemmie Owolabi in a private ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria."}, {"text": "Mayorovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kachalinskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 452 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Mayorovsky is located on the Bystry Erik River, 57 km northeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sukhanovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nizhneosinovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Nizhneosinovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 750 as of 2010. Geography. Nizhneosinovsky is located north from A-260 Track, 8 km northwest of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Surovikino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nizhnesolonovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Verkhnesolonovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 75 as of 2010. Geography. Nizhnesolonovsky is located 34 km south of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhnesolonovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nizhny Chir () is a rural locality (a stanitsa) and the administrative center of Nizhnechirskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 4,038 as of 2010. There are 66 streets. Geography. Nizhny Chir is located on the right bank of the Chir River, 46 km southeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Blizhnepodgorsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 2019 Hong Kong Open (officially known as the Yonex-Sunrise Hong Kong Open 2019 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at the Hong Kong Coliseum in Hong Kong from 12 to 17 November 2019 and had a total prize of $400,000. Tournament. The 2019 Hong Kong Open was the twenty-fourth tournament of the 2019 BWF World Tour and also part of the Hong Kong Open championships, which has been held since 1982. This tournament was organized by Hong Kong Badminton Association and sanctioned by the BWF. Venue. This international tournament was held at the Hong Kong Coliseum in Hong Kong. Point distribution. Below is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 500 event. Prize money. The total prize money for this tournament was US$400,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations."}, {"text": "Pankaj Kumar is an Indian cinematographer. He is known for his work on films like \"Haider\", \"Tumbbad\" and \"Ship of Theseus\" among others. He won the Filmfare Award for Best Cinematography for \"Tumbbad\" in 2019. Early life. He was educated at the Film and Television Institute of India. He completed his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Hakimpet, Secunderabad in 1993. Early career. He made his debut with the \"Ship of Theseus\" (2012) and subsequently with \"Haider\" (2014), \"Talvar\" (2015), and \"Rangoon\" (2017)."}, {"text": "Bahadurgad (, \"Bahadur Fort\") is a fort in the Pedgaon village of Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra, India. Location. The fort is located about 100 km from Pune. The nearest town is Daund. This fort lay about 15 km East of the Daund town on northern banks of River Bhima. The Fort is situated in the village Pedgaon. Places to see. The fort is rectangular in shape with two entrance gates. The gate towards the village is in good condition while that towards the river is in ruined state. There is a 5 feet tall Maruti/Hanuman statue inside the fort along with group of 5 temples which were constructed during Yadav period. The Hemadpanti architecture temples are of Baleshwar, Lakshmi-Narayan, Mallikarjun, Rameshwar and Bhairavnath. There are many heroic stones, Satigal, cannon balls, Deepmal and a statue of Shiva in front of the Bhairavnath temple. History. Very little is known of the history of the fort. During the Mughal Empire, Pedgaon was one of the chief stores and a frontier post of the Moghul Army. In 1672, the then Deccan Viceroy, Khan Jahan, camped here and tried to pursue the Maratha army headed by Shivaji I. Khan Jahan built water channels in"}, {"text": "order to bring water from the river Bhima. The Mot and the Persian wheel are well preserved till now. Khan Jahan renamed Pedgaon as Bahadurgad. This fort was captured by Shivaji by fooling the Moghul Chief. There is a 2 storied palace of Aurangzeb inside the fort. This the fort where Sambhaji Raje and Kavi Kalash were subjected to a horrific torture when they did not accept to be converted to Islam. Bahadurgad has been renamed as Dharmaveergad in the memory of Sambhaji raje. In 1759 Pedgaon was captured by Sadashivrao Bhau Peshwa, and remained with the Marathas till 1818."}, {"text": "Novoderbenovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Sysoyevskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 373 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Novoderbenovsky is located 15 km southwest of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Staroderbenovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novomaximovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Novomaximovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,371 as of 2010. There are 18 streets. Geography. Novomaximovsky is located on the bank of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir, 52 km southeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhnechirsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Jacob F. Richardson House, at 205 Park Ave. in Park City, Utah, was built around 1888. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It was a one-story frame \"pyramid house\" with a pyramidal hipped roof. The historic house appears no longer to exist; the house currently at 205 Park Ave. appears not to match historic photos."}, {"text": "Donald Scott Anderson (born February 13, 1951) is an American former professional football player who was a center for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Missouri Tigers football."}, {"text": "Ostrov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kachalinskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 246 as of 2010. Geography. Ostrov is located near the Lisa River, 36 km northeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kachalin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ostrovskoy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Sysoyevskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 61 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Ostrovskoy is located 22 km southeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Blizhneosinovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Peshcherovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Verkhnesolonovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 148 as of 2010. Geography. Peshcherovsky is located on the right bank of the Solonaya River, 36 km south of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhnesolonovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sueyoshi (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Plesistovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kachalinskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 20 as of 2010. Geography. Plesistovsky is located 63 km northeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mayorovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Morisetti is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Pogodin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Lysovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 102 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Pogodin is located near the Lake, 40 km east of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Buratsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Julia Freeman (born 1963), is a female former cyclist who competed for England. Athletics career. Freeman represented England in the road race and won a bronze medal in the team time trial event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She rides for the Easterly Road Cycling Club."}, {"text": "The following is the list of squads that took place in the women's field hockey tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Argentina. The following players represented Argentina: Australia. The following players represented Australia: Canada. The following players represented Canada: Great Britain. The following players represented Great Britain: Netherlands. The following players represented the Netherlands: South Korea. The following players represented South Korea: United States. The following players represented the United States: West Germany. The following players represented West Germany:"}, {"text": "Popov 1-y () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Lysovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 50 as of 2010. Geography. Popov 1-y is located on the Liska River, 32 km northeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lysov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Elizabeth Adjei is a Ghanaian diplomat. In September 2002, she was appointed as director of the Ghana Immigration Service, making her the first woman to occupy such a position. She has served as Ghana's Ambassador to Spain, a position she held from 2015 to 2020. Early life and education. Adjei was born in Ghana. For her secondary education, she attended the Archbishop Porter Girls' Secondary School in Takoradi and the St. Louis Senior High School in Kumasi. She then proceeded to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She holds a Master's Degree in International Development from the Cornell University in New York, as well as certificates in Management and Personnel Management from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration and a Diploma in French from the University of Benin. Career. After completing university, Adjei did her national service at the Ghana Immigration Service where she worked as personal assistant to the then head of the institution. She later joined the service in 1988 and worked as administrative assistant. In 2002, she became the first woman to be appointed as director of the Ghana Immigration Service, a position she"}, {"text": "held until 2011. She was appointed as Ghana's Ambassador to Spain in 2015 by President John Dramani Mahama, a position she held till 2020 when her tenure ended. After the New Patriotic Party came into power, her mandate as ambassador was renewed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for 3 years. Personal life. Adjei is married with three children."}, {"text": "Popov 2-y () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Lobakinskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 174 as of 2010. There are six streets. Geography. Popov 2-y is located 19 km northeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lobakin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Posyolok otdeleniya 2 sovkhoza Krasnaya Zvezda () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Sysoyevskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010. Geography. The settlement is located 22 km southwest of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre is not real) by road."}, {"text": "Posyolok otdeleniya 3 sovkhoza Krasnaya Zvezda () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Sysoyevskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 75 as of 2010. Geography. The settlement is located 22 km southwest of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road."}, {"text": "Rychkovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Novomaximovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 66 as of 2010. Geography. Rychkovsky is located near the bank of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir, 59 km ESE of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhnechirsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Savinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Dobrinskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 219 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Savinsky is located on the Levaya Dobraya River, 46 km northeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dobrinka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sviridovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Blizhneositinovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 115 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Sviridovsky is located on the left bank of the Chir River, 28 km southeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ostrovskoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sinyapkinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Sysoyevskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 117 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Sinyapkinsky is located near the Chir River, 43 km southwest of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Oblivskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Carson Gerald Long (born December 16, 1954) is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers. He played 9 games in 1977 and made 7 out of his 11 field goal attempts."}, {"text": "The Charding Nullah, traditionally known as the Lhari stream and called Demchok River by China, is a small river that originates near the Charding La pass that is also on the border between the two countries and flows northeast to join the Indus River near a peak called \"Demchok Karpo\" or \"Lhari Karpo\" (white holy peak of Demchok). There are villages on both sides of the mouth of the river called by the same name \"Demchok\", which is presumed to have been a single village originally, and has gotten split into two due to geopolitical reasons. The river serves as the \"de facto\" border between China and India in the southern part of the Demchok sector. Etymology. The Indian government refers to the river as \"Charding Nullah\" after its place of origin, the Charding La pass, with nullah meaning a mountain stream. The Chinese government uses the term \"Demchok river\" by the location of its mouth, near the Demchok Karpo peak and the Demchok village. Some of the historical documents call the river \"Lhari stream\". Lhari, meaning \"holy mountain\" in Tibetan, is a reference to the white rocky peak (4,865 m) behind the Ladakhi Demchok village. It has also been"}, {"text": "referred to as \"Lari Karpo\" (\"white lhari\") and \"Demchok Lari Karpo\" in Tibetan documents. \"Lhari stream at Demchok\" is the phrase used in the 1684 Treaty of Tingmosgang, forming the basis for the Indian government's identification of the stream with Charding Nullah. The Indian identification is supported by scholars. Geography. Sources. The Charding Nullah originates below the Charding La pass, which is on a large spur that divides the Sutlej river basin from the Indus river basin. In this area, the Sutlej river tributaries flow southeast into West Tibet and the Indus river and its tributaries flow northwest, parallel to the Himalayan ranges. Charding\u2013Nilung Nullah Junction. The Charding Nullah flows northeast along a narrow mountain valley. Halfway down the valley it is joined by another nullah from the left, called Nilung (or Nilu/Ninglung). The Charding\u2013Nilung Nullah Junction (CNNJ, 4900 m), near Nilding, is recognised by both the Indian and Chinese border troops as a strategic point. Changthang plateau. The entire area surrounding the Charding Nullah is referred to as the Changthang plateau. It consists of rocky mountain heights of Ladakh and Kailas ranges and sandy river valleys which are only good for grazing yaks, sheep and goats (the famous pashmina"}, {"text": "goats) reared by Changpa nomads. The Indian-controlled northern side of the nullah is close to Hanle, the site of the Hanle Monastery. The Chinese-controlled southern side has the village of Tashigang (Zhaxigang) which also has a monastery, both having been built by the Ladakhi ruler Sengge Namgyal (). At the end of Tibet\u2013Ladakh\u2013Mughal War, the Tibetan troops retreated to Tashigang where they fortified themselves. Mouth. At the bottom of the valley, the Charding Nullah branches into a 2 km-wide delta as it joins the Indus river. During the British colonial period, there were villages on both the sides of the delta, going by the name \"Demchok\". The southern village appears to have been the main one, frequently referred to by travelers. Sino-Indian border dispute. Prior to the Sino-Indian War of 1962, India had established a border post to the south of the delta (called \"High Ground\"). As the war progressed, the post was evacuated and the Chinese forces occupied it. China has repeatedly attempted to block India's access to Patrol Points (PP) in this area of Demchok sector."}, {"text": "The Sadou Asom Lekhika Samaroh Samiti () is a non-government women\u2019s literary organisation in Assam, India. It was founded in 1974 to unite and emancipate the women of Assam through creative pursuits, especially literature. It has more than two hundred branches all over Assam and in Kolkata, Shillong and Dimapur. The head office of the organisation is in Tezpur. The branches of the \"samiti\" also have offices in their respective places. History. Due to various socio-political and economic issues, the social status of Assamese women was not in a good position. This scenario created an urge among the women society to struggle for social equity, justice and adopt various measures to raise the status of women. On a proposal made by Sheela Borthakur for a separate literary organisation for women in Assam, the samiti was organised. The organisation works to enrich Assamese literature and empower women through literary expression. It tries to create an environment for creative writing and inspires its members to publish different books on short stories, novels, poems and other thoughtful writings. Objectives. The objectives of the organization are as follows: Publications. \"Lekhika\" is a biennial magazine which is also the mouthpiece of the organisation. All branches"}, {"text": "of Lekhika Samaroh Samiti have their own publications along with an annual magazine. Some of the important publications of the branches are \"Sotorupa, Manihar, Sandhani, Salankrita, Chayanika, Sreelekha, Anulekha, Ananya, Sonalimegh, Dulari, Mirdan, Nari Aru Nyaktitya\" and \"Jibanar Jonaki Pohar.\""}, {"text": "Skvorin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kachalinskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 97 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Skvorin is located 47 km northeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kachalin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Starikovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Nizhneosinovskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 44 as of 2010. Geography. Starikovsky is located 9 km northwest of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nizhneosinovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Staroderbenovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Sysoyevskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 38 as of 2010. Geography. Staroderbenovsky is located 18 km southwest of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sekretev is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Suvorovskaya () is a rural locality (a stanitsa) in Nizhnechirskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 451 as of 2010. Geography. Suvorovskaya is located on the west bank of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir, 60 km southeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nizhny Chir is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gary Hibbert (born 1963), is a male former cyclist who competed for England. Athletics career. Hibbert was the 1994 National Champion after winning the British National Track Championships sprint title. He represented England in the 1,000 metres sprint event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada."}, {"text": "Johannes Becker may refer to:"}, {"text": "Jermikko (born July 22, 1946) is an American fashion designer and businessperson based in Chicago. She was the first African-American woman to own a store in Chicago's upscale Magnificent Mile. Early life and career. Jermikko was born as Jermikko Shoshanna Johnson in Chicago in 1946. She began making clothes as a teenager, altering and redesigning family members' outfits. In 1972, after graduating with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she apprenticed under designer Stanley Korshak in Chicago. In 1979, she opened her own fashion business. She has designed pieces for Spike Lee's 2015 film \"Chi-Raq\" and \"Empire\". In 2016, her hoodie design appeared in Beyonce's \"Pray You Catch Me\" video. Jermikko is the Executive Director of Design and CEO of the Jermikko and JJ Hobeau labels."}, {"text": "Charlotte Louise Voll (born 22 April 1999) is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Frauen-Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen. Club career. A youth academy graduate of 1899 Hoffenheim, Voll made her debut for the club's reserve side in 2. Frauen-Bundesliga on 31 October 2015. Even though she didn't play any match for the senior side, she appeared in six more matches for the reserve side before leaving the club in 2017. On 19 July 2017, French Division 1 F\u00e9minine club Paris Saint-Germain announced the signing of Voll on a two-year deal. With Katarzyna Kiedrzynek and Christiane Endler ahead of her in the pecking order of the senior team, she spent most of her time with club's youth side in . Upon the expiration of contract in May 2019, she left the club without playing any official matches for the senior team. On 21 May 2019, Frauen-Bundesliga club SC Sand announced the signing of Voll on a two-year deal. She made her professional debut on 13 October 2019, keeping a clean sheet in 3\u20130 league win against FFC Frankfurt. In July 2020, she returned to Paris Saint-Germain by signing a two-year contract. On 7 August 2023, Voll joined"}, {"text": "German club Bayer Leverkusen. She made her competitive debut for the club on 10 September 2023 in a 3\u20130 cup win over SV Meppen. On 2 May 2025, she signed a contract extension with the club until June 2027. International career. Voll was part of the Germany under-20 team which reached quarter-finals of the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. Honours. Paris Saint-Germain"}, {"text": "Gabrielle Alioth (born 21 April 1955) is a Swiss author of novels, short stories, children's books and travelogues, resident in Ireland since 1984. Biography. Gabrielle Alioth was born on 21 April 1955 in Basel and grew up in Riehen; she went on to study political science, economics, art history and philosophy in Basel and Salzburg Universities. In 1979 she began working in the University of Basel and as a researcher at Prognos AG in econometric forecasting and Operations Research. Alioth moved with her husband, Martin Alioth (divorced in 2015), to Ireland in 1984, where she worked as a journalist and translator. From 1990 Alioth began working as a freelance writer. Since 2011 she lives in Termonfeckin, County Louth. In 1991 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt, and the same year was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize. 2012 Geertje Potash-Suhr Prose Prize. In 2020 she was awarded the Cultural Prize of Riehen. 2022 SCALG Poetry Prize. Alioth is a member of the Association of Authors of Switzerland and president of the PEN Center of German-Speaking Authors Abroad. She has been writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California in 1997 and University College Dublin in 2005, and later"}, {"text": "on Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland. Alioth has also been guest lecturer at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 2002 and at the University of St. Gallen in 2016, and worked as a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts from 2004 to 2021."}, {"text": "Jeffrey 'Jeff' A Snodin (born 1965), is a male former cyclist who competed for England. Athletics career. Snodin was a seven times National Champion at various levels. He represented England in the 10 mile scratch race event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada."}, {"text": "Susan Diana Brain is a professor of pharmacology at the School of Cardiovascular Medicine and Sciences at King's College London where she has worked since 1989. Education. Brain completed a PhD in pharmacology at University College London in 1981. Career and research. Brain held a postdoctoral post at the Institute of Dermatology. In 1989 she took up a lectureship at King's College London, where she was promoted to Reader in 1993 and in 1998 she was made Professor of Pharmacology at the \"School of Cardiovascular Medicine,\" where since 2005 she has been Head of the \"Vascular Biology and Inflammation Section\". She was also Head of the \"Pharmacology and Therapeutics Education Department\" between 2011 and 2018. Brain's research investigates the role of sensory nerves in vascular inflammation. In her early career she discovered the Calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor antagonist (CGRP) as a potent microvascular vasodilator. More recently her research found that the gene TRPC5 can help protect against pain in arthritis and that the gene TRPA1 is essential for the vascular response when being exposed to cold environments. Awards and honours. In 2018 she was elected as honorary fellow of the British Pharmacological Society."}, {"text": "Aua-Wuvulu Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Brayon Blake (born December 8, 1995) is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball at Cochise College, North Idaho College and Idaho. College career. Blake began his collegiate career at Cochise College, where he led the team with 16.4 points and 10.3 rebounds per game, before transferring to North Idaho College before his sophomore year. At North Idaho, Blake averaged 21.2 points and 6.6 rebounds per game and was named to the Third Team NJCAA All-America. He committed to play at the University of Idaho for the final two seasons of his eligibility. In his first season with the Vandals, Blake led the team with 6.1 rebounds per game and finished second with 10.0 points per game over 32 games (10 starts). As a senior, he was named first team All-Big Sky Conference after averaging 17.0 points and a conference-leading 9.6 rebounds per game. Professional career. On July 19, 2018, Blake signed with Basketball L\u00f6wen Braunschweig of the German Basketball Bundesliga. In his first professional season, Blake averaged 9.1 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist over 37 BBL games. On July 18, 2019, Blake signed with Peristeri B.C. of the Greek Basket League. In February 2020, he left"}, {"text": "Peristeri and signed with Manisa B\u00fcy\u00fck\u015fehir Belediye of the Turkish Basketball First League. On August 9, 2020, Blake signed with Sigortam.net Istanbul of the Turkish Basketball First League. On July 1, 2021, Blake signed with Gie\u00dfen 46ers of the Basketball Bundesliga. He left the team in December 2021 after ten games. For the 2022\u201323 season, Blake joined Italian team Ferraroni Juvi Cremona, but he left in December 2022 after nine games. In May 2024, Blake had a one-game stint with the Knox Raiders of the NBL1 South in Australia. He was part of the Raiders' coaching staff during the 2024 NBL1 National Finals."}, {"text": "Balopa Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Bisikani/Soparibeu Kabin Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Lelemadih/Bupichupeu Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Los Negros Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Nali Sopat/Penabu Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Nigoherm Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Pobuma Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Pomutu/Kurti/Andra Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Charlotte Rose Teller, later Hirsch (March 3, 1876 \u2013 December 30, 1953), also using the pen name John Brangwyn, was an American writer and socialist active in New York City. She graduated in 1899 from the University of Chicago (BA). Her book \"The Cage\" was published in 1907. Mark Twain had offered to endorse it \"in the form of a letter to the actress Maude Adams\". Mary Haskell introduced Teller and Kahlil Gibran to each other in January 1908. Her marriage to Frank Minitree Johnson ended in a divorce. On October 14, 1912, she married Gilbert Julius Hirsch (December 16, 1886 \u2013 May 3, 1926); they had a son, Richard, born September 12, 1914."}, {"text": "Rapatona Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Tetidu Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Republic FC Stadium at The Railyards, also known as simply Republic FC Stadium, is a planned 12,000 seat soccer-specific stadium to be built in Sacramento, California, that could be expanded to seat up to 21,000. It will serve as the home for Sacramento Republic FC, a USL Championship club, with intentions to join Major League Soccer as an expansion team. The stadium is part of the Sacramento Railyards redevelopment project and it was unanimously approved in April 2019 by the Sacramento City Council, The stadium was scheduled to be completed by the start of the 2023 MLS season, before the MLS expansion was indefinitely halted in February 2021. In November 2024, Sacramento Republic FC and the mayor of Sacramento Darrell Steinberg announced a restart plans for construction of a 12,000 seater stadium and entertainment district in Sacramento Railyards. The tentative opening of the new stadium is in 2027. History. In late 2011, a group led by former California Assembly Speaker Fabian N\u00fa\u00f1ez began exploring the possibility of having an MLS team in the Sacramento area, originally looking at stadium sites in the suburb of Elk Grove. Sacramento Republic FC was announced as a 2014 expansion team for the second-division United"}, {"text": "Soccer League on December 3, 2012. Local business leaders, including Warren Smith, hoped to convert the franchise to a Major League Soccer team by 2016. On September 17, 2014, the team announced its intentions to acquire property at the Sacramento Railyards infill project for a soccer stadium. More details of the stadium were announced in late 2015: HNTB was hired as the lead architects of the stadium, and the design of the stadium (partially influenced by fan input) was revealed on December 1, 2015. The official go-ahead from the City Council was given on November 10, 2016. However, the construction of the stadium was delayed as the team did not have an investor who satisfied the requirements of MLS. On January 22, 2019, Pittsburgh Penguins co-owner Ron Burkle was announced as the investor needed for MLS promotion. Around two months later, the stadium design was updated; additions to the old design included a 360-degree concourse/pedestrian walkway, new seating at the canopy level on the west side of the stadium, and additional field-level seating areas. The cost for the stadium was raised to approximately $252 million. Following the expansion announcement, construction on the stadium was expected to begin in 2020 ahead"}, {"text": "of a 2022 opening, but the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the move to MLS to 2023. The MLS expansion bid was placed on hold in March 2021 after Burkle left the ownership group. In April 2022, the team announced plans for a downsized stadium on the site. The revised stadium plan, which is not contingent on the revival of the MLS bid, calls for a 12,000-15,000 seat facility that can be expanded in the future should demand warrant it. On November 7, 2024, during an announcement that announced the team had been sold to the Wilton Rancheria tribe, plans to restart development on the site were announced, with a capacity of 12,000 that could be expanded to 20,000 should MLS move forward with expansion plans in Sacramento. The new plan calls for $175 million to be directed to the site and $42 million on surrounding infrastructure on the 31 acre site. The stadium and entertainment district are planned to be opened by 2027. Sacramento City Council unanimously voted to approve construction on the stadium on June 10, 2025. Design. Approval for a new Sacramento Stadium at The Railyards site was given in 2016. The working stadium design for the expansion bid"}, {"text": "to MLS was unveiled in April 2019. It was designed with a closed bowl to have separate stands on different sides, creating a distinct character for each one, reminiscent of St James' Park. The seating was to feature the steepest grade in the league, as well as an untiered east side that would have beared similarities to Westfalenstadion's Yellow Wall. In April 2022, a new release of renderings showed a pared down stadium with four free-standing stands at each side of the pitch. No roof structure is present. Main circulation around the stadium is at ground level, but there are connectors between all four stands at an elevated level. Major events. College soccer. On October 14, 2020, the NCAA announced that the stadium would host the semifinals and finals of the NCAA College Cup soccer tournament in 2024 and 2025; the men's tournament in 2024 and the Women's College Cup in 2025. However, when stadium construction was halted in 2021, these events were moved to WakeMed Soccer Park, home of fellow USL Championship club North Carolina FC."}, {"text": "Alotau Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Daga Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Huhu Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Makamaka Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "The Douglass Community Land Trust (DCLT) is a land trust to create community-based affordable housing effort in Washington, D.C., was incorporated in September 2019 in conjunction with the proposed 11th Street Bridge Park development along the Anacostia River. Neighborhood development. In March 2012, the Office of Planning within the D.C. Mayor's office derived inspiration from the High Line in New York City to retain the downstream span of the 11th Street Bridge and turning it into a recreational destination. Developers and the city envisioned a community space with high-end amenities including a public plaza, amphitheater, environmental education center. The project will link Anacostia and Capitol Hill, two D.C. neighborhoods with stark disparity. According to the park\u2019s Equitable Development Plan, neighborhoods in the Capitol Hill area have 23.4 percent black residents and a median owner-occupied home value of $777,000, while east of the river in Anacostia the population is 92.4 percent black and median home value is $329,500. The connections of these areas led to concern among architects, developers, and neighborhood residents who feared the gentrification in surrounding areas similar to the High Line. A 2019 study stated that the District is currently experiencing the highest, \u201cintensity of gentrification,\u201d of American"}, {"text": "cities. Community members and other stakeholders in the Bridge Park created an Equitable Development Plan which outlines recommendations to limit displacement. Goals of the plan fall into four categories\u2014workforce development, small business enterprises, housing, and arts and culture. Housing goals (in addition to the Douglass CLT) include educating current residents on legal and financial assistance programs for home buying as well as securing increased philanthropic funding for affordable housing programs. Land trust. In 2017 community members, and public representatives came together to begin the creation of a land trust that would work towards establishing affordable housing in the area. City First Enterprises worked with the advisory committee to provide resources, credibility, and transparency. In September of that year, the land trust made their first purchases of land to build a single-family homes and sold to families earning less than 50 percent of the area median income (under $61,000 for a four-person family). The trust raised $550,000 from Citi and JP Morgan Chase. In September 2019, the trust was incorporated and is governed by a board made up of residents, other community members, and public representatives. As of October 2019, the DCLT was finalizing its first purchase\u2014this one of Savannah Apartments,"}, {"text": "a 65-unit building in Congress Heights."}, {"text": "Maramatana Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Suau Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. The Suau language is spoken in the LLG."}, {"text": "Weraura Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Duau Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. The Duau language is spoken in the LLG."}, {"text": "Goodenough Island Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Kiriwini Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Bwanabwana Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. The LLG is situated in the western part of Louisiade Archipelago with Basilaki Island. The Bwanabwana language is spoken in the LLG."}, {"text": "Murua Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Yaleyamba Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. The LLG is situated in the eastern part of Louisiade Archipelago with Rossel and Vanatinai islands."}, {"text": "West Ferguson Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea."}, {"text": "Elin Maria Lauritzen (born 11 July 1916 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; died 17 September 2006) was for many years one of Sweden's foremost family law attorneys. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Pension Board in 1944 as well as Deputy Attorney at the lawyers Mathilda Sta\u00ebl von Holstein, Valborg Lundgren and Eva And\u00e9n 1945\u20131953. She became a member of the Swedish Bar Association in 1949."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 UAE President's Cup was the 44th edition of the UAE President's Cup, a football cup competition of the United Arab Emirates. The winner will qualify for the 2021 AFC Champions League. The tournament was cancelled along with the rest of the UAE league season. Preliminary round. In the preliminary round, eleven teams were divided into two groups, one containing six teams while the other containing five. Group A. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group B. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Bracket. \"As per UAE Football Association matches database:\" Round of 16. All times are local (UTC+04:00)"}, {"text": "Heinrich Gutermuth (18 June 1898 \u2013 28 June 1977) was a German trade union leader. Born in Ilbeshausen (near Grebenhain), Gutermuth completed an apprenticeship as a blacksmith, then served in World War I. After the war, he found work as a mechanic at a coal mine in Recklinghausen. He joined the Union of Christian Miners, and from 1926 worked full-time as a union official. The union was dissolved by the Nazis in 1933, and Gutermuth found himself unemployed, but obtained work at the Bielefelder linen factory. He was conscripted in 1939, and late in World War II was captured by Soviet troops. After the war, Gutermuth was a founder member of IG Bergbau, a new miners' union, working as its secretary until 1953. He was then elected as the union's president, but renounced the position in favour of Heinrich Imig. He instead served as vice-president of the union, finally becoming president in 1964. Under his leadership, the union began representing other energy workers, and changed its name to \"IG Bergbau und Energie\". In 1963, he was elected as president of the Miners' International Federation (MIF). He retired from domestic trade unionism in 1964, but remained active with the MIF for"}, {"text": "a few more years. Gutermuth was awarded the Great Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany."}, {"text": "Lucky Day is a 2019 action crime film directed and written by Roger Avary. The film stars Luke Bracey and Nina Dobrev. This film is a semi-sequel of \"Killing Zoe\". Plot. Former safecracker Red is released from prison after two years. Red reconnects with his wife Chloe, their daughter \"Bea\" Beatrice (who now only speaks in her mother's native French after learning it from her nanny Lolita) and his former colleague Le Roi, who has been holding $500,000 in untraceable bearer bonds for him from their last heist in his pawn shop's hidden basement; Red's parole officer DPO Ernesto Sanchez remains suspicious of him and Le Roi. In Le Roi's basement, Red attempts to crack his safe, which is identical to the one from the bank he had robbed but finds he is no longer able to do so due to a lack of practice. Meanwhile, contract killer Luc, recently taken off of the no-fly list, enters the country searching for Red, leaving the airport by killing a man and taking his car. While acquiring weaponry from an associate of his, Jean-Jacques, at his bar, having sex with Jean-Jacques's girlfriend as \"payment\" for the weaponry, Jean-Jacques explains to his friends"}, {"text": "that Luc is in charge of \"retirement\" for \"the Commission\" and that they should be as terrified of him as he himself is, begging his cockiest friend not to insult Luc or try to kill him. After Luc returns without Jean-Jacques's girlfriend and the cockiest friend inquires about her, Luc claims off-hand to have killed her to prevent there being any small talk, which Jean-Jacques accepts, only for Jean-Jacques's friend to insult him. Luc then shoots Jean-Jacques's friend and asks the other whether he was aware that Jean-Jacques has been embezzling from the Commission. After the friend responds that Jean-Jacques has, Jean-Jacques goes for his shotgun only for Luc to shoot him, inadvertently setting off Jean-Jacques's gun and killing the other friend. As he makes his way through town, Luc shoots the owner of a lowrider and joyrides it around town, before killing two cops after they attempt to stop him. At the art gallery at which she is preparing to have an exhibition of her paintings that night, Chloe's boss Derrek Blarney attempts to proposition her, only for her to reveal that Red has been released from prison. Outraged at the rejection, Derrek threatens to take back the loan"}, {"text": "Chloe has been living off of since Red's incarceration if she does not sell any paintings that night. That night, Red and Le Roi attend Chloe's exhibition; Le Roi restrains Red from insulting the critics who are insulting his wife's character. Red questions Chloe about Ernesto Sanchez' presence at the exhibition, revealing that he is an avid art collector and is genuinely interested in the art. Elsewhere, Luc arrives at Red's house looking for him, killing Lolita as Bea flees, before discovering the location of the exhibition from a card left on Chloe's table. As Derrek attempts to again seduce Chloe, Bea arrives looking for her; Red spots Luc arriving and shouts a warning to her, allowing Chloe and Bea to flee as Luc shoots in Red's direction, mortally wounding Le Roi, who gives Red the key to his safe. Ernesto Sanchez then shoots at Luc, who in response ends up killing almost all of the critics present, before leaving to pursue Red. After Luc climbs atop Red's car in an attempt to kill him, Red shoots Luc's gun at the ceiling of the car, knocking him off of it. After Chloe questions him on Luc's presence, Red reveals Luc"}, {"text": "is the brother of his partner in the bank heist who was shot by police, and that he would likely be looking for the bearer bonds Red had pretended were destroyed, which in fact he had Le Roi smuggle via tunnels leading to his basement. They decide to proceed to Le Roi's basement to retrieve the money. As Red enters the basement, Luc catches up with the car on-foot, holding Chloe hostage as Bea runs inside towards her father. After Red offers Luc the bonds and himself in exchange for his family's lives, Luc reveals that he was unaware of the bonds' existence and merely blames Red for living in his brother's place, considering them a nice surprise for after he kills him and his family. Red moves in front of her as Luc fires, unintentionally knocking her into the safe. Luc overlooks the short-breathed Red and locks the safe, informing him that he will hear her suffocating before he dies from the gunshot. Luc then pursues Chloe as she flees into the tunnels connected to Le Roi's basement; Chloe manages to impale him with a rake, before fleeing back to the basement and up into Le Roi's shop. Meanwhile,"}, {"text": "Red is revealed to have been alive, Luc's bullet having been blocked by Le Roi's key to the safe, which has been rendered unusable. As Red tells Bea through the safe to conserve her breaths, Luc returns and holds him at gunpoint. As he prepares to shoot him, Ernesto Sanchez arrives, having been retrieved by Chloe, and orders Luc to drop his weapon. After Luc instead tries to kill him, Ernesto Sanchez shoots him several times. Luc sets off a pair of charged explosives that disintegrate himself and the bearer bonds. As Red tries to open the safe, Ernesto Sanchez tries to arrest him for breaking his parole, only to allow him to try to crack the safe upon learning Bea is inside. Although nervous, Red manages to free Bea, and the family hug. Looking at the happy family, Ernesto Sanchez decides not to arrest Red, and remarks at his dissatisfaction at how the evening has unfolded, and that he likely will receive commendation for having stopped Luc. Several days later, while Bea pays her respect to Lolita's ashes and Chloe remarks that their water is about to be shut off, Red offers to move the family back to Chloe's"}, {"text": "native France despite himself not speaking French once his parole is over. Suddenly, an excited Derrek arrives at the house to reveal that Chloe's paintings have sold out for hundreds of thousands due to them having been spattered with \"the blood of her critics\" during Luc's shootout at the art gallery, before giving her cut of the proceedings and asking when her next art show will be. As the family closes the door in Derrek's face, Bea speaks English for the first time to declare to the audience that it is \"The End\", before the family dances happily together at their newfound wealth. As the credits roll, it is revealed Red is still in his prison cell, looking at a picture of Chloe. He then starts to pace back and forth in the small cell, leaving it up to the audience to imagine if the entirety of the film has been a dream. Reception. On the review aggregation website, Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average score of . Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 18 out of 100 based on 5 critics, indicating \"overwhelming dislike\"."}, {"text": "Anne McArdle is a physiologist at the University of Liverpool. Education. McArdle graduated with a Bachelor's in Biochemistry from the University of Liverpool in 1988 and completed her PhD studying muscle damage using the mdx mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Career and research. McArdle undertook postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan in the laboratories of John Faulkner and was awarded a Research into Ageing Fellowship in 1998 working on sarcopenia. She was appointed as Professor at the University of Liverpool in 2007 and has served as Head of the Department of musculoskeletal biology."}, {"text": "Battlezone is an arcade game released by Rebellion in 2016. It is reboot/remake of the original 1980 arcade game. The game was one of the launch titles for PlayStation VR in October 2016. As with the original, the game features first-person tank combat against an AI-controlled enemy force, but includes co-operative multiplayer and a campaign structure, together with being designed for virtual reality. Gameplay. The game is played entirely in first person, from within a tank cockpit. The game was originally designed for virtual reality with gamepad control - there are a few HUD elements, such as targeting crosshairs, but most readouts are presented on display panels mounted around the cockpit, together with a holographic top-down radar display. One player starts a campaign by selecting a difficulty level and campaign length. Up to 3 other players can join the campaign, for a total of 4 players. Players can drop in or out at any time, including during gameplay. Each player chooses a tank that they use for the entire campaign, and each tank comes with an initial weapon loadout. The tank's loadout can be changed at supply points during the campaign. The objective of the campaign is to travel across"}, {"text": "the procedurally-generated hex map, ultimately to destroy the enemy's AI core in the volcano at the far end of the map. Each hex contains either a battlezone of one of multiple map types, a supply point, a shield generator, or a random event. Battlezones have different objectives \u2014 completing the objective and defeating enemies in the battlezone earns the players \"data\", and this data can be spent on upgrades or new weapons. Each shield generator destroyed on the map reduces the defences in the final AI core confrontation battlezone. Players have a shared pool of lives, starting with 3 lives. More can be purchased with data, but the cost increases rapidly. When all players are dead with no lives remaining, the campaign ends in defeat. To avoid spending lives, a downed player can be revived by another player. A post-launch patch added \"classic mode\", which recreates the original 1980 wireframe vector game in the virtual reality environment. Release. The game was first released as an exclusive launch title for PlayStation VR on PlayStation 4 on 13 October 2016. A Microsoft Windows port supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift followed in May 2017. In May 2018 the game was updated and"}, {"text": "released as Battlezone: Gold Edition, including a new Xbox One port. The Gold Edition added support for non-VR, and included all add-ons previously released as downloadable content. It was a free update for existing Windows and PlayStation 4 owners. A Nintendo Switch port followed on 8 November the same year. Reception. The game received mixed reviews upon release according to review aggregator Metacritic."}, {"text": "Heinrich Gottlieb Imig (24 February 1893 \u2013 24 February 1956) was a German trade unionist and politician. Born in Essen, Imig worked as a coal miner from the age of 19. He joined the Social Democratic Party, and also the Alter Verband union. He served in the military during World War I, then returned to mining. In 1920, he was elected to the works committee of his mine, and from 1929 he was the full-time union official for Bochum and Castrop-Rauxel. In 1933, the Nazis dissolved all trade unions, and Imig found himself unemployed. He set up his own business, then during World War II was conscripted into the air raid police. After the war, he was immediately elected as town clerk of Castrop-Rauxel, and joined the new IG Bergbau union. He won election as its second president in 1949, and was also elected to the executive of the German Trade Union Confederation. In the 1949 West German federal election, Imig won election, and he also served in the general assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community. In 1953, the position of president of IG Bergbau became available and, although Heinrich Gutermuth won, he immediately stood down in favour"}, {"text": "of Imig. The following year, Imig was also elected as president of the Miners' International Federation. He died, still in post, in 1956."}, {"text": "The Codex epistolaris Carolinus is a collection of 99 letters from reigning popes to Carolingian rulers written between 739 and 791. Background. The letters were sent during the pontificates of Gregory III, Zacharias I, Stephen II, Paul I, Stephen III and Hadrian I, with two letters at the end of the collection from the antipope Constantine. The majority of letters are addressed to Charles Martel (r.715\u2013741), Pippin the Younger (r.751\u2013768), Carloman (r.768\u2013772) and Charlemagne (r.768\u2013814). The subjects of the letters are broad, including the papacy's requests for assistance against encroaching Lombards, letters concerning canon law, and affection in the form of parallels being drawn between Carolingians and Old Testament kings. This collection is only preserved in the ninth century-manuscript, the \"Codex Vindobonensis\", and is under the signature of 449 in the Austrian National Library. An English translation was published in 2021. The preface, or \"Praefatio\", of the collection states that the letters were compiled as the original parchment detailing the correspondence had been \"partly destroyed and erased\" by \"great age and carelessness\". Charlemagne, in 791, therefore ordered that these letters be copied and compiled so that the \"wisdom of the ancients\" would not be lost. The compilation was put together"}, {"text": "at a time that saw much religious reform within the Carolingian court. 789 saw the issue of the \"Admonitio generalis\", a capitulation concerned with ensuring authentic Christian teaching, and in 794 the Council of Frankfurt was held in response to the growing heresy of the Adoptionist movement and the questionable decisions of the Second Council of Nicaea of 787. Historian Dorine van Espelo believes that the compiling of letters to form the \"Codex Carolinus\" is representative of this religious reform and Charlemagne's commitment to orthodoxy and the Catholic Church, as letters from the papacy would contain religious instruction directly from the most authoritative and orthodox Catholic source. The \"Codex\" being formed in a time when the Frankish Court was concerned with Christian orthodoxy explains why the collection includes three letters sent from pope Hadrian to Spanish bishops in response to the growing Adoptionist heresy. \"de imperio\" debate. The preface provides details as to why the letters were collected and who they were sent by. The preface states that the letters were sent by the \"highest Apostolic See of the blessed Peter prince of the Apostles\" whilst other letters came from \"the \"imperium\"\". This mention of \"imperium\" has led to much"}, {"text": "scholarly debate as letters from the \"imperium\" seem to be missing from the collection. The debate inherently concerns \"Codex Vindobonensis\" as it is the only manuscript that contains the collection. As the \"Codex Vindobonensis\" is a late ninth-century source and the \"Codex Carolinus\" contained within is from the late eighth century, the 99 letters are copies of letters collected in 791. With this in mind, some scholars believe it is possible that letters from the \"imperium\" have been left out of the collection as encountered in \"Codex Vindobonensis,\" either intentionally or because those letters were lost. This interpretation is based on the assumption that \"imperium\" refers to the Byzantine Empire. Espelo has pointed to the fluid definition of the term and what it refers to, and has suggested that the term may actually refer to the imperial rule of the Carolingians, thus meaning no letters have been left out. In the letters from 754 onward, the Carolingian leaders are always referred to as patricians by the papacy which implies that the Carolingian rulers were viewed by the popes as protectors of Rome and Catholicism. As a result, business pertaining to Rome and the papacy can be viewed as being business"}, {"text": "of the Carolingian \"imperium\". Achim Thomas Hack's work, titled \"Codex Carolinus\", has done much to reignite scholarly interest in the collection through his analyses of individual letters and contextualising them within diplomatics and epistolography. Hack largely does not comment on the debate surrounding the implications of \"de imperio\"."}, {"text": "The 12 Hours of Casablanca was a sports car endurance race organised on the route of the future Ain-Diab Circuit in Morocco. Only two editions were held in 1952 and 1953, before the race was replaced by the Moroccan Grand Prix in Agadir for the 1954 season. History. The race was held on a road circuit, partially on the main road from Casablanca, that was initially 4.2 kilometers long in 1952. By 1953, the route was changed to 3.26 kilometers. The competition was intended for sports racing cars and for passenger cars as well. The starting grid was of a 'Le Mans start'-type. 1952. In December 1952, the first edition of the 12 Hours of Casablanca race was held. 24 entrants had started the race, but only 14 of them finished and were classified. 1953. The second edition of the endurance race was held in 1953. This time 17 cars finished the race. Casimiro de Oliveira and Alberto Ascari had crashed during practice in their Ferrari 375 MM and had to change teams and cars. Luckily for Ascari, he joined Luigi Villoresi in the Ferrari 500 Mondial and arrived second at the finish line in the actual race. The 500"}, {"text": "Mondial that won its class, was based on a Ferrari 625 TF berlinetta chassis that was destroyed in a fire, rebodied by Scaglietti and equipped with a 2.0-litre engine. Charles Pozzi, who won the first edition with his Talbot-Lago T26GS, failed to arrive for the race. Demise. Between 1954 and 1956, no motor racing was organized on this dangerous road circuit and the racing was moved to the Agadir area. Ain-Diab was more suited for the bicycle races. In 1957, the race route was refitted and increased to 7.618 kilometers thanks to the Royal Automobile Club of Morocco. The new track was named Ain-Diab Circuit and hosted the first official Moroccan Grand Prix in 1957."}, {"text": "The Warren G. Harding Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library of Warren G. Harding, the 29th president of the United States (1921\u20131923). It was scheduled to open on September 4, 2020; followed by a formal dedication ceremony later on September 18, 2020. However, the opening was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The library was officially opened to the public May 12, 2021. It is located in Marion, Ohio, adjacent to the Harding Home, the historic house museum of the former president. The 2020 scheduled completion date was set to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Warren G. Harding's win in the 1920 presidential election. The $7.5 million project was announced on April 12, 2016, by Harding 2020, a collaboration between the Harding Home, Marion Technical College, and the Ohio History Connection. Both of Ohio's then U.S. Senators, Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman, are honorary co-chairs of the project. Plans included the construction of the 15,000-square-foot center and museum. The center has interactive exhibits of the former president, as well as meeting space. The center houses artifacts and memorabilia that were once owned by the former president and his wife Florence Harding. In addition, the center houses Harding's"}, {"text": "presidential papers, which were previously stored at the Ohio History Connection's headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, since 1963. About $1.3 million will also be spent to restore the Harding Home and its grounds to reflect how they appeared in 1920. Sherry Hall, manager of the Harding Home, told \"The Plain Dealer\" that the center will help inform visitors about Harding's presidency beyond the single paragraph found in most textbooks. \"Quite frankly, this president deserves for his story to be told,\" stated Hall."}, {"text": "Nicolas Dethier (29 September 1888 \u2013 12 February 1976) was a Belgian trade unionist and politician. Born in Beyne-Heusay, Dethier left school at the age of twelve and became a coal miner. In 1906, he joined the Federation of Miners of Liege, and in 1908 he became the secretary of his local section of the union. In 1913, he became the full-time secretary of the Miners Union of the Plateau of Herve, then in 1920 he won election as assistant secretary of the newly-founded Union of Mineworkers of Belgium. In 1935, he became the secretary of the union, serving until 1958, when he became its treasurer, then in 1960 he won election as its president. In 1954, Dethier was elected as vice-president of the Miners' International Federation, then in 1956 he succeeded as president. Dethier was also politically active, serving on his local council and as mayor. In 1954, he was elected to the general council of the Belgian Socialist Party, and from 1954 to 1961 he served as a co-opted member of the Senate."}, {"text": "The 2020 Asian Track Cycling Championships (40th edition) took place at the Jincheon National Training Center Velodrome in Jincheon, South Korea from 17 to 21 October 2019. Although the event was planned for 2020, it was brought forward to October 2019 because of the 2020 Summer Olympics qualification timeline."}, {"text": "Simms and McIntyre (commonly referred to as \"Simms & McIntyre\" and sometimes as \"Simms & M'Intyre\") was a 19th century printing and publishing company from Belfast, Ireland. The company published The Parlour Library, an innovative book series of cheap reprints of titles in attractive physical formats and sold at very low prices, both of which features which were later imitated by other publishers. Company history. Simms & McIntyre was founded in Belfast, Ireland in December 1806 by David Simms, a bookseller and stationer, and George L. M'Intyre, who had previously worked for I. Warren, a Belfast bookseller and circulating library firm. For more than sixty years the company operated from various premises in North, High and Donegal Streets, Belfast. In the years 1844-58 it also had an office at 13 Paternoster Row, London. In its early days the company published a wide variety of material but had a \"strong emphasis\" on the schoolbook market. In the 1820s it published a literary reprint series, the first of several it would issue over the next two decades. M'Intyre died in 1834 and Simms died in 1841. Their successors in the company were their sons, James M'Intyre and James Simms. In 1841, in"}, {"text": "its first commercial venture in England, the company printed a dictionary for William Milner of Halifax and in the following year it published its first book with the places of publication listed as \"London and Belfast\". In February 1846 it launched the Parlour Novelist series and in the following year The Parlour Library series. Other book series published included the Parlour Library of Instruction (1849), the Parlour Book Case (1852) and Books for the People (1852). After 1853 Simms & McIntyre continued to publish schoolbooks. From 1858 the company stopped publishing in London and moved back to Belfast. It ceased trading in 1870. The Parlour Library. After British railway newsagent's shops began successfully selling to travelers what \"The Times\" described as \"French novels, unfortunately, of questionable character\", the Parlour Library launched in March 1847. It has been described as the \"first successful series of fiction reprints in paper boards\". The first title was William Carleton's \"Black Prophet\" and this was followed in rapid succession by reprints of works by such authors as Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, Frederick Marryat, and Jane Austen as well as other popular authors of the day such as G. P. R. James. The series was advertised"}, {"text": "as \"one of the boldest speculations that has ever been made in the history of bookselling\", and was very successful. Each volume had a distinctive glazed decorative green cover and was priced at 1s. (one shilling) in boards or 1s. 6d. in cloth. The series prompted an \"unprecedented\" demand for \"cheap, attractively packaged new and popular novels\". The series' format and volume was \"revolutionary\" at a time when the \"average new novel came out in three volumes at 31s. 6d.\" and when books in even cheap reprint series like \"Colburn's Modern Standard Novelists\" were priced at \"6s. each\". Unlike the drab covers of earlier reprint and penny series, The Parlour Library used colour, specifically in the glazed green covers of its titles, which \"resembled the brightly coloured gift books of the 1820s\", to make the titles stand out and gave the series a brand identity. Early editions of George Routledge's Railway Library would mimic Parlour's green covers and thousands of yellowbacks published in the second half of the 19th century similarly featured brightly coloured covers, marketing their contents as entertaining reading for the new classes of reader of that era. The \"Times\" surmised that \"persons of the better class, who"}, {"text": "constitute the larger portion of railway readers, lose their accustomed taste the moment they smell the engine and present themselves to the railway librarian\". In 1853 the company sold the series to its London agent, Thomas Hodgson, who continued to publish the series, and the series continued to be published by a number of other London publishers (Darton & Co.; C. H. Clarke; Darton & Hodge; and Weldon & Co.) until the 1870s."}, {"text": "To be blown off course in the sailing ship era meant be to diverted by unexpected winds, getting lost possibly to shipwreck or to a new destination. In the ancient world, this was especially a great danger before the maturation of the Maritime Silk Road in the Early Middle Ages, finding expression in the writing of Cosmas Indicopleustes. Even in later eras, the ship could attempt to limit its divergence by tacking or heaving to, but it was often difficult to keep track by mere celestial navigation before the invention of the marine chronometer in the late 18th century. A number of \"discoveries\" during the Age of Discovery were accidentally found in this way, and the serendipity of being blown off course is also a trope in fiction. Accidental discovery may have played a larger role than previously acknowledged in early European colonialism in contrast to the idea of a centrally-planned program as by Prince Henry the Navigator, but it is also thought that the Austronesian expansion was more directed and purposeful than once thought, rather than being the result of accidental drift."}, {"text": "Jeff Martin is an American operatic tenor who made a career based in Germany, singing at international opera houses and concert halls. Focused on character roles, he has appeared as Mime in Wagner's \"Der Ring des Nibelungen\" and Herod in \"Salome\" by Richard Strauss, and appeared in several world premieres. Career. Martin studied voice at Westminster Choir College and Cincinnati University. Based in Germany, Martin appeared as Herod in \"Salome\" by Richard Strauss at the Opernhaus Dortmund in 2007. A reviewer noted his precise and sharp character tenor. He performed the role of Pedrillo in Mozart's \"Die Entf\u00fchrung aus dem Serail\" at the Staatstheater N\u00fcrnberg in 2008, conducted by Christof Prick. He appeared at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, in 2011 as the Astrologer in \"The Golden Cockerel\", conducted by Vassily Sinaisky and directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, in a production broadcast in Europe. In 2012, he performed there as Valzacchi in \"Der Rosenkavalier\" by Richard Strauss, directed by Stephen Lawless. He appeared as Reb Alter in the German premiere of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's \"Wir gratulieren!\" in a concert version for chamber orchestra at the Konzerthaus Berlin in 2012. He took part in several world premieres, as the Inquisitor in Francesco Filidei's"}, {"text": "\"Giordano Bruno\" in Paris, as Bertolt Brecht in Michel Tabachnik's \"Benjamin, derni\u00e8re nuit\" at the Op\u00e9ra de Lyon and in Nana Forte's \"Paradies oder nach Eden\" at the Vorarlberger Landestheater in Bregenz. He appeared as Mime in Wagner's \"Das Rheingold\" and \"Siegfried\" in the project \"Der Ring in Minden\", completed in 2019. He has appeared at opera houses including the Bavarian State Opera, Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Hamburgische Staatsoper, Oper K\u00f6ln, Op\u00e9ra national du Rhin in Strasbourg and Nationaltheater Mannheim. In concert, he performed as the Evangelist in Bach's \"St Matthew Passion\", among others."}, {"text": "Sukhanovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Kachalinskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 155 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Sukhanovsky is located near the Liska River, 24 km east of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Blizhneosinovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pudong Library () is a library in Shanghai, China. It provides access to resources such as newspapers, electronic books and research papers. The library offers approximately 3,900,000 resources. Average daily attendance is 6,000; In 2017, the library achieved its highest attendance of 30,000 in a single day. The library closed for renovation in 2018, and reopened on 1 January 2019. Design. Pudong Library has a hexagonal design. The building rises through eight floors, two underground and the remaining six above. Its external appearance gives the impression that the building is floating. The building has been referred to as a bar-code. The atrium starts from the basement and goes to the top of the building. Sky Gardens. The interior features two symmetrical sky gardens. Neighborhood. Pudong Library is near the China Executive Leadership Academy and is located in Shanghai's new civilization circle with Pudong Political and Civilized Park."}, {"text": "Sysoyevsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Sysoyevskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 588 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. Sysoyevsky is located 25 km south of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Posyolok otdeleniya 2 sovkhoza Krasnaya Zvezda is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Muriel MacSwiney (, 8 June 1892 \u2013 26 October 1982) was an Irish republican and left-wing activist, and the first woman to be given the Freedom of New York City. She was the wife of Terence MacSwiney, mother of M\u00e1ire MacSwiney Brugha and sister-in-law of Mary MacSwiney. The 1920 hunger strike of her husband Terence became an international cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre, and following his death she became one of the most high profile Irish republican activists in the world, widely campaigning in the United States throughout the early 1920s. Following the defeat of the Anti-Treaty IRA in the Irish Civil War in 1923, Muriel never again lived in Ireland and instead embarked upon a bohemian life on the European continent. However, this led to a falling out with her daughter M\u00e1ire, resulting in a bitter custody battle when M\u00e1ire attempted to return to Ireland and ultimately total estrangement after 1934. MacSwiney spent most of the 1930s in Paris, France and from 1940 onwards lived in England, where she still occasionally involved herself in left-wing and republican causes. Early life. Muriel Frances Murphy was born on 8 June 1892 to a wealthy Cork family. Her father was Nicholas Murphy and her mother"}, {"text": "Mary Gertrude Purcell of Carrigmore, in Montenotte, Cork city. MacSwiney was sent away to school, to a convent in Sussex. As an adult she came to despise the privilege of her upbringing, remarking that her family was \"completely imperialist, conservative, capitalist, and Roman Catholic\". Political activism and marriage to Terence MacSwiney. By 1915 she had become interested and involved in the Irish nationalist movement, and joined both the Gaelic League and Cumann na mBan. It was as part of these organisations she met and befriended the sisters of Terence MacSwiney. Murphy witnessed MacSwiney give a public speech at a Manchester Martyrs meeting, but didn't meet him personally until Christmas 1915 when she attended an evening at the Fleischmann. From there they began seeing each other, and during the Easter Rising of 1916, Murphy brought MacSwiney food and information to Volunteer Hall in Cork, where MacSwiney was held up with other members of the Irish Volunteers, confused about whether they should mobilise or not. Their relationship continued to develop in the aftermath of the Rising and the two communicated by letter while MacSwiney was imprisoned. Murphy's family was horrified by the courtship and discouraged it every step of the way, nevertheless,"}, {"text": "after MacSwiney was deported to England immediately after his release from prison, Murphy joined him there. The two married on 9 June 1917 in Bromyard, England one day after Murphy's 25th birthday, and one day after she was eligible for her inheritance, ensuring the independence of the couple from the Murphy family. Her bridesmaid was Geraldine O\u2019Sullivan (Neeson) while his best man was Richard Mulcahy. In the summer of 1917 the couple moved several times before settling on Douglas Road, Cork. In November Terence was imprisoned again, and briefly went on hunger strike, which Muriel (by this point pregnant) objected to. She wrote privately that she \"did not approve of hunger strike although entirely for the cause\". Throughout the rest of 1917 and 1918 Terence would be released only to be almost immediately reimprisoned, with Muriel following him to prisons in Dundalk and Belfast. She returned to Cork in June 1918 to give birth to their daughter, M\u00e1ire MacSwiney Brugha, but by August brought M\u00e1ire with her to visit Terence in a Belfast prison. Terence MacSwiney's final hunger strike. MacSwiney's daily life remained held in this pattern until Terence's final hunger strike, which he began in the summer of 1920."}, {"text": "Terence had become Lord Mayor of Cork in March 1920 and he began the highest-profile member of the 1920 Cork hunger strike, which became an internationally known news event. Although offering Terence daily support, MacSwiney also petitioned the newly emergent Irish Republican Army to call Terence off the strike. Although Muriel later claimed publicly to have fully supported the strike, her private fears about it caused her to conflict with her sister-in-law Mary MacSwiney, a fellow activist who urged Terence to see out the strike. Terence died due to his hunger strike on 25 October 1920. In the aftermath, Muriel was the only member of Terence's family to attend a British-run inquest into his death, which caused more infighting. Muriel was physically unable to return to Ireland for the funeral, which was attended by 10,000s of mourners. Continued activism. The death of MacSwiney's husband dealt a huge impact on her life, being a public event as well as a personal loss. MacSwiney was catapulted into the spotlight as the mourning widow of someone the Irish nationalist movement was now holding up as a martyr. In this capacity MacSwiney travelled to the United States to attend the \"Commission on conditions in"}, {"text": "Ireland\" of 1921, which was being held in Washington DC. Along the way, MacSwiney headed a delegation of widows Irish women, including Mary MacSwiney, who visited major cities such as New York and Boston en route, where they delivered speeches at public meetings intended to rally Irish Americans to the cause. The American tour ended up lasting nine months total and was a major success in swaying both the view of the American public and American politicians towards the Irish, and saw Muriel becoming the first woman in history to receive the Freedom of New York City in 1922. MacSwiney returned, exhausted, to Ireland in January 1922, just after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921. MacSwiney took the anti-treaty position; a letter expressing her opposition to it was read in the D\u00e1il by William Stockley and in June 1922 was part of the garrison in the Hammam hotel led by Cathal Brugha. It was also during this period that MacSwiney was part of a group posing as a Red Cross delegation who broke Annie M. P. Smithson from Mullingar prison with the help of Linda Kearns MacWhinney. In the aftermath, MacSwiney was briefly arrested. Thereafter, MacSwiney and"}, {"text": "Kearns departed for America, where once again MacSwiney embarked on a political tour, this time trying to build support for the anti-treaty side. She left her daughter M\u00e1ire in the care of the family of the O'Rahilly. While campaigning in the States, different Irish-American factions squabbled for her support, but nevertheless MacSwiney struggled to raise support for the anti-treaty side. While in New York City, MacSwiney and Robert Briscoe broke into and occupied the Irish consular offices and had to be removed by police. It was during this time period she also campaigned for the release from prison of the Irish Communist Jim Larkin, who had been sentenced to 5 to 10 years for \"Criminal Anarchy\" in 1919 and imprisoned in New York's Sing Sing. Later life. MacSwiney returned to Ireland in the summer of 1923; by that point, the Irish Civil War was fizzling to an end in a decisive defeat for the Anti-Treaty IRA. MacSwiney publicly declared herself an atheist and began supporting, and eventually joining, Jim Larkin's Irish Worker League. This did not improve her relations with her conservative sister-in-law Mary, who began to claim that on Terence's deathbed, he had placed his daughter M\u00e1ire in the"}, {"text": "joint custody of both Muriel and Mary, rather than solely to Muriel. In response, Muriel took M\u00e1ire and left for Germany. For the next several years, amid what appeared to be long-term depression, MacSwiney travelled between Germany, Switzerland and France, while M\u00e1ire attended boarding schools in Germany. MacSwiney continued to be sporadically involved in left-wing causes and married a German left-wing activist with the surname Pullman, which led to the birth of a second daughter, Alix, in 1926. Pullman was later killed during the Nazi Germany period. Estrangement from M\u00e1ire. In 1932 M\u00e1ire MacSwiney attempted to return to Ireland alongside her aunt Mary. Because Mary refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the Irish Free State, she had to be issued a special passport by the newly elected leader of the country, the republican \u00c9amon de Valera. In turn, this led Muriel to believe that de Valera had conspired with Mary to kidnap M\u00e1ire. M\u00e1ire, however, for her part, always refused the idea that she had been kidnapped, instead claiming that she felt her life with her mother on the continent was too chaotic and unstable. What followed was a bitter custody battle over M\u00e1ire, in which the court ultimately ruled"}, {"text": "in favour of Mary. Muriel blamed the influence of the Catholic Church for the decision, although the Judge did seem to seriously consider M\u00e1ire wishes and also the apparent uncertainty of Muriel's lifestyle. When an adult M\u00e1ire refused to return to her mother's side in Switzerland in 1934, the relationship between the two was permanently severed and Muriel never spoke to M\u00e1ire again, despite several attempts by Maire and her husband Ruairi Brugha over the years. Life in France and England. For the duration of the 1930s, MacSwiney lived in Paris, France, where she continued to be engaged with politics, typically those of left-wing, including communist, groups. She was particularly active in the Ligue de l'enseignement, a non-sectarian teachers' union that she recruited Owen Sheehy Skeffington, an Irish socialist who was living in Paris at the time, into. While living in France she was romantically involved with the Communist Pierre Kaan. Kaan, a member of the French resistance during World War II, was sent to a concentration camp by the Gestapo and died on 18 May 1945 as a result of his treatment there. MacSwiney evacuated France for England in 1940 upon the onset of the Battle for France, and"}, {"text": "she began working in a hospital in Oxford. Later, living in London, she became associated with the Irish-British Connolly Association, however, by 1956 she fell out with its primary leader C. Desmond Greaves and left. By 1950 MacSwiney's entire inheritance had been spent, however, she was able to successfully apply for a widow's pension, to the sum of \u00a3500 a year, from the Irish state on account of her marriage to Terence. In 1957 she objected to the creation of a chapel in honour of Terence MacSwiney in St George's cathedral, Southwark, England. MacSwiney argued any memorial to Terence should be built in Ireland, on a non-sectarian bias, and that it should serve the poor. As late as the 1970s, MacSwiney remained politically engaged: She was critical of American foreign policy on Vietnam, calling the USA a \"world imperialist power\". In 1972, she spoke publicly at a meeting of the Workers\u2019 Association for the Democratic Settlement of the National Conflict in Ireland. MacSwiney never resolved her relationships with either M\u00e1ire or the rest of her family. MacSwiney was living in Tonbridge in Kent with her daughter Alix near the end of her life. She died on 26 October 1982 at"}, {"text": "Oakwood Hospital, Maidstone."}, {"text": "Melchior Adam Weikard was born on April 27, 1742, near Fulda Germany. He was a physician and a philosopher. Weikard wrote the earliest reference to the behavioral disorder attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He was progressive for his time, believing that illnesses have physical causes and that they are not a result of moral wrongs or the spiritual influences. Weikard died near his birthplace on July 25, 1803. Early life. Weikard grew up around Fulda and, at the age of six, developed a spinal deformity. In secondary school, at the Frobenius-Gymnasium in Hammelburg, Weikard studied in the modern-day equivalent of the STEM program. Weikard then went on to study physics, philosophy, and medicine at the University of W\u00fcrzburg. He did not have kind things to say about his education. Weikard was nearsighted, physically deformed, and missed two years of school which made his experience arduous. Weikard claimed to have teachers who taught out of date material in secondary school and at university claimed to have bad teaching from the professors. It was also said that because he studied at W\u00fcrzburg his ability was doubted since it was a smaller less prestigious school. Later in his life, Weikard argued for getting"}, {"text": "rid of small Catholic universities, like the one he studied at, which did not have the funding for good teachers. He instead recommended sending talented boys farther away to better schools in bigger cities that had the proper resources. From his own retelling, one gets the sense that he should not have been trusted with performing medicine. He makes the impression he should not have been successful, but he was. It makes one wonder whether his education wasn't as poor as he remembered. Adult life. Despite his reported lack of proficient teachers, he succeeded in his career. In 1763, Weikard became a physician in Fulda and in 1764, he worked at the government-run resort spa in the office of Bruckenau until 1776. In 1770, Weikard became the physician to Prince-Bishop Heinrich von Bibra. During this time, he also earned the rank of Professor of Medicine at the University of Fulda. Weikard was quite the rebel in his adult life. Germany was Catholic at the time though Weikard didn't take any of the church's teachings to heart. Weikard believed in a God, but he criticized the idea that demons and witches caused ills and evil. Instead he believed in physical causes"}, {"text": "of illnesses. He also criticized philosophers\u2019 attempts to reconcile materialism with Christianity. He challenged the assumption of a soul and, in a last act of defiance, refused sacraments on his deathbed. One of the consequences of him not believing in a soul or immaterial influence was he argued that all cognitive functioning depends on the physical state of the brain. He not only acknowledged physical factors, but also climate and education as factors affecting cognitive capabilities. At the time the belief that the presence of a good or evil star during conception or birth would determine personality was common. Since he believed the brain controlled a person he did not believe in or condone astrology. Weikard also valued evidence and objectivity more than what was usual of his time and he was not afraid of confrontation with medical and theological adversaries. In 1790, the third edition of \"Der Philosophische Arzt\" [The Philosophical Doctor] by Melchior Adam Weikard was published. The first edition was published in 1775 and there was a second edition as well. The first and second editions of the textbook were published anonymously. Although, back then and now, many believe that Weikard wrote them. Anonymously writing the book"}, {"text": "may have been a good idea since the book was not well received. Weikard's reputation sank and it was recorded that his friends were fearful of the public backlash to being seen with him. The church condemned the book for criticizing its remedies. Journal articles of the time were particularly harsh towards the book. Though the backlash was sharp, it did not seem to matter all that much because the book had enough success to have at least one more edition published. Through all the public outrage, Weikard's patron, Prince Heinrich von Bibra remained supportive. Many were not happy with this outcome, so the prince issued a decree prohibiting the textbook. Though he did not punish Weikard directly and even went on to financially support his retirement. He continued to have success in his career as well. Weikard was the Physician-in-ordinary at the Russian court for Catharine II in 1784. While there, he was appointed to State Council and served in the position until he left of his own accord in 1789. In 1791 he became the personal physician of Prince-Bishop Karl Theodor von Dalberg of Mainz but stopped shortly after in 1792. Weikard then went to Mannheim to practice"}, {"text": "medicine, and two years later moved to Heilbronn. After that, he became the Imperial Chief Physician to Tsar Paul in Russia. He then retired to his home and became a Privy Councilor, Director of the Medical Institutes. \"Der Philosophische Arzt\" [The Philosophical Doctor]. In Weikard's book, he describes a \u201clack of attention\u201d disorder commonly known as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD. He provides many details that closely match the disorder we currently know, and many of Weikard's observations hold up to modern scrutiny. Weikard characterizes the disorder as distractible by anything even a person's own imagination, taking more effort to complete tasks, flighty, careless, work has many errors, and generally disorganized. He hints at impulsivity though he does not explicitly say it. This matches the DSM-V's diagnostic criteria of inattention and hints at the hyperactivity and impulsivity criteria. Weikard attributes the problem to \u201cthe fibers too soft or too agile and can also cause the fact that they lack the necessary strength for the constant attention.\u201d He blamed upbringing for the lack of ability of the \u201cfibers\u201d. This incorrect idea of upbringing causing the disorder persisted well into the 1970s and some still believe that it is the cause"}, {"text": "today. Weikard also gives cures for this disorder. He recommends distractions to be removed, though he goes a step farther in saying being left alone in a dark room will help. This is not an ethical practice and is not recommended. He also recommends \u201crubbing, cold baths, steel powder, cinchona, mineral waters, horseback riding, and gymnastic exercises\u201d along with making sure the individual learns a topic thoroughly and in a way that is interesting to them before they move on to other topics. The majority of these cures are rubbish but removing distractions and exercising are currently used to temporarily lessen symptoms and increase productivity. Weikard also makes the correct observation that this disorder was more prevalent in children than adults. He noted that women are less attentive than men which is incorrect and was colored by the ideas of the day. Impact. After Weikard, the Scottish physician Sir Alexander Crichton wrote about ADHD in 1798. Crichton was the first person to publish a textbook only on mental diseases and he went on to write a second book on the topic. Crichton's disease of attention is also extremely consistent with today's definition. For a long time, it was recorded that"}, {"text": "Crichton had the earliest reference to ADHD. This could be attributed to the lack of translations of Weikard's work into English or simply modern scholars did not look closely at his work. Then in 2012 Barkley and Peters wrote their article about Weikard and his diagnosis. They had heard a story of a medical book that referenced a condition similar to ADHD that was written before Crichton's. They found an original copy of Weikard's book and translated it. You may note that Weikard's and Crichton's disorders are similar and only 23 years apart in publication. Barkley and Peters suggest that Crichton might have met and known Weikard since Crichton studied in cities where Weikard lived and taught. Though Crichton gives no reference to Weikard in his own texts. We now, of course, give credit to Weikard on writing the earliest reference to ADHD."}, {"text": "The Anton E. Hanson House is a historic house at 7610 S. Ridgeland Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Real estate developer Anton E. Hanson had the house built for his family in 1912. The house also allowed Hanson to test concrete block construction, an increasingly popular method that Hanson later used in two other houses. Architect Perley Hale designed the American Foursquare house. Hale's design added decorative stone features to the concrete exterior, including balustrades on the porch and balcony and a cornice below the balcony. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 9, 2006."}, {"text": "Shamshad Cockcroft is a British physiologist and a professor of cell physiology in the Neuro, Physiology and Pharmacology Division of Biosciences at the UCL. She has been a member of The Physiological Society since 1989. Education. Cockcroft earned a degree in Biological Chemistry at the University of Manchester in 1974 and completed her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Birmingham in 1977. During her PhD she was introduced by Bob Michell to the subject of inositol lipids as a potential source of second messengers, a topic she pursued during her postdoctoral fellowship at University College London (UCL). Research. Cockcroft's research and work investigates intracellular lipid traffic, interfaces club and lipids in cell signalling and membrane traffic. Her publications include: \"ATP induces nucleotide permeability in rat mast cells\", \"Role of guanine nucleotide binding protein in the activation of polyphosphoinositide phosphodiesterase\" and \"Polyphosphoinositide phosphodiesterase: regulation by a novel guanine nucleotide binding protein, Gp.\" Cockcroft was awarded a fellowship from the Lister Institute in 1986 and established the Lipid Signalling Group at UCL. She was previously Chair in Cell Biology at UCL and was awarded a programme grant by the Wellcome Trust. Personal life. Cockcroft was born in Zanzibar, but moved to"}, {"text": "the United Kingdom aged 18 following the Zanzibar Revolution. She faced problems when she tried to apply for university, having only four O-levels in Maths, English, British Constitution and Geography. She had to do her A-levels in a grammar school in the UK. She was inspired to pursue a career in science by reading biographies of scientists, including William Harvey and Marie Curie. She is married to Laurence Cockcroft and has three children: Jasmine, Jacob and Joshua."}, {"text": "The National Federation of Miners (, FNTSS-CGT) was a trade union representing miners in France. The union traced its history to 1883, when Michel Rondet of the Union of Miners of the Loire called a conference in Saint-\u00c9tienne. This attracted eleven unions from seven regions of France, with representatives including \u00c9mile Basly from Pas-de-Calais and Jean-Baptiste Calvignac from Carmaux. The federation endured, but remained relatively small, membership peaking at 20,000 in 1891, and falling back to 12,000 in 1912. In 1906, it affiliated to the General Confederation of Labour (CGT). The National Federation of Slate Workers merged into the union in 1911, which renamed itself as the Federation of the Mining and Quarrying Industry, then in 1912 it became the National Federation of Miners and Allied Trades. After World War I, 25,000 miners in Alsace-Lorraine transferred to the French union, and by 1920 the union membership had increased to 120,000. In 1921, part of the union joined the United General Confederation of Labor split from the CGT, reuniting in 1936. This took membership to a new high of 275,000, a membership density of more than 80%. During World War II, many miners participated in the French resistance and there were"}, {"text": "numerous strikes, but the union's leadership, including Pierre Vigne, collaborated with the Vichy regime. After the war, all mines were nationalised, and the federation became increasingly important, with membership reaching 300,000. However, a minority, supporting the Workers' Force split from the CGT, left in 1948 to found the rival Miners' Federation. From the 1950s, employment in the mining industry dropped rapidly, and with it, the membership of the federation. By 1963, it was down to 65,000 working members, and by 1999, only 4,000. That year, it merged with the National Federation of Energy, forming the National Federation of Mines and Energy. 1883: Michel Rondet 1894: Gilbert Cotte 1903: Alexandre Bexant 1910: S\u00e9raphin Cordier 1911: Casimir Bartuel 1924: Pierre Vigne 1945: Victorin Duguet 1956: Henri Martel 1959: L\u00e9on Delfosse 1968: Achille Blondeau 1980: Augustin Dufresnes 1989: Jacky Bernard"}, {"text": "The rape and murder of Angie Dodge occurred in Idaho Falls, Idaho on June 13, 1996. The true perpetrator was apprehended in May 2019, nearly 23 years after the crime was committed. Chris Tapp served 20 years in prison after being convicted of Dodge's rape and murder, based upon faulty evidence and a coerced confession. At the same time, authorities continued to search for other suspects whose DNA would match that which was left at the crime scene. In 2017, Tapp's rape conviction was vacated, and he was released from prison. In 2014, Michael Usry Jr. was accused of rape and murder after he was identified as a suspect through Y-chromosome familial searching, a process by which partial DNA matches to relatives are used to identify an individual. After conducting a proper DNA test, though, authorities discovered that Usry did not match the DNA found at the crime scene, and charges against Usry were dropped. In 2019, authorities used autosomal familial searching to identify Brian Leigh Dripps Sr. He was later found to have a full genetic match, and confessed to the crime after interrogation; he was ultimately convicted. The case helped bring attention to familial searching, a process wherein"}, {"text": "genetic testing for relatives leads to the discovery of a suspect. With both false accusations and the ultimate conviction obtained through familial searching, the case is an example for how non-criminal genetic repositories are used in criminal investigations, and furthered the debate on the appropriateness of their use. Investigation. Conviction of Chris Tapp. In January 1997, about a half year into the investigation, Idaho Falls officials questioned 20-year-old Chris Tapp, initially for information regarding other suspects. After over 100 hours of intense police interrogation, Tapp confessed to the crime under heavy pressure, although no physical evidence tied him to the scene and his confessions were inconsistent and contradictory. Tapp was convicted in May 1998 for aiding and abetting Dodge's rape and murder, and sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison. In 2001, Tapp recanted his confession and claimed he was coerced by police and fed information about the crime. In 2007, after Tapp had served ten years in prison, his case was revisited by the Idaho Innocence Project. A professor and undergraduate at Boise State University who worked with the project reviewed Tapp's interrogation tapes and arrived at the conclusion that Tapp had been heavily coerced into his"}, {"text": "confession. Tapp's case was appealed in 2017 and the rape charge was rescinded, lessening his sentence from 30 years to 20 years. Tapp had by then served his full 20-year sentence and was released. Chris Tapp was exonerated for the murder charge in July 2019, after Brian Leigh Dripps Sr. was arrested as a suspect for Dodge's murder. In October 2020, Tapp sued the city of Idaho Falls for wrongful conviction. In June 2022, a settlement was reached for $11.4 million. Tapp died after an altercation in a Las Vegas hotel room in October 2023. The Clark County Coroner\u2019s Office ruled his death a homicide. On March 6, 2024, former professional wrestler and congressional candidate Daniel Rodimer was charged with open murder in connection with Tapp's death. Police initially believed that his death was due to a fall. Later reporting led law enforcement to believe that Rodimer struck Tapp after the latter had allegedly offered cocaine to Rodimer's step-daughter. Rodimer surrendered to police the following day. Accusation of Michael Usry Jr.. Michael Usry Jr. is a filmmaker from New Orleans, Louisiana, once suspected in the murder of Angie Dodge. Authorities began to suspect Usry through familial searching. Michael's father, Michael"}, {"text": "Usry Sr., contributed a DNA sample to the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation. The Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation was later acquired by Ancestry.com, along with the Y-Chromosome database, a collection of genetic data for tracing paternal ancestry. Idaho Falls authorities obtained a court order to search Ancestry.com's Y-Chromosome database, and found a match of 34/35 searched alleles with Michael Usry Sr., a result that strongly indicated a close relative of his (\u201d..would probably be within three or four generations\u201d) would be a close match. Michael Jr. was further suspected because of records of his trips to Idaho that had him going through Idaho Falls. After Idaho Falls officials interrogated Usry and obtained a saliva sample, they discovered that he did not match the DNA sample found at the scene of Dodge's murder. Allegations against Usry were dropped, and the trail went cold once again. The accusation of Michael Usry Jr. brought some negative feedback. Critics claimed that the use of the Ancestry.com database was an unethical breach of privacy. Others argued that since Usry Sr. donated his DNA sample for recreational/religious purposes, that data should not be used as grounds to accuse members of his family of a crime. Ancestry.com met"}, {"text": "public disapproval from some quarters in allowing law enforcement access to this database. Usry Jr. stated that the investigation was a severe breach of his and his father's privacy. Arrest of Brian Leigh Dripps Sr.. The investigation once again gained momentum in late 2018, as Idaho Falls authorities made another attempt to use familial DNA in order to find Dodge's killer. CeCe Moore, at Parabon NanoLabs in Virginia, agreed to assist authorities in searching GEDMatch, a public repository for autosomal DNA, for near-matches. Results indicated that the murderer had to be a grandson or great grandson of a couple named Clarence and Cleo A. (Landrum) Ussery. Moore identified six known male descendants of the couple as possible suspects. Investigators then identified one of those six as having lived in Idaho in 1996 at the time of Angie Dodge's death. Police tailed the suspect to collect a DNA sample, but it returned negative for a match against the DNA left at the crime 23 years earlier. After a further three months of genealogical investigation, Moore discovered a seventh previously unknown suspect descended from the same couple, a man named Brian Leigh Dripps Sr. He had lived in Idaho Falls in 1996."}, {"text": "In 2019, he was living in Caldwell, Idaho, not far from Idaho Falls. Investigators obtained a DNA sample from a cigarette butt thrown from his car window and found a complete genetic match. Dripps had been living in Idaho Falls, across the street from the Dodge household, during the period surrounding Dodge's death, and was interviewed by the police as part of a neighborhood canvas five days after the murder. After interrogation, Dripps confessed to the rape and murder of Angie Dodge. Dripps said that he was severely impaired by both drugs and alcohol at the time of the attack. He added that he'd intended to rape Dodge, not kill her, and that he had acted alone. In February 2021, Dripps pled guilty to the crime. Dripps, 55 years old at sentencing, was given a life sentence, with a chance of parole after 20 years in prison. ABC filmed the investigation, discovery, and arrest of Dripps in real time over the course of several years, and aired much of the footage in a 2021 episode of \"20/20\". Familial searching crime solving breakthrough. Familial searching is the process of finding an individual for which one cannot find a direct DNA match,"}, {"text": "by finding approximate matches to their relatives, then using genealogical data to isolate the DNA of the individual in question. Investigators of this case were scrutinized for their use of non-criminal databases to find potential suspects, with the primary concern being a breach of privacy for the individuals involved. In the case of Michael Usry Jr., they located him and his father through the use of one of Ancestry.com's databases (Y-DNA STR data from the former Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation) created as a recreational genealogy project. Michael Usry Sr. donated his genetic data to the Sorenson project for recreational/religious purposes, without the knowledge that it might one day be used for investigative purposes and potentially to implicate him or his relatives in a crime. Usry Jr. stated that this conduct by the authorities was a severe breach of both his and his father's privacy. The popularity of the technique has grown in recent years. The same method of familial DNA searching that was used to identify Dripps and Usry was used in the discovery and arrest of the Golden State Killer. Consensus among surveyed individuals indicates that the public overall approves of the use of personal genetic data in the"}, {"text": "investigation of violent offenders. There remain concerns over genetic data collected by companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com for recreational purposes being used to implicate a relative in a crime, without the contributor of that genetic sample consenting to its use in the investigation. While some states such as California, Idaho, Texas and Florida allow the use of familial searching, some areas of the United States, such as Maryland and the District of Columbia, prohibit its use in criminal investigations. Impacts. While the Dodge case is not the first case to use familial searching, officials involved in the investigation have posited that its success will propel its use in future criminal investigations."}, {"text": "The NFL Players Association's Financial Advisors Registration Program is a program that will provide NFL players with access to a list of financial advisors who are deemed qualified by the NFLPA. The program was created in 2002 after a series of many investment schemes targeted at professional athletes. It aims to provide an extra layer of protection to athletes to protect them from fraud and poor advice. Advisors must apply to the program and go through a full background check before being added to the list. In October 2019, the NFLPA began inviting financial institutions to register with the program, and currently have partnerships with Goldman Sachs and Bessemer Trust. While players can ultimately choose any investment advisor that they would like to work with, their sports agents can only recommend registered advisors on the list. Responsibility of a financial advisor. A financial adviser is a professional who works on behalf of an individual and provides them with advice to help them reach their financial goals. Some of their responsibilities include but are not limited to: understanding the financial markets, creating budgets, saving for retirement, tax planning, and building portfolios. The financial advisors registered in the NFLPA program specifically, have"}, {"text": "a fiduciary duty to their clients, meaning that legally they must put their clients interests first and represent clients objectively. Creation. The NFLPA established the Financial Advisors Registration Program in 2002, with the goal of providing players with an extra layer of protection from poor financial advice and from fraud. The NFLPA mentions that the players themselves requested a program like this. Many players come into the league at a young age, are uneducated and inexperienced financially, and therefore, can easily be targeted by scammers. The Financial Advisors Registration Program aims to eliminate this risk, and provide players with advisors and agents who are pre-screened by the NFL. Registration of a financial firm. As of October 2019, the NFLPA is allowing firms to join their program, on an invite-only basis. Currently, the NFLPA is partnered with Goldman Sachs and Bessemer Trust. The addition of financial institutions to the program will allow for an extra layer of protection for the players. Now, if a player loses money due to an investment scam, the firm behind the advisor will be responsible for recovering the loss. This change comes as there is a possibility of a work stoppage for players after the 2019\u20132020"}, {"text": "season. The NFLPA wants to ensure that players' money will be invested and budgeted well during the potential work stoppage, and throughout the rest of their career into retirement. Application process for individual advisors. For individual advisors, the initial fee to apply is $2,500. This consists of a $2,000 application fee and $500 for the first year of membership. If the advisor does not get approved to join the list, the $500 membership fee will be refunded. To apply for the program, an advisor must have a number of qualifications; these include but are not limited to: History of fraud in the NFL. Between 1999 and 2002, at least 78 NFL players had been defrauded of more than $42 million. This loss was a total of many investment schemes intended to target misinformed athletes. The goal of the NFL's Financial Advisors Registration Program is to protect players from these schemes, but there are still cases involving advisors defrauding professional athletes. Kirk Wright. Wright, a hedge fund manager, was an approved advisor on the NFL's list. He hired an ex-NFL player as a consultant to his firm, and used him as a means to attract NFL players as clients. When his"}, {"text": "business collapsed, Wright was charged and convicted of 47 counts of fraud and money laundering. Wright gave clients statement which showed that their investments were worth up to 1000 times more than their real value. Seven NFL players who were involved in this scheme lost about $20 million. Jeff Rubin. Rubin was one of the largest financial advisors in the NFL, with at least 45 players as clients. He was soon trusted amongst athletes when he saved them from a Ponzi scheme involving a former NFL agent, William \"Tank\" Black. Rubin's fall came when he advised clients to invest in a new casino establishment in Alabama, but when electronic bingo was later deemed illegal by the state of Alabama, the casino got raided and shut down. Through this investment, his clients lost a total of $43 million. Rubin was a registered advisor on the NFLPA financial advisors program, but noted that they never contacted him regarding the investments he had his clients in. Jinesh \"Hodge\" Brahmbhatt. Brahmbhatt was a registered financial advisor with the NFLPA and ran his own company, Jade Wealth Management, where he had many clients who were NFL and NBA players. He had more than 30 of"}, {"text": "his clients invest in a company called Success Trade Securities (STS). STS was an online trading company where the CEO was later accused of running a Ponzi scheme; he would use newly issued promissory notes to pay off interest on older notes issued. The FINRA report accused Jade Wealth Management of recommending STS to athletes, and in turn, Jade received $1.25 million from STS over a few years. Brahmbhatt admitted that his clients invested more than $12 million in fraud notes from STS. After failing to provide the NFLPA with information on his role in the alleged fraudulent activities, the NFLPA removed him from their financial advisors program."}, {"text": "The Musquanousse 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 Musquanousse River is long from its source. It forms as a stream that drains Lake Musquanousse, which is long and wide. The river then traces an erratic path through many lakes, including Lake Marie-Claire, Lake Des Outardes and Lake Missu before flowing for about to the Gulf. In this section the river descends through falls and numerous rapids towards a broad T-shaped bay, which connects by a narrow neck with the Gulf. The mouth of the Musquanousse River is about east of the Musquaro River. It is in the municipality of C\u00f4te-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality. Name. In 1694 Louis Jolliet wrote of the Masco\u00fcarou and smaller Masco\u00fcarouchis rivers. The name means \"little river of the black bear tail\". The surveyor J. B. A. Gould gave the lake and river this name in 1899 in a survey report. The Musquanousse River is also known as the \"Little Musquaro River\". Description. The \"Dictionnaire des rivi\u00e8res et lacs de la province de Qu\u00e9bec\" (1914) says of the river, Basin. The Musquanousse River"}, {"text": "basin covers . It lies between the basins of the Musquaro River to the west and the Washicoutai River to the east. It is partly in the unorganized territory of Petit-M\u00e9catina and partly in the municipality of C\u00f4te-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent. A map of the ecological regions of Quebec shows the Musquanousse River in sub-regions 6o-T, 6n-T and 6m-T of the east spruce/moss subdomain. Wildlife in this mountainous landscape include Moose, bear, wolf and bald eagle. The river is also frequented by bustards and ducks. Fishing. The Musquanousse, including lakes Marie-Claire, Missu, Musquanousse and Des Outardes, is recognized as an Atlantic salmon river. Between 2013 and 2017 an average of 24 salmon were reported caught each year. The six lakes that the river flows through increase its effective length for fish from . All the lakes are accessible to salmon to varying degrees, and some reach Lake Musquanousse at the head of the river. The stream is home to Atlantic salmon and brook trout, including anadromous and landlocked specimens of both species. The Pourvoirie Musquanousse provides outfitter services. It holds exclusive rights over the entire river and chain of lakes, as well as the estuary. There are nine pools for fishing salmon by"}, {"text": "wading or from boats."}, {"text": "Alioune Ba (born 7 November 1989) is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for club Dunkerque. Personal life. Born in France, Ba is of Senegalese descent."}, {"text": "Metal\u2013inorganic frameworks (MIFs) are a class of compounds consisting of metal ions or clusters coordinated to inorganic ligands to form one-, two-, or three-dimensional structures. They are a subclass of coordination polymers, with the special feature that they are often porous. They are inorganic counterpart of Metal\u2013organic frameworks. History. Millon's base which have been known since early 20th century, can be considered as MIFs. Linkers. MIF with Borazocine linker was developed for hydrogen storage. Cu2I2Se6 has Se6 linkers. There are many MIFs with pnictogen linkers."}, {"text": "Stefan Nikoli\u0107 (; born May 29, 1997) is a Serbian professional basketball player for Umana Reyer Venezia of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). Due to the Italian formation during his youth, he is considered an \"homegrown player\" in the Italian championship."}, {"text": "The Bollettino della Vittoria Navale is the official document written after the armistice of Villa Giusti with which the admiral Paolo Thaon di Revel, supreme commander of the Royal Italian Navy, announced, on 12 November 1918, the surrender on the seas of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy's victory in the World War I. Description. The \"Bollettino della Vittoria Navale\" was issued on 12 November 1918 by the \"Etna\" ship, which was anchored in the port of Brindisi: the latter had in fact been the main operational center of the war in the Adriatic Sea. Legacy. From the cataloging of the documents of Paolo Emilio Thaon di Revel, kept at the \"Spadolini Foundation\" in Florence, it emerged that his material author was actually Gabriele D'Annunzio. Similarly, the \"Bollettino della Vittoria\" was signed by general Armando Diaz, supreme commander of the Royal Italian Army. A similar bulletin was never drafted for the air forces, given that the latter were part of the Aeronautical Service, a department destined to the Royal Italian Army aircraft: the Royal Air Force, the third armed force of the Kingdom of Italy, was in fact established in 1923, after the end of the World War I. Text. Italian."}, {"text": "\"Brindisi, 12 novembre 1918\" \"Comando in Capo delle Forze Navali mobilitate, Ordine del giorno n. 38\" \"La guerra marittima condotta in Adriatico in unione a reparti degli Alleati e degli Stati Uniti col pi\u00f9 costante e sagace ardimento nella ricerca dell'avversario in mare aperto e dentro i muniti porti \u00e8 finita entro Pola con uno dei pi\u00f9 luminosi esempi dell'eroismo italiano. Dal primo all'ultimo giorno, Voi avete perseverato in una lotta senza tregua supplendo al difetto dei mezzi ed alla gravit\u00e0 dei molteplici compiti, con una vigoria, con una audacia sempre pi\u00f9 pronte e ferme. Tutti gli italiani conoscono i nomi dei singoli eroi e delle vittorie fulminee, ma non a tutti \u00e8 nota l'opera silenziosa, aspra, generosa, compiuta in ogni ora, in ogni evento, in ogni fortuna, quando solamente una assoluta dedizione al dovere poteva superare l'imparit\u00e0 delle condizioni e la durezza degli ostacoli. Sappia oggi la Patria, di quanti sforzi ed eroismi ignoti \u00e8 fatta questa sua immensa Gloria. Consideri come due volte la Vittoria abbia preso il volo e l'augurio dal gorgo ove le pi\u00f9 potenti navi nemiche scomparivano: da Premuda al Piave, da Pola a Trieste e Trento. La grande nave colata a picco nel porto"}, {"text": "di Pola fu pi\u00f9 che un presagio. Nel suo nome stesso ostentava la vecchia menzogna delle forze, non riunite ma coatte. La duplice dissoluzione \u00e8 avvenuta. Come pi\u00f9 non esiste l'esercito, cos\u00ec la flotta Imperiale non esiste pi\u00f9.\" \"Onore sempre a Voi tutti onesti e prodi Marinai d'Italia\" \"Paolo Emilio Thaon di Revel, Comandante in Capo delle Forze Navali Mobilitate\" English. \"Brindisi, 12 November 1918\" \"Main Command of the Mobilized Naval Forces, Order of the Day no.38\" \"The maritime war conducted in the Adriatic in union with Allied and United States Forces with the most constant and sagacious daring in the search for the adversary in the open sea and in the well-equipped ports ended up in Pula with one of the brightest examples of Italian heroism. From the first to the last day, you have persevered in a struggle without respite to compensate for the defect of the means and the gravity of the multiple tasks, with a vigor, with an audacity ever more ready and firm. All Italians know the names of the individual heroes and lightning victories, but not everybody knows the silent, harsh, generous work done in every hour, in every event, in every fortune, when"}, {"text": "only an absolute dedication to duty could overcome the impurity of the conditions and the hardness of the obstacles. Today, the Fatherland knows of how many efforts and unknown heroisms this immense glory has been made. Consider how twice the Victory took flight and the wish from the whirlpool where the most powerful enemy ships disappeared: from Premuda to the Piave, from Pula to Trieste and Trento. The large ship which sank in the harbor of Pula was more than an omen. In his own name he flaunted the old lie of forces, unified but coerced. The double dissolution thus has already taken place. As no army exists, so the Imperial fleet no longer exists.\" \"Honor always to all honest and valiant sailors of Italy!\" \"(sgd). Paolo Emilio Thaon di Revel, Commander in Chief of the Mobilized Naval Forces\""}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Bradley Braves men's basketball team represented Bradley University during the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Braves, led by fifth-year head coach Brian Wardle, played their home games at Carver Arena in Peoria, Illinois as members of the Missouri Valley Conference. They finished the season 23\u201311, 11\u20137 in MVC play to finish in a tie for third place. They defeated Southern Illinois, Drake, and Valparaiso to be champions of the MVC tournament for the second consecutive year. They received the MVC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, but the tournament was cancelled in an effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Previous season. The Braves finished the 2018\u201319 season 20\u201315, 9\u20139 in MVC play to finish in a three-way tie for fifth place. As the No. 5 seed in the MVC tournament, they defeated Missouri State, Loyola, and Northern Iowa to win the tournament championship. As a result, they received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 15 seed in the East region. There they lost to No. 2-seeded Michigan State in the first round. Schedule and results. ! colspan=\"9\" style=| Exhibition ! colspan=\"9\" style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=12 style=| Missouri Valley"}, {"text": "Conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Missouri Valley tournament !colspan=9 style=| NCAA tournament Source"}, {"text": "Spilman is an unincorporated community on the Ohio River in Mason County, West Virginia, United States. The village is located along Spilman Lane, Mason County Route 62/24, parallel to West Virginia Route 62 in Waggener District, about three quarters of a mile southeast of West Columbia. Spilman grew around the site of a post office established in 1887, and named after its first postmaster, Henry E. Spilman, who ran the post office from 1887 to 1909. The post office continued to operate until 1925, when it was discontinued, and the mail redirected to West Columbia. A 1908 USGS topographical survey map shows about two dozen houses or other buildings at Spilman; there were only half as many in 1989, all to the west of Spilman Church."}, {"text": "Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice is a progressive Jewish political organization that blends advocacy, community organizing, and leadership training. The organization advocates for a more equal and just society, focusing strictly on domestic issues. Bend the Arc does not deal with issues related to Israel. Positions. Bend the Arc has been noted for its work protesting the policies of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Leaders of the organizations have argued that Trump has emboldened white nationalism, and disrupted an October 2019 speech by Trump in Pittsburgh by chanting \"Trump Endangered Jews.\" According to a profile of the group published by Tablet Magazine, they claim \"to speak for American Jewry,\" though Bend the Arc spokesperson Logan Smith admits the group has \"no active dues-paying members who participate in the shaping of their agenda.\" Leadership. Stosh Cotler became Bend the Arc's Executive Vice President in 2011 and CEO in 2014. When Cotler became CEO, \"The Forward\" noted that she was \"one of the few women leading a national Jewish group of its size.\" History. The Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA) was founded in 1999 by Douglas Mirell, Steven Kaplan and Joan Patsy Ostroy, after the closure of the"}, {"text": "Los Angeles chapter of the American Jewish Congress. They sought to assert a Jewish interest in the campaigns for social justice in Southern California, which has the United States' second largest Jewish population. Progressive Jewish Alliance expanded in February 2005 by opening a San Francisco Bay Area chapter. The PJA stated goals are social justice, judicial reform, and improved working conditions. They also try to facilitate dialogue between non-violent young offenders and their victims and between Jews and Muslims. PJA ran the Jeremiah Fellowship, which trains young Jews to be future social justice leaders. In addition, the PJA conducted education programs and quarterly holiday events on the intersection of art, culture and politics. On June 1, 2011, the Progressive Jewish Alliance merged with Jewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ), and the consolidated group adopted the name Bend the Arc in 2012."}, {"text": "Christine de Baan (born 10 October 1956) is a Dutch art curator, policy advisor and director, known for numerous contributions in the field of Dutch Design. She participated in the organisation of the Prix de Rome, the Rotterdamse Kunststichting where she was founding director of the Rotterdam Design Award in 1993, the Fonds BKVB, and the International Architecture Biennal Rotterdam. Biography. Studies and early career. De Baan studied French at the Leiden University from 1975 to 1977, and architectural design at the Willem de Kooning Academy from 1979 to 1986. In the last year she started working together with the designer Ed Annink. After her studies in 1987 De Baan, Renny Ramakers and Ed Annink founded the Foundation Products of Imagination, which initiated and organized multiple design projects and publications. In 1989 she created an exhibition in the Jaarbeurs about the 150 year of Dutch railroads and the romances, that had taken place there. De Baan participated in the organisation of the Prix de Rome from 1990 to early 1993, and edited some of its publications. Early 1993 she joined the Rotterdamse Kunststichting, where she was founding director of the Rotterdam Design Award, which she managed the next six or"}, {"text": "seven years. Later career. In the new millennium De Baan joined the Fonds BKVB, later the Mondrian Fund, where she chaired the advisory board of the national funding for art and design for four years. She was program director of the International Architecture Biennal Rotterdam from 2006 to 2008. From 2008 until 2013 she was director of DutchDFA, the Dutch design Dutch Design, Fashion and Architecture. Afterwards De Baan continued a program director, advisor and/or lecturer nationally and international form Dublin, to Cape Town and Beijing. In Arnhem she was advisor for the Arnhem Fashion Biennale in 2014-15 and directed the Sonsbeek and State of fashion foundation in Arnhem for a year. Work. Products of Imagination. Around 1985 De Baan had started cooperating with the designer Ed Annink to research the state of the design and young designers in the Netherlands. Ed van Hinte explained: A similar research in those days had been performed by Renny Ramakers for a series of her articles in \"de Volkskrant.\" The three of them decided to join forces to promote the new wave of ideas of those Dutch designer. They started a foundation in 1987, and named it \"Products of Imagination,\" abbreviated POI or"}, {"text": "P.O.I. Their cooperation resulted in the publication of a book under the same name, and the organization of multiple design exhibitions. DutchDFA. In 2013 the DutchDFA came to an ending, and its funding tasks merged into the Stimulation fund for the Creative Industry (Stimuleringsfonds voor de Creatieve Industrie)."}, {"text": "Institute for Adult Learning Singapore (IAL) is the Training and Adult Education autonomous institute within the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). It was established in 2008. IAL offers a range of education programmes such as Master's degree, WSQ Diploma, WSQ Advanced Certificate, and short courses in the field of training and adult education. IAL functions as the National Centre of Excellence for Adult Learning that aims to enhance the standards of Training and Adult Education (TAE) in Singapore by promoting ongoing education and partnering with higher education institutions and training providers. IAL engages in research to guide continuous education policies and practices, and aids in applying this research to develop practical tools and resources for the TAE community. Additionally, IAL contributes to the National Centre of Excellence for Workplace Learning (NACE) network, particularly through NACE@IAL, focusing on improving workplace learning theories and practices, as well as fostering innovation and technology within the TAE sector. History. IAL was established in 2008 to provide training for adult educators and undertake research in adult learning. From 1 April 2019, IAL was restructured into an autonomous institute within Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). On 11 January 2023, IAL has signed MoUs with"}, {"text": "Microsoft and SNEC to guide digital learning material design and enhance continuing education and training and ophthalmic healthcare skills. From 13 March 2023, Associate Professor (Practice) Yeo Li Pheow succeeded Professor Lee Wing On as IAL Executive Director. On 20 October 2023, IAL has partnered with Agency for Integrated Care, Home Team Academy, and Kydon Holdings, enhancing the learning ecosystem through professional development, digital transformation, and creating effective learning materials across sectors. Programmes. The Institute for Adult Learning (IAL) offers a variety of educational programs, including the WSQ Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance (ACLP), the WSQ Workplace Learning Facilitator (WLF), the WSQ Diploma in Design and Development of Learning for Performance (DDDLP), the Master in Boundary-Crossing Learning and Leadership (MBX), and the Master of Learning and Professional Development (MLPD). Adult Education Professionalisation (AEP). In 2014, the Adult Education Professionalisation (AEP) was launched by IAL. There are three levels of AEP namely Associate Adult Educators (AAE), Specialist Adult Educators (SAE) with either Curriculum Development or Facilitation track or Adult Education Fellows (AEF)."}, {"text": "U Medv\u00eddk\u016f (formerly \"U Nedwidku\" or \"U \u010dern\u00e9ho medv\u011bda\", \"\") is a historical brewery house located in Prague's Old Town. The pub and the brewery ranks among the oldest in Europe. History. Archaeologists trace the house's history back at least to the second half of the 13th century, to which time period certain barrel vaults connected to the central pillar can be dated. The house has been documented by written sources since 1404. In 1433, it was bought by Mikul\u00e1\u0161 sladovn\u00edk, who acquired the brewing right for beer, and after him the beer was brewed by Jakub Starostka since 1438. The house was named after later owner Jan Nedw\u00eddek, who in 1466 founded a brewery, continuously producing beer until 1898. On the stone portal of the house is preserved the house sign: two black bears, and between them the inscription \"Zde slowe od starodawna u Nedwidku\", with the year 1614, when the house was rebuilt into Renaissance style. After 1898, the owners were no longer able to compete with the emerging industrial breweries and therefore closed their small breweries and founded a municipal Brewery in Hole\u0161ovice. At the beginning of the 20th century the first Prague cabaret \"Tingl-Tangl\" performed at"}, {"text": "the house. Since the 1950s, the national enterprise \"RaJ1\" has run the pub. After 1989, the house was returned to its owners, the pub was extended, a new hotel was created, and beer production resumed. The hotel is notable for its preserved Gothic roof trusses and Renaissance painted ceilings. Budweiser Budvar is served in the pub, as well as unfiltered beers of local production: 1466 (light lager), Medv\u00eddkovsk\u00e9 b\u00edl\u00e9 (12\u00b0 wheat beer), Oldgott (13\u00b0 semi-dark lager), Blackgott (14\u00b0 dark special), Medv\u00eddek (15\u00b0 light special) and X-BEER 33 (claimed the strongest beer in the world). Originals are also the Beer ice cream and the Pivovice X40 (beer liqueur)."}, {"text": "Ahmed Al-Najei (, born 18 January 1995) is a Saudi Arabian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ohod. Career. Al-Najei began his career at the youth team of Al-Hilal. He joined Al-Faisaly in 2015. He signed his first professional contract with the club on 1 February 2017. On 9 September 2017, Al-Najei joined MS League side Al-Orobah on loan for the 2017\u201318 season. On 24 July 2018, Al-Najei signed a one-year contract with Abha. Following Abha's promotion to the Pro League, Al-Najei renewed his contract for a further year. On 19 February 2020, Al-Najei signed a three-year contract with Al-Hazem and joined the club following the conclusion of the 2019\u201320 season. On 11 September 2023, Al-Najei joined Ohod on a three-year contract. Honours. Abha Al-Hazem"}, {"text": "The Japan Coal Miners' Union (, Tanro), was a trade union representing coal miners in Japan. The union was established in 1950, initially with about 290,000 members. It affiliated to the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan, and later to its successor, RENGO. It was perhaps the most powerful union in Japan during the 1950s. In 2002, the last coal mine in Japan closed, and this led the union to dissolve in November 2004."}, {"text": "The women's elimination race competition at the 2019 UEC European Track Championships was held on 17 October 2019."}, {"text": "The 2019 FIA GT World Cup (formally the SJM Macau GT Cup \u2013 FIA GT World Cup) was a Grand Touring (GT) sports car race held on the Guia Circuit in Macau on 17 November. It was the fifth edition of the FIA GT World Cup and the twelfth GT3 car race to be held in Macau. The event promoter, the Automobile General Association Macau-China, appointed the motorsports organiser St\u00e9phane Ratel Organisation (SRO) to form a grid. The edition itself was made up of two races: a 12-lap qualifying race and an 18-lap main event. Raffaele Marciello of Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing won both the qualifying and main races from pole position. Marciello led every lap of both races to achieve Mercedes-Benz's third victory in the FIA GT World Cup since Maro Engel won in 2015 and Edoardo Mortara won in 2017. Second place went to Porsche driver Laurens Vanthoor of Rowe Racing, with his teammate Earl Bamber completing the podium in third. Background and entry list. The 2019 FIA GT World Cup was confirmed at the FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting on 6 December 2018, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was part of the 2019 Macau Grand Prix"}, {"text": "undercard. It took place on the Guia Circuit in the streets of Macau on 17 November 2019 after three days of practice and qualifying. It was the fifth FIA GT World Cup and the twelfth GT3 race in Macau since 2008. The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), which oversaw motor racing, and the St\u00e9phane Ratel Organisation jointly managed it. According to the event rules, the manufacturers' championship was presented to the manufacturer of the winning entrant's car. Drivers had to have competed in an FIA-regulated championship race based on GT3 regulations in the previous two seasons or have significant experience in Grand Touring (GT) cars to enter the race. The event was open to drivers with platinum or gold licences. Following lobbying by GT3 manufacturers and privateers, the FIA allowed amateur drivers (dubbed gentlemen drivers) to race in the 2019 event by reintroducing the silver rated category class for the first time since the 2016 edition. Only Bronze rated competitors could not race. Entries were open from 2 July to 31 August. The FIA released the entry list on 17 October. There were 17 drivers (11 factory drivers) representing 13 nationalities and four manufacturers: Audi, BMW, Mercedes-AMG, and Porsche. This"}, {"text": "was a two-driver increase from 2018, and it included all four previous FIA GT World Cup winners: Maro Engel, Augusto Farfus, Edoardo Mortara and Laurens Vanthoor. An FIA investigation into Sophia Fl\u00f6rsch's accident at the 2018 Macau Grand Prix resulted in various track safety improvements. SAFER barriers were retrofitted at Lisboa and San Francisco Bend turns, and the barriers between Reservoir and San Francisco Bend corners were realigned. Hospital Bend turn's wall was moved back by and the photographers' bunker at Lisboa corner was dismantled. Practice and qualifying. There were two half-an-hour practice sessions preceding the 18 November race. Earl Bamber's No. 98 Rowe Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R led the first practice session on the afternoon of November 14 before improving to a time of 2 minutes, 17.058 seconds on his final lap. His teammate Laurens Vanthoor was second-quickest, followed by Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing's Engel and Raffaele Marciello and Craft-Bamboo Racing's Mortara in positions third through fifth. Mortara had been faster late in practice, but he overshot the Lisboa corner entry and made slight contact with the outside barrier. Engel also went off the circuit but continued. Bamber lapped fastest at 2 minutes, 17.360 seconds in the second"}, {"text": "practice session on the afternoon of 15 November. His teammate Laurens Vanthoor was second, with Kelvin van der Linde of Audi Sport Team Rutronik, Phoenix Racing's Christopher Haase, and Marciello were third to fifth. Weian Chen caused the first of two stoppages when he ran onto some oil and struck the Reservoir Bend turn barrier. Soon after, Engel stopped his car with apparent mechanical trouble. The session resumed once both cars were removed. A high-speed collision for Absolute Racing's Kevin Estre at Mandarin Oriental Bend corner barrier caused a second stoppage. Friday afternoon's half-hour qualifying session determined the qualification race's starting order with each driver's fastest lap times. The setting sun resulted in lower track temperatures. Marciello, the 2018 Blancpain GT Series champion, set a lap time of 2 minutes, 15.699 seconds in the No. 999 GruppeM Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 at the session's end to achieve his second consecutive pole position for the qualifying race. He demoted the highest-placed Audi driver Dries Vanthoor for Audi Sport Team WRT to second after lacking pace in practice. Rowe's Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor were not as quick as they had been in practice, qualifying, third and fourth, separated by two-tenths of a second."}, {"text": "Engel was third before falling to fifth late on, being joined by his teammate Mortara in sixth. Audi drivers occupied seventh and eighth with Haase (who was fastest early on but sustained a puncture later on) ahead of Van Der Linde. Alexandre Imperatori and Charles Weerts of Team WRT took ninth and tenth. FIST-AAI Team's Joel Eriksson was the highest-placed BMW driver in 11th, ahead of his brandmate Farfus in 12th. Craft-Bamboo Racing's Alessio Picariello qualified 13th with Estre 14th, Solite Indigo Racing's Roelof Bruins in 15th, Zun Motorsport Crew's Adderly Fong 16th and Chen completing the starting order in 17th. Separate accidents involving Fong and Chen caused stoppages to qualifying. Qualifying race. The 12-lap qualifying race to set the main race's starting order was scheduled to start in an air temperature of at 13:05 Macau Standard Time () on 16 November, but was delayed for half an hour due to race management noticing a technical issue with the starting lights gantry. Picariello was forced off the grid and into the pit lane after his car would not start during the formation lap. There, he started after some quick troubleshooting. Dries Vanthoor attempted to overtake pole-position starter Marciello at the"}, {"text": "start by slipstreaming him, but instead he crashed into the outside wall of the Mandarin Bend corner with the rear of his car. Dries Vanthoor stopped at the entry to Lisboa turn due to car bodywork damage and a left-rear puncture. Further round the lap, Chen lost control of his car and stopped briefly before continuing. At the conclusion of the first lap, the safety car was used for the first time to move Dries Vanthoor's car to a safe area. Racing resumed on lap four and Maricello began to pull away from Rowe teammates Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor who were close behind one another in second and third. Engel attempted to pass van der Linde for fifth on the outside at the braking zone for Lisboa turn on lap five, but made minor contact with the latter's car's rear. As he drove onto the rumble strips, Engel lost control of his vehicle, slammed into the inside guardrail, and struck Mortara in the side. Both Engel and Mortara retired with car damaged and the safety car was deployed again so that the cars could be extricated. Van Der Linde was able to enter the pit lane to retire with car"}, {"text": "damage. The incident promoted Haase and Farfus to fourth and fifth. Five laps remained when racing resumed, with Marciello again leading Bamber in second. Farfus overtook Haase for fourth into Lisboa turn on the eighth lap, as the top three pulled away from the rest of the field. In the final laps, Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor appeared to be quicker in the track's tighter sections but could not match Marciello's overall pace. Maricello thus led for the remainder of the event, claiming victory and pole position for the main race. Bamber was 0.866 seconds behind in second, with teammate Laurens Vanthoor in third. Farfus finished fourth after starting 12th, and Haase finished fifth. Imperatori, Weerts, and Estre finished sixth through eighth. Eriksson, ninth, had anti-lock braking system issues, causing him to frequently lock his tyres and brake early for corners. Fong, Bruins and Picariello were the final finishers. Main race. At 12:25 p.m. local time on November 17, the 18-lap main race began in dry weather of . Due to the collision with Mortara in the qualifying event, Engel was penalised with a pit lane start. Laurens Vanthoor got off to a faster start than Bamber, passing his teammate for"}, {"text": "second place as Maricello maintained the lead. The leading trio pulled away from the field, as Bamber held off Farfus in the first lap. Estre attempted to pass Imperatori on the inside into Lisboa corner on the second lap, but collided with the side of his teammate's car. Imperatori was sent into the Lisboa tyre barrier and retired from the race shortly after. On lap three, Dries Vanthoor passed Weerts for tenth. Estre lost control of his car on the inside of the kerb through the quick Mandarin Oriental Bend corner two laps later. In an incident similar to Dries Vanthoor's the day before, he made high-speed contact with the guardrail wall at the turn's exit. A wheel from Estre's car detached and rolled across the track, but no other driver hit it, and debris from his car littered the track. Estre pulled over to the side of the track, and the safety car was dispatched to move the Porsche off the track. Following the removal of Estre's car from the track, racing resumed at the conclusion of lap eight. Farfus made a quick restart and used his faster straightline speed to briefly pass Bamber's slower starting car for third"}, {"text": "into the Mandarin Oriental Bend turn. Bamber was able to reclaim third on the inside entering Lisboa corner when Farfus had to slow for Laurens Vanthoor, who made slight contact with the rear of Marciello's car. On lap 10, van der Linde passed Bruins for tenth. With a gap of more than a second on lap 13 due to Maricello's personal best sector times, Vanthoor let his teammate Bamber take second, allowing Bamber to close in on Marciello. Bamber was six-tenths of a second faster than Maricello and close behind him. On the 15th lap, Bamber made slight contact with the barrier after running wide at the Police Bend corner and lost his left exterior wing mirror. When Marciello was cautious entering the Melco hairpin, Bamber closed in on him again, making slight contact with the rear of his vehicle on the final lap. Marciello led all of the racing laps over the weekend in only his third FIA GT World Cup start, achieving Mercedes' third victory in the event, following Engel in 2015 and Mortara in 2017. In accordance with a pre-race agreement, Bamber purposefully slowed through the R Bend corner and the start/finish straight, giving his teammate second"}, {"text": "as Bamber finished third. Farfus finished fourth, leading the close group of Haase, Mortara, Eriksson, Dries Vanthoor, Engel and Van Der Linde in positions five through ten. The final classified finishers were Bruins, Weerts and Weian with Fong and Picariello the two other retirements. The sixth running of the FIA GT World Cup was scheduled for 2020, but the FIA cancelled it due to the COVID-19 pandemic and replaced it with the Macau GT Cup, which was only open to racers from local racing series."}, {"text": "A special election was held on April 28, 2020, after a February 4, 2020, primary, to fill the remainder of the term in the United States House of Representatives for in the 116th U.S. Congress. Elijah Cummings, the incumbent representative, died in office on October 17, 2019. On October 28, 2019, Governor Larry Hogan announced the dates for the special primary on February 4, 2020, and the special general election on April 28, 2020, to coincide with the primary voting for the November 2020 general election. Due to COVID-19 concerns, Hogan announced on March 17, 2020, that the 7th district special general election would be conducted by mail-in ballot only on April 28, while the regular primary election would be postponed to June 2. On April 13, 2020, the Maryland State Board of Elections decided that three in-person voting centers would be open for the April 28 special general election, one in each local jurisdiction; Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Howard County. External links. Official campaign websites"}, {"text": "Heights Neighborhood Library is a public library facility in the Houston Heights area of Houston, Texas. It is a part of Houston Public Library (HPL) and is located at 1302 Heights Boulevard, in Heights block 170. It has a pink Stucco Italian Renaissance fa\u00e7ade and arches in its doors and windows. Jason P. Theriot wrote in the \"Houston Review\" that the ceilings are \"high\" and that the arches were \"beautifully\" done. The library has of space. The City of Houston designated it as a protected landmark in 2005. The National Park Service added the facility to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1984 as Houston Public Library. History. The first Heights area library facility was the Baptist Temple Library, opening in 1909, which was established by Reverend Fred Huhns. This collection moved to Heights Senior High School in 1918. The Trustees and the Heights Committee spent $7,500 to buy the land for the current facility in the mid-1920s. The current building opened in 1925 and was dedicated on March 18, 1926. It initially had of space. Theriot stated that the library \"became an instant hit\". Jimmie May Hicks, an Irish American from the state of Georgia, served as"}, {"text": "the head librarian at from 1931 to 1964 and organized a collection of documents and photographs related to the Houston Heights. In 1974 the Houston Heights Association (HHA) classified the library as a beautification project. From 1977 to 1980, an expansion project added a square footage higher than the original size, including to the north end, since HPL deemed the existing amount of space held by the library insufficient. During the expansion the library was temporarily in an unused building in Merchant's Park. The north addition did not use the original architectural styles due to a lack of financial feasibility. Theriot wrote that the expansion \"drastically altered the allure of\" the original style. The facility previously had a garden in the back area established in by the Heights Womans' Club in 1939 where people may read books, but the community center room was built on top of it circa the 1970s. In 2001 HPL considered completely replacing the building, but community outcry, including from HHA, caused the library system to instead renovate the existing facility, starting in early 2002, to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards. The blaxploitation film \"Sugar Hill\" (1974) depicted the library as the \"Voodoo Museum of"}, {"text": "Natural History.\""}, {"text": "Grand Crossing Park is a public park at 7655 S. Ingleside Avenue in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Opened in 1915, the park was planned by the South Park Commission, which was responsible for adding several parks in dense, poor South Side neighborhoods. While the South Park Commission designed the park and its facilities in-house, its designs were heavily influenced by the work of the Olmsted Brothers and D. H. Burnham and Company in its earlier parks. The park originally included a Beaux-Arts fieldhouse, a swimming pool, outdoor gymnasiums, a baseball field, tennis courts, and running and walking paths. The fieldhouse includes indoor gymnasiums, meeting rooms, and a series of murals titled \"An Allegory of Recreation\". The park was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 8, 2006."}, {"text": "Coronel Geraldo Guias de Aquino Airport is the airport serving Campo Mour\u00e3o, Brazil. It is operated by the Municipality of Acampo Mour\u00e3o under the supervision of Aeroportos do Paran\u00e1 (SEIL). Airlines and destinations. No scheduled flights operate at this airport. Access. The airport is located from downtown Campo Mour\u00e3o."}, {"text": "The Kermiscross is a cyclo-cross race held in Ardooie, Belgium usually on a weekday."}, {"text": "Adriaen van Overbeke, Adrian van Overbeck and Adriaen van Overbeke (\"fl\" 1508 \u2013 1529) was a Flemish Renaissance painter in the style of Antwerp Mannerism. He operated a large workshop with an important output of altarpieces, which were mainly exported to Northern France, the Rhineland and Westphalia. His known works were predominantly polychromed wooden altarpieces with painted shutters, which were created through a collaboration between painters and sculptors. The artist has only recently been identified with the anonymous master who was given the notname 'Master of the Crucifixion of Antwerp' by Max Jakob Friedl\u00e4nder. Life. Very little is known with certainty about Adriaen van Overbeke's origins. Some art historians have speculated that he may be the Ariaen who is mentioned as a pupil of Quentin Matsys in the records of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1495. He was registered as a master in the records of the Guild from 1508. He lived in a residence called \"Schylt van Engelant\" ('Shield of England') in the Keizerstraat in Antwerp. He was paid for supplying a carved wood altarpiece (destroyed) for the Hospice of Our Lady in Lille in 1509. He did not undertake the commission himself but as a dealer"}, {"text": "as he sourced the sculpted elements and the painted wings out to other artists. In 1513 he is documented working on a commission for a retable for the Propsteikirche St. Mari\u00e4 Geburt ('Provost Church of the Birth of Saint Mary') in Kempen (North Rhine-Westphalia). The retable was ordered by the local Annenbruderschaft ('Brotherhood of St Anne') and depicts scenes from the life of Saint Anne. The work is still on the high altar of the Propsteikirche. The painted wings of the altarpiece are among the earliest firmly dated paintings in the style of the Antwerp Mannerists and may be attributed to Adriaen van Overbeke himself or his assistants. The carved sections were probably the work of wood-carvers employed in his workshop. In 1517 he undertook with the painter Peter de Vleeminck and the carpenter Jan van der Hese to complete for the Franciscans in Valenciennes an altar which the painter Jan van Delft had left unfinished at his death. This work is considered lost. Van Overbeke acted as a witness to an agreement made in 1521 between the Franciscan monks of Dortmund and master carver Gieliszoon. The agreement concerned the transportation of a carved wooden altarpiece now in the Petrikirche,"}, {"text": "Dortmund. It is believed that van Overbeke had created the altarpiece together with the sculptor Jan Wraghe pursuant to another contract with the Franciscans of Dortmund. This altarpiece is believed to be the large retable that was moved to the Saint Peter's Church (Petrikirche) in Dortmund in 1809. It is referred to colloquially as \"das Goldene Wunder\" ('The golden miracle') due to the golden color of the polychromed sculptures. In 1522 van Overbeke had two pupils, Goyvaert van Roye and a Jeronimus (last name not recorded). In 1529 he was commissioned to paint an Altar of St Joseph for a patron in Kempen (now lost). In the same year, the Brotherhood of St Nicholas in Kempen paid him for repairs to their Nicholas altar, which therefore can be assumed to have been his own work. In the same year, he bought gold leaf for three retables from the goldsmith Willem van Schorisse in Bruges. It is not known whether these retables were even made. In 1529 he bought gold leaf for three unknown retables from the goldsmith Willem van Schorisse in Bruges. In 1529 he agreed with the dealer Gheerarde van Sulps residing in Aachen to be his exclusive supplier"}, {"text": "in Aachen for a period of six years. There is no mention of the artist in the records of the Antwerp Guild after 1529. Work. General. Adriaen van Overbeke is known for the production and supply of carved and polychromed wooden altarpieces with painted shutter wings. These were typically of large sizes. In Antwerp artistic practice this type of altarpiece was created collaboratively by painters and carvers often working within one workshop. This was possible because both belonged to the same guild. Van Overbeke may have run such a workshop. As the commissions required, he also outsourced to, or worked as of, the artists who created the sculpted portions of the retables. The the (Maagdenhuis, Antwerp) of 1510 is the earliest known work of Adriaen van Overbeke. It is entirely by van Overbeke's own hand and shows his artistic abilities as a painter. Figures from this altarpiece may have served as the models on which the workshop style of van Overbeke was based. From the 1620s his workshop gained commercial success and many assistants were hired. The quality of the output suffered as a result. The paintings of the St Anne Altar for the Propsteikirche St. Mari\u00e4 Geburt in Kempen"}, {"text": "were mainly finished by assistants. Only the underdrawings were executed by Adriaen van Overbeke himself. The altarpieces dated 1510 and 1517 for Lille and Valenciennes were workshop products in which van Overbeke did not even paint the underdrawings. Unlike other Antwerp workshops, the van Overbeke workshop never mass-produced similar designs but rather created works that were tailor-made in response to the specific requirements of patrons. Other works attributed to van Overbeke include: Style. Van Overbeke was the head of a large workshop, which employed many assistants. He further developed collaborations with other Antwerp workshops including of painters and sculptors. He appeared therefore in contemporary contracts both as a principal as well as a subcontractor. With the increasing success of his business, he gradually participated less in the execution of works and he became an entrepreneur who relied on workshop assistants and other workshops to create the altarpieces. Models in his workshop were used to create a workshop style. The workshop style also included compliance with certain conventions regarding the palette which remained very similar over a period of about 15 years. Blue and red dominate in strong tones. Continuity of the workshop style was also achieved through a rational image"}, {"text": "design. The figures were brought to the foreground and often recurring groups of figures must have been based on workshop templates. The design of various compositions relied on prints of Albrecht D\u00fcrer. The adoption of a workshop style explains why it is difficult to attribute works to him on style-critical grounds. Van Overbeke himself is believed to have spent a lot of his time traveling abroad to meet with his patrons. Unlike other workshops in Antwerp, the van Overbeke workshop is not known for serially produced altarpieces of the passion of Christ or the life of the Virgin Mary. Typical traits of van Overbeke's style are the tall figures with somewhat elongated faces and small eyes, broad faces with the hanging angle of the mouth and sunken eyes, and thin hands with long fingers. The landscapes typically contain rock formations. Van Overbeke is considered a representative of Antwerp Mannerism. The term Antwerp Mannerism was coined by Friedl\u00e4nder in the early 20th century to refer to a transitory phase in Netherlandish art from the late Gothic to works inspired by the Italian Renaissance. The terms \"Manier\" and \"Manierist\" were used by Friedl\u00e4nder to refer to the original even unusual motifs in"}, {"text": "the body of work categorized under this style. The terms carried a pejorative connotation as these works were regarded as inferior to work produced by Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Quentin Matsys and other contemporaries. The style of these works was often extravagant. This was reflected in how the folds of the flamboyant and exotic clothes worn by the figures defied gravity. These figures were usually depicted in agitated poses amidst architectural ruins. The earlier works included Gothic architecture but in later works Renaissance structures became prevalent. The paintings appear to combine Early Netherlandish and Northern Renaissance styles, and incorporate both Flemish and Italian traditions into the same compositions. Most of the artists of Antwerp Mannerism have remained anonymous and only some of the artists have been identified. They include Jan de Beer and the Master of 1518 (possibly Jan Mertens or Jan van Dornicke). Adriaen van Overbeke himself was only recently identified with the anonymous master who was given the notname 'Master of the Crucifixion of Antwerp' by Friedl\u00e4nder."}, {"text": "The Christmas Present is the twelfth studio album by English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams, and his first studio album since 2016's \"The Heavy Entertainment Show\". It was released on 22 November 2019, and features guest appearances from Tyson Fury, Rod Stewart, Jamie Cullum, Helene Fischer and Bryan Adams. Williams performed a pair of concerts dubbed \"The Robbie Williams Christmas Party\" at the SSE Arena on 16 and 17 December 2019 in promotion of the album. Background. In a Q&A with BBC Radio 2 in December 2012, Williams was asked if he would consider doing a Christmas album. \"You bet\", Williams stated. \"I used to hate Christmas, but my wife Ayda has instilled me with Christmas spirit. It used to be a time of year that I didn't care too much for, but she loves it, loves it like a child, and because of that, I now love it, it's a very very special time of the year, and because of that, yes I'm willing to do a Christmas album, and I will do one at one point\". Williams began recording the album in June 2019, just before the final leg of his Wynn Las Vegas residency, and concluded in Vancouver in"}, {"text": "October 2019. Williams joked that he was going to call the album \"Achtung Bubl\u00e9\", a play on words of the U2 album \"Achtung Baby\", and in reference to Michael Bubl\u00e9's \"monopoly\" on the Christmas music market, which he said \"must end now\". Williams was asked in an interview whether or not there were any plans for Bubl\u00e9 to sing on the album and he answered: \"He sang with me on an album of mine called \"Swings Both Ways\". You sort of get it in your head that you can only use that token once. I might be wrong. I should have got him involved.\"> In an interview with Smooth FM, Williams stated: \"I wrote 50 songs for the Christmas Present record. And you can\u2019t write 50 songs in one month because it\u2019s Christmas and you feel Christmassy, so you have to do it when the fancy takes you.\" Williams initially aspired to cover \"Fairytale of New York\" as a duet with Britney Spears which the latter declined due to being on hiatus. Critical reception. \"The Christmas Present\" received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album"}, {"text": "has an average score of 52 based on 4 reviews, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\". Jordan Bassett of \"NME\" rated the album 3/5 stars, writing: \"The original compositions are richer than the covers. The galloping 'Darkest Night' opens with the fabulous line \"December in London / Think I\u2019ve just been made redundant\" and the optimistic 'New Year's Day' borrows quite liberally from George Michael's 'Freedom' on a jubilant bridge where Robbie and a gospel choir rapturously exclaim, \"Oh! It\u2019s an energy! Oh! The memories!\"\" The song \"Bad Sharon\", featuring Tyson Fury on guest vocals, was called a \"favourite\" to be the UK Christmas number one. Singles. \"Time for Change\" was released as the album's official lead single on 22 November 2019. The album's second single, \"Can't Stop Christmas\", was released on 20 November 2020. Commercial performance. \"The Christmas Present\" opened at number two on the UK Albums Chart, behind Coldplay's \"Everyday Life\". The album sold 67,000 copies in the UK during its first week, the same amount as Williams' previous album \"The Heavy Entertainment Show\" (2016). Despite not getting to number one on the charts, Williams' had the fastest selling cassette release in over two decades. \"The Christmas Present\" sold"}, {"text": "over 10,000 cassettes in its first seven days of release. Halfway through its second week, Williams' album climbed to number one, outselling 's album \"\" by 5,000 copies and becoming Williams' 13th number one, tying Elvis Presley for the most UK number one albums. In its second week, 57,000 copies had been sold. Williams now ties Presley for the most #1's in a solo career, and has 17 number one albums when including his Take That career. \"The Christmas Present\" opened at number two on the Australian music chart, behind Coldplay's \"Everyday Life\". The following week, \"The Christmas Present\" became Williams' first number one album in Australia since \"Reality Killed the Video Star\" 10 years prior."}, {"text": "This is a list of cricketers who have played matches for the Habib Bank Limited cricket team."}, {"text": "Jagan is a 1984 Indian Telugu-language action film written and directed by Dasari Narayana Rao, produced by Vajjala Subba Rao and Vijaya Shankar under the banner of Lalithalaya Movies, starring Sobhan Babu, Jayasudha, Sumalatha and Jaggayya. The film was a box office bomb. Soundtrack. Soundtrack was composed by Chakravarthy."}, {"text": "George Douglas of Parkhead, (died 1602), was a Scottish landowner, mining entrepreneur, Provost of Edinburgh, and Keeper of Edinburgh Castle. Career. George Douglas was a son of George Douglas of Pittendreich, the name of his mother is unknown. His half-sister, Elizabeth, daughter of Lady Dundas, married Smeton Richeson. He married Marioun Douglas, heiress of Parkhead or Parkheid, and so became known as George Douglas of Parkhead. Parkhead is close to the Lanarkshire town of Douglas. He was later Provost of Edinburgh. Refortification of Edinburgh Castle. After Edinburgh Castle was recovered from William Kirkcaldy of Grange in May 1573, George Douglas was appointed its Captain or keeper by his half-brother Regent Morton. George Douglas supervised the rebuilding of part of the back wall and other repairs, buying lime, sand, slate and glass. Part of the running expenses, or \"sustenation\" of the castle was paid to Douglas from the customs of Edinburgh town by Robert Gourlay. Parkhead is credited with building the half-moon battery at Edinburgh castle, the \"Historie of King James the Sext\" records that Regent Morton appointed him captain, and caused \"masonis to begin to redd (clear away) the bruisit wallis, and to repaire the foirwark to the forme of"}, {"text": "ane bulwark, platt and braid above, for the resett and ryving (receiving) of many canonis.\" Some building accounts from this work survive. Douglas and Regent Morton. Douglas prospered during the regency of his brother, James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, and his servant Florence Douglas was made Rothesay Herald. When his brother resigned the regency of Scotland in March 1579, George Douglas of Parkhead made an inventory of the personal jewellery of Mary, Queen of Scots kept in Edinburgh Castle, and of the textiles, the royal tapestries, Mary's remaining costume, her pictures, dolls, and library, and he itemised the artillery of the castle and the tools in its workshops. The taking of this inventory was described in the chronicle attributed to David Moysie. Douglas was involved in lead mining at Wanlockhead and Glengonnar or Leadhills in Lanarkshire and in Orkney. In June 1581 his interest in the lead mines with all the lead ore recovered was confiscated and given to James Stewart, Earl of Arran because he had withheld Torthorwald Castle from the earl. Parkhead wrote to Francis Walsingham in June 1582 to thank him for hospitality in England, mentioning his friend John Selby of the garrison of Berwick-upon-Tweed. He"}, {"text": "had written to Selby in May 1582 describing a rumour that James VI would be sent to France. In August 1584 George Douglas and his sons James and George were declared traitors and their goods and lands forfeited for their role \"art and part\" in the Raid of Stirling in April 1584. Norway. James VI of Scotland sailed to Norway to meet his bride Anna of Denmark in October 1589. George Douglas of Parkhead was one of his companions. He wrote from Oslo to the Earl of Morton on 30 November 1589. The king had decided to stay over winter at the Danish court, and the Earl's son Archibald Douglas had decided to go travelling. He had asked Parkhead to go with him. Later life. After their kinsman William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton had been imprisoned in their keeping at Edinburgh Castle, Marion Douglas wrote to his wife Agnes Leslie, Countess of Morton to thank her for a gift of cheese from her farms at Fossoway near Lochleven Castle. She said that Morton had \"received but very simple entertainment here\". Another of Marion Douglas's letters concerns the lead mines. On 6 August 1592 she wrote from Parkhead to Lord"}, {"text": "Menmuir asking for his decision about the mining concessions between Eustachius Roche and her husband. She had been obliged to order her miners to suspend working, putting them to other work or laying them off. On 20 December 1593 George Douglas and his son James made over some of their lead mining rights in Glengonnar to the goldsmith and financier Thomas Foulis. An English prospector Stephen Atkinson writing in 1619 stated that \"George Parkhead\" was killed by a landslide in wet weather at a mine working at \"Short-clough brayes\". It took three days to dig him out. The Shortcleuch water joins the Elvan and falls into the Clyde. Some sources suggest the victim of this accident was a son of George Douglas of Parkhead, and it occurred in 1586 while he was prospecting for gold. George Douglas of Parkhead's will was registered in Edinburgh in 1602. It mentions oats stored in the barn yard of \"Auld Foulden\". Family. The children of George Douglas and Marion Douglas included;"}, {"text": "The men's scratch competition at the 2019 UEC European Track Championships was held on 17 October 2019. Results. First rider across the line without a net lap loss wins."}, {"text": "There are various Wireless Emergency Alerts in Germany which inform citizens about important incidents, disasters and dangerous situations, as well as severe weather. Since February 2023, the alerts of the four main systems have been shared and disseminated in parallel. Background. Since WWII, the traditional method for informing the public about a disaster in Germany has been civil defence sirens. An equivalent to the US Emergency Broadcasting System for sending messages via radio and TV did not exist in Germany for a long time but such a system is now part of the Modular Warning System (MoWas). \"MoWas\" is developed by the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief (BBK) to warn the population and is coupled to authorities, media and all situation centres of the state governments and their redundancy locations as well as in all integrated control centres in North Rhine-Westphalia, Brandenburg and Schleswig-Holstein. The system is connected to all public broadcasters, a number of private broadcasters, the news agencies dpa, AFP, dts Nachrichtenagentur, the digital billboards of Str\u00f6er Media and Wall GmbH, T-Online International, the situation room of Deutsche Bahn and all relevant alert apps. Cell Broadcast. There were increasing calls to use the Cell Broadcast"}, {"text": "service in Germany to warn the population in the event of a disaster. The demands intensified after the Floods in Western and Central Europe in 2021. In August 2021, the German federal government announced that it would introduce Cell Broadcast within the next year. The Bundestag and Bundesrat subsequently approved the necessary amendment to the Telecommunications Act. The Bundesrat approved the introduction of the mobile warning regulation of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action on November 26, 2021. On the second nationwide warning day on December 8, 2022, cell broadcast was successfully used in Germany for the first time. The message was intended to reach all mobile devices that are compatible with Cell Broadcast and have reception. In February 2023, the Cell Broadcast warning system officially started regular operation. In June 2023, mobile phone operator Vodafone Germany announced that since the start of official operation, 77 warning messages had been sent via Cell Broadcast in various parts of Germany. NINA. In 2015, the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief (Bundesamt f\u00fcr Bev\u00f6lkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe) at BMI presented an emergency information and news app called \"NINA\". Since 2019, the KATWARN system and the Federal MoWaS system"}, {"text": "have been coupled: warnings of KATWARN and the NINA app are displayed on both sides. EU-Alert. EU-Alert is the wireless emergency system of the European Union and officially called \"European Public Warning Service\". EU-Alert is compatible with the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) standard as used in the United States and based on Cell Broadcast. Since 2012, mobile operating systems have supported EU-Alert/WEA/CMAS via Cell Broadcast for public warning messages by default. Katwarn. Katwarn was the first alert system in Germany based mainly on smartphone apps and was introduced in 2009. The service is provided by the private company Combirisk GmbH. Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS developed Katwarn on behalf of the major insurance companies in Germany. Katwarn (also known as KATWARN) is an alert and information system that informs the affected citizen in disasters and dangerous situations (e.g. large fires, power outages, bomb finds). Since 2011, Katwarn has been in use in Germany in various cities, counties and city states, as well as at the state (Bundesl\u00e4nder) and federal level. It can be used, for example, via a smartphone app. Registration to the system is free and it currently serves around 2.5 million users. The app is available worldwide in the app"}, {"text": "stores for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. Since July 2017, Katwarn has also been available in Austria. BIWAPP. The warning app BIWAPP is used by some cities and counties for regional and local urgent reports. The app also displays the disaster warnings of the BBK and the severe weather warnings of the German Weather Service (DWD). All notifications and disaster alerts are sent directly from the officially responsible institutions such as civil protection authorities, municipalities and cities as well as their control centres. WarnWetter. German Weather Service, DWD invented in 2015 a weather warning app, called \"WarnWetter\". At the end of 2017, it was used by 4.9 million users. In 2017, a private weather forecast company brought suit against DWD, because of its free app in 2017. After judgment by the district court of Bonn, there is a free app with commercials and another version for which users have to pay."}, {"text": "Margaret Allen Tupper True (1858 \u2013 January 10, 1926) was an American educator. She was president of the Denver School Board from 1906 to 1908. Early life. Margaret Allen Tupper was born in 1858, the daughter of Allen Tupper and Ellen Smith Tupper. Her father was a Protestant minister; her mother was a writer and editor, and an expert beekeeper. Her sisters included Unitarian ministers Eliza Tupper Wilkes and Mila Tupper Maynard, and educator Kate Tupper Galpin. Aged 14 she became the vice-president of the \"State Poultry Association\" in Iowa. Career. Margaret Tupper taught school in Colorado Springs as a young woman. She (and three of her sisters) spoke at the Woman's Congress in San Francisco in 1894. She presented at the Mothers' Congress of Utah in 1898, as president of the Educational Alliance of Denver, on \"Sister Professions: The Home and School\". She was the elected president of the Denver School Board from 1906 to 1908, and was head of the district's truancy department. \"For the first time in a city of the first class a woman has been elected president of the school board,\" announced the \"Journal of Education\". She worked for the abolition of secret societies among"}, {"text": "students in Denver. Personal life. Margaret Allen Tupper married Henry Alphonso True (1837-1925). Their eldest son was illustrator and muralist Allen Tupper True (1881-1955). Their other sons were Henry A. True (born 1883) and James Beaman True (born 1887), both civil engineers. She died at home in Denver in 1926, aged 67 years. Her grave is with her husband's and sons', in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her diary was part of an exhibit at the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery in Washington, D.C. in 2014 and 2015."}, {"text": "Lucas Covolan Cavagnari (born 6 June 1991) is a Brazilian professional footballer who most recently played for club Worthing. A Brazil under-20 international, he began his career with Trieste before turning professional at Vasco da Gama. He later had spells with Atl\u00e9tico Paranaense, Esportivo, Toledo and Rio Branco, winning a Campeonato Acreano title with Rio Branco in 2014. He then spent two years in Spain with Atl\u00e9tico Rafal and Alar\u00f3 before joining the English club Whitehawk in 2016. He had a loan spell with Lewes and spent two seasons with Worthing before earning a move to Torquay United in May 2019. He scored a goal in the 2021 National League play-off final, which Torquay lost, before signing with English Football League club Port Vale in June 2021. He helped the club to win promotion out of League Two via the play-offs in 2022. He returned to the National League on a season-long loan with Chesterfield in July 2022. He signed with Maidstone United in August 2023 and was an unused substitute in their 2024 Kent Senior Cup final victory. He spent the first half of the 2024\u201325 season with Braintree Town and rejoined Worthing via Ebbsfleet United in February 2025."}, {"text": "Early and personal life. Born in Curitiba, Covolan grew up supporting hometown club Atl\u00e9tico Paranaense. He has an Italian passport. Club career. Brazil. Covolan spent his early career with Trieste in his native Brazil. He was scouted by Vasco da Gama. After impressing on a two-week trial, he signed a professional contract at Vasco at 17. He acted as the practice goalkeeper for Juninho Pernambucano's free kick training sessions, later recalling that such was the player's ability that \"I was basically just a cone\". He returned from Rio de Janeiro after three years to sign with boyhood club Atl\u00e9tico Paranaense. He later recalled that Atl\u00e9tico had eight goalkeepers on their books and that he realised halfway into his three-year contract that he would never play a first-team game for the club. He tried to gain experience in senior football by leaving on loan but was injured in a warm-up exercise and sidelined for four months. Covolan went on to feature in four match day squads as an unused substitute for Esportivo Bento Gon\u00e7alves, before joining Toledo in December 2013 and then Rio Branco in March 2014. He helped Rio Branco to win the Campeonato Acreano (Acre state league) in 2014"}, {"text": "following a penalty shoot-out victory over Atl\u00e9tico Acreano, but was one of the three players released by the club on 7 May 2014. Spain. Covolan moved to Spain later in 2014 and joined Tercera Divisi\u00f3n team Atl\u00e9tico Rafal. He switched to fellow Mallorcan side Alar\u00f3 the next year, making 35 appearances. He left the club following the death of head coach Juli\u00e1n Ronda. He spent three months on trial at Mallorca but was deemed to be too old at the age of 24. English non-League. In 2016, he was approached by an agent to play for English National League South club Whitehawk, who were managed by the Argentinian Pablo Asensio. He made 23 league appearances for Whitehawk, and also spent a month on loan with Lewes, before signing for Isthmian League Premier Division side Worthing after a pre-season trial. He was named Supporters Player of the Year by Worthing's \"Away Boys Fanatics\" in the 2017\u201318 season and had trials at Aldershot Town, Luton Town and Stevenage. He broke his arm during a win at Moneyfields in the FA Cup on 6 October 2018. Torquay United. He moved to Torquay United in May 2019 after impressing manager Gary Johnson on trial."}, {"text": "He competed with Shaun MacDonald for a place in the first-team, but had to wait for his opportunity after picking up an injury in pre-season, making his first-team debut in a 2\u20131 win at Dover Athletic on 17 August. Covolan would play 25 league games in the 2019\u201320 season, with MacDonald playing the remaining 11 league matches in a season that was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He featured 26 times in the 2020\u201321 campaign, whilst MacDonald played 19 league games, as Torquay qualified for the play-offs with a second-place finish. On 20 June 2021, he scored an injury-time equaliser against Hartlepool United in the National League play-off final, which Torquay eventually lost on penalties, despite two saves from Covolan. His goal earned him comparisons to compatriot Alisson, a goalkeeper who had scored a headed goal for Liverpool earlier in the year; the pair had actually played against each other some years earlier in a tournament for under-23 players when Atl\u00e9tico Paranaense came up against Internacional. Port Vale. On 23 June 2021, he signed a two-year contract with League Two side Port Vale; manager Darrell Clarke said that \"he is hungry to prove he's a league-level player and"}, {"text": "we feel he has all the attributes to succeed at this level\". However, the move would turn out to be the \"lowest point\" of his career as he struggled to handle the pressure of league football and suffered with depression as a result. Having already been shown a red card in a pre-season friendly, he was sent off on his English Football League debut after rushing off his goal-line to trip Nicke Kabamba during a 1\u20130 defeat at Northampton Town on 7 August. He returned after a serving a one match suspension and kept four clean sheets in his next seven games, saying that \"you learn from every mistake and that is what makes you stronger\". He was criticised by Clarke for an error during a win over Barrow on 16 October, but responded by saving a penalty in a 1\u20131 draw with Mansfield Town three days later. On 15 January 2022, he was sent off for kicking out at Swindon Town's Harry McKirdy after the pair jumped for a high ball moments before half-time during what would finish as a 3\u20131 home defeat; a furious Clarke said after the match that \"he has got to learn from that otherwise"}, {"text": "he won't be staying at the club for very long\". Covolan, who was suspended for four games for the incident, was supported by captain Tom Conlon, who said \"he's one of us, he is a big part of the squad, the boys love him to bits\". He was an unused substitute as Vale secured promotion out of the play-offs with victory over Mansfield Town in the final at Wembley Stadium. He played 22 games in the 2021\u201322 season, keeping seven clean sheets. David Flitcroft, the club's director of football, confirmed that the player's contract would not be renewed beyond June 2023. Chesterfield (loan). On 5 July 2022, Covolan returned to the National League to join Chesterfield on a season-long loan deal. On 6 August, he made his debut for the Spireites in a 2\u20132 draw with Dorking Wanderers, receiving a red card after 28 minutes for an \"off the ball incident\". Manager Paul Cook had stern words for Covolan after the match, saying that \"it is something that Lucas will learn from quickly [and] if he doesn't learn quickly he won't be at the club, it is that simple\". Covolan was returned to the starting eleven after Ross Fitzsimons stood"}, {"text": "in during his suspension, and by September was linked with a permanent move to Chesterfield. However, after making eight further starts he was sidelined with an ankle injury, whilst during Covolan's absence Fitzsimons was praised for his good form. He was not named in the 2023 National League play-off final matchday squad for the defeat to Notts County. Return to English non-League. On 4 August 2023, with less than 24-hours until the start of the 2023\u201324 season, Covolan signed with newly-relegated National League South club Maidstone United. Maidstone defeated EFL clubs Barrow and Stevenage to reach the fourth round of the FA Cup, where they then knocked out Championship side Ipswich Town 2\u20131 at Portman Road, with Covolan named as man of the match having made a \"string of saves\" to help pull off the upset. Manager George Elokobi said that Covolan was the best goalkeeper in the National League South. He played every league game as Maidstone finished the 2023\u201324 season in fourth place, qualifying for the play-offs. He was an unused substitute in the 2024 Kent Senior Cup final victory over Ebbsfleet United. His teammates voted him as Players' Player of the Year. He was offered a new"}, {"text": "contract in May 2024. On 20 August 2024, Covolan made his debut for Braintree Town in their 2\u20131 victory over Aldershot Town in a National League game at Cressing Road. He played a total of 29 matches in the first half of the 2024\u201325 season. On 4 January, the club announced that Covolan had departed the club following the expiration of his contract. On 15 February 2025, Colovan signed a short-term deal with Ebbsfleet United after the National League club had two senior goalkeepers ruled out injured. On 21 February 2025, just one week after joining Ebbsfleet United, Covolan returned to National League South side Worthing. He made an instant impact by making what manager Chris Agutter called \"a really big save\" on his second debut for the club. He made 14 appearances in what remained of the 2024\u201325 season, though was on the bench for the play-off quarter-final defeat to Maidstone United. He was not retained beyond the end of the season. International career. Covolan spent time with the Brazil under-20 national team, winning two caps in 2010. Style of play. He has been described as an aggressive goalkeeper who helps the team defend with a high line, though"}, {"text": "tends to be caught in possession. Honours. Rio Branco Port Vale Maidstone United Individual"}, {"text": "The 2019 EHF European Wheelchair Handball Nations' Tournament was the 4th edition and was hosted for the first time in Croatia from 14 to 15 December 2019. This was the last European Wheelchair Handball Nations' Tournament because next year will be held an official European championship. Croatia defeated Portugal to the first title. Draw. The draw was held at the EHF headquarters in Vienna on 26 November 2019. Spain was first planned as the sixth team but they withdrew from the tournament and Slovenia replaced them Seeding. Croatia was allowed as host to pick their group. Preliminary round. \"All times are local (UTC+1)\""}, {"text": "Polygnotos Vagis () (1894 \u2013 March 15, 1965) was a Greek-American sculptor and painter. Biography. He was born in Potamia, Thasos, and his father, Hatzigeorgiou, was a carpenter. He immigrated to New York in 1911 and dealt with sculpture. He studied at the Institute of Fine Arts and maintained a workshop in New York City for decades. In his works he used stone, cement, and emphasized simplistic lines, an example of his connection with primitive art. He focused primarily on human and animal forms and on compositions such as the moon and the world. His works are on display at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art New York (MOMA), the National Gallery (Athens), the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Kavala Municipal Museum, etc. In 1958 he was awarded the Audubon Artists Gold Medal and in 1962 with the Golden Cross of the Phoenix. During the last years of his life he inherited much of his collection in the Greek state. Today in his hometown of Potamia, Thassos, there is a museum named after him, which houses 98 sculptures and 15 paintings. He died on March 15, 1965, in New York City and was buried in"}, {"text": "Potamia, Thassos."}, {"text": "Baoyi Qaghan, or Alp Bilge Qaghan, was the eighth ruler of Uyghurs. His personal name is not known; therefore, he is often referred to by his Tang dynasty invested title, Baoyi (), which was invested on 22 June 808. Reign. He was known as a zealous Manichean ruler and militarily active ruler. He demanded a Chinese princess from Xianzong of Tang by sending his minister Inanchu K\u00fcl\u00fcg Chigshi on 24 June 810, but the request was refused. Xianzong's reason was the expenses involved. Xianzong asked Manichean priests to pursue Baoyi and drop the request. Baoyi used this opportunity to occupy Tiquan (\u9d5c\u6cc9) in April 813. Xianzong's minister of rites, Li Jiang, suspected that Baoyi would make peace with the Tibetan Empire in order to invade China. He suggested that Baoyi's proposal to marry a Tang princess should be accepted to further affirm the alliance between Tang and Uyghurs. His suggestion, however, was not accepted. His request was only realized when he sent Ulu Tarkhan (Hedagan \u5408\u9054\u5e72) to Emperor Muzong, who married off his sister Princess Yong'an (\u6c38\u5b89\u516c\u4e3b) in 821. However, the qaghan soon died after marriage. He was succeeded by his son Chongde Qaghan. Family. He had at least 4"}, {"text": "sons: Legacy. He is famous for commission of trilingual (Chinese, Old Turkic, Sogdian) Karabalgasun inscription in Ordu-Baliq."}, {"text": "2019\u201320 UAE Division one was the 44th Division one season. Team changes for the season include Al Bataeh who joined the league, while Hatta and Khor Fakkan was promoted to the UAE Pro League, while Dibba Al Fujairah and Emirates were relegated. However, the season was cancelled with 12 out of 14 UAE Pro League clubs voting in favour of cancelling the season and not a single division one club had a say on the matter. The decision was done due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Arab Emirates and no team were rewarded with promotion. Team changes. To Division 1. Relegated from UAE Pro League Joined From Division 1. Promoted to UAE Pro League Stadia and locations. <section begin=map /><section end=map /> \"Note:\"' Table lists clubs in alphabetical order."}, {"text": "Red Snow (Gwich\u02bcin: , Inuvialuktun: , ) is a 2019 Canadian war drama film, written and directed by Marie Clements. The film stars Asivak Koostachin as Dylan Nadazeau, a Gwich'in soldier serving in the Canadian Army during the War in Afghanistan, who is captured by the Taliban. The film's cast also includes Tantoo Cardinal, Samuel Marty, Michelle Thrush, Tarun Keram, Mozhdah Jamalzadah, Steven Cree Molison and Leela Gilday. The film was shot in 2018 in various locations in the Northwest Territories and British Columbia, including Yellowknife, Dettah, Kamloops, Whistler and Cache Creek. It includes dialogue in Gwich'in, Inuvialuktun, Pashto and English. The film premiered at the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Most Popular Canadian Film. It subsequently won the award for Best Canadian Feature at the Edmonton International Film Festival."}, {"text": "Pia Eleonore Rumler-Detzel (born 11 July 1934) is a German lawyer. In 1988, she became a member of the Federal Party of the CDU. In December 2004, she was elected as the first woman chair. She was the chairman of the medical confiscation senate at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne until her retirement."}, {"text": "LIG Quang Tri is a solar power plant built on the land of Gio Hai and Gio Thanh communes, Gio Linh district, Quang Tri province. The LIG Quang Tri solar power plant has an installed capacity of 49.5 MW. The annual electricity production produced by the power plant is expected to be 67.63 million kWh. Its construction started in August 2018, and it was completed in June 2019, and inaugurated the same month. The factory has an operating area of 58.6 hectares."}, {"text": "Octopus oliveri, is a species of octopus found in the western Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan, Hawaii, and Kermadec Island, in reefs and boulder coasts. It is a small species, roughly 70-260mm in length. Females will take longer to mate, the larger their body size. Afterwards, ~5000 eggs will hatch in about five weeks after being laid, and the male/female ratio seems unaffected by temperature. These eggs are laid in strings attached to a hard substrate."}, {"text": "The Univac Series 70 is an obsolete family of mainframe class computer systems from UNIVAC first introduced in 1973. In September 1971, the RCA Corporation announced that it was abandoning the computer industry and Sperry acquired RCA\u2019s Computer division. RCA had marketed the Spectra 70 Series (70/15, 70/25, 70/35, 70/45, 70/46, 70/55, 70/60, 70/61) that were compatible with the IBM System/360 series at the application level, and the RCA Series (RCA 2, 3, 6, 7) competing against the IBM System/370. In January 1972, Sperry took over the RCA customer base, offering the Spectra 70 and RCA Series computers as the UNIVAC Series 70. A number of the RCA customers continued with Sperry, and the UNIVAC Series 90 90/60 and 90/70 systems would provide an upgrade path for the customers with 70/45, 70/46, RCA 2 and 3 systems. In 1976, Sperry added the 90/80 at the top end of the Series 90 family, based on an RCA design, providing an upgrade path for the 70/60, 70/61, RCA 6 and 7 systems. The RCA base was very profitable for Sperry and the company was able to put together a string of 40 quarters of profit."}, {"text": "Joseph Blankson, also known as Joe Blankson (29 October 1979 \u2013 28 July 2018), was a Nigerian contractor who died while saving 13 victims of a boat accident on the Abonnema-Bakana waterway in Rivers State on 28 July 2018. Early life and career. Blankson was born in Bakana Degema, Rivers State, Nigeria on 29 October 1979, the second son of Elizabeth Blankson and her late husband. Blankson was a contractor working with an oil and gas company in Port Harcourt, where he supplied diesel. Boat accident. On Saturday 28 July 2018, the boat carrying 25 passengers left Abonnema Wharf for Bakana. Blankson and his sister were traveling to Bakana for a funeral. It was raining heavily during the boat's passage and the river was full of debris. Eventually the boat capsized. Blankson swam in and out of the river 13 times to rescue the passengers. Suffering from exhaustion, he drowned on the 14th rescue attempt. It was reported that Blankson was the only fatality in the boat accident. Personal life. Blankson met his wife Mercy Blankson, a Microbiology graduate, in 2012 at their NYSC camp in Obubra, Cross River State. They got married the following year and had three children,"}, {"text": "but lost one as a result of a fire accident on 25 December 2016. Death and legacy. Blankson's body was recovered a day later after the accident; he was buried the same day in the river according to customs over drowning. A service of songs in honour of the deceased was held and well attended. On 29 July 2019, The Joe Blankson Foundation and swimming academy was setup in his honour by his wife and family to teach swimming and safety procedures for maritime travel. Recognition. The senate president, Bukola Saraki and former vice president, Atiku Abubakar both tweeted about the incident, praising the heroic act of Blankson. The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike promised to support Blankson's family. On 2 October 2021, President Muhammad Buhari honored Blankson with the \"Presidential Special Award for Bravery and Patriotism\", which was presented to his wife and two children."}, {"text": "The 1985\u201386 Michigan State Spartans men's ice hockey team represented Michigan State University in college ice hockey. In its 7th year under head coach Ron Mason the team compiled a 34\u20139\u20132 record and reached the NCAA tournament for the eighth time in its history. The Spartans defeated Harvard 6\u20135 in the championship game at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island. Season. Michigan State entered the 1985\u201386 season looking for a bit of redemption. After winning the previous four conference tournament titles, but failing to make it past the national quarterfinals three times, Ron Mason was beginning to be pegged as a great coach who couldn't get his team over the hump. Though Michigan State lost its top three scorers from the year before they did return the goaltending tandem of Bob Essensa and Norm Foster who had helped the Spartans set a new NCAA record with 38 wins. With so few seniors on the squad, the captaincy went to junior defenseman Don McSween. While the roster was a little light on four-year players, Michigan State did bring in one of the most highly touted prospects in Joe Murphy along with 7 other freshmen who would see significant ice"}, {"text": "time with the Spartans. Early season struggles. MSU got off to a good start with a pair of road wins over Ohio State before splitting a home-and-home with a surging Western Michigan squad. After three wins and a tie against lesser programs, the Spartans took on arch-rival Michigan and split another home-and-home series. After a week of exhibition matches against the Canadian National Team MSU again split a weekend series and while their home record was stellar they had dropped to 3\u20133 on the road. That mark wasn't improved when they split another road series against the normally hapless Illinois\u2013Chicago and then dropped both road games against a good Lake Superior State team. The Spartans were able to recover a bit in the conference standings with a pair of home wins against the Buckeyes and lift their record to 11\u20136\u20131 before losing in their first non-conference game of the year to the former CCHA team Northern Michigan, their only home loss of the season. Great Lakes Invitational. Michigan State entered the Great Lakes Invitational having won the previous 3 years but the team was in need of a shock to the system to shake it out of its doldrums. They"}, {"text": "got just that when they were pushed to the limit in the semifinal by WCHA bottom-feeder Michigan Tech, escaping with a 2\u20131 win in overtime. The next night it was almost as if a different team hit the ice when the Spartans cruised to an 8\u20133 win in the championship over defending national champions Rensselaer. Don McSween was named MVP of the tournament. Charging up the standings. Michigan State had a good deal of ground to make up in the second half of their season and the kicked it off with a sweep of Western Michigan and Miami they were slowed down by Ferris State and Michigan who provided MSU with a tie and loss respectively, but the Spartans were buoyed by playing 7 of their final 8 games at home and they took every game to finish the season at 23\u20137\u20132 in CCHA play, one win ahead of both Western Michigan and Bowling Green. The biggest standout for the year was former walk-on Mike Donnelly who had amassed a huge number of goals and was beginning to draw attention from NHL scouts. CCHA tournament. The Spartans entered the CCHA tournament against Michigan and while the Wolverines had beaten MSU"}, {"text": "twice both had been in the Wolverine's arena and with Michigan State playing host the Spartans were able to drop Michigan in both games to take the quarterfinal series. Michigan State headed down the road to Detroit for the championship rounds, and faced stiff competition from lake Superior State but the Spartans edged out the Lakers 3\u20132 in overtime. In the championship game the following night MSU's offense, which finished second-best in the nation, failed them and they could only manage a single goal against Western Michigan's Bill Horn, ending their 4-year reign as CCHA tournament champion. NCAA tournament. Fortunately, the Spartans had played well enough over the course of the season to earn an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. They had played so well, in fact, that they were seeded ahead of Western Michigan and would play at home in the quarterfinal round. MSU used the massive home advantage they had to beat Boston College in both games and advance to the Frozen Four. In the semifinal MSU was met by perennial power Minnesota who had upset the top eastern seed Boston University in the quarters. Both teams were built around scoring and that fact shone through the"}, {"text": "game; Michigan State won the match 6\u20134 with Norm Foster turning aside 42 shots. With the win Michigan State made its first championship game in 20 years and only had Harvard left to stop them. Before the game had even started, however, MSU gained an advantage over the Crimson; Hobey Baker Award winner Scott Fusco had injured his knee in the other semifinal and couldn't play in the final. Despite missing their best player, Harvard got off to a fast start gaining a 2\u20130 lead by the 8-minute mark. MSU cut the lead in half at the end of the first but Allen Bourbeau scored his second goal of the night to give the Crimson their 2-goal lead back. Harvard's third goal was scored on just their seventh shot of the night and it looked as if the Spartans were outclassed. Not to be deterred, however, Jeff Parker cut the lead back to one with Bourbeau's third of the night coming 10 minutes later. Mike Donnelly scored his 58th goal of the season just before the end of the second to give MSU a fighting change in the final period. Sure enough MSU's offense came through when needed and two"}, {"text": "freshman found the back of the net before the three-minute mark to give the Spartans their first lead of the night. Harvard responded with the tying goal four minutes later and the two teams fought furiously to regain the lead. with just under three minutes to play Donnelly scored his second of the game to give MSU the lead and the Spartans held on to win the national championship. Awards and honors. Mike Donnelly was awarded the Tournament MOP and was joined by Norm Foster, Don McSween and Jeff Parker on the All-Tournament Team. Donnelly was also named to the AHCA All-American West First Team while McSween was named to the Second Team. Donnelly and McSween both made it onto the All-CCHA First Team while Bob Essensa made the Second team. Joe Murphy was awarded the CCHA Rookie of the Year and would become the first college player to be take first overall in the NHL Entry Draft. Murphy was joined by 12 of his teammates from the 1985\u201386 Spartans, an astounding number of NHL players for a college team. Mike Donnelly's 59 goals was the highest total scored since the NCAA created Division I in 1973. Only Phil Latreille"}, {"text": "has scored more in a season, doing so in the early 1960s, before there were any divisions in college ice hockey. Rick Tosto became the first player in NCAA history to win national titles with two separate teams. After winning with Renssealer in 1985 he transferred closer to his home of Dearborn Heights, Michigan and won with the Spartans. Schedule. !colspan=12 style=\"color:white; background:#007A53\" | Regular Season !colspan=12 style=\"color:white; background:#007A53\" | !colspan=12 style=\"color:white; background:#007A53\" | !colspan=12 style=\"color:white; background:#007A53\" |"}, {"text": "DD cream is a marketing term that followed the invention of BB creams and CC creams, and it often stands for dynamic do-all or daily defense. There is no quantifiable definition of a DD cream that distinguishes it from BB or CC creams. Its definition in fashion media channels varies: for example, it is sometimes described as a BB/CC hybrid with additional anti-aging properties, or as combining \"the protection properties of a BB cream and the colour correcting properties of a CC cream.\" Like BB and CC creams, DD creams contain SPF, anti-aging, and moisturizing ingredients, and differences between them and the BB and CC variants differ from brand to brand. History. Beginning in 2012, companies began releasing a number of DD creams, calling them \"daily defense\" creams for your body with a focus on anti-aging properties."}, {"text": "Milan Pavlovi\u0107 may refer to:"}, {"text": "Love Trip is the debut studio album by American country music singer Jerry Kilgore. It was released on September 21, 1999 through Virgin Records. Content. \"Love Trip\" charted three singles on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs charts: \"Love Trip\" spent 20 weeks on the charts in late 1999, peaking at number 36. After it came \"The Look\" at number 49, and \"Cactus in a Coffee Can\" at number 73. Reba McEntire later covered \"Cactus in a Coffee Can\" on her 2019 album \"Stronger Than the Truth\". Critical reception. William Ruhlmann of AllMusic stated that the album \"has been so carefully calibrated to current commercial notions of Nashville success that its real strengths are nearly obscured.\" He thought that \"All Hell's Breakin' Loose\" and \"Cactus in a Coffee Can\" were the strongest songs for showing the most country sound. Production. All track information and credits were taken from the CD liner notes."}, {"text": "The National Guard () is part of the Hellenic Army and are voluntary corps, mainly located in areas near the frontiers, consisted of trained and armed volunteer men (and since 2019 women). Historical background. The first unit in the Greek army with the name of \"National Guard\" was established in 1843 during the early reign of Otto of Greece. It was a voluntary unit, and consisted of men 18-24 years old. Much later, in 1948, during the Greek Civil War were established the National Guard Defence Battalions (TEA), with a strongly anticommunist orientation. Their mission was supporting the regular Hellenic Army in national defence and internal security. Present form. Due to their hard-line right-wing orientation, the TEA were disestablished in 1982 by the government of Andreas Papandreou, and replaced with the National Guard."}, {"text": "Karim Hassan Brohi (born 28 August 1968) is a British surgeon who is currently the clinical director of the London Major Trauma Network, Professor of Trauma Sciences at Queen Mary University of London and a Consultant vascular and trauma surgeon for Barts Health NHS Trust at the Royal London Hospital. Early life. Brohi was born on 28 August 1968 in London to Ali Hassan Brohi and Philomena Brohi. He attended the Forest School in London and received a dual degree from University College London, obtaining both a BSc in Computer Science and an MB BS Medicine. Professor Brohi trained in general surgery and anaesthesia, and holds Fellowships of both the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. He completed specialist training in general and vascular surgery in London, and gained additional experience in trauma surgery in Cape Town and San Francisco, where he completed a trauma and critical care surgery fellowship. He has extensive prehospital experience as both a Doctor on London\u2019s Air Ambulance and subsequently as the Clinical Director Career. Karim Brohi is a Professor of Trauma Sciences and founding director of the Centre for Trauma Sciences, and Director"}, {"text": "of the pan-faculty Crisis Prevention, Management and Recovery Network. He is a consultant trauma and vascular surgeon at the Royal London Major Trauma Centre, part of Barts Health NHS Trust; and director of the London Major Trauma System for NHS England. He is also a Non-Executive Director of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Professor Brohi founded the MSc in Trauma Sciences programme at the Centre for Trauma Sciences. Beginning in 2011, the programme now has hundreds of alumni around the world. Professor Brohi continues to deliver trauma education through online media as well as being invited keynote speaker at many events worldwide. Medical Research and Advancement Professor Brohi\u2019s own research has focused on the human biological response to being injury, and especially critical bleeding and its consequences. His work on failure of blood clotting after injury has led to a dramatic change in the management of bleeding over the past decade, reducing mortality by over 40%, and has been incorporated into national and international guidelines worldwide. Professor Brohi coined the term 'acute traumatic coagulopathy' to describe how coagulopathy caused by traumatic injury results in more severe bleeding and organ failure. Professor Brohi was instrumental in the development of the"}, {"text": "London Major Trauma System in 2010, and has been its clinical director since 2016. The London Major Trauma System is recognised around the world as being one of the most effective, equitable and advanced systems in the world delivering population-based injury care to over 15 million people across 35 trauma units, 4 major trauma centres and several regional prehospital care services. Systems restructuring, research and innovation across the system has led to a 50% reduction in mortality for all injured patients in the last decade. The system also provides major incident responses for mass casualty and terrorist events across London, and Professor Brohi has personally managed several incidents including a surgical commander for the London terror attacks in 2017. In 2018 Professor Brohi received the American Heart Association\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award for Resuscitation Research for this work. He has led multiple national and international phase IIa, IIb and III clinical trials, and he has received funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and UKRI, Barts Charity, Rosetrees Charity and several commercial partners in the diagnostic, therapeutic and device industries."}, {"text": "is a 2019 documentary film directed, edited, and co-written by Graham Kolbeins. The documentary profiles a range of individuals in Japan who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ). \"Queer Japan\" is produced by Hiromi Iida with Anne Ishii, written by Ishii and Kolbeins, and features an original score composed by Geotic (a stage name of Will Wiesenfeld, also known as Baths). Synopsis and cast. \"Queer Japan\" is an ensemble film that profiles a range of artists, academics, community organizers, and activists who are members of the LGBTQ community in Japan. Kolbeins has described the film as \"a series of character studies,\" rather than an issue-focused documentary. Over one hundred interviews were conducted for \"Queer Japan\" over the course of four years, with interviews conducted in Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Gunma, and Okinawa. Subjects are listed alphabetically by last name: Rokudenashiko was interviewed for \"Queer Japan\", though she does not appear in the film's final cut. Production. Kolbeins conceived of \"Queer Japan\" in 2011 while traveling to Japan to research two books he co-edited with Anne Ishii and Chip Kidd: \"The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame\", the first English-language publication of works by Gengoroh Tagame, and \"\", the first English-language"}, {"text": "anthology of gay manga. The books led Kolbeins and Ishii to found Massive Goods, a fashion brand and manga publisher that works with LGBTQ artists in Japan. As Kolbeins met LGBTQ artists and individuals through his work with Massive, he began to produce a documentary to highlight their stories, stating that he wished to \"give a voice to the everyday experiences of queer people without sensationalizing them. I want to meet people who are living examples of resisting patriarchy and dismantling heteronormativity, but also those who are simply bravely living their lives in an honest and unabashed way.\" In 2015, Kolbeins traveled to Japan to shoot a pre-production trailer for the film. Production of \"Queer Japan\" was crowdfunded through a Kickstarter campaign launched by Kolbeins on February 11, 2016; the campaign would go on to raise $47,193. The film's production and post-production would ultimately be funded through a combination of Kickstarter pledges, a GoFundMe, and a fellowship from the Japan-US Friendship Fund. Release. In-progress previews of \"Queer Japan\" were screened at the International House of Japan in Tokyo on May 10, 2016, and at Japan Society in New York on March 31, 2017. The film was an official selection for"}, {"text": "Rainbow Reel Tokyo, where it had its world premiere on July 15, 2019. The film has also screened at Outfest, Reel Affirmations, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, the Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, the Camera Japan Festival, the Seattle Queer Film Festival, the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, the Beijing Queer Film Festival, the Ljubljana LGBT Film Festival, and the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. On October 22, 2019, Altered Innocence acquired North American distribution rights for \"Queer Japan\". The film was released on video on demand on December 11, 2020. Reception. Reviews of \"Queer Japan\" have been favorable. \"The Hollywood Reporter\" called the film \"an engagingly colorful panorama,\" noting that the film is \"impressionistic rather than highly structured\" in its focus on individuals rather than the broader historical and political context of LGBT rights in Japan. Owen Gleiberman shared a similar sentiment in his review of \"Queer Japan\" for \"Variety\", praising the film but noting that it \"often feels like an extended public-service announcement [...] the legacy of homosexual life in Japan comes with its own traditions and iconic figures. I wish that \"Queer Japan\" had delved more into historical matters of fashion"}, {"text": "and androgyny.\""}, {"text": "The 2020 Big Ten men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big Ten Conference of the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The tournament remained in its more traditional Midwest roots as it was held at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. The first round games on March 11 were played with spectators in attendance. Later on March 11, the Big Ten conference announced that the remainder of the Big Ten tournament would proceed as scheduled but with no spectators in attendance due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Also on March 11, the NCAA announced that no fans would be able to attend the men's and women's 2020 NCAA tournament games due to concerns about the outbreak of COVID-19. A number of college conferences followed suit by either cancelling their basketball tournaments entirely or limiting spectator attendance. On March 12, the Big Ten announced the cancellation of the remainder of the tournament. The NCAA further announced that all remaining winter and spring championships for both men's and women's sports were canceled due to the pandemic. Seeds. All 14 Big Ten schools were scheduled to participate in the tournament. Teams were seeded by"}, {"text": "conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The top 10 teams received a first round bye and the top four teams received a double bye. Tiebreaking procedures remained unchanged from the 2019 tournament. See also. 2020 Big Ten Conference women's basketball tournament"}, {"text": "My Old Kentucky Home is a lost 1922 American silent drama film directed by Ray C. Smallwood and starring Monte Blue, Julia Swayne Gordon, and Frank Currier. Plot. As described in a film magazine, Richard Goodloe (Blue), son of a proud Southern widow (Gordon), has been released from prison where he served two years after being railroaded by another crook, and returns to his home in Kentucky. En route he meets his former sweetheart Virginia Sanders (Holmquist). His mother has entered their horse Dixie in the derby and the family fortune is at stake. In one of the fastest races ever run, Dixie wins. Mrs. Goodloe accepts the hand of Colonel Sanders (Currier), and, after \"Con\" Arnold (Carewe) is exposed as a criminal, Virginia declares her love for Richard."}, {"text": "Luhr or Luhrs may refer to:"}, {"text": "Mary A. Aston (c. 1836 \u2013 March 27, 1913) served as an army nurse during the American Civil War. After the war, she was active in several national and Philadelphia organizations supporting veterans' causes. Early life. Mary A. Aston was born in about 1836, in Pennsylvania. Career. Aston served in the Philadelphia Volunteer Corps of Army Nurses from 1862 to 1865. \"My husband was sickly and unable to go to war and we decided that one of us at any rate should do something for our country,\" she explained many years later. She worked at the Citizens' Volunteer Hospital in Philadelphia, alongside surgeon R. S. Kenderdine. She became deaf after a cannon exploded close to her. Later in life Aston was financial secretary of the National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War. She was also an officer in the Memorial Association of Philadelphia, a women's organization that raised funds for headstones and other monuments for Union Army veterans. She was a member of the Philadelphia Army Nurses' Association. Personal life. Aston's husband, Samuel Aston, died during the war, in August 1864. She died in 1913, aged 77 years, in Philadelphia."}, {"text": "Vicky Velingkar is an Indian Marathi-language thriller film directed by Saurabh Verma and produced by Anuya Chauhan Kudecha, Ritesh Kudecha, Sachin Lokhande and Atul Tarkar under the banner of Dancing Shiva, GSEAMS, Loki's Studio and Pranay Chokshi. The film is bankrolled by Arjun Singgh Baran and Kartk D Nishandar. The film stars Sonalee Kulkarni in title role of 'Vicky Velingkar', who is a comic book artist and a clock seller. She gets entangled in an unexpected mystery and rises against all odds. The film also features Spruha Joshi in pivotal role. \"Vicky Velingkar\" was released theatrically on 6 December 2019. Plot. Vicky is a young lady who is staying with her Granny in Mumbai and runs a watch store from her home. She has a friend Lucky who loves her, but she is in a relationship with another guy. Lucky is a skilful hacker but does not misuse his skills. One day she gets a call from a cop who informs her that she should immediately visit her friend Shrusti's home. Shrusti is a brilliant scientist and Vicky is very fond of her and calls her \"Rocket Tai\". Vicky has also written a comics book for her with the same"}, {"text": "title. Vicky tries calling Shrusti, but no one answers. In a panic, she gets a cab to her place. On the way she notices specifics incidents like guys fighting, kids playing, etc. When she reaches the place, the cop informs her that Shrusti has committed suicide by shooting herself. There she meets Vidya, a neighbour of Shrusti. Vicky does not agree because her laptop is missing. She calls Lucky to inform him of Shruti's death and he tells her that he received a cryptic email from Shrusti just before she died. He is sitting at an abandoned construction site, a place of party her boyfriend had earlier decided for. She meets him there and Lucky tells Vicky that someone is following him and they should first escape to a safer place. As they are about to leave, they sense a stranger chasing them. After a brief chase, they are both shot dead by a stranger with a fearsome mask. Next, we see Vicky waking up at her home in the same situation at the beginning of this sequence. She thinks of it as a bad dream. She then receives a call from the same cop and the same sequence of"}, {"text": "events reoccur right from the cab driver to the crime scene. She thinks of Deja Vu and tries to alert Lucky. She cannot reach him because of bad network and decides to visit him. She tries to alert him, but again suffers the same fate and both are shot dead by the same stranger. Again she wakes up at her home in the same position at the beginning of this sequence. Vicky is confused as these events repeat like a loop and every time she tries to avert the killings she is rendered unsuccessful. In the 6th iteration, she decides she would not answer the call and meets Lucky at a cafe instead and tells him about these events. Lucky tries to associate these events with Shrusti's death and start looking for a clue. He finds that Vicky is wearing the same watch that was with Shrusti earlier and concludes that this watch has some relation with these events. Later they visit the cop and narrate to him everything. The cop does not believe her, but she predicts the fate of an ongoing match correctly which forces the cop to believe her. He visits with them to the construction site"}, {"text": "to catch the masked stranger. After a few minutes of chaos, the masked stranger appears and they are both killed again. In the subsequent iteration, Vicky concludes runs through events of the last iteration for clues and figures out that the cop is the stranger. Later both visit the home of Shrusti and enter after the cops leave. They are searching for clues and finally find a recorded message by Shrusti. In the message she tells Vicky that the watch has put her in a time loop and every time she dies, she would be sent back to the beginning of the loop, but this can happen for 10 iterations. After the message, they run into the stranger and Vicky identifies him. With this, the stranger removes his mask and it is revealed that it is indeed the same cop. However, both die again. In between, she tries to change her fate but reaches the last iteration unsuccessful. She decides to do a live recording of the event as the only way to change her fate and tells Lucky and her granny not to worry about her and leaves alone. She asks Vidya to record her live session and places"}, {"text": "herself as bait for the cop. On confrontation with him, she tells him that he is on a live streaming event. It seems that the cop has finally given up, but suddenly she is hit on her head from behind. Later we see Vicky is tied up and Vidya revealed to be the mastermind of this whole event. She spied on Shrusti for months and finally discovers what she has achieved. She asks the cop who is her boyfriend to threaten her and recover the watch from her. The cop losses his patience in between and ends up shooting Shrusti. In this case, only Vicky knows that this is her last iteration but plays on their mind. She tells them in her previous iteration she saw the cop shooting dead Vidya. Vidya is led to believe this because the cop is trigger happy person and she shoots him dead. Vicky tells Vidya that killing her would be futile as she would be transported back to the beginning of the sequence and now that her face is exposed in this iteration she would stay away from her in the future. In case she gets the watch in the next iteration she"}, {"text": "still doesn't know how to use it. Vicky smartly talks Vidya into shooting herself to use the watch. Vidya shoots herself dead and Vicky unties her and returns home. Release. The film was released theatrically on 6 December 2019."}, {"text": "Octopus pallidus, the pale octopus, is a species of octopus in Oceania. Immediately after hatching, the pale octopus forages, primarily on bivalves. At night it hides in rubble to surprise prey. Female maturation is dependent on age as well as season. Both sexes can distinguish vertical from horizontal rectangles, and gradient greys from each other and uniform grey. This species has been studied by scientists trying to determine octopus ages by stylets and pigment."}, {"text": "Opeloge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Adam Hepburn, Lord Humbie MP (c.1600\u20131656) was a 17th-century Scottish judge, politician, soldier and Senator of the College of Justice. A strong Royalist during the English Civil War, he was acquainted by both Charles I and Charles II. Life. He was the only child of Rev Adam Hepburn (died 1602), minister of Stobo Kirk, and his wife, Agnes Foulis of Colinton. On the death of his father he inherited the estate of Humbie south-west of Haddington. Given his young age this would have been placed in trust until he reached the age of majority (then 21). There are seven mansion houses in the parish of Humbie but it is presumed his house was Humbie House, east of the village. He trained as a lawyer and in June 1640 was appointed clerk to the Committee of Estates. In November 1641 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice under the title of Lord Humbie. He was knighted by King Charles I of England in 1641 and served as MP for Haddington in 1643. In the same year (during the English Civil War) in August, he was appointed Collector General and Treasurer of the British Army (for the King). In"}, {"text": "1646/47 he served as Colonel in Chief of the East Lothian Infantry under General Leslie in the Covenanter's Army. Following the Civil War, at the Restoration, Hepburn was on the committee organising the Scottish coronation of Charles II on the Stone of Destiny at Scone Palace in 1650. In 1651 he was created a Burgess of Dundee with several other prominent figures (as a political gesture). He was captured with his son and others, by Cromwell's troops under Col. Aldriche, two months later at Alyth and spent some years as a prisoner in the Tower of London. He was released and permitted to return to Scotland around 1655. Adam Hepburn died in June 1656. Family. He married his cousin, and mother's namesake, Agnes Foulis, in December 1629. They had at least 13 children. His eldest daughter Janet Hepburn married Sir James Dundas, Lord Arniston. His son Thomas (1631-1668) married Elizabeth Johnston, the daughter of Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston."}, {"text": "Henro Janse van Rensburg (born 5 January 1998) is a South African cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 17 October 2019, for North West in the 2019\u201320 CSA 3-Day Provincial Cup. He made his List A debut on 20 October 2019, for North West in the 2019\u201320 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge."}, {"text": "Bradley Lynch (born 8 December 1997) is a South African cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 17 October 2019, for North West in the 2019\u201320 CSA 3-Day Provincial Cup. He made his List A debut on 20 October 2019, for North West in the 2019\u201320 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge."}, {"text": "Nicholas Smit (born 24 February 1993) is a South African cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 17 October 2019, for North West in the 2019\u201320 CSA 3-Day Provincial Cup, scoring 153 runs in the first innings. He made his List A debut on 20 October 2019, for North West in the 2019\u201320 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge, where he also scored a century."}, {"text": "The 2018\u201319 season of the Scottish Basketball Championship Women, the national women's basketball league of Scotland. Format. Each team plays each other twice, once home, once away, for a total of 16 games. Results. Playoffs. Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final Scottish Cup. 1st Round Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final"}, {"text": "Hamazasp Danielyan (; born 15 November 1984) is an Armenian political figure and a current Member of Parliament. Danielyan is a member of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, as well as the chair of Armenia-Slovakia parliamentary friendship group. Danielyan is the co-ordinator of the Parliamentary Working Group on Electoral Reform, tasked with making amendments to the Armenian Electoral Code. In 2018, he also served on a Prime Minister's Special Commission on Electoral Reform, which brought forward a number of amendments that ultimately failed to pass in Parliament, which, at that time, was still dominated by the Republican Party of Armenia. Education and professional career. Danielyan graduated from Yerevan State University in 2006, with a degree in Political Science. In 2009, he defended his PhD thesis on the influence of external political factors on Armenia's democratization process. Between 2009 and 2017 he taught as a lecturer at Yerevan State University in the areas of political science, public administration, diaspora studies, and journalism. From 2016 and up until his election as a member of National Assembly, Danielyan serves as the Adviser to Programmes in Armenia of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and focal point in country. Since 2014 member of International Political Science Association (IPSA),"}, {"text": "participant of 23rd IPSA World Congress in Montreal (2014), 24th IPSA World Congress in Poznan (2016). Political career. Following the 2018 Armenian revolution, during the early elections that took place on December 9, 2018, Danielyan was included on the My Step Alliance national party list, occupying the 66th position. He became one of the 88 My Step MPs elected to the National Assembly, taking office in January 2019."}, {"text": "St Chrysostom's Church may refer to:"}, {"text": "The following is a list of squads for each national team competing at the 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship. The tournament took place in Thailand, between 27 October\u20139 November 2019. It was the 10th U-19 age group competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation. Players born between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2004 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team had to register a squad of minimum 16 players and maximum 23 players, minimum two of whom must have been goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 24.1 and 24.2). The full squad listings are below. Group A. Thailand. Coach: Arun Tulwattanangkul The final squad was named on 15 October 2019. North Korea. Coach: Song Sung-gwon Australia. Coach: Leah Blayney The final squad was named on 15 October 2019. Vietnam. Coach: Akira Ijiri The preliminary squad was named on 6 October 2019. The final squad was announced on 21 October 2019. Group B. Japan. Coach: Futoshi Ikeda The final squad was named on 3 October 2019. China PR. Coach: Park Tae-ha The final squad was announced on 27 October 2019. South Korea. Coach: Hur Jung-jae The final squad was announced on 27 October 2019. Myanmar. Coach: Thet Thet Win The final"}, {"text": "squad was announced on 22 October 2019."}, {"text": "Yulianto is an Indonesian name. Notable people with the name include:"}, {"text": "Ryan Klein (born 15 June 1997) is a South African-born Dutch cricketer. He has played for the Netherlands national cricket team since 2021. He is a right-arm fast-medium bowler. Personal life. Klein was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He holds a Dutch passport through descent. His younger brother Kyle represented the Netherlands national under-19 cricket team at the 2019 ICC U19 Cricket World Cup Europe Qualifier. Domestic career. Klein made his first-class debut on 17 October 2019, for Western Province in the 2019\u201320 CSA 3-Day Provincial Cup. He made his List A debut on 27 October 2019, for Western Province in the 2019\u201320 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge. In the Netherlands, Klein has played Topklasse cricket for HBS Craeyenhout and Voorburg Cricket Club. International career. In May 2021, Klein was named in the Netherlands' A squad for their tour of Ireland. In January 2022, Klein was named in the Dutch One Day International (ODI) squad for their series against Afghanistan in Qatar. He made his ODI debut on 23 January 2022, for the Netherlands against Afghanistan. The following month, he was named in the Dutch Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for their tour of New Zealand. In August 2022, Klein was"}, {"text": "again named in the Dutch T20I squad, this time for a home series also against New Zealand. He made his T20I debut on 4 August 2022 against New Zealand."}, {"text": "V. T. Nathan (3 November 1937 - 4 February 2017) JMN, KMN, FRSPL, was a Malaysian lawyer and philatelist. Early life. V. T. Nathan was born in Seremban on 3 November 1937 in Negeri Sembilan. Career. Nathan practised as a lawyer. Philately. Nathan was a specialist in the stamps and postal history of the Straits Settlements. In 1995 his collection won a gold medal at the stamp exhibition in Singapore and at the FIAP International Malpex exhibition in 1997 he won a large gold medal and a National Grand Prix award. In 2000 he won a large gold medal at Indepex and the Grand Prix International. He was the president of the Philatelic Society of Malaysia. Death. Nathan died on 4 February 2017."}, {"text": "Tshireletso is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "The Mortuary Collection is a 2019 American horror anthology film written and directed by Ryan Spindell. It stars Clancy Brown, Caitlin Custer, Christine Kilmer, Jacob Elordi, Barak Hardley, Sarah Hay, Mike C. Nelson, and V Nixie. The film had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2019. It was released on Shudder on October 15, 2020. Plot. Frame story, part 1. In the small island town of Raven's End in the 1980s, mortician Montgomery Dark manages the Raven's End Mortuary. One day, a young woman named Sam shows curiosity about a small child-sized coffin which Montgomery has recently performed a funeral for. She then reveals that she has actually come to respond to the Help Wanted sign outside. He agrees to give her an interview and takes her on a tour of the facility. Montgomery agrees to tell Sam a series of stories about those that have died in Raven's End. Segment 1. In the 1950s, a young woman named Emma goes to the restroom during a party to check on the wallets she's pickpocketed while attending. However, the bathroom medicine cabinet piques her curiosity, and she tries to open it but is unable to. When she pries"}, {"text": "it open, she finds a tentacled monster inside, and is killed by it. The monster drags Emma's lifeless body into the cabinet and shuts it, then extends a tentacle out to switch off the lights. Segment 2: \"Unprotected\". In the 1960s, frat boy Jake passes out condoms on campus, preaching the value of sexual liberation as an excuse to get girls to come to frat parties and sleep with the members of his fraternity. However, upon making a connection with a woman named Sandra at a party, he secretly removes his condom while having sex with her. The next morning, he finds himself with a rash and goes to the campus doctor, Dr. Harold Kubler, for help. Jake discovers to his horror that he has a creature growing inside his stomach. He attempts to meet with Sandra but is caught in a surprise celebration by his fraternity buddies for sleeping with 67 women. They let him go when his water breaks and covers the group with discolored ooze. At Sandra's house, Jake is laid down on a table by Sandra's parents to help him birth his baby. Sandra is angered when Jake admits that he took his condom off, resulting"}, {"text": "in his anomalous pregnancy, showing no sympathy when he whimpers about how he used to be bullied for being fat. She makes a phone call to another man, saying she is now free to go on a date with him, and callously leaves Jake with her parents. When Jake asks how they will get the baby out, Sandra's mother tells him that the only way the baby can come out is the same way it got in. As the baby is forcing its way out, Jake's penis explodes, ripping open his abdomen, killing him. Sandra's mother takes the monstrous baby upstairs and lays it in a crib in a room full of other monstrous children. Segment 3: \"Till Death\". In the 1970s, Wendell Owens is depressed and devoted to taking care of his catatonic wife Carol. Forced to plan his life around her, he responds positively to his doctor, Dr. Kubler's, suggestion that he \"accidentally\" overdose Carol on painkillers. However, when he tries to give them to her, she grabs his arm, then chokes on the food the pills are hidden in, forcing him to help her throw them up. When she collapses afterward, she impales her head on a"}, {"text": "figurine and dies. Wendell calls Dr. Kubler for help, but is only told to get rid of the body. He dismembers the corpse amid hallucinations of it being alive again, then packs it into a \u201cbridal chest\u201d and takes it to his apartment building elevator. On his way down, the elevator gets stuck and Wendell's neighbor calls the police as he hallucinates blood leaking from the chest. The elevator seems to start again and go infinitely down as Carol's body rises from the trunk in the form of a horrific ghoul and forces Wendell into a kiss. When the police arrive, they find Wendell on the floor of the elevator, driven mad and repeating his wedding vows over and over with the corpse still in the box. Frame story, part 2. Sam complains that Montgomery's stories, however true they may be, are too predictable and follow a theme of people being punished for their sins. Montgomery leads Sam down to the mortuary subbasement and prepares to cremate the child-size coffin; Sam stops him and tells him she's not here for a job - she's here for the dead child. She tells him her own story. Segment 4: \"The Babysitter Murders\"."}, {"text": "One evening, Sam babysits for a child named Logan Kubler. She watches a horror movie as she cooks dinner but misses a news bulletin about an escaped patient from the local asylum. She then finds a strange man with a head wound in the house; not sure how he got in, Sam is uncertain about how to react until the phone rings and she hears an answering machine message about the escaped killer. This prompts her and the strange man to fight, the man charging upstairs to try to find Logan. After a series of encounters, the man tries to strangle Sam but she stops him by telling him he isn't a killer. Sobbing, he agrees and releases her, only for her to then throw him down the stairs and drop a TV on his head, crushing it. When Logan's parents - Dr. Kubler and his wife Debra - come home, they find the dead man and recognize him as the real Sam as the broken television reveals that the woman claiming to be Sam is in fact the escaped patient, Charlotte Gibbons, a child murderer called the Boggy Bay Tooth Fairy who cannibalizes children and takes their deciduous teeth"}, {"text": "as trinkets. They soon find Logan's remains charred in the oven and scream in horror. Frame story, part 3. As Charlotte finishes her story, she uses her buck knife to remove a tooth from Logan's remains, not having had the chance to do so when she killed him. She then stabs Montgomery in the stomach, reaffirming her belief that bad people win in the real world. However, Montgomery - who appears to bleed embalming fluid - simply laughs, telling her that the job is now hers. Charlotte attempts to escape the mortuary, but finds herself unable to do so via a supernatural force that sends her back into the mortuary entrance. Montgomery corners her in the library and explains that he was never able to leave either, and how being trapped and cursed to be the house's mortician made him realize how stories remind people that one's actions have repercussions. Charlotte angrily declares that she decides how her story ends, but Montgomery replies that it is \"just beginning\" as certain books fall from the shelves. The charred spirits of her child victims crawl out of the fallen library books and tear Charlotte apart, also reclaiming the teeth she took from"}, {"text": "them. Montgomery sews Charlotte's body back together and replaces her blood with embalming fluid. Finally he finds himself able to leave the mortuary for the first time after several decades. However, after a moment in sunlight, he ages rapidly and explodes into dust. Charlotte's body reanimates inside the mortuary and a final scene shows that she has now become the new mortician, as she tells a boy named Bill, who was earlier seen delivering newspapers, that she is about to start \u201cmaking dinner.\u201d Production. Spindell's 22-minute short film \"The Babysitter Murders\" (2015) was featured in \"The Mortuary Collection\", as one of the segments. Release. The film had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2019. It was released on Shudder on October 15, 2020. Reception. On the 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, \"The rare anthology that maintains a consistently high level of quality, \"The Mortuary Collection\" is a must-see undertaking for horror fans.\""}, {"text": "Chongde Qaghan or K\u00fc\u00e7l\u00fcg Bilge Qaghan was the ninth ruler of Uyghurs. His personal name is not known, therefore he is often referred as his Tang dynasty invested title Chongde (Chinese: \u5d07\u5fb7\u53ef\u6c57; literally: 'Honoring virtue') which was invested on 26 May 821. Reign. Upon his accession, he sent a delegation including a number of officials and two Uyghur princesses, along with a bride price of horses and camels to Muzong in order to seek a Tang Princess. Muzong agreed and sent Princess Taihe with a grand delegation. She was escorted by the general Hu Zheng (\u80e1\u8a3c), assisted by the other officials Li Xian (\u674e\u61b2) and Yin You (\u6bb7\u4f91). They did not arrive at Uyghur capital until 822. Princess Taihe was later created Renxiao Duanli Mingzhi Shangshou Khatun (\u4eba\u5c0f\u6934\u9ece\u660e\u4e4b\u4e0a\u9996\u53ef\u6566) by Muzong. He was visited by Muslim traveller Tamim ibn Bahr after his marriage. According to Tamim's notes, he had a personal army of 12000 with 17 subordinates each having 13000 soldiers. He died in 824 and was succeeded by his brother Zhaoli Qaghan. Family. He had at least 5 sons:"}, {"text": "Wingspan is a board game designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and published by Stonemaier Games in 2019. It is a card-driven, board game in which players compete to attract birds to their wildlife reserves. During the game's development process, Hargrave constructed personal charts of birds observed in Maryland, with statistics sourced from various biological databases; the special powers of birds were also selected to resemble real-life characteristics. Upon its release, \"Wingspan\" received critical and commercial acclaim for its gameplay, accurate thematic elements, and artwork. The game also won numerous awards, including the 2019 Kennerspiel des Jahres. Several expansions and a digital edition have been subsequently published. Gameplay. In \"Wingspan\", players spend food resources to add birds, which are represented by 170 individually illustrated cards, to the forest, prairie, and wetland habitats on their player boards. Each habitat is associated with a different player action: gaining food resources to pay for birds, laying eggs on birds, or drawing cards. Over the course of four rounds, players take turns activating the habitats on their player boards or adding new birds. As birds are added to a habitat, the basic action of gaining food, laying eggs, or drawing cards associated with that habitat is"}, {"text": "improved. Additionally, some birds have special abilities that are activated when a player uses their habitat. At the end of the game, players score points for the birds on their board, objectives achieved during each round and throughout the game, eggs accumulated, food stored on cards, and cards stored under cards. The player with the most points wins. Development. \"Wingspan\" was designed by Elizabeth Hargrave, a health consultant in Silver Spring, an amateur birder, and a former policy analyst for NORC at the University of Chicago. The game was inspired by Hargrave's visits to Lake Artemesia near her home in Maryland. Hargrave stated that she selected the theme because \"there were too many games about castles and space, and not enough games about things I'm interested in\". During her visits, she would create personal charts of the birds she observed there, with the size of the dataset reaching 596 rows by 100 columns. The special powers afforded by the birds in the game closely resemble the unique characteristics of the actual birds documented by Hargrave's efforts, with statistics on the diet, habitat, status, and wingspan of birds sourced from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the IUCN Red List, and National"}, {"text": "Audubon Society. Hargrave pitched the concept for \"Wingspan\" to Stonemaier Games in 2016, a company from St. Louis which had previously published \"Viticulture\" and \"Scythe.\" The game concept for \"Wingspan\" interested Jamey Stegmaier, president of Stonemaier Games, who stated that \"[there's] something about birds that instantly captures a human desire to collect, sort, and admire\". Stegmaier also praised the engine building mechanism, describing that \"[the] key for me wasn\u2019t the birds, but the satisfying feeling of collecting beautiful things\". The game's artwork, which included 170 cards, was hand-drawn by Ana Maria Martinez Jaramillo, Natalia Rojas, and Beth Sobel. Reception. Critical reviews. \"Wingspan\" received widespread acclaim upon release. The game's action system was praised by Matt Thrower from \"IGN\", who described it as \"an excruciating balance between adding birds, feeding them and scoring points\". The review also positively commented on the game's replayability as each bird card is unique. Stuart West from \"Nature\" agreed, noting the replay value of each game due to the unique powers of the bird cards and bonus cards. The strategic decisions for the game were also praised. The diverse interconnections of the bird abilities were commented on by Dan Kois from \"Slate\", which stated that the"}, {"text": "birds were \"knitted together into a web of complex, mutually beneficial relationships\" as the game progresses. Similarly, Angela Chuang from \"Science\" described the engine building mechanisms as \"compelling\", and their resemblance to community ecology. Writing for the \"New Scientist\", Dino Motti listed Wingspan as one of the nine best science-themed board games and described the game as containing \"hundreds of beautifully illustrated bird cards with special abilities that synergise as they inhabit a range of environments\". \"Wingspan's\" accessibility was strongly praised, with Saif Al-Azzawi of the \"Los Angeles Times\" commenting on the game's accessibility, stating that it \"strikes the perfect balance between strategy and ease\". \"The Guardian\", in a review of STEM-based games, noted the game's accessibility, stating that \"it deserves to be a hit\". The game's theme was positively received as increasing accessibility, with Kois noting its appeal with a wide variety of demographics. Stuart West and Aaron Zimmerman from \"Ars Technica\" also praised the game's accessibility. The component quality of \"Wingspan\" and its theme were well received. Stuart West described it as \"an obvious labour of love\", describing the egg components as \"dainty, pastel-hued\" and the bird cards as \"superbly drawn\". \"Vox\" reviewer Brian Anderson praised the quality,"}, {"text": "describing the art as \"field guide-caliber illustrations\" and praised the \"tactile elements\" of the birdhouse. Similarly, Zimmerman praised the components and artwork as \"lavishly produced\". \"The New York Times\" also complimented the game's illustrations and components, including the pastel eggs, which was described as \"enticing as Jordan almonds\", and the birdhouse. The game's theme was described to \"flow elegantly from the biology\" by \"Nature\" and \"committed to scientific integrity\" according to Brian Anderson who also commented on the game's use of well-known bird guides and of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology database. In \"The New York Times\", Siobhan Roberts observed the \"scientific integrity\" of the game. However, not all aspects of \"Wingspan\" were positively received. Kois critiqued the balance, stating that towards the end of the game, laying eggs is the only preferable strategy. This sentiment was shared by Zimmerman, who criticised the possibly \"overpowered\" action of laying eggs that resulted in the game's ending to be \"one-note\". Furthermore, despite praising the accessibility, Zimmerman said that he preferred \"a little more crunch in the decision-making\", and also described the lack of player interaction. Sales. \"Wingspan\" was positively received commercially and sold 44,000 copies worldwide over three printings in its first"}, {"text": "two months of release, with the publisher issuing a public apology for not having more copies available. The game had sold around 200,000 copies worldwide by the end of 2019. By March 2021, sales of \"Wingspan\" had reached 600,000 and 1.3 million by September 2021, which is the highest number of copies sold for Stonemaier Games. Expansions. \"Wingspan European Expansion,\" the first expansion for \"Wingspan\", was published in 2019 and added 81 new bird cards, end of round goals, and bonus cards. This expansion also included new mechanisms and bird powers, such as birds which benefit from extra food and powers which trigger at the end of the round. A \"swift-start promo pack\" was also released in 2019, which added 10 new bird cards, intended for first time players. The second expansion, \"Wingspan Oceania Expansion\", which focuses on birds from Australia and New Zealand, was published in late 2020. The \"Oceania Expansion\" included 95 new bird cards, end of round goals, player mats, and a new food type called nectar. The \"Oceania Expansion\" also added birds with game end powers, which trigger after the final round of play has been completed. The latest expansion, \"Wingspan Asia\", focuses on birds from"}, {"text": "China, India, and Japan and was published in late 2022. This new expansion includes 90 new bird cards, 14 bonus cards, 18 Automa cards, and two more ways to play: \"Duet mode\" (stand-alone variant for 2 players) and \"Flock mode\" allowing up to 7 players. Adaptations. The first digital versions of the game were released in 2020 on Steam and Switch, with Android and iOS versions also released in 2021. According to \"Slate\", as of August 2021, \"Wingspan\" had sold 125,000 combined copies of digital editions on the platforms combined. A video game edition for \"Wingspan European Expansion\" was also later released. A digital version of the \"Wingspan Oceania Expansion\" was released in December 2023. The adaptation received generally favourable reviews and was praised for its visuals and soundtrack. \"Wyrmspan\", a dragon-themed adaptation, was released by Stonemaier Games in 2024. A browser-based version of the game was added to board-game site boardgamearena.com in September, 2022."}, {"text": "Ruslan Ismailovich Balbek (; born 28 August 1977) is a Russian and former Ukrainian politician and former member of the State Duma from the United Russia party. A supporter of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, he has been highly critical of the Mejlis. Balbek grew up in Sudak, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union, where his family lived after their return from exile. He began trying to enter local politics with the Socialist Party of Ukraine in 2010, but remained a junior figure. From 2007 to 2012 he was a delegate of the Qurultay. In 2014 he took on a more senior role in politics, being chosen for a position in the Council of Ministers of Crimea, replacing . Shortly after entering the Duma in 2016 he was sanctioned by Canada. The Prosecutor's office of Ukraine opened a case against him for treason, which he described as \"nonsense\", saying he never swore loyalty to the Euromaidan Government. As a member of the Duma he has denied that Moscow treats Crimean Tatars as second-class citizens, contradicting claims from Crimean Tatar opposition. Balbek has been criticized for making bold unsubstantiated claims, including saying"}, {"text": "Vatan Karabash's attempted self-immolation was a Hollywood production and that Hizb ut-Tahrir is a product of Anglo-Saxons. His political opponents have described him as a \"collaborator\" and \"careerist\" enriching himself by supporting the administration in Crimea, and Mustafa Dzhemilev has accused him of being an FSB agent since 2006, pointing out his arrest for embezzlement in 2006, citing his release from the charges in 2006 and his release after arrest for assaulting a police officer in 2011. Sanctions. He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2016 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War."}, {"text": "The Middlebury Panthers men's ice hockey team represents Middlebury College in men\u2019s hockey. They have played since 1922, with the exception of a few years during World War II. The Panthers currently play at the Division III and have won eight championships at that level, the most of any D-III program. For a time the team did play at the top level of college hockey, but when men's ice hockey divided into separate tiers in the mid-1960s, Middlebury left the upper echelon. History. Middlebury played as an Independent program, as all schools did officially, prior to 1950 but the Panthers were a founding member of the NCAA's first ice hockey conference, the Tri-State League. The Panthers remained in the conference for nine years but through most of that time they were pushed around by the national powers Clarkson, Rensselaer and St. Lawrence. Towards the end of their tenure in the conference, however, Middlebury did land a recruit who would rewrite the NCAA record book. Phil Latreille joined the Panthers in 1957 and began playing immediately. Normally, freshmen did not play for varsity squads as the NCAA only allowed players eligibility for three seasons. However, because Middlebury wasn't in contention for"}, {"text": "the national tournament, they could ignore that NCAA regulation. Latreille scored 36 goals in only 20 games in his first year then set a new single-season record with 57 goals as a sophomore. For his third season, Latreille shattered his record with 77 goals and capped that off with a senior season of 80 goals and 108 points. No other player in NCAA history has even scored 60 goals in a season. Latreille held the points record for 24 years before being surpassed by Bill Watson, who played in more than twice as many games in his record-breaking campaign. Latreille still holds the NCAA record for career goals at 250 with second a distant 94 goals behind (Chuck Delich). Latreille's scoring exploits were so spectacular that he was able to parley them into a brief appearance with the New York Rangers after graduating. While he didn't stick in the National Hockey League, Latreille remains Middlebury's only alumnus to play in the NHL. After Latreille left, Middlebury became one of the 28 founding members of ECAC Hockey, remaining with the conference for three seasons. By the end of the 1963\u201364 season it was obvious that ECAC Hockey had to make a"}, {"text": "change and the conference divided itself into upper- and lower-tiers. This was the first formal delineation of men's ice hockey and Middlebury was one of the 14 teams that founded ECAC 2. The Panthers played well under Wendall Forbes and typically finished in the top half of the conference. In 1971 Middlebury was again a founding member of a conference, this time for the NESCAC, though because the new conference didn't sponsor ice hockey as a varsity sport the Panthers remained with ECAC 2. By the mid-1970s ECAC 2 had become just as ungainly as ECAC Hockey had been, boasting 31 programs by 1977. Rather than split into separate conferences, ECAC 2 divided itself into East and West Divisions with both playing separate postseason tournaments. Middlebury won its first conference tournament in 1979 but because NESCAC rules prohibited them from participating in any national tournament the Panthers didn't receive an invitation to the 1979 Championship. When the NCAA instituted numerical classifications in 1973, Middlebury became a Division III school but the ice hockey program played at the Division II level. This continued for a decade until the NCAA instituted a Division III Championship and, while the Panthers could not participate"}, {"text": "in the tournament, most of their contemporaries were able to play in the championship. As a result, almost the entire D-II level dropped down to the lower tier with Middlebury going along. During the change, ECAC 2 formally split and Middlebury helped found yet another ice hockey conference, this one being called ECAC East. In the mid-'80s Forbes stepped down and was replaced by Bill Beaney. It took Beaney a short time to rebuild the program and five years after he took over the Panthers won both the conference regular season and tournament titles. In 1994 the NESCAC changed its rules to permit its member teams to play in one postseason tournament, either conference or national, and a year later Middlebury made its first appearance in the Division III championship. Middlebury jumped in with both feet and won each of their games, including the championship over #1-ranked Fredonia State to capture the school's first national title in any sport. Beaney kept the panthers at the top of Division III and won five consecutive national championships (1995\u20131999), setting an NCAA record for any level of play. Middlebury's championship streak ended in 2000, the same year that the NESCAC began to sponsor"}, {"text": "ice hockey as a sport and Middlebury joined 8 other schools to form the new conference. The NESCAC also allowed their member schools to play in both the conference and national tournaments beginning in 2000. This allowed the Panthers to play in their first conference tournament in 5 years and win their first of three consecutive titles. Beaney took a sabbatical in 2003 but returned the year after to lead Middlebury to three consecutive titles for a total of 8. The team was in contention for a ninth championship in 2007 but fell to Oswego State in overtime. The program slowly declined after its first championship loss. In 2015, Bill Beaney retired and Neil Sinclair took over as head coach. After several dispappointing seasons, he was replaced with Jack Ceglarski as head coach in 2023. In the 2024\u201325 season, the Panthers posted their first winning season since Beaney's 2012\u201313 squad. Season-by-season results. Source: This is a partial list of Middlebury's record. It covers the time from when Middlebury restarted the ice hockey program after World War II until the program officially left the top tier of men's ice hockey. \"Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses,"}, {"text": "T = Ties\" Olympians. This is a list of Middlebury alumni were a part of an Olympic team."}, {"text": "The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), is an international industry-led organization which includes 12 member companies from the oil and gas industry: BP, Chevron, CNPC, Eni, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Occidental, Petrobras, Repsol, Saudi Aramco, Shell and TotalEnergies represent over \"30% of global operated oil and gas production.\" It was established in 2014 and has a mandate to work together to \"accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions\" in full support of the Paris Agreement and its aims.\" Their mandate says that they will \"seek actions\" to \"accelerate and participate in the energy transition.\" On November 4, 2016 OGCI announced the creation of the OGCI Climate Investments fund which will invest $1 billion over 10 years in companies or projects that reduce \"methane emissions from gas production\", on projects or \"technologies to capture and either use or store carbon emissions\", as well as on energy efficiency. The fund invests in reducing the carbon footprint of the oil and gas industry and other emitting sectors, rather than in renewable energy. Former BP CEO Bob Dudley is the chair of the OGCI CEO steering committee and Bj\u00f8rn Otto Sverdrup is the chair of the OGCI executive committee. Pratima Rangarajan is the CEO of"}, {"text": "OGCI Climate Investments. Background. The industry-led Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) was created in 2014 by CEOs of the world's largest energy companies to \"seek action\" to support the Paris Agreement. The member companies which include BP, Chevron, CNPC, Eni, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Occidental, Pemex, Petrobras, Repsol, Saudi Aramco, Shell and Total, represent over \"32% of global operated oil and gas production.\" As part of their initiative to \"improve their environmental reputation\" the OGCI announced at an event held in London, that they would be investing $1bn over the next decade in \"innovative low emissions technologies\". The announcement, which was planned to \"coincide\" with the Paris agreement which came into effect on the same day. \"The Telegraph\" had predicted that the OGCI could face \"fierce scrutiny and accusations of \"greenwashing\" for the announcement which some environmentalists saying that \"the 'big oil' business model is fundamentally incompatible with avoiding dangerous climate change.\" \"The Telegraph\" said that OGCI chair and BP CEO Bob Dudley makes more than 1 billion a year. On September 22, 2019, the OGCI hosted an \"invitation-only forum\" on the \"sidelines\" of the September 23, climate action summit organized by the UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, which was held"}, {"text": "in New York. The day before the UN \"climate action summit\"\u2014which included \"[W]orld leaders, academics, government representatives and environmentalists\" came together for The UN \"climate action summit\"\u2014OGCI oil and gas executives held their own \"closed high-level discussion\" with key stakeholders. According to \"The Guardian\", critics said that the OGCI was \"attempt[ing] to influence negotiations in favour of fossil fuel companies.\" On September 23, the OGCI held their formal forum at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York. Targets. In 2017, OGCI members developed a baseline of \"aggregated upstream oil and gas operations emissions\" of 24 kg CO2e/boe. Methane intensity. In 2018, OGCI set a methane intensity target. In 2018, member companies had \"reduced collective methane intensity by 9%\" and was \"on track to meet the 2025 target of below 0.25%.\" Carbon intensity. At their September 2019 forum, OGCI said that they were \"working on a carbon intensity target to reduce by 2025 the collective average carbon intensity of member companies' aggregated upstream oil and gas operations.\" Among the actions to meet their targets of reducing carbon intensity, the OGCI listed \"improving energy efficiency, minimizing flaring, upgrading facilities and co-generating electricity and useful heat.\" Carbon pricing. Member companies pledged to \"support"}, {"text": "policies that attribute an explicit or implicit value to carbon\" as \"one of the most cost-efficient ways to achieve the low carbon transition as early as possible\" at their September 2019 forum. Reduce flaring. By October 2019, the fossil-fuel executives said that until recently they had been making progress in cutting back on routine flaring, where vast amounts of natural gas are burned off as a waste \"by-product\" during the extraction of crude oil. Oil extraction companies focus on drilling and pumping oil which is highly lucrative, but the less-valuable gas accompanying the oil is more difficult to transport to consumers. Production growth has \"far outpaced pipeline construction\" during the boom in the Permian and Bakken oil fields. Both gas flaring and gas venting waste a primary energy resource and release potent greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Regulation of the amount of each type of waste varies from one jurisdiction to another. Instances also occur where companies have access to transport capacity, but are allowed to flare rather than pay pipeline costs. As part of its flaring efforts, OGCI is also a member of Methane Guiding Principles, an industry consortium that aims to reduce methane emissions\u2014including from flaring\u2014from the energy"}, {"text": "supply chain. Investments. The OGCI Climate Investments fund will not invest in renewables. It will focus on action that will reduce \"methane emissions from gas production\" and on \"technologies to capture and either use or store carbon emissions. At their New York September 2019 forum, OGCI said that they had \" 15 investments in its portfolio,\" which includes Kelvin, SeekOps, Boston Metal, 75F, Norsepower, and XL. OGCI Climate Investments focus on \"innovative companies that are ready to be commercialized\" in collaboration with \"global co-investors and industrials to achieve speed and scale.\" Wabash Valley Resources. On May 20, 2019 OGCI announced their funding support of the Terre Haute, Indiana-based Wabash Valley Resources that will \"capture and sequester 1.5-1.75 million tons of CO2 annually from Wabash Valley Resources co-located ammonia plant\" making it \"the largest carbon sequestration project in the United States\". SeekOps. In September 2019, OGCI Climate Investments and Equinor Technology Ventures provided funding for SeekOps, which is a \"technology spinoff NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory\". SeekOps uses \"integrated drone-based systems\" capable of detect[ing], localiz[ing], and \"quanify[ing] natural gas emissions. Initiatives. In September 2019, OGCI announced a KickStarter campaign to increase the \"carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS)\" globally to \"achieve net"}, {"text": "zero emissions.\""}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 season of the Scottish Basketball Championship Women, the national women's basketball league of Scotland. Format. In Division 1, each team plays each other twice, once home, once away, for a total of 16 games. Results. Scottish Cup. 1st Round Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final"}, {"text": "Jewel's Leo Bars (1962\u20131978), commonly known as \"Freckles\", was a sorrel American Quarter Horse stallion sired by Sugar Bars, out of Leo Pan by Leo. He is considered to be one of the early cutting horse foundation sires, most notable for his influence on the performance horse industry. He was owned by Marion Flynt and stood at stud at Flynt's Square Top 3 Ranch in Midland, Texas, the home of \"many legendary horses\". In addition to being a notable foundation cutting horse sire, Freckles also competed in three different disciplines\u2014racing, halter, and cutting\u2014earning an AQHA Register of Merit in Cutting, Halter Stallion points, and a National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Certificate of Ability. Background. The breeder of Jewel's Leo Bars was A.L. Smith of Perry, OK. As a late weanling, he was sold to Ira S. Lethco of Fort Stockton, TX, and was later purchased as a yearling by Ford Harris and his son-in-law Kirk Coffman, also from Texas. They reportedly paid $5500.00, which at that time was an unusually high price for a Quarter Horse yearling. The stallion's pedigree was that of a horse bred to run, and as a yearling prospect, his conformation had the desirable traits of"}, {"text": "form to function, including a long hip, deep chest and depth of girth. Coffman was impressed by the colt's good looks, so he was shown at halter and won his class at two different AQHA approved horse shows, earning his first AQHA halter points in a class of 7. Billy Bush was manager of the racing operation for Harris, and was also the first to nickname the young stallion \"Freckles\" because of all the sorrel spots on his blaze and stockings. Bush started Freckles under saddle as a 2-year-old before sending him to racehorse trainer, Bubba Cascio, who had trained the legendary Dash For Cash. As it turned out, Freckles simply did not have the speed necessary to make the cut for the All American Futurity or other races of that quality; his best AQHA SI was only 55. Cascio suggested gelding the horse, but Harris decided to consign him to a horse sale produced by Charles \"Muscles\" Foster in Coppell, TX, where he was acquired by Marion Flynt in exchange for a debt owed him by Foster. Flynt was in the oil and gas business, and owned a large ranch in Midland, TX. He was also president of the"}, {"text": "NCHA, which was struggling during that time. Flynt stayed with the NCHA, and became the longest serving NCHA President in its history, having served a total of 12 years (1956-58 and 1963-1971). In 1977, he was inducted into the NCHA Members Hall of Fame. With his ties to the cutting horse industry, Flynt focused on seeing if Freckles could be a cutting horse. He contacted Buster Welch, a legendary horse trainer in the discipline. Shorty Freeman, who rode Doc O'Lena to win the 1970 NCHA World Championship Futurity, Open Division, was also recruited along with Welch to train and show Freckles. Show career. As a 4-year-old, with limited showing under trainers Welch, Freeman, and John Carter, Freckles won the cutting competition at the 1966 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and later that year, the Dallas State Fair, each with over 40 entries in the class. Delight Lee also showed him in a few AQHA cuttings, and then in 1970 John Carter showed him in the NCHA Open Division. Freckles also won the 1970 Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show Open Cutting in Fort Worth, Texas, was 4th in the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo Open Cutting, won the Spring Cutting"}, {"text": "Circuit in Phoenix, Arizona and finished the 1970 year in 10th place in the NCHA Top Ten World Championships, Open Division, ridden by John Carter. Ultimately Freckles earned his AQHA Register of Merit with 25 points in Cutting. He also earned 3 Halter Stallion points. In NCHA competition, he was awarded the Certificate of Ability with recorded lifetime NCHA earnings of $6,037.24. Foundation breeding stallion. The number of mares Freckles bred was limited in the beginning, and his stud book was closed to outside mares. Nonetheless, Jay Freckles, a 1970 stallion sired by Freckles, won the 1973 NCHA Futurity Champion Stallion, finishing 4th overall. That year, Flynt's ranch manager, Terry Riddle, started cutting horse training for three 2-year-olds sired by Freckles: Freckles Playboy, Colonel Freckles, and Mia Freckles. Riddle's goal was to show them in the December 1976 NCHA Futurity, the premier cutting horse competition for 3-year-olds. In 1973, there were only 9 foals total sired by Freckles, and 376 entries in the 1976 NCHA Futurity. The three entries sired by Freckles comprised one-third of his 1973 crop, and had garnered substantial attention in the go-rounds and Futurity finals. That year, Colonel Freckles was the NCHA Futurity Open Champion, ridden"}, {"text": "by Olan Hightower and owned by Bob McCloud; Freckles Playboy, ridden by Terry Riddle, and Doc's Becky, ridden by Bill Freeman, were Co-Reserve Open Champions. The Non-Pro Futurity Champion was Mia Freckles, ridden by Kay Floyd. Terry Riddle had trained all four winners. The \"Fort Worth Star Telegram\" commented, \"the $215,000 NCHA Futurity held Dec. 12 in Fort Worth might just as well have been held in Midland \u2013 that way Marion Flynt wouldn't have had to haul his awards so far home.\" Freckles sired a number of champion progeny, who in turn provided him champion grand-get. A leading example was his son Freckles Playboy, listed as one of the \"Top Fifteen Leading NCHA Super Stakes Sires\" in 2021 with combined earnings of $2,324,488.00 across all divisions. Influence of genetics. Building a bloodline group of genetically superior horses that breed true requires breeders to research pedigrees back for many generations to foundation sires and dams. This helps create consistency by obtaining progeny information and individual performance records, but it also requires the breeder to skillfully match complimentary crosses based on their research. Jewel's Leo Bars success at stud was an example of these principles at work. The Quarter Horse Journal"}, {"text": "had described Doc Bar as \"a highlight\" of the excellence found in crosses between Three Bars and Joe Reed bloodlines, and added that another \"industry-shaping version\" was the cross between Sugar Bars (a son of Three Bars with a line to Joe Reed) and Leo daughters. That cross \"gave the industry Jewels [sic] Leo Bars (sire of Colonel Freckles and Freckles Playboy), Zippo Pat Bars (sire of Zippo Pine Bar), Otoe and Flit Bar...\" The Jewel's Leo Bars x Rey Jay cross produced two AQHA Hall of Fame stallions, Freckles Playboy (inducted 2013) and Colonel Freckles (inducted 2004), both of whom were outstanding cutting horses as well as notable sires. The principles of this type of selective breeding for success in specific disciplines were noted in a 2013 genomic study that found the Quarter Horse breed is \"subdivided into different lines according to skills resulting from distinct selection objectives\" and noted \"a close relationship between physical characteristics and the function for which the animal is used.\" For cutting horses, those skills include, but are not limited to, athletic ability and trainability. Registration and pedigree. AQHA registration #0206037, 1962 sorrel stallion, breeder A.L. Smith of Perry, Oklahoma."}, {"text": "Julie Evelyn Joyce (born 31 January 1983) is a Canadian author based in Ottawa, Ontario. Her debut novel, \"Steeped In Love\", won the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the romance genre. In August, 2019, \"Steeped in Love\" was the \"Together We Read: Canada\" digital book club selection. Joyce's first written works were pieces of Gilmore Girls fan fiction, which helped her to hone her skills in the craft. Prior to becoming a novelist, she wrote short stories under a pen name with a small press. Through the encouragement of her mother, Joyce started writing a full-length novel, \"Steeped in Love\", which she self-published in 2018. Joyce's mother died shortly after she began writing the manuscript. Her second book in the \"Make Me a Match\" series, \"Learning to Love\", released in December, 2020. Book three, \"Love Unleashed\", released in October, 2021. Joyce teaches high school physical education and English."}, {"text": "Charlie D'Agata is a CBS News senior foreign reporter based in their London Bureau since 2011. Biography. Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, D\u2019Agata graduated from Colorado State University with a B.A. in journalism. D'Agata began his career in 1992 in London as an Assignment Editor for ABC News. He was a correspondent for APTN in London until 2002, when he joined CBS News, first as chief overseas correspondent for CBS Radio, then as London correspondent for CBS Newspath. Honors. He won the Overseas Press Club Award in 2013. His work has helped CBS News win a number of Edward R. Murrow awards. His reporting from Cairo helped CBS News win the 2017 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award and the Sigma Delta Chi award. Controversy. On February 26, 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, D'Agata was criticized by multiple media outlets when he described this conflict as being different, as it involved \"civilized\" people, unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, stating \"This is a relatively civilised, relatively European \u2013 I have to choose those words carefully too unlike [Iraq] or [Afghanistan] \u2013 city, where you wouldn\u2019t expect that or hope that it\u2019s going to happen.\" D'Agata apologized for these comments later that day,"}, {"text": "calling them a \"poor choice of words\", even though he had previously presented them as \"carefully chosen words\" in his correspondent report."}, {"text": "St Philip and St James Church may refer to:"}, {"text": "Milan Pavlovi\u0107 (born 22 December 1969) is a Bosnian actor and TV personality. His first television role was in a short film called 10 Minutes in 2002, directed by Ahmed Imamovi\u0107, however, Pavlovi\u0107 is mostly known for portraying the role of Dino Mehmeda Mujki\u0107 in popular Bosnian sitcom Lud, zbunjen, normalan from 2007 to 2009."}, {"text": "John Charles Keith Dowding CBE DSO (1891\u20131965) was a British naval officer during the 20th century. He served in both world wars and was awarded the DSO for his actions during the Dunkirk evacuation. He is best known for being the commodore in charge of the ill-fated Arctic convoy PQ 17. Early life. Jack Dowding was born on 1 November 1891 in Dibrugarh, British India, to Charles and Kathleen Dowding. His father was an Anglican clergyman, who served there before returning to England and residing at St John's in the Vale, Cumberland. Dowding was educated at St Bees School, in what is now Cumbria, and on the Royal Navy training ship HMS \"Conway\". He became a probationary midshipman in the RNR, with seniority from August 1910, and joined the Merchant Navy, earning his Second Mate's certificate in December 1913. Career. Dowding served in the Royal Navy during the First World War and served on HMS \"Otway\", an armed merchant cruiser with the 10th Cruiser Squadron, a force employed in the Northern Patrol and responsible for enforcing the naval blockade of Germany. He later served as second-in-command to the Commander of Destroyers, first in home waters and later in the Mediterranean."}, {"text": "In 1919 he left the Royal Navy and was employed by the Orient Line operating between Britain and Australia. With the outbreak of the Second World War Dowding was recalled to active service with the rank of commander and was appointed to HMS \"Mona's Isle\", a Manx packet steamer requisitioned to serve as an armed boarding vessel. In June 1940 she took part in Operation Dynamo, the Dunkirk evacuation, making two trips under fire and bringing back over 2,600 troops. For his actions Dowding was awarded the DSO. In December 1940 he was promoted to captain, and in April 1941 to commodore 2nd class, At the same time he was transferred to HMS \"Eaglet\", the shore establishment at Liverpool responsible for Britain's convoy operations, and served as a convoy commodore. Dowding served on several Atlantic convoys and made two trips to the Soviet Union on the notorious Kola Run. In August 1941 he was commodore to the Dervish convoy, the first supply convoy to the Soviets, returning with the Dervish ships in October in convoy QP 1. Both these voyages were accomplished safely and without loss. In late June 1942 he was commodore to PQ 17. On 4 July he"}, {"text": "received the controversial Admiralty order to scatter the convoy, and it fell to him to carry this out. The result was a catalogue of ship losses over the next few days; Dowding's ship, \"River Afton\", was sunk at midday on 5 July, leaving Dowding and two men on a raft in the icy waters for four hours until rescued by the corvette \"Lotus\". He was taken to Novaya Zemlya where they gathered up two merchant ships and took them to safety at Archangel. Dowding immediately set out in the corvette \"Poppy\" to search for more survivors, eventually gathering a further five ships and the survivors of several more. Two months later Dowding was commodore to the returning QP 14, with the surviving ships from PQ 17; this convoy also came under attack, and Dowding was again cast adrift when his ship, \"Ocean Voice\", was sunk. He was again rescued and returned to the UK, where he was awarded the CBE. Later Dowding served on the naval staff for Operation Neptune, the naval component of the Normandy landings, first as Staff Flag Officer for the assault area, then as Principal Sea Transport Officer for the Expeditionary Force. He was Mentioned in"}, {"text": "Dispatches for this work, and was awarded the Order of the Crown of Belgium for his part in the liberation of that country. His final naval posting was as the Naval Reserve's ADC to the king, from September 1945 until his retirement in November 1946. Later life and death. Jack Dowding died at Wokingham, in Berkshire, on 13 February 1965."}, {"text": "IHF World Women's Field Handball Championship was the world championship of field handball and was organized by the International Handball Federation in the period 1949-1960. Tournament. 1: Germany sent a united team composed of players from the GDR and the FRG. National team appearances. Comprehensive team results by tournament. Source: IHF official site. External links."}, {"text": "The 2020 STCC TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship was the tenth overall season of the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship and the fourth under the internationally recognised TCR formula. It was also the third time the championship has run under the STCC TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship banner. Originally due to start on 15 May at Ring Knutstorp and end on 4 October at Mantorp Park, the season start was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A revised calendar was due to be published sometime after Easter. Robert Dahlgren and Brink Motorsport are the reigning Drivers' and Teams' champions respectively. Entrants. The following teams and drivers are set to compete in the 2020 season: Race calendar and results. The following 4 rounds are scheduled to take place in 2020:"}, {"text": "Julio Manuel Naya Barba (born July 17, 1968) is a Mexican football manager. At the beginning of his career he served as assistant of Indios de Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, Tigres B, Le\u00f3n, UAT and Deportivo Guam\u00fachil. In 2012 he was appointed as UAT Premier manager, position in which he remained until 2013. In 2017, Naya was the temporary head coach of Real Estel\u00ed FC, after that, in 2018 he was hired by Coras de Nayarit F.C."}, {"text": "Justice Ravi Ranjan (born 20 December 1960) is a retired Indian judge and former Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court. He also served as a judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court and Patna High Court. Career. Ravi Ranjan was born in 1960 at Patna. He passed M.Sc. in geology from Patna University, and LL.B. from Patna Law College in 1989. He was awarded Ph.D. in geology from Patna University. He joined Civil Engineering Department of the Bihar College of Engineering as a part-time Lecturer. After completion of LL.B., Ranjan joined Patna High Court for legal practice. He was appointed by Union of India as Senior Standing Counsel on 26 June 2004. On 14 July 2008 Ranjan was elevated as an Additional Judge of Patna High Court. He became the permanent Judge on 16 January 2010. He was appointed the Chief Justice of High Court of Jharkhand on 17 November 2019. He was retired on 19 December 2022."}, {"text": "Inkpen Common or Inkpen Great Common is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Inkpen in Berkshire. It is managed as a nature reserve by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. This is a surviving fragment of the former Inkpen Common is located between the hamlets of Hell Corner and Inkpen Common. It is mainly damp heathland, with small areas of marsh, woods and bracken. Flora on the heath include purple moor grass, common gorse, lousewort, lesser dodder and the only surviving colony in Berkshire of pale heath violet. References."}, {"text": "Withlocals is an experiential travel company that connects travellers to local hosts who offer private, personalised tours. Describing itself as trying to achieve \"mass personalisation\" rather than offering group or package tours, Withlocals is cited as an example of the role and impact of the sharing economy on tourism \u2013 particularly culinary tourism \u2013 and the consumer trends for \"authenticity\" and \"experiences\". History. Founded in 2013 by brothers Marijn and Willem Maas in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, the company was supported by startup accelerator Greenhouse group. it obtained $500,000 seed funding from Digital Equity group and a grant from the Horizon 2020 program. It began operations by specifically targeting a market for sharing home cooked dinners across seven countries in Southeast Asia. It later received Series A funding of \u20ac3.5 million ($4.3M) in 2017, at which time it reported to offer 1,200 tour options with 900 local hosts in 24 cities \u2013 having changed focus to personalised tour guides. In 2019 it secured Series B funding of a further \u20ac8 million at which time it was active in 30 cities. Both rounds were supported by Dutch investment company INKEF Capital and the latter by Keen Venture Partners. A priority of the"}, {"text": "latest round of investment is to improve the Software localisation and range of tours offered in languages other than English. As of mid-2019, Withlocals has more than 50 employees. Cities. As of mid-2019 the Withlocals platform has hosts offering tours in the following cities:"}, {"text": "Robert A. Destro is an American attorney, academic, and government official who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from September 2019 to January 2021. In October 2020, he also became the United States Special Coordinator on Tibetan Issues. He previously served on the United States Commission on Civil Rights from 1983 to 1989 and as a professor of law at The Catholic University of America. Education. Destro earned a B.A. from Miami University in Ohio, and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Career. Destro is a professor of law at the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America. He teaches at Catholic University since 1982 and served as an Interim Dean from 1999 to 2001. He also founded the Interdisciplinary Program in Law & Religion and was director of the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies from 2017 to 2019, both at Catholic University. Destro is a human rights advocate and a civil rights attorney with expertise in elections and employment law. His legal work includes collaboration with the Peace Research Institute Oslo in a fifteen-year dialogue among Muslim, Christian, and Jewish legal, business, and religious leaders in"}, {"text": "the United States and the Middle East and efforts promoting the release of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in the Middle East. As a U.S. civil rights commissioner from 1983 to 1989, Destro focused on disability-, national origin-, and religious-based discrimination. From 1977 to 1982, he also served as General Counsel to the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. He was also special counsel to the Ohio Attorney General and the Ohio Secretary of State on election law matters from 2004 to 2006. In 2011, Destro sent a report about the disappearance of Robert Levinson to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and he also alerted the FBI about the involvement of the Fellowship Foundation. He also wrote a letter in mid-2011 to Ali Khamenei on the request of Douglas Coe, which was delivered to the Iranian ambassador in Paris. As a result, the ambassador requested an urgent meeting in October of that year, being days away from returning to Tehran; however, since Destro could not travel with such short notice, the Fellowship Foundation was represented at that meeting by Ory Eshel. The meeting took place on 30 October 2011 at the ambassador's residence. In September 2019, Destro became"}, {"text": "the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. In October 2020, he was appointed as the U.S. Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, a role that \"will lead U.S. efforts to promote dialogue between the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) and the Dalai Lama or his representatives; protect the unique religious, cultural, and linguistic identity of Tibetans; and press for their human rights to be respected.\" Destro stated that he and the US support complete autonomy for Tibet, which is the Dalai Lama's position. He cited the fact that half a million Tibetans had entered forced labour as a violation of human rights. He said that he believes that \"all people should be allowed access to Tibet\" and restated the US's position that the only one to choose the Dalai Lama's successor should be the Dalai Lama himself. On 15 October 2020, he met with Lobsang Sangay at the Harry S Truman Building, which India Today stated \"is being seen as Washington\u2019s recognition of the Tibetan government-in-exile.\" He stated that he was aware of a security audit of Ultrasurf commissioned by the United States Department of State. Destro confirmed to the Washington Post that, during the 2021 United"}, {"text": "States Capitol attack, he met in the State Department with \"Big Lie\" supporters Joe Oltmann, a Colorado podcaster, and Matthew DePerno, lawyer and candidate in the 2022 Michigan Attorney General election. While Destro declined to disclose the substance of the meeting, Oltmann posted on social media that he had met with \"the right people\" in the State Department and that \"they said, 'If this [the false claims of irregularities in the 2020 US Presidential election ] is true, this is a coup.'\""}, {"text": "Zhaoli Qaghan (\u662d\u79ae\u53ef\u6c57) was tenth ruler of Uyghurs. His personal name was recorded as Yaoluoge Hesa (\u85e5\u7f85\u845b\u66f7\u85a9) in Chinese sources. His Uyghur name could be Qasar or Xazar. Background. He was a younger brother of Chongde and a son of Baoyi Qaghan. He was a \"tegin\" during his brother's and father's reign and styled as Hesa Teqin (\u66f7\u85a9\u7279\u52e4). He succeeded his brother in 824. Reign. Upon his enthronement, he received 12 chariots as gift and 500,000 pieces of silk as a trade for horses from Emperor Wenzong of Tang. He received additional tribute of 200,000 pieces of silk in 827. Another tribute was recorded in 829. He was murdered in early 833 by his ministers, who made his nephew Hu Tegin, to succeed him as Zhangxin Qaghan. Mourning ceremony in Chang'an was on 20 April 833 ."}, {"text": "Themiya Loku Bandara Hurulle (Sinhala: \u0dad\u0dda\u0db8\u0dd2\u0dba \u0dbd\u0ddc\u0d9a\u0dd4 \u0db6\u0dab\u0da9\u0dcf\u0dbb \u0dc4\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dda; born 16 March 1952) (known as Themiya Hurulle) is a Sri Lankan politician and Honorary Secretary, Anuradhapura Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi Development Fund a former project minister and a United National Party organiser for Horawupotana Electorate. He was also a provincial councillor and a member of Parliament from Anuradhapura District. He is an engineer by profession. Early life. His father, Edwin Loku Bandara Hurulle was a member of Parliament for Horowpothana from 1956, Cabinet Minister of Communications (1965\u20131970) and Minister of Cultural Affairs (1977\u20131988). He served as Governor in the Central Province and the North Central Province. E L B Hurulle also served as Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to in Canberra, Australia. Themiya's mother was Malinee Galagoda Hurulle, the youngest daughter of Madduma Bandara Galagoda of Galagoda Walauwa, Udispattuwa, Teldeniya. Madduma Bandara Galagoda was a Basnayake Nilame (Chief custodian) of the Natha Devale in Kandy. Themiya has two sisters Maya and Deepthi and two brothers Vajira and Kanishka. Education. Hurulle completed his primary and secondary education at S. Thomas' Preparatory School, Colombo and S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia. He thereafter pursued further studies in Engineering at the Ceylon Technical College, Moratuwa"}, {"text": "(now the University of Moratuwa). Having followed the Engineering Apprentices I & II Programmes 1972/1973, he gained admission to London South Bank University in where earned a Diploma in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning in 1977 after which he obtained Membership of the Institute of Refrigeration. Engineering career. Thereafter, he worked as an Engineer at Metropolitan Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, London EC1 and subsequently at its successor, Metair Ltd., Edmonton, London N12. Having returned to Colombo in 1980, he worked as Senior Engineer and subsequently as the Manager/Chief Engineer of the Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Division in a well known Engineering Company in Colombo. He also worked as Executive Director of a Company which was the Re-seller for well known brand of Computers that originated in the United States. Political career. In 1989, he was invited by the United National Party to contest for parliamentary election from Anuradhapura District and was elected a Member of Parliament. In 1993 he was appointed as Project Minister of Science & Technology (Non-Cabinet rank) and worked with the Cabinet Minister of Industries, Science & Technology Ranil Wickremesinghe in the development of ICT, Industries, Science and Technology for Sri Lanka. In 1999 he contested at the"}, {"text": "North Central Provincial Council Election and was elected a Member of the Council from the Anuradhapura District and served in the Council up until 2001. In 2001 he was appointed Director-General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) where he served until 2004. In 2016 he was appointed to the Public Hearings Committee on Sri Lanka Constitutional Reform to report on the views of the general public on Constitutional Reform which was presented to the President, Prime Minister and the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He currently serves as an independent, non executive Director in a well known Private Bank and also serves on the Committee of The Anuradhapura Jayashrimahabodhi Development Committee which was created by an Act of Parliament in 2014. Family. Themiya Hurulle is married to Rukmalie Shalini Gomes the youngest daughter of G.B.S.Gomes and Ranee Wijewardene Gomes (G B S Gomes was the managing director of Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited) and initiated the lighting up of the Mihintale Stupa for Poson Poya which is even done presently. Themiya has 3 daughters Aindri, Ranila and Gayani who are in the fields of Business & Supply Chain Management, Legal and Economics & Public Policy respectively. The history of the Hurulle"}, {"text": "Family dates back to King Mahasena's reign in Anuradhapura."}, {"text": "St Levan's Church may refer to:"}, {"text": "Lorenzo Javier L\u00f3pez Balboa (born October 24, 1963) is a Mexican football manager. Throughout his career he has served as manager of Troyanos UDEM, Murci\u00e9lagos (at three times), Atl\u00e9tico Saltillo Soccer and Gavilanes de Matamoros."}, {"text": "Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes is the second studio album by American rapper Radamiz. It was released on October 4, 2019, by Payday Records. The album features guest appearances from Dot Demo, Tedy Andreas, Rothstein, Adrian Daniel, Rudy Catwell, Riz Allah, DJ Cutbird, Oxytocin, and Khalik Allah. Release and promotion. In April 2018, Radamiz revealed his signing to the newly relaunched Payday Records as well as announcing a follow up to \"Writeous\", telling \"HipHopDX\" that \"I didn't get signed off what I released, I got signed off what I'm working on.\" On May 18, 2018, Radamiz released his first single \"V.I.M.\", produced by New York producer, V'Don. \"V.I.M.\" earned his first appearance on Ebro Darden's show on Beats 1 radio on May 21, 2018. On September 21, 2018, Radamiz released his second single \"NYNYNYNY\", which he described to \"Passionweiss\" as \"Just New York anxiety. Of course you're going to get the slow, mellow, smoking a blunt on a cold winter, rap. But you're going to get the introspective shit also.\" Five months later, Radamiz released his third single, \"Save the Youth\" featuring History and Tedy Andreas that was featured in Need for Speed Heat. On September 12, 2019, the album's"}, {"text": "fourth and final single, \"Fake Gucci\", produced by Statik Selektah was premiered with Billboard. With the announcement, Radamiz also revealed the album's release date of October 4, 2019. Two weeks later, he released the music video to \"Fake Gucci\". From September 20 till the day of release, Radamiz unveiled daily the tracklist on social media for Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes. Starting with \"Lotta Praise\" and finishing with \"Shadowboxing\". Track listing. Credits adapted from Tidal and iTunes' metadata. Notes Sample credits"}, {"text": "Argonia USD 359 is a public unified school district headquartered in Argonia, Kansas, United States. The district includes the communities of Argonia, Milan, and nearby rural areas. Schools. The school district operates the following schools: History. In May 2023, USD 359 announced that it would be going to a 4-day school week for the 2023-2024 school year."}, {"text": "The fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry or consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry is mainly responsible for producing, distributing and marketing fast-moving consumer goods. The FMCG industry is the fourth largest sector in the Indian economy. Household and personal care products accounts for 50% of the sales in the industry, healthcare accounts for 31-32% and food and beverage accounts for the remaining 18-19%. Market size and projected growth rate. In the last 10 years, the revenue in FMCG industry in India has been growing at the rate of 21.4%. There was a drastic change in revenues in FMCG sector growing from US$31.6 billion to US$52.8 from 2011 to 2017-2018 respectively. FMCG industry in India is expected to grow at the rate of 27.9% CAGR (Compounded Annual Growth Rate) to sum to US$103.7 billion by 2020. Additionally, the rural FMCG market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 14.6% to reach US$100 billion by 2020 and US$220 billion by 2025. The rural setting accounts for 45% revenue share while the urban setting dominates with 55% revenue share of the total revenue of the FMCG industry. More than 65% of people in India stay in rural places and those people spend around"}, {"text": "50% of their total expenditure on FMCG products. The number of people buying consumer goods online in India is projected to reach 850 million by 2025. Characteristics. Technology. Since the emergence of the internet, people have adopted the research online, purchase offline (ROPO) method. As a result, FMCG companies have installed advantaged manufacturing machines for better quality purpose and have decreased their profit margin to match with their competitors. Marketing drive and research. Indian customers prioritise getting the best deals possible and as a result are less likely to stay loyal to a brand. Thus, FMCG companies are constantly trying to influence customers with their promotional deals and many firms offer combo deals to attract customers to buy their product. Low capital intensity. Most of the companies operating in FMCG require relatively less capital for investments in manufacturing plants, machinery, equipment and other fixed assets. The turnover is typically about five to eight times the invested capital at a fully upgraded manufacturing plant. Companies have low capital intensity as transactions in businesses are still carried out on credit and cash basis. High initial launch cost. Unlike FMCG industry in the US which is dominated by few big companies, India's industry"}, {"text": "is highly fragmented. Increasing the market share for companies is getting more challenging due to increase in number of competitors. Promotions and advertisements, cost of product development, testing market compatibility, market research and mainly, the launch of the product to create awareness requires high initial costs. Trend towards Natural Products. The premium end of the market is shifting towards natural products, which are produced entirely from naturally occurring ingredients. Evolution. Between 1950 and 1980, there was limited investment in the FMCG sector. Local people had lower purchasing power, which meant that people opted for necessity products rather than premium products. Indian government was inclined towards favouring the local shops and retailers. Between 1980 and 1990, people wanted more variety of products which encouraged FMCG companies to increase the availability of products. FMCG Industry started getting traction and other companies started entering the industry. Media industry in India also boomed during the same time which gave new companies even more incentive to make their business profitable. Prior to 1991, when globalisation and liberalisation occurred in India, western apparels and foreign food products were not available to local customers. Common people weren't very aware of brand recognition. After 1991, FMCG industry was"}, {"text": "inspired by the international companies which also allowed government intervention to incentivise foreign FMCG companies to operate in India. The Indian FMCG industry generates massive employment opportunities and currently employs more than 3 million people. Departmental stores, grocery stores, and supermarkets are the places where consumers buy the necessary products for daily consumption. In the 21st century, people don't want to move across different stores to acquire the common household goods. Hence, the introduction of supermarkets, where customers have a variety of choices for different household products, into localities are proving to be extremely convenient to the customers. Some of the major supermarket chains in India are: Reliance Retail, D-Mart, MORE, Spencer's, Spar, HyperCity, and Star Bazaar. Although the operations of supermarkets are profitable, local grocery stores are suffering due to lack of variety of products. Unlike other emerging FMCG industry around the world, FMCG sector in India is still quite conventional. Despite street markets still being one of the most visited places for shopping in urban and rural settings, online platforms are leading the way to the buying of FMCG products. Trends. Increase in number of government initiatives. In the past few years, there are increasing number of initiatives"}, {"text": "like farm loan waivers, Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) and development of infrastructure in rural areas. Under the Union budget 2019\u20132020, the focus has been shifting towards education, agriculture, healthcare, infrastructure, tax rebate and micro, small and medium enterprises (Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises). These initiatives are projected to have an impact by increasing the minimum wages of common people, especially in rural areas. Thus, any increment in income will be directly proportional to demand in FMCG products. Changes in lifestyle and traditional culture. Change in lifestyle and traditional culture is also having a positive impact on the FMCG industry. The population in urban areas are diverging towards premium products as opposed to essential goods because of rise in income of the middle-class people. This has also led to FMCG companies to rethink strategies as people as willingly to pay high prices for premium products. Changes in policies and regulations. Many global companies operating in the FMCG industry are eyeing Indian market due to government's policies and regulations. Government's introduction of Relaxation of license rules and approval of 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in single-brand retail stores and 51% in the multi-brands stores are some investing opportunities for global"}, {"text": "companies to establish their base in India. Regulatory frameworks like Exercise duty, National Food Security Act, and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) advertising regulations are some main changes in policies and regulations directly affecting the Indian FMCG industry. With the implementation of Goods and Services Tax in FY18 (July 1, 2018), GST council has reduced the tax rates down to 5% on most of the processed food items, increasing the consumption of food products. Other personal care products have also seen a reduction in GST to 18% against the previous 23-24%. Rising advertisement cost by FMCG companies. FMCG companies in India have increased their expenditure cost for sales promotions and advertisements by 10-20%. Every year, these companies invest more and more in advertisement to establish a strong customer base and also as a strategy to reduce market competition."}, {"text": "Mujibur Rahman Monju (died 18 May 2015) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a member of parliament for Kishoreganj-6. Career. Monju was elected to parliament from Kishoreganj-5 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1996 and 2001. Death. Monju died on 18 May 2015 in Jahurul Islam Medical College, Bhagalpur, Bajitpur Upazila, Kishoreganj District, Bangladesh."}, {"text": "Tinkercad is a free-of-charge, online 3D modeling program that runs in a web browser. Since it became available in 2011 it has become a popular platform for creating models for 3D printing as well as an entry-level introduction to constructive solid geometry in schools. History. Tinkercad was founded by former Google engineer Kai Backman and his cofounder Mikko Mononen, with a goal to make 3D modeling, especially the design of physical items, accessible to the general public, and allow users to publish their designs under a Creative Commons license. In 2011, the tinkercad.com website was launched as a web-based 3D modeling tool for WebGL-enabled browsers, and in 2012 the company moved its headquarters to San Francisco. By 2012, over 100,000 3D designs had been published by users. In May 2013, Autodesk announced at a Maker Faire that they would acquire Tinkercad. In March 2017, Autodesk recommended users of the soon-to-be-retired 123D Sculpt migrate to Tinkercad (or Maya LT). In May, Autodesk discontinued its 123D Circuits (Circuits.io) \"Electronics Lab\". The program's features were merged into Tinkercad. Concept. Tinkercad uses a simplified constructive solid geometry method of constructing models. A design is made up of primitive shapes that are either \"solid\" or"}, {"text": "\"hole\". Combining solids and holes together, new shapes can be created, which in turn can be assigned the property of solid or hole. In addition to the standard library of primitive shapes, a user can create custom shape generators using a built-in JavaScript editor. File formats. Shapes can be imported in three formats: STL and OBJ for 3D, and 2-dimensional SVG shapes for extruding into 3D shapes. Tinkercad exports models in STL or OBJ formats, ready for 3D printing. Tinkercad also includes a feature to export 3D models to Minecraft Java Edition, and also offers the ability to design structures using Lego bricks. Tinkercad also has the option to test designs in \"sim lab\" using axle, motor, joint, and slider connectors, and simulates gravity. Circuits. Tinkercad's Circuits section is a browser-based electronic circuit simulator that supports Arduino Uno microcontrollers, Micro:bit boards, or ATtiny chips. Code can be created using graphical CodeBlocks, pieces of code that can be easily arranged with the mouse, or text-based code. Digi-Key praised Tinkercad in a 2022 article for its intuitive and fast tool capabilities, making it ideal for beginners. The program offers pre-built circuits called \"Starters\" or circuits that can be built using separate components."}, {"text": "Tinkercad comes with built-in libraries for popular components, including the Adafruit Neopixel, Arduino Servo, and I2C display libraries. However, custom libraries cannot be selected or uploaded. The simulator also supports analog components that are fully simulated. Despite being an entry-level tool for programming and electronics, Tinkercad offers advanced features such as multi-board simulation and complex analog circuits for experienced users."}, {"text": "Francisco Javier Gamboa Ch\u00e1vez (born September 18, 1978) is a Mexican football manager."}, {"text": "Nazim Uddin Ahmed () is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Lakshmipur-1. He is president of the party's Ramganj branch. Early life. Ahmed was born in 1968, into a Bengali Muslim family in Ramganj, Noakhali District, East Pakistan (now in Lakshmipur District, Bangladesh). Career. Ahmed was elected to parliament from Lakshmipur-1 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2008."}, {"text": "Caldwell USD 360 is a public unified school district headquartered in Caldwell, Kansas, United States. The district includes the communities of Caldwell, Corbin, Drury, and nearby rural areas. Schools. The school district operates the following schools:"}, {"text": "The following is the list of squads that took place in the men's field hockey tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Argentina. The following players represented Argentina: Australia. The following players represented Australia: Egypt. The following players represented Egypt: Germany. The following players represented Germany: Great Britain. The following players represented Great Britain: India. The following players represented India: Malaysia. The following players represented Malaysia: Netherlands. The following players represented the Netherlands: New Zealand. The following players represented New Zealand: Pakistan. The following players represented Pakistan: Spain. The following players represented Spain: Unified Team. The following players represented the Unified Team:"}, {"text": "Courtney Elizabeth Brosnan (born 10 November 1995) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Women's Super League club Everton. Born in the United States, she represents the Republic of Ireland at international level. Club career. Raised in the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey, Brosnan attended Millburn High School before moving on to Syracuse University to play for the Syracuse Orange women's soccer team. At the end of her time at Syracuse, Brosnan was the program\u2019s all-time saves leader (344) and 8 shutouts ranked third on the all-time list. West Ham United. Brosnan was announced at West Ham on 9 August 2019, taking the number 18 shirt. She made her league debut against Arsenal on 8 September 2019. On 21 May 2021, Brosnan was released from her contract by West Ham United. Everton. Brosnan was announced at Everton on 26 July 2021. She made her league debut against Tottenham on 19 December 2021. Brosnan was rotated with Emily Ramsey in her first two seasons at the club. Brosnan's contract was renewed in 2022. Along with Dwight McNeil, Brosnan was named as an Everton PFA Community Champion for 2022/23. Her contract was extended for a further"}, {"text": "two years on 28 June 2024. International career. Born in the USA and of Irish descent, she was available to represent the Republic of Ireland or the USA, but ultimately chose to represent Ireland. On 11 October 2022, Brosnan saved a penalty in the Republic of Ireland's World Cup Qualifier play-off against Scotland, which her team eventually won 1\u20130 and qualified for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. On 31 July 2023, Brosnan made a point-blank save that was described as 'world class' against Nigeria. In 2023, Brosnan won the Player of the Year award for her performances, becoming the first goalkeeper to win it since Emma Byrne in 2012. Honours. Individual"}, {"text": "Tom Violette (born October 26, 1960) is an American curler from Issaquah, Washington and Stevens Point, Wisconsin. He is a , a two-time United States men's curling champion (1990, 1992), and a 2015 World Seniors gold medalist. Personal life. Tom Violette started curling in 1974, when he was 14 years old. His son Luc Violette is a curler too. He played for United States in four and at the 2019 Winter Universiade."}, {"text": "LC3 or LC-3 may refer to:"}, {"text": "Christina Hutchins is an American poet. She was the first poet laureate of Albany, California from 2008 to 2012. She is widely published and has won several awards for her poetry, including The Missouri Review Editors Prize, National Poetry Review's Finch Prize, and a Summer Literary Seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her second book \"Tender the Maker\" won the 2015 May Swenson Poetry Award, and her chapbook \"Radiantly We Inhabit the Air\" won the 2011 Robin Becker Prize. In 2017 she became a Dartmouth Poet in Residence, and she lived in Robert Frost's home in Franconia, New Hampshire. . Hutchins was born in 1961 in San Jose, California and educated at University of California at Davis (BS Biochemistry and Piano Performance), Harvard University(MDiv, top graduate 1991), and holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies: Process Philosophy and Poetry from the Graduate Theological Union. She taught master's students for 18 years at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California as Lecturer in Theology and Literary Arts. She is also an ordained minister in the Congregational/United Church of Christ."}, {"text": "June Ivory (born June 17, 1931\u2013November 9, 2004) was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2004. Life. June Ivory was born June Bull on June 17, 1931, in Pampa, Texas. June married fellow hall of famer Buster Ivory in 1954, and her friend Liz Kezler was her maid of honor. Career. Ivory started out as a professional barrel racer. However, she and friend Liz Kesler started to secretary and time rodeos, working rodeos all over the country. Ivory taught fellow barrel racer Lydia Moore how to secretary and time rodeos. Ivory also worked with her husband for many decades with the goal of enlarging and improving rodeo. Ivory was outspoken but had a good heart. She always helped someone in need and could rise to meet any occasion. She flourished in all aspects of the rodeo business. She worked for many of the most notable stock contractors. In 1959, she unloaded the first horse to start the first National Finals Rodeo (NFR). Ivory possessed a real knack for showy attire, thus carrying the American flag during the opening ceremonies of the National Finals Rodeo. In 1968, she instituted the first secretary school. She was one of the ladies"}, {"text": "who created the NFR Ladies Day. She would coordinate the annual Cowboy Reunion every year. \"I always wanted to be a rodeo glamour gal and rodeo secretary\u201d, she said. \u201cMy dreams came true. I had a great life and wouldn't change one thing\". In 2000, Buster and June Ivory hosted a Cowboy Reunion in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the Excalibur Hotel. The event is an annual one that draws plenty of former contestants. That year's event was held at the same time the NFR was going on in the same city. There was some reminiscing about the Madison Square Garden Rodeos (they are the forerunner to today's NFR). That year's event also included ten former members of the original Cowboy's Turtle Association (the precursor to today's Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association). Ivory died in Pampas, Texas, on November 9, 2004 at the age of 73. She was inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 2004. She was inducted into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2001. She was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2004."}, {"text": "Shah Jikrul Ahmad (16 November 1951 \u2013 7 May 2022) was a Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal politician and served as a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Brahmanbaria-5 constituency. Career. Ahmad was elected to parliament from Brahmanbaria-5 as a JSD (Inu) candidate in 2008."}, {"text": "Arbuckle 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, Arbuckle District was home to 1,054 people. Geography. Arbuckle District is located in the central portion of Mason County, between the Kanawha River and the northern end of Putnam County. To the north, it is bounded by the Kanawha River, and by Lewis and Cooper Districts; to the northeast by the Kanawha and Cologne District; to the east by the Kanawha and Union District; to the south by the Buffalo-Union District of Putnam County, formerly Buffalo District; and to the west and southwest by Clendenin District in Mason County. Occupying over sixty-six square miles, Arbuckle is the second-largest of Mason County's ten magisterial districts; only Clendenin District is larger. Its northern and eastern boundary runs for sixteen miles along the Kanawha River. About sixty percent of the district is hilly, and topped with a soil containing white, red, and yellow clay. The remainder of the district consists of bottomlands, with a soil consisting of white and blue clay mixed with black loam. Streams."}, {"text": "The district's main streams all empty into the Kanawha River, and are named for the distance that their ends lie above the mouth of the Kanawha, or did at the time of the first settlement: Threemile, Fivemile, Lower and Upper Ninemile, Little Sixteenmile and Big Sixteenmile Creeks. Threemile Creek drains the western end of Arbuckle District, and empties into the Kanawha a little below the mouth of another, more extensive creek also named Threemile, on the north side of the Kanawha, in Lewis and Cooper Districts. Fivemile has an extensive course on the Kanawha River Bottom, where its right-hand fork branches off to the west as Little Fivemile Creek. The main branch flows out of the hills behind Couch, where it divides into Lower Fivemile Creek, to the west, and extending into Clendenin District; and Upper Fivemile Creek, to the east, running past the village of Fivemile. Similarly, Lower and Upper Ninemile Creeks converge on the river bottom below Beech Hill. In the hills Lower Ninemile meets with Middle Ninemile Creek, which runs past Pine Grove Church and the former village of Stockton, while Upper Ninemile flows out of the hills north of the former village of Flaxton, both now"}, {"text": "part of the Chief Cornstalk Wildlife Management Area. Little Sixteenmile flows south out of the hills around Condee, above which the main branch converges with the Shady Fork; from Condee, the creek turns eastward before reaching the river bottom at Southside. Little Sixteen then meanders northward across the floodplain, running parallel to the Kanawha for more than two miles, before discharging into the river. The upper waters of Big Sixteenmile Creek, also known as Kanawha Sixteenmile, or just Sixteen, arise in the southeastern part of Clendenin District, with the main branch and the Five Fork Branch flowing out of the hills of Crooked Ridge, Mount Union Ridge, and Dunlavy Ridge, converging before flowing eastward into Arbuckle District just above the former village of Siloam. The creek continues east past Barn Hollow, then is joined by more branches flowing south from Hambrick Ridge and north from Dunlavy, and finally leaves the hills below McCausland. Sixteenmile then meanders north for about a mile along the base of the hills, before turning eastward and flowing across the plain to the Kanawha. Other streams in Arbuckle District include McCausland Run, which joins the Kanawha just below the Putnam County line, opposite Robertsburg; Pond Branch,"}, {"text": "which empties into the Kanawha above Ninemile; and Twomile Creek, which runs just inside the northeastern boundary with Clendenin District. The upper waters of the Ohio Sixteenmile Creek arise in the western part of Arbuckle District; the main branch meets with Wolfpen Run, and joins with the Willow Branch, flowing southward out of Arbuckle District just above Arlee. Communities. There are no incorporated towns in Arbuckle District, but there are several unincorporated communities, including Beech Hill, Condee, Couch, Fivemile, McCausland, Southside, and the former villages of Flaxton, Siloam and Veranda. Nine miles from the mouth of the Kanawha, Beech Hill is the largest village in Arbuckle District. The village is thought to have taken its name from the Beech Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, built there in 1860; and the church was named for the numerous beech trees that covered the hill. In the latter part of the nineteenth century, Beech Hill was the site of a large lumber depot, established by Robert Alexander in 1866. Alexander was also Beech Hill's first postmaster, from 1868 to 1872. There was a steamboat landing, sheltered from ice floes by a bend in the river, and another landing across the river at Beech Hill"}, {"text": "Station, or Debby Post Office, in Cooper District. A ferry carried passengers back and forth between the two sides. Roads and travel. The only highway in Arbuckle District is U.S. Route 35, which runs from Scott Depot in Putnam County to Henderson, in Clendenin District, before crossing the Ohio River. For most of its length in Arbuckle District, Route 35 parallels the river at the base of the hills, but for about six miles the highway moves into the hills, diverting heavy traffic from its former route, now West Virginia Route 817, known locally as Kanawha Valley Road. There are currently no Kanawha River crossings in Arbuckle District. Until the twentieth century, ferries carried passengers across the river at Ambrosia, Beech Hill, Leon, and Grimms Landing. History. According to \"Hardesty's Biographical Atlas of Mason County\", the first resident of Arbuckle District was a squatter named Macky, who built a cabin at the mouth of Big Sixteenmile Creek \"circa\" 1794. The first regular settler was a man named Ayres, who built his homestead at the mouth of Little Sixteenmile about 1800. They were followed by John Coffman, Nathan Long, Adam Long, William Arbuckle, Andrew Bryan, Charles Day, and Thomas Saunders. William"}, {"text": "Sterrett, who for twenty-seven years was Clerk of the Mason County Court, was another early settler of the district. In 1814, John Koontz built a horse-powered grist mill on Fivemile Creek, the first mill within the present limits of Arbuckle District. In 1818, twenty-eight students attended the first school, held in a log cabin by a teacher named Payne. William George, a Baptist minister who had first come to the district in 1811, organized the Harmony church at the mouth of Little Sixteen in 1821; several years later, he would found a church of the same name in Union District. 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. Arbuckle Township was named in honor of William Arbuckle, one of the county's earliest settlers, whose homestead stood on Thirteenmile Creek, now in Union District. It is the only Arbuckle District in the state. Like the other townships, Arbuckle was converted into a magisterial district in 1872."}, {"text": "Dorethea van der Merwe (1880 \u2013 16 August 1941), also known as Dorethea Kraft and sometimes incorrectly referred to as \"Dorothea\", was the first woman hanged in the Union of South Africa. In 1921 she was convicted of the murder of Louis Tumpowski. He had been murdered on her farm, Treurfontein (\"Sorrow fountain\"), in Lichtenburg, Transvaal in 1918. Treurfontein farm. The present-day town of Coligny is situated on Treurfontein farm. It has been the site of tragic events both before and after the murder of Louis Tumpowski. In 1914 General Louis Botha announced his intention to invade South West Africa, then referred to locally as German West Africa, as part of the assistance of Great Britain during the First World War. Koos de la Rey was amongst those opposed to it and travelled to a meeting in Potchefstroom, via a gathering at the farm, where he was to meet senior military officials. He was shot and killed at a police road-block near the farm. Official accounts of the incident vary, with some stating that de la Rey did not stop at the road-block, while others state that his vehicle was mistaken for one belonging to the Foster gang. The day"}, {"text": "after the funeral a meeting was held at the farm and tensions ran high as it was suspected that de la Rey had been killed deliberately. The farm belonged to Dorethea van der Merwe who was then using the name Dorethea Kraft. Records of her early life are not readily available but it is believed that she had either been divorced or widowed and was trying to eke out an existence on the farm with the help of her daughter, Polly, and the black labourers. Several seasons of severe drought coupled with poor soil quality had resulted in her efforts being reduced to subsistence farming, which was further exacerbated by the common practice amongst the farm workers of being recalcitrant and not accepting instructions from women. Victim. Louis Tumpowski was a Jewish immigrant from the United States who arrived in South Africa in 1887 at the age of twenty-five. He made his way to Johannesburg, which was a small but rapidly expanding mining town at that time, with the intention of selling general provisions to the gold mine workers and prospectors. Even as his business prospered he would still personally visit farms and smallholdings in the area to obtain fresh"}, {"text": "supplies and this was how the 54 year old Tumpowski met Dorethea Kraft. Contract. Although Kraft had little to sell to Tumpowski, she engaged him in conversation and she asked him to find a manager to run the farm for her. He returned with the proposal that he would rent the farm for \u00a3 a year while Kraft and her daughter could remain on the farm. She was very pleased with this idea and on 21 May 1914 she signed the lease-agreement that Tumpowski's lawyers had written, without reading the fine-print. As an added bonus for him, Tumpowski not only managed the farm but also \"kept Dorethea's bed warm at night.\" The situation at the farm did not improve and Kraft decided that it would be better for her, and for her daughter, to sell the farm as the land prices had increased dramatically. She would be able to make a large enough profit for them to live on. Furthermore, Tumpowski did not seem inclined to marry her. However, on learning of Kraft's plan, Tumpowski showed her the contract she had signed that would allow him to buy the land at less than half of its value at that time."}, {"text": "Kraft was angry that she had been cheated and more so at herself for not reading the fine-print. She decided to use \"her feminine wiles\" to convince Tumpowski to marry her and would then nullify the contract in their pre-nuptial agreement. Tumpowski saw no reason to marry her and refused. Witchdoctor. Kraft decided that she needed the assistance of a local witchdoctor, a coloured man named Jim Bird (sometimes referred to as 'Jim Burds' or 'Whiskers') who lived on a neighbouring farm. She got a love potion from him but Tumpowski proved to be immune to it. The only effect it had was to cause cramps and an upset stomach. Tumpowski accused Kraft of trying to kill him and from then on refused to eat or drink anything she had made. A second attempt at a magical potion was made by Jim Bird, which involved a lock of Tumpowski's hair mixed with the magic potion, placed in a matchbox and buried under his door. This potion was supposed to kill Tumpowski but it had no effect. Accomplices. In 1918, Hermanus Lambertus Swartz, an army deserter came to Treurfontein looking for work and Kraft saw this as an opportunity. Swartz soon"}, {"text": "became Polly's suitor but also slept with Kraft on occasion. Swartz saw the opportunity to become the owner of Treurfontein if he married Polly and got rid of Tumpowski. He suggested to Kraft that she stop trying to use magic potions and just kill Tumpowski. He also suggested that Jim Bird would commit the murder. Bird agreed, for the price of \u00a3100. Murder. On the evening of 2 February 1918 a heavy thunderstorm broke over the farm. Kraft, Swartz, Bird and three labourers gathered in the farmhouse kitchen while Polly remained in her bedroom. Swartz opened Tumpowski's bedroom door and shoved Bird into the room. Bird attacked the man with a \"knopkierie\" and tried to leave but Swartz wasn't convinced that Tumpowski was dead and kept sending him back to finish the job. Eventually, Kraft held Tumpowski's hands while Swartz strangled him with a leather thong and then cut his throat. Kraft asked bird to use his magic to hide Tumpowski's blood and offered to pay him an additional \u00a3100 but Bird fled the scene. Kraft, Swartz and the labourers buried Tumpowski's body outside near a rubbish dump. While they were digging the grave a knocking was heard at the"}, {"text": "front door of the house. It was a couple with a sick child that had come to the farmhouse seeking help. No one answered the door and the lights in the house were turned off. Eventually the couple left but they had heard the sounds of the digging. By the next day the storm had washed all traces of the murder away. Aftermath. Polly left the next day for Johannesburg and Kraft complained to the neighbours that Tumpowski had abandoned the farm. Kraft went to stay with one of the neighbours for a while under the pretence that she was afraid to live alone at the farm. A potential buyer for the farm appeared but Kraft couldn't negotiate a deal with him as he knew that Tumpowski had first right to purchase the property and he wanted to negotiate with Tumpowski. Another neighbour, Michael Denyusschen, did not accept Kraft's story and eventually informed the local police of his suspicions. Denyusschen's cousin, Johanna wrote to Tumpowski's sister, Mrs Hetty Saltman, in Rhodesia telling her of Tumpowski's disappearance. The person who wanted to purchase the farm also got in contact with Mrs Saltman and in light of this and the letter from"}, {"text": "Johanna, Mrs Saltman sent her husband Mr Joseph Louis Saltman to the farm to investigate and contacted the police, who then visited Treurfontein. Kraft claimed that Trumpowski had left without paying the annual rent of \u00a325 and went so far as to try to claim it from Mrs Saltman. Kraft claimed that Trumpowski had absconded most probably to avoid other debts he had incurred. However, Saltman knew that Trumpowski was not in any kind of financial distress. Investigation. The police became aware of the option clause in the rental agreement between Kraft and Tumpowski but without a body they would not pursue the matter. It took until 20 July 1920 before the police decided to conduct a full-scale search of the farm and to dig up the garden, drain the well, demolish walls and lift floorboards. The on-site investigation lasted six weeks and the manual labour was performed by a small band of convicts. They found nothing and in desperation the police offered a reward of \u00a3100 for any information. The police investigation led to John Bird and on 20 August 1920 they interviewed him. It appears that his fear of the police was greater than his faith in his"}, {"text": "witchcraft as he quickly capitulated under police questioning and admitted his part in the murder. He identified the other parties involved but could not tell the police what had happened to the body as he had fled the scene earlier. Bird was forced to join the convicts in the search for the body. A torrential rainstorm caused the ground to subside at the burial site and on 22 September 1920 the body was located, by Bird, near the rubbish dump. Although badly decomposed, a signet ring was used to identify the body as that of Tumpowski. His boots were also identified by a local cobbler. Dorethea Kraft (who had in the interim married a man named van der Merwe), Swartz and the three labourers were arrested for murder. Trial. The trial was held at Potchefstroom on 13 June 1921. As this was the first trial of a white women for murder the public galleries at the trial were very well attended. During the trial it was revealed that the cause of death was the fractured skull Tumpowski had suffered at the hands of Bird. Bird became a Crown witness in exchange for leniency. He claimed that Kraft had rewarded him"}, {"text": "with money and sexual favours for his participation in the murder. She did not deny this. Kraft and Swartz were both sentenced to death, while the three labourers were acquitted. They were both hanged at Pretoria Central Prison in 1921."}, {"text": "The Washicoutai 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 Washicoutai River is long. The river narrows several times in its source, and runs through a succession of large lakes, some of which are up to deep. It widens at its mouth, and the estuary, dotted with islands and islets, provides a refuge for a wide variety of seabirds. Its mouth is from the village of La Romaine. It is in the municipality of C\u00f4te-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality. Name. In the Innu language \"Washicoutai\" means \"it overlooks the bay.\" It may refer to the fact that the river enters Washicoutai Bay by a high. The name is found for the first time on a 1685 map by Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin, spelled \"Ouasassacout\u00e9\". The name is also applied to the archipelago along the shore on each side of the bay. Description. The \"Dictionnaire des rivi\u00e8res et lacs de la province de Qu\u00e9bec\" (1914) says of the river, Basin. The Washicoutai River basin covers . It lies between the basins of the Musquanousse River to the west and the Olomane River to"}, {"text": "the east. It is partly in the unorganized territory of Petit-M\u00e9catina and partly in the municipality of C\u00f4te-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent. A map of the ecological regions of Quebec shows the Washicoutai River in sub-regions 6o-T, 6n-T and 6m-T of the east spruce/moss subdomain. Land mammals include black bear, wolf and moose. Fishing. The Washicouta, is recognized as an Atlantic salmon river. In 2013\u20132017 an average of 47 salmon were reported caught each year. The Pourvoirie de La Rivi\u00e8re Washicoutai provides outfitting services. They have exclusive rights to the river, and provide a salmon sport fishery along a stretch. Anglers, wading or in boats, can catch salmon with an average weight of up to as well as Arctic char, brook trout, landlocked salmon and anadromous brook trout."}, {"text": "Kazi Md. Anowar Hossain (1955\u20132017) was a Bangladeshi politician and a member of parliament for Brahmanbaria-5. Career. Hossain was elected to parliament from Brahmanbaria-5 as a Jatiya Party (Ershad) candidate in 1986, 1988, and 1991, and as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. Death. Kazi Md. Anowar Hossain died on 3 March 2017 in Apollo Hospital Dhaka, Bangladesh."}, {"text": "Governor Haines may refer to:"}, {"text": "Harrie Kwinten (born 8 September 1962) is a Dutch field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Zhangxin Qaghan () or Alp K\u00fcl\u00fcg Bilge Qaghan was the eleventh ruler of Uyghurs. His personal name was Yaoluoge Hu (\u85e5\u7f85\u845b\u80e1). He succeeded his uncle in 833. Reign. Chinese records state that he sent an embassy led by Princess Taihe to Tang, accompanied with seven women horse-archers and two Shatuo captives on 16 June 835. His peace policy with China proved him an unpopular ruler. This led to a rebellion in 839 by the Sogdian official An Yunhe (\u5b89\u5141\u5408) and Uyghur minister Chai Lei (\u67f4\u52d2). Qaghan was able to defeat and kill them, but a subsequent battle against another Uyghur official, general Jueluowu (\u6398\u7f85\u52ff) along with the Shatuo chief Zhuye Chixin was lost. Zhangxin died by suicide following the battle. He was succeeded by Qasar Qaghan."}, {"text": "Barkat Ullah Bulu (born 20 December 1956) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Noakhali-2 and Noakhali-3 constituencies in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th parliament. He served as the state minister of commerce during 2001\u20132003. Career. Bulu was elected to parliament from Noakhali-3 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) candidate in 2008. He is the joint secretary general and vice-chairman of the BNP."}, {"text": "The Ma\u2019amtagila First Nation (also styled \"Maamtagila\")\", \"formerly known as Mahteelthpe or Matilpi, are an Indigenous nation and part of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples. Their territory is located in the Queen Charlotte Strait-Johnstone Strait area in the Discovery Islands between Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland in Canada. The Ma'amtagila are recognized by the various tribes that comprise the Kwakwaka'wakw-speaking peoples. They were officially recognized by the Government of Canada first in 1879 and confirmed in 1914 by the Royal Commission on Indian Affairs in British Columbia (McKenna-McBride Commission), before amalgamating in 1945 with the Klowitsis Tribe (now Tlowitsis Nation). History. Prior to contact with settlers, the Ma'amtagila occupied the area around what is now called the Johnstone Strait for thousands of years. Their primary dwelling places were Etsekin (Matilpi Village) and Haylate, locations that were central to the overall territories of the Kwakwaka'wakw people. Like all Kwakwaka'wakw, the Ma\u2019amtagila are made up of several namimas (clans), each with its own Eagle seat (leader). The three main namimas of the Ma\u2019amtagila are the Hamatam (Seagull), Gixsam (Kulus, Thunderbird) and the Hayalikawa\u2019yi (Healers). The Ma\u2019a\u0331mtagila name derives from their ancestor, Matagila, the grey seagull. The Ma'amtagila are known for their harvesting"}, {"text": "and carving of Cedar trees, as well as their silverwork. Name Changes. In addition to variations in spelling, there have also been several different names assigned to the Ma'amtagila. Post-Contact. In the years following BC joining the Dominion in 1871, the Ma'amtagila have been recognized repeatedly by the Canadian government. In 1879, the Joint Indian Reserve Commission visited the Johnstone Strait. Commissioner G.M. Sproat recommended four land allotments for the Matilpi Tribe. These allotments of reserve or \"Indian\" land were confirmed in 1886 by the Dominion of Canada at approximately 59 acres. In 1902, the band's reserve land was extended to 145 acres. In 1914, the Royal Commission on Indian Affairs in British Columbia visited with the members of the \"Mahteelthpe\" Tribe. Chief Lagis addressed the commissioners, speaking on behalf of the community:I am glad to meet you for this reason that we are so much in trouble about our lands. There are hardly any of my lands left now for our use \u2014 it is all taken by the whites \u2014it is given to them by the people from whom you come. There are only a few cedar trees left now \u2014 all the other trees are gone now;"}, {"text": "namely the fir trees all have been cut down by the whites. Many booms of logs have been taken away from my lands; so many of them that I don't know the number of them. My forefathers have never received anything from the Government for these lands \u2014 at least if they did I don't know anything about it. I don't think they have received anything for it. These lands belong to our forefathers, and therefore belong to me and my children, and I want to put forth my hand to pull some of it back as it looks like as if the Government wants it wrenched out of our hands. Those lands, as I said before belong to my forefathers, and therefore we say it is our own. In its final report issued in 1916, the commission confirmed six reserves of the \"Mahteelthpe or Matilipi Tribe\": According to the commission's final report, the village of Etsekin was largely abandoned due to a smallpox outbreak in the 1880s. These six reserves were confirmed in the 1943 Schedule of Indian Reserves in the Dominion of Canada. Amalgamation with the Tlowitsis First Nation. In 1945, the Matilpi Tribe amalgamated with the nearby"}, {"text": "Klowitsis Tribe, to create the Turnour Island Tribe. The amalgamation was ordered by the Indian Agent, in order to make the management of these two smaller tribes easier. Members of the Matilpi agreed to join the Klowitsis Tribe with the understanding that their two chiefs would govern \"with equal powers and responsibilities.\" In 1983, the name was changed to the Tlowitsis-Mumtagila First Nation, in order to more accurately reflect the Indigenous titles. In 1998, the Tlowitsis leadership removed 'Mumtagila' from the group's name to leave only Tlowitsis First Nation. In the band council resolution declaring the change, Chief John Smith declared that the Matilpi/Ma'amtagila \"ceded title and authority to their lands to the chiefs of the Tlowitsis.\" The Ma'amtagila dispute this claim. Over time, the relationship between the Tlowitsis administration and Ma'amtagila people has become more contentious. In 2021, Ma'amtagila leaders began formally demanding that the original terms of the amalgamation be honoured, including the reinstatement of their leadership and jurisdiction. UVic Little Big House Campaign. In 2019, members of the Ma'amtagila partnered with the University of Victoria to build a Little Big House. The construction of the Little Big House is part of an assertion of Indigenous sovereignty spear-headed"}, {"text": "by Ma\u2019amtagila matriarch Tsastilqualus Ambers Umbas, in coordination with broader Kwakwaka'wakw hereditary leadership. Tsastilqualus and other members of the Matriarch Camp intend to return home to their lands and waters near Hiladi, \u201cthe place to make things right,\u201d to affirm their Indigenous title and rights and uphold hereditary systems of governance. According to the group's website: The portable Little Big House will enable Tsastilqualus, her son Dakota, their kin, and other Indigenous people to spend time on the land and water. In the process, the Little Big House will help to reinvigorate land-based cultural and spiritual practices, strengthen matriarchal decision-making practices that are integral to Kwakwaka'wakw governance, increase access to traditional foods and medicines, and (re)produce and share knowledge with younger generations. However, Ma\u2019amtagila and Kwakwaka'wakw territories and people are also facing the impacts of historical and ongoing colonial violence. The Little Big House will facilitate anti-colonial resistance efforts by serving as a base of operations for the Wild Salmon Matriarch Camp, who witness and document industrial activity and initiate campaigns to oppose unsustainable logging and fish farming practices that threaten the health and well-being of all life on Ma\u2019amtagila territory. The Little Big House will support Ma\u2019amtagila people as"}, {"text": "they uphold their responsibilities and make things right.At the launch of the campaign, Ma'amtagila member and UVic student Matt Ambers said, \u201cRight now, we\u2019re removed. We\u2019re not on the land. But if we start to move back to the land, and start to utilize our resources again, it becomes very hard for them to continue to take what is ours.\u201d As of 2022, the structure has been transported to the former village site of Hiladi, with a permanent occupation led by Ma'amtagila matriarch Tsastilqualus. Treaty process. The Ma'amtagila have never entered into treaty negotiations with the Government of Canada and their territory remains unceded to anyone. The Tlowitsis First Nation has reached Stage 4 in their treaty negotiations. On March 3, 2021, the Ma'amtagila First Nation released a statement asserting that the Tlowitsis leadership is unlawfully negotiating with the unceded territory of the Ma'amtagila, over which they have no authority. They called on the governments of Canada and British Columbia to immediately cease treaty negotiations with the Tlowitsis Chief & Council. According to the statement:Through a series of ill mannered, unvalidated and illegitimate resolutions and processes the Ma'amtagila have been silenced, disempowered, and disregarded by the federal and provincial governments."}, {"text": "But we are still here. We still love our \u0141awit\u02bcsis family relations, our nation, and our Potlatch governance. \"The Ma'amtagila Hereditary Chiefs are the rightful representatives of the Ma'amtagila people and remain the holders of Aboriginal rights and title in their territories,\u201d said Noah Ross, lawyer for the Ma'amtagila. \u201cThe Tlowitsis First Nation has no authority to cede Ma'amtagila territory in treaty negotiations with the Provincial and Federal government.\u201dIn their statement, the Ma'amtagila First Nation calls for treaty negotiations to be halted until the historical dispute between the Ma'amtagila and the Tlowitsis is resolved."}, {"text": "Russell Library is an 1876 library located at 123 Broad Street in Middletown, Connecticut, United States. History. In 1876, Frances Ann (n\u00e9e Osborne) Russell established Russell Library in memory of her husband, the prominent merchant Samuel Russell of Russell & Co. Frances purchased the Church of the Holy Trinity on the corner of Broad and Court Streets in Middletown and remodeled it in the Gothic Revival Style. The building opened on April 5, 1876 as the public library for the City of Middletown. In 1896, David Ross of East Haddam, who served with the Confederate Army during the U.S. Civil War, donated his sword to the Library's war relic museum. Additions. In 1930, what is known as the \"Hubbard wing\" was added to the structure. In 1972, the First Federal Saving and Loan Association of Meriden was remodeled as the Children's Library and, in 1983, the main structure and the Children's Library were connected. In 1997 and 1999, the library purchased an adjacent building on Court Street and Broad Street, respectively, for offices in order to accommodate needs and future expansion, if needed."}, {"text": "Pieter van Ede (born 30 November 1965) is a Dutch former field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Prince David Amanda (born 23 March 2001) is a professional soccer player who plays for Edmonton BTB SC in League1 Alberta. He has received call-ups to training camps for the Canadian youth national teams. Early life. Amanda was born in Tanzania, where his family was living in a refugee camp after fleeing the Democratic Republic of Congo due to the civil war. He and his family immigrated to Canada when he was eight, where he grew up in Edmonton. Amanda began playing organized football with Sherwood Park SA. At age twelve, Amanda switched to Edmonton Xtreme FC. In 2015, Amanda joined the academy program of FC Edmonton. Club career. On 15 February 2019, Amanda signed his first professional contract with Edmonton ahead of the club's first season in the Canadian Premier League. On 16 October 2019, Amanda made his debut as a starter in a 3\u20131 win over Pacific FC, in which he scored the opening goal and assisted on another. After the 2020 season, his contract option for 2021 was not picked up making him a free agent. After having discussions to join another CPL club in 2021, on October 1, 2021, he ultimately re-joined FC Edmonton for the"}, {"text": "remainder of the 2021 season, with contract options for 2022 and 2023. On February 9, 2022, the club announced that Amanda and all but two other players would not be returning for the 2022 season. In 2023, he played a match with Blue Devils FC in League1 Ontario, before switching to join Alliance United FC. In 2024, he signed with the St. Albert Impact in League1 Alberta. International career. In 2014, Amanda participated in a Canada national U-14 team identification camp. Personal. His older brother Gloire Amanda is also a professional soccer player."}, {"text": "Bastiaan Poortenaar (29 November 1968 \u2013 21 May 2024) was a Dutch field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Poortenaar died from a cardiac arrest on 21 May 2024, at the age of 55."}, {"text": "Sanamahism is the indigenous religion of the Meitei people. It originated in the Kingdom of Kangleipak, and is still practiced in modern Manipur, India, distinct from both the Indosphere and the Sinosphere. Sanamahism is a polytheistic religion with thousands of gods and goddesses of varying power, quality, features, and character. Principle deities. There are five main deities in Sanamahism: Guardians of the Directions. In Sanamahism, there are ten directions, for which there are ten deities who are the protectors and the guardians. Incarnations of Leimarel Sidibi. Leimarel Sidabi, the supreme goddess has incarnated several times in various forms with diverse attributes. Apokpa (ancestral deities). The ancestral deities of every families and clans were called Apokpa. They are worshipped by their respective families (Yumnak) and clans (Yek Salai). Celestial gods. According to the \"Khenchonglol\" the Sun, Moon, seven planets, and are twenty seven stars which are referred to as deities In Meitei mythology, there are seven celestial goddesses, the \"Lai Nuraa Tare\" , the creation of the Lord Atingkok Maru Sidaba and seven nymphs or \"helloi taret\", who are the daughters of the Salailen Sidaba. Umang Lai. There are more than 365 forest deities or \"Umang Lai\" in Sanamahism. They are"}, {"text": "always associated with a sacred grove. The term \"Umang Lai\" is also used to refer to the sacred abodes of the deities. Lake and river goddesses. There are various Lake and river guardian goddesses. Market goddesses. People worshipped one goddess for each market area considering the spirit of the goddess as the protector, guardian of the region. Worship. According to the Loiyumpa Silyel Constitution, 1. Meireima is worshipped by the Heirom family. 2. Khanglangba is worshipped by the Irom family. 3. Shorarel (heaven) is worshipped by the Sorelsangbam family. 4. Lammabee is worshipped by the Sharang Leishangthem family. 5. Phouoibi (goddess for paddy) is worshipped by the Sharotkhaibam family. 6. Shanglang-mei (Kangla) is worshipped by the Potshangbam family. 7. Kutchu (Wayenshang) is worshipped by the Moirang Pukhrambam family. 8. Mawao Leima is worshipped by the Shoubam family. 9. Panthoibi (most adored Meetei goddess) is worshipped by the Heishnam family. 10. Pet-angnga is worshipped by the Khoisanam family. 11. Laikhurembee is worshipped by the Taibangjam family. 12. Huimureima is worshipped by the Konthoujam family. 13. Lainaotabi is worshipped by the Ashangbam family. 14. Nungthelleima is worshipped by the Chingkhwam family. 15. Shoubonleima is worshipped by the Arambam family. 16. Awangba (deity"}, {"text": "Lai-wangba) is worshipped by the Yenkhom Phisabam family. 17. Luwaang Ching is worshipped by the Luwangshangbam family. 18. Lainingthou is worshipped by the Sinam Laishangbam family. 19. Puthiba is worshipped by the Moirangthem Puthem family. 20. Pureiromba is worshipped by the Mangsatabam family. 21. Tenlongba is worshipped by the Langmaithem family. 22. Thongak is worshipped by the Ngarangyanpam family. 23. Chingkol-Ningthou is worshipped by the Nakalbam family. 24. Chingbal Leima is worshipped by the Khuraijam family. 25. Yaoreibi is worshipped by the Meiyengbam family. 26. Koubarel is worshipped by the Leishangthem family. 27. Numitleima is worshipped by the Ningthoujam family. 28. Koubru is worshipped by the Pukkalabam family. 29. Marjing is worshipped by the Chenglei-Laishangbam family. 30. Moirang Phaktom Ariba is worshipped by the Moirangthem family. 31. Hongnemyoi Khunjao is worshipped by the Kangpucham family. 32. Chinga is worshipped by the Chingkhalbam family. 33. Langjing is worshipped by the Longjam Pheiroijam family. 34. Langgol is worshipped by the Tekcham family. 35. Langmaicheeng (Nongmaijing) is worshipped by the Nongmaithem family. 36. Chinga Leima is worshipped by the Ningthoujam family. 37. Langching Hiyangthou Leima is worshipped by the Heithou and Khongtekcham families. 38. Yumjao Lairemma is worshipped by the Thaopicham family."}, {"text": "Gijs Weterings (born 24 July 1965) is a Dutch field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Gianluca Gauzzi Broccoletti, commonly known as Gianluca Gauzzi, (born 3 June 1974) is an Italian police commissioner who has been director of the Directorate for Security Services and Civil Protection of the Vatican City State and commander of the Gendarmerie Corps since 15 October 2019. He was previously deputy director and deputy commander. Biography. Gianluca Gauzzi Broccoletti was born in Gubbio, Perugia, on 3 June 1974. He graduated from Sapienza University of Rome with a safety engineering and protection degree. He and his wife have two children. He joined the Gendarme Corps in 1995. In 1999, he was given responsibility for the design and development of the networking technology and security infrastructure of the Vatican City State and for cybersecurity as well. In 2010, he was transferred to the Operational Security Center. He became a manager in 2017 and a deputy director and deputy commander in 2018. He coordinated security at Castel Gandolfo when Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI used it as their summer residence. He helped manage technological security during the 2005 and 2013 conclaves. He has represented the Security and Civil Protection Services in its relations with the City of Rome and other police forces. He"}, {"text": "also occasionally testified as an expert witness at Vatican criminal proceedings. On 15 October 2019, Pope Francis appointed Broccoletti to succeed Domenico Giani, who resigned after the Italian weekly magazine \"L'Espresso\" published confidential material relating to an ongoing investigation of financial crimes by several Vatican employees."}, {"text": "Bart Looije (born 19 December 1968) is a Dutch field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "was a Japanese supercentenarian who was the world's oldest living person from 16 September 2017, until her own death, and the last surviving person to have been born in the 19th century. Personal life. Tajima was born in Araki, an area which was then Wan Village, in the westernmost part of Kikaijima Island. From February 2002 until her death, she resided in a nursing home named \"Kikaien\" (\u559c\u754c\u5712) in Kikai, Kagoshima. Her husband, Tominishi Tajima (\u7530\u5cf6 \u5bcc\u4e8c\u5b50), died in 1991 at the age of 95 according to some sources, or possibly 1992 or 1993 according to others. She had nine children (seven sons and two daughters). In September 2017 she was reported as having around 160 descendants, including great-great-great-grandchildren. Longevity. Tajima became the oldest living person in Japan on 27 September 2015, upon the death of a 115-year-old woman, whose family requested her name be withheld, who was living in Tokyo. Violet Brown died on 15 September 2017 in Jamaica (UTC-5). In Japan, where Tajima lived, the date was already 16 September 2017 (JST), and Tajima became the oldest living person in the world\u2014and the last surviving person born in the 19th century. She stated that her longevity was due"}, {"text": "to sleeping soundly and eating delicious food. Death. Tajima died on 21 April 2018 in Kikai, Kagoshima Prefecture at the age of 117 years, 260 days. After Tajima's death, Chiyo Miyako in Yokohama, Japan, became the world's oldest living person. Her death was reported by international media. \"ABC News\" described her as a great-great-great-grandmother and noted that Guinness World Records had planned to recognize her as the world's oldest person. \"CBS News\" included footage of Tajima moving her hands to the beat of traditional Japanese music during a ceremony celebrating her longevity."}, {"text": "Eyprepocnemis plorans, the lamenting grasshopper, is a species of insect in the family Acrididae. It is the type species of the genus \"Eyprepocnemis\", and is found in Africa, parts of the Middle East, and southern Europe. It typically inhabits wetlands and other moist habitats. Description. This is a medium-sized grasshopper, with females growing to a length of about , while males are slightly smaller. The general colour is greyish-brown. The head and prothorax have a central dark band edged with paler stripes. The eye has a longitudinal dark streak, a characteristic shared by \"Anacridium aegyptium\", \"Heteracris annulosa\" and \"Heteracris adspersa\". The femurs of the hind legs have greenish, blue and yellow striations, and the hind tibia have reddish or bluish iridescence, and black and white spines. Distribution and habitat. \"Eyprepocnemis plorans\" is native to much of Africa, parts of the Middle East such as Iran, and southern Europe, where it is present in southern Greece, southern Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and southern Spain. It seems to be expanding its range northwards in Italy, possibly as a result of putative climate change. It usually occurs in wetlands, reed beds, freshwater and salt marshes, riverside vegetation, coastal vegetation and man-made habitats. It appreciates"}, {"text": "vertical-growing stems such as reeds, and habitats with tall forbs mixed with lower-growing plants. Ecology. Grasshoppers are in general polyphagous, eating vegetation from many different plant sources. \"Eyprepocnemis plorans\" feeds mainly on grasses and sedges. The female deposits an egg pod in the ground and the eggs hatch in the spring. The nymphs undergo five moults, becoming more similar to the adult insect at each developmental stage; they do not undergo metamorphosis and mature in the summer. In parts of the range many adults survive the winter. This species is rather wary and is a good flier. Research. The karyotype of this grasshopper includes a number of B chromosomes (extra chromosomes) and exhibits a very widespread polymorphism; populations in Spain show about 40 different variations in B chromosomes, resulting in an increase in the frequency of chiasmas. During spermatogenesis in \"E. plorans\", the autosomal chromosomes achieve complete synapsis, but the single X sex chromosome always remains unsynapsed. The autosomal chromosomes are transcriptionally active during the leptotene to zygotene stages of meiosis, whereas the X chromosome is inactive throughout meiosis likely because of specific epigenetic modifications. Status. This is a common species of grasshopper in suitable habitats. The population fluctuates seasonally,"}, {"text": "and the main threats are from urbanisation and developments associated with tourism. It has a wide range and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it as being of least concern. References."}, {"text": "Tomas Quinlan (born 27 January 1995) is an Irish professional rugby union player. He previously played as a fly-half for the Colorado Raptors in Major League Rugby (MLR). He previously played for RC Narbonne in the Pro D2 league and for Ireland U20s internationally."}, {"text": "WD 0145+234 is a white dwarf star approximately from Earth in the constellation of Aries that has been associated with studies suggesting that a very large exoasteroid near the star was substantially disrupted, resulting in a considerable amount of dust and debris around the star. Alternatively, the outburst around WD 0145+234 is explained with ongoing collisions between planetesimals inside the dusty debris disk around the white dwarf. The outburst around WD 0145+234 appeared in 2018 in data by the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer. Outburst around white dwarfs in the infrared are not unusual. Novae and dwarf novae also show outbursts, but they are accompanied by an outburst in the optical and appear around binaries. WD 0145+234 is however a single white dwarf and did not show any brightening in the optical images taken by CRTS and ASASSN. This suggested that the outburst was caused by recent replenishing or redistribution of dust. A follow-up study using the Spitzer Space Telescope found a decrease of the infrared brightness, beginning in late 2019. The decrease is accompanied by small bumps superimposed on the decrease of infrared brightness. The team studying WD 0145+234 with Spitzer concluded that the increase of brightness was not caused"}, {"text": "by the a tidal disruption of an exoasteroids, but by ongoing collisions in the disk around the white dwarf. A similar decrease in infrared brightness was found around the white dwarf GD 56. WD 0145+234 is also unusual because not only does it show metal pollution in the form of absorption lines, which are found around 25-50% of white dwarfs, but also emission lines caused by calcium gas, which are less common. It is still not clear what causes the metal emission lines around some white dwarfs, but the existence of such lines around WD 0145+234 suggests that metal gas is formed in collisions. There are still some unanswered questions for this hypothesis: Some white dwarfs with metal gas show variable emission lines, while WD 0145+234 does not show any variability in the calcium emission line. It is unclear why some white dwarfs show variable metal emission lines. Other white dwarfs with planetary pollution also show infrared variability, with the prototype being G29-38, which showed a decrease of infrared flux by about 35% over a period of 300 days. White dwarfs with the highest infrared variations show calcium emission lines, just like WD 0145+234. WD 0145+234 might be the system"}, {"text": "with one of the highest activity of this class of objects. Observations with NIRSpec released in a preprint in October 2023 showed that the debris disk is returning to its quiescent state. MIRI spectroscopy showed emission at 9-12 micron, consistent with silicate minerals and a tentative emission feature around 7 microns was interpreted as carbonates. The authors noted that emission of silicate minerals begins at 9 microns and therefore resembles more the emission feature of enstatite than that of fosterite."}, {"text": "Mustapha Laribi born January 8, 1969) is an Algerian film actor. Acting career. Algerian actor graduated from the Higher Institute of Arts Theater with his artistic credentials, which included many successful dramas such as the series 'hearts in conflict', 'blue band' 'social series' secrets in addition to 'difficult exam', which won the Golden Art Award for best A secondary role for men, in a new film entitled \"Seven Walls of the Citadel\" Algerian director \"Ahmed Rachedi\", where our speaker embodies the role of \"Kaid Gaballah,\" an educated figure located between the fire of his son who joined the ranks of the National Liberation Front and the fire of his belief in the need to avoid Face the French enemy"}, {"text": "The Elephant Queen is a 2018 documentary film directed by Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble, and narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor. It tells the journey of a family of elephants in the African savannah when they are forced to leave their waterhole. The film was produced by Lucinda Englehart under the banner of Deeble & Stone. At the 2019 Critics' Choice Movie Awards, \"The Elephant Queen\" was nominated for Best Science/Nature Documentary and Best Narration. Plot. Athena, a 50-year-old mother elephant, is matriarch of a herd of adult females and male and female juveniles, which includes mother Mala, older daughter Milli, and newborn Mimi. The elephants live in a bucolic area referred to as The Kingdom, with dotted waterholes. The waterholes are also home to bullfrogs, chameleons, dung beetles, killifish, and terrapins. In \"The Elephant Queen\", the animals are characters with personalities who live in symbiotic harmony. A drought forces the herd to leave their environment and travel far away to a savanna. But they must eat and drink plenty to endure until the next waterhole. Matriarch Athena has the hard decision to wait for Mimi to get stronger for the long trip, or to voyage on towards her and her"}, {"text": "family\u2019s safety. Cast. English actor Chiwetel Ejiofor narrates the journey of the elephant family. Production. Directors Deeble and Stone stated that they never filmed elephants before as main subjects. In 2009, a drought hit Amboseli National Park, Kenya, which \"opened their eyes\" to tell the elephants' story. While talking about their immersive experience of capturing African elephants' life, the duo said: The duo followed the elephant Athena and her herd for over four years in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya. Release. On 8 September 2018, \"The Elephant Queen\" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film would later screen at the BFI London Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Montclair Film Festival and Sydney Film Festival. \"The Elephant Queen\" opened in theatres on 18 October 2019 as a pilot to a deal between A24 and Apple, where A24 would distribute films through a limited release in US theaters before becoming Apple TV+ exclusives. That same day, they released \"The Lighthouse\", hence priority at A24 shifted to that film, and a small release was made for \"The Elephant Queen\" with little to no marketing. The film was made available for streaming on Apple TV+ on 1 November 2019. It later also"}, {"text": "had its one-time linear premiere in its country of production, on Citizen TV in parts of sub-Saharan Africa on 12 April 2020. Thusly, rendering it non-exclusive in those countries. Reception. Critical response. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critical consensus reads, \"Informative, compassionate, and beautifully filmed, \"The Elephant Queen\" should satisfy nature documentary lovers of all ages.\" Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 67 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating \"Generally favorable reviews\". Frank Scheck of \"The Hollywood Reporter\" wrote that the film \"delivers a powerful reminder that the magnificent subjects of this documentary [...] are faced with serious dangers both natural and man-made\". Sandie Angulo Chen of \"Common Sense Media\" wrote, \"Gorgeously shot, fabulously narrated, and surprisingly poignant, this documentary is an inspiring tribute to the power of motherhood and community on the African savanna\". Scott Tobias of \"Variety\" magazine wrote, \"There's a gap between the story Stone and Deeble want to tell about love and family, and the much grimmer story nature itself is telling, in unsentimental terms. In the end, it's"}, {"text": "hard to reconcile the two\". Chelsea Phillips-Carr of \"Point of View\" wrote, \"The documentary is without a doubt charming, but it is also too innocuous for its subject matter\"."}, {"text": "Christiansburg Institute was a private school for African American students, active from 1866 until 1966 in Christiansburg in Montgomery County, Virginia. It closed in the wake of desegregation and one of the buildings is now a museum. It was also named Christiansburg Industrial Institute. History. The school was founded after the Civil War by Captain Charles S. Schaeffer, a Union soldier and Baptist minister from Philadelphia. It was established to educate freed slaves. After the war, Schaeffer joined the Freedmen's Bureau agency and came to Christiansburg in 1866 with the mission to educate newly freed slaves and prepare them for freedom. The school started in a rented one-room house with only twelve students. By 1869, it had grown to over two hundred students and came to be known as the Hill School. The school has a classical curriculum and was mostly taught by white teachers who traveled from the northern states to teach the freed slaves. By 1870, the Freedmen's Bureau stopped funding the school and Schaeffer was instead helped financially by a Quaker group called the Friends' Freemen's Association. In the 1880s, Schaeffer took on an advisory position and control of the school was given to an entirely African"}, {"text": "American staff. Christiansburg Industrial Institute's (CII) educational approach was altered in 1896 when Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee Institute, became an adviser. The school changed its curriculum from a classical education model that emphasized reading, writing, and history, to become a vocational and technical school exemplified by the Tuskegee Institute and Hampton Institute. A farm was purchased for the school in 1905. By the 1940s Christiansburg Industrial Institute had grown to a campus of approximately 14 buildings. The campus functioned as a teacher educational facility as well as a training school, and became a credentialed secondary school, recognized by both the State Board of Education and the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Christiansburg Institute's credentials made it one of the nation's premier African-American schools. During segregation in Southwestern Virginia, Christiansburg Industrial Institute was the only secondary school for African Americans in Montgomery County. It also educated black students from 15 nearby counties. In 1934 the Montgomery County School Board began its management of the school. CII was converted in 1947 to a regional high school for African-American students, and closed in 1966, when the local schools were integrated. Tillman Sease was the school's athletic director from 1948"}, {"text": "until 1956 and coached at the school."}, {"text": "Club Gorilas de Juanacatl\u00e1n is a football club that plays in the Liga Premier de M\u00e9xico \u2013 Serie B. It is based in the city of Juanacatl\u00e1n. History. The team was founded in 2016 with the aim of training professional players from neighboring towns: El Salto and Juanacatl\u00e1n, Jalisco. In the 2018\u201319 season, the team finished in third position of group X with 81 points. So Gorilas managed to qualify for the promotion playoff. On the Round of 32 Gorilas defeated Valle F.C. by 9\u20131 on the aggregate, however, in the Round of 16 the Juanacatl\u00e1n team was eliminated by Orgullo Surtam on penalty series after drawing 2\u20132 in the aggregate. On May 25, 2025, the team was promoted to the Liga Premier de M\u00e9xico after defeating Deportivo Zamora F.C. in the regional semi\u2013finals. The team had finished the regular season in first place in its group and had previously eliminated H2O Pur\u00e9pechas, Deportivo Etchojoa and Irritilas F.C."}, {"text": "An exoasteroid, exo-asteroid or extrasolar asteroid is an asteroid located outside the Solar System. Evidence. Scientists propose that the formation of exoasteroids often results from the fragmentation of exoplanets by gas giants. These exoasteroids are presumed to be the remnants of smaller celestial bodies that endured the demise of their parent exoplanet. Similar processes are hypothesized to have occurred during the formation of the Solar System. NASA has conducted studies confirming that the presence of asteroid belts around stars is a common phenomenon in nearly any planetary system hosting planets comparable in size to the outer and inner planets of the Solar System. History. In December 1988, American astrophysicists Benjamin Zuckerman and Eric Becklin detected a substantial circumstellar disc encircling the white dwarf star G 29-38, stemming from a near-infrared survey of 200 white dwarfs. Zuckerman and Becklin conducted further investigations on the white dwarf star, uncovering that the circumstellar disc emits notable radiation within the 2 to 5 micrometer range. This discovery suggests potential interactions between exoasteroids and radiant matter, possibly leading to their ejection into space. Subsequent observations in 2004 by the Spitzer Space Telescope revealed the presence of a dust cloud surrounding G 29-38. This phenomenon is"}, {"text": "believed to have originated from the disintegration of an exocomet or exoasteroid as it interacted with the white dwarf. In May 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope provided images of Fomalhaut, a young star positioned 25 light-years (ly) away from Earth. Scientists analyzed these images and conducted simulations and tests on Fomalhaut's asteroid belt, proposing that it likely formed due to collisions involving larger celestial bodies. Another notable star hosting an asteroid belt is the white dwarf star WD 0145+234. It is hypothesized that WD 0145+234 once hosted an exoasteroid or exoplanet in orbit around it, which was disrupted, leading to the formation of a substantial exoasteroid belt. Due to the star's dimensions, scientists infer that the accretion disk surrounding WD 0145+234 is highly active, resulting in the regular disruption of exoasteroids by the star's gravitational pull. In 2018, astronomers observed a 10% increase in the star's mid-infrared light, indicative of the recent destruction of an exoasteroid, which led to the formation of a cloud of metallic dust partially obscuring WD 0145+234 from Earth's view. Detection. In 2013, astronomers discovered fragmented remnants of an exoasteroid orbiting the star GD 61. Scientists determined that the asteroid possessed a surface rich in"}, {"text": "water, comprising approximately 26% water by mass, a composition akin to the surface water, primarily in the form of ice, found on the dwarf planet Ceres. It suggests the potential existence of an exoplanet with liquid water around the star at some point in its history. It is proposed that the asteroid met its demise due to interactions with its star, leading to its fragmentation and subsequent formation of an asteroid belt around the star. Following this discovery, scientists used the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph aboard the Hubble Space Telescope to analyze the chemical composition of the asteroid; it showed the presence of magnesium, silicon, iron, and oxygen within the asteroid's water."}, {"text": "Proton-Translocating NAD(P)+ Transhydrogenase (E.C. 7.1.1.1) is an enzyme in that catalyzes the translocation of hydrons that are connected to the redox reaction NADH + NADP+ + H+outside => NAD+ + NADPH + H+inside EC Number 7.1.1.1. EC 7 \u2013 Translocases are a grouping of enzymes with a common function of assisting to move a molecule, typically across a membrane. EC 7.1 \u2013 enzymes that catalyze translocation of hydrons (the positive cations of all hydrogen isotopes e.g. protons, deuterons, tritons) EC 7.1.1 \u2013 enzymes that catalyze translocation of hydrons that have a tie to oxidoreductase reactions EC 7.1.1.1 \u2013 proton-translocating NAD(P)+ transhydrogenase. Reaction pathway. The reaction that this enzyme catalyzes is NADH + NADP+ + H+outside => NAD+ + NADPH + H+inside This redox reaction is a transfer of hydride equivalents from NADH to NADP+ coupled to a translocation of protons across a membrane. NADP+ is reduced to NADPH by NADH, which is oxidized into NAD+. This reduction is tied to the inward translocation of protons across a membrane. This process is not necessarily coupled, but is found coupled in nature. Known organisms and locations. The transhydrogenase is found in the inner mitochondrial membranes of all vertebrates excluding fish. While it"}, {"text": "is not found in the yeast \"Saccharomyces cerevisiae\", it is found in algae such as \"Acetabularia acetabulum\", as well as in the cytosolic membrane of many bacteria, including \"Escherichia coli\". In E. coli the enzyme helps to provide between 35-45% of cytosolic NADPH under standard growth conditions. E. coli will be our model organism when looking at structure and function. Description of known crystal structures/active sites. The structure of proton-translocating NADP(+) transhydrogenase has been shown to vary between organisms. The structures of the enzyme share an architecture with 3 known domains, dI, dII, dIII, but differ on exact structure and makeup of these domains. Humans have a single polypeptide chain that forms all three domains. Bacteria are split into two main groups. Some are similar to E. coli, which have two subunits, \u03b1 and \u03b2. Other bacteria have a similar \u03b2 subunit, while their \u03b1 subunit is split into two so that the dI domain is its own polypeptide. These three domains form a heterotrimer, with both dI and dIII in the cytosolic space and connected to dII. The heterotrimer forms a dimer, with dI as the dimerization unit dII. The domain II (dII) is around 400 residues and spans"}, {"text": "across the membrane forming a channel for protons. It has 13 \u03b1-helices comprising its transmembrane domain. Since both ends of the dII domain are on the cytosolic side of the membrane, an even number of helices would make more sense, structurally. The current prediction as to why an odd number of helices exists in dII is that the \u03b1 and \u03b2 subunits have another helix that connects their C and N termini. dII also has few conserved residues and shorter loops on the periplasmic side of the transmembrane domain, while the cytosolic side has highly conserved and longer loops. dI. Domain dI is about 400 residues long and protrudes into the cytosolic space with a binding site for NAD(H). When crystallized in its dimerized form (a homodimer), dI has several subdomains, including the binding site for NAD(H). Two subdomains in particular, dI1 and dI2 both contain a Rossmann fold, which is made of a 6-stranded parallel \u03b2-sheet surrounded by \u03b1-helices, and are connected by two longer \u03b1-helices. The C termini of the two dI monomers forms the substrate-binding cleft for NAD(H). dIII. Domain dIII is about 200 residues long and also protrudes into the cytosolic space, where it has a"}, {"text": "binding site for NADP(H). Similar to dI, dIII comprises a Rossmann fold. When in the complete heterotrimer, dIII is thought to extend into the cleft of dI in order to bring their substrate-binding sites, and their substrates, closer together to allow an easier transfer of hydride ion from NADH to NADP+. A high affinity for NADP(H) is evidenced by loop E, which acts as a lid to allow tighter bonding of the ligand via hydrogen bonding. There is also a fingerprint motif (Gly-X-Gly-X-X-Ala/Val) that increases specificity of the enzyme to bind to the proper substrate which is highly conserved. The link between dIII and dII is less rigid, and consists of a scattering of smaller polar residues as well as a helix D/loop D region that perpendicularly extends from the Rossmann fold. Structure tied to function. This enzyme\u2019s structure is tied to its function heavily. The transmembrane domain in dII formed by alpha helices lends itself well to its function as a proton channel across a membrane. The lid and fingerprint motifs used by dIII to increase affinity to NADP(H) are also examples of its structure being tied to function. In addition, the ridge of dIII fitting into the cleft"}, {"text": "of dI shows that even the structure of the dI/dIII dimer is helpful in moving their two substrates closer together to allow hydride transfer. Since this enzyme exists in multiple organisms, it is possible to look at multiple orthologs of this enzyme. Their structures are not identical, but most are highly similar, and all share the same architecture and domains. This all shows that the structure of this enzyme is closely connected to its role in reduction of NADP+. Enzyme functions in the cell. NADPH is used as a reducing agent in many anabolic reactions. Proton translocating NAD(P)+ transhydrogenase is one of the main ways that cells can regenerate NADPH after it is used. In E. coli, this pathway contribute equal amounts of NADPH as the pentose phosphate pathway, and both were the main producers of NADPH under standard growth conditions. NADP(H) and NAD(H) are equal and opposite contributors to metabolism, and this enzyme is necessary to keep a balance between the two. It can also function to generate a proton gradient across a membrane, as it is a reversible reaction, and is used as such in certain organisms. \u201cIt can contribute to NADPH formation for bio-synthesis and glutathione reduction,"}, {"text": "in the regulation of flux through the tricarboxylic acid cycle, and, operating in reverse in some invertebrates, it can transfer reducing power from NADPH to NAD+ to fuel an anaerobic respiratory chain.\u201d \u2013 J. Baz Jackson, Sarah J. Peake, and Scott A. White on the role of proton translocating NAD(P)+ transhydrogenase in the cell."}, {"text": "Isamu Yamamoto (\"Yamamoto Isamu\" ) is a Japanese world Freestyle skateboarding champion. At age fourteen, Yamamoto took first place at the World Freestyle Round-Up Skateboarding Championships in British Columbia, Canada. He was the first person to win the World Round-Up Freestyle Championships using two skateboards at the same time. He was the subject of the Brett Novak film ISAMU. He did not compete in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, the first Olympic games to feature skateboarding because freestyle is not one of the two styles selected (street and park disciplines) to be part of the games by the International Olympic Committee. He was inspired to start skating when his father Shoji (a former skateboarder) showed him videos of freestyle skateboarder Rodney Mullen, \"\u201cHe is the reason. He inspired me and made me start\u201d. Yamamoto learned to skate in skateparks in Nara.\" On Yamamoto, Mullen said: \"The way he links his tricks together and the speed of them \u2013 it\u2019s beautiful to watch, I would dare say that not many could do that, in that way, if they tried.\" \"Isamu is one of the most impressive freestyle skaters of his generation\""}, {"text": "Tate Sequoya Farris (born May 13, 1996), known professionally as Baby Tate (formerly known as Yung Baby Tate), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. The daughter of singer Dionne Farris, she released her debut project, \"ROYGBIV\", in 2015. She has since garnered significant attention for the successful viral single \"I Am\" featuring Flo Milli and the EP \"After the Rain\", among others. Her song \"Beckham\" was featured in the pilot episode of \"Euphoria\" in 2019. In 2021, she signed a record deal with Warner Records and released her major label debut single, \"Pedi\", on October 29, 2021. She dropped her EP \"Baby Tate Presents: Sexploration the Musical\" on October 27, 2023. Early life. Tate Sequoya Farris was born in 1996 in Decatur, Georgia, to singers Dionne Farris and David Ryan Harris. She had no contact with her father while growing up, but her mother supported her musical ambitions. She started dancing and playing piano at an early age, and began producing her own beats by age 13. Career. Under the name Yung Baby Tate, she released the EP \"ROYGBIV\" in November 2015 and the Christmas-themed EP \"YBTXMAS\" in December 2016. In early 2019, she released a short"}, {"text": "film produced in conjunction with her upcoming album. Her debut full-length album \"Girls\" was released in February 2019 to positive reviews. \"XXL\" named the album as one of the best hip-hop projects of 2019. In July 2019, Yung Baby Tate released a cover of Nicki Minaj's \"Megatron\". In 2020, she announced that she had signed a recording contract with Issa Rae's record label Raedio and released two singles from the soundtrack of the television series \"Insecure\". On April 30, 2020, the single \"Damn Daniel\" was released in collaboration with British rapper Bree Runway. On December 4, 2020, she released her sixth EP, \"After the Rain\" which included the singles \"Rainbow Cadillac\" and \"I Am\" featuring Flo Milli. A deluxe edition was released on May 21, 2021, and was preceded by the single \"Eenie Meenie\". In March 2021, Yung Baby Tate was named \"Up Now\" by music streaming service Audiomack. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely an honor because I feel like I\u2019ve been putting a lot of work in and for that to be recognized feels really good,\u201d Tate told Audiomack in regards to her #UpNow selection. \u201cI think I\u2019ve always been on the rise, but for everyone to kind of understand and see"}, {"text": "this moment as I do for myself, it\u2019s really just affirming.\u201d The recording artist simplified her stage name to Baby Tate in late 2021. In July 2021, Tate joined the of the VH1 reality television series, \"\". In 2022, Baby Tate toured as an opening act with Charli XCX on the North American leg of . In September 2024, Yung Baby Tate was featured as a collaborating artist on Prof's single 'Butter' alongside electronic band Ghost Town. The music video premiered on YouTube on October 4, 2024 and has garnered 927K views. Influences. She lists Nicki Minaj, Migos, Future, Gucci Mane, CeCe Peniston, and her mother Dionne Farris as influences. Personal life. Baby Tate is pansexual."}, {"text": "Stephen van Dyck is a Los Angeles, California and Albuquerque, New Mexico based writer and artist. He is the author of \"People I've Met From the Internet,\" and organizer of the Los Angeles Road Concerts. Books. \"People I've Met From the Internet\" is an experimental memoir in the form of a very long annotated list of the people van Dyck met online from 1997 to 2009. Through the annotations, van Dyck tells a queer reimagining of the coming-of-age story that contends with loss and a never-quite-arriving adulthood. In a review for \"Zyzzyva\", Julia Matthews called the book \"the ultimate memoir for the Information Age: a series of extraordinarily personal vignettes derived from a data spreadsheet.\"[1] Novelist John Rechy wrote of \"People I've Met From the Internet\": \"This is an impressive work, modern, relevant, powerfully startling in its effect.\"[6] Writer Chris Kraus called it \"a brilliantly written, taxonomic account of growing up queer at the turn of the millennium.\"[7] Filmmaker Miranda July tweeted that the book was \"unputdownable.\"[8] Curatorial projects. In 2008, van Dyck founded Los Angeles Road Concerts, a semi-annual series of all-day arts events in which artists of all kinds perform and install works in unused public spaces.[1][2][3] In"}, {"text": "2018, van Dyck collaborated with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Changes, a showcase featuring 20 artists and performers in and around LA\u2019s Union Station.[4] Other works. From 2012 to 2016, van Dyck hosted a radio show called \"Customer Care\" on KCHUNG Radio in Los Angeles. On the show, van Dyck contacted debt collectors, customer service agents, and telemarketers. Through an episodic narrative about his debts and defaulted CalArts loans, he and his callers shared conversations about their personal lives.[1]"}, {"text": "ABM Anowarul Haque is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former member of parliament for Manikganj-1. Career. Anowarul Haque was elected to parliament from Manikganj-1, a constituency comprising Daulatpur, Ghior, and Shivalaya upazilas, as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 2008."}, {"text": "Qasar Qaghan () was the twelfth qaghan of Uyghurs. Reign. According to Japanese researcher Haneda Toru () he was the same person as Uyghur general Jueluowu (\u6398\u7f85\u52ff) who rebelled against Zhangxin Qaghan. However, according to Michael Drompp, Qasar was a puppet ruler who was raised to the throne by Jueluowu. In any case his reign was very brief. Against usurpation, Uyghur general K\u00fcl\u00fcg Bagha () fled to Yenisei Kyrgyz and appealed for help. Apart from war, there was a major plague and major snow storm, causing great deaths of the Uyghur livestock and leading to its sudden decline of the state. Using opportunity, K\u00fcl\u00fcg Bagha and 100000 Kyrgyz forces invaded Ordu-Baliq and burned the city. Qasar and Jueluowu were killed by a Kyrgyz leader titled \u0100-r\u00e8 (\u963f\u71b1; Middle Chinese: /\u0294\u0251-\u0235i\u1d07t\u031a/ < *\"\u00c4n\u00e4l\", phonetic variant of Old Turkic \"\u0130n\u00e4l\"), who would take the title Qaghan. Aftermath. Following Kyrgyz sack of capital, Uyghur minister Sazhi (\u99ba\u804c) and Pang Tegin (\u5e9e\u7279\u52d2) together with fifteen clans went to the land of the Karluk (\u845b\u903b\u7984) for refuge. Another group of refugees fled with Uyghur Prince Wamosi to Tang China. A remnant group continued to claim statehood under leadership of Wujie Qaghan."}]