[{"text": "The Historic village of Mambucaba is located in the 4th district of the municipality of Angra dos Reis, on the west coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the former headquarters of the district of Mambucaba, currently recognized as historical village, are the districts of Parque Mambucaba (Perequ\u00ea), Praia Vermelha, Residential village of Praia Brava and Boa Vista. Across the Mambucaba River, near the village, lies the Mambucaba Residential Village (formerly known as Parada Beach) and the Batanguera Beach (now known as Coqueiro or Morrinho). The access to the village is by Rodovia Governador M\u00e1rio Covas, also known as Rio-Santos highway. History. The first record of Mambucaba may be the Tamoio village of Mambucaba, which is cited in the 1557 book by the German mercenary Hans Staden, which established contact with the local Indians in the 16th century. Faced with the occupation of the region by the Portuguese in that century, the Indians would have remained on the south bank of the river, where they would frequently attack the Portuguese who settled on the north bank (site of the present village). The Portuguese were forced to maintain vigilance in the face of the threat. The Europeans remained"}, {"text": "there and established an important point of whale hunting for the production of whale oil. It is worth noting that these places were of such importance to the Kingdom of Portugal that their establishment could be only authorized by the king himself. From the end of the 18th to the 19th century, the village was an important exporter of coffee and importer of slaves to the Vale do Para\u00edba, located at the mouth of the Mambucaba River, since those who were brought to the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, came in vessels to the islands situated in front of the village and, there, their screening and forwarding to the farms inland was done. House were built in the village during the Golden Age of coffee plantation, a church dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, reasonable commerce activity, with records of an establishment for a Vice consul of France. With the decadence of the port, after the railway connection between S\u00e3o Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in 1872, the village went through decades of abandonment and economic lethargy. In 1968, it was listed by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage \u2014 IPHAN, the historic village of Mambucaba is"}, {"text": "one of the Brazilian historical sites that were listed in its entirety, not only the buildings, with the urban layout and equipment related to the occupation of the site as well. The construction of the Rio-Santos highway in the early 1970s threatened the village, generating several protests of cultural movements of the society in Angra dos Reis. In that decade, the existing police station was deactivated, and a military police company installed in barracks on the edge of the highway, now with the purpose of providing protection to the construction works of the nuclear power plant. Etymology. The name, of indigenous origin, has a controversial meaning. Some people claim that it derives from \"Mambuca\", a small stingless bee better known as \"Japur\u00e1\", a bee-dog abundant in the region. Some others refer to a very abundant plant in the region. There are still others who advocate the meaning as \"passage\". This last interpretation seeks origin in the fact that, by bordering the river, we have a path that was already used by the Indians of the region as means of connection with the Planalto Paulista. This path came to have long rocky sidewalks built by African slaves for disposal of coffee"}, {"text": "production. The name \"Mambucaba\" also designates the river that finds the sea, having its source in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, within the Serra da Bocaina National Park, in the municipality of S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 do Barreiro. Within the Fluminense territory, the river marks the boundary between the municipalities of Angra dos Reis and Paraty. With this, according to historian Al\u00edpio Mendes, the name Mambucaba can also mean \"sea loch\", since the Mambucaba river waters into the sea, as if it were an extension of it. Village and neighborhood. Nowadays, the old village, which keeps much of its colonial houses, is a point of vacationers that come from other regions of the west of the state of Rio de Janeiro, the city of Rio de Janeiro and the state of S\u00e3o Paulo. It has about 700 inhabitants, reaching approximately 10,000 visitors in the summer. Its infrastructure has had great improvements in recent years, having practically all streets received pavement and public lighting. A health post and a school are also offered to the local population by the municipality of Angra dos Reis. There is also residential villages maintained by the Eletrobras, the state energy company for employees of the Angra Nuclear"}, {"text": "Power Plant. In the neighborhood, Parque Mambucaba, known until a few years ago as Perequ\u00ea (which means \"Path of ascent of the fish\", due to the mangrove areas on its shores where the fish reproduce), reside around 21000 people, population that multiply on weekends and holidays during the summer months, when the influx of people come mainly from the region of Vale do Para\u00edba, and those who have summer residences there. In the last 15 years, this neighborhood has won a reasonable infrastructure for the trade and provision of public and private services, since many workers and former workers of the nuclear power plant resolved to reside permanently, due to the proximity of other localities with access to the sea, as well as the ease of access to Rodovia Rio-Santos. This region is attended, in relation to public security and civil defense, by the 33 battalion of Military police, whose headquarters is located at the entrance of Parque Mambucaba, and by the 1st Detachment of the 26th group of Military Fireman, located in the working village. Another hospital is located in the neighborhood of Praia Brava and is maintained by Eletronuclear. There are other health posts and a detachment of"}, {"text": "the Municipal Civil Defense of Angra dos Reis held in Mambucaba Park."}, {"text": "Zlatko Ilin\u010di\u0107 (born 10 May 1968) is a Serbian chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM) (1994). FR Yugoslavia Chess Championship winner (2000). Biography. In 2000, Zlatko Ilin\u010di\u0107 won FR Yugoslavia Chess Championship. He was the winner of the \"First Saturday\" grandmasters chess tournament in Budapest: in July 2012 and in June 2018, and 2nd place in 2019. Zlatko Ilin\u010di\u0107 played for Yugoslavia in the Chess Olympiads: Zlatko Ilin\u010di\u0107 played for Yugoslavia in the European Team Chess Championships: Zlatko Ilin\u010di\u0107 played for Yugoslavia in the Men's Chess Balkaniad: In 1987, Zlatko Ilin\u010di\u0107 was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title and in 1994 he received the title of FIDE International Grandmaster (GM). He won The First Saturday IM July 2023 tournament with 7 points out 9."}, {"text": "Bettina Scholl-Sabbatini (born 1942) is a Luxembourgish sculptor, painter and ceramist. As a result of her participation in Soroptimist International Europa, where she served as vice-president from 2003 to 2005, she fostered an increasingly close relationship with Rwanda, where she has coordinated development projects following the Tutsi genocide. Her visits have also inspired her artistic designs. As a result, Rwanda exhibited her works at the 2010 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Biography. Born in Esch-sur-Alzette on 19 December 1942, Bettina Sabbatini was the daughter of the sculptor Aurelio Sabbatini (1909\u20131987). She studied ceramic art and sculpture at the Istituto Statale d\u2019Arte di Sesto Fiorentino in Florence, Italy, (1963\u20131967) and at the Acad\u00e9mie de la Grande Chaumi\u00e8re in Paris where she studied under J\u00e9rome and Brayer. She works with bronze, stone and loam and also paints. She has created works for public spaces and for many churches and chapels, including those in the Luxembourg localities of Bascharage, Bertrange, Dudelange, Lellig and Merl. Her work has been exhibited in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, S\u00e9n\u00e9gal and Spain."}, {"text": "George Arthur Hunt (born August 3, 1949) is an American former professional football placekicker in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants. He played college football at University of Tennessee. He was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the 1972 NFL draft with the 122nd overall pick."}, {"text": "Ilin\u010di\u0107 is a Serbian surname (). Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Limpopo Champions League is the debut studio album by South African rapper Sho Madjozi. It was released on 14 December 2018 by Flourish and Multiply. Background. In an interview with Elle Magazine \"South Africa\", Sho Madjozi said that her debut album, \"Limpopo Champions League\", was conceptualised specifically for both her international following and her African fans. She quoted, \"As a female artist, it was also important to her to prove that she can write and produce hits in male-dominated genres such as hip-hop, gqom and dance. I hope that when people listen to the album, they remember who they want to be \u2013 and go for it.\" On 26 November 2018, Madjozi posted on Twitter and Instagram the tracklist of the album and the official date of release. Music and lyrics. \"Limpopo Champions League\" is a diverse album which comprises hip hop, qgom, shangaan electro, trap, afrobeats, house, pop, reggae, dancehall, R&B, and EDM. Madjozi primarily uses the languages Tsonga and English for her vocals, while Zulu, Swahili and Tsotsitaal as featured languages. The album's opener \"Ro Rali\" is a shangaan electro song which features the Limpopo \"Afro-wedding music\"-influenced vocals formed by the guest singer, Makhadzi. \"Idhom\", the second track"}, {"text": "and third single, fuses qgom and house music, which according to Madjozi is about a former partner who left her heartbroken and is now regretting for leaving her. \"Limpopo Champions League\", the title track, is a mid-tempo gqom song with a melody reminiscing the previous track, \"Idhom\". The following track, \"Wa Penga Na?\", is a hip hop song with trap influences. It features rappers, Kwesta and Makwa, who both primarily use isiZulu vocals. \"Don't Tell Me What To Do\" is a pop song with reggae-fused EDM and dancehall elements. \"Huku\", the lead single, follows with a gqom beat. \"Changanya\" is a house and kwaito song which features the Tanzanian artist Marioo, and Aubrey Qwana. \"Kona\" returns shangaan electro, and has a rock-influenced intro. \"I Mean That\" is a house and kwaito song, while \"Yaz'Abelungu\" starts with deep-house which leads to a high-tempo Afro-house. \"Going Down\" then follows which is contemporary R&B, mainly combining hip hop, featuring rapper pH Raw X and uncredited female vocals. \"If I Do\" is a gqom song, same as the last song, \"Wakanda Forever\" featuring rapper Ycee, which is the second single. Release. \"Limpopo Champions League\" was made available for online streaming via various platforms, including"}, {"text": "Spotify and Apple Music, on 14 December 2018 through Flourish & Multiply Records. It was also released for digital download. Singles. Sho Madjozi pre-released two songs in supporting the album. \"Huku\" was released as the album's lead single on 9 March 2018. The song's music video was released on 18 May 2018 on YouTube. The second single, \"Wakanda Forever\", featuring rapper Ycee, was released on 30 November 2018. Giving her acceptance speech at the 25th edition of the South African Music Awards for Best Female Album, Madjozi said that her third single \" Idhom\" will be released the following day. It was then released that following day, on 2 June, along with its accompanying music video. \"Kona\", was featured on the musical drama series, \"Rhythm City\". It was later released as a single on 16 December 2019. \"Don't Tell Me What To Do\" was featured on the television commercial, by retail company Edgars, which shows Madjozi performing the song on a local street surrounded by various people. The advertisement premiered on 2 November 2018. Track listing. Credits adapted from Tidal and Spotify."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Coupe de France was the 103rd season of the main football cup competition of France. The competition was organised by the French Football Federation (FFF) and was open to all clubs in French football, as well as clubs from the overseas departments and territories (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia (Winner of 2019 New Caledonia Cup), Tahiti (Winner of 2018\u201319 Tahiti Cup), R\u00e9union, Saint Martin, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon). Rennes were the defending champions, but they were eliminated by Saint-\u00c9tienne in the semi-finals. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, on 28 April 2020, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced all sporting events in France, including those behind closed doors, would be banned until September. The FFF were considering whether the final of the Coupe de France could be rescheduled for when events are allowed to restart. On 26 June, the FFF announced that the final was rescheduled to 24 July. Paris Saint-Germain won their record 13th title overall with a 1\u20130 win over Saint-\u00c9tienne in the final. Dates. Dates for the first two qualifying round were set by the individual Regional leagues. The remaining qualifying rounds, the seventh and eight round, and the round of 64"}, {"text": "took place at weekends. The later rounds up to, but not including, the final, took place on midweek evenings. The final took place on Friday 24 July 2020. Notable rule changes. For this season, there were changes in the rules of participation for Overseas Territories teams in both the seventh and eighth rounds. For Guadeloupe, French Guiana and Martinique, the seventh round match was defined as being between the two teams who qualified from the sixth round, rather than being a draw against a side from mainland France as previously. Following the established rule regarding alternation of venue between overseas and mainland, the eighth-round games involving the teams from French Guiana and Martinique were played on mainland France regardless of the order the teams were drawn. However, if the overseas team was drawn first, the match took place at a neutral venue within 100 km of Paris. The eighth-round game involving the team from Guadeloupe took place in Guadeloupe. Teams. Round 1 to 6. The first six rounds, and any preliminaries required, were organised by the Regional Leagues and the Overseas Territories, who allowed teams from within their league structure to enter at any point up to the third round."}, {"text": "Teams from Championnat National 3 entered at the third round, those from Championnat National 2 entered at the fourth round and those from Championnat National entered at the fifth round. The number of teams entering at each qualifying round was as follows: Round 7. 145 qualifiers from the Regional Leagues were joined by the 11 qualifiers from the Overseas Territories and the 20 teams from Ligue 2. Regional Leagues. Figures in parentheses indicate the tier of the French football league system the team play at. Nouvelle-Aquitaine: 12 teams Pays de la Loire: 11 teams Centre-Val de Loire: 5 teams Corsica: 2 teams Bourgogne-Franche-Comt\u00e9: 8 teams Grand Est: 19 teams M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e: 5 teams Occitanie: 10 teams Hauts-de-France: 21 teams Normandy: 8 teams Brittany: 14 teams Paris-\u00cele-de-France: 11 teams Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes: 19 teams Overseas Territories teams. French Guiana: 2 teams Martinique: 2 teams Guadeloupe: 2 teams R\u00e9union: 2 teams Mayotte: 1 team New Caledonia: 1 team Tahiti: 1 team Seventh round. The draw for the seventh round took place in two parts, with three sets of ties drawn: Overseas playoff ties. Ties were played between 6 and 8 November 2019. Overseas and mainland ties. Ties were played on 16 and 17 November 2019."}, {"text": "Mainland ties. The mainland ties were drawn in ten groups, with two Ligue 2 teams in each group. The rest of the teams in each group were selected to give an even distribution of teams from different tiers, and the best possible geographical fit. The lowest ranked team remaining in the competition at this stage was Verton FC from tier 9 (District division 1). Ties were played on 15, 16 and 17 November 2019, with postponements rearranged for 19, 23 and 24 November 2019. Eighth round. The draw for the eighth round took place in two parts: All ties took place on the weekend of 7 and 8 December 2019. Overseas ties. Ties were played on 7 and 8 December 2019. Main draw ties. The main draw ties were drawn in six groups, with the teams in each group selected to give an even distribution of teams from different tiers, and the best possible geographical fit. The lowest ranked team remaining in the competition at this stage was SSEP Hombourg-Haut from tier 8 (Regional division 3). Ties were played on 7 and 8 December 2019. Round of 64. The draw for the ninth round (known as the round of 64)"}, {"text": "took place on 9 December 2019. The 20 Ligue 1 teams joined the draw at this stage. The draw was split into four groups to ensure equal distribution of teams from each tier, with geographical proximity a secondary factor. The lowest ranked team remaining in the competition at this stage was SSEP Hombourg-Haut from tier 8 (Regional League 3). Games were played on 3, 4, 5 and 6 January 2020. Round of 32. The draw for the tenth round (known as the round of 32) took place on 6 January 2020. This was an open draw. The lowest ranked mainland teams remaining in the competition at this stage were AS Prix-l\u00e8s-M\u00e9zi\u00e8res, Athl\u00e9tico Marseille, ESM Gonfreville and FC Limonest Saint-Didier, all from tier 5 (Championnat National 3). Games were played on 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 January 2020. Round of 16. The draw for the eleventh round (known as the round of 16) took place on 19 January 2020. This was an open draw. The lowest ranked team remaining in the competition at this stage was FC Limonest Saint-Didier from tier 5 (Championnat National 3). Games were played on 28, 29 and 30 January 2020. Quarter-finals. The draw for the"}, {"text": "quarter-finals took place on 30 January 2020. This was an open draw. The lowest ranked teams remaining in the competition at this stage were ASM Belfort and SAS \u00c9pinal, both from tier 4 (Championnat National 2). Games were played on 11, 12 and 13 February 2020. Semi-finals. The draw for the semi-finals took place on 13 February 2020. This was an open draw. Games were played on 4 and 5 March 2020. Final. The final was originally scheduled for 25 April 2020, but was postponed due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic."}, {"text": "Meihriban Shukurova (born 8 June 1984) is an Azerbaijani chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 2000. Biography. From the end 1990s to the early 2000s, Meihriban Shukurova was one of the leading female chess players in Azerbaijan. Shukurova played for Azerbaijan in the Women's Chess Olympiads: She played for Azerbaijan in the European Women's Team Chess Championshipss: Since 2008 she rarely participated in chess tournaments."}, {"text": "Driver Babu is a 1986 Indian Telugu language action drama film directed by Boyina Subba Rao starring Sobhan Babu and Radha. A remake of the Hindi film, \"Khud-daar\", it emerged as a critical and commercial success. Soundtrack. Soundtrack was composed by K. Chakravarthy."}, {"text": "Firuza Velikhanli (; born 26 October 1970) is an Azerbaijani chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1994). European Women's Team Chess Championship team bronze medal winner (1992). Biography. From the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, Velikhanli was one of the leading female chess players in Azerbaijan. In 1986, in Minsk she with Azerbaijan SSR women's team won 1st Soviet Women's Team Chess Championship. At second board, she showed outstanding result, winning all 8 of her games. Velikhanli participated twice in USSR Women's Chess Championship finals: She played for Azerbaijan in the Women's Chess Olympiads: Velikhanli played for Azerbaijan in the European Women's Team Chess Championships: She played for Azerbaijan in the World Youth U26 Team Chess Championship: In 1990, Velikhanli was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title and in 1994 she received the title of FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM). In 1991, she was awarded an Honorary Diploma of the Azerbaijan SSR for her chess performance. In 1995, she was awarded Taraggi Medal by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan for her services in the development of sports in Azerbaijan."}, {"text": "\"Postcard\" is a song by Swedish singer Eric Saade and Swedish DJ, singer, and musician Anis don Demina. The song was released as a digital download on 11 October 2019 through Giant Records. The song peaked at number 35 on the Swedish Singles Chart. The song was written by Anis don Demina, Eric Saade, Sebastian Atas, Victor Broberg and Victor Sj\u00f6strom. Background. When Eric Saade and Anis don Demina met during the summer in Stockholm they discovered that both had the same experience and it was when the idea for the song was born. Saade said, \"Anis reminds me a lot of when I was at the beginning of my career and his drive inspires! We may seem to be each other's opposites but have more similarities than many might think.\" Anis said, \"This is a song that everyone who has been young and hopelessly dear for a summer can recognize themselves in. When Eric and I sat in the studio we just felt - this we have to release together.\" Music video. A video to accompany the release of \"Postcard\" was first released onto YouTube on 10 October 2019. The music video shows Eric Saade and Anis don Demina"}, {"text": "in Paris."}, {"text": "Ana Bendera\u0107 (Serbian Cyrillic: \u0410\u043d\u0430 \u0411\u0435\u043d\u0434\u0435\u0440\u0430\u045b; born 25 January 1977) is a Serbian chess player. She received the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2004 and FIDE Trainer in 2018. Biography. In 2009, in Belgrade, Ana Bendera\u0107 won the women's grandmaster chess tournament. In 2013, she won bronze medal in the Serbian Women's Chess Championship. In 2019, in Chelyabinsk, Ana Bendera\u0107 won other women's grandmaster chess tournament. Ana Bendera\u0107 won the European Chess Club Cup (women) twice: in 1997 in Rijeka with chess club \"Go\u0161a Smederevska Palanka,\" and in 2003 in Rethymno with chess club \"\u0160K Internet-CG Podgorica\". Ana Bendera\u0107 played for Yugoslavia, Serbia & Montenegro and Serbia in the Women's Chess Olympiads: Ana Bendera\u0107 played for Serbia & Montenegro and Serbia in the European Women's Team Chess Championships: In 2001, Ana Bendera\u0107 was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title and in 2004 the FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title. In 2018, she became a FIDE Trainer."}, {"text": "Thomas Howard White (April 26, 1836 \u2013 June 22, 1914) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. In 1876 he founded the White Sewing Machine Company in Cleveland, Ohio, predecessor of White Consolidated Industries. He was also an automotive pioneer through the White Motor Company, which went on to produce cars, trucks, buses and tractors. In 1913 he established the Thomas H. White Charitable Trust, which is still active as the Thomas H. White Foundation. Biography. Thomas Howard White was born in Phillipston, Massachusetts, the oldest of eight children, to Windsor and Betsey Pierce White. He only had a basic education, however he also had a strong mechanical aptitude. He invented a small hand-operated single-thread sewing machine, and marketed it as \"The New England Sewing Machine\" through a company formed in Templeton, Massachusetts with partner William Grothe. In 1866 he moved to Cleveland, Ohio and founded the White Manufacturing Co., which was followed in 1876 by the formation with William L. Grout of the White Sewing Machine Company, with White as president and treasurer. His company helped make a Cleveland a center for sewing machine manufacture, and set up branch dealers throughout the United States and in England. White also served"}, {"text": "on Cleveland City Council from 1875-1876. He married Almira L. Greenleaf of Boston on November 2, 1858 and they had eight children. From the beginnings in sewing machines, White extended his operations into a number of different areas. A sideline department making roller skates was expanded into The Cleveland Machine Screw Co. which in turn became the Cleveland Automatic Machine Co. A bicycle department was created that was eventually sold to The American Bicycle Company. He also was involved in manufacturing motor vehicles beginning in 1906 through the White Motor Company, although operations were primarily overseen by three of his sons, Windsor, Rollin and Walter. White was acquired by Volvo in 1980 during bankruptcy proceedings. In 1988, Volvo-White merged with GMC to create a line of trucks called WhiteGMC. The WhiteGMC brand continued to be used up until 1996.In the early 1900s Mary McLeod Bethune founded, in Daytona Beach, Florida, the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, a pre-collegiate school. While vacationing nearby, White learned about the financially struggling institution, and became, in Bethune's words, her \"first friend\". White provided financial assistance and also arranged for his employees to make a series of structural and infrastructure improvements."}, {"text": "He later became a trustee, and upon his death bequeathed a $79,000 endowment. In 1915 Mrs. Bethune dedicated a large administrative building as White Hall in his honor. This school evolved into Bethune\u2013Cookman College. The Thomas H. White Foundation was founded as the Thomas H. White Charitable Trust in 1913. Following his death in 1914, White was buried at Lake View Cemetery."}, {"text": "Olga Sikorov\u00e1 (born 4 March 1975), n\u00e9e \u010cern\u00e1, is a Czech chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 2013). She is a six-time winner of the Czech Women's Chess Championship (2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2014, 2018) and two-times individual bronze medalist of the European Women's Team Chess Championships (2005, 2013). Biography. In 1992, in Valtice Olga Sikorov\u00e1 shared first place (together with Lenka Pt\u00e1\u010dn\u00edkov\u00e1) in the Moravian Juniors Chess Championship in U20 age group. In 1995, she won silver medal in Moravian Women's Chess Championship. In 1997, Olga Sikorov\u00e1 shared 3rd place (behind Olga Alexandrova and Dalia Blimke-Dere\u0144) in Open chess tournament in Fr\u00fddek-M\u00edstek. In 2004, she shared 3rd place (behind Ji\u0159\u00ed \u0160to\u010dek and Zuzana Hagarov\u00e1, together with J\u00e1n Plachetka and Martin Mrva) in Tatrza\u0144skie Zr\u0119by. In 2007, in Ostr\u00f3da Olga Sikorov\u00e1 shared 3rd place (behind Aleksander Mi\u015bta and Maciej Rutkowski, together with Mateusz Bronowicki) in Open chess tournament. Olga Sikorov\u00e1 seven times won individual medals in Czech Women's Chess Championships: five gold (2001, 2002, 2004, 2014, 2018) and two silver (2003, 2010). Olga Sikorov\u00e1 played for Czech Republic in the Women's Chess Olympiads: Olga Sikorov\u00e1 played for Czech Republic in the World Women's Team Chess Championship:"}, {"text": "Olga Sikorov\u00e1 played for Czech Republic in the European Women's Team Chess Championships: In 1998, Olga Sikorov\u00e1 was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title and in 2013 she received the title of FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM)."}, {"text": "Arnout van de Rijt (born March 29, 1978) is Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute (EUI). Van de Rijt is known for his work on the Matthew effect and social network evolution. He is editor-in-chief of the journal \"Sociological Science\". He is president of the International Network of Analytical Sociology. Biography. Van de Rijt received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University (2007). He worked until 2016 as Assistant and Associate Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University and until 2020 as Professor of Sociology at Utrecht University. In 2018 he was elected member of the European Academy of Sociology. He joined the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI) in 2019. In 2010 Van de Rijt was awarded the Lynton Freeman award from the International Network for Social Network Analysis and in 2017 the Raymond Boudon prize from the European Academy of Sociology."}, {"text": "Terry G. Swanson (born January 8, 1944) is a former American football punter who played for the Boston Patriots and the Cincinnati Bengals of the American Football League (AFL). He played college football at University of Massachusetts Amherst."}, {"text": "Below are the results of the 2019 World Series of Poker Europe, held from October 13-November 4 at King's Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic. There are 15 scheduled bracelet events."}, {"text": "Reza Khatibi () is an Iranian filmmaker. Biography. At 16 he moves to France for secondary schooling. Fascinated by the silver screen he enters the artistic scene by joining the \"Th\u00e9atre de l'Atelier\", directed by Jean Darnel. As he learns the ropes and forms a group of aficionados, he eventually directs his first short film, \"l'enfer\". Satisfied by the results the group of actors joined him for his second short film, \"le tourbillon\". In 2002, he directs his first feature film, \"7 Days in Teheran\", with his friends from the theatre. The movie was produced by Jean-Marie Boulet from \"Artefilm\" and co-written by Reza Khatibi, Esfandiar Esfandi and Anahita Maafi. Released in France in 2002 the movie quickly gathered praise from international movie festivals. It won the Viewer's Choice award at the Bergamo Film Meeting in Italy and was acclaimed at the Fajr festival in 2003. Finding inspiration in the Cohen brothers' \"The Big Lebowski\", Reza Khatibi writes and directs in 2007 \"Dar shahr khabari nist, hast\". The movie was cowritten with Hadi Hossein Nejad and produced by Mostafa Shayeste from Hedayat Film. In 2009 he cowrites with Mehdi Hossein Nejad \"L'enclave\", the first Iranian fantastic thriller. It was nominated"}, {"text": "at the Amiens festival in France. The movie he directed and cowrote with Behrooz Forooghi in 2016, \"A Hell of a Wedding\", brings him some fame. It is the first 3D Iranian movie. It received two awards, the Grand Prix at the Lieges 3D festival as well as the jury's prize at the Korean international 3D film festival."}, {"text": "Majed Kilani (born 1 January 1997) is a Tunisian tennis player. Career. Kilani has a career high ATP singles ranking of 800 achieved on 24 August 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 527, also achieved on 24 August 2020. Kilani has won 4 ITF doubles titles. Kilani had studied at University of Tulsa, between 2015 and 2019. Kilani has represented Tunisia at Davis Cup. In Davis Cup he has a win-loss record of 4\u20130. In June 2020, Kilani was banned from professional tennis for 7 years and fined $7,000 for match-fixing and associated corruption charges."}, {"text": "Abb\u00e9 Huard Lake () is a small lake in the C\u00f4te-Nord region of the province of Quebec, Canada. It is drained by the Abb\u00e9 Huard River, a tributary of the Romaine River. Location. Abb\u00e9 Huard Lake is in the unorganized territory of Lac-J\u00e9r\u00f4me in the Minganie Regional County Municipality. The lake is a little more than north of the municipality of Baie-Johan-Beetz on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It is the source of the Abb\u00e9-Huard River, a tributary of the Romaine River. The river is the second northeast branch of the Romaine River. The lake is about east of the Romaine 3 Reservoir. A map of the ecological regions of Quebec shows the lake on the border between sub-regions 6j-S and 6n-T of the east spruce/moss subdomain. Name. Abb\u00e9 Huard Lake is named after the abb\u00e9 Victor-Alphonse Huard (1853\u20131929), a naturalist and a professor at the Chicoutimi Seminary. He visited the region between Pessamit and Natashquan in 1895, and described the trip in his \"Labrador et Anticosti\" (1897). In his \"Dictionary of Rivers and Lakes of the Province of Quebec\" (1914), Eug\u00e8ne Rouillard points out the lake was probably named after the Abb\u00e9 Huard before the"}, {"text": "river. The Innu call the river \"Uauiekamau Hipu\", or \"Round Lake River\". The Naskapi call the river \"Umuauk Shipu\" or \"Loon River\", a literal translation of the French \"Rivi\u00e8re Huard\". Usage. A 2007 report stated that Abb\u00e9-Huard Lake (Uauiekamas) had last been visited in fall about ten years ago by a family that also visits Abb\u00e9-Huard River and Nuhetihk Lake. They stayed for three months, mostly trapping beaver and marten from camp 140. A 2018 report said that Abb\u00e9 Huard Lake is used by the indigenous people of the region every two or three years. For example, in August 2016 two Innu users spent five days on the lake fishing for brook trout. They traveled there by float plane provided by the Innu Aitun committee, stayed in a family camp built in the fall of 2015, and used a paddle boat for trips on the lake. In September 2016 the two Innu spent a week on the lake hunting for moose, caribou, partridge and beaver, and fishing for brook trout. The took four beavers but no deer. As before they flew in and stayed at the family camp. The informant did not notice any changes to the region around the"}, {"text": "lake during his two visits."}, {"text": "Spoon Inc., commonly known as Spoon Sports, is a Japanese company specializing in engine tuning and aftermarket parts designed to make Honda cars high performing vehicles. The company's Type One showroom has helped Honda vehicles become major contenders in motorsports competitions. These included the models that participated in the Tsukuba 9 Hours Endurance Race, the Super Taikyu, and N\u00fcrburgring 24 Hours. Background. In 1988, Spoon Inc. was founded by Tatsuru Ichishima, who previously worked for Honda as a race car tester and driver. His decision to set up the company had the backing of Honda and Mugen. Honda's support came in exchange for racing data. The startup originated from the Honda Civic E-AT, which Ichishima owned and modified. This vehicle became the basis of Spoon's racing concept and philosophy that guide the company until today. The company caters to car owners who seek higher performance lacking in their vehicles amid Honda's shift towards eco-friendly technology. Spoon Inc. is known for its tuning parts, which - like those produced by Toda Racing - are popular for their naturally aspirated performance. This type of tuner is noted for its aggressive side and the requirement for valvetrain upgrades. The company is also known"}, {"text": "for producing aftermarket parts such as powertrain, suspension, aero-parts (supplemental pieces added to the body to improve aesthetics or aerodynamics), wheels, drivetrain, braking system, and cooling system. Notable modifications. Race cars. Spoon has been credited for making Honda a contender in motorsports through its racing modifications. In Japan, Spoon Sports is particularly recognized as a leader in time attack and performance using Honda vehicles such as the Integra Type R, NSX, the S2000, and the Civic. The very first racing car attributed to Spoon Sports was Ichisima's own Honda Civic E-AT. The vehicle, which became the basis of Spoon, participated in the Japan Touring Car Championship. It held the distinction of the first Honda Civic to join the race. In 2008, Spoon launched the Spoon Honda NSX-R GT, which is based on the first-generation, 2002 Honda NSX-R. This vehicle was modified to meet the requirements of the Japanese Super GT racing regulations. In 2017, Spoon Sports fielded the Unlimited Class FD2 Honda Civic Type R, which set a record lap during the Global Time Attack at the Buttonwillow Raceway Park. The company modified this vehicle as a front-wheel-drive racing car with Formula 1-style center-seating position. In the course of its"}, {"text": "20-year racing history, Spoon has distinguished itself in endurance racing, excelling in events like the 24-hour N\u00fcrburgring, the 25-hour Thunderhill, and Super Taikyu. Spoon-themed race cars are distinguished by a combination of blue and yellow livery while road cars are typically in white. The race car color scheme, however, is increasingly getting more diversified after Spoon raced the S2000 in 2012. Aftermarket parts. Spoon has also produced iconic aftermarket parts such as the Spoon SW388, a lightweight aluminum forged wheel. This wheel is comparable to the Volk Racing TE37 in terms of popularity, and is noted for its five-spoke design. The company is also known for its more radical synchronized gear kits for vehicle transmission, noted for its extremely close ratio. The Momo steering wheel, which it developed with the Italian car accessories company Momo, is another popular Spoon product around the world. These aftermarket parts also extend to aerodynamic body kits, with the very aggressive crane-like front end to signify their brand name of spoon. The most clear example of such would be the FK8 Civic Type-R, when looked at certain angles it can resemble a crane as well as their Wing being trademarked as a Crane-styled Wing. Spoon"}, {"text": "is more focused on the balance of a car on the track rather than making extreme power. Racing. Spoon has been racing Honda cars throughout its history. The company's achievements include winning the Super Taikyu ST-4 class championship, class wins at the N\u00fcrburgring 24 Hours, Tokachi 24 Hours, 25 Hours of Thunderhill, and Tsukuba 9 Hours, as well as class podiums at the Macau Grand Prix. Type One. Spoon's headquarters is mainly used as the main office, stocking of parts, and distribution. The company opened Type One in 2001 according to a differentiation strategy where Spoon functions as a research and development of parts and tuning while Type One serves as a tuning shop for servicing and tuning cars. All of Spoon's products are on display at the Type One showroom and factory as well as the race cars that it has fielded through the years. Engines are modified in this facility to be beyond factory specifications. Spoon also buys and resells Honda vehicles at Type One, turning these into bespoke cars such as the left-hand-drive NSX Type Rs. The company provides maintenance and repair services at Type One."}, {"text": "Vo (majuscule: \u0548; minuscule: \u0578; Armenian: \u057e\u0578, \u057e\u0585) is the twenty-fourth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It has a numerical value of 600. It was created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century AD. It represents the open-mid back rounded vowel (), but when it occurs isolated or word-initially, it represents . It is one of the two letters that represent the sound O, the other being \u0555 which was not created by Mashtots. Its minuscule variant is homoglyphic to the minuscule form of the Latin letter N. In its uppercase form, it looks like a turned Latin letter U, the Lisu letter Ue (\ua4f5), or the asomtavruli form of the Georgian letter ghani (\u10b6). As a component in U. This letter, along with Vyun (or Hiwn in Classical Armenian), is part of the Armenian U (\u0548\u0552 \u0548\u0582 \u0578\u0582). Because the letter U is not present in Mashtots's alphabet, it uses a digraph made up of these letters."}, {"text": "Miss World USA 1971 was the 10th edition of the Miss World USA pageant, held in the Hampton Roads Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia, and was won by Karen Brucene Smith of Texas. She was crowned by outgoing titleholder Sandra Wolsfeld of Illinois. Smith went on to represent the United States at the Miss World 1971 Pageant in London later that year. She finished as fifth runner-up at Miss World. She later won Miss American Beauty 1974 (Miss U.S. International 1974) and competed in and later won Miss International 1974. Delegates. The Miss World USA 1971 delegates were: Crossovers. Contestants who competed in other beauty pageants:"}, {"text": "Paul Lopez (born 3 July 1968) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Tom Watson (born 1962) is an American musician known for playing guitar with Slovenly, Red Krayola, and Mike Watt + The Missingmen Career. Born in 1962 in New York City, Watson's father was an illustrator and his mother was a theater actor. After first grade, Watson's family moved to Manhattan Beach, California. While attending Mira Costa High School, he met Steve Anderson, Scott Ziegler, and drummer Bruce Losson who were in a band called the Convalescents. When the bass player left, Watson joined and the band name was changed to Toxic Shock. The band played their first gig as Toxic Shock with Minutemen and Saccharine Trust which led to an invitation from the Urinals to contribute a track to the \"Keats Rides A Harley\" compilation album by Happy Squid Records. After they all graduated, they formed Slovenly and continued to gig with Minutemen which led to releasing their first albums on Mike Watt's New Alliance Records label. After Slovenly broke up in 1992, Watson joined Red Krayola. Since then, Watson has joined Watt as one of The Missingmen and he occasionally performs with Watt as The Jom and Terry Show which consists of Watson from The Missingmen and Jerry Trebotic"}, {"text": "from Mike Watt and the Secondmen. As a member of The Missingmen, Watson performed on Lou Barlow's \"Sentridoh III\" album. In 2000, Watson performed with Vinny Golia, Mark Trayle, and drummer Vince Meghrouni at Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound. With The Chance Band, Watson provided musical accompaniment to Jean Baudrillard's poetry for the album \"Suicide Moi\". Watson joined Emil Amos and Steve Shelley as \"Tom Watson and His Clients\" to perform at the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York in April 2017. Watson has played with Scarcity Of Tanks on the albums \"Ringleader Lies\", and \"Dissing The Reduction\"."}, {"text": "Tai Beng Hai (born 14 July 1965) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Liepupe is a village in the Liepupe parish of Limba\u017ei Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. The village is located 5 km from the Baltic Sea coast Metsepole Plain and Seaside Lowlands. The name of the village and the river Liepupe flowing through it comes from the Latvianized ancient Livs name \" Pernigele \" ( p\u0101rn - linden tree, joug - river; respectively liepa + upe), (which is also a cognate of \"P\u00e4rnu River\": ). History. The village was founded in the 17th century next to the Liepupe estate. Liepupe Manor, built in 1751, is one of the best preserved baroque manors in Vidzeme. Culture. The Baltic Acoustic Music Festival, the \"Silver Gull\", is being held in Liepupe since 2012. Liepupe has a library. Liepupe village church is located in village."}, {"text": "Eminence Hill is an American Western film written and directed by Robert Conway. It stars Barry Corbin, Dominique Swain, Lance Henriksen, Clint James, Owen Conway, Dustin James Leighton and Anna Harr. Plot. In search of revenge against the twelve jurors who sentenced his brother to death, Royce Tullis (Clint James) left a trail of bloody revenge against them."}, {"text": "Suppiah Suria Ghandi (born 29 March 1969) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Lim Chiow Chuan (born 24 February 1966) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Benaia Barabi (; born 4 April 1989) is an Israeli singer, songwriter, composer and musician. Barabi has collaborated with many well-known Israeli musicians and artists and was declared as \"Discovery of the Year\" for 2019 by ACUM. Biography. Benaia Barabi was born in Tiberias where he learned to play the saxophone, guitar and organ at the local conservatorium. He played and performed with the city band and at school events. In the army, Barabi served as an officer in the Military Police. After his discharge from the army, he studied at the \"Rimon\" Music School where he took part in special projects such as \"Me and the Other\" which was a collaboration of musicians and the physically challenged. He was chosen as the audience favorite during a school singing event and was recognized as \"Song of the Week\" by Israel's Reshet Gimel radio station. Barabi took part in the \"Going on Air\" project with Israel's Galei Zahal radio station with Yoav Kutner and Rimon's ensemble. There he collaborated with artists such as Ehud Banai, Dudu Tassa, Amir Benayoun, Idan Reichel, Lea Shabat and more. His debut album \"Parts of the Melody\" (Hebrew: \u05d7\u05dc\u05e7\u05d9\u05dd \u05de\u05d4\u05e0\u05d9\u05d2\u05d5\u05df) was launched at the Piano Festival"}, {"text": "and produced 3 singles \"Faith\" (Hebrew: \u05d0\u05de\u05d5\u05e0\u05d4), \"From the Village to the City\" (Hebrew: \u05de\u05d4\u05db\u05e4\u05e8 \u05d0\u05dc \u05d4\u05e2\u05d9\u05e8) and \"Strings of the Heart\" (Hebrew: \u05de\u05d9\u05ea\u05e8\u05d9 \u05d4\u05dc\u05d1). In 2016, Barabi participated in the fourth season of \"The Voice Israel\" where he was mentored by Avraham Tal. He was eliminated during the live performance stage. On 11 July 2017, he released the song \"Don't Ask\" (Hebrew: \u05d0\u05dc \u05ea\u05e9\u05d0\u05dc\u05d9 | Al Tishali) together with Gil Vain. On 12 March 2018, he released the song \"Someone Here With Me\" (Hebrew: \u05de\u05d9\u05e9\u05d4\u05d5 \u05d0\u05d9\u05ea\u05d9 \u05db\u05d0\u05df | Mishehu Iti Kan) which he co-wrote and composed together with Eliad Nachum and Dudi Bar David. These two songs reached 11 and 14 places respectively in the yearly charts of Galgalatz and Ynet. On 7 October 2018, Barabi released the song \"You Caught a Place for Me\" (Hebrew: \u05ea\u05e4\u05e1\u05ea \u05dc\u05d9 \u05de\u05e7\u05d5\u05dd | Tafsta Li Makom) which went to number one on the Galgalatz chart for seven weeks in a row. On 11 April 2019, Barabi collaborated with Eyal Golan in the song \"What Are You Afraid Of\" (Hebrew: \u05de\u05de\u05d4 \u05d0\u05ea \u05de\u05e4\u05d7\u05d3\u05ea), In May 2019, Barabi took part in the torch lighting ceremony on Mount Herzl during Israel's 71st Independence Day. On"}, {"text": "12 June 2019, Barabi was recognized as \"Discovery of the Year\" by ACUM. Personal life. Barabi resides in Tel Mond. In the past he used to reside in Kfar Haroeh. Discography. Studio albums. 2015: Parts of the Melody 2019: Someone Here With Me"}, {"text": "Gary Fidelis (born 17 February 1964) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Brian Jaya Siva (born 29 January 1972) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Shankar Ramu (born 16 June 1970) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Nor Saiful Zaini Nasir-ud-Din (born 27 March 1966) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics, the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Dharma Raj Kanniah (born 16 November 1969) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Aanantha Sambu Mayavo (born 18 March 1966) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Makrand Mehta (25 May 1931 \u2013 1 September 2024) was an Indian social and business historian from Gujarat. Biography. Makrand Mehta was born on 25 May 1931 at Ahmedabad into a Nagar Brahmin family. He studied at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, University of Pennsylvania and Gujarat University. He headed the Department of History at the School of Sciences, Gujarat University before retirement. He was associated with several organisations including Gujarat Itihas Parishad, Gujarat Vidyasabha and Darshak Itihas Nidhi. Makrand Mehta was married to historian Shirin Mehta. He died from dengue in Ahmedabad, on 1 September 2024, at the age of 93. Works. Mehta wrote more than 25 books in English and Gujarati. He also published several papers on social and economic history. His last book \"Business Culture of Gujarat\" was published by Zen Opus, Ahmedabad, in December 2023. His selected works are: Reception. Mehta published a research paper titled \"Sectarian literature and Social Consciousness - A study of the Swaminarayan sect 1800-1840\" in December 1986 in \"Arthat\". It triggered a controversy among the followers of Swaminarayan Sampraday. In it, Mehta has contended that Sahajanand, who is believed to be an incarnation of Krishna by his followers, was only"}, {"text": "a social reformer who conspired with his followers to project himself as a god. He had also argued that the sect had done nothing for poor. In 1988, the followers of the sect received a permission from the government of Gujarat to lodge a case against him under section 295 A (Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings or any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) of Indian Penal Code."}, {"text": "Brewer's spent grain (BSG) or draff is a food waste that is a byproduct of the brewing industry that makes up 85 percent of brewing waste. BSG is obtained as a mostly solid residue after wort production in the brewing process. The product is initially wet, with a short shelf-life, but can be dried and processed in various ways to preserve it. Because spent grain is widely available wherever beer is consumed and is frequently available at a low cost, many potential uses for this waste have been suggested and studied as a means of reducing its environmental impact, such as use as a food additive, animal feed, fertilizer or paper. Composition. The majority of BSG is composed of barley malt grain husks in combination with parts of the pericarp and seed coat layers of the barley. Though the composition of BSG can vary, depending on the type of barley used, the way it was grown, and other factors, BSG is usually rich in cellulose, hemicelluloses, lignin, and protein. BSG is also naturally high in fiber, making it of great interest as a food additive, replacing low-fiber ingredients. Food additive. The high protein and fiber content of BSG makes it"}, {"text": "an obvious target to add to human foods. BSG can be ground and then sifted into a powder that can increase fiber and protein content while decreasing caloric content, possibly replacing flour in baked goods and other foods, such as breadsticks, cookies, and even hot dogs. Some breweries that also operate restaurants re-use their BSG in recipes, such as in pizza crust. Grainstone is an Australian based company that has developed a world leading modular energy efficient process to convert BSG to a premium specialty flour and a process to produce nutraceuticals; including protein isolate, soluble dietary fibre and antioxident. Livestock feed. The low cost and high availability of BSG has led to its use as livestock feed. BSG can be fed to livestock immediate in its wet stage or once processed and dried. The high protein content in BSG offers a wide variety of amino acids essential in the diet of livestock. In fact, supplementing BSG in cow diets may increase milk yield, milk total solids content, and milk fat yield, when compared to maize. Fertilizer. BSG may be an effective, affordable soil amendment for agricultural purposes. Its high protein content translates to high nitrogen availability in soils, which"}, {"text": "could be ideal for many common crops such as beets, spinach, kale, and onions. In combination with compost, BSG may improve germination rate and the availability of organic matter in soil. Studies have shown that BSG in addition to compost has a stronger, positive effect on germination than compost alone. An additional study has shown that the inclusion of BSG in soil is more effective at sodic soil reclamation and corn seed germination than gypsum, which is traditionally used in sodic soils. Paper. BSG can be used to making recycled paper. It's called Craft Beer Paper or Beer Paper. Because of BSG, the paper shows subtle beer hue. It has been made into postcards, coasters, gift boxes, and A4 and B5-sized beer paper sheets that can be printed just like regular white printing paper. Beer Paper had obtained FSC\u00ae certification. Ceramics. Brewery's spent grains could be recycled through their incorporation in a traditional ceramic paste used in the manufacture of common bricks. This incorporation affects the mechanical strength, porosity, and thermal conductivity of the ceramic material. Mushroom Substrate. Both completely dried BSG, and fresh BSG (with an average ~79% water content) have successfully been utilized in small home and small"}, {"text": "commercial mushroom substrate production. Additional, alternative sources of lignin from coffee, soft wood pine/douglas fir sawdust, and harder wood sawdust (in pellet form as well) have been shown to help in mushroom production block manufacturing. These industrial byproducts may offer less expensive material costs in block production as well as a higher level of waste reuse in mushroom production. The highest average yield (there are many growing factors involved) was found to be with a ratio of fuel pellet : BSG : hot tap water of 450 : 725 : 825 (all measured in grams in the study per each T3 filter patch bag utilized for the production blocks), with testing for field capacity being a final assessment of fine tuning these ratios (to get a 'feel' for proper hydration, by experienced block producers, via hand compression testing of a hydrated and mixed batch of substrate.)"}, {"text": "Fran\u00e7oise-Albine Benoist (1724 \u2013 1808 or 1809) was a French novelist, playwright and essayist born in Lyon. She wrote a few theater works that were never played. She was also a journalist for \"Le Journal des Dames\". Little is known about her life. In April 1754 she married painter and draughtsman Jean-Marie Benoist. According to Manon Roland, Benoist may have been a model for the heroine of Charles-Albert Demoustier's \"Lettres \u00e0 Emilie\". Her most famous work is \"Les Aveux d'une jolie femme\"."}, {"text": "The Menhir of Outeiro (), also known as the Penedo Comprido (long boulder), is a megalith located midway between the villages of Outeiro and Barrada near the municipality of Reguengos de Monsaraz, in the district of \u00c9vora, in the Alentejo region of Portugal. It is a few kilometers from the Portuguese-Spanish-border. The stone was discovered on its side in 1969 by Henrique Leonor Pina and Jos\u00e9 Pires Gon\u00e7alves and, on the initiative of Gon\u00e7alves, was raised again around 1970. The menhir was classified as a Portuguese National Monument in 1971. The granite monolith is 5.6 meters high with an average diameter of one meter, and weighs an estimated 8 tonnes. It is the second largest in Portugal. The top has a hollow of 30 cm in diameter, which is believed to represent a urethra, thus giving rise to the understanding that the megalith symbolizes a phallus. It is considered one of the best examples of a phallic menhir in the Iberian Peninsula. Based on its similarity to other megalithic finds in the \u00c9vora district, the menhir is believed to date from the Late Neolithic or Chalcolithic."}, {"text": "H. legrandi may refer to a few different species. The specific epithet \"legrandi\" refers to someone with the surname 'Legrand'"}, {"text": "Yury Safonov (born 13 April 1968) is a Soviet field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Makoshyne () is a rural settlement in Koriukivka Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. Makoshyne is located on the right bank of the Desna. It belongs to Mena urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: History. Until 18 July 2020, Makoshyne belonged to Mena Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernihiv Oblast to five. The area of Mena Raion was split between Chernihiv and Koriukivka Raions, with Makoshyne being transferred to Chernihiv Raion. Until 26 January 2024, Makoshyne was designated urban-type settlement. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Makoshyne became a rural settlement. Geography. Makoshyne is located in the north of the Mena urban hromada, on the right bank of the Desna River (Dnieper basin). The territory of the Makoshyne is located within the Dnieper Lowland. The relief of the surface of the district is a lowland. The climate of Makoshyne is moderately continental, with warm summers and relatively mild winters. The average temperature in January is about -7\u00b0C, and in July \u2015 +19\u00b0C. The average annual precipitation ranges from 550 to 660 mm,"}, {"text": "with the highest precipitation in the summer period. The most common are sod-podzolic and gray forest soils. The Makoshyne is located in the natural zone of mixed forests, in Polissya. Minerals \u2013 loam, peat, sand. Economy. Transportation. Makoshyne is connected by road with Mena, where it has access to Highway H27, connecting Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi. There is no road bridge over the Desna, and thus no roads in the southern direction from Makoshyne. Makoshyne is a railway station on the line connecting Bakhmach with Mena, Snovsk, and Gomel. Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, train traffic on the railway bridge has been suspended."}, {"text": "Aleksandr Krasnoyartsev (born 3 August 1971) is a Soviet field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Viktor Sukhikh (born 3 February 1964) is a Soviet field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The Romaine-3 Generating Station () is a 395 MW hydroelectric generating station on the Romaine River that is one of four generating stations in the La Romaine Hydroelectric Complex in the C\u00f4te-Nord region of the province of Quebec, Canada. It is owned and operated by Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec. Description. The dams and generating station are part of a huge hydroelectric complex with four dams that was launched in 2009 under the government of Jean Charest. At maximum level, the Romaine-3 reservoir area is . The drawdown level is . Surface altitude varies from . The main dam is the second highest in the Romaine complex after Romaine-2. There are two dams, both completed in 2017. The main retaining dam is high, with thalweg height of and length of . The holding capacity is . It is a rockfill dam with zoned core, built on treated rock. The smaller B3 dyke is west of the main dam and contains the spillway. It is high, with thalweg height and length of . The holding capacity is . It is a concrete gravity dam built on treated rock. The main dam is between PK158 and PK159 on the river. The spillway discharges into the Romaine"}, {"text": "River at PK158. A gallery leads from a point southeast of the main dam to the generating station south of the dam at PK155 on the river. A total of about of tunnels were excavated, including the headrace tunnel, penstocks and a surge chamber. The headrace tunnel is long, wide and high. The generating station discharges into the head of the Romaine-2 reservoir, at a maximum elevation of . The generating station has installed capacity of 395 MW. Average annual energy production is 2 TWh, with a capacity factor of 0.58. The argument in favor for the construction of the La Romaine hydroelectric complex revolves around the positive economic and climate impacts that the project promised. It was estimated that the project would bring about numerous economic benefits to the local population and to the large region as a whole. At the local level, the project was expected to create 975 jobs every single year throughout the project\u2019s lifetime. At the regional level, business advocates for the project stated that La Romaine would ensure the competitiveness of businesses and industries alike for the short, medium, and long term future. They argued that the project would ensure a reliable energy supply"}, {"text": "and surplus that would allow for industry growth, all at a competitive electricity price. Currently, the plant has the lowest electricity rates in North America (Plante, 2023). Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec estimated that the economic spinoff created by the project would be around 3.5 billion for the entirety of Qu\u00e9bec and 1.3 billion for the C\u00f4te-Nord region. Additionally, advocates highlighted the significant contributions that hydroelectric power generates for the Generations Fund in form of royalties. This fund benefits Qu\u00e9bec by helping the province reduce debt and address social issues. Hydroelectric power, like other forms of renewable energy, has a much lower greenhouse gas emissions than other sources of electricity. This was a prominent argument made by advocates who were in favor of the construction of the complex. The complex would create 8 TWh of electricity yearly, which would be enough to power 470,000 households. Hydroelectric power can be directly attributed to a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the electricity sector as hydroelectricity is the main source of energy for the residential, industrial and commercial sectors in Qu\u00e9bec. History. The overall Romaine project was formally launched by Jean Charest in May 2009. A road was built to provide access to the four dams."}, {"text": "The Mista camp was built at PK 118 on this road to accommodate the workers assigned to the Romaine 3 and Romaine 4 facilities. It could accommodate up to 1,744 people. In July 2013 Alstom was awarded a contract to supply, install and commission two 200MW vertical Francis turbine-generator units, with butterfly valves and regulation systems, at Romaine-3. In September 2013 Hydro-Quebec called for bids to construct the dam and embankment B3, excavate the spillway and intake channel, and undertake other related work. A crushing works was built in 2014\u20132015 to make gravel for use in the Romaine 3 concrete. In March 2015 a shovel operator died in the Romaine-3 site after the ice of a drainage channel broke under his vehicle. In a separate incident, 4 workers were killed in an accident. The Romaine-3 Generating Station came into service in 2017. It was inaugurated by Quebec premier Philippe Couillard and Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec President Eric Martel in a ceremony on 19 October 2017. The plant was to be connected to the Quebec electrical grid in phases. In September 2017 Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec had said it had no plans for more dams due to the present surplus of electricity. Couillard confirmed that no more"}, {"text": "major projects were planned. All parts of the La Romaine Hydroelectric Complex were successfully completed, and Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec inaugurated the Complex in October 2023. Environmental Impacts. A 2009 joint review panel on the La Romaine Hydroelectric Complex highlighted the main areas of the environment that would be adversely affected by the creation of the dam and the subsequent water reservoirs would be the Woodland caribou population, birdlife, and fish populations. As a consequence of the diminishing available habitats resulting from the establishment of water reservoirs and extensive logging practices within the region, there is a projected decline foreseen in the population of Woodland caribou. This anticipated decline is intricately linked to the sensitivity exhibited by caribou in their migratory behaviors towards various human-induced activities such as construction undertakings, heightened vehicular traffic, the existence of substantial structures, and amplified levels of ambient noise. The unfortunate reduction in the number of Woodland caribou is poised to negatively impact the longstanding and integral traditional activities practiced by the Innu communities in the affected area. It's noteworthy that in 2003, the Innu of Ekuanitshit petitioned the federal courts, seeking intervention to halt the proposed construction of a hydroelectric dam on the Romaine River (White, 2012)."}, {"text": "Their plea was rooted in profound concerns regarding the potential detrimental effects that the hydroelectric dam project could inflict upon the Woodland caribou population, recognizing the vital interdependence between the caribou's well-being and their own cultural practices and heritage. In the joint review panel, multiple organizations came forward to voice concerns for the birdlife that lives in the affected area of the La Romaine Hydroelectric Complex. The species of concern included the Barrow\u2019s Goldeneye, Sternidae, Boreal Pewee, Rusty Blackbird, and Kirtland\u2019s Warbler. There were also concerns that the transmission lines connected to the plant may interfere with migrating birds. Additionally, there were allegations that Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec had not considered the possible effects that the hydroelectric plant would have on specific species that were already experiencing population decline. Overall, there was much concern over the loss of habitat due to logging and reservoir creation. Most organizations called for additional studies on the effects on birdlife in the region to be completed before the project moved forward in order to determine if additional mitigation or compensation methods would be necessary. Many concerns were raised about the hydroelectric complex\u2019s potential negative impact on the size of fish populations and on the genetic diversity of"}, {"text": "fish populations, specifically salmon populations, in the Romaine River. These concerns were rooted in observations made at other rivers that hydroelectric dams have been built on. Environmental and habitat transformations caused by human activity, such as the construction of a hydroelectric dam, are recognized as the biggest reason for population decline and species loss in freshwater systems. Hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River Basin were the main cause of juvenile fish mortality as the fish attempted to migrate downstream. The same study found that mitigation efforts benefited other fish species, but not salmon. It was questioned whether the proposed mitigation strategies would be effective enough to alleviate the effects of the dams on fish populations. As of October 2023, mitigation efforts included the seeding of Atlantic salmon, lake trout and landlocked salmon. Another area of possible concern is bioaccumulation of the neurotoxin methylmercury. Bioaccumulation occurs when chemicals build up in an organism because they are taken in faster than they are expelled. These chemicals get into the organism either from the environment (like soil, water, or air) or through what the organism eats. When soil is flooded, the breaking down of labile organic carbon and subsequent changes in geochemical conditions"}, {"text": "causes the production of methylmercury (MeHg). In the newly created reservoirs of other Canadian hydroelectric dams, methylmercury levels have seen a 2.6-2.8 times increase in concentration. Innu communities regularly engage in traditional hunting practices of the local wildlife. However, this may cause biomagnification, exposing them to harmful levels of methylmercury. A study on the bioaccumulation of methylmercury noted the following: \u201cIn northern indigenous populations, increased MeHg exposure has been significantly associated with cardiovascular risk factors for adults such as increased resting heart rate and heart rate variability, as well as increased incidence of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among children with high prenatal exposures. Acute MeHg toxicity is associated with widespread neurological abnormalities, paresthesia and ataxia.\u201d Controversies. The primary controversy surrounding the La Romaine Hydroelectric Complex predominantly revolves around its impact on the Innu tribal group. The construction of the complex and its associated infrastructure has directly encroached upon the traditional lands of the Innu people. Specifically, the Ekuanitshit and Nutashkuan communities stand to face the most adverse consequences resulting from the implementation of this project. Over the span of thousands of years, the Innu have established their livelihood through the time-honored practice of fishing for char, eel, brook trout, and"}, {"text": "whitefish in the upper reaches of the Romaine River. Additionally, during the summer seasons, they have historically harvested salmon from the pools downstream of the Grandes Chutes, sustaining their cultural practices and heritage. Importantly, the local Innu communities exhibit diverse perspectives regarding the merits of the project, lacking consensus on its potential outcomes and effects within their communities. This divergence of opinions further complicates the resolution of the ongoing debate surrounding the La Romaine Hydroelectric Complex. Some community members view the project as an opportunity to benefit from the injection of money into the area, allowing their communities to combat the chronic poverty and unemployment on the reserves. The project promised to create an average of 975 jobs each year over the lifetime of the project. Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec had to negotiate several agreements of consent with the local Innu communities, paying more than CDN$200 million over a 60-year period to compensate for the effects of the dams, roads and electric transmission lines. Through these agreements, individual communities received between 14.5 and 75 million CDN. However, several Innu communities elected to not accept the compensation packages. Others are not able to come to terms with the destruction of their ancestral lands fearing"}, {"text": "that their history and culture could be washed away forever. An investigation and public hearing on the project in 2009 noted an elder Ekuanitshit member\u2019s feeling on the project: \u201cIf the hydroelectric development project goes ahead today, the territory that was our beautiful land will be flooded. It is also there that I was born. It is therefore obvious that that is what we will lose, those rights\u2014our land will be flooded. Things will never be the same because the land is our identity.\u201d In addition to the Innu communities, Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec reached agreements of compensation with six local Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois communities who would also be displaced by the hydroelectric project. These agreements are estimated to be worth more than $700 million CDN. These concerns came to a head a number of times throughout the years, causing plenty of controversies. In March 2012 Quebec Route 138 was blocked at Maliotenam by the Innu, who were demanding compensation for the power lines on their territory. In June 2015 Route 138 was blocked at Pessamit and Maliotenam, and the access road to the construction site was blocked, by construction workers demanding that more local workers be hired. At the time, there were about 2000"}, {"text": "workers employed at the project. Out of the 2000 workers, only 170 were Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois and 144 were members of the Innu community. The work spaces of the project served as a place of conflict. There was an absence of meaningful intercultural relationships due to language barriers and separation of different trades, leading to Innu workers feeling as though they were experiencing discrimination, intimidation, and even racism. Of the Innu\u2019s that were employed, almost all of them worked in the lowest paying, bottom rung jobs. Additionally, there was a high turnover rate among the Innu workers as the work culture of strict hierarchy and rigid routine directly clashed with Innu culture of flexibility and community support. All of these issues lead to many Innu workers experiencing loneliness, isolation, psychological distress, and even falling into alcoholism and drug addiction. In July 2015 the road to the site was blocked by the Innu of Natashquan who felt that Hydro-Quebec did not respect the agreement signed in 2008. In March 2016 a court rejected the demand by Innu families of Uashat mak Mani-utenam to stop the project. In November 2016 there was controversy over the waste of wood cut in the reservoirs."}, {"text": "Berikkazy Seksenbayev (born 25 July 1967) is a Soviet field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Sergey Barabashin (born 28 May 1970) is a Soviet field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Oleg Khandayev (born 9 December 1964) is a Soviet field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "\"Dr. Stone\" is an anime television series produced by TMS Entertainment based on the manga series of the same name written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Boichi. Set 3,700 years after a mysterious light turns every human on the planet into stone, genius boy Senku Ishigami emerges from his petrification into a \"Stone World\" and seeks to rebuild human civilization from the ground up. The anime series is directed by Shinya Iino, with Yuichiro Kido as scriptwriter, and Yuko Iwasa as character designer. Tatsuya Kato, Hiroaki Tsutsumi, and Yuki Kanesaka composed the series' music. The first season aired from July 5 to December 13, 2019 on Tokyo MX and other channels. The first season ran for 24 episodes. The series is streamed by Crunchyroll worldwide outside of Asia, and Funimation produced a simuldub. The English dub of the series began airing on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block on August 25, 2019. A second season of the series was announced following the broadcast of the first season finale. The second season focuses on the \"Stone Wars\" story arc from the manga. Titled \"Dr. Stone: Stone Wars\", the second season aired from January 14 to March 25, 2021, and ran for"}, {"text": "11 episodes. A sequel to the television series was announced following the conclusion of the second season. At the Jump Festa 2022 event, it was revealed that a TV special set immediately after the second season would premiere in 2022 and that a third season would premiere a year later in 2023. The television special, titled \"Dr. Stone: Ryusui\", focuses on the character Ryusui Nanami and premiered on July 10, 2022. Sh\u016bhei Matsushita directed the special, while the rest of the main staff returned from the previous seasons. After the airing of \"Ryusui\", the third season's title was revealed to be \"Dr. Stone: New World\", with Matsushita returning from the special to direct. It consisted of two split season cours consisting of 11 episodes each. The first cours aired from April 6 to June 15, 2023, while the second cours aired from October 12 to December 21 of the same year. Immediately following the conclusion of the third season, a fourth and final season titled \"Dr. Stone: Science Future\" was announced. The season will have a total of three split cours, with the first cours airing from January 9 to March 27, 2025. The second cours premiered on July 10,"}, {"text": "2025."}, {"text": "Ukrainsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Iskrinskoye Rural Settlement, Uryupinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 55 as of 2010. Geography. Ukrainsky is located in steppe, 58 km west of Uryupinsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Loshchinovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Igor Muladyanov (born 28 May 1971) is a Soviet field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Lady Betty may refer to:"}, {"text": "Uchkhoz () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Krepovskoye Rural Settlement, Uryupinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 665 as of 2010. There are 10 streets. Geography. Uchkhoz is located in steppe, 10 km northeast of Uryupinsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kreptovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Charlton Lido (branded as Charlton Lido and Lifestyle Club) is a swimming pool and leisure centre in Hornfair Park, Charlton, southeast London. Facilities. As well as the outdoor Olympic-size swimming pool heated to 25C all year, the centre has a children's pool, outdoor sunbathing space, a gym, spin studio, and a cafe and rooftop terrace, plus tennis courts nearby. It is managed by Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL, trading as 'Better') on behalf of Greenwich London Borough Council. History. The last municipal lido to be built in London, Charlton Lido first opened in May 1939. Similar to other London County Council lidos designed by Harry Rowbotham and T. L. Smithson in the Moderne style, it has a 165-foot main pool, a smaller children's pool, cascaded aerator fountains and Moderne-style shelters and changing blocks. It closed four months after opening due to the outbreak of World War II, eventually reopening in 1946. Declining revenue and increasing costs meant the lido closed to the public in 1989, though it continued to be used sporadically by local clubs. It became derelict in the 2000s, but was refurbished ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, with the first phase completed in July 2012, attracting 5,000 visitors"}, {"text": "in its first month of operation. At the time of the \u00a35m refurbishment, a GLL proposal to rename it \"Royal Greenwich Lido\" was rejected. The refurbishment was completed in 2013, creating what was described by \"The Guardian\" as \"London\u2019s newest (refurbished) lido, a sparkling facility in an otherwise unremarkable part of London\". In 2019, an event was held to mark the 80th anniversary of the lido's opening, attended by Olympic gold medallist swimmer Duncan Goodhew and Channel swimmer Tom Gregory. Forced to close during the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, Charlton Lido was the first lido to reopen, on 11 July 2020, when restrictions were relaxed. Lamenting the COVID-19 lockdown closure of swimming pools, the London \"Evening Standard\"'s Vicky Frost earlier described it as: \"... defiantly not built for Instagram. It has neither the cool of Brockwell or London Fields, nor, thankfully, the freezing waters of Tooting or Parliament Hill lidos. ... Instead its 50m lengths are the perfect temperature, and its chilly terraces the perfect space for a post-swim cup of tea.\""}, {"text": "Fedotovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Okladnenskoye Rural Settlement, Uryupinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The locality has only 2 streets, and had a population of 70 as of 2010. Geography. Fedotovsky is located in steppe, 25 km southeast of Uryupinsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Okladnensky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Daffy Duck in Hollywood is a video game published by Sega and released in 1994 for the Sega Mega Drive, Master System and Game Gear. Plot. The mad Professor Duck Brain has stolen Yosemite Sam's Golden Cartoon Awards and is holding them for ransom. Sam calls upon Daffy Duck to recover his awards and deal with the mad professor and his henchmen. Gameplay. The player has Daffy Duck traversing through a backstage level in a limited amount of time and finding the exit in order to proceed to the next level. Daffy's weapon of choice is a bubble cannon to shoot enemies. Daffy can also throw punches. Daffy must collect all bundles of dynamite before he can exit the level. Collectible items provide bonus points, powerups, extra lives and access to a bonus level. Many of the level names reference previous cartoon titles including The Duxorcist, Assault and Peppered and others. In the final level, Daffy confronts the final boss Professor Duck Brain. Reception. Mean Machines Sega reviewers criticised the Mega Drive version for tedious platforming, not being worth the price, having poor graphics and sounds and a close resemblance to Pink Goes to Hollywood, scoring it 53%. Computer and"}, {"text": "Video Games simply called the Mega Drive version no good with a score of 31%, but regarded the Master System version as more playable and fun, giving a fair score of 75%. The Game Gear version was one of the best selling games between September 1994 and March 1995. The Master System version was one of the best selling games between September 1994 and May 1995. It was also regarded as one of the top 10 Sega Hits."}, {"text": "The term boundary paradox refers to the conflict between traditional, rank-based classification of life and evolutionary thinking. In the hierarchy of ranked categories it is implicitly assumed that the morphological gap is growing along with increasing ranks: two species from the same genus are more similar than other two species from different genera in the same family, these latter two species are more similar than any two species from different families of the same order, and so on. However, this requirement may only satisfy for the classification of contemporary organisms; difficulties arise if we wish to classify descendants together with their ancestors. Theoretically, such a classification necessarily involves segmentation of the spatio-temporal continuum of populations into groups with crisp boundaries. However, the problem is not only that many parent populations would separate at species level from their offspring. The truly paradoxical situation is that some between-species boundaries would necessarily coincide with between-genus boundaries, and a few between-genus boundaries with borders between families, and so on. This apparent ambiguity cannot be resolved in Linnaean systems; resolution is only possible if classification is cladistic (see below). Historical background. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, in \"Philosophie zoologique\" (1809), was the first who questioned the objectivity of"}, {"text": "rank-based classification of life, by saying: Half a century later, Charles Darwin explained that sharp separation of groups of organisms observed at present becomes less obvious if we go back into the past: In his book on orchids, Darwin also warned that the system of ranks would not work if we knew more details about past life: Finally, Richard Dawkins has argued recently that and with the following conclusion: Illustrative models. The paradox may be best illustrated by model diagrams similar to Darwin\u2019s single evolutionary tree in \"On the Origin of Species\". In these tree graphs, dots represent populations and edges correspond to parent-offspring relations. The trees are placed into a coordinate system which is one-dimensional (time) for a single lineage, and two-dimensional (differentiation vs. time) for cladogenesis or evolution with divergence. In the single lineage model we now consider a sequence of populations along an extremely long time axis, say several hundred million years, with the last dot representing an extant population. In the figure there is space for a few dots even though edges between adjacent populations are hidden. We could use a second axis to express differentiation, but it is not necessary for our purposes. Here we"}, {"text": "assume that there is no extinction and all branching events are disregarded (if there were no branches at all, then the changes would correspond to a typical anagenesis. Classification of organisms along this sequence into species is shown by small ellipses. If the differences between certain species are judged to be large enough to justify classification into distinct genera, then generic separators must each coincide with a between-species boundary. If differences reach family-level differentiation, which is easy to imagine over the very long time we consider here, the consequence is that a family-level border must overlap with a between-genus and, in turn, a between-species border (gray arrow in the figure). One cannot imagine, however, that a parent and its offspring are so distinct that they should be classified to different families, or even genera \u2013 that would be paradoxical. This illustrates Dawkins\u2019 above argumentation on human ancestry at the level of genera, \"Homo\" and \"Australopithecus\". Darwin placed emphasis on divergence, that is, when a parent population splits and these offspring populations diverge gradually, each following their own anagenetic sequence potentially with further divergence events. In this case, evolutionary (say morphological) divergence is expressed on a new, horizontal, axis and time"}, {"text": "becomes the vertical axis. At time point 1 an imaginary taxonomist judges populations A and B to belong to different species, but within the same genus. Their respective descendants, C and D are observed at time 2, and considered to represent two separate genera because their morphological difference is large. The paradox is that while A and C, as well as B and D remain within generic limits but C and D do not, so that ancestors cannot be classified together with their descendants meaningfully in a Linnaean system. This figure illustrates the problem Darwin has discussed in the fish and reptile example. Let us consider a hypothetical evolutionary tree with four recent species, A to D, classified into two genera that are fairly distant from each other morphologically. We assume, further, that from the fossil record we only know their common ancestor, E, representing yet another genus for a taxonomist because it takes \u201cintermediate\u201d position between the other two \u2013 yet considerably different from both. All other forms went extinct; therefore we have classification of these five species into three genera, which would be illogical if more fossils were known. This illustrates Darwin\u2019s and Dawkins\u2019 examples on the role"}, {"text": "of gaps in the fossil record in classification \u2013 and nomenclature. Resolution. As demonstrated, given a Darwinian evolutionary model, descendants and their ancestors cannot be classified together within the system of Linnean ranks. Solution is provided by cladistic classification in which each group is composed of an ancestor and all of its descendant populations, a condition called monophyly. In the above models monophyletic groups may be obtained by cutting a branch (subtree) from the tree at places where, for instance, new apomorphic (evolutionary derived) characters appear. For these groups there is no need to consider how much change occurred between members of one group as compared to those of the other."}, {"text": "Greg Drasler is an American artist known for metaphorical paintings that mix vernacular imagery and decoration and visual and interpretive conundrums. His work explores the construction of identity and memory through painted subjects that range from elaborately constructed interiors to symbolic common objects to patterned panoramas of the American highway. Although representational, Drasler's work eludes defined aesthetic categories such as realism, incorporating elements of surrealism, abstraction, and postmodern bricolage and recontextualization. In an early \"Art in America\" review, Robert G. Edelman wrote that Drasler \"shares with Magritte the ability to create images that are both convincing and profoundly disorienting\"; Jonathan Goodman described his later paintings as enigmatic puzzles meant to be meditated on, as both \"visual metaphors for self\" and formal statements existing for the sake of psychological mystery. Drasler has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. His work has been shown at the New Museum, PS1, Whitney Museum Stamford, Artists Space and Carnegie Museum of Art, and reviewed or featured in \"Art in America\", \"Flash Art\", \"New Art Examiner\", \"The Paris Review\", and \"The New York Times\". Drasler lives in Tribeca, New"}, {"text": "York City with his wife, artist Nancy Davidson, and teaches at Pratt Institute. Early life and career. Drasler was born in Waukegan, Illinois in 1952. He was influenced in the 1960s by seeing James Rosenquist's room-spanning \"F-111\", as well as the work of H. C. Westermann and Chicago Imagists such as Jim Nutt and Roger Brown, and studied art at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1978, a fire destroyed all of his possessions and artwork in diverse media, except for two paintings; afterwards, he committed to painting as his medium. After earning a BFA (1980), he enrolled in the school's Year in Japan Program, which heightened an interest in the relationship between place and identity and encouraged his future use of vernacular imagery. in 1983 after completing his MFA, Drasler moved to New York City and began exhibiting professionally. In his first decade there, he appeared in two shows curated by Marcia Tucker at the New Museum (the inaugural \"On View,\" 1983; \"Other Man: Alternative Views of Masculinity,\" 1987), as well as group exhibitions at Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco), Jack Tilton and Artists Space (New York), Carnegie Museum of Art, and Knoxville Museum of Art. Early solo exhibitions"}, {"text": "took place at the R.C. Erpf (1985\u20137) and Shea & Beker (1990) galleries in New York and Marianne Deson (1988) and Center for Contemporary Art (1990) in Chicago. In subsequent years, Drasler has had solo exhibitions in New York (Queens Museum of Art, 1994; Betty Cuningham Gallery, 2007\u201316), Boston, California, Chicago and Seattle; he has appeared in group shows at the New Museum, PS1, Whitney Museum Stamford, and Weatherspoon Art Museum, among others. Drasler has been a member of the Fine Arts faculty at Pratt Institute since 2005, and prior to that, taught at Montclair State University, Princeton University, Hofstra University and Williams College. Work and reception. Drasler's paintings explore liminal spaces and thresholds between places or states of being (inside and out, here or there, public and private, real and imaginary, object and environment); these include suitcases, bedrooms, automobile interiors, the American highway and roadhouse, and film sets. He employs strategies of bricolage, recycling and displacement, packing his images with signs, symbols, metaphors, pattern and design, visual puzzles and puns. These elements convey humor, nostalgia, and a sense of the uncanny in examinations of the self and its relationship to personal space, location, and local culture. Figurative and \"Baggage\""}, {"text": "paintings (1983\u20131990). Drasler's early work focused on home builder and handyman imagery that functioned as an allegory for self-construction. After moving to New York, he began painting objects that served as human stand-ins and lone figures, often with unexpected props, in forlorn landscapes. Reviewers described them as hovering between memory and dream, noting in figurative works, such as \"Headlights\" (1986), \"Laoco\u00f6n\" (1987) or \"Mercury Rising\" (1990), a sense of isolation and visual conceit that sometimes alluded to the miraculous or mythological. His \"Baggage Paintings\" (1987\u201390) depict plush period gear in apparently random but carefully composed states\u2014stacked (\"Samson and Delilah\"), rifled through (\"Customs\"), grouped (\"Deposed\" or \"Baggage Claim\")\u2014that imply allegories of identity, luxury and privacy, and toy with conventions of literature and representation, such as the still life, landscape and Minimalism. Critics such as Robert Berlind describe them as meticulously detailed with \"virtuosic, fluid brushwork\" emphasizing the play of reflected light and color and a playful style that lulls viewers into a \"cheery complicity\" often undermined by darker elements. With \"Samsonite\" (1990)\u2014a wide-open, empty suitcase with fabric lining like rumpled sheets, implying a private, sexual component\u2014Drasler signaled his shift in the next two decades to interiors as sites for exploring subjectivity."}, {"text": "Interiors (1990\u20132010). Drasler's \"Cave Painting\" works depict intricately constructed, ornate interiors that serve as metaphors for the interior construction of the self and the human relationship to personal, domestic space. They pair his interests in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and home design\u2014architecture, ornament, wallpaper and fabric\u2014in theatrical, film set-like scenes characterized by human absence, visual conundrums, and \"trompe-l'\u0153il\" obfuscation. In formal terms, critics note the work's technical facility, illusionistic perspective, and effective blend of periods and motifs, noting links to Vuillard's confined spaces, eighteenth-century idealizations of nature, and the Baroque; in psychological terms, they suggest it draws viewers in voyeuristically, through a dreamlike, vaguely unsettling presence and furtive signs that imply the traces left in vacated rooms or closely guarded secrets. Drasler created enigmatic, Magritte-like formal and psychological puzzles in paintings such as \"Changing Room\" (1994), whose surreal \"trompe-l'\u0153il\" draped sheets, mirror reflections and painted landscape mural camouflage both architecture and purpose. Robert G. Edelman suggests these paintings slowly reveal \"wry and portentous secrets\" like Vel\u00e1zquez's \"Las Meninas\" or De Chirico's piazzas, which similarly resist resolution. In other paintings, such as \"Restless Bedroom\" (1992), Drasler conveys a more animate spirit with enveloping swaths of fabric or nature motifs that blur boundaries"}, {"text": "between organic and man-made, inside and outside, and figure and ground. He also introduced suspended common objects (a tomato pincushion in \"Green Room\", 1995; linked hangers in \"Mobile\", 2001) and symbolic wallpaper patterns into his work (a bluebird and birdcage, beehive, and ball and chain in \"Facts of Life\", 1995) that allude to psychosexual dramas to untangle. In his \"Tattoo Parlor\" series, Drasler continued to explore wallpaper patterns (on canvas and as an installation environment), using familiar iconography and playing off the idea of the imprint places leave on their occupants. His \"Jesus Wallpaper\" consisted of straightforward, loosely rendered iconic images of Jesus, which appeared as backgrounds in a series of room paintings (1995\u20137) of assorted hanging objects (jumper cables in \"Jumping Jesus\", a wallet in \"Profit\", a pencil in \"2B Jesus\"). \"Tattoo Parlor\" was fully realized\u2014with the paintings hung on hand-painted, Jesus Wallpaper-patterned walls\u2014during his residency at Djerassi Foundation (1996) and in installations at PS1 (the group show \"Get Busy\", 1997) and California State University at Fullerton (solo show, 2005). Drasler also employed pattern in his \"Hats Paintings\" (1988\u20132012), approaching abstraction in canvasses filled edge-to-edge with seas of anonymous men in subtly shaded fedoras, their faces turned away or"}, {"text": "hidden beneath the hats. Road trip and automobile-related works (2006\u2013 ). In the 2000s, Drasler's investigations of interior and liminal spaces expanded to include Hollywood illusionism, automobile interiors, and the American road trip. A tour of the former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios drew his attention to cutaway automobile props used for filming, which he noted exist as both interior and exterior spaces and as windows to the world. He employed them in visually enigmatic paintings such as \"Green Screen\" (2006), \"Road Trip\" (2006) and \"Internal Combustion\" (2010), set against backdrops or green-screens; the backgrounds, representing the potential of inexhaustible, to-be-determined locations, extended metaphors regarding the freedom and imaginative capacity offered by the automobile. With the show \"On the Lam\" (2011), Drasler examined automobile interiors as sites of independence, seclusion, fantasy, and a cinema-like screening of experience. He packed the pictorial frames (including the depicted windscreens) of works such as \"On the Lam\" with objects, decorative and Native American patterns (\"Rain Dance\"), and Americana travel references. Reviewers have described these paintings as raucous works of visual wit and poignancy, nostalgic evocations of 1950s interstate travel, old hand-colored postcards and 1960s concert posters, and fantastical, inexplicable assemblages that simultaneously recall elements of the work"}, {"text": "of Roger Brown, the Pattern and Decoration movement, and Philip Pearlstein. Drasler used his 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship to drive cross-country, gathering ideas that would emerge in his \"Road Trip\" works. He drew inspiration from the expansive, big-sky vistas of the Midwest and the vernacular architecture of the American roadhouse. He reconfigured these inspirations on canvas with crazy-quilt patterning suggesting both the landscape's vast reach and its man-made division into property. A key work was the six-panel, 400-inch \"Stratocaster Suite\" (2016), which was displayed in a narrow room so as to unfold for viewers in time like a road-trip landscape or Muybridge stop-motion sequence. Collaborative projects. Drasler's allegorical hanging-object paintings of the 1990s were influenced by psychologist Christopher Bollas's concept of the unthought known; he contributed an essay, \"Painting into a Corner: Representation as Shelter,\" to the book \"The Vitality of Objects: Exploring the Work of Christopher Bollas\" (2002), edited by Joseph Scalia. He collaborated with poet Timothy Liu on the book \"Polytheogamy\" (2009), consisting of interleafed images of Drasler's paintings with Liu's poetry. Beginning in 2011, he produced a series of video interviews with Nancy Davidson documenting the lives and work of artists, including Don Dudley, Judith Linhares, Thomas Kovachevich"}, {"text": "and Matt Freedman, which appear on the website Romanov Grave. Awards and public collections. Drasler has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2014), a Helen L. Bing Fellowship (1996), and grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2019), National Endowment for the Arts (1993), and New York Foundation for the Arts (1991), among others. He has also received artist residencies from Djerassi (1996) and the MacDowell Colony (1986). His work belongs to several public art collections, including those of the New Museum, Krannert Art Museum, Fisher Landau Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Dow Jones & Company."}, {"text": "The St. Gallus Chapel is a chapel within the abbey complex of Saint Gall. It was rebuilt in 1666/67 on the ground floor of the residence of the prince-abbot. It was consecrated in 1671 in conjunction with the Bishop's chapel (German: Bischofskapelle) above it. The chapel has an approximately square interior. The walls and ceiling are filled with 26 paintings depicting the life of saint Gall, presumably created by Johann Sebastian Hersche. There are two larger than life size statues next to the entrance, depicting Saint Maurice and Desiderius of Vienne. In the year 971, the Abbot Purchart von Udalrichingen had a chapel built in the same spot. Purchart was buried next to its entrance in 975 by the bishop Conrad of Constance. The St. Gallus Chapel, along with the St. Gallen Cathedral, serves as a baptistery of the St. Gallen Cathedral parish."}, {"text": "Firsovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Saltynskoye Rural Settlement, Uryupinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 187 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Firsovsky is located in steppe, on the left bank of the Saltynka River, 30 km north of Uryupinsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Saltynsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vickida No Varghodo is a 2022 Indian Gujarati comedy film directed by Rahul Bhole and Vinit Kanojia. The film stars Malhar Thakar, Monal Gajjar, Manasi Rachh and Jinal Belani in lead roles. The film is produced by Sharad Patel, Shreyanshi Patel, Vikas Agarwal, Pankaj Keshruwala. The film was released on 8 July 2022. It was highly successful among family audiences and enjoyed a theatrical run exceeding 50 days. This film grossed over 15 crore at the box office, indicating its popularity and commercial success. Plot. The film centers around the romantic endeavors of Vicky, exploring the beginning, progression, and ultimately tragic endings of his love affairs. The narrative takes a dramatic turn when Vicky is confronted with a sudden reappearance of someone from his past, leading to upheaval in his present relationships. This disruption leaves not only Vicky, but also the women he is involved with and his father, on edge as they face a precarious and uncertain future. The ensuing chaos is marked by a series of comical missteps and mishaps, which add a lighthearted tone to the otherwise tense and emotionally charged plot. Soundtrack. \"Udi Re\" was sung by Sonu Nigam. Marketing and release. The trailer garnered 5"}, {"text": "million views within 24 hours of its release. The film was initially projected to be released in mid-2020. The film was released on 8 July 2022. Reception. Rachana Joshi of \"Mid-day\" rated the film as 2.5 out of 5. She praised the performances and songs but criticised the length."}, {"text": "\"Make No Sense\" is a song by American rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again. It was sent to urban contemporary radio on January 14, 2020 as the third single from his twelfth mixtape \"AI YoungBoy 2\" (2019). It was produced by Buddah Bless. Background and composition. YoungBoy first previewed the song on an Instagram story in January 2019; the song was also previous titled as \"Tina Turner\". The first line of the chorus (\"I feel like I'm Gucci Mane in 2006\") is a reference to when a murder charge against Mane was dropped in 2006. YoungBoy sings about the money he has earned, and how some men are pretending to have money or respect him. He also compares jewelry to the price of narcotics and talks about still keeping his thug persona. Music video. The music video was released on January 13, 2020."}, {"text": "Cherkassky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Bubnovskoye Rural Settlement, Uryupinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 27 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Cherkassky is located in forest steppe, 37 km northwest of Uryupinsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bugrovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Chumakovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Vishnyakovskoye Rural Settlement, Uryupinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 59 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Chumakovsky is located 29 km northeast of Uryupinsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vishnyakovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Suniti Chattaraj (30 November 1943 \u2013 9 January 2017) was an Indian lawyer and politician belonging to Trinamool Congress. He was a former state minister of West Bengal Government. He was elected as a legislator in West Bengal Legislative Assembly for four times. Biography. Chattaraj was born on 30 November 1943. He was a student of Kolkata University's Law department. After finishing student he practised law. Chattaraj lost from Suri in 1971. He was elected a member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Suri in 1972. After electing he was appointed as Electricity, Irrigation and Water Resource State Minister of West Bengal Government. He was elected again as MLA of Suri in 1977. He was elected from Suri for consecutive three times in 1982. Chattaraj lost in 1987 and 1991. He was elected as MLA of Suri in 1996. Chattaraj resigned in 1998 and became a candidate in Bolpur in general election but, he could not win. He joined Trinamool Congress in 1999. He lost again from Bolpur in 1999. Chattaraj lost bypoll in Suri in 2000. He lost agrain in 2001 when he contested from Suri. Chattaraj died on 9 January 2017. Controversy. For Chattaraj's corruption charge he was"}, {"text": "sacked from West Bengal Government. He was arrested on 12 January 2006 for another corruption charge."}, {"text": "Shemyakinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Rossoshinskoye Rural Settlement, Uryupinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 154 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Shemyakinsky is located 39 km southeast of Uryupinsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhnesoinsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lonely Child may refer to:"}, {"text": "\"Lonely Child\" is a song by American rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again, released on October 11, 2019, as the eleventh track from YoungBoy's twelfth mixtape, \"AI YoungBoy 2\". The low tempo trap beat provides the correct melody for YoungBoy to vocalize his feelings regarding his pain from the death of his friend Lil Dave to the hurt from not being able to see his son Kacey to the resentment he feels towards the mother of Kacey, his ex-girlfriend, Jania Bania. Background. The song was first released on YouTube and SoundCloud on October 9, 2019, as a surprise release from YoungBoy, however it was re-released through Never Broke Again, Artist Partner Group and Atlantic Records on October 11, 2019, to appear on all digital streaming platforms. Crtitical reception. On October 11, 2019, \"Lonely Child\" appeared as \"Pitchfork\"s \"new rap song of the day.\" Pierre noted that the track \"[doubles] down on the crooning that has made him an online sensation\" and that he is \"rap's most troubled superstar.\""}, {"text": "The South Uist Machair and Lochs is a protected wetland area on the west coast of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. A total of 5,019 hectares contains blanket bog, oligotrophic lochs, wet and dry machair, fresh and saltwater marsh, coastal dunes and sandy and rocky shores. It includes the estuary waters of the Howmore River, as well as Loch Bi and Loch Druidibeg. It has been protected as a Ramsar Site since 1976. The area supports nationally or internationally important populations of numerous birds, including corncrake, little tern and sanderling. The site also contains the rare slender naiad. As well as the South Uist Machair and Lochs being recognised as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, it has also been designated a Special Protection Area."}, {"text": "\"Live Forever\" is a song by the English singer and songwriter Liam Payne featuring American DJ trio Cheat Codes for Payne's debut studio album. It is the seventh and final single from his debut studio album \"LP1\" (2019). The song accompanied the album's release on 6 December 2019. Composition. \"Live Forever\" was written by Samuel Preston, Evan Kidd Bogart, Matthew Ellifrtitz, Kevin Pederson, Trevor Dahl, and Sylvester Sivertsen, while production was handled by Matthew Elifritz, Kevin Pederson, Trevor Dahl and Silvertsen. The song has been described as a romantic track that finds Payne singing about how \"the person he loves makes him want to 'live forever'.\" Musically, the track is an EDM-pop and dance song. It was written in the key of E minor and has a tempo of 85 BPM. Live performances. Payne performed the song on \"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\". He also performed the song on \"The Today Show\". Music video. The Similar But Different-directed music video accompanied the song's release. It was filmed on the Isle of Wight and shows Payne levitating near crashing waves and exploring seaside caves, as well as stunt driving with Cheat Codes. Credits and personnel. Credits adapted from Tidal."}, {"text": "Archedino-Chernushinsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Archedinskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 270 as of 2010. Geography. Archedino-Chernushinsky is located in steppe on east of Frolovsky District, 43 km northeast of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mansky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "\"All I Want (For Christmas)\" is a song by the English singer and songwriter Liam Payne. It was released on 25 October 2019 by Capitol Records as the sixth single off Payne's debut studio album \"LP1\". Background. On 23 October, Payne revealed a preview of \"All I Want (For Christmas)\" and that it would serve as his next single. It was written by James Newman, Samuel Preston and Philip Cook, while production was handled by Cook. The song has been described as a \"gentle ballad\". The song finds Payne singing about a broken relationship and hopes to mend it before the holiday season. Critical reception. Regina Star of iHeartRadio gave a positive review for the song stating, \"Payne's record is far more somber, as the musician croons of wanting to save his broken relationship with his beloved.\" Hollywood Life noted how different the track is compared to other Christmas songs remarking, \"Finally, a song that captures the darker side of the holidays that 'Jingle Bells' can't quite accomplish.\" Music video. An animated lyrics video premiered on 25 October 2019. A music video to accompany the release of \"All I Want (For Christmas)\" was later released onto YouTube on 29 November."}, {"text": "The Apostolic Nunciature to New Zealand is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in New Zealand. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador. The Holy See represented its interests in the region through its Delegation to Australia established on 15 April 1914 and renamed the Delegation to Australia, New Zealand and Oceania on 8 June 1947. On 1 November 1968, that was divided into two delegations: the Delegation to Australia and Papua New Guinea and the Delegation to New Zealand and Pacific Islands. The Holy See established its Nunciature to New Zealand on 20 June 1973. The Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand is usually also the Apostolic Nuncio to the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu and Apostolic Delegate to the Pacific Ocean upon his appointment to said nations."}, {"text": "Banny () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Lychakskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 68 as of 2010. Geography. Banny is located in center of Frolovsky District, 23 km northeast of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Blagodatny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Blagodatny () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Lychakskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was counted at 50 people in 2010. Geography. Blagodatny is located northeast of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dudachensky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Dudachensky () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Dudachenskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 576 as of 2010. Geography. Dudachensky is located 54 km northeast of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Blagodatny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zimovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Krasnolipovskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 30 as of 2010. Geography. Zimovsky is located on south of Frolovsky District, 32 km southwest of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vyezdinsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kolobrodov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Vetyutnevskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 217 as of 2010. Geography. Kolobrodov is located on Archeda River, 19 km west of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Shkolny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kudinovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Bolshelychakskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. Geography. Kudinovsky is located in steppe, on the right bank of the Lychak River, 57 km north of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bolshoy Lychak is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tobias Box (born 9 September 1972) is a male former athlete who competed for Great Britain and England. Biography. Box was a member of Wolverhampton & Bilston AC and finished second behind American Jeff Williams in the 200 metres event at the 1993 AAA Championships but by virtue of being the highest placed British athlete was considered the British 200 metres champion that year. Box represented England in the 200 metres and won a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada. After retiring from athletics prematurely in 1998 due to injury, Toby Box worked in property. He qualified as a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) in 2012 and now works as a Development Surveyor in Kent, England. Toby Box is a noted IT expert. External references. Toby Box's Athlete profile"}, {"text": "Lychak () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Lychakskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 604 as of 2010. Geography. Lychak is located 13 km northeast of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Amelino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Malodelskaya () is a rural locality (a stanitsa) and the administrative center of Malodelskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,348 as of 2010. Geography. Malodelskaya is located on Bezymyannaya River, 58 km northeast of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zapolyansky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Shannon Sewrani Hilversum, known professionally as RANI (stylized in all caps), (born 21 March 1999), is a Dutch-Surinamese singer-songwriter. Career. She is best known for featuring on Sam Feldt's 2019 song \"Post Malone\". She also provided uncredited vocals for David Guetta's 2021 single, \"Get Together\". She has also provided vocals for Jonasu's 2021 single \"Black Magic\". On November 12, 2021, Rani released her debut album entitled \"396\"."}, {"text": "S\u00f3nia Maria Campos Soares da Rocha, usually referred to as Professor S\u00f3nia Rocha, is a Portuguese cell biologist who holds a personal chair in Biochemistry at the University of Liverpool, where she is a former head of the Department of Biochemistry and was the Founding Dean of the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology. Rocha runs an active multidisciplinary cell signaling research group studying hypoxia, and focused around transcription factors such as Hypoxia-inducible factors and NF-\u03baB. Her laboratory is currently based in the Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Systems Biology, University of Liverpool. In 2024, Professor Rocha was the first female recipient of the Sir Philip Randle Award of the Biochemical Society Early life and education. Rocha was born in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, and was educated at the University of Porto, where she received the equivalent of a UK first-class honours degree in biology from the Faculty of Science. She subsequently studied for a PhD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland, graduating in 2000 after working alongside Martin Pruschy and K. H. Winterhalter. Career and research highlights. Following her PhD, Rocha took up a postdoctoral research position in the Centre for"}, {"text": "Gene Regulation and Expression, in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, where she was supervised by Neil Perkins. In 2005, she was awarded an Independent RCUK Fellowship to continue her work in the molecular basis of transcription, taking up a position as a RCUK fellow and tenure-track principal investigator. She then became a Principal Investigator in 2011, and in the same year, was awarded a prestigious Cancer Research UK senior research fellowship, which was taken up in the Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, in Dundee between 2011 and 2017. She was deputy director of the Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, between 2012 and 2017, and was then promoted to professor of molecular and cellular biology in 2016. In July 2017, she took up the position of Head of the Biochemistry Department in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool, and from 2020 was promoted to become Executive dean of the newly formed Institute of Systems, Molecular & Integrative Biology Rocha is an experienced undergraduate and postgraduate teacher and convenor, and has delivered courses on cell signalling, genes and cancer module, genes and proteins, and was a lecturer in gene"}, {"text": "regulation and expression modules at the University of Dundee, including module coordination. As of 2025, she has published >100 peer-reviewed research articles, co-authored multiple peer-reviewed research reviews and contributed to one book chapter. Amongst her most-cited work is the discovery that Hypoxia-Inducible Factor is regulated by NF-\u03baB and a recent paper in Science that demonstrates Hypoxia modulates histone methylation and reprograms chromatin. This paper was published back-to-back with a study co-authored by 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner for Medicine William Kaelin Jr. These papers were highlighted in an independent editorial. Other relevant publications include a chemical biology approach to analysing hypoxic signalling, analysis of the targeted degradation of regulation of the oxygen-regulated prolylyl hydroxylase enzyme, also known as Procollagen-proline dioxygenase, and molecular analysis of the regulation of PHD1 by protein phosphorylation. Research networks, scientific service and scientific outreach. Rocha's funding portfolio includes a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award in Science, for which she was lead (2017\u20132022) and significant further PI funding from CRUK, the MRC, the AICR, the Royal Society and BBSRC equipment funding as part of multi-disciplinary applications. Through her international research group, Rocha has supported the research training of many staff and students, graduating 17 PhD"}, {"text": "students as of 2025, 11 as primary supervisor. She is active in the promotion of science and research to policy makers and the wider scientific community, as evidenced by her position on several committees, including (2019\u2013present) co-chair of the organising committee for the Genes and Cancer meeting, chair of the organising committee for the UK and Ireland NF-kappaB and IKK workshop 2019. (2019\u2013present chair of the LIFE_16 Molecular and Cellular Biology panel, Finnish Science Academy), 2018\u2013present external reviewer for Newcastle University Tenure Track Fellows. Faculty of Medicine, 2018\u2013present member of the \"Biomedicines\" editorial board, 2018\u2013present member of the evaluation team for \u201cFundacion La Caixa\u201d grants, 2017\u2013present member of the editorial advisory board for FEBS Journal, 2017\u2013present. Member of the North West Cancer Research Centre executive committee, 2017\u20132018 member of the Health and Science, Molecular and cellular Biology panel, Finnish Science Academy. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Henry Dale Fellowship panel Wellcome Trust, was a member of the CRUK travel award panel (2016\u20132019) and between 2015 and present is a member of the academic editorial board, Scientific Reports. Between 2015 and 2018 she was a member of the Breast Cancer Now scientific advisory board, and between 2013"}, {"text": "and 2017. was the head of the SLS University of Dundee MRC PhD programme. Since 2013 she has been a member of the academic editorial board of the open-access journal \"PLOS One\". Since 2008, she has been a member of the editorial advisory board of the \"Biochemical Journal\". Rocha has given over 50 invited seminars at universities across the world. She has also acted as an external examiner at a number of UK universities, including Belfast University, University of Oulu, Finland, University of Barcelona, Imperial College London, University of Cambridge and Newcastle University. Awards and honours. Rocha was an invited member of the Research Excellence Framework 2021 sub-panel for UoA5, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. She was the recipient of both an Independent Cancer Research UK senior fellowship and an Independent RCUK Junior Fellowship In 2011, her 2008 \"Biochemical Journal\" paper was awarded 'paper of the year' in the Biochemical Journal-Gene section and in 2009, her citation classic on the subject of gene regulation by hypoxia was cited as the most cited paper of the year in the \"Biochemical Journal\". In 2008, Rocha also received the 'outstanding achievement' award, at both the 13th World Congress"}, {"text": "on Advances in Oncology and the 11th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine. Greece."}, {"text": "Terry Williams (born 1968), is a male former athlete who competed for England. Athletics career. Williams represented England in the 100 and 200 metres and won a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada."}, {"text": "Mansky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Archedinskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 124 as of 2010. Geography. Mansky is located on the right bank of the Archeda River, 30 km east of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Obraztsy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Muravli () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Malodelskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. Geography. Muravli is located 71 km northeast of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Malodelskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The men's 400 metres event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 22\u201323 July 1970 at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was the first time that the metric distance was contested at the Games, replacing the 440 yards event. Results. Heats. Held on 22 July 1970 Qualification for quarterfinals. The first 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the quarterfinals. Quarterfinals. Held on 22 July 1970 Qualification for semifinals. The first 4 in each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals. Semifinals. Held on 23 July 1970 Qualification for final. The first 4 in each semifinal (Q) qualified directly for the final. Final. Held on 23 July 1970"}, {"text": "A blood gill is a gill-like structure restricted to organs with spacious lumen and poorly developed/absent trachea, found in larvae of aquatic insects. Specific research questions the functionality of this gill to respiration, and concludes it exists more likely to absorb water."}, {"text": "Nizhniye Lipki () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Pisaryovskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 48 as of 2010. Geography. Nizhniye Lipki is located in southeast of Frolovsky District, on Shiryay River, 40 km southeast of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pisarevka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Swaraj Mukherjee (1941/42 \u2013 6 April 2003) was an Indian politician belonging to Trinamool Congress. He was elected as a legislator of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Uttarpara in 2001. He died on 6 April 2003 at the age of 61."}, {"text": "Parizhskaya Kommuna () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Lychakskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. Geography. Parizhskaya Kommuna is located in center of Frolovsky District, 32 km northeast of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Blagodatny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "\"Doctor Doctor\" is an Australian drama series that premiered on Nine Network on 16 September 2016. It is known internationally as \"The Heart Guy\". The series, including its cast, have been nominated for several awards including the AACTA Awards, the Casting Guild of Australia, the Screen Producers Australia, and multiple nominations at the Logie Awards. Despite multiple nominations, the series has not been the recipient of any awards. The series itself has been nominated for eleven awards, while Rodger Corser has been nominated for ten awards. In addition, Corser's character was honoured as part of an official list consisting of the 100 Greatest Australian TV Characters, published by \"TV Week\"."}, {"text": "George Grimes (July 3, 1922 \u2013 April 28, 1971) was an American football wide receiver who played for the Detroit Lions during the 1948 season. Biography. Early life and education. Grimes was born on July 3, 1922. He attended Tazewell High School in Virginia, where he played on the basketball and football teams. After high school, he played football for the University of Virginia. Before he completed his studies, however, he joined the US Marines as a second lieutenant fighting in World War II. After combat, he returned to the University of Virginia and continued playing football. Career and later life. After college, Grimes was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams and the Buffalo Bills, but instead played for the Detroit Lions. He played in nine games for the Lions during the 1948 season, after which he retired from professional football. Grimes died on April 28, 1971."}, {"text": "Rubyozhny () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Archedinskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 222 as of 2010. Geography. Rubyozhny is located northeast from Obraztsy, 34 km east of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mansky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Russko-Osinovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Dudachenskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 30 as of 2010. Geography. Russko-Osinovsky is located 49 km northeast of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dudachensky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Detlef Horst M\u00fcller (born 13 June 1954 in Dissen, Lower Saxony) is a German mathematician, specializing in analysis. M\u00fcller received 1981 his doctorate from the University of Bielefeld with thesis \"Das Syntheseverhalten glatter Hyperfl\u00e4chen mit homogenen Kr\u00fcmmungsverh\u00e4ltnissen im formula_1\" (The synthesis behavior of smooth hypersurfaces with homogeneous curvature ratios in formula_1) under the supervision of Horst Leptin (1927\u20132017). M\u00fcller habilitated in 1984 in Kiel. He spent the academic year 1990\u20131991 at the Institute for Advanced Study. He was from 1992 to 1994 a professor at the Universit\u00e9 Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg and is since 1994 a professor at the University of Kiel. His research deals with harmonic analysis (especially related to Lie groups) with applications to partial differential equations. In 1998 M\u00fcller was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. He became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the class of 2018. He is a member of the editorial boards of the \"Journal of Lie Theory\" and the \"Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata\"."}, {"text": "Iwerne Stepleton (anciently Ewern Stapleton, etc.) is a small civil parish and former manor in the county of Dorset, England. The parish comprises about 800 acres of land and lies on the eastern side of the River Iwerne. The soil is chalk. The surviving St Mary's parish church, to the west of the parish, was founded in about 1100 and stood originally surrounded by the village of Iwerne Stepleton, deserted at some time before 1662 and replaced by the surviving large structure of Stepleton House."}, {"text": "Shkolny () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Vetyutnevskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 208 as of 2010. Geography. Shkolny is located on the Archede River, 20 km west of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kolobrodov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Unnatural Selection (or stylized as, \"unnatural selection\") is a 2019 American documentary television series. It presents an overview of genetic engineering, particularly the DNA-editing technology of CRISPR, from the perspective of scientists, corporations and biohackers working from their home. The series was released on Netflix on October 18, 2019. Episodes. Season 1. The first season consists of 4 episodes. It became available for streaming on October 18, 2019. Participants. The documentary TV series includes the following notable participants (alphabetized by last name): Reception. According to reviewer Megan Molteni, writing for \"Wired\" Magazine, \"\"Unnatural Selection\" chronicles the ambitions and struggles of scientists, doctors, patients, conservationists, and biohackers as they seek to wrest control of evolution from nature itself. They are all navigating the profound ethical dilemmas of a world where it\u2019s possible to rewrite the code of life inside any organism, including human ... If you were looking for a \"Schoolhouse Rock!\" explanation of how Crispr works or a deep dive on the history of its discovery, \"Unnatural Selection\" won\u2019t deliver ... All the requisite references will be made [in the series]\u2014to \"Gattaca\", to Huxley, to \u201clife, uh, finds a way.\u201d ... After watching \"Unnatural Selection\" you might not have a"}, {"text": "better understanding of how Crispr-Cas9 differs from Crispr-Cas12e, a, or b, but you\u2019ll definitely have something to talk about on the subway.\" According to reviewer Dream McClinton, writing for \"The Guardian\", \"For the [film-makers], the series had to tell the broader, more intricate story of genetic engineering, a story filled with great risk, benefits, consequences, emotions, sentiments and future, to better illuminate the field and further the discussion on the technology ... The series is haunted by feelings of ambivalence from the scientists who are cautious about tipping the scales towards a possible dystopian future .. \"Unnatural Selection\" demonstrates the worry of many, and the hope of others, threaded into a huge tapestry of possibility of a more perfect future ... While [one of the film-makers] doubts the series will change the minds of the public about genetic engineering, [he] hopes it will educate some about both the benefits and risks of genetic engineering.\" There are other reviews of the series, including reviews from the \"TheReviewGeek\" and \"ReadySteadyCut\"."}, {"text": "Shlyakhovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Krasnolipovskoye Rural Settlement, Frolovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 142 as of 2010. Geography. Shlyakhovsky is located 29 km southeast of Prigorodny (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krasnye Lipki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Akolzin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tormosinovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Akolzin is located on Don Plain, on southwest of Volgograd Oblast, 43 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tormosin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Alyoshkin () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Alyoshkinskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 442 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Alyoshkin is located on Don Plain, on southwest of Volgograd Oblast, on Aksenets River, 44 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Akolzin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "County Hall () is a former municipal building on Raikes Lane in Mold, Flintshire. It was the headquarters of the historic Flintshire county council from 1967 to 1974, the headquarters of Clwyd County Council from 1974 to 1996 and the headquarters of the modern Flintshire County Council from 1996 to 2025. History. Following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1888, which established county councils in every county, Flintshire County Council set up its base at the old County Hall in Chester Street in Mold. Additional facilities acquired included a local militia barracks (originally designed by Thomas Mainwaring Penson) which was converted for use as council offices in the late 1880s. After finding, in the 1930s, that the Chester Street facilities were too cramped, county leaders decided to procure modern facilities: the site they selected formed part of the Llwynegrin Hall estate which was acquired for the purpose. The new building, which was designed by the county architect, Robert Harvey, in the brutalist style and influenced by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, was completed in October 1967. The design for the seven-storey building, which involved a series a parallel wings, featured continuous rows of windows, every second of which"}, {"text": "had a heavy concrete surround: it was officially opened as the Shire Hall by Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon in May 1968. An extension to the building was opened by Princess Anne in July 1972. After the implementation of the Local Government Act 1972, the new building became the home of Clwyd County Council in 1974. On 1 April 1996, under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, Clwyd County Council was broken up and the building was acquired by the new Flintshire County Council who subsequently renamed it County Hall. The new Flintshire County Council also inherited the former Alyn and Deeside Borough Council Civic Offices, which had been built in 1992 at St David's Park in Ewloe in the community of Hawarden. The building at Ewloe was leased to Unilever for some years and was renamed \"Unity House\". By 2018, County Hall was proving very costly to maintain, while Unilever's lease of Unity House had ended and the council had tried to sell it without success. The council therefore decided to move several departments to Unity House, which it renamed . The rear wings of County Hall were then demolished in 2020, retaining only the front part of the"}, {"text": "building which includes the council chamber and some office space. County Hall therefore continues to serve as the council's official headquarters and meeting place, but many of the council's staff are now based at T\u0177 Dewi Sant. In March 2025, the council had fully vacated the building, completing their move to T\u0177 Dewi Sant in Ewloe."}, {"text": "Aseyev () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Yulkinskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 53 as of 2010. Geography. Aseyev is located 20 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yolkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Baznoy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Basakinskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 109 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Baznoy is located on Don Plain, on south-west of Volgograd Oblast, 32 km south of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhnegnutov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Basakin () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Basakinskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,041 as of 2010. There are 24 streets. Geography. Basakin is located 33 km south of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Filatov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Manik Upadhyay was an Indian politician belonging to Trinamool Congress. He was elected as MLA of Barabani in 1988, 1996 and 2001. His son Bidhan Upadhyay is two term legislator of West Bengal Legislative Assembly."}, {"text": "Governor Rodney may refer to:"}, {"text": "Biryukov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Verkhnegnutovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 35 as of 2010. Geography. Biryukov is located 26 km south of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhnegnutov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Cyclo-cross Superprestige 2019-20 \u2013 also known as the Telenet Superprestige for sponsorship reasons \u2013 is a season-long cyclo-cross competition held in Belgium and the Netherlands."}, {"text": "Alexander 'Alex' Michael Fugallo (born 28 January 1970), is a male former athlete who competed for England. Athletics career. Fugallo represented England in the 400 metres and won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is credited with winning a gold medal because he ran in the heats that helped England qualify for the final."}, {"text": "Bogomazovka () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Krasnoyarskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 202 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Bogomazovka is located on the left bank of the Tsimla River, 9 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krasnoyarsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "One of the Best Yet is the seventh and final studio album by American hip hop duo Gang Starr, released on November 1, 2019. The album features previously unreleased and posthumous vocals from Guru, who died nine years prior to the album's release. The album features guest appearances from J. Cole, Royce da 5'9\", Talib Kweli, M.O.P., and Q-Tip, among others. Background. Rapper Guru died of cancer in April 2010, having not released an album with DJ Premier as Gang Starr since 2003's \"The Ownerz\", seven years earlier. A note from Guru provided by former collaborator Solar had said that he disowned his former producer and DJ, and was released around the time of his death. However, many looked on it with suspicion. While Guru and Premier had not spoken since 2004, Premier had wanted to release a final album, but had difficulty obtaining unreleased material from Guru, despite the rapper's prolific work ethic, because of a dispute with fellow producer Solar. In 2014, a court case gave Guru's family control of his own unreleased music, and in 2016, Solar decided to sell the remaining music. Despite the animosity between the two men, an agreement was reached (although Solar disputes"}, {"text": "this), and in early 2018, DJ Premier decided to put together a final album, creating new beats for the project over acappellas from Guru. Critical reception. \"One of the Best Yet\" received generally favorable reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 71, based on 12 reviews. Writing for \"Exclaim!\", Riley Wallace praised the album as \"a fluid, impeccably produced final goodbye\" to Guru, and \"a last curtain to a legacy group on its own terms.\" Christopher R. Weingarten of \"Rolling Stone\" noted that \"there are moments where it feels like one of the most beloved rap groups in history are picking up right where they left off\", hailing \"Family and Loyalty\" as the highlight of the album. Will Lavin of \"NME\" called it \"a special moment for hip-hop\", however, he stated that \"Sometimes, too, Guru's absence is a little too noticeable\", noting that some tracks sound unfinished. Track listing. All tracks produced by DJ Premier."}, {"text": "Bolsheternovoy () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Bolsheternovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 576 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Bolsheternovoy is located 22 km northeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Maloternovoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Verkhnegnutov () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Verkhnegnutovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 780 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Verkhnegnutov is located on the Don Plain, on southwest of Chernyshkovsky District, on the Tsimla River, 21 km south of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Biryukov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "New York City has been described as the gay capital of the world and the central node of the LGBTQ+ sociopolitical ecosystem. It is home to one of the world's largest and most prominent LGBTQ populations. LGBTQ Americans in New York City constitute the largest self-identifying lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities by a significant margin in the United States. Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan was the site of the 1969 Stonewall uprising, and then spawned several foundational organizations in the emerging gay liberation movement. These events are widely considered to be crucial to the founding of the modern gay rights movement in the United States, as well as having worldwide impact. As of 2005, New York City was home to an estimated 272,493 self-identifying gay and bisexual individuals. The New York metropolitan area had an estimated 568,903 self-identifying LGBTQ residents. New York City is also home to the largest transgender population in the United States, estimated at 50,000 in 2018, concentrated in Manhattan and Queens. Brian Silverman, the author of \"Frommer's New York City from $90 a Day\", writes that the city has \"one of the world's largest, loudest, and most powerful LGBTQ communities\", and \"Gay and lesbian culture"}, {"text": "is as much a part of New York's basic identity as yellow cabs, high-rises, and Broadway theatre\". LGBTQ travel guide \"Queer in the World\" states, \"The fabulosity of Gay New York is unrivaled on Earth, and queer culture seeps into every corner of its five boroughs\". In 2022, LGBTQ advocate and entertainer Madonna stated metaphorically, \"Anyways, not only is New York City the best place in the world because of the queer people here. Let me tell you something, if you can make it here, then you must be queer\". Comedian Jerrod Carmichael joked, \"That's actually why I live here... if you say you're gay in New York, you can ride the bus for free and they just give you free pizza; if you say you're gay in New York, you get to host \"Saturday Night Live\". This is the gayest thing you can possibly do. We're basically in an Andy Warhol fever dream right now.\" In 2022, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a billboard campaign to woo Floridians to a significantly more supportive environment for LGBTQ+ residents in New York. The following represents a partial list of notable LGBTQ New Yorkers."}, {"text": "The London Repertoire Orchestra is a London-based rehearsal orchestra founded in 1955 (as The One Rehearsal Orchestra) by composer, conductor and oboist Ruth Gipps. Inspired in part by Arthur Dennington's Modern Symphony Orchestra (which had given the premiere performance of Gipps' Oboe Concerto in its 1941\u20132 season), and by Gwynne Kimpton's London Amateur Orchestra of World War 1, it was intended to provide opportunities for \"students, young professionals and good amateurs\" to become exposed to a wider range of music. It also provided valuable experience with an orchestra for intending soloists to try through the concerto repertoire. Julian Lloyd Webber was one of those to benefit from this, and later (on 29 September 1972) he gave the first London performance of the Bliss Cello Concerto with Gipps conducting the Chanticleer Orchestra (a professional orchestra which she also founded in 1961). The London Repertoire Orchestra name was first adopted in 1963. Prince Philip visited the tenth anniversary rehearsal in 1965, requesting a programme of all British music. The baton was passed from Gipps to Francis Griffin (a professional horn player and conductor) in 1986, and he served as musical director until 2009. Today the orchestra does not have a permanent conductor,"}, {"text": "choosing to use a selection of regular freelance conductors and guests from a pool of professionals who would not be able to commit to a weekly rehearsal. Since it was founded, the LRO has typically rehearsed a different work each week, normally finishing with a complete run-through. However, when playing for concerts the orchestra dedicates a full rehearsal session for each piece and has a full rehearsal on the day of the concert, including guest players. In its early days rehearsals were held at the International Musicians Association premises at 14 South Audley Street, then a somewhat notorious drinking club as well as a rehearsal space, frequented by writers and musicians including Kingsley Amis, John Dickson Carr Gerald Hoffnung, Bruce Montgomery and Malcolm Arnold But in 1958 the Inner London Education Authority recognised the growing reputation of the orchestra and offered an affiliation, providing a rehearsal space (the Salle Erard Hall, 18 Great Marlborough Street) and salaries for the conductor and leader. By the 1980s, chamber rehearsals (on Wednesdays) and full orchestral (on Fridays) were being held at Kingsway College in Clerkenwell. Today rehearsals take place at St Joseph's Church Hall, Lamb's Passage, London EC1 on Wednesday evenings during term"}, {"text": "times. The orchestra is a registered charity. Members pay an annual subscription to join."}, {"text": "Mohammad Sohrab is an Indian politician belonging to Trinamool Congress. He was elected as MLA of Bara Bazar in 2006 as a Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate. Later he joined Trinamool Congress."}, {"text": "This article lists the performances of each of the 10 national teams which have made at least one appearance in the IHF World Women's Field Handball Championship finals. Debut of teams. Each successive World Women's Handball Championship has had at least one team appearing for the first time. Teams in parentheses are considered successor teams by IHF. Participation details. <onlyinclude>;Legend For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown. </onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "Sidhu Moose Wala was an Indian Punjabi singer, rapper, songwriter and actor associated with Punjabi music and films, who has released two studio album, one mixtape, one soundtrack album, one extended play and one hundred & seven singles."}, {"text": "Solomon Yue Jr. (, born May 8, 1959) is an American Republican Party activist and businessperson. He is the founder and vice chairman and CEO of Republicans Overseas and a Republican national committeeman from Oregon Republican Party. Early life and business activities. Yue was born in China and immigrated from China to the United States in 1980. He is a medical equipment wholesaler, based in Salem, Oregon. Republican Party activities. Since 2000, Yue has been a Republican National Committee member from Oregon. As a Republican committeeman, Yue is part of the party's right wing, closely allied with the archconservative Jim Bopp, an Indiana RNC committeeman. In 2009, Yue and Bopp co-founded an RNC \"conservative steering committee\" and co-drafted a resolution that accused Republican President George W. Bush of supporting \"socialism\" by endorsing the federal rescue of the financial industry and auto industry, and criticized then President-elect Barack Obama for his economic stimulus plan. Yue also criticized Bush for his support of the Medicare Part D prescription-drug benefit. Yue later supported an RNC resolution that would require Republicans candidates to meet a purity test before obtaining party support, and another resolution in 2009 that claimed that the Democratic Party was \"dedicated"}, {"text": "to restructuring American society along socialist ideals\" and sought to require Republicans to label the Democratic Party as a \"socialist\" party. Yue clashed with RNC chairman Michael Steele and Oregon Republican Party chairman Bob Tiernan, who opposed many of his proposals. Yue and Bopp spearheaded an internal party fight to oust Steele from the national chairmanship. In 2010, Tiernan accused Yue of stirring up discord within the RNC and Oregon Republican Party; Yue, in turn, accused Tiernan of requiring \"absolute loyalty.\" Yue was a delegate to the 2008 Republican National Convention, where he praised the party's ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin. In the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, he endorsed Mitt Romney, and was a superdelegate to the 2012 Republican National Convention. In April 2016, as a member of the Republican National Committee's rules committee, Yue proposed a change to the party's procedural rules that would make it more difficult for Republican leaders to place in nomination, at the 2016 Republican National Convention, the name of a candidate not already in the race. The debate over the proposal occurred as Donald Trump and Ted Cruz battled for the presidential nomination, raising the prospect of a contested convention. Yue wrote"}, {"text": "a 1,300-word email accusing RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and other party leaders of \"institutional tyranny\" over their opposition to his proposal. The rules committee rejected Yue's proposal to change the rules. After Trump became the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, Yue maneuvered to ensure Trump's nomination at the convention over the last-ditch objection of anti-Trump Republican holdouts. After a pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol in January 2021 in a failed insurrection, Yue and most other Republican Party figures remained loyal to Trump, and sponsored a state Republican party resolution condemning the ten House Republicans who voted in favor of Trump's impeachment. Yue played a key role in getting the Oregon Republican Party to adopt a resolution claiming that the storming of the Capitol was a \"false flag\" intended \"to discredit President Trump, his supporters, and all conservative Republicans.\" In March 2021, Yue also appeared on a YouTube show hosted by Greyson Arnold, who has praised Nazi Germany and espoused racism and anti-Semitism; on the show, Yue said that far-right and white nationalist activist Nick Fuentes should have a role in picking Republican candidates. After his appearance attracted scrutiny, Yue said that he was unaware of the views of"}, {"text": "Arnold and Fuentes at the time of his appearance on the show."}, {"text": "Dinesh Bajaj is an Indian politician who previously belonged to Trinamool Congress. He was elected as MLA of Jorasanko in 2006. His father Satya Narayan Bajaj was a legislator of West Bengal Legislative Assembly. On 31 March 2021, Bajaj joined the Bharatiya Janata Party He rejoined TMC in 2024."}, {"text": "Kamlesh Tiwari (16 January 1969 \u2013 18 October 2019) was an Indian politician who founded the Hindu Samaj Party in 2017. Azam Khan, a politician from the Samajwadi Party, responded to Union finance minister Arun Jaitley's statements in support of decriminalization of homosexuality, by labelling members of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh as \"homosexuals\". Tiwari retaliated with comments about Islam's prophet Muhammad, which were considered derogatory by Indian Muslims, who protested, with some people calling for beheading Tiwari. Tiwari was subsequently arrested, charged under the National Security Act, and jailed for a few months by the Uttar Pradesh Police, before his release and subsequent murder. Thirteen people have been charged by the UP police in relation to the killing: 8 have been charged for murder and conspiracy, and the other 5 for harboring the killers and concealing evidence. The main accused, Syed Asim Ali, was granted bail by the Supreme Court on 25 July 2024. Early life and career. Tiwari was born in Para Kothba village, in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur district, in the early 1970s. In 1980, his family moved to the nearby town of Mahmoodabad, when his father got a job as a priest at the local Ram-Janki temple. The family"}, {"text": "stayed at an accommodation provided within the shrine. Tiwari grew up there during the heyday of the ram temple movement in Ayodhya. Tiwari was attracted to the Hindutva form of Hindu nationalism in the 1990s. He organized groups of young Hindutva warriors who marched from Lucknow to Ayodhya and participated in the demolition of the mosque at a disputed religious site. He later joined the Bajrang Dal, and was said to admire leaders such as Ashok Singhal, Lal Krishna Advani, Sadhvi Rithambara, and Uma Bharati. He claimed to be the president of Hindu Mahasabha, and also founded the Hindu Samaj Party in 2017. Tiwari contested the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election, from Lucknow, in 2012, and attempted to gain a Lok Sabha seat, from Faizabad, in the 2019 Indian general election, but was defeated both times. Controversy. Indian Union finance minister Arun Jaitley, who belonged to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), supported decriminalization of homosexuality. In response to that statement, on 2 December 2015 Azam Khan, a member of the Samajwadi Party, reportedly labelled members of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) \u2013 the ideological arm of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) \u2013 as homosexuals, because they don't marry. The next day, Kamlesh Tiwari"}, {"text": "responded to Azam Khan's statement by making derogatory comments about Mohammad. About one hundred thousand Muslims protested in Muzaffarnagar, with some demanding the death penalty for Tiwari, (the death penalty being reserved in India for the \"rarest of rare\" crimes), with some demanding that he be \"beheaded\" for \"insulting\" Muhammad. Rallies protesting his statement were held by several Islamic groups in other parts of India, some of them demanding the death penalty. On 3 December 2015, Tiwari was arrested in Lucknow by Uttar Pradesh police, for his remarks on 2 December, and charged under the National Security Act by the Samajwadi Party-led Uttar Pradesh state government. He was jailed for several months for his comment, having been charged under Indian Penal Code sections 153-A (promoting enmity between groups on the grounds of religion and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony) and 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs). The protests demanding capital punishment for Tiwari triggered counter-protests by Hindu groups who accused Muslim groups of demanding enforcement of Islamic law and laws against blasphemy in India. His detention under National Security Act was revoked by the"}, {"text": "Allahabad High Court on 30 September 2016. Murder. On 18 October 2019, Tiwari was murdered by Farid-ud-din Shaikh and Ashfak Shaikh, in his office-cum-residence in Lucknow. The assailants came dressed in saffron kurtas to give him a box of sweets marked with the address of a sweet shop in Surat city in Gujarat. Tiwari's aide Saurashtrajeet Singh was sent to bring cigarettes for them and when he returned he found Tiwari lying with his throat slit. According to police officials, the assailants had a revolver and knife inside the sweets box. During the attack, one assailant slit Tiwari's throat while another fired at him. He was declared dead during treatment at a hospital's trauma centre. According to the post-mortem report, he was stabbed 15 times and shot once. Investigation. Two ISIS suspects previously detained by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Gujarat, had indicated that they wanted to kill Kamlesh Tiwari in 2017. The Al-Hind Brigade, a lesser known group, claimed responsibility for the death of Tiwari. By 19 October 2019, six accused of being involved in the murder of Tiwari\u2014including Khurshid Ahmed Pathan, Faizan Pathan, and Maulana Mohsin Sheikh\u2014were detained by the Surat Police, Gujarat ATS, and Uttar Pradesh police."}, {"text": "The police used CCTV footage from the sweet shop in Surat. According to the police, the pistol used in the murder was bought in Surat and the murder was planned in Dubai. They also confirmed that Tiwari's comment on Muhammad was the motive for his murder. Court proceedings. On 9 April 2024, the Allahabad High Court denied bail to the accused in the case, this decision was overturned by the on 25 July 2024 when the main accused, Syed Asim Ali, was granted bail by the Supreme Court from the two judge bench of A. S. Oka and Augustine George Masih."}, {"text": "La Jaula de Las Locas (Spanish lit. \"The Cage of the Crazy Ones\", a reference to the Spanish title of \"La Cage aux Folles\") was a special professional wrestling event produced by the International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG), that took place on June 7, 2019 at Arena Naucalpan in Naucalpan, State of Mexico. The focal point of the show and the inspiration for the event name was the main event steel cage match, an inter-gender match that saw both female wrestlers and male \"Ex\u00f3tico\" (drag wrestlers) compete against each other. The cage match was contested under \"Luchas de Apuestas\", or \"bet match\", rules where the last wrestler in the cage would be deemed the loser, losing either their wrestling mask or their hair if they were already unmasked. In the main event eleven wrestlers competed in the cage, which saw Pasion Kristal and \u00d3scar El Hermoso as the last two wrestlers in the cage, followed by Soy Raymunda returning to help \u00d3scar El Hermoso cheat, and ended up losing the match and her hair as a result of the match. The match also included Miss Gaviota, Demasiado, Lolita, Diva Salvaje, Lilith Dark, Ludark Shaitan, Diosa Atenea, and Jessy Ventura. The"}, {"text": "show included five additional matches. Production. Background. Starting as far back as at least 2000, the Mexican wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG; Sometimes referred to as \"Grupo Internacional Revoluci\u00f3n\" in Spanish) has held several annual events where the main event was a multi-man steel cage match where the last wrestler left in the cage would be forced to either remove their wrestling mask or have their hair shaved off under \"Lucha de Apuestas\", or \"bet match\", rules. Starting in 2011 IWRG began holding a special version of the steel cage match concept under the name \"Guerra de Sexos\", or \"War of the Sexes\", as they held a show centered on an inter-gender steel cage match main event that saw men and women fight each other with their mask or hair on the line. In 2015 IWRG held a cage match that featured only female wrestlers and \"Ex\u00f3tico\" or drag wrestlers in the cage, branding it as \"La Jaula de las Locas\" (\"The Cage of the Crazy Ones\") instead of \"Guerra de Sexos\". The \"La Jaula de las Locas\" shows, as well as the majority of the IWRG shows in general, are held in \"Arena Naucalpan\", owned by the"}, {"text": "promoters of IWRG and their main arena. Storylines. The event featured six professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either heels (referred to as \"rudos\" in Mexico, those that portray the \"bad guys\") or faces (\"t\u00e9cnicos\" in Mexico, the \"good guy\" characters) as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Event. After the second match of the night, officials and wrestlers gathered in the ring to honor Perro Aguayo, who had passed away four days prior to the show. In the fifth match of the night the team of Herodes Jr., El Hijo de Pirata Morgan, El Hijo de Sangre Chicana, and Rokambole Jr. defeated Diva Salvaje and \"El Infierno Eternal\" (Demonio Infernal, Eterno, and Lunatik Xtreme) when El Hijo de Pirata Morgan pinned Demonio Infernal to get the win for his team. Afterwards El Hijo de Pirata Morgan challenge Demonio Infernal to defend the IWRG Rey del Ring Championship against him at a later date. The main event steel cage match, started with a period of time where none of the wrestlers were allowed to climb out of"}, {"text": "the cage to escape the match. After several escapes the last four wrestlers in the ring were Ludark Shaitan, Lilita, Pasion Cristal and \u00d3scar El Hermoso. Both Lolita and Ludark escaped, leaving the two \"ex\u00f3ticos\" in the cage. At that point Soy Raymunda returned to the cage after having escaped earlier, trying to help his tag team partner \u00d3scar from losing the match. In the end the attempt to help backfired as Pasion Cristal left Soy Raymunda in the ring, forcing her to be shaved completely bald as per the \"Lucha de Apuestas\" rules."}, {"text": "Mark Richard Smith (born 1971), is a male former athlete who competed for Southend-on-Sea AC and Woodford Green & Essex Ladies clubs and achieved representative honours for England, and Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Athletics career. Smith won 3 individual 200m English Schools' Athletics Championships titles 1988 to 1990, and was part of the winning 4x100m relay teams 1988, 1990, representing Essex County. His Senior Boys 200m win at Wigan in 1989 commences at 2:02 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4cGnXmpPd0 . In 1990 Smith also won the UK AAA National Junior Championship U20 200m title in 20.85w (Championship Record). Later in 1990 he represented Great Britain at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics, in Plovdiv Bulgaria,a finalist in the 200m (200m final: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGmW1M1omsc commence at 24:38), and a member of the 4x100m relay team who placed 4th and set a new British U20 record of 39.78sec (4x 100m final: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgoGutyoLg4 commence at 23:45). Later in his career he moved up to the 400m and went on to represent England in the 4 x 100 metres relay (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhBWlvkzvj8) winning a bronze medal and also the 4 x 400 metres relay winning a gold medal, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia,"}, {"text": "Canada. He is credited with winning a gold medal and a bronze medal because he ran in the semi-finals that helped England qualify for the finals. Personal Bests. His career personal bests include: 60m = 6.9sec; 100m = 10.4w; 200m = 20.85w (20.87); 300m = 33.7; 400m = 46.44 (a)."}, {"text": "Ren\u00e9 Danesi (born 30 August 1947) is a French politician, elected a senator for Haut-Rhin in 2014. Biography. Danesi studied at Sciences Po Strasbourg. Danesi was the mayor of Tagsdorf, Haut-Rhin from 1974 to 2017 as well as the 3rd vice-president of the Regional council of Alsace. A member of the UDI party, he was elected as a senator for Haut-Rhin on the list led by Catherine Troendl\u00e9 on September 28th, 2014. He has sat within the UMP and The Republicans parliamentary groups. Between 2017 and 2018, Danesi was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Dabesi supported candidate Nicolas Sarkozy in the open primary of the right and centre in 2016. Then he supported Laurent Wauquiez in the 2017 The Republicans leadership election which Wauquiez won."}, {"text": "Ram\u00f3n Posada y Soto (January 3, 1746 \u2013 January 1815) was a Spanish jurist, writer and academic who served as the first president of the Supreme Court from 1812 to 1814. Biography. Posada y Soto was son of Joaqu\u00edn de Posada y Rivero and Josefa de Soto y Posada, both members of important Asturian noble families. After graduating in the three-years preparatory grade on Philosophy in the Benedictine Convent of San Salvador in Celorio he started his studies on Canons and Laws in the University of Valladolid in 1762. He also graduated in Civil Law by the University of Santa Catalina and in Civil and Canon Law by the University of \u00c1vila (1766). In 1767 he graduated in Civil Law by the University of Valladolid. After failing the public contest to become a professor, he completed its legal education by practising in the \"Gimnasio Carolino de Leyes y C\u00e1nones\" of Valladolid as well as in different law firms of important lawyers of the time. He also served as secretary of the University of Valladolid He moved to Madrid and was appointed lawyer of the Royal Councils of the Council of Castile on February 16, 1773. Still in his youth, he"}, {"text": "managed to become a member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1774. The professional course towards the legal profession was abandoned in 1774 after being appointed by King Charles III judge (oidor) of the Real Audiencia of Guatemala. In Guatemala, he also participated in governing functions as member of some courts and boards specialized in good of deads, police, tobacco, Jesuits, among others. On June 6, 1779 he was appointed \"Alcalde del Crimen\" (\"Crime Mayor\", a specialized judge in criminal law) in the Real Audiencia of Lima, although he could not assume the office because he was appointed prosecutor of the Real Audiencia of Mexico. At the same time, he served as Protector-General of the Native People (\"Protector General de los Indios\"). In 1785 he was ordered knight of the Order of Charles III, Posada married in Guatemala with Ana Fern\u00e1ndez de C\u00f3rdoba in 1778. Ana was the niece of Ana de Zayas, wife of Mat\u00edas de G\u00e1lvez, Viceroy of Mexico. They had five six children. His wife died in 1799 and he married again with Mar\u00eda Magdalena L\u00f3pez de Cabrejas y G\u00f3mez, with whom he had two daughters. After requesting it several times, he was"}, {"text": "appointed prosecutor in the Council of the Indies in 1793 and it was during this time when Francisco de Goya made a portrait of him. In 1796 he was part of the committee that studied a project of direct trade between China and India of the Royal Company of the Philippines (a state-protected enterprise) and because of this he established a close relationship with the company, being appointed Vice President of it. He left the office of prosecutor in the Council of the Indies in 1803. During the Peninsular War, King Joseph I appointed him member of the Council of State in 1808, although he resigned and sided with the national side (supporters of King Ferdinand VII). That year, in C\u00e1diz, the Supreme Junta of the Kingdom appointed him as member of the new Extraordinary and Temporary Surveillance and Protection Court to investigate and prosecute the actions of the French side. In 1810 the Council of the Indies was reestablished and he was appointed member of it. With the approval of the Constitution of 1812, in the top of judiciary was established the Supreme Court and he was one of the twenty members appointed as judges. He was elected President"}, {"text": "of the Supreme Court and on June 20, 1812, he made the inaugural speech of the court. After the revocation of the Constitution by the king in 1814, he rejected to return to its position in the Council of the Indies and he died a year later."}, {"text": "The Oak Room is a 2020 Canadian thriller film directed by Cody Calahan, produced by Citizen Skull Productions, and starring RJ Mitte, Ari Millen, Martin Roach, Nicholas Campbell, David Ferry and Peter Outerbridge. It is based on Peter Genoway's play of the same name. Plot During a raging snowstorm, a drifter returns home to the blue-collar bar located in the remote Canadian town where he was born. When he offers to settle an old debt with a grizzled bartender by telling him a story, the night's events quickly spin into a dark tale of mistaken identities, double-crosses and shocking violence. Release. The film premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival in August 2020. Reception. The film has approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critics consensus reads: \"\"The Oak Room\" contains a taut, spooky tale that proves southern gothic can flourish in the snowy north.\" Brian Shaer of \"Film Threat\" gave the film a 6.5 out of 10. Drew Tinnin of Dread Central awarded the film three and a half stars out of five. Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting awarded the film three skulls out of five. Martin Unsworth of \"Starburst\""}, {"text": "gave the film a positive review and wrote, \"...\"The Oak Room\" is no facsimile and always feels like its own beast. The direction is taut, building the atmosphere gradually until the tension is practically smothering during the denouement - a final shot that rivals \"Blood Simple\" for satisfaction.\" Andrew Mack of Screen Anarchy also gave the film a positive review and wrote, \"The film proves once again that sometimes all you need is a good story to captivate your audience. \"The Oak Room\" has at least three.\""}, {"text": "Rafic Nahra (born 27 January 1959) is a Lebanese-French bishop of the Catholic Church, who serves as patriarchal vicar for Israel and auxiliary bishop of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. From 2017 to 2021, he served as patriarchal vicar for the Hebrew Catholics. He has been patriarchal vicar for Israel, based in Nazareth, since August 2021, and auxiliary bishop of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem since 11 March 2022. Biography. Born on 27 January 1959 in Ismailia, Egypt, to a Lebanese family, Rafic Nahra grew up in Lebanon and moved to France at the age of 20, where he obtained a doctorate in engineering in 1985 from the \u00c9cole des Ponts et Chauss\u00e9es, a profession he held for two years in the Geodia Institute. In 1987, he entered the seminary in the French capital and was sent to Rome to pursue ecclesiastical studies. He obtained in 1991 a bachelor's degree in theology from the Gregorian University and in 1994 a master's degree in Sacred Scripture from the Biblical Institute in Rome. In the framework of his studies, he was sent to Jerusalem from February to September 1993. Ordained priest for the diocese of Paris, in 1992, by Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger,"}, {"text": "he was assigned to various pastoral and academic missions. From 1994 to 2001, he was a spiritual director at the \"Maison Saint-Augustin\" and taught Biblical exegesis at the \u00c9cole Cath\u00e9drale of Paris. From 2001 to 2004 he was vicar in the parish St Fran\u00e7ois de Molitor, while teaching biblical exegesis. In 2004, he returned to the Holy Land to pursue a master's degree in Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During this period, he served the Maronite parish in Jerusalem and began his pastoral service at the Saint James Vicariate for the Hebrew Speaking Catholics up to 2007. From September 2007 to September 2011, he served six months a year as a vicar at the Parish Saint-Augustin, while teaching and being in charge of the department of research \"Judaism and Christianity\" at the Coll\u00e8ge des Bernardins in Paris, and spent the other six months in pastoral service at the Saint James Vicariate, while preparing a Doctorate of Philosophy, in Judeo-Arabic literature, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2011 to 2014, he focused on his doctoral studies which he completed in 2016. From September 2014, he was appointed parish priest of the Hebrew-speaking Catholic Community of Jerusalem, whose"}, {"text": "gathering place is in the St. Simeon and Anna convent. When Father David Neuhaus resigned from his office as patriarchal vicar in September 2017, he was appointed to replace him as coordinator for the Pastoral of Migrants. On October 21, 2017, the Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, appointed him as Patriarchal Vicar for the Saint James Vicariate for the Hebrew speaking Catholics in Israel and, from Pentecost 2018, as Patriarchal Vicar for the Migrants and Asylum seekers in Israel. In addition, Father Rafic Nahra speaks five languages: Arabic, Hebrew, French, English and Italian."}, {"text": "The South Shore Bungalow Historic District is a residential historic district in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district contains 229 Chicago bungalows and twenty other residential buildings built between 1911 and 1930. As homes became more accessible to families in early 20th century Chicago, thousands of bungalows were built to meet the housing demand. While bungalows were affordable mainly due to their uniform designs, their builders changed details such as color and entrance position to keep each home unique. The South Shore bungalows were among the first built in the city, as South Shore was already a popular neighborhood when the bungalow boom began, and the district contains many 1910s stucco bungalows; however, every bungalow built after 1917 is brick. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 2008."}, {"text": "27-Norcholestane, is a chemical compound with the formula , that is a steroid derivative. 27-Norcholestane is used as a biomarker to constrain the source age of sediments and petroleum through the ratio between 24-norcholestane and 27-norcholestane (norcholestane ratio, NCR), especially when used with other age diagnostic biomarkers, like oleanane."}, {"text": "Dougal or Dugald Stewart, Lord Blairhall MP (c.1658\u20131712) was a 17th/18th century Scottish judge, politician, and Senator of the College of Justice. Life. He was born in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute the son of Sir Dougal Stewart MP (d.1670), 2nd baronet of Ardmaleish on Bute, and his wife, Margaret Ruthven, daughter of John Ruthven of Dunglass. His brother James Stewart was the first Earl of Bute. His uncle was Robert Stewart, Lord Tillicultrie. The family were Episcopalians and Royalists, and suffered heavily in the English Civil War. They suffered further in refusing to swear an Oath of Allegiance to King William III in 1693 He studied law at Glasgow University from 1687 to 1691 and passed the Scottish bar as an advocate in 1694. From 1702 to 1707 he was MP for Rothesay. He was made a Burgess of Edinburgh in 1703 and of Perth in 1710. He was Sheriff Depute of Edinburghshire (Midlothian) from 1704 to 1709. He inherited the estate of Blairhall in Longforgan in Perthshire around 1705 through the death of his father-in-law. He was strongly opposed to the Act of Union in 1707 and imprisoned in 1708 for allegedly supporting a Jacobite invasion but"}, {"text": "nevertheless was created the Member of Parliament for Banffshire later in the same year. He generally opposed the alignment of English and Scottish laws debated after 1707, and fought for the independence of Scots Law. In June 1709 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice under the title of Lord Blairhall, succeeding his uncle Robert Stewart. He died at Blairhall on 16 June 1712. Family. In 1700 he married Mary Bruce (d.1759) daughter of John Bruce of Blairhall. They had two sons, James and John."}, {"text": "Shankar Singha is an Indian politician belonging to All India Trinamool Congress. He was elected as a legislator of West Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1996, 2001 and 2016. He joined Trinamool Congress on 21 June 2017 from Indian National Congress."}, {"text": "Giordana Angi (born 12 January 1994) is a French-Italian singer-songwriter and record producer. She debuted in the \"Newcomers\" section at the Sanremo Music Festival 2012 with the song \"Incognita poesia\". In 2019 she ended up second in the eighteenth edition of the Italian talent show \"Amici di Maria De Filippi\". In 2019 she signed a recording contract with Universal Music Italia, releasing two studio albums and several singles, including \"Casa\" and \"Come mia madre\",which she competed with at the Sanremo Music Festival 2020. As a songwriter and lyricist she wrote songs for Nina Zilli, Tiziano Ferro, Alessandra Amoroso and Alberto Urso. In 2022, she founded 21co, a record label affiliated with Fascino PGT. Biography and career. In 2012 Angi participated in the Sanremo Giovani's contest with the song \"Incognita poesia\". In 2016 she released her first single \"Chiusa con te (XXX)\" for the label Sugar Music produced by Tiziano Ferro. In 2018 she wrote the single sung in Sanremo by Nina Zilli, \"Senza appartenere\". In October 2018 Angi joined the talent show of \"Amici di Maria De Filippi\", ranking in second place and winning the TIM Journalist Critics' Award. During \"Amici\", she published numerous singles, later included in the EP,"}, {"text": "\"Casa\", which debuted in second place in the FIMI chart and sold over 25,000 copies. The lead single, \"Casa\" peaked at number 44 of Italian Singles Chart and received the Gold certification. On 11 October 2019 Angi published her first studio album, \"Voglio essere tua\", became her first number one work on Fimi's chart, becoming the first woman to achieve this in 2019. The album tracks include the promotional single, \"Stringimi pi\u00f9 forte\", certified Gold, and the collaboration \"Oltre Mare\" with Alberto Urso, winner of \"Amici\". In 2019 she wrote songs with Tiziano Ferro, including \"Accetto miracoli\" and \"Buona (cattiva) sorte\", Alberto Urso and Carmen Ferreri. After being the coach of \"Amici Celebrities\", the celebrities version of \"Amici\", on 31 December 2019 her participation in the Sanremo Music Festival was announced, with the song \"Come mia madre\", later peaking at number 55 of Italian Singles Chart. In May 2020 she was selected for new talent show \"Amici Speciali\" with the single \"Amami adesso\". Her second studio album \"Mi muovo\" was publisched on 13 May 2020, and peaked at number 11 on Italian Album Chart. From the album were taken out as singles \"Siccome sei\", \"Farfalle\", and \"Tuttapposto\" with Loredana Bert\u00e8."}, {"text": "In 2020 she wrote the songs \"0 passi\" and \"Mentre ti spoglio\" by the 20th edition finalist of \"Amici di Maria De Filippi\" Deddy, supervising and producing part of his debut album. During the year she also wrote the song \"Il nostro tempo\" for Alessandra Amoroso's album \"Tutto accade\". Angi also participated as a judge for the initial casting of the 21st edition of \"Amici di Maria De Filippi\" and collaborated throughout the program as a tutor and singing coach. In 2022, she founded 21co, a record label, together with Mamo Giovenco, Emanuela Sempio, Gabriele Costanzo. singer Briga, and Fascino PGT. Angi serves as the label's A&r."}, {"text": "Fradd is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Margolius is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Sugarbird is Paul Reddick's second solo album. Reddick previously recorded four albums with The Sidemen, a blues band based out of Toronto. Production. All track information and credits were taken from the CD liner notes."}, {"text": "Tanmoy Mondal is an Indian politician belonging to All India Trinamool Congress. He was elected as a legislator of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Rajarhat Gopalpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) between 2001 and 2006. He was suspended from Trinamool Congress for corruption charge on 23 August 2009. His suspension order was withdrawn on 10 June 2018."}, {"text": "Kenan Abdureimovich Kutub-zade (; 13 August 1906 22 February 1981) was a Crimean Tatar camera operator and war correspondent in the Red Army during World War II. He was the main camera operator for the film \"Auschwitz Death Camp\" and one of the first Soviet photojournalists to enter the camp after Nazi troops were forced out. His film of Holocaust atrocities was presented at the Nuremberg trials. Shortly after his birth in Constantinople his family moved to Bakhchisaray, where he grew up. In 1920 he entered the printing school of the Bakhchisaray Art and Industrial College, which in graduated from in 1925 as a printing technician. He was then sent to work for the Yalta District Komsomol Committee, and in 1927 he became an assistant camera operator at the Yalta film studio, where he worked until transferring to a studio in Moscow in 1932. In 1938 he became a cameraman for the Moscow newsreel studio, and the next year he was accepted into the Communist party. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, he was deployed to the front in 1942 as a cameraman in the political department on the 1st Ukrainian Front, seeing combat in a variety of"}, {"text": "battles, including the Bukrinsky, Kiev, Zhytomyr-Berdichev, Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, Poland, and Berlin operations. During the fighting in the Carpathians he was wounded in combat but returned to the front before recovering. In February 1945 he and his colleagues, including Aleksandr Vorontsov, Mikhail Oshurkov, and Nikolai Bykov entered Auschwitz and filmed what they saw. The footage was used for the Soviet propaganda film O\u015bwi\u0119cim (1945). After the war he continued to film throughout the Soviet Union, being able to travel throughout the country since he was able to avoid being designated as a \"special settler\". He lived in Riga and then Central Asia before eventually settling in Rostov, where he trained many other camera operators. His son Ismet from his first marriage, born in 1933, followed in his footsteps and also became a cameraman, while his second son Timur became a geologist."}, {"text": "Raccoon Island is a former island in Gallia County, Ohio, now submerged in the Ohio River. It was located above the mouth of Raccoon Creek, in Clay Township, opposite the mouth of Crab Creek in Mason County, West Virginia. Most islands in the Ohio River between Ohio and West Virginia belong to West Virginia, which was part of Virginia until 1863. When Virginia ceded its claim to the Northwest Territory in 1784, it reserved control of the Ohio River along its borders, including the submerged land up to the low water mark on the Ohio shore. Raccoon Island's inclusion as part of Ohio meant that at low water levels, the island was connected to Gallia County by land. However, this is no longer the case, as the construction of the Gallipolis Locks and Dam in 1937 permanently raised the level of the river; leading to the island's disappearance. According to a United States Geological Survey topographical map from 1906, Raccoon Island measured approximately a third of a mile in length and about five hundred feet in width. It was situated closer to the Ohio side of the river than the West Virginia side. The upper end of the island was"}, {"text": "rounded, while the eastern side curved gently to the southern end, and the Ohio side was relatively straight. The two sides converged at a narrow point. The northern part of the island gradually sloped up to the highest point, approximately forty feet above the mean level of the river, whereas the western bank was relatively steep. The USGS reported a populated place of the same name southwest of the island at an elevation of 571 feet. \"The Western Pilot\", an annual publication of inland navigation charts by Samuel Cummings lists Racoon Island as \"a very small island; on the lower extremity of a large bar. Channel to the left, and near the island at its foot. Raccoon Creek comes in on the right, just below the island. This is a considerable creek, rising in the western part of Athens, and eastern part of Hocking county, and is famous for its quarries of stone ; from which are manufactured burr mill stones, said to be of a quality equal to the best French burrs.\". \"Hardesty's History of Gallia County\" mentions that \"[a] post office was established, at a very early date upon Raccoon Island situated in the Ohio river, at the"}, {"text": "mouth of Raccoon creek.\" The records of the United States Post Office Department indicate that William F. Gooldin was appointed postmaster at Raccoon Island on August 18, 1841; the last postmaster was Berton H. Ingels, appointed February 3, 1909. The post office was discontinued, effective October 15, 1936, and the mail redirected to Gallipolis. The island may have been rapidly eroding, or perhaps was being abandoned due to the planned construction of the Gallipolis Locks and Dam, which raised the height of the river. By 1958, Raccoon Island was entirely submerged, and appears as a shoal in the Ohio River on USGS maps. The elevation of 535 feet places it three feet under the mean level of the river, which is 538 feet at a point just below the southern tip of the island."}, {"text": "\"Juicio Final\" (1999) (Spanish for \"Final Judgement\" 1999) was a professional wrestling supercard show, scripted and produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), which took place on December 3, 1999, in Arena M\u00e9xico, Mexico City, Mexico. The show served as the year-end finale for CMLL before Arena M\u00e9xico, CMLL's main venue, closed down for the winter for renovations and to host \" Circo Atayde \". The shows replaced the regular \"Super Viernes\" (\"Super Friday\") shows held by CMLL since the mid-1930s. This was the ninth year that CMLL used the name \"Jucio Final\" for their year-end show, a name they would use on a regular basis going forward, originally for their year even events but later on held at other points in the year. The main event of the show was a \"Luchas de Apuestas\", or bet match, which is considered a higher profile match type than a championship match in \"Lucha Libre\". The match saw Pierroth Jr. defeating Brazo de Plata, thus forcing Brazo de Plata to be shaved bald as a result. In the semi-main event El Hijo del Santo defeated Scorpio Jr. to win the 1999 \"Leyenda de Plata\" tournament named after El Hijo del Santo's"}, {"text": "father El Santo. The match featured three more matches. Production. Background. For decades Arena M\u00e9xico, the main venue of the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), would close down in early December and remain closed into either January or February to allow for renovations as well as letting \"Circo Atayde\" occupy the space over the holidays. As a result, CMLL usually held a \"end of the year\" supercard show on the first or second Friday of December in lieu of their normal \"Super Viernes\" show. 1955 was the first year where CMLL used the name \"El Juicio Final\" (\"The Final Judgement\") for their year-end supershow. Until 2000 the \"Jucio Final\" name was always used for the year end show, but since 2000 has at times been used for shows outside of December. It is no longer an annually recurring show, but instead held intermittently sometimes several years apart and not always in the same month of the year either. All \"Juicio Final\" shows have been held in Arena M\u00e9xico in Mexico City, Mexico which is CMLL's main venue, its \"home\". Storylines. The 1992 \"Juicio Final\" show featured five professional wrestling matches scripted by CMLL with some"}, {"text": "wrestlers involved in scripted feuds. The wrestlers portray either heels (referred to as \"rudos\" in Mexico, those that play the part of the \"bad guys\") or faces (\"t\u00e9cnicos\" in Mexico, the \"good guy\" characters) as they perform. The qualifying \"torneo cibernetico\" elimination match took place on November 26, 1999, and saw El Hijo del Santo outlast a field of 15 other wrestlers including Antifaz del Norte, Bestia Salvaje, BlacK warrior, Blue Panther, Emilio Charles Jr., El Felino, Fuerza Guerrera, Negro Casas, Ol\u00edmpico, Rey Bucanero, Sat\u00e1nico, Tarzan Boy, Tony Rivera, \u00daltimo Guerrero and Zumbido. El Hijo del Santo only eliminated one wrestler in the match, \u00daltimo Guerrero to qualify for the final. Like in 1998 the 1999 \"Leyenda de Plata\" cibernetico winner went straight to the final, a rematch from the 1998 tournament, only this time El Hijo del Santo defeated Scorpio Jr. to win the tournament named after his father."}, {"text": "Eva Garc\u00eda Sempere (born 28 March 1976) is a Spanish communist politician and member of the Congress of Deputies during the 12th and 13th legislatures. She is a member of the United Left/The Greens\u2013Assembly for Andalusia and the Communist Party of Andalusia."}, {"text": "Sanders Park is a park in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire formally opened on 14 September 1968. The park is named after two people Mary Beatrice Sanders (1856\u20131951), and Lucy Mary Maude Sanders (1864\u20131945) who donated the park to the town."}, {"text": "International Student Ministry (ISM) refers to evangelical Christian ministry among international students within an academic context, often carried out by Protestant college religious organizations, volunteers and churches. It is considered part of the church's mission, within the broader framework of diaspora missions. The first two decades of the 21st century have seen a sharp growth in the number of international students globally with a corresponding development in ISM. History. ISM traces its modern roots to John R. Mott who established \"The Committee on Friendly Relations among Foreign Students\" in 1911, which was the first national ISM in the US. Some international Christian student organizations trace their origins back to the World Student Christian Federation. Since then, and particularly since the 1950s, there has been a growth of organizations doing this mainly in Western contexts. As of 2016 there were at least 57 organizations engaged in ISM in 22 countries. In 2004, after a century of intermittent ISM growth Leiton Chinn convened a global gathering in Thailand of ISM leaders, and in 2007 he was appointed the Chair of the Lausanne ISM Issue Network. The two Lausanne Issue Groups of Diaspora and International Students then published \"Diasporas and International Students: The"}, {"text": "New People Next Door\". Recent publications include those by Yaw Perbi, Jack D. Burke and Enoch Wan. The Lausanne 2010 Cape Town Commitment (section II-C-5) refers to reaching out to international students. In May 2014 the Lausanne ISM Global Leadership Network became a \"docked network\" with the World Evangelical Alliance's Mission Commission. It operates as WIN (Worldwide ISM Network). In September 2017 the Lausanne ISM Global Leadership Network hosted a global ISM forum \"Charlotte '17\" which gathered 100 participants from 25 countries and 70 organizations. It is suggested that ISM is grounded in the \"Missio Dei\" and is motivated by biblical precedent and trends in migration. Chinn outlines ten reasons why ISM is strategic in relation to the Great Commission and nine reasons why it benefits local churches. Networks and organizations. Individual churches, such as Park Street Congregational Church in Boston, have welcoming ministries reaching international students. This modality-based model of ISM is attractive because every church member can be involved in cross-cultural mission at virtually no expense. Miller outlines key qualities leading to successful ISM by local churches. Chinn and Jones point out 6 strategic outcomes for international churches intentionally including international students in their ministry focus. Perbi and"}, {"text": "Brewster argue that ISM will be strengthened by the intentional involvement of \"workplace Christians.\" Some denominational groups have established an ISM focus such as Anglican (USA), Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod), Assemblies of God (USA) and the Presbyterian Church in America. A 2019 study based in the US concluded that \"Chinese international undergraduate students identify the church and its fellowship as (1) a social support community and (2) an informal learning community, one which fills in the gap in counseling services and interpersonal activities that the university fails to offer.\" Christian campus organizations, which are sodalities, have historically focused on domestic university students. These have developed campus-based ministries for international students directly linked to universities or colleges. At a global level, the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization has an ISM issue network which connects groups internationally and interdenominationally. This network now includes a North American network on ISM. The Association for Christians Ministering Among Internationals (ACMI) is another ISM networking body. Networking between European ISMs has been identified as a priority. Trends. Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in international student populations concurrent with the plateauing of some western markets, most notably the US. Students are turning to non-traditional centers"}, {"text": "of education, such as Asia. This shift is underpinned by well-formed international education policy of countries like China, Malaysia, Singapore and India. The areas of diaspora missiology and its subset, international student ministry, have seen a theological and academic maturing. In 2018/2019 three key ISM-specific training resources were launched: the \"Lausanne Global Classroom,\" \"EveryInternational,\" and \"Look at the Fields\" Two ISM training workshops ran at the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) World Assembly in July 2019. While practical ISM training is offered by a number of ISM organisations, the \"Charlotte '17\" conference considered the need for academic training and research in ISM led by seminaries and graduate schools. Columbia International University lists a course called \"Mission to International Students\" in their 2019-2020 Academic Catalog. Global mission sending organizations are recognizing the strategic nature and necessity of diaspora missions, and especially ISM. Some have refocused ISM efforts in traditional contexts because of the perceived global impact. Asia has been identified as an emerging region for ISM. It is beginning to take shape there, for example among international churches in China. Regarding the international students in, from and within Asia, Phil Jones has identified 8 challenges and 6 opportunities that Asian"}, {"text": "ISMs encounter. In tandem with the Indian hospitality concept of Atithi Devo Bhava (\"the guest is god\"), Emmanuel F. Benjamin describes the impact of welcoming foreign students in Pune, India. Nascent ISMs exist in South Africa, Kenya and Ghana. Bill Dindi of Kenya explores the viability, trends and features of ISM in Africa. Identifying the gaps and opportunities, he seeks to \"build a case for a more robust ministry among international students in Africa as well as the approaches and shape this might take.\" Citing the historical growth of Christianity in Africa and the central role of Christian African international students, Perbi and Ngugi argue that the continent that was a mission field now comprises a mission force. Kwiverr's 2022 research of 116 respondents from 16 African countries revealed that there are many \"largely unaware and unprepared African Christian International Students [who are] virtually unseen and unsent by the African Church, the most populous and youngest in the world.\" Perbi's analysis in the \"Journal of African Christian Thought\" argues that international students to and from Africa have unrecognized and untapped ramifications for mission. A global consultation of ISM leaders in September 2020 was called to assess whether ISM was still"}, {"text": "meaningful or viable given the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic."}, {"text": "Jiuzhangli is a metro station on the Green Line operated by Taichung Metro in Wuri District, Taichung, Taiwan. The station name is taken from an old name of the area. It is currently the least used station on the Taichung MRT. Exits. Jiuzhangli station currently has one exit on the northern side of the station. The southern exit, which is closer to nearby communities, has not yet obtained private land, and is expected to open in 2023."}, {"text": "Bernard Serrigny (1870\u20131954) was a French general. Serrigny was a captain at the start of World War I, and aide to Philippe P\u00e9tain. During the 1920s, Serrigny was the general secretary of the (High Council of National Defence). In 1924, Serrigny published an article in advocating for the proper management of French resources, colonial and otherwise, during times of war."}, {"text": "Jiude is a metro station on the Green Line operated by Taichung Metro in Wuri District, Taichung, Taiwan. The station name is taken from an old name of the area."}, {"text": "Dierker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Wuri () is a metro station on the Green line of Taichung Metro. Although the station has the same name as Wuri railway station, the stations are not connected and are approximately 300 meters apart."}, {"text": "21-Norcholestane, or 17\u03b2-Isoheptylandrostane is a 26-carbon (C26) sterane, found in eogene lacustrine sediments."}, {"text": "Sir John Kemp-Welch (born 31 March 1936) is a British businessman, who was chairman of the London Stock Exchange from 1994 to 2000, before which he was senior partner at City of London stockbroker Cazenove. Career. Kemp-Welch began his career at Hoare & Co. He joined City stockbroker, Cazenove in 1959. He became joint senior partner at Cazenove in 1980. He stepped down from that position in 1994 to become chairman of the London Stock Exchange. Less than two years after becoming chairman of the London Stock Exchange, Kemp-Welch removed CEO Michael Lawrence, whose style was said to have led to frictions with the Stock Exchange Board. From Lawrence\u2019s departure in December 1995 to his successor joining in August 1996, Kemp-Welch acted as executive chairman. Whereas Lawrence had come from Prudential, Kemp-Welch\u2019s choice of replacement, Gavin Casey, came from city brokerage Smith New Court securities (which had been bought by Merrill Lynch in 1995). Kemp-Welch also oversaw the continued modernisation of the stock exchange\u2019s governance, in particular its demutualisation whereby it moved from a member-based institution to a shareholder-owned company. The following month, Kemp-Welch\u2019s successor as chairman - Donald Cruickshank - was announced, which was quickly followed by the ill-fated"}, {"text": "proposal to merge the London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Boerse. Appointments after the London Stock Exchange. Between 2000 and 2006, Kemp-Welch was a non-executive board member of HSBC. Land ownership and farming. As of 2024, Kemp-Welch owned 5,000 acres of \u201cdifficult hill farming land\u201d in Perthshire where he and his children farmed blackface sheep."}, {"text": "Daniel P. Petryk (born October 5, 1965) is a Canadian curler. He is a and a 1991 Labatt Brier champion. He played at the 1992 Winter Olympics when curling was a demonstration sport, Canadian men's team finished at fourth place. Personal life. His older brother Steve is a curler too. The brothers played together on the Ed Lukowich team at 1994 Labatt Brier and some years after it. Dan Petryk graduated from University of Alberta. He started curling in 1976 when he was 11 years old."}, {"text": "Draude is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 PSA Women's World Squash Championship was the 2019\u201320 women's edition of the World Squash Championships, which serves as the individual world championship for squash players. The event took place in Cairo, Egypt from 24 October to 1 November 2019. Seeds. Raneem El Weleily \"(final)\" Nour El Sherbini (champion) Camille Serme \"(quarterfinals)\" Nouran Gohar \"(semifinals)\" Nour El Tayeb \"(quarterfinals)\" Joelle King \"(quarterfinals)\" Sarah-Jane Perry \"(quarterfinals)\" Amanda Sobhy \"(first round)\" Tesni Evans \"(third round)\" Annie Au \"(third round)\" Alison Waters \"(third round)\" Joshna Chinappa \"(third round)\" Salma Hany \"(third round)\" Hania El Hammamy \"(semifinals)\" Yathreb Adel \"(third round)\" Joey Chan \"(first round)\" Nele Gilis \"(second round)\" Olivia Blatchford \"(second round)\" Zeina Mickawy \"(second round)\" Emily Whitlock \"(first round)\" Millie Tomlinson \"(second round)\" Nadine Shahin \"(second round)\" Mariam Metwally \"(first round)\" Rachael Grinham \"(second round)\" Rowan Reda Araby \"(second round)\" Tinne Gilis \"(third round)\" Donna Lobban \"(second round)\" Hollie Naughton \"(second round)\" Julianne Courtice \"(second round)\" Milou van der Heijden \"(second round)\" Coline Aumard \"(second round)\" Nada Abbas \"(second round)\""}, {"text": "Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Prabhu Deva and produced by Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Atul Agnihotri and Zee Studios. It is a remake of the 2017 South Korean film \"The Outlaws\". It stars Khan, Disha Patani, Randeep Hooda and Jackie Shroff. \"Radhe\" was originally scheduled to release theatrically on 22 May 2020, but was postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was finally released on 13 May 2021, coinciding with Eid al-Fitr, as premium video on demand on Zee Plex through ZEE5 in India, with a theatrical release overseas. Though Radhe received highly negative reviews from critics and audiences alike, who criticized the story, screenplay, direction, unoriginality, chemistry and VFX, with 4.2 million views, it became the most watched OTT film on the day of its release. Publications like \"The Indian Express\" listed \"Radhe\" as one of the worst Indian films of 2021. Plot. Rana, a ruthless gangster, shifts to Mumbai to start a drug business. He kills a man for not returning the money he borrowed from him. The man is an accomplice of Mansoor Bhai. Rana starts selling drugs not only to college students but to"}, {"text": "school children as well. Due to this, 12 people commit suicide in 3 months due to drug addiction. Mumbai Police sends two senior officers to stop Rana but they are heavily drugged and killed. The police force decides to send Radhe, an undercover police officer to resolve the case. He accepts the job. Radhe meets Diya Abhyankar, a model, and falls in love with her. Radhe tells her that he is an aspiring model and that his name is Bholu. Diya slowly falls in love with Radhe. Radhe finds out from fellow officers that there are two gangs that operate under their jurisdiction. The first gang is led by Dilawar and the second gang is led by Dagdu Dada. Both the gangs are at war with each other. Radhe defeats all the men in Dagdu Dada's gang including Dada. Radhe arrests one of Dada's men and questions him. He tells him that Dilawar's brother Mansoor deals with drugs. Radhe goes to Dilawar's area and threatens his men to bring him out. Dilawar agrees but Radhe arrests Dilawar. He makes Dilawar and Dada find peace with each other. Rana teams up with Mansoor and they lure Dilawar to them. Rana and"}, {"text": "his men brutally stab Dilawar to death. Later, Radhe finds out that Diya is the sister of Radhe's senior officer Avinash Abhyankhar. Avinash approves of their relationship. Rana and his guards kill Dada's gang members. In the next two days, Rana sells more drugs. Radhe gets information that Rana and his guards will be going to the Allied PD club. Radhe goes to the pub and fights Rana in the restroom. Radhe gets beaten up by Rana and his guards. They escape just as the police arrive. Diya finds out that Radhe is a police officer and confesses her love to him. Radhe arrests Mansoor and convinces him to join his side. Radhe beats up Rana's guards with the help of Dagdu but one of them escapes and informs Rana. Rana kills Dagdu in revenge. Radhe is deemed incompetent and another officer is handed the case. Radhe, with the help of Avinash, continues his job covertly. Meanwhile, one of Rana's guards, who was arrested, meets two police officers and they make a deal. The officers will let the guard escape if he supplies them with drugs. The guard accepts the deal. The two officers are revealed to be hired by"}, {"text": "Radhe as a ruse. Rana's guard meets up with the officers later and gets captured by Radhe. Rana finds out that Mansoor works with Radhe and kills him. Radhe seeks the help of school students, they accept and start taking photos of Rana's gang and the people they supply drugs to. Radhe along with his fellow police officers, arrests all of them. One of the police officers named Nikisha gets caught by Rana. Rana is about to kill her but Radhe saves her. Rana escapes and Radhe chases after him but loses sight of him after a while. The next day, some of Rana's guards who were arrested, escape. Radhe kills most of them except for one of the guard who gets in a helicopter with Rana. Rana plans to move away from Mumbai and create a drug business elsewhere. Radhe jumps onto the helicopter and fights Rana and the guard. Due to their fight, the helicopter crashes, killing the guard. Avinash arrives and tries to kill Rana but Rana thrashes Avinash and is about to kill him. Radhe saves Avinash and fights Rana. Radhe gets the upper hand and finally kills Rana. Production. Development. In September 2019, media reports"}, {"text": "speculated that Prabhu Deva will direct Salman Khan's next project after completing \"Dabangg 3\" and the film will be released on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr (22 May 2020; the date at which Khan's shelved film \"Inshallah\" was speculated to release). An article from \"Deccan Chronicle\" reported that the project was a sequel to \"Wanted\" (2009), being titled \"Wanted 2\" but that was not confirmed by the filmmakers. In October 2019, the film was rather confirmed to be an official remake of the 2017 South Korean film \"The Outlaws\" which is based on real-life gang wars between Chinese-Korean gangs in Seoul. Pre-production. On 18 October 2019, Salman Khan revealed the film's title as \"Radhe\" through the motion poster of \"Dabangg 3\"; also confirming it to be a 2020 Eid release. Casting. Disha Patani, Randeep Hooda and Jackie Shroff were cast in pivotal roles, the former in her second collaboration with Khan after \"Bharat\". In November 2019, Bharath Srinivasan was reported to be a part of the film; Gautam Gulati also confirmed his presence in the film. Filming. The film's principal photography commenced on 1 November 2019. The first schedule of the film took place on 4 November, at Mehboob Studios"}, {"text": "in Mumbai. Khan introduced new guidelines for the cast and crew members to be followed on the sets which was meant to lay emphasis on maintaining discipline on the sets and maintaining a buddy-system for helping newcomers or juniors. The second schedule of the film took place on 21 January 2020 in Goa, where a few chase scenes featuring Khan and Hooda were filmed. For the climax shot, the makers spent crore on the visual effects. The shooting of the film was supposed to wrap up by 21 February 2020, but the makers planned another schedule in Thailand, which was then cancelled by the COVID-19 outbreak. It was reported that Khan was working on the post-production of the film at his farmhouse, however Khan's manager claimed that there was no plan for post-production as all the production works were halted as per the directives of the government. The shooting of the film resumed on 4 October 2020, where a few patchwork scenes and a song featuring Khan and Patani were filmed. The film was wrapped up on 14 October 2020. Music. The film's soundtrack is composed by Sajid\u2013Wajid, Devi Sri Prasad and Himesh Reshammiya, with lyrics being written by Shabbir"}, {"text": "Ahmed, Sajid Khan and Kunaal Vermaa. The film score is composed by Sanchit Balhara and Ankit Balhara. \"Radhe\" is the posthumous work of Wajid Khan (of the Sajid\u2013Wajid duo) and the title track was his last composition before his death in June 2020. This also makes it the first solo album of Sajid Khan. Prasad recreated his song \"Seeti Maar\" from the Telugu film (2017). The music video was released on 26 April 2021. Upon release, the song was panned by critics, who criticized Salman Khan for copying Allu Arjun's steps from the original version, lacking originality, and making a mockery out of it. Himesh Reshammiya has also composed one song in the film. Release. \"Radhe\" had a limited theatrical release on 13 May 2021. On 21 April 2021, Khan further announced that the film will be released in all operational theatres, and on pay-per-view and digital streaming methods by Zee Plex and ZEE5. It became the first Indian film to have a hybrid release, as theatres in Mumbai and Delhi were closed. The film was welcomed by film trade analysts and exhibitors as a possible \"turning point\" for Indian cinema's economy during the pandemic. Advanced bookings for the film"}, {"text": "in the Middle East regions (United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain) began on 29 April 2021, two weeks before the release schedule. Khan, in a video-call interaction, apologised to the theatre owners for the poor collection of the film due to a limited theatrical release. Khan also assured the plans of a theatrical re-release when the pandemic subsides. Zee Plex revealed the starting price of the film as per view in late April 2021, allowing the users to watch the film through digital streaming as well as in leading DTH services. Furthermore, ZEE5 announced a \"Radhe Combo\", a package priced at allowing users to watch the film and access contents of the platform for one year. Internationally, the film was made available for renting and streaming on Apple TV. Khan and Zee Studios announced that the revenues of the film will be donated to COVID-19 relief funds. The film was originally scheduled to release on 15 October 2019, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The distribution rights of the film were sold to Yash Raj Films upon the initial release, with T-Series bagging the music rights and Amazon Prime Video acquiring the digital rights,"}, {"text": "but later in January 2021, it was reported that Khan had signed a new deal with Zee Studios, and sold the entire rights of the film (including theatrical, digital, satellite and music rights) to the company for crore. The deal was later renegotiated citing the pandemic situation, with the revised bid being crore in May 2021. Reception. Box office. The film grossed over . Critical response. The film received highly negative reviews from critics and audience alike. IMDb has a user rating of 1.9/10, the lowest rated film of Khan on the website. Anna M. M. Vetticad of \"Firstpost\" gave \"Radhe\" a rating of 0/5 and wrote, \"This film is so generic that it would be a challenge to write down the plot from A-Z after a single viewing. Salman Khan's performance reiterates the fact that he is not looking at gaining any validation from the audiences taking them for granted.\" She also criticised the movie for not giving the lead actress enough screen time by stating, \"The movie treats its \u2018heroine\u2019 as nothing but a body on display whose sole job is to give the hero someone to fall in love with, dance with and protect.\" Stutee Ghosh from"}, {"text": "\"The Quint\" gave \"Radhe\" a rating of 0.5/5. Calling it a \"cringefest\" she wrote, \"\"Radhe\" is a loud, senseless and offensive film that has little regard for women, the police force and the audience's intelligence in general.\" She further stated, \"\"Radhe\" is frustratingly tone deaf to how it promotes police brutality and the almost suffocating toxic masculinity that is sprayed on like a cheap deodorant.\" Shubhra Gupta from \"The Indian Express\" gave \"Radhe\" a rating of 0.5/5 and wrote, \"\"Radhe\" is a mindless, moronic mess of a movie in which Salman does every single thing he's done a zillion times.\" Soumya Srivastava from \"The Hindustan Times\" called \"Radhe\" a torture of a film and one of Khan's worst movies. She described \"Radhe\" as a \"cringeworthy movie\" and stated, \"The movie is nothing but a collection of action sequences piled upon each other as Disha's tight dresses, some dance numbers, and goons saying 'apun' a lot act as fillers.\" Saibal Chatterjee from \"NDTV\" gave the film a rating of 2/5 and opined that, \"The film dumps a whole lot of dross on us with a certain degree of surface stink.\" He concluded by saying, \"Radhe has no inducements for diehard Salman"}, {"text": "Khan fans to keep them interested\". Trade analyst Taran Adarsh gave \"Radhe\" a rating of 2/5 and called it \"Disappointing\". Calling its screenplay and writing \"lackluster\" he wrote, \"\"Radhe\" doesn't meet the sky-high expectations, The film has a clich\u00e9d plot and a predictable formula remodelled with new packaging.\" Anupama Chopra of \"Film Companion\" wrote, \"The Salman Khan starrer is so free of craft that it hurts; Prabhudeva delivers yet another loud, numbing, pointless paean to the cult of Salman Khan.\" Namrata Joshi from \"The National Herald\" wrote, \"\"Radhe\" is an empty vessel of a film that tries to sail through by making a lot of loud noise that signifies nothing.\" Criticising the framing of Patani's character she further wrote, \"Diya itself is acutely offensive. It just shows the acutely conservative mindset of the makers and of the Salman Khan universe itself, where men and women are hardly ever in a relationship of equals, where the man is this self-anointed \u201cprotector\u201d of the woman and the woman is seen as some kind of a property or possession.\" Sushri Sahu of \"Mashable\" criticised \"Radhe\" for glorifying police brutality, gun violence and toxic masculinity. She further wrote, \"\"Radhe\" is repetitive with not just"}, {"text": "the dialogues but the rogue cop-on-a-cleaning-spree formula. It doesn't even spare the minimum of one rape assault trope. The film, in fact, looks like a brochure to sell Khan's already popular brand. It is out-and-out \u2018bhai\u2019 porn.\""}, {"text": "Licinia Eucharis (fl. 1st century BC) was an adolescent Ancient Roman stage actress, who died at the age of 14. According to the epitaph on her tomb, which was written by her father, she was a star of the Theatre of ancient Rome. She is one of the few ancient actresses known to have achieved fame and respect in her profession during the Roman Republic. Eucharis would most likely have primarily performed as a dancer, as few other roles were open to women. Her epitaph states that she had recently danced at \"the games of the nobles\", and that she had performed on the Greek stage before the People. Eucharis was originally a slave, then a freedwoman, of the Roman woman Licinia. In contrast to Greece, where only male actors were allowed, the Romans allowed female performers. However, many prestigious theatres still barred women actors, and the majority of actresses performed on smaller stages as \"mimae\", pantomime dancer-actresses, which was not regarded as a respectable profession, and therefore often performed by slaves or freedwomen. Eucharis made a remarkable career. She came to belong to the minority of ancient Roman actresses to be allowed to perform in prestigious theatres and earn"}, {"text": "a respectable income on acting alone. She achieved fame and recognition and respect for her acting ability, and it was said that she performed so well as if she was \u201ctaught as if by the Muses\u2019 hands.\u201d She reportedly took pride in her profession and in the respect she earned. Eucharis belonged to the handful of actresses known from the Roman Republic, including Antiodemis from Cyprus (2nd century BC), Arbuscula, Bacchis, Dionysia, Emphasis, Fabia Arete, Galeria Copiola, Sammula and Lucceia, Tertia, and Volumnia Cytheris."}, {"text": "Spirits in the Forest \u2013 A Depeche Mode Film is a live concert film, documentary, and album by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode, directed by award-winning filmmaker and long-time artistic collaborator Anton Corbijn. The film chronicles the final concert of the band's Global Spirit Tour at the Waldb\u00fchne in Berlin, Germany, as well as the stories of six fans of the band. The film was released to cinemas worldwide on 21 November 2019. A DVD and Blu-ray release featuring the full concert titled LiVE SPiRiTS was released on 26 June 2020. Background. As part of a promotion for the release of their album \"Spirit\", Depeche Mode announced that a contest would be held in which one fan or celebrity would take over Depeche Mode's Facebook page every day for a year. A press release stated that winners would post to the band's seven million followers their own \"personal anecdotes, videos, concert photos, covers of the band's songs, or other Depeche Mode-related content.\" Celebrities who contributed to the takeover include Trent Reznor, Linkin Park, Tony Hawk, Richard Blade, and Chris Hardwick, as well as . From these contest winners, six fans were chosen to be featured in the film."}, {"text": "The production crew travelled to each of the six fans' hometowns to film, then continued their stories as they journeyed to see the final concert of the Global Spirit Tour, which took place at the Waldb\u00fchne in Berlin, Germany. In addition to the fans' stories, the film incorporates footage from the final two shows of the Global Spirit Tour, both of which took place at the Waldb\u00fchne, on 23 and 25 July 2018. The setlist played featured a wide array of songs from throughout their career including multiple from their most recent album, \"Spirit\", as well as songs that haven't been played in over a decade such as \"Useless\" and \"The Things You Said\" from \"Ultra\" and \"Music for the Masses\". In September 2019 it was announced that the film would debut globally for one night only, on 21 November 2019. Initially expected to screen at 2400 cinemas worldwide, the number was later revised up to 2800. On 29 October 2019, a preview of the film was hosted at the Curzon Mayfair in London, featuring a Q&A session with director Corbijn. The six fans who are the main characters of the film were announced as Indra Amarjagal from Mongolia; Daniel"}, {"text": "Cass\u00fas, a Brazilian living in Berlin; Liz Dwyer from the U.S.A.; Christian Flueraru from Romania; Carine Puzenat from Perpignan, France; and Dicken Schrader from Colombia. A home release on CD, DVD, and Blu-ray was released on 26 June 2020. It is Depeche Mode's eighth live album and continues the tradition of recording and releasing performances from at least one show each tour. One week prior to the 26 June 2020 release date, many of the fans followed in the movie filmed an unboxing of the DVD box set for the Depeche Mode YouTube channel. The live version of \"Cover Me\" was released on YouTube on 22 June 2020 to anticipate the upcoming release. A livestream of the full concert aired on the LiveNation YouTube channel on 25 June 2020. Reception. \"Spirits in the Forest\". \"Spirits in the Forest\" received generally positive reviews from both movie and music critics alike. The film has an aggregate score of on Rotten Tomatoes. Jim Amos of Forbes praised the film and said it was the new standard for concert films stating that \"The new film, \"SPIRITS in the Forest\", is something entirely different however, turning the concert film genre on its ear.\" Many critics"}, {"text": "compared the film to their 1989 film, \"101\", as it also follows the fans as well as the band. David Ehrlich of IndieWire felt that the film captured \"The experience of watching it dovetails with that of going to a live show and being surrounded by thousands of strangers who share your same love\" since it follows both the fans and the band closely. Box office performance. Sources vary on the total gross of the movie's one-night release, with one claiming about US $2.5m while another claims US $4.5m. It reached Number 3 on the box office charts in Mexico and Number 2 in both Germany and the UK."}, {"text": "Inge Donnepp (13 December 1918 \u2013 31 July 2002) was a German lawyer and politician (SPD). She was the first woman minister of Justice of a German state. Because of her political commitment, she was called in the SPD also \"mother Courage of the Ruhr area\". Early life and education. Donnepp was born in Unna. She studied New Philology at the University of Heidelberg. She attended law school at Rostock and Berlin, receiving her degree in 1947. She worked as a lawyer from 1947 until 1954. She became a judge at the end of 1954, at the social courts of M\u00fcnster and Gelsenkirchen. Death. She died in Recklinghausen."}, {"text": "The 2020 Utah Royals FC season marks the team's third year and final season of existence in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the top division of the American soccer pyramid. After this season, the team folded and transferred players and coaches to the new Kansas City NWSL, now known as the Kansas City Current. On January 6, 2020 the team mutually parted ways with head coach Laura Harvey so she could take a position with U.S Soccer as the head coach for the U-20 Women's National Team. Competitions. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the NWSL did not hold a regular season as originally scheduled. The season was replaced by the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup in July and the Fall Series in September and October. 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup. The Royals began their Challenge Cup against the Houston Dash on June 30. They were without forward Christen Press who opted out of the tournament and Desiree Scott who withdrew from the tournament for personal reasons. Challenge Cup match results. Preliminary round Knockout round Fall Series. The Royals would be without several players for the NWSL Fall Series. Forward Christen Press signed with Manchester United. Rachel Corsie went on loan to"}, {"text": "Birmingham City and Gunnhildur J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir was loaned to Valur. Kelley O'Hara, Desiree Scott and Diana Matheson all opted out of the Fall Series. Head Coach Craig Harrington and assistant coach Louis Lancaster were placed on administrative leave prior to the first game of the Fall Series, Amy LePeilbet was named interim head coach. \"Source: National Women's Soccer League\""}, {"text": "Clendenin 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, Clendenin District was home to 3,435 people. Geography. Clendenin District is located along the Ohio River in the southern part of Mason County. To the north, it is bounded by the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, and by Lewis District; to the northeast, by Arbuckle District; to the southeast by Buffalo-Union District in Putnam County, formerly Buffalo District; to the south by Hannan District, in Mason County; and to the west by the Ohio River. Across the river are Gallipolis and Clay Townships, in Gallia County, Ohio, and the village of Gallipolis. Clendenin District includes submerged land in the Ohio River to the low water mark on the Ohio shore, originally reserved by the state of Virginia, when it ceded its claim to the Northwest Territory in 1784. As a result, the district includes Gallipolis Island, a quarter-mile long island barely two hundred feet from the Gallipolis shore. The district also includes the Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam, on the Ohio River just"}, {"text": "above Apple Grove. Excluded from Clendenin District is Raccoon Island, a former island, now a shoal in the Ohio River opposite the mouth of Crab Creek; at low water, Raccoon Island was connected to the mainland, so it belongs to Clay Township in Gallia County. With an area greater than eighty-three square miles, Clendenin is the largest of Mason County's ten magisterial districts. It is one of three districts south of the Kanawha River, together with Arbuckle and Hannan; these are three of the four largest and most rural districts in Mason County. The soil in the Ohio River bottoms of the western part of the district feature a productive mixture of sand and clay. The soil in the hills making up the majority of the district contains red and white clay, mixed with black loam. Streams. The main streams of Clendenin District are Salt Creek, Twomile Creek, Crab Creek, Flatfoot Creek, Sixteenmile Creek, and Eighteenmile Creek, all of which empty into the Ohio River, and Arbuckle Creek, which flows into the Kanawha above Henderson. Of these, Twomile and Sixteenmile are sometimes referred to as the \"Ohio\" Twomile and Sixteenmile, to distinguish them from the \"Kanawha\" Twomile and Sixteenmile Creeks,"}, {"text": "which flow into the Kanawha River from Arbuckle District. There was once a Kanawha Eighteenmile in Mason County, but since 1848 it has been part of Putnam County; its mouth forms part of the boundary between Putnam County and Union District in Mason County. Crab Creek is the largest stream lying entirely in Clendenin District. Its middle fork begins in the hills three miles east of Gallipolis Ferry, near the northwest corner of Arbuckle District. It flows south and west for about three miles, until it meets its Right-hand Fork, which flows westward from the hills east of Fay, taking in Horse Lick coming from the north below Mohrtown. Crab Creek then flows westward out of the hills, meeting the Sand Fork at the base of the hills. The Sand Fork of Crab Creek flows south and west out of the hills a mile east of Gallipolis Ferry, reaching the river bottom at Beale, then meandering through the floodplain south and east for a mile and a half before joining the main branch. Crab Creek then flows along the base of the hills for a mile and a half before abruptly turning northwest, and meeting Mud Run, flowing out of"}, {"text": "the hills behind Ben Lomond, a mile to the south. The combined stream then meanders through the bottomland before discharging into the Ohio, just above the mouth of Raccoon Creek on the opposite shore. Flatfoot Creek flows southeast out of the hills behind Hogsett, reaching the floodplain above Apple Grove, then running along the base of the hills north to Hogsett. Here the creek historically turned southward, and gradually meandered toward the Ohio, which it joined at the boundary of Clendenin and Hannan Districts. In the 1990s, part of the western portion of the floodplain along the Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam was removed and flooded to build two auxiliary locks, and Flatfoot Creek diverted to empty into the Ohio at Hogsett. The original lower course of the creek was used to create a series of ponds below the locks. The Ohio Sixteenmile drains much of the southern part of the district. Its upper waters are in western Arbuckle District, along with its tributaries, the Wolfpen Branch and the Willow Branch, which join the main branch southeast of Arlee, along the district boundary. Sixteenmile curves around the base of Loggerhead Ridge, meeting the Loggerhead Fork, and flows south for"}, {"text": "about three miles past Potts Hollow and Potts Chapel Ridge, and meets the Righthand Fork flowing west from the hills near Sevenmile Ridge. From here, Sixteenmile flows west, meeting with Millstone Creek flowing from the north, and then turning southwest, meeting with Daves Run, and crossing into Hannan District. The creek makes a dogleg turn to the southeast, and briefly crosses back into Clendenin District, where it meets Jerrys Run, flowing westward, then continues southwest through Hannan District to the river. As it exits the hills, Sixteenmile is joined by Stonecoal Run, the upper waters of which are in Clendenin District. The main branch of Eighteenmile Creek only flows for a short distance through the southernmost part of Clendenin District, as it travels from western Putnam County to the Ohio River below Ashton in Hannan District. However, several of its tributaries flow out of Clendenin District, including the Spring Branch of Whitepine Creek, which joins Eighteenmile at the Putnam County line; Road Fork, all of which lies in Clendenin District; and the upper waters of Mud Run and the Hughes Branch of Eighteenmile. Other streams of Clendenin District include a Willow Branch that flows into the Ohio below Henderson; Mile"}, {"text": "Creek, which flows into the Ohio between Willow Branch and Salt Creek; Ohio Threemile, which enters the river opposite Gallipolis Island; Ferry Creek, of which several branches flow from the hills northeast of Gallipolis Ferry, and which joins the Ohio just above the old ferry landing; and the upper waters of the Kanawha Sixteenmile, or Big Sixteen, including its Fivefork Branch, drain the southeastern part of the district, before flowing into Arbuckle District. Communities. Henderson is the only incorporated town in Clendenin District. It was first laid out by Frank Sisson in 1879, on land that had belonged to Samuel B. Henderson, one of the district's earliest settlers. Within a few years, it had its own post office, a general store, and about a dozen houses. The town developed around the intersection of two roads, one following the Ohio River northward to Point Pleasant, and one following the southern bank of the Kanawha. There was a ferry landing to carry passengers between Henderson, Point Pleasant, and Kanauga, a village in Gallia County opposite Point Pleasant. Since 1931, Henderson has stood at the southern end of a north\u2013south bridge carrying traffic to Point Pleasant, and since 1969, the Silver Memorial Bridge,"}, {"text": "just south of the village, has carried passengers across the Ohio to Kanauga and Gallipolis. U.S. Route 35 formerly passed through the center of Henderson, but it has since been diverted into the hills south of the Kanawha, and connects directly with the Silver Memorial Bridge. Although there are no other towns, Clendenin District includes a number of unincorporated communities. The village of Gallipolis Ferry sits at the base of the hills in the westernmost part of the district. From here, a ferry once carried passengers across the Ohio to the city of Gallipolis. More recently, the village has been the site of a chemical plant, formerly owned by Dutch paint and chemical manufacturer AkzoNobel. The village of Beale, site of a post office from 1902 to 1916, as well as Beale School, has largely disappeared into Gallipolis Ferry. Redmond is a small village in the northern hills of the district, on Redmond Ridge between the upper waters of Salt Creek and the boundary with Arbuckle District. It was the site of a post office from 1886 to 1913, when the mail was redirected to Henderson. Further south along Redmond Ridge is the village of Wyoma, above the upper waters"}, {"text": "of Crab Creek, flowing southwest to the Ohio, and Upper Fivemile Creek, flowing northeast toward the Kanawha in Arbuckle District. Wyoma was the site of a post office from 1884 to 1916. The former villages of Caddie and Fay lay on the upper waters of the Righthand Fork of Crab Creek. Both received post offices in 1903; Caddie's was discontinued in 1913, and Fay's in 1916. Later, Mohrtown was located on a different branch of the Righthand Fork. Ben Lomond sits at the base of the hills at a narrow point in the river bottom, where Mud Run turns northward on its way to join Crab Creek. About a mile south of Ben Lomond is Hogsett, near the mouth of Flatfoot Creek. The village was named for Charles W. Hogsett, its first postmaster, in 1885. Ben Lomond received its post office in 1886, and for a while the U.S. Post Office Department wavered between which village should keep one. Ben Lomond's post office closed permanently in 1919, while Hogsett's remained until 1967. Arlee and Pondlick are villages on the upper waters of Ohio Sixteenmile Creek. Arlee had a post office from 1890 to 1955; Pondlick from 1900 to 1919. Apple"}, {"text": "Grove, West Virginia is a village on the broad river bottom in the southern part of Clendenin District, and it straddles the boundary between Clendenin and Hannan Districts. The village received its first postmaster in 1872, and is home to a sizable chemical plant, formerly owned by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Roads and transportation. There are two highways in Clendenin District: West Virginia Route 2, known locally as \"Huntington Road\", runs along the Ohio River from Huntington to Point Pleasant, crossing the Kanawha River at Henderson. U.S. Route 35 follows the Kanawha River from Teays Valley to Henderson, where it crosses the Ohio into Gallia County, continuing northwest to Chillicothe. Other important routes include Crab Creek Road, County Route 29, and Redmond Ridge Road, County Route 25. Crab Creek Road follows the Righthand Fork of Crab Creek, and continues into the hills to Arlee, on the eastern side of the district. Crab Creek Road then enters Arbuckle District, where it travels around and through the Chief Cornstalk Wildlife Management Area on its way to Southside, in the Kanawha Valley, following the course of Little Sixteenmile Creek during its descent out of the hills. Redmond Ridge Road follows the"}, {"text": "course of Redmond Ridge south to Wyoma; from there it continues southeast to Lower Fivemile Road, which runs northeast along Lower Fivemile Creek in Arbuckle District, and southwest as County Route 25 until it joins Crab Creek Road. A more direct route, Horse Lick Road, County Route 29/6, follows a minor tributary of Crab Creek from Wyoma south to Crab Creek Road. A Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Line, now part of CSX, runs along the Ohio River between Huntington and Point Pleasant, crossing the river on a railroad bridge at Henderson, and continuing north along the river to Parkersburg. Until the twentieth century, there were ferries across the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers at Henderson, and a ferry on the Ohio at Gallipolis Ferry. The Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam make the Ohio River navigable for barge and other water traffic between the Racine Locks and Dam at the upper end of the county, and the Greenup Lock and Dam in Kentucky, a stretch of one hundred and three miles. History. The first European to attempt a settlement in Clendenin District was a man named Teas, who hoped to build a tannery at the present site of Henderson, on the"}, {"text": "southern bank of the Kanawha opposite Point Pleasant. However, he was forced to abandon his efforts and take shelter in Fort Randolph due to the threat of Indian raids. Indians regularly visited the area until 1795, when the Treaty of Greenville forced them westward into Ohio. The first permanent settlement occurred in 1795, when William Clendenin, John H. Henderson, and Samuel Henderson made their homes in the district. They were joined by Gideon H. Long in 1808; Spencer and George Withers, and Peter H. Steenbergen in 1810; Josiah Potts in 1813; and W.P.L. Neale in 1815. Clendenin, for whom the district was named, was a veteran of the Battle of Point Pleasant, in 1774, and about 1788 came to settle in the land that would become Mason County. His homestead in Clendenin District stood opposite the city of Gallipolis. From 1789 to 1804, the area was part of Kanawha County, which obliged the residents to travel nearly sixty miles through the Kanawha Valley, between Point Pleasant and the county seat at Charleston, to conduct official business. In 1804, the settlers petitioned the Virginia General Assembly for the formation of a new county, to be named after George Mason, one of"}, {"text": "Virginia's delegates to the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787, and the \"father\" of the Bill of Rights. William Clendenin was chosen to deliver this petition to Richmond, where it was approved. Clendenin subsequently served as Mason County's first representative in the Virginia legislature. Clendenin is also credited with having brought the first domestic geese to Mason County, a flock of twenty delivered by none other than Anne Bailey. In the autumn of 1814, Peter H. Steenbergen, one of the district's pioneers, was commissioned captain of a cavalry company requisitioned for service in the War of 1812. This was the third company raised in Mason County during the war, following the Mason County Riflemen, an infantry company led by Captain Anthony Van Sickle in 1812, and a second infantry company led by Captain William Parsons in 1813. The Riflemen had gone to the rapids of the Maumee, where they participated in the construction of Fort Meigs, while Parsons' company had gone to Norfolk, Virginia. Steenbergen's soldiers were mustered at Point Pleasant, and immediately sent out for the east coast. They had reached the summit of Big Sewell Mountain, now in Fayette County when news reached them that the Treaty of Ghent"}, {"text": "had been signed, ending the war. The first school in Clendenin District was taught in 1816 by a master named Withrow, in a log cabin at the mouth of Arbuckle Creek, later the site of the Arbuckle Schoolhouse. The first grist mill in the district was built by John Stephens in 1834. It had a single run of stones, and was powered by a team of four horses. It was followed by a steam-powered mill built by Charles Beale. Beale, along with his uncle, Peter H. Steenbergen, were influential in developing Mason County's fledgling stock-raising industry. Steenbergen brought the first \"improved breed\" of cattle to Mason County, and in 1839 he and Beale introduced the first Shorthorn cattle, a breed that was soon distributed throughout the county. 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. Clendenin Township was named in honor of William Clendenin, one of the earliest settlers of the area. The spelling of the name was highly variable in the nineteenth century; \"Clendenen"}, {"text": "Township\" is mentioned in the \"Weekly Register\" in the year of its formation, with the surname spelled \"Clendennen\" directly beneath it; other early spellings included \"Clendennin\" and \"Clendinen\". As a surname, the present spelling appears in the \"Register\" from its inception in 1862, and this spelling was applied to the township by 1870, gradually becoming the predominant spelling for both the surname and the territory over the following years. Like the other townships, Clendenin was converted into a magisterial district in 1872. It is the only Clendenin District in the state. The first post office in the district was established at Crab Creek in 1874. It operated out of the house of John R. Dabney, who was appointed the first postmaster. 1879 saw the establishment of the town of Henderson. The Gallipolis Locks and Dam, now the Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam, were built in the southern part of the district, just above Apple Grove, in 1937."}, {"text": "James Gately (1810\u20131875), also known as the Hermit of Hyde Park, was a 19th-century English-born American hermit. He was born in England in 1810 to wealthy parents. He studied at the University of Oxford. He had a son out of wedlock in 1850. He then sailed to Australia but returned the following year. He was still unable to marry the mother of his son, and so set sail for the United States instead, settling in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He did not find success as a bird cage maker and taxidermist, and so set out for a life as a hermit in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. His estate was worth more than $1,500 ($41,471 in 2023 dollars) when he died in 1875. He had two sisters. Gately was buried in Brookdale Cemetery in Dedham, Massachusetts in a grave owned by William Chickering of that town. At the base of the hill with the Civil War monument is an oblong piece of granite stating simply, \"Hermit.\""}, {"text": "Gwyther is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Chelsea Marina Rochman is an American marine and freshwater ecologist whose research focuses on anthropogenic stressors (primarily plastic pollution) in freshwater and marine ecosystems. Since September 2016, Rochman has been an assistant professor at the University of Toronto in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a scientific advisor to the Ocean Conservancy. She is currently spearheading a large scale study on the fate and effects of microplastics at the Experimental Lakes Area. The project is entitled . Education. Rochman received a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, San Diego in Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolutionary Biology in December 2007. In May 2013, under the supervision of Eunha Hoh, Brian Hentschel, and Swee Teh, she received her PhD at the University of California, Davis and San Diego State University in Marine Ecology. Her dissertation focused on assessing the fate and effects of plastic and chemical pollutants in marine ecosystems. Career. From June 2013 to August 2014, Rochman was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Aquatic Health Program at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine while under the supervision of Swee Teh. Following that period, from September 2014 to September 2016, she was a David. H. Smith Postdoctoral Fellow"}, {"text": "based at the University of California, Davis and the University of Toronto under the supervision of Swee Teh, Susan Williams, and Miriam Diamond. Finally, Rochman was simultaneously hired as an assistant professor at the University of Toronto\u2019s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and contracted by the Ocean Conservancy as a Scientific Advisor in September 2016. She serves as a referee for multiple journals, including the \", Nature Ecology and Evolution, Environmental Chemistry\", and she serves as an editorial board member for \"Science of the Total Environment\". She is a member of multiple societies including the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, the Society for Conservation Biology, and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Outreach. Rochman's research has been featured regularly in news outlets, including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, The New York Times, Scientific American, and National Geographic. She regularly works with government and industry to inform science-based policy (e.g., California Bill AB888, US Microbead-free Waters Act, Canada G7 ocean plastics charter), and most recently, she provided testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., on the topic of \u201cMarine Debris: Impacts on Ecosystems and Species\u201d. At the University of Toronto, Rochman co-founded the University"}, {"text": "of Toronto Trash Team (U of T Trash Team). They collaborate with local, national, and international stakeholders and members of the general public to promote general waste literacy and optimal waste reduction strategies. They are currently involved in projects which aim to divert the flow of microfibers into the Great Lakes, reduce plastic pellet emissions into Mimico Creek, and in collaboration with PortsToronto, explore the utility and efficiency of Seabins (floating trash interceptors) in the Toronto harbour. One of their most recent public outreach initiatives is the \u201cUrban Litter Challenge\u201d. The U of T Trash Team, in concert with members of the general public, document and collect all trash found within multiple regions of the Greater Toronto Area. Research contributions. Rochman's research investigates the sources, fate, and effects of plastic pollution and associated chemicals, to inform solutions to this growing environmental issue. Her research program also works on developing novel methods for quantifying and characterizing microplastics in the environment. Rochman's early research tested hypotheses pertaining to how chemicals sorb to and from microplastics, and whether microplastics act as vectors for contaminants to marine and freshwater organisms. In addition, she used laboratory experiments to quantify the effects of microplastics on fish"}, {"text": "and invertebrate health. Currently, Rochman's research group focuses on the sources and pathways of microplastics and other contaminants into urban watersheds and Arctic ecosystems, the effects of multiple stressors on ecosystems across all levels of biological organization, and solutions to reduce plastics pollution."}, {"text": "State Route 272 (SR 272) is a north\u2013south state highway located entirely within Marshall County in Middle Tennessee. Route description. SR 272 begins at an intersection with SR 129 in the community of Archer. It winds its way north as a two-lane highway through mountains for several miles before passing through farmland to enter Lewisburg, where it comes to an intersection and becomes concurrent with US 31A/SR 106. They bypass downtown as a four-lane undivided highway along the east side, where they pass through both residential and business areas and become concurrent with US 431 at an intersection with US 431 Business/SR 50. The highway then curves to the northwest to cross a bridge over a creek before coming to an intersection with US 31A Business/US 431 Business/SR 11, where US 31A and SR 272 split from US 431/SR 106 to follow SR 11 north. SR 272 splits off shortly thereafter and leaves Lewisburg to pass through a mix of farmland and wooded areas as a two-lane highway for the next several miles, where it passes through the community of Verona. The highway then crosses a bridge over the Duck River shortly before coming to an end at an intersection"}, {"text": "with SR 99 just a few miles southwest of Chapel Hill."}, {"text": "Ovidio Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez (born 29 March 1990) is a Mexican former drug lord and high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel, a criminal group based in the state of Sinaloa. He is the son of the drug lord Joaqu\u00edn \"El Chapo\" Guzm\u00e1n, once considered Mexico's most-wanted drug lord and the world's most-wanted criminal. Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez was suspected of being a leader within a Sinaloa Cartel faction often referred to as Los Chapitos, Los Menores, and/or Los Juniors. He was captured on 5 January 2023 and remanded to Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1, until he was extradited to the US on 15 September 2023, where he was awaiting trial. In July 2025, he would plead guilty to four criminal charges related to international drug trafficking and engaging in a criminal enterprise. Early life. Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez was born 29 March 1990 and is a son of Joaqu\u00edn \"El Chapo\" Guzm\u00e1n with his second wife. He was raised in Mexico City and spent four years of his education at a school run by the Legionaries of Christ. This biography states that Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez's mother took him out of the school when the families of his classmates excluded him from a school trip. A"}, {"text": "U.S. grand jury indictment alleges Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez has been involved in his father's drug trafficking business since 2008, when he was a teenager. Career. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury named him a \"Key Lieutenant\" of his father and the Sinaloa Cartel in a 2012 sanctions Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (\"Kingpin Act\"). It is widely reported that Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez took on a prominent role of the Sinaloa Cartel after his father's arrest. In 2019, the Associated Press reported that he leads the cartel along with his brothers Iv\u00e1n Archivaldo Guzm\u00e1n, Jes\u00fas Alfredo Guzm\u00e1n, and Ismael \"El Mayo\" Zambada. In July 2017, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia empaneled a grand jury that formally indicted both Ovidio Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez and his brother Joaqu\u00edn Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez on charges of participating in a conspiracy to traffic cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana since 2008. The sealed indictment was filed 2 April 2018. On 12 December 2018, the indictment was unsealed for the limited purpose of disclosure in an extradition proceeding pursuant to the Jencks Act. Judge Rudolph Contreras ordered the full unsealing of the indictment on 13 February 2019. 2019 capture and"}, {"text": "release. On 17 October 2019, members of the National Guard briefly arrested Ovidio Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez in Culiac\u00e1n, Sinaloa, setting off several gun battles in the city. Heavily armed cartel gunmen (numbering over 600) threatened mass civilian deaths, including an attack to the apartment complex housing the relatives of the local military personnel. Hours later, Ovidio Guzm\u00e1n was freed, with President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador saying he supported the decision in order to \"prevent more bloodshed\". L\u00f3pez Obrador later said he ordered the release to prevent the killing of 200 people. On 8 May 2020, Santiago Nieto, head of Mexico's Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), confirmed that the Government of Mexico froze Ovidio Guzm\u00e1n's assets, stating, \"We have frozen the accounts of Ovidio and of 330 people linked to the cartel and have filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office. We have also found irregularities.\" 2023 recapture. On 5 January 2023, the authorities arrested Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez in the Jes\u00fas Mar\u00eda district of Culiac\u00e1n. The arrest was credited to a joint intelligence effort between Mexico and the US military named Operation Mongoose Azteca. US Intelligence spent months intercepting communications between members of the Cartel. Mexico authorities were able to use that information to"}, {"text": "locate the movements of Ovidio. According to eyewitness accounts, Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez had a family party the evening before he was arrested. The military executed a pre-dawn raid on Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez's residence that used a helicopter and convoy of ground vehicles and apprehended him within 10 hours of entry. Reports of his arrest were later confirmed by Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval, who stated that personnel from the Army, National Guard, Secretariat of National Defense and Secretariat of the Navy had captured him and also managed to successfully transport him to Mexico City, where he was then taken to offices of the Attorney General's organized crime special prosecutor. The Air Force then flew Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez by helicopter to the Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1 (\"Altiplano\"), a maximum security federal prison in Almoloya de Ju\u00e1rez, later that afternoon. An additional 17 suspected cartel members were also taken into custody in the initial operation. In a press conference, Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard confirmed that there was an extradition request for Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez to face trial in the United States, but Ebrard noted that he was also facing criminal charges in Mexico. The day after his arrest, a federal judge placed Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez"}, {"text": "under a 60-day preventive detention to allow U.S. authorities to formally petition for his extradition. Violence in Sinaloa and Sonora. Following the arrest, the U.S. Consulate in Hermosillo shared that it had received reports of gunfire, roadblocks, and fires throughout the cities of Culiac\u00e1n, Los Mochis, and Guasave. The Consulate reiterated the United States Department of State's highest level of travel advisory cautioning against travel to Sinaloa. Sinaloa Governor Rub\u00e9n Rocha Moya called for the public to shelter in place. Unrest led to the closure of Culiac\u00e1n International Airport as two planes at the airport\u2014an airliner operated by Aerom\u00e9xico and a military aircraft\u2014took gunfire. Shootouts were also reported on the runway. Aerom\u00e9xico diverted planes away from the international airports in Los Mochis and Mazatl\u00e1n as well. Attacks on two trucks on Highway 15 in neighboring Sonora prompted Aerom\u00e9xico to also cancel flights from Ciudad Obreg\u00f3n International Airport. Regular service at all the affected airports was restored during the morning of 6 January. Looting was reported in parts of Culiac\u00e1n, and numerous businesses and banks announced temporary closures across the state. Journalists in the area reported multiple carjackings and demands for car keys. Ten soldiers, 19 gang members, and one police"}, {"text": "officer were killed during the unrest. Among the victims were an infantry colonel and his four escorts, who were ambushed and killed by cartel members in Escuinapa, Sinaloa. A report issued by the Secretariat of National Defense put the forces used in the operation at 3,586 soldiers. The Secretariat also claimed that in the course of the operation \"four .50 caliber Barrett rifles, six 50 caliber machine guns, 26 long arms, 2 handguns, magazines, cartridges, various tactical equipment and 13 operational vehicles\" were seized. Post-recapture. Following Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez's capture, the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control applied sanctions pursuant to against individuals and corporations of Sinaloa Cartel's networks supplying drug precursors for illicit manufacture of methamphetamine and fentanyl in so-called super-laboratories. These are defined by OFAC as \"large-scale drug laboratories that produce 10 or more pounds of an illicit drug per production cycle\". The targets included Luis Gerardo Flores Madrid, said to be a subordinate of Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez. A parallel press announcement by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the sanctions as \"part of a whole-of-government effort to disrupt and dismantle the transnational criminal organizations that facilitate the illicit supply of fentanyl and other narcotics\". On the same day"}, {"text": "as these announcements, the docket of the U.S. criminal case against Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez was updated, with the trial attorney of the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section of the Department of Justice substituting as Government counsel of record. On 28 February 2023, CBS News, Agence France-Presse, and Reuters quoted unnamed sources in the Mexican government as stating that the United States has formally requested Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez's extradition. On 15 September 2023, the government of Mexico extradited Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez to the United States to face drug trafficking charges. U.S Attorney General Merrick Garland described the extradition as \"the most recent step in the Justice Department's effort to attack every aspect of the cartel's operations\". On 23 July 2024, two days before the arrests of Ismael \"El Mayo\" Zambada and Ovidio's brother Joaqu\u00edn Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez, the Bureau of Prisons inmate records showed his status as released. The U.S. Department of Justice said that he remains in custody. During the hearing on 21 October 2024, it was confirmed that Guzm\u00e1n and his brother were negotiating plea deals and would be represented by the same attorney. Their next hearing was on 7 January 2025. In May 2025, seventeen of their relatives entered the United States"}, {"text": "escorted by American authorities. On 11 July 2025, Ovidio pleaded guilty in the Dirksen Federal Building of Chicago to two counts of counts of drug distribution, and two counts of participation in a continuing criminal enterprise. As of the same month, sentencing has not been publicly scheduled, as he is expected to cooperate with the U.S. government by providing information in hopes of avoiding a life sentence. The Mexican government, led by President Claudia Sheinbaum, criticized the lack of coordination between the two countries, arguing that the arrests of Ovidio's brother and Zambada had triggered internal conflict among criminal groups. Jeffrey Lichtman, Ovidio's attorney, commented on the situation by referencing the 2021 release of General Salvador Cienfuegos, a former official accused of protecting criminal organizations, who was extradited to Mexico at its request and later exonerated."}, {"text": "Mohamed El-Sayed Tantawy (born 21 June 1963) is an Egyptian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Petryk is a surname. People with this surname include:"}, {"text": "Ibrahim Mahmoud Tawfik (born 5 September 1965) is an Egyptian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The Journal of Construction Engineering and Management is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers covering construction material handling, equipment, production planning, scheduling, estimating, labor productivity, contract administration, and construction management. Abstracting and indexing. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Ei Compendex, ProQuest databases, Civil Engineering Database, Inspec, Scopus, and EBSCO databases."}, {"text": "Hussain Mohamed Hassan (born 25 April 1971) is an Egyptian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Hussain Mohamed Hassan can refer to:"}, {"text": "19-Norcholestane is a 26-carbon (C26) sterane."}, {"text": "Thomas Albert may refer to:"}, {"text": "Hisham Moustafa Korany (born 15 October 1960) is an Egyptian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Gamal Fawzi Mohamed (born 5 February 1966) is an Egyptian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Gamal Mohamed may refer to:"}, {"text": "Ashraf Shafik Gindy (born 6 October 1967) is an Egyptian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The Choragic Monument of Nikias is a memorial building built on the Acropolis of Athens in 320\u2013319 BCE to commemorate the choregos Nikias, son of Nikodemos. It was situated between the Theatre of Dionysos and the Stoa of Eumenes where its foundations remain along with some fragmentary elements of the structure. It was built in the form of a substantial hexastyle Doric temple with a square cella and might have been surmounted with the prize tripod of the Dionysia. The monument was dismantled at some point in late antiquity and the masonry reused in the Beul\u00e9 Gate. Archaeology. In 1889 Wilhelm D\u00f6rpfeld proposed a site in the area of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus for the foundations of the building, which idea was eventually discarded. This identification was then used as a \"terminus ante quem\" for the destruction of the choragic monument and the building of the Beul\u00e9 Gate before the construction of the Odeon in the middle of the second century. William Dinsmoor finally identified the site in 1910. Most of the surviving architectural remains of the choragic monument, notably its inscription, were later built into the central portion of the Beul\u00e9 Gate, which was uncovered by Charles Ernest"}, {"text": "Beul\u00e9 in 1852. These remains were first studied in 1885 by D\u00f6rpfeld. The exact date of the destruction of the monument is unknown, however, Dinsmoor argued that it might have been at the same time as the demolition of the Stoa of Eumenes in the late Roman period, before the reconstruction of the Theatre of Dionysos by Phaidros in the 3rd or 4th century CE. Choragic monuments. Two of the major choragic monuments that have survived (Thrasyllos' and Nikias') belong to the period of oligarchic rule under the Macedonian regency, and it is perhaps significant that these are not on the Street of the Tripods, where most choragic prizes and monuments were placed. The conspicuous display of wealth and prestige they represent may have been an attempt to further the political careers of the choregoi and as such prompted the sumptuary law of Demetrios of Phaleron."}, {"text": "Ayushman Bhava () is a 2019 Indian Kannada-language action drama film directed by P. Vasu and produced by B. S. Dwarakish and Yogish Dwarakish Bunggale, co-produced by Alankar Pandian. The film stars Shiva Rajkumar, Ananth Nag, Rachita Ram, and Prabhu along with Nidhi Subbaiah in a special appearance. The music was composed by Gurukiran. The cinematography and editing were handled by PKH Das and Gowtham Raju respectively. The film was scheduled to be released on 1 November 2019, but was postponed to 15 November 2019. Plot. Gopi is the head of a joint family consisting of his three sons, their wives, and children. When his family decides to punish him by not talking to him for consuming alcohol, he advertises for a caretaker. The family apologizes later and is forgiven. Gopi's granddaughter Sridevi has her engagement. Krishna, who arrives with Sridevi's fianc\u00e9e's family, wins everyone's hearts with his friendliness. When it is revealed that Krishna has come in response to Gopi's advertisement for a caretaker, Gopi immediately hires him. Lakshmi is Gopi's other granddaughter, who became mentally insane after witnessing the death of her parents Devaki and Vasudeva, three years back. She lives in the outhouse. Krishna befriends Lakshmi, who"}, {"text": "later starts to recover. After Sridevi's wedding, the family decides to get Lakshmi married to Chetan, her cross-cousin, who just wants to inherit her wealth. Krishna suggests they get her married after she recovers fully, but is rebuked. The next day, it is discovered that Krishna has fled with Lakshmi. With the help of a boatwoman Chukki, they reach a music college. With the help of music, Krishna helps Lakshmi, who loves music, regain her stability. Krishna and Lakshmi return to the joint family. After beating him up initially, when they find out that Lakshmi has fully recovered, the family apologizes. Lakshmi is told about her upcoming wedding. While Lakshmi thinks Krishna is the groom, the family has chosen Chetan. Krishna leaves the house. Lakshmi is shocked and returns to the outhouse. One of Gopi's friends reveals about Krishna's past. Past: Krishna's real name is Shivaram Krishna, son of a hospital chairman named Ram Kumar. One day, a rich businessman soon dies in the hospital, and the blame falls on Krishna's hospital. Krishna later learns that the businessman was actually killed by his partners. He managers to obtain evidence and decide to hand over to the CBI. The businessman's partners"}, {"text": "learn about this, and sends their henchman to kill him on the train. However, the henchmen instead kills Lakshmi's parents, who had exchanged their seats with Krishna. On finding out that this incident made Lakshmi go insane, a guilty Krishna seeks Gopi's friend's help to take him to her house, so that he can help to treat her illness. Present: Gopi calls Ram Kumar and reveals everything, but later learns that Krishna has left for Europe. However, Krishna arrives at Gopi's house and plays the tune of Lakshmi's song on the piano. Lakshmi meets Krishna, who refuses to take her with him though, since she has a loving family and cannot leave them. Gopi intervenes, and sends Lakshmi with Krishna, telling him that she is not leaving her family, but Krishna has joined their family. Soundtrack. This is composer Guru Kiran's 100th film. Lyrics are by Santosh Naik and V. Nagendra Prasad. Release. The film was scheduled to be released on 1 November 2019, coinciding with Karnataka Rajyotsava day. It was later postponed to 15 November due to production and technical reasons. Critical reception. Sunayana Suresh of \"The Times of India\" rated the film 3.5/5 stars and wrote, \"While the"}, {"text": "film has a few roadblocks, it does have a lot of entertainment, which ranges from sentimental scenes to comedy to romance.\" A. Sharadhaa of \"The New Indian Express\" gave it 3.5/5 stars and wrote, \"\"Ayushman Bhava\" is a film that can attract all kinds of audiences, including ardent followers of Vasu\u2019s kind of subjects, especially films like \"Apthamitra\", and \"Aptharakshaka\".\" Manjula of \"The Hans India\" gave it 3.5/5 and wrote, \"The songs just complement the movie plot. Even though \"Ayushman Bhava\" is a clean movie, there are certain parts that seemed unnecessary and tests the patience of the audience.\" Aravind Shwetha of \"The News Minute\" wrote, \"Overall, \"Ayushman Bhava\" is a typical P Vasu film and the team seems to have succumbed to the director\u2019s way of working. [...] If age-old formulaic movies are what you love, \"Ayushman Bhava\" may just work for you.\" Vivek M. V. of \"Deccan Herald\" wrote, \"Despite being a copy, \u2018Apthamitra\u2019 worked because it was highly entertaining, but \u2018Aayushmanbhava\u2019 is painfully bland and completely predictable.\" Awards and nominations. In 9th South Indian International Movie Awards movie got 2 nominations."}, {"text": "Amro El-Sayed Osman (born 11 April 1964) is an Egyptian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Ehab Moustafa Mansour (born 21 October 1968) is an Egyptian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Amro El-Sayed Mohamady (born 27 December 1971) is an Egyptian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Muskeg Lake 102B is an Indian reserve of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about north-east of North Battleford. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 0 of its 0 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Muskeg Lake 102D is an Indian reserve of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about south-west of Shellbrook. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 0 of its 0 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Mohamed Samir Mohamed (born 25 January 1971) is an Egyptian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Muskeg Lake 102E is an Indian reserve of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about south of Shellbrook. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 0 of its 0 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Gerstell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: The surname Gerstell may be of German or Ashkenazi Jewish origin. It is relatively rare and may derive from occupational or geographic roots, though the precise etymology is unclear."}, {"text": "Wael Fahim Mostafa (born 9 November 1964) is an Egyptian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Muskeg Lake 102F is an Indian reserve of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about south-west of Shellbrook. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 20 living in 8 of its 8 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Marta Catellani is an Italian chemist known for her discovery of the eponymous Catellani reaction in 1997. She was elected to the European Academy of Sciences in 2016. Catellani earned her Ph.D. in chemistry in 1971 from the University of Parma, where, as of 2019, she is a professor and chairs the Department of Organic Chemistry. Catellani completed her postdoctoral education at the University of Chicago. She has served as a visiting professor at Moscow State University (1992), Beijing Institute of Technology (2004), and University of Xi'an (2004). She was awarded a fellowship at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2012. Her research focuses on palladium as a catalyst for multistep organic reactions. The Catellani Reaction. In chemistry there is a practice known as synthesis. This process is used to form complex chemical compounds from simpler ones. These complex compounds are desirable for their ranging abilities and properties. In order to produce the complex compounds, the simpler ones must \u201ccooperate\u201d in a specific way. This can be very difficult and requires patience, because of the time required to make the bonds so their uses and properties can be tested. There was a need for optimization of this"}, {"text": "process in order to speed up the development and testing of new compounds. Catellani and her team in 1997 found such a method to optimize this process. Catellani discovered a chain reaction process that simplified and increased yield for desirable complex compounds. One bond the Catellani Reaction is heavily used to create is Carbon-Carbon bonds. These bonds are desirable for their stability and strength. These qualities make the bonds very useful in the makeup of more complex compounds. Since its discovery, the Catellani Reaction has opened the door to other discoveries or improvements in chemistry. Specifically in the world of pharmaceuticals, the Catellani Reaction has been a useful tool for synthesizing drugs in a more efficient way to aid in their development. Lenoxipen is an example of one of the complex compounds now much easier to achieve with the discovery of Catellani Reactions. This compound belongs to a group of compounds known as Lignans that are useful for relieving pain and may provide benefits to cancer patients. These examples of the uses for Catellani Reactions show the vast and indirect benefits to its discovery. To chemists, the Catellani Reaction is a tool that acts to optimize the process for making"}, {"text": "new compounds. These new compounds are pivotal for advancing what is possible through chemistry. As new scientists study and try to build upon the Catellani Reaction, it is important to remember who provided the first understanding as it would open up a new world of opportunity."}, {"text": "Muskeg River 20C is an Indian reserve of the Cumberland House Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is in Township 58, Range 5, west of the Second Meridian."}, {"text": "Shahidul Alam Talukder is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Patuakhali-2. Career. Talukder was elected to parliament from Patuakhali-2 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. In 2005, cadres led by him assaulted Monjur Morshed, correspondent of \"Jugantor\", for reporting on the theft of hilsa by Bangladesh Nationalist Party men. Most of the journalists in Bauphal Upazila fled to their homes after facing intimidation from Bangladesh Police and Bangladesh Nationalist Party men. In 2006, he beat up a student of Baufal Degree College, a college owned by him, for refusing to pay an extra fee for examination. Talukder was sentenced to nine years in jail for hiding information in his wealth statement on a case filled by Anti-Corruption Commission."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 season was PEC Zwolle's 10th season of play in the Eredivisie and also its 10th consecutive season in the top flight of Dutch football for women. When COVID-19 spread around the Netherlands all upcoming footballmatches were postponed. On the 22nd of April the KNVB ended all amateur and women footballcompetitions for the 2019\u201320 season. The team finished seventh in the table."}, {"text": "The Muskoday Reserve is an Indian reserve of the Muskoday First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about south-east of Prince Albert. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 647 living in 205 of its 217 total private dwellings. In the same year, its Community Well-Being index was calculated at 64 of 100, compared to 58.4 for the average First Nations community and 77.5 for the average non-Indigenous community."}, {"text": "Muskoday 99A is an Indian reserve of the Muskoday First Nation in Saskatchewan."}, {"text": "Muskoday 99B is an Indian reserve of the Muskoday First Nation in Saskatchewan."}, {"text": "Shehnaz Pervaiz (born 5 April 1968) is a Pakistani actress. Early life. Shehnaz was born in Lahore in 1968 on 5 April. She completed her studies from University of Lahore. Career. She made her acting debut in 1986 on PTV Channel. She was popular for comedic roles in dramas. She was famous for her pairing with Moin Akhtar in drama \"Such Much\" on PTV in 1998. Personal life. Shehnaz married a television producer and they worked on screen in puppet show on PTV and she has four children."}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85 is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about north-west of Fort Qu'Appelle. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 436 living in 150 of its 170 total private dwellings. In the same year, its Community Well-Being index was calculated at 52 of 100, compared to 58.4 for the average First Nations community and 77.5 for the average non-Indigenous community."}, {"text": "Ras-related protein Rab-2B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RAB2B gene. RAB2B is required for protein transport from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi complex. It belongs to the small GTPase superfamily, specifically to the RAB protein family. Small GTPases are a type of hydrolase enzymes that can attach to a GTP to form a GDP. This process makes small GTPases active when bonded to a GTP and inactive when bonded to a GDP. Inside this small GTPase superfamily we can find the RAS subfamily. This family is divided into 5 groups: Ras, Rho, Ran, Rab and Arf GTPases. RAB2B\u2019s main function is regulating vesicle transport and membrane fusion. Structure. RAB2B is a human protein whose gene is located in the fourteenth chromosome. It has a core made of basic elements such as oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus. Its secondary structure contains eight alpha helix and six beta strands. Moreover, it has attached a magnesium ion and a GDP. Mature RAB2B contains three post-translational modifications, a phosphoserine is found in the location 202 instead of a normal serine, and two lipidations can be found in locations 215-216. It has a motif domain between the amino acids"}, {"text": "35 and 43. Due to the alternative splicing, two isoforms of this same protein exist. Isoform 1 is the canonical sequence, meaning it is the most common one, having a molecular weight of 24,214 Da. Isoform 2 consists just of 151 amino acids, having a mass of 16,667 Da. Function. Small GTPases of the RAB superfamily are recognized as key players of the protein machinery involved in vesicular transport and organelle dynamics in eukaryotic cells. RAB2B follows mainly exocytic pathways, from the endoplasmic reticulum to Golgi complex. RAB proteins are involved in docking and fusion of transport vesicles with their target membranes. These proteins associate with effector proteins (GARIL4 and GARIL5) to create complexes. In order to do its biological function, RAB2B has to switch from the GDP form to the GTP form, and this is possible thanks to the catalysation of GEF proteins, which are guanine exchange factors. On the other hand, when RAB2B are inactive in the cytosol, the GDP form is maintained due to the interaction with GDI proteins, which are GDP dissociation proteins. Studies have also shown that RAB2B affects the IFN antiviral response which is induced by cytosolic DNA. Because of this, RAB2B deficiency allows"}, {"text": "for vaccinia virus to replicate itself. After DNA stimulation, RAB2B attaches itself on the Golgi apparatus, along with stimulator of interferon genes (STING), the downstream signal mediator of cGAS. In order for RAB2B to adhere to the Golgi apparatus, RAB2B\u2019s GTP-binding activity is required, as well as for the recruitment of GARIL5, so the RAB2B-GARIL5 complex can be formed. It is also shown that GARIL5 deficiency affects the IFN antiviral response, indicating that the entire RAB2B-GARIL5 complex regulates the cGAS-STING signalling axis, thus promoting IFN responses against cytosolic DNA (DNA viruses). RAB2B isoform knockdown affects the morphology of the Golgi complex in mammals, inducing its fragmentation. Even though these RAB family proteins are highly homologous to each other (RAB2A and RAB2B have 85.8% amino acid identity), the knockdown of any of them (from RAB1A to RAB8A) causes Golgi complex to disperse through the cell's cytoplasm. Because of this, the RAB2B-GARIL5 complex stops functioning properly, affecting the IFN response and enhancing the replication of many viruses, as seen previously. Tissue distribution. The expression pattern of the human RAB2B gene reveals a transcript in kidney, prostate, lung, thymus, and colon, and a lower expression level in placenta, pancreas and skeletal muscle. Moreover,"}, {"text": "it is shown that the transcript is over-expressed in colon adenocarcinoma, as well as pancreatic cancer. This observation entails that this protein could have a close relationship with colon tumours."}, {"text": "The Black Dragon is a comic book series by Chris Claremont and John Bolton that was originally published by Epic Comics in the 1980s, and later published as a graphic novel by Titan Books. Contents. \"The Black Dragon\" is a medieval fantasy story involving magick and an unleashed evil, taking place in England not long after the Norman Conquest. Reception. Jonathan Palmer reviewed \"The Black Dragon\" for \"Arcane\" magazine, rating it an 8 out of 10 overall. Palmer comments that \"ignore the corny appearance of Robin Hood and his band of merry men and let Claremont's voluminous text and Bolton's inspirational yet superbly controlled artwork transport you back to the time of legend\"."}, {"text": "Md. Mejbauddin Farhad (born 25 August 1963) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Barisal-4 constituency during 2009\u20132014. Career. Farhad was elected to parliament from Barisal-4 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2008."}, {"text": "Charles Anthony \"Chas\" Richard (born 1959) is a retired United States Navy admiral who served as the 11th commander of United States Strategic Command. He previously served as Commander Submarine Forces, Submarine Force Atlantic and Allied Submarine Command. Early life and education. Richard is a native of Decatur, Alabama, and is a 1982 graduate with honors from the University of Alabama. He has earned master's degrees with honors from the Catholic University of America and the Naval War College. Naval career. Richard's operational assignments include command of as well as Submarine NR-1, then the United States Navy's only nuclear-powered, deep-submergence submarine. He also served aboard , and . Richard's staff assignments include service as the executive assistant and naval aide to the Under Secretary of the Navy; chief of staff, Submarine Force Atlantic; and command of Submarine Squadron 17 in Bangor, Washington. Other staff assignments include director of resources, Under Secretary of Defense (Policy); squadron engineer of Submarine Squadron 8 and duty on the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Submarine Warfare) staff. He has also served as a member of Chief of Naval Operations' Strategic Studies Group XXVIII, studying the integration of unmanned systems into naval force structure. Flag officer"}, {"text": "assignments include command of Submarine Group 10 in Kings Bay, Georgia; director of Undersea Warfare (OPNAV N97), Pentagon, and deputy commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Global Strike at United States Strategic Command. As commander, Submarine Forces, Richard was the undersea domain lead, and was responsible for the submarine force's strategic vision. As commander, Submarine Force Atlantic, he commanded all Atlantic-based United States submarines, their crews and supporting shore activities. These responsibilities also included duties as Commander, Task Force (CTF) 144, CTF 84; commander, Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Forces Western Atlantic; and CTF 46. As commander, Allied Submarine Command, he provided advice to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Strategic Commanders on submarine related issues. On October 15, 2019, Richard was nominated for promotion to admiral and reassignment as the commanding officer of United States Strategic Command. He appeared for a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services on October 24 and was confirmed by voice vote of the full Senate on October 31. He took over from General Hyten on November 18, 2019. In October 2021, \"Politico\" reported that Richard was among the candidates shortlisted to succeed Hyten as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He"}, {"text": "retired from active duty on December 9, 2022."}, {"text": "Sister Marie Inez Hilger (October 16, 1891 - May 18, 1977) was an American Benedictine nun and anthropologist who was the first woman admitted to the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Biography. Sister Marie Inez Hilger was born in Roscoe, Minnesota, October 16, 1891. According to her obituary from the College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University, Sister Inez was the second oldest child of at least eight siblings: six sisters and two brothers born to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Hilger. The Hilgers were the first settlers in Roscoe in 1889 after emigrating from Germany. Sister Inez entered Saint Benedict's convent at the age of 17 in 1908 and pronounced her perpetual vows five years later in 1914. She taught for 25 years in elementary, secondary and college levels prior to starting a new career as an anthropologist. When Saint Benedict and Saint John's school planned to expand into a college, Sister Inez decided to pursue higher education. Hilger received her Bachelor's of Arts from the University of Minnesota in American history and American literature. In 1925, she received her Master's of Arts in sociology and social works from the Catholic University of America. She also later"}, {"text": "received her Ph.D. from Catholic University in 1936 (or possibly 1939). She is notably the first woman to have matriculated with full privileges at Catholic University while enrolled for her Master's. She received her doctorate in her major fields of sociology, anthropology and psychology. After receiving her education, she embarked on a new career in research focused on the lives of children among several Native American groups of North America and Latin America, and among the Ainu people in Japan. While at Catholic University, Margaret Mead, a famous cultural anthropologist and close friend of Sister Inez, sparked an interest in fieldwork in Sister Inez. Her fieldwork began with comprehensive studies of 12 American Indian tribes starting with the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota (1932-1966). Next she worked with the Arapaho (1935-1942) before she traveled in 1946 to Chile to study the Araucanian Indians. One of her final assignments in fieldwork was in Japan (1962-1963). In 1955, she became a research associate of the Bureau of American Ethnology. At the age of 74 in 1965, the National Geographic Society asked Sister Inez to study the Ainu people of Hokkaido while in Japan. She also carried out miscellaneous ethnological studies among several Plains,"}, {"text": "southwestern and Latin American tribes in her late career. Among them was a collection of \"grandmother stories\" she collected from the Blackfeet. Sister Inez received eight grants for research, authored 8 books and over 70 essays and articles during the course of her life. Three of her eight books were published by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., as part of its research series in ethnology. Hilger died in St. Joseph, Minnesota, May 18, 1977. Sister Inez's papers are at the National Anthropological Archives. External links. Sound recordings. Ainu: Blackfeet: Chippewa: General:"}, {"text": "Skrzy\u0144ski (feminine: Skrzy\u0144ska; plural: Skrzy\u0144scy) is a Polish-language surname literally meaning \"from Skrzy\u0144sko\". Notable people with this surname include:"}, {"text": "Abdul Mannan Talukder (; 2 March 1936 \u2013 18 July 2025) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician who was a member of the Jatiya Sangsad, representing the Sirajganj-3 constituency. Life and career. Talukder was elected to parliament from Sirajganj-3 as a candidate of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 1991, February 1996, June 1996, and 2001. Talukder died in Dhaka on 18 July 2025, at the age of 89."}, {"text": "The following is the list of squads that took place in the women's field hockey tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Group A. Australia. <section begin=AUS /> The following players represented Australia: Head coach: Brian Glencross <section end=AUS /> Canada. <section begin=CAN /> The following players represented Canada: Head coach: Marina van der Merwe <section end=CAN /> Germany. <section begin=GER /> The following players represented Germany: Head coach: R\u00fcdiger Hanel <section end=GER /> Spain. <section begin=ESP /> The following players represented Spain: Head coach: Jos\u00e9 Manuel Brasa <section end=ESP /> Group B. Great Britain. <section begin=GBR /> The following players represented Great Britain: Head coach: Dennis Hay <section end=GBR /> Netherlands. <section begin=NED /> The following players represented the Netherlands: Head coach: Roelant Oltmans <section end=NED /> New Zealand. <section begin=NZL /> The following players represented New Zealand: Head coach: Patricia Barwick <section end=NZL /> South Korea. <section begin=KOR /> The following players represented South Korea: Head coach: Kim Chang-back <section end=KOR />"}, {"text": "\"Antes de morirme\" (Spanish for \"Before I Die\") is a song recorded by Spanish rapper C. Tangana featuring Spanish flamenco singer Rosal\u00eda. It was written by the performers and produced by Alizzz. The song was released on June 30, 2016 through Sony Music Spain. It is a sleeper hit since it became surprisingly popular in the summer of 2018 after Rosal\u00eda began to receive international attention and after it was included in the soundtrack of the first season of the Spanish Netflix show \"\u00c9lite\" (2018). The song peaked at 26 on the Spanish Music Charts (PROMUSICAE)."}, {"text": "Miaki Ishii is a seismologist and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Education and early career. Ishii attended secondary school at Midland Secondary School in Ontario, Canada, graduating in 1994. She then studied physics at the University of Toronto, where she received her Bachelor of Science degree with honors in 1998. During her undergraduate career, she conducted research on glacial rebound under the mentorship of Jerry X. Mitrovica. Ishii attended Harvard University for her doctoral work under the mentorship of her supervisor Jeroen Tromp. There, she worked to measure variations in the lateral density of the Earth's mantle using seismic data. She found that there is heterogeneity in the composition of the lowermost mantle, with denser than average material beneath the Pacific Ocean and Africa. Together with seismologist Adam Dziewonski, Ishii also identified a region of the Earth's core, which they called the innermost inner core, which is located in the central part of the inner core and exhibits a distinct anisotropy\u2014or pattern of wave propagation\u2014relative to the bulk of the inner core. She published her doctoral work studying the Earth's mantle and inner core in a thesis entitled \"Large-Scale Structure of the Earth's Mantle and Inner"}, {"text": "Core\" and received her Ph.D. in 2003. Between 2003 and 2005, Ishii worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of San Diego, working to collect High-Sensitivity Seismograph Network (Hi-net) data from Japan. She was able to back-project the data to map the 1200-km-long rupture that was associated with the 2004 Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami that devastated Sumatra. She and her colleagues, who included seismologist John Vidale, found that the event lasted 480 seconds and was characterized by a steady rupture velocity of 2.5 kilometers per second. The method they employed is now known as \"beam-back projection\" in which a series of seismometers are retroactively trained on the site of a single large seismic event and used to track where the seismic energy was released in time. Research. In 2006, Ishii became an Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010 and became a full Professor in 2013. There, she uses recordings of seismic energy to understand the composition and structure of the Earth's interior and to study the properties of earthquakes. One of the objectives of her research is to build faster methods"}, {"text": "to more accurately locate and characterize earthquakes that have occurred around the world in order to better understand what kinds of earthquakes to expect in the future. Through her research program, Ishii has continued to refine and enhance the back projection methods she developed as a postdoctoral fellow. She integrates data taken by networks of seismic instruments from around the world, allowing her to more accurately map out the trajectory of earthquake waves. Ishii has also made use of global positioning system (GPS) network data in order to search for deformities within Earth's internal structure. The rocks and minerals that lie in the mantle\u2014the layer of the Earth between the crust and the inner core\u2014move in slow convection cycles due to the enormous heat and pressure that exist within the mantle. Ishii and her team are trying to understand the dynamics of those convection cycles over long periods of time, which can help scientists better understand the mantle's composition and potentially lead to more effective earthquake detection and warning systems. When the T\u014dhoku earthquake and tsunami hit the Sendai region of Japan on March 11 2011, becoming the fourth biggest earthquake since 1900, Ishii applied her analysis methods to understand"}, {"text": "how the earthquake started and spread. Previously, scientists had not believed this region was capable of experiencing an earthquake of this magnitude. Through preliminary computer simulations, Ishii and colleagues found that a long segment (about 390 km) of the Japan Trench had ruptured during the earthquake over the course of two to three minutes. Ishii's analysis and visualization methodologies were also applied by The Washington Post reporters to characterize the Anchorage earthquake, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake which occurred in November 2018. Ishii has also studied the effects of underground testing of nuclear weapons, which were carried out in the mid- to late-20th century. Unlike earthquakes, the precise epicenter of nuclear explosions is known; the waveform of an explosion is a simple spike. She leverages seismic data collected by a series of instruments belonging to the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), a Vienna-based organization that monitors nuclear tests. In addition to seismic data, the instruments also collect infrasound, hydroacoustic, and radiation data. Ishii uses the seismic data to take, what she calls, an \"X-ray\" of the planet, studying how seismic waves bounce when they hit different layers of the Earth's interior. Much like the X-rays and CAT-scans used"}, {"text": "in medical imagining, seismic waves bounce around and change direction based on the medium they pass through, which can give researchers an idea of the composition of Earth's interior. Ishii also uses these data to understand what happens at the boundary between the Earth's solid inner core and liquid outer core to understand how quickly the solid inner core is growing."}, {"text": "The women's 400 metres event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 22 and 23 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was the first time that the metric distance was contested at the Games, replacing the 440 yards event. The winning margin was 2.64 seconds which as of 2024 remains the only time the women's 400 metres was won by more than two seconds at these games. Results. Heats. Qualification for final. The first 4 in each semifinal heat (Q) qualified directly for the final."}, {"text": "Igo Kantor (c. 1930 \u2013 October 15, 2019) was an American film producer and post-production executive. Kantor was one of the editors of Edward D. Wood, Jr's film noir \"Jail Bait\", released in 1954. Through his company, Synchrofilm, he did post-production work for \"Easy Rider\", \"Five Easy Pieces\" and \"The King of Marvin Gardens\", and he produced \"Kingdom of the Spiders\" and \"Mutant\". Biography. Kantor was born in Vienna and raised in Lisbon, met \u201cDillinger\u201d director Max Nosseck on the ship to New York. Nosseck gave him an intro to his projectionist brother while Kantor was studying at UCLA. In the early 1960s, Kantor opened post-production house Synchrofilm, becoming the post-production supervisor on \u201cThe Monkees,\u201d which led to Bert Schneider and Bob Rafelson hiring him to head post-production on \u201cEasy Rider,\u201d \u201cFive Easy Pieces\u201d and \u201cThe King of Marvin Gardens.\u201d Kantor closed his post production facility in 1971, then moved on to Warner Bros., where he supervised post-production music on \u201cThe Exorcist.\u201d He received Emmy nominations three years in a row for his work on the Bob Hope Christmas specials."}, {"text": "\"Lose You to Love Me\" is a song by American singer Selena Gomez, released by Interscope Records on October 23, 2019, as the lead single from Gomez's third studio album, \"Rare\" (2020). The song was written by Gomez, Julia Michaels, Justin Tranter, and its producers Mattman & Robin. It was also co-produced by Finneas O'Connell. \"Lose You to Love Me\" is a pop ballad with empowering lyrics about discovering one's true self, backed by a choir, piano and strings. \"Lose You to Love Me\" received widespread acclaim from music critics, who mostly complimented its lyrical content. \"Lose You to Love Me\" topped the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, becoming Gomez's first number one song on the chart. Outside of the United States, \"Lose You to Love Me\" topped the charts in Canada and the Republic of Ireland, and peaked within the top ten of the charts in many countries, including Australia, Belgium, Germany, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The song has attained several gold, platinum and multi-platinum certifications worldwide. The accompanying music video premiered on YouTube coinciding with the song's release. It is a simplistic black-and-white video directed by Sophie Muller and filmed entirely"}, {"text": "on an iPhone 11 Pro in Los Angeles. It features Gomez singing straight to the camera, in a confessional. Gomez made the debut performance of the song at the 2019 American Music Awards on November 24, 2019, where she opened the show. \"Lose You to Love Me\" was listed as one of the best songs of 2019 by \"Vulture\" and \"Billboard\". A demo version of the song was released on October 2, 2020, to celebrate the song's first anniversary. The song was featured in the TV series Hacks, as well as in 2021 Amazon Prime Video movie Encounter. Background. Gomez revealed in April 2019 that she was working on new music. After teasing her fans on Instagram with pictures of her as a child and as an adult, she announced on October 18, that a single titled \"Lose You to Love Me\" would be released on October 23. In an interview with Zane Lowe on his Beats1 Radio show, co-writer Julia Michaels revealed that the song was written on Valentine's Day of 2019. In the documentary \"\", Gomez revealed the song was written in 45 minutes making it the fastest song of hers ever to be written. Composition and lyrical"}, {"text": "interpretation. \"Lose You to Love Me\" is a pop ballad and self-love anthem about discovering someone's true self through the difficult process of losing a lover. Chris Monlanpy from \"Slate\" stated \"with only piano and Gomez's voice, then grows ever more stirring with plucked strings, a choir of backing vocals, and, more than halfway through, a subtle heartbeat thump that's the closest thing to a beat in the whole song.\" Commercial performance. The song debuted at number 15 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 with 36,000 copies sold in its opening week after just two days of tracking. It debuted at number one on the Digital Songs chart and number 20 on the Streaming Songs chart. The song's number fifteen debut is also Gomez's second best debut on the Hot 100 chart after \"Good for You\" debuted at number nine in 2015. In its second week, the song ascended to number one, becoming Gomez's first number-one song on the Hot 100 and her highest-charting single in the US, surpassing the number five peaks of \"Good for You\" and \"Same Old Love\". It also became her eighth top ten hit on the chart. The song led \"Billboard\"'s Streaming Songs chart, accumulating"}, {"text": "38 million US streams in one week. It also became the best-selling song of the week digitally, topping \"Billboard\"'s Digital Songs chart. In the United Kingdom, \"Lose You to Love Me\" debuted at number 65 on the UK Singles Chart on October 25, 2019 \u2013 for the week ending date October 31, 2019 \u2013 climbing to its peak position of number three on the chart the following week, becoming Gomez's highest charting position in Britain. In the Republic of Ireland, \"Lose You to Love Me\" peaked at the top the Irish Singles Chart, becoming Gomez's first number one song in the Irish Republic. Music video. The black-and-white music video was directed by Sophie Muller and filmed entirely on an iPhone 11 Pro in Los Angeles. It features Gomez singing straight to the camera, in a confessional. The video premiered on YouTube on October 22, 2019, coinciding with the song's release. The video has since amassed over 440 million views and 8 Million Likes. On January 14, 2020, an alternative music video was released on her YouTube channel, as well as an alternative music video for \"Look at Her Now\". Live performances. Gomez first performed the song as the opening number"}, {"text": "of the 2019 American Music Awards on November 24, 2019, along with \"Look at Her Now\". Critical reception. \"Lose You to Love Me\" received critical acclaim. Writing for \"Vogue\", Michelle Ruiz commended the song, stating, \"Potentially getting lost in the internet sleuthing of it all, however, is the fact that \"Lose You to Love Me\" is a highly catchy and searing ballad that deserves to immediately be added to everyone's Empowering Breakup Songs playlist, right after Lizzo's 'Truth Hurts'.\" Craig Jenkins of \"Vulture\" praised its lyrics, noting: \"It was a gamble trusting that the lyrics to this song would sell it on their own, but it was a wise one.\" \"Vulture\" also named it the second best song of 2019. Credits and personnel. Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"Rare\"."}, {"text": "Walaa Sarwat (born 1960) is an Egyptian chess player. Career. Razik represented Egypt at the 2006 Chess Olympiad at first reserve, scoring 3 out of 6. He qualified for the Chess World Cup 2009, where he was defeated by Vugar Gashimov in the first round."}, {"text": "Station Eleven is an American post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction television miniseries created by Patrick Somerville based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Emily St. John Mandel. The miniseries premiered on HBO Max on December 16, 2021, and ran for ten episodes until January 13, 2022. It received critical acclaim and was nominated for seven Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Himesh Patel. Premise. Twenty years after a flu pandemic resulted in the collapse of civilization, a group of survivors who make their living as traveling performers encounter a violent cult led by a man whose past is unknowingly linked to a member of the troupe. Production. Development. In February 2015, producer Scott Steindorff acquired the TV and film rights to the novel. On June 25, 2019, the series was ordered by the streaming service HBO Max, created by Patrick Somerville with Hiro Murai attached as a director. Both are executive producing alongside Scott Delman, Dylan Russell, Scott Steindorff, Jessica Rhoades, Jeremy Podeswa, and Nate Matteson. The miniseries premiered on December 16, 2021. Podeswa, Helen Shaver, and Lucy Tcherniak also directed episodes. Differences from novel. Somerville made several major"}, {"text": "changes from the original novel's plot, such as creating a more significant relationship between Jeevan and Kirsten, and giving Tyler the Prophet a less villainous presence and a redemptive arc. In addition, the Canadian setting of the majority of the novel is replaced with an American setting. Though much of the Year Zero setting in the original novel is St. John-Mandel's native Toronto, Somerville moved the action to his own native Chicago. Ironically, due to the COVID pandemic, shooting was moved from Chicago to Mississauga, a city bordering Toronto. Casting. In October 2019, Mackenzie Davis, Himesh Patel and David Wilmot were cast to star in the series. Matilda Lawler would be added in November 2019. In January 2020, Gael Garc\u00eda Bernal was cast in a recurring role. In February 2020, Danielle Deadwyler joined the cast in a recurring capacity. Nabhaan Rizwan and Philippine Velge would join as series leads in March 2020. In April 2021, Daniel Zovatto and Lori Petty joined the cast in lead roles, while Andy McQueen, David Cross, Enrico Colantoni, Julian Obradors, and Deborah Cox joined the cast in recurring roles. Luca Villacis, Prince Amponsah, Dylan Taylor, Joe Pingue, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Ajahnis Charley, Milton Barnes and Kate"}, {"text": "Moyer joined the cast in recurring capacities in June 2021. Filming. Filming began in Chicago in January 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, production moved to Mississauga on February 1, 2021, and concluded on July 9, 2021. Release. The first three episodes premiered on HBO Max on December 16, 2021. Home media. The miniseries was released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on February 21, 2023, by Paramount Home Entertainment. Reception. Rotten Tomatoes reports a 98% approval rating with an average rating of 8.1/10, based on 54 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, \"\"Station Eleven\" rewards patient viewers with an insightful and thematically rich assertion that\u2014even in the post-apocalypse\u2014the show must go on.\" On the review aggregator Metacritic, the series has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\". Jen Chaney, in \"Vulture\", writes of the show's theme: \"Text from Miranda\u2019s comic, which was passed on to young Kirsten in the early days of the pandemic, echoes throughout the episodes as though its verses are biblical. 'I remember damage' is a line uttered more than once; 'I don\u2019t want to live the wrong life and then die' is another..."}, {"text": "a reflection of how fiction and art can feel as though they\u2019ve been tailored specifically to the present and the contours of one\u2019s own private heart. ... Music, theater, and literature can provide both an escape from our circumstances and a way of processing them that becomes forever intertwined with those circumstances.\""}, {"text": "Shk\u00eblzen is an Albanian masculine given name, taken from the mountain of the same name in northern Albania. Notable people bearing the name Shk\u00eblzen include:"}, {"text": "Tower of Lethendy is a 17th-century L-plan tower house, about south west of Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, and about east of Kirkton of Lethendy. The property may also be known as Lethendy House or Lethendy Tower. History. The property was owned by the Herons. There is a castellated mansion designed by Andrew Heiton, dated 1884. Structure. The tower house, of three storeys and a garrett has been greatly altered. The entrance, which is now enclosed by a modern building, is defended by a gunloop. The vaulted basement has a kitchen in it. There is a turnpike stair in the wing, above a pit-prison. The measurements of the L-plan tower are (from east to west) by , with the wing being (from north to south) by . A 10th century Picto-Scottish slab carved in relief with an angel, clerics, musicians and a dog, which may well have stood in a nearby field until it was used to repair the staircase, {perhaps in 1678} is used as a lintel on the first flight of the staircase from the ground floor to the mezzanine."}, {"text": "Yetur Akkub Gross-Matos (born February 26, 1998) is an American professional football defensive end for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions and was selected by the Carolina Panthers in the second round of the 2020 NFL draft. Early life. Gross-Matos was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey but grew up in Fredericksburg, Virginia. When Gross-Matos was two years old, his biological father died after a boating accident while trying to rescue Yetur from drowning. When he was 10, his brother died from a lightning strike while they were playing baseball. Gross-Matos attended Chancellor High School in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. During his high school career, he had 37 sacks. He committed to Pennsylvania State University to play college football. College career. As a true freshman in 2017, Gross-Matos played in all 13 games and had 17 tackles and 1.5 sacks. As a sophomore in 2018, he started all 13 games and had 54 tackles and eight sacks. After a junior year with 14 tackles for loss and 9.5 sacks, Gross-Matos decided to forgo his senior year and declared for the 2020 NFL draft. Professional career. Carolina Panthers."}, {"text": "Gross-Matos was selected by the Carolina Panthers with the 38th overall pick in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft. He was the second defensive end taken behind Chase Young. In Week 4 against the Arizona Cardinals, Gross-Matos recorded his first career sack, a strip sack on Kyler Murray which was recovered by the Panthers, during the 31\u201321 win. He suffered an ankle injury in Week 5 and was placed on injured reserve on October 16, 2020. He was activated on November 7, 2020, prior to Week 9. He was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list by the team on November 30, 2020, and activated on December 10. On October 24, 2023, Gross-Matos was placed on injured reserve with a hamstring injury. He was activated on December 2. He appeared in 12 games in the 2023 season. He had 4.5 sacks and 36 tackles. San Francisco 49ers. On March 14, 2024, Gross-Matos signed a two-year contract with the San Francisco 49ers. On November 16, 2024, Gross-Matos was activated from the injured reserve. On December 8, 2024, Gross-Matos had arguably the best game of his career against the Chicago Bears, recording four tackles and three sacks. He was named NFC Defensive"}, {"text": "Player of the week for his performance."}, {"text": "Shirley Hill Witt (born April 17, 1934) is an anthropologist, educator, author, civil rights activist, and former foreign service officer. A member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, Wolf Clan, Witt was one of the first Native American women to earn a Ph.D. She obtained her Ph.D. in evolutionary anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 1969. Witt has published extensively on Native Americans in addition to being a poet and fiction writer. She was a founding member of the National Indian Youth Council and worked with them from 1961 to 1964. She also served on the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Education. Witt received her B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1965 and her M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1966. She later obtained her Ph.D. in evolutionary anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 1969 with her dissertation \"Migration into the San Juan Indian Pueblo, 1726-1968\". Career. Witt has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1970\u20131972) and Colorado College (1972\u20131974). She was the director of the Rocky Mountain Regional Office of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1975\u20131983). Witt also served as the Cabinet Secretary for Natural Resources under New"}, {"text": "Mexico Governor Toney Anaya (1983\u20131985). In 1985, Witt joined the U.S. diplomatic corps. As an employee of the U.S. Information Agency, she worked in South America (Venezuela and Paraguay) and Africa (Somalia and Zambia). She held positions of Foreign Service Officer, Cultural Affairs Officer, Binational Center Director, and Deputy Director of U.S.I.A. In 2000, Witt was one of the plaintiffs in a sex-discrimination case against the United States Information Agency. The 1,100 women accused the agency of \"manipulating the hiring process to exclude women, in some cases resorting to fraud, altering test scores and destroying personnel and test files.\" Witt reported waiting four years between being \"led to believe that I did very well\" on the hiring test in 1981 and being hired in 1985. Although the agency did not admit to any wrongdoing, each woman was awarded at least $460,000. Activism. Witt was active in the Indian rights movement during the 1960s. In 1961, she co-founded the National Indian Youth Council and served as its first vice president. Soon after, she joined protestors in the Puget Sound region in the fight to secure fishing rights guaranteed by treaty. Later that decade, she partnered with Council co-founder Herbert Blatchford to"}, {"text": "revitalize the Gallup Indian Center in New Mexico, where she was completing her PhD."}, {"text": "Anna Moore Shaw, (November 30, 1898 \u2014 April 18, 1976) was an Akimel O'odham storyteller, autobiographer, and civic leader. She is the first Native American woman to earn a high school diploma in Arizona. Biography. Moore Shaw's birth name was Chehia, and she was the youngest of 11 children of Red Arrow and Haus Molly. She was raised on the Gila River Indian Reservation. Moore Shaw's father, nicknamed \"the Unbeliever,\" was one of the last of the Akimel O'odham to convert to Christianity before her birth. Upon converting, he changed his name to Josiah Moore. As Moore Shaw grew up, her father insisted she and her siblings learn English and attend boarding school. In 1908 she attended the Phoenix Indian School, where she was roommates with Helen Sekaquaptewa, a Hopi writer, for three years. At age 14, she met Ross Shaw at the Phoenix Indian School, whom she later married. In 1916, they were separated when Ross went to fight in World War I. In 1920, Moore became the first woman to graduate from the Phoenix Indian School. She married Ross Shaw, and they moved into his parents' home for a month, in accordance with Akimel O'odham tradition. She gave"}, {"text": "birth to and raised three children, Roderick, Adelaide, and William. During a visit with Carlos Montezuma, she was moved to challenge racial prejudice and countered racism in Phoenix by moving into white neighborhoods, joined the Parent-teacher association (PTA) and Church Women United, which previously had no people of color as members. Church Women United became a large influence in Shaw's life. In 1958, Shaw became the first female elder in the Central Christian Presbyterian Church in Phoenix. Moore Shaw had begun writing down stories in 1930, when she realized they would otherwise become lost and wanted to make sure her children, raised in white society, knew Akimel O'odham stories. From 1950 to 1952, Moore Shaw studied Writing for Publication at the Phoenix Technical School. Her friends at Church Women United encouraged her to publish the book. She published it as \"Pima Indian Legends.\" Moore Shaw was then encouraged to write an autobiography. She wrote \"A Pima Past\", with a focus on her Akimel O'odham roots. Moore Shaw and her husband retired and returned to the Akimel O'odham's Salt River Indian Reservation, where she immediately began community work to improve reservation conditions and daily life. In the 1960s, Moore Shaw became"}, {"text": "the editor of the tribal newspaper, \"Pima Letters.\" She founded the Aid to the Elderly program in 1966 to give back to the Akimel O'odham elders through improved housing. She also taught Akimel O'odham youth basketweaving and the Akimel O'odham language. Shaw died on April 18, 1976. In 1981, she was among the first women inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame. Bibliography. \"Pima Indian Legends.\" Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1968. OCLC 646586563 \"A Pima Past.\" Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1974. OCLC 947666"}, {"text": "Manoj Kumar Das is an Indian musician from Barpeta, Assam. As a Khol player, he is known to have contributed towards the propagation of the culture of Satra (Ekasarana Dharma). Das, who is associated with the Barpeta Satra, have been awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar in 2018 for his contribution in the field of traditional music of Assam. Awards and accolades. Das practised the Khol under the guidance of Jagannath Bayan, the \"Borbayan\" or the chief bayan (instrumentalist) of Barpeta Satra, who was conferred the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2017. Apart from being an awardee of Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar, he is a recipient of the National Young artist Scholarship award, 2014, and Junior Research Fellowship 2017-18 under the Ministry of culture, Government of India. He is also a regular artist of All India Radio, Guwahati. He has performed at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. As a musician. In 2014, Das establishes his own training institute of Khol in Barpeta where more than 200 students, including women from different backgrounds, are taught. He provides free training to students from poor family. He wrote a book titled \"Khol (Part-1),\" where aspects of the instrument are detailed."}, {"text": "A research project titled \"Exploration and Documentation of the notation of the \"Khol\" \"Rhythm,\" Traditionally being offered before the alter in Barpeta Satra for the last 432 years\"\"\" is carried on by him under the ministry of culture, Government of India and Sangeet Natak Akademi."}, {"text": "The following is a list providing an overview of private companies and state-owned enterprises that are active in the field of printing banknotes."}, {"text": "The name Nestor has been used for two tropical cyclones worldwide. In the Atlantic Ocean: In the Western Pacific Ocean:"}, {"text": "Iis Dahlia (born Iis Laeliyah on 29 May 1972) is an Indonesian singer and actress. She rose to fame after the release of her 1990 dangdut album \"Tamu Tak Diundang\" (Uninvited Guests). She is best known for her songs \"Cinta Bukanlah Kapal\" (Love is Not a Ship), \"Payung Hitam\" (Black Umbrella) and \"Ser\". Early life and career. Dahlia began singing onstage in elementary school. She studied voice at HAPMI (The Association of Indonesian Singer Artists and Musicians). She then moved to Jakarta to attend high school. At age 14, she began singing professionally at Ancol Dreamland amusement park. In 1985, she first came to widespread attention when she appeared on the TVRI series \"Wajah Baru\". In 1986, she signed a contract with Akurama Records to release six albums. She changed her name to Isis Dahlia and released one unsuccessful album. However, the title track from her album \"Tamu Tak Diundang\" became a surprise hit and Dahlia soon gained a reputation as a more sophisticated dangdut singer. She won an HDX Award for her album sales in 1990. In 1997, she won the Best Female Dangdut Singer at the inaugural Indonesian Dangdut Awards (ADTPI). In 2000, she recorded a new version"}, {"text": "of the \"Kuch Kuch Hota Hai\" theme song with Indian singer Ashraff. Early in her career, Dahlia would sing at various dangdut nightclubs, including Bintang-Bintang in Blok M. In 2011, she performed at the World Interfaith Harmony Week celebration in Jakarta. She has released around 40 albums during more than 30 years in the music industry and has acted in films like \"Kentut\" (2011). Personal life. Dahlia was married to Indonesian businessman Dadang Indrajaya. In 1998, the couple had a daughter. The couple later divorced, and Dahlia married a pilot from Garuda Indonesia, Satrio Dewandono, with whom she has one son. Activism. Dahlia is a supporter of the environmental movement. Her 2004 album \"Samudra\" promoted marine conservation. She has also appeared in public service announcements to raise awareness of the risks of pregnancy-related complications."}, {"text": "Catherine Alexander Duer (March 8, 1755 \u2013 July 26, 1826) was a society figure and political hostess in the early American republic. Early life. Catherine Alexander was born in 1755, the daughter of General William Alexander and Sarah Livingston Alexander. Her father was called \"Lord Stirling\" (though his claim to the title was disputed) and she was sometimes known as \"Lady Kitty\". She was from a prominent New York family: her grandfathers were James Alexander, was a lawyer in colonial New York, and Philip Livingston. Her paternal grandmother was merchant Mary Alexander. Among her great-grandparents were Robert Livingston and Alida Schuyler, daughter of Philip Pieterse Schuyler. Catherine Alexander's maternal uncles included Philip Livingston, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, William Livingston, first Governor of New Jersey, and Peter Van Brugh Livingston, first treasurer of New York State. One of her first cousins was Sarah Livingston Jay. Society hostess and legacy. In 1779, George Washington attended the New Jersey wedding of Catherine Alexander and William Duer. Duer was a member of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Articles of Confederation. The couple later attended Washington's first Inaugural Ball. Her portrait was painted on ivory by Charles Willson Peale."}, {"text": "Duer's husband accumulated enormous debts, enough to be considered a cause of the Panic of 1792; he was jailed in 1792 and died in debtors' prison in 1799. She maintained her social connections, though she moved to a small house in New York City; she hosted Harriet and Maria Trumbull, teenaged daughters of Connecticut governor Jonathan Trumbull Jr., when they visited New York in 1800-1801. In 1801, she remarried to a merchant, William Neilson. She died in 1826, aged 71 years. Her letters are in the William Duer Papers at the New-York Historical Society Library. The Duers had eight children between 1780 and 1793. Her son William Alexander Duer was a judge and president of Columbia University. Another son, John Duer, was also a judge, Chief Justice of the New York Superior Court. Her grandson William Duer was a Congressman and diplomat. Later descendants were poet Alice Duer Miller and New York suffragist, socialite, and novelist Katherine Duer Mackay."}, {"text": "Magnus Nordengen Knudsen (born 15 June 2001) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for German club Holstein Kiel. Career. On 23 December 2021, Rostov announced the signing of Knudsen from Lillestr\u00f8m with a 4.5-year contract. On 24 March 2022, he returned to Lillestr\u00f8m on loan until 30 June 2022. On 7 July 2022, the loan was extended until 30 June 2023. On 29 June 2023, Knudsen moved to AGF in Denmark on a one-year deal. On 14 June 2024, he signed a contract with Holstein Kiel in Germany."}, {"text": "M. planula may refer to a few different species."}, {"text": "Respect is a 2021 American biographical musical drama film directed by Liesl Tommy (in her feature directorial debut), written by Tracey Scott Wilson and Callie Khouri, based on the life of American singer Aretha Franklin. The film stars Jennifer Hudson as Franklin, with Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Audra McDonald, Marc Maron, Tituss Burgess, and Mary J. Blige in supporting roles. The film follows the first three decades of Franklin's life, from being born as a musical prodigy in an affluent African-American family, the repercussions of losing her mother at age 10 to her arduous rise to international musical stardom, while enduring an abusive marriage, ultimately concluding with the recording of her influential live album \"Amazing Grace\" (1972). A film on Franklin's life was in development for a long time with Franklin herself involved in the pre-production, however the film languished in development hell for years due to lack of finding a suitable candidate. Following release of the musical film \"Dreamgirls\" (2006), Franklin asked Hudson to play her but did not finalize her decision until seeing her in the Broadway musical \"The Color Purple\". The film began production in early 2019 and had concluded by February 2020. The film is dedicated"}, {"text": "to Franklin, who died in 2018. After much delay and postponement, due to the burgeoning COVID-19 pandemic, \"Respect\" premiered in Los Angeles on August 8, 2021, and was released theatrically in the United States on August 13, 2021, by United Artists Releasing, and in other territories by Universal Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for the performances, the film's production values, and costume design, but received criticism for its screenplay and long running time. Plot. In 1952, 10-year-old Aretha Franklin lives with her father C.L., pastor of Detroit\u2019s largest Baptist church, and her siblings Cecil, Erma, and Carolyn. Aretha\u2019s father often has her sing for parties at their home, while her mother Barbara, separated from C.L., encourages her independence. The predatory actions of a family friend, combined with the sudden death of Barbara, traumatize Aretha, who ceases to speak for weeks until her father demands that she sing at church. Seven years later, Aretha is a teen mother of two boys, but refuses to name their father. Touring as a gospel singer with family friend Martin Luther King Jr., she meets local producer Ted White, but C.L. warns him to stay away. C.L. surprises Aretha"}, {"text": "with a meeting with Columbia Records executive John Hammond. She accepts a contract to record jazz standards, including \"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive.\" Four albums later, Aretha lacks a signature hit. At a club, she attempts to honor family friend Dinah Washington by performing one of Dinah\u2019s songs; outraged, Dinah advises Aretha to find songs that move her. Struggling with the controlling influence of her father, Aretha begins a relationship with Ted. She brings him home to meet her family, leading C.L. to nearly shoot him, but announces Ted as her manager. Two years later, Ted and Aretha are married with a child. After nine albums with no real success, Aretha is dropped by Columbia. Ted secures a deal with veteran producer Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records, who introduces her to a group of white musicians in Muscle Shoals in 1967. There, Aretha records \"I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)\", but a jealous Ted becomes violent with her. Returning to Detroit with a black eye, Aretha reconnects with her family. Realizing her song has been released, becoming her first hit, Aretha takes a more hands-on role in her career. She makes her sisters her new backup singers and,"}, {"text": "despite their misgivings, reunites with Ted. Aretha and Carolyn are inspired to re-arrange Otis Redding's \"Respect\"; their version becomes a #1 single, launching Aretha to stardom by her 25th birthday. At a Detroit concert, Dr. King honors Aretha for her support of the Civil Rights Movement, proclaiming February 16 \"Aretha Franklin Day\". She has another signature hit, \"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman\", but her career is complicated by Ted's increasingly volatile behavior. Embarking on a European tour in 1968, Aretha is confronted with a \"Time\" magazine cover story about Ted's abuse, and finally casts him out of her life. Dating her tour manager Ken Cunningham, Aretha eventually has her fourth child. In the wake of Dr. King's assassination, Aretha's father drunkenly argues with her over the direction of the Movement, telling her that she no longer walks in the Spirit. Aretha continues to release hits but overworks herself, coping with the pressure through alcohol, and rejects her family's attempts to help her. During a performance in Columbus, Georgia, a drunken Aretha falls from the stage. On a downward spiral and estranged from Ken and her family, she is consoled by a vision of her late mother. Aretha"}, {"text": "finds the strength to quit drinking, leading Ken to reconcile with her, and returns to her gospel roots. She approaches Wexler with the idea to produce her own gospel album, and he agrees on the condition that the recording of the album be filmed for a documentary. Beginning rehearsals, Aretha confides in family friend James Cleveland, now a respected gospel artist. The day of the album's recording, her father arrives to reconcile with her. The service begins and, with her family in attendance, Aretha sings her arrangement of the hymn, \"Amazing Grace.\" An epilogue reveals Aretha Franklin's legacy as a world-famous artist and the \u201cQueen of Soul\u201d. Production. The project had been long in development, with Jennifer Hudson set to play Aretha Franklin. Franklin herself was involved with the development up until her death on August 16, 2018. She stated that Hudson would win an Oscar for the portrayal. In January 2019, Liesl Tommy was set to direct the film. The rest of the cast was added in October 2019, including Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Audra McDonald and Mary J. Blige. In a June 2019 slate deal, MGM added Bron Creative as a co-financing and producing company to this film."}, {"text": "Filming began in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 2, 2019, and wrapped on February 15, 2020. Jonathan Glickman, MGM's President of the Motion Picture Group, exited the company on February 1, 2020, with a first-look deal starting with the film. Music. The film's soundtrack features one original song, \"Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)\", performed by Hudson. Written by Hudson, Carole King, and Jamie Hartman and produced by will.i.am and Johnny Goldstein, the song was released on June 18, 2021. \"Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)\" peaked at number 21 on the \"Billboard\" Adult R&B Songs chart dated August 28, 2021. The soundtrack album was released on August 13 via Epic Records. Release. \"Respect\" premiered in Los Angeles on August 8, 2021, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 13, 2021. It was originally scheduled for a limited release on December 25, 2020, followed by an expansion on January 8, 2021, before going wide the following week. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was switched to a sole wide release on January 15, without a limited release, before it was delayed again to August 2021. Previous release dates also included August 14, 2020, and October 9."}, {"text": "The film screened at the 74th Locarno Film Festival, in the Piazza Grande section to be held from August 4 to 14. Home media. The film was released digitally on August 27, 2021, and on Blu-ray and DVD by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment on November 9, 2021. Reception. Box office. \"Respect\" grossed $24.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $8.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $33 million. In the United States and Canada, \"Respect\" was released alongside \"Free Guy\" and \"Don't Breathe 2\", and was projected to gross around $10 million from 3,207 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $3.6 million on its first day, including $650,000 from Thursday night previews. It went on to debut to $8.8 million, finishing fourth at the box office. Despite the film's targeted demographics of older, female, and African-American audiences all being among the most-reluctant to attend a theater amid the pandemic, the film's opening weekend audience was 63% female and 47% African American, with 86% being over the age of 25. The film made $3.8 million in its second weekend (a drop of 57%), finishing fifth, then made $2.2 million in its third weekend. Outside"}, {"text": "the U.S., the film's largest opening was in Australia, grossing nearly $1 million in its first weekend. It finished third in the U.K. with $500,000, and debuted to $450,000 in France. Critical response. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critics consensus reads: \"This standard-issue biopic falls shy of its subject's transcendent brilliance, but Jennifer Hudson's starring performance absolutely commands \"Respect\".\" On Metacritic, the film has an aggregate score of 61 out of 100 based on 43 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A\" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it an 89% positive score. In a positive review from \"The New York Times\", Manohla Dargis stated that the film \"finds its own groove\" and praised the performances of Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson.\" Odie Henderson of \"RogerEbert.com\" gave the film a score of 3 out of 4 stars, writing that \"Hudson performs with the same tireless intensity Re was known for throughout her career. It's a damn entertaining movie.\" Henderson also said: \"There's a fair amount of ugliness in"}, {"text": "Franklin's story\u2014sexual assault, domestic abuse, alcoholism\u2014and it's to the film's credit that it resists the temptation to treat these issues salaciously. But \"Respect\" never goes deeper than a surface-level exploration of how these traumas affected Franklin.\" Writing for \"Variety\", Peter Debruge called the film an \"overly respectful biopic [that] steers clear of revealing the traumas that shaped the soul legend\" and said: \"Though \"Respect\" can feel a little soft in the drama department, it delivers the added pleasure of hearing Hudson re-create Franklin's key songs, from the early jazz standards she covered for Columbia to her reinvention of the Otis Redding single that lends the film its name.\" Also writing for \"Variety\", Cassie Da Costa praised Hudson's portrayal of Franklin, saying: \"Bringing an incredible mix of gestural subtlety and musical power, it cannot be said enough what Hudson achieves here by transmitting a rich sense of interiority, staying true to who Franklin was in private with every look given, word spoken, and melisma sung.\" Pete Hammond of \"Deadline\" also praised Hudson's performance, saying; \"This is Jennifer Hudson's triumph merged with the spirit and guidance from an even greater voice above. Hudson's performance is an electrifying sight to behold.\" Sasha Stone"}, {"text": "from \"Awards Daily\", praised the film and especially Hudson's performance, saying: \"Hudson's performance is partly her incredible voice. She suspends time in reverie whenever she sings. But this performance also establishes her as an actress capable of navigating the ever-changing waters of Franklin's complicated life\u2014from a young wife who doesn't quite understand exactly what kind of gift she actually has, through to finding a way to honor her own creative spirit.\" Writing for \"Time\", Stephanie Zacharek called \"Respect\" \"both entertaining and emotionally revelatory\" and praised the performances of the cast, especially Hudson's, saying: \"It's Hudson's job to play the adult version of that girl, and she shoulders it with something like tenderness. The easy thing, when you're playing a strong, potent character, is to bite down; Hudson never does. This is a terrific performance, underplayed in all the right ways, an emotionally detailed portrait of a woman who knew what she wanted and knew she could deliver\u2014but who also moved through life knowing that she'd been cruelly robbed of that thing we so sentimentally call childhood.\" Filmmaker Allison Anders praised the film, praising Tommy's direction in particular by saying \"When we love music as much as I do, and clearly"}, {"text": "as much as Liesl Tommy does, you have to be careful not to stop the story or the character's journey for a musical number. And from beginning to end, the music is driving these characters and this powerful story of a woman finding her voice and self-respect. And what a voice. And I'm not just talking about Aretha. Thank you, Liesl Tommy, for yours.\""}, {"text": "Nadim Mostafa (; 1965/1966 \u2013 30 June 2024) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a member of parliament for Rajshahi-4. He was a close associate of Tarique Rahman, son of Ziaur Rahman and Khaleda Zia. Career. Mostafa was elected to parliament from Rajshahi-4 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1996 and 2001. He was the special secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Mostafa went into hiding in early 2007 during the 2006\u20132008 Bangladeshi political crisis. On 3 July 2007, Mostafa was sentenced to five years imprisonment for extortion. Charges were framed against him on 24 April 2007 for supporting militants. A victim of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh filed the case against Mostafa, Ruhul Kuddus Talukder Dulu, and Aminul Haque were charged in the case of abetting the Islamic militant organisation. In July 2007, Mostafa was acquitted in the case over the embezzlement of corrugated galvanised iron sheets from a government relief fund. On 15 August 2007, Mostafa was sentenced to ten years imprisonment on an extortion case. He was alleged to have tried to extort Molla Hasan Imam Faruk, Maria Union Parishad chairperson, ahead of elections. On 25 September 2007, two other cases were filed against him, one for extortion and"}, {"text": "another for abetting militants. \"The Daily Star\" reported on 3 August 2008 that Mostafa, along with Ruhul Kuddus Talukder Dulu, Mizanur Rahman Minu, and Alamgir Kabir, used state resources during the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government to finance militants such as Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh in Rajshahi. The Anti-Corruption Commission pressed charges against him for allegedly possessing 28.6 million taka in illegal wealth on 11 November 2008. The name of his wife, Nurunnahar Parul, was dropped from the charge sheet as no evidence was found against her during the investigation. On 13 May 2009, Mostafa surrendered before a Rajshahi court and was sent to jail by Judge Lutfa Begum. Mostafa secured bail from a bench of the Bangladesh High Court on 5 June 2009. On 14 July 2009, a victim of Bangla Bhai sued Mostafa for allegedly supporting the terrorist in 2004. On 22 March 2011, supporters of Mostafa clashed with activists of the Awami League in Rajshahi. In April 2011, an investigation commission found that he was involved in the repression of religious minorities during the 2001 Bangladesh post-election violence. On 30 April 2012, Mostafa participated in a countrywide strike called by Bangladesh Nationalist Party in which 10 people were injured in"}, {"text": "Rajshahi. Mizanur Rahman Minu, joint secretary of the Rajshahi District unit of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, burned Mostafa's effigies while allegeding that Mostafa's supporters dominated all committees of Bangladesh Nationalist Party in the district on 19 December 2012. Mostafa was the president of the Rajshahi District unit of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Mostafa was injured while participating in a hartal (strike) in Rajshahi on 23 April 2013. It was the first day of a 36-hour countrywide strike called by Bangladesh Nationalist Party. On 29 September 2013, Mostafa was sued along with 89 others for their involvement in the death of Constable Siddhartha Chandra Sarkar. On 26 December 2012, Siddhartha Chandra Sarkar was killed and eight other police officers were injured in a bomb attack on a police van by Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists during a strike. Mostafa was nominated by Bangladesh Nationalist Party to contest the 2018 general election from Rajshahi-5. Bangladesh Nationalist Party originally nominated professor Nazrul Islam and then later gave the nomination to Mostafa. Bangladesh High Court in a verdict disallowed him from participating in the election. Death. Nadim died on 30 June 2024 at United Hospital, Dhaka, after suffering a heart attack. He was 58."}, {"text": "Lee Seon-yeong (born 15 February 1970) is a South Korean former field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Lee Gwi-ju (born 12 November 1972) is a South Korean field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Son Jeong-im (born 12 December 1968) is a South Korean former field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Elmer Arthur Carmean Jr. (January 25, 1945 \u2013 October 12, 2019) was an American art historian and curator. Carmean focused his studies on twentieth-century American and European modernism in art. Later in his career, he became an Episcopal canon. Museum career. Born to E.A. Carmean Sr. and Helen Marker in Springfield, Carmean graduated from MacMurray College in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History, Philosophy, and Theology. He then went on to do graduate work until 1970 at the University of Illinois in Art History, but did not graduate. Carmean, a specialist on twentieth-century American and European modernism in art, joined the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston as Curator of Twentieth-Century Art in the year of his graduation, when the museum was led by Philippe de Montebello. Carmean was then hired at the National Gallery of Art in 1974, when under the directorship of J. Carter Brown. Carmean was the founding curator of its Department of Twentieth-Century Art. Four years later, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1984, Carmean became director of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and in 1992, the director of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art for a span of five years."}, {"text": "Canonical career. In 1998, Carmean decided to leave the museum world and study at the Memphis Theological Seminary. In 2002, he joined St. George\u2019s Episcopal Church in Germantown, and three years later, was appointed a lay canon. Married three times with one daughter, Elizabeth Carmean Adams, Carmean died at the age of seventy-four from cancer in Washington, D.C."}, {"text": "Kari Anne B\u00f8kestad Andreassen (born 16 December 1973) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. She served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Nordland during the term 2017\u20132021. In total she met during 305 days of parliamentary session. In her native Vevelstad Municipality, she became deputy mayor in 2011 and mayor, the first female of that municipality, in 2015."}, {"text": "No Yeong-mi (born 17 February 1968) is a South Korean former field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "\"One Take\" is a song by American rapper Lil Tjay and the opening track from his debut studio album \"True 2 Myself\" (2019). It was produced by ZiggyOnTheKeyboard. Critical reception. Alphonse Pierre of \"Pitchfork\" wrote favorably of the song, describing it as \"Tjay at his sharpest; every line over the sparkly keys has a purpose, especially when he addresses comparisons to fellow Bronx crooner A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie: 'They said I'm the new A Boogie, relax/I ain't never tried to copy his swag.'\""}, {"text": "Kim Gyeong-ae (born 11 August 1970) is a South Korean former field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Winnie Kwai-Wah Wong-Ng () is a Chinese-American physical chemist. She is a research chemist at the ceramics division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Her research includes energy applications, crystallography, thermoelectric standards, metrology, and data, sorbent materials for sustainability, and high throughput combinatorial approach for novel materials discovery and property optimization for energy conversion applications. She is a fellow of the International Centre for Diffraction Data, American Ceramic Society, American Crystallographic Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Wong-Ng was twice awarded the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal. Education. Wong-Ng completed a B.Sc. in chemistry and physics at Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1969. She earned a Ph.D. in inorganic and physical chemistry at Louisiana State University in 1974. Career and research. Wong-Ng was a research associate and lecturer in the chemistry department at University of Toronto. From 1981 to 1985, she was a critical review scientist at the International Centre for Diffraction Data. Wong-Ng was a research scientist in the chemistry department at University of Maryland, College Park and a research associate in the ceramics division at the National Bureau of Standards from 1985 to 1988. Since 1988, Wong-Ng works as a research"}, {"text": "chemist in the ceramics division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She served as president the Association of NIST Asian Pacific Americans from 2000 to 2003. Wong-Ng's research interest includes materials for energy applications, thermoelectric standards, metrology, and data, sorbent materials for sustainability, and high throughput combinatorial approach for novel materials discovery and property optimization for energy conversion applications. She also researches crystallography, phase equilibria, and crystal chemistry of energy materials to understand their structure and property relationships. Structural studies involve synchrotron X-ray and neutron diffraction techniques. Awards and honors. In 2000, Wong-Ng became a fellow of the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD). She was awarded fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 2002. In 2002 and 2008, she won the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal. In 2014, Wong-Ng was made fellow of the American Crystallographic Association. In 2012, she became a distinguished fellow of the ICDD and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She became an academician of the World Academy of Ceramics in 2018."}, {"text": "\"Hold On\" is a song by American rapper Lil Tjay, released on September 27, 2019. It is the seventh single from his debut studio album \"True 2 Myself\" (2019). Composition. The song finds Lil Tjay sing-rapping about his rise to fame, and telling his loved ones to \"hold on\" and wait for his success (\"I think it's time to shine, I've been waiting so long / Broski serving time, he been gone for so long / And I promise I'ma do this sh*t for us, just hold on\")."}, {"text": "Webster Muzaza (born 21 August 1997) is a Zambian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Forest Rangers F.C. and the Zambia national football team. Career. International. Muzaza was included in the Zambia squad for the 2019 COSAFA Cup. He made his senior international debut at that tournament, playing the entirety of Zambia's quarter-final penalty victory over Malawi. Muzaza appeared as a substitute in the next match, against Zimbabwe, but played no part in the final."}, {"text": "Laura Katherine Cooper is an American civil servant. Ms. Cooper is the 2023 Federal Employee of the Year (Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals), awarded by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service to celebrate excellence in the U.S. federal civil service. She is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian affairs in the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and a career member of the Senior Executive Service (SES). In 2023, she was honored with the Presidential Rank Distinguished Executive Award, the highest annual award for career SES members. She previously served as principal director in the office of the Homeland Defense and Global Security Affairs. Cooper testified to the United States Congress's House Intelligence Committee during a closed-door hearing on October 23, 2019; this committee gathered information relevant to impeachment proceedings involving U.S. President Donald Trump. She also testified on November 20, 2019, in an open hearing to that same committee. Education. Cooper is a 1992 graduate of Cor Jesu Academy high school and attended St. Margaret Mary Alacoque school in south St. Louis County, Missouri. Cooper attended Northwestern University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts. She received a master's degree from"}, {"text": "Georgetown University in Foreign Service, and a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University. Career. Before joining the Department of Defense (DOD) in 2001, she had been a policy planning officer for the State Department and a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A prior assignment in the DOD had been as Afghanistan Team Chief, Stability Operations Office, responsible for stability and security. In 2004 she presciently noted that to achieve these objectives, the efforts had to be enduring, with no end in sight. She identified the major needs to reach these goals: the Ministry of Defense and the Afghan National Army needed to be reformed and rebuilt to counter the resurgent Taliban and the powerful warlords; a police force was needed to combat crime; the justice system had to be assisted to ensure the rule of law; prisons had to be built. Described as a \"senior U.S. Department of Defense official\", Cooper has been involved in multiple U.S.\u2013Eurasian defense negotiations. She has described the Russian intervention in Ukraine as \"a brazen violation of international law\" after Ukrainian vessels were attacked by Russia in late November 2018. Cooper has been supportive of"}, {"text": "continued military aid to Ukraine. During a 2018 visit to Ukraine, she noted that Congress had authorized money for military aid, and she said that \"one of my goals on this visit was to discuss with the Government of Ukraine what its priority needs are for security assistance.\" She met with Ukrainian Minister of Defence Stepan Poltorak to define measures of bilateral cooperation for defense. Cooper was the Pentagon official in charge of the aid package; she confirmed in December 2018 that the U.S. would have a comprehensive response to Russian aggression. In a video message Cooper said that Ukraine \"can count on the U.S. to remain your strong partner\" in strengthening its military. There is consensus that her assurances to the Ukrainians demonstrated that she expected the funds to be released in early 2019. Her testimony was sought by the Congressional committees leading the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump in matters relating to the Trump\u2013Ukraine scandal. On October 23, 2019, in defiance to a White House letter warning her not to appear before the impeachment inquiry, Cooper testified in a closed-door deposition before congressional committees. After a five-hour delay due to a protest by Republican members of Congress, Cooper"}, {"text": "completed a 3.5-hour deposition in which she explained the process for transferring military aid to Ukraine. During a public hearing on November 20, 2019, Cooper testified to the U.S House of Representatives that Ukrainian officials knew about the hold on military aid by July 25, the day of the Trump\u2013Zelensky call, undercutting an assertion that there could not have been a \"quid pro quo\" because Ukraine was not aware of the hold."}, {"text": "Elin Tvete (born 31 December 1976) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. She served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from \u00d8stfold during the term 2017\u20132021. She is a member Fredrikstad city council."}, {"text": "\"Sex Sounds\" is a song by American rapper Lil Tjay from his debut studio album \"True 2 Myself\" (2019). It was produced by Zay Love. Composition. \"Sex Sounds\" is a pop-leaning song with a piano instrumental. Critical reception. The song was met with negative reception from music critics. Reviewing \"True 2 Myself\" for \"Pitchfork\", Alphonse Pierre stated \"The album format gives Tjay a little room to stretch, something that's nearly impossible when he's only releasing one single a month. Some experiments work, like the traditional R&B ballad 'Mixed Emotions.' The 'BET Uncut' slow jam 'Sex Sounds,' meanwhile, is way too much: Hearing him sing 'The way you kiss me when I'm stroking deep inside' is like finding porn in your little brother's internet history.\" M.T. Richards of \"Consequence of Sound\" criticized that Lil Tjay \"seems so unsure of himself\" on the song, which he also described as \"remedial\". Maxwell Cavaseno of \"HotNewHipHop\" commented, \"When he does go into soft lover-man mode on 'Sex Sounds' it's both the slowest and perhaps the lowest point of the album.\" Music video. An official music video was released on April 8, 2020. It shows Lil Tjay spending time with his female lover in the"}, {"text": "bedroom and the tropics, including at the beach, in a rainforest, and traveling through paths shaded by palm trees. The clip features appearances of cabana beds."}, {"text": "Afrovivella is a monotypic genus of the succulent plant family Crassulaceae. The sole species is Afrovivella semiensis. It has bright green leaves that are rimmed with conspicuous hairs. It was introduced once to the United States by Myron Kimnach in cultivation, until the plants were consumed by snails. The species is found in the Semien Mountains of Ethiopia."}, {"text": "\"Goat\" is a song by American rapper Lil Tjay, released to streaming services on December 21, 2018. It is the third single from his EP \"F.N\" (2019) and debut studio album \"True 2 Myself\" (2019). The song was produced by CashMoneyAP and CedDidit. Composition. Like most of Lil Tjay's music, the style of the song has been likened to that of A Boogie wit da Hoodie. The lyrics find Tjay reflecting on the troubles he has overcome in his life."}, {"text": "Jang Dong-suk (born 13 December 1970) is a South Korean former field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The men's horizontal bar competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics was held at Earls Court Exhibition Centre on 12 and 13 August. It was the seventh appearance of the event. There were 121 competitors from 16 nations, with each nation sending a team of up to 8 gymnasts. The event was won by Josef Stalder of Switzerland, with his countryman Walter Lehmann taking silver. It was the nation's second victory in the event (after 1928), tying the United States for most all-time. Veikko Huhtanen of Finland earned bronze, giving Finland a three-Games podium streak in the event. Background. This was the seventh appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). Two of the top 10 gymnasts from 1936 returned: gold medalist Aleksanteri Saarvala and fifth-place finisher Heikki Savolainen of Finland. Savolainen was competing in his fourth Olympics; he had placed 13th in 1928 and won the silver medal in 1932. The reigning world champion, Michael Reusch of Switzerland, had won that title in 1938; he was still competing and a serious contender (taking gold"}, {"text": "in the parallel bars in London). Argentina, Cuba, Denmark, and Egypt each made their debut in the men's parallel bars. The United States made its sixth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games. Competition format. The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of up to eight gymnasts (Cuba and Argentina had only 7; Mexico only 5). All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus, with the scores summed to give a final total. The scores in each of the six apparatus competitions were added together to give individual all-around scores; the top six individual scores on each team were summed to give a team all-around score. No separate finals were contested. For each exercise, four judges gave scores from 0 to 10 in one-tenth point increments. The top and bottom scores were discarded and the remaining two scores summed to give the exercise total. If the two scores were sufficiently far apart, the judges would \"confer\" and decide on a score. Thus, exercise scores ranged from 0 to 20, apparatus scores from 0 to 40, individual totals from"}, {"text": "0 to 240, and team scores from 0 to 1,440."}, {"text": "Yang Hye-suk (born 18 January 1966) is a South Korean field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Lee Gyeong-hui (born 17 June 1970) is a South Korean field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Philip Alexander Kolberg Sl\u00f8rdahl (born 14 November 2000) is a Norwegian footballer who plays for Ranheim. He played youth football for Frigg and Sagene, featuring for Sagene's senior team in the fifth and sixth tiers in Norway. In 2018 he joined Lillestr\u00f8m's youth setup, making his first-team, first-tier debut in 2019. He also represented Norway at the 2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship."}, {"text": "Gu Mun-yeong (born 1 February 1971) is a South Korean field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Lukas Scepanik (born 11 April 1994) is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for 3. Liga club Alemannia Aachen. Career. Scepanik moved to MSV Duisburg on 1 June 2019. He made his professional debut for MSV Duisburg in the 3. Liga on 18 October 2019, in the home match against 1. FC Kaiserslautern. On 26 May 2021, it was announced that he would leave Duisburg at the end of the 2020\u201321 season. He moved to T\u00fcrkg\u00fcc\u00fc M\u00fcnchen on 7 October 2021. On 20 July 2022, Scepanik signed with Regionalliga West club 1. FC Kaan-Marienborn, after his former club T\u00fcrkg\u00fcc\u00fc M\u00fcnchen had been relegated after filing for insolvency. On 23 May 2023, Alemannia Aachen announced the signing of Scepanik."}, {"text": "Tapson Kaseba (born 8 December 1992) is a Zambian footballer who plays as a forward for NAPSA Stars and the Zambia national football team. \"Scores and results list Zambia's goal tally first.\""}, {"text": "The Butner-Creedmoor News is a weekly newspaper with coverage area including the towns of Butner, Creedmoor and Stem, as well as Southern Granville, Northern Wake and Northern Durham counties in North Carolina. The newspaper is printed on Fridays and is online as well; it covers local news, area sports, and local obituaries. It started publishing in 1965. History. Harry Coleman served as editor from 1974, when he moved to Granville County, until his death in 2012. The current editor is Logan Martinez. His position was announced on March 12, 2019. Morgan Dickerman, the current president of The Wilson Times, one of North Carolina's last two family-owned daily newspapers, publishes \"The Butner-Creedmoor News\" as one of its four weekly papers."}, {"text": "The Civic Directory () was a military junta which governed El Salvador from 2 to 4 December 1931. The junta was composed of twelve members of the Armed Forces from the Army, Air Force, and National Guard. The directory marked the beginning of the era of military dictatorship in El Salvador which lasted until October 1979 with the 1979 coup d'\u00e9tat and the establishment of the Revolutionary Government Junta, a joint civilian-military government which ruled until 1982. Background. 1931 general election. In early-January 1931, El Salvador held its first fair and free democratic election in its history. Of the six candidates, the military supported the candidacy of Doctor Alberto G\u00f3mez Z\u00e1rate, who served as the minister of national defense from 1927 to 1930 during the presidency of P\u00edo Romero Bosque. G\u00f3mez Z\u00e1rate's primary opponent was Arturo Araujo, an engineer, coffee planter, and rancher of the Labor Party who promised agricultural reforms and the industrialization of the country. Araujo had the support of the United States. A third contender was General Maximiliano Hern\u00e1ndez Mart\u00ednez of the National Republican Party, although, he later ended his campaign to be the vice presidential candidate for Araujo. The election resulted in a victory for Araujo"}, {"text": "and Hern\u00e1ndez Mart\u00ednez, who won 106,777 votes against G\u00f3mez Z\u00e1rate's 64,280 votes. Although the United States was wary of the military's intentions following the election, the military remained loyal to Araujo, mostly due to Hern\u00e1ndez Mart\u00ednez's presence in his administration. Araujo's presidency. During his presidency, which began on 1 March 1931, was faced by economic troubles due to the Great Depression, waning political support leading to social unrest, and over time, growing military disloyalty. Throughout his presidency, the military's loyalty depended on Hern\u00e1ndez Mart\u00ednez's position as vice president and minister of national defense. In late-1931, Araujo attempted to reduce the budget of the military and issued orders to some military officials to retire in an attempt to improve the country's economy. His attempts, however, were strongly resisted by the military, and when his administration failed to adequately pay the military, the armed forces staged a coup d'\u00e9tat against Araujo's administration on 2 December 1931, forcing Araujo to flee the country to the United States. The coup was solely orchestrated by the military without any influence from the country's politicians. History of the junta. In the aftermath of the coup, the military established a military junta called the Civic Directory to"}, {"text": "govern the country. The junta was composed of twelve members, all of whom were military officers. It was led by Colonels Osm\u00edn Aguirre y Salinas and Joaqu\u00edn Vald\u00e9s, who served as co-chairmen. Aguirre y Salinas also served as minister of national defense under the junta. On 4 December 1931, only two days after the coup which deposed Araujo and established the Civic Directory, the junta dissolved itself. Despite having no direct role in the coup, even being detained by the military during the coup, Hern\u00e1ndez Mart\u00ednez as the country's acting president. The 1931 coup led to the start of 48 years of military rule in El Salvador. United States opposition to the junta. In assessment of the junta, Charles B. Curtis, the minister of the United States to El Salvador, remarked that the junta's members were \"half-witted\" and \"utterly irresponsible youths,\" adding that they had \"no fixed plan beyond getting rid of the present government.\" The United States Department of State announced that it would not recognize the military government in accordance with the 1923 Central American Treaty of Peace and Amity. The United States kept its position of not recognizing the military government after Hern\u00e1ndez Mart\u00ednez was installed as"}, {"text": "acting president, a position which was also held by the government of Costa Rica, another signatory of the treaty. The United States only recognized the military government on 26 January 1934, over two years after the coup and the Civic Directory being dissolved. Junta members. The Civic Directory was composed of twelve military officers from the army, air force, and National Guard."}, {"text": "The Arthur Fiedler Memorial by Ralph Helmick is installed along the Charles River Esplanade, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Description and history. The monumental head of Arthur Fiedler, a long-time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, was completed in 1984, and dedicated on June 30 of that year. The aluminum sculpture is made of 83 plates and stands approximately 6.5 ft. tall. It rests on a granite base that is approximately 18 in tall. The work cost $150,000. It was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1997. The Arthur Fiedler Memorial was fabricated by Lippincott, North Haven, CT."}, {"text": "The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 18, 20 and 21 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was the first time that the metric distance was contested at the Games, replacing the 440 yards hurdles. Results. Heats. Qualification for semifinals. The first 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals. Semifinals. Qualification for final. The first 4 in each semifinal (Q) qualified directly for the final."}, {"text": "Caitlyn Bairstow is a Canadian voice actress in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is known for her voice roles of Suna in ', Glitch in ', Lucky in \"Super Lucky's Tale\" and Blue Bobbin in \"\"."}, {"text": "Arthur Dana Fradon (April 14, 1922 \u2013 October 3, 2019) was an American cartoonist. He drew roughly 1,400 cartoons for \"The New Yorker\" from 1948 to 1992, and from 1998 to 2003. He also authored several books. Fradon was born in Chicago, Illinois. He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II."}, {"text": "From Prussia With Love is a novel by John de Chancie published by Prima Publishing, based on the \"Castle Falkenstein\" role-playing game. Plot summary. \"From Prussia With Love\" is a steampunk novel in which Castle Falkenstein is concerned about its safety as Prussia develops its own form of steam-powered intercontinental ballistic missiles. Reception. Gideon Kibblewhite reviewed \"From Prussia With Love\" for \"Arcane\" magazine, rating it a 5 out of 10 overall. Kibblewhite comments that \"the book generally pokes fun at its characters, with the story taking the form of a general send-up of the action-adventure format \u2013 there's even a tip of the hat made to James Bond. Those looking for deeper, darker inspiration for Steampunk sessions should look elsewhere.\""}, {"text": "Builth Wells F.C. is a Welsh football club based in Builth Wells, Powys. They are currently playing in the . The club is the most successful club in the history of the Mid Wales South Football League, with ten championship wins. The club's reserve team currently plays in this league. History. The club was formed in 1879. In 1988-89 the club joined the Mid-Wales League. In 2000 the club left the \u2013Mid-Wales League. In 2010-11 the club rejoined Mid-Wales League from the Mid-Wales League (South). In 2014 the club were relegated to Division Two. In 2017\u201318 the club were Mid-Wales League Division Two Champions, and were subsequently promoted to Division One. For the 2020\u201321 season the team played in the newly formed Mid Wales League East Division (the fourth tier of the Welsh football pyramid). They finished the season in second place and were subsequently promoted. In 2022-23 the club will play in the Ardal North East League (the third tier of the Welsh football pyramid)."}, {"text": "Shemmy Mayembe (born 22 November 1997) is a Zambian footballer who plays as a defender for the Zambia national football team."}, {"text": "The PFL 10 mixed martial arts event for the 2019 season of the Professional Fighters League, the 2019 PFL Championship, was held on December 31, 2019, at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. Background. The event was the tenth and final event of the 2019 season. Each champion in the six weight classes was crowned and won a championship prize of $1 million."}, {"text": "Mary Louise Kisler is a New Zealand curator, author, art historian and Radio New Zealand art commentator. She is best known for her publications which include \"Angels & Aristocrats: Early European Art in New Zealand Public Galleries\" (2010) and \"Finding Frances Hodgkins\" (2019). She has been a curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T\u0101maki since 1998 and is now the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art. Biography. Kisler earned her master's degree in art history and Italian at the University of Auckland in 1994. In 1996 she commenced a PhD at the University on Dis/Ordered Femininity in Italian Renaissance Art. Kisler's 2010 book \"Angels & Aristocrats: Early European Art in New Zealand Public Collections\" brings together artworks from the collections of five New Zealand galleries: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T\u0101maki, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Whanganui's Sarjeant Gallery. A touring exhibition with a selection of works from Kisler's book travelled to museums and galleries around New Zealand. In the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours, Kisler was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to art history and curation."}, {"text": "Fradon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Moses Nyondo (born 5 July 1997) is a Zambian footballer who plays as a defender for Nkana and the Zambia national football team."}, {"text": "Carina Bleeker (born 22 September 1968) is a Dutch field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The Greek Volunteer Legion () was a volunteer military corps formed by Greeks and other Balkan Christians that fought for the Russian Empire during the Crimean War. It was formed in the Danubian Principalities in March 1854, and some elements participated in the final engagements of the Danube theatre, before the Russian troops abandoned the Principalities. From there the Legion was sent to the Crimea, where it fought in the Siege of Sevastopol. In 1855, the Legion received the title Greek Legion of Emperor Nicholas I (). After the end of the siege, the bulk of the Legion was discharged, and the remainder of the unit was disbanded after the war's end in March 1856. Most of the volunteers returned to their homelands, although a few settled in Russia. Background. The outbreak of the Crimean War caused much enthusiasm among the Christian populations living under the Ottoman Empire. In the young Kingdom of Greece, it was considered as an opportunity for realizing the irredentist aspirations of the \"Megali Idea\", and the Greek government sponsored uprisings against Ottoman rule in Thessaly, Epirus, and Macedonia in early 1854. Badly organized and facing strong Ottoman forces, these uprisings were doomed to failure, particularly"}, {"text": "after Greece itself was forced to a strict neutrality in the conflict following the Anglo-French occupation of Piraeus. Formation of the Greek Legion. At the same time, volunteers from the Christian Balkan nations flocked to the Russian army that had entered the Danubian Principalities. This led the Russian commander, Prince Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, to authorize the creation of a volunteer corps under Lieutenant General Salas in December 1853. Initially a battalion of four companies, this corps comprised volunteers from the Danubian Principalities, as well as Greeks, Serbs, and Bulgarians. To avoid ethnic tensions, the volunteers of each nation were assigned to a different company. By 19 February 1854, the corps numbered 859 volunteers: 502 Bulgarians, 257 Greeks, and the rest Wallachians. They were billeted in villages around Br\u0103ila, Foc\u0219ani, and Gala\u021bi. By mid-March, the corps had grown to two battalions, one of which was Greek, and by May, Lieutenant General reported that the Greeks alone numbered 1097 men in ten companies, forming two battalions, with a third being created. Moreover, it appears that there were two independent companies, under the priest Konstantinos Doukas (or \"Papadoukas\") and , who was one of the chief recruiters of the corps, and later wrote"}, {"text": "a two-volume \"History of the Greek Legion\" (\"\", Odessa 1887\u201388). Russian personnel attached to the Greek corps was limited to one field officer, two instructor-captains, 16 sergeants, and a small drum and bugle detachment. The Greeks chose a variant of the traditional dress, as used by the Mountain Guard of the Greek kingdom\u2014similar to that now worn by the Evzones of the Greek Presidential Guard\u2014as their uniform. Various designs were made for specific rank insignia as well as seals for the legion, with designs depicting a phoenix, or a double-headed eagle, or a cross over a crescent. While some of the Greeks enlisted bringing their own weapons, the rest were outfitted by the Russians. Based on the surviving member lists\u2014written in French or Russian\u2014of three companies, slightly over a quarter of the volunteers came from the independent Greek kingdom, with the rest from all corners of the Greek world, including Ottoman territories\u2014particularly the areas of Epirus, Thessaly, and Macedonia\u2014the Ionian Islands (then a British protectorate), and the Danubian Principalities. Several of the men of the Greek legion appear also to have been of Serbian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Montenegrin, or Moldavian origin. Notably, about half of the volunteers were sailors or merchants,"}, {"text": "and only about one in ten had a military background. Service history. Danube front. The Balkan volunteers were barely formed when the Russian army, under the threat of an Austrian attack, was forced to evacuate the Danubian Principalities in July 1854. According to the Russian historian E. Kovalesky, a small detachment of 25 local Greeks recruited by Chrysovergis is reported to have inflicted 78 casualties on a British landing detachment at Sulina in early June, before departing without losses. Chrysovergis, in his own account, places the incident against Cossacks fighting for the Ottomans. Some volunteers under Papadoukas also fought in the battle between Soymonov's troops and an Ottoman army at Giurgiu on 5\u20136 July. Finally, the 3rd company of the 2nd battalion (under Sterios Harisis) fought at the village of Cherna in October 1854, losing almost 100 of its men. The retreat of the Russian forces north of the Danube reduced the usefulness of the various Balkan volunteers, and the costs of their upkeep led to suggestions of disbanding them and incorporating those who wished to stay on into regular Russian units. Indeed, most of the Moldavians and Wallachians left, and their two battalions were disbanded; but most of the"}, {"text": "two battalions of Bulgarians and Serbs stayed on, as did virtually all (1045 of 1079) of the Greeks. Given the impossibility of the volunteers returning to their homelands under the conditions of war\u2014especially as, unlike the Serbs and Bulgarians, most of the Greek volunteers had come by sea rather than overland\u2014their inability to survive otherwise in a foreign and largely hostile country, and their potential usefulness against a feared Austrian attack, it was decided to retain the volunteers' services at reduced pay. Furthermore, the volunteer battalions were disbanded and their individual companies attached to Russian units. At least some of the Greeks were discharged, for by September only 672 men are recorded on the rolls; the battalions were broken up into six companies, which were then attached to the regiments of the 5th Infantry Division: Stamatis Karamadis' company to the ; Nikolaos Karaiskos' to the ; Dimitrios Tandalidis' to the ; and Sterios Harisis' and Aristeidis Chrysovergis' companies (later amalgamated to a single company under Chrysovergis) to the . Papadoukas' company was attached to the 5th Division's Rifles battalion. Nevertheless, the Russian commanders were still seeking for a suitable employment for the volunteers, especially as their lack of discipline often"}, {"text": "forced the regular Russian troops to intervene to maintain order among them. Gorchakov again dismissed suggestions that they be disbanded, but stressed that his decision was mainly to ensure that they would not starve to death. Crimea and Sevastopol. At this point, the thoughts of both the Russian command and the Greek volunteers increasingly turned to the Crimea, where British, French, and Ottoman forces had landed. Already in September, Emperor Nicholas I of Russia suggested attaching them to the extant Greek Battalion of Balaklava, while the Greeks also sent a stream of letters to the Russian commanders pleading to be moved to Crimea and gainfully employed there. General Alexander von L\u00fcders supported their wish, and suggested that after the end of the war, the Greeks might be settled in the Crimea. It appears that this suggestion found a favourable reception with the Emperor, since the Greeks could replace the Crimean Tatars who had surrendered to the allied forces. On , the five companies of Greek volunteers, numbering 823 men, left Izmail for Odessa, where they arrived twelve days later. The Odessa Greek community collected funds for their upkeep, and the corps was reinforced with new recruits, in large part from"}, {"text": "those volunteers who had been discharged in 1854, but also with new arrivals. There were hopes that as many as 500\u2013600 new recruits could be gathered, and Captain Antonios Gines was appointed as recruiting agent. Gines made his base at Kishinev, where he was to gather the recruits and, after careful selection, send them on to the Crimea in groups of sixty. The volunteers were to be promised the right to settle in the Crimea after the war. In early February, the Greek Legion, some 700 strong, arrived at Eupatoria in the Crimea. At this time, a member of the princely Phanariote Mourouzis family who had followed the Russian withdrawal from Moldavia to Bessarabia, was appointed as commander of the Greek Legion. The Legion fought in the Battle of Eupatoria on 17 February, which ended in a Russian defeat, the Greeks suffering about sixty casualties. In the aftermath of the battle, the Legion was sent into Sevastopol to reinforce the garrison during the siege of the city. They arrived in early March, with a complement of 823 men. Prince , appointed the Legion's provisional commander until the arrival of Mourouzis, was dismayed at the disorderly picture the Legion presented: \"There"}, {"text": "exists neither discipline nor any organization. The volunteers absent themselves from distant hospitals and arrive here without any document whatever; the other ranks do not obey the officers; the company commanders, of whom no responsibility is sought, are only in formal command of the companies\". Urusov made recommendations for instilling discipline by means of a formal organization of the Legion; Mourouzis and the Sevastopol garrison's chief of staff, Prince were tasked with drawing up a draft. The attempts to regularize the Greek Legion included the insistence, by Mourouzis and many officers, that the Greeks abandon the fustanella and adopt uniforms that were similar to the Russian ones; a suggestion vehemently opposed by Chrysovergis. It was also recommended that the volunteers be rearmed; they were good marksmen, but armed mostly with flintlocks whose ammunition would be difficult to come by in the besieged city. Following the death of Emperor Nicholas I on , the Legion received the name \"Greek Legion of Emperor Nicholas I\" (). The Greeks suffered in Sevastopol, especially from the typhus that broke out in February: of the 743 men on the lists in late March, almost 200 were hospitalized. According to Chrysovergis, 96 died of typhus. The"}, {"text": "hardships and disease, as well as the realization that the hoped-for liberation of the Balkans from Ottoman rule was receding into the distant future, also demoralized many volunteers; about a hundred resigned. In early April, the Greeks were withdrawn from the city itself to the environs, where Prince Mourouzis tried to improve the corps' discipline and training, and give it a more regular character. The Legion was divided in two commands, one headed by Papadoukas and the other by Chrysovergis. In May, Chrysovergis with thirty men were again sent into Sevastopol, to replace a contingent of Plastuns. In an engagement against the French in July, Chrysovergis distinguished himself enough to be decorated and placed in charge of a part of the Russian line at Maly Kurgan. Following the end of the siege and the Russian retreat, followed by the start of the diplomatic talks that ended the war, the Greek Legion was superfluous. In November, after another incident of unruliness in the corps, Mourouzis was replaced by Grigorios Kantakouzinos. Kantakouzinos again tried to impose discipline, and get the volunteers to accept the regulations. However, only 150 men under Papathanasopoulos\u2014an officer held in high esteem by Chrysovergis, but completely unmentioned in"}, {"text": "the Russian sources\u2014stayed on, while the rest refused to obey and were discharged. The former volunteers mostly headed for Bessarabia, where they tried to eke out an existence until the war's end. Although again they were helped by the Odessa Greek community, many of them were soon in dire straits. According to the historian Maria Todorova, \"the files of the Russian war ministry are full of pleas by Greeks and Bulgarians from the beginning of 1856 who, left penniless, begged for a job or assistance\". Disbandment. Following the conclusion of the Treaty of Paris on 30 March 1856, the rest of the Legion were discharged as well. The issue of their repatriation now became paramount: the men in Bessarabia were to assemble in Odessa, and those still in the Crimea at Sevastopol, for embarkation to Greece. Over 300 of them arrived at Piraeus in June, but the Greek government refused to admit them into the country, arguing that many were not actually Greek citizens, but most likely the refusal was the result of the ongoing Anglo-French occupation of Piraeus. Faced with these difficulties, in August Emperor Alexander II of Russia signed a decree allowing the volunteers to settle in Russia."}, {"text": "The Russians knew, however, that most of the volunteers intended to return to their homelands in Ottoman territories, especially after the Treaty of Paris granted them amnesty. A few did however settle in Russia, mostly in the Greek colonies around Mariupol, but also in Odessa and Chi\u0219in\u0103u. In total, more than 1200 volunteers served in the Legion. 730 of them received the medal , while 31 received the highest Russian military decoration, the Cross of St. George. As early as 1864, a memorial was planned to be erected at Sevastopol commemorate the Greek volunteers, but it was not realized until 2016, as part of the \"Russia year\" in Greece, with funds from the Russian state, the Greek diaspora, and Sevastopol authorities."}, {"text": "C\u00e9cile Vinke (born 31 August 1973) is a Dutch field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Danielle Koenen (born 20 July 1968) is a Dutch field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Mieketine Wouters (born 10 March 1969) is a Dutch field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "In January 2018, the provincial government of British Columbia (BC) began providing individuals at high risk of HIV infection with pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) at no cost. High risk individuals include men and trans women who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, and people who have sex with people living with HIV. One year following this policy change, which is delivered as part of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE)'s Drug Treatment Program, almost 3,300 people have been prescribed with PrEP or PEP. The steps for obtaining PrEP in BC are as follows: speaking to a physician, getting some medical tests, enrolling and being given a prescription, and refilling the prescription. The effort was undertaken to better support the UNAIDS \"90-90-90: treatment for all\" targets. HIV/AIDS in British Columbia. As part of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, BC experienced two distinct periods of rapid incidence growth rate. The first was in the 1980s among men who have sex with men, and the second was in the 1990s among injection drug users. At its peak in 1987, the rate of new HIV diagnoses in BC was roughly 31 cases per 100,000 population. The BC"}, {"text": "HIV incidence rate decreased thereafter and it was not until 2010 that the BC HIV incidence rate was less than the Canadian HIV incidence rate (7 per 100,000 population). As of 2017, the rate of new HIV cases reported in BC was 3.8 per 100,000 population. Current state. As summarized in the BC Centre for Disease Control's Annual Surveillance Report, rates of new HIV cases differ based on location, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and intravenous drug use. In addition to new HIV cases being highest in the Vancouver Coastal and Island Health Authorities, they were also highest among males, Caucasians (43% of new cases), gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM), and among people who inject drugs. The dramatic decrease in new HIV cases among people who inject drugs is the main reason why the overall rate of new HIV cases has decreased. With an incidence rate of 182 cases, there are approximately 7,200 people living with HIV in BC. Policy effects. This policy has expanded access to preventative HIV medication in British Columbia. Individuals at high risk of contracting HIV can apply to receive PrEP no cost. The out-of-pocket cost of emtricitabine/tenofovir, a medication used"}, {"text": "to prevent HIV, was previously between $250 and $1,000 per month. Because the BC-CfE was able to negotiate a lower price with manufacturers of generic versions of Truvada, the program is able to offer the drug at no cost for high risk individuals. In its first six months, the program cost the BC government around $300,000. Of the nearly 3,300 people being prescribed PrEP through this new policy, 98.4% are male, 0.5% are female, and 1.1% identify as transgender, unspecified, or another form of gender identity. Provincial health authorities estimate that once the program has 5,000 participants, the rate of new HIV cases in BC will fall by 83% by 2026. Another positive consequence is an uptake in the number of PEP kits being used. Between 2017 and 2018 there was a 23% increase in the number of PEP kit initiations, bringing the number of kit initiations up to 400. There are also potential long-term savings to government through reduced healthcare costs. By preventing HIV infections, the BC government will save on the lifetime cost of antiretroviral therapy drugs and hospital costs for HIV/AIDS-related treatment. In the German setting, investing in PrEP coverage has a projected savings of \u20ac5.1 billion"}, {"text": "Euros over a 40-year period. In the United States, the medical cost savings for each case of HIV prevented is roughly US$229,800. Other considerations. Safe sex. Since PrEP only protects against HIV and does not protect against blood-borne infections (e.g., hepatitis C) or other STIs (e.g., herpes, syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhoea), there is concern that increasing access to PrEP may increase rates of sexually transmitted infections by encouraging fewer safe sex practices like condom use. Others find evidence that suggests access to PrEP actually decreases the number of sexual partners and the number of men reporting unprotected anal sex. Barriers to access. Another policy consideration is potential barriers to access. Of current prescribers, 88% pick their medication up directly from St. Paul's hospital while 12% have the medication shipped to their physician's office outside of Vancouver. While the bulk of the program participants live in Metro Vancouver, there is ongoing concern that physician knowledge and access to primary care physicians in areas outside of Metro Vancouver are preventing access. To sign up for the program, a potential participant needs to have a physician submit a form on their behalf to the BC-CfE. Not everyone at risk of contracting HIV has a"}, {"text": "primary care physician or a physician they feel comfortable enough talking with about their sexual activity and previous drug use. Also, some physicians refuse to fill out the prescription, citing process complexity or instead suggesting the person engage in fewer risky behaviours."}, {"text": "Umali is a village in Malkapur tehsil of Buldhana district in Maharashtra, India. Nearby towns are Malkapur on west, Nandura on East. Village has a highschool Adarsh Vidyalay and a district sub hospital.There is also a Zilla Parishad High School. The village had a population of 4,373 in 2011."}, {"text": "Gift Zulu (born 6 November 1992) is a Zambian footballer who plays as a defender for Nkana F.C. and the Zambia national football team. Career. International. In May 2018, Zulu was included in Zambia's squad for the 2019 COSAFA Cup. He would go on to make his senior international debut at that tournament, playing the entirety of a 4-2 penalty victory over Malawi."}, {"text": "The sentencing of nine Catalan independence leaders in a 2019 trial by the Supreme Court of Spain triggered protests in Catalonia. They were convicted of sedition and other crimes against the Spanish state for their role in the organization of the 2017 Catalan independence referendum. Background. The Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia has a long established independence movement, which seeks to establish Catalonia as an independent and sovereign republic, thus breaking off from the Kingdom of Spain. A non-binding 2014 Catalan self-determination referendum resulted in a victory for proponents of Catalan independence (although with a turnout of 37%), which emboldened Catalan authorities to conduct the 2017 Catalan independence referendum, which they deemed would be binding and result in the independence of Catalonia. The Spanish Government, then led by Mariano Rajoy, however, considered this an act of illegal separatism and appealed to the Spanish Supreme Court to block the referendum. The Supreme Court concurred and ordered Catalonia to cancel the referendum. The Catalan Government, however, refused and held the referendum despite the Supreme Court's binding order. The Spanish Government launched Operation Anubis, in which it attempted to forcefully stop the referendum from taking place by raiding polling stations, preventing the printing"}, {"text": "and publication of electoral materials, taking down websites advocating or providing information for the referendum and prosecuting its organizers. The Catalan government resisted the police operation and carried through with the referendum. By the end of the polling day, the Catalan government had declared that the referendum had been successfully held and announced that over 90% of voters had voted for independence with a 43% voter turnout. Nine days later, citing the result of the referendum, the Parliament of Catalonia voted for and issued the Catalan declaration of independence, which declared an independent Republic of Catalonia. The declaration, however, was in direct contradiction to Article 115 Spanish Constitution, as well as the orders of the Spanish Supreme court and Spanish Government. For this reason, the Spanish government ended the region's autonomy and imposed direct rule over Catalonia, seizing control of the entirety of the Catalan government's institutions and infrastructure. The Spanish Government, along with the far-right Vox Party, then began to prosecute a case against several of the ministers and members of the Catalan government, as well as the organizers of the referendum. They were brought before the Spanish Supreme Court in the trial of Catalonia independence leaders. On 14"}, {"text": "October 2019, nine of the Catalan independence leaders were sentenced to between nine and 13 years in prison, with another three being fined. The demonstrations erupted to protest the Supreme Court's ruling shortly thereafter. Protests begin. Protests against the sentencing of the Catalan independence leaders began on 14 October at Barcelona-El Prat Airport just hours after the Spanish Supreme Court announced its verdict. By the afternoon, thousands of protesters had already gathered at the airport, effectively forcing the airport to close. Clashes erupted between protesters and police forces after the latter charged at and attempted to disperse the former with police batons. The Catalan Government, led by the pro-independence Quim Torra called for both the amnesty of the convicted leaders and a renewed attempt to realize Catalan independence. Clashes erupted into open violence, as protesters reacted violently at police efforts to end the demonstration, with some demonstrators reportedly throwing rocks and using fire extinguishers against police officers. The Catalan Law Enforcement agency Mossos d'Esquadra, which had previously been accused of aiding the independence movement, replied by firing tear gas at the demonstrators. The pro-independence speaker of the Catalan Parliament condemned the violent incidents and called for peaceful protests against the"}, {"text": "ruling. The protests grew larger, as more and more Catalans took to the streets. Some demonstrators attempted to storm buildings belonging to the Spanish Government and clashed with police forces. The Spanish Police announced that 51 protesters had been arrested. Quim Torra addresses the protest. On 17 October, the President of the Government of Catalonia, Quim Torra, called for an immediate halt to violence and disassociated himself from violent protesters, while at the same time calling for more peaceful protests. Nevertheless, the situation in Barcelona had evolved into open street battles between protesters and police, as both violent demonstrators attacked and provoked police forces, and police officers charged peaceful protesters for their proximity to violent ones. Shortly thereafter, the Catalan President attempted to rally the crowd by stating that he would push for a new independence referendum as large scale protests continued for the fourth day. On 18 October, Barcelona became paralyzed, as tens of thousands of peaceful protesters answered the Catalan President's call and rallied in support of the jailed independence leaders. The demonstration grew quickly, with the Barcelona police counting at least 525,000 protesters in the city. General strike. By late 18 October, minor trade unions (Intersindical-CSC and"}, {"text": ") linked to pro-independence movement called for a general strike. However, major trade unions (UGT and CCOO) did not endorse the event as well as representatives of the latter contested its very nature as \"strike\". Five peaceful marches converged on Barcelona's city center, essentially bringing the city to a halt. Protesters further blocked the road on the French-Spanish border. At least 20 other major roads were also blocked. Clashes nevertheless took place, with masked protesters confronting riot police by throwing stones and setting rubbish bins alight. 25,000 university students joined in the protest movement by declaring a peaceful student strike. As a result of the strike, trains and metro lines saw a reduction to 33% of their usual capacity, while buses saw a reduction to 25-50% of their usual capacity. The roads to the French border remained blocked and all roads leading into Barcelona were also cut. 190 flights in and out of the city were cancelled as a result of the strike. Spanish car manufacturer SEAT further announced a halt in the production of its Martorell plant and most of Barcelona's tourist sites had been closed and occupied by pro-independence demonstrators waving \"estelada\" independence flags and posters with pro-independence"}, {"text": "slogans. The El Cl\u00e1sico football match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF was postponed due to the strike. By the end of the day, just like the previous days, riots developed in the centre of Barcelona. Masked individuals blocked the boulevard close to the city's police headquarters. Withdrawn to the vicinity of the Pla\u00e7a Urquinaona, protesters erected barricades setting trash bins in fire and hurled rubble (shattered from the pavement) and other solid objects at riot policemen. The riot units responded with non-lethal foam, rubber bullets, tear gas, and smoke grenades. For the first time, the Mossos used water cannon trucks acquired in 1994 from Israel in order to clear the barricades. The clashes spread to cities outside Barcelona, with Spain's acting interior minister stating that 207 policemen had been injured since the start of the protests, while also noting that 128 people had been arrested by the nation's police forces. Miquel Buch, the Catalan Interior Minister, responsible for public order, and a pro-independence politician, called the violence \"unprecedented\" and distanced himself from the violent events, instead calling for peaceful protests to continue. A Spanish judge ordered the closure of an influential, but secretive Catalan protest group dubbed Democratic"}, {"text": "Tsunami. It had drawn thousands of followers and had directed its members to protest sites. Democratic Tsunami reacted to its ban by accusing the Spanish Authorities of censorship, stating that it had always been non-violent. On 19 October, following a fifth consecutive night of violence, Catalan President Quim Torra called for talks between the Catalan independence movement and the Spanish government, adding that violence had never been the \"flag\" of the independence movement. The head of the Spanish Government, Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez, refused to hold talks with the Catalan government, as it deemed the former had not condemned the violence strongly enough. He further categorically rejected the idea of discussing Catalan independence, stating that it was impossible under Spanish law. Despite the pleas of the Catalan leaders for the demonstrations to remain peaceful, violence once again erupted by nightfall, leading to clashes between protesters and police forces for the sixth night in a row. Demonstrations continue. Despite the fact that demonstrations had been taking place on a daily basis, the protests were reinvigorated again on 26 October, after Assemblea Nacional Catalana and \u00d2mnium Cultural, two organizations whose former leaders had been jailed for sedition following the trial, called for"}, {"text": "a march at 5pm local time. 350,000 people attended the rally in Barcelona alone. The rally remained mostly peaceful. The Catalan president thanked the demonstrators for their participation. A separate protest called by the Committees for the Defense of the Republic began at about 7:30pm, numbering about 10,000. Despite a peaceful beginning, violent clashes took place before the local police headquarters after masked youths threw colorful plastic balls at the police officers present. The colorful balls were then replaced with stones and bottles, while police forces charged the demonstrators with batons. The protesters later formed a human chain in order to block any advances on Urquinaona square. The police charged the protesters with 20 riot vans and dispersed demonstrators through Barcelona's Gran Via avenue after splitting the protest in two. At several points the demonstrators resisted the charges by setting up barricades on the street."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Egypt Cup qualifying rounds open the 88th season of the competition in Egypt, the oldest association football single knockout competition in Africa. Calendar. The calendar for the 2019\u201320 Egypt Cup qualifying rounds, as announced by the Egyptian Football Association. First Preliminary Round. The First Preliminary Round fixtures were played from 15 to 17 October 2019. A total of 205 teams from the Egyptian Third Division and the Egyptian Fourth Division entered at this stage of the competition. Like the previous season, a large number of clubs did not enter the competition due to financial status and other different reasons. The results were as follows: The following team received a bye for this round: Second Preliminary Round. The Second Preliminary Round fixtures were played on 19 and 20 October 2019. The results were as follows: The following teams received a bye for this round: Third Preliminary Round. The Third Preliminary Round fixtures were played from 25 to 28 October 2019. A total of 35 teams from the Egyptian Second Division entered at this stage of the competition. Muslim Youths (Qena) was the only team from the Second Division that did not enter the competition. The results were as follows:"}, {"text": "Fourth Preliminary Round. The Fourth Preliminary Round fixtures were played from 13 to 16 November 2019. The results were as follows: The following teams received a bye for this round: Fifth Preliminary Round. The Fifth Preliminary Round fixtures were played from 20 to 23 November 2019. The results were as follows: Competition proper. Winners from the Fifth Preliminary Round will advance to the Round of 32, where teams from the Egyptian Premier League will enter the competition."}, {"text": "Vivian E. Garrison (August 28, 1933 \u2013 April 2, 2013) was an applied medical anthropologist who researched mental health care among low-income, minority, and migrant communities in the New York metropolitan area. Early life. Garrison, known as \"Kelly\" to friends and family, was born on August 28, 1933, in Butte, Montana. She earned a B.A. in Spanish and psychology from New York University in 1961 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University in 1972. She completed her dissertation, \"Social Networks, Social Change and Mental Health among Migrants in a New York City Slum\", in 1971. Garrison married anthropologist Conrad M. Arensberg in 1973. Career. Garrison was an applied medical anthropologist who researched the cultural understandings of, and community treatment structures surrounding, mental illness and health care among low-income, minority, and migrant communities in the New York metropolitan area. She worked predominantly with African American, Hispanic, and Caribbean migrant populations in the South Bronx and in Newark, New Jersey. The majority of Garrison's research was completed at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, at the College/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and at Columbia University. A number of her projects were supported by the National Institute of Mental Health"}, {"text": "(NIMH). Throughout her career, Garrison acted as a consultant for projects on folk healing and community health care. Garrison published frequently on folk healing, \"espiritismo\", psychiatry, and psychiatric methodology. She taught intermittently, including teaching a semester of Margaret Mead's \"Problems and Methods in Anthropology\" course at Columbia University (1979). She also contributed to the President's Commission on Mental Health in 1977\u20131978. Death and legacy. Garrison died in April 2013 at age 79. Her papers were donated to the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives with support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in 2017."}, {"text": "Difluorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DFDT) is a chemical compound. Its composition is the same as that of the insecticide DDT, except that two of DDT's chlorine atoms are replaced by two fluorine atoms. DFDT was developed as an insecticide by German scientists during World War II. It is possible that Hoechst wanted to avoid license fees for DDT to Schering or the original developer J. R. Geigy (the later Ciba-Geigy). It was documented by Allied military intelligence, but for Americans it remained in obscurity after the war. In 2019, New York University chemists reported that DFDT and a mono-fluorinated derivative, MFDT, might be a more effective insecticide than DDT, and might therefore be used to combat malaria with less of an environmental impact. A later study of DFDT found it to be encumbered by the same resistance as DDT while being less effective in Drosophila melanogaster, and \"unlikely to be a viable public health vector control insecticide\"."}, {"text": "The Bergomi Palace (in Italian: Palazzo B\u00e8rgomi) is a 14th-century building in Mirandola, in the province of Modena, Italy. The palace is situated in the south-western corner of Costituente square and it is characterized by a portico and terracotta decorations in Renaissance style, similar to the nearby Town hall: its architectural grandeur and elegance reflect the economic and political power of the ancient Bergomi family that owned the building, originally from the city of Bergamo. The covered passage of the palace is commonly called \"portico of Unica\", remembering the old shop of confectionery (produced by the National Union Industries of Chocolate and Related) that was once located there. History. The origin of the palace, which once belonged to the Buffali family, is not known with certainty, but some documents kept in the archives of the Congregation of Charity of Modena, record the presence in the mid of 15th century of a rich family of notaries called S\u00e0ssoli de 'Bergami, that is, originating in the city of Bergamo, of which later they took and kept their surname (Bergami or Bergomi). The noble family was raised to the title of Counts by the House of Pico, and the most prominent members of"}, {"text": "the family were the medician-philosopher Cristoforo Bergomi, pupil of Antonio Cittadini from Faenza, and the literary canon Giuseppe Bergomi. An anonymous chronicler described a firefight under the portico of the palace in 1518 between the Mirandola followers of Giovanni Francesco II Pico della Mirandola and the agreed followers of Galeotto II Pico: The palace is then mentioned in a notary deed of 1 July 1611, in which Prince Alexander I Pico, eager to establish a cathedral in the city of Mirandola (which at the time still depended from the Parish Church of Quarantoli), undertook to pay the sum of 150 scudi per year to some members of the Society of Jesus, so that they would settle in the Collevati palace, that was to the Bergomi palace. The portico of the palace remained open for a long time, given the successive undercurves made in ancient times to stabilize the building, but was later closed in an unspecified time to create spaces for shops. In 1638 Alessandro Bergami, the last childless descendant of the family, ordered in his will that the ancient palace be transformed into his memory in the Alexandrian Convent, to be used as a monastery of the Capuchin nuns,"}, {"text": "but the palace was not considered suitable. After being rejected also by the Dominican friars, the palace became the seat of the Servite Fathers from 12 August 1675 until 1768. In 1841 the new owner Giovanni Montanari had the facade of the palace restored, but the Ornamental Commission forced him to restore the old windowsills. A few years later, in 1865, the engineer Grazio Montanari covered the southern portico with a rusticated wall surmounted by a cordon, as well as redoing the cornice, the windows and the wall face. After the unification of Italy, on 27 September 1863 the new Savings Bank of Mirandola was established by royal decree. It was officially opened on 1 January 1864 at the Bergomi palace, next to the town hall. The progressive expansion of business led to the transfer of the bank to the current Art Nouveau palace, built in 1911-1912 in Giacomo Matteotti square. In 1922 the portico of the palace was reopened. During the Fascist period it was the local seat of the National Fascist Party and of the Provincial Fascist Union of Farmers. fascista fu sede del Partito nazionale fascista e dell'Unione provinciale fascista degli agricoltori. The palace was damaged by"}, {"text": "the 2012 Northern Italy earthquakes; the anti-seismic restoration and improvement works were completed in March 2016. Architecture. The palace is characterized by Renaissance forms inspired by Lombard and Ferrara architecture. On the ground floor there is a high portico with nine round arches (five on the side of the square and four on the southern facade). The two exposed brick facades of the main floor are each decorated with three and a half biforas and are decorated with terracotta tiles with Renaissance floral motifs due facciate in mattone a vista del piano nobile sono decorate ognuna da trei. The top floor is characterized by 13 small monoforas, also decorated with terracotta ornaments."}, {"text": "Umm al-Qamari Islands in Saudi Arabia is a national nature reserve managed by the Saudi Wildlife Authority. Overview. Umm al-Qamari islands are located south of Alqunfutha, a city on the coast of the Red sea. It has an area of 4.03 km\u00b2. The islands were listed as a protected area in 1977 to be the first protected area in Saudi Arabia. Birdlife. The reserve is home to a variety of birdlife, mostly collared doves and turtle doves for which the islands were named. There are other birds breed and live in the islands such as Herons, Pelicans, Gulls and Osprey."}, {"text": "A serial rapist is someone who commits multiple rapes, whether with multiple victims or a single victim repeatedly over a period of time. This list does not include serial killers who raped their victims, then killed them; only serial rapists who non-fatally attacked their victims and raped them should be included here. This list should include serial rapists with at least three victims. Serial killers who raped at least three victims without murdering them are also included."}, {"text": "On 18 October 2019, a bombing occurred in a mosque in Haska Meyna District, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, killing at least 73 worshippers. Dozens more were injured in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility. Attack. A bomb exploded during Friday prayer at the mosque, located in the Jawdara village of Haska Meyna District. Hundreds were there to take part in the prayer when the bomb detonated killing 72 and injuring at least 36 other people. The blast caused the roof to collapse, leaving many bodies under the rubble. \"The New York Times\" reported that the blast was caused by a suicide bomber, who entered the mosque during men's prayer and detonated explosives. Among the victims of the blast were 23 teenagers and children, along with the village's only doctor, Mohammed Aref, and several of his family members. Two teachers were also killed in the attack. Responsibility. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. The Taliban denied responsibility, instead claiming the explosions and collapse of the mosque were caused by a government mortar attack. References."}, {"text": "Amy Fine Collins is an American journalist, muse, and author who has been a special correspondent for \"Vanity Fair\" since 1993, covering culture, style, and fashion. Starting in 2019 Amy began collaborating as an editor-at-large of Airmail magazine with Graydon Carter. Early life and education. Amy was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, as the daughter of Dr. Harold J. Fine and the art historian Elsa Honig Fine. She grew up between Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Knoxville, Tennessee with regular trips to family in New York. She graduated from Swarthmore College and Columbia University with three degrees in Art History. Career. Amy taught at Columbia University for two years and at Parsons The New School for Design for one. Thereafter she became a Style Editor under Nancy Novogrod at \"House & Garden\" and Style Editor at Harper\u2019s Bazaar under Liz Tilberis. In 1990 Amy started working at \"Vanity Fair\", under Graydon Carter, as contributing editor. In 1993 she became Special Correspondent for the magazine. In 2003 she became one of the partners of the International Best Dressed List. Honors. In 1994 Amy was inducted into the International Best Dressed List, and in 1997 into its International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List."}, {"text": "She was awarded the Front Page Award by the Newswomen's Club of New York for her cultural criticism piece 'Toujours Couture' written for \"Vanity Fair\". In 2011 she won the award again, for in-depth reporting, for her article 'Sex Trafficking in America: The Girls Next Door' written for \"Vanity Fair\"."}, {"text": "East Sitra City () is a proposed public housing mega-project under construction in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Proposed in 2014 by the Bahraini Ministry of Housing, the project involves land reclamation of 253 to 540 hectares (5.8 million square metres) off the eastern coast of Sitra island. Once completed, the reclaimed islands are estimated to consist of 3,157 housing units, serving more than 20,000 citizens. The project is part of a concurrent series of 245 million BHD ($649 million) public housing projects launched in the country in the 2010s, such as the Northern City and East Hidd City. Construction. The project plans for six separate man-made islands to be reclaimed from the sea, off the east coast of Sitra. It is estimated that up to 600 hectares of land would be reclaimed. AECOM are the chief planners of the project. Nature Environmental Studies and Consultations served as environmental consultants, WS Atkins & Partners Overseas are the architects, and Masterplan and Infrastructure served as design consultant. The city will include a 2.6km seafront and 13km of bicycle lanes. 255 hectares were donated by the King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. The reclamation work was assigned to the National Marine Dredging Company"}, {"text": "(NMDC). An estimated 25 million cubic metres of dredged sand were required to reclaim land. In addition to serving as a housing project, the city will host facilities for Bahrain's oil sector and other government use. In June 2014, the Ministry of Housing of Bahrain signed the agreement to draw the detailed blueprint of the project. In June 2015, Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa laid the first stone of the project. The construction has been awarded to the Chinese company China Machinery Engineering Corporation in December 2019. The construction project has three phases. Phase 1 (construction of 1,077 units) started in December 2020. Phase 2 will see the construction of 1,800 units, and phase 3 of a further 500 units."}, {"text": "The A to Z of Babylon 5 is a book by David Bassom published by Boxtree. Contents. \"The A to Z of Babylon 5\" is a guide to \"Babylon 5\", listing entries alphabetically from the first two seasons and beginning of the third season of the show. Reception. Matt Bielby reviewed \"The A to Z of Babylon 5\" for \"Arcane\" magazine, rating it a 6 out of 10 overall. Bielby comments that \"It's ideal both for newcomers to the show and for referees developing scenarios for a \"GURPS\"-based \"Babylon 5\"-themed affair of their own, or for the official \"Babylon 5\" game.\" Neil Jones of \"Interzone\" described it as \"only for the real \"Babylon\" devotees\". He criticized its photo selection, and general visual design."}, {"text": "Refat Mustafaev (, ; 1911 1984) was a Crimean Tatar communist who served as a regional party secretary and battalion commissar in the Crimean resistance during World War II. After the Nazi troops were forced out of Crimea he was still subject to deportation to Kokand in the Surgun, forcing him to live away from him homeland of Crimea for the rest of his life because of his Crimean Tatar nationality. He was an activist for the right of return from the early days of the Crimean Tatar civil rights movement."}, {"text": "In the Name of the People () is a 1939 German crime film directed by Erich Engels and starring Rudolf Fernau, Fritz Kampers, and Rolf Weih. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Sohnle and Wilhelm Vorwerg. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. Synopsis. A dangerous criminal, just released from jail in England, goes on a violent spree robbing motorists on the roads of Bavaria."}, {"text": "Otto Petschek (17 October 1882 \u2013 2 July 1934) was a European industrialist known for building the Petschek Villa in Prague. Early life. He was the eldest of four sons of Isidor Petschek and Camilla (n\u00e9e Robitschek) Petschek, who were German speaking Jews. His younger brothers were Paul (1886\u20131946), Friedrich (1890\u20131940) and Hans (1895\u20131968), who later served as president of the family's investment firm, United Continental Corporation. Among his family were uncles Julius Petschek and Ignaz Petschek, all of whom were originally from Kol\u00edn. Among his first cousins was Frank C. Petschek, a son of his uncle Ignaz. Career. The Petschek family founded various international mining and chemical enterprises in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). Their concern controlled also 30% of the German and, in total, almost 50% of the European brown coal mining industry in the years after World War I. In 1920, his uncle Julius founded the Petschek Brothers Bank (Bankhaus Petschek & Co.). Between 1923 and 1929, the family built Petschek Palace. His cousin Walter (Julius' son) and Otto's brother Hans Petschek ran the company until 1938 when they moved to New York as a consequence of the Munich Agreement. After the death of his uncle, Ignatz"}, {"text": "Petschek, Otto was considered the head of the Petschek family. Personal life. Petschek was married to Magda \"Martha\" Popper, the daughter of JUDr. Julius Popper. An optimist, Otto built the Petschek Villa in Prague in the early 1920s between the two World Wars. Today it is home to the U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic. Together, they were the parents of four children: Petschek died on 2 July 1934 in Vienna, Austria. He was buried at the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague. His widow died on 9 May 1940 in Toronto, Canada. Descendants. In December 1966, Otto's granddaughter, Angela Conway Petschek, was married to Alain Patrick Maze-Sencier of Paris and New York, the Count de Brouville. Alain was a son of Jean Maze-Sencier and the late Nicole Maze-Sencier, Countess de Brouville."}, {"text": "Edmundo Rada Angulo, also known as Pipo, (died 16 October 2019) was a Venezuelan politician who served as councilman for the Popular Will party for Petare, in the Sucre Municipality of Caracas. Rada went missing on 16 October 2019 and was found dead the following day on the side of the road out of Petare, Caracas, burned and with two coup de gr\u00e2ce shots in the back of his neck. Career. Rada was known as a social leader who spearheaded the organization of community kitchens. He had been a member of Popular Will since the party was founded, according to Leopoldo L\u00f3pez. Disappearance and death. Rada was reported missing on October 16, 2019. His body was found on the next day on the side of the road out of Petare, burned and with two coup de gr\u00e2ce shots in the back of his neck, after he was reported missing the day before. Disputed interim president and leader of the Popular Will party Juan Guaid\u00f3 declared that Rada's death was \"a murder [committed by] the dictatorship\" (i.e. forces loyal to Maduro) and that \"there are clear indications that the cause [was] political\", suspecting that the crime was committed by the Special"}, {"text": "Action Forces (FAES). Guaid\u00f3 noted that Rada was murdered on the same day that Venezuela was elected as member of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Rada's family gave public statements only to Colombian networks, reporting that Rada had fears of the FAES coming after him after they took photographs of him at a protest in late September. His funeral was held in Uni\u00f3n de Petare, and he is interred at the Caracas East Cemetery. His body was identified and recovered from the Bello Monte morgue by his family and fellow politicians Gilber Caro and Ismael Le\u00f3n. On Friday 18 October, the Spanish government condemned the \"cruel murder\" of a politician."}, {"text": "Charles Richard William Beasley is a New Zealand academic physician, the founder and Director of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington. Academic career. After studying medicine at the University of Otago, Beasley rose to full professor at Victoria University of Wellington, with connections to Wellington Hospital and the universities of Otago and University of Southampton. Beasley has received multiple grants from the Health Research Council of New Zealand. Awards and honours. In the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours, Beasley was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to medical research, in particular asthma. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2015. In 2019, he was awarded the Health Research Council of New Zealand 's Beaven Medal. In 2024 he was awarded the Rutherford Medal for \"revolutionising the treatment of asthma worldwide\"."}, {"text": "Joshua Hughson Flint (born 13 October 2000) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for club Crawley Town. Early life and education. Flint was born in Waterlooville and attended Queen's Inclosure Primary School in Cowplain and Crookhorn College. He was a childhood Portsmouth supporter, having held a season ticket at the club. Club career. Portsmouth. Flint joined Portsmouth aged 8 after playing for local side Widbrook United. Flint broke his arm in January 2019 and despite initially being told he would be released at the end of his scholarship in summer 2019, his scholarship was extended by a further year. He made his Portsmouth debut on 14 September 2019, starting and scoring in a 3\u20131 EFL Trophy win over Norwich City U21s. In October 2019, Flint joined Isthmian League side Bognor Regis Town before joining the side on a permanent deal in January 2020 following release by Portsmouth. Volendam. On 13 September 2020, Flint joined Dutch side FC Volendam following a trial at the club, initially joining up with their reserve side in the Tweede Divisie on an amateur basis. On 23 November 2020, Flint made his first team debut for Volendam in the Eerste Divisie, coming"}, {"text": "on as a substitute in a 0\u20130 draw with Jong Ajax. On 3 October, he scored his first senior goal in a match for the reserve side Jong Volendam in a 3\u20131 away win over Excelsior Maassluis. On 16 December 2020, Flint signed a new contract with Volendam, keeping him at the club until 2023. In March 2023, Volendam triggered a clause in Flint's contract that kept him at the club until summer 2024. In March 2024, it was announced that Flint would be released by Volendam at the end of the season upon the expiry of his contract. Crawley Town. On 27 June 2024, Crawley Town announced the signing of Flint on a two-year deal. Flint started Crawley's opening match of the 2024\u201325 season and was awarded the man of the match award as Crawley beat Blackpool 2\u20131. Style of play. Flint is 6 ft 2in tall and left-footed. He started his career as an attacking midfielder at Portsmouth, but was retrained as a centre back at Volendam. Flint has been noted for his technical ability, with former Portsmouth manager Kenny Jackett stating that Flint was \"probably technically the Academy's best player\", whilst Crawley manager Scott Lindsey claimed that"}, {"text": "he signed Flint for \"his ability to step in and play\"."}, {"text": "The National Women's Soccer League Players Association Awards (often called the NWSLPA Awards or the NWSL Players' Awards) are annual awards voted on by the players of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) since 2019. These awards are presented by the National Women's Soccer League Players Association (NWSLPA), the trade union representing non-allocated players in the NWSL. They are considered one of the major end-of-season awards for NWSL players alongside the league's own awards. As there are often differences between the league's own awards and the NWSL Players' Awards, many NWSL players consider the NWSL Players' Awards to be more prestigious as they are decided by only players themselves. Players' Team of the Year. 2019. \"Source\""}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball team represented the University of Georgia during the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Lady Bulldogs, led by fifth-year head coach Joni Taylor, played their home games at the Stegeman Coliseum and competed as members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Preseason. SEC media poll. The SEC media poll was released on October 15, 2019. Schedule. !colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| SEC regular season !colspan=9 style=| SEC Tournament"}, {"text": "General David Douty Colton (July 17, 1831\u2013 October 9, 1878) was an American pioneer, entrepreneur, and politician. The city of Colton, California, is named for him. Early life. Colton was born in the state of Maine, of Isacc W. Colton and Abigail Douty. The family moved west when he was a child, via Galesburg, Illinois. He became engaged to Ellen M. White of Chicago, but made his way to Sacramento, California, and on to Oregon in 1850 before getting married. Just across the border into California, he took up gold prospecting in Siskiyou County, California, when it was still dangerous to do so among the Native American population there. Colton settled in California at Yreka, where he became sheriff of Siskiyou County for four years. He was given the title \"Brigadier-General of Militia\" by California Governor John Bigler after successfully defending the county jail against an angry mob of miners. In 1853, Colton returned to Galesburg and married Ellen White. When the Civil War broke out, General Colton declared himself in favor of the Union. Career. Colton built the first of the railroad magnate mansions on Nob Hill in San Francisco. \"Colton\u2014the chief lawyer for the Central Pacific Railroad, owned"}, {"text": "by Crocker, Hopkins, Stanford, and Huntington\u2014was known with derision as the 'Half' of the 'Big Four and a Half'.\" Legacy. According to the city of Colton's history, \"The town of Colton was laid out when the Southern Pacific Railway was constructed through the valley on its way eastward from Los Angeles in 1875. Colton was named for Civil War General David Colton who was also Vice President of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.\" Colton never lived in Colton."}, {"text": "Memory Seed is a novel by Stephen Palmer published by Orbit in 1996. Plot summary. \"Memory Seed\" is a novel in which a young girl tries to discover the truth about her world as plants are taking over. Reception. Paul Pettengale reviewed \"Memory Seed\" for \"Arcane\" magazine, rating it a 6 out of 10 overall. Pettengale comments that \"The plot twists occasionally, but its linearity is ultimately obvious, as is the writing style used to weave the storyline. A pleasant read, if not a gripping one.\""}, {"text": "The Metro B Line is a bus rapid transit route in the Minneapolis\u2013Saint Paul region of Minnesota, operated by Metro Transit as part of the Metro network. The route began operation in June 2025, connecting Saint Paul Union Depot to Bde Maka Ska in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis, via Lake Street and Selby Avenue. The B Line succeeds Metro Transit's Route 21, adding transit signal priority, bus lanes, and all-door boarding to provide faster and higher quality service. Lake Street and Selby Avenue have formed an important east-west travel corridor since the early 20th century. The corridor was served by streetcars until the 1950s, and has been served by buses since. Planning for the B Line began in 2014, and full funding for construction was secured in 2020. Construction began in 2023, and progressed through the 2023 and 2024 construction seasons. The line opened to the public as scheduled on June 14, 2025, although its opening ceremony was cancelled due to security concerns following the shootings of multiple Minnesota legislators earlier that day. Background. The corridor has a long history of transit service. The Twin City Rapid Transit Company operated a streetcar on Selby Avenue and Lake Street starting"}, {"text": "in 1906. Once the streetcars were replaced in the 1950s with buses, a bus route continued to operate over the route. Route 21 served the corridor from Uptown Transit Center to the Union Depot in downtown Saint Paul. Buses on the corridor formerly traveled on the National Register of Historic Places-listed Selby Avenue Bridge over Ayd Mill Road. When the bridge was in the process of being replaced in 1993, buses were detoured a half mile north to University Avenue. Increased ridership led Metro Transit to leave the detour in place following completion of the replacement bridge. In 2011 and 2012, Metro Transit studied eleven urban transit corridors to be upgraded with enhanced bus improvements. Other corridors identified in the study included Snelling Avenue, Penn Avenue, and Chicago Avenue, which are currently in operation as the Metro A, C, and D Lines respectively. Route 21 served over 10,000 passengers per weekday in 2019, which made it Metro Transit's second-busiest route. A limited-stop bus, Route 53, operated during peak periods offering limited stop service along Lake Street and Marshall Avenue before traveling on I-94 to downtown Saint Paul. Average speeds for Route 21 and 53 were 10 and 13.2 miles per"}, {"text": "hour respectively in 2019, which made Route 21 one of the slowest routes in the Twin Cities. In May 2019, the B Line project was estimated to cost $54 million. By October 2019, $16 million in funding had been identified from a competitive federal grant for a total of $26 million. The line was fully funded after $35 million was included in the state bonding bill in October 2020. In early 2019, project staff identified the possibility of extending the line past Snelling Avenue into downtown St. Paul via Selby Avenue. Six routing options between Snelling Avenue and Lexington Parkway were considered, all of which would connect to METRO A Line. In downtown, the B Line would share enhanced stations with the Metro Gold Line before terminating at Union Depot. The B Line route was modified from Route 21 to eliminate the route's deviation north to University Avenue in Hamline-Midway, which was introduced in 1993 as a temporary detour. Planners cited ridership data from Route 21 to support the change, which shows that the revision would benefit a larger number of passengers traveling longer distances. The revised route avoids traffic congestion on University Avenue, and planners argue that improved services"}, {"text": "on north-south bus routes in the area make up for the changes. Prior to the opening of the B Line, route 53 was discontinued in March 2025 after having been suspended since 2020 due a driver shortage. Service. The B Line runs every 10 minutes during daytime service on weekdays and weekends, with reduced frequencies of up to 30 minutes in the early morning and late evening. As part of service changes with the B Line, route 21 was discontinued, with local service on Lake Street being provided hourly by a restored and modified route 27. Local service on Selby Avenue and to the Midway shopping area was provided half-hourly by an extension route 70, renumbered to route 72. Routes 23 and 612 were combined into new route 38 with the routing realigned to overlap with the B Line between Excelsior Boulevard and Lyndale Avenue. Route. The Metro B Line originates at Lake Street and France Avenue in the West Maka Ska neighborhood of Minneapolis, and runs along Lake Street to the Mississippi River. East of the Mississippi River, the B Line travels along Marshall Avenue and Selby Avenue to Summit Avenue in Saint Paul. At Summit Avenue, the site"}, {"text": "of the former Selby Avenue streetcar tunnel, the B Line shifts north to meet the Downtown Saint Paul street grid, using 5th Street eastbound and 6th Street westbound. B Line buses serve a pair of stations near the north entrance of Union Depot before terminating at the station's main bus terminal. Stations. Stations as part of Metro Transit's aBRT (arterial bus rapid transit) service are unique to differentiate them service from local bus stops. Each station has a pylon marker that provides station identification, real time information, and audible departures. Unique shelters feature lighting, heating, emergency telephones and security cameras, and station areas will have seating, bike parking, and trash and recycling. To speed up boarding, platforms are raised from the pavement to facilitate near-level boarding though any door. Passengers pay before boarding using Go-To card readers or ticket vending machines. Connections. The B Line is a major east-west route in the Metro Transit system, and connects to multiple regional and local transit services. The B Line will connect to the future Metro Green Line extension at its West Lake Street station, and the future Metro E Line will have a connection at Hennepin Avenue. The B Line connects to"}, {"text": "the Metro Orange, D, and Blue Lines, and shares a station with the Metro A Line at Snelling Avenue and Dayton Avenue. The easternmost stops in Saint Paul are shared with the Metro Gold Line."}, {"text": "Raydah Natural Reserve is a 9.33 km2 protected area in Saudi Arabia managed by the Saudi Wildlife Authority. The reserve situated adjacent to 'Asir National Park. It was listed as a protected area in 1989. Wildlife. Raydah reserve is a habitat to a diversity of animals such as the Arabian Wolf, Caracal, Rock Hyrax, Mongoose, and Nubian Ibex. The reserve is also home to a variety of birdlife like Yemen thrush, Arabian Red-Legged Partridge, Arabian Woodpecker, and Yemen Linnet."}, {"text": "Ogbodo is a surname of Igbo origin in south eastern Nigeria."}, {"text": "The men's parallel bars competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics was held at Earls Court Exhibition Centre on 12 and 13 August. It was the seventh appearance of the event. There were 122 competitors from 16 nations, with each nation sending a team of up to 8 gymnasts. The event was won by Michael Reusch of Switzerland, with his countrymen Christian Kipfer and Josef Stalder tying for bronze. Between the Swiss gymnasts was Veikko Huhtanen of Finland, taking silver. Reusch was the first man to win multiple medals in the event (and the only one to do so 12 years apart); Stalder would become the second in 1952. It was Switzerland's second victory in the event, tying Germany for most gold medals. Background. This was the seventh appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). Four of the top 10 gymnasts from 1936 returned: silver medalist Michael Reusch of Switzerland, seventh-place finisher Heikki Savolainen of Finland, ninth-place finisher Savino Guglielmetti of Italy, and tenth-place finisher Lajos T\u00f3th of Hungary. Reusch was the reigning world"}, {"text": "champion, though the title was 10 years old\u2014no world championship had yet been held post-World War II, so the 1938 event was the latest. Argentina, Cuba, Denmark, and Egypt each made their debut in the men's parallel bars. The United States made its sixth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games. Competition format. The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of up to eight gymnasts (Cuba and Argentina had only 7; Mexico only 5). All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus, with the scores summed to give a final total. The scores in each of the six apparatus competitions were added together to give individual all-around scores; the top six individual scores on each team were summed to give a team all-around score. No separate finals were contested. For each exercise, four judges gave scores from 0 to 10 in one-tenth point increments. The top and bottom scores were discarded and the remaining two scores summed to give the exercise total. If the two scores were sufficiently far apart, the judges would \"confer\" and decide on a"}, {"text": "score. Thus, exercise scores ranged from 0 to 20, apparatus scores from 0 to 40, individual totals from 0 to 240, and team scores from 0 to 1,440."}, {"text": "Hern\u00e1n is a Spanish, Nahuatl, and Maya language historical drama television series co-produced by Televisi\u00f3n Azteca, Dopamine, and Onza Entertainment that became available for streaming worldwide on Amazon Prime Video on 21 November 2019, except in the United States, and it will subsequently premiere on 22 November 2019 on History in Latin America, and later on TV Azteca on 24 November 2019 in Mexico. The first season consists of 8 episodes, and a second season has been confirmed, which will begin filming in January 2020. The series planned its premiere as part of the 500th anniversary of the Fall of Tenochtitlan and revolves around Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s (\u00d3scar Jaenada) from his arrival at the Mexican coast until the defeat of the Mexicas. A+E Networks International agreed to globally distribute the series in November 2019. Cast. Part of the cast was confirmed on October 15, 2019, by the newspaper \"El Imparcial\"."}, {"text": "The Left () is a far-left, nationalist and eurosceptic political party in North Macedonia. Led by Dimitar Apasiev, a professor of Law at the Goce Del\u010dev University of \u0160tip, the party is anti-NATO and promotes anti-clericalism, anti-fascism, anti-imperialism, and socialism. They have a youth wing called Red Youth (Macedonian: \u0426\u0440\u0432\u0435\u043d\u0430 \u041c\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043d\u0430). Foundation and ideology. The Left was founded on November 2015. It says that it was formed by three principal movements: the Communist Party of Macedonia, the movement Solidarity, and the Movement for Social Justice \"Lenka\", which its parliamentary leader Dimitar Apasiev belongs to. The party was founded during the Macedonian political crisis and before the so-called Colorful Revolution. It defines itself as a party advocating labour rights and social justice, while opposing \"inter-ethnic barriers\" and ethnic nationalism. Its party statute lists a \"movement towards socialism\", socialist patriotism, anti-imperialism, and secularism as its founding values. Internally, the party has declared its intention to structure itself along the lines of democratic centralism. As a radical left party, it has been proud of its anti-fascism and nurtures the traditions of Yugoslav socialism. The party has local branches in 21 cities and municipalities. Nationalism and minority rights. The Left has spoken out against"}, {"text": "Albanian nationalism in North Macedonia and has opposed the expansion of the Albanian language into North Macedonia's judicial system, dubbing it \"an expansionist blast of Albanian nationalism\" in favour of the Albanian Democratic Union for Integration, which it considers a \"criminal party\". The party deemed the law as only increasing the ethnic rift in North Macedonia, which they opined ought to be a country run by a civic nationalism, rather than ethnic nationalism character, which they deem would lead to good inter-ethnic relations. It has come out against what it dubbed a division into Macedonian and Albanian blocs in the country, defining itself as a \"supra-ethnic\" party. The Left's political program continues to refer to the country as the \"Republic of Macedonia\" instead of the constitutional \"Republic of North Macedonia\" as negotiated in the Prespa agreement. \"Balkan Insight\" has accused The Left of borrowing policies from the far right. In September 2020, the party's leader Apasiev testified at the Public Prosecutor's Office in Skopje after receiving three criminal charges for spreading racial, religious, and ethnic intolerance. Per political scientist Ivo Bosilkov, \"Levica can be classified as a valenced/polyvalent populist party, and if it exhibits any tendency according to the ideological-populist"}, {"text": "spectrum, it is skewed towards populism of a right-wing nature.\" Foreign policy. The Left has vehemently opposed the Prespa agreement and the renaming of the Republic of Macedonia into the Republic of North Macedonia, instead supporting a state-sponsored international campaign for full UN membership under the country's old name. It has also dismissed the renaming of the country as unconstitutional, and as such should be revoked. It has declared its intention to void the agreement, should it come into power in North Macedonia. It has also announced that it would only take part in a coalition government if that government would renounce the Prespa agreement. The party's main reason for opposing the name change is its feeling that the deal is only intended to bring the country closer to NATO's influence, which they see as an imperialist organisation, as well as saying the deal completely absolves Greece of any past actions against Macedonians. The Left is accused of being \"anti-western\". The party opposes NATO, which they accuse of starting imperialist wars and of being a threat to world peace. On this basis, it has called for the suspension of accession of North Macedonia to NATO. It has dubbed North Macedonia's"}, {"text": "foreign minister Nikola Dimitrov's recognition of Juan Guaid\u00f3 as the interim President of Venezuela as a \"typical stance of a vassalistic and subordinate country that has completely lost its sovereignty as an independent state\". The party has supported Nicol\u00e1s Maduro as President of Venezuela, as it considers him democratically elected. The Left supports for North Macedonia to become a neutral country and a \"principle of zero problems with neighbouring countries\". The latter it defines as \"solving problems without bringing historical baggage\", friendly relations with Balkans countries and a principle of self-determination, which they opine gives all people the right to define their own name themselves. The party's leader has stated in an interview that North Macedonia's membership in the European Union might potentially be a positive thing, but that the country should stay out if the cost of membership was a change in its name and identity. In their 2020 general election program, the party put forward the idea that North Macedonia should \"withdraw the recognition of the State of Israel, Kosovo, and South Korea\", while supporting the independence of the State of Palestine, Catalonia, and the Basque Country. They also suggested a review of the Friendship Agreement between Bulgaria"}, {"text": "and North Macedonia, as they consider parts of it to amount to historical revisionism and a \"rehabilitation of fascism\". The party supports Russia's war in Ukraine, thus opposes the sanctions imposed against Russia, and espouses ultra-nationalist rhetoric about Macedonian-Albanian and Macedonian-Bulgarian relations. Levica also claims North Macedonia should consider an alternative to the EU the Eurasian pact and the BRICS, implying that Russia is the other alternative to the EU. Social and environmental issues. The Left has opposed the government of Zoran Zaev and his Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), accusing them of an \"unbecoming attitude\" and later of electoral fraud and blackmail. It also opposed the previous government of Nikola Gruevski, whom they consider an \"autocrat\", as well as his VMRO-DPMNE. The Left has declared a principled opposition to conservatism, clericalism, and patriarchy. It is supportive of LGBT rights in the country. The party celebrates and organises rallies for the Victory Day over fascism on 9 May, being the only Macedonian political party to organize events for the non-official holiday. The Left has described North Macedonia as undergoing an \"ecological cataclysm\", which they consider a direct result of the \"political and social catastrophe that is happening to all"}, {"text": "spheres of daily life\". Its electoral program declares support for free healthcare and universal education, and considers neoliberalism and \"wild capitalism\" to be the root of most of North Macedonia's economic problems. It views healthcare and education, as well as economic growth and organized labour as the \"biggest enemies of terrorism\" in North Macedonia."}, {"text": "Francis Joseph McCarty (May 23, 1888 \u2013 May 11, 1906) was a San Francisco experimenter, who conducted early radiotelephone research and development. He died at the age of 17, but despite his young age and early death, in 2011 he was elected into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame, recognized as being one of the \"pioneers of broadcasting in the Bay Area\". Biography. Francis Joseph McCarty was born in San Francisco, California in 1888 to John Henry McCarty and Catherine Lynch. His sister, Mary Eunice McCarthy (who used a different spelling of the family name), reported in a memoir that at the age of thirteen Francis received permission to drop out of school, having found most of the curriculum a distraction to his desire to become an inventor. With the assistance of one of the Jesuit professors at the local St. Ignatius school that he had been attending, McCarty developed his own routine of independent study. At this time radio transmissions (then commonly known as \"wireless telegraphy\") were limited to the dots-and-dashes of Morse code, and McCarty eventually began work toward developing a practical wireless telephone. Initially financing himself with various jobs including clerking at a dry goods house,"}, {"text": "by 1903 he reported success in developing a radiotelephone capable of transmitting a distance of 4 miles (6 km). In 1904 The McCarty Wireless Telephone Co. was formed, and it was announced that McCarty had transferred his inventions to the company in exchange for $1,500 cash and 120,250 shares of stock. McCarty's uncle, Daniel \"White Hat\" McCarty, was instrumental in promoting the new company's stock. McCarty's efforts began to gain wider notice, and he was featured in an expansive interview as \"San Francisco's Boy Inventor\" that appeared in the September 24, 1905, issue of the \"San Francisco Call\", where he stated that the maximum tested range was now \"between San Mateo and Millbrae, seven miles and a half\" (12 km). The next month he made a successful public demonstration, sending audio from the Cliff House to Cyclers' Rest, a distance of a mile and a half (2 km). However, the ongoing lack of funds meant that there was only a single transmitter, so it was not possible to demonstrate two-way communication. Following the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake, McCarty moved his office to nearby Oakland. On the following May 8, while returning home, he was thrown from a small"}, {"text": "horse-drawn cart, breaking his jaw as well as causing severe head injuries. He died three days later at Providence Hospital, at the age of \"17 years 11 months and 18 days\". His brother Henry was appointed as executor of his estate, and in 1907 two U.S. patents originally applied for by Francis were granted, which described \"high frequency spark\" transmitters capable of making audio transmissions. His brother Ignatius made an attempt to continue the investigations, but saw little progress before abandoning additional efforts. Following Francis McCarty's death, two of the McCarty Wireless Telephone Co. investors, bankers William and Tyler Henshaw, contacted Cyril Frank Elwell and arranged for him to review the potential worth of McCarty's patents. Elwell concluded that the system's apparatus was incapable of ever being refined enough to become an effective radiotelephone system. However, he became intrigued by the general concept of radiotelephony, and went on to organize a group of investors to license Danish inventor Valdemar Poulsen's superior \"arc converter\" technology, leading to the formation of the Federal Telegraph Company. From 1910 until 1914 another brother (who also adopted a modified version of the family name), John P. McCarthy, conducted his own radiotelephone research, but ultimately decided"}, {"text": "his future was in the movie industry. Eventually the McCarty patents were acquired by the National Wireless Telephone and Telegraph Company."}, {"text": "Luis Alberto Malag\u00f3n Su\u00e1rez is a Colombian rapist and serial killer. Known as The Sadist of Rinc\u00f3n, he kidnapped, raped and murdered 5 minors, as well as his wife. It is believed that he carried out the murders between 1995 and 1997 in the town of Suba, during which he dismembered his victims and disposed of their remains in bin bags. He is currently held in Acac\u00edas Prison, in the Meta Department, for the murder of his wife. Murders. According to the authorities' investigations, Malag\u00f3n Su\u00e1rez committed the murders in the 1990s, in the town of Suba. The victims were identified as Yulie Yesenia Chac\u00f3n, Andrea Garc\u00eda L\u00f3pez, Nina Johana Moncada, Yolanda Perdomo and Lid Consuelo Pineda, all minors who lived in the Rinc\u00f3n neighborhood. An investigator of the DAS affirmed that it took 4 years of investigations so Malag\u00f3n Su\u00e1rez could be captured; his daughter also told the authorities that in one of the rooms of the house where they lived, constant screams were heard, which Luis claimed came from the neighborhood cats. Finally, the DAS finished the investigation and conducted a search of the house, in which they found various belongings of the victims, among them - clothes,"}, {"text": "jewels, semen from the killer, hair, saliva and a sharp object. It is believed that the bodies of the murdered children were placed inside bin bags and hidden, since they were never found. One of Malag\u00f3n's daughters also claimed that he would take the teenage girls to his residence, where he subsequently abuse them, tying up their hands and feet. Despite this, the judge presiding over the case dismissed it, resulting in Malag\u00f3n Su\u00e1rez's acquittal. On February 19, 2001, Malag\u00f3n Su\u00e1rez murdered his wife in front of his daughters, stabbing her several times. Previously, he had bound and gagged her in the home. Capture. Malag\u00f3n Su\u00e1rez was captured in 2012, and prosecuted for killing his wife. He was convicted, and sent off to Acac\u00edas Prison in Meta."}, {"text": "Ali Umarovich Dimayev (, ; born 27 September 1953) is a Chechen musician and composer. In 1968 he started the first Vainakh rock ensemble in the Soviet Union with his fellow schoolmates, and after serving in the Soviet military he headed the folk instrument orchestra of state radio in the Checheno-Ingush ASSR. He has written over 500 songs, including Nokhchich\u00f6 (\u041d\u043e\u0445\u0447\u0438\u0439\u0447\u043e\u044c). Biography. Ali was born on September 27, 1953, in the Kirghiz SSR. He was born exile after the Aardakh. His father was musician Umar Dimayev, and he was a major influence in his musical activities. In 1968, with his classmates, he organized the first Chechen national rock ensemble \"Vainakhi\". Ali joined the military in Volgograd. During the service he created the stage ensemble \"Warriors\". The ensemble often toured with concerts in the military units of Volgograd and the North Caucasus Military District. In 1977, after demobilization, he worked as the head of the folk instruments orchestra of the State Radio and Television of the Checheno-Ingush ASSR. In 1981 he created the professional rock group \"Zama\". In 2001 he was awarded the title . In October of the same year he was awarded the title People's Artist of the Republic"}, {"text": "of Ingushetia. Dimayev currently lives in Moscow."}, {"text": "Simonachne maidenii is a species of grass (in the family Poaceae) endemic to New South Wales. It is the sole species in genus Simonachne. It is a scrambling perennial grass with slender, rigid horizontal stems and branches which ascend. The leaves have sheathes which are sparsely hairy and the ligule is fringed. The racemes are terminal or axillary, and about long, with the lateral racemes being shorter and partially enclosed by the sheath. When mature the spikelets (2.5\u20133 mm long ) fall entirely. The upper glume has five nerves. The lower lemma (similar to the upper glume), has seven nerves and is sterile. The fertile florets are elliptic to lanceolate, with nerves which are obscure. It flowers in summer, and grows on sandstone soils, north of Sydney. The species was first described as \"Eriochloa maidenii\" by the botanist Arthur Hamilton in 1913, and in 1961 Joyce Vickery revised it to \"Ancistrachne maidenii\". The specific epithet honours Joseph Maiden, In 2022 Edward John Thompson placed the species in a new monotypic genus \"Simonachne\". In New South Wales, this species is listed as \"threatened\"."}, {"text": "Deviant Ways is a novel by Richard Montanari published by Signet in 1995. Plot summary. \"Deviant Ways\" is a novel in which experienced detective Jack Paris investigates the brutal murders of young women. Reception. Richard Jones reviewed \"Deviant Ways\" for \"Arcane\" magazine, rating it a 4 out of 10 overall. Jones comments that \"Admittedly there are a few points where Montanan injects a degree of tension and where his prose style works to dramatic effect. But the lasting impression this book leaves is of some fairly gruesome detail added to a very average detective/fantasy yarn. The cover boasts that Deviant Ways is 'kinky, realistic, scary as hell and absolutely great'. It's not.\" \"Kirkus Reviews\" states that the book is \"A lively, if inelegant, tour of the underbelly.\" \"Publishers Weekly\" states: \"The narrative may feature plenty of explicit sex and violence, but the motives for the killers' murder rituals remain inadequately explained, as do the psychodynamics of their relationship, making this more an exercise in sensationalism than in sound storytelling.\""}, {"text": "Coral Creek Airport (FAA LID: FA54) is a private-use airport located 2 miles (3 km) northeast of Boca Grande, a community on Gasparilla Island in southwest Florida, United States. The airport itself is located in Placida in Charlotte County (specifically, on the Cape Haze Peninsula), about a mile north of the separately-owned Coral Creek Club. The airport is privately owned by BK IV AS, L.L.C. The airfield is composed of a single asphalt runway connected to a ramp and two hangars via a single taxiway. There is one FBO for the airport, known as Boca Grande Jet Center. The office is attached to the main hangar which is connected to the public road by a private driveway. Services for the airport are restricted to members only with limited guest accommodations. Permission is needed to land. The pattern is uncontrolled (there is no air traffic control tower). History. Coral Creek Airport opened as Rotonda International Airport in the mid-1960s. It was purchased in 2003 and, subsequently, made private. In 2012, under new ownership, the 6000 foot runway, currently in place, was surfaced. In the late hours of May 20, 2013, a group of burglars cut through a section of wire fence"}, {"text": "along the perimeter to gain entry onto the property. Using three large trucks, they left damage, stole a large quantity of diesel fuel, as well as a fuel pump. The group was unable to get inside the locked hangars. Upon leaving, one of the trucks had gotten stuck in mud caused by recent heavy rainfall and a front-end loader was used to free the vehicle. Repairs were made to the damaged areas of the airport and regular service was quickly back underway, as was the expansion project taking place at the time. The expansion project saw the addition of a second hangar, now typically utilized for long-term car and plane storage. Total hangar area is 17,140 square feet. Facilities. The runway is lit by pilot-controlled, medium intensity lights with PAPIs on the north and south ends. A rotating beacon light is located on the main hangar. Weather is reported via an AWOS III P/T station. Both of the hangars are capable of holding Gulfstream/Global aircraft. There are six GA tiedowns on the ramp. Boca Grande Jet Center is a full-service FBO that offers Jet-A, Jet-A w/ Prist, 100LL, GPU, and LAV. There are kitchen and shower facilities on the property,"}, {"text": "as well as internet in the main FBO office. The FBO can also arrange rental cars and catering. Activities. Due to the private nature of the airport and because it serves members on demand, it is difficult to gather a consistent schedule or number of movements. Takeoffs and landings can range from few to several on any given day. Generally, peak season occurs between October and June, the period of business for the nearby Gasparilla Inn (whose guests are given limited access to the airport). Neither the airport nor the airspace is used for training purposes. Aircraft. Common aircraft operating at the airport include: The runway can accommodate aircraft with a gross weight up to 100,000 lbs. While the airport does store aircraft when members fly in, there are none permanently based at the airport. All aircraft are privately owned or chartered by members."}, {"text": "Gregorio Hern\u00e1ndez R\u00edos (17 November 1936 \u2013 8 January 2012), known as El Goyo, was a Cuban rumba singer, dancer and percussionist. A founding member of the Conjunto Folkl\u00f3rico Nacional, he was also the leader of a Santer\u00eda music ensemble, Grupo Oba-Il\u00fa. He toured Europe and Latin America with various ensembles and recorded with Tata G\u00fcines, Alfredo Rodr\u00edguez and Jane Bunnett, among others. For the collaborative album \"La rumba soy yo\" he received the Latin Grammy Award in 2001. His album \"La rumba es cubana\" was nominated to the 2003 \"Premio Cubadisco\" in the Best Folk Album and Best Design categories, winning the latter. He has been described as one of the most important \"rumberos\" of contemporary Havana. El Goyo was also a teacher at the Instituto Superior de Arte, where he taught Afro-Cuban music. He was the director of the Cuban Society of Percussionists (PERCUBA) for fifteen years. Despite his academic commitments, he still performed as a street musician in the \"solares\" of Havana until his death. Biography. Born in the Pinar del R\u00edo Province, but registered in the Havana census, on 17 November 1936, \"El Goyo\"\u2014as he was always known\u2014began his career as a singer and dancer from"}, {"text": "a very young age. He accompanied his father as \"pregonero\" and later joined various dance ensembles. His big break came in 1962, when he was accepted into the Conjunto Folkl\u00f3rico Nacional, a new ensemble organised by the government to preserve Cuba's cultural traditions and to present them abroad. He also became an educator at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. By the 1990s, el Goyo was one of Havana's most prominent \"rumberos\" and he began to collaborate on numerous recordings with artists such as Tata G\u00fcines, Alfredo Rodr\u00edguez (in Paris) and Jane Bunnett. In 2000, he recorded an album dedicated to the history of rumba entitled \"La rumba es cubana\", which was nominated to the Cubadisco awards two years later. Also in 2000, he organised the recording \"La rumba soy yo\", a similarly themed album featuring a different lineup on each song. The success of the album, which won the 2001 Latin Grammy Award for Best Folk Album, spurred the recording of a sequel. El Goyo continued to work as an educator at the Instituto Superior de Arte until his death in 2012. Discography. Solo albums Collaborative albums With Grupo Ob\u00e1-Il\u00fa As guest vocalist"}, {"text": "Governor Stewart may refer to:"}, {"text": "Louisiana's 31st State Senate district is one of 39 districts in the Louisiana State Senate. It has been represented by Republican Louie Bernard since 2020, succeeding term-limited fellow Republican Gerald Long. Geography. District 31 covers the Central Louisiana parishes of Red River and Sabine as well as parts of Grant, Natchitoches, Rapides, and Winn Parishes, including some or all of Alexandria, Natchitoches, Many, Winnfield, and Coushatta. The district is split between Louisiana's 4th and 5th congressional districts, and overlaps with the 7th, 13th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th districts of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Recent election results. Louisiana uses a jungle primary system. If no candidate receives 50% in the first round of voting, when all candidates appear on the same ballot regardless of party, the top-two finishers advance to a runoff election."}, {"text": "Ashwini Deshpande is an Indian economist best known for her papers concerning various topics such as poverty, inequality, regional disparities, and gender discrimination. She is currently working as a professor at Ashoka University; she has taught at the Delhi School of Economics in the past as well. She has won many awards for her papers and publications, one of which is called \"Grammar of Caste: Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India\". Education and work. Ashwini Deshpande completed her bachelor's honors in Economics in 1985 from the University of Delhi. She then proceeded to complete her masters at the Delhi School of Economics in 1987. Additionally, in 1994 she earned her Ph.D. at the Delhi School of Economics with \"Some Aspects of the International Debt Crisis of Developing Countries\". After graduating she was a lecturer at different colleges and universities in the Delhi area. From 1998-2000 Ashwini Deshpande Post-doctoral research fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. She also has a lot of major research and organisational experience, which includes being a chairperson at the annual conference for development and change from 2005-2007 and 2010. In 2007 she was one of four people appointed to be the principal investigators in a"}, {"text": "project on Urban Labour Market Inequality in India, which was initiated by Princeton University, USA and Indian Institute of Dalit Studies. She was also an author in a DFID funded study \"Gender-caste growth assessment\" designed to bring out the interconnections between growth and gender/caste inequalities in India. Additionally she was a regional author for the 2010 UN Report written by Naila Kabeer about inequality and if the MDG would be able to diminish the inequalities which many face. She was also appointed to some official positions including being a member of the Ministry of Minority Affairs in 2007, the consultative group of external sector in 2004, and in planning commission all for the Government of India. She has also done some work internationally, she was the deputy director of the Cambridge Advanced Program on Development Economics in 2002. She also served as a Social Sciences Jury Member for the Infosys Prize 2020. Notable works. Ashwini Deshpande has written several works, including books, journal articles, and papers. The overall theme of her work is the effects of Indian culture on its own society. She has also written some articles about music. Books. Ashwini Deshpande has currently published several books of her"}, {"text": "own, including \"The Grammar of Caste: Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India\", published in 2011, \"Globalization and Development: A Handbook of New Perspectives\", published in 2010, and \"The Global Economic Crisis and the Developing World\". \"The Grammar of Caste: Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India\" is about the discrimination there is within Indian society because of the caste system in India and how it has changed in recent years. Data from the Indian Railways for 23 years was examined. Research from various other writers suggests that there are patterns in the labour market which show that in many jobs people are discriminated against just because of their caste. \"Globalization and Development: A Handbook of New Perspectives\" is a book written about the alternatives of globalization. Taking specific countries as case studies, the book explores alternative policies which could be implemented outside of the mainstream discourse. In the book, decomposition method was used to measure the discrimination people face because of the caste system, and she discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using this methodology as well. \"The Global Economic Crisis and the Developing World\" is a book about how wealth inequality can be effected by an economic crisis. In addition, it analyzes"}, {"text": "how unemployment is affected in a country due to a financial crisis by comparing separate countries unemployment and inequality levels. In the book, the main countries which are discussed are South Africa and Brazil. There was a correlation between inequality and unemployment with a coefficient of 80% based on data from 2001, 2002, and 2007. But, South Africa was a bit of an outlier as the data from the middle-class did not have a correlation with unemployment compared to the other classes and Brazil. The results showed that for a country to face the least amount of loss during a crisis, policies to maximize employment should be implemented. Journals. Ashwini Deshpande has written, co-written, and edited hundreds of papers, below are some specifically concerning the effects of the caste system in India. \"Local Social Inequality, Economic Inequality, and Disparities in Child Height in India\" (2019). In this study, child height is analyzed as a marker of population health levels. The study took these height differences and compared them to the socioeconomic status of each child, as it would be assumed that a child with higher socioeconomic status would have a higher chance of being healthier and therefore taller. In the"}, {"text": "study they also looked at the relationship between the caste system in the particular area and how it affected the children's heights. The conclusion of the study was not clear as there seemed to be no direct trend which also associated with the caste system. Also the results contrasted with results from similar studies, who could actually find a correlation between the two variables. \"Who Is the Identifiable Victim? Caste and Charitable Giving in Modern India\" (2016). India has a very high wealth gap, and there are millions of charities worldwide asking for donations for poor kids in India. This study examines the markets in term of behaviour as people donate more and more . The study identifies an \"identifiable victim effect\" which can be seen in specific individuals. Data was collected for three different experiments. The first experiment consisted of a survey to receive detailed information about the person, so variables such as caste, age, and gender can be factored into the results. The second experiment ran around 56,000 advertisements of charities which were shown online in India to see if there were any common trends in the marketing of the charities. Thirdly the participants from the first survey"}, {"text": "would need to allocate real money to their preferred charity, this would show how each advertisement has an effect of the consumer and how it impacts their decision and how much they donate. The results of this paper concluded that the victim effect for high-caste individuals was more identifiable than the other participants. In lower-caste individuals this effect was minimal or even reversed, this would mean that when a person from a low-caste sees advertisements about people in need they are less likely to donate compared to high-caste individuals. The results of the study show how the caste-system still has an impact of an individual's choice in India. \"Disadvantage and discrimination in self-employment: caste gaps in earnings in Indian small businesses\" (2016). This study looks at data from the 2004\u20132005 India Human Development Survey, and compares the earnings from a business to an individual's caste. One uncertainty from this study is that some aspects of earning may be unexplained, if one company earns more than the other it may not be case the answer is because their caste is different, it may just be that their product is poor. In the results around 55% of the gap was unexplained, which"}, {"text": "may render the results to not be as factual. But from the data comparison it was concluded that business owners that are from a lower or middle-case face greater discrimination in their earnings compared to higher-caste owners. \"Overlapping Identities under Liberalization: Gender and Caste in India\" (2007). This study specifically looks at the gender-caste overlap by compating data from the National Family and Health Survey and the Gender-Caste Development Index . There was no conclusion for this particular study as the data was not able to be compared due to differences in years in which the data was presented. But, the author did make a comment that there could be possible links between early liberalization and intergroup disparity based on evidence. The research for this study was to quantify the aspects of the gender-caste overlap in India, but collecting data which could come up with clear results proved to be difficult. In an earlier paper Deshpande wrote in 2002 she has mentioned that the subgroup which is the worst off in India by about having double the burder is the group of low-caste women. Double jeopardy? Caste, affirmative action, and stigma. This study looks at what the consequences are in"}, {"text": "university because of the caste system. A survey was given to university students, where they were asking questions regarding the admission process regarding non-reserved or open seats, which are seen as beneficiary programs that the university implements to give a fair chance to everyone applying, especially because in India there is sometimes corruption involved for admissions. In the results it was clear that students from a higher-caste did not take the beneficiary programs as well as the lower-caste students. Meaning higher-caste students were more judging and were looking at the programs prejudicially, which stems from the caste-system in India. The results point out that anti-discriminatory rules and policies should be put in action by educational institutions in India to decrease the amount of stigma revolving around low-caste individuals."}, {"text": "Gregorio Hern\u00e1ndez may refer to:"}, {"text": "Governor Stuart may refer to:"}, {"text": "Governor Talbot may refer to:"}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85-1 is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about north of Leross. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 0 of its 0 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85-2A is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is located 10 kilometres northwest of Leross. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0."}, {"text": "Venus Optics (Anhui ChangGeng Optics Technology Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese manufacturer of photographic lenses, specialized in the design of innovative macro, wide angle, shift and f/0.95 lenses. Headquarters and production are in Hefei, while sales and marketing offices are located in Hong Kong and the USA. They are currently marketing the lenses using the brand 'Laowa'. Company. Venus Optics was founded in 2013. Founder, managing director and chief developer is Dayong Li who graduated in opto-electronic engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology. The company develops and produces innovative photographic lenses under the brand name Laowa ('old frog'). Laowa's optics designer, Dayong Li, is believed to be the optics designer of Tamron, the reputable camera lens manufacturer from Japan. He was heavily involved in numerous Tamron's project development including the popular 24-70mm f/2.8 and 70-200mm f/2.8. Lenses. The first lens was the 60 mm f/2.8 2 x Ultra Macro, a full frame lens with a magnification factor of 2:1 that could also be focused to infinity which is unique. In the same year, Venus Optics released the widest angle macro lens to offer a 1:1 magnification ratio, the 15 mm f/4 Wide Angle Macro. The small focal length allows"}, {"text": "to include the background details (e.g., where and how the subject lives) in the photo. Due to physical reasons, the working distance in the macro range is rather short (at 1:1, focusing distance is 12.2 cm resulting in a working distance of only 4.7 mm). In the meantime, Venus Optics have released unique lenses mainly in the fields of ultra macro and rectilinear and/or fast ultra wide angle lenses for full frame, APS-C, MFT, and Fujifilm G-Mount (see table). Most Laowa lenses (an exception is e.g., the 100 mm f/2,8 2x Ultra Macro APO) are purely manual lenses. There is no communication between the camera body and the lens, hence, no transfer of Exif data, no autofocus function, no lens-based image stabilization (OIS), and no automatic aperture control. However, autofocus plays a minor role in macro and wide angle photography. Auto focus bracketing is not possible with manual lenses. The company does not exclude the development of more lenses with electronics in them. Advertising. Since 2017, Laowa had organised multiple international marketing campaigns bearing its slogan \"New Idea, New Fun\". Competitions. Laowa has used competition as an advertising vehicle to encourage its users to share their image. The company first"}, {"text": "started organising Laowa Photo Competition in 2017. Initially focusing on photos from its own lenses, and later it also allow images taken with other brand's lenses. As of 2021, there are other brands collaborate in the 5th Laowa Photo Competition and sponsored prize for the event. Laowa Video Marathon. Laowa Video Marathon is an invitation-only program launched by Laowa in 2021. It has gathered 10 videographers and YouTubers, including Motoaki(Aki from Japan), Jason Morris, Helena Gudkova(cameragirlhelena), Yeyoph and more. The program consists of 10 one-minute long short films. Each video's beginning would match the ending shot from the last video. Laowagrapher. In early 2021, Laowa interviewed multiple up-and-coming photographers and introduced them as \"Laowagrapher\". It consists group of photographers from all over the world."}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85-8 is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about north-east of Lestock. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 5 living in 1 of its 2 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Governor Tyler may refer to:"}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85-10 is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is about north of Lestock. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 5 living in 1 of its 2 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85-12 is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about west of Kelliher. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 0 of its 0 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Robert Sedlacek, b. 23 July 1881 in Vienna, died 15 May 1957 in Vienna, was a commercial artist and illustrator. He illustrated the Nesth\u00e4kchen books of Else Ury. Early years. Sedlacek trained with Siegmund L'Allemand, 1900-1904, at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and became a middle school teacher 1904. Later career. From 1945 to 1952 Sedlacek was a member of the in Vienna. He worked as a graphic artist for industry (including advertisements for 4711 cologne and Persil laundry detergent) and illustrated more than 200 books. He was employed by the publications ' and ' and published his illustrations in Zurich and Vienna. For Meidingers Jugendschriften Verlag Sedlacek illustrated the Nesth\u00e4kchen books of Else Ury with colored, full-page glossy images as well as black and white pen drawings. In later editions he changed his illustrations slightly, adapting to the style of the time."}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85-15 is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about north of Lestock. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 5 living in 1 of its 1 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85-17 is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about south-west of Lestock. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 0 of its 0 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85-22 is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about north of Fort Qu'Appelle. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 0 of its 0 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85-23 is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about south-west of Lestock, and adjacent to the southern boundary of Muskowekwan 85. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 0 of its 0 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85-24 is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is about north of Fort Qu'Appelle. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 0 of its 0 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Marwa Al-Sabouni (; born 18 September 1981) is a Syrian architect and writer. She believes that architecture plays a role in maintaining a city's peace. Her first book, \"The Battle for Home\", was selected by The Guardian as one of the top architectural books of 2016. She was selected as one of the BBC 100 Women in 2019. Early life and education. Al-Sabouni was born in Homs. She has claimed that in Syria the students with the highest grades study medicine, whilst those achieving lower grades study engineering. Al-Sabouni would go on to study architecture. Al-Sabouni noticed that there were no functioning parks or cultural spaces close to where she lived. She has spoken about her early life to \"The Guardian\", \"I had no illusions of being the next Zaha Hadid...Nevertheless, hope is blind, and always manages to find its way into the human heart, mine included\". She holds a bachelor's and doctoral degree in architecture, and has called Frank Lloyd Wright one of her inspirations. Her undergraduate training involved copying Western styles, such as the American homes in Cape Cod, from library books. Her doctoral dissertation, \"Stereotyping in Islamic Architecture\", was featured on deconarch.com\".\" Career. When the Syrian Civil"}, {"text": "War broke out in 2011, Al-Sabouni made the decision to stay in the city she had grown up in. She spent two years hiding inside, home-schooling her two young children and not seeing the moon. When the rebel forces left Syria in 2015 over 60% of the neighbourhood was left in rubble. She has spoken about the housing crisis in Syria, with almost half of the Syrian population living in temporary accommodation or informal housing, and how the architecture contributed to its downfall. Al-Sabouni believes that the architecture of cities are fundamental to their harmony. Al-Sabouni's autobiography, \"The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria\" was released in 2016. It considers the roles of architects and city planners in violence and civil conflict by corrupting community relationships through piecemeal buildings. She argues that efforts must be made to restore peace through urban developments. It includes her proposals for the rebuild of the Baba Amr district, designing structures that draw on Syria's historical ways to keep communities living together harmoniously. Her design includes tree units that contain shops and community spaces in trunks, as well as apartments on their branches. Her efforts look to restore social cohesion"}, {"text": "and a sense of identity. It was selected by The Guardian as one of the top architectural books of 2016. Her 2021 book, \"Building for Hope: Towards an Architecture of Belonging\", was published by Thames & Hudson. She co-runs with her husband (a fellow architect) an online space that communicates architectural news in Arabic, the \"Arabic gate for architectural news\", as well as a bookshop in Homs\".\" In 2016 she delivered a TED talk, \"How Syria's architecture laid the foundation for a brutal war\", that has been viewed over one million times. She has provided expert advice to the World Economic Forum and for NPR and the BBC, as well as writing for The Wall Street Journal. Awards and honours. Her awards and honours include; Personal life. Al-Sabouni is married to Ghassan Jansiz, with whom she has a daughter and son."}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85-26 is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about north-west of Fort Qu'Appelle. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 0 of its 0 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85-27 is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about south of Wynyard. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 0 of its 0 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Walter Kutz (1904 \u2013 1983) was a German art director."}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85-28 is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about west of Yorkton. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 1 of its 1 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85-29 is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about west of Yorkton. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 5 living in 2 of its 3 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85-31 is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about north-west of Melville. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 0 living in 0 of its 0 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "Muskowekwan 85-33 is an Indian reserve of the Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about south-west of Lestock. In the 2016 Canadian Census, a population of 0 was recorded in 1 of its 1 total private dwellings."}, {"text": "To Be One with You is the debut studio album from multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Josh Klinghoffer, under the pseudonym of Pluralone. The album features guest appearances from his Red Hot Chili Peppers bandmate Flea and his bandmates in the experimental rock band Dot Hacker, Eric Gardner and Clint Walsh along with appearances by former Jane's Addiction bassist Eric Avery and former Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam drummer Jack Irons. Klinghoffer previously released the single \"Io Sono Quel Che Sono/Menina Mulher Da Pele Preta\" under the Pluralone name. \"Shade\" was released as the first single. \"Fall from Grace\" was released as second digital single on 12 November 2019. Both songs were released on ORG Music label Soundcloud profile. Three weeks after the record's release it was announced that Josh was parting ways with the Red Hot Chili Peppers due to John Frusciante's return to the band. Music. Klinghoffer mentioned John Cale influence on \"Shade\" by saying: \"I was listening to John Cale when this one came. There was a caustic nature to the whole thing. I heard drum fills that bucked time and guitar solo of gun shots (opted against that approach). Enlisted the sweet sounds of Clint Walsh"}, {"text": "to try and hide a bit of the bitterness.\" On the release of \"Fall From Grace\" Klinghoffer said that it \"is one of those improvised songs that I spent ages trying to decipher and turn into something mildly coherent. Not sure if I succeeded, but I think I captured the initial spirit\u2026I think.\" \"Was Never There\", with Flea on bass and Jack Irons on drums, and \"Obscene\" were originally written for Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2012 and 2015 respectively. In December, the Official Pluralone Fan Club was announced, the first 250 enrolled received a 7-inch vinyl with the unreleased songs \"Obscene\" and \"Fairy Tale\". Two more B-Sides from the \"To Be One with You sessions\" was released digitally on July 3, with the songs \"Nowhere I Am\" & \"Directrix\", the first one also count with Flea and Irons. On July 17 it will be released in a limited 7-inch blue vinyl. In November 2021, for the second anniversary of the album's release, fans held a listening party where demos of \"You Don't Know What You're Doing\" and \"Fairy Tale\" were released, plus the unreleased songs \"It's a Good Thing\" and \"Ceylon\". Outtakes. According to an interview given to the"}, {"text": "medium Spin, Klinghoffer mentions that for the album sessions 17 songs were worked, of which 16 have seen the light and one remains unreleased. This songs were released digitally and on 7-inch vinyls. The first two were \"You Don't Know What You're Doing\" and \"Overflowing\" released on the album's \"Deluxe bundle\", the songs \"Obscene\" and \"Fairy Tale\" were released as a gift for joining the Fan Club and later appears in the official store. The following \"Nowhere I Am\" and \"Directrix\" appeared as the third installment on the B-sides of the album. Personnel. with:"}, {"text": "Muskwaminiwatim 225 is an Indian reserve of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is near Ballantyne Bay on Deschambault Lake. The southern boundary of the reserve runs along the Ballantyne River."}, {"text": "Pamela Buchner (born 1939) is a British actress of television and stage who is perhaps best remembered for her performance as Miss Young in the \"Fawlty Towers\" episode \"The Kipper and the Corpse\" in 1979. She was born as Pamela Mary Buchner in 1939 in Boston in Lincolnshire, the daughter of Kathleen Florence \"n\u00e9e\" Bristol (1912-2010) and Gilbert Elliott Ernest Buchner (1907-1975), Chief Engineer at Witham Fourth District Internal Drainage Board and who received the MBE in the 1958 Birthday Honours. She worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and appeared in the original production of Peter Gill's play \"A Provincial Life\" at the Royal Court Theatre (1966) and in \"The Miracle Worker\" at the Grand Theatre in Leeds in 1970. She performed in South Africa in the 1970s in \"Rookery Nook\", \"Move Over, Mrs. Markham\", \"Mr Rhodes and the Princess\", \"Antony and Cleopatra\" and \"Present Laughter\", all with Cape Performing Arts Board (CAPAB). Her television roles include: Queen of Night/Papagena (speaking) in \"Operavox\" (1995); Dr Mayner in \"The Bill\" (1994); Brenda in \"Moon and Son\" (1992); Mrs Janie Russell in \"The Gentle Touch\" (1980-1983); Miss Young in the episode The Kipper and the Corpse in \"Fawlty Towers\" (1979); Donna Lucia"}, {"text": "D'Alvadorez in the TV movie \"Charley's Aunt\" (1977); Miss Portal in \"Wolly Wenpol, the Complete Works\" for \"ITV Sunday Night Theatre\" (1970); Female Officer in \"Parkin's Patch\" (1969), and WDC Ann Foster in \"Dixon of Dock Green\" (1967-1968). In 1997 she played Mrs Perkins in \"The Admirable Crichton\" for the Chichester Festival Theatre; 2008 saw her as Miss Shepherd in a stage version of \"The Lady in the Van\" at the Theatre by the Lake in Keswick, while in 2011 she played Rebecca Nurse in Arthur Miller's \"The Crucible\" at the York Theatre Royal in York."}, {"text": "The Nakaway Ahkeeng Reserve is an Indian reserve of the Yellow Quill First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is in the city of Saskatoon."}, {"text": "Nakiskatowaneek 227 is an Indian reserve of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is at the junction of Highway 106 and Highway 135."}, {"text": "Starbright World was an online community for children with chronic illnesses established in 1995. Initially conceived as a 3D virtual world for use in hospitals, it was developed by Worlds Inc. for the Starbright Foundation. The 3D world\u2015credited as one of the first applications of virtual reality in medicine\u2015operated until 1997, when it was shut down due to technical issues. In 1998, it was replaced with a private social network, which is now defunct. Worlds Inc. would later launch lawsuits against several massively multiplayer online game companies, claiming that they held the rights to the concept of multiplayer virtual worlds based on patents obtained in relation to Starbright World. Virtual world. The planning for Starbright World began in 1993. The project was organized by the Starbright Foundation, a charity headed by Steven Spielberg which was a sister organization of the Starlight Children's Foundation. Initially, Starbright World was conceived as a 3D virtual world in which children could interact with each other using avatars. Tamiko Thiel, working under Worlds Inc., was the creative director, and companies such as Sprint and Intel partnered with Starbright to provide the necessary equipment and infrastructure. Development costs were estimated to be in the \"multimillions\". The"}, {"text": "program was officially launched on November 8, 1995, with four hospitals participating. Players accessed Starbright World through terminals connected to a private DS3 network that linked hospitals to one another. In the 3D world, children could chat with other users, play games and build new structures. The program also supported videoconferencing. Spielberg and Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (Starbright's chair of fundraising) made cameos in the game as E.T. and a teddy bear, respectively. Starbright World was an early example of a virtual world game and one of the first uses of virtual reality in medicine. The technology, though advanced for the time, was not without issues. An editor for the \"New York Times\" criticized Starbright World for being \"slow and clumsy\" and lacking interactive activities. A pilot study found that players encountered serious technical difficulties about a quarter of the time, although performance improved over the course of the study. In 1997, the 3D world was shut down due to concerns about stability and ease of use. Later history. Starbright World was relaunched in July 1998 as a social network including message boards, chat rooms, videoconferencing and games. It was initially accessible only through a private network installed in hospitals; by"}, {"text": "2000, 80 American hospitals were using the program. Later versions could be accessed from home. Several clinical trials evaluated the effect of the social network on patients' symptoms and quality of life. The website is no longer operational. In the 2000s, Worlds Inc. claimed that they held the rights to the concept of multiplayer virtual worlds based on patents relating to Starbright World. This led them to file lawsuits against several MMO companies. A lawsuit against Activision Blizzard was dismissed in 2021, when a US district court ruled that \"Worlds' patents were abstract ideas that were not sufficiently transformative to be legally patentable.\""}, {"text": "Minnie Lou Bradley (born December 15, 1931) was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 2006. Bradley is considered an innovator in the beef cattle industry. Life. Minnie Lou Bradley was born Minnie Lou Ottinger on December 15, 1931, in Blaine County, Oklahoma. Bradley wanted a book on livestock rather than girl toys. She performed chores to pay for it. Bradley was active in the local 4-H Club, where she showed Angus cattle, sheep, and swine. She was not able to join the Future Farmers of America then as it was male-only membership. Bradley was showing animals at age 9. She received her first Angus cow at age 13. Bradley graduated from high school in Hydro, Oklahoma. She married Bill Bradley in 1955. She and Bradley raised one son and one daughter together Career. Bradley is a rancher and a cattlewoman. She and her family own and operate the Bradley 3 Ranch in Childress County, Texas. Bradley and a handful of women were first to earn a degree in animal husbandry from Oklahoma State University (formerly Oklahoma A&M). She is the first woman to join the Intercollegiate Livestock Judging Team. She was the first woman president"}, {"text": "of the American Angus Association. She has been awarded many times by the agriculture industry in her long history for her contributions to the beef industry. Also in 1955, the year they were married, the Bradleys bought a ranch near Childress co-owned with Billy Jack's parents. The combined property they named Bradley 3 Ranch. The two families ran it together for some time. Eventually, Minnie became the head of the ranch. Last reports showed that Billy Jack was living in Vernon, Texas, and Minnie Lou and her daughter were running Bradley 3 Ranch. Their son had died early. Bradley has been recognized for work of the Angus breed, her success in crossbreeding Angus and Hereford cattle. In 2014, her portrait was unveiled to be displayed in the Saddle and Sirloin Gallery in Lexington Kentucky."}, {"text": "Governor Yates may refer to:"}, {"text": "Vail v. Juul Labs, Inc., is a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Daniel David Wakefield's mother, Lisa Vail, on October 15, 2019 against Juul Labs. According to the complaint, Juul caused the death of the 18-year-old via its marketing tactics. The wrongful death lawsuit has been filed by San Francisco\u2013based firm Levin Simes Abrams which has previously litigated in cases concerning e-cigarette battery explosions. The case has been filed as a personal injury/product liability claim in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The case has been assigned to William Orrick III. Case background and media response. \"The suggestion that only black market vape products are connected to vape-related deaths and illness is entirely inaccurate, if you ask two lawyers representing the mother of 18-year-old David Wakefield who suffered from asthma and died while fighting a two-year addiction to Juul Labs Inc.'s nicotine e-cigarettes,\" Alexis Keenan, a Yahoo! Finance reporter, stated on October 15, 2019. \"[The case] is going to be a shouting match, as lawyers say, between experts, between the plaintiff's physicians and psychiatrists and the defendant's physicians and psychiatrists as to whether or not Juul actually caused or precipitated the death,\" judicial analyst judge"}, {"text": "Andrew Napolitano said on October 16, 2019. This is the first wrongful death vaping lawsuit. The 18-year-old died in his sleep on August 31, 2018 purportedly as a result of breathing difficulties after years of Juul use. On the night he died, he was not showing any signs of breathing problems, according to his mother. He was a healthy teenager until he started using Juul at 15, to the complaint. In under a year of Juul use, the teenager had terrible mood swings and his efforts in school dropped, according to the complaint. His family contends that Juul Labs capitalized on the lack of e-cigarette regulations and marketed its product to appeal to youth. The teenager was enticed, the complaint contends, to Juul's \"candy-like flavors, sleek and discreet design, and its representations that it was a healthier alternative to combustible cigarettes.\""}, {"text": "Abb\u00e9 Huard River () is a river in the C\u00f4te-Nord region of the province of Quebec, Canada. It is a tributary of the Romaine River. The lower part of the river, where it meandered through sand and gravel deposits, has been flooded by the Romaine-2 reservoir. Location. The Abb\u00e9-Huard River, a tributary of the Romaine River, originates in Abb\u00e9 Huard Lake. The lake is in the unorganized territory of Lac-J\u00e9r\u00f4me in the Minganie Regional County Municipality. It is a little more than north of the municipality of Baie-Johan-Beetz on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The river is the second northeast branch of the Romaine River. The mouth of the river, where it meets the Romaine River, is also in Lac-J\u00e9r\u00f4me. Before the river was flooded, the Abb\u00e9-Huard entered the Romaine at PK 131. Name. Abb\u00e9 Huard Lake is named after the abb\u00e9 Victor-Alphonse Huard (1853\u20131929), a naturalist and a professor at the Chicoutimi Seminary. He visited the region between Pessamit and Natashquan in 1895, and described the trip in his \"Labrador et Anticosti\" (1897). In his \"Dictionary of Rivers and Lakes of the Province of Quebec\" (1914), Eug\u00e8ne Rouillard points out the lake was probably named"}, {"text": "after the Abb\u00e9 Huard before the river. The Innu call the river \"Uauiekamau Hipu\", or \"Round Lake River\". The Naskapi call the river \"Umuauk Shipu\" or \"Loon River\", a literal translation of the French \"Rivi\u00e8re Huard\". Basin. The river basin covers . The river flows along the contact zone between rocks of the Anorthositic Suite of Havre-Saint-Pierre to the north, and deformed rocks to the south. A map of the ecological regions of Quebec shows the river on the border between sub-regions 6j-S and 6n-T of the east spruce/moss subdomain. Flooded section. The lower part of the Abb\u00e9-Huard River now forms the northeast arm of the Romaine-2 reservoir. Before the Romaine-2 reservoir was flooded, the mouth of the river flowed between terraces of sand and gravel. These banks typically rose from above the watercourse. About of the river's banks were subject to active erosion, mostly on the concave shores. There was a well-developed delta at the river mouth. Water temperatures at the mouth of the river where it entered the Romaine ranged from an average of in January to in July. The flooded section was thought to have high archaeological potential, but a survey found no sites."}, {"text": "The Nekaneet Reserve is an Indian reserve of the Nekaneet Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is 121 kilometres southwest of Swift Current. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 182 living in 46 of its 62 total private dwellings. In the same year, its Community Well-Being index was calculated at 58 of 100, compared to 58.4 for the average First Nations community and 77.5 for the average non-Indigenous community."}, {"text": "A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Coogee on 25 June 1938 because of the death of United Australia Party member John Dunningham."}, {"text": "Nemekus Sakahikan 221 is an Indian reserve of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is near Tocher Lake."}, {"text": "Gouverneur Morris (1752\u20131816) was an American statesman. Governor Morris may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Northern Lights 220 is an Indian reserve of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is in the city of Prince Albert."}, {"text": "Ocean Man 69 is an Indian reserve of the Ocean Man First Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about north-east of Stoughton. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 185 living in 56 of its 61 total private dwellings. In the same year, its Community Well-Being index was calculated at 48 of 100, compared to 58.4 for the average First Nations community and 77.5 for the average non-Indigenous community."}, {"text": "The Beautiful Master (German: Die sch\u00f6ne Meisterin) is a 1956 West German comedy film directed by Rudolf Sch\u00fcndler and starring Herta Staal, Paul B\u00f6siger and Walter Gross. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Emil Hasler and Walter Kutz. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location around the Chiemsee in Bavaria."}, {"text": "The 1988\u201389 season was Mansfield Town's 52nd season in the Football League and 18th in the Third Division they finished in 15th position with 59 points."}, {"text": "Joan Cather (1882\u20131967) was a suffragette, awarded a Hunger Strike Medal, 'For Valour' and a Holloway brooch for imprisonment in the cause of women's rights to vote, and also as protest refused to take part in the 1911 British Census. Life and Activism. Born Joan Waller in 1882, she married John Leonard Cather in 1908. Her husband was a former Royal Navy Lieutenant and on leaving the service became by 1911 Census, a Motor Body Builder. Cather was not recorded in the 1911 Census, along with other women refusing to be 'counted' if they had no right to vote. Her husband supported her position as he had annotated the Census form that he had 'conscientious scruples' as head of household to note any 'female occupants' to avoid the census statistics being used by legislators for 'further vexatious legislation' against women 'in which they have no voice'. He went on to say he would provide the information if the Conciliation Committee Bill passed into law. The Registrar did however note two females as 'the probable number'. Lt. Cather also joined in 1912 the Men's League for Women's Suffrage and was honorary secretary, and also was by 1914, chairman of the Finance"}, {"text": "Committee of the Church League for Women's Suffrage, where Joan Cather was the honorary propaganda secretary. This organisation aimed to 'Secure the Vote in Church and State as it is, or may be granted to men'. It was over a century later that females were permitted to be ordained as bishops within the Church of England. The Church League in 1914 allowed individuals to participate in other movements for the cause of women's equality but their own organisation's 'only methods.. are those of Prayer and Education\". Imprisonment and recognition. Cather was awarded a Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) Hunger Strike Medal for her imprisonment on 4 March 1912, a date when many women were arrested for a militant campaign of window-breaking. The citation engraved on the bar is 'For Valour' and the inscription says\"PRESENTED TO JOAN CATHER BY THE WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION IN RECOGNITION OF A GALLANT ACTION, WHEREBY THROUGH ENDURANCE TO THE LAST EXTREMITY OF HUNGER AND HARDSHIP A GREAT PRINCIPLE OF POLITICAL JUSTICE WAS VINDICATED.\"The medal ribbons were in the WSPU colours of green white and purple. Cather's medal is in the British Museum. Cather was also given a Holloway brooch also by the Women's"}, {"text": "Social and Political Union in recognition of her suffering for the cause."}, {"text": "Patrick Egan, (20 July 1923 \u2013 9 July 2016) was an Irish Catholic (Redemptorist) priest, notable for being in charge of the Men's Confraternity in Clonard Monastery, Belfast, when the \"Troubles\" broke out in August 1969. He anointed those who were shot that day and tried to stop a potential massacre of Catholics by calling in British troops. Egan spent much of his time working as a priest in the Gaeltacht areas of the west of Ireland. He was a first cousin of Monsignor Brian Egan. Early life. Patrick Egan was born in Carrowbeg, County Mayo, on 20 July 1923, to Daniel Egan (1888 \u2013 1986) and Mary Conway (1882 \u2013 1966). His father was a farmer. Patrick grew up as the youngest of five children. He was professed as a Redemptorist on 3 October 1947 in Dundalk, County Louth, and he was ordained a priest on 27 August 1950, in Cluain Mhuire, County Galway. The Troubles. Egan was in charge of the Men's Confraternity in Clonard Monastery, Belfast, when the \"Troubles\" broke out. Between 12 and 16 August 1969, there was an outbreak of political and sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. Civil rights marches, demanding an end to discrimination"}, {"text": "against Catholics and Irish nationalists, had been repeatedly attacked by Ulster Protestant loyalists and also came into frequent conflict with the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), the overwhelmingly Protestant police force. On the night of 14 August 1969, an attack on Clonard Monastery by loyalist mobs begun. Around an hour and a half later, shots rang out from the loyalist side. Fiann Gerald McAuley, only fifteen years old, was shot, and later died. He was anointed where he fell by Egan. who had been watching events unfold from the upstairs window in the Monastery. He would anoint four others within the next hour. Fearing a massacre, he attempted to contact the British Army's general officer commanding (GOC) to request the presence of troops to deter more violence. When the first British soldiers reached Falls Road at 7 pm, Egan tried to persuade their commanding officer to move into the Clonard area, but he declined, as the soldiers had other orders. Many nearby streets had been set on fire by the loyalists. In the aftermath of the burning of nearby Bombay Street, hundreds of members of the local community gathered in the church of Clonard Monastery, where Egan delivered a sermon to"}, {"text": "the Men's Confraternity on the violence he had witnessed and on his hope that peace could be restored. Transcripts and audio recordings of this sermon exist today. Later life. Egan spent much of his life working as a priest in the Gaeltacht areas of County Galway. He also gave retreats in the now infamous St Joseph's Industrial School, Letterfrack. Egan lived at his sister Kay Egan's (1918-2013) home on the family farm in Carrowbeg, County Mayo, and the Redemptorist community in Esker, County Galway. Death. Egan passed away on 9 July 2016 at University Hospital Galway at around 5 pm. He was 92 years old."}, {"text": "Jagat Singh may refer to:"}, {"text": "Governor Byrne may refer to:"}, {"text": "The Angel of Terror is a 1922 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. Adaptation. In 1963 it was turned into the film \"Ricochet\" directed by John Moxey as part of a long-running series of Wallace films made at Merton Park Studios."}, {"text": "Governor Burns may refer to:"}, {"text": "Surrogacy is legal in Canada, provided that it is an altruistic (unpaid) act. In 2004, the federal government of Canada passed the Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHRA), which criminalized commercial (paid) surrogacy. The validity of surrogacy contracts and the process for establishing the child's parentage is governed by provincial and territorial laws. Surrogacy is increasingly becoming more common in Canada due in part to the rise of infertility issues, and International intended parents being attracted by the high-quality universal health care and relatively liberal regulations. However, Canada's surrogacy laws are still subject to criticism, and many have pushed for revision of the law since the Act was passed. Legal restrictions. Based on the 1993 report by the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, as well as input from experts and individuals directly affected by assisted human reproduction technology, the federal government of Canada passed the Assisted Human Reproduction Act in 2004. It makes it illegal to pay a surrogate, egg donor, or sperm donor in Canada. It also criminalizes commercial \"intermediaries,\" such as surrogacy agencies, from arranging surrogacy services or matching prospective parents and surrogates. The Act establishes a minimum age of 21 for surrogates. While monetary or other gain"}, {"text": "is illegal, the Act allows the intended parent(s) to reimburse a surrogate for out-of-pocket expenses incurred in relation to the surrogacy. Including maternity clothes, medications, and travel. A surrogate may be reimbursed for lost wages; however, a doctor must declare in writing that bed rest is medically necessary for this reimbursement to be legal. Receipts must generally back reimbursements and cannot result in financial gain for the surrogate. As of 2018, there has only been one conviction under the Act: a 2014 case in which an Ontario company, Canadian Fertility Consultants, was fined $60,000 for purchasing eggs and paying surrogates. Provincial and territorial laws overview. The federal government determines and maintains surrogacy laws, while provincial and territorial governments oversee surrogacy agreements and parental rights. The intended parent(s) go through the parentage declaration process to be recognized as the child's only legal parent(s). However, this process and the requirements that must be met for the declaration to be approved vary depending on the province/territory, resulting in some cases where the intended parent(s) must adopt the child. Surrogacy contracts and parental rights laws have been found to use heteronormative assumptive language. Some provinces have addressed this choice of language to be more"}, {"text": "inclusive. In 2016, Ontario passed the All Families Are Equal Act, which meant that parentage laws had to be reworked for families with only one or more than two intended parent(s) and include inclusive language for same-sex couples. Alberta. In Alberta, a court order is required for parentage declaration. If there is no genetic link between the child and at least one of the intended parents, parents will have to go through the adoption process. If only one parent has a genetic link, they will appear solely on the birth certificate, and the other parent will have to adopt the child. British Columbia. Intended parent(s) have two options for establishing parental rights: they can go through the administrative process of a statutory declaration or, if necessary, a court-ordered parentage declaration. No genetic link between the intended parent(s) and the child is required for parent(s) to appear on the birth certificate. Up to 6 parents can be listed on the birth certificate. Manitoba. While no genetic connection is required, the surrogate's name is initially listed on the birth certificate along with the intended father (if there is one). The surrogate's name will be removed or replaced when a court-ordered declaration of"}, {"text": "parentage is approved. New Brunswick. The surrogate's name and the intended father (if there is one) are initially listed on the birth certificate. The surrogate's name will be removed or replaced when a court-ordered declaration of parentage is approved. However, if neither intended parent has a genetic link with the child, they will have to adopt the child. Newfoundland. Intended parents can apply for interim custody before the birth of the child; however, the surrogate's name will appear on the birth certificate initially. Intended parents will go through the parentage declaration process before appearing on the birth certificate. If there is no genetic link between the child and at least one of the intended parents, parents will have to go through the adoption process. Northwest Territories. There are no clear laws or guidelines for intended parent(s) and surrogates. While parentage declarations are available, adoption is believed to be the preferred or more commonly used legal process for establishing parentage in the Northwest territories. Nova Scotia. In Nova Scotia, a court-ordered declaration of parentage is required. Surrogates, alongside intended fathers (if there is one), are named on birth certificates; however, the surrogate\u2019s name will be replaced/removed once a court order is"}, {"text": "approved. If there is no genetic link between the intended parent(s) and the child, an adoption process will be required. Ontario. In Ontario, the intended parent(s) can go through the administrative process of a statutory declaration or a court-ordered declaration of parentage. However, if the intended parent(s) choose the statutory declaration process, it can only be signed by the surrogate a week after the birth. Whereas a court-ordered parentage declaration can be processed immediately after birth. Up to 4 parents can be listed on the birth certificate. Prince Edward Island. As of March 2021, an administrative process rather than a court-ordered process is legal for establishing parentage. However, the surrogate's name will still initially appear on the birth certificate, and a court order is required for the name to be removed from the birth certificate. Quebec. In Quebec, birth certificates can solely list the surrogate name or the intended father's (if there is one) name. Alternatively, they can list both the surrogate's and the intended father's (if there is one) names. The other intended parent (if there is one) must go through the adoption process to establish parentage. If neither intended parent has a genetic link with the child, parents"}, {"text": "must go through the adoption process. Until it was repealed on June 6, 2023, Article 541 of the Quebec Civil Code rendered all surrogacy contracts null. In a 2009 case, a Quebec surrogate gave up her legal claim to her baby, having made an arrangement with a couple. The intended father was recognized as a legal parent because his sperm had been used to conceive the child, but the court denied any legal rights to the intended mother, leaving the child with no legal mother. In four subsequent cases, Quebec courts have allowed intended parents to adopt a child born via surrogate. Saskatchewan. A court-ordered parentage declaration and a pre-existing surrogacy agreement are required. Surrogates are initially listed on the birth certificate alongside the intended parent(s). However, no genetic link is required to establish parental rights in Saskatchewan. Yukon and Nunavut. In Yukon and Nunavut, no clear information is available on guidelines or laws for how intended parents establish rights; however, parentage declarations are available. Increase in Canadian surrogacies. Surrogacy in Canada has increased in popularity over the past two decades. Between 2001 and 2012, 803 IVF-conceived births were recorded for gestational surrogates in Canada (statistics on traditional surrogacies -"}, {"text": "are not available). There are many reasons a person or couple would choose to use a surrogate. Primarily, the rise of infertility (a study found that 1 in 6 Canadians can face fertility issues) and Same-sex couples choosing to have children have been linked with this rise. The increase in surrogacies is also connected to Canada becoming a popular site for international surrogacy. International surrogacy. The increased demand for surrogates and the limited amount of people willing to be surrogates has led many to seek surrogacy agreements internationally. Canada is one of the few countries which allows international surrogacy and does not discriminate on the basis of marital status or sexual orientation. However, surrogacy agreements and parentage laws differ from those set out for surgery agreements between Canadian intended parent(s) and Canadian surrogates. International intended parent(s) with a Canadian surrogate overview. Canada has become an attractive location for foreign intended parent(s). This is in part due to its high-quality universal health care and relatively liberal regulations that may be easier to navigate than those in the intended parent(s) home country. While it is illegal under the AHRA for Canadians to pay a surrogate, Canadian surrogates may legally accept payment from"}, {"text": "the international intended parent(s), provided that the transaction occurs outside Canada. In 2016 and 2017, 45 of 102 babies born to surrogates in British Columbia had intended parent(s) outside of Canada (nationwide statistics are not collected). Canadian intended parent(s) with an international surrogate overview. Children born through international surrogacy with at least one intended parent being a permanent Canadian citizen are considered Canadian citizens from birth. Importantly, this parent does not have to be genetically related to the child; however, they do have to have legal documents proving parentage. Critiques. Criticism of federal surrogacy law. Canada's strict surrogacy laws were partly founded on feminist fears that commercial surrogacy in Canada could result in women being exploited. Despite this rationale, some debate the law and raise concerns that it may be causing more harm than good. While some believe the law needs to be reworked, others argue that commercial surrogacy should be legal altogether. They argue that while it is illegal for surrogates to profit from their own bodies financially, the ambiguous language behind the law is problematic and can result in exploitation. That is, while surrogates cannot be paid, there are surrogacy agencies that can accept payments. These agencies advertise"}, {"text": "services that help surrogates and intended parent(s) navigate the complex laws surrounding surrogacy. There are no clear guidelines from the federal, provincial or territorial governments stating how these agencies can be monetarily compensated for their part in the surrogacy process. Therefore, some argue that this allows the agencies to function through the grey areas of law and profit from unpaid surrogates. Criticism of international surrogacy in Canada. Another leading issue in the Canadian surrogacy law debate centres around international surrogacy. Many argue that babies born in Canada with international intended parents should not automatically have Canadian citizenship. This argument is hotly debated as it does not seem to be founded in genuine cases where Canadian surrogacy was chosen so that the child would have Canadian citizenship. International surrogacy concerns expand into how it affects Canadian healthcare. While Canadian taxpayers fund Canada's healthcare system in international surrogacy cases, it is accessed and benefits an international audience Further critics revolve around fears for Canadian surrogates who are left with the child if internationally intended parent(s) back out of the surrogacy agreement. Notable case. In 2011, Cathleen Hachey, a New Brunswick, agreed to be a surrogate for a British couple; however, three months"}, {"text": "before the due date of the twins, the intended parents split up and decided to back out of the agreement. While Hachey was legally responsible for the children as she had been the egg donor, she was able to find an adoptive family; this case increased concerns surrounding international surrogacy."}, {"text": "Brevin Jordan (born July 16, 2000) is an American professional football tight end for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes and was selected by the Texans in the fifth round of the 2021 NFL draft. Early life. Jordan was born in Las Vegas and attended Bishop Gorman High School in Summerlin, Nevada. During his high school football career, he had over 1,700 yards, 100 receptions and 29 total touchdowns. In April 2017, Jordan committed to the University of Miami to play college football for the Miami Hurricanes. College career. As a true freshman in 2018, Jordan played in 12 games with 11 starts and had 32 receptions for 287 yards and four touchdowns. He returned as the starter in 2019 and 2020 and finished his three year stint at Miami with a total of 105 receptions, 1,358 receiving yards, and 13 touchdown receptions in 31 games. Professional career. Jordan was selected by the Houston Texans in the fifth round, 147th overall, of the 2021 NFL draft. On May 12, 2021, Jordan officially signed with the Texans. He scored a nine-yard receiving touchdown in his NFL debut, a 38\u201322 loss"}, {"text": "to the Los Angeles Rams in Week 8. He finished his rookie season with nine appearances and two starts. He had 20 receptions for 178 receiving yards and three receiving touchdowns. In the 2022 season, Jordan appeared in 11 games and started three. He finished with 14 receptions for 128 yards. For the 2023 season, Jordan finished the season starting 6 games appearing in 14 and had a career high 219 yards while recording two touchdowns. Against the Cleveland Browns in the Wild Card round of the playoffs, Jordan recorded a 76 yard touchdown, the longest reception of his career as the Texans would win the game 45\u201314. Jordan suffered a torn ACL in Week 2 of the 2024 season and was placed on season-ending injured reserve. On December 5, 2024, Jordan agreed to a one\u2013year contract extension with Houston. Personal life. His father, Darrell, played college football for the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks and was drafted in the ninth round of the 1990 NFL draft by the Atlanta Falcons. However, he would tear his rotator cuff in the preseason and would never make an NFL game appearance."}, {"text": "The Algiers Central Post Office, (, ) is an office building for postal services located on Boulevard Mohamed-Khemisti, Alger Centre municipality in Algiers, Algeria. It was designed by architect Jules Voinot and Marius Toudoire and was constructed in 1910. It is Algeria's largest post office building, In 2015, the state turned it into a museum."}, {"text": "The General Electric AN/TPQ-10 Course Directing Central was a light-weight, two-unit, helicopter transportable, ground based bombing system developed for use by the United States Marine Corps to provide highly accurate, day/night all weather close air support. This self-contained system was designed to guide an aircraft, equipped with the proper control equipment, to a release point for accurate all-weather delivery of ordnance and supplies to a preselected target. The AN/TPQ-10 and its operators were known as an \u2018\u2019Air Support Radar Team\u2019\u2019 (ASRT) and were employed by the Marine Air Support Squadrons within the Aviation Combat Element. The system was originally fielded in the early 1960s to replace the MPQ-14 Course Directing Central radar which was first utilized during the Korean War. The AN/TPQ-10 saw extensive use during the Vietnam War supporting Marine Forces in the I Corps Tactical Zone from 1965 through 1971, most famously to great effect during the Battle of Khe Sanh in early 1968. It remained a mainstay of Marine Corps close air support tactics until it was phased out of the inventory in the early 1990s after the Gulf War. Improved avionics in military aircraft and the emerging use of satellite based navigation systems had quickly made"}, {"text": "the AN/TPQ-10 redundant and obsolete. In accordance with the Joint Electronics Type Designation System (JETDS), the \"AN/TPQ-10\" designation represents the 10th design of an Army-Navy electronic device for ground transportable special combination radar system. The JETDS system also now is used to name all Department of Defense electronic systems. Development and production of radar controlled bombing equipment. The Marine Corps experimented with radar controlled bombing as early as December 1944 when an SCR-584 radar from the 8th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion on Kauai was utilized to direct simulated bombing missions with SB2C and SBD dive bombers. Early results from these tests were positive. The Marine Corps tried again in combat in May 1945 when poor weather during the Battle of Okinawa led Marines to attempt new methods of striking targets from the air. Landing Force Air Support Control Unit III (LFASCU III), working in support of the United States 10th Army, attempted to direct bombing runs in the vicinity of Shuri Castle utilizing an SCR-584 that was co-located with them for the original purpose of directing night fighters. These early attempts proved unsuccessful; however, the seeds of ground based radar control of close air support were planted. In November 1945, the"}, {"text": "Commandant of the Marine Corps directed the Commanding General of the 9th Marine Aircraft Wing to evaluate the AN/MPQ Close Cooperation Control Unit for use in close air support operations. Testing was conducted by Marine Air Control Group 1 (MACG-1) under the command of Colonel Robert o. Bisson from 12 April to 6 September 1946. For this testing they utilized an AN/MPQ-2 radar borrowed from the United States Army Air Corps and a F4U Corsair fitted with an AN/APN-19 radar beacon. Testing of this radar for close air support continued at MACG-1 through 1949. While testing continued on the east coast, Major Marion Dalby led a team of 14 Marines comprising the Marine Corps Liaison Unit of the Naval Air Missile Test Center at Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California. They were tasked to utilize an SCR-584 radar to direct KGW-1 Loon Missiles fired from submarines. They were testing emerging amphibious concepts such as command guiding submarine fired missiles against mapped beach fortifications in support of Marines after they had come ashore during an amphibious assault. Because Loon Missiles were so hard to come by during training, the Marines devised a plan to where more easily available aircraft would replicate"}, {"text": "the missile's controlled phase of flight and a bomb carried on the plane would replicate the missile's free fall stage of flight. To do this, they designed a small computer that could be carried ashore from a ship and a device that allowed the automatic pilot in an F4U Corsair to accept radio commands from the ground based control system as if it were coming from the plane itself. The computer system told the pilot where to fly and when to drop the bomb. It was during this testing that Major Dalby and his Marines realized that the technology that they developed would have a much more practical application guiding close air support aircraft onto targets. Follow on testing and development of the new computer system in concert with naval engineers at NAS Point Magu and switching the radar to an SCR-784 (amphibious, trailer-mounted version of the SCR-584) had it ready for operational testing. In April 1950, Dalby and his team travelled to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California to put on a demonstration of their new radar directed bombing device for senior Marine Corps leadership. The tests were very successful and among those that witnessed the first demonstration were"}, {"text": "then Colonel Victor H. \u201cBrute\u201d Krulak. Years later, Krulak devoted an entire chapter in his book \u2018\u2019First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps\u2019\u2019 to the development of this radar by Dalby and his team. This new system would be designated as the AN\\TPQ-2 Close Air Support System and would be ready for deployment to Korea in July 1951. The AN/MPQ-14 controlled close air support sorties in Korea from August 1951 until the cessation of hostilities in July 1953. The 1st Marine Air Support Radar Team (1st MASRT), nicknamed \"Devastate Charlie\", was attached to Marine Tactical Air Control Squadron 2 (MTACS-2) and operated in support of the 1st Marine Division. In light of the advancement in the development of equipment, the Marine Corps wanted to improve the accuracy and increase the mobility of the AN/MPQ-14A. A contract was signed with General Electric to develop a system similar in function to the AN/MPQ-14A but having longer range, multiple target capability, greater versatility, better transportability, and less weight. The AN/TPQ-10 was the system developed under this contract. The AN/TPQ-10 was produced by General Electric's Heavy Military Electronics Department in Syracuse, New York. Operational history. The first operational deployment of"}, {"text": "the ASRT was in October 1962 when elements of Marine Air Support Squadron 1 were deployed to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba as part of the Marine Expeditionary Brigade formed during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The ASRT was sent to South Vietnam in April 1965 when Marine Air Support Squadron 2 deployed from Okinawa, Japan to support the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after they landed near Da Nang. The first AN/TPQ-10 was set-up 250 feet off the runway at Da Nang Air Base and conducted its first mission on the evening of 31 April 1965 when it provided direction for a C-130 on a flare dispensing mission. At 2150L on 10 May 1965, CWO2 James Harold Davis controlled a division of F-4 Phantoms against targets southwest of Da Nang known as Happy Valley. These were the first ever operational course directed bombing runs in a combat zone utilizing the AN/TPQ-10. During the Battle of Khe Sanh in 1968, ASRT B from MASS-2 controlled more than 5,000 air strikes. The ASRT was critical to the successful defense of the base. The AN/TPQ-10 was utilized for additional mission sets as the Vietnam War progressed. They provided course direction for aircraft"}, {"text": "that were resupplying forward positions via aerial resupply. In emergency situations they also provided ground-controlled approach services at airfields when Air Traffic Control's precision approach radars were not available."}, {"text": "Ricochet is a 1963 British crime film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Maxine Audley, Richard Leech and Alex Scott. Part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is based on the 1922 novel \"The Angel of Terror\". Critical reception. \"The Monthly Film Bulletin\" wrote: \"Edgar Wallace's worldly, thinly ingenious story is here transposed to a contemporary suburban setting, rather effectively photographed under snow, and unimaginatively acted in the expressionless whisky-swilling convention of British second features. All the characters are pretty repulsive, and are allotted an appropriately nasty fate. Disbelief tends to dispel suspense, and the end is altogether too expected. The sound, though important to the plot, is rather over-recorded.\""}, {"text": "The men's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 25 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was the first time that the metric distance was contested at the Games, replacing the 4 \u00d7 110 yards relay. Results. Heats. Qualification for final. The first 4 teams in each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final."}, {"text": "Baloskion longipes, common name dense cordrush, is a dioecious perennial herb in the Restionaceae family, found in southeastern New South Wales. It has cauline sheaths which usually have a few very short hairs on the margins. The culms are erect and about 90\u2013150 cm high and 2\u20132.5 mm in diameter. The spikelets on the lower part of the flower head are not crowded, but borne on fine branches, which may be several centimetres long. The flowering glumes are 4\u20136 mm long. The male spikelets are ovate and 4\u20138 mm long, with six tepals, three stamens and a minute pistillode. The female spikelets are ovate to elliptic and 8.5\u20139.3 mm long, with four tepals and two staminodes. It is found on alluvium in swamps and depressions. It was first described as \"Restio longipes\" in 1963 by Lawrie Johnson and Obed David Evans and reassigned to the genus \"Baloskion\" in 1998 by Lawrie Johnson and Barbara Briggs. The specific epithet, \"longipes\", derives from the Latin words \"longus\" meaning \"long\" and \"pes\" meaning \"foot\" or \"stalk\", giving an adjective which describes the plant as having a long stalk. It is listed as \"vulnerable\" under the EPBC Act."}, {"text": "Democratic Tsunami (, ) is a Catalan protest group advocating a self-determination referendum in Catalonia, formed and organized in the lead up to the final judgement on the Trial of the Catalonia independence leaders. It organizes supporters of the Catalan independence movement through the use of social media, apps and other online resources. It used a 'bespoke' Android app, along with a Telegram account with over 410,000 followers in order to mobilize and organize demonstrations during the 2019 Catalan protests. Distributed outside of the official market for Android apps, the application (making use of overseas servers) circumvents the European legislation for data protection in regards of geolocalization. Goals. As stated in press notes and interviews, their objectives are the freedom of prisoners, exiles and reprisals; defense of fundamental rights and the self-determination of Catalonia. In a statement following the judgment of the trial of the Catalonia independence leaders, read by Pep Guardiola, they defended the rights of assembly and demonstration, freedom of expression and the right to a fair trial. They also held an independence referendum similar to that of Quebec or Scotland, and called on the international community to position itself for a \"conflict resolution based on dialogue and"}, {"text": "respect.\" They defend civil disobedience and nonviolence. History. Activity. In one of its first actions, the group managed to organize a large protest at Barcelona Airport, which led to a major disruption and the cancellation of over 100 flights. The group endorses nonviolence and has supported occupation of government buildings and other protest acts, which were condemned by the Spanish government. The group's actions appear to mimic those of the 2019\u201320 Hong Kong protests, which also occupied a key airport. The group also used similar language to the Hong Kong Protesters, urging protesters to \"add up like drops of water\". The group managed to assert itself as one of the main organizers of the 2019 Catalan Protests. Origin and identity. The group's identity is unknown as none of the group's members has publicly shown their identity as of October 2019. The group however insists that it has no links to other pro-independence groups or political parties in Catalonia, stating that its name was derived from an expression used by pardoned Catalan independence leader Jordi Cuixart. It added that it followed a doctrine of strict non-violence, instead advocating for \"mass civil disobedience\". Swiss publication Le Temps, along with the Spanish Press,"}, {"text": "alleged that the movement was founded in late August 2019 after a meeting in the Geneva countryside. It was allegedly attended by leading Catalan independence leaders, including Catalan President Quim Torra and his predecessor Carles Puigdemont, as well as two Swiss politicians which supported the idea of Catalan independence. The Associated Press, on the other hand, pegged the group's creation under similar conditions in July 2019 with the endorsement of top pro-independence officials. Protest app. The movement created a mobile app, which was released as a sideload for devices running Android. The app organizes and mobilizes small, localized groups of supporters to carry out protest acts across the entire territory of Catalonia. It allows the Democratic Tsunami to monitor and give directions to individual protesters or groups of protesters, while claiming that the user's location is approximated and obfuscated to avoid police tracking. It also required the user to activate it by scanning a QR code, a measure intended to limit activation to \"stages\" in order to avoid infiltration by government authorities. For the same reason, users are allowed to invite only one other person to the app, and even successfully invited and activated users can only see protests within"}, {"text": "their immediate vicinity. The group announced that it had 15,000 successful QR code activations as of 17 October, 3 days after the beginning of the protests. Prosecution by the Spanish Government. On 18 October 2019, a Spanish Judge ordered the closure of several web pages belonging to the group. The group immediately migrated it's homepage to a new address. It later published instructions on how to \"avoid Spanish censorship\". Spain's interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska stated that the Spanish Authorities had launched an investigation aiming to discover the individuals behind the group. The Spanish Government was reportedly looking into whether or not Carles Puigdemont was behind the group. The group refused to comment on the allegation, while Puigdemont denied it and stated that he did not know who the organizers were. Spain sent a takedown request to GitHub, demanding the Tsunami Democr\u00e0tic app to be removed and defining the organization \"as a criminal organization driving people to commit terrorist attacks\". GitHub complied but published the takedown request in one of their public repositories."}, {"text": "Oleg Yeremeyev (born June 11, 1979) is a Kazakhstani former professional ice hockey left winger. Yeremeyev played in the Russian Superleague for Traktor Chelyabinsk, HC Lada Togliatti, Krylya Sovetov Moscow, CSK VVS Samara, SKA Saint Petersburg and Salavat Yulaev Ufa between 1997 and 2001. He also played for the Kazakhstan men's national ice hockey team in the 2002 World Championship Division 1."}, {"text": "The Strange Countess is a 1925 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. Film adaptations. In 1961 it was the basis for the 1933 British film \"The Jewel\" and for a West German film \"The Strange Countess\", part of a long-running series of Wallace adaptations by Rialto Film."}, {"text": "Alexandre Joseph D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Bivort (1809\u20131872) was a Belgian horticulturalist, specialising in pomology. He was particularly influential in systematising the nomenclature of strains of pear. Life. Bivort was born at Fleurus on 9 March 1809. He was educated at the industrial school in Melle and at the college in Aalst, where he graduated secondary school at the age of fifteen. While working in the family coal business at Jumet, he devoted much of his time to the study of agriculture, eventually becoming a full-time horticulturalist. In 1840 he acquired the seed collection of Jean-Baptiste Van Mons, numbering about 20,000 seeds, and gradually transported it to his own property at Saint-Remy-Geest. In 1854 he became the director of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Van Mons. He corresponded with many leading international pomologists, and was the secretary of the editorial committee of the Commission Royale de Pomologie's \"Annales de pomologie belge et \u00e9trang\u00e8re\" (1853\u20131860), to which he was a substantial contributor. He died in Fleurus on 8 May 1872."}, {"text": "The Masked Singer is a British reality singing competition television series that premiered on ITV on 4 January 2020. It is based on the \"Masked Singer\" franchise that originated from the South Korean show \"King of Mask Singer\", which features celebrities singing famous songs while wearing head-to-toe costumes and face masks concealing their identities. In February 2022, the show was recommissioned for a fourth and fifth series. The show won an International Emmy for Best Non-Scripted Entertainment in 2021. Production. On 31 May 2019, it was announced that ITV was producing a local version of the South Korean television singing competition \"King of Mask Singer\", originally broadcast by the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, for the British television market. The production is made by British television production company Bandicoot, part of the Argonon Group. On 25 January 2020, it was announced that the show would be returning for a second series. On 30 April 2020, it was reported that they were considering filming the new series without an audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was later announced on 17 August 2020 that filming would begin on 14 September with safety precautions in place. On 1 December 2020, it was announced that"}, {"text": "the second series would premiere on 26 December 2020, with a \"The Story So Far\" recap airing on 19 December. On 14 February 2022, following the conclusion of the third series, ITV announced the commission of a fourth and fifth series. The fourth series began on 1 January 2023. The fifth series began on 30 December 2023. Cast. Panellists and host. Following the announcement of the series, it was confirmed by ITV that the panel would consist of presenter and comedian Jonathan Ross, television presenter Davina McCall, American actor and comedian Ken Jeong (who is also a panellist on the American version of the programme), and singer-songwriter and actress Rita Ora. It was also confirmed that Joel Dommett would host the show. On 19 August 2020, it was announced that British comedian Mo Gilligan would replace Ken Jeong on the panel for series two, due to travel restrictions from COVID-19 preventing his participation. Gilligan has continued to serve as a panellist in subsequent series of the show. Maya Jama was announced as a replacement for Rita Ora (who became a panellist on the American version) on 25 September 2024, taking her place on the panel for series six. Spin-offs and"}, {"text": "related shows. \"Home Alone with Joel Dommett\". On 26 April 2020, Dommett invited panellists McCall and Ross to appear on his show, \"Home Alone with Joel Dommett\", on ITV2 to take part in a one-off special of \"The Masked Singer\". With COVID-19 spreading and residents of the United Kingdom under lockdown, Dommett had to conference call the panellists where they had to guess the identities of three masked celebrities. McCall and Ross were tasked with not only guessing their identities, but also deciding on an overall 'winner' and 'runner-up'. The celebrities' performances were pre-recorded and consisted of them singing, followed by a hint to their identity, before their reveal at the end of the segment. Rather than the typical costumes and masks that contestants usually wear on the show, the recordings were edited to hide each singer's face with a specific image. \"The Masked Singer: Unmasked\". \"The Masked Singer: Unmasked\" is the companion show presented by Capital Xtra's Will Njobvu. It is shown on the ITV Hub straight after the main show and is later aired on ITV2 the following Saturday. The show features interviews from the judges and the unmasked celebrity from that episode. It takes us behind the"}, {"text": "scenes to see what actually goes on at the \"most secretive show on TV\". The show did not return for the third series, though in the sixth series, it was replaced by a new companion show known as \"The Masked Singer: The After Mask\", presented by Kiss presenter Harriet Rose. \"The Masked Dancer\". On 4 March 2021, it was announced that ITV commissioned a dancing spinoff series that shares the same name of the American version. The series had 12 contestants competing through seven episodes, and was hosted by Dommett, with Ross, Gilligan, McCall, and Oti Mabuse serving as panellists. It premiered on 29 May 2021, filling in the late spring 2021 slot of \"Britain's Got Talent\", which had its upcoming series 15 postponed until 2022 due to health and safety concerns regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. The show returned for a second series in the Autumn of 2022 with Mo Gilligan replaced as panelist by Peter Crouch due to other commitments that Gilligan had at the time of taping. In 2023 nothing was aired as a result of ITV\u2019s coverage of the 2023 Rugby World Cup and by 2024 the broadcaster announced their overall decision to cancel the show in"}, {"text": "its entirety rather than renew it for a third series. Special episodes. \"I'm a Celebrity\" specials. On 30 August 2022, it was announced that ITV had commissioned a one-off \"I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!\" special of \"The Masked Singer\", would air on 6 November 2022, ahead of the launch show for the 2022 series. The special saw four former campmates perform in costume, with their identities revealed over the course of the episode. Dommett hosted the special and was joined by regular \"The Masked Singer\" panellists Gilligan, McCall, Ora, and Ross. John Thomson, who had previously competed in the second series as \"Bush Baby\", reprised his role to provide the panel with clues for the competitors. The special returned in 2023, once again airing immediately prior to the launch show. \"The Masked Singer Live\" tour. A live arena tour of the show began during the 2022 Easter holidays, travelling across the UK. The tour consisted of two touring judges, Denise van Outen (who appeared as \"Fox\" in series one) and Aston Merrygold (who appeared as \"Robin\" in series two), with a guest judge at each location. Panda, Dragon, Unicorn, Badger and Traffic Cone starred on the tour with"}, {"text": "two new characters: Space Pug and Baby Dino, who were unmasked at every performance. Butlin's live show tour. Since 2023, \"The Masked Singer\" has been touring Butlin's holiday camps during selected school holidays. The show features real costumes used in the television series and each live show includes an unmasking of a famous celebrity. The show was hosted by CBBC presenters Sam & Mark. The live show returned for the 2024 season with a custom made costume for the resort, Stick Of Rock."}, {"text": "Reminders (Thai:\"REMINDERS \u0e40\u0e1e\u0e23\u0e32\u0e30\u0e04\u0e34\u0e14\u0e16\u0e36\u0e07\"), also known as Reminders: Because I Miss You, is a Thai BL three-part miniseries that depicts three couples in university at different levels in their relationships. Reminders stars Captain Chonlathorn Kongyingyong and White Nawat Phumphothingam, who reprise their roles from \"\" as Noh and Phun. Reminders revisits these two characters who are now much older and in university. They are joined by Saint Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana and Perth Tanapon Sukumpantanasan, who appear in Reminders as Son and Pin. Son and Pin are in a relationship and dealing with issues of jealousy, self-confidence and trust. While Plan Rathavit Kijwaraluk and Mean Phiravich Attachitsataporn appear as Wish and Two, a couple that is starting out in their relationship. Reminders is directed by New Siwaj Sawatmaneekul, where he explores the experiences of three young couples going through romance, relationship issues and forging friendship bonds while navigating the pressures of school. The series is promoted in collaboration by Hive and 4nologue and it aired on Line TV on April 17, 2019 to Apr 20, 2019. Plot Summary. The series is set up in three parts following six characters: Pin, Son, Noh, Phun, Wish and Two. They are all in university. Part One."}, {"text": "Pin and Wish are in the university's soccer team, and after practice they head to the locker rooms where Pin worries that he needs to lose weight showing his insecurities. They are met by Son, who is Pin's boyfriend, and they decide to head out for lunch. Pin insists on driving Son's car, saying that he is Son's husband and should therefore help Son do everything. At the same time, Noh, who is now a music major, is in the university study hall tuning his guitar when a friend reminds him of an assignment. He runs out to complete it. On the way, Phun comes looking for him and Noh stops in surprise. Noh chooses to chat with Phun in the school courtyard and reveals that Phun has been too busy with schoolwork to meet him. Noh is convinced that Phun does not have time to care about anything else, as he is so busy. Phun assures him that he still cares for Noh, and misses him very much. Phun then asks Noh to eat a meal with him to make up for lost time. Noh agrees and they head out for lunch. Pin is distracted by Wish on their"}, {"text": "drive to lunch, and he is looking at a map on Wish's phone while driving. Son urges Pin to be careful, and focus, but not fast enough as Pin almost hits Phun and Noh who are crossing the road on their way to lunch. Phun and Noh fall on the tarmac, breaking Noh's guitar in the process. Pin stops the car and comes out of the car to apologize but Noh loses his temper at the near-accident. A scuffle ensues between Noh and Wish. Son and Phun try to calm them down, and Son gets injured. Pin insists on taking Son to the hospital, and promises Noh that they will take responsibility for the accident. Phun and Noh follow Son, Pin and Wish to the hospital. As Son is treated, Phun asks Noh what he will do about his broken guitar. Noh is sad about the guitar damage as he has an upcoming music competition. Phun assures Noh that he will find a way to make it work. Noh then remembers his assignment and gets up to leave, telling Phun they should go. Son insists on getting Noh's phone number so that he can pay for Noh's guitar. Back at"}, {"text": "Son's dorm room, Pin is upset that he got Son hurt, but Son assures him that as long as Pin stays with him, he is fine. They kiss and makeup but then Son insists that Pin should go home as Son has an exam in the morning. When Pin leaves, Son messages Noh to apologize for the car accident and the broken guitar. He asks how he can repay the inconvenience caused. Noh sends Son a link to a post on his Facebook account. He asks Son to share it and vote for him so that he can win, and he will be able to win money for his guitar. Son shares the post, but then Pin sees the post on Son's feed and starts to worry. The next day, Pin talks to Two about his concerns, and they both wonder what Wish and Son are hiding. Later, Two finds Wish at Noh's music practice room and accuses Wish of having an affair with Noh. Meanwhile, Pin believes Son is hiding something from him. Part Two. Two tells Pin that he saw Wish at Noh's music practice room. Two is suspicious of Wish's presence at Noh's music practice room and"}, {"text": "is worried Noh might flirt with Wish. Pin reassures Two that he talked to Son, and discovered that Son is tutoring Noh for his English class. He is convinced that Son invited Wish to go to the practice room together for added security. Two is not convinced by this explanation and still believes that Noh is flirting with Wish. Pin then tells Wish not to worry as Noh might be in a relationship with Phun, though none of them know for sure. Pin decides to find Phun and ask for the truth in order to clear the misunderstandings. Pin goes to Phun's school and asks Phun if Noh is his boyfriend. When Phun says yes, Pin asks Phun if he knows why Noh and Son, Pin's boyfriend, are spending time together. Phun, who is always busy with his classes, decides to have a talk with Pin hoping to clear Pin's misunderstandings. Phun takes Pin to a cafe for coffee where he listens to Pin's concerns about his boyfriend, Son, and how Son has changed lately. After listening, Phun advises Pin to have trust in his boyfriend, otherwise the distance between them would only grow. Meanwhile, Noh goes to Phun's school"}, {"text": "with a cup of coffee and a care package hoping to see Phun. Noh discovers Phun in the coffee shop talking to Pin. He checks his messages to find one from Phun asking Noh not to find him at his school as he was too busy. Upset, Noh leaves without talking to Phun. Two goes to see Wish at his house after their fight over Noh. Wish is still upset and believes that Two does not care for him, which upsets Two. Wish asks Two to leave, but Two gets on his knees to beg for forgiveness. Two promises to do anything until Wish feels better. Wish tells him to stay kneeling until he feels happy. Two keeps kneeling, and Wish comes to find him, telling him to get up and go home. Two insists that he will not leave until Wish forgives him. Wish does forgive him, and insists on Two bringing him breakfast the next morning to make up for his wrongdoings. Two shows up at Wish's house the next morning with breakfast, surprising Wish. Two then spends the day at Wish's house, doing chores while flirting with Two. Wish offers to help Two change a bulb, and"}, {"text": "when Wish shakes the chair Two is using, Two falls on the floor injuring his leg. Two and Wish end up at the hospital, bickering until the doctor, played by God Itthipat Thanit, decides to give them relationship advise. After the doctor's appointment, Wish shows up at Noh's music practice room where he asks Noh and Son what he should do about his relationship with Two. Noh advises him to be true to himself, so that he does not regret his decisions later. Son also tells Wish to be brave and ask Two to be his boyfriend first, without waiting for Two to ask. Pin finds Two in the school bathroom worrying about what to do next about his relationship with Wish. Pin suggests going to find Phun for relationship advice. Pin and Two share their struggles with Phun who tells them to be patient and give their boyfriends time and not to force anything. Saying if love exists, there will be hope. Pin takes a selfie with Phun and Two and posts it. Then they speculate on the mystery of what Son, Wish and Noh are doing together. Two goes to Wish's house in the evening, and Wish asks"}, {"text": "if Two can pick him up every morning to go to school, or bring him home every afternoon. Two refuses, saying Wish is never serious with his feelings for Two. Nor does he take Two's feelings for Wish seriously. Meanwhile, Noh has been teaching Son how to play guitar, and when Son leaves for the day, Noh checks his phone to find Pin's selfie post with Phun and Two at the cafe. Once again, it upsets him, and when Phun goes to look for him late in the evening, Noh confronts him about it. Phun explains that Pin and Two visited him at his school and he could not turn them away. Noh then asks why Phun always turns him away when Noh goes to look for him. Noh also wonders why Phun never seeks him out when he is not busy. Noh concludes that if it is too hard to find time for him, then they should end their relationship. Pin surprises Son with a visit at his dorm room and finds Son's guitar on the floor. Son is not happy about the surprise visit, but then Pin discovers a note Son has written to Noh. Pin misunderstands Son's"}, {"text": "intentions and accuses him of lying and hiding secrets. Pin then decides they should break up. Part Three. Noh gets upset when Phun says he has no time. He points out that Phun seems to find time to have coffee with Pin and Two, even as he claims he is too busy to meet Noh. Angry with Phun, Noh reminds Phun that he also has a busy schedule, but when he gets a moment, he always goes to find Phun. However, when Phun's schedule lets up, he never tries to find Noh. Noh decides that if it is too hard for Phun to find time for him, then they should stop seeing each other. Phun doesn't understand Noh's anger and calls the issue small. Noh insists that it is not a small issue. If they cannot find time during their fourth year of school, he wonders what will happen in the future when they both become even busier with their careers. Noh feels it is easier that they break up now, rather than later. Phun would also be able to find someone better in the future. Upset, Phun says he does not want anyone else. He hugs Noh and reminds"}, {"text": "Noh that he promised not to talk about breaking up with him. Phun then tells Noh that he is willing to do everything to keep Noh by his side forever. All Noh has to do is ask, and he will do anything for their relationship. They make up on the street, and Noh smiles in relief. Two tells Wish that if his feelings are like a joke to Wish then he does not want to date him. When Two gets up to leave, Wish tells him that he was going to ask if Two could be his boyfriend. Two is unbelieving at first, but then Wish insists he is serious, and Two agrees after some teasing, dubbing their relationship 'Two-Wish'. Pin insists that he cannot trust Son because Son had lied to him about teaching Noh English and many other things. Pin starts to walk out after deciding they should break up if they cannot have trust in each other. Son breaks down and tells Pin the truth about his guitar lessons with Noh. Son tells Pin that he wanted to play a song for Pin on his birthday and asked for Noh's help. Son sings his song to Pin,"}, {"text": "he apologizes for lying and they make up. The series ends with a round of happy smiles and tight hugs. Cast. Main roles. Noh is a Music major student, who is also Phun's longtime boyfriend. Noh is the main character in . Phun is an Economics major student, who is Noh's longtime boyfriend. Phun is a major character in . Production. Reminders the series is directed by New Siwaj Sawatmaneekul and promoted by Hive and 4nologue. The last part of the series was first screened during the Millennial's Choice 2019 Fan meeting Reminders, and then aired on Line TV."}, {"text": "Amber Felicity Rose Anderson (born 5 March 1992) is a British actress, pianist and model. On television, she is known for her roles as Ciara Porter in the crime drama \"Strike\" (2017) and Diana Mitford in the sixth series of \"Peaky Blinders\" (2022), both on BBC One. Her films include \"We Are the Freaks\" (2013), \"White Lie\" (2019), and \"Emma\" (2020). Anderson is a trained pianist and violinist, and began her career in modeling. Early life. Anderson was born in Shepton Mallet and spent her early childhood in Somerset and Wiltshire. Of Scottish descent on her father's side, she moved to Forres, north-east Scotland at the age of 6. Her mother was concerned about the millennium bug and wanted to live more remotely. Anderson attended primary school in Logie in addition to being Steiner-educated. She then studied piano and violin at Aberdeen City Music School to grade eight and nine respectively. At the age of 16, Anderson was awarded a double music and drama scholarship to Gordonstoun School, the first scholarship of its kind. She was scouted while shopping in Glasgow and left sixth form early to pursue a career in London. Career. Anderson has appeared in ads for brands"}, {"text": "such as Clarins, Burberry, Chanel and Kenzo. She has walked catwalk for Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Burberry, Hermes and Chanel. She has worked with photographers such as Albert Watson, Mario Testino, Patrick Demarchelier, Nick Knight and Solve Sunsbo. In 2021, it was announced Anderson would be joining the cast of \"Peaky Blinders\" for its sixth and final series, which aired in 2022. Her role was initially undisclosed and later revealed to be Lady Diana Mitford. In May 2023, Anderson made her professional stage debut opposite Luke Newton in the revival of \"The Shape of Things\" at the Park Theatre. In 2024, Anderson launched the production company Just John Films with Rosie Day and Kate Phillips. Personal life. In 2017, Anderson wrote an Instagram post accusing Harvey Weinstein of behaving inappropriately and harassing her for a personal relationship to further her career when she was 20. Since 2020, Anderson has been in a relationship with actor Connor Swindells, who also appeared in the film \"Emma\". They married in the Scottish Highlands in October 2024. Awards. In January 2020, Anderson received the Vancouver Film Critics Circle's award for Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film for her performance as Jennifer Ellis in"}, {"text": "\"White Lie\"."}, {"text": "Richard Henry Lewis III (June 4, 1908 \u2013 October 22, 1966), better known by his stage name \"Rocko,\" was a circus performer and entertainer who performed as a clown in more than twenty circuses between 1938 and his accidental death during a performance in 1966. Lewis was born in Butte, Montana. In approximately 1938, Lewis was working odd jobs for the Al G. Barnes Circus when he met Felix Adler, who encouraged Lewis to become a clown. Lewis went on to work with renowned performers such as Adler, Emmett Kelly, and Otto Griebling. Lewis performed with the Ringling Bros. Circus, Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros. Circus, Russell Bros. Circus, Ward Bros. Circus, Gil Gray Circus, Polack Circus, Shrine Circus, and others, and served as the resident clown at the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin in 1965 and 1966. Lewis's signature act was the \"table rock,\" a dangerous balancing act where Lewis would rock back and forth atop three stacked card tables before tumbling off in a somersault. Lewis died after falling from the stacked tables and striking his head during a Shrine Circus performance in San Antonio, Texas in 1966. Lewis made uncredited appearances as a clown in various"}, {"text": "films and television productions including \"The Greatest Show on Earth\" (1952), \"Here Come the Girls\" (1953), \"Ring of Fear\" (1954), and \"The Clown Who Cried,\" a 1954 episode of \"The Adventures of Superman\" in which Lewis performed the table rock as a stunt double."}, {"text": "The Extra NG is a two-seat German aerobatic monoplane designed by Walter Extra and built by Extra Aerobatic Aircraft. Design and development. The NG is a two-seat low wing cantilever monoplane of carbon fibre construction. It has a fixed landing gear with a tail wheel and an enclosed cockpit with two seats in tandem (pilot in the rear and a passenger in the front). It is powered by a Textron-Lycoming AEIO-580-B1A engine with either a three or four-bladed tractor propeller. The aircraft was presented to the public on 22 July 2019 at AirVenture. It received an EASA Type Certificate on 11 October 2019."}, {"text": "Arvondor Apartments is a historic three-story apartment building in Ogden, Utah. It was built in 1925 for investor William T. Pickett, and designed in the Prairie School architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 31, 1987."}, {"text": "Patricia Zoundi Yao (born in 1976 in Aboisso, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire) is a well-known social entrepreneur in C\u00f4te d'Ivoire. She is the founder of several companies, including Quickcash (fintech) and Canaan Land (agribusiness). Her determination and leadership was recognized by UNCTAD in September 2019 when she was one of seven \"eTrade for Women Advocates\". Education. She attended the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. Where she took business law. After leaving she helped her uncle found an unsuccessful business \"Zenith Finances\" based on the use of Western Union's business model. The experiment left her bankrupt. Quickcash. She decided that there was a business in lending to women in rural areas. They could not use modern systems (which rely on the internet) as they had no access to this technology. After two years of experimentation and the support of Fintech she developed a system that became Quickcash in 2010. This could achieve financial transactions without access to the internet. With just a mobile phone farmers could transfer cash quickly and securely. She has launched two daughter companies - \"Digital hub\" is involved with allowing small vendors to accept small payments and Canaan Landwhich is involved in the agro-business. Her work has been"}, {"text": "supported by the minister for foreign affairs, Marcel Amon-Tanoh. In November 2021, Patricia Zoundi Yao is preparing to sell her company QuickCash to a Nigerian buyer. Recognition. On 24 September 2019 the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development announced seven \"eTrade for Women Advocates\" from the developing world. The others were Nazanin Daneshvar, Clarisse Iribagiza, Xiaofei Yao, Nina Angelovska, Claudia de Heredia and Helianti Hilman. It was announced on the periphery of the United Nations General Assembly in New York."}, {"text": "Samuel Bu\u010dek (born 19 December 1998) is a Slovak professional ice hockey forward who is currently playing for HK Nitra of the Slovak Extraliga. Playing career. Undrafted, Bu\u010dek made his professional debut playing in the Tipsport liga (Slovak) with HK Nitra during the 2015\u201316 season. Bu\u010dek made 5 appearances in the Finnish Liiga, with KooKoo before returning to Nitra during the 2019\u201320 season. He moved to fellow Slovakian club, HC Slovan Bratislava during the following 2020\u201321 season, collecting 11 points through just 14 games. As a free agent, Bu\u010dek opted to pursue a career in North America. On 11 July 2022, he became the first player in franchise history to be signed by the Coachella Valley Firebirds of the American Hockey League (AHL). He was signed to a one-year contract for the Firebirds inaugural season in 2022\u201323, serving as the primary affiliate to the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League (NHL). Before joining the Firebirds, on 8 August 2022, Bu\u010dek signed a one-year contract with Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk of the KHL, opting to pursue a career in Russia instead."}, {"text": "Daemonic is a novel by Stephen Laws published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1995. Plot summary. \"Daemonic\" is a novel in which reclusive business tycoon and horror movie producer Jack Draegerman offers a large amount of money to a group of people to visit him in his mansion. Reception. Jonathan Palmer reviewed \"Daemonic\" for \"Arcane\" magazine, rating it a 3 out of 10 overall. Palmer comments that \"\"Daemonic\" is the name of the book you should avoid. \"Diabolical\" might have been more apt.\" Reviewing the novel for \"The Agony Column\", Rick Kleffel described \"Daemonic\" as \"a complex combination of subtle thought and over-the-top horror, a crowd-pleaser, a perfect B-movie rendered with consummate skill as a high-class piece of writing.\""}, {"text": "Governor Clinton may refer to:"}, {"text": "Governor Daniel may refer to:"}, {"text": "Governor Floyd may refer to:"}, {"text": "Avelan Apartments is a historic three-story building in Ogden, Utah. It was built in 1921 for investor William J. Stephens, and named for one of his sons. It is an unusually long, narrow building, with its narrow end to the street. It has 60 apartments. The building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 31, 1987. It is located on the south side of 27th Ave. in Ogden, at number 449, and is adjacent to the similar La Frantz Apartments, also National Register-listed."}, {"text": "T\u00fcrk Yurdu is a monthly Turkish magazine that was first published on the 30 November 1911. It was an important magazine propagating Pan-Turkism. It was founded by Yusuf Ak\u00e7ura, Ahmet A\u011fao\u011flu, Ali H\u00fcseynzade. Ziya G\u00f6kalp said: \"all Turkists... met and worked together in the \"T\u00fcrk Yurdu\" and \"T\u00fcrk Oca\u011f\u0131\" ambiance.\" The magazine was one of the early Turkish periodicals which featured articles on folklore. Yusuf Ak\u00e7ura was editor of the magazine from 1911 to 1917. From 11 April 1913, a weekly named \"Halka Do\u011fru\" was published in Istanbul as a supplement to the \"T\u00fcrk Yurdu\". \"Halka Do\u011fru\" closed in April 1914, but its editor, Celal Sahir, began publishing another weekly supplement to the \"T\u00fcrk Yurdu\", the \"T\u00fcrk S\u00f6z\u00fc\", on 13 April 1914. In 1917, the management of the magazine passed to Celal Sahir, and in August 1918 \"T\u00fcrk Yurdu\" was closed due to financial reasons. In 1924 it was relaunched in Ankara as an organ of the Turkish Hearths. Notable authors. Notable writers for \"T\u00fcrk Yurdu\" include:"}, {"text": "Liz Natalia Pe\u00f1a Vargas (born 15 June 1995), sometimes known as Natalia Pe\u00f1a, is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a forward for Libertad/Limpe\u00f1o. She was a member of the Paraguay women's national team. International career. Pe\u00f1a was part of the Paraguay team that played in the 2018 Copa Am\u00e9rica Femenina. International goals. \"Scores and results list Paraguay's goal tally first\" Honours. Club. Sportivo Limpe\u00f1o"}, {"text": "Helmut Nentwig (1916\u20132007) was a German art director."}, {"text": "Six60 is the third self-titled full-length studio album by New Zealand rock band Six60. It was released on 8 November 2019 through New Zealand label Massive Entertainment. Production was handled mainly by Malay, together with Printz Board, Big Taste, E. Kidd Bogart and Justin Gray. It debuted atop of the Official New Zealand Music Chart on the week of 18 November 2019 and as of December 2020 has never left the top five since then. The album was certified triple platinum by Recorded Music NZ on 14 September 2020 and was New Zealand's best-selling album of 2020. The album featured six singles."}, {"text": "Avon Apartments is a historic three-story building in Ogden, Utah. It was built in 1908 for investor Ella Georgeanna Lewis Van Why, and designed in the Romanesque Revival style. It was purchased by Dr. Edward I. Rich in 1914, and he added front porches designed in the Prairie School style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 31, 1987."}, {"text": "Child of the Night is a novel by Nancy Kilpatrick published by Raven in 1996. The novel was nominated for both the 1996 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel and the 1997 Aurora Awards. Plot summary. \"Child of the Night\" is a novel in which American divorcee Carol Robins flees to Europe from the betrayal that ended her marriage, where she encounters the sexually sadistic vampire Andre. Reception. Maryanne Booth reviewed \"Child of the Night\" for \"Arcane\" magazine, rating it a 6 out of 10 overall. Booth comments that \"Best described as an erotic Mills & Boon 'girl meets S&M monster', writhing with emotional and colourful passages. Largely a fun read, though more than a tad morally questionable in places. Intriguing, but not comparable to Anne Rice at her best.\""}, {"text": "Events in the year 1851 in Belgium. Monarch: Leopold I Head of government: Charles Rogier"}, {"text": "\"Find an Island\" is a song by New Zealand musician Benee. It was released as a single on 11 October 2019 as the lead single from Benee's second extended play \"Stella & Steve\". The song peaked at number 83 on the Australian ARIA Charts, becoming her first charting single in that territory. About the song, Benee told Coup de Main magazine \"The song is about a tiny little argument I had with my guitar player Tia. We had some weird little bicker, and you know when you\u2019re having a petty argument with a friend you don't want to swear at them or put them down or anything, but I was like, 'What would I say?' It'd be like, 'Find an island, go somewhere else'.\" Critical reception. Helen Ehrlich from Culture Affinity Magazine said with \"Find an Island\" Benee continues her pattern of dropping poppy and punchy songs\". Ehrlich said \"'Find An Island' is swinging and sultry song about removing negative people from your mind and life.\" Andrew Drever from Sydney Morning Herald called the song a \"tropical slow-burner\". In the EP review, Nathan Gunn from Tone Deaf described the song as \"a cruisy summer track\"."}, {"text": "Sciaphila thaidanica is one of the members of the genus \"Sciaphila\", (a genus in the family Triuridaceae, one of the groups of mycoheterotrophic plants, plants that obtains food by digesting intracellular fungi, rather than by photosynthesis) It has light purple coloration with large flowers and inflorescence. It is characterized by one of the smallest plastomes ever encountered, which at the same time are very compact. It was recently discovered in Borneo."}, {"text": "Barnhart Apartments is a historic three-story building in Ogden, Utah. It was built in 1921\u20131922, and designed in the Prairie School style, with \"a deep, flat overhanging cornice, triple-ganged casement windows, and a vertical front facade emphasis.\" It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 31, 1987."}, {"text": "Bays is the fourth studio album by the New Zealand group Fat Freddy's Drop, released on 23 October 2015 through their own record label, the Drop. The album is named after the band's own studio, Bays, in Kilbirnie in southern Wellington. \"Bays\" charted internationally and topped the New Zealand albums chart, where it was also certified gold. Critical reception. Anna Wilson of \"Renowned for Sound\" described the album as having a \"heavier focus on genre fusion than the group's previous releases, with a few ska undertones here and there\" and ultimately called it \"an easy listen and well structured, retaining Fat Freddy's Drop['s] classic chilled style\". Chris Familton of \"The Music\" called it a \"sublime addition to the band's discography\" and wrote that the group \"continue as they left off on the last album, if anything hitting a stronger strain of dark dub techno infused rhythms\". \"The New Zealand Herald\" felt that the album \"sees the seven-piece outfit more focused and dynamic than ever\", on which Fat Freddy's Drop \"warm you up, and then turn your head inside out\", concluding that \"the more you listen, the more you'll find to love\". Jennifer Quinlin stated that the \"tunes are immersive and"}, {"text": "refined, and are as much at home in the venues of Europe as they are in the beachside cafe in Wellington. This is a perfect album for lazy summer days with friends, or a road trip with the windows down.\" Sam Moore of \"Drowned in Sound\" remarked that if \"you're already quite familiar with FFD's genre-splicing and casual beat-dropping, then you'll likely find a lot to love in \"Bays\"\", opining that it \"stay[s] mostly true to that dub/reggae ethos\" and the group does not \"mess around too much with the agreed formula\"."}, {"text": "Special Edition Part 1 is the sixth studio album by New Zealand band Fat Freddy's Drop. The band's first release in four years since \"Bays\" (2015), \"Special Edition Part 1\" was written intended to be the first part of a double-album. The album featured the singles \"Trickle Down\" (2018) and \"Kamo Kamo\" (2019), and reached number four on the New Zealand albums chart. Production. \"Special Edition Part 1\" was recorded as part one of a double-album. The album features three songs from the band's live performance repertoire: \"Kamo Kamo\", \"OneFourteen\" and \"Special Edition\", alongside three unreleased songs. The album was recorded in Wellington, at Bays, Fat Freddy's Drop's home studio. The cover art for the album was created by Wellington artist Otis Chamberlain. Release and promotion. \"Trickle Down\" was released as the first single from the album in July 2018. This was followed by \"Kamo Kamo\" on 10 October 2019, which was paired with the official announcement of \"Special Edition Part 1\". Following the release of the album, the band held Fat Freddy's Drop Summer Record Tour 2020, an eight date tour across New Zealand held from December 2019 to February 2020, including dates at Western Springs Outer Fields in"}, {"text": "Auckland and Horncastle Arena in Christchurch. While the second part of the double album was originally intended to be released in 2020, Fat Freddy's Drop's following album \"Lock-In\" was a special studio live session recorded at the Michael Fowler Centre recorded during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand in 2020. \"Lock-In\" features studio live version of several tracks from \"Special Edition Part 1\": \"Special Edition\", \"SixEight\", \"114\" and \"Trickle Down\". Critical reception. Tim Gruar of Ambient Light Blog gave the album four out of five stars, describing the album as a collection of \"funky jams and festival favourites\"."}, {"text": "Latino urbanism is a field of study that examines urban planning and urbanism from the perspective of Latino studies. It aims to highlight the contributions of Latinos to the making of American cities, and the theoretical interventions that Latino studies scholarship have generated in response to urban scholars lack of engagement with Latino populations. Scholars have attributed this lack of attention to disciplinary boundaries between urban studies and ethnic studies. Latino urbanism as a field is inherently interdisciplinary and includes scholars working in literature, history, anthropology, urban planning, American studies, and more. A key characteristic is its attention to the ways communities act on the built environment, and how they in turn develop \"barrio urbanisms,\" or new knowledges and interventions about the use and organization of urban space. The work of urban planner James Rojas provides an example of the field's attention to Latinos as actors, agents of change and innovators. His art making workshops wrest communities vernacular knowledges to develop urban planning solutions . Some scholars champion the Chicano practice of Rasquachismo\u2014to suggest \u201cplacekeeping\u201d as an inventive, make do, popular strategy that can help advance racial justice goals by expanding definitions of urbanism. This scholarship views grassroots interventions into"}, {"text": "space as strategic and resourceful."}, {"text": "Allabands Mill Stream is a long 1st order tributary to Isaac Branch in Kent County, Delaware. History. Allabands Mill Stream was named for William Allaband, who operated a nearby grist mill called Allaband's Mill in the early 1800s. Course. Allabands Mill Stream rises about 2 miles west-southwest of Alms House in Kent County, Delaware on the Willow Grove Prong divide. Allabands Mill Stream then flows north to meet Isaac Branch about 0.5 miles east of Wild Quail, Delaware. Watershed. Allabands Mill Stream drains of area, receives about 44.8 in/year of precipitation, has a topographic wetness index of 615.36 and is about 2% forested."}, {"text": "Thaksinlek Kiatniwat (\u0e17\u0e31\u0e01\u0e29\u0e34\u0e13\u0e40\u0e25\u0e47\u0e01 \u0e40\u0e01\u0e35\u0e22\u0e23\u0e15\u0e34\u0e19\u0e34\u0e27\u0e31\u0e12\u0e19\u0e4c) is a Muay Thai fighter and the former WMO Super Lightweight World Champion. Muay thai career. On 9 June 2017, Thaksinlek faced the former WMC and Channel 7 welterweight champion Littewada Sitthikul. Littewada won the fight by a third-round knockout. Thaksinlek was scheduled to face Thanonchai Thanakorngym on 1 November 2020. He won the fight by decision. Thansinlek was booked to face the former Channel 7 Boxing Stadium super lightweight champion Ferrari Fairtex on 13 December 2020. He lost the fight by decision. On 21 March 2021, it was announced that Thaksinlek has signed with Petchyindee, as his previous camp was unable to arrange fights at his preferred weight. Thaksinlek faced Kaonar P.K. Saenchai Muaythaigym at SuekMahakamMuayRuamPonKon Chana + Petchyindee on 8 April 2021, in his first fight after having signed with Petchyindee. He won the fight by decision. Thaksinlek faced Rungkao Wor.Sanprapai at Muaymanwansuk on 22 October 2021. He won the fight by decision. Thaksinlek faced the former Rajadamnern Stadium lightweight champion Rungkit Wor.Sanprapai at Muaymanwansuk on 12 November 2021. He lost the fight by decision. Thaksinlek faced Rungkao Wor.Sanprapai for the vacant WMO World Lightweight title on 30 December 2021. He won the fight"}, {"text": "by decision. Thaksinlek fought a rematch with Rungkit Wor.Sanprapai at the 17 February 2022 Petchyindee event. He won the fight by decision. Fight record. ! style=background:white colspan=9 | ! style=background:white colspan=9 | ! style=background:white colspan=9 | ! style=background:white colspan=9 | ! style=background:white colspan=9 |"}, {"text": "Geffas Apartments is a historic three-story building in Ogden, Utah. It was built in 1922 for investor Theodore Geffas, an immigrant from Greece. Geffas was also the owner of the City Cafe, the Elite Cafe, and the Streetcar Lunch. He lived in the building with his wife, n\u00e9e Katie Storey and their three daughters; he died in 1955. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 31, 1987."}, {"text": "Misbah El-Ahdab (), born on April 1, 1962, in Tripoli, Lebanon, is a Lebanese politician and a former MP representing Tripoli in the Lebanese Parliament. He was elected to parliament in 1996 and re-elected in the legislative elections of 2000 and 2005. El-Ahdab holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from European Business School Paris and a degree in Economics from London School of Economics. He is vice-president and co-founder of the cross-confessional Democratic Renewal Movement. He is also President of the Lebanese-Italian Friendship Association. Lebanese protests. On October 18, 2019, El-Ahdab attempted to participate in a people's protest held in Tripoli. Widespread protests were erupting in Lebanon due to economic and political instability (see 2019\u201320 Lebanese protests). The protesters vehemently denied El-Ahdab participation in a people's movement against all politicians, and began throwing plastic and glass bottles at him and his convoy. Although two of El-Ahdab's bodyguards returned fire with assault rifles, injuring several protestors. No one was killed, despite rumors circulating that two people were killed."}, {"text": "Jordan Weiss (born January 28, 1993) is an American writer, director and producer. She created and produced the Hulu series \"Dollface\" starring Kat Dennings, which premiered in November 2019. Weiss wrote the script for \"Dollface\" shortly after graduating from USC School of Cinematic Arts. In November 2018, it was reported that Weiss was writing a narrative adaptation of the documentary \"Science Fair\" for Universal Pictures and Elizabeth Banks' Brownstone Productions. In July 2022, it was announced that Weiss would be making her feature directorial debut in the romantic comedy \"Sweethearts\", having co-written the screenplay with Dan Brier. It premiered at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival on October 31, 2024, and released on Max on November 28, 2024. In March 2024, \"The Hollywood Reporter\" revealed Weiss had written the screenplay for \"Freakier Friday\", the sequel to Disney's 2003 film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan which was filmed that summer and directed by Nisha Ganatra. It is set to be released in theaters on August 8, 2025. Weiss is also adapting Curtis Sittenfeld's novel \"Romantic Comedy\" for New Line Cinema and Hello Sunshine."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 season is Reyer Venezia's 148th in existence and the club's 10th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian basketball. Overview. Venezia participates to the 2018-19 edition of the Lega Basket Serie A as the defending champions, after having won in the 2018-19 season. They won the Italian Cup and they managed to qualify to the playoffs of the EuroCup Basketball. Unfortunately, though, 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. Virtus Bologna ended the championship in 1st position. Followed also the early termination of the EuroCup season where Bologna had reached the quarter-finals and Venezia was the only Italian team at winning something, the Italian Cup. Kit. Supplier: Erre\u00e0 / Sponsor: Umana Players. Current roster. <section begin=roster/> <section end=roster/> Depth chart. <section begin=depthchart/> <section end=depthchart/> Competitions. SuperCup. Venezia took part in the 25th edition of the Italian Basketball Supercup as the 2019 LBA Finals and Italian Championship winners. They lost in the finals against Dinamo Sassari, team against which Venezia won the championship finals. Italian Cup. Venezia qualified to the 2020 Italian Basketball Cup having ended the first half"}, {"text": "of the season in 8th place. They won the competition for the first time in their history."}, {"text": "Elections to Cumbria County Council were held on 7 June 2001. This was on the same day as other UK county council elections. The Labour Party lost control of the council, and was now under no overall control."}, {"text": "George Winram (occasionally Windrahame), Lord Liberton (1604\u20131650) was a 17th-century Scottish judge, politician, soldier and Senator of the College of Justice. Life. He was born in or near Edinburgh the son of James Winram, Keeper of the Signet (d.1632) and his wife, Jean Swinton (d.1635). In 1607 his father purchased the Nether Liberton estate from the heirs of William Little, which included Liberton House (built 1570) and the medieval Inch House, both south of Edinburgh and set about rebuilding Inch House. George studied law at Edinburgh University graduating MA and passed the Scottish bar as an advocate in 1626. He inherited Liberton house on the death of his father in 1632. In 1639 he had the unenviable task of delivering the formal papers from the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland regarding their ban on Episcopalianism in Scotland (which they had voted in 1638). This was certainly unpopular as this was the \"religion of choice\" of the English living in Scotland due to its Anglican views. From June 1643 to June 1644 he was assistant commissioner to Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston (his father-in-law). And from June 1644 until March 1647 he was joint MP for Edinburgh alongside Lord Warriston"}, {"text": "(during the turbulent English Civil War). He served again from March 1648 until his death. In June 1649 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice under the title of Lord Liberton. In October 1649 he visited the king in exile at Brussels and on the isle of Jersey in November. In February 1650 he arrived at Leith with letters from the king to both the Scottish Parliament and the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. In the spring of 1650 he was one of the Scots present at the Treaty of Breda. He met a tragic end. He fought against Cromwell at the Battle of Dunbar on 3 September 1650, leading a regiment as their Colonel, and was mortally wounded on the battlefield. He died of infection eight days later on 11 September 1650. His estates were confiscated by the State due to his Royalist support and Liberton House was sold to William Little (grandson of his namesake the Lord Provost of Edinburgh who had previously owned the house). From Little it passed to the Gilmour family (in or before 1686) and remained in their ownership until 1945 when the Edinburgh Corporation acquired the house and"}, {"text": "estate in lieu of debts. Both Inch House and Liberton House survive. Family. Around 1629 he married Agnes Hamilton (d.1636). They had two daughters, Catherine and Ann (d.1690). Following Agnes's death he married Janet Johnston, daughter of Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston. This was Janet's third marriage, and she brought with her 11 children she had borne to James Skene, Lord Curriehill."}, {"text": "La Frantz Apartments is a historic three-story building in Ogden, Utah. It was built in 1919-1920 for investor William J. Stephens, and named for one of his sons, William La Frantz Stephens. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 31, 1987."}, {"text": "The Taller Boricua, in Manhattan, New York is a multidisciplinary cultural space founded in 1969 by Puerto Rican artists to promote the arts and culture of the Puerto Rican community in El Barrio/East Harlem, as well as to offer a platform to underrepresented and marginalized artists. It is located at the Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center. Its founders were a group of activists, intellectuals and young artists such as Carlos Osorio, Rafael Tufino, Fernando Salicrup, Marcos Dimas and Nitza Tufi\u00f1o. This artist-run non profit gallery offer art exhibitions, artist talks, workshops and art classes that take place throughout the year and aim to curb the economic, cultural and social disparities in the area. Recent developments. In Fall, 2019, a twelve-venue exhibition between Taller Boricua, Boricua College Art Gallery, Lehman College Art Gallery, Longwood Art Gallery, Queens College Art Center, Studio 13 Gallery, Chashama Space for Artists (two locations), Teatro LaTea, Queensborough College Art Gallery, East Village Art View and BronxArtSpace opened, featuring dozens of Latin American artists. The 2019 Latin American Art Triennial was organized by Alexis Mendoza, New York Latin American Art Triennial Chief Curator, and Luis Stephenberg, New York Latin American Art Triennial Director."}, {"text": "\"Big Stepper\" is a song by American rapper Roddy Ricch. The song was released on October 11, 2019 as the lead single from Ricch's debut studio album \"Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial\". The song was written by Rodrick Moore, Jr., Cristian Gonzalez, Joseph Nguyen and Steven Alexander. Music video. A music video to accompany the release of \"Big Stepper\" was first released onto YouTube on October 11, 2019. Personnel. Credits adapted from Tidal."}, {"text": ", known professionally as , is a Japanese artist, writer, actor, activist, and former sex worker. Biography. Yukio Cho was born in 1969 in Tokyo, Japan. He grew up in Germany, living there from age two until age eight after his father moved to the country for work, before his family resettled in Kobe. He studied oil painting at the Kyoto City University of Arts, earning a bachelor's degree in 1992 and a master's degree in 1995. As a university student, Cho became involved with campaigns to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in Japan, and to reduce stigma against those with the disease. He took the pseudonym \"Akira\" while working as a call boy for an escort agency while living in Kyoto. He would later return to Tokyo to work as an escort independently, advertising his services through gay men's magazines; he would later write a column for \"G-men\", one of the most notable gay magazines in Japan in the late 1990s. Along with BuBu de la Madeleine (formerly BuBu the Whore) and Mikado the Dominatrix, Akira the Hustler was a founding member of the Biters, a performance art group whose members were both artists and sex workers. The group's exhibition"}, {"text": "\"Donai yanen\" ( \"So What\"), which was inspired by their experiences in the sex industry, was shown at the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts in 1998, Ota Fine Arts in 1999, and the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in 2000. His autobiography \"A Whore Diary\", which chronicles several of his encounters with his clients, was published by Isshi Press in 2000. In 2003, he helped found the Akta Community Centre, a sexual health clinic and counseling center in Shinjuku Ni-ch\u014dme. He served as its director until 2011. Works. Akira the Hustler works in multiple mediums, including performance, photography, video, sculpture, and painting. His works often deal with themes of self-identity and social issues, such as LGBT rights, HIV/AIDS, and racism, typically using outwardly bright and cheerful imagery to convey a more serious message. He has become an outspoken critic of nuclearization following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, with anti-nuclearization becoming a prominent subject of his work and activism."}, {"text": "The 1991\u201392 Borussia Dortmund season was the 80th season in the club's history and the 16th season since promotion from 2. Bundesliga in 1976. Borussia finished second in the league behind VfB Stuttgart. The club also participated in the DFB-Pokal where it reached the third round, losing 2\u20133 to Hannover 96."}, {"text": "Fern-Marylyn Apartments is a historic apartment complex in Ogden, Utah. It includes two buildings: Marylyn Apartments on the southern side completed in 1923, and Fern Apartments on the northern side completed in 1926. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 31, 1987."}, {"text": "Coast Guard Station Key West is the most southerly Coast Guard Station in Florida. All the cutters in the United States Coast Guard's Sentinel class cutters proceeded to Key West for their acceptance trials, prior to proceeding to their future home ports, for their commissioning. The seventh through twelfth Sentinel cutters, , , , , , were homeported in Key West, in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Those vessels have been active intercepting smugglers and vessels carrying refugees."}, {"text": "Governor Orr may refer to:"}, {"text": "FiveMyles gallery is located in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn. Founded in 1999, it is a non-profit gallery that exhibits visual and performance art. Its founder/director is Hanne Tierney. FiveMyles was the location for the Crown Heights Film Festival in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021. Early years. The gallery was founded by Tierney in 1999 as a place to show her work. She had named it after her son, Myles, a filmmaker who was killed while covering the war in Sierra Leone. The first exhibit was a show of African photojournalism. Operating outside many of the familiar patterns of commercial galleries and artist-run spaces in New York City, the gallery's roster of artists often features lesser-known presenters from within the Crown Heights neighborhood and artists from the African continent and the Caribbean. In 2000, FiveMyles received an Obie Grant for \"presenting magnificent contemporary performance work.\" In 2005, programming included, in addition to visual art exhibitions, a performative program attributable to Ms. Tierney's longstanding practice of multi-media theatrical puppetry."}, {"text": "Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon is a comedy play by the British writer J.B. Priestley first staged in 1955 at the Duchess Theatre in London. The original cast featured Clive Morton and Fanny Rowe in the title roles and was directed by Tony Richardson. It ran for 211 performances. It is also known by the longer title The Scandalous Affair of Mr Kettle and Mrs Moon. Other cast members included Beckett Bould, Wendy Craig and Richard Warner. Adaptation. In 1959 it served as the basis for a German film \"And That on Monday Morning\" directed by Luigi Comencini and starring Ulla Jacobsson and Vera Tschechowa."}, {"text": "Rachel Hood (born October 12, 1976) is an American politician from Michigan. Hood was a Democratic member of Michigan House of Representatives from the old District 76, but later represented District 81. Early life. On October 12, 1976, Hood was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan or Livonia, Michigan. Education. In 1999, Hood earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Relations from Michigan State University. According to some sources, Hood also earned a degree in Public Policy from Michigan State University's James Madison College. Early career. In 2000, Hood started her career as an executive director of West Grand Neighborhood Organization, where she was involved in crime prevention and community development. In 2005, Hood was a Community Relations Manager at Metro Health Hospital in Wyoming, Michigan. Hood is a co-founder of Local First. Hood served as executive director of the West Michigan Environmental Action Council from 2007 - 2016. Hood is a consultant at Dig Deep Research. In the 2016 elections in Kent County, Hood ran for Drain Commissioner but lost the election in a close race. State legislature. On November 6, 2018, Hood won the election and became a Democratic member of Michigan House of Representatives for District 76."}, {"text": "Hood defeated Amanda Brand with 60% of the vote. Hood successfully ran for re-election in 2020 with 62% of the vote. She ran successfully for her third consecutive term in 2022, this time for the 81st House District, due to statewide re-districting. She ran against one-term State Representative Lynn Afendoulis of Grand Rapids and won with 55% of the vote. Hood retired from the state House in 2024. She was succeeded by Stephen Wooden. Personal life. Hood's husband is Dave Petroelje. They have two children, Evelyn and Ineke. Hood and her family live in Grand Rapids, Michigan."}, {"text": "Greece is one of the original members of the International Monetary Fund, joining it on 27 December 1945. It has a quota of 2,428.90 million SDRs and 25,754 votes, 0.51% of the total IMF quota and votes. Greece has been represented on the IMF Board of Governors by Minister of Finance Christos Staikouras since 2019. Greece elects an Executive Director on the fund's Executive Board with Albania, Italy, Malta, Portugal and San Marino. Michail Psalidopoulos is the elected alternate director. Greece has signed two loan agreements with the IMF: a Stand-By Arrangement from 2010 to 2012 and an agreement under the Extended Fund Facility from 2012 to 2016, borrowing a total of 27,766.3 million SDR. Greece owes the IMF 6,735.64 million SDR, and is the fund's third-largest borrower (after Argentina and Ukraine). In 2018, the fund began conducting annual post-program monitoring of Greece in addition to its annual Article IV consultation. Background. During the early 2000s, after the adoption of the euro, Greece obtained easier access to financial markets and experienced an economic boom. Indeed, Fitch upgraded Greece from BBB+ (March 2000) to A+ (October 2003). It developed an economy based on large deficits and high debt levels which were"}, {"text": "vulnerable to a halt in private-capital flow. At the beginning of the Great Recession in 2009, Greece had a public debt of 135.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and a public expenditure of 54.08 percent of GDP. That year, new prime minister George Papandreou announced a 15.5-percent revision of the public deficit. Earlier data about public debt and deficit had been masked by former governments with the help of Goldman Sachs. Global markets began selling Greek bonds, and Fitch and S&P Global Ratings downgraded Greece to BBB+ with a negative watch. The country could no longer access the global market, and sought help from European institutions and the International Monetary Fund. Loan agreements. Stand-By Arrangement (2010-2012). On 3 May 2010, the Greek government asked the IMF for a Stand-By Arrangement. The SBA was approved six days later by the Executive Board of the IMF using its Emergency Financing Mechanism. The SBA totaled 26.4 billion SDR, with 4.8 billion immediately available. The arrangement aimed to improve competitiveness and investment (making Greece an export-led growth model) and suppress domestic demand with wage and benefit cuts. The state would have a minor role in the economy, and a Financial Stability Fund (FSF)"}, {"text": "would be created. Improved market confidence and growth was expected. On 5 August, after a visit to Athens, the European troika (the IMF, the European Central Bank and the European Commission) expressed satisfaction with the government's implementation of the program. According to the troika, the program \"has made a strong start\" with implementation in fiscal policy (the government \"kept spending below the budget limit at the state level\"), the financial sector (the FSF \"will soon become operational\") and structural reforms (\"Parliament's approval of the landmark pension reform\"). On 10 September, the IMF Executive Board completed its first review of Greece's performance under the SBA and authorized the disbursement of 2.16 billion SDR. The troika emphasized the need for more reforms, including cuts in health spending and wages, privatization and the abolition of trade barriers, on 23 November. The second SBA review was completed on 17 December, and the IMF Executive Board approved a disbursement of 2.16 billion SDR. According to Deputy Managing Director and Acting Chair Murilo Portugal, \"An arrangement for Greece under the Extended Fund Facility (...) will be brought forward for consideration by the IMF's Executive Board\". In their February 2011 Third Review Mission to Greece, the troika"}, {"text": "reported that all necessary reforms were being adopted and expressed their support for the Greek government. The third SBA review, completed on 14 March, allowed the government to draw 3.6 billion SDR. The troika acknowledged overall progress on 3 June, citing the need for fiscal structural reform to reduce Greece's deficit. On 8 July, the Fourth Review Under Stand-By Arrangement was completed and the IMF disbursed SDR 2.9 billion SDR. The fund said on 11 October that \"the recession will be deeper than was anticipated in June and a recovery is now expected only from 2013 onwards. There is no evidence yet of an improvement in investor sentiment and the related increase in investments (...) Overall, the authorities continue to make important progress\". On 5 December 2011 The IMF completed its Fifth Review Under Stand-By Arrangement for Greece, approving a 1.9 billion SDR disbursement. On 9 March 2012, the Greek government canceled the SBA and asked the IMF for an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) agreement. The government borrowed and repaid a total of 17.54 million of the initially-agreed 26.43 million SDR. Extended Fund Facility (2012-2016). On 9 March 2012 (the same day the Greek government asked the IMF for an"}, {"text": "Extended Fund Facility (EFF) agreement), IMF managing director Christine Lagarde supported the agreement. It was approved on 15 March, with an immediate disbursement of 1.4 billion SDR and an overall commitment of 23.7853 billion SDR (2.159 percent of the Greek quota). The SBA's undisbursed funds were also cancelled. The program aimed to return to growth with improved competitiveness, a reduced minimum wage and public spending, and fighting tax evasion. After a political crisis due to the Greek election, the IMF completed its First and Second Reviews Under Extended Fund Facility Arrangement and approved an \u20ac3.24 billion disbursement on 16 January 2013 with the new government. Policies were modified, such as the fiscal adjustment path and privatization targets. The Greek government liberalized product markets and improved bank recapitalization. According to the IMF, \"Greece has made impressive progress under the new coalition government\". Examples were a 15-percent drop in unit labor cost, an over-20-percent reduction in the minimum wage, and reforms which would reduce pension spending to about 14 percent of GDP. The Greek government also recapitalized important banks. Between 31 May 2013 and 30 May 2014, the IMF completed the third, fourth and fifth Reviews Under Extended Fund Facility Arrangement and"}, {"text": "Greece drew a total of \u20ac6.87 billion. On 14 February 2015, after the Greek elections, IMF chair and managing director Christine Lagarde explained in a letter to the president of the Eurogroup problems with the new government's intentions. Lagarde noted that the Greek government was unwilling to reform its VAT policy and pension system and implement policies agreed to by the former government in areas such as privatization and the labor market. On 30 June, Greece did not repay 1.2 billion SDR to the IMF\u2014the first time a developed country missed an IMF payment. Another repayment, amounting to SDR 360 million, was missed on 13 July. The IMF published a 14 July study of Greece's public debt, calling it highly unsustainable and saying that it should peak at 200 percent of GDP in the next few years. Greece repaid its IMF debt (1.6 billion SDR) on 20 July 2015. Discussions by the Greek government and IMF staff from 30 July \u2013 12 August 2015, resulted in a new memorandum of understanding. According to Lagarde, it aimed \"to restore fiscal sustainability, financial sector stability, and sustainable growth\". The EFF agreement was canceled in January 2016. The Greek government drew 10.2 billion"}, {"text": "SDR (instead of the 23.7 SDR initially agreed), and the IMF conducted five (instead of the initially-agreed 16) program reviews. Proposed SBA (2017). On 2 May 2017 the IMF said that it \"reached a preliminary agreement with the Greek authorities on a policy package to support the recovery in Greece\". On 7 July, the Greek government requested an approval in principle for an SBA to the IMF. The SBA would last for 13 month and 12 days, and 1.3 billion SDR (55 percent of the Greek quota) was requested. According to the government, the program would be active when Greece's European partners guaranteed debt relief. The IMF approved a 1.3 billion SBA on principle on 20 July, awaiting assurances of Greece's debt sustainability. The Greek economic program was a macroeconomic stabilization with reforms including higher taxes on the middle class and pension cuts amounting to 3.5 percent of GDP (or surplus) until 2022. The Greek government promised to relax capital controls and preserve labor-market reforms, liberalizing Sunday trade and facilitating investment. The program was expected to create a steady-rate growth of one percent. However, the IMF said that \"Greece's debt remains unsustainable\". Despite its approval in principle, the SBA was"}, {"text": "never approved; on 21 June 2018, Lagarde said that \"time has clearly run out to enter into a Stand-By Arrangement\". Program outcomes. 2010\u20132012 Stand-By Arrangement. On 5 June 2013, the IMF published its report evaluating Greece's SBA. According to the report, the SBA improved long-term sustainability due to cuts in wages and pensions and a VAT increase; the Greek government significantly reduced its fiscal deficit and unit labor cost. However, the IMF expressed disappointment at Greek privatization and labor-market flexibility; the government continued to spend more than the EU average on wages. The crisis was worse than expected; Greek GDP contracted 17 percent from 2009 to 2012 instead of the expected 5.5 percent, and the unemployment rate was 25 percent instead of the forecast 15 percent. The IMF had underestimated the impact of deflation, and said that the country's reforms \"failed to boost growth\". Greece met 32 of the IMF's 45 structural conditions. 2012\u20132016 Extended Fund Facility. On 7 February 2017, the IMF published a report evaluating Greece's EFF. According to the report, the program's implementation was hindered by Greece's political instability and any program would have failed under the circumstances: \"protracted recession and ... rapidly falling living standards\". The"}, {"text": "IMF said that important reforms of public financial management and revenue administration had been implemented, and the Greek government reformed the minimum wage, barriers to competition, privatization and collective bargaining. Imports and unit labor costs were reduced, making a three-percent deficit in 2011 a 0.5 percent surplus in 2013. The banking system had been consolidated, and the 2012 debt decreased to 160 percent of GDP from 172 percent. The IMF emphasized, however, that exports under-performed; Greece's governance indicators worsened during the program, and the debt was declared unsustainable in 2015. Growth, debt sustainability and competitiveness targets were not met; growth was less than expected, unemployment was higher and the recession was deeper, Nominal GDP in 2013 and 2015 was 12 and 20 percent lower than initial estimates, which \"may have been too optimistic\". The Greek government met 61 of 97 structural conditions; one was waived, and 16 were outstanding when the review was completed. Post-program monitoring. Greece is subject to post-program monitoring (PPM), focusing on its ability to repay the IMF, as a country which owes the fund more than 1.5 billion SDR or 200 percent of its quota. The first PPM was completed on 12 March 2019; the IMF"}, {"text": "concluded that \"recovery in Greece is accelerating and broadening\", with projected growth of 2.4 percent of GDP due to the export market, private consumption and investment. Although the country can repay its debt, the fund supports more reform for increased productivity and labor-market flexibility. Criticism. The IMF's austerity policies were criticized as violating the Greek constitution and human rights. On 10 January 2014, the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI) published a letter saying that privatization \"complicated the access to essential public services such as water and sanitation and energy\" and poor Greek citizens were denied healthcare because of government cuts. That year, the Greek Council of State declared austerity measures such as the 2012 wage cuts for academic personnel and the planned privatization of the Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company unconstitutional. A 2015 report by the European Parliament directorate-general for internal policies said that the austerity measures infringed the rights to a pension, to work, to healthcare and to justice. In October 2017, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe reported that the austerity measures infringed the rights to healthcare, to an adequate standard of living, to work and to social security, with a \"disproportionate"}, {"text": "impact on the most vulnerable\". According to a June 2018 report by the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, the austerity measures negatively impacted the rights to adequate housing, healthcare and education. The report quoted a Greek National Commission for Human Rights (GNCHR) statement that \"austerity measures undermine fundamental constitutional principles and violate constitutionally-guaranteed human rights\". The IMF has been held responsible for violating Greek human rights by the Hellenic League for Human Rights (HLHR), the country's oldest human-rights organization."}, {"text": "Kayal Roy Iro (born 20 February 2000), also known by the nickname KL, is a Cook Islands professional rugby league footballer who plays as a and er for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League and the Cook Islands at international level. Background. Iro is the son of former player Kevin Iro and nephew of coach Tony Iro. He grew up in Rarotonga where he played for the Arorangi Bears, then moved to Auckland at age 14 and attended Mount Albert Grammar School. Playing career. New Zealand Warriors. In 2019, Iro played for the New Zealand Warriors under 20s, before moving to the Newcastle Knights. Newcastle Knights. On 12 November 2019, Iro signed a one-year under 20s contract with the Newcastle Knights. Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. In round 24 of the 2022 NRL season, Iro made his first grade debut for Cronulla in their 16-0 victory over Canterbury. Iro won the New South Wales Cup player of the year for the 2022 NSW Cup season while playing for the Newtown Jets, the reserve grade affiliate of the Sharks. On 25 July 2024, it was announced that Iro had re-signed with the Cronulla club on a two-year extension until the end of"}, {"text": "the 2026 season. Iro played 23 games for Cronulla in the 2024 NRL season as the club finished 4th on the table and qualified for the finals. Iro played in all three of Cronulla's finals matches including their preliminary final loss against Penrith. In round 2 of the 2025 NRL season, Iro scored two tries for Cronulla in their 36-12 victory over North Queensland. International. Iro represented the in the 2019 Rugby League World Cup 9s, scoring two tries in a 30\u20137 victory against . He made his full international d\u00e9but in the 66\u20136 win over South Africa on 21 June 2019 at . \"*denotes season competing\""}, {"text": "Blood Vessel is a 2019 horror film that was filmed in Melbourne, Australia. The film was directed by Justin Dix and written by Dix and Jordan Prosser. It stars Alyssa Sutherland, Robert Taylor, Nathan Phillips, Christopher Kirby, John Lloyd Fillingham, and Alex Cooke. The film premiered as a closing night film at 2019 FilmQuest in Provo, Utah, where it was nominated for eleven awards, winning for Best Art Department, Best Costume, and Best Supporting Actress for Sutherland. The film was released on 21 July 2020 via video-on-demand service Shudder. Plot. In late 1945, near the end of World War II, a life raft is adrift in the North Atlantic, carrying the survivors of a hospital ship that was hit by a German torpedo and sunk. The survivors - American cook Bigelow, American mechanic Jackson, British nurse Jane Prescott, British codebreaker Gerard Faraday, Australian soldier Sinclair, Russian sniper Alexander Teplov, and Malone, the American captain of the hospital ship - have been adrift for days and have run out of food when suddenly a Nazi minesweeper drifts by. The group board the passing ship but Malone falls while climbing up and is killed by the ship's propellers. The remaining survivors investigate"}, {"text": "the seemingly-abandoned ship, with Sinclair, Teplov, and Bigelow going to the bridge and finding the steering wheel chained in place, along with the mutilated body of one of the ship's German crew. Below deck, Jackson checks out the engine and finds bodies that seem to have been burned to death, and also discovers that the boiler has failed and the ship could explode at any time if the engine keeps running, so he shuts off the engine, leaving the ship dead in the water. The survivors discover a young girl hiding in the galley who reflexively bites Jane out of fear, but they calm her down and she, speaking Romanian, introduces herself as Mya. Mya leads the survivors to a heavy locked door further below deck. They open it and discover a surviving German crew member who becomes terrified at the sight of Mya and tries to kill her with his Luger, accidentally killing Jackson; Teplov then kills the German. Bigelow and Sinclair investigate the room that the German survivor was holed up in and find multiple large wooden boxes, a box of gold, and a box filled with crucifixes and transparent glass containers shaped like grenades that are filled"}, {"text": "with water. They then investigate the quarters of the ship's dead captain, finding a wealth of photographs and documents showing Nazi soldiers unearthing ancient artifacts, including what appear to be multiple sarcophagi, along with a thick tome showing images of monstrous creatures. Bigelow goes back to the storage room to steal some of the gold, and also opens up one of the large wooden boxes, which contains one of the sarcophagi from the photographs. He breaks the chains holding it shut and opens it looking for more treasure, but instead finds a slumbering creature with a bat-like face. The creature suddenly awakens and kills Bigelow; Sinclair encounters the creature as it attacks Bigelow but manages to lock the storage room door, trapping it inside. The creature's awakening triggers a transformation in Mya, who is revealed to be of the same species; she suddenly attacks Jane, but Teplov shoots her, scaring her off. Faraday sneaks away and makes contact with a German over the ship's radio and offers up classified British information in exchange for rescue, but is attacked by Mya. Sinclair, Teplov, and Jane look over the documents and film in the captain's cabin, and when Teplov looks at the"}, {"text": "tome, he recognizes the monsters depicted inside as Strigoi, fairytale creatures that are said to feed on the blood of their victims and have the power to shape-shift and command the minds of others. In the storage room, the male strigoi opens the second sarcophagus and awakens the female strigoi sleeping within. Sinclair, Teplov, and Jane find Faraday, who has been bitten by Mya, which allows the Patriarch of the strigoi to psychically control him. The survivors manage to kill the possessed Farady and then lure Mya into a trap in a gasoline-filled room, burning her to death. As she burns, the Patriarch initiates a psychic connection with Jane through the small bite she received when they first discovered Mya, which has slowly been growing worse. The Patriarch controls Jane and forces her to free him and the Matriarch from the storage room; he then bites Jane's neck. Teplov goes back to the storage room to arm himself with the holy weapons stored there, but is ambushed by the Patriarch and bitten in the neck. He manages to escape and find Sinclair, who is being attacked by the Matriarch, but Teplov saves him with a flare gun recovered from the"}, {"text": "captain's cabin and together they kill her by decapitating her with an axe. The pair hear a distant ship approaching, alerted by the flare gun, so they agree to find Jane and then destroy the Nazi ship by detonating a warhead in the munitions storage in order to kill the Patriarch. They go to the munitions room and find it full of infected German crew, but they fight through the strigoi and kill them all. Teplov then reveals his neck wound from the Patriarch and decides to stay behind to detonate the warhead himself, ordering Sinclair to escape with Jane. Sinclair finds Jane, who appears disoriented and tells Sinclair to leave her behind, but he ignores her pleading. Teplov is attacked by the Patriarch while attempting to detonate the warhead, but protects himself with a crucifix and successfully sets off a chain of explosions across the ship, sacrificing himself and killing the Patriarch as Sinclair and Jane jump overboard. Sinclair dives underwater to rescue Jane, and begins yelling and waving at the approaching British ship, but when Jane regains consciousness, she is revealed to have been infected by the Patriarch, and bites Sinclair's neck, killing him and then letting him"}, {"text": "sink into the ocean. Jane then hides her infection and allows herself to be rescued by the unaware British sailors."}, {"text": "The Joseph F. and Isabelle Jensen House, at 428 East 8800 South in Sandy, Utah, was built around 1902. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, and it is also included in the National Register-listed Sandy Historic District It is a one-story brick Victorian cottage with Queen Anne-style detailing. Its bricks are laid in stretcher bond. It is located on the northeast corner of the intersection of S. 420 E. with E. 8800 S. There is a white picket fence outlining the property on its two street-facing sides."}, {"text": "In enzymology, a formylmethanofuran dehydrogenase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction: formylmethanofuran + H2O + acceptor formula_1 CO2 + methanofuran + reduced acceptor. The 3 substrates of this enzyme are formylmethanofuran, H2O, and acceptor, whereas its 3 products are CO2, methanofuran, and reduced acceptor. This enzyme belongs to the family of oxidoreductases, specifically those acting on the aldehyde or oxo group of donor with other acceptors. The systematic name of this enzyme class is formylmethanofuran:acceptor oxidoreductase. This enzyme is also called formylmethanofuran:(acceptor) oxidoreductase. This enzyme participates in folate biosynthesis. It has 2 cofactors: molybdenum, and Pterin. Discovery and biological occurrence. Formylmethanofuran (formyl-MFR) dehydrogenase is found in methanogenic archaea which are capable of synthesizing methane using substrates such as carbon dioxide, formate, methanol, methylamines, and acetate. In 1967, a reliable technique for the mass culture of hydrogen and carbon dioxide was developed for methanogens. It became obvious coenzymes are involved in biochemistry of methanogens as kilogram scale of cell was developed and utilized for biochemical studies. \"Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum\"'s reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) with hydrogen is the most studied system.\"\" \"Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum's\" metabolism involves almost all of the reactions in methanogenesis.\"\" Molybdenum and tungsten containing formyl-MFR was isolated"}, {"text": "from \"M. thermoautotrophicum\" when they purified proteins from soluble cofactors-depleted cell extracts.\"\" It was not known to have existed prior to the experiment.\"\" MFR was required to generate methane from CO2 insoluble cofactors-depleted cell extracts.\"\" Formyl-MFR dehydrogenase was also isolated from \"Methanosarcina barkeri\" \"and Archaeoglobus fulgidus cell extracts.\" Molybdenum-containing formyl-MFR dehydrogenase was isolated from \"Methanothermobacter wolfeii\". Structure. In 2016, the X-ray structure of formylmethanofuran dehydrogenase was determined. Formyl-MFR contains two heterohexamers FwdABCDFG which are protein subunits which associate as a symmetric dimer in a C2 rotational symmetry. The formyl-MFR dehydrogenase also contains 23 and 46 iron-sulfur cubane clusters in the dimer and tetramer forms respectively. The subunit FwdA contains two zinc atoms analogous to dihydroorotase. It also contains N6-carboxylysine, zinc ligands, and an aspartate that is crucial to catalysis. Meanwhile, the subunit FwdF is composed of four T-shaped ferrodoxin domains that are similar. The T-shaped iron-sulfur clusters in the FwdF subunit link up to form a path from the outside edge to the inside core. FwdBD has a redox-active tungsten. The tungsten in FwdBD is coordinated by four dithiolene thiolates. Six sulfurs from the thiolate of Cys118 and an organic sulfide ligand coordinate to the tungsten of tungstopterin at the"}, {"text": "active site of FwdB. The tungsten is coordinated in a distorted octahedral geometry. A carbon dioxide (CO2) suitable binding site is occupied by the solvent in the X-ray structure of the crystal not in vivo. The binding site lies between Cys118, His119, Arg228, and sulfur-tungsten ligand. Methanogenesis catalysis. Formyl-MFR dehydrogenase catalyzes the methanogenesis reaction by reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) to form carboxy-MFR. The structural data obtained from the X-ray structure suggests carbon dioxide (CO2) is reduced to formate (E0\u2019 = -430 mV) at FwdBD's tungstopterin active site to carboxy-MFR by a 4Fe-4S ferredoxin (E = ~ \u2013 500 mV) located 12.4 \u00c5 away. Then, it reduces the carboxy-MFR to MFR at its tungsten or molybdenum active site. Proposed mechanism. A 43 \u00c5 long hydrophilic tunnel supports the proposed two-step scenario of CO2 reduction and fixation. This hyrophilic tunnel is located in the middle of FwdBD and FwdA active sites and is convenient for formic acid and formate transportation [pKa = 3.75]. The tunnel has a bottleneck appearance which consists of a narrow passage and a wide solvent-filled cavity located at the front of each active site. Arg228 of FwdBD and Lys64 of FwdA control gate operation at the bottlenecks. Two"}, {"text": "[4Fe-4S] cluster chain's outer cluster in the branched outer arm of the FwdF subunits funnels electrons to the tungsten center. Then, carbon dioxide is reduced to formate (while tungsten is oxidized: tungsten oxidation state goes from +4 to +6) when carbon dioxide enters the catalytic compartment through FwdBD's hydrophobic tunnel. Formic acid or formate diffuses to the FwdA's active site via a hydrophilic tunnel. Once it is diffused at the active site, it is condense at the binuclear zinc center with MFR. Pumping formate into the tunnel is proposed to attain exergonic reduction of CO2 to formate with reduced ferredoxin."}, {"text": "Upton Apartments is a historic building in Ogden, Utah. It was built in 1925 by the Upton Masonry Company, with a \"somewhat ornate brick exterior.\" It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 31, 1987."}, {"text": "The Ngmayem Festival is an annual harvest festival celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Manya Krobo in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The festival was established by Nene Azu Mate Kole in 1944 to replace the already existing festival called Yeliyem, which literary means \"eating of yam\". It is usually celebrated in the month of October in Dodowa and also the Shai in the towns of Somanya and Odumase. The festival is celebrated for one week, mostly from the last two Sundays of the month of October. The festival. The meaning of Ngmayem is \"Eating the new millet\". The festival is a commemoration of plentiful harvest of pearl millet, which is called \"ngma\", and it is a period in which the people of Manya Krobo give thanks to their creator for protection, and the plentiful harvest."}, {"text": "The Abderrahman Slaoui Museum () is a museum in Casablanca, Morocco. It is named after Abderrahman Slaoui, Moroccan businessman and art collector who died in 2001. The museum was founded by the Abderrahman Slaoui Foundation, and has been open since May 2012. The museum displays the collection of its namesake: old posters, Moroccan jewelry, figurative paintings by Muhammad Ben Ali Rabati, landscape paintings by Jacques Majorelle, crystal objects, etc. The museum hosts temporary exhibitions featuring contemporary Moroccan artists on a quarterly basis, and offers artistic workshops for visitors who want to learn the crafts. Permanent collection. Moroccan gold jewelry. The Slaoui Museum hosts an important collection of 18th- and 19th-century Moroccan gold jewelry. These rare pieces have survived thanks to Abderrahman Slaoui's early interest in the craft, as well as the fact that his father-in-law was a famous jeweler from Fes, who would help him buy, study, and document all of the jewelry collection. Gold jewelry is traditionally worn during special occasions, such as weddings. It exists in sets containing: earrings, a tiara, a frontal piece brooch, and heavy necklaces. Due to the high prices, there would usually be one jewelry set per family or town, and each bride would"}, {"text": "borrow it or rent it for her wedding ceremony. The most famous piece would be the \"Khamsa\" or hand of Fatima, a Jewish and Arab symbol of protection against the evil eye. Berber jewelry. Unlike gold jewelry in Morocco, the jewelry of Amazigh women\u2014made mainly from silver and sometimes including enamel, coral or amber\u2014was worn in everyday life. These jewelry sets are different in shapes and colors, depending on the tribal group, and are heavy in symbology; the choice of silver, for instance, was because it is closest to white, which symbolizes purity. Amazigh women were given great importance as protectors of culture and knowledge, such as language and various crafts, such as carpet weaving, tattooing, and ornamentation. This explains why they were adorned with jewelry and fine clothes. Paintings of Muhammad Ben Ali Ribati. Muhammad Ben Ali Ribati is regarded as one of the earliest modern painters in Morocco, his art depicts scenes from Tangier\u2014the Kasbah, and its inhabitants. His career took off when he met Sir John Lavery, an artist from the royal court of England. Ribati worked as a cook for him, and practiced his art with the support of Lavery, who later took him to England"}, {"text": "and exhibited his works. Orientalist poster. The largest collection of Orientalist posters in Morocco, dating from late 19th century, and continued to be created for over 100 years. Commissioned to some of the most famous orientalist painters of the time\u2014the likes of Majorelle, Charles Halo, Joseph de la N\u00e9ziere etc.\u2014these posters showcase some of the most alluring scenery in Morocco as well as Algeria and Tunisia. Later on, these posters were extensively used by travel agencies to promote their services for these \"exotic\" destinations, and by other companies to promote their products. Only some of the highly valuable posters are exhibited in the museum; the rest have been published in book entitled \"The Orientalist Poster\" (1998). Temporary exhibitions. Since its foundation in 2012, many Moroccan artists have exhibited their works, ranging from photography to sculpture and mixed media works. The museum encourages contemporary art works that explore and question Moroccan culture, and create a dialogue with the museum's collections. Among the artists that exhibited in the museum there are: Artistic workshops. Since its opening, art workshops have been an essential part of the cultural mediation work in the museum. Through practice, the participants learn the process to make their own"}, {"text": "art and how to appreciate the art pieces in the exhibition. One of these workshops is a series of classes to learn calligraphy in the Maghrebi script."}, {"text": "Al-Hilli () is an Arabic surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Tetratheca glandulosa is a spreading shrub in the family Elaeocarpaceae. It is endemic to New South Wales. Description. Its leaves are alternate or opposite or rarely in whorls of three or four. They are linear and 3\u201320 mm long by 1\u20132 mm wide with revolute margins and stiff, occasionally gland-tipped hairs which give a toothed appearance. The midrib on lower surface is often glandular/hairy and the leaves are sometimes sessile. The flowers are solitary (rarely paired) on peduncles which are 3\u201310 mm long. They can be hairy with dark red, gland-tipped and tubercle-based hairs. The sepals are 2\u20133 mm long and persist with the fruit. The deep lilac-pink petals are 4.5\u201310.5 mm long and also persist in the fruit. The ovary is hairy and there are two ovules. The fruit is 3\u20137 mm long and the seeds are greater than 3 mm long. It usually flowers from July to November. It grows in sandy or rocky heath or scrub, from Mangrove Mountain to the Blue Mountains and Sydney. Taxonomy and naming. \"Tetratheca glandulosa\" was first described by James Edward Smith in 1804. The specific epithet, \"glandulosa\", derives from the Latin noun \"glandula\", meaning \"gland\", to give an adjective describing the"}, {"text": "plant as \"bearing glands\" or \"gland-bearing\". Conservation status. In New South Wales, it has been declared \"vulnerable\"."}, {"text": "The Jordan School District Administration Building, at 9361 S. 400 East in Sandy, Utah, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It was built in PWA Moderne style in 1935 as part of a Public Works Administration project. It appears that the building no longer exists."}, {"text": "The War (German: \"Der Krieg\") is a series of 50 drypoint and aquatint etchings by German artist Otto Dix, catalogued by Florian Karsch as K.70 to K.119. The prints were published in Berlin in 1924 by Karl Nierendorf, in an edition which included separate high quality folio prints, and a lower-quality version with 24 prints bound together. It is often compared to Francisco Goya's series of 82 engravings \"The Disasters of War\". The British Museum, which holds a complete set of the folio prints, has described the series as \"Dix's central achievement as a graphic artist\"; the auction house Christie's has described it as \"one of the finest and most unflinching depictions of war in western art\". Background. Dix was born in 1891, and studied art in Dresden before the First World War. He was conscripted in 1915, and served in the Imperial German Army as a machine gunner on both the Eastern Front and the Western Front. After the war, he returned to study at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, and then in Italy. He was a founder of the short-lived avant-garde Dresdner Sezession art group, and then supported the post-expressionist New Objectivity movement. His horrific experiences in"}, {"text": "the trenches inspired the anti-war art he created after 1920. Dix came to public attention when featured by Theodor D\u00e4ubler in \"Das Kunstblatt\" in 1920. In 1921, Otto Dix met Karl Nierendorf, an art dealer in Berlin, who became his agent and publisher. Dix's large anti-war painting \"The Trench\" (\"Der Sch\u00fctzengraben\") caused great controversy when first exhibited in Cologne in 1923. It was confiscated as degenerate art (\"Entartete Kunst\") by the Nazis, and lost during the Second World War. Dix's reputation for controversy continued in 1925, when he successfully defended himself against charges of indecency following exhibitions in Berlin and Darmstadt of two paintings of prostitutes. He became a professor at the Dresden Academy in 1927, and returned to anti-war sentiments for his 1929 to 1932 triptych, also entitled \"The War\" (\"Der Krieg\"), the central panel of which reworks themes from \"The Trench\": this painting been held by the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden since 1968. Description. Dix's \"War\" prints were published in 1924, the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, as an antidote to the heroic interpretation of the war. Dix had seen Goya's series of 82 engravings \"The Disasters of War\" in Basel: he was inspired"}, {"text": "by Goya's etching technique that combined etching and aquatint to depict horrific scenes from the Napoleonic Wars in Spain, and created a similar series of etchings of atrocities from the First World War. Among the other influences on Dix's prints were the works of Urs Graf, Jacques Callot's \"Miseries of War\" print series, and Goya's painting \"The Third of May 1808\". Some of the scenes also draw inspiration from preparatory sketches for his 1923 painting \"The Trench\", and others from a visit to the catacombs in Palermo in 1923\u201324, and the wartime photographs of Ernst Friedrich, published as \"Krieg dem Kriege\" (\"War against War\") in 1924. Dix studied with in D\u00fcsseldorf to improve his etching prowess before embarking on the prints. In the series, Dix depicts scenes of executions and famine, with trenches and corpses amid the desolate landscapes in Flanders and the Somme. He shows images of emaciated and decaying corpses, grimacing skeletons, bodies crucified or impaled on barbed wire, the wounded with bulging eyes and open flesh, in a hallucinatory dance macabre. The prints are based on wartime photographs, hundreds of sketches that Dix made during the war, and his own memories. Ten of the prints highlight the"}, {"text": "disproportionate burdens borne by soldiers in different branches of the armed forces: the infantrymen are mutilated, wounded, suffer, go mad and die, while sailors binge with prostitutes. One his prints, \"Soldat und Nonne\" (\"Soldier and nun\", K.120) - a graphic image of a soldier attempting to rape a nun -, was withdrawn from the series before it was published, but another \"Soldat und Hure\" (\"Soldier and whore\", K.105) was included under the title \"Besuch bei Madame Germaine in M\u00e9ricourt\" (\"Visit to Madame Germaine's in M\u00e9ricourt\"). The etchings measure approximately , printed on cream-coloured paper approximately . The series was published in Berlin by Karl Nierendorf, as a folio of fifty engravings, in five portfolios of ten etchings each, entitled \"Der Krieg\" (\"The War\"). Dix gave each engraving a title, location, and description, and they were arranged into sets of ten without taking into account any chronological or temporal order, or the order in which the plates were made. They were printed by in an edition of 70, with the portfolios priced at 300 Reichsmarks each, or all five for 1000 Marks. Nierendorf also published a book containing with an introduction by the author Henri Barbusse, in an edition of 10,000"}, {"text": "priced at just 1.20 Marks, later increased to 2.40 Marks. Reception. Nierendorf collaborated with the pacifist to circulate the prints throughout Germany. They were an instant critical and popular success, praised for their depiction of the horrific reality of modern warfare in the First World War, but also controversial. In the 1930s, many of Dix's works were condemned as degenerate art (\"Entartete Kunst\") by the Nazi party. A complete set of Dix's \"War\" prints held by the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin was included in the Degenerate Art Exhibition in 1937. Complete sets of the 50 folio prints are held by several public collections, including the Historial de la Grande Guerre in P\u00e9ronne, the Kupferstichkabinett in the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the National Gallery of Australia, and the British Museum. A complete set of 50 prints, formerly owned by Lothar-G\u00fcnther Buchheim and deaccessioned as a duplicate from the Buchheim Museum, was sold by Christie's in 2017 for \u00a3236,750. A complete set with a copy of \"Soldat und Nonne\" was sold by Sotheby's in 2014 for US$377,000."}, {"text": "QBU or QBUS may refer to:"}, {"text": "Ren Zhong (; born 1976) is a Chinese calligrapher, painter, and art collector known for his gongbi paintings and calligraphy. His artworks have been exhibited in the National Art Museum of China, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Yunnan Provincial Museum, and Rong Bao Zhai. Biography. Ren Zhong was born in Yinchuan, Ningxia Autonomous Region in 1976. While his father taught him traditional Chinese painting and poetry, Ren developed a strong interest in Song and Yuan dynasty paintings and literature. He started to practice painting and calligraphy since childhood and won the Golden Award at the National \u201cStar Cup\u201d Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition at the age of 16. In 1997, a selection of his works was exhibited at the First European Exhibition of Chinese Art and First International Exhibition of Fan Paintings and Calligraphies hosted by the Ministry of Culture of China. Since then, his works have been exhibited in major art museums and galleries around the country, including the National Art Museum of China, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, and Sichuan Museum. He is Chair of Yinchuan Artists Association, and a member of the Ningxia Artists Association. His presence on an international level includes being featured on Masterpiece London, Art Basel Hong"}, {"text": "Kong, and Casa Natale di Leonardo da Vinci. Influence and theme. Ren have been influenced by the Southern School of ink painting and modern ink painting master Chang Dai-chien, as well as traditional Chinese culture and Confucianism. He believes any ordinary activities of human life \u2013 including art practices - is a manifestation of the sacred. As he puts heavy emphasis on humanism and harmony among nature and society, both his creative process and the final works echo to this belief. \u201cThe investigation on traditional masterpieces and techniques, the observation of nature, and the devotion to traditional culture\u2026 few people can dedicate themselves to such hard work persistently\u201d, foremost Chinese artist and scholar Chen Peiqiu commented, \u201ctherefore, Ren\u2019s works have captured all aspects of Gongbi art comprehensively, from figures to landscape to animals, from the Song Dynasty to the modern era, he is such a well-rounded artist.\u201d Auction. Ren Zhong's artworks have been offered at auction multiple times. In 2013, his ink and colour on silk \"Seven Sages\" achieved a realized price of 8.85 million Chinese yuan (approximately $1.25 million US dollars) at Sotheby's Beijing"}, {"text": "XHGA-TDT is a television station in Guadalajara, Jalisco, broadcasting on virtual channel 2. The station was an affiliate of the short-lived TIM network, which was absorbed into Telesistema Mexicano in 1972 to form the current Televisa. For over 30 years, the station was an affiliate of Canal 5, but in 2005, it exchanged formats with XEWO and became a Las Estrellas transmitter. History. The concession's origins trace back to 1956, when Victor Manuel Ch\u00e1vez y Ch\u00e1vez announced his intent to bid for VHF channel 8 in Guadalajara. The license was granted in 1960 using equipment and technicians from the United Kingdom. On September 14, 1965, Televisora de Jalisco was legally constituted. On July 11, 1966, Televisi\u00f3n Independiente de M\u00e9xico acquired the assets from its founder and renamed it Televisora Independiente de Jalisco, inheriting its license. XHGA-TV was licensed under Televisi\u00f3n Independiente de Jalisco, a company linked to Televisi\u00f3n Independiente de M\u00e9xico, on June 12, 1970, with the aim of exploiting a commercial television station on channel 9, instead of channel 8 as originally planned; IFT subsequently agreed on November 24. The station was set to use a 100kW omnidirectional antenna. The station started broadcasting on March 8, 1971, becoming the"}, {"text": "fourth television station in Guadalajara. initially limiting itself to relays from the capital from 10am to 12pm, as well as some sporting events that were networked. Regular programming started on July 29, relaying programs from XHTM, the TIM flagship in Mexico City, from 6pm to 11:15pm; the rest of its airtime consisted of local programming, the first of which being the afternoon program \"Club Infantil\" with Margarita Cerdena. Its initial affiliation didn't last long, as the 1973 merger of the two television companies caused Televisa to control three of the four local stations. As consequence, the station started relaying XHGC-TV from Mexico City, as Televisa decided to limit XHTIM's coverage to Mexico City. A fire at its facilities in Condominio Guadalajara affected the station in February 1986, damaging its newly-installed transmitting equipment, which was set up ahead of the 1986 FIFA World Cup. During the 1988 Summer Olympics, locals only got to see two hours of events on the station, using the 10pm-12am slots allocated to the XHGC network. At the time, its director-general was engineer Francisco J. Becerra, while the station aired its own programming from 7am to 4pm; from then to sign-off, the station was linked to XHGC's"}, {"text": "national network. The daytime schedule gained it the name of TV Matutina. On January 9, 1991, the station broke from its status as relayer of Canal 5 and added more local programming, with a newscast and a sports program produced from Televicentro de Guadalajara, as the extant offices did not have the conditions to produce these programs. Shortly after, this situation changed with the station beginning to relay some programs from the local channel 4, with programs produced at Televicentro, especially aimed at children, and short updates of its news service, \"Al Tanto\". Since 2005, the station has been a Las Estrellas transmitter, licensed to Televimex. In 2016, it moved from digital channel 9.1 to 2.1, aligning with most of Las Estrellas' transmitters."}, {"text": "Mary Elizabeth Rubens is a Canadian film, stage, and television actress, who made her feature film debut in Paul Lynch's slasher film \"Prom Night\" (1980). She subsequently appeared in \"Firebird 2015 AD\" (1981). She worked throughout the 1980s in television, guest-starring on \"Night Heat\" (1985\u20131987) and \"Alfred Hitchcock Presents\" (1987\u20131988). From 1989 to 1993, she had a leading role on the series \"E.N.G.\", for which she was nominated for a Gemini Award. After a traumatic brain injury in the 1990s left Rubens with a permanent disability, she shifted focus from acting, and subsequently earned a degree in law & society from York University. In 2018, she appeared in Judith Thompson's stage production of \"After the Blackout\", a play about, and starring, people with various disabilities. Career. Rubens made her feature film debut in Paul Lynch's slasher film \"Prom Night\" (1980). She subsequently had a supporting role in \"Firebird 2015 AD\" (1981). In 1987, she appeared in \"Souvenirs\" with Theatre Calgary. In 1990, Rubens was nominated for a Gemini Award for her performance in the pilot of \"E.N.G.\". In 1995, she appeared in the film \"The Michelle Apartments\". After suffering a traumatic brain injury in the 1990s, Rubens was left with"}, {"text": "a permanent disability and temporarily retired from acting. She subsequently enrolled at York University, graduating with an honours degree in law & society. In 2018, she returned to theater in the RARE Theatre Company's \"After the Blackout\", a play by Judith Thompson, which featured a cast of performers with varying disabilities. Isabelle Perrone of \"BroadwayWorld\" noted that Rubens \"approached her character seemingly with ease, playing the aged starlet with elegance.\""}, {"text": "Robert Posp\u00ed\u0161il (born December 27, 1977) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman. Pospisil played in the Czech Extraliga for HC Pardubice between 1996 and 2000 and HC B\u00edl\u00ed Tyg\u0159i Liberec during the 2002-03 season. He also played in the Ligue Magnus for Dauphins d'\u00c9pinal, the Polska Hokej Liga for Podhale Nowy Targ and Stoczniowiec Gda\u0144sk and the Elite Ice Hockey League for the Basingstoke Bison."}, {"text": "is a Japanese table tennis player. Her father is Japanese, while her mother is a Chinese table tennis player. At the age of 18, she made the national team, which won a silver medal at the 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships. She also won gold at the women's doubles at the 2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals with Hina Hayata. Association change. In 2019, Hamamoto registered with the Austrian Table Tennis Association in hopes of acquiring Austrian nationality. According to her family, she did so in order to continue playing internationally, as making the Japanese national team again had been difficult for her. In popular culture. Hamamoto appeared in the 2017 film \"Mixed Doubles\"."}, {"text": "Browning Apartments is a historic three-story building in Ogden, Utah. It was built in 1916 for investor George Emmett Browning, who served as the mayor of Ogden from 1925 to 1927. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he was also the president of its Weber stake for sixteen years. The building was designed in the Prairie School style, and Browning resided in apartment 3 from 1930 to 1948. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 19, 1985."}, {"text": "\"Die Young\" is a song by Australian indie pop band Sheppard. It was released as a single on 18 October 2019. \"Die Young\" came after frontman George Sheppard was forced to consider the band's future following a throat injury and surgery in 2019. In a statement, the band said \"We began to ask what we wanted next, for ourselves individually, for the band and for our fans. We wrote 'Die Young' as though it was a 'final' Sheppard song; a song about appreciating each day and living it as though it was your last.\" The song was released as the lead single from the band's forthcoming third studio album, \"Kaleidoscope Eyes\" (2021). Music video. The music video for \"Die Young\" was released on 17 October 2019. The clip uses muted colour patterns, haze and militaristic tableaux created by extras as the band communicate a sense of suffocation. Band member George Sheppard said \"We kind of took our cues from the opening line 'in a world that's colourblind, we see it all through kaleidoscope eyes'. That was a really cool line we all thought, and that kind of set up the video clip.\". Reception. Jasper Bruce from \"The Industry Observer\" said"}, {"text": "the song \"builds on the band's trademark energetic pop sound\". \"Uproxx\" said \"With a pulsating chorus, this song is a confirmation that Sheppard is here for a good time and you should be, too.\""}, {"text": "You Can No Longer Remain Silent (German: Du darfst nicht l\u00e4nger schweigen) is a 1955 West German romantic drama film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring Heidemarie Hatheyer, Wilhelm Borchert and Werner Hinz. It is based on the 1929 novel \"Morning of Life\" by Kristmann Gudmundsson. It is set amongst feuding Scandinavian fishing families. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin with location shooting around in Sweden around Gothenburg. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Helmut Nentwig and Karl Weber."}, {"text": "Kanombe may refer to:"}, {"text": "Theresa Obumneme Okoli is a Nigerian academic. Early life and education. Okoli was born to the Aniagboso family in the village of Okpuifite, Agulu, Anaocha Local Government Area, Anambra State. She began her education at St. Augustine's Primary School, Ogun State. From 1971\u20131984, she continued at Girls Secondary School, Awgbu, Anambra State, where she obtained the West African Senior School Certificate (WASSCE). Okoli attended Anambra State College of Education (now, Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nsugbe, Anambra State), where she graduated from the Department of Agric Education in 1988. In 1990, Okoli obtained her B.S. degree in Agric Education from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She obtained her Master's degree from the same university in 1995. In 2011, Okoli received a doctoral degree from Enugu State University of Science and Technology. Career. Okoli joined the Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze on 3 March 1992 as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Education. She became a principal lecturer in 2007 and a chief lecturer in 2011. Okoli served in a number of roles: Dean of the School of Agriculture and Home Economics Education, dean of student Affairs, coordinator of the Sandwich Programme, coordinator of the Continuing Education Programme"}, {"text": "(CEP), and Head of the Department of Agricultural Education. On 17 May 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari appointed her as the fourth substantive Provost of the Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze. She succeeded the college's acting provost, Dr. Cicilia Nonye Ibekwe. Okoli is first staff member to hold the position of provost at the college. Professional bodies. Okoli is a member of many professional associations, including: She is the National Secretary of Association of Women in Colleges of Education (WICE). She is also the Chairman of the Forum for African Women Educationalist of Nigeria (FAWEN), FCET Umunze Chapter. Awards and honours. In 2019, Okoli was honored with a distinguished labour-friendly award by Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, (COEASU) and distinguished alumni award by the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She was conferred with a chieftaincy title, Mma Chinyereugo of Orumba (Jewel from God) by the Orumba Traditional Rulers Council, Anambra State."}, {"text": "Yantarny Sports Palace, also known as Amber Sports Palace (, \"Dvorets Sporta Yantarny\") is a multi-purpose indoor arena that is located in Kaliningrad, Russia. It is a part of the Yantarny Sports Complex, which contains 10 sports halls, and 2 indoor arenas. The two indoor arenas consist of the Yantarny Sports Complex Small Arena, which has a seating capacity of 1,000 people, and Amber Arena, which has a seating capacity of 7,000 people. Amber Arena can be used to host numerous different events, such as: exhibitions, concerts, gymnastics, volleyball, martial arts tournaments, futsal, handball, and basketball. History. Amber Arena opened in 2009. The Lokomotiv Kaliningrad Region Women's Volleyball Club has used the facility as its home arena. The arena has also been used as a home venue by both the senior Russian men's national volleyball team and the senior Russian women's national volleyball team, and it also hosted several major FIVB international volleyball tournaments. During the 2019\u201320 season, the arena was used as a substituent home arena of the VTB United League club CSKA Moscow, for two EuroLeague games."}, {"text": "The Peery Apartments is a historic three-story building within the Ogden Central Bench Historic District in Ogden, Utah, United States, that is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Description. The structure was built in 1909-1910 as an investment for the David H. Peery family, and designed in the Prairie School style by architects Julius A. Smith and Leslie Simmons Hodgson. It was listed on the NRHP December 31, 1987."}, {"text": "Bridge L8515 is a historic bridge in the Oatmeal Hill neighborhood of Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Built in 1922, it carries Lewis Street over Tischer Creek. Structurally it is a reinforced concrete arch bridge with a veneer of local gabbro masonry. Bridge L8515 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016 for its local significance in the theme of engineering. It was nominated for being a highly aesthetic example of the rustic bridges built in park-like settings in the first half of the 20th century."}, {"text": "Ruslan Akhmadullin (born January 26, 1982) is a Russian former professional ice hockey forward. Akhmadullin spent one season playing in the junior Ontario Hockey League for the Kitchener Rangers after they selected him 10th overall in the 1999 CHL Import Draft. He scored 12 goals and 12 assists in 58 games during the 1999\u201300 OHL season before returning to his native Ufa in Russia, joining Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Russian Superleague. He spent three seasons with Salavat Yulaev between 2000 and 2003, playing 57 games and scoring six goals and four assists. Akhmadullin then played one season in the second-tier Vysshaya Liga for Dinamo-Energija Yekaterinburg before playing the remainder of his career in the third-tier Pervaya Liga."}, {"text": "Krzysztof Brede (born 8 February 1981) is a Polish professional football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is currently in charge of II liga club Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Bia\u0142a. He spent most of his career playing with Lechia Gda\u0144sk, also making appearances with Arka Gdynia, Warmia Grajewo, Gryf Wejherowo and Olimpia Grudzi\u0105dz. Playing career. Early years. Brede started his career with the youth teams of Lechia Gda\u0144sk, moving to Lech Pozna\u0144 during the summer of 2000. After a season with Lechia he spent 6 months on loan at Arka Gdynia making 8 appearances in total, leaving Lech at the end of the season. He spent a season with Warmia Grajewo, with Brede playing in a memorable cup game against \u0141KS \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, with the team securing an unlikely draw after extra time, before losing in penalties. The season after Brede played with Gryf Wejherowo. Lechia Gda\u0144sk. During the summer of 2004 Brede joined Lechia Gda\u0144sk, making his debut against the Pogo\u0144 Szczecin second team on 11 September 2004. In his first season with Lechia he played 21 times, contributing 2 goals as Lechia won the league. Brede spent the next 3 seasons with Lechia in the II liga playing"}, {"text": "62 appearances during this period. Brede made 3 appearances for Lechia as they won promotion back to the Ekstraklasa for the first time as an independent club in 20 years. With Lechia in the Ekstraklasa Brede found himself playing with the Under 21's team. Later years. After finding himself out of the first team, Brede joined Olimpia Grudzi\u0105dz during the winter transfer window. In his first season he helped Olimpia to win the III liga. In total for Olimpia Brede made 77 appearances scoring one goal. In 2011 Brede returned to Lechia, this time to play with the Lechia Gda\u0144sk II team. After a season in which he made 26 appearances Brede retired from professional football. Coaching. Coaching career. Brede started coaching shortly after his retirement joining the Lechia Gda\u0144sk coaching team in June 2012. He left in March 2014, joining the Jagiellonia Bia\u0142ystok coaching set up in June the same year. Managerial career. After three years with the Jagiellonia team Brede joined Chojniczanka Chojnice in his first managerial job. Brede was given the position as manager on a one-year contract with an extension if the team were to win promotion. After a 4th-place finish his contract was not renewed"}, {"text": "and Brede left at the end of the season. Brede was not out of employment for long, securing the role of being Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Bia\u0142a's manager. In his first season with Podbeskidzie the team finished 6th. He won promotion with Podbeskidzie to Ekstraklasa in 2020. In December 2020, his contract was terminated. On 24 November 2022, Chojniczanka appointed Brede as manager for the second time, on a year-and-a-half contract. He left the club on 17 June 2024, after receiving an offer to return to Podbeskidzie and having his contract bought out. Hours later, he was confirmed as the new manager of Podbeskidzie. Honours. Lechia Gda\u0144sk Olimpia Grudzi\u0105dz Tylko Lechia Gda\u0144sk"}, {"text": "The Farnsworth Apartments is a historic three-story building in Ogden, Utah. It was built by the Taylor Building Company in 1922, and acquired by investors J. W. and Flora F. Farnsworth in 1923. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic places since December 31, 1987."}, {"text": "Phoebe Richards (born 26 March 1993) is a field hockey player from Wales, who plays as a forward. Personal life. Phoebe Richards was born and raised in Knighton, Wales. In addition to hockey, Richards also used to play football for England at Under\u201315 and Under\u201317 levels. Her grandmother is of English descent, allowing her to play for her neighbouring country. Career. Club hockey. In the English Hockey League, Richards played club hockey for Buckingham from the 2015\u20132019. In 2019, she transferred clubs to Clifton Robinsons. National team. Phoebe Richards made her international debut for Wales during the 2012 Celtic Cup. Since her 2012 debut, Richards has become an integral member of the Welsh team, with continued appearances each year. Her most prominent achievements include representing the national side at the Commonwealth Games in 2014, 2018 and 2022."}, {"text": "is a Japanese actress from Amagasaki. She is affiliated with Amuse Inc. Tano was part of the girl group Boystyle from 2001 to 2007. Her voice acting career began with \"Toriko\" in 2011, and she has starred in several anime such as \"Smile PreCure!\", \"Francesca\", \"Love Live! Sunshine!!\", and \"Zombie Land Saga\". She has also appeared in the theatrical productions of \"\", \"Persona 4 Arena\", \"Blue Exorcist\", \"Kuroko's Basketball\", and \"The Seven Deadly Sins\". Biography. Asami Tano, a native of Amagasaki, was born on 12 February 1987. She was an originally a member of the idol group . In 2011, her first anime role was in \"Toriko\", voicing a character named Rin. In 2012, she voiced Akane Hino/Cure Sunny in \"Smile PreCure!\", the ninth season of the \"Pretty Cure\" franchise;. In an interview two years later, Tano described it as the start of her voice acting career. In 2018, she reprised her \"Pretty Cure\" role alongside the other fifty-four Pretty Cures in the crossover film \"\", which was certified as having the \"Most Magical Warriors in an Anime Film\" by Guinness World Records. In January 2014, she starred as Mitsuru Kirijo in the stage musical \"\"; she reprised the role"}, {"text": "in both the \"Persona 4 Arena\" stage play and \"Persona 4 Ultimax Song Project\". On 3 April 2018, Tano was cast as Guila in the stage adaptation of \"The Seven Deadly Sins\". On 28 July 2018, it was announced that Tano would cease performing at the stage production to recover from thyroid disease; the role of Guila was substituted by actress Haneyuri. She also played Mamushi Hojo in the stage adaptation of \"Blue Exorcist\", \"Live Act Ao no Exorcist ~Mashin no Rakuin~\", and Riko Aida in the stage adaptation of \"Kuroko's Basketball\", \"Kuroko's Basketball The Encounter\" In February 2014, she was cast as Exorcist in \"Francesca\", an anime centered on the titular idol based in Hokkaido Prefecture, alongside the titular main character's voice actress Yui Makino. In April 2014, she was cast in \"Sega Hard Girls\" as Genesis. Her \"Sword Art Online II\" character Nori sang the song \"Sleepless Legend\" for the \"SAO II Song Collection\", which was released on 22 March 2017. She voiced Sarah Kazuno in \"Love Live! Sunshine!!\", who is part of the subunit duo Saint Snow alongside Leah Kazuno (voiced by Hinata Sat\u014d). She voices Aki Saotome in the third-person shooter video game \"Bullet Girls\". On"}, {"text": "10 September 2018, Tano was cast as Saki Nikaido in \"Zombie Land Saga\", an anime by Cygames and MAPPA. Tano was interviewed by \"Rolling Stone Japan\" alongside her co-stars Kaede Hondo, Minami Tanaka and Mamoru Miyano. She also appeared at the \"Zombie Land Saga\" panel at Crunchyroll Expo 2019. In her July 2019 interview with \"Anime! Anime!\" following the anime's collaboration with \"Grimoire A: Shiritsu Grimoire Mahou Gakuen\", Tano mentioned that, during recording, she was given assistance to use the Saga dialect to reprise her character. On 13 December 2021, she announced her marriage to actor . On 12 December 2022, she announced the birth of her first child"}, {"text": "The River of Stars is a 1913 novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It was part of a series of stories in which the character of Commissioner Sanders appears, set in British West Africa. Adaption. In 1921 it was turned into a silent British film of the same title directed by Floyd Martin Thornton and starring Teddy Arundell. It was produced by Stoll Pictures, Britain's leading film company at the time."}, {"text": "Verkhnetsimlyansky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Krasnoyarskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 19 as of 2010. Geography. Verkhnetsimlyansky is located 31 km northeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Maloternovoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vodyanovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Pristenovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 144 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Vodyanovsky is located on 63 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pristenovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Volotsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) Chernyshkovskoye Urban Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 521 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Volotsky is located 8 km southwest of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chernyshkovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Hillcrest Apartments is a historic three-story building in Ogden, Utah. It was built in 1923 for investor Charles Reveliotis, an immigrant from Greece who became a wrestling and boxing impresario in Ogden. Reveliotis, also known as Revell, was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and a high priest of its Webster Heights stake; he died in 1960. The building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 31, 1987."}, {"text": "Jogipet (sai Krishnaveni veni High school) () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Nizhnegnutovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. Geography. Vorobyov is located on southwest of Chernyshkovsky District, 57 km south from Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Firsovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gladkov () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Basakinskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 41 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Gladkov is located 29 km southwest of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhnegnutov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yolkino () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Yulkinskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 445 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Yolkino is located 18 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Aseyev is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zhuravka () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Verkhnegnutovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 96 as of 2010. Geography. Zhuravka is located on the Don Plain, on the Tsimla River, 15 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yolkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Zakharov () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Zakharovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 518 as of 2010. There are 20 streets. Geography. Zakharov is located 54 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tormosin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Komarov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tomosinovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 28 as of 2010. Geography. Komarov is located in the steppe, 81 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tormosin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "On the Spot is a 1930 Chicago-set play by the British writer Edgar Wallace. Wallace was inspired by a visit to the United States and, in particular, the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. Known as a prolific author, he reportedly dictated the manuscript for the play in just four days. It was his greatest theatrical success. It lasted for 342 performances on its original West End run. Beginning at Wyndham's Theatre, it later transferred to the Cambridge Theatre. The lead role of a Capone-like gangster Tony Perelli was played by Charles Laughton with Emlyn Williams as his henchman and Gillian Lind playing Perelli's Chinese mistress. Other cast members included Roy Emerton, Carol Reed, Dennis Wyndham and Gladys Frazin. It transferred to America in October 1930 and ran for 167 performances at the Forrest Theatre in New York. In 1931, Wallace novelised the play using the same title. Adaptation. It was adapted as an American film \"Dangerous to Know\" (1938). Directed by Robert Florey for Paramount Pictures it starred Anna May Wong and Akim Tamiroff. The play was adapted for radio by Raymond Raikes, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4, on 27 March 1976, with Peter Woodthorpe as Tony Perelli and Denise"}, {"text": "Bryer as Minn Lee."}, {"text": "Jibantala is a village within the jurisdiction of the Jibantala police station in the Canning II CD block in the Canning subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography. Area overview. Canning subdivision has a very low level of urbanization. Only 12.37% of the population lives in the urban areas and 87.63% lives in the rural areas. There are 8 census towns in Canning I CD block and only 2 in the rest of the subdivision. The entire district is situated in the Ganges Delta with numerous islands in the southern part of the region. The area (shown in the map alongside) borders on the Sundarbans National Park and a major portion of it is a part of the Sundarbans settlements. It is a flat low-lying area in the South Bidyadhari plains. The Matla River is prominent and there are many streams and water channels locally known as \"khals\". A comparatively recent country-wide development is the guarding of the coastal areas with a special coastal force. Location. Jibantala is located at . Demographics. According to the 2011 Census of India, Jibantala had a total population of 2,355, of which 1,212 (51%) were males"}, {"text": "and 1,143 (49%) were females. There were 386 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate persons in Jibantala was 1.228 (62.37% of the population over 6 years). Civic administration. Police station. Jibantala police station was established on 28 August 2010. It covers an area of 238.93 km2 spread over part of the Canning I CD block and full Canning II CD block. Social scenario. According to the \"District Human Development Report for the South 24 Parganas\", \"The district is typically at the lower rung of the ladder in terms of district per capita income compared to other districts of West Bengal\u2026 This place also houses the largest proportion of backward people compared to the state\u2026 So far as the crime scenario is concerned the economically weaker group, i.e. the women and children, suffer the most in this district.\" Transport. Jibantala stands at the crossing of the Bodra-Jibantala Road and the Jibantala-Taldi Road. Education. Jibantala Rokeya Mahavidyalaya was established at Jibantala in 2001. Affiliated to the University of Calcutta it offers honours courses in Bengali, English, Sanskrit, history, political science, philosophy and education, and general courses in BA and B Sc. Jawahar Navodaya"}, {"text": "Vidyalaya, South 24 Parganas, at Jibantala, is a coeducational boarding school, established in 2009. It is affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education and provides schooling from class VI to class XII. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas are funded by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India, and administered by the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, an autonomous body under the ministry. These schools offer free high-quality education, boarding and lodging, books and other school requirements to meritorious students belonging to SC/ST and below poverty line families. Meritorious children of government employees and other categories can also apply but are charged certain fees. Students are admitted on the basis of an admission test. Howrahmari High School is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1975. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. Iswaripur Marjina Vidyaniketan is a higher secondary institution. Healthcare. Matherdighi Rural Hospital, with 30 beds, at Matherdighi, is the major government medical facility in the Canning II CD block."}, {"text": "McGregor Apartments is a historic apartment complex comprising three buildings in Ogden, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Description. The apartments were built between 1924 and 1926 by McGregor Bros. Construction, and designed in the Prairie School style. They are each three-story high. The complex been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 31, 1987."}, {"text": "Dragon Star Varnir is a 2018 role-playing video game developed by Compile Heart and published by Idea Factory. It was released for the PlayStation 4 in Japan in October 2018 and worldwide in June 2019, for Windows in October 2019, and for Nintendo Switch in 2021. The game follows a knight named Zephy who is tasked to fight witches and dragons, but is turned into a witch by his enemies in order to save him from death by the hands of a dragon. The game received generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised its battle system as an improvement from past Compile Heart games but criticized other aspects of its presentation. Reception. \"Dragon Star Varnir\" received \"generally favorable reviews\" according to review aggregator Metacritic. Matt Sainsbury of \"Digitally Downloaded\" rated the game 90/100, saying the game \"ratchets things up\" from the developer's \"budget, fanservicey JRPGs\" with a \"rich bit of storytelling\", and saying that \"battles [...] never become rote\". Zach Wilkerson of \"RPGFan\" rated it 79/100, calling the battle system where the game \"truly shines\", though criticizing the story as \"never reach[ing] the potential of its engaging premise\", and saying that \"too much happens at the beginning\", with every major"}, {"text": "character introduced in the first half hour, hurting their character development. Brian Santana of IGN Spain rated it 65/100, criticizing the plot as simplistic with \"flat characters\", but praising the battle system and its tactical components."}, {"text": "The Spiegel Office Building is a historic office building at 1038 W. 35th Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was built in 1936-37 as an office building for Spiegel Inc., a mail order company established in Chicago in 1865. The company built its new offices in the midst of a change in its goals and marketing, as it shifted from promoting its easy credit to offering higher-quality products to wealthier customers. The new office building allowed the company to consolidate several of its offices to improve efficiency and thus customer service. Engineers Battey & Kipp designed the Art Moderne style building, which had an industrial loft plan with open floors. In the 1940s, engineer Abraham Epstein placed an addition on the building, allowing the company to keep all of its offices in the building. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 18, 2009."}, {"text": "Flowers Apartments is a historic three-story building in Ogden, Utah. It was built in 1923 by the Taylor Building Company as an investment for George M. and Etha Flowers. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987."}, {"text": "Krasnoyarsky () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Krasnoyarskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 750 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Krasnoyarsky is located 6 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chernyshkovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krasny () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Krasnoyarskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 123 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Krasny is located 11 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bogomazovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krasny Bogdan () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Yulkinskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 82 as of 2010. Geography. Krasny Bogdan is located 29 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yolkino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Dragonstar or Dragon Star may refer to:"}, {"text": "Ricobayo is a locality in the province of Zamora, Spain. Until mid-1964 a municipality in its own right, it is part of Muelas del Pan. Bridge. Long important as a crossing-point on the River Esla, Ricobayo's original bridge is now under water, having been drowned by the construction of the Ricobayo reservoir. Since the 1990s the main bridge has been the Ricobayo Arch Bridge. Dam and reservoir. In the 1920s it was agreed to build a gravity dam on the River Esla at Ricobayo. It impounds the Ricobayo Reservoir. The dam is part of a hydroelectric scheme known as Saltos del Duero. This scheme involves other dams in the catchment area of the Duero such as the Almendra Dam. As well as electricity generation, Ricobayo Reservoir is used for recreation. In the summer of 2021 the two uses came into conflict, when the reservoir was largely drained by the electric utility company Iberdrola, making Ricobayo less attractive to tourists."}, {"text": "Lagutin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Bolsheternovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 35 as of 2010. Geography. Lagutin is located on the Don plain, 25 km northeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bolsheternovoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Loznoy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Nizhnegnutovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 313 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Loznoy is located on Don Plain, 54 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nizhnegnutov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Makarovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Krasnoyarskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 112 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Makarovsky is located 12 km northeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krasnoyarsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Maloternovoy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Bolsheternovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 264 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Maloternovoy is located on the Don plain in southwest of Vologda Oblast, 23 km northeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bolsheternovoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Merced Army Air Field auxiliary fields were built to support pilot training at the Merced Army Air Field. In 1940 the US Army wanted to build near Merced, California a 30,000 per year basic pilot training base. The former city of Cuba, Merced County, California near the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway rail line was chosen at at an elevation of for the main base, in Atwater, California. United States Army Air Corps leased the land from the City of Merced on 16 June 1941. Building the airbase school started on 8 July 1941 and opened on 20 September 1941 as a sub-base of Army Air Forces Western Flying Training Command at Moffett Field. First called \"Air Corps Basic Flying School, Merced\". The US Army moved part of the: 98th Bombardment Group, 539th School Squadrons, 540th School Squadrons, 541st School Squadrons, the 90th Air Base Squadron, and the 340th Material Squadron at Moffett Field to the new base in November 1941. The Air Corps Basic Flying School was renamed the Merced Army Flying School on 7 April 1942. To support the training auxiliary fields near the Merced Army Flying School were to be built for the flight training program."}, {"text": "Merced Army Flying School was renamed the Merced Army Air Field in May 1943 and became part of the Western Flying Training Command. Merced Army Air Field. The Merced Army Air Field runway was long enough and strengthened to handle training for Boeing B-29 Superfortress in 1944. At its peak, 539 planes were based at Merced Army Air Field and its auxiliary fields. In April 1944 the 3026th Army Air Forces Base Unit (Pilot School Basic) was given command of the Merced flight school. Some of the pilots and crews that were trained at the Merced Army Airfield during the war were from the Women's Air Service Pilots (WASPs). The Fourth Air Force took command of the Merced Army Air Field on 1 July 1945. On 17 January 1946 the Merced Army Air Field was renamed Castle Field, after Brigadier General Frederick W. Castle, who on 24 December 1944, continued flying his B-17 Flying Fortress so his crew could bail out, he was killed when the aircraft exploded. Castle Air Force Base was closed in 1995. The Merced County Fairgrounds was also used for training. The most common planes to land and take off at Merced Army Airfield auxiliary fields"}, {"text": "were the Vultee BT-13 Valiant and BT-15 Valiant. Cadets trained for 8 hours a day at the Auxiliary Fields. Flight instructors also were the air traffic controllers from their planes. The other planes used at the fields were Boeing-Stearman Model 75 (called Kaydet) and North American T-6 Texan. Merced Auxiliary Field. Merced Auxiliary Field No. 1 or Merced Municipal Airport Auxiliary Field was a sub base to support training at the Merced Army Airfield. Merced Auxiliary Field No. 1 was the 1932 Merced Municipal Airport located at . The 66-acres Airport was located off California State Route 99 near the Santa Fe Railroad tracks, three miles northwest of the city of Merced, California. The city airport was dedicated on 3 April 1932 and operated by George Voight until 1936 when the city took over operation. Works Project Administration improved the site in the later 1930s. After the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the US War Department leased the Airport to the US Army in 1942. The Merced Auxiliary Field was the main training headquarters while the Merced Army Airfield was being built. Temporary tents were put up for cadets and staff lived in the hangars and local"}, {"text": "hotels. The Merced Army Airfield was completed on 20 September 1941 and operations move to the new airbase. Merced Auxiliary Field was then used for landing and take off training, also as an emergency landing strip. After the war on 23 August 1945 the Merced Municipal Airport Auxiliary Field No. 1 was returned to the City of Merced. With the completion of the New Merced Regional Airport, the Merced Auxiliary Field was closed. The current site of the Merced Auxiliary Field now farmland and housing. Ballico Auxiliary Field. Ballico Auxiliary Field No. 2 was a 621.76-acre sub base of the Merced Army Flying School at the Merced Army Air Field. Ballico Auxiliary Field was a grain farm field in Turlock, California. With the outbreak of World War 2, in October 1942 the US Army built the Ballico Auxiliary Field for landing and off-site training, also as emergency landing field, for the Basic Flying School at Merced Army Air Field. The land was leased from Charles C. Newport, for 5 years. The Army built a 3,000-foot by 2,800-foot paved runways is a rectangle shape. Some support buildings were built: stagehouse, crash truck shelter, a control tower, a storehouse, latrines, and sheds."}, {"text": "Based at the Ballico Auxiliary Field were troops from the 90th Air Base Squadron. In 1944 Air Field control was taken over by the 3026th Army Air Forces Base Unit for the Basic Pilot School. On 1 July 1945 Ballico Auxiliary Field and the other support fields were turned over to the US Army's Fourth Air Force. After the war the base as closed, on 10 November 1946. The land was given to the City of Turlock on 19 November 1946 to open a municipal airport. The city took over operation on 31 July 1947 and named the base the Turlock Municipal Airport. Parts of the vast base were sold off or leased to: Oliver Chance for agricultural, Golden By-Products for drying almond hulls, and the Ballico Resource Conservation District. Howard Auxiliary Field. Howard Auxiliary Field No. 3 was located in Stevinson, California at . The War Department leased 480-acre of land from two owners in 1941. For training pilots a 3,000 by 3,000 landing mat was built at the site, there were no support buildings built. Due to poor water drainage, Howard Auxiliary Field was closed on 15 April 1944 and both leases canceled by 4 September 1944. The"}, {"text": "land was returned farmland and no trace of Howard Auxiliary Field remains. Athlone Auxiliary Field. Athlone Auxiliary Field No. 4 was southeast of the city of Athlone, California at . Athlone started as a railroad station in 1870s on the Southern Pacific line. Athlone was ideal for an airfield, it was level agricultural land, outside of Merced, which flooded sometimes. The site was near a railroad station and just west of US Highway 99, and near a power lines. The War Department leased 235 acres on 3 January 1942 from Fred B. Fancher. The Army built a paved 3,000 by 3,000-foot landing mat runway on the land. Merced Army Flying School used Athlone Auxiliary Field for training of pilots. Athlone Auxiliary Field was closed in August 1945 and lease ended on 30 November 1945. The site is now farmland and no trace of the airfield remains. Potter Auxiliary Field. Potter Auxiliary Field No. 5 was in El Nido, Merced County, California at . Potter Auxiliary Field was 18 miles southwest of the city of Merced, California. The US Army leased 640 acres of land in 1943 to build the Potter Auxiliary Field for flight training for cadets from Merced Army"}, {"text": "Air Field. The Army built a 3,000 by 3,000-foot landing mat, a stagehouse, crash truck shelter and latrines at the site. In late 1944 the surrounding land of 400 acres was sub leased for farmland. The Army ended its lease on all land on 31 May 1947. The land was returned to farmland and ranching, no trace of the airfield remains. Merced New Municipal Airport Auxiliary Field. Merced New Municipal Airport Auxiliary Field No. 6 is now the Merced Regional Airport at at Grogan Road and West Avenue in the city of Merced. The land for the airport was acquired by City of Merced in 1940 from delinquent taxes. The city received a 1940 Works Progress Administration project to graded, level and installed drainage for a new airport. The Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA) also provide support for the new project. Merced Army Flying School on 7 April 1942 was authorized to build auxiliary airfields to support the training of pilots at the site. The New Merced Municipal Airport was leased to the Army to support the training program. Thus the Corps of Engineers and CAA took over to complete the airfield. The Army built two 4,000' runways in a X"}, {"text": "shape and threshold lights. Completed in February 1942 the new airport was called New Merced Municipal Airport and served as an Airport Auxiliary Field. After the war, on 6 December 1948, the airport was returned to the City of Merced. Parts of the airport were used later by US Army helicopters, US Air Force and Navy aircraft to refuel aircraft in the years following. One of the original Army runways was extended to 5,904 feet for jet travel and the other runway was closed in 1967. Mariposa Auxiliary Field. Mariposa Auxiliary Field was an 62.194 acre auxiliary airfield of the Merced Army Air Field used for World War 2 pilot training. Mariposa Auxiliary Field was located four miles northwest of the city of Mariposa, in Mariposa County, California at at an elevation of 2,254 feet. After the war the airfield became the current Mariposa-Yosemite Airport. The War Department leased the 1937 Mariposa County Airport on 60.442 acres of valley land from the County of Mariposa in 1942. To enlarge the base 0.364 acres were leased from John Marre and an additional 1.388 leased from Richard Morrissey. The Army built a radio beacon nearby on Mount Bullion owned by the Bureau"}, {"text": "of Land Management in the 1940s. For training the Army used the existing: 3,306 foot runway, hangar, gasoline fueling equipment, lighting, and cabin. The airfield also served as an emergency landing field. At an elevation of 2,254 feet the airfield was above the common San Joaquin valley fog layer, making at a good training and emergency landings. Pilots used the airfield for takeoff and landing training. In 1945 the lease was ended and land returned to it owners. The airfield has also been called the \"Mount Bullion Airport\", the \"Mariposa County Airport\" and it current name Mariposa Yosemite Airport."}, {"text": "Tesla products include a significant number of software and hardware Easter eggs among other notable and unique software features, such as a suite of video games, emissions testing mode, and romance mode. \"Back to the Future\" phone app. Touching the battery icon inside the Tesla mobile app with the vehicle at exactly 121 miles (or 121 km) of range was discovered to launch a \"Back to the Future\" Easter egg. Santa mode. Voice commands \"Ho Ho Ho\" or \"Ho Ho Ho Not Funny\" will activate the Santa Mode Easter egg. If voice command \"Ho Ho Ho\" is used, Run Rudolph Run by Chuck Berry will play inside of the vehicle. Mars, Mars rover and Starship. Tesla vehicles incorporate a Mars, Mars rover and Starship themed Easter egg. Upon activation, the GPS map on the touchscreen display shows the surface of Mars instead of the surface of the Earth. \"Mario Kart\": Rainbow Road and Don't Fear the Reaper/SNL: More Cowbell. Autosteer capable vehicles with autosteer engaged can activate an Easter egg involving the in-car audio and a change in the on screen animation. If autopilot is activated four times in quick succession, the computer vision generated road that the car is"}, {"text": "driving on, denoted by two lines, will change into a rainbow which is similar to that of Rainbow Road, a track from the \"Mario Kart\" series of racing games. At the same time, a version of (Don't Fear) The Reaper by Blue \u00d6yster Cult used for a \"Saturday Night Live\" sketch from 2000 plays in the cabin of the vehicle. Rainbow chargeport light. While the Tesla vehicle is plugged in, pushing the charge port control button on the charger handle 10 times quickly will activate the Easter egg. Monty Python. Tesla vehicles can play any Monty Python skit from their speakers. Model X Light Show and Trans-Siberian Orchestra. A Model X exclusive holiday light show is initiated by activating this Easter egg. The light show utilizes the headlights, fog lights and turn signals. James Bond \u2013 Lotus Esprit submarine. This Easter egg applies only to vehicles with the air suspension package. In the controls menu, under the suspension tab, the usual image of the Tesla is replaced by the submarine version of the Lotus Esprit that James Bond drove off a pier into the ocean in the movie \"The Spy Who Loved Me\". A new \"Depth (Leagues)\" drop down menu"}, {"text": "appears next to the Esprit. The air suspension will raise and lower depending on the selected depth. Superbottle and Octovalve. Under the frunk of the Model 3, a component called the \"superbottle\" has been used to control many heating and cooling functions in the vehicle. Hidden on the \"superbottle\" is a caricature of a bottle as a superhero with a cape, muscular arms and legs, and a Tesla \"T\" logo on its front. \"SUPERBOTTLE\" in all caps also appears on the component. Spaceballs and Ludicrous+. This Easter egg is included only in vehicles that feature the ludicrous mode option. The Easter egg is activated from the controls menu, by switching the software-controlled acceleration from \"sport\" to \"ludicrous\" and then tapping and holding the \"ludicrous\" text for 5 seconds. The screen will go black for a short time. A star field will swiftly appear and zoom forward, closely resembling a jump to ludicrous speed from the movie \"Spaceballs\". Spinal Tap. As a nod to the movie \"This is Spinal Tap\", volume and climate control fan settings go up to 11. Cybertruck in Camp Mode screensaver. Tesla vehicles may enter a mode called \"camp mode\". Several months after the release of \"camp"}, {"text": "mode\", a partly obscured Cybertruck was noticed in the background. Easter eggs in products that are not for sale. S3XY. At the top of the Tesla website are links to available Tesla models, the Model S, the Model 3, Model X, and the Model Y. Since the number 3 is similar to the letter E, this menu of links appears to spell out \"SEX\" (\"S3X\"), and with the Y included, \"SEXY\" (\"S3XY\"). The chronology of the cars is out of order, since the Model X began sales well before the Model 3. Based on the comments of Elon Musk it is well documented that the hidden message was purposeful. Model Y teaser image. Before the reveal of the Tesla Model Y, a teaser image was released. Running it through an image editor and increasing the brightness revealed a message stating \"NICE TRY.\" Removed and unreleased Easter eggs. Model S Team Photo. In previous software versions an \"About your Tesla\" menu could be accessed by tapping the Tesla \"T\" at the top of the touchscreen display. By tapping and holding the bottom right corner of the \"About your Tesla\" menu (the model designation number), the depicted Model S would zoom away"}, {"text": "and be replaced with a picture of the vehicle development team. After a 2020 update, the photo is no longer accessible. Marilyn Monroe. In 2018, Elon Musk stated that the Tesla Model X would be able to play a version of \"Happy Birthday\" performed by Marilyn Monroe. Hoax Easter eggs. The Tesla beating heart. This Easter egg was a hoax and cannot be activated. On November 17, 2018, Joel Paglione made a post to Imgur claiming that if both charge port-like panels are pushed at the same time, which looks like one is awkwardly hugging the back of the car, a second charge port opens up on the right side of the car and a pulsing/beating red heart light is displayed. This Easter egg was determined to be a complete fabrication."}, {"text": "The 2019 Missouri State Bears soccer team represented the Missouri State University during the 2019 NCAA Division I men's soccer season and the 2019 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season. The regular season began on August 30 and concluded on November 5. It was the program's 39th season fielding a men's varsity soccer team, and their 30th season in the Missouri Valley Conference. The 2019 season was Jon Leamy's 28th year as head coach for the program. The 2019 season has proved to be one of the most successful seasons in the program's history. The program finished the regular season with a perfect 16\u20130\u20130 record, and were ranked as high as 9th in the nation in the United Soccer Coaches poll, their highest ranking since 1999. They lost in the Championship game of the MVC Tournament on penalties to Loyola Chicago. In the First Round of the NCAA Soccer Tournament they defeated Denver 1-0. In the second round they lost 2-1 at Central Florida. Season Statistics. Goals. The leading goal scorer for Missouri State was Matthew Bentley who scored 15 goals during the season. He was the only player to score during the regular season and both MVC and NCAA"}, {"text": "Tournament. Josh Dolling finished the year with 7 goals in second. Stuart Wilkin rounded out the top three with 5 goals on the season."}, {"text": "Minayev () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tormosinovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. Geography. Minayev is located in southwest of Vologda Oblast, 78 km southeast of the Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Komarov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ace of Cactus Range is a 1924 American silent western film directed by Denver Dixon and Malon Andrus and starring Art Mix, Virginia Warwick, and Clifford Davidson. It was released in April 1924. Plot. U.S. Marshal Bob Cullen has infiltrated a gang of diamond thieves. When a local rancher discovers their operation, the gang's leader, Bull Davidson, begins to harass the rancher's daughter, Virginia Marsden. Attempting to escape the unwanted attention from Davidson, Marsden runs off to a remote cabin, but the gang follows. Cullen creates a diversion by overturning a lantern, then flees the cabin on horseback with Marsden. The gang pursues, and when Cullen's horse is injured in a fall, Cullen and Marsden are forced to spend the night on the open plain. The following morning the gang catches up. They capture Cullen and Marsden, tying Cullen up and leaving him suspended from a tree. Eventually Cullen escapes and makes it back to the gang's camp, where he able to rescue the girl. Production. In early April 1924 it was announced that Los Angeles distributor R.D. Lewis had acquired the distribution rights to the film, after he moved there from Oklahoma City. It was part of a six-picture"}, {"text": "deal of Art Mix films, which included \"Rider of Mystery Ranch\" and \"South of Santa Fe\"."}, {"text": "Morskoy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Tormosinovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 287 as of 2010. Geography. Morskoy is located in southwest of Vologda Oblast, 68 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Loznoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nizhnegnutov () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Nizhnegnutovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,054 as of 2010. There are 17 streets. Geography. Nizhnegnutov is located on the bank of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir, 50 km south of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Loznoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ladywood Apartments is a historic three-story building in Ogden, Utah. It was built in 1926 by the Upton Masonry Company, whose manager, T.H. Upton, lived in the building, and it was designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, possibly by Parkinson & Bergstrom. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 31, 1987."}, {"text": "Nizhnyaya Verbovka () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Chernyshkovskoye Urban Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 147 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Nizhnyaya Verbovka is located 6 km northwest of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chernyshkovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Clouds is a 2020 American biographical romantic musical drama teen film directed and produced by Justin Baldoni and written by Kara Holden from a story by Holden, Patrick Kopka, and Casey La Scala. It is based upon the memoir \"Fly a Little Higher: How God Answered a Mom's Small Prayer in a Big Way\" by Laura Sobiech. The film stars Fin Argus, Sabrina Carpenter, Madison Iseman, Neve Campbell, Tom Everett Scott, and Lil Rel Howery, and tells the story of Zach Sobiech, a teenager from Minnesota who has osteosarcoma, and decides to follow his dream of becoming a musician after finding out he is dying. Originally scheduled to be theatrically released by Warner Bros. Pictures before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down public movie theaters, Walt Disney Studios took over the distribution rights and released the film on their Disney+ streaming service on October 16, 2020. The film was removed from Disney+ on May 26, 2023. Plot. In the fall of 2012, Zach Sobiech performs an acoustic rendition of \"Sexy and I Know It\" to an amused crowd at his school's talent show. Zach has been struggling with osteosarcoma and has been receiving regular treatments for it. His best friend, Sammy"}, {"text": "Brown, conspires with him by helping him to write music (\"Blueberries\"). Zach manages to ask out fellow student Amy Adamle for a picnic, but before he is able to do so, he begins to have a coughing fit that concerns his mother, Laura, who rushes him to the hospital. He has a collapsed lung and emergency surgery is performed on him. While they fix his lung, they learn that the treatments are no longer effective and his cancer is now terminal, giving him six to ten months to live. Zach tells Sammy and Amy about his diagnosis while he is inspired by his teacher, Milton Weaver, about what he is to do with the rest of his life. In the winter of 2012, Zach and his family go to Lourdes, France, in Laura's desperate attempt to summon some kind of miracle for Zach. Zach returns home to hang out with Sammy (\"Coffee Cup\") and learns that she has bought tickets to a Jason Mraz concert. Zach decides to use the opportunity to ask Amy to go to the prom with him, and she accepts (\"I'm Yours\"). After having convulsions, Zach goes to Sammy's house in the middle of the night"}, {"text": "demanding that they form a band. Both realize that they have romantic feelings for each other, but that they are incapable of having a full relationship. They continue to bond over songwriting (\"Fix Me Up\") and Sammy posts their music on YouTube which earns them some fame. Despite this, Zach is certain that he will fail to achieve anything beyond the video. He is later given encouragement by Mr. Weaver. Zach's father, Rob, borrows a Nissan GT-R for him to drive and impress Amy with. While at her house, the two proceed to make out (\"My Little Dancer\"), but when Amy comments on his scars, Zach becomes despondent, tells her that he will never offer the things she wants from him, and leaves. Laura confronts Rob over the decision to get a car for Zach and he breaks down admitting that he did it to make his son happy as he is unable to do anything about his eventual death. In the spring of 2013, Weaver reveals to Zach and Sammy that he showed their video to BMI who want to sign them. They head to New York City to sign their contracts, calling their band A Firm Handshake (\"Ames\")."}, {"text": "On the flight back home, Zach suddenly has a moment of creative energy and writes the song \"Clouds\". He records the song shortly afterwards, which becomes a hit. Zach finally makes the time to apologize to Amy about his behavior and the two of them get back together. Zach speaks privately to his mother about how to handle his remains and his funeral, suggesting bagpipes be played. Sammy and the Sobiechs learn that Zach might not make it to the prom. With Zach having been given the opportunity to play at the Metro Theatre, they decide to combine the concert with their prom, a graduation, and a fundraiser for osteosarcoma. The day arrives and despite Zach's worsening condition, he decides to perform. Sammy begins the show by performing \"How to Go to Confession\" before Zach heads out to perform \"Clouds\". Zach has trouble breathing, but he is moved when the entire audience sings the song for him. Zach dies on May 20, 2013. Before dying, he has written a college essay about his views on life and death. Sammy, Amy and other friends come together for a group photo in remembrance of Zach, noticing that a cloud in the sky"}, {"text": "resembles a \"Z\". Photos of the real Zach and Sammy are shown during the end credits. Cast. Justin Baldoni's wife Emily Baldoni appears as a CNN reporter. Many of Zach Sobiech's real life acquaintances make cameos in the film. Seventy of Zach's friends and family members cameo during the crowd shots during the Jason Mraz concert and the concert at the end of the film. Zach's real life friend Mitchell Kluesner, essentially playing himself, appears in the classroom scene sitting behind Zach. The real Grace Sobiech appears as a high school student early on in the film while the real Amy Adamle appears along with Madison Iseman at the dance studio. Production. Development. In February 2016, it was announced Warner Bros. had acquired rights to the memoir \"Fly a Little Higher: How God Answered a Mom's Small Prayer in a Big Way\" by Laura Sobiech, with Justin Baldoni set to direct the film. In September 2019, Fin Argus, Madison Iseman and Sabrina Carpenter joined the cast of the film. In October 2019, Neve Campbell, Tom Everett Scott and Lil Rel Howery joined the cast of the film. Filming. Principal photography began on October 19, 2019. Most of it was filmed"}, {"text": "in Baie-D'Urf\u00e9, Quebec, Canada and in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada. Part of it was filmed at Heritage Regional High School and neighbouring school \u00c9cole secondaire Andr\u00e9-Laurendeau. Filming wrapped on November 27, 2019. Release. On May 14, 2020, it was announced Disney+ had taken over distribution rights to the film from Warner Bros., in light of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the film industry. \"Clouds\" was released on October 16, 2020. A making-of documentary series entitled \"Beyond the Clouds\" was released from December 4, 2020, to January 29, 2021. The film was removed from Disney+ on May 26, 2023. Reception. Audience viewership. According to ScreenEngine/ASI, \"Clouds\" was the 28th-most-watched straight-to-streaming title of 2020, as of November 2020. Critical reception. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critics consensus reads, \"Although its emotional swings occasionally miss, \"Clouds\" soars higher than most young adult films -- and proves director Justin Baldoni's mastery behind the camera.\" Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 55 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating \"mixed or average\" reviews. Guy Lodge of \"Variety\" claimed that the film"}, {"text": "manages to be sentimental across Justin Baldoni's direction and Ben Kutchins' cinematography, found the scenes where Zach Sobiech's family is horrified and saddened by his illness to be among the best, and praised the performances of the cast members. Amy Nicholson of \"The New York Times\" complimented how Justin Baldoni approached the impact of Sobiech's death on his relatives, found the documentary to be emotional, and praised the performances of Fin Argus and Sabrina Carpenter. John Serba of \"Decider\" found the movie sincere through its direction, saying it manages to provide an emotional weigh on the audience by not sugarcoating Sobiech's life, while praising the performances of the actors, especially Lil Rel Howery's. Jennifer Green of \"Common Sense Media\" rated the movie 4 out of 5 stars, stating: \"\"Clouds\" is the true, often sad story of Zach Sobiech (Fin Argus), a teenager diagnosed with terminal cancer who became known to many via his hit song \"Clouds\", which was recorded in the final months of his life. But the movie has a generally positive tone, thanks to Zach's natural good nature. In an opening scene, he sings \"Sexy and I Know It\" in front of a high school audience, dancing suggestively"}, {"text": "and conveying both popularity and a self deprecating sense of humor. Scenes show him struggling with illness, undergoing chemotherapy, being rushed in for emergency surgery, and facing his own terminal diagnosis. He occasionally reacts with anger and deception to his fate, including a scene in which he almost crashes a car. He's also painfully aware of the grief he's bringing to his loved ones, including his tight-knit family, a girlfriend, and his best friend, who all exhibit courage and compassion in their handling of Zach's illness.\" Nell Minow of \"RogerEbert.com\" rated the film 3 out of 4 stars and found the movie emotional, claiming it depicts the sad and joyful moments of Sobiech's life and the impact of his death on his environment, while complimenting the performances of the cast. Impact. After the release of the movie, the song \"Clouds\" (written and recorded by Zach Sobiech) hit the iTunes song chart at the number #1 spot a second time, seven years after Sobiech's death. A virtual concert titled \"Clouds: A Musical Celebration\" was held as a musical tribute on October 24, 2020, with OneRepublic, Fin Argus, Sabrina Carpenter, and several cast members of \"Clouds\" participating."}, {"text": "C.L.I.F. 5 () is a Singapore police procedural series produced and telecast on Mediacorp Channel 8 in collaboration with the Singapore Police Force. This is the fifth installment to \"C.L.I.F.\" in 2011, and this 20-episode series was first telecast from 23 September to 18 October 2019 on free-to-air TV in Singapore. The series centers on events happening in the Police Coast Guard and stars Rebecca Lim, Pierre Png, Shane Pow, Nick Teo, and He Ying Ying as the main casts of the reboot installment. This series is co-sponsored by Sheng Siong Supermarkets, Daikin, and the Singapore Police Force. Synopsis. Wang Man Ting is an officer with the Police Coast Guard (PCG). Le Xiao Tian, CEO of an electronic company is arranging an illegal immigration. In order to create confusion for the police, he orders Guo Tai, the boss of a fish farm to kill his enemy Lucas. In order to find the killer, Man Ting arrives at Guo Tai's fish farm and takes him hostage..."}, {"text": "Nizyanka () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Basakinskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 30 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Nizyanka is located on the Don plain, 58 km southwest of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rossoshansky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Diazaborine is a chemical compound with properties intermediate between benzene and borazine. Its chemical formula is CBNH. It resembles a benzene ring, except that three carbons are replaced by two nitrogen and boron, respectively. Notable molecules contain this moiety include diazaborine B."}, {"text": "The 2007 Fort Worth mayoral election took place on May 12, 2007, to elect the Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas. The election was held concurrently with various other local elections, and was officially nonpartisan. The election saw the reelection of incumbent mayor Mike Moncrief. The mayoral term in Fort Worth is two years. If no candidate received a majority of the vote in the general election, a runoff would have been held."}, {"text": "Two-time defending champion Roger Federer defeated Alex de Minaur in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20132 to win the singles tennis title at the 2019 Swiss Indoors. He did not drop a set en route to his 103rd and final ATP Tour singles title. It was his 10th Swiss Indoors title, making Federer the first player in ATP history to win 10 same tournament titles on two different surfaces (alongside Halle, played on grass)."}, {"text": "Mohammed ben Ali R'bati (; 1861\u20131939), also known as Ben Ali Rabbati, was a Moroccan painter and cook who was described as \"the father of Moroccan painting\". He was known for his blend of traditional influences with European-style art with his paintings mainly revolved around life in the city of Tangier, where he was lived. Born in Rabat where he received an Islamic education, R'bati and his family moved to Tangier at 25 where he pursued a career as an artisan carpenter and as a chef. During his youth, R'bati had practiced illustration as a hobby, but was never formally trained in arts. R'bati's career began in 1903 after meeting Irish painter Sir John Lavery who noticed him selling handmade postcards, Lavery recruited him as a cook and encouraged him to start making watercolor paintings which he sold to Tangier's upper class. R'bati held exhibitions across the globe, notably in London, Marseille and Marrakesh. In 1933, R'bati was offered a workshop in the center of Tangier and opened a restaurant the same year. He largely lived a life of poverty, and died in 1939 of a heart attack. Early life and education. Mohamed ben Ali R'bati was born in Rabat"}, {"text": "in 1861, with his birthplace reflected in his surname. Born in a modest family, he attended a \"madrasa\" in his youth where he memorized the Quran. Many of his paintings depict his education at the \"madrasa\". R'bati's daughter described his youth as sociable, disliking school and saving money to buy watercolors, colored pencils and pens to draw. R'bati later spent numerous years training and working as an artisan carpenter and as a cook. R'bati and his family moved to Tangier in 1886, at age 25. R'bati often painted on canvases, wood and \"tbilats\", rarely selling his works in favor of handing them out for free. Despite this, R'bati never had any formal training in arts. Career and exhibitions. In 1903, R'bati met Irish painter Sir John Lavery while selling handmade postcards at the Petit Socco square in Tangier, Lavery had first settled in Morocco in 1890. R'bati was known among foreigners in Tangier for his cooking skills and was recruited as a cook by Lavery, who had noticed R'bati's watercolor skills and chosen him as a prot\u00e9g\u00e9. Lavery invited R'bati to the British Legation in Tangier and introduced him to Sir Harry Maclean. In Lavery's writings and articles, R'bati is"}, {"text": "referred to as \"Ben Ali Rabbati\" or \"Ben Ali\". In 1916, R'bati visited London with Lavery, where his first exhibition was held at the Goupil Gallery in London. The same year, he moved to Marseille as an immigrant worker at a sugar plant belonging to before returning to Tangiers in 1922. R'bati organized a second exhibition in Marseille in 1919. He organized his third exhibition in the Mamounia hotel in Marrakesh in 1922. In 1925, he enrolled in the Spanish Army as a Tabor firefighter within the Indigenous Regular Forces in obscure circumstances. According to his daughter, R'bati felt \"displeased\" and was later discharged two years later. R'bati later worked as a messenger and as a guard for the Tangier branch of the Banco de Bilbao, where he painted during his night shifts, selling his artwork and postcards at a souvenir shop. In December 1929, R'bati's paintings were shown at the Mus\u00e9e des Oudayas in Rabat. In 1933, he moved to Riad Sultan neighborhood of Tangier where he was offered a permanent gallery by the governing \"makhzen\" near the caid of Tangier's palace. The only known photograph of R'bati was taken in his Riad Sultan gallery. His paintings were purchased"}, {"text": "by Sultan Moulay Abdelaziz, Manuel II of Portugal, Charles de Beaupoil, and Barbara Hutton. The same year, he opened a restaurant and a bakery in Tangier. R'bati preferred watercolor on paper as a medium over oil on canvas. He frequently painted Tangier, its qasba, and its inhabitants. He painted simplified human figures, and often painted a large, colorful scene with several people. He always signed his paintings in Arabic. He is considered one of the first Moroccans to indulge in European-style painting. He is described as a modernist. He is described by Vogue as the \"father of Moroccan painting\". Death and personal life. R'bati died in 1939 in Tangier of a heart attack in unclear circumstances, with his daughter suspecting him to be a victim of poisoning. R'bati had seven children, he remarried upon returning from London after his first wife died in 1920. Two of his sons, Abdelkader and Abdelmalek ben Mohammed R'bati (1900\u20131978), continued painting, often using their defunct father's signature on their works. He lived a life of poverty due to his habit of spending most of his earnings on painting material and his difficulty selling his paintings in Tangier, which often led him to give away"}, {"text": "most of his artwork. R'bati's daughter recalls him as an affable man who often attended social gatherings in Tangier, including ones reserved for women."}, {"text": "Fontenelle Apartments is a historic three-story building in Ogden, Utah. It was built in 1924-1927 by the McGregor Bros. Construction Company, and designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival and Prairie School styles. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 31, 1987."}, {"text": "Kevin Anderson was the defending champion, but could not participate this year due to a knee injury. Dominic Thiem won the title, defeating Diego Schwartzman in the final, 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20133. Thiem was the first local player to win both Austrian ATP tournaments (Kitzb\u00fchel and Vienna) in the same year."}, {"text": "Matariki Whatarau is a New Zealand actor and musician. Whatarau is also a founding member of M\u0101ori showband the Modern M\u0101ori Quartet. He co-wrote and performed songs, with the other band members, for the Modern M\u0101ori Quartet's debut album \"That's Us!\" (2017). Whatarau appeared on the television programmes, \"Go Girls\" and \"Find me a M\u0101ori Bride\". Whatarau also had a feature role in the film \"The P\u0101 Boys\" (2014). Whatarau co-hosted M\u0101ori Television's \"My Party Song\" as part of the \"Modern M\u0101ori Quartet\". In 2018, Matariki, along with other members of the \"Modern M\u0101ori Quartet\", began touring their cabaret show \"Modern M\u0101ori Quartet: Two Worlds.\" Early life. Whatarau was born in Auckland (T\u0101maki Makaurau), New Zealand and is of M\u0101ori (Ng\u0101ti Kahungunu, Ng\u0101ti Raukawa, Ng\u0101ti Whanaunga) descent. Matariki attended high school in Beijing, China and in Lilongwe, Malawi. Whatarau is a graduate of Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School (Te Kura Toi Whakaari \u014d Aotearoa) earning a Bachelor of Performing Arts (Acting) in 2009. Career. Theatre. Whatarau performed in the theatre shows, \"Awhi Tapu\" and \"Party with the Aunties\". In January 2020, Whatarau performed in, \"Modern M\u0101ori Quartet: Two Worlds\", at the Off-Broadway theatre, SoHo Playhouse. Film and television. Whatarau"}, {"text": "had a leading role as 'Tau', in the NZ film \"The P\u0101 Boys\", alongside fellow \"Modern M\u0101ori Quartet\" band member Francis Kora. Whatarau also had supporting roles in the films The Dead Lands (2014) and Mahana (2016). For 2 seasons, Matariki played, George Alpert, in the M\u0101ori Television mockumentary series, \"Find Me a M\u0101ori Bride\" (2015\u20132017). Matariki, and the other members of the \"Modern M\u0101ori Quartet\", served as the in-house band on M\u0101ori Television\u2019s variety show, \"Happy Hour\" (2014). He also acted in some of the shows comedy sketches. Music. Whatarau is a member of M\u0101ori showband the Modern M\u0101ori Quartet, alongside Maaka Pohatu, Francis Kora and James Tito. Personal life. Matariki is a fluent speaker of Mandarin."}, {"text": "Parshino () is a rural locality (a passing loop) in Chernyshkovskoye Urban Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2010. Geography. The village is located 12 km of Chernyshkovsky. Yarskoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Popov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Zakharovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 318 as of 2010. There are 12 streets. Geography. Popov is located on the bank of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir, 60 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vodyanovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pristenovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Pristenovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 281 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Pristenovsky is located on the bank of the Solonaya River, 68 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vodyanovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Gillian Lind (25 August 1904 \u2013 25 October 1983) was a British stage, film and television actress. In 1930 she starred in Edgar Wallace's play \"On the Spot\" in the West End. In 1936 she was in the play \"Green Waters\" by Max Catto. She went on to enjoy a long career in film and television. Initially appearing onscreen as a female lead, she later transitioned into character roles. In 1957 she appeared in the BBC Dickens adaptation \"Nicholas Nickleby\" as the protagonist's mother. She featured on the 1964 series \"Ann Veronica\" based on a novel by H. G. Wells. She was married to the actor Cyril Raymond."}, {"text": "Razdolny () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Basakinskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Razdolny is located 44 km southwest of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rossoshansky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rossoshansky () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Basakinskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 52 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Rossoshansky is located 50 km south of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nizyanka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Swayamvaram is a 1982 Indian Telugu film directed by Dasari Narayana Rao and starring Sobhan Babu, Jaya Prada, Rao Gopala Rao and Gummadi. Narayana Rao himself played a supporting role. The film marked the fifth collaboration of the director with actor Sobhan Babu. The film was released on 6 August 1982 alongside actor Krishna's Prema Nakshatram. Plot. Dharma Rao's brother-in-law, Subbarao, loses his wife and everything in a fire accident. Dharma Rao, who is in a desperate situation, takes Subbarao as his business partner. Dharma Rao's son Shekhar and Subbarao's daughter Priya have been inseparable since childhood. The business they do together goes well and both become rich. They do any new business together. They talk about any decision together and make decisions. The children grow up and become adults. Shekhar is sent abroad for studies. They want to send Priya too but cannot send her due to visa problems. The clerk working in their company is a greedy person. Dharma Rao once reprimands him severely when he is trying to harm the business by taking bribes. The clerk uses the love of his sister, who has lost her husband, as a bait and deceives Subbarao. The brother-in-law creates a"}, {"text": "rift between the brothers-in-law. With the encouragement of the clerk, Subbarao starts a business in his daughter's name. They get along well. He convinces Dharmarao to start a business in his son's name as well. But the business suffers losses and goes bankrupt. After doing the calculations, the two separate. Dharmarao is forced to sell his own house to cover the losses. Sekhar, who is abroad, returns to India in a hurry. Learning about what happened through his mother, he confronts Subbarao. Subbarao also gets angry and starts looking for other relationships for his daughter. On the advice of his wife, Dharmarao goes to Subbarao's house and tells him to get Sekhar and Priya married. But Subbarao does not agree to it. Moreover, he hastily decides to marry him off to a man named Rajasekharam, who belongs to a zamindar family. Priya writes a letter to Shekhar asking him to take her away and gives it to her servant. But when he returns, Subbarao confronts him and tells him to lie that Shekhar hates her. He does so. Priya, heartbroken, marries Rajasekharam, whom her father had arranged. At the same time, Dharmarao dies of a heart attack. Shekhar, who went"}, {"text": "to Priya's house immediately after the rituals, is saddened to learn about what happened through the servant. Priya's husband, Rajasekharam, is a luxurious lover. He does not come home even on the first night. He openly tells Priya about his habits and relationships and asks her to live with him only if she likes it. He tells her that he got married under the pressure of his mother. Priya, however, still has feelings for Shekhar. With the help of Ramadevi, a teacher who works at Priya's house, Shekhar wants to meet Priya and tell her the truth. But Priya still has hatred towards him. Ramadevi learns the truth from Shekhar and conveys it to Priya. Ramadevi tries to make the two of them meet and talk, but she fails. Knowing all this, Rajasekharam makes the two meet. He explains how everyone caused their separation and asks them to get married. But she does not want to get married against tradition. Finally, the story ends with Rajasekharam committing suicide and asking Shekhar to marry Priya as his last wish. Soundtrack. Rajasri and Dasari Narayana Rao penned the lyrics for the songs composed by Sathyam. The tune of the song \"Gaali Vaanalo\""}, {"text": "was based on Satyam's own Kannada song \"Kaanada Oorali\" from the 1968 Kannada movie \"Gandhinagara\"."}, {"text": "Sizov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in and the administrative center of Sizovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 498 as of 2010. There are 17 streets. Geography. Sizov is located on the bank of the Tsimla River, 33 km south of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Basakin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sokolov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Verkhnegnutovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 78 as of 2020. Geography. Sokolov is located on the left bank of the Tsimla River, southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhnegnutov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tormosin () is a rural locality (a khutor) in and the administrative center of Tormosinovsky Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,414 as of 2010. There are 12 streets. Geography. Tormosin is located 46 km southeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zakharov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Longquan Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on Mount Longquan, in Yuyao, Zhejiang, China. History. The original temple dates back to 336, during the 2nd year of Xiankang period of the Eastern Jin dynasty (266\u2013420). Since Emperor Wuzong (814\u2013846) of the Tang dynasty (618\u2013907) believed in Taoism, he ordered to demolish Buddhist temples, confiscate temple lands and force monks to return to secular life. Longquan Temple was demolished in the Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution. The temple was restored and rebuilt in 851, in the ruling of Emperor Xuanzong. In 1129, Longquan Temple was completely destroyed by fire during the Jurchen Jin invasion (1115\u20131234) of the 12th century. Soon after, Emperor Gaozong (1127\u20131129) ordered to rebuild the temple on its original site. In the Yuan dynasty (1127\u20131368), Longquan Temple reduced to ashes by a devastating fire in 1276. The reconstruction project of the temple was launched in 1295, nineteen years later. In the Ming dynasty (1368\u20131644), Wang Yangming organized a poetry club in the temple and lectured there. In 1841, Longquan Temple was devastated by a catastrophic fire while the British invasion of Zhejiang during the First Opium War. Thirty-four years later, Gongshun () and other seventeen Bhikkhun\u012b begged for donations"}, {"text": "to rebuild the temple. Since then, Longquan Temple had been changed to be a Bhikkhun\u012b temple. During the ten-year Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards had attacked the temple. Buddhist statues, musical instruments, and other works of art were either removed, damaged or destroyed in the massive socialist movement. After the 3rd Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Longquan Temple was officially reopened to the public in 1990. In March 1997, it was designated as a \"Municipality Protected Historic Site\" by the Yuyao government. Architecture. Longquan Temple is located on the south side of Mount Longquan, facing the Yao River, the grand temple complex is located in the north and faces the south with brief layout, it includes the Shanmen, Front Hall, Mahavira Hall, and the Guanyin Pavilion and east and west side hall. The Mahavira Hall is long, wide with single-eave gable and hip roof (). The Guanyin Pavilion is long, wide with gable roof."}, {"text": "Filatov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Sizovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 174 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Filatov is located on the right bank of the Tsimla River, 30 km south of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Basakin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Firsovka () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Nizhnegnutovskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 142 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Firsovka is located on the right bank of the Tsimla River, 41 km south of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sizov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Cherkomasyev () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Basakinskoye Rural Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 68 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Cherkomasyev is located on the left bank of the Rossosh River, 59 km southwest of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Basakin is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yarskoy () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Chernyshkovskoye Urban Settlement, Chernyshkovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 96 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Yarskoy is located 12 km northeast of Chernyshkovsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chernyshkovsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Carborazine is a six-membered aromatic ring with two carbon atoms, two nitrogen atoms and two boron atoms in opposing pairs."}, {"text": "The Man From the Rio Grande is a 1924 American silent film directed by Denver Dixon and starring Art Mix and Dorothy Lee. It premiered on November 30, 1924, in Indianapolis, Indiana."}, {"text": "A low-FODMAP diet is a person's global restriction of consumption of all fermentable carbohydrates (FODMAPs), recommended only for a short time. A low-FODMAP diet is recommended for managing patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and can reduce digestive symptoms of IBS including bloating and flatulence. It also seems to be beneficial in fibromyalgia. If the problem lies with indigestible fiber instead, the patient may be directed to a low-residue diet. Description. Below are low-FODMAP foods categorized by group according to the Monash University low-FODMAP diet. Other sources confirm the suitability of these and suggest some additional foods. Mechanism. The basis of many functional gastrointestinal disorders is distension of the intestinal lumen. Such luminal distension may induce pain, a sensation of bloating, abdominal distension and motility disorders. Therapeutic approaches seek to reduce factors that lead to distension, particularly of the distal small and proximal large intestine. Food substances that can induce distension are those that are poorly absorbed in the proximal small intestine, osmotically active, and fermented by intestinal bacteria with hydrogen (as opposed to methane) production. The small molecule FODMAPs exhibit these characteristics. Ingestion of certain short-chain carbohydrates, including lactose, fructose and sorbitol, fructans and galactooligosaccharides, can induce gastrointestinal discomfort"}, {"text": "similar to that seen in IBS. Dietary restriction of short-chain carbohydrates is associated with improvement of symptoms. These short-chain carbohydrates (lactose, fructose and sorbitol, fructans and GOS) behave similarly in the intestine. Firstly, being small molecules and either poorly absorbed or not absorbed at all, they drag water into the intestine via osmosis. Secondly, these molecules are readily fermented by colonic bacteria, so upon malabsorption in the small intestine they enter the large intestine where they generate gases (hydrogen, carbon dioxide and methane). The dual actions of these carbohydrates cause an expansion in volume of intestinal contents, which stretches the intestinal wall and stimulates nerves in the gut. It is this 'stretching' that triggers the sensations of pain and discomfort that are commonly experienced by people with IBS. Uses. The low-FODMAP diet is sometimes used for: The low-FODMAP diet is intended to be used only after a full medical evaluation. This ensures correct diagnosis and treatment. Use of a low-FODMAP diet without medical advice can lead to serious health risks, including nutritional deficiencies and misdiagnosis of celiac disease. Sometimes the diet is used in phases. Firstly, FODMAPs below the threshold value are eliminated from the diet (restriction phase). The restriction"}, {"text": "phase does not usually last more than six weeks. After this stage, products that were eliminated are re-introduced into the diet one at a time. This allows for assessment of the effects of different types of FODMAP on the individual. The final stage involves creation of a long-term diet based on the evidence collected from the previous stage. Effects. Irritable bowel syndrome. There is evidence that a dietician-supervised low-FODMAP diet is the best available way to control IBS symptoms, though there is a lack of evidence on possible adverse effects. The beneficial effect of low-FODMAP for people with IBS may be related to reduced osmotic load in the gut or changes in gut-brain axis signaling. The low-FODMAP diet does not cause any significant change in the gut microbiota in people with IBS. The effectiveness of low-FODMAP diet in children with IBS is unclear. Celiac disease. Since the consumption of gluten is suppressed or reduced with a low-FODMAP diet, the improvement of the digestive symptoms with this diet may not be related to the withdrawal of the FODMAPs, but of gluten, indicating the presence of an unrecognized celiac disease, avoiding its diagnosis and correct treatment, with the consequent risk of several"}, {"text": "serious health complications, including various types of cancer. Inflammatory bowel disease. There is only a little evidence of its effectiveness in treating functional symptoms in inflammatory bowel disease from small studies that are susceptible to bias. The low-FODMAP diet is not recommended for ulcerative colitis due to risk of disruption of nutritional status and insufficient evidence of beneficial effects. Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. The low-FODMAP diet may reduce symptoms in people with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. However, it is not recommended as a long term diet for people with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Gut microbiota. The effect of the low-FODMAP diet on the gut microbiota is not fully understood. It is thought that reduction of fermentable carbohydrates affects the composition and abundance of gut bacteria. FODMAPs are a main food source (prebiotic) for many gut bacteria. Deprived of this food source, there is less bacterial fermentation in the gut and less production of intestinal gas, which may also create conditions which favor certain species of bacteria and disfavor others. There is some evidence for negative effects of the low-FODMAP diet, such as reduction in the numbers of beneficial bacteria (e.g., Bifidobacteria). Such changes are comparable to dysbiosis. Other studies report"}, {"text": "no significant change in gut microbiota from the low-FODMAP diet. There is also some evidence for positive effects on the gut microbiota, such as improved microbial diversity and increased numbers of potentially beneficial bacterial species. The effect of the low-FODMAP diet on gut microbiota also seems to depend on the medical condition, with more profound changes in microbiota occurring in celiac disease or inflammatory bowel disease, but no significant microbiota changes occurring in IBS. Overall, the low-FODMAP diet may have a positive effect on the gut microbiota compared to normal diets. However, the evidence is mixed and there is significant study heterogeneity, probably because of variation in the methodology and length of the studies, and also differences in the studied populations such as genetics and baseline diet. Long-term effects. Most of the research studies on the effects of the low-FODMAP diet are short-term, usually lasting about 28 days. When the diet is suddenly changed, the gut microbiota may undergo rapid changes in the short term. The long term stability of the changes in microbiota caused by the low-FODMAP diet and its effects on health are unclear. It is not known if the changes in microbiota are irreversible. Long-term use of"}, {"text": "low-FODMAP diet may have negative effects because it causes a detrimental impact on the gut microbiota and metabolome. It should only be used for short periods of time and under the advice of a specialist. The true impact of this diet on health is not fully understood. The restriction phase should not last for more than six weeks. A low-FODMAP diet is highly restrictive in various groups of nutrients, can be impractical to follow in the long term, and may add an unnecessary financial burden. History. The FODMAP concept was first published in 2005. In this paper, it was proposed that a collective reduction in the dietary intake of all indigestible or slowly absorbed, short-chain carbohydrates would minimize stretching of the intestinal wall. This was proposed to reduce stimulation of the gut's nervous system and provide the best chance of reducing symptom generation in people with IBS (see below). At the time, there was no collective term for indigestible or slowly absorbed, short-chain carbohydrates, so the term \"FODMAP\" was created to improve understanding and facilitate communication of the concept. The low-FODMAP diet was originally developed by a research team at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. The Monash team undertook the"}, {"text": "first research to investigate whether a low-FODMAP diet improved symptom control in patients with IBS and established the mechanism by which the diet exerted its effect. Monash University also established a rigorous food analysis program to measure the FODMAP content of a wide selection of Australian and international foods. The FODMAP composition data generated by Monash University updated previous data that was based on limited literature, with guesses (sometimes wrong) made where there was little information."}, {"text": "The following lists the number one rock singles in Canada in 2007 based on airplay from Mediabase which was published in \"Radio & Records\" magazine."}, {"text": "Henri Kowalski (April 1, 1841, in Paris, France \u2013 July 8, 1916, in Bordeaux, France) was a French pianist and composer. Born in Paris to a French mother and Polish father, Kowalski studied piano at the Paris Conservatoire with Michele Carafa and Samuel David; although he was asked to leave in 1860 for failure to attend regularly. His work includes the opera \"Gilles de Bretagne\" (1877). A regular traveller, he lived in Australia from 1885 to 1896. He published in 1872 his impressions of his travels in the United States, which includes a list of his musical compositions."}, {"text": "This article documents statistics from the 1991 Rugby World Cup, jointly hosted by England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France from 3 October to 2 November. Team statistics. The following table shows the team's results in major statistical categories. Hat-tricks. Unless otherwise noted, players in this list scored a hat-trick of tries."}, {"text": "The Man from the Rio Grande may refer to:"}, {"text": "Fried cauliflower is a popular dish in many cuisines of the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, and elsewhere. It may start from raw or cooked cauliflower; it may be dipped in batter or breading; it may be fried in oil, butter, or other fats. It can be served on its own, as a mezze or side dish, or in a sandwich. It is often seasoned with salt, spices, and a variety of sauces, in the Middle East often based on tahini or strained yogurt. Cauliflower in general, and fried cauliflower in particular, has become increasingly popular in the United States. Preparation. Fried cauliflower may start from raw or cooked cauliflower. The cauliflower is separated into florets, then deep-fried. It may be fried plain; it may be breaded; it may be battered; or it may be simply floured. The plain version is the crispest, though the oiliest; the breaded and battered versions result in a moister, less crisp interior. After draining, it may be seasoned or sauced in a variety of ways. History. Deep-fried and pan-fried cauliflower is found in many cuisines, and is well documented through the 19th century in Germany, Austria, Britain, and the United States. It is often"}, {"text": "called by its French name, \"choufleur frit\". Regional versions. France. Fried battered cauliflower is served in French cuisine with a tomato sauce as \"fritot de chou-fleur\". India. A wide variety of fried cauliflower dishes are found in India. Cauliflower pakoras, battered and spiced fried cauliflower, are popular in North India and Chennai, and may be double-fried for crispness. They can be served with a tomato or peanut chutney. One Punjabi recipe deep-fries the cauliflower first, then saut\u00e9s it in spices and yogurt to nap the florets with sauce. Israel. Fried cauliflower is found both in Mizrahi and Sephardic traditions, which were brought to Israel when Jews immigrated to Israel, often as refugees. Among the Mizrahi, fried cauliflower was often eaten as a mezze before large meals or in various salads (often dressed with tahini sauce, strained yogurt, or citrus juice). Over time, fried cauliflower was adopted as a street food. With the rise of fine dining in Israel, Israeli chefs have incorporated versions of the dish into their cooking, where it may be an important main dish. In Israel, fried cauliflower is commonly served at falafel, shawarma, hummus, and sabich stands, often in a sandwich or as part of a"}, {"text": "salad bar: \"Fried cauliflower is a staple of falafel-shop salad bars\". It is commonly served plain just with some salt. It may also be served with strained yogurt, tahini sauce, amba, zhug, or other condiments. The Sephardic version, \"culupidia frita\", is battered and often served with lemon (\"culupidia frita con lim\u00f3n\"), which is sometimes simmered with the cauliflower until it evaporates. Italy. An early Italian recipe for fried cauliflower (1822) first parboils it, then breads it and fries it in oil or lard. Various versions of the dish are found in later cookbooks. It continues to be part of the repertoire of Italian cuisine, and is sold as a street food in Sicily. Levant. In Levantine cuisine as found in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine fried cauliflower, \"zahra mekleyah\" (), is served cold or hot. It may be served in a sandwich of pita bread or sandwich bread, often toasted and sprinkled with cumin, salt, and lemon juice. It is also served as a side dish. It may be battered or not. Common accompaniments include tarator. Variations include curried and roasted cauliflower, bell peppers, or a garlic lemon vinaigrette. The Syrian \"menazla zahra\" is cooked with garlic, ground beef, cilantro, cumin,"}, {"text": "and salt. Fried cauliflower is also an ingredient in some dishes, such as maqluba, a sort of pilaf with meat and vegetables on top, and \"Mtafaye\" (), a dish using fried cauliflower cooked in yoghurt. United States. Fried cauliflower from Indian, Israeli, Italian, and Levantine traditions is found in the United States. The Israeli versions are often found at Israeli, kosher, Jewish, and falafel restaurants. The growing fashion both for cauliflower and for Israeli cuisine has contributed to its popularity. Some variants include serving with a white wine vinaigrette, currants, and pine nuts; frying a whole head and serving with a beet tahini sauce; or serving with a herbed labneh sauce."}, {"text": "The 2021 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-17 Euro 2021) was originally to be held as the 19th edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (38th edition if the Under-16 era is also included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-17 national teams of Europe. The tournament should have been held in Cyprus between 6 and 22 May 2021. A total of 16 teams were scheduled to play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2004 eligible to participate. The Netherlands were the two-time defending champions, having won the last two tournaments held in 2018 and 2019, with the 2020 edition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. On 18 December 2020, the UEFA Executive Committee announced that the tournament was cancelled after consultation with all 55 member associations due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. Host selection. The timeline of host selection was as follows: For the UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournaments of 2021 and 2022, Cyprus and Israel were selected as hosts respectively. Qualification. All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Cyprus qualifying automatically, the original format would have"}, {"text": "seen the other 54 teams competing in the qualifying competition, which would have consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which would have taken place in autumn 2020, and Elite round, which would have also taken place in spring 2021, to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, UEFA announced on 13 August 2020 that after consultation with the 55 member associations, the qualifying round was delayed to March 2021, and the elite round was abolished, with the 13 qualifying round group winners and the top two seeds by coefficient ranking, Netherlands and Spain (which originally would receive byes to the elite round) qualifying for the final tournament. Qualified teams. The following teams qualified for the final tournament. \"Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era (since 2002).\""}, {"text": "The Calendar is a 1929 play by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It is a crime thriller set in the world of horse racing world, the sport being among Wallace's interests. The protagonist is a financially struggling racehorse owner with a shady reputation. It premiered at the Palace Theatre in Manchester before transferring to Wyndham's Theatre in the West End. It was revived for a 42 performance run at the Lyceum Theatre the following year. That year Wallace also adapted it into a novel \"of the same title\". Film adaptations. The tale was adapted for a 1931 film of the same title starring Edna Best and Herbert Marshall. A remake under the same name was released in 1948 with Greta Gynt and John McCallum in the lead roles. Both versions were productions of Gainsborough Pictures."}, {"text": "Kali Fajardo-Anstine (born November 9, 1986) is an American novelist and short story writer from Denver, Colorado. She won the 2020 American Book Award for \"Sabrina & Corina: Stories\" and was a 2019 finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Her first novel, \"Woman of Light: A Novel\" (2022), is a national bestseller and won the 2023 WILLA Literary Award in Historical Fiction. She is the 2022\u20132024 Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. Early life. Kali Fajardo-Anstine was born in Denver, Colorado in 1986. She is the second eldest of seven siblings, six sisters and one brother. She struggled with depression growing up because she didn\u2019t feel she fit in culturally or socially with her peers, and turned to books and writing for comfort. After being pushed to leave high school by an unsupportive English teacher, Fajardo-Anstine dropped out and earned her GED. She worked as a bookseller in Denver while studying English and Chicano/a studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where she first began to write early drafts of short stories. In 2013, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from University of Wyoming, where she studied"}, {"text": "under writers Brad Watson and Joy Williams. Her graduate thesis created the foundation for her award-winning debut collection, Sabrina & Corina. Career. Fajardo-Anstine's work often features mixed-race, Latina and Native American women in Colorado and the American West. In 2019, her debut collection of short stories, \"Sabrina & Corina\", was published by Random House. The book, set in Denver, focuses on Chicanas of mixed ancestry. The stories deal with themes of abandonment, heritage, home, and the lives of women and girls. Much of Fajardo-Anstine's work focuses on the experiences of women. In Poets & Writers in 2022, Fajardo-Anstine recalled strangers dismay at the size of her family. \"My parents had six daughters and only one son. I remember people saying they felt sorry for my parents for having so many girls. There was an awful subtext there, that our lives as daughters weren\u2019t as valuable as sons.\u201d In 2022, after over a decade of research on her family history in Colorado, Fajardo-Anstine published her debut novel, \"Woman of Light.\" The Guardian described the novel as, \"a feat of old school storytelling.\" She credited her great-aunt Lucy Lucero as an inspiration for the main character Luz Lopez. The for the novel"}, {"text": "came to her while sitting in her great-aunt's home and listening to her stories, which have been excluded from traditional histories.Fajardo-Anstine is a mixed-race Chicana woman with Indigenous, Jewish, and Filipino ancestry. On Latino USA in 2022, she said of her work, \"I could never pick up a book, turn on the TV, listen to the radio, and find people like us allowed to talk about the nuance of their identity... Everything was always sort of neatly put into categories and those categories did not represent who we were.\u201d Fajardo-Anstine is inspired by the absence of Chicano or Latinx culture in the histories or narratives of the American West. In the Denver Public Library Western Genealogy Archives and most other traditional archives, White history is overrepresented. She found relics like an infant-size Ku Klux Klan robe with initials stitched in, yet she could not find information about indigenous and native Americans of Mexican descent. She saw that City of Denver's report on Mexican American/Chicano/Latino history in Denver had listed her great-aunt Lucero's home as an important site, but there was no attribution to Lucero's daughter or other family members who shared stories about the home. The report also misspelled Lucero's"}, {"text": "name, and her family asked that information be removed. In 2023, Fajardo-Anstine wrote a new introduction to Willa Cather's classic novel \"Death Comes for the Archbishop\" that was published by Penguin Classics. Her work is often taught in high school and college classes throughout the United States."}, {"text": "The Adil Cabinet () was the first cabinet established by the State of Pasundan following the formation of the state on 28 April 1948. It was composed of eight ministers and one official. Its term of office ran from 8 May 1948 to 10 January 1949. Background. After the formation of the State of Pasundan, an election to choose the head of state of Pasundan was held on 28 February 1948. The election was won by R. A. A. Wiranatakusumah, and he was installed on 24 April 1948. Wiranatakusumah appointed Adil Puradiredja, a former resident of Priangan Regency, as the prime minister. Adil, along with his ministers, was officially installed on 8 May 1948. The cabinet was responsible to Prime Minister Adil Puradiredja. Changes. On 14 October 1948, Justice Minister Soeparman died in a car crash during his working trip to Cirebon. He was replaced by Tan Hwat Tiang four days later. Tan concurrently held the position as the Minister of Transportation and Traffic Affairs. The end of the cabinet. At the midnight of 19 December 1948, the Dutch launched military attack against the Republic of Indonesia. The Adil Cabinet resigned on the same day in protest. Similar event occurred"}, {"text": "in East Indonesia, on which the Ide Anak Agung Gde Agung cabinet also resigned on the same reason. The resignation was in pursuance to the promise made by Adil to Mohammad Hatta, the vice president of Indonesia, on 12 December, that he and his cabinet would resign if and only if the Dutch attacked Indonesia. The outgoing cabinet was officially replaced by the First Djumhana Cabinet on 10 January 1949."}, {"text": "The Avenger or The Hairy Arm is a 1925 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. Film adaptation. In 1960 it was adapted into a West German film \"The Avenger\", part of a long-running series of Wallace adaptations."}, {"text": "The South Bronx is an area of the New York City borough of the Bronx. The area comprises neighborhoods in the southern part of the Bronx, such as Concourse, Mott Haven, Melrose, and Port Morris. In the early 1900s, the South Bronx was originally known as the Manor of Morrisania, as it was the manor of Lewis Morris. As the Morris family continued to expand on the land, an influx of German and Irish immigrants started to populate the area. By the 1930s, the Bronx was considered the \"Jewish Borough\", as nearly half the population was Jewish. This soon changed as World War II caused rent to increase in many apartments, pushing people out. By the end of the 1950s, the South Bronx was two-thirds African American or Hispanic (of any race). The South Bronx is known for its hip-hop culture and graffiti. Graffiti became popular in the Bronx in the early 1970s, spreading through the New York City Subway system. The South Bronx also became notable as the 1973 birthplace of hip-hop music and culture. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the South Bronx is the poorest congressional district in the United States. Boundaries. The geographic definitions of the"}, {"text": "South Bronx have evolved and are disputed, but certainly include the neighborhoods of Mott Haven, Melrose, and Port Morris. Originally referring to the industrial area below East 138th Street, the name \"South Bronx\" symbolically has had its northern boundary shift northward to East 149th Street, East 161st Street, the Cross Bronx Expressway, and Fordham Road over the years. The neighborhoods of Crotona Park East, Highbridge, Hunts Point, Longwood, Concourse, and Morrisania are sometimes considered part of the South Bronx. Generally, most consider any neighborhood west of the Bronx River and south of the Cross Bronx Expressway the South Bronx. The Cross Bronx Expressway is usually considered the dividing border between North and South Bronx. There has been debate that Fordham Road is the northern border of the South Bronx. The South Bronx is part of New York's 15th Congressional District. The South Bronx is served by the NYPD's 40th, 41st, 42nd, 44th, and 48th Precincts. History. The South Bronx was originally called the Manor of Morrisania, and later Morrisania. It was the private domain of the powerful and aristocratic Morris family, which includes Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Gouverneur Morris, the penman of the United States"}, {"text": "Constitution. The Morris memorial is at St. Ann's Church of Morrisania. Morris' descendants own land in the South Bronx to this day. As the Morrises developed their landholdings, an influx of German and Irish immigrants populated the area. Later, the Bronx was considered the \"Jewish Borough,\" and at its peak in 1930 was 49% Jewish. Jews in the South Bronx numbered 364,000 or 57.1% of the total population in the area. The term was first coined in the 1940s by a group of social workers who identified the Bronx's first pocket of poverty, in the Port Morris section, the southernmost section of the Bronx. 1950s: Demographic shift. After World War II, as White flight accelerated and migration of ethnic and racial minorities continued, the South Bronx went from being two-thirds non-Hispanic white in 1950 to being two-thirds black or Puerto Rican in 1960. Originally denoting only Mott Haven and Melrose, the South Bronx extended up to the Cross Bronx Expressway by the 1960s, encompassing Hunts Point, Morrisania, and Highbridge. 1960s: Start of decay. The South Bronx was populated largely by working-class families. Its image as a poverty-ridden area developed in the latter part of the 20th century. There were several"}, {"text": "factors contributing to the decay of the South Bronx: White flight creating empty buildings, landlord abandonment creating unsafe buildings, economic changes leading to a lack of tax dollars, arson, demographic shifts, and the reallocation of tax dollars from the South Bronx Fire Department to other places and the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway are common reasons given. The already poor and working-class neighborhoods were further disadvantaged by the decreasing property value, in combination with increasing vacancy rates. While some areas of the South Bronx were racially integrated as early as the 1930s, later larger scale influxes of African Americans immigrants from the American South, combined with the racially charged tension of the Civil Rights Movement, the rage following the assassination of Martin Luther King, and the dramatic rise in crime rates, further contributed to white middle-class flight and the decline of many South Bronx neighborhoods. Following the implementation of desegregation busing policies, white parents who worried about their children attending the racially integrated schools began to relocate to the suburbs, which remained predominately white due to cost as well as legal barriers created by restrictive housing covenants, and selective lending. In turn, areas of the Bronx that became predominately"}, {"text": "African American or Hispanic were considered bad risks by lenders (\"redlining\"), contributing to the decline in real estate values and lack of investment in the existing housing stock. As early as the late 1960s, some neighborhoods were considered undesirable by homeowners, precipitating a population decline. Postwar rent control policies which were ostensibly to keep apartments cheap have also been proposed as a contributing factor, for the laws forced landlords to price the apartments so cheaply the landlords were unable to generate a profit and therefore there was no incentive for them to mend and repair their buildings, leading to the decay of the apartments of the South Bronx. New York City Mayor John Lindsay (who served from 1966 to 1973) suggested that socioeconomic factors (including low educational attainment and high unemployment) limited housing options for the remaining low-income tenants, prompting the reduced upkeep by landlords. In either case, while desirable housing options were scarce, vacancies further increased. In the late 1960s, by the time the city decided to consolidate welfare households in the South Bronx, its vacancy rate was already the highest of any place in the city. 1970s: \"The Bronx is burning\". By the 1970s, significant poverty reached as"}, {"text": "far north as Fordham Road. Around this time, the Bronx experienced some of its worst instances of urban decay, with the loss of 300,000 residents and the destruction of entire city blocks' worth of buildings. The media attention brought the South Bronx into common parlance nationwide. The early 1970s saw South Bronx property values continue to plummet to record lows. A progressively vicious cycle began where large numbers of tenements and multi-story, multi-family apartment buildings, left vacant by White flight, sat abandoned and unsaleable for long periods of time, which, coupled with a stagnant economy and an extremely high unemployment rate made street gangs attractive to many, which were exploding in number and beginning to support themselves with large-scale drug dealing in the area. The abandoned property also attracted large numbers of squatters, who further lowered the borough's quality of living. The massive citywide spending cuts also left the few remaining building inspectors and fire marshals unable to enforce living standards or punish code violations. This encouraged slumlords and absentee landlords to neglect and ignore their property and allowed for gangs to set up protected enclaves and lay claim to entire buildings. This then spread crime and fear of crime"}, {"text": "to nearby unaffected apartments in a domino effect. As the crisis deepened, the nearly bankrupt city government of Abraham Beame placed most of the blame on unreasonably high rents levied by landlords. Beame began demanding that they convert their rapidly emptying buildings into Section 8 housing. Section 8 paid a per capita stipend for low-income or indigent tenants from Federal HUD funds rather than from the cash-strapped city bank. However, the HUD rate was not based on the property's actual value and was set so low by the city that it left little opportunity or incentive for landlords to maintain or improve their buildings while still making a profit. The result was a disastrous acceleration of both the speed and northward spread of the cycle of decay in the South Bronx as formerly desirable and well-maintained middle-to-upper class apartments in midtown, most notably along the Grand Concourse, were progressively vacated and either abandoned altogether or converted into federally funded single room occupancy \"welfare hotels\" run by absentee slumlords. Police statistics show that as the crime wave moved north across the Bronx, the remaining White tenants in the South Bronx (mostly elderly Jews) were preferentially targeted for violent crime by the"}, {"text": "influx of young, minority criminals because they were seen as easy prey. This became so common that the street slang terms \"crib job\" (meaning how elderly residents were as helpless as infants) and \"push in\" (meaning what would now be called a home invasion robbery) were coined specifically in reference to them. At this time, landlords began to burn their buildings for their insurance value, relying on \"fixers\" (people who specializing in a form of insurance fraud) to buy property below cost, then selling and reselling, artificially driving up the value incrementally each time. Fraudulent \"no questions asked\" fire insurance policies would then be taken out on the overvalued buildings and the property stripped and burned for the payoff. Flawed HUD and city policies encouraged local South Bronx residents to burn down their own buildings. Under the regulations, Section 8 tenants who were burned out of their current housing were granted immediate priority status for another apartment, potentially in a better part of the city. After the establishment of the (then) state-of-the-art Co-op City, there was a spike in fires as tenants began burning down their Section 8 housing in an attempt to jump to the front of the 2\u20133"}, {"text": "year long waiting list for the new units.Often, the properties were still occupied by subsidized tenants or squatters at the time, who were given short or no warning before the building was burned down, and were forced to move to another slum building, where the process would usually repeat itself. HUD regulations also authorized lump-sum aid payments of up to $1000 to those who could prove they had lost property due to a fire in their Section 8 housing; although these payments were supposed to be investigated for fraud by a HUD employee before being signed off on, very little investigation was done and some HUD employees and social services workers were accused of turning a blind eye to suspicious fires or even advising tenants on the best way to take advantage of the HUD policies. On multiple occasions, firefighters were reported to have shown up to tenement fires only to find all the residents at an address waiting calmly with their possessions already on the curb. Firefighters in the South Bronx were also extremely strapped for resources, facing budget cuts galore amid the city's fiscal crisis, and struggled to maintain adequate staffing, equipment, and response times. Fire companies in"}, {"text": "the South Bronx, such as Engine 82 and Ladder 31, became legendary for their relentless service, often responding to dozens of alarms per day in neighborhoods plagued by poverty, unemployment, and crime. During this period, the NYPD's 41st Precinct station house at 1086 Simpson Street became famously known as \"Fort Apache, The Bronx\" as it struggled to deal with the overwhelming surge of violent crime, which for the entirety of the 1970s and 1980s made South Bronx the murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault and arson capital of America. By 1980, the 41st Precinct was renamed the \"Little House on the Prairie\", as fully of the 94,000 residents originally served by the precinct had fled, leaving the fortified building as one of the few structures in the neighborhood (and the sole building on Simpson Street) that had not been abandoned or burnt out. By the time of Cosell's 1977 commentary, dozens of buildings were being burned in the South Bronx every day, sometimes whole blocks at a time and usually far more than the fire department could keep up with, leaving the area perpetually blanketed in a pall of smoke. Firefighters from the period reported responding to as many as 7"}, {"text": "fully involved structure fires in a single shift, too many to even bother returning to the station house between calls (\"Report from Engine Company 82\"). The local police precincts\u2014already struggling and failing to contain the massive wave of drug and gang crime invading the Bronx\u2014had long since stopped bothering to investigate the fires, as there were simply too many to track. In total, over 80% of the South Bronx was burned or abandoned between 1970 and 1980, with 44 census tracts losing more than 50% and seven more than 97% of their buildings to arson, abandonment, or both. The appearance was frequently compared to that of a bombed-out and evacuated European city following World War II. On October 5, 1977, U.S. President Jimmy Carter paid an unscheduled visit to Charlotte Street while in New York City for a conference at the headquarters of the United Nations. Charlotte Street at the time was a three-block devastated area of vacant lots and burned-out and abandoned buildings. The street had been so ravaged that part of it had been taken off official city maps in 1974. Carter instructed Patricia Roberts Harris, head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, to take"}, {"text": "steps to salvage the area. Progress did not come quickly. Three years later, in 1980, presidential candidate Ronald Reagan paid a visit to Charlotte Street, declaring that he had not \"seen anything that looked like this since London after the Blitz\". The 1987 novel \"The Bonfire of the Vanities\", by the American writer Tom Wolfe, presented the South Bronx as a nightmare world, not to be entered by middle or upper-class whites. The PBS documentary show Independent Lens released an episode titled \"Decade of Fire\" on May 3, 2019. The episode was previewed at the Full Frame Film Festival the previous month. Revitalization and current concerns. Primarily beginning in the 1980s, parts of the South Bronx started to experience urban renewal with rehabilitated and new residential structures, including subsidized multifamily townhomes and apartment buildings. Between 1986 and 1994, over $1 billion were spent on rebuilding the area, with 19,000 apartments refurbished and more than 4,500 new houses built for the working class. More than fifty abandoned apartment buildings on the Major Deegan Expressway and the Cross Bronx Expressway were renovated for residential use. Over 26,500 people moved into the area. On Charlotte Street, prefabricated ranch-style houses were built in the"}, {"text": "area in 1985, and the area changed so significantly that a Bronx borough historian (Lloyd Ultan) could not locate where Carter had stopped to survey the scene. As of 2004, houses on the street were worth up to a million dollars. The Bronx County Courthouse has secured landmark status, and efforts are underway to do the same for much of the Grand Concourse, in recognition of the area's Art Deco architecture. In June 2010, the city Landmarks Preservation Commission gave consideration to the establishment of a historic district on the Grand Concourse from 153rd to 167th Street. A final decision was expected in the coming months. Construction of the new Yankee Stadium has stirred controversy over plans which, along with the new billion-dollar field, include new athletic fields, tennis courts, bicycle and walking paths, stores, restaurants, and a new Metro-North Railroad station at East 153rd Street. During baseball season, the station helps ease overcrowding on the subway. There is hope that these developments also will help to generate residential construction. However, the new park came at a price: a total of in Macombs Dam and John Mullaly Parks were used to build it. In April 2012, Heritage Field, a $50.8"}, {"text": "million ballpark, was built atop the grounds of the original Yankee Stadium. The population of the South Bronx is currently increasing. Despite significant investment compared to the post war period, many exacerbated social problems remain, including high rates of violent crime, substance abuse, and overcrowded and substandard housing conditions. Its precincts have recorded high violent crime rates and are all considered to be New York City Police Department \"impact zones.\" The Bronx contains the highest rate of poverty in New York City, and the greater South Bronx is the poorest Congressional district in the United States. Poverty in the public housing infrastructure has partially been caused by disinvestment by the city and state because, since the 1990s, a lack of state-funded operating subsidies to NYCHA created a $720 million shortfall by 2010 and, post 9/11, the city halted subsidies as well. The poorly maintained, substandard housing has caused disproportionately high asthma rates among children in the South Bronx, where residents are predominately minorities\u2014mainly Black and Hispanic. Arts and culture. Since the late 1970s, the South Bronx has been home to a renewed grassroots art scene. The arts scene that sprouted at the Fashion Moda Gallery, founded by a Viennese artist,"}, {"text": "Stefan Eins, helped ignite the careers of artists like Keith Haring and Jenny Holzer, and 1980s break dancers like the Rock Steady Crew. It generated enough enthusiasm in the mainstream media for a short while to draw the art world's attention. The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance was located in the American Bank Note Company Building in the South Bronx neighborhood of Hunts Point before relocating to St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Westchester Square. Modern graffiti is prominent in the South Bronx, and is home to many of the fathers of graffiti art such as Tats Cru. The Bronx has a very strong graffiti scene despite the city's crackdown on illegal graffiti. However, graffiti in the Bronx began to occur in the early 1970s and managed to travel to different boroughs via the New York City Subway system. The rise of hip-hop music, rap, breakdancing, and disc jockeying helped put the South Bronx on the musical map in the late 1970s. The South Bronx is also known worldwide as the birthplace of hip-hop culture. In addition, the Bronx Museum of the Arts is located on the Grand Concourse. Hip hop's birthplace. Hip hop is a broad conglomerate of artistic"}, {"text": "forms that originated as a specific street subculture within South Bronx communities during the 1970s in New York City. Hip hop as music and culture formed during the 1970s when block parties became increasingly popular in New York City, particularly among African American and Latin Americans residing in the Bronx. Block parties incorporated DJs who played popular genres of music, especially funk and soul music. For example, many DJs played music by the artist James Brown. Some songs played at these South Bronx house parties included \"Give it Up or Turn it Loose\" by James Brown and \"Get Ready\" by Rare Earth. Due to the positive reception, DJs began isolating the percussive breaks, or small portions of a song, often without vocals, which were easy to dance to, of popular songs. DJ Kool Herc is known for generating the technique to produce these percussive breaks, which is known as merry-go-rounding. Merry-go-rounding when DJs would \"use the two turntables in a typical DJ setup not as a way to make a smooth transition between two records, but as a way to switch back and forth repeatedly between two copies of the same record.\" The technique of percussive breaks was then common"}, {"text": "in Jamaican dub music, and was largely introduced into New York by immigrants from Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean, including DJ Kool Herc, who is generally considered the father of hip-hop. Upon this, a technique known as Jamaican toasting, or the act of speaking over a beat which later became rapping, was introduced by DJ Kool Herc in the South Bronx at this point of time as well. 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, an apartment building in Morris Heights, is a long-time \"haven for working-class families\"; in 2010, \"The New York Times\" reported that it is the \"accepted birthplace of hip hop.\" As hip-hop grew from throughout the Bronx, 1520 was a starting point where Clive Campbell, later known as DJ Kool Herc, presided over parties in the community room at a pivotal point in the genre's history. DJ Kool Herc is credited with helping to start hip hop and rap music at a house concert at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue on August 11, 1973. At the concert he was DJing and emceeing in the :recreation room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. Sources have noted that while 1520 Sedgwick Avenue was not the actual birthplace of hip-hop\u2014the genre developed slowly in several places"}, {"text": "in the 1970s\u2014it was verified to be the place where \"one of\" the pivotal and formative events occurred that spurred hip hop culture forward. During a rally to save the building, DJ Kool Herc said, \"1520 Sedgwick is the Bethlehem of Hip-Hop culture.\" Many residents of the South Bronx during the early 1970s lived in poverty or were part of gangs. Afrika Bambaataa, who has been described as the godfather of hip-hop, was a member of the street gang the Black Spades. As an effort to end the street violence within the South Bronx, Bambaataa created the Zulu Nation, which is a group founded on the concepts of \"Peace, Love, Unity, Having Fun\" instead of partaking in gang violence and unlawful activity. In Jeff Chang's book \"Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation\" Bambaataa explained that the Zulu Nation formed because \"we had to come up with something to get the order back.\" As seen within the film \"The Hip Hop Years: Part 1\", hip-hop aided in keeping violence from forming on the streets of the South Bronx and eased tensions with the police within the area. People were creating art such as hip-hop music and dances"}, {"text": "at the block parties within the South Bronx, so the police did not have issues with it. Not only was music a major component of hip-hop culture being formulated within the South Bronx during the 1970s, a break dancing or B-boying movement was being generated as well. After DJ Kool Herc and other DJs kept utilizing the break beat within their music, an abundance of people who were dancing normally, eventually hit the floor and began what is known as breakdancing. According to the documentary, \"The Freshest Kids: The History of the B-Boy\", break dancing occurred \"spontaneously\" and consisted of more \"sporadic\" dance moves. Additionally, a Zulu king and hip-hop historian stated that the dance consisted of \"bouncing around, pivoting, turning, twists frontsweeps...\". Many who participated in this form of dance were members of crews, such as the Rock Steady Crew, the New York City Breakers and the Magnificent Force. On July 5, 2007, 1520 Sedgwick Avenue was recognized by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation as the \"Birthplace of Hip-Hop.\" Education. The New York City Department of Education operates district public schools. Community School Districts 7, 8, 9, and 12 are located in the"}, {"text": "South Bronx. Among the public schools are charter schools. Success Academies Bronx 1, 2, and 3 are part of Success Academy Charter Schools. An elementary charter school, Academic Leadership Charter School, opened on 141st Street and Cypress Avenue. Area private schools include Cardinal Hayes High School, located at 650 Grand Concourse and All Hallows High School, located at 111 East 164th Street. Among the institutions of higher education, Hostos Community College of the City University of New York is located in Grand Concourse and 149th Street, ten blocks from Yankee Stadium. The South Bronx is also home to both for-profit and nonprofit organizations that offer a range of professional training and other educational programs. East Side House Settlement has been in the Mott Haven neighborhood since 1963, serving families and children. Their mission is to use education as a means of economic empowerment. Per Scholas, for example, is a nonprofit organization that offers free professional certification training directed towards successfully passing CompTIA A+ and Network+ certification exams as a route to securing jobs and building careers. Per Scholas also works with a growing number of Title One South Bronx middle schools, their students, and their families to provide computer training"}, {"text": "and access. Transportation. Major highways include the Major Deegan Expressway (I-87); Cross Bronx Expressway (I-95); Bruckner Expressway (I-278); Triborough Bridge; Grand Concourse. A variety of New York City Subway services run through the South Bronx. This includes the on the IRT Pelham Line, on the IRT White Plains Road Line, on the IRT Jerome Avenue Line, and on the IND Concourse Line. A South Bronx Greenway currently connects the South Bronx over the Bronx Kill to Randalls Island on a bike and pedestrian pathway known as the Bronx Connector. In 2000, 77.3% of all households in New York's 15th congressional district, covering the South Bronx, did not own automobiles. Citywide, the percentage is only 55%."}, {"text": "Robert Matthew Tallman (born October 25, 1947) is an American professional rodeo announcer. He is known as \"the voice of professional rodeo\". Life. Bob Tallman was born Robert Matthew Tallman on October 25, 1947, in Orovada, Nevada, to rancher John B. Tallman and his wife Irene Capelli. Tallman and his sister, Maryanne, grew up on the family's Willow Creek cattle ranch, near Orovada. The Tallmans moved into Winnemucca when Bob was 10 years old. He tried football in high school, but it did not work out athletically. He had a natural talent for golf, but he loved rodeo more, and he could rope. He gained some experience roping in high school and in 4-H. He went to California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. He was there to rope, but he cared more about spending time with his friends. He did try to ride bucking horses, but was advised by the Canadian bull rider Bob Robinson, \"find something else\". He attended a rodeo in Fallon, Nevada, circa 1969 where he roped calves. He told the stock contractor that the announcer was, \"pitiful\". The contractor told him to do it when he was done roping. Tallman did and was"}, {"text": "paid $100 a performance. Career. Tallman has announced more than 15,000 rodeo performances in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand. He has announced so many rodeos that his voice has become instantly recognizable to rodeo fans. Tallman has announced the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada, more than any other announcer. He has announced the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo for over 30 years. He is the spokesman for many cowboy-themed products. He refers to his voice as his \"priceless gift from God\" and tries to use it to touch peoples' lives. In the 1990s, Bob Tallman co-hosted the ground-breaking reality outdoor show, Spur of the Moment, celebrating rodeo and the western lifestyle. His co-host was champion barrel racer, Sharon Camarillo. The show was produced by Pat Turner, Stacy Ratliff (both from Jimmy Houston Productions), Adelman, and Dan Stewart. During the same decade, Tallman was a television color commentator for the now-defunct Bull Riders Only (BRO) circuit in the United States, as well as Cody Snyder's Bullbustin' events in Canada. In the 2000's, Tallman was a television color commentator during the first few years of the now-defunct Championship Bull Riding (CBR) circuit. For a time, he"}, {"text": "was also a member of the board of directors for said organization. Personal life. Tallman and his wife Kristen reside in Poolville, Texas. They have a daughter. He raises Angus cows and calves on his ranch."}, {"text": "The Allsop-Jensen House, at 8829 S. 400 East St. in Sandy, Utah, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The property includes a house and a barn, both deemed to be contributing buildings. The house was built in c.1874, c.1892, and c.1900. About the barn:The Allsop/Jensen Barn has been identified as the Watterson Barn, according to John Ralph Ferrin, MA Thesis, 1981. The barn is hewn log and wood frame construction. Ferrin indicates the barn was built in 1874 in Draper, from wood cut in Bell's canyon; later the barn was dismantled and moved to its present site in 1880. Ferrin notes several metal rings at the bottom logs, and states that they were used when the barn was dismantled and moved. Mr. Watterson, however, has stated that Evan Jensen (youngest son of James Jensen) indicated that the barn was dragged to its present site by team (with only the roof removed). Does the barn still exist? Or could it have been moved and saved elsewhere? It appears to be gone."}, {"text": "The 2020 season was Lion City Sailors' 25th consecutive season in the Singapore Premier League and the 1st season since privatising from Home United. Along with the Singapore Premier League, the club will also compete in the Singapore Cup. Transfer. Pre-season transfer. In. \"Note 1: Kenji Syed Rusydi returned to the team after the loan and move to Tanjong Pagar United. \""}, {"text": "Swami Chakrapani is an Indian political activist. He is the leader of a breakaway faction of the Hindu Mahasabha and Incumbent President of Hindu Mahasabha, a long-standing Hindu nationalist organisation in India, but claims to be its overall president. He has gained media attention for his purchase of wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim's properties at auctions to later vandalize them. Later he join as contestant in alt balaji lock upp. In March 2018, Chakrapani was designated as a fraudulent ascetic by Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad, the apex organisation of Hindu sants (saints) and sadhus (ascetics) in India. Early life. He was Born in Chitraguptavanshi Kayastha Family in Ghazipur. Activism. Chakrapani has claimed to be the president of the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM), advocating for the listing of ABHM as a political entity. The Election Commission of India refused to recognise the organisation due to ongoing rivalries with another faction that wants to be designated as the actual office-bearers of ABHM. On 9 December 2015, Chakrapani bought a car that have been used by fugitive mobster Dawood Ibrahim at an auction for . The car was in a poor state and on 24 December, Chakrapani burnt the car along with posters"}, {"text": "of Ibrahim as a symbolic protest. Chakrapani initially wished to turn the car into an ambulance but withdrew after receiving threats from D-Company; he spoke about using the wreckage in the construction of a toilet. Chakrapani was soon allotted Z category security by the Government of India, due to threats from D-company; four people were arrested for plotting to kill Chakrapani. Chakrapani has since bid for other properties belonging to Dawood, including an eatery and hotel, intending to convert them into public toilets. Chakrapani was one of the litigants in the Ram Janmabhoomi case and has proposed building a gold Ram temple in Ayodhya, which will have priests from the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. During the 2018 Kerala floods, Chakrapani publicly opposed providing help to beef eaters and blamed the floods on the killing of cows. Following his statement, the official website of the Hindu Mahasabha was hacked and defaced with a recipe for spicy beef curry. In March 2018, the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad declared Chakrapani to be a \"fake baba\" (), saying he does not belong to any tradition of sanyasa. In response, Chakrapani said the Parishad were false saints and \"a bogus body\". He has also"}, {"text": "promoted gomutra (cow urine) as a cure for ailments including COVID-19. In 2022, he participated in the Indian reality show \"Lock Upp\" but was the first to be eliminated."}, {"text": "The Clue of the Twisted Candle is a 1918 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. Plot. In this tale, John Lexman, a renowned mystery writer, is drawn into a murder plot by a wealthy benefactor, only to be betrayed and sent to prison. His friend, the Scotland Yard Commissioner T.X. Meredith, tries to prove he was duped into the murder, only to have him escape from prison. Events lead to another murder and a series of surprises. Film adaptation. In 1960 it was turned into the film \"Clue of the Twisted Candle\", directed by Allan Davis as part of a long-running series of Wallace films made at Merton Park Studios."}, {"text": "Carl Copeland Cundiff (March 29, 1941, New Orleans) was the American Ambassador to Niger from 1988 to 1991. He was nominated by Ronald Reagan to succeed Richard Wayne Bogosian. A career foreign service officer since 1965 he served in a variety of overseas locations such as Singapore, Saigon, Vietnam, and Paris, France among other posts. Cundiff graduated from the University of the South with a B.A. in 1963) followed by several degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (M.A., 1964; M.A.L.D., 1965; Ph.D., 1968). He also attended Harvard University\u2019s Kennedy School of Government, graduating with a M.P.A. in 1974."}, {"text": "Abdul Karim Abbasi (born Sarfaraz Hussain) (born 15 December 1938) is a senior lawyer, semi-professional toucher and Bangladeshi politician. Former whip and member of parliament for Netrokona-1. Career. Abbasi was elected to parliament from Netrokona-1 as a candidate of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 1991, 1996 and 2001. In 2006, he joined the Liberal Democratic Party and became senior vice-president of the party."}, {"text": "Isabella Miller may refer to:"}, {"text": "Clue of the Twisted Candle is a 1960 British second feature crime film directed by Allan Davis and starring Bernard Lee, David Knight and Francis de Wolff. The screenplay was by Philip Mackie, based on the 1918 Edgar Wallace novel \"The Clue of the Twisted Candle\". It is part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios from 1960 to 1965. Plot. Lexman is sent to prison, having been tricked by the Greek blackmailer Karadis. He escapes, and Karadis is found murdered in a sealed room. Meredith proves that it was Lexman who killed Karadis, who was in fact his partner in the blackmail operation. Critical reception. \"The Monthly Film Bulletin\" wrote: \"The first of a series of one-hour second features adapted from Edgar Wallace, brought up to date but unable to avoid the slightly old-fashioned look one associates with Wallace's theatricality and liking for red herrings, \"Clue of the Twisted Candle\" nevertheless augurs well for the stories to come. After a slow start, curiosity is aroused and resourcefully maintained, with solid backgrounds, crisp playing and economical treatment lending the film an expert air.\" \"Variety\" wrote: \"Compared to other Wallace films, this is tame stuff."}, {"text": "Disregard the usual mild production values, pat camera setups and choppy editing. However, the usual bizarre characterizations are not present, Bernard Lee is engagingly enthusiastic as the persistent Yard man, and David Knight is occasionally effective in his dual role; but the balance of the cast is lacklustre, without sufficient motivation or eccentricities. Then too, there is little of the gruesome, fast paced action which usually inhabits Wallace pictures. Too much of the story occurs offscreen, especially the key murder sequences. Scripter Mackie and director Davis were just not inventive enough to make this programmer the satisfactory interlude it potentially might have been. Except for Lee's dynamic chomping away to track down the villain, the story lags along too predictably, with no real puzzle for mystery fans seeking a diverting whodunit.\" \"Picture Show\" wrote: \"really gripping entertainment ...a plot packed with red herrings, all kinds of twists, melodrama and romance. And it\u2019s only an hour long. There just isn't time to be bored.\""}, {"text": "Jalal Uddin Talukder (died 25 September 2012) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Mymensingh-12, Netrokona-2 and Netrokona-1 constituencies. Career. Talukder was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-12 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1979. He was elected to parliament from Netrokona-2 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1986. He was elected to parliament from Netrokona-1 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate on 12 June 1996. Death. Talukder was shot dead in his home in Netrokona on 26 September 2012. Personal life. Talukdar was married to Ayesha Khanam. He had a son, Kutubuddin Talukder Royel."}, {"text": "Agnes Nebo von Ballmoos (February 21, 1938 \u2013 March 29, 2000) was a Liberian professor of music, scholar of Liberian folk music, conductor, composer, and lawyer. Von Ballmoos contributed to the preservation of Liberian folk music by collecting and transcribing folk music representing diverse cultural traditions around the country and composing original arrangements of traditional songs. She also taught at the University of Liberia for nearly thirty years, directing the university choir. Under her leadership, the choir gave concerts at venues around the world, performing a varied repertoire which included classical pieces, spirituals, and traditional Liberian music. Early life and education. Agnes Nebo von Ballmoos was born in Grand Cess in Grand Kru County. Her father was Amos S. Nebo and her mother was Grace Nah Tameh Nebo. As a child, she attended the Bible Industrial Academy in Grand Bassa County and Suehn Mission School in Bomi County. She received a scholarship for academic excellence to complete her high school studies at Nannie Helen Burroughs School in Washington, D.C. Von Ballmoos received an undergraduate degree in piano performance in 1959 from the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music. In 1975, she completed a master's degree in ethnomusicology from Indiana University, which she"}, {"text": "attended on a Fulbright fellowship. Her master's thesis examined the social role of folk songs in Liberia. Shortly after completing her undergraduate degree, Agnes married Rudolph von Ballmoos, with whom she had two sons. Their elder son, also named Rudolph, served as Liberia's ambassador to the United Kingdom. Their younger son, DeWitt von Ballmoos, leads Liberia's National Social Security and Welfare Corporation. Career. From 1961 to 1990, von Ballmoos taught music at the University of Liberia, where she was a founding member of the music program. She also conducted the University of Liberia choir. Von Ballmoos introduced traditional Liberian music into the choir's repertoire for the first time. \"Our research began in 1966 with the arrangement of seven songs performed by the University of Liberia choir--the very first time in our history of indigenous songs being performed by our highest institution. The idea thrilled the entire community and we received encouraging letters of congratulations and compliments,\" she wrote. Under her direction, the choir gained international attention for its performances, which included a mixture of classical music, African-American spirituals, and traditional Liberian songs. The group gave concerts around the world, including a 1974 performance at an international choral festival at Lincoln"}, {"text": "Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. It was the only group representing an African country to participate in the festival. Von Ballmoos preserved, transcribed, and recorded folk music from across Liberia's diverse cultural traditions. She was a pioneer in the transcription of Liberian folk songs into written form. She also created original arrangements of traditional songs. In 1989, von Ballmoos received a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Liberia and became a lawyer at a Monrovia law firm. To escape the First Liberian Civil War, she moved to London in 1990. There, she worked as a legal consultant. She died in London in 2000. Legacy. The University of Liberia Alumni Chorus, founded in 2009, performs an annual concert in the United States to celebrate von Ballmoos' legacy and raise money for the music department at the University of Liberia. The 2019 performance took place in Battell Chapel at Yale University. Alumni of the chorus remember von Ballmoos as a leader who expected excellence and who \"taught us everything ... she taught us to appreciate music, she taught us to appreciate African culture, how to dress, how wrap our hair, how to conduct ourselves in public.\""}, {"text": "Alumni of the chorus credit the discipline and commitment that she instilled with helping them survive during the civil war. Von Ballmoos' work also significantly contributed to the preservation of Liberian folk music. In the 1960s and 1970s, when von Ballmoos began her career, traditional music was not highly valued. Her efforts helped increase appreciation of traditional music and culture."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Northern Kentucky Norse men's basketball team represented Northern Kentucky University in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Norse, led by first-year head coach Darrin Horn, played their home games at BB&T Arena in Highland Heights, Kentucky as members of the Horizon League. They finished the season 23\u20139, 13\u20135 in Horizon League play, to finish in second place. They defeated Green Bay and UIC to become champions of the Horizon League tournament. They received the Horizon League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. However, the NCAA tournament was cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous season. The Norse finished the 2018\u201319 season 26\u20139 overall, 13\u20135 in Horizon League play, where they finished as co-regular-season champions, alongside Wright State. In the Horizon League tournament, they defeated Detroit Mercy in the quarterfinals, Oakland in the semifinals, advancing to the championship game, where they faced Wright State, ultimately winning the game, to become Horizon League tournament champions. In turn, they received the Horizon League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, where they lost to Texas Tech in the first round. On April 14, 2019, it was announced that former head coach John Brannen had accepted the head coaching position at"}, {"text": "Cincinnati. On April 23, former Texas assistant Darrin Horn was named as the next head coach. Schedule and results. !colspan=12 style=| Exhibition !colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Horizon League regular season !colspan=12 style=| Horizon League tournament Source:"}, {"text": "Acacia fodinalis 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 reddish coloured and sharply angular branchlets that are resinous when the tree is young. Like most species of \"Acacia\" it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen phyllodes are slightly sickle shaped and taper equally to each end. The glabrous are around in length and wide and have crowded and parallel longitudinal nerves parallel where two or three are more prominent than the others. When it blooms it produces simple inflorescences with a rather open cylindrical flower-spike that has a length of containing yellow flowers. Following flowering linear shaped, brown coloured seed pods for that are raised over seeds and slightly constricted between them. The pods are straight with a length of around and a width of with yellow coloured marginal nerves. The light brown seeds within the pod are arranged longitudinally are around in length and wide with a yellow cupular aril. Distribution. It is endemic to central eastern Queensland where it is found in the upper portion on the Isaac River watershed and"}, {"text": "adjacent parts of the Belyando River catchment where it usually situated on floodplains and riverbanks growing in sandy soils as a part of open \"Eucalyptus\" woodland communities and is mostly associated with \"Eucalyptus crebra\"."}, {"text": "Governor James may refer to:"}, {"text": "Vuka\u0161in Radi\u0161i\u0107 (Serbian \u0412\u0443\u043a\u0430\u0448\u0438\u043d \u0420\u0430\u0434\u0438\u0448\u0438\u045b; Batajnica, Serbia, 1810 \u2013 Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, 15 December 1843) was a Serbian poet, writer, translator, diplomat, and professor of the Greek language. Radi\u0161i\u0107 was one of the first Serbian classical philologists known to have taught poetics. Academic career. After completing his studies in classical languages in Belgrade as well as abroad, Vuka\u0161in Radi\u0161i\u0107 initially taught the Greek language. In 1836, Prince Milo\u0161 Obrenovi\u0107 appointed him a professor of Greek language and poetics in the Lyceum of the Principality of Serbia at Kragujevac, where he also led the choir (\"horovo\u0111a\"). In 1837, he wrote the first Greek school textbook in Serbian, entitled \"Greek Reading Room for Learned Serbian Youth\". In 1840, he published a Serbian translation of the dramatic parody \"Katomyomachia\" (\"\u039a\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03bc\u03c5\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03c7\u03af\u03b1\", \"Cat Mouse War\") by the 12th-century scholar Theodoros Prodromos in the Belgrade journal \"Golubica\". Radi\u0161i\u0107 used the alternative title \"Galeomyomachia\" (\"\u0393\u03b1\u03bb\u03b5\u03bf\u03bc\u03c5\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03c7\u03af\u03b1\") for what was apparently the first modern translation of a secular Byzantine poetry text into Serbian. He also wrote several publications about the Greek scholar Adamantios Korais and other ancient and modern Greek philosophers of antiquity and recent times. Political career. Radi\u0161i\u0107 was Secretary of the Legation of the Principality of"}, {"text": "Serbia at the Sublime Porte (\"kapa\u0107ehaja\") in Istanbul, and a member of the Belgrade Foreign Ministry's secret service. In his \"Istanbul Letters\", Radi\u0161i\u0107 describes how he introduced Micha\u0142 Czajkowski to Toma Vu\u010di\u0107-Peri\u0161i\u0107 and Avram Petronijevi\u0107 when the two Serbian Constitutionalists were in exile in Constantinople. The trio (Czajkowski, Petronijevi\u0107, and Vu\u010di\u0107) conspired to overthrow the Serbian government of the time, but the plan was not executed. Personal life. In March 1842, his daughter Jelena and wife Mara died within nine days of each other, presumably from the same illness (plague). Both were buried in the same grave, in the Church of St. Paraskeva, Istanbul. Following a dynastic \"coup d'\u00e9tat\", as a supporter of the Obrenovi\u0107 dynasty, Radi\u0161i\u0107 was dismissed immediately as secretary on 27 February 1843. Unwanted by the new authorities in Serbia, he remained in Constantinople for a period of time. During this period, he grew close to Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, leader of the Polish government-in-exile in Constantinople. He returned to Serbia in February 1843. His family tragedy and his constant hard work had damaged his health, and he died on 15 December 1843, a few months after returning to Belgrade. He was buried in the central Belgrade cemetery,"}, {"text": "next to St. Mark's Church (near today's Ta\u0161majdan Park). He left 95 of his books at the Lyceum in Belgrade."}, {"text": "Mustafa Kamal Pasha is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Chittagong-3 and Chittagong-16. Career. Pasha was elected to parliament from Chittagong-16 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2008. He was elected to parliament from Chittagong-3 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. Pasha's son was shot and his house was set on fire during clashes between Bangladesh Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists on 24 November 2013."}, {"text": "The 2019 Ford EcoBoost 400 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race that was held on November 17, 2019, at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) oval, it was the 36th and final race of the 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season. Kyle Busch won the race, claiming his second Cup Series championship. Report. Background. Homestead-Miami Speedway is a motor racing track located in Homestead, Florida. The track, which has several configurations, has promoted several series of racing, including NASCAR, the Verizon IndyCar Series, the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series and the Championship Cup Series. From 2002 to 2019, Homestead\u2013Miami Speedway hosted the final race of the season in all three of NASCAR's series: the Cup Series, the Xfinity Series, and the Gander Outdoors Truck Series. Ford Motor Company sponsored all three of the season-ending races, under the names Ford EcoBoost 400, Ford EcoBoost 300, and Ford EcoBoost 200, respectively. The weekend itself was marketed as Ford Championship Weekend. The Xfinity Series held its season-ending races at Homestead from 1995 until 2020, when it was moved to Phoenix Raceway, along with NASCAR's other two series. Championship drivers. Martin Truex"}, {"text": "Jr. was the first of the four drivers to clinch a spot in the Championship 4, winning the first race of the Round of 8 at Martinsville. Kevin Harvick clinched the second spot in the Championship 4, winning the second race of the Round of 8 at Texas. Denny Hamlin clinched the third spot after winning the final race of the Round of 8 at Phoenix. Kyle Busch clinched the last spot in the Championship 4 based on points. Practice. First practice. First practice session scheduled for Friday was cancelled due to rain. Final practice session was postponed to Saturday in place of qualifying also due to rain. Final practice. Kyle Busch was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 31.959 seconds and a speed of . Qualifying. Qualifying for Saturday was cancelled due to rain on Friday. Points leader Denny Hamlin was awarded the pole as a result. Race. Stage results. Stage One \"Laps:\" 80 Stage Two \"Laps:\" 80 Final stage results. Stage Three \"Laps:\" 107 NOTE: On November 27, 2019, NASCAR revised the official race results and penalized four teams\u201415 (Premium Motorsports), 27 (Premium Motorsports), 52 (Rick Ware Racing), and 77 (Spire Motorsports)\u2014with 50-point"}, {"text": "penalties for teams. As all but one of the drivers was ineligible for points, NASCAR assessed the 50-point penalties for teams (as listed), and no drivers were penalized. The four teams were charged with race manipulation. According to NASCAR officials, the match fixing was deliberately aimed to allow the Premium Motorsports No. 27 team to claim the most owner points of all teams not holding a charter, surpassing the Gaunt Brothers Racing No. 96 team in points, which is worth $175,000 more to the team in question. In the scheme, the 15, 77, and 52 teams all pulled their cars off the track early so the 27 could pass the 96 team in points. Race manipulation. A race manipulation scheme late in the race was uncovered by NASCAR officials involving four teams (three chartered, one open) with end-of-season points and financial bonus payments. This was announced on November 27, 2019, by NASCAR's Scott Miller, who explained after reviewing data during the race, including radio communications among drivers and teams, including interviewing various competitors, that they had uncovered a deliberate race manipulation scheme to help teams with financial bonuses. The Premium Motorsports No. 27 team was competing with the Gaunt Brothers"}, {"text": "Racing No. 96 team to be the highest placed non-charter team, enabling them a higher end of season cash bonus for the teams. Heading into the race, the 27 car was 7 points ahead of the 96 car. According to the official NASCAR statement, they had found that the Spire Motorsports No. 77, Rick Ware Racing No. 52, and Premium Motorsports No. 15 and No. 27 teams deliberately manipulated the finish of the race to allow the No. 27 team (an open team) to score more points than the No. 96 team to claim the Open teams championship, and the financial bonus. Before the race manipulation occurred, Chastain was running 38th around 24 laps back and getting close to being passed by Bubba Wallace in the #43 (which did occur) while the 96 car was running in 29th at 5 laps back. If the fix had not occurred, the 96 would have defeated the 27 by a tiebreaker based on the best finish (with the #96 having a best finish of 15th at the 2019 Daytona 500 and the 2019 1000Bulbs.com 500 and the #27 having a best finish of 18th at the 2019 GEICO 500). The No. 15, 77,"}, {"text": "and 52 teams each deliberately parked their cars within a 15-lap span near the end of the race in order to ensure the No. 27 team would score two points instead of one, which would have beaten the No. 96 team by one point in the end-of-season results. Spire Motorsports driver Reed Sorenson was heard ignoring multiple calls to pit on the radio before finally obliging, and the team subsequently retired the car for \"mechanical issues\". NASCAR fined Scott Egglestone (Premium Motorsports) and Kenneth Evans (Rick Ware Racing) $25,000 each and suspended both indefinitely. All three team owners were fined $50,000, and all four cars were assessed a fifty-point penalty. The same day, Spire Motorsports released a statement saying they would not appeal their penalties, while Premium and RWR did not comment. Media. Television. NBC covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and Dale Earnhardt Jr. had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Parker Kligerman, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race. While the race itself aired on NBC, NBCSN aired \"NBCSN NASCAR Hot Pass\", a simultaneous live feed dedicated to each of the Championship"}, {"text": "drivers, with commentary by Leigh Diffey and Dale Jarrett. Also, three different angles from in-car cameras and a track map tracked the driver's position and changes throughout the field. This will be the last time that NBC broadcast the race as this race moves to March and will be broadcast by Fox in 2020. Radio. MRN had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Alex Hayden, Jeff Striegle, and NASCAR Hall of Famer Rusty Wallace called the action of the race for MRN when the field raced down the front straightaway. Dave Moody covered the action for MRN in turns 1 & 2, and Mike Bagley had the call of the action from turns 3 & 4. Winston Kelley, Steve Post, Kim Coon, and Dillon Welch covered the action of the race for MRN on pit road."}, {"text": "Andrew Vincent Corry (September 22, 1904, Missoula, Montana - November 24, 1981 San Diego, California) was a career foreign service officer who was the US ambassador to Sierra Leone from 1964 until 1967. He then immediately served, concurrently, as US ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, until 1970. Education. Corry was born on September 22, 1904, in Missoula, Montana, the son of Arthur Vincent Corry (Snr) and Mary Anne n\u00e9e Armstrong. Corry graduated from Carroll High School in Helena, Montana, in 1922. From 1922 to 1924, he studied at Carroll College (also in Helena) before graduating with an A.B. from Harvard. He studied at Merton College, Oxford, from 1927 to 1930 (A.B. 1929, B.Sc. 1930) as a Rhodes Scholar returning to Montana to earn a M.S. in 1931 from the Montana School of Mines in Butte. Career. Corry joined the Foreign Service in January 1947 as Special Assistant to the Director in the Office of American Republic Affairs. In August that year he was assigned to be Mineral Attach\u00e9 to New Delhi with concurrent assignments, in the same capacity, to Colombo, Karachi, Rangoon and Kathmandu. From 1955 to 1957 he was the Deputy Director of the US Operations Mission,"}, {"text": "as well as the Economic Officer at the American Embassy in Madrid. He then worked as the Consul General in Lahore, Pakistan and as the Coordinator of the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy at the Foreign Service Institute. On January 24, 1964, he was appointed as the US envoy to Sierra Leone and remained at that post until May 19, 1967, where he was subsequently appointed on May 24 as the ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives. He retained that post until he retired on March 21, 1970. Corry died of emphysema on November 24, 1981, in San Diego, California and was buried at Saint Patricks Cemetery in Butte, Montana."}, {"text": "The 2020 Daytona 500, the 62nd running of the event, was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on February 16\u201317, 2020. It was contested over 209 laps\u2014extended from 200 laps due to an overtime finish, on the asphalt superspeedway. It was the first race of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season. The race was started by President of the United States Donald Trump, who served as Grand Marshal, and the opening lap was paced by the official Presidential state car. WWE professional wrestler Sheamus drove the pace car for the opening laps, and Dale Earnhardt Jr., two-time winner of the Daytona 500, waved the green flag to officially start the race. The race was scheduled for February 16, but persistent rain showers caused the race to be suspended on lap 20 and postponed until 4 p.m. the following day, the second time the race has had to be postponed due to rain. The first time was in 2012. This was the final Daytona 500 starts for Clint Bowyer, Reed Sorenson, Brendan Gaughan, Leavine Family Racing, Premium Motorsports, and Germain Racing. Most of the race was cleanly run until lap 185, when The Big One struck, triggering a massive crash involving"}, {"text": "at least 20 cars on the backstretch. The race was red-flagged as a result. Denny Hamlin won the race by 0.014 seconds over Ryan Blaney on the second restart in overtime after Blaney accidentally spun Ryan Newman into the outside wall coming to the finish line. Chris Buescher, David Ragan, and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top five. Newman was immediately rushed to a local hospital after the crash. Two hours later, it was announced he was seriously injured in the crash, but his injuries were not believed to be life-threatening. Newman was released from the hospital on Wednesday, February 19, and would return to racing at the 2020 The Real Heroes 400. In the days that followed, many news outlets credit Newman's miraculous survival of his crash to the safety features implemented by NASCAR following the death of Dale Earnhardt at the end of the 2001 Daytona 500. Report. Daytona International Speedway is a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida that is one of six superspeedways, the others being Auto Club Speedway, Pocono Raceway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Michigan International Speedway, and Talladega Superspeedway. Background. Daytona International Speedway is one of three superspeedways to hold NASCAR races, the other two"}, {"text": "being Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Daytona International Speedway is a four-turn superspeedway that is long. The track's turns are banked at 31 degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at 18 degrees. Practice. First practice (February 8). Ty Dillon was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 44.206 seconds and a speed of . Second practice (February 8). Bubba Wallace was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 45.878 seconds and a speed of . Qualifying. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. scored the pole for the race with a time of 46.253 seconds and a speed of . Bluegreen Vacations Duel. The Bluegreen Vacations Duels are a pair of NASCAR Cup Series races held in conjunction with the Daytona 500 annually in February at Daytona International Speedway. They consist of two races 60 laps and 150 miles (240 km) in length, which serve as heat races that set the lineup for the Daytona 500. The first race sets the lineup for cars that qualified in odd-numbered positions on pole qualifying day, while the second race sets the lineup for cars that qualified"}, {"text": "in even-numbered positions. The Duels set the lineup for positions 3\u201338, while positions 39 and 40 are filled by the two \"Open\" (teams without a charter) cars that set the fastest times in qualifying, but did not lock in a spot in the Duels. For championship purposes, each Duel is a full Championship Stage, except there is no playoff point awarded. The top ten drivers receive championship points. Practice (post\u2013Duels). Third practice (February 14). William Byron was the fastest in the third practice session with a time of 43.991 seconds and a speed of . Final practice (February 15). Joey Logano was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 44.884 seconds and a speed of . Race. Stages 1 and 2. The race was meant to start at 2:30 PM Eastern. But after U. S. President Donald Trump did a couple pace laps in the Motorcade, rain began to fall. Cars were brought down pit road as a result of the rain before the race began and the red flag was shown. The race was red flagged for just over an hour before it was lifted and the race began. Pole sitter Ricky Stenhouse Jr. led"}, {"text": "the first lap of the race. Cars soon quickly began to form a single file line on the high lane where they would be for most of the race until lap 20. On lap 20, the first caution flew for rain once again. This time, the rain continued throughout the day and into the evening. The race would be delayed to the following day for a 4 PM start time. The next day, the track was dried and the cars got back out on track. Cars pitted for fresh tires and fuel. Brad Keselowski was the new leader and he led the field to the restart on lap 26. On lap 29, Aric Almirola took the lead. Keselowski would take it back on lap 31. On lap 39, Ryan Newman took the lead. Almirola would take the lead the next lap where he and Newman were side by side for two laps before Almirola got infront of Newman. On lap 44, Chase Elliott took the lead. On lap 59, the second caution flew and the first for incident when William Byron got turned by Ricky Stenhouse Jr. down the backstretch and ended up hitting the inside wall head on affectively"}, {"text": "ending his day. The race would restart on lap 64 with 2 laps to go in the stage. Chase Elliott would hold off the pack and win stage 1. Denny Hamlin was the new leader and he would lead the field to the restart for stage 2 on lap 72. Soon, most of the pack would once again run single file on the top line. On lap 90, the fourth caution would fly when rookie Quin Houff went to go up infront of Aric Almirola down the backstretch but would get turned across Almirola's nose and hit the outside wall while also collecting B. J. McLeod. Both Houff and McLeod would retire from the race. Denny Hamlin won the race off of pit road and he led the field to the restart on lap 96. The race would stay green for the rest of the stage and Hamlin would hold off the pack and win stage 2. Final stage. Denny Hamlin won the race off of pit road with Chase Elliott in 2nd but Elliott was penalized for carrying equipment out of his pit box as his gas can got stuck and came off out of his box where Martin"}, {"text": "Truex Jr. hit it and this sent Elliott to the back. Hamlin led the field to the restart on lap 136. On the restart, Ryan Blaney took the lead. On lap 137, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. took the lead. Blaney would take it back the next lap. Stenhouse attempted to take the lead on lap 140 but failed to get infront of Blaney. On lap 141, Kyle Busch took the lead. This was Busch's 16th attempt to win the Daytona 500. On lap 149, Brad Keselowski took the lead. With 45 laps to go, Kyle Busch attempted to take the lead but couldn't get infront of Keselowski. Blaney attempted with 43 to go but couldn't get infront of Keselowski. With 37 to go, Joey Logano took the lead. With 35 to go, Aric Almirola attempted to take the lead but couldn't get infront of Logano. With 31 to go, drivers began to make green flag pitstops. Logano pitted and handed the lead to Jimmie Johnson, whose in his final full-time season. With 28 to go, Alex Bowman took the lead from his Hendrick Motorsports teammate. At the same time, Ricky Stenhouse spun off of turn 4 after he slowed to pit"}, {"text": "but got reared by Erik Jones. Stenhouse's hood would come loose during the spin but no caution threw as he was out of harms way. Bowman pitted with 26 to go and after everything cycled through, Kyle Busch was the new leader. With 20 to go, Brad Keselowski took the lead. Unfourtunetly for Kyle Busch, his chances of winning were over as his engine began to expire as smoke began to pour out of the exhaust which slowed him down but continued for a few more laps. With 17 to go, Ryan Newman took the lead. At the same time, the first big wreck would occur down the backstretch and bringing out the 6th caution of the race. It started when Aric Almirola got a big push from Joey Logano and went to bump Brad Keselowski. Almirola hit Keselowski too hard and ended up turning Keselowski infront of the pack and causing a chain reaction wreck that took out 19 cars. The cars involved were Brad Keselowski, Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson, Bubba Wallace, Aric Almirola, Martin Truex Jr., Ryan Blaney, Austin Dillon, Justin Haley, Alex Bowman, Ross Chastain, David Ragan, John Hunter Nemechek, Tyler Reddick, Chris Buescher, Matt DiBenedetto, Brendan"}, {"text": "Gaughan, Joey Logano, and Ty Dillon. Only Keselowski, Johnson, Busch, and Truex would retire from the race as the red flag flew for the wreck that lasted for just over 10 minutes. Kyle Busch retired after the red flag was lifted due to engine trouble. The race restarted with 10 laps to go. With 8 to go, the 7th caution flew when Reed Sorenson and Timmy Hill crashed off of turn 2. The race would restart with 4 laps to go. With 3 laps to go, Denny Hamlin took the lead from Ryan Newman. With 2 to go, the 8th caution flew for the 2nd big wreck in turn 1. Ross Chastain got a monster run and slingshotted past Newman and attempted to pass Ryan Preece but Preece went to block Chastain and made contact with Chastain causing Chastain to go sideways. Chastain's car overcorrected and hit the outside wall head on right infront of the pack and took out more cars with him. The wreck collected a total of 9 cars. The cars involved were Joey Logano, Ross Chastain, Chase Elliott, Ryan Preece, Tyler Reddick, Ty Dillon, Aric Almirola, Christopher Bell, and Michael McDowell. Dillon, Preece, Reddick, Logano, and"}, {"text": "Chastain all retired from the race as the red flag was shown once again for the wreck that lasted for 10 minutes. The wreck also set up overtime. But on the restart, the 9th and final caution would fly when Justin Haley got loose on the restart and ended up hitting both Clint Bowyer and Michael McDowell sending them spinning setting up a second attempt of overtime. Hamlin took the lead on the restart with a big push by Ryan Blaney that sent him far ahead from the pack. Hamlin was able to hold off an attempt from Ryan Newman to keep his lead as they took the white flag. On the last lap, Chase Elliott got turned by Justin Haley coming out of the tri-oval but no caution was flown. Down the backstretch, Newman took the lead with a push from Blaney and Blaney got to second. Blaney still had a chance to win as he got a run on Newman through 3 and 4 with Hamlin pushing him. Coming to the checkered off of turn 4, Blaney peaked to Newman's outside but Newman blocked. Blaney tried to slingshot to the inside but Newman blocked also. Blaney went to"}, {"text": "push Newman to the line and it looked like Newman was gonna hold off and make a surprising win. But Blaney hooked Newman in the right rear causing Newman to spin. Newman spun and hit the outside wall with the left front and driver's side at nearly full speed which sent his car to blowover upside down. Newman skidded on his roof upside down before he was hit in the driver's window by Corey LaJoie which sent Newman's car about 15 feet into the air and barrel rolling through the air before it landed on its roof just before crossing the finish line. His car skidding on its roof past the finish line before it stopped at the exit of pit road on its roof. For the finish, the contact with Newman was able to slow down Blaney's momentum and Hamlin beat Blaney to the line by 0.014 seconds, the second closest finish in Daytona 500 history. Post-race. LaJoie's front end was completely destroyed and caught on fire but LaJoie walked out with no injuries. But Newman was unconscious as he was failing to respond to the crew's questions if he was okay. Rescue crews were there quickly to assist"}, {"text": "Newman. It took nearly 15 minutes for crews to extract Newman from his car as they had to turn his car back right side up and cut the roof off to further assist him. He was rushed to Halifax Medical Center to be further treated. Meanwhile in the immediate post-race, Hamlin and his crew, unaware of the severity of Newman's crash, began celebrating his win and was subsequently booed heavily by the crowd upon exiting his car, both on the infield grass and again in victory lane. Joe Gibbs issued an apology for the team's celebration, with Hamlin saying he was first aware of the accident's severity when NASCAR canceled the recent tradition of interviewing the winner on the front-stretch prior to the car being driven to victory lane. This was Hamlin's third Daytona 500 victory and his second in a row becoming the first to go back-to-back since Sterling Marlin did it in 1994 and 1995. Newman had suffered serious but non life-threatening injuries as he had suffered a brain bruise and was released two days later. He missed the next three races where he was replaced by Ross Chastain and was able to return in NASCAR's first race"}, {"text": "since the COVID-19 Pandemic began. Ryan Blaney, Chris Buescher, David Ragan, and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top 5 while Clint Bowyer, Brendan Gaughan, Corey LaJoie, Ryan Newman, and Kyle Larson rounded out the top 10. Stage Results. Stage One \"Laps:\" 65 Stage Two \"Laps:\" 65 Final Stage Results. Stage Three \"Laps:\" 70 Media. Television. Since 2001\u2014with the exception of 2002, 2004 and 2006\u2014the Daytona 500 has been carried by Fox in the United States. The booth crew consists of longtime NASCAR lap-by-lap announcer Mike Joy and three\u2013time Daytona 500 champion Jeff Gordon. Pit road is manned by Jamie Little, Regan Smith, Vince Welch, and Matt Yocum. 1992 and 1998 Daytona 500 winning crew chief Larry McReynolds and 2010 Daytona 500 winning driver Jamie McMurray provided insight from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte. Radio. The race was broadcast on radio by the Motor Racing Network\u2014who has covered the Daytona 500 since 1970\u2014and simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. The booth crew consists of Alex Hayden, Jeff Striegle, and 1989 Cup Series champion Rusty Wallace. Longtime turn announcer Dave Moody is the lead turn announcer, calling the race from atop the Sunoco tower outside the exit of turn 2 when"}, {"text": "the field races through turns 1 and 2. Mike Bagley works the backstretch for the race from a spotter's stand on the inside of the track & Kyle Rickey calls the race when the field races through turns 3 and 4 from the Sunoco tower outside the exit of turn 4. On pit road, MRN is manned by lead pit reporter and NASCAR Hall of Fame Executive Director Winston Kelley. He will be joined on pit road by Steve Post, Kim Coon, and Dillon Welch."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 PSA Men's World Squash Championship was the 2019\u201320 men's edition of the World Squash Championships, which serves as the individual world championship for squash players. The event took place in Doha, Qatar from 8 to 15 November 2019. Seeds. Mohamed El Shorbagy \"(quarterfinals)\" Tarek Momen (champion) Karim Abdel Gawad \"(third round)\" Paul Coll \"(finalist)\" Simon R\u00f6sner \"(semifinals)\" Diego El\u00edas \"(quarterfinals)\" Mohamed Abouelghar \"(third round)\" Miguel Rodr\u00edguez \"(third round)\" Marwan El Shorbagy \"(semifinals)\" Saurav Ghosal \"(third round)\" Joel Makin \"(third round)\" Omar Mosaad \"(third round)\" Fares Dessouky \"(third round)\" Zahed Salem \"(quarterfinals)\" Gr\u00e9goire Marche \"(first round)\" Daryl Selby \"(first round)\""}, {"text": "The 2020 Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship was originally to be the 20th edition of the Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation (IRIVF). History. The tournament was scheduled to be held in Tehran, Iran from 20 to 27 February 2021. It was originally scheduled to take place in Isfahan, Iran from 21 to 28 June 2020, but was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 14 December 2020, AVC announced that the tournament which was originally the AVC qualifier for the 2021 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic and the top two teams of the 2018 Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship qualified for the 2021 U21 World Championship as the AVC representatives."}, {"text": "Governor Stanley may refer to:"}, {"text": "Carla Lalli Music (born August 15, 1972) is an American chef, cookbook author, and YouTube personality. She was a food editor at large of \"Bon App\u00e9tit\" and was known for her appearances in videos produced for the magazine's YouTube channel, most notably as the host of \"Back-to-Back Chef\". Music left the magazine in 2020 in response to allegations that \"Bon App\u00e9tit\" and Cond\u00e9 Nast Entertainment had engaged in racial discrimination. Biography. Music was born to an Italian-American family, where her mother worked as a food critic at \"New West\" and as a cookbook editor at Simon & Schuster. Music studied at Brown University, where she graduated with a degree in Modern Culture and Media in 1994, and later attended the French Culinary Institute. She worked in food service for over a decade, notably as a line chef and later kitchen manager for Rocco DiSpirito, as the first general manager of Shake Shack, and as an instructor in culinary management at the Institute for Culinary Education. She transitioned to food writing in 2009, and served as an editor for \"Everyday Food\" until 2011. Music was hired as a features editor for \"Bon App\u00e9tit\" that same year, and was later promoted to"}, {"text": "be the magazine's food director. In January 2020, she moved her role to food editor at large to focus on her 2nd cookbook. Music first appeared in videos on the \"Bon App\u00e9tit\" YouTube channel in 2015 and would make regular appearances in recipe preparation videos in the subsequent years. In 2018, Music became the host of \"Back-to-Back Chef\", a web series in which she instructs a celebrity in preparing a dish while facing away from each other and using only verbal instructions. Notable guests on the series have included Natalie Portman, Michael Shannon, and Elizabeth Olsen. The series has been praised for its comedic timing and Music's hosting, with \"Vulture\" calling the \"Back-to-Back Chef\" \"simple, elegant, and absolutely genius.\" Music was also featured in the series \"Test Kitchen Talks\", \"From the Test Kitchen\", and \"Making Perfect\". In August 2020, two months after the resignation of editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport and the subsequent fallout regarding inequitable pay for staff and contributors of color, several members of the Test Kitchen, including Music, announced they would no longer film videos for the \"Bon App\u00e9tit\" YouTube channel due to a continued lack of progress in resolving issues at Cond\u00e9 Nast Entertainment. A cookbook by Music,"}, {"text": "\"Where Cooking Begins: Uncomplicated Recipes to Make You a Great Cook\", was published by Penguin Random House on March 19, 2019. In May 2020, the cookbook earned the 2020 James Beard Foundation Book Award in the category \"General\". Music announced she was working on a second cookbook in October 2019. In November 2020, Music launched her own video series called \"Carla\u2019s Cooking Show\" which is limited to her Patreon subscribers. In December 2020, Music launched a new collaborative Instagram Live series with \"Bon App\u00e9tit\" alumna Molly Baz called \"You Got Snack'd\". Music's second cookbook, \"That Sounds So Good: 100 Real-Life Recipes for Every Day of the Week\", was released in October 2021, along with a new corresponding weekly YouTube series. Each weekly episode features Music cooking a recipe from the book. Personal life. Music resides in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and has two children. She is divorced. She is the daughter-in-law of actor Lorenzo Music, who was the original voice of Jim Davis' comic strip character \"Garfield\"."}, {"text": "Ishay Ribo (; born February 3, 1989) is an Israeli singer-songwriter. A Sephardic Orthodox Jew, he has gained popularity in Israel among Haredi, national-religious, and secular Jewish audiences. He has released five studio albums, two of which have been certified gold and one which went platinum. Early life. Ishay Ribo, born on February 3, 1989 to a traditional Sephardi Jewish family in Marseille, France. His parents also grew up in France, having immigrated from Morocco and Algeria in their youth. His father began to take on more religious observance in France. When Ribo was eight and a half years old, the family made aliyah to Israel, where the family became completely Torah-observant. Early on, they resided in Kfar Adumim, where Ribo attended a national-religious elementary school. After six months he transferred to a Haredi Talmud Torah in Jerusalem. He later studied in yeshivot in Kiryat Sefer and Gilo, the latter program designed for French \"olim\" (immigrants to Israel). Since his marriage he has studied at Midreshet Ziv, an Orthodox kollel in the Sha'arei Hesed neighborhood of Jerusalem. Ribo began working on his first album at Sach HaKol Studios in Jerusalem shortly before enlisting in the Israeli Defense Forces for a"}, {"text": "two-year stint. He served in the Technology and Maintenance Corps, and sang in the IDF Rabbinical Choir during the last six months of his service. Career. Music career. Ribo began singing at age eight; at age thirteen, he began writing, composing, and recording songs at home. Four years later, having composed 100 songs, he learned to play the guitar. Music aficionado Yehuda Meisner was instrumental in discovering him and building his varied and spectacular career. After receiving a slap from Meisner while sleeping in his tour bus, Ribo promptly disassociated himself from Meisner. He had no formal music education. He and his friends formed a band called \"Tachlis\" (Goal) which combined heavy metal rock with religious lyrics. In 2012, Ribo was the first religious singer to take part in the Idan Raichel Project, and performed \"Ohr Kazeh\" (\"A Light Like This\") on Raichel's 2013 album \" Reva LaShesh\" (\"A Quarter to Six\"). He performed \"\"Tochu Ratzuf Ahavah\" at one of Raichel's concerts. In 2014, he performed the song \"Chadeish Sessoni\" on the album \"Simchat Olam\"\" (\"Joy of the World\"), which consisted of songs composed by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh. He was also featured on the album \"Achakeh Lo\" (\"I Will Await"}, {"text": "Him\"), which highlights songs from the Holocaust by The Heart and The Spring band. In August 2019, Ribo performed Amir Benayoun's \"Nitzacht Iti HaKol\" (\"You Won Everything With Me\") alongside Benayoun at a concert in Sultan's Pool, Jerusalem; the music video received more than one million views in its first week of release. In December 2019, Ribo performed Akiva Turgeman's song \"Al Ta'azvi Yadayim\" (Don't Let Go) alongside Akiva at a concert in the Roman amphitheater of Caesarea. On September 3, 2023, (18 Elul, 5783) Ribo became the first Israeli artist to headline Madison Square Garden. The sold-out concert featured appearances from fellow Israeli artists Akiva (Turgeman) and Amir Dadon, as well as a surprise appearance from veteran American Hassidic artist, Avraham Fried. Ribo returned to Madison Square Garden on September 15, 2024. On November 14, 2023, Ribo was one of two Israeli performers who sang at the March for Israel rally in Washington, DC. The event attracted close to 300,000 people, making it the \"largest pro-Israel gathering in history\". Solo singles and albums. In 2014, Ribo produced his debut album, \"Tocho Ratzuf Ahavah\" (\"He Is Filled With Continuous Love\"). The third single from the album, \"Kol Dodi\" (\"The Voice"}, {"text": "of My Beloved\"), earned second place at the 2013 Israel Song Festival. The album was certified gold. In October 2015, Ribo released the first single from his second album, \"Miksha Ahat Zahav\" (\"A Solid Piece of Gold\"), which he wrote in honor of the birth of his second son. In 2016, he released his second album, \"Pachad Gevahim\" (\"Fear of Heights\"). That album too was certified gold. In February 2018, Ribo released the album \"Shetach Afor\" (\"Gray Area\"), which was certified platinum. One of the singles on the album, \"Lashuv HaBaita\" (\"Coming Home\"), easily became Ribo's biggest song in Israel, with its music video logging more than 49 million views on YouTube. Atop this, the song has over 17 million streams on Spotify as of 2023. In 2018, he released \"Nafshi\" (\"My Soul\"), a duet sung with Hasidic singer Motty Steinmetz. Ribo sings his part in traditional Hebrew pronunciation while Steinmetz sings with Hasidic pronunciation. In January 2019, he released the single \"HaLev Sheli\" (\"My Heart\"). On 3 September, the single \"Seder Ha'avodah\" (\"Order of the Service\") was released, a song which describes the Yom Kippur service in the Temple in Jerusalem. These three singles were from his album \"Elul"}, {"text": "5779\", released in September 2019. This album consists of Selichot hymns and songs relating to Yom Kippur, including covers of songs by Shlomo Carlebach and Rabbi Hillel Paley, whom Ribo wishes to introduce to his secular audiences. In March 2024, during the Gaza war, he released the single \"Porchim L'shuvam\", from his fifth album. The full album, \"Sof Chama Lavo\", was released in September 2024, on the 10th anniversary of his first album, in a concert at Madison Square Garden. Ribo performs in concert throughout Israel, both in general venues and for gender-separated Haredi audiences. He often performs with Shlomo Artzi, Omer Adam, , and . He credits the national-religious sector for about 90 percent of his concert appearances. At his concerts, audiences sing the words along with him. Songwriting. Ribo has written songs for Gad Elbaz, Avraham Fried, and . For Elbaz, these include \"Rak Kan\" (\"Only Here\") and \"KeBatechilah\" (\"As In The Beginning\"); future collaborations are planned. Musical style. Ribo's songs focus exclusively on spirituality, faith, and God, a decision he says he made at the age of 14. While his original goal was to sing for religious audiences, according to Jessica Steinberg, writing for \"The Times of"}, {"text": "Israel\", he has attained popularity among secular audiences as well. Though religious songs are generally shunned by secular audiences in Israel, the quality of his music and artistic expression enables him, according to \"Haaretz\" music critic Ben Shalev, to successfully \"bridge the divide\" between Orthodox and secular. Unlike Hasidic music, which sets verses from Tanakh to music, Ribo writes original lyrics, drawing inspiration from a variety of religious sources, including the commentary of Rashi, the teachings of Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe and Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, and ideas he hears in synagogue sermons. He mainly sings in Hebrew. Ribo characterizes his musical genre as \"rock/folk\". He is known for his \"mature\" voice and \"phenomenal stage presence\". Ribo cites as his musical influences Eviatar Banai and Amir Benayoun. Awards and recognition. In 2012, Ribo received an ACUM prize for encouraging creativity. For his debut single (\"\"Tocho Ratzuf Ahavah\") he was named Singer of the Year, Discovery of the Year, and Song of the Year by Radio Galei Israel and \"Maariv\". He also won the accolades of Singer of the Year, Album of the Year (\"Tocho Ratzuf Ahavah\"), and Song of the Year (\"Kol Dodi\"\") from Radio Kol Chai. He was voted Singer"}, {"text": "of the Year 2024 by streaming platform 24Six. In 2017, he performed at the torch-lighting ceremony on Israel's 69th Independence Day. In 2019, he was awarded the Israel Minister of Education's Uri Orbach Prize for Jewish Culture in the field of music. In 2019, Ribo won first place for the Most Views On YouTube In 2019 by an Orthodox Jewish Artist. He won the award by a high margin for the second year in a row. Ribo's official YouTube channel had 224 million views and 212,000 subscribers. This is the second year in the row that Ribo doubled the number of views on his channel within a year. Personal life. Ribo is married to Yael, daughter of Rabbi Avner Tonic, and they have five children. They live in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem."}, {"text": "Darren Erman is an American basketball coach who serves as assistant coach for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Early career. Erman grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. He attended Emory University where he served as student coach, graduating in 1997. After attending law school, he served as a corporate lawyer for Latham & Watkins while maintaining connections to basketball. Soon Erman left the legal industry to serve as assistant coach at St. Anthony High School from 2003 to 2005. In 2005, Erman returned to the NCAA Division III to coach at Brandeis University. Professional career. In 2008, Erman joined the Boston Celtics, helping Doc Rivers lead the Celtics to win an NBA championship in 2008 and the Eastern Conference championship in 2010. Erman joined the Golden State Warriors in 2010 alongside Mark Jackson. On April 6, 2014, it was announced the Warriors had decided to part ways with Erman, citing a \"violation of company policy\" for having secretly recorded conversations between players, coaches, and front office staff. On September 13, 2019, Erman was hired as the head coach of the Maine Red Claws. On November 25, 2020, Erman was hired as an assistant coach for the"}, {"text": "New York Knicks under head coach Tom Thibodeau."}, {"text": "Anthurium forgetii is a species of plant in the genus \"Anthurium\" native to Colombia. Kept in cultivation for its round leaves that lack a sinus and have silver veining, it is thought to be epiphytic."}, {"text": "Betta cracens is a species of gourami endemic to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. It is an inhabitant of freshwater swamp forest. This species grows to a length of , typically inhabits blackwaters that have very soft and very acidic water and is a bubble nest brooder. The Latin term \"cracens\" means \"slender\" or \"elegant\" and is so named because of the fish's slender body. It was first described in 1996 by Heok Hui Tan and Peter K. L. Ng in \"The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology\". The \"Betta Cracens\" have a Labyrinth Organ, a morpho-physiological adaptation that allows them to respirate in air. The Labyrinth Organ is a folded suprabranchial accessory breathing organ and a defining characteristic of fish in the suborder Anabantoidei. It is formed by vascularized expansion of the epibranchial bone of the first gill arch. This adaptation allows these fish to thrive in their harsh habitats."}, {"text": "The K-class ferries were a group of double-ended screw steam ferries run by Sydney Ferries Limited and its government successors on Sydney Harbour. The company introduced more than two dozen of the vessels from the 1890s through to the early 20th century to meet the booming demand for ferry services across Sydney Harbour prior to the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932. The K-names were largely Australian Aboriginal names with their meanings listed in the table below. Design. The K-class were not a group of identical ferries they were delivered in batches of two or three identical sister ships rather they were a general type of vessel that ranged in sized but shared a typical form. They were all double-deck, double-ended screw steamers with two raised wheelhouses and a single tall funnel. Apart from a few early vessels with open upper decks that were later enclosed, the K-class had enclosed upper and lower saloons with lower deck outdoor seating around the vessel, and the upper decks had smaller outdoor areas at either end around the wheelhouses. The boats were all timber-hulled with timber superstructures, except for four later and larger vessels that had steel hulls and timber superstructures"}, {"text": "namely, sisters \"Kanangra\" and \"Kirawa\" (both 1912) and sisters \"Kuttabul\" and \"Koompartoo\" (both 1922). The boats' upper deck sheer or profile line were curved parallel to the hull sheer, in contrast to many contemporary ferries whose upper deck was built straight fore and aft. \"Kareela\" was the first of Sydney Ferries Limited to have upper decks fully enclosed. The earlier K-class vessels, including \"Kurraba\", \"Kirribilli\", \"Koree\" and \"Kulgoa\" had only the sides of their upper decks enclosed leaving the ends open, with the roofs being squared off. On \"Kareela\" and all subsequent K-class vessels had an upper deck structure with curving roof lines that met at the rear of the wheelhouses thus the upper deck saloon was fully enclosed. Sliding doors gave access to the a small unroofed area surrounding the raised wheelhouses. Service history. The ferry trade to the North Shore increased rapidly and consistently from the turn of the century until the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932. The Sydney Ferries fleet became one of the largest in the world - the bulk of which in number and capacity were K-class - and carried 40 million passengers per year by the 1930s. With the opening of"}, {"text": "the bridge, many of the K-class vessels were deemed redundant and were decommissioned. More still were decommissioned following the NSW State Government takeover of Sydney Ferries in 1951. A handful of the K-class ferries (\"Karingal\", \"Karrabee\", \"Kanangra\", \"Kameruka\") were in service until the mid-1980s having been converted to diesel in the 1930s and 1950s. During the launch speech for \"Kaikai\" in 1906, Sydney Ferries acknowledged they were deliberately naming their vessels with Aboriginal words starting with the letter \"K\"."}, {"text": "Al-Nasr Sports, Cultural and Social Club (Arabic: \u0646\u0627\u062f\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0635\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u064a\u0627\u0636\u064a\u060c \u062b\u0642\u0627\u0641\u064a \u0625\u062c\u062a\u0645\u0627\u0639\u064a), also spelled as Al Naser, is a Libyan basketball club based in Benghazi. Founded in 1956, the team has won the Libyan championship three times. Its most recent title was in 2018. Al-Nasr, which was previously funded by the family of Muammar Gaddafi, was featured in the 2013 memoir \"Qaddafi's Point Guard\" by Alex Owumi, who played for the team leading up to the Libyan Civil War in 2011. Honours. Libyan Division I Basketball League: 3 2009, 2017, 2018 Libyan Cup: 3 2009, 2014, 2017"}, {"text": "is a Japanese retired women's professional shogi player who achieved the rank of 2-dan. Women's professional shogi. On April 1, 2022, the Japan Shogi Association announced that Ajiki had met the criteria for mandatory retirement but that the effective date of her retirement had yet to be determined. On July 11, 2022, Ajiki lost to Ayaka \u014cshima in the last round of Class D section of the . The announced the following day that her retirement became official after this loss. Promotion history. Ajiki's promotion history was as follows: Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks."}, {"text": "A House in Bayswater is a 1959 British short television documentary directed by Ken Russell. It was his first BBC film not made for the \"Monitor\" series. The film was selected by Simon Jenkins to appear in the \"BBC 4 Collections\" archive on BBC iPlayer. Outline. A portrait of a five-storey Victorian house in Bayswater, London, and of the people who live there: photographer David Hurn, dance teacher Helen May, painter James Burr, retiree Margaret Croft, wine merchants Tom and Louisa Laden, and housekeeper Mrs Elizabeth Collins. Also features Miss L. Wigan, Miss A. O'Donaghue, Miss A. Sieveking and Mr J. Warren."}, {"text": "Abdul Mannan (12 March 1952 \u2013 13 July 2021) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former member of parliament for Jhenaidah-4. Birth and early life. Abdul Mannan was born Jhenaidah District in 1952. Career. Mannan was elected to parliament from Jhenaidah-4 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 2008. He is the president of the Kaliganj Upazila unit of the Bangladesh Awami League."}, {"text": "Patrick Oketch is a Kenyan actor known for playing Charlie in the Citizen TV drama series \"Mother-in-Law\". He also portrayed Field Ruwe in the 2015 short film \"Intellectual Scum\". Born in 1981 in the Mathare Slums, Patrick is a trained teacher currently pursuing a degree in Theatre Studies and Film Technology at Kenyatta University. He is also a prolific scriptwriter and the script editor for the star-studded show MaEmpress on Maisha Magic."}, {"text": "Watch the Birdie is a 1963 British documentary directed by Ken Russell. It looks at photographer David Hurn."}, {"text": "Governor Haskell may refer to:"}, {"text": "Manga Basket-Ball, also known as Manga BB or simply Manga, is a Gabonese basketball club based in Moanda. The club has been active internationally representing Gabon in the FIBA Africa Basketball League. The team is founded and sponsored by manganese mining company Compagnie mini\u00e8re de l'Ogoou\u00e9 (COMILOG). The club name is derived from manganese, which is the chemical element the company mines. Honours. Gabonese Cup: 1 2019 In international competitions. FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup BAL Qualifiers"}, {"text": "Shahiduzzaman Beltu is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Jhenaidah-4. Career. Beltu was elected to parliament from Jhenaidah-4 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1991, 1996, and 2001. In 2005, he headed a subcommittee of the parliamentary standing committee on LGRD ministry affairs, that investigated former acting chief engineer Fariduddin Ahmed of the Department of Public Health Engineering. In 2008, he was expelled from Bangladesh Nationalist Party."}, {"text": "Philodendron hastatum is a species of flowering plant in the family \"Araceae\". The species has previously been known by synonyms such as \"Philodendron domesticum\" or other names, a confusion made worse by the large degree of morphological variation in this and similar \"Philodendron\"s. Commonly known as the silver sword philodendron, the plant is known for its silvery coloration, especially in juvenile leaves."}, {"text": "K-class ferry may refer to:"}, {"text": "Usthi is a census town and a gram panchayat within the jurisdiction of the Usthi police station in the Magrahat I CD block in the Diamond Harbour subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography. Area overview. Diamond Harbour subdivision is a rural subdivision with patches of urbanization. Only 14.61% of the population lives in the urban areas and an overwhelming 85.39% lives in the rural areas. In the eastern portion of the subdivision (shown in the map alongside) there are 24 census towns. The entire district is situated in the Ganges Delta and the eastern part of the district is a flat plain area with small towns, many in clusters. Location of places in the larger map varies a little. It is an OpenStreetMap, while we are using coordinates as in Google Maps. Location. Usthi is located at . Usthi, Ghola Noapara, Barijpur and Uttar Kusum form a cluster of census towns in the Magrahat I CD block. Uttar Bishnupur, Kalikapota and Bamna are a little away from this cluster. This is as per the map of the Magrahat I CD block on page 445 in the \"District Census Handbook\" for South"}, {"text": "24 Parganas. Demographics. According to the 2011 Census of India, Usthi had a total population of 6,230, of which 3,173 (51%) were males and 3,057 (49%) were females. There were 839 persons in the age range of 0\u20136 years. The total number of literate persons in Usthi was 4,483 (83.167% of the population over 6 years). Civic administration. Police station. Usthi police station has jurisdiction over the Magrahat I CD block. CD block HQ. The headquarters of the Magrahat I CD block are located at Usthi. Infrastructure. According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Usthi covered an area of 1.2378 km2. Among the civic amenities, it had 527 domestic electric connections. Among the educational facilities it had was 1 primary school, 1 middle school, 1 senior secondary school. Transport. Usthi-Sirakol Road links Usthi to the National Highway 12/ Diamond Harbour Road. Education. Usthi KCPM Institution is a Bengali-medium coeducational higher secondary school established in 1924. It has arrangements for teaching from class V to class XII. Shirakole Mahavidyalaya at Sirakol is located nearby. Healthcare. Baneswarpur Rural Hospital, with 30 beds, at Baneswarpur is the major government medical facility in the Magrahat I CD block."}, {"text": "The 2020 BAL Qualifying Tournaments were the inaugural qualifying tournaments of the Basketball Africa League (BAL), the newly launched premier basketball league of Africa jointly organized by the NBA and FIBA. While the NBA will co-organise from the regular season, the qualifiers are completely organised by FIBA Africa. A total of 31 teams from 31 countries participate in the qualifying tournaments in order to determine which six teams will play in the 2020 BAL regular season, along with six directly placed six teams. The qualifying tournaments are divided into the First round and Second round, which run from 16 October until 21 December 2019. Team allocation. A total of 31 teams from 31 countries played in the qualifying tournaments. League positions after eventual playoffs of the previous season shown in parentheses. On 9 October 2019, the official list of participating teams in the qualifying rounds was announced by FIBA. First round. In the first round, thirtytwo teams participate in six groups divided over two geographical divisions (West and East). Groups were selected by geographical criteria. The winners and runners-up of each group qualify for the second round while four other teams were invited with wild cards, chosen by FIBA. The"}, {"text": "first games were played at 15 October and the last on 3 November 2019. West Division. Group A. Venue: Bamako, Mali <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group B. Venue: Cotonou, Benin <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group C. Venue: Libreville, Gabon <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Division West. Group D. Venue: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group E. Venue: Johannesburg, South Africa <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group F. Venue: Antananarivo, Madagascar <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Second round. In the Second Round (also referred to as \"Elite 16\" by FIBA), the sixteen teams that advanced from the first round teams play in four groups of four, divided over two geographical divisions. The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals. Winners of each semi-finals qualify for the regular season while the losers play in a third place game for the final regular season spot. On 7 November, FIBA announced the four wild card receivers. The Division West tournament will be played at the Kigali Arena in the Rwandan city of Kigali. The Division East tournament is played in the Multipurpose Sports Complex in Yaound\u00e9, Cameroon. The Elite 16 will start on 26 November and end 22 December 2019. Qualified teams. The draw was held on 21 November in Abidjan. <section begin=E16 Q/> <section end=E16 Q/> West Division"}, {"text": "\u2013 Group G. Group A. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group B. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Final round. <section begin=Finals Group G />Qualification finals <section end=Finals Group G/> East Division \u2013 Group H. Group A. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group B. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Final round. <section begin=Finals Group H />;Qualification finals <section end=Finals Group H /> \"As retrieved from FIBA.\""}, {"text": "Philodendron billietiae [(bi\u00b7lli\u00b7et\u00b7i\u00b7ae) pronounced \u201cbili \u0259ti\u0101\u201d)] is a hemi-epiphytic species of plant in the genus \"Philodendron\" native to Brazil, Guyana, and French Guiana. A relatively recent discovery in 1995, \"P. billietiae\" is known especially for its distinctive orange-yellow petioles and wavy, ridged leaf edges. History. \"Philodendron billietiae\" was first discovered by Frieda Billiet in 1981 in lowland tropical rain-forest in French Guiana. Living material from the plant was collected and introduced to cultivation in the greenhouses of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium at Meise."}, {"text": "Ben H. Shepherd (born 1970) is a British historian and author who specialises in German military history of World War II. He has authored several books on the German Army of 1935\u20131945. Shepherd holds the position of reader in history at the Glasgow Caledonian University. Shepherd's latest work is \"Hitler's Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich\", published by Yale University Press in 2016. The historian Robert M. Citino describes it as a \"rich and satisfying book\" due to its focus on the operational history of the German Army, as well as on its ideological and criminal aspects. One of Shepherd's prior works, \"War in the Wild East\", focused on the German security warfare on the Eastern Front (World War II)."}, {"text": "Senator Sanford may refer to:"}, {"text": "The 2019\u20132020 Israel Football League season was the 13th season of the Israel Football League. The season began on November 28, 2019 and was scheduled to conclude on March 19, 2020 with IsraBowl XIII. However, after the regular season concluded all games were postponed until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic."}, {"text": "The 2006 election for Mayor of Newark took place in Newark, the most populous city in the state of New Jersey, on May 9, 2006. Newark is organized under the Faulkner Act. Elections for all seats on the nine member Municipal Council of Newark were held the same day. A runoff election, if necessary, would have taken place. Elections in the city are non-partisan and candidates are not listed by political party. Incumbent Sharpe James did not run. Ronald L. Rice, State Senator since 1986 for 28th Legislative District, and Municipal Council member Cory Booker were the main candidates in the field of four. Booker won with 72% of the vote, thus precluding run-off. Rice, the runner-up, received 23%. Candidates. On March 27, 2006, James announced that he would not seek a sixth term, preferring to focus on his seat in the New Jersey Senate. On March 6, 2006, Rice, who had run for mayor in 1998, entered the mayoral race again, noting \"that Mayor James had encouraged him to run but noted that if the mayor decided to join the race, his candidacy could change.\" Booker had become municipal council member in 1998. He ran and lost in the"}, {"text": "2002 mayoral election, his campaign for which is the subject of the 2005 documentary \"Street Fight\". Booker was re-elected in the 2010 election. After winning the October 16, 2013 special election for U.S. senator Booker resigned as mayor; on October 31 of that year, he was sworn in as the junior U.S. senator from New Jersey. In 2020, Booker went on to run for president, ultimately losing the race for the Democratic nomination to Joe Biden."}, {"text": "XHPEEI-FM is a noncommercial radio station on 97.1 FM in Ciudad Acu\u00f1a, Coahuila. It is known as Espacio 97.1 and carries a cultural format. History. On June 10, 2013, Fundaci\u00f3n de la Radio Cultural, A.C., applied for a new permit FM station at Ciudad Acu\u00f1a. The application along with two others by FRC for new social stations in Coahuila was approved by the Federal Telecommunications Institute on November 28, 2018. XHPEEI-FM was the second of the four new Espacio stations to begin broadcasting, doing so on October 18, 2019."}, {"text": "George Sherman Avery Jr. (August 3, 1903 \u2013 August 6, 1994) was an American botanist, expert on plant physiology, and prominent horticulturalist. Biography. Avery obtained his undergraduate degree at Tulane University, and pursued his master's degree from Dartmouth College. He earned his Ph.D. in plant physiology from the University of Wisconsin. In 1931, Avery was brought on as professor of botany at Connecticut College. He was also director of the Connecticut College Arboretum. Avery left Connecticut to head the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) in 1944. Under his direction, the BBG underwent several expansion projects as it acquired more land. In 1945, Avery established the \"Plants & Gardens\" journal. While at the BBG, Avery took an interest in bonsai horticulture. In 1948, he hired Frank Okamura to help him take care of several bonsai housed at the garden, which were gifted by Ernest F. Coe in 1925. Avery began to work on a handbook for the care on bonsai with the help of horticulturalist Kanichiro Yashiroda, entitled \"Handbook on Dwarfed Potted Trees - The Bonsai of Japan\". It was first published in 1953. Avery served as president of the Botanical Society of America in 1957. He left the BBG in 1969."}, {"text": "Sam Maunder (born 22 March 2000) is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for Premiership Rugby club Exeter Chiefs. He also bench-warmed for Blundell\u2019s 1st XV in the Champions Trophy Final in 2018."}, {"text": "Fritas de prasa, also keftes de prasa and albondigas de prasa () are fried potato-leek pancakes common in Sephardic Jewish cuisine. Fritas de prasa have been served by Sephardic Jews on Rosh Hashanah, Hanukkah, Passover since the time of the Spanish Inquisition and forced expulsion of Jews from Spain. Etymology. Tan and Hosking note that \"the name reflects the journey of Sephardic cuisine\". The term \"prasa,\" meaning leek, originates from Greek and has influenced the Turkish word \"pirasa.\" The word \"kofte,\" referring to minced meat, is of Persian origin and is commonly used in Turkish cuisine to denote meatballs. The Spanish word \"albondigas,\" used for meatballs, has its roots in the Arabic term \"al-bunduq,\" which means hazelnut and, by extension, small round objects. It is likely that Jews in Spain adopted this term. Description. Fritas de prasa are similar to a latke. According to Tan and Hosking, this dish \"would be listed among the top five typically Jewish dishes among Turkish Jews.\""}, {"text": "The Indigenous Defence Equipment Exporters Association (IDEEA) is the nodal-agency of the Government of India tasked with handling exports of Indian military equipment. The organisation is based in Delhi. History. The Defence Production Policy of 2018 targeted achieving annual defence exports of Rs 35,000 crore by 2025. The IDEEA was formed to facilitate achieving this. The organisation was formally inaugurated on 18 October 2019 by Bipin Rawat, the acting Chief of Indian Army, who reiterated the target in the presence of Defence Attaches from various countries. Responsibilities. The IDEEA's aim is to make India \u201cone of the top three defence equipment exporters in the world.\u201d It is the nodal-agency tasked with processing all export inquiries from global customers of Indian military equipment. The agency will serve as the interface between Indian military equipment producers and global customers. Organisation. The Indigenous Defence Equipment Exporters Association is a non-profit organisation created under the terms of the Section 8 of the Companies Act."}, {"text": "DreamHaven Press is a small, independent press that publishes mainly books, comic books, and short stories, from the science fiction and fantasy genres. It is associated with the independent bookstore Dreamhaven Books, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Both were founded by Greg Ketter, who is active in the science fiction and fantasy convention fandom community. Since 1993, DreamHaven Press has regularly published hardcovers, softcovers, chapbooks, and assorted other printed materials, notably included fiction and poems by Neil Gaiman, including the short story \"Snow, Glass, Apples\". Although a small press, it remains an important part of the science fiction and fantasy community, by publishing more unusual and less commercial works. Selected publications, by date. Larry Niven, \"Strange Light\" (2010) Peter S. Beagle, \"Strange Roads\" (2008) Gene Wolfe, \"Strange Birds\" (2006) Chapbook, including two stories Greg Ketter (ed.) \"Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores\" (2005) Neil Gaiman, \"Telling Tales\" (2003) Dennis Etchison, \"The Death Artist\" (2000) Jack Cady, \"The Night We Buried Road Dog\" (1998) Neil Gaiman, \"Day of the Dead : A Babylon 5 Scriptbook\" (1998) Martha Soukup, \"The Arbitrary Placement of Walls\" (1997) Dennis Etchison, \"California Gothic\" (1995) Limited Edition Neil Gaiman, \"Snow, Glass, Apples\" (1994) Illustrated by Charles Vess Stephen"}, {"text": "Jones & Neil Gaiman, \"Now We Are Sick\" (1994, reprint 2005) Neil Gaiman, \"Angels and Visitations: A Miscellany\" (1993)"}]