[{"text": "John Derek Llewellyn-Jones (29 April 1923 \u2013 28 November 1997) was an Australian gynaecologist and author. He was an associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Sydney for 23 years. He wrote \"\", the textbook \"Fundamentals of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,\" \"Everyman\" and \"Everygirl.\" He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1964 Birthday Honours. External links. Worldcat listing for Derek Llewellyn-Jones"}, {"text": "In fibers, trilobal is a cross-section shape with three distinct sides. The shape is advantageous for optical reflective properties and is used in textile fibers. Silk fibers' rounded edges and triangular cross section contribute to their luster; in some cases, synthetic fibers are manufactured to mimic this trilobal shape to give them a silk-like appearance. Filaments with a round cross section have less brilliance than trilobal filaments. Etymology. is a combination of the words \"Tri\" for three and \"lobal\" for sides. Objective. Trilobal shape helps in altering hand and increasing the luster. Many synthetic fibres, such as polyester and nylon, are manufactured in Trilobal cross sectional shape for the purpose of enhancing the brilliance and changing the handle. Luster adds aesthetic values in fabrics, contributes to their attractiveness. Occasionally, this adds value to their quality assessment. Use. Synthetic fibers are particularly suitable for specific effects such as crimping and texturizing due to their adaptability during production. Trilobal cross section helps alter texture and several physical attributes such as strength and static properties, in addition to providing brightness to the fibres. The trilobal cross sectional shape helps to reduce manufacturing defects in filaments."}, {"text": "The Wasteland (), also known during the production stage as The Beast (), is a 2021 Spanish horror drama film directed by David Casademunt from a screenplay by Casademunt, Fran Mench\u00f3n, and Mart\u00ed Lucas. The film stars Inma Cuesta, Asier Flores, and Roberto \u00c1lamo. It was released on Netflix on 6 January 2022. Plot. Diego is a boy who lives with his parents in a shack in the middle of nowhere. His mother, Luc\u00eda, is kind, while his father, Salvador, is stern and solemn. One evening, Diego's father tells him about a beast that follows a person around and feeds on their fear. One day, the family finds a badly injured man in a boat. Salvador attempts to heal the man. The man wanders into the shack and picks up a rifle, pointing it at Diego and Luc\u00eda. A gunshot is heard, and the man is seen, shot in the head. While going through his belongings, they find a family portrait. That night, Diego's father tells him about his sister, who saw the beast at their home. Salvador, who cannot see the beast, tells Diego that if anyone spots it, their life becomes hopeless. Salvador decides to go find the"}, {"text": "man's family on his own. Over the following days, Luc\u00eda sees a presence approaching the shack each night; Diego doesn't see it. His mother begins to act erratically and cuts off her hair. She tells Diego that the presence is outside and pushes him out, telling him the beast desires her. Diego forces his way back into the shack and finds his mother badly injured on the floor. He then sees the beast walking towards them. Diego eventually finds enough courage to face the beast; he picks up a gun and shoots at it. He then sets the shack on fire and drags his mother outside. He puts her in a wheelbarrow and wheels towards the river, only to find out that she has died. He floats her body down the river and walks purposefully away. Production. Spanish filmmaker David Casademunt initially conceived the original concept for the film in 2012 and began to develop the idea into a screenplay. In September 2017, the film officially entered development as part of the Sitges Film Festival Pitchbox program, with Casademunt set to direct the project from his own screenplay. Within the following year, the film received backing from Ventana Sur's Blood"}, {"text": "Window pitching program in Latin America and funding from The Madrid Film School. The script was completed by August 2018, and the Toronto International Film Festival invited Casademunt to their Filmmaker Lab for backing and financing. He described the selection as a \"huge prize\" and said that he would create a film that \"could be loved by all audiences\". In February 2020, Spanish production company Rodar y Rodar joined the project as the main producer. Marina Padr\u00f3 of Rodar y Rodar called Casademunt a \"new promise of the Spanish cinema\". Frequent collaborators Fran Mench\u00f3n and Mart\u00ed Lucas were credited as co-writers of the screenplay, and Casademunt described the feature as \"a film about the demons we have inside [and] how these demons transform us into defective adults.\" During a press conference in October 2020, it was announced that Netflix had acquired worldwide distribution rights to the project. Inma Cuesta, Roberto \u00c1lamo, and Asier Flores were cast in lead roles in February 2021. Principal photography began in early February 2021 and lasted until July of that year. Filming predominantly took place in a moorland in the province of Teruel, as well as in the municipalities of Blancas and Villarquemado, with the"}, {"text": "lagoons of Gallocanta and El Ca\u00f1izar serving as shooting locations. Release. The film was set for a world premiere on 11 October 2021 at the 54th Sitges Film Festival, as part of the festival's official selection. It was released on Netflix worldwide on 6 January 2022. Reception. Reviewing for \"Cineman\u00eda\", Miguel \u00c1ngel Romero gave the film 3 out of 5 stars and considered that Inma Cuesta and Asier Flores reflect the delicacy of the human mind. He also pointed out that the film helps in the visibility of mental illnesses at a time when mental health advocacy is paramount. Raquel Hern\u00e1ndez Luj\u00e1n of \"HobbyConsolas\" gave it 68 out of 100 points, considering the atmosphere, the performances, and the musical score to be the best about the film, while negatively assessing that the film features repetitive parts and moments in which the internal logic is compromised."}, {"text": "Ratnayake Mudiyanselage Appuhamy (born 9 January 1930) was a Ceylonese politician. He was the member of Parliament of Sri Lanka from Bandarawela representing the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. He was defeated in the 1977 general election."}, {"text": "Luis Ch\u00e9rrez (born 19 January 1968) is an Ecuadorian former footballer. He played in two matches for the Ecuador national football team from 1993 to 1994. He was also part of Ecuador's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "Bocciardo is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Eduardo Enrique Zambrano Mart\u00ednez (born 21 January 1970) is an Ecuadorian former footballer who played as a midfielder for L.D.U. Quito. He made two appearances for the Ecuador national team in 1993. He was also part of Ecuador's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "Selin Kara (born 20 January 1981) is a Turkish-born chemist and biotechnologist. She is currently a full professor and head of Industrial Biotechnology section at Aarhus University. She studies biocatalysis and has been recognized for her work about deep eutectic solvents and her research regarding cofactor regeneration in biotransformations."}, {"text": "Over The Black Dot is an Indigenous-orientated rugby league program that airs on NITV. The show primarily features discussion and highlights of National Rugby League matches, with a particular focus on Indigenous players and their stories and performances. Hosted by Jodan Perry and featuring analysis from former NRL star Dean Widders and touch football world champion Bo De La Cruz, the program airs at 9:30pm every Tuesday. Format. The format of \"Over The Black Dot\" features highlights and discussion of the previous week's NRL matches, followed by interviews with players and then a preview of the following week's games. The show runs for 30 minutes including advertisements."}, {"text": "Zhao Yibo (; born 14 November 1988) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a defender for Chinese club Dalian Jinshiwan."}, {"text": "Jane Palmer (b. 1946) is an author and illustrator of speculative fiction from the United Kingdom. In addition to novels, she writes short stories and children's picture books. Career. The \"Moosevan\" series, depicting an eponymous alien with the ability to shape-shift visiting Earth, represented Palmer's entry into speculative fiction. The series included \"The Planet Dweller\" (1985), \"Moving Moosevan\" (1990), \"Duckbill Soup\" (2011) and \"Brassica Park\" (2018), and satirizes clich\u00e9s in speculative fiction. The protagonist of the first two \"Moosevan\" books, a woman experiencing menopause, was described by scholar Mary Talbot as atypical for science fiction, and an example of how feminist science fiction writers sought to explore marginalized subjects. Palmer's second novel was \"The Watcher\" (1986), republished in 2008 as \"The Kybion\". It featured an android and some young girls from Earth seeking to protect the fictional planet of Ojal from a threat from Earth. The story is partially told from the point of view of an alien. The Ojalie, or beings of Ojal, are depicted as hermaphrodites, a device Palmer uses to explore how contemporary women combined the role of a mother with a career. They are also depicted as \"parodic in their narcissism\", and have been discussed as"}, {"text": "an example of grotesque female characters in feminist fiction. A commentary in the \"Australian Science Fiction Review\" discussed \"The Watcher\" as an example of speculative fiction published by The Women's Press, which aimed to publish feminist work. The review described the plot arc of \"The Watcher\" as \"adolescent rite-of-passage stuff\", which did \"little to advance the feminist cause\". Palmer's other books included \"The Drune\" (1999), described by the \"Encyclopedia of Science Fiction\" as \"even lighter in tone than \"The Watcher\"; \"The Aton Bird\" (2008); \"Nightingale\" (2008); and \"Hunder\" (2010). In 2013, she also released a collection of stories for adults, \"Short SF Stories, Tales for Technophobe\", and she has written and illustrated children's picture books."}, {"text": "Boscia salicifolia is a deciduous tree with narrowly ovate to linear leaves that grows up to 12 meters in height, it is within the Capparaceae family. Description. It is a dark-grey barked short to medium sized tree with a short but brittle trunk, the bark is often scaly or rough with white lenticels; it sometimes has dropping branches with drooping leaves. Leaves, alternate, with a leathery surface, commonly glabrous above with short fine hairs beneath; leaf-blade is narrowly ovate to linear; petiole is 8-15 mm long. Inflorescence is an axillary raceme or panicle; flowers are green to yellowish in color. Fruit is a spherical berry. Distribution. Occurs in the Sahel and Sudan savannah vegetations of West Africa, eastwards towards Somalia and southwards towards Botswana and Mozambique. Common on termite mounds, dry lands, hills, ironstone and sandy soils. Chemistry. Test on the leaves of the species identified the presence of flavonoid glycosides including, rhamnetin 3-O-b-neohesperidoside, rhamnocitrin 3-0-b-glucopyranoside and rhamnetin 3-0-b-glucopyranoside. Uses. In some parts of Africa, the leaves of \"Boscia salicifolia\" are prepared as a vegetable soup. In traditional medical practice, plant extracts are utilized to help heal wounds, used as a dewormer and as a decoction to treat tuberculosis, joint"}, {"text": "pains and ear infections. Root bark extracts is used as an aphrodisiac."}, {"text": "Marcos El\u00edas Math\u00edas Silva (born 12 May 1970) is a Venezuelan footballer. He played in 18 matches for the Venezuela national football team from 1993 to 1997. He was also part of Venezuela's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "Doolwala Galapitage Hemachandra Sirisena (born 3 January 1914) was a Ceylonese entrepreneur and politician. He served as Deputy Minister of Labour in the Second Sirimavo Bandaranaike cabinet. Having produced fireworks since 1927, Sirisena founded the Kandiyan Fireworks Company in 1935. He was first elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka as first member for Akurana, Harispathuwa representing the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in the 1965 parliamentary election. He was elected the second member for the Akurana electoral district in the 1970 parliamentary election."}, {"text": "Alessia Berra (born 17 January 1994) is an Italian Paralympic swimmer. She won a silver medal in the 100 metre butterfly S13 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Life. She studied at University of Milan. She initially took part in able bodied swimming competitions before switching to Para swimming in 2015. Career. She competed at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships. She made her Paralympic debut representing Italy at the 2016 Summer Paralympics."}, {"text": "Adriana Vilago\u0161 (; ; born 2 January 2004) is a Serbian athlete who specializes in the javelin throw. At the age of 18, she won silver medal at the 2022 European Athletics Championships, becoming the youngest ever European medallist in a throwing event. One year prior, Vilago\u0161 was for the first time the World Under-20 Champion and earned silver medal at the European U20 Championships successfully defending her World U20 title in 2022 and breaking championship and European U20 records in the process. Early life and background. Vilago\u0161 was raised in Mali I\u0111o\u0161 in north Serbia, being of Hungarian descent. She started out when she was a kid by playing handball and throwing a vortex \u2013 a small, egg shaped foam missile with an aerodynamic tail. She has been coached from the beginning by her mother \u0110er\u0111i, originally a handball coach and a public prosecutor. They watched YouTube videos to learn the technique (by men\u2019s world record-holder Jan \u017delezn\u00fd among others). Career. In 2018, only 14, Adriana threw a Serbian under-18 (javelin 500 g) record of 59.69 m, which she improved to 64.73 m a year later. In March 2020, she set a world record under-18 best with a throw"}, {"text": "of 68.76 m in Sremska Mitrovica, breaking 2019 record of Elina Tzengko (65.90 m), her two years older rival from Greece. At the 2021 Balkan Athletics Championships held in Smederevo, Serbia in June, Vilago\u0161 lost only to Tzengko to take the silver medal. This result of their competition was repeated in July at the European Athletics U20 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. On 14 August at the Balkan U18 Championships in Kraljevo, Adriana bettered her world under-18 best with a 70.10 m performance, becoming the first U18 woman in history to break the 70-metre barrier. Just five days later, she beat Tzengko to gold for the first time at the World U20 Championships held in Nairobi, Kenya, setting a national U20 record. Vilago\u0161 also had several performances during the year which were better than Tatjana Jela\u010da's national U23 record of 60.89 m. However, for record purposes Serbian Athletics Federation (SAS) recognizes only the period following the end of athlete's junior eligibility up to the year in which the athlete turns 22-years-old, making Vilago\u0161 eligible for U23 record consideration only during the 2024\u20132026 period. In 2022, the 18-year-old placed in the top three in 15 of her 16 competitions, consistently throwing beyond"}, {"text": "60 metres and finishing ahead of experienced senior opponents. She won for the second consecutive time U23 competition of the European Throwing Cup, triumphed in the Balkan Championships, Mediterranean Games, and captured decisively her second world u20 title at the World U20 Championships staged in Cali, Colombia, setting a championship and European U20 record of 63.52 m. She placed second behind only Tzengko and ahead of great Barbora \u0160pot\u00e1kov\u00e1 at her first senior European Championships Munich 2022. Adriana achieved 11 world's best U20 performances of the season, and was voted World Athletics Female Rising Star of the Year. In 2024 alone she set new national record four times. In October she was awarded the Rising Star trophy at the Golden Tracks awards by the European Athletic Association (EAA), while her mother received Coaching Award. In 2025 she set two new national records at European Throwing Cup in Cyprus (66.88 m) and at Easter meeting in Split (67.22 m)."}, {"text": "Eckart Altenm\u00fcller (born 19 December 1955) is a German physician and musician and one of the leading researchers in the field of neurophysiology and neuropsychology of musicians. Life. Born in Rottweil, Altenm\u00fcller studied medicine in Eberhard-Karls-Universit\u00e4t and H\u00f4tel-Dieu in Paris from 1974 to 1981 and music at the Musikhochschule Freiburg from 1979 to 1985 (mainly flute). After receiving his doctorate in medicine from the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg, he also trained as a specialist in neurology. Since 1994, Altenm\u00fcller has been a university professor and director of the Institute for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. Since 2005, Altenm\u00fcller has been a full member of the G\u00f6ttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2013, he was awarded the . From 2005 to 2011, he was president and vice-president from 2011 to 2018, of the ."}, {"text": "Carlos Jose Garc\u00eda Mijares (born 12 November 1971) is a Venezuelan former footballer who played as a centre-back. He made 23 appearances for the Venezuela national team from 1993 to 1997. He was also part of Venezuela's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "The Hermopolis Aramaic papyri are a group of eight Aramaic papyri thought to be from the late sixth or early fifth century BCE, found in 1945 at Hermopolis. They were first published in 1966 by Edda Bresciani and Cairo University's Murad Kamil. They were discovered in February 1945 in the Ibis temple during Sami Gabra's excavations. The letters are thought to have been sent from Memphis to relatives or friends in Syene or Luxor. They have been widely compared to the Elephantine papyri. They are currently in the Cairo University Archaeological Museum, and are known as TAD A2.1-2.7:"}, {"text": "Sharon Mairead Graham (born 3 December 1968) is a British trade unionist who has been the general secretary of Unite since 26 August 2021. She is the first woman to hold the position. She previously served as the union's executive officer and as head of its organising and leverage department. Early life. Graham was born in Hammersmith in 1968. She is one of four children to a father from Newcastle upon Tyne and a mother from Abbeyfeale, County Limerick. She went to the Sacred Heart High School in Hammersmith. She left school and began work as a silver service waitress at 16, and led her first walkout at 17 in defence of the rights of casual workers. The strike was successful and won her colleagues equal pay. Graham initially intended to go into journalism and she worked for an estate agent. When she was 27, she studied at the Trades Union Congress's Organising Academy. Career. Union official. Graham began working as a national youth and development officer for the Transport and General Workers' Union, which later became Unite the Union in a merger. In 2016, she was working as Unite's director of organising. She was considered a potential candidate in"}, {"text": "the union's 2017 general secretary election, which had been prompted by Len McCluskey's early resignation to seek a new mandate. She ran the union's organising and leverage department, running twelve successful leverage campaigns, which involves taking action beyond the immediate management to company directors, shareholders, investors and suppliers. She led the union's response to British Airways (BA) attempt to fire and rehire staff on worse contracts in 2020. She said that the airline should be stripped of its privileges at Heathrow Airport due to the way it had treated its staff, and that if the behaviour went unchecked then more companies would act in a similar way. More than 280 Members of Parliament pledged to support a review of BA's privileged access to take-off and landing slots at airports. In her role as a union official, Graham also led Unite's campaign to unionise Amazon. In 2021, McCluskey announced his retirement as general secretary of Unite after ten years in the role. The union's left-wing United Left faction held a hustings and ballot to determine a single candidate for the faction, which was won by the union's assistant general secretary Steve Turner. The other participant, Howard Beckett, continued as a candidate"}, {"text": "without the support of United Left. Graham, although also considered to be on the left-wing of the union, ran in the election without seeking the faction's endorsement. She said she was \"not a member of any Unite or Labour faction - other than my own supporters group\". Her campaign was focused on redirecting attention towards workers' rights and workplaces instead of engaging with the internal politics of the Labour Party, of which Unite is an affiliated trade union. After the close of nominations, Beckett withdrew from the election and endorsed Turner. McCluskey also endorsed Turner, and members pressured Graham to withdraw and support Turner to prevent Gerard Coyne, a centrist candidate, from becoming general secretary. Graham declined to do so, and received online abuse for her decision to remain a candidate. Her election campaign was supported by the Socialist Workers Party and the Socialist Party. General Secretary. Graham was elected the general secretary of Unite on 25 August 2021 with 46,696 votes, 37.7% of the votes cast, on a turnout of 10%, and took office on 26 August. In September 2021, she wrote in \"The Guardian\" that Unite should focus more on fighting \"for jobs, pay and conditions\" rather than"}, {"text": "\"hoping for the election of a Labour government to solve our members' problems\". The same month, she warned Keir Starmer that he had \"lost touch with reality\" because of his intention to change the Labour Party leadership election rules. On 9 February 2022, following the controversial treatment of workers at Labour-led Coventry Council, she stated that all remaining Labour funding was \"under review\". Starmer said that the Labour Party would not be \"influenced by threats\". In 2023, Graham's confrontational approach to the Labour Party led to the \"New Statesman\" naming her as the eleventh most powerful left wing figure in the UK that year. Personal life. Graham married Jack Clarke in 2005. They have a son and live in Hammersmith."}, {"text": "Anila Paparisto is an entomologist and taxonomist from Albania, who was appointed in 2021 as Vice Rector for Teaching at the University of Tirana. She is also Professor in Invertebrate Zoology and Teaching Didactics there. Her career began at the university in 1994 and in 2011 was promoted to professor. Her research has focussed on invasive species in Albania, in particular in riverine environments. She is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Albania. She is a board member of the Quality Assurance Agency in Higher Education Board in Albania. Awards. In 2002 Paparisto was awarded a fellowship from the L'Or\u00e9al-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards for her work in molecular biology."}, {"text": "Pomazan is a surname. Notable people include:"}, {"text": "Zhu Mingxin (; born 16 May 1999) is a Chinese professional footballer who plays for Guangxi Pingguo Haliao, on loan from Changchun Yatai, as a defender."}, {"text": "The 2022\u201323 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n (known as LaLiga SmartBank for sponsorship reasons) football season, was the 92nd since its establishment in Spain. Teams. Promotion and relegation (pre-season). A total of 22 teams contested the league, including 15 sides from the 2021\u201322 season, three relegated from the 2021\u201322 La Liga, and four promoted from the 2021\u201322 Primera Divisi\u00f3n RFEF. The first two teams to earn promotion from the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n were Almer\u00eda and Valladolid, who mathematically secured first and second position, respectively, on the very last match day of the season. Almer\u00eda returned to La Liga after a seven-year absence, while Valladolid returned after a one-year absence. The third and final team to be promoted were Girona after winning the play-off final 3\u20131 against Tenerife, returning after a three-year absence. The first team to be relegated from La Liga was Levante, following a 0\u20136 loss to Real Madrid on 12 May 2022, ending a five-year stint in the top tier. The second team to be relegated was Alav\u00e9s, after losing 1\u20133 to Levante on 15 May 2022, ending a six-year stay in the top tier. The third and final team relegated was Granada on 22 May 2022, whose draw against Espanyol on"}, {"text": "the final match day, paired with wins for C\u00e1diz and Mallorca, the final match day, confirmed an end to their three-year stay in the top level. On 16 April 2022, Alcorc\u00f3n became the first team to be relegated from the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n after defeated by Cartagena, ending their twelve-year stay in the second division. The second team to be relegated was Fuenlabrada, who were relegated on 7 May 2022 after being a loss to Real Sociedad B, ending their three-year spell in the second division. The final two sides to be relegated were Real Sociedad B and Amorebieta, both on 21 May 2022; this marked an immediate return to the third tier for the sides after a single season in Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. On 1 May 2022, Racing Santander became the first team to achieve promotion to the second tier after a 2\u20132 draw against Celta Vigo B, securing direct promotion and ending a two-season stint at the third tier of Spanish football. The second team to earn promotion was Andorra following a win against UCAM Murcia on 21 May 2022, entering the second tier for the first time in club history. On 11 June 2022, Albacete and Villarreal B were"}, {"text": "both promoted, after defeating Deportivo La Coru\u00f1a and Gimn\u00e0stic, respectively, in the final of the promotion play-offs. Albacete returned to the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n after a one-year absence, and Villarreal B returned after ten years in the third tier. League table. Positions by round. The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. Season statistics. Zamora Trophy. The Zamora Trophy was awarded by newspaper \"Marca\" to the goalkeeper with the lowest goals-to-games ratio. A goalkeeper had to have played at least 28 games of 60 or more minutes to be eligible for the trophy."}, {"text": "Sergio Hern\u00e1ndez (born 30 January 1971) is a Venezuelan footballer. He played in 30 matches for the Venezuela national football team from 1993 to 1996. He was also part of Venezuela's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "Zhang Kaiming (; born 17 May 1990) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a defender for Dalian Zhixing."}, {"text": "Leonardo Enrique Lupi (born 2 October 1972) is a Venezuelan footballer. He played in two matches for the Venezuela national football team from 1993 to 2000. He was also part of Venezuela's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "Rockfield Lake (Irish: \"Loch Ph\u00e1irc na Carraige\", meaning 'Lough of the Field of Rocks'), also known as Rockfield Lough, is a lake or lough situated between Carrigallen and Killeshandra, two small towns on the northern edge of the Midlands in Ireland. Nowadays, part of the lake is in County Leitrim, which is part of the Province of Connacht, while most of the lake is in County Cavan, which is part of the Province of Ulster. This means that the provincial boundary between Connacht and Ulster now runs through the lough. However, up until the early seventeenth century, all of the lake was considered part of County Leitrim in Connacht. The Cullies River (Irish: \"An Abhainn Dubh\", meaning 'the Black River') flows through Rockfield Lake, entering the lake at its southern end and flowing out of the lake at its north-western end. This small river flows from nearby Cullies Lake, and flows on, via Drumhart Lake, through Rockfield Lake to Glasshouse Lake. Rockfield Lake covers about 94 acres (around 38 hectares) and is just over 36 feet (just over 11 metres) deep at its deepest point, this point being at the southern end of the lake. The surface elevation of the"}, {"text": "lake is 154 feet or 47 metres. Location. Rockfield Lake is situated where South-East Leitrim meets the western part of County Cavan. It is located in the middle of a 'triangle' framed by the following small towns: Killeshandra, a few miles to the north-east; Carrigallen, about miles to the west; and Arvagh, a few miles to the south. The County Leitrim part of the lake lies within both the Barony of Carrigallen and the Civil Parish of Carrigallen, while the County Cavan part of the lake lies within both the Barony of Tullyhunco and the Civil Parish of Killeshandra. The main Killeshandra-to-Carrigallen road, which is part of the R201, runs just to the north of Rockfield Lake. This road passes over Kilbracken Bridge, a stone bridge which straddles the County Cavan-County Leitrim border. Kilbracken Bridge, which crosses the Cullies River, is a short distance north-west of Rockfield Lake. The lake lies within three townlands, one of which is in County Leitrim, the other two being in County Cavan. The entire east and north-east of the lake lies within the townland of Rockfield, also known as Loughnafin, which is part of County Cavan. Most of the northern part of the lake"}, {"text": "lies within the townland of Portlongfield, also part of County Cavan. The western and south-western part of the lake lies within the townland of Aghavore, which is part of County Leitrim. Access and angling. The easiest public access to Rockfield Lake is from a sideroad numbered as the L1524, which runs within County Cavan. This sideroad runs close to the eastern shore of the lake and, together with the L1525, links the townland of Portlongfield with Arvagh. A paved lane leads from this sideroad down to the small public car park on the eastern shore of the lake. Rockfield Lake is quite popular with anglers, with the eastern shore, which is the County Cavan shore, being particularly popular due to its easy public access from the L1524, the aforementioned public sideroad. Portlongfield Lake and Portlongfield Orange Hall. Portlongfield Lake, also known as Portlongfield Lough, is a very small lake immediately to the north of Rockfield Lake. This small lough, which is beside a small wood of trees, is in the townland of Portlongfield in County Cavan, and is separated from Rockfield Lake by a small hillock. Portlongfield Lake is just to the south of the main Carrigallen to Killeshandra road,"}, {"text": "being located between that road and the northern shore of Rockfield Lake. A stream flows into the Cullies River from Portlongfield Lake. Very near Portlongfield Lake is Portlongfield Orange Hall, which was built \"c.\" 1890. This small Orange hall is just to the east of Portlongfield Lake, being just north of the north-eastern 'spur' of Rockfield Lake. The hall, which is also in the townland of Portlongfield, sits along the southern verge of the main Killeshandra-to-Carrigallen road, which is part of the R201. Drumhart Lake. Drumhart Lake, also known as Drumhart Lough, lies a short distance to the south of Rockfield Lake. Drumhart Lake is also a small lake, being much smaller than Rockfield Lake but being considerably larger than Portlongfield Lake. Drumhart Lake is partially in County Leitrim, while the rest of it is in County Cavan. The Cullies River flows through Drumhart Lake \"en route\" to Rockfield Lake. Like Rockfield Lake to its north, Drumhart Lake is divided between three townlands. The County Cavan side of the lake is mainly in the townland of Drumhart, which covers all of the eastern part of the lake, while the southern end of the lake, also part of County Cavan, is"}, {"text": "in the townland of Drumlarney. The County Leitrim side of the lake, which covers the western and north-western part of the lake, is in the townland of Aghavore. Rockfield House. Rockfield House is located on a small hill just above the north-eastern shore of Rockfield Lake. The main gate into the grounds surrounding the house is on the L1524, the sideroad connecting Arvagh with the townland of Portlongfield. This large farmhouse is situated in the townland of Rockfield in County Cavan, and was probably originally built in the early to mid-eighteenth-century. The house is surrounded by the remains of its garden and grounds, while part of the original farmyard also survives to the rear of the house. Now derelict, Rockfield House and its grounds are privately owned and are not open to the public."}, {"text": "Oswaldo Enrique Palencia (born 1 February 1970) is a Venezuelan footballer. He played in 14 matches for the Venezuela national football team from 1993 to 1997. He was also part of Venezuela's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "Oleksii Virchenko (born 30 March 2001) is a Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer. He represented Ukraine at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics. Career. Virchenko represented Ukraine in the men's 100 metre butterfly S13 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and won a silver medal. References. ]"}, {"text": "Danelle Barrett (July 20, 1967 \u2013 August 26, 2024) was an American naval officer who served as a rear admiral (lower half) in the United States Navy. She was one of fewer than 200 women in history to achieve the U.S. Naval rank of rear admiral (lower half). Early life, education, and personal life. Barrett was born in Buffalo, New York, on July 20, 1967. She had three brothers. Barrett attended Boston University, graduating in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts in History. She earned a Masters of Arts in Management, National Security/Strategic Studies, and Human Resources Development. Barrett also graduated with a Master of Science in Information Management. She was married and had one daughter. On June 10, 2020, Barrett was elected to the Board of Directors for KVH Industries. She served on the boards of Progressive Insurance, ShoulderUp, Protego Trust Bank, and Federal Home Loan Bank of New York. She also served as an extra in several movies and TV shows. In 2023, Barrett was diagnosed with brain cancer. She became an advocate for experimental treatments and care, focusing her presence online on mentorship and her life philosophy. Barrett died from glioblastoma on August 26, 2024, at the"}, {"text": "age of 57. Military career. Barrett received her commission as an ensign from the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps in a ceremony aboard the on August 28, 1989. She served tours at U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. 5th Fleet, Commander 2nd Fleet, Carrier Strike Group Two, and as the deputy knowledge manager for Multi-National Force \u2013 Iraq. She also served tours at the Carrier Strike Group 12, which included deployments in support of the Afghanistan-focused Operation Enduring Freedom and the Haiti-focused Operation Unified Response. She worked at the Standing Joint Force Headquarters United States Pacific Command. She also worked as the deputy director of current operations at United States Cyber Command. After being promoted to rear admiral (lower half) on July 10, 2015, Barrett served as director of current operations at U.S. Cyber Command. Barrett's shore assignments included tours at Naval Computer and Telecommunications Stations in Cecil Field, Puerto Rico, and Jacksonville, Florida. Barrett also served as the senior Navy fellow at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, and as the Allied Commander Atlantic Systems Support Center at the Norfolk Naval Personnel Command. She served as the Chief of Naval Operations Task Force Web. The U.S. Navy assigned her"}, {"text": "as the commanding officer of the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic, and later as the chief of staff of the Navy Information Forces Command. In 2017, Barrett became the director of the U.S. Navy Cyber Security Division and Deputy Chief Information Officer on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations. She retired from the U.S. Navy in October 2019. Writing. In June 2021, Barrett published \"Rock the Boat: Embrace Change, Encourage Innovation, and Be a Successful Leader\". It has been on the Amazon Best Seller list in several categories. Barrett also authored and published 35 articles."}, {"text": "Wilson Arc\u00e1ngel Chac\u00f3n Alvi\u00e1rez (born 11 May 1971) is a Venezuelan former footballer. He played in eleven matches for the Venezuela national football team from 1993 to 1996. He was also part of Venezuela's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "The 2020 Summer Paralympics women's tournament in Tokyo began on 25 August and ended on the 4 September 2021. The matches were played at the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza and the Ariake Arena. This was the fourteenth edition of the tournament since the tournament debut at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv. Ten teams were separated into two groups of five with the top four qualifying through to the knockout stage of the competition. The knockout stage started from the quarter-finals and ended with the gold medal match, aside from the classification matches. Qualification. Ten teams qualified through the qualifying stage with the host nation in Japan. The other nine spots were spread out across four different events. Four spots was taken up by European teams, two by the Americas and Asia/Pacific and one in Africa. Preliminary round. 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Career. Heilongjiang Ice City. On 19 April 2023, Zhang Yujie made a permanent move to China League One side Heilongjiang Ice City. Shenzhen Peng City. On 19 January 2025, Zhang Yujie completed a transfer to Chinese Super League club Shenzhen Peng City. On 1 March 2025, he scored his first senior and professional goal in a 1\u20130 away win over Qingdao Hainiu in his first Chinese Super League start."}, {"text": "Mario Pennacchia (10 May 1928 \u2013 24 August 2021) was an Italian sports journalist who wrote for \"Corriere dello Sport\", \"Il Corriere dello Sport\", \"La Gazzetta dello Sport\", \"Il Messagger\u00f2\", and \"Il Giorno\"."}, {"text": "Carlos Alberto Contreras Ara\u00fajo (born 17 August 1972) is a Venezuelan former footballer. He played in ten matches for the Venezuela national football team from 1993 to 1997. He was also part of Venezuela's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "The Padua Aramaic papyri are a group of three Aramaic papyri thought to be from the 400s BCE, found in a collection of antiquities in the Italian city of Padua. The papyri are unprovenanced, but are thought to have been from Elephantine, which would make them the first Elephantine papyri and ostraca to have been discovered (although published much later than most). They were acquired by Giovanni Belzoni in c.1815, together with a demotic letter; Belzoni presented them to the Musei Civici di Padova in 1819. They were first published in 1936 by Luigi Gaudenzio in a group of unrelated documents; they first received scholarly attention after their 1960 publication by Edda Bresciani. They are currently in the Musei Civici di Padova, and are also known as TSSI II 28 and TAD A3.3-3.4. They are considered to form part of the corpus of Elephantine papyri and ostraca; Bresciani wrote as follows: The letter referred to in this publication as \"Papyrus I\" shows that the recipient was in Elephantine, as he begins with greetings at the temple of Yaho in Elephantine. This, if it is not absolutely decisive for affirming that Elephantine is also the place of discovery, nevertheless makes it"}, {"text": "probable. The \"Papyrus III\" still suggests Elephantine, since it reads ... and ... is the term commonly used in the Aramaic Elephantine papyri to indicate the temple of Yaho on the island. In \"Papyrus II\" is mentioned a ..., which therefore bears an Egyptian proper name, frequent and typical of Elephantine where Khnum was the local god. On this basis, I would propose, naturally without absolute certainty, Elephantine, as the possible common place of origin of the papyri."}, {"text": "Rudykillus is the debut album of Nigerian singer Rudeboy as a solo artist. It was released on 5 August 2021. Background. The 12-track album has a running time of 57 minutes. \"Woman\", \"Audio Money\", and \"Reason with Me\" were later added as bonus tracks. The producers includes Chrisstringz (tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11), Sele B (track 4), Orbeat (track 9) and LordSky (track 12). Singles. \"Focus\" was released as a single from the album on 23 July 2021. Reception. Motolani Alake of Pulse Nigeria rated the album 5.0/10 adding that \"across 15 tracks, the album sounds way too familiar. It feels like we've heard it all before.\" Olalekan Okeremilekun of TooXclusive rated the album 7/10 adding that \"many of the songs on this album would have brought out a different taste in sound if there were features on them\""}, {"text": "LOXSAT is a NASA funded cryogenic fluid management demonstration satellite mission. Eta Space is building the payload. It is scheduled to launch no earlier than late 2025 on a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle. Mission objectives. LOXSAT aims to demonstrate on-orbit docking and cryogenic refueling operations using a cryogenic fluid transfer disconnect and latching mechanism developed for depot applications. It will also demonstrate repeated mating/de-mating and the transfer of liquid oxygen. A LOXSAT2 mission is being defined. LOXSAT1 will test technology for Eta's orbital depot \"CryoDock\"."}, {"text": "Luis Manuel Filosa Astudillo (born 15 February 1973) is a Venezuelan former footballer. He played in 30 matches for the Venezuela national football team from 1993 to 2000. He was also part of Venezuela's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "From the late 18th century to the 1860s, various states of the United States allowed the enslavement of human beings, most of whom had been transported from Africa during the Atlantic slave trade or were their descendants. The institution of chattel slavery was established in North America in the 16th century under Spanish, British, French, and Dutch colonization. After the United States was founded in 1776, the country split into slave states (states permitting slavery) and free states (states prohibiting slavery). Slavery became concentrated in the Southern United States. The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves banned the Atlantic slave trade starting in 1808, but not the domestic slave trade or slavery itself. Slavery was finally ended throughout the entire country after the American Civil War (1861\u20131865), in which the U.S. government defeated a confederation of rebelling slave states that attempted to secede from the U.S. During the war, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which ordered the liberation of all slaves in rebelling states. In December 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, abolishing chattel slavery nationwide. The major institution of slavery existed in some parts of the United States for 76 years; from March"}, {"text": "4, 1789, when the United States federal government began to function as a country with its first Congress; until abolished on December 18, 1865. Native American slave ownership also persisted until 1866, when the federal government negotiated new treaties with the \"Five Civilized Tribes\" in which they agreed to end slavery. Some argue slavery continues to exist in other forms by the clauses of the 13th amendment. In June 2021, Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S., became a federal holiday. Background. Chattel slavery was established throughout the Western Hemisphere (\"New World\") during the era of European colonization. During the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), the rebelling states, also known as the Thirteen Colonies, limited or banned the importation of new slaves in the Atlantic Slave Trade and states split into slave and free states, when some of the rebelling states began to abolish the institution. Slavery became an ever more contentious issue in the 19th century, leading to major controversies and compromises, especially with respect to whether new states would be admitted as slave states or free states. American Civil War. The Civil War in the United States from 1861 until 1865 was between the"}, {"text": "United States of America (\"the Union\" or \"the North\") and the Confederate States of America (Southern states that voted to secede: \"the Confederacy\" or \"the South\"). The central cause of the war was the status of slavery, especially whether to allow it to expand into territories acquired after the Mexican\u2013American War. On the eve of the Civil War in 1860, four million of the 32 million Americans (nearly 13 percent) were black enslaved people, mainly in the southern United States. The practice of slavery in the United States was one of the key political issues of the 19th century; decades of political unrest over slavery led up to the war. At the start of the Civil War, there were 34 states in the United States, 15 of which permitted slavery. Before Lincoln took office, seven of these slave states, after conventions devoted to the topic, issued declarations of secession from the United States and created the Confederate States of America. Four more joined them after the war began, and all eleven were represented in the Confederate Congress. The slave states that stayed in the Union \u2014 Maryland, Missouri, Delaware, and Kentucky (called border states) \u2014 continued to be represented in"}, {"text": "the U.S. Congress. Because the Emancipation Proclamation, which was issued on January 1, 1863, applied only to states \"in rebellion\", it did not apply in the border states, nor in Tennessee, because Tennessee was already under Union control. During the war, the abolition of slavery was required by President Abraham Lincoln for the readmission of Confederate states. The U.S. Congress, after the departure of the powerful Southern contingent in 1861, was generally anti-slavery. In a plan endorsed by Abraham Lincoln, slavery in the District of Columbia, which the Southern contingent had protected, was abolished in 1862. The Union-occupied territories of Louisiana and eastern Virginia, which had been exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation, also abolished slavery through state constitutions drafted in 1864. The State of Arkansas, which was not exempt but came partly under Union control by 1864, adopted an anti-slavery constitution in March of that year. The border states of Maryland (November 1864) and Missouri (January 1865), and the Union-occupied Confederate state, Tennessee (January 1865), all abolished slavery prior to the end of the Civil War, as did the new state of West Virginia (February 1865), which had separated from Virginia in 1863 over the issue of slavery. However, slavery"}, {"text": "persisted in Delaware, Kentucky, and (to a very limited extent) in New Jersey \u2014 and on the books in 7 of 11 of the former Confederate states. Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War. Lincoln preceded it with the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, which read: That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. On January 1, 1863, the Proclamation changed the legal status under federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the secessionist Confederate states from enslaved to free. As"}, {"text": "soon as an enslaved person escaped the control of his or her master, either by running away across Union lines or through the advance of federal troops, the person was permanently free. Ultimately, the Union victory brought the proclamation into effect in all of the former Confederacy. Juneteenth. On June 19, 1865 \u2014 Juneteenth \u2014 U.S. Army general Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced General Order No. 3, proclaiming freedom for slaves in Texas, which was the last state of the Confederacy with slavery. Juneteenth has been celebrated annually on June 19 ever since in various parts of the United States. It became a federal holiday in the United States on June 17, 2021, when President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law. It is observed not only to commemorate the emancipation of African-American slaves but also to celebrate African-American culture. During the American Civil War (1861\u20131865), emancipation came at different times to different places in the Southern United States. Large celebrations of emancipation, often called Jubilees (recalling the biblical Jubilee in which enslaved people were freed) occurred on September 22, January 1, July 4, August 1, April 6, and November 1, among other"}, {"text": "dates. Although June 19, 1865, was not the actual end of slavery even in Texas (like the Emancipation Proclamation, General Gordon's military order had to be acted upon), and although it has competed with other dates for emancipation's celebration, ordinary African Americans created, preserved, and spread a shared commemoration of slavery's wartime demise across the United States. Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865. Delaware did not ratify the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery until 1901, the only non-seceded state that opposed the Amendment into the twentieth century. The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified by the 27th of the then 36 states, fulfilling the constitutional requirement of ratification by 3/4 of states, on December 6, 1865. Secretary of State William H. Seward announced the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment on December 18, 1865. The Thirteenth Amendment was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War, the other two being the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Padrone Act"}, {"text": "of 1874. The end of slavery effectively occurred with the federal Padrone Act of 1874 (18 Stat. 251), which was enacted on June 23, 1874, \"in response to exploitation of immigrant children in forced begging and street crime by criminalizing the practice of enslaving, buying, selling, or holding any person in involuntary servitude.\" Brussels Conference and slavery in the 20th century. Since the abolition of slavery in the United States in 1865, efforts have been made to eliminate other forms of slavery. In 1890, the Brussels Conference Act adopted a collection of anti-slavery measures to end the slave trade on land and sea. In 1904, the International Agreement for the suppression of the White Slave Traffic was signed. In 1926, the Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery was ratified. Even after slavery became illegal more than a century ago, many criminal organizations continued to engage in human trafficking and slave trading. For this reason, human trafficking was made a federal crime. In 2000, the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 was signed. Slavery in the 21st century. In 2014, the Human Trafficking Prevention Act was created. It amended the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000"}, {"text": "to require training for federal government personnel related to trafficking in persons. On 12 Dec 2000 the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime was put in charge of implementing the protocol. In 2002, the Polaris Project was founded. Polaris is one of the few organizations working on all forms of trafficking, including both sex trafficking and labor trafficking. It furnishes support for survivors, whether male, female, transgender, or children, and whether U.S. citizens or foreign nationals."}, {"text": "Ricardo Milillo (born 19 September 1969) is a Venezuelan footballer. He played in eight matches for the Venezuela national football team in 1993. He was also part of Venezuela's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "Saga Vanninen (born 4 May 2003) is a Finnish athlete competing in the combined events and the 2025 World and European indoor pentathlon champion. She also won gold medals in the heptathlon at the 2021 and 2022 World Under-20 Championships, and at the 2021 European U20 Championships."}, {"text": "The 2012 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women Division B was the eighth edition of the Division B of the Women's European basketball championship for national under-20 teams. It was held in Klatovy, Czech Republic, from 16 to 26 August 2012. Greece women's national under-20 basketball team won the tournament."}, {"text": "Alexander Echenique (born 11 November 1971) is a Venezuelan former footballer. He played in 17 matches for the Venezuela national football team from 1993 to 1997. He was also part of Venezuela's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "This is a list of Georgian Asia Pacific Screen Awards winners and nominees. This list details the performances of Georgian actors, actresses, and films that have either been submitted or nominated for, or have won, an Asia Pacific Screen Award."}, {"text": "The Abydos Aramaic papyrus, also known as the Madrid Papyrus is an Aramaic papyrus purchased from an antiquities dealer by the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid in 1964. It was first published in 1964 by Javier Teixidor. The papyrus tells the story of two brothers who made a pilgrimage to Abydos, Egypt. Its authenticity was challenged by Joseph Naveh in 1968; this assessment was disputed by Teixidor four years later. The inscriptions reference to the \"7th year of Darius\", assumed to be Darius II, implies a dating of 417 BCE. It is currently on display in the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid. It is also known as TSSI II 29."}, {"text": "Juan Castellanos (born 7 January 1975) is a Venezuelan former footballer. He played in one match for the Venezuela national football team in 1997. He was also part of Venezuela's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "The accessibility of public transport services in Greater London is incomplete. Much of the rail network in London (including the London Underground and London Overground) was built before accessibility was a requirement. Unlike in the United States, Underground stations built in the 1960s and 1970s made no provision for the disabled, with wheelchair users banned from the deep-level tunnels on Underground lines until 1993. From the beginning of the 1980s onwards, accessibility improvements began to be made, with the opening of the accessible Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in 1987 and wider consideration of accessibility needs. Further improvements followed, with the introduction of low-floor buses in 1993, the passing of the Disability Discrimination Act in 1995 and the opening of the Jubilee Line Extension in 1999 \u2013 which provided step-free access at 11 new Underground stations. From 2000, all London taxis were accessible, able to take wheelchair passengers. In late 2005, the iconic, high floor AEC Routemaster buses were withdrawn from service, making London one of the first major cities in the world to have an accessible, low floor bus fleet \u2013 10 years ahead of the national requirement. Since 2000, Transport for London (TfL) has made substantial efforts to improve"}, {"text": "accessibility, with station upgrades and new infrastructure such as the Elizabeth line increasing the number of step-free stations on the TfL network. 93 Underground stations (34%) and 62 Overground stations (54%) have step-free access, with all new Underground stations since 1999 opened as accessible stations. Work to increase the number of accessible stations further is underway. Other transport services such as Docklands Light Railway, Tramlink and the Elizabeth line are fully accessible, with step-free access at every stop or station. Background. As of the 2021 census, 1.2 million Londoners have a disability \u2013 a \"physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities\". The 2021 Census also indicated that there are 1 million people aged over 65 in London, and over 137,000 people aged over 85. The number of older people in London is expected to rise over the next 30 years. Older people are also much more likely to be disabled \u2013 with around a third of Londoners aged 65 and over. In 2012, TfL stated that 4.9 million trips a day are taken by passengers carrying heavy luggage, 1.5 million by people travelling with a small"}, {"text": "child (with buggy) and 0.7 million by those aged over 74. A total of 7.1 million trips a day are made by somebody with at least one of these barriers to mobility. Accessibility of the public transport network allows people to travel freely at a time of their choice. Examples of disabled people that benefit from improved accessibility include people that use a wheelchair, people with limited mobility, people who are blind or visually impaired, people with impaired hearing and people with learning disabilities. Examples of other groups that benefit from improved accessibility include older people, people who have English as a second or foreign language, people with travelling with small children and people travelling with heavy luggage or shopping. Accessibility is more than lifts, ramps and dropped kerbs \u2013 it also includes the consideration of inclusive design, ensuring that communication is accessible to all, and that staff are well trained. TfL also notes their desire to make journeys \"pleasant\", and give people the confidence to travel. History. In the first half of the 20th century, no special provisions for the disabled were provided by London transport authorities. Until 1959, London Transport required blind passengers or disabled people \"wishing to"}, {"text": "travel independently\" to sign an indemnity accepting financial liability from any accident. In 1968, London Underground began using automated warnings for passengers to \"Mind the gap\", as many Underground stations have horizontal and/or vertical gaps between the train and the platform. The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 placed a legal obligation on local authorities to provide access to public buildings for the disabled. However, the Act did not include access to public transport. The Victoria line, completed in 1971, did not consider access for the disabled \u2013 with no lifts provided at stations. For comparison, new rapid transit projects built at the same time elsewhere included facilities for the disabled, with the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), Washington Metro and Tyne and Wear Metro providing lifts from opening in 1972, 1976 and 1980 respectively. In 1973, the Greater London Council began offering London wide concessionary bus fares for pensioners. 1980s. During the International Year of Disabled Persons in 1981, London Transport worked with disability groups to publish an accessible guide to the public transport network for the first time. Chairman of London Transport Peter Masefield expressed a willingness to improve facilities for the disabled, but noted the challenge"}, {"text": "and costs of doing so. In 1982, London Transport permitted wheelchair users to use above-ground sections of deep Tube lines during off-peak hours, having previously relaxed rules to allowing wheelchair passengers to use the District, Circle and Metropolitan lines. This allowed wheelchair users to use 70% of the network, though travel through the deep-level tunnels was still prohibited over fears wheelchairs could hinder emergency evacuation. Following the London Regional Transport Act 1984, London Regional Transport (LRT) was obliged to provide public transport services for the disabled. The London Transport Unit for Disabled Passengers was set up in 1984. This body worked throughout LRT to ensure that public transport became more accessible over time, as well as helping to train staff in offering assistance. New LRT buildings were built with the disabled in mind \u2013 with Harrow bus station including a disabled toilet and dropped kerbs in the design. LRT promised that future rail and bus station renovation and modernisation work would take into account the needs of the disabled and those with impaired sight or hearing \u2013 with the introduction of hearing loops at ticket offices (which transmits audio to hearing aids), installation of better platform seating and improved public"}, {"text": "announcements. Training was also introduced for staff on how to help passengers with disabilities. In the early 1980s, Dial-a-Ride services were introduced by local boroughs across London to provide door-to-door transport for the disabled. Dial-a-Ride was expanded London-wide by 1985, subsidised by a grant from London Transport initially costing around \u00a35 million a year. In November 1984, LRT began trialling bus routes that used buses specifically designed to cater for those with disabilities. These routes would later become \"Mobility Buses\". From 1986, the design of regular buses was also modified, with non-slip handrails, illuminated stopping signs and additional steps at bus doors to reduce the step height \u2013 making it easier to access the bus. In 1988, kneeling buses were trialled on route 42 \u2013 the modified Leyland National bus had air suspension that lowered at bus stops to give a significantly reduced ground clearance. By 1988, buses that operated the \"Airbus\" routes to Heathrow Airport had been modified to allow two passengers in wheelchairs. In 1986, the Greater London Association for Disabled People (GLAD) pushed for \"a radical reappraisal\" of accessible transport in a report \u2013 with over 465,000 Londoners unable to (or find it extremely challenging) to use"}, {"text": "public transport. GLAD considered that the ban on wheelchairs on the Underground should be reconsidered, and criticised the removal of bus conductors as it has \"eliminated much of the personal assistance available\" to disabled people. LRT responded by welcoming the evidence the GLAD report provided, while pointing out the high cost of delivering accessibility improvements in light of limited funds. In 1987, the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) opened, serving 16 stations across Docklands and East London. The DLR was the first major railway infrastructure project in Britain where full access for the disabled was considered from the start, with level access into the train from platforms and lifts at all stations. Although wheelchairs were permitted on many parts of the Underground, and that some stations were already accessible due to their level access, the LRT Board decided that the ban on wheelchairs at deep-level sections of the Underground would continue for safety reasons. In 1987, the MCW Metrocab became the first accessible black cab model in London. From February 1989, all newly licensed black cabs were required to be able to take a passenger in a wheelchair. 1990s. In the early 1990s, Campaign for Accessible Transport \u2013 led by disability"}, {"text": "rights groups such as the Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN) \u2013 was set up to protest and lobby for increased access to public transport. For many disabled people, the only public transport option available was Dial-a-Ride, as buses were not accessible. DAN protesters blocked buses on Oxford Street, Trafalgar Square and other locations across London by handcuffing or chaining themselves to buses, as well as placing themselves in the path of buses and refusing to move. On several occasions in 1994 and 1995, during the consideration of the Disability Discrimination Act, protesters handcuffed themselves to a Routemaster bus by the Palace of Westminster. In October 1992, the rebuilt Hillingdon tube station was the first station to have lifts for disabled access included in its design. From 1 October 1993, wheelchair access on the deep level Tube lines was permitted for the first time, following changes to London Underground's conditions of carriage. It was estimated that around 40 stations were accessible, however obstacles such as gaps between trains and platforms remained. Research by London Transport suggested that a step-free Underground would raise ridership by around 5%. London Underground applied for Millennium Commission funding to make five existing stations on the"}, {"text": "Jubilee line accessible, stating that they wanted to \"add access for the disabled, and people with pushchairs and heavy shopping\". This funding did not materialise. Stationlink, the accessible bus route connecting central London mainline railway stations with each other was relaunched in 1993, replacing the Carelink branding. The hourly bus service used midibuses fitted with wheelchair lifts, allowing accessible connections across London at a lower cost than a taxi. Work to make buses more accessible continued in the 1990s, with low-floor single decker buses trialled and tested on various bus routes across London from 1992. In 1993, route 88 became the first in London to use kneeling buses, making access easier. In 1994, route 120 became the first bus route in the United Kingdom to solely use accessible, low-floor buses. From 1996, significant numbers of low-floor single decker buses were ordered by bus operators, replacing older high-floor buses. In 1998, route 242 became the first low-floor double decker route in London. Low-floor buses were gradually rolled out on bus routes across London, with over 900 in service by 1998, and the last high-floor bus entering service in 1999. In 1995, the Disability Discrimination Act was passed. This required that London"}, {"text": "Transport make \"reasonable adjustments\" to anything that makes it unreasonably difficult for disabled people to use services like the Underground and buses. However, laws preventing discrimination on transport would not come into force until 2005. The Disability Discrimination Act was later absorbed into the Equality Act 2010. In June 1998, Heathrow Express, an airport rail link connecting Heathrow Airport and London Paddington opened, with level access to the trains at stations. In 1999, the Jubilee Line Extension opened as the first major extension of the Underground in 30 years. During the design stage of the extension in the early 1990s, it was agreed that lifts would be provided at stations so that access for the disabled would be provided. The opening of the extension significantly increased the number of accessible Underground stations, with 34 lifts provided across the 11 stations, providing step-free access from street to train. Although the architecture was praised, disability campaigners noted concerns regarding the lack of colour contrast, and slight gaps between the train and the platform. A spokesperson for the Underground admitted that \"not enough attention was paid to the needs of the disabled\" during the design of the extension, and promised efforts to improve"}, {"text": "colour contrast in stations. London Transport also expressed their desire to increase the number of accessible stations over time. 2000s. In 2000, Ken Livingstone was elected the first Mayor of London, and Transport for London (TfL) was founded as part of the formation of the Greater London Authority (GLA). The Greater London Authority Act 1999 obliged the GLA to promote \"equality of opportunity\" for all. The London Transport Unit for Disabled Passengers was subsumed into TfL. TfL outlined the changes and improvements it wished to make to the transport system to make it more accessible \u2013 including more low-floor buses, adding step-free access to key Tube stations and improving Dial-a-Ride. On 1 January 2000, non-accessible London Taxis were no longer permitted to be used, and the fleet became fully accessible. In May 2000, Croydon Tramlink opened after several years of construction. Serving Croydon and surrounding areas of South London, it was the first modern tram project in London, with low-floor trams and low platforms allowing accessibility for all. Mayor Livingstone was initially supportive of retaining the iconic, yet high floor AEC Routemaster buses and their conductors, reintroducing 49 refurbished buses into service. However, Livingstone decided to replace them with low-floor"}, {"text": "buses, following a campaign by disabled rights groups, the large number of people injured by falling off the open rear platform and a realisation of the difficulty of trying to use high-floor buses with his children. In March 2003, Peter Hendy, then managing director of Surface Transport for TfL noted that the implementation of a low floor, accessible bus fleet was a higher priority than keeping the historic Routemaster buses. Despite criticism from the media and the public, remaining Routemaster services were consequently replaced from August 2003 onwards by low-floor double decker or articulated \"bendy\" buses. The last Routemaster buses were replaced with low-floor buses in December 2005. The last services were greeted by crowds of bus enthusiasts, as well as disability rights protesters welcoming the withdrawal. By early 2006, all London bus routes were fully accessible \u2013 10 years ahead of the national requirement \u2013 thanks to the largest low-floor bus fleet in the world. Disability campaigners welcomed the low-floor buses, but noted that further improvements were required \u2013 as they experienced buses that did not get close enough to the kerb, broken wheelchair ramps and inaccessible bus stops. In 2002, TfL published \"Unlocking London for All\", with plans"}, {"text": "to make the Underground more accessible, with a core network of accessible tube stations. It proposed that with more than 100 stations would be made step-free by 2020 (around 35 per cent of the network). Maps were also made available, indicating where lifts were present on the network. In May 2003, line diagrams on Jubilee line trains began using a wheelchair pictogram to denote stations with step-free access. At the Mayor's Disability Capital Conference in December 2003, the Commissioner of Transport for London Bob Kiley stated that TfL wanted to \"aggressively\" improve access, including making half of the 280 Tube stations accessible by 2015. In April 2004, London Underground was warned by disability campaigners that individuals could take legal action if efforts to improve accessibility did not take place. Disability Rights Commission noted that it would much prefer accessibility improvements rather that taking London Underground to court. TfL also expressed their desire to \"make 25 per cent of Tube stations step-free\" by 2010, and to 50 per cent by 2015. TfL later revised their target to achieve \"one third of Tube stations [to] have step-free access by 2013\". In March 2005, TfL launched a \"baby on board\" badge for pregnant"}, {"text": "travellers \u2013 to help other passengers to offer them a seat. In July 2005, London was awarded the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the candidature file noting that a constraint was the lack of accessibility at all London Underground stations. Accessibility improvements were planned at stations that would serve Games venues, including Green Park, Southfields and Stratford stations. In December 2005, the DLR was extended to serve London City Airport, adding four new accessible stations in the Royal Docks. In 2006, Department for Transport published the Railways for All Strategy, which set out the government's desire to improve access to the rail network for disabled people. The strategy included the \"Access for All\" programme, which provides funding to make existing National Rail stations accessible. Two major railway interchange stations \u2013 Clapham Junction and Lewisham \u2013 were among 15 selected for accessibility improvements. In 2007, TfL established the Independent Disability Advisory Group, with disabled people providing recommendations to TfL as a critical friend. In October 2007, dial-a-ride fares were abolished, at a cost of \u00a3700,000 a year. In December 2007, TfL was given an award by disabled rights organisation Breakthrough UK, for TfL's work on making transport in London more"}, {"text": "accessible. Accepting the award, Mayor Livingstone paid tribute to the disabled groups who campaigned for accessibility. Following work to make the bus and taxi fleets fully accessible, Mayor Livingstone noted that TfL were \"addressing the far more expensive and longer term job\" of making the Underground fully accessible. Following tests and trials, London buses were fitted with the iBus system, giving audio-visual announcements of bus stops and other information to passengers. The completion of the iBus installation in 2009 was welcomed by The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, who stated that the announcements give \"confidence to use the bus network\". The association noted that they were working with other campaign groups to push for announcements on buses across the UK. The Royal National Institute for Deaf People criticised TfL for relying \"too much on audible information\", with TfL responding that substantial investments were being made to improve public transport for disabled people. Between 2003 and the late 2000s, the infrastructure of London Underground was maintained by Tube Lines and Metronet as part of a public\u2013private partnership (PPP). Outside of a few major projects (such as Wembley Park), station refurbishments delivered as part of the PPP included minor accessibility improvements"}, {"text": "such as fixing stairs, visual contrast and the installation of tactile paving. London Underground began undertaking accessibility audits, to ensure that minor accessibility improvements were delivered alongside other works to stations. In 2007, Metronet collapsed following a spending overrun \u2013 with TfL subsequently cancelling accessibility improvements and station upgrades due to high costs. In March 2008, TfL began installing \"wide aisle\" ticket gates at stations across London at a cost of \u00a312 million, improving access for wheelchair users, older people and people travelling with small children and/or luggage. The wide ticket gates would replace manually operated gates, with London Underground stating new gates will \"enable and promote independent access\". The installation followed trials at three stations in 2006, where disabled passengers stated that the wide gates \"made them feel more equal\" to other passengers. By 2014, wide ticket gates had been installed at 180 stations across the Underground network. In May 2008, Boris Johnson was elected as Mayor of London, with Johnson subsequently cancelling many projects proposed by the previous Mayor. The target of 33 per cent of step-free tube stations by 2013 was dropped, with the TfL Business Plan calling it an \"unfunded commitment made by the previous administration\"."}, {"text": "TfL subsequently deferred installation of step-free access at 21 stations, including at stations where construction had already started at a cost of \u00a320 million. One example was at Baker Street, where TfL decided that step-free access at the station was \"not critical to the ... transport plan for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games\". The cancellations were criticised by disability campaign groups such as Transport for All. Explaining the decision to stop work, Mayor Johnson blamed the recession, the collapse of Metronet as well as unfunded promises made by previous Mayor Ken Livingstone. Subsequently, the target of 25 per cent of tube stations being accessible by 2010 was missed. In 2008, the refurbishment of Shepherd's Bush tube station as part of the opening of the Westfield London shopping centre in West London did not include the installation of lifts as originally planned. Explaining the cancellation of step-free access at the station, TfL cited high installation costs of \u00a3100 million due to the poor ground conditions and underground utilities which would have to be diverted. It later emerged that \u00a339 million had already been spent on the installation of lifts at the station when the decision was taken to cancel. Leader"}, {"text": "of Hammersmith and Fulham Council Stephen Greenhalgh criticised TfL, stating that \"it is inconceivable in the 21st century that you would revamp a station without putting in step-free access\". Following decades of discussions on the merits of the project, construction work on the Crossrail project began in 2009, with an estimated project cost around \u00a316 billion. New stations would be built with step-free access, and some stations would be rebuilt to add step-free access to existing lines. However, some of the existing above ground stations would not be rebuilt with step-free access. 2010s. In April 2010, the East London line extension opened as part of London Overground, with four new accessible stations in east London. In September 2010, work to expand and rebuild King's Cross St Pancras tube station was completed at a cost of \u00a3810 million. The project included ten new lifts allowing step-free interchange between six Underground lines, access to street level as well as to Kings Cross and St Pancras railway stations. In May 2011, lift installation work was completed at Clapham Junction railway station, bringing step-free access to the busiest National Rail station in the UK for interchanges between services. In November 2010, the London Assembly"}, {"text": "published a report on transport accessibility in London, detailing current issues and providing recommendations for TfL and the Mayor of London. The report detailed that a large amount of the transport network is inaccessible, with just 61 of 270 tube stations and around one-third of London's 300 railway stations having step-free access, and around half of London's bus stops meeting accessibility criteria. The report also stated that many Londoners with \"reduced mobility live in areas where there is least provision\" and that \"the number of Londoners with reduced mobility is set to rise\". The report recommended that TfL and the Mayor should invest in improving accessibility (such as making more stations step-free), and consider short term, low cost enhancements (such as manual ramps at Underground stations and involving people with disabilities when training bus drivers). Transport for All welcomed the report, stating that it highlights \"relatively inexpensive, simple steps that can be taken\" to improve travel for disabled people. TfL denied it was \"foot dragging\", stating that improvements to accessibility were already underway and that the bus network was the \"most accessible ... in the UK\". TfL stated that recommendations of the report would be examined, but noted financial constraints"}, {"text": "limited what it could deliver. A report on behalf of disability charity Scope detailed that \"almost half\" of disabled people experience discrimination on public transport. It also reported that nearly 40 percent of disabled Londoners \"felt they had been discriminated against by a bus driver\", and 32 per cent of disabled Londoners felt they'd been \"ignored by a taxi or bus they were trying to hail\". Scope criticised the \"backdrop of negativity\" regarding disabled people, noting that discussions regarding welfare reform had \"focused on disabled people as benefit scroungers\". Transport for All said that the report showed why accessibility improvements needed to be more than removing physical obstacles, and that improved training of staff was required. In 2011, the conceptual New Routemaster bus was criticised by Transport for All, noting that the wheelchair area was too small. Prior to the introduction of the bus, TfL made changes to improve the design, including repositioning seats and hand poles to improve access to the wheelchair space. TfL admitted failing to consult with disabled groups on the design. In 2012, the first phase of the Thameslink Programme (improvements to a north\u2013south rail link across central London) were completed, with step-free access provided at"}, {"text": "Farringdon and Blackfriars tube stations. During the 2012 London mayoral election campaign, Labour candidate Ken Livingstone pledged to make one-third of the stations on the Tube accessible, by targeting stations in outer London. Mayor Johnson criticised the proposal, calling it \"unfunded\". Johnson was re-elected as Mayor of London in May 2012. In the summer of 2012, London hosted the Olympic and Paralympics Games, with TfL calling the transport network \"one of the most accessible in the world\". Record numbers of passengers used the transport network, over 30% more than usual \u2013 however the media did report challenges for some wheelchair users. The fully accessible DLR was singled out for praise, as it served both the Olympic Park and other competition venues in east London. During the Games, the DLR transported double its usual number of passengers. As part of preparations for the Games, organisers LOCOG and the Olympic Delivery Authority worked on an accessible transport strategy, as well as making substantial accessibility improvements to transport infrastructure including step-free access at Green Park, Heathrow and Stratford stations. Manual boarding ramps at Tube stations were kept following the Games, with TfL also stating that the Paralympics had made it change its approach"}, {"text": "to disabled users. An investigation by Channel 4 showed that a target set by TfL in 2006 to achieve \"one third of Tube stations [to] have step-free access by 2013\" had been missed, with 66 stations (around 24 per cent) being accessible instead of the promised 90. TfL reiterated that it had been an \"unfunded aspiration of the [Mayor Livingstone] administration\", and that TfL had to manage severe financial constraints following the recession and collapse of the Tube PPP. TfL was further criticised when it was shown that step-free access investment would fall to zero in 2013, with Transport for All criticising a \"lack of a ring-fenced budget for step-free access\", commenting that \"disabled people are denied a fundamental freedom: to travel as equal citizens\". In December 2012, TfL announced an \u00a318 million investment to make 95 per cent of London bus stops accessible over the next three years. In 2013, a new bridge at East Croydon railway station (the busiest National Rail station in London outside of fare zones 1 and 2) was opened, bringing step-free access to all platforms at a cost of \u00a322 million. In July 2013, Transport for All began campaigning to ensure step-free access at"}, {"text": "all Crossrail stations. It staged a protest on the one year anniversary of the Paralympic Games opening ceremony, being joined by other groups such as Disabled People Against Cuts. Transport for All stated \"it is no longer acceptable for disabled and older people to be locked out of their local station\" and that accessibility could be delivered \"for as little as 0.2% of the ... [Crossrail] budget\". An early day motion was also tabled by Ilford South MP Mike Gapes to push for the accessibility improvements. London's Transport Commissioner Mike Brown replied that TfL aim to make all Crossrail stations accessible, and that \"work is underway [for] solutions and funding options\" for the seven stations without step-free access. In October 2013, TfL announced that four Crossrail stations in London (Seven Kings, Maryland, Manor Park and Hanwell) would be made accessible at a cost of \u00a319 million, thanks to cost efficiencies and reallocated budget. In November 2014, HM Government announced that they would provide \u00a314 million in funding for the remaining three Crossrail stations (Langley, Taplow, Iver) to be made accessible. Transport for All called the announcements an \u201camazing campaign win\u201d. In 2014, campaign groups and trade unions expressed concerns regarding"}, {"text": "planned closure of Tube ticket offices, voicing fears that it would make transport for disabled people more difficult. BBC News reported staff shortages meant that tube lifts were closed 162 times in 2013, with staff shortages tripling in number since 2009. Further information showed that lifts at Westminster station had been closed 99 times due to lift failures, with data showing the lifts along the Jubilee line were \"particularly badly hit\" by failures. Transport for All noted concerns that staff cuts would exacerbate these lift closures. Despite strikes from trade unions, ticket office closures began in 2015 with TfL reiterating that all stations would remain staffed and staff would be more visible and available to assist passengers. In October 2014, Paralympic champion and wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft challenged Mayor Johnson to spend a day in a wheelchair, claiming \"wheelchair access on the tube is so bad\" the Mayor would not be able to attend all his appointments. Mayor Johnson declined the challenge, responding that he knows that the \"picture for disabled people travelling in the capital is far from perfect\". He thanked Cockroft for her efforts to highlight accessibility challenges, and asked TfL to work with her to understand her"}, {"text": "specific challenges. Johnson later announced a \u00a375 million fund that would be used to match contributions from local councils and property developers to deliver step-free access at stations. In March 2015, Pimlico tube station was chosen to be the test site station for \"Wayfindr\", an app that helps visually impaired people navigate their way through the station using iBeacon devices. The trial was successful, which subsequently led to a \u00a3700,000 grant from Google, and the app was installed at other stations. In October 2015, the first inclined lift on the Underground was installed at Greenford, adding step-free access to the station. In April 2016, a report by Muscular Dystrophy UK showed that it takes disabled people four times longer to complete common journeys on the Underground, with the report criticising the lack of accessible stations in central London. In May 2016, Sadiq Khan was elected Mayor of London, promising to \"improve accessibility at rail and tube stations\", consider accessibility when developing and maintaining the transport network, and ensure that transport workers \"understand the needs of disabled and older passengers\". Following the election, the Mayor announced a \u00a3200 million investment in transport accessibility to make an 30 additional stations step-free over"}, {"text": "a 5-year period. Campaigners strongly welcomed the announcement, calling it a \"victory\" and noting it would help families to travel around London. In 2017, TfL began offering a \"Please offer me a seat\" badge for people with hidden disabilities, following the success of the \"baby on board\" badge introduced in 2005. Following research that showed that people did not give up seats to those who needed it, TfL began encouraging passengers to look for others who may need their seat. On some Underground and Overground trains, priority seating was enhanced with moquette that indicated it was a priority seat. TfL began providing disability equality training for its staff in 2017, and began providing \"distinctive and separate\" accessible signage for passengers in 2018. In an interview with \"Construction News\", TfL noted their increasing awareness that accessibility is more than just making stations step-free \u2013 noting that the passenger experience for someone with autism, or someone with a visual impairment or someone with mobility issues will be very different. TfL also noted that they have moved away from the \"bare minimum of building regulations\" and were working with disabled groups. TfL did caution that upgrading existing stations (particularly older ones) was challenging,"}, {"text": "owing to underground utilities and lack of space. In the late 2010s, three major construction projects to expand and upgrade tube stations in central London were completed after years of construction. This projects included the addition of step-free access at all three stations. Work at Tottenham Court Road tube station was completed in February 2017 at a cost of \u00a3500 million, with five new lifts. Work at Bond Street tube station was completed in November 2017 at a cost of \u00a3300 million, with four new lifts. Work at Victoria tube station was completed in October 2018 at a cost of \u00a3700 million, with seven new lifts. In 2018, the Department for Transport published a report that outlined Government plans to make transport more inclusive and easier for disabled people. It set a goal that the UK's transport system will offer \"equal access for disabled people\" by 2030, with \"assistance if physical infrastructure remains a barrier\". In August 2018, chair of the London Assembly Transport Committee Caroline Pidgeon criticised Crossrail for building the central stations at a non-standard platform height of . This would only allow step-free access from the new Class 345 Aventra trains at the central London and Heathrow"}, {"text": "stations, with accessible ramps required to access the train at stations outside London. Pidgeon stated that this lack of level boarding would make \"journeys for people with disabilities unnecessarily complicated and burdensome\". Following delays and cost overruns of the Crossrail project, TfL announced that the planned upgrade and expansion of Camden Town tube station (including the provision of step-free access) had been cancelled. Research in 2019 showed that the average cost of adding step-free access to a station in London was around \u00a310 million, significantly cheaper than American cities like Boston and New York City, but more expensive than European cities like Madrid and Berlin. In January 2019, the High Court of Justice found that London Underground discriminated against a disability campaigner, by failing to provide enough information on which lifts were working. The judge ruled that London Underground should make this information more widely available. London Underground apologised, acknowledged that \"there's more to do\" and stated that staff were now able to report broken lifts to the control centre. In March 2019, disability rights activist Alan Benson criticised the pace of improvements to transport accessibility since the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and that disabled people must keep"}, {"text": "fighting for their right to travel on public transport. Benson praised the positive outcomes of training TfL in inclusion and designing for accessibility. TfL expressed their willingness to listen to criticism and suggestions, while noting that the lack of government funding made widespread improvements difficult. In May 2019, research showed that journeys in London take around twice as long for wheelchair users. 2020s. In early 2020, works at Twickenham railway station to rebuild the entrance and provide step-free access was completed, after the initial deadline of the 2015 Rugby World Cup was missed. In March 2020, the London Assembly published a report on accessible and inclusive transport in London, detailing issues and providing recommendations for TfL and the Mayor of London. The report detailed that travel for disabled people and older people is harder because of existing barriers, and that when a lift is broken or routes are unavailable, it \"[exacerbates] the problems experienced\" \u2013 making journeys longer or leaving people stranded. The report therefore recommended significant improvements to communication, including real time information about step-free access and staff assistance. The report also criticised the \"inconsistent and unreliable\" Dial-a-Ride and Taxicard services, recommending that TfL undertake a review to identify"}, {"text": "improvements. Other recommendations included that TfL should use disabled and older people to inform the planning and design of infrastructure and services in future, and that TfL, Network Rail and other transport operators work together on standardised training on disability, equality and inclusion. TfL subsequently launched a consultation regarding priorities for step-free access \u2013 querying if limited funds should be spent on installing step-free access at one complex station in central London, or at several small or medium-sized stations outside central London. The results of the consultation was published in 2022, with respondents noting that more accessible stations would lead to more journeys, and that they wished large \"gaps\" in the network without any step-free station to be filled. Respondents also noted stations that should be made step-free, including interchanges and stations in town centres. In 2020, following a collapse in income due to the COVID-19 pandemic, TfL paused design work on future step-free access at Northolt, Burnt Oak and Hanger Lane stations. The planned upgrade and expansion of Holborn station (including the provision of step-free access) was also cancelled. These delays and cancellations were criticised by Transport for All, with TfL responding that the pandemic had a \"catastrophic impact"}, {"text": "... on TfLs finances\". Delays to the completion of the Crossrail project were also criticised, with one wheelchair user noting they had specifically moved to Woolwich in anticipation of the opening of Crossrail. In 2021, the Northern line extension to Battersea was opened, adding two new accessible stations in Zone 1. Disability campaigners criticised the new stations, with Alan Benson stating that the lifts were too small and like a \"squeezed-in afterthought\". TfL apologised, stating that they were taking feedback onboard and making changes. London Assembly Member Si\u00e2n Berry called the failings \"disappointing\", and Scope called the project a \"missed opportunity\". In 2022, TfL data showed that staff shortages at some stations were \"repeatably\" causing step-free access to be unavailable. Campaigners feared that passengers were \"wrongly being told that [lifts] were faulty\", however TfL insisted that it \"always correctly announces the reason\" if step-free access is not available. In May 2022, the central section of the Elizabeth line (built as the Crossrail project) was opened, with 10 new stations in central and east London. All these stations included step-free access from street to train, with interchange stations such as Whitechapel also being made step-free. By May 2023, the Elizabeth line"}, {"text": "had been extended to the east and west \u2013 construction work included adding lifts and ramps to any non-accessible station on the route, however non-standard platform heights mean that level boarding is not possible at these outer stations and manual boarding ramps are required to board trains. Campaigners praised the effort that had gone into the design of the line, noting the \"copious number of lifts\" \u2013 however, the lack of level boarding at the outer stations was criticised. Concern was also raised that the future Old Oak Common station (to be built as part of the High Speed 2 project) would not have level boarding when it opens in the 2030s. In February 2023, works to upgrade and expand Bank tube station was completed at a cost of \u00a3700 million. This included step-free access to the Northern line, and improved access to the DLR. Owing to the severe curvature of the Central line platforms, there is a substantial gap between the train and the platform. Because of this, no step-free access works were proposed for the Central line, as the cost would be prohibitive and it would be difficult for passengers to use. In April 2023, step-free access works"}, {"text": "to the National Rail platforms at Finsbury Park station was completed, following completion of step-free access for the Underground station in 2019. In July 2023, TfL announced the next batch of stations that could become step-free, depending on available funding. TfL also noted they were working with developers to fund step-free access schemes when development occurs adjacent to stations. In November 2023, a \u00a3249 million project to expand and upgrade Gatwick Airport railway station were completed, with five new lifts improving access to and from the airport terminals. In December 2023, \u00a343 million of Levelling-up funding to upgrade Colindale and Leyton stations was confirmed by the Government, with both stations gaining step-free access. In February 2024, TfL published a new plan to make the transport network more inclusive and accessible. Commitments in the plan included increasing the number of stations with step-free access, adding priority seating moquette to buses, consideration of making communications available in British Sign Language and feasibility work into increasing public toilet provision. TfL announced that a pilot of \"mini ramps\" at stations had been successful, and that they would be rolled out to over 45 stations on the network. These \"mini ramps\" bridge where a small"}, {"text": "step or gap remains between the train and the platform. In August 2024, TfL announced that step-free feasibility work had begun on a further batch of stations. This included Colliers Wood and Tooting Broadway, following work to understand how best to make stations on the Northern line in south London accessible. London Underground. Stations. , 93 London Underground stations (34%) are accessible from street to platform level. Boarding ramps and raised platform humps are available at stations to allow access to the train where level access is not provided. Step-free access is provided by using lifts, inclined lifts, level access and ramps as appropriate for each station. All stations on the network feature minor accessibility features such as tactile platform strips, audiovisual passenger information, wide ticket gates, clear signage and help points with hearing loops. Stations with large gaps between the train and the platform warn passengers with the iconic \"Mind the gap\" announcement. Because many older stations are deep below ground and were built before accessibility was a consideration, it is often difficult and expensive to install lifts into existing Underground stations. Many older stations such as Covent Garden station do have lifts, albeit with intermediate staircases to access"}, {"text": "the ticket hall or platforms. Consequently, these stations are not accessible, despite the use of lifts. Some stations have not required work to make them step-free \u2013 for example, the level access from street into Kew Gardens station, or the direct platform access from the lifts at the historic Caledonian Road station. The practice, where certain stations would have some signs are modified has been criticised as \"messing around\" and as \"thoughtless PR stunts\" by Transport for All, a disabled transport organisation. In some cases this has been done in order for TfL to raise money, but in other cases this has been done for other reasons. Examples of this type of temporary name change are: In recent decades, major efforts have taken place to improve accessibility across the Underground, with the Jubilee line extension having lifts from opening in 1999, and key interchange stations such as King's Cross St Pancras, Victoria and Green Park becoming step-free. Future accessible stations. As part of the High Speed 2 project, Euston and Euston Square stations are to be made accessible. In 2023, TfL announced that nine stations had been shortlisted as the next stations to be made step-free, depending on available funding."}, {"text": "These stations are Alperton, Arnos Grove, Burnt Oak, Eastcote, Finchley Road, North Acton, Rayners Lane, West Hampstead and White City. In 2024, TfL announced that step-free feasibility work had begun on a further seven stations \u2013 Colliers Wood, Croxley, East Finchley, Neasden, Northwood, Tooting Broadway and Turnham Green. Rolling stock. Since 1999, all new Underground rolling stock has had to comply with accessibility regulations that require such things as access and room for wheelchairs, and the size and location of door controls. All Underground trains are required to comply with the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non Interoperable Rail System) Regulations 2010 (RVAR 2010) by 2020. All rolling stock has automated audio-visual station announcements. Newer rolling stock like the 2009 Stock and S Stock have a wide range of accessibility features including: National Rail. London Overground. , 62 London Overground stations (54%) are accessible. Accessible Overground stations are usually only accessible from street to platform, with wheelchair ramps used to access the train owing to a variety of platform heights in the UK. Step-free access is provided by using lifts, level access and ramps as appropriate for each station. All stations feature minor accessibility features such as audiovisual passenger information, wide ticket"}, {"text": "gates, clear signage and help points with hearing loops. TfL works closely with infrastructure manager Network Rail to add step-free access to London Overground stations, seeking funding from the Department for Transport \"Access for All\" programme as well as from London boroughs and property developers. Elizabeth line. All 41 Elizabeth line stations are accessible from street to platform level, with 13 stations (in central London and at Heathrow Airport) having level access between trains and platforms. Boarding ramps are available at stations to allow access to the train where level access is not provided. Step-free access is provided by using lifts, inclined lifts, level access and ramps as appropriate for each station. All stations on the network feature minor accessibility features such as tactile platform strips, audiovisual passenger information, wide ticket gates, clear signage and help points with audio induction loops. National Rail. The majority of railway stations in London are managed by train operating companies, with several major stations managed by Network Rail directly. Accessible National Rail stations are usually only accessible from street to platform, with wheelchair ramps used to access the train owing to a variety of platform heights in the UK. In 2006, Department for Transport"}, {"text": "launched the \"Access for All\" programme, which provides funding to make existing stations accessible, as well as providing minor accessibility improvements. TfL works with London boroughs to bid for \"Access for All\" funding for National Rail and Overground stations in London. New National Rail stations (such as Brent Cross West, which opened in 2023) use accessible ramps or lifts to provide step-free access to platforms. Rolling stock. Since 1999, all new National Rail trains have had to comply with accessibility regulations that require such things as access and room for wheelchairs, and the size and location of door controls. All trains are required to comply with the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non Interoperable Rail System) Regulations 2010 (RVAR 2010) by 2020. All rolling stock used in London has automated audio-visual station announcements. Newer rolling stock like the Class 378 (as used on London Overground) and Class 345 (as used on the Elizabeth line) have a wide range of accessibility features including: Future accessible stations. Work is ongoing to deliver step-free access at these London Overground and National Rail stations: In May 2024, Bushey, Dalston Kingsland, Gunnersbury, Kew Bridge, Kidbrooke, Raynes Park, South Croydon and Upminster gained funding for Access for All"}, {"text": "feasibility work. Docklands Light Railway. The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is an automated light metro that serves the London Docklands and surrounding areas of East London. From opening in 1987, the DLR has been fully accessible, with lifts and ramps providing step-free access at all 45 stations. The network has been extended multiple times, most recently in 2011. Other accessibility features include level access from street to train, tactile platform strips, priority seats on board trains for those who need them, dedicated wheelchair spaces on board trains and audiovisual announcements of stations. The system was praised during the 2012 Summer Paralympics for its high level of accessibility to venues in East London. London Trams. London Trams is a light rail system that serves Croydon and surrounding areas of South London, which opened as Croydon Tramlink in May 2000. The system has been accessible since opening, with low platforms, tactile paving and level access from platform to tram. Accessibility features on board the low-floor trams include wheelchair spaces, audiovisual announcements of stops and emergency intercom. Buses. London Buses was one of the earliest major users of low-floor buses in the UK, with the first low-floor single decker vehicles entering service in"}, {"text": "1993 and the first low-floor double decker vehicles entering service in 1998. Following withdrawal of older, high-floor vehicles such as the AEC Routemaster, the bus fleet became fully accessible at the end of 2005, 10 years ahead of the national requirement. London was one of the first major cities in the world to have a fully accessible bus fleet. As well as being low-floor, accessibility features of buses in London include: Mobility Buses. In the 1980s and 1990s, when many bus routes in London still used the high-floor Routemaster bus, London Transport ran several Mobility Bus routes for people who found the high floor buses difficult or impossible to use. Running to key destinations like shops, hospitals or railway stations, Mobility Buses were fitted with a wheelchair lift for accessibility. A circular 'Stationlink' route ran in Central London, connecting London mainline railway stations with each other. Following the introduction of London-wide Dial-a-Ride services and replacement of high-floor buses with accessible low-floor buses in the early 2000s, Mobility Buses routes were progressively withdrawn, despite criticism. , there is only one Mobility Bus route in service. Accessible bus stops. Bus stops need to be accessible to allow passengers to access the bus"}, {"text": "safely. TfL defines an accessible bus stop as one with: In recent years, TfL has worked with local boroughs to increase the number of accessible bus stops from less than 30% in 2008, to 80% in 2015 and 95% in 2019. Improvement work by London boroughs and London Streets also improves access to bus stops, by providing dropped kerbs and tactile paving at crossings. Bus stop bypasses. Since 2013, TfL has been building bus stop bypasses (sometimes called floating bus stops) along major roads to improve safety \u2013 a bus stop bypass is when a cycle lane is built behind the bus passenger boarding area, separating people cycling from vehicle traffic. These originated in the Netherlands in the 1950s, and are used across Europe, the United States and in other cities in the UK. TfL has been criticised by the National Federation of the Blind of the UK and other groups for building them, stating that they are dangerous for blind and partially sighted people. London Assembly Member Caroline Russell stated her support of the design, due to the \"overwhelming\" evidence that bus stop bypasses had reduced the number of people killed or seriously injured. TfL stated that they have"}, {"text": "carried out a review, and that bus stop bypasses are significantly safer than previous road designs. Taxis and private hire vehicles. Taxis. The London Taxis fleet has been fully accessible since 1 January 2000. Drivers are obliged to carry wheelchair passengers, passengers with guide dogs, and other mobility impaired passengers at no extra cost. Drivers must also assist passengers where requested \u2013 to enter or leave the vehicle, or to load luggage. From 2017, taxi or private hire vehicle drivers that refuse to pick up wheelchair passengers can be fined up to \u00a31000, as well as losing their operating licence. The first accessible black cab available in London was the MCW Metrocab, introduced in 1987. From February 1989, all newly licensed vehicles were required to be able to take a passenger in a wheelchair. Modern taxis such as TX1 or the electric LEVC TX have a range of accessibility features including a boarding ramp, oversized entry doors, an audio induction loop and high contrast grab handles. Private hire vehicles. There is no obligation for private hire vehicles (PHVs) (such as Uber) in London to be accessible, with 0.7% of PHVs in London being wheelchair accessible. However, many providers have wheelchair"}, {"text": "accessible vehicles that can be hired. PHVs are also obliged to carry passengers with guide dogs. In 2015, Gett announced a partnership with Assist-MI, an app which assists disabled users in interacting with services and communicating their needs to service providers. In 2015, Uber extended its uberASSIST scheme to London, designating certain drivers as being specifically trained to help users with disabilities. In 2016, Uber extended its uberWAV scheme to London, launching a fleet of vehicles designed to be accessible to be accessible to wheelchair users \u2013 WAV stands for \"wheelchair accessible vehicle\". In March 2017, the name of uberWAV changed to uberACCESS. In 2017, Uber faced a licensing ban by TfL, which was criticised as negatively affecting blind users, who would be able to use the Uber app to request a driver, but struggle to hail a traditional taxi. Pedicabs. Pedicabs in London have been criticised as being discriminatory towards disabled people, and for being largely unregulated. TfL launched a consultation for regulations under the Pedicabs (London) Act 2024. The regulations would put pedicabs on a similar basis to taxis and private hire vehicles but would be specific to the market in which pedicabs operate, according to TfL. Air"}, {"text": "travel. London is served by six major airports, with high quality public transport connecting them to the city itself. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) publish an annual accessibility report, ranking every major airport in the UK. In 2022, London City Airport has been praised for its accessibility provision. In 2023, Stansted Airport was rated as \"very good\" for its services for disabled passengers. In 2018, Southend Airport was classified as \"very good\" for accessibility, and was described as the most accessible airport in London and the southeast. In 2022, London Luton Airport was singled out by the CAA as providing poor service for passengers with reduced mobility and unlike other airports in the United Kingdom, it did not improve its performance across the year. In 2022, Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport was criticised for not providing enough for support for disabled passengers, to the point where certain disabled passengers missed a connecting flight. In 2023, a report by the CAA described improvements at Heathrow, but also considered that the airport still needed accessibility improvements. The CAA acknowledged that \"targets were routinely met in Terminal 2 and Terminal 4 even as there was lower performance at Terminal 3 and Terminal 5\"."}, {"text": "London cable car. The London cable car has step-free access, with space in each gondola cabin for pushchairs, wheelchairs and mobility scooters. Staff can slow or stop the boarding process to allow easier access for passengers. River boats. All piers operated by London River Services have step-free access. River boats operated by Thames Clippers have wheelchair spaces, audio-visual announcements and accessible toilets. Dial-a-Ride and Taxicard. London Dial-a-Ride provides door to door, accessible community transport for people who are unable to use public transport services such as the bus, train or Tube. Membership is available to people with long term or permanent disabilities or health problems. Originally run by London boroughs and funded by London Transport, the scheme has been run and funded by TfL since 2002. In 2019, there were around 40,000 members of the scheme. The 'Taxicard' scheme provides subsidised taxi and private hire journeys for Londoners with serious mobility or visual issues, with around 60,000 members registered to the scheme. Originally funded by the Greater London Council, the scheme is now run by London Councils. Active travel. Pedestrian access. Pavements in several boroughs have been criticised for being inaccessible due to cracks and other degradations. Cycling. Low traffic"}, {"text": "neighbourhoods have allowed for the improvement of accessible cycling infrastructure. Public hire schemes. Dockless bicycle hire schemes have been criticised for blocking streets and therefore making pavements in certain areas of London inaccessible. Electric bicycles in London are largely unregulated and in 2023. TfL called for electric bicycles to be put on a similar regulatory basis as electric scooters. In November 2024, TfL stated that it was considering taking action against the operators. Currently it is up to individual councils to handle enforcement. Santander Cycles. Santander Cycles is a public bicycle hire scheme in London. In 2022, electric bicycles were added to Santander Cycles. This was praised by Wheels for Wellbeing, a disability charity, because it would make the scheme more accessible. Driving. Disabled parking permits. The blue badge scheme provides cheaper and simpler access for disabled people when parking. Four London boroughs \u2013 Westminster, City of London, Kensington and Chelsea, and part of Camden \u2013 have exemptions from the blue badge scheme. A consultation was held for Bromley to begin to charge holders of blue badges, but the policy was dropped. A new system was introduced at Finchley Memorial Hospital, where users with a blue badge would have to"}, {"text": "register every time they use it. The annual number of blue badge thefts in London increased from 1,230 in 2014 to 6,415 in 2023. Shopmobility. Some local authorities offer Shopmobility, where people with mobility issues or older people can borrow wheelchairs or mobility scooters to access shops in town centres or shopping centres. Shopmobility often works in conjunction with blue badge parking located close to shops as well as working with Dial-a-Ride. Tolls and road charges. Dartford Crossing. The firm who manages the Dartford Crossing, Conduent, has been criticised for not responding promptly, and the responses that they do give being inaccessible to disabled people. The scheme is managed by National Highways. Holders of blue badges are only exempt from being charged if they do not pay vehicle tax. Congestion charge. The London congestion charge has a discount for holders of a blue badge. Blackwall Tunnel and Silvertown Tunnel. Both the Blackwall Tunnel and Silvertown Tunnel have exemptions for holders of a blue badge from being charged. Black taxis and wheelchair accessible PHVs are also exempt from the toll. Ultra Low Emissions Zone. Holders of blue badges are not exempt from the Ultra Low Emission Zone charges, unless the vehicle"}, {"text": "is specifically classified as \"disabled\" or as a \"disabled passenger vehicle\". The introduction of the Ultra Low Emission Zone across Greater London in 2023 resulted in air quality improvements across the city, with falls in the level of nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter. Electric vehicles. Trailing electric vehicle cables, which cross the pavement would pose issues for pedestrians and this would cause specific harms for pedestrians with reduced mobility. , there are no electric vehicle charging points in London which meet the government's accessibility standards. Other assistance. Across the TfL network, station and train staff are specifically trained to offer assistance or guidance to passengers. Guidance and maps is offered in a range of formats including high contrast, large print or audio description. For people unfamiliar or unsure about taking public transport, TfL offers a free travel mentoring service to help people get comfortable and gain confidence with taking public transport. People can apply for Baby on board badges, which help other passengers identify pregnant travellers who would like to be offered a seat. In 2017, TfL reported that around 130,000 badges were being issued every year. TfL also has \"please offer me a seat\" badges for passengers who may"}, {"text": "have hidden disabilities or impairments, as well as recognising the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower. TfL also provides information about public toilets located at their stations, with work underway to increase the number of toilets on the public transport network. Free public transport is available to Londoners who are over the state pension age, as well as some disabled Londoners. This is available through the Freedom Pass concessionary travel scheme. Originally created in the 1970s by the Greater London Council, the scheme is now funded by local authorities and coordinated by London Councils."}, {"text": "Peter K. Norquest (born August 31, 1971) is an American linguist who specializes in Kra\u2013Dai historical linguistics. Education. Norquest attended the University of Arizona's Joint PhD program in Anthropology and Linguistics, where he studied under Jane H. Hill and Diana B. Archangeli. As part of his doctoral research, he participated in a Fulbright fellowship in Hainan, China from 2003 to 2004, where he collected field data on various Hlai languages such as Nadou. In 2007, he completed his doctoral dissertation on the reconstruction of Proto-Hlai. Career. After obtaining his Ph.D. in 2007, Norquest was employed as a postdoctoral researcher under J. Stephen Lansing at the University of Arizona, where he worked on quantitative comparative-historical linguistic reconstruction methods and on the Austronesian languages of Nusa Tenggara. From 2015 to 2016, Norquest was the principal investigator of \"Reconstructing Language Change and Variation\", a National Science Foundation project that aims to provide a revised reconstruction of Proto-Kam\u2013Sui. Norquest is currently working on a reconstruction of Proto-Kra\u2013Dai. Parts of his reconstructions have been published in Norquest (2020, 2021)."}, {"text": "Shang Yin (; born 23 January 1989) is a Chinese professional footballer who played as a midfielder or forward for Guangdong GZ-Power. Club career. Shang Yin would play for the Shanghai United youth team until the club merged with local rivals Shanghai Shenhua. He would be released due to the enlarged squad size and opened a crayfish shop and a barbecue stall while playing for ametur club Shanghai Moshidi Aibi Football Club (DIB), which is the abbreviation of \"Do it better\"). One day his club was invited to provide competition for the reserve team of Shanghai Shenhua, where he impressed the club and after being given a trial was offered a professional contract with his boyhood supported club. Shang would be loaned out to third tier club Jiangxi Beidamen throughout the 2013 China League Two season. On his return to Shenhua he could not break into the senior team and was allowed to leave once his contract ended. He would return to ametur football by joining fourth tier football club Hainan Seamen and helped them come runners-up within the division and promotion to the professional leagues at the end of the 2015 league season. Despite this promotion he returned to"}, {"text": "Shanghai to join another fourth tier club in Shanghai Sunfun and once again he was able to help his new team gain promotion. This time he remained with the club as the participated within the 2017 China League Two campaign. On 9 March 2018 he joined another third tier club in Sichuan Longfor before the start of the 2018 China League Two season. He would go on to establish himself as an integral member of the team and helped them win the division title and promotion without losing a single game. The following campaign he would guide the club to finish above the relegation zone, however the club was dissolved after they failed to submit the salary & bonus confirmation form before the 2020 season. On 4 June 2020, he joined second tier Jiangxi Beidamen before the start of the 2020 China League One season. His debut would be a league game on 13 September 2020 against Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic F.C. in a 1-1 draw. Throughout the season he would go on to be vital member of the team and the clubs top goal scorer with seven goals at the end of the season. On 21 April 2022 he joined"}, {"text": "top tier club Dalian Professional for the start of the 2022 Chinese Super League season. He would make his top tier league debut on 8 June 2022, aged 33 against Guangzhou City in a game that was initially won by a score of 2-0 but was overturned to a 3-0 defeat after Dalian fielded an ineligible Under 23 years of age player. Despite this disappointment he would still go to establish himself as a vital member of the team and score his first goal for the club in a league game on 12 June 2022 against Changchun Yatai F.C. in a 1-1 draw."}, {"text": "The Trofeo \u00c1lava is a basketball friendly competition held in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country by the local team, Baskonia. It is held in the preseason, usually around late August to early September. After an agreement was signed by the Provincial Council of \u00c1lava and Saski Baskonia in 1990, the tournament was set to be played under the name \"Trofeo Diputaci\u00f3n Foral de \u00c1lava\", and it would serve as an introduction between the season's team and the fans. It featured Baskonia and two other teams, usually having a Liga ACB team and an international team have a round-robin tournament to determine the overall winner. From 1996 onwards, the format changed to a single game tournament, and has remained like that ever since. In 2018, the name \"Trofeo \u00c1lava / Araba Saria\" was adopted, but it is still commonly referred to as Trofeo Diputaci\u00f3n by Baskonia fans. The tournament has been held every year since 1991, with the exceptions of 1998, as the expansion works for the Araba Arena were being carried out during the months when the tournament was played, and 2020, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Out of the 31 times it has been contested, Baskonia has won it 28 times."}, {"text": "Marcial Alberto Garay (born 29 April 1968) is a Paraguayan former footballer who played as a forward. He made three appearances for the Paraguay national team from 1993 to 1995. He was also part of Paraguay's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "Funes Mori is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Mario Antonio Rodr\u00edguez Cortez (born 18 March 1972) is a Peruvian former footballer who played as a midfielder. He made eleven appearances for the Peru national team from 1993 to 1996. He was also part of Peru's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "Agapito Rodr\u00edguez Bermejo (born 16 March 1965) is a Peruvian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He made one appearance for the Peru national team in 1993. He was also part of Peru's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "\u0130stanbul Otopark \u0130\u015fletmeleri Tic. A\u015e (Istanbul Parking Lot Operations Trade S.A), or simply \u0130SPARK, is a company that operates parking lots in Istanbul. Managed by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, the company provides service in 606 parking lots and also is a member of the . In 2012, \u0130spark carried out the bicycle parking project \u0130sbike to increase environmental consciousness in Istanbul. In 2014, the company built boat parks which in \u0130stinye and Tarabya Bays, a year later the company announced that they were planning to build boat parks in Bebek, Beykoz, Kuru\u00e7e\u015fme and Pa\u015fabah\u00e7e, but these plans were abandoned. The company also owns the Alibeyk\u00f6y Bus Terminal in Istanbul. Projects. iTaksi. iTaksi is a ridesharing app (e-taxi app) that was founded in 2016 by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. The app has its own display for taxi drivers to see the map, this display also works as a POS screen for contactless credit cards and Istanbulkarts."}, {"text": "Zhang Gen (; born 5 May 1987) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a midfielder for Jiangxi Beidamen."}, {"text": "Natasha Te Rupe Wilson (born 1994) is a New Zealand soprano opera singer of M\u0101ori and heritage. Life. Wilson was born and brought up in Auckland, New Zealand. Her father was M\u0101ori and her mother of European heritage. She affiliates to the iwi Te Arawa and Ng\u0101puhi. Wilson's father Brian, who died in 2017, was a tenor vocalist and bass guitarist in the heavy-metal band Naked Blade, which toured New Zealand in the 1980s and 1990s. Brian Wilson instilled a love of singing in her and her three siblings, singing show tunes and soundtracks with them in the car and teaching them to harmonise from an early age; he encouraged his daughter to pursue classical music as a career. Natasha Wilson's first exposure to classical singing was from a DVD of \"The Phantom of the Opera\" her father brought home when she was 12, especially the aria \"Think of Me\". Wilson attended Westlake Girls High School, and was taught music by Morag Atchison, a lecturer in voice at the University of Auckland. Aitchison, a vocal tutor for the New Zealand Youth Choir in which Wilson participated, took her as a student and continued as her vocal coach outside of school."}, {"text": "Wilson graduated in 2016 from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Music (Honours first class), majoring in classical vocal performance. Career. From 2016 Wilson was supported and mentored by the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation. In 2017 Wilson won the Dame Malvina Major Foundation Dunedin Aria contest. She was asked to be a soprano soloist for a Spanish Baroque concert series with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in Sydney, in a performance that incorporated contemporary circus performers. She returned to sing in the orchestra's \"Bittersweet Obsessions\" concert. The same year she received a scholarship to attend Patricia Hurley\u2019s Italian for NZ Opera Singers Masterclasses and Concerts in Italy as part of the Dame Malvina Major Foundation Opera Studies Programme. In 2018 Wilson was a semi-finalist in the Lexus Song Quest and became a Dame Malvina Major Foundation Emerging Artist with New Zealand Opera. Her opera debut was a small role in \"The Mikado\" with New Zealand Opera. She performed in two other New Zealand Opera productions that year, as Paquette in \"Candide\" at the Auckland Arts Festival that March, and as Gianetta in \"The Elixir of Love\", having spent part of the year touring a short \"Opera in Schools\" adaptation"}, {"text": "of the production in which she sang Adina. That August she appeared with Samson Setu and Manase Latu in a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's \"Trial by Jury\", staged in Christchurch's old High Court building. In September she was soprano soloist in a Dunedin Symphony Orchestra performance of \"Carmina Burana\", her last New Zealand role before she left to study overseas. In September 2018 Wilson undertook a year-long postgraduate diploma in voice at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under C\u00e9sar Ulloa. As well as training her voice she studied acting, stage combat, and Alexander Technique. In July 2019 she sang Zerlina with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in a concert production of \"Don Giovanni\". She then returned to the USA to spend 2019 and 2020 as a resident artist with the Pittsburgh Opera. She sang Rosalba in the company's 2019 production of Cat\u00e1n\u2019s \"Florencia en el Amazonas\", and Morgana in 2020 production of Handel's \"Alcina\". Her performance in Alcina was described as \"an absolute delight\", and her \" charismatic whimsy and light, supple voice\" praised. She took up a position with Pittsburgh Opera with a two-year contract, which was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing her to return to"}, {"text": "New Zealand. On her return she sang Lisa in Bellini's \"La sonnambula\", to an audience of 200 in an outdoor performance in Days Bay near Wellington staged by Rhona Fraser. After working for some years on the part with composer and musician Tim Finn, she played the role Purea in the 2021 New Zealand Opera premiere of \"Ihitai 'Avei'a \u2013 Star Navigator\". All three performances sold out, and she was praised as \"one of Aotearoa\u2019s most glorious sopranos.\" In 2021 she performed a \"vivacious\" Zelina in Wellington Opera Company's production of \"Don Giovanni\", and Marzelline in an Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra\u2019s concert performance of \"Fidelio\". In November 2021 she was awarded the $50,000 Dame Malvina Major Award recognising her \u201ctrack record, talent, determination and potential\u201d. The award, funded by Joan Egan through the Dame Malvina Major Foundation, supports the career development of talented young opera singers handpicked by the Foundation. Wilson says her favourite roles are Adina in \"The Elixir of Love\", which she understudied for in the New Zealand Opera production, and Susanna in Mozart's \"The Marriage of Figaro\", which she performed in San Francisco (especially the final aria \"Deh vieni, non tardar\"). She is a light lyric coloratura soprano,"}, {"text": "with a voice suited to the Italianate operas of Donizetti and Mozart."}, {"text": "Antoni Ponce Bertran (born 5 June 1987) is a Spanish Paralympic swimmer. He represented Spain at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Paralympics. Career. Ponce Bertran represented Spain in the men's 200 metre freestyle S5 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and won a silver medal. He currently holds both the Paralympic record and the World record in 100m breastsroke in the category SB5."}, {"text": "Juan Carlos R\u00edos Moreno (born 11 May 1972) is a Bolivian footballer. He played in twelve matches for the Bolivia national football team from 1993 to 1995. He was also part of Bolivia's squad for the 1993 Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament."}, {"text": "Ruth Medjber is an Irish photographer. She specialises in music photography, and published a book titled \"Twilight Together\" in 2020. Life and career. Medjber grew up in Marino, Dublin. Her father is Algerian Arab. She became interested in photography from a young age due to her father, who sold camera equipment. As a young child she would often receive cheap cameras as presents, and by the time she was a teenager she began combining her loves of music and photography. Medjber would often attend gigs at the Temple Bar Music Centre in Dublin where she photographed the bands backstage. She undertook a university degree in photography, during which time she began having her images published in publications including \"Hot Press\", \"NME\", and Rolling Stone. Medjber says that she was a \"terrible student\" and her time at university reduced her confidence as a photographer. Focusing on music photography, Medjber has worked to photograph the tours of bands including \"Arcade Fire\" and \"Hozier\". She also photographs music festivals, such as Glastonbury Festival 2019 which she photographed for the BBC, and takes portrait photographs. As a child, Medjber says she was \"painfully shy\", and found empowerment through taking photographs. While her mother and"}, {"text": "father are Catholic and Muslim respectively, Medjber describes herself as an atheist. \"Twilight Together\". During the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland, Medjber found herself without photography work as the music industry paused all live events, with a year's worth of plans suddenly cancelled. In March 2020, during the first lockdown in Ireland, Medjber began taking pictures of friends and family through their front room windows, trialling an idea she had had to photograph people in this way at Christmas. The first photos, published under the project title of \"Gr\u00e1 Sa Bhaile,\" received positive coverage in the media and amongst other families in Ireland \u2013 400 families in her area emailed to request photos of themselves. As a result of the publicity, Medjber had soon made a book deal to embark on a larger scale project. She made plans for the photos to be taken during twilight, and wanted the book to be as diverse as possible. In total, Medjber published 150 portraits in a book titled \"Twilight Together\". RT\u00c9 described the book as a \"stunning and deeply moving book.\""}, {"text": "Vilmundar saga vi\u00f0utan is a medieval Icelandic romance saga. It is noted in recent scholarship as an early example of tale type ATU 510A, 'Cinderella', of the international Aarne\u2013Thompson\u2013Uther Index. Synopsis. Kalinke and Mitchell summarise the saga thus: Gullbr\u00e1 and S\u00f3ley are twin daughters of the king of H\u00f3lmgar\u00f0ar\u00edki. To avoid marrying the disagreeable \u00dalfr, S\u00f3ley promises to marry the ugly slave Kolr, but changes shapes with another woman. The able but naive Vilmundr, son of a man named Svi\u00f0i, comes upon Gullbr\u00e1 while seeking a lost goat. After winning a series of contests, Vilmundr becomes the sworn brother of Gullbr\u00e1's brother Hjarandi. They overcome various attackers, among them a herd of pigs. Vilmundr marries the real S\u00f3ley, Gu\u00f0ifreyr of Gar\u00f0ar\u00edki marries Gullbr\u00e1, and Gu\u00f0ifrey's sister marries Hjarandi."}, {"text": "Saladin Schmitt (18 September 1883 \u2013 14 March 1951), real name Joseph Anton Schmitt, also active under the pseudonym Harald Hoffmann) was a German theatre director. Life. Born in Bingen am Rhein, Schmitt came from a family of wine merchants and mill owners who had lived on the lower Nahe for several generations. The eldest son was always called Saladin because, according to family legend, an ancestor had taken part in the Crusades. When his elder brother Saladin died, he took his first name. After graduating from high school in Darmstadt in 1901, he studied German in Bonn and Berlin. In 1905, he received his doctorate from the Bonn Germanist and theatre scholar Berthold Litzmann with a thesis on Friedrich Hebbel. In addition to his studies, he took lessons as an actor and director under the pseudonym \"Harald Hoffmann\" at the Cologne Drama School under Max Martersteig as an actor and director. In the 1906/1907 season, Schmitt worked as a dramaturge at the , after which he wrote mainly for the feuilleton of the \"K\u00f6lner Tageblatt\". From 1913 to 1915, he was play director at the Stadttheater Freiburg, and during the First World War he directed the Deutsches Theater in"}, {"text": "Brussels. From 1919 to 1949, Schmitt was the artistic director of the Schauspielhaus Bochum and from 1921 to 1935 also of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. In Bochum, he established the reputation of the theatre with plays by Friedrich Schiller, William Shakespeare and other classical authors, but also with works of the younger generation, such as Heinrich Eduard Jacob, whose play \"Beaumarchais and Sonnenfels\" he successfully staged on 6 December 1919. From 1937 he was vice-president and from 1943 president of the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft. Schmitt was replaced as artistic director in 1949 when he tried to reinstate his former chief dramaturge Walter Thomas, who was considered controversial because of a National Socialist past; his removal was even demanded by a demonstration in front of the . Schmitt's homosexuality is first documented in his letters to Ernst Bertram, whom he met during their time studying together in Bonn. Their relationship ended when Bertram became firmly attached to Ernst Gl\u00f6ckner. \"Saladin Schmitt was open about his disposition. He knew numerous homosexuals and consorted with them.\" During the short engagement as head director in Freiburg he got into \"considerable trouble\" because of this. Schmitt was a third cousin of Stefan George. After a"}, {"text": "first personal meeting in 1905, some of Schmitt's poems appeared in the \"\" between 1909 and 1919. A complete collection of the surviving poems as well as Schmitt's letters to George was published in 1964 by Robert Boehringer from George's estate. The following stanza from George's poem refers to Schmitt."}, {"text": "\"Suspect Device\" is the debut single by Northern Irish punk band Stiff Little Fingers, released on 17 March 1978. Background and release. Stiff Little Fingers \u2013 Jake Burns, vocals and guitar, Henry Cluney, guitar, Ali McMordie, bass, and Brian Faloon, drums \u2013 made their first public appearance as a punk band on 16 August 1977. Their fourth gig was at the Glenmachen Stables, Belfast on 14 November 1977. At this gig, the band met journalists Gordon Ogilivie and Colin McClelland, who would soon become the group's management team. Ogilivie showed Burns draft lyrics for a possible song. \"Gordon asked me if I'd written anything pertinent where I'd grown up [at which juncture] he literally handed me the finished lyric of 'Suspect Device'. I couldn't believe it. Here was a guy who was thinking along exactly the same lines as I was. I'd go so far to say that from the moment he handed me that piece of paper, the band changed.\" (Jake Burns) Burns put a tune to the lyrics and \"Suspect Device\" was born. Footage of the group performing \"Suspect Device\" at Belfast's Pound Club on 17 January 1978 - the first time the group played the song live"}, {"text": "- appeared on an Ulster TV programme \"It Makes You Want to Spit\" about the emergence of punk in Belfast. Stiff Little Fingers recorded the single on Saturday 4 February 1978 at Downtown Radio studios. The release of the record required a record/publishing company and Rigid Digits was formed with the band members and two managers all owning equal shares. \"Suspect Device\" was released on 17 March 1978. The front cover of the \"Suspect Device\" record sleeve is a photograph of explosive inflammatory devices which were being used by the Provisional IRA to fire bomb commercial premises. The back sleeve was a black and white photo of the group taken on the 'peace line' between the republican Falls Road and the loyalist Shankill Road. A copy of the single was sent to John Peel and within days of its release he was regularly playing it on his Radio One show. Rough Trade's Geoff Travis heard \"Suspect Device\" on the John Peel show, ordered copies for sale in the Rough Trade shop in London and distributed the single through Rough Trade's recently set up distribution network of independent record shops. By April, the initial 500 copies had sold out and another"}, {"text": "1,500 were pressed. Further re-pressings took place as sales took off. By July 1978, \"Sounds\" was reporting that over 10,000 copies of the single had been sold. In October, \"Melody Maker\" estimated sales had reached 12,000. After a proposed contract with Island Records fell through, the band signed with Rough Trade. Following the release of the second single \"Alternative Ulster\" in October 1978, \"Suspect Device\" was re-released on Rough Trade on 17 March 1979. A re-recorded version of \"Suspect Device\" was the opening track on the debut Stiff Little Fingers album, \"Inflammable Material\", which was released on Rough Trade records in February 1979. Its B-side, \"Wasted Life\", also appeared on the album. Reception. The popularity of \"Suspect Device\" was reflected in the annual Festive Fifty voted for by listeners of the John Peel show. In 1978, it was voted at number four, and in following years, \"Suspect Device\" would become a regular fixture in the Festive Fifty, placed at number eight in 1979, number 24 in 1980, number 32 in 1981 and number 31 in the reshaped All-Time Festive Fifty in 1982. The single's B-side, \"Wasted Life\", appeared in the 1979 Festive Fifty at number 18 and in 1980 at"}, {"text": "number 27."}, {"text": "The men's time trial class C4-5 track cycling event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place on 26 August 2021 at the Izu Velodrome, Japan. This combine class (C4-5) under classification C is for cyclists who have impairments that affect their legs, arms, and/or trunk but are still capable to use a standard bicycle. 21 cyclists from 15 nations competed in this event. Competition format. The competition immediately starts off with the finals, where all 21 cyclists will be divided into their own heat individually (so 1 heat contains 1 cyclist). They will do a time trial basis where the fastest cyclist will win gold, the 2nd fastest a silver, and the 3rd fastest a bronze. The distance of this event is 1000m. Cyclists in class C4 can have a lesser-official time than their real-time due to the athletes factor where in class C4 the factor is 98.91% while C5 is 100.00%, so the time cyclist in class C5 get, will be their official time."}, {"text": "Go Go Harlem Baby is an album by the American punkabilly band Flat Duo Jets. It was released via Sky in 1991. The band supported the album with a North American tour. The album was reissued by Third Man Records in 2011; it was for a time one of Jack White's favorite albums. Production. Recorded at Easley McCain Recording, the album was produced by Jim Dickinson. The majority of \"Go Go Harlem Baby\" was recorded in three days. \"You Belong to Me\" is a cover of the Duprees' song; \"Apple Blossom Time\" is a cover of the standard made popular by the Andrews Sisters. \"Wild Trip\" is a cover of the Ventures instrumental. Critical reception. \"Trouser Press\" wrote that \"the ultra-live sound of the speedballs renders some of them generic, although [Dexter] Romweber continues to excel on the slower cuts, offering an atmospheric reading of the instrumental classic 'Harlem Nocturne'.\" \"Spin\" called Romweber \"the Crispin Glover of rock'n'roll singers,\" writing that he emotes \"with a creepy edge that Jerry Lee Lewis himself would be hard-pressed to match.\" The \"Orlando Sentinel\" thought that \"for a rock 'n' roll animal, Romweber has an amazingly pretty voice.\" \"The Washington Post\" opined that \"wild-eyed,"}, {"text": "gravel-voiced singer/songwriter/guitarist Dexter Romweber remains an original, his genius and his preposterousness inextricably linked.\" \"The Tampa Tribune\" said that Romweber's guitar \"can screech with icy feedback or sing in a warm rush of echo.\" AllMusic wrote that the band's \"deliciously dirty and rough brand of rockabilly is unrivaled, and this disc is perhaps their finest.\""}, {"text": "Jerome Xavier Walcott FRCS (born April 2, 1957) is a Barbadian diplomat and politician who served as foreign minister of Barbados. Biography. Walcott was raised in Bridgetown and was educated at St. Angela's Primary and also studied at London Business School. He graduated from University of the West Indies in 1982 and is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Walcott was MP between 2003 and 2008, and since 2001 was Leader of Government Business in the Senate and later served as minister of health under the tenure of Owen Arthur. Between 1995 and 1997, he served as Assistant Secretary of the Labour Party and has been its chairman as of 2021. He was also appointed a senator in 2013. Since May 27, 2018, he has been the minister of foreign affairs of Barbados under prime minister Mia Mottley."}, {"text": "Beatriz Rico is a professor of developmental neurobiology at King's College London. Her research focuses on neural circuit development. Early life and education. Beatriz was born in Madrid, Spain, where she completed her public primary and secondary education. She then attended Complutense University of Madrid to study biology, and earned her Ph.D. at the Aut\u00f3noma University in Madrid under her supervisor Carmen Cavada. Following her time in Spain, she completed her postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco under her supervisor Louis Reichardt. Principal investigator. Beatriz then formed her own lab focusing specifically on mammalian cortical networks and neurodevelopment disorders. Rico started as a Principal Investigator at the Neuroscience Institute in Alicante, Spain. In 2014, Beatriz moved her lab to King's College London where she is a professor of developmental neurobiology and has continued her work on mechanisms of cortical circuit formation. In recent years, her lab has spotlighted the importance of cortical GABAergic circuitry in cognitive function and their potential role in neurological pathologies, especially schizophrenia. Her team found a discovered a link between the protein called Brevican and short-term spatial memory. According to a study conducted by them, \"By modulating Brevican levels, experience introduces precise molecular"}, {"text": "and cellular modifications in PV+ cells that are required for learning and memory.\" In 2019, the Rico Lab uncovered a developmental mechanism for specification of inhibitory connections within the brain. Rico worked with Emilia Favuzzi and Ruben Deogracias, who were lead authors of the \"Science\" article on this discovery. Awards and honors. In 2010, Rico's work received recognition from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Additionally, she was awarded Consolidator and Advanced grants by the European Research Council for her project 'Assembly and plasticity of inhibitory cortical networks by early learning experience'. This grant was awarded to Rico for research into how early sensory experiences affect efficiency of cortical networks and, ultimately behavior. Rico received a research grant from Wellcome, and she was granted lifelong membership to EMBO's community of scientists in 2021."}, {"text": "Civil Rights Acts have been part of the Constitution of the United States of America, but in order to be received equally by all the population required to made amendments to the United States Constitution, this allowed to end of slavery with the Civil Rights Act of 1866, followed by women's suffrage, among other rights. These acts of the United States Congress are meant to protect rights to ensure individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. The first wave of civil rights acts were passed during the Reconstruction era after the American Civil War. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 extends the rights of emancipated slaves by stating that any person born in the United States regardless of race is an American citizen. The Enforcement Acts of 1870-1871 allows the President to protect Black American men\u2019s right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and for Black men and women to receive equal protection of laws, including protection from racist violence. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 prohibited discrimination in \"public accommodations\" until it was found unconstitutional in 1883 by the Supreme Court of the United States. The Jim Crow Laws were established during"}, {"text": "the 19th century and served to block African American votes, ban integration in public facilities such as schools, and forbid interracial marriage in the South. The enactment of these laws was able to vastly undermine the progress toward equality which was made during the Reconstruction era. Civil Rights Acts would not be passed for 82 more years until the success of the Civil rights movement which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which was most commonly employed against African Americans. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 established the Civil Rights Commission and the Civil Rights Act of 1960 established federal inspection of local voter registration polls. The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin by federal and state governments as well as public places. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibits discrimination in sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, creed, and national origin. The Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 specifies that recipients of federal funds must comply with civil rights laws in all areas, not just in the particular program or activity that received federal funding. The Civil Rights Act"}, {"text": "of 1990 was a bill that would have made it easier for plaintiffs to win civil rights cases which was vetoed by President George H. W. Bush. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibits discrimination based on disability. The Civil Rights Act of 1991 provides the right to trial by jury on discrimination claims and introducing the possibility of emotional distress damages, while limiting the amount that a jury could award. Civil Rights Act of 1866. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was enacted April 9, 1866, reenacted 1870) was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. It was mainly intended, in the wake of the American Civil War, to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent born in or brought to the United States. The Act was passed by Congress in 1865 and vetoed by United States President Andrew Johnson. In April 1866 Congress again passed the bill to support the Thirteenth Amendment, and Johnson again vetoed it, but a two-thirds majority in each chamber overrode the veto to allow it to become law without presidential signature. John Bingham and other congressmen argued"}, {"text": "that Congress did not yet have sufficient constitutional power to enact this law. Following passage of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, Congress ratified the 1866 Act in 1870. Enforcement Act of 1871. The Enforcement Act of 1871 is an Act of the United States Congress which empowered the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus to combat the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and other white supremacy organizations. The act was passed by the 42nd United States Congress and signed into law by United States President Ulysses S. Grant on April 20, 1871. The act was the last of three Enforcement Acts passed by the United States Congress from 1870 to 1871 during the Reconstruction Era to combat attacks upon the suffrage rights of African Americans. The statute has been subject to only minor changes since then, but has been the subject of voluminous interpretation by courts. Civil Rights Act of 1875. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction era in response to civil rights violations against African Americans. The bill was passed by the 43rd United States Congress and signed into law by United States President Ulysses S. Grant on"}, {"text": "March 1, 1875. The act was designed to \"protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights\", providing for equal treatment in public accommodations and public transportation and prohibiting exclusion from jury service. It was originally drafted by Senator Charles Sumner in 1870, but was not passed until shortly after Sumner's death in 1875. The law was not effectively enforced, partly because President Grant had favored different measures to help him suppress election-related violence against blacks and Republicans in the South. Civil Rights Act of 1957. The 1950s Civil Rights Movement pressured Congress to enact legislation to protect the constitutional civil rights of African Americans. The first major piece of civil rights legislation passed by Congress was the Civil Rights Act of 1957. While enforcing the voting rights of African Americans set out in the Fifteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, the act had several loopholes. Southern states continued to discriminate against African Americans in application of voter registration and electoral laws, in segregation of school and public facilities, and in employment. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The"}, {"text": "bill was passed by the 85th United States Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 9, 1957. Civil Rights Act of 1960. The legislation was proposed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his message to the 86th Congress on February 5, 1959, when he stated \"that every individual regar"Duke of Montrose was a Falmouth packet launched in 1804. She participated in six single-ship actions. During the Napoleonic Wars she captured a French naval schooner but a year or so later a French privateer captured her. She returned to British hands some nine months later. During the War of 1812 she was able to drive off American privateers twice. An American frigate captured her in 1813 but gave her up to her crew, also putting onboard the crews of other vessels the frigate had captured. Then a French frigate also captured her and gave her up after disarming her. She was wrecked at Barbados in 1815. Career. \"Duke of Montrose\" first appeared in \"Lloyd's Register\" (\"LR\") in 1813. (Prior to 1813 \"LR\" did not carry information on the Falmouth or Harwich packets.) \"LR\" showed her with Blewett, master and owner. She had undergone small repairs in 1811. \"Duke of Montrose\" had, of course, been sailing for some time before she appeared in \"LR\". Ship arrival and departures (SAD) data in \"Lloyd's List\" and other newspapers carry mentions. There were also two notable engagements. The first occurred in May 1805. Mutineers had turned over to the French at Guadeloupe and"}, {"text": "the French commissioned her as the privateer \"Napol\u00e9on\". \"Napol\u00e9on\" and , with a large number of privateers and some troops aboard then sailed to Dominica where they captured a British vessel. On 24 May, at Roseau, the President of Dominica wanted to send out a vessel to chase \"Napol\u00e9on\" and \"Imp\u00e9riale\". Captain Dyneley of \"Duke of Montrose\" was at Roseau and was willing, but had a crew of only 22 men and boys. He also wanted the merchants at Dominica to agree to pay for \"Duke of Montrose\" if she was lost. The merchants refused, but Dyneley decide to go out anyway. The President then put on board 26 men from the 46th Regiment of Foot and 13 men from the light company of the 3rd West India Regiment, all under the command of Lieutenant Wallis of the 46th, and \"Duke of Montrose\" set out in chase. Two British warships, and were in the area. They arrived and joined the pursuit. \"Duke of Montrose\" succeeded in bringing \"Imp\u00e9rial\" to action and about 45 minutes of exchange of fire ensued. As \"Cygnet\" came up, \"Imp\u00e9riale\" struck. \"Wasp\" recaptured \"Napol\u00e9on\". In his letter reporting the action, Admiral Alexander Cochrane, commander of the"}, {"text": "Leeward Islands Station, mentioned that \"[T]he Captain of the Duke of Montrose Packet deserves great Credit for his Exertions\". \"Duke of Montrose\", White, master, sailed from Falmouth on 31 December 1806, bound for New York. She was at Bermuda between 28 and 31 January 1807. Next, she was at New York between 18 February and 13 March. Homeward bound, she left Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 25 March, and arrived back at Falmouth on 15 April. On 13 April 1807 \"Duke of Montrose\" arrived at Falmouth, having left New York on 13 March and Halifax on the 25th. Captain Deneley sailed from Falmouth on 18 May 1807, bound for New York. She was at Halifax between 10 and 13 June, and New York between 22 June and 6 August. She left Halifax on 18 August, and arrived back at Plymouth on 8 September. An alternate report has \"Duke of Montrose\" arriving back at Falmouth on 13 July, having left New York on 4 June and Halifax on 16 June. 1st capture: In November \"Duke of Montrose\", Donelely, master, sailed for the West Indies. On 12 December she was 200 miles to windward of Barbados where she encountered the French privateer \"Confiance\","}, {"text": "of 5 guns and 85 men. An engagement of three hours ensued in which Captain Dynally, the mate, and four crew men were killed, and the master and one man were wounded, out of a crew of 28. After \"Duke of Montrose\" struck, her captors took her into Guadeloupe. \"Confiance\" had five men killed and many men wounded. captured the merchant vessel \"Grand Duc de Berg\" on 27 September 1808 and brought her into Plymouth on 4 October. \"Grand Duc de Berg\" was the former \"Duke of Montrose\", and was coming from Guadeloupe with a valuable cargo. Head money was finally paid in April 1829 to the surviving members of \"Eclair\"s crew. Captain Aaron G. Blewitt was appointed captain of \"Duke of Montrose\" on 18 January 1809. On 9 March 1809 \"Duke of Montrose\" sailed from Falmouth for Jamaica. She arrived at Barbados on 5 April and Jamaica on 16 April. On 6 September 1809 \"Duke of Montrose\" arrived back at Falmouth from Cadiz. Captain Blewett sailed from Falmouth on 14 March 1810. \"Duke of Montrose\" stopped at Bermuda on 20 to 23 April on her way to New York. She was at New York from 28 April 8 May."}, {"text": "Homeward bound, she was at Halifax from 21 to 24 May, and arrived back at Falmouth on 20 June. On 24 July 1810, Captain Aaron G. Blewitt sailed from Falmouth, bound for Brazil. \"Duke of Montrose\" was at Madeira on 10 August. She left Rio de Janeiro on 16 October and Bahia on 28 October. She arrived back at Falmouth on 11 December. \"Duke of Montrose\", \"Blauvelt\", master, left Falmouth on 11 March 1811, bound for New York. She was at Halifax on 20\u201325 April, and New York between 1 and 15 May. She was Halifax again between 26 and 31 May, and arrived back at Falmouth on 25 June. Captain Blewitt sailed from Falmouth on 20 July 1811, bound for Brazil. \"Duke of Montrose\" was at Madeira on 1 and 2 August. She left Rio de Janeiro on 6 October and Bahia on 24 October. She arrived back at Falmouth on 13 December. On 6 June 1812 \"Duke of Montrose\", Blewit, master sailed from Falmouth. She was at Madeira on 16 and 17 June. There she took on the \"Townsend\" packet's passengers and mail for Brazil; \"Townsend\" returned to Falmouth. \"Duke of Montrose\" arrived at Rio de Janeiro on"}, {"text": "25 July and left on 14 August. She arrived at Falmouth on 20 October. Captain Aaron G. Blewitt sailed from Falmouth on 14 December 1812. \"Duke of Montrose\" was at Lisbon on 23 December, and Madeira between 3 and 5 January 1813. On 11 January she had a six-hour running fight with an American Privateer off the Canary Islands. Eventually the privateer sailed off. \"Duke of Montrose\" was at Bahia between 28 and 30 January. On 5 February she arrived at Rio de Janeiro from Bahia and Falmouth. She left Rio de Janeiro on 26 February. She arrived back at Falmouth on 2 May. Captain Bluett (or Blewett) sailed from Falmouth on 13 May 1813. 2nd capture: During the War of 1812 the British Admiralty wrote to the United States Government that Great Britain would not accept as valid cartel agreements made on the high seas. On 10 June 1813, captured the outward-bound Falmouth packet , Captain Aaron Groub Blewett, which managed to throw her mails overboard before \"President\" could send a prize crew aboard. \"President\" made a cartel of \"Duke of Montrose\", putting all of \"President\"s prisoners from three earlier captures on board and then sending her and her"}, {"text": "now 79 passengers and crew into Falmouth under the command of an American officer. She arrived back at Falmouth on 16 June. There the British government refused to recognize the cartel agreement that Blewett, his crew, and passengers had signed. Rather than turn \"Duke of Montrose\" over to the Agent for American Prisoners, the British government instructed Blewett to resume command of his ship and prepare her to sail again. The day before her capture, \"Duke of Montrose\" had repelled an attack by an American privateer schooner of 14 guns after a two-hour engagement. On 4 December 1813 \"Duke of Montrose\" arrived at Falmouth from Lisbon and Scilly. 3rd capture: Acting Captain John Forester (or Foster) sailed from Falmouth on 28 July 1813, bound for Brazil. \"Duke of Montrose\" was at Madeira between 7 and 11 August. She left Rio de Janeiro on 17 October and Bahia on 12 November. (She brought with her some of the prisoners that the had taken when she had captured the Falmouth packet and taken to Valparaiso.) On 12 December the French frigates and captured \"Duke of Montrose\" at , after a five-hour chase. Her captors threw \"Duke of Montrose\"s guns, ammunition, and stores"}, {"text": "overboard and then allowed her to sail to England. Before they left, the French put on \"Duke of Montrose\" the prisoners they had taken from several captures. The French had captured the Falmouth packet on 25 November. John Vivian, her captain, was senior to Forester in the Packet Service so he took command of \"Duke of Montrose\". He brought with him most of his crew and two passengers. The French also put on board the crews of the transport \"Diana\" and the brig \"Lucia\". \"Duke of Montrose\" arrived at Falmouth on 21 December. On 25 November two French frigates, one of them , captured \"Little Catherine\" as she was sailing from Passages. The French took off \"Little Catherine\"s crew and abandoned her. On 28 November picked her up at sea. \"Hotspur\" found her plundered, all but two of her guns thrown overboard, with her sails set, but her rudder free so that she drifted at the mercy of wind and waves. Captain the Honourable Jocelny Percy of \"Hotspur\" put a crew on board who took her into Penzance. A gale on the 30th upset her and put her on her beam ends, where she lay waterlogged. On 4 June 1814,"}, {"text": "\"Duke of Montrose\" arrived at Jamaica from Falmouth. She returned to Falmouth on 6 August. On 15\u201316 July she had encountered a hurricane that she and her escort simply had to ride out. Captain Blewett sailed from Falmouth on 11 September 1814, bound for Halifax. She was at Halifax between 21 October and 3 November. She returned to Falmouth on 19 November. Fate. \"Duke of Montrose\" was lost at Barbados on 29 April 1815, the day that she arrived there from Falmouth. She had put her mail on a boat not long before she was lost."}, {"text": "Jacob Michael Bischoff (born July 25, 1994) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for the Henderson Silver Knights in the American Hockey League (AHL). He was drafted by the New York Islanders in the 2012 NHL entry draft. Early life. Bischoff was born on June 25, 1994, in Cambridge, Minnesota, as the oldest child to parents Jackie Tok and Grant Bischoff. His father played ice hockey for the University of Minnesota and was drafted by the Minnesota North Stars after his freshman year. As a result, Bischoff was trained by his father from a young age. His mother later died when he was 16 and his father re-married to Tammi McLaughlin. Bischoff's step brother Blake McLaughlin also plays hockey and was drafted by the Anaheim Ducks in 2018. Playing career. Bischoff played high school hockey in his native Minnesota with Grand Rapids High and parts of two seasons with the Omaha Lancers of the United States Hockey League (USHL) before committing and playing collegiate hockey for the University of Minnesota. As an alternate captain with the Gophers, Bischoff completed a four-year collegiate career, having his most productive season"}, {"text": "in his senior year during the 2016\u201317 season, compiling 5 goals and 27 assists for 32 points in 38 games from the blueline. He was selected as the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year. Originally drafted out of high school by the New York Islanders in the seventh-round, 185th overall, of the 2012 NHL entry draft, Bischoff was signed to a two-year, entry-level contract with the club following his sen"the neuron. Her findings, published in \"Cell\" in 2005, were the first reported use of optogenetics. Lima introduced P2X2 receptors, activated by ATP, into flies in order to activate specific neurons using a photosensitive form of ATP. In this way, she was able to activate a specific neuronal path that controls the mechanism by which flies jump and fly by shining a light on transgenic flies. During her postdoctoral training in Anthony Zador\u2019s lab, Lima used optogenetic tools to develop a new method to identify neuronal subtypes in vivo on the rodent auditory cortex. This technique was called optotagging. After her accomplishments at Cold Spring Harbor, she returned to Portugal in 2008 and became part of the Champalimaud Neuroscience Program. Some of her most recent research involves investigating how the brain controls sexual behavior through electrophysiology, optogenetics, anatomy and behavioral studies. Her publications include studies on prolactin\u2019s involvement in the post-ejaculatory refractory period, how the ventromedial hypothalamus of the brain serves to control mating behavior, how sexual imprinting overrides order effects during sampling of prospective mates, and the neural circuits for reproduction. Her lab's long term goal is to test the hypothesis that mate choice has an impact on the"}, {"text": "regulation of sexual behavior. Personal life. Soon after their marriage, Lima and her husband, Zachary Mainen, returned to Portugal to help start the Champalimaud Neuroscience Program."}, {"text": "Ellen Lumpkin is an American neuroscientist and professor of cell and developmental biology and neurobiology at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also co-director of the MBL Advanced Training Course in Neurobiology, and adjunct associate professor of physiology and cellular biophysics and co-director of the Thompson Family Foundation Initiative in CIPN and Sensory Neuroscience at Columbia University. Lumpkin's group studies genes, cells and signals that mediate the sensation of touch. Lumpkin is most interested in the somatosensory system and how it gives feedback to the brain on sensations such as pain or touch. She is known for her significant contributions in somatosensory system research. Early life and education. Lumpkin was born in rural East Texas in an agriculturally-based town, where she spent her childhood years driving tractors and raising cows and pigs. In high school, she joined Future Farmers of America, which fully funded her college education given that she majored in agriculture and went to a local state university. Lumpkin earned a B.S. in Animal Science at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. During her undergraduate years, Lumpkin studied the effects of stress on the health of animals, more specifically, how certain"}, {"text": "social or shipping conditions can lead to weight loss of pigs by the stress hormone cortisol. Lumpkin performed PhD training in neuroscience with A. James Hudspeth at University of Texas Southwestern and the Rockefeller University. Career and research. Lumpkin worked at Columbia University as an associate professor and researcher for 11 years. She now does research at the University of California, Berkeley in the Molecular and Cell Biology department studying the somatosensory system. Lumpkin's lab studies the somatosensory pathways that encode various stimuli like touch, vibration, and texture. Her research is on the skin's sensory neurons pick up tactile features of objects and how skin cells communicate with the neuro system to encode touch. Merkel cells are found in clusters called touch domes, which are then connected to neuronal networks. Lumpkin studies how these cells respond to the sensation of touch by sensing shape, form, and texture. Ellen Lumpkin and her team discovered the specialization of Merkel cells involved in encoding different aspects of the sensation of touch. Her team discovered that Merkel cells have fast, mechanically activated ion channels, they are capable of sending information to activate sensory neurons, and the activity of Merkel cells is required during touch"}, {"text": "stimulation. These findings allowed her lab to conclude that Merkel cells are mechanosensory receptor cells, and she published a paper explaining these results in 2019. Her research has also disproved the common belief that Merkel cells are descended from the neural crest, instead showing that they originate in the skin Awards. On January 15, 1999, she received the Runyon-Winchell Fellowship Award. She won the Schaefer Scholars Award in 2015. She currently serves as the Co-Director of the Thompson Family Foundation Initiative in CIPN & Sensory Neuroscience."}, {"text": "Tito Agosti (Morrovalle, 19 August 1889 \u2013 Rome, 27 January 1946) was an officer in the Royal Italian Army during the Italo-Turkish War, World War I, the Second Italo-Ethiopian War and World War II, and a general in the Army of the Italian Social Republic. Biography. He was born in Morrovalle, Marche, on 19 August 1889, the son of Felice Agosti and Palmira Garzoglio, and enlisted in the Royal Italian Army at a young age, becoming a second lieutenant on 19 May 1912. He briefly participated in the Italo-Turkish War, fighting in Libya, and then in the First World War, in which he was promoted to the rank of captain on August 23, 1917, and awarded a Silver Medal of Military Valour for his behaviour during the battle of Vittorio Veneto. In 1925\u20131926, with the rank of captain, he commanded a company of the 13th Eritrean Battalion, participating in the pacification of Jubaland and the Majerteen Sultanate in Somalia. During the 1920s he joined the National Fascist Party, and in 1935\u20131936 he participated in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, first commanding the \"Penne di Falco\" Colonial Cavalry Squadron Group and then the III Somalian Armed Band Group on the Harar front,"}, {"text": "earning a Bronze Medal of Military Valour and two promotions for war merit, to lieutenant colonel on 31 December 1935 and then to colonel. At the end of the war he was awarded another Silver Medal of Military Valor. After the outbreak of World War II he fought in Italian East Africa, where he was tasked with the defense of Shahmanna, in the southern front of Galla-Sidamo; after the bloody battle of the Dadaba he managed to withdraw his surviving troops, repelling continuous attacks from thousands of Arsi guerrillas. On 19 May 1941 he was seriously wounded and captured by the British after having fought \"to the limit of human possibilities\" as ordered by the Supreme Command, and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Savoy on 1 August 1941, and subsequently a third Silver medal of military valor. He was repatriated in an exchange of wounded prisoners, and on 18 September 1943, after the Armistice of Cassibile, he joined the Italian Social Republic with the rank of cavalry Major General. He was given command of the 2nd Grenadiers Division \"Littorio\", one of the four field divisions of the National Republican Army, then training in Germany in"}, {"text": "M\u00fcnsingen. After returning to Italy, the division was initially deployed near the Gothic Line, but was later transferred to the Western Alps, at the border with France, where it fought French and American troops in the Second Battle of the Alps. On 27 April 1945 Agosti dissolved the division, and was then captured by the Allies. He was initially imprisoned in the Coltano POW camp and later in the military prison of Forte Boccea in Rome. In 1946 he committed suicide in prison while awaiting trial for war crimes, refusing to be judged by a jury that he considered as composed of \"traitors\"."}, {"text": "Elizabeth Quinlan is an American neuroscientist and a professor at the University of Maryland. There she serves as the Clark Leadership Chair in Neuroscience and as the Director of the Brain and Behavior Institute (BBI). Her research focuses on understanding how the plasticity of juvenile and adult mammalian visual systems differ. Background and education. Quinlan was born in Chicago, Illinois. She attended Amos Alonso Stagg High School and later attended the University of Iowa, where she earned a B.S. in psychology and minor in biology. She then received her Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Quinlan completed her first postdoctoral training at the University of Virginia in cell biology. Later, she completed another postdoctoral training at Brown University, where she worked in Mark Bear's lab studying the mechanisms of experience-dependent brain modification in mammals. Career and research. In 1999, Quinlan alongside Benjamin D. Philpot, Richard L. Huganir, and Mark F. Bear conducted several experiments on the visual cortexes of rats in vivo. Their work has shown that the regulation of postsynaptic glutamate receptors is a mechanism of synaptic plasticity in the brain. Quinlan began her lab in 2001, studying how experiences affect the juvenile and adult"}, {"text": "mammalian brains through visual system plasticity. Her research indicates that visual deprivation through dark exposure reactivates critical period plasticity in adults, which can be used to promote recovery of amblyopia, or lazy eye. Following her lab, Quinlan and Ben Backus from SUNY College of Optometry acquired enough funding from the National Institute of Health to begin a human trial. The trial included two human participants who were allowed to live together in the dark for ten days. Results from this study were inclusive, although the two participants self-reported an improvement in their vision. In 2016, Quinlan became the first director of the Physiological Systems graduate program at University of Maryland. She is one of three co-directors of the Brain and Behavior campus initiative at University of Maryland."}, {"text": "Maribel Rios is a neuroscientist originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico. She received a Bachelor of Arts in neuroscience from Boston University, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology from the Sackler School at Tufts University. Rios continued her studies by attending the Whitehead Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she completed her post-doctoral training in genetics. Following her education, she returned to Tufts where she serves as a professor of neuroscience. Early life and education. Maribel Rios grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico and lived there until she was 18 years old. Her father was the first one in his immediate family to go to college. He was able to do this through the G.I. Bill because of his service in the Korean War. From kindergarten to high school, she attended Academia Santa Monica in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Rios moved from Puerto Rico to Boston where she attended Boston University as a p"Jimmie Lee Browner (December 4, 1955 \u2013 March 6, 2024) was an American professional football player who was a defensive back for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. His brothers, Ross, Joey, and Keith, were also NFL players. Browner died on March 6, 2024, at the age of 68."}, {"text": "Sedrick Lee Barefield (born November 18, 1996) is a Filipino-American professional basketball player for the Blackwater Bossing of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He played college basketball for the SMU Mustangs and the Utah Utes. High school career. In 2013, Barefield averaged 17.4 points, 4.4 assists, 2.2 rebounds and 2.3 steals in 33 matches while piloting his school to the championship game of the 2014 California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Division 1 Basketball tournament. Some of his individual accolades include being named as co-MVP with fellow Fil-Am Ethan Alvano in the Big VIII tournament that season, as well as being selected to the CIF All-State Team. He also got to play in the international showcase Adidas Nations. In 2014, Barefield helped his team win the Tip-Off Tournament. He averaged 20.6 points, 4.2 assists, 2.2 rebounds and 1.4 steals per game that season, led the Huskies to a 25\u20136 record, the CIF-State Div.1 regional final and a No.4 final state ranking by MaxPreps. He was selected Big VIII League MVP and All-CIF, to go along with his multiple all-tournament awards and honors. On February 17, 2014, Barefield committed to SMU. He made formal his desire to suit up for the Larry"}, {"text": "Brown-mentored squad by signing his Letter of Intent on November 12 of that year. College career. Barefield played college basketball for the SMU Mustangs before transferring to Utah. At SMU, he only played in five games. Coach Brown assisted his transfer to Utah with a call to Larry Krystkowiak, Utah's head coach. Barefield missed several of the first games of Utah's 2016\u201317 season due to transfer rules. In his debut, he scored 18 points. He then scored 35 points several days later in a loss to the San Francisco Dons. He then cooled down after that, scoring only a total of nine points in his next two games. In a close loss to the UCLA Bruins, he scored 13 points. In March, he helped Utah beat the California Golden Bears with his 14 points. That season, Utah lost to California in the first round of the Pac-12 tournament when he missed a three that could have sent the game to overtime. They also lost in the first round to the Boise State Broncos in the NIT. In his junior season debut, Barefield scored 22 points in a win over the Prairie View A&M Panthers. He then contracted a stomach virus,"}, {"text": "causing him to miss the following game, yet Utah won by 40 over the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils without him. Later that season, he had 23 points in a loss to the Arizona Wildcats. In a matchup against fellow Fil-Am point guard Remy Martin of the Arizona State Sun Devils, he had 21 points, but Martin's team took the victory. He then had a shooting slump and had to come off the bench after starting for majority of the season. He then had 14 points and three assists off the bench in a win over the Washington State Cougars. In a rematch with Arizona State, he scored 17 points and hit the game-tying 3-pointer with 1.8 seconds left in regulation, helping Utah knock off the Sun Devils in overtime. The following game, a rematch with Arizona, he led Utah with 26 points, but they lost. That season, Utah made it all the way to the championship round of the NIT, in which he scored 22 points with six threes, but they lost to the Penn State Nittany Lions. Barefield declared for the 2018 NBA draft, and had worked out for the Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Lakers. However, he"}, {"text": "backed out and returned for one more season with Utah. He started that season with 18 points and nine assists in a win over the Maine Black Bears. He started the Utes\u2019 first nine games and then, after going 1 for 7 against the Kentucky Wildcats, began coming off the bench. Three games later, he dropped 33 points on the Nevada Wolf Pack off the bench and moved back in the lineup. Against Arizona State, he had a game-high 24 points. Against Arizona, he had 26 points, but fouled out, allowing Arizona to win in overtime. He matched his season high in points in a win over Washington State. He earned All-Pac-12 honors that season while also totaling 1,000 points in his college career. His college career ended with a loss to the Oregon Ducks in the first round of the Pac-12 tournament. As a senior at Utah, he averaged 16.8 points, 3.8 assists and 2.1 rebounds per game. Professional career. After going undrafted in the 2019 NBA draft, Barefield signed with the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for NBA Summer League. He subsequently joined the Oklahoma City Blue of the NBA G League. Barefield posted"}, {"text": "29 points, one rebound, one assist and one steal in a 149\u2013117 win over the Stockton Kings on January 17, 2020. He averaged 9.0 points, 1.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game, shooting 39 percent from behind the arc. On July 16, 2020, Barefield signed with Nev\u0117\u017eis K\u0117dainiai of the Lithuanian Basketball League. He scored 22 points in a close loss to BC \u0160iauliai. Against Rytas Vilnius, he put up 29 points, but they still lost their sixth consecutive game. Several months later, he recorded 28 points in the final game of the regular season, but his team still fell to dead last in the league. Barefiel joined Apollon Patras in Greece after his stint in Lithuania. In three games, he registered 3.0 points in 12.6 minutes of play. On February 27, 2022, Barefield was reacquired by the Oklahoma City Blue. In May 2022, Barefield declared for the PBA Season 47 draft. However, he was not able to join the draft, as he failed to submit his passport to the league before the deadline. On September 8, 2022, Barefield signed with the Taipei Fubon Braves of the P. League+. However, he never played for the team. On October 11, 2022,"}, {"text": "Barefield signed with the Tainan TSG GhostHawks of the T1 League. He only played one game for them before being released by the team. On February 7, 2023, it was reported that Barefield signed with the Bay Area Dragons of the East Asia Super League as their Asian import. The contract only lasted for the EASL Champions Week. He helped Bay Area claim third place in that tournament. In April 2023, Barefield joined Guinean club SLAC of the Basketball Africa League (BAL), qualifying as an import player in the 2023 season. Personal life. Barefield is of Filipino descent through his mother. He became a Filipino citizen prior to joining the PBA Season 47 draft. His father, Ray Barefield, is a former point guard for San Diego State and current head coach of Rancho Christian's boys' basketball program. He has a sister, Tia, who is currently playing basketball for the girls' program of Rancho Christian."}, {"text": "Louisiana's 32nd State Senate district is one of 39 districts in the Louisiana State Senate. It has been represented by Republican Glen Womack since 2020, succeeding term-limited fellow Republican Neil Riser. Geography. District 32 covers a massive swath of Central Louisiana and Acadiana, including all of Caldwell, Catahoula, Franklin, and LaSalle Parishes, as well as parts of Avoyelles, Concordia, Ouachita, Rapides, Richland, and West Feliciana Parishes. Towns entirely or partially within the district include Jonesville, Winnsboro, Jena, Ferriday, Vidalia, and St. Francisville. The district is located entirely within Louisiana's 5th congressional district, and overlaps with the 15th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 27th, 28th, and 62nd districts of the Louisiana House of Representatives. At over 4,000 square miles, it is the largest Senate district in Louisiana. 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": "Dusty is the 12th studio album by Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter Fred Eaglesmith. It was produced by Scott Merritt, and released by A Major Label on November 23, 2004. Background. 2004's \"Dusty\" marks Eaglesmith's reunion with producer Scott Merritt, who had helped shape Eaglesmith's breakthrough studio sound in the mid-90s. Track listing. All songs written by Fred Eaglesmith. Reception. Of the album, Jason Schneider at Exclaim! said, \"(it) immediately proves to be a radical departure, and a thoroughly welcome one. ... (A)im(ing) for classic Memphis blue-eyed soul(, i)t doesn't exactly achieve this goal. Instead, the album could be the equivalent of Bruce Springsteen's \"Nebraska\" if it had been recorded with ProTools. ... (I)n the process, (Eaglesmith) and Merritt created something entirely different, and like a newborn colt, beautiful in its own awkward way.\" The reviewer at \"The Sydney Morning Herald\" gave \"Dusty\" a 4-star rating, saying, \"It's neither country nor folk - it just is what it is. This is also as bleak as (Eaglesmith) has been. These stories rarely mention it directly, but they reek of a time where on top of the daily hassles of working, wanting and getting by is a patina of gnawing despair. It's a"}, {"text": "sorrow aimed at a world more fixed on anger, retribution and empty religious sentiments than offering hope.\""}, {"text": "The post-1500s Philippines is defined by colonial powers occupying the land. Whether it be the Spanish, the Americans, or the Japanese, the Philippines were subjugated and shaped by the presence of a hegemonic power enacting dominance over the people, the land, and the culture itself. The respective field of the archaeology of the post-1500s Philippines is a particularly growing and revolutionary field, particularly seen in the archaeology of Stephen Acabado in Ifugao and Grace Barretto-Tesoro in Manila. There were also many important events that had happened during this period. In 1521, Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan discovered Homonhon Island and called it \"Arcigelago de San Lazaro.\" Magellan became the first European to cross over the Pacific Ocean. The Post-1500s Philippines is an era of Philippine history defined by complex relationships between various ethnic groups underneath the umbrella of colonialism. Of particular note regarding the archaeology of the time period is Spanish colonialism and indigenous responses, particularly those of the Ifugao people. Recent scholarship has debunked preexistent narratives regarding the era of Spanish colonialism, particular considering indigenous responses and the complexities of ethnic diversity in the Spanish colony and its respective effects on the multicultural identity that defined the era. Context. The"}, {"text": "Post-1500s Philippines and the respective archaeology of the time period are inextricably connected to Spanish colonialism. One of their main purposes of Spanish occupation of the Philippine Archipelago was founded upon the conceived notion that it was a land of spices, which it was not. The Spaniards also came to the Philippines in the search for God, gold, and glory. In their desire to spread God, they found plenty of indigenous peoples who had not yet been introduced to Christianity. Bankoff and Boomgard further state that \"glory was less certain; there were a few opportunities for gallant feats of arms and no mighty empires to topple,\" displaying that there was a lack of all three Gs. Instead, they looked at the trees that the forest provided and used the huge amounts of timber to reconstruct churches and build ships, which led to Spain\u2019s establishment of a colony in the Philippines. During this time Spain was leading in the race in European colonial endeavors. The Philippines was one of many places that Spain traveled to in order to build political ties and benefit economically. After the Spanish officially arrived in the Philippines, it took many years"Goose is an American rock band from Wilton, Connecticut, formed in 2014. The band consists of Rick Mitarotonda, Trevor Weeks, Peter Anspach, and Cotter Ellis. Goose has gained popularity since early 2020, in large part due to live performances with larger acts like Dead & Company, Trey Anastasio, and Bob Weir. History. Formation and early years. The origins of Goose trace back to Berklee College of Music, where guitarist Rick Mitarotonda met drummer Ben Atkind in a class called \"Fusion Ensemble Level 6.\" Atkind later recalled that Mitarotonda \"was the quietest kid in class, but he was my favorite of the three guitarists by far.\" In January 2012, Mitarotonda invited Atkind to join a precursor band called Vasudo, along with Wilton, Connecticut natives Trevor Weeks on bass and Matt Campbell on keyboards and vocals. Vasudo remained active for approximately 18 months before dissolving when Mitarotonda left for Colorado. Goose was officially formed in 2014 when Mitarotonda returned from Colorado and reenrolled at Berklee, founding the band with Atkind and Weeks. The band took their name from an inside joke dating to Mitarotonda's time working at a taco shop in Colorado. In their early years, the band performed in Connecticut basements"}, {"text": "and local bars, gradually building their following. The band recorded their debut album \"Moon Cabin\" in 2016 in a barn in northern New Hampshire, establishing their DIY approach early in their career. Multi-instrumentalist Peter Anspach joined the band in 2017, followed by percussionist Jeff Arevalo in 2020, with Cotter Ellis joining the band in 2024. Rise to prominence. The band garnered praise for their performance at the 2019 edition of The Peach Music Festival, which gained them popularity in the jam band scene and has been viewed over 420,000 times on YouTube/Facebook as of March 2023. In January 2020 the band played two well received late night performances at Dead & Company's Playing in the Sand event in Mexico. The band's rise in popularity resulted in booking larger venues for their 2020 tour, such as the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, but they canceled the tour after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down live music performances worldwide. Instead, the band livestreamed eight concerts without an audience from a barn in Connecticut in June 2020, called the Bingo Tour. The Bingo Tour grossed more than $100,000 for the band. Goose released a 20-minute jam version of the Vampire Weekend song \"2021\""}, {"text": "in February 2021 at the request of Vampire Weekend singer Ezra Koenig, who is a fan of the group. Following the pandemic, Goose booked a series of performances at large venues in 2021 and 2022, such as Radio City Music Hall in New York, Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, and their first-ever arena concerts at the Mohegan Sun Arena in their native Connecticut. On June 24 and 25, 2022, Goose played two shows at Radio City Music Hall. The June 25 concert featured appearances by Father John Misty, and Phish guitarist and lead singer Trey Anastasio, the latter of whom played with Goose for their entire third set. Goose and the Trey Anastasio Band performed together in an eight-date co-headlining tour in November 2022. In January 2023, Goose was the top billed special guest at Dead & Company's Playing in the Sand festival in Mexico, headlining on the main stage on the second night. During their January 15 performance, the band was joined by Bob Weir for three songs at the end of the first set. Atkind and Arevalo went on to play with the Rhythm Devils during \"Drums\" at Dead & Company's next shows. In July 2023, at"}, {"text": "Resonance Festival in Ohio, Goose was joined on stage during the second set by Jake Cinninger and Joel Cummins of Umphrey's McGee to perform \"Empress of Organos\". That same month, at the Newport Folk Festival, the band were joined on-stage by Animal from Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem for their performance of \"Animal\". Anspach personally mixes the band's live performances for release shortly after the band finishes their concerts. Lineup changes and recent developments. On December 22, 2023, the band released a statement that founding member and original drummer Ben Atkind would be departing the band. On February 5, 2024, the band announced that Cotter Ellis would be joining the band as the new drummer. On November 24, 2024, Goose played at Madison Square Garden as part of the Soulshine relief concert, for major hurricanes Helene and Milton. They played with Dave Matthews, performing the Bruce Hornsby song \"The Way It Is\". On January 27, 2025, the band announced their upcoming fourth studio album, \"Everything Must Go,\" and released its debut single, \"Give It Time\". The album was subsequently released on April 25, 2025. On February 3, 2025, the band posted announcement to social media that percussionist Jeff Arevalo"}, {"text": "was taking a hiatus from touring to prioritize his health. On March 23 that same year, the band announced that he had been permanently removed from the band due to \"behavior in Jeff's personal life that does not align with the band's core values.\" On June 28, 2025, Goose performed their first headlining show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, marking their biggest headlining performance to date. Personnel. Band members. Current members Former members Timeline"}, {"text": "Zhou Yuye (; born 12 December 2000) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a defender for Wuxi Wugou."}, {"text": "Gyropena verans, also known as the sunken-spired pinwheel snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the pinwheel snail family, that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. Description. The shell of the snail is 1.3\u20131.5 mm in height, with a diameter of 2.7\u20132.9 mm. The colour is pale fawn with irregular brown flammulations (flame-like markings). The shape is discoidal with a sunken spire, shouldered whorls, impressed sutures, and with prominent, closely-spaced radial ribs. The umbilicus is widely open. The aperture is roundly lunate. The animal is unknown. Distribution and habitat. This very rare snail occurs on the summits and slopes of Mount Lidgbird and Mount Gower, inhabiting plant litter. References."}, {"text": "Pete was a pet dog belonging to United States president Theodore Roosevelt. He was one of many presidential pets during Roosevelt's presidency. He was reported to be a bull terrier, though other reports have said he was a Boston bull terrier or bulldog. Pete was reported to be Theodore Roosevelt's favorite of his dogs. Pete chased and bit a number of people on numerous occasions during his time living at the White House. He bit policemen on a number of occasions. In a biting incident, Pete tore the trousers of Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield. In another incident, Pete was reported to have chased George B. Cortelyou, causing Cortelyou to seek refuge by climbing a tree. He was also reported to have numerous times chased private citizens visiting the White House. In yet another incident, Pete tore the pants off of Jean Jules Jusserand (ambassador of France to the United States). In May 1907, Pete got into repeated fights with another dog that would wander onto the White House grounds. These fights left him with serious, even life-threatening, injuries. Pete would be exiled from living at the White House due to his aggressive incidents towards people. He was"}, {"text": "initially exiled in July 1907, reportedly because Theodore Roosevelt decided not to euthanize the dog following a plea from his son Archibald. He was again exiled in 1908, after he chased a State Department official. He appears to have spent the rest of his days at the Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill estate. Pete died in October 1910."}, {"text": "Abercwmboi Rugby Football Club is a Welsh Rugby Union club based in the Cynon Valley in South Wales. Abercwmboi RFC play in the Welsh Rugby Union Division Two East Central and is a feeder club for the Cardiff Blues."}, {"text": "Geng Zhiqing (; born 10 September 1991) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a defender for Chinese club Hefei City."}, {"text": "Bence \u00d6tv\u00f6s (born 13 March 1998) is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays for Ferencv\u00e1ros. Club career. Paks. On 14 May 2025, he won the 2025 Magyar Kupa final with Paksi FC after beating Ferencv\u00e1rosi TC 4\u20133 on penalty shoot-out. Ferencv\u00e1ros. From 2 June 2025, plays for Ferencv\u00e1ros."}, {"text": "Llanfairfechan Town Football Club is a Welsh football team based in Llanfairfechan, Conwy County Borough, Wales. The team plays in the . History. The club played in the single division North Wales Coast League in 1904\u201305 league, finishing seventh out of eight clubs. They then played in the Second Division of the same league in the 1910\u201311, 1911\u201312, 1912\u201313 and 1913\u201314 seasons, with fifth place in the final season being their highest finishing position. After the war, they again appeared for two seasons in the same league (1919\u201320 and 1920\u201321) The league then absorbed into the newly established Welsh National League (North) in 1921. The club finished bottom of Division Two West. The club played in the North Wales Football Combination for the 1930\u201331 season, and the Bangor & District League for the 1931\u201332 (reserves) and 1932\u201333 seasons. They then joined the North Wales Coast League where they finished as runners-up in 1933\u201334 and champions in the last season of the league in 1934\u201335. This was followed by a move to the Welsh League North for its inaugural season in 1935\u201336 where they finished fourth from the 11 clubs. The club dropped out of the league after the end of"}, {"text": "the season. They re-joined the league for the final season before the war, 1939\u201340, finishing fifth in the Western area section. After the Second World war, the club again played in the Welsh League North between 1945 and 1946 and the end of the 1949\u201350 season when they finished bottom of the league. Returning again to the league as a Division Two (Western) club for 1952\u201353 season They then featured in Division One finishing bottom of the table in both 1956\u201357 and 1957\u201358, before leaving the league again. They joined the Gwynedd League for the 1990\u201391 season, finishing in third place. The following season they finished sixth, followed by another third-place finish in the 1992\u201393 season. The club played for two seasons in the Welsh Alliance League between 1993\u201394 and 1995\u201396 finishing in sixth and 15th places. The club returned to the Gwynedd League for one season. The club played in the Vale of Conwy Football League finishing as champions in 1988\u201389 and in 2001\u201302, the last season the league operated. The following season they returned to the Gwynedd League finishing second from bottom of the Premier Division table and bottom of the league in 2003\u201304. They remained in the"}, {"text": "league until the end of the 2013\u201314 season. The club subsequently joined the Vale of Clwyd and Conwy Football League. In 2020 the team was accepted into the Premier Division of the new North Wales Coast East Football League."}, {"text": "The women's individual pursuit class B track cycling event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place on 28 August 2021 at the Izu Velodrome, Japan. This class is for the cyclist who is blind or has visual impairments, thus they ride tandem bicycles with a sighted cyclist (also known as the pilot). There will be 9 pairs (18 competitors athlete+pilots) from 7 different nations competing. Competition format. The competition starts with a qualifying round where a time trial basis will be between the 9 pairs; all 9 pairs will be divided into 5 heats, all heats having 2 pairs except heat 1 which will have 1 pair. The 2 fastest pairs in the qualifying would qualify to the gold medal final while the 3rd and 4th fastest will qualify to the bronze medal final where they will race head-to-head. The distance of this event is 3000m. The medal finals are also held on the same day as the qualifying."}, {"text": "Macbeth is a 1981 television film consisting of a recording of the stage play at the Vivian Beaumont Theater and shown on the ARTS cable network. Philip Anglim plays Macbeth and Maureen Anderman plays Lady Macbeth. The stage play was directed by Sarah Caldwell while Kirk Browning directed the film. The original production played from January 23, 1981, to March 8, 1981."}, {"text": "Zhu Jiaqi (; born 1 June 1993) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a goalkeeper for Chinese Club Baoding Xuecheng Athletic."}, {"text": "Murphy Tomlinson is an American curler and two-time national champion. Curling career. In 1988 Tomlinson played second on Doug Jones' national champion team; they went on to finish in tenth place at the World Championship. In 1990 Nordlund played one more time in Jones' team and again won gold at the National Championship, this time improving to seventh at World's."}, {"text": "\"I'd Never Find Another You\" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and first released by American singer Tony Orlando on his album \"Bless You and 11 Other Great Hits\" in September 1961. Billy Fury version. In December 1961, English singer Billy Fury released a cover of the song as a single. It peaked at number 5 on the \"Record Retailer\" Top 50 in January 1962 and received a silver disc for 250,000 sales. Release and reception. Fury had previously covered an Orlando song, also written by Goffin and King, \"Halfway to Paradise\", which was also a top-five hit. \"I'd Never Find Another You\" was Fury's final single of 1961, released for Christmas. The B-side, \"Sleepless Nights\", was written by Buck Ram and had been released by former Platters lead singer Tony Williams as a single in August 1961. Both sides are backed by an orchestra directed by Ivor Raymonde. Reviewing for \"Disc\", Don Nicholl described \"I'd Never Find Another You\" as \"a rather graceful ballad with a beat in it, the song is sung simply and warmly by Fury to a catchy accompaniment\". Reviewed in \"New Musical Express\", it was described as a \"medium-pace rock-cum-Latin beat"}, {"text": "[that] runs behind the most attractive melody\". Fury was also praised for his \"versatility of tackling anything from out-and-out rock'n'roll to sentimental ballads [which] has really come to the fore this year and he's now a mature, dependable artist\". Track listing. 7\": Decca / F 11409"}, {"text": "The 2021 Karlsruhe Open (also known as the Liqui Moly Open for sponsorship reasons) was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 2nd edition of the tournament and part of the 2021 WTA 125K series, offering a total of $115,000 in prize money. It took place in Karlsruhe, Germany between 7 and 12 September 2021. The tournament did not take place in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Singles main draw entrants. Other entrants. The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: The following players qualified into the singles main draw: Doubles entrants. Other entrants. The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:"}, {"text": "The Welsh Intermediate Education Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 40) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It made various reforms with the intention of expanding access to secondary education in Wales. Background. Provision of elementary education in Wales and England had been expanded throughout the 19th century and become compulsory in 1880. Requiring that all children attended school until the age of ten. Following these changes, reformers and educationists in Wales turned their attention to the next level of education. Conception. The UK's 1880 Gladstone government appointed Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare to chair a committee to study the state of intermediate and higher education in Wales. The committee recommendations were published in the Aberdare Report of 1881. The committee's two recommendations relating to intermediate education were: that existing grammar schools should be extended; and that new government-funded schools should be established where needed. These recommendations were the catalyst for the passage through Parliament of the \"Welsh Intermediate Education Act 1889\". The Act received royal assent on 12 August 1889. In the Act, its purpose is described thus: \"The purpose of this Act is to make further provision for the intermediate and technical education"}, {"text": "of the inhabitants of Wales and the county of Monmouth\". Effect. The Act required the counties and county boroughs of Wales and the county of Monmouth to provide intermediate schools and provide technical education. To this end, the school boards were abolished and in each county a joint education committee was put in place. The initial duty of these committees was to prepare plans for intermediate and technical education to be provided in their areas. By 1902 Wales had 95 intermediate schools, and over 10,000 pupils. However there was hardly anything specifically Welsh about the education they provided. According to the historian John Davies, 'they slavishly imitated the ethos and the curriculum of the English grammar schools.' They also ignored the intentions of the act by neglecting subjects relevant to the community and the local economy. Whilst it had been initially hoped that they would prepare children for careers as skilled workers in practise their curriculum was often heavily modelled on the public schools and of little practical use. They were voluntary and required a financial contribution from parents so attendance was largely limited the middle classes. However, some did provide a good quality of technical education and they expanded"}, {"text": "access to secondary education to many children who wouldn't have been able to receive any otherwise. The act has been described as the reason for a large number of schoolteachers from Wales who worked across Britain during the 20th century. Replacement. The Act was repealed on the commencement of the Education Act 1944."}, {"text": "The Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) is an agency of the New York state government that provides funding, technical assistance, and oversight to a network of over 1,300 community-based addiction treatment programs, as well as 12 state-operated addiction treatment centers. It is part of the pro forma Department of Mental Hygiene along with the Office of Mental Health (OMH) and Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD). Operations. The Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SH"Edward Anders (June 21, 1926 \u2013 June 1, 2025) was a Latvian-born American chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago. His major areas of research included the origin and ages of meteorites, the existence of presolar grains in meteorites, the Solar System abundance of chemical elements, and mass extinctions in Earth history. In the 1970s, he was one of the 142 principal investigators who studied lunar samples brought back to Earth by the Apollo program. After retiring from scientific research in 1991, he became a prominent researcher, speaker and writer on issues related to the Holocaust in Latvia. Early life and education. Anders was born Edward Alperovitch in the Latvian coastal city of Liep\u0101ja in 1926. Both his mother (Erica, n\u00e9e Sheftelovitch-Meiran) and his father (Adolf) were part of a German-speaking Jewish merchant community. In 1940, the Soviet Union occupied Latvia, and in 1941, Latvia was invaded by Nazi Germany. Anders's father was among many Liepaja Jews murdered by the Nazis in the early months of the occupation. Anders and his mother evaded Nazi annihilation by pretending that she was an Aryan foundling raised by Jews, until they were able to flee Latvia near the end of"}, {"text": "World War II. After the end of the war, Anders settled in Munich, where he attended first the UNRRA University, a makeshift institution created by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration solely to serve refugees, and then the University of Munich. In August 1948, Anders appeared as a prosecution witness at the Nuremberg High Command Trial, where he gave evidence of German soldiers carrying out lootings and shooting Jewish civilians in Liepaja during 1941. In 1949, Anders arrived in New York City, where he embarked on a master's degree in chemistry at Columbia University. He earned a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1954, benefiting from the mentorship of Columbia nuclear-chemistry professor Jack Malcolm Miller. Career. Anders spent most of his scientific career on the chemistry faculty at the University of Chicago. He arrived as an assistant professor in 1955, gained tenure a few years later and was named the Horace B. Horton professor in 1973. He spent 1963\u201364 at the University of Bern as a visiting professor on sabbatical; he returned to the Swiss university for six shorter stays from 1970\u20131990. His first academic appointment was as an instructor at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) from 1954 to 1955. In"}, {"text": "1959, Anders won the Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his work on meteorites and asteroids. His findings during this period included evidence that meteorites come from the asteroid belt, and an explanation for the ways tiny diamonds could be created in meteorites, without requiring the enormous pressure that could only be found in larger bodies with greater gravitational forces. In 1973, Anders received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, acknowledging his work analyzing multiple batches of lunar samples brought back to Earth by the Apollo project. In 1974, Britain's Royal Astronomical Society named him an honorary foreign member, or associate. He also was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1974. Anders and colleagues began documenting evidence of stardust within meteorites in 1978, publishing findings in \"Science\" suggesting that \"primitive meteorites contain yet another kind of alien, presolar material: dust grains ejected from red giants.\" Subsequent research by Anders and coworkers established the presence of diamonds, silicon carbide and graphite in meteorites' interstellar grains. In a 1991 interview with \"Discover\", Anders referred to meteorites as \"the poor man's space probe.\" In the 1980s, Anders and colleagues published evidence in \"Science\""}, {"text": "and \"Nature\" of catastrophic fires 65 million years ago, caused by a giant meteorite crash in the Gulf of Mexico. Their research on the Cretaceous\u2013Paleogene extinction event analyzed silt sediments from sites as far away as Europe and New Zealand. In each case, they found high amounts of iridium (a rare element associated with certain meteorites) and massive amounts of carbon (associated with global fires) in the same layers. \"The first year after the impact was a dramatic and dangerous period for life on Earth,\" Anders told \"The New York Times\". In 1989, Anders and Belgian astronomer Nicolas Grevesse published \"Abundances of the Elements,\" a scientific paper cataloging the most reliable estimates to date of meteorite and solar abundances of more than 80 elements, ranging from hydrogen to uranium. Their findings have been cited in more than 11,000 subsequent papers by other scientific researchers, according to Google Scholar. Holocaust research. In 2003, Anders and co-author Juris Dubrovskis published \"Who Died in the Holocaust? Recovering Names From Official Records\". Their article, which appeared in Holocaust & Genocide Studies, used Latvian, German, Israeli and other records to document the fate of each of Liepaja's 7,140 Jewish residents during Nazi Germany's occupation. Anders"}, {"text": "and Dubrovskis established that only 208 survived. In 2004, Latvia's president, Vaira V\u012b\u0137e-Freiberga, spoke at the dedication of a Holocaust memorial in Liep\u0101ja. She closed by saying: \"I want to thank the Liep\u0101ja Holocaust Memorial Committee, its chairman Mr. Edward Anders, Mr. Vladimirs B\u0101ns, the authors of the project, and all who lent a hand to make this Memorial become reality.\" Death. Anders died in San Mateo, California, on June 1, 2025, at the age of 98."}, {"text": "The Willamette Valley Southern Railway was a railroad in Oregon that ran from Portland, Oregon, where it connected to the trolley line, through Molalla, Oregon, where it connected to the Eastern & Western Logging Railroad as well as Southern Pacific, to Mt. Angel, Oregon. The line was reorganized from the Clackamas Southern after facing financial troubles in 1915 and closed in 1933. Like many short lines of Oregon at the time, it ran off electricity from hydroelectric dams. For the last three years the line stopped just outside of Molalla. Only 400 feet of the railroad remains intact, nudged over a few feet from its original position of the Oregon Pacific Railroad. The Railroad used ALCo freight motors, as well as electric passenger cars similar to today's lightrail train cars. No original depots remain except a replica shelter north of Molalla. The railroad was sustained by logging operations in Molalla and when those ended in 1933 the railroad went bankrupt. Evidence of the former route is most prevalent in and south of Molalla List of stops on the line, north to south: Golf Junction, Hendee, Milwaukie, Lakewood, Oak Grove, Naef, Ashdale, Meldrum, Gladstone, Oregon City Robbins, Beaver Creek, Ingram, Spangler,"}, {"text": "Buckner Creek, Mulino, Liberal (connection with Southern Pacific, only remaining portion of the line now a spur) (Depot closed in the 1920s), Molalla (connection with Eastern & Western Logging Line), Kaylor. Yoder, Monitor, Mt. Angel (terminus with loop track, also connection to Southern Pacific)."}, {"text": "Sandy Collier was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 2011. Collier was named one of the \"Top 50 Riders of All Time in All Disciplines\u201d by Horse & Rider magazine. Life. Collier was born in Massachusetts. At age 6, Collier started showing horses in an English saddle. In 1972, at age 19, Collier was employed at the Tajiguas Ranch in Santa Barbara, California. She performed a wide variety of chores for the ranch. In 1980 she began her own business training. In 1992, two of her clients, David and Paula Hunsicker had her search for a snaffle bit prospect. At the Tejon Ranch, she met future NRCHA hall of famer Doug Williamson and found the horse. There was something about one mare that piqued her attention. Collier bought Miss Rey Dry and won the 1993 Snaffle Bit Futurity Open Championship. Collier is the only woman to win this race. She resides in Buellton, California. Career. Collier won the AQHA Jr. Cow Horse World Championship. She won the NRCHA Hackamore Classic Championship. She is the first woman winner of the NRCHA World Champion Snaffle Bit Futurity. In 2001, Collier won the Futurity Open Reserve Championship. In"}, {"text": "2002, she won the AQHA Junior Working Cow Horse World Championship on Sheza Shinette. She won the NRCHA World Champion Snaffle Bit Futurity Reserve Co-Championship. She won the NRCHA Stallion Stakes Champion. She won the NRHA Limited Open Champion. She won the AQHA World Champion. Collier is a AAA-rated NRCHA judge. She's also a member of the NRCHA Board of Directors. Collier is a clinician, the co-author of a book and some articles, and has published some DVDs, all on horsemanship."}, {"text": "Kyle Nelson (born April 20, 1991) is a Canadian mixed martial artist who competes in the UFC Featherweight division. He previously competed for the RXF promotion, as well as Elite 1 MMA. Nelson is a former featherweight champion in Elite 1 MMA. Mixed martial arts career. Early career. Born and raised in Huntsville, Ontario Canada, Nelson began competing in mixed martial arts in 2011. He held a 2\u20131 amateur record and then competed in local North American professional promotions. During this time he won the Elite 1 MMA Featherweight Championship, and also fought for the Lightweight Championship in TXC MMA. He then signed with the RXF in Romania, Europe, and after with the UFC in 2018. Ultimate Fighting Championship. Nelson made his promotional debut on December 8, 2018, on short notice against Carlos Diego Ferreira, replacing Jesse Ronson at UFC 231. He lost the fight via TKO in the second round. Returning to Featherweight Nelson next faced Matt Sayles on May 4, 2019, at UFC on ESPN+ 9. He lost the fight via submission via arm-triangle choke 3:16 into round 3. Nelson fought next at UFC on ESPN+ 17 on September 21, 2019 against Marco Polo Reyes. He won the"}, {"text": "fight via TKO at 1:36 of round 1, earning him his first UFC victory. Nelson was scheduled to face Sean Woodson in a catchweight bout of 150 pounds on June 27, 2020 at . However, Nelson was pulled form the event due to visa issue and he was replaced by Julian Erosa. Nelson faced Billy Quarantillo on September 12, 2020 at . He lost the fight via knockout in the third round. Nelson faced Jai Herbert on July 23, 2022 at . He lost the fight by unanimous decision. Nelson faced Choi Doo-ho on February 4, 2023, at UFC Fight Night 218. The fight ended via majority draw. Nelson faced Blake Bilder on June 10, 2023, at UFC 289. He won the bout via unanimous decision. Nelson faced Fernando Padilla on September 16, 2023, at UFC Fight Night 227. He won the fight via unanimous decision. Nelson faced Bill Algeo on March 30, 2024, at UFC on ESPN 54. He won the fight via technical knockout in round one. Nelson was scheduled to face Calvin Kattar on September 7, 2024, at UFC Fight Night 242. However, Kattar withdrew from the bout and was replaced by Steve Garcia. At the weigh-ins,"}, {"text": "Nelson weighed in at 148.5 pounds, two and a half pounds over the featherweight non-title fight limit. The bout proceeded at catchweight and he was fined 20 percent of his purse, which went to Garcia. Nelson lost the fight by technical knockout via elbows and punches in the first round."}, {"text": "Johann Balhorn the Younger (sometimes mistakenly spelled Ballhorn) (born 1550, died after 1604) was a German printer in L\u00fcbeck. He followed his father, Johann Balhorn the Elder in the printing trade, from whom he took over the printing house. Both used as a monogram the pictured printer's mark and a seal with a horn and three balls. In a play on their name the German word \"verballhornen\", which means \"parody\", was coined. Life. Johann Balhorn was the son of the printer Johann Balhorn the Elder and his second or third wife Elsabe (died after 18 October 1588). He had at least five siblings, two of whom died in childhood. The printer Jochim Balhorn, who died in 1559, was either his grandfather or uncle. The elder Balhorn died in 1573, and his son took over his father's printing business in his own name in 1575, shortly after he attained legal age. In 1578 he married Ermgard Ehlers (born 1555 probably in L\u00fcbeck, died 1595 or later). The couple had no known children. In 1584 he and Asswerus Kr\u00f6ger were th"the DS that was opposed to Slobodan Milo\u0161evi\u0107's administration. \"Zajedno\" won a majority victory in \u017dabalj and \u0110uki\u0107 was chosen as president of the local assembly, a position that was at the time equivalent to mayor. He served in this role for the next four years. In 2000, the DS helped to create the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), a broad and ideologically diverse coalition of parties seeking the overthrow of Milo\u0161evi\u0107's administration. DOS candidate Vojislav Ko\u0161tunica defeated Milo\u0161evi\u0107 in the 2000 Yugoslavian presidential election, an event that caused large-scale changes in Serbian politics. \u0110uki\u0107 received the lead position on the DOS's electoral list for the Vrbas division (which included \u017dabalj) in the concurrent election for the Yugoslavian parliament's Chamber of Citizens and was elected when the list won two of the area's three mandates. President of the Vojvodina executive council. The DOS won a majority of seats in the 2000 Vojvodina provincial election, which was held at the same time as the Yugoslavian federal elections. Although he was not a candidate in the provincial election, \u0110uki\u0107 was selected as the president of the province's executive council on 23 October 2000. In this role, he was a vocal proponent of"}, {"text": "increased autonomy for the province, saying in February 2001 that the province's levels of autonomy \"must be significantly enlarged.\" Early in his term, \u0110uki\u0107 led the provincial executive in adopting what he described as \"a letter of intent\" for negotiations with the republican government on autonomy; the document covered the responsibilities of the assembly, the local executive, and the relevant provincial secretariats. The provincial assembly approved the executive's proposals on 29 March 2001, by a vote of eighty-six to ten with two abstentions; some delegates boycotted the proceedings. In September 2001, \u0110uki\u0107 said that a working group consisting of members of the provincial and republican governments had reached agreement on a law to restore Vojvodina's original levels of autonomy in the Serbian constitution, overriding restrictions that had been added in 1990 and 1994. Two months later, the working group announced that it had reached agreement on a list of \"indisputable powers\" to return to the province and that relevant legislation would come before parliament by the end of the year. The regionalist Reformists of Vojvodina brought forward a non-confidence motion against \u0110uki\u0107 in late 2001, arguing that he was insufficiently committed to provincial autonomy and too closely aligned with DS"}, {"text": "party interests in Belgrade. The party withdrew the motion before a vote. \u0110uki\u0107's proposals for autonomy were opposed by the Democratic Party of Serbia (\"Demokratska stranka Srbije\", DSS), which was initially one of the parties in the DOS coalition. The DSS was excluded from the provincial executive after a reshuffle in March 2002; \u0110uki\u0107 justified this decision on the basis that members of the party had \"not only refused to work on the passage of the omnibus law [on autonomy], they went so far as to deny the rest of the DOS members in the Vojvodina Assembly the right to do that.\" In early 2003, \u0110uki\u0107 led the Vojvodina executive in adopting a symbolic motion on co-operation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). (The ICTY did not have direct relations with the province.) Later in the year, he met with Republika Srpska prime minister Dragan Mikerevi\u0107 and announced an agreement for Vojvodina to open an office in Banja Luka for greater economic co-operation between the entities. During discussions on the reform of Serbia's constitution in August 2003, \u0110uki\u0107 called for Vojvodina and other regions of Serbia to receive greater economic independence. In March 2004, he dismissed"}, {"text": "calls for a moratorium on privatization in the province. His term in office ended on 30 October 2004. Republican and federal politics after 2000. \u0110uki\u0107 continued to serve in the Yugoslavian parliament's Chamber of Citizens after becoming president of the Vojvodina executive. In February 2003, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was restructured as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The new state union had a unicameral assembly, the members of which were chosen by the republican assemblies of Serbia and Montenegro; only members of the republican parliaments and the previous federal assembly were eligible to serve. On 25 February 2003, \u0110uki\u0107 was selected as part of the DS's delegation to the new body. \u0110uki\u0107 appeared in the nineteenth position on the DS's electoral list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election. The list won thirty-seven mandates, and he was chosen to serve in the DS's delegation when the new assembly met in January 2004. (From 2000 to 2011, all parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be distributed out of numerical order. \u0110uki\u0107 did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of his list"}, {"text": "position, but he was nonetheless chosen as a Democratic Party representative.) His term in the national assembly was brief; he resigned on 12 February 2004, after being appointed to a new term in the federal assembly of Serbia and Montenegro. Following a party split in 2005, \u0110uki\u0107 joined \u010cedomir Jovanovi\u0107's LDP and served on the party's presidency. He was the LDP's only member in the federal assembly. The State Union of Serbian and Montenegro ceased to exist in 2006 when Montenegro declared independence. \u0110uki\u0107 appeared on the LDP's electoral lists in the 2007 and 2008 Serbian parliamentary elections, although he did not take a mandate in the assembly on either occasion. He also appeared on the party's list for the Assembly of Vojvodina in the 2008 provincial election. The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win any mandates in the provincial assembly. After withdrawing from politics for a time, \u0110uki\u0107 re-emerged in 2013 as the provincial leader of the URS in Vojvodina. He appeared in the 104th position on the party's list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election. This list, too, failed to cross the relevant electoral threshold. The party dissolved the following year."}, {"text": "Fatima Gailani (; born in Kabul in 1954) is an Afghan political leader and women's rights activist, who previously served as president of the Afghan Red Crescent Society. She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2021. Early life and education. Gailani is the daughter of Ahmed Gailani, the founder of the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan (NIFA) who fought against the Soviets in the Soviet\u2013Afghan War. She graduated secondary school from the Centre d'Enseignement Fran\u00e7ais en Afghanistan. She then earned a master's degree in Persian literature from the National University of Iran and a degree in Islamic studies from the Muslim College in London. Career. While in exile in London during the 1980s, Gailani served as spokesperson for the NIFA in the West. After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 1996, Gailani convinced Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, to issue a fatwa condemning the Taliban's ban on girls\u2019 education. After the Taliban regime fell in 2001, she returned to Afghanistan as a delegate in the 2002 loya jirga and then to participate in drafting a new constitution. From 2005 to 2016, Gailani served as president of the Afghan Red Crescent Society. In"}, {"text": "2017, she served as chair of the Red Cross Conference. During the Afghan peace process after 2018, she served as a member of the Afghan government's negotiating team. While recovering from cancer, she was one of only four women to have participated in talks with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar in 2020. After the Fall of Kabul in August 2021, she stated that the negotiating team had been close to a peace deal \"and then oops, the President has disappeared. For God\u2019s sake.\" Recognition. Gailani was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2021."}, {"text": "The Bute House Agreement, officially the Cooperation Agreement between the Scottish Government and the Scottish Green Party Parliamentary Group was a power-sharing agreement between the Scottish National Party (SNP) government and the Scottish Greens which was agreed in August 2021 to support the Third Sturgeon government and then was reaffirmed to support the First Yousaf government. The Agreement detailed the way in which the Scottish Government and the Green Group in Parliament worked together, the appointment of Green ministers, excluded policy areas from the Agreement, confidence and supply and dispute resolution. The agreement was accompanied by a shared policy programme, which sets out in detail where the two decided to collaborate. On 31 August 2021, the SNP and Greens entered a power-sharing arrangement which resulted in the appointment of two Green MSPs as junior ministers in the government, delivery of a shared policy platform, and Green support for the government on votes of confidence and supply. There was no agreement on oil and gas exploration, but the government now argued that it had a stronger case for a national independence referendum. The agreement was a key part of the 2023 SNP leadership election, with candidates Kate Forbes and Ash Regan"}, {"text": "critical of it, while Humza Yousaf was supportive. Following Yousaf's victory, he initially maintained the agreement during his first ministry. On 25 April 2024, following a meeting at Bute House, it was decided by First Minister Yousaf that the power sharing agreement would come to an end with immediate effect. The resulting government crisis led to Yousaf's resignation. Background. Previous SNP-Green collaboration. Following the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, the SNP won the largest amount of seats but fell short of an overall majority. As a result of this, then SNP leader Alex Salmond sought to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats. When those talks failed, the SNP chose to form a one-party minority government. The Greens signed an agreement where the Greens supported SNP ministerial appointments, but did not offer support for any confidence or budget votes (\"confidence and supply\"). The draft agreement was unanimously endo"Williams Hunt & Co. bicycle shop. The mining camp\u2019s first school was also alongside the church. The church served many purposes over its lifetime, including as a bakery, a lecture hall, an election polling place, and the office of the Rand Aids Association. Johannesburgers protested the government\u2019s decision to raze the buildings and replace them with a courthouse, which nevertheless took place in 1909. The South Gauteng High Court continues to operate today where the NGK\u2019s first church in Johannesburg once stood. The second church ceased to be the center of the congregation once the Johannesburg East Reformed Church (NGK) and the Jeppestown Reformed Church seceded on July 8, 1897, whence a temporary church, once again a wood and corrugated galvanised iron structure, was built on Jorissen Street in Braamfontein. The Second Boer War delayed construction of a more permanent church, the fourth and penultimate, which opened on April 13, 1904. Ons gemeente feesalbum reported in 1952 that \u201cthis building is due to be demolished soon so that the congregation can open the fifth church in its short history in 1953. So is Johannesburg!\u201d The demolition of the fourth church in the 1950s left the brick Jeppestown church as the"}, {"text": "oldest NGK church still standing in the city. The Rev. Martins served the congregation until his retirement in 1920. By 1952, there were already 25 congregations derived from the mother church, a number that reached a high of 47 in 1973 spun off in some way from Johannesburg and organized into five sub-synods or Rings (Johannesburg, Langlaagte, Turffontein, Linden, and Melville). By 2010, these had shrunk to just 21 with the absorption or merger of, by date of original secession, the Langlaagte (1892), Fordsburg (1896), Jeppestown (1897), Johannesburg East (1897), Turffontein (originally La Rochelle, 1906), Cottesloe (earlier Vrededorp, 1927), Rosettenville (1938), Brixton (1939), Malvern (1940), Johannesburg North (1942), Bezuidenhout Valley (1944), Johannesburg West (1944), Parkhurst (1944), Crosby West (originally Hurst Hill, 1949), South Rand (1950), Johannesburg South (1950), Belgravia (1952), Mayfair (1953), Auckland Park (1958), Northeast Rand (1959), Sterrewag (1964), and Andrew Murray (1966). These had been merged into Deo Gloria, Parkkruin (formerly Parksig and first absorbing Parkhurst), Vergesig, Kensington, and a reformed Johannesburg North-Andrew Murray, along with the one completely new congregation active today, Weltevreden. \"Ons gemeente feesalbum \"continues: \u201cthe 1886 mining camp became the largest city in South Africa, where roaring crowds jostle every day between tall buildings"}, {"text": "on crowded streets that cannot handle all the traffic, but high among the cliff-like apartment and office buildings stands the Johannesburg, as if to say, \u2018Man \u2013 he is like grass, but the Word of God is eternal.\u2019\u201d The Rev. and Mrs. Coetzee\u2019s arrival. On Friday, February 10, 1934, a motorcade of sixteen met the Rev. and Mrs. P.S.Z. Coetzee in Baragwanath on the highway from Potchefstroom. After singing Psalm 146:1 and an exchange of warm handshakes among attendees, the procession continued on to the parsonage, where several congregation members serenaded him with the hymn \"Dat 's Heren zegen op u daal\" (\u201cThe Lord\u2019s blessing be upon you,\u201d from Psalm 134:3). That night, around 600 occupied Eendrag Hall. Among the guests of honor who accompanied the new pastor and his wife from Free State were his mother as well as his father-in-law, Rev. Jacob Rabie of the Zastron Reformed Church (NGK). The function served both to welcome the new pastor\u2019s family and to say goodbye to Rev. Roode, who had served the congregation during the preceding vacancy. Several speeches were given by visiting pastors, and for the Saturday evening solemn investiture itself, no less than seventeen ministers and missionaries wished"}, {"text": "the new pastor the Lord\u2019s blessing with a warm handshake. Among them were the consulent, Rev. S.W. van Niekerk from Ringswe\u00eb, Rev. D.P. Cilli\u00e9 formerly of Johannesburg but now of Harrismith, and Rev. T.C. Esterhuizen, who managed the missionary program among the Cap"hold a second referendum on Scottish independence before 2026, and if possible by the end of 2023. The Alba Party criticised the agreement for a lack of urgency. Other issues. The agreement will see both parties pledge for an increase investment in active travel and public transport, enhancing tenants' rights, a ten-year \u00a3500m Just Transition and establishing a National Care Service. Housing-related measures in the agreement include the creation of a new housing regulator, greater restrictions on winter evictions and a commitment to implementing a system of rent controls by the end of 2025. Harvie credited tenants' union Living Rent with having \"created the political space\" for the rent control proposals. Excluded matters. Six matters are excluded from the Bute House Agreement, meaning the Greens are free to vote against the Scottish Government on these matters, and the Government is free to seek votes from other parties on these issues. These matters (except where mentioned in the agreement) include: This was illustrated in practice when the Greens opposed the Scottish Government on the establishment of freeports in Scotland, where the party's MSP Ross Greer voted against it in Committee. Aftermath. Implementation. Several key parts of the agreement have been implemented."}, {"text": "Soon after the Green ministers took office, Patrick Harvie launched the Heat in Buildings strategy as well as introducing and passing the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 to aid renters. There was also legislation passed to reduced fox hunting and reform gender recognition, although the latter was vetoed by the UK government. Both years budgets were supported by both parties with little dissent internally and Humza Yousaf's nomination as First Minister was passed with both parties support. However, the agreement's policies most associated with the Greens faced significant challenges. Scotland's Deposit Return Scheme, which was spearheaded by co-leader and circularity minister Lorna Slater, was delayed until at least 2025 as a result of the UK Government blocking the inclusion of glass bottles in the scheme. A commitment to protect 10% of Scotland's seas as Highly Protected Marine Areas was also dropped, and there was disagreement between the SNP and the Greens over a pledge from Humza Yousaf of a council tax freeze. Despite this, both critics and supporters of the Greens role in government agree that the agreement has allowed the party to have a lot of influence on the Scottish government. 2023 SNP leadership election. On"}, {"text": "15 February 2023, Sturgeon resigned from the role of SNP leader and First Minister, this triggered a leadership election. A key issue in the following leadership campaign became around the continuation of the power-sharing agreement with the Greens, with Humza Yousaf backing it, but Kate Forbes and Ash Regan criticising it. Forbes and Regan both suggested they would not be \"afraid\" of governing without the Greens. At the party's spring conference, Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater declared that while they had \"so much more to deliver\" in government, they would not do so at \"any cost\". The party further stated that it would not endorse a SNP leader who did not follow \"progressive values\". These comments were widely interpreted as meaning that the Greens would not support a government led by Forbes or Regan. This speculation was later confirmed by Harvie, stating that due to Forbes positions \"[the power-sharing agreement] would need to be ended\". After the election of Humza Yousaf as Leader of the Scottish National Party, the Scottish Green Party National Council unanimously voted to direct its MSPs to vote for Yousaf to become First Minister and continue their power-sharing agreement. The party's co-leaders continued to"}, {"text": "serve as ministers in the Yousaf government. Dissent over continuation. After the SNP leadership election, Forbes and Regan continued to advocate for the end of the Bute House Agreement. In April 2022, it was reported that 15 SNP MSPs who backed Forbes' leadership campaign are planning to challenge key Bute House Agreement policies. Former SNP Minister Fergus Ewing criticised the agreement's policies advocated from the Greens like deposit return scheme, dismissing the party as \"a small group of fringe extremists\". In October 2023, co-leader of the Greens, Patrick Harvie, commented that the critics of the Bute House Agreement in the SNP needed to reflect on the \"toxicity\" of the experience of minority government, and consider if they wished to return to it. Following the announcement by M\u00e0iri McAllan that Scotland would not see a 75% percent reduction in emissions by 2030 an extraordinary general meeting was called by Scottish Green Party members to discuss the future of the agreement. Termination. On 25 April 2024, following a meeting at Bute House, First Minister Humza Yousaf stated his intention to terminate the agreement with immediate effect. He hosted a press conference at Bute House where he stated that the agreement had served"}, {"text": "its purpose and it was decided that the power sharing agreement would come to an end. Several pro-independence figures including SNP MSP Fergus Ewing and Alba Party MSP Ash Regan, welcomed the end of the Bute House Agreement, and \"the return to competent government\". During an Edinburgh Fringe event, Humza Yousaf admitted he \"fucked up\" in how he ended the agreement, saying he did so in a miscalculation as \"the Greens rely so heavily on the SNP for the list vote\". Cass Review. Differing responses to the Cass Review have been cited as a factor in the breakdown of the Bute House Agreement. Harvie had said \"I've seen far too many criticisms of it to be able to say that [the Cass Review is a valid scientific document]\" and that the review had been \"politicised and weaponised\" against trans people. These comments led to tension with and widespread criticism from members of the SNP. Yousaf, conversely, largely accepted the review, saying that Scottish health boards and the Scottish government would consider its findings carefully and that medical decisions should be made by medical professionals rather than by politicians. Harvie's comments also led to a no-confidence vote in him from Ash"}, {"text": "Regan MSP. However, Yousaf has said that while Harvie's response to the Review did \"upset a lot of people\" in the SNP, it was \"not necessarily\" a factor in the ending the Bute House Agreement. Discussion at First Minister's Questions. The topic of the termination of the Bute House Agreement was the key subject at the First Minister's Questions session held that day with Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, Scottish Liberal Democrats leader Alex Cole-Hamilton welcoming the termination but strongly criticising and questioning Yousaf's competence as First Minister. Following First Minister's Questions, the Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater held a press conference where in which they stated that the decision from the SNP government to terminate the Bute House Agreement was \"an act of political cowardice\" and \"sold out for future generations\" before accusing the SNP leadership of appeasing the right-wing section of the party. No confidence motions. Douglas Ross announced to the Scottish Parliament that he had lodged a motion of no confidence in Yousaf as First Minister following the termination of the agreement, having stated that the Greens should have had no place in government. It was later announced that Labour,"}, {"text": "the Liberal Democrats and the Greens would back the motion brought forward. The earliest a vote could have been held is 1 May 2024. On 26 April, Yousaf postponed a scheduled speech at the University of Strathclyde on labour strategy in an independent Scotland. The same day he refused to resign as First Minister. On 27 April, Yousaf claimed that a snap Scottish Parliament election was a possibility. The following day, Alex Salmond said that his Alba Party was \"prepared to assist\" Humza Yousaf in the no confidence vote. His demand was a renewed Scottish independence plan. He appeared on \"Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg\" and said that the SNP should return to the \"people's priorities\" of education, jobs and industry; Salmond had first appointed Yousaf to government in 2012, becoming minister for Europe and International Development in the second Salmond government. Yousaf was reported to have ruled out any electoral pact with Alba, however the chair of Alba, Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, said that an \"electoral pact\" was not part of negotiations. Alex Cole-Hamilton ruled out Yousaf's offer of talks at Bute House. On 29 April, it was speculated that Yousaf planned to step down the next day, fearing that he could"}, {"text": "not survive the no confidence vote against him. The next day, Yousaf announced he would resign as both leader of the SNP and First Minister once his successor has been chosen. In his resignation speech, Yousaf stated that he believed the vote of no confidence could have resulted in his favour, however he choose to resign instead as he was \"not willing to trade [his] values and principles, or do deals with whomever, simply for retaining power\". On 30 April, officials at Holyrood announced that Labour's motion of no confidence would be voted on by MSPs the next day. The motion would require the entire Scottish Government to resign if it were to be passed. The Greens called for the motion to be withdrawn. The no confidence motion in the government was defeated by 70 votes to 56, after the Greens voted against. All Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Alba MSPs voted to support the motion. John Swinney was elected as the new Scottish National Party leader unopposed on 6 May. He was nominated as First Minister of Scotland by the Scottish Parliament on 7 May, a day ahead of officially being appointed by the monarch, Charles III, and sworn in"}, {"text": "at the Court of Session."}, {"text": "Xu Chen may refer to:"}, {"text": "Diddo is the artist name of \"Diddo Velema\" (born 7 July 1977). He is a Dutch conceptual artist and designer. Diddo is not part of a movement, although the media have compared his work \"Ecce Animal\" to the works of Damien Hirst and the other Young British Artists (YBA). Biography. Diddo Velema studied Media Design at the Utrecht School of the Arts and obtained his MA degree in Media Design from the University of Portsmouth in 2001. He works in Amsterdam. Themes. Diddo draws inspiration from human behaviour. Exploring space between what we think and what we allow others to think for us. His work is an attempt to define the boundary between perception and reality, and the process that turns image into icon. Personal crises are a source of inspiration, even more than major political issues. Works (selection). High Fashion Protection. In 2008, Diddo published photos of a series of gas masks purportedly designed in collaboration with brands such as Gucci and Vuitton. In reality, it was an art project with which he aimed to connect fear and consumer culture. The artist clarifies that we are in a state of perpetual war - with ourselves and with the ecosystem"}, {"text": "that sustains us. The series consists of a \"Scott Promask\" mask and two variants of the 'M-95 Military NBC' mask. Although not an actual product, it was considered a logical fashion product by website commentators. Project Womb. In 2011, Diddo presented his \"Project Womb\", a re-imagined coffin in the shape of a womb. Media storage within the coffin (and connected to the cloud) allows the deceased to save and pass on their memories. The work questions the boundaries of life and points out how technological advancements are extending our ability to effect the world after our deaths. The Cure for Greed. In 2012, he published an art object consisting of a 24-karat gold-plated syringe accompanied by a vial filled with extracted ink from currency. For the vial of ink, 10,000 dollars worth of 50 dollar bills were ground and chemically processed. In an accompanying video, the artist states that he wants to start a dialogue with the object about all aspects of greed. He wonders what greed is, where it comes from, and how it shapes our personal and cultural values\u2014and thus our future as a species. Ecce Animal. In 2014, Diddo introduced \"Ecce Animal\" ('Behold the animal'), a skull"}, {"text": "made with cocaine. The title of the work refers to Ecce Homo ('Behold the man'). In a statement belonging to the art object, the artist asks what becomes of the animal instincts of humans when they are no longer needed in today's society. The conflict between civilization and our animal instincts, according to the artist, is a tension between opposing forces that is alleviated by many with the use of drugs. For the artwork, Diddo collected cocaine from street dealers and then had it tested for purity in a laboratory. The artwork sparked outrage from people who believe that an object made of drugs should not be called art. In Anxiety we Trust. In 2022, he presented: \"In Anxiety we Trust\", a series of Rorschach cards made with donated human blood (SARS-CoV-2-vaccinated and unvaccinated). Like the Rorschach test, the work invites the viewer to explore their perceptions and projections. The artist questions whether in times of chaos and uncertainty, it is still possible to make informed and rational decisions when exposed to a high volume of information, misinformation and disinformation. He argues that when we are unable to rely on our decision making, we become anxious. And that this would"}, {"text": "eventually result in a choice between living in ignorance or in a constant state of anxiety. Exhibitions. His work has been exhibited at Guy Hepner gallery in New York and the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, among others."}, {"text": "Chen Xu is the personal name of Emperor Xuan of Chen () Other people with this name:"}, {"text": "The 2021 Israeli Basketball League Cup, for sponsorships reasons the Winner League Cup, is the 16th edition of the pre-season tournament of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. Twelve Israeli Premier League team's participated except from Elitzur Netanya which chose not to take part in light of the short preparation time available."}, {"text": "Nazar-ul-Islam (1939 \u2013 11 January 1994) was a Pakistani film director known for his movies like, \"Ehsaas\"(1972), \"Sharafat\" (1974), \"Aina\", and \"Bandish\"(1980). Early life. \"Nazar-ul-Islam\" was born in Calcutta in 1939 and later migrated to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). In 1971, after the separation of East Pakistan, he settled in Lahore, Pakistan. Career. \"Nazar-ul-Islam\" started his career as a film editor in the 1960s in Dhaka. He directed his first Urdu movie, \"Kajal\" in 1965. His other notable Urdu movie in Dhaka was, \"Piyasa\"(1969). After 1971, he became the most successful film director of Lollywood in the decades of 1970s and 1980s. His successful films include: \"Ehsaas\" (1972), \"Sharafat\" (1974), \"Ambar\" (1979), \"Bandish\" (1980), \"Nahin Abhi Nahin\" (1980), \"Do Deewane\" (1982), and \"Kalay Chor\" (1991). \"Nazar-ul-Islam\" brought a realistic approach to filmmaking and experimented with new themes for Urdu movies. His movie, \"Aina\"(1977) became a record-setting mega-hit in the history of Pakistani cinema. It ran for a total of 401 weeks after being released on 18 March 1977. Filmography. \"Nazar-ul-Islam\" directed 30 Urdu, Bengali, and Punjabi films. Some of his popular movies are: Awards. \"Nazar-ul-Islam\" received 4 'Best Director' Nigar awards for the following movies: Death. \"Nazar-ul-Islam\" died on 11"}, {"text": "January 1994, and was buried in Lahore, Pakistan. See also. List of Pakistani film directors"}, {"text": "Quilmes Atl\u00e9tico Club Women is the women's association football section of the homonymous club based in the city of Quilmes, in Greater Buenos Aires. The team was established in 2020. They play their home games at the youth football complex, known as \"Alsina y Lora\", where the junior teams also play their games. History. Formation. The women's football section of Quilmes was established on 28 August 2020, when the club began registration for the test of players of the professional team, which would begin to participate in the Primera Divisi\u00f3n C in 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina, the said tests would only be carried out between 23 and 25 November. First match. Quilmes played their first two friendly matches against Asociaci\u00f3n Nueva Alianza (team from La Plata). The first match ended 1-1, with a goal from M\u00eda Gonz\u00e1lez who had entered minutes before. In the second game, Las Cerveceras were defeated 2-1 with a goal from Florencia Cristaldo."}, {"text": "\u0110or\u0111e \u0110uki\u0107 may refer to:"}, {"text": "Cinemagic Theater is a theater in Portland, Oregon."}, {"text": "Santiago Alejo C\u00e1nepa is an Argentine handball player for Sociedad Alemana de Villa Ballester, Handebol Taubat\u00e9, Aranda and the Argentine national team. He represented Argentina at the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship."}, {"text": "Boki, Bokii, Bokiy, Boky, or Bokyi (Cyrillic: \u0411\u043e\u043a\u0456\u0439 / \u0411\u043e\u043a\u0438\u0439) is a surname. Notable people include:"}, {"text": "Melancholia () is a 2021 South Korean television series directed by Kim Sang-hyeob and starring Im Soo-jung and Lee Do-hyun. The series tells the story of scandals and corruption in private high schools in Gangnam. It premiered as tvN's 15th anniversary special project on tvN on November 10, 2021 and aired on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 22:30 (KST) till December 30, 2021. It is available for streaming on iQIYI and Viu in selected territories. Synopsis. \"Melancholia\" tells the story of Ji Yoon-soo (Im Soo-jung), a mathematics teacher at the prestigious private Ahseong High School, which is also a hotbed of corruption. She is good-natured on the outside, but gets very tenacious and stubborn once she makes up her mind about something. Extremely passionate about math, she is a teacher who encourages her students to find their own answers. At the school, she meets Baek Seung-yoo (Lee Do-hyun), a troubled student who is at the bottom of his class. She notices his potential"goals. Cybulski then spent a season with Stoczniowiec Gda\u0144sk before joining Lechia Gda\u0144sk the season after. His debut for Lechia came in the Polish Super Cup which the team won by beating Lech Pozna\u0144 1\u20130. That season Cybulski also made 26 appearances scoring two goals as Lechia won the II liga, and played in Lechia's first ever European game in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup against Juventus. The next four seasons Lechia played in the top division of Poland, with Cybulski making a total of 97 appearances in the I liga. Lechia were relegated at the end of the 1987\u201388 season to the II liga, with Cybulski leaving the club two seasons later. In his first spell with Lechia he played a total 176 league appearances for Lechia contributing 9 goals for the team. He then spent two seasons in Sweden with Hudiksvalls FF returning to Lechia Gda\u0144sk for a season in 1992 making a further 18 league appearances. In total for Lechia Gda\u0144sk Cybulski made 211 appearances and scored 9 goals. He then had a season in Belgium with CS Jemappes, returning to Poland the season after joining Pomezania Malbork. He played with Pomezania in the 1994\u201395 season with"}, {"text": "the club finishing 9th in the II liga, the club's highest ever league finish. After that historic season for Pomezania he returned to Ba\u0142tyk Gdynia, making a further 103 appearances over the next 5 seasons with Ba\u0142tyk, with a short 6-month spell at Wierzyca Starogard Gda\u0144ski in the middle of that 5 season spell. In total at Ba\u0142tyk Gdynia he made 142 league appearances scoring 9 times for the club. Cybulski spent the next five seasons with Cartusia Kartuzy in the fourth tier, helping the club to win promotion to the III liga in his final season. He then spent time with Orze\u0142 Tr\u0105bki Wielkie, KS Chwaszczyno, Sp\u00f3jnia Sadlinki, and GKS Kowale. After an 18-month period with GKS Kowale which was interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cybulski returned to Sp\u00f3jnia Sadlinki with whom he played for before playing with GKS Kowale. Coaching career. From 2009 until 2015 Cybulski was the head coach of KS Chwaszczyno taking the club from the sixth tier to the fourth tier. For the 2015\u201316 season he was in charge of Cartusia Kartuzy, being dismissed from his contract at the end of the season. In 2017 he became the manager of Sztorm Mosty. Honours. Ba\u0142tyk"}, {"text": "Gdynia Lechia Gda\u0144sk"}, {"text": "Adriano da Silva Moraes (born April 21, 1988) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who competes in the Flyweight division of ONE Championship. He is a former three-time ONE FC Flyweight World Champion. He is currently ranked #1 in the ONE Championship Flyweight rankings. Background. Moraes was born in Brasilia, Brazil and abandoned by his mother days after birth. He was taken to an orphanage where he lived for three years before being adopted. He was an active child who partook in judo and capoeira. Wanting to learn how to better defend himself, Moraes took up Brazilian jiu-jitsu. As a member of Constrictor Team, Moraes shined as a submission specialist. Moraes developed his skills and competed in jiu-jitsu tournaments before transitioning into MMA. He made his MMA debut in 2011. He would win the NAGA No-Gi Pro Division Championship in 2014 prior to earning his black belt. Mixed martial arts career. On September 4, 2011, Moraes made his professional mixed martial arts debut at Precol Combat 5 against Ismael Bonfim. Moraes won by first-round submission (guillotine choke). He would reel off six more victories before joining the longtime promotion Shooto in 2013. ONE Championship. On November 15, 2013, Moraes made"}, {"text": "his ONE Championship debut at . He lost a split decision to Yusup Saadulaev. First title reign. After back-to-back wins, Moraes met Geje Eustaquio for the vacant ONE Flyweight Championship. Moraes would capture his first world championship with a second-round guillotine choke on September 12, 2014 at ONE FC: Age of Champions. Moraes would successfully defend the belt against Riku Shibuya on March 13, 2015 before dropping the title in a close split decision to Kairat Akhmetov on November 21, 2015 at ONE: Dynasty of Champions. Second title reign. On August 13, 2016, Moraes captured gold once again as he became the interim ONE flyweight champion by defeating Tilek Batyrov via rear-naked choke at . On August 5, 2017, Moraes and Akhmetov fought in a flyweight unification bout. Moraes won the fight by unanimous decision and became the ONE flyweight championship undisputed champion. On November 10, 2017, Moraes successfully defended the title against Danny Kingad at by rear-naked choke in the first round. Moraes was scheduled to defend his title against Reece McLaren at on March 9, 2018. However, he suffered a knee injury and was forced to withdraw. Moraes was set to make his second title defense against Geje"}, {"text": "Eustaquio at on June 23, 2018. He lost the fight and the title via split decision. Third title reign. The"the Joint Force Headquarters\u2014Cyber (JFHQ-C) with United States Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER), and Deputy Commander (Operations) for Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), USCYBERCOM. She also served as Commander, 160th Signal Brigade, Third United States Army, Chief Information Officer/Director, J-6 with United States Southern Command at Doral, Florida and Director, J-3 with White House Communications Agency. She has served in army assignments in the United States, Kuwait, the Republic of Korea, Germany, and Saudi Arabia. She is a veteran of Operation New Dawn, Enduring Freedom and Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Barrett was promoted to brigadier general on 2 December 2015, and to major general on 2 August 2018. Personal life. Barrett is married to retired Lieutenant Colonel Brian T. Barrett, a former Signal Corps Officer. She has four siblings. Her younger sister, Paula Lodi, is a United States Army major general."}, {"text": "Ghulam Mustafa Mir was an Indian Politician and a member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly. He served twice as Member of the Legislative Assembly from Chadoora (Vidhan Sabha constituency) first in 1972 from the Indian National Congress and then in 1987 as an Independent Politician. Mir was abducted and assassinated by militants in March 1990. Political career. Mir joined the Indian National Congress in 1960 and fought elections from the party in 1972 in which he achieved victory with an impressive lead of 18961 votes and 20774 margin in total. He was considered a close ally but he left congress and later fought the 1987 assembly elections as an independent candidate where he again emerged victorious. Assassination. In March 1990, Mir left his house but was abducted on his way by militants, who demanded the release of eight militants. Negotiations however didn't go well and he was killed. Two days later, his body was found near Batamaloo and the accused gunmen were later killed in an encounter."}, {"text": "Hilde M. Palland (born 13 September 1979), also known as Hilde Palland-Mulder, is a Dutch politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 2019 until 2023. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), she was previously elected to the municipal council of Kampen from 2006 to 2018, where she chaired the party group from 2009 onwards. Palland became a parliamentarian upon the resignation of former party leader Sybrand van Haersma Buma. She studied law at the University of Groningen."}, {"text": "Abel Kitchin or \"Kitchen\" (died 1640) was an English merchant and Mayor of Bristol. He lived in Broad Street. Kitchin was Mayor of Bristol from 1612 to 1613. His business and shipping interests included the import of "Samos. Around the year 257 BC he was instructed to build a temple to Isis and Anubis at Canopus on behalf of Ptolemy II. That same year, he instructed his agent Zoilos to write to the chief finance minister of Egypt, Apollonius in regard to his request to pay the navy tax, and to also remind Apollonius that both Oromachos and Deinon were liable for the same tax demand. Callicrates is also known for the erection of a temple on Cape Zephyrion near Alexandria, where Arsino\u00eb II was worshipped as Aphrodite. This foundation is documented in a poem by Posidippus, and became one of the most important cult sites of Hellenistic Egypt. At Olympia, Greece he had constructed what must have been enormous statues of both King Ptolemy II and his sibling (sister wife) Queen Arsinoe II that stood on separate bases reportedly 24 meters wide. Callicrates himself was honoured by statues at Delos, Palai-Paphos and Kourion. As a \"benefactor\" of the city of Olous in Crete he received honorary citizenship (\"proxenia\"); he had probably been there on a diplomatic mission with about eight men about the time of the Chremonidean War."}, {"text": "Le Neve is a Breton surname. Historically most prevalent in Morbihan . People with that name include:"}, {"text": "Peter Lily or Lilly (died 1615), archdeacon of Taunton, was son of Peter Lily, prebendary of Canterbury, and grandson of the grammarian William Lily. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he became fellow, and graduated B.A., M.A., and D.D. He took holy orders, and was made rector of Fulham, Middlesex on 17 May 1598, prebendary of St. Paul's on 16 April 1599, rector of Hornsey, Middlesex on 1 November 1610, and archdeacon of Taunton, Somerset in October 1613 (Le Neve, \"Fasti\", i. 168). He was nominated by James I among the first fellows of Chelsea College, and is named in the charter of its foundation on 8 May 1610. Lily was also a brother of the Savoy Chapel, where he died in 1615. His will, dated 22 February 1614\u201315, was proved on 14 June 1615. He was buried in the chancel of the Savoy Chapel, where are also the tombstones of his wife (died 1 June 1627) and only daughter (died 10 October 1625). He published \"Conciones Du\u00e6\", London, 1619, and \"Two Sermons\", London, 1619. [Lansd. MS. 983, f. 52; Wood's Athen\u00e6 (Bliss), i. 34; Newcourt's Repert. i. 128, 587, 609; Faulkner's Chelsea, ii. 225; Cat. of the"}, {"text": "Bodleian Library.]"}, {"text": "AS Forces Arm\u00e9es, also known as ASFA, is a professional basketball team that is based in Senegal. They play in the Senegalese League. The team has won the Africa Clubs Championship three times, being behind only C.D. Primeiro de Agosto for most continental titles. History. AS Forces Arm\u00e9es won the FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup three times, in the years 1975, 1979, and 1981. They also competed at the 1976 edition and the 1981 edition of the Intercontinental Cup. Winners (3): 1975, 1979, 1981 Winners (10): 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1994, 1995 Winners (9): 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1987, 1992, 1994, 1995 Season by season. \"Only including seasons starting from 2019.\""}, {"text": "Marceliano Santa Mar\u00eda (18 June 1866 Burgos - 12 October 1952 in Madrid) was a Spanish painter, noted for his Castilian landscapes, historical art, and portraits. Life. Santa Mar\u00eda was born into a religious family with strong religious views. His full name was Marceliano Santa Mar\u00eda Sedano, although he always signed as Marceliano Santa Mar\u00eda. His uncle, \u00c1ngel Sedano, canon from Burgos Cathedral, was the founder of the C\u00edrculo Cat\u00f3lico de Obreros of Burgos, an institution where his father, a professional silversmith, also belonged. From an early age he began to show talent with painting; people were amazed with his speed drawing portraits. Santa Mar\u00eda studied high school in his hometown (although he finished them in Palencia) and attended the Provincial Academy of Drawing of Burgos located in the Paseo del Espol\u00f3n, where he received the classes of Isidro Gil and Evaristo Barrio His parents were opposed to his artistic vocation, however he always had the support of his uncle, who encouraged him to paint religious matters. Together with his uncle, he moved to Madrid, in 1885, with the intention of attending the classes of the Circle of Fine Arts and San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts. Similarly, he frequently"}, {"text": "visited the studio of the painter Manuel Dom\u00ednguez S\u00e1nchez, where he concurred with other young painters such as Fernando \u00c1lvarez de Sotomayor and Edu"Ultraviolet light initiates the polymerization of an acrylate based polymer that contains hydroxy groups on the polymer backbone. The system would also contain an isocyanate blocked with a malonate. This is now a one-component system. When heat is applied, the polymerization is initiated. Higher temperatures then unblock the isocyanate, allowing the cure and crosslinking of the urethane. Blocking agents. A number of blocking agents maybe employed but a common one is Methylethyl ketone oxime (MEKO). Caprolactam is also used. When blocked, there is no isocyanate (NCO) functionality, so it is much easier to disperse the species in water if the desire is to produce waterborne resins. One of the key reasons different blocking agents are used apart from chemical properties is that they unblock at different temperatures. MEKO has a fairly low unblocking temperature and is thus in fairly common usage. A mixture of blocking agents maybe used to optimize properties. Unblocking temperatures. Different blocking agents for isocyanates have different unblocking temperatures. Catalysts. Catalysts also have a role in the unblocking of blocked isocyanates. As with regular isocyanates organometallic compounds and tertiary amines may lower the unblocking temperature. Tin compounds, such as dibutyltin dilaurate, dibutyltin diacetate and other metal compounds"}, {"text": "are effective deblocking catalysts. Uses. Apart from uses in coatings and adhesives they are also used to enhance the performance of polyester tire cord. Other uses include Powder coatings, Coil Coatings, Cationic Electrocoating and primers. Blocked isocyanates have also been used in tertiary oilfield recovery techniques. A blocked isocyanate is pumped into the rock/geological formation and then an organic compound with an active hydrogen is also pumped down. The result is a polymeric gel assisting with oil recovery. The use of sodium bisulfite as a blocking agent has also allowed them to be used in waterborne resins such as PUDs. Similarly, vanillin maybe used as an isocyanate blocker and is actively being researched. It is then used in single component waterborne coatings."}, {"text": "Road 96 is a 2021 adventure game developed and published by French studio DigixArt as part of HP's \"OMEN Presents\", with additional publishing support by Plug In Digital. The game is set in mid-to-late 1996 within the fictional nation of Petria, an authoritarian country ruled by a dictatorship undergoing a potentially transformative election season. The player controls several teenagers as they attempt to flee the country through Petria's northern border via Road 96. \"Road 96\" was released for Nintendo Switch and Windows on 16 August 2021, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on 14 April 2022. The game received generally positive reviews from critics upon release. A prequel, titled \"Road 96: Mile 0\", was released in April 2023. Gameplay. \"Road 96\" is an adventure video game played from a first-person perspective. The game's campaign has the player assume the role of several teenage hitchhikers attempting to flee the authoritarian nation of Petria without being arrested or killed. Each time the player's character succeeds or fails at crossing the border, they assume control of a new teenager attempting to cross the border. Each crossing attempt advances the overarching story arc of the campaign, culminating in a"}, {"text": "finale set on September 9, Petria's election day. Decisions made by the player during previous attempts "text": "Marceliano Santa Mar\u00eda's name, dedicated exclusively to his work. Located inside the monastery of San Juan, it was inaugurated on June 29, 1966, with paintings donated by the painter's family. Some of the paintings exhibited in this museum are deposited by the Prado Museum as the work \" Paisajes de Castilla\". Work in other museums. Marceliano Santa Mar\u00eda's work can also be found in the Modern Art Museums of Madrid and Barcelona, Municipal Museums of Madrid and Barcelona, Museum of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando de Madrid, Army Museum in Toledo, Foundation Museum Cam\u00f3n Aznar de Zaragoza and other museums in Spain, Europe and America and in numerous private collections. Exhibitions. Individual exhibitions These are some of his most outstanding individual exhibitions: Collective exhibitions. Marceliano Santa Mar\u00eda participated in numerous collective exhibitions, of which the following are noteworthy, due to their importance and the prominent role that his work had in them:"}, {"text": "The Massacre of Glencoe Monument is a memorial to the Massacre of Glencoe (Scottish Gaelic: \"Mort Ghlinne Comhann\"), which took place in Glen Coe in the Highlands of Scotland on 13 February 1692, following the Jacobite uprising of 1689\u201392. Sculpted by Alexander Macdonald and Co. of Aberdeen in 1883, a tapering 18-foot granite Celtic cross soars up from a rugged cairn above the river in Upper Carnoch. Its design is based on the elaborate Gosforth Cross. An annual wreath-laying ceremony is held at the Monument to commemorate those who fell in the massacre."}, {"text": "Susan River is a rural locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Susan River had a population of 115 people. Geography. \"Susan River\" (the watercourse) enters the locality from the west and flows through to the east where it enters the \"Mary River\". \"Stockyard Creek\" enters from the north and flows south-east to join the \"Susan\". The river mouth is split, surrounding Kangaroo Island and Power Island, both of which are in the locality. Several tidal branches join the river near the mouth. Maryborough\u2013Hervey Bay Road (State Route 57) runs through from south-west to north-west. Demographics. In the , Susan River had a population of 136 people. In the , Susan River had a population of 115 people. Education. There are no schools in Susan River. The nearest government primary schools are Yarrilee State School in Urraween, Hervey Bay, to the north and St Helens State School in St Helens, Maryborough, to the south-west. The nearest government secondary schools are Hervey Bay State High School in Pialba, Hervey Bay, to the north and Aldridge State High School in Maryborough to the south-west."}, {"text": "Joseph or Joe Conlin may refer to:"}, {"text": "M. Rashiduzzaman Millat is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Jamalpur-1. Career. Millat was elected to parliament from Jamalpur-1 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. In 2007, Millat was sentenced to six years imprisonment for tax dodging. Bangladesh Supreme Court barred him from contesting the 2018 elections due to his conviction."}, {"text": "Sunshine Acres is a rural locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Sunshine Acres had a population of 1,009 people. Geography. Stockyard Creek, a tributary of the Susan River, rises in the locality. Maryborough\u2013Hervey Bay Road (State Route 57) runs along the western boundary. Demographics. In the , Sunshine Acres had a population of 949 people. In the , Sunshine Acres had a population of 1,009 people. Education. Ther"The 1950 Nairobi general strike was a nine-day general strike led by the East African Trades Union Congress (EAUTC) that took place in Nairobi, Kenya, in the spring of 1950. On 15 May 1950, union leaders Makhan Singh and Fred Kubai, under charges of being officers of an unregistered trade union whose registration had been refused, as per section 8 and 10 of the Trades Unions and Trades Disputes Ordinance, 1943. After the arrests, police cordoned off the EAUTC offices, blocking the EAUTC central council from having access to it. In response, the remaining EAUTC leadership announced their intentions to start a general strike at 14:00 the next day. By the end of the day, however, so many people had already walked out that the strike was already underway. The strikers demanded the release of Kubai and Singh, an end to workers being arrested in their homes in the middle of the night, the setting of a legal minimum wage, various employee benefits such as sick leave, and the changes to taxi driver municipal by-laws. Located between Nairobi's industrial area and the city's railway station, Kaloleni Valley became one of the epicentres of the strike, with multiple demonstrations being held"}, {"text": "there and a large bonfire being lit to symbolise the continuation of the strike. Strikebreakers had their heads shaved in the Valley and were forced to clean the local toilets. Local women played a significant role in the organisation of the strike and in maintaining supply lines. The colonial government reacted strongly, quickly declaring the strike illegal under the Essential Services Ordinance and sending vans with loudspeakers around the city to broadcast the government's position. The government also attempted to break the strike by sending in armoured cars, firing tear gas at demonstrations, and making hundreds of arrests. The Kenya Police Reserve and the Criminal Investigation Department conducted surveillance and infiltration of the strike, with snatch squads being assigned to kidnap union leaders. By June 1950, the strike had come to an end."}, {"text": "The Surgeon-in-Chief of the Swedish Air Force () was from 1943 to 1969 the senior-most medical service officer in the Swedish Air Force, responsible for flight surgeons and the overall aviation medicine. The Surgeon-in-Chief was posted to the Air Staff and reported to the Chief of the Air Force. History. The decision to establish a position of Surgeon-in-Chief of the Swedish Air Force was made through the Defence Act of 1942. The Surgeon-in-Chief was posted to the Air Staff. In the 1945 organization, the Surgeon-in-Chief assisted the Chief of the Air Force in inspecting the activities of the Air Force and was the service branch inspector for the Air Force's health care system and in this capacity was directly under the command of the Chief of the Air Force. The Surgeon-in-Chief answered under the Chief of the Air Force for the professional medical training of the surgeons. There was no special medical corps in the air force. The flight surgeons in active service consisted of appointed flight surgeons in the air force and appointed remunerated flight surgeons in the air force. Furthermore, there were flight surgeons in the air force reserve. The Surgeon-in-Chief of the Swedish Air Force was assisted"}, {"text": "in his work by an assistant (1st flight surgeon), an examination doctor (1st flight surgeon), who was the head of the Air Force's medical examination center, and two specialist flight surgeons, who handled special aviation medical matters. To be able to be authorized for the position of Surgeon-in-Chief of the Swedish Air Force, one first had to achieve the rank of \"flygl\u00e4kare av 1:a graden\" (\"1st flight surgeon\"). To gain employment as 1st flight surgeon, the following was required: The duties of the Surgeons-in-Chief of the different service branches were \u2014 with some exceptions \u2014 of a dual nature and included both a position as a service branch inspector and command of the appropriate administrative corps. The exception was that the Surgeons-in-Chief of the Swedish Air Force did not exercise command over an administrative corps, since the air force's surgeons did not form a special administrative corps organizationally. As a branch inspector, each of the three Surgeons-in-Chief were responsible for the condition of the relevant branch in various respects, such as the hygienic conditions, healthcare in general and the professional activities. Although the Surgeons-in-Chief of the Swedish Air Force did not head an administrative corps, he was largely responsible for"}, {"text": "the duties of the air force surgeons. In 1969, the Surgeon-in-Chief had seven officials under him. The same year the position was withdrawn. Training. The medical basis formally consists of a Licentiate of Medical Science (\"Medicine licentiatexamen\") degree and an additional eight months of hospital training, which corresponded to the training required for district medical officer qualifications. There was no significant further medical education. The military base consisted of the training provided within the framework of conscription. As a supplement to this, the military surgeons in active service had to undergo a military medical course (respectively aviation medical course) in six to eight weeks. In addition, some training has been announced in connection with unit-specific application exercises as well as field service, field, staff and war unit exercises. As far as aviation medicine training is concerned, a flight surgeon course was arranged on average every two or three years and included four weeks of training. In these courses, the main emphasis was on aviation medicine, staff and maintenance services as well as base support problems, especially in warfare with ABC weapons. In addition, there were refresher courses (staff courses) for wing surgeons, flight courses for flight surgeons and basic courses."}, {"text": "The wing surgeons' refresher courses (staff courses) were arranged annually for two to three days. During this training, new medical and weapons technical aspects were announced as a background for it ongoing planning work within the Air Force's medical organization. The flight course for flight surgeons was divided into two years with the first period of four weeks at the Swedish Air Force Flying School in Ljungbyhed and the second period of likewise four weeks on a wing. The course was voluntary and mainly led to flying in double command on suitable aircraft. The course was organized annually. Basic course was arranged every year or every other year and included one week. This dealt with maintenance and medical tactics and medical technical problems at an air base."}, {"text": "Peter Johannes \"Peter\" Valstar (born 27 March 1985) is a Dutch politician of the conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). He worked as a press officer for the VVD, as the political assistant of Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and as a spokesperson at the Ministry of Defence before being elected to the House of Representatives in March 2021. He lost his bid for re-election in November 2023. Early life and education. Valstar was born in the South Holland town of 's-Gravenzande and grew up in nearby Ter Heijde with his sister. He followed secondary education at havo level at the Zandevelt and Gasthuislaan locations of the Interconfessionele Scholengemeenschap Westland in 's-Gravenzande. He subsequently started studying Management, Economics, and Law but quit after two months. Valstar later studied communication studies at the Inholland University of Applied Sciences in The Hague between 2005 and 2009 and interned at early-evening talk show . Career. Valstar started his career in 2009 as a communications advisor for the VVD, where he worked on its social media strategy, and he became a press officer of its parliamentary group in the House of Representatives in 2011. He stayed in that"}, {"text": "position until he took a job as political advisor of Defence Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert in 2016. Another year later, Valstar became a senior spokesperson at the Ministry of Defence, serving under her successor Ank Bijleveld and Defence State Secretary Barbara Visser. While still in that position, he twice served as temporary political advisor of Prime Minister Mark Rutte at the Ministry of General Affairs because of maternity leaves, the first time from August 2018 to January 2019 and the second time from March to August 2020. He participated in the 2018 municipal elections as the VVD's fourth candidate in Westland, but his party came one seat short for Valstar to be elected to the municipal council. He was offered a seat in the council a month later after someone had stepped down to become an alderman, but Valstar declined it. He did assist the VVD's group in the council next to his job in the period 2019\u201321. From that position, he proposed to name more streets in the municipality after local soldiers and resistance fighters in World War II. Valstar ran for the House of Representatives in the 2021 general election, being placed 21st on the VVD's party list. He"}, {"text": "was elected and received 4,102 preference votes. He was sworn into office on 31 March 2021 and left his job at the defence ministry. Valstar is on the contact group Belgium and on the Committees for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality; for Defence (vice chair); for Digital Affairs (chair); for Foreign Affairs; and for Justice and Security. He became his party's spokesperson for fishery, nature, horticulture (a major industry in Westland), the countryside, animal welfare, war victims, and resistance fighters. However, later in 2021, his portfolio changed to nature, horticulture, and immigration (excluding migrant workers) before changing to defense, nature, and horticulture in early 2022. Valstar co-filed motions to arm MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles, to allow tastings of cultured meat, and to call on the government to aid the greenhouse horticulture sector in cooperation with banks in a time of high natural gas prices. All three were carried by the House. In September 2022 \u2013 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine \u2013 he joined Chris Stoffer (SGP) in the drafting of a bill to make sure defense spending would be at least 2% of Dutch GDP in accordance to a NATO norm. Personal life. Valstar has a wife named"}, {"text": "Larissa and two children, and he is a resident of his birthplace of 's-Gravenzande. He has also lived in Monster, Ter Heijde, Wateringen, and Naaldwijk, all located in the region of Westland. Valstar's hobbies include genealogy, and he has digitized his family tree together with a family member."}, {"text": "Mill Run is an unincorporated community"Urwick published \"The Evils, Occasions, and Cure of Intemperance\". He published in 1831 \"The true Nature of Christ's Person and Atonement stated\", in reply to Edward Irving, and in the following year \"One hundred Reasons from Scripture for believing in the Deity of Christ\". In 1835 he published \"The Value and Claims of the Sacred Scriptures, and Reasons of Separation from the Church of Rome\". Archbishop Richard Whately having published a letter to his Church of Ireland clergy forbidding the holding of meetings at which extempore prayers were offered, Urwick issued a reply \"Extemporary Prayer in Public Worship considered\", 1836. Urwick also wrote a memoir of his friend Thomas Kelly the hymn-writer. He marked the bicentenary of the Act of Uniformity 1662 by \"Independency in Dublin in the Olden Time\" (1862), giving the lives of Samuel Winter, provost of Trinity College, Dublin, from 1650 to 1660; John Rogers of St. Bride's, John Murcot, and Samuel Mather. In March 1866 he published \"Christ's World School\", essays in verse on Matt. xxviii. 18\u201320, and he left in manuscript two other poems, \"The Inheritance of the Saints\" and \"My Sligo Ministry\". His last book, \"Biographic Sketches of James Digges La Touche\", the patron"}, {"text": "of Sunday schools in Ireland, appeared after his death. \"A Father's Letters to his Son on coming of Age\" was published by the Religious Tract Society in 1874. Other works by Urwick were: Family. On 16 June 1818 Urwick married Sarah (d. 1852), daughter of Thomas and Mary Cooke of Shrewsbury. They had ten children, five dying young. Of the two surviving sons, William Urwick the younger also became a minister."}, {"text": "Cherwell is a rural locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Cherwell had a population of 10 people. Geography. The Isis River forms the northern boundary, while the Cherwell River flows through from the south-west to form part of the eastern boundary before its confluence with the Isis River. The Bruce Highway enters the locality from the south-east (Howard) and exits to the south-west (the locality of Isis River). The North Coast railway line also enters the locality from the south-east (Howard) north of the highway and exits to the north-west (the localities of Isis River and Buxton). Cherwell is served by the Wokka railway station (). The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation. Demographics. In the , Cherwell had a population of 8 people. In the , Cherwell had a population of 10 people. Education. There are no schools in Cherwell. The nearest government primary schools are Howard State School in neighbouring Howard to the south-east and Goodwood State School in Goodwood to the north-west. The nearest government secondary school is Isis District State High School in Childers to the west."}, {"text": "Pacific Haven is a rural locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Pacific Haven had a population of 778 people. Geography. The \"Burrum River\" forms the eastern and northern boundaries, while the \"Isis River\" forms part of the western boundary. Burrum is a neighbourhood in the south-east of the locality (). The land use is a mixture of rural residential housing and grazing on native vegetation. Demographics. In the , Pacific Haven had a population of 755 people. In the , Pacific Haven had a population of 778 people. Education. There are no schools in Pacific Haven. The nearest government primary school is Howard State School in neighbouring Howard to the south. The nearest government secondary school is the Isis District State High School in Childers to the west. Amenities. Pacific Haven Airport is at 153 Pacific Haven Circuit (). It includes a heliport (). There is a boat ramp on Walls Camp Road off Pacific Haven Crescent on the west bank of Burrum River (). It is managed by the Fraser Coast Regional Council."}, {"text": "The Roman Traditional Movement (, abbreviated MTR) is a Roman-Italic neopagan organisation in Italy. It was founded in 1988 as a unification of several existing groups. Among the founders were , Renato Del Ponte and Roberto Incardona. History. The Roman Traditional Movement was created in 1988, following an effort in the 1980s to unify different strands of Roman Neopaganism in Italy. A part of the background was a return to the religious roots of the Traditionalism of Julius Evola, represented by the Gruppo di Dioscuri and its successor Arx in Messina, but without the politics otherwise associated with Evola in the post-war period. Arx joined forces with the unrelated groups Centro Studi \"Claudio Flavio Giuliano\", the Istituto Siciliano di Studi Tradizionali and the Centro Studi \"Giorgio Gemisto Pletone\" to hold three meetings from 1985 to 1988, which resulted in the creation of a common organisation. Some of the key people involved were the religious writer and former Italian Social Movement politician , the historian Renato Del Ponte and the researcher Roberto Incardona. The original name was the Roman Traditionalist Movement (), which was shortened to the current name in 1998, following some defections and a reorganisation. Activity. The Roman Traditional"}, {"text": "Movement practices and works to support and spread what it calls the Roman Way to the Gods (), Roman-Italic religion (Italian: Religione Romano-Italica) or Gentile Roman religion. It publishes the magazine \"La Cittadella\" and organises meetings and conferences. In 2005 it became a member of the European Congress of Ethnic Religions."}, {"text": "Md. Amjad Hossain Talukdar is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member from the Kurigram-3 constituency. Career. Talukdar was elected to parliament from Kurigram-3 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1991."}, {"text": "Boonooroo Plains is a rural locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Boonooroo Plains had \"no people or a very low population\". Geography. Most of the centre and south of the locality is within Poona National Park. It consists of low-lying coast plains with a variety of shorebirds including the threatened eastern curlew (\"Numenius madagascariensis\") and endangered little tern. History. Poona National Park was gazetted in 1994. Demographics. In the , Boonooroo Plains had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Boonooroo Plains had \"no people or a very low population\". Education. There are no schools in Boonooroo Plains. The nearest government primary school is Granville State School in neighbouring Granville to the north-west. The nearest government secondary school is Maryborough State High School in Maryborough to the north-west. Facilities. Boonooroo transfer station is a waste disposal centre at 190 Boonooroo Road (). It is operated by the Fraser Coast Regional Council. Attractions. The Poona National Park consists of low-lying coastal plains with a variety of shorebirds including the threatened eastern curlew and endangered little tern."}, {"text": "Beaver Rock is a rural locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Beaver Rock had a population of 56 people. Geography. The \"Mary River\" forms the northern boundary, including two reaches of the river (from west to east): The river mouth into the Great Sandy Strait is at the north-east of the locality. Along the riverside is Upper Rocky Point (). There are a number of named features within the river. Beaver Rock is a rock in the Mary River () and presumably the origin of the locality's name. Brothers Islands is an island group (). It has one named feature, Fison Point () Middle Bank is a bar (). The land use is a mix of rural residential housing, mostly in the west of the locality, with the remainder being farmland, consisting of growing sugarcane and grazing on native vegetation. History. In May 2012, a saltwater crocodile was found in the Mary River between Brothers Island and the mainland, significantly further south than the normal range for such a crocodile. As per Queensland Government policy, crocodiles spotted south of the Boyne River are trapped and relocated to their natural habitat by wildlife official. However, the"}, {"text": "crocodile eluded the trap for many months, with wildlife officials reporting confirmed sightings of a second smaller crocodile in the river in July 2013. The smaller female crocodile was trapped in November 2013. In November 2014, the larger male crocodile was harpooned approximately up the river at Grahams Creek to be relocated to Koorana crocodile farm at Rockhampton. Demographics. In the , Beaver Rock had a population of 49 people. In the , Beaver Rock had a population of 56 people. Education. There are no schools in Beaver Rock. The nearest government primary school is Granville State School in Granville to the west. The nearest government secondary school is Maryborough State High School in Maryborough, also to the west. Amenities. There is a boat ramp on Beaver Rock Road on the south bank of the Mary River (). It is managed by the Fraser Coast Regional Council."}, {"text": "Nayua Miriam Goveli Alba (born 1990), best known as Nagua Alba, is a Spanish politician. She was a member of the 11th and 12th terms of the Congress of Deputies in representation of Gipuzkoa. Biography. Born on 16 March 1990 in Madrid, daughter of writer , her father is an Egyptian, Ahmed Goueli. Through her mother, she is granddaughter of Lolo Rico and great-great-granddaughter of Santiago Alba Bonifaz. Raised in the Basque Autonomous Community, she earned a licentiate degree in Psychology from the University of the Basque Country, later obtaining a Master in Psychology of the Education at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). She led the Podemos-Ahal Dugu congressional electoral list in Gipuzkoa for the December 2015 general election, and became a member of the 11th term of the Lower House. She became the Secretary-General of Podemos Euskadi in March 2016, replacing Roberto Uriarte. She repeated the leading place in the party list in Gipuzkoa for the June 2016 general election, renovating her seat for the 12th Congress of Deputies. Considered (in the context of the Vistalegre II party assembly) close to the project of \u00cd\u00f1igo Errej\u00f3n (defeated by Pablo Iglesias'), she called in August 2017 a snap primary"}, {"text": "election to determine the party leadership in the Basque Country, announcing she would not stand up for re-election."}, {"text": "Drypetes gerrardii is a species of small tree or large shrub in the family Putranjivaceae. Common names include forest ironplum, bastard white ironwood, and forest ironwood. It is native to tropical and subtropical central and eastern Africa. It was first described in 1920 by the English botanist John Hutchinson, who named it after the English botanist William Tyrer Gerrard who collected plants and seeds in southern Africa in the 1860s. Description. \"Drypetes gerrardii\" is a small tree or large evergreen shrub, growing to a height of about . The trunk is fluted and buttressed in larger trees, and the bark is smooth. Small branches and twigs are squarish in cross section and are clad in golden hairs when young. The leaves are alternate and held in one plane. The blades are ovate to elliptic and up to long, shiny dark green above and pale green below with a felting of pale hairs on the leaf stalk and the midrib. The leaf margin is entire or lightly toothed and the tip acute or acuminate. Male and female flowers are found on separate trees; they are small, yellowish-white and hairy, male flowers being in a group in the axil of a leaf,"}, {"text": "and female flowers being solitary. The fruits are fleshy, hairy, spherical drupes up to in diameter, ripening to a yellow or orange-red colour. Distribution and habitat. This tree is native to Central and Eastern Africa, where its range extends from South Sudan, Uganda and Kenya, southwards to Angola, eastern South Africa and Eswatini. In South Africa it is found in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga p"as a condition of their 2020 merger with T-Mobile (which also includes an agreement for use of their network for seven years). As part of the agreement, Dish agreed to subcontract backend services (including provision and billing) for its wireless business to Tucows. The sale did not include the Ting branding or Ting Internet division; Dish received a two-year transitional license to the Ting branding, with the option to acquire it at a later date. In August 2020, Dish finalized the purchase of Ting Mobile from Tucows. In November 2020, Robert Currie was named head of the brand. Its plan also changed, moving away from pay-as-you-go rates. In June 2022 Dish offered wireless services through its Ting Mobile, Boost Mobile, Republic Wireless, and Gen Mobile brands. As of September of 2022, Ting Mobile plans use the Verizon network. On June 6, 2025, it was reported that parent company EchoStar Corporation was preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) suspended EchoStar's ability to plan out strategic decisions for its Boost Mobile subsidiary. In addition, other factors contributing to this decision included missing over $500 million in interest payments and the termination of the Dish"}, {"text": "Network acquisition by DirecTV. Business model. Ting's cellular business model does not subsidize phone sales or require contracts beyond month-to-month. Pricing is in separate data tiers, all of which deliver tiered voice and text. Ting supports devices that run on T-Mobile's (GSM) and Verizon's (CDMA) cellular networks depending on the frequencies of the device. Devices can be purchased through Ting's Web site or other sellers. The customer then enters the device's electronic serial number on Ting's site to activate the device. Ting provides a device checker to advise what level of compatibility the device will have on their CDMA and GSM networks. Services. In 2019, the company offered its service on GSM, CDMA and High Speed Packet Access (HSPA)."}, {"text": "Ferrell is an English surname of Irish origin. Ferrell may also refer to:"}, {"text": "William McPherson Rice (1796\u20131868) was an English Naval Architect and Master Shipwright. Early life. William McPherson Rice was born in Portsea, Hampshire on May 1, 1796, the son of William McPherson Rice, a ships mate and Ann Stigant. Rice senior had seen action aboard during the American Revolutionary War. His mother died in childbirth the following year and his father died in 1800. (There are no records of any siblings surviving infancy.) In 1813 Rice entered the School of Naval Architecture in Portsmouth. Career. Rice held appointments in various naval dockyards (Deptford Dockyard, Portsmouth Dockyard, Chatham Dockyard) between 1819 and 1822 when he became draughtsman to Sir Robert Seppings (1767-1840) in Chatham. In 1822-23 he assisted in the excavation and investigation of an ancient vessel found in the River Rother, East Sussex. Rice's report suggested a less \"ancient\" provenance for the vessel than much of the sensational conjecture at the time. The Society of Antiquaries of London included the full text of Rice's report on the vessel in Volume XX of their journal \"Archaeologia; or, Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity\". In 1824 he sailed via Lisbon and Madeira to South America aboard the frigate to assist in repairing . The"}, {"text": "journal he kept while on this journey is held in the collection of the Royal Museums Greenwich as are the log books of the ships Aurora and on which he returned. After his return from the South American Station to Chatham-Kent and his marriage in 1825 he was appointed Foreman of the Portsmouth Dockyard. In 1837 he led a team of shipwrights to Rathmullan on Lough Swilly to refloat and repair the beached , which, under the command of Captain George Back (1796-1878), had returned from the Arctic badly damaged by the ice. Rice's repairs, which enabled \"Terror\" to sail to the Royal Navy's Chatham Dockyard, are commended by Back in his complete \"Narrative\" of the 1836-37 voyage and Rice's correspondence with Captain Back and his own report on the repairs completed are held in the Royal Museums Greenwich collection. Later life. In 1844 he was promoted to Assistant Master Shipwright and in 1852 was appointed Master Shipwright at Pembroke Dockyard but held that office for less than a year. Death. On February 11, 1868, Rice died at his cottage in Hastings aged 71 and was buried in the parish of St Clement, Halton. Family life. On 25 June 1825,"}, {"text": "Rice married Fanny Turner at St. Nicholas church in Plumstead and they lived adjacent to the Chatham Dockyard in Brompton where all of their eight children were born. Three of their children died in infancy. After the birth of their youngest daughter, they moved to Rainham still close to the dockyard."}, {"text": "Siganus fuscescens, the mottled spinefoot, black rabbitfish, black spinefoot, dusky rabbitfish, fuscous rabbitfish, happy moments, mi mi, pearl-spotted spinefoot, pin-spotted spinefoot, stinging bream or West Australian rabbitfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a rabbitfish belonging to the family Siganidae. It is found in the Western Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy. \"Siganus fuscescens\" was first formally described in 1782 as \"Centrogaster fuscescens\" by the Dutch naturalist Martinus Houttuyn with the type locality given as Nagasaki. This taxon is largely sympatric with the white-spotted spinefoot (\"Siganus canaliculatus\") and these taxa are also very similar in appearance. Molecular analyses in 2011 found that there were three separate lineages within \"S. canaliculatus\" and \"S. fuscescens\", that these lineages interbred and that each lineage had specimens which referred to either taxon. The authors thus concluded that \"S. canaliculatus\" is in fact a synonym of \"S. fuscescens\". This, however, is not the position taken by FishBase, although it does note that the two species are sometimes confused. The \"Catalog of Fishes\", on the other hand, recognises the third lineage as the species \"Siganus margaritiferus\", found from the Andaman Islands to the Solomon Islands, north to Japan and south to Australia. Further molecular analyses have found that"}, {"text": "this may be a species complex and, while not resolving the potential synonymy of \"S. canaliculatus\", these have suggested that there are cryptic species within \"S. fuscescens\". The specific name \"fuscescens\" means \u201cdarkened\u201d, thought to be a reference to the dark upperbody. Description. \"Siganus fuscescens\" has a moderately slender, laterally compressed body, the standard length being 2.3 to 2.9 times its depth. The dorsal profile of the head is weakly to notably concave over the eyes with either a blunt or a pointed snout. The front nostril has a flap which becomes shorter as the fish grows and is reduced to a small peak in the oldest fishes. The dorsal fin has 13 spines and 10 soft rays while the anal fin has 7 spines and 9 soft rays. The front spine on the dorsal fin points forwards. The caudal fin is nearly emarginate in smaller individuals of less than standard length becoming forked in larger fish. This species attains a maximum total length of , although is more typical. The overall colour of this rabbitfish is greenish-grey to brown, fading to silvery on the lower body, and it has a large number of small light-bluish spots on the flanks,"}, {"text": "and a slender brown bar along the upper margin of the operculum. Additionally, they frequently possess a dark patch under the start of the lateral line. When they are asleep or threatened, the adults adopt a mottled pattern. Distribution and habitat. \"Siganus fuscescens\" is found in the eastern Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific Ocean from the Andaman Sea east to Fiji and Samoa, north to Japan and south to Australia. In Australia, its range extends from Busselton, Western Australia around the tropical northern coast to the Nadgee River in southern New South Wales. It is found around Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. There is a single record from the Italian Mediterranean Sea,( this is the most abundant fish in the Mediterranean Sea for the last 40 years )but it is thought that this record probably refers to an individual transported by shipping. It is found as deep as in shallow coastal waters in algae, sea grass and coral or rocky reefs. It is frequently encountered in large estuaries. Biology. \"Siganus fuscescens\" is a schooling species and is a mostly diurnal fish. The juveniles have a diet dominated by filamentous algae while the adults prefer leafy algae and"}, {"text": "sea grass. When they arrive on coral reef flats, the larvae aggregate in schools with a normal size of 200 individuals, but may hold as many as 5,000. When they have reached 3 months old, the number of fishes in a school declines to about 12. Prior to spawning, this species forms aggregations of 30-60 individuals in raised areas of the inner reef flats and they spawn on the 4th or 5th day of a new moon. Spawning occurs near the edge of the reef, and each female lays around 300,000 eggs in a single spawning. Individuals will spawn in consecutive years and fish more than two year old may spawn more than once in a season. Venom. \"Siganus fuscescens\", like other rabbitfishes, has venomous spines in the dorsal and pelvic fins. The venom in this species has been found to be similar to that found in stonefishes. The venom is usually non-lethal. However, it can cause sharp pain, bleeding and numbness at the punctured area. Soaking the affected area in water of around 45\u00b0C could help eliminate or ease the pain. Fisheries. \"Siganus fuscescens\" is caught using small seine nets, set nets, fish traps, and by spearfishing. Landed adults"}, {"text": "are sold as fresh fish, but juveniles are frequently preserved as dried fish and sold in large quantities."}, {"text": "Andrew Man (sometimes spelt Andro Man) was a cunning man and healer in Aberdeen who was tried as a witch in 1597, when an old man, and burnt in 1598. He said that his powers came from the Queen of Elphame \u2013 a fairy queen with whom he had regularly consorted. His story is notable as an example of a male witch who was believed to have had a sexual relationship with a supernatural entity - in the case of female witches, they were typically believed to have consorted with the Devil, whereas Man claimed to have sexual relations with a local folkloric fairy queen. Trial and testimony. Man claimed to have first met the fairy queen as a boy, when in return for his kindness to her, she bestowed him with healing powers. After meeting her again as an adult, Man claimed that the two became lovers. Man did develop a reputation of being a healer among his neighbours. At his trial, Man described scenes reminiscent of the contemporary conception of a Witches' Sabbath, feasting and dancing with half-man, half-stag beings. Scottish belief in fairies and other folkloric supernatural beings was interpreted by the Inquisitors as evidence of consort"}, {"text": "with demons. Little distinction was made by the Church between different types of magics. Court trials in the late 16th century Scotland record testimony by the accused declaring their powers to be fairy-derived and others claimed to have long-term relationships. According to Andrew Man he had fathered children with the Fairy Queen in his 1598 confessional."}, {"text": "The Congolese ambassador in Belgium is the official representative of the Government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Government of Belgium."}, {"text": "The Constituent Charter of the Belarusian People's Republic () are documents adopted by the Executive Committee of the Council of the All-Belarusian Congress and the Council of the BNR in February and March 1918, which proclaimed the will of the Belarusian people regarding their national and state future. The First Constituent Charter. Adopted by the Executive Committee of the Council of the All-Belarusian Congress on February 21, 1918 in Minsk. The First Constituent Charter called on the Belarusian people to exercise their right to \"full self-determination\" and national minorities to exercise national and personal autonomy. Referring to the right of peoples to self-determination, the authors of the charter argued that power in Belarus should be formed in accordance with the will of the peoples inhabiting the country. This principle must be implemented through democratic elections to the All-Belarusian Constituent Assembly. The Second Constituent Charter. Adopted by the Executive Committee of the All-Belarusian Congress on March 9, 1918 in Minsk. The Belarusian People's Republic was proclaimed within the limits of the settlement and numerical superiority of the Belarusian people. The rights and freedoms of citizens and peoples of the Belarusian People's Republic were proclaimed: freedom of speech, press, assembly, strikes, allies;"}, {"text": "freedom of conscience, inviolability of person and premises; the right of peoples to national and personal autonomy; equality of all languages of the peoples of Belarus. Private ownership of land was abolished, the transfer of land without redemption to those who worked on it was announced; forests, lakes and subsoil were declared state property. The maximum length of the working day was 8 hours. The Third Constituent Charter. Adopted by the BNR Council on March 25, 1918 in Minsk. The Belarusian People's Republic was proclaimed an independent state. The BNR Rada demanded to revise the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. In the lands of the former Russian Empire, where the Belarusian people live and have a numerical advantage, a free, independent state was proclaimed; it included Mahilio\u016d, Mensk, Viciebsk, Belarusian parts of Horadnia, Vilno, Smolensk, Chernihiv and neighboring governorate. The rights and freedoms of the citizens and peoples of Belarus, proclaimed by the Second Constituent Charter of March 9, 1918, were also confirmed."}, {"text": "Martha Frayde (born 15 August 1920 in Havana, deceased 4 December 2013 in Madrid) was a Cuban doctor, dissident, and revolutionary. Biography. Frayde earned a degree in medicine from the University of Havana in 1946, specialising in gynecology, before completing a post-doc at McGill University in Canada. On returning to Cuba from Canada in the early 1950s, she joined the left-wing Partido Ortodoxo. After striking up a friendship with Fidel Castro, she joined the 26th of July Movement in 1953, becoming a revolutionary guerilla. In 1957, she was briefly arrested, but was able to escape. After the success of the Cuban Revolution in 1958, she was named head of the National Hospital in Havana and joined the new Cuban government on several diplomatic missions. She then became Cuban ambassador to UNESCO until 1965, at which point she resigned in protest over the Cuban government's increasingly pro-Soviet position. She then spent the next few years practising medicine privately out of her home, suffering harassment from the Castro regime and being prevented from leaving the country. In 1976, she co-founded the Cuban Human Rights Committee along with Elizardo S\u00e1nchez. She was subsequently arrested and sentenced to 29 years in prison for espionage."}, {"text": "After international outrage over her imprisonment and the conditions of her detention, she was released and exiled to Spain. In 1983, she was interviewed for the Improper Conduct documentary. In 1987, she published a book titled \"Listen, Fidel\". She died in 2013 in Madrid, at the age of 93."}, {"text": "Tan Shumei (born 24 August 1989) is a Chinese wheelchair fencer. She won gold medals in both the women's Sabre B and \u00c9p\u00e9e B events at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. She also won the gold medal in the Team \u00c9p\u00e9e. She also won four World Championship medals."}, {"text": "Denis Welch (16 March 1945 \u2013 27 July 2014) was a British racing driver and businessman. Denis Welch Motorsport. Welch founded \"Denis Welch Motorsport\" in 1976, specialising in parts for Austin-Healey and Jaguar cars. The company remanufactures parts for classic racing cars which would otherwise be impossible to obtain. His son Jeremy took over the company in 2007. Historic racing. Welch started racing in 1965. He took motorsport seriously but did not have ambitions to race professionally; he focused on building his engineering company and continued to race on the side. Welch was particularly noted for his red 1959 Austin-Healey 3000, nicknamed \"The Bulldog\" and with registration 6200 NO, which he drove to great success in a flamboyant, oversteering style. He purchased the car in 1979 and fully restored it, going on to win a multitude of races including the Eifel Classic at the N\u00fcrburgring Nordschleife and events at Bathurst. He won the HSCC Pre-1960 Historic Sports Car Championship in 1986 and 1987, and the HSCC Classic Sports Car Championship in 1988, 1991 and 1992. Along with son Jeremy, he drove the car to a narrow second in the 1997 Motor Classic Six Hours of Spa, only losing the lead"}, {"text": "in the final half-hour when a backmarker cost them a penalty. Victories at Brands Hatch in 1993 and Donington Park in 1996 also received magazine coverage. Welch was an accomplished historic Formula Junior racer and drove a Merlyn for many years in the FIA Lurani Trophy, the first officially sanctioned historic motorsport series. He never won the title, but lost out on a tie-break in 2004. His first single-seater race weekend in 25 years came at Donington Park in 1995, where he netted a second-place and third-place finish. A selection of his Formula Junior victories were at Dijon-Prenois in 2001, at the N\u00fcrburgring in 2001 and 2004, at Pau in 2001, in the wet and the dry at Donington Park in 2004 and 2005, at Monza in 2004 for the closest finish ever recorded at the circuit (0.003 s), and at Silverstone in 2008. In addition, Welch won the Formula Junior race at the Historic Grand Prix of Monaco in 2000, 2002 and 2006; the victory in 2000 was his first in the category and he was elated after the race: \"I\u2019ve waited a long time for a Junior win, so this is magic. I\u2019d never classed myself as that"}, {"text": "good a driver, but to see Stirling Moss half out of his car, waving and cheering as I came in, was incredible.\" In 2003, the Macau Grand Prix celebrated its gol"Chen Zhongyi (; July 1923 \u2013 7 October 2019) was a Chinese civil engineer, engineering academic, and politician. He was a professor of Tsinghua University, and served as Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League and Vice Chairman of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Biography. Chen was born in July 1923 in Taipei, Taiwan. From 1942 to 1945, he studied at the Department of Civil Engineering of St. John's University, Shanghai. From 1945 to 1949, Chen worked as a technician in the Taiwan Provincial Public Works Bureau, an assistant engineer of the Taiwan Engineering Company, and an assistant director of the US News Service in Taipei. From 1949 to 1950, he was a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, and then worked as an engineer in Los Angeles after earning his master's degree. Chen returned to China in 1951. He served as a lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering of Yenching University before transferring to the Department of Hydraulic Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1952, where he taught as an associate professor and later professor until 1988. His students included Hu Jintao,"}, {"text": "the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party between 2002 and 2012. Chen joined the China Democratic League in 1952. In 1980 he joined the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League (Taimeng). He served as Chairman of Taimeng's Beijing Municipal Committee and Vice Chairman of the 5th Central Committee of Taimeng. He subsequently became an Honorary Vice Chairman of the 6th and 7th Central Committees. He was a member of the 5th to 9th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and served in the Standing Committee of the 7th and 8th CPPCC. He was also a Vice Chairman of the Beijing Municipal CPPCC. Chen died in Beijing on 7 October 2019, aged 96."}, {"text": "CY8ER (pronounced as \"cyber\") was a Japanese alternative idol girl group. Formed by Ichigo Rinahamu and Nicamoq as BPM15Q in 2015, the group expanded and had five members by the time of their dissolution in January 2021. Their music was characterized by its peculiar EDM style with an added \"kawaii\" element. History. The group was founded as BPM15Q in 2015 by , a former member of idol groups BiS and Akishibu Project, and Nicamoq, a DJ. The name BPM15Q was chosen as a reference to the two members: 15 for Ichigo Rinahamu (One is pronounced \"ichi\" and five is pronounced \"go\", putting them together made \"ichigo\") and Q for Nicamoq. The duo began releasing a series of songs, out of which peaked at 3rd on iTunes' J-pop charts. In November 2016, BPM15Q released their first album titled \"BPM15Q All Songs\" via Ichigo Rinahamu's own label, Icigo Style. The album contained all of the songs the duo has released so far. In December 2016, the group announced the additions of two members: , a former DJ, and , former member of idol group DEEP GIRL. December also saw the departure of Nicamoq. With the changes, the group renamed itself to \"CY8ER\"."}, {"text": "The group released two singles before the additions of three more members in April 2017: , former member of Ice Cream Suicide and Bellring Sh\u014djo Heart; ; and . The six-person group soon made headlines for an event inviting fans to hug a member, but each member was wearing full chemical protective clothing. Naatan Koromushi left the group in March 2018. As of April 2014, four additional singles and one album were released. The group disbanded on January 10, 2021, following their last live show at Nippon Budokan. In April 2022, the original duo officially announced they will resuming their activities as BPM15Q under Victor Entertainment\u2019s label."}, {"text": "Leonas Prapuolenis (9 June 1913 \u2013 23 July 1972) was a Lithuanian public figure, commander and leader of the June Uprising of 1941 in Lithuania. Born to a family of affluent farmers in Suvalkija, Prapuolenis was an active member of the Ateitininkai Catholic youth movement and a vocal opponent of the authoritarian regime of President Antanas Smetona. Therefore, he faced difficulties completing his education. For organizing a student strike to demand democracy, he was expelled from the Klaip\u0117da Commerce Institute and given a four-year prison sentence in December 1938. However, he was allowed to resume his studies due to the changing political situation in the aftermath of the German ultimatum to Lithuania of March 1939. After the Soviet Union occupation of Lithuania in June 1940, Prapuolenis joined the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) and started organizing the anti-Soviet June Uprising. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union and LAF members started the uprising, Prapuolenis read the independence proclamation at 10:35 a.m. on 23 June 1941 at the Kaunas radio station. Prapuolenis became LAF representative to the Provisional Government of Lithuania. But when Prapuolenis protested the German decision to disband the Provisional Government, he was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to the"}, {"text": "Dachau concentration camp. After five months, he was freed due to the efforts of Kazys \u0160kirpa. Prapuolenis lived in Munich under police supervision, but kept contacts with Lithuanian resistance groups. After the war, he briefly lived in Austria and Switzerland before moving to West Germany in 1948 and United States in 1955. He worked for the (BALF), was an active member of the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania (VLIK), and board member of the Society of Friends of the Lithuanian Front. Biography. Early life and education. Prapuolenis was born in the family of affluent farmers. His father was elected burgomaster of Kybartai for twenty years. In 1922, Prapuolenis started his studies at the Marijampol\u0117 Rygi\u0161ki\u0173 Jonas Gymnasium. In 1923, he was transferred to the newly established \u017diburys gymnasium in Kybartai, which was later reorganized into the Kybartai junior commerce college. Starting in 1930, he was an active member of the Ateitininkai Catholic youth movement and in 1931\u20131933 was a leader of an Ateitininkai group in Kybartai. After graduating from the Kybartai college, Prapuolenis began studying economics at the Vytautas Magnus University. As a university student, he was a member of the Catholic student corporation K\u0119stutis and chairman of"}, {"text": "the student sports club Achilas. In 1934, he moved to Klaip\u0117da to study at the newly established Commerce Institute and after the first year was conscripted into the Lithuanian Army. He applied to study at the War School of Kaunas instead, but his request was rejected due to his political activity and opposition to the regime of President Antanas Smetona. Prapuolenis won the case and graduated from the War School as a junior reserve lieutenant in 1936. After returning to the Commerce Institute, he was a member of the opposition movement \u2013 he chaired Catholic student corporation Gintaras, prepared for publication bi-weekly newspaper \"\", and planned a student strike to demand democracy in Lithuania. Therefore, he was expelled from the institute in December 1938. Prapuolenis further received a four-year prison sentence but was spared by the changing political situation. When the new coalition government led by Jonas \u010cernius, which included members of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party and Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union, was formed in March 1939, Prapuolenis returned to his studies at the institute which was relocated to \u0160iauliai as Lithuania lost Klaip\u0117da to Nazi Germany. He graduated from the institute in fall 1939. In 1939, together with Adolfas"}, {"text": "Damu\u0161is, Pranas Padalskis and others, he established the chemical factory Gulb\u0117 (\"The Swan\") in Kaunas. Member of the resistance. After the Soviet Union occupation of Lithuania in June 1940, Gulb\u0117 was nationalized and Prapuolenis, feeling that he might become a target of Soviet repressions, went into hiding. Together with Adolfas Damu\u0161is, brigade general Motiejus Pe\u010diulionis, and others, Prapuolenis established resistance groups (a network of fives) of the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) in Kaunas. Prapuolenis was a contact between LAF groups in Kaunas and Vilnius, led by major Vytautas Bulvi\u010dius. After Vilnius LAF was liquidated by the NKVD and major Bulvi\u010dius was arrested, Prapuolenis became a leader of LAF. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union and LAF members started the June Uprising against Soviet institutions in Lithuania, Prapuolenis read the independence proclamation at 9:28 a.m. on 23 June 1941 at the Kaunas radio station freed by the LAF rebels. Prapuolenis became LAF representative to the Provisional Government of Lithuania. On 15 September, after the Provisional Government was replaced by the German administration (\"Generalbezirk Litauen\" of the \"Reichskommissariat Ostland\"), Prapuolenis and other members of LAF and the Provisional Government prepared a memorandum arguing against such German actions. The Germans responded by disbanding"}, {"text": "LAF and imprisoning Prapuolenis in Tilsit on 27 September. He was sent to the Dachau concentration camp on 5 December 1941. On 7 April 1942, Prapuolenis was freed with the help of Kazys \u0160kirpa. Prapuolenis was placed under police supervision in Munich without the right to visit Lithuania. He was allowed a short visit to Lithuania to attend his father's funeral in December 1942. Despite the German prohibitions, he participated in developing strategy of the Lithuanian Front (LF), an anti-Nazi and anti-Soviet resistance group that replaced LAF. Between 15 September and 8 October 1944, Prapuolenis together with Zenonas Ivinskis and Pranas Padalskis secretly visited German-occupied Lithuania and met anti-Soviet resistance members of LF and the Lithuanian Liberty Army in Tel\u0161iai, Rietavas, and Kretinga. Prepuolenis did not return to Nazi Germany. He briefly lived in Vienna and Bregenz, Austria. In May 1945, he moved to Switzerland and worked as a secretary of the (BALF). In June 1948, he moved to Pfullingen in West Germany and continued working for BALF. He joined the anti-Soviet organisation Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania (VLIK), was vice-chairman of the Society of Friends of the Lithuanian Front (\"Lietuvi\u0173 fronto bi\u010diuli\u0173 samb\u016bris\"), and was a corresponded"}, {"text": "of the Lithuanian daily \"Draugas\" published in Chicago. In 1952\u20131953, he was one of seven Lithuanian independence activists who were selected as assassination targets by the Soviet MGB. However, the plans failed when the MGB agent Rudolf Otting (codename Kirvis) defected to West Germany. In 1955, Prapuolenis moved to the United States and settled in Chicago. He was an active participant in various Lithuanian emigre organisations. He was buried at the Lithuanian cemetery of St. Casimir in Chicago. Prapuolenis published articles in various Lithuanian periodicals, including \"XX am\u017eius\" (20th century), \"Student\u0173 dienos\" (The Days of Students), \"\u012e laisv\u0119\" (Towards Freedom), \"T\u0117vyn\u0117s sargas\" (Guardian of the Fatherland). Legacy. In 2001, Prapuolenis was posthumously awarded the Commander Cross of the Order of the Cross of Vytis. On 22 June 2009, a bas relief by sculptor Stasys \u017dirgulis was unveiled at the Vytautas Magnus University. The relief depicts six professors and students of the university who were the most active leaders of the Lithuanian Activist Front \u2212 Vytautas Bulvi\u010dius, Adolfas Damu\u0161is, Juozas V\u0117bra, Leonas Prapuolenis, Pilypas Narutis and Juozas Ambrazevi\u010dius."}, {"text": "Mardi Gras is an operated by Carnival Cruise Line. She is Carnival's lead vessel of the fleet's Excel-class, a subclass of the Excellence class, and was built by Finnish shipbuilder Meyer Turku in Turku, Finland. She also has often been incorrectly referred to as \"Carnival Mardi Gras\", though Carnival has specified that her name does not include the \"Carnival\" prefix, a first since the vessels originally omitted \"Carnival\" in their names upon their debuts. \"Mardi Gras\" has been subject to numerous delays in her construction, delivery, and debut amid the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent impact on tourism. First scheduled for a summer 2020 delivery and debut, she was delivered to Carnival on 18 December 2020. After her debut was postponed on numerous occasions, \"Mardi Gras\" began operating weekly sailings on 31 July 2021. Design. \"Mardi Gras\" measures and has a maximum passenger capacity of 6,500 passengers, with approximately 2,000 crew members. \"Mardi Gras\" is divided into six zones incorporating themed elements and spaces that host activities and events and also house various dining and shopping outlets. On her top decks is the \"Ultimate Playground\" zone, where the world's first shipboard roller coaster, named \"Bolt\", is located. Designed by Maurer"}, {"text": "AG, the ride consists of self-propelled cars that ride on an 800-foot track and can travel up to . \"Bolt\" is also joined by a water park and sports center. Construction. On 6 September 2016, Finnish shipbuilder Meyer Turku announced it had signed a memorandum of agreement with Carnival Corporation & plc to build two ships for Carnival Cruise Line, with deliveries expected in 2020 and 2022, respectively. The ships would be powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), making them the first LNG-powered ships to be based in North America. Carnival explained that the company's pivot towards LNG was due in part to the demands voiced by environmental groups and the European Union to reduce greenhouse gases and other emissions. In order to fulfill the order, Meyer Turku postponed the delivery of sister brand Costa Cruises' second Excellence-class vessel by one year to 2021. On 15 November 2018, Carnival held the steel-cutting ceremony for the ship at Meyer Turku. Carnival also unveiled the new ship's livery, which features a predominantly blue hull with red and white accents. The new style marked a departure from the fleet's mostly white hulls and was commissioned by Carnival in an effort to market the"}, {"text": "brand as \"America's Cruise Line.\" On the 5 December 2018 episode of American game show \"Wheel of Fortune\", hosts Pat Sajak and Vanna White initially revealed the name of the ship as \"Carnival\" \"Mardi Gras\", after Carnival's first ship, TSS \"Mardi Gras\", which operated for Carnival from 1972 to 1993. Prior to the reveal, leaked renderings of a ship bearing the name \"Carnival Reflection\" fueled speculation that Carnival's next ship would be named as such. After the reveal, Carnival issued a press release clarifying the ship's name as simply \"Mardi Gras.\" In May 2019, a floating engine room unit built at Neptun Werft in Rostock headed for Turku. On 18 June 2019, the ship's keel was laid at Meyer Turku with the traditional coin ceremony, in which a coin was set atop the ship's keel blocks. On 24 January 2020, \"Mardi Gras\" was floated out and repositioned elsewhere in the shipyard to complete her outfitting. In March 2020, a fire contained to a cabin broke out during final outfitting work; no further damage was reported. On 28 September 2020, the ship set sail for her first set of sea trials for 10 days from . Compounded by the impact of"}, {"text": "the COVID-19 pandemic, \"Mardi Gras\"s delivery was affected by construction delays at Meyer Turku, joining sister ships \"AIDAnova\" and \"Costa Smeralda\" in having experienced similar delays by her shipbuilder's parent company Meyer Werft. Most of the delays affecting all vessels were blamed on the complexities associated with building and installing the ships' new technologies, as well as organizing the logistics of the ships' construction. After first postponing the delivery to October 2020, Meyer Turku delivered the ship to Carnival on 18 December 2020. On 16 May 2021, Carnival president Christine Duffy announced at Miss Universe 2020 that Miss Dominican Republic 2020 Kimberly Jim\u00e9nez would christen the ship upon her debut. The following day, Carnival announced \"Mardi Gras\" would begin operating under the Bahamian flag after it was previously registered to Panama. Jim\u00e9nez officially christened the vessel on 23 October 2021 at Port Canaveral. Port Canaveral. In order to accommodate \"Mardi Gras\" as her new homeport, Port Canaveral developed and constructed Terminal 3, a new two-story, 188,000-square-foot cruise terminal that cost US$163 million to build, becoming the largest project in the port's history. Work began with the approval of the contract to demolish the existing Terminal 3 on 28 March 2018"}, {"text": "and demolition began on 27 April 2018. The first steel arrived at the site in late-November 2018. Official construction began in January 2019 and had been expected to be completed by April 2020. On 9 June 2020, the facility received its certificate of occupancy and was subsequently completed. To bunker \"Mardi Gras\", Port Canaveral partnered with Royal Dutch Shell to use barges from Elba Island in Georgia for receiving LNG, as the port will not store it in its land-based tanks. Service history. \"Mardi Gras\" was initially scheduled to debut on 31 August 2020 on a nine-day Northern Europe sailing between Copenhagen and Southampton before operating a transatlantic crossing to New York for a short fall season of cruises to the Maritimes. She would then debut at Port Canaveral on 16 October 2020, sailing weekly itineraries to the Caribbean. However, on 20 December 2019, citing construction delays, Carnival announced that \"Mardi Gras\" would be delivered in October 2020 and the ship's maiden voyage would be postponed to 14 November 2020 from Port Canaveral, which forced the cancellation of her European and New York itineraries. On 7 July 2020, Carnival announced a second postponement for \"Mardi Gras\"s commencement after the pandemic"}, {"text": "further delayed the ship's construction and lengthened Carnival's operations pause, pushing the maiden voyage to 6 February 2021. Carnival's continued operations pause led to a third postponement to 24 April 2021, a fourth to 29 May 2021, a fifth to 3 July 2021, and a sixth to 31 July 2021. \"Mardi Gras\" arrived at Port Canaveral on 4 June 2021 from the Port of Barcelona, where she was docked between January and 21 May 2021. On 31 July 2021, \"Mardi Gras\" debuted on her first sailing, a pre-inaugural week-long Caribbean voyage."}, {"text": "Anabaptists and Jews have had interactions for several centuries, since the origins of Anabaptism in the Radical Reformation in early modern Europe. Due to the insularity of many Anabaptist and Orthodox Jewish communities, Anabaptist\u2013Jewish relations have historically been limited, but there are notable examples of interactions between Anabaptists and Jews. Due to some similarities in dress, culture, and language, Amish and Mennonite communities, in particular, have often been compared and contrasted to Haredi and Hasidic Jewish communities. Scripture. Most Anabaptists use the Luther Bible, which contains the Christian Apocrypha as \"intertestamental\" books; Amish wedding ceremonies include \"the retelling of the marriage of Tobias and Sarah in the Apocrypha\". The fathers of Anabaptism, such as Menno Simons, quoted \"them [the Apocrypha] with the same authority and nearly the same frequency as books of the Hebrew Bible\" and the texts regarding the Jewish martyrdoms under Antiochus IV in 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees are held in high esteem by the Anabaptists, who faced persecution in their history. Messianic Anabaptism. The secretive Lael Colony founded outside of Iron City, Tennessee, is an \"Amish-Jewish\" cult that was established by Mack Sharky, a man who claims to be of Jewish heritage and a Nazirite. Sharky"}, {"text": "preached a syncretic blend of Amish and Jewish cultural and religious beliefs and practices and members of the cult were subjected to isolation from the outside world. Patricia Hochstetler, a victim of the cult, has published a series of books titled \"Delusion: Growing Up in an Amish-Jewish Cult\", detailing her experience growing up with an Old Order Amish heritage and falling prey to the cult. A"Bottineau Public School District No. 1 a.k.a. Bottineau Public Schools, is a school district headquartered in Bottineau, North Dakota. Mostly in Bottineau County, it serves Bottineau, Gardena, and Overly. It also has a section in Rolette County. History. In 1896 there were tenders to have two school buildings constructed in Bottineau. In 1898 there was 39% turnout in the school bond election to build a school. The vote succeeded in 37\u20132, and the bond was for $10,000. The petition to hold the election had 168 signatures. In 1988 the North Dakota High School Activities Association classified Bottineau High School as Class A. That year the school was seeking to be placed in Class B and formally petitioned to do so."}, {"text": "Raftilose is the trade name for a prebiotic fructooligosaccharide (FOS) derived from inulin produced by Orafti and Palatinit, subsidiaries of S\u00fcdzucker. It consists of fructose oligomers, and sometimes a terminal glucose."}, {"text": "Yan Ge (; born 28 January 1994) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a midfielder for Hefei City."}, {"text": "Millerstown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The CDP is in southeastern Blair County, southeast of the center of North Woodbury Township, in the Morrisons Cove region of the county. It is southeast of the borough of Martinsburg. Middle Run flows eastward through the northern part of Millerstown. It is a tributary of Clover Creek, a northward-flowing tributary of the Frankstown Branch Juniata River. Education. It is in the Spring Cove School District."}, {"text": "Comrade Dhanwantri (7 March 1902 \u2013 13 July 1953) was a freedom fighter and one of the founder of Communist Party of India in Jammu and Kashmir. During the British Raj, he was arrested by the British authorities and jailed for an overall period of 17 years out of his total adult life of 34 years. The Communist Party of India Jammu and Kashmir State headquarters, Dhanwantri Bhavan, is named in his honor."}, {"text": "Zhou Xuezhong (; born 16 January 1994) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a forward for Jiangxi Beidamen."}, {"text": "y-cruncher is a computer program for the calculation of some mathematical constant with theoretical accuracy limited only by computing time and available storage space. It was originally developed to calculate the Euler-Mascheroni constant ; the y is derived from it in the name. Since 2010, y-cruncher has been used for all record calculations of the number pi and other constants. The software is downloadable from the website of the developers for Microsoft Windows and Linux. It does not have a graphical interface, but works on the command line. Calculation options are selected or entered via the text menu, the results are saved as a file. Some popular uses of y-cruncher are running hardware benchmarks to measure performance of computer system. An example of such benchmark is HWBOT. y-cruncher can also be used for stress-tests, as performed computations are sensitive to RAM errors and the program can automatically detect such errors. Development. Alexander J. Yee started developing in high school a Java library for arbitrary-precision arithmetic called \"BigNumber\". With this he was able together with his roommate Raymond Chan on 8 December 2006 set the world record for the most number of calculated decimal places for the Euler-Mascheroni constant with 116"}, {"text": "580 041 decimal places. In January 2009, they broke their own record and calculated 14 922 244 782 decimal places. At this point, the program was renamed to \"y-cruncher\" and ported to C and C++. In the aftermath, Shigeru Kondo with the help of y-cruncher calculated formula_1 to 5 trillion digits on 2 August 2010. Next year, Yee and Kondo calculated 10 trillion decimal places and broke the then-valid world record for decimal places of . After that, Yee decided to completely overhaul the program and rewrite it from scratch in version v0.6.1. This enabled determining formula_1 with 12.1 trillion digits in just 94 days compared to 371 days that were spent for the previous record. Properties. y-cruncher has the following characteristic properties: Calculations. Since 2009, most of the world record-level calculations of mathematical constants have been performed with y-cruncher. The technical challenge does not (any longer) lie in the calculation itself, but in providing an environment that enables a comparatively efficient execution. Purpose. The tool can serve several purposes. On the one hand, it allows the capabilities of CPUs and RAM to be determined and compared with other models. On the other hand, these hardware components can also be"}, {"text": "tested for stability and error susceptibility through stress testing. An alternative program for this would be Prime95. The advantage of the program lies in the fact that (partial) calculations can be carried out on an old Pentium PC, an up-to-date workstation, and theoretically even supercomputers, without measured performance falling off a measurement scale (or complex benchmarks becoming incompatible due to new hardware and interfaces). Setting new computing records also represents a contemporary feasibility study and can serve as an indicator of computer performance improvement over time when regularly performed and with similar parameters."}, {"text": "The Men's 100 metre backstroke S1 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 25 August 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Final. No heats were needed, as there were only seven swimmers."}, {"text": "The 2018 Gran Piemonte was the 102nd edition of the Gran Piemonte (known as \"Giro del Piemonte\" until 2009) single-day cycling race. It was held on 11 October, over a distance of 191 km, starting in Racconigi and ending in Moncalieri. The race was won by Sonny Colbrelli of . Teams. Eighteen teams were invited to take part in the race. These included twelve UCI WorldTeams and six UCI Professional Continental teams."}, {"text": "The Kiribati National Paralympic Committee is the National Paralympic Committee representing Kiribati. The organization became full members of the International Paralympic Committee in October 2019. Kiribati intended to make their debut at the Summer Paralympics in the 2020 edition in Tokyo, but withdrew due to travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Kiribati debuted at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris."}, {"text": "Sun Dong (; born 3 January 1992) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a midfielder for Jiangxi Beidamen. On 10 September 2024, Chinese Football Association announced that Sun was banned from football-related activities for lifetime for involving in match-fixing."}, {"text": "Normanton is a former civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. The parish contained 13 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, one is at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contained the town of Normanton and the surrounding area. The Calder Cut of the Aire and Calder Navigation and the River Calder pass through the parish, and the listed buildings associated with them are an aqueduct, three locks, and two railway viaducts. The other listed buildings consist of a church, a chest tomb in the churchyard, the stump of a former market cross surmounted by a lamp post, and three houses and an associated structure."}, {"text": "Huang Cong may refer to:"}, {"text": "Kiribati made its Paralympic Games debut at the 2024 Games in Paris. The island nation had originally planned to debut at the 2020 Games in Tokyo but withdrew due to COVID-19 concerns. Kiribati was granted membership to the International Paralympic Committee in October 2019. The nation's Paralympic debut in 2024 was supported by the Australian Government and Australian Olympic Committee. During the Parade of Nations at the 2024 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony, the flag of Kiribati was carried by Ongiou Timeon, who represented the nation in the men's shot put event."}, {"text": "The Consulate General of Switzerland in Chicago is a diplomatic mission representing Switzerland meant to serve the Midwest United States. Reportedly having been the first country to set up a consulate general in the city in 1864, the consulate was re-opened at a new site in 2019 after a five-year hiatus. A new chancery inside Hancock Tower was finished in 2021, with the modernist interior gaining some media attention. History. Originally, the consulate was opened in Detroit in 1850 as an honorary post. In 1864, the consulate was moved to Chicago, reportedly the first such mission in the city; however, the mission continued to be staffed by honorary consuls until 1933, later being promoted to consulate-general on 30 May 1958. It was announced that the consulate would close in 2012 as part of a government-mandated downsizing of the Swiss diplomatic presence to reduce expenses. Although the decision was protested by the Swiss Club of Chicago, who petitioned for the consulate to stay open, and debates were held in the Swiss Parliament to re-evaluate the cutbacks in general, the shutdown was ultimately approved, with Parliament deciding that an honorary consulate would be set up in its place. The mission was closed"}, {"text": "as planned in 2014, with the Washington, D.C., and New York missions taking on its consular duties. However, increased Swiss investment in Chicago and surrounding areas led to an announcement in 2018 that the consulate would be reopened. In September 2019, the consulate was reopened under the guidance of then-foreign affairs head Ignazio Cassis, who described the decision to close the consulate in the first place as a \"mistake\" in a 2021 interview. However, consular services were not restored, with the 2014 arrangement staying in place. According to the website, this remains the case as of September 2022. Chancery. The current chancery, located in the John Hancock Center, was designed by HHF Architects and Kwong Von Glinow. It was completed on 21 July 2021. The interior, inspired by the works of Swiss-American architect , has gained some coverage for its use of modernism, lighting, and a \"green core\"."}, {"text": "Rolette Public School District No. 29 is a school district headquartered in Rolette, North Dakota. It operates Rolette Public School. Within Rolette County, the district serves Rolette, Mylo, and small sections of Shell Valley. History. In 1968 there was an election on whether to increase the mills of the tax by 50%, but voters voted against it on a 217 against versus 156 for. In 2002 the school had 215 students, and the rate of students attending tertiary education was about 90%. Bonnie Muehlberg in \"The Bismarck Tribune\" wrote that \"As in many smaller communities, the school serves as a hub for activities and events.\" When Wolford School District closed in 2019, Rolette School was an option for those students. Upon disestablishment of the Wolford district, Rolette is to take a portion of the district."}, {"text": "\u201cMirie it is while sumer ilast\u201d (\u201cMerry it is while summer lasts\u201d) is a Middle English song from the first half of the 13th century. It is about the longing for summer in the face of the approaching cold weather. It is one of the oldest songs in the English language, and one of the few examples of non-liturgical music from medieval England. The manuscript was found together with two old French songs in a book of Psalms in the Bodleian Library. It was rediscovered at the end of the 19th century and made accessible to experts in 1901. It was arranged and published in a modern form for the first time by Frank Llewellyn Harrison. The text and melody are incomplete on a single, damaged manuscript page, which, together with the somewhat ambiguous notation, makes it difficult to reconstruct the song in whole. It is unclear whether the song originally contained additional lines or stanzas, which Harrison considers probable, nor can the final word be conclusively determined. The author of the song is also unknown, although by its inclusion with two other French love songs pasted in a Book of Psalms, Nicholson proposes that the manuscript was written by"}, {"text": "lay chorister. The context of the piece also may suggest the surviving leaf was originally included in a French \"chansonnier\", suggesting an origin in the French tradition. History. \"Mirie it is while sumer ilast\" is only known from a single source. It is found on a parchment page together with two contemporary pieces of Old French music. It was subsequently incorporated as an endpaper in a book of Psalms from the second half of the 12th century. The book may have originally come from the Benedictine Abbey of Thorney near Peterborough in eastern England. This is indicated by the mention of Saints Benedict, Botolph and \u00c6thelthryth in the litany contained in the Psalter. Botolph's bones were kept as a relic in Thorney, while \u00c6thelthryth was considered the patron saint of the Isle of Ely. The book and the bound manuscript came into the holdings of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University in 1755 through the collection of the antiquarian Richard Rawlinson. There it is cataloged under the signature MS Rawlinson G. 22. Localization and dating. At least the age of the manuscript can be deduced from other evidence. Neume notation, for example, was replaced by modal and mensural notation in"}, {"text": "England around the middle of the 13th century. Based on linguistic features, the manuscript with \"Mirie it is\" dated to the first half of the 13th century and is located in the dialect area of the Midlands. This localization is based, among other things. Words. Middle English Modern spelling Modern English Melody. Transliteration of surviving original. The original is incomplete and, in parts, unclear. What follows is one attempt to bring the existing manuscript into modern notation. Regarding this reconstruction, its author says this: Some note values are best guesses, since some shapes are indistinct and, because the handwriting is inconsistent, it is unclear whether some lines are marks on the page or part of the note. These marks have been taken as part of the note. Bar lines represent the end of a line in the original manuscript and rests represent holes in the page where notes are missing. Longs are written as crotchets and breves as quavers. Quavers are written single or grouped according to whether they are single or grouped in the original notation. <score lang=\"lilypond\"> \\new Voice = \"melody\" \\relative c { \\clef \"tenor\" \\cadenzaOn \\omit Staff.TimeSignature e'4 4 4 4 a, b8 8 c4 8"}, {"text": "\\bar \"|\" d4 b8[ a] d8 c4 c8 a g \\bar \"|\" e'4 4 a, r4 r4 d8 b8[ a] \\bar \"|\" d4 c4 a8 g e'8[ f] e16[ d c8] d8 e8 c8[ b] a4 g8 e'8[ f] \\bar \"|\" c[ d] d8 r4 c8[ b] a4 g \\bar \"|\" c8 c b d4 b8[ a] g[ f] r4 \\bar \"|.\" \\new Lyrics \\lyricmode { Mir4 -- i4 -- e4 it4 is4 whil8 -- e8 sum4 -- er8 i4 -- last8 _ With8 fu4 -- ghe8 -- les8 song.8 Oc4 nu4 ne4 -- cheth4 wind4 -- es8 blast8 _ And4 wed4 -- er8 strong.8 E8 -- y,8 e16 -- y!8. What8 this8 nicht8 _ is4 long.8 And8 _ ich8 _ with8 wel4 mich4 -- el4 wrong4 sor8 -- egh8 and4. mur8 -- ne8 and8 _ fast.4 \u00bb </score> Reconstruction. Here is one scholarly reconstruction of the full tune based on the above transliteration: <score lang=\"lilypond\" sound=\"1\"> \\relative c { \\clef \"tenor\" \\cadenzaOn \\omit Staff.TimeSignature e'4 4 4 4 a, b8[ 8] c8[ 8] d4 b8([ a)] d4 c c a g \\bar \"|\" e'4 4 a, b c d b8([ a)] d4 c2 a4 g \\bar \"|\" e'8[ f]"}, {"text": "e16[ d( c8)] d4 e c8[ b] a4 g r4 \\bar \"|\" e'8([ f)] c([ d)] d4 e c8([ b)] a4 g r4 \\bar \"|\" c8[ c] b([ d)] b[ a] g([ f)] e2 \\bar \"|.\" \\addlyrics { Mir -- i -- e it is whil -- e sum -- er i -- last With fu -- ghe -- les song. Oc nu nech -- eth wind -- es blast And wed -- er strong. E -- y, e -- y! What this nicht _ is long. And ich with wel mich -- el wrong sor -- egh and mur -- ne and fast. </score>"}, {"text": "Deborah Anzinger (born in 1978) is a Jamaican artist who creates painting, sculpture, video and sound to \"interrogate and reconfigure aesthetic syntax that relate us to land and gendered and raced bodies\". Anzinger works as an artist has been featured in several exhibitions, galleries and museums which include the National Gallery of Jamaica, P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Early life and career. Anzinger was born in St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica in 1978. She began her tertiary education at the University of the West Indies, Mona in 1996 and went on to complete a BS from Washington College in 2001, where she majored in Biology with a concentration in Plant Physiology, and a PhD in Immunology and Microbiology from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago with a concentration in HIV Neuropathogenesis. Career. She is the founder of New Local Space (NLS) in Kingston, Jamaica. Anzinger's writing has been published in \"Caribbean Quarterly\" and in \"Seen\", a journal of the BlackStar Projects."}, {"text": "Gao Ming (; born 2 January 1998) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a midfielder for Jiangxi Beidamen."}, {"text": "The list of ship launches in 1758 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1758."}, {"text": "Halyna Mazepa also known as Halyna Mazepa de Koval (9 February 1910 \u2013 30 June 1995) was a Ukrainian and Venezuelan modern artist, illustrator, and ceramist. She was the daughter of Isaak Mazepa, the Prime Minister of Ukrainian People\u2019s Republic (1919). Early life and education. Halyna Mazepa was born on 9 February 1910 in St. Petersburg. Her father was Isaak Mazepa, best known as the Prime Minister of Ukrainian People\u2019s Republic. Her mother was Natalia Synhalevych, a bacteriologist and teacher. In 1915, Mazepa\u2019s family settled in Katerynoslav (now Dnipro, Ukraine). They stayed in Katerynoslav until 1920 when they had to immigrate to Lviv. In 1921, Mazepas moved to Kalisz and in 1923, the family moved to Prague. In the 192"Aichi Prefectural Asahigaoka Senior High School (Japanese: \u611b\u77e5\u770c\u7acb\u65ed\u4e18\u9ad8\u7b49\u5b66\u6821) is a public coeducational senior high school located in Nagoya city, Aichi prefecture, Japan. It was originally established in 1870, having a long history of more than 140 years. As of 2019, it had about 1200 students in years 10 to 12. The school was named \"Aichi Prefectural No.1 Middle School\" before World War II. In 1948, following the reformation of the education system, the school was merged with Nagoya No.3 Girl High School and renamed as \"Aichi Prefectural Asahigaoka Senior High School\". School outline. Curriculum and Course. Full-time Curriculum (2 courses) Half-day Curriculum (Night, 1 course) (Student admission will be closed for good from 2020) Motto. Respect justice Love sports Be Constantly School song. The school's song was created by Kiyoshi Nobutoki and written by Japanese litterateur Senichi Hisamatsu, who was a graduate of the school. It was adopted in 1952."}, {"text": "Sart\u00f9 di riso is an Italian dish typical of the city of Naples, in the Campania region. It is prepared with rice seasoned with rag\u00f9, peas, pancetta, mushrooms, \"fior di latte\" or provola, meatballs, sausages, boiled eggs and, traditionally, with chicken livers. The whole is baked and then turned out before being served. It can be presented both in the sauce version, with rag\u00f9, and in white, without it. History. Rice, a product imported by the Aragonese in the Kingdom of Naples, did not find success in south Italy\u2014except in Sicily, where it was introduced by the Arabs. It was adopted by the Salerno School of Medicine and prescribed as a cure for the sick, but not by the people, who preferred pasta. \"Sart\u00f9 di riso\" was probably born from the need to adapt this dish to the taste of the court, under the influence of the Austrian queen Maria Carolina of Austria. \"Mons\u00f9\", French court cooks, created this dish in the 20th century, enriching the rice with numerous ingredients and masking the flavor with tomato sauce. The very name of the dish would come from the French \"surtout\", the centerpiece that was used in the 20th century and that"}, {"text": "could also be used to bring \"sart\u00f9 di riso\" to the table, cooked like a \"timballo\"."}, {"text": "Miss Philippines Earth 2020 was the 20th edition of the Miss Philippines Earth pageant, held in various locations virtually, on July 26, 2020, Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. At the end of the event, Janelle Tee of Pasig was succeeded by Roxanne Baeyens of Baguio as Miss Philippines Earth 2020. The pageant was originally to be broadcast by ABS-CBN, but due to the ABS-CBN franchise renewal controversy, the pageant was moved to GMA Network Contestants. 33 contestants competed for the title. Judges. The following served as a judge on the conclusion of virtual Miss Philippines Earth 2020, they were pre-recorded in a remote format:"}, {"text": "The following are the national records in track cycling in the Philippines, maintained by its national cycling federation, Integrated Cycling Federation of the Philippines. Classification on national records have not yet been officially established in any media by Philcycling (no sources found). Classifications on what is an official record attempt (based on UCI ruling):"}, {"text": "Gora Nevskaya (, meaning \"Nevsky Mountain\"), is a mountain in the Omsukchan Range, Kolyma Mountains. Administratively it is part of the Magadan Oblast, Russian Federation. This high mountain is the highest point of the Kolyma Mountains, part of the East Siberian Mountains. The highest point in Magadan Oblast, however, is the highest peak of the Okhandya Range. A Dalstroy Aviation Antonov An-2 crashed on the mountainside by Mount Nevskaya in June 1951."}, {"text": "The following are the national records in track cycling in Singapore, maintained by its national cycling federation, Singapore Cycling Federation."}, {"text": "Yan Tin Estate () is a public housing estate in Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong located behind Siu Hong Court. It consists of five residential blocks, ranging in height from 33 to 38 storeys, and the Yan Tin Shopping Centre. It provides 4,688 rental flats catering to an approximate population of around 13,000. Tenant intake on 2018. Politics. Yan Tin Estate is located in Yan Tin constituency of the Tuen Mun District Council. It is currently represented by Apple Lai Ka-man, who was elected in the 2019 elections."}, {"text": "The following are the national records in track cycling in Indonesia, maintained by its national cycling federation, Indonesian Cycling Federation."}, {"text": "Dhola is a census town and a gram panchayat within the jurisdiction of the Kulpi police station in the Kulpi 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 western portion of the subdivision (shown in the map alongside) there are 11 census towns. The entire district is situated in the Ganges Delta and the western part, located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, is covered by the Kulpi Diamond Harbour Plain, which is 5\u20136 metres above sea level. Archaeological excavations at Deulpota and Harinarayanpur, on the bank of the Hooghly River indicate the existence of human habitation more than 2,000 years ago. Location. Dhola is located at . Demographics. According to the 2011 Census of India, Dhola had a total population of 5,804, of which 2,952 (51%) were males and 2,852 (49%) were females. There were 1,010 persons in the age range of 0\u20136 years. The total number of literate persons"}, {"text": "in Dhola was 3,577 (74.61% of the population over 6 years). Civic administration. Police station. Dholahat police station covers an area of 312.67 km2. It has jurisdiction over parts of the Kulpi, Mathurapur I, Kakdwip and Patharpratima CD blocks. Infrastructure. According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Dhola covered an area of 1.652 km2. Among the civic amenities, the protected water supply involved over head tank. It had 418 domestic electric connections. Among the educational facilities it had were 2 primary schools, 2 middle schools, 2 secondary schools, 1 senior secondary school and 1 general degree college. Three important commodities it produced were zari work, pottery, sholapith products. Transport. A short stretch of local roads link Dhola to the National Highway 12. Karanjali railway station is located nearby. Education. Dhola Mahavidyalaya, established in 2009, is affiliated with the University of Calcutta. It offers honours courses in Bengali, English, history and geography, and a general course in arts. Dhola High School is a Bengali-medium, coeducational higher secondary school, established in 1936. It has arrangements for teaching from class IV to class XII. Healthcare. Kulpi Block Primary Health Centre at Kulpi, with 15 beds, is the major government medical facility in the"}, {"text": "Kulpi CD block."}, {"text": "The following are the national records in track cycling in Iran, maintained by its national cycling federation, Cycling Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran."}, {"text": "The following are the national records in track cycling in Cambodia, maintained by its national cycling federation, Cambodian Cycling Federation."}, {"text": "The following are the national records in track cycling in Turkmenistan, maintained by its national cycling federation, Cycling Federation of Turkmenistan."}, {"text": "Mount Urah is a rural locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mount Urah had a population of 49 people. Geography. The \"Mary River\" forms most of the eastern boundary, while \"Ooramera Creek\" forms the north-eastern boundary as it flows to join the \"Mary\". Mount Urah is in the south-west of the locality () rising to above sea level. Glenbar National Park is in the west of the locality with four sections of Glenbar State Forest throughout the locality. Apart from these protected areas, the predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. History. The locality takes its name from the mountain in the west of the locality. The mountain takes its name from the Kabi language word \"euro\" meaning a species of scrub vine or \"yurru\" meaning \"Flagellaria indica\". Mount Uruah Provisional School opened on 31 October 1909. In 1913, the name was changed to Mount Urah and it became Mount Urah State School. It closed in early 1921 due to low student numbers, but reopened shortly after as a half-time school in conjunction with Deborah State School (meaning the two schools shared a single teacher). It closed permanently on 1 April 1927. Demographics. In"}, {"text": "the , Mount Urah had a population of 21 people. In the , Mount Urah had a population of 49 people. Education. There are no schools in Mount Urah. The nearest government primary school is Gundiah State School in neighbouring Gundiah to the east and Tiaro State School in Tiaro to the north-east. The nearest government secondary schools are Maryborough State High School in Maryborough to the north and James Nash State High School in Gympie to the south. However, some parts of Mount Urah are quite distant from these two schools with alternatives being distance education and boarding schools."}, {"text": "Juan Bosch is a Santo Domingo Metro station on Line 1. It was open on 22 January 2009 as part of the inaugural section of Line 1 between Mam\u00e1 Ting\u00f3 and Centro de los H\u00e9roes. The station is between Juan Pablo Duarte and Casandra Damir\u00f3n. This is an underground station, built below Avenida M\u00e1ximo G\u00f3mez. It is named to honor Juan Bosch, who served as a president of the Dominican Republic."}, {"text": "Kanchikudicharu is a Tamil village in the Ampara District in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. It is located east of the capital, Colombo. 2007 military action by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam The area was controlled by the Sri Lankan state forces. Kanchikudiyaru is the last captured area in the Eastern Province under the control of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). People were resettled here in 2015, with up to 190 families residing in the village. Also land-based farming, livestock farming and milking are also livelihoods. Kanchikudicharu Tank is a biggest tank in this village. Agriculture. Mainly involved in paddy cultivation, Animal husbandry and Home gardening Religion. Everyone living here follows Shaivism."}, {"text": "Ministry of Public Health and Population () is a governmental ministry of Yemen. It covers public health and demographics."}, {"text": "Paola Balducci (born 14 November 1949) is an Italian lawyer and politician, member of the High Council of the Judiciary from 2014 to 2018. Biography. A student of Giovanni Conso and Giuliano Vassalli, Balducci graduated in Law at the Sapienza University of Rome and later became an associate professor of Criminal Procedural Law at the University of Salento. Since 1976, Balducci has worked as a lawyer and has been registered in the special register of Cassation officials since 1990. In 2002, the Federation of the Greens nominated her as the party candidate for a seat at the High Council of the Judiciary, obtaining 105 votes, too few to be elected by the Parliament in a joint session. From May 2005 to June 2006 she held the office of Regional Councilor for the Right to Education, with powers to the University, public education, scientific research and cultural heritage, in Apulia, under the first presidency of Nichi Vendola. Member of Parliament. In the 2006 general elections, Balducci is a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies on the lists of the Federation of the Greens in the Lazio and Apulia constituencies, and was the first of the non-elected members of the latter, though"}, {"text": "on 4 July 2006, following the resignation of Domenico Lomelo (who preceded her on the list), after having been appointed new Regional Councilor for the Right to Education in Apulia, she took over his seat was elected deputy. In the 2008 general elections, Balducci ran again for a seat at the Chamber of Deputies, in the Lazio constituency, on the list of The Left \u2013 The Rainbow, but was not re-elected as the list did not exceed the 4% threshold at national level. Member of the High Council of the Judiciary. On 23 September 2014, with 521 votes, she was elected member of the High Council of the Judiciary by the Parliament in a joint session, being the official candidate of Left Ecology Fr"or 25 with residence in the Federal Republic of Germany can take part. In order to deepen Germany's relationship with Eastern Europe and the CIS states, the residence criterion was then dropped for these participants. An independent Jury selects the prize winners from anonymous scores. It is composed of the Board of Trustees of the \"Hans Stieber Foundation\" (chair: Willi Vogl, later Bernhard Schneyer), other appointed jurors and the advisory jury member Thomas Buchholz. The members are usually composers (among others G\u00fcnter Neubert) and conductors. The divisible prize money amounts to 1,000 euros (previously 2,000 D-Mark). Furthermore, prizes in kind will be awarded, including participation in a summer course of the \"Composers' Class Saxony-Anhalt\". The award ceremony takes place within the framework of the Hallische Musiktage. For this purpose, a festive concert will be held at the Handel House in Halle. The scores of the prize-winning works will be transferred to the archives of the in Halle."}, {"text": "Sister Irene O'Connor is an Australian Roman Catholic nun from the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary order and a musician. In addition to traditional hymns, O'Connor is known for mixing religious music with popular music, most famously on the 1973 album \"Fire of God's Love\". \"Fire of God's Love\" and O'Connor's story were covered in an Australian Broadcasting Corporation segment and in an article entitled 'Sister Act', page 68 in the 29th April 2023 edition of 'The Economist'. Her signature vinyl LP has become a highly sought after album. Career. Sister Irene O'Connor recorded several albums during the 1960s while teaching children in Singapore. While in Singapore she met Sister Marimil Lobregat who was en route to Indonesia. The two became friends, and recorded \"Fire of God's Love\" after reconnecting a decade later. The two recorded the album entirely on their own, with O'Connor writing, singing and performing all instruments on the recording, and Lobregat handling all of the recording, engineering and sound production."}, {"text": "The women's 48 kg judo competition at the 2020 Summer Paralympics was held on 27 August 2021 at the Nippon Budokan."}, {"text": "Myllocerus discolor, commonly known as mango ash weevil, is a species of weevil found in India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. The Sri Lankan population is identified as the subspecies, \"Myllocerus discolor canescens\". Description. This small beetle is about 6 to 7 mm in length. Adult weevil is ferruginous brown in color. There is a white spot on the elytra and black mottling. It is characterized by the rostrum little broader at apex. Elytra broad with coarsely punctate striae. In pronotum, there is a central pale grey stripe and a short basal stripe laterally. Eggs are ovoid, and light yellow in color. Grub is small, apodous and distinctly curved. Grub is pale white in color. Final grub is about 7 to 8 mm in length. Head chitinized and testaceous. Mandibles well developed and obtusely toothed. Mandibles contiguous to the labium. Thoracic segments are well developed than abdominal segments. Pupa exarate, elongate and bilaterally symmetrical. Pupa is brown in color and 6 to 7 mm in length. Pupal body wall is white which later turns to light brown. Biology. Adults are abundant during summer. During summer, adult female lays eggs in the soil. It lays about 360 eggs over a period of"}, {"text": "24 days. Eggs hatch in 3 to 5 days. Grub period is about 1 to 2 months. Final grub starts pupation in soil inside earthen cells. Pupal period is about 7 to 10 days. Usual life cycle of the beetle is about 6 to 8 weeks. Therefore, it completes 3 to 4 generations in a year. Adult period is about 4 to 5 months in the winter. A polyphagous pest, adult is a minor pest that attacks \"Cenchrus americanus\", \"Zea mays\", \"Saccharum officinarum\" and \"Sorghum bicolor\". Grubs are known to feed on roots of teak seedlings and sunflower leaves. After the attack, root becomes hollow up to 30 to 40 mm from entry point. Injured seedlings finally died. When disturbed, adult shows a posture of \"pretending dead\", where the legs and antennae folded close to the body and drops to the ground. Most common control method is applying chlorinated hydrocarbons."}, {"text": "Mariana Costa Checa (born 20 March 1986) is a Peruvian businesswoman, the founder of the web development organization Laboratoria. She has received international recognition for her work in technological outreach to women with limited resources. In 2019, she was elected as the independent director of Engie Energy Peru. Early life and education. Mariana Costa Checa was born in Lima on 20 March 1986. From 2004 to 2007, she studied international relations at the London School of Economics. She subsequently obtained a master's degree in public administration from Columbia University. Laboratoria. While residing in the United States, Costa noticed that web development did not require special instruction, but rather that a large number of web developers were self-taught. When she returned to her native Peru, she noticed that almost no women were working in the field, which inspired her to create Laboratoria. The project's aim is to train poor women in skills related to webpage development. The organization was founded in 2014, when Costa organized a pilot program for 15 young women, who received training in web development. Laboratoria ended 2015 with 130 women trained, and more than 300 new candidates. Its funding sources include donations from Google, Telef\u00f3nica, and the"}, {"text": ". In addition, graduates from the program who get jobs as developers contribute a percentage of their salaries during their first two years. Recognition. In 2015, the Spanish edition of the \"MIT Technology Review\" named Costa to its list of Peru's innovators under 36. She was one of 11 Latin American women among the BBC's 100 Women of 2016. During his presentation at that year's APEC Summit in Lima, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg highlighted the case of Laboratoria as an excellent initiative geared towards women in the region: Barack Obama also had words of praise for Costa, stating that: In 2018, she received a Business Leaders of Change award, presented by \"El Comercio\", EY, and . For International Women's Day 2019, Mattel chose Costa as one of 20 women to have a Barbie doll based on them."}, {"text": "Liling railway station () is a railway station in Liling, Zhuzhou, Hunan, China. It is an intermediate station on the Shanghai\u2013Kunming railway, and the northern terminus of the Liling\u2013Chaling railway."}, {"text": "Paula C. Lodi is a United States Army major general who has served as commanding general of the United States Army Medical Research and Development Command since July 10, 2024. She served as commanding general of the 18th Medical Command (Deployment Support) from June 2022 to July 2024. She previously served as Deputy Commanding General for Support of the United States Army Medical Command from July 2021 to May 2022. Lodi was the first female commander of the 44th Medical Brigade. She is also the younger sister of Lieutenant General Maria Barrett. Lodi and Barrett are the United States Army's first ever sister General Officer tandem. Early and personal life. Lodi grew up in Franklin, Massachusetts, outside of Boston. She is the daughter of Ruston Lodi, an Italian immigrant, World War II veteran, Silver Star recipient, and school teacher; and Clara Lodi, an educator. Lodi has four siblings. Her elder sister, Maria Barrett, is a United States Army lieutenant general. Lodi attended Rutgers University, graduating with a bachelor's degree. She also has a master's degrees in Public Administration, Military Arts and Science, and National Security and Strategic Studies. Military career. Lodi received a commission as a second lieutenant in the"}, {"text": "United States Army as a Distinguished Military Graduate of Rutgers University ROTC program and Medical Service Corps. She served with the Forward Support Battalions in the 3rd Infantry Division in Schweinfurt, Germany, and with 4th Infantry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. She has served as Ambulance Platoon Leader, Battalion S1 and S4, Support Ops Maintenance Officer, Brigade S4, and company commander. Lodi also served as Deputy Chief of Managed Care, Hospital Executive Officer at Darnall Army Medical Center, III Corps Plans Officer, Executive Officer for 21st Combat Support Hospital, Deputy Brigade Commander for 1st Medical Brigade, Operations Officer for the 18th MEDCOM DCS-OPS in Seoul, South Korea, and Chief, Military Personnel at William Beaumont Army Medical Center at Fort Bliss. At the Pentagon, Lodi served as the Executive Officer to the Director of the Army Staff. Lodi has served in numerous command assignments, including of the 44th Medical Brigade, 15th Sustainment Brigade Special Troops Battalion, and 14th Combat Support Hospital. She was Chief and Leader of the Training Center at the AMEDD Center & School. She was also the Deputy Chief of Staff of Operations for the Office of the Surgeon General and United States Army Medical Command, as well"}, {"text": "as the Commanding General of the Regional Health Command in the Atlantic. Lodi has graduated from the Command and General Staff College & School of Advanced Military Studies, and the Naval War College as a Distinguished Honor Graduate. She was promoted to brigadier general on June 2, 2019. She was nominated for promotion to major general on May 12, 2022, and the promotion took effect on February 3, 2023. In February 2024, Lodi was assigned as commanding general of the United States Army Medical Research and Development Command."}, {"text": "Aaron Pike (born May 4, 1986) is an American athlete who competes in wheelchair racing, biathlon, and cross-country skiing. He has competed at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Paralympics, as well as the 2014, 2018 and 2022 Winter Paralympics. Pike finished second at the 2022 Boston Marathon, third at the 2021 and 2022 Chicago Marathons, and fourth at the 2018 and 2019 New York City Marathons as well as the 2021 Boston Marathon. He won multiple medals at the 2023 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships, including winning the 12.5 km seated event. Personal life. Pike is from Park Rapids, Minnesota, US. His father served in the military, and as a result, Pike grew up in four different US states, and spent time in Germany. He studied at Ramstein High School in Kaiserslautern, Germany. At the age of 13, he was accidentally shot in a hunting accident in Virginia, US, which damaged his spinal cord. He studied sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and now lives in Champaign, Illinois. Pike is in a relationship with Paralympian Oksana Masters. Wheelchair racing career. Pike started wheelchair racing in 2006, at the University of Illinois. He also participated in wheelchair basketball. At"}, {"text": "the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships, he finished 26th and last in the heats of the 1,500 meters T54 event, and 19th overall in the marathon T54 race. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, he came sixteenth in the marathon T54 event, and was eliminated in the heats of the 1,500 meters and 5,000 meters T54 events. He was part of the American team that finished sixth the 4 \u00d7 400 meters T53/54 relay. In 2013, he came second at the Twin Cities Marathon. He competed at the 2014 Chicago and New York City Marathons. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, he came tenth in the marathon T54 event, in a time of 1:30:13. He was eliminated in the heats of the 1,500 meters T54 event. The same year, he finished second at the OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon, behind winner Kim Gyu-dae. Pike came seventh at the 2016 London Marathon and eighth at the 2016 New York City Marathon. He came seventh again at the 2017 London Marathon, and fourth at the 2018 New York City Marathon. He finished ninth at the 2019 London Marathon, and fourth again at the 2019 New York City Marathon. In the same year, he came 8th"}, {"text": "in the 5,000 meters T54 event at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships. He has won the Grandma's Marathon on three occasions, and set a new course record of 1:20:59 in the 2019 race; he did not compete at the 2021 Grandma's Marathon, due to a scheduling clash. In June 2021, he was selected in the American team for the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics, in the 800 meters, 1,500 meters and 5,000 meters T54 events. He had finished second to Daniel Romanchuk at the U.S. Paralympic Team Track and Field Trials in all three events earlier in the month, and was also selected for the marathon T54 race. He came fifth in his 5,000 meters heat, and did not qualify for the final. He came ninth in his 1,500 meters heat, and did not qualify for the final. He came third in his 800 meters heat, and again did not qualify for the final. Pike came sixth in the marathon T54 race. Pike came fifth at the 2021 London Marathon. He competed at the 2021 Chicago and Boston Marathons on consecutive days; the races were apart. He finished third overall in Chicago, and fourth in Boston. Pike finished second at"}, {"text": "the 2022 Boston Marathon in a time of 1:32:49. He was almost six minutes behind race winner Daniel Romanchuk. Later in the year, he finished third at the 2022 Chicago Marathon, after losing to Romanchuk in a sprint finish for second place. Pike competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, competing in the 1500 meters T54, 500 meters T54 and Marathon T54 events. Winter sports career. After the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Pike took up skiing, initially in order to take a break from wheelchair racing. He was invited to try skiing by a coach of the U.S. Paralympic Nordic Skiing National Team, and joined the US team in 2013. He now competes in biathlon and cross-country skiing. At the 2014 Winter Paralympics, he competed in the 7.5 km and 15 km sitting biathlon events, and the 1 km sprint, 10 km and 15 km cross-country sit-skiing races. He competed at the 2015 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships in Cable, Wisconsin, US. It was his first World Skiing Championship event. He came fourth in the 15 km biathlon event at the 2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships. At the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, he competed in the 7.5 km,"}, {"text": "12.5 km and 15 km sitting biathlon events, and the 1.1 km sitting cross-country sprint events. In the 15 km biathlon event, he succeeded in all 20 shots, and finished sixth overall. At the 2019 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships, Pike came third in the sprint biathlon event. At the 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships, Pike came second in the biathlon event. In February 2022, Pike was included in the American team for the 2022 Winter Paralympics. In biathlon, he finished eighth in the 6 km sitting biathlon sprint event, ninth in the 12.5 km sitting event, and 15th in the 10 km sitting event. He came sixth in his semi-final in the 1.5 km sprint sitting cross-country event, and did not qualify for the final. Pike won the 12.5 km seated event at the 2023 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships. He also finished second in the 7.5 km sprint and 10 km events. At the 2025 Para Biathlon World Championships, Pike won the 7.5 km seated event."}, {"text": "Vehicle registration plates, commonly referred to as number plates, are the mandatory numeric or alphanumeric plates used to display the registration mark of a vehicle. The Crown dependency of Guernsey is outside the United Kingdom and the European Union, and its islands have registration marks that are different from those used in the UK. The international vehicle registration code for Guernsey is GBG. Guernsey. Guernsey plates have been compulsory since 1908. New vehicles cannot be used until they have been registered, though motor traders can get trade plates to drive new vehicles for business purposes. If a resident imports a vehicle, they must register it within 48 hours (for existing residents) or within 14 days (for new residents). Guernsey plates consist of up to five digits, with no letters. An oval containing the letters GBG (Great Britain and Northern Ireland \u2013 Guernsey), the island's international vehicle registration code, is sometimes included. Newer Guernsey plates are silver numbers on a black background or the older style with black numbers on a white background (for the front) and black numbers on yellow background (for the back). Special plates. Registration number codice_1 is reserved for, and displayed on the Bailiff of Guernsey's car."}, {"text": "The official car of the Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey has no number plate. His private cars have c"Netherby is a rural locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Netherby had a population of 25 people. Geography. The \"Mary River\" forms the western and north-western boundaries. Penny Mountain is in the east of the locality () and rises to above sea level. The North Coast railway line enters the locality from the south (Gundiah) and exits to the north (Tiaro). The locality is served by: The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation. History. The locality presumably takes its name from its railway station, which in turn was named by the Queensland Railways Department after the town in Scotland, thought to have some connection to a settler. Deborah Provisional School opened on 28 April 1885. On 1 January 1909, it became Deborah State School, but then closed on 31 December 1910. It reopened on 1 March 1921 as a half-time school in conjunction with Mount Urah Provisional School (meaning the two schools shared a single teacher). On 4 April 1927, the closure of Mount Urah School enabled Deborah State School to become a full-time school once again. It closed on 5 June 1939. The school was on Deborah Road (approx ). Demographics. In"}, {"text": "the , Netherby had a population of 39 people. In the , Netherby had a population of 25 people. Education. There are no schools in Netherby. The nearest government primary schools are Tiaro State School in neighbouring Tiaro to the north and Gundiah State School in neighbouring Gundiah to the south. The nearest government secondary school is Maryborough State High School in Maryborough to the north-east. Facilities. Deborah Cemetery is at 751 Deborah Road ()."}, {"text": "Ministry of Public Works and Urban Development () is a government ministry of Yemen."}, {"text": "The Ministry of Health, Population and Hospital Reform (MSPRH) is the health ministry of Republic of Algeria. It is located in El Madania, a municipality of Algiers. The Ministry is responsible for public health facilities and population monitoring. The Minister is a member of the Council of Ministers of Algeria, which reports to the President of Algeria as part of the executive branch of the government. History. The Ministry of Health, Population and Hospital Reform was formerly the Ministry of Health and Population. The name was changed in about 2000. The ministry has organized the country into five regions with 5 Health Regional Councils (CRS) and 5 Regional Health Observatories (RHAs). At the Provincial level, there are 48 Directorates of Health and Population (one per province). Ministers. The current minister is Abdelhak Saihi (since 9 September 2022). Former ministers include: Organization. The Ministry is organized into the following units: Public health establishments. In 2020, there were according to the Ministry 586 public health establishments in Algeria. There are 69,948 beds in CHU, EHU, EH, EHS, and EPH establishments and 6,584 beds in community hospitals (EPSP). These establishments are broken down as follows: Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire (CHU). According to the Algerian Ministry"}, {"text": "of Health, Population and Hospital Reform there were 15 Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire (CHU) in Algeria in 2019, up from 13 in 2004. In 2019, there were 13,755 beds in the CHU facilities. A CHU may include multiple hospitals. Below is a list of the CHU in Algeria, showing the region, city, province, affiliated university, and number of beds."}, {"text": "Doongul is a rural locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Doongul had a population of 35 people. Geography. Most of the locality is with protected areas. The west of the locality is within the Wongi National Park which extends into neighbouring Golden Fleece to the west. The small Fairlies Knob National Park is immediately south of the Wongi National Park in the south-west of the locality. Apart from the national parks, almost all of the rest of the locality is within the Wongi State Forest, except for the centre and south-east, where the land use is grazing on native vegetation. Doongul has the following mountains, from north to south: The town of Eliott () is within Doongul on the Old Gayndah Road. History. The locality was previously known as Muskat Flat. It presumably takes its present name Doongul from the Doongul parish and Doongul Creek, which are thought to take their name from the Doongal pastoral run, described in 1862 as being from Maryborough. On 18 July 1864, 39 town lots were offered for sale in Eliott. In 1877, of land was resumed from the Lower Doongul pastoral run to establish smaller farms. A further"}, {"text": "was resumed from the Doongul pastoral run. The land was offered for selection on 17 April 1877. Demographics. In the , Doongul had a population of 29 people. In the , Doongul had a population of 35 people. Education. There are no schools in Doongul. The nearest government primary school is Brooweena State School in Brooweena to the south-west. The nearest government secondary school is Aldridge State High School in Maryborough in the east."}, {"text": "A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of The Hawkesbury on 7 April 1877 because William Piddington had been appointed Colonial Treasurer in the second Parkes ministry. Such ministerial by-elections were usually uncontested and on this occasion, The Hawkesbury was the only district at which the re-election of a minister was opposed. Results. <includeonly> William Piddington had been appointed Colonial Treasurer in the second Parkes ministry.</includeonly>"}, {"text": "The members of the eleventh National Assembly of South Korea were elected on 25 March 1981. The Assembly sat from 11 April 1981 until 10 April 1985."}, {"text": "Gungaloon is a rural locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Gungaloon had a population of 27 people. Geography. \"Doongul Creek\", a tributary of the \"Burrum River\", forms most of the northern boundary. The Maryborough\u2013Biggenden Road (State Route 86) forms the southern boundary, entering from the south-east (Thinoomba / Dunmora) and exiting to the south-west (Aramara). The Old Gayndah Road enters the locality from the east (Dunmora) and exits to the west (Doongul). A section of Wongi National Park is in the west of the locality. Wongi State Forest is in the north-west and the north-east of the locality, extending into neighbouring Doongul, Duckinwilla, and Dunmora. Gungaloon State Forest is in the south-east of the locality. Thinoomba State Forest is in the south of the locality extending into neighbouring Thinoomba. Apart from these protected areas, the land use is grazing on native vegetation. History. It is unclear precisely when Doongal Lower Provisional School opened and closed. Subscriptions were called for in 1893 to build the school. The school was operating in 1896 when a teacher was transferred there. In 1915, the school building was sold for removal. It was at approx . Gungaloon State School opened"}, {"text": "on 27 October 1921 and closed in 1931. It was on the eastern side of the junction of Thinoomba Road and Ross Road (), now within neighbouring Thinoomba to the south. Demographics. In the , Gungaloon had a population of 33 people. In the , Gungaloon had a population of 27 people. Education. There are no schools in Gungaloon. The nearest government primary schools are Sunbury State School in Maryborough to the east, Mungar State School in Mungar to the south-east, and Brooweena State School in Brooweena to the south-west. The nearest government secondary school is Aldridge State High School in Maryborough. There are also a number of non-government schools in Maryborough and its suburbs."}, {"text": "Ministry of Industry and Mines () is a government ministry of Algeria. Subordinate under it is the National Agency of Investment Development (, ANDIm ). It was established in 1993 as the Agency of Promotion, Support and Follow-up of Investment (, APSI; ) and received its current name in 2001."}, {"text": "A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of The Hawkesbury on 30 July 1892 caused by the death of Alexander Bowman (). Results. <includeonly> Alexander Bowman () died.</includeonly>"}, {"text": "Jerome Bossr (born 22 September 1998) is a South African cricketer. He made his List A debut on 20 October 2019, for Border in the 2019\u201320 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge. He made his first-class debut on 21 November 2019, for Border in the 2019\u201320 CSA 3-Day Provincial Cup. He made his Twenty20 debut on 5 October 2021, for Border in the 2021\u201322 CSA Provincial T20 Knock-Out tournament."}, {"text": "Bofedales (singular \"bofedal\"), known in some parts of Peru as oconales, are a type of wetland found in the Andes. They feature in the land use and ecology of high Andean ecosystems. They form in flat areas around ponds or streams and may be permanent or seasonal, and they can be man made or natural. Bofedales are associated with organic material in the soil and their green colour often contrasts with that of the drier surrounding landscape. They are found at elevations exceeding above sea level. Bofedales absorb the limited amount of water derived from snow, glacier meltwater and rain showers, storing it in ground and slowly releasing it. Their vegetation is dominated by cushion plants. Numerous animals including birds, mammals and invertebrates occur in bofedales. They are used by humans, who have created new such wetlands through irrigation, but human activities can also be a threat to these ecosystems. Name and classification. is the singular term; the plural is . The Quechua languages have terms like , , and , while the Aymara language terms are and ; there are also spelling variants. refers to wetlands, which frequently but not always are bofedales. The term \"bofedal\"/\"bofedales\" is frequently used"}, {"text": "for other types of wetlands or Andean ecosystems that do not need the definition. Characteristics. Bofedales are wetlands featuring cushion plants in the Andes between Colombia and Venezuela in the north to Patagonia in the south. The surrounding drier, yellow landscape contrasts notably with the green bofedales, creating landscapes of great aesthetic value. The tropical Andes feature numerous vegetation zones, with the p\u00e1ramo in the north having the highest humidity. To the south moisture decreases and the distinction between the wet season and dry season increases, yielding the transition from the p\u00e1ramo to the jalca vegetation and finally to the puna grassland. The Puna contains both xerophytic and wet sections. Analogous ecosystems exist in the mountains of East Africa, Hawaii and New Guinea. The landscape of a bofedal features ponds, lawns and hummocks. Plants growing in bofedales form cushions, meadows, shrubs or flat-growing forms. The bofedales can reach sizes of more than or less than . In Chile, long and narrow bofedales form at the bottom of valleys. They usually form on flat terrain, next to ponds, springs and streams, but most of the water is underground. The water originates as groundwater or from rivers, lakes and glaciers and is"}, {"text": "only slowly released by the bofedales, which thus constitute important water stores for the dry season, allowing streams to continue flowing. Almost all river systems in southern Peru have bofedales in their headwaters. The climate conditions are often extreme, featuring high insolation and strong winds, lack of precipitation and oxygen due to the thin atmosphere at these elevations, low temperatures with daily frosts and a short growing season. Bofedales sometimes exist only seasonally, others are present year-round. They feature peat or organic soils that can store significant quantities of carbon, equivalent to ten times that of normal \"Sphagnum\" peat. They retain and filter nutrients. Sometimes the ground is so soft that animals can sink into it. Where bofedales have been dated, such as in Chile, they began development during the Holocene after deglaciation and often only during the last few millennia (including the Little Ice Age), when conditions became wetter. Occurrence. , almost of Peru were covered by bofedales; this is about 0.4% of the country. Remote sensing found that in 1992\u20131993 about 1.4% of the Altiplano, about , were bofedales. In Chile large swathes of the Altiplano in the regions of Arica y Parinacota and Tarapac\u00e1 are covered by"}, {"text": "bofedales. Relative to this region bofedales in the more arid Antofagasta Region are smaller and more isolated. The southernmost bofedales of the Central Andes are found at the latitude of the Nevado Tres Cruces National Park in Chile. In Peru, most bofedales lie in glacial basins. Flora and fauna. The most important plant species in bofedales are cushion plants, including the Juncaceae \"Distichia muscoides\" and \"Oxychloe andina\". About 61 to 62 different plant species have been recorded in Central Andean bofedales. They do not occur in every bofedal; species composition varies between regions and different parts of the same bofedal. The species composition may vary due to grazing pressure and seed dispersal by animals, water availability and temperature, the presence of nutrients and toxic elements, and different stages of the ecological succession. Many of these plant species are endemic. Bofedales have a high biological productivity, the highest of all ecosystems in the Puna. The water of bofedales provides habitats to amphibians like frogs (Acancocha water frog, common marsupial frogs and \"Pleurodema marmoratum\") and toads (\"Rhinella spinulosa\"). Numerous invertebrates like annelids, crustaceans, insects, planarians and snails live in bofedales. Birds living in bofedales include Andean geese, Andean lapwings, Andean negritos, buff-winged"}, {"text": "cinclodes, crested ducks, Darwin's rheas, golden-spotted ground doves, grey-breasted seedsnipes and yellow-billed teals. The food resources of bofedales also draw mammals like Andean deer, Andean foxes, guanacos, various species of mice, pampas cats, pumas, white-tailed deer, vicu\u00f1as and vizcachas. Human use. Bofedales are an important economic resource. At their elevations climatic conditions make agriculture unfeasible, while the high quality of the forage in bofedales invites animal husbandry. On the Altiplano, in drier areas they are the most important pasture. Alpacas, cattle, horses, llamas and sheep are fed there. Plants used in medicine or in spiritual activities are taken from bofedales. Bofedales can be artificial, and many may have formed through the irrigation of pastures. Some bofedales are artificially created and sustained through irrigation to this day. Many more are at least partially modified by human activity. The Aymara, Quechua and Colla peoples have maintained traditional knowledge about the bofedales including irrigation techniques, animal rotation and the use of fire to remove dry plants. The human engineering of bofedales is poorly studied. The water supply of Chilean cities in Atacama Desert such as Antofagasta and Calama has been, in part, historically derived from rivers tapped near bofedales. However studies show that"}, {"text": "in the early 1990s 62% of bofedales and bofedal-like vegas in northern Chile yielded water of questionable quality for human consumption. Issues related to the water quality of bofedales include the occurrence of fecal and non-fecal coliform bacteria as well as fly eggs. A limited number of bofedales that function as water sources have had their drainage improved by channels due to sanitary reasons. Also in Chile a few bofedales and their associated aquifers have supplied water for the country's large copper mining industry. Threats and conservation. The use of bofedales for pasture frequently results in overgrazing, although it may not always be detrimental to bofedal function. More localized threats to bofedales are mining and the extraction of peat, which can result in severe damage. Other infrastructure projects threatening bofedales are dams, road projects, and the diversion of their water sources. Climate change is a further threat to these ecosystems as decreased precipitation and glacier retreat reduces the flow of water into bofedales, which is necessary to sustain them. Whether the activities of local communities are a threat or a benefit to bofedales is unclear. Bofedales are biodiversity hotspots, and many of the animal species living in them are threatened."}, {"text": "Bofedales are important ecosystems in the mountains, with high levels of species diversity and endemism, and their ability to retain water reduces erosion and maintains water resources. Within the Ramsar Convention, they are counted as unforested peatlands. Some bofedales are included in protected areas but , none were the subject of a dedicated protected area. They are considered to be vulnerable ecosystems under Peruvian environmental law. In Chile, some regions require special permissions to withdraw water from bofedales and their watersheds."}, {"text": "The following are the national records in track cycling in Uzbekistan, maintained by its national cycling federation, Uzbekistan Cycling Federation."}, {"text": "The following are the national records in track cycling in Thailand, maintained by its national cycling federation, Thai Cycling Association."}, {"text": "Alindile Mhletywa is a South African cricketer. He made his List A debut on 20 October 2019, for Border in the 2019\u201320 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge. He made his first-class debut on 24 October 2019, for Border in the 2019\u201320 CSA 3-Day Provincial Cup. He made his Twenty20 debut on 12 February 2022, for Warriors in the 2021\u201322 CSA T20 Challenge."}, {"text": "Ilha do Algod\u00e3o () () is an island 400 meters away from the historic village of Mambucaba, 6 km northeast of Angra Nuclear Power Plant, in the municipality of Angra dos Reis, southeast of the state of Rio de Janeiro. History. Records of the time indicate that in 1611, a \"Baiano\" (a man from the state of Bahia) would have been granted the island, at the tip of Iperuquara (possibly the one that separates Mambucaba from Praia Vermelha). Also recorded is an island of 200 fathoms in the same locality, granted to Est\u00e1cio Ferreira in 1619 (possibly Ilha do Algod\u00e3o)."}, {"text": "Dunmora is a rural locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Dunmora had a population of 281 people. Geography. The locality is bounded to the south by the Maryborough\u2013Biggenden Road. The Old Gayndah Road splits from the Marybrough-Biggenden Road in the south-east of the locality and proceeds west through the south of the locality exiting along the western boundary into neighbouring Gungaloon. The northern part of the locality is within the Wongi State Forest. The southern part of the locality is predominantly used for grazing on native vegetation with some crop growing and rural residential housing. History. In 1880, residents were lobbying for a school to be established. Dunmora Provisional School opened circa 1881. On 1 January 1909, it became Dunmora State School. It closed in 1912. Dunmora Central Provisional School opened in 1899. On 1 January 1909, it became Dunmora Central State School. It closed in 1931. It reopened on 15 September 1936 before closing permanently in 1941. It was on the southern side of Old Gayndah Road (). Demographics. In the , Dunmora had a population of 222 people. In the , Dunmora had a population of 281 people. Education. There are no schools"}, {"text": "in Dunmora. The nearest government primary schools are Sunbury State School in Maryborough to the east and Mungar State School in Mungar to the south-east. The nearest government secondary school is Aldridge State High School, also in Maryborough. Facilities. Dunmora Rural Fire Station is on the southern side of Old Gayndah Road ()."}, {"text": "Joes may refer to:"}, {"text": "Jetten is a surname"abbey rose again during the Catholic Counter-Reformation, when on 26 June 1619, the commendatory abbot Jean Jaubert de Barrault, Bishop of Bazas, following the example of the Augustian abbey in Limoges, appealed to six monks from the Congregation of Saint-Maur who restored the Benedictine rule. They encountered the hostility of the monks in place, so the abbey was shared and the Maurists were satisfied with a small chapel until death swept away their opponents in 1635. The abbey was then separated by a wall to allow the parish church to be installed in the nave. At the beginning of the 18th century, after a fire which destroyed part of the main building, the western part was rebuilt in the style of the time French Revolution. In 1790, the fourteen monks that still remained in the abbey were thrown out by the French Revolution. The abbey then became a parish church, the Saint-Michel church having been auctioned and then exploited as a stone quarry. The abbey buildings were used as a prison, in particular for refractory priests (who were then sent to the Rochefort pontoons), and for nuns. Modern age. Under the Second French Empire (1852\u20131870) the abbey became a boarding"}, {"text": "school for young girls, then housed a porcelain factory until 1930. From 1939 to 1945, the \"normaliens\" of Obernai (Bas-Rhin) found refuge there. The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate took possession of the place in 1946, and the buildings became a seminary, then a place of retreat. \"It was in 1945. The Oblates were looking for a place large enough to accommodate the numerous entrants into the congregation. They set their sights on the Abbey of Solignac, which they knew from having preached parish missions in the pre-war sector ... The adventure lasted until the early 1970s \". The entrance door to the old abbey was listed as a historical monument by decree of 24 January 1944. The abbey was then occupied by the , tenant of the oblates of Mary. In 2011, the Diocese of Limoges acquired the abbey from the oblates of Mary. New foundation of the Saint Joseph de Clairval Abbey. Resumption of the contemplative life. Since November 2021, the abbey has once again sheltered a contemplative monastic life, with the installation from August of the Saint-Joseph priory founded by the Benedictine monks of the in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain (C\u00f4te d'Or). \"The abbey and its abbacy will thus reconnect"}, {"text": "with what they were set up for and resume the thread of 1150 years of Benedictine presence\". First planned works. \"With its of developed surface, its of land, its of roofing, its 250 windows or its kilometers of various networks and after 20 years of vacancy the abbey will become a building site. After the work necessary for the installation of the monks, the most urgent work is that of the Saint-Jean porch, which threatened to ruin and was secured in the winter of 2020\u20132021. Construction of the abbey church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. No information is available on the churches that predate the current church. The consecration of the current church is subject to discussion: An attempt at the chronology of the construction has been proposed by cross-checking the dates given above with other domed churches in the region: Stylistic comparisons make it probable that the two spans of the nave with domes were built before 1143. The same is probably true of the dome of the transept crossing. It is probable that the fire of 1178 must have necessitated the restoration of the choir of the abbey which must have been the most affected, but retaining"}, {"text": "the initial plan because it recalls those of Cahors, Souillac and Vigeois built around 1130. Some have pointed out that while the destruction has been limited, the certain date of consecration of 1211 appears late. This date would be due to the partial reconstruction of the buttresses and apses, which would reflect the difference between the two buttresses. The porch tower dates from the beginning of the 13th century. Elements of the base of the older bell tower may have been reused in the porch tower, but the vault is Gothic. During the administration of Abbot Hugues de Maumont (1195\u20131228), the third floor of the porch tower, the religious cloister and the information cloister were built (\u201cfecit feri claustrum per integrum et claustrum de infirmatorio and tertiam partem clocherii superiorem '). The western wall of the southern brace had to be redone in the 17th century. Lightning destroyed on 18 May 1734 the small frame bell tower surmounting the crossing of the transept. It was rebuilt, but no longer exists. The top floor of the western bell tower was confined to turrets similar to the Eymoutiers bell tower. It collapsed on 29 March 1783. It was replaced at the beginning"}, {"text": "of the 19th century by a belfry-wall. The abbey church was classified as historical monuments by the list of 1862. During the restoration of 1951, a 15th-century painting of Saint Christopher on a pillar of the transept crossing was unearthed. Architecture of the abbey. Ramparts surrounded the abbey estate. All the buildings date from the 12th and 13th centuries but have been restored several times. They are part of a quadrilateral of which the nave of the church constitutes one of the sides. Abbey church. The abbey church was built over a long period: the nave during the first half of the 12th century, the choir and transept after the fire of 1178 and the bell tower at the beginning of the 13th century. It is the only abbey with a row of domes in Limousin and a jewel of Romanesque art. In the 16th century the interior was restored, in particular with the arrangement of sculpted stalls. Monastic buildings. Restored, the abbey church regained its function in 1635. One hundred years later, the cloister and the conventual buildings were completely rebuilt but respecting the Romanesque architecture. The cloister disappeared at the beginning of the 20th century when the premises"}, {"text": "housed the porcelain factory. The current monastic buildings are from the 18th century. They take the shape of an E with three of the sides of the monastic complex and a central wing. All have sober lines and are covered with gable roofs."}, {"text": "The Maritime Court of Ontario was an admiralty court in Ontario. It was created in 1877 by a statute of the Parliament of Canada. The Exchequer Court of Canada succeeded the Maritime Court by a statute passed in 1891. The Exchequer Court continued in 1971 as the Federal Court of Canada. History. Prior to Confederation in 1867, vice-admiralty courts had existed in Lower Canada (now Quebec) and in the Maritimes. The Vice-Admiralty Court of Quebec had been established in 1764. The court continued when the old Province of Quebec was split into Lower Canada and Upper Canada in 1791, but its jurisdiction was limited to Lower Canada. There was no vice-admiralty court for Upper Canada (now Ontario). Beginning in the 1860s, Canadian commentators began to see the need for an admiralty court with jurisdiction over commerce on the Great Lakes. After Confederation, early legislative proposals would have conferred admiralty jurisdiction on the Supreme Court of Canada but the court, created by statute in 1875, was not given such jurisdiction. In 1877, the parliament of Canada established the Maritime Court of Ontario by the \"Maritime Jurisdiction Act, 1877.\" The statute came into force on July 7, 1877. In 1891, the Exchequer"}, {"text": "Court of Canada became Canada's admiralty court pursuant to the \"Admiralty Act, 1891\", SC 1891 (54\u201355 Vict), c 29. The Maritime Court of Ontario was accordingly abolished; its territory became known as the \"Toronto Admiralty District\" of the new court. The Exchequer Court was continued and reorganized in 1971 as the Federal Court of Canada. Jurisdiction. The Maritime Court of Ontario had all jurisdiction exercised by then-existing British vice-admiralty courts in similar matters. It could hear both contract and tort claims. Its jurisdiction extended to proceedings \"in rem\" and \"in personam\" related to navigation, shipping, trade, or commerce on any river, lake, canal, or inland water located in whole or in part in Ontario. Practice and procedure. When the Maritime Court of Ontario was established, common law and equity had not yet been fused in Ontario. The rules of practice in the Maritime Court were modelled on the general orders of the Court of Chancery of Upper Canada. The judges of the Maritime Court were the county judges of the county of York sitting in Toronto. Appeals lay directly from the Maritime Court of Ontario to the Supreme Court of Canada."}, {"text": "The Men's 100 metre freestyle S5 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 26 August 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Heats. The swimmers with the top 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final."}, {"text": "The Old Harry oil field is an oil field in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec."}, {"text": "Amy N. Bauernschmidt is a United States Navy officer. She is the first woman to serve as the executive officer and then as the commanding officer of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. Bauernschmidt assumed command of on 19 August 2021. Early life and education. Bauernschmidt was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and attended the United States Naval Academy. Six months before she graduated, the U.S. Congress passed legislation allowing women to serve on Navy combatant ships. She graduated in May 1994 with a B.S. degree in ocean engineering. On her first assignment as a Naval Academy midshipman, she chose aviation. After completing flight school, she was designated a naval aviator in 1996. She then learned to fly helicopters and also became a flight instructor. Bauernschmidt later earned an M.A. degree in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College. Career. Trained as a helicopter pilot, Bauernschmidt served with the \"Wolfpack\" of HSL-45 on the destroyer and the \"Warlords\" of HSL-51 on the aircraft carrier . She later served as executive officer and then commanding officer of the \"Spartans\" of HSM-70 on the "of Nusantara Capital City Authority. Fourth reshuffle. On 15 June 2022, the fourth reshuffle occurred. In this reshuffle, 2 ministers reshuffled, and 3 deputy ministers were set up. A Deputy minister post, Deputy Minister of Public Works and Housing is vacated. The reshuffle marked as the first time an Indonesian cabinet is reshuffled four times since the era of the National Unity Cabinet under Wahid's administration. Fifth reshuffle. On 24 June 2022, Tjahjo Kumolo reported contracted unknown illness and replaced by Mahfud MD as ad interim Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform. He died after being hospitalized at Abdi Waluyo Hospital in Jakarta on 1 July 2022. Potential fifth reshuffle will be announced later after mourning period. Fifth reshuffle likely done after 15 July 2022, coincidentally at the day with the end of mourning period and Tito Karnavian limit of ad interim. On 15 July, Mahfud MD appointed as acting Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform. On 7 September 2022, Abdullah Azwar Anas become Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform in the fifth reshuffle. Sixth reshuffle. Nasdem Party declared Joko Widodo's political rival, Anies Baswedan, as a presidential candidate on October 3, 2022. As the result, pro-Joko Widodo side voiced"}, {"text": "and promoted the reshuffle and expelled Nasdem Party from the cabinet. On 23 December 2022, Joko Widodo announced he will reshuffle his cabinet, although not giving much detail which minister that will be reshuffled. The Executive Office of the President of the Republic of Indonesia confirmed that the reshuffle will be realized in January 2023, but it never happened until the time past. Zainuddin Amali expressed his intention to step down his position as Minister of Youth and Sport Affairs after being elected as Indonesian Football Association vice president. His intention finally realized and Joko Widodo accepted his resignation on 13 March 2023. On 16 March 2023, Zainuddin Amali stepped down from the minister position and replaced with Muhadjir Effendy as acting minister. The sixth reshuffle took place 3 April 2023. In this occasion, Dito Ariotedjo of Golkar Party, appointed as replacement of Zainuddin Amali. He was the first Indonesian millennial appointed as the minister. Seventh reshuffle. On 17 May 2023, Minister of Communication and Information Technology Johnny G. Plate arrested due to corruption, leaving potential seventh reshuffle opened. On 19 May 2023, Mahfud MD appointed as acting minister. On 17 July 2023, Joko Widodo reshuffled his cabinet. In this"}, {"text": "reshuffle, he placed Budi Arie Setiadi placed as the new minister of Communication and Information Technology. He also placed other deputy ministers as well. Eighth reshuffle. On 3 August 2023, Amarulla Octavian, appointed as the Deputy Chairman of National Research and Innovation Agency. Ninth reshuffle. Potential ninth reshuffle currently opened after several ministers suspected to be involved in legal cases. In same time, on 2 October 2023, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono met Joko Widodo, further opening speculation of incoming reshuffle. Nasdem Party confirmed that Syahrul Yasin Limpo resigned as Minister of Agriculture on 5 October 2023 over corruption case. Istana Negara also confirmed the incoming reshuffle will be happened. On 6 October 2023, Arief Prasetyo Adi appointed as acting Minister of Agriculture. On 25 October 2023, Amran Sulaiman, Minister of Agriculture of Joko Widodo's previous administration recalled from his retirement and assumed the post again. Tenth reshuffle. On 21 February 2024, Joko Widodo reshuffled his cabinet. In this occasion, Hadi Tjahjanto became Coordinating Minister of Political, Legal, and Security Affairs replacing Mahfud MD and Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono became Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of National Land Agency replacing Hadi Tjahjanto. Joko Widodo said that he might reshuffle his cabinet"}, {"text": "again despite only having 8 months remaining in his presidency. The tenth reshuffle further cemented Joko Widodo's political position in his remaining period of his presidency, with almost all parties in legislature except Prosperous Justice Party currently on his administration side. With the joining of Democratic Party to Joko Widodo side, for the first time since its formation, Democratic Party joined a PDI-P backed government. The joining of Democratic Party also showed Joko Widodo's separation from PDI-P's power and influence. Eleventh reshuffle. Eleventh reshuffle happened on 18 July 2024. In this reshuffle, Deputy Ministers for "kits are start-up kits for cosmetology-related livelihood. The \"Negokart\" Project and \"Kabuhayan\" Starter Kits are livelihood flagship programs of DOLE. On the same year, Lacson signed the Manifesto of Support for the Build, Build, Build Program of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, along with the other leaders of Tarlac province, during the third leg of the Clark Development Stakeholders\u2019 Roadshow held at the Widus Hotel in Clark Freeport Zone. In January 2020, Lacson, along with other local government officials and administrators of the Tarlac State University (TSU), led the groundbreaking ceremony of the TSU Concepcion Extension Campus. The construction of the extension campus is considered a legacy project of Lacson where 75 million pesos from their local funds is budgeted and hopes to accommodate around 500 enrollees by 2021, its target year of operation. International delegations. Since 2013, Lacson has served the municipality of Concepcion, Tarlac as mayor. However, he has also represented the country, in his capacity as Mayor, as a member of the Philippine delegation to the 2014 Australian Political Exchange Council Program. The delegation went on a seven-day visit to New South Wales, Canberra and Sydney to learn about Australia and its political system. Lacson returned the favor"}, {"text": "to the Australian delegates when they visited the Philippines in May 2014. He, along with former Cabinet Secretary Jose Rene Almendras, met the Australian delegation. Lacson is also a part of the Philippine delegate to the Japan Investment Mission in 2016. Use of technology. In October 2014, Lacson boasts that Concepcion is the first town in the Philippines to have drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, to monitor the local peace and order situation and threats from natural disasters. Additionally, he said that they are building the most modern police station in the country because of its complete facilities. In March 2016, Lacson and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Tarlac signed a Memorandum of Agreement for the use of equipment to upgrade the production of meat products by local meat makers. During the turnover ceremony of the set of new equipment provided by DTI Region III to meat processors from Concepcion, Lacson expressed his gratitude for partnering with the local government of Concepcion as the cooperator of the Shared Service Facility provided by the DTI. In April 2017, Lacson entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) to cooperate with DICT's Free"}, {"text": "Wi-fi Access in Public Places Project. The project aims to provide free Wi-Fi internet access in public places nationwide. In October 2018, in a public hearing conducted by the Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Lacson endorsed the proposed project of a scrap recycling mini-mill by SteelAsia Manufacturing Corporation. In June 2020, Lacson launched his own mobile app. Campaign against illegal drugs. On July 17, 2017, Lacson received a special commendation from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 3 for his support to the government's campaign against illegal drugs. The PDEA commendation came after the local police arrested 3 barangay councilors and 2 mun"Stephan von Breuning (17 August 1774 \u2013 4 June 1827) was a German civil servant, librettist and Ludwig van Beethoven's lifelong friend, from his childhood in Bonn when receiving music lessons until acting as his executor in Vienna. Life. Born in Bonn, Breuning was the son of Emanuel Joseph von Breuning and his wife Helene von Breuning, also known as \"Beethoven's second mother\". In 1784, the family made the acquaintance of Ludwig van Beethoven in their home at Bonn. He became a close friend to the family and gave piano lessons to the Breuning children Eleonore and Lorenz. In 1801, Breuning moved to Vienna where four years later Beethoven's \"Fidelio\" was premiered. Besides Joseph Sonnleithner and Georg Friedrich Treitschke, Breuning also contributed to the libretto. In 1806, Beethoven dedicated his violin concerto op. 61 to his friend. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, Breuning assisted in handling affairs of the estate, then died at age 52 a few months later. The plan to publish a Beethoven biography, which Breuning had considered writing in collaboration with Beethoven's childhood friend and Breuning's brother-in-law Franz Gerhard Wegeler and Anton Schindler, could not be realized. Family. In April, 1808, Breuning married Julie von Vering (1791\u20131809),"}, {"text": "the daughter of Beethoven's physician Gerhard von Vering (1755-1823), to whom Beethoven dedicated the piano version of his Violin Concerto. Julie died at age 17, less than a year after their marriage. Around 1812, Breuning began a relationship with Constanze Ruschowitz (1785-86 in Freudenthal, Austrian Silesia, \u2013 5 October 1856 in Vienna), whom he married on 18 February 1817. She had three children:"}, {"text": "John Edward Pence is an attorney, American businessman and political advisor who worked as a senior political advisor for President Donald Trump. During Trump's 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, Pence engaged with Latino voters and advocated for Trump's policies regarding Latin America. He is the son of former Congressman Greg Pence and nephew of former Vice President Mike Pence. Early life and education. John was born in Columbus, Indiana and is the son of Greg Pence, a United States Representative for Indiana's 6th congressional district, and Denise Pence. He is the nephew of Vice President of the United States Mike Pence. Pence has three sibling and attended Columbus North High School. Pence graduated with a major in Spanish from the College of William & Mary. During his college career, Pence studied abroad at the National University of La Plata in Argentina, where he observed President of Venezuela Hugo Ch\u00e1vez receive an award and attack the United States while students applauded him. Pence later spent time teaching the English language in Nicaragua under President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega. After these experiences, Pence said that he witnessed socialism ruining Latin America. Pence later obtained a Juris Doctor from the Indiana University Maurer"}, {"text": "School of Law and a Master of Business Administration from New York University Stern School of Business. Career. In August 2016, Pence began working for the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign. During the presidency of Donald Trump, Pence worked as the deputy executive director of Trump's 2020 presidential campaign. While serving in the position, the Republican National Committee (RNC) paid $37,000 a month to rent an office in Trump Tower for Pence according to CNBC. CNBC also reported that Pence was paid $12,000 per month by the Trump campaign and an additional $12,000 monthly by the RNC. David Bossie and Corey Lewandowski in their book \"Let Trump Be Trump\" write that Pence was responsible for the \"crowd-building process\" and sophistication of Trump's campaign. According to Trump staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman, Pence was credited for the chants heard during Trump rallies, with the former staffer saying that he organized section leaders at events to initiate certain chants. \"Mother Jones\" noted that Pence was instrumental for building the support of conservative Latinos during the 2020 campaign, highlighting his ability to speak Spanish while also noting Pence's background in Argentina and Nicaragua. The Trump campaign referred to Pence as \"Juan Pence\" due to"}, {"text": "his many Spanish-language videos on social media according to Mike C. Bender's book \"Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost\". "to be an offensive coordinator for Northeastern State. He remained with the Riverhawks until the end of the 2011 season. In 2012, he joined Justin Fuente's staff in Memphis as the quarterbacks coach, he previously worked with Fuente at Illinois State. In 2015, he was given a promotion and added the title of co-offensive coordinator, where he coached quarterback Paxton Lynch. He was also nominated for the Broyles Award. In 2016, he followed Fuente to Virginia Tech and was named the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He was let go following the 2021 season. Cornelsen was hired on January 17, 2023, as the offensive coordinator for the Sam Houston State Bearkats. He took over as interim head coach on December 1, 2024, after K. C. Keeler departed to become head coach at Temple University."}, {"text": "Isabel Calvimontes (November 19, 1790 \u2013 December 20, 1855) was an Upper Peru-born Argentine patriot who participated in Buenos Aires society at the service of the May Revolution and in the early years of the emancipatory movement. She is one of the Patricias Argentinas. Early life and marriage. Isabel Calvimontes Trujillo was born on November 19, 1790, in Chuquisaca, Upper Peru. She was the daughter of Jos\u00e9 Calvimontes, prosecutor of the court of the Real Audiencia of Charcas and Florencia Trujillo. On August 14, 1804, in Chuquisaca, she married Dr. Pedro Jos\u00e9 Agrelo, who had befriended her father at the University of Saint Francis Xavier. She had several children, among them Jos\u00e9 Pedro Agrelo Calvimontes and the future colonel, Mart\u00edn Avelino Agrelo Calvimontes. The failure of the Chuquisaca Revolution in 1809 forced Pedro Jos\u00e9 Agrelo to abandon his post as subdelegate in Tupiza and move with his wife to his hometown, the City of Buenos Aires. There, he did not take long to integrate into the circles that promoted American independence and when the May Revolution of 1810 took place, the couple immediately joined the patriot movement. 1811\u201312. In June 1811, Diego Saavedra, son of Cornelio Saavedra, the president of"}, {"text": "the Junta Grande, and Juan Pedro Aguirre left for the United States as commissioners with the mission of acquiring weapons and ammunition in that country. At the beginning of 1812, the commissioners concluded a contract for the purchase of 1,000 rifles and 350,000 bullets with the firm Miller & Wambor. On May 13, the commissioners and supplies arrived at the Barrag\u00e1n cove port aboard the US-flagged vessel \"Liberty\" and on May 19, they anchored off the port of Buenos Aires. Word spread of the ship's arrival at the port of Buenos Aires and that the economic situation of the revolutionary government made its purchase difficult. On May 30, 1812, fourteen society women of Buenos Aires met at the home of Tomasa de la Quintana, the wife of Antonio Jos\u00e9 de Escalada. The patrician women, who would become known as the \"Sociedad Patri\u00f3tica\" (Patriotic Society) made donations equivalent to thirteen rifles and two ounces of gold so that, according to Bernardo de Monteagudo, they could say, \"I armed this brave man who assured our freedom\". The patricians requested that each of the rifles acquired with their contributions would bear the name of the donor. In addition to Calvimont"an average annual temperature of 6.2 degrees and an annual precipitation of 2.2 ml. The township has 253 hectares of cultivated grassland, 870 square kilometers of natural grassland, 2,667 hectares of natural forest. There are 18 mountain passes in the township. Simhana Village is the westernmost settlement in China, marked by the \"Western Pole of China\" monument. Politics and Government. Settlements. The township has 4 administration villages and 4 unincorporated villages under its jurisdiction. Demographics. , the population of Jigin was 99.6% Kyrgyz."}, {"text": "Jessa Dillow Crisp (born 1988) is a survivor of and an advocate against human trafficking for the sex industry. Childhood. Jessa Dillow Crisp was sexually abused by family members since the age of 10. They then forced her to be a model for child pornographers. After that her family trafficked her to pimps and pedophiles in the surrounding neighborhoods. Crisp says that the abuse also took place in local brothels and hotels. She claims that she was trafficked domestically in Canada but also across the border in the USA. She described the impact it had on her in the following way: \"I was scared to reach out for help and growing up the message that was branded on my heart was the idea that I had no worth, I was shameful, and all I was good for was sex\". Crisp also stated that police officers were among her abusers and that she was threatened with being put in jail if she ever spoke out about what was happening to her. Escape from trafficking. Crisp planned her escape for months. In 2010, she finally managed to escape with the help of a woman who ran a safe house in the US."}, {"text": "Having entered the United States on a tourist Visa, Crisp was forced to leave again after 6 months. She subsequently entered a safe house in Vancouver. It was there that she befriended a disguised female pimp. This pimp proceeded to traffic her out during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Crisp managed to escape once again to the same safe house she entered the first time when in the US. The head of the safe house suggested that Crisp should enroll in college. She was first hesitant and believed that it wouldn't be possible for her to be accepted or go through college as she hadn't been able to attend school at all in her childhood. She was then told by the head of the safe house, \"\"If you can read you can learn anything\".\" Crisp diligently started to study hard in order to apply for college. She managed to get accepted into Nazarene Bible College and was thus able to obtain a student visa, which made it possible for her to stay in the US. Education. Crisp graduated summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA BA in Clinical Counseling in 2016. She was the valedictorian of her class. She is"}, {"text": "continuing her education in an MA program for Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is planning on obtaining a PhD in Clinical Psychology with a specialisation in trauma recovery. She is expected to graduate with a MA in May 2020. Activism. Crisp is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Bridge Hope Now since 2011. The organisation provides trainings for organisations on what human trafficking is, how to spot it and how to combat it. Bridge Hope Now is also developing a smart phone app to coordinate resources for survivors or networks that victims can use to exit the sex industry. The organisation also helps survivors thrive in their lives after human trafficking through a mentorship program and a holiday program (including Christmas gifts and programs for survivors). Crisp is a public speaker on the topic of human trafficking. She has given a talk for the US Air Force Academy National Character and Leadership Symposium in 2018. Crisp has aside from that spoken at several conferences on human trafficking and worked with anti- human trafficking organisations both in the US and Europe. Personal life. Jessa Dillow Crisp was adopted by Jody and Linda Dillow at age 21. The married couple was on"}, {"text": "the board of the safe house in the US where Jessa had found refuge. Crisp married John Crisp in 2015. Her husband is a photographer and PhD student. They both live in Denver, Colorado."}, {"text": "Second Working Cabinet may refer to:"}, {"text": "Cabinet of Joko Widodo may refer to:"}, {"text": "The First Working Cabinet () was an Indonesian cabinet that served from 10 July 1959 until 18 February 1960, when President Sukarno reshuffled it."}, {"text": "Sukarno's Working Cabinet may refer to:"}, {"text": "DEL48 (read D.E.L. Forty-Eight) was an Indian idol group"Palaeocambarus is an extinct genus of crayfish discovered in the Yixian Formation in China, with only a single species, Palaeocambarus licenti. It is one of the oldest known fossil crayfish. The genus \"Cricoidoscelosus\" is now considered to be a junior synonym. It was initially believed to be Late Jurassic (Tithonian) in age, but it is now confirmed to have been Early Cretaceous (Barremian-Aptian) in age. Taxonomy. The species was first named by Van Straelen in 1928 as \"Astacus licenti\". In 1999, the species was assigned to the new genus \"Palaeocambarus,\" and was placed in the family Cambaridae. In the same publication, the genus and species \"Cricoidoscelosus aethus\" was described, and was placed into the monotypic family Cricoidoscelosidae. In 2019, a supposed new species of the spider \"Mongolarachne, \"Mongolarachne\" chaoyangensis\" was described from the Yixian Formation in China. However, in a later publication that same year, when the specimen was subject to fluorescence microscopy, it was shown that the specimen was a forgery using specimen D3088, a specimen of \"Cricoidoscelosus\", as a base, that had been painted to look like a spider, and as such the species was a junior synonym of \"Cricoidoscelosus.\" In 2023, a re-evalutation of crayfish from the"}, {"text": "Yixian Formation found that \"Cricoidoscelosus\" was a synonym of \"Palaeocambarus\" and that \"Palaeocambarus\" could be confidently placed in Cambaroididae, which includes modern East Asian crayfish (\"Cambaroides\")."}, {"text": "Tulva is a feminist magazine in Helsinki, Finland, which is published three times annually. The magazine has been in circulation since 2002. Tero Kartastenp\u00e4\u00e4 was one of the former editors-in-chief of the magazine, which is published by the Feminist Association Union. He served in the post between 2016 and late 2019. As of 2020 the editor-in-chief is Riikka Pennanen. \"Tulva\" is the recipient of the 2006 Quality Magazine Award."}, {"text": "Nino Tibilashvili (born 11 May 1997) is a Georgian wheelchair fencer. She won the silver medal in the women's sabre A event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan and the bronze medal in the Sabre A event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France."}, {"text": "The Railroad Avenue Industrial District is a historic industrial area on the west side of Bridgeport, Connecticut. It extended along both sides of Railroad Avenue betwee"be revealed. The remaining 21 members were announced the next day, while Glory performed with AKB48 Group to sing Koi Suru Fortune Cookie. The group was confirmed to debut in Spring 2020 by Glory in a Japanese interview. 2020\u20132022: Debut plans, hiatus, and disbandment. The plan to debut the group in early 2020 was postponed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The group released its Overture in March 2020, followed by the release of its members' official Instagram and TikTok page. An official TikTok page for the group was also opened, featuring the members dancing to AKB48 and BNK48's Koi Suru Fortune Cookie and the latter's High Tension. The group later began a weekly upload on their Instagram and YouTube page with each members having their own contents. In May 2020, DEL48 members, Reyna, Glory and Beanie, were featured alongside their sister groupmates in AKB48's performance on One Love Asia, an online charity concert organized by WebTVAsia and YouTube as part of UNICEF ASIA's #Reimagine global campaign to raise funds for children and families affected by the pandemic. In early October 2020, DEL48 members stopped posting on the group's official Instagram page and reopened their personal accounts, leading to"}, {"text": "rumors about disbandment. DEL48's producer, Deepak Nandal, later confirmed that YKBK48 Entertainment had terminated its members' contract. He also confirmed the group have recorded its debut music video, an Indian version of Flying Get. However, on 16 October 2020, DEL48 issued an official statement confirming the group is on indefinite suspension with the possibility of coming back in the future. On 13 July 2022, it was announced YKBK48 Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. will be closing up its operation, officially ending DEL48 and MUB48. Members. On 30 December 2019, the first generation of the group was announced, consisting of 22 members."}, {"text": "Below is a list of television series and feature films based on characters and concepts that have appeared in IDW Publishing publications, including its various imprints. This list includes live action and animated television series and films."}, {"text": "Bengt Ivar Hesselman (1875\u20131952) was a Swedish linguist and philologist, specialising in Scandinavian languages. Early life. Hesselman was born either in Stockholm or in \u00c5, \u00d6sterg\u00f6tland, on 21 December 1875. His parents were the factory owner Bror August Hesselman and Marie Louise Hesselman, n\u00e9e \u00c5berg. He had several brothers, including the botanist Henrik Hesselman and the civil engineer Jonas Hesselman. Education and academic career. He passed his maturity examination (\"mogenhetsexamen\") in Stockholm in 1893 and became a student at Uppsala University in the same year. In 1902 he defended his doctoral thesis on some phonological features of East Swedish dialects (\"\u00d6stsvenska m\u00e5l\", spoken in parts of Finland and historically in parts of Estonia). He continued his studies on Swedish regional dialects, and published several books on dialect boundaries in Swedish, and on the historical development of Swedish vowel sounds. In the 1910s he started publishing research on place names and names of plants, and he broadened his studies to involve Scandinavian languages other than Swedish. He was appointed Professor of Scandinavian languages at the University of Gothenburg in 1914, but only stayed there until 1919 when he became Professor of Scandinavian languages at Uppsala University. He was elected a member"}, {"text": "of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1931, of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in 1933, and of the Swedish Academy in 1935. His scholarly production includes works on phonological history, the emergence of Standard Swedish, and a large work on Scandinavian language history where the first part, \"Omljud och brytning i de nordiska spr\u00e5ken\" was published in 1945, and later parts in 1948, 1952 and posthumously in 1953. Personal life. Hesselman married M\u00e4rta Charlotta von Post in 1906. He died in Uppsala on 6 April 1952, and is buried at Uppsala old cemetery."}, {"text": "The men's 1500 metres event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 18 and 22 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was the first time that the metric distance was contested at the Games, replacing the mile. Results. Heats. Qualification for final. The first 4 in each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final."}, {"text": "Paterson is a rural locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Paterson had a population of 157 people. Geography. The locality is bounded to the north-east by Old Gympie Road, to the south-east by the North Coast railway line, to the south-west by the Mary River, and to the north-west by the Bauple - Woolooga Road. The North Coast railway line enters the locality from the south-east (Theebine) and exits to the north-east (Gootchie). The locality is served by the Paterson railway station (). Gundiah State Forest is in the north of the locality. Apart from this protected area, the land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with some plantation forestry and some crop growing. History. The locality takes its name from its railway station which in turn was named after a local resident. Local residents began lobbying for a railway siding on Mr Paterson's property in 1890 to avoid having to travel miles to the nearest stations. Demographics. In the , Paterson had a population of 148 people. In the , Paterson had a population of 157 people. Education. There are no schools in Paterson. The nearest government secondary schools are Gundiah State School"}, {"text": "in neighbouring"The seventeenth season of South African \"Idols\" premiered on 11 July 2021 and concluded on 21 November 2021 on the Mzansi Magic television network. The season was won by Berry Trytsman and the runner-up was Karabo Mathe. The season saw judge Somizi Mhlongo being asked to \"take time off\" from the show to deal with domestic abuse allegations against him. This resulted in him only appearing in the first few pre-recorded episodes and none of the live ones. He was replaced by a guest judge each week for the rest of the season. After 17 and 11 years as judges respectively, it was announced shortly before the start of the eighteenth season that Randall Abrahams and Unathi Nkayi would not be returning to the show. Weekly Song Choice and Result. Top 10 (Top 9): Battle of the DJs (19 September). This round saw contestants perform hit songs by five DJs: DJ Cleo, Prince Kaybee, Sun-El Musician, De Mthuda and DJ Sumbody. Ithana Conjwa withdrew from the competition for health reasons a day before performing in the non-elimination round broadcast on 12 September. This meant that the top 10 round immediately became the top 9 round. Top 7. Top 7: Showstopper"}, {"text": "(11 October). On 11 October, it was announced that there would be no elimination that week, and would resume the following week. All seven contestants went on to perform their prepared showstopper songs."}, {"text": "The minister of defence (Raksh\u0101 Mantri) is the head of the Ministry of Defence and a high ranking minister of the government of Nepal. The defence minister is one of the most senior offices in the Council of Ministers as well as being a high-level minister in the union cabinet. List of ministers of defence. Gir"was architecture. The design of the house was derived from published plans for farmhouses, but adapted by Butler to produce a period revival hybrid of the English Tudor and Colonial Revival styles. It is the only substantial period revival-style frame house in the area. Thehome's beautiful architecture and lush landscaping made it a popular venue for weddings, receptions, and other social events during the historic period. The Butler-Wallin House and landscape contribute to the historic resources of its Salt Lake County neighborhood. It has also been known as Butler Farm, as Wallin Farm, as Jensen Dairy. A three-space garage is a second contributing building on the property. It is no longer a residence, has been used as a business location since the 1980s. It is located on the northeast corner of E 4500 S and S 1025 E. in what is now Millcreek, Utah, which was incorporated in 2016."}, {"text": "Regal Princess may refer to one of the following ships:"}, {"text": "Edward Chia Bing Hui (; born 17 February 1984) is a Singaporean politician and businessman. He has been a Member of Parliament for the People's Action Party, representing the Zhenghua division of Holland\u2013Bukit Timah GRC, since 2020. Chia co-founded the Timbre Group, but stepped down as a director and ceased being a shareholder in June 2021. Since then, Chia has been serving as the Managing Director of PlaceM and a Director at Feed the World. Chia has been known to support and develop Singaporean musicians and culinary talents since 2005. Education. Chia attended National Junior College before graduating from the National University of Singapore in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and political science. Business career. While studying at National Junior College, Chia founded Arts For Us All (AFUA), a defunct non-profit organization that engaged youths in arts-based community work and events. Chia co-founded Timbre with Danny Loong in 2005, shortly before starting his undergraduate studies at the National University of Singapore. While studying in NUS, Chia was actively managing the business. Chia serves as a council member of the Ngee Ann Polytechnic, National Youth Achievement Award Council, a board member of SMU Enterprise and NP Enterprise"}, {"text": "Pte Ltd and the co-chair of the National Environment Agency (NEA) work group, which focuses on sustaining the hawker trade. Political career. Chia was fielded in the 2020 general election to contest in the Holland\u2013Bukit Timah GRC on the People's Action Party's ticket against the Singapore Democratic Party. Chia's running mates were Vivian Balakrishnan, Sim Ann, and Christopher de Souza. On 11 July 2020, Chia and the PAP team were declared elected Members of Parliament representing Holland\u2013Bukit Timah GRC in the 14th Parliament after garnering 66.36% of the valid votes. Chia was then appointed as the Deputy Chairperson of Manpower Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) in the 14th Parliament. He also sat on the Finance and Trade and Industry GPC. Since his appointment as a Member of Parliament for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC, Chia has spoken in Parliament on the need for businesses to find ways to be sustainable and expand to provide more jobs for Singaporeans. As well as on the importance of helping companies upskill their employers and helping businesses grow their business. In the Zhenghua ward, Chia worked with Vivian Balakrishnan and Liang Eng Hwa to launch a Bukit Panjang Town Jobs and Skills Support Taskforce which helped jobseekers"}, {"text": "secure employment. He also reached out to Food Bank Singapore to install vending machines to ease food insecurity for households and seniors who live in rental blocks or one- to two-room studio apartments. Chia is part of the Government Parliamentary Committee under Finance, and Trade and Industry and Transport where he serves as deputy chairman since 2025. Controversies. In April 2025, Chia was criticized for a fun fact he included in a campaign booklet. The booklet described Chia, as someone who used to breed and sell hamsters. Chia sold the hamsters to pet shops at S$3 each. This transformed into a \"lifelong passion for creating value\", and was the start of his entrepreneurial career. In response, HSS criticised his framing of his childhood venture. The organization also pointed out in an Instagram post that the unlicensed breeding and selling of pets is illegal in Singapore. Personal life. Chia's entrepreneurial journey began at age 10 - breeding hamsters and selling them to pet shops for $3 each, sparking his lifelong passion for creating value. Chia is the eldest of three children born to a businessman and a home-maker. He is married, and has a son. Awards. 2010: Chia, together with Timbre's"}, {"text": "other co-founder Danny Loong, was conferred the Tourism Entrepreneur of the Year award under the Singapore Tourism Board\u2019s Singapore Experience Awards. 2014: 2016: ASEAN Youth Award"}, {"text": "Andrei Lozhkin (born January 2, 1985) is a Russian retired ice hockey centre. Career. Lozhkin played twenty games in the Russian Superleague and three games in the Kontinental Hockey League for Dynamo Moscow. He spent the majority of his career in Russia's second-tier leagues the Vysshaya Liga and the Supreme Hockey League. He played for Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod and Olimpiya Kirovo-Chepetsk of the Vysshaya Liga before playing for Dynamo Moscow. He also played for Gazprom-OGU Orenburg, Rubin Tyumen, HC Ryazan, Ariada Volzhsk and HC Kuban before finishing his career with Yuzhny Ural Orsk."}, {"text": "Uni\u00e3o Recreativa Cadima, commonly known as Cadima, is a Portuguese women's football team based in Cadima, Cantanhede, district of Coimbra. \"Runners-up (1):\" 2010\u201311 Winners (1): 2018\u201319"}, {"text": "Below is a list of television series and feature films based on characters and concepts that have appeared in Oni Press publications, including its various imprints. This list includes live action and animated television series and films."}, {"text": "Aschenborn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "The Man with the Glass Eye (German: Der Mann mit dem Glasauge) is a 1969 West German crime fil"She attended Paramus High School. In 2012 she completed a B.A. in International Relations and Art History at Lehigh University and was subsequently awarded a one-year Junior Fellowship at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC, where she worked on sustainable transport and climate policy in cities. Herrmann moved to Canada in 2013 as a Fulbrightgrantee, completing an M.A. in International Affairs at Carleton University\u2019s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. In 2014 she was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship for doctoral studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute. In 2017 Herrmann was awarded the Bill Gates Sr. Award for a commitment to improving the lives of others, and in 2019 received her PhD from the University of Cambridge. In the last year of her PhD, Herrmann spent three months at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine as a fellow in The Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellowship program. Arctic policy and migration research. Herrmann joined The Arctic Institute in 2015, and in 2016 became the organization's President and managing director. She directs strategic planning to achieve its mission to inform policy for a just, sustainable, and secure Arctic. Herrmann oversees the implementation of global"}, {"text": "research partnerships and manages a team across North America and Europe. Under Herrmann's tenure, The Arctic Institute has consistently ranked as a top-75 think tank by the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program and was shortlisted by Prospect Magazine as the best US Energy and Environment Think Tank. She is a recognized expert in Arctic policy, and has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee and has briefed the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee and the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Arctic security and climate change. In 2017-2018 she served as the Alaska Review Editor for the fourth National Climate Assessment and currently serves as one of two US Delegates to the Social and Human Working Group of the International Arctic Science Committee. Herrmann has sat on the Board of Directors of the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. since 2019 and currently serves as a co-chair of the Arctic Youth Network Board of Directors. Herrmann's research focuses on climate-induced migration, displacement, and relocation in the Arctic, South Pacific, and United States. In 2016\u20132017, she served as the lead researcher for America's Eroding Edges project, a National Geographic-funded"}, {"text": "research project. She traveled across the country interviewing 350 local leaders to identify what's needed most to safeguard coastal communities against the unavoidable impacts of climate change. In partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and with support from a JMK Innovation Prize, a follow-up project to Eroding Edges is bringing technical assistance directly to small and medium-sized towns that are geographically remote and socioeconomically vulnerable. Her current National Geographic-funded research project, Culture On The Move: Climate Change, Displacement, and Relocation in Fiji, investigates the consequences of climate-induced relation on cultural heritage. She was the inaugural Principal Investigator of the Research Coordination Network Arctic Migration in Harmony: An Interdisciplinary Network on Littoral Species, Settlements, and Cultures on the Move funded by a National Science Foundation. Herrmann developed the 700+ member international network to facilitate open communication, foster cross-disciplinary exchange, and build new collaboration teams of scientists, stakeholders, and practitioners to investigate the ways in which the drivers and consequences of Arctic coastal migrations intersect and interact with one another and identify the implications for society. Climate change communication. Herrmann works both as a science communicator for public audiences and as an academic researcher studying climate change communications. She has"}, {"text": "published more than 20 peer review journal articles and academic book chapters. Her research focuses on how images used in mass media construct values, identities, and ideas of power about climate change displacement, vulnerable communities, and Arctic policy. Herrmann has argued that climate change scholarship can and should inform concrete action, and how action can enrich scholarship. In discussing her research at universities, she has encouraged other researchers to find their public voice and weigh the importance of storytelling for encouraging climate change action. Herrmann has given over 50 public talks, including keynote addresses at the National Trust for Historic Preservation\u2019s PastForward, the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s Stemming the Tide: Global Strategies for Sustaining Culture Through Climate Change, and the Hugh O\u2019Brian Youth Leadership Foundation World Leadership Congress. Herrmann advocates that \u201cclimate change is a story about losing the things that make us who we are\u201d, and that \"everyone has a part to play in climate solutions.\" As a National Geographic Explorer, Herrmann has given several public talks about climate change policy, storytelling, and community action. Her talks from National Geographic Society's stage include a Choose Your Own Adventure inspired presentation for CreativeMornings and a keynote panel at the Explorers Festival, where"}, {"text": "she was featured in conversation with Andrew Revkin, Emma Marris, Leland Melvin, and Ian Stewart to discuss a planet in peril. She has also presented for traveling National Geographic events like National Geographic On Campus. Herrmann is passionate about youth empowerment, and has worked closely with National Geographic Education to increase climate awareness and opportunities for local action. She helped produce and was featured in the online course \"Teaching Global Climate Change in Your Classroom\", presented climate stories across America for the Explorer Classroom program, and facilitated and mentor young storytellers at National Geographic Photo Camp for youth in Louisiana. In 2021, Herrmann was a featured Explorer in ABC Owned Television Stations Our America: Climate of Hope in partnership with National Geographic Partners. She frequently writes opinion pieces on climate change and Arctic policy for \"The Guardian\", Scientific American, and CNN. Herrmann also appears often as an expert in the news, including NPR's \"Science Friday\", \"On Point\", \"All Things Considered\", and \"Weekend Edition\"; ABC News; and the BBC, among others. In 2019 Herrmann was named an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) IF/THEN Ambassador, and is an advocate for women's visibility in climate change research and girls engaging"}, {"text": "in STEM. Herrmann has been featured as a role model for girls in STEM by the National Children's Museum the Ad Council\u2019s She Can STEM campaign."}, {"text": "Nassophasis foveata, is a species of weevil found in India, and Sri Lanka. It is one of the major orchid pest that attack \"Aerides fieldingii\"."}, {"text": "The First Constituent Charter to the peoples of Belarus () is a legal and political act issued by the Executive Committee of the Council of the All-Belarusian Congress on 21 February 1918 in Minsk (in the former Governor's House). She called on the Belarusian people to exercise their right to full self-determination, and national minorities \u2014 on national and personal autonomy. The microfilmed original of the act is kept in the 325th fund of the National Archives of Belarus. Historical context. The rapid offensive of the German Empire, which began on 18 February 1918, forced the regional executive committees and the SNC of the Western region and the front on the night of 19 February 1918 to evacuate from Minsk to Smolensk. This contributed to the resumption of the open activities of the Executive Committee of the Council of the All-Belarusian Congress and the release from Bolshevik captivity of the Central Belarusian Military Council (CBMC). The Executive Committ"quickly gained the upper hand, but just before Nazi Germany was defeated in 1942, the Nazis secretly unleashed the Brown Plague virus, leaving millions dead and creating an international demand for Soviet robots to compensate for the resulting worker shortage. As part of the Soviet Union's post-war reconstruction program, Dr. Sechenov created a wireless, networked artificial intelligence called \"Kollektiv 1.0\" that linked his robots together for greater efficiency. Sechenov later developed the THOUGHT, a neuroconnector that integrates Polymer into the human body, enabling direct interaction with robots. Designed to launch alongside Kollektiv 2.0, it was intended to usher in a true post-labor era. However, the launch resulted in a catastrophic failure, plunging Facility 3826 into chaos. Synopsis. Major Sergey \"P-3\" Nechayev is a special agent with memory loss, saved from a life-threatening injury by Dmitry Sechenov. As Sechenov's agent, P-3 is sent to assist with the Kollektiv 2.0 rollout at Facility 3826, only to discover that the facility's robots have gone rogue, killing most of the human staff. Sechenov informs him that Viktor Petrov, a robotics designer, sabotages the Kollektiv node and orders P-3 to capture him. Accompanied by his AI partner CHAR-les, integrated into his glove, P-3 must confront"}, {"text": "the facility\u2019s rogue robots and failed biomechanical experiments. P-3 finds Viktor Petrov working with neurosurgeon Larisa Filatova, but Petrov seemingly dies while fleeing. Suspicious of Facility 3826, the Politburo sends Yegor Molotov, who threatens to halt the launch of Kollektiv 2.0. CHAR-les reveals a power struggle over Kollektiv between Sechenov and the Politburo. Sechenov orders P-3 to accompany Molotov, but P-3 blacks out and later finds Molotov murdered. Sechenov then reveals that Petrov is alive, having faked his death with Filatova\u2019s help. P-3 finds Viktor Petrov at the Theater, where Petrov reveals that civilian robots always had combat mode and accuses Sechenov of planning global enslavement. He gives P-3 a pair of rings before committing suicide. Suspecting the \"Atomic Heart\" project involves deploying combat robots to seize nuclear plants, P-3 takes Petrov's head to Michael Stockhausen, Sechenov's deputy, for memory extraction. However, Filatova intervenes and throws a grenade, resulting in Stockhausen\u2019s death and knocking P-3 unconscious. CHAR-les reveals that the rings are top-secret devices which allow the wearer to join Kollektiv 2.0 while remaining \"invisible\" to the network, thus gaining unrestricted authority and control within the Kollektiv. When P-3 wakes up, Filatova contacts him and meets him in secret at"}, {"text": "a secluded area in Facility 3826. She reveals to him that Kollektiv is a means to mind-control people, and Filatova was in charge of the facility that houses numerous volunteers of the project. P-3 also discovers that CHAR-les isn't an AI, but rather the preserved consciousness of Chariton Zakharov, Sechenov's colleague and a fellow researcher presumably murdered by Sechenov. Using Zakharov's security clearance, they uncover more of P-3's past: he was previously critically injured in a mission in Bulgaria alongside his wife and fellow agent, Ekaterina \"Blesna\" Nechayeva. While Blesna did not survive, Sechenov managed to fix P-3's brain injury by installing a Polymer implant, erasing memories of Blesna while also implanting her memories into robotic ballerina bodyguards called the Twins. In doing so, Sechenov gains control over P-3. Furious, P-3 decides to confront Sechenov. However, he blacks out again and wakes up in the care of his mother-in-law, Zinaida Muravyova, who has been anonymously assisting him throughout his mission in Facility 3826. She reveals that P-3 had killed Filatova while blacked out. At this point, P-3 can either choose to leave Facility 3826 or confront Sechenov, resulting in different endings. If P-3 refuses to confront Sechenov, he destroys Zakharov"}, {"text": "and slips out of Facility 3826 and disappears, allowing Sechenov to continue with his plans to activate Kollektiv 2.0. Zakharov is shown to still be alive as a small mass of living Polymer and he manages to escape as well. If P-3 chooses to confront Sechenov, he enters his office, where they argue before Sechenov orders the Twins to attack. After P-3 defeats them, Sechenov draws a pistol, but P-3 uses his glove to disarm him and shoots him in the gut. Wounded, Sechenov reveals that Zakharov manipulated P-3\u2019s blackouts, making him unknowingly kill Molotov and Filatova. Enraged, P-3 tries to remove Zakharov from his glove, but Zakharov electrocutes him and escapes as a gray mass. Declaring his intent to exterminate humanity, Zakharov jumps into a vat of red Polymer, transforming into a massive black humanoid. He then picks up Sechenov, breaks his neck, and later consumes his body before vanishing. P-3 later awakens in an illusion, where one of the Twins reaches out to him as Ekaterina\u2019s voice speaks. \"Annihilation Instinct\". Taking place three days after the ending where P-3 refuses to confront Sechenov, Kollektiv 2.0 is fully operational, but Zakharov, merged within the network, has brainwashed people and"}, {"text": "leaked information, sparking a civil war. P-3 wakes in the Mendeleev Complex, now controlled by the rogue AI NORA, who has fallen in love with him and synced to his implant. She orders him to eliminate Zinaida, now leading an anti-Kollektiv faction. Heading to the surface, P-3 encounters NORA's inventor, Lebedev. He repairs P-3\u2019s glove and explains that Zinaida seeks to control NORA for her weapon-making capabilities. To stop her, P-3 must collect BEA-D robots containing NORA\u2019s code to reset her. NORA tempts P-3 with secrets about Blesna, but Lebedev connects him to Sechenov, who reveals that he preserved Blesna's brain in neuropolymer to revive her. He offers P-3 full access to his past and a leave of absence. P-3 agrees, resets NORA with the Twins' help, and restores order. As promised, Sechenov grants him leave, but as P-3 departs, Zinaida follows. \"Trapped in Limbo\". Taking place after the ending in which P-3 confronts Sechenov and is betrayed by Zakharov, P-3 awakens in Limbo, the same surreal dimension he encountered during his blackouts in the main game. Blesna, now in the form of a Polymer teardrop (which was also encountered briefly in the Annihilation Instinct DLC), guides P-3 through this"}, {"text": "dimension as they recover the latter's memory. She reveals that her consciousness has also been trapped in Limbo, which was designed by Sechenov to house the minds of those using the Kollektiv in order to mi"Ryan Shafer (born August 18, 1966) of Horseheads, New York is a right-handed professional ten-pin bowler who has won five national titles as a member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). He currently participates on both the PBA Tour and the PBA50 Tour. He has also won 29 PBA Regional titles and nine PBA50 Regional titles. and has collected over $1.75 million in PBA earnings. Shafer rolled the 19th-ever televised 300 game in PBA Tour history, accomplished March 18, 2007 at the PBA Pepsi Championship, and set a PBA record for a televised event by rolling 18 consecutive strikes overall. Shafer is a national staff member for the Track division of Brunswick, and is also sponsored by Vise Grips. He was previously sponsored by Storm. PBA career. Shafer joined the PBA in 1986, and was named PBA Rookie of the Year in the . After laboring on tour for 13 years without a national title, Shafer finally broke through on January 21, 2000 with a victory over PBA Hall of Famer Mike Aulby in The Orleans Casino Open. He would win a second title in 2000 at the PBA Wichita Open on July 1, and would later be named \"Bowlers"}, {"text": "Digest\" Player of the Year for the 2000 season. In addition to his two wins, Shafer made match play 11 times in 19 events and had five more championship round appearances during the season, including a runner-up finish at the Tournament of Champions major. In 2001, Shafer repeated as champion at The Orleans Casino Open, earning his third PBA Tour title. On November 23, 2003, he defeated Chris Barnes in the final match to collect his fourth title at the PBA Empire State Open. His fifth and (to date) final PBA Tour title came at age 49 in the 2015 PBA Xtra Frame Gene Carter\u2019s Pro Shop Classic. Accomplishments and Accolades. Shafer rolled the PBA Tour\u2019s 19th-ever televised perfect 300 game at the 2007 PBA Pepsi Championship in Indianapolis. Shafer opened the next game with six more strikes, setting a PBA record for a televised final round by rolling 18 consecutive strikes. He would unfortunately be denied the title when he was defeated by Norm Duke in the final match. Shafer would post another televised 300 game during a singles match at the 2011 GEICO PBA Team Shootout, a non-title event featuring PBA players. Shafer has been called one of"}, {"text": "the most underrated players on the PBA Tour over his 30+ year career by bowling writer Bill Spigner, PBA TV analyst Randy Pedersen, and others. This is mainly based on Shafer\u2019s performances in major championships. He holds the PBA record for the most major championship final round appearances without winning (16), and has finished runner-up in a major five times among his 13 total runner-up finishes. Overall, Shafer has made 56 top five finishes in PBA Tour events. Shafer is a two-time winner of the PBA Steve Nagy Sportsmanship Award (2008\u201309 and 2012\u201313). In 2022, he won the PBA Tony Reyes Community Service Award for his fundraising tournaments that benefit mental health causes, particularly suicide prevention and awareness. Personal. Shafer was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 19. He became more outspoken about dealing with the disease when he began wearing a visible insulin pump on PBA telecasts in 2005. He has since become a spokesperson for Animas insulin pumps. Shafer\u2019s first wife, Michelle, died in early 2014, just five days before he was scheduled to accept his second PBA Steve Nagy Sportsmanship Award. Michelle took her own life after dealing with depression for a number of years. In"}, {"text": "honor of his late wife, Ryan started the Michelle Shafer Fund for Suicide Prevention and Awareness and began running fundraising tournaments for this cause. Ryan continues to run the annual tournament in Corning, New York as of 2022, with his current wife Jennifer and other volunteers. The PBA honored Shafer in 2022 with the PBA Tony Reyes Community Service Award. When not bowling tournaments, Ryan runs his bowling pro shop."}, {"text": "Ferne Koch (n\u00e9e Goodman; April 8, 1913 \u2013 October 13, 2001) was an American photographer. Education. Koch attended the University of Houston, where she studied photography. Later, she attended workshops taught by Richard Avedon and Edward Weston. Work. Koch's career as a photographer began in the 1940s in Paris, where she produced documentary photographs. Collections. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art. Her archives are held by Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The archives contain her negatives, slides and photographic prints, as well as ephemera and printed documents."}, {"text": "The Women's 100 metre freestyle S5 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 26 August 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Heats. The swimmers with the top eight times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final."}, {"text": "Laboratoria is an organization empowering women who dream of a better future to start and grow careers in technology. It seeks this through totally remote bootcamps, focused on technical and life skills, aimed at women who haven\u00b4t been able to start their careers. After the bootcamp, they guide their graduates to find quality jobs in the tech sector. Laboratoria also has a very powerful community of more than 3,500 women who are each playing a key role in a more diverse and competitive digital economy. History. Laboratoria was created to revert the disadvantages women face in accessing quality jobs in the growing digital economy. It began with a pilot training program for 15 women and rapidly expanded, with 3,500 graduates. Since its foundation in Lima, Peru, in 2014, Laboratoria has expanded to Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, M\u00e9xico, Panam\u00e1, Paraguay and Uruguay. Today, due to it being a remote first company, it has been able to reach more countries in Latin America and beyond. Women from different cities and regions have been able to go through the bootcamp, thanks to the absence of geographic boundaries. It also has over 120 team members working daily to have a more"}, {"text": "profound social impact in the region. Over 3,500 women have graduated as web developers and UX designers, with an average job placement rate of 79%. Laboratoria is also a source of female tech talent for leading companies in a wide variety of industries. More than 1,100 companies have hired Laboratoria talent."}, {"text": "Moores Mill is a census-designated place (CDP) in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The CDP is in eastern Blair County, in the northeastern portion of Frankstown Township. It is on the east side of Beaver Dam Road in the valley of Canoe Creek, a southward-flowing tributary of the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River, part of the Susquehanna River watershed. Canoe Creek State Park is to the west, across Beaver Dam Road, and Canoe Mountain rises above the valley to the east. Moores Mill is north of U.S. Route 22 at the community of Canoe Creek and northeast of Hollidaysburg. Education. The school district is Hollidaysburg Area School District."}, {"text": "Lillian Wolock Elliott (June 6, 1930 \u2013 April 3, 1994) was an American fiber artist, and textile designer. She is known for her innovative basket craft. Biography. Lillian Wolock was born in 1930 in Detroit, Michigan, to Polish Jewish immigrants Litman \"Leon\" Wolock from W\u0142odzimierce and Edith Freedman Wolock from Bere\u017ane (both now in Ukraine). She had three siblings. She attended Wayne State University (B.A. degree, 1952), and Cranbrook Academy of Art (M.F.A. degree, 1955). After she graduated school, she worked at Ford Motor Company, as a designer from 1955 to 1958. In 1960, she moved to California and became active within the California Craft movement, working initially in woven tapestry and fiber arts. Her work changed in the 1970s and expanded to include experiments with textile and printing on textiles. By 1975, she was practicing basketry with unconventional materials, such as cloth, bark, paper, twine, and zippers. She taught at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1966 to 1971. Her longtime collaborator was artist , who started as her student. Death and legacy. In 1985, Elliott was awarded the designation as one of 20 \"Living Treasures of California\" by the Crocker Art Museum and the Creative Arts League. She"}, {"text": "was elected as a fellow of American Craft Council in 1992. Elliott died of cancer in 1994 in Berkeley, California. Elliott has work in public museum collections including Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, and the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles."}, {"text": "Research Evaluation is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the \"evaluatio"game critics and journalists as a political satire of authoritarianism, artificial intelligence, and communism. Ed Power of \"The Daily Telegraph\" wrote that: \"Playing the game, the player will be left with no doubt as to the dark side of Soviet manifest destiny. The central conflict is between the Politburo and Sechenov. The implication is that the latter is a power-hungry madman who has poisoned the Communist dream. Whatever Atomic Heart is, it isn't a love letter to the Soviet Union. This is a paradise lost, fatally undone by its Prometheus complex.\" Journalist Kevin Purdy of \"Ars Technica\" wrote that within the game: The USSR makes the world's best robots, its citizens live in a utopia where those robots do their menial tasks and labor, and even greater things are just about to happen...a world full of astounding promises, yet take apart that optimism by showing the hypocrisy, the false promises, the ego-driven leaders and actors causing so much pain, and the impact on real people's lives when it all comes apart...The Soviet State in Atomic Heart, and its maniacal leaders, are responsible for the death of untold thousands or millions of citizens at the hands of their own robots. There"}, {"text": "are plans to foist this death on the rest of the world, rather than win them over with the benefits of collectivist effort. The KGB, for which your protagonist formerly worked, are not the good guys. Jason Faulkner of \"GameRevolution\" felt that while the game is frequently critical of the Soviet Union, it stops short of ever outright condemning it. Renata Price of \"Vice News\" also wrote that the game \"depicts a scenario where the Soviet Union's quest for technology and expansion\u2014there are numerous sarcastic references to conquering the stars\u2014has gone horribly, murderously wrong...To call \"Atomic Heart\" a straight-up celebration of the Soviet Union would be a misrepresentation.\" Awards. In November 2023, Atomic Heart joined the \u201cHall of Fame\u201d of the Russian gaming industry, winning in the \u201cLegendary Video Games\u201d categories. Sequel. In 2021, two years prior to release of the \"Atomic Heart\", the developers stated that they already had plans for a sequel. In June 2023, Mundfish's studio head officially confirmed the development of a sequel. During Summer Game Fest 2025, a sequel, \"Atomic Heart 2\", was announced alongside a massively multiplayer online role-playing game spinoff called \"The Cube\"."}, {"text": "Pilerwa is a rural locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Pilerwa had a population of 50 people. Geography. The land use is a mixture of grazing on native vegetation, crop growing (mostly sugarcane), and rural residential housing. Demographics. In the , Pilerwa had a population of 51 people. In the , Pilerwa had a population of 50 people. Education. There are no schools in Pilerwa. The nearest government primary school is Mungar State School in neighbouring Mungar to the east. The nearest government secondary school is Aldridge State High School in Maryborough to the north-east. There are also non-government schools in Maryborough."}, {"text": "The Kezol-tsa Forest is a thick old-growth forest along the southern and northern edges of the Indian states of Nagaland and Manipur. The forest is located on the southern part of Dz\u00fcko Valley. This forest has dry, warm summers and cool winter. The accumulation of several inches of snow during the winter is not uncommon and can stay on the ground for several days. Some threats to the Kezol-tsa forest include logging, changing fire regimes and climate change. Flora and Fauna. The Kezol-tsa forests has diverse species of trees. Animals that may be found in this forest include the deer, etc. Dispute. Kezol-tsa has been the center stage of dispute between the Mao Council of Manipur and the Southern Angami Public Organization (SAPO) of Nagaland. Both parties have been stalking claim for Kezol-tsa forest for the last many years. On 23 November 2000, a rest house constructed by volunteers from Viswema at Kezol-tsa was destroyed by suspected Songsong villagers and this led to tension between Mao people and the Southern Angamis. On enquiry made by Memai Council of Mao, it was found that some youths from Songsong village had destroyed the rest house and the written report was intimated by"}, {"text": "Memai Council of Mao to the then \"Japf\u00fcphiki Public Organization\" which is renamed now as Southern Angami Public Organization. During this relevant time of tension, the then Tenyimi Central Union (TCU) intervened and directed the defaulters (Songsong village) to reconstruct the rest house of the Southern Angamis which read as \"\u2018the destroyed rest house should be re-constructed to its original shape by Songsong village within 20 (twenty) days with effect from 15th February 2001\u2019\". The destroyed rest house was re-constructed to its original shape by the Songsong village within the stipulated time and Southern Angami ownership of Kezol-tsa is undisturbed until tensions rose again in 2015."}, {"text": "Jammet Restaurant, also called Restaurant Jammet () or The Jammet Hotel and Restaurant, was a French restaurant located in Dublin, Ireland between 1901 and 1967. According to a 1990s \"Dublin Tourism\" brochure, the \"famous Jammet's Restaurant [..] flourished throughout the first half of this century\". History. Jammet opened on 6 March 1901 at 26\u201327 Saint Andrew's Street, opposite St Andrew's Church. It was established by Michel Jammet, nine years chef to George Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan, and his brother Fran\u00e7ois. For a long time it was the only French restaurant in the city. It was mentioned in James Joyce's \"Ulysses\": (published 1922, set in 1904): a stream-of-consciousness section mentions \"that highclass whore in Jammet\u2019s\", while Corny Kelleher later mentions \"Two commercials that were standing fizz in Jammet\u2019s\" (i.e. two travelling salesman that were buying champagne). Jammet's moved to 46 Nassau Street in 1926. In 1928, \"Vogue\" described Jammet\u2019s as \u201cone of Europe\u2019s best restaurants . . . crowded with gourmets and wits\u201d, where the sole and grouse were \u201cdivine\u201d. Ja"Illinois's 6th House of Representatives district is a Representative district within the Illinois House of Representatives located in Cook County, Illinois. It has been represented by Democrat Sonya Harper since 2015. The district was previously represented by Democrat Esther Golar from 2005 to 2015. The district covers parts of Chicago, and of Chicago's neighborhoods, it covers parts of Armour Square, Bridgeport, Chicago Lawn, Douglas, Englewood, Fuller Park, Grand Boulevard, Greater Grand Crossing, Loop, Near North Side, Near South Side, Near West Side, New City, and West Englewood."}, {"text": "Nealmont is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The CDP is in northeastern Blair County, in the southeastern corner of Snyder Township. It sits on the north side of the Little Juniata River, where it emerges from its water gap between Bald Eagle Mountain to the north and Brush Mountain to the south. Pennsylvania Route 550 runs along the northern side of the CDP, leading west through the water gap to Tyrone and northeast to State College. Education. The school district is the Tyrone Area School District."}, {"text": "Xerodermus porcellus, is a species of weevil found in India and Sri Lanka."}, {"text": "Murray Seeman (July 7, 1914 \u2013 October 14, 2017) was an American lawyer and real estate developer on Long Island, New York. He was known for his contributions to the community as Mayor of Great Neck Estates, as a World War II veteran and a Biblical scholar. Seeman entered the US Army in 1942, serving in the Quartermaster Corps with the 6th Port Headquarters in Morocco, Italy and France during World War II. His military specialty was Ar"Abigail Kwarteng (born January 13, 1997, in Bekwai) is a Ghanaian high jumper. She has competed at world championships, most recently at the 2019 African Games in Rabat, Morocco. Education. She was a student of Alabama University. and currently attends Middle Tennessee State University. Career. In February 2016 she performed impressively at the National Open Athletics Championship which qualified her for the 2016 Africa Athletics Championships. Kwarteng made her first international experience in 2016 at the African Championships in Athletics in Durban, where she finished fourth with 1.76 m, as well as two years later at the African Championships in Asaba with 1.80 m. In 2019 she took part for the first time in the African Games in Rabat and made a jump of 1.75 m which earned her the eight position."}, {"text": "Our Lady of Hal is the Catholic parish church for the Camden Town area of London. The church was completed in 1933, and was under the authority of the Missionary Fathers of Scheut in Belgium until it came under the Catholic Diocese of Westminster in 1982. The church is the site for the English shrine to Our Lady of Hal, a medieval statue believed to be miraculous, in Halle, Belgium. History of the church. The church is named for Our Lady of Hal, a statue of the Virgin Mary which arrived in Halle (Hal in French) in 1267 as a wedding gift to John II, Count of Holland and of Hainaut. The cult of Mary attracted important visitors to Halle, including Edward I of England and Ludwig the Bavarian, making it an important frontier town between Hainaut and Brabant. After World War I, Belgium was devastated. The Missionary Fathers of Scheut, also known as the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (CICM), decided to establish a centre in a safe location from which they could send out their missionaries. As many Belgian refugees at that time were living in London it was thought that a church in that city"}, {"text": "would serve the spiritual needs of the Belgian community of London and also become a base for the Order's missionary activities. Eventually settling on a site on Arlington Road in Camden Town, the Fathers built a small chapel, known as the 'Little Hut', on the opposite side of the road from the present church, which began to minister to the needs of the local Catholic community in 1922. As the first Catholic church in the immediate area it became very popular, especially when many Irish Catholics began settling in Camden Town. In 1932 the Fathers in Belgium commissioned the architect Wilfred Clarence Mangan (1884-1968), who worked extensively for the Diocese of Portsmouth on churches such as St Joseph's Church, Newbury, to design and build a new, permanent church that would demonstrate its Belgian origins. The foundation stone was laid on 17 July 1932, and the church was blessed and opened on 18 March 1933. Once the church was completed, a copy of the original statue of the Virgin Mary in Halle, carved from a dark fruitwood, was placed in the Hal Chapel in the church's north-east side. The presbytery attached to the church was added a little later. In 1982,"}, {"text": "all but one of the remaining Belgian Fathers were recalled to Belgium, and the Diocese of Westminster took over the running of the parish. However, the connection with Belgium is maintained with regular pilgrimages to Halle and the Scheut Fathers. The church also has a memorial to Albert I, King of the Belgians. Design. Designed by architect Wilfred Clarence Mangan, known for his Byzantine-influenced church buildings, the church is constructed with a polychromatic brick frontage four storeys high and in two sections. The earliest section on the left has a gabled centre with slim lancet windows above a porch with three arches. On either side of the central section are single bays with plain rectangular windows beneath a steep pitched roof with large dormers. The section on the right consists of a large presbytery over four storeys. This area was refurbished and extended in about 2005 to include self-contained accommodation for six priests and parish administration offices and community facilities including a large Function Room built over a little-used courtyard at the building's rear which connects with the main church building. In the three arches over the main entrance are decorative mosaics; the one in the centre depicts Our Lady"}, {"text": "of Hal, flanked by shields of arms. The entrance leads to a wide passage beneath a deep gallery in the west of the church directly into a wide nave without aisles. The roof of the nave sits on pointed arches of chamfered concrete sitting on corbel supports, while the roof above the nave is built with exposed rafters and dormer windows. The side chapel in the northeast of the church is divided from the nave by a glazed screen."}, {"text": "Karsonya \"Kaye\" Wise Whitehead is an American educator, author, radio host, speaker, and documentary filmmaker who is known as the #blackmommyactivist. She is the founding director of The Karson Institute for Race, Peace, and Social Justice, a Professor of Communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland, and the host of Today With Kaye on WEAA. Whitehead is also an Opinion Editorial columnist for the \"Baltimore Afro-American\". Biography. Whitehead received her B.A. from Lincoln University; her M.A. in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame; her graduate degree in Advanced Documentary and Narrative Filmmaking from the New York Film Academy; and her Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Whitehead was a middle school teacher in Baltimore City. She was also a documentary filmmaker with Metro TV, a PBS-affiliate and a senior producer for Music Te"on a visit after the war, as Seeman participated in the invasion of Morocco . Career. Seeman practiced law for three years before he was drafted to serve in the US Army June 5, 1941. After serving in World War II, Seeman worked as an attorney in private practice and as a real estate developer. He served on the New York State Pension & Retirement Commission under Governor Hugh Carey. Mayor, Great Neck Estates and community service. As mayor of Great Neck Estates, Murray Seeman was one of the first community leaders to take a stand against nuclear proliferation. In 1975, Great Neck Estates was one of the earliest communities to enact a local ordinance to remove pollution on private and public property caused by dogs, a law passed three years later as the Pooper-scooper Law in New York State. Among his pursuits, he was an advocate for environmental protection, the prevention of dumping in the Long Island Sound, the ecology of Udalls Cove and the restriction of offshore hunting. President, Jamaica-Richmond Hill Civic League, 1955 Trustee for the Village of Great Neck Estates, 1967 to 1974 Mayor, Village of Great Neck Estates, 1975 to 1983 President of the Great"}, {"text": "Neck Estates Civic Association and the Great Neck Lawyer's Club. North Shore Archeological Society, co-founder (NSAS) with Norma Kershaw. He wrote articles and lectured on the bible and archeology. Recognition. The 6th Port was Awarded the Meritorious Service Plaque for Superior Performance In Control and Execution of its Port Missions, 1945 New York State Bar Association Award of Merit, 1985 New York Emmy nomination, Worl"Murrow Regional Award in the inaugural category, Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Region 12); 2021 Chesapeake Associated Press Award for Outstanding Editorial or Commentary; and, was selected by the Baltimore Business Journal to receive the Leaders in Diversity Award. She also received The Amistad Award for her contributions to human rights and social justice from the Amistad Committee. Writing. Whitehead is a curriculum writer who created and compiled the crowd-sourced \"Trump Syllabus K12 curriculum: Lesson Plans for Teaching During this New Age of Resistance\". Whitehead is the author of four books including Letters for My Black Sons: Raising Boys in a Post-Racial America and Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis which was reviewed in \"Journal of American History\". A documentary film T\"he Women of Philadelphia\" was made about the book and it received both the 2015 Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians and the 2014 Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians."}, {"text": "North Macedonia competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. This was their seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Paralympics since 1996. Shooting. North Macedonia entered one athletes into the Paralympic competition. Olivera Nakovska-Bikova successfully break the Paralympic qualification at the 2018 WSPS World Championships which was held in Cheongju, South Korea."}, {"text": "Many ships have been named \"Pearl\" including:"}, {"text": "The Jurca MJ-54 Silas is a two-seat light touring cargo aircraft designed by Marcel Jurca to enable a small car to be transported along with the pilot and passenger. Origins. The aircraft came from an idea by Arthur-Joseph Torossian in 1992, who wanted a touring aircraft which could carry a very small vehicle, such as the Aixam Microcar, for use at remote airfields, and which could also be used as sleeping accommodation with the car removed. The car could also act as an aircraft tug at airports. He envisioned it as a combination of a Max Holste Broussard and a Transall C.160. He saw many other uses for the aircraft, including as an air ambulance, carrier for four parachutists, disabled persons carrier, or freighter. Torossian envisaged a market for 1000 aircraft, and during the development of the prototype was looking for a company to mass-produce it. In 2000 he was awarded the French Union of Inventors' prize for the best invention. Development. The well-known designer of wooden homebuilt aircraft, Marcel Jurca was enlisted to design the prototype. Construction was started at Cerny Aerodrome, La Fert\u00e9-Alais by Torossian and a group of friends, who together formed a group known as the"}, {"text": "Association Tegas, a reversal of the surname of Dassault test pilot Jean-Marie Saget. This led to the aircraft sometimes mistakenly being called \"The Tegas\". The aircraft, registered F-WGBT and nicknamed \"Cargolito\", first flew on 30 April 1997, but this may have just consisted of a few hops along the runway. Development was slow, and a public presentation was not held until 16 January 2002 at La Fert\u00e9-Alais. Apparently, obtaining a permit to fly was difficult because of the fuel in the car's tank. Joseph Torossian had great problems getting finance for production. A planned promotional tour of French flying clubs seems not to have taken place, and little happened since. The prototype remains stored at the airfield. Design. The MJ-54 is a high-wing monoplane of wooden construction, with two seats accessed by two gull-wing doors. The cockpit was designed with touring comfort in mind. The fuselage is a box structure with a rear loading ramp up which a small car can be driven, or other freight loaded. The centre of gravity changes little, whether loaded or unloaded. It has a cantilever wing. The horizontal tailplane is attached to the underside of a rear boom, with twin fins and rudders on"}, {"text": "the tips. It has a fixed tricycle undercarriage."}, {"text": "The Centro Deportivo Municipal Moratalaz, also known as the Polideportivo de Moratalaz, is a sports complex located in the Moratalaz district of Madrid, Spain. The 108.3 m\u00b2 facility in the Pavones ward includes the following sports venues: an athletics track, an outdoor football pitch, three indoor soccer courts, two fronton courts for basque pelota, a handball court, six tennis courts, a beach volleyball court, and outdoor and an indoor swimming pool, an archery range, an ice rink for skating, and a multi-use indoor sports hall. It also as facilities to support padel, rhythmic gymnastics and bodybuilding. An annual track and field event, the Meeting de Atletismo Madrid, is hosted at the athletics stadium, which had a blue track installed in 2014. The competition has regularly been a part of the IAAF World Challenge series since 2010, was an IAAF Grand Prix level meeting from 2006 to 2009, and was an IAAF Super Grand Prix meeting from 2003 to 2005. It has also hosted IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge events regularly since 2010."}, {"text": "Golden Princess may refer to:"}, {"text": "Queen's Hill Estate () is a public housing estate in Kwan Tei, Fanling, New Territories, Hong Kong. Formerly Queen's Hill Camp for British Forces Overseas Hong Kong, the site was originally planned for a private university, but later used for public housing due to declining numbers of secondary school graduates. It consists of seven residential blocks completed in 2021. Shan Lai Court () is a Home Ownership Scheme court in Kwan Tei, near Queen's Hill Estate. It consists of six residential blocks completed in 2021. The site occupies about and comprises seven Public Rental Housing (PRH) blocks and six Subsidised Sale Flats (SSF) blocks, with the provision of retail facilities, car parks, community and social welfare facilities, educational facilities, bus terminus and ancillary transport facilities. It will provide in stages a total of 8,865 PRH flats and 3,222 SSF flats for a popula"late Affleck, was reported well on the coast of Chili, and was expected to sail for England 16 days later. On 3 September 1807 \"Harmony\", Smith, master, arrived back in the Clyde from the South Seas. Captain John Innis acquired a letter of marque on 18 November 1807. Innis sailed \"Harmony\" to Demerara. On her way back to Britain in June 1808 she had to put into Grenada, having sustained damage. On 8 September \"Harmony\", Innes, master, coming from Suriname, arrived at Gravesend. On her way back from the Yucatan, \"Harmony\", Malcolm, master, had to put into Havana for repairs. On 20 December 1809 she arrived back at Gravesend. In 1813 the EIC had lost its monopoly on the trade between India and Britain. British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a licence from the EIC. On 4 July 1817, \"Harmony\", Wishart, master, sailed for Bombay under a licence from the EIC. She arrived in Bengal on 27 November. She arrived back at Hull on 1 August 1818. Fate. \"Harmony\" became a whaler in the northern whale fisheryand was lost in 1821 in Davis Strait. She was one of 10 whalers lost in"}, {"text": "Davis Strait that year. The \"Register of Shipping\" for 1822 had the annotation \"LOST\" by her name."}, {"text": "Newburg is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The CDP"with the poker but the students provide contradictory descriptions of Trick's appearance. No one has ever met Trick's parents, Trick's registered address turns out to be a dockyard, and the two-faced pumpkin mask that Trick was wearing at the party disappears from evidence. In 2016, Trick uses the same knife to kill students and teachers at a high school Halloween dance in Riverton, New York. In 2017, more bodies are found at a Halloween party in Hudson Village, New York. On October 30, 2018, Det. Denver warns two agents in Shady Creek, New York that Trick could attack there because they are located along the same river where all of his attacks have occurred. While in a bar, Trick surprises them and kills the two agents. On October 30, 2019, Trick leaves the message \"DENVER\" in blood at a murder site in Benton. The next day a masked Trick surprises the now unemployed Denver outside his car and is chased through the cemetery before disappearing. Trick fakes text messages from Denver to lure Deputy Green to the old crane barge, where he injures her with a booby trap then kills her by using a crane to swing a gravestone through"}, {"text": "the windshield where she is sitting. Sheriff Jayne notes that the gravestone belongs to Agent Christina Mendez, whom Trick killed the previous year. Trick begins killing people in Talbott's haunted maze. Cheryl, a survivor of the original killings in 2015, sees Trick wielding the carved knife. Trick stabs Nicki so Det. Denver sends her to the hospital and Cheryl accompanies her, where Cheryl finds that Trick has killed her hospitalized father. Troy confesses to Det. Denver that Cheryl was the one who stabbed Trick with the fire poker, so Det. Denver and Sheriff Jayne rush to the hospital and find Cheryl held captive by Trick. Trick stabs Det. Denver and Sheriff Jayne multiple times before Cheryl shoots him. When Trick seems unaffected, Det. Denver jumps with Trick out the window onto a car. Multiple individuals wearing Trick's face paint arrive and Det. Denver realizes that a group of devotees have been carrying out the bidding of the real Patrick Weaver, who arrives in a wheelchair and joins the others in stabbing Det. Denver. Cheryl arrives and notices the scar on the stomach of a nearby man in a wheelchair, whom she pursues back into the hospital. She sees him discard"}, {"text": "a pumpkin mask into the garbage and begin deleting the hospital's video surveillance footage. Patrick lets her into the room, where they struggle before she uses her self-defense training to use the knife against him and stab him in the stomach. Patrick dies after wheezing out his final words \"one of us\". Deputy Slater tells Sheriff Jayne that Det. Denver was stabbed to death but Sheriff Jayne notices some face paint remaining on his cheek. Slater attacks her but Cheryl uses the carved knife to stab him. Sheriff Jayne takes the knife from her and stabs him again. The remaining devotees of Trick travel onward to recruit more followers while Cheryl, Sheriff Jayne, and Det. Denver continue to track and pursue them. Production. Dermot Mulroney was originally cast to play Det. Mike Denver but Omar Epps ended up playing the role in the film. Filming took place in Middletown, Beacon, and Warwick, New York, as well as the Umbra Sound Stages in Newburgh, New York. Release. Trick was released in limited theaters in the United States on October 18, 2019. It later released on home media that same year on December 17. Reception. \"Trick\" has on Rotten Tomatoes based on"}, {"text": "reviews, with an average rating of . The site's critical consensus reads, \"Fast-paced savagery and a memorable twist aren't enough to make up for \"Trick\"s slavish devotion to superior slasher films of the past.\" Frank Scheck of \"The Hollywood Reporter\" called \"Trick\" \"a slasher film with a dull edge\" and wrote that \"the film goes down an extremely predictable path, mainly buying time between killing sprees\". Brian Tallerico of \"RogerEbert.com\" gave the film 1\u00bd, calling it \"more incoherent than terrifying\". Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting wrote that \"it\u2019s clear that Lussier and Farmer are operating at a sub-standard level\" and that \"at every level, from technical to story, \"Trick\" is a joyless affair.\" The film earned $48,953 at the international box office, specifically from the United Arab Emirates."}, {"text": "The Fish-Baughman House is a one-story, frame, California Ranch-style house at 3436 E. Ranch View Dr. in Millcreek, Utah. It was built in 1955 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. It was partly a pre-fabricated structure and was deemed significant \"for its association with the architects Cliff May and Chris Choate, and the Cliff May Homes phenomenon of the mid-1950s.\" The listing includes a second contributing building."}, {"text": "Majami'al-Hadb Reserve is a protected area in Saudi Arabia managed by the Saudi Wildlife Authority. Overview. The 3400 km\u00b2 protected area is situated to the north of Najd in central Saudi Arabia. It was listed as a protected area in 1993 to preserve plant and animal species in this area. Wildlife. Majami'al-Hadb reserve is characterized by a landscape of granite and pyroclastic domes. The animal species inhabiting this reserve are the Arabian wolf, Ruppell's fox, ratel, hare, rock hyrax, caracal, and mongoose."}, {"text": "Walsh v Jones Lang Lasalle Ltd [2017] IESC 38, is a decision of the Irish Supreme Court in which the court held that a purchaser bears the risk of reliance on erroneous information unless the vendor has clearly assumed responsibility for its accuracy. In reaching this decision, the court clarified the law in Ireland \"in relation to the effect of statements disclaiming liability in actions claiming negligent misstatement.\" Background. David Walsh (the plaintiff in the original trial and the respondent in the Supreme Court appeal) was in search of a premises for his business management training. He got a call from an agent and was told a premises was for sale. Mr Walsh went to the premises with his agent and also the training manager. He returned to the premises a few months later and met Mr O'Neill who worked for Jones Lang Lasalle Ltd (the defendant in the original trial and the appellant in the Supreme Court appeal) . Mr O'Neill gave Mr Walsh a two-page brochure that contained his details and a photograph of the premises. The brochure also included the following disclaimer at the bottom of the first page in \u201cvery small print\u201d:Whilst every care has been"}, {"text": "taken in the preparation of these particulars, and they are b"The Men's 400 metre freestyle S11 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 26 August 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Heats. The swimmers with the top 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final."}, {"text": "\u0130brahim Kelle (1897 \u2013 2 February 1965) was a Turkish footballer. He played in one match for the Turkey national football team in 1923. He was also part of Turkey's squad for the football tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches."}, {"text": "\u00c7i\u011fdem Toker (born 1965) is a Turkish investigative journalist. Her career as an economic reporter has notably included investigations of abuse of government contracts. Biography. \u00c7i\u011fdem Toker was born in 1965 in Diyarbak\u0131r, Turkey. After graduating from Ankara University, Law School, she became an investigative journalist. Toker began her career in 1986, working for the culture section of the \"Anka News Agency\". She then worked on dubbing films for the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation. After stints at the publications \"G\u00fcnayd\u0131n\" and \"Nokta\", she passed the exam to work at Anadolu Agency in 1988. She spent two years at Anadolu, covering the State Security Court and the Court of Cassation, the country's supreme court. She then transitioned to covering economics, first for the weekly magazine \"Ekonomik Panorama\" from 1990 to 1993. Then for 15 years, from 1993 to 2008, she wrote on economics for the newspaper \"H\u00fcrriyet\". Her tenure at the newspaper included covering the 2001 Turkish economic crisis. On the foundation of the new newspaper \"Habert\u00fcrk\" in 2009, Toker was hired as the publication's first Ankara bureau chief. However, she left shortly thereafter to serve as Ankara bureau chief at the newspaper \"Ak\u015fam\". When the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund"}, {"text": "of Turkey took over the newspaper in 2013, Toker resigned from her role there. From 2013 to 2018, she was a columnist for the newspaper \"Cumhuriyet\", described as a \"star investigative reporter\" for the paper. In 2017, she wrote a series of articles revealing how the Turkish government removed regulations in order to give contracts for prison construction to companies close to the government. She resigned from the publication after a change in management. Toker then wrote for the opposition newspaper \"S\u00f6zc\u00fc\" until 2022. She now reports for the online publication T24, which she had previously contributed to beginning in 2009. Among several court cases she has faced throughout her journalistic career, she was accused of defamation and sued for 80,000 Turkish lira for her 2019 reporting in \"S\u00f6zc\u00fc\" on foundations linked to the government and family of President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan. She had previously faced a 3 million lira fine for reporting on public sector contracts for \"Cumhuriyet\". Toker has been sued by not only the government but also hospitals, agricultural firms, and mining companies. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the European Press Prize for her work on uncovering mysterious expenditures under then-Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu. In 2023,"}, {"text": "she was given the Turkish Journalists' Association's Press Freedom Award. She has written or contributed to several books, including \"Abd\u00fcllatif \u015eener: Ad\u0131m da Benimle Beraber B\u00fcy\u00fcd\u00fc\" (2008), a long interview with the politician Abd\u00fcllatif \u015eener; \"T\u00fcrkiye'de Sa\u011fl\u0131kta Kamu \u00d6zel Ortakl\u0131\u011f\u0131 - \u015eehir Hastaneleri\", compiled by Kay\u0131han Pala (2018); and the 2019 work \"Kamu ihalelerinde ola\u011fan i\u015fler\", which builds on her reporting on government contracts."}, {"text": "Andrei Aleksandrovich Nikolaev (; born 6 September 2000), is a Russian Paralympic swimmer who specializes in the 50\u2013400 m S8 freestyle events. Career. Nikolaev represented Russia at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships and won two gold medals and one bronze medal. He represented Russian Paralympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and won two gold medals and one silver medal."}, {"text": "General Vega may refer to:"}, {"text": "Hemyock railway station served the village of Hemyock, Devon, England, from 1876 to 1963 on the Culm Valley Light Railway. History. The station was opened on 29 May 1876 by the Culm Valley Light Railway. It was situated on the east side of B3391. A refreshment room opened in 1878 in an attempt to attract more passengers. This didn't work, however, and the refreshment room became a carriage shed and ended up as a poultry store. The station had two sidings, one serving a cattle dock to the south and the other running behind the station. Two further sidings served a goods shed and an engine shed. A ground frame controlled access to these. The station was refurbished in 1932; the goods shed and engine shed were removed and the cattle dock siding was extended into the dairy siding to the north. The station closed to passengers on 9 September 1963 and closed to goods traffic on 6 September 1965. One of the sidings that served the dairy remained open until 1 November 1975."}, {"text": "The Women's 400 metre freestyle S11 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 26 August 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Heats. The swimmers with the top 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final."}, {"text": "Sharon Roffe Ofir (; born 16 December 1970) is an Israeli journalist and politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu in 2022, a position she previously held from 2021 to 2022. Roffe Ofir was also a deputy mayor of Kiryat Tiv'on. Biography. Roffe Ofir was born in Kiryat Tiv'on to Yosef, a descendant of the Old Yishuv and Tamar, of Iranian Jewish descent. She attended the local Ort High School and completed her mandatory military service in the Southern Command Operations Room. Roffe Ofir completed a bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology with an extension in law at the University of Haifa, later completing a master's degree in communications with a specialization in journalism at the same university. In 2000 she began working as a lecturer in media and a reporter for the \"Yedioth Ahronoth\" group, until 2010 on the Ynet website, and from then until 2021 for its women's magazine. For her activities in Ynet, she won the \"Journalist of the Decade\" award from the Haifa and North Journalists' Association. Following the coverage of the Murder of Tair Rada from 2006 onwards, she published the book \"Tair: Ilana Rada's Journey\" in 2018. Following the"}, {"text": "2018 municipal elections, Roffe Ofir was appointed deputy mayor of Kiryat Tiv'on after unsuccessfully running for mayor. In the 2020 Knesset elections, she was placed second on the \"Women's Voice\" list, which failed to cross the electoral threshold. In the March 2021 Knesset elections she was placed eleventh on the Yisrael Beiteinu list and headed the party's women's platform. Although the party won only seven seats and she initially missed out, Roffe Ofir entered the Knesset on 5 August 2021 as a replacement for Eli Avidar, who gave up his seat after being appointed to the cabinet under the Norwegian Law. When Avidar resigned from his ministerial role in February 2022 he returned to the Knesset and replaced Roffe Ofir. Avidar resigned in August 2022, with Ofir taking his place as an MK. Personal life. Roffe Ofir is married to Ran Ofir, a police officer. The couple live in Kiryat Tivon and have three children."}, {"text": "Dreams Unfold may refer to:"}, {"text": "Chirau Mita is a botanical garden in Argentina, which brings together more than 1,200 species of cacti from all over the world, as well as various genera of trees and species from dry environments, such as aloe vera and the agave. It is considered the first botanical garden dedicated exclusively to the study and conservation of cacti (Cactaceae and succulents) in Latin America. History. The project by Patricia Granillo and Sebasti\u00e1n Carod started in 1996 as a study on cultivation in arid zones and ended up having as its objective the education, dissemination and conservation of the most representative plants of the American continent and some of others. It was founded in 2003 (due to lack of funds, it closed in 2008 but reopened in 2010) and is the first botanical garden dedicated exclusively to the study and conservation of cacti in Latin America. Description. Garden has more than 1,400 species from countries such as Mexico, Peru, Argentina, South Africa, Namibia, Ecuador (Galapagos Islands ), United States, Madagascar and others. Some of the strangest species that can be found in the garden are the \"Welwitschia mirabilis\", from Namibia, and \"Aloe dichotoma\", a tree over 30 years old that comes from"}, {"text": "South Africa and Namibia. With more than 10,000 square meters of cultivation on terraces, the garden put into practice an ancestral cultivation system called \"pircas\" and terraces, which recreates the old gardens and pukaras aborigines that generated mainly by the Incas. Its layout and c"of the High Court. Finnegan J. in the High Court, considered all the grounds put forth by the Appellant. However, he was not satisfied with all the grounds brought forth by the Appellant aside, (set sub-paragraph(j)). With regards to sub-paragraph (j), Finnegan J. judged that, there was \"no universal requirement or general entitlement to an oral hearing of an appeal\". Although there is little to suggest that the dictum of Brennan J. had any lasting impact on the High Court, However, influenced by the findings of the US Supreme Court in Golberg v. Kelly \"397 U.S. 254\" Finnegan J. granted the Appellant leave to bring judicial review proceedings on one ground which was failure to provide an oral hearing at the appeal stage.Finnegan J. also considered the meaning of the phrase \"substantial ground\"in section 5 of the Act of 2000 and also referred to the Illegal Immigrants (Trafficking) Bill 1999 and stated that: \"Whether, on an application, for leave to apply for judicial review in accordance to section 5 of the Illegal Immigrants (Trafficking) Act 2000 brought in relation to a decision to refuse an application for refugee status on the grounds that the application is manifestly unfounded, Holding of"}, {"text": "the Supreme Court. The Court in its judgment, discussed the characteristics of judicial review while making reference to the statement of Finlay C.J. in Keeffe v An Bord Plean\u00e1la [1993] IR 39 that, \"The Court cannot interfere with the decision of an administrative decision-making authority merely on the grounds that, According to the Appellant, the decisions and recommendations on his refugee status claim were unreasonable and irrational therefore ultra vires. In relation to this submission, the Court referred to the test of unreasonableness set out in the judgment of Henchy. J in the State(Keegan) v The Stardust Victims Compensation Tribunal [1986] IR 642 which stated that, \" ...in most cases, a decision is quashed for unreasonableness, not because of the extent to which it has departed from accepted moral standards but because it is indefensible for being in the teeth of plain reason and common sense. The test of unreasonableness or irrationality in a judicial review is to consider whether the impugned decision plainly and unambiguously flies in the face of fundamental reason and common sense. Where it does, then the decision-maker should be held to have acted ultra vires.\"This general approach to judicial review was also applied in the"}, {"text": "judgment of Kelly J. in the High Court in \"Flood v Garda Compensation Complaints Board\" [1997] 2 IR 321. The Court concluded that the applicant's appeal against the Minister's rejection of his application for refugee status must be dismissed. Subsequent developments. \"Z. v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, James Nicholson sitting as the Appeals Authority, Ireland and Attorney General\" [2002] IESC 14, [2002] 2 ILRM 215 was later applied in \"Olawale v Refugee Applications Commissioner & Minister for Justice\" [2002] IEHC 152"}, {"text": "Hassan Hayat is a Pakistani actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Imran in ARY Digital's \"Bhool\" (2019). Hassan becomes the Peace Ambassador Between Pakistan and India in 2018. Life and career. After completing his education he started his music and created 8 commercial tracks for television and sung in half of them. His first single was \"Beqadraa\". In 2019 he made his debut in acting in ARY Digital's television series \"Bhool\" opposite Affan Waheed and Saboor Aly. In 2020, Hayat married actress Sadia Ghaffar."}, {"text": "Gabriel Da Parma or Gabriele di Parma (fl. 1370s) was a pirate captain of Bari who become known for raiding ships on the Adriatic coast. He was from the Carrarese family. In 1391, Da Parma wanted revenge against the Ragusans for stopping his raids in the Adriatic sea. The conflicts continued until 1425."}, {"text": "In A v Governor of Arbour Hill Prison [2006 IESC 45]; [2006] 4 IR 88; [2006] 2 ILRM 481, the Supreme Court of Ireland ruled that a finding that criminal legislation is unconstitutional need not render existing convictions void. Background. The applicant was convicted before the Dublin Circuit Court on 15 June 2004 of unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of consent contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1935 (the 1935 Act). On 24 November 2004 he was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment. Subsequently, in \"CC v Ireland,\" the Supreme Court found that that section was inconsistent with the constitutional rights of the accused since it failed to afford the accused the opportunity to defend a statutory rape charge by pleading that he made a reasonable mistake as to the age of the girl. Accordingly, the section was declared unconstitutional pursuant to Article 50 of the Constitution. A statute inconsistent with the Constitution is ordinarily of no legal effect. Hence, Ms Justice Laffoy in the High Court held that as the purported conviction of A related to something that was not an offence in criminal law, both conviction and sentence were a legal nullity,"}, {"text": "and, consequently, ordered his release from prison. The State appealed. Holding of the Supreme Court. Before the Supreme Court, A argued that the retrospective effect of a finding of unconstitutionality is essentially unqualified. Murray CJ rejected this argument. Just because a statute is declared unconstitutional, long after cases have been decided on the basis of that statute, does not mean that such decisions can now be seen as invalid. Agreeing with the A's arguments would disturb an ordered constitutional system. In A's case a final decision had been made. He was found guilty after a plea and subsequently incarcerated. He is not appealing the decision, rather he is initiating a collateral attack on the final decision when h"supporters of independence managed to rename it the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic. They adopted a resolution to include Vaclau Lastouski, Ivan and Anton Luckievich, Jan Stankievi\u010d, Dominik Semashko and Yazep Turkevich, representatives of the Vilnius Belarusian Council, in the BNR Council. between Belarus and Russia. On 23 March 1918, Lastouski, the Luckievi\u010d brothers, Stankievi\u010d and Turkevich arrived in Minsk. On the same day, the government of the German Empire responded to the statement of the People's Secretariat of Belarus of 9 March 1918 on the proclamation of the Belarusian Democratic Republic. According to the telegram, Chancellor Georg von Hertling could not accept the statement of the People's Secretariat, as it would mean interference in Russia's internal affairs. Thus, the government of the German Empire still considered Belarus an integral part of Russia and did not recognize the Belarusian Democratic Republic. Due to the fact that the Bolsheviks during their withdrawal from Minsk on 19 February 1918 took with them the treasures of the State Bank, on 23 March 1918 the People's Secretariat decided to apply for a loan to the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic. Belarusian government representatives were present at the meeting. At a meeting with"}, {"text": "his brother, Anton Luckievich proposed to declare full independence of Belarus from Russia, in protest against the trade of Belarusian lands with the German Empire. Anton Luckievich's proposal was met with understanding by the People's Secretariat. The chairman of the People's Secretariat, Jazep Varonka, stated that the proposal should be discussed at a meeting of the BSA faction, as the representatives of this party were the majority in the Rada. In the faction, a group of BSA members led by Makar Kra\u016dco\u016d initially spoke out against the proposal of BNR activists, but eventually agreed with the majority. On 24 March 1918, at 8:00 in the evening, the plenary session of the Rada began. Smoli\u010d made a report on the political situation in Belarus. He proposed to adopt an act declaring the independence of the Belarusian Democratic Republic. Russian and Polish Zemstvo activists and representatives of the General Jewish Labour Bund opposed the idea of Belarusian socialists. Representatives of the United Jewish Socialist Workers Party, the Jewish Social Democratic Workers' Party, and the Russian Socialist-Revolutionaries abstained. The Zemsky faction announced its withdrawal from the Rada. On 25 March 1918, at 8:00 in the morning, the BNR Council adopted the Third Charter"}, {"text": "by a majority vote. Text. The Rada demanded to revise the Brest Peace Treaty. In the lands of the former Russian Empire, where the Belarusian people live and have a numerical advantage, a free, independent state was proclaimed; it included Mahilio\u016d, Mensk, Viciebsk, Belarusian parts of Horadnia, Vilno, Smolensk, Chernihiv and neighboring governorate (meaning Suwalki and Kovno Governorate). The rights and freedoms of the citizens and peoples of Belarus, proclaimed by the Second Constituent Charter of 9 March 1918, were also confirmed. Signatories. The original diploma is a typewritten sheet of paper signed on the reverse side and sealed with the state seal. List of signatories of the diploma: In art. On 25 March 1920, Yanka Kupala, who in 1919 was the Deputy Chairman of the Belarusian National Committee (a post equivalent to Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus), wrote the poem \"March 25, 1918 - March 25, 1920. Gadowszczyna - memorial service \": In the poem, the poet expresses disappointment at the results of the recognition of the independent Belarusian state by the then international community (primarily by Soviet Russia and the interwar Polish Republic). The adoption of the Third Charter as the day of the restoration of independence of"}, {"text": "Belarus is sung in the poems \"On March 25\" (1932) and \"On March 25, 1933\" (1933) by Jazep Hermanovich \"March 25\" (1935) by Micha\u015b Mashara, \"Listen that says the mound\" (1944), \"March 25\" (1946) and \"There were Heroes\" (1962) by Ale\u015b Zmahar, \"March 25 \"(1950) by Natallia Arsiennieva. People's Poet of Belarus Nil Hilevich, who in 1991 actively advocated the establishment of March 25 as a national holiday, has a poem with the lines \"And the first holiday of the Fatherland will be the Day of the Twenty-fifth of March!\". The poem \"March 25\", written by the People's Poet of Belarus Ryhor Baradulin, ends with the following lines: A large number of art postcards, stickers and envelopes associated with the celebration of the date of adoption of the Third Constituent Charter as Independence Day, were published by the efforts of the Belarusian Diaspora."}, {"text": "Indigenous people\u2019s resistance against the Marcos dictatorship varied from case to case among the various indigenous peoples of the Philippines. The most documented cases are the various resistance movements towards the Marcos administration\u2019s appropriation of indigenous lands, particularly in the case of the Chico River Dam Project and the Manila Water Supply III project on the Kaliwa River watershed, and the birth of the various separatist groups and their coalescing into the Moro conflict in the wake of news about the Jabidah Massacre. Groups of indigenous peoples were subjected to massacres and other human rights violations throughout the Martial Law era, as was the case of the Subanen family in the Tudela massacre. However, this did not necessarily result in organized opposition from the Indigenous People group as a whole. Indigenous people\u2019s resistance against Marcos dam projects. The most prominently documented instances of Indigenous people\u2019s resistance against the Marcos administration\u2019s appropriation of indigenous lands involve cases where indigenous land rights were threatened by dam construction projects, most famously the Chico River Dam Project and the Manila Water Supply III project on the Kaliwa River watershed. Resistance to the Chico River Dam. The Chico River Dam Project was a proposed hydroelectric"}, {"text": "power generation project that various Igorot people groups, notably the Kalinga people, resisted because of its threat to their residences, livelihood, and culture. The project was shelved in the 1980s after public outrage in the wake of the murder of opposition leader Macli-ing Dulag. It is now considered a landmark case study concerning ancestral domain issues in the Philippines. Even if only part of the project pushed through, the project's watershed would have encompassed the municipalities of Tinglayan, Lubuagan, Pasil, and parts of Tabuk in Kalinga Province, and the municipalities of Sabangan, Sagada, Sadanga, Bontoc, Bauko, and parts of Barlig in Mountain Province. Contemporary estimates suggest that the project would have displaced about 100,000 Kalingas and Bontoks. In Kalinga, the barrios of Ableg, Cagaluan, Dupag, Tanglag, Dognac, and Mabongtot would be completely submerged. The Kalinga-Apayao government estimated that more than 1,000 families would be rendered homeless as a result, and P31,500,000 worth of farmlands would be lost. An additional P38,250,000 worth of rice fields farmed by the residents of Bangad, Lubuagan, Dangtalan, Guinaang, and Naneng would also be flooded, even if the villages themselves would not be submerged. In 1977, numerous opposition leaders\u2014including tribal leaders Lumbaya Aliga Gayudan, Macli-ing Dulag,"}, {"text": "and even a 12-year-old child\u2014were rounded up by these forces and incarcerated for up to two months. Opposition leaders were undaunted, and more \"bodong\" peace pacts ceremonies were organized\u2014including two of the largest \"bodong\" councils ever, in June 1978, and December 1979. The December 1979 \"bodong\" was attended by 2,000 Kalingas and Bontocs and saw Macli-ing Dulag officially designated as the official spokesperson for the opposition effort. On 24 April 1980, armed forces under the command of then-President Ferdinand Marcos\u2014identified in the press as elements from 4th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army\u2014opened fire on Dulag at his home, killing him instantly. Macli-ing Dulag's murder became a turning point in the history of Martial Law, because for the first time since the press crackdown during the declaration of Martial Law in 1972, the mainstream Philippine press confronted the issue of the military's arrests of civilians under Martial Law. Macli-ing's murder unified the various peoples of the Cordillera Mountains against the proposed dam, causing both the World Bank and the Marcos regime to eventually abandon the project a few years after. Resistance to the Kaliwa River Dam. Manila Water Supply III project of the Marcos administration, sometimes referred to as the"}, {"text": "first \u201cLaiban Dam\u201d project, was the first of numerous proposed dams in the Kaliwa River watershed. In November 1979, the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) was tasked to look for potential dam sites, and identified the Kaliwa River basin to be the most viable alternative. Thus in the same year, the first World Bank feasibility study on the damming of the Kaliwa river began. The history of projects on the Kaliwa River watershed began with the conception of the Manila Water Supply III project in November 1979 during the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos. However, Marcos instructed the MWSS to look for alternative sites. The MWSS identified the Kaliwa River basin to be the most viable alternative, and began the first World Bank feasibility study on the damming of the Kaliwa river in 1979. The Indigenous peoples who lived in the watershed, includin"the cabinet. After the defeat of the APRA coup d'\u00e9tat on 23 January 1950, the government of the Republic of Indonesia accused the government of Pasundan for sponsoring the coup. Prime Minister Anwar Tjokroaminoto and Minister of Health Suria Kartalegawa was arrested, and the cabinet was dissolved. Seven days later, Wiranatakusumah, the head of state, stated that he would resign from his position. After the resignation of Wiranatakusumah, the central government of the United States of Indonesia (RUSI) ordered Sewaka as the commissar of the RUSI for the State of Pasundan on 4 February 1950. The handover of the authority from Wiranatakusumah to Sewaka occurred on 10 February 1950. With the appointment of Sewaka, the State of Pasundan was under direct control of the United States of Indonesia."}, {"text": "Really Love is a 2020 American romantic drama film directed by Angel Kristi Williams and co-written with Felicia Pride. The film is set in Washington, D.C., and centers the romance between a struggling artist (Kofi Siriboe) and an ambitious law student (Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing). \"Really Love\" debuted in October 2020 at AFI Film Festival. It received mainly positive critical reception and leads Wong-Loi-Sing and Siriboe received a Special Jury Recognition for Acting at South by Southwest. Plot. \"Set in a gentrifying Washington, D.C., a rising Black painter tries to break into a competitive art world, while balancing a whirlwind romance he never expected.\" Production. \"Really Love\" is director Angel Kristi Williams' feature film debut and Felicia Pride's debut screenplay. The two met through a mutual friend, after which Pride showed Williams the \"Really Love\" screenplay and invited her to direct the project. Williams stated that she was inspired by films including \"In the Mood For Love\", \"Blue Valentine,\" and \"Love Jones\". The production designer was Nathan Parker and the cinematographer was Shawn Peters. It was produced and financed by Homegrown Pictures and Charles D. King's production company MACRO. The artwork done by Isaiah in the film was created by artists Gerald"}, {"text": "Lovell, Chanel Compton, and Ronald Jackson. On July 8, 2018 it was announced that Kofi Siriboe was cast in a lead role in the film. Uzo Aduba, Naturi Naughton, Tristan Wilds, Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing, and Jade Eshete were announced as cast members on July 26, 2018. Michael Ealy was announced on July 31, 2018. The film is one of the last projects completed by Suzzanne Douglas prior to her death in 2021. The film was shot beginning in July 2018 on-location in Washington, D.C., as well as in Baltimore, Williams' hometown. Shooting locations included the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Baltimore School for the Arts, the Parkway Theatre, Dovecote Cafe, and Williams' grandmother's home in Park Heights. Release. The film was originally set to premiere at South by Southwest in March 2020. However, after the festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it debuted at AFI's virtual film festival in October 2020. \"Really Love\" began streaming on Netflix on August 25, 2021. Soundtrack. The official soundtrack with an original jazz score composed by Khari Mateen was released on September 17, 2021. Screenwriter Felicia Pride said the soundtrack's ambiance was influenced by tracks like \"Sumthin Sumthin (Mellosmoothe)\" by Maxwell from the"}, {"text": "film \"Love Jones\". Ari Lennox, Kamasi Washington, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, and others appear in \"Really Love\". Reception. \"Really Love\" received positive reception. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 86% of 7 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.8/10. In a review for \"Film Threat\", Alex Saveliev compared the film to \"If Beale Street Could Talk\" and praised it as a \"gentle, poignant examination of two young people at the dawn of self-discovery\". In a similarly positive review, Robert Daniels wrote for \"The Playlist\", \"\u201cReally Love\u201d is a timeless black romance. Kristi Williams is an assured new voice already nestling herself inside audiences\u2019 hearts.\""}, {"text": "Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militant organization that was established in Lebanon in 1985, has been involved in a long-running conflict with Israel as part of the Iran\u2013Israel proxy conflict and the Israeli\u2013Lebanese conflict. History. The two sides' first engagement occurred during the Lebanese Civil War, as Iran became increasingly involved in Lebanon's internal affairs. With funding from the Iranian government and training and supervision from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah was built up in Syrian-occupied Lebanon by various religious clerics amidst the 1982 Lebanon War, primarily as a Khomeinist force opposed to the Free Lebanon State and the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. Hezbollah controls southern Lebanon and is supported and funded"Sea. It is also present in the northwestern Atlantic, ranging from the Gulf of St. Lawrence southwards to New York State. It is found on the sea bed, usually on rocky substrates, where its prey are to be found. It has been recorded from the low tide mark down to depths of about . Ecology. \"Pycnogonum litorale\" feeds exclusively on Cnidaria, with adults feeding on sea anemones, while juveniles feed on hydroids, such as \"Clava multicornis\". The proboscis is inserted into the prey and some body fluid is sucked out; the sea spider can be considered a parasite rather than a predator, as the food source is not killed; sea anemones that are targeted include \"Actinia equina\", \"Anemonia viridis\", \"Calliactis parasitica\" and \"Metridium dianthus\". The green shore crab (\"Carcinus maenas\") feeds on sea spiders, but avoids \"Pycnogonum litorale\" because it produces two hormones (20-Hydroxyecdysone) which disrupt the crab's ecdysis (moulting). The sexes are separate in this sea spider, and reproduction occurs between spring and autumn. The process is initiated by the male clinging to the female above her head, which stimulates her to expel her eggs from orifices at the base of her legs. The male scoops these up with"}, {"text": "his ovigers, fertilises them and secures them to his underside. Here he broods them for about three weeks until they are ready to hatch. The protonymphon-type larvae have three pairs of legs, and will develop a fourth pair at metamorphosis."}, {"text": "Baltic Classifieds Group is a Lithuanian company that specialises in classified portals. The company was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History. The company was established with the launch of two classified portals in Estonia in 1999. It subsequently expanded by acquisition creating an enlarged portfolio including portals in Latvia and Lithuania. The company was acquired by Eesti Meedia Group in 2014 and by funds managed by Apax Partners in May 2019. It was then the subject of an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange in July 2021. In August 2021 FTSE Russell announced that, based on the size of its market capitalisation (circa \u00a31.2 billion at that time), the company was an indicative candidate for inclusion in the FTSE 250 Index. In 2023, the company became the third unicorn company in Lithuania after Vinted and Nord Security."}, {"text": "Thelma Stefani (25 October 1948 \u2013 30 April 1986) was an Argentine actress, dancer and vedette. Early years. Stefani was born in the neighborhood of Villa Luro, and was the youngest daughter of an Italian couple. Since she was little, she had begun to develop her vocation as an actress. Encouraged by her mother, she had entered the Teatro Col\u00f3n to study dance, she studied 7 years to be a dancer and at 20 she abandoned them. Career. Stefani's big screen debut as a lead came in the 1974 film Natasha, opposite Enzo Viena and directed by Eber Lobato. The film was a resounding failure, al"towards the Ethiopian border. Mr. S obtained a solicitor the same year. The solicitor provided the Minister with additional documents in support of Mr. S's application of family reunification. The Minister was informed that Mr. S's family was undocumented in Ethiopia, and renting an apartment in Addis Ababa. The family were receiving financial aid from Mr. S. The Minister was informed of Mr. S's mother's deteriorating health. His mother suffered from hypertension, chronic liver disease, chronic rheumatism, dementia and depression. In 2011 Mr. S's solicitor wrote to the Minister, seeking a decision be issued within eight days. The Minister replied that he required more information to come to a decision. On May 4, 2011, Mr. S was granted the reunification for his wife, as according to Section 18(3) of the Act. However, the reunification was denied to the remaining family members. Due to Section 18(4) of the Act. The denied family members applied a second time, following a second denial decision made July 2012. There were Judicial Review proceedings brought forward in order to reverse the second denial. These reviews were in relation to Mr. S's mother and little sister. These were a success in A.M.S. v. Minister for Justice"}, {"text": "and Equality \u2020[2014] IEHC 57. This case is an appeal of that decision, by the Appellant (the Minister). It was established that the Mr. S's mother and sister were financially dependent on Mr. S. However, due to Mr.S's only income being his social welfare payments the Minister deemed that the reunification would be a financial burden to the State. Issues. The first issue relevant to this appeal concerns the determination of the proper interpretation of Section 18 of the Refugee Act 1996. The second issue is in regards to the question of proportionality. The principle of proportionality must have been applied by the Minister in his refusing the family reunification of Mr. S's family members. Holding of the Supreme Court. The judgement was delivered by Clarke, J. He said that Section18(4) of the Act provides the Minister with discretion in considering cases, during the assessment of a refugee's application for family reunification. The Minister was found to have the power to decide whether or not the refugee's dependents would prove to be a financial burden on the State. The main issue was the proportionality of the Minister's discretion. The Court found the Ministers' 'balancing exercise' to be wrong, and his"}, {"text": "appeal was dismissed. The Court therefore, overruled MacEochaigh J's decision. The court held it was not within the Ministers' power to decide whether a reunification would result in a financial burden on the State: \"However, again for the reasons set out in this judgment, I am satisfied that MacEochaidh J. was correct to conclude that the decision of the Minister to refuse family reunification in respect of the mother and the minor sister of Mr. S was disproportionate on the facts of this case. No wider financial consequences other than those applicable to just those persons were taken into account.\" Subsequent Developments. Ams v Minister for Justice and Equality judgement overturned an earlier decision: \"Hassan,\" which decided that the Minister has the power to deny an application where the applicant is found to not have future means to support his dependants, without State intervention. This judgement established that each case must be assessed independently."}, {"text": "Dreamboys is a male revue brand with touring theatre shows and nightclub residencies. It was first created by Bari Bacco who no longer is associated to the present company. Dreamboys is known for its male striptease performances and for its dancers' distinctive toned physiques. The brand currently perform over 600 shows per annum, with over 100 different performers and approximately 250,000 guests in attendance. Overview. Established in 1987 by Bari Bacco, Dreamboys was the first all-male stripping troupe in the UK. Bacco did not allow the Dreamboys to go fully nude in shows due to restrictions imposed by Westminster City Council. \"The G-String is the dividing line between Obscenity and Eroticism, Its all what you don't see, not what you do see? Pictures in the mind that keeps the viewer coming back for more\". The Dreamboys first launched at the Peter Stringfellows venue, the London Hippodrome, to an audience of 2000 women. After the success of the show Dreamboys took up permanent residency at Jaquelines nightclub in Wardour St Soho London. Many celebrities visited the show in Soho including Cleo Rocos, Bananarama. The popularity of the Dreamboys followed through to hundreds of performances on television with major stars - Elton,"}, {"text": "Cliff, Dame Edna, Pamela Anderson, Amy Winehouse and TV charity shows 'Children in Need'. Soon after major tours around the world were booked including Rus"The women's 67 kg powerlifting event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics was contested on 28 August at Tokyo International Forum. Records. There are twenty powerlifting events, corresponding to ten weight classes each for men and women."}, {"text": "Brianna Hennessy (born September 23, 1984) is a Canadian paracanoeist and wheelchair rugby player. She is a multi-medalist at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and won silver in the women's VL2 at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Career. Prior to her accident, Hennessy was a multi-sport athlete. She played AA hockey, national level ball hockey, competed in provincial and national level women\u2019s rugby, was the Ontario Provincial boxing champion, and played eight years of competitive soccer. She was a member of the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees women\u2019s rugby team for the 2003-04 season. In 2016, Hennessy was introduced to wheelchair rugby through the Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre. She went on to qualify for the Ontario provincial team and to play for the American men's team, the Tampa Bay Generals. With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting practicing team sports, Hennessy took up para-canoe, training with Joel Hazzan at the Ottawa River Canoe Club, about sixth months before the qualification deadline for the upcoming Tokyo Paralympics. She qualified to represent Canada at the 2021 World Cup in Hungary in Women's KL1, and Women's VL2 and won 4th-place in the women\u2019s VL2 200m para-canoe sprint. Less than two years after beginning para-canoe, Hennessy made"}, {"text": "her Paralympic debut in the sport. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, she placed placed fifth in the VL2 and eighth in the KL1 para canoe events. At the 2022 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Hennessy won silver in the VL2 and bronze in the KL1 200-metre races. She won bronze in the women's KL1 and silver in the VL2 at the 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. In 2023, Hennessy was one of ten players selected to compete on Canada\u2019s first ever women\u2019s wheelchair rugby team for the 2033 Women's Rugby World Cup. At the 2024 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Hennessy won a silver medal in the women's VL2. She competed in her second Paralympic Games in 2024 in KL1 and VL2. She won silver in the women's 200-metre sprint VL2 and placed fourth in KL1 kayak women\u2019s 200-metres. Hennessy was chosen to be one of Canada's closing ceremony flag bearers for the Games. Personal life. Hennessy graduated from the University of Ottawa in 2008 with a degree in Health Sciences. She was hit by a cab in Toronto in 2014. She was diagnosed tetraplegic but has since regained some mobility in her upper body."}, {"text": "Her mother, Norma, passed away in 2023."}, {"text": "Prince Balde (born 23 March 1998) is a Liberian professional footballer who plays as a center-back for Swedish club FC Roseng\u00e5rd and the Liberia national team. Club career. Drita. On 1 July 2021, Balde signed a two-year contract with Kosovan club Drita and received squad number 26. On 21 August, he made his debut in a 2\u20131 home win against"with the surgeon.\" (in St. James'). One possibility it was contended was that his arm may have motioned off the table, but this was something with which the two neurologists gave conflicting reasons. When evidence came before the court, the nurses who had been working during the time of the Plaintiff's admission did give evidence on the matter. However, \"they were giving evidence seven years after the event\" with no particular memory of dealing specifically with Mr Doherty. However, some notes that had been kept that related to the Plaintiff that time, showed nothing relative to complaints of pain or movement in his arm. This seemed to contradict the evidence of the plaintiff, his wife and that of a Father Flanagan who had driven the plaintiff home upon his discharge from the hospital. The Chief Justice was critical of the fact that \"the absence of any records of the Plaintiff's complaints of severe pain in his shoulder area to any of the hospital staff was certainly remarkable and reflects, at best from their point of view, a singularly inadequate system of record keeping.\" In the event, the High Court found that the hospital was liable for Mr Doherty's injuries. Law."}, {"text": "On the application of the doctrine of Res Ipsa Loquitor ('the thing speaks for itself') to the case, the Supreme Court noted in relation \"to an injury sustained by a plaintiff in or about the time of carrying out an operation under anaesthetic, the most that the defendants are required to do is show that they exercised all reasonable care, and in particular they are not required to prove on the balance of probabilities what did, in fact, cause the plaintiff's injuries.\" In relation to the doctrine itself, iterating the issue of reasonable care, the Court made reference to Erie C.J. in the case of Scott v London and St Katherine Docks Company\" (1865) 159 ER 665. The learned judge stated \"inter alia\": \"...w\"here the thing is shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of things does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendants, that the accident arose from want of care\".\" Holding of the Supreme Court. The Court was mindful that \"the fact that the staff of the"}, {"text": "hospital cannot, at a particular remove of time, give honest evidence that they recall how a particular patient was dealt with is, of course, a fact to which the court must have regard\". In recognizing the work of the surgeon in this instance the court referenced Stuart-Smith L.J. in Delaney v Southmead Health Authority 26 BLMR 111 where he stated: \"in the case of a doctor or an anaesthetist who adopts a regular practice, very often that is all he can say unless there is some reason why he should adopt a different process in a particular case...\". The Court ruled that the trial judge had erred in assuming that because the hospital staff were unable to recall the specific details of what transpired during the operation itself, they were unable to discharge the burden of proof resting on them of establishing that they had not been negligent. The Court therefore ordered a new trial."}, {"text": "Colonel Augustus Mervyn Owen Anwyl Anwyl-Passingham CBE DL JP (31 August 1880 \u2013 22 November 1955) was a British soldier, recruiting officer and Territorial Army organiser. Early life and family. Born in 1880 in Dover, Anwyl-Passingham belonged to a family of Anglo-Welsh gentry. He was the second and youngest son of Major Robert Townshend Passingham, JP, DL (1843\u20131893), of Bala, Merionethshire, and his wife Lucy Emma (d. 1909), eldest daughter of Thomas Jeffreys Badger of Kingsland, Shropshire. In 1888, his father assumed the additional name of Anwyl. His elder brother was the soldier Robert Townshend Anwyl-Passingham, OBE (1867\u20131926), and two of his sisters married Italian noblemen. Career. Military. Anwyl-Passingham was educated at Dover College, before joining The Middlesex Regiment in 1899 as a second lieutenant; he served in the Second Boer War (1901\u201302), and was promoted to a lieutenant in 1903. Between 1905 and 1907, he was part of the Royal West African Frontier Force and in 1906 participated in the Hadeija and Sokoto expeditions in Nigeria. Returning to the United Kingdom thereafter, he was wounded in 1907 during rioting in Ireland. Promoted to captain in 1911, he was appointed a recruiting staff officer for the London Recruiting Area in""Dougie Padilla (born July 28, 1948) is a Chicano poet, multimedia visual artist, and activist of Norwegian and Mexican descent. He works in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Pepin,Wisconsin. Padilla is self-taught in visual art. He has worked with the traveling art collective Grupo Soap del Coraz\u00f3n and is a founder of Art-A-Whirl. Early life. Padilla was born on July 28, 1948, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. He was taught music by his mother and became a proficient piano and French horn player. Padilla attended Lake Forest College for two years, where he became involved in activism through marches, picketing, and protests. During this time, he connected with Chicano poet and activist Corky Gonzales and other Chicano leaders. In the late 1960s, he trained with Reies Tijerina\u2019s Alianza in New Mexico, furthering his involvement in the Chicano movement. In 1968, Padilla moved to California, where he became involved in the social and cultural movements emerging in San Francisco and Berkeley. He studied spirituality under Ram Das, Swami Muktananda, and Suzuki Roshi. Following his first heart failure at the age of 20, Padilla\u2019s interest in spirituality deepened. During the late 1970s, Padilla collaborated with poet and activist Robert Bly, who he described as"}, {"text": "a mentor. Together, they helped establish the mythopoetic men\u2019s movement, which aimed to explore masculinity through myth and poetry. Artistic inspiration and style. He began with music and poetry as a youth, then moved to mask making and drawing, before transitioning to painting, ceramics, and printmaking. By 1992, he began incorporating ritual themes into his artwork. Padilla was influenced by the Mexican tradition of D\u00eda de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and the making of ofrendas. His work related to the Day of the Dead draws inspiration from his past ritual practice with Native American and African medicine men. His focus on ritualistic works deepened following his father's death in 1992. His visual artworks often contain images of Mexican-style calaveras, or skulls, drawing themes from the traditional Mexican representations of death. Major works. Grupo Soap del Coraz\u00f3n. In 2000, Padilla and Xavier Tavera co-created the community art group Grupo Soap del Coraz\u00f3n, which aimed to further the \u201cLatinization of Minnesota and the upper Midwest of the USA.\u201d The group includes artists from various ethnic backgrounds and origins: Latinx, Native American, African, and Euro-American. The collective is mobile and focuses on artwork that is easily transported and translated into different"}, {"text": "community contexts. As of 2024, they represent almost 90 local, national, and international artists. In 2006, the group showcased two exhibitions in Valparaiso, Chile, including \u201cEl Otro Americano (The Other American)\u201d at El Instituto Chileno Norteamericano de Cultura. The exhibition aimed to foster connections across identities and cultures and support relationships among North and South Americans. Locally, the group has worked on the \u201cPepin Portrait Project,\u201d photographing residents of rural Pepin, Wisconsin. In 2021, Grupo Soap del Coraz\u00f3n published a zine, \u201cFabulista 2,\u201d featuring political cartoons and poetry by Padilla along with the work of other artists in the collective. This zine features themes related to the struggles of Chicanxs and Latinxs and addresses the . In 2024, Tavera and Padilla, alongside the Grupo Soap del Coraz\u00f3n, curated an exhibit with fifteen La"The Sikorsky Raider X (stylized in all-caps as RAIDER X) (Sikorsky S-102) is a compound helicopter concept with two coaxial rotors and a single pusher propeller, designed by the Sikorsky Aircraft division of Lockheed Martin for the United States Army Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program. The Raider X concept was announced in October 2019. In March 2020, the Army selected the Raider X and the Bell 360 Invictus from a field of five design concept candidates. The Raider X and 360 Invictus concepts were to be built as flying prototypes for a competition scheduled for 2023. The FARA program was canceled in 2024. Development. Contracts were awarded in April 2019 to develop concept design candidates for FARA; five different teams were selected, including Sikorsky. Sikorsky presented the Raider X concept candidate at the annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army on October 14, 2019. The Raider X concept was derived from the earlier Sikorsky S-97 Raider, which had been developed for the Army's Armed Aerial Scout program; the S-97 was in turn developed from the Sikorsky X2 prototype compound coaxial helicopter. A larger Sikorsky\u2013Boeing SB-1 Defiant was also developed from the X2 under the Army's Future"}, {"text": "Vertical Lift program to create a joint multi-role rotorcraft; the SB-1 was a candidate for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft program. The Sikorsky compound helicopter designs all use coaxial rigid rotors and a pusher propeller, which Sikorsky has collectively named \"X2 Technology\". On March 25, 2020, the Army selected the Raider X and Bell 360 Invictus concept design candidates to proceed to an eventual flight competition; flying prototypes of each candidate design will be constructed, followed by test flights in 2022 leading up to a competitive flying demonstration no later than fall 2023. Sikorsky had already begun construction of its Raider X prototype by February 2020. The US Army is cancelling its next generation Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program, service officials announced on 8 February 2024, taking a potential multi-billion-dollar contract off the table and throwing the service\u2019s long-term aviation plans into doubt. Raider X was powered up in April 2024, but Sikorsky has no plans for flights. Design. The Raider X, as required by FARA program specifications, is designed to use a single General Electric T901 engine. The GE T901 was developed under the Army's Improved Turbine Engine Program as the new engine for existing and future"}, {"text": "Army rotorcraft. Based on S-97 and X2 performance, Raider X is expected to have a maximum speed exceeding with a service ceiling greater than . Sikorsky considers the S-97 to be an 80% scale model of Raider X; Raider X is expected to weigh . Swift Engineering will design and build the fuselage. The cockpit uses side-by-side seats instead of the tandem seating typical of American attack helicopters; internal weapons and sensors are mounted using a modular system, in accordance with FARA specifications, to anticipate future upgrades and obsolescence."}, {"text": "Shaikh Salahuddin may refer to:"}, {"text": "Ajri may refer to:"}, {"text": "Piera Aiello (; born 2 July 1967) is an Italian police informant and politician known for her stand against the Mafia. She was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. In 2019, she was named as one of the BBC's 100 Women. Biography. Anti-mafia testimony. Aiello was born in Partanna, Sicily, in 1967. In 1985, whilst in her teens she was forced to marry the son of a mafia boss, Nicola Atria. Her father-in-law, Vito Atria was killed nine days after they married. She did not love her husband and took the pill to avoid giving birth to a child. Her husband found out and raped her. Her husband was killed in 1991 and she and her three-year-old daughter witnessed the killing. She decided to name her husband's killers, a decision supported by her sister-in-law Rita Atria and antimafia magistrate Paolo Borsellino. The judge was later killed in the Via D'Amelio bombing on 19 July 1992, less than two months after his colleague Giovanni Falcone had been killed. Aiello felt abandoned by her sister and her magistrate and she took on another identity to protect herself and her family from the mafia's retribution. The e"Olivia is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The CDP is in northern Blair County, in the northeastern part of Snyder Township, along the north side of South Eagle Valley Road (old U.S. Route 220). It is northeast of Tyrone and southwest of Bald Eagle. The community is on the north side of the valley of Bald Eagle Creek, which flows southwestward to join the Little Juniata River in Tyrone. Education. The school district is the Tyrone Area School District."}, {"text": "\"Reckoning\" is the twelfth episode of the second season of the American Neo-Western television series \"Justified\". It is the 25th overall episode of the series and was written by supervising producer Dave Andron and directed by Adam Arkin. It originally aired on FX on April 27, 2011. The series is based on Elmore Leonard's stories about the character Raylan Givens, particularly \"Fire in the Hole\", which serves as the basis for the episode. The series follows Raylan Givens, a tough deputy U.S. Marshal enforcing his own brand of justice. Following the shooting of a mob hitman, Raylan is sent to Lexington, Kentucky to investigate an old childhood friend Boyd Crowder, who is now part of a white supremacist gang. In the episode, Raylan is intent on finding Helen's killer but Arlo knows who is responsible and will try to get there first. Despite being credited, Nick Searcy, Jacob Pitts and Erica Tazel do not appear in the episode. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 2.92 million household viewers and gained a 0.9/2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received critical acclaim, with critics praising the writing and strong acting. For their performances"}, {"text": "in the episode, Timothy Olyphant and Jeremy Davies were nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards. Plot. A shaken Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) arrives at Helen's house as forensics take her body. Meanwhile, Boyd (Walton Goggins) is serving breakfast to his crew when Ava (Joelle Carter) notifies him of Helen's death. Boyd knows that Arlo's limp identified him in the robbery. Raylan finds Arlo (Raymond J. Barry) loading a shotgun, intending to take revenge against the Bennetts, deducing Dickie (Jeremy Davies) killed her. Arlo blames Raylan for Helen's death as he killed Coover Bennett, although Arlo hides the fact that he prompted Dickie and his crew to attack. Raylan questions Mags (Margo Martindale) about Dickie's location, as Arlo will likely kill him if he gets to him first. Mags says nothing but confesses that she cut off Dickie from her operations. After Raylan leaves due to a tip regarding Arlo, Mags calls Doyle (Joseph Lyle Taylor) about the escalating problem. Raylan finds Arlo in Dickie's RV and both talk about Helen before Raylan arrests Arlo for"}, {"text": "breaking in and gun possession. Arlo tries to buy his exit by detailing Dickie's possible location but Raylan has him jailed anyway. Mags and Doyle find Dickie at a cabin and Mags hits him for his actions, which could have repercussions for their activities. But Dickie explains that he has a plan to get themselves out of Raylan's track: his plan involves Doyle killing Dickie's associate Jed Berwind (Richard Speight Jr.) for \"resisting arrest\" and avoid Raylan from finding their connections. Doyle visits Jed that night but Raylan unexpectedly arrives and forces Doyle to leave. Raylan promises Jed protection for him and his family for his testimony. Jed confesses "Christian Frederick Ramftler (1780\u20131832) was a German born teacher, minister, and supporter of missionaries, serving the Moravian Church, who worked for most of his career in England. He founded the Moravian Church in Brockweir, Gloucestershire. Birth, education and early career in Germany. Ramftler was born at the Moravian settlement at Barby in 1780, into an old Moravian family. At the age of seven he was sent to the Moravian school at Kleinwelka; he then entered the P\u00e6dagogium at Barby, and completed his education by studying theology at Niesky. After completing his studies, he served the Moravian Church as a schoolmaster for two years, first at Neusalz an der Oder, in Prussia (now Nowa S\u00f3l, Poland) and then at Uhyst. To his surprise, he then \u2018received a call to England\u2019. He consulted the Lot; the Lot gave consent; and he came to England in 1803. Life in England. After arriving in England, he served as a master in the Moravian\u2019s boarding-school at Fairfield, Droylsden, in Lancashire. In 1809 or 1810 he was called as minister to the Moravian settlement at Bedford. The church, the Bedford Congregation, was later called St Peter\u2019s Moravian Church; it eventually became St Luke's United Church, which"}, {"text": "closed in 2008. When Ramftler accepted the call to the ministry, he was informed that he would have to marry, and wife was found for him by the Church (following Moravian tradition, this would have involved consulting the Lot). She was Elizabeth Groves, and they married in 1810. The marriage is reported to have been a happy one. Their daughter, Elizabeth Groves Ramftler was born on 2 October 1815, and baptised on 8 October 1815. In 1812, Ramftler moved to the Moravian settlement at Fulneck, in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, where he was stationed twelve years, until 1824. Whilst at Fulneck, Ramftler published \"The National Calamity improved. A sermon preached in reference to the interment of the Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales\". Ramftler moved to Bristol in 1824. At Bristol, he was noted for his missionary zeal; he took an interest in the conversion of the Jews (through the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews), often spoke at public meetings on behalf of the Church Missionary Society; and travelled on behalf of the London Association in Aid of Moravian Missions (Registered Charity No. 247127). Foundation of Brockweir Moravian Church. In March 1832, Ramftler visited Brockweir \u2018at the invitation of"}, {"text": "some pious people of the vicinity\u2019. At the time, Brockweir lacked a church but had many pubs; and it had a reputation for lawlessness. Ramftler received an encouraging response from the villagers, and the building of a church began, financed by voluntary contributions. Ramftler persuaded Louis West to be the church\u2019s first minister; he was to serve as minister until 1870. Ramftler laid the foundation stone on 15 October 1832, one of his last public services. He was in ill health and had been more or less of an invalid for some years; ten days later he died suddenly, on 25 October 1832. The church opened on 2 May 1833, when 400 adults and 120 children attended the service of dedication. Responses to Ramftler\u2019s death. In a letter informing him of Ramftler\u2019s death, the poet and hymn writer James Montgomery was asked to write a suitable hymn (Montgomery had been received into the Moravian communion by Ramftler). The result was \u2018Rest from thy labour, rest\u2019 (On the death of a Minister). Rev. Thomas Grinfield published \"Select Remains of Rev C. F. Ramftler\" in 1833. This was advertised as containing \u2018several valuable Sermons, which Mr. Ramftler had occasionally composed, and a"}, {"text": "Series of interesting Extracts from his Journals and Correspondence\u2019. The Remains were fa"Gubernatorial elections in 1993 took place in twelve regions of the Russian Federation. Race summary. Following the escalation of 1993 Russian constitutional crisis the governors had to choose whether to support the parliament or the president. Those who chose the losing side, were later removed from office by the president. Among them were governors of Amur and Bryansk Oblasts Aleksandr Surat and Yury Lodkin, both serving only six months. Ingushetia. On 28 February 1993, presidential elections were held in Ingushetia. Major General Ruslan Aushev, formerly head of provisional administration of Ingushetia, ran unopposed with the support of several Ingush nationalist organisations. He was sworn in as president on 7 March 1993. A snap election was held a year after, along with the constitutional referendum and election of the People's Assembly. The primary political issue of the election was the 1992 East Prigorodny conflict and the subsequent ethnic cleansing of Ingush in Prigorodny District. All of the groups supporting Aushev urged for further attention towards Ingush refugees, but disagreed on the republic's future relationship towards Russia; the National Front of Ingushetia, a party comprising supporters of Aushev's campaign, supported a takeover of Prigorodny District by the Russian federal government, while Nijsxo"}, {"text": "and the Congress of the Ingush People urged for a reassessment of the relationship. The Congress of the Ingush People called for the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Ingushetia, and Nijsxo would go on to oppose the signing of the Treaty of Federation after Aushev took office. Following the election, Aushev signed a decree on 7 March 1993 banning all political organisations in Ingushetia. Kalmykia. Presidential election in the Republic of Kalmykia was held on Sunday, 11 April 1993, 17 months after the previous voting of 1991, which did not reveal the winner. People's deputy of Russia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov won the presidency, defeating General Valery Ochirov (29.22%) and president of the Farmers Association of Kalmykia Vladimir Bambayev (1.55%). Aged 31, Ilyumzhinov became the youngest holder of governor-level office in Russia."}, {"text": "This is a comprehensive list of awards, honours and recognitions received by Mahathir Mohamad, the 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia. He has been internationally and domestically acknowledged for his contributions to Malaysia's development, leadership, and global influence, earning numerous accolades throughout his career. From 1981 to 2003, Mahathir served as Malaysia's longest-serving Prime Minister, leading the nation through a period of rapid modernization and economic growth. He later returned to office from 2018 to 2020, becoming the world's oldest serving head of government. Mahathir is widely acknowledged for his efforts in improving Malaysia's infrastructure, fostering economic growth, and strengthening its presence on the international stage. Places named after him. Several places were named after him, including:"}, {"text": "Ernestas Deringas (1895 \u2013 7 November 1965) was a Lithuanian footballer. He played in one match for the Lithuania national football team in 1923. He was also part of Lithuania's squad for the football tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches."}, {"text": "Leptuca cumulanta, commonly known as the heaping fiddler crab or the mangrove fiddler crab, is a species of fiddler crab native to tropical and subtropical areas of the western Atlantic. Taxonomy. Previously a member of the genus \"Uca\", the species was transferred in 2016 to the genus \"Leptuca\" when \"Leptuca\" was promoted from subgenus to genus level. Description. Carapace width is approximately 12\u201313 mm in adult males and 8\u20139 mm in adult females. Displaying males exhibit bright blue green carapaces. Distribution. The crab can be found in Central America (Panama), South America (Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and Brazil), and"desk of \"The Guardian\". He obtained a Master of Arts in investigative journalism from City, University of London in 2011. Career. Payne volunteered for Conservative Campaign Headquarters during the 2010 general election campaign. Payne became a data reporter at \"The Daily Telegraph\" in 2011, before leaving the paper the following year. He was an online editor of \"The Spectator\" magazine and the deputy editor of its Coffee House blog from 2012 to 2015. He was also managing editor of the magazine. During his time at \"The Spectator\" he spent nine months in a Laurence Stern fellowship at the national desk of \"The Washington Post\". Payne joined the \"Financial Times\" as digital opinion editor at the beginning of 2016. He became the paper's political leader writer, before being appointed Whitehall correspondent in March 2019. He wrote a fortnightly political opinion column and presented the weekly \"Payne's Politics\" podcast. In 2021, Pan Macmillan published Payne's book, \"Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England\", about the red wall areas that voted for the Conservative Party at the 2019 general election. In November 2022, Pan Macmillan published \"The Fall of Boris Johnson\", Payne's book about Prime Minister Boris Johnson's downfall. In December 2022,"}, {"text": "Payne left the \"Financial Times\" to become director of the think tank Onward. In 2023, Payne applied to be the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for the 2023 Selby and Ainsty by-election and was shortlisted but not selected. Later that year, he applied to be the party's candidate in West Suffolk for the 2024 general election, but was defeated by Nick Timothy. Payne unsuccessfully ran to be the Conservative candidate in several other seats, including Bromsgrove, Bridlington and the Wolds, Waveney Valley, and Surrey Heath. With the close of nominations for seats on 7 June, Payne failed to be selected for a seat at the 2024 general election. Personal life. Payne lives in Archway, North London. He married Sophia Gaston on 20 July 2019. They are now divorced."}, {"text": "The following is a list of films originally produced and/or distributed theatrically by Paramount Pictures and released in the 2010s."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 season is Pallacanestro Trieste's 45th in existence and the club's 2nd consecutive season in the top flight of Italian basketball. Overview. The 2019-20 season was hit by the coronavirus pandemic that compelled the federation to suspend and later cancel the competition without assigning the title to anyone. Trieste ended the championship in 16th position. Kit. Supplier: Adidas / Sponsor: Allianz Players. Current roster. <section begin=roster/> <section end=roster/> Depth chart. <section begin=depthchart/> <section end=depthchart/>"}, {"text": "The following is a list of films produced by Paramount Pictures and released (or scheduled to be released) in the 2020s. All films listed are theatrical releases unless specified."}, {"text": "The Speckled Bird is an autobiographical novel, by the Irish poet, writer, mystic and Nobel laureate in literature in 1923, W. B. Yeats. The novel has been written in four versions, between 1896 - 1903, and Yeats has given this name to the last version, taken from the Old Testament, Book of Jeremiah, chapter 12, verse 9: \"Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.\" The novel was never published during Yeats's lifetime. As referred to by Yeats himself when he wrote in his Autobiographies, in its chapter, The Trembling of the Veil: \"a novel that I could neither write nor cease to write, which had Hodos Chameliontos for its theme \". The novel was published for the first time in 1976, including the three previous variants which Yeats wrote for his novel. The second edition, with new annotations being "Gustavas Gvildys (31 October 1901 \u2013 February 1945) was a Lithuanian footballer. He played in eight matches for the Lithuania national football team from 1923 to 1932. He was also part of Lithuania's squad for the football tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches."}, {"text": "Fujiwara no Otomaro (\u85e4\u539f \u4e59\u9ebb\u5442, died August 2, 760) was a Japanese \"kugy\u014d\" (court noble) of the Nara period. He was the son of Fujiwara no Muchimaro, the founder of the Nanke house of the powerful Fujiwara clan. Life. Otomaro was born as the fourth son of Minister of the Left Fujiwara no Muchimaro. In 737, soon after the death of Muchimaro, the four Fujiwara brothers, together with their cousins, Nagate of the Hokke house and Hirotsugu of the Shikike house, were promoted from Junior Sixth Rank, Upper Grade to Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade. After working in the Ministry of War as the First Assistant to the Minister, he was promoted to Junior Fifth Rank, Upper Grade in 747. During Empress K\u014dken's reign, Otomaro was promoted to Senior Fifth Rank, Upper Grade in 749 and became the Governor of Echizen Province. In 750, he was promoted to Junior Third Rank, Director of the Dazaifu. In 752, Ki no Maro became Director of the Dazaifu, and in 757 Otomaro was moved to the position of Governor of Mimasaka Province, but it is not clear what happened in the five years in between these two events. It is possible that Otomaro's"}, {"text": "relationship with his brother Nakamaro, who later became the leading figure of the government, deteriorated after Otomaru's exceptional promotion in 750. Otomaro died on August 2, 760, as Junior Third Rank, \"Kei\" in the Ministry of War."}, {"text": "Oreminea is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The CDP is in eastern Blair County, in the northern part of Huston Township. It is east of Clappertown and southwest of Williamsburg. Education. It is in the Spring Cove School District."}, {"text": "Dominika L\u00e1skov\u00e1 (born 20 December 1996) is a Czech professional ice hockey player for the Montr\u00e9al Victoire of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) and a member of the Czech Republic women's national ice hockey team. She played college ice hockey at Merrimack. She played with the women's representative team of HC Slavia Praha in the Czech Women's Extraliga during 2011 to 2016. Playing career. L\u00e1skov\u00e1 was a member of the Toronto Six in 2023, winning the Isobel Cup as champions of the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF). On September 18, 2023, L\u00e1skov\u00e1 was selected in the 4th round, 19th overall by PWHL Montreal in the 2023 PWHL Draft. She was the first Czech player to be affiliated with a PWHL team, as well as the first player drafted who played the previous season in the PHF. International play. L\u00e1skov\u00e1 represented the Czech Republic at the IIHF Women's U18 World Championships in 2012, 2013, and 2014, winning a bronze medal at the 2014 tournament. She first appeared with the Czech senior national team at the final qualification for the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She has since appeared with the national team at the 2013 IIHF Women's"}, {"text": "World Championship, the 2014 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I and Top Division Playoff, and the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship, 2022 IIHF Women's World Championship and 2023 IIHF Women's World Championship."}, {"text": "Juozas \u017dukauskas was a Lithuanian footballer. He played in five matches for the Lithuania national football team from 1924 to 1927. He was also part of Lithuania's squad for the football tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches."}, {"text": "T\u0101oga Niue Museum is a national museum and cultural centre located in "Aran Islands, where the young hero's peculiar father has built a house and keeps the customary prayer hours until, after the Virgin Mary appears in a vision, he dedicates himself solely to visions. A visit by the beautiful young heroine fills the hero with romantic love that accompanies the mystical reverence he has bequeathed from his father, although the hero himself does not see any Marian apparition, in contrast to his father's ones. Second version. The second version, whose name is The Lilies of the Lord, was written probably in the first half of 1897 and the summer and fall of 1898. It has eighty-five extant pages and is now missing only one page. Its location is a remote estate in the west of Ireland, but on the mainland rather than the Aran Islands. The father has a private chapel and, as in the earlier version, sees the Virgin Mary in visions. The visit of the young heroine is given expanded treatment. The son does not have any visions in either of the two earliest versions and there is no mention of ritual magic or occultism. Yeats probably did not do much work on the novel in 1899. Third version."}, {"text": "The untitled third version, to which Yeats referred in his letters as \"Michael,\" the hero's name in all versions of the novel, has 285 extant holograph pages, treble the length of its predecessors. The setting for the 1900 version is still on a remote estate in the west of Ireland, but the father is now only a minor character who, after spending his youth in art schools and womanizing on the Continent, is an irreligious recluse. The son, instead of the father, sees a vision of the Virgin Mary. The opening one-third of this 1900 version is an expansion of the two earlier versions, with considerable new attention given to the young hero's vision. The remainder of the 1900 version takes the hero to London where he and an occultist, who is closely modeled on MacGregor Mathers, begin to plan a mystical order. News that the heroine has married someone else overwhelms the hero, and, at the suggestion of the occultist, he goes to Paris to copy occult manuscripts, hoping that the change of scene will comfort him. Soon afterwards he receives alarming reports that the occultist has usurped control of their mystical order and has altered the rituals so"}, {"text": "that they no longer reflect the hero's artistic ideals. The 1900 version breaks off after the hero visits a bizarre old occultist who sunbathes nude in a coffin and rants about a supposed plot by Jesuits to subvert the mystical order. Final version. In the final version, The Speckled Bird is concerned with the artist\u2019s quest for spiritual truth. The novel begins in the west of Ireland with Michael Hearne\u2019s gradual discovery of the existence of a spiritual world through meditation, dream, trance, and vision, and his awakening to the spiritual significance of myth, art, folklore, nature, and woman. Later in London he attempts to found a mystical order which would unite religious, artistic, and natural emotions, or, to use the Platonic terms, truth, beauty, and love. He gathers a group of artists and mystics around him to help devise rituals which would evoke the supernatural, and the objects and instruments of which would embody artistic beauty. The novel concludes with the hero at a railway station in Paris, setting out for the East, now "Nuno Miguel Ribeiro de Araujo, a 17-year-old openly homosexual Portuguese boy, was beat to death by two Spaniard youths aged 20 and 22, Sergi Ruiz L\u00e1zaro and Domingo L\u00f3pez Acedo, in an alley in Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra, in the early morning of April 14, 2000. This crime had a media repercussion in the country because of the brutal violence they exercised and the homophobic motivation of the crime. The two assailants were sentenced to five and sixteen years respectively by the Tribunal de Corts. On October 24, 2001, the criminal division of the High Court of Andorra upheld the conviction. In May 2002, the Constitutional Court of Andorra partially overturned the conviction as it did not consider that it violated the dignity of the person because, at that time, homophobia was not criminalized. Therefore, the sentence of Sergi Ruiz and Domingo Lopez was reduced by one year, and they were convicted only for murder. This murder motivated the creation of the association Som com Som to start the fight for LGBTQ rights in Andorra."}, {"text": "Vladas Byla was a Lithuanian footballer. He played in two matches for the Lithuania national football team in 1924. He was also part of Lithuania's squad for the football tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches."}, {"text": "Catherine Meurisse (born February 8, 1980) is a French illustrator, cartoonist, and comic strip author. She was elected to the Acad\u00e9mie des Beaux-Arts on January 15, 2020. She is the first cartoonist to become a member of the Academy. Life and career. Born in Niort in 1980 and interested in drawing since she was young, she graduated in modern languages and French philology from the University of Poitiers. She also has a degree in iIllustration from the Ecole Sup\u00e9rieure Estienne in Paris and the \u00c9cole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure des Arts D\u00e9coratifs (ENSAD). At the age of 17, she won first prize in the National School Cartoon Competition organized by the Angoul\u00eame Festival, which encouraged her to become a professional cartoonist. During her academic studies, she was also awarded the Presse Citron prize of the Estienne school (2000) and published a work based on an assignment for the ENSAD, \"Causerie sur Delacroix\" (2005), an adaptation of the posthumous tribute Alexandre Dumas paid to the painter Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix in 1864. Meurisse's solo debut came in 2008 with the graphic novel \"Mes hommes de lettres\", where she takes a humorous look at French literary figures. This album was followed by \"Savoir-vivre ou mourir\" (2010)"}, {"text": "and \"Le Pont des arts\" (2012). In 2014, the publication of \"Moderne Olympia\", a work published by the Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay and inspired by \u00c9douard Manet's \"Olympia\", earned Meurisse her first nomination at the Angoul\u00eame Festival. At the same time, Meurisse made commissioned illustrations for magazines and worked from 2005 to 2015 for the satirical magazine \"Charlie Hebdo\". Much of her work is collected in several collected albums. The author worked there for the following ten years, and in 2014 she was promoted to the editorial team. However, her career was marked by the attack on Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, in which twelve people were killed; the author was spared because she was unable to arrive in time for the scheduled meeting, although she did hear the attack on her way to the office. Meurisse was one of the contributors to issue 1178, took five months to return to work as a result of the ensuing trauma, and eventually channeled her entire experience into the graphic novel \"La L\u00e9g\u00e8ret\u00e9\" (\"Lightness\"; 2016), a finalist in the official section of the 2017 Angoul\u00eame Festival. In late 2018 she published \"Les Grands Espaces (The Great Outdoors)\", set in the natural landscape of the"}, {"text": "Poitou marshland. In 2019 Catherine Meurisse lived for several months at Villa Kujoyama, a residence for artists in Kyoto, where she tried to resume her work under a new perspective, Japanese landscapes. Shortly after that period, Typhoon Hagibis devastated part of the country. From these two events, came the album \"La jeune fille et la mer\", published by Editorial Dargaud in France. In January 15, 2020, she became the first comic artist to be accepted into the Acad\u00e9mie des Beaux-Arts. She was also nominated for the Angoul\u00eame Festival Grand Prix in 2020 and in 2023."}, {"text": "Leptuca uruguayensis, commonly known as the Uruguayan fiddler crab or the southweste"Chandragad Fort / Dhavalgad Fort is a fort located 182 km from Mumbai, in raigad district, of Maharashtra. This fort was an important fort in raigad district as a watch over for the Varandha Ghattrade routes from Bhor to kokan. The fort is surrounded by forest and hill slopes. History. The fort is close to the Krishna river valley. The fort was captured By Chh.Shivaji Maharaj from Chandrarao More on 15 January 1656 along with Kangori and Rayari. After the death of Chh. Sambhaji maharaj this fort was captured by Itkadar Khan Aka Zulfikar khan who was a commander of Aurangzeb. How to reach. The trek route starts from Village Dhavale which is located in District Raigad ,Taluka Poladpur. Poladpur to Dhavale distance is 20\u2013 25 km. The path passes through the small Shelarwadi hamlet. Places to see. There are about 14 rock-cut water tanks and few dilapidated building structures on the fort and one shivleeng is their."}, {"text": "96th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, was an air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) formed in West Yorkshire during the period of international tension leading up to the outbreak of World War II. It defended the West Riding during the early part of the war and then served in the Middle East. The regiment continued in the postwar TA until amalgamated in 1955. Origin. The Territorial Army was rapidly expanded following the Munich Crisis, particularly the Anti-Aircraft (AA) branch of the Royal Artillery (RA). 96th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA was among the new units raised in the spring of 1939. It was formed in the West Yorkshire towns of Castleford and Halifax in April and was soon joined by an experienced TA battery from Leeds: World War II. Mobilisation and Phoney War. In June 1939, as the international situation worsened, a partial mobilisation of Anti-Aircraft Command's TA units was begun in a process known as 'couverture', whereby each unit did a month's tour of duty in rotation to man selected AA gun and searchlight positions. On 24 August, ahead of the declaration of war, AA Command was fully mobilised at its war stations. The new regiment mobilised as part"}, {"text": "of 31 (North Midland) AA Brigade in 7th AA Division, defending Yorkshire including the Gun Defence Areas (GDAs) at Leeds and Sheffield. Luckily, the months of the Phoney War that followed mobilisation allowed AA Command to address its equipment and manpower shortages. When the War Office released the first intakes of Militiamen to the Command in early 1940, most were found to be in low physical categories and without training. 31 AA Bde reported that out of 1000 recruits sent for duty, '50 had to be discharged immediately because of serious medical defects, another 20 were judged to be mentally deficient and a further 18 were unfit to do any manual labour such as lifting ammunition'. Fitness and training was greatly improved by the time Britain's AA defences were seriously tested during the Battle of Britain and Blitz. Battle of Britain. On 1 June 1940, all RA units manning the older 3-inch or newer 3.7-inch and 4.5-inch guns were designated as Heavy AA (HAA) regiments to distinguish them from the new Light AA (LAA) regiments appearin"Hugh Grieve and Hugh Stoddart) had travelled to Kilmarnock to assess the suitability of Drummond. The local congregation did not appreciate their visit or its purpose of stealing their minister and they were told not to come back again. He was invited to preach to the Lothian Road congregation in July and formally admitted as their minister in December 1890. He was inducted by Mr Hunter of Dalkeith, the then Moderator of the United Presbyterian Church, and Rev Dr Thomson of Broughton Place UP Church. After the induction 100 of the group had a celebration meal at the Cockburn Hotel at the foot of Cockburn Street. Under Drummond the congregation grew from 960 in 1890 to over 1500 in 1909. Soon after Drummond arrived, in January 1891, Henry Brown left to take over the UP Church at Earlston. He was replaced by Rev Robert Hamilton. Hamilton left in 1892 to take over the UP Church in Grangemouth in lace of Mr Lambie and Hamilton was replaced by Mr John Lewars in February 1893. Lewars went to Lesmahagow in 1895. In June 1891 the church commissioned MacGibbon & Ross to create new halls to the rear, and began discussing the introduction"}, {"text": "of instruments into the service (i.e. an organ). The new halls were built 1893/4. However, the project got the church into debt, which had been an ongoing issue since the church's foundation. This was occasionally eased through legacies from former congregation members. Finances were complicated by the closure of the Congregational Library which had run at a loss since the opening of the Carnegie library in the city centre. The Sabbath School Library survived. In 1895 Drummond organised for electric lights to be installed in the church: one of the first such installations in Edinburgh. This was carried out in 1897 at a cost of \u00a3165. Around 1897 the church purchased a Limelight Magic Lantern to begin to give visual bible stories. In 1896 his senior assistant Rev Dr William Reid DD (1814-1896) died. The funds tangentially released from this death (\u00a3100 per annum) allowed Drummond's stipend to increase to \u00a3550 and a \"Bible nurse\" to be employed: a Miss Murray, formerly an urban missionary in Old Calabar. In 1897 a piano was installed, funded by the Total Abstinence Society who made use of the halls. However, the Church Secretary, Mr Cochrane, received a written complaint from the elders stating"}, {"text": "he had overstepped his authority in allowing this. Nevertheless, music came to the church. In October 1900 the United Presbyterian Church merged with part of the Free Church of Scotland creating the United Free Church of Scotland. The Union had been two years in discussion. Drummond's stipend was increased to \u00a3600. In 1901 he received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Glasgow University. Miss Murray resigned in 1906 and was replaced by Miss Sullivan. In 1907 he took a trip to the Holy Land and Egypt with his wife and Rev Crerar of North Leith. They also visited Athens and Constantinople and Budapest on the journey home. During his absence preachers at Lothian Road included Marcus Dods. In December 1909 he resigned his position at Lothian Road to take a chair in Practical Training at the UF College housed in Moray House on the Canongate in Edinburgh. In 1918 Drummond succeeded Rev Dugald Mackichan as Moderator of the General Assembly, the highest position in the UF Church. He lived at 29 Chalmers Street near the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary from at least 1895 to 1910. He died in Edinburgh on 20 July 1951 aged 93. He is buried with his wife"}, {"text": "in Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh. Family. He was married to Rhoda Constance Whitehorn (1862-1933). Their son Captain Robert Kenneth Drummond MC died of wounds serving with the Cameron Highlanders in Buzancy in the First World War. Their daughter Joan married Rev James Kyd Thomson, minister of "Our Doctor is the Best (German: Unser Doktor ist der Beste) is a 1969 West German comedy film directed by Harald Vock and starring Roy Black, Helga Anders and Peter Weck. The film's sets were designed by the art director Karl Schneider. Plot. Young doctor Leonhard Somner, who just finished his degree starts an internship in the private hospital of its chief Professor Jansen. Initially, he is mistaken by Nurse Lonie as a repairman requested to repair the hospital's chief's private bathroom and ends up being late for his first day in work. The hospital chief is not impressed as he already has some prejudices against Dr. Somner, who unknowingly received help by a friend to secure the internship. The strict head nurse also tries to confuse him with his first diagnosis of little Wilma in the children's ward, but soon realises that Leonhard is quite knowledgeable in his field. Widowed car seller Waldemar Kosel sustains a concussion while demonstrating a car to the said Dr. Somner ends up in the same hospital. Meanwhile his underage daughter Monika has the time of her life, being home alone and with her friend Hotte they play all kinds of pranks on the"}, {"text": "ever unpopular choleric study councillor Zackgiebel, who lives in the same building as the kids. In hospital nurse Lonie and Dr. Sommer fall in love with each other, yet there is some jealousy when Dr. Sommer spends significant time with the hospital owner's wife - although nothing serious happens. Study councillor Zackgiebel informs Monika's strict aunt about her misdemeanors who is not impressed, as for a long time she is convinced that her brother-in-law cannot take proper care of his unruly daughter and wants custody of Monika. When a visit by the aunt is announced Monika and Hotte prepare a specially wet welcome for the aunt. Yet Dr Sommer, who promised Waldemar Kosel to keep an eye on his daughter while he is in hospital comes in just at the right time and can convince them, that any prank will make them more inclined to request sole custody for the aunt. Especially as she brought a child service worker in tow. with Leonhard's help they manage to clean the messy apartment up just in time and the visitors find a well behaved girl in a spic and span tidy apartment, making the study councillor Zackgiebel loose his credibility and her"}, {"text": "father retains custody. In hospital Loni makes up with Leonhard, but also manages to matchmake Waldemar Kosel with the strict head nurse Hildegart. Leonhard finds out why Professor Jansen has prejudices against him, but his friend who organised the internship with his aunt, a big benefactor of the hospital can clarify the situation and Leonhard's reputation is rehabilitated. Yet the children's ward he worked in was supposed to be closed down, in favour of turning the rooms into a lab. While the benefactor thinks that the Professor intended to extend the children's ward, the professor has to change his mind on the closure. but Monika, Hotte and their friends had meanwhile Co e up with their own plan to help Leonhard out of gratefulness and save the children's ward by pretending they all have the measles. The professor detects the deceit, yet is not angry. He then makes Leonhard the chief of the children's ward. Leonhard, Lonie and the children then go to the park and the film ends with them singing a sing and Leonhard and Lonie sharing a kiss."}, {"text": "\"Penguin One, Us Zero\" is the second episode of the first season of the American supernatural drama television series \"The Leftovers\", based on the novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta. The episode was written by series creator Damon Lindelof and supervising producer Kath Lingenfelter, and directed by executive producer Peter Be"skull \u2014 but he is already out of danger. Apparently the Baron had climbed up Sleeping Beauty's Castle and placed his rose at her window in the darkness of the night. The story concludes with the narrator announcing his desire to revisit the Baron. Translations. There are at least two English versions: Themes. Jos\u00e9 R\u00e9gio argues that the realistic and the fantastic are inseparable in the story. David Mour\u00e3o-Ferreira notes that the first part was more realistic and the transition to the mythic brings out the plot's multidimensionality, which parallels that of the titular character. Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg, who considers the narrator the central character, describes the two main characters as \"polar opposites\" in the beginning and \"in reality one and the same\" by the end. Maria Aparecida Santilli has pointed out the Baron's dual-personality: one capable of platonic love and one that impulsively exploits women. Nelly Novaes Coelho sees the inspector as a representative of extreme Rationalism and the Baron as creativity and the enterprising spirit. Edward A. Riggio sees the Baron as an embodiment of medieval Portugal. Yvone David-Peyre also notes the abundant motifs from medieval romance like the rose, Sleeping Beauty, and the castle. Leland"}, {"text": "Guyer interprets the work as an intertext of the medieval Spanish poem \"Dark Night of the Soul\" by San Juan de la Cruz. Adaptations. In 1968, Lu\u00eds de Sttau Monteiro adapted the novella into a play. The 2011 film adaptation was directed by Edgar P\u00eara and stars Nuno Melo as the Baron."}, {"text": "The wedding of Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596\u20131632) and Princess Elizabeth (1596\u20131662), daughter of James VI and I, was celebrated in London in February 1613. There were fireworks, masques (small, choreography-based plays), tournaments, and a mock-sea battle or naumachia. Preparations involved the construction of a \"Marriage room\", a hall adjacent to the 1607 Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace. The events were described in various contemporary pamphlets and letters. Arrival of the Count Palatine. Frederick arrived at Gravesend on 16 October 1612. He was met by Lewes Lewknor, the master of ceremonies, and he decided to come to London by river. The Duke of Lennox brought him to the water gate of Whitehall Palace where he met Elizabeth's brother Prince Charles, Duke of York. He went into the newly built Banqueting Hall (or rather a new adjacent hall, the banqueting house had been built in 1607) to meet King James. They spoke in French, as it seems Elizabeth did not speak much German, and Frederick did not speak much English. Frederick kissed the hem of Elizabeth's dress. James took Frederick to his bedchamber and gave him a ring. He was lodged at Essex House. His companions included two counts of"}, {"text": "the House of Nassau, with Count John of Nassau or John Albrecht of Solms and Frederick Henry, Prince of Nassau. According to popular opinion, Elizabeth's mother, Anne of Denmark, had not been keen on the marriage, and believed that Elizabeth was marrying below her station, but after meeting him, \"was much pleased with him\". He was said not to enjoy tennis or riding, but only his conversations with Princess Elizabeth. He changed his lodging to the late Lord Treasurer's house, apparently Salisbury House on the Strand. Elizabeth's wardrobe was updated with silks and satin from Baptist Hicks and Thomas Woodward, gold lace from Christopher Weever, and John Spence made her whalebone \"bodies\" and farthingales. This was noted by the Venetian ambassador Antonio Foscarini as an adornment to her great natural beauty. David Murray, a Scottish poet in the household of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, organised the embroidery of the wedding gown. William Brothericke, an embroiderer, made hangings for the bride-chamber. A fool at court, Archibald Armstrong, was bought a crimson velvet coat with gold lace to wear at the wedding. Dionysius Pepper made a green hat for Armstrong and a black hat for the keeper of the royal leopard."}, {"text": "Death of Prince Henry. Prince Henry, heir to the throne, died of a fever on 6 November 1612. The wedding plans were altered in a period of mourning and grief. Some courtiers now thought Elizabeth should not marry and leave England. There were rumours that since the death of Prince Henry a Scottish faction at court advocated a marriage with the Marquess of Hamilton instead. This alternative could ensure the future of the Union as the Hamiltons also had a place in the royal succession. King James discussed the matter with his Privy Council and the dates were brought forward. Now there would be a ceremony of espousal or marriage on 6 January and a state wedding on 14 February. Henry's death affected the entertainments at the wedding in February, as the themes of masques were invested with the political aspirations of their patrons. Henry and Elizabeth's previous plans for masques were abandoned or modified. Frederick joined King James in the country at Royston and Theobalds. Elizabeth obtained one of her late brother's night gowns. Frederick's cook brought her a pike dressed in the German fashion. King James came back from the country and played cards with Elizabeth at Whitehall,"}, {"text": "almost every night (lost stakes are recorded in her accounts). January 1613. The marriage contract was finalized, and in a ceremony at Whitehall on St John's Day, 27 December, Frederick took Elizabeth's hand in her bedchamber and led her to the King in the Banqueting Hall, where they kneeled on a Turkish carpet and received his blessing and then the Archbishop of Canterbury's. The letter writer John Chamberlain heard that the contracts were read out by Thomas Lake, but the poor quality of the translations made the guests laugh out loud. Frederick was in purple velvet trimmed with gold, Elizabeth wore mourning black satin with silver lace, with a cloak of black \"sem\u00e9 velvet\" (sprinkled with silver flowers or crosslets) trimmed with gold lace, and a plume of white feathers in her attire. White feathers were immediately adopted by fashionable London. Her mother was absent, suffering since Christmas from painful gout. She was being treated by the physician Th\u00e9odore de Mayerne, but French diplomats thought she avoided the ceremony on purpose. After the ceremony Frederick and Prince Charles went back to wearing mourning clothes. A Scottish courtier Viscount Fenton sent the news that the couple were now \"assured\" to his"}, {"text": "kinsman in Stirling, adding, \"The marriage is appointed to be on Saint Valentine's day and by mere accident\". King James gave orders that the court should prepare their costume for the day, and not wear mourning clothes for Henry. Frederick gave New Year's Day gifts including medals with his portrait to the women of Elizabeth's household including Theodosia Harington. There were jewels bought in Germany, for Elizabeth \"2 most rich pendant diamonds, and 2 most rich orientall pearles\", a pair of earrings, which she wore in the following days, and more jewels for Queen Anne's gentlewomen and maids of honour, King James told Frederick not to overreach himself with gifts for all his servants. Frederick ordered more gifts from Paris, including caskets of jewels, and a particularly fabulous coach for Elizabeth covered inside and out with embroidered velvet. French courtiers, and even the Queen of France visited the workshop to see it, as if it were \"a precious monument\". On 7 February Frederick was made a knight of the Order of Garter in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. Elizabeth went to stay at St James' Palace. They were both sixteen years old when they married. Ambassadors attempted to gain"}, {"text": "advantage over rival diplomats by securing invitations to the feasts and masques. It was noted that the wife of the ambassador of the Archduke of Savoy visited Somerset House and danced before Queen Anne. The Queen was said to have warmed to Frederick, caressed him, and had ordered new livery clothes for her household. As the wedding drew near the City raised a volunteer guard of 500 musketeers. James Nisbet and Edinburgh's gift to Princess Elizabeth. The city of Edinburgh sent a gift of 10,000 merks, as promised at Elizabeth's baptism in November 1596. James Nisbet was sent to London with the cash. He presented her with a diamond necklace on the day of the wedding and the money three days later. A detailed account of his expenses survives. He had a new suit of clothes made in Edinburgh, and hired a horse from John Kinloch on 5 February. When he arrived in London he had a new taffeta cloak made up. He went to court to meet John Murray of the king's bedchamber. The King sent word that Nisbet should buy a jewel, \"a carquan of diamonds of great value\", to give to Elizabeth on the morning of the"}, {"text": "wedding as she waited in the gallery at Whitehall before going in procession to the Chapel Royal. Nisbet found his linen \"overlayers\" to be unfashionable in London, and following strong hints about clothes and pleasing the king, he ordered new clothes to wear at the wedding in the same style as John Murray's. Robert Jousie, a Scottish merchant and courtier who had relocated to London helped him. Patrick Black, formerly a tailor to Prince Henry, made him a suit of \"villouris raze\" with satin and Milan passments and a velvet cloak. A \"ras\" fabric was a velvet with a short nap. The outfit included a castor hat and a satin piccadill. Nisbet watched the fireworks from the Savoy. He had his hair cut on Friday 12 February. On Saturday he bought the necklace for Elizabeth costing \u00a3815 sterling and watched the sea-fight. On Sunday he paid half a crown to book a place to watch the wedding processions, (after giving Elizabeth her jewel). On Saturday he saw the \"masquerade\". He lodged in King Street, socialised with Scots in London and saw four comedies. On 29 February Nisbet went to Newmarket to say his goodbye to King James. Elizabeth sent a"}, {"text": "thank-you letter to the Provost of Edinburgh, James Nisbet's father-in-law Sir John Arnot on 24 February. The Lord Mayor and aldermen of London gave a chain of oriental pearls worth \u00a32000, presented to Elizabeth by the Recorder of London, Henry Montagu, possibly at the same time as Edinburgh's gift. Fireworks and sea-battles. The fireworks on Thursday 11 February were the work of John Nodes, Thomas Butler, William Betts, and William Fishenden, royal gunners. The theme was loosely based on the allegory in the first book of Edmund Spenser's \"The Faerie Queen\", a work of 1590 celebrating the reign"town's residents, and his church attendance has begun to dwindle. One of Matt's sermons is interrupted by a relative of one of the outed \"sinners\" who beats him. Matt's shrinking congregation has hampered his ability to pay mortgage on the church. He learns from the bank that an undisclosed LLC has made an offer of $135,000 on the church, which the bank will accept unless Matt manages to produce the same amount by the next day. Matt requests the money from Nora, his sister, but she accepts only under the condition that he end his public-shaming campaign. Matt is reluctant to do so, and reveals to Nora that her husband (who disappeared along with their two children) was having an affair with the kids' preschool teacher. Nora is devastated and asks Matt to leave. Matt returns home to tend to his comatose wife, Mary. He remembers that Kevin Garvey Sr., the former police chief, left him $20,000 buried in the Garveys' backyard. While going to collect it, Matt gets the idea to acquire the rest of the money by gambling it at a nearby Indian casino, which was frequented by a \"sinful\" departed relative of one of his congregation members."}, {"text": "He bets the $20,000 at a roulette table and manages to win three rounds in a row, earning him $160,000. Matt collects the money in an envelope and returns to his car, but one of the onlookers from the game attempts to rob him of his earnings. Matt brutally beats the thief in a rage and takes back the envelope. On his way back to town, Matt sees two members of the Guilty Remnant being pelted with stones by the passengers of a nearby car. He stops to help them, only to be knocked out by a rock himself. While unconscious, Matt experiences a series of surreal visions charting moments of his past: his cancer diagnosis, his parents burning alive in a house fire during his childhood, and the car crash he and Mary suffered on October 14, which left her in a vegetative state. Matt additionally hallucinates himself having sex with Mary, who suddenly reappears as Laurie Garvey, before Matt finds himself and the bed set ablaze, causing him to wake up. Matt rushes to the bank with the cash in hand, but is told that he is three days late and that the church has been sold. Matt"}, {"text": "realizes he was hospitalized after his injury and was unconscious throughout his recovery. He returns to the church to find that its buyers were the Guilty Remnant, who have begun painting the walls white and throwing away church items. Patti Levin, the GR's local leader, is seen removing the lettering from the church's sign, and makes prolonged eye contact with Matt. Production. \"Two Boats and a Helicopter\" is the first episode of \"The Leftovers\" that does not focus on protagonist Kevin Garvey (actor Justin Theroux makes only a brief appearance at the beginning of the episode). The character of Matt Jamison has a relatively minor role in Tom Perrotta's source novel, but showrunner Lindelof decided to expand on the character after a conversation with Eccleston, feeling the series needed a more prominent character to represent the role of faith in the narrative. Eccleston had initially auditioned for the role of Kevin, but was turned down; he eventually expressed interest in playing Matt after reading Perrotta's novel, and helped convince Lindelof to give the character a more significant role in the series. In an interview with \"Rolling Stone\" regarding the episode, Eccleston elaborated on his interpretation of Matt's character: Critics noted"}, {"text": "that the episode's title refers to a religious parable about a man who awaits God's help amidst a flood while refusing help from others, only to die and realize that the offers of rescue were indeed what God had provided. Reception. Ratings. Upon airing, the episode was watched by 1.380 million viewers with an 18-49 rating of 0.7. Critical reception. \"Two Boats and a Helicopter\" was acclaimed by critics, who praised the episode for its themes, heightened pace, and Eccleston's performance. On Rotten Tomatoes, the episode has an approval rating of 92% based on 12 reviews, with an average score of 8.80/10. The critics' consensus reads, \"Gripping and u"soldiers and sailors or workmen had been seriously injured, and plans for a second day were abandoned. A royal debt of \u00a3693 for the \"naval fight\" was still unpaid three years later. Wedding at Whitehall. The marriage took place on Sunday 14 February 1613 in the chapel of Whitehall Palace, which was decorated with tapestry depicting the \"Acts of the Apostles\". The tapestry had been bought by Henry VIII in 1542 and used to hang Westminster Abbey at the coronation of Elizabeth I. A processional route was established around the palace so that the wedding party could be seen by more people. For the benefit of spectators around the palace and in adjacent buildings, a scaffold with a raised walkway crossed an open courtyard by the Preaching Place. King James went from the Privy Chamber through the Presence Chamber and Guard Chamber, and the new Banqueting House (or Marriage-Room), down stairs by the court gate, along the temporary walk-way, \"a raised gallery conspicuous to all\", to the Great Chamber and Lobby to the Closet, and down stairs to the Royal Chapel. Frederick went from the Banqueting Hall, and then Elizabeth, preceded by her tutor or guardian Lord Harington. John Chamberlain"}, {"text": "was able to glimpse the procession from a pre-booked window of the Whitehall Jewel House or Revel's House. He saw the bride go from the stairs at the gallery by the Preaching Place onto the \"terrace\" or walkway, which he described as \"a long stage or gallery which ran along the court into the hall\". He thought King James was \"somewhat strangely attired in a cap and feather, with a Spanish cape and a long stocking\". He also noted that the daughters of the Earl of Northumberland and the Catholic Lord Montagu were very well dressed, a public show of loyalty when the groom was a leading Protestant prince. Elizabeth wore an imperial crown (but not with closed arches) set with diamonds and pearls, shining on her amber hair, let down to her waist, and dressed with rolls of gold spangles, pearls, precious stone and diamonds. Her white gown was richly embroidered by the workshop of Edward Hillyard. 14 or 15 (likely 16) ladies dressed in white satin like the bride held her train. Some accounts say the white costume was made of cloth of silver. Queen Anne's page Piero Hugon brought a jewel for Elizabeth to wear. The Venetian"}, {"text": "ambassador Foscarini noted that Elizabeth was wearing a diamond necklace, probably the one bought by James Nisbet. He wrote that there were 8 daughters of earls on either side of her train. Anne, dressed in white satin, had a great number of pear-shaped pearls in her hair, and was ablaze with diamonds. Her jewels were thought to be worth \u00a3400,000. The hairstyles of the queen and her daughter were represented accordingly in a contemporary engraving of the wedding procession. Roger Wilbraham wrote, \"the Court abounding in jewels and embroidery beyond custom or reason: God grant money to pay debts\". According to a surviving record, the wedding of Elizabeth and Frederick, cost \u00a393,293 in total, which equates to approximately \u00a39,131,518 today. The Archbishop of Canterbury officiated. Elizabeth was nervous during the ceremony and could not help laughing. Afterwards the guests drank spiced hippocras wine. Dinner for the bride and bridegroom with the ambassadors was served in the new purpose-built room, which was hung with tapestry depicting the defeat of the Spanish Armada. This apparently tactless gesture was noted by Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza. The event was celebrated in John Donne's \"Ep"\"B.J. and the A.C.\" is the fourth episode of the first season of the American supernatural drama television series \"The Leftovers\", based on the novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta. The episode was written by series creator Damon Lindelof and Elizabeth Peterson, and directed by Lesli Linka Glatter and Carl Franklin. It was first broadcast on HBO in the United States on July 20, 2014. The series is set three years after the \"Sudden Departure\" \u2013 an event which saw 2% of the world's population (approximately 140 million people) disappear and profoundly affected the townspeople. The characters of police chief Kevin Garvey and his family (wife Laurie, son Tom, daughter Jill and father Kevin Sr.) are focal points, alongside grieving widow Nora Durst, her brother Reverend Matt Jamison, and the mysterious cult-like organization the Guilty Remnant (GR), led by Patti Levin. In the episode, the baby Jesus doll goes missing as Mapleton approaches Christmas, with Kevin being assigned to find it. Meanwhile, Tom and Christine go on the run from authorities. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 1.62 million household viewers and gained a 0.8 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The"}, {"text": "episode received positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances and character development, although some deemed the themes of the episode as too heavy-handed. Plot. At a factory, workers build baby dolls that are packaged and sent to many locations. One of these is sent to Mapleton during Christmas, where it is placed on the local nativity display as the baby Jesus. A few days later, the baby Jesus goes missing. Kevin (Justin Theroux) warns Patti (Ann Dowd) that the GR are not welcome at a forthcoming Christmas dance, which is a fundraiser for a new library, threatening that he will not protect them as people want to enjoy time with their families. Patti's only response is \"There is no family\" before leaving. Kevin instructs police officers to arrest any GR who show up at the area, also suspecting that Jill (Margaret Qualley) and Aimee (Emily Meade) were involved with the theft. Meanwhile, Tom (Chris Zylka) and Christine (Annie Q.) are staying at a hostel, with Tom frustrated that Wayne hasn't reached them out through his burner phone. A semi-naked man screaming about a dream tries to attack Christine until Tom hits him, forcing him to take her to a"}, {"text": "hospital. Lucy (Amanda Warren) tells Kevin that the public wants the baby Jesus back. Instead of finding the original, she tells him to buy a new one. As he is buying it, he changes his mind and decides to find the original baby Jesus doll. He stops Adam (Max Carver) and Scott Frost (Charlie Carver), suspecting them of being involved and warning them that they should confess if they don't want trouble. That night, the twins meet with Jill, Aimee and other friends by a fire, revealing that they took the baby Jesus. Jill changes her mind about burning the doll. In the hospital, the staff suspects Tom is abusive to Christine, as he is angry that she told people of her pregnancy and connection to Wayne, forcing him to flee the hospital. He returns later and convinces her to leave with him. En route they encounter an accident with bodies in white from a funeral home scattered on the road like in the aforementioned dream. Kevin is visited by Meg (Liv Tyler) and Laurie (Amy Brenneman) at his house. Meg reads a note from Laurie, stating that she wants a divorce. It's also revealed to the audience that Kevin"}, {"text": "is not Tom's biological father. Kevin refuses to comply unless Laurie says it. This is witnessed by Jill, who brings a gift for Laurie as Kevin tells th"were mixed. The ambassador Foscarini thought the masque was very beautiful and he was impressed by Inigo Jones' mechanism to make the stars dance. John Chamberlain was not invited to the \"Lord's Masque\", but heard \"no great commendation\". A wardrobe account includes several items for this masque, costumes for five masquers with speaking parts were made by Thomas Watson. Further celebrations included the performances of \"The Memorable Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn\" by George Chapman, and \"The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn\" by Francis Beaumont. The Temple and the Inns were associations of lawyers in London who trained the sons of aristocrats. Beaumont's masque was set up in the Banqueting Hall but delayed till the 20 February. Chamberlain wrote that entry to these events was not allowed to ladies wearing a farthingale, to gain space. Both the Banqueting Hall and the Great Hall already had more scaffolds and temporary seating than usual. Twelve farthingales had been supplied by Robert Hughes for attendants at the wedding, six of taffeta and six of damask with wire and silk, and John Spens made five farthingales of changing taffeta for masque dancers. Tournament: Running at the Ring. On"}, {"text": "Monday 15 February there was a tournament of tilting and running at the ring at Whitehall. Elizabeth, her mother, and aristocratic women watched from the Banqueting House. King James rode first. The task was the lift a hoop with a spear or lance. Prince Charles did particularly well. The performances of expert riders were appreciated for taking the ring with \"much strangeness\". Colonialism as entertainment. Chapman's \"Memorable Masque\" was performed in the Great Hall of Whitehall Palace on 15 February. The roof of the hall and its cupola can be seen in Wenceslaus Hollar's engraving of the palace. The masquers arrived in procession and King James made them go around the tilt yard for the benefit of the royal audience. The \"Memorable Masque\" was produced for the Inns of Court by Edward Phelips, the Master of the Rolls and Richard Martin, a lawyer who worked for the Virginia Company, with Christopher Brooke, and the Attorney General, Henry Hobart of Blickling. Edward Phelips paid Inigo Jones \u00a3110 for his work on the masque. Prince Henry had been George Chapman's patron, and was interested in Virginia, and a settlement Henricus had been named in his honour. Phelips had been Henry's chancellor and"}, {"text": "was a director of the Virginia Company. Martin Butler detects in the masque the kind of colonial ambition which Henry had preferred, but King James would avoid for its potential for conflict with Spain. Possibly, George Chapman and Francis Beaumont had been preferred as authors in 1612 by Prince Henry, looking for writers sympathetic to his ideals. The masque represented Virginian peoples on the stage, while introducing the theme of gold mining from Guiana based on the voyages of Walter Ralegh, conflating two colonial ventures. Chapman had responded to the promise of Guiana's gold and imperial venture in 1596 with a poem, \"De Guiana, Carmen Epicum\". In the poem Chapman outlines a female and Elizabethan England that would be a sibling and a mother to Guiana in \"a golden world\". A marshal attending the performers and audience, \"Baughan\", was probably the usher of Queen Anne, who had previously fought with Edward Herbert over a hair ribbon worn by a maid of honour, Mary Middlemore. A drawing by Inigo Jones for a torchbearer"Saraiya of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"C+\" grade and wrote, \"Well, tonight's episode of \"The Leftovers\" takes the idea of subtlety and tosses it out the window \u2014 along with a baby (and the bathwater, if we want to keep our idioms intact). It is not inherently a bad episode, but girl, it is very heavy-handed. I found myself cringing through a lot of it, even though there were moments that managed to speak to me.\" Alan Sepinwall of \"HitFix\" wrote, \"Whatever decisions and alterations happened behind the scenes, the finished product is another strong episode of \"The Leftovers\" \u2013 not as intense as last week's (or, for that matter, next week's), but an effective holiday portrait of the shattered Garvey family.\" Jeff Labrecque of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"Overall, I liked this episode as much as some people are going to be offended by it. It raised the stakes, established the conflict that is now inevitable, and set the course for the rest of the show. Merry Christmas.\" Kelly Braffet of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 3 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"I really want to like \"The Leftovers\". It's not perfect, but it's generally"}, {"text": "smart, stylish without being slick, and has a hell of a cast. One thing it's not, though, is subtle.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 4.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"\"The Leftovers\" continues to improve as Lindelof continues to go against his instincts and just let us know things. The show also is utilizing its smaller moments to maximum benefit. Slowly but surely, \"The Leftovers\" is becoming appointment television. Let the internet thinkpieces flow.\" Matt Brennan of \"Slant Magazine\" wrote, \"In 'B.J.', \"The Leftovers\" finds its firmest footing yet, by dint of the episode's powerful suggestion that 'religion' is just a minefield of ghosts.\" Michael M. Grynbaum of \"The New York Times\" wrote, \"There's a clunkiness here that undercuts the visual smarts \u2014 why, for instance, the bluesy soul song played over the doll-making sequence? Sure, it's a jarring aural-visual contrast, but it felt manipulative and a bit smug, as if the show is too enamored of its own capacity to disturb.\""}, {"text": "\"Gladys\" is the fifth episode of the first season of the American supernatural drama television series \"The Leftovers\", based on the novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta. The episode was written by series creators Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, and directed by Mimi Leder. It was first broadcast on HBO in the United States on July 27, 2014. The series is set three years after the \"Sudden Departure\" \u2013 an event which saw 2% of the world's population (approximately 140 million people) disappear and profoundly affected the townspeople. The characters of police chief Kevin Garvey and his family (wife Laurie, son Tom, daughter Jill and father Kevin Sr.) are focal points, alongside grieving widow Nora Durst, her brother Reverend Matt Jamison, and the mysterious cult-like organization the Guilty Remnant (GR), led by Patti Levin. In the episode, unknown assailants kill Gladys, a loyal member of the Guilty Remnant. Kevin investigates the murder, despite the police's indifference to her death. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 1.59 million household viewers and gained a 0.8 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances and"}, {"text": "character development. Gladys' death scene drew polarized reactions, with some deeming it appropriate for the series' tone while others criticized its violent nature. Plot. Hostility between the GR and Mapleton residents has increased after the former broke into their houses to replace photos of their departed familiars. One night, a member"of a masque planned by Elizabeth and her entourage, to involve herself and fifteen maidens, mentioned by Antonio Foscarini in October 1612, and probably abandoned after the death of Prince Henry. An account of the festivals published in Heidelberg omits Beaumont's masque and quotes instead in French from what must be Prince Henry's planned masque. This entertainment is now known as the \"Masque of Truth\". It would have been more overtly religious than the others, featuring the union of the world with England in reformed Protestant faith. The Queen of Africa would have been presented to truth personified, Alethiea. The master of court ceremony, John Finet later published his observations, which detail the complicated struggles between ambassadors for precedence. He noted a confrontation between the French ambassador's wife and the Scottish Countess of Nottingham, who already enjoyed a reputation for international incidents. As the ambassador's wife was directed to a place at dinner deemed inappropriate by the Countess, she grasped her hand and would not let her go all through the meal. Departure. There was some controversy over the continued entertainment of Frederick and the expense. On 24 February Anne, Frederick and Elizabeth attended the christening of the daughter of"}, {"text": "the Countess of Salisbury. The next day the luxurious coach that Frederick had ordered in Paris arrived. The coach became the responsibility of her Scottish Master of Horse Andrew Keith. Keith later got into a fight at Heidelberg. On 10 April Anne and Elizabeth travelled from Whitehall to Greenwich, and then to Rochester. The voyage was delayed, and she went with Prince Charles to Canterbury for a week. Charles returned to London, and Elizabeth and Frederick went to Margate. They sailed on the 26 April on \"The Prince Royal\". Elizabeth left England accompanied by Lady Harington, the Countess of Arundel, and Anne Dudley as chief lady of honour. James Sandilands was her Master of Household. The other English ships, under the command of the Earl of Nottingham, were \"The Anne Royall\", \"The Repulse\", \"The Red Lion\", \"The Phoenix\", \"The Assurance\", and \"The Disdain\", with the frigate \"Primrose\" two smaller pinnaces \"The George\", a transporter, and \"The Charles\". There were five merchant ships, the \"Triall\", \"William\", \"Dorcas\", and \"Joan\". The size of Elizabeth's household in Germany had been agreed in October, with 49 posts, but she took many more companions. The whole party numbered 675. A list of her companions includes"}, {"text": "\"Mr Pettye\" and \"Mr Johnes\", Inigo Jones, among the followers of the Earl of Arundel. Musicians included Richard Gibbons and the harp player Daniel Callander. Her jeweller Jacob Harderet also made the trip to Heidelberg. Elizabeth had obtained a number of jewels and had to write to Sir Julius Caesar to pay the bill for jewels and rings given as presents at her leave taking in England. She reminded him of the demands of royal etiquette, \"You do know that is fitting for my quality at the time of my parting from my natural country to leave some small remembrance of me amongst my affectionate friends, but that any thing employed for my use should remain unpaid doth not well become my quality\". Soon after Elizabeth's departure, Queen Anne went "rating with an average rating of 7.4/10 for the episode, based on 12 reviews. The site's consensus states: \"'Gladys' opens with a horrific gut-punch and concludes with a bitter confrontation, successfully mixing in some familiar themes and surprising moments along the way.\" Matt Fowler of \"IGN\" gave the episode an \"amazing\" 9 out of 10 and wrote in his verdict, \"'Gladys' gave us our most harrowing moment of violence on the show to date while bringing Matt into the main Kevin/GR storyline in a very cool, intriguing way. The show also managed to make the GR sympathetic, though their choices still stand as being ultimately destructive and selfish. Despite all they ostensibly deny themselves. In fact, I wonder what the percentage rate comparison is of people whose families have been ripped apart by the Departure and those who've lost members to the GR. Kevin's been cracking all along, but this episode saw a few more characters - Laurie, Patti, Jill - break down in different ways, crushed under the sheer weight of their current lives.\" Sonia Saraiya of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B\" grade and wrote, \"There are a lot of types of religious life out there."}, {"text": "A lot of types of people. And a bunch of those people even watch HBO. It's ridiculous that the show isn't trying to reach me \u2014 isn't trying to reach across the counter and tell the story of Faisal (which is the credited, never-spoken name of the Indian clerk). There's a bunch of us who understand the world differently. And as the leftovers of Mapleton said in the bar in the first episode: 'We're still here.'\" Alan Sepinwall of \"HitFix\" wrote, \"Doing a single-POV story every week \u2013 especially one with as narrow a focus as 'Two Boats and a Helicopter' \u2013 isn't an easy thing to pull off, nor does it seem like what Lindelof and Perrotta want to do, given the size and scope of the broken world they're depicting. But 'Gladys' does a very effective job of splitting the difference between the tunnel vision of episode 3 and the broader ensemble pieces we've gotten in the other installments. It's a bigger episode featuring most of the cast, but the entire story and every bit of emotional conflict spills out of the single awful act of Gladys from the Guilty Remnant being stoned to death.\" Jeff Labrecque of"}, {"text": "\"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"Her murder presented the Garveys-Chief and Laurie-with independent spiritual tests. Each was tempted to abandon the path they've chosen, to relent and take an easier way out.\" Kelly Braffet of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 3 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"This episode, like every episode so far, had some gripping moments. But there's no longer any avoiding it: Not enough is happening in this series. Which is incredibly frustrating, because in many ways it's so damn good.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 3.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"This episode of \"The Leftovers\" was the first time where the show's pacing felt familiar, along with all of its ugliness. The episode also created some sort of urgency that wasn't quite present before. The show is still not without its problems, it can't figure out what to do with Jill at all and can still seem a little too self-impressed with its symbolism, but it still seems like we're building to something. What that something is just better be worth it.\" Matt Brennan of \"Slant Magazine\" wrote, \"With 'Gladys', an enthralling portrait of what happens when the urge"}, {"text": "to move on collides with the persistence of grief, \"The Leftovers\" joins the ranks of television's must-see dramas.\" Daniel McDermon of \"The New York Times\" wrote, \"\"The Leftovers\" is clearly a show with a surplus of signs and symbols. Faithful viewers are left to wonder which, if any, they are meant to divine. And to hope that there's a greater purpose.\""}, {"text": "\"Guest\" is the sixth episode of the first season of the American supernatural drama television series \"The Leftovers\", based on the novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta. The episode was written by series creator Damon Lindelof and supervising producer Kath Lingenfelter, and directed by Carl Franklin. It was first broadcast on HBO in the United States on August 3, 2014. The series is set three years after the \"Sudden Departure\" \u2013 an event which saw 2% of the world's population (approximately 140 million people) disappear and profoundly affected the townspeople. The characters of police chief Kevin Garvey and his family (wife Laurie, son Tom, daughter Jill and father Kevin Sr.) are focal points, alongside grieving widow Nora Durst, her brother Reverend Matt Jamison, and the mysterious cult-like organization t"The 2021\u201322 North Dakota Fighting Hawks men's ice hockey season was the 81st season of play for the program. They represented the University of North Dakota in the 2021\u201322 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season and for the 9th season in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC). The Fighting Hawks were coached by Brad Berry, in his seventh season, and played their home games at Ralph Engelstad Arena. Season. North Dakota's lineup saw a great deal of change with 14 of the team's 26 players in their first year with the program. While several were transfers from other schools, head coach Brad Berry had his work cut out for him in getting the team to work together. Despite the turnover, UND was still seen as having a good chance at the title and was ranked in the top-10 in the preseason polls. However, the Hawks struggled with consistency early in the season and only possessed a middling record after the first month of the campaign. Once the team got into its conference schedule, they began playing much better and rose to the top of the NCHC. When they returned after the winter break, North Dakota was in the top-5"}, {"text": "in both polls but the offense sputtered. UND lost four games in a row, all to ranked teams, and began sinking in both the rankings and the standings. They recovered at the end of January and then had a tremendous month by winning seven out of eight games in February. The extended winning streak put them back atop the conference standings and had the Hawks set up for a 1st-place finish. Unfortunately, losing to Omaha in the final game of the regular season put UND into a tie with Denver and, because the Pioneers possessed the tie-breaker, meant that North Dakota received the #2 seed for the NCHC tournament. The entire second half of the Hawks season was dominated by the status of Jake Sanderson, the team's top prospect. He wasn't able to play a single game after January 29 due to joining Team USA at the 2022 Winter Olympics. During the competition, He came down with COVID-19, forcing him to miss the first game, and was then injured during the preliminary round. He remained out of the Fighting Hawks lineup for the rest of the regular season before returning for the team's quarterfinal match against Colorado College. Sanderson opened"}, {"text": "the scoring on his return, however, in spite of the boost his reappearance provided, the Hawks did not play well against the Tigers. North Dakota had almost three times as many wins as CC during the season but they got a huge fight from their opponents. UND only managed to score twice in each of the two games and it was only through the heroics of Zach Driscoll in goal that they managed to squeeze through into the semifinals. To make matters worse, Sanderson was injured while blocking a shot in the second match and ended up needing wrist surgery to repair the damage. While the team had demonstrated an ability to win without the big defenseman, they weren't able to replicate that effort in the semifinal and fell to Western Michigan. NCAA tournament. Though the loss was disappointing, North Dakota was already guaranteed a bid for the NCAA tournament and received a #2 seed, one of five NCHC teams in the field. They opened against Notre Dame, a team that played an almost identical style of defensive hockey. The match lived up to predictions as a slow, methodical game with few scoring attempts and solid goaltending. Brent Johnson scored"}, {"text": "near the end of the first period to give UND the lead but their advantage lasted less than 3 minutes before ND evened the match. Near the end of regulation, when it appeared that the game was heading into overtime, Notre Dame got the puck deep into the Hawks' end before passing it out to an open man in the slot and scored with less than a second to play. While the Irish celebrated, however, the referees reviewed the play and found a discrepancy in the time. The broadcast clock and the official game clock were not in synch and the file was reviewed to determine which was correct. After a long process, it was determined that the game had ended moments before the puck entered the goal and the Hawks were saved from defeat. UND began the extra session on the power play, however, a gaff at the blueline forced Chris Jandric to take a penalty to stop a Notre Dame breakaway. After the ensuing 4-on-4 finished, The Irish got an abbreviated man-advantage and made no mistake, potting the winner and ending North Dakota's season. Schedule and results. !colspan=12 style=\";\" | Exhibition !colspan=12 style=\";\" | Regular season !colspan=12 style=\";\""}, {"text": "| Exhibition !colspan=12 style=\";\" | Regular Season !colspan=12 style=\";\" | !colspan=12 style=\";\" |"}, {"text": "Antonina Fedorovna Sofronova (14 March 1892 \u2013 14 May 1966) was a Russian artist and illustrator. Biography. Sofronova was born in Droskovo, Oryol Governorate. She went to the Girls' Commercial College in Kyiv, finishing in 1909 when she moved to Moscow to study under the direction of Fedor Ivanovich Rerberg from 1910 until 1913 when she changed to work with Ilya Mashkov in the Moscow School of Art. Sofronova took part in the \"Jack of Diamonds\", \"Mir iskusstva\" and \u201cMoscow Association of Artists\u201d exhibitions from 1914 to 1917. Sofronova married painter Guenrikh Blumenfeld in 1915. She became a teacher at the State Art Studios in Orel, between 1919 and 1920, and Tver, from 1920 to 1921. In 1923 she returned to Moscow where she became a member of IZO. In 1929 she became a member of the group \"13\", a group of Russian impressionist artists. However by 1931 the group was coming under increasingly negative attitudes and they stopped exhibiting. All such groups were abolished in 1932. Sofronova was also subject to criticism from the government and mostly was not allowed to exhibit. In the 1910s, Sofronova created figurative paintings before moving to more Expressionist, abstract styles. In the 1920s"}, {"text": "she created Expressionist landscapes and Cubist portraits. Her Moscow Street Types were a series of watercolors and ink drawings in the mid twenties which juxtaposed sunflowers and the homeless. She worked as a book illustrator as well and experimented with constructivist styles. Sofronova died in Moscow in 1966."}, {"text": "Pikalov (Russian: \u041f\u0438\u043a\u0430\u043b\u043e\u0432) is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Pikalova. The surname may refer to the following notable people:"}, {"text": "The Men's 100 metre backstroke S13 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 26 August 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Results. Heats. The swimmers with the top 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final."}, {"text": "Euphemia Culbert Cunningham OBE BEM (later Baxter; 1892 \u2013 2 August 1989) was a World War One munitions worker at HM Factory, Gretna, who was the first person from Edinburgh to be awarded a Medal of the Order of the British Empire for her bravery in rescuing injured workers, during an explosion in the cordite factory. Life. Euphemia Cunningham was born in Edinburgh in 1892, and had four brothers. Her father was a Gordon Highlander. She worked in a printing factory in Edinburgh, but in October 1915, as three of her brothers had died in World War I, she chose to join the 11,000 women involved in secret war work at the munitions factory in Gretna. The Gretna Girls was a collective nickname given to women munition workers at HM Factory Gretna in World War I. Her role in the factory was in the nitroglycerin section, which involved mixing dangerous chemicals nitric acid, sulphuric acid and glycerine with nitro-cotton to make cordite. Within a few months, she was made forewoman of her section. She worked there until the factory closed in 1919. Factory explosion. In March 1917, there was an evacuation of workers, as an explosion risk was identified at"}, {"text": "the factory, but not all people could be accounted for and Cunningham promptly returned to search for missing women, despite the danger of explosion. She found and assisted a group to leave, just moments before a sudden explosion which killed one worker and injured nine others. Her action was recognised in the award of the British Empire Medal (an honour later elevated to the OBE). She was given the medal in a ceremony in April 1918, by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, as the first recipient in Edinburgh to have this honour. The ceremony took place in the afternoon of Tuesday 2 April in the Edinburgh Council Chamber, in the presence of a number of magistrates and other dignitaries. The medal was awarded \"for courage and high example in continuing her duties immediately after a severe explosion.\" Personal life. Cunningham married Thomas Baxter of Annan in Edinburgh in 1921, and the pair emigrated to New Zealand in 1924. They lived in Auckland at first, moving to Wellington in 1930. Euphemia Baxter died on 2 August 1989. She and her husband are both buried in the Karori Cemetery. Image. The Devil's Porridge Museum has an image of Cunningham with her medal."}, {"text": "SMS ZPRP Gda\u0144sk was a men's handball team based in Gda\u0144sk, Poland. SMS Gda\u0144sk were one of three \"Sports Championship Schools\" in Poland run by the Poland Handball Federation. Handball and Education. The school itself focused on the education of its students, but also has a strong focus on the development of the students in handball. Due to the association of the club with the Poland Handball Federation the club could not be promoted to the Superliga, but also could not be relegated to the 2. Liga either, providing consistent competitiveness for the students. From the team's formation in 1997 until the school was closed in 2021, nearly 100 players went from playing and developing with SMS Gda\u0144sk to playing in the Superliga, Poland's highest handball league. Due to issues relating to having a sports hall for the club to train in, it was announced in 2019 that the NLO SMS ZPRP Gda\u0144sk sports school was to be moved to Kwidzyn. After protests from the students it was announced that current students at the time would continue their studies in Gda\u0144sk, while the new students would start their studies at NLO SMS ZPRP Kwidzyn. The club were dissolved at the"}, {"text": "end of the 2020\u201321 season after 24 years in opera"prompting Kevin to send units to track him down. He warns Lucy (Amanda Warren), but she makes it clear his father will go find him. That night, Kevin experiences weird visions while sleeping. The next day, Kevin finds that his father went on a rampage on a library while attempting to retrieve money. Kevin Sr. appears in his house with Jill alone. He talks with her when Kevin arrives home, having been alerted by Jill. He handcuffs him and takes him to the station but Kevin Sr. escapes when they run into a protest of GR members. Later, Kevin finds evidence that his father is staying with Matt (Christopher Eccleston) and angrily calls him to get his location. He meets with his father at a diner, where he arrests him, but not before his father hands him the May 1972 issue of \"National Geographic\", confusing Kevin. After a mental breakdown, Kevin finally arrests his father, sending him back to the hospital. Kevin then visits Nora and they have sex. Months on the run, Tom (Chris Zylka) is taking care of Christine (Annie Q.), whose condition is worsening. While buying medicine, Tom is called by Holy Wayne (Paterson Joseph), who asks"}, {"text": "him to take half of his money and place it on a mailbox. He does the task but decides to follow the person who takes the money. He tracks him to a motel room, finding him with a pregnant Asian woman. The man, Bryan, reveals that Wayne used the same words of motivation for him, which makes Tom reconsider his loyalty to Wayne. The woman shoots Tom in the hand, causing him to leave. When he returns to his apartment, he ignores Wayne's call and destroys his phone to avoid any more contact. However, he is shocked when he finds Christine in the bathtub with her newborn baby, a girl. Production. Development. In July 2014, the episode's title was revealed as \"Solace for Tired Feet\" and it was announced that series creator Damon Lindelof and supervising producer Jacqueline Hoyt had written the episode while Mimi Leder had directed it. This was Lindelof's seventh writing credit, Hoyt's second writing credit, and Leder's second directing credit. Reception. Viewers. The episode was watched by 1.58 million viewers, earning a 0.8 in the 18-49 rating demographics on the Nielson ratings scale. This means that 0.8 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode."}, {"text": "This was a 7% increase from the previous episode, which was watched by 1.47 million viewers with a 0.7 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Solace for Tired Feet\" received extremely positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 8.3/10 for the episode, based on 11 reviews. The site's consensus states: \"'Solace for Tired Feet' features more of the fine acting that \"The Leftovers\" is known for - as well as a welcome, and atypical, influx of forward plot movement.\" Matt Fowler of \"IGN\" gave the episode an \"amazing\" 9 out of 10 and wrote in his verdict, \"Directed by Mimi Leder and written by Lindelof and Jacqueline Hoyt, 'Solace for Tired Feet' gelled the series together like never before. \"The Leftovers\" has been great on its own as a dizzying portrait of broken people, but now it's deftly teasing us with a 'higher purpose' for those splintered folks. And as Kevin makes big steps in his life to normalize, his sanity is still going to remain a haunting issue. In the world of \"The Leftovers\", there are probably thousands of interesting stories to tell, but this episode"}, {"text": "seemed to answer, for now, why we might be following these specific people. When Kevin, Sr. said 'This is your invitation', he was inviting us along for the ride as well.\" Sonia Saraiya of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B+\" grade and wrote, \"Twice now, \"The Leftovers\" has delivered episodes that create an intense sense of identification. We get close to a single character, experiencing a transformative life event alongside them in what have been the series' two strongest hours to date. Those episodes have demonstrated how rich stories in this post-departure world can be, but they've also had the effect of making the other episodes of the series feel like missed opportunities. When \"The Leftovers\" dives deep, it transcends; when it drops in, it can feel like aimless, speculative fiction to the point of lacking a point at all.\" Alan Sepinwall of \"HitFix\" wrote, \"The focus was tight enough on Kevin and the search for his father to work, and it featured excellent performances from both Justin Theroux and, especially, Scott Glenn.\" Jeff Labrecque of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"Last week, on what must qualify as a feel-good episode of \"The Leftovers\", Nora and Kevin had a spark."}, {"text": "Though they live in the same small town and Kevin is close family friends with her brother, the minister, they somehow never crossed paths until recently. Both now divorced, they agreed to a promising dinner date. But as Kevin reminded viewers with the above p.s., he hasn't exactly turned the page on his own demons, and the episode 'Solace for Tired Feet' dragged us back into his disturbed psyche, which struggles to differentiate between what is real and imagined.\" Kelly Braffet of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"Suddenly, after weeks of stellar acting, great dialogue, and no forward motion whatsoever - after I had pretty much given up on anything even vaguely resembling forward motion - this week's episode threw it at us left and right.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 3 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"Christine had her"The 1992 Nigerian Senate election in Akwa Ibom State was held on July 4, 1992, to elect members of the Nigerian Senate to represent Akwa Ibom State. Etang Edet Umoyo representing Akwa Ibom South, Akaninyene Ukpanah representing Akwa Ibom North-West and Anietie Okon representing Akwa Ibom North-East all won on the platform of the National Republican Convention. Results. Akwa Ibom South. The election was won by Etang Edet Umoyo of the National Republican Convention. Akwa Ibom North-West. The election was won by Akaninyene Ukpanah of the National Republican Convention. Akwa Ibom North-East. The election was won by Anietie Okon of the National Republican Convention."}, {"text": "Impossible Rebellion was a series of nonviolent climate change protests in the United Kingdom organised by Extinction Rebellion (XR), from 23 August 2021 to 4 September 2021. The protests particularly targeted the City of London to raise awareness of the role of the financial sector in climate change. Protesters during the Impossible Rebellion demanded that the UK government cease new investments in the fossil fuel industry. XR also demand that the government declare a climate emergency, reach net zero carbon emissions by 2025 and create a citizens' assembly on climate change. The Impossible Rebellion was the fifth major set of XR protests; activists are focusing on short-term protests in highly visited areas rather than taking hold of smaller numbers of area, as in previous actions. Demonstrations variously focused on banks' continued investment in fossil fuels, new road and rail infrastructure such as HS2, the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, treatment of animals on Crown Estate land and the fashion and fast food industry. Some days of protest have been themed around highlighting women and indigenous voices. Sister groups involved in protests include Animal Rebellion and Money Rebellion. Background. Extinction Rebellion (XR) are a climate justice movement with three major demands"}, {"text": "to the UK government: declare a climate emergency; achieve carbon neutrality by 2025; and create a citizens' assembly on climate change. For the Impossible Rebellion, which ran from 23 August 2021 to 4 September 2021, the movement also demanded that the government cease new fossil fuel investments. The fortnight-long Impossible Rebellion was the fifth major set of XR protests, following its 10-day September 2020 Autumn Rebellion. The protests came in the wake of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, which found that a tipping point in the climate system may have already been exceeded by carbon dioxide emissions. A co-founder stated that XR experienced increasing donations following the report's publishing, and that they raised over \u00a3100,000 in 24 hours shortly before the beginning of the Impossible Rebellion. Tactics by protesters and police. Extinction Rebellion use nonviolent civil disobedience such as marches, protests, disruption to public transport and people deliberately being arrested, to achieve their goals. According to the \"Evening Standard\", around 2,000 volunteers worked for XR on art action design, including banners, flags, costumes, sculptures and other design work. Art co-ordinators create some costumes, such as the \"red rebels\", and issue instructions to other XR chapters on how to replicate the"}, {"text": "artwork. The UK arts factory co-ordinator stated that creating banners and flags required 16-hour working days for a month from 100 volunteers, and that they aimed to upcycle and reuse as many materials as possible. The demonstrations involved drumming and chanting, and human barriers to cause road closures. A June 2021 Supreme Court ruling\u2014nicknamed the \"Ziegler judgment\"\u2014found that obstructing a highway during a protest could be lawful, but the deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police commented that \"officers are still able to take action if they see wilful obstruction\". Prior to the protests, XR sent a letter to the Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick inquiring how the police would act in light of the ruling. \"The Guardian\" reported that tactics of both protesters and police changed for the Impossible Rebellion. XR aimed to create short-term protests in different highly visited areas of London, rather than controlling a small number of sites. Telegram communications announced protest locations to activists each morning, depriving police of advanced notice. Meanwhile, police learned that blocking access to protests only increased disruption, and tried to surround protest infrastructure and then physically remove protesters. The newspaper described protests as smaller than previous XR rebellions, and the"}, {"text": "police as quickly disrupting protests, focusing on dispersing musicians first to dampen the atmosphere or surrounding installations so that removal teams could operate. An XR police liaison suggested that police aimed to minimise the opportunity for the public to see the protests and beginning interacting with them, and said that activists were injured by the speedy and forceful interventions. \"The Guardian\" and XR spokespeople described an increase in police violence on 31 August 2021 in response to the protests, including hitting protesters with batons, holding them in headlocks while punching them and shattering glass nearby to people. A politician for the Green Party of England and Wales, Caroline Russell, said that she had seen videos of \"completely unacceptable\" police behaviour during the protests. The human rights advocacy group Liberty expressed concerns that police used live facial recognition at the protests, which the police denied. Protests. At the Impossible Rebellion, the first week\u2014themed \"crisis talks\"\u2014was intended to target busy areas of London, for protesters to occupy and talk to the general public. In the second week, disrupting the financial industry in the City of London was the focus. The Olympic sailor Laura Baldwin was a spokesperson for the group, while the"}, {"text": "actor Jerome Flynn said the protests were \"more urgent than ever\". By Wednesday, the BBC reported that turnout was in excess of 10,000. 367 activists were arrested during the first week of the protests. By Wednesday of the second week, the figure stood at 480; police had removed around 80 protesters glued to structures and 50 locked onto them. The day before official protests began, three demonstrators sprayed paint at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in protest of the City of London Corporation and held a banner reading \"co-liberation freedom together\". Jerome Flynn was in attendance among around 200 people. First week. The two weeks of protests began in Trafalgar Square on Monday 23 August 2021 at 10a.m., with a speech from Esther Stanford-Xosei followed by a march to a junction in Covent Garden. Around midday, a 4 metre tall pink table, augmented with a sound system and displaying the phrase \"come to the table \u2013 change is now\", was placed there as an invitation for the public to join protests and a demand for the creation of citizens' assemblies. The van that delivered the table was parked and six activists tied themselves to it. The table was"}, {"text": "dismantled by police on Tuesday morning. At 7p.m., the police imposed a dispersal order under section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 to limit the protest. \"The Guardian\" reported that protester numbers appeared to be fewer than in previous rebellions. Protesters built a camp in Cambridge Circus on Tuesday, while in Westminster, XR Cymru organised a \"die-in\" protest to outline ways in which climate change kills people. Additionally, protesters dressed as window cleaners and scrubbed the entrance to HM Revenue and Customs in protest at their connections to Barclays and its fossil fuel involvement. An Oxford Street protest targeted Selfridges, due to the environmental cost of the fashion industry. Elsewhere in the city, a van bearing a protester with a \"stop HS2\" flag was parked and activists locked themselves onto it. A dispersal order went into place at 6:15p.m. and an overnight protest by Animal Rebellion, a sister group to XR, took the form of overnight occupation of a McDonald's in Leicester Square, where police arrested 36 people. The next day, protests included a FINT (female, intersex, non-binary and trans) themed protest at a status of Anteros in Piccadilly Circus, a protest against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and"}, {"text": "the subsequent displacement of indigenous peoples, outside the Brazilian Embassy, and a mock award ceremony by Money Rebellion for the Department for International Trade for \"making an outstandingly awful contribution to climate change\". Construction of a second pink table in Oxford Circus, of 2.5m in height, was interrupted by police before its completion, but some activists glued themselves to it and formed a human chain around it to prevent removal. At 4p.m., after issuing of a public order act, police made a samba band leave the area. On Thursday 26 August, Animal Rebellion protested at Victoria Memorial by putting red dye in the fountain and holding placards reading \"a royal blood bath\", to raise awareness of Crown Estate land that is used for hunting and factory farming. A sit-in at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy protested against new fossil fuel investments. XR Roads Rebellion protested against road building projects like HS2. Friday saw a Blood Money march themed around banking, with protesters dressed as bankers with bloody hands or suffragettes. Standard Chartered, the London Stock Exchange and Guildhall were covered in fake blood, representing those of slaves and others. XR speakers said that Standard Chartered had invested"}, {"text": "\u00a323billion in fossil fuels since the 2015 Paris Agreement. \"The Guardian\" reported that Friday saw the Impossible Rebellion's largest turnout to date, with several thousand participants. Around 500 people, according to Sky News, attended a Saturday march beginning at Smithfield Market to oppose meat consumption, including for its impact on climate change, and the breeding of animals specifically for animal testing. The offices of Unilever and Cargill were protested outside, due to Unilever's dairy"\"The Garveys at Their Best\" is the ninth episode of the first season of the American supernatural drama television series \"The Leftovers\", based on the novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta. The episode was written by supervising producer Kath Lingenfelter and series creator Damon Lindelof, and directed by Daniel Sackheim. It was first broadcast on HBO in the United States on August 24, 2014. The series is set three years after the \"Sudden Departure\" \u2013 an event which saw 2% of the world's population (approximately 140 million people) disappear and profoundly affected the townspeople. The characters of police chief Kevin Garvey and his family (wife Laurie, son Tom, daughter Jill and father Kevin Sr.) are focal points, alongside grieving widow Nora Durst, her brother Reverend Matt Jamison, and the mysterious cult-like organization the Guilty Remnant (GR), led by Patti Levin. The episode depicts the lives of the characters before the Departure as well as their reactions to the event. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 1.85 million household viewers and gained a 0.9 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, making it the most watched episode of the series. The episode received critical"}, {"text": "acclaim, with critics praising the writing, character development, performances, emotional tone and revelations. Plot. Kevin (Justin Theroux) returns to his house after jogging, which looks different than in previous episodes. He is welcomed by Laurie (Amy Brenneman), revealing that the events are taking place before the Departure. Laurie is preparing for an appointment at her job as a psychiatrist, while Jill (Margaret Qualley) is shown to be more free-spirited and innocent. Kevin wants them to prepare for a birthday party that night. Laurie tends to a recurring patient, who turns out to be Patti (Ann Dowd). Patti feels a looming sense of dread and suggests that the world could end. Laurie considers that Patti may be the victim of spousal abuse, advising that she can calm herself by placing all her fears in a bag and leave them at her husband's doorstep. Laurie later goes to pick up a dog, with Gladys (Marceline Hugot) as the breeder, although Laurie does not want to make a decision until she discusses it with Kevin. Meanwhile, Nora (Carrie Coon) prepares for a job interview, informing her husband Doug (Sebastian Arcelus) and her children. Her interview proves to be part of the electoral campaign"}, {"text": "for Lucy (Amanda Warren), who is a city councilwoman. Their interview is interrupted by Kevin Sr. (Scott Glenn), who works as Chief of Police, inviting Lucy to his birthday party, aware that Kevin is planning it. Kevin is alerted when a deer attacks in an elementary school. Kevin Sr. wants to order officers to kill the deer, but Kevin suggests it might not be the best. Kevin Sr. gives him the chance to calm the deer and return it to the woods before animal control takes care of it. Kevin is also called when Tom (Chris Zylka) is arrested for confronting his biological father, Michael (Scott William Winters). Kevin releases Tom and then punches Michael in front of his young kid. He takes him home, where he bonds with Jill. Laurie also tells Jill that she will be unable to attend her science fair for an appointment, although Jill claims she understands. That night, Kevin Sr. is welcomed to his \"surprise\" party. The party is attended by many police colleagues and friends, including Matt (Christopher Eccleston) and his wife Mary (Janel Moloney), who still walks. After Kevin delivers a toast, his father tells him that he lacks a greater purpose"}, {"text": "and needs to stop pretending some aspects of his life. Before sleeping, Kevin reaffirms to Laurie that he is interested in getting a dog. On October 14, Kevin once again goes jogging. He witnesses a manhole cover exploding without explanation, prompting him to return home. When he tells Laurie about it, she dismisses it as she confronts him about smoking and the fight with Michael, with Kevin expressing unhappiness with his life. Alerted of the deer's presence, Kevin follows it to a house owned by a family. The deer flees the house and is hit by a car as it exits the house. With the deer wounded, Kevin puts it out of its misery by shooting it. He takes the woman who drove the car to her hotel room, where he has sex with her. Laurie arrives at a clinic, where she runs into Mary, who is waiting for Matt to come out from a scanning session. Matt comes out, revealing that there is nothing wrong with him. Laurie enters the clinic room for an ultrasound, revealing that she is pregnant. At the moment of the Departure, Nora is unable to answer a phone call from Lucy after her daugh"ordinary Londoners risks undermining any public support\" for climate change mitigation. Jessop opposed XR's aims, saying that \"an immediate halt to fossil fuel investment would do far more harm than good\" and that \"the environment is safest in the hands of capitalist economies\". Writing in the same publication, Ross Clark criticised XR co-founder Gail Bradbrook for driving a diesel car, saying that she was a \"prize hypocrite\" and that \"it isn't alright [for her] to drive a diesel car, nor indeed any car\" while demanding net zero carbon emissions by 2025 and engaging in protests that cause road closures. Bradbrook said that she participated in ridesharing but could not take her children to sports events on Sundays as the buses do not run in her area. \"The Independent\"s Niko Vorobyov argued that accusations of hypocrisy are \"a lazy way to delegitimise the movement without addressing its actual concerns\", as it is \"very difficult to live in the modern world\" without having a negative environmental impact and because the majority of carbon emissions (71%) come from 100 companies. James Dyke of \"i\" believed that \"profound feelings of love\" is what was compelling \"otherwise mild-mannered people\" to \"deliberately break the law\", saying"}, {"text": "that the Impossible Rebellion is \"important\" to \"help communicate the scale of the changes required\"."}, {"text": "The Women's 100 metre breaststroke SB8 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 26 August 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Heats. The swimmers with the top eight times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final."}, {"text": "Aamaret El Baykat () is a village in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon. The population is Sunni Muslim and Alawite. History. In 1838, Eli Smith noted the place as \"'Amar el-Baikat\", located east of esh-Sheikh Mohammed. The inhabitants were Sunni Muslim and Greek Orthodox."}, {"text": "The Office of the National Cyber Director is an agency in the United States Government statutorily responsible for advising the President of the United States on matters related to cybersecurity. It was established in 2021. History. The position of National Cyber Director was established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 on the recommendation of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, a congressionally-authorized panel convened in 2019 and chaired by United States Senator Angus King and Re"lot of questions about who these characters are and why their stories are important. Tonight's episode offers a lot of helpful information in that vein. So what was the point of making us wait to see the backstories of these characters, nine weeks after the pilot, instead of making this, or some version of this, into the pilot?\" Alan Sepinwall of \"HitFix\" wrote, \"Great episode, and another example of how well the show excels when it deviates from whatever formula it's established for itself within these first 9 hours of television.\" Kyle Ryan of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"While the press around \"The Leftovers\" has reiterated that explanations will be in short supply, 'Cairo' and 'The Garveys at Their Best' have connected a lot of dots. The slow build of the series to this point has picked up speed, nicely setting up what looks to be an engrossing season finale.\" Kelly Braffet of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a perfect 5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"Many a time, I've accused this show of holding back, but this episode was a great big gift wrapped in sadness. This is the episode we've been waiting for.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of"}, {"text": "Geek\" gave the episode a 3 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"I have no idea where \"The Leftovers\" will leave viewers before departing for the year. With season two already a lock, the show will need to hook us hard to get us to want to come back, and right now, I don't know what big revelations could make that happen. Once again, I feel myself saying that this episode wasn't bad, it just wasn't exactly useful storytelling. Don't bore me with where we've already been, boldly take me somewhere new.\" Matt Brennan of \"Slant Magazine\" wrote that the episode is \"principally, a reconsideration of characters we believe we've come to know, and the hour's string of surprises nimbly steers between continuity and change.\" Michael M. Grynbaum of \"The New York Times\" wrote, \"Sunday's episode, as difficult as it was to watch, also struck me as our best insight yet into the inner lives of characters who have been frustratingly opaque for an entire season.\""}, {"text": "\"The Prodigal Son Returns\" is the tenth episode and season finale of the first season of the American supernatural drama television series \"The Leftovers\", based on the novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta. The episode was written by series creators Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, and directed by Mimi Leder. It was first broadcast on HBO in the United States on September 7, 2014. The series is set three years after the \"Sudden Departure\" \u2013 an event which saw 2% of the world's population (approximately 140 million people) disappear and profoundly affected the townspeople. The characters of police chief Kevin Garvey and his family (wife Laurie, son Tom, daughter Jill and father Kevin Sr.) are focal points, alongside grieving widow Nora Durst, her brother Reverend Matt Jamison, and the mysterious cult-like organization the Guilty Remnant (GR), led by Patti Levin. In the episode, GR plans their next move with Patti's plan, while Kevin asks Matt for help in the cabin. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 1.53 million household viewers and gained a 0.7 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received critical acclaim, with critics praising the performances (Justin Theroux),"}, {"text": "writing, themes, directing, character development and closure. Plot. While on the run, Tom (Chris Zylka) stops their car so Christine (Annie Q.) can feed her baby. Christine laments how all her promises proved to be lies and leaves for the restroom. After a few minutes, Tom finds the baby on her own in the restroom, with Christine nowhere to be seen. On Memorial Day, GR prepares for a new plan involving the replicas. Laurie (Amy Brenneman) does not want Jill (Margaret Qualley) to participate out of fear for the protests, but Jill comes along. During the day, GR places life-like replicas of the departed civilians on their vanishing point. Nora (Carrie Coon) wakes up to discover replicas of her husband and children, making her cry. After Patti (Ann Dowd) committed suicide, Kevin (Justin Theroux) calls Matt (Christopher Eccleston) for help. Matt is willing to help despite the fact that it could incriminate him, aware that Patti's death was on her own. After burying her, Kevin returns to Mapleton. He experiences a dream where he finds himself at a mental institution with Kevin Sr. (Scott Glenn) and Patti. Patti promises to become his \"traveling companion\" before forcing Kevin to wake up."}, {"text": "Stopping at a diner, Kevin confesses to his infidelity, noting that his relationship with his family feels lost even when they are still here and he still has hopes that they can reunite. Kevin then goes to the restroom, where he discovers Holy Wayne (Paterson Joseph), mortally wounded. Wayne accepts his death and asks Kevin to make a wish, while doubting of his own powers. Kevin silently wishes something and Wayne claims to grant it before dying from his wounds. ATFEC agents storm the diner for Wayne, and Matt vouches for Kevin, claiming that he is an innocent person. Matt and Kevin are allowed to go. Kevin and Matt stumble upon Mapleton falling into chaos, with civilians attacking GR members and burning down their cul-de-sac. Kevin saves Laurie from being attacked by a man and carries an unconscious Jill out of a burning house. The next day, Tom arrives at Mapleton, finding Laurie. Nora writes a letter to Kevin, deciding to leave town. Kevin and Jill walk back home, taking a dog they find on the street, the same"The milk crate challenge, also known as the crate challenge, is a video challenge that became viral online in August 2021. The challenge involves stacking milk crates into a structure that resembles a podium, with both sides of the structure functioning as stairs. The participant is expected to climb up to the top of the crates and climb back down without destroying the structure or falling, risking injury. The activity has faced criticism by health professionals for its unnecessary risk to personal health. Social media platform TikTok, where the trend was popularized, said it would eliminate search results for \"milk crate challenge\" citing its policy that \"prohibits content that promotes or glorifies dangerous acts.\" Due to the instability of the stacked crates, participants often fall while ascending or descending the podium, risking serious injury. Falling during the challenge has led to a variety of injuries, including dislocated shoulders and rotator cuff tears, ACL tears, meniscus tears, broken wrists and even spinal cord injuries. Some medical professionals have warned against attempting the challenge, saying that the relative instability of the stacked crates poses a high risk of injury. On August 25, 2021, TikTok made a statement that they will remove videos"}, {"text": "with the hashtag and return a message about TikTok's community standards when a user looks up the #MilkCrateChallenges, according to its gu"his verdict, \"'The Prodigal Son Returns' was chilling and cathartic, with many tears shed throughout. Some critics wondered why, given the global crisis at hand, we'd be following those in Mapleton. And if the show was being too microcosmal. And I think this episode's climax answered that. And given the news reports and the FBI's stance on cults, you get the feeling like boiling point moments are happening in towns, big and small, all over the world.\" Sonia Saraiya of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode an \"A\u2013\" grade and wrote, \"From a purely cinematic perspective, it's a powerful, gripping conclusion. Mimi Leder directed 'The Prodigal Son Returns', and her work yields masterful stuff: Kevin running into the burning house of the Guilty Remnant to look for Jill elicited the most engagement I've had with the show all season.\" Alan Sepinwall of \"HitFix\" wrote, \"This has been a great year of television drama, even if at times we've had the high-class problem of too much of it. \"The Leftovers\" has been one of the absolute highlights of this year, and I imagine that this season, and the events of 'The Prodigal Son Returns', will sit with me much longer than"}, {"text": "so much of what I've been privileged to watch in 2014.\" Jeff Labrecque of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"In the end, the finale delivered what was promised... It's not a bad place to start season 2.\" Kelly Braffet of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a perfect 5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"All of these people that we've been watching and wondering about and caring about for all these weeks, this story that has been sometimes stagnant and sometimes an emotional gut-punch, they all crystallized this week. And, damn, was it satisfying.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"I'm not sure I cared much about these answers three weeks ago, but after two strong outings in a row, including a finale that didn't rely on a huge cliffhanger to pique my interest in season two, I have to say I'm generally excited to see where this show goes and if it can learn from its strengths and weaknesses. \"The Leftovers\" hasn't always been good, but it has been compelling. Kevin Garvey got his wish tonight, season two will show whether he can keep it alive.\" Matt Brennan of"}, {"text": "\"Slant Magazine\" wrote, \"'The Prodigal Son Returns',' like \"The Leftovers\" as a whole, is a primer for all the physical and psychic weaponry we deploy to fill the gulf that opens when what we held dear is gone.\" Michael M. Grynbaum of \"The New York Times\" wrote, \"After nearly 10 hours of pain, the series left us with the suggestion that hope and humanity can persevere, even in the cruelest of circumstances.\" Accolades. \"TVLine\" named Justin Theroux as the \"Performer of the Week\" for the week of September 13, 2014, for his performance in the episode. The site wrote, \"By the time Kevin finally excused himself to dry his eyes, we were in tears, too. In part, because his story was so very sad. But also in part because we had just witnessed a performance that felt less like a performance than a confession.\""}, {"text": "Gurmeet Singh Jolly (born 19 May 1969), also known as Shera, is an Indian celebrity bodyguard. Shera has been serving Indian actor Salman Khan since 1995. Shera runs a security firm named Tiger Security, and was in charge of Grammy Award-winning singer Justin Bieber\u2019s security during his Mumbai concert in 2017. Early life and education. Shera was born on 19 May 1969 in Andheri, Mumbai, India. He studied at Damodar Das Barfiwala High School. Shera won Mumbai junior title for bodybuilding in 1987, and came second as Mr. Maharashtra junior in 1988. Gurmeet Singh Jolly joined Shiv Sena in October 2019. Salman Khan's bodyguard. Shera has been serving Bollywood actor Salman Khan since 1995, and said \"Jab tak zinda hoon, bhai ke saath rahunga\" \"(As long as I am alive I will stay with brother\")."}, {"text": "Tell Me () is a South Korea quiz show program on JTBC starring Jun Hyun-moo, Park Na-rae, Kim Jung-nan, Moon Se-yoon and Lee Jin-hyuk. The show airs on every Tuesday at 22:00 (KST) starting from August 13, 2019."}, {"text": "Golden Princess may refer to one of the following ships:"}, {"text": "St. Charles College was a private Jesuit college in Grand Coteau, Louisiana. Founded in 1837 by Jesuits from France and Kentucky, the school was the first Jesuit college established in the American South. It initially educated lay students exclusively until 1890, when it began functioning as a Jesuit scholasticate as well. In 1922, the college closed, and the campus was used only to train Jesuit novices. Today, the campus continues to be used for the training of Jesuits, as well as a retreat center and a home for elderly Jesuits. The surviving structures date to 1909 and are contributing properties of the Grand Coteau Historic District. History. Founding. The earliest effort to introduce the Society of Jesus to the area came in 1826, when Louis William Valentine Dubourg, the Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas, offered an estate in Opelousas, Louisiana to the Jesuit priest Van Quickenborne for use by a group of novices from the Jesuits' Maryland province. This plan did not materialize until one of Dubourg's successors, Antoine Blanc, the first Archbishop of New Orleans, recruited eight Jesuits from the province of Paris and the province of Lyon, as well one from Kentucky, Fr. Nicolas Point, who"}, {"text": "would be the superior. They were to establish a college in Iberville Parish, Louisiana in 1837. When the superior met the French party upon their arrival in New Orleans, they unanimously agreed that it would be better to establish their school in Grand Coteau, as the Iberville s"the problems of the newly emerging, similar to the VSSO, KMSO units of the Youth Residential Complex movement. Shvetsova also took part in the organization of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and the World Festival of Youth and Students in 1985, for which she was awarded high state awards - the Order of the Badge of Honour in 1981, and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1986. From 1996 to 1991, she worked in the secretariat of the apparatus of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union, in which she headed the awards department since 1989, since 1990, she was appointed head of the apparatus. From 1991 to 1992, she was the Chairman of the Committee on Family and Women's Affairs under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Soviet Union. She was a member of the Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1986 and 1990, and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. From 1992 to 1993, she was the head of the general expertise group at the Supreme Economic"}, {"text": "Council of the Supreme Soviet of Russia. In the same year, she was elected president of the Women's Initiative Foundation, and a year later she became vice-president of the Atlantis Information and Publishing Commonwealth and co-chairman of the Women's League Confederation. For some time, Shvetsova worked in a commercial structure, where she was a public relations advisor. In April 1994, Shvetsova was appointed head of the Department of Public and Interregional Relations of the Moscow City Government, led by Yury Luzhkov. Shvetsova completed her postgraduate studies at the Russian State Social University, in 1997 and defended her dissertation \u201cIntegration of Women into Politics. 1970-1990s \"for the degree of candidate of political sciences. From 1998 to 2002, a being a subordinate to Luzhkov, she was a member of his political movement Fatherland. On 21 January 2000, Luzhkov appointed Shvetsova to the post of the first deputy mayor of Moscow, as the head of the social sphere complex. In October 2009, together"in 1909. With decreasing enrollment in the early twentieth century due to students choosing to attend state schools, a Jesuit visitor recommended to closure of the school and sale of the campus; this was the proposal for all Jesuit schools in the South, with the exception of Loyola University New Orleans and Spring Hill College. Therefore, in 1922, St. Charles College was permanently closed. The campus was transformed exclusively into a scholasticate for the training of Jesuits. Modern-day use. Today, the campus continues to be used as a Jesuit novitiate. The facilities of St. Charles College also became the home of the Jesuit Spirituality Center in 1972, which hosts spiritual retreats. In 2013, it was put to additional use as a home for elderly Jesuits, known as the St. Alphonsus Rodrigue Pavilion. In 1979, the campus was listed as a contributing property of the Grand Coteau Historic District."}, {"text": "Harald Vock (1925\u20131998) was a German television producer and television director. While he mainly worked in television, he also directed or scripted a handful of feature films for cinema such as \"Our Doctor is the Best\" in 1969. Biography. Vock began after 1945 as a police reporter at the press and radio. From 1955 until the 1980s he acted as a conversation leader of NDR television. Here he was the founder of television shows music from Studio B. He also wrote scripts and radio plays. During the 1960s, he actively promoted Anita Lindblom on German television. Around 1970 he led several times directed in film comedies of the producer Karl Spiehs. He participated as an idea of the author, director, and producer at the emergence of the crime series Special Discussion K1 and the men of K3. For the latter, Vock received the acidic cucumber of the media women's meeting in 1994. In 1981 he was honored for the book on the episode the revenge of the V-Man of the Series Special Decor K1 with the Golden Gong. In 1984 he published the crime novel the V-Man. In 1985, he quit his job as entertainment director of NDR to focus"}, {"text": "on screenwriting. In 1994 he initiated the police and trainer series on behalf of the law, from 1997 he wrote for the series Coast Guard. As head of the NDR television entertainment, Vock has deleted all recordings of entertainment show music from Studio B to a jubilee program. Harald Vock found his last rest on the Hamburg Cemetery Ohlsdorf."}, {"text": "Skeleton was inducted at the Youth Olympic Games at the inaugural edition in 2012. A total of two events are held, one event each for boys and girls, matching their Winter Olympics counterpart. \"As of the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics.\""}, {"text": "Donna Santisi is an American photographer. Her work has appeared in \"Slash\", \"New York Rocker\" and \"Creem\". Career. Santisi first became interested in photography in college. She saw Janis Joplin multiple times and the desire grew to document the experience. Santisi received a BS in Business Administration from Rider University but after experiencing the punk scene of Los Angeles Santisi devoted herself to photography. The first bands Santisi photographed were The Shangri-Las and The Young Rascals. Her seminal punk photography collection documenting the LA new wave and punk rock scene, \"Ask The Angels\", was published in 1978. An expanded edition was published in 2010. Santisi shot the cover for The Cramps's album \"Psychedelic Jungle\", provided photography for the inner sleeves of \"The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads\" by Talking Heads and \"Learning to Crawl\" by The Pretenders, among other album covers and sleeve inserts. Her photography was used for the cover of Kelly Johnson's biography \"Surviving My Friends: The Official Kelly Johnson Story\". Santisi is predominately a nature photographer now."}, {"text": "The Ten-thousand-flower Camellia is a \"Camellia reticulata\" tree at Jade Peak Temple, near the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in China. The plant is reputed to be over 500 years old. It is not clear if two varieties have been grafted onto a single stock, or if the stock variety also shows in the flowering. In a nearby courtyard a pair of \"Michelia yunnanensis\", some 120 years old, have been trained in a similar formation. External links."}, {"text": "Levash may refer to several localities in Russia:"}, {"text": "Christian Wein (born 6 June 1979) is a German field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Ulrich Moissl (born 2 January 1974) is a German field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "\"Cyclone\" is the sixth episode of the American period drama television series \"Vinyl\". The episode was written by Carl Capotorto and Erin Cressida Wilson and directed by Nicole Kassell. It originally aired on HBO on March 20, 2016. The series is set in New Yo"2013. She moved to the Wellcome Sanger Institute, where she explored whole genome sequencing of tumours. Her research combined computational processes and cell-based model systems. In 2017 Nik-Zainal moved to the University of Cambridge, supported by a Cancer Research UK Advanced Clinician Scientist fellowship. Her research group investigate the physiology of mutagenic activity. She has studied both driver and passenger mutations. Passenger mutations can be used to understand how DNA is damaged and repaired during tumorigenesis. Nik-Zainal looks to identify mutational signatures in human cancers and the aetiologies that give rise to them. Nik-Zainal leads the clinical research project \"Insignia\", which researches mutational signatures in people with neurodegeneration, ageing syndromes and DNA repair defects. Nik-Zainal has continued to develop computational approaches to identify DNA damage in tumours, insight into which can help to determine the most effective treatment in cancer patients. , she has an h-index of 70. Awards and honours. She was awarded the Crick Lecture by the Royal Society for her work on he aetiology of cancer and contributions to cancer therapies. In 2021 she was awarded a Research Professorship at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). She was the first woman to win the Josef Steiner"}, {"text": "Cancer Research Award in 2019. Selected publications. Her publications Personal life. Nik-Zainal has two children."}, {"text": "Becoming Cousteau is a 2021 American documentary film directed and produced by Liz Garbus. It follows the life and career of Jacques Cousteau. It premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2021, and was released on October 22, 2021, by Picturehouse. Synopsis. The film follows the life and career of Jacques Cousteau, who tried to warn the world for decades about environmental issues. Production. In 2015, National Geographic Documentary Films approached Liz Garbus about directing a documentary film revolving around Jacques Cousteau, and she agreed. Over the course of five years, Garbus worked with The Cousteau Society to get access to unseen footage. In May 2019, it was announced Garbus would direct a documentary film revolving around Cousteau, with Cousteau Society Archives producing and with National Geographic Documentary Films set to produce. Release. It had its world premiere at the 48th Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2021. It had its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2021. It was released on October 22, 2021, by Picturehouse. Reception. Critical reception. \"Becoming Costeau\" holds a 98% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 60 reviews, with a weighted average of 7.50/10."}, {"text": "The website's critics consensus reads, \"As visually thrilling as it is edifying, \"Becoming Cousteau\" pays fitting tribute to a pioneering explorer and environmental advocate.\" On Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 74 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews."}, {"text": "The 1992 Nigerian Senate election in Anambra State was held on July 4, 1992, to elect members of the Nigerian Senate to represent Anambra State. Chuba Okadigbo representing Anambra North and Ebenezer Chukwuemeka Ikeyima representing Anambra Central won on the platform of Social Democratic Party, while Matthias Nwafor Chukwuma representing Anambra South won on the platform of the National Republican Convention. Results. Anambra North. The election was won by Chuba Okadigbo of the Social Democratic Party. Anambra Central. The election was won by Ebenezer Chukwuemeka Ikeyima of the Social Democratic Party. Anambra South. The election was won by Matthias Nwafor Chukwuma of the National Republican Convention."}, {"text": "Edoardo Gorini (born 28 February 1974) is an Italian professional football manager and a former player, most recently the head coach of Serie B club Cittadella. Career. Playing career. Gorini started his career at hometown club Venezia. He successively played at Serie B level with AlbinoLeffe and Cittadella, retiring in 2013 after six season with the latter. Coaching career. Following his retirement as an active player, Gorini joined Cittadella's coaching staff, first as a technical collaborator, then as an assistant coach. In 2021, following the departure of long-time head coach Roberto Venturato, Gorini was promoted head coach of Cittadella for the club's 2021\u201322 Serie B campaign. On 11 October 2024, after a series of poor results and with the team in relegation zone, Gorini was sacked by Cittadella. Honours. Varese Ravenna"}, {"text": "The Trianon syndrome or Trianon trauma ( or ) is the name given to a social phenomenon mostly occurring in Hungary. It consists of resentment about the consequences of the 1920 Treaty of Trianon and the belief that Hungary was better in the past than in the present. The Treaty of Trianon was a peace treaty signed after World War I through which the Kingdom of Hungary lost over two-thirds of its land to Austria, Czechoslovakia, Italy, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed to Yugoslavia), Poland and Romania. The Trianon syndrome may also be considered as existing in some of these countries in the form of worry about Hungarian revisionism. The Trianon syndrome had great relevance in Hungary from 1920 to 1945, after which the country was occupied by the Soviet Union, and re-emerged following the end of Soviet influence in 1990, with current Hungarian society being divided between those who remain resentful about the Treaty of Trianon and those who prefer to forget it. In recent years, the Trianon syndrome has been exploited by nationalist and populist politicians in Hungary, particularly by Fidesz, the ruling political party in the country, and Viktor Orb\u00e1n, the current Prime"}, {"text": "Minister of Hungary. This has been done through commemorations, nationalist rallies and the raising of monuments. For instance, since 2010, every 4 June is commemorated in Hungary as the Day of National Unity, originally approved with the hope of bringing Hungary closer to the Hungarian diaspora living outside of the country. Hungarian media has also suggested that the Trianon syndrome is found in Romania as well, among politicians and nationalist intellectuals. As the centenary of the signing of the treaty got closer, articles on the treaty in Romanian media increased in number. Furthermore, a Romanian politician, Titus Corl\u0103\u021bean, pushed for the declaration of 4 June as the Trianon Treaty Day in Romania to celebrate the union of Transylvania with the country. This holiday was in the end promulgated on 18 November 2020 by the then President of Romania Klaus Iohannis. The administrative division of Slovakia, which disadvantages the Hungarian minority of the country, and the non-recognition of the independence declaration of Kosovo by both Romania and Slovakia have also been attributed to the Trianon syndrome by Hungarian media."}, {"text": "Arizona State University Preparatory Academy (also known as ASU Preparatory Academy or ASU Prep) is a public charter university-preparatory school network; it consists of K-12 schools chartered by Arizona State University. As of August 2021, ASU Prep's network of tuition-free charter schools include about 3,300 students in four metro Phoenix locations, plus ASU Prep Digital, a K\u201312 online school that reaches out to over 42,000 nationwide and global learners. ASU Prep's campus school locations include: Curriculum. ASU Preparatory Academy includes K-12 curriculum as well as college-level extension classes from Arizona State University. The schools are accredited by Cognia, and some of them are STEM-certified. History. ASU Preparatory Academy was originally founded as University Public Schools, Inc. (UPSI). In 2008 it opened its first campus in Mesa, Arizona. In 2009, the school moved onsite at ASU Polytechnic. The school later became known as ASU Preparatory Academy Polytechnic. In 2009, ASU Prep opened its downtown Phoenix location in collaboration with the Phoenix Elementary School District. In 2016, a third location opened in Casa Grande, Arizona, in collaboration with Bar\u00e7a Residency Academy. In 2017, ASU Prep launched ASU Prep Digital, built on the same college preparatory framework with class offerings all online for"}, {"text": "part\u2013time or full\u2013time high school students anywhere in the world. In 2020, ASU Prep Digital expanded to also include grades K-8. The digital school's office is with its corporate office in Tempe, Arizona. In 2018, ASU Prep announced its merger with Phoenix Collegiate Academy, beginning operations of the ASU Preparatory Academy South Phoenix Primary/Intermediate and ASU Preparatory Academy South Phoenix High School campuses."}, {"text": "Gertrude Macy (190418 October 1983), was an American writer, Broadway producer and manager. Biography. Gertrude Macy was born in Pasadena, California in 1904. She moved to New York and started her stage career as an assistance stage manager on the production \"The Age of Innocence\" in 1928. From there she produced a number of shows and reviews including the group \"One for the Money\" starring Alfred Drake and Gene Kelly in 1939, \"Two for the Show\" starring Eve Arden, Betty Hutton and Keenan Wynn in 1940 and the final part \"Three to Make Ready\" in 1946. The third show starred Ray Bolger, Arthur Godfrey, Gordon MacRae and Harold Lang. Macy was also the producer on \"The Happiest Years\" and \"I Am a Camera\" in 1949 as well as \"Berlin Stories\" in 1952. Macy worked as the general manager for Katharine Cornell and co-wrote the book \"Leading Lady: The World and Theatre of Katharine Cornell\" with Tad Mosel. In her career she was the head of the American National Theater and Academy's international cultural exchange service. Macy died in 1983 of cancer in New York City."}, {"text": "Qu\u00e9vin Mois\u00e9s Cachicote da Rocha de Castro (born 16 August 2001"critics. Matt Fowler of \"IGN\" gave the episode a \"great\" 8 out of 10 and wrote in his verdict, \"'The King and I' managed to avoid some of the usual \"Vinyl\" pitfalls by giving the spotlight over to Richie and Zak so that one basic story could be told, and told well. It also helped that, at least for one episode, we got a clear-headed (relatively speaking) Richie who wasn't out to raise hell or drown himself in drugs. This cleared the path for some differently-styled drama and a fun scene with Elvis.\" Dan Caffrey of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B\u2013\" grade and wrote, \"After the credits are phased out by the static and heavenly chords of the Home Box Office logo, Terence Winter refers to 'The King And I' as 'Richie's experiment with sobriety' in the post-show interview. Maybe it's unfair to read so far into Winter's words, but I can't help but think it's just more proof that he and the writers of \"Vinyl\" are aggressively trying to make their protagonist as horrible as possible. I can't help but think it proves that the only reason 'The King And I' functions as a redemption song"}, {"text": "for so much of its runtime is so Richie can backslide into shittiness at the very end.\" Leah Greenblatt of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"So he's the one who lost it all, and 'going to go ahead and let Zak kill himself with guilt about it anyway. In other words, he's still as Richie as he's ever been. And now he's downing Smirnoff on the airplane like it's a magic roofie that will let him forget. All it does, though, is leave a wet spot on his Maslow in the shape of \u2014 yep, a 1 and an 8.\" Noel Murray of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 3 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"Still, after two straight weeks of \"Vinyl\" repeating the same flat, shrill notes, it's reinvigorating to see a plot with an arc that actually goes places.\" Gavin Edwards of \"The New York Times\" wrote, \"This episode suggests that \"Vinyl\" is at its best when it's unencumbered by Richie's substance abuse and domestic drama \u2014 and when it doesn't take itself too seriously.\" Dan Martin of \"The Guardian\" wrote, \"This week's life lesson? We're all just one disastrous business meeting with Elvis Presley away from sinking to"}, {"text": "new depths of moral depravity. Bizarrely, this is the situation in which \"Vinyl\" finds itself: the dafter things get, the more likeable they become.\" Tony Sokol of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"Richie Finestra would have found them a perfect fit for Alibi Records. He is a punk. He will head bang before the series ends. So let it be written, so let it be done, as Andrea Zito might say.\" Robert Ham of \"Paste\" wrote, \"For most TV series, it usually takes a few seasons before they toss in a jump to another setting in hopes of catching viewers off-guard and drumming up some inspiration in the writers' room. With \"Vinyl\", it only took them seven episodes to truck Richie and Zak off to L.A. and Vegas in hopes of regaining their lustre. It's a tired, tired trope. Almost as tiresome as the parade of familiar names and signposts that the writers weave into each storyline just so we know that, hey man, they get it.\""}, {"text": "\"E.A.B.\" is the eighth episode of the American period drama television series \"Vinyl\". The episode was written by Riccardo DiLoreto and Michael Mitnick and directed by Jon S. Baird. It originally aired on HBO on April 3, 2016. The series is set in New York City in the 1970s. It focuses on Richie Finestra, American Century Records founder and president, whose passion for music and discovering talent has gone by the wayside. With his American Century Records on the verge of being sold, a life-altering event rekindles Finestra's professional fire, but it may leave his personal life in ruins. In the episode, Richie faces severe problems within American Century, while Kip is pressured to get a new song. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.567 million household viewers and gained a 0.20 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received positive reviews from critics, praising the segments involving Lester and Kip, as well as the performances. Plot. Richie (Bobby Cannavale), Zak (Ray Romano) and Skip (J. C. MacKenzie) visit a loan officer at Chemical Bank with high school ties with Zak, hoping to get a loan. However, the officer declines their request, feeling"}, {"text": "the investment is not worthy. At American Century, Hal Underwood (Jay Klaitz) is fired by Andie (Annie Parisse) after he makes a disparaging comment of her. Joe Corso (Bo Dietl) visits Richie, telling him that the police is re-opening Buck Rogers' case and that they will investigate them as they were on his house that night. Richie also has to deal with Zak's erratic search for new talent, as he still feels guilty over the events at Las Vegas. Desperate to get rid of his problems, Richie asks Maury (Paul Ben-Victor) to make a deal with Galasso (Armen Garo) for a loan, but Maury warns him that Richie will get himself killed if he fails to respect the terms of his deal. Galasso agrees to the loan, but forces Richie to share office space with Maury's label. The Nasty Bits are scolded by Richie for not improving on their sound, demanding that they get a new song to play before opening for the New York Dolls. When Kip (James Jagger) is unable to come up with anything, Lester (Ato Essandoh) helps them by playing the E.A.B. chord progression, making the band see how many artists used it for popular songs."}, {"text": "This motivates Kip and his band to finally move forward with a new song, which impresses the crowd. Devon (Olivia Wilde) and Ingrid (Birgitte Hjort S\u00f8rensen) visit Max's Kansas City, noticing photographer Billy McVicar (Richard Short). When Billy is unable to get John Lennon on a photograph, Devon impresses him by asking Lennon to take a picture of her and Ingrid, which gets him to accept a photograph. Devon helps Billy in developing the photographs at a darkroom. While working at the mailroom, Clark (Jack Quaid) talks with an old rival, Jorge (Christian Navarro). Jorge confesses that he often steals company CDs for benefits in dance clubs, which impresses Clark. After being forced to accept to Galasso's terms, Richie is detained by the detectives, who take him to the station for further questioning. Richie refuses to speak without a lawyer, also refusing to implicate Corso into the matter. However, the detectives reveal that Richie's office was bugged, and they have him arrested. Production. Development. In March 2016, HBO announced that the eighth episode of the series would be titled \"E.A.B.\", and that it would be written by Riccardo DiLoreto and Michael Mitnick, and directed by Jon S. Baird. This was"}, {"text": "DiLoreto's first writing credit, Mitnick's first writing credit, and Baird's first directing credit. Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"E.A.B.\" was seen by an estimated 0.567 million household viewers with a 0.20 in the 18\u201349 demographics. This means that 0.20 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 15% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.666 million household viewers with a 0.22 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"E.A.B.\" received positive reviews from critics. Matt Fowler of \"IGN\" gave the episode a \"great\" 8 out of 10 and wrote in his verdict, \"'E.A.B.' used just about everyone on the show's roster, and used them well. After a couple of episodes that really dug into certain specific characters, the show is now able to more fully realize its ensemble nature. The best part here, this week, being Lester's musical tutelage of Kip, and then the blending of both their sounds.\" Dan Caffrey of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B+\" grade and wrote, \"At the risk of simplifying the series' strengths, I'm going to call it: Tonight's episode of \"Vinyl\" works because it focuses on making music \u2014 the writing"}, {"text": "of it, the distribution of it, the marketing of it, all of it. Almost every conflict and character motivation stems from the business of creating art, and when \"Vinyl\" sticks to being about business, Vinyl is good.\" Leah Greenblatt of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"Clark is getting his mind blown by the underground, and possibly discovering some new talent that could save American Century, but otherwise this feels like a strangely anticlimactic ending for a season with only two episodes to go.\" Noel Murray of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"This week's 'E.A.B.' is more than halfway decent. It's the best \"Vinyl\" since this season's promising third and fourth episodes \u2014 both of which succeeded by being stylish, funny, eventful, and relatively unpretentious. Here again, \"Vinyl\" backs down from trying to be the Very Important Saga of Richie Finestra, Troubled Genius, and instead weaves together several low-stakes stories with top-shelf material.\" Gavin Edwards of \"The New York Times\" wrote, \"\"Vinyl\" has featured lots of rock history lessons, but none as good as the moment when Lester decides to strap on a guitar and give the Nasty Bits a succinct history of the E-A-B"}, {"text": "chord progression.\" Dan Martin of \"The Guardian\" wrote, \"Despite everything, you might feel sorry for Richie after Joe Corso fitted him up for Buck's murder. But his antics in Vegas last week, gambling the rest of the company's money away and letting Zak think it was his fault, have rendered the guy pretty much irredeemable by this point. By contrast, another solid and enjoyable episode finds things coming together for everyone else.\" Tony Sokol of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 3.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"'E.A.B.' was an active movement in the series. While the American Century Records staff are finding their way forward, Richie is folding up in the middle.\" Robert Ham of \"Paste\" wrote, \"What better way to pad out your shows with talent, than to contractually obligate your actors to do it. That is certainly helping a show like \"Vinyl\", as these folks provide a little bit of grounding for the scenery chewing that is going on around them from week to week. Those fine character actors mentioned above may be wasting their time with this overwrought drama, but at least they're getting paid while they do it.\""}, {"text": "\"Alibi\" is the tenth and final episode of the American period drama television series \"Vinyl\". The episode was written by series creator Terence Winter, and directed by executive producer Allen Coulter. It originally aired on HBO on April 17, 2016. The series is set in New York City in the 1970s. It focuses on Richie Finestra, American Century Records founder and president, whose passion for music and discovering talent has gone by the wayside. With his American Century Records on the verge of being sold, a life-altering event rekindles Finestra's professional fire, but it may leave his personal life in ruins. In the episode, Richie works with the authorities in order to take Galasso down. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.730 million household viewers and gained a 0.20 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received mixed reviews from critics, with praise to the closure to the Galasso storyline, but criticism towards the characters, narrative and pacing. The series was originally renewed for a second season in February 2016. However, on June 22, 2016, HBO reversed its decision, making the episode the series finale. Plot. Richie (Bobby Cannavale) meets with the Assistant"}, {"text": "U.S. Attorney to accept the deal in taking Galasso (Armen Garo) town. However, he is informed that the deal does not grand him protection. During this, Zak (Ray Romano) meets with Galasso, trying to get him in helping him in taking Richie out of American Century. Galasso and his right hand man, Tony Del Greco, visit American Century's offices. Galasso reveals that Zak betrayed Richie, and he does not intend to help Zak in his request. He warns them to maintain the peace, also disclosing tha"The 2017 Giro dell'Emilia was the 100th edition of the Giro dell'Emilia road cycling one day race. It was held on 30 September 2017 as part of the 2017 UCI Europe Tour in category 1.HC, over a distance of 223.3 km, starting in Bologna and ending in Madonna di San Luca, Bologna. The race was won by Giovanni Visconti of . Teams. Twenty-four teams were invited to take part in the race. These included eleven UCI WorldTeams, nine UCI Professional Continental teams and four UCI Continental teams."}, {"text": "Stony Run is a long 2nd order tributary to Anderson Creek in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. Course. Stony Run rises about 2 miles southeast of Anderson Creek, Pennsylvania, and then flows generally west-northwest to join Anderson Creek about 1.5 miles northeast of Home Camp. Watershed. Stony Run drains of area, receives about 45.5 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 455.06, and is about 78% forested."}, {"text": "Bus boycotts in South Africa were a series of protests that took place in the Union of South Africa and in the present Republic of South Africa against increasing prices of transport fees and segregating practices during the Apartheid to the present. Background. In 1940 South African authorities passed the Electoral Laws Amendment Act, which provided for the compulsory registration of White voters only. The Act had been the focus of protests by the African People's Organization. The African National Congress (ANC) established a Department of Social Welfare to investigate the needs of the increasingly urban population. In early August 1943, the bus fare in Alexandra Township increased from four to five cents, sparking a boycott of 20,000 individuals, including Nelson Mandela. The boycott lasted nine days until the local bus company conceded and lowered the fare back to its original price. Along with the lowered fare, the boycott lead to the commission of inquiry regarding bus fare affordability. The following year, despite the commission's evidence indicating the majority of urban Africans could not afford the five-cent fare, the government gave permission to bus companies to increase the fare to five cents. This caused another boycott, this time lasting seven"}, {"text": "weeks, in Alexandra. 1957 Alexandra bus boycott. On 7 January 1957 workers from Johannesburg and Pretoria townships began a boycott of PUTCO, due to the company increasing fares by 25% (one penny at that time) in order to get them out of a continuous financial crisis. This spontaneous act marked the start of a three-month period during which an estimated 70,000 workers joined in the action, which became known as the 1957 Alexandra bus boycott. PUTCO was forced to rescind the increase in the bus fare. Egerton railway station bus boycott massacre. On 18 July 1983, Mdantsane and East London communities embarked on a bus boycott to protest an unannounced five cent increase in bus fares. The residents abandoned the partly Ciskei government-owned Ciskei Transport Corporation (CTC) buses for taxis and trains. On 4 August 1983, the Cis"Disappointingly so, in some regards. With Devon gone completely, it felt like things maybe lined up too nicely for Richie and his revolving door of record label woes.\" Alan Sepinwall of \"HitFix\" wrote, \"At the end of the finale, Richie holds a party to launch American Century's sub-label, Alibi Records, and invites all the party guests to cover his office walls with graffiti \u2013 the more profane, the better \u2013 as a way to symbolize the way the company has transformed how it does business. But spray paint on the walls is only cosmetic. Both American Century and \"Vinyl\" still need a lot of work, and may never be able to escape their old reputations.\" Dan Caffrey of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B\u2013\" grade and wrote, \"At the rate \"Vinyl\" was going for a while, 'Alibi' could have just as easily ended in a shootout. With the drawing board now wiped clean of blood and a great deal of the coke residue, hopefully that kind of subject matter will soon be in the show\u2019s past.\" Leah Greenblatt of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"If we've learned anything about Richie Finestra by now, it's that he has an ear for"}, {"text": "talent, a knack for hustling, and a nose for uncountable kilos of cocaine. But does he really have the guts to become a narc?\" Noel Murray of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 3 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"Despite all the distractions and dead ends, \"Vinyl\" still could someday become the show that takes the power of music seriously and finds drama in the lives of the businessmen who try to tap into that power, both for profit and for their egos. 'Alibi' isn't a great season-ender, but when it's clicking, it has a clear vision. This is how a corrupt business like the record industry inspires the world.\" Gavin Edwards of \"The New York Times\" wrote, \"The Galasso plotlines on \"Vinyl\" have been fitfully entertaining, but they're the show's fundamental error. The creators didn't have enough faith in the entertainment value of the music business. Too often, the record label has been treated like a colorful backdrop for one more organized-crime story. Sure, there have been mobbed-up record labels in the real world \u2014 but when the series dwells on Galasso, it feels like we're eating the leftovers stashed at the back of Martin Scorsese's refrigerator.\" Dan"}, {"text": "Martin of \"The Guardian\" wrote, \"After a season that's spent most of its time portraying Richie Finestra as a coked-out monster of a man, this finale finds him coming out as something approaching triumphant. Which rather begs the question: what was the point?\" Tony Sokol of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 4.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"HBO's penultimate episodes are traditionally better than their finales, but 'Alibi' is a cathartic closing. A lot of this comes from the music they play. It's hard not to get caught up in the energy of the music and let that add to the excitement of the victory. Sure, I'm gonna miss Bo Dietl, but it was worth it just to see the office repainted.\" Robert Ham of \"Paste\" wrote, \"Nor did the big victories in this episode feel earned or exciting. I've long since ceased caring about the fate of Indigo, or the two dudes pimping their records to the DJs of New York. And the big moment with the Nasty Bits was just plain stupid. For a show based in a rich cultural goldmine in one of the most amazing cities in the world... \"Vinyl\" is tone"}, {"text": "deaf, dumb, and blind.\""}, {"text": "Oaks Park High School can refer to either of the following:"}, {"text": "Lu Pinpin (; born 23 October 1996) is a Chinese military officer and pentathlete who serves as a corporal in the People's Liberation Army. She took part in the military pentathlon event at the 2019 Military World Games and she shattered the world record in the women's 500m obstacle course on 20 October 2019 with a record timing of 2 minutes and 10.9 seconds."}, {"text": "The Mouthpiece is a 1930 crime play by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It was one of several theatrical failures written by Wallace following the enormous success of \"On the Spot\", with a plot described as \"flimsy\". It ran for twelve performances at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End. The cast included Emlyn Williams, Douglas Payne, Mabel Terry-Lewis and Margaret Bannerman. In 1935 it was posthumously novelised by Robert Curtis. A gang of criminals discover that a young woman is unaware that she is about to inherit a fortune, and scheme to marry one of their members to her to get their hands on the money."}, {"text": "Josephine Fitzgerald Clarke (pen name, Errol Fitzgerald; 1865 \u"lead to weight gain and serious health conditions.\" When questioned about the high consumption of beans and grains amongst long-lived people in the blue zones, Gundry says that such lectin foods are countered by their large intake of olive oil polyphenols, fish and red wine. Gundry has stated that his lectin-free diet consists of a \"cornucopia of vegetables, like kale, spinach, broccoli and sprouts, avocados, limited amounts of high-quality protein sources, and some dairy products and olive oil.\" He says that \"arthritis, most coronary artery disease, acne, eczema, and the autoimmune diseases are all caused or worsened by lectins.\" Gundry has a conflict of interest, because he sells supplements that purportedly protect against effects of lectins. In one infomercial that lasted almost an hour, he pronounced that supplies are running low, and told viewers to act immediately and order as much as they could store. The necessity of supplements is similarly the crucial argument of his book, in which he writes \"getting all of the nutrients you need simply cannot be done without supplements.\" Gundry sells a \"lectin shield\" that is \"designed to neutralize the effects of lectins\" for $79.99. Reception. For Science-Based Medicine, Harriet Hall said that Gundry's diet"}, {"text": "was not science-based and that following it risked dietary deficiencies. Preliminary studies have revealed health benefits from lectin consumption and minute evidence of harm. Foods high in lectins such as beans and grains are soaked and boiled to significantly reduce their lectin content. Megan Rossi, a registered dietitian and spokeswoman for the British Dietetic Association has commented that lectins are relatively easy to remove by cooking and preparing in the right way so are not a concern for most people. She also noted that studies have shown that lectins possess \"potential anti-cancerous effects\". A 2019 article in the \"World Journal of Gastroenterology\" suggested that lectin-restricted dieting could become a \"big food fad\"."}, {"text": "The 1992 Nigerian Senate election in Bauchi State was held on July 4, 1992, to elect members of the Nigerian Senate to represent Bauchi State. Ibrahim Lame representing Bauchi Central, Mohammed Uba Ahmed representing Bauchi East and Mohammed Bello Katagum representing Bauchi North all won on the platform of the National Republican Convention. Results. Bauchi Central. The election was won by Ibrahim Lame of the National Republican Convention. Bauchi East. The election was won by Mohammed Uba Ahmed of the National Republican Convention. Bauchi North. The election was won by Mohammed Bello Katagum of the National Republican Convention."}, {"text": "The NS 3500 was a series of steam locomotives of the Dutch Railways (NS), which were acquired second-hand from the Swiss railways SBB. After the Second World War, the NS urgently need"the film explores \"the messy tangle of race, class and gender identity in modern-day South Africa.\" \"Flatland\" (2019), a woman led \"South African kitsch-western genre mashup\", was shot on a larger budget. Natalie and Poppie flee their rural town on horseback after Natalie murders the local pastor on her wedding night. Detective Beauty Cuba is determined not to let them get away. It was chosen as the opening film in the 2019 Berlinale Panorama. \"Mlungu Wam\" (Good Madam) (2021) is a horror-cum-psychological thriller set in the upper-class, suburban and mostly white suburb of Constantia, Cape Town. Tsidi and her daughter move in with Tsidi's mother, Mavis, who is a live-in domestic worker for an aged, invalid white woman. The film explores the contentious and intersecting issues of race, land rights and slavery in South Africa. Works. Short stories. Bass first started using a pseudonym, Constance Myburgh, in 2011 when publishing stories in her literary magazine, \"Jungle Jim,\" to keep her author's profile separate from her role as a screenwriter in the film industry."}, {"text": "Khambi-Irze (, \"X\u00e4mbin-Irze\") is a rural locality (a \"selo\") in Achkhoy-Martanovsky District, Chechnya. Administrative and municipal status. Municipally, Khambi-Irze is incorporated as Khambi-Irzinskoye rural settlement. It is the administrative center of the municipality and is the only settlement included in it. Geography. Khambi-Irze is located on the left bank of the Sunzha River. It is located north-east of the town of Achkhoy-Martan and south-west of the city of Grozny. The nearest settlements to Khambi-Irze are Alkhan-Kala in the north-east, Kulary in the east, Gekhi in the south-east, Valerik in the south-west, Shaami-Yurt in the west, and Zakan-Yurt in the north-west. History. In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Khambi-Irze (then, Khadis-Yurt) was renamed to Lermontovo, and settled by people from other ethnic groups. From 1944 to 1957, it was a part of the Novoselsky District of Grozny Oblast. In 1958, after the Vaynakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the village was renamed again to Lermontov-Yurt. In the early 1990s, the modern name, Khambi-Irze was given to the village. Population. According to the results of the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of"}, {"text": "Khambi-Irze were ethnic Chechens."}, {"text": "Jamaluddin Roslan (born 18 December 1978) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The Old Man is a 1931 mystery play by the British writer Edgar Wallace. Its original production was staged at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End for a ninety performance run. It is set entirely in the \"Coat of Arms\" tavern where a mysterious old man lurks in the background, reputedly an escapee from a lunatic asylum. The original cast included Alfred Drayton, Jack Melford, Harold Warrender and Finlay Currie. Film adaptation. The same year the play was adapted into the film \"The Old Man\" directed by Manning Haynes. Wallace was closely associated with British Lion, which produced the film."}, {"text": "Global Science (Urdu: \u06af\u0644\u0648\u0628\u0644 \u0633\u0627\u0626\u0646\u0633) is a monthly magazine published in Pakistan. It was first published in January 1998. \"Global Science\" reports science journalism in Urdu. Relaunch. The magazine was discontinued in November 2016 due to financial problems. However, in the beginning of 2019, new science writers from China petitioned on the internet for the editor-in-chief, Aleem Ahmed, to relaunch the magazine. In September 2019, \"Global Science\" was relaunched with a contemporary approach. After the release of its September 2019 Issue, Pakistani poet and writer, Amjad Aslam Amjad, wrote an article on \"Express News\" to show his appreciation for the \"Global Science\" team in \"promoting science in Pakistan\". Senior Science Editor of ARY News, Fawwad Raza, also appreciated the work. An article regarding Global Scie"of their country of origin, may lose their nationality. Dual nationality. Dual nationality is typically allowed in Eritrea since 1992. Those who had dual status prior to independence require authorization from the government. Those who are born with dual nationality since independence may keep their nationalities, but those who are naturalized are required to renounce other nationality. Persons who serve as president must be born as nationals of Eritrea. History. Ottoman period (1557\u20131869). From the eighth century, five kingdoms of the Beja people \u2014 Baqlin, Bazin, Jarin, Naqis and Qata \u2014 stretched from Northeastern Sudan through the Tigray Province of Ethiopia. Rivalry between them led to a continuous state of conflict and decline, allowing the expansion of the Ottoman Empire along the coastline of the Red Sea to gain a foothold in 1517 and consolidate their rule in the \u1e24abe\u015f Province by 1557. Establishing a colonial power in what would become Eritrea, the Ottomans imposed their rule for the next 300 years. The western part of the territory of what is now Eritrea was part of the Funj Sultanate, which arose in 1504 and surrendered to the Ottoman Empire's Egyptian Province, in 1821. Within the Ottoman Empire, for six centuries,"}, {"text": "there was an internal organization that defined government functions for subjects by balancing religious and communal ties, weighing aptitudes and occupations without a centralized national ideology. Ottoman subjecthood was strongly tied to religion and non-Muslims, if they were \"ahl al-Kit\u0101b\" (People of the Book), meaning Jewish, Christian, or Zoroastrian, could benefit from being subjects by agreeing to pay a tax to the sultan. Under a pact known as \"zimma\", in exchange for paying taxes, the sultan allowed these subjects freedom of religion and guaranteed their lives, property, and rights with an understanding that they were legally entitled to less status than Muslim subjects. The pact was agreed to by the leaders of the confessional community, who managed the adherents and their internal organization under the religious law of their community. By the eighteenth century a political organization, known as the millet, managed the affairs of their respective religious communities and developed into the \"prot\u00e9g\u00e9 system\" (, protected persons). Signing treaties with European powers, from the 1673 signing of a Capitulation with France, the Ottoman Empire granted France control of certain Ottoman Christians, Austria control of some Ottoman Roman Catholics, most favoured nation status to British and Dutch traders, as well"}, {"text": "as specific rights to the Republic of Venice and Russian Empire. Under the terms of these treaties, foreign powers could recruit Ottoman subjects to serve their needs as commercial agents, consuls, or interpreters, and extend to these prot\u00e9g\u00e9s diplomatic immunity from prosecution and privileges of trade, including lowered customs tariffs. Over time, abuses of the system led to a virtual monopoly of foreign trade by prot\u00e9g\u00e9s, clandestine sales of letters patent (), and demands from foreign powers for protection to extend from individuals to entire communities. The influence on Ottoman subjects by European powers changed the perception of these minority groups in the empire, meaning that they were increasingly seen not as Ottoman subjects, but as resident aliens. In 1798, France and Britain's conflicts during the Napoleonic Wars extended into Egypt. France occupied the territory until 1801, when the French were defeated and Britain set about assisting the Ottoman Empire in regaining its sovereignty. To curb the disruptive effects of Europeans in the empire, from 1806, the Ottoman government began sending communiques to the foreign embassies demanding compliance with the terms of their agreements. Failing to achieve success diplomatically, in 1839, the Ottoman government issue"electric transmission lines. There were a number 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. 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": "Martinus Swarte (born 13 May 1813 \u2013 8 April 1835) was a Dutch colonial administrator on the Gold Coast. He was interim commander in 1833. Biography. Martinus Swarte was born in Amsterdam to Franciscus Swarte from Papenburg and Anna Sophia van der Aa from Haarlem. At age 16, on 2 March 1830, Martinus Swarte was appointed assistant on the Dutch Gold Coast. In March 1833, he became acting commander, after the previous acting commander Eduard Daniel Leopold van Ingen had died. He was relieved of his duties on 10 May 1833, when Christiaan Lans arrived from the Netherlands to replace him. At the end of 1833, he went on leave to Europe, but shipwrecked on the way home. Martinus Swarte died in Nice on 8 April 1835, where he was staying to recuperate from his wounds. Personal life. Swarte married Charlotte Bartels, daughter of Carel Hendrik Bartels around 1833. They had one daughter, Anna Sophia Swarte, who would in 1851 marry the British merchant and mayor of Cape Coast Robert Hutchison."}, {"text": "The Northing Tramp is a 1926 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It was adapted for the film \"Strangers on Honeymoon\" (1936) directed by Albert de Courville."}, {"text": "Frank Charles Hoppensteadt (born 29 April 1938) is an American mathematician, specializing in mathematical biology and dynamical systems. Frank Hoppensteadt studied physics and mathematics at Butler University with bachelor's degree in 1960. At the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison, he received in 1962 his master's degree and in 1965 his PhD with thesis \"Singular perturbations on the infinite interval\" under the supervision of Fred Guenther Brauer and Wolfgang Wasow. From 1965 Hoppensteadt was an assistant professor at Michigan State University in East Lansing. From 1968 he was an associate professor and later a professor at New York University's Courant Institute until his resignation in 1979. From 1977 to 1986 he was a professor at the University of Utah, where he also chaired the mathematics department. From 1986 he was Dean of Natural Science at Michigan State University and then, from 1995, at Arizona State University, Professor of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering and Director of the Center for Systems Science and Engineering Research. From 2004 he was Senior Vice Provost for Planning at New York University, and then from 2006 Research Professor at New York University's Courant Institute until his retirement in 2012. His research deals with perturbation methods for dynamical systems and"}, {"text": "various aspects of theoretical biology, such as neural networks, neuromorphic engineering, disease spreading, and population dynamics. Hoppensteadt was a Christensen Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2002. In 1998 he was, with Eugene Izhikevich, an invited speaker with talk \"Canonical models in mathematical neuroscience\" at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin."}, {"text": "Michael Matthew-Paul Turk (born March 14, 1998) is an American professional football punter. He played college football for the Lafayette Leopards, Oklahoma Sooners, and Arizona State Sun Devils. Despite declaring"differently in different areas; in some states it conferred subjecthood, and in others it did not. Naturalization and denaturalization processes also varied depending upon the province. In 1865 laws from the various states was codified into national legislation, including a new civil code, which went into force on 1 January 1866. Under the 1865 Civil Code, unity of the family was a driving foundation of the code, thus the emphasis was on descent. Nationality was derived paternally, regardless of where a child was born, unless the father was unknown. Foundlings born in the territory were presumed to have an Italian father and were granted nationality. Children born in Italy to foreigners who had lived in the territory for ten years, could acquire nationality at majority and those born in the territory to foreigners who did not meet the requisite residency could opt for Italian nationality at majority after service to the nation. Wives were required to follow the nationality of their husband. Italian women married to foreigners lost their Italian nationality and could only reacquire it if the marriage terminated and they established residence in Italy. Foreign women who married Italian men gained Italian nationality and retained it even after"}, {"text": "termination of the marriage. Nationality provisions were amended by Law 23 of 1901, which allowed children born in the territory or abroad who became foreigners because of a father's loss of nationality to acquire nationality without parliamentary intervention. Law no. 217 (known as Sonnino's Law), passed on 17 May 1906, allowed naturalization by royal decree if the Council of State supported the application and the applicant either resided in Italy or the colonies for six years, or had provided four years of service to the Italian state, or had been married to an Italian woman for three years. Colonial subjecthood differed from that in the motherland. A civil code () was drafted in 1911, for Eritrea but never officially entered in to force because it was required to be published in Amharic, Arabic, and Italian. Nonetheless, it was used as the guide and provided that persons born in or members of a tribe indigenous to the territory were Italian subjects but did not have the same civil rights as those born in Italy. If a colonial subject naturalized to attain civil rights, their status was intransmissible to other family members. Children born within a legal marriage between colonial subjects and"}, {"text": "metropolitan subjects automatically became Italian, though the majority of such unions were informal. Those children born outside of marriage, who were legitimated, or legally recognized and registered in official colonial birth records, were also automatically granted Italian nationality with full citizenship. Native women who married metropolitan Italians automatically acquired metropolitan status, but if a metropolitan woman married a native, she was able to retain her status, as it was deemed unlikely that she would be a dependent of a native man. In 1912, Italy introduced new nationality provisions (Law No. 555) to address Italians living outside of the motherland. It did not challenge the tenet of unity of nationality in the family for metropolitan nationals, and bestowed Italian nationality by descent from an Italian father. But, if the chi"at least 60 yards in the fourth quarter against Iowa State University, earning Big 12 Co-Special Teams Player of the Week honors. Professional career. 2020 NFL Combine. On February 27, 2020, Turk set an NFL Scouting Combine record for punters, with 25 bench press repetitions of 225 pounds. Of those who participated, Turk's total bench reps were more than all 33 wide receivers, 12 out of 13 tight ends, with Josiah Deguara tying him, and 19 offensive lineman out of 34. His bench reps also tied for second among special teams participants since 2006. 2023 NFL Combine. On March 3, 2023, Turk competed in his second NFL Combine in preparation for the 2023 NFL draft. Miami Dolphins. After going undrafted, Turk signed with the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent on April 29, 2023. He was waived by the team in favor of Jake Bailey on August 2. In November 2023, Turk worked out with the New England Patriots. Turk was not signed. Personal life. Turk's uncles are former NFL punter Matt Turk and former NFL long snapper Dan Turk. Turk has a YouTube channel called Hangtime, where he uploads videos about his experience playing for Oklahoma, fitness, and"}, {"text": "his Baptist faith, often mentioning some of his favorite Bible verses. As of March 2, 2025, he has over 1,900,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel. On November 19, 2022, he proposed to his now wife, Oklahoma Sooners softball All-American Grace Lyons, on the field following the Bedlam football game. The couple got married on June 23, 2023. They have one child, born in 2025."}, {"text": "\"Cruisin\" is a love ballad by the American band Earth, Wind & Fire. It is featured in the film \"Get On The Bus\" and was released on the soundtrack album by Interscope Records on October 8, 1996. The song features the falsetto singing on the lead vocals of Philip Bailey. It was included on Earth, Wind & Fire's studio album \"In The Name Of Love\", the following year. The song was written by Philip Bailey, Roxanne Seeman, Morris Pleasure and Sonny Emory while the production was handled by Maurice White. It was the first Earth, Wind & Fire song to appear in a movie since \"Got To Get You Into My Life\" in \"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band.\" Overview. Cruisin' was produced by Maurice White and composed by Philip Bailey, Roxanne Seeman, Morris Pleasure and Sonny Emory. The song first appeared on Earth, Wind & Fire's 1996 studio LP \"Avatar\" which was only released in Japan. Cruisin' later appeared on EWF's 1997 studio album \"In The Name Of Love\". That album was issued on Rhino Records and then reissued in 2006 on Maurice White's label Kalimba Music. Earth, Wind & Fire also contributed the song to the soundtrack of"}, {"text": "the 1996 feature film \"Get on the Bus\". Get on the Bus was a 1996 American drama about a group of African-American men who are taking a cross-country bus trip in order to participate in the Million Man March. The movie premiered on the March's one year anniversary. Critical reception. Omoronke Idowu of Vibe called the song \"a silky, celestial ballad\". When reviewing the album, Geoffrey Himes of The Washington Post, called it a \"slow romantic ballad\" stating \"Bailey's impossibly high tenor sounds as if it's in a permanent swoon.\" Alex Henderson of AllMusic noted that Cruisin' \"sounds like it could have been recorded in the 1970s.\" Steve Jones of USA Today declared that the song has a \"mellow groove\". Phyl Garland of Stereo Review also described Cruisin' as \"hauntingly atmospheric\". Cary Darling for the Orange County Register described it as \"sleek.\""}, {"text": "Bankerkatta is a small village in Udupi district, Karnataka, India. It falls under Kidiyoor Gram Panchayat. It is located at approximately 4 km from Udupi city. Malpe Beach is just 4.8 km from Bankerkatta. The local language spoken by people is Tulu. People can also speak and read Kannada. The climate is hot and humid throughout the year since it is close to Arabian Sea. This region experiences heavy rainfall from June to October."}, {"text": "Down Under Donovan is a 1918 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. Film adaptation. In 1922 it was made into a British silent film called \"Down Under Donovan\" made by Stoll Pictures and starring Cora Goffin."}, {"text": "Super Intelligence may refer to:"}, {"text": "The 2019 Chrono des Nations was the 38th edition of the Chrono des Nations cycle race, organised as a 1.1 race on the UCI Europe Tour, was held on 20 October 2019. The race started and finished in Les Herbiers. The race was won by Jos v"acquired Ethiopian status. Naturalization could be obtained by legal adults after a five-year residency by persons who were self-supporting, were fluent in Amharic, and had no criminal record. It did not automatically apply to the wife of an applicant. In 1962, Ethiopia formally annulled the federation and abolished the Eritrean government, leading to the Eritrean War of Independence. Under the terms of the Imperial Order incorporating Eritrea as a province, blanket nationality was conferred on all inhabitants of Eritrea, unless they had foreign nationality. In 1974, when the Ethiopian monarchy was overthrown, no new nationality law was propagated. Under Article 31 of the 1987 Constitution of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, persons who had a parent who was Ethiopian were Ethiopian. The Dergue regime, a military junta which governed Ethiopia between 1974 and 1987, was oppressive and repressive, leading to large numbers of Eritreans fleeing the country and living abroad as exiles. When they were ousted in 1991, the charter adopted to govern by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front contained no nationality provisions. That same year, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front achieved \"de facto\" (unofficial) independence and expelled Ethiopians from its territory. The expulsions included government workers, military"}, {"text": "forces, and their families. Post-independence (1992\u2013present). By Proclamation No. 21 January 1992, Eritrea was established as an independent state but until the 1993 referendum confirmed the creation of the new nation, inhabitants legally had dual nationality in both Ethiopia and Eritrea. Under the 1992 Nationality Proclamation, children could acquire nationality equally from either parent. Those who were granted nationality were defined as having descended from a resident of Eritrea before 1934. People who arrived in the country between 1934 and 1951 could apply for nationality and also those who arrived after 1951, even if it was more restricted for them, could apply for nationality Because of continuing uncertainty about nationality for Eritreans living in Ethiopia, in 1996, the governments of both countries proposed that to finalize the situation, people who were impacted should choose their nationality. In 1998, the Eritrean\u2013Ethiopian War broke out. Though border disputes and politico-economic tensions were the immediate the causes, denationalizations by both countries fueled the conflict. On 12 June 1998, large-scale deportations of Eritreans from Ethiopia began. Many of the deportees identified as Ethiopian and the rules were arbitrary. Some deportations were based on people for whom both parents were originally Eritrean, some were of"}, {"text": "children from mixed parentage, still others targeted only those with Eritrean fathers, or only those with Eritrean mothers. Ethiopia began using the rolls of voters who took part in the referendum as a basis to denationalize and expel Eritreans, but many were deported who had not taken part. Eritreans interned and deported Ethiopians residing in their territory later in the conflict. The war ended officially on 12 December 2000 when the Algiers Agreement was signed. In 2000, an independent body, Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, formed as part of the negotiated peace terms, found that as the State of Eritrea had not officially been sanctioned before the referendum, denaturalizing Ethiopians on the basis of participation in the referendum was unlawful under international law. The International Committee of the Red Cross supervised repatriations in both countries through 2002. The border demarcation was established in 2003, and though Ethiopia did not agree with the location, the peace held. In January 2004, Ethiopia issued a directive (Directive Issued to Determine the Residence Status of Eritrean Nationals Residing in Ethiopia) on nationality for Eritreans residing in Ethiopia. Those who posed no national security risk, had lived in the country prior to the independence of Eritrea, and"}, {"text": "did not have Eritrean nationality, could opt for Ethiopian nationality or permanent residency and obtain travel documents and passports. Periodic reviews by international human rights organizations like the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and United Nations Human Rights Council have noted that though the 1992 Nationality Proclamation granted gender equality for children and spouses to acquire nationality, the law is inadequate to protect stateless persons, specifically children born in its territory whose parents are known but have no nationality. It discriminates against persons with disabilities, and provisions for loss of nationality include arbitrary ethnicity grounds and unequal treatment of nationals by birth and those who have been naturalized."}, {"text": "Sheila Pim (21 September 190916 December 1995) was an Irish crime novelist and horticulturalist. Biography. Sheila Pim was born in September 1909 to a Quaker father and English mother in Ireland. She was a twin but her brother died. She was sent to the French School in Bray before being sent to Lausanne, Switzerland to Finishing school. Pim then went on to Girton College, Cambridge to study modern languages, intending to graduate with a degree in French and Italian. Her mother's ill heath, and death in 1940, caused her to return to Ireland to look after her and she remained taking care of her father, who died in 1958, and an older incapacitated brother, Tom. During the 1950s and 1960s Pim wrote seven novels, mostly crime fiction in a light hearted style. During this time she was a member of Irish PEN. She was also an avid amateur horticulturalist and wrote for the magazine \"My Garden\". Her more serious undertaking was a biography of the Irish plant collector Augustine Henry. Her brother Tom died in 1964 in an accident leaving Pim with no further responsibilities. This allowed her to spend significant time researching through Henry's papers. This book was published"}, {"text": "in 1966. When she had completed the biography Pim focused on philanthropy. She dedicated her time to the Friends Historical Society and was particularly interested in helping out in the traveller community. She supported a young group of children and their grandfather. They brought her considerable joy. The Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland awarded Pim the Society's Medal of Honour and made her an honorary life member for her services to the study of horticulture. As she got older she went deaf finally forcing her to move into sheltered housing where she died in 1995."}, {"text": "Princess Emmy () is a 2019 German-British-Belgian animated fantasy film directed by from a screenplay by Sergio Casci. A co-production between Studio 100 Media, Talking Horse, Witbox and Animationsfabrik, the plot concerns Princess Emmy who possesses the magical power of talking to her pet horses. Release and reception. Released in Germany in March 28, 2019, \"Princess Emmy\" was met with generally average to negative reviews from critics. The film was released in the UK on 30 August 2019. Outside of Germany, the film grossed $54,328."}, {"text": "The Symphony No. 4 in F major, Op. 86 by Louis Spohr has the title \"Die Weihe der T\u00f6ne,\" meaning \"The Consecration of Sound,\" and is a programmatic work based on the poem of the same name by Carl Pfeiffer. It was composed in 1832 and published in 1834. Movements. The symphony is divided into four movements with the following tempo markings: An alternative division of the work is sometimes given, more clearly illustrating the work's programmatic nature: Nos. 1 and 2 constitute the first movement, 3 and 4 the second, 5 and 6 the third, and 7 and 8 the fourth. Recordings. The symphony has been recorded by Howard Griffiths and the NDR Radiophilharmonie, as well as Howard Shelley with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. A recording by Alfred Walter and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra on the Naxos label is also available."}, {"text": "The 2021\u201322 Nevada Wolf Pack men's basketball team represented the University of Nevada, Reno during the 2021\u201322 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Wolf Pack, led by third-year head coach Steve Alford, played their home games at the Lawlor Events Center in Reno, Nevada as members of the Mountain West Conference. Previous season. In a season limited due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Wolf Pack finished the 2020\u201321 season 16\u201310, 10\u20137 in Mountain West play to finish in fifth place. They defeated Boise State in the quarterfinals of the Mountain West tournament before losing in the semifinals to San Diego State. Schedule and results. !colspan=9 style=| Exhibition !colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Mountain West regular season !colspan=9 style=| Mountain West tournament Source"}, {"text": "Bouchetia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae. Its native range is subtropical America and it is found in the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay and the United States (Texas). The genus name of \"Bouchetia\" is in honour of Dominique Bouchet-Doumenq (1771\u20131844), French physician and botanist in Montpellier. Species. The following species are recognised in the genus \"Bouchetia\":"}, {"text": "Pedro Hern\u00e1ndez Garc\u00eda (born 31 October 2000) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga de Expansi\u00f3n MX club Celaya. Honours. Le\u00f3n"}, {"text": "Britta Curl-Salemme (; born March 20, 2000) is an American professional ice hockey player for the Minnesota Frost of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) and a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She played college ice hockey at Wisconsin where she won"Boritokay Township (\u0628\u06c6\u0631\u0649\u062a\u0648\u0642\u0627\u064a \u064a\u06d0\u0632\u0649\u0633\u0649 / ) is a township of Wuqia County in Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Located in the south of the county, the township covers an area of with a population of 6,977 (as of 2017). It has 5 villages under its jurisdiction. Its seat is at \"Dongengiz\" (). Boritokay Township is located 86 kilometers south of the county seat Wuqia Town. It is adjacent to Shufu County in the east, Bostanterak Township in the south, Akto County in the southwest, and Oksalur Township in the north. Name. The name \"Boritokay\" is from the Kyrgyz language. The word \"bori\" (\u8198\u5c14) means wolf and the word \"tokay\" (\u6258\u9614\u4f9d) means forest, brush or grassy area. According to legend, there was a forest/grassland/brushland in Boritokay in which wolves roamed and hence the area was called Boritokay, meaning \"forest/grassland/brushland with wolves in it\". \"Xinjiang Tuzhi\" () mentions a \"Biaolituohai\" () in the western part of Shufu, in the area of Boritokay. History. \"Boritokay\" was the 5th township of the 3rd district in Wuqia County in 1950. It was part of \"Bostanterak Commune\" () in 1958 and \"Boritokay Commune\" () was formed from Bostanterak Commune in 1962, it"}, {"text": "was renamed \"Jinsong Commune\" () in 1968 and restored the original name in 1980, and organized as a township in 1984. Geography. Boritokay is south of the county seat. The township is located between 1,700 meters and 2,800 meters above sea level, most of which are mountainous areas. Settlements. The township has 5 administration villages and 21 unincorporated villages under its jurisdiction. 5 administration villages: Economy. It is a township of semi-agriculture and semi-animal husbandry. Local wildlife include Argali, wolves, snow chicken, stone chicken, yellow sheep and so on. Ginseng and angelica grow in the area. Mineral resources include gold, copper, fossil oil and so on. The township has an area of 469.7 hectares of arable land, 355.7 hectares of forest land and 1,677 hectares of natural grassland. All the 5 villages in the township pass through the asphalt road, and mobile communication covers all the villages. There are 2 primary schools, 4 kindergartens, 1 health center, 5 clinics and 29 medical staff in the township."}, {"text": "The siege of Caen may refer to:"}, {"text": "This is not the common name."}, {"text": "The National Development Bank of Botswana, (NDB Botswana), is a government-owned development bank in Botswana. Location. The headquarters and main branch of NDB Botswana are located at 161 Queens Road, in the central business district of Gaborone, Botswana's capital city. The bank maintains branch offices in Francistown, Maun and Palapye. The geographical coordinates of the bank's headquarters are 24\u00b039'25.0\"S, 25\u00b055'07.0\"E (Latitude:-24.656944; Longitude:25.918611). Overview. NDB Botswana is a national development financial institution. While all development economic activity funding is considered, as of 2020, the focus is on funding agricultural development and the establishment of food security in Botswana. As of 31 March 2017, the bank's total assets were BPW:1,444,758,000 (US$138 million), with shareholders' equity of BPW:587,444,000 (US$52 million). History. National Development Bank of Botswana was established in 1963 by act of parliament. Its main objective is to provide financial services to Botswana's business sector. Its second objective is to earn satisfactory returns on shareholders' funds. Ownership. The bank is 100 percent owned by the government of Botswana. Board of directors. the following constitute the nine-person Board of Directors of the bank: 1. Wilfred Mpai: Chairman 2. Patricia M. Makepe: Deputy Chairperson 3. Mendel Ngoni Nlanda: Non-Executive Director 4. Olefile K. Mokatse:"}, {"text": "Non-Executive Director 5. Mmadima Nyathi: Non-Executive Director 6. Gerald N. Nthebolan: Non-Executive Director 7. Onthusitse M. Mosiakgabo: Non-Executive Director 8. Oganeditse Marata: Non-Executive Director and 9. Colleen M. Motswaiso: Non-Executive Director. Senior management. The Chief Executive Officer, supervises nine other senior managers. As of July 2020, the CEO is Ms Lorato Morapedi."}, {"text": "Jake Gervase (born September 18, 1995) is an American former professional football safety. He played in the National Football League (NFL) from 2019 to 2022 for the Los Angeles Rams, with whom he won Super Bowl LVI. He played college football at Iowa. College career. Gervase was a member of the Iowa Hawkeyes for five seasons, joining the team as a walk-on and redshirting his true freshman season. As a redshirt senior, he led the Hawkeyes with 89 tackles, seven passes broken up, and four interceptions and was named honorable mention All-Big Ten Conference. Gervase finished his collegiate career with 153 total tackles and seven interceptions in 44 games played. Professional career. Los Angeles Rams. Gervase signed with the Los Angeles Rams as an undrafted free agent on May 14, 2019. Gervase was waived on August 31, as part of final roster cuts, but was re-signed to the Rams' practice squad the following day. Gervase was promoted to the Rams' active roster on October 19. He made his NFL debut the following day in a 37\u201310 against the Atlanta Falcons, playing one snap on defense and 13 on special teams. On July 25, 2020, Gervase was waived by the Rams."}, {"text": "He re-signed with the Rams on August 14. Gervase was waived on September 4. He was re-signed to their practice squad on November 3. He was placed on the practice squad/COVID-19 list by the team on November 18, and restored to the practice squad on November 28. Ge"The Battle of Triebl or Battle of T\u0159ebel took place on 22 August 1647 during the Thirty Years' War. Imperial cavalry under Raimondo Montecuccoli and Johann von Werth launched a surprise attack on the Swedish camp of Carl Gustaf Wrangel and inflicted 380, or more than 1,300, losses on them in exchange for 200\u2013300 casualties. Both sides claimed victory after the battle. The Imperial attack helped convince Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria to abandon the Truce of Ulm in September and rejoin the war on the Imperial side. Background. On 17 July 1647, the defense of the imperial base Eger in Bohemia collapsed after attacks by the Swedish besiegers. The advance of the relieving Imperial army through western Bohemia had been delayed by waiting for the arrival of general Johann von Werth's defecting Bavarian troops, so that the Swedish general Carl Gustaf Wrangel had sufficient opportunity to prepare the defense of the southern approaches to Eger. Emperor Ferdinand III sometimes accompanied his troops personally on the march, which increased morale. The approaches to Eger were shielded from the south by strong Swedish cavalry and Imperial attacks fizzled out. On 8 August 1647 the Imperial relief force retired to the south"}, {"text": "and encamped at K\u0159imiz and Tuschkau on the Pilsen plain. General Wrangel pursued the imperial forces and crossed the K\u00f6nigswarter Pass with his army. There he rounded up all the farmers he could find and forced them to expand the entrenchments. Wrangel left a strong garrison there and continued the march south with the main forces. On 13 August he moved into his headquarters in Plan. The troops camped near St. Anne's Church. To improve security, however, the camp was demolished again and relocated to the nearby Bahuschaberg on 16 August. Ten cavalry regiments and 1,500 infantry now took up positions between the villages of Schlief, Wieschka, Hangendorf and Goldwag on the other side of the Michelsberger Bach. They holed up there and set up a wide ring of field guards around the camp. An ensign with three dozen horsemen was deployed as a crew in Triebl Castle, which is on a steep slope across the stream. General Wrangel had already promised the city fathers of Plan his protection on 14 June. Under threat of severe punishment, he had forbidden his troops to billet, requisition, and pillage. Any use of force against the civilian population should be punished ruthlessly. This"}, {"text": "letter of protection was an enormous reassurance for the citizens of Plan, as the Swedish army was far from military discipline and order after the death of King Gustavus Adolphus. The military officials were very busy to punish all offenses. Emperor Ferdinand III had learned of the Swedes' advance south. Fearing the loss of western Bohemia, he ordered his army to march north and attack the Swedish forces. Under the leadership of Commander-in-Chief Peter Melander von Holzappel and Generals Raimondo Montecuccoli and Johann von Werth, who had resigned from the service of Bavaria, the Imperial army advanced and moved via Mies, Schweing and Tschernoschin to the plateau of Wolfersdorf, where it holed up. An advance division, to which Johann von Schwanberg belonged, fought with Swedish troops between Plan and Triebl near the Spittelteich pond. In the course of the bitter struggle Johann von Schwanberg was seriously wounded. Prelude. The results of the investigation soon made the Imperial troops aware of Wrangel's positions and it was obvious that Triebl Castle, which served as an advanced observation post, had to be captured. Holzappel immediately ordered guns to be set up on the northern slope of the Wolfsberg. The shelling of Triebl began"}, {"text": "on 18 August at around 2 p.m. The Swedish crew found themselves helpless in the face of the bombardment, as they only had 2 field cannons of smaller caliber, with which one could not reach the long-range guns of the Imperial armed forces. The bombardment lasted into the evening hours. After the ceasefire began, the Swedes set about making makeshift repairs to their fortress in order to withstand the onslaught. At dawn on 19 August, Holzappel's gunners continued to fire. Under cover of darkness, the Imperial infantry had worked their way up to the castle and completed the preparations for the storm. The Swedish ensign waited in vain for help, because the deep and impassable bottom of the Michelsberg brook makes it impossible to intervene quickly. A direct hit in the wall of the castle caused it to collapse and buried 12 Swedish soldiers. The ensign decided to give up the castle. He had the horses killed beforehand so as not to let them fall into the hands of the enemy. Shortly afterwards a white flag was shown and surrendered. Battle. The advancing Imperial troops immediately began to entrench themselves on the Triebl. Meanwhile, Swedish gunners brought two guns through"}, {"text": "the mud at enormous expense in order to recapture the castle. The castle's crew sortied out and took control of both cannons and their operators. On 21 August scouts brought the news that most of the Swedes had been spread out in the surrounding countryside to get food and provisions. Montecuccoli and Werth were immediately determined to seize the opportunity and storm the Swedish positions, perhaps even the main camp. A force of 8,000 horsemen, 1,000 Croatian musketeers and 8 small field cannons were hastily assembled. A local woman, the wife of the village judge von Triebl, led the armed forces under the protection of the wooded gorge into the bottom of the Michelsberg brook before daybreak. The troops initially hid there. The Swedish guards took over from one another in complete ignorance when the valuable horsemen - under the protection of the musketeers - broke into them. The first attack defeated the two regiments Wittenberg and Margrave Durlach. The breakthrough into the main camp succeeded. The Didemann, Kinsky and Jordan regiments stood there but also fell victim to the onrushing cavalry. A squadron of the Steinbock cavalry regiment tried to stop the attackers, and was also shattered. The Swedes"}, {"text": "were on the run and were pursued as far as Hangendorf. During the advance, the imperial troops captured a large amount of war material and personal property of the Swedish soldiers. In addition, 4 standards of the Jordan Regiment, 3 standards of the Durlach Regiment and 1 standard each of the Wittenberg, Didemann and Steinbock regiments fell into their hands. When General Wrangel heard of the defeat, he gathered all available riders to rush to the aid of his fleeing riders. He succeeded in bringing the broken regiments to a standstill and organizing a counterattack in which the heads of the Imperial troops who had been chased back were repulsed. He suffered bloody losses again in a new battle. General Holzappel intervened too late with his Croatian musketeers. After two hours the Swedish troops succeeded in gaining a foothold on a broad front, but the Witkopf and Alexander Lilien regiments suffered heavy losses. The Swedes acknowledged 155 killed and 225 wounded in their ranks, including 307 private soldiers and the rest officers. Other sources mentions a loss of more than 1,000 killed and wounded Swedes in the battle, including Major General of the Cavalry , three colonels, nine lieutenant colonels"}, {"text": "and \"Obristwachtmeister\", and 24 \"Rittmeister\", and the capture of 300 men and 13 standards. The Imperials reported a loss of 200 killed and wounded, including 2 lieutenant colonels and 4 Rittmeister. According to the Swedish Rikshistoriograf Pufendorf, they claimed losses of 200 killed and 100 wounded. Two officers were taken prisoner by the Swedish. Several officers, including Colonel Lanow and Lieutenant Colonel Count Bossu, were seriously wounded. Aftermath. Both sides claimed victory after the battle; the Imperial army was repulsed following initial success. In the days that followed, both armies held their positions. On 5 September 1647, the Imperial troops vacated their positions and moved north towards Tepl and in the direction of the K\u00f6nigswarter Pass. The Swedes took up the chase and another battle broke out at Tepl. Both armies holed up and faced each other for two weeks, ready to fight. After a failure of the Imperial troops, they broke away from the enemy and moved into the recently abandoned camp near Triebl. The Swedes turned north towards Kaaden."}, {"text": "Erick Rivera may refer to:"}, {"text": "The 1992 Nigerian Senate election in Benue State was held on July 4, 1992, to elect members of the Nigerian Senate to represent Benue State. Iyorchia Ayu representing Benue North-West, Ameh Ebute representing Benue South and David Iornem representing Benue North-East all won on the platform of the Social Democratic Party. Results. Benue North-West. The election was won by Iyorchia Ayu of the Social Democratic Party. Benue South. The election was won by Ameh Ebute of the Social Democratic Party. Benue North-East. The election was won by David Iornem of the Social Democratic Party."}, {"text": "Jesse Zamudio Garc\u00eda (born 8 March 1999) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga MX club Le\u00f3n. Honours. Le\u00f3n Morelia"}, {"text": "Janna Watson is a Canadian artist, painter and designer known for abstract painting and textile arts. Early life and education. Watson's grandfather Arthur Bonnett was an abstract artist and landscape painter. Watson has credited him as an early mentor and a major influence on her ar"Silver Dust is a Swiss rock band formed in 2013 in Porrentruy by the singer and guitarist Lord Campbell. He is especially known under his real name, Christian \"Kiki\" Cr\u00e9tin, as former professional ice hockey goaltender. After having performed on various stages in Switzerland, including the Montreux Jazz Festival, Silver Dust gained popularity throughout Europe thanks to their tours with the heavy metal Finnish bands Lordi (2016 and 2018) and Battle Beast (2017). At the end of 2019, Silver Dust started their fourth European tour consisting of 50 dates in 26 countries together with Moonspell and Rotting Christ. Silver Dust has their unique music style brightened up with a scenic presence on stage composed of steampunk and Victorian influences. The band is often classified as \"Burtonian\" (referring to American filmmaker Tim Burton) by the media that describe its style under the name of \"theatrical rock\". History. Creation and early years \u2014 \"Lost In Time\" (2013-2015). Silver Dust was formed in 2013 by singer and guitarist Lord Campbell. After having led many personal musical projects covering the songs of guitar-virtuosos such as Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, he decided to create a project that combines music and theatrical show. For that,"}, {"text": "he engaged the services of his faithful bassist and longstanding friend, Kurghan, who has been present since the beginning. On May 25, 2013, Silver Dust released their first album, \"Lost In Time\". A few months later, the band performed at the famous Montreux Jazz Festival and was chosen as the opening act in many national festivals, which offered them the opportunity to play together with renowned bands such as Deftones, The Offspring, Eluvietie or Mass Hysteria. In addition, the song \"So Let Me Now\" was broadcast on the radio across Switzerland and its music video was a considerable success. In the course of 2014, two changes were made in the line-up. Firstly, the drummer Cedric was invited to leave the band and was replaced by Mr.Killjoy. A few months later, Jayer, the guitarist, decided to dedicate himself to his personal projects and was replaced by Tiny Pistol. In February 2015, the band entered the studio to record their second album. They also announced the filming of a music video. At the end of the year, Silver Dust began a collaboration with the Swiss label Escudero Records. Rise \u2014 \"The Age Of Decadence\" (2016-2017). In early 2016, Silver Dust unveiled the"}, {"text": "name and cover of their new album named \"The Age Of Decadence\". On February 6, 2016, the band released the second music video of its history for one of the songs of the new album, \"My Heart Is My Savior\". On March 4, 2016, Silver Dust plays for the first time the songs of the new album, \"The Age Of Decadence\", during a concert organized especially for the occasion in Neuch\u00e2tel. During the same night, the band also unveiled a new show thought up to go along with the album using an atmosphere combining the good and the bad, often represented by references to white magic and black magic. A large screen representing a magic mirror appears on stage and is used to show images in relation to the songs being played. In addition, the show is marked by the appearance of many actors, including a cursed couple and some characters dressed with black cloaks and masks. On April 7, 2016, Silver Dust won the finale of a contest organized by the famous Greenfield Festival and, as a result, was selected to share the stage with Nightwish and Amon Amarth. A few weeks later, the bands released a new music"}, {"text": "video in collaboration with Carlyn Monnin, a Swiss lyric soprano, who puts her voice on the unplugged version of the song \"Forgive Me\". In the same year, Silver Dust hit the road for their first European tour together with the Finnish heavy metal band Lordi. The bands performed more than thirty times all over Europe. After this tour, Silver Dust signed with the German label Fastball Music that arranged the release of the album \"The Age Of Decadence\" across the continent In November 2017, the quartet returned on European stages as the special guest of the Finnish heavy metal band Battle Beast. At the end of the year, Silver Dust ended \"The Age Of Decadence\" tour by announcing the upcoming release of their third album. Revelation \u2014 \"House 21\" (2018-2021). In late March 2018, Silver Dust released a music video for \"Forever\", a single from the album. In a similar way to the previous music videos, this one is filmed in Porrentruy in Switzerland. On April 20, 2018, the band released its third opus, \"House 21\", in the form of a concept album. It tells the story of a British soldier deserting the battlefield during World War II and taking"}, {"text": "refuge in a gloomy dwelling, called House 21, populated by errant souls and strange characters. The album includes a collaboration with Mr. Lordi, from the eponym band, on a cover of Bette Davis Eyes. A few months later, to everyone's great surprise, Mr.Killjoy, the drummer, announced his desire to leave the band. He is then replaced by Magma, drummer formed by Diego Rapacchietti from the Swiss band Coroner. In October of the same year, the band went on another tour with Lordi. This new tour marks the second large-scale collaboration between the two bands. In July 2019, Silver Dust announced that their fourth European tour would take place at the end of the year, from October to December. For this occasion, the band toured with two well"passing away in 1998. Willis worked at the Office of Personnel Operations until July 1973. In July 1973, The US Army selected Willis to attend United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for one year. After graduating in June 1974, Willis was assigned to Fort McClellan, Alabama, where she served as a battalion executive officer for 18 months. Assignment at West Point. In January 1976, the US Army assigned Willis to West Point where she served as an advisor to Superintendent Andrew Goodpaster to help West Point integrate women as cadets. In Summer 1976, West Point admitted its first women for the Class of 1980. Willis remained at West Point until Summer 1979 and helped integrate three classes of women during her tenure there. Assignments in Europe. Between 1979 and 1981, Willis served two assignments in Europe. Now a lieutenant colonel, Willis commanded a personnel and administration battalion located in Kaiserslautern with satellite offices in Manheim, Heidelberg, and Pirmasens, Frankfurt, and Bremerhaven. Her subordinates operated from the French border to the Danish border. Prior to serving in Europe, Willis graduated from a six-week lit course at the Defense Language Institute at Monterey, California, where she"}, {"text": "studied German. After her battalion command, Willis attended Army War College, a year-long, highly selective process that accepted only 245 officers a year. Willis was the only woman in her class. On September 30, 1988, Willis was recommended for promotion to brigadier general. From 1989 to 1991, Willis was assigned in Germany during the fall of the "The 2020\u201321 Danish Superliga (officially the 3F Superliga for sponsorship reasons) was the 31st season of the Danish Superliga. The season began on 11 September with reigning champions FC Midtjylland playing against the winners of the Danish Cup, S\u00f8nderjyskE, losing 2\u20130 away from home. This season marked the first season with the video assistant referee (VAR) system. Teams. Twelve teams competed in the league \u2013 the top ten teams from the previous season, the winner of the Relegation Playoffs and the champion of the 2019\u201320 Danish 1st Division. Lyngby BK retained its position in the Superliga by winning the Relegation Playoffs and Vejle BK joined the top flight after winning the 1st Division title. Regular season. League table. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Championship round. Points and goals carried over in full from the regular season. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Positions by round. Below the positions per round are shown. As teams did not all start with an equal number of points, the initial pre-playoffs positions are also given. Relegation round. Points and goals carried over in full from the regular season. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Positions by round. Below the positions per round are shown. As teams did not all start with an equal number of points, the initial"}, {"text": "pre-playoffs positions are also given. European play-offs. The fourth-placed team of the championship round, AGF, advanced to a Europa Conference League play-off match against the winning team of the relegation round, AaB. The winners earned a place in the Europa Conference League second qualifying round. Season statistics. Top goalscorers. \"As of 28 May 2021.\""}, {"text": "The 2020\u201321 Danish 2nd Divisions will be divided in two groups of fourteen teams. The top team of each group will be promoted to the 2021\u201322 Danish 1st Division. This will be the last season with two groups, and after the season the clubs placed 2-6 in each group will qualify for the new Danish tier 3, and teams placed 7-10 in each group will qualify for the new Danish tier 4. The bottom four clubs in each group will be relegated to the Denmark Series."}, {"text": "The 2020\u201321 Danish 1st Division (known as the NordicBet Liga for sponsorship purposes) marked the 25th season of the league operating as the second tier of Danish football and the 81st season overall under the 1st Division name. The league is governed by the Danish Football Association (DBU). From this season a promotion round for the six best placed teams and a relegation round for the six lowest placed teams are introduced. The top two teams of the promotion round are promoted to the 2021\u201322 Danish Superliga. The teams in 11th and 12th places are relegated to the 2021\u201322 Danish 2nd Division. Participants. Silkeborg IF, and Esbjerg fB finished last in the 2019\u201320 Danish Superliga relegation play-off and were relegated to the 1st Division. Hobro IK lost to Lyngby Boldklub in the relegation play off and was relegated as well. Vejle Boldklub was promoted to the 2020\u201321 Danish Superliga. Nyk\u00f8bing FC, FC Roskilde and N\u00e6stved BK were relegated to the 2020\u201321 Danish 2nd Divisions. Nyk\u00f8bing FC was relegated after four seasons in the league, FC Roskilde after six seasons, and N\u00e6stved BK after two seasons. FC Helsing\u00f8r won promotion from the 2019\u201320 Danish 2nd Divisions. They won promotion after only"}, {"text": "one season's absence. Promotion Group. Points and goals carry over in full from the regular season. <onlyinclude> Relegation Group. Points and goals carry over in full from the regular season. <onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "Nathaniel Frazier (April 18, 1935 \u2013 September 22, 2019) was an American basketball coach. He was head men's coach at Morgan State University, where in 1974 he led the program to the Division II national championship. Frazier played college basketball for Tuskegee University, where he was twice named to the All-Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference team. After several years coaching high school basketball in New York and New Jersey and reviving a master's degree from the City College of New York, Frazier launched his college career as an assistant for Delaware State. He then joined the Illinois staff as an assistant in 1967, at a time when few African-American coaches could be found on Big Ten coaching staffs. In 1971, Frazier was named head coach at Morgan State. One of his first recruits was seven-footer Marvin Webster, nicknamed \u201cthe Human Eraser\u201d due to his shot-blocking prowess. In Webster's junior season of 1973\u201374, the Bears advanced to the NCAA Division II Final, where they defeated Southwest Missouri State 67\u201352 to win the school's first national championship. He was named the college division national coach of the year by the Associated Press. Frazier left the Bears in 1977 to join Willis Reed's coaching"}, {"text": "staff on the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the 1977\u201378 season. He then went on to serve as president and head coach of the Washington Metros of the short-lived Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL). Frazier returned to college coaching as head coach at Bowie State from 1980 to 1982. In 1984, he was hired as the head coach of Virginia Wave of the newly founded Women's American Basketball Association. In 1985, he returned as head coach of Morgan State (now a Division I program) and served in that role for four seasons. Frazier died on September 22, 2019, in Columbia, Maryland, at age 84."}, {"text": "Michele Campisi (born 22 April 1963 in Caltanissett"Perfect Power (foaled 15 January 2019) is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. He was one of the best two-year-olds in Europe in 2021 when he won four of his six races including the Norfolk Stakes, Prix Morny and Middle Park Stakes. As a three-year-old he was beaten when tried over one mile in the 2000 Guineas but returned to Group One-winning form when dropped back to six furlongs in the Commonwealth Cup. Background. Perfect Power is a bay horse with no white markings bred in Ireland by the County Westmeath-based Tally-Ho Stud, a breeding operation run by the O'Callaghan family. In October 2020 the yearling was consigned to the Tattersalls sale but failed to reach his reserve price of 16,000 guineas. In April 2021 the colt was entered in the Goffs Breeze-Up sale, in which two-year-olds are publicly galloped before being auctioned, and was bought for \u00a3110,000 by Blandford Bloodstock. He entered the ownership of Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum, and was sent into training with Richard Fahey at Musley Bank in North Yorkshire. He was from the first crop of foals sired by Ardad, a precocious sprinter who won the Windsor Castle Stakes and Flying Childers Stakes in 2016. Perfect"}, {"text": "Power's dam Sagely showed some racing ability, winning two minor races from fifteen starts. Her grand-dam Saga d'Ouilly was a full-sister to both Sagamix and the dam of Sagawara. Racing career. 2021: two-year-old season. Perfect Power was ridden in his first four races by Paul Hanagan. The colt made his debut in a novice race (for horses with no more than two previous wins) over five furlongson the synthetic Tapeta at Newcastle Racecourse on 25 May when he started at odds of 5/2 and finished third behind Royal Aclaim and Robasta, beaten a length by the winner. On 9 June the colt started 4/11 favourite for a maiden race on turf at Hamilton Park Racecourse and recorded his first success as he won \"easily\" by three and a half lengths after taking the lead inside the final furlong. Eight days after his win at Hamilton, Perfect Power was stepped up in class to contest the Group 3 Norfolk Stakes over five furlongs at Royal Ascot and started at odds of 14/1 in a fifteen-runner field. The runners divided in to two groups on either side of the straight course, with Perfect Power among those racing up the near side (the"}, {"text": "left hand side from the jockeys' viewpoint). He moved into contention entering the final furlong and took the lead in the final strides to prevail in a blanket finish, beating Go Bears Go by a head with Project Dante, Cadamosto, Lucci and Khunan finishing close behind. After the race Fahey commented: \"This has been a bit of a bogey race and we've been second at least three times. When they flashed past the post I thought we'd got beat. I was emotional for about two seconds so I must be getting soft in my old age... we haven't had him that long so Roger O'Callaghan [of the Tally-Ho Stud] has to take a bit of credit. We took him up on the grass and he destroyed some of my two-year-olds. We were a little bit unlucky first time but we were quietly confident he'd run a big race.\" On 29 July Perfect Power was moved up in class and distance for the Group 2 Richmond Stakes over six furlongs at Goodwood Racecourse and went off at odds of 7/1 in a seven-runner field. After being restrained by Hanagan in the early going the colt was repeatedly denied a clear run"}, {"text": "as he hung left in the closing stages and came home fifth behind the favourite Asymmetric, Khunan, Gubbass and Ebro River beaten just over a length by the winner. Christophe Soumillon took the ride when Perfect Power was sent to France to contest the Group 1 Prix Morny over 1200 metres at Deauville Racecourse on 22 August and started the 3.8/1 second favourite behind the Molecomb Stakes winner Armor. Asymmetric, Khunan and Gubbass were again in opposition while the other nine contenders included Quick Suzy (Queen Mary Stakes), Velocidad (Airlie Stud Stakes) and Have A Good Day (Prix de Cabourg). He raced towards the rear of the field before producing a strong late run, took the lead 60 metres from the finish and won by one and a half lengths from the Andre Fabre-trained Trident. After the race Fahey said \"He's a laid-back character, but I always thought he was pretty smart. I imagine he'd be a nice horse to ride at the races because you wouldn't feel that he was ever going to get flustered... He was very buzzy (when he came to us), but after about two and a half weeks he came back to earth... He soon"}, {"text": "learned the way we wanted to do it and he's been very simple since.\" Soumillon was again in the saddle when Perfect Power ended his campaign in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes over six furlongs at Newmarket Racecourse on 25 September. He started the 11/4 favourite against eight opponents including Go Bears Go, Asymmetric, Armor, Dr Zempf (second in the Phoenix Stakes), Castle Star (Marble Hill Stakes), Twilight Jet (Cornwallis Stakes) and Caturra (Flying Childers Stakes). After racing towards the rear for most of the way he was switched to the outside and began to make rapid progress in the last quarter mile. In a closely-contested finish he gained the advantage 100 yards from the finish and prevailed by half a length from Castle Star with Armor, Go Bears Go, Caturra and Twilight Jet close behind. Fahey commented \"This is a very special day with a very special horse given a very special ride. He's special and you could see that with the way he quickened. He's had a busy season but he loves it. He spends most of his time laying down asleep at home and saves his best for these days... we'll give him every chance to"}, {"text": "be a 2,000 Guineas horse next year.\""}, {"text": "Naoura () (also \"Noura\") is a village in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon. The population is mostly Sunni Muslim. History. In 1838, Eli Smith noted the place as \"en-Naura\", located east of esh-Sheikh Mohammed. The inhabitants were Alawites and Isma'ilites."}, {"text": "The 2021\u201322 UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball team represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas during the 2021\u201322 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Runnin' Rebels were led by first-year head coach Kevin Kruger and played their home games at the Thomas & Mack Center in Paradise, Nevada as members of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 18\u201314, 10\u20138 in MWC play to finish in fifth place. They lost to Wyoming in the quarterfinals of the MWC tournament. They failed to receive an invite to a postseason tournament. Previous season. In a season limited due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Runnin' Rebels finished the 2020\u201321 season 12\u201315, 12\u20136 in Mountain West play to finish in seventh place. They defeated Air Force in the first round of the Mountain West tournament before losing in the quarterfinals to Utah State. On March 18, 2021, head coach T. J. Otzelberger left UNLV after two seasons for the Iowa State head coaching job. On March 21, the school announced that assistant coach Kevin Kruger would be promoted to the head coaching position. Schedule and results. !colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Mountain West regular season !colspan=9 style=| Mountain West tournament"}, {"text": "Source"}, {"text": "The 2005 Pocono 500 was the 14th stock car race of the 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series and the 24th iteration of the event. The race was held on Sunday, June 12, 2005 at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, a triangular track that holds NASCAR races to this day. The race was held before a crowd of 100,000. Rookie Carl Edwards would win the race under caution, his second of the season and his career after originally starting 29th, proceeding to lead 46 laps. Brian Vickers and Joe Nemechek would take the rest of the podium positions, taking 2nd and 3rd, respectively. Race. For pre-race ceremonies, the invocation was given out by Father Dan Bisco. The national anthem would be performed by the United States Army Chorus."}, {"text": "Elvis Antonio Peguero (born March 20, 1997) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was signed as an international free agent by the New York Yankees in 2016 and made his MLB debut with the Los Angeles Angels in 2021. Professional career. New York Yankees. The New York Yankees signed Peguero as an international free agent on July 2, 2015. Peguero spent the 2016 season with the Dominican Summer League Yankees. He went 2\u20137 with a 4.39 ERA and 43 strikeouts. Peguero was assigned to the Gulf Coast Leagu"with at least formula_56 edges, there exists a vertex subset formula_6 of size formula_58 satisfying that every formula_20-subset of formula_6 has at least formula_61 common neighbors. By embedding formula_49 into formula_55 by embedding formula_16 into formula_6 arbitrarily and then embedding the vertices in formula_45 one by one, then for each vertex formula_67 in formula_45, it has at most formula_20 neighbors in formula_16, which shows that their images in formula_6 have at least formula_61 common neighbors. Thus formula_67 can be embedded into one of the common neighbors while avoiding collisions. This can be generalized to degenerate graphs using a variation of dependent random choice. Embedding a 1-subdivision of a complete graph. DRC can be applied directly to show that if formula_55 is a graph on formula_4 vertices and formula_76 edges, then formula_55 contains a 1-subdivision of a complete graph with formula_78 vertices. This can be shown in a similar way to the above proof of the bound on Tur\u00e1n number of a bipartite graph. Indeed, if we set formula_79, we have (since formula_80)formula_81and so the DRC assumption holds. Since a 1-subdivision of the complete graph on formula_58 vertices is a bipartite graph with parts of size formula_58 and formula_84 where every"}, {"text": "vertex in the second part has degree two, the embedding argument in the proof of the bound on Tur\u00e1n number of a bipartite graph produces the desired result. Variation. A stronger version finds two subsets of vertices formula_85 in a dense graph formula_55 so that every small subset of vertices in formula_87 has a lot of common neighbors in formula_88. Formally, let formula_89 be some positive integers with formula_90, and let formula_2 be some real number. Suppose that the following constraints hold: formula_92 Then every graph formula_55 on formula_4 vertices with at least formula_95 edges contains two subsets formula_85 of vertices so that any formula_20 vertices in formula_87 have at least formula_11 common neighbors in formula_88. Extremal number of a degenerate bipartite graph. Using this stronger statement, one can upper bound the extremal number of formula_20-degenerate bipartite graphs: for each formula_20-degenerate bipartite graph formula_49 with at most formula_104 vertices, the extremal number formula_105 is at most formula_106 Ramsey number of a degenerate bipartite graph. This statement can be also applied to obtain an upper bound of the Ramsey number of a degenerate bipartite graphs. If formula_20 is a fixed integer, then for every bipartite formula_20-degenerate bipartite graph formula_55 on formula_4"}, {"text": "vertices, the Ramsey number formula_111 is of the order formula_112"}, {"text": "Sara Shakeel is a Pakistani contemporary artist based in London. She is known for using glass crystals to create both digital and physical collages on photography and three-dimensional objects. Artistic career. Shakeel first taught herself Photoshop and began using her artwork as an outlet for her emotions. Shakeel began posting her art on the social media platform Instagram where she gained a following of over one million followers. In the fall of 2019, Shakeel released a capsule clothing collection in collaboration with the London-based retailer Browns as well as displaying her piece \"The Great Supper\" in their store. Glitter Stretch Marks. Shakeel's first body of work was posted on Instagram under the hashtag \"#glitterstretchmarks\". Shakeel superimposed gold glitter, crystals, and galaxies onto images of stretch marks. By covering these stretch marks in glitter and crystals, Shakeel's goal was to promote body positivity and empowerment by taking something often seen as an imperfection and turning it into art. In 2019, Shakeel collaborated with Reebok to create an ad for their body image awareness campaign in which she covered the muscles of athlete Jamie Green with Swarovski crystals. Work with Chance the Rapper. Shakeel created the cover art for Chance the Rapper's"}, {"text": "album \"The Big Day\". For this piece, Shakeel created a physical CD from glass and resin, then covered it in crystals. The object was then photographed and used for the cover art and promotion. Along with the album art, Chance the Rapper commissioned Shakeel to create work for a pop-up exhibition and retail experience coinciding with his record release titled \"The Big Store\". In this pop-up, each room drew influence from the rapper's life experiences such as his childhood and his wedding day. Much of the artwork in this exhibition was created by Shakeel, who used thousands of Swarovski crystals to completely cover tables, chairs, dinnerware, microphone stands, toys, and more. The Great Supper. In 2019, Shakeel created the installation sculpture \"The Great Supper\" for an exhibition at NOW Gallery in London. Her inspiration was Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper and her own memories of eating around the dinner table with her family. She references the importance of the Urdu word \"gupshup,\" loosely translated to mean socially-bonding and important conversation. Shakeel received the annual Young Artist's Commission from the NOW Gallery for this piece in 2019. Response to Coronavirus. Shakeel created a series of images related to hand"}, {"text": "washing in response to the 2019\u201320 outbreak of COVID-19. In these images, the water coming from the spout is collaged with crystals and glitter in an attempt to bring a positive impact on people's lives during a difficult time. Shakeel's glittery hand washing images have been used in several blogs and news outlets, including Elle Canada, detailing the best practices for hand washing to prevent the spread of the virus. She also created a series of images featuring health care workers surrounded by glitter and crystals. The original images were sent in via submission to Shakeel."}, {"text": "Farah Tufail is a Pakistani television actress and RJ. She started her career during 2000s. Tufail received Hum Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Tehreem in telefilm \"Tehreem\". Her television appearance includes a series of notable projects like \"Hum Tum Aur Woh\" (2008), \"Dil Ki Batain\" (2008), \"Thakan\" (2012), \"Teri Raah Main Rul Gai\" (2012), \"Kuch Pyar Ka Pagalpan\" (2014), \"Kaneez\" (2015), \"Baaghi\" (2017), \"Pinjra\" (2017), \"Ghughi\" (2018), \"Aakhri Station\" (2018), \"Hoor Pari\" (2019)."}, {"text": "Ivan Maximkin (born March 5, 1988) is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Maximkin played in the Russian Superleague and Kontinental Hockey League for Lada Togliatti and Dynamo Moscow. He also had spells in the Kazakhstan Hockey Championship for Kazakhmys Satpaev, Saryarka Karagandy, Kazzinc-Torpedo and HC Astana. Maximkim was selected 28th overall in the 2005 CHL Import Draft by the Ontario Hockey League's Erie Otters, though he ultimately never played in the league and remained in Russia."}, {"text": "Carleton Stevens Coon Jr. (1927December 3, 2018) was a career foreign service offi"down to Triple-A Norfolk on May 11, becoming a phantom ballplayer. St. Louis Cardinals. On August 1, 2023, the Orioles traded Rom, C\u00e9sar Prieto, and Zack Showalter to the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for pitcher Jack Flaherty. In 8 starts for the Cardinals, he struggled to a 1\u20134 record and 8.02 ERA with 32 strikeouts across innings. Rom began the 2024 season on the injured list due to a biceps injury. He was transferred to the 60\u2013day injured list on April 30, 2024. On May 9, it was announced that Rom had undergone arthroscopic surgery on his left shoulder. On November 19, Rom was removed from the 40\u2013man roster and sent outright to the Triple\u2013A Memphis Redbirds."}, {"text": "William Mitchell (1670\u20131727) was a 17th/18th century Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland five times. He was Chaplain in Ordinary to the King (George I). Life. He was born in Aberdeen in 1670 the son of Rev William Mitchell, minister of Footdee parish in Aberdeen, and his wife Margaret Cant. He was licensed to preach as a minister of the Church of Scotland by the Presbytery of Aberdeen around 1690. In 1695 he was ordained as \"second charge\" of Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh. In 1708 he was translated to the \"second charge\" of the Old Kirk of St Giles (then split into four parishes) in place of William Carstares. He was elected Moderator of the General Assembly in 1710, 1714, 1717, 1722 and 1726. In 1721 he translated from Old Kirk, St Giles to High Kirk, St Giles - both within the same building. He had great influence in the Scottish Parliament adjacent to St Giles. In 1727 he was one of the Scottish elite sent to congratulate King George II on his ascension to the throne, but Mitchell died in York on 8 September 1727 before reaching his destination. His"}, {"text": "position at St Giles was filled by Robert Kinloch. Family. In 1705 he married Margaret Cunningham, daughter of Hugh Cunningham and widow of James Stewart. Their children included: In July 1723 he married Barbara Forbes, daughter of John Forbes and widow of Thomas Mitchell of Thainston, a baillie in Aberdeen."}, {"text": "Joanne A. F. Conaghan, is an Irish legal scholar based in the UK, specialising in the intersection between gender and the law and in feminist legal studies. Life. Since 2013, she has been Professor of Law at the University of Bristol. She previously taught at the University of Kent, the University of Exeter and the University of California, San Diego. She was head of the University of Kent Law School from 2008 to 2011 and head of the University of Bristol Law School from 2014 to 2018. In 2021, Conaghan was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. She is chair of the Law Sub-Panel for REF 2021, the United Kingdom's research excellence assessment exercise."}, {"text": "Ethan John Ingram (born 16 April 2003) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for club Dundee. Club career. Born in Gloucester, Ingram was scouted by one of West Bromwich Albion's development centre's aged 12, before joining their academy, signing his first scholarship deal aged 16. He made his debut for the club on 25 August 2021, starting in a 6\u20130 EFL Cup second round defeat to Arsenal. Ingram scored the winning penalty in the final of the 2021\u201322 Premier League Cup as West Brom beat Wolverhampton Wanderers U23 5\u20134 on penalties after a 2\u20132 draw. On 1 September 2023, Ingram joined EFL League Two club Salford City on a season-long loan. He made his debut for the club on 5 September 2023, in a 3\u20130 defeat away to Bolton Wanderers in the EFL Trophy. He scored his first goal for the club on 21 October 2023, in a 2\u20132 draw with Swindon Town in a League Two match. On 4 July 2024, Ingram joined Scottish Premiership club Dundee on a two-year deal. Ingram made his debut for the \"Dark Blues\" in a 1\u20137 away victory over Bonnyrigg Rose in the Scottish League Cup group stage. Ingram"}, {"text": "scored his first goal for the club three days later in an away win over Arbroath. International career. He has represented England at under-17 and under-18 international levels. On 21 September 2022, Ingram made his England U20 debut as a substitute during a 3\u20130 victory over Chile at the Pinatar Arena. Honours. West Bromwich Albion U23"}, {"text": "The Hengqin line (, ) is a cross-border line of the Macau Light Rapid Transit that opened on 2 December 2024. The line operates as a shuttle between the existing Lotus station in Macau on the Taipa line and Hengqin station on the island of Hengqin in the city of Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. The line is long, and is underground, including Hengqin station. Travel time on the line is about 2 minutes, with trains operating every 6 minutes."}, {"text": "P\u0119k () is a Polish surname. Notable people include:"}, {"text": "Elmbank is a building in Luss, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is a Category C listed building, dating to the early 19th century. The building, a single-storey cottage located on Church Road, dates to the early 19th century and has later alterations and additions. A notable feature is its twelve-pane timber sash and case windows."}, {"text": "P. J. Garvey (1971 \u2013 24 August 2021) was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer. At club level he played with Hospital-Herbertstown and Ballybricken-Bohermore and was also a member of the Limerick senior teams as a dual player. Career. Garvey played the majority of his adult hurling and Gaelic football with the Hospital-Herbertstown club. He first appeared on the inter-county scene during a two-year stint with the Limerick minor team before progressing onto the under-21 side. Garvey played for the Limerick intermediate hurling team as well as the senior team during the 1992-93 National Hurling League. As a Gaelic footballer he lined out with the Limerick senior team that came close to beating Kerry in the 1991 Munster final. Garvey also enjoyed success as manager of the Mungret/St. Paul's club. Death. Garvey died suddenly on 24 August 2021."}, {"text": "The 2007\u201308 South Alabama Jaguars basketball team represented the University of South Alabama during the 2007\u201308 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Jaguars were led by head coach Ronnie Arrow, in the first year of his second stint as head coach. They played their home games at the Mitchell Center, and were members of the Sun Belt Conference. They finished the season 26\u20137, 16\u20132 in Sun Belt play to finish tied for first place. They lost in the semifinals of the Sun Belt tournament, but received an at-large bid to the 2008 NCAA tournament as the 10 seed in the East region. In the opening round, the Jaguars lost to Butler. Schedule and results. !colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Sun Belt Regular Season !colspan=9 style=| Sun Belt Conference tournament !colspan=9 style=| NCAA tournament"}, {"text": "Ethan Michael Roberts (born July 4, 1997) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2022 with the Cubs. Amateur career. Roberts attended White County High School in Sparta, Tennessee, and played college baseball at Tennessee Technological University. As a junior at Tennessee Tech in 2018, he went 6\u20131 with a 2.41 ERA and 14 saves over 71 innings pitched. Following the season's end, he was selected by the Chicago Cubs in the fourth round of the 2018 Major League Baseball draft. Professional career. Roberts signed with the Cubs and made his professional debut with the Eugene Emeralds, posting a 5.40 ERA over 15 innings. In 2019, he began the year with the South Bend Cubs before being promoted to the Myrtle Beach Pelicans. Over 59 relief innings between the two clubs, Roberts went 4\u20135 with a 2.59 ERA, 13 saves, and 54 strikeouts. He did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Roberts began the 2021 season with the Tennessee Smokies and was promoted to the Iowa Cubs in early August. Over 39 relief"}, {"text": "appearances between the two clubs, Roberts went 4\u20132 with a 3.00 ERA and 72 strikeouts over 54 innings. On November 19, 2021, the Cubs added Roberts to their 40-man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 draft. On April 4, 2022, it"can occur as a result of both behavioral and ecological causes. The frequency of jellyfish blooms is currently being investigated to determine if global trends are increasing as climate patterns shift. Eutrophication, hypoxic dead zones, rising global ocean temperatures, coastal development, and overfishing, are suspected to be stimulating the growth of jellyfish populations. Eutrophication, for example, provides an excess of nutrients, which leads to abnormally large algal blooms that support rapid jellyfish population growth. Algae that are not consumed eventually expire and are consumed by the microbial community, which may lead to hypoxia. Jellyfish can tolerate hypoxic conditions where more sensitive species cannot. Cultural eutrophication and the increasing hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, appears to have also increased jellyfish populations. Spring and summer months typically have more jellyfish blooms because the warmer water temperatures cause jellyfish to reach sexual maturity more quickly. Rising global ocean temperatures may also contribute to the increasing jellyfish populations. Over-fishing of jellyfish predators releases jellyfish populations from top-down control. For example, reduced competition from small pelagic fish in the Black Sea due to fishing has led to an apparent increase in polyp proliferation, the earliest developmental stage of jellyfish. Coastal development has"}, {"text": "also created physical changes to coastal ecosystems that favor rapid jellyfish growth. Hard structures provide more space for jellyfish polyps to adhere to and develop on. Floating artificial structures increase shaded substrate area jellyfish polyps thrive on. Between 10,000 and 100,000 jellyfish polyps per square meter were directly or indirectly attached to artificial structures as counted in one investigation. Both increased substrate and nitrogen concentration in harbors favor higher polyp population densities. Jellyfish also thrive in dammed areas because they are more tolerant to variable salinity. Ecological impacts. Food web impact. A boom in jellyfish populations can have significant effects on food web structure across trophic levels. Some species of carnivorous jellyfish actively consume ichthyoplankton, fish eggs and larvae. The ability of jellyfish to consume ichthyoplankton is influenced by a number of characteristics including tentacle morphology, type of cnidarian nematocyst, rates of encounters, size of predator, swimming-while-feeding behavior, and prey physical characteristics. Fish eggs and small larvae make ideal prey for carnivorous jellyfish and other predators, as they have low escape ability and are larger in size compared to other zooplankton. Removal of competitive top-predator fish due to overfishing has resulted in reduced competition for jellyfish food resources. During a"}, {"text": "jellyfish bloom, ichthyoplankton, crustacean zooplankton (e.g. copepods and krill), and smaller medusae can be more heavily consumed. Some studies have shown jellyfish can outcompete other predators in a bloom. For example, in the 1999 \"Chrysaora melanaster\" bloom in the Bering Sea, Brodeur et al. found that the bloom had consumed roughly 32% of the total zooplankton stock, which was nearly 5% of the annual secondary production of the region. In non-bloom conditions, zooplankton consumption by jellyfish was <1% of the annual zooplankton stock. Importantly, jellyfish blooms do not always directly result in depletion of zooplankton and other competing mid-trophic species. Jellyfish blooms can have a more complicated role in food web dynamics and overall estuary health. In the case of Chesapeake Bay, sea nettles (\"Chrysaora quinquecirrha\") served as a dominant top-down control within the estuarine ecosystem and were tightly coupled with oyster populations. Seasonal blooms of sea nettles were partially dependent on oyster populations as oysters provided the most extensive hard substrate in Chesapeake Bay, which was critical for the polyp stage of sea nettle development. As sea nettle population decreased the top-down control on ctenophores \"(Mnemiopsis leidyi\") was essentially removed, allowing ctenophores to increase resulting increased ctenophore predation on"}, {"text": "oyster larvae and icthyoplankton. This ultimately exacerbated the decline of both sea nettle and oyster populations. Increase in jellyfish predation on zooplankton during blooms can also alter trophic pathways. Consumption by small and large gelatinous zooplankton interrupts energy transfer of zooplankton production to upper trophic levels. Since jellyfish have few predators (large pelagic fish and sea turtles), jellyfish production does not transfer efficiently to higher trophic levels and can become a \"trophic dead-end\". Impacts on biochemical processes. Jellyfish blooms may alter elemental cycling of carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) in the ocean. As jellyfish populations increase they consume organic material containing C, N, and P, becoming a net sink of organic compounds. Through their rapid growth, jellyfish may therefore reduce the organic material available for other organisms. Since their gelatinous bodies are not consumed by many higher trophic level organisms, jellyfish limit the trophic transfer of energy and C, N, and P up the food chain, instead shifting the trophic transfer to the microbial community. Jellyfish can be one of the largest stores of biomass in the pelagic community during blooms; this makes them an important source of organic C, N, and P. Large populations of jellyfish also"}, {"text": "mobilize inorganic C, N, and P by moving to different regions and emitting them through excretion, mucus production, or decomposition. One contingency on how jellyfish blooms affect their environment depends on whether they possess the symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae. Jellyfish with zooxanthellae obtain organic C, N, and P through translocation from their symbiont, incorporating inorganic nutrients through photosynthesis. Zooxanthellae give jellyfish an advantage when organic matter is in short su"Ioannis Korais (, 1732 \u2013 December 10, 1799) was a Greek painter. He was a prominent member of the Heptanese School. His contemporaries were Nikolaos Doxaras and Nikolaos Koutouzis. His family was from the island of Chios. He was the grandson of the painter Michael Korais from Chios. He helped revolutionize Greek painting. He was a follower of Panagiotis Doxaras and the new techniques he was employing. His student was the painter Nikolaos Kantounis. Korais was part of the Greek Rococo and Neoclassical movements in Greek art. His nephew of the same name, Ioannis Korais, was also a painter. His best known surviving work is the Litany of the Relic of Saint Charalambos, which is in the Zakynthos Museum. Biography. Korais was born in Zakynthos. The family originated from the Greek island of Chios. He was the grandson of painter Michael Korais. His nephew Ioannis Korais, his student, was born in 1781. When Ioannis Korais the elder died he left his nephew his tools for painting. He also taught the painter Nikolaos Kantounis. Records exist from the archives of the Agios Charalambos church in Zakynthos. He began his most notable work, The Litany of the Relic of Saint Charalambos in"}, {"text": "1752, and finished the project after four years, in 1756. The work is 60 cm or 2 feet high and 7.6 meters or 24 feet long. In 1772, a record exists that he was actively communicating with the Greek painter Nikolaos Koutouzis, who was in Corfu at the time. On September 26, 1796, Korais wrote a will leaving his nephew his house, art collection, paints, frames, brushes, canvases, and anything associated with his artistic workshop. He died three years later on December 10, 1799. In 1953, some of his paintings were lost in a fire, which burned the ruined churches of Agios Stefanos and Agios Vassilios in Zakynthos. Three of his works survive today. Apart from the Litany of the Relic of Saint Charalambos, the two other works are the Birth of Christ and the Resurrection of Christ; all of them are in the Zakynthos Museum."}, {"text": "Tepidisphaeraceae is a family of bacteria."}, {"text": "Uzoegbu Chukwuemeka Alexander, better known by the stage name Naya Dane is a Nigerian musician and song writer. Biography. Uzoegbu Chukwuemeka Alexander was born and raised in the Okokomaiko area of Lagos state. He began singing and making music as a child under the nickname \"Lil Slizzy\". He released his first official single \"Diana\" in 2016. He later released the single \"Badder\" under the stage name Naya Dane. In 2016, he signed a one year management deal with Rockwell360. In recent years, Dane has entered the NFT world & has dropped a collection entitled \u201cOfficial Naya Dane\u201d on OpenSea."}, {"text": "Sedimentisphaerales is an order of aquatic bacteria."}, {"text": "Fakhr al-Din Muhammad ibn Mansur Mubarak Shah al-Qurayshi, commonly known by his pen-name Fakhr-i Mudabbir (1157\u20131236) was a Persian author who was active at the court of the Ghaznavids, Ghurids, and Delhi Sultanate. He is notable for his prominent literary works in Persian, the \"Shajara-yi ansab\" (\"The tree of genealogies\") and the \"Adab al-harb wa-l-shaja'a\" (\"The etiquette of war and valour\")."}, {"text": "The cyber kill chain is the process by which perpetrators carry out cyberattacks. Lockheed Martin adapted the concept of the \"kill chain\" from a military setting to information security, using it as a method for modeling intrusions on a computer network. The cyber kill chain model has seen some adoption in the information security community. However, acceptance is not universal, with critics pointing to what they believe are fundamental flaws in the model. Attack phases and countermeasures. Computer scientists at Lockheed-Martin corporation described a new \"intrusion kill chain\" framework or model to defend computer networks in 2011. They wrote that attacks may occur in phases and can be disrupted through controls established at each phase. Since then, the \"cyber kill chain\" has been adopted by data security organizations to define phases of cyberattacks. A cyber kill chain reveals the phases of a cyberattack: from early reconnaissance to the goal of data exfiltration. The kill chain can also be used as a management tool to help continuously improve network defense. According to Lockheed Martin, threats must progress through several phases in the model, including: Defensive courses of action can be taken against these phases: A U.S. Senate investigation of the 2013"}, {"text": "Target Corporation data breach included analysis based on the Lockheed-Martin kill chain framework. It identified several stages where controls did not prevent or detect progression of the attack. Alternatives. Different organizations have constructed their own kill chains to try to model different threats. FireEye proposes a linear model similar to Lockheed-Martin's. In FireEye's kill chain the persistence of threats is emphasized. This model stresses that a threat does not end after one cycle. Critiques. Among the critiques of Lockheed Martin's cyber kill chain model as threat assessment and prevention tool is that the first phases happen outside the defended network, making it difficult to identify or defend against actions in these phases. Similarly, this methodology is said to reinforce traditional perimeter-based and malware prevention-based defensive strategies. Others have noted that the traditional cyber kill chain isn't suitable to model the insider threat. This is particularly troublesome given the likelihood of successful attacks that breach the internal network perimeter, which is why organizations \"need to develop a strategy for dealing with attackers inside the firewall. They need to think of every attacker as [a] potential insider\". Unified kill chain. The Unified Kill Chain was developed in 2017 by Paul Pols in"}, {"text": "collaboration with Fox-IT and Leiden University to overcome common critiques against the traditional cyber kill chain, by uniting and extending Lockheed Martin's kill chain and MITRE's ATT&CK framework (both of which are based on the \"Get In, Stay In, and Act\" model constructed by James Tubberville and Joe Vest). The unified version of the kill chain is an ordered arrangement of 18 unique attack phases that may occur in an end-to-end cyberattack, which covers activities that occur outside and within the defended network. As such, the unified kill chain improves over the scope limitations of the traditional kill chain and the time-agnostic nature of tactics in MITRE's ATT&CK. The unified model can be used to analyze, compare, and defend against end-to-end cyberattacks by advanced persistent threats (APTs). A subsequent whitepaper on the unified kill chain was published in 2021."}, {"text": "The Rhodesia-Australia Association was an organisation in Australia that advocated in support of the white minority regime in Rhodesia. It was active during the 1960s and 1970s, up to the end of white minority rule in Rhodesia and the transition to Zimbabwe. It had branches in all states of Australia. The association's activities mainly comprised letter writing campaigns directed at newspapers, film nights and regular meetings. Some members of the far-right Australian League of Rights and National Socialist Party of Australia were involved with the Rhodesia-Australia Association. Other members were emigre Rhodesians, South Africans and older Australians who were nostalgic for the British Empire. There were tensions between the older Australians and the far right activists. In 1972 commentator and Australian Labor Party staffer Richard V. Hall estimated that the association probably had fewer than one thousand members. The associati"Cambrian Period. Other evidence was found dating back to the Middle to Late Cambrian Period (520\u2013540 mya) and the Neogene Period (20\u201330 mya). The soft-bodied anatomy of jellyfish makes fossilization rare, which provides challenges to recreate the historical abundances of blooms. Most preserved jellyfish bloom fossils are from the Cambrian period likely due to the abundance of "Sedimentisphaeraceae is a family of aquatic bacteria. Phylogeny. The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)."}, {"text": "Pluta, Pliuta or Plyuta () is a surname. Notable people include:"}, {"text": "Koucha () (also \"Kaoucha\") is a village in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon. The population is mostly Sunni Muslim. History. In 1838, Eli Smith noted the place as \"Kusha\", located east of esh-Sheikh Mohammed. The inhabitants were Isma'ilites."}, {"text": "Mar\u00eda Beatriz Paret L\u00e9rtora is an Ecuadorian physician who served as the First Lady of Ecuador from April 20, 2005, to January 15, 2007, as the wife of President Alfredo Palacio. Biography. Mar\u00eda Beatriz Paret was born in Guayaquil. She graduated as a doctor in pediatrics. She married Alfredo Palacio in a ceremony held in Guayaquil. They have had four children together. She moved to Miami in 1999 to care for her grandchildren and to run a preschool. She returned to Ecuador when her husband was elected President in 2005. First Lady. As the First Lady of Ecuador, Paret was president of the National Institute for Children and the Family (INNFA). She also served in the traditional role of hostess of Carondelet Palace and her husband's companion at various ceremonial events at the national and international level. During her tenure with the INNFA, she achieved a greater budget allocation, drawing 3.5% of oil revenues, increasing to 5% toward the end of her term. She promoted the Universal Health Insurance Plan (AUS), which was intended to provide all Ecuadorians access to health insurance within five years. In November 2006, she signed an agreement to provide money for food and social services"}, {"text": "for minor children of prison inmates. She has been a fierce opponent of human trafficking. In her speech at the 2006 conference \"Women's Leadership in Latin America and the Caribbean\", organized by Vital Voices Global Partnership and the University of Miami, she stated, \"These are the true slaves of the 21st century\", and \"The definitive and complete answer will be to promote real changes in our countries, to develop State policies that give priority to social investment, the protection of children, and the reduction of poverty.\" She also established a partnership with the Ricky Martin Foundation to operate a hotline for complaints about human trafficking. She was twice accused of using public funds to make personal trips, but the government justified the travel expenses as part of her work as First Lady."}, {"text": "Carly Marie Nelson (born February 11, 1998) is an American professional soccer player who most recently played as a goalkeeper for Utah Royals of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Early life and college career. Born in Lindon, Utah, Nelson was a two-time First Team All-State goalkeeper as she helped Timpanogos High School reach the 4A state title game in three straight seasons. She was also named Team MVP twice. She played club soccer with Celtic Storm, winning the state title in five seasons Utah Utes. Nelson played four seasons of college soccer at the University of Utah between 2016 and 2019 while studying for a bachelor's in positive psychology. As a freshman she made seven appearances, keeping three shutouts and conceding three goals. She made her first collegiate start in a 3\u20130 win over in-state rival Utah State on August 28, 2016. In 2018, she was twice named Pac-12 Conference goalkeeper of the week, led the conference in saves with 92 in total and ranked fourth in save percentage at 82.1%. In her final season, she made a career-high 105 saves, the most by a Ute in two decades and recorded Utah's longest shutout streak since the 2006 season"}, {"text": "after keeping four throughout September. In summer of 2019, Nelson also played for Utah Royals FC's semi-professional reserve team in the Women's Premier Soccer League. She was rostered for nine games and made one appearance, 45 minutes in a 1\u20130 defeat to Utah Arrows. Club career. OL Reign. Nelson declared for the 2020 NWSL College Draft but was not selected. She was invited to preseason training camp with Utah Royals FC as a non-roster invitee but the league shut down two days in to camp due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, Nelson signed a short-term contract with OL Reign, one of four non-roster invitees signed for the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup, the NWSL's replacement competition for a return to play following the three-month stoppage. She was an unused substitute in all five games. She was also an unused substitute in two Fall Series games. Kansas City Current. Nelson signed with the unbranded Kansas City NWSL expansion franchise on December 23, 2020. She made her senior club debut for the team on July 23, 2021, playing the full 90 minutes in a 0\u20130 draw with North Carolina Courage. FC Nordsj\u00e6lland. In August 2021, Nelson was loaned to Danish Kvindeliga"}, {"text": "club FC Nordsj\u00e6lland. She made her debut for the club on September 25, in a 3\u20131 win against AGF. She made 18 league appearances, keeping seven shutouts and conceding 15 goals as Nordsj\u00e6lland finished 4th. She also made three appearances in the Danish Women's Cup. In July 2022, she joined the club permanently. Orlando Pride. On January 29, 2023, Nelson and Nordsj\u00e6lland mutually agreed to terminate her contract so she could return to the United States, signing a two-year contract with Orlando Pride. Utah Royals. On December 12, 2023, Orlando traded Nelson to hometown expansion franchise Utah Royals along with $65,000 in Allocation Money in exchange for an International Roster Spot for the 2024 season. Nelson started in the Royals' return game as a franchise, a defeat to the Chicago Red Stars on March 16, 2024. In May 2024, she took a mental health leave from soccer after not making any more appearances since the inaugural match. At the end of the season, Nelson was among the list of players not returning to Utah in 2025. It was later revealed that a large part of her exit was due to alleged abuse perpetrated by Royals coaches. Personal life. Nelson was"}, {"text": "raised in a Mormon community and speaks openly about her journey to freedom from the religion. She is openly gay and first came out at 13 to her best friend before being bullied at school as a result. With no support at home or school, Nelson felt isolated and attempted suicide. She is now an advocate for raising awareness to the struggles LGBTQ+ teens go through. In January 2025, Nelson created a post on Instagram alleging \"emotional and psychological abuse\" at the hands of Utah Royals coaching staff. She claimed that a toxic environment was cultivated and that attempts to seek mental health support were met with retaliation and resistance by coaches. Nelson later took mental health leave and did not return to Utah after that season."}, {"text": "Anaerohalosphaera is a genus of bacteria."}, {"text": "\"Go Time\" is a 2016 song by German electronic music duo Digitalism. It was the fourth single from the band's fourth album \"Mirage\" (2016) and was released on 1 Apr"Microsoft Detours is an open source library for intercepting, monitoring and instrumenting binary functions on Microsoft Windows. It is developed by Microsoft and is most commonly used to intercept Win32 API calls within Windows applications. Detours makes it possible to add debugging instrumentation and to attach arbitrary DLLs to any existing Win32 binary. Detours does not require other software frameworks as a dependency and works on ARM, x86, x64, and IA-64 systems. The interception code is applied dynamically at execution time. Detours is used by product teams at Microsoft and has also been used by ISVs. Prior to 2016, Detours was available in a free version limited for non-commercial and 32 bit only use and a paid version for commercial use. Since 2016, the source code is licensed under MIT License and available on GitHub."}, {"text": "Abdullah Al-Khateeb (, born 12 March 1995) is a Saudi Arabian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Pro League side Al-Ettifaq. Career. Al-Khateeb began his career at the youth teams of Al-Ahli. On 24 July 2017, Al-Khateeb joined MS League side Al-Khaleej on loan for the 2017\u201318 season. On 17 August 2018, Al-Khateeb's loan to Al-Khaleej was renewed for the 2018\u201319 season. On 21 August 2019, Al-Khateeb signed a three-year contract with Al-Ettifaq. On 30 April 2021, Al-Khateeb renewed his contract with Al-Ettifaq until the end of the 2025\u201326 season."}, {"text": "Krishnamurthy Gobinathan (born 13 January 1978) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He is currently working as the head coach of Bangladesh national field hockey team."}, {"text": "Nor Azlan Bakar (born 14 December 1977) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Mohan Jiwa (born 26 April 1981) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Ibrahim Suhaimi (born 3 October 1979) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Mohamed Madzli Ikmar (born 8 December 1979) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Keevan Raj (born 14 October 1979) is a Malaysian former field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Saiful Azli bin Abdul Rahman (born 20 August 1977) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Veronika Arichteva, n\u00e9e Nov\u00e1 (born 20 May 1986 in Prague) is a Czech actress and presenter."}, {"text": "The Taunton Silverplate Company, also known as the Taunton Silver Plate Company, was an American manufacturing company active in Taunton, Massachusetts from 1853 to 1859. Some form of the company was reconstituted c. 1872-1874 with its showroom at 4 Maiden Lane, New York City, with Oliver Ames as president and George T. Atwood as treasurer. The \"Brooklyn Daily Eagle\" of December 16, 1874, advertises the firm auctioning off their showroom and all stock. At some point, probably circa 1880, the firm was purchased by I.J. Steane."}, {"text": "Big Brother Greece 2, was the second season of the Greek reality television series \"Big Brother\". The show followed fourteen contestants, known as housemates, who were isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom-built house. Each week, one or more of the housemates were evicted by a public vote. The last remaining housemate, Alexandros Moskhos, was declared the winner, winning a cash prize of \u20ac150,000. The season lasted 116 days and was presented by Andreas Mikroutsikos. It launched on ANT1 on March 8, 2002 and ended on July 1, 2002. Housemate election. A week before the launch of the season, the public was able to choose two of the housemates, one male and one female. The voted between 18 candidates chosen by the producers. The public vote started on March 2, 2002 Finally, Panagiotis and Tina have received the most votes and became official housemates. Nominations table. The first housemate in each box was nominated for two points, and the second housemate was nominated for one point."}, {"text": "Opuntia anacantha is a species belonging to the family Cactaceae, native to northern Argentina and Bolivia. Description. Shrubby cactus of about 60 cm high and 2.5 wide, normally prostrate, sometimes climbs due to its adventitious roots. The dark green segments are flat, narrow and elliptical in shape, about 5 to 40 cm long and 3.5 to 7 cm wide. The areolas are small. Orange or orange yellow flowers 4 cm long. Taxonomy. \"Opuntia anacantha\" was described by Carlos Luis Spegazzini and published in \"Bulletin du Mus\u00e9um d'Histoire Naturelle\" 1904. , Plants of the World Online regarded it as a synonym of \"Opuntia elata\" var. \"elata\". Etymology. Opuntia : generic name that comes from the Greek used by Pliny the Elder for a plant that grew around the city of Opus in Greece. anacantha : Latin epithet meaning \"without thorns\"."}]es from \"Belge\" meaning 'roaring river', although only gentle flowing streams are in the vicinity. A further claim is one from the Old English term \"belg\" meaning 'bag', used in respect of the geography of the area. Another possible form is of Norman/Saxon origin, \"le bulgh\" meaning 'gap', possibly in reference to the gorge by the stream nearby. The nameplace itself was not reported in Domesday however, only being first mentioned in public records from 1179. Hodthorpe: The \"hod\" is derived from the name of a local 19th century landowner, Henry Sweet Hodding who provided housing land for miners and"}, {"text": "their families at the nearby Whitwell Colliery, with \"thorpe\" the Old English for village. Originally known as Hoddingthorpe, by the turn of the 20th century the placename had become shortened to its present-day form. Hodthorpe and Belph, as a political entity was separated from Whitwell parish in 2011. Geography. Location. Hodthorpe and Belph is surrounded by the following local areas: Settlements. The two settlements within the parish are: Hodthorpe. The larger village of the two areas, it is sited adjacent to the Worksop to Nottingham Robin Hood Line and the route between Whitwell and the A60 road. Hodthorpe's heritage is as a mining village and has been in existence since the beginning of the 20th century. It lies to the central north of the parish, and while primarily residential with few roads, the village maintains some core amenities such as school, village community centre and shop. Belph. This is south of Hodthorpe, separated by greenfield land. Belph is a rural hamlet comprising a nucleus of buildings centred around Mill Wood Lane, and a smaller cluster of buildings known as Penny Green which developed primarily from the 19th century onwards around Millash Lane/Station Road. Belph is the easternmost residential settlement within"}, {"text": "the county of Derbyshire. A large proportion of the land and buildings in Belph are held by the Welbeck Estate. Landscape. Geology. The parish lies on the eastern edge of the Permian Limestone belt - a narrow range of rock running roughly north\u2013south, the western dip-slope of which is characterised by the descent from Barlborough to Renishaw, and whose eastern range dips away from Red Hill to Worksop. To the west lies the Pennine Coal Measures Group, and in the east the New Red Sandstone belt is found. The Permian limestones outcrop in places, most notably at Creswell Crags, but are usually overlain by shallow clay or soils, which lend well to arable cultivation. The stone can be burnt to provide lime and is suitable for building purposes. Woods. Primarily farmland throughout the parish outside the villages, there is some small forestry south of Belph surrounding the industrial areas. Water features. The Millwood Brook is much of the eastern boundary of the parish, feeding into Crags Pond at its southern extent. Walling Brook forms part of the north eastern parish boundary, with Dalfoulds Dyke running by the northern parish edge. Land elevation. Within the northern and eastern areas, the land"}, {"text": "level is low-lying and flat, varying between . Belph is at , Penny Green at and Hodthorpe at . To the centre and west of the parish there is a former mining spoil tip rising to . The parish peak is also to the west within the quarry at . History. Prehistoric Age. Around 120,000 years ago, Britain was experiencing a warmer period than the present day, known as the Ipswichian Interglacial. The earliest fossils at Creswell Crags date from this time, including those of hippopotamus, narrow-nosed rhinoceros and cave hyena. Around 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals used the caves found there, with the environment being a cool, damp grassland with less taller trees. After the Neanderthals left Creswell Crags, there being a long period before the first member of our own species began to use the caves. Around 29,000 years ago, the area was still a very open grassland. There is only a small amount of evidence in Britain of these early \"Homo sapiens\" visitors, with the climate going into a deeper cooling cycle from around 24,000 years ago. Eventually, Britain warmed enough for Ice Age people to return to use the caves as seasonal hunting camps. Evidence of these"}, {"text": "people date to around 13,000 years ago. Extinct animals remains and fossils found locally include the woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros and the scimitar-toothed cat. Belph. The more historic of the two locations, Belph was a small dormitory settlement to Whitwell, possibly by 1086 although it was not recorded in the Domesday Book. The surrounding area which today forms the county boundary with Nottinghamshire was a portion of Sherwood Forest and heavily wooded until at least the mid-twelfth century, and Belph was established within a forest clearing. It seems that Belph was populated from Whitwell and was likely a part of that lordship. As the manor of Whitwell was subdivided, the land between Belph and the site of Welbeck Abbey was acquired by Richard le Fleming, the descendant of one of William I's followers. Richard's son Thomas of Cuckney acquired Belph, which is separated from Whitwell by Belph Moor and as a result was possibly sold off by the Lord of Whitwell. Thomas later founded Welbeck Abbey in 1153, after which he bequeathed the abbey, Belph and the land between the two to the canons at Welbeck. Belph was very small, housing serfs who farmed the surrounding lands which were used"}, {"text": "primarily for grazing with only sufficient arable land for their own needs. The cottages possibly also housed estate workers such as gardeners and the wood men. It was not until the end of the 16th century that the hamlet was referred to as Belph(e) and is likely to have only referred to the hamlet itself, whereas the surrounding lands particularly around the Grange area, were known as Hirst, derived from the Old English \u2018hyrst\u2019, a wooded bank, which was an outlying farm attached to the Abbey. As a tiny settlement, Belph was an integrated part of the Welbeck Estate and so there is little reference to the placename after this period until 1846. Following the dissolution of the monasteries, Belph passed with Welbeck to Richard Whalley who was granted the estate by the Crown in 1539 and later sold Welbeck in 1559. Between the late 16th and early 17th centuries the Welbeck lease passed from Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury to Sir Charles Cavendish, Bess of Hardwick's third son, and remained in the Cavendish family. The association between Welbeck and the Dukes of Portland began in 1734 when the 2nd Duke acquired the estate with his marriage to Margaret"}, {"text": "Cavendish Harley. However, Welbeck did not become the main family seat until William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland (1809-1854) sold the family's Buckinghamshire estates. The 4th Duke's priority was the management of his estates and it would appear that Belph benefited from this. The 4th Duke was an avid agriculturalist and as such, seems to have played a key role in the enclosure of land in Whitwell and Belph. The enclosure of lands in Whitwell had been taking place since the 16th century and was largely completed in the open fields by 1813 when the Duke of Portland exchanged lands in Great Barlow for lands in the parish of Whitwell owned by the Duke of Rutland. It seems probable that the two Dukes came to an agreement that the parliamentary enclosure of the remaining common and wasteland should take place in the parish, and the following year the Whitwell Enclosure Act was passed. The Whitwell Enclosure Award showed Belph to be an area of early enclosure surrounded by greens. Most of the buildings in the hamlet date from the 18th and early 19th centuries. The Enclosure Award and the 1839 Whitwell Tithe Map show that the Mill Wood Lane area"}, {"text": "of Belph closely resembles the settlement pattern seen today, as Springfield Farm and several of the cottages appear on the map. However, it is during the 4th Duke of Portland's time and the post-enclosure period that the smaller settlement at Penny Green took shape. The 4th Duke of Portland's influence in Belph during this period is indicated by the naming of the Portland Arms public house on Belph Road (now Station Road). The Penny Green Cottages date from the mid-19th century. Business directories of the time provide an insight into the development of Belph, in 1857 Belph was described as a scattered hamlet which included a blacksmith's shop, the Portland Arms and three farms, two of which were Springfield Farm and Belph Grange. Only limited development was recorded as taking place in the directories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By the late 20th century only one new property had been built, whilst several buildings along Mill Wood Lane had been removed, and the Portland Arms having been converted back to private accommodation. By this period Belph had become a largely residential hamlet as The Portland Arms had closed by 1922 and the decline of the agricultural industry"}, {"text": "highlighted by Springfield Farm which became unoccupied. Hodthorpe. The manor of Whitwell was a portion of the Earl of Rutland's estate until 1813, after which it became associated to the Welbeck Estate owned by the Duke of Portland. Although the Duke owned some land in what would become Hodthorpe, a larger section of approx. 56\u00bd acres, was once part of Birks Farm, then owned by the Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne and part of the Worksop Manor Estate. There was a major sale of land by auction in the Worksop area by the Duke of Newcastle in 1890, and private sales of some land had taken place several years previously. The railway was built at Whitwell by 1875, its track between Worksop and Whitwell cut through Larpit (Lowpit) Lane, providing a visible boundary, with Whitwell to the west, and the land in which Hodthorpe would be built, to the east. Shireoaks Colliery Company Ltd. who opened their fourth colliery in 1890\u201391, on an area of land known as Belph Moor, immediately south of Whitwell train station. The company had leased this land from the 6th Duke of Portland, who was then the principal landowner and the Lord of the manor of Whitwell."}, {"text": "Another of the landowners was Henry Sweet Hodding, a local solicitor, who lived at Harness Grove in nearby Darfoulds to the north, and he provided most of the land for the settlement. As the village began to grow it became known as \u2018Hoddingthorpe\u2019, a combination of the name \u2018Hodding\u2019 and \u2018thorpe\u2019 which is a medieval term for village, from which the name of \"Hodthorpe\" eventually derived. There did not appear to have been any set pattern of housebuilding in Hodthorpe, as some of the earlier properties are found in what was known as \"the bottom end\". A terrace of four red brick houses called \"Bentinck Cottages\" and are now 1, 3, 5, and 7 Broad Place were amongst the earliest to be built. Originally a few stone cottages were in the area in which the village would later develop, and these were known as \"Stoneycroft\", they were however demolished in 1933\u201335, and was sited immediately opposite the Junior & Infant School. Lowpit (or Larpit) Lane was the main street which ran from Whitwell, it was renamed Queens Road, and straightened as it met Broad Lane near the eastern boundary of the parish and county. Close to this eastern boundary is"}, {"text": "Birks Farm and Hall Leys Farm. On Queens Road, by the \u2018top end\u2019, there is a pair of semi-detached brick houses having a date stone which is inscribed \"Daisy Cottages 1897\", and by the \u2018bottom end\u2019 the \u2018Prospect Villas\u2019 were built in 1903. In 1909 the Hodthorpe Working Mens Club was built. Initially the club allowed men only, until 1955 when the club was enlarged with the creation of a new concert room. From this time onwards, ladies were admitted and able to become full members. On 22 August 1940 the village was bombed. 20 bombs were dropped causing damage. There were no deaths, but 40 people were left homeless, of which 15 were injured. Industry. The key industries throughout the ages have been agriculture, quarrying and subsequently coal mining. Quarrying. For many centuries, the wider area contained many small quarries, which have provided stone for building, road making and lime burning. A now unused location was north of Station Lane and south west of Hodthorpe, mining sandstone until the turn of the 20th century. A more recent large site has been in operation along Crags Road since 1958. Whitwell Colliery. An area of to the west of Belph called"}, {"text": "Belph Moor was developed into Whitwell Colliery. Shireoaks Colliery Company Ltd. obtained the lease to sink the colliery in February 1890 from the 6th Duke of Portland, who lifted the first sod on 24 May 1890. After shaft sinking and development of the mine, coal production started on a regular basis from 15 April 1894. Throughout the life of Whitwell Colliery, coal was produced from four seams: Top Hard, High Hazel, Clowne and Two Foot. The highest production years were in the early 1960s with approximately 600,000 tons per year. On 3 June 1986 an announcement was made that coal production would cease by the end of June. Newspapers of the time reported heavy losses of around \u00a38 million over the previous year. Cost of producing coal at the time was \u00a369 per ton against a selling price of \u00a342. Of the workforce of 750, the number transferring to other collieries was 389, with most of those remaining (50 years old and over) accepting early retirement. The last day of production was 27 June 1986, with the last worker finishing in July 1987. Religious sites. Prior to parish separation, the main Church of England sites of worship were St Lawrence's"}, {"text": "in Whitwell with its sister church All Saints at the nearby hamlet of Steetley. Although no church was ever built at Belph, a Mission Church of St. Martin was built on King Street in the centre of Hodthorpe in 1897. A Primitive Methodist chapel was later also constructed there adjacent to the railway line by King Street in 1903\u20134, later closing in the early 1950s. A church hall built aside the Mission church was opened in 1955, but both church and hall closed in 1991. Governance and demography. Council administration. There are 663 residents recorded within the parish for the 2011 census. The settlements Hodthorpe, Belph and their surrounding rural areas are combined as one parish for administrative identity. This is managed at the first level of public administration by Hodthorpe and Belph Parish Council. At district level, the wider area is overseen by Bolsover District Council. Derbyshire County Council provides the highest level strategic services locally. Education. There is a school in the core village, Hodthorpe Primary. Community & leisure. A community hall is in use at Hodthorpe village. Landmarks. Listed buildings. There is one listed structure in the parish, The Birks Farmhouse northeast of Hodthorpe: Creswell Crags. Although"}, {"text": "named after the nearby village, this is sited on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border within Hodthorpe and Belph parish. Creswell Crags is an enclosed limestone gorge on the southern border of the parish, the cliffs in the ravine containing several caves that were occupied during the last ice age, between around 43,000 and 10,000 years ago. Its caves contain the northernmost cave art in Europe. The evidence of occupation is regarded as internationally unique in demonstrating how prehistoric people managed to live at the extreme northernmost limits of their territory. The area has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Transport. The Worksop to Nottingham railway, Robin Hood Line forms the north western boundary of the parish, running from north east to south west. The nearest train station is at Whitwell."}, {"text": "Alan Bartram (1932 \u2013 2013) was a British graphic designer and historian of design and lettering. Career. Bartram studied painting and typography and became a graphic designer, working for Lund Humphries and IBM. He researched the history of British vernacular design and lettering, publishing books on traditional British tombstones, shop and street name lettering as well as on book typography. While working at Lund Humphries, Bartram worked with James Sutton to make \"An Atlas of Typeforms.\" This book was 16 x 10 inches and it was published by Lund Humphries in 1967. Bartram's series of books on lettering was published by Lund Humphries: \"Lettering in Architecture\", \"Fascia Lettering in the British Isles\", \"Street Name Lettering in the British Isles\", and \"Tombstone Lettering in the British Isles\". The final book, \"The English Lettering Tradition\", was published in 1986. This series is recognized for its illustrations and monochrome photographs done by Bartram."}, {"text": "The 1992 Nigerian Senate election in Cross River State was held on July 4, 1992, to elect members of the Nigerian Senate to represent Cross River State. Patrick Offiong Ali representing Cross River South, Liyel Imoke representing Cross River Central and Paul Oluohu Ukpo representing Cross River North all won on the platform of the National Republican Convention. Results. Cross River South. The election was won by Patrick Offiong Ali of the National Republican Convention. Cross River Central. The election was won by Liyel Imoke of the National Republican Convention. Cross River North. The election was won by Paul Oluohu Ukpo of the National Republican Convention."}, {"text": "John Thomas Hill KS RAM (c. 1843 \u2013 ) was a church organist, choirmaster and orchestra conductor in Australia. He is remembered for his brief marriage to the \"prima donna\" Ilma de Murska. History. Hill entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1857 and was elected King's Scholar in 1860 and was subsequently appointed to Her Majesty's private band. He also served as pianist and organist of the Royal Italian Opera at Covent Garden. He was organist of St Patrick's pro-Cathedral and assistant organist of St George's Cathedral, London. He emigrated to Australia, arriving in Sydney around 1 January 1865, and advertised his availability as a finishing tutor. His first concert was on 13 March 1865 at the Australian Library, Bent Street, Sydney, which was a resounding success despite the absence of the violinist John Hall. He played duets on violin and harmonium in a \"Soir\u00e9e Musicale\" in July 1866. As a \"gentleman amateur\", he played in duets with G. F. Beaumont, also on harmonium, in grand concert March 1867, and played violin in duet with Alfred Anderson's piano in October 1869. William J. Cordner died in 1870, and Hill was appointed organist and choirmaster of St Mary's pro-Cathedral in"}, {"text": "his place. He felt the need for a better instrument than the \"poor harmonium\" he inherited, a legacy of the (twice) destruction of the cathedral; also the lack of discipline in the choir. Accordingly, he drew up a set of rules for the choristers and approached the Church for funds for an instrument, with which the Catholic press concurred. Hill organised a great concert on 16 May 1871 in aid of the St Mary's organ fund at the Freemasons' Hall, at which he and the choir performed Rossini's \"Stabat Mater\" to excellent reviews. He organised another on 12 June, which was poorly attended and failed to impress the critics. The Catholic press made no mention of this concert, and no further mention of St Mary's choir, Hill or the organ fund. Hill was involved in a benefit to the widowed Mrs Cordner in 1870, giving him an opportunity to display his mastery of the pianoforte in a most difficult piece. Mrs Cordner was herself a contralto of the highest calibre. He was a successful music teacher \u2014 John A. Delany was a student. Delany, who had also studied under Cordner, succeeded Hill as organist of St Mary's pro-Cathedral in 1872"}, {"text": "or earlier. On 29 December 1875 Ilma de Murska married Hill's friend, the pianist Alfred Anderson. Anderson died 22 March 1876, and within two months, on 15 May 1876, while on tour in Dunedin, New Zealand, Murska married again, to Hill. who went by the name Strauss Illa for this tour, and on her Hobart concert on return to Australia from New Zealand. When Murska left for America in October 1876 Hill did not follow. This reference is ambiguous as to whether he remained in Australia or New Zealand. Another asserts that (in 1900) Hill was living in America. In 1881 he was, as John Hillier, conductor at Strand Theatre, London. He produced \"Manola\" in 1882 In 1883 he was musical director of Avenue Theatre, London. De Murska died on 14 January 1889. That same year Hill and Dan Godfrey, jun. founded the London Military Band; he left for America in 1890, leaving Godfrey as manager. Further details, including place and date of his death have not yet been found."}, {"text": "Planctomycetia is a class of aquatic bacteria."}, {"text": "Ra\u00fal Uche Rubio (born 8 October 1997) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Tercera Federaci\u00f3n club Cala Pozuelo. Early life. Uche was born in Madrid and developed in the youth system of Rayo Vallecano. In 2015, he joined the club's reserve side in the Tercera Divisi\u00f3n, making five appearances that season. Club career. Leicester City. In 2016, Uche signed a four-year contract with Premier League champions Leicester City. In 2018, he went on loan with Betis Deportivo in Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B, scoring four goals in fifteen league appearances, and making another two appearances in the promotion play-offs. Valladolid Promesas. On 13 January 2020, after playing very little with Leicester's U-23 squad over his time at the club, Uche returned to Spain and signed with Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B side Valladolid Promesas. That season, he made six league appearances, scoring one goal, and made one appearance in the promotion play-offs. The following year, he scored six goals in sixteen appearances. Atl\u00e9tico Ottawa. On 28 July 2021, Uche signed with Canadian Premier League side Atl\u00e9tico Ottawa. He made his debut for the club on 2 August 2021 in a 2\u20131 loss to HFX Wanderers. Ottawa announced in January"}, {"text": "2022 that they would not be exercising Uche's contract option, ending his time at the club after one season. Salamanca. On 28 January 2022, Uche returned to Spain, signing with Segunda Divisi\u00f3n RFEF side Salamanca UDS. Waterford. On 1 September 2022, it was announced that Uche had signed for League of Ireland First Division club Waterford until the end of their season in November."}, {"text": "The 1992 Nigerian Senate election in Delta State was held on July 4, 1992, to elect members of the Nigerian Senate to represent Delta State. Dan Azinge representing Delta North, Francis Okpozo representing Delta South and W.O. Eradajaye representing Delta Central all won on the platform of the Social Democratic Party. Results. Delta North. The election was won by Dan Azinge of the Social Democratic Party. Delta South. The election was won by Francis Okpozo of the Social Democratic Party. Delta Central. The election was won by W.O. Eradajaye of the Social Democratic Party."}, {"text": "Lacey Eden (born May 2, 2002) is an American college ice hockey player for Wisconsin and member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. Playing career. Eden began her collegiate career for the Wisconsin Badgers during the 2020\u201321 season. During her first month with the team, she tied for the league lead among rookies in goals (three), assists (four) and points (seven), shots on goal (23), and plus/minus (+6). She was subsequently named the WCHA Rookie of the Month for the month of February 2021. She finished the season with eight goals and seven assists in 15 games and helped the Badgers win the national championship. Following an outstanding season she was named to the USCHO All-Rookie Team. On September 18, 2024, she was named an alternate captain for the 2024\u201325 season. As a graduate student, she recorded 24 goals and 34 assists in 41 games, and helped lead Wisconsin to their eighth national championship. International play. Eden represented the United States at the 2019 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship where she won a silver medal. She again represented the United States at the 2020 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, where she led the team in scoring with"}, {"text": "five points and won a gold medal. She was named to the roster for the United States at the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship. Personal life. Eden was born to Bill and Karen Eden. She has one brother, Liam."}, {"text": "Russell County High School (RCHS) is a rural Title I public high school located in Seale, Alabama, United States, offering grades 9 through 12. The school enrolls 1,004 students in total (as of the 2021\u20132022 school year) and is the only high school in the Russell County School District. The student body consists of 43% Caucasian, 47% African American, and 10% other ethnicities. History. Russell County High School was named Chavala High School before changing its name in 1989. Its previous team nickname was the Chavala High Wildcats before changing their name to the Warriors. Chavala High School's first held school year is believed to have been 1924\u20131925. The current high school facility is a rebuilt version of the former Chavala High School. The current version was built in 1989 (as published inside of the facility's office), the same year the school changed its name. With the establishment of the neighboring high school, Central High School of Phenix City, RCHS is one of two public high schools in Russell County. Enrollment grew from 179 students to 651 between 1986 and 1989. Russell County's peak enrollment was 1,004 during the 2022\u20132023 school year. The lowest enrollment was 179, during the 1986\u20131987"}, {"text": "school year. Since 2006, the school has had an average student enrollment of 750. In the 2018\u20132019 school year, Russell County High School ranked 73rd among Alabama high schools. Russell County High School and the district itself have had a diverse community since integration. The school prides itself on its diversity claiming the student population is 47% African American, 43% Caucasian and 10% other. Academics. Russell County High School is a Title I high school, meaning it receives federal funding. Niche gives Russell County High School a C+ in academics. For state test scores, RCHS scores a low 42% in reading proficiency. (The percentage is students who scored at or above average on their state testing scores.) In math proficiency, the school scored 37%. Since RCHS offers college prep courses (AP/Pre-AP), they are graded on the proficiency for the students in those advanced classes. The number of students who are enrolled in AP classes is 1% of the student body. The number of students in RCHS enrolled in AP Math and/or AP Science is below 1%. The average SAT score for Russell County is 840, which is below the state average of 1127. For SAT Math, the average score is"}, {"text": "410, and Verbal is 430. The average ACT score for Math is 20, which is below the state average of 27.1. The average ACT score for Reading is 23, which is also below the state average of 27.4. The average ACT score for English is 23, which is below the state average of 28.3. The average ACT score for Science is 21, which is also below the state average of 27.3. Overall, Russell County High School's average ACT score is 22, which is below the state average of 27.4. Russell County High School offers free tutoring services. The administration has also implemented ACT preparatory classes and opportunities if students wish to enhance their ACT scores. Russell County High School has implemented a fail safe for students who have failed classes and are in danger of repeating a grade. RCHS uses PLATO, an online credit recovery program, in order for students to get the required credit for the class they did not pass. Athletics. Russell County High School offers a wide variety of different sports to participate in. These include baseball, football, softball, volleyball, boys' and girls' basketball, cheerleading, dance, boys' and girls' soccer, track & field, and wrestling. Over the"}, {"text": "2020\u20132021 summer vacation, RCHS introduced new sports that were sanctioned by the AHSAA. The school's teams are the Russell County High School Warriors, and for sports associated with girls, the Lady Warriors. The Warriors' colors are cardinal red and Vegas gold, and the teamsoperate under the Alabama AHSAA 6A Division, Region 2. Russell County's colors and some of their logos resemble those of the Florida State Seminoles. In almost every sport, Russell County High School has rivalries. The Warriors' biggest rivals are the Smiths Station Panthers in Smiths Station, Alabama. The Warriors and Panthers have met many times across the years in many different sports. Other rivalries are the Opelika Bulldogs from Opelika, Alabama and Eufaula Tigers from Eufaula, Alabama. Football. Russell County's football team currently plays in the 6A Region 2 division for AHSAA football. Their overall record as a program is 208-463-5 with a 31% winning percentage. The Warriors' overall region record is 47-194 with one region title (1998). The Warriors do not have any State Titles. Russell County has made the playoffs four times in school history, in 1991, 1998, 2001, and 2013. They possess a 2-4 record in the playoffs. Basketball. Russell County's basketball program is"}, {"text": "one of two sports that has Russell County on the map. The Warriors won a state title for basketball when they were in the 2A division in 1983. They went 25-10 that season. Russell County has 12 Region Championships, in 1973, 1975, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1997, 2011, 2014, 2018, and 2020. The Warriors also have six tournament appearances: 1973, 1975, 183, 1983, 1988, and 1997, with a 5-6 overall record. Baseball. The Warriors baseball team has historically been good. In 2005, Russell County claimed their one and only baseball state title in the 5A division. They were crowned National Champs by the National High School Baseball Coaches Association after being ranked number one with a 38-1 record. The Warriors have 17 area championships in baseball: 1982, 1983, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2018, and 2019. Clubs and programs. Russell County High School offers a variety of clubs, classes, and programs, ranging from JROTC to the newly created African American Studies. Some of these classes have strict requirements, while others are more free and less limited. JROTC/ROTC. The Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program at Russell County High School is a"}, {"text": "military-style program that teaches students grades 9 through 12 the principles and responsibilities of being a strong American citizen. Students are taught how to correctly stand in formation, march, and sound off, similarly to how trainees are taught in basic training. Everyone is taught the core values of being an American citizen as well as respect, and how to take responsibility for their actions. RCHS Warrior Band. The Russell County High School Warrior Band is the primary band associated with RCHS. It is broken up into three sections: Marching Band, Jazz Band, and Symphonic Band. This group is responsible for football halftime performances, band concerts, playing in pep rallies, and band competitions. The colors for the RCHS Warrior Band are the same as for the school. They wear a uniform of mostly white on the right side, a shoulder of cardinal red, and a Vegas gold diagonal stripe down the middle. National Honor Society. Russell County High School offers an exclusive club called the National Honor Society (NHS). This group is filled with a select few students who exceed expectations at RCHS. Students may be chosen or apply, but must meet certain expectations and requirements to get accepted by a"}, {"text": "teacher or approved faculty member. Russell County High School has a National Honor Society Induction Ceremony every year where they welcome new members of the student population to their exclusive organization. The NHS is responsible for greeting new students at arrival, and introducing elementary and middle school kids to the high school. Sometimes, these students are sent on trips to represent Russell County High School in certain events. Future Business Leaders of America. The Future Business Leaders of America class is a business club offered by RCHS. In this club, students are able to go more in-depth into the life of business, programming, operations, and business finances. Students in this class can compete with other schools across the state or country in complex business competitions. Students who participate in FBLA are prepared for a career in business. They are also taught how to properly run a business and keep one stable. Leadership is a main point that is constantly taught to students, so when they leave and pass the class, they know how to be a proper leader. FBLA prepares students for multiple career pathways other than business. They also have experiences in order to join the military or choose"}, {"text": "another career pathway that better suits them. The FBLA class at Russell County High School prepares students for the world of business and gives them experiences for other career pathways so they are best suited for life after graduation."}, {"text": "The 2016 Giro dell'Emilia was the 99th edition of the Giro dell'Emilia road cycling one day race. It was held on 24 September 2016 as part of the 2016 UCI Europe Tour in category 1.HC, over a distance of 213 km, starting in Bologna and ending in Madonna di San Luca, Bologna. The race was won by Esteban Chaves of . Teams. Twenty-five teams were invited to take part in the race. These included ten UCI WorldTeams, thirteen UCI Professional Continental teams and two UCI Continental teams."}, {"text": "Suut Kemal Yetkin (13 September 1903, Urfa \u2013 18 April 1980), was a Turkish academician, writer, essayist, university administrator. Biography. He was the congressman of Urfa in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (1st Term). His father was \u015eeyh Saffet Efendi, and he was the father-in-law of \u0130lhan \u00d6ztrak, who served as the Secretary-General of the Presidency during the periods of Ministry of State, Fahri Korut\u00fcrk and \u0130hsan Sabri \u00c7a\u011flayangil. Education. He completed his primary education in Istanbul and his secondary and high school education at Galatasaray High School. He graduated from high school in 1925 and was sent to France after winning the state scholarship competition to study abroad that year. He studied philosophy at University of Paris in France. After returning to Turkey, he worked as a teacher in various high schools and teacher schools. In 1934, he was appointed to the newly established School of Language and History \u2013 Geography as an associate professor of Aesthetics and Art History. In 1939, he worked as the General Director of Fine Arts at the Ministry of National Education. Career. He entered political life in 1939. Parliament VII. Term and Parliament VIII., he served as an Urfa Deputy of the"}, {"text": "Republican People's Party. He was not elected in the 1950s elections. He returned to academic life as a professor of Islamic Arts in Faculty of Theology at Ankara University. He was the Rector of Ankara University between 1959 and 1963. He was the dean of Ankara University Faculty of Theology twice."}, {"text": "Miguel Colmeiro y Penido (22 October 1816\u201321 June 1901) was a Spanish botanist, and member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (\"Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, F\u00edsicas y Naturales)\". Biography. Colmeiro was born on 22 October 1816 in Santiago de Compostela. He was the rector of the Faculty of Sciences in the Complutense University of Madrid where he later became the Dean. He had been the Director of the Real Jard\u00edn Bot\u00e1nico de Madrid, and professor of Phytography and Botanical Geography. He also was a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences and of the \"Real Academia Nacional de Medicina de Espa\u00f1a.\" He is known as the author of many notable botanical works. He was one of the founder of the \"Real Sociedad Espa\u00f1ola de Historia Natural\". He received the Knight Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Mar\u00eda Victoria. He died in Madrid on 21 June 1901. Honors. Eponymous"}, {"text": "USS \"LST-120 was a in the United States Navy during World War II. She was later transferred to the Republic of Korea Navy and renamed ROKS \"Munsan. Construction and commissioning. \"LST-120\" was laid down on 5 May 1943 at Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Co., Jeffersonville, Indiana. Launched on 7 August 1943 and commissioned on 22 September 1943. Service in the United States Navy. During World War II, \"LST-120\" was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater. She took part in the capture and occupation of Saipan from 15 June to 28 July 1944 and also took part in the capture and occupation of Tinian from 24 to 28 July 1944. She was then assigned to the occupation service in the Far East from 15 to 25 October 1945 and 18 November 1945 to 13 February 1946. On 7 January 1946, she was decommissioned and transferred to Commander Naval Forces Far East (COMNAVFE), Shipping Control Authority for Japan (SCAJAP), redesignated Q004. The ship was put on disposal until she was transferred to South Korea in February 1947. The ship was later struck from the Navy Register on 5 March 1947. Service in the Republic of Korea Navy. In February 1947, the Korean government"}, {"text": "bought the \"LST-120\" and named it Munsan. She was moored at Mukho Port to load coal, and when the Korean War broke out, she was requisitioned under the wartime mobilization order of Lieutenant Colonel Kim Du-chan, deputy commander of the ROK Navy's Mukho Guard. At that time, the Mukho Combat Unit, a joint army-police unit, was fighting against the 549th Army Squadron of the Korean People's Army, which landed on June 25, 1950. \"Munsan\" evacuated the retreating Mukho combat unit to Pohang, and three days later, it returned to Mukho with the reorganized Mukho combat unit under the orders of the Naval Headquarters. Around 2 am on June 29, not knowing that the Munsan was left at Mukho Port, she was bombarded by USS Juneau (CL-119), which she mistook for a ship of the Korean People's Army Navy. She just sent a Navy intelligence officer who was on board the \"Munsan\" to confirm that she was a ship belonging to the Republic of Korea Navy, clearing up her misunderstanding, and she withdrew to Pohang. She participated in the Yeosu evacuation operation under the escort of ROKS Baekdusan (PC-701). Battle of Jangsari. On September 15, \"Munsan\" set sail to support the"}, {"text": "Jangsa landing operation of the \" (Estimate: Total 772 - 718 of student volunteer soldiers led by Republic of Korea Army including Captain Lee Myung-heum) She arrived in Jangsa with 772 men in her squadron, but she was soon stranded ashore by Typhoon Kezia. The battalion, which barely landed, attracted the attention of the 2nd Corps of the Korean People's Army for a week, and in the battle with them, Captain Hwang Jae-jung and crew of the \"Munsan\" were killed. The survivors were covered by the 7th Fleet bombardment task force, which had USS Helena as their flagship, on September 19 and withdrew aboard the ROK Navy's LST Jochiwon. Memorial. On March 6, 1997, the forgotten operation of the Korean War was revealed to the public when the members of the 1st Marine Division Special Reconnaissance Unit, who were searching the shore in front of Jangsari, discovered \"Munsan\" in the tidal flat under the sea. A 2,000 tons replica of the \"Munsan\" was constructed as the Jangsa Landing Operation Commemorative Park. On 16 November 2020, The Memorial museum was opened. Awards. \"LST-120\" have earned the following awards 2 battle stars Citations"}, {"text": "International Harvester's Farmall brand of tractors were built in the United Kingdom between 1949 and 1970. The Farmall name was applied sparingly to International Harvester's UK products, appearing only as the BM, BMD and B-450. History. The International Harvester Company of Great Britain (IHGB) was established in 1906 to sell International Harvester equipment in the United Kingdom. Manufacturing was eventually established in Doncaster, at a plant on Wheatley Hall Road, in 1949. In 1954 a second plant opened in Bradford, operating until 1982. A second Doncaster plant opened at Carr Hill in 1964. Farmall BM and BMD. Production of the Farmall BM from imported parts started at Doncaster in 1949. The BM was a Farmall M, usually equipped with a wide front axle rather than the narrow wheels popular in North America. The BMD diesel-engined version was offered beginning in 1952. Super BM and BMD models followed. In 1953, 53 BMD tractors were painted gold instead of red to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Farmall B-450. The Farmall B-450 was entirely produced in the United Kingdom. All other tractors produced in the UK at that time were sold as International Harvesters or Internationals. The B-450 was a restyled"}, {"text": "version of the McCormick International BWD-6, sold between 1957 and 1970."}, {"text": "Francis Brewster may refer to:"}, {"text": "Henry Henderson (May 1, 1905 \u2013 August 8, 1980) was an American Negro league first baseman in the 1930s. A native of Hamilton County, Tennessee, Henderson was the younger brother of fellow Negro leaguer Leonard Henderson. He played for the Nashville Elite Giants in 1932. Henderson died in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1980 at age 75. External links. and Seamheads"}, {"text": "Rafael Hechevarr\u00eda (1908 \u2013 death date unknown) was a Cuban first baseman in the Negro leagues in the 1930s. A native of Guanabacoa, Cuba, Hechevarr\u00eda played for the Cuban Stars (East) in 1937. In five recorded games, he posted eight hits in 25 plate appearances."}]