[{"text": "\"What A Bam Bam\" is a song recorded by Dominican-American singer Amara La Negra. It was released as a single on February 20, 2018, by Fast Life Entertainment Worldwide and BMG. The song was produced by DJ Mostwanted and features a sample by the reggae song \"Bam Bam\" by Sister Nancy. It peaked on Billboard at number 8 on the Latin Pop Digital Song Sales chart on March 3, 2018. Music video. A music video to accompany the release of \"What A Bam Bam\" was released onto YouTube on March 16, 2019, at a total length of three minutes and twelve seconds. It was directed by Montoya el Duro and features scenes of a pool party located in Miami, Florida."}, {"text": "Coralie is a rural locality in the Shire of Croydon, Queensland, Australia. In the , Coralie had \"no people or a very low population\". Demographics. In the , Coralie had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Coralie had \"no people or a very low population\"."}, {"text": "Atlantic Park was a station on the Long Island Rail Road's former Far Rockaway Branch route in the Rockaways in Queens County, New York City, New York, United States. It has now been abandoned and destroyed. Location Uncertainty. Where the station was located is uncertain. Some sources label its placement as past Neptune House in or next to Belle Harbor, while some say it was located on Rockaway Freeway in between Edgemere and Far Rockaway stations or on Rockaway Freeway between Edgemere and South Side Pavilion stations, though the last two could very well be two descriptions of the same place. History. The station opened in May 1875. It closed sometime before 1929 (if its placement was near Edgemere) or 1901 (if its placement was past Neptune House.) It was not raised up above ground with the rest of the line as part of its grade-separation."}, {"text": "Wat Thep Sirin subdistrict (, ) is a \"khwaeng\" (subdistrict) of Pom Prap Sattru Phai district in Bangkok. History. Wat Deb Sirin (sometimes written as Wat Debsirin), is a royal temple named in honour of Queen Debsirindra, wife of King Mongkut (Rama IV) and mother of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V). The area originally was known as \"Suan Mali\" (\u0e2a\u0e27\u0e19\u0e21\u0e30\u0e25\u0e34, 'jasmine garden') and \"Rong Liang Dek\" (\u0e42\u0e23\u0e07\u0e40\u0e25\u0e35\u0e49\u0e22\u0e07\u0e40\u0e14\u0e47\u0e01, 'child care house'). Both of them are \"tambon\" in Pom Prap Sattru Phai District, Phra Nakhon Province (now Bangkok). Rong Liang Dek was the first nursery in Thailand, it was founded in 1890 by Princess Saisavali Bhiromya, the royal consort of King Chulalongkorn, following the loss of her eldest daughter (Princess Nabhachara Chamrassri) at the age of five years to typhoid in 1889. She established the nursery to adopt orphans north of Suan Mali. After it opened, she named all children herself, before whose names she prefixed the word \"Bun\" ('good deed'). The nursery was demolished, but its name still appears as a \"soi\" ('alleyway') on left side of Bamrung Mueang Road called \"Soi Rong Liang Dek\" or \"Trok Rong Liang Dek\" and it is in the area of neighbouring Khlong Maha Nak Subdistrict."}, {"text": "In 1940, Suan Mali and Rong Liang Dek were merged with Wat Thep Sirin. Geography. Wat Thep Sirin borders four subdistricts (from the north clockwise): Khlong Maha Nak (Bamrung Mueang Road is the dividing line), Rong Mueang of Pathum Wan District (Khlong Phadung Krung Kasem is the dividing line), Pom Prap (Luang Road is the boundary), and Ban Bat (Worachak Road is the boundary). Phlapphla Chai Road runs south from Pom Prap and ends at the junction where it joins with Bamrung Mueang Road."}, {"text": "Founded in 1883, the Glasgow Football Association, based in the city of Glasgow, Scotland and affiliated to the national Scottish Football Association, is one of the oldest such bodies in football. In the modern game its influence is limited, the remit being \"to represent the interests of the senior football clubs in Glasgow\". Those senior clubs competing across the divisions in the Scottish Professional Football League include the two largest and most successful in the country by some distance, Celtic and Rangers (collectively the Old Firm), as well as Partick Thistle, Queen's Park (the oldest football club in Scotland) and Clyde (who have not been based permanently in Glasgow since the 1980s); the three smaller clubs exist in the shadow of their dominant neighbours. A sixth team, Third Lanark, had a strong record until their sudden collapse in the mid 1960s. The association's most prominent role is the administration of the Glasgow Cup, a tournament for clubs in the city first contested in 1888, which was once a coveted prize but diminished in importance during the 20th century as national and continental football became more popular; from the 1990s it was contested between the member clubs' youth teams, with a"}, {"text": "2020 revamp mixing senior teams from the smaller clubs and underage teams from Celtic and Rangers. In addition to the Glasgow Cup, the association aims to \"encourage the involvement of local schools and the development of youth football through a variety of other programmes and events\". The Glasgow FA looks after the city's senior clubs but not those in lower categories: for example, the West of Scotland Football League contains several Glasgow-based semi-professional clubs (most previously affiliated to the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region), and the \"Greater Glasgow Premier AFL\" is just one of several leagues involving teams from the city under the Scottish Amateur Football Association umbrella. History. The seven founders of the organisation at a meeting on 6 March 1883 (formed to compete with the older \u2013 1877 \u2013 rival Edinburgh Association) included three of the six senior clubs that would carry on membership into the mid 20th century: Rangers, Clyde and Queen's Park, plus Northern, Partick and Pollokshields Athletic. By the end of 1883, thirteen clubs were members: the initial six plus Battlefield, Cowlairs, Luton, Partick Thistle, South-Western, Third Lanark and Thistle. The obvious absentee from the list is Celtic, which was first conceived in 1887"}, {"text": "and began playing the following year; in contrast, Clydesdale were one of the leading clubs who had provided players for Scotland in the 1870s but were defunct by the time of the association's founding. Glasgow had a representative team which took part in challenge matches against other associations, most notably a series against the Sheffield Football Association which ran from 1874 to 1960, and played an important role in the early development of football due to the contrasting styles, rules and innovations used in two cities that were home to some of the oldest institutions of the game, such as Queen's Park and Sheffield F.C. respectively. The fixture fell out of favour in the late 1940s with new tournaments such as Scottish and English League Cups taking precedence, but was temporarily revived when floodlights were installed at more grounds to accommodate evening matches. Other matches were played by Glasgow against the London XI in the 1880s, and against Edinburgh/East of Scotland for charity fundraising, particularly in the 1920s, (a one-off match between them as part of the George VI coronation celebrations in 1937 drew 40,000 spectators to Hampden Park) as well as occasional fixtures such as the last editions of"}, {"text": "the Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup against English clubs in the mid-1960s, and a one-off match against a Football League XI for the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 1977. The Scottish Football Association (SFA) handled the selection for matches that involved Glasgow before 1883, but the Glasgow Association inherited management of the team after its formation. Glasgow v Sheffield. Match list. \"Glasgow's score is given first in all cases.\" Glasgow v London. Match list. \"Glasgow's score is given first in all cases.\""}, {"text": "East Creek is a rural locality in the Shire of Croydon, Queensland, Australia. In the , East Creek had \"no people or a very low population\". Demographics. In the , East Creek had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , East Creek had \"no people or a very low population\"."}, {"text": "The Resident Commissioner at Trincomalee, also known as the Resident Commissioner of the Navy at Trincomalee, was chief representative of the Navy Board based at Trincomalee Dockyard. He was senior official of the yard responsible for the supervision of the principal officers of the yard from 1810 to 1832. Duties. The resident commissioner was responsible for superintending all the officers, artificers and labourers employed at the yard. He controlled all payments to staff and examined their accounts. In addition he contracted and drew down bills on behalf of the Navy Office to supply shortfalls in naval stores levels."}, {"text": "The Church of St. Pierre du Queyroix (; Limousin ) is one of the main churches of Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France. It is located in the neighborhood Le Ch\u00e2teau in the greater city centre of Limoges. Description. Although the church was built in the Gothic style in the 13th and 16th centuries, it features elements from the Romanesque period. In the 19th century, it was added Gothic-inspired elements, such as gables, balustrades and slate-covered pavilion roofs. The church has several altarpieces from the Jesuit Chapel which is now located in the enclosure of Gay-Lussac High School. The church's crypt hosts an ossuary. The church building became a Class Historic Monument in 1909. The church has a stained glass window made by Jean P\u00e9nicaud in the 16th century. It represents the Coronation of Mary. Another stained glass made by Gustave Dor\u00e9 in 1875 shows the Miraculous catch of fish."}, {"text": "Fantastic Fungi is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Louie Schwartzberg. The film combines time-lapse cinematography, CGI, and interviews in an overview of the biology, environmental roles, and various uses of fungi. The film features interview segments with Paul Stamets and Michael Pollan, and is narrated by Brie Larson. Reception. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has approval rating based on reviews, with an average ranking of . The site's critical consensus reads, \"As visually dazzling as it is thought-provoking, \"Fantastic Fungi\" sets out to make audiences see mushrooms differently -- and brilliantly succeeds.\" On Metacritic, the film has a score of 70 out of a 100 by 8 reviews, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews. Critics praised Schwartzberg's time-lapse cinematography. Some critics found the narration unnecessary. Josh Kupecki of \"The Austin Chronicle\" said \"visual affectations aside, \"Fantastic Fungi\" is an engaging look at the scope of an organism that is so much more than a pizza topping or an ingredient in beef stroganoff\". Andrew Pulver of \"The Guardian\" wrote \"With its spectacular footage of growth and decay and impassioned speeches about the magic of mushrooms, this documentary is a treat for the eye and ear\". Rex Reed of"}, {"text": "\"The New York Observer\" called the documentary \"charming\", while John DeFore of \"The Hollywood Reporter\" called the film an \"[e]ye-opening eye candy\". According to Robert Abele of the \"Los Angeles Times\" \"it edges a little too close to being a commercial, but that's a nitpick when the totality of \"Fantastic Fungi\" is so entertaining, informative and appealingly hopeful about the hard-working cure-all for our ailing world lying beneath our feet\"."}, {"text": "Grace Jr./Sr. High School (Grace) is a co-educational, college-preparatory Christian school in Simi Valley, California serving grades 7\u201312. The school is one of three campuses in Simi Valley comprising Grace School, the others being an elementary school (grades K\u20146) and a preschool. History. Grace Brethren enrolled its first ninth-grade students in 1989. Those first ten students comprised the school's first graduating class in 1993. Grace High School started as a Preschool and was started by five men from the church of the same name. Academics. Grace Brethren High School is home to the Space Brethren Cubesat Laboratory. Opened in 2018, this 200-square-foot facility allows students to design, build, and maintain a CubeSat miniature satellite as part of the school's STEM curriculum. The lab is operated in cooperation with General Dynamics Mission Systems and local businesses. Launch of the satellite is scheduled for 2020. Athletics. Grace High School athletic teams are nicknamed the Lancers. The school is a member of the CIF Southern Section (CIF-SS) and competes in the Tri-County Athletic Association for all sports except football. From 2014 to 2019, the Lancers were members of the Marmonte Football Association for football. The Grace football team won back-to-back CIF-SS championships in"}, {"text": "2017 and 2018 as well as the CIF State Division 2-AA championship in 2018. The Lancers also appeared in the CIF State Division 2-A title game in 2017. Grace does not have an on-campus football stadium; the Lancers play home football games at Moorpark College. Grace's 2020 football season was postponed to spring 2021, shortened, and ultimately canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2021, head coach Josh Henderson announced his retirement, prompting few players to return for the abbreviated season. The school also suspended its youth football program for at least a year. In April, Grace announced it was leaving the Marmonte Football Association."}, {"text": "Esmeralda is a rural locality in the Shire of Croydon, Queensland, Australia. In the , Esmeralda had \"no people or a very low population\". Geography. The Richmond\u2013Croydon Road runs through from south to north. The land use is grazing on native vegetation. History. The locality takes its name from a local hill named on 30 September 1873 by explorer George Elphinstone Dalrymple. Demographics. In the , Esmeralda had a population of 21 people. In the , Esmeralda had \"no people or a very low population\". Education. There are no schools in Esmeralda nor nearby. The options are distance education and boarding school. Economy. There are a number of homesteads in the locality:"}, {"text": "Victoria Vale is a rural locality in the Shire of Croydon, Queensland, Australia. In the , Victoria Vale had a population of 12 people. Geography. The \"Norman River\" forms part of the south-eastern boundary before flowing through to the west. The \"Clara River\", a tributary of the \"Norman\", flows through from north-east to north. The Richmond\u2013Croydon Road crosses the south-eastern and north-eastern corners. Demographics. In the , Victoria Vale had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Victoria Vale had a population of 12 people. Education. There are no schools in Victoria Vale, nor nearby. The options are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "The Nokia 800 Tough is a Nokia-branded mobile phone developed by HMD Global. It was unveiled at IFA 2019 together with the Nokia 110 (2019), Nokia 2720 Flip, Nokia 6.2, and Nokia 7.2. It was preceded by the Nokia 2720 Flip. The device can survive a free fall from up to 1.8 meters (6'), is IP68 rated and conforms to MIL-STD-810G standard. It runs on the KaiOS operating system, and has a non-removable battery with a capacity of 2100 mAh. The device has an MP3/WAV/AAC/MP4/H.264 player, predictive T9 typing, supports SNS (Social Networking Service) apps including WhatsApp, Facebook and Google Assistant. In February 2020, the device received an iF Design Award 2020 by iF International Forum Design."}, {"text": "Margaret of Trent (died 1 June 1307) was the companion of Fra Dolcino of Novara, leader of the heretical New Apostles, from at least December 1303 until her death. She was a native of Trent or possibly Arco. In a deposition taken in Bologna on 22 September 1304, Rolandino, one of the Apostles, described Margaret as from Trent and a companion of Dolcino for the past year. In 1302\u20131303, according to Rolandino, Dolcino had been accompanied on his preaching tour of the Trentino by Cara da Modena, a woman and fellow preacher. In Dolcino's second letter of December 1303, however, he lists the leaders of his movement in order of precedence with himself first as \"rector\" (leader) and his sister Margaret second as \"his beloved above all\". They are followed by the brothers Longino da Bergamo, Alberto da Cimego, Baldrico da Brescia and Federico Grampa di Novara. The same hierarchy is described as current by Rolandino in his deposition. Margaret's rise to prominence appears to have been rapid, given the presence of another woman, Cara, beside Dolcino earlier in the year. It is not known if the choice of a woman as his companion had significance to the movement or"}, {"text": "was merely coincidental. No other women leaders are known among the Apostles. In his writings, the inquisitor Bernard Gui accuses Margaret of being Dolcino's concubine (\"amasia\"), but his accusation is of little worth on its own. He also calls Margaret \"his partner in crime and heresy\" and a \"mischievous woman\". He admits that Dolcino denies any physical relationship, claiming that he treated Margaret \"in the manner of a sister in Christ, modestly and honestly\". According to Gui, when Margaret became pregnant Dolcino claimed that she was impregnated by the Holy Spirit. Gui heightens the implausibility of Dolcino's claim by describing Margaret, in Italian in an otherwise Latin text, as \"the beauty\" (\"la bella\"), a description picked up by the anonymous \"Historia fratris Dulcini\" and by Benvenuto da Imola, who writes of her \"immense beauty\". In 1306, Pope Clement V declared a crusade against the followers of Fra Dolcino, who took refuge in the Val Sesia. On 23 March 1307, Raniero Avogadro, bishop of Vercelli, led the final attack on the New Apostles. Dolcino, Margaret and Longino were captured. They were brought to Biella on 25 March. After a secular trial by a council of wise men, according to the \"Historia"}, {"text": "fratris Dulcini\", they were burned at the stake on the banks of the Cervo near Vercelli on 1 June 1307. Margaret was burned first before Dolcino's eyes. Gui gives a slightly different account. He has Margaret torn to pieces before Dolcino's eyes before the latter met the same fate. Their dismembered corpses were then cremated. On 31 December 1332, Margaret's brother Boninsegna, son of Oddorico da Arco, a nobleman, testified that about 28 years earlier his sister and four other young women along with several young men had joined the New Apostles and died at the stake. But two years earlier, according to Boninsegna, he had learned that she was alive and living in Vicenza under the name Maria. She had been imprisoned for three years, released by the Inquisition, married and had a fifteen-year-old son. There is no other source that mentions Margaret's survival and it is likely that the story of her escape was concocted to posthumously rehabilitate her."}, {"text": "Bellfield is a rural locality in the Shire of Croydon, Queensland, Australia. In the , Bellfield had \"no people or a very low population\". Geography. The \"Norman River\" rises in the locality and runs west before forming a small section of the western boundary. The Richmond\u2013Croydon Road crosses the south-western corner in two places. Demographics. In the , Bellfield had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Bellfield had \"no people or a very low population\". Education. There are no schools in Bellfield, nor nearby. The options are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "}}</math> The square root of 6 is the positive real number that, when multiplied by itself, gives the natural number 6. It is more precisely called the principal square root of 6, to distinguish it from the negative number with the same property. This number appears in numerous geometric and number-theoretic contexts. It can be denoted in surd form as formula_1 and in exponent form as formula_2. It is an irrational algebraic number. The first sixty significant digits of its decimal expansion are: which can be rounded up to 2.45 to within about 99.98% accuracy (about 1 part in 4800); that is, it differs from the correct value by about . It takes two more digits (2.4495) to reduce the error by about half. The approximation (\u2248 2.449438...) is nearly ten times better: despite having a denominator of only 89, it differs from the correct value by less than , or less than one part in 47,000. Since 6 is the product of 2 and 3, the square root of 6 is the geometric mean of 2 and 3, and is the product of the square root of 2 and the square root of 3, both of which are irrational"}, {"text": "algebraic numbers. NASA has published more than a million decimal digits of the square root of six. Rational approximations. The square root of 6 can be expressed as the simple continued fraction formula_3 The successive partial evaluations of the continued fraction, which are called its \"convergents\", approach formula_4: formula_5 Their numerators are 2, 5, 22, 49, 218, 485, 2158, 4801, 21362, 47525, 211462, \u2026, and their denominators are 1, 2, 9, 20, 89, 198, 881, 1960, 8721, 19402, 86329, \u2026. Each convergent is a best rational approximation of formula_4; in other words, it is closer to formula_4 than any rational with a smaller denominator. Decimal equivalents improve linearly, at a rate of nearly one digit per convergent: formula_8 The convergents, expressed as , satisfy alternately the Pell's equations formula_9 When formula_4 is approximated with the Babylonian method, starting with and using , the th approximant is equal to the th convergent of the continued fraction: formula_11 The Babylonian method is equivalent to Newton's method for root finding applied to the polynomial formula_12. The Newton's method update, formula_13 is equal to formula_14 when formula_15. The method therefore converges quadratically. Geometry. In plane geometry, the square root of 6 can be constructed"}, {"text": "via a sequence of dynamic rectangles, as illustrated here. In solid geometry, the square root of 6 appears as the longest distances between corners (vertices) of the double cube, as illustrated above. The square roots of all lower natural numbers appear as the distances between other vertex pairs in the double cube (including the vertices of the included two cubes). The edge length of a cube with total surface area of 1 is formula_16 or the reciprocal square root of 6. The edge lengths of a regular tetrahedron (), a regular octahedron (), and a cube () of equal total surface areas satisfy formula_17. The edge length of a regular octahedron is the square root of 6 times the radius of an inscribed sphere (that is, the distance from the center of the solid to the center of each face). The square root of 6 appears in various other geometry contexts, such as the side length formula_18 for the square enclosing an equilateral triangle of side 2 (see figure). Trigonometry. The square root of 6, with the square root of 2 added or subtracted, appears in several exact trigonometric values for angles at multiples of 15 degrees (formula_19 radians). In"}, {"text": "culture. Villard de Honnecourt's 13th century construction of a Gothic \"fifth-point arch\" with circular arcs of radius 5 has a height of twice the square root of 6, as illustrated here."}, {"text": "The District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites is a register of historic places in Washington, D.C. that are designated by the District of Columbia Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB), a component of the District of Columbia Government. Historic Preservation Review Board. The District of Columbia Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) designates historic structures and districts and advises the Mayor of the District of Columbia on historic preservation matters. Members of the HPRB are appointed by the mayor and are approved by the Council of the District of Columbia. The D.C. Inventory of Historic Sites was created in 1964, and was originally compiled by the predecessor to the HPRB, the Joint Committee on Landmarks of the National Capital. , the Inventory includes approximately 750 historic sites and 50 historic districts. Criteria. The criteria for designation are defined by the D.C. Municipal Regulations at DCMR 10-C, Section C-201. Designated properties must:"}, {"text": "Seydou Legacy Athl\u00e9tique Club, commonly known as SLAC, is a Guinean basketball team from Conakry. The team plays in the Ligue 1, as well as in the Basketball Africa League (BAL) in of the 2023 season. SLAC has won the Ligue 1 championship six times in history. SLAC plays its home games in the Palais de Sports de Stade du 28 Septembre, located next to the multi-purpose stadium. History. In March 2018, SLAC made its debut in the FIBA Africa Basketball League, the top pan-African league. On 1 March 2018, SLAC played its first game ever at an African main tournament, losing 80\u201365 to JS Kairouan. In 2019, SLAC won its fourth domestic championship after beating BACK in the finals. Qualified as national champion of Guinea, SLAC played in the 2020 BAL Qualifying Tournaments. Before the start of the qualifiers, SLAC attracted Serbian head coach Zeljko Zecevic. The following year, the team returned to the BAL qualifiers and qualified after beating Mali's AS Police after overtime in the semifinal. As a result, SLAC became the first team from Guinea to play in the BAL. With a 2\u20133 record in the Sahara Conference behind standout guard Chris Crawford, the team qualified"}, {"text": "for the playoffs. There, SLAC lost in the quarter-finals to the defending champions Zamalek from Egypt. In the 2023 BAL season, they had a 1\u20134 record and thus failed to qualify for the playoffs a second year in a row. SLAC's star player Dane Miller Jr. was named to the All-BAL First Team. In the 2023 offseason, SLAC's accomplished coach \u017deljko Ze\u010devi\u0107 departed the team for AS Sal\u00e9. The club hired Italian coach Paolo Povia, former head coach of the Ivory Coast national team, as his replacement. Players. Notable players. The following list of former SLAC players includes players who have played at least one official international match for their country, have won a major award or have played in the National Basketball Association. Honours. Ligue 1 Basketball Africa League"}, {"text": "Jack Brian Uhde (born 1957) is an American politician former in the state of Montana. In 1976, he was elected as a Democrat to the Montana House of Representatives, representing District 17 (Kalispell), and he served until 1980. Uhde was elected at the age of 18, and is the youngest person ever elected to the Montana Legislature. He defeated incumbent representative James A. Sloan for the Democratic nomination. At the time, he was a student at Flathead Valley Community College in public administration and employed at a local store in Kalispell. He also held jobs as a janitor and a cook, and in real estate sales. He graduated from Flathead High School in 1975. During his time in the House, he served on the Judiciary Committee, Highways Committee, and as vice-chairman of the Education Committee. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science in 1979 from the University of Montana, while serving in the House. He was elected to a second term in 1978, and announced intentions to run for a third term in January 1980, but withdrew later that year in September, citing a desire to attend graduate school and join his wife in California where she would attend"}, {"text": "law school. He was succeeded by Alison Conn, who was 19 years old at the time of her election."}, {"text": "JetSmart Airlines S.A., styled as JetSMART, is an Argentine airline owned by ultra low-cost carrier JetSmart, itself owned by Indigo Partners, a firm that also has stakes in US-based Frontier Airlines, Mexico-based Volaris, and Hungary-based Wizz Air. The airline uses the branding and corporate identity of JetSmart, its parent company, and operates a fleet of Airbus A320 family aircraft with a base at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires. Its aircraft are registered in Argentina. History. The airline was originally established in 2016 as Alas del Sur L\u00edneas A\u00e9reas (English: \"Southern Wing Airlines\"), with plans to establish a hub in C\u00f3rdoba. The plans consisted of an April 2017 launch date with short-haul flights from C\u00f3rdoba to South American destinations added throughout 2017, and long-haul flights from Argentina to North America, Europe, and Asia by 2022. The airline planned to operate a fleet of Airbus A320 and Boeing 777 aircraft. However, as the airline did not receive an air operator's certificate, the start of service was postponed. In June 2018, Indigo Partners acquired the startup airline through its Chilean subsidiary JetSmart, allowing for JetSmart's entry into Argentina's domestic aviation market, and the airline was subsequently rebranded as JetSmart Argentina. JetSmart Argentina"}, {"text": "received its air operator's certificate and its first aircraft, an Airbus A320-200 registered as LV-HEK, in December 2018. In February 2019, the airline announced and opened reservations for its first services beginning on 10 April 2019, which were to be operated from a new base at El Palomar Airport near Buenos Aires, after its parent company had previously operated flights to the airport from Santiago de Chile. The airline announced further expansion plans in August 2019, with Rosario as a new destination to launch in November 2019, and that it would increase its Airbus A320 fleet to six aircraft. Following JetSmart's acquisition of Norwegian Air Argentina in December 2019, the airline planned to launch services from Norwegian's Aeroparque Jorge Newbery base in March 2020. As Argentina's Civil Aviation Administration had not immediately transferred Norwegian's Aeroparque-based route authorities to JetSmart Argentina, Norwegian's fleet of Boeing 737s was wet-leased and operated under a separate, rebranded entity named JetSmart Regional. The services at Aeroparque were ultimately suspended as an impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on aviation, with JetSmart Argentina's existing services additionally relocated from El Palomar Airport to Ezeiza International Airport by late 2020. In early 2021, it was reported that the airline"}, {"text": "would not return to El Palomar and instead relocate its services to Aeroparque, with operations at the airport and new base launching in March 2021. Destinations. , JetSmart Argentina operates or has operated to the following destinations: Fleet. , JetSmart Argentina operates an all-Airbus A320 family fleet composed of the following aircraft:"}, {"text": "State Route 287 (SR 287) is a north-south state highway located entirely in Warren County in Middle Tennessee. It connects Viola with Rock Island via Morrison, Centertown, Midway, and Rock Island State Park. SR 287's routing is somewhat unique in that it forms a nearly C-shaped arch around the southern, western, and northern sides of McMinnville. Route description. SR 287 begins just north of the town of Viola at an intersection with SR 108/SR 127 (Viola Road). It heads northwest through farmland and rural areas as Morrison Viola Road for several miles, where it crosses a bridge over a creek, to enter the town of Morrison along S Fair Street and come to an intersection with SR 55 (Manchester Highway). The highway then passes through downtown, where it has a short concurrency with SR 379 (Maple Street), before leaving Morrison along N Main Street. SR 287 turns north along Jacksboro Road through rural areas for several miles, where it crosses the Barren Fork River, to pass through the town of Centertown, where it has a short concurrency with US 70S (Nashville Highway/SR 1). It winds its way northeast as W Green Hill Road through farmland for several miles before turning"}, {"text": "east and passing just north of the Dibrell community, where it has an intersection with SR 56 (Smithville Highway). The highway winds southeast through more hilly areas along E Green Hill Road to pass through the community of Midway, where it has an intersection with SR 288 (Francis Ferry Road). SR 287 now becomes Great Falls Road and continues east to pass through Rock Island State Park, where it passes by the Great Falls Dam and crosses the mouth of the Collins River, before entering the community of Rock Island and come to an end at an intersection with SR 136 (Rock Island Road). The entire route of SR 287 is a two-lane highway."}, {"text": "The 2020 Ottawa Redblacks season was scheduled to be the seventh season for the team in the Canadian Football League. This would have been the first season for Paul LaPolice as the team's head coach and the seventh season with Marcel Desjardins as general manager. Training camps, pre-season games, and regular season games were initially postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa. The CFL announced on April 7, 2020 that the start of the 2020 season would not occur before July 2020. On May 20, 2020, it was announced that the league would likely not begin regular season play prior to September 2020. On August 17, 2020 however, the season was officially cancelled due to COVID-19. Offseason. Personnel changes. Three days following the conclusion of the 2019 season, on November 4, 2019, Rick Campbell announced that he was stepping down as head coach of the Redblacks. In a press conference, Campbell explained that he had become disappointed that several former players left the team feeling underappreciated and dejected and that he had a strained relationship with the team's general manager, Marcel Desjardins. Campbell left the Redblacks with a record over six seasons with one Grey Cup championship in three"}, {"text": "appearances. He had one year remaining on his contract that OSEG agreed to pay out over five years. On December 7, 2019, it was announced that Paul LaPolice had agreed to a three-year contract to become the head coach of the Ottawa Redblacks. He was most recently the offensive coordinator for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers from 2016 to 2019, including the 107th Grey Cup championship. He has also served as head coach of the Blue Bombers from 2010 to 2012 while compiling a record. CFL National Draft. The 2020 CFL National Draft took place on April 30, 2020. By virtue of recording the worst record in the league in 2019, the Redblacks had the first selection in each round, not including traded picks. After trading for the rights to Nick Arbuckle and re-signing him, the Redblacks swapped first-round picks with the Calgary Stampeders and also sent them a third-round pick. The team also gained a territorial selection after finishing in the bottom two of the previous year's standings. CFL Global Draft. The 2020 CFL Global Draft was scheduled to take place on April 16, 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this draft and its accompanying combine were postponed to"}, {"text": "occur just before the start of training camp, which was ultimately cancelled. The Redblacks were scheduled to select first in each round with the number of rounds never announced. Planned schedule. Regular season. The Redblacks had planned on hosting a number of themed home games during the season, one of which was scheduled to feature the unveiling of new red alternate jerseys July 24, 2020."}, {"text": "Raymundo Gleyzer (September 25, 1941 - missing since May 27, 1976) was an Argentine screenwriter and filmmaker. He specialized in documentaries and politically charged fiction films. Gleyzer was part of the left-wing faction of the Peronist political movement, and a staunch opponent of Argentina's last military dictatorship (1976-1983). In 1976 he was kidnapped, likely murdered and disappeared as part of the dictatorship's campaign of State-sponsored terrorism. Biography. Born into an Argentine Jewish family in Buenos Aires, Gleyzer became interested in politics and film early on in his life. From the start of his career all of his films were focused on the fight against social injustice and for political revolution in Latin America's countries. He made his first film in the wilds of northeastern Brazil, where he barely escaped death at the hands of the military dictatorship ruling there. In the early 1970s he made a film in Mexico about the so-called \"institutionalized revolution\" of the ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party. The film was banned in Argentina at first, but was well-received in Mexico by university students. In 1973 he co-founded the group, which organized demonstrations and discussions with workers (i.e., outside the film industry). His last major film,"}, {"text": "(The Traitors, 1973), presents a strong critique of the right-wing faction which prevailed in the Peronist political movement at the time and which also played a pivotal role in Juan Domingo Peron's third and last presidential term, in 1973. The film depicts how several union leaders had secretly and slowly aligned themselves \u2014many years before Per\u00f3n's comeback and inauguration for his third presidency\u2014 with the economical establishment, the military and United States's interests with the only goal of maintaining their personal power and enrich themselves. On May 27, 1976, Gleyzer was abducted and tortured by a death squad of the Argentina's last military dictatorship that had come to power two months earlier, and never seen again. He is thus one of thousands of (disappeared) of the dictatorship, most of which were secretly murdered. Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff created a cartoon dedicated to Gleyzer and the violently \"disappeared\" people of Latin America."}, {"text": "Northhead is a rural locality in the Shire of Etheridge, Queensland, Australia. In the , Northhead had \"no people or a very low population\". Geography. The \"Gilbert River\" flows through from south to north, where it forms part of the northern boundary. The \"Robertson River\" enters from the south-east and joins the \"Gilbert\" in the centre. Demographics. In the , Northhead had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Northhead had \"no people or a very low population\"."}, {"text": "Stewart Christopher Johnston (born February 26, 1971) is a Canadian businessman, who is the 15th and current commissioner of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and former president of The Sports Network and Senior Vice President of Bell Media, Content and Sales. Early life. Johnston was born in Toronto, Ontario, on February 26, 1971, to Charles Christopher (Chris) Johnston, a lawyer, and Vivian Audrey (n\u00e9e Ash). The third of five children, Johnston's family moved to Ottawa in 1972 when he was one year old. While growing up in Ottawa, he was neighbours with legendary kicker of the Ottawa Rough Riders, Gerry Organ. Johnston attended Ashbury College in Ottawa for his high school years, where he played quarterback for both the junior varsity and varsity football teams in addition to hockey. He described himself as a 'sports junkie' when he was young. Johnston attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and received a letter of permission to study at the University of British Columbia for his final year. He graduated from Queen's with an Honours Business Degree. Career. Between his third and fourth years of university, Johnston took a 16-month co-op position with Gatorade in Peterborough, Ontario, in the sports marketing department. This"}, {"text": "position led him to working at the 82nd Grey Cup, where he mixed drinks behind the bench for the Baltimore Football Club. Johnston started working as an intern at TSN in 1997. He worked his way up the ranks and was promoted to Vice President of Programming in 2006. In 2010, he was made President. In 2014, Johnston added TSN3, TSN4, TSN5 to TSN's list of networks. He described it as an \"important evolution\" for the network, as it would allow TSN to make more efficient use of its portfolio of sports properties, by showing more sports games on at the same time to satisfy the people and the company. When he departed Bell Media for the Canadian Football League in 2025, he held the position of Senior Vice President, Content and Sales. In 2019, Johnston was ranked #48 in \"The Hockey News\" \"Top 100 People of Power and Influence\". In November, he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Hockey Hall of Fame. On April 1, 2025, Johnston was named by Dan Ralph of The Canadian Press as the top candidate to replace the retiring Randy Ambrosie as commissioner of the Canadian Football League. The next day on April 2, 2025,"}, {"text": "Johnston was announced as Ambrosie's successor, officially assuming the role on April 24, 2025."}, {"text": "San Joaquin is a forested basaltic shield volcano forming the southeastern corner of Equatorial Guinea's Bioko. The geologic history of San Joaquin is poorly known, but the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior has classified the volcano as having been active in the last 2,000 years. San Joaquin was known as Pico Bia\u00f3 before Spanish colonization of the island. It is the second-lowest volcano in Equatorial Guinea, ahead of Mount Fijelvingue, at 1,500 meters. It occupies a space of 301 cubic kilometers, and has an ovular summit with a lake, as well as a crater lake formed on the northeast of the volcano. On average, it inclines at 13.6 degrees, though the northern end has steep saddle formations, which is averaged by the eastern end, which flattens as much as 5 degrees. It has the most complex geologic patterns out of the volcanoes on Bioko, due to 59 faults intersecting it."}, {"text": "Bindebango is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Bindebango had a population of 31 people. Geography. Thrushton National Park is in the south-east of the locality, extending into neighbouring Bollon to the south. Apart from this protected area, the land use is grazing on native vegetation. The Balonne Highway passes to the south of the locality through Bollon. Demographics. In the , Bindebango had a population of 10 people. In the , Bindebango had a population of 31 people. Education. There are no schools in Bindebango. The nearest government primary school is Bollon State School in neighbouring Bollon to the south, but only students within the south of Bindebango are likely to be close enough for a daily commute. There are no nearby secondary schools. The alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Mark C. Storella (born 1959) a graduate of the Roxbury Latin School, Harvard College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, is Dean of the Leadership and Management School at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) as of May 28, 2019. Storella was U.S. Ambassador to Zambia from 2010 to 2013. Storella is considered a member of the Senior Foreign Service. Prior to becoming a Dean at the FSI, was the Senior State Department Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. From 2016 to 2018, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. He was the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in Brussels from 2013 to 2016. Storella was Deputy Permanent Representative to UN organizations in Geneva (2007-2009) and Deputy Chief of Mission in Cambodia (2003-2006). In 2020, Storella, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and \"To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States,"}, {"text": "and we will vote for him.\" Awards. Besides several State Department Superior and Meritorious Honor awards, he was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award presented by American Citizens Abroad and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Excellence in Service Award."}, {"text": "William Hurle Liddle (2 December 1888 \u2013 8 September 1959) was a pastoralist who established Angas Downs Station (now Angus Downs Indigenous Protected Area), in Central Australia, taking up the first pastoral lease in 1929. Early life. Liddle, of Scottish descent, was born in Angaston, South Australia to Thomas and Matilda Ann Liddle. Life in the Northern Territory. Liddle came to Alice Springs as a young man, to work at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station, in 1907. This is where he met, and married, Mary Earwaker the daughter of the blacksmith and a local Arrernte woman, in 1912. Following their marriage (during which they had four children) Liddle worked as a contractor for Gerhardt Johannsen, and constructed many of the stone buildings at Arltunga, including the Arltunga Police Station. William left Mary in Alice Springs. He then started working at a number of local cattle stations including Maryvale Station, Mount Burrell, Bowson's Hole, Hamilton Downs and finally King's Creek Station before establishing his own station Angas Downs: named for his home town. Angas Downs, 300 km southwest of Alice Springs, was first visited by Liddle in 1922 when, in dire circumstances, he found water at \"Liddle Hills\" and built a"}, {"text": "homestead there. He visited again in 1927 when over-landing 2000 sheep to South Australia. A formal lease was not officially granted until 1929. The Anangu name for this place is Walara. In 1932 H.H. Finlayson stayed with Liddle at Angas Downs and, although it was his primary purpose of his expedition to study mammals he took many photographs and recordings of Aboriginal people here. Whilst there, Liddle fathered several more children such as Bob Randall. This attracted the attention of the authorities and many of these children were taken to become members of the Stolen Generations. In 1948 Liddle sold Angas Downs to two of his sons, Arthur and Milton Liddle. The brothers, and their Aboriginal descendants, ran sheep and then cattle until the 1990s when, following financial struggles, they sold to the Imanpa Development Association Inc. and it became the Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area."}, {"text": "Bargunyah is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Bargunyah had a population of 35 people. Geography. Bargunyah's postcode is 4465. The land use is grazing on native vegetation. Demographics. In the , Bargunyah had a population of 29 people. In the , Bargunyah had a population of 35 people. Education. There are no schools in Bargunyah. The nearest government primary school is Dunkeld State School in neighbouring Dunkeld to the east; however, it would be too distant for a daily commute from most parts of Bargunyah. Also, there are no nearby secondary schools. The alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Mungallala South is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mungallala South had a population of 38 people. Mungallala South's postcode is 4467. Geography. The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation. History. The name Mungallala comes from the town and pastoral run name. It is derived from the Kunggari language, from \"mungar\"/\"kungar\" meaning \"bird\" and \"yaya\"/\"lala\" meaning \"shout\", describing the sound of the claws of running emu. Demographics. In the , Mungallala South had a population of 24 people. In the , Mungallala South had a population of 38 people. Education. There are no schools in Mungallala South. The nearest primary schools are Mungallala State School in neighbouring Mungallala to the north and Mitchell State School in Mitchell to the north-east. The nearest secondary school is Mitchell State School to Year 10 only. There are no secondary schools offering education to Year 12 nearby (the nearest is in Roma). Some parts of the locality will be too distant to attend any of these as a daily commute and the alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Spight is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Vincent Dixie (born August 20, 1973) is an American businessman, politician, and a Democratic member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, representing District 54 since 2019. Dixie is one of 32 freshman members of the 111th Tennessee General Assembly. He succeeded Brenda Gilmore after she was sworn into the Tennessee Senate. Background. Dixie attended Tennessee State University where he received his bachelor's degree in Accounting (BBA) in 1997 and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in 2004. In 2009, he founded the bail bonding companies A Way Out Bonding and Bail U Out Bonding. Prior to this he worked in the health care industry as an international auditor for Hospital Corporation of America and Ardent Health Services. Legislative committees. Dixie currently serves as a member of the following legislative committees: Political positions and sponsored bills. Criminal justice. Dixie sponsored HB 0883, a bill which allows felons who have gone at least five years without incident the opportunity to petition to have their criminal history sealed. He also sponsored HB 0881, a bill called the \"Drug Treatment Instead of Incarceration Act\". Education. Dixie sponsored HB1550 to delete the \"Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program\", a school voucher program for low- and"}, {"text": "middle-income students. Health care. Dixie sponsored the following bills in relation to health including HB 887, which is the \"Prescription Drug Fair Pricing Act\", HB 1259, which will expand Medicaid eligibility to people who have an opioid addiction and make less than the Federal poverty level, in the duration of their active involvement at any approved substance abuse treatment facility. Gun rights. Dixie has consistently received \"F\" ratings from the NRA Political Victory Fund in regards to his gun rights positions. Personal life. Dixie and his wife Ericka have two daughters: Noelle and Hannah Marie. He attends St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church where he serves as a member of the church's finance committee. Others community involvements are:"}, {"text": "was a Japanese gay erotic artist. Kimura, along with George Takeuchi and Sadao Hasegawa, is noted by artist and historian Gengoroh Tagame as a central figure in the second wave of contemporary gay artists that emerged in Japan in the 1970s. Biography. Kimura was born in 1947. He began his career in gay erotic art in 1978 as illustrator and cover artist for \"Barazoku\", the first commercially published gay magazine in Japan; he would be a regular contributor before departing the magazine in 1989. He would contribute artwork to other gay magazines throughout his career, notably , \"G-men\", and \"SM-Z\". Kimura would also contribute artwork to the early yaoi magazines \"June\" and \"Allan\", making him among the first gay artists to achieve crossover success with a female audience in yaoi publications. He was a co-founding member of Studio Kaiz, along with Naoki Tatsuya and his partner Kihira Kai. Kimura's artwork was ubiquitous in gay publications in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, with Gengoroh Tagame describing Kimura as the \"face\" of gay magazines in Japan. His works typically depict handsome, masculine men rendered in a homoerotic style that is frequently romantic and sensual, rather than explicitly pornographic. Artist Kazuhide Ichikawa"}, {"text": "has described Kimura's illustrations as \"soft\" and \"nostalgic\", while Tagame describes his art as featuring \"sporty young men who look familiar, and not beautiful men who appear disconnected from reality.\" On February 18, 2003, Kimura died at the age of 56 from a pulmonary embolism. A tribute edition of \"Tan Pan Body\", a collection of his works self-published in 1997, was published shortly after his death. His collected works are held by Studio Kaiz."}, {"text": "In condensed matter physics and black hole physics, the Sachdev\u2013Ye\u2013Kitaev (SYK) model is an exactly solvable model initially proposed by Subir Sachdev and Jinwu Ye, and later modified by Alexei Kitaev to the present commonly used form. The model is believed to bring insights into the understanding of strongly correlated materials and it also has a close relation with the discrete model of AdS/CFT. Many condensed matter systems, such as quantum dot coupled to topological superconducting wires, graphene flake with irregular boundary, and kagome optical lattice with impurities, are proposed to be modeled by it. Some variants of the model are amenable to digital quantum simulation, with pioneering experiments implemented in nuclear magnetic resonance. Model. Let formula_1 be an integer and formula_2 an even integer such that formula_3, and consider a set of Majorana fermions formula_4 which are fermion operators satisfying conditions: Let formula_7 be random variables whose expectations satisfy: Then the SYK model is defined as formula_10. Note that sometimes an extra normalization factor is included. The most famous model is when formula_11: formula_12, where the factor formula_13 is included to coincide with the most popular form."}, {"text": "Ben Kimura may refer to:"}, {"text": "Ekaterina Anatolievna Kuzmina (; born 5 January 1996) is a Russian curler from Moscow."}, {"text": "is an animated television spin-off of the \"Astro Boy\" franchise created by Osamu Tezuka. Aimed at preschoolers, the series was produced by Planet Nemo in collaboration with Tezuka Productions. The series had its global debut in China on MangoTV on August 2, 2019. In Japan, the series premiered on TX Network stations on October 3, 2019. Production. During the 2014 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Tezuka Productions announced it was developing new episodes of \"Little Astro Boy\", an earlier iteration of the franchise aimed at preschool audiences. In 2016, it was revealed that this would be an entirely separate production under the same name created with France's Something Big. The series was later re-titled to \"Go Astro Boy Go!\" in 2018. The international version of the show features an intro song composed by Norbert Gilbert and performed by Andy Chase. An instrumental of the track is used for the credits. The Japanese version of the series features a new theme song by Doberman Infinity called by ASTRO BOY ~ GO! GO! Atom ~. The Endless World by Transfer Girls is used for the end credits. On April 2, 2020, the new ending theme was performed by Girls\u00b2 with a song"}, {"text": "called Zuttomo Heart Beats."}, {"text": "Max Friedrich Meyer (June 14, 1873 \u2013 March 14, 1967) was the first psychology professor who worked on psychoacoustics and taught at the University of Missouri. He was the founder of the theory of cochlear function, and was also an advocate for behaviourism as he argued in his book \"The Psychology of the Other\". During his time at the University of Missouri, he opened an experimental lab for Psychology and taught a variety of courses. His lab focused on behavioural zeitgeist and the studies of nervous system and behaviour. Meyer eventually moved to Miami and lived there from 1932 until the late 1950s. Afterwards, he moved to Virginia to stay with his daughter until his death in 1967. Early life. Max Friedrich Meyer was born in Germany in the city of Danzig on June 14, 1873. He was the son of a goldsmith and went to school in Germany. In 1892, he went to the University of Berlin where he enrolled in theology, but he studied other subjects. He became a professor of experimental psychology and focused on the psychology of music. He married one of his students, Stella Sexton, on February 13, 1904, and had five children, Sophie, Harold,"}, {"text": "Catherine, Dorothy and Otto. Max Meyer divorced her in 1936. After his first year he switched to philosophy and met Hermann Ebbinghaus, and through that he met his mentor, Carl Stumpf. Stumpf and Meyer were interested in similar concepts relating to the psychology of music. At the University of Berlin, he worked under Carl Stumpf on psycho-acoustics for a couple of years and completed his PhD where he came up with his new theory of audition which questioned the current theories at the time. Meyer became a research associate under Stumpf after he finished his PhD in 1896. Due to a difference of opinion between Stumpf and Meyer, Meyer moved to the University of London where he worked under James Sully, and then moved to America and worked at Clark University, where he assisted G. Stanley Hall. Meyer was developing his work on cochlear function in hearing during this time. He was then finally appointed as a faculty member in 1900 at the University of Missouri. Career. Meyer was the first-ever psychology professor hired by the University of Missouri. He opened the laboratory in experimental psychology and taught an extensive range of psychology courses during his professorship which included: Introduction"}, {"text": "to Psychology, Perception and Behaviour, Differential Psychology, General Aesthetics, Theory of Music, Advanced Psychology, Comparative Psychology, Social Psychology, Industrial Psychology and Abnormal Psychology. As of 2019, Meyer has 209 publications in three languages circulating in 2,439 library holdings around the world. His books are still in print and can be obtained through Amazon. Behaviourism. Meyer was an early advocate of behaviourism in America. In his book, \"The\" \"Psychology of the Other\", he argues that psychology should focus on behaviour instead of the mind. Meyer did not deny the existence of consciousness like the other behaviourists at that time, he was simply against the utilization of introspection as a scientific tool. His reasoning behind this was that he felt that it was not necessary to study the mind to understand human behaviour. He thought that one just needed to study the nervous law which oversees human behaviour to understand behaviour. Later in life Meyer taught courses about aesthetics as they had captured his attention during his undergraduate days. He went on to publish two journal articles about the topic. His work studies in the nervous system and behaviour came to the attention of John B. Watson, the father of behaviourism. Meyer"}, {"text": "published important monographs, textbooks and journal articles in both music and psychology. Language. Meyer also contributed to the field of language. He contends that infants learn speech sounds through impersonation. At first, audial speech sounds are a reflex in the young. They hear a sound and react by shaping a comparable sound. After some time, this impersonation stops. Acquiring speech sounds is dependent on whether or not making a similar sound is valuable to an individual or not. This loss of reflex is the reason why people cannot learn new dialects easily. In his book, fitting into the silent words, he talks about this stenograph system which he has created based on phonetics. He argued that it can be effective in deaf people for oral education. To back up his argument, he presented longitudinal studies using his system in deaf people. Music theory. Meyer started developing his work during the year 1894 at the University of Berlin when he became a pupil to Carl Stumpf. During his time as a pupil, he was described as having a technical ingenuity that assisted Meyer in developing instruments to research music theory. During his years studying under Stumpf, he developed his theory of"}, {"text": "cochlear function. His main source of data was \"introspective observations of difference tones, of the relative intensities of tones in a compound tone, and of the differences in relative intensity of tones sounded simultaneously and separately\". From this theory, he developed a hypothesis about \"the anatomical and physiological properties of the ear\" where the assumption was that \"the inner ear is a hydraulic system, that the effective cochlear oscillations occur in the basilar membrane, that this membrane is inelastic, and that its motions passively follow the motions of the stapes\". This received little attention until the year 1966. After having a falling out with Stumpf, he migrated to London and spent time in the psychological lab of James Sully at the University of London for 6 months. Here he worked on developing an apparatus where a deaf person could even compose, as well as worked on a theory of harmony. Meyer then travelled to America and spend time at Clark University and later the University of Missouri. Here he published a series of articles, one of them about an experiment he conducted back in Berlin which favoured the view that memory of absolute pitch can be improved with practice. This"}, {"text": "time was also very important as he published his first edition of his theory of music. In this first edition, he critiqued his predecessor Stumpf, as well as Hermann von Helmholtz, saying how he felt that their focus of the diatonic scale prevented them from developing a scientific, empirical theory of music. He also constructed a scale \"represented by the infinite series of all composites of the powers of 2, 3, 5, and 7\", which he believed was sufficient to study music theory. He extended his theory of music during his first year at Missouri, adding that the hearing of simultaneous tones contain two important effects: \"the melodic relationship also heard in successive tones, and consonance\". In 1903, Meyer conducted a study related to \"the aesthetic effects of final tones, the intonation of musical intervals, and quartertone music\". The findings of the study found that quartertone music in European music became more pleasant with increased familiarity (as long as it followed the \"general laws of European music\"). Since some quartertones were also present in Oriental music, he used these findings to support the theory that the psychological laws of music are the same all over the world, even though a"}, {"text": "good amount of this study relied on his own interpretation of certain results. Some of his final works included trying to develop tests that measured a variety of factors as well as trying to find a scientific music staff that would not require musical signs (ex. flats), but these results were never published. He also developed the musical arithmetic in 1929, which discusses the neurological implications of music perception, but this lacked reference to previous literature. Death and legacy. From 1932 till the late 1950s, Meyer lived in Miami where he continued his research and had a divorce in 1936. He later moved to Virginia and lived with his daughter until his death in 1967. The laboratory started by Meyer during 1930 would later become the Department of Psychology at the University of Missouri. There is a room at the university that is dedicated to him. His house is still preserved."}, {"text": "V Gate is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , V Gate had a population of 40 people. Geography. The Mitchell - St George Road enters the locality from the north (Womalilla) and loosely follows the eastern boundary of the locality, exiting via the locality's south-eastern corner (Dunkeld). The land use is grazing on native vegetation. Demographics. In the , V Gate had a population of 29 people. In the , V Gate had a population of 40 people. Education. There are no schools in V Gate. The nearest schools are Dunkeld State School (Prep to Year 6) in neighbouring Dunkeld to the south-east and Mitchell State School (Prep to Year 10) in Mitchell to the north. However, students in some parts of Dunkeld would be too distant to either of these schools. Also, there is no nearby school offering secondary education to Year 12. The alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "A statue of Boston mayor and state governor Maurice J. Tobin by Emilius R. Ciampa is installed along the city's Charles River Esplanade, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Description and history. The 1958 bronze sculpture is approximately 10 ft. tall and 2 ft. wide, and rests on a granite base that measures approximately 6 x 4 x 2 ft. The work was commissioned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1997."}, {"text": "Geoffrey W. Lewis (born in Brookline, Massachusetts, died August 1, 1992, Rockland, Maine) was a career diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Mauritania and the Central African Republic. A Harvard graduate, Lewis went on to study at Trinity College in England before becoming headmaster of the Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1937. Lewis was a United States Army colonel in London during World War II. He started at the State Department in 1946 and worked there until his retirement in 1970 while he was Ambassador to Mauritania. At the time of his death, which was complications from heart and kidney disease, he was 82 years old and lived in Cushing, Maine."}, {"text": "Beilba is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Beilba had a population of 35 people. Geography. The Carnarvon Highway runs along part of the western boundary. There are three sections of the Expedition National Park in the north and east of the locality. Doonkuna State Forest is in the west of the locality with Beilba State Forest in the east of the locality and Hallett State Forest in the south of the locality. Apart from these protected areas, the land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation. Entymology. The locality is named after Beilba, an Indigenous Australian resistance fighter who helped lead the Hornet Bank massacre. Demographics. In the , Beilba had a population of 49 people. In the , Beilba had a population of 35 people. Education. There are no schools in Beilba. The nearest government schools are Injune State School (Prep to Year 10) in Injune to the south-west and Aracadia Valley State School (Prep to Year 6) in neighbouring Arcadia Valley to the north. However, students in the north-east of Beilba might be too distant from these schools for a daily commute. Also, there are no nearby schools offering education to"}, {"text": "Year 12. The alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "<noinclude> Climate communication or climate change communication is a field of environmental communication and science communication focused on discussing the causes, nature and effects of anthropogenic climate change. Research in the field emerged in the 1990s and has since grown and diversified to include studies concerning the media, conceptual framing, and public engagement and response. Since the late 2000s, a growing number of studies have been conducted in countries in the Global South and have been focused on climate communication with marginalized populations. Most research focuses on raising public knowledge and awareness, understanding underlying cultural values and emotions, and bringing about public engagement and action. Major issues include familiarity with the audience, barriers to public understanding, creating change, audience segmentation, changing rhetoric, public health, storytelling, media coverage, and popular culture. History. Scholar Amy E. Chadwick identifies Climate Change Communication as a new field of scholarship that truly emerged in the 1990s. In the late 80s and early 90s, research in developed countries (e.g. the United States, New Zealand, and Sweden) was largely concerned with studying the public's perception and comprehension of climate change science, models, and risks and guiding further development of communication strategies. These studies showed that while the"}, {"text": "public was aware of and beginning to notice climate change effects (increasing temperatures and changing precipitation patterns), the public's understanding of climate change was interlinked with ozone depletion and other environmental risks but not human-produced emissions. This understanding was coupled with varied yet overall increased net concern that continued through the mid-2000s. In studies from the mid-2000s to the late 2000s, there is evidence of rising global skepticism despite growing consensus and evidence of increasingly polarized views due to climate change's growing use as a political \"litmus test.\" In 2010, researcher Susanne C. Moser viewed both the expansion of climate change communication's focus, which began to include subjects such as materialized evidence of climate change effects in addition to science and policy, as well as more prolific conversation/communication from a variety of voices as increasing climate change's relevance to society. Surveys through the mid-2010s showed mixed concern for climate change depending on global region \u2014notably consistent concern in developed Western countries but a trend towards global unconcern in countries such as China, Mexico, and Kenya. In 2016, Moser noted an increase in the total number of climate communication studies in both Westernized countries and the Global South and an increased"}, {"text": "focus on climate communication with indigenous peoples and other marginalized communities since 2010. As of 2017, research remained focused on public understanding and had since begun to also analyze the relevance of the media, conceptual framing, public engagement and response, and persuasive strategies. This expansion has legitimated climate change communication as its own academic field and has yielded a group of experts specific to it. Primary goals of climate communication. Most climate communication and research within the field is concerned with (1) the mechanisms related to the public's understanding/awareness of and perception of climate change which are intertwined with (2) personal cultural values and emotions related to social norms and (3) how these components can influence the engagement and action that may emerge as a response to communication. Within the academic field, there are debates over which is more important: knowledge-based communication or emotion-driven communication. Though both are inherently linked to action, researchers often view increased understanding as leading to increased action. A 2020 study by Kris De Meyer et al. attempts to push back against that notion and argues that action produces belief. Analyzing and increasing public understanding and perception. One line of climate communication study is concerned with"}, {"text": "analyzing public understanding and risk perception. Understanding public perception of risk and its relevant influences, as well as public knowledge, concern, consensus, and imagery is thought to help policymakers better address the concerns of constituents and inform further climate communication. This notion has opened the realm of climate communications to political communications, sociology, and psychology. Achieving increased public understanding is often associated with communicating levels of scientific consensus and other scientific facts or futures in order to spur action and address the \"information-deficit\" model but can also be related to connecting with values and emotions. Perception is often related to personal recognition to impacted locations, times (the present vs. the future), weather events, or economics, which has placed emphasis on different methods of framing (linking concepts) and rhetoric when communicating. Connection of the self with events, such as those mentioned and often times through perceiving problems as local, increases recognition of the larger problem of climate change. These methods of communication presently include scientific communication, knowledge transfer, social media, news media, and entertainment amongst others, which are also studied individually regarding climate change. Some experts focus on how public perceptions of climate change can be related to public perceptions of"}, {"text": "smaller parts of the environment. Through teaching about the interconnectedness of humans and nature, some environmental writers believe that a fundamental shift in thinking is possible, and that this in turn would lead to greater desire to preserve the natural world. Connecting to values and emotions. In addition to studies regarding knowledge, climate communication researchers inspect existing values and emotions related to climate change and how they are impacted by various communication strategies and can influence the effects of communication modes. Understanding and relating to the audiences' moral, cultural, religious, and political values, identities, and emotions (like fear) are viewed as imperative to appropriate and effective communication because climate change can otherwise seem intangible due to uncertainty and distance (physical, social, temporal). Recognizing and understanding these values is key to impacting perception of climate science and mitigative action because values serve as filters through which information is processed. Emotional reactions to climate change and the role emotions can play in decision-making have encouraged researchers to study the emotional side of climate change. Appeals to emotions (such as fear and hope) and to values can also be used in communication strategies. It is unclear whether negative emotions (e.g. concern and fear)"}, {"text": "or positive emotions (e.g. hope) better promote climate change action. Emotions can also be analyzed by their level of pleasantness and/or to the extent they evoke action, which is often understudied. Instead of warning of global warming's impending negative impacts, some renewable energy lobbyists emphasize economic benefits, profitability, job creation, and energy dominance\u2014items that fossil fuel advocates have traditionally touted. The goal was to \"harness\" self-interest rather than condemn it, and to \"meet the audience where they are\". Producing engagement and action. Studying climate communications can also be focused on civic engagement and the production of behavior changes for adapting or increasing resiliency to climate change. Engagement and action can occur on multiple geographic scales (local, regional, national, or international), and examples include participation in climate justice movements, support for policies or politics, changes to agricultural practices, and addresses to vulnerabilities to extreme weather vulnerabilities. Behavioral changes can also address more fundamental norms and values that influence lifestyles, life choices, and society as a whole. Engagement can also involve how those who communicate climate change interact with researchers studying the field of communications. Studies have recognized that increased understanding and perception does not automatically produce action and have argued for"}, {"text": "increased means of enabling action in communication methods. Research into engagement and action often focuses on the perception and understanding of different demographics and geographic locations. Some politicians, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger with his slogan \"terminate pollution\", say that activists should generate optimism by focusing on the health co-benefits of climate action. A study published in \"Nature Human Behaviour\" in 2025 found that presenting people with binary climate data\u2014for example, a lake freezing versus not freezing\u2014significantly increases the perceived impact of climate change compared to when continuous data such as temperature change is presented. The researchers said the findings confirmed the boiling frog effect for climate change communication. Major issues. Barriers to understanding. Climate communications is heavily focused on methods for inviting larger scale public action to address climate change. To this end, a lot of research focuses on barriers to public understanding and action on climate change. Scholarly evidence shows that the information deficit model of communication\u2014where climate change communicators assume \"if the public only knew more about the evidence they would act\"\u2014doesn't work. Instead, argumentation theory indicates that different audiences need different kinds of persuasive argumentation and communication. This is counter to many assumptions made by other fields"}, {"text": "such as psychology, environmental sociology, and risk communication. Additionally, climate denialism by organizations, such as The Heartland Institute in the United States, and individuals introduces misinformation into public discourse and understanding. There are several models for explaining why the public doesn't act once more informed. One of the theoretical models for this is the 5 Ds model created by Per Epsten Stoknes. Stoknes describes 5 major barriers to creating action from climate communication: In her book \"Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life\", Kari Norgaard's study of Bygdaby\u2014a fictional name used for a real city in Norway\u2014found that non-response was much more complex than just a lack of information. In fact, too much information can do the exact opposite because people tend to neglect global warming once they realize there is no easy solution. When people understand the complexity of the issue, they can feel overwhelmed and helpless which can lead to apathy or skepticism. A study published in \"PLOS Climate\" studied defensive and secure forms of national identity\u2014respectively called \"national narcissism\" and \"secure national identification\"\u2014for their correlation to support for policies to mitigate climate change and to transition to renewable energy. The researchers concluded that secure national"}, {"text": "identification tends to support policies promoting renewable energy; however, national narcissism was found to be inversely correlated with support for such policies\u2014except to the extent that such policies, as well as greenwashing, enhance the national \"image\". Right-wing political orientation, which may indicate susceptibility to climate conspiracy beliefs, was also concluded to be negatively correlated with support for genuine climate mitigation policies. A study published in \"PLOS One\" in 2024 found that even a single repetition of a claim was sufficient to increase the \"perceived\" truth of both climate science-aligned claims and climate change skeptic/denial claims\u2014\"highlighting the insidious effect of repetition\". This effect was found even among climate science endorsers. Climate literacy. Though communicating the science about climate change under the premises of an Information deficit model of communication is not very effective in creating change, comfort with and literacy in the main issues and topics of climate change is important for changing public opinion and action. Several agencies and educational organizations have developed frameworks and tools for developing climate literacy, including the Climate Literacy Lab at Georgia State university, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Such resources in English have been collected by the Climate Literacy and Awareness Network. Creating"}, {"text": "change. As of 2008, most of the environmental communications evidence for effecting individual or social change were focused on behavior changes around: household energy consumption, recycling behaviours, changing transportation behavior and buying green products. At that time, there were few examples of multi-level communications strategies for effecting change. Behaviour change. Since much of Climate communication is focused on engaging broad public action, much of the studies are focused on effecting behavior change. Typically, effective climate communication has three parts: cognitive, affective and place based appeals. Audience segmentation. Different parts of different populations respond differently to climate change communication. Academic research since 2013 has seen an increasing number of audience segmentation studies, to understand different tactics for reaching different parts of populations. It involves the identification of homogenous subgroups within an audience or target population with same demographic or psychological profiles, or both. It enables targeted messages for each subgroup for efficient communication. Major segmentation studies include: Changing rhetoric. A significant part of the research and public advocacy conversations about climate change have focused on the effectiveness of different terms used to describe \"global warming\". More recently, the focus has shifted to rhetoric describing all aspects and effects of climate change,"}, {"text": "including human-non-human relationships. Advocating change in the way non-humans are referred to. In her book \"Braiding Sweetgrass\", author and botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer has suggested that the way in which animals and plants are referred to in language, specifically the English language, impact how they are perceived and therefore treated by persons who speak that language. Her ideas have gained attention and inspired other considerations of how language involving non-human species/groups affects views of and actions taken that involve them. The ways animals, plants, rivers, mountains, etc. are expressed in legislation can, in the view of University of Waterloo Professor, Jennifer Clary-Lemon, be damaging to perceptions as they seem to carry a persuasive tone, in favor of seeing these pieces of nature as less than; not recognizing their importance. Analysis of current conversations on rhetorical changes in climate communication. There is not enough contribution to the field of climate change rhetoric to adequately implement rhetorical changes, despite the presumed effectiveness. Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, Eileen E. Schell of Syracuse University has described a lack of attention to conversations concerning changing rhetoric used to discuss climate change and other environmental problems. Experts believe research needs to be done in this"}, {"text": "area and then it could be applied to climate communication and could be effective in creating better messaging that spurs greater engagement and action. Health. Climate change exacerbates a number of existing public health issues, such as mosquito-borne disease, and introduces new public health concerns related to changing climate, such as increase in health concerns after natural disasters or increases in heat illnesses. Thus the field of health communication has long acknowledged the importance of treating climate change as a public health issue, requiring broad population behavior changes that allow societal climate change adaptation. A December 2008 article in the \"American Journal of Preventive Medicine\" recommended using two broad sets of tools to effect this change: communication and social marketing. A 2018 study, found that even with moderates and conservatives who were skeptical of the importance of climate change, exposure to information about the health impacts of climate change creates greater concern about the issues. Climate change is also expected to impact mental health significantly. With the increase in emotional responses to climate change, there is a growing need for greater resilience and tolerance to emotional experiences. Research has indicated that these emotional experiences can be adaptive when they are"}, {"text": "supported and processed appropriately. This support requires the facilitation of emotional processing and reflective functioning. When this occurs, individuals increase in tolerance to emotion and resilience, and are then able to support others through crisis. Importance of storytelling. Framing climate change information as a story has been shown to be an effective form of communication. In a 2019 study, climate change narratives structured as stories were better at inspiring pro-environmental behavior. The researchers propose that these climate stories spark action by allowing each experimental subject to process the information experientially, increasing their affective engagement and leading to emotional arousal. Stories with negative endings, for example, influenced cardiac activity, increasing inter-beat (RR) intervals. The story signalled the brain to be alert and take action against the threat of climate change. A similar study has shown that sharing personal stories about experiences with climate change can convince climate change deniers. Hearing about how climate change has influenced someone's life elicits emotions like worry and compassion, which can shift beliefs about climate change. Media coverage. The effect of mass media and journalism on the public's attitudes towards climate change has been a significant part of communications studies. In particular, scholars have looked at"}, {"text": "how the media's tendency to cover climate change in different cultural contexts, with different audiences or political positions (for example Fox News's dismissive coverage of climate change news), and the tendency of newsrooms to cover climate change as an issue of uncertainty or debate, in order to give a sense of balance. Popular culture. Further research has explored how popular media, like the film \"The Day After Tomorrow,\" popular documentary \"An Inconvenient Truth\", and climate fiction change public perceptions of climate change. However, a 2025 study found that climate change is largely absent from popular culture. Only 12.8% of the most popular films released from 2013 to 2022 were found to include climate change in their story world, though the rate of inclusion increased substantially over time. When climate change was present, it was generally mentioned in just one scene, and its gravity and/or urgency was not emphasized. Effective climate communication. Effective climate communications require audience and contextual awareness. Different organizations have published guides and frameworks based on experience in climate communications. This section documents those various guidelines. General guidance. A 2009 handbook developed by the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at the Earth Institute at Columbia University describes"}, {"text": "eight main principles for communications based on the psychological research about Environmental decisions: A strategy playbook, developed based on lessons learned from the COVID pandemic communication, was released On Road Media in the UK in 2020. The framework is focused on developing positive messages that help people feel optimistic about learning more to address climate change. This framework included six recommendations: By experts. In 2018, the IPCC published a handbook of guidance for IPCC authors about effective climate communication. It is based on extensive social studies research exploring the impact of different tactics for climate communication. The guidelines focus on six main principles: Visuals. A 2018 study concluded that graphical illustrations such as charts and graphs more effectively overcome misperceptions than the same information presented in text. Separately, Climate Visuals a nonprofit, published in 2020 a set of guidelines based on evidence for climate communications. They recommend that visual communications include: Applying findings from psychology. Psychologists have increasingly been assisting the worldwide community in facing the difficult challenge of organizing effective climate change mitigation efforts. Much work has been done on how to best communicate climate related information so that it has positive psychological impact, leading to people engaging in"}, {"text": "the problem, rather than evoking psychological defenses like denial, distance or a numbing sense of doom. As well as advising on the method of communication, psychologists have investigated the difference it make when the right sort of person is doing the communication \u2013 for example, when addressing American conservatives, climate related messages have been shown to be received more positively if delivered by former military officers. Various people who are not primarily psychologists have also been advising on psychological matters related to climate change. For example, Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, who led the efforts to organize the unprecedentedly successful 2015 Paris Agreement, have since campaigned to spread the view that a \"stubborn optimism\" mindset should ideally be part of an individual's psychological response to the climate change challenge. A study from 2020 found that persuasive messaging that explains the mechanisms behind climate change, rather than the risks or consequences of climate change, was more effective in changing beliefs, especially among conservatives. Noting multiple studies showing that people often prefer receiving numerical details over purely verbal communication, a study by science communicators Ellen Peters and David M. Markowitz reported that participants responded more favorably to messages with precise numeric information"}, {"text": "on climate change consequences, trusting the messages more, and thinking the message sender was more likely an expert. However, the researchers stated that people's math anxiety and level of mathematical ability suggested limiting the quantity of numerical information that should be presented. Sustainable development. The impacts of climate change are exacerbated in low- and middle income countries; higher levels of poverty, less access to technologies, and less education, means that this audience needs different information. The Paris Agreement and IPCC both acknowledge the importance of sustainable development in addressing these differences. In 2019 the nonprofit, Climate and Development Knowledge Network published a set of lessons learned and guidelines based on their experience communicating climate change in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Organizations. Research centers in climate communication include:"}, {"text": "Beilba (c.1825 \u2013 March 1866), sometimes referred to as Beilbah or Bielbah, was an Indigenous Australian resistance fighter from the Expedition Range area of what is now known as Queensland. He became famous for being a leader in the Hornet Bank massacre of 1857, where Aboriginal forces killed 11 British settlers. Early life. Not much is known about Beilba's upbringing, but it is believed that he was a member of either the Kongabula or Yiman people of the upper Dawson River region of central Queensland. According to the colonist Pollet Cardew, Beilba as a young man had partaken in raids against British settlers at Mount Abundance and Dulacca in 1848 and 1849. He escaped being shot by the Native Police in follow-up punitive expeditions. Cardew also maintained that since 1854, Beilba had been involved in the killings of shepherds in the upper Dawson River region. Hornet Bank massacre. By the mid 1850s, Beilba had become closely associated with the Yiman people of the upper Dawson River. The Fraser family from the Hornet Bank property (established on Yiman land in 1853), had persecuted the Yiman for years, killing their men, raping their women, poisoning them and taking their land. In October"}, {"text": "1857, the Yiman, with the assistance of Beilba, several former Native Police troopers and an Aboriginal servant from the Hornet Bank household named Baulie, decided to take revenge on the Frasers. They attacked the homestead in the early hours of 27 October 1857, killing eight members of the Fraser family, their tutor and two stockmen. They raped the Fraser matriarch and her older girls before killing them. The homestead was then ransacked and Beilba and the Yiman then made off with around a hundred sheep. Subsequent conflict. Follow up punitive raids and extrajudicial massacres of Aboriginal people in the region by the Native Police and armed settlers were swift. Beilba escaped these raids, which were wide-ranging and continued for months after the Hornet Bank killings. Somewhere between 150 and 400 Indigenous people were killed in these raids. For the next few years, Beilba appears to have mostly retreated into the rugged isolation of the Expedition Range with a number of Aboriginal warriors and survivors. In March 1860, Beilba with a group of these people were sighted on the plains near Yuleba to the south of the range. A local detachment of the Native Police under Second Lieutenant Frederick Carr was"}, {"text": "called in engage with this group. An hour long battle ensued with the Native Police using their modern firearms against the spears and nulla-nullas of the Aborigines. Carr and several troopers were wounded, but in the end the police were victorious. Beilba was able to escape with wounds, but at least 15 others of his group were killed, including Baulie who was also a key part of the Hornet Bank raid. Later years, death and legacy. Beilba survived for another six years, appearing to be protected and receiving food hand-outs from Aboriginal workers on properties around the Condamine River. It seems he may have also been protected by at least one colonist in the region. Bounties of \u00a325 and \u00a350 were announced for his capture, dead or alive. In March 1866, Beilba's luck ran out and he was captured and shot dead in the Maranoa Region by the Native Police detachment led by sub-inspector James M. Gilmour. His name lives on by the locality of Beilba, Queensland, situated in the rugged parts of the Expedition Range where Beilba once hid out from the colonists. See also. List of Indigenous Australian historical figures"}, {"text": "Pony Hills is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Pony Hills had \"no people or a very low population\". Demographics. In the , Pony Hills had a population of 11 people. In the , Pony Hills had \"no people or a very low population\"."}, {"text": "Eumamurrin is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Eumamurrin had a population of 97 people. Geography. The Roma-Taroom Road bounds the locality to the south-east. The Carnarvon Highway enters the locality from the west (Bymount) and exits to the south (Euthella). There are 3 disconnected sections of the Gubberamunda State Forest in the south of the locality. Apart from these protected areas, the land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation. Eumamurrin has the following mountains: Demographics. In the , Eumamurrin had a population of 85 people. In the , Eumamurrin had a population of 97 people. Education. There are no schools in Eumamurrin. The nearest government primary schools are Bymount East State School in neighbouring Bymount to the west and Roma State College in Roma to the south. The nearest government secondary schools are Injune State School (to Year 10) in Injune to the north-west and Roma State College (to Year 12) in Roma to the south."}, {"text": "Rachel Fairburn is an English comedian. She was born in Harpurhey, Manchester and attended St Monica's High School. She is co-host of the hit comedy podcast \"All Killa No Filla\" along with fellow comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean. \"All Killa No Filla\" has been named one of the top eight true crime podcasts of 2018 by \"The Independent\", \"Esquire\" 's number two 'Best True Crime Podcast' in 2018 and one of the best podcast of 2018 by \"The Guardian\". \"Time\" cited their podcast as an example of how female comedians are talking about their experiences in the #MeToo era. Fairburn and Pritchard-McLean launched their podcast in 2014. Fairburn has been working as a comedian since 2008. \"The Daily Telegraph\" named her one of the best comedians at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Fairburn has appeared on the BBC's 'Funny from the Fringe', the 'Evil Genius with Russell Kane' and 'Breaking the News' on BBC Radio Scotland. Before she was a comedian, she worked full-time in the John Rylands Library."}, {"text": "The 1974 New Mexico Lobos football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Mexico in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. In their first season under head coach Bill Mondt, the Lobos compiled a 4\u20136\u20131 record (3\u20134 against WAC opponents) and were outscored by a total of 263 to 192. The team's statistical leaders included Steve Myer with 1,103 passing yards, Floyd Perry with 294 rushing yards, and Ken Lege with 249 receiving yards and 36 points scored."}, {"text": "Durham Downs is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Durham Downs had a population of 63 people. Geography. The Roma-Taroom Road enters the locality from the south-west (Eumamurrin) and exits to the east (Waikola). The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation. Demographics. In the , Durham Downs had a population of 67 people. In the , Durham Downs had a population of 63 people. Education. There are no schools in Durham Downs. The nearest government primary schools are Roma State College in Roma to the south-west and Wallumbilla State School in Wallumbilla to the south-east. For students living in the south-east of the locality, the nearest government secondary school is Roma State College (to Year 12) in Roma. However, students living in other parts of the locality may be too distant for a daily commute; the alternatives are distance education and boarding school. There are also non-government schools in Roma."}, {"text": "The Deputy Minister of Domestic Trade and Costs of Living is a non-Malaysian cabinet position serving as deputy head of the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Costs of Living. The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumerism was created in 1990 as a reconstruction of the Ministry of Trade and Industry. International trade functions were eventually transferred to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, leaving the International Trade Ministry in charge of Industry proper. In 2022, Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumerism was renamed to Ministry of Domestic Trade and Costs of Living. List of deputy ministers. The following individuals have been appointed as Deputy Minister of Domestic Trade, or any of its precedent titles: Colour key (for political coalition/parties):"}, {"text": "The Hungarian Revolution Memorial (also known as Hungarian Monument) is a monument and sculpture by E. Gyuri Hollosy, installed in Boston's Liberty Square Park, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Description. The memorial depicts a nude woman holding her baby, a fallen Hungarian soldier, and multiple heads representing the students who died during the revolution. The bronze sculpture over a stainless steel armature is approximately 16 ft., 4 in. tall. It rests on a granite base that is approximately 30 in. tall, with a diameter of 8 ft. History. The monument was commissioned by the Hungarian Society of Massachusetts to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. It was originally dedicated on October 23, 1986, but was dismantled during November 15\u201316, 1986, and stored until May 1989. The work was rededicated after Liberty Square Park's plaza opened. It was surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1993."}, {"text": "Myosotis afropalustris () is a species of plant in the family of Boraginaceae. They can be found in South Africa (Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, E-Cape Prov.), and Lesotho. \"M. afropalustris\" is not endemic to South Africa."}, {"text": "The 1975 New Mexico Lobos football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Mexico in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1975 NCAA Division I football season. In their second season under head coach Bill Mondt, the Lobos compiled a 6\u20135 record (4\u20133 against WAC opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 291 to 232. Steve Myer and Randy Rich were the team captains. The team's statistical leaders included Steve Myer with 2,501 passing yards, Mike Williams with 511 rushing yards, Preston Dennard with 962 receiving yards, and Gil Stewart and Preston Dennard, each with 36 points scored."}, {"text": "Mahendra Prakash Singh Bhogta was twice the state legislative assembly member from Chatra from 1985 to 1995. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was from Bhogta community. Later his son Jay Prakash Singh Bhogta became MLA. He died due to heart attack in 1997 by witnessing 10 dead Maoists of Communist Party of India (Marxist\u2013Leninist) killed by Maoist of Maoist Communist Centre of India."}, {"text": "The Naval Base Commander, Clyde also known as the Commodore, Clyde Submarine Base is a senior British Royal Navy appointment first established in August 1967. The office holder is responsible for the command and administration of His Majesty's Naval Base Clyde. History. The office was first created August 1967 with Commodore Derrick G. Kent being the first incumbent appointed. The post holder reported to the Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Support) from December 2011 to January 2018. The post of ACNS (Support) has been renamed to Director of Naval Support to which this officer currently reports to. Office Holders. Included:"}, {"text": "Clint Joseph \"C.J.\" Suess (; n\u00e9 Franklin; March 17, 1994) is an American professional ice hockey forward who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for the Manitoba Moose in the American Hockey League (AHL). Prior to playing professionally, Suess played college hockey for the Minnesota State Mavericks at Minnesota State University, Mankato. At the time of his graduation, his 127 career points were tied for fifth on the school's career scoring list during the NCAA Division I era. He also represented Team USA in the 2013 World Junior A Challenge, helping them win a gold medal. Early life. Suess was born \"Clinston R. Franklin\" to mother Cheryl Suess on March 17, 1994, in Roseville, Minnesota. He began skating at the age four in White Bear Lake, Minnesota with his cousins before his family moved to Forest Lake, Minnesota. His mother was his primary caregiver and he considers both her and his grandmother the \"two people that have meant more to him than anyone else in the world.\" As a person of color himself, Suess admired hockey player Jarome Iginla as a successful black athlete. Playing career. Amateur. Suess attended Forest Lake Area High School where he"}, {"text": "played ice hockey under the tutelage of former Minnesota State defenseman Aaron Forsythe. During his high school hockey career, he was a three-time letter winner, two-time Suburban East All-Conference selection, and served as a team captain during his junior and senior seasons. In his sophomore season, Suess scored 19 goals and 21 assists in 27 games, ranking as the second-leading scorer on the team. With his assistance, the team finished second to Cretin-Derham Hall High School in the Suburban East Conference and defeated Grand Rapids before falling to Elk River in the Section 7AA semi-finals. While playing for the men's ice hockey team, Suess also competed on their baseball team. He helped them qualify for the 2010 state tournament but broke his ankle during his junior year. In June 2012, Suess attended the tryout camp for the Sioux Falls Stampede of the United States Hockey League (USHL). After qualifying for the team, he led the Stampede with 32 goals and 28 assists in 63 regular season games. During his second (and final) season with the Stampede, Suess was selected to serve as an alternate captain with Team USA at the 2013 World Junior A Challenge, helping them win a gold"}, {"text": "medal. Upon returning from the tournament, Suess signed a Letter of Intent to attend Minnesota State University, Mankato, an NCAA Division I school. By mid-season, he had recorded 16 goals and 25 assists in 41 games and was selected for the USHL Western Conference All-Star Second Team. With his help, the Stampede finished fourth in the Western Conference and qualified for the USHL playoffs before being swept by the Waterloo Black Hawks. Prior to joining the Minnesota State Mavericks, Suess was drafted 129th overall by the Winnipeg Jets in the 2014 National Hockey League Entry Draft. Collegiate. Suess played college hockey for the Minnesota State Mavericks at Minnesota State University, Mankato from 2014 until 2018. In his rookie season, Suess recorded 9 goals and 19 assists for 28 points, which tied for sixth amongst team scoring leaders. He recorded his first collegiate goal on October 16 in a 5\u20134 overtime win over the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs. Suess played the majority of the season on the top line with juniors Teodors B\u013cugers and Bryce Gervais. He later recorded the game-winning goal in the team's North Star College Cup 4\u20135 overtime win over the Minnesota Golden Gophers. At the conclusion of the"}, {"text": "season, Suess was selected for the 2014\u201315 Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) All-Rookie Team. During his sophomore season, Suess switched from left wing, a position he had spent his entire hockey career playing, to center due to a slow start. When speaking of his decision, he said: \"I think I switched mainly so I could get speed coming through the zone and attacking from the middle...I did go through a slump earlier this year but then we made the switch and it's helped a lot I think.\" After making the change, Suess finished third on the season in scoring and second in goals with 14. At the conclusion of the season, he attended the Winnipeg Jets' NHL Developmental Camp. Prior to his junior year, Suess was named co-captain of the Mavericks alongside senior defenseman Carter Foguth and alternate captains Michael Huntebrinker, Sean Flanagan, and Brad McClure. During the season, he was named the WCHA Offensive Player of the Week after the team's 5\u20133 win over the Bowling Green Falcons. He tied for second on the team in points and finished fourth in goals scored. In the off-season, he was again invited to participate at the Winnipeg Jets' NHL Developmental Camp."}, {"text": "Suess, Brad McClure, and Max Coatta were named captains of the Mavericks prior to Suess's senior year. In December, Suess officially changed his last name from Franklin to Suess in honor of his mother. At the conclusion of his senior year, Suess was named to the WCHA First All-Star Team and was named the WCHA Player of the Year, becoming the first Maverick to capture the award. Suess was also the recipient of the WCHA Offensive Player of the Year and selected for the WCHA All-American First Team. Suess officially concluded his collegiate career on March 25, 2018, by signing an amateur tryout agreement with the Manitoba Moose, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Winnipeg Jets. At the time of his graduation, his 127 career points were tied for fifth on the school's career scoring list during its time at the NCAA Division I level. Professional. After attending the Winnipeg Jets' training camp prior to the 2018\u201319 season, Suess was re-assigned to the Manitoba Moose to begin the year. He played 26 games for the team, recording 12 points before suffering a season-ending upper body injury in mid-December. In spite of this, he was resigned by the Jets to"}, {"text": "a one-year, two-way contract with an average annual value of $700,000 if he played in the NHL. Upon being medically cleared to play, Suess participated in the Jets' 2019 training camp but was again re-assigned to the Moose. As a result of injuries, Suess made his National Hockey League debut with the Winnipeg Jets on November 11, 2019, against the San Jose Sharks, playing a total of 6:26 on the ice. He was returned to the Moose for the remainder of the season and finished with 27 points in 57 games. On October 10, 2020, Suess signed a two-year, two way contract extension with an average annual value in the NHL of $725,000 to remain with the Jets organization. When the NHL returned for the 2020\u201321 season due to COVID-19, he was re-assigned to the Moose. On July 13, 2022, he signed as a free agent to a one-year, two-way contract with the San Jose Sharks. Following one season in the Sharks organization, Suess left the club as a free agent and opted to return to the Manitoba Moose of the AHL after agreeing to a two-year contract on July 10, 2023."}, {"text": "Johannes Petrus Meyer (nickname \"Jan\"; 26 June 1842, in Prince Albert, Cape Colony \u2013 2 December 1919, in Johannesburg) was a politician, member of the Volksraad of the South African Republic, mining entrepreneur, and farmer; he is the man for whom Meyerton and Meyersdal (a neighborhood of Alberton) are named. Meyer played a major role in the discovery of the main vein of gold on the Witwatersrand. As a field cornet, he inspected and surveyed land, giving him the opportunity to study the geological structure of the area and to search for subcrops. G.J. du Plessis found the main vein on Turffontein Farm on Meyer's suggestion. He also founded Meyerskamp, later named Natalkamp, and co-owned the Meyer & Charlton Mine, becoming one of the first Afrikaner mining magnates. He was the first Volksraad member to represent Johannesburg, from 1887 to 1892. His main focus was the successful effort to grant Johannesburg municipality status. Second, he championed the building of the Delagoa Bay-Pretoria railway to supply the Rand's markets for local and imported agricultural and industrial products. He realized that Delagoa Bay, closer than Durban or Cape Town, would be a better trade destination for miners, merchants, industrialists, and farmers around"}, {"text": "Johannesburg. Third, he played a role in establishing a Second Volksraad to represent Uitlander (foreigner) interests. Background and youth. Meyer was the son of Johan George (Org) Meyer and Hester Christiana Elizabeth Mulder. Johan Meyer made the Great Trek as a young bachelor, originally a member of Hendrik Potgieter\u2019s party, and went with them to Ohrigstad. Members of this group are held by tradition to have traveled to the site of the present Alberton South Reformed Church and buried a Voortrekker woman and child who died there where the parsonage is now. Org was probably one of the 11 men who traveled northward to find Louis Tregardt and explore the area. On his return in August 1836, he was just in time to defend the Trekkers from the Matabele at the Battle of Vegkop that October. Apparently, he then returned to Prince Albert, where he married Hester Mulder in 1840, who gave birth to Johannes Petrus (Jan) on 26 June 1842, five months before the foundation of the Prince Albert Reformed Church. In 1844, two-year-old Jan moved with his parents to Transvaal, where his father had purchased three farms: Elandsfontein (where they lived), Klipriviersberg, and Alwynspoort. The family traveled to"}, {"text": "the Karoo, and upon their return, Org built a house for a Smit who had settled in Klipriviersberg, pleased to have a neighbor in the sparsely populated area. In 1860, Smit died, after which Org sold Klipriviersberg. Jan, eighteen by then, wanted to buy it but competed with merchants who wanted a shop there since it was on the road from Vereeniging to Pretoria. The young man won with a bid of \u00a3500, contributing \u00a3200 of his own money but borrowing the rest from an Erasmus who went on to farm in Irene. Jan started a store there and began working as a carter. In 1855, the whole Meyer family traveled to Prince Albert, but Org died on the way back near Colesberg. The 13-year-old Jan therefore became the family breadwinner, helping them cross rivers and protecting the cattle from wild animals at night, while heavy rains robbed them of firewood. His brother had died in 1851 while crossing the Jukskei River during a storm in an ox-wagon to gather wood. The cattle and servants fled and Jan hid under the wagon. Jan Meyer married Christina Salmina Meyer (no relation), and, in 1860, they built his first house where the"}, {"text": "Alberton city hall now stands, on land purchased from his stepfather Abraham Viljoen for \u00a313. His cornfield and fruit trees were irrigated by a ditch from the Natalspruit River. Christina died giving birth to their fourth daughter on 31 July 1870. He remained there until the death of that daughter on 29 August 1871. In 1872, he remarried to the widow Stephina Petronella Botha (n\u00e9e Strydom), with whom he moved to Klipriviersberg. They had a son and four daughters. His only formal education was at home from his widowed mother, but he showed an aptitude for public life early despite his rough upbringing. Discovery of gold. After the discovery of gold in Barberton, Meyer came to visit and learned to identify gold-bearing ores. In the 1880s, according to tradition, Meyer found such ores on the Rand and informed the government of them. In 1884, he was assigned to survey the area to see if there were any unclaimed plots of land which could thus be claimed by the government. It took 18 months to complete, during which he found a piece of land he is said to have called Randjeslaagte. The state at the time\u2014given how indebted it was\u2014paid field"}, {"text": "cornets very little, and the State Secretary of the South African Republic offered him the land as payment in kind when he asked for a raise. However, Volksraad was not in session, and the Secretary of State therefore said a decision would have to await its return. Meanwhile, once gold was discovered on the Rand, the South African Republic (ZAR) government decided to found a city there. There is no evidence that the State Secretary told Meyer this; Johannesburg is not named after him but after Christiaan Johannes Joubert and Johann Rissik. Public life. The influx of immigrants to the Rand caused practical problems for landowners, many of whom fielded requests to mine on their farms. In at least one case, on F.J. Bezuidenhout's Doornfontein Farm, one proceeded to dig without permission. Investors from Kimberley invested in farms or even bought them outright. Pretoria first assumed the rush would be short-lived, like those in Pilgrim's Rest, Barberton, and Lydenburg. The main civil servant on the scene was Field Cornet Meyer, tasked with settling and granting mining claims, keeping the peace between owners and diggers, and generally enforcing the ZAR Constitution. With his growing responsibilities came great financial opportunities. Since the"}, {"text": "government believed the gold rush would wane, Meyer had to play the role of mining commissioner as well. On 5 July 1885 (according to some sources but more likely in 1886), he borrowed a prospector's license and staked a claim of his own in Doornfontein as a friend of Bezuidenhout, thus co-founding the successful Meyer & Charlton Mine. Before long, the bonanza was so difficult to regulate that Meyer petitioned the government to declare open prospecting, which Pretoria agreed to in an 4 August 1886, declaration. C.J. Joubert and Rissik were sent to the area to determine which farms would be affected. They worked closely with Meyer in his various capacities. His store in Klipriviersberg was supplied by bullock cart from Kimberley and Pietermaritzburg, introducing him in the process to many from the Natal Colony. A miners\u2019 camp near his holdings was mainly populated by miners from that area as well, lending their name to that Natalkamp as well as the nearby-flowing Natalspruit. Staking claims. The geological structure of the Rand required expensive heavy machinery to mine a claim. A lease letter from the government was needed to officially seal the owner-digger relationship and obtain the funds. The owner rented"}, {"text": "the land from the government, usually for up to \u00a35/acre/yr, receiving in return \u00a31/mo from the miners for prospecting rights in what was very much a seller's market. On 20 August 1886, the government officially started issuing lease letters to owners and tenants. Areas between 50 and 500 acres could be granted in 50-acre lots. The 1885 Gold Law that allowed this also gave the owner the ability to reserve a tenth of their farm as their own claim before open prospecting was allowed. The government, however, reserved the right to collect 2.12% of the gold proceeds as a tax. Owners could stake another 10 claims as long as they paid the standard \u00a35/mo or less for each claim; they also specified which areas, such as gardens, fields, and the farmhouse, were off limits for mining. Mining licenses were up to \u00a320/mo. By not selling their farm, Boers gained financial windfalls. Mining magnate. During the gold rush, people often came to Meyer as acting commissioner asking for licenses, but he refused to grant them if he visited and determined that the area did not contain gold. The miners had usually already purchased or optioned the land. Those who had bought"}, {"text": "one piece of land often opened other claims to ensure they still turned a profit amid the high demand, and fraud was common. Meyer's partner, Charlton, thus fell into \u00a340,000 in debt, which Meyer paid off after borrowing money from the Bank of Natal. In this manner, Meyer became the sole owner of their mine west of today's Johannesburg abattoir and north of the City Deep mine near what is now Kaserne. By 1889, there were signs that the mining industry was experiencing a slump. In several areas, the main vein was exhausted, requiring shafts to be built to reach deeper. Meyer then sold 100,000 \u00a31 shares of his mine on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Since his mine was known to be rich in gold, share prices soon climbed to \u00a310 a share. Afterwards, he sold it all and left the mining business a millionaire, using the proceeds to buy land between Hammanskraal, Warmbaths, Standerton, and the confluence of the Klip and Vaal Rivers. By the time he died in 1919, he owned 56,000 acres (around 48,000 ha). His children inherited 7,000 acres each. After the Second Boer War, he donated a parcel near Standerton to found a town for"}, {"text": "impoverished Afrikaners. The foundation of the Johannesburg Reformed Church (NGK) also owes a debt to Meyer. The decision to found a congregation there was reached during a service held by Rev. Van Warmelo at Meyer's house. Second Boer War. Like most Boers, Meyer was hit hard by the 1890s African rinderpest epizootic, losing many animals to it. During the Boer War, according to his grandson P.L. Meyer, he would smear the manure of known sick animals in the mouths of those who appeared to be sick as makeshift inoculation. Over 60 years old by the outbreak of war in 1899, Jan Meyer stayed home. His son Org, later a colonel, enlisted toward the end. Having lost his leg in a hunting accident, Jan had to walk with a crutch and therefore could not serve as a Boer Commando. His mansion, visible today along the highway from Germiston to Vereeniging and built in 1891, was not burned by the British Army. During the war, a series of blockhouses, visible today along that same highway, were built around Johannesburg to protect the local gold mines, among other things. Most of the farms where these were built were left untouched as well. Part"}, {"text": "of the reason for this was the British military government's sympathies for Meyer as a city-founding mining magnate who represented Uitlander interests in Johannesburg and the Transvaal Volksraad alike. He did not support the Maritz Rebellion of 1914. However, he brought food every morning to its instigator, Gen. Christiaan de Wet, when the latter was imprisoned in Johannesburg. Volksraad member. The election laws of the ZAR left the Afrikaners with the political power in Johannesburg despite their being in the minority. All citizens over 21 who were members of a Protestant church could vote for the Volksraad. In 1890, under pressure to serve the growing immigrant population, the government lifted the religious proscriptions and established a Second Volksraad in which immigrants could, two years after they completed their two-year naturalization process, vote after paying a \u00a35 fee. Twelve years after naturalization, they could vote for the First Volksraad. For the first year after the discovery of gold, Johannesburg was represented in the Volksraad by the member for the Heidelberg district. On 23 November 1887, the Executive Council declared the mining areas of Barberton, Komatipoort, and Steynsdorp as one district representing the Rand. With the foundation of the Second Volksraad, Johannesburg"}, {"text": "was represented by one member in each chamber. At the beginning of 1888, Meyer became the first such representative in the Volksraad, bringing his civil service and mining experience thereby to bear. He advocated primarily for granting Johannesburg municipality status, building a railway from Delagoa Bay to Pretoria, and establishing the Second Volksraad. The latter initiative was in part meant to assuage his and others\u2019 concerns that Uitlanders would dominate the First Volksraad by sheer numbers otherwise. Important priorities of foreign affairs and defense would remain the role of the First, along with the care of the aging more likely to vote there, a key priority for the son of Voortrekkers who treasured their sense of independence. His affinity for Uitlander aspirations came in part from working with so many of them, English-speaking and otherwise, and he would go on to be a founding member in 1894 of the Witwatersrand Agricultural Society (later the hosts of the annual Rand Show), where he served until his death as esteemed Deputy President. Election campaigns began as soon as the Second Volksraad was founded. H.J. Morkel, the first candidate in the field, was a fluently bilingual veteran of six years in the Kroonstad"}, {"text": "in the Orange Free State Volksraad, but had to withdraw as a non-citizen of the ZAR. This decision drew criticism from Carl Jeppe and Johannes de Meillon. The inquiry committee, including special magistrate Carl von Brandis and mining commissioner Jan Eloff, found that the vote-counters were not sworn in properly and that Jeppe had supplied voters with liquor, leading the Government to annul the results of the election. Thus, the Rand had only Meyer representing them in the First Volksraad and nobody in the Second. Four candidates stood for the by-election redo on 29 July 1891. C. L. Neethling had represented Heidelberg in 1881 in the Volksraad, but could not obtain the necessary signatures to get his name on the ballot and therefore withdrew, in part due to bad blood between him and Meyer. \"The Star\" wrote that \"Oom Jan deserves so well of this community, he has done such yeoman's service in our cause\", going on to recommend rejecting Neethling in the name of supporting Johannesburg and not opposing Meyer. Jeppe's withdrawal left J. F. Celliers and De Meillon as the only candidates. Celliers won the turbulent election, though De Meillon complained to the government that his supporters were"}, {"text": "prevented from voting. The complaint was dismissed by a committee of inquiry, and Celliers became the first Johannesburg member of the Second Volksraad. By 4 April 1892, Meyer's popularity had declined the point where only nine attended his town hall that day. In August 1892, he suffered another setback when he confused two Volksraad petitions, one from the Health Committee and one from the inhabitants of Doornfontein, causing the former to be rejected. This was seen as a betrayal, \"and it is Jan Meyer who is the turncoat, who goes back on his promises, snubs the Board and Johannesburg generally, and stands in the way of its progress and prosperity\". Meyer earned plaudits for the Delagoa Bay Railway, his efforts to best implement the Gold Law, and his fiery opposition to the concession system in foreign affairs. He was, however, unenthusiastic about granting the franchise to Uitlanders, seeing no chance of passing something so contrary to the opinions of the Volksraad. These views made him increasingly unpopular with the Uitlanders and with the English-language press. Although his biggest critics could not vote, Afrikaners mostly followed the Anglophone press until the late 1890s and therefore favored its choices at the ballot"}, {"text": "box. When he attracted only five to an 24 October 1892, campaign stop, he saw the writing on the wall and stood down for the January 1893 election, ending his career in the Volksraad. Foundation of Alberton. Meyer was only partially involved with the foundation of Alberton. He owned part of Elandsfontein, while his mother owned the rest. At the height of the gold fever, an American company offered the widow \u00a375,000 for the 120 acres her husband had left her. Meyer and Bezuidenhout were the executors of her estate, and turned for advice to Bezuidenhout, who countered with an offer of \u00a385,000. To Meyer's dismay, Bezuidenhout reacted to a telegram from De Aar in which the company agreed by raising the price to \u00a390,000. The matter was dropped, and in 1903, Gen. Hennie Alberts bought the land for \u00a322,000 and founded Alberton there. Foundation of the Rand Easter Show. The discovery of diamonds in Kimberley and gold in Johannesburg created a great demand for food and thus a major opportunity for farmers. Before the mineral rushes, most Free State and Transvaal Boers were subsistence farmers. Each farm kept a pair of horses for transport, a few teams of oxen"}, {"text": "to pull wagons for hunting, attending communion, and trips to town to buy supplies. There were poultry, wheat and maize fields, a small kitchen garden, and a peach orchard. The mining bonanzas provided an impetus for developing cash crop agriculture and required an organized body to promote, expand, improve, and modernize agricultural production. Many agricultural societies had failed to build a nationwide profile, while the Transvaal Volksraad had been very hostile to the idea of establishing a department of agriculture. On 18 March 1894, a group of men in Johannesburg gathered to consider founding an organization to promote farming and organize fairs. They agreed to form a recruitment committee and to hold a general members\u2019 meeting in May. Meyer was present at the inaugural meeting of the Witwatersrand Agricultural Society on 15 May, where an Executive Council was elected. This society would annually hold what came to be known as the Rand Easter Show or simply the Rand Show, aided in this effort by Meyer's role as a liaison between the Society and the ZAR Executive Council. As a Volksraad member for Johannesburg and later Heidelberg, his support was crucial to obtain seed money and fair grounds for the first"}, {"text": "Rand Show, which was opened with pomp and circumstance by State President of the South African Republic Paul Kruger and a guard of honor including 50 armed citizens including Field Cornet Meyer. At the foundation meeting, Meyer was named Deputy President of the Society, a role he held off and on until his death in 1919. To Meyer, the Society played another key role: a force for improving relations between Boers and English-speakers. At some time before the Second Boer War, he resigned as Deputy President, only rejoining in March 1907. On the eve of the 1908 exhibition, he sternly advocated for continued government involvement and better advocacy for Transvaal cattle breeding. Meyer opposed the state itself competing for prizes and cups before ordinary farmers had a chance to do so. Therefore, government entries could only get certificates for the highest awards. Care was also taken to price locally bred livestock fairly. In 1910, Meyer was reelected Deputy President. The provision of refreshments proved another major problem. Meyer donated an already built teahouse for the purpose ahead of the 1915 Show. He resigned in protest in 1918, a year when no Afrikaners were elected to the Executive Council of the"}, {"text": "Society. Nevertheless, he believed that agriculture was one area where the \"two white groups\" could find common ground. Death. Meyer died at the age of 77. Walking on his farm with a gun, he stumbled and accidentally shot himself in the head. He was buried on 4 December 1919, on his Klipriviersberg farm."}, {"text": "Rama Satyendra Khandwala ( Mehta, 3 December 1926 \u2013 28 October 2021) was India's oldest tour guide and was the oldest living member of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, formed by Subhas Chandra Bose during India's freedom movement. Early life. Khandwala was born on 3 December 1926 to an affluent family in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar) as the fifth of seven siblings. Her grandfather was a doctor and a lawyer. Her mother, Lilavati Chhaganlal Mehta, was the recruiting officer at the Rani of Jhansi Regiment and a part of the Indian Independence League. At the age of 17, Khandwala and her sister Neelam joined the Regiment as sepoys after hearing Bose's speech in Rangoon. She attended a private school where the popular refrain was \"Britain shall always rule the waves\". Career. Joining as a Sepoy, Khandwala soon became the Second Lieutenant at the Regiment and led 30 Ranis for two years in Rangoon. Speaking about her experience with Conde Nast Traveller, she said: As a part of the Regiment, she was trained to be a soldier and a nurse. Military training included rifle and bayonet practice, handling machine guns and STEN guns, and defense and attack maneuvers. Medical training"}, {"text": "included working in general wards and operating rooms. In 1944, she worked as a nurse in a hospital located in Maymyo (now, Pyin Oo Lwin) and almost died in an air raid. After World War II, she and her family were put under house-arrest for six months and later moved to Bombay (now, Mumbai) in 1946. In the initial year, she worked as a secretary in a trading firm, nurse, and a Japanese language translator but she was not very keen on desk jobs. Later, she spotted an advertisement for becoming trained tourist guides and decided to pursue it. She had learned Japanese during their occupation of Burma between 1942 and 1945. She worked as a translator for documentaries created by Japanese television channels, and corporates. During her stint as an interpreter for a Japanese documentary, she met the Dalai Lama and accompanied the King of Bhutan on a hike to Elephanta's Buddhist caves as a guide. Khandwala served as a tour guide for over 50 years, remaining active into her later years, and was particularly popular with Japanese tourists visiting India. In 2019, she became a TEDx speaker. Personal life. Khandwala married in Bombay in 1949. Her husband died"}, {"text": "in 1982, and she had one daughter. She died in Mumbai on 28 October 2021, at the age of 94. Recognition. In 2017, President Ram Nath Kovind felicitated Khandwala with the \"Best Tourist Guide Award\" at the National Tourism Awards. On India's 72nd Independence Day, Khandwala inaugurated and was the chief guest at the Indian Film Festival organised by the Films Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. A documentary film about her wartime experiences, entitled \"Elephants do Remember,\" was released in 2019."}, {"text": "The 2019 NCAA Division II football rankings are from the AFCA Coaches and from D2Football.com. This is for the 2019 season."}, {"text": "is a Japanese Professional baseball Catcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball. He previously played for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. Early baseball career. Kuki participated in the 3rd grade spring 88th Japanese High School Baseball Invitational Tournament and the 3rd grade summer 98th Japanese High School Baseball Championship as a captain, with Fumimaru Taura, who was lower than the first grade, and a battery at the Syugakukan High School. In 2016, Kuki was selected as the Japan national baseball team in the 2016 Asian Junior Baseball Championship. And he contributed to the team's victory as captain, and was honored with an Excellent Defensive Player Award. Professional career. Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. On October 20, 2016, Kuki was drafted by the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks in the 2016 Nippon Professional Baseball draft. During the 2017\u20132018 season, he played in the Western League of NPB's minor leagues and played in informal matches against Shikoku Island League Plus's teams. On April 3, 2018, he injured his right thumb and operated. On May 26, 2019, Kuki debuted as a pinch hitter against the Chiba Lotte Marines and recorded a hit by pitch. And he was selected as the Japan Series roster in the"}, {"text": "2019 Japan Series. In the match against the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters on July 5, 2020, Kuki participated as a starter and recorded his first hit in the Pacific League with a home run. However, on September 30, he had surgery on the cervical spine, so he played only five games in the Pacific League for the 2020 season. In 2021 season, he spent the first half of the season on a rehab assignment, was registered for the first league on June 18, and recorded a hit in a July 7 game against the Chiba Lotte Marines. During the 2022 season, he never had a chance to play in the first league. In 2023 season, Kuki never had a chance to play in the first league. On October 22, the Hawks announced they would release him. Yokohama DeNA BayStars. On December 11, 2023, Kuki signed as a developmental player with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars. Ancestry. His ancestor is Kuki Yoshitaka, the commander of the Kuki Suigun (Kuki Navy) during the Sengoku period."}, {"text": "K2P may refer to:"}, {"text": "Blythdale is a rural town and locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Blythdale had a population of 47 people. Geography. The locality is bounded to the south by the Western railway line with the undeveloped town served by Blythdale railway station (). The Warrego Highway runs immediately north and parallel to the railway line. The railway and highway enter the locality from the east (Pickanjinnie) and exit to the west (Euthulla). The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with a small amount of crop growing. History. In 1848, James Alexander Blyth(e) tried to establish a pastoral run called \"Tingun Station\" on Tingun Creek, west of Roma. During an attack by Aboriginals near the creek, Blythe was thrown from his horse and speared in the leg. He managed to escape and recovered from his wounds, but the attack caused him to give up the pastoral run. It was then taken up by W.P. Gordon and incorporated into his Wallumbilla pastoral run. Some years later John Christian (of the Hunter River District) purchased Tingun Station and installed his nephew Henry Cardell as his manager and partner. Cardell renamed the pastoral run Blythdale and"}, {"text": "the creek Blyth Creek in honour of Blythe. Demographics. In the , the locality of Blythdale had a population of 39 people. In the , the locality of Blythdale had a population of 47 people. Education. There are no schools in Blythdale. The nearest government primary schools are Roma State College in Roma to the west and Wallumbilla State School in Wallumbilla to the east. The nearest government secondary schools are Roma State College (to Year 12) and Wallumbilla State School (to Year 10). There is also a Catholic primary and secondary school in Roma."}, {"text": "RFNS \"Kacau\" is a hydrographic survey vessel donated by China to the Republic of Fiji Naval Service in 2019. With the capacity for approximately 30 crewmembers she will be Fiji's largest vessel. \"Kacai\" is a catamaran, and has a deck area that can accommodate deck cargo and standard sized shipping containers."}, {"text": "Dehlin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "The Mauritanian is a 2021 legal drama film based on the memoir of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man who was held from 2002 to 2016 without charge in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a United States military prison. The film was directed by Kevin Macdonald based on a screenplay written by M.B. Traven, Rory Haines, and Sohrab Noshirvani, adapted from Slahi's 2015 memoir \"Guant\u00e1namo Diary\". It starred Tahar Rahim as Slahi, and also featured Jodie Foster, Shailene Woodley, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Zachary Levi in supporting roles. \"The Mauritanian\" was released in the United States on 12 February 2021 by STXfilms. In the United Kingdom, where all cinemas were closed due to the , the planned cinema release was cancelled and the film was premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 1 April 2021. It received mixed to positive reviews, with critics praising Macdonald's direction, its cinematography and the performances of the cast (particularly of Rahim and Foster) but criticising its screenplay. At the 78th Golden Globe Awards the film received two nominations; Best Actor \u2013 Motion Picture Drama (for Rahim), with Foster winning Best Supporting Actress \u2013 Motion Picture. At the 74th British Academy Film Awards the film received five"}, {"text": "nominations, including Best Film, Outstanding British Film, and Best Actor (for Rahim). Plot. In November 2001, Mohamedou Ould Slahi is in Mauritania, two months after the September 11 attacks. A Mauritanian policeman tells Mohamedou that Americans want to have a talk with him. Mohamedou agrees to go with them. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, in February 2005, lawyer Nancy Hollander is told by French lawyer Emmanuel that a lawyer from Mauritania approached his firm in Paris on behalf of Mohamedou\u2019s family. They haven\u2019t seen Mohamedou since he was arrested three years ago and only just found out in a newspaper that he is being held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and is accused of being one of the organizers of 9/11. Emmanuel asks Nancy to look into it because she has a security clearance from a previous case and can ask questions he can\u2019t. Nancy agrees to check. At a Naval Law Conference in New Orleans, Marine Prosecutor Stuart Couch is told by Colonel Bill Seidel about the Mohamedou case which Seidel wants him to prosecute. Seidel says that Mohamedou fought with Al-Qaeda in the '90s and then recruited for them in Germany, and says it"}, {"text": "was Mohamedou who recruited the terrorist who flew Stu\u2019s friend\u2019s plane into the tower. Nancy and Teri (her fellow lawyer) fly down to Guant\u00e1namo to meet Mohamedou. Mohamedou agrees to hire them as his lawyers. Meanwhile, Stu tells his team to go through all the intel reports they have to corroborate the story against Mohamedou. Nancy finds out something through Mohamedou\u2019s letter which she received from him while Stu looks at the MFR (Memorandum for the Record), showing exactly what happened. The letter and reports talk about enhanced interrogation methods (i.e., torture) and other maltreatment including sexual assault upon Mohamedou by the Guantanamo guards as ordered by General Mandel. General Mandel also threatened the arrest and rape of his mother. Thus, to save his mother and to get the torture to stop, Mohamedou gave a false confession about being a terrorist. Stu withdraws from Mohamedou's prosecution in disgust. In December 2009, at trial Mohamedou testified over video link to the court. In March 2010, Mohamedou received a letter informing him that his case was successful, and the judge has ordered him to be released. Text is shown telling us that it would be another 7 years before he actually was"}, {"text": "released, because the government appealed. His mother died in 2013 so he never saw her again. He was finally released in 2016, having spent 14 years in prison without ever being charged. Finally, footage of the real Mohamedou arriving back in Mauritania is shown. Texts are shown, telling us Mohamedou lives in Mauritania and got married in 2018 to an American lawyer. They have a son, Ahmed, but haven\u2019t been able to live together as a family and are hoping a country will grant them protection and citizenship. Nancy and Teri are still lawyers working against injustice, and we see footage of Mohamedou giving them necklaces with their names in Arabic. Production. The film was announced in November 2019. Kevin Macdonald signed on as director, with Benedict Cumberbatch, Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim and Shailene Woodley cast to star. In December 2019, Zachary Levi joined the cast of the film. Filming began on 2 December 2019 in South Africa. The film was originally known as \"Guant\u00e1namo Diary\" in its early development stages, and as \"Prisoner 760\" during production, before being described as untitled in post-production. In November 2020, the title was revealed to be \"The Mauritanian\". Release. In August 2020, STX"}, {"text": "Entertainment acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film. STX International will release the film in the United Kingdom and Ireland and pre-sold the international distribution rights at the American Film Market in November 2019. The film was released in the United States on 12 February 2021 in theaters, with a digital demand release following on 2 March 2021. Reception. Box office. As of 1 April 2021, the film had made $835,724 domestically and $2,500,000 internationally, for a global total of $3,335,724. The film was released alongside \"Judas and the Black Messiah\", \"Land\" and limited expansion of \"Willy's Wonderland\" on 12 February 2021. \"The Mauritanian\" made $163,789 from 245 theaters, and $179,778 over the four-day President's Day weekend. In its second weekend of release the film earned $137,072 from 287 theaters. In its third weekend, the film took in $120,192, a decline of 12.3% from the second. In its fourth weekend, the film collected $90,004. Critical response. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 75% of 217 critic reviews were positive, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads: \"\"The Mauritanian\" takes a frustratingly generic approach to a real-life story that might have been inspirational in other hands, but"}, {"text": "Tahar Rahim's performance elevates the uneven material.\" According to Metacritic, which sampled 35 critics and calculated a weighted average score of 53 out of 100, the film received \"mixed or average reviews\". Leaf Arbuthnot, writing for \"Tatler\", described the film as 'excellent', praising in particular the performances of Foster and Rahim as 'impeccable'. \"The Hindu\" praised the performances of the cast, specifically of Foster, saying; she elevates the legal drama to a whole new level."}, {"text": "Governor Lee may refer to:"}, {"text": "is a 2009 novel by Kenzabur\u014d \u014ce. It was published in hardcover by Kodansha on 15 December 2009. It was published in paperback in 2012. An English translation by Deborah Boliver Boehm was published in 2015. The novel is the fifth in a series with the main character of Kogito Choko, who can be considered \u014ce's literary alter ego. The novel was longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. Plot. The novel takes place partially in Tokyo but is primarily set in the forests of Shikoku and Kogito Choko's family home located in his hometown village in Shikoku. As a child in World War II, Kogito watched his father drown in a river. He returns to Shikoku in search of a red leather case which he believes contains documents that will answer the mysteries behind his father's life and death. He plans to use these documents to form the base of his new novel, which will be his final work. Publication. The novel was published in hardcover by Kodansha on 15 December 2009. It was published in paperback on 14 December 2012 by Kodansha Bunko, a paperback imprint of Kodansha. The novel was translated into English by Deborah Boliver"}, {"text": "Boehm and published by Grove Press on 6 October 2015. Reception. Translation. \"Kirkus Reviews\" called the novel \"vintage Oe: provocative, doubtful without being cynical, elegant without being precious.\" \"Publishers Weekly\" wrote, \"Oe's deceptively tranquil idiom scans the violent history of postwar Japan and its present-day manifestations, in the end finding redemption.\" Writing for \"The New York Times Book Review\", Janice P. Nimura gave the novel a favourable review, writing, \"True Oe devotees may find this thrill in \"Death by Water,\" but thrilling or not, it remains a thoughtful reprise of a lifetime of literary endeavor.\" Colin Dwyer of NPR lamented the novel's \"tendency to repeat itself, action that amounts to little more than a play's stage direction and a translation that can get a bit stilted\" but concluded that it is \"worth the extra effort.\""}, {"text": "Snuffer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Gavin Mills (born ) is a South African rugby union player for the in the Pro14. His regular position is scrum-half. Mills attended and played first team rugby for Ho\u00ebr Landbouskool Boland. He was contracted by the Port Elizabeth-based Pro14 franchise the prior to the 2019\u201320 season. He made his debut in their fifth match of the season, playing off the bench for the final five minutes in their defeat to the in Scotland."}, {"text": "The White Screen () is an Israeli indie pop-rock cult band . The band consists of cousins Gabriel and Gilbert Broid, Noa Ayali, Nimshi, Udi Naor and former drummer Stav Ben Shahar. The band is one of Israel's most interesting cult bands with three albums under their belt, the latest of which, \"Sex, Drugs & Palestine\", was recognized as an iconic album with all vinyl copies being sold out. The band has been described as a retro 1980s, punk band. History. Gabriel Broid was born in the United States and later moved to Brussels. At age ten, he moved to Israel. His cousin, Gilbert, was born in Jerusalem. As teenagers the two used to dress up and imitate the musicians which they admired. In a 2019 interview, lead singer Gabriel Broid described that their song \"Jerusalem\" came to him while riding on the 480 bus from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. Musical influences. The White Screen has noted Lou Reed, Velvet Underground and David Bowie as some of their musical influences. They have also stated that they loved Glam Rock."}, {"text": "Tingler is a surname. Notable people with the name include:"}, {"text": "Prunus\" \u00d7 \"arnoldiana is a hybrid species of \"Prunus\" discovered growing on the grounds of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. It is a cross of flowering plum, \"Prunus triloba\", and cherry plum, \"Prunus cerasifera\". One of its parents was initially thought to be \"Prunus tomentosa\". It differs from \"P. triloba\" in a number of features, the most important being having more copious white flowers. \"P. triloba\" flowers are usually pink. Likewise, it differs from \"P. cerasifera\" in a number of features, the most important being its more compact, shrubby growth form."}, {"text": "Kylie Percival is an Australian archivist. She is University Librarian of Curtin University, having previously served as Associate University Librarian (Academic Engagement) at University of Adelaide. In addition, she is a former president of the Australian Society of Archivists. Career. After graduating from University, Percival was hired as an archivist in government, school and private company archives. In 1988, she joined the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA), and worked in various roles such as past conference organiser and Convenor of the South Australian Branch. As Convenor of the South Australian Branch, Percival helped fight against the closure of archives in Darwin, Adelaide and Hobart. By 1994, Percival began her archiving career at the University of Adelaide Archives. In 2011, Percival became Vice-President of the ASA National Council, where she was subsequently elected President the following year. She held the role of president until 2016, where she was then presented with the Distinguished Achievement Award by the ASA. Two years later, Percival was appointed Associate University Librarian of Academic Engagement at the University of Adelaide, where she remained for six years. In late 2022, she relocated to Perth to commence her role as University Librarian at Curtin University."}, {"text": "The Deputy Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry is a Malaysian cabinet position serving as deputy head of the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry. The Ministry of International Trade and Industry was created in 1990 as a reconstruction of the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Domestic trade functions were eventually transferred to the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumerism, leaving the International Trade Ministry in charge of Industry proper. The post of Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry was rebranded into Deputy Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry following a cabinet decision on 5 April 2023. List of deputy ministers. The following individuals have been appointed as Deputy Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry, or any of its precedent titles: Colour key (for political coalition/parties):"}, {"text": "Cornwall is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Cornwall had a population of 13 people. Geography. The Great Dividing Range enters the locality from the west (Kilmorey Falls), run across the north of the locality, exiting to the north-east (Gunnewin). This splits the locality across two drainage basins with most of the locality (to the south of the range) being within the Murray Darling basin, specifically within the catchment of the Balonne River, while the northern strip of the locality is within the North East Coast drainage basin, specifically within the catchment of the Fitzroy River. The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with some small areas of crop growing. Demographics. In the , Cornwall had a population of 16 people. In the , Cornwall had a population of 13 people. Education. There are no schools in Cornwall. The nearest government primary schools are Bymount State School in neighbouring Bymount to the east and Injune State School in Injune to the north-east. The nearest government secondary school is Injune State School (to Year 10). There are no nearby schools providing education to Year 12; the alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Frank Palmer (born September 2, 1940) is a Canadian advertising executive, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is Chairman of Palmer Stamnes DDB and was president, chairman and CEO of DDB Canada until April 2019 after merging his advertising company Palmer Jarvis into DDB in 1998. Early life. Palmer was born in Kitsilano, Vancouver, British Columbia on September 2, 1940. He studied at the Vancouver School of Art (currently known as Emily Carr University of Art and Design), where he graduated with a degree in design and illustration. Career. After graduation, Palmer started his career as an illustrator for advertising agencies and television. He also worked as a commercial artist for KVOS-TV. Later, Palmer entered the advertising business and joined Trend Advertising on April 1, 1969, along with his partner George Jarvis. Trend Advertising later became Simon, Palmer and Leckie, and after a few years, the company's name was changed again to Palmer Jarvis. Palmer remained the president and CEO of the company until 1998, when he sold the company to Omnicom Group, which merged it into DDB Worldwide's Canadian office and renamed it Palmer Jarvis DDB. Palmer also became the chairman and CEO of the merged company, and in 2004, Palmer"}, {"text": "Jarvis DDB was renamed DDB Canada. Palmer served the company in a full-time capacity until December 31, 2018, after which he continued on a part-time basis. After serving for exactly 50 years in the marketing and advertising business, Palmer retired from DDB on April 1, 2019, and Brent Choi was appointed as the new CEO and CCO for the company. In 2019, he funded the \"Frank Palmer Creative Design Scholarship\" for digital design students at Vancouver Film School. On June 23, 2020, DDB Canada announced that Palmer had returned to DDB, coming out of retirement. He and his business partner Bob Stamnes had taken over the company's Vancouver office and rebranded it as Palmer Stamnes DDB. Palmer's return to DDB followed the resignation of CEO and CCO, Brent Choi. Awards and honors. The American Marketing Association inducted Palmer into the Canadian Marketing Hall of Legends for his work in the marketing and advertising industry. He was also given a Gold Medal Award by the Association of Canadian Advertisers. In the popular culture. \"Let's Get Frank ,\" a biography on Palmer's life in the business industry, was written by Robin Brunet and published in 2018 by Douglas & McIntyre. Palmer has"}, {"text": "been referred to as \"Vancouver's answer to Don Draper\" as mentioned in Vancouver Magazine."}, {"text": "Mount Hutton is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mount Hutton had a population of 32 people. Geography. The locality lies east of the Great Dividing Range with the eponymous mountain, Mount Hutton, in the north-east of the locality () rising to above sea level. The land use is grazing on native vegetation. History. In May 1916, the Queensland Government purchased the leasehold of the Mount Hutton pastoral property for \u00a373,500, which included 10,243 cattle and 260 horses. The government's intention was to subdivide the property for closer settlement. Following World War I in 1919, the subdivision of blocks occurred with about half being available to soldier settlers and others being open to any purchasers. The open blocks attracted little interest but returned soldiers took up the soldier settlement blocks. Like many other soldier settlements in Queensland, the scheme was mostly a failure. The land was not suitable for the government's proposed use for dairying and crop growing due to receiving lower levels of rainfall than claimed, the soldiers had insufficient capital to develop their land, the blocks of land were too small to provide the income needed by a family, there was insufficient"}, {"text": "timber available for building houses, and so on. Mount Hutton East Provisional School opened on 13 February 1922 and closed on circa 1924. Demographics. In the , Mount Hutton had a population of 34 people. In the , Mount Hutton had a population of 32 people. Education. There are no schools in Mount Hutton. The nearest government school is Injune State School in neighbouring Injune to the east which provides primary and secondary schooling to Year 10. There are no schools providing schooling to Year 12 nearby; the options are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Hutton Creek is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Hutton Creek had a population of 32 people. Geography. The watercourse Hutton Creek rises in the centre of the locality and flows east, exiting the locality to neighbouring Simmie to the east. It becomes a tributary of the Dawson River in Baroondah in the Shire of Banana. The locality presumably takes its name from the creek. Part of the Forrest State Forest is in the north of the locality, extending into neighbouring Westgrove. Apart from this protected area, the land use is grazing on native vegetation. Demographics. In the , Hutton Creek had a population of 23 people. In the , Hutton Creek had a population of 32 people. Education. There are no schools in Hutton Creek. The nearest government school is Injune State School (Prep to Year 10) in neighbouring Injune to the south-east. There are no schools offering education to Year 12 nearby; the options are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Harold Albert McDonald (28 July 1925 \u2013 13 May 2001) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League. Prior to his football career, McDonald served in the Australian Army during World War II."}, {"text": "Simmie is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Simmie had a population of 16 people. Geography. The Carnarvon Highway runs through the locality from north (Baffle West) to south (Injune). Hutton Creek (the watercourse) enters the locality from the west (Hutton Creek, the locality) and flows south-east through the locality, forming part of the south-eastern boundary of the locality, before becoming a tributary of Injune Creek. The land use is grazing on native vegetation. History. The locality takes its name from the parish, which in turn was likely named after pastoralist George Simmie, one of the lessees of Injune pastoral run in 1866. Demographics. In the , Simmie had a population of 8 people. In the , Simmie had a population of 16 people. Economy. There are a number of homesteads in the locality: Education. There are no schools in Simmie. The nearest government primary and secondary school (to Year 10) is Injune State School in neighbouring Injune to the south. There are no nearby schools providing secondary education to Year 12; the options are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Forestvale is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Forestvale had a population of 47 people. Geography. Moondi is a neighbourhood in the centre of the locality (). Forestvale has the following mountains: The Warrego Highway passes to the south and is accessible via Forestvale Road. In the south-west of the locality is a small protected area, part of Barabanbel State Forest. Apart from that, the land use is almost entirely grazing on native vegetation. History. Forestvale began as a cattle station run by Robert Lethbridge and his brothers, Edward and Mark Elliott. Barabanbel State School opened on 13 September 1921 and closed on 28 October 1932. It was on the south-eastern corner of Mitchell Forest Vale Road and Well Gully Road (approx ). It takes its name from the parish of Barabanbel in which it was situated. Moondi was named as a neighbourhood by the Queensland Place Names Board on 1 December 1979. Demographics. In the , Forestvale had a population of 47 people. In the , Forestvale had a population of 47 people. Education. There are no schools in Forestvale. The nearest government primary schools are Mitchell State School in neighbouring Mitchell to"}, {"text": "the south-east and Mungallala State School in Mungallala to the south-west. The nearest government secondary school is also Mitchell State School (to Year 10). However, the north of Forestvale is too distant from these schools for a daily commute, so other options are distance education and boarding school. Distance education and boarding schools are also options for secondary education to Year 12. Attractions. The Moondi shelter shed is at the end of Major Mitchell Road (). It is the site where the explorer Thomas Mitchell camped in 1846 while mapping an overland route from Sydney to Port Essington (now Darwin, Northern Territory). For the sesquicentenary in 1996, the shelter shed was constructed with plaques, maps, and information about the expedition. It was officially dedicated on Saturday 18 May 1996."}, {"text": "Womblebank is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Womblebank had a population of 40 people. Womblebank's postcode is 4465. Geography. The Great Dividing Range loosely bounds the locality to the east. The Maranoa River enters the locality from the north (Mount Moffatt) and flows south through the locality, exiting to the south (Forestvale); it later becomes a tributary of the Balonne River and is part of the Murray Darling drainage basin. Womblebank has the following mountains in the north of the locality: There are a number of state forests in the locality (from west to east): Apart from these protected areas, the land use is grazing on native vegetation. Demographics. In the , Womblebank had a population of 16 people. In the , Womblebank had a population of 40 people. Education. There are no schools in Womblebank. The nearest school is Injune State School (Prep to Year 10) in Injune to the east. However, it would be too distant for students in all but the eastern parts of Womblebank. Also, there are no nearby schools offering education to Year 12. The alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Richard (Dick) Maskel (born July 4, 1954, in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada) is an American curler from Green Bay, Wisconsin. He is a and a two-time United States men's curling champion (1986, 2002)."}, {"text": "Mount Moffatt is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mount Moffatt had a population of 14 people. Mount Moffatt's postcode is 4465. Geography. The locality is bounded to the north-west by the Chesterton Range, to the north and north-east by the Great Dividing Range, and to the east by the Merivale River. The terrain is quite mountainous with the following named features (from north to south); The Maranoa River rises in the locality with the west branch rising in the north of the locality () and the east branch rising in the north-east of the locality (). The two branches of the river flow south with their confluence in the south of the locality (). There are a number of protected areas within the locality: Apart from the protected areas, the land use is grazing on native vegetation. History. The locality was initially called Mount Moffat, but changed to Mount Moffatt on 18 October 2002. It is presumably named after the mountain Mount Moffatt within the locality. Demographics. In the , Mount Moffatt had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Mount Moffatt had a population of 14 people. Education. There"}, {"text": "are no schools in Mount Moffatt nor nearby. The options are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "East Bengal Football Club is an Indian association football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal, which competes in the top tier of Indian football, for the 2022\u201323 season. The club was formed when the vice-president of Jorabagan, Suresh Chandra Chaudhuri, resigned when Jorabagan sent out their starting eleven but with the notable exclusion of defender Sailesh Bose who was dropped from the squad for reasons not disclosed when they were about to face Mohun Bagan in the Coochbehar Cup Semi-Final on 28 July 1920. He along with Raja Manmatha Nath Chaudhuri, Ramesh Chandra Sen, and Aurobinda Ghosh, formed East Bengal, in the Jorabagan home of Suresh Chandra on 1 August 1920; 99 years ago. East Bengal started playing in the Calcutta Football League 2nd division from 1921 and in 1925 they qualified for the first division for the first time and since then they have won numerous titles in Indian Football. East Bengal joined the National Football League since its inception in 1996 and is the only club to play all seasons till date, even after its name change to I-League in 2007. East Bengal have won the National Football League thrice: 2000\u201301, 2002\u201303 and 2003\u201304 and became runners up"}, {"text": "7 times, the most number of times by any Indian football club. Among other trophies, East Bengal has won the Calcutta Football League 39 times, the IFA Shield 29 times, the Federation Cup 8 times and the Durand Cup 16 times. The team that East Bengal have met the most in I-League (formerly National Football League) competition is Mohun Bagan, their arch-rivals, against whom they have contested 45 league matches having won 16 of these; Mohun Bagan are the side against whom East Bengal has won the most in league competition. Churchill Brothers have recorded the most league victories over East Bengal, with 16 wins in 42 matches. In 2020\u201321 season, East Bengal moved into the Indian Super League, the officially declared new top tier league of Indian football, after a successful bid process. They finished ninth in their debut season, having won three of the twenty league matches. The team finished eleventh, at the bottom in the 2021\u201322 season, winning just one game in the entire campaign. In the 2022\u201323 season, East Bengal finished ninth again, having won six of the twenty league matches. All-time league record. Indian Super League. League record by ISL season. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Overall record"}, {"text": "in ISL. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> National Football League/I-League. League record by NFL/I-League season. <onlyinclude> \" Statistics correct till end of 2019\u201320 I-League.\" Overall record. <onlyinclude> \" Statistics correct till end of 2019\u201320 I-League.\" </onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "was a Japanese politician and labor activist. He founded the Y\u016baikai, an organization for laborers. Early life and education. Suzuki was born the oldest child of Suzuki Masuji on September 4, 1885 in what is now Kurihara, Miyagi prefecture. When he was 10 years old he and his father converted to Christianity. His family began to struggle financially when Suzuki was in middle school, and by the time he reached high school he had to pay his own way through school. These circumstances and the influences of , a missionary, made him interested in social problems. He entered Tokyo Imperial University and with his upperclassman Sakuz\u014d Yoshino, he began attending the Hongo Congregational Church ministered by Ebina Danjo. Influenced by the church's democratic atmosphere and sympathizing with 's reformist ideas, Suzuki decided to become a social activist. Career. After graduating from the university in 1909, Suzuki began working at what is now Dai Nippon printing. He got a job at the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun in 1910. He covered poverty. In 1911 he became the secretary of a Unitarian group that was headed by Abe Isoo. He also worked with a labor group. In 1912 he formed the Y\u016baikai with 14"}, {"text": "other people, so that they could raise the status of laborers. Suzuki served as the chairman. Branches of the organization opened all over Japan, with a total of 51 by the end of 1915. In 1915 and 1916 Suzuki traveled to the United States to learn about labor unions there. While learning about labor rights and strike actions, he was inspired to push for all of the labor organizations to merge in order to obtain more bargaining power. In 1919, the Y\u016baikai renamed itself to the Nippon R\u014dd\u014d S\u014dd\u014dmei Y\u016baikai. By 1921, the organization became simply the Nippon R\u014dd\u014d S\u014dd\u014dmei, or the Japanese Federation of Labor. That year the group was able to convince 30,000 dock workers in Kobe to go on strike. In 1926 he helped to form the Social Democratic Party. During the 1928 Japanese general election, he was elected to the House of Representatives representing Osaka's 4th district. He was one of the eight people who were the first to be elected to the Diet without a political party affiliation. After losing his seat in 1930, he was reelected in 1936 as a member of the Shakai Taish\u016bt\u014d. In 1940, Sait\u014d Takao was expelled from the Diet"}, {"text": "for making a speech questioning the \"Holy War\" in China. Suzuki supported him by leaving office along with several other Diet members. On March 12, 1946, Suzuki died in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture."}, {"text": "Hinch may refer to:"}, {"text": "Auguste Allong\u00e9 (19 March 1833, Paris - 4 July 1898, Bourron-Marlotte) was a French painter, illustrator and engraver. Biography. He enrolled at the \u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure des beaux-arts in 1852, where he studied with L\u00e9on Cogniet and Louis Joseph C\u00e9sar Ducornet. He was awarded a medal there in 1853. After graduating, he chose to specialize in landscapes and worked as a drawing teacher. He was heavily influenced by the Barbizon School and became associated with the . In 1873, he published a treatise on the art of drawing in charcoal (\"Le Fusain\"), which has been translated into several languages. It was reprinted in 1891 and 1907. His approach was novel, in that charcoal was normally used only for preliminary sketching, but he suggested techniques by which it could be polished into finished works with a special quality of their own. He provided illustrations for \"Les promenades de Paris\", by Jules Claretie, and \"La For\u00eat de Fontainebleau\", by Charles Blanc. His students included Jean-Louis Forain and Albert Rigolot. A street in Bourron-Marlotte has been named after him. His works may be seen at the Museum of modern art Andr\u00e9 Malraux (MuMa), the and the Mus\u00e9e des beaux-arts de Troyes, among others."}, {"text": "Mount Howe is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mount Howe had a population of 20 people. Geography. The Great Dividing Range forms the north-east, east and south-east boundaries of the locality. The terrain is mountainous with elevations ranging from above sea level. The locality has the following mountains: There are three areas within the Eden State Forest in the centre of the locality (). Apart from these, the land use is grazing on native vegetation. Demographics. In the , Mount Howe had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Mount Howe had a population of 20 people. Economy. There are a number of homesteads in the locality: Transport. Some of the homesteads have airstrips: Education. There are no schools in Mount Howe nor nearby. Distance education and boarding schools are options."}, {"text": "Robert Sibley (March 28, 1881-July 22, 1958) was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also directed its alumni association. He also helped found the East Bay Regional Park system. One of its parks is named after him, the Robert Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve. He was also prominent nationally as a leader of alumni associations. Since 1929, the Robert Sibley Magazine of the Year Award has honored excellence in alumni magazines. Biography. Robert Sibley born on March 28, 1881, in Round Mountain, Alabama. He was the fourth son of Robert Pendleton Sibley (born 17 Feb. 1848) and Susie B. Sibley (n\u00e9e Susie Wheless Bolling, 19 Jan. 1851). His siblings were Bolling (b. 1873), Francis Wheless (b. 1875), George Royal (b. 1879), and Herbert (b. 1885). Sibley graduated from the University of California in 1903. For a time, Sibley served as editor of the \"Journal of Electricity\". Sibley was a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, an executive manager of the California Alumni Association (1923-1949), and director and president of the East Bay Regional Park District (1948-1958). When the local water district announced its plans to sell a great deal of land in the"}, {"text": "East Bay hills in 1929, it was reported that Sibley \"went right down to city officials and said, 'these valuable pieces of land ought to be preserved forever'\". Sibley, then executive manager of the California Alumni Association, recruited other civic leaders to the cause of preservation, and \"immediately enlisted Hollis Thompson, Berkeley City Manager, to organize the East Bay Regional Parks Association\". Robert Sibley was married to Carol Sibley (n\u00e9e Rhodes) from 6 December 1943 until his death in 1958. Sibley lived for many years in a house in Berkeley known as Allanoke Manor. When Sibley retired on 30 June 1949 as manager of the California Alumni Association, the California State Senate passed a resolution commending him for his service, and noting the growth in membership of the alumni association. In 1958, when Robert and Carol Sibley were traveling together in France, Robert died unexpectedly of a heart attack in Dinan, France. His remains were cremated in Paris, and returned to California. Robert Sibley died on July 22, 1958."}, {"text": "On October 30, 2019, WhatsApp's parent company Facebook, Inc. confirmed that Pegasus, a sophisticated snooping software developed by Israel's NSO Group, was used to target Indian journalists, activists, lawyers and senior government officials. The journalists and activists are believed to have been targets of surveillance for a two-week period until May, when the Indian national election was held. The snooping scandal came out after WhatsApp filed a case in California's Northern District federal court against the NSO group, alleging the NSO group had developed the software used to infect 1,400 target devices with malware. The IT Ministry of India sought a detailed response from WhatsApp on the issue. They responded that they had alerted the government on two occasions\u2014once in May and for the second time in September 2019. In response to Indian Government's order, WhatsApp informed the Computer Emergency Response Team of India in May and September that Pegasus spyware affected Indian WhatsApp users. Indian National Congress party alleged that the Narendra Modi-led government has been caught snooping on journalists, activists, lawyers and senior government officials. They later alleged that their leaders, including general secretary Priyanka Gandhi, are also being targeted by this. They also claimed WhatsApp sent messages"}, {"text": "to different people whose phones were hacked. One such message was also received from the WhatsApp of Priyanka Gandhi a few months ago. Former Chief Financial officer of Infosys Mr. T.V. Mohandas Pai also demanded government to probe on the scandal and to come out with a report before the public. Broader context of Pegasus spyware usage. The WhatsApp incident was part of a larger pattern of Pegasus spyware abuse. Investigations by the Pegasus Project (2021) revealed that governments worldwide used the malware to target journalists, activists, and politicians, including associates of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and staff of French President Emmanuel Macron. Technical details. The attack exploited CVE-2019-3568, a zero-click exploit vulnerability in WhatsApp's VoIP stack. The exploit allowed installation of Pegasus spyware without any user interaction. WhatsApp patched the vulnerability through server-side fixes and client updates in May 2019. Global legal repercussions. Beyond lawsuits in the U.S. and India, the scandal prompted regulatory scrutiny in the European Union, where lawmakers questioned NSO Group's compliance with GDPR requirements. The Israeli government subsequently tightened oversight of cyberweapon exports. NSO Group's response. NSO Group maintained that Pegasus was licensed exclusively to governments for counterterrorism purposes. The company stated it had"}, {"text": "no visibility into how clients used the software, though this claim was disputed by researchers. Impact on WhatsApp. Following the disclosure, many users migrated to alternative messaging platforms like Signal and Telegram. WhatsApp responded by enhancing its security communications and emphasizing its commitment to end-to-end encryption."}, {"text": "Edward Beryl Cray (July 3, 1933 \u2013 October 8, 2019) was an American journalist, biographer and educator. Cray was best known for his biographies of Woody Guthrie and Earl Warren."}, {"text": "Harike is a village in Patti Tehsil in Tarn Taran district of the Indian state of Punjab. It is located 33 km from Tarn Taran Sahib city. The PIN code of Wakro is 143412. Harike is connected by two national highways, National Highway 54 and National Highway 703B. Demographics. As per 2011 Census of India, total number of households in Harike was 1620 and total population was 8,662 persons. There were total of 4,666 males and 3,996 females. There were 1,136 children of 6 years or below in Harike in 2011. The percentage of male population was 53.8% and the percentage of female population was 46.2%. Average Sex Ratio of Harike is 856 which is lower than Punjab state average of 895. Harike bird sanctuary. Harike barrage and Harike Wetland which are named after Harike village are located near this village. Migratory birds flock to this protected largest wetland in North India in winters."}, {"text": "Jubilee Insurance is a brand used by Pakistani general and life insurance companies headquartered in Karachi. The two companies are subsidiaries of Swiss for-profit organization Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development. , Jubilee Life was the largest private-sector insurance company in Pakistan. It is also the most awarded insurance company in Pakistan. History. Jubilee Insurance was incorporated as New Jubilee Insurance Company Limited by the Fancy family in May 1953. In 1955, it was listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange. The life insurance business was nationalised in 1972 and later Fancy family sold it to the Hashwani family. In 2002, the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development acquired the Pakistani operations of CGU International Insurance plc. CGU International Insurance founded life insurance business in Pakistan in 1995. In 2011, New Jubilee Insurance was renamed as Jubilee Insurance. In 2015, Jubilee entered the Takaful insurance market in Pakistan. On July 29, 2020, Jubilee was awarded the Effie Award in the insurance category."}, {"text": "The soils of the Tanqwa Abergele \"woreda\" (district) in Tigray (Ethiopia) reflect its longstanding agricultural history, highly seasonal rainfall regime, relatively high temperatures, overall dominance of Precambrian metamorphic rocks and steep slopes. Factors contributing to soil diversity. Climate. Annual rainfall depth is very variable with an average of around 600\u2013800 mm. Most rains fall during the main rainy season, which typically extends from June to September. Mean temperature in woreda town Yechila is 25.4 \u00b0C, oscillating between average daily minimum of 14.6 \u00b0C and maximum of 35.6 \u00b0C. The contrasts between day and night air temperatures are much larger than seasonal contrasts. Geology. From the higher to the lower locations, the following geological formations are present: Topography. As part of the Ethiopian highlands the land has undergone a rapid tectonic uplift, leading the occurrence of mountain peaks, plateaus, valleys and gorges. Land use. Generally speaking the level lands and intermediate slopes are occupied by cropland, while there is rangeland and shrubs on the steeper slopes. Remnant forests occur around Orthodox Christian churches and a few inaccessible places. A recent trend is the widespread planting of eucalyptus trees. Environmental changes. Soil degradation in this district became important when humans started deforestation"}, {"text": "almost 5000 years ago. Depending on land use history, locations have been exposed in varying degrees to such land degradation. Geomorphic regions and soil units. Given the complex geology and topography of the district, it has been organised into land systems - areas with specific and unique geomorphic and geological characteristics, characterised by a particular soil distribution along the soil catena. Soil types are classified in line with World Reference Base for Soil Resources and reference made to main characteristics that can be observed in the field."}, {"text": "The San Jacinto Ordnance Depot was a World War II facility built on an almost site located on the Houston Ship Channel, approximately southeast of downtown Houston, Texas. The job of the depot was to support the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy by storing and inspecting ammunition received from manufacturers that was being shipped through the Port of Houston docks, and storing and inspecting ammunition received from domestic U.S. military bases and areas of overseas operations. The depot also supported Army and Navy operations for a short while after World War II, but plans were made to gradually phase out the depot's mission. Before the depot could be shut down, the United States became involved in the Korean War, and plans to cease operations were postponed. The depot was finally determined to be unnecessary in 1959, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers was given control and responsibility of the site. The land and facilities of the depot were sold to the Houston Channel Industrial Corporation in October 1964."}, {"text": "Jackson North is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Jackson North had a population of 45 people. Geography. The Great Dividing Range enters the locality from the north-west (Bundi / Yuleba North) and exits to the north-east (Woleebee / Bogandilla). Unlike some parts of the range, the range in Jackson North is not defined by a chain of mountains, but rather by forming the drainage divide between the North-East Coast drainage basin (where rivers flow east into the Coral Sea) and the Murray-Darling Basin (where rivers flow south-west to the Southern Ocean). The Warrego Highway enters from the east (Jackson), forms the southern boundary of the locality, and then exits to the west (Jackson South / Yuleba North). The Western railway line runs immediately parallel and south to the highway. The Jackson Wandoan Road enters the location from the south (Jackson) and exits to the north-east (Woleebee). The land use is grazing on native vegetation with a small amount of crop growing in the west of the locality. History. The locality takes its name from the town of Jackson to the south, which was named after John Woodward Wyndham Jackson who was a pioneer"}, {"text": "settler in the district. Noonga Provisional School opened in 1916, as a half-time school in conjunction with Clarke's Creek Provisional School (meaning the two schools shared on teacher between them). The school closed in 1917, but reopened in 1918 as a half-time school in conjunction with Bogandilla Provisional School. In 1919 it was briefly a full-time school (not sharing its teacher) before reverting to a half-time school in conjunction with Noonga Creek Provisional School in August 1920. The school closed circa 1921. On 22 September 1947 a new Noonga State School opened. It closed at end of the school year in 1968. Noonga State School was located on the Noonga pastoral station west of the Jackson Wandoan Road and immediately west of Noonga Creek (). Demographics. In the , Jackson North had a population of 61 people. In the , Jackson North had a population of 45 people. Education. There are no schools in Jackson North. The nearest government primary schools are Dulacca State School in neighbouring Dulacca to the south-east, Yuleba State School in Yuleba to the south-west, and Guluguba State School in Guluguba to the north-east. The nearest government secondary schools are Wallumbilla State School (to Year 10)"}, {"text": "in Wallumbilla to the west and Wandoan State School (to Year 10) in Wandoan to the north-east. However, not all students in the locality would be within range of these schools for a daily commute. There are no schools offering education to Year 12 nearby. The alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Thomas Hasal (born July 9, 1999) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC. Early life. Born in Cambridge, Ontario, Hasal moved with his family to Ottawa when he was a year old, where he began playing soccer at age five. He then moved to Calgary at age seven, Edmonton at age eight, and Saskatoon at age nine. He played with youth club Aurora SC in Saskatchewan for a year, later joining the Whitecaps FC Saskatchewan Academy Centre in 2013, and also played for the Saskatchewan provincial team in 2014 and 2015. In August 2016, he joined the Whitecaps Residency Academy and later joined the Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 developmental squad in 2018. In 2016, he led the U19 team to the Academy Championship semi-finals. In 2016 and 2017, he was named the Saskatchewan Soccer Association Male Youth Player of the Year. Club career. Vancouver Whitecaps FC. In March 2019, he signed a professional contract with Vancouver Whitecaps FC of Major League Soccer as a homegrown player through 2020, with club options for 2021 and 2022. Initially serving as the third-string goalkeeper, he made his debut on July 19,"}, {"text": "2020, coming on as a substitute against the Seattle Sounders FC, early in the second half of an MLS is Back Tournament group stage match after an injury to Maxime Cr\u00e9peau. He made his first start in the next match on July 23, keeping a clean sheet in a 2\u20130 victory. He led the team to the Round of 16, where they were defeated in penalty kicks by Sporting Kansas City, following a 0\u20130 draw, with Hasal finishing the tournament with no goals against in regulation. Despite the loss, he was named Man of the Match and was selected to the MLS Team of the Week. After the tournament, he was named a finalist for the MLS is Back Tournament Golden Glove, Best XI, and Save of the Tournament. Hasal would take over the starting role in Cr\u00e9peau's absence, but would lose that role after suffering a fractured tibia and concussion, in September 2020. Following the return of Cr\u00e9peau, Hasal began the 2021 season in a backup role. In 2022, he extended his contract through the 2023 season, with club options for 2024 and 2025. Following the trade of starter Maxime Cr\u00e9peau, Hasal began the 2022 season as the Whitecaps'"}, {"text": "first-choice goalkeeper. However, on May 8, he suffered a fractured finger, putting him out of action. On June 25, he joined the second team Whitecaps FC 2 in MLS Next Pro in their match against San Jose Earthquakes II in his first game back. After the 2023 season, Hasal's contract option for the 2024 season would be declined by the Whitecaps, ending his time with the club. Los Angeles FC. On June 5, 2024, Hasal signed with Los Angeles FC through 2025 with an option for 2026. International career. Hasal made his debut in the Canadian youth program in October 2016 when he was called up to the Canada U18 team. In 2017, he was called up to the Canadian U20 team for a pair of friendly tournaments in January 2017, where he saved a penalty against El Salvador. He was then named to the roster for the 2017 CONCACAF U-20 Championship. At the CONCACAF Championship, he played every minute in Canada's three matches. He was then named to the roster for the 2018 CONCACAF U-20 Championship. In January 2020, Hasal was named to a camp with the Canada U23 team, before being named to the provisional roster for the"}, {"text": "2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship on February 26, 2020. In November 2022, he was called up to the Canada senior team for the first time, ahead of a friendly against Bahrain, although he did not appear in the match. Personal life. Hasal is of Czech descent; both his parents are first-generation emigrants from the Czech Republic. His grandfather Franti\u0161ek was a goalkeeper and introduced Hasal to soccer. Honours. Vancouver Whitecaps FC"}, {"text": "Chris Barns, nicknamed \"Brolga\", is an Australian kangaroo carer. He is the founder of the Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs and was featured in the 2013 BBC documentary series \"Kangaroo Dundee\". Barns and the Kangaroo Sanctuary came to international attention when Roger, one of the earlier kangaroos which he adopted, went viral for his muscular physique. Early life. Barns grew up in Perth in Western Australia, in the 1970s and was a shy child who did not excel in school. He partially attributes this to being 6 feet (182cms) tall by his early teens. Barns left home at the age of 17 to work as a zoo keeper in Broome, going to work at several wildlife parks before starting work as a tour guide. Work with kangaroos. In the early 2000s, while working as a tour guide running tours between Alice Springs and Uluru, Barns came across a joey, still in its dead mother's pouch, near Curtin Springs. The kangaroo mother, who had been hit by a car, had been dead for some time. With the help of a nurse on the tour, Barns managed to free the 4-month-old joey. The tour group named it Anna (later renamed Palau). This"}, {"text": "experience made Barns angry about how many vehicles had already driven past the dead mother and not thought to check that she may have a joey. He decided that it would be his mission to tell people about how to check for this. Following this, in 2005, Barns started the first incarnation of the Kangaroo Sanctuary, the Baby Kangaroo Rescue Centre, and many joeys started being sent to him, mostly through a combination of road accidents and hunting. In 2007 alone, 75 joeys were brought into the sanctuary, including Roger on 24 May 2007; it was initially thought he would not survive long. In 2009, after exceeding capacity at the existing site, Barns moved to what is now known as the Kangaroo Sanctuary, funded primarily by donation and entry fees. In 2013, Barns and the sanctuary were featured in the BBC documentary series \"Kangaroo Dundee\", a six-part series which he followed up with the book \"Kangaroo Dundee\" with James Knight. In 2014, Barns married Tahnee Passmore and they share their home with a family of joeys. Barns has said that:"}, {"text": "Nowhere Man is a 2019 Taiwanese television miniseries written, directed, and edited by Chen Yin-jung. It stars Joseph Chang, Alyssa Chia, Mavis Fan, Wang Po-chieh, Jeremiah Zhang, Zhou Ming-fu, Greg Hsu, Kuo Tzu-chien, and Lu Yi-lung. The miniseries follows a death row inmate who must break out of prison to save his kidnapped son and protect his family. The first Mandarin-language Netflix original series, \"Nowhere Man\" premiered in eight parts on October 31, 2019. It received eight Golden Bell Award nominations, including Best Miniseries, and won four. Synopsis. A strange encounter that causes a man awaiting execution to experience alternate timelines. That leads to his escape from prison to protect his family."}, {"text": "The soils of the Kola Tembien \"woreda\" (district) in Tigray (Ethiopia) reflect its longstanding agricultural history, highly seasonal rainfall regime, relatively high temperatures, overall dominance of sandstone and metamorphic lithology and steep slopes. Factors contributing to soil diversity. Climate. Annual rainfall depth is very variable from year to year, but also from place to place. Whereas, there is around 500 mm annual rainfall near Tekez\u00e9 River, this increases to 1600 mm in Abiy Addi, which benefits from the orographic rains induced by the Dogu\u2019a Tembien massif. Most rains fall during the main rainy season, which typically extends from June to September. Mean temperature in woreda town Abiy Addi is 22.4 \u00b0C, oscillating between average daily minimum of 12.8 \u00b0C and maximum of 31.5 \u00b0C. The contrasts between day and night air temperatures are much larger than seasonal contrasts. Geology. From the higher to the lower locations, the following geological formations are present: Topography. As part of the Ethiopian highlands the land has undergone a rapid tectonic uplift, leading the occurrence of mountain peaks, plateaus, valleys and gorges. Land use. Generally speaking the level lands and intermediate slopes are occupied by cropland, while there is rangeland and shrubs on the steeper"}, {"text": "slopes. Remnant forests occur around Orthodox Christian churches and a few inaccessible places. A recent trend is the widespread planting of eucalyptus trees. Environmental changes. Soil degradation in this district became important when humans started deforestation almost 5000 years ago. Depending on land use history, locations have been exposed in varying degrees to such land degradation. Geomorphic regions and soil units. Detailed information on soils is available for the southern part of the district which is part of the Giba River catchment. Given the complex geology and topography of the district, it has been organised into land systems - areas with specific and unique geomorphic and geological characteristics, characterised by a particular soil distribution along the soil catena. Soil types are classified in line with World Reference Base for Soil Resources and reference made to main characteristics that can be observed in the field. Soil erosion and conservation. The reduced soil protection by vegetation cover, combined with steep slopes and erosive rainfall has led to excessive soil erosion. Nutrients and organic matter were lost and soil depth was reduced. Hence, soil erosion is an important problem, which results in low crop yields and biomass production. As a response to the"}, {"text": "strong degradation and thanks to the hard labour of many people in the villages, soil conservation has been carried out on a large scale since the 1980s and especially 1980s; this has curbed rates of soil loss. Measures include the construction of infiltration trenches, stone bunds, check dams, small reservoirs such as Addi Asme'e as well as a major biological measure: exclosures in order to allow forest regeneration."}, {"text": "The Leicester balloon riot occurred on 11 July 1864 in Victoria Park, Leicester, during a public demonstration of a new hydrogen balloon by the aeronaut Henry Tracey Coxwell. An estimated 50,000 spectators were present for the event. Disorder broke out amid rumours that the balloon on display was neither the largest nor the newest in Coxwell's fleet, contrary to prior claims. Tensions escalated further following allegations that a woman in the crowd had been struck by a police officer. The balloon was damaged during the disturbance, prompting Coxwell to deliberately collapse the gas envelope before fleeing the scene under attack. The balloon was subsequently destroyed by the crowd; the envelope was torn apart, and the basket was set alight. The incident resulted in significant financial loss for Coxwell, who was forced to construct a replacement. It also hindered progress in the field of scientific high-altitude ballooning. Background. Henry Tracey Coxwell was an English aeronaut of the mid to late 19th-century. He became famous for a 5 September 1862 flight with meteorologist James Glaisher. Setting off from Wolverhampton in the West Midlands in a balloon filled with coal gas they reached a record altitude of . With low oxygen levels and"}, {"text": "temperatures below the pair almost died before Coxwell managed to release gas from a valve with his teeth (his hands being unusable) to lose height. The flight, which was funded by the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA), provided valuable data about the Earth's atmosphere and Coxwell and Glaisher resolved to continue high altitude flights. Following the Wolverhampton flight and a subsequent flight on 29 September, Coxwell determined that his balloon's gas envelope was too worn to carry out further flights. He constructed a new envelope which he named \"Britannia\". It was capable of holding of gas, a volume increase of 10%. The new balloon required low altitude flights for testing and to make the envelope gas-tight, so Coxwell carried out a series of demonstration flights in June at Crystal Palace and Derby. Coxwell planned a further flight on 11 July 1864 from the racecourse at Victoria Park, Leicester during a fete organised by the Foresters Friendly Society. Tickets were sold and 13 passengers, including two women, were scheduled to accompany Coxwell on his flight. Riot. The fete was attended by 50,000 people and was lightly policed \u2013 Coxwell later claimed there were only eight policemen on duty."}, {"text": "The flight was to take place at 5:30 pm from a field. The field was enclosed by a fence but there was only an insubstantial barrier surrounding the balloon. Early in the afternoon there was a disturbance when a gentleman, claiming to be an aeronaut, announced that \"Britannia\" was not Coxwell's newest and biggest balloon but an older model. This enraged the crowd who, shortly after 2:00 pm, broke down the barrier and demanded that Coxwell take off immediately. At around this time Coxwell's passengers forced their way into the balloon basket against his instructions in such a manner that prevented him from taking off. The carpenters necessary to remove the scaffold from around the balloon were also not available. One of the passengers then announced to the crowd that Coxwell was refusing to ascend and this, combined with his bad language and gestures, enraged them. It is said that the police, who numbered only five in the vicinity of the balloon, then struck a female member of the crowd on the forehead. She fell to the ground bleeding which is said to have caused further anger in the crowd. A member of the crowd threw a bottle which damaged"}, {"text": "the balloon envelope and others tore the mesh enclosing it. Coxwell threatened that unless order was restored and the crowd moved back he would let the gas out of the balloon. There was no response to this, aside from verbal abuse, and Coxwell followed through on his threat. After the envelope collapsed the crowd surged forwards and tore it to pieces. The police, led by Inspector Haynes and Sergeant Chapman, attempted to hold back the crowd but could do little more than attempt to protect Coxwell. Coxwell was attacked, amid shouts of \"rip him up\", \"knock him on the head\" and \"finish him\", and his clothes were torn. One man who attempted to protect him was knocked to the ground three times. Coxwell eventually found refuge at the house of the town clerk, Mr. Stone, who lived nearby. \"Britannia\" was destroyed and the balloon car, used for all of Coxwell's earlier ascents (including his famous high altitude trip with Glaisher) was burnt. The metal hoop, which supported the envelope, was paraded through the streets of Leicester by the mob. One woman suffered injuries during the riot and was taken to hospital with a suspected broken back. Aftermath. Coxwell laid the"}, {"text": "blame for the riot with the Leicester City Police, who he said had failed to provide a sufficient number of officers. He also stated that some of the mob wore the distinctive badge of the Foresters Society, apportioning some blame to them. The \"London Review of Politics, Society, Literature, Art and Science\" described the crowd as \"a horde of savages as fierce and untamed as South Sea Islanders and differing very little from them except in their habitat, which was at Leicester\" and the local residents were for some time known as \"Balloonatics\" due to their association with the riot. Leicester residents laid the blame on agitators from other cities such as Nottingham. The riot served as a demonstration of the ad hoc nature of early ballooning events and the lack of control aeronauts had over them. The destruction of \"Britannia\" curtailed the number of high-altitude flights that the BA's balloon committee had planned to make in 1864. Glaisher noted that he \"deeply regretted that a wanton mob destroyed [Coxwell's] property and that events should have followed leading me to stop the experiments in which I was engaged\". Coxwell soon afterwards returned to low level flights using his old balloon"}, {"text": "and, on 29 August, made such a flight from Crystal Palace with Glaisher. He constructed a new balloon, \"Research\", even larger than \"Britannia\" had been, which flew in 1865. The new balloon was a considerable expense to Coxwell. He applied to the Foresters Society for a grant to cover his costs but their rules required a period of delay before he could be paid. The Mayor of Leicester, keen to restore the city's standing, led a campaign for public subscriptions to cover the costs. This raised some \u00a3500, of which \u00a3386 came from one individual \u2013 a Mr E. S. Ellis. The riot marked the beginning of the end for Coxwell's association with Glaisher. Glaisher was associated with the London branch of the Foresters Society and supported Coxwell's application for funding. There was later a disagreement \u2013 Glaisher claimed Coxwell had behaved \"impertinently\" towards him over the matter. Indeed, one of Glaisher's allies described the \"Research\" as \"ill-gotten property\" due to the \"way in which [Coxwell] obtained the money from Leicester\"."}, {"text": "Alice Moroni (born 21 February 1991) is an Italian former professional tennis player. A right-handed player from Bergamo in the north of Italy, Moroni reached a best ranking of 377 in the world and won four singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit. At the 2009 Italian Open, she made the second round of singles qualifying, and received a wildcard into the doubles main draw, partnering fellow Italian Nastassja Burnett."}, {"text": "Jaclyn Bethany is an American director, writer, producer and actress. She is best known for her work on \"The Rehearsal\", \"Indigo Valley\" and \"The Delta Girl\". Life and career. Bethany was born in Jackson, Mississippi. She holds a BA in Acting from Fordham University and an MA in Screenwriting from the London Film School. Later, she also received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the AFI Conservatory. Her thesis film, The Delta Girl, starring Isabelle Fuhrman, Caitlin Carver and Ashley Bell, premiered at HollyShorts Film Festival. Bethany's debut feature film was \"Indigo Valley\", starring Rosie Day, Brandon Sklenar and Greta Bellamacina, based on one of her own short film of the same name. It was screened at the Garden State Film Festival. Her digital series \"The Rehearsal\" won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Digital Drama Series for Tina Benko. She is slated to direct the upcoming feature film \"Before the World Set on Fire\", starring Brooke Bloom and Samuel H. Levine. Filmography. As actress"}, {"text": "Unison Square Garden (stylized as UNISON SQUARE GARDEN, or USG) is a Japanese Rock band signed to Toy's Factory. The band includes Kosuke Saito (vocals/guitar), Tomoya Tabuchi (bass/backing vocals), and Takao Suzuki (drums/backing vocals). Career. In July 2004, the band was formed, and named as \"Unison\" (\u30e6\u30cb\u30be\u30f3) and later renamed the band name to \"Unison Square Garden\". They took part in Teens 'Music Festival Musical Instrument Store Competition, they won the Grand Prix finally. In 2008, they made a major debut at Toy's Factory. The first single is \"\"Sentimental Period\". In 2009, they released their first full album, \"Unison Square Garden\", and went on tour. In February 2014, they gave their first performance on Music Station. In July, 2015, they released the anniversary album \"Dugout Accident\"\", and held a \"Unison Square Garden Live Special \"fun time 724\" in Nippon Budokan. On July, 2019, they released a 15th anniversary coupling best album \"Bee-Side Sea-Side: B-side Collection Album\"\". and , held a concert\u300eProgram 15th\u300fin Maishima Sports Island. The band celebrated its 20th anniversary in July 2024. July 24, 2024, \"Unison Square Garden 20th Anniversary LIVE \"Rock Band is fun\" was held in Nippon Budokan. On the same day, they released \"Sub Machine,"}, {"text": "Best Machine\"\"."}, {"text": "Jackson South is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Jackson South had \"no people or a very low population\". Geography. Most of the locality is within the Yuleba State Forest, except the eastern part, where the land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with some crop growing. The Warrego Highway enters the locality from the north-east (Jackson North / Jackson) forming the northern boundary of the locality, before exiting the locality to the north-west (Yuleba / Yuleba South). The Western railway line runs immediately south and parallel to the highway. The locality was served by the now-abandoned Channing railway station (). History. The locality takes its name from the neighbouring town of Jackson, which was named after John Woodward Wyndham Jackson who was a pioneer settler in the district. Demographics. In the , Jackson South had a population of 10 people. In the , Jackson South had \"no people or a very low population\". Education. There are no schools in Jackson South. The nearest government primary schools are Dulacca State School in neighbouring Dulacca to the east and Yuleba State School in neighbouring Yuleba to the north-west. The nearest government secondary school is"}, {"text": "Wallumbilla State School (to Year 10) in Wallumbilla to the north-west. There is no government secondary school offering secondary schooling to Year 12 within range of a daily commute; the options would be distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "\"In My Room\" is a song by Frank Ocean, released as a single on November 2, 2019. Ocean wrote and produced the song alongside Michael Uzowuru. It was premiered on Ocean's Beats 1 radio show, \"Blonded Radio\", two weeks after \"DHL\". The 7-inch single vinyl is set to include a remix by Benny Revival as its B-side. Composition. The song features Ocean rapping and crooning over a looped synth line and a \"simple\" beat, with some drum programming done by Sango. Critical reception. Matthew Schnipper of \"Pitchfork\" compared the song to the music of rapper Lil B and called the first two-thirds of the song \"nice, if close to throwaway.\""}, {"text": "Yuleba North is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Yuleba North had a population of 26 people. Geography. The Warrego Highway and Western railway line runs along the eastern part of the southern boundary. The highest point in the locality is Mount Combabula () at above sea level. Combabula State Forest is in the north of the locality () extending into neighbouring Bundi to the north. Two sections of Yuleba State Forest are in the south and south-east of the locality, extending into neighbouring Yuleba South and Jackson South and beyond. Apart from these protected areas, the predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation with crop-growing in the east of the locality. Below ground throughout most of the locality, coal seam gas is extracted by Australia Pacific LNG and Bronco Energy. History. The locality takes its name from the town of Yuleba. When it was named in 1865, it was a settlement on Yuleba Creek. However, in October 1879, it moved to the railway crossing on Yuleba Creek. Demographics. In the , Yuleba North had a population of 62 people. In the , Yuleba North had a population of 26 people. Education. There"}, {"text": "are no schools in Yuleba North. The nearest government primary school is Yuleba State School in neighbouring Yuleba to the south-west. The nearest government secondary school is Wallumbilla State School (to Year 10) in Wallumbilla to the south-west. There is no nearby school offering secondary schooling to Year 12; the options are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "The Lonely Skier is a 1947 thriller novel by British writer Hammond Innes. It is set in the Dolomites where a number of people are hunting a stash of buried Nazi treasure. The hero Neil Blair, recently demobbed from the army and unemployed, is hired to go to an isolated ski resort and pretend he is writing a screenplay. In 1948 it was adapted into a film \"Snowbound\" directed by David MacDonald for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Dennis Price, Robert Newton and Herbert Lom. Jack Adrian relates how Innes completed an arduous skiing course in the Italian Dolomites before he was demobbed. It was, said Innes, \"Stiffer than any army course I was ever on, including battle training.\" His experiences were used as the background for the novel."}, {"text": "Daniel Steuernagel (born 16 November 1979) is a German football manager, who is currently managing FSV Fernwald. Managerial career. Steuernagel, who worked as a teacher for many years after studying elementary school education, began his coaching career in 2008 with local clubs Viktoria Nidda and SSV Lindheim. He then spent two seasons with SC Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg, which later became FC Gie\u00dfen, in the Hessen Mitte regional league. In the 2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons, Steuernagel won two consecutive promotions with Teutonia, from the Verbandsliga via the Hessenliga to the Regionalliga S\u00fcdwest. From October 2016 to August 2017, Steuernagel was employed as a sports director by the Regionalliga West team Sportfreunde Siegen. From June 2017 Steuernagel devoted himself full-time to training as a football coach, which is why the collaboration ended. As a graduate of the 2017/18 training year, the Hessian finally completed his training as a football coach at the Hennes-Weisweiler Academy in Cologne. In addition to him, former professional players such as Antonio Di Salvo, Markus Daun, Dimitrios Grammozis and Francisco Copado also successfully took part in the course. In September 2019, Steuernagel was released by Kickers Offenbach. On 16 October 2019, he was announced as the new manager of"}, {"text": "KFC Uerdingen. He was replaced by Stefan Kr\u00e4mer on 10 March 2020. His contract was valid until the end of the season. In March 2020, Steuernagel was replaced by Stefan Kr\u00e4mer, although the club offered him the opportunity to remain part of the coaching staff. In 2024 he returned to management, when he became new manager of FSV Fernwald."}, {"text": "Miguel Olaort\u00faa Laspra (22 November 1962 \u2013 1 November 2019) was a Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate. Olaort\u00faa Laspra was born in Spain in November 1962 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1988. He served as auxiliary bishop of \"Abbir Marius\" and as bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Iquitos, Peru, from 2011 until his death in 2019."}, {"text": "ImeIme Umana (born 1993) is an American lawyer who served as a law clerk for Robert L. Wilkins and Sonia Sotomayor. She was the 131st president\u2014and the first black female president\u2014of the \"Harvard Law Review\". Early life and education. Umana was born in State College, Pennsylvania, to Nigerian immigrant parents originally from Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria. She had her high school education at Susquehanna Township High School in Harrisburg. She graduated from Harvard College in 2014, earning a BA with a joint concentration in African American studies and Government. She earned a degree in law from Harvard and a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Career. While obtaining her bachelor's degree, she served as president of the Harvard Institute of Politics and worked at the university's Hiphop Archive. She interned at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, served as both the Community Action Chair of the Harvard University Institute of Politics and Professional Developmental Chair for Public Interest for the Harvard Black Law Students Association. On January 29, 2017, she was appointed president of the \"Harvard Law Review\" by the review's 92 student editors. She was among 12 candidates, eight of"}, {"text": "whom were women and eight of whom were people of color. All candidates were made to answer questions from a forum of editors, write responses to submitted questions and participate in mock editorial activities. Umana served as a law clerk for Robert L. Wilkins of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2018 to 2019. She was a law clerk for justice Sonia Sotomayor of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2020 to 2021. Umana went on to work in the District of Columbia's Public Defender's office. In 2022, she wrote an op-ed in \"British Vogue\" about the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first black woman and first former federal public defender to the Supreme Court of the United States."}, {"text": "GroundUp is a South African-based not-for-profit news agency. It publishes most content related to education, health, sanitation, immigration and human rights stories under a creative commons license and is known for its focus on public interest stories within vulnerable communities with a \"bottom-up\" style of reporting. Their content is regularly reprinted and featured in other South African news publications such as the \"Daily Maverick\", News24, and \"Mail & Guardian\". History. GroundUp started in April 2012 as a joint project of Community Media Trust and the University of Cape Town's Centre for Social Science Research by Nathan Geffen, a computer scientist, researcher and former Treatment Action Campaign member. Reporting. The publication is known for exposing corruption within the South African National Lottery scheme. For this investigation, GroundUp editor Nathan Geffen and journalist Raymond Joseph were joint winners of the 2021 South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) Nat Nakasa award for courageous community journalism. Joseph went on to win the Vodacom Journalist of the Year and Taco Kuiper awards. In 2023, GroundUp reporters Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn investigated and exposed the prison escape of convicted rapist Thabo Bester, for which they were received the Nat Nakasa Award for Media Integrity and"}, {"text": "the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award in 2023. References. Primary sources. These sources are published by \"GroundUp\", and are indicated in this article by a double dagger (\u2021):"}, {"text": "The White South is a 1949 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. It is set on a factory ship operation in the Antarctic Ocean. In 1954 it was adapted into the film \"Hell Below Zero\" directed by Mark Robson and starring Alan Ladd and Stanley Baker. In his obituary of Innes, Jack Adrian described \"The White South\" as \"the book that was instrumental in lifting him out of the general ruck of thriller writers, establishing him as a writer that serious critics (such as Elizabeth Bowen and J.W. Lambert) took seriously\"."}, {"text": "Yuleba South is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Yuleba South had a population of 21 people. Geography. The Warrego Highway and the Western railway line run immediately parallel along two sections of the northern boundary, entering initially from the north-east (Yuleba North / Jackson South) and then exiting to Yuleba and then re-entering and exiting to the north-west (Wallumbilla North / Wallumbilla South). The Yuleba Surat Road enters the locality from the north (Yuleba) and travels south, forming part of the western boundary with Wallumbilla South, before exiting to the south (Warkon). There are two sections of the Yuleba State Forest in the locality, one in the centre of the locality and the other in the north-east of the locality extending into neighbouring Jackson South and beyond. Apart from these protected areas, the land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with a small amount of crop growing. History. The locality takes its name from the town of Yuleba, which was a name given in 1865 to a settlement on Yuleba Creek, but which in October 1879 was moved to the railway crossing on Yuleba Creek. Demographics. In the , Yuleba South had"}, {"text": "a population of 27 people. In the , Yuleba South had a population of 21 people. Education. There are no schools in Yuleba. The nearest government primary school is Yuleba State School in neighbouring Yuleba to the north. The nearest government secondary schools are Wallumbilla State School (to Year 10) in Wallumbilla to the north-west. The nearest school offering secondary education to Year 12 is Roma State College in Roma to the west, but it would be too distant for most students in Yuleba South to attend; the alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "In welding, undercutting is when the weld reduces the cross-sectional thickness of the base metal. This type of defect reduces the strength of the weld and workpieces. One reason for this defect is excessive current, causing the edges of the joint to melt and drain into the weld; this leaves a drain-like impression along the length of the weld. Another reason is if a poor technique is used that does not deposit enough filler metal along the edges of the weld. A third reason is using an incorrect filler metal, because it will create greater temperature gradients between the center of the weld and the edges. Other causes include too small of an electrode angle, a dampened electrode, excessive arc length, and slow speed."}, {"text": "Alabama City is a former city and now a neighborhood within the city of Gadsden in Etowah County, Alabama, United States. It was equidistant between Gadsden and Attalla, Alabama, approximately 2 1/2 miles west of downtown Gadsden. History. Founded by Captain James Madison Elliott, Jr. (1854-1914), it was incorporated by a special act of the state legislature in 1891. William Gardner was appointed the first mayor and the city was divided into 4 wards, represented by aldermen C.A. Clayton, C.F. Norris, R.V. Wilson and Abihu Christopher. At the time, it consisted of about 3,000 acres (roughly 5 square miles) between Little Wills Creek and Black Creek. A post office was established as well, and it had about 50 residents. Captain Elliott's ambitious vision for his new city was to see both neighboring Gadsden and Attalla merging into Alabama City, with intentions of becoming the major industrial hub of Northeast Alabama. In 1895, the city landed its first major factory, a cotton mill built by the Dwight Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts. Its second major factory, the Alabama Steel and Wire Company (later Gulf State Steel), was opened in 1902. Railroad lines also ran through the city, including the Southern Railroad,"}, {"text": "Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad and Louisville and Nashville Railroads. In 1912, a streetcar line was constructed by Elliott's company. Inspired by Birmingham's 1910 merger that transformed it into a major city, in 1914, an effort to merge Alabama City into its smaller neighbor of Attalla failed. Its failure was due in part to the efforts of Gadsden leaders and also due to Captain Elliott's objections in that he did not want Attalla to \"swallow\" his city, but for it to \"swallow\" Attalla. Elliott died that year. By 1915, a thriving commercial district had grown up around 7th Avenue, which became known as \"Little Wall Street\". A major fire in 1927 damaged or destroyed many structures along Wall Street and Meighan Avenue. The city hall and post office were among the casualties. Although the city was still growing and began to rebuild, it never would recover fully from the loss, especially as neighboring Gadsden flourished. The Depression would also compound the damage to the city, causing many businesses to close. Alabama City ultimately voted to merge into Gadsden on July 13, 1932. Demographics. Alabama City (1900-1930). Alabama City first appeared on the 1900 U.S. Census as an incorporated city."}, {"text": "It returned until 1930, before merging into neighboring Gadsden in 1932. It was the 15th largest city in Alabama in 1930. Alabama City Precinct (1900-1950). The 29th precinct of Etowah County (1900-1950) also bore the name of Alabama City. Note that both the city and precinct population in 1900 was identical, but the precinct also included areas not within the city limits and reported a larger population figure beginning in 1910. In 1960, the precinct was merged, as part of a larger reorganization of counties, into the census division of Gadsden."}, {"text": "Thuliswa Winlove Nkabinde-Khawe (4 January 1973 \u2013 1 November 2019) was a South African politician and a party member of the African National Congress (ANC). She was elected a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in May 2009 and was a long-serving member of the Social Development committee in the legislature, prior to her appointment as Gauteng MEC (Member of the Executive Council) for Social Development in May 2019. She was an MEC until her death just over five months later. Early life and career. Nkabinde-Khawe was born on 4 January 1973 in the now-dissolved Transvaal Province. She became involved in politics at a young age, joining ACTSTOP, a civic organisation, in the 1980s where she held multiple leadership positions. She was part of the formation of the South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO) and was a senior leader in the structure. She was SANCO's provincial secretary at the time of her death. She took office as a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in May 2009 and became a member of numerous committees including the Standing Committee of Public Accounts (SCOPA), Public Transport and Social Development. She was designated as the head of the Public Transport Committee in August"}, {"text": "2012. She was the head of the Social Development Committee for the fifth provincial legislature from 2014 to 2019. In May 2019, Nkabinde-Khawe was named MEC for Social Development by Premier David Makhura. She succeeded Nandi Mayathula-Khoza and took office as an MEC on 30 May 2019. She held the post for just over five months. Death. Nkabinde-Khawe died on 1 November 2019 in the Mulbarton Hospital in Alberton, Gauteng. She died following a short illness. The Gauteng ANC said that her death \"will leave void in social development sector\". The opposition Democratic Alliance also sent their condolences to the family. She is survived by her husband, Jacob Khawe, a senior ANC politician in the province, and their six children. Panyaza Lesufi was named her acting successor. Nkabinde-Khawe received a category 1 provincial funeral that was held on 8 November 2019. She was buried at the Meyerton Cemetery in Meyerton."}, {"text": "Wallumbilla South is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Wallumbilla South had a population of 80 people. Geography. As the name suggests, the locality is immediately south of the town of Wallumbilla. The Warrego Highway and Western railway line form part of the northern boundary of the locality. The Roma-Condamine Road runs through the south-west corner. There are four areas of state forest in the south-east of the locality: Wallabella State Forests 1 and 2, Tinowan State Forest, and Yalebone State Forest 1. Apart from these protected areas, the land use is a mixture of crop growing and grazing on native vegetion. History. The locality name is derived from town and parish, which in turn was a pastoral run name leased by naturalist Charles Coxen in the 1860s. The name is presumed to be from the Mandandanji language, \"wallu\" meaning \"plenty\" and \"billa\" meaning \"jew fish\" (possibly \"Argyrosomus japonicus\"). Demographics. In the , Wallumbilla South had a population of 62 people. In the , Wallumbilla South had a population of 80 people. Education. There are no schools in Wallumbilla South. The nearest government primary schools are Wallumbilla State School in neighbouring Wallumbilla to the"}, {"text": "north and Yuleba State School in Yuleba to the north-east. The nearest government secondary schools are Wallumbilla State School (to Year 10) and Roma State College (to Year 12) in Roma to the north-west. Some parts of Wallumbilla might be too distant for a daily commute to Roma; other options would be distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Albanian Basketball Superleague, is the 54th season of the top professional basketball league in Albania. Competition format. The six clubs played a four-legged round robin tournament where the four first qualified teams would advance to the playoffs. The fifth qualified team faced the runner-up of the second division in a best-of-three games playoff for avoiding relegation, and the last qualified team was directly relegated. Playoffs. The semi-finals were played in a best-of-three playoff format and the finals in a best-of-five playoff format (1-1-1-1-1). Relegation playoffs. Team from the ABL plays legs 1 and 3 at home."}, {"text": "Noorindoo is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Noorindoo had a population of 71 people. Geography. Noorindoo is immediately north-east of the town of Surat. Bingi Crossing is a ford on the Balonne River near the current River Road () which connects Noorindoo with neighbouring Warkon. The Carnarvon Highway runs through from south-west to north-west, while the Surat Developmental Road runs along the southern boundary and the Roma-Condamine Road runs along the northern boundary. Noorindoo has the following mountains: There is a small section of the Yalbone State Forest in the north of the locality. Apart from this protected area, the land use is grazing on native vegetation and growing crops. Surat Aerodrome is in the south-west of the locality, adjacent to the boundary with Surat (). It has one runway long with no support services. Any use must be pre-approved by the Maranoa Regional Council. History. The locality takes its name from the parish and lagoon, which in turn come from the pastoral run name, used from before 1858, reportedly the name of an Aboriginal person. Nellybri Provisional School opened circa 1889. Between about 1896 and 1899, it became a half-time school in"}, {"text": "conjunction with Retreat Provisional School (meaning the schools shared a single teacher). The school closed in 1906. Nellybri is a pastoral station (). Beranga Bridge School opened circa 1896. It closed circa 1900. Beranga Creek and the Beranga pastoral station are within Noorindoo. In September 1921, a meeting was held at the Frogmoor pastoral station () to apply for a provisional school. Beranga Provisional School opened circa August 1922. It closed temporarily in 1926 due to low student numbers, and closed permanently circa August 1929. St Paul's Anglican Church opened at Bingi Crossing circa 1925. Its last service was 20 December 1942. Demographics. In the , Noorindoo had a population of 55 people. In the , Noorindoo had a population of 71 people. Education. There are no schools in Noorindoo. The nearest schools are Surat State School in neighbouring Surat to the south-west, which provides primary school and secondary schooling to Year 10, and Glenmorgan State School in neighbouring Glenmorgan to the south-east, which provides primary schooling to Year 6. There are no schools providing schooling to Year 12 nearby; the options are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "\"Cyber Sex\" is a song by American rapper and singer Doja Cat. It was released alongside a music video through Kemosabe and RCA Records on November 7, 2019, as the fourth single from her second studio album \"Hot Pink\", which was released on the same day. Written by Doja Cat, Yeti Beats and Lydia Asrat, the song was also produced by Kool Kojak alongside Tizhimself. It features \"90s-esque synth-heavy bubblegum raps\". The song was popularized by internet meme personality \"Queen of Brooklyn\" on social media sites such as Twitter and TikTok. It was later certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in late November 2020. Music video. On November 7, 2019, a music video was released alongside the song. The video was directed by Jack Begert, produced by Psycho Films\u2014including executive producer Sam Canter and producer Geenah Krisht\u2014and commissioned by Sam Houston. It stars Doja Cat as a webcam model who becomes an engineer and genetically develops her ideal sexual partner. Live performance. Doja Cat was a musical guest at the 37th annual AVN Awards on January 25, 2020, where she performed \"Cyber Sex\" as well as \"Juicy\" in a nude mesh bodysuit with rhinestones covering and highlighting"}, {"text": "her nipples, butt, and pubic hair. \"Nylon\" magazine complimented the outfit calling it, \"truly unforgettable\". Credits and personnel. Credits adapted from \"Hot Pink\" liner notes. Recording Personnel"}, {"text": "\"Say So\" is a song by American rapper Doja Cat from her second studio album, \"Hot Pink\" (2019). The song was written by Doja Cat with her manager Lydia Asrat, Yeti Beats, and Dr. Luke, who handled production for the song under the pseudonym Tyson Trax. Originally an album track, the song was serviced by Kemosabe and RCA Records in January 2020 as the record's fifth single after it gained traction on TikTok, where a dance set to the song went viral. A pop song, it features elements of 1970s funk, disco, and pop rap. Directed by Hannah Lux Davis, the music video earned praise for its matching retro 1970s aesthetic. In both the video and the song's lyrics, Doja Cat explores flirting and invites a stranger with whom she feels a connection to come over and talk to her. \"Say So\" is widely considered to be Doja Cat's signature track. The solo version of \"Say So\" initially peaked at number five on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100, before two remixes featuring fellow rapper Nicki Minaj propelled the song to number one. With this, the track earned a Guinness World Record for becoming the first female rap duo to top"}, {"text": "the Hot 100, also earning both artists their first number-one song in the US. Elsewhere, the song also reached number one in Croatia and the top ten in 24 additional countries including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, becoming Doja Cat's first mainstream hit and her pop radio breakthrough. It has received several certifications, including a septuple platinum from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), an eightfold platinum from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), and diamonds in France and Mexico. To promote \"Say So\", Doja Cat performed the song on many television programs and awards shows, including the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, the 2020 \"Billboard\" Music Awards, and the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, where the song was nominated in two categories: Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. The song and its music video appeared on several year-end lists, as well as \"Billboard\"'s list of the Best Pop Songs of All Time, although many critics were polarized by its success and described it as a comeback for its producer and co-writer Dr. Luke, following the 2014 \"Kesha v. Dr. Luke\" lawsuits. Background. Recording and release. \"Say So\" was written by Doja Cat"}, {"text": "and her manager Lydia Asrat, as well as Dr. Luke, who handled production for the song under the pseudonym Tyson Trax. Frequent collaborator Yeti Beats also served as an executive producer and co-writer. \"Say So\" is one of eight songs co-written by Asrat on the parent album, \"Hot Pink\", and is one of five produced by Trax. A&R executives at RCA Records said that they \"immediately\" knew the song had hit potential, with Keith Naftaly stating: \"A retro disco-pop song with sweet vocals and flirtatious lyrics? \u2026That song right there is gonna make you a global pop star.\" On the creative process of the song, Doja Cat said that the melody came about before the lyrics and that she was \"noodling around\" at her mother's home when it started coming together. The song was originally included as an album track on Doja Cat's second studio album \"Hot Pink\" (2019). During late 2019 and early 2020, it gained popularity \"out of nowhere\" on TikTok due to a viral dance challenge which featured the song and was created by TikTok user Haley Sharpe (@yodelinghaley). Celebrities such as Dua Lipa, Laura Dern, Charli D'Amelio, Mackenzie Ziegler, and Sofia Wylie posted their own videos"}, {"text": "of themselves performing the dance, ultimately helping it become \"a go-to challenge for TikTok users\". \"Say So\" would later end up becoming the fifth most-used song on TikTok throughout the year 2020. As a result of its initial traction, the song officially impacted contemporary hit radio on January 28, 2020, rhythmic contemporary radio on February 4, and hot adult contemporary radio on March 23, in the United States. Despite being the fifth single from the record, \"Say So\" was only the second single to be promoted to radio. Remix. Doja Cat announced a remix of the song featuring Nicki Minaj a day before its release on May 1, 2020. Tunji Balogun, an A&R executive at RCA Records, organised her feature on this remix. Having expressed her admiration for Minaj, Doja Cat has said that the pairing for the remix came naturally. The release of the track was received by fans as the end of a supposed feud between the two rappers, which Doja Cat later simply deemed a misunderstanding. Following rumors of the collaboration preceding its official announcement, the original version of the remix leaked online. Minaj later said that this leaked version was an earlier demo of the remix"}, {"text": "and that the officially released version was the \"correct, updated\" one. Due to high demand by fans online, the leaked version was later officially released on May 8, 2020. While no official music video was made for the Nicki Minaj version, a dance visual featuring three performers was posted to Minaj's official YouTube channel on May 2, 2020. Minaj performs an additional verse in the outro of the song in which she raps the lyric: \"Why you talkin' 'bout who body fake? / With all them fillers in your face, you just full of hate\". Following major speculation, the rapper disclosed that the verse was not directed at television personality Wendy Williams. However fans continued to speculate that the verse was directed at Beyonc\u00e9, which Minaj later denied. During a Twitter Q&A on May 8, 2020, as part of #SaySoRMXParty, Minaj first sparked rumors of her potential pregnancy with her husband Kenneth Petty, before formally announcing that she was pregnant with her first child only two months later. Mixing. American recording engineer Clint Gibbs, Dr. Luke's chief engineer and occasional mixer under the latter's publishing company Prescription Songs, used Pro Tools to mix both the solo and Nicki Minaj versions"}, {"text": "of \"Say So\". Gibbs aimed at recreating the chorus guitar sound used by American musician Nile Rodgers from the R&B band Chic. He revealed that the Minaj remix came together \"very last minute,\" and that her vocal engineer, Aubry \"Big Juice\" Delaine, sent him her vocals before the record label even told Gibbs that the remix was taking place. While mixing, he would constantly be getting newer and updated versions of Minaj's vocals, and revealed that on \"the day before the remix was supposed to come out, someone wanted to change the beat underneath her vocals. All of a sudden there was an emergency!\". Tyson Trax (Dr. Luke) sent Gibbs the newer instrumental for Minaj's part, and he had only an hour to mix it before its release only a few hours later. His final rough mix included nearly 100 tracks. Dr. Luke controversy. The song's eventual commercial success saw several music critics disturbed by what they described as the \"comeback\" of Dr. Luke, following the series of lawsuits filed against him by singer Kesha in 2014. Despite the fact that Doja Cat does not disclose the details of their relationship, she has previously liked tweets pointing out that she"}, {"text": "had signed with Dr. Luke before the lawsuits were issued. Dr. Luke's multiple Grammy Award nominations for the song using a pseudonym faced further criticism from singer Fiona Apple, who called for the boycott of the award ceremony entirely. A number of writers from American music magazine \"Billboard\" shared their opinions on the matter. Andrew Unterberger described the song as one of \"the year's best floor-fillers,\" but highlighted that \"[it's Dr. Luke] who Doja's sharing the floor with on 'Say So', an uncomfortable fact that shouldn't be ignored.\" Denise Warner argued, \"how does one support the success of 'Say So' without marginalizing Kesha's accusations or story?\" Gab Ginsberg stated, \"If Doja has her own reasons for wanting to work with Luke, I don't have to like it, but that's her deal. I do wish there was a way to support Doja and not Luke, but the fact is he helped her make a hit, and I do enjoy it,\" while Unterberger opined, \"it's something we have to keep reminding ourselves and each other about\u2014and to continue to ask Doja and other present and future collaborators about\u2014to make sure that everyone stays informed about [Lukasz] Gottwald's resumed presence in pop's mainstream,"}, {"text": "and can respond and demand general accountability accordingly.\" Composition and lyrics. \"Say So\" is a pop, hip hop, pop rap, and disco song. It features elements of 1970s funk, and bubblegum pop. The song is composed in time and in the key of D major, with a moderately fast tempo of 111 beats per minute (BPM) and a ii\u2013V\u2013I (two-five-one) chord progression of Em7\u2013A7\u2013Dmaj7. Doja Cat's vocals on the track span between the low note of F3 and the high note of D5, giving the song one octave and eight tones of vocal range. The song is built around a \"retro\", \"grooving\" funk guitar riff, an \"iridescent\" synthesizer, syncopated handclaps, \"groovy\" 808s, and a funk-inspired walking bassline. It is characterized by Doja Cat's floaty vocals and her rich, breathy harmonies. Writing for \"Clash\", Erin Bashford noted that the song \"nods to the funk and grooves of the '70s with a modernised almost-house beat, all tied together with Doja's always perfect vocal performance\". One critic wrote that its \"psychedelic-rock vibe\" complemented both her singing and rapping, while another wrote that Doja Cat's \"playful\" delivery helps keep TikTok dancers on rhythm despite the absence of a conventional bass-heavy beat. Lyrically, the song"}, {"text": "is about flirting and \"swapping gazes\" with a person with whom you feel a connection. On its origins, Doja Cat told MTV, \"It's about when you go somewhere and you see someone and they don't approach you, but you're looking at each other and you both feel like there's something there.\" Following the second chorus, Doja Cat breaks into a \"steamy\", \"swaggering\" rap verse and notably asks the person to admit their feelings to her and not to \"beat around the bush\". On her remix, Nicki Minaj adds a \"slick\", \"high-energy\" and \"playful\" rap verse, while Doja Cat adds \"sexy\" background vocals. Minaj makes a number of references to Naomi Campbell, Cassie, and Lauryn Hill by means of name-dropping, while also alluding to the COVID-19 pandemic which was ongoing as she recorded her verse. Produced by Dr. Luke, the instrumental is nearly identical to the original with additional 808s and a mix in the note progression for Minaj's part, ultimately \"turning the song's disco pulse into a spitting trap beat\". Minaj is credited as an additional co-writer on the remix. Critical reception. Solo version. Writing for \"Rolling Stone\", Jon Dolan described \"Say So\" as \"a high-gloss bit of Chic-biting retro"}, {"text": "disco, light and evanescent like the sun glistening off the ocean\", while David Renshaw of \"The Fader\" deemed it \"a slinky ode to seizing romance in the moment\". Nerisha Penrose of \"Elle\" noted that the song \"offers a healthy dose of nostalgia as Doja's hushed, airy voice floats over a bed of iridescent synths and a funky bassline\". In a review for \"Clash\", Erin Bashford wrote that the song is \"tied together with Doja's always perfect vocal performance\". Writers at CBC Music noted that by \"switching between saccharine songbird and hard-hitting rapper, Doja Cat flexes her musical chops alongside a retro guitar riff tailor made for a '70s nightclub.\" Rachel Epstein of \"Marie Claire\" drew comparisons between \"Say So\" and the works of American pop singer Gwen Stefani, while Heran Mamo of \"Billboard\" noted the resemblance between Gibbs' engineered chorus guitar sound on \"Say So\" and Nile Rodgers' guitarwork in the 1979 single \"Good Times\" by Chic. Writing for \"Rolling Stone\", Rob Sheffield also compared the song to the works of British new wave bands such as Kajagoogoo, Naked Eyes and Spandau Ballet. Justin Curto of \"Vulture\" deemed the song \"an undeniable throwback\" and praised both its \"grooving guitars\" as"}, {"text": "well as Doja Cat's \"breathy vocals that recall early Donna Summer\". Mamo described the song an \"effortless dance floor-filler\", while Lucy Shanker of \"Consequence\" called it a \"traditional pop hit\" in her review of \"Hot Pink\". While reflecting on the music of 2020, Ben Beaumont-Thomas of \"The Guardian\" wrote that \"Say So\" was \"rightly a pop-cultural phenomenon, though Dr. Luke's involvement in it will be controversial\". \"Billboard\" and \"HotNewHipHop\" have both cited \"Say So\" as Doja Cat's signature track. Remix. Althea Legapsi of \"Rolling Stone\" described the \"retro-grooving pop song\" as \"sassy\", while in the same publication, Jon Dolan noted that Minaj provided \"a welcome dose of zip\" to the song. Jackson Langford of \"NME\" praised her addition to the track, writing that \"Minaj's high-energy verses bookend the remix\". Writing for \"Complex\", Jessica McKinney noted that Minaj \"adds more of a contemporary feel\" to the song. Following its chart placement, McKinney described the remix as \"special\" since it \"successfully disrupted a male-dominated industry, as two women sat together at the top of the charts.\" Similarly, Aaron Williams of \"Uproxx\" wrote that the song opened \"the floodgates [...] for long-thwarted female rappers to traipse right up to the top of the"}, {"text": "Hot 100.\" In a more negative review, Chris Molanphy of \"Slate\" wrote that Minaj's \"deftly delivered boasts feel about as organically integrated into the track as a Post-it note\". Commercial performance. In the United States, the solo version of \"Say So\" initially entered \"Billboard\"'s Bubbling Under Hot 100 at number 19 on the chart issue dated January 4, 2020, before moving up to number six the following week. After two weeks, \"Say So\" earned Doja Cat her third Hot 100 entry, debuting at number 95 on the chart dated January 18, 2020. While gaining traction over the following weeks, it entered \"Billboard\"'s Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Airplay) chart at number 33 and later spent six weeks at number 1 on this chart. Following the release of its music video, \"Say So\" ascended 18 positions to number 33 on the Hot 100 in its eighth-week charting. \"Say So\" simultaneously earned Doja Cat her first top-five song on both the Hot 100 and Radio Songs charts, as well as her first top 10 on the Streaming Songs chart. The song also reached number one on both \"Billboard\"'s Rhythmic and Dance/Mix Show Airplay charts in the weeks dated April 18 and April 25"}, {"text": "respectively. The track would eventually be considered Doja Cat's pop radio breakthrough. With approximately two billion audience impressions, \"Say So\" ranked as the tenth most popular radio song in the US in the year 2020. iHeartRadio revealed that \"Say So\" had also achieved over 1.17 billion total audience spins on their platform in 2020. Following the release of the remix featuring Nicki Minaj, \"Say So\" moved from number six to number one on the Hot 100 chart dated May 16, 2020. The song became the first collaboration between two female rappers to top the Hot 100. It also marked the first number-one song on the Hot 100 chart for both Doja Cat and Minaj. That same week, \"Savage Remix\" by Megan Thee Stallion and Beyonc\u00e9 reached number two on the Hot 100 as well, making history becoming the first time that four black female solo artists occupied the top two spots on the Hot 100 chart. The last time multiple black female artists occupied the number one and number two spots was in 2009, when \"Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)\" by Beyonc\u00e9 occupied number one and the Rihanna featuring \"Live Your Life\" by T.I. took number two. Additionally,"}, {"text": "the song rose to number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and on the Hot R&B Songs charts, giving Doja Cat her first number one on each chart and giving Minaj her fifth and first, respectively. Minaj was officially credited as a featured artist on the song as her remix contributed to a majority of the chart points that surged the song to the top, supported by a variety of bundles and videos, which also helped the song top the Digital Songs Sales chart, with a 966 percent increase in sales to 66,000 downloads sold. On the Streaming Songs chart, the song rose from number ten to number four with an 87 per cent increase. However, after charting for two weeks as a featured artist, \"Billboard\" removed Minaj's credit since the chart issue dated May 30, 2020, with Doja Cat charting unaccompanied again. Approximately 90 percent of the song's radio airplay was for the original solo version, therefore Minaj was not credited as an artist on any airplay charts at all. \"Say So\" became Doja Cat's first proper mainstream hit, and her second internationally charting single after \"Candy\" had reached modest peaks in Australia, Ireland, Canada and Greece in late"}, {"text": "2019. In the United Kingdom, \"Say So\" debuted at number 83 on the UK Singles Chart on the issue dated January 3, 2020. It gradually ascended to number ten on the chart dated May 1, 2020, before the Nicki Minaj remix helped propel it to a peak of number two the following week, when it was beaten to the top of the chart by \"Toosie Slide\" by Drake. In Canada, \"Say So\" peaked at number three and additionally topped the Canada CHR/Top 40 chart. It peaked in the top ten in two dozen other national single charts including Australia's ARIA Singles Chart (No. 4), the Irish Singles Chart (No. 4), New Zealand's RMNZ Top 40 Singles chart (No. 3), the French Singles Chart (No. 9), the Netherlands' Dutch Single Top 100 chart, Portugal's AFP Top 100 Singles Chart (No. 8), and both Belgium's Flemish and Walloon Ultratop charts (No. 5). In the United States, \"Say So\" became Doja Cat's first track to be certified both platinum and multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), in April 2020 and August 2020, respectively. According to MRC Data's 2020 year-end report, \"Say So\" was the tenth most streamed song in the"}, {"text": "US, with 562.4 million on-demand streams. It also was the second-most successful R&B song in the US in 2020 (behind \"Blinding Lights\" by the Weeknd), and had the most viewed R&B music video of the year worldwide. The song has been certified eightfold platinum in Australia by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for track-equivalent sales of 560,000 units. The British Phonographic Industry has certified the song double platinum in the United Kingdom for the track-equivalent sales of 1,200,000 units. In Brazil, it is certified triple-diamond by Pro-M\u00fasica Brasil for the track-equivalent sales of 480,000 units. Elsewhere, \"Say So\" has been certified diamond in France and Mexico, quadruple-platinum in New Zealand, triple-platinum in Poland, double-platinum in Canada, and platinum in Norway, Belgium, and Switzerland among other territories. Music video. Background and release. The music video for \"Say So\" was filmed during the basis of January 23\u201324, 2020 and was later released on February 27, 2020, when it premiering alongside a live performance of the song on \"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\". Doja Cat had announced its release on social media the day before, writing, \"You bitches wanted it, now you'll have it. Say So video tomorrow at 10AM ET.\""}, {"text": "The video was directed by Hannah Lux Davis and stars actor Josu\u00e9 de La Vega as Tony, Doja Cat's love interest. It was filmed at the Sheats\u2013Goldstein Residence in Beverly Crest, Los Angeles, and features cameo appearances from TikTok stars Dont\u00e9 Colley and Haley Sharpe, the latter of whom created the viral dance for the song. The dance itself, which made the song popular, was featured in the music video. Sharpe revealed that she was in art class on a Tuesday when she got an email notification with the subject \"Say So music video inquiry\", and that she arrived at the video shoot on the Friday of that same week. She said that, during the shoot, Doja Cat had expressed her gratitude towards Sharpe for creating the dance. Synopsis and reception. Several publications praised the music video for its 1970s disco theme, with some calling it \"groovy\", \"psychedelic\", and \"vibrant\". Others pointed out its \"golden-hued\" aesthetic and filming style inspired by Super 8 film, and noted that its 4x3 resolution made it look like an authentic \"vintage movie\". Doja Cat appears in a total of four different outfits which each were described as \"shimmery\", \"sparkly\", \"sequinned\", and \"glamorous\". During the"}, {"text": "day, she flirts with a \"handsome handyman\" who fixes her record player at the mansion. The video alternates between this scene and one where she dances in front of the Los Angeles skyline in a full-length dress with rhinestones, which Margaret Blatz of \"Elite Daily\" compared to Marilyn Monroe's gown from her 1962 performance of \"Happy Birthday, Mr. President\". Here, she also sports aqua-coloured eyeshadow and a blowout which one writer compared to those commonly worn by American actress Farrah Fawcett. Later that night Doja Cat challenges the handyman to a dance battle amongst a crowd of others at a disco in the same mansion. In this scene, her outfit consists of a large blonde afro wig, glitter eyeshadow and a sequin-filled jumpsuit that resembles a disco-ball. Between the indoor daytime scene and the disco scene, Doja Cat has \"a quick poolside groove session with her friends\" just outside the mansion, where she wears a purple headpiece and long blonde hair extensions. Upon her arrival at the disco, Doja Cat can be seen using a leash to walk a real-life tiger named Schicka. Writing for \"Teen Vogue\", Allie Gemmill pointed out her familiarity with Doja Cat's \"dynamic, playful\" music videos,"}, {"text": "but noted that this one \"might just be the best one yet\". Live performances. Shortly after the premiere of the song's music video, Doja Cat performed \"Say So\" on \"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\" on February 26, 2020. The performance features Doja Cat dressed in a baby pink bodysuit, along with two backup singer/dancers who execute disco-influenced choreography, which incorporated some of the dance moves from the viral TikTok routine. In a new artist campaign organised by MTV titled \"Push\", Doja Cat performed \"Say So\" on April 4, 2020. In that same month, she performed an exclusive parody version of the song during the Nether Meant music festival, significantly changing the song's lyrics to relate to the video game \"Minecraft\" (2011). A live performance of \"Say So\" was uploaded to YouTube in May 2020 as part of Vevo's 2020 \"Lift\" campaign for new artists. The video features Doja Cat in a box-like structure room with pink carpeted walls as she performs the song in a one-piece fur outfit with cat ears to match. On May 11, 2020, Doja Cat performed \"Say So\" on \"The Voice\", wearing a pink '70s inspired costume and positioned on top of a giant disco"}, {"text": "ball. On May 23, 2020, Doja Cat performed \"Say So\" at the virtual 2020 BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend music festival. Her performance of the song on \"The Late Late Show with James Corden\" on June 17, 2020, took place in a scene described as \"a fluffy pink slumber party with sparkling chiffon curtains and neon signs galore\". On August 30, 2020, Doja Cat performed a medley of \"Say So\" and \"Like That\" at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards. The performance was science fiction themed and saw her wearing a reptilian full body suit. It was also here that she first introduced the concept of her then-forthcoming third studio album \"Planet Her\" (2021). Doja Cat performed \"Say So\" in a Broadway-themed medley with \"Juicy\" and \"Like That\" at the 2020 \"Billboard\" Music Awards, which some writers noted to be inspired by Roxie Hart from the musical \"Chicago\". At the 2020 MTV Europe Music Awards, Doja Cat performed a metal version of \"Say So\", where she re-created the scene of Samara Morgan crawling out of a television in the horror film \"The Ring\" (2002). Australian guitarist Plini accused Doja Cat of using a guitar solo lifted from his song \"Handmade"}, {"text": "Cities\" without permission. Regarding the alleged plagiarism, Plini stated \"the lack of prior communication about it or proper credit upon release is disappointing but not particularly surprising in a sector of the industry that is usually more interested in clout than creativity. (it's being sorted now, but would have been cooler a million views ago)\". On December 12, 2020, Doja Cat performed the song at the 10th Streamy Awards. Later that month, she performed it at iHeartRadio's 2020 Jingle Ball, and at the annual Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve show. At the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in March 2021, Doja Cat performed \"Say So\" for what she said would be the last time, and described the performance as the \"funeral of 'Say So'\" in an interview. In an interview with \"Rolling Stone\" in December 2021, while reflecting on the success of \"Say So\", she revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic \"ruined\" the relationship she had with her favorite song from \"Hot Pink\" and that having to repetitively perform it virtually instead of on a stage in front of fans \"just became a very sad and repetitive and underwhelming thing\". In other media. A \"Fortnite\" emote featuring the song was released"}, {"text": "in September 2020. \"Say So\" is featured on the dance rhythm game \"Just Dance 2021\". \"Say So\" would be announced as a Jam Track for Fortnite Festival on January 30, 2023, and added to the game on February 2, 2024. Track listing. Digital download / streaming \u2013 Jax Jones Midnight Snack remix Digital download / streaming \u2013 Friend Within remix Digital download / streaming \u2013 Snakehips remix 12-inch single / CD single Digital download / streaming \u2013 Remix featuring Nicki Minaj Digital download / streaming \u2013 Remix featuring Nicki Minaj (Original Version) Digital download / streaming \u2013 \"Say So\" / \"Like That\" (Mashup) Credits and personnel. Credits adapted from \"Say So\" single liner notes. Solo version. Recording and management Personnel Remix. Recording and management Personnel"}, {"text": "\"Like That\" is a song by American rapper and singer Doja Cat featuring fellow American rapper Gucci Mane. It was written by both artists along with Theron Thomas, Lydia Asrat, David Sprecher, and producers Dr. Luke (credited as Tyson Trax) and Mike Crook. Originally included as a track on Doja Cat's second studio album \"Hot Pink\" (2019), it became a single on May 12, 2020, following a viral dance challenge using the song on the app TikTok. Before \"Like That\" had become a single in May, the song had already begun to chart in several countries following the viral TikTok dance which used the song. Following its release as a single, the song peaked at number 50 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. The music video was released on June 25, 2020. Doja Cat promoted the single with multiple live performances, including at the 2020 Video Music Awards, the \"Billboard\" Music Awards, and \"Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve\". Background. On November 1, 2019, Doja Cat announced that her album \"Hot Pink\" would be released on November 8, 2019, and revealed the track listing alongside the album's release. The song \"Like That\" was confirmed to have a featured artist that"}, {"text": "would not be announced until the album's release, when it was revealed to be Gucci Mane. Similar to its predecessor \"Say So\", the song entered the charts before its single release due to a viral dance challenge using the song on the app TikTok. Consequently, \"Like That\" charted ahead of release as a single in the United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland. Music video. An accompanying music video for the song was filmed in Los Angeles before the state went on lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2020, the video was leaked online via Twitter, generating controversy. On June 22, 2020, Doja confirmed that she was fully aware of the video leak and stated that the leaked video was not the official video and that the official video would be released soon. The official music video was released on June 25, 2020, and has over 200 million views on YouTube. Synopsis. The video starts with the title card panning down to Doja Cat standing in a futuristic blue set among her backup dancers. Doja and the dancers start dancing, intercut with shots of an animated version of Cat, which sparked comparisons to the anime television series \"Sailor Moon\". The"}, {"text": "video is plastered with animated graphics throughout the video. Doja Cat eventually meets up with collaborator Gucci Mane, who leans and poses in front of a convertible while rapping his verse of the song. Doja who is either dancing beside Mane or in the convertible takes back the song and ends the video with the splits on beat, followed by a black screen. Live performances. \"Like That\" was first performed in a medley with previous single, \"Say So\", at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards. She also performed a medley of \"Juicy\", \"Say So\" and \"Like That\" at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards. She performed the song at \"Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve\". Critical reception. Lakin Starling of \"Pitchfork\" wrote, \"Doja weaves easily from rap mode into a whispery chorus with an upbeat R&B groove reminiscent of early-2000s Janet Jackson. It's the perfect soundtrack for a backyard party.\" Comparing the song's composition to that of songs that previously popularized on TikTok, Cat Zhang from the same publication wrote, \"Doja's softer, girlier aesthetic offered an alternative to the vulgar, brutish rap that previously soundtracked the platform. And her brash, confident lyrics [...] offer snippets of female empowerment.\" Chart performance. Before"}, {"text": "\"Like That\" had become a single in May, the song had already begun to chart in several countries following the viral TikTok dance which used the song. Following its release as a single, the song peaked at number 50 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and charted in other territories such as Argentina and Australia. The song additionally appeared in three-year-end charts for the year of 2020 in the US: Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and the radio airplay charts Mainstream Top 40 and Rhythmic. Credits and personnel. Recording Personnel Credits adapted from \"Hot Pink\" liner notes."}, {"text": "The Cook Islands competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the nation's ninth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics. The Cook Islands sent their first delegation to the Olympics at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. In the Games, the country sent six athletes to the Olympics across three sports. They were Alex Beddoes in athletics, Jane Nicholas, Kohl Horton, and Jade Tierney in canoeing, and Wesley Roberts and Kirsten Fisher-Marsters in swimming. Roberts and Fisher-Marsters were the flagbearers at the opening ceremony, and there were no flagbearers at the closing ceremony. The Cook Islands did not win any medals during the Tokyo Olympics. Background. In 1986, the Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee was recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Cook Islands sent their first delegation to the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Since then, the country has sent delegations to all Summer Olympics. As of the 2024 Games, no Cook Islander has won an Olympic medal. The 2020 Summer Olympics were held"}, {"text": "from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo. The Cook Islands sent a delegation of six athletes across three sports, Alex Beddoes, Jane Nicholas, Kohl Horton, Jade Tierney, Wesley Roberts, and Kirsten Fisher-Marsters. Roberts and Fisher-Marsters were the flagbearers at the opening ceremony. No athletes from the Cook Islands were present for the closing ceremony due to COVID-19 related protocols that required athletes to leave Japan within 48 hours from completion of their final event. Competitors. The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Athletics. The Cook Islands received a universality slot from the IAAF to send a male track and field athlete to the Olympics. The Cook Islands were represented by one male athlete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in athletics: Alex Beddoes in the men's 800 metres run. Beddoes was making his second Olympic appearance, having previously represented the Cook Islands at the 2016 Summer Olympics. On 31 July, he participated in the first round of the men's 800 metres race, and was drawn into heat two. He finished the race in 1:47.26 seconds, seventh out of eight competitors in his heat, and failed to advance to the semi-finals. The gold medal was"}, {"text": "eventually won in 1:45.33 by Emmanuel Korir of Kenya; the silver was won by Ferguson Rotich of Kenya, and the bronze was earned by Patryk Dobek of Poland. Canoeing. Slalom. The Cook Islands qualified one canoeist in the women's K-1 class, Jane Nicholas, by finishing as the 16th ranked eligible NOC at the 2019 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in La Seu d'Urgell, Spain. Sprint. Canoeists from the Cook Islands qualified two boats in each of the following distances for the Games through the 2020 Oceania Championships in Penrith, New South Wales. Swimming. Cook Islands qualified two swimmers in three events."}, {"text": "GroundUp may refer to the following:"}, {"text": "\"Streets\" is a song by American rapper and singer Doja Cat from her second studio album, \"Hot Pink\" (2019). She wrote it with David Sprecher and Lydia Asrat, alongside its producers Dominique and Darius Logan. In \"Streets\", an R&B ballad with elements of trap music, Doja Cat sings and raps about her desire to return to a former romantic partner. Some critics who reviewed \"Hot Pink\" praised the song for demonstrating her versatility as a musical artist. \"Streets\" became an Internet-driven sleeper hit in early 2021. It gained commercial success after the \"Silhouette Challenge\", an online challenge in which participants struck poses while illuminated from behind with red lighting, used the song as background music and went viral on TikTok. Reacting to its online popularity, Kemosabe and RCA Records promoted \"Streets\" to US contemporary hit radio stations on February 16, 2021. With this, the song became \"Hot Pink\" seventh and final single. Assisted primarily by streams and digital sales, \"Streets\" peaked at number 16 and number 8 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and Global 200 charts, respectively. It received platinum certifications in eight countries. Doja Cat performed \"Streets\" in three videos posted to YouTube during 2020; she also included"}, {"text": "it in performances at the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards and the 2022 Coachella festival. A music video for the song, directed by Christian Breslauer, premiered via YouTube on March 9, 2021. It depicts Doja Cat's attempt to seduce a cab driver by performing her version of the Silhouette Challenge, after which she proceeds to trap him in a giant web. Critics described the video as erotic, horror-fantasy, and reminiscent of film noir. Background. Doja Cat released her debut studio album \"Amala\" in March 2018, four years after the viral success of her first single, \"So High\". The album received little media coverage. Meanwhile, in August of the same year, she self-published a music video for \"Mooo!\", a novelty song that incorporated elements of Generation Z humor and meme culture. Achieving unanticipated popularity on several social media platforms, it bolstered Doja Cat's rise to mainstream fame. This prompted her to issue and promote a deluxe edition of \"Amala\". She included \"Mooo!\" in its tracklist, along with the single \"Tia Tamera\", featuring the rapper Rico Nasty, as well as the song \"Juicy\". A remix of \"Juicy\", with a guest appearance from the rapper Tyga, served as the lead single for Doja Cat's"}, {"text": "next album, \"Hot Pink\" (2019). Commercially successful, the single became her first to reach the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Furthermore, it went viral on the video-hosting application TikTok, where several dance challenge clips used it as background music. During 2019, Doja Cat released three more singles in promotion of \"Hot Pink\": \"Bottom Bitch\", \"Rules\", and \"Cyber Sex\". By September 2021, \"Rules\" and \"Cyber Sex\" had appeared in 64,200 and 171,400 TikTok videos, respectively. TikTok's users contributed to the popularity of two more tracks from \"Hot Pink\". One of these is \"Say So\", which topped the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and earned Doja Cat her first number one on the chart. The other song, \"Like That\", received a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). \"Pitchfork\" writer Cat Zhang believed that the TikTok-driven successes of \"Say So\" and \"Like That\" demonstrated that Doja Cat had an \"unimpeachable[...] reign\" over the application. Aliya Chaudhry of \"Slate\" argued that TikTok users' propensity of making songs go viraloften due to an Internet challengefactored into solidifying Doja Cat's status as a household name. Production and songwriting. Doja Cat, David Sprecher, and Lydia Asrat wrote the original version of \"Streets\" with the track's producers"}, {"text": "Dominique and Darius Logan, brothers who comprise a band called Blaq Tuxedo. It incorporates a sample from a 2003 song entitled \"Streets Is Callin', performed by R&B band B2K for the soundtrack to the film \"You Got Served\" (2004). The song was written by Theron Feemster, Christopher Jefferies, and Demarie Sheki. Because of the sampling, the three received writing credits for \"Streets\". \"Streets\" is an R&B ballad that contains elements of trap. It has a duration of 3 minutes and 46 seconds, and has been described as \"sultry\", \"melanchol[ic]\", and \"soulful\". Jade Gomez of \"Paste\" called the song's vocal performance an immersive blend between a \"wispy\" singing voice and a \"raspy\" rap delivery; AllMusic reviewer Fred Thomas described this as a transition from \"breathy\" verses into \"unexpected scattershot rhymes\". With regards to the composition in \"Streets\", Thomas explained that it was a slow-paced track, complete with \"dark harmonies, trap hi-hats, and psychedelic textures\". In the lyrics, Doja Cat admits that she cannot imagine herself without her ex-partner after their breakup and proceeds to, in the views of \"Billboard\" editor Jason Lipshutz, demonstrate her emotional depth: Silhouette Challenge. \"Hot Pink\", the album in which \"Streets\" appears, was released on November 7,"}, {"text": "2019. Initially, the song was not intended to be sent to radio stations as a single. Although the senior staff in RCA Records considered it a highlight of the album, they did not think \"Streets\" would gain a similar level of recognition as \"Say So\", \"Like That\", or \"Juicy\". Speaking on behalf of the label in an interview with \"Billboard\", the chief operating officer John Fleckenstein thought that he and the others had \"moved on\" from \"Hot Pink\" with the amount of singles the album produced. In the beginning of 2021, around 15 months after its initial release, the track experienced a surge in popularity on TikTok. There, user Giulia Di Nicolantonio created a mashup of \"Streets\" and the 1959 Paul Anka song \"Put Your Head on My Shoulder\". The mashup became the soundtrack for the \"Silhouette Challenge\", an online video trend. Participants of the challenge would pose and dance to the rhythm of the two songs; Anka's part played first. Once \"Put Your Head on My Shoulder\" ended and the beat dropped to signal the beginning of \"Streets\", TikTok users would then show themselves covered in red lighting, backlit to give the impression of a silhouette. The Silhouette Challenge"}, {"text": "went viral. Consequently, it helped to propel \"Streets\" up the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and Spotify Top 200 charts. Within one month, the mashup had appeared in over 300,000 videos on TikTok, and clips that contained the hashtag \"Silhouette\" had been viewed around 526 million times. Recording artists who took part in the trend include Cardi B, Lizzo, and Chloe Bailey from Critical reception. \"Consequence of Sound\" Lucy Shanker, in a review of \"Hot Pink\", argued that \"Streets\" presents Doja Cat \"in her most serious form\". For Lakin Starling of \"Pitchfork\", the track fell under the \"ultra-soft and chill\" side of the album. Shanker hailed \"Streets\" as one of \"Hot Pink\" best songs and cited how it demonstrated Doja Cat's musical versatility: \"[in the previous songs, she] sounds great, but just as you settle into hearing her in that manner, she switches it up again.\" Starling shared a similar opinion about this versatility, but wrote that Doja Cat ran the risk of having listeners mistake her for another artist due to \"Hot Pink\" use of several musical styles. Nonetheless, Starling praised Doja Cat's slow and raspy voice which was present in tracks like \"Streets\", believing that such vocal performances constituted one"}, {"text": "of the album's clearest. In an analysis of \"Streets\", Aaron Williams of \"Uproxx\" opined that Doja Cat's reaction to its growing popularity was an example of how to properly handle fame online. He wrote that she can adapt to her audience's interests and activities, consciously capitalizing on the Internet trends that her fans create and letting them determine which songs she should promote as new singles. Williams described this behavior as \"rid[ing] the changing tides\" whenever any of her old releases eventually go viral. Similarly, staff writers at \"Billboard\" believed that the track's gradual rise to fame demonstrates Doja Cat's \"innate ability\" to produce hit singles and prolong the commercial success of her albums, \"in an era where artists are moving between records faster than ever\". Commercial performance and release. \"Streets\" was a sleeper hit that gradually acquired Internet-driven success. It began to gain traction on social media platforms in the early days of 2021 after three live performances of the song, released to YouTube during the previous year, sparked interest in the track. United States. In January 2021, \"Streets\" entered \"Billboard\" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at number 26, where it would remain for 20 weeks. The same month, it"}, {"text": "debuted at number 18 on the chart's constituent Hot R&B Songs, spending 21 weeks there. \"Streets\" initially received a negligible amount of airplay; the song's chart performance was driven predominantly by streams and digital sales because of its online success. During the tracking week ending February 4, it accrued 4,000 downloads and 18.7million streams in the United States, according to MRC Data. It reached its Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs peak on the week of February 13, at number 7. The event marked Doja Cat's second song to enter the chart's top 10 after \"Say So\" in 2020, which spent two weeks at number 1. By March, \"Streets\" peaked at number 3 on the Hot R&B Songs chart. The track first appeared on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart during the week of January 23, debuting at number 91 and rising to number 39 the subsequent week. It jumped to number 25 on the chart issue dated February 6, 2021, with 16.1million streams, 2,000 downloads, and 192,000 airplay audience impressions. \"Streets\" climbed to number 18 during its fourth week on the Hot 100. With this, it became Doja Cat's second top 20 entry (as lead artist) on the chart after \"Say So\","}, {"text": "which reached the top spot. Due to its boost in recognition, \"Streets\" was promoted to US contemporary hit radio stations on February 16, 2021. Subsequently, it became the seventh and final single from \"Hot Pink\". By March, \"Streets\" had accumulated over 333million streams and reached its Hot 100 peak at number 16. In 2024, it was certified 6\u00d7platinum by the RIAA. Other markets. In Europe, \"Streets\" peaked within the top 20 of singles charts for Greece (2), Lithuania (4), Ireland (9), the United Kingdom (12), and Slovakia (15). It received a platinum certification in the United Kingdom from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), which denotes 600,000 certified units consisting of sales and on-demand streaming. \"Streets\" was Doja Cat's third biggest song in the country upon the release of her third studio album \"Planet Her\" (2021), having garnered 53.6million UK streams at the time. It was also a top-40 chart entry in five other European territories, peaking at number 21 in Portugal, at number 23 in Iceland, at number 24 in Belgian Flanders, at number 27 in Switzerland, and at number 37 in Hungary. \"Streets\" was certified two-times platinum Poland, and platinum in Greece, and Portugalin France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and"}, {"text": "Switzerland, it received a gold certification. The song also peaked within the top 20 of charts in New Zealand (10), Australia (12), and Canada (19); it was awarded platinum certifications in the former two countries. Specifically, \"Streets\" was certified 3\u00d7platinum by Recorded Music NZ and certified 4\u00d7platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). In Latin America, it received a triple diamond certification from Pro-M\u00fasica Brasil (PMB) and a Platinum+Gold certification from Asociaci\u00f3n Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON). International. \"Streets\" debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" Global 200 during the week of January 23, 2021. It moved up to number 32 in its second charting week, before ascending to number 16 in its third. \"Streets\" was Doja Cat's first song to reach the Global 200's top 10, hitting its peak at number 8 during the week of February 13. In total, it spent 66 weeks in the chart. Kemosabe and RCA made two remixes of \"Streets\" available to streaming services on March 12. One was by the electronic band Disclosure. The other was titled the \"Silhouette Remix\", which featured a sample of \"Put Your Head on My Shoulder\", the same Paul Anka song used for the"}, {"text": "Silhouette Challenge. A week after, an extended play was released for digital download and streaming. The tracklist includes the Disclosure version of \"Streets\" along with four other remixes by DJ Sliink, Lazerbeak, Party Favor, and Ape Drums. Music video. A music video for \"Streets\", directed by Christian Breslauer, premiered via YouTube on March 9, 2021. Its release happened as Doja Cat was preparing to promote her then-upcoming third studio album, \"Planet Her\". Jackson Langford of \"NME\" and Halle Kiefer of \"Vulture\" observed multiple tonally dark and \"twisted\" scenes present in the video, whereas Jessica McKinney of \"Complex\" used the word \"sexy\" to describe the scenes. Because it utilizes a combination of erotic and horror elements, \"Rolling Stone\" Claire Shaffer summarized the music video as a \"sultry[...] horror-fantasy\". The video begins with a shot of a male driver, played by Kofi Siriboe. While inside a cab on a heavily congested street, he notices Doja Cat posing as a mannequin by a shop window across the sidewalk. Similar to the TikTok mashup, the first few seconds of \"Put Your Head on My Shoulder\" begin to play. Upon the beat drop, Doja Cat, still in the shop window, performs the Silhouette Challenge. The"}, {"text": "lights suddenly change to a red color, and the music transitions from \"Put Your Head on My Shoulder\" to \"Streets\" as she dances to the beat, seducing the cab driver while doing so. In the next scene, Doja Cat dances on top of a destroyed car's hood while the rain pours. A group of men, wearing white contact lenses, rise from the dead and form a crowd around her. The driver returns and approaches Doja Cat, but she ensnares and pulls him upwards using strings from a spider web. Dressed like a black widow, she climbs along the surface of a brick-wall building. On its walls lies the cab driver, trapped by the massive web that Doja Cat created. Doja Cat is then seen on a living room couch, in a house near a nuclear testing site. She rests her head on the lap of a mannequin of what seems to be the cab driver. A bomb detonation happens nearby, which sets the living room on fire. During the video's conclusion, the driver is back inside his cab, and it is revealed that he imagined every prior event. Doja Cat is now shown as his cab's passenger. Reception. Williams of"}, {"text": "\"Uproxx\" described the music video's spider imagery as a high-concept idea, which gave the impression that the video took months of preparation to generate viral popularity around \"Streets\". He emphasized, however, that it was posted after \"Streets\" was already popular online, and he argued that the premiere happened as an attempt to capitalize on the song's success. Jessica McKinney of \"Complex\" shared the same opinion: she thought that the video did \"a great job of appealing to current social media trends\". Heran Mamo, a staff writer for \"Billboard\", found Doja Cat's iteration of the Silhouette Challenge to be \"epic\"; \"Slant Magazine\" Eric Mason called the visuals \"yet another fruit of the Doja-to-TikTok feedback loop\". McKinney included the video for \"Streets\" in a year-end list that ranked the best music videos of 2021, where she placed it at fourth place. She believed that, apart from taking advantage of the song's viral status, it successfully demonstrated Doja Cat's creativity. McKinney further argued that Doja Cat has had a history of releasing \"the most innovative music videos in the industry right now\" and cited the one for \"Streets\" as the latest example of such. Mason, and Dan Cairns and Jake Helm of \"The"}, {"text": "Sunday Times\", also placed the video in their respective publications' year-end lists. Cairns and Helm described the video as \"stunning\" and compared its aesthetic to that of film noir media. Mason praised its cinematography and the \"magnetic charisma\" present in Doja Cat's performance. Live performances. A live performance of \"Streets\" was posted to YouTube on March 5, 2020, as part of video hosting service Vevo's \"Lift\" initiative, aimed at promoting up-and-coming artists to a wider audience. In it, Doja Cat sings the track as she wades in a massive tub of milk. Vevo partnered with her for \"Lift\" to increase her visibility through live performances that made use of \"distinctive settings\". The video's production team incorporated milk into the set design to evoke cat imagery, which they found appropriate given Doja Cat's name and image. According to the description for the video, the milk-filled stage ended up being \"Lift\" \"most ambitious studio build to date\". Lynn Sharpe, in a \"HotNewHipHop\" article published during the release, believed that the live performance marked Doja Cat's \"latest step toward world domination\". On December 24, 2020, Doja Cat's YouTube channel uploaded six performances of three different songs from \"Hot Pink\" to the platform. She"}, {"text": "created the series of videos, titled the \"Hot Pink Sessions\", as a gesture of thanks to her fans for their support. Two of those performances were live renditions of \"Streets\". After winning Best New Pop Artist at the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards, she performed the song again, as part of a medley that incorporated it with \"Say So\" and \"Kiss Me More\" featuring American singer SZA. The performance began with her standing in a cornfield, accompanied by backup dancers who donned gray latex alien costumes. Once the medley ended, Doja Cat was lifted off the stage while showered in rays of light, appearing to levitate towards an unidentified flying object above her. In 2022, she headlined for that year's Coachella festival, replacing Kanye West in the role. She included \"Streets\", among other songs from \"Hot Pink\" and \"Planet Her\", in the setlist for her performance. Credits and personnel. Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"Hot Pink\". Recording and management Personnel"}, {"text": "Oberina is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Oberina had a population of 31 people. Geography. Yalebone State Forest 2 is in the north-east of the locality. Apart from this protected area, the land use is mostly grazing on native vegetation with some crop growing. Demographics. In the , Oberina had a population of 17 people. In the , Oberina had a population of 31 people. Education. There are no schools in Oberina. The nearest government school is Surat State School (Prep to Year 10) in Surat to the south-east. The nearest government school providing education to Year 12 is Roma State College in Roma to the north, but it might to be too distant for a daily commute for students in southern Oberina; the alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Weribone is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Weribone had a population of 14 people. Geography. The Carnarvon Highway enters the locality from the north-east (Noorindoo) and forms part of the north-eastern boundary of the locality before exiting to the east (Surat). The Balonne River enters the locality from the north-east (Noorindoo / Surat) and then forms the eastern and south-eastern boundaries of the locality, before exiting to the south (Ballaroo / Wellesley). The Colgoon State Forest is in the north-west of the locality. Apart from this protected area, the land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with some crop growing (mostly in the north of the locality). Demographics. In the , Weribone had a population of 18 people. In the , Weribone had a population of 14 people. Education. There are no schools in Weribone. The nearest government primary and secondary school is Surat State School (to Year 10) in neighbouring Surat to the east. There are no nearby schools providing education to Year 12; the alternatives are distance education and boarding school. Amenities. There is a boat ramp and pontoon on the north bank of Balonne River, just off the Carnarvon"}, {"text": "Highway (). It is managed by the Maranoa Regional Council."}, {"text": "Erc\u00edlio Turco (13 March 1938 \u2013 30 October 2019) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop. Turco was born in Brazil and was ordained to the priesthood in 1963. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limeira, Brazil, from 1989 to 2002 and as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Osasco, Brazil, from 2002 to 2014."}, {"text": "Olga Brandt-Knack (born Olga Brandt: 29 June 1885 \u2013 1 August 1978) was a Hamburg dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. She was also politically engaged, having joined the Social Democratic Party in 1918. Her career at the Hamburg State Opera was abruptly terminated in 1933 after the new government decided she was \"politically unreliable\". During the ensuing twelve years she was kept under surveillance by the security services and temporarily arrested by them. She supported herself during this period by working as an appointments clerk in the medical sector. After 1945, by which time she was aged 60, she rejoined the (no longer outlawed) Social Democratic Party and turned to city politics, serving between 1946 and 1953 as a high-profile member of the \"Hamburgische B\u00fcrgerschaft\" (\"Hamburg Parliament\"). Life. Olga Brandt was born in Hamburg. Her dancing career began, when she was ten, at the children's dance school of the Hamburg State Theatre (as the city's State Opera was known at that time). She was a solo dancer by 1907 and became, in 1922, the leading ballerina of the ballet company. With a training in classical ballet and Expressionist dance, she was a member of the Hamburg Theatre company between 1900"}, {"text": "and 1932. She participated in numerous foreign tours, guesting with her group in places such as Stockholm, Copenhagen, The Hague/Scheveningen and Lille. In 1908 she founded the \"Deutsche T\u00e4nzerbund\" (\"loosely, \"German Dancers' Association\"\"), after which she quickly emerged as a public spokeswoman on behalf of her fellow professionals. 1908 had been the year in which the - already enforced with varying degrees of effectiveness in different parts of Germany - was formally lifted, but it was only in 1918, in the aftermath of the disastrous war, that Olga Brandt joined the Social Democratic Party (\"Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands\" / SPD). Alongside her party membership, she worked between 1918 and 1933 as an arts policy consultant (\"kulturpolitische Referentin\") to the \"Genossenschaft Deutscher B\u00fchnen-Angeh\u00f6riger\" (GDBA / \"loosely \"Co-operative of German stage performers and workers\"\"). It was also in, or shortly after, 1918 that she teamed up with the actor Adolf Johannsson to set up a \"Workers' Speech and Movement Chorus\" (\"Arbeiter-Sprech- und Bewegungschor\"). Later, in 1932, she joined with (and others), to form the \"Vereinigung Tanz\" (\"Dance Association\") in Hamburg. On the national stage 1932 was a year of intensifying political polarisation and deadlock: at the Hamburg State Opera Olga Brandt-Knack lost her"}, {"text": "position as lead ballerina on account of her political activities. On 26 February 1920 Olga Brandt married . It was now that her name became \"Olga Brandt-Knack\". Andreas Knack was a physician and later became director of the in the city. It is not clear how long the marriage lasted, but it was over by 1928, which was the year in which Knack married his second wife. In January 1933 the National Socialists took power and lost no time in transforming Germany into a one-party dictatorship. With political party membership now illegal (other than membership of the National Socialist Party), she terminated her party membership. Olga Brandt-Knack's record as an active SPD member nevertheless led to her being classified as \"politically unreliable\". The Hamburg State Opera terminated her employment and she was obliged to give up the dance school she was running. She was later placed under surveillance by the security services and, on at least one occasion, briefly arrested. Unable to work professionally, she now, like her sister, took a job as a surgery appointments clerk till 1942. Between 1942 and the war's end in 1945 she moved out of the city and lived quietly with friends in the"}, {"text": "countryside. She rejoined the SPD in 1945. From 1948 she also worked as an advisor on women's issues to the . She was, in addition, one of those who re-founded The Falcons, a socialist youth organisation that had originated in 1904 but then been banned during the Hitler years. Between 30 October 1946 and , Olga Brandt-Knack served as an SPD member of the \"Hamburgische B\u00fcrgerschaft\" (\"Hamburg Parliament\"). After that, till 1961, she served as deputy head of the city's police authority."}, {"text": "Julius Lippmann (22 July 1864 \u2013 13 November 1934) was a German liberal politician, a member of the Prussian Parliament and the Weimar National Assembly. He served as governor of the Province of Pomerania from 1919 to 1930. Lippmann was born in Danzig, West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, his father was a Jewish cantor in the Jewish Community of Danzig. Lippmann attended the Academic Gymnasium Danzig and started to study classical philology at the University of Berlin, but soon switched to law. Lippmann started to practise as a lawyer in Stettin (Szczecin) in 1892, as a member of the Free-minded Union he was elected to the town council of Stettin in 1900. He became a member of the Prussian House of Representatives in 1908 and joined the Progressive People's Party (DDP) in 1910. He was the deputy chairman of the DDP fraction in the Prussian Parliament. Lippmann was elected a member of the Weimar National Assembly on 19 January 1919. On 1 April 1919 he followed Georg Michaelis as \"Oberpr\u00e4sident\" (governor) of the Province of Pomerania, the only liberal politician to hold this position. In 1927 Lippmann became honorary senator of the University of Greifswald, he retired on 31 March"}, {"text": "1930 as Oberpr\u00e4sident and started to lecture on administrative sciences in Greifswald later that year. Though Lippmann had converted to Lutheranism, he was attacked by Nazi students for his Jewish descent. In April 1933 Lippmann ceased his lectures and was formally dismissed on 25 July 1933 on his own demand after he had received a Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service questionnaire. Facing further anti-semitic persecution Lippmann moved to Berlin, where he died in 1934."}, {"text": "Wellesley is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Wellesley had a population of 94 people. Geography. The Carnarvon Highway runs through from south to north. The land use is predominantly growing crops in the north of the locality and grazing on native vegetation in the south of the locality. Demographics. In the , Wellesley had a population of 73 people. In the , Wellesley had a population of 94 people. Education. There are no schools in Wellesley. The nearest government school is Surat State School in neighbouring Surat to the north-east which provides education from Prep to Year 10. There are no nearby schools providing education to Year 12; distance education and boarding school are the options."}, {"text": "Van Vlissingen en Dudok van Heel was a famous nineteenth-century Dutch machine factory. It built steam engines and machinery for the sugar industry and for maritime purposes, as well ships, rolling stock and large metal structures like the Moerdijk bridge and a floating dock. In 1871 it was reorganized to become the public company Koninklijke Fabriek van Stoom- en andere Werktuigen. In a second reorganization in 1890, parts of it were saved and continued under the name Koninklijke Nederlandsche Fabriek van Werktuigen en Spoorwegmaterieel, renamed to Werkspoor in 1927. Van Vlissingen en Dudok van Heel. Early years. The company was founded as the 'Van Vlissingen' company in 1826. The founder was Paul van Vlissingen (1797\u20131876), who was also one of the founders of the Amsterdamsche Stoomboot Maatschappij (ASM). In 1828 Abraham Dudok van Heel (1802\u20131873) became a partner, and the name was changed to Fabriek van Stoom- en Andere Werktuigen, onder de firma Van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel. (Factory for steam engines and other tooling, owned by Van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel.) The \"onder firma\" was Dutch for Kommanditgesellschaft a form of Limited partnership. The first 'mission' of the company would be to enable repair of the steam"}, {"text": "engines of the ASM. This was necessary because John Cockerill (company, 1825\u20131955) and the Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij of Gerhard Moritz Roentgen had established a monopoly on the delivery of steam engines in the Netherlands. In 1826 the ASM, therefore, asked permission from the Amsterdam community council to found a small smithy at the shipyard Vredenburg on the Kadijk. In 1827 a former smoking house of the Dutch East India Company was hired to expand the company. This building, consisting of a house and a large storehouse was situated on the southern tip of the island Oostenburg, that was dominated by buildings previously owned by the Dutch East India Company. The date of the rental contract, 9 February 1827 should be considered as the founding date of the company. One of the first employees was William Jackson, who had worked at Henry Maudslay and Company. There were thirty other Englishman employed. The building contained two smithies. In the yard there was an oven below a shed without a chimney. Six men operated a double bellows to blaze the fire. The flames escaping through an opening in the roof. The management declared that the oven was fired with Coke (fuel) and would"}, {"text": "not spark. The 'smelt en gietoven' ('gieten' means Casting (metalworking)) could not be covered, because that would be very bad for the Cast iron. By the end of 1827 the company had 60 employees. As regards organization the company was a limited partnership, in contemporary Dutch a Commanditaire Societeit. It started with a capital of 100,000 guilders, with 70,000 brought in by the limited partners. Van Vlissingen would only be around part-time, mainly because he also had other affairs like the ASM. Dudok van Heel would be permanently present, primarily to manage the administration and cash of the factory. General Partners Van Vlissingen and Dudok van Heel would receive a compensation of 2,000 guilders for their work. If there was a profit, the partners would first receive 4% on their capital, further profits would be divided somewhat equally over the general partners and the limited partners. 1830s. During the first years Van Vlissingen en Dudok van Heel experienced slow growth. It was troubled by the high import duty on sheet metal. A duty that in practice benefited Cockerill, which produced sheet metal, and foreign machine factories which did not have to pay the duty. The independence of Belgium would change"}, {"text": "the government preference for Cockerill. In time Van Vlissingen en Dudok van Heel got a serious chance to get government orders. 1840s: Royal factory. On 4 December 1840 the factory of Van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel got the label 'royal', officially making it the: Koninklijke Fabriek van Stoom- en andere Werktuigen onder firma Van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel. In reality the company did not use the name 'Koninklijke Fabriek van Stoom- en andere Werktuigen' that often, and if it did, the name was almost always accompanied by: \"of Van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel\". A logical explanation would be that the 'firma Van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel' was a Juridical person, a quality that the 'Koninklijke Fabriek' lacked. The succeeding 'Koninklijke Fabriek van Stoom- en andere Werktuigen' (below, without the 'firma' part) was a juridical person because it was the name of a public company. By 1847 there were 1000\u20131200 employees with the company. 1850s. In the 1856 Van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel was the biggest machine factory of the Netherlands, with about 1,600 employees. In 1856 a magazine made a rather extensive report of a visit to the company. It had a description of the"}, {"text": "iron Foundry. It had three cupola Furnaces, which processed imported cast iron with coke and chalk. Up to 20,000 kilograms of liquid iron was then poured into a crucible and cast again. A big Fan (machine) that made 600 rpm produced the air blast required for the foundry. Activities of Van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel. Machines for the Sugar industry. In the Dutch colony Suriname Amsterdam citizens had a lot of plantations producing sugar. William Jackson then moved to Suriname to support the installation of sugar mills and steam engines. Jackson also became the representative for the company in Suriname. Steam locomotives. From 1843\u20131846 it produced some steam locomotives. These were called the Etna, Hecla, Vesuvius, Atlas and Bromo. Some of these served till 1866. Ship engines. Steam ship engines would become a core activity of the company. In the beginning, the company somewhat depended on or was helped by government purchases. This was especially the case with regard to the first order for a ship engine that Van Vlissingen received. Even though Van Vlissingen had never produced a ship engine, the navy ordered a more powerful (and costly) engine than had yet been produced in the Netherlands. The"}, {"text": "interest of the navy was that it depended on Van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel as one of the few producers of steam engines. The state had shipyards, but no capacity to build engines. The close proximity of the Rijkswerf Amsterdam to the factory was also important. The first order of a ship engine for a warship was that for the 130 hp engines of HNLMS Phoenix (1836). It was also the first-ever order for a ship engine by Van Vlissingen and was awarded for more than 100,000 guilders on 2 December 1834. While these were almost finished a fire broke out at the factory on 24 April 1836 and caused significant damage to the machines and the factory. While the insurance covered a lot, it did not cover a delay in delivery. The government then indeed further supported the company by accepting the delay and giving some additional orders to keep the factory going. In 1837 and 1839 boilers were delivered for the Cerberus and Leeuw. In 1839 the navy ordered the machines for the Hecla costing 109,495 guilders at Van Vlissingen. Later Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel made the 300 hp steam engines for HNLMS steam paddle vessel"}, {"text": "Gedeh. It also made the 150 hp engine of the Sindoro. Steam engines for screw-driven ships required a higher rotational speed. The company first made the engine of the Montrado (ex-Vuurpijl). The 150 hp engines of the corvette Amelia ex-Borneo (1855) came next. Those of HNLMS \"Adolf van Nassau\" (1861), and of at least two ships of the \"Djambi\"-class corvettes, launched 1860\u20131863 followed. The engines of the \"Watergeus\"-class sloops (1864\u20131867) and those of the Zilveren Kruis (1869) were engines that had an output that gave sailing ships something more than just auxiliary power. Van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel also produced ship engines for civilian use. The second pair of ship engines that the company built were the 160 hp engines of the \"Willem I\" built by shipyard Boelen for the ASM line to Hamburg. The company also made the 60 hp engine for the \"Friso\" (1839) built by shipyard Vredenhof on the Kadijk. It also built the engine for the \"Amicitia\" built by Fop Smit Nieuw Lekkerland in 1846. It also built those of the steam yacht \"Rotterdam\" (1853), built by F. Smit in Kinderdijk for the service Rotterdam to 's-Hertogenbosch. Iron ships. In Frankfurt a new company for"}, {"text": "steam transport between the Netherlands and as high upstream as the Main was founded in 1844. Van Vlissingen traveled to Frankfurt to compete for an order of iron steam vessels and lighters for steam service on the Rhine. He managed to secure an order for two tugboats and 16 lighters with a capacity of 4500 quintals for 450,000 guilders. For building these ships a shipyard was created on Oostenburg north of the factory, where the shipyard of the old Dutch East India Company had once stood. The company issued a tender for the construction of a wooden roof with walls of 130 by 20 meters. Van Vlissingen next competed for an order from a newly founded steam tug service in D\u00fcsseldorf. By helping to raise capital for this company in Amsterdam, he also managed to secure this second order. The D\u00fcsseldorf order was for two tugboats and 10 lighters, amounting to 400,000 guilders. In September 1847 the Frankfurt company placed a new order of one tugboat of 200 hp, one tugboat of 100 hp and eight lighters. Similar orders would follow for steam navigation on the Po and for the Dutch East Indies. In these years many iron ships were"}, {"text": "built, but not many large steamships, apart from those were Van Vlissingen was also involved in the exploitation. A breakthrough could have come from Belgium. In 1855 the steam ships Constitution and Belgique, 84.5 m long were launched. Onrust Dock of 3,000 tons. At first Onrust Dock of 3,000 tons was simply known as: 'The iron dry dock', because there was only one such structure in the Dutch East Indies made of iron. Before its construction, in the 1850s, there were only two floating dry docks in the Dutch East Indies, both made of wood. The admiralty in the Dutch East Indies wanted to have a third bigger floating dock. It foresaw that during the scheduled maintenance and repairs of the docks themselves, the remaining dock would not provide enough capacity to repair the screw powered ships, which also had a higher need for dry dock capacity. Furthermore, the existing dry docks were not capable of receiving the biggest ships. The Surabaya dock handled the Groningen-class corvettes of 1,780 tons with great difficulty. The wooden dock at Onrust Island was longer, but still not long enough, and was not capable to receive loaded ships. On 3 February 1863, there was"}, {"text": "a public tender for the iron dock in the East Indies. It would be stationed at Onrust (island) near Batavia. Of 17 contestants Van Vlissingen en Dudok van Heel was the cheapest at 366,685 guilders. The floating dock was 90 m long, and up to 21 m wide on the inside. It would be able to load a screw frigate of 3,000 tons. On 9 June 1864 some members of the Royal Institute of Engineers visited the floating dock after attending their annual meeting. Van Vlissingen en Dudok van Heel made pictures and sent them to the members of the institute. The final cost of the floating dock would be 460,852 guilders, of those 41,018 were for transport. After transport to Surabaya the floating dry dock was re-assembled in a basin at Surabaya from 3 April 1865. In October 1869 it was finally towed to Onrust by the Amsterdam and Ardjoeno. It would have a remarkable long life, serving up to 1933. Rolling Mill at Het Funen. In 1855 Paul van Vlissingen founded a separate company \"Van Vlissingen en Co.\". Its goal was to found a Rolling (metalworking) mill. The work was to seize the opportunity offered by a tender"}, {"text": "for re-coining copper currency that circulated in the Dutch East Indies. It asked for melting and re-coining 3,000,000 pounds of copper coins. Van Vlissingen en Co. got two-thirds of the tender. A rolling mill was then erected at 'Het Funen', an area just east of the existing buildings. The rolling mill was 168 feet long and 118 feet wide. The machinery was made by Van Vlissingen en Dudok van Heel. There were 12 annealing and smelt ovens, and 5 pairs of rolls. In 1859 the re-coining operation had ended. The Rolling mill then got into deep trouble when it went to look for other work. The market for copper plate was in sharp decline because the shift to iron ships had reduced the demand for copper plate. The company \"Van Vlissingen en Co.\" then seems to have been incorporated into Van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel in 1866. The rolling mill was then re-equipped for rolling iron. In furnaces old iron and cast iron was made into Sheet metal. A Steam hammer of 1,200 kg then flattened the iron. It was cut up, made into slabs and finally rolled. In 24 hours 20,000 pounds of sheet metal could be produced."}, {"text": "This iron rolling mill proved way to ambitious for the company. It made a loss of 3,000 guilders a week, and was immediately closed when the company was re-organized in 1870\u20131871. The Moerdijk bridge. Van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel also made iron bridges. When it had incorporated the rolling mill in the late 1860s, its failure to win the tender for the railway bridge at Culemborg was a big setback. In order to ensure work for the rolling mill, the company then made an offer that was way too low in order to be sure to get the contract for the gigantic bridge over the Hollands Diep The Moerdijk railway bridge was estimated at 2,350,000 guilders. The company made an offer of 1,466,740. It was so low that the minister asked whether a mistake had been made. The bridge required 6,500,000 kg of metal, the iron coming from Amsterdam, and the steel and some other parts from England. The company did think (or hope) that a clever engineering solution would make it possible to get the work done without loss, or perhaps only a small loss. In the end the bridge resulted in a loss of 225,695.97 guilders for"}, {"text": "the company. Apart from that, the engineering was impressive. The bridge was the longest in Europe and was opened on 1 January 1872, four months before the required date. Crisis of 1870. The affairs of the Moerdijk bridge, the rolling mill and other bad deals had led to many losses. In order to solve the problems, the capital of the company was increased by a staggering 500,000 guilders in June 1870. The last installment of this sum was to be paid on 24 September 1870. On 30 September 1870 the company then asked for an automatic stay so it would get time to reorganize its financial position, a step that led to wide disbelief and indignation. The reasons that the management gave for the automatic stay were that many credit lines had been terminated, and payments had failed to come in because of the Franco-Prussian War. Furthermore that employees had been drafted. The resulting delays in the construction of the Stella for the KNSM had led to missing 135,000 guilders in payment terms. (The loss on the Stella was later estimated at 68,414.) However, the root causes of the troubles were three. In order to generate more profits for the"}, {"text": "partners the company consistently worked with a capital that was far too small. A second root cause was the bad financial management of the company, that led to a lack of transparency in the (financial) situation. The consistent payment of a high dividend of c. 8% was a third root cause. The automatic stay was granted by the court, and M.J. Pijnappel (lawyer), C. van der Vliet (creditor) and the famous engineer B.J. Tideman were appointed as administrators. Koninklijke Fabriek van Stoom- en andere Werktuigen. The public company Koninklijke Fabriek van Stoom- en andere Werktuigen is founded. In mid October 1870 a meeting of the limited partners of the company was held. In this meeting the supervisory board declared that it had promoted the recent 500,000 guilders increase of capital in June, because it had been misled about 250,000 guilders being temporarily used for other purposes, and multiple tons of gold (100,000 guilders) in debts had been concealed from them. General partner Van Vlissingen declared that both general partners were guilty of the many errors which had brought the company in its current position. Furthermore that they were prepared to renounce their privileged position and to cooperate in a reform"}, {"text": "of the limited partnership to a Naamloze vennootschap, a public company. The meeting then appointed a committee of reorganization that would attempt to restructure the company as a public company. In a meeting on 20 January 1871 the committee of reorganization made its report: All preferential creditors, and most of the normal creditors had agreed to their plans. 3 Creditors for a debt of 125,000 (out of the total debt of 1,250,000) refused to agree. The proposed settlement would consist of 40% payment in money, and 60% in 37-year bonds paying 3%, and later 5%. The commission had already found 300,000 guilders for securities, but did not want to proceed till all creditors agreed. The commission was then persuaded to continue for 3 more weeks in order to get the refusing creditors on board. In a 10 February 1871 meeting of the limited partners the committee of reorganization announced that the three refusing creditors had agreed to the proposals. Intervention by other creditors had led to this success. The commission then went to work on raising a short term credit of 200,000 guilders protected by special securities. On 26 March 1871 the limited partners agreed to the final reorganization plan."}, {"text": "The existing limited partnership was disbanded and all assets transferred to a new public company. This public company came under the direction of Johannes Marinus van der Made and was founded on 5 April. The government approval for the new public company came in a few weeks later. The new public company was allowed to retain the name Koninklijke Fabriek van Stoom- en andere Werktuigen, and this now came in general use. Timeline of the Koninklijke Fabriek. When the new company was founded it was also tasked with handling the affairs of the previous limited partnership. The work in progress was: The new company probably got more confidence from principals. From 7 April till 31 December 1871 it got new orders for 1,280,205 guilders. At the end of 1872 the company had 1,300 employees, 300 more than the year before, but rising prices and labor cost significantly diminished the profit. In 1873 the company contracted for 2,055,340 guilders. In 1875 the company had 1,200 employees. In 1877 the number of employees was 1,700. The Koninklijke Fabriek began to lose business in the 1880s. In 1880 the number of employees went down from 1,500 to 1,000. In 1881 it went down"}, {"text": "to 700. It seemed as if principals had lost confidence in the company. In 1882\u20131883 there was a revival when big ships were ordered. It led to costly investments in four slipways with foundations of 100 m long each, as well as investments in machinery. The number of employees temporarily rose to 1,800. These investments that drained the working capital of the company would be the cause of its fall some years later. In 1884 the board proposed to end the company because no new capital was found. That same year the Indian Sugar crisis hit the company and the number of employees fell to 600, the expensive shipyard was closed down. In 1885 the shipyard was reopened after a tender for a small floating dock of 1,400 ton was won. It did not help, because the company continued to lose money on many projects. In 1885 the loss was 223,925 guilders, in 1888 424,818 guilders and so consecutive losses steadily brought the company to its knees. In 1889 there was a last revival in activity, when the company employed 1,600 men, but it again led to heavy losses. Activities of the Koninklijke Fabriek. Ships. One of the first orders"}, {"text": "from the navy (i.e. minister for the colonies) was for three steam screw gunboats. The Koninklijke Fabriek also got a lot of orders from the Dutch navy. In 1875 it delivered the paddle steamer Bromo. In 1876 the gunboats Fred and Das. In 1882 the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Insulinde ordered two big ships. In 1883 the Koninklijke West Indische Maildienst ordered three big ships. Later the company built the monitor Reinier Claeszen, laid down in 1890. It also started the construction of HNLMS Koningin Wilhelmina der Nederlanden. After the collapse of the company, she was towed to the Rijkswerf in order to be finished there. Ship engines. In 1875 the company delivered the engine for the sloop Alkmaar. In 1876 the company delivered the 2,700 hp engines for the Atjeh. The company also made the machines for the monitor HNLMS Draak launched in 1877. Rolling stock. One of the first actions of the Koninklijke Fabriek was the shutdown of the rolling mill at het Funen on 5 May 1871. The place was used to found a factory for making railroad cars. It almost immediately got orders from the Hanover state railways for 80 cargo cars. Soon followed by 350 cars (of"}, {"text": "which only 105 would be delivered) for the Boxtel - Wesel line. Soon 300 employees were involved in making cargo cars. In 1875 about 100 cars were sold to the Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg Maatschappij. Bridges. In 1873 the company delivered the railway bridge over the Meuse at Ravenstein for 396,000 guilders. In 1874 the company lost a tender for the construction of the first Willemsbrug over the Meuse in Rotterdam when it offered for 970,000 guilders. Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 J. F. Cail & Cie from Paris offered for 872,000 guilders, and there were more lower offers. The labor union \"Velen en toch \u00e9\u00e9n\" then protested against giving the work to Caile & Co because it suspected that it consciously took the work at a loss in order to keep the factory going. In November 1874 the company then lost a tender for a bridge between the Wijnstraat and Boerenvischmarkt in Rotterdam to Cockerill which offered for 473,460 guilders with the Koninklijke Fabriek the highest at 584,000 guilders. In 1875 the Koninklijke Fabriek came out highest at a tender for two bridges over the harbor front in Amsterdam. The factory offered for 512,000 guilders, while the lowest offer was for 409,000 by K\u00f6lnische Maschinenbau."}, {"text": "Six other competitors also offered lower. In November 1875 the company lost a tender for the bridge over the Waal at Nijmegen. At 1,529,200 guilders it lost to Union AG f\u00fcr Bergbau und H\u00fcttenbetrieb from Oberhausen, which offered for 1,440,000 guilders. In 1876 the company delivered the comparatively small Kattenburgerbrug over the Nieuwe Vaart near the factory in Amsterdam. In 1882 the government helped the company somewhat by ordering 91 bridges for the railroad from Lage Zwaluwe to 's-Hertogenbosch for 537,000 guilders even though the competition offered for 2,000 less. The order included the 585 m long Moerputten Bridge, which has been preserved as a pedestrian bridge. The order led to big losses for the company. Floating docks. In 1876 the Koninklijke Fabriek won the tender for a new floating dock of 5000 tons for the East Indies. It was to be 100 m long, 27 m wide, 12 m high on the inside. It was estimated to require 2,600,000 kg of iron, and was estimated to cost 969,000 guilders for the iron work alone. The company won the tender for a price of 781,000 guilders. In 1879 the first parts of the dry dock arrived at Surabaya. On 14"}, {"text": "December 1879 the drydock had been assembled. The dock would be able to load 4,800 tons and would be ready to be launched in June 1880. In October 1880 the drydock arrived at Onrust Island, where many ships would use it. In 1885 the company won a tender for a small floating dock of 1,400 tons. It was delivered in 1886 and transported to Surabaya. End of the Koninklijke Fabriek. In early 1890 the Koninklijke Fabriek was in serious trouble. On 19 March 1890 the board announced that it would not make any new commitments, and that it would ask for an automatic stay. While it superficially looked like the crisis of 1871, this crises was different. The 1871 crisis was an acute crisis, the current problems were chronic. The company was steadily burning money, and as long as nobody knew how to fix it, a mere financial reconstruction was not possible. The Koninklijke Fabriek would get two big successors: Werkspoor and NSM. Successors of the Koninklijke Fabriek. Werkspoor. Part of the machine factory and the factory for rolling stock would be continued as Nederlandsche Fabriek van Werktuigen en spoorwegmaterieel. In 1927 this was officially renamed \"Werkspoor\". NSM (Ships). When"}, {"text": "the Koninklijke Fabriek was restarted to later become Werkspoor, the shipbuilding activities were stopped. In 1893 former employees of the Koninklijke Fabriek then contacted Jacob Theodoor Cremer, and he founded the Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij (NSM) (literally: The Dutch shipbuilding company), a name that would later prove not to be an exaggeration. It used the terrain of the former shipyard of the Koninklijke Fabriek, but not the terrain of the engine factory, which was continued by Koninklijke Fabriek. Using the grounds and the former employees of the Koninklijke Fabriek, the NSM was a successor of the Koninklijke Fabriek, albeit only from an organizational perspective."}, {"text": "The 2020 Summer Olympics men's 3x3 basketball tournament in Tokyo, began on 24 and ended on 28 July 2021. All games were played at the Aomi Urban Sports Park. It was originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of this pandemic, the games were played behind closed doors. Latvia won the title after defeating the Russian Olympic Committee team in the final, while Serbia captured the bronze medal over Belgium. The medals for the competition were presented by Nenad Lalovi\u0107, Serbia; IOC Executive Board Member, and the medalists' bouquets were presented by Andreas Zagklis, Greece; FIBA Secretary General. Format. The eight teams played a round robin. The teams placed first and second in group qualified for the semi-finals. The teams three to six played a playoff. After that, a knockout system was used. Referees. The following 12 referees were selected for the tournament. Pool. 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Bracket. <section begin=Bracket /><section end=Bracket /> Quarterfinals. <section begin=QF1 /><section end=QF1 /> <section begin=QF2 /><section end=QF2 /> Semifinals. <section begin=SF1 /><section end=SF1 /> <section begin=SF2 /><section end=SF2 /> Bronze medal game. <section begin=F1 /><section end=F1 /> Gold medal game. <section begin=F2 /><section end=F2 /> Final ranking. <section begin=standings /> <section end=standings />"}, {"text": "The 2020 Summer Olympics women's 3x3 basketball tournament in Tokyo, began on 24 and ended on 28 July 2021. All games were played at the Aomi Urban Sports Park. It was originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of this pandemic, the games were played behind closed doors. The United States won the title after defeating the Russian Olympic team in the final, while China captured the bronze medal over France. The medals for the competition were presented by Samira Asghari, Afghanistan; IOC Member, and the medalists' bouquets were presented by Ingo Weiss, Germany; FIBA Treasurer. Format. The eight teams played a round robin. The teams placed first and second in the pool qualified for the semifinals. The teams three to six played a playoff. After that, a knockout system was used. Players. Katie Lou Samuelson originally qualified as the fourth team member of the United States, but she tested positive for COVID-19 and was replaced by Jackie Young. Referees. The following 12 referees were selected for the tournament. Pool. Standings. <section begin=Standings /><section end=Standings /> \"All times are local (UTC+9).\" Results. <section"}, {"text": "begin=P1 /><section end=P1 /> <section begin=P2 /><section end=P2 /> <section begin=P3 /><section end=P3 /> <section begin=P4 /><section end=P4 /> <section begin=P5 /><section end=P5 /> <section begin=P6 /><section end=P6 /> <section begin=P7 /><section end=P7 /> <section begin=P8 /><section end=P8 /> <section begin=P9 /><section end=P9 /> <section begin=P10 /><section end=P10 /> <section begin=P11 /><section end=P11 /> <section begin=P12 /><section end=P12 /> <section begin=P13 /><section end=P13 /> <section begin=P14 /><section end=P14 /> <section begin=P15 /><section end=P15 /> <section begin=P16 /><section end=P16 /> <section begin=P17 /><section end=P17 /> <section begin=P18 /><section end=P18 /> <section begin=P19 /><section end=P19 /> <section begin=P20 /><section end=P20 /> <section begin=P21 /><section end=P21 /> <section begin=P22 /><section end=P22 /> <section begin=P23 /><section end=P23 /> <section begin=P24 /><section end=P24 /> <section begin=P25 /><section end=P25 /> <section begin=P26 /><section end=P26 /> <section begin=P27 /><section end=P27 /> <section begin=P28 /><section end=P28 /> Knockout stage. Bracket. <section begin=Bracket /><section end=Bracket /> Quarterfinals. <section begin=QF2 /><section end=QF2 /> <section begin=QF1 /><section end=QF1 /> Semifinals. <section begin=SF1 /><section end=SF1 /> <section begin=SF2 /><section end=SF2 /> Bronze medal game. <section begin=F1 /><section end=F1 /> Gold medal game. <section begin=F2 /><section end=F2 /> Final ranking. <section begin=standings /> <section end=standings />"}, {"text": "Parknook is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Parknook had a population of 55 people. Geography. The Surat Developmental Road (State Route 87) runs along the northern boundary. Demographics. In the , Parknook had a population of 74 people. In the , Parknook had a population of 55 people. Education. There are no schools in Parknook. The nearest government primary schools are Surat State School in Surat to the north-west, Teelba State School in neighbouring Teelba to the east, and Glenmorgan State School in neighbouring Glenmorgan to the north-east. The nearest government secondary school is Surat State School to Year 10; owever, students living in the south of the locality would be too distant for a daily commute. Also, there are no secondary schools offering education to Year 12 nearby. The alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Silvio Padoin (9 April 1930 \u2013 31 October 2019) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop. Padoin was born in Pieve di Soligo, Italy, in April 1930 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1955. He was Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pozzuoli, Italy, from 1993 to 2005."}, {"text": "Ciencia Puerto Rico (or CienciaPR) is US-based non-profit organization that advocates for science in Puerto Rico and supports Puerto Rican researchers. Their online community of more than 14,000 researchers, educators, students, and allies work to show that science can empower people to improve their lives and society. They provide resources in both English and Spanish. Leadership. Ciencia Puerto Rico was founded by Daniel Col\u00f3n Ramos in 2006. Giovanna Guerrero-Medina is the executive director, M\u00f3nica Feli\u00fa-M\u00f3jer is the director of communication and science outreach and Greetchen Diaz is the director of science education and community partnerships. Impact and Collaborations. As of 2015, CienciaPR was the most popular science and science jobs website in Puerto Rico. That year, CienciaPR was recognized as a Bright Spot in Hispanic Education by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. In 2018, CienciaPR was named Science Defender by the Union of Concerned Scientists. Although CienciaPR was planning a project to radically improve STEM education in Puerto Rico, the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season slowed down their progress and changed their focus. They now provide disaster-related STEM lessons in addition to their other resources. These lessons involve project-based learning. CienciaPR was used as a model for"}, {"text": "a diversity initiative at Yale University, called the Yale Ciencia Initiative. The two programs received a joint grant from the US National Science Foundation to study the impact of the disaster-related STEM lessons in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria. CienciaPR has also worked with the AAAS Caribbean Division on a conference and on advocacy related to Puerto Rican science policy."}, {"text": "Kilmorey Falls is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kilmorey Falls had a population of 23 people. Kilmorey Falls' postcode is 4465. Geography. The locality is bounded to the north-east by the Great Dividing Range. The terrain is mountainous in the north-east up to above sea level, undulating generally through the locality but falling in elevation generally toward the south down to . The Waroonga State Forest is in the south-east of the locality () and Walhallow State Forest in the east (). Apart from these protected areas, the predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation with a small amount of crop growing in the south. History. The locality was officially named and bounded on 28 March 2002. Demographics. In the , Kilmorey Falls had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Kilmorey Falls had a population of 23 people. Economy. There are a number of homesteads in the locality: Education. There are no schools in Kilmorey Falls. The nearest primary schools are Mitchell State School in neighbouring Mitchell to the south-west and Injune State School in Injune to the north-east. Both of these schools also provides secondary schooling to"}, {"text": "Year 10. There is no secondary schooling to Year 12 available nearby, the nearest being Roma State College in Roma to the south-east. Distance education and boarding schools would be other options."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Belarusian Premier League season was the 28th season of the top tier basketball league in Belarus. The season started on 21 September 2019, the season was suspended after 14 March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A concluding Final Four tournament was organised in September 2020. Tsmoki-Minsk defended its title. Competition format. Ten teams joined the regular season, that consisted in a four-legged round-robin competition, later dividing all the teams into two groups. The six teams of the Group A and the two best of the Group B joined the playoffs. Final Four. To conclude the season, a final four round-robin tournament was held in September 2020. Tsmoki-Minsk, Rubon, Borisfen and BK Grodno-93 played one game against each other. Tsmoki-Minsk defended its title, finishing with an unbeaten 3\u20130 record. Belarusian clubs in European competitions. Borisfen made its debut in European competitions. However, it was eliminated in the qualifying round of the FIBA Europe Cup."}, {"text": "Kapone is a surname. Notable people with the name include:"}, {"text": "Dixit Maria (Mary said [to the angel]) is a motet for four voices by Hans Leo Hassler. It is part of his collection \"Cantiones sacrae\" published in 1591. It sets a verse from the narration of the annunciation in Latin. Hassler based a mass on the motet, Missa super Dixit Maria. History. Hans Leo Hassler studied in Venice with Andrea Gabrieli, and was a musician for the Fugger family in Augsburg. He composed \"Dixit Maria\" as a motet for choir a cappella, setting a verse from Luke's narration of the annunciation in Latin, specifically Mary's consent to the announcement that she would bear a son. The motet is suitable for the feast of the Annunciation. He included the motet in his 1591 collection \"Cantiones sacrae\" (Sacred songs). Hassler also composed a mass on the theme \"Dixit Maria\", the \"Missa super Dixit Maria\". Carus-Verlag included the motet in a 2013 \"Chorbuch Advent\", a choral collection for Advent. Music. The motet is written for four voices, soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. The style is reminiscent of a canzona, in an ABB structure. The a section, rendering the text \"Mary said to the angel\", is set in imitative polyphony. The B section, repeated"}, {"text": "with a slightly modified ending, sets Mary's words, beginning in homophony. Few words are accented by melismas, such as \"angelum\" and \"fiat\" (may it happen), which summarizes Mary's consent to the incarnation. Recordings. \"Dixit Maria\" was recorded at the Mainz Cathedral in 2014, together with the mass based on it and other music by Hassler, by the Mainzer Domchor, conducted by . It was recorded by the Cambridge Singers, conducted by John Rutter, as part of an album \"The Sacred Flame / European Sacred Music of the Renaissance and Baroque Era\". A 2018 recording was performed by the Nottingham Cathedral Choir, conducted by Alex Patterson."}, {"text": "Mount Bindango is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mount Bindango had a population of 26 people. Geography. The Warrego Highway forms the southern boundary of the locality, entering the locality from Hodgson/Mount Abundance to the east and exiting to Muckadilla in the south-west. The Western railway line runs parallel and immediately north of the highway. Brinsop was a neighbourhood () that developed around the now-abandoned Brinsop railway station () on the Western railway line in the south-west of the locality. The abandoned Bindango railway station was also on the Western railway line () on the southern boundary of the locality. Ona Ona was a neighbourhood (). that developed around the Ona Ona railway station on the now-closed Injune railway line. There are two named peaks, close together in the north-west of the locality: The land use is agricultural, mostly grazing on native vegetation, and there are a number of homesteads in the locality: History. The locality takes its name from the mountain, which was named on 11 May 1846 by the Surveyor-General of New South Wales, Thomas Mitchell, based on the name given to him by Aboriginal informants. Mount Bindyego was also named"}, {"text": "by Mitchell on the same day based on the name provided by Aboriginal informants. The name \"Brinsop\" comes from the village of Brinsop in Herefordshire, England, which possibly means brown valley (brun/hop). The name \"Ona Ona\" was assigned on 29 April 1915 by the Queensland Railways Department, an Aboriginal phrase, meaning \"boxtree flat\". At about 5.30 a.m. on Friday 6 November 1987, Cunnamulla-bound Westlander train 3V02 was derailed at the nearby Bindango railway siding between Hodgson and Muckadilla, approximately west of Roma. An infant was burnt to death in the resulting fire. Investigations revealed that the points had been deliberately changed from the main railway line to divert the train into the siding. The police offered a reward of $50,000 for information leading to the person responsible. Demographics. In the , Mount Bindango had a population of 33 people. In the , Mount Bindango had a population of 26 people. Education. There are no schools in Mount Bindango. Roma State College in Roma to the east is the nearest primary and secondary school."}, {"text": "The 2019 FIBA Europe SuperCup Women was the 9th edition of the FIBA Europe SuperCup Women. It was held on 10 October 2019 at the DIVS Sport Hall in Yekaterinburg, Russia."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team represented the University of South Carolina during the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Gamecocks, led by twelfth-year head coach Dawn Staley, played their home games at the Colonial Life Arena and competed as members of the Southeastern Conference. Previous season. The Gamecocks finished the 2018\u201319 season 23\u201310, 13\u20133 in SEC play to finish in second place. They lost in the quarterfinals of the SEC women's tournament to Arkansas. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA women's tournament where they defeated Belmont and Florida State in the first and second rounds before losing to Baylor in the Sweet Sixteen. Offseason. Recruits. The Gamecocks signed the #1 class in the nation for 2019 according to ESPN and Prospects nation. Schedule. !colspan=12 style=| Exhibition !colspan=12 style=| Regular season !colspan=9 style=| SEC Tournament Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCAA ended all play on March 12, 2020. Rankings. On December 31, 2020, during the 2020-21 home opener against Florida, the Gamecocks raised a championship banner recognising the mythical national championship claim by polls, located next to the 2017 NCAA championship banner. Following the 2021-22 season with an official NCAA championship, that season's"}, {"text": "NCAA championship banner was placed next to the 2019-20 banner, and is the same size as the official banners."}, {"text": "Upper Dawson is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Upper Dawson had \"no people or a very low population\". Demographics. In the , Upper Dawson had a population of 27 people. In the , Upper Dawson had \"no people or a very low population\"."}, {"text": "Paul Hubert Ramsey was a World War II naval aviator of the United States Navy (USN). Early career. Ramsey graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1927 and earned his wings in 1930. During the 1930s, he served on the carriers and . He was promoted to lieutenant commander on 1 July 1941 and became commanding officer of Fighting Squadron 2 (VF-2) aboard \"Lexington\". During the early stages of the Pacific War, his executive officer was Lieutenant James Flatley. They both participated in the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, although Flatley had been transferred to Fighter Squadron 42 (VF-42) just prior to the battle, and so was serving aboard the . Coral Sea. On 7 May, Lieutenant Commander Ramsey led a division of Grumman F4F Wildcat fighters escorting Douglas TBD Devastators from Torpedo Squadron 2 (VT-2) in the attack that sank the light carrier \"Sh\u014dh\u014d\". In response to the sinking of \"Sh\u014dh\u014d\", the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) main carrier force launched a night strike on the US carriers composed of 15 Nakajima B5N and 12 Aichi D3A bombers. Ramsey led a group of F4F Wildcats to intercept. He set up an ambush in heavily overcast weather,"}, {"text": "which resulted in numerous losses of IJN aircraft and some of their most experienced pilots. He personally destroyed two B5N torpedo bombers, although he claimed them as Zeros. The following day, on 8 May, Lieutenant Commander Ramsey was involved in Combat Air Patrol over the US carriers. His division of F4F Wildcats spotted an approaching formation of D3A dive bombers at a higher altitude. However, they were unable to climb in time to intercept, due to the poor climb rate of F4F Wildcat and relatively high altitude difference. After the enemy dive bombers made their attack on the US carriers, he and his wingman spotted a Mitsubishi A6M Zero (which he thought was an Me 109) at a lower altitude and dived on it. They hit the Zero, but it managed to escape into a cloud. Moments later, Ramsey spotted another lone Zero, which he claimed shot down (though no Zeros were actually lost). Later career. After the Coral Sea, he returned to Washington, D.C., where, in April 1943, he was appointed director of the flight test division at the Anacostia Naval Air Station. He later commanded the carrier during the Korean War. He retired from the Navy in 1966."}, {"text": "Tarumania is a genus of freshwater fish described in 2017. It contains a single species, Tarumania walkerae, and constitutes the only genus in the family Tarumaniidae. \"T. walkerae\" is a predatory species that hunts among the leaf litter on the bottom of flooded forests in the Rio Negro drainage basin. Discovery and taxonomy. The species first came to the attention of scientists in 2002 in the form of a poorly preserved juvenile specimen collected as part of a survey. The specimen possessed many unusual traits and could not be identified even to family level. Due to the poor preservation, no formal description was attempted until many years later, after the discovery of a living population and collection of better specimens. The genus name \"Tarumania\" was chosen after the site of first collection (the Tarum\u00e3 Mirim River). \"Tarumania\" is a characiform, the order which includes piranhas and tetras. Due to its distinctness from all other characiformes, the describers placed it in its own family, Tarumaniidae. Based on their morphological analysis they estimated Tarumaniidae to be most likely the sister group of Erythrinidae, the trahira family, but no DNA evidence was available to confirm or deny this. Description and biology. \"Tarumania\" possesses"}, {"text": "a very unusual swim bladder, divided into eleven separate compartments (as opposed to one or two in most fish) which extends along almost the entire length of the body. Its body is extremely elongated and oval-shaped, giving the fish an eel-like appearance. Like the unrelated Lepidogalaxias, they have a flexible \"neck\" that allows them to bend their head at a right angle relative to the trunk. All specimens of \"Tarumania\" were recovered from isolated pools among the leaf-litter of the forest, where they appear to hunt invertebrates such as shrimp on the flooded forest floor. They are well adapted to swim amongst tangled undergrowth, with very mobile pelvic fins that move independently of each other and the ability to twist separately from the rest of the body. They are able to breathe air in shallow-water conditions, but the swim bladder is not involved. Instead they absorb oxygen through their oral cavity."}, {"text": "Malpas-Trenton is an outback locality in the Shire of Mckinlay, Queensland, Australia. In the , Malpas-Trenton had \"no people or a very low population\". Geography. The \"Flinders River\" forms most of the southern boundary before flowing through to the west. Demographics. In the , Malpas-Trenton had a population of 23 people. In the , Malpas-Trenton had \"no people or a very low population\"."}, {"text": "Taldora is an outback locality in the Shire of Mckinlay, Queensland, Australia. In the , Taldora had a population of 78 people. Geography. The Wills Developmental Road enters the locality from the south (Julia Creek) and exits to the west (Four Ways). There are a number of mountains in the locality: The locality is within the Carpentaria Coast drainage basin (also known as the Gulf Country) which ultimately flows into the Gulf of Carpentaria. The Cloncurry River enters the locality from the south-west (Cloncurry) and exits to the west (Four Ways). The Flinders River enters the locality from the south-east (Malpas-Trenton) and traverses the north-western boundary of the locality with Four Ways before exiting to the north-west (Stokes). The Saxby River enters from the east (Malpas-Trenton) and exits to the north (Fielding). The land use is grazing on native vegetation. History. Taldora was a cattle station from at least 1866. In 1878 a monthly mail service was established which passed through Taldora, and in 1880 it was referred to as a township. In July 1880 a new company purchased Taldora and began developing the station. In 1900, Taldora was affected by a drought with rats infecting its water supply and"}, {"text": "a lack of rain resulting in no grass growing on the station and its waterhole drying up for the first time since 1880. In 1916 it was reported that Taldora was supporting 30,000 head of cattle which was three times the amount of Nockatunga Station which was the largest station in the state geographically. In early 1947, Australian Aboriginal stockman Johnny Knight set out from Taldora to walk 150 miles to Normanton and went missing. A police search was launched which extended as far as Thursday Island and in July 1947 his swag was found and in July 1948 a skeleton which was found which may have been his remains. In 1953 an elderly man, Patrick Murphy, went missing while camping near Taldora where he was employed for ringbarking. Demographics. In the , Taldora had a population of 37 people. In the , Taldora had a population of 78 people. Education. There are no schools in Taldora. The nearest government primary school is Julia Creek State School in neighbouring Julia Creek to the south; however, it would be too distant for a daily commute for most of the locality of Taldora. Also, there are no secondary schools nearby. The alternatives"}, {"text": "are distance education and boarding school. Economy. There are a number of homesteads in the locality: Taldora Station consists of a ranch which is a private property with permission being required to visit. It does not have its own address with mail instead being received at Julia Creek. Transport. There are a number of airstrips in the locality:"}, {"text": "Sweden held a general election on the 16 September 1973. Results are published by the Statistical Central Bureau. Results by municipality. It is important to note that the listing of the results have been made with the 21st-century county mergers in mind to enable consistency. As a result, the Scanian and West Gothian constituencies that were in separate counties as of 1973 have been listed under their current counties, although the names of the original constituency from 1973 are included. \"Share\" denotes how large a share of the constituency each municipality had as well as the share of the national vote of 5,168,996 held by the overall constituency. Counties not in accordance with provinces include the three Sm\u00e5land counties of J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping, Kalmar (including \u00d6land) and Kronoberg. From an enlarged perspective, the three provinces of V\u00e4sterg\u00f6tland, Bohusl\u00e4n and Dalsland form V\u00e4stra G\u00f6taland. In 1973 those consisted of three separate counties, namely, Bohusl\u00e4n, Skaraborg and \u00c4lvsborg. Sk\u00e5ne County did not exist in 1973 either, with the province divided between Kristianstad County in the north and Malm\u00f6hus County in the south. \u00d6rebro County is divided between three separate provinces centered around N\u00e4rke. As a result, V\u00e4stmanland County is smaller than the province. Stockholm"}, {"text": "County is also consisting part of the provinces of S\u00f6dermanland and Uppland, the latter of which forms Uppsala County in its north. Farther north, G\u00e4vleborg is a merger between G\u00e4strikland and H\u00e4lsingland, V\u00e4sternorrland consists of Medelpad and \u00c5ngermanland, whereas Lapland is divided between V\u00e4sterbotten and Norrbotten counties. H\u00e4rjedalen is a single municipality roughly corresponding with the provincial borders, merged into J\u00e4mtland County. Dalarna. Dalarna County was known as Kopparberg County at the time, but shared the same borders as in the 21st century. Kopparberg County Sk\u00e5ne. The province of Sk\u00e5ne, later unified into one county, was divided into Malm\u00f6hus and Kristianstad counties at the time, also resulting in three separate constituencies, one for each county and a third for the metropolitan area of \u00d6resund, that was part of Malm\u00f6hus. Stockholm. Stockholm County was divided into Stockholm Municipality and the surrounding county of suburbs or more rural areas. V\u00e4stra G\u00f6taland. The later iteration of V\u00e4stra G\u00f6taland County was divided into three separate counties and five constituencies in 1973. The three counties were Gothenburg and Bohusl\u00e4n, Skaraborg and \u00c4lvsborg. Gothenburg/Bohus were divided into one constituency representing Gothenburg Municipality and one representing Bohusl\u00e4n, whereas \u00c4lvsborg was divided into two constituencies, one in the"}, {"text": "north and one in the south. Skaraborg had one constituency for the whole county."}, {"text": "The 2019 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's 2019 season. 2019 World Series may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Patrick Tjungurrayi (c. 1935-1945 \u2014 December 2017), also known as Patrick Olodoodi or Patrick Yala Uluturti, was a Pintupi senior law man, painter and health advocate. Life and painting. Tjungurrayi was born near Puntujarrpa, west of Kiwirrkurra, in Central Australia. He grew up on Pintupi county, alongside the Canning Stock Route, and encountered 'no white man' until he was a young man and a helicopter flew nearby and terrified him and his family: this included his brother Tjuwi who became known as 'helicopter'. Following this Tjungurrayi and his family had many interactions with 'the white man' and there was a lot of violence and Tjungurrayi can remember many killings. Soon after this he moved to Balgo where they stayed until the establishment of the first Pintupi homelands community, Kintore, in the early 1980s; although Patrick always travelled between the two as well as to a number of other communities throughout the region where he was a labourer, building the houses that would become the community. By 1986 the labouring became too hard and he settled in Balgo and committed his time to painting with Warlayirti Artists until he moved to Kiwirrkurra where, from 1993, he painted for Papunya Tula Artisits."}, {"text": "By the late 1990s Tgungurrayi was refining his vision and creating increasingly powerful paintings, which coincided with a decrease in the use of pigment, Colour was, however, reintroduced after the flooding and evacuation of Kiwirrkurra in 2000, immediately following this he painted the land inundated of a mythic scale with the use of colour. He has experimented and changed his style a number of times since. Tjungurrayi won the Western Australian Premier's Indigenous Art Award in 2008. Work with Purple House. Between 2007 and 2010 Tjungurrayi's kidneys started to fail and this encouraged him to once again advocate for his people and stand against the inadequate health services Central Australia and the Western Desert more specifically. This wasn't new to Tjungurrayi who had already contributed paintings to the Art Gallery of New South Wales auction in 2000 that gave Purple House its start and enabled people to receive dialysis 'on Country' (their traditional homelands/communities). He was the lead artist in the creation of the \"Kiwirrkurra Men's Painting\" which was bought by Kerry Stokes at the auction for $340,000. Despite all of Purple House's work Tjungurrayi was still unable to receive dialysis in Kiwirrkurra as Purple House was, at that time,"}, {"text": "not allowed to operate in Western Australia, and, although saddened by this he thought he would, at the very least be able to receive treatment in Kintore or Alice Springs. Instead he was told that due to high demand people not from the Northern Territory would have to travel elsewhere and he was asked to go to, and because of the intensity of treatment, essentially move to Kalgoorlie or Perth. Tjungurrayi refused and said he would \"rather die on his own Country then be sick on somebody else's\". Tjungurrayi grew up travelling the desert country that his ancestors had walked for thousands of years and he could not respect the artificial borders that were now defining his life. Tjungurrayi fought for his right to receive treatment more local and spoke to many people, including government agencies and he was finally able to receive treatment in Alice Springs and now, with his help, Purple House (who were previously not allowed to operate in Western Australia) have established a two chair dialysis unit at Kiwirrkurra in 2014. It was Tjungurrayi's aim to raise public and political awareness about the renal health crisis facing Aboriginal people. Tjungarrayi's art work is now also featured"}, {"text": "on the side of the \"Purple House Truck\". In December 2017 Tjungurrayi had a heart attack at home and subsequently died in a hospital in Alice Springs."}, {"text": "Piech, Pi\u0119ch, Pi\u00ebch or \"variation\", may refer to:"}, {"text": "The 1977 Pepsi Grand Slam, officially the Pepsi-Cola Grand Slam of Tennis, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor green clay courts at the Mission Hills Country Club in Boca Raton, Florida. It was an Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) sanctioned special event that was not part of the 1977 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix circuit. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from January 21 through January 23, 1977. Bj\u00f6rn Borg won the singles title and earned $100,000 first prize money. It was his 2nd singles title of the year and the 20th of his career. He defeated Jimmy Connors."}, {"text": "Henri Th\u00e9odore Ymbert (10 July 1827 in Auteuil, Yvelines \u2013 22 September 1894 at Bourbonne-les-Bains) was a French lawyer and composer. Life and career. Th\u00e9odore Ymbert was the son of the dramatist Jean-Gilbert Ymbert, who also practised as a legal administrator. Following in the family profession of law, he also studied composition under Auguste Barbereau. His musical activity in Paris over the years 1858 \u2013 69 consisted for the most part in settings for voice. Two works were his most successful: the music for the one-act comic opera \"Les Deux Cadis\" (1861); and his \"Sept Fables de la Fontaine\", which was preferred to Jacques Offenbach\u2019s settings of La Fontaine's Fables when it was first performed in 1862, and which continues to be performed. Professionally Ymbert gained his doctorate in law and practised in the Court of Appeal of Paris. As well as writing on both legal and musical subjects, he also collaborated in the revision of a number of administrative reference works. Among the latter was the \"Dictionnaire des formules ou mairie pratique contenant les mod\u00e8les de tous les actes d'administration municipal\" (1880) and the \"Dictionnaire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral d'administration\" (1884), for which he was qualified after serving as mayor of Bourbonne-les-Bains"}, {"text": "between 1873-8 and then as a deputy judicial officer."}, {"text": "The siege of Tralee was an event that took place between 1 and 9 November 1920 in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. History. Patrick Cahill, the Officer Commanding Kerry No. 1 Brigade, Irish Republican Army instructed the Tralee Battalion to carry out reprisal attacks for the death (on hunger strike) of Sinn F\u00e9in Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney. On the night of 31 October 1920, RIC Constable Patrick Waters and RIC Constable Ernest Bright had been kidnapped, shot and killed by IRA volunteers in Tralee. In response to the seizure of two of their colleagues and in an attempt to recover the bodies, British Black and Tans imposed a curfew on the town, shot local people who appeared on the streets, insisted that the local businesses close and stopped all food and drink from entering the town. Tralee Town Hall and several shops were burned down and two civilians were shot dead (John Conway and Tommy Wall). Hamar Greenwood, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, ordered that the siege be lifted on 9 November 1920."}, {"text": "Kitawaki (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Papon may refer to:"}, {"text": "Kumeta (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Jakub Piotr Kami\u0144ski (born 5 June 2002) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a left winger for club 1. FC K\u00f6ln, on loan from VfL Wolfsburg, and the Poland national team. Club career. Lech Pozna\u0144. As a junior, he started his career in Szombierki Bytom, before joining Lech Pozna\u0144's academy in 2015. Climbing through the ranks with junior squads and the reserve team, he was first included in the first team roster in early 2019 by Adam Nawa\u0142ka. Kami\u0144ski made his Ekstraklasa debut on 20 September 2019 in a 1\u20131 home draw against Jagiellonia Bia\u0142ystok, in the starting line-up. His first league goal came in a 3\u20133 away draw against Zag\u0142\u0119bie Lubin on 6 June 2020. On 16 September 2020, he scored his first goal in European competitions against Hammarby IF in a 3\u20130 Europa League qualifying round away win. Following a successful 2021\u201322 campaign, which saw Lech win the championship on the club's 100th anniversary, Kamin\u015bki was voted Ekstraklasa's Young Player of the Season. VfL Wolfsburg. On 10 January 2022, Kami\u0144ski signed a five-year contract with Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg, effective from 1 July 2022. He debuted in a 2022\u201323 DFB-Pokal match against Eintracht Braunschweig, providing three"}, {"text": "assists and scoring the 2\u20131 winning goal. On 8 March 2023, Kami\u0144ski made his Bundesliga debut in a 4\u20132 defeat against Bayern Munich whilst scoring his first league goal as well. Loan to. On 4 July 2025, Kami\u0144ski was sent on a season-long loan to fellow Bundesliga club 1. FC K\u00f6ln. International career. On 5 September 2021, Kami\u0144ski debuted as a starter for the Polish senior squad in an away 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification against San Marino, ending in a 7\u20131 victory for the Poles. He scored his first goal against Wales in a 2022\u201323 UEFA Nations League A match on 1 June 2022. Career statistics. International. \"Scores and results list Poland's goal tally first\" Honours. Lech Pozna\u0144 II Lech Pozna\u0144 Individual"}, {"text": "Henri Emile \"Hans\" Mossel (Amsterdam, 24 December 1905 \u2013 Auschwitz, German-occupied Poland, 4 August 1944) was a Dutch clarinetist and saxophonist. 1905\u20131935: Early years. Hans Mossel was born into a very musical Jewish family. He was the son of a well-known Dutch cellist Isa\u00e4c Mossel (Rotterdam, 1870 \u2013 Amsterdam, 1923) and pianist Jeannette Belinfante (1868-1925). He spent his youth with his parents in Laren in the Netherlands, where he lived on the Velthuijsenlaan. At a young age he was taught to play the piano. His father stimulated his love for jazz. In 1923 Mossel played as a drummer and pianist in the \u201cLarensche Jazz Band\u201d. A couple of years later he formed his own jazz band \u201cThe Indian Jazz Band\u201d. In 1931 Mossel was employed by the German violinist and bandleader Marek Weber and moved to Germany. Because he was Jewish, Weber was targeted by the Nazis who wanted to suppress the so called degenerate music (German: Entartete Musik), a label which had also been applied to jazz music. This was meant to isolate, discredit and ultimately ban this form of music. Towards the end of 1932 Marek left Germany and travelled via London to the United States. Mossel returned"}, {"text": "to the Netherlands. The last ten years from 1935 until 1944. Hans Mossel was considered to be among the most notable clarinetists and saxophonists performing in Europe. In 1935 Mossel was employed by the Dutch broadcasting company the AVRO as a bandleader for the AVRO Dance Orchestra. In 1939 Mossel married Ada Elizabeth van Ollefen. They had two children. Shortly after the beginning of World War II life became very difficult for Hans Mossel. Although married to a non-Jewish woman, he was forced by the Nazis to fill bomb craters at Schiphol airport, which was used as a German military airfield called Fliegerhorst 561 and as a result regularly attacked by the Allied Forces. On 13 December 1943, 199 American planes dropped about 1600 bombs (about 400.000 kilos) on Fliegerhorst 561, after which it could no longer be used by the Germans. On the basis of a trumped-up case of sabotage Hans Mossel was sent on 9 March 1944 to the Westerbork transit camp. On 23 March 1944 Mossel was deported to the Monowitz concentration camp, also called Auschwitz III, which was part of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi German-occupied Poland. Monowitz was set up at the request of"}, {"text": "the chemical factory IG Farben to provide slave labour. The German manufacturer Krupp also used slave labour provided by Monowitz. Hans Mossel was forced to work for IG Farben. The life expectancy for these slave labourers at IG Farben was three to four months. As a result of exhaustion and dysentery Mossel died on 4 August 1944. There is a short biography of Mossel written by Herman Openneer (1935-2017), one of the founders of the Dutch Jazz Archive."}, {"text": "Mateusz Jakub Praszelik (born 26 September 2000) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ekstraklasa club Cracovia. Club career. Legia Warsaw. On 13 March 2019, he made his official debut for Legia against Rak\u00f3w Cz\u0119stochowa, coming on at the 110th minute for Micha\u0142 Kucharczyk in the Polish Cup fixture. On 21 July 2019, he made his Ekstraklasa debut against Pogo\u0144 Szczecin. \u015al\u0105sk Wroc\u0142aw. On 7 July 2020, it was announced that \u015al\u0105sk Wroc\u0142aw had signed Praszelik on a four-year deal. Hellas Verona. On 29 January 2022, Praszelik joined Serie A side Hellas Verona on loan until 31 January 2023, with an option to buy and a conditional obligation to buy. Loans to Cosenza. On 26 January 2023, Praszelik was loaned by Verona to Cosenza in Serie B. On 10 August 2023, he re-joined the second division club on a season-long loan. Loan to S\u00fcdtirol. On 5 August 2024, he was sent on another season-long loan to a second-tier club, this time joining S\u00fcdtirol. Cracovia. On 9 July 2025, Praszelik moved to Ekstraklasa club Cracovia for an undisclosed fee, signing a three-year contract, with an option for a further year. Honours. Legia Warsaw Legia Warsaw II Individual"}, {"text": "Maciej Roso\u0142ek (born 2 September 2001) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ekstraklasa club Piast Gliwice. Career. He started his career in the juniors of Pogo\u0144 Siedlce. Then he moved to Legia Warsaw. In 2021\u201322, he was on loan at Arka Gdynia, which ended on 3 January 2022. In his first match after returning to Legia, on 4 February, he scored the opening goal in a 3\u20131 victory at Zag\u0142\u0119bie Lubin. On 25 July 2024, Roso\u0142ek moved to another Ekstraklasa club Piast Gliwice on a one-year deal, with an option for another year, reuniting with his former Legia manager Aleksandar Vukovi\u0107. On 16 June 2025, Roso\u0142ek joined fellow top-flight club GKS Katowice on a free transfer, signing a two-year contract with an option for a further year. Honours. Legia Warsaw Legia Warsaw II Individual"}, {"text": "Micha\u0142 Karbownik (born 13 March 2001) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a defender for 2. Bundesliga club Hertha BSC. He has made four appearances for the Poland national team at senior level. Club career. Early career. Karbownik was born in the city of Radom, located 62 miles south of Warsaw. He began his football career at Zorza Kowala at the age of 10. In 2012, he joined a local club M\u0142odzik 18 Radom. Legia Warsaw. In 2015, Karbownik joined Legia Warsaw. He joined the Academy, and was soon promoted to Legia's reserve team in 2016. In 2019, he began training with the first team, and on 25 August 2019, he made his debut for Legia in a 3\u20132 away win against \u0141KS \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, providing an assist for Dominik Nagy. He impressed the following game in a 3\u20131 win against Rak\u00f3w Cz\u0119stochowa, where he provided an impressive assist for Jaros\u0142aw Niezgoda. Karbownik quickly established himself as a key player for Legia and became a regular starter. In May 2020, Karbownik extended his contract with Legia until 2024. Karbownik was a key player in Legia's 2019\u201320 Ekstraklasa triumph, and soon gained recognition. In January 2020, he was named by"}, {"text": "UEFA as one of the Best Young Players to look out for in 2020. In February 2020, he was named the 'Discovery of the Year' by Polish football magazine \"Pi\u0142ka No\u017cna\". He won the Ekstraklasa 'Best Youngster of the Season' award for the 2019\u201320 season, and was in the 40-man shortlist for the Golden Boy award. Brighton & Hove Albion. On 6 October 2020, he signed for English club Brighton & Hove Albion for a transfer fee of \u00a33 million. Legia Warsaw (loan). Karbownik was immediately loaned back to former club Legia Warsaw until the end of the season. Under new head coach Czes\u0142aw Michniewicz, Karbownik began to play in the midfield (having previously played at left-back under Aleksandar Vukovi\u0107). On 2 November 2020, Legia confirmed that Karbownik tested positive for COVID-19, which omitted him from Legia's upcoming games. He made a return to the team on 29 November, in a 2\u20132 draw against Piast Gliwice. However, on 8 December, Legia announced that Karbownik was ruled out of the squad for the rest of 2020 due to stress fractures in his tibia, and was recommended to rest to avoid aggravating the injury. Return to Brighton. On 17 January 2021, Brighton"}, {"text": "announced they had recalled Karbownik from his loan at Legia. Karbownik made his debut for Brighton on 10 February 2021, starting and playing the full match in the 1\u20130 away defeat against Leicester City in the FA Cup fifth round. He made his second Brighton appearance and first of the 2021\u201322 season in \"Albions\"' 2\u20130 away victory over Cardiff City in the EFL Cup second round on 24 August 2021. Olympiacos (loan). On 28 August 2021, it was announced that Karbownik would join Greek champions Olympiacos on a season-long loan with an option to buy. He made his debut on 12 September, starting in the 0\u20130 home draw against Atromitos where he was later substituted. Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf (loan). Karbownik signed for Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf of the 2. Bundesliga on 4 August 2022, on a season-long loan. Hertha BSC. On 8 August 2023, German side Hertha BSC announced the signing of Karbownik on a three-year deal. International career. In September 2020, Karbownik was called up to the Polish senior squad for upcoming UEFA Nations League fixtures against the Netherlands and Bosnia and Herzegovina, but did not make an appearance in any of the two fixtures. On 7 October 2020, one day after"}, {"text": "completing his transfer to Brighton and Hove Albion, he debuted in a 5\u20131 victory against Finland, providing an assist for Arkadiusz Milik. In the following two games, Karbownik came on as a substitute for Kamil J\u00f3\u017awiak in a 0\u20130 draw against Italy and 3\u20130 victory against Bosnia and Herzegovina. Honours. Legia Warsaw Legia Warsaw II Olympiacos Individual"}, {"text": "SS \"Fatshan\" may refer to the following ships:"}, {"text": "The 2020\u201321 season was the 111th season of competitive football in Germany. National teams. Germany Olympic football team. Summer Olympics. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the games have been postponed to the summer of 2021, from 22 July to 7 August. However, their official name remains 2020 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Arthur Si-Bita (1948\u20132016) was a Cameroonian film director."}, {"text": "The Fisker Ocean is a battery electric mid-size crossover SUV that was manufactured and marketed by Fisker, which filed for bankruptcy protection in June 2024. Released in 2023, the Ocean was intended to be the first of three models in a lineup of mass-market all-electric vehicles designed by Henrik Fisker. Overview. On October 15, 2020, Fisker announced it would outsource production of the Ocean to Magna Steyr, an Austrian-based contract manufacturer, in order to reduce the complexities and costs related to the building and operating its own factory. Fisker utilised Magna's electric vehicle platform, and gave Magna a stake of up to 6% of Fisker equity. In June 2021, Fisker finalised its manufacturing deal with Magna Steyr, with production on the Fisker Ocean to begin in November 2022 at Magna's facility in Graz, Austria. In November 2021, Fisker and Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) announced a deal for CATL to supply two different battery packs for the Fisker Ocean SUV. The primary high-capacity pack uses a lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide cell chemistry, and the second pack uses CATL's cells based on lithium iron phosphate chemistry. The Fisker Ocean was presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February 2022."}, {"text": "On June 1, 2023, the Ocean Extreme was reported to achieve an EPA range of 360 miles (579 km). It was offered in both front and all-wheel drive. The Ocean has experienced more than 100 loss-of-power incidents as well as other technical problems after delivery, resulting in three National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigations into different issues and multiple recalls. In March 2024, due to the financial difficulties faced by Fisker Inc, production of the Ocean was paused for six weeks in order for the company to \"align inventory levels and progress strategic and financing initiatives.\u201d The company warned that bankruptcy was imminent and could occur within weeks. In June 2024, the company announced it had filed for bankruptcy and was indefinitely suspending production of the Ocean. Pre-orders. In October 2020, Viggo, a newly founded Danish ride-hailing service, ordered 300 Fisker Oceans, to be delivered in late 2022. In March 2021, Fisker announced an agreement with Cr\u00e9dit Agricole Consumer Finance (of Cr\u00e9dit Agricole Group) on the potential supply of Fisker Ocean SUVs to the European banking group. In May 2021, Fisker announced an agreement with UK electric car subscription service Onto to supply the company with up to 700 Fisker"}, {"text": "Ocean SUVs in 2023. In February 2022, the company announced that it has over 30,000 reservations for the Fisker Ocean SUV and over 55,000 by August 2022. At the end of 2022, the Ocean had 63,000 preorders. In February 2023, Fisker had over 65,000 reservations. A report showed that more than 40,000 reservations had been cancelled over time due to Fisker's financial struggles and vehicle problems. Deliveries. Fisker delivered its first Ocean One customer vehicle on May 5, 2023, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Fisker made its first deliveries to customers in the United States with the delivery of 22 Oceans on June 23, 2023. Approximately 11,193 were built before production ceased in March 2024, with the majority slowly delivered to customers before Fisker switched to a dealership model. The remaining 3,231 Fisker Oceans were sold to ride-share company American Lease & Management LLC in a bankruptcy agreement."}, {"text": "Ma Weiming (; born 6 April 1960) is a Chinese electrical engineer. He is a professor of the PLA Naval University of Engineering. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and holds the military rank of rear admiral. He led the development of the electromagnetic catapult system for the Type 003 aircraft carrier and the development of electromagnetic railguns. In 2017, he was awarded the August 1 Medal, the highest honor of the People's Liberation Army. Biography. Ma was born in April 1960 in Yangzhong, Jiangsu, China. He graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of PLA Naval University of Engineering in Wuhan with a BS degree in 1982 and an MS degree in 1987. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University in 1996. Ma is Professor and Director of the Institute of Power Electronic Technique Application at the Naval University of Engineering. In 2001, he was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) at the age of 41, making him one of the youngest academicians of the CAE. He also serves as Vice President of the China Association for Science and Technology. Considered a top naval engineer in China, he"}, {"text": "holds the military rank of rear admiral. Ma was elected an alternate of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012 and the 19th Central Committee in 2017. In November 2019, he was promoted to full member at the Fourth Plenum of the 19th Central Committee. Contributions. Ma has led the development of China's electromagnetic catapult system for launching aircraft from carriers (similar to the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System of the United States), which is more efficient than the older steam catapult system. It is expected to be deployed on the Type 003, the PLA Navy's third aircraft carrier, which would make China the second country to develop the technology, after the US. In January 2019, Chinese media reported that Ma's team had developed electromagnetic railguns capable of firing projectiles at very high velocity, with longer range and higher accuracy than traditional artillery. Military observers expect a modified version of the Type 055 destroyer to be equipped with the railgun, which would make China the first country to deploy the weapon on an actual warship. Ma is also credited for silencing noise of the PLA Navy's submarine's propulsion system thus making them less detectable on sonar. Since"}, {"text": "the late 1980s, Ma has advised and guided more than 400 masters and doctoral students. Two of them, Xiao Fei and Wang Dong, were awarded rare peacetime First-Class Merit Awards by the PLA for their research."}, {"text": "The 2020 Asian Men's Handball Championship was the 19th edition of the championship held under the aegis of Asian Handball Federation in Kuwait City, Kuwait from 16 to 27 January 2020. It acted as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship. Qatar won their fourth consecutive title by defeating South Korea 33\u201321 in the final. Draw. The draw was held on 2 November 2019 in the Millennium Hotel & Convention Centre, Salmiya, Kuwait. Seeding. Teams were seeded according to the AHF COC regulations and rankings of the previous edition of the championship. Teams who had not participate in the previous edition were in Pot 4. Referees. The following nine referee pairs were selected by Asian Handball Federation and International Handball Federation for the championship. Preliminary round. \"All times are local (UTC+3).\" Awards. The all-star team and MVP were announced on 30 January 2020."}, {"text": "The 2005\u201306 season was Rochdale A.F.C.'s 99th in existence and their 32nd consecutive in the fourth tier of the English football league (League Two). Rochdale finished the season in 14th place."}, {"text": "Anak ng Kumander () is a 2008 Filipino action film directed by Jose \"Kaka\" Balagtas, written by Rod Santiago, and starring Manny Pacquiao and Ara Mina. The film was released on January 1, 2008, as part of the 33rd Metro Manila Film Festival. This film marked the final appearance of Palito during his lifetime before his death. Production. Filming ended on November 20, 2007, in San Leonardo, Nueva Ecija."}, {"text": "Lucy Alexandra Newcombe (born 1975) is a female British former field hockey player Hockey career. Newcombe represented England and won a silver medal, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. Personal life. Newcombe served in the Royal Air Force for 17 years and retired with the rank of Wing commander; she was commissioned in 1996."}, {"text": "MCRX is an acronym used for the musical group My Chemical Romance for the 2016 reissue album \"The Black Parade/Living with Ghosts\". MCRX may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Carlos Correa (born Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan activist and director of the NGO Espacio P\u00fablico. Early life. Correa says he learned to read newspapers before entering school because his father was an avid reader. From an early age, he developed interest in newspapers, magazines and literature. In high school, Carlos was an active leader in student government and in social work with children. Career. Correa moved to Caracas to study social communication at the Andr\u00e9s Bello Catholic University. While at the university, Carlos began working with the Jesuit radio project Fe y Alegr\u00eda, helping the largest network of public schools in poor areas of Venezuela. After thirteen years, he became the director of the Fe y Alegr\u00eda network. During this time, he prepared community reporters, promoted community participation in the media and coordinated educational programs at the Fe y Alegr\u00eda Radio Institute. Between 2001 and 2006, he worked at PROVEA and became its general coordinator. Correa then moved into journalism and became a university professor, but also remained in the public service space, serving as director of the NGO Espacio P\u00fablico, which aims to promote and defend human rights, especially freedom of expression, the right to information"}, {"text": "and social responsibility in social media. As a result of his work, Correa has been victim to pressuring, harassment and threats. Espacio P\u00fablico and Carlos Correa have participated annually in at least four international events, in addition to 30 hearings before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)."}, {"text": "Jacqueline 'Jackie' Empson (born 1974) is a female British former field hockey player. Hockey career. Empson represented England and won a silver medal, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur."}, {"text": "John Gibbs was an Archdeacon of Down from 1869 until his death. Gibbs was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1851. He served curacies at Bushmills and Shankhill. He was Rector of Hillsborough from 1869 until his death on 29 May 1890."}, {"text": "Venezuelan rum () is a protected designation of origin, granted by the SAPI since 2003, to the rum brands of Venezuela that meet certain quality and origin requirements. Requirements of designation. The Venezuelan rum designation forbids the alteration of the mixture of rum by use of substances that provide artificial color, flavor or aroma. These requirements also include the rum having, in the entirety of its components, a minimum of two years spent aging in white oak barrels and at least 40% anhydrous alcohol, and that none of the raw materials are mixed with molasses nor alcohol from other countries This denomination allows to differentiate Venezuelan rums from those of the rest of the world. List of brands. The rum brands with this designation are:"}, {"text": "Jonah Gokova is a Zimbabwe activist for the causes of feminism, preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS, LGBT rights, and African debt relief. In 2000, he served as the Chair for the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development, and was awarded the African Prize for Leadership in 2001. He currently serves as the Chairperson on the National Coordinating Committee for Padare, a non-profit dedicated to gender equality. His work counter's gender violence by promoting men's sensitivity to women, and challenging stereotypical notions of male masculinity and dominance over women."}, {"text": "Jean-Marie Teno (born 14 May 1954) is a Cameroonian film director and filmmaker, \"one of Africa's most prolific filmmakers\". His films address censorship, human rights violations, globalization, and the effects of colonialism. Teno has made films in many different forms but favors making documentaries. In an interview when asked about his favor style of film to make he responded, \"documentary because when you do fiction, people think it's not true. When it's the documentary, they are embarrassed, embarrassed\". Life. Teno was born in 1954 in Famleng in Bandjoun. He studied audiovisual communication at the University of Valenciennes and worked as a film critic for \"Bwana Magazine\" and as editor-in-chief at France 3. In 1983, he directed his first short documentary \"Schubbah\" after receiving encouragement from Souleymane Ciss\u00e9, a famous African director. In 1992 he made his documentary \"Africa, I will pluck you\" on the effects of colonialism and neocolonialism in Cameroon. In 1996, he made \"Clando\", which won the Audience Award at the 6th African Film Festival in Milan, Italy. Jean-Marie Teno is also a producer of his own films with Les Films du Raphia. In 2007-2008, he was a Visiting Artist at Copeland Fellow at Amherst College, and in"}, {"text": "2009-2010 he was Visiting Professor at Hampshire College, Massachusetts. He lives between France, Cameroon and the United States. Film reception. Despite receiving high praise from the internationally community, Teno's films were banned from being aired in Cameroon. Teno was reportedly told in a meeting with the Director of Television of Cameroon that his films would never be broadcast. Teno received much appreciation throughout his career for telling African history from an African perspective. In part due the success of directors like Teno, more universities began offering African film studies classes and looking at alternative perspectives of history. Awards. Clando Head in the clouds Africa, I'll pluck you ... Water of misery Yellow fever taximan"}, {"text": "Shirley Machaba is a South African chartered accountant. She is the first black woman to be appointed Chief Executive Officer for PwC Southern Africa, an accounting firm in South Africa. Early years. Machaba was born in Jabavu in Soweto, where she lived with her grandmother and siblings. Education. She had her primary education and secondary education at Jabavu Primary School and Vhulaudzi Secondary School in Tshitavha in Venda respectively. She later furthered at the University of Venda, where she graduated with a bachelor of commerce degree in accounting. She holds a postgraduate diploma in auditing & accounting from the University of South Africa. She holds two additional diplomas in Integrated Reporting from the University of Pretoria and Corporate Governance from Duke University. Career. After acquiring her degree, she worked part time as a junior internal auditor at the Auditor-General\u2019s office and a lecturer at the University of Venda. In May 2019, she was appointed Chief Executive Officer for PwC Southern Africa, making her the first black African woman to occupy such position. Prior to that, spent nearly a decade working at the Auditor-General's office occupying a variety of positions, including Assistant Auditor, Senior Auditor, Accountant and Performance Audit Manager. She"}, {"text": "also worked at the Department of Justice in South Africa for nearly half a decade. There, she became the Head of the Internal Auditing unit by the time she left the department in 2004. In 2005 she joined PwC. Machaba was president of the Institute of Internal Auditors of South Africa for 2011 - 2014, and subsequently the Chairman of the Institute Relations Committee of the Institute of Internal Auditors. Awards. Some of the awards she has won and been nominated for include:"}, {"text": "Vilmos T\u00e1trai (7 October 1912 \u2013 2 February 1999) was a Hungarian classical violinist and the founder of the T\u00e1trai Quartet. Life. T\u00e1trai was born in Kispest, now 19th district of Budapest. A professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, he founded the T\u00e1trai Quartet in 1946 with members of the Budapest orchestra. The quartet was then formed by T\u00e1trai on the first violin, Mih\u00e1ly Sz\u0171cs on the second violin, J\u00f3zsef Iv\u00e1nyi at the viola and Vera D\u00e9nes \u2013 replaced in 1951 by Ede Banda \u2013 on the cello. In 1948, the quartet won the Bart\u00f3k String Quartet Competition. Shortly after this award, T\u00e1trai became concertmaster of the Hungarian National Philharmonic, a position he held until 1982, when he founded the Hungarian Chamber Orchestra in 1957, of which he was the leader, although the ensemble did not have a conductor. His autobiography was published posthumously in 2001. In 2012, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, a month-long exhibition on his life and work took place at the M\u00fcpa Budapest. T\u00e1trai had been awarded the Kossuth Prize by the Hungarian government in 1958."}, {"text": "Anjoman-e Safakhaneh was situated in Isfahan's Julfa area (Isfahan Armenian neighborhood) located south of Isfahan. This location has been the site of religious debate. It was founded by Agha Najafi Esfahani and Haj Aqa Nourollah Najafi Isfahani in 1902. The Christian missionaries and representatives of the Muslims used to discuss there. This place was one of the first centers of conversation between religions and cultures. Anjoman-e Safakhaneh is considered by some to be one of the first structured places designed for the discussion of religion. Haj Agha Nurollah Najafi, a prominent and influential cleric of Isfahan's constitution ordered its construction in the years before the Persian Constitutional Revolution in the Jolfa neighborhood of Isfahan to counter Christian propaganda against Islam at that time. Anjoman-e Safakhaneh was a safe place for scientific, rational, and religious debate. It offered discussion without insult. History. Christian missionaries who had traveled from Europe to India learned Persian, and published books against Islam came to Isfahan and began a struggle against Islam. Their leader was called Tizdal. He took up residence in the Jolfa neighborhood of Isfahan and invited scholars of Isfahan to debate. He published a book on the rejection of Islam called \"Janabi al-Islam\"."}, {"text": "Agha Najafi Esfahani and Haj Aqa Nourollah tried to argue with them. In cooperation with Roknolmolk Shirazi, Dai-al-Islam was appointed to discuss them. While electing one person to debate Christianity's ideas and missionaries, Isfahan scholars, led by Agha Najafi Isfahani and Haj Agha Nourollah, formed a community called the Safakhaneh association in the Jolfa neighborhood. \"Al-Islam\" magazine. The first issue of \"Al-Islam\" was published three months after the establishment of the Anjoman-e Safakhaneh, in September 1903. The magazine published the work of the Anjoman-e Safakhaneh. The magazine described the debate between Shia scholars and Christian missionaries. It was widely used by Muslim thinkers to confront Christianity and other religions. This magazine was published by the editor of \"Mohammad Ali Da'i al-Islam\", and its publication was sent to other cities and countries such as Egypt, India, Hejaz and Ottoman Empire, even to Muslims living in Europe. They used it to prove the power of Islamic reasoning and rationality. The publication of \"Al-Islam\" in the second decade in Persian and Urdu created a new wave of coexistence and rational dialogue between Islam and other religions. Anjoman-e Safakhaneh. The significance of the Safakhaneh association stems from the fact that it was formed to"}, {"text": "confront the negative propaganda from Tizdal and another group of Christian preachers. Ayatollah Najafi preferred to treat them with respect and courtesy."}, {"text": "Dominik Budzy\u0144ski (born 2 June 1992) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for and captains IV liga club Barycz Su\u0142\u00f3w. Club career. On 14 August 2020, he signed a one-year contract with Sandecja Nowy S\u0105cz. Honours. Barycz Su\u0142\u00f3w"}, {"text": "The 1976 New Mexico Lobos football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Mexico in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1976 NCAA Division I football season. In their third season under head coach Bill Mondt, the Lobos compiled a 4\u20137 record (3\u20134 against WAC opponents) and were outscored by a total of 235 to 229. Robin Cole and Dave Green were the team captains. The team's statistical leaders included Noel Mazzone with 1,427 passing yards, Mike Williams with 1,240 rushing yards and 66 points scored, Preston Dennard with 783 receiving yards."}, {"text": "Kamil Rozmus (born 13 January 1994) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for III liga club Avia \u015awidnik. Honours. Avia \u015awidnik"}, {"text": "is the first album by Keyakizaka46. It was released on July 19, 2017."}, {"text": "Pippa Hackett (born 8 January 1974) is an Irish Green Party politician who served as a Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine from June 2020 to January 2025. She was one of three Ministers of State in attendance at cabinet, but without a vote. She was a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from November 2019 to January 2025. Political career. Hackett joined the Green Party in around 2016, upon the recommendation of a neighbour of hers, Christopher Fettes, the party founder. At the 2019 local elections, she was elected to Offaly County Council for the Edenderry Area. She was elected unopposed, as a Senator for the Agricultural Panel in a by-election on 1 November 2019. The vacancy was caused by the election of Senator Grace O'Sullivan to the European Parliament in May 2019. She was an unsuccessful Green party candidate for the Laois\u2013Offaly constituency at the 2020 general election, coming sixth in the five-seat constituency, with a total of 4,255 votes in the final count. At the 2020 Seanad election on 30 March, she was re-elected to the Agricultural Panel. On the formation of a new government on 27 June 2020 between Fianna F\u00e1il,"}, {"text": "Fine Gael and the Green Party, she was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with responsibility for Land Use and Biodiversity. She became the first senator to be appointed as a Minister of State and is one of three Ministers of State attending cabinet, a position commonly known as a super junior minister. On 24 March 2021, Hackett was one of three Green Party senators to table a motion of no confidence against party chairperson Hazel Chu, after Chu announced her candidacy in a Seanad by-election as an Independent. On 19 June 2024, Hackett announced her candidacy in the Green Party leadership election following the resignation of Eamon Ryan. A focal point of her campaign was improving the party's reputation among rural voters, claiming the party had an \"image problem\". She received several high profile endorsements, including from Brian Leddin, Ossian Smyth and Steven Matthews. She was defeated by Roderic O'Gorman who received 984 votes to her 912 votes. She was an unsuccessful candidate for the Offaly constituency at the 2024 general election. Early life and education. Hackett was born in Galway, but is a native of Ballindine, County Mayo. During her"}, {"text": "time in Britain, she studied Equine Science at Aberystwyth University and Agriculture at the University of Essex. Back in Ireland, she studied a Postgraduate Diploma in Equine Science at University College Dublin in 1996, and gained her PhD in Sports Biomechanics at the University of Limerick. Personal life. Hackett lives on a farm in County Offaly near Geashill with her husband Mark, whom she met at university in Essex, and their four children. Her husband was co-opted to take her seat on Offaly County Council. Her son, Charlie, ran unsuccessfully in the 2024 local elections."}, {"text": "Adam Ratajczyk (born 12 June 2002) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a left midfielder for Ekstraklasa club Arka Gdynia. Club career. On 2 October 2020, he signed a four-year contract with Zag\u0142\u0119bie Lubin. On 2 September 2022, Ratajczyk joined another Ekstraklasa club Stal Mielec on a season-long loan. Having spent the 2023\u201324 campaign playing for Zag\u0142\u0119bie's reserve team, Ratajczyk moved to I liga club Arka Gdynia after signing a two-year deal on 18 June 2024. Honours. \u0141KS \u0141\u00f3d\u017a II Zag\u0142\u0119bie Lubin II Arka Gdynia"}, {"text": "A bipolar junction transistor is a type of transistor that uses both electrons and holes as charge carriers. BJT may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Enak Ferlemann (born 12 July 1963) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2002. Early life and education. Ferlemann was born 1963 in the West German town of Bad Rothenfelde and studied jurisprudence without gaining a degree. Political career. Ferlemann entered the CDU in 1979 and became chairman of the county party organisation in Cuxhaven in 1995. Ferlemann has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2002 elections, representing the Cuxhaven \u2013 Stade II constituency. In parliament, he served on the Committee on Transport, where he focused on the construction of Bundesautobahn 26 and the expansion of Bundesautobahn 20. From 2005 until 2009, he chaired the Sub-Committee on Railway Infrastructure. In the negotiations to form a coalition government of the Christian Democrats and the FDP following the 2009 federal elections, Ferlemann was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on transport policy, led by Hans-Peter Friedrich and Patrick D\u00f6ring. Since the 2009 elections, Ferlemann has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure under the leadership of successive ministers Peter Ramsauer (2009-2013), Alexander Dobrindt (2013-2017) and"}, {"text": "Andreas Scheuer (since 2018) in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. In this capacity, he also served as the Federal Commissioner for Rail Transport from 2018 until 2021. In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Ferlemann was part of the working group on transport and infrastructure, led by Michael Kretschmer, Alexander Dobrindt and S\u00f6ren Bartol. In June 2024, Ferlemann announced, that he is not seeking re-election for Bundestag."}, {"text": "Piotr Pyrdo\u0142 (born 27 April 1999) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a winger. Career. Club career. Pyrdo\u0142 started his career with \u0141KS \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. On 10 January 2020 Legia Warsaw confirmed that Pyrdo\u0142 had joined the club on a deal until June 2022 with an option for one further year. He took the shirt number 31. On 26 August 2020 he was transferred to Wis\u0142a P\u0142ock. Wis\u0142a loaned him first to Stomil Olsztyn in 2021. On 3 February 2022, Pyrdo\u0142 left Wis\u0142a to join I liga side Skra Cz\u0119stochowa. On 14 July 2023, he joined II liga outfit Pogo\u0144 Siedlce on a one-year deal, with an option for another year. Personal life. His father Marcin was also a professional footballer; he made one Ekstraklasa appearance for \u0141KS, before working for their academy as a coach. Honours. Legia Warsaw Pogo\u0144 Siedlce"}, {"text": "The 2019 Longford Senior Football Championship is the 103rd running of the Longford GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Longford, Ireland since the first County Championship was held in 1890 (102 completed since 1890, 1 started but not completed in 1891). The 2019 tournament consisted of 11 teams, with the winner going on to represent Longford in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage. Mullinalaghta St. Columba's were the defending champions after they defeated Abbeylara after in the previous year's final replay. This year was Rathcline's return to the top-flight for the first time since the 2016 season after claiming the 2018 Longford I.F.C. title. Interestingly the club also won the I.F.C. title in 2017 however they opted to stay in the middle grade for 2018 stating that \"While we won the Intermediate Championship, it was decided to remain in the Intermediate championship for 2018 to allow our very young side develop further before embarking on Senior Championship\". On 6 October 2019 Killoe Young Emmets claimed their 12th Senior Football Championship title and their first since 2015 when defeating Longford"}, {"text": "Slashers 0-12 to 0-11 in an exciting and close final at Pearse Park. Rathcline and St. Mary's Granard were supposed to be relegated to the I.F.C. for 2020, which should have ended their respective seven and one year tenures in the top-flight of Longford club football. However, due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the desire to maintain a 12 team S.F.C. the two clubs were given a reprieve. Team Changes. The following teams have changed division since the 2018 championship season. To S.F.C.. Promoted from 2018 I.F.C. From S.F.C.. Relegated to 2019 I.F.C. Group stage. Groups A and B each consisted of 4 teams with 3 teams from each group progressing to the quarter-finals and last year's finalists being kept apart. Group C consisted of 3 teams, with 2 teams proceeding to the quarter-finals. The bottom finishers in each group were to play off to decide relegation to the 2019 I.F.C. Group A. Round 1: Round 2: Round 3: Group B. Round 1: Round 2: Round 3: Group C. Round 1: Round 2: Round 3: Relegation playoff. The bottom placed teams from Groups A, B and C all compete in a Relegation Playoff in a round-robin format."}, {"text": "The two lowest ranked teams after three matches will be relegated to the 2020 I.F.C. Game 1: Game 2: Game 3: Knockout stage. The top 8 teams from the league stages qualify for the quarter-finals."}, {"text": "Micha\u0142 Tr\u0105bka (born 22 April 1997) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for I liga club Wieczysta Krak\u00f3w. Career. In 2018, he signed for Stal Stalowa Wola. As a \u0141KS \u0141\u00f3d\u017a footballer, he played 30 games in the Poland top-tier Ekstraklasa, and scored his only goal of the season in the match against Rak\u00f3w Cz\u0119stochowa. On 29 January 2024, Tr\u0105bka completed a move from Stal Mielec to the III liga side Wieczysta Krak\u00f3w, signing a two-and-a-half-year deal. Honours. \u0141KS \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Wieczysta Krak\u00f3w"}, {"text": "Sung Yoo-bin (born 25 July 2000) is a South Korean actor."}, {"text": "Neill Jordaan is a South African cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 31 October 2019, for KwaZulu-Natal in the 2019\u201320 CSA 3-Day Provincial Cup. He made his List A debut on 3 November 2019, for KwaZulu-Natal in the 2019\u201320 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge."}, {"text": "Arnould III, Count of Gu\u00eenes ( 1222\u20131283) was a French nobleman. He was castellan of Bourbourg, lord of Ardres, Tourcoing and Aalst. Biography. Arnould was the eldest son of Baldwin III, Count of Gu\u00eenes and Mahaut de Fiennes. He succeeded his father by January 1245. He went to England to pay homage to Henry III of England, for lands held in England, he was arrested by Roger Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, in retaliation for when Arnould had arrested Bigod in 1245. Louis IX of France meditated his release, with an agreement that Arnould will remove the tolls he had installed. Arnould provided homage to Robert I, Count of Artois. He supported Theobald II, Count of Bar as part of Guy, Count of Flanders succession campaign against William II of Holland. Captured during the battle of Westkapelle on 4 July 1253, Arnould was forced to pay a large ransom for his release. He was forced to sell his castle of Montoire to the Count of Artois in May 1281 and then the County of Gu\u00eenes to Philip III of France in February 1283 for 3,000 livres and a life annuity of 1,000 livres. Arnould died shortly afterwards in 1283. The County"}, {"text": "of Gu\u00eenes was returned to his eldest son Baldwin in 1295. Marriage and issue. Arnould married Alix, daughter of Enguerrand III de Coucy and Marie de Montmirail, dame of Oisy. They are known to have had the following issue:"}, {"text": "Marko Lapinkoski (born October 2, 1969) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey forward. Lapinkoski played 114 regular season games in the SM-liiga for Oulun K\u00e4rp\u00e4t and Tappara. He also had a two season stint in France for Anglet Hormadi \u00c9lite. Lapinkoski played in the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships with Finland in 1988, where he won a bronze medal, and 1989."}, {"text": "Laurie Nunn (born May 1986) is an English screenwriter and playwright. She is best known for creating the Netflix series \"Sex Education\" (2019\u20132023). Early life. Nunn was born in London in May 1986, the daughter of Australian actress Sharon and English theatre director Trevor Nunn. Her parents divorced in 1991. She has a sister, an older from her father's previous marriage to actress Janet Suzman, and a younger named Ellie and younger from her father's later marriage to actress Imogen Stubbs. Ellie is an actress. At the age of 14, Nunn moved to Australia to live with her mother. She earned a BA in Film and Television from Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts in 2007, then returned to England and earned an MA in Screenwriting at the National Film and Television School in 2012. Career. Nunn's first full play, \"King Brown\" (2017), earned her a place on the shortlist for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. She went on to create the Netflix comedy-drama series \"Sex Education\" (2019\u20132023)."}, {"text": "Rudolf von G\u00fcttingen (died 9 September 1226 in Rome) was Abbot of Saint Gall from 1220 and Bishop of Chur from 1224 until his death. He is documented for the first time in 1208. Rudolf descended from a noble family from the Canton of Thurgau. He had been a monk since 1208, became provost in 1211, dean and cellarar in 1219 and Abbot of Saint Gall in 1220. After the death of Arnold von Matsch, the Bishop of Chur, the cathedral chapter held a double election. However, the two people elected, Heinrich von Rialt and Albert von G\u00fcttingen, a brother of Rudolf's, already died in 1223, before the Pope had made a decision. Rudolf became Bishop of Chur not later than 1224. Pope Honorius III permitted him on 23 February 1224 to stay as Abbot of Saint Gall for three more years. Rudolf's extravagant lifestyle led to the indebtedness of the abbey and the \"Hochstift\". In 1226, he accompanied Emperor Frederick II to Italy where he died of a fever in Rome. He was entombed in the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran."}, {"text": "John Stearns (1770 \u2013 1848) was an American physician that served as President of the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) from 1817 to 1820 and was the founding President of the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) in 1847. Education and early career. John Stearns was born in 1770 to a physician father. He attended Yale College for his undergraduate studies before working as a county doctor's apprentice. He attended the University of Pennsylvania for his medical education. Upon graduating, he moved to the town of Waterford, New York, in 1793, providing rural medicine to Saratoga County's Dutch settlers. During his early career, he reported on immigrants' usage of ergot fungi to stimulate uterine contractions during childbirth, leading to widespread adoption of the practice. He also provided epidemiological surveillance of croup and influenza in Saratoga County. For this work, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Medicine by the New York State Board of Regents. His advocacy for the scientific method over empirical evidence led to county-level medical societies for sharing recent medical research and discoveries. When these groups merged into the Medical Society of the State of New York in 1807, Sterns served as its"}, {"text": "founding secretary until 1814. After representing the Eastern District in the New York State Senate from 1809 to 1813 as a member of the Federalist Party, Sterns' former patients, prominent New York politicians DeWitt Clinton and Daniel D. Tompkins, convinced him to move his practice from Albany, New York, to New York City. Presidencies of MSSNY and NYAM. While serving as President of the Medical Society of the State of New York, Stearns made a presentation to the New York State Legislature in 1820 on the mind's effect on bodily diseases. This medical analysis of the mind\u2013body problem recognized that a patient's mental emotions can impact their symptoms after contracting an infectious pathogen, while belief in one's ability to recovery can act as a placebo for faster recovery. In his conclusion, Stearns also reported on the society's support of the US Pharmacopeia, which was founded that year to provide a compendium of all drugs being used in American medicine and standards to confirm their purity. Stearns' epidemiological studies of 1819-1822 yellow fever epidemic highlighted that New York City's poorest residents were being exposed to unsanitary conditions that allowed the disease to spread, threatening the overall population. This outlook spurred the"}, {"text": "formation of the New York Academy of Medicine, which continues to focus on public health reform. His 1847 opening address as president of the newly created organization focused on combating quackery in the US healthcare system, such as the increasingly popular pseudoscience of homeopathy, founded by Samuel Hahnemann in 1807. Since 1992, the New York Academy of Medicine has annually awarded the John Stearns Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Clinical Practice in recognition of his service."}, {"text": "Airway basal cells are found deep in the respiratory epithelium, attached to, and lining the basement membrane. Basal cells are the stem cells or progenitors of the airway epithelium and can differentiate to replenish all of the epithelial cells including the ciliated cells, and secretory goblet cells. This repairs the protective functions of the epithelial barrier. Basal cells are cuboidal with a large nucleus, few organelles, and scattered microvilli. Basal cells are the first cells to be affected by exposure to cigarette smoke. Their disorganisation is seen to be responsible for the major airway changes that are characteristic of COPD. Structure. Basal cells are cuboidal, with a large nucleus, few organelles, and scattered microvilli. Basal cells are attached to, and line the basement membrane. The numbers of basal cells are highest in the large airways and become increasingly decreased in the smaller airways. Their percentage in the trachea is 34%, in the large bronchi 27%, and 10% in the larger of the bronchioles. Basal cells can express a number of different receptors, notably EGFR. Basal cell derived precursors are found as intermediate cells (also known as parabasal, or indetermined cells) between the basal cells and the differentiated cells. Function. Basal"}, {"text": "cells are the stem cells, or progenitors of all the cells in the respiratory epithelium. The ciliated cells and secretory cells that form the epithelial barrier, and function in mucociliary clearance, are terminally differentiated meaning that they cannot self-renew. These cells are vulnerable to damage and the basal cells can replace damaged cells by differentiation. Typically the airway epithelium turns over fairly slowly with the basal cells in a quiescent state, and just a few intermediate cells being seen. In response to damage to the differentiated cells, or to stress caused by smoking, the basal cells become active, proliferate, and form clonal patches, and the numbers of intermediate cells increase. When activated the basal cells acquire damage-associated phenotypes to enable differentiation to the particular cell type that has been damaged. The intermediate cells differentiate under the control of FOXJ1 into ciliated cells; and into secretory cells under the control of Notch signalling, and the transcription factors SPDEF and FOXA3. The regeneration of cells can be normal or in the case of smokers the regeneration may be of altered histologic phenotypes. Basal cells can also provide a defence function upregulating innate immune mediators such as RNase7, an antimicrobial protein. RNase7, mediates"}, {"text": "tissue repair, and the production of inflammatory cytokines induced either by tobacco smoke, or by microbial pattern recognition. This is seen as a possible defence response of basal cells to injury that would be associated with microbial attack. The response requires signalling via EGFR, which is highly expressed in basal cells. Other innate immune mediators include beta-defensin 2, and lipocalin-2; pro-inflammatory cytokines, interleukins IL6, and IL8; and chemokine CCL20. Dysfunction. Following injury to airway epithelium, the basal cells can become infected by the respiratory syncytial virus. When this happens the basal cell can be skewed to favour the differentiation of mucus-producing (secretory goblet cells) over that of ciliated cells. The normal ratio of ciliated cells to secretory cells is 10 to 1, and this is highly controlled throughout most of the respiratory tree. When this ratio is upset in this way, the effect is of generating the mucus hyperplasia associated with a number of respiratory diseases, due to the insufficient ciliary action needed for mucociliary clearance. The release of antimicrobials may occur as a second-line defence with cell differentiation. Disruption of the tight-junction barrier is a common feature of asthma, and of smoking-related respiratory diseases. The persistent activation of the"}, {"text": "innate immune response in basal cells, may contribute to the characteristic chronic inflammation seen in these disorders. Clinical significance. The hyperplasia of airway basal cells is the earliest indication of smoking-related abnormality in the lung. This is followed by shortened cilia, loss of ciliated cells, mucous cell hyperplasia, and loss of cell junctions giving a leaky epithelial barrier. With persistent stress from smoking, the basal cells become disarranged and lose their regenerative ability needed to repair the barrier. The disorganised basal cells are seen to be responsible for the major airway changes that are characteristic of COPD, and with continued stress can undergo a malignant transformation. Studies have shown that the initial development of emphysema is centred on the early changes in the airway epithelium of the small airways. Basal cells become further deranged in a smoker\u2019s transition to clinically defined COPD. Basal cell dysfunction causes the overproduction and secretion of mucus, and decreased mucus clearance that leads to the characteristic features of mucus hypersecretion, and productive cough of chronic bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Mucus accumulation in COPD influences lung function, quality of life, exacerbations, hospital stays, and mortality, for the worse. In response to a viral"}, {"text": "infection the basal cells may be activated to produce an increased production of Interleukin 33 and mucins, and these activated cells may become a long-lived population that promote chronic inflammation; as can influence the occurrence of an exacerbation of COPD."}, {"text": "Ormr Snorrason (\u20131403) was an Icelander who worked for the Norwegian king as sheriff, lawman and governor. Ormr inherited Skar\u00f0, one of the largest estates in Iceland, after the death of his father in 1332. Ormr is associated with three important Icelandic manuscripts written at the Helgafell monastery: Codex Scardensis, which he donated to the church at Skar\u00f0 in 1401; Skar\u00f0sb\u00f3k (AM 350 fol) which contains the legal code J\u00f3nsb\u00f3k; and Ormsb\u00f3k, a now lost collection of chivalric sagas."}, {"text": "The 2010 Pan American Youth Championship was the first edition of the Pan American Youth Championship, an international field hockey competition held in Hermosillo, Mexico. The girls' field hockey tournament was help from 13 \u2013 20 March 2010. The tournament also served as a direct qualifier for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, with the winner qualifying."}, {"text": "The 1926\u201327 NCAA championships were contested by the NCAA during the 1926\u201327 collegiate academic school year, the NCAA's sixth season of championships, to determine the team and individual national champions of its two sponsored sports. Before the introduction of the separate University Division and College Division before the 1955\u201356 school year, a single national championship was conducted for each sport. Women's sports were not added until 1981\u201382."}, {"text": "The 1995 City of Lincoln Council election took place on 4 May 1995. This was on the same day as other local elections. One third of the council was up for election: the seats of which were last contested in 1991. The Labour Party retained control of the council. Overall results. All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 1991 election."}, {"text": "Indrajit Tangi ( \u2013 2 November 2019) was an Indian teacher and politician belonging to the Communist Party of India. He was a legislator of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. Biography. Tangi was a primary school teacher and politician. He was elected as a legislator of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Indpur in 2006. He died on 2 November 2019 at the age of 75."}, {"text": "Deadstar 2 is the debut studio album by American rapper Smokepurpp. It was released on December 13, 2019, by Alamo Records and Interscope Records. The album features guest appearances from frequent collaborator Lil Pump, as well as Denzel Curry, Ty Dolla Sign, Lil Skies, Moneybagg Yo and Trippie Redd. Smokepurpp describes it as his \"best body of work.\" Background. Smokepurpp released his debut commercial mixtape \"Deadstar\" in September 2017. He announced its sequel \"Deadstar 2\" in mid-2018. The initial track listing showed Lil Pump and Gunna as featured artists. The album was delayed and sometimes even scrapped multiple times, due to being leaked online before its release. A track that was originally set to be on the album has also leaked, titled \"No Problem\" and features Kanye West. In an interview, Smokepurpp revealed he had to omit the track from the record due to Kanye West giving up on putting out secular music. Artwork. Smokepurpp revealed the album's cover art on November 3, 2019. It is inspired by a photograph of grunge icon Kurt Cobain, taken two months before his death. Similarly, the album's prequel, \"Deadstar\" also references a rock artist on its cover artwork, GG Allin, particularly an image"}, {"text": "of his open casket. Track listing. Notes"}, {"text": "Kashmira Pardeshi is an Indian actress who primarily works in Tamil and Telugu language films. She made her acting debut with the Telugu film \"Nartanasala\" (2018), and Tamil with \"Sivappu Manjal Pachai\" (2019), and in Hindi with \"Mission Mangal\" (2019). She made her digital streaming debut through Hindi series, \"The Freelancer\" (2023). Personal life. Pardeshi hails from a Marathi family. She went to school at St. Anne's School in Pune and went to college at Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce. She studied fashion design at National Institute of Fashion Technology in Mumbai. Career. Pardeshi has acted in several commercials before she made her film debut with a Telugu film \"Nartanasala\" (2018), opposite Naga Shaurya. The film was a decent at the box-office, but her performance in it earned her a role in the Hindi film \"Mission Mangal\" (2019), where she was cast as Vidya Balan and Sanjay Kapoor's daughter. The film was a major commercial success at the box-office. And same year She made her Marathi film debut with Ravi Jadhav's \"Rampaat\". Director Sasi came across her advertisements and her performance in \"Nartanasala\" and signed her up for the Tamil film \"Sivappu Manjai Pachai,\" opposite G.V. Prakash Kumar. Pardeshi hired"}, {"text": "a Tamil tutor to help her prepare for the role. The film was an average hit at the box-office. Her only release on 2021 was \"Rider\", marking her debut in Kannada cinema, opposite Nikhil Kumar. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and audience, and was a decent hit at the box-office. In 2022, her first release was \"Anbarivu\", opposite Hip Hop Tamizha. The film opt a theatrical release, and released directly via Disney+ Hotstar, with receiving mixed to positive reviews from critics\". Anbarivu\" was declared as a commercially successful film on OTT platform. Her last release was \"Varalaru Mukkiyam\", opposite Jiiva. The film received negative reviews from critics and audience, but Pardeshi's performance as a \"Malayali girl\" was appreciated. The film was a flop at the box-office. In 2023, her first release was \"Vasantha Mullai\", opposite Bobby Simha, the film received poor reviews from critics and audience, and was a box-office bomb. Her second release was a Telugu film, \"Vinaro Bhagyamu Vishnu Katha,\" opposite Kiran Abbavaram. The film received mixed reviews from critics and audience alike upon its released, and was successful at the box-office. Later she made her digital streaming debut with a Hindi language series \"The"}, {"text": "Freelancer\", which was premiered on Disney+ Hotstar. The series received highly positive reviews from critics, and she gets praises for her performance in the series. Her next release was \"Paramporul\", alongside Amitash Pradhan and Sarath Kumar, the film received general reviews from critics and audience, the film was an average grosser at the box-office. In 2024, her first release was a Tamil film \"PT Sir\", opposite Hip Hop Adhi, marking her second collobration with him after \"Anbarivu\" (2022). The film received mixed reviews from critics and audiences and was a box-office success."}, {"text": "The 1927\u201328 NCAA championships were contested by the NCAA during the 1927\u201328 collegiate academic school year, the NCAA's seventh season of championships, to determine the team and individual national champions of its three sponsored sports. Wrestling was introduced as the NCAA's third officially-sponsored sport this season. Before the introduction of the separate University Division and College Division before the 1955\u201356 school year, a single national championship was conducted for each sport. Women's sports were not added until 1981\u201382."}, {"text": "Sharh-e Esm () (\"meaning: Name Description\") is the biography of the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei. The book is written by Hedayatollah Behboudi (), and has been translated in some other languages. It was published by the institute of \"Motaale\u2019at wa Pazjuheshhayeh Siyasi\" (Political Studies and Research Institute). \"Sharh-e Esm\" is about biography-related issues of Seyyed Ali Khamenei\u2014since 1939 to 1979\u2014consisting of matters such as his paternal and maternal ancestors (among his father, Seyyed Jawad Khamenei), and so forth. At the first time, this book was simultaneously unveiled with the holding of \u201cInternational fair of Tehran book\u201d, but its distribution was stopped due to being some historical mistakes; later on, it was distributed after fixing its difficulties. In regards to choosing the name of the book Sharh-e Esm (\"Name Description\"), its writer (Hedayatollah Behboudi) mentions that: According to an expression in the science of logic: if we cannot understand the essence of a truth, we will \"Sharh\" (describe) it; and that's the reason for choosing such name for the book."}, {"text": "Chixtape 5 is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer and rapper Tory Lanez. It was released on November 15, 2019, through Mad Love and Interscope Records. This is the fifth instalment of the Chixtape series, which is inspired by and contains samples of \"2000s-era R&B hits\". The production on the album was mostly handled by Tory Lanez and Play Picasso. The album also includes guest appearances by Jagged Edge, T-Pain, Chris Brown, The-Dream, M\u00fda, Ashanti, Trey Songz, Lil Wayne, Fabolous and more. \"Chixtape 5\" was preceded by the single \"Jerry Sprunger\" featuring T-Pain. The album received generally positive reviews from music critics and was a commercial success. It debuted at number two on the US \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, earning 83,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. In November 2021, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Background. \"Chixtape 5\" is the first of the series in which it was released as an album on streaming platforms. The album cleared all of the samples and includes the original artist featured on the song. In an interview with \"Billboard\", Tory Lanez said \"Everything is 2000s-inspired. Everything"}, {"text": "is inspired by the times when things were golden for us. I think all those pieces and everything that we've come out with has been all about nostalgia. I'm about to take you on a whole journey musically.\" The singer said that the album was heavily inspired by Chris Brown's album \"Indigo\", inspiring him with its edited low-pitched background vocals, its samples from early 2000s R&B, and how double tracks from that album were managed. Promotion. On November 1, 2019, Tory Lanez announced the album's release date with Ashanti on the cover art. Tory Lanez launched a website named after the album with an interface designed after the social network website MySpace. Singles. On November 8, 2019, he released the lead single of the album, \"Jerry Sprunger\" featuring T-Pain, accompanied by a music video. The single debuted at number 83 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 on the week of November 23, 2019. The following week, the single reached it peak at number 44 on the chart, following the album's release. The single also peaked at number 34 on the Canadian Hot 100 and number 32 on the UK Singles Chart respectively. Other songs. After the album's release, \"The Take\""}, {"text": "featuring Chris Brown debuted at number 66 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart. The song also peaked at number 68 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart. \"Beauty in the Benz\" featuring Snoop Dogg debuted at number 87 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart. The single also peaked at number 64 on the Canadian Hot 100 and number 70 on the UK Singles Chart respectively. In addition, \"The Trade\" featuring Jagged Edge and Jermaine Dupri managed to peaked at number one on the US Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart. Critical reception. \"Chixtape 5\" received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 61, based on five reviews. Commercial performance. \"Chixtape 5\" debuted at number two on the US \"Billboard\" 200, earning 83,000 album-equivalent units, (including 9,000 copies as pure album sales) in its first week. This became Tory Lanez's fourth US top-ten debut on the chart. The album also accumulated a total of 94 million on-demand audio streams for the album's songs that week, becoming Tory's highest first week streaming figures to date. On November 15, 2021, the album was"}, {"text": "certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over 500,000 units in the United States. Track listing. Credits adapted from Tidal. Notes Personnel. Credits adapted from Tidal. Musicians Technical"}, {"text": "Artur Bogusz (born 18 April 1993) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a full-back for Klasa B club Relax Czerniewice. Honours. Wigry Suwa\u0142ki Radomiak Radom"}, {"text": "The following is an on stage and screen filmography of the English actor Sir Patrick Stewart (born 13 July 1940). Stewart has had a prolific career spanning over 60 years, and has won a Grammy Award, and two Laurence Olivier Award. He has also been nominated for numerous accolades including a three Golden Globe Award, four Primetime Emmy Award, three Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Tony Awards. Stewart is known for his film roles in: \"Hedda\" (1975), \"Excalibur\" (1981), \"Dune\" (1984), ' (1993), \"Jeffrey\" (1995), \"Match\" (2014), \"Green Room\" (2015), and \"The Kid Who Would Be King\" (2019). He starred in several blockbuster films, portraying Professor Charles Xavier in: \"X-Men\" (2000), \"X2\" (2003), ' (2006), ' (2009), \"The Wolverine\" (2013), ' (2014), \"Logan\" (2017), and \"Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\" (2022). He gained worldwide acclaim for his role as Jean-Luc Picard in the science-fiction series: ' from 1987 to 1994 and starred in the films \"Star Trek Generations\" (1994), ' (1996), ' (1998), and ' (2002). He returned to the role in the series \"\" from 2020 to 2023."}, {"text": "Portlock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "(Townley) Blackwood Price(1815\u20131902) was Archdeacon of Down from 1889 until 1899. Price was born in County Down, educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1839. After a curacy at Smithfield and Shankhill he held incumbencies in Newtownards, Bright, County Down and Downpatrick."}, {"text": "Sremm 4 Life is the fourth studio album by American hip hop duo Rae Sremmurd. It was released through Ear Drummer and Interscope Records on April 7, 2023. The album features guest appearances from Young Thug and Future. Production was handled by Mike Will Made It, Chopsquad DJ, Zaytoven, Paddy Beats, Murda Beatz, Pluss, Oxthello, Jaxx, Keanu Beats, J-Bo, Bizness Boi, Banshee the Great, 30 Roc, Melz, Oz, Cubeatz, Ari PenSmith, Sonny Digital, Austin Powerz, Sav, D-Jay Sremm, Ronny J, and Dynox. The album was supported by two singles, \"Torpedo\" and \"Tanisha (Pump That)\". It serves as the follow-up to the duo's previous album, \"SR3MM\" (2018), and is their first project after coming out of a five-year-long hiatus. Background. In March 2020, after social media rumors that Rae Sremmurd had disbanded, Swae Lee from took to social media to assure fans that the duo was staying together and would be releasing a new album, as well as solo releases from both him and his brother, Slim Jxmmi. In an interview with \"GQ\" in July 2022, both brothers both spoke on how the album would be different from their previous projects, in which Swae Lee cited English singer-songwriter James Blake as"}, {"text": "an influence for his melodic vocals and Slim Jxmmi said that they touched on their stepfather's murder that saw their youngest brother serving time in jail in one of the songs. Release and promotion. The lead single of the album, \"Torpedo\", was released on December 30, 2022. The second and final single, \"Tanisha (Pump That)\", was released on March 10, 2023. On the same day, the duo shared the cover art and release date for the album. On March 30, 2023, the duo revealed its tracklist and production credits. Critical reception. \"Sremm 4 Life\" received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 78, based on six reviews. Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 6.9 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus. In her review for \"HipHopDX\", Nina Hernandez writes that \"the brothers tap into a level of introspection that only comes with age that they\u2019ve never quite harnessed before.\" Writing for \"Pitchfork\", Stephen Kearse praised the album for \"exploring new sounds and real-world themes.\" AllMusic's Fred Thomas wrote that the album has \"incessantly catchy material\" that is delivered \"with a"}, {"text": "casual confidence.\" Writing for \"Clash\", Robin Murray concludes that the album is \"sometimes fascinating yet always gripping.\" \"Slant\"'s Paul Attard writes that the album is a \"clear-eyed showcase for the pair\u2019s innate talents when it comes to crafting pop-rap hits intended for pure revelry.\" Brittany Spanos of \"Rolling Stone\" described the album as a \"tight statement from the two that sees them continue to grow and expand the unique sonic world they\u2019ve invented.\""}, {"text": "Alec (Bumbolili) Kruger (24 December 1924 \u2013 20 February 2015 ) was a member of the Stolen Generations and he was one of the plaintiffs who unsuccessfully sought compensation from the government in Kruger v Commonwealth in the High Court of Australia. Early life. Kruger was born on the banks of the Katherine River at a place called Donkey Camp, the son of Franz (Frank) Kruger and Yrambul Nungarai a Mudburra woman, Kruger is one of their two children and the couple stayed together until Frank's death in 1938. No specific records were kept but it appears that Kruger was taken from his family in mid-1928, alongside his sister Gladys, as a toddler and they were placed in the Kahlin Compound in Darwin. For Yrambul this is not the first time she had had children taken away from her and, despite knowing it was useless, she still followed the children to Darwin and stood outside the gates every day until, finally, she had to return home and to her remaining children (who were not take away as their father was Mudburra). In addition to Gladys, Kruger already had two sisters a Kahlin; Ada and Alice. When Kruger was six, in"}, {"text": "September 1931, he was moved to Pine Creek Home, in Pine Creek, along with 27 other boys and, from all accounts, it was a much better place then Kahlin. However, he was separated from his sisters and would not see them again until the end of World War II. Kruger was moved again in 1933, to The Bungalow in Alice Springs, with 33 of the boys from the Pine Creek Home when it closed; he was now even further away from his family. Kruger said of The Bungalow in his book \"Alone on the Soaks\": Anyone going out to see the Telegraph Station these days is not going to get much of a picture of what the place looked like when I first saw it. They've ripped down all the thrown-together tin dormitories and the other shacks and sheds that were everywhere. There are lawns where there used to be just bulldust and rubbish. As it's presented today you might think it was a really nice place. Why are all of us complaining? Well in my time, it wasn't very nice at all. It might have worked as a telegraph station and home for a dozen people, but with 140"}, {"text": "kids living there at its peak, it was an overcrowded prison.At The Bungalow classes were very large and Alec spent most of the time outside for misbehaving and he was still illiterate when he left at the age of 10. Kruger left The Bungalow at the age of 10, in 1935, when he was selected, out of a line-up by the Bloomfield's from Loves Creek Station. Kruger says that most slaves got it better than he did at there and that, despite many promises, no wages were ever paid to him. Working life. When, after a conversation, with Gordon Sweeney, patrol officer, Kruger discovered that he had not being paid, and had little chance of being so despite the Bloomfield's being obliged to, he ran away and enlisted in the army. He believed that, in the army, he would get to fight for his country and earn good money (equal pay). Kruger was 17 but he told the recruiters that he was 18 and he was placed in the Aboriginal Unit and mostly worked loading trucks. Kruger did not serve overseas but worked throughout the Northern Territory, including Darwin Harbour. Following the war, he reconnected with his family and spent"}, {"text": "two years living with them in Katherine; during this time his mother reprimanded him for joining the army, calling them \"murderers and cowards\". He defended his choice. In the early 1950s he held a number of roles on cattle stations including Wave Hill, Wernaginga, Creswell Downs and Alcoota. While at Wernaginga Station Norman Pendergest, known as 'Splinter', would teach Kruger to read and it as on that basis that Kruger, who valued education, would accept lower wages. Kruger also accepted other work and travelled significantly including throughout Queensland, in the 1950s he attempted to reenlist in the army but was turned away because he was unable to provide any proof of identity or age, He felt humiliated by this. By 1953, finding it harder to find work, Kruger settled in the Gap Settlement in Alice Springs where he worked on the railroads with the Department of Works. He retired at 65 in 1989. High Court. In 1997 Kruger went to the High Court to testify that mixed-race children were systematically removed from their parents in the Northern Territory and this case, Kruger v Commonwealth, which became known as the Stolen Generation Case. In this case, the High Court rejected a"}, {"text": "challenge to the validity of legislation applying to the Northern Territory, namely the \"Aboriginals Ordinance 1918,\" between 1918\u20131957. In the wake of this decision the \"Stolen Generation Association\" was established in Alice Springs and Kruger was a part of the management committee. Death. Kruger died 20 February 2015."}, {"text": "Kamil Juraszek (born 26 March 1991) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Lechia Dzier\u017coni\u00f3w."}, {"text": "Wilcutt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Bad D\u00fcrrenberg station () is a railway station in the municipality of Bad D\u00fcrrenberg, located in the Saalekreis district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany."}, {"text": "The municipal museum of Saverne, a small town in the Bas-Rhin department of France, is the oldest museum in the historic Alsace region outside of Strasbourg and Colmar, having been founded in 1858. It is located in the former Rohan Castle since 1952. The museum is divided into three sections. The \"archaeological\" department in the vaulted basement is dedicated to the Gallo-Roman and Imperial Roman past of the antique and its surroundings.<br>The \"art and history\" department on the second floor is dedicated to the history of the castle and of the town, to local and regional costumes and folk art, and to sculptures from churches and chapels of Saverne and its periphery. Thanks to bequests made by the family of Alfred Philippe Roll between 1952 and 1965, the Saverne museum owns nearly 50 works by that French painter, among which a monumental portrait \u2013 by \u2013 of his son on horseback.<br>A third department is dedicated to the \"donation Louise Weiss\". Apart from personal and historical documents, and furniture, the collections assembled and bequeathed by the author, journalist, feminist, and politician of Alsatian descent comprises works of folk art from Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Morocco, Russia, Sudan, and several other countries across"}, {"text": "the globe, as well as decorative arts, drawings, paintings by Western European artists such as Daum, Raoul Dufy, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Kees van Dongen. The Louise Weiss section of the museum was created in 1983 and is presented in its current form since 1996."}, {"text": "Champak Jain ( \u2013 31 October 2019) was an Indian film producer and owner of Venus Records & Tapes Pvt Ltd. Co-founded with his brothers, the company emerged in the early 1990s as one of India's major producers of Hindi films. Biography. Jain was the owner of Venus Records & Tapes Pvt Ltd. He produced films like \"Khiladi\" (1992), \"Baazigar\" (1993), \"Main Khiladi Tu Anari\" (1994), \"Josh\" (2000), \"Humraaz\" (2002), \"Hulchul\" (2004) and more. He died on 31 October 2019 at the age of 52."}, {"text": "Jan Grzesik (born 21 October 1994) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Radomiak Radom. Club career. On 25 August 2020, he signed with Warta Pozna\u0144. On 2 June 2023, Grzesik signed a two-year deal with another Ekstraklasa side Radomiak Radom. Honours. Individual"}, {"text": "The Dyson School of Design Engineering is the academic centre for design engineering at Imperial College London. The school has just over 50 academic staff and 400 students, with over 220 undergraduates. The school is located in the Dyson building, at the corner of Exhibition and Imperial College roads. History. The school was founded in 2014 following a \u00a312m donation by the James Dyson Foundation to the college, being the first new engineering division at Imperial for two decades. In 2018, the school moved into the newly-christened Dyson Building on Exhibition Road. The building was once the London headquarters of the Met Office, from 1910 to 1919, with some of the original interiors and signage preserved inside the entrance from Exhibition Road. Since then it has had various other uses, including as part of the Science Museum, which adjoins the building to the south, and as a post office. The renovation of the building was undertaken by Pascall+Watson, and cost \u00a314 million. Academics. Study. The school offers a four-year integrated undergraduate Master of Engineering course, which started in 2015. The department offers five postgraduate courses, including a joint two-year postgraduate course with the Royal College of Art, Innovation Design Engineering,"}, {"text": "which awards a master's degree in each of art and science from the respective institutions. In addition, the department also offers four new specialised postgraduate courses including Cleantech Innovation (MSc), a joint course with Grantham Institute \u2013 Climate Change and the Environment, Design Engineering (MSc), Design with Behaviour Science (MSc), and Design Engineering Research (MRes). As part of the Faculty of Engineering, undergraduates from the school are also awarded Associate of the City and Guilds of London Institute alongside their degree, and postgraduates are awarded the Diploma of Imperial College."}, {"text": "Yllana is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Maksymilian Rozwandowicz (born 18 June 1994) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for II liga club \u0141KS \u0141\u00f3d\u017a II. Honours. Lechia Tomasz\u00f3w Mazowiecki"}, {"text": "Maciej Wolski (born 29 March 1997) is a Polish professional footballer for plays as either a right-back or a right midfielder for Ekstraklasa club Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza. Honours. Drw\u0119ca NML"}, {"text": "The Bangladesh cricket team toured Sri Lanka in April and May 2021 to play two Test matches. The Test series formed part of the inaugural 2019\u20132021 ICC World Test Championship. Originally, a three-Test tour was scheduled to take place in July and August 2020, but it was postponed to October 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2020, the tour was postponed again, after both boards could not agree on the quarantine requirements for the series. In December 2020, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) were considering touring Sri Lanka in April 2021 to play two Test matches. In February 2021, the BCB confirmed that the tour of Sri Lanka would take place in April. On 19 March 2021, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) announced the dates for the tour. The first Test match finished as a high-scoring draw, after rain wiped out the final session on the fifth day. Sri Lanka won the second Test by 209 runs to win the series 1\u20130. Background. In May 2020, Nizamuddin Chowdhury, CEO of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), confirmed that they were in discussions with Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) with regards to playing the series. Nazmul Hasan, President of the BCB, suggested"}, {"text": "that their priorities are ICC events, and will wait to see what the ICC and Asian Cricket Council (ACC) does first. However, on 24 June 2020, the tour was postponed due to the pandemic. In July 2020, both cricket boards were looking at the possibility of rescheduling the tour for October 2020. Also in July 2020, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed it was their priority to reschedule the matches, along with the five other World Test Championship series that had been postponed due to the pandemic. In August 2020, both cricket boards were looking to play a combination of Test matches and Twenty20 International (T20I) matches, with a possible start date in October 2020. On 12 August 2020, the BCB confirmed they would travel to Sri Lanka, leaving for the country on 23 September 2020. On 12 September 2020, Sri Lanka Cricket confirmed that the Bangladesh team would need to quarantine for one week on arrival in the country before they can begin to train. The following day, Sri Lanka Cricket increased the quarantine period to 14 days, with the BCB disagreeing to the length of time their players would be quarantine and the lack of preparation time ahead"}, {"text": "of the first Test match. In response, Sri Lanka Cricket suggested that the quarantine could be split into two phases, with seven days done in Bangladesh, and the remaining seven days done once the team arrives in Sri Lanka. On 19 September 2020, Bangladesh named a preliminary squad of 27 players to begin training ahead of the tour. However, the following day, one player had to isolate after showing COVID-19 symptoms, along with anyone who came into close contact with him. On 28 September 2020, the tour was postponed again as both boards could not decide on quarantine requirements for the series. SLC insisted on a 14-day quarantine following guidelines from the Sri Lanka government, while the BCB insisted on a shorter length. In December 2020, the BCB began talks with Sri Lanka Cricket tour play a short tour in April 2021. Instead of the original three Tests that were scheduled to be played, the revised tour would have two Test matches, with the possibility of some white-ball matches as well. In February 2021, the BCB allowed Shakib Al Hasan to miss the tour, allowing him to take part in the 2021 Indian Premier League, with the BCB confirming that"}, {"text": "the tour will take place in April. The following month, the BCB announced that the 2020\u201321 National Cricket League (NCL) tournament would be used as preparation for the Test matches. However, after only two rounds of matches, the NCL was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the curtailment of the tournament, the BCB were still hopeful of touring Sri Lanka. On 12 April 2021, the Bangladesh cricket team arrived in Sri Lanka. Squads. On 9 April 2021, the BCB announced a 21-man preliminary squad for the two Test matches. The final 15-man squad for the Test series was confirmed following the two-day inter-squad warm-up match. Sri Lanka also named a preliminary squad, with bowler Dushmantha Chameera opting out of the tour due to taking paternity leave. Lahiru Kumara suffered an injury during the third day of the first Test, and was ruled out of Sri Lanka's squad for the remainder of the series. On 26 April 2021, Lakshan Sandakan and Chamika Karunaratne were named as replacements for Lahiru Kumara and Dilshan Madushanka in Sri Lanaka's squad."}, {"text": "The Volkswagen Group MSB platform (Modularer Standardantriebsbaukasten, modular standard drivetrain matrix) is the company's strategy for shared modular design construction of its longitudinal, front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout (optional front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout) automobiles. It was developed by Porsche for vehicles with longitudinally mounted engines and gearboxes and four-wheel or rear-wheel drive. It has been in use since 2016 and was introduced with the second generation Porsche Panamera. MSB-based models. The MSB architecture replaces the D1 platform and that used on the first generation 970 Porsche Panamera (G1)."}, {"text": "Bayrick is a rural locality in the Blackall-Tambo Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Bayrick had a population of 16 people. Geography. The Ward River enters the locality from the north (Lansdowne) and flows south through the locality, exiting to the south (Ward) where it becomes a tribuary of the Warrego River. Ward Road enters the locality from the north (Lansdowne) and travels south, running loosely parallel to the west of the Ward River, before exiting to the south (Ward). The land use is grazing on native vegetation. Demographics. In the , Bayrick had a population of 9 people. In the , Bayrick had a population of 16 people. Education. There are no schools in Bayrick. The nearest school is Tambo State School (Prep to Year 10) in Tambo to the north. However, only students living in the north of Bayrick would be able to attend this school due to the distances involved. Also, there are no nearby schools providing education to Year 12. The alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Lumeah is a rural locality in the Blackall-Tambo Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Lumeah had \"no people or a very low population\". Demographics. In the , Lumeah had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Lumeah had \"no people or a very low population\"."}, {"text": "Lumeah may refer:"}, {"text": "The New Zealand cricket team were scheduled to tour Bangladesh in August and September 2020 to play two Test matches. The Test series would have formed part of the inaugural 2019\u20132021 ICC World Test Championship. However, on 23 June 2020, the tour was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In July 2020, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed it was their priority to reschedule the matches, along with the five other World Test Championship series that had been postponed due to the pandemic."}, {"text": "Lansdowne is a rural locality in the Blackall-Tambo Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Lansdowne had a population of 36 people. Geography. The Landsborough Highway passes to the north-east, but does not enter the locality. The Ward River is formed by the confluence of Larry Creek and Rams Gully in Lansdowne (), after which the river flows south, exiting the locality to the south (Bayrick). The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with a small amount of crop growing. Demographics. In the , Lansdowne had a population of 11 people. In the , Lansdowne had a population of 36 people. Education. There are no schools in Lansdowne. The nearest government school is Tambo State School (Early Childhood to Year 10) in neighbouring Tambo to the north. There are no schools nearby providing schooling to Year 12; the options are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Minnie Downs is a rural locality in the Blackall-Tambo Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Minnie Downs had a population of 12 people. Geography. The Landsborough Highway passes to the north-east. Langlo Road commences at the highway and enters the locality from the north-east (Macfarlane) and exits to the south (Lumeah). Elizabeth Creek commences in the north of the locality at the confluence of Western Head Creek and Boggy Creek. It is a braided creek which flows south, exiting to the south (Lumeah) where Elizabeth Creek becomes a tributary of the Langlo River. The pastoral station \"Minnie Downs\" is in the north-east of the locality. The land use in the locality is grazing on native vegetation. History. In 1861, Mr J. T. Allen established the \"Elizabeth Creek\" pastoral station. In 1873, it was bought by the Archer brothers who renamed it Minnie Downs in honour of Mary Louise (Minnie) Mackenzie, the eldest daughter of Sir Robert Ramsay Mackenzie, who married Alexander Archer (one of the Archer brothers) in 1871. In 1890, Alexander and Minnie Archer died in the shipwreck of the RMS Quetta. Minnie Downs was developed as a sheep station and horse stud. The Minnie Downs pastoral station can"}, {"text": "be seen on an 1892 map. Demographics. In the , Minnie Downs had a population of 13 people. In the , Minnie Downs had a population of 12 people. Education. There are no schools in Minnie Downs. The nearest government school is Tambo State School (Kindergarten to Year 10) in Tambo to the north-east, but it would be too distant from some parts of Minnie Downs to attend. Also there is no nearby school providing education to Year 12. The alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "The 1928 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 6, 1928, as part of the 1928 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Nevada was won by former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover (R\u2013California), running with Senator Charles Curtis, with 56.54% of the popular vote, against Governor Al Smith (D\u2013New York), running with Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson, with 43.46% of the popular vote."}, {"text": "The 1996 City of Lincoln Council election took place on 2 May 1996. This was on the same day as other local elections. One third of the council was up for election: the seats of which were last contested in 1992. The Labour Party retained control of the council. Overall results. All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 1992 election."}, {"text": "John Pierce Brown (1843\u20131925) was a senior priest in the Diocese of Down, Connor and Dromore from 1899 to 1923. Brown was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1868. After a curacy at Kilmore, he was appointed Rector of Loughinisland in 1870; and Precentor of Down in 1875. He was Archdeacon of Down from 1899 to 1912; and Dean of Down from 1913 until he retired in 1923."}, {"text": "Macfarlane is a rural locality in the Blackall-Tambo Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Macfarlane had a population of 17 people. Geography. The Barcoo River enters the locality from the east (Tambo) and exits to the north-east (Mount Enniskillen). The locality is within the Lake Eyre drainage basin. The Landsborough Highway also enters the locality from the east (Tambo) and exits to the north-east (Mount Enniskillen), running west of the river. The land use is grazing on native vegetation. Demographics. In the , Macfarlane had a population of 14 people. In the , Macfarlane had a population of 17 people. Education. There are no schools in Macfarlane. The only nearby school is Tambo State School (Prep to Year 10) in neighbouring Tambo to the east. There are no nearby schools providing education to Year 12; the alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Robert 'Robbie' Blair (born 3 June 1953 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a former South African rugby union player. Playing career. Blair matriculated at Grey College in Bloemfontein, after which he went to the University of Stellenbosch. In 1972, his first year at university, he was selected for the University's under\u201320 team and the next year he gained provincial under\u201320 colours for Western Province. He made his senior provincial debut for Western Province in 1974 and played 74 matches for the union from 1974 to 1980 and scored 858 points, which was the provincial record up to 1987. He played his 75th match for Western Province as a replacement in the last minutes of the 1984 Currie Cup final. From 1981 to 1983, Blair played for Transvaal and in 1983 he scored 223 points, a Transvaal record for a season, that was bettered in 1989 by Cameron Oliver. Blair played his first and only test match for the Springboks against the World XV on 27 August 1977 at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria. He scored 21 points in this match."}, {"text": "Harry Higgs (born December 4, 1991) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. Early life. Higgs was born in Camden, New Jersey on December 4, 1991. He grew up in Overland Park, Kansas. His parents are Mike and Denise Higgs. Amateur career. He played his high school golf at Blue Valley North High School in Overland Park, Kansas and his college golf for the SMU Mustangs. Professional career. Higgs played on PGA Tour Latinoam\u00e9rica in 2015 and 2018. He won the Diners Club Peru Open in 2018 and led the Order of Merit, securing a tour card on the 2019 Korn Ferry Tour. Higgs won the Price Cutter Charity Championship on the 2019 Korn Ferry Tour. This led him to a 5th-place finish in the regular season standings, which earned him his tour card for the 2019\u201320 PGA Tour season. He finished second at the Bermuda Championship in November 2019. He also finished second at the 2020 Safeway Open. In May 2021, Higgs played in his first major tournament, the 2021 PGA Championship at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort. He shot a bogey-free round on the final day to finish tied for fourth."}, {"text": "This finish got him into the field for the 2022 Masters Tournament. Personal life. Higgs' younger brother, Alex, used to be a professional golfer but is now a caddie. Both played college golf at Southern Methodist University. Alex caddied for Harry when Harry was a senior at SMU. Professional wins (4). Korn Ferry Tour wins (3). Korn Ferry Tour playoff record (2\u20130) Playoff record. PGA Tour playoff record (0\u20131) Results in major championships. CUT = missed the half-way cut<br> \"T\" = tied Results in The Players Championship. CUT = missed the halfway cut<br> \"T\" indicates a tie for a place"}, {"text": "is a Japanese jazz pianist, composer, producer, actor, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for his pop-music career in 1980s and '90's-era Japanese pop music'. Among his releases (totaling 45 singles and 18 original albums), from the 1980s to the 1990s, are eight albums which received Japan's Gold Disc Award (Japan's equivalent to a Grammy for Best Album). He was also awarded the Gold Disc Award for Best Male Pop Artist in 1989. Senri Oe's pop music garnered mass popularity in Japan following his first single \"Wallabee Shoes\" in 1983. He has held concerts in Japan's largest stadiums, including Nippon Budokan, Yokohama Arena, Yokohama Stadium, Chiba Marine Stadium, Seibu Dome, NHK Hall, and Osaka Castle Hall. He has also written and produced music for many artists, including Seiko Matsuda, Misato Watanabe, Hiromi Go, Hikaru Genji and Sayuri Ishikawa also composing music for the soundtrack of the film \"\", as well as \"Believe\" which was featured in Sanrio Puroland. Early life. Senri Oe was born on September 6, 1960, in Fujiidera city Osaka, Japan. Oe began playing piano at the age of three, and was trained by his junior high school teacher Yumi Nara, who would go on to become"}, {"text": "an acclaimed opera singer. After each of the lessons, Nara would encourage Oe to improvise, and eventually Oe began to compose. Upon being introduced to music by The Carpenters, Captain & Tenille and Gilbert O'Sullivan, Oe decided to become a singer-songwriter. Soon after, Oe's music repertoire expanded to include jazz musicians such as Chris Conor, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Winton Kelly, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. In 1975, Oe participated in the final Yamaha Popular Song Contest POPCON (akin to American Idol). Later in 1980, Oe entered Kwansei Gakuin University and majored in economics while simultaneously beginning to pursue a professional music career. He formed his first band during his time at university, was scouted by Sony Music and signed to Epic Sony Japan in 1981. Music career. 1983\u20131984: Early pop career and debut album. On February 27, 1983, Oe performed on STV Radio's Sunday Jumbo Special in Sapporo, Hokkaido, granting him his initial exposure as a professional musician. Within this segment, Oe began a ten-minute performance in which he improvised a song on live radio. Oe soon released his first single \"Wallabee Shoes (\u30ef\u30e9\u30d3\u30fc\u306c\u304e\u3059\u3066\u3066),\" followed by his debut album, WAKUWAKU. Quickly garnering popularity, \"Wallabee Shoes\" charted"}, {"text": "at No. 10 in Sapporo radio. Oe appeared on All Night Fuji (Akin to Saturday Night Live in Japan) on Channel 8 alongside Epic Sony label-mates Wham from Britain. 1985\u20132007: Greater pop music career success. After graduating from Kwansei Gakuin University, Oe rose to fame in November 1984 with the success of his sixth single, \"10 People, 10 Colors (\u5341\u4eba\u5341\u8272).\" His third album, Miseinen (\u672a\u6210\u5e74) Juvenile charted at No. 5 on Oricon (Japanese equivalent to the Billboard weekly chart). With his now growing popularity across Japan, Oe began a tour, performing in Japan's largest venues and stadiums, including Nippon Budokan (with seating capacity of 14,471, akin to Madison Square Garden) to promote his fifth album, AVEC Tour Final, in 1987. His seventh album 1234 was awarded Album of the Year in the third Gold Disc Awards (Japan's equivalent of the Grammy Awards) in the Pop Male Solo Artist Category. Continuing to tour large venues throughout Japan, Oe released the greatest hits album, \"Sloppy Joe\", on March 25, 1989, which charted at No. 2 on the Oricon (Japan's equivalent of Billboard weekly chart). Meanwhile, Oe appeared as an actor on television for the first time, in the dramatic show entitled Kimi"}, {"text": "Ga Uso Wo Tuita. His ninth album, APOLLO, was the first of his albums to be recorded in New York City. The album was released to critical acclaim, charting at No.1 in the Oricon weekly chart on September, 21st 1990. Following APOLLO's success, Oe again toured in stadiums (Yokohama Stadium, Seibu Dome, Chiba Marine Stadium, Yokohama Arena, Osaka Castle Hall). Oe's single \" (\u683c\u597d\u60aa\u3044\u3075\u3089\u308c\u65b9) Kakko Warui Furare Kata\" was released in September 1990 and is his highest-charting single to date, charting at No.2 in the Oricon weekly chart. While continuing to record and perform, in 2000 Oe established his own record label, Station Kids Records, as an imprint of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Oe also began to branch out to musical composition beyond pop music. Among these projects, he scored the soundtrack for the film Noto No Hanayome, Sanrio Puroland Park's Musical titled Believe, music for the performances of illusionist Princess Tenko Play, for Destiny. Also, notably, Oe scored music for the Japanese animated film \"\", as well as \"Kono Hoshino Dokokade\" by Yasuda Sisters. 2008\u20132012: Career shift to jazz. On December 22, 2007, Oe announced that he would study jazz music in The New School for Jazz and moved"}, {"text": "to Manhattan on January 10, 2008, with his then puppy, a dachshund named Peace. Oe had been studying jazz music theory since the age of fifteen, at school, but due to his pop singer-songwriter career unexpectedly taking off, he had chosen to pause his jazz aspirations and to pursue them later in life. 2012\u2013present: Beginning of jazz pianist career. After graduating from The New School for Jazz, Oe launched his jazz record label in 2012. It was called \"Peace Never Die\" Records, abbreviated to PND Records. His dog, Peace, also appeared in PND's logo. Peace has received a certificate which allows her to officially qualify as an emotional support dog for Oe. Oe's jazz debut album was \"Boys Mature Slow\". Following conversations with former Tokyo Jazz Festival producer, Atsuko Yashima, Oe concluded that his second album's style could expand to include for a jazz 'big band' ensemble. He then composed eleven pieces for his next album, \"Spooky Hotel\", which was released in 2013.Following \"Spooky Hotel\", Oe's big band performed in the Tokyo Jazz Festival at Tokyo Forum A Hall. Oe's working towards composing for a drum-less trio was entitled Collective Scribble; Oe remarked that, saxophone and piano combined with upright"}, {"text": "bass, \"like a drawing scribble.\" At the same time, Oe was creating his fourth jazz vocal album, \"Answer July\", with Sheila Jordan, Jon Hendricks, Theo Bleckmann and Lauren Kinhan. \"Answer July\" was a Grammy-nominated consideration album in the Best Jazz Album in 2017. In addition, Oe challenged himself to adopt the concept of combining pop with jazz in his fifth studio jazz album \"Boys & Girls\", released in 2018. \"For Boys & Girls\", Oe selected some of his most popular pop songs to reinterpret into jazz compositions (which Oe calls, \"Senri Jazz\"). \"Boys & Girls\" charted at No. 1 in Japan Billboard's \"Jazz and Classical Music Chart\". Following the release, Oe toured to promote the new album in Amsterdam, Mexico City, and throughout the United States. Recently, Oe released his sixth studio jazz album \"Hmmm\" in 2019. Both the recordings and performances have featured bandmates Ari Hoenig (drums) and Matt Clohesy (upright bass). Discography. Others. 1. Untokodokkoisho (2007) 2. Duo (2010)"}, {"text": "B\u00e9atrice Martin (born 1973) is a French harpsichordist. Life. Born in Annecy, Martin began playing the harpsichord at the age of 6 years old in parallel with dancing. She studied at the Conservatoire de Musique de Gen\u00e8ve then Conservatoire de Paris. She has been a regular harpsichordist with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie, for whom she acted as principal assistant. In 2000, she founded the ensemble \"Les Folies fran\u00e7oises\" with the violinist and conductor Patrick Coh\u00ebn-Akenine. She is a professor at the Escola Superior de M\u00fasica de Catalunya in Barcelona and has been a guest professor at the Juilliard School in New York since 2015. She has recorded about ten CDs, including recordings of Bach's Sonatas for violin and harpsichord, BWV 1014\u20131019, with Patrick Coh\u00ebn-Akenine. Her album \"Bach: concertos pour clavecin\" (BWV 1052, 1053, 1055, 1056), with \"Les Folies fran\u00e7oises\", was awarded a Diapason d'or in 2016."}, {"text": "Mount Enniskillen is a rural locality in the Blackall-Tambo Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mount Enniskillen had a population of 44 people. Geography. The Enniskillen Range forms part of the south-western boundary of the locality. The mountain Mount Enniskillen () at the northern end of the range rises to above sea level. The Landsborough Highway enters the locality from the south-east (Macfarlane) and exits to the west (Blackall). History. The mountain was named on 1 October 1846 by Thomas Mitchell, the New South Wales Surveyor-General. It is believed to be named after Enniskillen in Northern Ireland. Demographics. In the , Mount Enniskillen had a population of 13 people. In the , Mount Enniskillen had a population of 44 people. Education. There are no schools in Mount Enniskillen. The nearest government school is Tambo State School (Early Childhood to Year 10) in neighbouring Tambo to the south-east; however this school is only within range of a daily commute for students living in the south of Mount Enniskillen. Also, there are no school providing education to Year 12 nearby. The alternatives to daily school attendance are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Windeyer is a rural locality in the Blackall-Tambo Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Windeyer had a population of 29 people. Geography. The Dawson Developmental Road enters the locality from the east (Mantuan Downs) and exits to the south (Tambo), where it joins the Landsborough Highway within the town of Tambo. The Great Dividing Range forms the north-eastern boundary of the locality with the locality being within the Lake Eyre drainage basin, and more specifically within the catchments of the Barcoo River and Cooper Creek. Windeyer has the following mountains (from north to south): The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. History. Sir Thomas Mitchell mapped the area in 1846 naming Mount Windeyer (possibly after Richard Windeyer, a barrister and politician in New South Wales), Mount Birkhead, and Mount Blunt. Demographics. In the , Windeyer had a population of 25 people. In the , Windeyer had a population of 29 people. Education. There are no schools in Windeyer. Tambo State School offers Kindergarten to Year 10 in neighbouring Tambo to the south, but not all students in Windeyer would be able to access this school due to distance. There are no schools offering education to Year 12 nearby."}, {"text": "The alternatives are distance education and boarding school."}, {"text": "Erik Henriksen (born April 8, 1958) is an American speed skater. He competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics and the 1988 Winter Olympics. Henriksen was born in Champaign, Illinois and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a sprint skater, attending the World Sprint Speed Skating Championships from 1981-1988 and competing predominantly in the 500 m, 1000 m and 1500 m distances. Henriksen competed in the 1984 Winter Olympics in the 500 m, 1000 m and 1500 m events, and in the 1988 Olympics in the 500 m event."}, {"text": "Hans-Peter Oberhuber (born 29 December 1962) is a German speed skater. He competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics and the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Gabriela von Bussenius Vega (1901\u20131975) was a Chilean journalist, writer and filmmaker, \"Latin America's first woman film-maker\". Life. Gaby von Bussenius started writing articles and film reviews for \"Zig-Zag\" magazine as a girl. In 1916 she married Salvador Giamastiani, one of the owners of the filmmaking company Chile Films. She wrote \"La agon\u00eda de Arauco\", directing it with her husband in 1917: she was in charge of the story and art direction, and he was in charge of technical direction. The film treated the capitalist exploitation of the indigenous Mapuche people of Araucan\u00eda: following a woman who suffers the loss of her beloved husband and son. Von Busseniu continued anonymous collaboration on films with her husband until his death in 1921. She did not subsequently continue working on film but kept up activity as a writer. She edited the magazines \"Mundo Social\" and \"Cinema Magazine\", and wrote plays and a novel. She later spent many years in a retirement home, dying on January 28, 1975."}, {"text": "This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) who held seats at the end of the 57th Parliament of the United Kingdom who announced they would not stand for reelection in the 2019 general election. Former Labour MP John Mann (Bassetlaw) and Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow (Buckingham) are not included in this list as they resigned on 28 October and 4 November 2019, respectively, meaning that their seats were vacant at dissolution. List of MPs. A total of members announced their decision not to stand for re-election:"}, {"text": "Matthew Ball (born 14 December 1993) is an English ballet dancer and is currently a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet. Early life. Ball was born in December 1993 in Liverpool. His mother is a GCSE dance teacher and his father works in arts education. He started dancing at the age of 6, entered the Royal Ballet Lower School at 11 and moved to the Upper School at 16. He graduated in 2013, but was unable to take part in the graduation performance because of knee surgery. Career. Ball joined The Royal Ballet in the 2013/14 season, became a First Artist in 2015, Soloist in 2016 and First Soloist in 2017. In March 2018, he was tasked with replacing an injured David Hallberg mid-show as Albrecht in \"Giselle\", even though he had only danced the role once, and had never danced in a full-length ballet before with Natalia Osipova, the ballerina playing the title role. Ball's performance was given an ovation by the audience and praised in the review by \"The Times\". Ball was promoted to principal dancer in July that year. In December, he took time off from the Royal Ballet for 32 performances as the lead swan in"}, {"text": "Matthew Bourne's \"Swan Lake\" at the Sadler's Wells Theatre. He has danced lead roles in ballets such as \"Swan Lake\", \"La Bayad\u00e8re\", \"Don Quixote\", Ashton's \"Marguerite and Armand\" and McGregor's \"Infra\". He had less than two weeks to prepare his debut as Crown Prince Rudolf in MacMillan's \"Mayerling\" to replace another injured dancer. He has also created roles in new works such as Wheeldon's \"Corybantic Games\", Marriott's \"The Unknown Soldier\", and Marston's \"The Cellist\". In 2020, Ball was featured in the BBC documentary \"Men at the Barre\". Later that year, in the first series of performances since the Royal Opera House's closure due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic, he and Mayara Magri performed a pas de deux from Christopher Wheeldon's \"Within the Golden Hour\", having learnt it in five days. Personal life. As of 2023, Ball lived in north London, with his partner, fellow Royal Ballet principal Mayara Magri. Selected repertoire. Ball's repertoire with the Royal Ballet includes:"}, {"text": "Geert Kuiper (born 5 July 1960) is a Dutch speed skater. He competed in the men's 500 metres event at the 1984 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "There were two elections to the United States House of Representatives to serve in the 99th United States Congress. List of elections. Elections are listed by date and district. ! !"}, {"text": "is a Japanese speed skater. He competed in the men's 500 metres event at the 1984 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The Watkins 27, also known as the W27, is an American sailboat that was designed by naval architect Walter Scott and first built in 1977. The Watkins 27 design was developed into the pilothouse Watkins 27P in 1981, although only seven of that model were built. Production. The design was built by Watkins Yachts in Clearwater, Florida, United States from 1977 to 1984. During the first full year of production, 1978, the company delivered more than 160 of the model, although production dropped to about 100 boats in the following year, 1979. With 514 completed it became the company's most successful and longest model in production. Design. The Watkins 27 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of polyester resin-based fiberglass, with teak wood trim. Plywood coring is used in the structures of the cabin roof, the deck, seats and cockpit sole for additional stiffness. It has a masthead sloop rig with 6061-T6 aluminum spars, a raked stem, a vertical transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by an Edson-built wheel and a centerboard with stub keel or optional fixed fin keel in deep or shoal lengths. It displaces and carries of ballast. The shoal keel-equipped version of the boat has a draft"}, {"text": "of , while the centerboard-equipped version has a draft of with the centerboard extended and with it retracted. The fixed keel model was created by adding a shoe to the bottom of the centerboard stub keel and filling in the centerboard trunk. Even though the centerboard was standard and the fixed keel optional, mostly buyers specified the fixed shoal-draft keel and the centerboard and deep keel models are rare. Only five of the centerboard models were built. The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar diesel engine. A number of Yanmar engine models were used, including the YSB8, YSB12, YSE8, YSE12, YSM8, YSM12 and the 2QM. After 1980 the 1GM and 2GM models were employed. The fuel tank holds and the fresh water tank has a capacity of . Sleeping accommodation is provided for five people and consists of a bow \"V\" berth, a main cabin settee berth and a double-sized quarter berth. The head is fully enclosed and located to port aft of the forward cabin. The galley is aft, on the starboard side and includes an icebox and a two-burner alcohol or gas-fired stove mounted on gimbals. Ventilation is provided by six opening ports and two hatches, although"}, {"text": "some early boats delivered had two or more non-opening ports. The main cabin has of standing headroom. All woodwork is teak, including the cabin accents, bulkheads and the cabinets, which are teak veneer over plywood. The cabin sole is a teak parquet design. There is an anchor locker forward. The Edson pedestal-mounted wheel steering system drivings stainless steel cables, which rotate a quadrant that is bolted and keyed to the rudder post. The sail controls include a main sheet attached to the rear bridge deck on 1978 and 1979 models. After that the boats were delivered with mid-boom sheeting, using two blocks on either side of the cabin roof. The electrical system consists of two 12v batteries mounted in parallel and charged by the engine alternator. The design has a hull speed of . Operational history. The boat is supported by an active class club, the \"Watkins Owners\". The design competed successfully in the market with the Catalina 27, offering better hardware and construction at similar price. See also. Related development Similar sailboats"}, {"text": "Aleksandr Danilin (20 June 1961 \u2013 26 January 2019) was a Soviet speed skater. He competed in the men's 500 metres event at the 1984 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Out of Love is an Indian thriller drama television series based on \"Doctor Foster\" by Mike Bartlett adapted by Hotstar for its label Hotstar Specials. It is directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia and Aijaz Khan starring Rasika Dugal and Purab Kohli in lead roles. It premiered on Hotstar from 22 November 2019. The series was renewed for a season 2 of which the first two of five episodes aired on 30 April 2021 with the final episode being aired on 21 May 2021. Premise. Meera and Akarsh have been happily married until one day Meera finds a hair on Akarsh's scarf. Meera becomes obsessed with finding out who Akarsh's mistress is. She finally confides in a friend who asks her to behave normally around Akarsh but continues digging for evidence. The show traces how Meera discovers Akarsh's lies, his affair with a much younger woman Alia and how she navigates her marriage. Production. In October 2019, \"Variety\" reported that Hotstar would be adapting BBC Studios's critically acclaimed series \"Doctor Foster\" for Indian audiences in association with BBC Studios India with Tigmanshu Dhulia and Aijaz Khan helming the series. By early November 2019, Hotstar revealed Rasika Dugal and Purab Kohli as lead"}, {"text": "actors. It was announced that the series will be coming back with a season 2. The trailer of season 2 was unveiled on 21 April 2021 Release. The series was launched on 22 November 2019 on Hotstar. Promotion. The first trailer of the series was released by Hotstar on 1 November 2019 across multiple platforms. Reception. The series garnered largely positive reviews. Ruchi Kaushal of \"Hindustan Times\" praised the way the series adapted to the Indian setting despite being a remake and called it one of Dugal's best works till date with strong writing and backed by Tigamanshu Dhulia's direction. On the other hand, the series was also described as a banal take on infidelity by some others."}, {"text": "Vladimir Kozlov (born 1 August 1959) is a Soviet former speed skater. He competed in the men's 500 metres event at the 1984 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Bhasa or Bh\u0101sa was a Sanskrit playwright in ancient India, best known as the author of the romantic play \"Svapnavasavadattam\". It can also refer to:"}, {"text": "Riyadul Hasan Rafi (; born 29 December 1999) is a Bangladeshi professional footballer who plays as a defender for Bangladesh Premier League club Mohammedan SC and the Bangladesh national team. \"Scores and results list Bangladesh's goal tally first.\" Honours. Saif SC Bangladesh U23"}, {"text": "The 1924 United States presidential election in Nevada was held on November 4, 1924, as part of the 1924 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Nevada was won by President Calvin Coolidge (R\u2013Massachusetts), running with Senator Charles G. Dawes, with 41.76% of the popular vote, against Senator Robert M. La Follette (I\u2013Wisconsin), running with Senator Burton K. Wheeler, with 36.29% of the popular vote. Democratic nominee John W. Davis came third, although Ormsby County was the westernmost county in the nation to give him a plurality of its ballots."}, {"text": "Lewis Bean (born 12 February 1992) is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a Lock for Montauban. He previously played for Glasgow Warriors. He currently serves in the British Army. Rugby Union career. Amateur career. Bean played for the Army Rugby Union. He turned out for the Army against the Navy in the 100th anniversary match at Twickenham. Bean played for Birmingham Moseley from 2017 to 2019. Professional career. At the start of the 2019\u201320 season, he was training with Worcester Warriors. He played for the Warriors in the Premiership Rugby Cup and Premiership Shield. However Bean was instead signed for the Northampton Saints for their 2019\u201320 season. Bean was loaned to Glasgow Warriors in November 2020. He was named on the bench for the Warriors match away to Ulster. He became Glasgow Warrior No. 317. On 10 February 2021 it was announced that the deal would be made permanent for the coming season. Bean returned to Northampton Saints for the rest of the season; but he was then loaned out to Bedford Blues. The Bedford side has a partnership deal with the Saints and this saw 12 Saints players, including Bean, move to the Blues for"}, {"text": "the close of the 2020\u201321 RFU Championship season. Back with Glasgow Warriors, Bean stayed with the club until the summer of 2023. He made 40 appearances in total for the club, scoring 4 tries. He has now signed for French side Montauban for the 2023\u201324 season. Army career. Bean is a Corporal in the British Army based with The Rifles and has completed two tours of Afghanistan."}, {"text": "Desnitro-imidacloprid is a metabolite of the insecticide imidacloprid, a very common insecticide and the most important member of the class of insecticides called neonicotinoids, the only significant new class of insecticides to be developed between 1970 and 2000. While imidacloprid has proved highly selective against insects, the desnitro- version is highly toxic to mammals, due to its agonist action at the alpha4beta2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) in the mammalian brain, at least as demonstrated in experiments involving mice."}, {"text": "Erica Powell OBE (15 March, 1921 \u2013 5 June, 2007) was a British Private Secretary to Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana and later to Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone. She was a controversial figure, who was suspected by the British and by Ghanaians of lack of loyalty, and to have been too close to Nkrumah. She ghost wrote Nkrumah's autobiography, while also writing her own interesting biography, which was eventually published, after Nkrumah's death. Life. Powell was born in Brighton on 15 March, 1921 into a middle-class family. She trained to be a secretary and then to teach. She came top of her class during the 1940 London Chamber of Commerce Shorthand and Typewriting exams. She went on to be employed by Barclays Bank, during the second world war. On the rebound from a failed romance with a farmer in Lincolnshire, she accepted an offer in February 1952, from the Crown Agents for the Colonies. They offered her the position of \"Private Secretary (Female)/Gold Coast\". She said that an attractive swimsuit got her the job of Private Secretary to the Governor of the Gold Coast, Sir Charles Arden-Clarke. While working for the Governor, she became a close friend and"}, {"text": "confidant of Kwame Nkrumah, then bidding for Ghana's independence from the United Kingdom. Her closeness to Nkrumah led to her being dismissed in 1954, and being sent back to the UK. Powell returned to Ghana in January 1955, to work for Kwame Nkrumah, a position she held for ten years. During that time she largely wrote Nkumah's (auto)biography, although this was not admitted until much later. She became close friends with the leading librarian Evelyn Evans, who provided calm during periods of stress. Other expatriates in Ghana included Dorothy Hodgkin, who visited her husband Thomas and Conor Cruise O'Brien. Her close relationship and loyalty to Nkrumah bred a lot of rumours, both in Ghana and the UK. It also brought a lot of resentment from various quarters. She was accused of being a foreign spy whilst in Ghana. Nkrumah married an Egyptian even though they had no common language. He complained of being intensely lonely to Powell and wrote to her in 1965, saying \"Did I ever tell you that I married not for myself but for the presidency?\" Powell kept in contact with Nkrumah after he was removed from power, while he was in exile in Guinea until his"}, {"text": "death in April, 1972. Powell was made an MBE in 1958 and OBE in 1960. She later worked for Siaka Stevens as his private secretary from 1970 to 1979. She attended Nkrumah's funeral in 1972, as part of the official Sierra Leone delegation. In 1984, she published her autobiography, Private Secretary (Female)/Gold Coast. The title was drawn from the advertisement that she had applied to, in the 1950s. The biography was delayed for some years because Nkrumah objected to the tone of the initial drafts. It was noted that missing sections of letters hinted that she had a very close relationship with Nkrumah. Powell died in Peterborough on 5 June, 2007. Her obituary was covered by the Times and BBC Radio."}, {"text": "Wang Feifan (born 4 December 1958) is a Chinese speed skater. He competed in the men's 1000 metres event at the 1984 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Karl Garside (born 4 February 1997) is an English now ex professional now semi professional rugby union player who plays as a prop for RFU National 2 North side Sheffield Tigers. He previously worked as a barman and a PE teacher."}, {"text": "Kim Gwang-hyun (born 24 November 1967) is a North Korean speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1984 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Im Ri-bin (, born 6 October 1968) is a North Korean speed skater. He competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics and the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Jill Hamilton Bullitt (born August 21, 1951) is an American artist, political activist, and academic. Early life and education. Bullitt was born on August 21, 1951, in Seattle, Washington. She is the daughter of the poet Carolyn Kizer and Charles Stimson Bullitt, an attorney. She is from a prominent Seattle family descending from Alexander Scott Bullitt. Her paternal grandmother, Dorothy Stimson Bullitt, was the founder of the King Broadcasting Company and the Bullitt Foundation. Bullitt graduated from Stanford University in 1973 and received a master of fine arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999. Career. In 1978 Bullitt co-founded the Social Justice Fund, a foundation focusing on promoting solutions to social justice issues in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. From 1989 until 1990, Bullitt served as the executive director of Dieu Donn\u00e9 Papermill in New York City. In 1995 she was appointed as a scholar-in-residence at Hamilton College. While in graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she worked as a teaching fellow. Bullitt has been a visiting lecturer in art at Duke University and University of Washington. She also served as an assistant professor of art at the"}, {"text": "University of Mount Olive and a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design. \"Marquis Who's Who\" listed Bullitt as a notable artist and educator. In 1993 she was a recipient of the David R. Hunter Founder's Award by A Territory Resource Foundation. In 2003 she was a finalist for an award in painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Bullitt was president of the Friends of the International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture in Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy from 1993 until 2001 and is a co-founder of the El Salvador Media Education Project. She has also served as the executive director of the Boca Lupo Fund, co-director of The Energy Project at the Corporation Data Exchange, and a co-founder and board director of the Central American Media Education Project. In 1996-97 she was a board director of the Threshold Foundation. Bullitt is also a patron of the Museum of Northwest Art. Personal life. Bullitt was married to David Rigsbee, a poet and academic, for eighteen years before they divorced."}, {"text": "Andreas Lemcke (born 9 August 1959) is a German speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1984 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Gin'y\u014d Ika-sh\u016b (\u9280\u8449\u5937\u6b4c\u96c6) is a Japanese \"ky\u014dka\" anthology in five volumes. Compiler and date. \"Gin'y\u014d Ika-sh\u016b\", an anthology of \"ky\u014dka\" poetry, was compiled by Seihakud\u014d Gy\u014df\u016b (\u751f\u767d \u5802\u884c\u98a8) and first printed in the second month of Enp\u014d 7 (1679) by Iseya San'uemon (\u4f0a\u52e2\u5c4b\u5c71\u53f3\u885b\u9580) in Osaka. Title. \"Gin'y\u014d Ika-sh\u016b\" was Gy\u014df\u016b's third collection, following \"Kokin Ikyoku-sh\u016b\" and \"Gosen Ikyoku-sh\u016b\". The names of these earlier two works are derived from the first two imperial anthologies of \"waka\" poetry, the \"Kokin Waka-sh\u016b\" and \"Gosen Waka-sh\u016b\", and so it appears Gy\u014df\u016b intended to follow this pattern in calling this work the Kin'y\u014d Ikyoku-sh\u016b (\u91d1\u8449\u5937\u66f2\u96c6) after the \"Kin'y\u014d Waka-sh\u016b\", but for whatever reason he changed his mind, with both the preface (\u5e8f\u984c) and title page (\u5185\u984c) showing signs of having been amended to the present title. Contents. The collection contains roughly 1,000 \"ky\u014dka\", in ten volumes. The volumes' topics are, respectively, \"Spring\", \"Summer\", \"Autumn\", \"Winter\", \"Felicitations (and Shinto)\", \"Partings (and Travel)\", \"Love\", \"Miscellaneous I (Names of Things and Acrostic Poetry)\", \"Miscellaneous II\", and \"Buddhism\"."}, {"text": "is a Japanese speed skater. He competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics and the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Panafacom was a Japanese microprocessor design firm established on 2 July 1973 by a consortium of companies that included Fujitsu, Fuji Electric and Matsushita (Panasonic). The company was formed to design and manufacture the MN1610, a 16-bit microprocessor. The MN1610 was released in April 1975, becoming one of the world's first single-chip 16-bit microprocessors. The design saw relatively little use and remains largely unknown in the computer field. In 1987, Panafacom was merged with USAC Electronic Industrial to form today's PFU Limited."}, {"text": "Minna Grusander (born March 22, 1989) is a Finnish mixed martial artist. She previously competed for Invicta Fighting Championships. Grusander fought Jinh Yu Frey for the Invicta atomweight title. Mixed martial arts career. Early career. Grusander made her professional debut against Iman Darabi at FNF 10. She won the fight by majority decision. Grusander was scheduled to fight Anna Kuzmenko at Battle of Botnia 2016. She won the fight by a third-round technical knockout. Grusander was scheduled to fight the former K-1 Krush Flyweight and future Pancrase champion Syuri Kondo at Pancrase 284. Kondo won the fight by unanimous decision. Returning to Finland, Grusander was scheduled to fight Tiia Kohtamaki at FNF 14. Grusander won the fight by a third-round technical knockout. Grusnader was scheduled to fight Elena Belaya at FNF 15. She won the fight by a first-round rear-naked choke submission. Grusander was scheduled to fight outside of Finaland for the second time in her professional career, being scheduled to fight Hanna Gujwan at Ladies Fight Night 8. She won the fight by a second-round rear-naked choke. Invicta. Grusander was scheduled to make her Invicta debut against Fernanda Barros at . The fight was likewise Grusander's atomweight debut. Grusander"}, {"text": "won the fight by a second-round TKO. In her second fight with Invicta, Grusander was scheduled to challenge the reigning Invicta FC Atomweight champion Jinh Yu Frey at . Frey won the fight by a highly controversial unanimous decision (49-46, 48-47, 48-47). The majority of fans scored the fight for Grusander. MMA Viking awarded the fight the 2018 \"Robbery of the Year\". An immediate rematch with Jinh Yu Frey was scheduled for . Frey won the closely contested fight by split decision, with scores of 48-47, 47-48 and 48-47. The media members scored the fight for Frey. Post title fights. After losing back-to-back title fights, Grusander returned to strawweight and was scheduled to fight Magdal\u00e9na \u0160ormov\u00e1 at Oktagon 16. \u0160ormov\u00e1 won the fight by unanimous decision. Grusander faced Shauna Bannon on March 15, 2023, at . She lost the fight via unanimous decision."}, {"text": "Hans Hautsch (January 4, 1595January 31, 1670) was a German toolmaker and inventor from Ledergasse, Nuremberg. His father, Antoni (15631627), and grandfather, Kilian (died 1570), were both toolmakers. He married Magdalena (born 1603), the daughter of carpenter Jacob Flexlein, on June 25, 1621. They had a daughter and five sons, including Georg (born 1624, also a toolmaker), Gottfried (16341703), and Johann Andreas (born 1638). Gottfried Hautsch invented the conical touch hole for muzzle-loading guns, whereby the pan closed itself, cutting loading time by two thirds. Inventions. In 1649, Hans Hautsch designed a wheelchair for gout patients. Shortly thereafter, he built a self-propelled, four-wheeled mechanical carriage: \"It moves by itself and requires no initial preload, from a horse or anything else. The car travels 2000 paces every hour; it stops when the driver pleases, starts when the driver pleases, and works entirely on clockwork.\" Shortly afterwards, he was commissioned to produce another chariot, which also apparently operated on clockwork. However, contemporaries were skeptical. In his \"Mathematischen Erquickstunden\" (or \"A Refresher Course in Mathematics\", 1651), Georg Philipp Harsd\u00f6rffer suggested there was a child inside working a crank. French travel writer Balthasar de Monconys, in his 1666 \"Journal des Voyages\", was similarly unconvinced."}, {"text": "In 1650, Hautsch built a fire engine that used a pressurized air vessel to issue a continuous stream of water up to 20m high. On each side, 14 men worked a piston rod back and forth horizontally; a rotating pipe mounted on the hose allowed for a continuous stream of water, even when the piston was being pulled backwards. Caspar Schott observed the engine in 1655 and wrote an account of it in his \"Magia Universalis.\" Around 1660, for the occasion of an imperial visit to Nuremberg, Hautsch built a motorized eagle that flapped its wings. This appears to have caused a rumour that he had invented a flying machine. For the king of Denmark, in 1664, he produced a mechanised dollhouse whose figures performed over 100 individual movements. The following year, he made an instructional model battle for the son of King Louis XIV of France with 462 moving silver soldiers and combat sound effects. He also built a three-storey exhibition which depicted Creation and other Biblical scenes on the bottom stage, seventy-two craftsmen working in the middle, and a large bath house on top. Hautsch also invented \"Streuglanz\", a sparkling, multicolored gloss made from metal shavings. His descendants"}, {"text": "continued to prepare \"Streuglanz\" for small-scale production of wallpaper and enamelled crafts until the end of the eighteenth century."}, {"text": "Gulmarg is one of the 90 constituencies in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir, a union territory of India. Gulmarg is also part of Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency. It comprises Kawarhama tehsil, Kunzar tehsil and parts of Tangmarg tehsil, all in Baramulla district. Mohammad Abass Wani is the current MLA from Gulmarg."}, {"text": "Jean-Jacques d'Esparb\u00e8s (or Desparb\u00e8s; 12 January 1720 \u2013 13 March 1810) was a French soldier who was briefly Governor of Saint-Domingue in 1792 during the French Revolution. Life. Jean-Jacques d'Esparb\u00e8s was born on 12 January 1720. He married a cousin of Madame de Pompadour. He was made \"mar\u00e9chal de camp\" on 25 July 1762, and lieutenant general on 1 March 1780. He commanded the 20th Military Division at Montauban in July 1790. D'Esparb\u00e8s was appointed governor of Santo Domingo in 1792 and accompanied three new civil commissars to the island, L\u00e9ger-F\u00e9licit\u00e9 Sonthonax, \u00c9tienne Polverel and Jean-Antoine Ailhaud. He was to replace governor Philibert Fran\u00e7ois Rouxel de Blanchelande. The expedition included 6,000 soldiers. The future governor \u00c9tienne Maynaud de Bizefranc de Laveaux was lieutenant-colonel in command of a detachment of 200 men of the 16th regiment of dragoons. They reached Cap-Fran\u00e7ais (now Cap-Ha\u00eftien) on 18 September 1792. The commissioners found that many of the white planters were hostile to the increasingly radical revolutionary movement and were joining the royalist opposition. The commissioners announced that they did not intend to abolish slavery, but had come to ensure that free men had equal rights whatever their color. D'Esparbes worked against the commissioners and"}, {"text": "became popular with the royalist planters. On 21 October 1792, the commissioners dismissed d'Esparb\u00e8s and named the vicomte de Rochambeau governor general of Santo Domingo. Both D'Esparb\u00e8s and his predecessor Blanchelande were deported to France. D'Esparb\u00e8s was accused of disloyalty on 4 February 1793, but was acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal on 27 April 1793 and withdrew from public life. He died on 13 March 1810. Work. Surviving writings by d'Esparb\u00e8s include:"}, {"text": "The Pan American Archery Championships is an outdoor archery sports championships gathering nations from North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean."}, {"text": "Balaci\u00f3n, also known as Parao or Balasian, was a large native sailing outrigger ship of the Tagalog people of Laguna in the Philippines."}, {"text": "Beekeeping is a 2008 album by Minneapolis alternative rock band Polara, their fifth and final full-length release. It was released on bandleader Ed Ackerson's Susstones Records label and produced by Ackerson at his recording studio, Flowers. Released six years after the band's previous album \"Jetpack Blues\" and a few months after the more introspective solo album \"Ed Ackerson\", the lineup on \"Beekeeping\" included founding members Ackerson and guitarist Jennifer Jurgens, as well as drummer Peter Anderson. During this period, the band's live group included Jayhawks guitarist Marc Perlman, Tim Oesau, and Ackerson's wife Ashley Ackerson, who also led the group The Mood Swings. Reception. \"Trouser Press\" writer Ira Robbins praised the album as \"a straightforward guitar pop album with few digressions that drops Polara right back in action with all of its strengths not only intact but more smoothly integrated than ever.\" Chris Riemenschneider of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune said that after the mellower \"Ed Ackerson\" album, \"Beekeeping\" had brought Ackerson back \"to the feistier, fuzzier sound of his old band\", comparing the sound to a more \"psychedelic\" Stone Roses. A reviewer for the music blog WeHeartMusic said that \"Polara possesses what I consider the classic Twin Cities rock"}, {"text": "sound\" and that \"Beekeeping\" \"filled me with a sort of heady euphoria that will have me buzzing around the neighborhood for hours.\" Andrea Myers of \"City Pages\" said that Polara \"masterfully balance the accessibility of hooky Britpop with the oddity of adding layers of fuzz and feedback to an otherwise clean sound.\""}, {"text": "Looking Up () is a 2019 Chinese drama film directed by Deng Chao and Baimei Yu. It was written by Baimei Yu, produced by Leng Yi, and starring Deng Chao, Bai Yu, Ren Suxi, Xi Wang, and Xilun Sun. \"Looking Up\" premiered in China on July 18, 2019, and was released in the United States on July 19, 2019. Plot. At a press conference for the two astronauts about to go on the Shuguang No. 16 spacecraft \u2013 fourth-timer Gu Xinghe (Shao Bing) and first-timer Ma Fei (Bai Yu) \u2013 the latter's family is conspicuously not present. September 1990: as a young boy (Feng Ze\u2019ang) in the city of Dongpei, Ma Fei's father, engineer Ma Haowen (Deng Chao), had given him a globe made from a football. But during a splashy ceremony for the opening of a bridge that Ma Haowen had designed, the bridge had collapsed, tarring Ma Haowen's reputation forever. 15 December 2019: After 57 days the two astronauts are due to return to Earth in three days\u2019 time. Suddenly, however, all contact is lost with Jiuquan when some space debris damages the spacecraft's radio antenna. February 1991: Ma Haowen has been convicted of negligence and sent to"}, {"text": "a remote prison, where his wife Xinyu (Ren Suxi) visits and gets him to sign divorce papers. During his prison sentence, Ma Haowen is bullied by fellow convicts; at home, his son Ma Fei is also bullied. In 1997 Ma Haowen returned home to Dongpei after seven years, still hated by people in the town. Xinyu now has a sugar daddy, railway administrator Meng (Liang Chao), and the two have sent Ma Fei (Sun Xilun) to Boyu High School, an exclusive local boarder that's among the four best in Dongpei. When Ma Fei is expelled for skipping class and reading a Jin Yong martial arts novel, Ma Haowen publicly challenges the headmaster, Yan (Li Jianyi), over the decision that if he can make his son become a top ten student, Yan will overturn his decision to expel him. Yan finally agrees to let Ma Fei stay on for a while, as long as he makes the top 10 in class. When Meng has to go to Guangzhou on business, Ma Haowen spends time with his son but he's still mocked by locals in the street and still can't find a job due to his tarnished reputation, despite his vast architectural"}, {"text": "experience. One man, Liu Baliang (Wu Yaheng) who works as a construction supervisor does give him a job after Ma Haowen helps him out in setting a proper demolition of a structure in just two minutes while Liu's men cannot; and Ma Haowen's one-time apprentice, Lu Datou (Wang Ge), surreptitiously gives him and his son a place to stay. In return, Ma Haowen does a lot of work under Lu Datou's name. With his father's encouragement, Ma Fei starts to study hard, though Xinyu is appalled at what is going on. At the high school, Ma Haowen becomes friendly with Gao Tianxiang (Wang Xi), a young replacement teacher who believes in Ma Fei. Ma Haowen tries to get his son to learn in a lateral way, not just rote from school books, and to open his eyes to the world. He finally pulls him out of high school and educates him on the road, though Ma Fei is almost drowned in a heavy storm that separates the two of them. After a difficult test, Ma Fei failed to score in the top ten but Ma Haowen cheered his son up and stated that he was still proud of him for"}, {"text": "trying his best. Gao sneaks into the principal's office and finds Ma Fei's essay and persuades the teacher's council to give Ma Fei a chance to read his essay, which she believes to be good enough to give him a top-ten position. Eventually, the essay moves the teachers and enables Ma Fei to have a perfect score to be a top ten student, making Yan lose the bet. Outside, an insane man comes and wreaks havoc on the school grounds and Ma Haowen forces the principal to reveal that the insane man is actually Yan's son who was once a top student but after a failed test, Yan disowned his son. Depressed, the son committed suicide but survived. However, the head injuries from the suicide caused him to become mentally invalid. After revealing the truth, Yan breaks down and cries causing everyone to realize that the reason he puts Ma Fei down is to hide his own failure as a father. Ma Haowen then makes Yan change his way as his conservative way is the reason why he lost his son. Several years later, Ma Fei graduated from his school and was accepted into aviation school. While eating at a"}, {"text": "restaurant, Ma Haowen discovered that Lu Datou was the one behind the collapse of the bridge after eavesdropping on him talking with his subordinate. Shocked to realize that the reason why Lu was so nice to him and his son was to avoid suspicion all the time, Haowen breaks into the room and confronts Lu. Cornered, Lu reveals that he sabotaged the bridge to gain Haowen's position as chief engineer. Enraged, Haowen beats up Lu and brings him to the court to fully vindicate him after many years. 16 December 2019: Ma Fei volunteers to go outside the spacecraft to inspect the damaged antenna, without which they cannot return to Earth. Gu Xinghe forbids him, but eventually Ma Fei is to make his own, unconventional decision, as his father has always taught him. Music. Steffen Thum's score was recorded at Synchron Stage in Vienna. Production. Creative Background. Xi'an is the hometown of director Yu Baimei, and it is from here that Yu Baimei went out and embarked on the road of film. Yu Baimei said that many of Ma Haowen's stories in the film come from his father, and the film is also a gift he dedicated to his father."}, {"text": "In the film, Ma Haowen took Ma Fei to observe nature to understand the meaning of the poem \"the grass looks far away, but there is nothing close up\", which is the true story of Yu's father. Yu Baimei said that he studied computer science at Xidian University, and he worked in a very good unit after graduation, but that job was not what he wanted to do, and he was determined to write scripts. The whole family opposed it, thinking that he was too far away from this industry. In the end, it was his father who supported him to go the way he wanted to go. Casting. Director Deng Chao personally played the role of Ma Fei's father Ma Haowen. Sun Xilun and Feng Zeang played the roles of Ma Fei as a child and Ma Fei as a teenager respectively, and Bai Yu as an adult Ma Fei. Sun Xilun and Feng Ze'ang were selected by the director from tens of thousands of young actors, while Bai Yu was the crew's favorite from the very beginning. Ren Suxi was selected by director Yu Baimei as the candidate for the role of Xinyu by virtue of her performance"}, {"text": "in works such as \"Donkey Gets Water\" and \"The Unknown Man\". In order to find an actor with outstanding temperament and the appearance of a female teacher in the 90s, the two directors chose Wang Xilai to play Teacher Xiao Gao among thousands of actors. Preliminary Reparation. There is a large part of the film that restores the appearance of cities in the 1990s. In order to ensure that the scenes are realistic, the crew has visited and investigated more than 200 cities across the country. Aspects meet the above characteristics. On June 15, 2018, Deng Chao led the crew of the film to set up a location in Jiande-17 Xin'an River, Hangzhou. From June 16th to 19th, Deng Chao successively visited many primary and secondary schools, factories, residential buildings, railway stations, and the Land and Resources Bureau in Lanxi to see the scenery. On June 18, Lanxi officially announced the recruitment of extras. In less than 24 hours, the number of applicants exceeded 4,000. On June 20, auditioned extras in the Lanxi Sports Center. On June 21, the crew came to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center to check in. There are more than 9,000 sets of costumes in the"}, {"text": "film, and more than 1,000 sets of costumes are needed for just one scene of the Asian Games. The styles and details of each set are different. For this reason, the crew consulted a lot of historical materials, changed their drafts, and restored the school on the spot. , Hospitals, folk customs, dances, etc. More than 20 mass squares were dispatched at the same time; the art department produced more than 24,000 pieces, ranging from frog toys, BB machines, to Kodak film washing shops, shaved ice stands on the road, and even roadside pandas. The shape of cartoon trash cans all bear the imprint of the age. Shooting Process. On September 10, 2018, \"Galaxy Tutorial\" announced its launch, and the launch conference was scheduled to be held at Shushan Middle School in Lanxi, Zhejiang. On October 28, the shooting ceremony of the film was held in Jiande City. On January 3, 2019, the film was announced to be finished. The main scene in the film that reproduces the catastrophic flood in 1998 is both a continuous night scene and a rain scene. In the cold night of early autumn, Deng Chao took the lead in climbing back and forth on"}, {"text": "the dam in the torrential rain. Regardless of his body covered in mud and his lips turning purple from the cold, he kept asking for \"one more\" and fought for more than 10 consecutive nights. What is even more challenging is that in addition to completing the performance, Deng Chao also directed the shooting of complex long shots, and worked with Yu Baimei to complete the large-scale scene scheduling involving thousands of actors such as flood fighting officers and soldiers, and people in the disaster area. Props and Sets. Asian Games. For the scene of the Asian Games alone, the crew started preparations 180 days in advance, took 1,400 hours, and actually trained 30 phalanxes. On the set, the extras shouted cheers and slogans. Director Yu Baimei said that there is only one sentence in the script, \"a sea of people\", but they had to do a lot of homework to realize this \"sea of people\" when shooting. They found thousands of historical concept drawings, the police at that time, the old man playing the suona, the lion dance team, the medical team, the bystanders on both sides, and the garland team. \"The level of sophistication is even \"even the"}, {"text": "hairstyles of every background crowd must conform to the times.\" The torch in Ma Haowen's hand was found by the designer of the Asian Games torch back then, and a 1:1 restoration is absolutely \"authentic\". Flood. The flood scene in the film is the most difficult scene in the film. It took the crew 50 days to complete the construction of the dam, which is equivalent to moving two mountains. The actors of the disaster relief soldiers in the play were the first to receive training in the film. The most difficult part is the precipitation. All actors and crew members have to keep working in the majestic rainfall, the amount of rainfall in three days is equivalent to 4 swimming pools. Most of these shots required thousands of people to be dispatched at the same time. Under the high tension and rigorous preparation, this group of scenes that were most difficult to complete was filmed the fastest. The weather was not too hot when shooting, and the water temperature was only a dozen degrees. Actor Sun Xilun spent three days soaking in the water while filming this scene, and it was still drenched in \"heavy rain\". Deng Chao said"}, {"text": "that after one shot, they quickly pulled him up to wrap him in a blanket and bake the lamp. He was shivering from the cold, and his lips turned white, but when it was time for him to be shot, he went into the water without saying a word, without being coquettish for a minute. Not only hard work, but also very \"high risk\". The camera and lighting must operate in the flooded scene, and there are wires connected everywhere, and the circuit insurance must be foolproof. Aerospace. The aerospace scenes in the film originated from the production of behind-the-scenes personnel from four countries. The special effects part is the responsibility of the Russian team that once produced \"Space Rescue\". The orbital module of \"Dawn 16\" in the movie is built according to the real Chinese spacecraft. Considering that the plot takes place in the future, some futuristic elements are added. In order to build the entire platform, the crew did detailed desk work and manufactured it precisely, from the model of the screws to the material texture of each panel. At least tens of thousands of screws were used. The name of the spacecraft also has a lot of"}, {"text": "origins: the \"Dawn\" program, also known as Project 714, was the first crewed space program in Chinese history, but was shelved for some reason. The film named the spacecraft carried by Ma Fei as \"Dawn 16\", which is a nostalgic commemoration and a high tribute to China's aerospace industry. In the movie, Wentian Pavilion is restored and built with reference to the 1:1 ratio of the style of Jiuquan Aerospace Base in China. The film also invited a number of aerospace experts as consultants to help the crew check the aerospace part setting one by one to ensure the authenticity: from the expression of technical terms such as relay antenna, lift return, and heat insulation tile damage, to the action design of the out-of-vehicle operation, the open space, etc. Communication system, three sets of redundant system design, etc., are professionally checked. In particular, how to return to the cabin after Ma Fei left the cabin to repair the antenna is feasible in the scientific redundant design: astronauts can use the design of redundant oxygen to buy enough time to realize the return operation. Most of Bai Yu's roles are concentrated in the aerospace part, and he has to complete a"}, {"text": "large number of hard-core difficult movements such as simulating weightlessness and space walking. In order to create a realistic weightless effect, he needs to be tied to a wire and rehearse continuously for more than ten hours every day at a height of more than 10 meters. The result is often that after the rehearsal, the muscles of his whole body are stiff and unable to move. In order to complete this role, Bai Yu took the initiative to ask to join the group to receive special training one month in advance. It took 2,521 hours of meticulous craftsmanship and the hard work of 2,400 people in front of and behind the scenes to make the film reproduce the torrent of the 30-year era a reality. Soundtrack Team. In terms of soundtrack, Stephen Tom, who has composed the soundtracks for \"\" and \"Ghost in the Shell\", was invited to be responsible for the original soundtrack for the film. The music of the movie is divided into two themes, the theme of father and son is warm and heartwarming, and the theme of space is passionate and mighty. Deng Chao and Yu Baimei made a special trip to Vienna, Austria, and"}, {"text": "gathered 80 musicians to score the film live. The sound production of the film invited Michael Hengis, who won the Oscar for Best Sound Effects twice. The film adopts the Dolby panoramic sound system, and uses different tools to make the sound appear in all directions, so that the audience can feel the surround sound effect no matter where they sit in the theater, and feel immersive. Editing Team. The editing director of the film is Balu Saluya, who once served as a judge for the Oscars and is also the director of the Indian film \"Wrestle!\" The editing guide of \"Dad\". The final cut of the film is nearly 2 hours and 30 minutes long. Release and promotion. The film was released on July 24, 2019, and featured at the 2019 Busan International Film Festival as well as the 32nd Tokyo International Film Festival."}, {"text": "Emily Ducote (born January 1, 1994) is an American mixed martial artist who competed in the strawweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). She previously competed in Invicta FC, where she was the Invicta FC Strawweight Champion. Background. The daughter of John Ducote and Yvette Bradstreet, Emily was born in Los Angeles, California. Ducote is a Taekwondo Black Belt, first beginning her training in the art at age twelve at her grandparents' recommendation. She wrestled for Los Gatos High School, ending as a runner-up in state championships in her senior year. With an aspiration to wrestle in the best college team, she moved to the Great Plains in 2012 to study kinesiology at Oklahoma City University. She started training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in 2013 and was promoted to black belt in May 2022. Mixed martial arts career. Bellator. Ducote was scheduled to make her Bellator debut against Bruna Vargas at Bellator 159 on July 22, 2016. She won the fight by a second-round rear-naked choke submission. Ducote was scheduled to face Kenya Miranda at Bellator 161 on September 16, 2016. She won the fight by a second-round armbar submission. Ducote was scheduled to face Ilima-Lei Macfarlane at Bellator 167 on"}, {"text": "December 3, 2016. Macfarlane won the fight by unanimous decision, with scores of 30-27, 29-28, 29-28. Ducote was scheduled to face Katy Collins at Bellator 174 on March 3, 2017. She won the fight by a first-round rear-naked choke submission. Ducote was scheduled to face Jessica Middleton at Bellator 181 on July 14, 2017. She won the fight by unanimous decision, with scores of 29-27, 29-28, 29-28. Ducote was scheduled to face Ilima-Lei Macfarlane for the inaugural Bellator Women's Flyweight World Championship at Bellator 186 on November 3, 2017. Macfarlane won the fight by a fifth-round armbar submission. Ducote was scheduled to face Kristina Williams at Bellator 196 on March 2, 2018. Williams won the fight by split decision in a fight where Ducote was dominant and most part of the media called it a controversial decision. Two of the judges scored the fight 29-28 for Williams, while the third judge scored the fight 30-27 for Ducote. Ducote was scheduled to face Veta Arteaga at Bellator 202 on July 13, 2018. Arteaga won the fight by unanimous decision, extending Ducote's losing streak to three fights. After she was released by Bellator, Ducote moved down to strawweight for her next bout"}, {"text": "against Kathryn Paprocki at Xtreme Fight Night 356 on February 1, 2019. She won the fight by a third-round rear-naked choke submission. Invicta FC. Ducote was scheduled to make her promotional debut against Janaisa Morandin at on August 9, 2019. Morandin weighed in three pounds over the strawweight limit, at 119 lbs. Ducote won the fight by a first-round knockout. In her second promotional appearance, Ducote was scheduled to face Kanako Murata for the vacant Invicta FC Strawweight Championship in the main event of on November 1, 2019. Murata won the fight by split decision, with two judges scoring the bout 48-47 and 49-46 in her favor. The third judge scored the fight 48-47 for Ducote. Ducote was scheduled to face Juliana Lima in the main event of on July 2, 2020. She won the fight by unanimous decision, with all three judges awarding her a 29-28 scorecard. Ducote was scheduled to face Montserrat Ruiz at on November 20, 2020. The fight was later cancelled due to \u201cenhanced COVID-19 safety protocols\u201d. Ducote was scheduled to face Liz Tracy at on May 21, 2021. The fight was later cancelled. Invicta FC Strawweight Champion. Ducote faced UFC veteran Danielle Taylor for the"}, {"text": "vacant Invicta FC Strawweight Championship at on August 27, 2021. Her bout with Taylor headlined the first pay-per-view in Invicta FC history. Ducote won the fight by a first-round knockout. She first stopped Taylor in her tracks with a right straight, before flooring her with a head kick. In her first title defence, Ducote faced Alesha Zappitella on May 11, 2022 at . She won the bout after doctor's stopped the bout after the second round due to a cut on Alesha's eyelid. Ultimate Fighting Championship. In June 2022, Ducote signed with the UFC. Ducote made her promotional debut, replacing Brianna Fortino, against Jessica Penne on July 16, 2022 at UFC on ABC 3. She won the fight via unanimous decision. Ducote faced Angela Hill on December 3, 2022 at UFC on ESPN 42. She lost the bout via unanimous decision. Ducote was scheduled to face Polyana Viana on April 29, 2023, at UFC on ESPN 45. However, the bout was rescheduled for UFC Fight Night 223 on May 20, 2023. In turn, Viana withdrew from the bout due to undisclosed reason and was replaced by former LFA Women's Strawweight Champion Lupita Godinez at a catchweight of 120 pounds. She"}, {"text": "lost the fight via unanimous decision. Ducote faced Ashley Yoder on October 14, 2023 at UFC Fight Night 230. She won the fight via unanimous decision. Ducote faced Vanessa Demopoulos on May 18, 2024, at UFC Fight Night 241. She lost the fight by split decision. On July 30, 2024, it was reported that Ducote was removed from the UFC roster. Post-UFC Career. Ducote made her return to Invicta in the main event of against Yulia Ostroverkhova on November 6, 2024. She would win the fight via submission in the second round with an armbar."}, {"text": "The 1920 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 2, 1920, as part of the 1920 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Nevada voted for Republican nominee, Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio, over the Democratic nominee, Governor James M. Cox of Ohio. Harding ran with Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, while Cox ran with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Harding won Nevada by a margin of 20.70%."}, {"text": "Jack van Gelder (; born 27 December 1950) is a Dutch sport commentator and television presenter. He presented many sports television programs of the broadcasting organization NOS, including \"NOS Studio Sportzomer\", \"NOS Studio Voetbal\" and \"NOS Langs de Lijn\", for forty years. Career. Van Gelder began working for TROS in 1972 and for NOS in 1976. He is known for presenting \"Te land, ter zee en in de lucht\" from 1984 to 1996. In 2009, he presented the \"Nationaal Songfestival\", an annual competition held almost every year between 1956 and 2012 to select the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2014, he won the Theo Koomen Award, an annual award for best sports reporting or commentary. He received the award for his commentary of Klaas-Jan Huntelaar's winning goal in the match between Mexico and the Netherlands in the 2014 FIFA World Cup knockout stage. Van Gelder played the role of Pontius Pilate in the 2014 edition of \"The Passion\", a Dutch Passion Play held every Maundy Thursday since 2011. He switched from NOS to the sports television service Sport1 in 2015. The service rebranded to Ziggo Sport Totaal later that year. Van Gelder left Ziggo Sport in 2021."}, {"text": "In 2021, Van Gelder was the main guest in an episode of \"Hoge Bomen\" presented by Jeroen van der Boom. In the same year, he appeared in the New Year's Eve special of \"The Masked Singer\". He also appears in the 2022 children's film \"Het Feest van Tante Rita\" directed by Dennis Bots. Personal life. In 2013, Van Gelder was decorated Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau."}, {"text": "Kanako Murata (\u6751\u7530 \u590f\u5357\u5b50, born August 10, 1993) is a Japanese mixed martial artist and former wrestler, who competes in the Strawweight division. A professional mixed martial artist since 2016, Murata has competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Rizin Fighting Federation and Invicta FC where she is a former Invicta FC Strawweight Champion. Background. Murata was born and raised in Matsuyama, Japan. The granddaughter of a judo dojo master, Murata started training judo at the age of three. She was a national champion in judo in her high school years. After judo, she transitioned to freestyle wrestling in which she won Junior World Championship in 2011. Mixed martial arts career. Rizin Fighting Federation. Murata was scheduled to make her professional debut against Natalya Denisova at Rizin 1 on April 17, 2016. She won the fight by unanimous decision. Murata made her flyweight debut against Maia Kahaunaele-Stevenson at KOTC: Firefight on June 4, 2016. She won the fight by a third-round technical knockout. Murata remained at flyweight for her next fight with Ilona Wijmans at Shoot Box Girls S-Cup 2016 on July 7, 2016. She won the fight by a first-round technical knockout. Murata was scheduled to face Kyra Batara in"}, {"text": "a strawweight bout at on September 26, 2016. She won the fight by unanimous decision. Murata was scheduled to face Rin Nakai in a flyweight bout at on December 29, 2016. Murata suffered her first professional loss, tapping to a rear-naked choke in the third round. Murata was scheduled to face Claire Fryer in a strawweight bout at Pancrase 288 on July 2, 2017. She won the fight by unanimous decision. Murata was scheduled to face Yukari Nabe in a flyweight bout at DEEP 79 Impact on September 16, 2017. She won the fight by unanimous decision. Murata remained at flyweight for her next fight, against Lanchana Green at Rizin 10 on May 6, 2018. She won the fight by a first-round anaconda choke submission. Murata was scheduled to face Angela Magana at Rizin 12 on August 12, 2018. She won the fight by a first-round submission. Murata made her last appearance with Rizin against Saray Orozco at Rizin 15 on April 21, 2019. Murata was originally scheduled to face Shinju Nozawa-Auclair, before Nozawa-Auclair withdrew due to a ligament injury. She won the fight by her second career, and second consecutive, Von Flue choke submission. Invicta. It was announced on"}, {"text": "August 30, 2018, that Murata had signed with Invicta FC, and would compete in their strawweight division. Murata was scheduled to make her promotional debut with Invicta, almost a year after signing with them, against Liana Pirosin at on June 7, 2019. She won the fight by a first-round rear-naked choke submission. This fight earned her a \"Performance of the Night\" award. Murata was scheduled to fight Emily Ducote for the vacant Invicta FC Strawweight Championship at on November 1, 2019. She won the fight by split decision. Ultimate Fighting Championship. Murata announced on July 5, 2020, that she had signed with the UFC. Murata was expected to face L\u00edvia Renata Souza on November 14, 2020 at . However, Souza pulled out in early November due to an undisclosed injury and was replaced by Randa Markos. She won the fight via unanimous decision. Murata faced Virna Jandiroba on June 19, 2021 at UFC on ESPN 25. She lost the fight via doctor stoppage after round 2 due to a elbow dislocation caused by an armbar applied by Jandiroba. After a two-year layoff, Murata faced Vanessa Demopoulos on October 7, 2023, at UFC Fight Night 229. She lost the fight via"}, {"text": "unanimous decision. 13 out of 14 media outlets scored the bout as a win for Murata. On November 7, 2023 it was announced that Murata was no longer with the UFC."}, {"text": "Stuart Head (born 1973) is a British former field hockey player. Biography. Head was educated at Copthorne School in Copthorne, West Sussex, where he was the captain of the hockey club and head boy. He was selected for the England U16 team in 1988. Head played club hockey for East Grinstead in the Men's England Hockey League and while at the club represented England and won a bronze medal, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur He left East Grinstead to join Surbiton for the 1999/2000 season. He was a travelling reserve for the 2000 Summer Olympics. After a competitive playing career, Head coached field hockey at Epsom College alongside former teammate Michael Johnson."}, {"text": "The United States Senate Select Committee on the Tariff Regulation was a Select Committee for the U.S. Senate from February 25, 1823 until March 3, 1923. It is now a defunct congressional committee, having been consolidated into the Committee of Finance in 1923. The first U.S Congress (1789-1791) appointed 220 committees, while the U.S. Senate as of 2017 had 16 standing committees with 67 subcommittees, and five non-standing committees. The merger and combination of committee responsibilities and jurisdiction is the prime reason for the lower number of committees today. Origin. The Committee on Tariff Regulation operated under the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. While the Select Committee on Finance had passed the Tariff Act of 1816, they did not have full jurisdiction over tariff legislation. The Finance Committee shared jurisdiction over tariffs with U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce and Manufactures. Senators on the Commerce and Manufacturers Committee tended to be more protectionist, as the U.S strove to grow its industry. And at the time the Senate steered most tariff legislation to the Commerce and Manufacturers Committee. Senators on the Finance Committee made many attempts to get tariff legislation referred to the Finance Committee. They argued that tariffs were a means"}, {"text": "to raise revenue, and revenue was within the Finance Committee's jurisdiction. But every attempt to refer tariff bills to the Finance Committee failed, as more parochial concerns over protecting the industries of particular Senators\u2019 states resulted in the Senate referring legislation to the Commerce and Manufacturers Committee. As years passed, tariff issues grew larger, exposing a geographic division in the country. Southern and western interests supported reductions in tariffs. Northern interests, however, felt that tariffs were still too low and did not afford enough protection. Out of this turmoil came the creation of the select Committee on the Tariff Regulation. First impact. By 1833, disputes over tariffs reached a crisis. South Carolina threatened to nullify all tariff acts. The Senate was forced to act. And Henry Clay offered a solution in the form of a bill that would draw down tariffs over a 10-year period. Congress passed the bill, and President Jackson signed it into law. The Committee on the Tariff Regulation had approved the bill, allowing the Senate to bypass the protectionist Commerce and Manufacturers Committee. This move away from the Commerce and Manufacturers Committee allowed the Finance Committee to begin to claim the tariff jurisdiction. By the next"}, {"text": "major tariff revision, in 1842, the Finance Committee's claim of authority over tariff legislation was complete, this would not have been possible without the Committee on the Tariff Regulation. Notable regulation passed by the committee. Tariff of 1833. After the Force Bill was passed through Congress, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun proposed the Tariff of 1833, also known as the Compromise Tariff, to resolve the Nullification Crisis. It was subsequently passed by the Committee on the Tariff Regulation. The Tariff of 1833 guaranteed that all tariff rates above 20% would be reduced by one tenth every two years with the final reductions back to 20% coming in 1842. This essentially forced import tariffs to gradually drop over the next decade, pleasing South Carolina and other Southern states that depended on cheap imports. In addition, the Tariff of 1833 had some other impacts. First, it allowed many raw materials used by American industry to be admitted completely free of duty. In addition, it stated that all duties must be paid in cash, with no credit allowed the importing merchant. Ultimately, South Carolina and the rest of the United States would accept the Tariff of 1833, and warfare between the South"}, {"text": "Carolina army and the Union was avoided. Both sides received some benefit from the deal. South Carolina now had a much more agreeable tariff and did not have to mobilize its army to protect its economy, and the United States government, through the Force Act, was given the power to use force to enforce tariffs, strengthening the central government. Many believe that were it not for the Force Act, South Carolina may have continued its Nullification policies because the Force Act gave the United States government the ability to use military force to enforce tariffs and other economic policies, it made fighting for nullification a potentially devastating choice. Tariff of 1842. The Tariff of 1842, or Black Tariff as it became known, was a protectionist tariff. It reversed the effects of the Compromise Tariff of 1833. As the 20% level approached in 1842, industrial interests and members of the Whig Party began clamoring for protection by claiming that the reductions left them vulnerable to European competition. The bill restored protection of U.S industry and raised average tariff rates to almost 40% and stipulated sweeping changes to the tariff schedule and collection system. It also replaced most ad valorem with specific"}, {"text": "duties, assessed on a good-by-good basis. The main beneficiary industry to receive protection under the 1842 tariff was iron. Import taxes on iron goods, both raw and manufactured, amounted to almost two thirds of their price overall and exceeded 100% on many items, such as nails and hoop iron. The law also raised the percentage of dutiable goods from just over 50% of all imports to over 85% of all imports. The impact of the 1842 tariff was felt almost immediately, with sharp decline in international trade in 1843. Imports into the United States nearly halved from their 1842 levels and exports, affected by overall trade patterns, dropped by approximately 20%. Morrill Tariff of 1861. The Morrill Tariff of 1861, concluded only two days before the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, and largely defined the dimensions of American international trade policy for the next fifty years. President James Polk began reforming tariffs in 1846 with moderate rate reductions. These reforms also standardized assessments onto a fixed ad valorem schedule in which tariffs were assessed as a percentage of the import's declared value, replacing the old discriminatory system of specific duties on specific goods enacted by the tariffs of 1842. In 1857"}, {"text": "there was a further uniform reduction in tariff rates. Then the Panic of 1857 saw yet another reversal of course when federal revenues declined significantly. Work began on the Morrill Tariff in 1859. In the 36th Congress no party held a majority and tariff-supporting Republicans faced off against anti-tariff Democrats in a 44-ballot stalemate over the selection of the new speaker of the House of Representatives. In early 1860 the Morrill Tariff passed in the House, not only raising tariff rates but replacing Polk's ad valorem system with the reintroduction of a specific duties-based system. With southern delegations of seceding states no longer in Congress to block the measure, the Morrill Tariff was signed into law by President James Buchanan in March 1861. British opinion at the time favored free trade and the Morrill Tariff was detested in Britain. This development lent unexpected sympathy to Confederate efforts to secure British support early in the American Civil War, but was eventually eclipsed by the Emancipation Proclamation after which British public opinion swung behind the Union. For the northern government, the Morrill Tariff was a shortsighted strategic mistake. It unintentionally alienated an otherwise natural anti-slavery ally for what could, at best, be"}, {"text": "described as short term economic favors to a few politically connected firms and industrialists. The Morrill Tariff was a turning point, as it began 52 years of high tariff protectionism as a national economic policy in the United States. Whereas early 19th century tariff battles saw the U.S. pivot between competing regimes of protection and relatively free trade, the Civil War inaugurated a semi-permanent political ascendance of the tariff's industrial beneficiaries in the Gilded Age. Traditional free trade constituencies in the absent and then politically weakened south, along with the agricultural west, were unable to regain the upper hand until the Woodrow Wilson administration. As a result of its settlement in 1861 and its wartime entrenchment, the tariff remained the dominant topic of American economic policy until the eve of the First World War."}, {"text": "Pleurotomella rappardi is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. Distribution. Fossils of this marine species were found in Oligocene strata in Rhineland, Germany"}, {"text": "Barkly is an outback locality in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. The locality is on the Queensland border with Northern Territory. In the , Barkly had a population of 25 people. Geography. Barkly is a vast area of . This enables it to have a variety of terrains. Much of the locality is located within the Barkly Tableland, which in this region has an () n elevation of around above sea level. Barkly has the following mountain ranges in the north-east of the locality: with Mount Michael () in the west near the Northern Territory border. The locality is within the Lake Eyre drainage basin. The land use is grazing on native vegetation. The Barkly Highway passes through the north-east corner of the locality entering from Gunpowder and exiting to Camooweal. The Camooweal Urandangi Road enters the locality from Camooweal and exits to the south to Piturie. History. The Barkly Tableland was named by explorer William Landsborough on 6 December 1861 during his search for Burke and Wills. It was named after the Governor of Victoria Sir Henry Barkly. The locality was officially and bounded on 23 February 2001. Demographics. In the Barkly had a population of 28"}, {"text": "people. In the , Barkly had a population of 25 people. Economy. There are a number of homesteads in the locality, including: Transport. There are a number of airstrips in the locality, including: Education. There are no schools in Barkly. The nearest primary schools are Camooweal State School in neighbouring Camooweal to the north and Urandangi State School in neighbouring Piturie to the south. However, due to the size of Barkly, attending these schools would only be feasible for children living in the northern and southern parts of Barkly respectively. Most of the Barkly is outside the range of any primary school and distance education or boarding schools would be the only options. The nearest secondary school is Spinifex State College in Mount Isa to the east, but it would be out of range for almost all Barkly families and again distance education or boarding schools would be the only options. Spinifex State College has boarding facilities."}, {"text": "The 2012 Pan American Archery Championships was held in San Salvador, El Salvador from May 21 to 26, 2012."}, {"text": "Exide (Exide Technologies) was an American lead-acid batteries manufacturing company. Exide may also refer to:"}, {"text": "The 2011 Colorado Springs mayoral election took place on May 17 and April 5, 2011, to elect the mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado. The election was held concurrently with various other local elections. The election was officially nonpartisan. This was the first mayor to elect a mayor of Colorado Springs to function under the strong mayor style of governance."}, {"text": "Quadrilateral (foaled 11 April 2017) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse. She was one of the best two-year-old fillies in Europe in 2019 when she was unbeaten in three races including the Group 1 Fillies' Mile. She failed to win any of her three races in the following year. Background. Quadrilateral is a chestnut filly bred in England by her owner Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farm. She was sent into training with Roger Charlton at Beckhampton in Wiltshire. She was from the fourth crop of foals sired by Frankel, an undefeated racehorse whose other progeny have included Cracksman, Anapurna, Soul Stirring and Without Parole. Quadrilateral's dam Nimble Thimble showed modest ability on the track, winning one minor race from three starts. Her dam Skiable was a half-sister to the outstanding broodmare Hasili. Racing career. 2019: two-year-old season. Quadrilateral was ridden in all of her races as a two-year-old by Jason Watson. The filly began her racecourse career in a maiden race over seven furlongs at Newbury Racecourse on 16 August when she started the 7/2 second favourite in a ten-runner field. After racing in mid-division she made steady progress in the last quarter mile, took the lead in the closing stages and"}, {"text": "won by a neck from the colt Mambo Nights. Five weeks later, over the same course and distance, Quadrilateral contested a minor fillies' race in which she started the 7/4 second favourite behind the Michael Stoute-trained Melnikova. She was restrained by Watson at the rear of the seven-runner field before moving up to take the lead approaching the final furlong and drawing away from her opponents to win in \"impressive\" style by eight lengths. On 11 October at Newmarket Racecourse Quadrilateral was stepped up is class and started the 9/4 favourite for the Group 1 Fillies' Mile. Her eight opponents included Love (Moyglare Stud Stakes), Cayenne Pepper (Flame Of Tara Stakes), Powerful Breeze (May Hill Stakes), Boomer (Prestige Stakes) and West End Girl (Sweet Solera Stakes). She settled behind the leaders as West End Girl set the pace, before making progress in the last quarter mile. Quadrilateral maintained her run, overtook Powerful Breeze in the final strides and won by a head with a length and a half back to Love in third place. After the race Charlton said \"She kept responding and I thought she did really well to get there. She fought like a good\u2019un and handled the"}, {"text": "track, it was a great effort really... that was a proper test and she did it 100%.\" 2020: three-year-old season. The flat racing season in England was disrupted by the COVID-19 Pandemic and the 1000 Guineas was run a month later than usual on 7 June over the Rowley mile at Newmarket. Quadrilateral headed the betting at odds of 11/4 in a fifteen-runner. With Watson in the saddle she was in contention from the start and kept on well in the closing stages but never looked likely to win and came home third, beaten two and a half quarter lengths and a head by Love and Cloak of Spirits. Thirteen days later, the filly started favourite for Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot and finished third behind Alpine Star and Sharing, beaten six lengths by the winner. On 23 August the filly was dropped in class and started favourite for the Group 3 Atalanta Stakes over one mile at Sandown Park. She raced in second place for most of the way but was unable to make any progress in the closing stages and came home fourth behind the front-running winner Maamora."}, {"text": "Pleurotomella striarella is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. Distribution. Fossils of this marine species were found in Eocene strata in \u00cele-de-France, France"}, {"text": "Anfernee Jennings (born May 1, 1997) is an American professional football linebacker for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide and was selected in the third round of the 2020 NFL draft by the Patriots. Early life. Jennings grew up in Dadeville, Alabama, and attended Dadeville High School, where he played defensive end and tight end for the Tigers. He made 171 tackles with seven sacks in his junior season and was named honorable mention Super All-State by \"AL.com\". As a senior, Jennings was named first-team 4A All-State and the 4A Lineman of the Year after posting 170 tackles with 88 solo stops, 14 sacks, nine pass breakups and two forced fumbles. Rated a four-star recruit, Jennings committed to play college football at Alabama over offers from Arkansas, Arizona State, Georgia, Mississippi State and Nebraska. College career. Jennings redshirted his true freshman season as he moved from defensive end to the outside linebacker position. He played as a key reserve as a redshirt freshman, finishing the year with 19 tackles (two for loss) and three quarterback hurries. Jennings became a starter during redshirt sophomore season and made 41"}, {"text": "tackles, six for a loss, with one sack. Jennings suffered what was initially diagnosed to be a PCL injury in the final minutes of the 2018 Sugar Bowl against Clemson, causing him to miss the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship Game. The injury was re-evaluated and Jennings was found to have also damaged an artery and developed a blood clot in his leg. Jennings returned from his injury in time to begin his redshirt junior season. He finished the year with 51 tackles, including 14 for loss, 6.5 sacks, with an interception, a team-high 11 passes defended and two fumble recoveries (one of which was returned for his first career touchdown). Jennings entered his redshirt senior season on the Chuck Bednarik Award and Butkus Award watchlists and was named pre-season All-SEC and a second-team pre-season All-American by the \"Sporting News\". Jennings had 83 tackles, 12.5 tackles for loss, 8.0 sacks, five pass breakups, one forced fumble and an interception and was named first-team All-SEC in his final season. Jennings finished his collegiate career with 194 tackles, 34.5 tackles for loss, 15.5 sacks, three forced fumbles, two interceptions and 20 passes defended in 54 games (38 starts). Professional career. In"}, {"text": "the 2020 NFL draft, Jennings was drafted by the New England Patriots in the third round with the 87th overall pick. He made his NFL debut in the season opener on September 13, 2020, against the Miami Dolphins, playing nine snaps on defense in a 21\u201311 win. Jennings made his first career start on October 18, 2020, recording three tackles in an 18\u201312 loss to the Denver Broncos. On August 31, 2021, Jennings was placed on injured reserve, ending his season. Jennings entered the 2022 season as a backup linebacker. He played in 16 games with three starts, recording 27 tackles, 1.5 sacks, two passes defensed, and a forced fumble. On March 15, 2024, Jennings signed a three-year, $12 million contract extension with the Patriots. Personal life. Jennings's younger brother, Shawndarius \"Shawn\" Jennings, also plays college football and originally played at Alabama with Anfernee before transferring to South Alabama. As of January 2025, Jennings has been in a relationship with Brittany Hurst."}, {"text": "The Gap is a suburb of the town of Mount Isa in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. In the , The Gap had a population of 817 people. Geography. The Leichhardt River flows north-south through the town of Mount Isa, dividing the suburbs of the town into \"mineside\" (west of the Leichhardt River) and \"townside\" (east of the Leichhardt River). The Gap is a \"townside\" suburb. History. The Gap was named by Queensland Place Names Board on 1 September 1973. On 16 March 2001 its status was changed from a locality to suburb. Demographics. In the , The Gap had a population of 818 people. In the , The Gap had a population of 817 people. Education. There are no schools in The Gap. The nearest government primary schools are Mount Isa Central State School in neighbouring Mount Isa City (CBD) to the west and Townview State School in neighbouring Townview to the south-east.The nearest government secondary school is Spinifex State College which has its junior campus in Parkside to the south-west and its senior campus in neighbouring Pioneer to the east. Attractions. Riversleigh Fossil Centre is a tourist attraction which features the fossils from the Riversleigh World"}, {"text": "Heritage Area. It is at 19 Marian Street (). The City Lookout has 360-degree panoramic views across the city of Mount Isa and is accessible both day and night. It is on Lookout Road, off Hilary Street ()."}, {"text": "Menzies is a suburb of the town of Mount Isa in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. In the , Menzies had a population of 824 people. Geography. The Leichhardt River flows north\u2013south through the town of Mount Isa, dividing the suburbs of the town into \"mineside\" (west of the Leichhardt River) and \"townside\" (east of the Leichhardt River). Menzies is a \"townside\" suburb. History. Menzies was named by the Queensland Place Names Board on 1 September 1973. On 16 March 2001 the status of Menzies was changed from a locality to a suburb. St Kieran's Christian Brothers College opened on 25 January 1960 with an initial enrolment of 132 boys in Years 4 to 7 with Brother Tom Higgins as the first principal. By 1967 the school had an enrolment of over 300 boys in Years 4 to 10. Increasing enrolments put pressure on the classroom space and in 1970 the school ceased to offer Year 4 (as that was available at St Joseph's Catholic Primary School at Parkside). The school closed on 7 December 1984 as part of a rationalisation and amalgamation of the various Catholic schools in Mount Isa, resulting in Mount Isa Catholic High School"}, {"text": "(a merger of St Kieran's secondary school with the girls' secondary San Jose College) occupying the former St Kieran's site in Menzies. St Kieran's Catholic Primary School was then opened at a new site in Pioneer. On 20 May 2005 Mount Isa Catholic High School was renamed as Good Shepherd Catholic College. Demographics. In the , Menzies had a population of 985 people. In the , Menzies had a population of 824 people. Education. Good Shepherd Catholic College is a Catholic secondary (7-12) school for boys and girls at the corner of Mary and Camooweal Streets (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 489 students with 42 teachers and 25 non-teaching staff (22 full-time equivalent). There are no government schools in Menzies. The nearest government primary school is Mount Isa Central State School in neighbouring Mount Isa City (the central business district) to the south. The nearest government secondary school is Spinifex State College which has its junior campus in Parkside to the south-west and its senior campus in neighbouring Pioneer to the east."}, {"text": "Pleurotomella striatulata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. Distribution. Fossils of this marine species were found in Miocene strata in Aquitaine, France"}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Wright State Raiders men's basketball team represented Wright State University in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Raiders, led by fourth-year head coach Scott Nagy, played their home games at the Nutter Center in Fairborn, Ohio as members of the Horizon League. They finished the season 25\u20137, 15\u20133 in Horizon League play to be regular season Horizon League champions. They lost in the semifinals of the Horizon League tournament to UIC. As regular season league champions who failed to win their league tournament, they received an automatic bid to the National Invitation Tournament. However, the NIT, and all other postseason tournament, were cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous season. The Raiders finished the 2018\u201319 season 21\u201314 overall, 13\u20135 in Horizon League play, finishing as co-regular season champions, alongside Northern Kentucky. In the Horizon League tournament, they defeated IUPUI in the quarterfinals, Green Bay in the semifinals, before falling to Northern Kentucky in the championship game. As a regular season league champion who failed to win their league tournament, they received an automatic bid to the NIT, where they lost to Clemson in the first round. Schedule and results. !colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=|"}, {"text": "Horizon League regular season !colspan=12 style=| Horizon League tournament !colspan=12 style=| NIT Source Statistics. Source"}, {"text": "Justin Thomas Pidcock (born Q2. 1968) is a British former field hockey player. Biography. Pidcock represented Cheshire at county level before he joined Neston to play club hockey in the Men's England Hockey League for the 1988/89 season. He was called up for the full England squad in April 1992. Midway through the 1992/93 season he signed to play for Cannock and while at the club represented England and won a bronze medal, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and participated in the 1998 Men's Hockey World Cup. He missed much of the 1999/2000 season after snapping a kneecap. He joined Bowdon in late 2000 and became a player coach before being their full time coach. Family. His nephew is cyclist Tom Pidcock."}, {"text": "Heron's Ghyll is a hamlet in the Wealden district of East Sussex in England. It is located between Crowborough and Uckfield on the A26 road, which forms the boundary between the civil parishes of Maresfield to the west and Buxted to the east. St John the Evangelist Church is a Catholic church in the hamlet, on the east side of the road. On the same side there is a house, also called Heron's Ghyll but also known as Buxted Hall, that was purchased by the poet Coventry Patmore in 1866; the house was occupied by Temple Grove School, a preparatory school, from 1935 until the school's closure in 2004. The house was subsequently converted into apartments and is now called Temple Grove House. The grounds include a late 19th-century garden laid out by Patmore. To the west of the A26 there is the Oldlands estate, also owned by Patmore between 1866 and 1869."}, {"text": "Carl Allen Granderson (born December 18, 1996) is an American professional football defensive end for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for the Wyoming Cowboys, he was signed by the Saints as an undrafted free agent in 2019. Professional career. Granderson signed with the New Orleans Saints as an undrafted free agent following the 2019 NFL draft on May 10, 2019. He received a $15,000 signing bonus and a base salary guarantee of $70,000. He was placed on the reserve/did not report list on July 18, 2019, while serving his prison sentence. He was reinstated from the \"did not report\" list and given a roster exemption on August 31, 2019, after his release from jail. He was placed on the active roster on September 16, 2019. On March 10, 2022, Granderson signed a two-year contract extension with the Saints. He played in 16 games with four starts in 2022, recording 53 tackles and 5.5 sacks, good for fourth on the team. On September 23, 2023, Granderson signed a four-year, $52 million contract extension with the Saints. Personal life. Granderson was sentenced to six months in prison on July 11, 2019, after pleading"}, {"text": "no contest to sexual battery and unlawful contact from an incident in 2018 involving two women. After 43 days in jail, on August 26, a judge suspended his jail sentence and sentenced him to one year of supervised probation instead."}, {"text": "Robert Burrowes may refer to:"}, {"text": "The soils of the Dogu\u2019a Tembien \"woreda\" (district) in Tigray (Ethiopia) reflect its longstanding agricultural history, highly seasonal rainfall regime, relatively low temperatures, an extremely great variety in lithology (with dominance of basalts and limestone) and steep slopes. Outstanding features in the soilscape are the fertile highland Vertisols and Phaeozems in forests. Factors contributing to soil diversity. Climate. Annual rainfall depth is very variable with an average of around 800 mm. Most rains fall during the main rainy season, which typically extends from June to September. Mean temperature in woreda town Hagere Selam is 16.8 \u00b0C, oscillating between average daily minimum of 9.3 \u00b0C and maximum of 24.1 \u00b0C. The contrasts between day and night air temperatures are much larger than seasonal contrasts. Geology. From the higher to the lower locations, the following geological formations are present: Topography. As part of the Ethiopian highlands the land has undergone a rapid tectonic uplift, leading the occurrence of mountain peaks, plateaus, valleys and gorges. Land use. Generally speaking the level lands and intermediate slopes are occupied by cropland, while there is rangeland and shrubs on the steeper slopes. Remnant forests occur around Orthodox Christian churches and a few inaccessible places. A recent"}, {"text": "trend is the widespread planting of eucalyptus trees. Environmental changes. Soil degradation in this district became important when humans started deforestation almost 5000 years ago. Depending on land use history, locations have been exposed in varying degrees to such land degradation. Geomorphic regions and soil units. Given the complex geology and topography of the district, it has been organised into land systems - areas with specific and unique geomorphic and geological characteristics, characterised by a particular soil distribution along the soil catena. Soil types are classified in line with World Reference Base for Soil Resources and reference made to main characteristics that can be observed in the field. Hagere Selam Highlands. This land system occurs on the central basalt plateau and adjacent ridges; Hagere Selam is entirely in this land system, which is also predominant in \"tabias\" Selam, Mahbere Sillasie, Melfa, Lim'at, Seret, Simret, Mika'el Abiy as well as Arebay. Basalt plateau. This land system occurs on the westernmost ridges of Dogu\u2019a Tembien, where basalt is overlying Adigrat Sandstone without intervening Antalo Limestone; it is predominant in \"tabias\" Menachek, Mizan, Aregen and Degol Woyane. Adigrat Sandstone cliff and footslope. This land system occurs on the steep slopes towards the southwestern"}, {"text": "lowlands; it occupies large areas of \"tabias\" Walta, Simret, Mizan, Aregen, Degol Woyane, Mahbere Sillasie and Haddinnet. Alluvial plain of Giba River. This land system occurs in Kemishana at the southwestern side of Dogu\u2019a Tembien, where the Giba River gorge widens up when entering into the Abergele lowlands. Strongly incised Giba gorge. This land system occurs on in the deeply incised gorge of Giba River, at the lower side of \"tabias\" Walta, Inda Sillasie, Amanit and Debre Nazret. Gently rolling Antalo Limestone plateau, holding cliffs and valley bottoms. This land system occurs on Antalo Limestone, it is predominant in \"tabias\" Walta, Inda Sillasie, Ayninbirkekin, Amanit and Debre Nazret. Gently undulating Agula shale plateau with dolerite. This land system occurs on Agula Shale at the east of Dogu\u2019a Tembien, it is predominant in \"tabias\" Addi Azmera, Mizane Birhan and parts of Debre Nazret, Haddinnet and Addilal. Incised Giba plateau, upstream of (future) Lake Giba. This land system occurs on Antalo Limestone; it is predominant in \"tabias\" Emni Ankelalu and Addilal. Giba wide valley bottom. This land system occurs where the Giba valley widens; it occurs only at the lower places of \"tabia\" Emni Ankelalu and will be flooded once the Lake"}, {"text": "Giba reservoir will be filled. Soil erosion and conservation. The reduced soil protection by vegetation cover, combined with steep slopes and erosive rainfall has led to excessive soil erosion. Nutrients and organic matter were lost and soil depth was reduced. Hence, soil erosion is an important problem, which results in low crop yields and biomass production. As a response to the strong degradation and thanks to the hard labour of many people in the villages, soil conservation has been carried out on a large scale since the 1980s and especially 1980s; this has curbed rates of soil loss. Measures include the construction of infiltration trenches, stone bunds, check dams, small reservoirs such as Chini and May Leiba as well as a major biological measure: exclosures in order to allow forest regeneration. On the other hand, it remains difficult to convince farmers to carry out measures within the farmland (\"in situ\" soil management), such as bed and furrows or zero grazing, as there is a fear for loss of income from the land. Such techniques are however very effective."}, {"text": "The 2019 United Kingdom general election in England was held on Thursday 12 December across 533 constituencies within England. Results. \"Note: the above figures include the Speaker being counted in the Labour totals, despite the Speaker being non-partisan.\" Analysis. The Conservatives retained a majority of seats in England, with a net increase of 48 seats. They increased their share of the vote to their highest since 1970 and increased their share of the seats to their highest since 1987 and gained seats in the Labour Party's strongholds, specifically in areas which voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum. The Labour Party decreased their share of votes and suffered losses mostly to the Conservatives. The Liberal Democrats increased their share of votes mostly in constituencies that voted Remain in the 2016 EU referendum, but failed to make any substantial gains in this election. The Brexit Party gained votes from Labour, especially in Leave-voting constituencies, but failed to make any breakthrough in this election. The Green Party increased its share of the vote but failed to make any gains, although it retained Brighton Pavilion. Regional results. Yorkshire and the Humber. Labour won the most seats in the region; however, the Conservatives won"}, {"text": "more votes. Results by county. The below tables summarise the results by county as used by the Boundary Commission for England at the time of the last boundary review. Donations. Electoral commission data shows that in 2019 Q4, total donations for each major political party, over \u00a37,500, are as follows:"}, {"text": "Pleurotomella vagans is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. Distribution. Fossils of this marine species were found in Oligocene strata in \u00cele-de-France, France References. Freunde der Naturgeschichte in Mecklenburg 25, 5\u2013128"}, {"text": "Duncan James Woods (born April 1973) is a male British former field hockey player who represented Great Britain and England. Biography. Woods was educated at The Leys School and studied at Loughborough University. He played club hockey for Southgate in the Men's England Hockey League. While at Southgate, he won a bronze medal for England at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, participated in the 1998 Men's Hockey World Cup and represented England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. After retiring from international hockey, Woods went into coaching. He was player/coach at Chelmsford and joined Felsted School as a coach in 2007. Woods was appointed first team coach of Belper in 2012 before moving to Leicester for the 2013/14 season. He later became a coach at Millfield."}, {"text": "As You Wish is the seventh extended play by South Korean-Chinese girl group WJSN. It was released on November 19, 2019, by Starship Entertainment and distributed by Kakao M. It contains a total of seven songs, including the lead single \"As You Wish\". Background and release. On October 24, 2019, WJSN revealed through its official social media accounts that the group would release a new mini-album. They published their promotional schedule on October 30, confirming the release date as November 19. The track listing was released on November 7. WJSN released the mini-album on November 19, and held a comeback showcase on V Live in commemoration. Commercial performance. \"As You Wish\" sold 49,410 copies in its first week of release according to Hanteo. It debuted at number 2 on the weekly Gaon Album Chart. The album went on to sell over 63,000 copies in the month of November 2019, thus in just 11 days, ranking 8th on the monthly Gaon Album Chart. As of April 2020, the album has sold 96,647 copies in South Korea. The album's title track, \"As You Wish\" was charted at number 106 on the Gaon Digital Chart on the week ending November 23, 2019. Despite"}, {"text": "being released in November 2019, \"As You Wish\" has topped the major South Korean real-time charts such as MelOn, Bugs, and Genie in the morning of New Year's Day for six consecutive years from 2020 to 2025. This phenomenon has been attributed to its hopeful lyrics and the belief among MZ (Millennials and Generation Z) that the first song one listens to on New Year's Day determines their luck for the year. Charts. Weekly charts Monthly charts Year-end charts"}, {"text": "High Hurstwood is a village in the Wealden district of East Sussex."}, {"text": "Edward Fleetwood Berry (9 February 1817 \u2013 28 May 1875) was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the mid 19th century. Fleetwood was born in King's County, Ireland (now Offaly) and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was Archdeacon of Meath from 1872 to 1875."}, {"text": "Alexander Dorosinskiy (; born August 13, 1973, Sverdlovsk, USSR) is a Russian racing car driver and entrepreneur, the champion of Estonian classic rally 2004, a prize-winner of the stages of the World Rally Championship, the World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, and The FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Bajas. Biography. Alexander Dorosinskiy was born in Sverdlovsk on August 13, 1973, in the family of a teacher of the Ural Polytechnic Institute Leonid Grigoryevich Dorosinskiy (now - a professor and a doctor of technical sciences) and a teacher Anna Vladimirovna Dorosinskiy (now - an honored teacher of Russia). In his own words, Dorosinskiy's interest in motorsport arose in childhood due to his frequent trips all over the Soviet Union in his father's Zhiguli car, which his father taught him to drive at the age of 12. Then Alexander began to attend kart racing classes, and at the age of 27 he went on to become a professional racing driver - through a former racing driver Vladimir Talanov, a champion of Russia. He studied at the Ural State Medical University, but he dropped out after the second year of studies. In 2005 he graduated from the Ural State University of Economics. In 2001,"}, {"text": "Dorosinskiy began entrepreneurial activity, launching \u201cSIMphony\u201d network of mobile communication salons, which in 2005 already had 111 stores in the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan and Tyumen regions, and its share in the Ural mobile retail market was 17-18%. In 2005, he founded \u201cMirai-Avto\u201d company, which became the official dealer of Subaru cars in Tyumen, and then opened a Subaru service center in Surgut. According to Dorosinskiy, his business was aimed primarily at the opportunity to engage in car racing. At the same time he was developing a career in motorsport and in October 2004 he became the winner of the Estonian Classic Rally Championship in N2000+ class (the main one that year) with three prizes in the absolute at the stages of the tournament. In the same year he made his debut at the stage of the World Rally Championship in Finland. In 2005, Dorosinskiy together with a racing car driver founded the rally team \"Subaru Team Russia\", which was even called \u2018the Russian rally team\u2019 in the press. In the same year, a team with Alexander Dorosinskiy took part in the World Rally Championship at the stage in Cyprus, and in 2006 Alexander\u2019s crew took a third place in the"}, {"text": "Production category in the Rally New Zealand. In the same year, Dorosinskiy became the third in the overall classification of the stage of the Finnish Rally Championship (at SM Waltikka Ralli). His result was the best achievement ever made by Russians at Finnish rallies before Nikolay Gryazin won the Finland Rally 2019 at The FIA World Rally Championship-2. According to the results of the entire 2006 season, Alexander took eighth place in the A8 class of the Finnish championship. In 2007, as a part of a crew with a navigator Dmitry Eremeev, he took part in the Rally Sweden, the Rally Mexico, and the Rally Argentina. In 2009, 2017 and 2018, he took part in Russian \u201cCan-Am-X-Race\u201d. Also in 2018, he was a part of a crew with a navigator Oleg Uperenko in the Morocco Rally in the all-terrain vehicle class. In 2019, he took part in the Dakar Rally in Peru as part of the Russian crew of all-terrain vehicles. Also for a long time Dorosinskiy was a coach of a racing driver Sergey Karyakin, who won the Dakar rally in 2017 in the classification of all-terrain vehicles. In 2019 the crew of Alexander Dorosinskiy and Oleg Uperenko performed"}, {"text": "in three stages of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Bajas, and they took fifth place in Bajas Italy, second place in Bajas Aragon and third one in Hungarian Bajas in T3 class (10, 15 and 10 places in the absolute), which provided Alexander the fifth place following the results of the tournament in his category. Also in 2019 Alexander Dorosinskiy and Oleg Uperenko took part in the Morocco Rally for the second year in a row - the final stage of the World Cup in rally-raids, their crew took third place in the T3 class and ninth in the overall classification. He is currently a pilot of the Sport Racing Technologies rally team, driving a buggy."}, {"text": "Roger Hawkins is a Zimbabwean director and film producer best known for films such as \"The Legend of the Sky Kingdom\" (2003), \"The Silent Fall\" (2006) and \"The Lion of Judah\" (2009). Early life and career. Born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe, Hawkins graduated with a BSc degree in agriculture from the University of Natal. After earning his BSc, he became a school teacher, advertising copywriter, fumigator, soil surveyor, research assistant, lounge pianist and landscape gardener. Hawkins resigned from his job as a math teacher in 1993 to pursue a career in the performing arts. He staged a musical he wrote and directed called \"The Singer\". Following the success of \"The Singer\", Hawkins produced the TV series \"Adventure Unlimited\" and the television film \"Choose Freedom\". He studied directing at the independent film school Raindance Film Festival. Hawkins directed the 60-minute TV film \"Dr Juju\", which was shot in six days. In 2003, Hawkins released his full-length animated feature film \"The Legend of the Sky Kingdom\". It was made in Harare and pioneered a technique called \"junkmation\". The film was chosen among the top five of 1,300 entries at the World Animation Festival in France. Hawkins worked with fifteen people and"}, {"text": "spent four years making the film. The characters and sets in the film were made from discarded items such as car parts, tools, kitchen utensils, pipes and pieces of wood."}, {"text": "John M. Martinis (born 1958) is an American physicist and a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2014, the Google Quantum A.I. Lab announced that it had hired Martinis and his team in a multimillion dollar deal to build a quantum computer using superconducting qubits. Career. John M. Martinis received his B.S. in physics in 1980 and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. During his Ph.D., he investigated the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic variable, the phase difference across a Josephson tunnel junction. He joined the Commissariat \u00e0 l'Energie Atomique in Saclay, France, for a first postdoc and then the Electromagnetic Technology division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, where he worked on superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) amplifiers. While at NIST he developed a technique of X-ray detection by using a superconducting transition-edge sensor microcalorimeter with electrothermal feedback. Since 2002 he has been working with Josephson-Junction qubits with the aim of building the first quantum computer. In 2004 he moved to the University of California Santa Barbara, where he held the Worster Chair in experimental physics until 2017. In 2014, Martinis and his team were"}, {"text": "hired by Google to build the first useful quantum computer. On October 23, 2019, Martinis and his team published a paper on Nature with title \"Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor\", where they presented how they achieved quantum supremacy (hereby disproving the extended Church\u2013Turing thesis) for the first time using a 53-qubits quantum computer. In April 2020 Martinis resigned from Google after being reassigned to an advisory role. On September 29, 2020, it was announced that Martinis had moved to Australia to join Silicon Quantum Computing, a start-up founded by Professor Michelle Simmons. In 2022 he co-founded the company Qolab based on the premise that \"the semiconductor industry holds the key to creating a practical quantum computer by enabling the large-scale fabrication of high-quality qubits\". As of January 2025 he is the CTO of the company. In 2021, he received the John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and Their Applications."}, {"text": "Archery has been contested at the Military World Games since the 2015 edition."}, {"text": "The Production Cantata (, also ) is a cantata by Chinese composer Xian Xinghai (1905\u20131945) (). Composed in Yan'an in early 1939 during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the work is a setting of patriotic texts by Chen Bingjun. Historical background. The work was premiered on 24 March 1939 in the Shanbei Gongxue Hall of Yan'an, conducted by the composer. The Production Cantata was originally conceived as a three movement staged tableau with costume. After the first performance, an additional movement was interpolated between the second and third movement of the original version to create a four movement work. This final version was subsequently performed in the early 1940s at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts. Upon receiving request from the Communist leadership to produce works that would galvanize people's support for the major offensive battle taking place in 1939, Xian completed his first opera March of the Army and the People in January 1939, followed by two cantatas, the Production Cantata, which premiered on 24 March 1939, and the Yellow River Cantata, which was first performed four weeks later on 13 April. The Production Cantata clearly shows Xian's considerable progress at coming to know \u201cChina's situation\u201d. Xian worked with"}, {"text": "the librettist Chen Bingjun (\u9648\u79c9\u94a7), who was known by his nom de guerre Sai Ke (\u585e\u514b) meaning \u201cthe Bolshevik\u201d. Sai Ke was another of Xian's colleagues who had acquired renown as a playwright and lyricist in the South China Society. Librettist and composer produced a secular cantata centered on the seasonal cycle of peasant life and correlated their daily life growing crops to the 8th Route Army's battle against the enemy. Musical influence. Although Huang Zi's setting of Chang Hen Ge for chorus and piano was written in 1933, the Production Cantata is the first work by a Chinese composer for chorus and orchestra, and accordingly can be claimed as China's first large-scale choral-symphonic work. Production Cantata is all the more noteworthy in this regard, as the orchestra used is an ensemble of Chinese instruments (with the bass line augmented by cellos and basses), rather than an ensemble of western instruments. Xian Xinghai's student Li Huanzhi assisted with the orchestrations. Liu Wenjin also had input into the orchestration of the third movement. The Production Cantata's second movement begins with the tune Er Yue Li Lai (\u4e8c\u6708\u91cc\u6765). This melody was an instant hit, and remains a permanent fixture of Chinese musical"}, {"text": "life. The tune demonstrates Xian Xinghai's genius as a melodist. His ability, on display throughout this work and his other compositions, to craft melodies that echo Chinese folk music and thus obtain an instant emotional response from Chinese listeners can be compared to **Tchaikovsky's ability in the same field. Structure. The Production Cantata consists of four movements that unfold through the seasonal farming cycle. The first movement, Spring Plowing, begins with thunderous Chinese drums that recall itinerant music troupes announcing their arrival in the countryside to attract peasants to their performances. The percussion then segues to folk melodies played on a combination of plucked and bowed Chinese instruments, before progressing to solemnly soaring music that captures the sacred nature of the rituals for opening the spring earth for planting, a commoner's ritual that came to be celebrated in imperial ceremonies for thousands of years. The peasant audience would have been excited to hear their work cries and vocabulary in the ornate choral arrangement. The first movement rises to equate the labour of farmers with the valour and courage of the peasant army, a connection that would not have been apparent to farmers in generations past. Sai Ke's lyrics dispensed with"}, {"text": "older customs of opaque couplets in classical Chinese so that the content of music reflected reality \u2013 the thoughts, feeling and lives of the countryside. The second movement, Planting, commences with lion dance percussion followed by the melody Er Yue Li Lai, a lieder celebrating the sowing of seeds and the karmic reward of such work in terms of sustenance for life. The lyrics call to the farmers to rise above the age-old curse of petty factionalism and embrace unity. The second section returns to a percussive segment that replicate the rhythms of soldiers on the march and then builds to a folk idiom where the tempo ever increases, suggesting the storm of a guerrilla assault on the enemy. The third movement, Harvest, juxtaposes blocks of material taken from folk music, weaving work cries in accelerating calls to reap the harvest and thereby defeat an invader that is hopelessly bound to fail. The choir lapses into hearty laughter at completing the enemy's impossible task, a tweaking of the nose of the Japanese imperial \u201csuperman.\u201d The fourth movement, The Abundant Year, releases the tension of the prior movement through its celebration of the harvest and the satisfaction felt by the peasants"}, {"text": "at the fruits of their labour. Xian and Sai Ke bring the peasant audience further into the composition through their musical and lyrical wit, reproducing the sounds of livestock in whimsical innovations and building to exultant exclamation of the invincibility of a new China. The Cantata ends as a monument to a revival of a great civilization shorn of the straitjacket of faux Confucian restraints and grounded in the celebration of ordinary people. Performances and recordings. After its initial performances, the second movement of the Cantata became popular, but the work as a whole did not enter the mainstream repertory and full performances were rare, possibly because the chorus parts are significantly more difficult to sing than those of the subsequent Yellow River Cantata. In 2015, the work was revived by Nicholas Michael Smith, who performed it with the International Festival Chorus of Beijing and Peking Sinfonietta. Smith subsequently recorded the work with the International Festival Chorus of Beijing, the Baroque Chamber Chorus of Beijing, the Beijing No. 80 Middle School Choir and Peking Sinfonietta. This is currently the only available recording of the Production Cantata."}, {"text": "Miles End is a suburb of the town of Mount Isa in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. In the , Miles End had a population of 280 people. Geography. The Leichhardt River flows north\u2013south through the town of Mount Isa, dividing the suburbs of the town into \"mineside\" (west of the Leichhardt River) and \"townside\" (east of the Leichhardt River). Miles End is a \"mineside\" suburb. The suburb is bounded to the east in parts by the Leichhardt River, to the south by Isa Street and Station Street, to the west by Hooper Road (and the mine itself), and to the north by Carbonate Street and Alma Street. Despite the townside/mineside division of the suburbs, there is one exception. A small area along the riverside of West Street that contains the Mount Isa City Council's Civic Centre is not part of the townside suburb of Mount Isa City but part of the mineside suburb of Miles End that extends across the river. History. Miles End was named on 1 September 1973 by the Queensland Place Names Board. 16 March 2001 its status was changed from a locality to a suburb. Demographics. In the , Miles End had a"}, {"text": "population of 265 people. In the , Miles End had a population of 280 people. Education. There are no schools in Miles End. The nearest government primary schools are Mount Isa Central State School in neighbouring Mount Isa City to the south-east and Barkly Highway State School in neighbouring Soldiers Hill to the north. The nearest government secondary school is Spinifex State College which has its junior campus in neighbouring Parkside to the south and its senior campus in Pioneer to the east. Amenities. The Mount Isa City Council operates a Civic Centre including a public library and park at 23 West Street (). It is officially within Miles End but can only be accessed from Mount Isa City as this area is on the eastern side of the Leichhardt River, while the rest of the suburb is on the western side."}, {"text": "Charlotte Chang ( Ah Tye; July 21, 1873 \u2013 January 15, 1972) was an American social worker and community activist in the San Francisco area. As a California-born Chinese-American woman, her citizenship status became complicated after she married a Chinese-born lawyer, Hong Yen Chang, in 1897. Later in life, she protested the demolition of the Kong Chow Temple in San Francisco's Chinatown. Early life. Charlotte Ah Tye was born in La Porte, California, the daughter of a merchant, Yee Ah Tye, and his wife, Chan Shi Ah Tye. Both of her parents were born in Guangdong, China. She and her sister Alice were partly educated at a Hong Kong English school. Citizenship and work in California. Charlotte Ah Tye married Chinese-born lawyer Hong Yen Chang in 1897, in San Francisco. They had two children, Ora Ivy Chang (1898-1929) and Oliver Carrington Chang (1900-1973). In 1906, Charlotte Chang and her two children survived the great San Francisco earthquake, staying with friends and helping with church relief efforts in Oakland. American women lost their United States citizenship when they married foreign nationals, before the Cable Act of 1922. In 1910, planning to travel from San Francisco to Vancouver, Charlotte Ah Tye Chang"}, {"text": "and her children applied for return certificates but were refused; although they were all born in California, they could not claim United States citizenship. The family lived in Vancouver from 1910 to 1913 while Hong Yen Chang was a diplomat at the Chinese consulate there, in Washington in 1913 and 1914, and in Berkeley from 1916. In widowhood, Charlotte Chang worked at the Oakland International Institute branch of the YWCA as a \"nationality worker\", from 1928 into the 1930s. She is considered one of the first Chinese-American social workers in the San Francisco. She also volunteered at the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital. She applied again to have her American citizenship reinstated in 1935. Kong Chow Temple. In 1968 and 1969, while in her nineties, Chang led protests against plans to demolish the old Kong Chow Temple, established on the land her father donated in 1854 for the purpose. Her niece, artist Nanying Stella Wong, joined in her efforts. The temple was ultimately demolished; Chang did not live to see the new Kong Chow Temple erected at another location in 1977. Personal life. Charlotte Ah-Tye Chang was widowed when Hong Yen Chang died in 1926. Her daughter died in a car"}, {"text": "accident in 1929. Charlotte Chang died in Berkeley in 1972, aged 98 years. Her gravesite is in Oakland. The Hong Yen Chang papers at the Huntington Library include photographs and correspondence of Charlotte Ah Tye Chang, including her letters from Soong Ching-ling, wife of Sun Yat-Sen."}, {"text": "\u017duvela is a Croatian surname. It is the second most common surname in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County of Croatia. People with the name include:"}, {"text": "Barend Johannes 'Barry' Wolmarans (born 22 March 1953 in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, South Africa) is a former South African rugby union player. Playing career. Wolmarans made his provincial debut for Boland while studying at the Wellington Teachers College. He joined the Free State in 1975 and played 116 matches for the union and was part of the team that won the Currie Cup in 1976. At the time of his retirement in 1984, Wolmarans and his fly\u2013half partner, De Wet Ras played together as a combination on 89 occasions, which was a South African provincial record at the time. Wolmarans made his test match debut for the Springboks against the World XV on 27 August 1977 at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria and scored a try in his debut test. He was selected for the 1981 tour to New Zealand and the USA and played six matches on tour."}, {"text": "Pleurotomella verticicostata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. Distribution. Fossils of this marine species were found in Eocene strata in \u00cele-de-France, France"}, {"text": "Vines Cross is a hamlet in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. It is 2.7 miles from the market town of Heathfield. This dormitory village once had a thriving school, bakers, post office, church and grocers, but now only has a public house (The Brewers Arms) and a garage. The village also has a bonfire society, which was founded in 1996, named after the village. They attend carnivals and bonfires around Sussex. They used to hold celebrations within the village but in recent years only attend others events, wearing their skull and cross bones."}, {"text": "Dynamo Basketball Club, also known simply as Dynamo, is a basketball club based in Bujumbura, Burundi. Established in 1968, the team competes in both the Viva Basketball League and the Bujumbura Amateurs Basketball Club Association (ACBAB). In the 2024 season, Dynamo played in the Basketball Africa League (BAL) as the first team from Burundi to play in the league. After winning their opening game, the team was forced to withdraw after it refused to wear a logo advertising Rwanda, over political reasons. History. Dynamo Basketball Club was founded in 1968. On September 25, 2016, Dynamo won its first-ever Burundian National Championship. In the 2017\u201318 season, Dynamo had a historically successful season, winning the ACBAB title, Heroes' Cup, and President's Cup. Their Bujumbura title was their first since 20 years earlier, in 1998. The team captured another ACBAB championship in 2019. Dynamo also qualified for the 2020 BAL Qualifying Tournaments. 2024 BAL season. Dynamo won their fourth national championship in 2023. They then played in the 2024 BAL qualification tournament, and on 26 November 2023 they clinched their participation in the 2024 season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). Dynamo defeated the Malagasy team COSPN 79\u201378 in the third place game,"}, {"text": "became the first team from Burundi to play in the league, and the first Elite 16 wild card to advance to the main tournament. In the opening day game between Dynamo and South Africa's Cape Town Tigers, the Burundian side taped off the logo of league sponsor Visit Rwanda. Political tensions between the two border nations Burundi and Rwanda had been rising, as Burundi has accused Rwanda of supporting the RED-Tabara rebel militia in the country. Dynamo forfeited their second game against FUS Rabat on 10 March, with the BAL citing \"refusing to comply with the league\u2019s rules governing jersey and uniform requirements\" as the reason why. Following Dynamo's second forfeit on 12 March, the team was automatically withdrawn from the group as per FIBA rules. Dynamo players Bryton Hobbs and Makhtar Gueye stated that the Burundian government had prohibited the team to wear the logo and ordered the club to forfeit its games if necessary. Honours. Burundian National Championship Heroes' Cup President's Cup ACBAB In African competitions. Road to BAL (2 appearances) 2020 \u2013 First round 2024 \u2013 Third Place Players. 2024 BAL season roster. The following was Dynamo's roster in the 2024 BAL season in March 2024."}, {"text": "Soldiers Hill is a suburb of the town of Mount Isa in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. In the , Soldiers Hill had a population of 1,796 people. Geography. The Leichhardt River flows north-south through the town of Mount Isa, dividing the suburbs of the town into \"mineside\" (west of the Leichhardt River) and \"townside\" (east of the Leichhardt River). Soldiers Creek is a \"mineside\" suburb. The suburb is bounded to the west by the Barkly Highway and to the east by the Leichhard River. History. In 1954, St James' Anglican Church in Parkside (which was originally St James's Anglican Church in Selwyn) was relocated to Soldiers Hill and renamed St Oswald's Anglican Church. St Oswald's operated for several years, before being sold for removal. Barkly Highway State School opened on 27 January 1959. It was officially opened on Saturday 16 May 1959, by Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone. Soldiers Hill was officially named on 1 September 1973 by the Queensland Place Names Board. On 16 March 2001, its status was changed from locality to suburb. Demographics. In the , Soldiers Hill had a population of 1,962 people. In the , Soldiers Hill had a population of 1,796"}, {"text": "people. Education. Barkly Highway State School is a government primary (Early Childhood-6) school for boys and girls at 17 Bougainville Street (). It includes a special education program. In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 410 students with 31 teachers and 17 non-teaching staff (12 full-time equivalent). The nearest government secondary school is Spinifex State College which has its junior campus in Parkside to the south and its senior campus in Pioneer to the south-east. Amenities. There are a number of parks in the area:"}, {"text": "Pudhiya Payanam () is a 2009 Indian Tamil language romantic drama film directed by M. D. Muthu. The film stars M. D. Muthu, Mithuna and Jennifer, with Manorama, Delhi Ganesh, Nalini, Charle, Aarthi, Chetan and Devadarshini playing supporting roles. The film, produced by Heera John, was released on 10 July 2009. Plot. The film begins with the famous playback singer Mithuna (Mithuna) returns home in Chennai. In the past, in Yelagiri, Muthu (M. D. Muthu) was a blind man selling plastic wire baskets in the street to support his poor family: his stepmother (Nalini) and his school-going two stepsisters. Mithuna and her elder sister Devi (Devadarshini) who went for the holidays in Yelagiri came across Muthu and his family. Mithuna had sympathy for them so she decided to help them: she took them to Chennai, she lodged them in her house and she enrolled his stepsisters in an elementary school. Thereafter, Mithuna deeply fell in love with the innocent Muthu. She proposed her love for Muthu but he was sceptical about her love. Mithuna decided to donate her eyes to Muthu but doctor Ramana (Delhi Ganesh) refused to operate her and Muthu eventually found a donor. Back to the present,"}, {"text": "Muthu has gained vision after the eye operation and he finally understands the pure love of Mithuna. Meanwhile, Mithuna's friend Jennifer (Jennifer) comes from Malaysia to Chennai and she falls in love with Muthu. Mithuna slowly becomes jealous and upset about the intimate relationship of Muthu and Jennifer. When Jennifer decides to return to Malaysia, she wants to bring Muthu with her and he accepts. Mithuna's family and friends begin to scold Muthu for being an ingrateful person and Jennifer reveals the reason behind his sudden behaviour change. Just after the eye surgery, Muthu learned that he was infected with the Hepatitis B virus. Knowing that his days are numbered, he didn't want to torment Mithuna and wanted her to forget him so he begged Jennifer to act as his girlfriend but Jennifer truly fell in love with him. A mournful Jennifer goes back to Malaysia and a sorrowful Mithuna continues her work. One night, Muthu wants to see Mithuna for the last time in her recording studio and Muthu bumps into a rowdy who wants to kill Mithuna outside the studio. Muthu manages to kill him and he is heavily wounded. A bloodied Muthu falls on the street and"}, {"text": "he tries to warn Mithuna of his presence but Mithuna drives away without seeing him and Muthu dies. Production. M. D. Muthu made his directorial debut with \"Pudhiya Payanam\" under the banner of Vairam Movies. The film director M. D. Muthu himself played the lead role while Mithuna and Jennifer were selected to play the heroines. Soundtrack. The film score and the soundtrack were composed by Prasad Ganesh. The soundtrack features 10 tracks written by Rajaji, M. G. Kanniyappan, Bharathi Kalyan, S. R. Pavalan, P. Veera Adithyan and Prasad Ganesh."}, {"text": "\"Carry On\" is a song by American folk rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Written by Stephen Stills, it is the opening track to their second album \"D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu\" (1970). It was released as the B-side of \"Teach Your Children\", but went on to receive steady airplay of its own from AOR radio stations. Background. When nearing the end of the recording sessions for \"D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu\", Graham Nash told Stephen Stills that they still didn't have an opening track. Many recording acts or producers prefer to start an album with a particularly catchy song, in order to set the mood and encourage listeners who are checking it out for the first time. Stills took two songs \u2014 (one being the song \"Questions\" he'd written for and recorded with Buffalo Springfield), and edited them together with parts of a jam session from a few days earlier, to produce one finished piece. The song is noted for the bridge section that makes a transition from a faster to slower tempo, with the lyric lines sung in a capella. Session drummer Dallas Taylor: The song was also an inspiration for Led Zeppelin, whose track \"Friends\" on \"Led Zeppelin III\" is generally seen"}, {"text": "as being inspired by it, including a similar slack-stringed C-tuned acoustic opening."}, {"text": "Kenya Ports Authority, commonly known as KPA, is a basketball club based in Mombasa, Kenya. Owned by the Kenya Ports Authority corporation, the team is nicknamed the \"Dockers\", and is the most decorated team in basketball as it has won a record nine KBF Premier League championships. The team plays its home games in the KPA Makande Gymnasium. KPA made its debut in international competition during the 2002 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup, and lost its six games in the competition. KPA made their debut in the Road to BAL competition in 2019. Women's team. The women's team of KPA has won the FIBA Africa Zone 5 Club Championship a record nine times. Roster. The following is the KPA roster for the 2020 BAL Qualifying Tournaments: In international competitions. East, Central and Southern Africa Club Championships FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup BAL Qualifying Tournaments"}, {"text": "Winston is a suburb of the town of Mount Isa in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. In the , Winston had a population of 1,084 people. Geography. The Leichhardt River flows north-south through the town of Mount Isa, dividing the suburbs of the town into \"mineside\" (west of the Leichhardt River) and \"townside\" (east of the Leichhardt River). Winston is a \"townside\" suburb. History. Winston was named by the Queensland Place Names Board on 1 September 1973. On 16 March 2001, the status of Winston was changed from a locality to a suburb. Demographics. In the , Winston had a population of 1,134 people. In the , Winston had a population of 1,084 people. Education. There are no schools in Winston. The nearest government primary schools are Sunset State School in neighbouring Sunset to the west and Mount Isa Central State School in the Mount Isa CBD to the south. The nearest government secondary school is Spinifex State College which has its junior campus in Parkside to the south-west and its senior campus in neighbouring Pioneer to the south-east."}, {"text": "Studio Misr (Eng: \"Egypt Studio\"), also known as Studios Misr, is a film studio established in Giza, Egypt, in 1935 by the economist Talaat Harb. Owned and staffed by Egyptians, it is known as \"The Studio of Egypt\". For three decades, it was the Egyptian equivalent to Hollywood's major studios. History. Background. Economist and financier Talaat Harb, realised the cultural and economic impact of cinema, as films began to be made in the 1920s. At a time when feature films were being made in a few very basic film studios established first in Alexandria and then Cairo, he created the Misr Company for Acting and Cinema (MCAC), also known as Egyptian Acting and Cinema Company, which produced documentaries to promoted the Egyptian film industry. After realising that feature films were the future of the industry, he laid the groundwork for a studio which would to provide facilities for local filmmakers to shoot and edit feature films in Egypt. He first sent four young men (Ahmed Badrakhan, Maurice Kassab, Mohamed Abdel Azim, and Hassan Mourad) to study in Germany, which then led the world in film production. Harb then recruited experts in various aspects of filmmaking, employed director Fritz Kramp, and"}, {"text": "purchased the latest equipment. He built a state-of-the-art auditorium, Cinema Studio Misr, to help finance further equipment needed for the new studio. The luxurious new cinema was located in Emad al-Din Street, replacing an old cinema. Opening and success. The new studio, known as Studio Misr, or Studios Misr according to the signage outside the building, was officially opened on 12 October 1935. Studio Misr's first film was \"Weddad\" (1936), the first film to star the singer Umm Kulthum. In 1939 Studio Misr made four films, including \"The Will\" (1939), out of a total of fifteen Egyptian films. Facing difficulty raising capital in the 1940s, Studio Misr reduced its emphasis on direct film production, increasingly renting out its development, printing and editing facilities to other Arab filmmakers. World War II. During World War II, many poor-quality but commercially successful films were created by people wanting to earn profit, and the studio was affected by this type of competition. In 1946, Studio Misr made three films - including \"Black Market\" (1946) - out of a total of 52 Egyptian films. Nationalisation. In 1960, the studio was nationalised by the government of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Demise. The studio later changed hands several"}, {"text": "times, but it never regained its former success, and eventually fell into disrepair and later closed. Significance and impact. Several other studios were founded in Cairo in the wake of the success of Misr, including Al-Ahram, Nassibian (incorrectly spelt Nassabian or Nasabian in some sources), Galal, and Nahhas, although none attained the same stature."}, {"text": "Armadahan, or armada, is a traditional two-masted single-outrigger fishing boat from Laguna de Bay lake in the Philippines. It is a type of bangka. Description. were dugouts typically long and wide. They were equipped with two masts, at the middle and the front middle of the boat, which were rigged with either crab claw sails or two square spritsails. It has an open deck with a flooring made of removable sections of bamboo or wooden slats. The single outrigger float () on the starboard side was either two bamboo poles lashed together or a flattened elongated beam. It was connected to the hull by a length of bamboo around long, known as the . It also featured a counter-balance beam projecting off the port side known as the . The is connected to the hull by a wooden outrigger beam collar, with braces on the forward, cross, and aft. At the stern is a small socket for the rudder tiller. Three or four other small holes are also drilled along the midcenter of the dugout to let the water enter the craft, allowing live fish to be stored in the hull when fishing. These holes are also used to drain"}, {"text": "the craft when beached. Each boat also has a cooking area on the aft, usually a wood or kerosene portable stove. In modern times, these types of boats are usually motorized or paddled. Armadahan Regatta. were formerly part of an annual regatta held on the first week of March in Cardona, Rizal. The regatta sailed across Laguna de Bay to the small island of Cielito Lindo (also known as the \"Toothbrush Island\"), owned by the prominent Bello family, which used to feature a pier, a small chapel, and a reception center. The regatta ceased to be celebrated when Laguna de Bay became too crowded with fish pens to navigate. The facilities on Cielito Lindo have also fallen into disrepair due to typhoons."}, {"text": "James David \"Buddy\" Caldwell Sr. (born May 20, 1946) is an American attorney and politician from the state of Louisiana. He served as Attorney General of Louisiana from 2008 to 2015. Career. Caldwelll was elected Attorney General of Louisiana elected as a Democrat in 2007, defeating Republican Royal Alexander. He became a member of the Republican Party in 2011. Prior to his party switch, he was the only Democratic state attorney general to challenge the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Caldwell was reelected in the 2011 Attorney General election without opposition after his sole opponent, former U.S. Representative Joseph Cao, dropped out of the race. Caldwell lost his 2015 reelection bid to Republican Jeff Landry. In 2018, the interim mayor of Tallulah, Louisiana, appointed Caldwell as interim city attorney. In 2008, the murder conviction of Angola inmate Albert Woodfox was overturned by a federal judge. Caldwell appealed the decision to overturn Woodfox's conviction, despite significant evidence that Woodfox had not committed the crime. Woodfox speculated that Caldwell may have been using the appeal in order to gain public attention for himself as the recently appointed Attorney General of Louisiana.When questioned in an interview by NPR's Laura Sullivan about"}, {"text": "a bloody fingerprint found at the scene of the crime that was proven not to belong to Woodfox, Caldwell replied, \"A fingerprint can come from anywhere.\""}, {"text": "Tralee Courthouse is a judicial facility in Ashe Street, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. History. The courthouse, which was designed by William Vitruvius Morrison in the neoclassical style and built in ashlar stone, was completed in 1834. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage facing Ashe Street; there was a flight of steps leading up to a large hexastyle portico with Ionic order columns supporting an entablature and a pediment. Two cannons which had been used in the Crimean War (1854\u201356) and the Indian Rebellion (1857) were brought back to Ireland and installed on the steps of the courthouse as memorials to those Kerrymen who had died in those campaigns. The building was primarily used as a facility for dispensing justice but, following the implementation of the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, which established county councils in every county, the Grand Jury Room also became the meeting place for Kerry County Council. However the county council moved to a purpose-built county hall on Godfrey Place in January 1910. A refurbishment was carried out in the 1980s and the building continues to be used as a judicial facility."}, {"text": "Lotta Fountain is a 1939 fountain and sculpture by artist Katharine Lane Weems and architects J. W. Ames and E. S. Dodge. It is installed along Boston's Charles River Esplanade in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Description and history. The granite structure is approximately 10 x 20 x 15 ft. and functions as a drinking fountain. It features a square column topped with seated dog, and a spout on the base depicting the head of a cat. The work was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1997."}, {"text": "Puthuppally is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Kottayam Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2023 Assembly by-election, the current MLA is Chandy Oommen of the Indian National Congress. Local self-governed segments. Puthuppally Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments: Members of Legislative Assembly. The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented Puthuppally Assembly constituency during the period of various assemblies: Key ^2023 by-election Election results. 2011. There were 1,57,222 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election. 2016. There were 1,73,253 registered voters in Puthuppally Assembly constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election. 2021. There were 1,75,959 registered voters in Puthuppally Assembly constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election. 2023 by-election. <section begin=\"Assembly Election 2022\"/>"}, {"text": "Robert Chase may refer to:"}, {"text": "Carla Herrero Torellas (born December 1994), also known by the pseudonym Silay Alkma, is a Spanish writer, lecturer, and activist against school bullying. , she works for the leadership consultancy WALK, an Oxford Leadership member. For eight years in her youth, Herrero was bullied on account of her weight and felt depressed, useless, and without identity. She has said that she realized she had been bullied when she entered a new, positive school environment. There, she did a research project about youth identity and bullying that was awarded by the University of Girona, where she studied psychology for a year. An accompanying video titled \"El dolor silencioso\" (\"The Silent Pain\") featured bullied youth including herself encouraging others to speak up. Her organization Rompe el Silencio (\"Break the Silence\"), formed in 2013, supported bullied youth in online and face-to-face settings. Early life and education. Herrero's classmates started bullying her when she was eight years old. A third-grade student at a primary school in Tordera, Barcelona, Herrero was a little bit heavier than her peers and somewhat introverted. Classmates would use nicknames and insults to isolate and make fun of her on account of her weight. Amid the bullying, which she did"}, {"text": "not explicitly perceive while it was happening, she turned further inward, becoming silent and averse to eye contact. She recalled feeling alone as she saw other children playing during recess. Eating was a temporary relief, though as she gained weight she was subjected to more insults. Her home and supportive family were a refuge from harassment. At the age of 11, Herrero joined a social group in which one student led the others in continuing to judge and bully her. The girls in the group, she later reflected, made her feel inferior and thus easier to manipulate. They were also physically hurtful: One time, they pushed her down stairs, and another time, they pulled a chair out from under her. Herrero had suicidal thoughts and began to self-harm; she said she felt anguished, depressed, confused, victimized, and useless. She said she did not know who she was\u2014during a developmental stage at which a child is supposed to form her identity. Looking in a mirror, feeling her skin, and hearing her voice all made her feel bad, she said. Breaking her own silence, she later said\u2014letting someone know\u2014would have been the best thing to do. She said she slowly came to"}, {"text": "realize that she liked talking to people outside her punishing social group. The bullying lasted eight years, ending when she started \"bachillerato\" and, she said, adopted a healthier mindset. Herrero said she liked this new environment, where she got good grades and realized that her social group had not been a true friendship. Online, under the pseudonym Silay Alkma, she blogged about her bullying experience and met other young bullying victims from around the world. Her diary was put together in a book, titled \"Alma de Cristal\" (\"Soul of Glass\"). Her bullying also inspired a \"bachillerato\" research project about youth identity amid bullying that she undertook at IES Llu\u00eds Companys in Tordera. The work argues that the identity of bullied people is suppressed, that they stay this way for fear of being totally outcast, and that an environment supportive of resilience and self-expression is needed for them to overcome bullying. To accompany the research project, Herrero made a video titled \"El dolor silencioso\" (\"The Silent Pain\") featuring some of the people she met online and herself, describing their bullying and encouraging other young suffering people to speak up. The video received wide attention on the internet. Herrero's family learned about"}, {"text": "her bullying only when the research and video came out. In 2012, her work won a Consell Social prize for research in youth issues from the University of Girona. The award covered one year of studying psychology at the University of Girona starting in September 2012. Later that year, at the university, she gave a TEDxYouth talk about her experience being bullied and finding others online. Career. In 2013, with backing from the Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica program Think Big J\u00f3venes, Herrero formed an organization called Rompe el Silencio (\"Break the Silence\") to support youth who have suffered bullying, abuse, and psychological disorders. Its purpose was to help those people get access to treatment and regain their identity. With the organization, Herrero gave lectures and workshops at schools to raise awareness about youth harassment. The organization's website provided a platform for youth to communicate. The Think Big program helped develop her organization and expand its reach, and it ran programs in countries such as Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, and Mexico. In 2015, Rompe el Silencio was among ten winners in Spain's Making More Health contest sponsored by the nonprofit network Ashoka and the pharmaceutical firm Boehringer Ingelheim, receiving along with professional training in"}, {"text": "Barcelona. The next year, Herrero was one of two finalists from Spain to attend an international Making More Health conference at Boehringer Ingelheim's headquarters in Germany. According to the leadership consultancy WALK (a member of Oxford Leadership), where Herrero works as an office and program manager, she received a psychology degree from the National University of Distance Education, previously volunteered for the United Nations as a research data analyst, and worked with Youth Europa and the European Youth Parliament."}, {"text": ", stylized as CARRY LOOSE, was a Japanese alternative idol girl group active from September 2019 to October 2020. They released their debut album, \"Carry Loose\", on October 22, 2019. History. On June 19, 2019, it was announced that former Bis members Pan Luna Leafy and Yuina Empire, along with Wagg trainee Uruu Ru, would form a new group. The group was given the temporary name Curry Rouxz, and auditions were held for additional members. On September 4, the group's name was finalized as Carry Loose, and a new member, Yumeka Nowkana?, was added. The group's eponymous debut album was released on October 22. The group's first single, \"Ningen,\" was released on February 11, 2020. From July 20, they broadcast a 24-hour livestream titled \"Carry of Major,\" which continued until they achieved a major label debut. On October 16, after almost three months of livestreaming, it was announced that the group had not achieved a major debut and that they would disband on October 31, 2020. Carry Loose disbanded as planned on October 31, with the release of their second and final single, \"Colors.\""}, {"text": "M. M. Lawrence (15 June 1929 \u2013 21 September 2024) was an Indian politician and a member of the Communist Party of India Marxist (CPIM). Life and career. Lawrence was born on 15 June 1929. He served as a member of the party's central committee until 1998. He was a convenor of the Left Democratic Front in Kerala. From 1980 to 1984 he served as member of parliament for the Idukki constituency. Following his departure from the CPIM central committee, he took roles at a local level in Ernakulam district. He was also leader of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and president of Cochin Port Labour Union. Lawrence died on 21 September 2024, at the age of 95."}, {"text": "As part of their 1972\u201373 tour of the Northern Hemisphere, the New Zealand national rugby union team's fourth match saw them take on Llanelli RFC of Wales at Stradey Park, Llanelli, on 31 October 1972. In one of the most famous results in rugby union history, Llanelli won the match 9\u20133 in front of 20,000 spectators. Llanelli centre Roy Bergiers scored the only try of the game, charging down a clearance by All Blacks scrum-half Lin Colling after a penalty from Phil Bennett rebounded back into play off the crossbar. New Zealand full-back Joe Karam scored a penalty to give them their only points of the game, before Llanelli wing Andy Hill hit a penalty to secure victory for the Scarlets. The result was immortalised by Welsh entertainer Max Boyce, whose poem \"9\u20133\" appears as the opening track on his \"Live at Treorchy\" album. Background. As part of their 1972\u201373 tour of the Northern Hemisphere, the New Zealand national rugby union team played 32 matches, of which their visit to Stradey Park to play Llanelli RFC was the fourth. In North America, they had already beaten sides representing British Columbia (31\u20133) on 19 October 1972 and New York Metropolitan (41\u20139)"}, {"text": "on 21 October, followed by a 39\u201312 win over a Western Counties side in Gloucester on their arrival in England a week later. They were unbeaten since the British Lions had visited New Zealand in July 1971, a run of 16 matches without defeat. Match details. Touch judges: J. Kelleher (Wales) D. G. Watts (Wales)"}, {"text": "Richard Phillip Ieyoub, Sr. ( ; August 11, 1944 \u2013 April 10, 2023) was an American attorney and politician from the state of Louisiana. He served as the attorney general of Louisiana from 1992 to 2004. He unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2003. Ieyoub's father, Philip, emigrated from Lebanon to Lake Charles, Louisiana, and his mother, Virginia, was a first-generation Lebanese American. Ieyoub was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in 2016. Ieyoub and his wife, Caprice, had seven children. He died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on April 10, 2023, at the age of 78, from complications of surgery for a ruptured aneurysm."}, {"text": "William Joseph Guste Jr. (May 26, 1922 \u2013 July 24, 2013) was an American attorney and politician from the state of Louisiana. He was Attorney General of Louisiana from 1972 to 1992."}, {"text": "John Charles Wolfe (12 May 1815 \u2013 4 January 1871) was an Irish Anglican priest. Wolfe was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. After curacies at Tessauran and Donagh he was the Rector at Ematris from 1850 to 1865. He was Archdeacon of Clogher from 1872 to 1875."}, {"text": "Charles Ren\u00e9 Pierre (Charly) Luske-Jess (born 19 September 1978) is a Dutch singer, actor and television presenter. He is known for playing roles in musicals, including \"The Wiz\" and \"We Will Rock You\", and television series, including \"Goede tijden, slechte tijden\" and \"Meiden van de Wit\". Career. In 2005, Luske presented the second season of the television show \"Het Beste Idee van Nederland\". In the show, contestants presented their inventions to a jury and the winning invention was made available for sale in stores. Luske played the role of lawyer Lars Berenschot in several episodes of the soap opera \"Goede tijden, slechte tijden\". He also played the role of Piet Schuringa in \"Meiden van de Wit\" and the role of Peter in the youth television series \"Zoop\". Luske played the role of Judas Iscariot in the 2012 edition of \"The Passion\", a Dutch Passion Play held every Maundy Thursday since 2011. He played roles in multiple musicals, including \"The Wiz\" and \"We Will Rock You\". Luske participated in season two of singing competition show \"The Voice of Holland\" where he was eliminated in the semi-finals by Chris Hordijk. He participated in the 2004 edition of the \"Nationaal Songfestival\", an annual"}, {"text": "competition held almost every year between 1956 and 2012 to select the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. He finished in 4th place. Luske appeared in a 2012 episode of the television game show \"De Jongens tegen de Meisjes\". In that same year, he also played the role of Glenn in the film \"K3 Bengeltjes\" directed by Bart Van Leemputten. In 2013, he participated in the fifth season of the television show \"Beste Zangers van Nederland\". Luske was also a contestant in the quiz show \"De slimste mens\". Personal life. Luske is married to Dutch actress Tanja Jess and they have two children. They married in August 2008."}, {"text": "Ryan is a mixed-use suburb of the town of Mount Isa in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. In the , Ryan had a population of 105 people. Geography. The Leichhardt River flows north\u2013south through the town of Mount Isa, dividing the suburbs of the town into \"mineside\" (west of the Leichhardt River) and \"townside\" (east of the Leichhardt River). Ryan is a \"townside\" suburb. There is a residential area in the south-west of the suburb. There are two areas of industrial use, one on the north-west and west of the suburb and the other on the east, south-east, and south of the suburb. Between these two industrial areas there is agriculture, predominantly grazing on native vegetation. History. All burials occurred in the Pioneer Cemetery (now within Ryan) until the opening of the Sunset Memorial Cemetery in the late 1930s. Ryan was named on 1 September 1973 by the Queensland Place Names Board after Dr Edward Joseph Ryan, the medical superintendent of the Mount Isa District Hospital during World War II. On 16 March 2001, the status of Ryan was changed from a locality to a suburb. Demographics. In the , Ryan had a population of 141 people. In"}, {"text": "the , Ryan had a population of 105 people. Education. There are no schools in Ryan. The nearest government primary schools are Barkly Highway State School in neighbouring Soldiers Hill to the west and Sunset State School in neighbouring Sunset to the south-east. The nearest government secondary school is Spinifex State College which has its junior campus in Parkside to the south-west and its senior campus in Pioneer to the south-east. Amenities. Edna Medley Park is an off-leash dog park on Sunset Drive (). Facilities. Mount Isa Pioneer Cemetery is off Ryan Road (). Mount Isa Sunset Memorial Cemetery is at the northern end of Sunset Drive (). Mount Isa SES Facility is at 14 Ryan Road ()."}, {"text": "is a Japanese footballer."}, {"text": "Nanoconcrete (also spelled nano concrete or nano-concrete) is a form of concrete that contains Portland cement particles that are no greater than 100 \u03bcm and particles of silica no greater than 500 \u03bcm, which fill voids that would otherwise occur in normal concrete, thereby substantially increasing the material's strength. It is also a product of high-energy mixing (HEM) of conventional cement, sand and water which is a bottom-up approach of nano technology. Role of nano particles. Incorporating ultra-fine particles into a Portland-cement paste within a concrete mixture in accordance with top-down approach of nano technology reduces the void space between the cement and aggregate in the cured concrete. This improves strength, durability, shrinkage and bonding to steel reinforcing bars. Manufacture. To ensure the mixing is thorough enough to create nanoconcrete, the mixer must apply a total mixing power to the mixture of 30\u2013600 watts per kilogram of the mix. This mixing must continue long enough to yield a net specific energy expended upon the mix of at least 5000 joules per kilogram of the mix. and may be increased to 30\u201380 kJ per kilogram. A superplasticizer is then added to the activated mixture which can later be mixed with aggregates"}, {"text": "in a conventional concrete mixer. In the HEM process, the intense mixing of cement and water with or without sand in conditions of queasy laminar flow, Reynolds number 20-800 provides dissipation and absorption of energy by the mixture and increases shear stresses on the surface of cement particles. As a result, the temperature of the mixture increases by 20\u201325 and more degrees Celsius. This intense mixing serves to deepen hydration process inside the cement particles. The nano-sized colloid Calcium Silicate Hydrate (C-S-H) formation increased several times compared with conventional mixing. Thus, the ordinary concrete transforms to nanoconcrete. The initial natural process of cement hydration with formation of colloidal globules about 5 nm in diameter spreads into the entire volume of cement\u2013water matrix as the energy expended upon the mix. The liquid activated mixture can be used by itself for casting small architectural details and decorative items, or expanded with gas-forming admixture for making Aerated HEM Nanoconcrete as a lightweight concrete. HEM Nanoconcrete hardens in low and subzero temperature conditions because the liquid phase inside the nano-pores of C-S-H gel doesn't freeze at temperatures from \u22128 to \u221242 degrees Celsius. The increased volume of gel reduces capillarity in solid and porous"}, {"text": "materials."}, {"text": "R. Ramachandran (15 October 1952 \u2013 21 November 2023) was an Indian politician in the Communist Party of India. He served as the member of Kerala Legislative Assembly from the Karunagappally from 2016 to 2021. Death. Ramachandran died of liver disease at a hospital in Kochi, on 21 November 2023, at the age of 71."}, {"text": "Lanskey is a suburb of the town of Mount Isa in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. In the , Lanskey had a population of 101 people. Geography. The Leichhardt River flows north\u2013south through the town of Mount Isa, dividing the suburbs of the town into \"mineside\" (west of the Leichhardt River) and \"townside\" (east of the Leichhardt River). Lanskey is a \"townside\" suburb and it is bounded to the west by the river. The suburb is on the outer edge of urban development of the town of Mount Isa. There are small pockets of housing and much of land is still used ffor agriculture, specifically for grazing on native vegetation. There is a caravan park in the far north of the locality. History. Lanskey was named on 1 September 1973 by the Queensland Place Names Board after grazier Mr Lanskey. On 16 March 2001, the status of Lanskey was changed from a locality to a suburb. Demographics. In the , Lanskey had a population of 63 people. In the , Lanskey had a population of 101 people. Education. There are no schools in Lanskey. The nearest government primary school is Barkly Highway State School in neighbouring Soldiers Hill"}, {"text": "to the south-west. The nearest government secondary school is Spinifex State College which has its junior campus in Parkside to the south-west and its senior campus in Pioneer to the south-east."}, {"text": "Business News, a generic name, may refer to:"}, {"text": "The 2020 Thailand Champions Cup was the 4th Thailand Champions Cup, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Thai League 1 and Thai FA Cup competitions. It was sponsored by Government Savings Bank (Omsin Bank), and known as the Omsin Thailand Champions Cup () for sponsorship purposes. The match was played at SCG Stadium, Nonthaburi and contested by 2019 Thai League 1 champions Chiangrai United, and Port as the champions of the 2019 Thai FA Cup. Match. Details. Assistant referees: Pattarapong Kidsatid Thanat Chucheun Fourth official: Wiwat Jampa-on Assistant VAR: Sivakorn Pu-udom Rawut Nakrit"}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 CAF Confederation Cup group stage started on 1 December 2019 and ended on 2 February 2020. A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2019\u201320 CAF Confederation Cup. Draw. The draw for the group stage was held on 12 November 2019, 12:00 CAT (), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The 16 teams, all winners of the play-off round of qualifying, were drawn into four groups of four. The teams were seeded by their performances in the CAF competitions for the previous five seasons (CAF 5-year ranking points shown in parentheses). Each group contained one team from Pot 1, one team from Pot 2 and two teams from Pot 3, and each team was drawn into one of the positions in their group. Format. In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals of the knockout stage. Tiebreakers. Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order (Regulations"}, {"text": "III. 20 & 21): Schedule. The schedule of each matchday is as follows. Effective from the Confederation Cup group stage, matches are played on Sundays. Kick-off times are fixed at 13:00, 16:00 and 19:00 GMT. \"Note: Positions for scheduling do not use the seeding pots, e.g. Team 1 is not necessarily the team from Pot 1 in the draw.\" Groups. Times are GMT as listed by CAF (local times, even if not different, are in parentheses). Group A. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group B. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group C. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group D. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "Fisher is a suburb of the town of Mount Isa in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. In the , Fisher had a population of 65 people. Geography. The Leichhardt River flows north\u2013south through the town of Mount Isa, dividing the suburbs of the town into \"mineside\" (west of the Leichhardt River) and \"townside\" (east of the Leichhardt River). Fisher is a \"townside\" suburb. History. Fisher was named on 1 September 1973 by the Queensland Place Names Board after Sir George Fisher, Chairman of Mount Isa Mines Ltd from 1953 to 1970. On 16 March 2001, the status of Fisher was changed from a locality to a suburb. Demographics. In the , Fisher had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Fisher had a population of 65 people. Education. There are no schools in Fisher. The nearest government primary school is Townview State School in neighbouring Townview to the west. The nearest government secondary is Spinifex State College which has its junior campus in Parkside to the west and its senior campus in neighbouring Pioneer to the north-west."}, {"text": "Joseph Calwell (18 October 1808- 11 February 1882) was a nineteenth century Irish Anglican priest. Callwell was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. After a curacy in Newcastle, County Dublin he held livings at Newtownmountkennedy, Drummully, Aghavea and Kilskeery. He was Archdeacon of Clogher from 1871 to 1873."}, {"text": "Ramoferis is a genus of extinct vascular plants of the Pragian stage of the Early Devonian, around . It is considered to be a zosterophyll, one of a group of plants that were related to the ancestors of the modern lycopsids. Fossils were found in the Posongchong Formation in Guangnan County, Yunnan, in southwestern China, where they occur as compressions. Description. The first species to be described was \"Ramoferis amalia\". The plant branched isotomously (equally) many times, with branches forming angles of about 30\u201360\u00b0. Usually the axes (stems) were 3\u20134 mm across, although some were up to 5 mm across. The longest axis found bearing sporangia was about 12 cm long, branching four or five times, with the branching intervals decreasing towards the top. The smallest terminal branchlets were less than 1 mm wide and about 6-10 mm long. Sporangia were borne on short stalks both terminally and laterally. Some were found below the first branching point of the main axis, others were gathered into a spike. The sporangia were flattened, usually about 3\u20136 mm wide and 2.5\u20135 mm high. Viewed from the front, the sporangia were ovoid or pear-shaped, narrowing towards the stalk. They opened (dehisced) along a narrow"}, {"text": "rim at the edge opposite the stalk (the distal edge), producing two equal valves. Only poorly preserved spores were found, 48\u201377 \u03bcm in diameter. Nothing is known about the internal anatomy of the axes. A second species, known only as \"Ramoferis\" cf. \"amalia\", was described from fossils found in a slightly different location. Only limited material was found. Differences regarded as significant included the branching angle being greater, 60\u201370\u00b0; the more kidney (reniform) shaped sporangia; the longer sporangial stalks; and the less distinct spikes of sporangia. Taxonomy. Hao and Xue place \"Ramoferis\" in class Zosterophyllopsida, order Zosterophyllales. They use Zosterophyllales for species with both terminal and lateral sporangia; Gosslingiales have only lateral sporangia. Phylogeny. An cladistic analysis by Hao and Xue in 2013 placed \"Ramoferis\" clearly within their Zosterophyllales clade:"}, {"text": "Anbumani and Arivumani, jointly known as Anbariv, are an Indian duo of brothers, who are action choreographers and stunt coordinators in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi cinema. The duo are well known for their action sequences in films such as \"Madras\" (2014), \"Kabali\" (2016), 'Kaithi' (2019), \"Vikram\" (2022), \"Leo\" (2023), \"RDX\" (2023), \"\" (2023) and \"Amaran\" (2024). Anbariv won the National Film Award for Best Stunt Choreography in ' (2018) and ' (2022). Early life. Anbumani, also known as Anbu, and Arivumani or Arivu, were born as twins and were raised up in Pulhal. They did schooling in Avichi Higher Secondary School in Saligramam, Chennai. They were known to be very silent in classes. Career. It was Anbu who joined the film industry initially before his twin brother Arivu. Both of them initially served as training assistants to some of the leading stunt masters in the Indian film industry including Stun Siva, Peter Hein, Vijayan, Kecha Khamphakdee, Silva and Dinesh Subbarayan. The duo debuted in Kollywood as assistant stunt directors in the 2010 film \"Naan Mahaan Alla\" before becoming prominent full fledged stunt choreographers in Indian cinema. In 2018, the duo was suspended from the South Indian Cine and"}, {"text": "TV Stunt Artistes Union for allegations on violating the union rules and code of ethics regarding the stunt sequences and action performances. The court granted relief to the duo and allowed to rejoin the union. The duo will be making their directorial debut with Kamal Haasan's 237th film tentatively titled KH237."}, {"text": "Windmill Hill is a village in the civil parish of Herstmonceux, in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. In 2020 it had an estimated population of 585."}, {"text": "Jade Rhodes is a former collegiate All-American, right-handed professional All-Star softball player, originally from Sarasota, Florida. Rhodes played for the Auburn Tigers of the Southeastern Conference from 2013 to 2016 as a third baseman and first baseman and ranks in career home runs for the school. She helped the Tigers to a second-place finish at the 2016 Women's College World Series and was named All-Tournament. Although undrafted, Rhodes went on to play in the National Pro Fastpitch from 2016 to 2019 and won a title in 2017 with the Scrap Yard Dawgs. High school career. In 2012, she was named the Sarasota Herald Tribune Softball Player of the Year for Sarasota High School. College career. Rhodes was an All-American for the Auburn Tigers. Professional career. For the 2018 National Pro Fastpitch season, while playing for the Cleveland Comets, Rhodes won the Rawlings Gold Glove Award as the league's top fielder. Coaching career. Previously an assistant coach at Eastern New Mexico University, Rhodes is now an assistant coach for Oklahoma Baptist University. Personal. Rhodes's father is former professional baseball player Arthur Rhodes."}, {"text": "Maria Radnoti-Alf\u00f6ldi (6 June 1926 \u2013 7 May 2022) was a Hungarian-German archaeologist and numismatist specialising in the Roman period. She is known for her research into the analysis of the distribution of coin finds, Roman history, and the self-depiction of the Roman emperors. Early life and education. Radnoti-Alf\u00f6ldi was born in 1926 in Budapest to Geza Alf\u00f6ldi and his wife Olga Alf\u00f6ldi. She completed high school in 1944 and then enrolled in the philosophy department at the Lor\u00e1nd E\u00f6tv\u00f6s University in Budapest where she studied until 1949. Career. In 1947, Radnoti-Alf\u00f6ld started work at the Hungarian National Museum and married the archaeologist Alad\u00e1r Radn\u00f3ti, and in 1950 held a winter-term lectureship in the winter-term at Lor\u00e1nd E\u00f6tv\u00f6s University. She was forced to leave this work in 1957 when after the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Radnoti-Alf\u00f6ldi and her husband fled via Vienna to Bavaria. Radnoti-Alf\u00f6ld then became a researcher on the \"Fundm\u00fcnzen der R\u00f6mischen Zeit in Deutschland\" ('Roman-period Coin Finds in Germany') project of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft from 1957 to 1962. In the summer of 1961, she received her Habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in the then-new subject of ancient numismatics. In 1962, she"}, {"text": "moved with her husband to Frankfurt, where he received a professorship at Goethe University Frankfurt focused on ancient medicine and Roman provincial history and culture. In December 1972, Alad\u00e1r Radn\u00f3ti died and Maria was appointed to the same professorship at Goethe as he had held. She taught from then until her retirement in 1991 in the 'Seminar for Greek and Roman History, Second Section' on Roman provincial archaeology and ancient medicine. Since her retirement in 1991, she has been an emerita professor at Goethe University Frankfurt. She led the Griechisches M\u00fcnzwerk project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Fundm\u00fcnzen der Antike ('Coin finds from Antiquity') project of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur (with Hans-Markus von Kaenel), for which she has produced several volumes. Awards and memberships. Radnoti-Alf\u00f6ldi was awarded the Cross of Merit on the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1992. For her work on ancient numismatics, she was awarded the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1995, and the Archer M. Huntington Medal of the American Numismatic Society in 2000. She was a member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur and an ordinary member of"}, {"text": "the German Archaeological Institute. Radnoti-Alf\u00f6ldi was also an honorary member of several learned societies: the Italian Numismatic Society, the , the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise de numismatique, the Commission Internationale de Numismatique, the Hungarian Numismatic Society, and of the Hungarian Society for the Studies of Antiquity."}, {"text": "Seapo was a rural community in Grant Township in Republic County, Kansas, United States, first established as Salt Marsh in 1866. The abandoned townsite adjoins the Talmo Marsh Wildlife Area, an inland salt marsh. History. The now extinct town of Seapo was located two miles south of Wayne on the eastern edge of the Great Salt Marsh. The area that was once platted into city blocks is now nothing but open crop field. The post office at Salt Marsh, which was the original name of Seapo, was established July 9, 1866, and was the first post office in Republic County. It was also one of only three post offices between Manhattan and Denver. The post office was discontinued September 25, 1889. Seapo was the oldest village in Republic County. The town was \"well laid out on a level plain\", but \"without tree or fence ornaments\". There were three church organizations: Christian, Methodist, and Presbyterian, and a school building. Just north of the town was a three-story gristmill. The Seapo Mill was built in 1872 by A. W. Miller, who also operated the mill. The construction of the native limestone mill cost $12,000 and was financed by T. B. Hazen, who"}, {"text": "ran a store in Seapo. The mill was originally powered by running water but later by a 45 horsepower steam engine. The mill was capable of running five run of burr stones with a capacity of 100 barrels of flour per day. The mill was converted into a house in 1898."}, {"text": "Spreadborough is a suburb of the town of Mount Isa in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. In the , Spreadborough had a population of 55 people. Geography. The Leichhardt River flows north\u2013south through the town of Mount Isa, dividing the suburbs of the town into \"mineside\" (west of the Leichhardt River) and \"townside\" (east of the Leichhardt River). Spreadborough is a \"townside\" suburb. History. Spreadborough was named on 1 September 1973 by the Queensland Place Names Board after the family who owned the land. On 16 March 2001, the status of Spreadborough was changed from a locality to a suburb. Demographics. In the , Spreadborough had a population of 20 people. In the , Spreadborough had a population of 55 people. Education. There are no schools in Spreadborough. The nearest government primary school is Happy Valley State School in Happy Valley to the north-west. The nearest government secondary school is Spinifex State College which has its junior campus in Parkside to the north-west and its senior campus in Pioneer to the north-east."}, {"text": "Mica Creek is a suburb of the town of Mount Isa in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mica Creek had a population of 182 people. Geography. The Leichhardt River flows north\u2013south through the town of Mount Isa, dividing the suburbs of the town into \"mineside\" (west of the Leichhardt River) and \"townside\" (east of the Leichhardt River). Mica Creek is a \"mineside\" suburb. History. Mica Creek was named on 1 September 1973 by the Queensland Place Names Board. On 16 March 2001, the status of Mica Creek was changed from a locality to a suburb. Demographics. In the , Mica Creek had a population of 197 people. In the , Mica Creek had a population of 182 people. Education. There are no schools in Mica Creek. The nearest government primary school is Happy Valley State School in neighbouring Happy Valley to the north. The nearest government secondary school is Spinifex State College which has its junior campus in Parkside to the north and its senior campus in Pioneer to the north-west. Facilities. Despite the name, the Mica Creek Power Station is not in the suburb but is immediately adjacent to the west in the Mount"}, {"text": "Isa locality."}, {"text": "Governor Calvert may refer to:"}, {"text": "Zandile Msutwana (born 6 July 1979 in King William's Town) is a South African actress best known for her leading role as Akua Yenana on the 2007\u20132010 SABC 1 drama series \"Society\". Education. She was enrolled at UCT where she achieved a Performers Diploma in Speech and Drama. Career. Msutwana started her acting career whilst at university, having appeared on productions such as; King Lear, The Suit, Brink, Trojan Women. Her professional acting career began in 2007 where she portrayed a lead role on SABC 1's drama series Society. She starred as Akua Yenana, a stockbroker then a lady of leisure until its departure in 2010. In 2009, she starred a main role as the bride, Ayanda, on the White Wedding film alongside Kenneth Nkosi, the groom, and Rapulana Seiphemo, the best man. In 2013, she portrayed a main role on Mzansi Magic's \"Zabalaza\" until its departure in 2015 which featured Baby Cele. In 2016, on Mzansi Magic's drama series \"Isikizi\"; she starred as Nomazwe, a mother who gives birth to a prince's son who is declared by the king's Sangoma (traditional healer) as a cursed newborn who'll grow to kill his father and marry his mother. She starred the"}, {"text": "role of princess Nomakhwezi on Igazi's Season 1, a Shona and Connie Ferguson production, alongside Vatiswa Ndara, Jet Novuka and the late Nomhle Nkonyeni. She starred as the main role of \"Vuyiswa Jola\" on The Queen, alongside Shona Ferguson and Connie Ferguson from 2016-2022. She played the role of Zimkitha Mxenge in the show Gqeberha: The Empire for the entirety of the shows two season run. Her other television casts include Home Affairs, Mtunzini.com, Isidingo, Rhythm City and Soul City. and her other film casts include \"The Algiers Murders\" and \"A Small Town Called Descent\". Awards and nominations. She was nominated the \"SAFTA Golden Horn: Best Supporting Actress\" award in 2010 for her role in the 2009 White Wedding film."}, {"text": "Lee Wai Chun (; \u2013 27 August 2020) was one of the most successful female Hong Kong comics artists. She is best known for her popular series \"Sapsaam Dim,\" known as \"Miss 13 Dot\" or \"13-Dot Cartoon\" in English, which follows the adventures of a rich, fashion-oriented teenager. \"Sapsaam Dim\" was one of the best selling comics in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Early life. Lee recalls her early influences as children's book illustrator Kwan Shan Mei (), comics artist Chan Chi-dor (), American Don Flowers, creator of the comic strip \"Glamor Girls\", and imported Harvey Comics like \"Richie Rich\" and \"Hot Stuff the Little Devil\". \"Richie Rich\" would become an inspiration for her most famous creation. As a teenager, she won a 1965 children's fashion design contest sponsored by \"Tin Tin Daily\". Her first comic book, \"Fafa Siuze\" (\"Miss Flower\"), was published in March 1965 and lasted eight issues. \"Sapsaam Dim\" (\"Miss 13 Dot\") began in 1966. \"Zai-se-ti,\" literally translated as \"13 dots\", is Shanghainese slang for frivolous young women. The title character is the daughter of a millionaire banker, Mr. Cash, and a lenient mother, Mrs. Lovely. Like \"Richie Rich,\" the series focused on her unrealistic, luxurious adventures."}, {"text": "Western fashion was a major focus of the series; it is estimated that the first 28 issues featured over 1700 different pieces of clothing. Readers took copies of the comic to tailors to have imitation outfits made. Miss 13 Dot was intended and received as a feminist icon during a time of change for women in Hong Kong; Lee said \"can do what she likes, make her own decisions, have her own ideas.\" At its peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s, \"Sapsaam Dim\" was selling 50,000 copies a month. The series ended in 1980. In 1978, Lee and her husband were artists on a new children's magazine called \"Sannei Gogo\" (\"Brother Sunny\"). In 2005, Lee and the company Dog 9 released a 12-inch Miss 13 Dot doll. She also published a Miss 13 Dot graphic novel, \"Lyun-lyun Baa-lai\" (\"Love in Paris\"), in February 2008. Death. Lee died on 27 August 2020 after an illness. She was buried at St. Michael%27s Catholic Cemetery."}, {"text": "Breakaway is a suburb of the town of Mount Isa in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. In the , Breakaway had a population of 187 people. Geography. The Leichhardt River flows north\u2013south through the town of Mount Isa, dividing the suburbs of the town into \"mineside\" (west of the Leichhardt River) and \"townside\" (east of the Leichhardt River). Breakaway is a \"townside\" suburb. History. Breakaway was named on 1 September 1973 by the Queensland Place Names Board after Breakaway Creek which flows past it. On 16 March 2001, the status of Breakaway was changed from a locality to a suburb. Demographics. In the , Breakaway had a population of 199 people. In the , Breakaway had a population of 187 people. Education. There are no schools in Breakaway. The nearest government primary school is Townview State School in Townview to the south-west. The nearest government secondary school is Spinifex State College, which has its junior campus at Parkside to the south-west and its senior campus in Pioneer to the north-west."}, {"text": "Mark Mitchell (born April 6, 1961) is an American speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1984 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "\u00c1ras Chill Dara () is a municipal facility in Prosperous Road, Naas, County Kildare, Ireland. History. Previously Kildare County Council had used the former St Mary's Fever Hospital in Naas as its offices. By late 1990s, the old hospital buildings were in poor condition, and the county council identified the former Devoy Barracks site, which had been vacated in 1998, as its preferred location for new facilities. The new building, which was designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, was built at the former military site and was completed in 2006. The design featured two glass blocks with sloping walls linked by a four-storey bridge. The design won an award in the RIBA European Awards 2006."}, {"text": "Syb van der Ploeg (born 15 June 1966) is a Dutch singer and songwriter. Career. He was the lead vocalist for the song \"Ruthless Queen\" released in the 2000 album \"Close to the Fire\" by the Dutch progressive rock band Kayak. In 2000, he also played the role of JP in the film \"De F\u00fbke\". He participated in the 2010 edition of the television show \"De beste zangers van Nederland\". In 2011, he also played the role of Jesus in the first edition of \"The Passion\". In 2017, he played a role in that year's \"Sinterklaasjournaal\"."}, {"text": "Bridget Boakye is a Ghanaian entrepreneur, data scientist and writer. She co-founded TalentsinAfrica, one of Africa's fastest-growing skills accelerator and recruitment platforms. Her company was among the top 20 companies selected in October 2019 for the Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Her company also emerged as one of the top three start-up companies at the Oxford University Africa Innovation Fair. Early years and education. Bridget was born and raised in Ghana. She moved to the United States to live with her parents when she was ten years old and completed her tertiary education at Swarthmore College, graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics. Works. After completing her tertiary education at Swarthmore College, she worked in development and education before moving to Ghana. She was an editor at She Leads Africa where she mostly debated on African history, women, economics and entrepreneurship. In Ghana, she co-founded TalentsinAfrica and ChaleKasa. TalentsinAfrica is an AI-backed recruitment platform democratizing access to opportunity for young Africans, while ChaleKasa is a bespoke events company curating experiences to connect Diasporans and Africans. She is also the co-founder of the Women's Corner GH and the strategist for Africans on China. Philanthropy. During her 27th birthday,"}, {"text": "Bridget collaborated with Crowdfrica.org to create Bridget Gives @ 27, a fund raising project which she used to help raise $2,000 from her friends and family in support of providing healthcare to the people of Ohua Ghana."}, {"text": "In molding, an undercut is an indentation or protrusion in a shape that will prevent its withdrawal from a one-piece mold. Undercuts on molded parts are features that prevent the part from being directly ejected from an injection molding machine. They are categorized into \"internal\" and \"external\" undercuts, where external undercuts are on the exterior of the part and interior undercuts are on the inside of the part. Undercuts can still be molded, but require a \"side action\" or \"side pull\". This is an extra part of the mold that moves separately from the two halves. These can increase the cost of the molded part due to an added 15 to 30% cost of the mold itself and added complexity of the molding machine. If the size of the undercut is small enough and the material is flexible enough a side action is not always required. In these cases the undercut is stripped or snapped out of the mold. When this is done usually a stripping plate or ring is used instead of ejector pins so that the part is not damaged. This technique can be used on internal and external undercuts."}, {"text": "Hansj\u00f6rg Baltes (born 11 August 1964) is a German speed skater. He competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics and the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Egypt Cup was the 88th edition of the oldest recognised football tournament in Africa. It is sponsored by Tiger Chips, and known as the Tiger Egypt Cup for sponsorship purposes. It started with the First Preliminary Round on 15 October 2019, and concluded with the final on 5 December 2020. Egyptian Premier League side Zamalek, who had won the last two titles, were eliminated by Tala'ea El Gaish in the semi-finals following a 3\u20131 defeat after extra time. Al Ahly defeated Tala'ea El Gaish in the final won the match 3\u20132 on penalties, after the original and extra time ended 1\u20131, winning their 37th Egypt Cup title. On 14 March 2020, a decision was made by the Egyptian Football Association to postpone all football activities in Egypt due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The initial suspension, until 29 March, was then extended multiple times until at least mid-July. On 2 July 2020, the EFA announced that football competitions in Egypt would resume, with the Premier League recommencing on 6 August, Second Division on 21 September and Egypt Cup on 30 September. The EFA also confirmed that all clubs' players and staff would be"}, {"text": "tested for COVID-19 before resuming training. Round and draw dates. The schedule is as follows. Format. Participation. The Egypt Cup began with a round of 32 teams. The 18 teams of the Egyptian Premier League, along with the 14 winning teams qualified from the Fifth Preliminary Round of the 2019\u201320 Egypt Cup qualifying rounds. Draw. The draw for the main competition was held at the Egyptian Football Association headquarters in Gezira, Cairo on 24 November 2019 and was broadcast live on ON Sport. The 32 participating teams were separated into 3 pots. Pot 1 included the 15th placed team from the previous season of the Egyptian Premier League alongside the 3 promoted teams from the 2018\u201319 Egyptian Second Division, Pot 2 included the top 14 teams from the previous season of the Egyptian Premier League, and Pot 3 included all 14 teams who qualified to the competition through the qualifying rounds. Teams from Pot 1 were drawn against each other, while teams from Pot 2 were drawn against teams from Pot 3. Similar to previous season, the Egypt Cup defending champions, Zamalek, and the Egyptian Premier League champions, Al Ahly, were placed in different paths; meaning that both teams can"}, {"text": "face each other only in the final. Match rules. Teams meet in one game per round. Matches take place for 90 minutes, with two-halves of 45 minutes. If still tied after regulation, 30 minutes of extra time will be played, consisting of two periods of 15 minutes. If the score is still level after this, the match will be decided by a penalty shoot-out. A coin toss will decide who takes the first penalty. A total of seven players are allowed to be listed on the substitute bench, with up to three substitutions being allowed during regulation. All matches will be played on venues selected by the Egyptian Football Association except in the Round of 32, where matches will be hosted by the team drawn first. Champion qualification. The winners of the Egypt Cup will earn automatic qualification for the 2020\u201321 CAF Confederation Cup. If they have already qualified for the CAF Confederation Cup or CAF Champions League through their position in the Egyptian Premier League, then the spot will go to the cup runners-up. If the cup runners-up also qualified for an African competition through their league position, then the spot will be given to the fourth placed team"}, {"text": "in the league. Qualifying rounds. All of the competing teams that are not members of the Egyptian Premier League had to compete in the qualifying rounds to secure one of 14 available places in the Round of 32. The qualifying phase began with the First Preliminary Round on 15 October 2019, and concluded with the Fifth Preliminary Round on 23 November 2019. Round of 32. The matches were played from 2 to 8 December 2019. This round included four teams from the Egyptian Third Division, Al Jazeera, Al Obour, Qena and El Sharkia, the lowest ranking sides left in the competition. \"All times are CAT ().\" Round of 16. The matches were played between 15 February and 5 October 2020. Matches involving Al Ahly and Zamalek were postponed to avoid scheduling conflicts with their postponed league games. This round included two teams from the Egyptian Second Division, Abou Qir Fertilizers and Tersana, the lowest ranking sides left in the competition. \"All times are CAT ().\" Quarter-finals. The matches were played from 14 October to 21 November 2020. This round included one team from the Egyptian Second Division, Abou Qir Fertilizers, the lowest ranking side left in the competition. \"All times"}, {"text": "are CAT ().\" Semi-finals. The matches were played on 1 December 2020. \"All times are CAT ().\" Bracket. The following is the bracket which the Egypt Cup resembles. Numbers in parentheses next to the match score represent the results of a penalty shoot-out."}, {"text": "Wolfgang Scharf (born 13 November 1959) is a German speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1984 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Manuela Escamilla (1648\u20131721) was a Spanish playwright, stage actress and theatre manager. She belonged to the playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age. She was the daughter of Francisca D\u00edaz and Antonio Escamilla, a successful actress in 1654\u20131677 and the manager of her father's theater company in 1683\u20131690."}, {"text": "Tibor Kopacz (17 April 1962 \u2013 9 May 2009) was a Romanian speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1984 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The National Basketball League of Canada is a Canadian professional men's basketball league that began play in 2011. Each season, players are recognized for leading in each of the five major statistical categories: points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks. Points. In basketball, points are the sum of the score accumulated through free throws or field goals. The National Basketball League of Canada scoring title is awarded to the player with the highest points per game average after the season. The Saint John Mill Rats have had two players lead the league, Kenny Jones and Anthony Anderson, a league-high. Two of the four players, Devin Sweetney and Anderson, led the league in scoring won the NBL Canada Most Valuable Player Award that same season. Rebounds. In basketball, a rebound is the act of gaining possession of the ball after a missed field goal or free throw. An offensive rebound occurs when a player recovers the ball after their own or a teammate's missed shot attempt, while a defensive rebound occurs when a player recovers the ball after an opponent's missed shot attempt. The National Basketball League of Canada's (NBL) rebounding title is awarded to the player with the highest rebounds per"}, {"text": "game average. The London Lightning have had three players lead the league in rebounding: Gabe Freeman, Stephen Maxwell, and Marvin Phillips. Freeman finished with the highest rebounding average in NBL Canada history in 2012. Assists. In basketball, an assist is a pass to a teammate that directly leads to a score by field goal. The National Basketball League of Canada's (NBL) assist title is awarded to the player with the highest assists per game average in a given season. Darren Duncan, who played with the Windsor Express for two seasons, leads the league with two such titles. Steals. In basketball, a steal is a \"defensive action\" that causes the opponent to turn the ball over. The National Basketball League of Canada's (NBL) steal title is awarded to the player with the highest steals per game average in a given season. The most recent leader was Kevin Young of the Halifax Rainmen, who won the Defensive Player of the Year Award the same season. Blocks. In basketball, a block (short for blocked shot) occurs when a defender deflects or stops a field goal attempt without committing a foul. The National Basketball League of Canada's (NBL) block title is awarded to the"}, {"text": "player with the highest blocks per game average in a given season. Cavell Johnson, who played with the Brampton A's for two seasons, leads the league with two blocks titles."}, {"text": "Claes Bengtsson (born 12 October 1959) is a Swedish speed skater. He competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics and the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Eleonore Schikaneder (1751\u20131821) was an Austrian stage actress and theatre manager. She was the daughter of the theater manager Franz Josef Moser (1717\u20131792). She was married to the actor Emanuel Schikaneder (1751 - 1812). She worked for the company of Andreas Joseph Schopf in 1776\u201385 and at the Theater auf der Wieden in 1788. She managed her own company in 1785\u201388 and managed the Freihaustheater in Vienna in 1788. She lived in the Holy Roman Empire and then the Austrian Empire. In 2016, the musical \"Schikaneder\" by Stephen Schwartz and Christian Stuppeck and directed by Trevor Nunn, based on the premise that \"Die Zauberfl\u00f6te\" sprang from Eleonore's tumultuous relationship with Schikaneder, debuted at the Raimund Theater."}, {"text": "The European Union Settlement Scheme (also the EU Settlement Scheme or EUSS) is an immigration regime of the United Kingdom introduced by the Home Office in 2019, under the new Appendix EU of the UK's Immigration Rules, in response to the Brexit situation. EUSS processes the registration of nationals of EU and EFTA countries who were resident in the United Kingdom prior to the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period (which followed the technical departure of the UK from the European Union) at 11pm GMT on 31 December 2020 (\"IP completion day\"). Successful applicants receive either \"pre-settled status\" (a special form of Limited Leave to Remain) or \"settled status\" (a special form of Indefinite Leave to Remain), generally depending on the length of time they have been resident in the United Kingdom. The system also provide rights to particular types of family members, whether residing in the UK before IP completion day or not, of those EU and EFTA nationals, as long as the family relationship existed by IP completion day (with certain exceptions, like for later-born children). The system also extends rights to certain family members who resided with a British citizen in an EU or EFTA country prior"}, {"text": "to IP completion day. Application process. The application process is predominately digital. Applicants are encouraged to apply online, using an NFC-enabled iOS or Android device, and corresponding app, to scan the biometric chip on their EU/EFTA relevant passport or national identity card, where applicable, UK-issued biometric residence permit (BRP) or biometric residence card (BRC), after which they are free to complete the application on any internet-enabled device. During the early stages of the Scheme's rollout process, there was a \u00a365 fee for applicants above the age of 16 (the fee was halved for younger applicants) at the point of application. This was, however, dropped following pressure from a number of groups and individuals. To complete an application through the online portal, citizens must have a valid passport or national identity card, and may be asked to provide proof of continuous residence if checks with the Department for Work and Pensions and His Majesty's Revenue and Customs cannot confirm the duration of stay using the applicant's National Insurance number. Eligibility. The EU Settlement Scheme applies to all EU, EEA and Swiss citizens resident in the United Kingdom prior to its departure from the European Union, and their family members. Relevant nationals"}, {"text": "who are not in their own right British nationals, or who do not already have indefinite leave to enter the UK or indefinite leave to remain in the UK, and who wish to remain in the United Kingdom, are encouraged to apply under the Scheme, or seek another appropriate immigration route, lest they face enforcement action. Applicants who are EU and EFTA nationals relying on their own residence in the UK, and not on being the family member joining such a person after IP completion day, must have started living in the UK by 11pm on 31 December 2020. 'Settled status' requires five years of continuous residence, with certain exceptions, like for children of EU and EFTA nationals who have settled status. Continuous residence is defined as living in the UK, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man for five consecutive years, and for at least six months in any 12-month period during those years. Longer absences are permitted for specified reasons, such as one period of up to 12 months for an \"important reason\", such as childbirth, illness, study, training or a work posting. During the COVID-19 pandemic, allowance has also been extended for an additional long absence"}, {"text": "of up to 12 months for reasons related to COVID-19, and for absences beyond 12 months where COVID-19 meant that the person was prevented from returning to the UK or advised against such a return for a period of time. However, both a second long absence and an absence beyond 12 months affect the counting of the period of continuous residence. The system also extends rights to certain family members who resided with a British citizen in an EU or EFTA country, when that residence was consistent with EU free movement law under Directive 2004/38/EC, prior to IP completion day. This protects rights existing under the Surinder Singh decision and related decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Rights granted. Settled status. Nationals of EU and EFTA countries who resided in the UK prior to 31 December 2020 (whether nominally under the scope of EU free movement law or not) for a continuous period exceeding five years ('continuous residence') will usually receive 'settled status' \u2013 formally Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) under Appendix EU to the Immigration Rules. They are able to remain in the UK as long as they wish, subject to conditions, and retain the"}, {"text": "same rights to employment, welfare, education and public funds as previously; they may also apply for British citizenship upon meeting particular requirements. Those granted 'settled status' may spend up to exactly five continuous years outside the United Kingdom without impacting their immigration status, and will lose their 'settled status' if they spend any continuous time of five years and a day or longer outside the UK. Similarly, certain close family members who joined nationals of EU/EFTA countries in the UK or who joined \"qualifying British citizens\" in the UK after first residing in an EU/EFTA country together, and who have resided in the UK for five years, can also be eligible for 'settled status'. (In specific types of unusual situations, that five year minimum period may be reduced.) These close family members must register on the Scheme when they become resident. Children born in the UK to parents, at least one of whom is a citizen with 'settled status' at the time of the child's birth, automatically have British citizenship from birth. Children born in the UK, at least one of whose parents acquire 'settled status' after the child's birth, have an entitlement to acquire citizenship before the child's 18th"}, {"text": "birthday. Pre-settled status. Nationals of EU and EFTA countries who started living in the UK on or before 31 December 2020, but do not have five years' continuous residence at the time they apply, are usually granted pre-settled status. They are allowed to stay in the UK for a further five years from the date of grant, and can apply during that time to change their status to 'settled', on completing five years' continuous residence. A 2023 modification to the scheme automatically added a further two years to those who had not yet attained settled status, for a total of seven years. A 2024 modification to the scheme made a further change and this extension was increased to five years, for a total of ten years. Beginning in January 2025, the Home Office began to issue settled status automatically on completion of the required length of residence, without the person having to make a further application. Time outside the UK totalling six months (180 days) or more within any 12-month period may disqualify an individual from becoming eligible for settled status. There is an exception allowing a single absence of up to 12 months for an \"important reason\" as well"}, {"text": "as exceptions for certain long absences caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Others. Rights and status of all EU, EEA and Swiss citizens living in the UK remained unchanged until 30 June 2021. Statistics. By 31 March 2025, the Home Office had received 7.627.941 applications to the EU settlement scheme. Of these, 89% were granted settled or pre-settled status whilst the 11% were either refused, invalid, withdrawn or void. The countries with the most applications were Romania and Poland. 15% of the applications to the scheme were repeats."}, {"text": "Zygmunt Adamczyk (1 May 1923 \u2013 19 July 1985) was a former Polish footballer who played as a forward. During the interwar years Adamczyk played in Stalowa Wola. After World War Two finished, he moved to Gda\u0144sk briefly playing with P\u0142omie\u0144 Nowy Port before joining Gedania Gda\u0144sk, where he spent a total of 4 years with Gedania. He is then documented to have played for Lechia Gda\u0144sk in 1949, making one appearance for the club in the I liga. His only appearance in the top flight of Polish football came on 10 April 1949 in a 3\u20130 defeat to Polonia Warsaw. His brother, Roman Adamczyk, also played with Adamczyk for P\u0142omie\u0144 Nowy Port, Gedania Gda\u0144sk, and Lechia Gda\u0144sk."}, {"text": "Marcin Dzie\u0144ski (born 22 January 1993) is a Polish competition climber who specializes in competition speed climbing from Tarn\u00f3w. He is multiple World and European Championships medalist and 2016 World Champion, the first Polish climber to achieve that title. He debuted in Speed Climbing World Championships in 2011. Since 2018, he's also competing in Bouldering World Championships and Worldcup."}, {"text": "Ikaunieks (feminine: Ikauniece) is a Latvian toponymic surname, derived from several locations in Latvia named Ikaunieki. Individuals with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Robert Fohr (born 1954) is a French art historian, translator and author. Since 2006 he has been head of the Sponsorship Mission at the French Ministry of Culture. Between 1981 and 1983 he was resident \"pensionnaire\" at the French Academy in Rome. In 2008 he received the Paul Marmottan prize from the Paris Academy of Fine Arts for his monograph \"Georges de La Tour le ma\u00eetre des nuits.\""}, {"text": "Jean Pichette (born 19 July 1963) is a Canadian speed skater. He competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics and the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Stedelijk Museum ('city museum') most often refers to Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Stedelijk Museum may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Beno\u00eet Lamarche (born 7 July 1966) is a Canadian speed skater. He competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics and the 1988 Winter Olympics. Ben Lamarche is the father of Pierre Olivier Lamarche, B\u00e9atrice Lamarche, and Catherine Lamarche and the older brother of Marie-Pierre Lamarche."}, {"text": "Martin Slaninka (born 26 March 1996) is a Slovak professional footballer who plays for Tatran Liptovsk\u00fd Mikul\u00e1\u0161 as a left-back. Club career. Slaninka made his Fortuna Liga debut for Sere\u010f against Spartak Trnava on 21 July 2019, playing 90 minutes of the 2\u20130 loss and being booked with a yellow card in the second half."}, {"text": "The Despenser Reredos or Despenser Retable is a medieval altarpiece now in St Luke's Chapel, Norwich Cathedral. It is the cathedral's most important work of art. The altarpiece shows five scenes from the end of Christ's life\u2014his flagellation, his journey to the cross, his crucifixion, events that follow his burial, and the Ascension. The scenes, which are painted on wood in vivid colours, are surrounded by a rectangular frame. The original reredos may originally have been positioned at the cathedral's high altar. The reredos is generally considered to have been commissioned by the Bishop of Norwich, Henry Despenser, following the defeat of a rebel peasant army at the Battle of North Walsham in 1381. Alternative theories have been suggested for the reason for its commission, including that it was made to mark the visit to the city by Richard II of England in 1383, or as thanksgiving for the completion of work done in the cathedral. Heraldic shields around the frame may represent the families who were involved in suppressing the Peasants' Revolt in East Anglia, or who contributed to the cost of producing the piece. A number of family names for the shields, first suggested at the end of"}, {"text": "the 19th century, have since been reinterpreted by researchers. The reredos remained lost until 1847, when it was accidentally rediscovered in the cathedral, having been remade into a table, with the paintings concealed underneath. The upper part of the reredos (which included part of the central figure of Jesus) had been sawn off by carpenters when constructing the table top. The panels and frame were restored by Pauline Plummer in the 1950s, since when the reredos has been used once more as a altarpiece. Discovery and provenance. The \"Despenser Reredos\" is a medieval altarpiece used in St Luke's Chapel in Norwich Cathedral, which has been used as a parish church since the 16th century. The reredos was discovered in the cathedral in 1847, having been converted into a table during the English Reformation, and kept for years in an upper room, with the altarpiece paintings hidden underneath. The reredos had been sawn off at the top and the four corners had been cut out to enable table legs to be inserted. Way's account of the painting did not disclose details about how the artefact was discovered in the chapel room, what the table was being used for when it was"}, {"text": "found, or its original use in the cathedral. Following the discovery of the reredos, it was displayed in a glass case in the cathedral's south ambulatory. Following its discovery in 1847, Albert Way (a local historian who published his findings in a special edition of \"The History and Antiquities of Norfolk and the City of Norwich\"), and his colleague, the art historian Matthew Digby Wyatt, both interpreted the altarpiece as having come from Italy. However, the origin of the reredos remains uncertain. It was at first considered by experts to be of Italian or German origin, but later specialists believed it to be influenced by French or Bohemian craftsmen\u2014Hope's 1897 account stated that the retable was an example of \u201cgenuine English art\u201d, and that it had been made in Norwich. The panels are similar to others at another church, St Michael-at-Plea, Norwich, but experts have not been able to conclude from this that it was made locally. Historian David King has concluded that the origin of the reredos cannot be ascertained by the style of the panels. In contrast, the medieval art historian Pamela Tudor-Craig wrote that there is evidence that the reredos was \"executed by local craftsmen\". Commission. The"}, {"text": "date the reredos was made, the reason for its commission, and its provenance, are not known for certain. It has been suggested from the existence of heraldic shields around the borders of the reredos that it was made as an act of thanksgiving following events in Norfolk during the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, a conjecture first made by the English antiquarian William Henry St John Hope in 1898. Hope examined the surviving heraldry on the reredos, and suggested family names for seven of the shields. His analysis of the shields has since been reinterpreted by modern researchers; their findings may actually connect the reredos with the Peasants\u2019 Revolt even more closely. Hope identified \u201cclear traces\u201d of the Despenser family arms on the frame, but his photograph of 1898 does not show it. His suggestion that the arms of Stephen Hales, who was captured by the rebels, is included on the reredos, is probably correct. According to Hope, the shields would have represented local families who had wanted to thank God for the defeat of the rebels at the Battle of North Walsham in June that year, most notably Henry le Despenser, who led the forces against them. It is possible"}, {"text": "that the reredos was commissioned by Despenser, an English nobleman and the Bishop of Norwich at the time of the Peasants' Revolt, as suggested by Hope, but the 1898 photograph lacks any evidence that Despenser's arms were ever represented on the reredos frame. The medievalist Sarah Beckwith has argued that the commission was directly related to the insurrection in the manner of an object lesson, suggesting that \"the peasants who had dared, albeit abortively, to contest their ordained position in the social hierarchy and whose revolutionary gestures were based on an identification with Christ, are once again shown a story, a story they already know very well\". However, a link with the revolt cannot be proven, and the heraldic shields may have been belonged to important Norfolk families who were represented because of a different association. The reredos could have been commissioned by Norwich Cathedral to mark the visit to the city by Richard II of England and his queen Anne of Bohemia in 1383. The reredos may have been dedicated in the presence of Richard, a possibility that is more likely if it was intended to be used for the cathedral's high altar. According to Tudor-Craig, the purpose of"}, {"text": "the heraldry on the reredos was to commemorate \"not only those who contributed to the altarpiece itself, but those who had helped fund the reconstruction of the eastern arms of the church\". There is no evidence from the cathedral's sacrist rolls for the period\u2014or from any other sources\u2014to suggest who paid for the reredos. The historian David King considers that \u201ca collective donation by those represented in the heraldry\u201d is the most like means by which the costs of the artefact were met. Description. Construction of the frame. The reredos is the cathedral's most important work of art. It is located behind the altar in St Luke\u2019s Chapel. The painted scenes are on a wooden panel made from at least four planks, over which a frame was attached. The five scenes were separated by mullions, of which only one survives. Dowels were used to join the pieces. At least one of the upper planks is missing, as the top of the reredos was sawn off to make a rectangular bench top, and squares of wood were removed from the reredos to allow for the construction of legs at the four corners. The original shape of the frame cannot be determined,"}, {"text": "but it was probably rectangular. The frame may have had 30 heraldic shields, as well as some of the Instruments of the Passion. Only those around the sides and along the bottom of the frame survived when the reredos was converted into a bench. Painted panels. The five sections of the reredos are each devoted to one aspect of Christ's final days. The colours used are vivid, and include a bright red and a blueish green. The paintings were never deliberately damaged, but paint has been lost from them over the centuries. The loss of the top part from three of the panels only resulted in the removal of the architectural settings. The upper part of Christ has been lost in two of the panels. The missing part of the central panel has been reinstated by Pauline Plummer (unlike the others, where the missing art has not been restored), so that the reredos can be used in religious services. The first panel shows an almost totally naked Christ being whipped whilst being tied to a pillar. Jesus is looking at his persecutors with sadness rather than in pain. The Roman soldiers are made to look ugly as they grimace and"}, {"text": "dance, a sign that they are evil. The men scourging Jesus are shown as labouring peasants\u2014with sunburnt skin, rustic clothes, and bare legs\u2014whilst Jesus himself is almost naked and depicted with a pale-looking skin. A bearded authority figure that may represent Pilate is shown in this panel. The second panel shows Christ surrounded by soldiers as he is made to carry his cross. The central panel depicts the crucifixion of Christ. The panel shows Mary, mother of Jesus, being held by St John the Evangelist. A group of three men opposite to them includes a person who may be the same authority figure shown in the scourging scene. A quotation from the Bible reads (\u201cThis man was truly the Son of God\u201d). The fourth panel shows events that follow the Burial of Jesus. He is shown carrying a banner and stepping onto the shoulder of a sleeping soldier as he rises from his tomb. Unlike the drawing of Jesus, the tomb has no perspective. The fifth panel shows the Ascension of Jesus, with the Disciples and the Virgin Mary arranged around him. Much of the figure of Jesus is lost, a result of the top of the panel being cut"}, {"text": "away when the reredos was made into a table top. It is unclear how much of Jesus was originally depicted in this panel. In the reredos, Christ is shown as humbly accepting his fate from those with the power to prescribe it; a similar position, says Beckwith, to the position the peasantry found themselves in following their abortive rebellion."}, {"text": "Mark Huck (born August 2, 1957) is an American speed skater. He competed in the men's 5000 metres event at the 1984 Winter Olympics. He graduated from Princeton University in 1979."}, {"text": "Renate Verbaan (born 27 October 1979) is a Dutch actress and television presenter. Career. Verbaan was a model before auditioning to be a video jockey for TMF Nederland. As part of a contest she was voted by the audience to be a new host, which she remained from 2004 to 2006. From 2006 until 2009 she presented \"RTL Travel's Hotlist\". In 2007, she participated in the television show \"Wie is de Mol?,\" where she reached the final. She also became ambassador for Feyenoord, the main football club of her hometown Rotterdam. As of 2010 she is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In 2011, she presented \"Secret Story\", the Dutch adaptation of the French reality show with the same name. In that same year, she also participated in an episode of the game show \"De Jongens tegen de Meisjes\". She was the procession reporter in the 2013 edition of \"The Passion\". From 2013 till 2019 she presented \"Shownieuws\". In 2022, Verbaan and Winston Gerschtanowitz appeared as two robots in an episode of \"The Masked Singer\". Personal life. She married Winston Gerschtanowitz in 2011. They have two sons born in 2008 and 2010."}, {"text": "Henry Hutt (1875\u20131950) was an American painter and illustrator born in Chicago. He was educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was a member of the class of 1892. He was also a member of the Art Students League of the Chicago Art Institute. With several fellow students he formed the Palette and Chisel, an independent artists' association in Chicago. Among the community of popular illustrators of his time, Hutt was particularly known for his illustrations of modern, elegant women, drawn from models. His work was printed widely in the popular American press, in periodicals such as \"Collier's\", \"Harper's\", and \"The Century\". His illustrations and cover art appeared in dozens of novels and non-fiction books. A monograph was published on his work in 1898. Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1905 American Art Gallery, New York, 1905 Art Institute of Chicago, 1906"}, {"text": "Zhao Shijian (born 10 March 1955) is a Chinese speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1984 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Toshiaki Imamura (born 11 May 1962) is a Japanese speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1984 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Masahito Shinohara (born 10 May 1961) is a Japanese speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1984 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Maiocchi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Konstantin Yuryevich Korotkov (; born 18 July 1961) is a Soviet speed skater. He competed in the men's 10,000 metres event at the 1984 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Rachtman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Ole (Olaus) Judich\u00e6r (20 March 1661 29 September 1729) was a Danish shipbuilder and admiral in the Royal Danish Navy. Early life. Ole (or Olaus) Judich\u00e6r was born on 20 March 1661 in Gotland, although this date may have been 20 February 1661 where his father was the parish priest in the very south of the island. At the age of seventeen he departed for Copenhagen where, in 1683 and 1684, he studied theology. Later he studied mathematics under the scientist Ole R\u00f8mer, who recommended Judich\u00e6r to Niels Juel and to Admiral Henrik Span. He became tutor to the household of the latter, during which time he occasionally preached in the naval Church of Holmen. Naval career. In 1690 he was appointed deputy dockmaster at Bremerholm (better known as Gammelholm in today\u2019s Copenhagen) and a short time thereafter as leader in the shipbuilding department. With the launch of the ship-of-the-line Dannebroge in 1692 \u2013 the first ship to be built at Nyholm \u2013 he was officially named as dockmaster and \"fabrikmester\", positions he retained until 1725.<br> From being a civilian employed as shipbuilder at the Royal Naval dockyards, he was commission in 1698 direct to the rank of commander (\"kommand\u00f8rkaptajn\")"}, {"text": "despite not having followed the normal officer training pathway. In 1706 or 1708, in response to complaints that his ship designs were influenced by too much theory, he embarked on a study tour to Holland and England. Whilst in Britain he accompanied Admiral George Byng on a voyage to Lisbon. The return of hostilities in the Baltic caused his England tour to be curtailed, and shortly thereafter he was in Lithuania purchasing timber for shipbuilding, followed by Christians\u00f8 where he was to renovate the defence works of that Baltic island. In 1710, at the Battle of K\u00f8ge Bay, Judich\u00e6r commanded a squadron in the fleet led by Gyldenl\u00f8ve. As chief of coastal defence from 1711 he was responsible for the scuttling of decommissioned warships to form the foundation of the sea fort \"Trekroner\" on the approaches to Copenhagen harbour. He is credited with 23 ships-of-the-line and nine frigates Ships-of-the-line attributed to Judich\u00e6r. Judich\u00e6r introduced scientific method into the building of ships in Denmark, and was promoted over the period he was in post to eventually become Holmen\u2019s Admiral in 1714. During the Great Northern War he was loaded with many responsibilities in addition to shipbuilding, including officer commanding Zealand\u2019s coastal"}, {"text": "defences \u2013 despite his lack of traditional training as a naval officer or in naval warfare. His distinguished performance in many of these duties saw him grow in confidence and also in stubbornness. In 1700 he refused to take defensive measures to block \"Flinterenden\" which the Swedish fleet nevertheless had problems navigating to join their British and Dutch allies in the bombardment of Copenhagen and troop landings at Humleb\u00e6k in August of that year.<br> In 1718 Judich\u00e6r designed and built shallow draft floating mortar platforms for use in the rocky coastal waters of Sweden In 1719 he used a diving bell designed and built by himself for investigation and raising of ships that had been sunk at Marstrand Dismissal, retirement and death. With the end of the Great Northern War his detractors within the Danish Admiralty grew, led by the admirals R\u00e5ben and Frants Trojel who complained about him to the king, Frederik IV, and accused him of bringing his office into disrepute. Judich\u00e6r, by his whimsical response to these charges, did not gain any friends and was made a scapegoat for all that was wrong at the shipyards, being dismissed in 1725 \u2013 a decision formally approved in 1727."}, {"text": "The story that he had to leave Holmen in disgrace through the Slaves Gate is provably untrue. He retired to N\u00e6stved where he died on 29 September 1729. His coffin was placed in the chapel of the naval church at Holmen in 1730. Citations. This article is translated from the Danish Wikipedia article , checked and augmented against the in-line references cited."}, {"text": "Sorsa is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Henry Endicott Stebbins (1905 in Milton, Massachusetts \u2013 1973) was a career Foreign Service Officer who was the first US Ambassador to Nepal. He also served as Ambassador to Uganda. Early life. Stebbins\u2019 parents were Rev. Roderick Stebbins and Edith Endicott (Marean) Stebbins. He graduated from Milton Academy and then Harvard in 1927. Career. On July 1, 1939, Stebbins entered the State Department as foreign service officer of Class 8. He had various posts throughout Europe and Turkey before being named vice consul in London under Joseph P. Kennedy in 1939. When he was first secretary of the London Embassy in 1945, he met his future wife, Barbara Jennifer Worthington, a native of Dorset, England. In 1951 he went to Melbourne, Australia as Consul. President Dwight D. Eisenhower promoted him to foreign service inspector in 1955, naming him senior inspector a year later. In 1959 Eisenhower named Stebbins the first Ambassador to Nepal where he served until 1966. When his 89 year old mother found out President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him Ambassador to Uganda in 1966, she said she was thrilled to hear of his appointment but wished he was a street sweeper in Milton because \u201cat least he\u2019d"}, {"text": "be home.\u201d He retired from the Service three years later, returning to Milton. Death. On March 28, 1973, Stebbins apparently fell from the deck of the \"S.S. Leonardo da Vinci\" and was considered lost at sea."}, {"text": "Killaliathan Church, also called Killagholehane Church, is a medieval church and a National Monument in County Limerick. Location. The church is located south of Broadford, County Limerick. History. The site was the location of an earlier Christian church, established c. 1200 after a summer snowfall that covered the entire area, except for the field, so the church was dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows. The land was donated by the local rulers, the U\u00ed Liath\u00e1in, and so it was named \"Cill Achadh U\u00ed Liath\u00e1in\", \"church of U\u00ed Liath\u00e1in's field,\" or Killaliathan. The original church was destroyed in war in 1302, and a new church erected in its place. This was called Killagholehane (\"Cill Deochain Liath\u00e1in\", \"Deacon Liath\u00e1n's church\"). Killaliathan Church was replaced by a new Church of Ireland church in the village of Broadford in 1812. The graveyard is still in use. Church. The division of the east window into three lights is unusual. The baptismal font, a 15th-century tomb, and part of the sacristy still remain. A gallery once stood above the doorway. The tomb may belong to the famous \u00d3 D\u00e1laigh bardic family."}, {"text": "The 13th Asia Pacific Screen Awards were held on 21 November 2019 in Brisbane, Australia. Winners and nominees. Complete list of winners and nominees:"}, {"text": "Anna Pol\u00edvkov\u00e1 (born 24 March 1979 in Prague) is a Czech actress. In December 2013 Pol\u00edvkov\u00e1 won the sixth season of StarDance with her professional partner Michal Kurti\u0161."}, {"text": "Elections in India in 2021 include by-elections to the Lok Sabha, elections to the Rajya Sabha, elections to legislative assemblies of 4 states and 1 union territory, and other by-elections to state legislative assemblies, councils and local bodies."}, {"text": "John Abraham Russell (6 November 1792 - 29 April 1865) was an Irish Anglican priest. Russell was born in Limerick and educated at Trinity College, Dublin where he was a close friend of the poet Charles Wolfe. Russell edited Wolfe's poems and sermons, which were published with a brief biography in 1826. He was Archdeacon of Clogher from 1826 until his death. He married Frances Story, who outlived him by many years, and had at least three sons and one daughter Geraldine, who married Heneage Horsley Jebb a descendant of Bishop Samuel Horsley."}, {"text": "Vaniskedi () is a village in the Ozurgeti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia."}, {"text": "Murnighan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "The Hodgkin family is a British Quaker family where several members have excelled in science, medicine, and arts. The first famous member of the family was the grammarian and calligrapher John Hodgkin (1766\u20131845). His descendants include the physician Thomas Hodgkin (after whom \"Hodgkin's lymphoma\" was named), the historian Thomas Hodgkin (bearing the same name), and Nobel laureate physiologist Alan Hodgkin. Family tree. For clarity, the tree does not include every family member. It is focused on the most prominent members and their direct ancestors and descendants, as well as those who, by marriage, connect the family to other prominent families or individuals. The first generation: John Hodgkin. John Hodgkin (1766\u20131845) was an English tutor, grammarian, and calligrapher. He married Elizabeth Rickman (1768-1833) of a Sussex Quaker family and together they had four sons of whom the first two died in infancy The second generation. Thomas Hodgkin (physician). Thomas Hodgkin (1798 \u2013 1866), or \"Uncle Doctor\" as he was known to succeeding generations, was a British physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. Hodgkin's lymphoma is named after him. In 1850 he married Sarah Frances Scaife, a widow, but the couple"}, {"text": "had no children. John Hodgkin. John Hodgkin (1800-1875) was an English barrister and Quaker preacher. He was married three times. From his first marriage to Elizabeth Howard (daughter of the meteorologist and chemist Luke Howard) he had five children, including the historian Thomas Hodgkin The third generation. Because John Hodgkin's first two sons died in infancy, and Thomas Hodgkin had no children, all members of the third generation were children of the younger John Hodgkin. Thomas Hodgkin (historian). Thomas Hodgkin (1831 \u2013 1913) was a British historian and biographer. He is particularly known for his 8-volume magnum opus \"Italy and her Invaders\". He married Lucy Ann Fox, daughter of Alfred Fox and had seven children with her. These include the historian Robert Howard Hodgkin and George Hodgkin, father to Nobel Laureate Alan Hodgkin. The fourth generation. Robert Howard Hodgkin. Robert Howard Hodgkin (1877 \u2013 1951) was an English historian of modern history and Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford. He was married to Dorothy Forster Smith, daughter of fellow Oxford historian Arthur Smith and together they had a son, Thomas Lionel Hodgkin. Henry Theodore Hodgkin. Henry Hodgkin (1877-1933), son of John Hodgkin's son Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin, was a medical doctor"}, {"text": "and a British Quaker missionary who, in the course of his 55-year life, co-founded the West China Union University in Chengdu, co-founded and led the first Christian pacifist movement, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, and founded the Pendle Hill Quaker meeting and training center, in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. The fifth generation. Eliot Hodgkin. Eliot Hodgkin (1905 \u2013 1987) was an English painter, son of Charles Ernest Hodgkin , grandson of the engineer and antiquary John Eliot Hodgkin, and great-grandson of John Hodgkin. In 1940 he married Maria Clara Egle Laura (Mimi) Henderson (n\u00e9e Franceschi) and together they had one son and three grandchildren. Thomas Lionel Hodgkin. Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (1910 \u2013 1982) was an English Marxist historian of Africa. He was the son of Robert Howard Hodgkin and Dorothy Forster Smith, daughter of the historian Arthur Lionel Smith. In 1937, he married the British chemist Dorothy Crowfoot (1910-1994) who, under the name Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. Alan Hodgkin. Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914 \u2013 1998) was an English physiologist and biophysicist, who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles. He married Marion Rous in 1944,"}, {"text": "daughter of American pathologist Francis Peyton Rous, who won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Their son Jonathan Hodgkin became a molecular biologist at Cambridge University. Ernest Pease Hodgkin. Ernest Pease Hodgkin (1908 \u2013 1998) was a renowned medical entomologist and marine biologist. Born in Madagascar as a descendant of the Pease family he studied malarial transmission in Malaysia, was a prisoner of war in Changi prison, and became the foremost expert on Western Australian river ecology and founded many of the Australian Quaker meeting houses and schools. The sixth generation. Howard Hodgkin. Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin CH CBE (1932 \u2013 2017) was a British painter. Joanna Hodgkin. Joanna Hodgkin (born 1947) is a British novelist known primarily for mysteries who has published under both her maiden name Joanna Hodgkin and her married name Joanna Hines. She is also the biographer of her mother, Nancy Isobel Myers, who was the much-abused first wife of the writer Lawrence Durrell. Jonathan Hodgkin. Jonathan Alan Hodgkin (born 1949) is a British biochemist, Professor of Genetics at the University of Oxford, and an emeritus fellow of Keble College, Oxford."}, {"text": "Vilnius University of Applied Sciences () or VIKO is a Lithuanian vocational university (kolegija), established on 1 September 2000 upon reorganizing three higher schools in Vilnius: Schools of Electronics, Economics and Commerce. It is the largest university of applied sciences in Lithuania, hosting 6,793 students and ~460 teaching staff (according to October 2015 data). Vilnius University of Applied Sciences is the best rated vocational university (kolegija) in Lithuania."}, {"text": "Robert Daniels may refer to:"}, {"text": "Robert Daniel (1936\u20132012) was a Virginia farmer, businessman, teacher, and politician. Robert Daniel may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Josh Wheeler may refer to:"}, {"text": "Samaira is a given name. Notable people with the name include:"}, {"text": "The Church of the East monastery on Sir Bani Yas is an archaeological site in the United Arab Emirates discovered in 1992. The site is significant as evidence of the presence of Christianity in the UAE in the pre-Islamic period. Believed to be Nestorian, the Christian community continued for at least a century after the arrival of Islam. The Monastery was found through the investigative work of the Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey, or ADIAS, which documented sites and potential sites of archaeological significance across the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. With a mandate to preserve key sites of historial interest in the face of the Emirates' rapid development, ADIAS' work has resulted in dozens of surveys of critical sites across the Emirate. ADIAS' head, Peter Hellyer, was project director of the excavations of the monastery between 2009 and 2012. In 1992 the remnants of an ancient buried building on the eastern side of the island of Sir Bani Yas were discovered, and through further excavations was found to be a 7th century Church of the East Christian monastery which operated for 150 years. The site consists of a church, a monastery and a series of courtyard houses, including dormitories, a"}, {"text": "kitchen, cells and burial sites. dating to the 7th and 8th centuries CE. The monastery is believed to have housed between 30-40 monks. The complex was built around the sole burial found on the site. Archaeological finds indicate contact with Bahrain, India and Iraq. the site is part of a series of Christian complexes across the Persian Gulf region including Kuwait at both Akkaz and Al Qusur on Failaka Island, at Kharg on the Iranian coastline and in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia at Jubail. In 1995, Hellyer discovered a Christian cross in the form of a small piece of plaster, identifying it as a Christian site by comparing it to ancient churches known from elsewhere in the Persian Gulf region. Assessments by the team in charge of excavating the monastery concluded that the site was, at one time, home to about 30 monks from the Church of the East. Stucco decorations were found including Nestorian crosses and vine and scroll motifs. The complex is the oldest Christian site in the UAE., rivaled by the monastery on the Siniyah Island. Protection. In 2018, the Department of Culture and Tourism began designing and implementing new solutions to protect the site,"}, {"text": "which would ensure the preservation of the archaeological remains of the site from current environmental risks, reduce visual and physical impact, and enhance the visitor experience. The visitor platform has a highly specialized design that is flexible and reversible, with the aim of providing effective and comprehensive protection against rain, heat, sand, wind and nesting birds, and includes a drainage system with an elevated pedestrian path, interspersed with explanation points that support the visitor\u2019s understanding and appreciation of the site\u2019s details. The platform\u2019s shading units are also manufactured with a roof made of Teflon (PTFE), a highly durable material that provides natural light and air, and are designed to be visually unobstructive to visitors, while they can be expanded in the future if new discoveries are made around the site. The platform is also equipped with artificial lighting to host evening tours. Other improvements include a new access road with environmentally friendly, stable soil, and a new fence to keep out wildlife and sand, designed in harmony with the rest of the site."}, {"text": "Louise Gagnon-Arguin is a Canadian archivist. Early life. Gagnon-Arguin was born in 1941 in Port-Joli, Quebec. Education. Between 1958 and 1960, she audited librarianship courses at the Universit\u00e9 de Montreal. She graduated with her B.A. in history in 1973, and her M.A. in history in 1978, and her PhD in history in 1990, all from Universit\u00e9 de Laval. Professional and scholarly contributions. Gagnon-Arguin has worked as a consultant, helping to implement school libraries in La Pocatiere, and working as a librarian at the S\u00e9minaire de Trois Rivi\u00e8res. She helped develop a technical program in documentation at C\u00e9gep de Jonquiere, and taught there from 1966 to 1971 and from 1973 to 1983. She later taught at C\u00e9gep Garneau between 1983 and 1985. Since 1985, she has taught archival science at the at the University of Montreal, achieving the rank of associate professor in 1995. She retired in 2000. Gagnon-Arguin served on the Canadian Planning Committee on Descriptive Standards (1990-1995). Heavily involved in her professional organization, the , she served as general editor of the association's academic journal \"Archives\" from 1982 to 1992, as well as the association's monthly bulletin \"La Chronique\" from 2012 to 2015. She has also contributed to the"}, {"text": "AAQ adopting a code of ethics and a certification program to establish expectations for professional practice."}, {"text": "Yusuf Magaji Bichi (born 23 February 1956) is a Nigerian security personnel who served as the director-general of the State Security Service from 2018 to 2024. Background and education. Bichi was born on 23 February 1956 in Hagagawa Qtrs of Bichi Local Government, Kano State. Bichi attended Kano State College of Advanced Studies (1975\u20131977) and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (1977\u20131980), where he graduated with a degree in political science. He attended strategic training at the National Defence College, Abuja where he obtained a certificate with an authorization to use the title, Fellow War College (FWC). Career in the Security Services. Bichi began his career in the Security Division of the Cabinet Office in Kano State from 1981 to 1984, in 1984 he joined the defunct Nigerian Security Organization (NSO), the precursor of the present State Security Service, now renamed Department of State Services, where he rose to the rank of director. He served as state director of security in Jigawa State (1998\u20131999), Niger State (2000\u20132003), Sokoto State (2003\u20132005) and Abia State (2005\u20132006). Subsequently, he served as director in the National Assembly Liaison (2006), Directorate of Security Enforcement (2007\u20132008), Directorate of Operations (2008\u20132009), Directorate of Intelligence (2009\u20132010), State Service Academy, Lagos"}, {"text": "(2010\u20132013), SSS Research Development Centre, Bauchi (2013\u20132014), Directorate of Inspection (2014\u20132015), Directorate of Administration and Finance (2015\u20132017). Director General of the State Security Service. He was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari on 14 September 2018, replacing Matthew Seiyefa. Bichi was replaced with Adeola Ajayi by President Bola Tinubu on 26 August 2024. Awards. After the 2019 presidential election, an election monitoring group known as the International Human Rights Commission, Geneva, Switzerland, honored Bichi, with an award. According to the group, \"the award was in recognition of the exemplary performance by the Service and its personnel during the just concluded 2019 general elections.\" On 11 October 2022, he was conferred with the National Honour of Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR) by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR. The honour is in recognition of his sterling leadership qualities and particularly for his tremendous contributions to the national security management of the country."}, {"text": "Altenberg Abbey () is a former Premonstratensian nunnery situated between Solms and Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany. It was founded in and dissolved in 1802. It had a strong connection with the House of Nassau, several of whom were nuns and abbesses, and some family members, including Otto I, Count of Nassau, were buried here; it was also a burial place for the Counts of Solms. The buildings were seriously damaged by a fire in 1952. Those that survive accommodate a meeting centre for the local deanery and since 2018 a small Protestant religious community."}, {"text": "The 2018 Pan American Archery Championships was held in Medell\u00edn, Colombia from 14 to 19 August 2018."}, {"text": "Abu Sayeed Md. Shahadat Hussain (8 December 1955 \u2013 30 May 2020), commonly known as Muhaddis Abu Sayeed was a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami politician and a member of parliament for Jessore-2. He was a Muhaddis, an Islamic speaker and scholar. He had a deep knowledge of Quran, Hadith, Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh. Career. Muhaddis Abu Sayeed was elected to parliament from Jessore-2 as a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami candidate in 2001. Death. Muhaddis Abu Sayeed died of a heart attack on 30 May 2020."}, {"text": "Mihailo Maksimovi\u0107 also Mihajlo Maksimovi\u0107 (Serbian: \u041c\u0438\u0445\u0430\u0438\u043b\u043e \u041c\u0430\u043a\u0441\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0432\u0438\u045b; c. 1745 - after 1792) was a Serbian satirist, professor, translator, and writer. He was very familiar with the life and work of Dositej Obradovi\u0107. Biography. He is one of the least known literary figures in Serbia whose biography is incomplete. There is no sure date of his birth or death and the chronological happenings that occurred in his lifetime have yet to be put in sequence. His contemporaries were Dositej Obradovi\u0107, Jovan Raji\u0107, Pavle Solari\u0107, Stefan von Novakovi\u0107, Arsenije Se\u010dujac and others. As a teacher, he lived and worked in Vienna for a time and was also employed in the Illyrian Court Chancellery (\"dvorske ilirske kancelarije\") as its secretary. Maksimovi\u0107 wrote his satires in a series of articles under the title \"Mali bukvar za veliku decu\" (\"Little premier for grown-up children\") in the language of the common people instead of the antiquated Slavonic-Serbian. His articles, printed in Serbian newspapers, were later compiled and published as a book in Vienna in 1792 under the same title. We know he was a professor because he was moved so many times to new posts. That happened because he was opposed to the Roman Catholic"}, {"text": "Church's dominance of secular concerns, especially education. He was forced to spend the rest of his life in minor posts distant from Vienna (such as Petrovaradin and other such places that were considered remote in the Habsburg Empire), like many others in the decade following the French Revolution he became quite reactionary in line with the shifts that saw most of the Austrian Emperor Joseph's reforms of the 1780s retracted before he died. Literary work. Not surprisingly, the great age of satire in Serbian literature dates from the eighteenth century and comes from the pen of Mihailo Maksimovi\u0107 who put into common Serbian \"\u010cto je papa?\" (\"Was ist der Papst?\" or \"Who is the Pope?\") in 1784 that gleans the works of Fran\u00e7ois-Antoine Devaux's (1712\u20131796) on reclaiming of lands and the Austrian Febronianist pamphleteer Joseph Valentin Eybel's relentless and scurrilous attacks on the Roman Curia, namely the Pope. In 1792, Mihailo Maksimovi\u0107's \"Mali bukvar za veliku decu\" (Small Primer for Grown-up Children) was published as the first satirical book of modern Serbian literature."}, {"text": "Kerry Blackshear may refer to:"}, {"text": "Beau van Erven Dorens (Haarlem, 24 December 1970) is a Dutch television presenter, actor and voice actor. He is known for presenting many television programs, including \"Deal or No Deal\", \"RTL Boulevard\", \"Het Zesde Zintuig\" and \"Beau Five Days Inside.\" Career. Van Erven Dorens played roles in episodes of several television series, including \"Goede tijden, slechte tijden\" (in 1997), \"Gooische vrouwen\" (in 2005 and 2006), \"Dokter Tinus\" (in 2013) and \"Bagels & Bubbels\" (in 2015). In 2001, he played the role of Fraser in the film \"I Love You Too\". The film was a success at the box office and became the first film to receive the Golden Film award, which is awarded to films from the Netherlands once they have sold 100,000 tickets. In 2008 and 2009, he starred as team captain in the television game show \"Ik hou van Holland\" for three seasons. He also appeared as contestant on the show in 2012 and 2015. In 2009, he presented \"Hole in the wall\", the Dutch adaptation of the Japanese television show \"Brain Wall\", together with Gerard Joling. From August 2009 till April 2010 he was also one of the presenters of the Dutch adaptation of the Argentine television"}, {"text": "show \"Caiga Quien Caiga\" (CQC). He presented the show alongside Pieter Jouke and Daan Nieber. Unlike adaptations in many other countries, the Dutch adaptation of CQC was not very successful. In 2010, he also presented \"De Zaterdagavondshow met Marc-Marie & Beau\" (Dutch for \"The Saturday Night Show with Marc-Marie & Beau\") with Marc-Marie Huijbregts which also wasn't very successful; only four episodes were broadcast. The year was further marked by the death of his friend Antonie Kamerling who committed suicide at the age of 44. Van Erven Dorens was the narrator in the 2014 edition of \"The Passion\", a Dutch Passion Play held every Maundy Thursday since 2011. Van Erven Dorens and Jeroen van Koningsbrugge presented the 2016 edition of \"De Nationale IQ Test\". In 2018, Van Erven Dorens won the \"Gouden Televizier-Ring\" award for the television show \"Beau Five Days Inside\". That year he also won the \"Zilveren Televizier-Ster\" for best presenter. In 2019, he won the \"Televizier-Ster\" award for best presenter. In 2019, he presented the television show \"De Sleutel\" ('The Key'). In the show, he shares the stories of several homeless people and he offers them a place to live. He also started presenting his own talk"}, {"text": "show \"Beau\" which is the successor of the previous late night talk show \"RTL Late Night\". He alternates every four months with Eva Jinek and she presents her talk show \"Jinek\". In 2019, he also appeared in one episode of \"De TV kantine\" playing the character of BeaulaLinda in a parody of \"RuPaul's Drag Race\". In 2021, he presented \"Beau in Floradorp\" in which he followed the lives of people living in Floradorp, Amsterdam, Netherlands. He appears in the Videoland series \"Hockeyvaders\". Van Erven Dorens is also a co-creator of the series. In November and December 2022, Van Erven Dorens presented the show \"Isola di Beau\" in which he interviewed two guests in Sardinia, Italy. The show is the successor to the show \"Lago di Beau\" which also aired in 2022."}, {"text": "Sa\u0161a Lazi\u0107 (born 6 April 1996) is an Austrian football midfielder. Career. Born in Vienna, Lazi\u0107 played in youth teams of 1. Simmeringer SC, First Vienna, Rapid Wien and Serbian giants Red Star Belgrade. He made his senior debut with FK Loznica in the 2015\u201316 Serbian First League. Then in summer 2016 he joined Slovenian second tier side NK Bre\u017eice 1919, During winterbreak he returned to Austria and joined First Vienna. In summer 2017 he returned to Serbia and joined FK Rad, leaving them during winter-break to join FK Podrinje Janja playing in the First League of Republika Srpska, second tier of Bosnia and Herzegovina. After finishing his season with Podrinje, he returned to Austria and, after a short spell with SV Schwechat, he joined Wiener Sport-Club."}, {"text": "Gary Stern is an American economist and banker. Gary Stern may also refer to:"}, {"text": "The Nizhny Tagil Museum of Regional History is the oldest museum in Nizhny Tagil. It is located in the centre of the city, near the Tagil pond, at . The museum belongs to the Nizhny Tagil Museum Reserve \"\". Furthermore, it is located in the building of the former laboratory outbuilding at the Zavodskaya office. Together with the City Council, it forms the architectural complex called the \"Tagil Kremlin\". History. The Nizhny Tagil Museum of Regional History was originally built in 1840 as the Museum of Natural History and Antiquities (, ). The museum was established on the basis of the exhibition that was organized for Tsesarevich Alexander Nikolaevich, the future Emperor Alexander II, who visited Nizhny Tagil in 1837. On the basis of the collections from \"Muzeum\" and from the Vyya Museum, Metallurgical Museum of the Nizhny Tagil and Lunyevka Factories was established in 1891. However, this museum closed its doors in 1907 due to lack of funding. It caused the loss of many exhibits. The museum was re-established only in 1924 as the Nizhny Tagil Museum of the Regional History. By the late 1980s, the exhibits devoted to nature were removed, and the museum became the museum of"}, {"text": "regional history. Exposure. In the museum, there are seven exhibit halls. The exposition reflects the history of Nizhny Tagil from ancient times to 1917."}, {"text": "Anthony Ifeanyichukwu Ezenna (born 21 April 1957) is a Nigerian businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder of Orange Drugs Nigeria Limited, a company that specializes in the distribution of pharmaceutical and beauty products from Indonesia, Germany, Italy, and the United States to Nigeria. Early life. Ezenna was born in Port Harcourt, River State, Nigeria, where he grew up before moving to Onitsha. He attended St. David Primary School in Owerre Akokwa, followed by Christ the King College, Onitsha for his high school education. He later paused his education due to financial hardship and joined his father's business. Personal life. He is married to Elizabeth Ezenna and is a devout Christian. Since 2017, they reside in Houston, Texas. They have two children: Ezra and Olanna. His other son, Ernest, married Adaobi, the daughter of Chief Paul Nweke, on 10 August 2024. Ezenna's brother, Chief Chinedu Ezenna, passed away two months before the wedding. In 2018, he returned to Nigeria, where he became a neighbour of the current President of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu."}, {"text": "Graciela Esmilce Mart\u00ednez Esquivel (born 24 May 2001) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a forward for Brazilian S\u00e9rie A1 club Real Ariquemes EC on loan from Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Ferrovi\u00e1ria de Esportes and for the Paraguay women's national team. Mart\u00ednez has also made appearances for the Paraguay women's U17 and U20 teams. Club career. In April 2022, Mart\u00ednez was loaned to Vasco da Gama until the end of the year."}, {"text": "Giorgio Serrallonga is an Italian film editor. Serrallonga edited \"For a Few Dollars More\" along Eugenio Alabiso, by Sergio Leone, \"Car Crash\" (1981) and \"The Stranger and the Gunfighter\" (1974) by Anthony M. Dawson, and \"Un bambino di nome Ges\u00f9\" along Domenico Varone."}, {"text": "A statue of John F. Kennedy (sometimes called John F. Kennedy) by Isabel McIlvain is installed outside the Massachusetts State House in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Description. The bronze sculpture with green patina measures approximately 8 ft. 2 in. \u00d7 3 ft. \u00d7 18 in. (249 \u00d7 91 \u00d7 46 cm), and rests on a granite base that measures approximately 27 \u00d7 72 \u00d7 87.5 in. (69 \u00d7 183 \u00d7 222 cm). It cost $180,000, and weighs 600 lbs. (272 kg). History. The memorial was designed in 1988 and dedicated on May 29, 1990, the date that would have been Kennedy's 73rd birthday. The ceremony attracted a crowd of 2,500 that included Kennedy's widow Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, his brother Ted Kennedy and other family members. The statue, which depicts Kennedy in midstride, quickly became a tourist attraction on the State House grounds. It was surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1994. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, however, police closed the gates to the State House lawn, cutting off public access to several statues, including Kennedy, Anne Hutchinson, Henry Cabot Lodge, Horace Mann and Daniel Webster. These statues were still visible at a distance from"}, {"text": "the Beacon Street sidewalk, through a fence. Only the equestrian statue of Joseph Hooker and the statue of Mary Dyer remained open to close public inspection, as they are located in the pedestrian plaza of the building's main public entrance. For two days in 2013, on the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, state officials allowed visitors to get close to the statue, with a park ranger present. Starting in 2015, they made access to the statue a regular feature during business hours, on weekdays, in spring and summer. There is still no direct access from the street; visitors must first enter the State House and go through security screening, then exit the building from a door near the statue where security officers are stationed. Public access to the statue was again cut off in March 2020, when visitors were barred from the State House amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2020, officials announced plans to move the JFK statue closer to Beacon Street, so that it can easily be seen from the public sidewalk, which forms a portion of the Freedom Trail."}, {"text": "Robert Doyne may refer to:"}, {"text": "Alice Lord (1877-1940) was a Seattle union organizer. Lord was a critical figure in the advancement of Seattle's women-led unions in the early 1900s. She led the successful efforts to establish the eight-hour day and the $10 per week minimum wage for Washington women in 1913. She led the Waitresses Union for 40 of the 73 years of its existence. Lord also helped organize other women workers in Seattle and nearby Washington cities, including domestic, garment, and candy and cracker makers as well as the Seattle Union Card and Label League."}, {"text": "S. A. Khaleque (; died 5 January 2025) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a member of parliament for Dhaka-11. Life and career. Khaleque was a member of the BNP executive committee. He had served as the deputy mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation. He was elected a member of parliament for the first time from the then Dhaka-14 constituency in the second general election held on 18 February 1979 on the nomination of the BNP. He was elected member of parliament from the Dhaka-11 constituency on the nomination of Jatiya Party in the 3rd Jatiya Sangsad elections held on 7 May 1986 and in the 4th Jatiya Sangsad elections held on 3 March 1988. Prior to the sixth national election on 15 February 1996, he rejoined the BNP and was elected member of parliament. He was elected as a member of parliament from Dhaka-11 constituency in the 8th Jatiya Sangsad elections in 2001 as a candidate of the BNP. He was defeated in the ninth parliamentary election of 2008 by participating in the nomination of BNP from Dhaka-14 constituency. Khaleque died in Dhaka on 5 January 2025."}, {"text": "Manuel da Costa Andrade (born 8 October 1944) is a Portuguese judge who served as President of the Constitutional Court and \"ex officio\" Councilor of State from 2016 to 2021. He is a Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. Manuel da Costa Andrade obtained his law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra in 1970, pursuing a career in academica. He concluded his Doctorate in Criminal Law Science (\"Ci\u00eancias Jur\u00eddico-Criminais\") in 1990, having taught and published several works on the subject of criminal law, criminal procedure, and criminology. Costa Andrade served as a member of the Constituent Assembly, the parliament convened in 1975\u201376 for the purpose of drafting a constitution for the Third Portuguese Republic, following the Carnation Revolution. Affiliated with the Social Democratic Party, he went on to serve as a Member of the Assembly of the Republic from 1976 to 1995. On 20 July 2016, he was elected Justice of the Constitutional Court by the Assembly of the Republic. On 22 July, he was elected by his peers, 7th President of the Constitutional Court. By virtue of his office, he became a Councilor of State, sworn in at"}, {"text": "Bel\u00e9m Palace on 29 September 2016. He was succeeded by Jo\u00e3o Caupers in 2021."}, {"text": "Valimai () is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by H. Vinoth. It is produced by Boney Kapoor under Bayview Projects LLP in association with Zee Studios, as co-producer and distributor. The film stars Ajith Kumar, Karthikeya, Huma Qureshi and Gurbani Judge. The film score is composed by Ghibran and the songs are composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The cinematography is performed by Nirav Shah and the editing handled by Vijay Velukutty. It revolves around Arjun, a police officer, who is assigned to track down a group of outlaw bikers following their involvement in heinous crimes. This film marked the second collaboration between Ajith, Vinoth and Kapoor after \"Nerkonda Paarvai\" (2019). Vinoth wrote the script in mid-2018, but Ajith initially declined it and asked him to work on it later. The idea was later pitched in January 2019 with Kapoor agreeing to fund the project and was officially launched in mid-October 2019, with its title. Principal photography began in December 2019 in Hyderabad and was completed in February 2021, irrespective of production being disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Major portions of the film were shot across Chennai and Hyderabad, in addition to a few sequences"}, {"text": "in Russia, which were filmed during late-August and early-September 2021. The film was in the news for a long time, due to the persuasion of fans to launch an update regarding the project, leading to a campaign named \"#ValimaiUpdate\", that influenced sports, politics and other events as well. It eventually led to being listed as one of the most-anticipated Tamil films according to trade circuits. After being delayed multiple times, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic restrictions being enforced in India, the film was released worldwide on 24 February 2022 to mixed reviews from critics. Plot. In Chennai, an outlaw motorcycle gang called Satan's Slaves are involved in drug rackets, snatch theft and murders, which are headed by Naren aka Wolfranga. With the increase in such crimes getting out of hand, the city commissioner Vijayakumar assigns the case to ACP Arjun Kumar from Madurai, who is known for his peculiar way of handling justice; breaking one of the limbs of the convicted so that they never repeat their crimes, originating from the moral values instilled by his mother Lakshmi. Arjun is the sole breadwinner in his family consisting of Lakshmi; his drunkard older brother Kothandam and his wife; his married"}, {"text": "younger sister; and his younger brother Ashok \"Kutty\", an unemployed graduate. Kutty is constantly looked down by his sisters-in-law, whose daughter he is in love with, for his unemployment, worrying Arjun and Lakshmi. Collaborating with his partner and friend Sophia, Arjun finds the corpse of Naveen, a man in a hostel whose friend Chinna had betrayed the gang and supplied drugs to him. However, Naveen had burned the drugs and committed suicide by hanging, while Chinna had been killed by the biker gang upon learning of his betrayal. Arjun finds Naveen's helmet in his room and finds out that he was a snatch thief who used a stolen motorcycle purchased from an online black marketeer. Arjun and Sophia both figure out the sequence of crimes done by Satan's Slaves. The bikes used in the crimes had been bought from the same platform using stolen mobile phones via the dark web and that all of these crimes are done by the same organization. After sending one of his colleagues posing as a mercenary to thugs retired from the drug peddling business to find out the kingpin, Arjun learns about Wolfranga and a bike chase and close-combat ensues where Arjun manages to"}, {"text": "defeat Wolfranga and the gang and arrests them. To his shock, finds out that Kutty had also been involved with the gang. While taking them to prison, Satan's Slaves attacks the convoy, kills the policemen, and aids Wolfranga to escape. Arjun tries to corner Wolfranga, but he is knocked by Kutty, who escapes with the gang. Arjun gets demoted from the case due to Kutty's involvement and the case is handed over to DCP Rajangam and IG Arasu, both of whom are envious of Arjun. Unknown to anyone, Rajangam and Arasu are moles of Wolfranga and do not pay heed to the case. Lakshmi refuses food and drink out of guilt of seeing Kutty going astray, prompting Arjun to take matters into his own hands and solve the case himself. With Sophia's help alongside a few trusted aides in the cybercrime department, Arjun captures one of the mules and asks him about the gang and how Kutty got entangled into the dirty business. Kutty had become acquainted to Wolfranga after he was humiliated in front of his family by his sister's in-laws due to his unemployment and refused to let their daughter marry him. Wolfranga indoctrinates him, saying that family"}, {"text": "are selfish individuals whose affection is a trick to make their children serve them in their old age. Wolfranga runs his business using unemployed graduates who are outcast due to unemployment and as a result are motivated by \"money buys everything\" ideology. After fishing out the abandoned, stolen motorcycles from a derelict quarry, Arjun is reassigned the case where he and Sophia plan to expose Rajangam and Arasu's involvement with Wolfranga to Vijayakumar. Wolfranga kidnaps Arjun's family, holds them hostage, and blackmails Arjun to steal a metric ton of seized cocaine from the treasury to release them. However, Wolfranga also tells Rajangam to kill Arjun, pin it on Kutty, and hand him the seized cocaine to be incinerated. Wolfranga gives an empty gun to Kutty and tells him to pretend to shoot Lakshmi in order to shake her selflessness, while he secretly loaded a single bullet in the gun, but upon realizing Lakshmi's love and her readiness to die for him, Kutty inadvertently shoots Wolfranga's girlfriend Sarah dead. Kutty reunites with his family but is badly beaten and taken hostage as well. Arjun successfully steals the cocaine, exposing and capturing Rajangam, Arasu, and the remaining mules. Arjun arrives at the"}, {"text": "hideout and fights Wolfranga, defeating him. The team successfully hacks Satan's Slaves's server and lures the bikers to the hideout. Upon arrival, they find Wolfranga dead and are surrounded and arrested by the police force. At the station, Arjun convinces the bikers to work hard and solve the problems and mentions the importance of the parents' love for them and the pleasures they sacrificed for their children, releasing them. The case is successfully closed, while Arjun and the police force are applauded by the public. Owing to their efforts, the police organizes a program to rehabilitate youngsters from depression and drugs. Cast. Additionally, a portrait of late actor Jaishankar as Arjun's late father is also featured in the film. Production. Development. Soon after the release of director H. Vinoth's second film \"Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru\" (2017), he approached actor Ajith Kumar. However, Ajith declined the project and asked the director to work on the Tamil remake of the 2016 Hindi film \"Pink\" titled as \"Nerkonda Paarvai\". In January 2019, Boney Kapoor announced the second collaboration with Ajith Kumar and director Vinoth for another Tamil film, titled as \"Thala 60\". Kapoor also stated that, the film will have racing sequences, suggesting that"}, {"text": "the movie would be an action thriller genre that uses the actor's passion for speed. It was reported that Vinoth had written the script with another actor in mind, and with Ajith's involvement, he had to make changes in the script. The film's production was expected to launch on 29 August 2019, But delayed. A formal launch ceremony for the film was held on 18 October 2019, at the office of Kapoor's production house. The makers also announced the title of the film as \"Valimai\". Yuvan Shankar Raja was hired as the film's music director, and Nirav Shah was confirmed as the cinematographer. Art director Thota Tharani was reported to join the film's technical crew, but was replaced by K. Kathir. Editor Vijay Velukutty and stunt choreographer Dhilip Subbarayan too were a part of the technical team. Sources claimed that Ajith would portray a police officer, which was later confirmed by Kapoor. On the release of the trailer glimpse on 23 September 2021, many cinephiles noted about the storyline revolving around the Satan's Slaves Motorcycle Club, which was founded in Shipley in the mid-1960s, and later spread on to various countries including Germany, North America, Scotland and Australia. They were"}, {"text": "known for the heinous activities being involved such as drug peddling, trafficking in stolen goods, gunrunning, extortion, and prostitution; its film's plot has a resemblance to the documentary covered on the outlaw motorcycle club, titled \"Sons of Anarchy\". Vinoth however revealed that the storyline will be loosely based on a group of outlaw motorcyclists involving in heinous crimes and how the protagonist tracks them down, hinting that the history behind Satan's Slaves Club gave its reference. In an interview with \"Ananda Vikatan\", Vinoth stated that he had partially re-written the script before the resumption of the film's shooting, being halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He stated that some of the actors were hesitant to shoot during the pandemic and the location owners denied permission to shoot on the sets that were constructed in the pre-pandemic times. As a result, he had to re-write the story and change the location and setting, due to practical difficulties. Casting. In an interview with Gopinath Rajendran of \"Cinema Express\", Vinoth had stated that Ajith's character is modelled on a real life racer-turned-police officer. He said, \"When Jayalalithaa ma'am was the Chief Minister, a bike racer was made an SI directly. We have taken"}, {"text": "that as an inspiration for this character, who is an ex-racing professional turned cop\". The makers reportedly approached Janhvi Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra to play the female lead, thus marking their debuts in South Indian cinema, and both actresses declined due to call sheet issues. While there had been questions surrounding over the film's female lead, with Ileana D'Cruz and Yami Gautam reportedly under consideration, Huma Qureshi was cast as a lead, in her second Tamil film after the Rajinikanth-starrer \"Kaala\" (2018). She portrays Ajith's friend in the film and there were no romantic scenes with the lead actor, due to the scripting changes made by Vinoth. Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn was reported to play the antagonist, and could not act in the film due to his commitments to \"RRR\". Arvind Swamy also reportedly refused to be part of the film, since he was then shooting for \"Thalaivii\". Prasanna was also approached to play a pivotal role in \"Valimai\", but declined the offer. In late 2019, Telugu actor Kartikeya Gummakonda was speculated as the antagonist, making \"Valimai\" his Tamil debut, and was confirmed only a year later. Vinoth stated that the antagonist is \"a strong character who believes in his"}, {"text": "ideology\". Apart from Kartikeya, two other antagonists, were reported to be featured in the film, with Pavel Navageethan of \"V1: Murder Case\" (2019) fame, and Malayalam actor Dhruvan reportedly playing the respective roles. In October 2021, Vinoth said that Malayalam actor Tovino Thomas was the initial choice for the antagonist before Kartikeya was finalised. Raj Ayyappa who played the antagonist in \"100\", plays Ajith Kumar's brother in the film. A leaked picture of the film in December 2020, features Achyuth Kumar and Sumithra in the film's cast, The latter was reported to play Ajith Kumar's mother in the film, which the makers stated her character as a crucial one in the film. Popular television actor Pugazh was reported to play a pivotal role in the film. G. M. Sundar, Selva, television actress Chaitra Reddy (in her film debut), Pearle Maaney (in her Tamil debut) and Dinesh Prabhakar, were other actors who appear in supporting roles in the film. Filming. Principal photography of \"Valimai\" was expected to begin on 13 December 2019, but the shooting was launched two days earlier at the Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad. The makers filmed an action sequence for Ajith in Hyderabad, which was completed within"}, {"text": "two weeks. Soon after the completion, the team planned for a three-day shooting schedule, at Rekha Gardens in Chennai, and parts of the city. It was reported that, Ajith met with an accident during the filming of a bike sequence before completing the schedule in Chennai, which resulted in the film's delay. Filming was reportedly halted in March 2020 due to the pandemic, where, the team planned to shoot few sequences, which include car and motor race at Switzerland, within April 2020, and also planned to shoot in Spain and Morocco, after the COVID-19 lockdown in India. However, the pandemic affected the foreign shooting schedules, which made the team to make major changes in the shooting plan, with the planned foreign schedules to be shot across India. The post-production works of the film did not happen after Ajith's request. Nearly 60% of the shoot completed before the lockdown imposed. After multiple delays, the film's shooting resumed on 23 September 2020, with Kartikeya joining the shoot. Major portions of the film were shot at Red Hills in Chennai. The makers stated that, Ajith will join the film's shoot by January 2021 and planned to complete the shoot within February, as more"}, {"text": "than 50\u201360 days of shoot is pending, including the actor's portions which will be completed within 30 days. It was reported that a popular Hollywood stunt choreographer, was hired to direct the few action sequences, which will introduce a new-style stunt in Tamil cinema. In October 2020, the team planned to shoot few sequences at New Delhi, but after the government denied permission to shoot the film citing the pandemic, the makers chose Hyderabad as the shooting schedule. Ajith joined the sets in Hyderabad, after which he resumed shooting on 25 October, despite reported that he will start the shoot in early 2021. In an interview with an online portal, H. Vinoth stated that the makers may not cancel the foreign schedule because the crucial scene involves more international stuntmen. In mid-November 2020, it was reported that Ajith may take a month-long break in order to start the next phase of the shoot in Hyderabad. After the shoot resumed, the makers filmed a stunt sequence with Ajith performing a bike stunt without a double; however the actor lost his balance while performing a stunt, and fell off the bike. Despite sustaining injuries, Ajith completed the schedule without delay. As of"}, {"text": "December 2020, the makers had completed 80% of the film's shoot and talkie portions, whereas the songs and stunt sequences were yet to be completed. It was further reported that the makers planned to film the major stunt sequences in foreign countries post lockdown relaxations, with a major schedule in South Africa and Spain, where high-octane bike stunts will be filmed in the country. The film's shooting was wrapped on 15 February 2021, barring the foreign schedule, which was filmed in Russia during 26 August 2021 and was completed on 2 September, thereby shooting of the film was wrapped. Speaking to an interview before the release, producer Boney Kapoor said that the film has been shot within 150-working days, while several days have been lost due to COVID-19 lockdown and travel restrictions, thus taking more than one-and-a-half years. Out of this 80 days were utilised for the action sequences and for those, the team arranged 150 motorbikes and 1520 cars, with 4 brand new models, for the schedule. Furthermore, they also had 2530 bikes imported from Russia, after shooting being completed, the team sold the bikes for half price. Post-production. Post-production works for the film began during mid-February 2021. Vijay"}, {"text": "Velukutty, who worked in films such as \"Sangu Chakkaram\" (2017) and \"Jackpot\" (2019), was announced as the editor in the same month. He edited several portions of the film, except for the foreign schedule, which was speculated to be included with the edit, once the said shooting gets completed. In the intermediate period, several actors completed dubbing for the film, including Ajith Kumar who dubbed for his portions in March 2021. The team also worked on the visual effects and supervision in order to get the film ready. With the foreign schedule held in Russia, being completed within September 2021, the team resumed activities on post-production. The team needed to edit the final cut of the film, due to the inclusion of that particular sequence, and more work on the visual effects, eventually delaying the release. Ajith Kumar asked Vinoth to show the rough output of the film to him when the final edit was ready. He initially watched the entire film after its release. But due to the actor's curiosity and excitement of the film, as it has many racing sequences, and also his profession as a racer, he decided to change his plans and was received a rough"}, {"text": "copy of the film by Vinoth. Ghibran who has worked with Vinoth in his second directorial \"Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru\", was reported to compose the film score. Sources reported that Vinoth and the production team were not impressed by the score that Yuvan had created for the film, which resulted him to opt out of the project, despite composing the songs. However, the film's sound engineer-audiographer M. R. Rajakrishnan, in an interview, claimed that Yuvan could not come to the final mixing of the score, in the last moment, which resulted in Ghibran's involvement to the project. Ghibran worked on the re-recording and final mixing of the film score with Rajakrishnan. Sachin Sudharakaran and Hariharan M. of Sync Cinema worked on the sound design of the film. In an interview to \"The New Indian Express\", the duo expressed about the recording of motorcycles and superbikes. They felt that, \"the actual bike might not sound optimal for the visual, and we would interchange the sounds to find the perfect match. Since it wasn't feasible to record the sound on the sets, we would record it separately. The makers' decision to retain the bikes even after the shoot came in handy for us"}, {"text": "[...] Recording a bike would also mean we would fit the mic on the rider as he rode it, and record the sounds of the engine and muffler separately.\" The film was given a U/A certificate from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). According to a report from the production team, the Board had ordered 15 cuts for the film, including muting and removing excessive use of violence and profanity. The final cut has a running time of 179 minutes. \"Valimai\" was mixed in Auro 11.1 surround sound technology, becoming the second Tamil film to do so after \"Vishwaroopam\" (2013). The final mixing happened at Four Frames Sound Company on 10 February 2022, fourteen days before the film's theatrical release. Music. Ghibran composed the original score in his second collaboration with director H. Vinoth after \"Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru\" and his first collaboration with Ajith Kumar and producer Boney Kapoor, while Yuvan Shankar Raja composed the songs, in his second collaboration with Vinoth and Boney Kapoor after \"Nerkonda Paarvai\" (2019) and eighth collaboration with Ajith Kumar after \"Dheena\", \"Billa\", \"Aegan\", \"Mankatha\", \"Billa II\", \"Arrambam\" and \"Nerkonda Paarvai\". Ghibran's involvement in the film was kept under wraps until being revealed by"}, {"text": "an article in the \"Times of India\" By February 2020, Yuvan composed two tracks for the film. However, due to COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, the progress of the film's music album was put on hold. Work on the film's songs were completed by late-October, and recording of the tracks began during mid-December 2020 at composer A. R. Rahman's AM Studios in Chennai, with the studio's chief sound engineer S. Sivakumar worked on the film's audiography. The film's soundtrack has different set of songs, consisting of various genres. Lyrics for the songs were written by Vignesh Shivan, Thamarai and rapper-cum-lyricist Arivu. On 2 August 2021, collaborating with Ajith's 30th anniversary in the film industry, the makers released the first single \"Naanga Vera Maari\" on the same night, and received response from critics. The track \"Mother Song\" was released as the second single on 5 December, and the third single from the album an instrumental track titled \"Whistle Theme\" was released on 22 December. Sony Music India, which acquired the marketing rights of the album, released it on New Year's Day (1 January 2022) through Spotify, iTunes and YouTube Music. However, two of the tracks were taken down from the album, from the"}, {"text": "respective platforms, as the tracks revealed the plot of the film, before eventually being restored to the album, a day before the film's release. Marketing. Despite the film's title being announced in October 2019, there was no update regarding the film's first look. In April 2020, Boney Kapoor claimed that the team will not indulge in any promotional activities citing the pandemic, and also stated that the team will kickstart the promotions post-lockdown. However, there was no clarification about the film promotion or first look which prompted fans of Ajith Kumar to trend the hashtag \"#ValimaiUpdate\" on Twitter. Furthermore, the producer had confirmed that the first look will release only after the film's shooting being wrapped. Although few members of the production team claimed that the first look will release on the end of February 2021, some of the fans had prompted for the film's update at sporting and political events and other public venues, which left Ajith Kumar disappointed and asked his fans to remain patient till the team releases an update. Although the film's first look was scheduled for a release on the first week of March, the producer tweeted that the makers will unveil the first look"}, {"text": "on 1 May 2021, coinciding with Ajith's birthday. However, a week prior to the said date, on 23 April 2021, the makers postponed the release of the film's first look due to the surge in COVID-19 cases in India. While the makers planning to launch the first look with release date, on 11 July 2021, without pre-announcement, the makers launched the first look and motion poster of the film. Apart from receiving positive response for fans praising Ajith's look in the film, the motion poster received more than 10 million views on YouTube, within 48 hours. However, it also fetched criticism as cinephiles apparently noticed that similar images from the poster are widely available on the internet, alleging that the makers have lifted random images from the internet and made it into a motion poster. Few netizens also stated that the motion poster did not meet its expectations. The making video of the film released on 14 December 2021, and was praised by fans and audiences. Prior to the film's release, the marketing team branded the film's posters in hoardings and LED displays located at various transportation services such as bus stops, railways and also at the Chennai Metro's vestibule."}, {"text": "Two pre-release events were held for the film. The first event to promote the film's Kannada version was held at Bangalore on 21 February 2022, and the second event to promote the film's Telugu version was held in Hyderabad, the following day. Few cast members, including Huma Qureshi and Kartikeya, travelled through several cities to promote the film. SIMCO, the Central Government's South Indian co-operative departmental store functioning in Vellore announced a bid for its share that consumers whom purchase grocery items worth , will receive complimentary tickets for the film amounted to and might serve popcorn and cold drinks for free. Release. Theatrical. \"Valimai\" was initially scheduled to release in November 2020, coinciding the festival of Diwali. However, the film's shoot was suspended due to the pandemic, thus resulting in the delay of its release. Post-completion of shooting, the film was initially scheduled to be released within late-2021. In mid-September 2021, the producers tweeted that the film is postponed to Pongal in January 2022, thereby clashing with other big-budget films including S. S. Rajamouli's \"RRR\" and Prabhas' \"Radhe Shyam\". The Multiplex Association of India (TMAI), listed the release date as 14 January 2022, in their official press release; however,"}, {"text": "the production company officially announced that the film would be released on 13 January, a day before Pongal. In December 2021, theatre owners and exhibitors in Tamil Nadu, planned to open shows to begin at 1:00 am in order to get more screenings, thereby enhancing the box office collection. The makers too persuaded the Government of Tamil Nadu regarding permission for benefit shows. A week before the release, the film was postponed indefinitely due to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, fuelled by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, and the sudden restrictions imposed by the government to control the pandemic. In early February, It was confirmed that the film is now scheduled to be released on 24 February 2022. Apart from Tamil, the film will be released in dubbed versions of Hindi, Kannada and Telugu languages along with the original version. A planned release of a Malayalam dubbed version, was put on hold due to closure of theatres in Kerala, as a precautionary measure to control the rise of COVID-19 cases in Kerala. With theatres being reopened in Kerala during mid-February, after relaxations, the makers reinstated to release the Malayalam-dubbed version along with the original on 24 February. Following the release,"}, {"text": "the film received criticism for its length. Responding to the criticism, the makers trimmed all versions by 12 minutes, except the Hindi version, which was shortened by 18 minutes. The edits came into effect by 25 February 2022. Screenings and statistics. According to trade industry sources, \"Valimai\" was the first film to be released in over 1000 theatres across Tamil Nadu. Film financier G. N. Anbu Chezhiyan's Gopuram Films, which distributed the film in Madurai, had announced that \"Valimai\" will be released in all over 27 theatres across the district with 45-50 shows being allotted. This came as a response, due to Ajith's exponential growth of the fanbase in Madurai, and the response for the actor's previous films there. Four days before the release, on 20 February 2022, the makers started the state-wide advance bookings in Tamil Nadu, and saw tremendous response within few hours, according to trade exhibitors, with tickets being sold out within a day. The first show in Tamil Nadu is expected to begin at 4:00 am. Reports from \"News18\" had anticipated that \"\"Valimai\" is expected to shatter records\" as it did not have any major release in the vicinity, and also expected the film might revive"}, {"text": "the Tamil film industry which was affected by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and bring a similar response to that of \"Master\" (2021). Film exhibitor Tiruppur Subramanian had stated that \"\"Valimai\" release will definitely bring in a change. Just like we saw when \"Master\" came out in 2021, and after \"Doctor\" or \"Maanaadu\" in the wake of second wave restrictions ending. These kinds of big films are essential for drawing audiences back. Once they come, it'll become a routine to re-visit theatres like before\". Boney Kapoor called \"Valimai\" as Ajith's first pan-Indian film in an interview with \"The Times of India\"-based critic M. Suganth, and said that \"The film has family drama, fantastic action and also something for the audiences to take home. So, it has the potential to work everywhere. You can call this the beginning of a pan-India release for Ajith's films\". Ajith held a special screening for his family, few days before the release, and followed by the positive response, the team decided for a pan-Indian release in Tamil, Hindi, Kannada and Telugu languages. While \"Valimai\" is released in several theatres across Tamil Nadu, the film is expected to clash with Pawan Kalyan's \"Bheemla Nayak\" in"}, {"text": "Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and Alia Bhatt's \"Gangubai Kathiawadi\" in North India, whose films releases a day later. IVY Productions, which acquired the distribution rights in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, had stated that \"Valimai\" will be released in over 500 screens in these states. E4 Entertainment announced that Valimai will be released in over 200 theatres in Kerala and fan-shows will begin from 4:00 am. In overseas centres, the film will be screened at about 60 locations in Australia, 19 locations in New Zealand and 5 locations in Fiji. Hamsini Entertainment announced that premiere shows for the film will begin on 23 February 2022, and the film will be screened in over 400 theatres across 250 locations in United States. The film's pre-sale record in United States crossed $30-mark from 46 locations. The film is also scheduled to be screened at Grand Rex, France, which was considered as the world's largest cinema theatre. However, it was called off after the film's planned release in France was cancelled for unknown reasons. The advance bookings for the film, began in Japan, three weeks before the anticipated release. The film will be released in 42 locations across Saudi Arabia, which is touted to"}, {"text": "be the biggest release in the country, with early fan shows being held on 24 February 2022. Pre-release business. The film made a business of about before the release, with the inclusion of satellite, digital, audio and Hindi dubbing rights. The film's gross in pre-release deal was , The Tamil Nadu theatrical rights were sold for , Kerala and Karnataka theatrical rights were sold to and and Andhra and Telangana theatrical rights were sold jointly for . The North India theatrical distribution and Hindi dubbing rights were purchased for , and overseas rights were sold to . The film made from theatrical rights, and from non-theatrical rights \u2013 satellite and digital rights were sold to and , respectively. Distribution. The theatrical rights of the film were acquired by Raahul of Romeo Pictures and film financier Anbu Chezhian's Gopuram Cinemas. Both the distributors acquired the rights in Chennai and Madurai. Subbaiyah Shanmugham of SSI Productions purchased the rights in the Coimbatore territory and Sri Kumaran Films acquiring the Salem theatrical rights. The theatrical rights in Chengalpet region were sold to Kalaimagan Mubarak of Skyman Films International for an undisclosed price. Rockfort Entertainment purchased the theatrical distribution rights in the Arcot region"}, {"text": "(North Arcot and South Arcot). The theatrical rights were sold to Sri Durgambigai Films in the Tiruchirappalli region, whilst MKRP Productions, a film production company owned by M. K. Ramprasad, purchased the rights in the Tirunelveli\u2013Kanyakumari territories. IVY Productions acquired the theatrical rights in the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana territories. E4 Entertainment purchased the theatrical rights in Kerala, whereas Kamar Film Factory had purchased the Karnataka distribution rights. Zee Studios holds the North India theatrical and Hindi-dubbing rights for the film. United India Exporters acquired the film's overseas distribution rights in December 2020. Cinemark and Hamsini Entertainment, holds the rights for theatrical distribution in United States and United Kingdom. Lotus Five Star purchased the theatrical rights in Malaysia and Singapore. Scandinavian Tamil Media Group AS purchased the rights in the Scandinavian territory, including countries such as Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Niraj Poudel of A Eight Films acquired the distribution rights in Nepal for an undisclosed price. Home media. The entire rights of the film were owned by its co-producer and distributor Zee Studios, the production and distribution firm of Zee Entertainment Enterprises who sold the satellite rights to Zee Tamil and Zee Thirai, and the digital distribution rights to ZEE5"}, {"text": "and its video-on-demand service Zee Plex. The makers planned for a digital premiere through Zee Plex, only after 35 days of its theatrical run being completed, and later premiere it on ZEE5. However, as Zee Enterprises decided to close down Zee Plex, as their films released through this model, did not fetch the required numbers expected resulting huge losses for the company; the makers decided to sell the post-theatrical streaming rights to ZEE5 in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada languages, in which the film might have a 50-day window, between the theatrical and digital release. Reception. Critical response. \"Valimai\" opened to mixed reviews from critics but praised Ajith's performance. M. Suganth of \"The Times of India\" gave the film a rating of 3/5 praising the stunts and performances and wrote \"There are times it works (a scene in prison when he has to break someone's arm) and times when it doesn't (the monologue in the climax). But there is no denying that it is his presence that holds together this two distinct tones of the film.\" Janani K of \"India Today\" gave the film a rating of 3/5 and wrote \"The action-thriller is a predictable story laced with brilliant"}, {"text": "action sequences\". \"Pinkvilla\" gave the film a rating 3/5 and wrote \"'Valimai' is for you if you like larger-than-life action blocks involving bike-bound men and their unflinching adventures\". Ashameera Aiyappan of \"Firstpost\" gave the film a rating of 2.5/5 and wrote \"H Vinoth exchanges the grounded authenticity of his predecessor work for glitzy, gimmicky action which ends being a kitsch combination of sensibilities\". Vivek M V of \"Deccan Herald\" gave the film a rating of 2.5/5 and wrote \"Ajith is fine while Huma Qureshi has just one slick action scene to shine. The saving grace is the maniacal performance from Kartikeya Gummakonda\". Manoj Kumar R of \"The Indian Express\" gave the film a rating of 2/5 and wrote \"Vinoth's idea of creating an urban legend goes awry when the film fails to distinguish Ajith Kumar's offscreen persona from Ajith Kumar's character in Valimai\". Umesh Punwani of \"Koimoi\" gave the film a rating of 2/5 and wrote \"Watch this only for Ajith, because he won't disappoint even though the film might!\". Sowmya Rajendran of \"The News Minute\" gave the film a rating of 2/5 and stated \"The stunts are indeed valimai but the film becomes a kodumai with its wonky script"}, {"text": "and poor characterisation\". \"Bollywood Hungama\" gave the film a rating of 2/5 and wrote \"VALIMAI [Hindi] suffers from its long length and complicated narrative. The Hindi version might struggle at the BO\". Lakshmi Subramanian of \"The Week\" gave the film a rating of 2/5 and wrote \"Every character in Valimai, including Huma and both the brothers feel like add-ons with no depth. The characters are either fully for the hero or completely against him.The second half is long and tiring with just bikes and bikers again. Besides this, Ajith's expressionless face adds to the misery\". \"Scroll.in\" gave the film a rating of 2/5 and wrote \"Except for a handful of pulsating action sequences and a villain who is nearly equal in capabilities to the hero, Valimai has trouble kicking into gear\". Aditya Shrikrishna of \"The Quint\" gave the film a rating of 2/5 and wrote \"Ajith Kumar's Film Is a Shoddily Produced Tepid Affair\". Nishad Thaivalappil of \"News18\" stated \"Thala Ajith fans will love Valimai, but the film has little to offer to others in terms of a cinematic experience\". Haricharan Pudipeddi of \"Hindustan Times\" stated \"Ajith Kumar-starrer would've been a cracker of a film if it solely focused on"}, {"text": "providing action thrills\". Srivatsan S of \"The Hindu\" stated \"While 'Theeran Adhigaram Ondru' may have announced that H Vinoth could do action, 'Valimai' reaffirms our belief that Vinoth could perhaps be the best Indian filmmaker who knows how to write, choreograph and execute action sequences with a larger vision and purpose\". Box office. \"Valimai\" was expected to have very high collections at the box office. \"Valimai\" had the highest opening day in Tamil Nadu at the time of its release according to \"Box Office India\", or the second highest opening day behind \"Sarkar\" (2018), according to \"Bollywood Hungama\". On its opening day, \"Bollywood Hungama\" said that the film grossed around to in Tamil Nadu. In USA, the film beat Ajith's previous film Viswasam's lifetime USA gross by grossing $300k, becoming Ajith's fifth film to gross more than $300k in USA. Plagiarism allegations. In February 2023, nearly a year after the film's release, director Rajesh Raja accused Vinoth of lifting 10 scenes from the former's 2019 short film \"Thanga Sangili\" for \"Valimai\". Due to his inability to reach Vinoth, Rajesh Raja approached the Commissioner of Chennai. Impact. The impact of \"Valimai\", even before the release, has been noted by several cinephiles,"}, {"text": "with the hashtag \"#ValimaiUpdate\" becoming a trending topic on Twitter. Boney Kapoor noted the fan following of the actor in regard to this. In an interview with \"The Hindu\", he said that though fans of Ajith had every right to ask for updates on the film, \"I did not want to mislead them. I wanted to give out material only when there was something concrete at hand.\" This trend influenced celebrities from the film fraternity, sportspersons, politicians and media outlets. Ravichandran Ashwin shared the same in an online interaction, when he experienced a fan asking Moeen Ali and him, for an update regarding the film during the second test match, between India and England in Chennai. Politician Vanathi Srinivasan too said that after her win in the 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, the fans might get the update about the film. \"#ValimaiUpdate\" campaign also influenced the elections, with Election Commission's Tamil Nadu wing advertising the title on the necessity to urge every individual to vote. In February 2022, the film crossed more than 2 million interests on the online-ticketing portal BookMyShow, beating records earlier set by ' (2017) and ' (2019). \"Valimai\" was the second most tweeted film in"}, {"text": "India, according to a year-ender survey report released by Twitter in December 2021. Potential sequel. In an interview with \"Pinkvilla\", Boney Kapoor expressed his plans on a sequel and more future instalments, so that the film would be developed into a franchise. He stated that the possibility for a sequel will be dependent on the audience response towards the film and the box-office performance."}, {"text": "Robert Donnelly may refer to:"}, {"text": "Profenusa thomsoni, the amber-marked birch leaf miner, is a species of sawfly in the family Tenthredinidae. It is native to the Palearctic realm but has spread to North America. The larvae feed on the foliage of birch trees. Description. The adult \"Profenusa thomsoni\" is black and about in length and fly-like in appearance. The whitish larva has short legs, dark markings on the first segment of the thorax, and two black spots on each of the second and third segments. It develops inside a leaf blade, the egg usually being laid close to the midrib and the larva hollowing out a \"blotch\"-shaped cavity. There are six instars, the last stage taking place on the ground as the larva searches out a place to pupate. A very similar sawfly, \"Fenusa pumila\", also mines birch leaves, but tends to infest young, expanding leaves, and causes crinkling of the leaf blade, whereas \"P. thomsoni\" infests mature leaves which remain undistorted. Distribution and habitat. \"Profenusa thomsoni\" has a widespread distribution in the Palearctic realm in Europe and Asia. It was introduced into North America in the early twentieth century where it became invasive. By 1970 it had spread to Alberta, and by 1996, to"}, {"text": "Alaska. The larvae feed on a number of species of birch (\"Betula\") and other members of the family Betulaceae. Life cycle. All individuals of \"Profenusa thomsoni\" are female and reproduction is by parthenogenesis. The eggs are laid inside mature leaves of the host tree, usually near the midrib. The larvae feed on the mesophyll tissue inside the leaf, creating a pale brownish \"blotch\"-shaped mine. Some leaves may have multiple larvae developing inside them. When fully mature, the larvae emerge through the underside of the leaf and fall to the ground, where they make chambers in which to pupate. They overwinter in these, emerging as adults in July and August the following year. There is a single generation per year. Ecology. \"P. thomsoni\" and \"F. pumila\" often occur on the same tree, and heavy infestations may cause extensive defoliation. \"P. thomsoni\" is uncommon in Europe, but after its introduction into North America, populations built up rapidly. In Alberta, populations of \"P. thomsoni\" plummeted in the early 1990s, and have remained low ever since. This was found to be associated with the larvae being attacked by the parasitic wasp \"Lathrolestes luteolator\"; hitherto the wasp had parasitised other species of sawfly larva, and"}, {"text": "this was the first occasion that this particular host/parasite relationship had been observed. The wasps lay eggs in late-stage larvae of the leaf miner, and the wasps' larvae mainly develop in the overwintering prepupae of their hosts."}, {"text": "Organic Reactions is a peer-reviewed book series that was established in 1942. It publishes detailed descriptions of useful organic reactions. Each article (called a chapter) is an invited review of the primary source material for the given reaction, and is written under tight editorial control, making it a secondary to tertiarylevel source. Each chapter explores the practical and theoretical aspects of the reaction, including its selectivity and reproducibility. The longest chapter runs to 1,303 pages. While individual articles are not open access, the journal's wiki maintains a repository of summaries of reactions. The series is abstracted and indexed in Scopus. History. Prior to World War II, the center of organic chemistry research and industrial production was Germany. Students interested in pursuing a career in organic chemistry needed to learn German to read articles and textbooks, and often went to graduate school in Germany. When the war broke out, an effort to jumpstart a native US organic chemical industry and academic network was initiated. As part of this effort, the journal was launched. The first volume was published in 1942, with Roger Adams as editor-in-chief. In the early years a volume would come out every two years or so, but the"}, {"text": "pace of publishing has accelerated, with volume 100 issued in 2019."}, {"text": "The Circle of Heroes is an underwater military veterans memorial 10 miles off the coast of Honeymoon Island State Park in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the first underwater veterans memorial. The memorial. The statues were installed during the week of July 22, 2019 after 2-1/2 years of planning and creation. They were dedicated on August 5, 2019, and currently consist of thirteen 6-foot tall statues placed 40 feet underwater, with plans to add twelve more statues. At the center, stands a 4 foot high, 3-ton pentagon shaped monument featuring the emblems of the five military branches: Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps and Navy. The statues are arranged in a 100 foot circle around the center monument. The memorial is also considered a recreational dive site. Each statue weighs 1,200 pounds. Statues. The statues depict: References."}, {"text": "Killigan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Tignes Val Claret is the highest of the five villages that make up the Tignes Ski resort, sitting at 2,100 metres. It is the resort's newest village, built mainly in the 1960s as demand grew for skiing in the resort of Tignes. Like many resorts built at this time, Tignes Val Claret was constructed primarily as a ski resort. The resort also offers tourism-based activities in the Summer, notably glacial skiing, mountain biking, golf and hiking. Overview. After deliberate flooding to prepare for a new damn, Tignes Val Claret was the last of the newly-built villages to be erected. It sits at the farthest end of Tignes and is also the highest of the five villages. Like the other towns that make up Tignes, Val Claret also consists of different hamlets; the skiing hub Val Claret Grande Motte, Val Claret Centre and the stand-alone chalets in the Les Chartreux area, adjacent to the main town. Skiing. The town, due to its purpose-built nature, offers quick access to the mountains from chairlifts, most of which are centered in the 'Ronde Point' area. The town is also the gateway to the glacial skiing offered by the Tignes resort, reached via the Funicular"}, {"text": "and the Grande Motte cable car, the only cable car in the world to offer an outdoor viewing platform. Val Claret is linked directly to the ski area of Val D'Isere by two lifts, Tuffs and Fresse. Town. Architecture. The town, like much of the Alps, was subject extensive remodelling in the post-war ski boom throughout the 1960s to the 1980s. In comparison to the neighbouring Tignes Le Lac, however, by the time Val Claret was built, greater consideration was given during the resort's planning stages, which resulted in a greater level of functionality than that of its neighbour. Accommodation. Most accommodations offered are apartment-style or in hotel format, though a few chalets are available around the edge of the town beside the golf course in the summer. Apres-Ski. 'Cocorico' is a popular destination for apr\u00e8s-ski recreation. The Bollin restaurant located on the mountain is increasingly an apr\u00e8s-ski destination. Bars/Restaurants. Val Claret has a variety of bars, pubs and restaurants, many of which are situated along the high street that runs through the town centre. Future Development. Val Claret is set to be the home of Ski Line, which will be the largest indoor ski slope in Europe, in a"}, {"text": "bid to combat climate change. In the winter months, the indoor slope will use real snow, while snow-making will provide artificial snow in the summer. The development will also add a 1,050-bedroom Club Med hotel. The development had been planned for completion in 2018 but remains under construction as of 2021."}, {"text": "Hoyles is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Joan O'Malley (n\u00e9e Donovan) is a retired Canadian public servant who, on November 6, 1964, sewed the first Canadian flag. She is sometimes referred to as Canada's Betsy Ross. November 6, 1964. During the 1963 federal election campaign, Prime Minister Lester Pearson promised that Canada would have a new flag within two years of his election. Three designs were chosen from a list of more than 3,500 entries. The designs included the current Canadian flag, the \u201cPearson Pennant\u201d, and a third design that resembled the current flag, but with a Union Jack and three fleurs-de-lis. On November 6, 1964 \u2013 a Friday \u2013 Pearson requested that prototypes of the three flag designs under consideration be delivered to 24 Sussex Drive so that he could see them displayed at his summer residence at Harrington Lake that weekend. The request came to Ken Donovan, O'Malley's father, who was the assistant purchasing director with the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission. The flags had to be entirely \u201cCanadian content\u201d. However, the request had come after normal business hours and the only company that could supply the material \u2013 S.E. Woods \u2013 had no overtime staff to sew the flags. Donovan contacted O'Malley, then 20 years"}, {"text": "old, and explained his dilemma. A secretary at the Indian Affairs Branch of the Department of Citizenship, O'Malley did not consider herself a professional seamstress and, at the time, her sewing experience was limited to sewing her own clothing. Nevertheless, she agreed to prepare the prototypes. She packed up her Singer sewing machine and drove to the Exhibition Commission office shortly after 7:00 pm. O'Malley completed the six flags \u2013 two flags of each design \u2013 shortly after midnight. They were delivered to 24 Sussex in the middle of the night and hoisted at Harrington Lake the next morning. Legacy. O\u2019Malley was initially told to keep her role in creating the Canadian flag secret and she did not speak of her experience for 10 years. However, she later became an ambassador for the flag and has attended dozens of flag-related events. At a ceremony on Parliament Hill on November 14, 2014, O'Malley was presented with the flag that had been flown on the Peace Tower on November 6 of that year, exactly 50 years after she had sewn the first prototype. At the ceremony, she noted that while she was never paid to create the flags, she considered the recognition"}, {"text": "she received to be payment enough. The Singer sewing machine that O'Malley used to create the six prototypes was displayed at the Canadian Museum of History's Canadian History Hall from 2017 to 2019. The whereabouts of the prototypes themselves is unknown. Comparison to Betsy Ross. O'Malley is sometimes compared to Betsy Ross, an American upholsterer who, according to legend, created the first American flag. However, she rejects the comparison, noting that much of the story surrounding Ross is more myth than fact. Personal life. O'Malley continued to work for the federal government and eventually took a job with the Ontario Attorney General's office in Ottawa. She retired in 1996. O'Malley was born in Dauphin, Manitoba. She and her husband, Brian, raised two children."}, {"text": "A statue of John Endecott by artist C. Paul Jennewein and architect Ralph Weld Gray is installed along The Fenway, in Boston's Forsyth Park, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Activists have objected to the statue because of Endecott's treatment of Indigenous Americans. Description. The white granite statue is installed at the intersection of Hemenway Street and Forsyth Way, in Boston's Forsyth Park. It measures approximately 9 ft. 10 in. x 4 ft. 7 in x 6 ft. 6 in., and rests on a red granite base that measures approximately 4 ft. 7 in. x 13 ft. 4 in. x 7 ft. 10 in. The base is attached to a granite wall with benches. History. The 1936 memorial was surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1993. The statue has prompted controversy because of Endecott's role in waging war against Indigenous populations. Protestors spray painted the statue with the tag \"#LandBack\" in June, 2020. The statue was subsequently cleaned and the city resisted calls for the statue's removal."}, {"text": "Mike Isom (born ) is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA), located in Conway, Arkansas, from 1990 to 1999, compiling a record of 68\u201338\u20134 in ten seasons. Isom's teams won three consecutive Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference (AIC) titles from 1990 to 1992 and an NAIA Division I Football National Championship in 1991, the program's third national title in National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) competition. In 1993, Central Arkansas moved from the AIC of the NAIA to the Gulf South Conference at the NCAA Division II level. A native of Conway, Isom played football at Conway High School, and then at Central Arkansas. Isom retired from coaching after the 1999 season. He was replaced as head football coach by Clint Conque."}, {"text": "John Raymond Styler (October 19, 1923 \u2013 February 19, 1999) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Chicago American Gears and the Indianapolis Kautskys in the National Basketball League and averaged 1.7 points per game."}, {"text": "Madonna and Child is a tempera on panel tondo painting by Luca Signorelli, created \"c.\" 1492\u20131493, now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. The rocky landscape in the background shows the influence of Leonardo da Vinci, whilst to the right is a nude seated on a rock, referencing the marble Spinario, which at that date was already in the Uffizi in Florence."}, {"text": "Unakkaga Oru Kavithai () is a 2010 Indian Tamil language romantic drama film directed by Karthick Kumar and written by K. Sabarinathan. The film stars Vinoth Kumaran and Risha, with Balaji, K. N. Ramesh, Balu Anand, Srinivasan, Pandu, and Anu Mohan playing supporting roles. The film had musical score by Julie Bruce and was released on 25 June 2010. Plot. In Pollachi, Vinoth is a good-for-nothing youngster who often gets into trouble, and his parents hate him for being irresponsible. For his studies, he joins a college in Chennai. He slowly becomes a hard-working student, and he even donates one of his kidneys to an ill girl. His college mate Nandhini falls in love with him but her greedy father Jairam wants her to marry her wicked relative Sunil. In the meantime, the lecherous college student Rocky falls under the spell of Nandhini and wants to marry her. Nandhini finally declares her love to Vinoth, and he accepts. Meanwhile, Jairam kicks Sunil out his house. He then makes a deal with Rocky and promises him to give his daughter in exchange for money. When Jairam discovers her love affair, he does not allow his daughter Nandhini to go to college"}, {"text": "and locks her in a room. Vinoth enters her house to save her, but during the fight, he is stabbed by Rocky. At the hospital, the doctor announces that Vinoth's remaining kidney is heavily damaged. The film ends with Vinoth dying in the hospital bed and Nandhini, his parents, and his friends mourning his death. Cast. As per the film's opening credits: Production. The film began production in 2009. Karthick Kumar made his directorial debut with \"Neethana Avan\" under the banner of Thomas Cine Creations. The film producer T. Saby Thomas himself played the lead role and was christened as Vinoth Kumaran while Risha signed to play the heroine. Srinivasan, a medical practitioner, was cast to play the villain role. Jennifer from Malaysia performed a dance sequence in the film. Soundtrack. The film score and the soundtrack were composed by Julie Bruce. The soundtrack, released in 2010, features 5 tracks with lyrics written by Vinoth Kumaran, Jeba, Devadeva, Martin and Srinivasan."}, {"text": "Virgil L. Orr (February 2, 1923 \u2013 April 24, 2021) was an American politician and academic. He was a professor of engineering and administrator at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana, and served as a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 12 (Lincoln and Union parishes) between 1988 and 1992. Early life and academic career. Orr was born in Glenmora, Rapides Parish in February 1923. There he graduated from Glenmora High School in 1940. He became a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering at Louisiana Tech, whilst he had also worked as a waiter to pay his student expenses. He then achieved a Master of Science degree and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 1948 and 1950. Orr served in the United States Army during World War II from 1944 to 1946. He also attended the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. In September 1952, Orr joined the Louisiana Tech faculty. In 1966, he co-authored the article, \"Vapor\u2013Liquid Equilibrium for the Hexamethyldisiloxane\u2013\"n\"-Propyl Alcohol System\", with colleagues Woodrow W. Chew, Jr. and Charles A. Killgore, which was published in the \"Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data\". He was subsequently appointed to the role"}, {"text": "of dean of the college and served as vice president, under F. Jay Taylor, before retiring in June 1980. Louisiana Tech would later honor Orr with the Virgil Orr Professorship in Chemical Engineering and the Virgil Orr Undergraduate Junior Faculty Award. In 1991, Orr was the recipient of the Robert E. Russ award, and three years later the Louisiana Tech Alumni Association awarded him the Tower Medallion. The following year he appeared on Louisiana Tech's Top 100 Alumni list. During 1994\u20131995, Orr took on the role of President of the Louisiana Tech Foundation. Politics. Orr contested the nonpartisan blanket primary in October 1987, and received 5,846 votes (44%), comfortably beating incumbent William R. Sumlin's 4,176 votes (31%). As a result, Sumlin did not contest the November election, and Orr was automatically declared representative-elect without a second round of voting. In October 1991, he was himself defeated in a primary, by Jay McCallum, a fellow Democrat and lawyer. He received 8,286 votes (52%) to Orr's 7,528 (48%). Orr served a single term on the Louisiana Ethics Board after finishing his term in the legislature. In 2010, he was appointed to the Lincoln Parish Library Board. Personal life. Orr and his wife,"}, {"text": "the former Myrtis Chandler (1924-2022), lived in Ruston, where Orr taught Sunday school at the Temple Baptist Church. The Louisiana Tech Alumni Association awarded Myrtis Orr with the Tower Medallion in 2018, which Virgil Orr had received some years prior. He died on April 24, 2021, at the age of 98."}, {"text": "A statue of long-time Boston Celtics coach Red Auerbach by Lloyd Lillie (sometimes called Arnold \"Red\" Auerbach or Red Auerbach) is installed outside Quincy Market at Faneuil Hall, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Description. The bronze sculpture measures approximately 5 ft. x 6 ft. x 2 ft. 3 in. It depicts Auerbach sitting on a bench and holding a cigar. History. The statue was designed in 1985, and dedicated on September 20 of that year. It was surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1993."}, {"text": "Madonna and Child with Two Saints is a tempera on panel tondo painting by Luca Signorelli, created \"c.\" 1492\u20131493, 112 cm in diameter. It is in the Galleria Corsini of the Palazzo Corsini in Florence, whilst a larger autograph replica known as the Baduel Tondo (c. 1492\u20131500) is now in the Museo Bandini in Fiesole. To the left is Saint Jerome whilst to the right is Bernard of Clairvaux."}, {"text": "Luka Juri\u010di\u0107 (born 25 November 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League BH club Borac Banja Luka. Born in Germany, he has represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at under-19 level. Career. In 2015, when Juri\u010di\u0107 suffered several serious knee injuries that almost ended his career, he was out for almost two years but managed to recover and continue his career. Pyunik. On 3 July 2022, Armenian Premier League club Pyunik announced the signing of Juri\u010di\u0107. On 8 February 2023, Juri\u010di\u0107 extended his contract with Pyunik until the end of the 2023/24 season. CFR Cluj. On 22 August 2023, Juri\u010di\u0107 signed for Romanian Liga I club CFR Cluj. Pyunik loan. On 19 January 2024, Juri\u010di\u0107 returned to Pyunik on loan for the rest of the season. Honours. \u0160iroki Brijeg \u0160ibenik Pyunik CFR Cluj Individual"}, {"text": "Carl G. Holmes (January 6, 1927 \u2013 November 24, 2017) was an American firefighter, rising to the rank of assistant fire chief of the Oklahoma City Fire Department. After retiring in 1981 he founded the Carl Holmes Executive Development Institute for Fire Management Training as an alternative to the National Fire Academy, an annual conference at Dillard University in New Orleans, La. He was best known for mentoring thousands of African American firefighters in leadership training from 1981 to 2017. Early life and career. Holmes was one of the first twelve African-Americans appointed to the Oklahoma City fire department in 1951; the class was carefully selected by the NAACP and the Urban League to staff a firehouse. As black firefighters were entering the profession post WWII, most endured what was a common occurrence for the Jim Crow era, ostracism and racism from fellow firefighters in the station houses upon their integration. They were not allowed to use the common stores found in the firehouse, the assignment of a single bed for their exclusive use and they did not share in purchases made with a common fund for commissary. He and his cohort worked hard to blend in to the semi-segregation"}, {"text": "of two firehouses to which they were assigned, they were singled out for an award given to the most efficient fire-crews in Oklahoma city. Firefighters gained seniority but were denied the job assignments such as tillerman and special equipment operators which other white firefighters with less experience attained. Frequently they were assigned the heavy chores on trucks like the can-man (assigned to carry the heavy water can while in full gear when responding to fire scenes), or to clean the lavatories and other menial firehouse maintenance duties. During his time as a firefighter, Holmes noted that becoming an officer would be the hardest task he would face. Only two of his class made the transition to management. Firefighter and officer. Holmes rose through the ranks, overcoming the hostility in the newly integrated firehouses and gained the respect of peers and officers. In 1969 he attended the first conference of the International Association of Black Professional Firefighters in New York City with a contingent from OKFD, protesting harassment and mistreatment in promotions. In 1978 Holmes was promoted to Assistant Chief, the highest ranking attained at the time by an African American. After thirty years as an active firefighter Holmes took issue"}, {"text": "with the training offered to African Americans whom gained access to the National Fire Academy yet were seemingly bypassed for promotions. Seeing that change would not be in the offing upon retiring in 1981 from the OKCFD he founded the Executive Developmental Institute (EDI) to provide the necessary skills for leadership and advancement. As a motivational speaker he travelled around the country spreading a positive message of inclusiveness; and spoke of the potential to reach the higher rungs of the fire service. Other cities courted him for his professional credentials to work for them, however he had loftier goals. His experiences in overcoming obstacles due to racial restrictions and eventually become an officer by emphasizing people and tactics made him a recognized expert in the field of leadership training. Executive Development Institute. The Executive Development Institute first held its conferences at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. Currently in the 29th year, the national conferences and training are at Dillard University, a HBCU for Liberal Arts in New Orleans. African American course instructors offer a concise look at their area of expertise or management skillset in the fire service; providing the highest level of executive training to prospective promotion candidates"}, {"text": "from across the country. There are skill intensive pre-assignments for completion prior to the June semester in equipment and modification of processes similar to the NFA coursework. Tuition assistance in the form of scholarships for qualified applicants is made available. The goal is to provide instructors and mentors to guide EDI participants to succeed at becoming Officers and Fire Chiefs within their own departments. In 2009, there were approximately twelve female fire chiefs in the U.S. Five of them attended Holmes' EDI. Later life. Holmes received the CFSI/Motorola Mason Lankford Fire Service Leadership Award. He was a speaker at IAFC-FRI, Command School, FDIC, Firehouse and his notable fire officer training series at EDI exposed many African American Firefighters to promotion training. He died at his daughter's home in Texas on November 24, 2017."}, {"text": "Killer Mine or The Killer Mine is a 1947 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. Jim Pryce, a deserter from the British Army, returns clandestinely from Italy aboard the ship \"Arisaig\" to his native Cornwall, but is left on a beach having been robbed, beaten, and implicated in murder. Seeking to use his mining expertise, he becomes involved in an attempt to re-open the abandoned and flooded Wheal Garth mine owned by the elderly Manack, but Manack's son and his henchmen force him to drill a sea entrance from one of the mine galleries to be used for smuggling liquor. His only ally is the girl, Kitty, who delivers him a letter from his long-dead mother and hints that her death was not an accident, but part of a plot by which old Manack gained control of the mine. In the United States it was published by Harper as Run by Night."}, {"text": "The Embassy of Indonesia, Oslo (; ) is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of Indonesia to the Kingdom of Norway. The embassy is also accredited to Iceland. Diplomatic relations between Indonesia and Norway started in 1951, while diplomatic relations and the embassy's accreditation to Iceland started in 1983. Indonesia has had a diplomatic mission in Oslo since 1950. However, the mission was closed in September 1960. Between 1960 and 1966, the Indonesian embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark was accredited to Norway. Between 1966 and 1970, the Indonesian embassy in Stockholm, Sweden was accredited to Norway. Then between 1975 and 1981, the embassy in Copenhagen was again accredited to Norway. In 1981, the Indonesian government reopened its diplomatic mission in Oslo at the level of an embassy. The chancery is located at Fritzners Gate 12, 0244 Oslo. It is located in an area of Oslo called Gimle Hill and is set between the American Lutheran Church and the Czech embassy. The building used by the embassy was built in 1902 and was designed by Bernhard Steckmest. Prior to this location, the embassy was located at Gange-Rolvs Gate 5, which is now the Afghanistan embassy. The current ambassador is Todung Mulya Lubis"}, {"text": "who was appointed by President Joko Widodo on 20 February 2018."}, {"text": "25th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery was an air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) formed in Liverpool just before the outbreak of World War II. It saw active service in the Western Desert Campaign, losing a battery at the Battle of Gazala, and then joined 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division for the assault landings in Sicily (Operation Husky) and Normandy (Operation Overlord). It ended the war with 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division in Germany, and was reformed in the postwar TA, eventually merging with other Liverpool units. Origin. The regiment had its origin in the 12th Lancashire Battery of the 3rd West Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, headquartered at 65 Admiral Street, Toxteth, Liverpool. The '3rd West Lancs' had fought on the Western Front in World War I as part of 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division and then as an independent 'Army' field brigade. After the old Territorial Force was reconstituted as the Territorial Army (TA) in 1921, the units were redesignated, the battery becoming 353 (12th West Lancashire) Field Battery in 89th (3rd West Lancashire) Field Brigade of the Royal Artillery (RA). In the late 1930s the need for improved anti-aircraft (AA) defences for Britain's cities became apparent, and"}, {"text": "a programme of converting some existing TA units was pushed forward. In October 1937 89th Field Brigade (now based at Tramway Road, Aigburth, Liverpool) became 70th (3rd West Lancashire) Anti-Aircraft Brigade. Three of the batteries were equipped with 3-inch guns, later defined as Heavy AA (HAA), while 353 Field Battery became 225 (12th West Lancashire) Light Anti-Aircraft Battery. At this stage Light AA (LAA) units were armed with Light machine guns (AALMGs), but the new Bofors 40 mm gun was on order. The TA's AA units were mobilised on 23 September 1938 during the Munich Crisis, with units manning their emergency positions within 24 hours, even though many did not yet have their full complement of men or equipment. The emergency lasted three weeks, and they were stood down on 13 October. The TA was doubled in size after the Munich Crisis, and on 23 June 1939, 225 LAA Bty was expanded to form 25th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment consisting of 81 and 82 LAA Btys in addition to 225. World War II. Mobilisation and Phoney War. In June 1939, as the international situation worsened, a partial mobilisation of the TA was begun in a process known as 'couverture', whereby each"}, {"text": "AA unit did a month's tour of duty in rotation to man selected AA sites. On 24 August, ahead of the declaration of war, Anti-Aircraft Command was fully mobilised at its war stations, with LAA units distributed to defend Vulnerable Points (VPs) such as factories and airfields. 25th LAA Regiment was part of a new 53rd Light Anti-Aircraft Brigade that was forming in 4th Anti-Aircraft Division, responsible for defending the industrial areas of North West England. During the period of the Phoney War the AA defences of NW England were not tested in action, and the time was spent in equipping and training the TA units. Egypt. After the entry of Italy into the war in June 1940 there was an urgent need to reinforce British forces in the Middle East, and a series of convoys began shipping troops (including AA units) on the six-week journey via the Cape of Good Hope and the Red Sea to Egypt. 25th LAA Regiment was one of the first units selected and arrived early in 1941. By then the Italian invasion of Egypt had been defeated, but the commitments of Middle East Forces were widening, including campaigns in East Africa and Greece, and"}, {"text": "the Siege of Malta. On 4 March 1941 225 LAA Bty was put on 12 hours' notice to move to Malta. On 16 March it left El Tahag Camp and moved by rail to the Alexandria area. On 17 March the first party boarded a transport that sailed to Haifa and then in a convoy to Malta. On 20 March the rest of the battery embarked in Royal Navy warships which met the transports from Haifa. the convoy was divebombed on 21 March without serious damage, and docked in Malta on 23 March. The battery proceeded to St Andrews Barracks where it became part of 74th LAA Rgt, which had been formed on the island the previous month. It served throughout the Siege of Malta and later took part in the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. Meanwhile, 25th LAA Rgt was brought back to strength on 14 March by the addition of A Bty from 102nd (Northumberland Hussars) LAA/Anti-Tank Rgt, which formed 274 (Northumberland Hussars) LAA Bty. (102 (NH) Regiment continued as a pure anti-tank (A/T) unit thereafter). Towards the end of January the \"Luftwaffe\" had begun attacking the Suez Canal from Italian bases on Rhodes, dropping magnetic and acoustic"}, {"text": "mines at night to disrupt shipping in the canal. Most of the vital supplies and reinforcements therefore had to be landed at Suez rather than passing through the canal. Defending against these attacks was an obvious role for searchlights (S/Ls) and LAA guns, but the numbers required for complete coverage were excessive. The compromise plan involved siting single S/Ls on either side of the canal at intervals, with additional rows on the flanks spaced at 5-6000-yard intervals. Thus illumination was restricted to a belt along the length of the canal. Fighter aircraft were to provide the main defence, but the need to defend against low-level raids led to the deployment of single Bofors guns spaced at intervals of about yards on the banks of the narrow stretches of the canal. 25th LAA Regiment was given responsibility under 2 AA Bde for the 'Canal North' sector with its commanding officer (CO), Lieutenant-Colonel F.L. Orme, appointed as AA Defence Commander (AADC). Occasional bombing raids by Junkers Ju 88s flying from Greece against Suez began in July and became almost nightly in August and September. The targets were the Port Tewfik dock installations, the oil refinery, railway marshalling yards, Shallufa Airfield and shipping"}, {"text": "at the anchorage in the bay. During September and October the AA defences were strengthened further and by the end of October 81 LAA Bty with its 12 Bofors was operating in the Suez and Shallufa area under AADC Suez. By this time the Canal defences had absorbed 96 LAA guns and 66 S/Ls. Gazala. In October 1941 25th LAA Rgt transferred to 12 AA Bde which had been reorganised as a mobile formation to provide AA cover for Eighth Army and the landing grounds (LGs) of Desert Air Force during the new British offensive into Libya (Operation Crusader). 'Crusader' began on 18 November 1941, and 12 AA Bde's units moved up behind the advance, spread over many LGs and other VPs. Despite a counter-attack by Gen Erwin Rommel that created confusion among the leading LAA units, Eighth Army attacked again, relieving the Siege of Tobruk and capturing the LGs around Sidi Rezegh, where 12 AA Bde established itself. There was then a pause in the fighting as both sides regrouped. Eighth Army established defensive positions along the Gazala Line. By 22 May 1942, 25 LAA Rgt with 81, 82 and 274 (NH) LAA Btys was listed as 'Army Troops'"}, {"text": "attached to the recently arrived 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division occupying part of this line. The Gazala Line consisted of a series of occupied 'boxes' each of brigade strength set out across the desert with minefields and barbed wire watched by regular patrols between the boxes. 51st (N) Division was operating as three independent brigade groups, each with an attached LAA battery. 81 LAA Battery was with 150th Brigade at Sidi Muftah in the centre of the line, with a gap of to 1st Free French Brigade's box at Bir Hakeim in the south, and to 51st (N) Division's 69th Bde in the north, then 151st Bde was stationed just north west of 69th. The Gazala Line was not equally manned, a greater number of troops covering the coast route leaving the south less well guarded. Rommel attacked on 26 May, launching the Battle of Gazala. The German advance was spotted at first light on 27 May. While the northern boxes were pinned by direct attacks, the bulk of the Axis armour swung round Bir Hakeim. The ensuing armoured fighting (the Battle of the Cauldron) therefore occurred to the east, behind 150th Bde's positions. By the evening of 28 May it"}, {"text": "was clear that 150th Bde was going to be attacked from this direction, and it prepared for all-round defence, reinforced by a few tanks. Early on 30 May elements of the \"Afrika Korps\" attempted to break through the position but drew off after taking losses. Next day the Italian Trieste Division and German 90th Light Division attacked, but made little progress against a defence that they described as 'skilful and stubborn'. On 1 June Rommel reinforced the attackers with the 21st Panzer Division and more artillery, and the assault was resumed after heavy dive-bombing. Early in the afternoon 150th Bde was overrun by a series of concentric attacks, the brigadier was killed, and the survivors including most of 81 LAA Bty became prisoners of war. The battle raged around the remaining boxes for several days until the Axis broke through on 13 June. On the night of 14/15 June the rest of 50th (N) Division broke out of its boxes and escaped towards the Egyptian frontier. 25th LAA Regiment's Royal Army Service Corps transport section had been with 69th (Royal Warwickshire) Heavy AA Rgt in Tobruk. On 16 June, 69th HAA Rgt was ordered back to the Egyptian border with"}, {"text": "its attached units: the convoy drove through the night to Sollum and therefore escaped the surrender of Tobruk four days later. 81 LAA Battery was not reformed after the battle; it was reduced to a cadre in September 1942 and was later placed in suspended animation. 25th LAA Regiment, with its two remaining batteries, was with XXX Corps in August, then returned to 12 AA Bde's command, while 34th LAA Rgt took over as 50th (N) Division's LAA component for the Battle of Alamein. Indeed, 25th LAA Rgt remained in the rear and was not up with 12 AA Bde when the battle began on 23 October. Tunisia. After Alamein, 50th (N) Division went into reserve and did not follow Eighth Army into Libya until early December. 25th LAA Regiment moved up and formally joined 50th (N) Division on 16 December 1942; 102nd (Northumberland Hussars) had been the division's A/T regiment since October, and both remained with the division for the rest of its active involvement in the war. 83 LAA Battery from 16th LAA Rgt was apparently regimented with 25th LAA Rgt at this time, but the division still consisted of only two brigades, so its LAA regiment only"}, {"text": "required two batteries. During January\u2013May 1943 83 LAA Bty remained detached to 27th LAA Rgt defending the LGs and bases under 2 and 12 AA Bdes. 83 Bty later joined 27th LAA permanently. 50th (Northumbrian) Division moved up from Tripoli to the front and led Eighth Army's attack on the Mareth line on the night of 19/20 March It took three nights' hard fighting to establish bridgeheads over the Wadi Zigzaou, and in the end the Mareth Line was taken by a wider outflanking move. Then on 6\u20137 April 50th (N) Division followed 4th Indian Division to breach the anti-tank ditch and wadi at the Battle of Wadi Akarit, another difficult operation but this time successful. The division then followed up and took part in the fighting round Enfidaville before the Tunisian campaign ended with the capture of Tunis on 13 May. Although Axis air attacks against LGs, artillery positions \"etc\" had been frequent early in the campaign, these had tailed off as the Allies achieved air superiority. By this stage of the war 25th LAA Rgt was commanded by Lt-Col G.G.O. Lyons, MBE. Sicily. 50th (Northumbrian) Division was selected as one of the assault formations for the Allied invasion"}, {"text": "of Sicily (Operation Husky). It returned to Egypt and sailed aboard a Fast Assault convoy from Port Said on 6 July; its first wave began landing before dawn on 10 July. Despite some initial confusion the division secured its beaches, but after sunrise subsequent waves were attacked by Axis aircraft. Anti-aircraft cover for the beaches was the responsibility of 2 AA Bde, which had the tricky task of landing LAA and HAA guns, radars \"etc\", across open beaches with the Beach groups. The divisional LAA regiments were thus freed to land with later waves and advance inland with their parent formations. 2 AA Brigade's guns began landing during the morning and by the end of the day leading elements of 50th (N) Division were moving inland, though few of its guns had yet arrived. The division advanced against rearguards for the next three days along poor inland roads to protect the left flank of XIII Corps on the coastal road. On the night of 13/14 July 50th (N) Division was ordered to advance up Highway 114 to Lentini to link up first with No. 3 Commando, which had landed from the sea to capture Malati bridge there, and then press"}, {"text": "on to link up with 1st Parachute Bde, which had carried out a landing (Operation Fustian) to capture Primosole Bridge and clear the way for Eighth Army to advance on Catania Airfield and the city beyond.. Both the commandos and paratroops ran into heavier than expected opposition, and 50th (N) Division was also held up: the paratroops were driven off Primosole Bridge before help could arrive, and the operation turned into a bitter four-day fight to recapture the bridge and cross the big irrigation canal beyond. In the end the attempt was given up and 50th (N) Division went on the defensive while other formations outflanked the enemy positions and captured Catania on 5 August. By now the \"Luftwaffe\" was carrying out frequent low-level divebombing and strafing attacks, but these were concentrated against airfields and ports. During August 50th (N) Division slowly advanced up Highway 114 as the Allies drove the Axis troops out of Sicily. Overlord training. 50th (Northumbrian) Division played no part in the subsequent Italian campaign, having been chosen to return to the UK and prepare for the Allied invasion of Normandy (Operation Overlord). In Sicily the division had operated with a third brigade on loan from"}, {"text": "56th (London) Division, but this was earmarked for the Italian campaign. 50th (Northumbrian) Division was therefore brought up to full strength by the permanent addition of 231st Bde, originally part of the Malta garrison, which had fought as an independent brigade group in Sicily and the initial landings in Italy. The divisional LAA regiment consequently required three batteries once more, and on 23 September 1943 25th LAA Rgt was joined by 138 LAA Bty from 27th LAA Rgt (which had previously gained 83 LAA Bty after its loose association with 25th LAA Rgt). The enlarged 50th (N) Division left Sicily on 10 October 1943 and sailed back to the UK as part of XXX Corps to train for Overlord. The ships carrying 50th (N) Division arrived in the Mersey Estuary in November. Its units were brought up to strength and refitted, and carried out training in the south of England and at combined training centres in Scotland. On 14 March 1944 the absent 81 LAA Bty was formally placed in suspended animation and the regiment's other three (82, 138 and 274 (NH) LAA Btys) were augmented to a strength of four troops each when 75\u201377 Trps joined from 501 Independent"}, {"text": "LAA Bty. 501 LAA Battery had been formed on 7 June 1943 from 358 S/L Bty of 40th (Sherwood Foresters) S/L Rgt on its conversion to 149th (Sherwood Foresters) LAA Rgt. It had become independent on 23 February 1944 before joining 25th AA Rgt and being split up. The regiment was still commanded by Lt-Col Lyon. D-Day. For the actual assault on 6 June (D-Day), 50th (N) Division was reinforced by 8th Armoured Bde and 56th Independent Infantry Bde. Its target was Gold Beach, between Le Hamel, and La Rivi\u00e8re, on which it was to land two assault brigades. AA cover for Gold Beach and the beach exits on D Day was the responsibility of 76 AA Bde, which was to land three LAA batteries, including 320 LAA Bty of 93rd LAA Rgt equipped with triple 20 mm Polsten guns, half of them self-propelled (SP), mounted on Crusader tank chassis to go inland with the assault troops. Although 76 AA Bde could not land all its guns on D Day, the \"Luftwaffe\" only made a few scattered attacks during the first 24 hours. 50th (Northumbrian) Division's own units landing during D Day included 82 LAA Bty, which arrived that night"}, {"text": "and moved up to defend the division's field artillery area. As the build-up continued on 7 June (D + 1) the other batteries of 25th LAA Rgt landed. Their convoy had been shelled during the voyage down the English Channel and had suffered casualties and some loss of equipment. They arrived with a mixture of 20 mm and 40 mm equipment to cover the divisional area, while 320 LAA Bty left to protect the site for the Mulberry harbour at Arromanches. Enemy air activity rose sharply on D + 1 and continued for the next two weeks, though the day and night raids were mainly directed against the landing beaches and harbours, and the airborne bridgehead over the River Orne. Normandy and the Low Countries. For the next two months the division fought its way slowly through the Bocage country. Since the Allies had achieved air superiority over the beachhead, there was little call for AA defence, and AA units became increasingly used to supplement the divisional artillery to support ground operations. LAA units fired tracer to guide night attacks onto their objectives, and the Bofors guns were much in demand for infantry support. They could give useful close-range fire"}, {"text": "to help infantry working from cover to cover in the bocage; their rapid fire was good for suppressing enemy heavy weapons, the 40 mm round's sensitive percussion fuze providing an airburst effect among trees. It was also used for 'bunker-busting', though the lack of protection made the gun detachment vulnerable to return fire. LAA units also provided 'refuge strips' for air observation post aircraft spotting for the field guns: a Bofors troop deployed with Local Warning radar and ground observers could alert the pilot to the presence of enemy aircraft and provide protection for him. 50th (Northumbrian) Division was relieved on 5 August, but was back in action on 9 August, attacking against stiff opposition in the advance beyond Mont Pincon as the Allies closed the Falaise Gap. Once the Seine was crossed and the pursuit began, 50th (N) Division supported 11th Armoured Division's rapid advance, protecting the flank and 'mopping up' local resistance. On 1 September the division secured bridges over the River Somme near Amiens and reached Arras. The AA brigades accompanying 21st Army Group quickly followed up to provided cover for these bridges, while 25th LAA Rgt was able to continue the advance with its division, which"}, {"text": "took part in the Liberation of Brussels on 3 September. More resistance was met at the Albert Canal, where 50th (N) Division had to make an assault crossing before pushing on to capture Gheel after bitter fighting (7\u201311 September). The division was due to play a minor role in Operation Market Garden, holding the bridgehead from which Guards Armoured Division advanced, and later defending the road and bridge at Nijmegen, but the latter turned into a major defensive battle after the defeat at Arnhem, when the bridges came under heavy air attack. Reorganisation. The static warfare in the Nijmegen bridgehead was 50th (N) Division's last operation. It was now very weak and in view of 21st Army Group's acute manpower crisis it was broken up at the end of November to provide reinforcements for other formations. The infantry battalions were reduced to cadres which were sent home to train surplus Royal Navy and Royal Air Force personnel as infantry replacements; however, the divisional artillery remained with 21st AG. 25th LAA Regiment was assigned to 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division on 1 December, replacing that division's 116th LAA Rgt which was disbanded on 31 January 1945. When the German Ardennes Offensive threatened"}, {"text": "to break through in December, 53rd (W) Division was among XXX Corps' formations rushed up to seal off the 'Bulge'. It then took part in the counter-attack beginning on 3 January 1945. Germany. 53rd (Welsh) Division was next engaged in the fighting in the Reichswald, (Operation Veritable). XXX Corps launched its attack at 05.00 on 8 February, and as the field and medium artillery concentrated on the enemy's batteries, command posts and communication centres, the divisional LAA regiments took part in the 'Pepperpot', in which guns and mortars of all calibres saturated the enemy positions in front of the assaulting infantry. By this stage of the war divisional LAA regiments had received quadruple 0.5-inch Browning machine guns on SP mountings (the M51 Quadmount) in place of a proportion of their Bofors guns, to improve their capability against 'snap' attacks by the new German jet fighter-bombers. Under this arrangement a troop comprised four SP or towed Bofors and two quadruple SP Brownings. The improvement in LAA barrages led to the resumption of high-level bombing by the \"Luftwaffe\". 53rd (Welsh) Division's role in Veritable was to capture the northern half of the Reichswald, and by 02.00 on 9 February it was through"}, {"text": "the Siegfried Line defences. It was then engaged in a week-long fight through the forests as a thaw set in and turned the roads to mud, though the bad weather prevented much air activity on either side. By 17 February the division was approaching the Goch escarpment. The next phase of the operation began on 22 February, with 53rd (W) Division joining on 24 February with an advance from Goch towards Weeze against heavy opposition. By 3 March the division had taken Weeze and met up with the converging US troops: the west bank of the Rhine was effectively cleared. The assault crossing of the Rhine, Operation Plunder, involved a large and complex air defence plan. Although 53rd (W) Division was not involved in the initial assault, 25th LAA Rgt was one of the LAA units moved up close to the west bank where it was dug-in and carefully concealed in the 48 hours before D-Day. Their role was both to provide AA cover during the night and to take part in the initial 'Pepperpot'. 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division, leading the assault for XII Corps had over 700 guns of all types on call when the bombardment began at 23.30"}, {"text": "on 23 March, followed by 'the start of the Divisional \"Pepperpot\" at 1 A.M. to swell the din in a mad crescendo and to criss-cross the darkness with the vivid red of anti-aircraft and anti-tank and machine-gun tracer'. The infantry set off across the river in amphibious Buffaloes at 02.00 on 24 March, and made rapid progress inland to link up with the airborne troops who landed during the morning (Operation Varsity). The \"Luftwaffe\" did virtually nothing during the assaults or during D-Day itself: only after nightfall did Junkers Ju 88s begin scattered divebombing attacks at medium and low level against the British bridging sites, artillery positions and supply routes. Some of these were engaged by searchlights and LAA guns. The number of attacks increased the following night and were maintained on the fourth night, but after that 21st AG's exploitation was so deep that the \"Luftwaffe\" was forced to switch its attacks away from the Rhine to harassing the leading formations. These nuisance raids continued until the German surrender and were dealt with by divisional LAA units. 53rd (Welsh) Division crossed the river on 26 March and continued the advance into Germany. By 10 April it had crossed the"}, {"text": "Weser and was attacking up the road to Hamburg. It failed to take Rethem, but then found a way over the Aller downstream and advanced towards Verden, which it captured on 17 April. 21st Army Group then closed up to and crossed the Elbe, and 53rd (W) Division had reached the outskirts of Hamburg by the time of the German surrender at L\u00fcneburg Heath. 25th LAA Regiment with 82, 138 and 274 (NH) LAA Btys was placed in suspended animation in British Army of the Rhine on 4 February 1946. Postwar. When the TA was reconstituted on 1 January 1947 the regiment reformed at Liverpool as 525 LAA Regiment in 79 AA Bde (reformed from the original 53 LAA Bde). On 16 March 1949, the regiment was redesignated as an LAA/Searchlight regiment, and on 22 July 1950 it absorbed 655 (Liverpool Scottish) LAA/SL Rgt. When AA Command was disbanded on 10 March 1955 there were wholesale mergers among its units. 525 LAA/SL Regiment, together with 626 (Liverpool Irish) Heavy AA Rgt, was amalgamated into 470 (3rd West Lancs) HAA Rgt, descended from the 70th HAA Rgt that had provided 25th LAA Rgt's original cadre battery in 1939."}, {"text": "Louis Antoine de Thomassin de Peynier, known as Antoine de Thomassin, comte de Peynier (27 September 1731 \u2013 11 October 1809) was an officer of the French Royal Navy and a colonial administrator of the Kingdom of France. Biography. Early years in the French Royal Navy. Peynier joined the Navy in 1744, aged just 13, taking part in the War of the Austrian Succession. In 1751, he was promoted to Ensign, and assigned a diplomatic mission in the Mediterranean between May and September 1752. Serving on the 64-gun \"Triton\", he called the ports of Tripoli, Smyrna, Tunis, and Algiers. When the Seven Years' War broke out in 1756, Antoine was on a four-year campaign in the Indies. During that mission, in 1757, he was promoted to lieutenant. In 1759, he was shot in the head, sustaining a lasting and debilitating injury. After the Treaty of Paris restored peace in 1763, Peynier was given command of the 32-gun frigate \"Malicieuse\", making a voyage of exploration and diplomacy in the Lesser Antilles. He arrived at Martinique in March 1765 and remained in the area until the summer of 1766. The governor of Guadeloupe, Count de Nolivos, gave him several diplomatic missions in"}, {"text": "that time. In May 1765, he was sent as an ambassador to the British governor of Grenada, Robert Melvill, while also spying on British military and naval forces on the island. His instructions stipulated: \"Without compromising the flag of his Majesty, he will acquire all possible knowledge of the English islands that he will approach [...]\". After Grenada, Antoine de Thomassin sailed to the Spanish Coast of South America, visiting the ports of Cuman\u00e1 and Caracas until June 1765. His goal was to explore and open new maritime routes to trade, especially to supply the French colonies with mules. On his return leg, he stopped at Dominica to inquire about the situation of the French on this island. Peynier was then stationed in Guadeloupe for a while. His Sextius, who served as a Lieutenant on \"Malicieuse\", died at that time. He was buried on 16 August 1765 at the cemetery of the Moule. In January and February 1766, Peynier conducted reconnaissance of Saint Martin, sounding the seabed as to improve the defences of the island. He mapped the coast of the island, and in April 1766, he similarly mapped the coasts of Guadeloupe. In 1772 he was promoted to captain."}, {"text": "American Revolutionary War. In 1778, France entered the American Revolutionary War, triggering an Anglo-French War. In 1780, at the request of Lafayette, France sent a 38-ship squadron under De Grasse, ferrying 7,000 men under Lieutenant-General Rochambeau. Peynier took part in the Battle of Martinique on 17 April 1780, commanding the 64-gun \"Art\u00e9sien\". With the outbreak of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in 1780, France and the Dutch Republic found themselves allied against the Kingdom of Great Britain. The Dutch expected the British to send an expeditionary force to try and capture their Dutch Cape Colony, and Suffren was given command of a 5-ship squadron to reinforce it. Peynier became the commander of the second wave of reinforcements sent to Suffren in 1782. Although the British captured part of the convoy, Peynier managed to land troops at the Dutch Cape Colony and sailed on to make his junction with Suffren. At the Battle of Cuddalore on 20 June 1783, Peynier was captain of the fleet for the van of the French squadron, with his flag on the 74-gun \"Fendant\". At the Peace of Paris, Suffren was recalled to France, and Thomassin de Peynier kept command of the French fleet in the Indian"}, {"text": "Ocean until 1786 with the position of squadron leader, which he obtained in 1784. After the American War of Independence, Peynier went to the United States where he was admitted in the Society of the Cincinnati, receiving his diploma from George Washington. In 1786, Peynier returned to France. The following year, he obtained the command of a frigate in Brest. In 1787, in B\u00e9arn, he married Jeanne Timoth\u00e9e Marthe Ang\u00e9lique d'Arros d'Argelos (born 24 January 1761), daughter of Chef d'Escadre Jean-Fran\u00e7ois d'Arros d'Argelos and his wife Mademoiselle de Lahaye (1726\u20131791). They had two daughters. Governor of Saint-Domingue. On 26 July 1789, Peynier was made governor general of the French colony of Saint-Domingue. He arrived there in late August, and remained in office until late 1790. The political situation there was extremely tense, particularly in 1790: the 212 deputies of the Assembly of Saint-Marc started displaying more and more overt secessionist tendencies. These deputies, who were all white landowners, went as far as opening the ports of the colonies to foreign trade, which was against the laws of exclusive commerce still in force in the Kingdom of France. These White settlers were also stark supporters of slavery. Although not very active,"}, {"text": "as a representative of the central power, Peynier opposed the Assembly. In the night of 29 to 30 July 1790, he dismissed the deputies. Eighty-five of them left the island aboard the ship \"Leopard\" and sailed to France to plead their case with the Constituent Assembly. \u2014 earning the nickname of \"Leopards\". On 2 November 1790, Jean-Paul Marat wrote in the \"L'Ami du peuple\": \"It is not disputed that the Sieur de Peynier exercised a terrible despotism, that he used violence to disarm the Port-au-Prince National Guard. . [...] He armed against them the negros and the people of colour \". In France, the events of Saint-Domingue were only partially understood: most political actors did not see the Assembly of Saint-Marc as undemocratic, although it was in fact uninterested in the revolutionary ideals of the Constituent Assembly. In late 1790, White settlers openly accused Governor Peynier and Colonel Mauduit, commander of Port-au-Prince, of protecting men of colour. Tired and sick, Peynier resigned and handed power over to Philippe Fran\u00e7ois Rouxel de Blanchelande, before embarking for France, where he arrived in early 1791. He then had to report to the National Assembly, which approved of his conduct during the entire period"}, {"text": "of his governorship. French Revolution. On 7 October 1791, took the civic oath that the National Assembly was demanding, swearing \"to be faithful to the Nation, to the Law and to the King, and to maintain by all his power the constitution decreed by the National Assembly\". On 1 January 1792, Antoine de Thomassin de Peynier was promoted to vice-admiral. The following spring, he accepted command of the Brest Squadron of the French Navy, but after reconsidering, he eventually declined on the advice of the Minister Bertrand-Molleville. He resigned from all the positions he still held, and retired after a 48-year career in the Royal Navy. He requestion a 4,300-livre pension, which he did not receive. After the fall of the Monarchy and the proclamation of the Republic late in the summer of 1792, Peynier swore before the municipal officer of Orthez, Dutilh, \"to be faithful to the Nation and to maintain freedom and equality or die by defending it\". On 1 September 1793, he returned his Grand Cross of Commander in the Order of Saint Louis. Nevertheless, between late 1793 and 1794, his was under house arrest at home in Ch\u00e2teau Orthez. In his testimony to the Orthez District"}, {"text": "Revolutionary Committee, in a letter date 31 Pluviose An III (9 February 1795), he stated that this arrest stemmed from \"oppressive and general measures\". In December 1794, a month his father died, Peynier moved to Aix where he hopes to restore his health. At this time, losing his sight because of his old head injury. Peynier died on 11 October 1809 in Arance (now Mont, Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Atlantiques). Origins and family. Antoine de Thomassin came from the house of Thomassin, a noble family from Burgundy, known from the 15th century and based in Provence. This family formed several branches, the main one being that of Marquis de Saint-Paul. Eight of its members became Councilors to the Parlement of Aix-en-Provence, and one became a President. Two others became councilors to the Court of Auditors of Provence, and four became advocate-general. Antoine de Thomassin was born on 27 September 1731 in Aix-en-Provence He was the son of Louis de Thomassin Peynier (1705\u20131794), Marquis de Peynier, twice \"intendant\" in the Lesser Antilles between 1763 and 1783, and Anne Dupuy de la Moutte (1705\u20131785). His parents married on 19 March 1726 in Aix-en-Provence. Their children were:"}, {"text": "Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian is a 1498 tempera on panel painting by Luca Signorelli, now in the Pinacoteca Comunale in Citt\u00e0 di Castello. Its date was on its predella, which is now lost. It was the third major work Signorelli produced in Citt\u00e0 di Castello and the only one still in the city."}, {"text": "Ministry of Enlightenment may refer to:"}, {"text": "David Beard may refer to:"}, {"text": "The National Pulse Memorial and Museum was a planned memorial and museum commemorating victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting at Pulse in 2016, originally slated to open in 2022. In 2021, the site was designated by Congress as a national memorial. Temporary memorial efforts. In an effort to honor the 49 victims and to memorialize the location surrounding the Pulse Nightclub building, the City of Orlando dedicated $4,518 to erect a barrier fence to fulfill this purpose. Following this, the City discussed purchasing the Nightclub for $2.25 million, but the vote was postponed. In the end, Pulse Nightclub owner, Barbara Poma, cited personal and emotional connection to the site as the main reasons as to why she chose not to sell the property. Since this time, Poma and others have been raising funds for a memorial, museum, and scholarships through her nonprofit, the onePULSE Foundation. Design. The onePULSE Foundation released a request for proposals in March 2019, with proposals being due by January 31, 2020. Six finalists were selected from the total 68 submissions received, with the final design being chosen from Coldefy & Associes with RDAI. The selection process was completed by a blue-ribbon jury made up of representatives"}, {"text": "from onePulse, the Orlando community, architect professionals, and others. The decision was made as a collective group, with consideration in mind to the over 2,300 comments that were submitted from the victims' families, survivors, and the community with recommendations for memorial concepts. The latest design included several pieces that come together to form a community presence and dedicated reflective, interactive, and connective spaces. The National Pulse Memorial would have the focus of serving as a quiet and peaceful garden setting, and was set to include different symbolic features such as 49 trees, 49 color lines, and a reflecting pool surrounding the Pulse building, to honor the 49 victims lost in the events of the Pulse shooting. A separate museum would be located at 438 West Kaley Street, Orlando, FL 32806, and would be erected in a shape representing a growing flower. The museum would serve as an interactive center to learn, gather, and host community programming. The project was set to cost $45 million to complete. Entrance to the memorial would be free year-round, but the museum would have an admission charge. Architectural renderings and videos have been made available to the public to view and comment on the onePULSE"}, {"text": "foundation's website. The plans have received some criticism from survivors and families of victims for being too large and expensive, as well as due to unpermitted renovations and code violations documented at the nightclub at the time of the shooting. In late October 2023, onePULSE's plans for the Memorial and Museum were permanently suspended. The City of Orlando approved a purchase of the site to convert the temporary memorial into a permanent one. In December 2023, Mayor Buddy Dyer announced an approach in which the city will utilize the existing 501c3 and establish the Orlando United Pulse Memorial Fund, in an effort to raise funds for the permanent memorial. The fund will hope to raise from community donations, such as from local businesses, community organizations, and individuals."}, {"text": "Louis Korn was an American architect from New York City who graduated from Columbia University in 1891. His notable buildings include 9-11 East 16th Street and 91-93 Fifth Avenue, both located in the Ladies' Mile Historic District, and 174-178 Hudson Street which is located in the Tribeca North Historic District. He is known to have specialized in store and loft buildings."}, {"text": "Birth of John the Baptist is a c. 1485\u20131490 tempera on panel painting by Luca Signorelli. Originally part of the predella of an unknown altarpiece (though Raffaele Caracciolo definitively linked it to the Sant'Onofrio Altarpiece), it was acquired on the art market in 1824 by the Louvre, where it still hangs in the Salle des Sept-M\u00e8tres. History and art review. The painting is thought to be an early work of Signorelli. It is unusually cursive in style for the artist, and is notable as an experiment in the use of dramatic lighting. The \"Birth of John the Baptist\" has been called one of the best examples of the work of Signorelli."}, {"text": "Sun Jiameng (; 1934 \u2013 4 April 2013) was a Chinese translator. He was born in Tianjin and graduated from the Department of Spanish, Beijing Foreign Languages Institute. He worked as professor of Spanish at the School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University until his retirement. Between 1981 and 1982, he studied structural semantics in Peru. He translated some novels written by Mario Vargas Llosa, such as \"The Green House\" (\"La casa verde\"), \"Captain Pantoja and the Special Service\" (\"Pantale\u00f3n y las visitadoras\"), \"Conversation in The Cathedral\" (\"Conversaci\u00f3n en La Catedral\"), \"Who Killed Palomino Molero?\" (\"\u00bfQui\u00e9n mat\u00f3 a Palomino Molero?\") and \"The Storyteller\" (\"El hablador\"). Other translations of his include the complete version of \"The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha\" (\"Don Quijote de la Mancha\") and \"Hopscotch\" (\"Rayuela\"), by Julio Cort\u00e1zar. His research interests lay mainly in structural semantics and translation theories. He participated in compiling a textbook about Spanish \u2013 Chinese translation. Sun died in Nanjing on 4 April 2013."}, {"text": "The Fairview Amusement Hall, at 75 S. State St. in Fairview, Utah, was built in 1927. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. It was built by building contractor Allie Carlston with Oscar Amundsen and his son Whit doing the brick work."}, {"text": "GoMo (or GOMO) is the name of four independently operated, online-only mobile telephone flanker brands. Although they share the same name and digital-only business model, GoMo services are operated independently under different parent companies in various countries. GoMo primarily offers SIM-only mobile services with online sign-up, app-based account management, and no in-person customer service. While the brand markets itself as digital-only, in some countries such as the Philippines, SIM cards are also distributed through physical retail outlets (e.g., convenience stores and malls). Products and services. Singapore. GOMO Singapore provides contract-free SIM-only plans with varying data and roaming options. As of 2025, their popular plan includes: Plans are app-managed and start from S$14.33/month. Thailand. GoMo Thailand, operated by AIS, offers digitally managed SIM-only plans such as: All sign-up and account management is via the GOMO Thailand mobile app. Philippines. GOMO Philippines offers prepaid SIM-only plans with no expiry on data. Popular offers include: Users can convert data into call minutes or SMS using the app (\u201cMo Creds\u201d). The service is fully digital, with SIMs available online and in physical retail outlets. Ireland. GoMo Ireland offers a single SIM-only postpaid mobile plan that includes: Switzerland. GoMo Switzerland offers a SIM-only plan that"}, {"text": "includes: GoMo GoMo+ GoMo Europe The service is provided by Salt and positioned as a budget digital offering. Cyprus. GoMo Cyprus, operated by Epic Ltd., provides a single SIM-only plan that includes: Services are managed online via the GoMo portal; no physical support centers are offered. Customer service. GoMo does not provide customer support through phone lines or in-person service centers. Instead, all assistance is handled through digital channels such as live chat, email, mobile apps, and official social media platforms. This online-only support model is consistent with GoMo\u2019s digital-first approach across all operating countries."}, {"text": "Maddon's Rock is a 1948 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes published by Collins. The following year it was released in America by Harper with the alternative title of Gale Warning. To research the novel Innes crewed on a friend's yacht in the Fastnet Race. Synopsis. A merchant ship is torpedoed and sunk during a winter return convoy from the Soviet Union in 1945, and several members of her crew are court-martialed and jailed for their conduct during the evacuation to the lifeboats. Another regrettable yet unremarkable incident of war seems set to be forgotten, until a year later, during a gale on another brutal winter night in the northern seas, when a ship that everyone knows to be sunk sends an SOS calling for help."}, {"text": "The Centerfield School and Meetinghouse, also known as the Centerfield Rock Church, is a historic structure located at 140 S. Main St. in Centerfield, Utah. Built between 1886 and 1889, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It is a one-story oolitic limestone building, built by stonemasons Chris Tollstrup and Gustav Nielsen. A mansard roof on the east portion of the building was added in 1897 to give it Second Empire style."}, {"text": "On August 6, 1993, 22-year-old Fort Bragg soldier Kenneth Junior French, armed with two shotguns and a rifle, opened fire inside a Luigi's restaurant in Fayetteville, North Carolina, killing four people and injuring seven others. The case was featured in the 1997 documentary film \"Licensed to Kill\". Shooting. At around 10 p.m., French drove to the restaurant in a black truck. Wearing shorts and a fishing vest, French exited the truck carrying a pump-action shotgun. French then entered the restaurant through the kitchen at the back of the building and then began to yell about politics and homosexuality before opening fire indiscriminately. Four people were killed, and seven injured. French was then shot and wounded by police lieutenant Bill Simons. After the shooting, French remarked:\"I don't believe there's anywhere in our Constitution that gives anybody the right to be accepted by anybody else. When the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, people automatically assumed that they had a right to many different things. Women, blacks, now carrying into gays. They feel that they have a right to be accepted? Who--who do they need to accept them?\" Victims. The victims that were killed were: Trial. The accused was sergeant Kenneth"}, {"text": "French, a 22-year-old US Army mechanic stationed at nearby Fort Bragg. He was charged with four counts of capital murder, and a further eight counts of assault. French's defense attorney said French was drunk at the time of the shooting, and held life-long anger, saying French's father had raped a family member. French was convicted for all four murders and eight assaults. The jury deadlocked on whether he should face the death penalty. French was sentenced to four consecutive life terms for the murders, with a further 35 years imprisonment for the assaults."}, {"text": "The San Giovanni Sacristy ( or ) is one of four sacristies of the Basilica della Santa Casa in Loreto, located between the church's transepts. Octagonal in plan, the sacristy is decorated with a 1477\u20131480 fresco cycle by Luca Signorelli. History. The sacristy was decorated sometime in the second half of the 1470s through a commission by Girolamo Basso della Rovere, who ruled Loreto from 1476 to 1506 and was made a cardinal in 1477. His coat of arms is shown in the centre of the vault. The commission was entrusted to the young Luca Signorelli, who was already well known in the Marche as one of the better students of Piero della Francesca and capable of synthesizing the multiple artistic influences in central Italy at that time. He was assisted by Pietro Dei and, according to some critics, Pietro Perugino. Some scholars believe the frescoes were completed \"after\" the Sistine Chapel, around 1485. Description. The sacristy, like its twin dedicated to the Four Evangelists, uses an octagonal plan. Its Renaissance portal, carved and inlaid, is attributed to Benedetto da Maiano. The vault, in eight segments, is decorated by a spiral of eight angel musicians, followed by the four Evangelists"}, {"text": "and Doctors of the Church, alternating. The \"Saint Ambrosios\", \"Saint Matthew\" and his corresponding angel, and the angel above \"Saint Jerome\" stand out as works probably executed by Signorelli himself. On the upper-part of the walls, there are scenes of the \"Conversion of Saint Paul on the Way to Damascus\" and the \"Doubting of Saint Thomas\" as well as five pairs of the Apostles. In the Saint Thomas fresco, Christ looks ruddy and plump, much like in Signorelli's \"Flagellation Standard\". The stylistic influences of the frescoes include Bramante, Perugino, and Andrea del Verrocchio (and his celebrated \"Christ and St. Thomas\" statue), as well as Bellini's \"Pesaro Altarpiece\". The \"Conversion\" fresco in particular is characterized by its theatricality and drama, through its luminous appearance, that dazzles Saint Paul as his companions flee around him. Critic Scarpellini noted how the monumental apostolic figures stand around the spectator, giving the impression that they face a looming stage that \"revolves\" around them. The lower sections of the walls are occupied by inlaid benches and wardrobes, the Renaissance works of Domenico di Antonio Indivini. They realized in two different workshops, one in Urbino and one locally, which was also active in the sacristy of Saint"}, {"text": "Luke. On the side of the window is a marble washbasin, which is also the work of Benedetto da Maiano. The floor is decorated with majolica tiles with fantastical figures that were made in the 19th century, based on 16th century models."}, {"text": "The Manti Motor Company Building, also known as the Utah-Idaho Motor Company Building and Nell's Motor in Manti, Utah, was built in 1916. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The building was designed by Lauritz Peder Miller."}, {"text": "The Blue Ice is a 1948 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes and published by Collins."}, {"text": "The 2005 Surakarta mayoral election took place on 27 June 2005, as the first direct mayoral election for the city. Four pairs of candidates for Surakarta's mayor and deputy mayor participated in the election. The election was famous because it was won by Joko Widodo, who would later become President of Indonesia in 2014. Background. Starting in 2005, as part of a decentralization process, Indonesia implemented a direct election system for local leaders (i.e. mayors, regents, and governors), replacing the previous system of election by vote within local legislatures during the New Order era. The first of such elections, initially scheduled for January 2005, were delayed to June 2005 in order to allow for preparations. Candidates. There were four pairs of candidates for the election, including former mayor Slamet Suryanto. Suryanto, who was the chairman of PDI-P's local office, had been sanctioned by his party for running instead through a coalition of small parties, as the party had instead nominated Joko Widodo, who at the time was chairman of the city's furniture-makers association. Aside from the two, there was also the Achmad Purnomo-Istar Yuliadi ticket, endorsed by the National Mandate Party, and the Hardono-Dipokusomo ticket, endorsed by a coalition of"}, {"text": "Golkar, the Democratic Party, and the Prosperous Justice Party. Additionally, the National Awakening Party also endorsed Widodo. Results. The election was held in 1,385 polling stations across the city."}, {"text": "The Parte Guelfa Holy Family (Italian - \"Sacra Famiglia di Parte Guelfa\") is a tempera on panel painting by Luca Signorelli, created \"c.\" 1490, now in the Uffizi in Florence. It is named after the Palazzo di Parte Guelfa in Florence, for which it was painted. It has 124 cm in diameter, and it was one of the artist's first tondo treatments of the Holy Family or Madonna and Child. Mentioned in Vasari's \"Lives of the Artists\", it remained in the Camera della Comunit\u00e0 (also known as the Sala delle Udienze) until 27 January 1802 when it was moved to the Uffizi, although authorisation had been given for the move two years earlier."}, {"text": "The Boulder Elementary School, at 351 N 100 E in Boulder, Utah, is a PWA Moderne-style school completed in 1936. The builder was Arthur McInelly, Sr., and the designer is not known. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is a one-story building built as a Works Progress Administration project during 1935\u201336. It was designed with a mix of PWA Moderne and classical elements. Its nomination describes it as having a front entrance porch with classical elements including \"cornice returns, a pedimented head over the recessed doorway, and a transom above the door itself. The formality of the porch is broken by a zig-zag belt course that circles the building and gives it a sense of the abstract geometric quality associated with the moderne movement.\" It is currently the Boulder Town Office."}, {"text": "Herbert Farmer may refer to:"}, {"text": "Jean Bessems (born 4 January 1945) is a former professional Dutch carom and artistic billiards player. Bessems won the Artistic Billiards World Championship in 1985 and 1988, and finished as runner-up in 1984. Career. Jean Bessems was born in Cadier en Keer, a district of Margraten, today Eijsden-Margraten in January 1945. His father was a farmer, pigeon breeder and later cafe owner. At the age of 14 he started playing billiards, and also played football. Aged 19, Bessem had to decide between billiards and football, choosing to no longer play football. Bessems played first Carom billiards, but later switched to artistic billiards, more commonly associated with trickshots. Bessems made his international breakthrough in 1965 at the European Youth Billiards Championships. In the Cadre 47/2 European Championship 1971 in Nice, he won his first silver medal in the men's competition. He played against players such as Raymond Ceulemans, , , and . He won the Artistic Billiards World Championship event both in 1985, held in Sluis in Zeeland and again in 1988 in Stockerau in Austria. Bessems was also a four time European Artistic Billiards champion, winning the event in 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989. In 1991 he finished his sporting"}, {"text": "career and 2005 went into early retirement. Personal life. Bessems worked as a mechanical engineer. For twenty years, like his father, he was a passionate pigeon breeder. Achievements. International National"}, {"text": "Janet Barlow may refer to:"}, {"text": "Attack Alarm is a 1941 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. It was inspired by the author's own experience as an anti-aircraft gunner at RAF Kenley during the Battle of Britain. In fact, according to Adrian Jack, the manuscript \"was written on a gun-site after he had joined the Royal Artillery\". It was published in the United States the following year by Macmillan. Synopsis. In the summer of 1940, as the battle between the British and German air forces continues a former Fleet Street journalist now a gunner serving in an anti-aircraft battery begins to suspect that there may be a plot on the ground even more dangerous to his country than the enemy planes."}, {"text": "Antonio Prieto Puerto (2 February 1905 \u2013 4 February 1965) was a Spanish actor. He was born in Aspe, province of Alicante in 1905. He made his film debut in 1953 in \"El mensaje\", then he appeared in \"Los Tarantos\" (1963) along Carmen Amaya, \"Rififi\" (1955) along Fernando Fern\u00e1n-G\u00f3mez, \"El t\u00edmido\" and \"Llanto por un bandido\" (1964). His most notable role was Don Benito Rojo in Sergio Leone's film \"A Fistful of Dollars\" (1964) along with Gian Maria Volont\u00e9. He won the Premio Nacional de Interpretaci\u00f3n de Espa\u00f1a in 1959 for his work on stage. He died in Madrid in 1965."}, {"text": "The 2010 Surakarta mayoral election took place on 27 June 2010. The election resulted in a landslide victory for the incumbent mayor Joko Widodo, who won over 90 percent of the votes. Candidates. The incumbent mayor, Joko Widodo, ran for a second term, with his deputy F.X. Hadi Rudyatmo remaining as his running mate. Aside from their party PDI-P, they were also endorsed by the National Mandate Party and the Prosperous Justice Party. Opposing the pair was the Edy Wirabhumi and Supradi Kertamenawi ticket, who were endorsed by the Democratic Party and Golkar. Results. The turnout for the election was the highest among other mayoral elections held in Central Java in that year. The votes were held in 932 polling stations, with Widodo only losing in a single station."}, {"text": "Holy Family or Holy Family with a Female Saint is a tempera on panel painting by Luca Signorelli, created \"c.\" 1490\u20131495, now in the Galleria Palatina in Florence. Its commissioner and original location are both unknown, as is the date on which it entered the Medici collection, though it may have been one of the first works Mattias de' Medici sent from Siena in 1630. It was attributed to Signorelli in 1879 and this has not been disputed since, although questions have been raised as to how much of it is by Signorelli's assistants - Olsen argues it is entirely a studio work. Questions still also remain as to its dating - Berenson, Cruttwell, Mario Salmi and Scarpellini place it during Signorelli's time in Florence between 1490 and 1495, linking it to his other tondos, whilst Vischer places it in the 16th century and Henry (in Kanter-Testa 2001) argues it is an entirely autograph work from 1491 or 1492 during the artist's time in Volterra."}, {"text": "Ruth Bird (26 May 1899 \u2014 24 January 1987) was an English historian and schoolteacher. Born in London, Bird performed exceptionally well during her education, and received a master's degree in history at Bedford College, London in 1922, becoming the first person to earn a distinction in the subject. From 1923 until her retirement, Bird was a schoolteacher, a profession she excelled at, remembered as a \"inspirational and enthusiastic\" teacher. Bird also engaged in some historical scholarship. She composed a history of London guilds during the reign of Richard II and edited the journal of Giles Moore, clergyman of Horsted Keynes; this town was the subject of much of her study after retirement. Bird died in 1987 and was buried in Horsted Keynes. She was memorialised by those who knew her as a \"devout and faithful\" Christian and \"perhaps the greatest [teacher] I ever met\". Early life and education. Bird was born on 26 May 1899 to George Bird (1863\u20131912), entrepreneur and engineer, and his wife, Theresa Mary (1867\u20131953), at their home on 62 St Quintin Avenue, Kensington, London. On her paternal side, Bird was descended from a well-off, 19th-century merchant background, but, after George Bird's death in 1912, the"}, {"text": "family found themselves in some financial difficulty. Bird entered the boarding school of Elstree Grange in Eastbourne in 1909, where she performed exceptionally well in exams. Bird left Elstree in 1917 to attend Bedford College, London, where she remained until 1922. She took her BA examinations in 1920, where she was the only historian to receive first-class honours. In May 1921, she was awarded the inaugural grant of the Amy Lady Tate scholarship. This covered her tuition fees and awarded her use of Institute of Historical Research while she studied at Belford, under the supervision of Jeffries Davis and J. W. Allen. She was awarded her master's degree in December 1922, the ninth history master's the college had granted, and its first distinction. Her master's thesis was entitled \"Civic factions in London and their relation to political parties, 1376\u20131399\" Teaching career. In 1923, after leaving Belford, Bird began teaching at Truro High School, Cornwall; in 1926, she left for Wyggeston Grammar School for Girls, Leicester, where she would remain until her retirement in 1959. She became a senior mistress of the school, though during her 33 year tenure she chose to obtain no teaching qualifications. She was remembered as a"}, {"text": "remarkable teacher. D. Anne Welch, writing for the \"Oxford Dictionary of National Biography\", memorialised her as an educator who \"loved her chosen career, and was an inspirational and enthusiastic classroom teacher\". Professor Claire Cross, a former pupil and professor emeritus of history at the University of York, described Bird as \"perhaps the greatest [teacher] I ever met\". Scholarship. Twenty-seven years after its composition, Bird prepared her master's thesis into a book-length publication, having made some revisions at the London School of Economics in 1935\u20136. \"The Turbulent London of Richard II\" (1949) analysed the convoluted shifting of alliances between the guilds of London during the reign of Richard II ( 1377-99). According to Welch, this publication revealed \"deep political and personal complexities, which have precluded any subsequent simplistic assessment of the situation\". The monograph was published with an introduction from prominent English historian James Tait, who had died four years before its publication. After her retirement, Bird mainly studied the local history of Horsted Keynes, Sussex. Bird edited the \"day books\" of Giles Moore, clergyman of the parish church of St Giles, for the Sussex Record Society, published under the title: \"The Journal of Giles Moore, 1656\u20131679\" (1971). The book was"}, {"text": "reviewed favourably by A. Tindal Hart, writing for the \"Journal of Ecclesiastical History\", who described that, while ostensively dull in subject matter, in its pages \"there emerges the vivid portrait of a seventeenth century country rector in relation to his home and family, his parishioners, and the authorities in Church and State\". Moore's detailed accounts of his personal and household expenditures have come to be recognised as an important source for the history of English provincial clothing during Moore's lifetime. In Leicester, Bird co-wrote the Victoria County History entries on Humberstone and Knighton for the series' 1958 publication on Leicestershire. As of her death, Ruth Bird was co-writing a history of a 17th-century school in Horsted Keynes. Personal life, character, and death. Welch memorialised Bird as \"a small, slight figure, with a short severe hair cut, Ruth Bird possessed great natural authority and a remarkably warm smile. She dressed simply, lived humbly, and owned little.\" Bird was an Anglican, and a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis, the reason for her frugal lifestyle. Her vicar at Horsted Keynes described her as \"practising Christian, devout and faithful in her prayer life, in worship and private study\". According to Welch,"}, {"text": "Bird was also a keen traveller and \"emphasized the international perspective to history as a means of furthering peace among nations\". Bird's health deteriorated in later years, developing a weak chest. On 24 January 1987, She died at Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath aged eighty-seven. She was cremated and her ashes were buried in St Giles churchyard on 31 January 1987. Her will was probated at \u00a3126,919 on 15 May 1987."}, {"text": "Ouimette is a surname, derived from the surname Ouimet. Notable people with it include:"}, {"text": "Realistic silicone masks can be obtained cheaply and have been used in crimes throughout the world. Silicone masks have been used as a disguise to conceal identity to perpetrate crimes."}, {"text": "Where Is Elle Kari and What Happened to Noriko-san? (Hebrew: \u05d0\u05d9\u05e4\u05d4 \u05d0\u05dc\u05d4 \u05e7\u05e8\u05d9 \u05d5\u05de\u05d4 \u05e7\u05e8\u05d4 \u05dc\u05e0\u05d5\u05e8\u05d9\u05e7\u05d5-\u05e1\u05d0\u05df?) is an Israeli documentary by Dvorit Shargal from 2014. It deals with the photo books from the series \"Children's Everywhere\" by Anna Riwkin-Brick, Astrid Lindgren, Leah Goldberg and Elly Jannes. \"Where Is Elle Kari and What Happened to Noriko-san?\" is the first part of a film trilogy. The follow-up films, which also deal with the photo books from the series \"Children's Everywhere\", were filmed in 2016 (\"Africa! Sia Lives on Kilimanjaro\") and 2017 (\"Where Is Lilibet the Circus Child and What Happened in Honolulu?\"). Plot. As a child, director Dvorit Shargal read Anna Rivkin-Brick's books \"Elle Kari\" and \"\". Through these books she learned about the lives of other girls in other distant countries. She identified with the protagonists, wanted to have skis like Elle Kari from the book of the same name, or wear a kimono like Noriko-san. When she opens her former favorite books, Shargal finds a letter written by her to Noriko-san. This was, however, sent back to her with the note: address unknown. Then she decides to start looking for the protagonists from the books. Noriko-san is of particular importance"}, {"text": "to her. The search for Noriko-san, however, is more difficult than expected, after all, Shargal only has a first name. Therefore, she tries to find Ella Kari first, a girl from the indigenous S\u00e1mi people and the protagonist of the book with the same name. Shargal actually finds an Elle Kari through an internet search. It turns out that this Elle Kari is the daughter of the writer Elly Jannes. She is named after the protagonist of Anna Riwkin-Brick and Elly Janne's book. After interviewing her, Shargal finally meets Elle Kari from the book. Elle Kari tells about her life, shows more photos of Anna Riwkin-Brick and a documentary about her daughter from the 1970s. In addition, Shargal reports how the indigenous S\u00e1mi people developed after the 1950s. To find out more about Anna Riwkin-Brick, Shargal searches the archive of the Swedish National Library in Stockholm. There she learns that Anna Riwkin wrote books along with the Israeli author Leah Goldberg. In Israel she meets the protagonists Anat, Shaul, Daniel and Miriam from the books \"Eli Lives in Israel\" and \"Miriam Lives in a Kibbutz\" of the \"Children's Everywhere\" series. Later, she continues to search for her favorite protagonist Noriko-san."}, {"text": "She learns that the book was written by Astrid Lindgren. Although she does not find any information about Noriko in the Astrid Lindgren Archive in Stockholm, she comes across a letter from the protagonist of the book \"Dirk lives in Holland\", who is not called Dirk, but Jackie. She meets Jackie. He tells her about the work with Anna Riwkin and Astrid Lindgren. In addition, Jackie takes Shargal to the places where the photos were taken. He tells her about his first bicycle, which he had received from Astrid Lindgren for his birthday and reads a letter that Astrid Lindgren had written to him. In it, Astrid Lindgren recalls her visit to Holland, where she created the book together with Anna Riwkin. When Shargal publicly searches for Noriko-san, she finds Eva, another protagonist from Noriko-san. Together they are looking Noriko-san. They fly to Japan and visit the places where the photos were taken. They also ask locals about Noriko-san and eventually make adds in newspapers. Through a newspaper article they finally find Noriko-san and meet her. Overview. \"Where Is Elle Kari and What Happened to Noriko-san?\" is the debut film of the director Dvorit Shargal. Originally, Shargal worked as a"}, {"text": "journalist, but gave up her work to make a documentary about her search for the heroines of her childhood from the \"Children's Everywhere\" photobook series. \"Children's Everywhere\" deals with the lives of children in different countries, such as Sweden, Japan, Israel etc. The director had a particular interest in finding Noriko-san from the , but the search was extremely difficult because she had only a first name. During her search, she came across other protagonists from the same book series and tried to find out more about the life of the photographer of the series, Anna Riwkin-Brick. The documentary has been shot within four years in different countries and continents. Shargal first met Ella Kari in Jokkmokk (Sweden), then she traveled to Israel and Tokyo. Because of the film nine photo books of the series were being reissued in Israel, including: \"Elle Kari\", \"\", \"Sia Lives on Kilimanjaro\", \"Lilibet, Circus Child\", \"Dirk Lives in Holland\", \"Noy Lives in Thailand\", \"Salima Lives in Kashmir\", \"Eli Lives in Israel\" and \"Gennet Lives in Ethiopia\". Eva Crafoord-Larsen and Noriko Shiraishi, the protagonists from Noriko-San, met each other again within the film. In an interview, they explained that they have become good friends. They"}, {"text": "had met again after making the film, in Tokyo and Sweden. The film was shown in several international film festivals. In Israel, the film premiered on 3 July 2014 as part of the Children and Youth Film Festival Tel Aviv. The film was shown nationwide in Israel in the cinema in December of the same year. It was also nominated for the Ophir Award as \"Best Documentary under 60 minutes\" Follow-up films. Dvorit Shargal made two more films dealing with Anna Riwkin-Brick's \"Children's Everywhere\" series. \"Africa! Sia Lives on Kilimanjaro\". On August 5, 2016, the film \"Africa! Sia Lives on Kilimanjaro\" (Hebrew \u05e1\u05d9\u05d0\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d9\u05dc\u05d3\u05d4 \u05de\u05d0\u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05e7\u05d4) was released. In the film the director Shargal drove again to the Astrid Lindgren archive in Stockholm. She talked to Astrid Lindgren's daughter Karin Nyman to learn more about Anna Riwkin-Brick and her books, but Karin Nyman could not tell Shargal much about her. At a screening of \"Where Is Elle Kari and What Happened to Noriko-san?\" a member of the audience said that she had the name and email address from \"Sia\" from \"Sia Lives on Kilimanjaro\". The e-mail address turned out to be wrong, but Shargal managed to find Sia, who is actually"}, {"text": "called Erica Malekia. Shargal met Erica Malekia's family and found out more about their culture and their lives in Tanzania. \"Where Is Lilibet the Circus Child and What Happened in Honolulu?\". On October 20, 2017, \"Where Is Lilibet the Circus Child and What Happened in Honolulu?\" (Hebrew: \u05d0\u05d9\u05e4\u05d4 \u05dc\u05d9\u05dc\u05d1\u05e1 \u05d9\u05dc\u05d3\u05ea \u05d4\u05e7\u05e8\u05e7\u05e1 \u05d5\u05de\u05d4 \u05e7\u05e8\u05d4 \u05d1\u05d4\u05d5\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5?) was released. Once again Shargal tried to find more protagonists of the \"Children's Everywhere\" series in the Astrid Lindgren Archive Stockholm. There she found out that Lilibet from \"Lilibet, Circus Child\", had performed in a circus called \"Cirkus Scott\". Shargal visited the circus, but the circus director did not know Lilibet. He later promised Shargal to try to find out more about the girl. In the meantime Shargal met Eva Brick, the niece of Anna Riwkin-Brick. She found out more about the family and life of the photographer Anne Riwkin-Brik. She discovered that Anna Riwkin-Brick had flown to Hawaii with her sister Eug\u00e9nie S\u00f6derberg to create a photo book about the girl Mokihana (\"Mokihana Lives in Hawaii\"). Immediately Shargal flew to Hawaii to find that girl. At first, her search was unsuccessful, but then she met an elderly gentleman who knew the book and reported that"}, {"text": "Anna and her sister lived in Hawaii for several months and his son was also photographed for the photo book. The search near Mokihana turned out to be more difficult than expected, but shortly before her departure Shargal managed to meet her. Shargal came from Hawaii directly to Sweden, where she learned the name of Lilibet and her father. In addition, she came in contact with Lilibets half-brother. She learned that Lilibet is actually called Ingrid Heinrich and now lives in Bussum, Holland. Shargal visited her in Holland. Ingrid Heinrich told Shargal about her work with Astrid Lindgren and Anna Riwkin-Brick, as well as her life in the circus."}, {"text": "Lamentation over the Dead Christ is a painting of 1502 in oils on panel by Luca Signorelli, painted for the church of Santa Margherita and now in the Diocesan Museum in Cortona. In the left background is the Crucifixion and in the right background the Resurrection. According to the 1568 edition of Vasari's \"Lives of the Artists\", in the summer of 1502 Signorelli received news of his son Antonio's death from the plague in Cortona. Signorelli went from Orvieto to see the body, had it uncovered and, in Vasari's words, \"with the greatest presence of mind, without weeping or tears, he drew him, always wanting to see \u2013 through the work of his hands \u2013 what nature had given him and his enemy fortune had taken away\". He used the drawing for \"Lamentation\". Its style is similar to that of the artist's Chapel of San Brizio frescoes, which he had almost finished at that time. He added an autograph copy of the work to the fresco on his return to Orvieto at the end of 1502. Predella. Quicker in style and probably by the master's students but based on drawings by him, the predella shows four more scenes from Christ's"}, {"text": "Passion: \"Gethsemane\", \"Last Supper\", \"Arrest\" and \"Flagellation\". Predella to \"Lamentation\""}, {"text": "Naas Courthouse is a judicial facility in Main Street, Naas, County Kildare, Ireland. History. The courthouse, which was designed by Sir Richard Morrison in the neoclassical style and built in ashlar stone, was completed in 1807. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing Main Street; the central section featured a tetrastyle portico with Doric order columns supporting an entablature and a pediment. The building was primarily used as a facility for dispensing justice but, following the implementation of the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, which established county councils in every county, the Grand Jury Room also became the meeting place for Kildare County Council. After a major fire in the courthouse, the county council moved to the former St Mary's Fever Hospital in the late 1950s. The courthouse was reconstructed after the fire; it was refurbished again in the 1990s and the building continues to be used as a judicial facility."}, {"text": "The River Heights Sinclair Station, at 594 S. 400 East in River Heights, Utah, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. It was renovated in the fall of 2016 and opened as a photography studio named Station Studio at the beginning of 2017."}, {"text": "Mirreyes contra God\u00ednez or \"Mirreyes vs God\u00ednez\", is a 2019 Mexican comedy film directed by Chava Cartas. The film premiered on 25 January 2019, and is stars Pablo Lyle, Daniel Tovar, Regina Bland\u00f3n, and Diana Bovio. The plot revolves around the death of a wealthy shoemaker, after his death begins a hilarious battle between the \"Mirreyes\" (preppy guys) and the \"God\u00ednez\" (working class guys) to gain control of the company. Sequel. After the success of the film, on 31 October 2019 the newspaper \"El Universal Mexico\" confirmed that the film would have a sequel, which began filming in February 2020. \"\" was released on 21 July 2022."}]