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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Military_Academy"} | Military academy in Ankara, Turkey
The Turkish Military Academy (Turkish: Kara Harp Okulu) is a four-year co-educational military academy and part of the National Defence University. It is located in the center of Ankara, Turkey. Its mission is to develop cadets mentally and physically for service as commissioned officers in the Turkish Army, and is the oldest of the academies of the Armed Forces (opened 1834).
After 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt Military academy (along with Naval Academy, Air Force Academy and all the other military educational institutions) became part of the new National Defence University which is formed under Ministry of National Defence.
Entry process
There are roughly 4,000 cadets attending the Turkish Military Academy at any one time. In order to enter the academy, prospective cadets must graduate from a high school then pass necessary exams and various tests. Only students displaying the potential to become officers are accepted. The Academy is the only source of commissioned officers for the Turkish Army. After graduation, cadets are required to serve for 15 years.
Education
Education in the academy is 5 years (first year is preparatory class). Cadets undergo both academic and military training in the academy. Upon graduation cadets commissioned as officers in the Turkish Land Forces and also receive a bachelor's degree depending on their academic education in the academy.
Military training is given by the Turkish Military Academy Cadet Corps. The corps is organized as one regiment and four battalion.
Uniforms
The cadet dress uniform is the same as the Turkish Army officer's uniform, except for the addition of two gold cords looped from the right shoulder across the front right suspending two metal pins. One pin is long, and symbolizes peace while the other is short and symbolizes war. The cadets are distinguishable and organized by their graduating class as well as their cadet unit. In their classroom uniform, each cadet wears a thin gold bar on their epilate for each year they have been at the academy. Senior cadets, with four bars, also wear the color of the branch of the Turkish Army that they will be entering upon graduation on their collar. For example, green for infantry and gray for armor. The under three classes wear blue on their collar which signifies that they have not yet chosen a branch. The cadet also wears an identification number, a four digit number issued upon entrance to the academy. Atatürk's cadet number, 1283, has been reserved and will not be issued to another cadet.
Turkish Military Academy Cadet Corps
Turkish Military Academy Cadet Corps is made up of one regiment and four battalions named after famous campaigns during the Turkish War of Independence and WWI (except Malazgirt). 1st Battalion is the Anafartalar Battalion, 2nd is the Dumlupinar Battalion, 3rd is the Sakarya Battalion and 4th is the Malazgirt Battalion. Each battalion has a separate building, which contains a number of facilities including barracks, dining halls, classrooms, day rooms and study rooms. The cadet regiment has a cadet chain of command which rotates during the school year. The cadet regiment also has a chain of command of regular army officers in mentoring and leadership roles.
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null | 1990 single by Lionel Cartwright
"My Heart Is Set on You" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Lionel Cartwright. It was released in July 1990 as the second single from the album I Watched It on the Radio. The song reached number seven on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
Critical reception
Dan Herbeck of The Buffalo News compared Cartwright's sound to Ricky Skaggs, and said that the song was "a blatantly commercial but bouncy little song."
Chart performance
Year-end charts | 8f9b66ce-7c43-446e-978b-e7c145545807 |
null | Wallace the Brave is a humor strip written and drawn by Will Henry and syndicated through Andrews McMeel Syndication. It debuted on the company's GoComics website in 2015. In March 2018 it began appearing in over 100 newspapers worldwide.
Background
Will Henry, the pen name of liquor store co-owner William Henry Wilson, previously drew a strip called Dormmates for the Connecticut Daily Campus, the daily student newspaper at the University of Connecticut. After graduation he created the comic strip Ordinary Bill, which depicted a beach bum cartoonist and ran in his hometown newspaper The Jamestown Press, but found the subject matter too limiting.
Wallace the Brave is elaborated from sketches of a child Henry began to make after working on Ordinary Bill. He has claimed both Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes and Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac as influences on the strip's style. The setting of Snug Harbor incorporates elements of Henry's hometown of Jamestown, Rhode Island.
Reception
A Wallace the Brave collection was published in paperback by Andrews McMeel Publishing in 2017. In April 2018, the collection was nominated for Eisner Awards as best humor publication and best publication for kids ages 9-12 categories. | c8281596-29c2-4fbb-9e88-4a8faeb552f5 |
null | Frances Dickinson may refer to: | c92c1f00-0b81-400a-9e6e-351e3aa2c2e2 |
null | Chilean fencer
Tomás León Goyoaga Palacios (28 June 1898 – 14 November 1937) was a Chilean pée, foil and sabre fencer. He competed at the 1928 and 1936 Summer Olympics. | cc9db8f6-4f1b-4ed1-8756-42ebf024665b |
null | School in P. Burgos St., Roxas City, Capiz, Philippines
Saint Mary's Academy of Capiz, also known by its acronym SMAC or St. Mary's, is a private, Catholic basic education institution run by the Religious of the Virgin Mary in Roxas City, Capiz, Philippines. It was founded in 1947.
Academic offerings
From 1947–2014, the school used the 1945-2011 basic education curriculum which consisted of levels from kindergarten to fourth year high school. Starting in 2012–2013 and onwards, SMAC applied the "Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013", to which Filipinos refer to as K–12 law. The K–12 basic education program took full effect and shape at the start of academic year 2016-2017 when it opened its senior high school department.
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL OFFERINGS: (With Government Permit SHS 105, s.o. 2016) | e7e6960d-d7f0-4bfd-bba3-e7b421bb3a1a |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_Dammam"} | Football match
The Miracle of Dammam also known as The Dammam Miracle was the name given to the result of a quarter-final football match between the Nigerian U-20 football team and the USSR U-20 football team at the 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship in Saudi Arabia which the Nigerian U-20 team went on to win on penalties. The match created a footballing record as Nigeria became the first team to come back from four goals down to equalize and then go on to win a FIFA World Cup match at any level.
The match
Summary
The match was played at the Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium in Dammam with an attendance of about 10,000 spectators. The Soviet Union raced to a four-goal lead within 46 minutes with a brace from Sergei Kiriakov in the 30th and 38th minutes with further goals from Bakhva Tedeev and Oleg Salenko in the 45th and 46th minutes respectively in a keenly contested match. With thirty minutes to full-time, Nigeria responded through a brace from Christopher Ohenhen in the 61st and 75th minutes. Samuel Elijah scored the third goal in the 83rd minute before the captain of the Nigerian team Nduka Ugbade completed the remarkable comeback with a goal in the 84th minute to end the game in a draw.
Details
Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium, Dammam
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Hubert Forstinger (Austria)
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Pilot_Pen_Classic_%E2%80%93_Doubles"} | 1987 tennis event results
Peter Fleming and Guy Forget were the defending champions but only Forget competed that year with Yannick Noah.
Forget and Noah won in the final 6–4, 7–6 against Boris Becker and Eric Jelen.
Seeds
The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.
Draw
Key
Finals
Top half
Bottom half | f1793f23-b519-4f8a-8c14-e0542bf40c3d |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_L._Anderson"} | Presbyterian minister
Isaac L. Anderson (1780–1857) was a Presbyterian minister and the founder in 1819 of Southern and Western Theological Seminary in Maryville, Tennessee. In 1842 the seminary was renamed as Maryville College. A native of Rockbridge County, Virginia, Dr. Anderson was educated in a traditional log school house after he was taught to read and spell by his grandmother. Later he attended Liberty Hall Academy, present-day Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia. At the age of 17 he joined the church, and at age 21 he moved with his family to Knox County, Tennessee. Mr. Issac Anderson was ordained into the ministry of the Gospel at "Washington Meeting House", later known as Washington Presbyterian Church, on November 26, 1802. By 1807 there were 72 members in full communion at Washington Church. Rev. Anderson continued as pastor of Washington Church until 1812 when he moved to Maryville, TN to become pastor at New Providence Presbyterian Church.
Anderson and other members of his family were first buried in New Providence cemetery; they were moved to the Maryville College cemetery in 1933.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%E2%80%9304_Slovak_Extraliga_season"} | The Slovak Extraliga 2003–04 was the eleventh regular season of the Slovak Extraliga, the top level of professional ice hockey in Slovakia.
Regular season
Final standings
Key - GP: Games played, W: Wins, OTW: Over time wins, T: Ties, OTL: Over time losses, L: Losses, GF: Goals for, GA: Goals against, PTS: Points.
Playoffs
Playoff tree
Scoring Leaders
2003–04 All Star Team | 80e7084a-4246-4947-871a-d4adc77b6242 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_of_Confession"} | 1949 Egyptian film
Kursi al-I`tiraf
listen (help·info) (Arabic: كرسي الإعتراف, Chair of Confession) is a 1949 Egyptian crime/drama film. It starred Faten Hamama, Fakher Fakher, Abdel Alim Khattab, and Youssef Wahbi, who also directed the movie and wrote its script. Youssef Wahbi, who had played the role of Cardinal Giovanni, received a golden medal from the Vatican.[citation needed]
Plot
The film portrays the various lives of members of the Catholic Medici family, which is headed by Cardinal Giovanni. The Cardinal's brother, Guliano, has fallen in love with a young and beautiful lady, Phileberta. Another man, Andrea, a handsome and successful army leader, is also in love with her. He competes with Guliano for her heart.
Andrea plots for a dangerous conspiracy; he kills Phileberta's mother and hides his crime. Guliano is blamed for the murder and is then executed and put to death. Months later, Andrea confesses to the cardinal of his malignant crime. Cardinal Giovanni is devastated from the truth of his brother's death.
Cast | 28e7ab4b-71b4-4d4d-a76c-8fac83217112 |
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gilroy_(Canadian_politician)"} | Canadian politician
Thomas Gilroy (16 October 1848 – 22 February 1905) was a Canadian politician, the 14th Mayor of Winnipeg in 1895.
Gilroy was born in Norfolk County, Canada West. In 1872 he joined the Sun Life Assurance company, supervising its Ontario operations. He moved west in 1882 to be Sun Life's manager for the North-West region, including Winnipeg.
He attempted to enter provincial politics by campaigning in the 1888 Manitoba election at the Centre Winnipeg riding, but was defeated by Daniel Hunter McMillan. In 1891, he became a City of Winnipeg alderman, and was elected mayor in 1894. | 64e5c98a-77b0-4807-b54c-35c31bed2ecb |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesians_of_Don_Bosco"} | Roman Catholic order
The Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), formally known as the Society of Saint Francis de Sales (Latin: Societas Sancti Francisci Salesii), is a religious congregation of men in the Catholic Church, founded in 1869 by Italian priest Saint John Bosco to help poor and migrant youngsters during the Industrial Revolution. The congregation was named after Saint Francis de Sales, a 17th-century bishop of Geneva.
The Salesians' charter describes the society's mission as "the Christian perfection of its associates obtained by the exercise of spiritual and corporal works of charity towards the young, especially the poor, and the education of boys to the priesthood". Its associated women's institute is the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, while the lay movement is the Association of Salesian Cooperators.
History
In 1845 Don John Bosco ("Don" being a traditional Italian honorific for priest) opened a night school for boys in Valdocco, now part of the municipality of Turin in Italy. In the following years, he opened several more schools, and in 1857 drew up a set of rules for his helpers. This rule was approved definitively in 1873 by Pope Pius IX as the Rule of the Society of Saint Francis de Sales. The Society grew rapidly, with houses established in France and Argentina within a year of the Society's formal recognition. Its official print organ, Salesian Bulletin, was first published in 1877.
Over the next decade the Salesians expanded into Austria, Britain, Spain, and several countries in South America. The death of Don Bosco in 1888 did not slow down the Society's growth. By 1911 the Salesians were established throughout the world, including Colombia, China, India, South Africa, Tunisia, Venezuela and the United States.
The Society continues to operate worldwide; in 2021, it counted 14,232 members in 1,703 houses. It has presences in 134 countries.
Symbols
Coat of arms
The Salesian coat of arms was designed by Professor Boidi. It was published for the first time in a circular letter of Don Bosco on 8 December 1885. It consist of a shining star, the large anchor, and the heart on fire to symbolize the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. The figure of Saint Francis de Sales recalls the patron of the society. The small wood in the lower part refers to the founder of the society; the high mountains signify the heights of perfection towards which members strive; the interwoven palm and laurel that enfold the shield on either side are emblematic of the prize reserved for a virtuous and sacrificial life. The motto Da mihi animas, caetera tolle ("Give me souls, take away the rest") is featured at the bottom.
Logo
The Salesian logo is made up of two superimposed images.
In the background is a globe to represent the worldwide reach of the Salesians, and a stylized "S" in white is formed within the globe, resembling a snaking road representing an educational journey for the youth.
In the foreground is an arrow pointing upwards, resting on three perpendicular legs on top of which are three closed circles, making a stylized image of three people: the first of these in the middle and taller than the others is the point of the arrow, and the other two beside it appear as it were to be embraced by the central figure. These three stylized figures represent Saint John Bosco reaching out to the young, and his call for Salesians to continue his work. The three stylized figures with the arrow pointing upwards can also be viewed as a house dwelling with a sloping roof and three pillars holding it up, represents John Bosco's pedagogy of Reason, Religion and Loving Kindness.
The logo combines elements from those of the German and Brazilian provinces. The idea of combining the two came out of suggestions from an enquiry about the new logo conducted throughout the Congregation and from contributions by the General Council. It is designed with the central theme "Don Bosco and the Salesians walking with the young through the world." The artistic work of combining the two was carried out by the designer Fabrizio Emigli, from the Litos Company, in Rome.
Organization
The Salesians of Don Bosco are headed by the Rector Major and the society's general council, while each of the ninety-four geographical provinces is headed by a Provincial. These officers serve six-year terms; the Rector Major and the members of the general council are elected by the General Chapter, which meets every six years or upon the death of the Rector Major. Each local Salesian community is headed by a superior, called a Rector (or more commonly, "Director"), who is appointed to a three-year term and can be renewed for a second three-year term.
Since 2014, the Rector Major of the Salesians is the Very Reverend Father Ángel Fernández Artime.
Works
Salesian communities primarily operate shelters for homeless or at-risk youths; schools; technical, vocational, and language instruction centers for youths and adults; and boys' clubs and community centers. In some areas they run parish churches. Salesians are also active in publishing and other public communication activities, as well as mission work, especially in Asia (Siberia - in the Yakutsk area), Africa, and South America (Yanomami). The Salesian Bulletin is now published in fifty-two editions, in thirty languages.
In 1988, the Salesians branched to create the Salesian Youth Movement. Then in the 1990s, the Salesians launched new works in the area of tertiary education, and today have a network of over 58 colleges and universities. The official university of the Salesian Society is the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome.
Sexual abuse scandal
A number of schools and churches established under the Salesians have been at the center of child sex abuse scandals, including Mary Help of Christians in Tampa, Florida. Due to ongoing sexual assault lawsuits and settlements, several boarding schools were closed.
Notable members
Saints and Blesseds
Other notable members | 7a549674-5d5c-45f9-a344-8414145aecfb |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_tower"} | Tower used for parachute training
A parachute tower is a tower used for parachute training, often by members of a military paratroop unit. A mixture of tower heights are used at different stages of training. Trainees typically begin on towers around 35 feet (11 m) in height in fall-arrest harnesses before progressing onto parachute descents from towers that can be in excess of 250 feet (76 m). The use of towers allows trainees to practice their landing technique before jumping from an aircraft.
Use
Parachute towers are used to train people, particularly military paratroopers, in parachute jump technique. Towers are typically divided into low towers of approximately 35 feet (11 m) and high towers of around 100–200 feet (30–61 m) or higher. The shorter towers are used by trainees jumping in harnesses with a fall-restraint cable to simulate the exit from an aircraft and safe landing technique.
Trainees then pass onto the high tower jumps with parachutes. The high tower typically has one or more arms at the top from which the trainee is winched up into the air and released to descend by parachute. The parachutes used are specific variants developed for training and were originally modified commercial systems, though the US military later developed the Type J-I parachute specifically for high tower jumps.
The high tower allows trainees to practice the "body landing" (or parachute landing fall) technique, which is essential to avoid injuries such as broken legs or ankles. The high tower can also be used to carry out "shock harness drills", intended to simulate the initial shock of a parachute canopy opening. The trainee is hauled up into the air and dropped to free fall approximately 15 feet (4.6 m) before being brought to a complete stop. After high tower training is passed troops proceed onto aircraft jumps from an altitude of approximately 1,250 feet (380 m). In the United States Army during the Second World War, five jumps from aircraft were sufficient to complete the course; the British Army required trainees to undertake an additional two jumps from tethered balloons prior to jumping from aircraft.
Military history
The first parachute tower in the United States was a 115-foot-tall (35 m) tower in Ocean County, New Jersey, built by Stanley Switlik and first used by Amelia Earhart on 2 June 1935. The 262-foot (80 m) Parachute Jump ride at the 1939 New York World's Fair (later moved to Coney Island) was a parachute tower, though the United States Army parachute training centre at Fort Benning had only 34-foot (10 m) towers until 1941. Major William Lee of the United States Army, in charge of the training of the first 48-man platoon of US paratroopers, saw the Parachute Jump ride and constructed a similar tower at Fort Benning. Three further towers were later erected. Each stood 254 feet (77 m) high and had four arms—each of which could hoist a single paratrooper—that spanned 134 feet (41 m).
The Polish Army used the Parachute Tower Katowice for training. The tower was used as a vantage point on 4 September 1939 during the defence of the town from the German invasion. The story of its defence by Polish boy and girl scouts has been described as a "heroic myth". Some of the Polish Army escaped to the United Kingdom after the fall of Poland and was based at Largo House, Scotland. Here they constructed a parachute tower, the first to be built in the British Empire, which was used to train the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade. The British military later constructed their own parachute tower (with capacity for two paratroopers) at RAF Ringway, which was moved to RAF Abingdon in 1950.
The USSR had a large number of parachute training towers, with 559 in operation by 1939. Japan had at least four in operation during the Second World War. The Turkish Aeronautical Association constructed two parachute towers in İzmir and Ankara between 1935 and 1937 based on a Russian tower in use at Gorky Park. Rhodesia also had a parachute tower at New Sarum Air Force Base.
Fairground rides
As well as the original Parachute Jump at the 1939 World's Fair, there have been several other fairground rides based on a similar premise. The Pair-O-Chutes ride operated at Chicago's Riverview Park but was demolished in 1968. Parachute towers, known as "Parachute Drops" were developed by Intamin for the Six Flags theme parks. The Texas Chute Out operated at Six Flags Over Texas from 1976 to 2012; Great Gasp operated at Six Flags Over Georgia from 1976 to 2005 and Sky Chuter was at Six Flags Over Mid-America from 1978 to 1982. Sky Chuter was relocated to Six Flags Great Adventure, where it reopened in 1983 as Parachuter's Perch, and as of 2019[update], it is still operational under the name "Parachute Training Center". Intamin also produced a "Parachute Drop" for Knott's Berry Farm in California in the late 1970s, which was named "Sky Jump". The parachute jump portion of the tower was removed but its observation tower remains in operation. Tokyo Dome City Attractions, Japan, has an Intamin parachute drop ride named Sky Flower. | 552b0f4e-32ff-454f-aa2e-edb45e346e38 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idongesit_Nkanga"} | Nigerian politician (1952–2020)
Air Commodore Otuekong Idongesit Nkanga
listen (27 January 1952 – 24 December 2020) was a Nigerian former Air Commodore.
Career
He was governor of Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria from September 1990 to January 1992 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, handing over to an elected civilian Governor at the start of the Nigerian Third Republic. Idongesit Nkanga
When appointed in 1990, his deputy governor was Obong Ufot Ekaette, who later became Secretary to the Government of the Federation. The Akwa Ibom Broadcasting Corporation was established by edict in April 1988. Wing Commander Nkanga officially commissioned the station on 27 July 1991.
In May 2001, Nkanga became a member of the board of the Cooperative Development Bank. In 2002, he was said to seeking to be candidate for the Nigeria Democratic Party (NDP) in the 2003 elections for Governor of Akwa-Ibom State. In 2007, Nkanga was appointed Chairman of the Akwa Ibom Airport Implementation Committee. The International airport was opened on November 26, 2009 Although the primary focus was on cargo traffic and airplane maintenance repair and overhaul, the airport started by serving commercial local passenger flights.
In December 2009, as an elder of the Ibibio people he was a strong supporter of Akwa-Ibom Governor Godswill Akpabio. In January 2010, he was a member of the South-South Elders and Leaders' Forum. Discussing the issue of handing over from the ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua to Vice-president Goodluck Jonathan, he said the issue was not a north–south one, but was about following the constitution.
Death
Nkanga died from COVID-19 on 24 December 2020, aged 69. | 04f2eaee-9d93-4a45-a5de-a7044af66a60 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985%E2%80%9386_Roller_Hockey_Champions_Cup"} | International football competition
The 1985–86 Roller Hockey Champions Cup was the 21st edition of the Roller Hockey Champions Cup organized by CERH.
Porto achieved their first title ever.
Teams
The champions of the main European leagues played this competition, consisting in a double-legged knockout tournament. As Spanish champions Barcelona qualified as title holder, Liceo was also admitted as the Spanish representative.
Bracket
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null | Australian cricketer
Keith Francis (born 14 November 1933) is an Australian cricketer. He played two first-class matches for New South Wales in 1957/58. | 2a8e6103-6016-41a6-bd55-c9c430d1cd40 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_skating"} | Competitive form of ice skating
Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating. In the Olympic Games, long-track speed skating is usually referred to as just "speed skating", while short-track speed skating is known as "short track". The International Skating Union (ISU), the governing body of competitive ice sports, refers to long track as "speed skating" and short track as "short track skating".
An international federation was founded in 1892, the first for any winter sport. The sport enjoys large popularity in the Netherlands, Norway and South Korea. There are top international rinks in a number of other countries, including Canada, the United States, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Belarus and Poland. A World Cup circuit is held with events in those countries plus two events in the Thialf ice hall in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
Overview
The standard rink for long track is 400 meters long, but tracks of 200, 250 and 3331⁄3 meters are used occasionally. It is one of two Olympic forms of the sport and the one with the longer history.
ISU rules allow some leeway in the size and radius of curves.
Short track speed skating takes place on a smaller rink, normally the size of an ice hockey rink, on a 111.12 m oval track. Distances are shorter than in long-track racing, with the longest Olympic individual race being 1500 meters (the women's relay is 3000 meters and the men's relay 5000 meters). Event are usually held with a knockout format, with the best two in heats of four or five qualifying for the final race, where medals are awarded. Disqualifications and falls are not uncommon.
There are variations on the mass-start races. In the regulations of roller sports, eight different types of mass starts are described. Among them are elimination races, where one or more competitors are eliminated at fixed points during the course; simple distance races, which may include preliminary races; endurance races with time limits instead of a fixed distance; points races; and individual pursuits.
Races usually have some rules about disqualification if an opponent is unfairly hindered; these rules vary between the disciplines. In long track speed skating, almost any infringement on the pairmate is punished, though skaters are permitted to change from the inner to the outer lane out of the final curve if they are not able to hold the inner curve, as long as they are not interfering with the other skater. In mass-start races, skaters will usually be allowed some physical contact.
Team races are also held; in long track speed skating, the only team race at the highest level of competition is the team pursuit, though athletics-style relay races are held at children's competitions. Relay races are also held in short track and inline competitions, but here, exchanges may take place at any time during the race, though exchanges may be banned during the last couple of laps.
Most speed skating races are held on an oval course, but there are exceptions. Oval sizes vary; in short track speed skating, the rink must be an oval of 111.12 metres, while long track speed skating uses a similarly standardized 400 m rink. Inline skating rinks are between 125 and 400 metres, though banked tracks can only be 250 metres long. Inline skating can also be held on closed road courses between 400 and 1,000 metres, as well as open-road competitions where starting and finishing lines do not coincide. This is also a feature of outdoor marathons.
In the Netherlands, marathon competitions may be held on natural ice on canals, and bodies of water such as lakes and rivers, but may also be held on artificially frozen 400 m tracks, with skaters circling the track 100 times, for example.
History
The origins of speed skating date back over a millennium in the North of Europe, especially Scandinavia and the Netherlands, where the natives added bones to their shoes and used them to travel on frozen rivers, canals and lakes. In contrast to what people think, ice skating has always been an activity of joy and sports and not a matter of transport and travel. For example, winters in the Netherlands have never been stable and cold enough to make ice skating a regular way of travelling or a mode of transport. This has already been described in 1194 by William Fitzstephen, who described a sport in London.[citation needed]
Later, in Norway, King Eystein Magnusson, later King Eystein I of Norway, boasts of his skills racing on ice legs.[clarification needed]
However, skating and speed skating was not limited to the Netherlands and Scandinavia; in 1592, a Scotsman designed a skate with an iron blade. It was iron-bladed skates that led to the spread of skating and, in particular, speed skating. By 1642, the first official skating club, The Skating Club Of Edinburgh, was born, and, in 1763, the world saw its first official speed skating race, at Wisbech on the Fens in England for a prize sum of 70 guineas. While in the Netherlands, people began touring the waterways connecting the 11 cities of Friesland, a challenge which eventually led to the Elfstedentocht.
The first known official speed skating competition for women was in Heerenveen, the Netherlands from 1 to 2 February 1805. The competition was won by Trijntje Pieters Westra.
By 1851, North Americans had discovered a love of the sport, and the all-steel blade was later developed there. In Norway speed skating also became popular, as there was a huge interest in the 1885 speed skating race at Frognerkilen between Axel Paulsen and Renke van der Zee. The Netherlands came back to the fore in 1889 with the organization of the first world championships. The ISU (International Skating Union) was also born in the Netherlands in 1892. By the start of the 20th century, skating and speed skating had come into its own as a major popular sporting activity.
ISU development
Organized races on ice skates developed in the 19th century. Norwegian clubs hosted competitions from 1863, with races in Christiania drawing five-digit crowds. In 1884, the Norwegian Axel Paulsen was named Amateur Champion Skater of the World after winning competitions in the United States. Five years later, a sports club in Amsterdam held an ice-skating event they called a world championship, with participants from Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as the host country. The Internationale Eislauf Vereinigung, now known as the International Skating Union, was founded at a meeting of 15 national representatives in Scheveningen in 1892, the first international winter sports federation. The Nederlandse Schaatsrijderbond was founded in 1882 and organised the world championships of 1890 and 1891. Competitions were held around tracks of varying lengths—the 1885 match between Axel Paulsen and Remke van der Zee was skated on a track of 6/7 mile (1400 metres)—but the 400 metre track was standardised by the ISU in 1892, along with the standard distances for world championships, 500 m, 1500 m, 5000 m and 10,000 m. Skaters started in pairs, each to their own lane, and changed lanes for every lap to ensure that each skater completed the same distance. This is what is now known as long track speed skating. Competitions were exclusively for amateur skaters, which was enforced. Peter Sinnerud was disqualified for professionalism in 1904 and lost his world title.
Long track world records were first registered in 1891 and improved rapidly, Jaap Eden lowering the world 5000-metre record by half a minute during the Hamar European Championships in 1894. The record stood for 17 years, and it took 50 years to lower it by further half a minute.
Elfstedentocht
The Elfstedentocht was organized as a competition in 1909 and has been held at irregular intervals, whenever the ice on the course is deemed good enough. Other outdoor races developed later, with Friesland in the northern Netherlands hosting a race in 1917, but the Dutch natural ice conditions have rarely been conducive to skating. The Elfstedentocht has been held 15 times in the nearly 100 years since 1909, and, before artificial ice was available in 1962, national championships had been held in 25 of the years between 1887, when the first championship was held in Slikkerveer, and 1961. Since artificial ice became common in the Netherlands, Dutch speed skaters have been among the world top in long track ice skating and marathon skating. Another solution to still be able to skate marathons on natural ice became the Alternative Elfstedentocht. The Alternative Elfstedentocht races take part in other countries, such as Austria, Finland or Canada, and all top marathon skaters, as well as thousands of recreative skaters, travel from the Netherlands to the location where the race is held. According to the NRC Handelsblad journalist Jaap Bloembergen, the country "takes a carnival look" during international skating championships.
Olympic Games
At the 1914 Olympic Congress, the delegates agreed to include ice speed skating in the 1916 Olympics, after figure skating had featured in the 1908 Olympics. However, World War I put an end to the plans of Olympic competition, and it was not until the winter sports week in Chamonix in 1924—retroactively awarded Olympic status—that ice speed skating reached the Olympic programme. Charles Jewtraw from Lake Placid, New York, won the first Olympic gold medal, though several Norwegians in attendance claimed Oskar Olsen had clocked a better time.[citation needed] Timing issues on the 500 were a problem within the sport until electronic clocks arrived in the 1960s; during the 1936 Olympic 500–metre race, it was suggested that Ivar Ballangrud's 500-metre time was almost a second too good. Finland won the remaining four gold medals at the 1924 Games, with Clas Thunberg winning 1,500 metres, 5,000 metres, and allround. It was the first and only time an allround Olympic gold medal has been awarded in speed skating. Speed Skating is also a sport in today's Olympics.
Norwegian and Finnish skaters won all the gold medals in world championships between the world wars, with Latvians and Austrians visiting the podium in the European Championships. However, North American races were usually conducted pack-style, similar to the marathon races in the Netherlands, but the Olympic races were to be held over the four ISU-approved distances. The ISU approved the suggestion that the speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics should be held as pack-style races, and Americans won all four gold medals. Canada won five medals, all silver and bronze, while defending World Champion Clas Thunberg stayed at home, protesting against this form of racing. At the World Championships held immediately after the games, without the American champions, Norwegian racers won all four distances and occupied the three top spots in the allround standings.
Norwegians, Swedes, Finns, and Japanese skating leaders protested to the USOC, condemning the manner of competition and expressing the wish that mass-start races were never to be held again at the Olympics. However, the ISU adopted the short track speed skating branch, with mass-start races on shorter tracks, in 1967, arranged international competitions from 1976, and brought them back to the Olympics in 1992.
Technical developments
Artificial ices entered the long track competitions with the 1960 Winter Olympics, and the competitions in 1956 on Lake Misurina were the last Olympic competitions on natural ice. 1960 also saw the first Winter Olympic competitions for women. Lidia Skoblikova won two gold medals in 1960 and four in 1964.
More aerodynamic skating suits were also developed, with Swiss skater Franz Krienbühl (who finished 8th on the Olympic 10,000 m at the age of 46) at the front of development. After a while, national teams took over development of body suits, which are also used in short track skating, though without headcover attached to the suit—short trackers wear helmets instead, as falls are more common in mass-start races. Suits and indoor skating, as well as the clap skate, has helped to lower long track world records considerably; from 1971 to 2009, the average speed on the men's 1500 metres has been raised from 45 to 52 km/h. Similar speed increases are shown in the other distances.
Professionalism
After the 1972 season, European long track skaters founded a professional league, International Speedskating League, which included Ard Schenk, three-time Olympic gold medallist in 1972, as well as five Norwegians, four other Dutchmen, three Swedes, and a few other skaters. Jonny Nilsson, 1963 world champion and Olympic gold medallist, was the driving force behind the league, which folded in 1974 for economic reasons, and the ISU also excluded tracks hosting professional races from future international championships. The ISU later organised its own World Cup circuit with monetary prizes, and full-time professional teams developed in the Netherlands during the 1990s, which led them to a dominance on the men's side only challenged by Japanese 500 m racers and American inline skaters who changed to long tracks to win Olympic gold.
North American professionals
During the 20th century, roller skating also developed as a competitive sport. Roller-skating races were professional from an early stage. Professional World Championships were arranged in North America between the competitors on that circuit. Later, roller derby leagues appeared, a professional contact sport that originally was a form of racing. FIRS World Championships of inline speed skating go back to the 1980s, but many world champions, such as Derek Parra and Chad Hedrick, have switched to ice in order to win Olympic medals.
Like roller skating, ice speed skating was also professional in North America. Oscar Mathisen, five-time ISU world champion and three-time European champion, renounced his amateur status in 1916 and travelled to America, where he won many races but was beaten by Bobby McLean of Chicago, four-time American champion, in one of the races. Chicago was a centre of ice speed skating in America; the Chicago Tribune sponsored a competition called the Silver Skates from 1912 to 2014.
Short track enters the Olympics
In 1992, short track speed skating was accepted as an Olympic sport. Short track speed skating had little following in the long track speed skating countries of Europe, such as Norway, the Netherlands and the former Soviet Union, with none of these nations having won official medals (though the Netherlands won two gold medals when the sport was a demonstration event in 1988). The Norwegian publication Sportsboken spent ten pages detailing the long track speed skating events at the Albertville Games in 1993, but short track was not mentioned by word, though the results pages appeared in that section.
Although this form of speed skating is newer, it is growing faster than long-track speed skating, largely because short track can be done on an ice hockey rink rather than a long-track oval.
Rules
Short track
Races are run counter-clockwise on a 111-meter track. Short track races are almost always run in a mass start format in which two to six skaters may race at once. Skaters may be disqualified for false starts, impeding, and cutting inside the track. False starts occur when a skater moves before the gun goes off at the start of a race. Skaters are disqualified for impeding when one skater cuts in front of another skater and causes the first skater to stand up to avoid collision or fall. Cutting inside the track occurs when a skater's skates goes inside the blocks which mark the track on the ice. If disqualified the skater will be given last place in their heat or final.
Long track
Races are run counter-clockwise on a 400-meter oval. In all individual competition forms, only two skaters are allowed to race at once. Skaters must change lanes every lap. The skater changing from the outside lane to the inside has right-of-way. Skaters may be disqualified for false starts, impeding, and cutting inside the track. If a skater misses their race or falls they have the option to race their distance again. There are no heats or finals in long track, all rankings are by time.
The starting procedure in long-track speed skating consists of three parts. First, the referee tells the athletes to "Go to the start". Second, the referee cues the athletes to get "Ready", and waits until the skaters have stopped moving. Finally, the referee waits for a random duration between 1 and 1.5 seconds, and then fires the starting shot. Some argue that this inherent timing variability could disadvantage athletes that start after longer pauses, due to the alerting effect.
In the only non-individual competition form, the team pursuit, two teams of each three to four skaters are allowed to race at once. Both teams remain in the inner lane for the duration of the race; they start on opposite sides of the rink. If four skaters are racing one skater is allowed to drop off and stop racing. The clock stops when the third skater crosses the finish line.
Team pursuit
The team pursuit is a team event in speed skating and is skated by teams of three skaters. Races resemble the team pursuit event in track cycling. Two teams race at a time, starting at a line in the middle of the straightaway. One team starts on each side of the track. Only the inner lane is used. The distance is eight laps for men and six for women. The team's time is the third skater to cross the finish line.
There are several formats for the team pursuit. The Olympic format is unusual in that it is a cup format, with several rounds of exclusion between two teams. In the World Cup and World Championships, one race is skated and the teams are ranked by their finishing time. In the Olympic format, a team that overtakes the other has automatically won the race and the remaining distance is not skated. In practice, the distance is so short that this rarely happens unless one team has a fall.
The team pursuit is a new event in major international competitions. The event was introduced at international level at the world junior championships around the turn of the millennium, and to the World Cup in 2003, but it was not considered an official ISU event until around 2004, and eventually introduced at the Olympics in 2006.
Equipment
Speed skates Speed skates differ greatly from hockey skates and figure skates. Unlike hockey skates and figure skates, speed skates cut off at the ankle and are built more like a shoe than a boot to allow for more ankle compression. The blades range in length from 30 to 45 cm depending on the age and height of the skater. Short track blades are fixed to the boot in at the heel and immediately behind the ball of the foot. Long track skates, also called clap skates, attach to a hinge at the front of the boot. The heel of the boot detaches from the blade on every stroke, through a spring mechanism located at the front connector. This extends the skater's stroke by keeping the blade on the ice longer. Speed skates are manually sharpened using a jig to hold them in place.
Short track All short track skaters must have speed skates, a spandex skin suit, protective helmet, specific cut proof skating gloves, knee pads and shin pads (in suit), neck guard (bib style) and ankle protection. Protective eyewear is mandatory. Many skaters wear smooth ceramic or carbon fiber tips on the left hand glove to reduce friction when their hand is on the ice at corners. All skaters who race at a national level must wear a cutproof kevlar suit to protect against being cut from another skater's blade.
Long track For long track skaters the same equipment should be worn as short track racers but with the exception of a helmet, shin pads, knee pads, and neck guard which are not required; along with their blades. Long track skaters skate on what are called "clap blades". These blades have hinges under the boot towards the back. It is described in more detail above. Protective eyewear is not mandatory. The suit also does not need to be kevlar. Long track skaters wear a hood that is built into the suit.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_the_Stars"} | 2019 song by Red Velvet
"See the Stars" (Korean: 어떤 별보다; RR: Eoddeon byeolboda) is a song recorded by South Korean girl group Red Velvet for the soundtrack of the 2019 drama series Hotel del Luna. It was released as a digital single on August 10, 2019, by YAMYAM Entertainment, under license by Dreamus.
Background and composition
Musically, "See the Stars" was described as a "medium R&B song with a sweet piano melody and a sophisticated arrangement". The song is composed in the key of D major with a tempo of 90 beat-per-minute. The song was produced by Yoo Song-yeon and Jay Lee.
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from Melon.
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
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null | Former township in the United States
Orvil Township was a township that existed in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, from 1886 to 1919.[citation needed]
The township was created on January 1, 1886, from the western portion of Washington Township and the southern portion of Hohokus Township (now Mahwah). The township straddled both sides of the Saddle River, extending north to the New York state border and south to Ridgewood Township. The township was named for Orville James Victor, a journalist and author who lived in the area.
Boroughitis hit Orvil hard in 1894, with five new boroughs created from the nascent township. Montvale and Woodcliff (now Woodcliff Lake) were both formed on August 31, 1894. Allendale was incorporated on November 10, 1894, (referendum November 8, 1894) from portions of Orvil and from Franklin and Hohokus Townships. Saddle River was created by a referendum held on November 19, 1894 and incorporated on November 22, 1894. Upper Saddle River formed on November 22, 1894 (after a public referendum held on November 20, 1894) from area taken from both Orvil and Hohokus Townships.
A further portion of the township was taken to create the borough of Orvil (now Ho-Ho-Kus) on March 8, 1905.
On April 7, 1919, a council of citizens voted to incorporate as the borough of Waldwick from the remaining portions of Orvil Township. With the creation of the borough of Waldwick, Orvil Township was dissolved, after 33 years in existence. | 6026d7da-7376-41a2-9fbc-6f22b0ea9e04 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_V%C3%A4rmland_County"} | This is a list of governors for Värmland County of Sweden. Värmland separated from Närke and Värmland County in 1779, see List of governors of Örebro County before that date.
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null | The Pinellas County Center for the Arts (PCCA) is a center in the visual and performing arts in the U.S. state of Florida. PCCA is located in Jonathan C Gibbs High School, and populates buildings 4, 5, and 8.
History
In 1979, John Blank, an administrator in the Pinellas County Schools, felt a need for an emphasis in the arts within the school system. A preliminary survey of the County's students, facilities, and communities was taken and Mr. Stan Lee Boss was sent to Dallas, Texas for an on-site visit of their visual and performing arts schools.
With the approval of the school board, a full-time director was provided to work with three Gibbs High School arts instructors, three supervisors and an administrator to prepare a model project for the artistically talented students for the State of Florida. After some thirty on-site visits to well-established secondary schools and programs, a model was written for the State of Florida, published and distributed to all sixty-seven county school superintendents and known arts supervisors.
Dr. Scott Rose, with the approval of the School Board, chose as one of his five-year objectives the development and implementation of both the Artistically Talented Program (now known as PCCA) at Gibbs High School and a Program for the Academically Talented (now known as the International Baccalaureate Program at St. Petersburg High School).
This school of the arts officially began in late August 1984. There were approximately 200 9th and 10th graders starting school; it was hoped that eventually the student population would reach 400. As of today, the number of students attending PCCA is about 500, fairly equally divided among the four major disciplines, Dance, Theatre, Music, and Visual Art.
The Program
The PCCA curriculum is centered on individualized instruction and concentrating on the student's selected artistic major. Through blocking courses with two to three hour segments of time, the student has the opportunity to develop a work in depth while the teacher is afforded time to work individually with the students as well as provide guest artists and field trips without impinging on the student's daily four academic classes.
Artistic Disciplines
Dance is divided into Modern Dance and Ballet. Music has Vocal, Instrumental, and Piano. The Theatre program is segmented into Performance Theatre, Technical Theatre, Literary Theatre, and Musical Theatre. Visual Arts, the most populated discipline, has many phases including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and ceramics. All instructors are practicing artists who also serve as mentors to their students. Students receive one-on-one training with private teachers to hone their skills. Local, regional, and nationally acclaimed professional artists conduct master classes as well as perform at the school. A high percentage of students earn scholarship money to further their education.
Admissions
Admittance to PCCA is through application, audition, and acceptance. Auditions are held in the middle part of each school year so that the accepted student has time to be properly scheduled for 9th grade.
Prominent alumni
Visual Art
Theater
Dance
Music | 3df9fa13-8e78-4a84-95b9-22b7c4207a6f |
null | Nuestra Belleza Durango 2012, was a beauty contest held at the Teatro Ricardo Castro in Durango, Durango, Mexico on June 14, 2012. At the conclusion of the final night of competition, Ana Victoria Sánchez of Durango City was crowned the winner. Sánchez was crowned by outgoing Nuestra Belleza Durango titleholder, Mónica Ayala. Eight contestants competed for the title.
Results
Placements
Special awards
Judges
Background music
Contestants | 46789bd0-1efd-4a9b-a1ba-3634ab4b6691 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlete_Refugee_Team_at_the_2022_World_Athletics_Championships"} | Sporting event delegation
Athlete Refugee Team competed at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, United States, from 15 to 24 July 2022. It entered 3 athletes.
Entrants
Track and road events | f90aa580-39f2-4085-8dc3-a75b59645cd5 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchla_Assembly_constituency"} | Assembly constituency in West Bengal, India
Panchla Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 175 Panchla Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Panchla community development block and Gobindapur, Islampur, Laskarpur, Polegustia gram panchayats of Jagatballavpur community development block.
Panchla Assembly constituency is part of No. 25 Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency). Panchla was earlier part of Sreerampur (Lok Sabha constituency).
Members of Legislative Assembly
2016
AITC Candidate-Gulshan Mallik Votes-101126 Percentage-52.98 AIFB Candidate-Doli Roy Votes-69199 Percentage-36.25 BJP Candidate-Bhabani Prashad Roy Votes-16060 Percentage-8.42 Independent Candidate-Shyamal Mondal Votes-1018 Percentage-0.52 IUC Ahmed Hossain Middya Votes-891 Percentage-0.47
2011
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
1977-2006
In the 2006 state assembly elections, Doli Roy of Forward Bloc won the Panchla assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Abul Kassem Molla of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc defeated Sk. Nazrul Islam of Trinamool Congress in 2001. Gulshan Mullick of Congress defeated Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc in 1996. Sailen Mondal of Forward Bloc defeated Prafulla Santra of Congress in 1991, and Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress in 1987. Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress defeated Santosh Kumar Das of Forward Bloc in 1982. Santosh Kumar Das of Forward Bloc defeated Anwar Ali Sheikh of Congress in 1977.
1962-1972
Sk Anwar Ali of Congress won in 1972. Asoke Kumar Ghosh of CPI(M) won in 1971. Kanai Lal Bhattacharya of Forward Bloc won in 1969. A.P.Mukhopadhyay of Congress won in 1967. Apurba Lal Majumdar of Forward Bloc won in 1962. The Panchla seat did not exist prior to that. | 09df0425-5183-4382-9eeb-83a39f166f64 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexy_(Is_the_Word)"} | 1991 single by Melissa
"Sexy (Is the Word)" is a song by Australian singer Melissa (Tkautz). It was released as her second single, following "Read My Lips". Like "Read My Lips", "Sexy (Is the Word)" was launched via the television series that Tkautz was starring in at the time, E Street. The song appears on her debut album, Fresh (1992).
Music video
The music video for his single features Melissa in a number of guises. She is seen in hot pink lingerie and in a leather Jacket, cavorting with a large block of ice.
2005 re-recording
In 2005, Tkautz relaunched her music career with the album Lost and Found, which included two new versions of "Sexy (Is The Word)". These were contemporary remixes where new vocals were recorded, and whilst not released as a single, the song received much attention in nightclubs around Australia. There was a film clip released with this track to clubs which was a re-edited version of the original music video.
Track listings
7-inch, CD, and cassette single
12-inch single
A1. "Sexy (Is the Word)" (12-inch Electric Laser remix)
B1. "My Favourite Room"
B2. "Sexy (Is the Word)"
Charts
Sales and certifications | e3197579-e1e4-4ff8-985a-93a1cb45347b |
null | Village in Bashkortostan, Russia
Ignashkino (Russian: Игнашкино) is a rural locality (a village) in Mikhaylovsky Selsoviet, Bizhbulyaksky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 73 as of 2010. There is 1 street.
Geography
Ignashkino is located 32 km northwest of Bizhbulyak (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mikhaylovka is the nearest rural locality. | 95673868-c835-42d2-b031-ec89481b775e |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_21_(German_TV_network)"} | German shopping television network
Television channel
Channel 21, formerly known as RTL Shop, is a German cable and satellite shopping network based in Hanover. The network was part of Europe's largest media company RTL Group and supplies programming to more than 20 German-language stations. RTL Group is a unit of the German media company Bertelsmann. Channel 21 was launched as RTL Shop on 1 March 2001. The main competitors are HSE24 (Home Shopping Europe) and QVC.
History
Up until September 2006, RTL Shop was produced at the Coloneum in Cologne. In the summer of 2006, a new broadcasting center with administration and studios was set up in Hanover, which was ready for broadcast on October 1, 2006. A new edition of the product range should lead to the acquisition of female customers as well as the male target group. Cologne Broadcasting Center (CBC), a RTL Group subsidiary, was responsible for setting up and operating the broadcasting center.
RTL Shop was part of the diversification strategy of the RTL Group, which had the goal of opening up additional sources of income in addition to the traditional advertising customers.
On 19 February 2008 it was announced that RTL would sell RTL Shop in the first half of 2008. Since broadcasting in 2001, the station had only made losses every year despite relocating from Cologne to Hanover and restructuring. In the course of this, Walter Freiwald left the teleshopping channel in April 2008. The new owner was the investor group Aurelius AG from Munich. The goal was to be achieved profitability in the coming years.
On January 1, 2009, RTL Shop gradually switched to Channel 21, and became its official name on March 1, 2009. At the same time the names of special offers were changed to recommendation of the day (Empfehlung des Tages), bonus recommendation (Bonusempfehlung), this hour only (Nur in dieser Stunde) and highlight of the week (Highlight der Woche).
The logo has also been changed in stages. First, the RTL was replaced by Channel 21, later dyed in orange and gray, then proportionally larger than the shop centered under Channel 21, meanwhile without box, in the middle.
Since the second half of 2009 until September 30, 2012, there has also been the branch Channel 21 Express.
As of January 1, 2010, Michael Oplesch, the former managing director of the TV channel VIVA Germany, bought the first shares of Channel 21 from Aurelius AG with his Centuere AG. On February 16, 2010, the full sale of all shares in Channel 21 to Centuere AG was announced. The sale took place in full legal force on 1 March 2010. Michael Oplesch took over the management of the company. As announced on May 30, 2010, the EM.TV founder and former managing director of EM.TV Thomas Haffa already took over all shares of Centuere AG at the end of April and transferred them to the newly founded Channel 21 Holding, which has operated the channels Channel 21 and Channel 21 Express since then. On December 10, 2010, it became public that Channel 21 is threatened with bankruptcy. A large proportion of the employees were therefore dismissed in December.
Channel 21, according to the media portal DWDL.de from May 2012, planned a restructuring to make the company economically viable. Accordingly, it was decided in a general meeting that almost the entire workforce would be terminated as of August 31, 2012. As of September 2012, the station should have only 15 employees. The restructuring took place as a result of the critical financial year in which Channel 21 lost many of its suppliers, including the manufacturer of cookware Wollpfannen, which was one of the few major suppliers of the shopping channel and now supplies the competitor QVC. From now on, Channel 21 is still using teleshopping proprietary brands of the "Maxx" line and does not use genuine branded products.
Channel 21 has been broadcasting in the 16:9 format since 31 October 2012. The design and studio have been refreshed as a result.
Broadcasting in HDTV started via Astra 1L on 30 January 2016. The resolution is 1440x1080.
Presenters | 1d3ad848-4ff5-4760-9014-606fb6618346 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexillum_neozelanicum"} | Extinct species of gastropod
Vexillum neozelanicum is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters. | 1fb8cfc0-19c7-4b5c-8156-4565c9248adc |
null | American frontiersman and fortune hunter
"Swiftwater" Bill Gates (1860–1935) was an American frontiersman and fortune hunter, and a fixture in stories of the Klondike Gold Rush. He made and lost several fortunes, and died while mining in Peru in 1935.
In one famous Klondike story he presented Dawson dance hall girl Gussie Lamore her weight in gold.
Gates was married briefly to Grace Lamore in 1898; he later married Bera Beebe, with whom he fathered two sons, Fredrick and Clifford. Gates subsequently abandoned her for 15-year-old Kitty Brandon, his niece.
His biography The True Life Story of Swiftwater Bill Gates (c. 1908) was authored by Iola Beebe, his mother-in-law.
Swiftwater Bill was known to be at the gold fields of Nome, Alaska at the same time as William H Gates I, grandfather of the Microsoft founder. However, despite the similarity in name and coincidences of gold, there is no apparent family relationship between "Swiftwater Bill" and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
In fiction, he has been portrayed by Gordon Pinsent in the 1985 film Klondike Fever and Colin Cunningham in the 2014 miniseries Klondike. | eac7e021-a921-4a67-aca6-eebe40d7eaca |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Cannes_Film_Festival"} | The 6th Cannes Film Festival was held from 15 to 29 April 1953. The Grand Prix of the Festival went to The Wages of Fear by Henri-Georges Clouzot. The festival opened with Horizons sans fin by Jean Dréville.
During the opening ceremony, Walt Disney was awarded the "Legion of Honour" from the hands of Monsieur Hugues, Minister of Information.
Jury
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1953 competition:
Feature films
Short films
Feature film competition
The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix:
Short film competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Grand Prix:
Awards
Official awards
The following films and people received the 1953 awards:
Short films
Independent awards
FIPRESCI Prize
OCIC Award
Other awards
Media | db75eaec-0898-4027-bf87-b510215fd1aa |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Beaumont"} | Although the painting is damaged, Gilles's coat-of-arms in the Chansonnier du Roi appears to be gironné d'or et de gueules
The coat of the Beaumont-du-Gâtinais, depicted here as gironné d'argent et de gueules
Gilles de Beaumont was a 13th-century trouvère. He is known from a single song in the Chansonnier du Roi. He is depicted as a knight in armour in the chansonnier.
Gilles's identity is uncertain. The only known Gilles de Beaumont from the period was the eldest son and probably successor of Renier, lord of Beaumont-en-Cambrésis. He was already a knight in 1226, as was his younger brother Renier. He had a younger brother, Gerard, who was still a squire in 1226, and three sisters, Ermengarde, Cecile and Mathilde. Ermengarde married Josse de Liedekerque, while Cecile entered the Augustinian convent of Premy in Cambrai. The youngest, Mathilde, married or remarried in 1268 to Baldwin, lord of Sangatte, a younger son of Baldwin III, Count of Guînes.
The identification of the trouvère with the lord of Beaumont-en-Cambrésis is complicated by the coat-of-arms depicted in the chansonnier, which does not match that of the lords of Beaumont-en-Cambrésis but rather of the lords of Beaumont-du-Gâtinais [fr]. The most likely explanation is that the artist of the chansonnier, tasked with depicting Gilles de Beaumont, simply got the coat-of-arms wrong.
Gilles's song, Cil qui d'Amors a droite remembrance, is five stanzas of eight lines each. Its music is preserved. | baf1ab34-9fbe-4485-8a92-bd5733ef9a0a |
null | American rock band
Neon Horse was an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed by Mark Salomon, Jason Martin and Steven Dail. They were previously signed to Tooth & Nail Records with whom they have released two studio albums. Neon Horse's sound has been described as a being influenced by the music of the 1980s.
Members
Stavesacre lead singer Mark Salomon and Starflyer 59 founder Jason Martin wrote all songs on the band's first album. The September 2007 issue of Alternative Press states, "[Y]ou'll notice that you never see them in the same room at the same time with members of Stavesacre, Starflyer 59 and Joy Electric."
On April 10, 2008 Neon Horse performed live at the House of Blues in Anaheim. Mark Salomon (of Stavesacre) was the singer, Jason Martin (of Starflyer 59) played guitar, and Steven Dail (of Project 86 and Crash Rickshaw) played bass.
On July 28, 2009, their second album titled "Haunted Horse: Songs of Love, Defiance, and Delusion" was made available for purchase in both mp3 and CD format.
As of 2011, Neon Horse's artist profile is no longer featured on the Tooth & Nail Records' 'Current Artists' website. No new information about the band has been given.
Members
Confirmed members
Session
Discography
Music videos | e2c541df-5cfb-40d4-9196-e98c896f1cac |
null | Azerbaijani politician
Elman Mammadov (Azerbaijani: Elman Məmmədov; born October 18, 1950) is an Azerbaijani politician who serves as the Member of National Assembly of Azerbaijan from 124th Shusha-Fizuli-Khojali-Khojavend district. He's a veteran of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Early life
Mammadov was born on October 18, 1950 in Khojaly, Azerbaijan. He graduated from the Mathematics Department of Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University and Academy of Public Administration. Since 1973, he worked as a teacher, assistant director and director at a school in Khojaly. In 1985–1987, he was the head of party organization at dairy sovkhoz. In 1987–1991, he was the chairman of Khojaly Executive Committee. In 1991–2000, he was the Mayor of Khojaly, in exile since February 26, 1992. Elman Mammadov was also responsible for the self-defense detachments in Khojaly and was one of the survivors of Khojaly Massacre, who along with Commandant of Khojaly Airport Alif Hajiyev led one of the crowds of escaping Azerbaijani civilians out of Khojaly and came under Armenian fire. Thirty members of Mammadov's family were killed during the massacre. His account of what had happened in Khojaly were filmed by journalist Chingiz Mustafayev.
Political career
Mammadov was elected to the National Assembly of Azerbaijan from the 124th Shusha-Fizuli-Khojali-Khojavend electoral district during 2005 parliamentary elections. In 2006, Mammadov along with Nizami Bahmanov and Havva Mammadova formally founded the Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh Social Union in exile, representing the Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh in negotiation talks. Since its inception, he's also served as its Deputy Chairman.
He was re-elected from the same district during 2010 elections with 53.30% of votes. Mammadov is the member of the Committee on Security and Defense Issues of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan. He's one of the authors of a new military doctrine to be proposed and ratified in Azerbaijani parliament. He's also a member of Azerbaijan-Belarus, Azerbaijan-Bulgaria, Azerbaijan-France, Azerbaijan-Switzerland, Azerbaijan-Luxembourg inter-parliamentary groups and member of the Azerbaijani delegation to GUAM Parliamentary Assembly. Mammadov is a member of New Azerbaijan Party.
He has also recently urged Turkey to get rid of all Armenians on its territory, further adding that Turkey and Azerbaijan could together wipe Armenia off the face of the earth.
Awards
Mammadov has been awarded with Azerbaijani Flag Order for his courage during the war. He is fluent in Russian and Armenian. He's married and has seven children. | 1aac7972-4d2e-4acd-a175-4ee8938a23a6 |
null | St Thomas' Church was in Albany Road, Coventry, West Midlands, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, but by 1973 was no longer in ecclesiastical use.
History
The church was designed by the Lancaster architects Sharpe and Paley, and was built in 1848–49. The foundation stone was laid on 2 March 1848, and the church was consecrated on 7 August 1849 by the Bishop of Coventry. The cost of the building was £3,721 (equivalent to £410,000 in 2021). Towards this cost, £630 was given by the Coventry Archidiaconal Society, £230 by the Church Building Commissioners, and £230 by the Incorporated Church Building Society. The stone for the church was provided by Lord Leigh from a quarry on his estate at Stoneleigh Abbey. The church was declared redundant in 1974 and demolished in 1976.
Architecture
The architectural style of the church was Decorated. Its plan consisted of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a three-bay chancel with vestries, a north porch, and a northwest bell turret. The bell turret was octagonal, surmounted by a cross, and decorated with crocket-like round ornaments. The east window had three main lights, the windows along the sides of the aisles, two lights, and the west window, four lights above which were two quatrefoils and a large sexfoil. There were five windows on each side of the clerestory. Inside the church the open timber roof of the nave was supported by corbels in the form of angels carrying shields. | b568412d-cb19-4449-8bb5-1bd49af2323f |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cut_(2014_drama_film)"} | 2014 film
The Cut is a 2014 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Fatih Akın. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. The film is about the life and experiences of a young Armenian by the name of Nazareth Manoogian against the backdrop of the Armenian genocide and its repercussions in different parts of the world.
Plot
The film starts by showing how life, as a blacksmith, was in the city of Mardin, where Nazareth and his family used to live. Although Nazareth had his suspicions about possible effects of the World War I, and he was considering the possibility of non-Muslim minorities of the Ottoman Empire being conscripted to fight in the army, his family and friends were trying to be optimistic, although they heard stories of disappearing men from different villages. One night, Ottoman soldiers came to his door and took him to work for the army at a road construction, which is basically in the middle of an uninhabited area. While he was working there and as time passed by, he and his friends started to notice different groups of passer-by Armenians, under arrest. They even witnessed a rape. At one point, an Ottoman officer came to their camp and asked them if they would accept to convert to Islam. Some did and some did not. The officer and his fellows took the converts and left. Some soldiers and convicts, recruited solely to kill Armenians, arrived the next day to kill the rest. The convict responsible for cutting the throat of Nazareth could not go all the way with it and made only a small cut on his throat, which sufficed to cause Nazareth to faint, thereby survive the massacre. However, while saving his life, the cut also made him mute. This "cut" not only symbolizes Nazareth's becoming mute but also his being cut from his life and family and the Armenian society's silence about the Genocide at the time.
His executioner, who is an Ottoman subject, returned and took Nazareth, with whom later on Nazareth joined a gang composed of former defectors. This gang is mainly formed by Ottoman Turks, based on their clear accent, yet they were willing to take Nazareth with them, which is a sign that the ordinary people did not have any problems and the Genocide was substantially based on political will and motive. While trying to survive with the gang, Nazareth came across to an old customer from Mardin, who told Nazareth that surviving Armenians went to Raʾs al-ʿAin, which became one of several cities Nazareth visited to trace his family. When he concluded that everyone in his family had died, he was devastated and unsure about what to do. At that point, he met a soap maker from Aleppo, called Umair Nasreddin. The soap maker provided refuge to not only Nazareth but also many more Armenians, which can also be interpreted as a metaphor: bystanders to the Genocide cleansing their guilt by helping the surviving victims. It is in Aleppo that Nazareth learned that his daughters might still be alive and set out to find them first in Lebanon, then in Cuba and finally in Ruso, North Dakota, United States.
Cast
Critical reception
Metacritic gave the film a score of 56 out of 100, based on reviews from 7 critics, indicating "Mixed or average reviews". | c2c26cec-0ebb-4ff5-8868-66f7380727da |
null | Ashraf Mahmood Wathra was the 18th Governor of State Bank of Pakistan. He was appointed as the State Bank Governor on 29 April 2014 and served until 28 April 2017.
Wathra represents Pakistan in several international forums. He serves on the board of governors of the International Monetary Fund, Asian Clearing Union and ECO Trade and Development Bank. He is also the council member of Islamic Financial Stability Board. Since July 1, 2015, Wathra has been the co-chair of the Financial Stability Board - Regional Consultative Group for Asia (FSB-RCG Asia). He will serve as co-chair for a period of two years.
Wathra holds important positions within Pakistan including the member of Monetary and Fiscal Policies Coordination Board, National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS) Council, National Executive Committee on Anti Monetary Laundering (AML), and chair of the Board of Institute of Bankers in Pakistan (IBP), NFIS Steering Committee, and Agricultural Credit Advisory Committee (ACAC).
Wathra's association with the SBP started when he assumed charge of the office of Deputy Governor, on March 11, 2013. The Federal Government notified his appointment as Deputy Governor, SBP on March 5, 2013, for a period of three years from the date he assumed office.[contradictory]
He has 35 years of commercial, corporate and investment banking experience. Prior to joining SBP, he had been associated with various international and national banks and worked in various regulatory regimes in leadership positions; including Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka etc. He also served as a member of Board of Directors of Habib Finance International Hong Kong, Habib Finance Australia and as First Vice Chairman of Himalayan Bank Nepal for several years.
He had started his career with Grindlays Bank Plc in 1978 and holds a master's degree in Business Administration and has attended numerous management courses at prestigious institutions around the globe. | 766e2d46-a7ee-4f71-9188-872f61b3fb4a |
null | Chilean footballer (born 1971)
Marcelo Enrique Corrales García (born 20 February 1971) is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Club career
Born in Santiago, Corrales formerly played for Palestino, Universidad Católica, Temuco, Provincial Osorno, Santiago Wanderers, Unión San Felipe, Al-Shabab, Universidad de Chile, Puerto Montt, Coquimbo Unido and Municipal Iquique. In 2010, he retired from football after playing for Coquimbo Unido, but he returned to the activity by joining San Antonio Unido in the Tercera A in 2012.
Corrales is seventh on the list of all-time Chilean top scorers.
International career
Corrales made two appearances for the Chile national team at the Copa América 2001, scoring one goal.
Personal life
His son, Joan, is a former footballer who was in the Coquimbo Unido youth ranks and played for Swedish side Rågsveds IF in 2019. | abbe34c8-05d5-4b0f-99f9-4d154383ef2b |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Wild_Darkness:_The_Story_of_My_Death"} | This Wild Darkness is a compilation of essays written by Harold Brodkey as he neared death from AIDS and first published in 1996. The memoirs were written from when he was first diagnosed with AIDS until it left him too feeble to write, as he details in the later entries. Many were first printed in The New Yorker, where Brodkey's works most often appeared. They are written reflectively, regarding both recent events caused by his affliction (including the consideration of when to reveal his illness to friends and family, his activities such as a final trip to Venice, the treatment and care he receives for AIDS, and the current state of his health) and past memories revived by his condition (including his abusive stepfather, friends and relatives who had been in similar situations, a homosexual experience, and, as is described in most of his works, a childhood in St. Louis, Missouri). Brodkey died on January 26, 1996, at the age of 65.
The book was adapted into a performance piece by Italian playwright Pippo Delbono. Entitled Questo buio feroce, it debuted in Rome on October 3, 2006.
Essay dates | a71f813e-1584-4a80-8f37-0bb3ab6d9de5 |
null | Species of moth
Odozana unica is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Schaus in 1905. It is found in Mexico. | 307fb8fa-2725-4728-abdb-ba29c725fbf4 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Adolnice"} | Village in Central Bohemian, Czech Republic
Údolnice is a village and administrative part of Vranov in Benešov District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 10 inhabitants.
History
The first written mention of Údolnice is from 1422. | a4331082-6417-4ca5-a672-3434a67afdef |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashness_Bridge"} | Ashness Bridge is a traditional stone-built bridge on the single-track road from the Borrowdale road (B5289) to Watendlath, in the English Lake District, Cumbria.
The brisge is at grid reference NY270196, and is known for being a fine viewpoint across Borrowdale towards Skiddaw, including views of Derwent Water nearby.
It or its predecessor may have been a packhorse bridge conveying packhorse traffic from Watendlath to Keswick.
Near the bridge is a small cairn to Bob Graham, who ran a round of 42 Lakeland peaks in 1932 (in under 24 hours), a record which was not equalled for 28 years.[citation needed]
The area is owned by the National Trust. | d904fc8d-5ebd-40c6-bd2d-577148847f55 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruglic"} | Village in Moldova
Cruglic is a village in Criuleni District, Moldova. | 5d6de684-fce8-45ef-a821-b61ad32b729b |
null | Qais Abd al-Karim (Arabic: قيس عبد الكريم), also known as Abu Layla or Qays Samarra’i, is a leading Palestinian activist of Iraqi origin.[citation needed]
He is a leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
In 2006 he was one of two deputies elected from The Alternative (al-Badil) list, an alliance between the DFLP, the Palestinian People's Party and the Palestine Democratic Union (FIDA). | 4abacd62-e333-4eca-a016-6281e76ac03e |
null | The Faculty of Public Health (FPH) is a public health association in the United Kingdom established as a registered charity. It is the standard setting body for public health specialists within the United Kingdom, setting standards for training, examination, and specialist practice across the four countries of the UK. It is also a source of knowledge and guidance around public health, and advocates for public health nationally and globally.
The current president is Professor Kevin Fenton CBE, who took office in July 2022 for a three-year term.
History
The Faculty of Public Health (formerly the Faculty of Community Medicine and then the Faculty of Public Health Medicine) was formed in 1972 as a result of a key recommendation of the Royal Commission on Medical Education (1965–68). It was set up as a joint, autonomous faculty by the three Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (London, Edinburgh and Glasgow).
Stated purpose
FPH states its mission as:
As the professional membership body for public health we will work to promote and protect human health and its wider determinants for everyone in society by:
Membership
FPH has a paid membership of around 4,000 in several classes:
Education and Training
The Faculty of Public Health (FPH) is responsible for overseeing the quality of training and professional development of public health consultants in the UK. They set and maintain the professional standards in the discipline.
Policy and Advocacy
The Faculty of Public Health works to improve the public’s health and wellbeing by working collaboratively with their 4,000 members to encourage them to share, discuss, and develop various projects and elements of policy and best practice.
Much of the Faculty's policy work is guided by their Special Interest Groups that are overseen by their policy committees.
Affiliations
FPH is a registered charity and an official supporting organisation of HIFA2015 (Healthcare Information For All by 2015).
FPH is a member of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
FPH is a member of the World Federation of Public Health Associations.
Prizes and awards
FPH has a number of prizes and awards which identify and highlight excellence in public health practice.
Alwyn Smith Prize
The Alwyn Smith Prize is a discretionary prize awarded annually "to the FPH member or fellow judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the health of the public by either research or practice in community medicine (public health medicine)."
Bazalgette Professorship
The Bazalgette Professorship recognises a Fellow of FPH for major contributions to public health policy and/or practice through research translation for the benefit of UK population health. | 465e6611-7bcc-40c2-b2ad-ac84977d922e |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeaki_Hattori"} | Japanese racing driver
Shigeaki "Shige" Hattori (服部 茂章, November 3, 1963) is a Japanese professional race car driver and team owner based in the United States. As a driver, he competed in the CART and IndyCar Series, and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (now the Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series). He is not related to Naoki Hattori, whom he briefly raced against in CART.
As an owner, Hattori owns Hattori Racing Enterprises, which currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and the ARCA Menards Series East. HRE also has competed part-time in the Xfinity Series and the ARCA Menards Series in the past. The team has fielded cars for Johnny Sauter, Alex Bowman, Austin Hill, Max McLaughlin, David Garbo Jr., Lee Pulliam, Brett Moffitt, Sergio Pena, Ross Kenseth, Jesse Little, and Ryan Truex. His race team won the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship with Brett Moffitt.
Racing career
Prior to moving to the United States, Hattori won the Formula Toyota championship in 1994.
Indy Lights
Hattori moved to the United States in 1995, and began competing in the Indy Lights series in 1996 at the age of 32. After finishing 13th and 25th in points in his first two seasons, he scored his first career win in the series in 1996 at the season-opener at Homestead Miami Speedway. He would win two races that season and finish 14th in points.
CART
Hattori raced for Bettenhausen in CART in 1999, but after he spun the car 18 times in 7 races, he had his CART competition license revoked at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca by chief steward Wally Dallenbach Sr. He started 7 races, with a best finish of 15th at Gateway International Raceway.
IRL
Hattori raced in the Indy Racing League from 2000 to 2003. His best IRL finish was a 6th at Texas Motor Speedway in 2002 and he finished 13th in IRL points in 2001 for Treadway-Vertex Cunningham Racing. He led a total of 28 laps in his 26 series starts.
NASCAR
Hattori attempted his first race in the Craftsman Truck Series at the season-finale at Homestead Miami Speedway in 2004, with sponsorship from Aisin AW. He failed to qualify his No. 01 Toyota Tundra.
Hattori was signed to drive the No. 9 Tundra for Germain Racing (then Germain-Arnold Racing) for 2005, his rookie season in the Truck Series, with sponsorship from Aisin AW. He failed to qualify in several races, and was released at the end of the season after competing in 10 events and finishing 35th in series points.
Team ownership
Beginning in 2008, Hattori has fielded entries in NASCAR and ARCA competition under the Hattori Racing Enterprises banner. On August 18, 2013, he made his debut as a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team owner, fielding the No. 16 Goodyear of Japan Toyota at Michigan International Speedway in the National Guard 200. The team finished 17th with driver Brett Moffitt. Hattori's team returned in 2014, fielding the 80 in several Nationwide series events. In 2015, the team fielded the No. 18 for Ross Chastain at Michigan, but he failed to qualify after the rain interrupted. Later on, the team hosted Ross Kenseth's first Truck start in the No. 18 at the fall Martinsville event.
In 2016, Ryan Truex took over Hattori's Truck ride (renumbered from the No. 18 to the No. 81 due to Kyle Busch Motorsports re-taking that number). After the team gave Truex that chance, he nearly won the season-opening race at Daytona, where he finished second. After that strong run, the team and Truex said they would try to run the full season, which ended up not happening due to sponsorship issues. However, Truex drove part-time for the team in select races for the remainder of the season. The two parties ran the full 2017 season in the renumbered No. 16, but Truex was released prior to the 2018 season.
Moffitt returned to HRE in 2018. Despite sponsorship concerns that threatened to cut their season short, Moffitt and HRE went on to win that year's championship. Nevertheless, troubles with funding resulted in Moffitt's release. Austin Hill would take over the No. 16 in 2019. The team expanded to two trucks in 2022 with Tyler Ankrum and Chase Purdy.
In 2022, Hattori formed Hattori Motorsports to compete in the GT4 America Series with Seth Lucas and Matt Plumb.
Racing record
American open-wheel racing results
(key) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Indy Lights
CART
IndyCar Series
Indianapolis 500
NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Craftsman Truck Series | 5524eb46-7a5a-41ff-bf64-a64736e3745a |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_for_Husbands"} | 1937 British film
School for Husbands is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Rex Harrison, Diana Churchill and June Clyde.
The film was an independent production which was shot at Shepperton Studios. It was distributed by the newly-formed General Film Distributors. It was based on a 1932 play by Frederick J. Jackson.
Synopsis
Two married men who neglect their wives become concerned when they begin spending time with Leonard Drummond, a handsome and charming novelist with a notorious reputation as a womaniser. They hatch a plan to see if their wives are conducting affairs which involves pretending to go to Paris then returning unexpectedly. However complications ensue when their car breaks down on the way back from Newhaven. The long night that follows really becomes a test of the fidelity and love of their wives.
Cast
Bibliography | 7440f7a9-8275-4e1e-a9d4-0071f313ddaa |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1820_New_Jersey%27s_at-large_congressional_district_special_election"} | American politician
John Condit (Democratic-Republican) of New Jersey's at-large congressional district resigned to become assistant collector of the Port of New York.
Charles Kinsey (also Democratic-Republican) was elected February 2, 1820 to replace him. Kinsey had previously served as a member from New Jersey but had lost re-election to Condit in 1818.
He was seated February 16, 1820. | 3b14cd3b-95ed-42f5-b145-881cccaa3928 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Keenora"} | The SS Keenora is a steamboat on Lake Winnipeg. The vessel began operations on Lake of the Woods in Ontario, where from she was transported to Winnipeg, Manitoba and rebuilt. Currently retired from service, Keenora is the centrepiece of collection at the Marine Museum of Manitoba in Selkirk, Manitoba.
History
The steamboat Keenora was built in 1897 for passenger and cargo traffic along the Ontario's Lake of the Woods, where she ran successfully for over a decade, serving isolated communities on the lake as distant as Rainy River. When the Ontario and Rainy River Railway was built in 1901 traffic volumes began to decline, following the takeover of this railway by Canadian Northern Railway in 1915, the vessel was sold to a consortium of Winnipeg lawyers. Keenora was dismantled and transported in sections to Winnipeg on railroad flatcars in 1917.
Once reassembled in Winnipeg, she received an additional 30-foot (9.1 m) extension to her hull, increasing her overall length to 158 feet (48 m). For a season the ship served as a floating dance hall in downtown Winnipeg, but was later assigned to cargo and passenger traffic on Lake Winnipeg and the Red River. A total of 65 passenger cabins were constructed, and a new machinery was installed. The machinery guaranteed a speed of 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph).
The regular route started from Winnipeg, with a turnaround point located at the northern end of Lake Winnipeg, at Warren Landing on the Big Mossy Point. From Warren Landing the passengers and cargo were transferred to a smaller steamboat, which covered the last 30 kilometres (19 mi) to Norway House. Keenora was too large to enter the shallow Nelson River.
Keenora's career ended in the 1960s when she could not meet the new maritime regulations. At first the ship was destined to be scrapped, but was salvaged to be the cornerstone of Marine Museum of Manitoba's collections. | 20b3900f-94f6-4892-a3ba-25cfca5ee452 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia_splendida_subsp._macrocarpa"} | Subspecies of shrub
Banksia splendida subsp. macrocarpa is a subspecies of Banksia splendida. It was known as Dryandra speciosa subsp. macrocarpa until 2007, when Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele sunk all Dryandra into Banksia. Since there was already a species named Banksia speciosa, Mast and Thiele had to choose a new specific epithet for D. speciosa and hence for this subspecies of it. As with other members of Banksia ser. Dryandra, it is endemic to the South West Botanical Province of Western Australia. | 20987284-3b67-4746-84f4-30672fa17566 |
null | Teacher, gymnastic coach, and rehabilitation specialist
Katharina Schroth was born (February 22, 1894 – February 19, 1985) in Dresden, Germany with scoliosis. Her treatment path was to wear thoracic braces to try to fix her diagnosis. She was sick of wearing the braces and over her lifetime found ways to use breathing techniques and different manipulation processes using pulley systems and different stretches to fix the scoliosis. She had started two different institutes that taught and used these techniques to other individuals who also had scoliosis. The first was in opened in 1921 and was called Breathing Orthopedics and was in Meissen Germany. The second institute opened was in Sobernheim. The techniques used are now known as the Schroth Method and are still implemented today. The Schroth method helped to change the way of healing scoliosis and set the precedent for how other techniques were developed. She was given the award of The Federal Cross of Merit by the Federal Republic of Germany. These institutes were passed down to her daughter, Christa Lehnert-Schroth, and to her daughter’s son, Dr. Hans-Rudolf Weiss, MD. Her grandson is still alive and has his own practice of where he uses modifications of his grandmother’s techniques to help those with scoliosis today.
Personal life
Early life
Katharina Schroth was born February 22, 1894, in Dresden, Germany with medium to moderate scoliosis. In order to treat her scoliosis, she was given a steel brace to wear daily. At the age of 16, her dislike for this steel brace led her to seek out a different alternative to help treat and cure herself of her scoliosis. She first used mirrors to try to determine the best route of success. With the inspiration of a balloon, she looked at the deformities and asymmetrical aspect of her torso and tried to manipulate the differences by overcorrecting them through breathing and watching her body move in the mirror. Once she had found different ways of how the body functions with the different breathing patterns that she had tried, she began to look for ways to physically manipulate her body to correct the deformities. She did this by developing a pulley system to manipulate her torso, while she once again watched in the mirror.
Early Careers
Katharina Schroth had been a teacher at a Rackow’s school of business and Languages in Dresden. It is said that she was able to correct those spinal deformities enough that different teachers at the school began noticing and telling her that they saw a difference. She eventually left this field and turned to functional gymnastics. Here she used her different functional knowledge from gymnastics and applied a lot of Swedish gymnastics elements to her different techniques to try to improve her own spinal deformities. She was later asked to begin presenting lectures on this topic and she prepared for these by examining the anatomy and having medical practitioners test her knowledge. Soon after this she opened her first therapy institute in 1921.
Family
Katharina Schroth was married to Franz Schroth. They had a daughter, who was named Christa. Christa was a physiotherapist and took over her mother’s work. She also had a son named Hans-Rudolf Weiss. He became a physician and also furthered his grandmother’s work and is continuing to do this today in his own clinic.
Life’s work
The Schroth Method
Katharina Schroth developed and critiqued her techniques for scoliosis correction until she could get them just right. She did this from a young age of 16 and used everything in her life from a balloon to her work as a gymnastics coach to improve her technique. This technique became known as the Schroth Method. It is a non-invasive technique that stops and prevents scoliosis from becoming worse and actually corrects it. The most important aspect of this technique is that it is individual based and unique to each person since no two cases of scoliosis are the same.
The Schroth Method included the ideals of de-rotating, elongating, and stabilizing the spine in a three-dimensional plane of sagittal, frontal and transverse. This foundations of the Schroth method looked at muscular symmetry, rotational angular breathing, and awareness of posture through stretching and exercising certain muscles. The concept of awareness of posture was illustrated by her observing herself in the mirror. She used this mirror to see how her body was oriented to try to compete against those different irregularities by overcompensating for them in posture throughout the day. Being mindful about this concept on the daily is a huge part of the Schroth method. Second, she looked at the ideas of rotational angular breathing. This idea was drawn up through the balloon or ball analogy that allowed her to see that when parts of the spine or ribs are concaved that breathing in certain ways allowed for those areas to appear straight and symmetrical. This would allow the body to stretch out the way that it was supposed to and to see different muscles that were lacking in strength. This brings us to the last concept of muscular symmetry. Through exercise and stretching, a person can fix the asymmetrical aspects of their spinal curvatures by helping inadequacies in muscle development to support the spine and fix those irregularities. This would also allow for certain overworked muscles to relax and to result in even better symmetry in both muscle strength and conformity. The Schroth method was a pivotal technique in the world of healing and has changed so many lives and the ways that different therapies were developed.
Opening institutions
Once Katharina created a process that helped reverse and halt the spinal deformities, she opened her own institution. She opened Breathing Orthopedics in 1921 in Meissen. This location had a small building and a garden with different tools and structures that were used for individual and group treatments. They would perform a lot of their techniques like the breathing techniques outside in the garden so that their skin could feel the sun’s heat and that they could get some fresh air. Her husband, Franz Schroth would help individual patients at the institution with certain corrections and with specific strength exercises. This institution worked on specific postural correction through correctional breathing patterns and correctional postural perceptions. This method would have a 3-month rehabilitation time period. While the institution was advancing her daughter, Christa Schroth, helped with the spinal corrections within the years 1930s and 1940s.
In 1955 after World War 2, Katharina and her family moved to western Germany and in 1961 she founded her second therapy institute in Sobernheim which was to treat individuals from all over Germany and internationally. Katharina’s daughter Christa eventually became the institute’s director and worked there until she retired in 1995. This institute was quite small but over the years has grown and still is functioning and helps about 180 people with scoliosis or kyphosis. Patients were on average treated within a 6-week period. This institute was later named Katharina Schroth Klinik within the 1980s. Along with this, the first prospective controlled trail was carried out from 1989 to 1991. This clinic has since changed and now uses braces as its first treatment, but they use derivative’s Katharina’s original techniques of specific postural correction, correction of breathing patterns, and correction of postural perception for rehabilitation.
Awards
Through all the hard work of opening two institutions and creating an innovative process of treating people with scoliosis, Katharina Schroth was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit from the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Premier_Leagues_Tasmania"} | Football league
The National Premier Leagues Tasmania is an Australian semi-professional soccer league covering all regions of Tasmania. The league is a subdivision of the National Premier Leagues and commenced in 2013 with eight teams. Nationally the league sits below the A-League and above the Tasmanian regional championship competitions (with whom promotion and relegation will exist from the 2019 season onwards).
History
Prior to the NPL Tasmania the previous statewide league encompassing teams from all-over Tasmania had not taken place since 1999. The highest level of soccer being played in Tasmania was in two regional leagues in the North and South of the state.
The league was formed in 2012 by Football Federation Tasmania and the first season commenced in 2013. FFT referred to the league as the T-League during planning prior to the establishment of the league. Between 2012–2014 the league was known as the Victory League due to sponsorship by A-League club Melbourne Victory. In 2015 the league was officially known as the PS4 Victory League also for sponsorship reasons. In 2016, the league changed names again to National Premier Leagues Tasmania in line with other divisions within the NPL.
The initial clubs were awarded licences for league membership for three seasons between 2013–2015. In 2015 the FFT Board analysed the clubs on and off pitch. Based on this analysis six of the eight clubs in the NPL Tasmania were offered licences for an additional three seasons between 2016–2018. Glenorchy Knights and Launceston City were required to reapply for membership and compete with other clubs for the final two positions in the league in 2016. Riverside Olympic, University, Clarence and New Town Eagles also applied for the two positions in addition to Glenorchy and Launceston City. In August 2015 it was announced that Clarence United and Launceston City had been awarded the available licences between 2016–18.
Up until 2017, the top teams in the league also qualified for a Tasmanian end of season finals series. Between 2013–15 the winner of the local finals series was awarded the Victory Cup. In 2013 and 2014 the top four teams participated in the finals series. In 2015 the finals series has been expanded to include the top six teams in the league as well as the champions of the Northern Championship and Southern Championship. In 2016, the end of season finals series cup was renamed the League Cup due to lapsing sponsorship arrangements, and scrapped entirely after the end of the 2017 season.
In 2019, the league expanded to nine teams. However, following the season, two clubs amalgamated bringing the league back to eight teams.
Format
In late 2016, FFT announced they will expand the league to ten teams and introduce a promotion/relegation system. The winner of the 2018 Southern and Northern Championships were promoted into NPL Tasmania and to have the competition with ten teams for 2019, however Northern Rangers withdrew from the league leaving nine clubs. From the end of the 2019 season the winners of the Northern and Southern Championships will play-off against each other with the winner then automatically replacing the last placed finisher in the NPL Tasmania whilst the loser of the Northern and Southern Championships Play-off will play an additional play-off for a place in the NPL Tasmania in the following season against the second last NPL Tasmania club. After 2019, two clubs merged lowering the league back to eight clubs.
The goal of the league is to consist of ten clubs geographically spread throughout Tasmania (although currently there are eight). The team on top of the table is considered the league champion and qualifies to play in the National Premier Leagues finals series against the champions of the other states.
Clubs
2022 clubs
Honours
Honours (before the NPL)
Records
All time table
Updated as of end of 2022 season
Top scorers | b39bf23c-a6f7-4f19-82c2-424b334e9fbc |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Owned_Television_Stations"} | Television station division of NBC
NBC Owned Television Stations (formerly NBC Local Media and NBC Television Stations Division (TVSD)) is the division of NBCUniversal Owned TV Stations (NBCUniversal), a subsidiary of Comcast that oversees the NBC owned-and-operated television stations, Cozi TV network, LXTV and Skycastle Entertainment, its in-house marketing and promotion company. NBCUniversal's Telemundo owned-and-operated stations are held in the separate Telemundo Station Group.
History
The entrance to NBC Studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, where WNBC operates
The entrance to Gate 3 of the Universal Studios Hollywood lot, where KNBC has operated from since 2014
The entrance to the NBC Tower in Chicago, home of WMAQ
The KXAS studios in Fort Worth, Texas
The KNTV studios in San Jose, California
A 1962 photograph of the WRC studios in Washington, D.C.
The newsroom of WTVJ in Miami
NBC Television Stations Division
The NBC television network's owned-and-operated television stations group was initially formed by as "NBC Television Stations Division (TVSD)".
WNBT (now known as WNBC) in New York City, the oldest continuously operating commercial television station in the United States, first came on the air on July 1, 1941.
NBC then established four other owned-and-operated stations: WNBW (now WRC-TV) in Washington, D.C. in 1947, WNBQ (now WMAQ-TV) in Chicago and WNBK (now WKYC) in Cleveland in 1948, and KNBH (now KNBC) in Los Angeles in 1949. In May 1955, NBC agreed to trade WNBK and WTAM-AM-FM to Westinghouse in return for KYW radio and WPTZ television in Philadelphia. Although Cleveland was a top-10 television and radio market at the time, NBC had long wanted to "trade up" its holdings to a larger market. Also, Philadelphia was the largest market in which it did not own a station. The swap became official on January 22, 1956, as NBC moved its operations (including much of its Cleveland staff) to Philadelphia, with WPTZ becoming WRCV-TV. Westinghouse took over the WNBK/WTAM operation and changed its call letters to KYW-AM-FM-TV on February 13, 1956. NBC re-assumed control of the Cleveland stations on June 19, 1965. Instead of restoring the previous WNBK and WTAM identities, the stations' new call letters became WKYC-AM-FM-TV, mostly as a nod to Westinghouse's stewardship of the stations. NBC would later sell off the WKYC radio stations in 1972, 51 percent of WKYC-TV in the 1990, and then the remaining 49 percent in 1999.
With the FCC encouraging the networks to expand their owned-and-operated holdings to include UHF stations, NBC purchased WBUF in Buffalo, New York, in 1955 and WKNB (now WVIT) in New Britain, Connecticut, in 1956. The network then renamed WKNB to WNBC (for New Britain, Connecticut) in 1957. But with UHF being not viable for broadcasting at the time (due to the fact that most television sets of the time were not equipped with UHF tuners), NBC shut down WBUF in 1958 and then sold the New Britain station in 1959. NBC would then re-purchase the station in New Britain, the present-day WVIT, in 1997.
General Electric bought NBC in 1986, resulting in GE's station in Denver, KCNC-TV, becoming part of NBC's owned-and-operated stations group. One year later, NBC won a bidding war to acquire WTVJ, the then-CBS affiliate in Miami. NBC had been unhappy with its longtime affiliate WSVN for heavily preempting the network's daytime lineup. However, both WTVJ's and WSVN's respective affiliation contracts with CBS and NBC did not expire until December 31, 1988. As a result, NBC faced the prospect of having to run WTVJ as a CBS affiliate for over a year. This did not sit well with either NBC or CBS, and both approached WSVN's parent Sunbeam Television about ending the station's NBC affiliation contract early. However, Sunbeam balked because they did not want to lose NBC's strong lineup of sports programming that year, including the 1988 Summer Olympics. In the aftermath, WTVJ became an NBC owned-and-operated television station, CBS took over ownership of WCIX (now WFOR-TV), and WSVN took over the Fox affiliation from WCIX. Also in 1987, General Electric transferred both KCNC-TV and WTVJ from General Electric Property Management to NBC itself, becoming an owned-and-operated TV station.
In 1994, NBC took over majority control of KUTV in Salt Lake City. That same year, the Fox Broadcasting Company agreed to a multi-year, multi-station affiliation deal with New World Communications, resulting in most of New World's stations switching to Fox. This set off the 1994–1996 United States broadcast TV realignment, a chain of affiliation changes across the country and other multi-station affiliation deals for the next couple of years. In Philadelphia, Westinghouse Broadcasting's affiliate deal with CBS resulted in a three-way transaction between Westinghouse, CBS, and NBC in 1995. Westinghouse's Philadelphia station KYW-TV switched from NBC to CBS. CBS traded its previous Philadelphia station, WCAU-TV, to NBC in return for KCNC in Denver and KUTV in Salt Lake City, while KUSA and KSL-TV affiliated with NBC. The swap in Philadelphia was delayed when CBS discovered it would face a massive capital gains tax bill if it sold WCAU to NBC outright.
In 1996, NBC bought the broadcasting holdings of The Outlet Company, bringing WCMH in Columbus, Ohio, WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, and WNCN in Goldsboro, North Carolina into the fold. NBC also made a 1996 deal with New World to acquire KNSD in San Diego and WVTM-TV in Birmingham, Alabama.
In 1997, NBC and LIN Television Corporation formed Station Venture Holdings with LIN's KXAS in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and NBC's KNSD. As part of the deal, LIN sold a controlling interest in KXAS to NBC, and NBC contributed KNSD to the resulting partnership.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, NBC had long sought to buy its affiliate KRON from the deYoung family, publishers of the San Francisco Chronicle, but the deYoungs turned down NBC's offers each time. In 1999, the deYoung family announced the liquidation of their assets, and thus the network jumped into the bidding war for KRON. NBC was seen as the frontrunner, but it was outbid at the last minute by Young Broadcasting. NBC president and chief executive officer Bob Wright had previously warned that if NBC did not succeed in buying KRON, it would require any prospective buyer to uphold specific terms if it wanted to retain the NBC affiliation. After Young won the bidding, NBC demanded yearly payments of $10 million from Young, a form of reverse compensation, instead of the then-normal mode of networks paying their affiliates. Rather than give in to NBC's demands, Young decided not to renew KRON's affiliation contract, which was set to expire at the beginning of 2002. KNTV then approached NBC with a proposal to pay $37 million annually to become the network's affiliate. NBC would then buy KNTV outright in December 2001 just before KRON's affiliation ended.
In 2004, Vivendi Universal Entertainment (a division of the French company Vivendi Universal, now Vivendi), decided to sell an 80% stake to NBC's parent company, General Electric. The sale and resulting merger formed NBC Universal. The new company was 80% owned by GE, and 20% owned by Vivendi. The television divisions of NBC and Universal Television were combined to form NBC Universal Television.
In 2006, NBC Universal sold four of its smaller-market owned-and-operated stations (WVTM, WNCN, WCMH, and WJAR) to Media General.
NBC Local Media
In November 2007, TVSD changed its name to NBC Local Media.
In March 2008, Local Media decided to focus on growing websites and the top ten market stations, placing WTVJ in Miami and WVIT in Hartford up for sale. Post-Newsweek Stations agreed to buy WTVJ, which would have created a duopoly between WTVJ and Post-Newsweek-owned WPLG. However, FCC ownership rules prohibited the ownership of two of the four highest-rated television stations in a single market in terms of overall audience share. With the lack of FCC approval and the poor economic conditions at the time, the WTVJ sale was canceled. WVIT also remained unsold.
LXTV was acquired in January 2008 by Local Media followed in March by the purchase of Skycastle Entertainment, Local Media's former outside sales and marketing firm. After NBC Weather Plus was shut down in late 2008, WNBC launched a replacement programming of local information, news and livestyle as NBC New York Nonstop in March 2009 using LXTV programs. In January 2009, Local Media and Fox Television Stations set up a local news sharing service starting with their Philadelphia stations after testing since the summer of 2008. Footage will be made available to other local media. On July 29, 2009, NBC Local Integrated Media replaced the standard station extension websites with city centric websites using nbccity.com web addresses.
In February 2010, the NBC stations launched a new website, theFeast.com, a restaurant news, blog and aggregate critic feature. Additional vertical websites were also launched including The Goods and The 20. Stations are encouraged by Local Media to develop their own specialized websites. The 20 is for the top special interest articles and the Goods is a group buying website launched in May.
In late 2010 and early 2011, eight more NBC O&O stations adopted the Nonstop digital subchannel format including the three California as one network. Each stations' Nonstop subchannel has eight hours of local programming along with core programming from affiliated production companies, LXTV: Talk Stoop, First Look and Open House.
NBC Owned Television Stations
In Summer 2011, the company started to sell national advertising on behalf of affiliated cable channel, New England Cable News (NECN). In June, Local Media's new president. Valari Staab. renamed the company to NBC Owned Television Stations (NBCOTS).
On November 3, 2011, NBCOTS announced that its seven local Nonstop subchannels would become a single national network, Nonstop Network. The Network will also add its stations that currently do not have a Nonstop subchannel and beyond to other markets. An NBC executive indicated that the independent formatted Nonstop channels were doing well but needed separate 24/7 programming. The Network will have daytime retro reruns and evening lifestyle shows. Local stations will be able to pre-empt the national programming. By July 2012, NBC was also considering renaming the Network to "Bob TV" or some other name.
With Comcast purchasing controlling interest from GE of NBCUniversal in 2011, NBC stations were required by the Federal Communications Commission to develop partnership agreements with nonprofit news organizations. TheFeast website was transferred to NBCU affiliate DailyCandy.com in November. In December, four NBC stations indicated their non-profit news partners with the partnership modeled after KNSD and Voice of San Diego's preexisting one.
With the success of the NECN advertising partnership in April 2012, the division and the Comcast Sports Group extended the partnership nationwide with four additional markets where there are both a Comcast SportsNet channel and an NBC-owned station (New England, Mid-Atlantic, Northwest, and Philadelphia). On October 24, 2012, NBCOTS announced it will relaunch the NBC Nonstop network as Cozi TV, which will feature classic TV shows, movies and, original programming.
In February 2013, LIN Media pulled out of its Station Venture Operations joint venture with NBCUniversal as part of a corporate reorganization, giving NBCUniversal 100% ownership of the venture's two stations, KNSD and KXAS-TV.
In July 2013, NBCOTS and Telemundo's owned-and-operated station group were brought together under a newly formed division called NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations, headed by NBC TV Station president Valari Staab, and NECN was transferred into NBC Stations. In 2014, WKAQ, the Telemundo-owned station in San Juan, Puerto Rico, began airing a simulcast of New York City sister station WNBC on one of its digital sub-channels with the branding of NBC Puerto Rico, making WKAQ also a de facto NBC-owned station (under NBCUniversal's corporate structure, WKAQ remains as part of the Telemundo-owned stations group instead of NBCOTS).
With four NBC-owned stations already having 4 PM newscasts, WNBC, KNBC, WTVJ, and WVIT also added 4 PM newscasts in May 2016. As of 2020[update], KNTV is the only NBC-owned station that does not have its own 4 PM news; however, they added a 4:30pm newscast in September 2022.
On January 7, 2016, NBCOTS announced that it would launch an NBC-owned station in Boston, NBC Boston, on January 1, 2017, replacing affiliate WHDH. It was originally rumored that NBC would air primary on a WNEU channel, however on November 1, it was announced that NBC would use Boston-area translator WBTS-LD (acquired from WNEU's former operator ZGS Communications), with WNEU airing NBC Boston on its DT2 channel for the New Hampshire side of the DMA. After the FCC's 2016 spectrum auction, NBCOTS purchased the former WYCN-CD license which now had channel-sharing rights with WGBX yielding strong coverage in the Boston market, then reshuffled programming across NBCOTS and Telemundo Station Group assets in eastern New England, leaving NBC programming on the new WBTS-CD and returning the WNEU and WYCN-LD licenses primarily to Spanish-language programming.
Stations
Stations are listed in alphabetical order by state and city of license.
Current
Former
Programming
NBC O&O syndicated offerings (as of September 2022) include The Kelly Clarkson Show and Access Hollywood (including its afternoon and expansion counterparts), the latter two shows being distributed by NBCUniversal Syndication Studios. Other syndicated offerings on select stations include Rachael Ray, which airs on KNTV & WBTS-CD, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, which both shows air on KNSD.
Station Venture Holdings
Station Venture Holdings, LLC was a venture between NBC and LIN Television Corporation that included Station Venture Operations, LP that operates two NBC affiliated television stations -- KNSD and KXAS-TV. These stations when in the JV were considered owned and operated stations as NBC holds a majority stake in the venture. WBTS-LD (now WYCN-LD) was added to this venture in November 2016 as the licensee for that station.
History
The venture began in 1997 when LIN sold a controlling interest in KXAS to NBC, and NBC contributed KNSD to the resulting partnership. Owing to their controlling stake in the partnership, NBC took operational control of both stations. In February 2013, LIN pulled out of its Station Venture Operations joint venture with NBCUniversal as part of a corporate reorganization, giving NBC 100% ownership of KXAS and KNSD. LIN paid NBC around $100 million to allow for the transaction. The stations remain under this name for FCC licensing purposes, along with WYCN-LD. | eac79475-fdf6-440c-ad8a-4d72fcaa1ffe |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMLL_77th_Anniversary_Show"} | Mexican Professional wrestling show
The 'CMLL 77th Anniversary Show (Spanish: 77. Aniversario de CMLL)' was a professional wrestling major show produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) that took place on September 3, 2010 in CMLL's home arena Arena México in Mexico City, Mexico. The event commemorates the 77th anniversary of CMLL, the oldest professional wrestling promotion. in the world. The Anniversary show is CMLL's biggest show of the year, their Super Bowl event. The CMLL Anniversary Show series is the longest-running annual professional wrestling show, starting in 1934. The event was also billed as Juicio Final, or "Final Justice", an event that CMLL has held previously in 1990, 1991, 2000, 2001 and 2005.
The main event of the show was a 14-man Lucha de Apuestas mask vs. mask, steel cage match contested under CMLL's Infierno en el Ring rules which meant that one man would be unmasked as a result of the match. The 14 competitors in the match were: Místico, La Sombra, Volador Jr., Averno, Mephisto, Ephesto, Jushin Thunder Liger, Último Guerrero, Atlantis, Mr. Niebla, El Alebrije, Histeria, Olímpico and Psicosis II. The match came down to La Sombra defeating Olímpico to unmask him. The show also featured five additional matches, all Best two out of three falls Six-man tag team matches.
Production
Background
The Mexican Lucha libre (professional wrestling) company Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) started out under the name Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre ("Mexican Wrestling Company"; EMLL), founded by Salvador Lutteroth in 1933. Lutteroth, inspired by professional wrestling shows he had attended in Texas, decided to become a wrestling promoter and held his first show on September 21, 1933, marking what would be the beginning of organized professional wrestling in Mexico. Lutteroth would later become known as "the father of Lucha Libre" . A year later EMLL held the EMLL 1st Anniversary Show, starting the annual tradition of the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Anniversary Shows that have been held each year ever since, most commonly in September.
Over the years the anniversary show would become the biggest show of the year for CMLL, akin to the Super Bowl for the National Football League (NFL) or WWE's WrestleMania event. The first anniversary show was held in Arena Modelo, which Lutteroth had bought after starting EMLL. In 1942–43 Lutteroth financed the construction of Arena Coliseo, which opened in April 1943. The EMLL 10th Anniversary Show was the first of the anniversary shows to be held in Arena Coliseo. In 1956 Lutteroth had Arena México built in the location of the original Arena Modelo, making Arena México the main venue of EMLL from that point on. Starting with the EMLL 23rd Anniversary Show, all anniversary shows except for the EMLL 46th Anniversary Show have been held in the arena that would become known as "The Cathedral of Lucha Libre". On occasion EMLL held more than one show labelled as their "Anniversary" show, such as two 33rd Anniversary Shows in 1966. Over time the anniversary show series became the oldest, longest-running annual professional wrestling show. In comparison, WWE's WrestleMania is only the fourth oldest still promoted show (CMLL's Arena Coliseo Anniversary Show and Arena México anniversary shows being second and third). EMLL was supposed to hold the EMLL 52nd Anniversary Show on September 20, 1985 but Mexico City was hit by a magnitude 8.0 earthquake. EMLL canceled the event both because of the general devastation but also over fears that Arena México might not be structurally sound after the earthquake.
When Jim Crockett Promotions was bought by Ted Turner in 1988 EMLL became the oldest still active promotion in the world. In 1991 EMLL was rebranded as "Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre" and thus held the CMLL 59th Anniversary Show, the first under the new name, on September 18, 1992. Traditionally CMLL holds their major events on Friday Nights, replacing their regularly scheduled Super Viernes show.
Storylines
The event featured five professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either heels (referred to as rudos in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or faces (técnicos in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
The main event match of the 77th Anniversary Show came about as a result of several concurrent and in some cases unrelated storylines, that amalgamated into one multi-man match on September 4, 2010. The oldest and longest-running storyline leading into the main event began on January 22, 2010, when Místico teamed up with Averno to participate in CMLL's "Torneo Nacional de Pareja Increíbles" ("National Amazing Pairs tournament"), a tournament where CMLL teams up a tecnico (Místico) and a Rudo (Averno) for a tournament. On the night of the tournament, Místico and Averno showed a surprising team unity by wearing outfits that mixed the style of each wrestler. In the second round of the tournament, Místico's attitude seemingly changed as he began attacking his opponent Volador Jr., someone he usually teams with. Místico even went so far as to ripping up Volador's mask, a rudo move, and won the match after an illegal low blow to Volador Jr. After the match Místico took the microphone and claimed that "all was fair in war and defending Mexico City", a comment that drew a lot of boos from the crowd. Subsequently Volador Jr. defeated Místico to win the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship as Místico continued to skirt the tecnico/rudo divide. Later a few months later Místico returned to the tecnico side, with the storyline between Místico and Volador Jr. downplayed for the time being. At the 2010 Sin Salida, it looked like the feud was reignited as Volador Jr. began showing rudo traits, especially when wrestling against Místico, but once again the storyline was subsequently downplayed. After teasing a rudo turn for over a month Volador Jr. and La Sombra lost the CMLL World Tag Team Championship to Los Invasores without any obvious signs of dissention between the two. During a later show Volador Jr. finally turned rudo when he attacked La Sombra, tore his former partner's mask off and beat him up. Volador Jr. sided with Los Hijos del Averno, especially Averno, Mephisto and Ephesto who were all included in the cage match along with Volador Jr., La Sombra and Místico Over the summer of 2010, La Sombra traveled to Japan to participate in New Japan Pro-Wrestling's 2010 Best of the Super Juniors tournament. During the tournament La Sombra defeated Jushin Thunder Liger, scoring an upset over the veteran. In July 2010 Liger came to Mexico to tour with CMLL, teasing a rematch with La Sombra. In August 2010 both Liger and La Sombra qualified for the finals of the 2010 Universal Championship tournament, marking the first time the two had faced off in singles competition since the BOSJ. Liger got revenge for his BOSJ loss against La Sombra when he, with help from Okumura at ringside, defeated La Sombra to claim the tournament trophy. In the week following his Universal Championship victory Liger was added to the steel cage match.
Another major storyline that led up to the cage match was the Los Invasores, a group of former AAA wrestlers "invading" CMLL. It began on April 12, 2010 when a contingent of former AAA wrestlers including Psicosis II, Histeria, Maniaco, El Alebrije and Cuije appeared during a CMLL (CMLL) show in Puebla, Puebla. The group drown into the arena in a black SUV and attacked La Sombra, El Hijo del Fantasma and La Máscara after they just finished a match. In subsequent weeks Los Invasores struck again and again, expanding the group with Universo 2000 and Máscara Año 2000, Mr. Águila, Olímpico, Monster, El Oriental and Héctor Garza. During the Promociones Gutiérrez 1st Anniversary Show Místico defeated El Oriental in a match under Lucha de Apuestas, mask vs. mask, rules and forced him to unmask. At the following week's Super Viernes show Místico held El Oriental's mask as a trophy, something which Invasor Psicosis II did not take too kindly to, setting off a feud between the two wrestlers. The Místico vs. Psicosis II storyline was rumored to be the main event of the 77th Anniversary show, but instead they ended up as two of the 14 men in the cage.
Olímpico returned to CMLL in June 2010 as part of Los Invasores, even though he never worked for AAA. On June 7, during the Promociones Gutiérrez 1st Anniversary Show Olímpico teamed up with his former Los Guerreros del Atlantida partner Atlantis for the main event. Subsequently, Olímpico began teaming with both Atlantis and Último Guerrero again for a number of matches. During a trios tournament on the August 13, 2010 Super Viernes Olímpico caused his team to be disqualified and then attacked his former teammates, ending their tentative relationship. As a result of his actions after the match Olímpico, Último Guerrero and Atlantis were all added to the main event of the 77th Anniversary Show.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%E2%80%9385_Balkans_Cup"} | Football tournament season
The 1984–85 Balkans Cup was an edition of the Balkans Cup, a football competition for representative clubs from the Balkan states. It was contested by 8 teams and Iraklis Thessaloniki won the trophy.
Quarterfinals
First leg
Beroe, Stara Zagora
Ankara 19 Mayıs, Ankara
Kaftanzoglio, Thessaloniki
Second Leg
Spartak, Varna
Ankaragücü won 2–0 on aggregate.
1 Mai, Pitești
Argeș Pitești won 5–4 on aggregate.
Ali Sami Yen, Istanbul
Iraklis Thessaloniki won 5–2 on aggregate.
Semifinals
First Leg
1 Mai, Pitești
Kaftanzoglio, Thessaloniki
Second leg
Municipal, Bacău
Argeș Pitești won 4–2 on aggregate.
Ankara 19 Mayıs, Ankara
Iraklis 1–1 Ankaragücü on aggregate. Iraklis won 4–2 on penalties.
Finals
First leg
1 Mai, Pitești
Second leg
Kaftanzoglio, Thessaloniki
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Ivan Yosifov (Bulgaria)
Iraklis Thessaloniki won 5–4 on aggregate. | 112253d4-0be9-41f4-9975-b766a99733cf |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_My_Landlord"} | 1993 studio album by The Coup
Kill My Landlord is the debut studio album by American hip hop group The Coup. It was released on Wild Pitch Records on May 4, 1993. It peaked at number 83 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Track listing
Charts | 8ccce1cd-7ad9-477f-a00d-fe379fe8d3fa |
null | Peniarth 109 is a Welsh manuscript from the second half of the 15th century (c. 1425 - c. 1490), in the hand of the poet Lewis Glyn Cothi. It is part of the Peniarth Manuscripts Collection at the National Library of Wales.
The parchment manuscript measures 238 x 99 mm, and includes 96 leaves. It is an autograph by Lewis Glyn Cothi, one of the greatest poets of the Nobility, which contains 106 poems. The manuscript is decorated with many illustrations, some in colour, of a noble family crests Welsh, a fact that is testament to the poet's interest in heraldry and genealogy.
It is possible that it was produced in honour of Lord William Herbert (d. 1469), founder of the family of Herbert, as an ode to him is found in the early volumes, with another ode to his brother Richard following.
There is no music that can be dated to the 1480s in the collection. The latest datable poems belong to the late 1470s, and it is fair to conclude that the manuscript was completed around this date. | 1c8bcdad-6f6c-46ee-baed-16486b8a24eb |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercity_Express_(Indian_Railways)"} | The Intercity Express is an express-train service in India which connects major railway junctions and state capitals. These act as long-distance reserved and unreserved suburban trains with sitting accommodation (AC Chair Car - CC and Second Sitting - 2S). These are quite fast and maintain a high average speed for short distances along with priority over other trains.
History
The first named intercity train (Flying Ranee) was introduced in 1906 for providing connections between two cities from one state to other various states in India. The train left Surat station for Mumbai Central station to cover a distance of 264 km in 5 hrs 28 min and ran weekly from 1906 to 1939 when it was discontinued due to World War II. Since then, it has been discontinued and restarted several times. It finally resumed operations on 1 November 1950 and has been running ever since.
The Mumbai CSMT–Pune Deccan Queen Express, the second named intercity train in India, was introduced on 15 February 1930.
On 1 July 1992, the first intercity express was introduced between Indore and New Delhi which is the only overnight intercity train runs between two major cities of India.
On 1 July 1997, the second intercity express train launched between Chennai–Coimbatore & Bengaluru–Hubbali which was the first one-day trip daily intercity express train.
Features
The trains are less expensive than other express trains and usually reach their destinations within 5–6 hours. They usually complete a round trip in a day, returning to the origin station at night and using only a single rake. Generally, they have only sitting accommodations and a pantry car. Intercity-Express trains run daily, except:
Named Intercity trains
The following trains are intercity-express trains, but have different names:
Normal Intercity Express trains
Intercity Express routes are (round-trip, unless noted):
Incidents
On 13 Feb 2015, at least 9 passengers were dead and over 100 passengers were injured when the Bangalore City–Ernakulam Intercity Express derailed between Anekal Road and Hosur on Bangalore City–Salem section which lies between the border of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu State, In suspected some technical issue in the engine. The train was heading towards Ernakulam.
On 30 January 2016, Ratnachal Express (12717) from Vishakhapatnam to Vijayawada was burnt in protest of reservation for Kapu community leaving no one injured according to the railway sources.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Intercity Express (Indian Railways) trains. | 2c6006ae-a484-41c9-874b-0aeb9dc59500 |
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Billy Earheart (born February 21, 1954) is a Hammond B3 organist and piano player and original member of the Amazing Rhythm Aces. He has also won a Grammy award.
Billy also played piano for Hank Williams Jr. for 21 yrs (1985–2006) and toured with R&B legend Al Green, Eddie Hinton, Memphis Slim, Waylon Jennings, BB King, and others. He has played on over 200 albums. | 7fe5a827-ea03-4ae5-81d2-cf632a1200af |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_River,_Quebec"} | Municipality in Quebec, Canada
Pike River is a municipality in Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 525.
Until May 5, 2012 it was known as Saint-Pierre-de-Véronne-à-Pike-River.
Demographics
Population
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piston_(music)"} | The piston (Breton: pistoñ, English phonetic "pist-on") is a type of oboe invented by Breton musician, teacher, and luthier Youenn Le Bihan in 1983. The pistoñ is a contemporary development of the hautbois, classical and/or baroque oboe, influenced by the bombard or talabard, the traditional double reed instrument of Brittany. It is typically rooted in the key of D and features post-mounted simple system key-work to expand its range. The tone of the pistoñ stands in a warm and rich middle ground between the trumpet-like tone of the bombard and that of the baroque oboe. The bore is similar to that of a baroque or classical oboe.
The pistoñ uses a fairly stiff reed based on cane of an approximate diameter of 12mm, very similar in size to those of the baritone oboe (approximately 9 mm in width at the tip), English horn and baroque oboe. Unlike these other oboes, however, the pistoñ reed's brass staple resembles that of the conservatoire oboe, having a cork outer layer and a cylindrical (as opposed to conical) shape to fit into the reed well of the instrument, therefore requiring neither thread to wrap the staple nor a bocal for it to fit into.
Since its debut by Mr. Le Bihan with groups such as Gwerz and Skolvan, use of the pistoñ has slowly expanded in popularity in traditional groups associated with the "fest noz" dance culture, typically accompanied by instruments such as fiddle, guitar, traverso flute, and accordion. Some other musicians who have recorded with the pistoñ are the group Koun (pistoñ: Josik Allot), Tud (instruments and music by Eric Ollu), and Penn Gollo (pistoñ: Jean-Claude Petit).
Initially Mr. Le Bihan was the only maker of the instrument, and he made them on only a very limited basis. Other makers soon filled the void, however, and instruments by makers such as Hervieux & Glet, Jean-Luc Ollivier and Eric Ollu began to fill the pistoñ role as well. Mr. Ollu objects strenuously to the use of the term "pistoñ". As he states on his website (translated): "I always call the instrument by its real name; oboe or baroque oboe. I suppose I could call it an Olluphone, tromblophone or some other fantastic name. Why in Brittany and only in Brittany do people call a Baroque oboe a pistoñ? One can only wonder that information available since the fifteenth century has not yet been received! Why give the name of a brass instrument to a woodwind?" (In French, piston occurs as a shortened form of cornet à pistons, the instrument known in English as a cornet.)
While Mr. Ollu might market his instruments as baroque oboes, the pistoñ differs from the baroque or classical oboe in several ways beyond the differences in reeds and keywork mentioned above. Changes in the size and placement of the finger holes have produced changes in the fingerings used to produce the notes F and F#, allowing very rapid passages to be played in E minor without the use of forked fingerings. The pistoñ is also tuned to concert standard A440 tuning rather than a historically-based tuning scheme such as A=415 or 430. Altogether these developments highlight the pistoñ oboe as an evolving instrument intended to play a contemporary popular music, rather than recreate music and performance from the remote past. | bdaa83aa-2961-4b48-bc7b-b3c99bb76594 |
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null | The Atlantic LNG Company of Trinidad and Tobago is a liquefied natural gas (LNG) producing company operating a liquefied natural gas plant in Point Fortin, Trinidad and Tobago. Atlantic LNG operates four liquefaction units (trains). Train 4, with a 5.2 million tonnes per year production capacity, is among the world's largest LNG trains in operation.
History
The Atlantic LNG project was started by Cabot LNG (now Suez) in 1992. In 1993, Cabot LNG, National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago, Amoco and British Gas plc signed the Memorandum of Understanding, and launched a feasibility study of the project. The Atlantic LNG company was formed in July 1995. Construction of the first train started in 1996, and the train was officially opened on 13 March 1999. The first cargo was loaded in April 1999. Train 2 started up on 12 August 2002, Train 3 on 28 April 2003, and Train 4 in December 2005. A feasibility study for the fifth train—Train X—was scheduled to be concluded by December 2007.
Technical features
The total production capacity of Atlantic LNG's four trains is around 14.8 million tonnes per year. The capacity of the Train 1 is 3 million tonnes per year, and the capacity of each of Trains 2 and 3 is 3.3 million tonnes per year. Train 4, which cost $1.2 billion, has a production capacity of 5.2 million tonnes per year. The total storage capacity of Atlantic LNG's facility is 524,000 cubic meters. The total investment of building four LNG trains was US$3.6 billion.
The Train 1 is supplied from the BP-operated fields in the east coast of Trinidad through the NGC-Trinidad-and-Tobago-owned 36 inches (910 mm) diameter pipeline.
Train 2 is supplied from BP land (50%) off the east coast of Trinidad and from BG-operated land (50%) off the north coast (NCMA) through 24 inches (610 mm) diameter pipeline. Train 3 receives 75% of its supply from BP land and 25% from a mix of NCMA gas (as with Train 2) and east coast gas (ECMA) held 50% by BG and 50% by ChevronTexaco.
In 2021, BP Trinidad and Tobago informed the government of Trinidad and Tobago that due to gas production decline, there was insufficient gas to supply Train 1. The government decided despite spending US$250 million dollars on renovating the train to suspend operations for at least two years.
Shareholders
Atlantic LNG is owned by the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC Trinidad and Tobago), Shell, BP, and the Chinese Investment Corporation (CIC).
The stakes in Train 1 are:
The stakes in Trains 2 and 3 are:
The stakes in Train 4 are:
In August 2007, the Vedomosti newspaper reported, that BP has invited Russia's Gazprom to take a stake in Atlantic LNG. | a1ec5502-659f-42cc-a8df-2826b2c4f7f6 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odisha_Sahitya_Akademi"} | Odia-language literary institution
Odisha Sahitya Akademi (Odia: ଓଡ଼ିଶା ସାହିତ୍ୟ ଏକାଡେମୀ) is an institution established in 1957 in Odisha for the active promotion of Odia language and literature. It was created as an autonomous literary organisation. In 1970 it was converted into a society.
Activities
The organisation carries out various activities for promotion of Odia language and literature. Chief among them are as below.
Publications
The organisation publishes Books in Odia, Translations of literature from Odia and vice versa ,and periodicals for promotion of Odia language.
Prizes
The Akademi awards the following prizes in various categories of literature.
Started in 1993, this prize is awarded for lifetime contribution to Odia literature.
This prize is awarded for outstanding contribution to Odia literature in various categories.
Promotion of literature | 8906be6c-a286-46c0-bc15-095bc7f5f620 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_local_officials_convicted_of_federal_corruption_offenses"} | This is a list of notable United States local officials convicted of federal public corruption offenses for conduct while in office. The list is organized by office. Non-notable officials, such as sewer inspectors and zoning commissioners, are not included on this list, although they are routinely prosecuted for the same offenses. Acquitted officials are not listed (if an official was acquitted on some counts, and convicted on others, the counts of conviction are listed). Officials convicted of state crimes are not listed.
For a more complete list see: List of American state and local politicians convicted of crimes.
The criminal statute(s) under which the conviction(s) were obtained are noted, as are the names of notable investigations or scandals, if applicable. If a defendant is convicted of a conspiracy to commit a corruption offense, the substantive offense is listed. Convictions of non-corruption offenses, such as making false statements, perjury, obstruction of justice, electoral fraud, and campaign finance regulations, even if related, are not noted. Nor are derivative convictions, such as tax evasion or money laundering. Officials convicted only of non-corruption offenses are not included on this list, even if indicted on corruption offenses as well. Certain details, including post-conviction relief, if applicable, are included in footnotes.
The Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, the Travel Act (enacted 1961), the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) (enacted 1970), and the federal program bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 666 (enacted 1984), permit the prosecution of such officials. These statutes are also applicable to corrupt federal officials. In addition, federal officials are subject to the federal bribery, graft, and conflict-of-interest crimes contained in Title 18, Chapter 11 of the United States Code, 18 U.S.C. §§ 201–227, which do not apply to state and local officials.
Mayors
City council members
County executives and commissioners
Judges
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null | Australian-born Malaysian professional footballer
Ryan Edward Lambert Lee Kit Seng (born 21 September 1998) is an Australian-born Malaysian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Malaysia Super League club Sabah.
Lambert was born in Kuala Lumpur, but then moved to Thailand and Australia at a young age. He played youth football with Richmond before starting his senior career with the side. After spending some time with Melbourne Victory's youth team, Lambert moved to the Netherlands in 2017, where he played for Achilles '29 and FC Den Bosch.
Early life
Lambert was born in Kuala Lumpur to an English father and Malaysian mother. The family then moved to Thailand, where they stayed for six months before relocating again to Melbourne, Australia.
Lambert has a twin brother, Declan, who is also a professional footballer. The two played together at Clifton Hill, Richmond, Achilles '29 and FC Den Bosch.
Club career
After playing youth football for FC Clifton Hill and Richmond, Lambert made his senior debut for Richmond aged just 15. In 2016, he played for one season for Melbourne Victory's youth team before departing after he suffered a major injury.
In 2018, the Lambert twins moved to Europe, and trialed with sides including Sparta Rotterdam and FC Dordrecht. The pair eventually signed for Dutch Tweede Divisie side Achilles '29. However, they left the club after it suffered relegation at the end of the 2017–18 Tweede Divisie.
The twins then moved to Eerste Divisie side FC Den Bosch in 2018. Their first-team opportunities were initially limited by the arrival of several other foreign players shortly after their signing. However, Lambert made his debut as a substitute in Den Bosch's opening game of the 2019–20 Eerste Divisie and by the 2020–21 Eerste Divisie season, both brothers featured regularly for the side. On 5 October 2020, Lambert tested positive for COVID-19. In March 2021, he was told that his contract with the club would not be extended.
On 28 April 2021, it was announced that Lambert had signed with Kuala Lumpur City. He was part of the team that won the 2021 Malaysia Cup.
Career statistics
Club
As of match played 12 September 2021
Honours
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null | Xiangnan University (Chinese: 湘南学院; commonly abbreviated as XNU) is a full-time public university affiliated with the Hunan Provincial Education Department. The university was formed by amalgamating the former Chenzhou Teachers’ College, Chenzhou Medicine College, Chenzhou Pedagogical Academy, and Chenzhou Teachers Training School. The campus cover an area of over 100 hectares with a building area of 460,000 square meters.
Xiangnan University is a comprehensive university focusing on teachers training and medical education. It includes eight disciplines such as literature, science, medicine, education, management, engineering, economics, law, etc. Xiangnan University consists of 19 faculties and offers 30 Bachelor's degree programs (including two provincial key disciplines). The university has also established two provincial key building disciplines, three provincial fine courses and one provincial key laboratory. There are over 15,000 full-time students enrolled from 27 provinces all over China, plus 5,000 adult learners.
Overview
Xiangnan University has ample teaching and research facilities with a total investment of over ¥57,150,000 ($8,164,285). These include 1600 computers; 9378-seat multimedia classrooms; 974-seat language labs; an e-library with a collection of 1,100,000 volumes, over 2000 overseas and domestic journals and periodicals and various digital databases and network resources. The university has its own Journals and newspaper that appear in China abroad. The university campus computer networks are linked directly to the Internet and electronic reading-rooms; The University is equipped with language labs, multimedia classrooms, micro format classrooms and boasts more than 100 labs for computer science, physics, chemistry and medical science; The university also has advanced teaching and scientific research equipment such as CAI studios, 3D cartoon production system, infra-red spectrum, high performance liquid chromatography, automatic biochemistry analyzer, computer network system etc.. There are also over 200 work practicum bases for teachers training, medical education, tourism management, etc., The University also has a provincial model laboratory? (Basic Chemistry Lab) and three affiliated clinical teaching hospitals. The university has a staff of over 1200, of which 800 are full-time teachers, 120 professors and chief physicians, 300 associate professors and associate chief physicians; over 346 have Master's or Doctor's degrees; six experts who enjoys the special subsidy of the State Council; nine teachers awarded with the title of national or provincial level Prominent Teacher; nine winners of Zeng Xianzi Teachers Foundation Award; nearly 50 members have the title of provincial-level Young Core Instructor; more than 50 notable experts and scholars from China and abroad are also invited to the university as part-time or visiting professors. The university has made great achievements in the field of teaching and scientific research. The university has presided and participated in over 100 national and provincial teaching and scientific research projects in past three years; and published 65 monographs, chiefly and jointly compiled 78 teaching texts and reference books. More than 2100 academic theses were published above the provincial level publications, of which 80 has been recorded in SCI and other international periodicals; more than 90 has been reprinted in full in the Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China. More than 19 projects have been awarded for achievements in scientific research at or above the provincial level.
The State's educational policy is fully implemented in Xiangnan University. The university stresses quality-oriented education and witnessed notable achievements. Students actively participate in all types and levels of entertainment and sports and have won a lot of honours for the university. Xiangnan University won the first prize in the 6th, 7th National University Students' Games (Group B) in terms of the total number of gold medals, medals and group scores; The university hosted the 2007, 2008 CUBA Qualifications. Being host, both the boys’ team and the girls’ team turned in fine performances. In 2003, Xiangnan University won first prize in the National Mathematical Modeling Competition; Xiangnan University also won two state-level prizes in the National University Student's Festival of Arts; In the provincial-level pop test for junior college graduating students majoring in clinical medicine, Among six designed items, Xiangnan University got five number one.
Xiangnan University always places importance on developing international cooperation and exchanges. The University hopes to establish cooperative and exchange relations with foreign universities or foreign countries and regions. | edebfacf-3edb-47d1-a9b1-bd6786efff59 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_districts_in_the_London_Borough_of_Harrow"} | This is a list of districts in the London Borough of Harrow.
The whole borough is covered within the HA postcode area, except one small residential street in Queensbury, Honey Close, which is NW9 thus the NW postcode area.
Neighbourhoods
Electoral wards
Belmont, Canons, Greenhill, Harrow on the Hill, Harrow Weald, Hatch End, Headstone North, Headstone South, Kenton East, Kenton West, Marlborough, Pinner, Pinner South, Queensbury, Rayners Lane, Roxbourne, Roxeth, Stanmore Park, Wealdstone, West Harrow. | 9eaa82a7-d1e8-449f-9f0b-07555e927cce |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9309_Jordan_League"} | Football league season
The 2008–2009 Jordanian pro League is the 57th season of the top-flight football in Jordan.From this season, the name of the league has changed to the Jordanian Pro League . The championship was won by Al-Wehdat, while Shabab Al-Hussein was relegated. A total of 10 teams participated.
Teams
Map
Managerial Changes
Final league standings
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objetivo_Fama_(season_3)"} | Televised Puerto Rican talent show competition
Season of television series
The third season of Objetivo Fama, the Puerto Rican singing talent contest, began on February 11, 2006. This season the judges are Roberto Sueiro, Hilda Ramos, and Fernando Allende. The show was hosted by Mexican singer Yuri.
Final Cutdown
Out of each audition, a group of semi-finalists were selected. Producers and judges then evaluated each and ended up selecting 20 contestants.
The 20 selected contestants were:
* Age was taken at the beginning of the contest (2006)
Weekly Shows
Quarter-Finals
First Show: February 11
The songs performed during the first show were:
The two threatened competitors of the night were: Guadalupe Castro and Sunel Molina.
Second Show: February 18
The songs performed during the second show were:
Guadalupe Castro was selected by the audience to leave the competition, while Sunel Molina got another chance to stay in the show.
The judges harshly criticized Guadalupe and Gustavo's performance of "La Tortura". Hence, Gustavo was threatened to leave the show together with ???.
Third Show: February 25
The songs performed during the third show were:
Gustavo Gutiérrez was selected by the audience to leave the competition, while ??? got another chance to stay in the show.
Elionaid Iñiguez and ??? were threatened to leave the competition.
Weekly Shows
The weekly shows began on February 11, 2006, and are held at the Centro de Bellas Artes of Caguas. Each presentation opens with a huge dance/sing number where all the contestants participate.
Before each presentation, contestants are interviewed by host Yuri, while they present some of the things that happened the preceding week. After the contestants presentation, the three judges evaluate his performance. Guest judges might be brought from time to time.
Threatenings and Eliminations
Each week, based on the contestants performances, the judges threaten a maximum of three contestants to abandon the competition. In the first weeks, the professors "save" one of them based on their week's performance during rehearses. The remaining threatened contestants are then subject to the evaluation of the public during the next week, where the audience has the right to vote for who they want to stay or leave. The results are announced in the next show.
"Con tus Estrellas en Vivo" (2006)
Con tus Estrellas en Vivo is the third compilation album recorded by the reality show Objetivo Fama at their Third Season. The first and only single of this album are "Kilometros", a song of the duo "Sin Bandera", here, interpreted by Arquimides Gonzales and Marlon Fernández (winner of that season).
Track listing
Personnel
Production
Controversies
Some controversies that surfaced during the season.
After the Show | e72170dc-331c-40be-a732-f9e3d0ba2b25 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawel_Lugo"} | Dominican baseball player (born 1994)
Baseball player
Dawel Leoner Lugo Baez (born December 31, 1994) is a Dominican professional baseball infielder for the Mariachis de Guadalajara of the Mexican League. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers.
Career
Toronto Blue Jays
Lugo signed with the Toronto Blue Jays as a 16-year-old international free agent in 2011 for $1.3 million, the largest bonus paid to a Latin American infielder that year. Ben Badler of Baseball America described Lugo in a scouting report as having "a solid swing, good bat speed and makes consistent contact with natural loft, showing the potential for plus power down the road." He played his first season as a member of the Gulf Coast League Blue Jays in 2012, where he batted .224 in 47 games played. Lugo began the 2013 season playing with the Bluefield Blue Jays, where he posted a .297 batting average with 6 home runs and 36 RBIs in 51 games. He was then promoted to the Vancouver Canadians, and played 16 games in which he batted .246 with one home run and 8 RBIs. Lugo was promoted to the Lansing Lugnuts for the 2014 season. He played in a career-high 117 games, where he batted .259 with 4 home runs and 53 RBI. He began 2015 with the Dunedin Blue Jays and was promoted to Lansing in July.
Arizona Diamondbacks
On August 8, 2015, Lugo was traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Cliff Pennington. Arizona assigned him to the Kane County Cougars. In 120 total games between Dunedin, Lansing and Kane County, he batted .270 with four home runs and 47 RBIs. In 2016, he played for both the Visalia Rawhide and the Mobile BayBears, compiling a combined .311 batting average with 17 home runs and 62 RBIs in 127 total games between both clubs. The Diamondbacks added him to their 40-man roster after the 2016 season. Lugo began 2017 with the Jackson Generals.
Detroit Tigers
On July 18, 2017, the Diamondbacks traded Lugo, Sergio Alcántara, and Jose King to the Detroit Tigers for J. D. Martinez. The Tigers assigned him to the Erie SeaWolves, where he finished the season. In 131 games between Jackson and Erie, he slashed .277/.321/.424 with 13 home runs and 65 RBIs.
On May 14, 2018, the Tigers called up Lugo after placing 3B Jeimer Candelario on the 10-day disabled list. The Tigers sent Lugo back down to Toledo the next day before he could make his major league debut. He was called up again on August 30, and made his debut that evening against the New York Yankees. Lugo got his first major league hit in his third at-bat, a double off Chad Green. He hit his first major league home run on September 28 off Josh Hader of the Milwaukee Brewers.
Lugo was assigned to the Triple A Toledo Mud Hens to start the 2019 season. He was recalled on May 16, and hit a three-run homer that afternoon. With the Tigers in 2019, Lugo hit .245 with 6 home runs and 26 RBI in 273 at-bats.
In 2020, Lugo made only 11 plate appearances for the Tigers, hitting a meager .200/.273/.200. On August 17, 2020, Lugo was designated for assignment and was outrighted on August 22. He became a free agent on November 2, 2020.
Mariachis de Guadalajara
On February 15, 2021, Lugo signed with the Mariachis de Guadalajara of the Mexican League. | 9c073858-c8cc-495d-8e88-0e5e38ff51f2 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Wolfgang_Rogosinski"} | Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski FRS (24 September 1894 – 23 July 1964) was a German (later British) mathematician.
Life
Rogosinski was born in Breslau, into a Jewish family. His father, Hermann Rogosinski was Counsel in Wroclaw. Rogosinski studied at Mary Magdalen School from 1900 until 1913. He attended the University of Breslau, University of Freiburg and University of Göttingen, with Edmund Landau. His studies were interrupted by World War I, in which Rogosinski served as a medic.
Rogosinski focused his studies on pure mathematics, physics and philosophy. His interest was analytical problems, especially in series. His dissertation, "New Application of Pfeiffer's method for Dirichlet's divisor problem", caused a stir in 1922.
Career
In 1923, he went to Koenigsberg, first as a lecturer, becoming an associate professor in 1928. He worked for five years with Richard Brauer, Gábor Szegő and Kurt Reidemeister. Rogosinski and Szegő families became friends. His first book Fouriersche Reihen was published in 1930. It provided a student's introduction to Fourier series. The original was translated into English in 1950 and is still used.
Rogosinski married in 1928 in Königsberg. In 1932, his son Peter was born. After the Nazi takeover, his fortunes changed. In 1936, his teaching credentials were withdrawn. He was allowed only in some Jewish schools in Berlin. The Cambridge professors G. H. Hardy and John Edensor Littlewood invited him to come to the United Kingdom. He moved with his wife and child to Cambridge in 1937, with support from the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning.
He published five papers with Hardy from 1943 to 1949, under the title Notes on Fourier series. In 1944 Rogisinski and Hardy published their book Fourier Series, which might be said to be a rewrite, using Lebesgue integral methods, of Rogosinski's 1930 book. He was a teacher in Aberdeen in 1941. In 1945, he became a lecturer at Newcastle University (prior to 1963, King's College, University of Durham). In 1947 he was appointed professor and in 1948 Head of Department.
In 1959, Rogosinski resigned his position at Newcastle. Svend Bundgaard brought him into the Mathematical Institute at Aarhus. In 1954, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1962, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. His intention was to go to the new University of Sussex. He died after a long illness, aged 69, in Aarhus. | 0cf40f16-667e-47d0-b840-1eda32715a8e |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holli_Sullivan"} | American politician from Indiana
Holli Sullivan is an American politician, businesswoman, and engineer who served as the 62nd secretary of state of Indiana. As a member of the Republican Party, she also represented the 78th district in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2014 to 2021.
Early life and education
A native of Vanderburgh County, Indiana, Sullivan graduated from John H. Castle High School. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from the University of Missouri and took business management courses at Lindenwood University.
Early career
Sullivan began her career in the paint department of General Motors. From 1999 to 2001, she was the assistant manager of quality for Toyota Motor North America. She was an engineering consultant at the Center for Applied Research of the University of Southern Indiana and later owned Onward Consulting.
Indiana House of Representatives
In 2014, the district 78 seat in the Indiana House of Representatives was vacated by Suzanne Crouch, who had been appointed Indiana state auditor. House District 78 contains parts of Vanderburgh and Warrick counties. Portions of Evansville as well as Newburgh and McCutchanville are within the borders of the district. Sullivan was elected to fill the position in a caucus by precinct committeemen. She was appointed to the House Ways and Means Committee and the Committee on Roads and Transportation. Sullivan was challenged in the 2014 election by Stephen Melcher but defeated him winning 63.8% of the vote. She was challenged in the 2016 election by Philip Bennett but defeated him winning 66.44% of the vote.
In 2017, she co-authored House Bill 1002, which provided for a long term plan for sustaining roads and bridges in Indiana including a phase-in shift of all gas tax to be dedicated to a dedicated infrastructure fund. That same session, she authored a bill which created a strategic plan to reduce cervical cancer.
Indiana Secretary of State
In 2021, Holli was named the 62nd secretary of state of Indiana by Governor Eric Holcomb.
In June 2022, at the Indiana Republican Party's convention to select their candidates for the general election, Sullivan was defeated by Diego Morales in what was considered an upset. | 291e9ede-edcf-4ee0-9de5-745c02ca78db |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalumasortoq"} | The Nalumasortoq or Naluumasortoq is a 2,045 meter high mountain in southern Greenland, in the Kujalleq municipality.
Geography
The mountain rises not far from Nanortalik, in the mountainous peninsula of the mainland which forms the eastern side of the Tasermiut Fjord.
The Nalumasortoq closes an east-facing valley that lies between the Ulamertorsuaq and Ketil 60°24′59″N 44°30′44″W / 60.41639°N 44.51222°W / 60.41639; -44.51222 mountain peaks and with its 2,045 m it is the tallest peak of the group. Glaciers only appear below 1,600 meters in the east, NW and SW. Its massive western wall is especially popular among mountain climbers.
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The 1911 Wabash Little Giants football team represented Wabash College during the 1911 college football season. In College Football Hall of Fame inductee Jesse Harper's 3rd season at Wabash, the Little Giants compiled a 3–3–1 record, and outscored their opponents 50 to 43.
Schedule | 9875f5c4-4739-47bf-bfd5-c821fb7bf9e2 |
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Podosphaera tridactyla var. tridactyla is a plant pathogen infecting almond. | c59d83e5-889c-47f5-becf-cd21583838a8 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Amanullah_Khan_Award"} | The Amir Amanullah Khan Award is the highest civilian award of Afghanistan. It was instituted in 2006 and is bestowed by the Government of Afghanistan to Afghan and foreign nationals in recognition of their services to Afghanistan. The award is named for Ghazi Amanullah Khan, the Sovereign of the Kingdom of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929. The citation on the reverse of the medal states, "Nishan-e dawlati Ghazi Amir Amanullah Khan", meaning "State Order of Ghazi Amir Amanullah Khan."
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null | Indian politician
Amritlal Kalidas Patel (born 1 July 1931) is an Indian politician and physician. He is a former union minister of state in Government of India. He served as Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government from 1998 to 1999. He was a senior leader of Gujarat Bharatiya Janata Party. He represented Mehsana constituency in the Lok Sabha from 1984 to 1999.
Early life
A. K. Patel was born on 1 July 1931 in Vadu (now in Mehsana district, Gujarat, India). His social roots and family belong to Betalis Kadva Patel Samaj, Kalol, Gandhinagar district of Gujarat.
He completed MBBS from B. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad. He practiced medicine in Vijapur for many years.
Political career
A doctor by profession, Patel entered politics and served as a member of Gujarat Assembly from 1975 to 1984.
Member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly
He was elected as a MLA (Dhara Sabhya) from Vijapur seat from 1975 to 1984 in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly (Gujarat Vidhan Sabha) for two terms. He was elected as an independent in 1975. He joined BJP when it was founded in 1980.
Member of Parliament
Patel was elected as a Member of Parliament from Mehsana five times. He was elected to the 8th Lok Sabha in 1984, the 9th 1989, 10th in 1991, 11th in 1996 and 12th in 1998. He was also elected to the Rajya Sabha for Gujarat from 3 April 2000 to 2 April 2006.
He was one of the two earliest BJP MPs in Lok Sabha.
Political offices
Patel served as Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers, Government of India in 1998.
Social and educational work
Patel provided leadership to various organizations surrounding Vijapur District- Mehsana. He was one of pioneers to start Pilvai College under management of Uttar-Purva Gujarat Uchcha Kelvani Mandal (society promoting education in local area) in 1960 along with Ramchandra Amin, Chagan Bha Patel, Gangaram Raval and Motibhai Chaudhary.
He served as Managing Trustee of S.R.S.T. General Hospital, Vijapur; Asha Education Trust; Girls College, Vijapur; and Trustee, St. Joseph Public School, Vijapur. | 58f93b4c-ebf0-4488-83bc-17da9655feac |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Township,_Darke_County,_Ohio"} | Township in Ohio, United States
Monroe Township is one of the twenty townships of Darke County, Ohio, United States. The 2010 census found 1,735 people in the township, 1,347 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.
Geography
Located in the southeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:
The village of Pitsburg is located in northwestern Monroe Township.
Name and history
It is one of twenty-two Monroe Townships statewide.
Monroe Township was established in 1836 from land given by Twin Township.
Government
The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer, who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees. The current trustees are Rick Oswalt, Kevin McKibben, and Scott Sease, and the clerk is Dawn Oswalt. | f4233c96-2c07-4b40-8a0a-0a5230d04c7f |
null | Professor and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)
Majella Franzmann is a professor in the Department of Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA).
Early life and education
Majella Maria Franzmann was born in 1952.
Franzmann completed her PhD at the University of Queensland in 1990 in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics. The title of her thesis was "An analysis of the poetical structure and form of the Odes of Solomon". While Franzmann was working on her doctorate she also spent time at the University of Tübingen on a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship. On completion of her doctorate she was the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship from 1992 to 1993. She renewed her Fellowship in 1995 and 2007.
Career
Franzmann was Associate Dean (Research) and Chair of Academic Board at the University of New England from 2004 to 2006. From 2008 to early 2010 she was Pro Vice-Chancellor Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She then returned to Australia to take up the position of Pro-Vice Chancellor Humanities at Curtin University from 2010 to 2015. Franzmann is now an Honorary Professor in the Department of Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney.
Franzmann was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2001 in the Classical Studies/Religion Section.
In 2001 Franzmann was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal for services to Australian society and the humanities in philosophy and religion.
In 2013 Franzmann was elected as a member of the Australian Council of Learned Academies for a three-year term.
Franzmann serves on the editorial board of the international journal published by Brill, Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies.
Honours
In 2006 the Australian Association for the Study of Religion (AASR) Women's Caucus invited Franzmann to give the annual Penny Magee Memorial Lecture. The title of her talk was, "Tehat the Weaver: Women's Experience in Manichaeism in Fourth-century Roman Kellis".
Publications
Books
Edited books
Book chapters
Journals
Edited journals | 3e707ff8-8556-4a50-b22c-fb0e6db3cc99 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._A._Lendon"} | Australian medical practitioner
Alfred Austin Lendon (c. 1877 – 29 June 1935) was a medical doctor, of whom it was said few practitioners have exerted a wider influence on medical science in South Australia.
History
Lendon was born in Kent and educated at Maidstone Grammar School, King's College, London, and University College, London, where he gained his MD. and MRCS. degrees, and arrived in South Australia in 1883.
In 1884 he was, as a Government Medical Officer, sent to Bordertown to suppress an outbreak of smallpox, and was a member of the Medical Board from 1899 to 1932 and its president from 1912.
In 1885 he was elected to the board of the Adelaide Children's Hospital, which at the time consisted only of the Way block, and was active in three major stages of expansion. He replaced Dr. William Peel Nesbitt (died 1894) as honorary medical officer from 1885, served as consulting surgeon, and succeeded the founder Dr Allan Campbell as Vice-President, and was senior vice-president when he died.
He served as honorary physician to the Adelaide Hospital 1891–1894. He was president of the South Australian branch of the British Medical Association for two separate terms.
He was President of the District Trained Nursing Society from 1898, and saw it progress from a near-bankrupt organization to a vigorous, progressive and well-endowed institution. He also served for several years as national president of the Australasian Trained Nurses Association. He was appointed patron of both organizations on his retirement.
He was an occasional lecturer at the University of Adelaide and several collections of his lectures have been published.
Publications
He also edited several books on hydatid disease by John Davies Thomas (1844–1893).
Other interests
He was founder and first president of the Numismatic Society of South Australia, president of the Commonwealth Club 1919–1922, and a longtime member of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, SA branch.
Family
Lendon married Lucy Isabel Rymill (31 March 1865 – 22 April 1929), daughter of Henry Rymill on 26 August 1889.
They had a home on Brougham place, North Adelaide
He died after a long illness, and was privately cremated.
Archives
The State Library of South Australia holds a collection of Papers of Dr. Alfred Austin Lendon | c475bd16-f60e-48ff-852b-1ad2c4e16c00 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_Allen_High_School"} | Public secondary school in Santa Rosa, California , United States
Elsie Allen High School (EAHS) is a high school located in Santa Rosa, California at 599 Bellevue Ave. It is part of the Santa Rosa High School District, which is itself part of Santa Rosa City Schools. The primary feeder school is Cook Middle School. The school is named after Elsie Allen.
History
Elsie Allen High School was founded in 1994. The first graduating class of the school was in 1997. It was named after Pomo basket weaver and educator Elsie Allen. The University Center at Elsie Allen High School is the recipient of the prestigious 2010 California School Boards Association Golden Bell Award. The University Center at Elsie Allen High School guarantees admission to Sonoma State University and offers an annual savings of $10,000 in college tuition for students accepted in to the program. In 2009, the University Center boasted the only Presidential Scholar ever to come from a Sonoma County public school; Jesse Nee-Vogelman earned perfect scores in four portions of the SAT. In 2011, parents, faculty and community members came together to support Elsie Allen high School students by creating the Elsie Allen High School Foundation. The non-profit Foundation supports students by providing mentors, job shadows, career days and scholarships to college and trade schools. In 2017, the Elsie Allen High Foundation received a $250,000 grant to help set up a $1 million endowment fund to provide Elise Allen High student scholarships for decades to come.
Campus
The campus is also home to Midrose High School, an alternative school. Midrose is located on the northside of the campus.
Extracurricular activities
Clubs
Elsie Allen has a number of student clubs, including the California Scholarship Federation, Rotary Interact, Key Club, and a Gay-Straight Alliance.
Journalism and yearbook
The school yearbook is called Phoenix and has been published annually in the spring since 1995. The school newspaper goes by the name The Tracker and has been published continuously since fall 1994. The school graduated its first class in 1997
Sports
Elsie Allen has an American football team. Starting in 2011, they stopped playing in the North Bay League and became an independent team. The school also has a men's club rugby team. Elsie Allen also has boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, and track and field. There is also badminton, swim team and girls tennis.
Performing arts
The Arts Program has twice won the Congressional Art Competition. The Drama Program has received a multitude of awards over the past several years for acting, directing, and overall performance, as well as the top award for playwriting at the annual Lenaea Festival. The Elsie Allen High Drum Line performs regularly for visiting dignitaries at businesses and community events.
Former principals
In 2018, Principal Mary Gail Stablein retired after serving as Elsie Allen High School's principal for 16 years. Stablein focused on preparing students for careers and higher education, boosting on campus the number of college-prep courses, student support services and job training and scholarship opportunities.
The founding principal was Carnell Edwards. He died in his home state of North Carolina in May 2011 of a heart attack. | e2adac03-e2fe-4a80-bb6c-7b4622709e53 |
null | Spanish footballer
Unai Veiga González (born 9 October 1998) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Unionistas de Salamanca CF, on loan from UD Las Palmas.
Club career
Born in Portugalete, Biscay, Basque Country, Veiga played for Athletic Bilbao and Danok Bat CF before joining Real Sociedad's youth setup in June 2014. He made his senior debut with the latter's C-team on 26 August 2017, playing the last 25 minutes in a 0–2 Tercera División away loss against SCD Durango.
Veiga scored his first senior goal on 23 September 2017, in a 2–1 win at SD Deusto, and scored a brace in a 4–0 away success over Sodupe UC the following 14 April. After scoring seven goals for the C's, he first appeared with the reserves on 13 May 2018 by starting in a 3–1 away defeat of Peña Sport FC in the Segunda División B.
On 18 July 2019, after featuring regularly for the B-team, Veiga renewed his contract until 2021. He contributed with one goal in 18 appearances overall during the 2020–21 campaign, as his club returned to the Segunda División after 59 years.
On 3 June 2021, Veiga signed a three-year contract with UD Las Palmas in the second division. He made his professional debut on 3 October, coming on as a second-half substitute for Fabio González in a 4–1 home routing of FC Cartagena.
On 4 August 2022, Veiga was loaned to Primera Federación side Algeciras CF for the season. In January 2023, he joined Unionistas de Salamanca CF until the end of the season. | 4fc60265-0959-47e2-b818-9c9a2803d040 |
null | Boubaker Ayadi (Arabic: أبوبكر العيادي), also spelled Aboub-baker Al-Ayadi (born March 6, 1949, in Jendouba) is a Tunisian author.
Boubaker has lived in Paris since 1988 and has published several books in Arabic and French.
Biography
Boubaker completed high school in Jendouba and attended university in Tripoli, Besançon then Paris. He has been a teacher since October 1967. He wrote for the Tunisian newspaper al-Sabah from 1980 to 1987.
Selected works | 76a2ef10-f41c-4c1a-adea-44dc538b50d9 |
null | Village in Andhra Pradesh, India
Moturu is a village in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Gudivada mandal of Gudivada revenue division. It is one of the villages in the mandal to be a part of Andhra Pradesh Capital Region. | a0752897-abd6-4b54-a80a-f9b1195a0543 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stjepan_Damjanovi%C4%87"} | Stjepan Damjanović (born 2 November 1946) is a Croatian linguist, philologist and paleoslavist. He worked as a regular professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. He is a former President of Matica hrvatska.
Biography
He was born on 2 November 1946 in Strizivojna near Đakovo. He graduated Yugoslav languages and literatures and Russian at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, where he has been working ever since. In 1971 he served as an assistant to the professor Eduard Hercigonja at the Department for Old Church Slavonic (today called Department for Old Church Slavonic language and Croatian Glagolitic), since 1982 serving as a docent and since 1986 as a regular professor. In the period 1992–2008 he served as a head of the department. At the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences he received his M.A. (1977) and Ph.D. (1982) in theses on languages of medieval Croatian texts. Damjanović retired from teaching at the Faculty in 2017.
In 1998 he became an associate member, and in 2004 a regular member of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
He also taught courses at the universities of Osijek, Rijeka, Mostar, Bochum, Graz and Prague. He served as a president of the Committee of Croatian Slavists and organized the First Croatian Congress of Slavists in Pula. In 1996–2000 he was a member of the Administrative Council of the University of Zagreb, and in the period 1999-2002 he was the Secretary-General of Matica hrvatska. He founded and edited Matica's publishing series Inozemni kroatisti ("Foreign Croatists").
Work
Damjanović published about 60 scientific papers, 80 recensions and about a dozen books. Some of his notable books are: | f929fd49-95f5-4be2-abf2-b54a619cbf67 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Colne"} | A village and civil parish in Essex, England
Human settlement in England
White Colne is a village and parish in Essex, England, on the north side of the River Colne, opposite Earls Colne, and on the Colchester road, 4 miles (6.4 km) East South East of Halstead. It traces its history back to the Domesday Book and beyond. There is evidence of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic settlement in the area. White Colne railway station was a station on the Colne Valley and Halstead Railway.
The village church is dedicated to St Andrew. The German film actor Anton Diffring is buried in the churchyard. | 7437ae07-3ed7-4404-913a-2f873057962b |
null | South African climber
Erin Sterkenburg (born 20 March 2003) is a South African climber.
Sterkenburg began climbing in 2017 and has since won several national youth championships. At the 2020 African Championships, she was able to win the combination and qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. | 12d12f1d-00fd-46d7-91a3-f7e990a9dd58 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Austin_Butterfield"} | Musical artist
James Austin Butterfield (May 18, 1837 – July 6, 1891) was an American composer. His best-known composition is When You and I Were Young, Maggie, first published in 1866 (lyrics by George W. Johnson). Butterfield was born in England in 1837 and emigrated to the United States in 1856.
He was also the second president of the Music Teachers National Association, in 1878.
James A. Butterfield died in Chicago, Illinois and is buried in Graceland Cemetery. | 9ac7b5f2-4de9-4c4e-aac0-d0b5a6ab6e2a |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Institute_for_Marine_Observations"} | The Joint Institute for Marine Observations (JIMO) is a research institute that is sponsored jointly by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) and University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The JIMO research themes are: | 6d7b7a26-1d8f-4ce6-81a9-bea97e1ebc87 |
null | Overview of the events of 1788 in music
Overview of the events of 1788 in music
Events
Opera
Classical music
Methods and theory writings
Births
Deaths | eebff6b0-d4e8-4064-8b14-360b5db0de1a |
null | Hiad or variation, may refer to: | 7169611c-566b-470b-ad81-67d8b167e61a |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrole"} | In organoiron chemistry, a ferrole is a type of diiron complex containing the (OC)3FeC4R4 heterocycle that is pi-bonded to a Fe(CO)3 group. These compounds have Fe-Fe bonds (ca. 252 pm) and semi-bridging CO ligands (Fe-C distances = 178, 251 pm). They are typically air-stable, soluble in nonpolar solvents, and red-orange in color.
Synthesis
Ferroles typically arise by the reaction of alkynes with iron carbonyls. Such reactions are known to generate many products, e.g. complexes of cyclopentadienones and para-quinones.
Another route involves the desulfurization of thiophenes (SC4R4) by iron carbonyls, shown in the following idealized equation:
Fe3(CO)12 + SC4R4 → Fe2(CO)6C4R4 + FeS + 6 CO
An unusual route to ferroles involves treatment of Collman's reagent with trimethylsilyl chloride (tms = (CH3)3Si):
2 Na2Fe(CO)4 + 4 tmsCl → Fe2(CO)6C4(Otms)4 + 2 CO + 4 NaCl
Reactions
Some ferroles react with tertiary phosphines to give the substituted flyover complex Fe2(CO)5(PR3)(C4R4CO). | ad7ca145-0a97-409c-b139-2cef4c2819bb |
null | West Indian cricketer
Andrew Fitz Donald Jackman (born 27 January 1963) is a former Guyanese cricketer. Jackman was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Georgetown, Guyana.
Jackman made his first-class debut for Demerara against Berbice in the 1981/82 West Indian cricket season. From the 1981/82 season to the 1989/90 season, he represented Demerara in 7 first-class matches. He also played first-class cricket for Guyana, representing the team in 28 first-class matches between the 1981/82 season and the 1989/90 season, with his final first-class appearance for them against Barbados. As well as Demerara and Guyana, he also played a handful of first-class matches for West Indies B, West Indies Board President's XI and West Indies Under-23s.
In his career total of 42 first-class matches, he scored 2,238 runs at a batting average of 37.93, with 9 half centuries and 5 centuries and a high score of 125. In the field he took 25 catches and with the ball he took 3 wickets at a bowling average of 16.33, with best figures of 2/25.
It was for Guyana that he made his debut in List A cricket in 1994 against Jamaica. From the 1983/84 season to the 1990/91 season, he represented Guyana in 14 List A matches, the last of which came against Barbados. Jackman also played 4 List A matches West Indies B.
He later represented the Nottinghamshire Cricket Board in List A matches, making his debut for the Board against Scotland in the 1999 NatWest Trophy. From 1999 to 2002, he represented the Board in 4 List A matches, the last of which came against Cumberland in the 1st round of the 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy which was played in 2002. In total, Jackman played 22 career List A matches, during which he scored 466 runs at an average of 23.30, with 4 half centuries and a high score of 73, while in the field he took 9 catches. | 33bb0cfe-f3be-4a9e-878e-365b328212cb |
null | Kingdom Bank Limited, commonly referred to as Kingdom Bank, is a Christian bank in the United Kingdom. They provide deposit accounts, mortgages, and insurance brokering, with the vision of helping UK churches to grow. The Bank’s range of products is designed to help individuals and organisations steward their finances for the growth of God’s Kingdom and support Gospel Ministries with property projects.
History
It was founded in the early 1950s by Pastor George Oldershaw as an informal fund to finance the development of churches within the Assemblies of God movement in Great Britain and Ireland. In 1954 the fund became a Registered Charity known as Assemblies of God Property Trust. The organisation saw slow but steady growth and was authorised by the Bank of England in the 1980s and subsequently by the Financial Services Authority.
On 1 January 2005 Kingdom Bank Limited was launched as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Assemblies of God Property Trust.
In May 2009, Kingdom Bank expanded its insurance business by purchasing the insurance business of Stewardship, a Christian charity. Kingdom Bank Insurance Brokering is primarily designed for Churches and Christian charities.
In September 2019, Kingdom Bank announced that the Assemblies of God Property Trust intended to allow Stewardship, with a group of Christian philanthropists, to purchase the bank. The deal was approved by the regulators and confirmed in March 2020. With a shared passion to see churches, charities and Christian workers thrive, this new, shared ownership, has positioned the Bank towards future growth. | 89a4af1e-ea69-46cc-be50-5aaf3ef139ea |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muangthalang_School"} | Public school in Phuket, Thailand
Muangthalang School is a public secondary school in Thalang District, Phuket, Thailand. This school belongs to the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 14, Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC), Ministry of Education. The school was founded at Thalang, Phuket, Thailand in 1971 as a district school.
Muangthalang School is located in the historical site of Thalang according to the Burmese attacked. Thao Thep Kasattri and Thao Sri Sunthon, The two heroines, best known for their bravery, sacrifice, and patriotism who repelled a five-week invasion by Burmese in 1785, by dressing up as male soldiers and rallying Siamese troops during the reign of King Rama I—the first king of Chakri dynasty.
Symbols
Curriculum
The school follows the national Curriculum of Basic Education, BE 2544 (2001 CE), providing six years of secondary education, Mathayom 1–6. Many different programs are available for different needs, which aim to develop students' potentialities. | d2b241b5-4aac-4970-99f6-77da3060cb24 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_record"} | Entirety of the layers of rock strata
The geologic record in stratigraphy, paleontology and other natural sciences refers to the entirety of the layers of rock strata. That is, deposits laid down by volcanism or by deposition of sediment derived from weathering detritus (clays, sands etc.). This includes all its fossil content and the information it yields about the history of the Earth: its past climate, geography, geology and the evolution of life on its surface. According to the law of superposition, sedimentary and volcanic rock layers are deposited on top of each other. They harden over time to become a solidified (competent) rock column, that may be intruded by igneous rocks and disrupted by tectonic events.
Correlating the rock record
At a certain locality on the Earth's surface, the rock column provides a cross section of the natural history in the area during the time covered by the age of the rocks. This is sometimes called the rock history and gives a window into the natural history of the location that spans many geological time units such as ages, epochs, or in some cases even multiple major geologic periods—for the particular geographic region or regions. The geologic record is in no one place entirely complete for where geologic forces one age provide a low-lying region accumulating deposits much like a layer cake, in the next may have uplifted the region, and the same area is instead one that is weathering and being torn down by chemistry, wind, temperature, and water. This is to say that in a given location, the geologic record can be and is quite often interrupted as the ancient local environment was converted by geological forces into new landforms and features. Sediment core data at the mouths of large riverine drainage basins, some of which go 7 miles (11 km) deep thoroughly support the law of superposition.[clarification needed]
However using broadly occurring deposited layers trapped within differently located rock columns, geologists have pieced together a system of units covering most of the geologic time scale using the law of superposition, for where tectonic forces have uplifted one ridge newly subject to erosion and weathering in folding and faulting the strata, they have also created a nearby trough or structural basin region that lies at a relative lower elevation that can accumulate additional deposits. By comparing overall formations, geologic structures and local strata, calibrated by those layers which are widespread, a nearly complete geologic record has been constructed since the 17th century.
Discordant strata example
Correcting for discordancies can be done in a number of ways and utilizing a number of technologies or field research results from studies in other disciplines.
In this example, the study of layered rocks and the fossils they contain is called biostratigraphy and utilizes amassed geobiology and paleobiological knowledge. Fossils can be used to recognize rock layers of the same or different geologic ages, thereby coordinating locally occurring geologic stages to the overall geologic timeline.
The pictures of the fossils of monocellular algae in this USGS figure were taken with a scanning electron microscope and have been magnified 250 times.
In the U.S. state of South Carolina three marker species of fossil algae are found in a core of rock whereas in Virginia only two of the three species are found in the Eocene Series of rock layers spanning three stages and the geologic ages from 37.2–55.8 MA.
Comparing the record about the discordance in the record to the full rock column shows the non-occurrence of the missing species and that portion of the local rock record, from the early part of the middle Eocene is missing there. This is one form of discordancy and the means geologists use to compensate for local variations in the rock record. With the two remaining marker species it is possible to correlate rock layers of the same age (early Eocene and latter part of the middle Eocene) in both South Carolina and Virginia, and thereby "calibrate" the local rock column into its proper place in the overall geologic record.
Lithology vs paleontology
Consequently, as the picture of the overall rock record emerged, and discontinuities and similarities in one place were cross-correlated to those in others, it became useful to subdivide the overall geologic record into a series of component sub-sections representing different sized groups of layers within known geologic time, from the shortest time span stage to the largest thickest strata eonothem and time spans eon. Concurrent work in other natural science fields required a time continuum be defined, and earth scientists decided to coordinate the system of rock layers and their identification criteria with that of the geologic time scale. This gives the pairing between the physical layers of the left column and the time units of the center column in the table at right.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_Bourdelle"} | Art museum in Paris
The Musée Bourdelle (English: Bourdelle Museum) is an art museum located at 18, rue Antoine Bourdelle, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, France, located in the old studio of French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929). The museum is open daily, except Mondays. Admission to the permanent collections is free. The nearest metro stations are Falguière and Montparnasse-Bienvenüe.
The museum preserves the studio of sculptor Antoine Bourdelle and provides an example of Parisian ateliers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was Bourdelle's active studio from 1885–1929. In 1922, Bourdelle began plans to turn his studio into a museum. In the early 1930s Gabriel Cognacq provided funds to purchase the studio and thus avoid dispersing the artist's remaining works. The museum was inaugurated in 1949, expanded in 1961 by architect Henri Gautruche, and again in 1992 by Christian de Portzamparc. A second Bourdelle garden-museum, in Égreville, was established by his heirs in the late 1960s. It hosts another 56 of his sculptures.
Today the museum contains more than 500 works including marble, plaster, and bronze statues, paintings, pastels, fresco sketches, and Bourdelle's personal collection of works by artists including Eugène Carrière, Eugène Delacroix, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, and Auguste Rodin. It contains the original plaster casts of some of his finest works including 21 studies of Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as document archives and his copies of Greek and medieval works.
Since June 2012, the museum's visitors follow a different path through the permanent collections: educational, chronological and attuned to the work, highlighting Bourdelle's artistic evolution.
Bourdelle Museum is one of the fourteen Museums of the City of Paris that have been incorporated since 1 January 2013 in the French public institution Paris Musées. | 07575882-54d8-40c6-afe2-740199539f48 |