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The snowboard events at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games will be held on March 12, 2018 and March 16, 2018 at Bokwang Phoenix Park .

History 
This is the first time that the discipline is officially represented at the Games. At the earlier edition of the Games, snowboarding was included with para-alpine skiing events .

Program 
Two types of events will be present:
 Snowboard Cross: competition where the people race against each other on a course with a whole range of obstacles: banked turns, rollers, spines, jumps, etc.
 Banked Slalom: competition whose competitors make the route through gates
Disability categories are either upper body (SB-UL) or lower body (SB-LL-1 and SB-LL-2).  There are ten medals people can win.  They are in SBX: SB-LL1 Men, SB-LL1 Women, SB-LL2M, SB-LL2W, SB-UL Men; BSL: SB-LL1 Men, SB-LL1 Women, SB-LL2M, SB-LL2W, and SB-UL Men.

Medal summary

Medal table

Women's events

Men's events

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Sports at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
The Wheelchair Curling event at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games will be held at  the Gangneung Curling Centre.

Rules 
Each team needs to have one or more women.

Medal summary

Medal table

Medalists

Teams 
Team members for all countries are listed in the table below.

Round robin standings

Round robin results
All times are local (UTC+9).

Summary

Draw 1
Saturday, 10 March, 14:35

Draw 2
Saturday, 10 March, 19:35

Draw 3
Sunday, 11 March, 9:35

Draw 4
Sunday, 11 March, 14:35

Draw 5
Sunday, 11 March, 19:35

Draw 6
Monday, 12 March, 9:35

Draw 7
Monday, 12 March, 14:35

Draw 8
Monday, 12 March, 19:35

Draw 9
Tuesday, 13 March, 9:35

Draw 10
Tuesday, 13 March, 14:35

Draw 11
Tuesday, 13 March, 19:35

Draw 12
Wednesday, 14 March, 9:35

Draw 13
Wednesday, 14 March, 14:35

Draw 14
Wednesday, 14 March, 19:35

Draw 15
Thursday, 15 March, 9:35

Draw 16
Thursday, 15 March, 14:35

Draw 17
Thursday, 15 March, 19:35

Playoffs

Semifinals
Friday, 16 March, 15:35

Bronze medal game
Saturday, 17 March, 9:35
Gold medal game
Saturday, 17 March, 14:35

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Sports at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Curling
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera ("academy of fine arts of Brera"), also known as the Accademia di Brera or Brera Academy, is a state-run  art school in Milan, Italy.  Its main building is the Palazzo Brera. The Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan's main public museum for art, is also located in the building. The Palazzo Brera was built in 1615 to designs by the Milanese architect Francesco Maria Richini  (1584–1658).

The academy was founded in 1776 by Maria Theresa of Austria.  Other important institutions were also housed in the Palazzo Brera during that time. These included an observatory, botanical gardens, science laboratories, a library, and the Scuole Palatine (schools for philosophy and law). The Pinacoteca di Brera as been located in the building since 1806.
In 1891, the first Triennale di belle arti exposition was held at the academy. The exposition took place every three years. Each exhibition had a special theme. The first one was devoted to new trends in the plastic arts. The exhibit included some of the first examples of Italians painting in the pointillist style.

The academy today

Like other state-run art academies in Italy, the Accademia di Brera falls under the Italian ministry of education and research. It awards first- and second-level degrees, specialised degrees, master's degrees and doctorates.

The accademia has three departments:
 Visual arts, with courses in painting, sculpture, decorative art, and graphic art
 Design and applied art, which has courses in art restoration, design for business, new technologies of art, and stage design
 Communication and education, with courses in conservation of cultural heritage, and in art education.

The academy has about 3,800 students, including about 1,000 foreign students (mostly postgraduates).
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Abolfazl Anvari (9 February 1938 – 14 February 2018) was an Iranian heavyweight freestyle wrestler. He was born in Saveh, Iran. He won bronze medals at the 1966 and 1969 World Championships and at the 1970 Asian Games. He placed fourth at the 1967 World Championships and sixth at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Anvari died on 14 February 2018 in Tehran at the age of 80.

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Iranian wrestlers
Pier Paolo Capponi (9 June 1938 – 15 February 2018) was an Italian actor and screenwriter. He was sometimes credited as Norman Clark. He was known for his roles in The Cat o' Nine Tails, Valerie Inside Outside, and in A Season of Giants.

Capponi died on 15 February 2018 in Torri in Sabina at the age of 79.

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2018 deaths
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
Italian screenwriters
Heli Lääts (24 June 1932 – 16 February 2018) was an Estonian singer (mezzo-soprano). Her career began in the mid-1950s. Lääts performed estrada, chamber, pop, polka, and jazz music.

During her career, Lääts also recorded and performed a number of children's songs. She also released several albums, recorded music for Eesti Raadio, and recorded songs with Mikk Mikiver and Jaak Joala. Some of her best-known songs in Estonia include "Tsirkus," "Oma laulu ei leia ma üles," and "Tänav, pink ja puu." 

Lääts died at age 85 on 16 February 2018 in Tallinn.

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Hans Rinner (18 March 1963 – 16 February 2018) was an Austrian businessman and football administrator. From 7 December 2009 until his death, he was the President of the Austrian Football Bundesliga. Rinner was also the owner and manager of a refrigeration company. He was born in Semriach, Austria.

From 2007 to 2010 he was president of SK Sturm Graz and then until 2016, member of the Supervisory Board. Since 2016 he was honorary president of the club.

Rinner died on 16 February 2018 in Salzburg, Austria of pancreatic cancer at the age of 54.

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 FRIGOPOL

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Blas Calzada Terrados (8 June 1937 – 17 February 2018), was a Spanish economist. He was born in Valladolid, Spain. He served as Chairman of Instituto Nacional de Estadística from 1977 through 1979. He later served as President of Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores from 2001 through 2004.

Calzada Terrados was one of the founders of the economy magazine Cambio 16. Later he held the chairmanship of the Technical Advisory Committee of the IBEX 35 (CAT)  and president of the La Salle Innovation Park.

Calzada Terrados died of stomach cancer in Madrid on 17 February 2018 at the age of 80.

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Idrissa Ouédraogo (21 January 1954 – 18 February 2018) was a Burkinabé movie director, screenwriter and movie producer. He was born in Banfora, Burkina Faso. He was best known for his movies Tilaï, which won the Grand Prix at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival and Samba Traoré (1993), which was nominated for the Silver Bear award at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Ouedraogo died in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on 18 February 2018 at the age of 64.

References

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 Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
 Ouédraogo on Kini and Adams
 Film references
 Idrissa Ouedraogo  at Culturebase.com

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Emmanuele Kanyama (25 December 1962 – 17 February 2018) was a Malawian Roman Catholic bishop. 

Kanyama was ordained to the priesthood in 1990. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dedza, Malawi, from 2007 until his death.

Kanyama died of complications from diabetes on 17 February 2018 at the age of 55.

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The flag of Georgia (; sakartvelos sakhelmtsʼipo drosha), also known as the Five Cross Flag (; khutjvriani drosha) has a white rectangle, with in its central portion a large red cross that extends to the edge of the flag. In the four corners there are four Bolnur-Katskhuri crosses of the same color.

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Georgia
National symbols of Georgia (country)
Puerto Rico FC is a football club which plays in Puerto Rico.

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Didier Lockwood (11 February 1956 – 18 February 2018) was a French jazz violinist. He played in the progressive rock/jazz fusion band Magma in the 1970s. He was known for his use of electric amplification and experimentation on different sounds on the electric violin. He was born in Calais, France.

Lockwood died on 18 February 2018 in Paris of a heart attack at the age of 62.

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A region within Somalia.

Demographics
Most residents belong to the Dhulbahante tribe.

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Dependent territories
Wildflowers is the second solo studio album by American musician Tom Petty, released on November 1, 1994. The album was the first released by Petty after signing a contract with Warner Bros. Records and the first of three albums produced by Rick Rubin. 

Four singles were released from the album between 1994 and 1995, the most successful of which, "You Don't Know How It Feels", reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Album Rock Tracks chart for one week. The song named after the album was also popular.

Rolling Stone placed Wildflowers at number 12 on their list of the best albums of the 1990s.

Track listing

All The Rest

References

1994 albums
Tom Petty
Nimki Mukhiya is an Indian television series that premiered on 28 August 2017. It is broadcast on Star Bharat. Bhumika Gurung and Abhishek Sharma play the main protagonists.

2017 Indian television series debuts
Saam Daam Dand Bhed is India's political drama TV serial. The show is basically genre of revenge drama with political flair in it. The storyline of the show is loosely inspired from Netflix mega show House of Cards. It is produced by Shakuntalam Telefilms. The show went on air on August 28, 2017 on Star Bharat.

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Hindi-language television series
2017 Indian television series debuts
A triacontagon or 30-gon is a shape with 30 sides and 30 corners.

Regular triacontagon 
All sides of a regular triacontagon are the same length. Each corner is 168°. All corners added together equal 5040°.

Area 
The amount of space a regular triacontagon takes up is

a is the length of one of its sides.

30
A tetracontagon or 40-gon is a shape with 40 sides and 40 corners.

Regular tetracontagon 
All sides of a regular tetracontagon are the same length. Each corner is 171°. All corners added together equal 6840°.

Area 
The amount of space a regular tetracontagon takes up is

a is the length of one of its sides.

40
"Take It Off" is a song by American singer Kesha.  It is the fourth single from her debut album, Animal.  It was released by RCA Records on July 13, 2010.  The song has reached the top ten in the US and Canada and the top 15 in the UK.  The song was certified platinum in the US for shipments of one million copies there.

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2010 songs
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Below Her Mouth is a 2016 Canadian erotic and romantic drama movie. It premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. It was filmed in Toronto over three and a half weeks. It had an all-female production crew.

Plot
Jasmine is a successful fashion editor. She's living with her fiance in Toronto
 
On her night out to the city with her best friend, she meets a woman named Dallas (a roofer who is just recently out of a relationship). The two different women are sexually attracted to each other. Jasmine is surprised by this. Dallas is working on the house next to Jasmine's.

Jasmine goes with Dallas to her low-rent apartment. The two have sex with each other.

Jasmine deals with feelings over being sexually involved with another woman. But she is afraid her affair with Dallas may ruin her engagement with her fiance if it ever becomes known.

Cast
 Erika Linder as Dallas
 Natalie Krill as Jasmine
 Sebastian Pigott as Rile

Release
Below Her Mouth premiered in the United States on April 28, 2017.
Reception
The approval rating from Rotten Tomatoes is 22% based on 23 critics' reviews.

Diego Semerone gave the movie 0.5 stars out of 4. He said: "The film is an unquestionably pornographic fantasy barely trying to pass as something other than masturbation material. Below Her Mouth'''s stiff acting and dialogue suggest a Blue is the Warmest Color'' influence reduced to sexy aesthetics of lesbian sex."

Katie Walsh from the Los Angeles Times said: "Despite female filmmakers at the helm, the film treads into the exploitative territory, with the ratio of screen time given to writhing female bodies far outweighs that given to their unique experience as gay or closeted women in the world."

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2016 romantic drama movies
2010s LGBT movies
Canadian drama movies
Canadian LGBT movies
Canadian romance movies
Giuseppe Bertini (11 December 1825 – 24 November 1898) was an Italian painter, active in Milan. Most of his early paintings were on historical subjects. Later in life, he specialised in portraits. Some of his most famous paintings were frescos. He also designed several stained glass windows made by his brother Pompeo.

Life
Bertini was born in Milan. He studied at the Brera Academy under Luigi Sabatelli and Giuseppe Bisi. In 1845 was awarded the Brera's Grand Prize in Painting for his picture of the meeting between Dante and Fra Ilario. Between 1848 and 1860 Bertini sometimes taught painting at the Brera Academy. When the academy was reorganized in 1860, he was made a permanent professor there. He was in charge of one of the academy's two schools of painting. Francesco Hayez was in charge of the other one. Bertini remained a professor at the academy until the end of the 19th century. Francesco Filippini was one of his students.

Gallery

Related pages
 List of Italian painters

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1825 births
1898 deaths
The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is a 16-digit number which uniquely identifies people who have contributed to creative works such as books, newspapers, music, plays, movies, and television programs. The ISNI Agency runs the database of numbers. It is part of the International Organization for Standardization. 

The ISNI Agency holds public records of over 9.8 million identities. The ISNI database project began in 2011.

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Databases
Publishing
Identifiers
The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) is an online database containing the names, alternative names, and biographies of visual artists and architects. It also contains other information such their patrons, and the subjects of portraits they have created. The ULAN is run by the Getty Research Institute. The institute began  developing the database in 1984.

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Databases
Art
Giovanni Carnovali (29 September 1804 – 5 July 1873) was an Italian painter. He was also known as Piccio, a nickname which means "little one". Most of his paintings were portraits but he also painted scenes from the Bible and Greek and Roman mythology.

Life
Carnovali was born in Montegrino Valtravaglia, a small town near Varese.  His father was a bricklayer. Carnovali showed a very early talent in drawing. In 1815, when he was 11 years old, he was admitted to the Carrara Academy in Bergamo.  His first major public work was The Education of the Virgin. He painted it in 1826. The painting was ordered by the parish church in Almenno San Bartolomeo, a small town near Bergamo. In 1836 Carnovali settled in Milan. His pupils included Tranquillo Cremona.
Carnovali was an eccentric person. He spent hours silently looking at landscapes. He took long trips on foot. In 1831 he walked all the way from the north of Italy to Rome and back. He also walked to Paris in 1845. He liked to be alone. He often did not answer when people knocked on the door of his studio. Carnovali died in 1873 while he was swimming in the Po River near Cremona.

Gallery

Related pages
 List of Italian painters

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Italian painters
People from Lombardy
1804 births
1874 deaths
The Animal Rights Militia (ARM) is an animal rights group. The ARM does not have a leader. It is inspired by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) which also does not have a leader. An ARM group may be just one person. Members of the ARM think violence is justified. Members of the ALF do not think this is true.

References

Animal rights
Zvi Arad (16 April 1942 – 4 February 2018) was an Israeli mathematician. He was born in Tel Aviv. He served as President of Netanya Academic College from 1994 until his death in 2018. In 2000 his book was published in the series American Mathematical Society Memoirs and in January 2002 another book on table algebras was published in the international publication.

Arad died in Petah Tikva, Israel on 4 February 2018 at the age of 75.

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Profile  Netanya Academic College
Zvi Arad  Dun's 100 

2018 deaths
1942 births
Israeli academics
Israeli mathematicians
Scientists from Tel Aviv
Pavel Georgiev Panov (; 16 September 1950 – 18 February 2018) was a Bulgarian football player and coach. He played as a midfielder or striker.

Panov started his career with Septemvri Sofia in 1963 and stayed there until 1968. He played in forty-four games and scored thirteen goals for the Bulgarian national team.

References

Other websites
 Player Profile at LevskiSofia.info

1950 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Bulgarian footballers
Bulgarian football managers
Thermochromism is a chemical property where the temperature of a substance can change its color. An example of an item that shows thermochromism is a mood ring.

References

Other websites
How Thermochromic Ink Works

Materials science
Verdabbio was a municipality of the district of Moesa in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.  On 1 January 2017, the former municipalities of Leggia and Verdabbio merged into the municipality of Grono.

Other websites 

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Former municipalities of Graubünden
MGR Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam was founded by S. Thirunavukkarasu. This party was split from the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam to join the BJP alliance. MGR ADMK was part of National Democratic Alliance. It took part in the Central government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Later was merged with BJP.

Election 
In the legislative assembly elections in Tamil Nadu 2001, 3 candidates from MGR ADMK participated(supported by NDA). From them two candidates were elected. The party received 129,474 votes in the election as total.

Reference

Political parties in Tamil Nadu
The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (transl. All India Anna Dravidian Progressive Federation; abbr. AIADMK) is an Indian political party. The party has a large amount of influence in the state of Tamil Nadu and union territory of Puducherry. It is a Dravidian party. The party was founded by former chief minister of Tamil Nadu M. G. Ramachandran. Edappadi K. Palaniswami is the current General Secretary of the Party.

Elections
The party has won a seven-time majority in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. It is the most successful political outfit in the state's history. It is currently the main opposition party in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. It is also a part of the India-ruling National Democratic Alliance.
Location
The headquarters of the party is called Puratchi Thalaivar M.G.R. Maaligai. It is located at Avvai Shanmugam Salai, Royapettah, Chennai. The building was givento the party in 1986 by the wife of Ramachandran,   V. N. Janaki Ramachandran. She was a former chief minister of Tamil Nadu and the second president of the party.

History 
M. G. Ramachandran (M.G.R.) founded the party at Madurai on 17 October 1972. It was created as a seperate faction of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. This was done after M. Karunanidhi forcted Ramachandran to leave the party for asking for accounts as party treasurer.  From 9 February 1989 to 5 December 2016, AIADMK was led by former chief minister of Tamil Nadu J. Jayalalithaa. She was the general secretary of the party. Jayalathaa was known as the "Mother of AIADMK" . She was very well liked by the people of Tamil  until her death in 2016.

Puducherry
Political parties in Tamil Nadu
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg (; born January 19, 1982) is an American politician. He is the 19th and current United States Secretary of Transportation during the Joe Biden administration. He was the 32nd Mayor of South Bend, Indiana from 2012 through 2020. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

In 2017, Buttigieg ran for Chair of the Democratic National Committee in its 2017 chairmanship election, but lost the election. In January 2019, Buttigieg announced his plans to run for President of the United States in the 2020 election. He formally launched his campaign on April 14, 2019. Buttigieg narrowly won the Iowa caucus, despite losing the popular vote to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. He soon lost the later primaries in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. He ended his campaign on March 1, 2020.
In December 2020, then President-elect Joe Biden chose him to be United States Secretary of Transportation. He was confirmed by the United States Senate in February 2021. He became the first openly gay individual and the first millennial member of the United States Cabinet.

2017 DNC Leadership election
In January 5, 2017, Buttigieg announced his candidacy for Chair of the Democratic National Committee in its 2017 chairmanship election. He withdrew from the race on the day of the election and lost to Tom Perez.

2020 presidential election

Buttigieg was mentioned as a possible candidate for President of the United States in the 2020 U.S. presidential election since late 2017. If elected, Buttigieg would have been the first openly gay U.S. President.

On January 23, 2019, Buttigieg announced his candidacy for President. He made a formal announcement on April 14, 2019.
At the Iowa caucuses, Buttigieg narrowly won more pledged delegates than any other candidate. Most news organizations use this number to determine the winner. With this win, he became the first openly gay candidate to earn presidential primary delegates from a major American political party. He ended his campaign almost a month later after losing the South Carolina primary by a large number of votes.

After the 2020 campaign
On June 8, 2020 it was announced that the University of Notre Dame had hired Buttigieg as a teacher and researcher for the 2020–21 academic year.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation
On December 15, 2020, then President-elect Joe Biden announced that he would nominate Buttigieg to be Secretary of Transportation.

Buttigieg was confirmed on February 2, 2021, with a vote of 86-13.
Personal life
On June 16, 2015, Buttigieg announced in an essay that he is gay. He is the first openly gay executive in Indiana. On December 28, 2017, Buttigieg announced his engagement to Chasten Glezman. They were married in June 2018.

In August 2021, Buttigieg announced on his personal Twitter account that he and his husband were in the process of adopting children. Buttigieg announced that they had welcomed two newborn fraternal twins (Penelope Rose and Joseph August) on September 4, 2021.

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 South Bend website 
 Indianapolis Star, "State roundup, Other key mayoral races"

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2020 United States presidential candidates
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American LGBT politicians
LGBT people from Indiana
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Peter Rabbit is an American-Australian 2018 3D live-action/CGI animated adventure comedy movie directed by Will Gluck. It is based on the stories of the character of the same name created by Beatrix Potter. The movie stars Domhnall Gleeson, Rose Byrne, and Sam Neill with the voices of James Corden, Daisy Ridley, Margot Robbie, Sia and Elizabeth Debicki with Bryan Brown.

The movie was released on February 9, 2018. It received mixed reviews from critics and has grossed $54 million worldwide.

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Peter Rabbit (movie series)
2018 comedy movies
2018 adventure movies
2018 animated movies
American comedy movies
American adventure movies
American animated movies
Australian comedy movies
Australian adventure movies
Movies set in London
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Will Gluck
Herschell Gordon Lewis (June 15, 1926 – September 26, 2016) was an American filmmaker. He was best known for creating the "splatter" subgenre of horror movies. He is often called the "Godfather of Gore".

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(born January 21, 1931) is a Japanese actress. In 1947, she made her debut as one of the lead actresses in an omnibus movie .

Kuga is known for her roles in Drunken Angel (1948), The Idiot (1951), Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953), The Woman in the Rumor (1954), Equinox Flower (1958), Good Morning (1959), Cruel Story of Youth (1960), Zero Focus (1961), The Story of Osaka Castle (1961) as Kobue and Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (1997).

In 1961, Kuga married Akihiko Hirata.

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Actors from Tokyo
Cross-cultural communication is a field of study that seeks to understand how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate - in similar and different ways among themselves - and how they achieve communication across cultures. Intercultural communication is a related field of study.  Intercultural communication is sometimes used synonymously with cross-cultural communication.

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Système universitaire de documentation or SUDOC is a shared database used by the libraries of universities and other higher education institutions in France. It identifies, tracks and manages the documents which they hold. The SUDOC online catalog has more than 10 million references. It allows students and researchers to find bibliographical and location information in over 3,400 document centers. It is maintained by the Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur (Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education).

Related pages
Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Libraries in Europe
Once Were Warriors is a 1994 New Zealand drama movie based on New Zealand author Alan Duff's bestselling 1990 first novel. The movie tells the story of the Hekes, an urban Māori family, and their problems with poverty, alcoholism, and domestic violence, mostly brought on by the patriarch Jake. The movie was directed by Lee Tamahori and stars Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison and Cliff Curtis.

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1994 drama movies
New Zealand movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Lee Tamahori
Snowmass (sometimes known locally as Old Snowmass) is an unincorporated community and a U.S. Post Office in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.  It is in the valley of the Roaring Fork River, near the mouth of Snowmass Creek. It is on State Highway 82 between Aspen and Basalt.  It consists largely of a post office, several commercial businesses, and surrounding houses and ranches.  The Snowmass Post Office has the ZIP Code 81654.

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Pitkin County is one of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,358. The county seat is Aspen.  The county is named in honor of the late Colorado Governor Frederick Walker Pitkin. Pitkin County has the seventh-highest per capita income of any county in the United States.

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Manoj Kumar (born Harikishan Giri Goswami on 24 July 1937) is an Indian actor and director in Bollywood. He is remembered for his movies Hariyali Aur Raasta, Woh Kaun Thi?, Himalaya Ki God Mein, Do Badan, Upkar, Patthar Ke Sanam, Neel Kamal, Purab Aur Paschim, Roti Kapda Aur Makaan, and Kranti. He is known for acting in and directing movies with patriotic themes, and has been given the nickname Bharat Kumar.

In 1992, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India. India's highest award in cinema, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, was bestowed him in 2015.

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Indian actors
Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico or ICCU (in English Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic Information) is an Italian government agency. It manages the network and online catalog of the Italian National Library Service (Servizio bibliotecario nazionale or SBN). It also manages Internet Culturale, an online collection of digitized documents and pictures held in Italian libraries. The ICCU publishes books and reports on library science in Italy and organizes conferences on library science. ICCU numbers serve as authority controls. As of February 2012, the ICCU had authority controls for the names of over 43,000 people.

The ICCU was officially created in 1975. Its first director was Angela Vinay (1922–1990). The ICCU replaced the Centro nazionale per il catalogo unico (National Single Directory Center). That organization was founded in 1951 to start building a single catalog for all of Italy's libraries.

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Official website  of Internet Culturale
Example of the ICCU authority control  for Giovanni Carnovali 

Libraries in Europe
Kudamurutti River is a tributary of the Kaveri River. It separates from the main river near the town of Thirukattupalli. It is one of the five acred river flowing through Thiruvaiyaru.

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Rivers of Tamil Nadu
Paul Henry Konerko (; born March 5, 1976), nicknamed Paulie, is an American Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1997–1998), Cincinnati Reds (1998), and Chicago White Sox (1999–2014). While he played for the White Sox, Konerko was an All–Star six times, and he helped the White Sox beat the Houston Astros to win the World Series in 2005.

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Cincinnati Reds players
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos is a platforming video game created by Argonaut Games in 1997. It was made for the PlayStation, and versions of it were later created for the Sega Saturn and for Microsoft Windows computers. The game stars Croc, a green crocodile, who must save his friends, the Gobbos, from the evil Baron Dante.

The game was originally created as a game with Yoshi, a character from Nintendo's Super Mario series of video games. However, Nintendo did not allow the creators to use the character, so a brand new character was created instead.  Croc: Legend of the Gobbos sold well, and was a success for Argonaut. A second game was made in 1999, called Croc 2.

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Para-Nordic skiing is a type of skiing for people with disabilities.  It includes two sports.  They are cross country skiing and biathlon.  Both sports are for blind people and people with physical disabilities.

Biathlon 
Biathlon uses the same rules created by the International Biathlon Association (IBU).  Some changes have been made to the rules by the International Paralympic Nordic Skiing Committee (IPNNC).

Biathlon is two sports combined. These sports are shooting and cross country skiing.  Biathlon has several types of races.  They are 7.5 km, 12.5 km, and pursuit. During the race, people shoot their guns two to four times.  Each time they shoot, they take five shots.  Depending on the competition, there are two different consequences for missing.  They may get a points penalty.  They may have to ski a penalty distance.
Blind people and people with physical disabilities compete in the biathlon.  People with physical disabilities are separated into two groups.  These are standing skiers and sitting skiers.

Blind people use a special electro-acoustic firing system.  Their helmets have a wireless connection with their weapons.  Using their headphones, they can locate the target.  The closer their weapon is aimed at the target, the louder the sound.
Cross country skiing 
The rules for cross country skiing are similar to the ones created by International Ski Federation (FIS).  They have been modified by the International Para Nordic Skiing Committee (IPNNC). Blind people and people with physical disabilities compete in cross country skiing.  People with physical disabilities are separated into two groups.  These are standing skiers and sitting skiers.  People with physical disabilities who ski while standing are classified from LW2 to LW9.  People with physical disabilities who use a sit ski are classified from LW10 to LW12.  People who are blind are classified from B1 to B3.  People who are blind use a guide skier.  Guide skiers tell a blind skier which direction to ski.
Because people with different types of disabilities ski against each other, a system has been created to make the results more fair.  The person with the best time does not always win.  Instead, the finishing time is multiplied against a percentage.  The percentage is based on how difficult a person's disability makes it to ski.  The time multiplied by the percentages gives a new time result.  This new time is used to determine who wins a race.

References 

Paralympic Games
Skiing
Wheelchair curling is a type of curling.  It is for people with physical disabilities.

History 
Curling started to be at the Olympic Games in 1998.  Wheelchair curling was introduced to the Winter Paralympics program in 2002.  People from 16 countries played wheelchair curling in 2017.

Rules 
Wheelchair curling is governed by the World Curling Federation. Wheelchair curlers play on teams of four people.  One person on the team throws a 19.96 kilogram granite stone across an ice track.  The track is 45 meter long. At the end of the track is a big circle.  It has 4 rings.  The diameter is 183 centimeters.  There is a dot in the center.  A team tries to get their stones the closest to the center.  After each team throws ten stones, the team with the most stones closest to the center wins.

The person who throws the stone sits in their chair on a rubber mat.  They use a special stick to assist in throwing the stone.
Eligibility 
People who can play wheelchair curling have to have a disability.  There are several eligible types of disabilities.  They include paraplegics, people with cerebral palsy, people with amputations of the lower limbs, and people with multiple sclerosis.

References 

Paralympic Games
Curling
Para-snowboarding is a type of snowboarding. People with physical disabilities compete in para-snowboarding.

Classification 
Because people with different types of disability snowboard, people are separated into three groups.  In Paralympic sport, these are called classes.  The classes are SB-LL1, SB-LL2 and SB-UL.
 SB-LL1: snowboarders with significant disabilities in on or two of their legs. This class includes people with one or two amputations above their knee.  It also includes people with two amputations below their knee.
 SB-LL2: snowboarders with a less significant disability in one or two of their legs.
 SB-UL: snowboarders with a disability in one or two of their arms.

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Winter sports
Paralympic Games
Financial regulation is supervision of financial institutions to certain rules and guidelines.

The aim is to keep the financial system honest and legal. Regulation may be done by either a government or non-government organization. Also, financial regulation has increased the variety of financial products available.

In the early modern period, the Dutch were the pioneers in financial regulation. The first recorded regulation was a ban on short selling done by the Dutch authorities in 1610.

Aims 
The objectives of financial regulators are usually:
 market confidence – to keep confidence in the financial system
 financial stability 
 consumer protection – getting the right protection for consumers.

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Finance
Business law
Kalapani is a territory disputed between India and Nepal. It has been  embroiled in controversy since mid-1996, shortly after the ratification of the Mahakali treaty with India by Nepal’s Parliament. India claims the area is part of Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district, while Nepal believes it to be part of its Dharchula district.

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Geography of Nepal
Territorial disputes of India
Recently, a large outbreak of the beetle in British Columbia became a major problem, killing millions of trees across the province. Due to global warming making it easier for the beetle to survive high in the Canadian Rockies, the beetle was able to spread into Alberta, Canada, where the beetle has never been seen before. Scientists are worried that there is nothing stopping the mountain pine beetle from spreading across the entire continent now.

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Polyphaga
Agricultural pests
Anthony Cumia (born April 26, 1961) is an American radio personality and broadcaster. He was born in Elwood, New York.

Cumia is best known as the co-host of the Opie and Anthony radio show with Gregg "Opie" Hughes that aired from 1995 to 2014, alongside comedian Jim Norton from 2001.

In 2014, Cumia was fired by SiriusXM Radio after posting a series of tweets, which they deemed to be "racially-charged and hate-filled". He started his own video podcast soon after named The Anthony Cumia Show, which aired until September 2017. He has since been the co-host of The Artie and Anthony Show with comedian and actor Artie Lange.

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Other websites 
 

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Scuol is a municipality of the district Inn in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is the largest municipality by area in Switzerland.

Scuol is a well known spa town and ski resort. It is the business center of the Unterengadin valley.

On 1 January 2015, the former municipalities of Ardez, Guarda, Tarasp, Ftan and Sent merged into the muncipality of Scuol.

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Other websites 

 Scuol website
 Scuol tourism office 
 Scuol hospital

Municipalities in Inn District
Ski areas and resorts in Switzerland
Spa towns in Switzerland
Thomas Austin Brewer (September 3, 1931 – February 15, 2018) was an American baseball player. He was born in Wadesboro, North Carolina. He played for the Boston Red Sox from 1954 to 1961. Brewer was selected to play in the 1956 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

Brewer died in Cheraw, South Carolina on February 15, 2018 at the age of 86.

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Other websites
 Retroseet, or SABR Biography Project

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Orlando Manuel "Peruchin" Cepeda Pennes (; born September 17, 1937) is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball first baseman. He is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

During a 17-year career, he played with the San Francisco Giants (1958–66),  St. Louis Cardinals (1966–68), Atlanta Braves (1969–72), Oakland Athletics (1972), Boston Red Sox (1973), and Kansas City Royals (1974). 

Cepeda was selected to play in seven Major League Baseball All-Star Games during his career, becoming the first player from Puerto Rico to start one.

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The Satellite Awards are annual awards given by the International Press Academy that are commonly known in entertainment industry journals and blogs. 

The awards were originally known as the Golden Satellite Awards. The award ceremonies take place each year at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles.

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Movie awards
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1997 establishments
Teresa Gisbert Carbonell de Mesa (November 30, 1926 – February 19, 2018) was a Bolivian architect and art historian. She specialized in the history of the Andean region. She was born in La Paz, Bolivia. 

From 1954 to 1970, she taught Bolivian culture and art history in the Faculty of Humanities at the Higher University of San Andrés and in 1972 and 1975 she taught American Art in the Faculty of Arquitecture of this same institution. She directed the Bolivian Cultural Institute from 1985 to 1989 and was president of the International Council on Monuments and Sites in Bolivia from 1986 to 1992.

Gisbert Carbonell in La Paz on February 19, 2018 at the age of 91.

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Peggy Cooper Cafritz (born Pearl Alice Cooper; April 7, 1947 – February 18, 2018) was an American art collector, educator, civil rights activist, philanthropist and socialite. She was born in Mobile, Alabama, and studied at Georgia Washington University.

In 1968, she organized a black arts festival and had inner-city students in to the festival. This program became the magnet school Duke Ellington School of the Arts, which she and Malone founded in 1974 and which they modeled after New York City's High School of Performing Arts.

Cafritz died of complications from pneumonia in Washington, D.C. on February 18, 2018 at the age of 70.

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A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists like to visit because of its looks, beauty, culture, nature, history, fun and how it feels to be there.

Types
There are different kinds of tourist attractions.
Some are natural such as beaches, tropical island resorts with coral reefs, hiking and camping in national parks, mountains, deserts and forests. Some are cultural such as historical places, monuments, ancient temples, zoos, aquaria, museums and art galleries, botanical gardens, buildings and structures (e.g., castles, libraries, former prisons, skyscrapers, bridges), theme parks and carnivals, living history museums, signs, ethnic enclave communities, historic trains and cultural events. Factory tours, industrial heritage, creative art and crafts workshops are the object of cultural niches like industrial tourism and creative tourism. Many tourist attractions are also landmarks.

Tourism
The Sokoto River (formerly known as Gublin Kebbi) is a river in north-west Nigeria. It flows from River Niger. The river start from near Funtua in the south of Katsina State, some  in a straight line from Sokoto. It flows north-west passing Gusau in Zamfara State, where the Gusau Dam forms a reservoir that supplies the city with water. 
The river enters Sokoto State where it passes by Sokoto city and is joined by the Rima River. It then turns south and flows through Birnin Kebbi in Kebbi State for about  south of  Birnin Kebbi. Sokoto river also meets with the Niger River.

The land around the river is used for farming. The river is used to supply water to the plants. The river is also an important means of transport. The Bakolori Dam, about  upstream from Sokoto, is a major reservoir on the Sokoto River. It has had significant impact on downstream floodplain cultivation.

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Rivers of Nigeria
The Rima River is a river in the northern part of Nigeria. The Goulbi de Maradi river flows by its northernmost point it. It runs southwest and joins the Sokoto River near Sokoto, then continues south to the Niger River. The upper Rima is a seasonal river and flows only during the rainy season.
The Zauro polder project, a major irrigation scheme, has been planned for many years. It would supply water to  of farmland in the Rima floodplain between Argungu and Birnin Kebbi.

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Rivers of Nigeria
The Zauro polder project is an irrigation plan for the Rima River floodplain in Kebbi State, Nigeria. 

The project started because the yearly rainfall in Kebbi, is not much. It is about . The temperatures are about , ranging from  between April and June.
With these, there is little or no farming. Dams and irrigation plans are ways by which the government wants to use the abundant water of the rainy season for farming in the dry season.

Delays
The state government and the federal ministry of agriculture and water resources started the plan for the project started in 1969. However, there have been repeated delays.
As at July 1995 there was nothing being done on the project.
In March 2003, while campaigning for reelection in Birnin Kebbi, President Olusegun Obasanjo promised to complete the project.
In October 2006 the Federal and Kebbi state governments signed a memorandum of understanding for execution of the project, at an estimated cost of N15 billion.
In May 2008 President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua ordered work to start immediately on the first part of the project, which was now estimated to cost over N18.5 billion.
In January 2009 Kebbi State governor Sa'idu Dakingari said work would soon start.

References

Geography of Nigeria
Kebbi State
The Goulbi de Maradi is a river in south central Niger and north central Nigeria. Its source is near Katsina in Nigeria, and its end in the Rima River.
It important for farming and rearing cattle in the Niger cities of Maradi, Guidan Roumdji, and Madarounfa, where it flows through. The Goulbi de Maradi never flows more than  from the Niger–Nigeria border. It is a seasonal river and flows only during the rainy season.

Rivers of Africa
Rivers of Nigeria
Geography of Niger
, (September 23, 1919 – February 20, 2018) was a Japanese writer. He was born in Chichibu, Saitama. He studied at the University of Tokyo and worked for the Bank of Japan.

Kaneko started to write poems (haiku) helped by his father Mitsuharu Kaneko. In his career, he won Cikada Prize (2005), Person of Cultural Merit (2008), Kikuchi Kan Prize (2010) and Asahi Prize (2015).

Kaneko died on February 20, 2018 of pneumonia in Kumagaya, Saitama at the age of 98.

References

Works
 Kaneko Tohta. In: World Kigu Database - Introducing Haiku Poets, Famous People, Places and Haiku Topics.
 Kaneko Tōta. In: J. Thomas Rimer, Van C. Gessel: The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the present. Columbia University Press, 2007, , p. 444.

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Deaths from pneumonia
Infectious disease deaths in Japan
Japanese writers
Zigmas Zinkevičius (January 4, 1925 in Juodausiai, Ukmergė district – February 20, 2018 in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian linguist-historian, professor at Vilnius University, and a full member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. He has contributed to studies in the history of languages, onomastics 

Zinkevičius was a recipient of the Herder Prize, which was presented to him in 1994. Zinkevičius was the author of 30 academic books and several hundred scientific publications in various languages.

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Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar (13 December 1955 – 17 March 2019) was an Indian politician. He was the leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Chief Minister of Goa from 14 March 2017 to 17 March 2019. He was Chief Minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005 and from 2012 to 2014. He worked under Prime Minister Narendra Modi as Defence Minister of India from 2014 to 2017.

In October 2018, it was announced that Parrikar had pancreatic cancer. He died on 17 March 2019 from the disease at his home in Panaji, Goa at the age of 63.

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1955 births
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Politicians from Goa
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians