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# Billy Thompson (ice hockey)

Billy Thompson (born September 24, 1982) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender.

## Career

Thompson made his junior hockey debut in the 1998–99 season with the Prince George Cougars of the WHL, although he only played part of one game. He started one more game the following season. For three seasons between 2000 and 2003, he played 149 games with the Cougars, compiling a win-loss record of 64 wins and 69 losses.
He was drafted in the 5th round (136th overall) of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by the Florida Panthers. On October 1, 2002, the Panthers traded him to the Ottawa Senators along with Greg Watson for goaltender Jani Hurme. He made his professional hockey debut that season with the AHL's Binghamton Senators, winning the sole game he played.
Thompson served as the backup to Ray Emery for the next two seasons at Binghamton. He played 34 games each year with a total record of 32 and 22 in that span. Thompson was called up to Ottawa for the first time in his career on February 27, 2006, to serve as the backup when starting goalie Dominik Hašek was injured, though he ultimately did not see any game action.
He would spend the 2006-07 season with the AHL's Bridgeport Sound Tigers before moving on to the Victoria Salmon Kings of the ECHL in 2007-08. In September, 2008, he signed with the Dutch Eredevisie Destil Trappers, and left the club on April 24, 2009. Thompson last played with Les Gothiques d'Amiens in Ligue Magnus (first division of France), in 2012.
After his hockey career Thompson moved to Kelowna, British Columbia and became a Chartered Accountant, receiving an honour roll standing on his final exam.

## Awards and honours

| Award | Year |
| WHL |||
| West Second All-Star Team | 2003 |
# Jeronimas Milius

Jeronimas Milius (born 11 October 1984 in Vilnius, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian singer. Since 2003, he has been the leader of the heavy/power metal band Soul Stealer (formerly Soul Brothers).

## Career

Milius was elected to represent his country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 on 2 February 2008 collecting 11 674 votes leaving Aistė Pilvelytė with Troy on Fire close behind whose backing vocalist he was in the national final for Eurovision Song Contest 2006. With his opera-like rock ballad "Nomads in the Night" he didn't make it to the final ending his performance in the semi-final.
He appeared on the UK talent show 'Superstar', a search by Andrew Lloyd Webber to find the next 'Jesus' in his new arena production of Jesus Christ Superstar.
# Fencing at the 2022 Asian Games – Men's team sabre

The men's team sabre competition at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou was held on 28 September 2023 at the Hangzhou Dianzi University Gymnasium.

## Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)
| Date | Time | Event |
| Thursday, 28 September 2023 | 09:00 | Round of 16 |
| Thursday, 28 September 2023 | 10:00 | Quarterfinals |
| Thursday, 28 September 2023 | 11:00 | Semifinals |
| Thursday, 28 September 2023 | 18:00 | Gold medal match |

## Seeding

The teams were seeded taking into account the results achieved by competitors representing each team in the individual event.
| Rank | Team | Fencer | Fencer | Total |
| Rank | Team | 1 | 2 | Total |
| 1 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | China (CHN) | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 3 | Iran (IRI) | 3 | 10 | 13 |
| 4 | Kuwait (KUW) | 3 | 16 | 19 |
| 5 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 8 | 14 | 22 |
| 6 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 9 | 13 | 22 |
| 7 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 6 | 17 | 23 |
| 8 | Japan (JPN) | 11 | 12 | 23 |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 15 | 21 | 36 |
| 10 | Vietnam (VIE) | 19 | 23 | 42 |
| 11 | Thailand (THA) | 20 | 24 | 44 |
| 12 | Nepal (NEP) | 25 | 26 | 51 |

## Results

| Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Gold medal match | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| | | | 1 | South Korea | 45 | | | | | | |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 36 | 8 | Japan | 26 | | | | | | |
| 8 | Japan | 45 | | | | 1 | South Korea | 45 | | | |
| 5 | Kazakhstan | 45 | | | | 5 | Kazakhstan | 41 | | | |
| 12 | Nepal | 15 | 5 | Kazakhstan | 45 | | | | | | |
| | | | 4 | Kuwait | 43 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | 1 | South Korea | 45 |
| | | | | | | | | | 2 | China | 33 |
| | | | 3 | Iran | 45 | | | | | | |
| 11 | Thailand | 31 | 6 | Hong Kong | 39 | | | | | | |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 45 | | | | 3 | Iran | 41 | | | |
| 7 | Uzbekistan | 45 | | | | 2 | China | 45 | | | |
| 10 | Vietnam | 40 | 7 | Uzbekistan | 31 | | | | | | |
| | | | 2 | China | 45 | | | | | | |

## Final standing

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L |
| | South Korea (KOR) Gu Bon-gil Kim Jung-hwan Kim Jun-ho Oh Sang-uk | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| | China (CHN) Liang Jianhao Lin Xiao Shen Chenpeng Yan Yinghui | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| | Iran (IRI) Farzad Baher Ali Pakdaman Mohammad Fotouhi Mohammad Rahbari | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| | Kazakhstan (KAZ) Zhanat Nabiyev Mukhamedali Rakhmanali Artyom Sarkissyan Nazarbay Sattarkhan | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | Kuwait (KUW) Yousiff Al-Shamlan Mohammed Al-Fadhli Mohammed Abdulkareem | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Hong Kong (HKG) Ho Sze Long Aaron Chan Lok Hei Royce Low Ho Tin Chow Chung Hei | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Uzbekistan (UZB) Musa Aymuratov Zukhriddin Kodirov Sherzod Mamutov Islambek Abdazov | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Japan (JPN) Hayato Tsubo Mao Kokubo Kento Yoshida Kaito Streets | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) Adel Al-Mutairi Abdullah Al-Mansaf Mohammed Alamr Ahmed Al-Qudihi | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Vietnam (VIE) Nguyễn Văn Quyết Vũ Thành An Nguyễn Xuân Lôi | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Thailand (THA) Kanisorn Pangmoon Voragun Srinualnad Panachai Wiriyatangsakul | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Nepal (NEP) Payas Yonjan Rajendra Gajurel Upendra Bahadur Shahi | 1 | 0 | 1 |
# Ilona Budapesti

Ilona Budapesti is a co-founder of 1 Million Women to Tech which set out to offer free coding education to 1 million women by 2020. She has worked in a number of financial and technology organisations and has used machine learning to identify sexism in Buddhist texts.

## Biography

Budapesti studied computational linguistics at Oxford University and Harvard University, Chinese Language at Tsinghua University and has an EMBA from Columbia Business School. When she was President of the Oxford computer science society, she was horrified to find out that only eight per cent of the 804 applicants were women - this was the precursor to her involvement in 1 Million Women to Tech. In 2019, she won Women in IT Silicon Valley's Advocate of the Year award.
Her interest in Buddhism has grown over the years as she discovered inherent sexism in Buddhist writings and practice during travel and academic work. She returned to Oxford to study an MSt in Oriental Studies, and used machine learning models to identify trends in lengthy Buddhist scholarly texts. Although Buddhist women were allowed to be ordained (Bikkhuni), they were subordinate to monks and had to take extra vows before they were fully ordained.
She believes boys are more likely than girls to receive tech-related gifts, and hopes to redress the balance through campaigning for wider access to technology education for girls.

## Publications

* Budapesti, Ilona. "Past, Present, and Future of Digital Buddhology." D. Veidlinger (ed.), Digital Humanities and Buddhism, Berlín/Boston, De Gruyter (2019): 25-40.
# Rutherford, Edmonton

Rutherford is a neighbourhood in south Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is named after Alexander Cameron Rutherford, Alberta's first premier.
According to the 2005 municipal census, approximately 85% of the residences in the neighbourhood are single-family dwellings. The remainder are mostly duplexes (13%) with a small number of row houses (2%). The majority of residences (96%) are owner-occupied.
It is bounded on the west by 127 Street, on the east by James Mowatt Trail (111 Street), on the north by Ellerslie Road, and on the south by Blackmud Creek Ravine and a line connecting the ravine to 127 Street about 25 Avenue SW.

## Demographics

In the City of Edmonton's 2012 municipal census, Rutherford had a population of 8,407 living in 3,498 dwellings, a 28.9% change from its 2009 population of 6,521. With a land area of 2.26 km$^2$ (0.87 sq mi), it had a population density of 3,719.9 people/km$^2$ in 2012.

## Education

Rutherford is home to two schools for students in kindergarten through grade nine – Johnny Bright School of Edmonton Public Schools and Monsignor Fee Otterson Elementary/Junior High School of Edmonton Catholic Schools.

## Surrounding neighbourhoods

vtePlaces adjacent to Rutherford, Edmonton :
Anthony Henday South
MacEwan
Richford
Heritage Valley Area (future Heritage Valley Neighbourhood 12)
Rutherford
Blackmud Creek
Heritage Valley Town Centre
Callaghan
Callaghan :
# HD 114783

HD 114783 is a star with two exoplanetary companions in the equatorial constellation of Virgo. With an apparent visual magnitude of 7.56 it is too faint to be visible with the unaided eye, but is an easy target for binoculars. Based on parallax measurements, it is located at a distance of 68.6 light-years (21.0 parsecs) from the Sun, but is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −12 km/s.
This is an orange-hued K-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of K1V. It is roughly 2.5 billion years old and is chromospherically inactive with a low projected rotational velocity of 1.9 km/s. The star has 88% of the mass and 81% of the radius of the Sun. It is radiating 42% of the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,114 K.
In 2001, the California and Carnegie Planet Search team found an exoplanet, HD 114783 b, orbiting the star using the radial velocity method. The discovery was made with the Keck Telescope. A second companion, HD 114783 c, was discovered in 2016, and in 2023 its inclination and true mass were measured via astrometry.
The HD 114783 planetary system :
| Companion (in order from star) | Mass | Semimajor axis (AU) | Orbital period (days) | Eccentricity | Inclination | Radius |
| b | ≥ 1.034±0.089 M$_J$ | 1.169±0.068 | 496.9±2.3 | 0.085±0.033 | — | — |
| c | 1.9+0.5 −0.4 M$_J$ | 5.0±0.1 | 4,352+88 −76 | 0.05+0.04 −0.03 | 21+7 −4 or 159+4 −6° | — |
# Vorthgraben

Vorthgraben is a small river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows into the Speller Aa near Mettingen.
# Mario Mendoza (boxer)

Mario Mendoza (born 7 July 1938) is a Guatemalan boxer. He competed in the men's bantamweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, he lost to Chang Kyou-chul of South Korea.
# Shrikant Verma

Shrikant Verma (18 September 1931 – 25 May 1986) was an Indian poet and a Member of Parliament from Madhya Pradesh as a Congress party candidate from 1976 to 1982 and 1982 to 1986. Verma died of cancer in 1986 in New York.
Verma married to Veena Verma in 1967, who later was elected Member of Parliament for three consecutive terms from the state of Madhya Pradesh. Verma's only child, Abhishek Verma was declared the youngest billionaire of India in 1997.
Verma was born in Bilaspur in a brahmin Kayastha family. He graduated from Nagpur University with a Master of Arts degree in Hindi. He has authored twenty books. Bilaspur city named the central vista as 'Shrikant Verma Marg' and in 1992 the then Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh unveiled a 30 feet statue of Verma at 'Shrikant Verma chowk'.
Verma was awarded Tulsi Samman for Jalsagar from Madhya Pradesh Government in 1976 and Shiksha Samman from Madhya Pradesh State Kala Parishad in 1981. In 1982, he presided over the Afro-Asian Writer's Conference hosted in New Delhi. In 1987, he was posthumously awarded the Sahitya Academy Award for Magadh.
A philanthropic foundation, 'Shrikant Verma Trust' was setup by Verma's son Abhishek Verma in 1989 to further the cause of arts, literature and journalism in the memory of his father and it continues to support initiatives in education, literature, fine arts, cultural heritage and community welfare. The trust is run by Verma's daughter in law Anca Verma, who collaborates on global campaigns such as 'HungerFreeWorld' that is managed by Verma's granddaughter Nicolle Verma.
# Haviv Elementary School

Haviv elementary school (Hebrew: בית הספר חביב) is the first Hebrew school in the world.
It was established in 1886 in Rishon LeZion and is still active to this day.

## History

Ever since the establishment of Rishon LeZion the question of education for the children of the village was raised. In 1882, when the village was established, Aharon Mordehai Freiman invited a Melamed from Hebron named Rappaport Tuvia Haim in which he taught the boys of the village in a tent in his yard. He taught Torah, Mishnah and Talmud while they were sitting on the floor around a low table. Later their place of study was moved to the basements of the founders of the village Shraga Fayvel and Dov Fishelzon, Math. The French language was also added to the curriculum.
In 1886, the population of Rishon LeZion was about 300, of which several dozen were children who needed proper education, so the establishment of a modern school was proposed. However, this was difficult due to the lack of experienced teachers, the lack of textbooks in Hebrew and mixed gender education which was not yet accepted.
The school was established in the center of Rishon LeZion near the great synagogue for girls only. The boys studied in the basement of the synagogue. The school had no name and was simply known as "The school". Mordechai Lubman was appointed the school's first principal by the baron's clerks.
Many teachers of the time wrote textbooks themselves due to the lack of textbooks in Hebrew. The teachers had to create new words in Hebrew for tools and terms that did not exist at the time of the Bible. The "reviver of the Hebrew language" Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was a teacher in the school and wrote textbooks as well. Because the school taught exclusively in Hebrew, it is considered the world's first school to teach in Hebrew.
In 1901, the principal Israel Belkind decided to allow the school to teach both boys and girls.
In 1920, the school was named "Haviv School", named after Dov Lubman Haviv, who was the former chairman of the local council of Rishon LeZion.

## Notable graduates

* Boaz Toporovsky
* Yair Golan
* Linoy Ashram
# Tuzluca

Tuzluca (Azerbaijani: Duzluca; Kurdish: Qulp; Armenian: Կողբ Koghb; Russian: Кульп or Тузлуджа) is a town in the Iğdır Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Tuzluca District. Its population is 9,619 (2022). It lies near the border with Armenia.

## Etymology

Tuz means salt in the Turkish language. The Turkish name Tuzluca is derived from the salt mines that have existed here since at least medieval times; a salt mine still operates.

## History

Known by Armenians as Koghb, Tuzluca was historically part of various Armenian kingdoms. The town and the surrounding area later became an Ottoman frontier Kurdish chiefdom and a scene of constant warfare between the Ottoman Empire and Persia. It was especially renowned for its salt mines.
In 1746, the region was finally ceded to Persia and became part of the Erivan Khanate. After the Russo-Persian War, 1826–1828 and Treaty of Turkmenchay, it passed from Persian to Russian control. Under Russian rule, the town, now known as Kulp, became part of the Surmali district of the Armenian Oblast and later the Erivan Governorate. In 1829, shortly after the Russian annexation, Baltic German explorer Friedrich Parrot of the University of Dorpat (Tartu) travelled to Surmali as part of his expedition to climb Mount Ararat. Two members of Parrot's expeditionary team, medical students Carl Schiemann and Maximilian Behaghel von Adlerskron, travelled to Kulp with four Cossacks to examine the salt mines.
After the Russian Revolution, the town came under the administration of the Democratic Republic of Armenia. However, it was ceded to Turkey by the Soviet Union in the Treaty of Kars. It was traditionally part of Kars province until the creation of predominantly Iğdır province in 1993. Today, Tuzluca serves as a highland retreat for asthma patients. Apricots and other fruit and vegetables are grown in the district.

## Government

In the local elections in March 2019 Ahmet Sair Sadrettin Türkan was elected mayor. In 2024 Turkish local elections, CHP candidate won with 30.64 percent of the votes, while the incumbent mayor gathered 28.27 percent of the votes. However, Supreme Election Council has awarded the mayorship to the incumbent mayor from AKP, deciding that CHP candidate was not qualified for elections. This decision caused protests in support of the elected mayor in the town.

## Notable people

* Eznik of Kolb, writer (5th century)
* Mehmet Hakkı Suçin, Arabist and translation scholar
* Servet Çetin, soccer player
* Şamil Ayrım, member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
# The Metro (song)

"The Metro", also published as "Metro", is a 1981 song written by John Crawford for his band, Berlin.

## Background

The song was first released as a non-album single, "The Metro" b/w "Tell Me Why", on the MAO Music label in 1981. It reappeared, slightly remixed, on Berlin's breakthrough album Pleasure Victim, released on the independent label Enigma in 1982 and re-released on Geffen in 1983. In May 1983, "The Metro" was re-released as the third single from the album, and the second to appear on the Geffen label. It was produced and engineered (as was most of the album) by the band's then-drummer and drum programmer, Daniel Van Patten.
The Berlin recording is known for epitomizing the new wave genre as a blending of punk rock and pop, with heavy use of the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizer. Vocalist Terri Nunn said the song, which was a breakthrough hit for Berlin, "defined us and defined that period of music."
The song's music video was their first MTV hit, in heavy rotation on the young channel in its second and third years. Directed by Dominic Orlando, it was filmed in 1983 at GMT Studios in West Los Angeles, California. Terri Nunn only sang two lyrics on camera: "I remember hating you for loving me" and "Sorry". The video became a part of the Berlin Video 45 Geffen-VHS home video, released in 1984.

## Chart performance

The single surpassed the Billboard Hot 100 peak of their previous single, "Sex (I'm a ...)", reaching No. 58 in July 1983. It is currently their third-highest charting single in the U.S. A dance remix of the song received club play in 1983.
Subsequent remixes were done of Berlin's song, including one by Sigue Sigue Sputnik. A revamped Berlin lineup, led by the original group's Nunn, re-recorded the song circa 2000; this version received several remixes as well. An acoustic version was made available exclusively on iTunes.
One of their signature songs, it was among those performed by a reunion of the original lineup for a live show at The Roxy in Los Angeles which was the culmination of an episode of VH-1's Bands Reunited.

## Cover versions

* System of a Down recorded three cover versions of the song, the first on their untitled 1995 demo cassette, a second on their eponymous 1997 fourth demo cassette, and a third on the 2006 "Lonely Day" maxi single (the latter also appeared on the soundtracks for Dracula 2000 and Not Another Teen Movie).
** SOAD's version was included in OC Weekly's 2016 list of "The 20 Best Metal Cover Songs".
* The Interrupters included a ska-punk cover of the song as a bonus track on their 2014 eponymous debut album.
* Alkaline Trio covered the song on their album Remains.
* Sleepthief covered the song on their album The Dawnseeker.
# Khvor Khvoreh Rural District (Saqqez County)

Khvor Khvoreh Rural District (Persian: دهستان خورخوره) is in Emam District of Saqqez County, Kurdistan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Khvor Khvoreh.

## Demographics
### Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population (as a part of Ziviyeh District) was 7,154 in 1,296 households. There were 6,074 inhabitants in 1,308 households at the following census of 2011. The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 5,217 in 1,275 households, by which time the rural district had been separated from the district in the formation of Emam District. The most populous of its 30 villages was Mahidar-e Olya, with 513 people.
# Last Mission

Last Mission may refer to
* The Last Mission, 1950 Greek movie directed by Nikos Tsiforos
* Last Mission (arcade game), 1986 arcade game by Data East
* The Last Mission (video game), 1987 video game by Opera Soft
* The Last Mission (documentary), a documentary about the last hours before the Japanese surrender in World War II
* The Last Mission (2000 film), a 2000 Polish film
* The Last Mission (novel), a novel by Harry Mazer about an underage USAAC soldier in World War II
* Hunter × Hunter: The Last Mission, a 2013 animated film based on the Hunter × Hunter series
# Betsukai, Hokkaido

Betsukai (別海町, Betsukai-chō) is a town located in Nemuro Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. As of April 30, 2017, the town has an estimated population of 15,179, and an area of 1,320.15 km$^2$ (the second largest in Hokkaido). The town is primarily agricultural, with numerous dairy farms. It comprises a part of the agricultural region referred to as "Milk Land Hokkaido".

## History

* 1923 - 6 villages combine, forming the village of Betsukai.
* 1971 - Betsukai Village becomes Betsukai Town.

## Climate

Climate data for Betsukai (1991−2020 normals, extremes 1977−present) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 8.4 (47.1) | 9.9 (49.8) | 16.3 (61.3) | 27.3 (81.1) | 36.6 (97.9) | 34.7 (94.5) | 35.1 (95.2) | 35.4 (95.7) | 31.9 (89.4) | 25.5 (77.9) | 21.0 (69.8) | 14.2 (57.6) | 36.6 (97.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −1.2 (29.8) | −0.9 (30.4) | 3.0 (37.4) | 9.3 (48.7) | 14.9 (58.8) | 17.8 (64.0) | 21.2 (70.2) | 22.8 (73.0) | 20.7 (69.3) | 15.5 (59.9) | 8.7 (47.7) | 1.6 (34.9) | 11.1 (52.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −6.7 (19.9) | −6.5 (20.3) | −1.9 (28.6) | 3.6 (38.5) | 8.7 (47.7) | 12.3 (54.1) | 16.2 (61.2) | 18.1 (64.6) | 15.4 (59.7) | 9.5 (49.1) | 2.9 (37.2) | −3.8 (25.2) | 5.6 (42.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −13.6 (7.5) | −13.8 (7.2) | −7.7 (18.1) | −1.8 (28.8) | 3.1 (37.6) | 7.9 (46.2) | 12.4 (54.3) | 14.3 (57.7) | 10.5 (50.9) | 3.3 (37.9) | −3.2 (26.2) | −10.1 (13.8) | 0.1 (32.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −31.3 (−24.3) | −33.7 (−28.7) | −25.4 (−13.7) | −14.2 (6.4) | −6.0 (21.2) | −2.7 (27.1) | 1.8 (35.2) | 4.1 (39.4) | −0.7 (30.7) | −7.0 (19.4) | −15.6 (3.9) | −23.8 (−10.8) | −33.7 (−28.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 38.2 (1.50) | 27.4 (1.08) | 55.2 (2.17) | 79.0 (3.11) | 107.2 (4.22) | 111.4 (4.39) | 121.9 (4.80) | 154.9 (6.10) | 184.2 (7.25) | 125.9 (4.96) | 79.0 (3.11) | 63.8 (2.51) | 1,148 (45.20) |
| Average snowfall cm (inches) | 84 (33) | 72 (28) | 75 (30) | 26 (10) | 1 (0.4) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 11 (4.3) | 66 (26) | 330 (130) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 6.4 | 5.0 | 7.8 | 9.0 | 10.7 | 9.7 | 11.1 | 12.1 | 11.6 | 9.4 | 8.7 | 7.9 | 109.4 |
| Average snowy days (≥ 3 cm) | 10.1 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.4 | 7.6 | 39.3 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 146.3 | 150.4 | 181.3 | 163.6 | 165.8 | 132.0 | 108.6 | 117.4 | 138.2 | 158.0 | 148.7 | 143.7 | 1,756 |
| Source: Japan Meteorological Agency ||||||||||||||

## Demographics

Per Japanese census data, the population of Betsukai has declined in recent decades.

## Mascot

Betsukai's mascot is Ryoushi-kun (りょウシくん) whose real name is Ryoushi Betsukai (別海りょウシ, Betsukai Ryoushi). He is a bull that looks like a cow. He is a fisherman, and a milk farmer. His friends are Hotatetchi (ホタテっち) (who is a Yesso scallop), Ebumaru (エビまる) (who is a shrimp), Milkchi (みるちー) (who is a milk bottle), Sakezo (サケゾー) (who is a salmon), Asarin (あさりん) (who is a Japanese littleneck clam), Hocki (ホッキー, Hokkī) (who is a Sakhalin surf clam) and Shiratori-san (シラトリさん) (who is a white swan). He was unveiled on 30 June 2013.