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# North Dakota State Treasurer

The North Dakota state treasurer is a political office in North Dakota. The treasurer's duty is to assure sound financial oversight and absolute safety of all public funds collected, managed, and disbursed. The Office of the State Treasurer is separated into five divisions: Administration, Investments, Accounting, Tax Distributions, and Cash Management. The state treasurer is Thomas Beadle, who was elected on November 3, 2020, and took office on January 1, 2021.
# Simon Achikgyozyan

Simon Achikgyozyan (Armenian: Սիմոն Աչիկգյոզյան, 6 February 1939 – 30 April 1991) was one of the earliest Armenian military commanders during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. He is considered a hero in Armenia.

## Early life, education and career

Achikgyozyan was born in the city of Galați, Kingdom of Romania to Hovhannes and Siranush from the Ottoman Empire, survivors of the Armenian genocide. In 1946, his family resettled in Soviet Armenia. Achikgyozyan graduated from the Yerevan State University in 1960 as an engineer-geologist. From 1961 to 1990, he worked at the Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, earning a PhD in Geology in 1970. He is the author of over 70 scientific publications on geology and minerals of Armenia.

## First Nagorno-Karabakh War

The Karabakh movement that started in February 1988 demanded the unification of the mostly Armenian-population Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast region of Soviet Azerbaijan with Armenia. The tensions between Armenians and Azerbaijanis soon escalated into an armed conflict known as the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Achikgyozyan joined the ARF-affiliated Arabo Detachment in 1989 and was elected into the Yerevan City Council in 1990. By early 1991, the tensions rose gradually to a point where an armed conflict became inevitable. In late April 1991, Soviet and Azerbaijani security forces jointly perpetrated Operation Ring, which included the deportation of thousands of civilian Armenians from the region. Armenian volunteer groups, led by Tatul Krpeyan (posthumously awarded with the title National Hero of Armenia) and Simon Achikgyozyan organized self-defense operations. However, their actions were suppressed by Soviet-Azerbaijani forces. On April 30, 1991, Achikgyozyan was killed in Martunashen village.
# Tijjani Zannah Zakariya

Tijjani Zanna Zakariya, (born on September 27, 1966), is a Nigerian politician representing the Machina/Nguru/Karasuwa/Yusufari Federal Constituency of Yobe State in the House of Representatives.

## Background and early life

Tijjani was born on the 27th of September, 1966. He is from Yobe State, Nigeria.

## Education

Zakariya holds a West African Senior School Certificate (WASC).

## Political career

Zakariya served as the Speaker of the Yobe State House of Assembly for eight years, from June 1999 to June 2007. He served as the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in Yobe State from 2012 to 2019. He also served as the Chairman of the Governing Board for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Yobe State. He was elected under the All Progressives Congress (APC), to represent the Machina/Nguru/Karasuwa/Yusufari Federal Constituency in the National House of Representative.

## Constituency development

In March 2022, he empowered 1,161 individuals through various initiatives aimed at improving livelihoods in his constituency.
# Jumbuck Pastoral Company

Jumbuck Pastoral Company is an Australian company that operates numerous cattle stations and sheep stations in New South Wales, the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia.
It is one of the largest landowners in Australia and the biggest wool grower. As at 2013, Jumbuck controlled over 50,000 square kilometres (19,305 sq mi) of holdings which run approximately 320,000 head of sheep and 80,000 head of cattle.
The company is a privately held company owned by the MacLachlan family and is based in Adelaide.

## History

Jumbuck Pastoral Company was established in 1888 by H. P. MacLachlan who was known for his ability with stock and being able to ride out a drought. Initially the company was interested in wool growing in the arid at Paratoo Station near Yunta. It later diversified into cattle.
By the mid-1920s MacLachlan's son, B. H. MacLachlan, was running the company after his father had loaned him £16,000 to acquire and develop lands in the Tarcoola area. When MacLachlan Senior died in 1939, B. H. continued to expand the development plan with Commonwealth Hill Station and Mulgathing Station shearing over 100,000 sheep in 1945.
B.H. MacLachlan handed over to his son, Hugh MacLachlan in 1960 who took up pastoral leases in Western Australia at Rawlinna Station and Madura Plains.
The company was fined $100,000 in 2005 following the death of a jackaroo in New South Wales in 2001. Hugh MacLachlan stepped down as the managing director of the company in 2009 after nearly half a century in the role. His sons, Jock and Callum, were appointed as joint managing directors.
In 2014 the company acquired Killarney Station in the Northern Territory for $35 million. The property occupied an area of 2,819 square kilometres (1,088 sq mi) and supports a herd of approximately 26,000 cattle.
In February 2021, the company acquired the 1.25 million hectare Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory for $100 million. In April 2023, Fortescue announced it was to acquire Rawlinna Station from Jumbuck Pastoral pending approval from the Government of Western Australia. In November 2024, Fortescue pulled out of the deal citing delays in the approval process.
# Sarón

Sarón is the largest town in Santa María de Cayón, a municipality in Cantabria, Spain.
It was founded in 1876 in a road intersection by a landowner from nearby La Abadilla, whose name was Antonio Saro y Galbán. The name of the town comes from his first surname. In the town of La Penilla, 2 kilometres away, there is a Nestlé factory, which was the first one to open in Spain in 1905. One of the oldest buildings still standing in Sarón is the market, built in 1929.
As of 2020, its population was 3 220 people, of which 50.7% are male and 49.3% female.

## Notable people

* José Manuel Fernández García, music composer, born in 1956
# Brent Titcomb

Brent Arthur Titcomb (born August 10, 1940) is a Canadian actor and musician. He plays guitar, percussion, harmonica, and jaw harp.

## Music career

Titcomb was the original member of the folk-rock group 3's A Crowd. They began in 1965, in Vancouver, and later moved to Toronto. They played coffeehouses and festivals. In concert, he was the comic of the group where he used an odd-sounding vacuum cleaner as part of the routine. They released an album titled Christopher's Movie Matinee, with the help of Cass Elliott.
In 1968, Titcomb went solo and toured Canada and parts of Europe. His songs were recorded by Anne Murray, Andy Williams, Glen Campbell, and The Osmond Brothers. He was a member of Murray's touring band. He performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
Starting in 1976, Titcomb became a mainstay performer at Festival of Friends in Hamilton, Ontario. Over the years, he has appeared there twenty five times and has headlined the event a record five times. He also appeared at the New Orleans World's Fair and in Mexico in 1984. Titcomb became involved in environmental and human rights causes. He sang before the Dalai Lama during one of the religious leader's rare Toronto visits. He also played at the Jacques Cousteau Festival in Hamilton.
In 1980, he released the album Time Traveler, which gained attention as far away as Australia. In 1993, he released a greatest hits CD titled Healing Of Her Heart. In 2001, he released Beyond Appearances. These two CDs have different versions of his song Tibetan Bells. He did Tibetan throat singing in both versions. In many of his songs, he used his own unique musical language. He also performed the songs of Doug Carpenter and Ian Tamblyn.
In 2009, he joined the folk rock group Lee Harvey Osmond, with Tom Wilson as frontman. He is on two of the group's CDs.

## Other work

For one season, he hosted The Brent Titcomb Show on CBC television. The program featured fellow folk singers. He also did voice-over work in animated films and videos, including The Care Bears Movie and Clifford's Fun with.... He wrote several radio jingles and appeared in TV commercials for Casino Rama, Contact C, Tim Horton's, and Canadian Tire.

## Personal life

He is married to artist Cheryl Russell. They lived in Toronto for several years. In 2014, he moved to Vancouver, to help care for his father. He stayed until his father died in February 2016. He now lives in Stratford, Ontario. His son is musician and actor Liam Titcomb.

## Awards

Titcomb appeared in an ad for Canadian Tire, which won an award. He also appeared on a Canadian postage stamp which honoured Canadian Tire's 75th anniversary. In 2013, he was honoured at Winterfolk, in Toronto.

## Discography

This section contains only solo work. See also discographies of 3's a Crowd and Lee Harvey Osmond. This discography is probably incomplete.
* May All Beings Be Happy (1977)
* Time Traveler (1980)
* Healing Of Her Heart (1993) (greatest hits)
* Beyond Appearances (2001)
# Arkansas Highway 177

Highway 177 (AR 177, Ark. 177, and Hwy. 177) is a north–south state highway that runs in north central Arkansas. The route runs 16.20 miles (26.07 km) from Herron north over the Norfork Dam, then south to Pineville.

## Route description

AR 177 begins in Herron and heads north to meet AR 5 in Norfork. It concurs with AR 5 north until Salesville. North of Salesville, AR 177 serves the Norfork National Fish Hatchery, the Quarry Cove Use Area, and bridges the Norfork Dam. The route turns south to pass through Jordan and Iuka before terminating at AR 223 in Pineville. AR 177 is a 2-lane paved highway for its entire length.

## Major intersections

Mile markers reset at concurrencies.
| County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
| Baxter | Herron | 0.0 | 0.0 | Shield Ln | |
| Baxter | Norfork | 3.00 | 4.83 | AR 5 south – Calico Rock, Mountain Home | |
| AR 5 concurrency north, 4.9 miles (7.9 km) |||||
| Baxter | Salesville | 0.0 | 0.0 | AR 5 north – Mountain Home | |
| Norfork Dam | Norfork Dam | 2.56 | 4.12 | Bridge over Norfork Dam | Bridge over Norfork Dam |
| Izard | Pineville | 13.20 | 21.24 | AR 223 – Bexar, Viola, Calico Rock | |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi ||||||
# Kicking and Screaming (1995 film)

Kicking and Screaming is a 1995 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach in his feature directorial debut. The film stars Josh Hamilton, Olivia d'Abo, Parker Posey, Chris Eigeman, and Eric Stoltz.

## Premise

A group of college graduates in the fictional town of Munton refuse to move on with their lives, each in their own peculiar way.

## Cast

* Josh Hamilton as Grover Cary
* Olivia d'Abo as Jane
* Chris Eigeman as Max Belmont
* Parker Posey as Miami
* Jason Wiles as Skippy
* Cara Buono as Kate
* Carlos Jacott as Otis
* Elliott Gould as Grover's dad
* Eric Stoltz as Chet
* Noah Baumbach as Danny
* Perrey Reeves as Amy
* Dean Cameron as Zach
* Marissa Ribisi as Charlotte
* Jessica Hecht as the ticket woman

## Production

Much of the film was shot at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
Jason Blum, Baumbach's college roommate who was producing a film for the first time, obtained financing after receiving a letter from family acquaintance Steve Martin endorsing the script. Blum attached the letter to copies of the script he sent around Hollywood.

## Reception and legacy

Kicking and Screaming received mostly positive reviews, with many critical assessments describing it as remarkably competent for a directorial and writing debut, expecting that Baumbach would "graduate to better things."
Roger Ebert praised the film's "good eye and a terrific ear; the dialogue by writer-director Noah Baumbach is not simply accurate... but a distillation of reality–elevating aimless brainy small-talk into a statement." Reviews often mentioned the thin and meandering plot, but most noted this as a facet of the characters' life stage. Janet Maslin of The New York Times stated, "Kicking and Screaming occupies its postage-stamp size terrain with confident comic style."
According to Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times, "You begin to wonder why you're bothering to watch the aimless lives of these four unfold... At 25 he may be too close to the material to achieve the detachment from which irony and meaning flow." In a 2020 retrospective article, Nathan Dunne of The Guardian wrote the film is "a charming distillation of 90s slacker posturing and the tedium of a quarter-life crisis."
The film premiered in 1995 at the New York Film Festival to critical acclaim. Baumbach was chosen as one of Newsweek's "Ten New Faces of 1996". The Criterion Collection released the film on DVD on August 22, 2006, in the United States.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 57% based on 37 reviews, with an average rating of 5.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Witty and watchable yet undeniably flawed, Kicking and Screaming marks writer-director Noah Baumbach as an emerging talent with intriguing potential." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 75 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
# Democratic Party (Singapore)

The Democratic Party (abbreviation: DP; Chinese: 民主党) was a short-lived political party in Singapore that was registered on 11 February 1955 by the people from the Mandarin-speaking bourgeois who were members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

## History

At the time, it was one of the two largest parties in Singapore (The other party was Progressive Party (PP), who won the 1948 elections) as both parties had sent more than 20 candidates out of the total 25 seats before the emergence of Labour Front who became the ruling party after the 1955 elections (That sent 17 candidates and won 10 of them) and the People's Action Party that was the ruling party of Singapore after 1959 elections.
Despite being the two largest parties in Singapore, the Democratic and Progressive parties decided to merge in order to form the Liberal Socialist Party (LSP) at 5 February 1956, only to be wound up a few years later.
# Charles Alexander John Piesse

Charles Alexander John Piesse (11 September 1812 – 6 March 1851) was an English civil servant who served briefly as the Colonial Secretary of Western Australia. He was an older brother of George William Septimus Piesse.
In 1840 Piesse was appointed Secretary to the Central Loan Fund Board of Ireland, and the following year published a book about the loan fund system. He held this position until appointed Colonial Secretary of Western Australia in 1850. He arrived at Fremantle in October 1850 and died in office several months later, on 6 March 1851.
# Kudu dung-spitting

Kudu dung-spitting (Bokdrol Spoeg in Afrikaans) is a sport practiced by the Afrikaner community in South Africa. In the competition small, hard pellets of dung from the kudu antelope, are spat, with the farthest distance reached being the winner.
Kudu dung-spitting is popular enough to have an annual world championship competition, with the formal sport beginning in 1994. Contests are held at some community bazaars, game festivals or tourism shows in the bushveld, Natal and Eastern Cape. Unlike many similar sports, the distance is measured from the marker to the place the dung pellet comes to rest, rather than where it initially hit the ground.
The world record in the sport is a distance of 15.56 metres (51.0 ft) set as of 2006 by Shaun van Rensburg of Addo. The male UK record is held by Dave Marshall at 11.7m in 2022 with his daughter Harri holding the women's record at 8.3m again in 2022. It is said that hunters began using the pellets in spitting competitions to "retaliate" at their prey, as the kudu is a notoriously difficult animal to hunt, and infamous for leaving a trail of dung pellets while managing to elude the hunter.

## "Similar" sports

Records are also kept for cherry pit spitting, watermelon seed spitting, prune pit spitting, brown cricket spitting and tobacco juice spitting. In 2015, a sheep dung-spitting competition was introduced to Northern Ireland's Lady of The Lake Festival in County Fermanagh.
# Uvariopsis guineensis

Uvariopsis guineensis is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Ronald William John Keay, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after Guinea, then called French Guinea, where the specimens he examined were collected near a locality he identifies as Fassakoidou.

## Description

It is tree reaching 10.7 meters in height. Its flowers occur clusters on the lower trunk. The very fragrant flowers are on hairless pedicel that are 20 by 4 millimeters. Its flowers have bi-lobed sepals that are 11-12 millimeters in diameter. Its flowers have 4 fleshy, oval to triangular petals that are 5-6 millimeters thick and 18-20 by 14-17 millimeters. The petals are united at their base for 5-7 millimeters. The petals are hairless inside, green on their outer surface and yellow inside. Male flowers have a mass of densely packed, brownish stamens that are collectively 5 millimeters in diameter. The fruit are positioned low on the trunk, near ground level. The fruit are on pedicels that are 6.5 centimeters long. The red fruit are irregular in shape and up to 4.5 centimeters long.

### Reproductive biology

The pollen of Uvariopsis guineensis is shed as permanent tetrads.

### Distribution and habitat

It has been observed growing in subtropical and tropical, moist lowland forests under dense canopy.

## Uses

Based on interviews with traditional healers in Guinea it has been recorded as being used to treat skin ailments.
# Yuliya Sokolovska

Yuliya Serhiyivna Sokolovska (Ukrainian: Юлія Сергіївна Соколовська; born 12 April 1985) is a Ukrainian activist, civil servant and politician who is since 12 March 2020 Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine responsible for social affairs.
On 29 August 2019 Sokolovska was appointed as the Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine. In the 4 March 2020 appointed Shmyhal Government she did not return.

## Biography

Sokolovska studied at the Kyiv National Economic University (2007). She also graduated from the National Academy of State Administration (2016).
In 2007 Sokolovska started a career in the private sector.
In 2009 Sokolovska started working at the Kyiv City State Administration.
From 2014 to 2015, Sokolovska headed the Document Management Department of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. From 2015 to 2016, she served as Director of the Department of Social Budget Expenditures in the Ministry of Finance. From 2016 to 2017, she headed the Department of Strategic Planning and Coordination of State Policy of the Secretariat of Cabinet of Ministers.
On 29 August 2019 Sokolovska was appointed as the Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine in the Honcharuk Government. When this Government fell and was replaced on 4 March 2020 with the Shmyhal Government she did not hold her post in the new Government.
On 12 March 2020 Sokolovska was appointed Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine (of President Volodymyr Zelensky) responsible for social affairs.
# Dorothea Rockburne

Dorothea Rockburne (born 1932) is a Canadian abstract painter, drawing inspiration primarily from her deep interest in mathematics and astronomy. Her work is geometric and abstract, seemingly simple but very precise to reflect the mathematical concepts she strives to concretize. "I wanted very much to see the equations I was studying, so I started making them in my studio," she has said. "I was visually solving equations." Her attraction to Mannerism has also influenced her work.

## Career

In 1950, Rockburne moved to the United States to attend Black Mountain College, where she studied with mathematician Max Dehn, a lifelong influence on her work. In addition to Dehn, she studied with Franz Kline, Philip Guston, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham. She also met fellow student Robert Rauschenberg. In 1955, Rockburne moved to New York City where she met many of the leading artists and poets of the time. She was influenced by the minimalist dances of Yvonne Rainer and the Judson Dance Theater.
Throughout her career, she created paintings that expressed mathematical concepts. In 1958, a solo show of her work was critically and financially successful but deemed "not good enough" by Rockburne herself. She did not publicly show her work again for more than a decade, turning her attention to dance and performance art by 1960. Rockburne participated in performances at the Judson Dance Theater and took classes at the American Ballet Theatre. During that time she supported her daughter, Christine, by working as a waitress and a studio manager for her friend Robert Rauschenberg. Bykert Gallery, in New York, which also represented Chuck Close and Brice Marden, began showing her work in 1970.
Rockburne's series of installations, Set Theories, included works such as Intersection, which attempted to merge two of her other pieces of art (Group and Disjunction) to illustrate the mathematical concept of intersection. The series later led to her experimentation with new concepts and materials, such as Gold Section and carbon paper. In 2011, a retrospective exhibition of her work was shown at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, and in 2013, the Museum of Modern Art hosted a solo show of her drawings.
Rockburne is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Academy of Design, and The Century Association. In 2016, Rockburne earned a doctorate degree at Bowdoin College. In 2009 Rockburne became an Honorary Vice President of the National Association of Women Artists, the first women's professional fine art organization founded in the United States.
Rockburne's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.

## Works

* Fire Engine Red. 1967. Wrinkle finish paint (oil) on aluminum. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor.
* Scalar. 1971. Chipboard, crude oil, paper and nails. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
* Locus. 1972. Series of six relief etching and aquatints on folded paper. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
* Golden Section Painting #6. 1975. Kraft paper and blue pencil on linen. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor.
# Citizens' Party (Singapore)

The Citizens' Party (Chinese: 公民党; pinyin: Gōng Mín Dǎng) was a political party in Singapore.

## History

The party was established on 25 February 1959 by Seah Peng Chuan. Seah had been elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1955 elections as a member of the Labour Front, but had left the party to sit as an independent.
In the May 1959 elections the party nominated five candidates for the 51 seats in the Assembly. However, it received only 0.6% of the vote and failed to win a seat.
The party subsequently merged into the Workers' Party on 13 September 1960.
# Robert Alsop

Robert Alsop (1814 – March 25, 1871) was a merchant and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Trinity Bay in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1866 to 1871 as a Liberal and then anti-Confederate.
He was a partner in the mercantile and shipping company R. Alsop and Company based in St. John's. Alsop was first elected in a by-election held in 1866. He served in the Executive Council as chairman of the Board of Works. He was opposed to union with Canada. Alsop was named colonial secretary in 1870. When he ran for reelection because he had been named to a cabinet post, he was defeated but then was named to the Legislative Council, continuing to serve as colonial secretary until his death in St. John's in 1871.