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# Semnani people

The Semnani people (Semnani: سمنی مرتمونی, samani mertimüni) are a Caspian people, part of the greater Iranian people who primarily live in northern Iran and speak the Semnani language. Today, the majority of Semnani people speak Persian.

## Origins

The Semnani people are Caspians who migrated to the northern fringe of the central Iranian plateau from the southern shores of the Caspian Sea. It is not known when this migration occurred, but these Caspian-speaking tribes slowly intermixed with the tribes of the plateau, creating what has been dubbed in Persian literature as an "Isle of Dialects."
These same Caspian migrants also settled in the villages and towns of Biyabunak, Eyvanakey, Sorkheh, Garmsar, Shahmirzad, Darjezin, and Mehdishahr. The city of Semnan is the primary hub of the Semnani people, though it is unclear whether the name itself came from the people or the settlement.

## Cultural Identity

Like many cultures of the Middle East, Semnani people emphasize kindness, compassion, and hospitality. The identity of the Semnani people is deeply intertwined with their language. The ardent desire to preserve their unique identity manifests throughout Semnani poetry.
The spread of Persian—and even English—has threatened the preservation of the Semnani language. Poets, like Azim Hajj Ramazani, offer both hope and warning to the Semnani people.

## Agriculture

The arid plains of Iran's central desert sharply contrast with the lush, forested north of Iran, but the lack of rain did not stop the Semnani people from settling the alluvial fans and bringing the desert to life for the last thousand years.
The Semnani people built complex water irrigation projects to siphon snowmelt and runoff from the mountains. One such project is Parö, which in Semnani means the water splitter. A large channel made of stonemasonry would draw the rushing water into the city. Several large steps and ponds would reduce the speed of the runoff until the water becomes nearly stationary by the last step. From there, the water would be divided into as many channels as needed and dispatched via a system of overland and subterranean aqueducts. In pre-modern times, an engarnevis would oversee the water distribution process, keeping records of how much water has been dispatched to a particular neighborhood or agricultural district.
# Scaugdae

The Scaugdae were an ancient people living between the Haemus Mountains and the Danube river.

## History

They are known from only one passage from Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia, where he mentions them alongside the Aedi and Clariae as the neighbours of the Getae.
According to the scholar Georgi Mihailov, the Scaugdae were a Getic tribe.
# 2C-tBu

2C-tBu, also known as 2,5-dimethoxy-4-tert-butylphenethylamine, is a serotonin receptor agonist and putative serotonergic psychedelic of the phenethylamine and 2C families. It is a potent serotonin 5-HT$_{2A}$ receptor agonist (K$_i$ = 9.9–35 nM, EC$_{50}$Tooltip half-maximal effective concentration = 4.2 nM) and also binds to the serotonin 5-HT$_{2C}$ receptor (K$_i$ = 7–24 nM). The drug produces a robust head-twitch response, a behavioral proxy of psychedelic effects, in rodents. The active dosage in humans is >5 mg per Daniel Trachsel and its duration is unknown. Initial tests with 7 mg and 10 mg (as 5 mg plus 5 mg 2 hours apart) produced no psychedelic effects in humans, but instead induced a pronounced and long-lasting tiredness. It was hypothesized that 2C-tBu might be a serotonin 5-HT$_{2A}$ receptor antagonist and might thereby be hypnotic, but it was instead shown to be an agonist in subsequent studies.
# When Love Is Over

When Love Is Over (French: Après l'amour) is a 1931 French drama film directed by Léonce Perret and starring Gaby Morlay, Victor Francen and Tania Fédor. It is based on the 1924 play After Love by Henri Duvernois and Pierre Wolff.

## Cast

* Gaby Morlay as Germaine
* Victor Francen as Pierre Meyran
* Tania Fédor as Madame Meyran
* Nadine Picard [Wikidata] as Madame Stivié
* Jacques Varennes as Robert Fournier
* Jean Joffre as Ferrand
* Henri Richard as Mertelet
* Raymond Guérin-Catelain as Gérard
* Claude Borelli as Petit garçon
* Jean Borelli as Petit garçon
* Jean Bara as Petit garçon
* Jacqueline Brizard as Trèfle
* Laurette Fleury
* Marcelle Monthil
# Matthew Chozick

Matthew Chozick is an American actor, writer, filmmaker, scholar, and television personality (tarento) in Japan.

## Career

Since April 2012, Chozick has starred weekly with Takeshi Kitano on Nippon TV's Sekai marumie! Terebi tokusôbu, one of Japan's most popular comedy-variety shows. In addition to TV work, Chozick is known for acting in the film Love and Other Cults (2017), for co-hosting a popular show on NHK Radio, and for his writing in Japanese and English. He also teaches at Temple University Japan Campus and has lectured at other universities in the US, UK, and Japan.
Chozick's directorial debut, Toshie the Nihilist, garnered numerous awards after premiering at the Academy Award and BAFTA qualifying LA Shorts International Film Festival in 2021. That same year, Chozick also appeared in Sion Sono's Prisoners of the Ghostland, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival.
Aside from media work and teaching, Chozick publishes academic research in the fields of comparative literature, cultural studies, and translation theory. He has also edited, written, and translated several books. Chozick earned a PhD in the UK at the University of Birmingham and studied method acting in Los Angeles at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. He has also trained in New York at the Barrow Group.

## Filmography
### Select Films

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2017 | Love and Other Cults | Ravi | |
| 2019 | Jebiotto vs. Mechajebiotto | God | |
| 2020 | Midnight Swan | Announcer | Voice |
| 2021 | Prisoners of the Ghostland | Sheriff Matthew | |
| 2021 | Toshie the Nihilist | Anh Dung | Also writer and director |
| 2022 | Offbeat Cops | Town Priest |
| 2024 | Light of Intricate Patterns | Michael Brown |

### Select Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2012–present | Sekai marumie! Terebi tokusôbu | Himself | |
| 2020 | Perfect I Nogizaka Cinemas Story of 46 | Evil Tech Guru | |
| 2021–present | Smitten in Japan | Himself | Host |
| 2022–present | Ethical Every Day | Himself | Co-host |

## Awards and nominations

Awards and nominations received by Matthew Chozick :
| Award | Year | Work | Category | Result |
| New York Shorts International Film Festival | 2021 | Toshie the Nihilist (wrote and directed) | Best Comedy Award | Won |
| Sydney Underground Film Festival | 2021 | Toshie the Nihilist (wrote and directed) | Audience Choice Award | Won |
| Burbank International Film Festival | 2021 | Toshie the Nihilist (wrote and directed) | Best Foreign Short | Nominated |
| Shenzhen International Film Festival | 2021 | Toshie the Nihilist (wrote and directed) | Best Visual Award | Won |
| Hong Kong International Short Film Festival | 2021 | Toshie the Nihilist (wrote and directed) | Most Promising Director | Won |
| Mediterranean Film Festival Cannes | 2021 | Toshie the Nihilist (wrote and directed) | Best Comedy Short Film | Won |
| Boston Underground Film Festival | 2022 | Toshie the Nihilist (wrote and directed) | Best Short Film | Won |
| New York City International Film Festival | 2022 | Toshie the Nihilist (wrote and directed) | Best International Short Film | Won |
# 1921 Rice Owls football team

The 1921 Rice Owls football team was an American football team that represented Rice University as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1921 college football season. In its ninth season under head coach Philip Arbuckle, the team compiled a 4–4–1 record (1–2–1 against SWC opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 144 to 128.

## Schedule

| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance |
| October 1 | Southwestern Louisiana* | Rice FieldHouston, TX | W 54–0 | 2,000 |
| October 8 | at Baylor | Carroll FieldWaco, TX | L 14–17 | 5,000 |
| October 15 | Tulane* | Rice FieldHouston, TX | L 6–7 | |
| October 22 | Southwestern (TX) | Rice FieldHouston, TX | W 28–0 | |
| October 29 | at Texas | Clark FieldAustin, TX (rivalry) | L 0–56 | |
| November 5 | SMU | Rice FieldHouston, TX (rivalry) | W 7–0 | |
| November 11 | Texas A&M | Rice FieldHouston, TX | T 7–7 | 9,500 |
| November 18 | Trinity (TX) | Rice FieldHouston, TX | W 28–14 | |
| November 24 | Oklahoma* | Rice FieldHouston, TX | L 0–27 | |
| *Non-conference game ||||||
# Port Ballona, California

Port Ballona is an archaic place name for an area near the center of Santa Monica Bay in coastal Los Angeles County, where Playa Del Rey and Del Rey Lagoon are located today. Port Ballona was a planned harbor and town site from circa 1859 to 1903. The name comes from the Rancho La Ballona Mexican land grant.
Port Ballona consisted of the current Del Rey Lagoon Park but conceptually also included the current Ballona Wetlands State Ecological Reserve alongside the estuarine river Ballona Creek, which flowed into and alongside the marsh within earthen levees built of soft-bottomed wetland soil. While these plans never came to fruition, and the area remains a primarily residential neighborhood, the wetlands immediately to the north were eventually developed into Marina del Rey, North America's largest man-made small-craft harbor.

## History

In 1839, the Mexican government granted the Machados and Talamantes families title to Rancho La Ballona.
In 1857, Benjamin D. Wilson, the mayor of Los Angeles, through foreclosure received title to a quarter of Rancho La Ballona. Later, in 1859, Wilson, for $5000, sold 3,480 acres (1,410 ha) of Rancho La Ballona to George A. Sanford and John D. Young. During the Civil War, General George Wright ordered troops to secure Port Ballona against any Confederacy invasion; by 1862, a large force of 6,000 Union troops were at and near Port Ballona. The troop camp was called Camp Latham after Milton Latham.
The Great Flood of 1862 turned the Port and the land around it into a swamp for six months.
In 1863, Louis Mesmer sold his Los Angeles bakery and purchased extensive land holdings from the Machados, including Port Ballona. In 1887, Louis Mesmer and Moye Wicks [d] made a small harbor at Port Ballona. Moye Wicks starts the Ballona Harbor and Improvement Company in 1887, with plans to make the port a major sea port. On August 21, 1887, the Town of Port Ballona was developed by Louis Mesmer and Moye Wicks. By 1889, Ballona Harbor and Improvement Company was out of funds to complete the maintain and expand the port, they could not keep the Port open. Louis Mesmer and Moye Wicks sold the port and land around the port to Moses Sherman. Sherman purchased 1,000 acres (400 ha) of land around the Ballona lagoon and the Port Ballona in 1902 under the name, Beach Land Company.
Port Ballona rail depot was built at the port and serviced by the California Central Railway opening in September 1887; this line later became the Santa Fe Railway, that later became the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. The rail line ran from the port to Redondo junction.
Sherman and Clark renamed the port and land around the port to Del Rey in 1903. Port Ballona, in 1903, was renamed Playa Del Rey by Sherman and Clark.
Port Ballona Street car depot, built by Sherman's Redondo and Hermosa Beach Railroad, was part of the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad. The Sherman's tram line opened in December 1902, it departed Downtown Los Angeles at 4th & Broadway.
In the 1880s and 1890s, parts of Venice, Playa Vista, Culver City, and Mar Vista were also part of Port Ballona.
# Povarnitsyn

Povarnitsyn (Russian: Поварницын) is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Povarnitsyna. Notable people with the surname include:
* Alexander Povarnitsyn [Wikidata] (born 1994), Russian biathlete
* Rudolf Povarnitsyn (born 1962), Russian athlete
# Rowena Cole

Rowena Cole (born 13 January 1992) is a British retired middle-distance runner who specialised in the 800 metres and competed in international level events. Her highest achievement in winning was a silver medal won at the 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships in Tallinn.

## Career

Cole trained with the Coventry Godiva Harriers athletic club.
In 2008 she was named the England Athletics’ Young Athlete of the Year and won the Intermediate 800m title at the English Schools Athletics Championships. She was then invited to become a member of the "On Camp with Kelly" mentoring and education initiative with Dame Kelly Holmes.
In 2010 she participated in the Commonwealth Games in Delhi and the next year she won a silver medal at the 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships in Tallinn. She achieved a new personal best of 2:04.21 in 2015.
In 2022 Cole ran in the Coventry Godiva Harriers Ladies' team at the Midlands Road Relay, winning the event.
Alongside competing, she achieved a Sports Marketing degree at Coventry University and was employed at the marketing department of Coventry Sports Foundation.
# Faye Ginsburg

Faye Ginsburg (born October 28, 1952) is an American anthropologist who has devoted her life to the exploration of different cultures and individuals’ styles of life. Ginsburg has published ethnographies about her fieldwork experiences in the U.S., Canada and Australia. The intercultural connections in her ethnographies have contributed to the fields of anthropology and sociology because they allow readers to understand other cultures through her narratives. Currently, she is an anthropology professor at New York University and the director of the Center for Media, Culture and History at NYU. She is also the cofounder, with Mara Mills, of the NYU Center for Disability Studies.

## Early life and education

She was born on October 28, 1952, in Chicago, Illinois to parents Benson Ginsburg and Pearl Miner. Her father, Benson, was a behavioral geneticist at the University of Chicago.
She graduated from Barnard College in 1976 with a BA, and from City University of New York, with a Ph.D. in 1986.

## Publications

Faye D. Ginsburg is the editor of Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community. In this book the author talks about the Fargo Women's Health Organization. The Fargo Women's Health Organization was the first facility to offer abortions publicly in North Dakota. Ginsburg discusses the pro-choice and pro-life movement's evolution in North Dakota and furthermore, the United States.
Ginsburg also published Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain with Lila Abu-Lughod and Brian Larkin. The twenty chapters in Media Worlds "treat materials from local and disaporic communities worldwide and discusses sites of production and consumption. The chapters in the book talk about different technologies utilized by other cultures. Ginsburg focuses on aborigines in Australia and the individuals residing in the Baffin Islands, Canada.

### Other publications

* Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture.
* 9/11 and After, A Virtual Case Book.
* Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction.

#### Publications in progress

* Mediating Culture: Indigenous Identity in a Digital Age.
* Disability, Personhood, and the New Normal in 21st Century America

## Awards

* 1994 MacArthur Fellows Program
* 2004 Council on Anthropology and Reproduction Edited Volume Prize,
* American Sociological Association's Sociology of Culture Book Award.
* Society for Medical Anthropology's Basket Award for Research on Gender and Health.
# Western Assurance Company

The Western Assurance Company was a Canadian insurance company that has operated from 1851 to 2025. Western was one of the country's earliest fire insurance companies and played an important role in the development of the industry in Canada.

## History

In 1892, Western formed an alliance with the British America Assurance Company. Under the agreement, the two companies would retain the separate identities but would share a common board of directors. Thereafter, the companies were known as the Western–British America Group.
In 1961, Royal Insurance of London, England acquired the Western–British America Group. Following the acquisition, Western and British America continued to operate separately. In 1976, British America changed its name to the Royal Insurance Company of Canada, and then in 1978, absorbed the operations of its subsidiaries the Hudson's Bay Insurance Company and the Globe Indemnity Company of Canada. After the 1996 merged of Royal Insurance and Sun Alliance to form Royal and Sun Alliance, the Canadian company changed its name to the Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Company of Canada. In 2008, Royal and Sun Alliance changed its brand name to RSA, at which time Western Assurance began operating as WA.
In 2021, Intact acquired the RSA Insurance Group. On 9 September 2024, Intact petitioned the federal minister of finance to amalgamate Western's operations into intact, effective 1 January 2025.

## Leadership
### President

* Isaac Clarke Gilmor, 1851–1862
* George Michie, 1862–1865
* John McMurrich, 1865–1883
* Alexander Mortimer Smith, 1883–1895
* George Albertus Cox, 1895–1914
* William Rees Brock, 1914–1917
* William Buchanan Meikle, 1917–1923
* Wilfrid Maynard Cox, 1923–1931
* Ernest Arthur Brownell, 1931–1947
* Geoffrey Stubington, 1947–1958
* Frank John Erwood, 1958–1960
* Hugh P. Ham, 1960–1966
# Central Securities Clearing System

Central Securities Clearing System Plc. (CSCS) is a Nigerian financial market infrastructure responsible for the depository, clearing, settlement and delivery and reporting of all securities transactions in the Nigerian capital market. CSCS provides a single access point for all post-trade services, including equities, treasury bills, bonds, commodities, funds, and cash.

## History

CSCS started operating in on April 14, 1997. In 2023, CSCS announced that they earned 7.284 billion naira from transaction and depository fees. CSCS was awarded Capital Market Infrastructure Developer of the Year at Business Day Banks and other Financial Institutions (BAFI) Awards in 2024.
# Mitchell Burgess

Mitchell Burgess is an American writer and producer. He was a writer and an executive producer on The Sopranos. He was a creator and executive producer for Blue Bloods. He frequently works with his wife Robin Green.

## Career

The Sopranos, Northern Exposure and Mr. & Mrs. Smith are some of the TV series that he has written for.
In 2010 Burgess worked as an executive consultant and writer on the second season of the police drama Southland. Green and Burgess were the creators of Blue Bloods, which premiered in fall 2010 on CBS.

## Personal life

Burgess is married to his Sopranos co-writer Robin Green, whom he met when they were students at the University of Iowa.

## Awards

He has been nominated for eleven Emmy Awards for The Sopranos and has won three.
# Carl Byker

Carl Byker is the founder of Red Hill Productions and an American television producer, writer, and director. He has written, directed and produced multiple hours for the PBS series Frontline and American Experience." He has also made 12 limited series and science specials for PBS. Among his awards are the 1997 Prime-Time Emmy Award (shared with Blaine Baggett and Jay Winter) for The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century in the category of Outstanding Informational Series, the Peabody Award, two Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award silver batons, two International Documentary Association awards for best limited series, the Investigative Reporters and Editors award for best multi-platform’ project of the year for a collaboration with NPR, Pro Publica and Frontline. Carl’s films have also been nominated six times by the Writers Guild of America for best non-fiction television script of the year and have won the award twice.

## Personal life

Carl grew up near Grand Rapids, MI. He went to film school at Montana State University in Bozeman, where he won the American Cinema Editors award as best student editor in the nation. He now lives in Los Angeles with his wife Sue Horton, an editor at the Los Angeles Times. His son, Sam Byker, is CEO of Atticus.

## Filmography

The Human Quest (1994)
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1997)
The Tree of Life (1999)
American Experience: The Duel (2000)
American Experience: Woodrow Wilson (2002)
Kingdom of David (2003)
The New Heroes (2004)
Frontline: The Meth Epidemic (2005)
Uncommon Heroes (2006)
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and The Presidency (2008)
When Worlds Collide (2010)
Frontline: Post Mortem: Death Investigation in America (2011)
Frontline: Money and March Madness (2012)
Frontline: Dollars and Dentists (2013)
Frontline: Life & Death in Assisted Living (2015)
Hacking Your Mind (2020)
# Ben Allen (California politician)

Benjamin J. Allen (born March 13, 1978) is an American attorney and politician who has served as a member of the California State Senate from the 24th district since 2022, having previously represented the 26th district from 2014 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as University of California Student Regent and Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District school board member.

## Personal life and education

Allen was born and raised in Santa Monica, California, to a Jewish family. After graduating from Santa Monica High School, he received a bachelor of arts from Harvard University in 2000, a master of philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 2001, and a juris doctor from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008. He worked for New York Rep. José E. Serrano for two years and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2008.
As of 2019, Allen is a private attorney and lecturer in law at the University of California, Los Angeles. He lives in Santa Monica.

## Political career

As a student at UC Berkeley, Allen served as a University of California student regent from 2007 to 2008. He served on the Santa Monica–Malibu Board of Education from 2008 until his election to the California State Senate in 2014, serving as president of the board from 2012 to 2013. He also chaired the Los Angeles County Committee on School Board Organization.

### California State Senate

Allen announced his candidacy for the redrawn 26th district in February 2014. His major opponents in the primary included Manhattan Beach Mayor Amy Howorth, former Assemblymember Betsy Butler, and social justice attorney Sandra Fluke.
After finishing in first place in the June 2014 primary election, he defeated Sandra Fluke in the November 2014 general election by a wide margin.
Allen successfully defended his seat four years later. He secured 77 percent of the vote in the June 2018 primary, defeating Baron Bruno, an unaffiliated realtor, and Mark Matthew Herd, Libertarian candidate and Westwood neighborhood councilman. In the November 2018 primary election, Allen defeated Bruno again, winning by a margin of 54.4 percent. His term will end on December 1, 2026.