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# 2025 Pakistan train hijack

The 2025 Pakistan train hijack began on March 11, 2025, when the Jaffar Express, a passenger train traveling from Quetta to Peshawar in Pakistan, was hijacked by militants in the Bolan district of Balochistan province. The attack resulted in the train halting in a remote area, with reports indicating that the driver was injured during the assault.

## Background

Balochistan has experienced multiple insurgencies since Pakistan's independence in 1947, with conflicts erupting in 1948, 1958–59, 1962–63, 1973–77, and a continuing low-intensity insurgency since 2003. The BLA has been responsible for numerous attacks targeting security forces, infrastructure, and foreign nationals, particularly Chinese workers involved in projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Notably, in November 2024, the BLA claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a railway station in Quetta, resulting in 32 deaths and 62 injuries.
The region's instability poses significant challenges to Pakistan's efforts to develop Balochistan's resources and to China's investments in the CPEC, which aims to enhance connectivity and economic integration between the two countries. The BLA, founded in 2000, seeks independence for Balochistan, citing grievances over the central government's exploitation of the province's rich gas and mineral resources without adequate local benefits.

## Attack

The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a separatist militant group seeking independence for Balochistan, claimed responsibility for the hijacking. They asserted that they had taken over 400 hostages, including security personnel, and threatened to execute them if Pakistani forces launched a rescue operation. According to reports, the driver was badly wounded in the attack.

## Response

In response, Pakistani security forces initiated ground and aerial operations to rescue the hostages. The BLA claimed to have repelled the ground assault, stating that Pakistani troops were forced to retreat, while aerial bombardments continued.
The Balochistan provincial government declared a state of emergency, mobilizing all institutions to address the crisis. Hospitals were placed on high alert to treat potential casualties arising from the ongoing situation. As of the latest reports, negotiations between the Pakistani authorities and the BLA are ongoing, with the safety of the hostages remaining a primary concern.

## International response

The situation has drawn international attention, highlighting the persistent security challenges in the region.
# Codyville, Maine

Codyville is a township in Washington County, Maine, United States, that is part of the unorganized territory of North Washington. The population was 13 at the 2020 census. Codyville was formerly a plantation, but it disorganized in 2019.

## History

Codyville was named after its first settler and was organized as a plantation in 1872 from Robbins Township (Northern half) and Hingham Academy Grant (Southern Half). After sustaining a steady population decline since the 1930s, the plantation ultimately disorganized in 2019.

## Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the plantation has a total area of 55.0 square miles (142 km$^2$), of which 54.8 square miles (142 km$^2$) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km$^2$), or 0.31%, is water.

## Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 19 people, 9 households, and 6 families residing in the plantation. The population density was 0.3 inhabitants per square mile (0.12/km$^2$). There were 25 housing units at an average density of 0.5 per square mile (0.19/km$^2$). The racial makeup of the plantation was 100.00% White.
There were 9 households, out of which 11.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.7% were married couples living together, and 33.3% were non-families. 33.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 33.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.11 and the average family size was 2.67.
In the plantation the population was spread out, with 5.3% under the age of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 21.1% from 25 to 44, 47.4% from 45 to 64, and 15.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 50 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.0 males.
The median income for a household in the plantation was $68,750, and the median income for a family was $85,139. Males had a median income of $55,417 versus $21,250 for females. The per capita income for the plantation was $21,295. None of the population and none of the families were below the poverty line.
# Sebastian Bergier

Sebastian Bergier (born 20 December 1999) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ekstraklasa club GKS Katowice.

## Honours

Śląsk Wrocław II
* III liga, group III: 2019–20
# Nelson, Illinois

Nelson is a village in Lee County, Illinois, United States. The population was 170 at the 2010 census, up from 163 in 2000.

## History

A post office called Nelson was first established in 1858. The village was named for Samuel Nelson, a pioneer settler.

## Geography

Nelson is located at 41°47′47″N 89°36′17″W﻿ / ﻿41.79639°N 89.60472°W﻿ / 41.79639; -89.60472 (41.796494, -89.604646).
According to the 2010 census, Nelson has a total area of 0.244 square miles (0.63 km$^2$), of which 0.24 square miles (0.62 km$^2$) (or 98.36%) is land and 0.004 square miles (0.01 km$^2$) (or 1.64%) is water.

## Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 163 people, 64 households, and 49 families residing in the village. The population density was 719.0 inhabitants per square mile (277.6/km$^2$). There were 70 housing units at an average density of 308.8 per square mile (119.2/km$^2$). The racial makeup of the village was 96.32% White, 0.61% African American, 0.61% Native American, and 2.45% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.13% of the population.
There were 64 households, out of which 31.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.9% were married couples living together, 9.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.9% were non-families. 17.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 2.90.
In the village, the age distribution of the population shows 24.5% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 27.6% from 25 to 44, 22.7% from 45 to 64, and 18.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 111.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 101.6 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $35,833, and the median income for a family was $37,500. Males had a median income of $33,125 versus $21,250 for females. The per capita income for the village was $15,043. About 15.9% of families and 30.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 60.0% of those under the age of eighteen and 9.1% of those 65 or over.

## Education

Besides the local public schools, Christ Lutheran School, located in nearby Sterling, serves students of various religious backgrounds from Milledgeville to Walnut and from Morrison to Dixon. As part of the largest network of Protestant schools in the US, CLS provides an education for students from age 3 through 8th grade that is focused on all of the core academic subjects while remaining true to the Bible.

## Notable person

* Lou Bevil, pitcher for the Washington Senators
# Dorothy Hoffman

Dorothy M. Hoffman (September 12, 1915 – December 13, 1996) was an American chemical engineer. In 1974 she became the first woman to be elected president of American Vacuum Society and the first woman to serve as president of any scientific society in the USA.

## Early life

She was born in New York City and attended City University of New York. Trained as a concert pianist, she performed at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Dorothy Hoffman got her B.S. in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1947 and an MS in chemical engineering from Bucknell University in 1948.

## Career

Hoffman's technical expertise was in thin-film technology. Her first technical job was at General Electric, tasked with discovering what was causing spots on dishes cleaned in Hotpoint dishwashers.
She and her husband Earl soon moved to Philadelphia, where she worked for International Resistance Co. as a research engineer before being promoted to head of process development. Hoffman played a significant role in the development of evaporated-metal-film resistors during this time.
In 1961 she became the first woman to be invited to a membership in the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia.
She joined the RCA David Sarnoff Research Laboratory in 1962 as a member of the Technical Staff, working there until her retirement in 1994. At Sarnoff Labs, she was in charge of the Thin Film Technology Service Group which developed evaporative coatings used on solar cells, optical video discs, kinescope parts and optical wave guides. She was awarded the RCA Laboratories Outstanding Achievement Award in 1968 and the Video Disc Achievement Award in 1973. Her teaching seminars, her publications and patents made lasting contributions to advancing the development and implementation of thin film technology.
At her retirement in 1990, she was the Head of Thin Film Laboratory at David Sarnoff Research Center in Penns Neck, where she worked for 28 years.

## Society of Women Engineers

Dorothy Hoffman was an active member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) at a local and national levels, serving on their board of trustees from 1980 to 1989. She was elected a SWE Fellow in 1984 and provided funding for several SWE scholarships and the development of new career guidance programs in her will.

## American Vacuum Society

In 1974 she became the first woman to be elected president of American Vacuum Society and the first woman to serve as president of any scientific society in the US.
After her retirement, she continued to volunteer at American Vacuum Society. In 1993 she started the effort to put together a reference handbook for vacuum scientists and engineers to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the society. This resulted in publication of the popular "Handbook of Vacuum Science and Technology" by Academic Press, of which she is the lead co-editor.
In 2002, the American Vacuum Society established the Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman student award "to recognize and encourage excellence in continuing graduate studies in the sciences and technologies of interest to AVS."
# The Whiff of Money

The Whiff of Money is a 1969 thriller novel by British writer James Hadley Chase. The book features his character Mark Girland.

## Plot summary

This book follows Mark Girland's next adventure after Have This One on Me. John Dorey asks Mark Girland to fetch a blue movie tape from Paris without telling him who the girl in the tape is. Girland, while working out his plan finds out, to his utter surprise, that the girl features in the tape is the daughter of Sherman, a man who is running for the presidential election in the United States. His daughter, Gilly threatens to expose the tapes to ruin her father's chances of becoming the president of the United States. Her act is an instance of retaliation because her father and mother had never taken care of her in her childhood and she had had to do without the parental love and affection.
The book follows Girland as he finds his way through the underground pornographic industry of Paris to rescue the girl and the tape for $20,000. He finds the girl but there is a business mogul who has invested a lot of money on Sherman's presidential campaign for not wholly honest reasons. He plans to kill the girl and Girland in his mansion.
Girland again meets Malik, who is a secret agent of the Soviets and who is also after the tape. The book follows Girland as he tries to rescue Gilly and the tape which could prove dangerous to a lot of people.
The story contain references to the books "Have this one on me”, ”Believed violent” and ”This is for real” (also by James Hadley Chase).
# Adrienne Minerick

Adrienne Robyn Minerick is an American chemical engineer and academic administrator who researches electrokinetics in microdevices, medical diagnostics, and nonlinear electrophoresis. She has served as the dean of the school of technology and later the school of computing in the college of engineering at the Michigan Technological University from 2018 to 2021. Minerick is a professor of chemical engineering. She was president of the American Society for Engineering Education from 2021 to 2022. She is a past president of the American Electrophoresis Society and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Minerick earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from Michigan Technological University. She completed a M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical and biomolecular engineering from the University of Notre Dame. Her 2003 dissertation was titled, Medical Diagnostic Microfluidics and Physiological Blood Flow Dynamics. Hsueh-Chia Chang was her doctoral advisor. In 2007, Minerick received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
# Blast Furnace Blues Festival

The Blast Furnace Blues Festival is a blues music festival held annually in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Blast Furnace Blues Festival was founded to showcase contemporary and traditional blues, acoustic and electric blues, soul, zydeco and gospel music. Performers have included national recording artists as well as local and regional performers.
The festival began in 2011.
No festival was held in 2013 nor 2020.
# Uptown (The Crystals song)

"Uptown" is a 1962 single by the Crystals. On the Cash Box Top 100, the song peaked at #10. On the Billboard charts, "Uptown" reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #18 on the Billboard R&B Sides chart.

## Background

In 1961, the Crystals recorded "There's No Other (Like My Baby)" with producer Phil Spector. When the Crystals went to record "Uptown" the following year, the group had not received payment from Spector for "There's No Other". After recording "Uptown", the Crystals were not paid by Spector, which led the group to fire their manager Benny Wells and hire the new manager, Daniel Turner.

## Recording

Before the Crystals recorded "Uptown", La La Brooks replaced Myrna Girrard after Girrard became pregnant. During a retake of "Uptown", Spector brought in Eva Boyd after songwriters Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann convinced him to redo the vocals. Boyd got angry with Spector after having to re-record her vocals for "Uptown" multiple times, which lead to Spector to release the original version with the Crystals.

## Composition

"Uptown" was originally written for Tony Orlando, but Spector convinced songwriters Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann to give him the song. After acquisition, Spector changed some of the notes to ones that Barbara Alston of the Crystals could sing and modified the lyrics to be about an African American instead of a Latin American. The lyrics in "Uptown" about living in the slums created a "sophisticated and socially conscious" song that laid the framework for later rock and roll songs.

## Reception

Billboard magazine said that with the flip side "What a Nice Way to Turn Seventeen", both songs had "appeal for both pop and r&b buyers".

## Chart performance

In 1962, "Uptown" peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #18 on the Hot R&B Sides.

## Cover versions

"Uptown" was covered by Anita Lindblom for Fontana and Peter Gordeno for His Master's Voice.
# Paul Barrere

Paul Barrere (July 3, 1948 – October 26, 2019) was an American musician most prominent as a member of the band Little Feat, which he joined in 1972 some three years after the band was created by Lowell George.

## Career

Barrere recorded and performed with Taj Mahal, Jack Bruce, Chicken Legs, Blues Busters, Valerie Carter, Helen Watson, Chico Hamilton, Robert Palmer, Eikichi Yazawa, and Carly Simon. He can be seen in the 1979 Nicolette Larson promotional video of "Lotta Love".
Barrere's best known contributions to Little Feat as a songwriter include "Skin It Back" and "Feats Don't Fail Me Now" from the album Feats Don't Fail Me Now, "All That You Dream" from The Last Record Album, "Time Loves a Hero" from Time Loves a Hero, and "Down on the Farm" from Down on the Farm.
Barrere could play a wide variety of styles of music including blues, rock, jazz, and cajun music and was proficient as a slide guitarist.
Barrere also recorded and toured as an acoustic duo with fellow Little Feat member Fred Tackett.
Barrere played several concerts with Phil Lesh and Friends in October 1999 and from March to June 2000. He also toured with Bob Dylan, and had most recently been writing and recording with Roger Cole.

## Personal life

Born on July 3, 1948, in Burbank, California, he was the son of the Hollywood actors Paul Bryar and Claudia Bryar. Barrere contracted Hepatitis C in 1994, but had managed to keep it under control. In 2015, he was diagnosed with liver cancer.
Paul Barrere died on October 26, 2019, at the age of 71 in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.

## Discography
### Solo

* 1983 On My Own Two Feet (Mirage)
* 1984 Real Lies (Atlantic)
* 1995 If the Phone Don't Ring (Zoo)

### Bluesbusters

* 1984 Merry Christmas (Tower)
* 1986 Accept No Substitute (Landslide)
* 1987 This Time (Landslide)

### Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett

* 2001 Live from North Cafe (Relix)
* 2009 Live in the UK 2008 (Stonehenge)

### Collaborations

* 2013 Plays Well with Others - by Greg Koch - Tracks: 4,7,9,10
With Bonnie Raitt
* Takin' My Time (Columbia Records, 2013)
With Pat McGee
* Pat McGee (Pat McGee, 2015)
With Valerie Carter
* Just a Stone's Throw Away (Columbia Records, 1977)
With Robert Palmer
* Pressure Drop (Island Records, 1975)
* Some People Can Do What They Like (Island Records, 1976)
* Double Fun (Island Records, 1978)
With Sanne Salomonsen
* Language of the Heart (Virgin Records, 1994)
With Nicolette Larson
* Nicolette (Warner Bros. Records, 1978)
* In the Nick of Time (Warner Bros. Records, 1979)
* Radioland (Warner Bros. Records, 1981)
With The Oak Ridge Boys
* American Dreams (MCA Records, 1988)
With Tom Johnston
* Everything You've Heard Is True (Warner Bros. Records, 1979)
With Taj Mahal
* Like Never Before (Private Music, 1991)
With Carly Simon
* Another Passenger (Elektra Records, 1976)
# Albertine disparue

Albertine disparue (Albertine Gone) is the title of the sixth volume of Marcel Proust's seven part novel, À la recherche du temps perdu. It is also known as La Fugitive (in French) and The Sweet Cheat Gone (in English).

## Plot

In the sixth volume of the series, the Narrator's past actions meet an equivalent resolution. The captive is now the fugitive. As in previous volumes, envy and distrust eventually reveal unsuspected and unwanted revelations, such as Albertine's homosexuality, which lead the Narrator to reconcile himself with his melancholy. Unfortunately, happiness still eludes him, and the marriages of his former friends pit him against his own misery, which he tries to cover with indifference.

## Publication

The final three volumes of the novel were published posthumously and without Proust's final corrections and revisions. The first edition, based on Proust's manuscript, was published as Albertine disparue to prevent it from being confused with Rabindranath Tagore's La Fugitive (1921). The first definitive edition of the novel in French (1954), also based on Proust's manuscript, used the title La Fugitive. The second, even-more-definitive French edition (1987–89) uses the title Albertine disparue and is based on an unmarked typescript acquired in 1962 by the Bibliothèque Nationale.

## Mante-Proust typescript

After the death in 1986 of Proust's niece, Suzy Mante-Proust, her son-in-law discovered among her papers a typescript that had been corrected and annotated by Proust. The late changes Proust made include a small crucial detail and the deletion of approximately 150 pages. This version was published in French (Paris: Grasset, 1987) and translated as Albertine Gone by Terence Kilmartin (London: Chatto & Windus, 1989); the translation is now out of print.
Whether Proust's changes to the manuscript can be integrated into the text of modern editions of Lost Time, remains the subject of contentious debate. Current French editions adopt different approaches to the problem. The 1989 French Pléiade edition preserved the deleted material. However, Jean Milly's 2002 GF Flammarion edition follows Proust's typescript, and restores the sub-title "Sodom and Gomorrah III."
This disagreement reflects the dilemma created by the condition of Albertine disparue/La Fugitive. Proust's edited typescript shows his final intentions, but he did not have time to fully realize those intentions. Thus, the typescript leaves Albertine disparue inconsistent with Time Regained. Moreover, Proust's anticipated (but never realized) further volumes of Sodom and Gomorrah might ultimately have included the deleted material.
For the 2002 English translation of the volume, editor Christopher Prendergast charged Peter Collier with translating the 1989 Pléiade edition.
# Alessandro Verri

Alessandro Verri (9 November 1741 – 23 September 1816) was an Italian author.

## Background

Born in Milan into an aristocratic family, as a young man he participated in the Accademia dei Pugni [Wikidata], founded together with his brother Pietro Verri and their friends Cesare Beccaria, Alfonso Longo, Pietro Secchi, Giambattista Biffi and Luigi Lambertenghi. Later he collaborated in the magazine Il Caffè. In this period he wrote the Saggio sulla Storia d'Italia ("Essay on Italian History", 1761–1766).
Subsequently Verri moved to Rome where his main attention moved to theatre. He was one of the first Italian translators of Shakespeare. He wrote two tragedies: Pantea and La congiura di Milano ("The Conspiracy of Milan"), both published in 1779.
In 1782 he wrote the novel Le avventure di Saffo poetessa di Mitilene ("The adventures of Sappho, poet of Mitilene"), but his most famous work is the Notti romane al sepolcro degli Scipioni ("Roman Nights at the Sepulchre of the Scipios"), published in two parts in 1792 and 1804, in which the ghosts of illustrious men of the past (Cicero, Caesar and others) evoke the ancient Roman civilizations, stressing its violent background in contrast with the peaceful Christian civilization. A third part remained unpublished until 1967.
His other works include a translation of Daphnis and Chloe (1812), the novel La vita di Erostrato ("Life of Herostratus", 1815) and Vicende memorabili de' suoi tempi dal 1789 al 1801 ("Memorable happenings of His Times from 1789 to 1801", 1858). Also notable is his correspondence with his brother Pietro.
Verri died in Rome in 1816.
The younger brother of Alessandro Verri and Pietro Verri, Giovanni Verri, is supposed to be the natural father of the noted Italian novelist and poet Alessandro Manzoni. Their other brother, Carlo, was also a politician.
# Helen Morgan (field hockey)

Helen Jane Morgan (née Grandon; 20 July 1966 – 19 November 2020) was a field hockey player, who was a member of the British squad that won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
She was educated at Porthcawl Comprehensive School, and joined Swansea hockey club at the age of thirteen.
Later in her career, she played for and captained the Wales international football team.