Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The White Ravens is a catalog published annually in English by the International Youth Library as a recommendation list for international children's and youth literature. The most recent White Ravens catalog is presented each year in October at the Frankfurt Book Fair and the following spring at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy. The first catalog was issued in 1986.

Selection
From the large quantity of the review and donation copies, which the library receives from publishing houses, institutions, organizations and other friends of the library, the language specialists (lektors) select 200 new releases from over 40 countries in more than 30 languages. The White Raven label is given to books which are chosen "based on the universal relevance of the themes they address, their literary and pictorial qualities, or their innovative approaches or design."

Each title listed in the catalog is briefly described with a short annotation and several keywords that capture content and genre, as well as a notation for suggested reader age level.  The catalogs contain a name index, subject index and reading age index. In earlier editions, identification symbols for "Special Mentions", for books found to contribute to intercultural communication, and for easy-to-read texts were added to some annotations.

Online access to catalog
An online database of titles in the catalogs from 2012 to the current year is hosted on the website of the IYL. It includes an advanced search facility by catalog year.

White Ravens Festival
Beginning in 2010 the International Youth Library has organised a biennial week-long programme of readings and book-related events by invited authors and illustrators from Germany and countries around the world.  These take place on the grounds of Blutenburg Castle as well as in schools, libraries and cultural venues throughout the state of Bavaria. The guest authors have often won awards in their home countries, even if their works have not been selected for presentation in the White Ravens catalog. The 7th White Ravens Festival was held in July 2023 and included a programme of 13 authors performing multiple readings at over 60 venues.

References

Children's books
Young adult literature
Culture in Bologna
Library catalogues
Brachycoraebus is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:

 Brachycoraebus aruensis Kuban, 1996
 Brachycoraebus basilanensis Bellamy, 2005
 Brachycoraebus baumi (Obenberger, 1929)
 Brachycoraebus borneensis (Kerremans, 1912)
 Brachycoraebus brodskyi Kuban, 1995
 Brachycoraebus buyteti (Baudon, 1961)
 Brachycoraebus cumatilis (Bourgoin, 1922)
 Brachycoraebus disponsae (Baudon, 1968)
 Brachycoraebus helferi Obenberger, 1922
 Brachycoraebus helferiana Cobos, 1957
 Brachycoraebus herychi Obenberger, 1940
 Brachycoraebus horakianus Kuban, 1995
 Brachycoraebus klapperichi Obenberger, 1959
 Brachycoraebus krali Kuban, 1996
 Brachycoraebus longicornis Kuban, 1997
 Brachycoraebus luzonicus Obenberger, 1959
 Brachycoraebus mindanaoensis Bellamy, 2005
 Brachycoraebus minutus Bellamy, 2005
 Brachycoraebus navratili Kuban, 1995
 Brachycoraebus piliferus (Deyrolle, 1864)
 Brachycoraebus punctatus (Baudon, 1968)
 Brachycoraebus rondoni (Baudon, 1968)
 Brachycoraebus svatopluki Kuban, 1995
 Brachycoraebus vicinus (Kerremans, 1900)
 Brachycoraebus viridus (Kerremans, 1900)

References

Buprestidae genera
The President of the Scottish Tribunals is a senior judge in Scotland who presides over the Scottish tribunal system.  They are appointed by the Lord President of the Court of Session, who delegates his function as head of the Scottish tribunals to them.

The President of Scottish Tribunals is always a senior Senator of the College of Justice, and may continue to sit in the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary during their tenure.  The current President of Scottish Tribunals is Lady Wise.

History 
The role was established by the Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014.

Officeholders 
There have been three Presidents of Scottish Tribunals since the role's establishment:

 2014 - Lady Smith 
 2020 - Lord Woolman 
 2023 - Lady Wise

References 

Judiciary of Scotland
Sandra Schaeffer (Bergeson; born in 1946) is an American singer, author and game inventor.

Early career
Schaeffer graduated from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, in 1968. In 1969 she replaced Madeline Kahn in the off-Broadway musical production of Promenade. She was one of the first college students ever to be hired into the chorus of the Lyric Opera of Chicago (as an alto), and later sang for the New York City Opera as a soprano, and sang a Spanish "zarzuela" directed by Tito Copobianco at City Center. She was a finalist for the lead in Broadway's Man of La Mancha and Two by Two by Richard Rogers.

Comedy
After leaving New York, Schaeffer became a teacher and a mother, and resumed her career in the late 1970s as a singing telegram messenger for the "Hey!Wires" Singing Telegram Company in Chicago. She sang a telegram to President Ronald Reagan on national TV, a performance which included playing "Hail to the Chief" on the kazoo. During the 1970s, she sang the National Anthem for the Chicago Cubs on two occasions. She helped Hey!Wires owner co-write humorous lyrics for singing telegrams. They also co-wrote "The Preppy Comedy Album". Schaeffer wrote a Christmas song, Mrs. Santa, that spoofed being a wife and mother in the late 1970s.

Films
Schaeffer played a lesbian partner in Nothing to Declare, an independent film by Julie Glass, and appeared in Chicago Story and the 2013 Superman, Man of Steel.

Books and games
In 1984, she wrote her first book, The I Hate to Diet Dictionary, excerpts from which appeared in several magazines, including Cosmopolitan and was excerpted in "Like Mother, Like Daughter" from Hyperion Books.. Schaeffer and Balsamo have co-authored two books: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Sex and The Book of Indecent Proposals.

In 1984, Schaeffer and Balsamo formed TDC Games, a board game company, and produced their first game, entitled "Adultrivia." They have since co-authored hundreds of games and puzzles which are sold worldwide, the most well-known of which is "Dirty Minds." Their games have won awards, have been played on radio and TV (by such personalities as Johnny Carson) and have been on the cover of magazines and newspapers such as The London Times June 20, 1992...front page and "The Washington Post" October 15, 1992 in "Home FronT" with the "Harassment Game." TDC Games, Inc. 1992.

In 2000, Schaeffer won first prize in the Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Contest for a poem dedicated to her late mother. As of 2011 Schaeffer continues to co-create some of the world's most popular board games and jigsaw puzzles.

In 2015, Schaeffer Bergeson's digital art was published in the Somerset magazine, "Digital Studio" as a spotlight on pages 84–86.

References 

1946 births
Living people
American musical theatre actresses
North Central College alumni
American women writers
American game designers
21st-century American women
Doug Gale was an early developer of the Internet. Gale earned a Ph.D. in physics from Kansas State University in 1972, and served as a tenured associate professor of physics at East Texas State University for eight years, during which time his research interests shifted to computer science.

Contributions to the Internet 
Gale changed careers in 1980 to the management of information technology, serving as the Director of Decentralized Computing at Cornell University until 1984. Subsequently, he served as Chief Information Officer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the George Washington University, and Director of OARnet, a regional Internet Service Provider. In 2003 he founded a consultancy Information Technology Associates, LLC.

In 1986 Gale founded MIDnet, one of the original mid-level networks on the NSFNET and the first to become fully operational.  He later served as the Program Director of NSFNET for the National Science Foundation where he was responsible for adding colleges and universities to the fledgling network and upgrading the backbone to DS-3.  In 1996 he prepared the white paper that led to the creation of Internet2.

Gale founded the Internet Legacy Institute, LLC in 2010 to preserve and archive information and original source materials about the creation and evolution of the Internet.

Major awards 
In 1991 he received the “Director’s Award for Program Officer Excellence” at the National Science Foundation for his contributions.   In 2008 he received the Catalyst Award from Educause on behalf of the Regional Networks on the NSFNET. In 2016 he was awarded the Internet2 President’s Leadership Award posthumously. His wife of 50 years, Henrietta, accepted the award with their sons Marc and Eric.

References

External links
Internet Legacy Institute archived at Charles Babbage Institute  "administrative records and original research into the history of the internet, information taxonomy, and the papers of the project's founders" 
NSF – NSF and the Birth of the Internet – Special Report

(Obituary)

American computer scientists
Internet pioneers
1942 births
2015 deaths
Kansas State University alumni
Texas A&M University–Commerce faculty
University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty
George Washington University faculty
Drahomanivka (, ) was a proposed reform of the Ukrainian alphabet and orthography, promoted by Mykhailo Drahomanov.  This orthography was used in a few publications and in Drahomanov's correspondence, but due to cultural resistance and political persecution it was never able to catch on.

This phonemic orthography was developed in Kyiv in the 1870s by a group of cultural activists led by Pavlo Zhytetsky and including Drahomanov, for the compilation of a Ukrainian dictionary.  The 1876 Ems Ukaz banned Ukrainian-language publications and public performances in the Russian Empire, so cultural activity was forced to move abroad before this reform had a chance to be published.

Zhytetsky named this alphabet the Hertsehovynka, after the influence of the recent Serbian orthography of Vuk Karadžić, from Herzegovina.  But Drahomanov first used it in a publication (Hromada, Geneva 1878), and it came to be popularly referred to as the Drahomanivka.  It was used in Drahomanov's publications and personal correspondence, as well as in publications in Western Ukraine (Austro-Hungarian Galicia) by Drahomanov's colleagues Ivan Franko and Mykhailo Pavlyk (Hromadskyi Druh, Dzvin, and Molot, Lviv 1878).  But these publications were opposed by conservative Ukrainian cultural factions (the Old Ruthenians and Russophiles) and persecuted by the Polish-dominated Galician authorities, and the orthography fell into obscurity.

The alphabet

The Drahomanivka was based on the phonemic principle, with each letter representing exactly one Ukrainian phoneme (one meaningful unit of sound).  The letter , which represents the sequence , was replaced by .  Palatalization was represented by the soft sign , so after softened consonants  were replaced with .  The semivowel , written , was replaced with the Latin ; the sequences  were to be written  instead of with the iotated vowels .  Due to these changes the hard sign—then written  but later as an apostrophe —was superfluous and to be abandoned.  The verb ending ‑ться was written ‑тцьа.

Examples:
 шчука (щука in the modern orthography, ščuka, 'pike')
 јаблуко (яблуко, jabluko, 'apple')
 свьатиј (святий, svjatyj, 'saint')
 сподівајетцьа (сподівається, spodivajet'sja, 'anticipates')

An example of the use of Drahomanivka was presented on the 2003 Ukrainian twenty-hryvnia  banknote. It shows a fragment of Ivan Franko's poem "Veselka", written in the Drahomanivka, beside the poet's portrait:

External links
 Drahomanivka at the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine

Ukrainian orthography
Cyrillic alphabets
1870s establishments in Ukraine
Culture in Kyiv
Farikah (, also spelled Frikka, Freike, Freikeh or Furaykah) is a village in northern Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate, located north of Hama. It is situated in the Ghab plain. Nearby localities include Shathah and Nabl al-Khatib to the south, al-Amqiyah Tahta and al-Ankawi to the east, al-Ziyarah to the northeast and Sirmaniyah to the north. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Farikah had a population of 2,497 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.

Government forces and rebels contested Farikah throughout July 2015.

References

Alawite communities in Syria
Populated places in al-Suqaylabiyah District
Minturn, South Carolina (also called Mineral Springs) is an unincorporated community in Dillon County, South Carolina, United States.

The CSX railway Andrews Subdivision passes through Minturn.

The Minturn Cotton Company operates a gin in the settlement, where it processes cotton harvested from nearby fields.  The Minturn Church is also located in the settlement.

Notable person
Preston Lang Bethea - member of the South Carolina House of Representatives during 1911 and 1912.
Kenneth Manning - author and professor at M.I.T. 1974–present

References

Unincorporated communities in Dillon County, South Carolina
Unincorporated communities in South Carolina
Celestino Cavedoni (18 May 1795 at Levizzano-Rangone, near Modena – 26 November 1865 in Modena) was an Italian ecclesiastic, archeologist, and numismatist.

He pursued his theological studies in the diocesan seminary, and from 1816 to 1821 distinguished himself in the study of archeologist and the Greek and Hebrew languages at the University of Bologna. He was then appointed custodian of the Numismatical Museum of Modena, and received a position in the City Library, of which he became librarian in 1847. From 1830 to 1863 he held the chair of hermeneutics at the University of Modena.

Cavedoni was a corresponding member of the commission created by Napoleon III to edit the works of Count Bartolomeo Borghesi, to which collection he contributed numerous scientific notes. Among his numismatic works may be mentioned Saggio di osservazioni sulle medaglie di famiglie romane (1829); Carellii nummorum Italiæ Veteris tabulæ (Leipzig, 1850); and Numismatica Biblica (Modena, 1850; German tr. by Werlhof, Hanover, 1855–56). Cavedoni contributed numerous historical and archæological papers to the Annali and the Bullettino of the Archæological Institute of Rome and to other Italian publications. In religious polemics he wrote a critique of Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus, Confutazione dei principali errori di Ernesto Renan nella sua Vie de Jésus (Modena, 1863), which passed through four editions in several months.

References

Attribution
  Cites as sources:
 BERTAUX, in La Grande Encyclopédie, IX, 967;
 HURTER, Nomenclator (Innsbruck 1895), III, 1024–25.

1795 births
1865 deaths
Italian numismatists
Italian archaeologists
Supplemental Arrows-B is a Unicode block containing miscellaneous arrows, arrow tails, crossing arrows used in knot descriptions, curved arrows, and harpoons.

Block

Emoji
The Supplemental Arrows-B block contains two emoji:
U+2934–U+2935.

The block has four standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the
two emoji, both of which default to a text presentation.

History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Supplemental Arrows-B block:

See also 
 Unicode symbols
 Mathematical operators and symbols in Unicode

References 

Unicode blocks
The 2016 SEC softball tournament was at Nusz Park on the campus of Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi from May 11 through May 15, 2016. The tournament awarded the Southeastern Conference's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Division I softball tournament to the Auburn Tigers. The Championship game between Auburn and LSU was broadcast on ESPN and the semifinals were broadcast on ESPNU, while all other SEC tournament games were broadcast live on the SEC Network.

In addition to the TV broadcast, every game will be available to listen to online and through select radio stations via the SEC Radio Network.

Tournament

  Only the top 12 teams are able to play, therefore, Arkansas could not play in the tournament.
  Vanderbilt does not sponsor a softball team.
All times listed are Central Daylight Time.
  Due to rain. 4 Auburn vs 5 Alabama was delayed to 11 AM on May 13.

Schedule

References

SEC softball tournament
tournament
Nazeer Ahmed Baghio (; born 8 April 1955) is a Pakistani politician who was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, from 2008 to May 2018.

Early life
He was born on 8 April 1955.

Political career

He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from Constituency NA-205 (Larkana cum-Kamber Shahdadkot) in 2008 Pakistani general election. He received 72,928 votes and defeated Altaf Hussain Unar.

He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PPP from Constituency NA-205 (Larkana cum-Kamber Shahdadkot) in 2013 Pakistani general election. He received 65,720 votes and defeated an independent candidate, Safdar Ali Abbasi.

References

Living people
Pakistan People's Party politicians
Sindhi people
Pakistani MNAs 2013–2018
Politicians from Sindh
1955 births
Pakistani MNAs 2008–2013
The Mayor of Thames-Coromandel officiates over the Thames-Coromandel District of New Zealand, which is administered by a district council. The office has existed since 1975, when the Thames Borough and the Coromandel County were amalgamated.

Philippa Barribal was the first female mayor when she was elected in 2004. The current Mayor is Len Salt.

List of office holders
There have been nine mayors of Thames-Coromandel. The following is a complete list:

Deputy mayors

References

Thames
Thames-Coromandel
 
Thames-Coromandel District
Thames-Coromandel
The Bleriot XLIV was a single-seat observation monoplane designed in France by Louis Bleriot during the early 1910s.

Specifications

References

Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1913
Rotary-engined aircraft
Blériot aircraft
Lorena Beatriz Alonso Ortiz (born 1 April 1998) is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a defender for Club Sol de América and the Paraguay women's national team.

International career
Alonso represented Paraguay at the 2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. She made her senior debut on 9 August 2019 against Costa Rica in the 2019 Pan American Games.

References

External links

1998 births
Living people
Women's association football defenders
Women's association football midfielders
Paraguayan women's footballers
Paraguay women's international footballers
Pan American Games competitors for Paraguay
Footballers at the 2019 Pan American Games
Club Sol de América footballers
21st-century Paraguayan women
21st-century Paraguayan people
Lord Simcoe Hotel was one of many now vanished hotels in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built in 1956, the 20-storey concrete and glass modernist structure was designed by Henry T. Langston and Peter Dickinson. The hotel was named for John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and a resident of York, Upper Canada (now Toronto). The name was somewhat incorrect as Simcoe was never called himself a Lord.

Located on the northeast corner of King Street and University Avenue (150 King Street West), it was closed in 1979 and torn down in 1981. It was replaced by the Sun Life Centre East Tower in 1984. The hotel was unable to compete with other downtown hotels due to a lack of central air conditioning and convention space. It consistently lost money over its 24-year existence.

References
"Lord Simcoe workers say goodbye to hotel that fell behind the times." The Globe and Mail. Oct 29, 1979. pg. P.5
"Lord Simcoe Hotel to be closed, torn down land to bring record $317 per square foot." Jack Willoughby. The Globe and Mail. Aug 4, 1979. pg. B.14

External links
Image of the hotel

Hotel buildings completed in 1956
Demolished buildings and structures in Toronto
Hotels in Toronto
Defunct hotels in Canada
Modernist architecture in Canada
Peter Dickinson (architect) buildings
Buildings and structures demolished in 1981
Demolished hotels
Former skyscrapers
Arizona Saves is a non-profit organization offering free services to promote financial education throughout the state of Arizona. It partners with other non-profit and community development agencies, financial institutions, faith-based organizations, and city governments to provide no-cost financial education for low- to moderate-income individuals and families.

The agency is affiliated with America Saves, the Consumer Federation of America's national campaign with the same mission. It was founded in 2003 in response to the decline of savings in Arizona. It encourages saving for an emergency fund, an education, reducing debt, and retirement. In addition to financial education, it offers motivational workshops, financial counseling, and access to no-fee savings accounts.

Mission
Changing lives with financial skills and knowledge. Arizona Saves empowers Arizonans to build sustainable self-sufficiency by advancing healthy money management through education, saving, debt reduction, and asset building.

Financial education
Arizona Saves provides financial education workshops that are free and available to the public. The classes are taught by certified volunteers with backgrounds in finance, education, and business. Approximately 400 volunteers throughout the state are trained to teach Arizona Saves' specialized curriculum.

Workshops
Arizona Saves' financial education is typically delivered in a three-part series of workshops that include:

Building a Better Budget
Taking Charge of Your Credit
Preparing to Purchase a Home

Additional workshops offered:

Banking Basics
Choosing and Using Credit Wisely
Preparing to Purchase a Car

Foreclosure Prevention & Crisis Budgeting
Arizona Saves added a Crisis Budgeting class in 2008 to assist the thousands of homeowners facing foreclosure in the state. The workshop teaches families how to establish financial priorities, determine which bills to pay first, and make radical short-term changes to their budgets in order to withstand financial crisis and prevent foreclosure.

Arizona Kids Saves
Arizona Saves provides free financial education to children as well. The Arizona Kids Saves program uses an age-appropriate curriculum to teach the same financial principles as the adult classes, encouraging parents and their children to discuss healthy money management at home.

Press
KPNX Channel 12 - Arizona Central - "College Budgets are Critical" (July 27, 2009)

Footnotes

References
America Saves. About Us. Washington, DC. Retrieved on 05-28-2009.
National Bank of Arizona. Arizona Saves. Phoenix, AZ. Retrieved on 05-28-2009.
Arizona Saves. Our Mission. Phoenix, AZ. Retrieved on 05-28-2009.
NBC Television - KPNX Channel 12. Free Workshop on Crisis Budgeting. Phoenix, AZ. Retrieved on 05-28-2009.
NBC Television - KPNX Channel 12. Free Class Teaches Children How to Manage Money. Phoenix, AZ. Retrieved on 05-28-2009.

External links
Official Website
Kids Debit Card
Financial Freedom

Personal finance education
Non-profit organizations based in Arizona