Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship was held at the Edel-optics.de Arena in Hamburg, Germany, from 16 to 26 August 2018. Both men's and women's tournaments were held, with 12 women's and 16 men's teams competing, representing 19 different nations. Each team selected 12 players for the tournament. The men's competition was won by Great Britain, with the United States winning silver and Australia winning bronze. The women's competition was won by the Netherlands, with Great Britain winning silver and the host nation winning bronze.

Medallists

This was the best ever performance at a wheelchair basketball world championship by both the British men's and women's teams. The former had never won an official championship before (they had claimed the 1973 unofficial title), and the latter had never made the finals.

Squads

Each of the 16 men's and 12 women's teams (from 19 different nations) selected a squad of 12 players for the tournament. Athletes are given an eight-level-score specific to wheelchair basketball, ranging from 0.5 to 4.5. Lower scores represent a higher degree of disability. The sum score of all players on the court cannot exceed 14.

Men

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Finals

Round of 16

Quarter finals

Semi finals

Bronze medal

Final

Placement matches 
 15th place

 13th place

 11th place

 9th place

 7th place

5th place

Performances

Triple-double

Double-double

All-Star Team

Source:

Final standings

Women

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pool B

Finals

Quarter finals

Semi finals

Bronze medal

Final

Placement matches

Performances

Triple-double

Double-double

All-Star Team

Source:

Final standings

Controversy
During the women's game between China and Algeria, a Chinese coach struck one of his players. When the incident was reported to the Tournament Technical Committee (TTC), it immediately issued a one-match suspension. This was the maximum penalty that it could impose. However, the TTC felt that this penalty was inadequate, and referred the matter to the Secretary General of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation, Maureen Orchard, who suspended the coach from the tournament.

Notes

External links
 

 
2018 in wheelchair basketball
Wheelchair Basketball World Championship
International basketball competitions hosted by Germany
2018–19 in German basketball
August 2018 sports events in Germany
2018 in disability sport
Pearl Automation Inc. was a company building aftermarket automobile technology, focused on delivering “driver awareness features” and helping to “speed up the pace” of technology adoption in cars. Pearl was founded by Bryson Gardner, Joseph Fisher, and Brian Sander in 2014 and announced its first product in June 2016. The company was based in Scotts Valley, California.

Products 
The Pearl Rear Vision product was purchased by American Road Products Inc. as Pearl Automation Inc. closed its operations.

Pearl’s first product, Rear Vision, was an aftermarket automotive backup camera and alert system that attaches around a license plate and sends video directly to your smartphone. The system is solar powered and included two wide angle high-definition cameras.

Pearl sells products directly to consumers through its website, Amazon.com and Crutchfield. In January 2017, Pearl announced a partnership with Installer Net.

The company went defunct in 2017.

Funding 
Pearl has raised $50 million in Series A and B venture capital rounds, from investors Shasta Ventures, Accel, Venrock, and Wellcome Trust.

References 

American companies established in 2014
American companies disestablished in 2017
Defunct technology companies based in California
Thomas Grove (c. 1609–1692) was an English MP for Milborne Port (1645–1648), Wiltshire (1654–1658), Marlborough (1659), Shaftesbury (1660–1661).

Thomas Grove may also refer to:

Thomas Grove (MP for Wallingford), 14th-century MP for Wallingford (UK Parliament constituency)
 Thomas Newcomen Archibald Grove (1855–1920), British MP for West Ham North (1892–1895) and for South Northamptonshire (1900–1906)
 Sir Thomas Grove, 1st Baronet (1823–1897), British MP for South Wiltshire (1865–1874) and for Wilton (1885–1892)
Alejandro Varela is an American fiction writer. His novel The Town of Babylon was nominated for a National Book Award in 2022.

Career 
Varela graduated from Cornell with a Bachelor of Arts and the University of Washington with a Masters in Public Health. After graduating, he worked on an HIV study for the New York City Blood Center and managed cancer screening studies at Mount Sinai in Manhattan. Varela taught graduate-level public health policy and advocacy at Long Island University before beginning to write full time. He has published short stories in The Yale Review, Georgia Review, and Harper's Magazine.

Varela was working in a skyscraper two blocks way from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He detailed his experience on that day to Nicole Chung in The Atlantic, "I don’t know when the nightmares started, but after that, it was a long time before I could fly again." 

Varela's debut novel, The Town of Babylon, was published in 2022 and nominated for a National Book Award. The judges for the award said, "With this urgent, vivid novel, Varela has given us a modern classic and an indelible portrait of our times."

His second book, The People Who Report More Stress, a short story collection, was published in 2023. The New York Times called it "a master class in analyzing the unspoken... Varela illuminates our society’s Gordian knots with a seemingly effortless wit and empathy."

Personal 
Varela is queer and lives in New York City. His parents are from Colombia and El Salvador.

References 

21st-century American male writers
American gay writers
American LGBT novelists
Hispanic and Latino American novelists
American male novelists
Living people
Cornell University alumni
University of Washington alumni
Writers from New York City
21st-century American LGBT people
21st-century American short story writers
American male short story writers
LGBT Hispanic and Latino American people
1979 births
The hyphen barb (Enteromius bifrenatus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the  family Cyprinidae.

It is found in Angola, Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Its natural habitat is rivers. It is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.

References 

Enteromius
Cyprinid fish of Africa
Freshwater fish of Angola
Fish of Malawi
Fish of Mozambique
Fish of South Africa
Fish of Zambia
Taxa named by Henry Weed Fowler
Fish described in 1935
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
This is a list of television dramas released by TVB in 2010.

Top ten drama series in ratings
The following is a list of TVB's top serial dramas in 2010 by average ratings. The list includes premiere week and final week ratings, as well as the average overall count of live Hong Kong viewers (in millions).

Awards

First line series
These dramas air in Hong Kong from 8:00pm to 8:30pm, Monday to Friday on Jade.

Second line series
These dramas air in Hong Kong from 8:30pm to 9:30pm, Monday to Friday on Jade.

Third line series
These dramas air in Hong Kong from 9:30pm to 10:30pm, Monday to Friday on Jade.

Warehoused series
These dramas were released overseas and have not broadcast on the TVB Jade Channel.

References

External links
  TVB.com

2010
2010 in Hong Kong television
Bergrothia is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae.

Species:

Bergrothia adzharica 
Bergrothia barbakadzei 
Bergrothia lederi 
Bergrothia lenkorana 
Bergrothia mingrelica 
Bergrothia saulcyi 
Bergrothia solodovnikovi

References

Staphylinidae
Beetle genera
Haile Menkerios (born October 1, 1946) is an Eritrean diplomat who has served as the Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU) and as Special Representative to the African Union, at the level of Under-Secretary-General from 2013 until 2018. He was appointed to this position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 17 May 2013.

Menkerios previously served as the United Nations Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Sudan and South Sudan at the level of Under-Secretary-General. He was the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs.

Life and career
Studying in the United States, Menkerios earned a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University and a master's degree from Harvard University. During the period from 1991 to 2000, Menkerios was Eritrea's Ambassador to Ethiopia and the Organisation of African Unity, its Special Envoy to Somalia and the African Great Lakes region, and was Eritrea's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Later, as Senior Adviser to Moustapha Niasse, the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General to the Inter-Congolese Dialogue, he assisted Niasse in the mediation process that led to the Global and All-Inclusive Agreement, which was signed on December 17, 2002 and marked the end of the Congolese Civil War.

At the UN, he was Director of the Africa I Division in the Department of Political Affairs from June 2003 to June 2005. On September 26, 2005, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced his appointment as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo; he assumed this post in October 2005. Subsequently, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced his appointment as UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs on May 16, 2007, and he assumed this post on July 1, 2007.

On June 5, 2008, the United Nations announced that it was sending Menkerios to Zimbabwe to discuss how the UN could assist in the electoral process leading to the second round of Zimbabwe's presidential election. At the UN food summit in Rome a few days earlier, Ban had suggested to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe the idea of sending Menkerios to Zimbabwe and Mugabe agreed.

Menkerios was sent to Madagascar in February 2009 to help resolve a political crisis there. He met separately with President Marc Ravalomanana and opposition leader Andry Rajoelina on February 9, and both of them agreed to engage in dialogue.

On February 2, 2010, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Menkerios as his Special Representative for the Sudan.

References

1946 births
Living people
Eritrean diplomats
Brandeis University alumni
Harvard University alumni
Permanent Representatives of Eritrea to the United Nations
Special Envoys of the Secretary-General of the United Nations
The Sanctuary of Nuestra Señora de Estíbaliz (Spanish: Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Estíbaliz) is a sanctuary located in Argandoña within the municipality of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, Spain. It is surrounded with green forests and it has the view of the entire province as it is located in a small hill 9 km away from the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz. Here stands the patroness of Álava. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1931.

History

The site and the Lady of Estibaliz are first attested on a 962 Navarrese royal charter. The present-day sanctuary was built in the 11th century, and it is a true jewel of Romanesque art. In 1138 it was donated to the benedictine monks of Nájera, who preserved it until 1431 when they sold it to lord Fernán Pérez de Ayala, son of the famous King Enrique de Castilla's chancellor, lord Pedro López de Ayala.

Later, the sanctuary was donated to Santiago's hospital in the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz. In 1542, the donator's inheritor ordered its restoration. The new parts of the sanctuary, most of them restored, were built between the 12th and 13th centuries.

During the 20th century, many young pupils received instruction here with a special focus on religious vocation. Bearing witness to its gone heyday, a Basque-Navarrese Railway line had its terminus in the sanctuary, nowadays dismantled.

Nowadays

Even though it has been damaged over time and during the civil wars what it still exists shows its archaeological value. Some of its details are: the simple floor crowned with three apses, the columns decorated with curious embellished capitals, the font and the front stone of Christ's altar.

The sanctuary

In its south part there is the Porta Speciossa which has a different stile and details. Home of two archivolts and targeted overall, decorated richly with motifs and interlacing that seems to arise from the jaws of a little lion from whom comes the exterior archivolt of the east. In top we can see a mullioned window belfry.
The headboard shows in its cylinder center two semi columns topped in two capitals that remain much under the current ledge, indicating with this its primitive height. Only the south apse has a small window decorated with an archivolt and under the central eaves are some decorated corbels and even a capital decorated with a double tail mermaid.

The cover decoration is pointillist and lush. We can see interlacing and geometric decorative motifs in columns. The capitals that crown the columns have also very curious details as some scrollwork or some little heads.
The angel and the Virgin are located on top of a little column in the front door. Both the characters seem to be walking transmitting the lightness of the moment.

References 

Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Estibaliz

Churches in Álava
Bien de Interés Cultural landmarks in Álava
The Córas Iompair Éireann 421 Class was a railway locomotive, built by the CIÉ at Inchicore Works between 1962–1963 and designed for branch line traffic use and shunting.

The 421 Class was a larger development of the earlier 401 Class, and were fitted with a Maybach MD220 engine of  with diesel hydraulic transmission via a Mekydro KL64U transmission. Unlike the earlier E401 class, these locomotives were fitted for multiple operation. They were of C wheel arrangement.

The first of the class made its debut in early October 1962 on pilot duties in the Dublin area and although they had a design maximum speed of , experience (notably the derailment of a trial train hauled by E421) showed that they did not ride well when travelling at speeds over  and so henceforth were limited to that speed and used simply for shunting duties instead. They were numbered E421–E434, and were withdrawn from service between 1979 and 1983.

Three of these locomotives have been preserved, as follows:
 E421 and E432: Owned by and based at the Downpatrick and County Down Railway, Northern Ireland.  Both locos are currently stored out of traffic.
  E428 had recently moved from Inchicore Works to Dunsandle, County Galway under private ownership.

Model 
The E421 was available as a resin model from "Q Kits", but this company is no longer trading as the owner has retired.

References

External links 

 Eiretrains - Irish Locomotives
 E428 at Dunsandle

Iarnród Éireann locomotives
Diesel-hydraulic locomotives
C locomotives
5 ft 3 in gauge locomotives
Diesel locomotives of Ireland
Railway locomotives introduced in 1962
Dead Ringer is the second studio album by Meat Loaf, released on September 4, 1981. It is the second of four albums written entirely by Jim Steinman. The album cover was designed by comic book artist and horror illustrator Bernie Wrightson.

Album background
Steinman started to work on Bad for Good, the album that was supposed to be the follow-up to 1977's Bat Out of Hell, in 1978. During that time, a combination of touring, drugs and exhaustion had caused Meat Loaf to lose his voice. Without a singer, and pressured by the record company, Steinman decided that he should sing on Bad for Good himself, and write a new album for Meat Loaf. This album was Dead Ringer, which was later released in 1981, after the release of Bad for Good.

After playing the role of Travis Redfish in the movie Roadie, Meat Loaf got his voice back, got off drugs, played softball, and started to work on his new album in 1980. Steinman had written five new songs which, in addition to a new, re-recorded version of "More Than You Deserve" (which Meat Loaf had sung in the musical with the same name) and a reworked monologue, formed the album Dead Ringer. The album was produced by Meat Loaf and Stephan Galfas, with backing tracks produced by Jimmy Iovine and Steinman.

Four singles were released from Dead Ringer: "Dead Ringer for Love" (featuring Cher), "I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us", "Read 'Em and Weep" and "Peel Out". The album reached number 1 in the UK.

The tour for this album also marked the beginning of his long-running collaboration with pianist Paul Jacobs, as both sideman and songwriter.

Reception
Dead Ringer was considered both a commercial and critical disappointment after the worldwide success of Meat Loaf's debut album Bat Out of Hell.  Parke Puterbaugh of Rolling Stone called the album a "cast-iron drag" and chastised Meat Loaf for his "alarmingly awful" vocals.

Track listing

Personnel

Arrangements
Roy Bittan – co-arranger
Tom Malone – horn arrangements (7)
Alden Shuman, Roy Straigis – string arrangements (3, 8)

Band
Meat Loaf – lead vocals
Davey Johnstone – guitars
Mick Ronson – guitars (3)
Joe DeAngelis – acoustic guitars (1)
Steve Buslowe – bass guitar
Roy Bittan – piano, keyboards (1, 2, 8)
Nicky Hopkins – piano (3)
Larry Fast – synthesizers (1, 6)
Lou Del Gatto, Tom Malone, Lou Marini, Alan Rubin – horns (7)
Max Weinberg – drums
Liberty DeVitto – drums (5, 7)
Jimmy Maelen – percussion, African logs (7)
Leslie Aday – female voice (1)
Jim Steinman – spoken word (6)
Cher – guest vocals (7)
Rhonda Coullet (7), Rory Dodd, Ted Neeley, Allan F. Nicholls, Eric Troyer – vocals

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Certifications and sales

References

1981 albums
Meat Loaf albums
Epic Records albums
The Mexeflote is a landing raft used by the United Kingdom's Royal Logistic Corps and the Royal Australian Navy to move goods and vehicles between ship and shore. It was first used by British military in the 1960s.  It was used during the Falklands conflict, and has been used in humanitarian aid missions. The system is very similar to the Rhino ferry.

History
The Mexeflote was introduced to the UK military in the 1960s, and it subsequently saw service in the Falklands War, in which three units were used, including in Southampton, where they were used in loading the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and British Navy ships going to the Falklands.  Mexeflotes were used as causeways between ships in the open ocean, stores were driven between ships over a mexeflote causeway with Fiat Allis forklifts.  Sgt Boultby of 17 Port Regiment, RCT was awarded the Military Medal for using his Mexeflote to rescue survivors at Bluff Cove. 

In 1994, the Army ordered an additional 50 units, and in 2000 they upgraded 60 of the rafts. The Mexeflote was used during the 2010 Haiti earthquake, to transport supplies to the remote Haitian village of Anse-à-Veau from .

Currently the rafts are crewed by the Royal Logistic Corps and they are largely used by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary's Bay class landing ships. As part of the Royal Australian Navy's acquisition of the Bay class ship RFA Largs Bay (renamed  for Australian service), two Mexeflotes were also acquired.

Design
Mexeflote is a powered raft (two diesel engines), used to move goods and vehicles between ship and shore when a pier is not available. The Mexeflote is designed in three sizes; 

Each version has three components; bow, stern, and centre, which can be fitted together as required, making the Mexeflote a versatile craft. The different sections allow it to be used as a raft, a floating pontoon, or as a causeway from ship to shore.

Mexeflote was the basis for the design of the Modular Elevated Causeway.

References

Further reading

Operational Testing of the Mexeflote Lashing and Launching System for Pontoon Causeways. - August 1970. Billie R. Karrh; James J. Traffalis; Naval Civil Engineering Lab.

Military vehicles of the United Kingdom
Amphibious warfare vessels of the British Army
Royal Logistic Corps
Death of a Rockstar is the debut album by rock band Exit State. It was released on May 31, 2010 and features the singles "Bad Days" and "Lost Beyond Belief".

Track list 
All lyrics written by Roy Bright.  All songs written by Roy Bright, Adam Stephenson, Peat Hicks & Philip Ireland except:
Out till 3 - Roy Bright/Justin Beswick
Death of a Rockstar Part 2 - Roy Bright, Adam Stephenson, Peat Hicks & Eddie Sims
Bad Days - Roy Bright, Adam Stephenson, Peat Hicks & James Henderson
And She Said - Roy Bright, Adam Stepheson & Peat Hicks

Personnel
Exit State
Roy Bright – Vocals, Guitars
Adam Stephenson – Guitars
Philip Ireland – bass, backing vocals
Peat Hicks – Drums, backing vocals

Other contributors
Steve Fenton – Production and mixing
 Steve Gligorovic, Michael Gounelas & James Mottershead –  Studio Engineers
Roy Bright, Peat Hicks & Steve Fenton – Additional string arrangements
Laura Hurd & Jordan Molyneuax –  backing vocals
Ray Staff – Mastering
James Tunnacliffe – Cover Photography
Ash Goldie –  Individual item photographs
Mark Appleton – Management

Review References

2010 albums
Helal Saeed Humaid Saeed Al Saeed (; born 12 May 1977), simply known as Helal Saeed is an Emirati professional footballer playing as a midfielder.

External links
 Arabian Gulf League profile
 
 

1977 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Emirati men's footballers
Al Ain FC players
Al Jazira Club players
UAE Pro League players
United Arab Emirates men's international footballers
2007 AFC Asian Cup players
Brahim Arafat Mezouar (born 18 December 1973 in Hammam Bou Hadjar, Aïn Témouchent Province), is an Algerian former footballer. He last played as a midfielder for MC Oran in the Algerian League.

Club career
 1993-1995 IR Hammam Bouhadjar
 1995-1997 CR Témouchent
 1997-1999 ASM Oran
 1999-2003 CR Belouizdad
 2003-2005 Dubai SC
 2005-2005 JS Kabylie
 2005-2006 CR Belouizdad
 2006-2007 MC Oran
 2007-2007 Dubai SC
 2007-2008 CR Belouizdad
 2008-2010 MC Oran

International career
Mezouar won his first cap for the Algerian national team on 22 January 1999 in an African Cup of Nations qualifier against Tunisia. A year later, he was part of the 2000 African Cup of Nations squad that made it to the quarter-finals. In total, he has 13 caps for Algeria.

Honours
 Won the Algerian league twice with CR Belouizdad in 1999 and 2000

External links
 DZFoot Profile

1973 births
Living people
People from Hammam Bou Hadjar
Algerian men's footballers
Algeria men's international footballers
Algerian expatriate men's footballers
CR Témouchent players
ASM Oran players
JS Kabylie players
MC Oran players
CR Belouizdad players
Dubai CSC players
Algerian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates
Expatriate men's footballers in the United Arab Emirates
2000 African Cup of Nations players
UAE First Division League players
UAE Pro League players
Men's association football midfielders
21st-century Algerian people
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The molecular formula C19H29NO3 (molar mass: 319.44 g/mol, exact mass: 319.2147 u) may refer to:

 Dihydrotetrabenazine (DTBZ)
 Homocapsaicin

Molecular formulas
The Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970, Public Law No. 91-598, 84 Stat. 1636 (Dec. 30, 1970), codified at  through , established the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). Most brokers and dealers registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 are required to be members of the SIPC.

The SIPC maintains a fund that is intended to protect investors against the misappropriation of their funds and of most types of securities in the event of the failure of their broker.

External links
 Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970 (PDF/details) as amended in the GPO Statute Compilations collection

1970 in American law
United States federal securities legislation
Salvatore Agnelli (1817–1874) was an Italian composer. He was born at Palermo, studied at the Naples Conservatory, under Furno, Zingarelli, and Donizetti.

Notes

References

 

1817 births
1874 deaths
Musicians from Palermo
Italian male composers
19th-century Italian composers
19th-century Italian male musicians