Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Gracie Otto is an Australian filmmaker and actress. She made her feature-length directing debut with the 2013 documentary The Last Impresario about prolific British theatre impresario and film producer Michael White. She has also directed a variety of screen content such as television commercial videos (TCVs), shorts, television series, feature films and documentaries.

Early life 
Gracie Otto is the daughter of the Australian actor Barry Otto and Susan Hill. Actress Miranda Otto is her half-sister. She attended Burwood Girls High School in Sydney. As a schoolgirl, Otto represented Australia and New South Wales in indoor soccer, and represented her home state New South Wales in school softball.

Director 
Otto's feature-length directing debut was with the 2014 documentary The Last Impresario, about prolific British theatre impresario and film producer Michael White. The film made its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2013, where it was positively received by critics; it features interviews with 60 of his friends and associates.

Otto has directed over five short films, all of which have screened at international film festivals. In 2019, after winning the North American Script Competition through Soho House in the US, Gracie directed and edited a new short film, Desert, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

In 2019, Otto was the director of the second series of the Stan original, The Other Guy starring Matt Okine, Claudia Karvan, and Harriet Dyer. In early 2021, the Stan original series Bump was released starring Claudia Karvan, Natalie Morris, and Angus Sampson. Otto directed three of the ten episodes in the series.

In 2021, Otto's feature documentary Under the Volcano, about music producer George Martin's 1980s recording studio in Montserrat, was released. In 2022, she directed four episodes of the Netflix comedy drama series Heartbreak High, for which she was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Direction in Drama or Comedy.

Filmography

Director 

Kill Blondes (2004)
Broken Beat (2005)
Tango Trois (2006)
La Meme Nuit (2007)
Seamstress (2011)
La Cabane a Marseille (2012)
Yearling (2012)
Parfum de Regrets (2012)
Fashion Lust (2013)
The Last Impresario (2013)
Candy Crush (with Thom Kerr) (2017)
Desert Dash (2018)
The Other Guy (Season 2) (2019)
Bump (2020)
Under the Volcano (2021)
Seriously Red (2022)
Heartbreak High (2022, 4 episodes)
The Clearing (2023)
Deadloch (2023)

Actress 

Eve (2005)
The New Life (2006)
Good Luck with That (2007)
Three Blind Mice (2008)
Sea Patrol (2009)
L.B.F. (2011)

References

External links 

1987 births
Living people
Australian film actresses
Actresses from Sydney
Sanford Capital is a property management company based in Bethesda, Maryland. The company received severe criticism from tenants and regulators before agreeing to exit the property management business in Washington DC.

History
Patrick B. Strauss and Aubrey Carter Nowell founded Sanford Capital in 2005. At its peak, Sanford owned more than 65 rental properties, all in the DC area. At least 330 of the company's residents received public housing vouchers, meaning Sanford received at least $3.7 million per year in taxpayer money.

Resident complaints
Residents of Sanford's buildings complained about multiple problems related to shoddy maintenance. Some of the highest-profile complaints related to raw sewage spreading through buildings. According to one media account, "Feces coagulated like cooled lava along the bathroom walls, and debris-laden brown liquid filled the bathtub and spilled out the bathroom door." Other residents complained about rodent infestations, broken heating systems, non-functioning locks, squatters, blocked drains, broken lighting fixtures, damaged floors, leaky faucets, and broken smoke detectors. In response to resident feedback, Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered a government review of all properties owned by Sanford Capital in 2017.

Legal action
The Bowser review resulted in 1,083 violations being discovered by city inspectors, who issued $539,500 in fines to Sanford. The nonprofit Equal Rights Center sued Sanford Capital in mid-2017, alleging that Sanford discriminated against veterans and other groups.

DC Attorney General Karl Racine filed multiple lawsuits against Sanford Capital.

In April 2018, Sanford entered into a consent decree with the District in which the company agreed to stop acting as a landlord in Washington DC within six months.

In November 2019, Sanford Capital and its owner settled with the Attorney General, agreeing to pay $1.1 million in rent recovery to 155 residents in three of its apartment complexes.

References

Property management companies
Companies based in Washington, D.C.
Affordable housing
Gerald Joseph Crawford (born August 13, 1947) is a former umpire in Major League Baseball. He first umpired in the National League from 1977 to 1999, then worked in both major leagues from 2000 to 2010.

Career
He was a crew chief from 1998 through 2010. He is the brother of National Basketball Association (NBA) referee Joe Crawford and the son of former major league umpire Shag Crawford. He wore number 2, the same number that his father wore at the end of his career (except from 1996 to 1999, he wore number 40 after the National League retired the number 2 for Hall-of-Fame umpire Jocko Conlan.  Crawford regained the number 2 after the NL and AL umpiring staffs were unified in 2000).

He worked in the playoffs 18 times, including every season from 1998 through 2006. He appeared in five World Series (1988, 1992, 1998, 2000, and 2002), serving as crew chief in 1992 and 2002; twelve League Championship Series (1980, 1983, 1985, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2006), with all but the last two being in the NL; and five Division Series (1981, 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2010). His 11th appearance in the League Championship Series in 2005 broke the record he had previously shared with Bruce Froemming. He also umpired in the All-Star Game in 1989 and was the home plate umpire for the 2006 All-Star Game. On May 23, 2002, Crawford was the second base umpire for Shawn Green's four-homer game. He was at third when Carlos Delgado hit four homers on September 25, 2003. As his father worked the first game at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium on April 10,  at home plate, Crawford worked home plate in the last game at "The Vet" on September 28,  and repeated the honors when Citizens Bank Park opened on April 12, .

Crawford was the president of the Major League Umpires Association in 1999 when the umpires attempted a mass-resignation strategy. The strategy was unsuccessful. While Crawford kept his job, 22 umpires' resignations were accepted. Some have since regained their major league positions, others were promised a position as soon as a vacancy occurs, and some were offered settlements that did not include a return to the field. Out of loyalty to his best friend, MLUA Executive Director Richie Phillips and his fellow NL umpires who were terminated by MLB, he did not join the World Umpires Association, the successor umpires union to MLUA.

Crawford's 2010 crew included Chris Guccione, Phil Cuzzi and Brian O'Nora. Crawford announced his retirement effective at the end of the 2010 season due to back problems.

See also 

 List of Major League Baseball umpires

References

External links
Major league profile
Retrosheet

1947 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Philadelphia
Major League Baseball umpires
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Grampians on 27 October 1917. This was triggered by the death of Nationalist MP and former Speaker Carty Salmon.

The by-election was won by Nationalist candidate Edmund Jowett, who was also endorsed by the Victorian Farmers' Union and who would defect to them before the 1919 election.

Results

References

1917 elections in Australia
Victorian federal by-elections
1910s in Victoria (state)
KSKO-FM is a non-commercial radio station in McGrath, Alaska, broadcasting on 89.5 FM. KSKO is rebroadcast on Class D FM repeaters full time in Grayling, Shageluk, Holy Cross, Nikolai, and Anvik. For part of the day, KSKO is also rebroadcast on KZPA 900 in Fort Yukon and KRFF 89.1 in Fairbanks; KSKO also rebroadcasts a midday show from KRFF. Two new "repeaters" were built in the summer and fall of 2021, KSKC Crooked Creek and KSKP Sleetmute which added 200 people to KSKO's "population served" count for a total of about 1,200 on owned and operated repeaters/signals across a stretch of 200 miles or so along the west central interior.

The station began broadcasting on July 1, 1981, initially on a frequency of 870 kHz on the AM dial. Station owners Kuskokwin Public Broadcasting Corporation switched from AM to FM in 2015. This switch was made after the AM, which was generator powered 24/7 south of the village, became too costly to operate at over $6 a gallon of generator fuel. KSKO-FM 89.5 is on city commercial power at the studio and the repeaters are located at schools, which are on their villages’ commercial power.

KSKO celebrated its 40th anniversary on July 1, 2021.

KSKO holds the annual "Back to Bluegrass" music festival in McGrath, which is held in June or July featuring local and regional musicians. The event is a fundraiser for KSKO.

Repeaters

References

External links

 Facebook page for the Back to Bluegrass festival

SKO
NPR member stations
Radio stations established in 1975
1975 establishments in Alaska
Radio stations disestablished in 2015
2015 disestablishments in Alaska
Bras-d'Asse is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

Demonym
The inhabitants are named Bras d'assiens

Geography
The village is at an elevation of 475 meters (1558 ft). The bordering municipalities are Saint-Jeannet, Estoublon, Saint-Julien-d'Asse, Saint-Jurs and Puimoisson. The municipality of Bras d'Asse is composed of three different hamlets : les Orésonnis, la Bégude Blanche and les Courtiers.

Hydrology
The Asse river flows through the commune.

Environment
Woods occupies 51% of the municipal area.

Population

See also
Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

References

Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
John Pateman FRS (18 May 1926—18 May 2011) was a british microbial geneticist whose contributions included the discovery of intracistronic complementation with John Fincham, as well as developing our understanding of gene expression control in eukaryotic microorganisms.

He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978.

References 

1926 births
2011 deaths
British geneticists
Fellows of the Royal Society
Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon (1830–1906) was an American painter.

Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon was born in Salem, Massachusetts on Christmas Day 1830. Hodgdon lived in the Savin Hill section of Dorchester (part of Boston) and studied in the Boston area. He began as a portrait painter but by 1864 he was painting and exhibiting landscapes at The National Academy of Design.

Hodgdon's work was also exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum and the Boston Art Club. He traveled throughout New England painting coastal scenes and landscapes.

The Maine coast and the White Mountains of New Hampshire were two of his favorite subjects. Within the White Mountains, he preferred to paint in the region of Franconia Notch.

External links
 White Mountain paintings by Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon
 Artwork by Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon

1830 births
1906 deaths
19th-century American painters
American male painters
19th-century American male artists
Gabriela Alexandra Reyes Hinojosa (born 6 November 1992) is a retired Dominica female volleyball player. She was part of the Dominican Republic women's national volleyball team.

She participated in the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship. She played with Mirador.

Clubs
  Mirador (2010)

References

1992 births
Living people
Dominican Republic women's volleyball players
Wing spikers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Deceit (foaled May 3, 1968, in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racemare bred by Leslie Combs II and Charles H. Wacker III, and owned by E. P. Taylor's Windfields Farm. Deceit was sired by Prince John, a four-time leading broodmare sire in North America, and out of the mare Double Agent, a daughter of Double Jay who was the 1946 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and also a four-time leading broodmare sire in North America.

Trained by Del Carroll, Deceit  raced successfully from age two to four, winning several of the important U.S. northeast races for her gender including the Astarita and Fashion Stakes at age two and the first two legs of the Triple Tiara, the Acorn and Mother Goose Stakes at three.

Dam of a Champion
When her racing career ended, Deceit was sent to stand at the Windfields Farm Maryland division. She was bred first to E. P. Taylor's  super-stallion, Northern Dancer then to other important stallions such as Herbager, Graustark, The Minstrel, Nijinsky, Assert and Deputy Minister, among others. However, it was a match with Taylor's Vice Regent which produced Deceit Dancer, the 1984 Canadian Champion Two-Year-Old Filly.

Deceit was buried at E.P. Taylors Oshawa Ontario Windfields Farm which is now defunct.   The status of the gravesite area, shared with other important Windfields horses, remains in question since a residential subdivision is to be built in close proximity to the gravesite area.

Pedigree

References

1968 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States
Thoroughbred family 18
Trinh thử (, "The Virgin Mouse") by Hồ Huyền Quy is a 15th-century Vietnamese Nôm poem in 850 lines in lục bát verse.

References

Vietnamese poems
The Lennox (, ) is a region of Scotland centred on The Vale of Leven, including its great loch: Loch Lomond.

The Gaelic name of the river is Leamhn, meaning the smooth stream, which anglicises to Leven (as Gaelic mh is spirantised). The surrounding area is the field of the smooth stream - Leamhnachd in Gaelic; this was originally anglicised as Levenauchen / Levenachs, then softened into Levenax / Lennax, and eventually the area was known simply as Lennox.

Lennox was not one of the so-called seven ancient Provinces of Scotland, but formed as a province in the Middle Ages. The district embraced the whole of the ancient sheriffdom of Dumbarton: the parishes of Rosneath, Arrochar, Row, Luss, Cardross, Bonhill, Dumbarton, Kilmaronock, New Kilpatrick, Old Kilpatrick, Baldernock, Buchanan, Drymen, Killearn, Balfron, Fintry, and Strathblane, with Campsie and Kilsyth, being all within the bounds ruled over by the Earls of Lennox.

In 1581 James VI of Scotland granted Esmé Stewart, Earl of Lennox, the title of Duke of Lennox; the title is currently held by Charles Gordon-Lennox.

Under local government reforms in the mid-19th century, the province of Lennox was re-structured as the County of Dunbartonshire, when the north-eastern shore of Loch Lomond was transferred to Stirlingshire.

References

External links
Border Disputes: Gaelic Cultural Identity and Interaction in the Lennox and Menteith 

East Dunbartonshire
Lennoxtown
Vale of Leven
West Dunbartonshire
Benny Couto is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Cymru Premier side The New Saints on loan from  club Oldham Athletic.

Club career
Born in Portugal, Couto began his career with English club Oldham Athletic in their academy. In August 2021, he was called up by coach Keith Curle to participate in first team training after impressing coaches with the youth squad. On 31 August, Couto was named as a starter for Oldham Athletic in the EFL Trophy match against Salford City, playing the whole 90 minutes in the 1–0 victory. Shortly following his debut, he would go onto play the second half in the 7-0 away defeat to Brentford in the EFL league cup. Despite the Scoreline, he played well leading to his first League Two start days later. A 1-0 victory against Rochdale in the greater Manchester derby again performing well and winning favour with the Oldham Athletic fans. Throughout the festive period Couto continued to perform well. During this period he scored his first professional goal in a 3-1 defeat at home to Scunthorpe United.

In August 2023 he joined The New Saints on loan until at least January 2024.

Career statistics

References

External links
 Profile at Oldham Athletic

Living people
Footballers from Porto
Portuguese men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players
Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in England
2003 births
The New Saints F.C. players
Cymru Premier players
Wang Jiao (, born 20 January 1988, Shenyang, Liaoning) is a female Chinese freestyle wrestler who won gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.  She was a late replacement for Xu Wang.  She beat Jenny Fransson in the first round, Ali Bernard in the quarter-finals and Kyoko Hamaguchi in the semi-finals before beating Stanka Zlateva in the gold medal match.

She competed again at the 2012 Summer Olympics, but was less successful.  She beat Amarachi Obiajunwa in her first match and Svetlana Saenco in the quarterfinals before losing to Nataliya Vorobyova in the semifinals.  Because Vorobyova reached the final, Wang entered the repechage, but lost her bronze medal match to Guzel Manyurova.

See also
 China at the 2012 Summer Olympics

References

External links
 profile

1988 births
Living people
Olympic gold medalists for China
Olympic wrestlers for China
Sportspeople from Shenyang
Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in wrestling
Chinese female sport wrestlers
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
21st-century Chinese women
Conus floccatus, common name the snowflake cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.

Description
The size of the shell varies between 35 mm and 86 mm. The solid shell has an oblong, subcylindrical shape. It is granosely silicate below. Its color is light purplish, with longitudinal flames and revolving bands of chestnut, and lines of angulate white spots.

Distribution
This marine species occurs off New Caledonia, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, the Samoan Islands, the Marshall Islands, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia (Queensland).

References

 Sowerby, G.B. I 1841. The Conchological Illustrations or coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London : G.B. Sowerby I 200 pls.
 Reeve, L.A. 1843. Monograph of the genus Conus. pls 1–39 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 1.
 Kiener, L.C. 1845. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Rousseau et Baillière Vol. 2.
  Crosse, H. 1865. Description de cones nouveaux provenant de la collection Cuming. Journal de Conchyliologie 13: 299–315
 Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. 
 Röckel, D., Korn, W. & Kohn, A.J. 1995. Manual of the Living Conidae. Volume 1: Indo-Pacific Region. Wiesbaden : Hemmen 517 pp. 
 Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218
 Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015). One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81: 1–23

External links
 The Conus Biodiversity website
 Information and picture of Conus magdalenae
 Cone Shells – Knights of the Sea

Gallery

floccatus
Gastropods described in 1841
Martha Nichols (born 1987) is an American choreographer and dancer. She took first place in the Capezio A.C.E. Awards in 2016 for her work Tilted.

Early life 
Nichols was born on , the daughter of Mary Jane Nichols. They lived in Brooklyn, NY, and moved to Raleigh, NC when Martha was eight years old. Moved from Brooklyn NY to North Carolina when she was eight years old. Martha studied dance under Christy Curtis at the Pierrette Sadler Danceurs Studio in Raleigh, and later at Curtis's own CC & Company Dance Complex. Nichols mother, Mary Jane, died of a heart attack on June 1, 2005, shortly after Martha graduated from Millbrook High School. She moved in with family friends after her mother's death. At the age of eighteen, she was a guest teacher, performer and choreographer at the Burlington Academy of Dance & Arts in Burlington, NC.

Career 
Nichols appeared on Season 2 of So You Think You Can Dance, which aired beginning in May 2006. She was one of approximately 2000 dancers who auditioned for the season, and was in the Top 20 who appeared on the program. A USA Today article about the show described her as a "contemporary/hip-hop specialist." One of the show's judges, Nigel Lythgoe said "I don't think Martha's got a problem with her career. She's got great sophistication." She finished in the Top 10 for the season, and went on to tour with the other Top 10 finishers after the season finale.

Following her stint on So You Think You Can Dance, Nichols spent two years dancing in Cirque du Soleil's production Criss Angel Believe. She also danced for a Gap commercial and Rihanna's "Diamonds" tour, and she danced and worked as an assistant choreographer on Madonna's Rebel Heart Tour. She danced in the 2016 musical film La La Land and appeared as the "Woman in Gold" in the 2017 film The Greatest Showman. She formed her own dance company, the Martha Nichols Dance Company in 2016.

Her short work Tilted won first place at the 2016 Capezio A.C.E. Awards, which earned her a $15,000 prize and a subsequent performance of her piece. Dance journalist Rachel Rizzuto described Tilted as "funky-fabulous." Nichols went on to choreograph a full-length work, The Wider Sun, which saw its debut at the Beverly O'Neill Theater in Long Beach, California in August 2017. The Wider Sun was her first major choreographic work.

She teaches at the Broadway Dance Center in New York City.

Works 

 Tilted (video)
 The Wider Sun, 2017

See also 
 Martha Nichols on So You Think You Can Dance

References

External links 

 Martha Nichols' YouTube channel - featuring her choreography
Solo performance by Martha Nichols at 2018 Dance Awards Orlando (video)
 
 

1987 births
21st-century American dancers
American women choreographers
American choreographers
American female dancers
Hip hop dancers
Contemporary dancers
Dancers from North Carolina
So You Think You Can Dance contestants
Living people
21st-century American women