Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The Yamaha XT250 is a  motorcycle made by Yamaha Motor Company.

First generation

Released in 1980, this dual-sport motorcycle has been a staple of back roads and farms. One was ridden by Rambo in the 1982 movie First Blood.

It also featured in Season 4 of Knight Rider, as Reginald Cornelius III/RC3's bike.

In addition, the XT500 was featured in multiple exciting stunt scenes used throughout the first half of the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (film)

Second generation

Starting in 1984, this model had its top-end output reduced to 17 hp @ 7,500 rpm due to emissions control considerations. In addition, this model featured redesigned plastics and a more compact gasoline tank.

Third generation

Having been discontinued in 1991 in favor of the Yamaha XT350, this model was reintroduced in 2008, replacing the Yamaha XT225, due to increased popularity of the 250 cc class. The XT250 is branded the SEROW 250 in Japan.  In 2013, the USA XT250 received a fuel-injected engine.

In January 2020, Yamaha Japan released the Serow Final Model, discontinuing the little bike due to increasing emission requirements. This is its final year. Yamaha US has continued the model unchanged.

(For the origin of the name, see serow.)

References

XT250
Dual-sport motorcycles
Motorcycles introduced in 1980

ja:ヤマハ・セロー
Qom rugs (or Qum, Ghom, Ghum) are made in the Qom Province of Iran, around 100 km south of Tehran. Although rug weaving in Qom was not a major industry until the past 100 years, the luxurious silk and wool rugs of Qom are known for their high quality and are regarded among the most expensive in the world. Persian Qum rugs are often considered as investment, because their value is constantly increasing.

Tree of life and medallion motifs feature heavily in rugs knotted in Qom. Shades are similar to most popular colors of Persian rugs - blue, red and ivory. Qom Rugs are typically smaller than other types of Persian rugs. They are often placed on walls.

Gift for Shinzō Abe
During Shinzō Abe's visit to Tehran, an exquisite Qom silk carpet was given to him by Hassan Rouhani. 
Rouhani stated that the choice of Persian carpet as a gift shows Iranian patience, accuracy, and consistency in addition to displaying the art of carpet weaving in Iran. 

The 205 × 205 cm carpet with more than 4 million knots has been woven during three years by two Qomi master weavers. This carpet is one of the artistic works of the workshop of Hossein Ermi and is filled with beautiful designs of Golfarang (rose pattern) and golden medallion with the varieties of blue. Gold Lachak (Corners) in a blend with middle Toranj (medallion) are combined in a new mix of Iranian miniature with the main border of carpet.

See also
Persian rug

References

Persian rugs and carpets
Qom Province
Obersendling is an U-Bahn station in Munich, Germany on the U3.

References

Munich U-Bahn stations
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1989
1989 establishments in West Germany
Ballot Measure 27 of 2002 would have required the mandatory labelling of all genetically modified food sold in the U.S. state of Oregon. The measure was defeated in the November 5, 2002 general election with 371,851 votes in favor, 886,806 votes against. The measure was placed on the ballot as a result of initiative petition.

Proponents of the measure argued that "Oregonians should have the right to know what they are eating." They repeated the belief of some activists that genetic engineering of food poses a potential threat to health and safety. (See genetically modified food.) Proponents also ridiculed the cost estimates of the law brought by the measure's opponents. Proponents hoped that an Oregon labeling law would spark debate about the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food and eventually a nationwide labelling system.

Opponents argued that Oregon's agricultural industry would be burdened by excessive costs if the measure were to pass, given the lack of such a requirement throughout the rest of the United States. In addition, opponents claimed there was little evidence that GMO foods posed a danger to human health. Monsanto Company, an agricultural company whose products account for 70% of the GMO market, donated $1.5 million to the effort against the measure. Overall, opponents spent $5.5 million, tying an Oregon spending record.

See also 
 List of Oregon ballot measures
 California Proposition 37 (2012)

References

External links 
 Oregon Voters' Pamphlet – Measure 27 page 116 – includes ballot title, text of the measure, and arguments for and against
 Letter from Consumers' Union supporting Measure 27

2002 Oregon ballot measures
Initiatives in the United States
Giovanni Battista Revello (1672–1732), also called il Mustacchi, was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He painted both quadratura and still-life.

He was born in Recco near Genoa and studied under Enrico Haffner, and formed a close friendship with Francesco Costa. For twenty years they worked painting landscape elements for other historical painters.

Revello gained his nickname due to his unusual habit of painting moustaches on his works.
He is said to have traveled to Tunisia to paint for the Bey. His son Paolo as also a painter (died in 1763).

References

1672 births
1732 deaths
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
18th-century Italian painters
Italian Baroque painters
Painters from Genoa
Italian still life painters
18th-century Italian male artists
Gauguin the Savage is a 1980 American TV film. It is a biopic of the artist Paul Gauguin starring David Carradine.

Cast
David Carradine as Paul Gauguin
Lynn Redgrave as Mette Gad
Flora Robson as Sister Allandre
Michael Hordern as Durand-Huel
Ian Richardson as Degas
Bernard Fox as Captain Chablat
Barrie Houghton as Vincent van Gogh
Emrys James as Maurice Schuffenecker
Carmen Mathews as Madame Jeanette
Alan Caillou as Inspector Aumont
Christopher Cary as Doctor Feydeau
Fiona Fullerton as Rachel
Alex Hyde-White as Emil
Timothy Carlton as De Monfreid

References

External links

1980 television films
1980 films
American television films
Films directed by Fielder Cook
The 1900 Notre Dame football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1900 college football season. In its first season with Pat O'Dea as coach, the team compiled a 6–3–1 record, shut out seven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 261 to 73.

Schedule

References

Notre Dame
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football seasons
Notre Dame football
The San Diego Underwater Photographic Society (SDUPS) is one of the earliest organizations ever to be dedicated to the promotion and advancement of the art and techniques of underwater photography and videography with nearly 50 years of history to its credit. SDUPS was first established on September 28, 1961 by underwater photographic pioneers Ron Church and Chuck Nicklin at San Diego’s Diving Locker dive shop formerly on Cass Street in Pacific Beach.

In 2005, SDUPS won first place in the Nature's Best Magazine annual  competition, one of the world's most respected photo competitions. The Societies winning photos were then displayed at the Smithsonian Museum.

SDUPS membership covers all levels of underwater photography from beginning U/W photographers to amateurs, semi-professional and full-time professional underwater photographers, using a wide range of equipment and techniques.  These include such varied techniques as film photography, Digital photography, High-definition video and even the 3-D underwater Imax technology of SDUPS members Howard and Michelle Hall (Under the Sea 3D, Coral Reef Adventure)

The Society is still active today with monthly meetings held every 4th Thursday of the month at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography's Sumner Auditorium at 8602 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm.  

Annually in May SDUPS presents its film festival featuring underwater photographs and video from all over the world by both professional and amateur photographers. 

SDUPS is a Corporation organized pursuant to the 501(c) Corporation laws of the State of California.

External links
The San Diego Underwater Photographic Society Official Web Site
Chuck Nicklin Bio
Chuck & Roz Nicklin's Dive Travel Site
SDUPS on Facebook
Ron Church Photography

Organizations based in San Diego
In mathematics, an idempotent measure on a metric group is a probability measure that equals its convolution with itself;  in other words, an idempotent measure is an idempotent element in the topological semigroup of probability measures on the given metric group.

Explicitly, given a metric group X and two probability measures μ and ν on X, the convolution μ ∗ ν of μ and ν is the measure given by

for any Borel subset A of X. (The equality of the two integrals follows from Fubini's theorem.)  With respect to the topology of weak convergence of measures, the operation of convolution makes the space of probability measures on X into a topological semigroup.  Thus, μ is said to be an idempotent measure if μ ∗ μ = μ.

It can be shown that the only idempotent probability measures on a complete, separable metric group are the normalized Haar measures of compact subgroups.

References

   (See chapter 3, section 3.)

Group theory
Measures (measure theory)
Metric geometry
USS Lumen AKA-30 was an  in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1964.

History
Lumen (AKA–30) was named after the minor planet 141 Lumen, which in turn was named after an 1867 book by astronomer Camille Flammarion. She was laid down by Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc. Providence, R.I., 19 July 1944 under a Maritime Commission contract; launched 20 November 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Alex Walker; and commissioned 29 December 1944.

After shakedown, Lumen departed Norfolk 29 January 1945, loaded troops and equipment at Pearl Harbor, then sailed for the Okinawa campaign, the largest amphibious operation of the Pacific War. Following brief stops in Eniwetok and Ulithi, the cargo ship arrived off Okinawa 17 April and under the threat of night air raids unloaded the men and cargo which were needed to secure this strategic base so close to Japan.

Departing Okinawa, Lumen arrived Saipan 27 April and for the rest of the war shuttled cargo among the islands in the South and central Pacific. She was at Pearl Harbor when news of Japan’s acceptance of the surrender terms was announced.

Although the major task of winning the war was successfully completed, another important mission lay ahead for the Navy. Returning to the western Pacific in mid-September, Lumen carried cargo in the Philippines and Japan to provide the occupation troops with reinforcements and supplies. Completing her duties in the Pacific, the cargo ship embarked veterans for return to the United States and steamed for the West Coast arriving early in 1946. Lumen’s short but useful career ended when she decommissioned at Charleston 23 March 1946.

She was turned over to the War Shipping Administration 5 November 1946, placed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, and was berthed at Beaumont, Texas, until sold for scrap to Luria Bros. Co., Inc., 17 December 1964.

Awards
Lumen received one battle star for World War II service.

References

External links

NavSource.org: AKA-30 Lumen
51 Years of AKAs

 

Artemis-class attack cargo ships
World War II amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
Ships built in Providence, Rhode Island
1944 ships
Trigonopterus chewbacca is a species of flightless weevil in the genus Trigonopterus from Papua New Guinea.

Etymology
The specific name is derived from a parallel being drawn between the dense scales on the head and legs of this species, and the Star Wars character Chewbacca.

References

chewbacca
Beetles described in 2016
Beetles of Papua New Guinea
Michigamme Township is a civil township of Marquette County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 327 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated community of Michigamme is located within the township.

Geography
The township is on the western edge of Marquette County, bordered to the west by Baraga County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which  are land and , or 6.18%, are water.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 377 people, 180 households, and 127 families residing in the township.  The population density was 2.8 per square mile (1.1/km2).  There were 547 housing units at an average density of 4.1 per square mile (1.6/km2).  The racial makeup of the township was 98.94% White, 0.53% Native American, and 0.53% from two or more races.

There were 180 households, out of which 19.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.1% were married couples living together, 6.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.4% were non-families. 26.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.09 and the average family size was 2.43.

In the township the population was spread out, with 15.4% under the age of 18, 3.7% from 18 to 24, 20.4% from 25 to 44, 36.6% from 45 to 64, and 23.9% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 51 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.4 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.9 males.

The median income for a household in the township was $29,750, and the median income for a family was $34,063. Males had a median income of $30,208 versus $25,625 for females. The per capita income for the township was $24,549.  About 3.8% of families and 8.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.9% of those under age 18 and 6.6% of those age 65 or over.

Highways
 passes through the community of Michigamme in the southernmost portion of the township.

Current events
The Eagle Mine project is located within Michigamme Township.

References

External links

Townships in Marquette County, Michigan
Townships in Michigan
Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1998 Irish-British-American period drama film adapted from the 1990 Brian Friel play Dancing at Lughnasa, directed by Pat O'Connor.

The film competed in the Venice Film Festival of 1998. It won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor in a Female Role by Brid Brennan. It was also nominated for 6 other awards, including the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Feature Film and the Best Actress Award for Meryl Streep.

Cast and characters
 Meryl Streep – Kate Mundy
 Michael Gambon – Father Jack Mundy
 Catherine McCormack – Christina Mundy
 Kathy Burke – Maggie Mundy
 Sophie Thompson – Rose Mundy
 Bríd Brennan – Agnes Mundy
 Rhys Ifans – Gerry Evans
 Darrell Johnston – Michael Mundy
 Lorcan Cranitch – Danny Bradley
 Peter Gowen – Austin Morgan
 Dawn Bradfield – Sophie McLoughlin
 Marie Mullen – Vera McLoughlin
 John Kavanagh – Father Carlin
 Kate O'Toole – Chemist

Reception and awards
Although the film received average reviews (60% 'Fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 35 reviews), most critics praised the performances of the entire cast. Janet Maslin, critic of the New York Times said that "Meryl Streep has made many a grand acting gesture in her career, but the way she simply peers out a window in Dancing at Lughnasa ranks with the best. Everything the viewer need know about Kate Mundy, the woman she plays here, is written on that prim, lonely face and its flabbergasted gaze." Peter Travis of Rolling Stone magazine wrote that "a luminous cast reveals long-buried feelings. Meryl Streep finds the expansive soul behind prim schoolteacher Kate. And she is matched by Kathy Burke's bawdy Maggie, Brid Brennan's secretive Agnes, Sophie Thompson's slow-witted Rose and Catherine McCormack's bold Christina, who never married the father of her son."

Kathy Burke received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Drama from the International Press Academy (Satellite Awards).

Mementos from the filming are on display at the St. Connell's Museum in Glenties.

References

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Irish drama films
1998 films
1998 drama films
British films based on plays
American films based on plays
American drama films
Films directed by Pat O'Connor
Films set in Ireland
British drama films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
1990s British films
The Secret History of Vampires is an anthology of original fantasy/horror historical short stories edited by American writer Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in April 2007.

Summary
The book collects thirteen novelettes and short stories by various authors, with an introduction by the editor.

Contents
"Introduction" (Darrell Schweitzer)
"Under St. Peter's" (Harry Turtledove)
"Two Hunters in Manhattan" (Mike Resnick)
"Smoke and Mirrors" (P. D. Cacek)
"Garbo Quits" (Ron Goulart)
"Blood of Dreams" (Sarah A. Hoyt)
"A Princess of Spain" (Carrie Vaughn)
"Harpy" (Chelsea Quinn Yarbro)
"Honored Be Her Name" (John Gregory Betancourt and Darrell Schweitzer)
"Ill-Met in Ilium" (Gregory Frost)
"The Temptation of Saint Anthony" (Brian Stableford)
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Ian Watson)
"Green Wallpaper" (Tanith Lee)
"Sepulchres of the Undead" (Keith Taylor)
"About the Authors"

Notes

2007 anthologies
Vampires in written fiction
Horror anthologies
Darrell Schweitzer anthologies
DAW Books books
The Next Best Thing is the second studio album by Ray Wilson. The album gained small commercial success both in Europe and in the United States, following on from his success with Change and the recent tour dates in Europe.

Theme 
The album deals with personal experiences from Ray's perspective including "The Actor" where he sings about his time with the rock band Genesis.

Track listing
 "These Are the Changes" (Ray Wilson)
 "Inside" (Peter Lawlor)
 "How High" (Scott Spence, Wilson)
 "The Fool in Me" (Wilson)
 "Adolescent Breakdown" (Wilson)
 "Sometimes" (Wilson)
 "Alone" (Wilson)
 "Magic Train" (Wilson)
 "The Actor" (Wilson)
 "Ever the Reason" (Spence, Wilson)
 "Pumpkinhead" (Wilson)
 "The Next Best Thing" (Wilson)

Personnel 
Ray Wilson - vocals, lead/acoustic guitars, bass
Irvin Duguid - keyboards
Nir Z - drums
Ashley MacMillan - drums
Brian McAlpine - piano, organ, accordion
Scott Spence - lead/acoustic guitars
Amanda Lyon - backing vocals
Colin Steele - trumpet

Singles 
These Are the Changes (cd single) (June 2004)
These Are the Changes
Ghost (live)
Gypsy (live)
These Are the Changes (radio promo) (June 2004)
These Are the Changes (Benztown Mixdown) 
These Are the Changes (Album Edit)
Gouranga (Live)

2004 albums
Ray Wilson (musician) albums
Inside Out Music albums
Hondros is a 2017 American documentary film about American war photographer Chris Hondros. It was written by Greg Campbell and Jenny Golden, directed and produced by Campbell, and executive produced by Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Lee Curtis.

The film premiered on 21 April 2017 at Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award, Documentary First Place. It had a limited theatrical release in the United States on 2 March 2018.

Hondros was killed in a mortar attack by government forces in Misrata while covering the 2011 Libyan civil war.

Film summary
The film is about the life and career of Hondros. It describes the stories behind some of his photographs.

Production
In 2013 Greg Campbell launched a Kickstarter campaign to produce a documentary then named Hondros: A Life in Frames. The project was launched with an initial goal of $30,000.00 and became fully funded within three days with a total of $89,639 raised.

Awards
Audience Award, Documentary First Place, Tribeca Film Festival, New York City

References

External links

2017 films
2017 documentary films
2010s American films
2010s biographical films
2010s English-language films
American biographical films
American documentary films
Bold Films films
Documentary films about war photographers
Entertainment Studios films
Films scored by Jeff Russo
Films set in Iraq
Films set in Libya
Films set in Liberia
Films set in the United States
Sonoraville is an unincorporated community in Gordon County, Georgia, United States, located seven miles outside Calhoun.

History
A post office called Sonoraville was established in 1854, and remained in operation until being discontinued in 1909. The community was probably named after Sonora, in commemoration of the Mexican–American War.

Education
Sonoraville High School is the community's high school; it was created in 2005 for grades 9 and 10. Within the next two years, Sonoraville became a normal high school with all grades 9–12. The principal is Amy Stewart.  The mascot is a phoenix, and the colors are red, black and white.

Notable people 
George Right Smith - (1837 - 1903), private in the Confederate Army elevated to the rank of 1st lieutenant. Born in Cartersville, he bought a farm after the war and settled with his new wife in Sonoraville. Buried at the now Sonoraville Baptist Church cemetery.

References

External links
 Sonoraville Baptist Church
 Sonoraville High School
 Old Sonora P.O. Now Sonoraville historical marker

Unincorporated communities in Gordon County, Georgia
Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state)
Plus-Tech Squeeze Box are a Japanese electronic music/shibuya-kei duo formed by Tomonori Hayashibe and Takeshi Wakiya.

The frenetic sound of their first album FAKEVOX (2000) is driven by rudimentary synthesized sounds and heavily manipulated samples from a variety of sources, including jazz, big band, light music, MOR, and funk recordings ranging from the late-50s to the mid-70s. Junko Kamada provides vocals throughout the album. 

Their second album, CARTOOOM!, was released in 2004. Junko Kamada is conspicuously absent, having parted ways with the band. Instead, sampled vocals and a variety of guest singers are used.

They created a side project with the vocalist Tomomi Matsuda called Tropico Q in 2010.  The group did covers of classic rock songs.

Notable appearances
They have been featured in Coca-Cola and Powerade commercials in the United Kingdom, using the song "early RISER". They also appeared on BBC Three's Adam and Joe Go Tokyo and for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie – Music from the Movie and More.... One of their songs, including Baby P was featured on Pop'n Music 14 FEVER. They also wrote and recorded the theme tune for Pucca, which is similar to that of "early RISER". Their song "TEST ROOM" was featured in Dance Dance Revolution Universe in 2007.

Discography
FAKEVOX (2000)
CARTOOOM! (2004)

External links
 Official PSB website
 their label's website, STUBBIE RECORDS
 Clear and Refreshing Review
 Official HearJapan Page
 Side Project Tropico Q

Japanese rock music groups
Shibuya-kei musicians
Musical groups from Shibuya