Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The Queensland Conservation Council (QCC) or Queensland Conservation is a non-governmental organisation that represents all the major conservation organisations of Queensland state in Australia. The organisation have been working to protect, conserve and sustain Queensland’s unique natural environment since 1969. The organisation's office is currently located in West End, Brisbane.

History
The organisation started as the South Queensland Conservation Council with 12 member groups, and by 1975 it served 66 organisations and had over 300 members. It worked on many of the key campaigns throughout the past forty years, including protecting the Conondale Range and Fraser Island, campaigning against uranium mining at Ranger and Ben Lomond, protecting Moreton Island, Cape York and Cooloola National Parks and conserving the Daintree area and Great Barrier Reef

Focus of activities
QCC's vision is to protect the environment, wildlife and landscapes, conserve precious natural resources and make Queensland businesses and communities more sustainable.  The organisation achieve its goals by advocating with government, engaging with the community and informing through the media.  QCC consult, coordinate with and support numerous member groups who are all committed to improving the environment.

QCC's current campaigns are focused on keeping coal in the ground, saying no to the Carmichael coal mine and supporting renewable energy.  The Council provides information about public concerns regarding recreational fishing and tourism raised by the establishment of the Coral Sea Heritage Park.

QCC helped in the long fight against sand mining on Moreton Bay and Stradbroke Islands, and lobbied for the establishment of an Environmental Protection Agency in Queensland. During the past decade QCC has opposed fish farms in Moreton Bay and helped to phase out broad scale land clearing.  QCC had previously ventured the Rivers Project and provided representation on consultation panels and submissions on issues of state water reform.

Newsletter
Newsletter (Queensland Conservation Council) Brisbane, Qld. 1976-1992. ISSN 1325-3832.  Later Title: Eco sphere 1992-1997 1325-3514. Current Title: Spinifex 1997 to date
QCC publishes a newsletter, "econnections", which can be obtained through subscription on their website.

See also

Australian Conservation Foundation
Australian Marine Conservation Society
The Wilderness Society

References

Further reading
 Lines, William J. (2006) Patriots : defending Australia's natural heritage St. Lucia, Qld. University of Queensland Press.

External links
Queensland Conservation Council website
North Queensland Conservation Council website
Capricorn Conservation Council
Darling Downs Conservation Council
Gecko Environment Council
Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Wide Bay and Burnett Environment Council
Gladstone Conservation Council
Sunshine Coast Environment Council
Mackay Conservation Group

Environmental organisations based in Australia
Organizations established in 1969
1969 establishments in Australia
Divorce is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Chester Bennett and starring Jane Novak, John Bowers and James Corrigan.

Cast
 Jane Novak as Jane Parker
 John Bowers as Jim Parker
 James Corrigan as George Reed
 Edythe Chapman as Mrs. George Reed
 Margaret Livingston as Gloria Gayne
 Freeman Wood as Townsend Perry
 George McGuire as Tom Tucker
 George Fisher as Winthrop Avery
 Philippe De Lacy as 'Dicky' Parker

References

Bibliography
 Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

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1923 films
1923 drama films
1920s English-language films
American silent feature films
Silent American drama films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Chester Bennett
Film Booking Offices of America films
1920s American films
Sean Lance Berdy (born June 3, 1993) is an American actor, entrepreneur, and real estate broker. He began his career as a child in the film sequel The Sandlot 2. Known for his roles in the TV series The Society and Switched at Birth. He is the founder of The Sign Language Agency, interpreting service company.

Life 
Berdy, a native of Boca Raton, Florida, was born deaf. He is bilingual; his first language is American Sign Language (ASL) and he speaks English. As a child, Berdy was interested in magic. He won the young magicians top award at the World Magicians Festival in Saint Petersburg. Berdy was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when he was 11 years old. His formal acting career began in 2005 with his appearance in The Sandlot 2. He subsequently had roles in The Bondage, The Deaf Family, and The Legend of the Mountain Man. Berdy was featured in several public service commercials.

Berdy relocated to California in 2011 for his role in Switched at Birth in which, he starred as Emmett Bledsoe, son of Melody Bledsoe, played by Marlee Matlin. He was nominated for the 2011 Teen Choice Awards under the TV category for breakout star. He completed high school remotely while filming. Berdy provided the on-camera ASL dubbing of Ice Age: Continental Drift. In 2019, he starred as Sam Eliot, in the Netflix show The Society. He is also a real estate agent at Douglas Elliman in South Florida.

In May 2019, Berdy reported that he was writing a movie about a love story featuring ASL.

Filmography

References

External links
 

1993 births
Male actors from Florida
American male child actors
American male film actors
American male deaf actors
American male television actors
Living people
21st-century American male actors
People with bipolar disorder
21st-century American male writers
Writers from Florida
People from Boca Raton, Florida
Mohamed Lemine Ould Guig (; born July 1, 1959) is a Mauritanian academic and political figure. He was the 8th Prime Minister of Mauritania from December 18, 1997 to November 16, 1998 (11 months). Guig was the Prime Minister between stints by Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna.

Biography
Guig was a native of Oualata and trained as an attorney. He was a law professor at the University of Nouakchott in the 1990s but was generally unknown in political circles. Guig served as director of higher education, and his region was considered a bastion of the presidential majority (PRDS). On December 18, 1997, he was appointed Prime Minister by President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya shortly after his re-election in the 1997 presidential election. Guig replaced the civil servant Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna. At the time of his appointment, Guig was 39 years old and the youngest Prime Minister of the world. Serving 11 months, Taya dismissed him as premier on November 16, 1998 and Khouna assumed his position. In 2003, Guig was appointed Commissioner for Food Security, to replace Sidi Mohamed Ould Biye.

Following the 2008 coup d'état, Guig was appointed secretary general by coup leader Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. In 2014, Guig was appointed Chairman of the Commission of the African Union to supervise the 2014 Egyptian presidential election, which resulted in the election of former General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. On January 9, 2015, Guig was appointed State Inspector General and pledged to fight against mismanagement and misappropriation of public property. In June 2015 however, Guig was appointed Deputy General Secretary of the Arab League to manage financial affairs.

Notes

References

Living people
1959 births
Prime Ministers of Mauritania
People from Hodh Ech Chargui Region
OK Napredak Odžak (also known as HOK Napredak) is a volleyball club from Odžak, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It currently competes in the Superleague of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the second tier volleyball league of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

History
The modern club was reestablished by Bosnian Croats after the nation's war in 1997 and played in the Croatian Herzeg-Bosnia First League of Volleyball. By 2000, they became league champions. 

In 2001, the club joined the Volleyball Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and began to play in the new national league. In its first season competing, 2001-02, Napredak was national champion and has been one of the top clubs since, as champions again in 2006-07 and finishing third in 2007-08 and second in 2008-09 and 2009-10. 

Napredak's fans are known as Uragan. The team used play its matches near Modriča while an arena was being built in Odžak itself.

Honours
Bosnia and Herzegovina Championship:
 Winners (2): 2002, 2007
 Runner-up (2): 2009, 2010
Herzeg-Bosnia Championship:
Winners (1): 2000

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:

Key

Notable players

  Almir Aganović

References

Volleyball clubs established in 1973
Volleyball clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatian sports clubs outside Croatia
Odžak
Elymus may refer to:
 Elymus (plant), a genus of grasses
 Elymus (mythology), the mythical ancestor of the Elymians
 A man killed by Gorge (mythology)
Alma is a Brussels Metro station on line 1. It is located in the municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert/Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, in the eastern part of Brussels, Belgium, serving the Brussels-Woluwe campus of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), and was opened on 7 May 1982. Designed by Lucien Kroll as a total artwork, it takes its name from its location on the /, the university campus' main square.

The original eastern terminus of the former line 1B was at Tomberg, prior to the opening of the extension to Alma. Alma station then served as the terminus until 1988, when the line was further extended to Stockel/Stokkel.

References

External links

Railway stations in Belgium opened in the 1980s
Railway stations opened in 1982
1982 establishments in Belgium
Brussels metro stations
Woluwe-Saint-Lambert
OCDChinatown is a contemporary space for sound, image, object, movement and thought, located in New York City in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan. It was established in 2018 by Liutas van Hook.

OCDChinatown has shown a roster of international artists and performance and has collaborated with the arts organization BOFFO for the 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023 BOFFO Performance Festival Fire Island held in the Fire Island Pines.

several exhibitions were selected by Artforum critics as international  "Must Sees," including Nash Glynn's Self-portrait With One Foot Forward And One Hand Reaching Out, Carlos Motta and Tiamat Legion Medusa, Camilo Godoy's Amigxs, Geo Wyex's Looking For Stars Out Of What Stinks, It's Personal (Nash Glynn, Sam Penn, Ser Serpas), and Nao Bustamante's Brown Disco.

Artists and collaborators 

 Nao Bustamante
 Sigrid Lauren and Young Boy Dancing Group
 Nash Glynn, Sam Penn, Ser Serpas
 Geo Wyex
 Ryan Ponder McNamara
 Carlos Motta and Tiamat Legion Medusa
 E. Jane
 Camilo Godoy
 Elliot Reed
 Carlos Martiel
 Nash Glynn
 Jessica Mitrani
 Luke O'Halloran
 Young Boy Dancing Group
 ThreeAsFour
 Jessie Stead
 Joseph Teeling
 Ian Giles
 Sam Roeck
 Lord of Beef
 Michael Auder
 Eckhaus Latta

References 

Arts organizations based in New York City
Chinatown, Manhattan
2018 establishments in New York City
Arts organizations established in 2018
City from Above (2009) is a mini-album by the Dutch rock band The Gathering. It is limited to 2,000 copies.

The song "Miniature" uses samples from the 1963 "The Twilight Zone" TV-series, episode 8, also called "Miniature". Around the 2 minute and 40 seconds mark of the song, dialogue from the episode can be heard.

Track listing

Credits 
Lyrics by – Marcela Bovio (tracks: 3, 4), Silje Wergeland (tracks: 1, 2)
Mastered by – Paul Matthijs Lombert (tracks: 3, 4, 5), René Rutten (tracks: 1, 2), Zlaya Hadzich (tracks: 1, 2)
Mixed by – René Rutten, Zlaya Hadzich (tracks: 1, 2)
Producer – René Rutten

References 

The Gathering (band) albums
2009 EPs
Matti Manu Ilmari Yrjölä (born March 26, 1938, in Hämeenkyrö, Finland) is a 192 cm tall Finnish shot putter, who represented Kyröskosken Ponsi and weighed 121 kg when competing. He was the second Finn to put the shot more than 20 m in an official competition when he put it 20.04 metres in Hämeenkyrö, Finland on August 2, 1972.

His personal best outdoors is 20.84 m, which he put on July 6, 1976, in Kokemäki. His personal best indoors of 19.12 m, which he put in Turku on February 25, 1973, was enough to win him the Finnish Championships that year. Internationally, his highest rankings in the European Championships was a fourth place in Athens in 1969 and a 3rd place in the competition between Finland and Sweden in 1973.

Yrjölä came from an athletic family: both his father (Paavo Yrjölä) and his uncle (Iivari Yrjölä) competed in the decathlon.

Yrjölä was one of the first six Finns originally admitted to the 20 meter club when it was founded in April 1983.

References
tilastopaja

1938 births
People from Hämeenkyrö
Finnish male shot putters
Living people
Sportspeople from Pirkanmaa
Nothing to Lose is the fourth studio album of the Danish soft rock band Michael Learns to Rock. It was released on September 12, 1997, by Medley Records in Denmark. Like the previous album, Played on Pepper (1995), it was mainly produced by the band itself. Guitar player Mikkel Lentz said the band programmed new beats during the mixing process as they wanted to experiment a bit more with this album. While the band's previous albums relied heavily on soft rock ballads, Nothing to Lose contains a rockier sound intended to suit the European market. Bass guitar player Søren Madsen debuts as songwriter on the track "Magic".

In Denmark, Nothing to Lose sold 25,000 copies on the day of release. In May 1998, the album had sold 500,000 copies worldwide, with 70,000 copies sold in Denmark.

The fourth single, "I'm Gonna Be Around" was re-produced by Per Magnusson and David Kreuger for its single release. The song was "written especially for the United States" according to lead singer Jascha Richter. It was later included on the compilation album MLTR (1999). 

It is the last studio album to feature bassist Søren Madsen, who left the band three years after.

Track listing

Certifications and sales

References

1997 albums
Michael Learns to Rock albums
Albums produced by Per Magnusson
Albums produced by David Kreuger
Sebastian Spreng (born April 6, 1956) is an Argentine-born American visual artist and music journalist. He is a self-taught artist. He lives in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida.

Biography 
Sebastian Spreng was born on April 6, 1956, in Esperanza, Santa Fe in Argentina. In 1987, he settled in Miami, Florida and has been a vital presence in the Florida art scene.

His awards include the Hortt Competition at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and the 1995 Personal Achievement Award from the Muscular Dystrophy Association for the State of Florida, since earlier childhood, Spreng suffers from muscular dystrophy.

In 1994, he was commissioned by Metro-Dade Art In Public Places to create a permanent exhibition at the Miami-Dade Government Center.

In 2012, he was selected as one of the "100 Latinos of Miami", along other personalities, and as the 2013 Visual Artist of the 11th Edition of the Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival in Atherton, California.

Since 2015 he works in IPad drawings presenting exhibitions totally dedicated to digital art in Miami, Santa Fe, and Panama. The series Das Lied von der Erde, based in Gustav Mahler song cycle comprised more than twenty Ipad drawings in several sizes.

In 2017 was named "Knight Champion of the Arts" by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and his works exhibited at the Knight Hall in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.

At the Lowe Art Museum an exhibition about the destruction of Dresden consisting in iPad drawings printed on aluminum took place between March and September 2018.

References

External links
 Official Site

1956 births
American abstract artists
20th-century American painters
American male painters
21st-century American painters
21st-century American male artists
Argentine people of German descent
People from Bay Harbor Islands, Florida
People from Esperanza, Santa Fe
People from Santa Fe, Argentina
Argentine emigrants to the United States
American music critics
Living people
American bloggers
Artists from Miami
Opera critics
American music journalists
Classical music critics
20th-century Argentine painters
20th-century American male artists
Argentine male painters
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male bloggers
20th-century Argentine male artists
Keisha Spencer (born 16 February 1978) is a Jamaican athlete. She competed in the women's triple jump at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

While at Louisiana State University, she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's best female track and field competitor in 2000.

References

External links
 

1978 births
Living people
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Jamaican female triple jumpers
Olympic athletes for Jamaica
Place of birth missing (living people)
LSU Lady Tigers track and field athletes
Global Islami Bank, former known as NRB Global Bank, is a fourth generation Bangladeshi sharia compliant private bank. Nizam Chowdhury is the chairperson of the Bank. Syed Habib Hasnat is the managing director of Global Islami Bank.

History 
 
The Bank was founded as NRB Global Bank on 25 July 2013 targeting not resident Bangladeshis. Bangladesh Bank provided licenses to nine banks, including NBR Global Bank, in 2013 on the condition that the bank will eventually list on the stock market. On 14 August 2013, Md Abdul Quddus was appointed managing director of NRB Global Bank.

In 2015, Prashanta Kumar Halder became the managing director of the Bank.

Nizam Chowdhury, director of Diamond Life Insurance Company Limited and Kushira Power Limited, was appointed chairman of NRB Global Bank in August 2016.

In April 2019, the NRB Global Bank announced its intention to change its name to Global Bank of Bangladesh due to the existence of two banks, NRB Commercial Bank Limited and NRB Bank, which included NRB in their names.

In 2020, NRB Global Bank was providing both conventional and sharia compliant banking services. In August 2020, Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit ordered the freezing of banks accounts of the former managing director of NRB Global Bank Proshanta Kumar Halder and his family members. Halder was being investigated for embezzlement from multiple financial institutions. On 31 December 2020, the bank announced plans to change their name. Former managing director of the Bank, Proshanto Kumar Haldar, is suspected by the Anti-Corruption Commission of embezzling hundreds of millions taka from various financial institutions.

On 3 January 2021, NRB Global Bank rebranded itself as Global Islami Bank and became a sharia compliant bank. In June, the banks proposal to raise 42.5 billion taka from an IPO was approved by Bangladesh Bank. In September 2021, Bangladesh Bank fined the bank for going beyond the investment ceiling for banks in the stock market.

References 

Banks of Bangladesh
Banks established in 2013
Banks of Bangladesh with Islamic banking services
Organisations based in Dhaka
Bangladeshi companies established in 2013
Differential pulse-code modulation (DPCM) is a signal encoder that uses the baseline of pulse-code modulation (PCM) but adds some functionalities based on the prediction of the samples of the signal. The input can be an analog signal or a digital signal.

If the input is a continuous-time analog signal, it needs to be sampled first so that a discrete-time signal is the input to the DPCM encoder.
 Option 1: take the values of two consecutive samples; if they are analog samples, quantize them; calculate the difference between the first one and the next; the output is the difference.
 Option 2: instead of taking a difference relative to a previous input sample, take the difference relative to the output of a local model of the decoder process; in this option, the difference can be quantized, which allows a good way to incorporate a controlled loss in the encoding.

Applying one of these two processes, short-term redundancy (positive correlation of nearby values) of the signal is eliminated; compression ratios on the order of 2 to 4 can be achieved if differences are subsequently entropy coded because the entropy of the difference signal is much smaller than that of the original discrete signal treated as independent samples.

DPCM was invented by C. Chapin Cutler at Bell Labs in 1950; his patent includes both methods.

Option 1: difference between two consecutive quantized samples
The encoder performs the function of differentiation; a quantizer precedes the differencing of adjacent quantized samples; the decoder is an accumulator, which if correctly initialized exactly recovers the quantized signal.

Option 2: analysis by synthesis
The incorporation of the decoder inside the encoder allows quantization of the differences, including nonlinear quantization, in the encoder, as long as an approximate inverse quantizer is used appropriately in the receiver. When the quantizer is uniform, the decoder regenerates the differences implicitly, as in this simple diagram that Cutler showed:

See also
 Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation
 Delta modulation, a special case of DPCM where the differences eQ[n] are represented with 1 bit as ±Δ
 Pulse modulation methods
 Delta-sigma modulation

References

Telephony signals
Alexa Davies is a Welsh actress best known for her roles as Aretha in Raised by Wolves, Kate in Detectorists, Yvonne in Cradle to Grave, young Rosie in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, and Meg in Dead Pixels.

She grew up in Rhyl, Denbighshire.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links
 
 

1995 births
Welsh television actresses
Welsh film actresses
People from Rhyl
Living people
21st-century Welsh actresses
The Black and Orange Cabins are a motel constructed next to Fort Bridger in southwest Wyoming. The cabins were originally constructed in 1925 along the Lincoln Highway, giving automobile tourist lodging accommodations while travelling through Wyoming. The site was active from 1925 until 1936. It was sold to a new owner in 1941, but was likely never again opened. The site remained essentially abandoned from 1948 until 1996.

In 1996, the site was purchased by the Fort Bridger Historical Society and was then donated to the state, as it was located adjacent to the Fort Bridger historic site. The State of Wyoming began an extensive restoration project in 2007, including foundation stabilization of the cabins, and foundation, chimney, and roof repairs. This round of restoration was completed in June 2009.

See also

References

External links
 Black and Orange Cabins page, Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office

Wyoming state historic sites
National Register of Historic Places in Uinta County, Wyoming
Lincoln Highway
Jan Frederiksen (born 20 June 1982) is a former Danish footballer.

Club career
Frederiksen began his career at Lyngby Boldklub, where he made his Superliga debut during the 2000–01 season. In 2002, he moved to Feyenoord, but subsequently was loaned out to its satellite club Excelsior. After one year in Netherlands Frederiksen returned to Denmark and signed with FC Midtjylland. Then he played for Herfølge Boldklub, before moving to Randers FC. On 16 January 2009, he signed a three-year contract with Brøndby IF, and joined the club on a free transfer on 1 July. On 8 August 2012, Frederiksen moved to Polish Ekstraklasa side Wisła Kraków.

Ahead of the 2013 MLS season, Frederiksen was on trial with American soccer club, D.C. United, but he was eventually cut by the team.

International career
Frederiksen represented the country at youth level, playing for the Denmark under-19, under-20 and under-21 national teams.

References

External links
Guardian Football
Career statistics at Danmarks Radio 

1982 births
Living people
Danish men's footballers
Denmark men's under-21 international footballers
Lyngby Boldklub players
Feyenoord players
Excelsior Rotterdam players
FC Midtjylland players
Herfølge Boldklub players
Randers FC players
Brøndby IF players
Danish Superliga players
Wisła Kraków players
Danish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Poland
Danish expatriate sportspeople in Poland
Men's association football fullbacks
Footballers from Copenhagen