Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
USS Gull (MHC-46/AMCU-46/AMS-16/YMS-324) was a  acquired by the U.S. Navy for the task of removing mines that had been placed in the water to prevent ships from passing.

History 
The second ship to be named Gull by the Navy, AMS-16 was launched as YMS-324 by the Al Larson Boat Shop, Terminal Island, California, 14 October 1943; sponsored by Mrs. William Toman; and commissioned 28 February 1944.

After shakedown and minesweeping training, YMS-324 sailed from San Pedro, California, 20 June 1944 via Pearl Harbor and reached Guadalcanal 1 August to prepare for the coming invasion of Peleliu. She put in at Peleliu and swept her first enemy mine 14 September, the day before the famous 1st Marine Division stormed ashore, and for the next month continued minesweeping operations there and at Ulithi. Sailing from Ulithi 14 October for the attack on the Ngulu Islands, the ship swept mines under enemy fire without damage or casualties and subsequently continued her duties at Ulithi until departing 19 March 1945 for Okinawa. YMS-324 aided in clearing the approaches to Okinawa, and remained in those waters until the fall of 1945, returning to San Pedro, California, 20 September 1945, 15 months to the day from the time she left.

Renamed and redesignated Gull (AMS-16) on 18 February 1947, she returned to the western Pacific Ocean in the autumn of 1947, via Pearl Harbor, and conducted peacetime training until putting in at Chinnampo, Korea, 2 November 1950 to support United Nations forces by sweeping mines as part of a group consisting of , , , , , , , , four Republic of Korea minesweepers, and a helicopter from . Gull remained off Chinnampo for more than a month and through her untiring efforts the approaches to that port were cleared, allowing an evacuation accomplished without loss of life. For this hazardous duty Gull was awarded the Navy Unit Commendation.

On 1 August 1954 Gull was redesignated AMCU-46 and underwent conversion at Yokosuka, Japan. Redesignated again as MHC-46 on 7 February 1955, she returned to Long Beach, California, in May, 1955, and subsequently conducted peacetime training duty out of southern California ports until 14 January 1958. Decommissioned at San Diego, California, that date, she was disposed of in March 1959.

Awards and honors 
YMS-324 was awarded two battle stars for World War II service and Gull was awarded nine battle stars and the Navy Unit Commendation for Korean War service.

References

External links 
 
 Photo Gallery at Naval Historical Center

YMS-1-class minesweepers of the United States Navy
Ships built in Los Angeles
1943 ships
World War II minesweepers of the United States
Korean War minesweepers of the United States
Harkness-class minehunters
Cold War minehunters of the United States
The 1997 election for Mayor of Los Angeles took place on April 8, 1997. Incumbent Richard Riordan won re-election against California State Senator and activist Tom Hayden. As of 2023, this is the most recent time a Republican was elected Mayor of Los Angeles.

Municipal elections in California, including Mayor of Los Angeles, are officially nonpartisan; candidates' party affiliations do not appear on the ballot.

Election 
Hayden criticized Riordan for ignoring the environment and for not debating with him while Riordan criticized Hayden for his voting record as a State Senator. Polls showed Riordan leading Hayden, with most of his support being from white people and Republicans. The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor pulled their support from Riordan and took a neutral stance for the two. In the election, Riordan won outright against Hayden and three other candidates.

Results

References and footnotes

External links
 Office of the City Clerk, City of Los Angeles

Los Angeles mayoral election
1997
Los Angeles
Mayoral election
Los Angeles Mayoral election
Otocinclus caxarari is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Madeira River basin in Bolivia and Brazil. It is known to reach 2.6 cm (1 inch) in standard length.

References 

Hypoptopomatini
Fish described in 1997
Fauna of South America
Ankonetta is an extinct genus of mid-sized anatid birds that lived during the Miocene. Its holotype was found in the Early Miocene (Santacrucian), Santa Cruz Formation in Argentina. The type species is A. larriestrai.

Etymology 
The genus name is derived from Aónikenk, a group of indigenous Tehuelche-speaking people from Patagonia. Anko means "father" and netta is derived from Greek, meaning "duck". The species epithet refers to Claudio Larriestra, who studied the Pinturas Formation, another important fossiliferous formation of Patagonia.

References

Bibliography 
 

†Ankonetta
Miocene birds of South America
Santacrucian
Neogene Argentina
Fossils of Argentina
Fossil taxa described in 2010
Prehistoric bird genera
Stross is an uncommon British surname. It may refer to:

 Barnett Stross (1899–1967), British doctor and politician
 Charles Stross (born 1964), writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland; grandnephew of Barnett Stross
 Raymond Stross (1915–1988), British film producer
Ben Simons (born 13 November 1986) is a British bobsleigher and former athlete. He qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics in the 4-man discipline as part of Great Britain 2 team, behind pilot Lamin Deen, performing as the brakeman.

Biography
Simons was born in 1986 in Broseley, England. As a boy, he was a talented athlete, and he represented Wenlock Olympians at the age of eight. Simons progressed to competitive athletics, joining Telford Athletics club where he initially specialised in the long jump and triple jump. In 2008 he was accepted into University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC) and joined the University's athletics club. While at Cardiff, he began to concentrate more on his sprinting competing in the 60m and 100m events. He achieved some success as a sprinter, becoming Welsh 60m champion. Simons attended William Brookes School.

In 2012 while at UWIC he replied to an advert from British Bobsleigh who were searching for 'future Olympians'. He was accepted into the team, and was soon competing at international level. It was announced on 22 January 2014 that Simons would be competing in the bobsleigh for Great Britain at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in the four-man bobsleigh; racing in the second team (GBR2) along with John Baines, Craig Pickering and pilot Lamin Deen. Commenting on the news, Simons said that "It means the world to me to be selected to compete for Team GB at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games". It was his debut Olympics.

In the process of qualification for GBR2, Simons said that there was a nervous tension, but that they got through to competing at the Olympics. In the run-up to the 2014 Olympics, Pickering was forced to pull out of the event due to a back injury and was replaced at short notice by Andrew Matthews. In the finals GBR2 finished in nineteenth place.

References

1986 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Shropshire
People from Broseley
Olympic bobsledders for Great Britain
British male bobsledders
Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Robert Brewer Young (born 1967) is a contemporary cello, viola and violin maker. He received traditional French training in the violinmaking studios above Carnegie Hall, closely studying and listening to the instruments of Stradivari, Guarneri, Amati, Gofriller, Guadagnini and other classical Italian luthiers. Young is now devoted to creating signature instruments in the spirit of these visionaries.  As a part of a select group of makers, museum specialists and acousticians he is at the forefront of using 21st-century science to practice and advance 17th-century methods of violinmaking.  He uses traditional techniques and Renaissance geometrical methods to recreate the elemental harmonic properties of classical Italian instruments.

Young is currently based in London.

Education
Young earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he studied under Ansel Adams’ long time assistant, Pirkle Jones. He earned a master's degree in philosophy from The New School for Social Research in New York City, studying with Jacques Derrida for three years. He then earned an M.Phil. from City University of New York, doing work in the philosophy of logic and mathematics advised by Graham Priest and Saul Kripke.

Young is currently doing doctoral work in philosophical logic and early Greek mathematics and is on the faculty at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fe, Switzerland as a lecturer in philosophy.

Work
Young makes instruments for established and aspiring soloists, and does museum-level instrument restoration and conservation. Clients include: musicians from The Kirov Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Berlin Philharmonic, Harvard University, the Opera National de Paris, the Stockholm Philharmonic, the Barcelona Symphony and numerous soloists. He is also archivist for the Oberlin College group of violinmakers  and a member of the American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers.

Charitable work
Since the early 1990s, Young has provided violins, violas, and cellos for charitable organizations including El Sistema programs, the New York City public school system, and schools for the blind in New York and Calcutta. He also repaired instruments for Roberta Guaspari of the Harlem School for Strings, played by Meryl Streep in the film Music of the Heart. Young provided instruments for established violin programs in indigenous southwest United States communities, and secured instruments, strings, and supplies for musicians during the Siege of Sarajevo
 
In 2014, Young co-founded The Open String, a non-profit organization that supports musicians in need by donating quality stringed instruments to teachers and students so that they can succeed in the growing music education movement

References

External links
 About Robert Brewer Young Robert Brewer Young's website
 About The Open String Foundation The Open String Foundation's website. "The Open String, Inc." is listed as "FTB Forfeited," https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/.

American luthiers
Businesspeople from Seattle
Living people
1967 births
Joseph Hubert Cogels (14 January 1894 – 26 July 1978) was a Belgian sport shooter who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he won the silver medal as member of the Belgian team in the team clay pigeons competition.

References

External links
Joseph Cogels at databaseOlympics.com

1894 births
1978 deaths
Belgian male sport shooters
Olympic shooters for Belgium
Shooters at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Belgium
Trap and double trap shooters
Olympic medalists in shooting
Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
20th-century Belgian people
Colonials may refer to:

 Colonisers, implementers of colonization or colonialism
 Citizens of the colonies of British America

Sports

Amateur and college
 Colonials (synchronized skating team), from West Acton, Massachusetts
 George Washington Colonials, the former nickname of George Washington University athletic teams, now known as "Revolutionaries"
 Luray Colonials, the former name of a collegiate summer baseball team now known as the Purcellville Cannons
 Robert Morris Colonials, the athletic teams of Robert Morris University

Professional
 Hartford Colonials, a UFL American football team 2009–2010
 Morris County Colonials, a National Premier Soccer League team
 Kingston Colonials, an American Basketball League team 1935–1940
 Kingston Colonials (baseball), an American minor-league team 1885–1951
 Morris County Colonials, the former name of the National Premier Soccer League team now known as Jersey Blues FC
 Pittsfield Colonials, a Can-Am League baseball team 1997-2011

See also
 Colonial (disambiguation), including uses of The Colonial
Wallander – Tjuven (The Thief) is a 2009 film / television drama about the Swedish police detective Kurt Wallander directed by Stephan Apelgren. Tjuven was released to DVD and broadcast as part of the second series of the Wallander (Swedish TV series), as episode 4 of 13.

Synopsis 
Some homes are burgled and a vigilante group is formed. Soon Wallander is convinced that a double murder has occurred, although no bodies have been found.

Cast 
Krister Henriksson as Kurt Wallander
Lena Endre as Katarina Ahlsell
Sverrir Gudnason as Pontus
Nina Zanjani as Isabelle
Fredrik Gunnarsson as Svartman
Mats Bergman as Nyberg
Douglas Johansson as Martinsson
Stina Ekblad as Karin
Henny Åman as Hanna, Katarina's daughter
Jacob Ericksson as Olle
Shanti Roney as Ralf
Kalle Westerdahl as Peter
Karin Lithman as Anne
Kola Krauze as Jarek
Vera Veljovic-Jovanovic as Maja
Harald Leander as Journalist
Max Lindmaa as Hooligan

References

External links 

Swedish crime films
Tjuven
2009 films
2000s crime films
Police detective films
Films directed by Stephan Apelgren
2000s police procedural films
2000s Swedish films
This is a list of mosques in Qatar. As of 28 May 2017, there were a total of 2,000 mosques recorded in the country.

See also
 Islam in Qatar
 Lists of mosques

References

External links

 
Qatar
Mosques
The North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) is an environmental agreement between the United States of America, Canada and Mexico and a side-treaty of the North American Free Trade Agreement that came into effect on January 1, 1994.

The agreement consists of a declaration of principles and objectives concerning conservation and the protection of the environment as well as concrete measures to further cooperation on these matters among the three countries. Part Three of the NAAEC establishes the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), which was set up as part of the agreement. The structure of the CEC is composed of the council, the governing body, a Secretariat based in Montreal and the Joint Public Advisory Committee.

References

Trilateral relations of Canada, Mexico, and the United States
Environment of North America
Environmental treaties
Treaties entered into force in 1994
1994 in the environment
Treaties concluded in 1993
North American Free Trade Agreement
Paulo Menezes (born 14 July 1982), also known as Paulinho, is a former footballer from Brazil who played as right back.

External links
 FC Aarau profile 
 
 

Living people
1982 births
Brazilian men's footballers
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
FC Baden players
FC Aarau players
Grasshopper Club Zürich players
FC Lugano players
FC Schaffhausen players
Swiss Super League players
Swiss Challenge League players
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Men's association football defenders
Earcroft is the northern ward in the town of Darwen, Lancashire, England. It borders Blackburn on the A666.

It has a mix of residential, manufacturing and retail areas, and is serviced by both the A666 and the M65 Junction 4.

It is also home to the Darwen Golf Club, A.F.C. Darwen (successor to Darwen F.C.) and Darwen Cricket Club.

References

Wards of Lancashire
Darwen
ODRP is a four-letter acronym that can refer to:

Office of the Defense Representative, Pakistan (United States Department of Defense)
Ontario Deposit Return Program
is Japan's largest homebuilder, specializing in prefabricated houses. The company is also engaged in the construction of factories, shopping centers, health care facilities, the management and operation of resort hotels, golf courses and fitness clubs. Daiwa House also operates as a sales agency for HAL robot suits.

Daiwa House is also one of Japan's largest owner and operator of freight logistics centers, with over 250 logistics properties under management, and further expansion planned in this business segment.

The company was founded in 1955 in Osaka and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Osaka Securities Exchange, being a constituent of the TOPIX and Nikkei 225 stock indices.

In 2012, the Scout Association of Japan received a donation of a large forest of approximately 2.7 square kilometers in Takahagi, Ibaraki Prefecture from Daiwa. Permanent facilities include an Administrative Building with accommodations for 44 people, dining room/kitchen, meeting room, training room; an outdoor auditorium of 200 m² that seats about 100 people; a tent campsite with accommodations for about 800 people and about 50 campfire places available; a communal plaza (Hiroba 広場), and an outdoor arena stage.

Gallery

References

External links 
  
  
  Wiki collection of bibliographic works on Daiwa House

Real estate companies established in 1955
Construction and civil engineering companies based in Tokyo
Manufacturing companies based in Tokyo
Real estate companies based in Tokyo
Companies based in Osaka Prefecture
Companies based in Osaka
Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the Osaka Exchange
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1955
Japanese companies established in 1955
Cemre Kemer (born 17 February 1985) is a Turkish singer-songwriter, ballet dancer and social media influencer.

Career 
Kemer started her career by performing with the Child and Youth Ballet group at the Atatürk Cultural Center. She graduated from ballet department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. After completing her singing and piano lessons, she started her career in the media by appearing in a music video for one of İsmail YK's songs. Later, she took part in the commercial called Trafikte 1 Dakika.

In 2005, she founded a girl band called "Hepsi" with her childhood friends Eren Bakıcı, Gülçin Ergül and Yasemin Yürük. This marked the breakthrough in her career. The album Bir, which she released with the band, broke sales records in Turkey, and they achieved widespread fame with the song "Bad Penny". Her mother, Şebnem Özberk, was the band's manager. In 2006, she and the band toured Turkey with Sezen Aksu under the sponsorship of Pepsi and recorded a promotional single. Later, she started to be seen in "40 Degree Parties" with Kenan Doğulu, with whom she started a relationship. Together with the band, she released the album İki in 2007. Meanwhile, she took the leading role in a TV series called Hepsi 1, which was first broadcast on Show TV and then on ATV. After this acting experience, she took part in the comedy series Avrupa Yakası and Benim Annem Bir Melek. In the same year, she starred in the movie Kısık Ateşte 15 Dakika. In 2008, together with Hepsi, she released an album called Şaka 10+1. In 2009, she took the leading role in the movie Kayıp Çocuklar Cenneti, also known as Herkesin Duyamadığı Şarkı. In 2009, she released another album called Geri Dönüşüm with Hepsi. In 2011, she went on a tour in Turkey with Kral Pop in 2011, and in 2013 she joined the dubbing cast of the movie Pinocchio. In 2015, she acted in Edis's "Benim Ol" music video. In 2016, she took part in the fashion program İşte Benim Stilim, where she announced that Hepsi would soon put an end to their hiatus, but no works were released afterwards. In 2017, she announced that she would make a solo album. However, in 2018, she stated that she was quitting music and that she would continue her career as an influencer. In December 2020, Kemer married Emre Medina. In 2021, they announced they were expecting their first child, a girl.

Discography

Albums 
 2005 - Bir (with Hepsi)
 2006 - İki (with Hepsi)
 2008 - Şaka 10+1 (with Hepsi)
 2009 - Geri Dönüşüm (with Hepsi)

Singles 
 2011 - "Şık Şık" (with Volga Tamöz, Murat Dalkılıç and Hepsi)

Filmography

Film 
 2006 - Kısık Ateşte 15 Dakika - Cemre
 2009 - Kayıp Çocuklar Cenneti - Cemre

TV series 
 2004 - Avrupa Yakası
 2007 - Hepsi 1
 2008 - Benim Annem Bir Melek

Voice acting 
 2013 - Pinocchio

References

External links 
 
 

1985 births
Living people
Turkish women singers
21st-century Turkish actresses
Ricardo Costa de Oliveira (born 14 June 1982) is a visually impaired athlete from Brazil who competes in the long jump and 100 m sprint. He won a gold medal in the long jump (F11 class) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. His sister Silvânia Costa de Oliveira also won the gold medal in the women's long jump T11 event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

References

External links

 

1982 births
Living people
Brazilian male long jumpers
Brazilian male sprinters
Paralympic athletes for Brazil
Paralympic gold medalists for Brazil
Paralympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
People from Três Lagoas
Sportspeople from Mato Grosso do Sul
20th-century Brazilian people
21st-century Brazilian people
FO&O is the second studio album by Swedish boy band FO&O. It was released in Sweden by The Artist House on 12 May 2017. The album peaked at number 35 on the Swedish Albums Chart.

Singles
"Gotta Thing About You" was released as the lead single from the album on 26 February 2017. The song peaked at number 7 on the Swedish Singles Chart. It took part in Melodifestivalen 2017, and qualified for the Final; it finished in 8th place. "So So Good" was released as the second single from the album on 5 May 2017.

Track listing

Charts

Release history

References

2017 albums
FO&O albums
The 1999 New Zealand Grand Prix event for open wheel racing cars was held at Ruapana Park near Christchurch on 6 December 1999. It was the forty-fifth New Zealand Grand Prix and was open to Formula Holden cars.

Classification

Qualifying

References

New Zealand Grand Prix
Grand Prix
Formula Holden
New Zealand
The VDP cloche was an element of the Maginot Line fortifications. A cloche (bell) was a fixed and non-retractable firing position made of a thick iron casting which shielded its occupant. By comparison, turrets could be rotated and sometimes lowered so that only the top shell was exposed. VDP cloches were used for observation of the surrounding area for artillery direction. VDP is an acronym for Vision Directe et Périscopique. By comparison with the GFM cloche, the VDP cloche had narrower ports and was consequently lower in profile.

Description 
VDP cloches were equipped with three embrasures or crenels for direct vision, providing protection to observers.  VDP cloches were also equipped with periscopes that allowed a greater arc of view. The cloches were embedded in a thick concrete carapace over a combat, entrance or observation block element of a largely subterranean Maginot fortification. A platform, identical to that used in the GFM cloche, was installed for the observer within the cloche. No armament was fitted. 64 VDP cloches were installed along the Maginot Line.

VP cloche
The similar VP (Vision Périscopique) cloche lacked direct observation ports, presenting a much lower profile. Twenty VP cloches were installed.

See also
JM cloche, heavy twin machine gun cloche
LG cloche, grenade launcher cloche

References

Bibliography 
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 2. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2001.  

World War II weapons of France
VDP