Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Sister of the Bride is a 1963 young adult novel by Beverly Cleary.

Plot summary

The plot revolves around sixteen-year-old Barbara MacLane, a girl in the suburbs of San Francisco grappling with disappointing romantic prospects, her worries about not being accepted into the University of California, Berkeley, and the fact that she will never catch up to her sister, Rosemary, who is two years older (and a student at Berkeley).

Barbara's feeling of being left in the dust by her sister only intensifies when Rosemary calls home and suddenly announces that she will marry her college sweetheart, Greg. Although this news comes as an unexpected and less-than-pleasant shock to their parents, Barbara becomes enthralled with the romantic details of the wedding, and promptly decides that if she is to be caught up to Rosemary in two years, she needs to step up her search for a boyfriend. Her two potential prospects are Tootie Bodger (Robin to his folks), a tall and rather gloomy trombone player who is more fond of Barbara than she is of him, and Bill Cunningham, a handsome classmate with a Vespa whom Barbara woos with homemade cookies (this somewhat misfires, as he comes to think of her as the "domestic" type and tries to get her to mend a shirt he ripped). Tootie is presented as plodding yet thoughtful, while Bill is conversely dashing but thoughtless.

However, as the stresses of Rosemary's wedding begin to pile up (tension between the lower-middle-class MacLanes and Greg's wealthy parents; the cost of the wedding and the short time frame granted to plan it in; and the sacrifices Rosemary and Greg must make (such as becoming landlords of a dumpy tenement to save on rent), Barbara begins to think that maybe she's not ready to live the life of a serious adult just yet.

At Rosemary's wedding, the sisters' elderly grandmother offers Barbara a bit of advice: "Have a good time while you are young," which Barbara apparently means to follow, focusing less on finding a special sweetheart and more on enjoying socializing with a variety of company and friends.

American young adult novels
1963 American novels
Novels by Beverly Cleary
Novels set in San Francisco
University of California, Berkeley
1963 children's books
The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) is an association advocating for corporate social responsibility. Its 300 member organizations comprise faith communities, asset managers, unions, pensions, NGOs and other investors. ICCR members engage hundreds of corporations annually in an effort to foster greater corporate accountability. ICCR's members file shareholder resolutions on issues such as climate change, human rights, corporate governance, financial practices, and other social and environmental concerns. The organization was founded in 1971.

Members 
ICCR members include faith communities, asset management companies, labor unions, pension funds, NGOs, and college and university endowment funds.

Corporate targets 
In any given year, members of ICCR file roughly 300 shareholder resolutions at hundreds of American corporations across multiple industries. 

ICCR also owns the EthVest database of shareholder resolutions.

In the 1980s, ICCR was active in the campaign for disinvestment from South Africa in protest of Apartheid.

Issues of concern 
Shareholder resolutions span a wide range of issues. In recent years, the most active issues have included climate change; human rights including topics such as human trafficking, food safety and sustainability, water sustainability, and the affordability of medicines; corporate lobbying and corporate political contributions; corporate governance; financial practices and risk; and gun control.

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility co-ordinated organizations using shareholder activism to influence firearms manufacturers to improve the safety of their products. The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility supported shareholder resolutions asking American Outdoor Brands Corporation, the parent company of Smith & Wesson, and Sturm, Ruger & Co. to report to investors regarding the steps they are taking to reduce gun violence. Ruger opposed the resolution. BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager and Ruger's largest investor, and Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis, the two most important shareholder advisory firms in the United States, supported the resolution. At Ruger's annual meeting on May 9, 2018, a majority of shareholders voted in favor and Ruger said they would heed the resolution. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence called the vote a "first-of-its-kind victory."

References

External links 
 
 The New York Times, July 21, 2002 - Private Sector; Missionary Among the Executives
 The New York Times, January 17, 2003, Friday - Utility Shareholders Demand Liability Disclosure
 Institutional Shareowner, March 04, 2005 - Campaign to Enhance Pharma Industry Accountability Broadens Shareowner Action, by William Baue

Corporate social responsibility
Religious organizations based in the United States
MARAUDER (Magnetically Accelerated Ring to Achieve Ultra-high Directed Energy and Radiation) was a United States Air Force Research Laboratory project concerning the development of a coaxial plasma railgun. The first computer simulations occurred in 1990, and its first published experiment appeared on August 1, 1993.

Objectives 
The first MARAUDER experiment was motivated by RACE, or the Ring Accelerator Experiment, which took place in 1991 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The ultimate goal of the MARAUDER program was to accelerate highly dense toroids containing plasma to high speeds. Such a system could be used for “hypervelocity projectiles,” x-ray production, and electrical power amplification. The stated goals of the program included studying the “formation, compression, and acceleration of magnetized plasma rings.”

Specifically, the objective of the program was the acceleration of a toroid of  plasma to a kinetic energy level on the order of megajoules using a 5-10 MJ coaxial gun design.

Design 
In 1993, the Phillips Laboratory developed a coaxial plasma gun capable of accelerating  of plasma by up to  in a toroid of 1 meter in diameter. The toroids are similar to spheromaks, but differ in that an inner conductor is used to accelerate the plasma and that confinement behavior results from interactions of the toroid with its surrounding atmosphere. It utilized the Shiva Star capacitor bank to satisfy the large energy requirements that were needed.

The plasma projectiles would be shot at a speed expected to be  in 1995 and   (3% of the speed of light) by 2000. A shot has the energy of 5 pounds of TNT (). Doughnut-shaped rings of plasma and balls of lightning caused "extreme mechanical and thermal shock" when hitting their target, as well as producing a pulse of electromagnetic radiation that could scramble electronics.

See also 
 Directed-energy weapon
 List of plasma (physics) articles
 Plasma-powered cannon

References

Research projects
Directed-energy weapons of the United States
is a railway station on the Nishitetsu Kaizuka Line in Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu).

Lines 
Kashii-Miyamae Station is served by the Nishitetsu Kaizuka Line.

Station layout 
The elevated station has a side platform serving one track.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History
The station opened on 1 March 1959.

Surrounding area
Kashii-gū

External links

 Nishitetsu station information 

Railway stations in Fukuoka Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1959
The Shamokin Shammies played baseball in the first New York-Pennsylvania League in 1925, going 54-77, last in the eight team league. They were formed when the Oneonta Indians relocated to Shamokin, Pennsylvania after the 1924 season. The team changed its name to the Shamokin Indians for the 1926 through 1928 seasons.

Notable alumni
Jim Curry
Harry Davis
Ollie Hanson
Glenn Killinger
LaRue Kirby
Rudy Kneisch
Red Lutz
Dutch Schesler
Amos Strunk

Year-by-year record

Baseball teams established in 1925
Baseball teams disestablished in 1925
Defunct baseball teams in Pennsylvania
1925 establishments in Pennsylvania
1927 disestablishments in Pennsylvania
Connor Baxter (born September 15, 1994, in Maui) is an American standup paddleboarder. Between 2015 and 2022, he was the recipient of one gold medal, five silver medals, and two bronze medals in the long distance, technical, and sprint races at the ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship. At the ICF Stand Up Paddling World Championships, he has won two silver medals (2019, 2021) and one gold medal (2022) in the technical race, and a further two gold medals (2019, 2022) and one silver (2021) in the sprint race. At the 2019 Pan American Games, he won a gold medal in standup paddleboarding race. At the 2022 ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship, he won a gold medal in the sprint race. He has also served as a brand ambassador for the sportswear brand Dakine.

References 

1994 births
Living people
American surfers
Paddleboarders
Windsurfers
People from Maui
Competitors at the 2019 Pan American Games
Prasert Thongcharoen (ศาสตราจารย์เกียรติคุณ นายแพทย์ ประเสริฐ ทองเจริญ) (2 January 1933 - 9 July 2019) was a Thai virologist, specialised in the fields of SARS, HIV, Bird Flu and many other diseases. Graduated from Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg and University of Hamburg, he then started researching on virus diseases straight after his graduation, and today, he continues to research in a field which he specialises in. He was also the Director of WHO Collaborating Centre on AIDS and Member of the WHO Expert Committee Advisory Panel on Virus Diseases.

References

Prasert Thongcharoen
1933 births
2019 deaths
Prasert Thongcharoen
University of Hamburg alumni
Pulsarella cognata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

Description
The length of the shell attains 24 mm, its width 7 mm. It differs from Tomopleura reevii (C. B. Adams, 1850) to which it is closely related in color (being luteous white, purple-tinged towards the apex, the carinae white), in the number of carinae, twelve, and more produced spire.

Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia (New South Wales, Queensland).

References

 Smith, E.A. (1877a) Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 4, 19, 488–501
 Hedley, C. 1908. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part 10. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 33: 456-489
  Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
 Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1-56, pls 1-12.

External links
 

cognata
Gastropods of Australia
Gastropods described in 1877
The men's 1500 metres at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships were held in Paris.

Medalists

T11 
The event took place on 13 July.

T13 

The final of this event was held at 9:55  on 13 Jul 2023 at Charlety Stadium, Paris.

T20

The final of this event was held at 9:30  on 17 July 2023 at Charlety Stadium, Paris.

T38 

The final of this event was held at  18:52 on 17 July 2023 at Charlety Stadium, Paris.

T46 

The final of this event was held at  19:00 on 16 July 2023 at Charlety Stadium, Paris.

T52 
The event took place on 9 July.

T54 

The final of this event was held at  11:12 on 14 Jul 2023 at Charlety Stadium, Paris.

References 

1500 metres
1500 metres at the World Para Athletics Championships
2023 in men's athletics
KVBC may refer to:

 KVBC-LP, a low-power television station (channel 13) licensed to serve Reedley, California, United States
 KSNV-DT, a television station (channel 2/virtual channel 3) licensed to serve Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, which held the call sign KVBC or KVBC-DT until 2010
Yuka may refer to:

Yuka (music), an Afro-Cuban style of music
Yuka (mammoth), mammoth specimen found in Yakutia, Russia
Manshu Yuka Kogyo K.K. Ssuningkai, a Japanese-German pre-WWII industrial co-operation

People
Yuka (name), a Japanese personal name
Yuka (singer) (born 1970), Japanese singer

See also
Yuca, a plant species
Yucca (disambiguation)
St Patrick's Chapel is a ruined building that stands on a headland above St Peter's Church, in Heysham, Lancashire, England ().  It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Description

The ruin dates from the 8th or 9th century, and is built of sandstone rubble.  The plan is a plain slightly tapering rectangle measuring  by .  Consolidation work was carried out in 1903 using stone tiles.  Most of the south wall, the east gable wall, and the east part of the north wall are still present.  The south wall contains a doorway with long-and-short jambs and an arch with concentric grooves.  

Near the chapel is a group of six rock-cut tombs from the 11th century and a separate group of two rock-cut tombs. Each group is listed at Grade I, and each tomb has an associated socket probably intended for a timber cross. They also featured on the cover of Black Sabbath's 2000 album The Best of Black Sabbath.

Archaeology

In 1977 an excavation took place in and to the south of the chapel, which dated the site to the late 6th or early 7th century.  The buried skeletons uncovered were dated as no earlier than the 10th century.  A further excavation took place in April 1993 on land below the stone coffins.  No human bones were found but more than 1,200 artefacts were recovered, which showed that the site had been occupied about 12,000 years ago.

See also

Grade I listed churches in Lancashire
Grade I listed buildings in Lancashire
Scheduled monuments in Lancashire
Listed buildings in Heysham

References

External links

 Oxford University Woruldhord project - St Patrick's Chapel

Ruins in Lancashire
Chapels in England
Scheduled monuments in Lancashire
Roman Catholic churches in Lancashire
Churches in the City of Lancaster
Grade I listed churches in Lancashire
Toni von Bukovics (1882–1970) was an Austrian stage and film actress.

Filmography

References

Bibliography
 Fox, Jo. Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II Cinema. Bloomsbury Academic, 2007.

External links

1882 births
1970 deaths
Austrian film actresses
20th-century Austrian actresses
Austrian stage actresses
Actresses from Budapest
Xiaoli Ma from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for contributions to block transmissions over wireless fading channels.

Education 
Dr. Ma received the B.S. degree in Automatic Control from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1998, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2003.

References 

Fellow Members of the IEEE
Living people
Georgia Tech faculty
21st-century American engineers
Auburn University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
American electrical engineers
Parvati Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state, western India. This constituency is located in Pune district. It is part of Pune (Lok Sabha constituency).

Geographical scope
The constituency comprises ward nos. 27 to 30, 32 to 40, 42, 86 to 90 & 150 of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC).

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Result

References

Assembly constituencies of Pune district
Assembly constituencies of Maharashtra
The AK-104 is a carbine variant of the AK-103. It's chambered to fire 7.62×39mm ammunition and thus feeds from any standard 7.62x39 AK pattern magazine.

Design
The AK-104 is a 314mm (12.4 in) barreled carbine in the AK-100 series of rifles, the dimensions of the gun is the same to other carbines of the AK-100 series. However, the AK-104 also features a solid, side-folding polymer stock, unlike the shorter, skeleton-stocked AKS-74U. The AK-104 uses an adjustable notched rear tangent iron sight calibrated in  increments from . The front sight is a post adjustable for elevation in the field. Horizontal adjustment is done by the armory before issue. The AK-104 has a muzzle booster derived from the AKS-74U.

Protective coatings ensure excellent corrosion resistance of metal parts. Forearm, magazine, butt stock and pistol grip are made of high strength plastic.

The 100-series AKs are produced by the Izhmash factories in Izhevsk, Russia.

Variants

AK-105

SLR-107CR

A civilian semi-automatic rifle utilizing a gas block almost identical to the one seen on the Russian original. However the CR is distinctive in having a 16” extended barrel to comply with U.S. regulations, typically shrouded by a false extend booster or simply exposed with a simple nut threaded on at the gas block. Produced in Bulgaria and imported by Arsenal Inc.

PSAK-104

A civilian semi-automatic series of firearms meant to duplicate the aesthetic of the AK-104. Examples in the series utilize a clone more similar to that of the Russian AK-104 gas block/front sight pattern as opposed to the Bulgarian SLR-107CR variant. Based on PSAK-103, however, it is distinct from other examples by utilizing the earlier AKM pattern bolt as well as other AKM pattern parts. Produced by Palmetto State Armory of South Carolina.

KR-104
A short-barreled rifle version of the AK-104 by Kalashnikov-USA.

Small Production Examples
Due to the scarcity of AK-104 examples in the U.S. consumer market, a variety of small gunsmithing businesses and private individuals have obtained demilled AK-104 parts kits from overseas as well as a variety of U.S. made 922R compliant parts in order to build semi-automatic clones. In addition, a very small number of Saiga rifles built on the AK-104 assembly line in Izhevsk, Russia appear to have been imported and converted to the more customary AK-104 configuration.

Users

: Used By Special Operations Police and Black Cobra Unit alongside AK 103 and AK101
: Manufactured by Iranian Defense Industries Organization and used by Iranian Armed Forces and its proxy forces.
: Used by the Russian Federal Protective Service.
: Produced under license by CAVIM alongside the AK-103.
: A batch of AK-104's have reportedly been delivered to Syria's Interior Ministry Anti-Terrorism Police in the Eastern Ghouta front in Rif Dimashq.
: In service with some units of the Yemeni Army.
: Directorate of Logistics procured from Russian Federation.

Gallery

References 

7.62×39mm assault rifles
Carbines
Kalashnikov derivatives
Assault rifles of Russia
Kalashnikov Concern products
Military equipment introduced in the 2000s

ru:Автоматы Калашникова «сотой серии»
zh:AK-104突擊步槍
Oboqs or Oboks were Mongolian clan councils, the next step up from a family. The oboq leader, or Batur, was supreme during times of war but mainly kept out of family business during peacetime, unless summoned to solve a problem. The batur was chosen based on prowess in war and administrative ability; not on seniority and kinship.  The oboq councils organized raids, migrations, and hunts.  The oboq was also the court for petty crimes, such as stealing or sexual assault.  Higher up was the khan, or leader of the tribe as a whole.  During Genghis Khan's reign, the oboq system was reformed to create a "decimal" system.  Arbans, a group of 10 parental groups which were replaced by the oboqs.  10 arbans went in a jaghun, and 10 jaghuns created a minghan, essentially a new tribe.  Mostly Genghis Khan created minghans based on former relationships, but sometimes they were created with members of many different "rebellious" tribes.

References

Oboq
Iera may refer to:
Iera Echebarría, (born 1992) Spanish rugby player
Iera (Lesbos), town on ancient Lesbos, Greece

See also
IERA
HD 158633 is a main sequence star in the northern constellation of Draco. With an apparent visual magnitude of 
6.43, this star is a challenge to view with the unaided eye but it can be seen clearly with a small telescope. Based upon parallax measurements, it is located at a distance of around 42 light years from the Sun. The star is drifting closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of −39 km/s, and is predicted to come to within  in around 190,400 years.

This is a K-type main sequence star with a spectral classification of K0 V. It has about 79% of the Sun's radius and 73% of the solar mass. It is an estimated 4.3 billion years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 3.4 km/s. The star is emitting an excess of infrared radiation at a wavelength of 70 μm, suggesting the presence of an orbiting debris disk. It has a low metallicity, with only 37% of the Sun's abundance of elements more massive than helium, and has a relatively high proper motion.

References

K-type main-sequence stars
Solar-type stars
Circumstellar disks

Draco (constellation)
Durchmusterung objects
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158633
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Akan philosophy is a form of African philosophy in the conceptual system of Akan people, a meta-ethnic group native to West Africa. In contemporary work, Akan philosophy has been most influential in metaphysical and ethical discussion of the concept of personhood. In common with other strands of African philosophy, Akan philosophers such as Kwasi Wiredu have developed the view that personhood exists in degrees such that "personhood is something for a human to become to different degrees through individual achievement".

References

African philosophy