Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The August is a country rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois in 2005 now based in Nashville, Tennessee. Members include Jacky Dustin, Wojtek Krupka, Tim Good and Cameron Clarke. Known for their live show that is reminiscent of 70s era country rock infused with the pop sensibilities of today.

Press 
Chicago Tribune:
 August turns dating maladies into some bittersweet melodies 
 The August is getting hotter 
The Nashville Bridge:
 The August with Jacky Dustin Sweet Emotion at Douglas 
Daily Herald:
 83rd Lake County Fair offers simpler time

History 
Patrick Blanchard, previous guitar player, currently is touring with Shawn Mullins.

Discography 
 Thistle, Sparrow, and the Tall, Tall Grass - 2005
 The Aware Compilation 11 - 2005
 The Uptown Session - 2009
 Dear Chicago, Love Nashville - 2011

References

External links 
 Official Website

American country rock groups
was a Japanese social reformer, writer, and novelist.  She advocated for victims of discrimination, most notably the Burakumin. She is best known for her novel, .

Early life
Sumii attended and graduated Haramoto Women's High School, receiving a degree as a teacher. At the age of 18, she moved to Tokyo and worked for the publisher, Kodansha. After a couple of years, Sumii left Kodansha due to discriminatory treatment and working conditions of women.

Career
During the time with her husband and children, Sumii started writing short stories and publishing novels  based on the lives of young people associated with nomin bungaku, or the agrarian literature movement. In 1954, her work for Yoake asaake (“Dawn-Daybreak”) was awarded the Mainichi Culture Prize.

In 1957, Sumii's husband died. In the following year, 1958, she began writing the first volume of the seven-part novel Hashi no nai kawa (橋のない川 "The River with No Bridge"), which focused on the fate of the discriminated Burakumin.  Her work was first published in Buraku, the magazine of the Buraku Mondai Kenkyusho or Buraku Study Group.  After its success, it was then published in hardcover in 1961.

Hashi no nai kawa has sold over eight million copies and has been turned into a film twice, one being the 1992 version directed by Yōichi Higashi. An English translated version, The River with No Bridge, was published in 1992., An Italian translation, Il fiume senza ponti, was published in 2016 by Atmosphere libri.

Personal life 
In 1921, Sumii married Shigeru Inuta, a literary activist of the proletarian agrarian movement, which produced “peasant literature,” protecting poor farmers.

In 1935, they moved to Inuta's birthplace, Hitachino, in the Ibaraki Prefecture, where they farmed the land. They had four children; two sons and two daughters.

Death 
At the age of 95, Sumii died on June 16, 1997. Before her death she was working on the eighth part of Hashi no nai kawa.

References

Japanese novelists
1902 births
1997 deaths
Akshaya is an Indian actress who has appeared in Tamil films.

Career
Akshaya Rao began her career as a supporting artiste alongside Simran in Kovilpatti Veeralakshmi (2003), before going on to appear in leading roles in Tamil films. Her most high-profile Tamil film till date is Kalabhak Kadhalan (2006), where she portrayed a negative role as the sister-in-law of Arya's character, who wants to seduce him. She continued to feature in low-budget Tamil films throughout the late 2000s, notably starring in Uliyin Osai (2008) written by Karunanidhi and the Vijayakanth-starrer Engal Aasan. By 2012, several of her other proposed films including Imbathukkum Aasai Varum, Manmadha Rajyam, Pattikattu Mappillai, Thasaiyinai Thee Sudinum and the Telugu film, Nakantu Okaru, were started but left incomplete.

In 2014, she featured in Sudeep Ranjan Sarkar's experimental Hindi film Umformung: The Transformation (2014), portraying the leading role. The film opened to critical acclaim and was shown at various film festivals internationally.

Filmography

References

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21st-century Indian actresses
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Actresses from Chennai
Xiao Pei (; born January 1961) is a Chinese editor and politician who is the current deputy director of the National Supervisory Commission and deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He is a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

Early life and education
Xiao was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, in January 1961. After resuming the college entrance examination, in 1980, he was accepted to Beijing Normal University, majoring in political education. After University in 1984, he worked at the university. He received his Master in Management degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in June 1999.

Beijing municipal government
Xiao joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in February 1985. In May 1989, he became deputy head of Publicity Department of Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, rising to head two months later. In June 1998, he was appointed executive deputy editor-in-chief of Beijing Evening News, and was promoted to the editor-in-chief position in April 1999. He also served as deputy editor-in-chief of Beijing Daily from April 1999 from March 2002. He was deputy head of Publicity Department of the CCP Beijing Municipal Committee in March 2002, in addition to serving as head of Press and Publicity Department of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games and director of Beijing Network Management Office. He was deputy secretary-general of the CCP Beijing Municipal Committee in February 2009 and subsequently director of Beijing Municipal Cultural Bureau in July 2011.

Central government
In January 2003, Xiao was assigned to the General Office of the CCP Central Committee, and eventually becoming leader of the 5th Group of the Investigate and Survey Office in July 2013. He concurrently served as head of Publicity Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection from March 2014 to July 2015 and vice minister of supervision from June 2015 to September 2017. After a short term as an inspector of the Anti-Graft Inspection Team, he was chosen as deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in October 2017, concurrently serving as deputy director of the National Supervisory Commission since March 2018.

References

1961 births
Living people
People from Zhenjiang
Beijing Normal University alumni
University of Science and Technology of China alumni
People's Republic of China politicians from Jiangsu
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Jiangsu
Stanniocalcin-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the STC2 gene.

This gene encodes a secreted, homodimeric glycoprotein that is expressed in a wide variety of tissues and may have autocrine or paracrine functions. The encoded protein has 10 of its 15 cysteine residues conserved among stanniocalcin family members and is phosphorylated by casein kinase 2 exclusively on its serine residues. 

Its C-terminus contains a cluster of histidine residues which may interact with metal ions. The protein may play a role in the regulation of renal and intestinal calcium and phosphate transport, cell metabolism, or cellular calcium/phosphate homeostasis. Constitutive overexpression of human stanniocalcin 2 in mice resulted in pre- and postnatal growth restriction, reduced bone and skeletal muscle growth, and organomegaly. Expression of this gene is induced by estrogen and altered in some breast cancers.

Stanniocalcin reduces bone growth by modulating the activity of IGF1. One mechanism of IGF1 regulation is through IGFBP4 binding it in an inactive state. The protease PAPPA can then cleave this complex, releasing bioactive IGF1. Stanniocalcin inhibits the activity of PAPPA in releasing active IGF1 through itself binding PAPPA, thus preventing the release of active IGF1.

Differences in stanniocalcin expression have been directly linked to changes in skeletal size in a variety of species. For example, laboratory mice lacking STC2 are 10 to 15% larger than wild-type mice, while mice expressing STC2 at elevated levels are 45% smaller. In humans, the largest known coding variant affecting human height is a rare mutation reducing STC2 activity, yielding a 2 cm height increase in heterozygous carriers. Additionally, domestic dog size is strongly predicted by a variant immediately adjacent to STC2, with almost all small dogs carrying a derived allele at this locus. A further striking example is the stickleback, different populations of which have either increased or decreased the length of their dorsal and pelvic spines through modulation of STC2 expression.

References

Further reading
Count Karl von Schlitz, in full: Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Hermann Ferdinand von Schlitz, genannt von Görtz (15 February 1822, Schlitz - 7 December 1885, Schlitz) was a German politician and  Standesherr in the Grand Duchy of Hesse.

Life 
He acceded to the Standesherrschaft in 1839, at the age of seventeen, then went to Bonn, where he studied jurisprudence and graduated with a Doctoral degree in law. He had also studied ancient languages, which enabled him to assist Otto von Böhtlingk with his translation of Shakuntala by Kālidāsa From 1844 to 1847, he made a trip around the world; publishing his observations and experiences in a three-volume set. From 1850 to 1861 and again from 1864 to 1866, he was Hesse's Ambassador to the Prussian Court.

As a Hessian nobleman, he was a hereditary member of the Upper Chamber of the . During the revolutions of 1848, he was a member of the Vorparlaments. After the March Revolution, his hereditary positions were lost, but they were later regained and he once again served in the Upper Chamber from 1856 until his death. He was its Vice-President from 1866 to 1875, and its President from 1875 to 1885.

His son Emil, who was a sculptor by profession, followed in his father's footsteps and served as President of the Upper Chamber from 1900 to 1914.

References

Further reading 
 Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808–1996. Biographischer Index (= Politische und parlamentarische Geschichte des Landes Hessen. Vol.14 = Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Hessen.). Elwert, Marburg 1996, , pg.332.
 Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessische Abgeordnete 1820–1933. Biografische Nachweise für die Erste und Zweite Kammer der Landstände des Großherzogtums Hessen 1820–1918 und den Landtag des Volksstaats Hessen 1919–1933 (= Politische und parlamentarische Geschichte des Landes Hessen. Vol.19 = Arbeiten der Hessischen Historischen Kommission. ). Hessische Historische Kommission, Darmstadt 2008, , #768.

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Daniel Vacek (born 1 April 1971) is a former tennis player from Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic who turned professional in 1990. He reached the quarterfinals of the 1995 Paris Masters, the 1998 Canada Masters and the 1998 Cincinnati Masters, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26 in January 1996.

Vacek represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta where he was defeated in the second round. The right-hander won 25 career titles in doubles with various partners, including the French Open in 1996 and 1997, and the US Open in 1997 with Yevgeny Kafelnikov.

ATP career finals

Doubles (25 titles, 15 runner-ups)

Doubles performance timeline

External links
 
 
 

1971 births
Living people
Czech male tennis players
Czechoslovak male tennis players
French Open champions
Olympic tennis players for the Czech Republic
Tennis players from Prague
Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
US Open (tennis) champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles
Public Utility District No. 2 of Grant County, or Grant County PUD, is a public utility district in north central Washington state. It is owned by its customers and governed by a Board of Commissioners elected by the customer-owners. Though it is not regulated by another governmental unit, a PUD is, by state statute, a nonprofit corporation. PUDs must comply with state regulations for municipal corporations. The local customer-owner of the PUD receives benefits in the form of reduced rates for service. Grant County PUD operates two hydroelectric projects, Priest Rapids Dam and Wanapum Dam. In addition to these, the PUD also operates the Quincy Chute Hydroelectric Project, Potholes East Canal Headworks Project and part of the Nine Canyon Wind Project.

History
Grant County PUD was formed by popular vote after petitions from the Grange delegation on November 8, 1938. The PUD held its first organizational meeting on December 21, 1938, in Hartline.

In the fall and winter of 1938, the Commission authorized W.S. McCrea Co., a consulting engineer, to begin necessary action to acquire properties from Washington Water Power Company, and others, by purchase or condemnation. To complete the process, the Commission also authorized the acquisition   of WWP facilities by purchase or condemnation as well as  the issuance   of revenue bonds with a $300,000 limit.

On January 20, 1942, Grant County PUD purchased the Coulee City Grant County Power Company   for $19,753.73. That same year on January 30, 1942, Grant PUD purchased Soap Lake Utilities for $25,046.50, and in May moved the main office to Soap Lake.

On June 14, 1945, Grant County PUD took over operation of Washington Water Power (WWP) Company   facilities in Grant County. In the process, Grant County PUD retained several WWP employees and jumped the number of employees from 4 to 17. That same month, Grant County PUD headquarters moved again to Ephrata.

See also
Moses Lake, Washington
Grant County, Washington
Ephrata, Washington

References

Public Utility Districts of Washington (state)
Grant County, Washington
Tajmul Hossain is an Indian politician who currently serves as Cabinet Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises & Textile of Government of West Bengal. In May 2021, he was elected as the Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Harishchandrapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) as a candidate of All India Trinamool Congress

Personal life
Hossain is from Harishchandrapur, Malda District. His father name is Didar Hossain. He has passed H:S from Harishchandrapur High School in 1975. His Father is a converted muslim from Yadav Family , his old family stays Uttar Pradesh and some are still hindu yadav

Political life
He has been elected as the member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Harishchandrapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency). He has won the election.

References 

Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal
West Bengal MLAs 2021–2026
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Malda district
West Bengal MLAs 2006–2011
West Bengal MLAs 2011–2016
All India Forward Bloc politicians
Gonthier Group SA is a Swiss developer, marketer, and provider of annuities. Founded in 1983 and incorporated in 2008 by Pierre-André Gonthier, the company is one of the first companies to take Swiss annuities to the international market. According to the Swiss Annuity Consumer Bureau, it is the largest provider of Swiss annuities in the world.

The group is headquartered in Montreux, Switzerland.

References 

Financial services companies of Switzerland
Großheppach ("big Heppach") is a town district or Stadtteil within the town of Weinstadt ("Wine City") in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.   The Stadtteil, which lies in the Rems Valley, is home to 4,398 residents (as of January 2012).  Großheppach and Kleinheppach are located along the Heppach, a small stream that flows into the river Rems.  The village of Großheppach, the Weiler Gundelsbach, and the homestead Wolfshof belong to the Stadtteil, which has borders that exactly match those of the earlier municipality of Großheppach.  Its neighbor Kleinheppach ("small Heppach"), on the other hand, is now part of the municipality of Korb.

History 
Großheppach was first identified as Hegnesbach in 1236.
  Around 1350, the castle and village became a palatine fief under various feudal lords. Since 1456, parts of the village have been under Württemberg control; and since 1506, the entire village has belonged to Württemberg.  Immediately upon becoming part of Württemberg, Großheppach belonged to the Württemberg administrative authority.  Later, it became part of Oberamt Schorndorf (an administrative district within Württemberg).  In 1807, it moved—like Endersbach—to Oberamt Waiblingen (a different administrative district within Württemberg).

Großheppach has always been shaped by wine production.  In addition to the government of Württemberg, the cloister Weiler near Esslingen had tithing rights, and the Kartäuser cloister Christgarten (near Ederheim in the Donau Ries district) possessed a vineyard until the late 18th century and had a local economic branch (Pflegehof) in town.

The war council of the three field marshals—Prince Eugene of Savoy, Duke of Marlborough, and Margrave Louis William of Baden—took place on the June 12th and 13th, 1704, in Gasthaus Lamm. This war council lead to victory in the Battle of Blenheim.

On January 1, 1975, the previously independent towns of  Beutelsbach, Endersbach, Strümpfelbach, Großheppach, and Schnait united to form the municipality of Weinstadt.

The coat of arms displays a field of gold with a blue wavy fess, under which a grape vine with four bunches of grapes in natural colors lies.

Economy 
Wine is produced in the locations Wanne and Steingrüble in Großheppach.

People 
 Johann Jakob Thill (* 22. Dezember 1747 in Stuttgart; † 31. März 1772 in Großheppach), poet esteemed by Friedrich Hölderlin
 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Stockmayer (* 12. September 1766; † 26. September 1821 in Teinach), Württemberg Oberamtmann (administrative district head)

Literature 
 Lothar Reinhard: Großheppach. Ludwigsburg 1968.
 Jörg Heinrich: Kirchenbuch Großheppach von 1558 bis 1744. Abschrift mit Ergänzungen. ("Church book of Großheppach from 1558 to 1744.  Copy with supplements.") Pro Business, Berlin 2011, .

External links 
Großheppach (German)
Weinstadt-Großheppach (German)

Notes

References 

Former municipalities in Baden-Württemberg
Württemberg
Gregorio Ramírez González (March 30, 1913 in Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico – February 4, 2002 in Monterrey, Mexico) was a Mexican entrepreneur. He was born into a poor family whose main income came from a small town store owned by his father. He never completed his studies, finishing schools after the fifth grade. He decided to move to Monterrey, leaving his family back in Sabinas Hidalgo to work at his uncle's restaurant. He married María Jáuregui and had five children: Juan Gregorio, Guillermina, Clara, Gloria, and Rosa. After he got married, he began working at an automobile dealership. After a couple of years working at the dealership, he met several customers who wanted to purchase trucks, and from there on he began learning about the truck and bus market.

Business ventures

In 1946, he started a small trailer shop in San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, which then became the huge Grupo Industrial Ramirez, a leader in the Mexican automotive industry. With companies like IASA, IMMSA, Autobuses Sultana, Trailers y Tractocamiones Ramírez, GIR, S.A. They became leaders in their area participating in joint ventures with Nissan, Ford, General Motors, White GMC, Nissan Forklifts, S.A.M.E. tractors, etc.

He also brought to the North American Continent the German automotive group Borgward in 1962. They brought the entire German plant and set up shop in Monterrey, México. The plant closed in 1970, but not before making the only Mexican car in history until recently.

He also went into the bank business creating Banco Monterrey, whose slogan was "Tu Banco Amigo", meaning "Your Friendly Bank." The government took the bank away from him. Then-President José López Portillo y Pacheco announced the nationalization of the country's banks during his Sixth State of the United Mexican States Address on Wednesday, September 1, 1982.

Grupo Industrial Ramirez

Grupo Industrial Ramirez or GIR, S.A. was established as the first Mexican automotive company. They started by producing trucks from bits and pieces of other vehicles that came from the United States during World War II.

After a few prosperous years, they started to develop their products from their research and development. There were popular trucks such as the R19, R20, R22.

They also produced the renowned Rural Ramírez, an SUV and Pickup truck based on a model by International, which is still collected by some people in Mexico.

After his death, his son Juan Gregorio Ramírez took charge of the company.

Honors
Gregorio Ramírez González was given honors numerous times, as an outstanding citizen for Nuevo León, his hometown Sabinas Hidalgo, as an entrepreneur, as a club member of the Rotary Club, and being part of a select group of important and influential Mexicans of his time.

References

Businesspeople from Nuevo León
1913 births
2002 deaths
People from Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León
Kadiyalur Uruttirangannanar (3rd/4th century CE) was a Tamil poet of the Sangam period. He is credited with the composition of the Paṭṭiṉappālai and the Perumpāṇāṟṟuppaṭai in the Pattuppāṭṭu anthology and song 167 of the Akanaṉūṟu and 352 of the Kuṟuntokai. According to P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar, he lived between the late 3rd and early 4th centuries CE and was a contemporary of the king of Kanchipuram Ilandiraiyan.

Biography 
Uruttirangannanar was born in a Brahmin family in the village of Kadiyalur in the present-day Vellore district.

See also

 Sangam literature
 List of Sangam poets

References 
 

Tamil poets
Sangam literature
Tamil-language literature
Ancient Tamil Nadu
Cultural history of Tamil Nadu
Tamil philosophy
Sangam poets
This is a list of the number-one hits of 1990 on Italian Hit Parade Singles Chart.

References

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One
1990 record charts
Glamorama Spies for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano is a chamber-music work by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero, written in 1999.

Overview
The composition was commissioned by Sentieri Selvaggi and first performed by them at the Teatro Manzoni in the year 2000. The American premiere took place in Houston on 17 February 2014.

Glamorama Spies was inspired by Bret Easton Ellis' 1998 satire novel Glamorama.

Analysis
The piece consists of a single movement lasting around six minutes, written in a chromatic and dissonant idiom. 
The opening section begins with a semitonal "anxiety" theme and ostinato figures atop an ostinato bass line, marked by off-beat bass accents. A lyrical section follows in which these elements gradually move to the background while a gentle, contrapuntal "sentimental" theme emerges in the cello. The exchange between the two contrasting main themes is interrupted from time to time by dramatic chords on the piano, representing the point of view of the protagonist. The final section recapitulates some of the thematic material of the first section. At the end, the tension subsides, leaving room for ethereal harmonies and a conclusive ending.

Discography
In chronological order of recording:

 2002. Bad Blood. Sentieri Selvaggi. CD recording. Sensible Records.
 2006. AC/DC. Sentieri Selvaggi. CD recording. Cantaloupe Music.

Notes

References
 Borsari, Bruno, ed. (2006). 20 anni di musica insieme. Bologna: Pendragon.  
 Mandel, Naomi, ed. (2010). Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park. New York: Continuum.

External links
 Casa Ricordi Catalogue
 Casa Ricordi Digital Collection
 Glamorama Spies video clip
 WNYC-FM radio broadcast, 2009
 WQXR radio broadcast, 2016

Compositions by Lorenzo Ferrero
2000 compositions
20th-century classical music
Chamber music compositions
Contemporary classical compositions
Music commissioned by ensembles or performers
Hairer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Ernst Hairer (born 1949), Austrian mathematician
Martin Hairer (born 1975), Austrian mathematician

See also
Harrer (surname)