Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Ivo Gönner (born 18 February 1952 in Laupheim) is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and was Lord Mayor of Ulm from 1992 until 29 February 2016.

His father was a pharmacist. He grew up in Laupheim, studied jurisprudence in Heidelberg and worked as a lawyer until 1992 when he became Lord Mayor of Ulm, succeeding Ernst Ludwig (CDU). In 1999 und 2007 he was re-elected. On 29 February 2016 he gave his position to Gunter Czisch (CDU). On 23 April 2016 he received from Minister-president Winfried Kretschmann the  Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg.
He is married to the journalist Susanne Schwarzkopf-Gönner and has two children.

References

External links 
 Profile on City Mayors website

1952 births
Living people
Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians
Mayors of places in Baden-Württemberg
Recipients of the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
People from Ulm
People from Laupheim
The men's 400 metres at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 11–13 August.

The final had the 2008 Olympic Champion/2009 World Champion LaShawn Merritt and current defending champion and Olympic champion Kirani James in lanes 6 and 5 respectively. At the gun, Merritt took it out hard, passing Luguelín Santos to his outside and leaving him a couple meters behind at the halfway mark. James worked hard along the backstretch and into the turn to keep up with Merritt reaching the final straight two meters back, Jonathan Borlée one meter further back while the rest of the field almost 5 meters back with Santos the last out of the turn. Then the long striding James began to flail in quicksand. As Merritt charged home for the personal best 43.74 win, James fell back through the field. In lane 4, Tony McQuay asserted himself against the rest of the field, the first to pass James and run home for the silver. Borlée was clearly the next but Santos came from dead last to catch him just before the line to take the bronze.

Records
Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Heats
Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advanced to the semifinals.

Semifinals
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final.

Final
The final was held at 21:50.

References

External links
400 metres results at IAAF website

400
400 metres at the World Athletics Championships
Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 family, member A1, also known as ALDH1A1 or retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (RALDH1), is an enzyme that is encoded by the ALDH1A1 gene.

Function 

This protein belongs to the aldehyde dehydrogenases family of proteins. Aldehyde dehydrogenase is the second enzyme of the major oxidative pathway of alcohol metabolism. Two major liver isoforms of this enzyme, cytosolic and mitochondrial, can be distinguished by their electrophoretic mobilities, kinetic properties, and subcellular localizations; this gene encodes the main cytosolic isoform, which has a lower affinity for aldehydes than the mitochondrial enzyme. Most Caucasians have two major isozymes, while approximately 50% of East Asians have only the cytosolic isozyme, missing the mitochondrial isozyme. A remarkably higher frequency of acute alcohol intoxication among East Asians than among Caucasians could be related to the absence of the mitochondrial isozyme. Furthermore, mutations in this enzyme have been linked to alcoholism in humans.

ALDH1A1 also belongs to the group of corneal crystallins that help maintain the transparency of the cornea.
ALDH1A1 maintains stemness of cancer cells and several drugs have been designed to target cancer stem cells by targeting ALDH1A1.

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Enzymes
Ophthalmology
Alpha Data (formerly, but commonly known as BuzzAngle Music) is a music analytics firm which provides statistics for the music industry, including record sales and music streaming. BuzzAngle partnered with Rolling Stone to provide information for the magazine's music charts.

BuzzAngle was founded in 2013 by Border City Media. It uses big data collected from platforms used by people to listen to music. The website shows total music consumption including album sales, song sales, streaming history, and social media analytics. The data it collects comes from retailers, record stores, radio stations, and music venues. In 2018, BuzzAngle received an investment from Penske Media Corporation, the parent company of Rolling Stone. The following year it announced its partnership with Rolling Stone to provide data for the magazine's music charts.

References

External links
Official Website
Major Movez

Companies established in 2013
Penske Media Corporation
Plagiobryum is a genus of mosses belonging to the family Bryaceae. It has a cosmopolitan distribution.

Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Plagiobryum:
Plagiobryum demissum (Hook.) Lindb. 
Plagiobryum duthiei Hedderson & Harold, 1990
Plagiobryum giraldii Paris, 1897
Plagiobryum hultenii Hedderson, 1990
Plagiobryum japonicum Noguchi, 1952
Plagiobryum laxum Demaret & Potier de la Varde, 1944
Plagiobryum novaeseelandiae Brotherus, 1916
Plagiobryum piliferum Potier de la Varde, 1955
Plagiobryum zierii (Dicks. ex Hedw.) Lindb.

References

Bryaceae
Moss genera
James Robert Birch (1888–1940) was an English footballer who played mainly with Queens Park Rangers.

Birch was signed by QPR manager James Cowan from his former club Aston Villa. Birch had scored 49 goals for Villa's reserves in two seasons but was only a fringe player at the Midlands club, and this form prompted Rangers to sign him in 1912. Birch was small in stature – only 5 feet 7 inches – but he was a stocky and bustling inside-forward. He made his debut in the September against Plymouth Argyle and scored both goals in a 2–1 win. Had the First World War not intervened it is very possible that he would have played in excess of 500 games for QPR and ended up as the club's all-time leading scorer. Although never really prolific he was an extremely consistent goalscorer who could usually be relied on to score 15+ a season. There is another James Robert Birch currently residing in Vermont.

He went on to play 334 league games (363 in all competitions) for Rangers, scoring 125 league goals (144 in all). He stands third in the all-time list of leading scorers at QPR. In 1926 he was transferred to Brentford.

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Stourbridge F.C. players
Alpha was a wooden steamship that operated on the rivers of Manitoba, Canada.
She was launched on July 5, 1873.  Her builder and first owner was J.W. "flatboat" McLane.  His ownership was complicated by his British citizenship, since the Alpha would routinely have to cross the US-Canadian boundary while traveling from Grand Forks, Minnesota to Fort Garry, Manitoba.  So, she was sold to the Kittison Line.

She had a reputation as being one of the fastest vessels in Manitoba, and one capable of proceeding during periods of shallow water, as her draft was just .

Her accommodation was very cramped.

Running aground did not always end the career of prairie steamboats, but it did end the career of Alpha, when she ran aground on the Assiniboine River in April 1885.

Her grounding was due to human error.  Her captain took a risk, during flood time.  He risked taking a short-cut, by deviating from the river's channel and proceeding across an isthmus that he knew was dry land, during low water.

The wreck was left high and dry, when the flood passed.  Locals cannibalized some of the ship's fitting and sound lumber.  Silt from subsequent floods buried the wreck site, so the exact site was lost.

The wreck was re-exposed, in 1958, when that year's flood cut a new channel through the wreck-site.  Her rudder is now housed in a maritime museum in Selkirk, Manitoba.

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Water transport in Manitoba
Steamships of Canada
1873 ships
Ships built in Manitoba
The Daurian redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus) is a small passerine bird from temperate Asia.  The species was first described by Peter Simon Pallas in 1776.

Description and systematics
Its length is 14 to 15 cm and its weight is 11 to 20 g.

Like all typical redstarts, they are strongly sexually dimorphic. Breeding males have a grey crown and nape with lighter forehead and crown-sides, a black face and chin, brownish mantle and wings and a large white wing patch; the chest, lower back and rump are orange, and the tail is black with orange sides. Juvenile males are similarly patterned but much duller and less clearly marked.

Females are warm brown above, paler below, have an orange rump and tail sides, and have a large white wing patch similar to the males. Bill, eye, legs and feet are black in both sexes.

It was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae), but is now generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher (Muscicapidae). This species is divided into two subspecies, the eastern P. a. auroreus and the western P. a. leucopterus.

It belongs to a close-knit Eurasian clade which also includes the black redstart (P. ochruros), Hodgson's redstart (P. hodgsoni), the white-winged redstart (P. erythrogastrus) – which may be especially closely related to P. auroreus – and perhaps the Ala Shan redstart (P. alaschanicus). These all diverged during the latter part of the Late Pliocene and the earliest Early Pleistocene, some 3–1.5 million years ago, during onset of the Quaternary glaciation.

Distribution and ecology
It is found in Manchuria, southeastern Russia, northeastern Mongolia, central China and Korea. It is migratory; P. a. auroreus winters in Korea, Japan, southeast coastal China and Taiwan, and P. a. leucopterus in northeast India and parts of Southeast Asia.

Daurian redstarts favour open forests, forest edges, agricultural margins, and are also commonly found in parks and urban gardens. They are reasonably confiding and often allow humans to approach quite closely before moving off. It breeds in the summer months, with a mated pair of the nominate subspecies having been encountered in early May.

Widespread and rather common, this bird is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.

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Daurian redstart
Daurian redstart
Birds of China
Birds of Korea
Birds of Manchuria
Daurian redstart
Ashok Choudhary is an Indian politician from Barbigha Sheikhpura in Bihar, India.  He has been a Member of the Bihar Legislative Council since 2014. Since June 2019, he is the Cabinet Minister for the Building Construction Department in the government led by Nitish Kumar. He previously was also Cabinet Minister for the Department of Education.

He was appointed to the position of Working President of Janta Dal United, Bihar.

Political career 
In 2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, he won from Barbigha (Vidhan Sabha constituency) as an Indian National Congress candidate. Later in 2013, he was appointed Chief of Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee. In 2014, he was elected as Member of Bihar Legislative Council. He held the position as Minister of Department of Education and Department of Information Technology in Government of Bihar from 2015 to 2017 and 2020 to present.

In 2018, he left Indian National Congress and joined Janta Dal United. He was appointed Minister of Building Construction Department, Government of Bihar on 2 June 2019.

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Janata Dal (United) politicians
Members of the Bihar Legislative Council
Bihar MLAs 2000–2005
Living people
Indian National Congress politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Bihar MLAs 2020–2025
State cabinet ministers of Bihar
Science and Technology Ministers of Bihar
Corporal Betty Cameron (20 November 1918 - 1 April  2011 ) was an Australian World War II servicewoman and WAAAF activist.
Born as Elizabeth Katherine Twynam-Perkins, she was educated at Fort Street Girls' High School, Sydney and obtained her Leaving Certificate. From 1938 to 1940 she was a lady cubmaster.

Parents
Betty's father, who was English, was a doctor in the Indian Army. Both his parents were with the British Government in India.
Betty's mother, also English, trained at Trinity College Dublin because at the time it was the only University that accepted women students. Capable of speaking seven languages she travelled to the U.S. and later to Argentina.

Betty's parents married in 1908 and had five children. Her husband served in World War I in France in the Australian Army Medical Corps. He was gassed in Ypres and was totally and permanently incapacitated as a result.

World War II
Betty Cameron joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in April 1941.  Her other community work included being a member of the Mothers' Union of Australia and a voluntary driver at Concord Hospital.

In the WAAAF, Cameron was trained as a wireless telegraph operator. She then served in the Shipping Movement Branch of the RAAF before being transferred to Melbourne. Early in 1942 she was stationed at Parkes to complete a navigation course (theory only) and was then posted to Fighter Section in Sydney. Here she worked underground in the tunnels made for the Eastern Suburbs Railway.
Promoted to corporal in May 1942, Cameron went to Melbourne on an officers course and then on the operations course. After completion she was posted to Eastern Area, Point Piper in the Operations Room and Intelligence.

Marriage
Betty Twynam-Perkins and Leith Cameron married in July 1940. They both joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in April 1941. In July 1944 Leith Cameron returned to Australia. He was in Sydney for a brief period before being posted to Darwin and the South East Asia area. That same year Betty became pregnant with her first child and was discharged from the WAAAF on 20 November 1944. She and her husband would go on to have three children.

WAAAF
After the war Betty Cameron joined the WAAAF Wing which later became the WAAAF Branch of the RAAF Association. She has held various positions with the Branch including president, secretary and treasurer, and was the convenor of two national WAAAF reunions. For several years Cameron served on the RAAF Association State Committee and was Matron of Honour four times to the debutantes at the annual RAAF Ball as well as helping to train the debutantes and their partners. In 1978 she was made a life member of the RAAF Association.

References

External links
http://www.ww2roll.gov.au

Australian people of English descent
Royal Australian Air Force personnel
Australian women in World War II
People from Sydney
1918 births
2011 deaths
Place of birth missing
Women in the Australian military
Zhang Chuanmiao (; February 1937 – 11 September 2022) was a Chinese politician. A member of the Communist Party, he served on the National People's Congress from 1993 to 1998.

Chuanmiao died in Shenyang on 11 September 2022, at the age of 85.

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1937 births
2022 deaths
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shandong
Delegates to the 8th National People's Congress
Schroder AsiaPacific Fund plc is a large United Kingdom-based investment trust focused predominantly on equity holdings in companies located in Asia and countries bordering the Pacific Ocean (but excluding the Middle East, Japan and Australasia).  Established in November 1995, the company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The fund has been managed by Matthew Dobbs of Schroders since its inception and its chairman is Nicholas Smith.

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Investment trusts of the United Kingdom
Financial services companies established in 1995
British companies established in 1995
Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange
Star Wars: The Essential Guide To Characters is a book by Andy Mangels published by Del Rey Books on October 24, 1995.

Contents
Star Wars: The Essential Guide To Characters is an alphabetical listing of characters, each featuring a line drawing, vital statistics such as height, preferred weapons and politics, and up to several pages of biography.

Reception
Andy Butcher reviewed Star Wars: The Essential Guide To Characters for Arcane magazine, rating it a 5 out of 10 overall. Butcher comments that "although the biographies are somewhat disappointing - for the most part just detailing the actions of the character in the films and not really revealing anything new they do summarise the plots of the various books and comic stories. It's this that might make Star Wars: The Essential Guide To Characters worthy of purchase."

Reviews
Review by Pam Meek (1996) in Absolute Magnitude, Fall 1996
Magia i Miecz #65 (May 1999) (Polish)

References

Star Wars novels
The Truth Seeker is an American periodical published since 1873. It was considered the most influential Freethought publication during the period following the Civil War into the first decades of the 20th century, known as the Golden Age of Freethought. Though there were other influential Freethought periodicals, Truth Seeker was the only one with a national circulation. The headquarters is in San Diego, California. The Truth Seeker is the world’s oldest freethought publication, and one of the oldest periodicals in America. Among general-readership titles, only Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, Scientific American, and The Nation are older.

Overview
In the first issue, on September 1, 1873, editor D. M. Bennett and his wife Mary proclaimed that the publication would devote itself to: "science, morals, free thought, free discussions, liberalism, sexual equality, labor reform progression, free education, and whatever tends to elevate and emancipate the human race."

Subsequent editors included Eugene and George E. Macdonald, Charles Lee Smith (along with his associate editors Woolsey Teller and later Robert E. Kuttner), James Hervey Johnson, Bonnie Lange, and Roderick Bradford. For several years, Susan H. Wixon had editorial charge of the children's department.

In 1988, Madalyn Murray O'Hair put out several issues under the masthead during the course of an unsuccessful attempt to take over the company; however, the courts ruled against her ownership.
Morris Altman, Mark Twain, Robert G. Ingersoll, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Clarence Darrow, Harry Houdini, Steve Allen, Paul Krassner, and Gay Talese are or have been contributors, subscribers, and supporters of The Truth Seeker.

Past racism

Starting in the 1950s, the Truth Seeker started publishing explicitly racist content. Under the editorship of Charles Lee Smith beginning in 1937, Smith, Woolsey Teller and their successor James Hervey Johnson championed antisemitism, scientific racism and white supremacy. Anthropologist Robert Sussman described the Truth Seeker as a "virulent anti-Semitic publication".

In 1995, authors Mark Fackler and Charles H. Lippy noted:

Freethought historian Tom Flynn noted that "1950 to 1988 marked its most troubled period, when the periodical embraced racism, eugenics, and anti-Semitism, but precisely because of that achieved the smallest impact in its history."

After Johnson's death in 1988, Bonnie Lange assumed the role of publisher and editor and the "racism, anti-Semitism, white supremacism, eugenics advocacy, and other marginal interests of the Smith-Teller and Johnson years were conclusively abandoned."

References

Gallery

External links
 The Truth Seeker (Official Website)

Political magazines published in the United States
Atheism publications
Magazines established in 1873
Magazines published in California
Blagoje Paunović (Serbian Cyrillic: Благоје Пауновић; 4 June 1947 – 9 December 2014) was a Serbian football defender and manager.

Playing career
Born in Pusto Šilovo, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, he started his youth career in FK Partizan as a nine-year-old, although minimum age required to start playing for Partizan youths was ten. He was spotted by Partizan coach Virgil Popescu who insisted in bringing him over. Apart from short spell abroad, Blagoje spent most of his time in Partizan and, as a player or coach, he was part of Partizan for almost half a century. Paunović played for ten seasons with FK Partizan, amassing nearly 300 official appearances with the Belgrade club. During the 70's, he formed an efficient backline alongside Dragan Holcer and Miroslav Pavlović.

At 28, in 1975, Paunović joined FC Utrecht in the Netherlands. After two seasons abroad he returned home for a spell with OFK Kikinda, played briefly in the United States by representing the Oakland Stompers of the North American Soccer League and closed out his career also in his country's capital, with lowly FK Sinđelić; whilst in North America, he played under the name Paki Paunovich.

On the international level, Paunović played a total of 39 matches for Yugoslavia, making his debut on 12 November 1967 in a 4–0 home win against Albania for the UEFA Euro 1968 qualifiers, and participating at the final stages in Italy.

Coaching career
In the 1994–95 campaign Paunović, already a coach, was one of five managers in charge of Spain's CD Logroñés, which ranked last in La Liga with an all-time low 13 points. In 2009, after a long spell with Partizan's youth teams, he signed with Serbian first division side FK Smederevo.

Personal life
Paunović's son, Veljko, was also a footballer and later manager of Chicago Fire, Reading, and the Serbian U18, U19, and U20 teams. He too started his extensive career with Partizan, but played mainly in Spain.

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National team data 

NASL stats

1947 births
2014 deaths
People from Medveđa
Yugoslav men's footballers
Serbian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Yugoslav First League players
FK Partizan players
OFK Kikinda players
Eredivisie players
FC Utrecht players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
Oakland Stompers players
Yugoslavia men's international footballers
UEFA Euro 1968 players
Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers
Serbian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Serbian football managers
La Liga managers
CD Logroñés managers
FK Teleoptik managers
FK Smederevo 1924 managers
Serbian expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in Spain
FK Partizan non-playing staff
Burials at Belgrade New Cemetery
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
FK Sinđelić Beograd players