Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The Billings Volcanos were an American basketball team based in Billings, Montana that was a member of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA). From 1979-80, they were called the Hawaii Volcanos. The team name is spelled "Volcanos," even though the proper plural spelling for volcano would be "volcanoes."

Hawaii Volcanos
The franchise began as the Hawaii Volcanos (sic) in 1979, and placed (rather improbably) in the CBA's North Division with the Anchorage Northern Knights, Rochester Zeniths and Maine Lumberjacks. They played the 1979-80 season at several venues, including the Neal Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, the Conroy Bowl at Schofield Barracks, the gymnasium at Kaimuki High School, and two games at the Hilo Civic Auditorium. 

Led by former Wichita State star Bobby Wilson with 28.3 points per game, the Volcanos managed a 20-25 record: a fourth-place finish, but good enough to qualify for the conference finals against Anchorage. Due to the tremendous travel costs between the nation's 49th and 50th states, however, the Volcanos agreed to play the entire series in Anchorage (which, ironically, was actually the closest CBA city to Hawaii, at about 2,700 miles away). After Hawaii won two of the first three games, the Knights stormed back to take the next two and the best-of-five series (Anchorage would go on to win an epic seven-game final against Rochester to take the CBA crown). With attendance disappointing and travel costs very high (most of their opponents were over 5,000 miles from Hawaii), the Volcanos shifted to Billings, Montana for the 1980-81 campaign.

On to Montana
Shifting their home games to the Yellowstone MetraPark in Billings, the Volcanos finished third in the Western Division with a 23-19 mark, then got revenge on Anchorage by knocking them off, two games to one, in the first round of the playoffs; they then succumbed to their in-state rival, the Montana Golden Nuggets, three games to one. Wilson again led the Volcanos in scoring with 28.8 points per game. In 1981-82,  Billings won the West with a 32-14 record, topped Montana in the Western finals, three games to one, before losing to the Lancaster Lightning, four games to one, in the CBA finals; Marlon Redmond was Billings' top scorer with 25.5 points per game. In 1982-83, Carl Nicks (who had played with Larry Bird on the Indiana State team that went all the way to the 1979 NCAA championship game) signed with the Volcanos after being released by the Utah Jazz. Despite Nicks' 26.2 points per game, Billings slipped to 20-24, third in the West, and missed the playoffs.  The franchise disbanded over the summer.

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Neabsco Creek is a  tributary of the lower tidal segment of the Potomac River in eastern Prince William County, Virginia. The Neabsco Creek watershed covers about . The name Neabsco is derived from a Doeg village recorded as Niopsco by early English colonists. The creek has served as a vital waterway for trade and commerce in northern Virginia since the eighteenth century.

The Neabsco's watershed is highly developed because of its proximity to the I-95 corridor and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The EPA Office of Water recently identified the Neabsco Creek watershed as an "area of significant habitat degradation due to a loss of natural land cover and storm water management facilities designed without consideration for environmental conditions." Most of Dale City and Woodbridge empty into Neabsco Creek.

Prince William County has made significant investments to offset stormwater impacts throughout the watershed. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposal to dredge Neabsco Creek to help alleviate flooding on Route 1 was never funded, and the area continues to flood on a routine basis. Congressman Tom Davis secured more than $4 million in funds to clean up the Dale Service Corporation's sewage treatment plant on Neabsco Creek.

Featherstone National Wildlife Refuge,  of tidal marsh and riparian wetlands and woodlands, is located about  south of Washington, D.C. at the confluence of Neabsco Creek and the Potomac River and provides a habitat for neotropical migrants, waterfowl, ospreys, and historically bald eagles.

Neabsco Creek was the site of Neabsco Iron Works, one of the first iron production furnace plantations in northern Virginia. It operated on the creek from 1737 to 1820 at a site just above the present-day I-95 crossing.

See also
List of rivers of Virginia

References

External links
Prince William Conservation Alliance
Neabsco Iron Works

Rivers of Prince William County, Virginia
Rivers of Virginia
Tributaries of the Potomac River
Kyle of Lochalsh railway station is the terminus of the Kyle of Lochalsh Line in the village of Kyle of Lochalsh in the Highlands, northern Scotland. The station is  from . ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all of the services here.

History 

The station was opened on 2 November 1897 by the Highland Railway, following the completion of the extension of the Dingwall and Skye Railway from .  The extension took more than four years to complete due to the unforgiving nature of the terrain through which it was driven - 29 bridges had to be constructed and more than 30 cuttings excavated through solid rock, which led to it costing £20,000 per mile (making it the most expensive rail route to be built in the UK at the time).  As built, the station consisted of a broad island platform on a pier next to the water's edge and a chalet-style station building close to the western end. Several sidings were provided, along with a signal box and small locomotive shed. The station was host to two LMS caravans from 1935 to 1937 followed by one caravan in 1938 to 1939.

Originally the station provided a connection to the ferry services for the Outer Hebrides. However, as the ferry terminal at the Kyle of Lochalsh was  from Stornoway, in 1970 Ross and Cromarty council voted to create a new £460,000 () ferry terminal at Ullapool which was only  from Stornoway.

The signal box closed in 1984, when Radio Electronic Token Block working was introduced on the line by British Rail - although no longer operational it is still intact and has been adapted for use as a holiday cottage.

The station is located next to the piers that used to offer sailings to Skye, the ferries being superseded on 16 October 1995 by the Skye Bridge that lies close to the station.

Facilities 

The station is well-equipped, with a ticket office, accessible toilets, benches and a telephone. There is a small restaurant/gift shop on the platform. There are car parking places on the access bridge.

Platform layout 
The station has two platforms, which can each accommodate a nine-coach train, though only the western face (platform 1) is normally used by passenger trains. Three sidings are also still intact, including a run-round loop for loco-hauled trains alongside platform 1, and a loading bank siding adjacent to this).  Access to each of the sidings and platform 2 is by means of ground frames. Use of platform 2 is rare, and is only booked to be used by one return train from Inverness on a Sunday.

Services 
There are four daily departures from the station to  and  during the week, and either one (winter) or two (summer) services on Sundays.

References

Bibliography

External links 

 Friends Of the Kyle Line
 Video footage of the station and branch in 1970
Kyle of Lochalsh Station in 2018

Railway stations in Highland (council area)
Railway stations serving harbours and ports in the United Kingdom
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1897
Former Highland Railway stations
Listed railway stations in Scotland
Category B listed buildings in Highland (council area)
Koli Bodkha is a village in the Aurangabad District of Maharashtra, India. It is located 23.3 km away from Paithan, 78.5 km from Aurangabad, and 294 km from the main state city of Mumbai.

Villages in Aurangabad district, Maharashtra
An offshore wind port describes several distinct types of port facilities that are used to support manufacturing, construction and operation of an offshore wind power project. Offshore wind turbine components are larger than onshore wind components. Handling of such large components requires special equipment. Transporting of components between manufacturing and assembling facilities is to be minimized. As a result, a number of offshore wind port facilities have been built in areas with a high concentration of offshore wind developments. For large offshore wind farm projects, some offshore wind ports have become strategic hubs of the industry's supply chain.

The  Port of Esbjerg in Denmark is considered the world's largest offshore wind port.

Types

Small oceanic ports
These are small port facilities to launch survey vessels used in an early stage of an offshore wind farm development.

Manufacturing ports
Large offshore wind turbine components are difficult to transport over land. Locating a manufacturing facility at a port is more desirable. Subcomponents and materials may be brought through roads or railways. After components are built, they are typically shipped to a marshaling port for the final assembly.

Marshaling ports
Marshaling ports (also known as staging ports) are used to collect and store wind turbine components prior to loading them on to wind turbine installation vessels. They are preferably located where there is unrestricted air draft to the wind farm site.

Operating and maintenance ports
Operating and maintenance ports house facilities and vessels that are required for ongoing operating and maintenance of offshore wind farms. This may include part warehouse, offices, and training facilities.

By region

Europe
The six leading offshore wind ports in Europe service wind farms in the North Sea. Their respective countries signed the Ejsberg Declaration in 2022 in which they agreed to coordinate supply chain activities to optimize the manufacture and delivery of wind turbine components.
 Port of Esbjerg, (DK), the world's largest offshore wind port
 Port of Ostend, (BE)
 Groningen Seaports/Eemshaven, (NL)
 Niedersachsen Ports/Cuxhaven, (DE)
 Nantes/Saint-Nazaire, (FR)
 Humber/Port of Hull (UK)

United States
As of 2021, offshore wind power in the United States was described as a "burgeoning" industry. At that time, a number of ports were proposing to build or convert facilities to handle the large components needed to build potential offshore wind farms. Among those on the East Coast, from north to south are:

Salem Harbor (MA)
Port of New Bedford (MA)
Brayton Point Commerce Center/Mount Hope Bay (MA)
Port of Providence (RI)
State Pier Port of New London (CT)
Arthur Kill Terminal (NY)
Port of Paulsboro (NJ)
New Jersey Wind Port, the "first offshore wind port" in the United States, which broke ground in late 2021
Port of Baltimore (MD) - Sparrows Point
Portsmouth Marine Terminal (VA)

References

 
Infrastructure
Industrial buildings and structures
Wind power
Brian Scott Barber (born March 4, 1973) is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Royals. He was drafted by the Cardinals in the first round of the 1991 amateur draft, and was later signed to a minor league contract. Barber threw and batted right-handed.

Barber was named the amateur scouting director of the Philadelphia Phillies, following the 2019 season.

Early life
Barber's hometown is Ocoee, Florida. He attended Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, where he won the Gatorade High School Baseball Player of the Year in 1991. Barber elected to play professional baseball, rather than attend college.

Major league baseball career
At the age of 22, Barber made his MLB debut on August 12, 1995, with the Cardinals, making him the youngest player on the team, at that time. On that day, he pitched four innings, giving up three earned runs. Barber had a record of 2–1 and 5.22 earned run average (ERA). The following year, he pitched in only 3 innings, with an ERA of 15.00. Following the 1996 season, Barber found himself unhappy with the Cardinals, and on December 21, 1996, he was granted free agency. Two weeks later, Barber was signed by the Kansas City Royals. He missed the entire 1997 MLB season in the minors. In 1998, Barber re-emerged, pitching in 42 innings, while posting a 6.00 ERA. He also recorded a record of 2–4. The following year, Barber pitched in only 18.2 innings, with an ERA of 9.64, and a record of 1–3. On October 4, 1999, Barber was granted free agency again. About two months later, he was picked up by the Cleveland Indians. However, Barber would not pitch in an Indians uniform. Instead, he pitched the 2000 season for the Atlantic League Long Island Ducks, then retired.

Barber's career big league numbers included a 5–8 record, with a 6.77 ERA, 45 walks, and 59 strikeouts. He was 1 for 8 hitting, with a lifetime batting average of .125. Barber's lifetime fielding percentage was 1.000.

Post-playing career
Barber spent 18 seasons with the New York Yankees, in several off-field positions, including various scouting positions.

On October 22, 2019, Barber was named the Philadelphia Phillies’ amateur scouting director.

References

External links

1973 births
Living people
Baseball players from Ohio
Major League Baseball pitchers
St. Louis Cardinals players
Kansas City Royals players
Long Island Ducks players
Arkansas Travelers players
Johnson City Cardinals players
Louisville Redbirds players
Omaha Golden Spikes players
Omaha Royals players
Prince William Cannons players
Springfield Cardinals players
St. Petersburg Cardinals players
Dr. Phillips High School alumni
Strahler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Arthur Newell Strahler (1918–2002), American geoscience professor
 Mike Strahler (1947–2016), American baseball player
 Adolf Straehler (1829–1897), sometimes Adolf Strähler, Silesier forester and botanist

See also
 Strahler number
The SC 2000 (Sprengbombe Cylindrisch) or cylindrical explosive bomb in English was a general-purpose bomb used by the Luftwaffe during World War II.

Design 
The SC 2000 had a single piece forged and machined steel body and was similar to the preceding SC 1800 in construction.  Around the nose of the bomb was a kopfring - a metal ring, triangular in cross section, designed to prevent ground penetration or to stop forward momentum when hitting water.  The SC 2000 was filled with Amatol, had a single transverse fuze like the SC 1800 and a central exploder tube which ran through the explosives.  The SC 2000 had a circular braced tail ring with four fins.  Inside the bomb casing there was a reinforced H-type suspension lug and it could be horizontally suspended in a bomb bay or horizontally mounted on a fuselage hardpoint.  There were also lugs that could be fitted for dive bombing.

References

World War II aerial bombs of Germany
Dilek Ecza Deposu is the fifth largest-pharmaceutical warehouse in Turkey with US$200 million net sales figure as of December 31, 2009. Dilek Ecza provides pharmaceuticals warehouse services as a distribution channel between drug companies and hospitals and pharmacies. It operates 20 domestic branches throughout Turkey.

Background
Dilek Ecza was founded as a privately owned pharmaceutical warehouse in Antalya in 1991. Starting from 1993, it started to sell imported drugs within Mediterranean and Aegean Region in Turkey via its branches. In 2001, the company have reached 21 branches throughout the western part of Turkey. Today, the company is serving to 10,000 pharmacies within 5 distinct geographic regions in Turkey.

See also
List of companies of Turkey

Notes

External links
Dilek Ecza Official Website

Pharmaceutical companies established in 1991
Pharmaceutical companies of Turkey
1991 establishments in Turkey
Metro Manila is home to a number of noteworthy museums and art galleries showcasing its rich history and culture. The following is a partial list of museums and art galleries in the metropolis.

See also
List of museums in the Philippines (located in provinces in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao regions)

References

Metro Manila
Museums in Metro Manila
 
Museums
Museums in Metro Manila
Rancho San Justo was a   Mexican land grant in present-day San Benito County, California given in 1839 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to José Antonio Castro.  The lands of the rancho include current day Hollister.

History
General José Castro was granted Rancho San Justo, one of three ranches attached to Mission San Juan Bautista, by the Mexican government.  José  Castro was the son of José Tiburcio Castro, administrator of the secularized Mission San Juan Bautista, and grantee of Rancho Sausal.

Francisco Pérez Pacheco, grantee of Rancho Ausaymas y San Felipe in 1833, bought the rancho from Castro in 1850.

With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican–American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho San Justo was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, and the grant was patented to Francisco Pérez Pachecoo in 1859.

In 1855 Flint, Bixby & Co bought the Rancho San Justo from Francisco Pérez Pacheco with the understanding that William Welles Hollister would buy a one-half interest in the ranch in 1857. Rancho San Justo was held in joint custody for three years, until the property was divided in 1861. Thomas Flint and Hollister dissolved their partnership, with Flint taking all the land east of the San Benito River, and Hollister the land west of the river. Later, Hollister and Flint traded  holdings, with Hollister taking the land east of the San Benito River, and Flint taking the land lying to the west, including the San Juan Valley. In 1868, Colonel Hollister sold his  of the Rancho San Justo to the San Justo Homestead Association.

Historic sites of the Rancho
Jose Castro House. Built in 1840 in San Juan Bautista is now a National Historic Landmark.
St. Francis Retreat.

See also
Ranchos of California
List of Ranchos of California

References

San Justo
San Justo
Hollister, California
Compression Networks is a digital content delivery system developed by TV/COM International that evolved into the current DVB-S standard for satellite broadcasting.  The system provided MPEG2 video, audio, signalling, enhanced program guide, and conditional access for pay-television services like AlphaStar.

See also
 EchoStar

Satellite television
Broadcasting
Video
Screen Memory is the first and only studio album by Australian new wave band MEO 245. The album peaked at No. 69 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart. It was produced by Peter Dawkins (Air Supply, Dragon, Mi-Sex), with Dave Marett as audio engineer, at Studios 301, Sydney. According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, "[the] title was taken from A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis and the record itself was full of English-influenced pop rock." The album provided two singles, "Other Places" (July 1981) and "Jewels (For Your Love)" (October). For Screen Memory MEO 245's line-up was Paul Brickhill on keyboards and vocals; Mark Kellett on bass guitar; Campbell Laird on drum kit; and Paul Northam on vocals and guitar.

Track listing

Credits 

 Paul Brickhill – keyboards, vocals
 Campbell Laird – drums
 Mark Kellett – bass guitar
 Paul Northam – guitar, vocals

Charts

References 

1981 debut albums
Mushroom Records albums
MEO 245 albums
Ireland: Landscapes of God's Peace is Máire Brennan's (Moya Brennan) 2000 book. It contains Celtic prayers, lyrics to Brennan's Perfect Time album and her personal thoughts on Ireland, Christianity and Celtic culture. The book comes in a set with the Perfect Time album, although it now considered a collectors item by Brennan's fans. Tynedale House Publishers print a limited number every few years.

Excerpt from Máire Brennan's official website:

Unfortunately, this book is no longer available to buy and has become a bit of a collector's item. Originally published by Tyndale in the United States the package contains Moya's Perfect Time CD and a luxuriantly designed and bound book of song lyrics, Irish landscapes, Celtic prayers and inspirational thoughts on peace.

External links
 Further online reading

References

Clannad
2000 books
As minas de prata () is a novel written by Brazilian writer José de Alencar. The first part was published in 1865, and in 1866, the second part.

References

Novels by José de Alencar
1865 Brazilian novels
Portuguese-language novels
Syncopacma altaica is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Oleksiy V. Bidzilya in 2005. It is found in the Altai Mountains of Central Asia.

References

Moths described in 2005
Syncopacma
Salacia petenensis is a tropical tree native to Central America.  It is found in cloud forests and along the eastern coast of Costa Rica at elevations of 1500 to 1700 m.  It flowers from March through May and also in October and November.  The flowers are tiny and have an odor like rotten fruit.

References

Trees of Costa Rica
petenensis
"Khojaly 613" () is a musical play of the French composer Pierre Tilloy dedicated to the memory of the Khojaly massacre's victims, during which the inhabitants of the Azerbaijani city of Khojaly were massacred by the Armenian armed groups.

The work was written for violin, balaban, percussion instruments and string orchestra. The composer used the folk Azerbaijani melodies "Lachin" and "Sary Gelin", sounding against the backdrop of a rich orchestral performance of military marches and the sounds of the conflict.

History of creation 
The play "Khojaly 613" was written by Pierre Tilloy in 2013 in the memory of the 613 civilians of the Azerbaijani city of Khojaly who were killed on 26 February 1992 by the Armenian armed forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The composer himself wrote about this piece as follows:

Premiere 
The world premiere of the "Khojaly 613" play took place on 21 February 2013, in the Church of St. Roch, as part of the events organized by the French representative office of the Europe-Azerbaijan Society (EAS) in the memory of the 21st anniversary of the Khojaly massacre. The concert was attended by about 350 listeners, including senators, members of the National Assembly and ambassadors.

The concert program was performed by the London "Orion" Orchestra under the direction of the conductor and composer Laurent Petigirard; the balaban part was performed by the musician Shirzad Fataliyev, the violin part was performed by the first Azerbaijani graduate of the Juilliard School in New York, Sabina Rakcheyeva, the EAS cultural adviser.

A few days later, on 26 February, the premiere of the “Khojaly 613” play by the same cast under the direction of Laurent Pettigirard took place in London as part of a concert dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Khojaly massacre. The concert was held at the St. John Smith square, next to the Parliament building, being attended by more than 500 listeners including the members of the Parliament and diplomats. It was organized by the Europe-Azerbaijan Society (EAS).

Reviews 
The British composer Robbert Hugill published an article about Khojaly on the world classical music's webpage, telling about the work of the French composer Pierre Tilloy "Khojaly 613".

References

2013 compositions
Works about Khojaly Massacre