Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
A place card is a piece of paper indicating what table a guest at an event, such as a wedding or banquet, is assigned to sit.  Place cards generally have the guest's name and table number, and frequently have some design as well to add style.

Background 
Place cards also serve the function of identification of those who may otherwise be unknown to one another. Once taken by the respective guests, they are placed at the assigned seat, and once there, this enables others to identify the person sitting in that seat by name.

At some weddings, place cards can double as the menu for the food that is served at the wedding.

Place cards are not only used for weddings and are not always pieces of paper.  Theme based celebrations have become extremely popular for such party celebrations as Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebration meals, as well as birthdays, sports banquets, anniversaries, retirements, corporate events, etc.  Custom place cards coordinated with the celebrant's theme have become very popular as well.

Place cards can be decorated to fit the party's theme. For example, if the theme of the wedding or party is a beach theme, the card might have a tropical flower on it.  Cards can also indicate tables using token objects. Sea shells,  party gifts, color of the tablecloth, plates or cups on the table may be used to identify the assigned table.

Place cards have a long history, dating back to ancient civilizations where they were used for various purposes, such as divination and game playing. The earliest known card game was played in China in the 9th century, and cards soon spread to other parts of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

Issues
Place cards, especially if fancy, can be an added expense for the couple.

The use of place cards in some circles may be controversial. Some guests may want to sit wherever they wish.

See also
 seating plan

References

Bibliography

External links
Wedding Place Cards & Tent Cards

Wedding objects
Etiquette
Seating
Alain Senderens (, 2 December 1939 – 25 June 2017) was a leading French chef and practitioner of Nouvelle Cuisine. Le Figaro credited him as the inventor of food and wine pairings.

Biography
Senderens was born in Hyères, Var, France and completed secondary school in Labatut-Rivière. Before moving to Paris, he apprenticed at the Ambassador Hotel in Lourdes. In Paris, Senderens worked at well-known restaurants La Tour d'Argent and Lucas Carton, which he would later own. He later became the sous-chef at a Hilton restaurant near Orly Airport.

In 1968, Alain Senderens opened L'Archestrate in Paris, which he operated until 1985. In 1978, the restaurant earned three Michelin stars. He was the chef at Lucas Carton from 1985 until 2005, when he acquired ownership of the restaurant and renamed it Senderens. In 2005, he became the first chef to hand back his three Michelin stars after the restaurant was relaunched. At the time he said he could not charge an affordable price for meals while keeping up the standards Michelin required. As a result, Senderens stated that the customers pay a third of the former prices, return more often, generating profits that were nearly four times of what they were. Despite handing back his three star rating, Senderens was later awarded two stars by Michelin. In 2013, Senderens sold the restaurant, which reverted to its Lucas Carton name.

Senderens died at his home in Corrèze on 25 June 2017.

Influence
The New York Times called him a founding father of Nouvelle Cuisine and he is recognized as a pioneer of food and wine pairings. 
He worked with his sommelier Didier Bureau and the wine magazine La Revue du vin de France “to make the wine happy”.

Senderens trained a number of notable chefs, including: Alain Passard, who took over L'Archestrate and renamed it Arpège, Alain Solivérès of Taillevent, Christian Le Squer of Le Cinq, and Christopher Hache of Hôtel de Crillon.

References

1939 births
2017 deaths
People from Hyères
French chefs
Officers of the Legion of Honour
Head chefs of Michelin starred restaurants
Wyoming Highway 345 (WYO 345) is a  east–west Wyoming State Road located in northern Sheridan County.

Route description
Wyoming Highway 345 begins its western end (or northern end at this point) at Montana Secondary Highway 451 at the Montana State Line, approximately 3 miles north of Parkman, Wyoming. For its entire length, WYO 345 parallels the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway and to some extent Interstate 90/US Route 87, which lies north of it. Highway 345 travels through the census-designated place (CDP) of Parkman at about 3 miles, as it turns gently southeast. Shortly after, the northern terminus of Wyoming Highway 343, which links to US 14 at Dayton, is met at just under 6 miles. Highway 345 continues eastward toward Ranchester which it reaches nearing 12 miles and US 14 which provides access to exit 9 of Interstate 90. Past Ranchester WYO 345 now closely parallels the interstate in its last stretch. Highway 345 meets Interstate 90/US Route 87/US Route 14 at Milepost 19.27, at the "Acme Interchange," its eastern terminus. The roadway continues east as Acme Road past the interchange to Acme.

History
The entire length of Wyoming Highway 345 was originally designated as US Route 87. This section of US 87 was the last to be decommissioned in favor of the I-90 routing. In March 1985, when I-90 was completed, the Interstate Highway System in Wyoming was completed. At the same time, US 87 was rerouted to Interstate 90 and as a result the former routing through Ranchester became WYO 345.

Major intersections

References

External links 

Wyoming State Routes 300-399
Wyoming Highway 345 - WYO 343 to MT 451/Montana State Line
Wyoming Highway 345 - US 14 to WYO 343
Wyoming Highway 345 - I-90/US-14/US-87 to US-14
Transportation in Sheridan County, Wyoming
345
Menengai II Geothermal Power Station, is a  geothermal power station under construction in Kenya. The power station is owned and under development by Globeleq, an independent power producer headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Globeleq is 70 percent owned by British International Investment and 30 percent by Norfund.

Location
The power station is located in the Menengai Crater, approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi), north of Nakuru, the location of the district headquarters. This is approximately 185 kilometres (115 mi), by road, northwest of Nairobi, the capital and largest city in Kenya. The coordinates of Menengai Crater are:0°11'46.0"S, 36°03'47.0"E (Latitude:-0.196105; Longitude:36.063062).

Overview
Geothermal Development Company (GDC), a company wholly owned by the Kenyan government has drilled geothermal wells in the Menengai Crater, whose total capacity can generate up to  of electric energy. GDC will sell the steam to three independent power producers (IPPs) to build three geothermal power stations, each with capacity of . The power stations are:

 Menengai I Geothermal Power Station - Owned by Orpower Twenty Two 
 Menengai II Geothermal Power Station - Owned by Globeleq
 Menengai III Geothermal Power Station - Owned by Sosian Energy

Ownership
Menengai II Geothermal Power Station, whose construction costs were budgeted at KSh4 billion (approx. US$40 million), is owned by Quantum Power East Africa, an independent power producer (IPP). *US$1.00 = KSh100.80 on 4 April 2016

In February 2021, Afik21.africa reported that Quantum Power East Africa, the developer of this power station, had been majority acquired by Globeleq, a subsidiary of the CDC Group of the United Kingdom.

Construction and timeline
In June 2023, the foundation stone for the power station was laid by Rigathi Gachagua the vice-president of Kenya and Jane Marriott, the British High Commissioner to Kenya. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor was revealed to be a consortium comprising Toyota Tsusho Corporation and Fuji Electric, both of Japan. Construction is anticipated to conclude in 2025.

Cost and funding
In June 2023, the cost of construction was reported as US$108 million. Partial funding to the tune of US$72 million has been granted to Globeleq by several financial institutions, including the African Development Bank, the Trade and Development Bank and Finnfund. A 25-year power purchase agreement has been signed between Globeleq the independent power producer and Kenya Power and Lighting Company, the off-taker.

See also

 List of power stations in Kenya
 Geothermal power in Kenya

References

External links
Menengai geothermal to save nation KSh 13 billion

Geothermal power stations in Kenya
Power stations in Kenya
Nakuru County
Proposed energy infrastructure
Brigadier General Joseph B. Starker (29 January 1929 – 19 July 1975) was a United States Army aviator who served in the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. He commanded the 11th Combat Aviation Battalion, 17th Aviation Group, and Combat Developments Experimentation Command. He was struck and killed by a drunk driver while serving as the Assistant Division Commander, 1st Cavalry Division.

Army aviator
As a member of the Howze Board, Starker helped develop the concept of the Air Cavalry Combat Brigade. Later, he was key in the design, organization and testing of the Air Cavalry Combat Brigade. General William E. DePuy, then commander of the 1st Infantry Division, wanted to assign aviation elements to support ground infantry units fighting in Vietnam. Starker's 11th Aviation Battalion was assigned as the test vehicle of this new fighting concept; initially with one assault helicopter company assigned to each U.S. brigade.

Awards
During Brigadier General Starker's distinguished career, he earned the Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star Medal with Valor device and the Air Medal with Valor device.

References

University of Houston alumni
1929 births
1975 deaths
United States Army generals
United States Army aviators
United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War
United States Army personnel of the Korean War
Recipients of the Silver Star
Recipients of the Air Medal
Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
Road incident deaths in Texas
Pedestrian road incident deaths
Burials at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery
The 1978 Bank of Oklahoma Grand Prix was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Shadow Mountain Racquet Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the United States that was part of the 1978 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament was held from April 24 through April 30, 1978. Eddie Dibbs won the singles title and earned $8,500 first-prize money.

Finals

Singles
 Eddie Dibbs defeated  Pat DuPré 6–7, 6–2, 7–5
 It was Dibbs' 1st singles title of the year and the 14th of his career.

Doubles
 Van Winitsky /  Russell Simpson defeated  Carlos Kirmayr /  Ricardo Ycaza 4–6, 7–6, 6–2

References

External links
 ITF tournament edition details

Bank of Oklahoma Grand Prix
Bank of Oklahoma Grand Prix
Bank of Oklahoma Grand Prix
Tennis in Oklahoma
Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket is an album by Henry Threadgill released on the About Time label in 1983.  The album features six of Threadgill's compositions performed by Threadgill with Craig Harris, Olu Dara, Fred Hopkins, Diedre Murray, Pheeroan akLaff and John Betsch.

Reception
The Allmusic review by Arwulf Arwulf states, "Musically, this album is a marvel of collective creativity. Threadgill's approach to his art is comparable to that of Muhal Richard Abrams and other cardinal members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians".

Track listing
All compositions by Henry Threadgill
 "Gateway" - 9:08  
 "Cover" - 7:09  
 "Black Blues" - 4:32  
 "Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket" - 4:25  
 "Cremation" - 6:04  
 "A Man Called Trinity Deliverance" - 8:34  
Recorded at Right Track Studios, New York City on March 22 & 23, 1983

Personnel
Henry Threadgill - alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, clarinet, flute
Olu Dara - cornet
Craig Harris - trombone
Diedre Murray - cello
Fred Hopkins - bass
John Betsch - percussion
Pheeroan akLaff - percussion

References

1983 albums
Henry Threadgill albums
Metropolis Software was a Polish video game developer founded in 1992 by high school friends Adrian Chmielarz and Grzegorz Miechowski. The studio gained success in Europe with their titles.

By the end of 1997, Metropolis had expanded to included 20 full-time employees. Around 2002, a personal conflict between Chmielarz and Miechowski led to Chmielarz to leave the company. A few months later, Chmielarz founded People Can Fly, along with some other staff from Metropolis. Miechowski continued to run Metropolis. In 2008, the studio was bought by CD Projekt, and closed in 2009. In October 2010, former CD Projekt and Metropolis Software developers announced the formation of 11 bit studios, a game development house with Miechowski as managing director.

Metropolis secured a license to develop a video game based on Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher series around 1997. According to Chmielarz, Sapkowski had little interest in the game, only seeing the monetary value of the license, giving Metropolis freedom to develop as they saw fit. The company got as far as completing one playable level, producing press material, and securing a publisher TopWare, but at the time, Metropolis was also working on three other titles. Between these, difficulties with the game, and TopWare's concern that the Slavic nature of the source material may not have international appeal, the project was shelved. Chmielarz said that the project was never officially cancelled, but got lost among the other work they were doing by 1999. CD Projekt later acquired the rights for The Witcher to develop The Witcher (2007).

Games 
 Tajemnica Statuetki (1993)
 Teenagent (1994)
 Blaster! / Katharsis (1997)
 The Prince and the Coward / Książę i tchórz (1998)
 RoboRumble / Reflux (1998)
 Gorky 17 (1999)
 Archangel (2002)
 Gorky Zero: Beyond Honor / Gorky Zero: Fabryka niewolników (2003)
 Gorky Zero 2: Aurora Watching (2004)
 Ski Jumping 2006 / Skoki narciarskie 2006 (2005)
 Infernal (2007)
 They (cancelled)
 The Witcher / Wiedźmin (cancelled)

References 

Video game development companies
Video game companies established in 1992
Video game companies disestablished in 2009
Defunct video game companies of Poland
Companies based in Warsaw
Konadu is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Alex Konadu (born 1950s), Ghanaian guitarist
Asare Konadu (1932–1994), Ghanaian journalist, novelist and publisher
Maa Afia Konadu (1950–2019), Ghanaian media personality
Maxwell Konadu (born 1972), Ghanaian footballer and manager
Nana Konadu (born 1964 as Nana Yaw Konadu Yeboah), Ghanaian boxer of the 1980s, '90s and 2000s 
Nana Konadu Agyeman (born 1948), the First Lady of Ghana
Yaw Konadu (born 1926), Ghanaian politician

Surnames of Akan origin
Mount Huckaby () is an ice-free, wedge-shaped mountain in the western part of the Wisconsin Range in Antarctica. It rises to , surmounting the east wall of Olentangy Glacier just east of Haworth Mesa. The mountain was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Commander Donnie W. Huckaby, a maintenance officer at McMurdo Station for U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6 during 1962–63 and 1963–64.

References

Mountains of Marie Byrd Land
In numerical analysis, interpolative decomposition (ID) factors a matrix as the product of two matrices, one of which contains selected columns from the original matrix, and the other of which has a subset of columns consisting of the identity matrix and all its values are no greater than 2 in absolute value.

Definition 
Let  be an  matrix of rank .  The matrix  can be written as

where
  is a subset of  indices from 
 The  matrix  represents 's columns of 
  is an  matrix, all of whose values are less than 2 in magnitude.   has an  identity submatrix.

Note that a similar decomposition can be done using the rows of  instead of its columns.

Example 
Let  be the  matrix of rank 2:

If

then

Notes

References 
 Cheng, Hongwei, Zydrunas Gimbutas, Per-Gunnar Martinsson, and Vladimir Rokhlin. "On the compression of low rank matrices." SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 26, no. 4 (2005): 1389–1404.
 Liberty, E., Woolfe, F., Martinsson, P. G., Rokhlin, V., & Tygert, M. (2007). Randomized algorithms for the low-rank approximation of matrices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(51), 20167–20172.

Matrix decompositions
Numerical linear algebra
Abtahi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Mehdi Abtahi (born 1963), Iranian footballer and manager
Milad Abtahi (born 1992), Iranian footballer
Mohammad-Ali Abtahi (born 1958), Iranian theologian, scholar, and pro-democracy activist
Omid Abtahi (born 1979), Iranian-American actor
The Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act is a proposed United States law that would abolish the death penalty for all federal crimes and all military crimes. If enacted, this act would mark the first time since 1988 where no federal crimes carry a sentence of death.

This bill would repeal capital punishment on the federal level but would not affect the possibility for states to provide for it in state law.

History

Since the enactment of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, the death penalty has been a legal punishment for United States federal crimes in the post Furman era. Since then, the federal government has executed sixteen individuals, with thirteen of those executions occurring between July 2020 and January 2021.

Motivation for the introduction and support for the passage and enactment of this bill have been influenced by the criminal justice reform movement, the George Floyd protests, and the thirteen people executed during the Trump administration between July 2020 and January 2021, among other things. President Joe Biden’s campaign website has stated that Biden supports abolishing the death penalty on the federal level and to incentivize states to also abolish the death penalty for crimes within their jurisdiction. Biden is the first president to openly oppose the death penalty.

Bills to abolish the federal death penalty have been introduced in each Congress since 1999, but no legislation has passed.

Provisions
The bill proposes the removal of all references to capital punishment as it pertains to federal crimes and sentencing law, abolishing the ability for the United States to impose a sentence of death in the process.

Legislative history 
As of May 15, 2022:

See also
 Capital punishment in the United States
 Capital punishment by country
 Crimes Act of 1790
 Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution
 Furman v. Georgia
 Gregg v. Georgia
 Wrongful execution

References

Proposed legislation of the 117th United States Congress
United States federal criminal legislation
Capital punishment in the United States
Anti–death penalty laws
Klaus-Peter Sabotta was an extortionist who sabotaged German railways in December 1998, only six months after the Eschede disaster.  He claimed to represent former employees of the German railway operator Deutsche Bahn who had been made redundant, and demanded a ransom of DM10 million.  His motive for the crime was a need to pay off heavy debts he had incurred in his business activities.

The first act of tampering, near Wilmersdorf was detected and repaired before any train passed, while a second attack on the InterCityExpress line at the small town of Uchtspringe, 60 kilometres north of Magdeburg, failed to derail its intended target.

The third act of sabotage, near Anklam resulted in the derailment of a northbound freight train.  Had a passenger train due at the time not been half an hour late, it would have smashed into the wreckage of the freight train.

He was arrested as he attempted to collect the ransom at a filling station just off the A8 in Irschenberg, Bavaria.  On 4 February 2000 he was convicted of attempted murder and attempted extortion, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

See also
October 2022 German railway attack

References 

German extortionists
German prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Germany
Railway accidents and incidents in Germany
Railway accidents in 1998
Living people
Saboteurs
Train wrecks caused by sabotage
Year of birth missing (living people)
Consuelo Berlanga (born 18 February 1955), is a Spanish journalist.

Early life 
Berlanga was born in Aguilar de la Frontera, Córdoba, Spain.

Career 
Berlanga's professional career has primarily been in television, though she has also done notable work in radio.

Her first experience in front of the camera was on  (1987–1989), the daily program which Jesús Hermida directed and presented on Televisión Española.

After that show was canceled, she was signed by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador to present the game show , which she did from 1989 to 1991.

Berlanga later moved to Antena 3 where she hosted the daily magazine  (1991–1992), followed by the game show  (1992), the musical Quédate con la copla (1992), and the children's show Cámara baja (1993). At the same time, she took advantage of the opportunity to work in radio, on the show Somos como somos (1993) on Antena 3 Radio.

Once her relationship with the private network ended, Berlanga moved to Seville, and for many years her professional development was linked to the Andalusian autonomous channel Canal Sur, where she presented the nostalgic Qué pasó con and Senderos de Gloria, a program created to pay homage to the anonymous faces of Andalusian life.

From November 2004 to August 2009 she hosted the program El Punto Berlanga on .

Berlanga was one of the contestants on the 2010 season of Survivor Spain. She was the first to be voted off, lasting seven days. At the end of that year she began to contribute to the series  on Telecinco, hosted by María Teresa Campos, where she remained until 2014.

Television career
  (1987–1989) on Televisión Española – Contributor
  (1989–1991) on Televisión Española – Presenter
  (1991–1992) on Antena 3 – Presenter and director
 Campanadas Fin de Año (1991) on Antena 3 – Presenter
  (1992) on Antena 3 – Presenter
 Quédate con la Copla (1992) on Antena 3 – Presenter
 Cámara Baja (1993) on Antena 3 – Presenter
 Qué pasó con (1995–1996) on Canal Sur and Telemadrid – Presenter
 Por qué (1997) on Canal Sur – Presenter
 Canciones para el recuerdo (1997–1998) on Canal Sur – Presenter
 Senderos de Gloria (1999–2003) on Canal Sur – Presenter
 Gala de Andalucia (2003) on Canal Sur – Presenter
 Punto y Medio Verano (2006) on Canal Sur– Presenter
 El punto Berlanga (2004–2009) on  – Presenter 
 Survivor Spain (2010) on Telecinco – Contestant
  (2010–2014) on Telecinco – Contributor
 Gran Hermano VIP (2017) on Telecinco – Contributor
 Sábado Deluxe (2017) on Telecinco – Contributor

Awards
 Antena de Oro Award – Television (1993)

References

External links
 

1955 births
Living people
People from Campiña Sur (Córdoba)
Spanish game show hosts
Spanish journalists
Spanish women journalists
Spanish radio presenters
Spanish women radio presenters
Earl E. Nelson (August 29, 1937 – November 1, 2016) was a Democratic member of both houses of the Michigan Legislature from 1971 through 1978.

Born in Emerson, Arkansas, Nelson graduated from Michigan State University. He taught in the Lansing schools and worked for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce. In 1970, he won election to the Michigan House of Representatives. After two terms, he won election to the Senate.

Nelson was the founder of the Earl Nelson Singers and was an ordained minister. He was also the Director of Equity for the Michigan Department of Education.

References

1937 births
2016 deaths
African-American state legislators in Michigan
Democratic Party Michigan state senators
Democratic Party members of the Michigan House of Representatives
20th-century American politicians
20th-century African-American politicians
21st-century African-American people
People from Columbia County, Arkansas