Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Catawba Two Kings Casino is a tribal casino in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, approximately 35 miles west of Charlotte, North Carolina, overlooking Interstate 85. The casino is owned by the Catawba Indian Nation and managed by Delaware North. There is currently a temporary modular "pre-launch" casino that has 1,000 slot machines and electronic table games available until the final casino resort is built. It is scheduled to be completed in 2024.

History
The name of the casino, Two Kings, refers to the 18th century Catawba Chief King Hagler and the city of Kings Mountain.

The temporary casino opened on July 1, 2021 with 500 slot machines. The casino expanded in December 2021 to have a total of 954 slot machines while  also adding 46 electronic table games which include Blackjack, Craps, and Roulette.

In September 2022, the casino added 30 kiosks which allowed players to place sports bets.

Federal investigation and political connections
In March 2022, the chief compliance officer of the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) alerted the Catawba Nation to issues with their contract and that business agreements with partners violate the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. It warned that if they aren’t brought into compliance, the tribe could face fines and temporary closure of the casino. The NIGC's role is to ensure that Indian gaming is conducted in compliance with federal law and that the tribe's revenues are used in a manner that is consistent with the best interests of the tribe and its members.

On July 31, 2022, The Wall Street Journal published a report revealing that individuals with political connections in North Carolina and South Carolina received shares in companies connected to the casino while it was seeking approval to open. This brought concerns about potential conflicts of interest as it appeared politicians used their influence to benefit the casino and the companies they are connected to, rather than that of the public. Some of the political connections included the husband of Nikki Haley, Michael Haley, and brother of South Carolina representative Jim Clyburn, John Clyburn, who were discovered to have ownership in the slot machine company, Kings Mountain Equipment Supply. The casino is currently appealing the violation issued by the National Indian Gaming Commission.

See also
 Gambling in North Carolina

References

Casinos in North Carolina
2021 establishments in North Carolina
Catawba
Buildings and structures in Cleveland County, North Carolina
Native American casinos
Ndabili Bashingili (born 28 December 1979 in Semitwe) is a Botswana marathon runner. Bashingili made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed twenty-fifth out of a hundred runners in the men's marathon, with a time of 2:18:09.

Four years after competing in his last Olympics, Bashingili qualified for the second time, as a 29-year-old, in the men's marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He successfully finished the race in fifty-ninth place by eight seconds behind Tanzania's Samson Ramadhani, with a time of 2:25:11.

References

External links
 

1979 births
Living people
People from Central District (Botswana)
Botswana male marathon runners
Olympic athletes for Botswana
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Emani Haile Fakaotimanava-Lui is a Niuean politician and member of the Niue Assembly. He is the son of former Premier of Niue Frank Lui.

Fakaotimanava-Lui was first elected to the Niue Assembly as a common roll MP in the 2023 Niuean general election. He was subsequently appointed Member Assisting the Minister to Mona Ainuu, the Minister for natural Resources.

References

Living people
Members of the Niue Assembly
Year of birth missing (living people)
PS Eleanor was a paddle steamer cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1873 to 1881.

History

She was built by Robert Stephenson and Company for the London and North Western Railway in 1873. She may have been named after Eleanor Moon (1847-59), the eldest daughter of the company's then chairman, Richard Moon, and was built specifically for the Greenore route that Moon had championed.

She ran aground on 27 January 1881 at Leestone Point, Kilkeel, Ireland during a dense fog. The railway attempted to salvage her but severe gales in the following weeks completed her destruction. Within the year, the railway company had replaced her with a new paddle steamer of the same name, Eleanor.

References

1873 ships
Steamships
Ships built on the River Tyne
Ships of the London and North Western Railway
Paddle steamers of the United Kingdom
Maritime incidents in January 1881
Shipwrecks of Ireland
Shipwrecks in the Irish Sea
George Henry Warwick Smith  (3 October 1916 – 27 December 1999) was a senior Australian public servant.

Early life
Warwick Smith was born in Charters Towers, Queensland on 3 November 1916. He attended high school at Brisbane Grammar School, but left early at the age of 15. He went on to matriculate and graduate with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland.

Career
Warwick Smith moved from a job at the Queensland Education Department to the Commonwealth Public Service in the Department of Commerce. He soon left the public service to join the Army, serving during the Second World War between 1941 and 1945.

After the war, Warwick Smith returned to his public service career in the Department of Commerce. He was appointed personal assistant to the Department's Secretary, J.F. Murphy, with whom he gained a lot of trade conference experience.

Warwick Smith's first Secretary role was in the Department of Territories (later External Territories), he moved to the Department in 1964, a time when Australia was coming under increasing United Nations pressure to hasten Papua New Guinea's progress towards self-government. Warwick Smith established an unusual departmental structure with no deputy secretaries, which was unlike most Australian Government departments at the time.

He also served as Secretary in the Department of the Interior and the Secretary of the Department of Construction (later Housing and Construction).

Warwick Smith formally retired from the public service on 5 August 1980, his last position being as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Construction.

Retirement
On retirement from the public service, Warwick Smith moved away from Canberra, first to Sydney and later to Bowral, working as a consultant in economic and public affairs. In his later years, Warwick Smith suffered from emphysema, which led to his death on 27 December 1999 in a nursing home in Sydney.

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References and further reading

1916 births
1999 deaths
Australian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Australian public servants
University of Queensland alumni
Leo Stopfer (born 15 May, 1964) is an Austrian artist who is widely acclaimed as the "Painter of the Ballet-Stars." He is especially identified with the subject of ballet, and more than half of his works depict famous dancers of world fame.

Biography

Early life and art techniques
 1979 – first drawings;
 1981 – inspired by Picasso's works, he starts painting with oil-color; 
 1982 – first personal exhibition; 
 1989/90 — "The earth has a skin" () – organic abstract paintings in his special mixed technique (with soil, stones, sand, and dry plants mixed with acrylic- or oil-colors creating a relief on canvas) is the main part of his work until 2009.

Ballerina Paintings
In 1989, Leo Stopfer created his first pastel paintings and drawings of the ballerina Mitra Nayeri.

Later, Stopfer made ballet one of the main themes of his art. Cooperating with many dancers for many years; he created many paintings depicting the ballerinas of the 20th and 21st centuries. Among them are such grandees of the world ballet scene such as Diana Vishneva (the Mariinsky Theatre), Olga Smirnova and Evgenia Obraztsova (Bolshoi Theatre), Vladimir Malakhov (Berlin State Ballet), Maria Abashova (Ballet Theatre of Boris Eifman), Maria Yakovleva (Vienna State Ballet) and Isabelle Ciaravola and Ludmila Pagliero (Opera de Paris).

Exhibitions
Since his first exhibition in 1982, Stopfer's work has been exhibited all around Europe, including London, Vienna, Berlin, Moscow, and Luxembourg.

Leo Stopfer was the first artist to be invited by the Klimt Villa in Vienna in 2017 to work in the original studio where the master Gustav Klimt lived and worked. This work resulted in dozens of drawings and a large number of women's portraits united under the title "my muses" (). This series of works was presented at the personal exhibition of Leo Stopfer in the Klimt Villa in May 2018.

Stopfer had a current solo exhibition that took place at the Vienna State Opera. At the invitation of the directorate of the Vienna State Opera, Leo Stopfer presented an exhibition of his works capturing dancers of the house to the public.

Style
Stopfer's earlier paintings are landscapes in an organic-abstract style, using a mixed impasto technique. He combined earth, sand, and stones with acrylic paint to develop a relief-like texture.

The artist likes to work with acrylic combined with pencil. He also sometimes works with mixed media, using gouache when the ballerinas dance on his canvas to make prints with their feet.

In his works, the artist tries to express a portion of the dancer's energy. The models depicted by Leo Stopfer are always characterized by heightened sensuality and frankness.

References

Bibliography

External links
 Leo Stopfer's website
 Galerie Ei article

1964 births
Austrian painters
20th-century painters
21st-century painters
Living people
The short-tailed striped gecko (Strophurus mcmillani), also known commonly as McMillan's spiny-tailed gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Diplodactylidae. The species is endemic to Australia.

Etymology
The specific name, mcmillani, is in honor of Australian entomologist Robert Peter McMillan (1921–2009).

Geographic range
In Australia, S. mcmillani is found in extreme northwestern Northern Territory and in Western Australia.

Habitat
The natural habitats of S. mcmillani are grassland and rocky areas.

Description
S. mcmillani has an average snout-to-vent length (SVL) of , and the average tail length is 61% of the SVL. Dorsally and laterally, it is olive gray, with dark brown and white stripes.

Reproduction
S. mcmillani is oviparous.

References

Further reading
Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. .
Greer AE (1989). The Biology and Evolution of Australian Lizards. Chipping Norton, New South Wales: Surrey Beatty & Sons. 264 pp. (Strophurus mcmillani, new combination).
Laver, Rebecca J.; Nielsen, Stuart V.; Rosauer, Dan F.; Oliver, Paul M. (2017). "Trans-biome diversity in Australian grass-specialist lizards (Diplodactylidae: Strophurus)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 115: 62–70.
Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Strophurus mcmillani, p. 115). (in German).
Storr GM (1978). "Seven new gekkonid lizards from Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum 6 (3): 337–352. (Diplodactylus mcmillani, new species, p. 341–343, Plate 2 & Figure 2).
Wilson, Steve; Swan, Gerry (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. .

Strophurus
Reptiles described in 1978
Taxa named by Glen Milton Storr
Geckos of Australia
Erpingham Rural District was a rural district in Norfolk, England from 1894 to 1974.

It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 based on the Erpingham rural sanitary district, taking its name from the ancient North and South Erpingham hundreds - but did not, initially, include some parishes from these hundreds including Erpingham parish itself. It lay on the north coast of Norfolk around the Urban Districts of Cromer and, later, Sheringham (created 1901, extended 1914).

In 1935 Erpingham RD took in several parishes from Aylsham Rural District, and ceded smaller areas to Walsingham and Smallburgh RDs.

In 1974, the district was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, and became part of the North Norfolk district.

Statistics

Parishes

References

Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894
Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972
Historical districts of Norfolk
Rural districts of England
The  is an archaeological site consisting of the ruins of the Nara period to early Heian period Provincial Capital of Inaba Province, located in the Nakago, Kokufu neighborhood of the city of Tottori, Tottori Prefecture in the San'in region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1978.

Overview
Following the Taika Reform (645 AD)  which aimed at a centralization of the administration following the Chinese model (ritsuryō), provincial capitals were established in the various provinces, headed by an official titled kokushi, who replaced the older Kuni no miyatsuko. With a square layout, the provincial capitals were patterned after  the Capital of Japan, first Fujiwara-kyō and then Heijō-kyō, which in turn were modelled on the Tang capital Chang'an, but on a much, much smaller scale. Each had office buildings for administration, finance, police and military and the official building of the governor, as well as granaries for tax rice and other taxable produce. In the periphery there was the provincial temple (kokubun-ji), and nunnery (kokubun-niji) and the garrison. This system collapsed with the growth of feudalism in the Late Heian period, and the location of many of the provincial capitals is now lost.

The Inaba Provincial Capital was located about 10 kilometers east of the center of modern Tottori city, and the Inaba Manyō Historical Museum is located nearby. The location had been lost for many centuries, but it was suspected to have been located in an area that included Fukube Village in Iwami District and Kokufu Town (now part of the city of Tottori), due to the survival of a number of local place names which are closely related to the provincial government. The foundations of buildings was discovered in 1973 in connection with a farmland improvement project, and archaeological excavation survey in 1977 uncovered a block of buildings presumed to be very close to the center of the national government office. During excavations, the foundation of more than 10 pillar-supported buildings, two fences, two wells, several roads and ditches were found. The central building was a five by four bay structure with double-sided eaves. About 750 meters south of the central hall, were the foundation of the eastern and western buildings with a seven by three bay layout, which appear to be at the southern limit of the national government office complex. Artifacts found include inkstones, title seals, wooden strips, earthenware with ink writing, and green pottery. The dates of these remains are from the early Heian period, based on the inscription "Ninna 2nd Year" (886 AD) excavated on a wooden tag fragment from a nearby ditch. 

After being designated as a historic site, about 7,000 square meters  of the total area of 32,000 square meters has been maintained as a historic park. Some of the excavated items are on display at the Prefectural Museum.

See also
List of Historic Sites of Japan (Tottori)

External links

Tottori prefecture official site 
 Tottori City official report

References

Heian period
Archaeological sites in Japan
History of Tottori Prefecture
Tottori (city)
Inaba Province
Historic Sites of Japan
Phosphorylethanolamine or phosphoethanolamine is an ethanolamine derivative that is used to construct two different categories of phospholipids. One category termed a glycerophospholipid and the other a sphingomyelin, or more specifically within the sphingomyelin class, a sphingophospholipid. Phosphorylethanolamine is a polyprotic acid with two pKa values at 5.61 and 10.39.

Phosphorylethanolamine has been falsely promoted as a cancer treatment.

Effectiveness
As a potential drug, phosphorylethanolamine has undergone human clinical trials. These were halted when no evidence of benefit was found.

Edzard Ernst has called Phosphorylethanolamine "the most peculiar case of Brazilian quackery".

Legality
There has been ongoing controversy and litigation in Brazil with regard to its use as a cancer treatment without approval by the National Health Surveillance Agency. For years, Gilberto Chierice, a Chemistry Professor at the São Carlos campus of the University of São Paulo, used resources from a campus laboratory to unofficially manufacture, distribute, and promote the drug to cancer patients without it having gone through clinical testing. In September 2015, university administrators began preventing the Professor from continuing with this practice. In October 2015, several courts in Brazil ruled in favor of plaintiffs who wanted the right to try the compound. However, a state court overturned the lower courts' decision a month later. Jailson Bittencourt de Andrade, secretary for Brazil's science and technology ministry, said the ministry plans to fund further research on the compound, but that it will be years before a determination can be made about phosphorylethanolamine's safety and efficacy in humans.

On April 14, 2016, a law was passed in Brazil allowing the use of synthetic phosphorylethanolamine for cancer treatment, despite opposition from the Brazilian Medical Association, the Brazilian Society of Clinical Oncology, and the regulatory agency Anvisa.  However, shortly after, the country's Supreme Court suspended the law.

See also
 Phosphocholine
 Phosphoserine

References

Additional images

Amines
Organophosphates
Health fraud
Anthony Palmer was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross.

Anthony or Tony Palmer may also refer to:

 Anthony Palmer (British Army officer) (born 1949), Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff
 Tony Palmer (born 1941), British film director and author
 Tony Palmer (American football) (born 1983), American football guard
 Tony Palmer (bishop) (1966–2014), British-born South African bishop 
 Tony Palmer (cyclist) (born 1966), American former cyclist
The 1946 Maryland gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1946. Democratic nominee William Preston Lane Jr. defeated Republican nominee Theodore McKeldin with 54.73% of the vote.

General election

Candidates
William Preston Lane Jr., Democratic
Theodore McKeldin, Republican

Results

References

1946
Maryland
Gubernatorial
The pectoral-patch cisticola (Cisticola brunnescens) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are damp or wet areas in upland grassland.

Description

At 9–10 cm this is a small, streak-backed cisticola with short or medium tail, which may get longer in the breeding season. It differs from the pale-crowned cisticola in having a pale rufous (not buff) crown and forehead in the breeding season. The pectoral patches become darker in the breeding season, but even then they may not be easy to see.

Voice
The voice is stonechat-like in quality with harsh tssk tssk or szisk szisk notes given in display flight.

References

pectoral-patch cisticola
Birds of Central Africa
Birds of East Africa
pectoral-patch cisticola
Taxa named by Theodor von Heuglin
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Murtaza Nizam Shah III, was a Nizam Shahi boy prince who in the year 1633 became the nominal Sultan of Ahmednagar. He was subjected to the authority of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan.

The Maratha Mughal general Sardar Ranoji Wable attacked Ahmednagar killed Fateh Khan along with the boy prince Hussain Nizam Shah III on the order of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, his relatives as well as two pregnant women so that there would not be any male heir to the throne. But soon, Shahaji with the assistance of Bijapur Sultanate, placed an infant scion of the Nizam Shahi dynasty, Murtaza on the throne and he became the regent. The scion Nizam and Shahaji's family was stationed in the Mahuli Fort. Shah Jahan quickly made an alliance with Mohammed Adil Shah of Bijapur and the respective Mughal and Adil Shahi generals, Khan Zaman (son of Mahabat Khan) and Ranadulla Khan (father of Rustum-e-Zaman) besieged Mahuli. Shahaji tried to break the siege externally several times but failed. However, the mother of Murtaza Nizam, Sajeeda was caught while fleeing along with the Nizam. Murtaza Nizam Shah III was brought before Shah Jahan and Mohammed Adil Shah. Shah Jahan proposed to murder the boy Nizam so as to finish the Nizam Shahi once and for all but Shahaji intervened and requested Shah Jahan to change his decision. But Mohammed Adil Shah was adamant that he should kill the young prince. After some thinking, Shah Jahan ordered Nizam's release much to the surprise of Mohammed Adil Shah. However, he set a condition that Shahaji would be placed in the deep south so that he could not pose any challenge to the Mughals. The Nizam was taken away by Maratha Sardar Ranoji Wable to Delhi and was made a Sardar.

See also
Nizam Shahi

References

Ahmadnagar Sultanate
Alan Breckon is a member of the States of Jersey, was first elected as Deputy of St Saviour No. 2 district in 1993, and was sworn in as Senator 8 December 2008.

He is a member of the Legislation Advisory Panel, and was previously chairman of the Jersey Consumer Council.

Political career
In 2008, Breckon stood unsuccessfully for the office of Chief Minister of Jersey against Senator Terry Le Sueur. In a secret ballot, Breckon received 17 votes from other members, compared to Le Sueur's 36 votes.

References

Living people
Senators of Jersey
Deputies of Jersey
Year of birth missing (living people)
OK is the debut studio album by English / Indian tabla player and record producer Talvin Singh, released on Island Records in 1998. It won him the Mercury Prize for 1999. The record was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. It took nine months of travelling around and recording to complete the album. Singh recorded in London and on Okinawa Island to capture folk singers, as well as in India to collaborate with the Madras Philharmonic Orchestra.

Singh hired various collaborators, including guitarist Jon Klein, with whom he had previously recorded on Siouxsie and the Banshees's single "Kiss Them for Me" and toured during the inaugural Lollapalooza festival. Ryuichi Sakamoto played flute on the album and sent his parts via a computer with an email which was a first in the late 1990s. Rakesh Chaurasia also performed flute. Singh recruited an eight female singer choir for the song "Soni". Guy Sigsworth played keyboards on the opening track "Traveller", and also on "Sutrix" and the title track of the album. Vocalist Suchitra Pillai joined in for the song "Sutrix".

In the NME, reviewer Christian Ward noted that Singh was "trying to cover the globe with his music", as a voice intones "The world is sound", at the start of the album. The record is rooted in India with odes to Asian underground scene, dub rhythms and jazz. There is also a contrast between "geisha choirs and cut-up beats", along with plaintive orchestral arrangements. Reviewer noted that "convulsive rhythms compete with sensuous strings to create a deep, dark atmosphere", concluding with this positive sentence, "There are still more sonic territories to explore, but on this evidence, it seems that Talvin Singh will get there first."

Track listing

Additional musicians Talvin collaborated with

 John Klein (guitar)
 Ryuichi Sakamoto (flute)
 Rakesh Chaurasia (flute)
 Guy Sigsworth (keyboards)
 Suchitra Pillai (vocals)

Charts

Certifications

References

External links
 

1998 debut albums
Talvin Singh albums
Island Records albums
Mercury Prize-winning albums