Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The Minister of the Sea (French: Ministre de la Mer) was a cabinet member in the Government of France from 1981 to 2017 and from 2020 to 2022. The position has frequently been combined with the positions of Minister of Transport (Ministre des Transports), Minister of Public Works (Ministre des Travaux publics), Minister of Housing (Ministre du Logement), Minister of Tourism (Ministre du Tourisme) and Minister of Territorial Development (Ministre de l'Aménagement du territoire).

Alain Vidalies was Secretary of State for Transport, the Sea and Fisheries (Secrétaire d'État chargé des Transports, de la Mer et de la Pêche) from 2014 to 2017. The post was a junior minister of cabinet rank within the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. When Nicolas Hulot took the direction of the ministry in 2017, the office was abolished and replaced by the State Secretariat for the Sea.

The Minister of the Sea was fully reinstalled on its own between July 2020 and May 2022 as Annick Girardin hold the title of Minister of the Sea. After May 2022, it became again a Secretary of State under the direction of the Prime Minister's services.

Ministers of the Sea (1981–2022)
4 July 2022 – : Hervé Berville (as Secretary of State for the Sea)
20 May 2022 – 4 July 2022: Justine Benin (as Secretary of State for the Sea)
6 July 2020 – 20 May 2022 : Annick Girardin
16 July 2019 – 6 July 2020 : Élisabeth Borne (as Minister of Ecological Transition)
4 September 2018 – 16 July 2019 : François de Rugy (as Minister of Ecological and Solidarity Transition)
17 May 2017 – 4 September 2018 : Nicolas Hulot (as Minister of Ecological and Solidarity Transition)
25 August 2014 – 10 May 2017 : Alain Vidalies (as Secretary of State for Transport, the Sea and Fisheries)
2 April 2014 – 24 August 2014 : Frédéric Cuvillier (as Secretary of State for Transport, the Sea and Fisheries)
20 June 2012 – 31 March 2014 : Frédéric Cuvillier (as Minister for Transport, the Sea and Fisheries)
16 May 2012 – 18 June 2012 : Frédéric Cuvillier (as Minister for Transport and the Maritime Economy)
23 June 2009 – 13 May 2010 : Jean-Louis Borloo (as Minister for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea)
31 May 2005 – 17 May 2007 : Dominique Perben (as Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Tourism and the Sea)
30 March 2004 – 31 May 2005 : François Goulard (as Secretary of State for Transport and the Sea)
17 June 2002 – 30 March 2004 : Dominique Bussereau (as Secretary of State for Transport and the Sea)
7 May 2002 – 17 June 2002 : Nicole Ameline
2 avril 1992 – 28 March 1993 : Charles Josselin
15 May 1991 – 31 March 1992 : Jean-Yves Le Drian (as Secretary of State for the Sea)
23 June 1988 – 15 May 1991 : Jacques Mellick
10 May 1988 – 23 June 1988 : Louis Le Pensec
20 March 1986 – 10 May 1988 : Ambroise Guellec
23 March 1983 – 20 March 1986 : Guy Lengagne (as Secretary of State responsible for the sea within the Department of Transport)
22 May 1981 – 22 March 1983 : Louis Le Pensec

References

Sea
Transport in France
French people in transport
Maritime affairs ministries
Mr. Prokouk () is a character created by Karel Zeman for a series of Czech animated short films in the 1940s and 1950s.

Prokouk, a stop-motion animation puppet made of wood, is a sympathetic, irrepressible everyman character with a bristling mustache, a long nose, and a pork pie hat. The French newspaper Le Monde described the character as an "animated cousin" of Jacques Tati's character Monsieur Hulot, and the catalogue of a 2001 Karel Zeman retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive suggested that Prokouk might be taken as Zeman's alter ego. The short films in which he appears are comic with a didactic touch.

The character first appeared in the 1946 short Podkova pro štěstí ("Horseshoe for Luck").

Prokouk became the most well-known character in Czech animated cinema and a familiar figure in Czech culture. The films were especially popular with young audiences.

Filmography
The following table is based on information from the Karel Zeman Museum's filmography.

References

1946 in animation
Prokouk, Mr.
Film series introduced in 1946
Prokouk, Mr.
Czechoslovak animated short films
Czech animated films
Czech short films
Prokouk, Mr.
Prokouk, Mr.
Karel Zeman
Trichieurina is a genus of flies in the family Chloropidae.

Species 
 T. pubescens (Meigen, 1830)

References 

 Europe

Chloropinae
Chloropidae genera
The Ben Shapiro Show is a daily conservative political podcast and live radio show produced by The Daily Wire and hosted by Ben Shapiro. The podcast launched in September 2015. , The Ben Shapiro Show was ranked by Podtrac as the second most popular podcast in the U.S. Westwood One began syndicating The Ben Shapiro Show podcast to radio in April 2018. In January 2019, Westwood One expanded Shapiro's one-hour podcast-to-radio program, adding a nationally syndicated two-hour live radio show, for three hours of Ben Shapiro programming daily. Apart from running Monday through Friday, the show also hosts a “Sunday Special”, which features a special guest who joins Shapiro for a long-form (roughly hour-long) interview and discussion.

See also 
 The Daily Wire
 Political podcast
 List of daily news podcasts

References

External links
 
 

2015 podcast debuts
2018 radio programme debuts
American talk radio programs
Conservative talk radio
English-language radio programs
News podcasts
Political podcasts
Syndicated radio programs
Westwood One
Talk show podcasts
Conservative podcasts

American podcasts
The 2017 Coca-Cola Firecracker 250 was the 15th stock car race of the 2017 NASCAR Xfinity Series season and the 16th iteration of the event. The race was held on Saturday, June 30, 2017, Daytona Beach, Florida, at Daytona International Speedway, a 2.5 miles (4.08 km) permanent triangular-shaped superspeedway. Due to inclement weather, the remainder of the race was held on July 1. The race was extended from 100 laps to 104 laps, due to a NASCAR overtime finish. At race's end, William Byron, driving for JR Motorsports, scored his second win in a row after leading the race when the caution came out with two to go. It was Byron's second career win in the xfinity series. He would also become the youngest winner in Daytona history, being only 19-years old. To fill out the podium, Elliott Sadler of JR Motorsports and Dakoda Armstrong of JGL Racing would finish second and third, respectively.

Background 

The race was held at Daytona International Speedway, which is a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States.  Since opening in 1959, it has been the home of the Daytona 500, the most prestigious race in NASCAR as well as its season opening event. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosts races of ARCA, AMA Superbike, IMSA, SCCA, and Motocross. The track features multiple layouts including the primary  high-speed tri-oval, a  sports car course, a  motorcycle course, and a  karting and motorcycle flat-track. The track's  infield includes the  Lake Lloyd, which has hosted powerboat racing. The speedway is operated by NASCAR pursuant to a lease with the City of Daytona Beach on the property that runs until 2054.

Entry list 

 (R) denotes rookie driver.
 (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

Practice

First practice 
The first practice session was held on Thursday, June 29, at 2:00 PM EST. The session would last for 55 minutes. Jeb Burton of JGL Racing would set the fastest time in the session, with a lap of 47.315 and an average speed of .

Final practice 
The final practice session was held on Thursday, June 29, at 4:00 PM EST. The session would last for 55 minutes. Ray Black Jr. of SS-Green Light Racing would set the fastest time in the session, with a lap of 49.441 and an average speed of .

Qualifying 
Qualifying was held on Friday, June 30, at 2:10 PM EST. Since Daytona International Speedway is at least , the qualifying system was a single car, single lap, two round system where in the first round, everyone would set a time to determine positions 13–40. Then, the fastest 12 qualifiers would move on to the second round to determine positions 1–12.

Brennan Poole of Chip Ganassi Racing won the pole with a lap of 49.194 and an average speed of .

Full qualifying results

Race results 
Stage 1 Laps: 30

Stage 2 Laps: 30

Stage 3 Laps: 44

Standings after the race 

Drivers' Championship standings

Note: Only the first 12 positions are included for the driver standings.

References 

2017 NASCAR Xfinity Series
NASCAR races at Daytona International Speedway
July 2017 sports events in the United States
2017 in sports in Florida
Lake Stowe was a glacial lake that formed in Central Vermont approximately 15,000 years ago in the late Pleistocene epoch.  After the Laurentide Ice Sheet retreated, glacial ice melt accumulated at the terminal moraine.

The lake existed until the glacier had completely melted. Then it flowed out through the Lamoille River valley.

The lake was named after Stowe, near where evidence of the lake was discovered.

See also
Champlain Sea
Lake Albany
Lake Hitchcock
Lake Merrimack

References

Former lakes of the United States
Stowe, Vermont
Lakes of Vermont
Proglacial lakes
Bodies of water of Lamoille County, Vermont
Glacial lakes of the United States
Cofio Software, headquartered in San Diego, California, was a privately held software company founded in 2006 which produced a product called AIMstor.  After being acquired in 2012 the product became known as the Hitachi Data Instance Director. and later became Hitachi Ops Center Protector

History
The Cofio founders were also founders of BakBone Software, with the majority of the Cofio's engineering team also being the core developers at BakBone. They were the team that created the re-designed NetVault Backup 6 product. The engineering team was based in the South of England and worked together since the early 1990s.
The company name Cofio is a Welsh language term meaning "to remember".

The company developed data management storage management software. The product was branded and given the trademark AIMstor in 2008.

Cofio was acquired by Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) on September 21, 2012, and the AIMstor product was released as Hitachi Data Instance Director (HDID). HDID orchestrates data protection technologies on  HDS storage arrays. HDID workflow and policy management capabilities are being utilized for end-to-end data management.

Products

AIMstor 
The concept of AIMstor was the prevailing reason Cofio Software was founded. The intention of the product was to provide data management functions such as backup, archiving, real-time replication, full recovery and continuous data protection (True-CDP) under one platform. Rather than having many different products that are later integrated in a complex fashion, AIMstor was a workflow manager for other data protection and data management products.
At the core of Cofio's attempt at providing consolidated features was a user interface that allows data policies and data movement to be defined graphically allowing complex topologies to be created quickly, and to help administrators see the workflow of the policy and the data.

Another cited major component of AIMstor was the Repository. This aimed to provide a storage platform that could ingest live data to provide backup, continuous data protection and data archiving. It performed data deduplication as well as possessing an indexing engine allowing for fast search of the repository content.

Although AIMstor was a single product it was marketed as separate products such as AIMstor Backup, AIMstor Replication, AIMstor CDP, etc.

AIMstor supported Microsoft Windows and Linux.

ViStor 
ViStor is a software implementation of a virtual tape library (VTL). It was released in 2007 to OEMs in Asia specifically who create VTL appliances using the ViStor software. The software runs on a version of Linux and supports the iSCSI protocol as well as Emulex Fibre Channel host bus adapters. The product was no longer supported after the HDS acquisition.

References

External links 
 AIMstor SEPT-2008 Product Press Release
 Cofio Official Website
 AIMstor User Interface Video
 Cofio Software Private Vendor Watchlist Profile
 AIMstor 2.3 Release

Software companies based in California
Companies based in San Diego
Software companies established in 2006
2006 establishments in California
Defunct software companies of the United States
MerPeople is a documentary miniseries that premiered May 23, 2023, on Netflix. It explores the subculture and performing art of "mermaiding."

Cast

Episodes

Reception
MerPeople has received mostly positive reviews from critics. As of June 2023, has a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 8 reviews. On Metacritic it holds a score of 68, indicating "generally favorable reviews."

Joel Keller of Decider recommended streaming the miniseries, noting that the show had "magic and whimsy" with "doses of reality." However, CNN's Brian Lowry felt "there’s just not enough here to merit making MerPeople part of your world." Lucy Mangan of The Guardian gave the show three out of five stars, and noted the docuseries possibly caught the mermaid industry in a "transitional point" before its "full commodification and corporatisation."

References

External links
 
 
 

Documentary series
Netflix original documentary television series
2023 American television series debuts
Shogo Suzuki or Shōgo Suzuki may refer to:

, Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator
, Japanese actor and musician
Iana Bondar (born 19 February 1991) is a Ukrainian former biathlete.

Performances

References

External links
 Biathlon.com.ua
 IBU.com
 IBU Datacenter

1991 births
Living people
B
Universiade medalists in biathlon
Universiade silver medalists for Ukraine
Universiade bronze medalists for Ukraine
Competitors at the 2013 Winter Universiade
Competitors at the 2015 Winter Universiade
Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade
Sportspeople from Kyiv Oblast
The Menstad conflict () or () "The Menstad battle" was a Norwegian policing and political débâcle on 8 June 1931 at Norsk Hydro's Menstad plant, near Skien in the Norwegian province of Telemark.

Since March, Norway had been feeling significant industrial tension as the full effects of the Great Depression began to be felt in Norway. It was in this atmosphere that the Norwegian Employers' Confederation (NAF) announced a pay cut of 15 and 20 percent. When the Workers' National Trade Union rejected this suggestion and counter-proposed a reduction of working hours, the NAF responded with a programme of lockouts. During the lockouts, two companies, Norsk Hydro and Norske Skog Union, chose to allow some contract workers to perform some work. This was perceived as strikebreaking and led to an escalation of the conflict level.

It was an angry mood in which the Secretary of the Labor party (and later Prime Minister) Einar Gerhardsen called strikebreakers "skabbdyr" (scabs) and director of Norsk Hydro Bjarne Eriksen described the dispute as being one between Labour and the community. In the afternoon of 8 June 2,000 workers marched to the Norsk Hydro trans-shipment port and warehouse at Menstad, where 100 police officers guarded the contract workers.

The brief "battle", between police and strikers, saw law-and-order forces overwhelmed by demonstrators, who threw stones and iron piping before the protesters retreated. The government response (passed on by Minister of Defence, Vidkun Quisling) was to send the army into the province with the stated aim of protecting nearby weapons depots. Although there was no further incident and law and order in the area was duly restored, the government response was heavily criticised by the Communist party, who had led the original demonstrations.

See also 
 Ådalen shootings

References 

1931 riots
1931 in Norway
June 1931 events
Paul Massey may refer to:
Paul Massey (rower) (1926–2009), British rower and Olympian
Paul Massey (gangster) (1960–2015), English criminal and Salford-based businessman
Paul Massey (sound engineer) (born 1958), English sound engineer

See also
Paul Massie (1932–2011), Canadian actor and academic
Rho Persei, Latinized from ρ Persei, is a star in the northern constellation of Perseus. It has the traditional name Gorgonea Tertia , being the third member of the quartet called the Gorgonea in reference to the Gorgons from the legend of Perseus. An apparent visual magnitude of +3.39 makes it visible to the naked eye, but a challenge to view from a well-lit urban environment. Based upon parallax measurements, it is located at a distance of roughly  from Earth.

Rho Persei is a semiregular variable star, whose apparent magnitude varies between 3.3 and 4.0 with periods of 50, 120 and 250 days. The star has reached the asymptotic giant branch of its evolution. It is a bright giant star with a stellar classification of M4 II. The outer envelope has an effective temperature of 3,479 K, giving it the red-orange hue of an M-type star.

This star has a mass 1.9 times the mass of the Sun, while its radius has expanded to 143 times solar. It is radiating some 2,700 times the Sun's luminosity. Rho Persei is losing mass at the rate of  solar masses per year, or the equivalent of the Sun's mass every 83 million years. It is about 440 million years in age.

Naming
In Chinese,  (), meaning Mausoleum, refers to an asterism consisting of ρ Persei, 9 Persei, τ Persei, ι Persei, κ Persei, β Persei, 16 Persei and 12 Persei. Consequently, the Chinese name for ρ Persei itself is  (, .).

References

External links
Gorgonea Tertia

M-type giants
Asymptotic-giant-branch stars
Semiregular variable stars
Zeta Herculis Moving Group

Perseus (constellation)
Persei, Rho
BD+38 0630
Persei, 25
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Gorgonea Tertia
The Roaring Silence is the seventh studio album by English rock band Manfred Mann's Earth Band. It was released on 27 August 1976, by Bronze Records in the UK and by Warner Bros. Records in the US. Like other Earth Band albums, this includes material by other composers. "Blinded by the Light", which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, is a cover version of a song by Bruce Springsteen; "Questions" is based on the main theme of Franz Schubert's Impromptu in G flat Major (1827); "Starbird" takes its theme from Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird (1910); and "The Road to Babylon" is based on the canon "By the Waters of Babylon" by Philip Hayes. This album marked the arrival of vocalist/guitarist Chris Hamlet Thompson, and Dave Flett who replaced longtime guitarist/vocalist/composer Mick Rogers. It is also the last album recorded with founding member Colin Pattenden.

The instrumental track "Waiter, There's a Yawn in My Ear" is based on a live recording (with studio overdubs added later). The album’s cover art is a visualization of this track’s title. Its main riff is taken from the Manfred Mann Chapter Three track "Fish" which was recorded for their abandoned third album. It was ultimately released in 2005 on the Odds & Sods – Mis-takes & Out-takes box set.

Track listing 

There were two pressings of this album available in the U.S. The original, shown here, and a reissue from 1977 with a blue cover which included "Spirit In The Night", another Springsteen song which had previously been released on Nightingales & Bombers and was now re-recorded with Chris Thompson taking lead vocals, in between "The Road to Babylon" and "This Side of Paradise". The first CD-release (1987) of this album did not contain bonus tracks, and tracks No. 3 and No. 7 had changed places.

Personnel

The Earth Band
 Chris Hamlet Thompson – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
 Manfred Mann – keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on the final verse of “Blinded By The Light”
 Dave Flett – lead guitar
 Colin Pattenden – bass
 Chris Slade – drums, backing vocals, percussion

Additional musicians
 Doreen Chanter – backing vocals
 Irene Chanter – backing vocals
 Susanne Lynch – backing vocals
 Mick Rogers – backing vocals
 Barbara Thompson – saxophone
 David Millman – string arrangements

Technical
 Manfred Mann's Earth Band – producers
 Laurence Latham – engineer
 David Culpan, Margaret Wood, Tony Rowell, Edwin Cross – assistant engineers
 Shirtsleeve Studio – design. Modelled by artist Derek Goldsmith
 Martyn Goddard – photography

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links
 Manfred Mann's Earth Band - The Roaring Silence (1976) album releases & credits at Discogs
 Manfred Mann's Earth Band - The Roaring Silence (1976) album credits & user reviews at ProgArchives.com
 Manfred Mann's Earth Band - The Roaring Silence (1976) album to be listened on Spotify

Manfred Mann's Earth Band albums
1976 albums
Bronze Records albums
Warner Records albums
The 2012 Campeonato Cearense de Futebol was the 98th season of the top professional football league in the state of Ceará, Brazil. The competition began on January 18 and ended on May 13. Ceará won the championship for the 41st time, while Itapipoca, Trairiense and Crateús were relegated.

Format
Each team plays the other once in a round-robin format followed by four team playoff with home-and-away series.

Qualifications
The two teams on the finals will qualify for the 2013 Copa do Brasil and 2013 Copa do Nordeste. The best team not playing in Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, B or C will qualify for 2012 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D.

Teams

First stage

Standings

Results

Final Stage

Semifinals

First leg

Second leg

Finals

Ceará won due to better campaign on First stage.

Top goalscorers

Source Federação Cearense de Futebol
Last updated: 14 May 2012

References

Cearense
Campeonato Cearense
Gabriel Dugrès (fl. 1643) was a French Huguenot grammarian.

Life
He was born at Saumur, and alludes obscurely to his origin in his Life of Richelieu, where, after stating that he came of a good family of Angiers, he says that his paternal uncle lived at the French court together with other relations, the MM. les Botrus, who were greatly favoured by the queen during Richelieu's ascendency over Louis XIII. 

Obliged to quit France on account of his religion in 1631, he came to Cambridge, where he gave lessons in French, and by the liberality of his pupils was enabled to publish his Breve et Accuratum Grammaticæ Gallicæ Compendium, in quo superflua rescinduntur & necessaria non omittuntur, octavo, Cambridge, 1636. 

Three years later he was teaching at Oxford, as appears from his Dialogi Gallico-Anglico-Latini, octavo, Oxford, 1639. Some of these dialogues are very amusing as giving a picture of the mode of living and manners of our forefathers. A second edition, enlarged, with Regulæ Pronunciandi, ut et Verborum Gallicorum Paradigmata, appeared octavo, Oxford, 1652; a third, without the additions, was issued duodecimo, Oxford, 1660. 
Dugrès was also author of Jean Arman Du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu and Peere of France; his Life, &c., octavo, London, 1643, which, although written, as he says, with "a ruffe pen", is an interesting tract. It was followed by a translation "out of the French copie" of The Will and Legacies of Cardinal Richelieu … together with certain instructions which he left the French King. Also some remarkable passages that hath happened in France since the death of the said Cardinal, quarto, London, 1643.

Notes

References

Attribution
; Endnotes:
Prefaces to Works cited above, which correct the account of Dugrès given in Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 184.

Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
People from Saumur
17th-century French people
Huguenots
Grammarians from France
Linguists from France
Academics of the University of Cambridge