Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The 1949–50 NBA season was the inaugural season of the National Basketball Association, which was created in 1949 by merger of the 3-year-old BAA and 12-year-old NBL. The 1950 NBA playoffs ended with the Minneapolis Lakers winning the NBA Championship, beating the Syracuse Nationals in 6 games in the NBA Finals.

Commonly 1949–50 is counted as the fourth NBA season. It recognizes the three BAA seasons (1946–47, 1947–48 and 1948–49) as part of its own history, sometimes without comment.

Notable occurrences 
 The Indianapolis Jets and Providence Steamrollers folded after the 1948–49 season, leaving the BAA with 10 teams. Excluding the Jets, three of those teams had joined the BAA from the National Basketball League (NBL) one year before.
 Six NBL franchises – (Anderson, Denver, Sheboygan, Syracuse, Tri-Cities, and Waterloo) and one expansion team (Indianapolis Olympians) – joined with the ten surviving BAA teams to create the National Basketball Association with 17 teams.

Final standings
In this inaugural NBA season only, the ten surviving teams from 1948–49 BAA season played a heavy schedule of games with each other and a light schedule with the seven NBL participants in the merger that created the league, and vice versa.

Eastern Division

Syracuse played a heavy schedule of 44 games against Western Division teams: on average just over seven games each, same as they played each other (35 to 37 games against five Western rivals). The Western Division teams were generally weaker on the court; none of the teams there won half of its games played outside the division. Yet Syracuse won at the same 80% rate against the East and Central (16–4) as they did against the West (35–9).

Central Division

To define first and third place, the Lakers played one game against the Royals, while the Stags played one against the Pistons, preliminary to the 1950 NBA playoffs.

The five Central Division teams and five Eastern teams beside Syracuse — that is, the ten former BAA teams – uniformly played 68 games: six games in each pairing among themselves (54) and two games each against each of the Western teams and Syracuse (14).

Western Division

The six Western Division teams and Syracuse—that is, the seven NBL participants in the merger—uniformly played two games each against every one of the ten BAA 1949 teams, the East and Central teams except Syracuse (20 games each). They played seven or nine games in each pairing among themselves (at least 42 games).

x – clinched playoff spot

Playoffs

Statistics leaders

Note: Prior to the 1969–70 season, league leaders in points and assists were determined by totals rather than averages.

NBA awards

All-NBA First Team:
Max Zaslofsky, Chicago Stags
Bob Davies, Rochester Royals
Alex Groza, Indianapolis Olympians
George Mikan, Minneapolis Lakers
Jim Pollard, Minneapolis Lakers

All-NBA Second Team:
Ralph Beard, Indianapolis Olympians
Frank Brian, Anderson Packers
Al Cervi, Syracuse Nationals
Fred Schaus, Fort Wayne Pistons
Dolph Schayes, Syracuse Nationals

References
General source: 1949–50 NBA Season Summary basketball-reference.com. Retrieved August 31, 2010.
P-Cube was a service delivery platform company based in the United States, with R&D facilities in Herzliya, Israel. It was acquired by Cisco Systems on August 23, 2004. Cisco announced an end of sale of the lower end platforms of the product (now renamed the Service Control Engine or SCE) in October 2012. Further development of the SCE platform continues and replacements are available from Cisco Systems.

History
P-Cube was founded in 1999 by three Israeli technology entrepreneurs. Yuval Shahar was the company's CEO and previously served as a development manager for VocalTec (Nasdaq:VOCL). Benny Shnaider, was previously a co-founder of Pentacom, which was also acquired by Cisco in April 2004 for $118 million. The third founder, who was P-Cube's President, Giora Yaron, was previously president of Indigo NV (Nasdaq: INDG), and general manager of Tower Semiconductor (Nasdaq: TSEM).

The idea for founding P-Cube came as a result of examining ways to improve Internet service providers' profitability. P-Cube offered them the ability to provide additional services for a fee, bringing them much needed dollars that help make them more profitable.

P-Cube raised more than $65 million in venture capital funding from: Granite Global, Accel Partners, ComVentures, Evergreen, Sandoz, and Venture TDF Ventures.

References

Software companies based in California
Cisco Systems acquisitions
Software companies of Israel
Companies based in Sunnyvale, California
Defunct software companies of the United States
Mfoniso Udofia is a Nigerian-American storyteller, actor, and educator whose work centers on Nigerian immigrant life within the United States. Celebrated and well known work from Udofia includes: Sojourners, Her Portmanteau, runboyrun and In Old Age --- all plays from within her projected nine-play Ufot Cycle. She also works in film/television as a writer-producer on shows like Little America, Pachinko, A League of Their Own and Showtime's, Let the Right One In.

Early life and education 
In the 1970s, Udofia's parents immigrated from Nigeria to Houston, Texas, finally settling in Worcester, MA. Udofia went on to complete her undergraduate degree in political science from Wellesley College.

Udofia then went on to continue her education at the American Conservatory Theater. After graduating with her M.F.A in Acting Udofia moved to New York for work as an actress. Post-graduation, Udofia began writing plays that centered the Nigerian immigrant experience in America.

Work 
Upon completion of her Masters at the American Conservatory Theater, Udofia moved to New York City and began writing plays. The first play she wrote was The Grove, a play which would go on to become the second installation in a nine-play cycle entitled, The Ufot Cycle. The Ufot Cycle follows a Nigerian immigrant family across generations navigating their lives and identities in America. Her plays have had readings and/or productions at: New York Theatre Workshop, American Conservatory Theater, Magic Theater, The Playwrights Realm, Boston Court, Denver Center, Portland Center Stage, Berkeley Rep, The National Black Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, MCC and McCarter Theatre. Her work has been developed at: Hedgebrook, Sundance Theatre Lab, Space on Ryder Farm, New Black Fest and more.

Outside of the cycle she has written a modern translation of Othello  for the PlayOn! Festival and compiled a night of her shorts, entitled On Love  for MCC. She's also written plays for both radio and the internet with her plays, The Human Experiment [radio], and New Math [Instagram].

In 2018 she began writing for television, starting as a staff writer for the 3rd season of Netflix's, 13 Reasons Why. She has gone on to write for over eight television shows.

Ufot Cycle Plays 
Only the four Ufot Cycle plays that have been produced have been listed.
 Sojourners
 runboyrun
 Her Portmanteau
 In Old Age

Awards/Honors

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Southbridge, Massachusetts
American people of Nigerian descent
Wellesley College alumni
Actresses from Massachusetts
The Craft Guild of Chefs is the main professional association for chefs in the UK.

Established in 1885 under its former name of the Cookery and Food Association, it is sited near Kew Gardens station in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It holds the annual National Chef of the Year awards.

Graduate Awards 
Craft Guild of Chefs host its Graduate Awards at the University College Birmingham.

References

External links
 Craft Guild of Chefs

1965 establishments in England
British cuisine
Culinary professional associations
Guilds in England
Hospitality industry in the United Kingdom
Kew, London
Organisations based in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
Organizations established in 1965
Professional associations based in the United Kingdom
Sikhism in Denmark () is a minority religion. There are estimated to be 4,000 Sikhs living in Denmark.

History 
The Sikhs started to arrive at Denmark in the late 1960s and early 1970s as labour migrants. In the 1980s and 1990s, Sikh refugees escaping the violent conflicts in Punjab started to arrive in Denmark.

The Sikh community in Denmark achieved official recognition as a religious community from the Ministry of Ecceslesistical affairs in 1985.

One estimate put their number to between 800 and 1500 in 2015. 

Most Sikhs are concentrated in the capital Copenhagen, with small groups in other places such as the Horsens and Aarhus areas.

Gurdwaras 
The only gurdwara in the country is:
 Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Kirkebjerg Allé 35 A, 2720 Vanlose, Copenhagen.

List of Danish Sikhs 
 Kirsten Lindholm (former model and a film actress)
 Jagvir Singh (footballer)

See also 
 Sikhism by country

References

External links
The Mall at Sierra Vista is an indoor shopping center in Sierra Vista, Arizona, United States owned and managed by Kohan Retail Investment Group. It was constructed during the late 1990s. Sierra Vista was one of the fastest-growing communities in Arizona and the major population center for southeastern Arizona. The developers had hoped to market to the growing community, which had no other malls. It was the first major mall to be built in southeastern Arizona, with  of retail space.

This regional mall serves a large portion of southeastern Arizona and northern parts of the Mexican state of Sonora. A recent survey indicated that as much as 30% of the mall's shoppers come from Sonora, traveling as far away as Nacozari and Cumpas,  south of the border, just to shop there.

In addition to shopping, the Mall at Sierra Vista hosts the annual Festival of Trees, the Festival of Giving,<ref name="Ory2">Ory, Laura (2007-10-28). "Habitat for Humanity group gets a new home" The Sierra Vista Herald. Last accessed 2007-11-26.</ref> and an annual Car Show for the Boys and Girls Club. The Mall merits a mention in Ethel Jackson Price's 2003 book, Sierra Vista: a Young City with a Past''.

In 2015, Sears Holdings spun off 235 of its properties, including the Sears at The Mall as Sierra Vista, into Seritage Growth Properties. On October 15, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 142 stores nationwide. In January 2019, Seritage listed the Sears property for sale due to limited redevelopment opportunities.

In May 2019, the mall was listed for sale; For 2 years, no buyer has been found. Then in July 2021, Kohan Retail Investment Group purchased the mall alongside 6 other malls from Brookfield Asset Management.

Anchors
 Cinemark 10 (34,778 sq ft.)
 Dillard's (101,123 sq ft.)
 Best Buy (20,512 sq ft.)

References

External links
 Official site

Shopping malls in Arizona
Buildings and structures in Cochise County, Arizona
Tourist attractions in Cochise County, Arizona
Shopping malls established in 1999
Sierra Vista, Arizona
1999 establishments in Arizona
Kohan Retail Investment Group
Hebei Zhuoao F.C. is defunct Chinese football club. They were based in Qinhuangdao, Hebei. The Chinese Football School Stadium was their home venue. It had partnership with Brazilian football club Olé Brasil Futebol Clube through youth programs, in which they send selected, promising Chinese youth players to train abroad there.

History
Hebei Jingying F.C. () was established in 2009 by Hebei Jingying Group ().

It aims to contribute to the development of Chinese football through organizing programs to send selected Chinese youth players to Brazil to train abroad through their advanced methods, and sent out their first group of players in 2009. 

In December 2010, the club signed a partnership contract with Brazilian side Olé Brasil Futebol Clube, a football club based in Ribeirão Preto, São Paolo and are known for its youth training programs, and sent out their second group of youth players to train abroad there.

After the return of their first group of players sent out in 2010, the club enrolled in 2014 China League Two, and has remained in the same level ever since. 

In 2019, they changed their name to Hebei Aoli Jingying F.C. ().

The club was dissolved after 2021 season.

Name history

Results
All-time league rankings

As of the end of 2019 season.

 in North Group.

Key
 Pld = Played
 W = Games won
 D = Games drawn
 L = Games lost
 F = Goals for
 A = Goals against
 Pts = Points
 Pos = Final position

 DNQ = Did not qualify
 DNE = Did not enter
 NH = Not Held
 – = Does Not Exist
 R1 = Round 1
 R2 = Round 2
 R3 = Round 3
 R4 = Round 4

 F = Final
 SF = Semi-finals
 QF = Quarter-finals
 R16 = Round of 16
 Group = Group stage
 GS2 = Second Group stage
 QR1 = First Qualifying Round
 QR2 = Second Qualifying Round
 QR3 = Third Qualifying Round

References

External links
Soccerway

Association football clubs established in 2009
Association football clubs disestablished in 2022
Defunct football clubs in China
2009 establishments in China
2022 disestablishments in China
David Blair (born June 29, 1971) is an American former professional tennis player.

Blair played collegiate tennis for the University of Florida and won the NCAA Division I doubles championship with Mark Merklein in 1993. The pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw of the 1993 US Open, falling in the second round to Patrick McEnroe and Richey Reneberg.

References

External links
 
 

1971 births
Living people
American male tennis players
Florida Gators men's tennis players
20th-century American sportsmen
Antonín Landa (2 May 1899 – 8 April 1968) was a Czech painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

References

1899 births
1968 deaths
20th-century Czech painters
Czech male painters
Olympic competitors in art competitions
Painters from Prague
20th-century Czech male artists
The 1988 Virginia Slims of New Orleans was the final edition of the Virginia Slims of New Orleans tennis tournament. Chris Evert was the defending champion and won in the final 6–4, 6–1 against Anne Smith.

Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top four seeds received a bye to the second round.

  Chris Evert (champion)
  Barbara Potter (quarterfinals)
  Lori McNeil (quarterfinals)
  Stephanie Rehe (semifinals)
  Halle Cioffi (first round)
  Catarina Lindqvist (second round)
  Robin White (quarterfinals)
  Gretchen Magers (second round)

Draw

Final

Section 1

Section 2

References
 1988 Virginia Slims of New Orleans Draw

Virginia Slims of New Orleans
1988 WTA Tour
Final Four will be held on 23–24 March 2024.

Semifinals

Third place

Final

Bracket

References

External links
Official website

Final Four
Maulavi Sayeedur Rahman Haqani () was a senior member of the Taliban leadership.

The United Nations Security Council issued Security Council Resolution 1267 in 1999, which listed senior Taliban members. The United Nations requested member states to freeze the financial assets of those individuals.

Sayeedur Rahman Haqani was listed as one of the Taliban's Deputy Minister of Mines and Industries.

In September 2010 Hamid Karzai
named him as one of the seventy members of the Afghanistan High Peace Council.
The Peace Council's mandate was to open negotiations with moderate elements of the Taliban,
and convince them to abandon violence and instead participate peacefully in the political process.

On July 16, 2011 the United Nations Security  Council dropped his name, and that of thirteen other
former members of the Taliban, from the 1267 list.

References

Taliban leaders
Pashtun people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
KNX is a home and building automation standard. 

KNX may also refer to:

 KNX, the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Knight-Swift, a US trucking company
 KNX (AM), a radio station (1070 AM) licensed to Los Angeles, California, United States
 KCBS-FM, a radio station (93.1 FM) licensed to Los Angeles, California, United States, which used the call sign KNX-FM from May 1986 to March 1989
KNX-FM, a radio station (97.1 MHz) licensed to Los Angeles, California, United States
 The IATA airport code for Kununurra Airport
Carlotta Giovannini (born 5 July 1990) is an Italian artistic gymnast who competed at her first international competition in 2003.

Career
Giovannini has had considerable success at the European Level. She was a member of the historic Gold Medal winning Italian team at the 2006 European Championships in Volos, Greece. She followed this success by winning an individual Gold in the Vault Final at the 2007 European Championships in Amsterdam, Netherlands as well as a silver in the 2008 European Vault Final.

Giovannini competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a member of the Italian Olympic Team. Whilst the Italian team failed to progress to the final due to a number of mistakes in qualifications, Giovannini progressed to the individual Vault Final, where she placed sixth.

Eponymous skill
Giovanni has one eponymous uneven bars dismount listed in the Code of Points.

References

External links
 

1990 births
Living people
Italian female artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Italy
Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics
European champions in gymnastics
21st-century Italian women
People from Castel San Pietro Terme
Yan Han may refer to:

 Yan Han (artist) (1916–2011), Chinese artist and teacher
 Yan Han (figure skater) (born 1996), Chinese figure skater
The Krucze Mountains (, German: Rabengebirge ) are the Eastern part of the Stone Mountains, which belong to the Central Sudetes on the border of the Czech Republic and Poland. To the West and North-Western part the mountain range borders the Lubawska Plateau and the Karkonosze Mountains, to the North-Eastern part they border the mountain range Czarny Las, from the East they border the sediment basin Kotlina Krzeszowska and the Zawory mountain range and to the South the mountain range borders the Czech part of the Stołowe Mountains. To the Southern ridge of mountain range is the Polish-Czech border. The border crossing for cars is in Lubawka and for tourists is in Okrzeszyn.

Specification
The mountain range stretches North to South, which is irregular for the Sudetes Mountains, this is due to their geological build. To the very North of the mountain range is Kościelna with a height of 513 metres, which is on the outskirts of the settlement of Kamienna Góra. The most important highest peaks in the Northern part of the mountain range are: Długosz at 612 metres, Anielska Góra at 651 metres, Czarnogóra at 621 metres, Kierz at 662 metres, Skowroniec at 581 metres,  Pustelnia at 683 metres,  Święta Góra at 701 metres,  Krucza Skała at 681 metres, Polska Góra at 792 metres, Szeroka at 844 metres, Głazica at 798 metres, Wiązowa at 800 metres, Jaworowa at 786 metres,  Owcza Głowa at 753 metres,  Końska at 813 metres, Kobyla Góra at 758 metres, Bogoria at 645 metres, Jański Wierch at 697 metres. On the Czech side of the mountain range, from the West of the border ridge is Královecký Špičák, the highest peak of the Krucze Mountains and Mravenčí vrch at 836 metres.

The Jańskiego Wierchu Massif is separated from the Krucze Mountains by the Szkła Valley, and according to Czech geographers the Jestřebí hory mountain range.

Settlements

On the Polish side of the mountain range
Błażejów, Błażkowa, Janiszów, Kamienna Góra, Lipienica, Lubawka, Okrzeszyn, Przedwojów and Uniemyśl.

On the Czech side of the mountain range
Bečkov, Bernartice, Královec.

References

Mountain ranges of Poland
Mountain ranges of the Czech Republic
Sudetenland
The flag of Franche-Comté is a regional French flag inspired by the blazon of Franche-Comté. It depicts, on a field of azure semé with bars of gold (or) a crowned lion rampant, with tongue and claws gules. This blazon was created during the High Middle Ages by Otto IV, Count of Burgundy, as a replacement of the eagle which was formerly the heraldic representation of Burgundy, in order to indicate a closer relationship with the Kingdom of France. Like many other local symbols in France, it has several times come close to disappearing, either for lack of popular interest or when heraldry of this kind was abolished, notably after the French Revolution and, following the Second World War, in 1982. However, at the end of the 1980s, Edgar Faure, President of the council of the région of Franche-Comté, created the modern flag based on it. Although still rarely used, in the early 21st century it has gained in popularity. Le drapeau est donc décrit ainsi : sur champ d'azur semé de billettes d'or sans nombre, un lion d'or de Bourgogne rampant, armé et lampassé de gueules, brochant sur le tout.

References

Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté
Flags displaying animals
Ercole Coppola (15 February, 1603 – 1658) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Nicotera (1651–1658).

Biography
Ercole Coppola was born in Gallipoli, Italy on 15 February 1603.
On 22 May 1651, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent X as Bishop of Nicotera.
On 29 May 1651, he was consecrated bishop by Marcantonio Franciotti, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace, with Giambattista Spada, Patriarch of Constantinople, and Ranuccio Scotti Douglas, Bishop Emeritus of Borgo San Donnino, serving as co-consecrators. 
He served as Bishop of Nicotera until his death in 1658.

References 

17th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Bishops appointed by Pope Innocent X
1603 births
1658 deaths
Périllos is a former commune in Pyrénées-Orientales.

History 
In the 14th century, the lord of Périllos was made a viscount by John I of Aragon as a reward for his continuous helping.

Originally independent, since 19 November 1971, it is linked with Opoul, and hence known as Opoul-Périllos. The village itself has since been abandoned.

Notes 

Former communes of Pyrénées-Orientales