Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The People's Party of Punjab (PPP) was a Punjab-based Indian political party, founded by Manpreet Singh Badal in March 2011. After disagreements with the Chief Minister and his uncle Parkash Singh Badal, Manpreet resigned from the position of Finance Minister of Punjab, and later, from membership of the state assembly. In 2016, Manpreet announced the merger of the party with the Indian National Congress after meeting with party vice-president Rahul Gandhi.

History
The People's Party of Punjab (PPP) had a short-lived existence. After its formation in March 2011, it contested the 2012 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. Following a non-impressive performance in 2012, it decided to dissolve the organizational structure in 2014 and make attempts to rejuvenate the party. The party forged an alliance with the Indian National Congress to contest the 2014 Indian general election with Manpreet contesting the Bathinda Parliamentary seat against Harsimrat Kaur Badal. In 2015, amidst speculation that it would merge with the Aam Aadmi Party, the PPP denied talk of its merger. Later, in 2016, the party was dissolved and it merged with the Indian National Congress.

2012 Punjab State Election

The 2012 state election was the first to be contested by the party. It allied with the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party of India and the Shiromani Akali Dal (Longowal) in a group calling itself the Sanjha Morcha. Badal was the chief ministerial candidate of the coalition.

The Sanjha Morcha was unsuccessful in winning any of the seats it had contested despite garnering an approximate share of 6% of the total votes polled.

Ideology
Unlike the Shiromani Akali Dal from where Manpreet Singh Badal and a majority of his followers came, PPP maintained a distance from Sikh political affairs, and aimed to emerge as a secular third-front alternative in Punjab politics, aligning with various left parties.

References

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Political parties in Punjab, India
Sikh politics
Regionalist parties in India
2011 establishments in Punjab, India
Political parties established in 2011
Saint Gaud (died 491) was Bishop of Evreux from 440 to 480.  His feast is 31 January.

Biography 
Saint Gaud was born to a wealthy family of Evreux around the year 400. Touched by the profanations perpetrated by the inhabitants after the death of Saint Taurin, he undertook to restore the Christian religion in his region. He immediately preached the gospel and built churches.

He was Bishop of Evreux for 40 years before retiring in 480 to finish his life in the forest of Scissy, where he died around the year 491.

According to legend, the miracles that occurred near his relics were innumerable; the people paid tribute to him by the following adage: "Blessed Saint Gaud heals all evils". He is reputed to heal especially nervous diseases of small children and depression.

He is revered at Saint-Pair-sur-Mer, where an altar is dedicated to him. Parents used to come there to bless their children's swaddles and thus preserve them from disease. Pilgrims today address their requests on a register or on the mass ticket. A church is also dedicated to him in Normanville, Normandy.

References

Source 

Hippolyte Gancel, Les saints qui guérissent en Normandie, 2006

Medieval Breton saints
491 deaths
5th-century Christian saints
The 1987 British League season was the 53rd season of the top tier of speedway in the United Kingdom and the 23rd known as the British League.

Summary
Coventry Bees comfortably won the league finishing 16 points clear of Cradley Heath. The same five main riders who made up the 1986 team rode through the 1987 season but crucially four of them improved on their 1986 averages. Tommy Knudsen and Kelvin Tatum both hit over 10, while Rick Miller and David Bargh both improved by about 2 points on average. John Jørgensen also remained consistent for the Bees. Coventry also won the League Cup but lost to Cradley in the final of the Knockout Cup. The double defending champions Oxford Cheetahs were forced to release Simon Wigg to Hackney and Per Sorensen because of the 45 point limit. They finished second from bottom despite Hans Nielsen topping the averages once again.

Final table
M = Matches; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; Pts = Total Points

British League Knockout Cup
The 1987 Speedway Star British League Knockout Cup was the 49th edition of the Knockout Cup for tier one teams. Cradley Heath Heathens were the winners for the second successive year if including the tied 1986 final.

First round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

First leg

Second leg

Cradley Heath were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 94-86.

League Cup
The League Cup was contested as a league format. Coventry Bees won the final over two legs defeating Belle Vue Aces 84–72 on aggregrate. It was the last time that the competition was contested.

Qualifying table

Semi-finals

Final

Final replay

Riders' Championship
Hans Nielsen won the British League Riders' Championship for the second successive year. It was the held at Hyde Road on 12 October, shortly before the venue closed for good.

ef=engine failure, f=fell, x=excluded r-retired

Pairs
The British League Pairs Championship was held at Smallmead Stadium on 12 July and was won by Oxford for the third consecutive year.

Final

In the final Nilsen fell and was excluded and Shirra touched the tapes and was excluded, leaving Nielsen and Grahame to complete a 7-0 (pts) uncontested heat.

Leading final averages

Riders & final averages
Belle Vue

 8.92
 8.41
 8.38
	6.35
 5.82
 5.55
 3.92
 2.65

Bradford

 8.58
 8.47
 7.35
 7.31 
 5.73
 5.71
 4.97
 1.48

Coventry

 10.25 
 10.06 
 8.20
 7.80 
 7.46
 3.44
 2.58
 2.18
 2.13

Cradley Heath

 10.44
 9.60
 9.33 
 5.10
 4.94
 3.94
 3.79
 3.47
 1.18

Hackney

 9.38 
 7.03
 6.10
 5.60
 5.40
 5.22
 5.20
 5.08

Ipswich

 9.67
 8.00 
 7.61
 6.39
 5.03
 4.58
 4.05
 3.97
 2.20

King's Lynn

 8.35
 6.67
 6.42
 6.25
 5.34
 5.27
 4.94
 4.93
 4.39

Oxford

 11.38
 8.53
 7.87
 5.68
 4.39
 3.72
 3.63
 3.04

Reading

 9.34
 8.99 
 6.95
 6.60
 6.45
 6.02
 2.57
 1.33

Sheffield

 9.47 
 9.23 
 7.59
 7.26
 5.50
 4.72
 3.88

Swindon

 9.61 
 9.36
 7.35
 6.73
 6.55
 6.37
 5.73
 1.54
 0.63

Wolverhampton

 9.86
 7.28
 6.33
 6.01
 5.48
 4.74
 3.20
 1.26
 0.40

See also
List of United Kingdom Speedway League Champions
Knockout Cup (speedway)

References

British League
1987 in British motorsport
1987 in speedway
Ross T. McIntire (August 11, 1889 – December 8, 1959) was an American physician and United States Navy officer. An otolaryngologist, he was appointed physician to President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, becoming the first Physician to the President with a board-certified speciality. In 1938, he became the Surgeon General of the United States Navy, overseeing a major expansion of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery during World War II. Following his retirement from the Navy with the rank of vice admiral, he held many senior positions in medical institutions, including Chairman of the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped.

Early life 
Ross T. McIntire was born on August 11, 1889, in Salem, Oregon. He attended Willamette University College of Medicine in Oregon, and graduated in 1912.

Naval career 
In 1917, he was commissioned as an assistant surgeon in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy. He met Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was Assistant Secretary of the Navy at the time, and when Roosevelt became President of the United States, McIntire was appointed Physician to the President in 1932. As a board certified otolaryngologist, he became the first White House physician to have a specialty certification. McIntire remained in the Navy when he became Surgeon General of the Navy in 1938, being elevated to the rank of rear admiral. Holding office during World War II, he oversaw the expansion of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery to a size larger than the size of the entire navy during peacetime. He also lobbied the President and Congress to establish the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1944, he was promoted to vice admiral. He retired from these two positions and the Navy in 1946.

Later life 
From 1947 to 1954, McIntire served as the first Chairman of the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped. He was also a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine, and the Health and Medical Committee of the National Research Council. He was the executive director of the International College of Surgeons, a member of the board of governors of the American College of Surgeons, and the director of the National Blood Bank Program of the American Red Cross. Near the end of his life, he was chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Census of the Handicapped. He was also a participant in the Marine Corps War Memorial Foundation.

He died suddenly on December 8, 1959, in Chicago, Illinois. A Methodist funeral was held in the chapel at Fort Myer, and he was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.

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1889 births
1960 deaths
Writers from Salem, Oregon
Military personnel from Oregon
Willamette University College of Medicine alumni
American otolaryngologists
Physicians to the President
Surgeons General of the United States Navy
United States Navy World War II admirals
United States Navy admirals
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
Physicians from Oregon
20th-century surgeons
Mimika Luca (24 December 1937 – 21 February 2023) was an Albanian actress and dancer.

Personal life
Luca was born on 24 December 1937 in Gjirokastër. She spent her childhood in an orphanage. She began her artistic career in 1951 with solo performances on the stage of the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania as a ballet dancer. In 1962, she joined the People's Theater (Alb. Teatri Popullor), where she performed as an actress. She played 30 roles on the national stage. From 1977, she taught students at the Drama Department of the University of Arts in Tirana.

Luca made her big screen debut in 1963 with a cameo role in the film Detyre e posaçme. After that, she starred in 14 feature films, seven of which were the main roles. She had starred in several dramas, the most frequently performed on Albanian stages being Drita (Light), completed in 1968.

Luca was married to fellow actor Ndrek Luca (1927–1993), with whom she had a son, Gjergj. She died in Tirana on 21 February 2023, at the age of 85.

References

External links

1937 births
2023 deaths
People from Gjirokastër
20th-century Albanian actresses
21st-century Albanian actresses
Albanian film actresses
Albanian stage actresses
Albanian ballet dancers
Academic staff of the University of Arts, Tirana
Sole Brothers' Circus, also known as Sole Bros. Circus was an Australian circus which toured Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

The circus was started by circus bandsman William Alfred Sole (died June 1923) and his wife Eliza Jane Perry. Eliza was the daughter of William George Perry, who swapped his pub for a small circus in the 1870s, and was known professionally as E.G. Eroni owner of Eroni's Circus

William and Eliza had six children who all performed in the circus. Andy and Jack Sole were "world-renowned jockey riders".

From 1926 to 1929, the circus performed three seasons in South Africa. While in the Congo, they performed for the King of the Belgians. They then took time off from performing to prospect for diamonds. They returned to Australia in 1929.
Joseph Kevin (Joe) Perry later married Jean Sole and became managing director and proprietor of Sole Brother's Circus.

The circus made headlines in 1936 in Brisbane, when a lioness broke into the tiger enclosure and a fight broke out in front of a live audience.

See also
List of circuses and circus owners

References

External links
 

Circus articles needing attention
Circuses
Australian circuses
The 1980 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. In its third season under head coach Tom Reed, the team compiled a 5–6 record (4–3 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for third place in the MAC, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 241 to 192.

The team's statistical leaders included Mark Kelly with 517 passing yards, Greg Jones with 952 rushing yards, and Don Treadwell with 661 receiving yards.

Schedule

References

Miami
Miami RedHawks football seasons
Miami Redskins football
Aide to the President of Iran () is an official appointed by the President of Iran with the responsibility to aid him as a personal assistant.

List

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 
 Ali Akbar Mehrabian, personal aide

Hassan Rouhani 
 Hossein Fereydoun, special aide
 Ali Younesi, aide for minorities
 Elham Aminzadeh, aide for citizenship rights
 Shahindokht Molaverdi, aide for citizenship rights
 Masoud Nili, aide for economic affairs

Ebrahim Raisi 
Farhad Rahbar, aide for economic affairs
Alireza Zakani, aide to the president of Iran in affairs of management of social damages in Tehran city

See also 
 Advisor to the President of Iran 
 Chief of Staff of the President of Iran
 Vice President of Iran

References 

Political office-holders in Iran
Bestvina may refer to:
 Běstvina, a village in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic
 surname Bestvina:
 Mladen Bestvina,  Croatian American mathematician
MobileIron Inc. was an American software company that provided unified endpoint and enterprise mobility management (EMM) for mobile devices, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA). The company announced in September 2020 it was being acquired by Ivanti.

History
The company was founded in 2007 by Ajay Mishra and Suresh Batchu and was headquartered in Mountain View, California. MobileIron was an early pioneer in mobile security and management for smartphones and tablet computers, such as iPhone, iPad, Android, and earlier mobile devices such as Symbian and Windows Phone. 

During the five year period from 2009 to 2013, MobileIron was mentioned in trade press. It had its initial public offering (IPO) in 2014 on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol MOBL.

After its share price fell from $9 at the time of the IPO to below $4 in early 2016, the company's founding CEO Bob Tinker was replaced by Barry Mainz as CEO, but remained on the company's board of directors. Simon Biddiscombe was appointed CEO in October 2017.

Products
MobileIron's software allows the security and management of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers in an enterprise environment, as well as the secure mobile access to enterprise data. As of June 2015 it held about 9.2% of global EMM market share.

MobileIron  was  mentioned by trade press in 2015 and 2016.

As of 2016, MobileIron's principal competitors include Microsoft's Enterprise Mobility Suite. Other major EMM competitors are IBM, as well as SAP, Dell/VMWare and BlackBerry who entered the EMM market after their acquisition of previously independent vendors Sybase, AirWatch and Good Technology.

In January 2018, MobileIron partnered with Google Cloud to distribute Google apps through MobileIron’s EMM platform and to provide a secure enterprise applications and services portal.

Acquisition
After announcement in September, on December 1, 2020 MobileIron was acquired by Ivanti for $872 million.

References

External links

Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
2007 establishments in the United States
Security software
Mobile device management software
Defunct software companies of the United States
Corne Nel is a South African rugby league footballer who represented his country in the 2000 World Cup.

Playing career
Nel first played for South Africa in a 1997 match against France. He also played in the 1997 Super League World Nines tournament.

In 2000 he played in another international for South Africa, against Wales, and was then named in the countries squad for the 2000 World Cup. He played in two matches at the tournament.

References

Living people
South African rugby league players
South Africa national rugby league team players
Year of birth missing (living people)
Michael Keen may refer to:

Michael John Keen (1935–1991), geoscientist
Mike Keen (1940–2009), footballer

See also
Michael Keane (disambiguation)
The Referendum Act 1998 (No. 1/1998) is an act of the Oireachtas which modified how referendums are carried out in Ireland. The act was necessary following the  McKenna case in which the Supreme Court of Ireland held that the spending of public money in support of the campaign for a government-approved outcome of a constitutional referendum was unconstitutional. To rectify the imbalance, this act was introduced. Its main provision was to provide for the establishment of a Referendum Commission prior to each future referendum.

External links 

1998 in Irish law
Acts of the Oireachtas of the 1990s
The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.9 was a British experimental reconnaissance aircraft of World War I.

Design
The intention of the designers was to combine the high performance of tractor configuration aircraft with a good field of fire for the observer's machine gun, as provided by pushers. It was therefore decided to modify an example of the B.E.2c by adding a small wooden box (which soon gained the nickname "pulpit") in front of the aircraft's propeller, which would accommodate a gunner armed with a Lewis gun on a trainable mount. The normal observer's cockpit of the B.E.2c was removed, allowing the engine (the standard air-cooled RAF 1a of the B.E.2) to be moved rearwards, while the wingspan was increased, and a larger fin was fitted.

A general layout of this kind had various drawbacks - the most obvious being the perilous situation of the gunner - who was liable to injury by the propeller, or to be crushed by the engine in the mildest of crashes.  The type was not developed further by the Royal Aircraft Factory (although the French SPAD S.A, of similar concept, saw service) and was soon rendered superfluous by the availability of synchronization gears.

Service testing
The single prototype built (serial 1700) first flew at Farnborough on 14 August 1915. Early testing indicated that performance was little different from the B.E.2c upon which it was based, although the "difficulty" (surely an understatement) in communicating between the pilot and observer, separated by both engine and propeller, was reported. and in September that year the B.E.9 was sent for testing in the field in France by a number of units, including No. 6 Squadron, 8 Squadron and 16 Squadron. While the B.E.9 carried out a few operational patrols in France, including one encounter with a German Fokker Eindekker, the opinion of those testing it was generally negative, with Major Hugh Dowding, at the time commander of 16 Squadron, stating that the B.E.9 was "...an extremely dangerous machine from the passenger's point of view", while Hugh Trenchard, head of the RFC in France said that "this type of machine cannot be recommended". It was sent back to the United Kingdom early in 1916. In his memoirs, Lt Duncan Grinnell-Milne recalls his gratitude that initial combat experience with the type proved inconclusive and that it was not ordered into mass production.

Design work had started on the B.E.9a, a more powerful version powered by a 140hp V12 RAF4a engine, but a prototype was never built.

Operators

Royal Flying Corps
(prototype tested briefly by:)
No. 6 Squadron RFC
No. 8 Squadron RFC
No. 16 Squadron RFC

Specifications (BE.9)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

  
 
 
 

1910s British military reconnaissance aircraft
BE09
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1915
The St. John Valley Times is a weekly newspaper based in Madawaska, Maine. It was founded in October 1957 by Joseph J. Falter.

St. John Valley Times circulates approximately 6,000 copies per week. The paper is distributed on Wednesdays to the residents of the St. John Valley, a large area in Maine located along the Saint John River, and Aroostook County. Because the residents of the St. John Valley are largely a population of Acadian and Québec descent, the publisher prints some articles and editorials in both French and English.
St. John Valley Times also provides other services including custom printing in their in-house print shop.
The St. John Valley Times celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007.

The St. John Valley Times was acquired by the Bangor Publishing Company, owner of the Bangor Daily News, from Walls Newspapers of Birmingham, Alabama, in 2015.

References

External links
Official Website

Saint John River (Bay of Fundy)
Newspapers published in Maine

Newspapers established in 1957
1957 establishments in Maine
This List of Australian art awards covers the main art awards given by organisations based in Australia. Most are for Australian art but some are open to artists from elsewhere.

See also
Lists of art awards

References

External links
De'voreaux White (born Devorea W. Sefas; August 6, 1965) is an American actor. He is best known for his role in Die Hard as the young limousine driver, Argyle.

Career

Film and television
De'voreaux White was born in Los Angeles County, California. He began acting professionally at the age of 10.

His first bookings were The Jeffersons, Little House on the Prairie and 1980's The Blues Brothers, where he played the role of the youth who tries to steal a guitar from Ray Charles' music store. White also played one of the boys who attempt to keep the baseball in the Neil Simon movie Max Dugan Returns. In 1984, he played Wylie, who was lynched for accidentally shooting a white sheriff in Places in the Heart. The movie received notice at the Academy Awards and White credits the role for helping to provide the opportunity to do a reading with the producer Joel Silver and the actor Bruce Willis for Die Hard (1988). Some of the dialogue in the film he improvised on set with Willis. His filming schedule was spread over a three-month period.

White also starred in the television series Head of the Class as Aristotle McKenzie. In 1992, he played the role of Lucky in the movie Trespass, playing the drug-addicted little brother of King James (played by Ice-T). He appeared in the 2000 drama Shadow Hours.

White reprised his role as Argyle from Die Hard, with Willis, in a commercial for Advance Auto Parts' DieHard brand of car batteries in October 2020.

Other work
In 2019, White set up his own company in California. By then, he worked in the clinical staff of a substance-abuse rehabilitation facility.

Personal life
In 2019, White resided in Newport Beach, California. His original last name, Sefas, is Ethiopian; after his mother died, his maternal grandparents with the surname White adopted him.

Filmography

Television
 1977 The Jeffersons as Warren Barnes
 1979–1981 Little House on the Prairie as various characters
 1981 Quincy, M.E. as Ethan Kellogg
 1982 T.J. Hooker as Stevie Pine
 1983–1984 Diff'rent Strokes as Glenn
 1985 Highway to Heaven as Terry
 1986 227 as Harvey
 1989 In the Heat of the Night as Albert Tolliver
 1989–1991 Head of the Class as Aristotle McKenzie
 2014 Workaholics as Uber Driver
 2023 Easter as Smiley

Films
 1980 The Blues Brothers as Young Guitar Thief
 1983 Max Dugan Returns as Boy
 1984 Places in the Heart as Wylie
 1988 Action Jackson as Clovis
 1988 Die Hard as Argyle
 1988 Split Decisions as Coop
 1992 Trespass as "Lucky"
 2000 Shadow Hours as Second Transvestite
 2012 Sandbar'' as Charles Kendall

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1965 births
Living people
African-American male actors
Male actors from Los Angeles
American male television actors
American male film actors
20th-century African-American people
21st-century African-American people
American people of Ethiopian descent