Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Liliane Maury Pasquier (born 16 December 1956) is a Swiss politician, member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland, elected to the Swiss Council of States for the canton of Geneva in 2007, and is currently a member of a delegation that cooperates with the French parliament to foster cooperation between the countries. From 2018 until 2020, she served as the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Political career
A member of the Swiss delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2012, Maury Pasquier has served on a number of committees, including the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy and the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee). In addition, she was chairwoman of the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs as well as the co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Russia (alongside former Greek foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis). She was also part of a PACE pre-electoral delegation to Armenia ahead of the  2017 national elections. She led the Socialist Group within the Assembly before being elected its President in June 2018. She was the 32nd President of the Assembly since its creation in 1949, and only the fourth woman to hold the post.

Political positions
On 20 March 2008, Maury Pasquier was reported in the media  for remarks critical of Swiss Foreign Minister, Micheline Calmy-Rey for having worn a headscarf to a meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to sign a gas contract, alleging that it had offended Iranian feminists.

In 2011, Maury Pasquier called on Swiss banks to ban investments in companies associated with anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions, following findings according to which 16 Swiss companies are among 166 leading financial institutions worldwide that are funding cluster bomb and parts manufacturing.

References

External links
 Home page 

1956 births
Living people
Presidents of the National Council (Switzerland)
Members of the Council of States (Switzerland)
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland politicians
Women members of the Council of States (Switzerland)
21st-century Swiss women politicians
21st-century Swiss politicians
The nivatakavachas () are a sect of daityas, the children of Kashyapa and Diti, classified under the race of asuras in Hindu mythology. They are best known for their battles against Ravana and Arjuna, the latter of which caused their annihilation.

Thirty million nivatakavachas were born in the daitya clan. Allied with the kalakeyas, they triumphed over the devas in battle. They are described to have been skilled in magic and warfare, wielding powerful weapons to defeat their foes.

Literature

Ramayana 
The nivatakavachas are said to have terrorised the world, living deep beneath the ocean, and residing in the city of Maṇimatī after securing boons from Brahma. In the Ramayana, Ravaṇa with his sons Meghanada, Atikaya, and with his army attacked these daityas, but found himself unable to defeat the sect after centuries of battle. The two sides finally formed an alliance after Brahma intervened.

Mahabharata 
In the Mahabharata, Indra sought the destruction of the nivatakavachas from his son, Arjuna, as his dakshina (honorarium). Describing the sect as his foes, he stated that the nivatakavachas lived in a fortress under the ocean, numbered thirty million, and were alike in shape, size, and prowess. To achieve this task, Indra sent his own charioteer, Matali, to drive Arjuna to the location of his foes. The devas offered Arjuna a conch named Devadatta, and Matali offered him ornaments that resembled his own. When the two reached the city of the daityas, they closed their gates, fearing that Indra himself had appeared to slay them. When Arjuna blew his conch, the nivatakavachas attacked him, loosing tridents, spears, and arrows upon him. Arjuna released arrows from his Gandiva, slaying the daityas in the thousands. The nivatakavachas rendered themselves invisible, and showered elemental attacks on Arjuna. The prince grew disheartened when he realised that he was unable to manoeuvre their attacks due to the intensity of their barrage. Matali urged him to employ the thunderbolt missiles he had brought with him, which devastated the daityas, and defeated them. The daitya women sought shelter in their houses as Arjuna entered Maṇimatī, thinking that it looked better than the city of the devas. The charioteer explained that the city had previously belonged to the devas, but had been captured by the daityas following a boon granted to them by Brahma. Brahma assured Indra that the latter himself, in another form, would defeat the daityas, which had just transpired. He encouraged Arjuna to also lay waste to Hiranyapura, a neighbouring city of the danavas who opposed his father as well, which the prince achieved.

Javanese Ramayana 
The Javanese Kakawin Ramayana has an episode named Arjunawiwaha (the marriage of Arjuna), which is set up on the incidents that take place surrounding Arjuna's exploits of the nivatakavachas. The city of the danavas in this poem is known as Manimantaka. Apart from the protagonist Arjuna, other main characters of the poem include Sakra, the king of the devas, and Suprabha, a celestial nymph who helps Arjuna on his mission.

See also
 Asuras
 Daityas
 Danavas
 Kalakeyas
 List of Asuras

References

Asura
Steve Wang () is a Taiwan-born American make-up artist and filmmaker.

Biography
Born in Taiwan, he and his parents moved to the America when he was nine.  His greatest inspirations were the tokusatsu superhero TV shows Ultraman and Kamen Rider, as well as Hong Kong kung fu films including Master of the Flying Guillotine.

As a veteran makeup artist and creature designer, Steve has worked with fellow veterans before him including Stan Winston, Rick Baker and Dick Smith.

He has received great praise for his film adaptation of the manga superhero Guyver in 1994 called Guyver: Dark Hero. Another project which drew attention to him was the direct to video movie, Drive, which starred Mark Dacascos and Kadeem Hardison. He also made independent films such as Kung Fu Rascals, based on a series of 8 mm short films he did years before. He and his brother Michael Wang, an award-winning commercials director, were hired in 2008 to work on Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight (an adaptation of Kamen Rider Ryuki), a second attempt at reviving the Kamen Rider Series in the United States, after Saban's Masked Rider of 1995. They write, produce, and direct as "The Wang Brothers".

In 1999, he designed the visual effects for an aborted Film Roman creation Skins for the Deep, for the proposed Max Degree TV block, but it was cancelled due to lack of international backers.

Steve Wang designed a sculpture depicting Sarah Kerrigan (The Queen of Blades), a character from the Starcraft Universe in 2012. The sculpture was placed at the Blizzard Entertainment Office in Versailles, France the same year. He has also made statues of Tryndamere and Ryze, two champions from League of Legends, for Riot Games that same year.

Filmography

Director
Rollerblade II: Taken By Force (1989) - 2nd unit director
Kung Fu Rascals (1992)
Guyver (1991) - co-director
Guyver: Dark Hero (1994)
Drive (1997)
Sirens of The Deep (1999 - TV show/pilot)
Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (1999)
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (2002) - 2nd unit director
Wolvy: Twisted at Birth (2003) - short film
Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight (2009)

Producer
Guyver: Dark Hero
Kung Fu Rascals
Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight
Beast Wishes

References

External links

Steve Wang on MySpace
Director's Reel on YouTube
SciFi Japan - Kamen Rider Dragon Knight
Latex Mask Central - FX Work
NERDSociety - Interview with Steve Wang

American film directors of Taiwanese descent
American people of Chinese descent
American make-up artists
Living people
Special effects people
Taiwanese emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alicyclobacillus herbarius is a species of Gram positive, strictly aerobic, bacterium. The bacteria are acidophilic and produced endospores. It was first isolated from a hibiscus-based herbal tea. The species was first described in 2002, and the name refers to the herbal tea from which it was first isolated.

The optimum growth temperature for A. herbarius is 55-60 °C, and can grow in the 35-65 °C range. The optimum pH is 4.5-5.0, and can grow in pH 3.5-6.0.

References

Gram-positive bacteria
Bacteria described in 2002
Bacillales
The 2016 European Wrestling Championships were held in Riga, Latvia, from 8 March to 13 March 2016.

Medal overview

Medal table

Team ranking

Men's freestyle

Men's Greco-Roman

Women's freestyle

References

External links
 Official site

 
European Wrestling Championships
Europe
Wrestling
Sports competitions in Riga
Wrestling Championships
Wrestling
Wrestling
March 2016 sports events in Europe
21st century in Riga
The 2014 NACRA sevens is an annual rugby sevens competition held for teams affiliated with the North America Caribbean Rugby Association. The competition was held between December 3 and 4 at the Campo Marte in Mexico City, Mexico. A total of twelve teams (including two from host nation Mexico) competed in the men's tournament.

In the men's gold medal match, Guyana managed to come back from being down 7–21 at half time to defeat Mexico. The top two teams in the men's competition, along with the winner of the women's competition qualified to compete at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada.

Pool stage
Men's schedule and results:

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Bowl Group

Elimination stage

Quarterfinals

Plate

Seventh place match

Fifth place match

Semifinals

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Final standings

See also
 2014 NACRA Women's Sevens

References

2014
2014 rugby sevens competitions
2014 in North American rugby union
International rugby union competitions hosted by Mexico
Qualification tournaments for the 2015 Pan American Games
rugby union
The Annunciation is a tempera on panel painting in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland made by Sandro Botticelli and his studio. The painting, which is 49.5 cm tall and 58.5 cm wide, depicts the angel Gabriel announcing news of the conception and future birth of Jesus to Mary. An inscription on the reverse side notes that the painting once was in the Church of Saint Barnaba in Florence.

Scholars have noted similarities in Botticelli's composition to the architectural forms of Guiliano da Sangallo. The painting is often dated circa 1490, a time when Botticelli painted a similar version of the Annunciation, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

See also
 List of works by Sandro Botticelli

References

"Botticelli", Los grandes genios del arte, n.º 29, Eileen Romano (dir.), Unidad Editorial, S.A., 2005, 

1490s paintings
Paintings by Sandro Botticelli
Botticelli
Paintings in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The 1919 Phillips Haymakers football team represented Phillips University during the 1919 college football season. John Maulbetsch arranged a game against the Texas Longhorns in 1919, the first meeting between the schools.   When the game was announced The San Antonio Light reported: "Phillips University has one of the strongest teams in the Southwest.  The only team to beat them in the past two years is Oklahoma and last year Phillips beat the Sooners 13–7."  The report credited Maulbetsch for securing success at an institution little known in athletics before he arrived.  The University of Texas had not lost a game since 1917 when the Phillips "Haymakers" arrived in Austin, Texas on October 11, 1919.  Maulbetsch's team shocked the Longhorns, holding them scoreless and winning the contest, 10–0.  One Texas newspaper reported that Phillips had "whitewashed the Longhorns in their own corral."

Schedule

References

Phillips
Phillips Haymakers football seasons
College football undefeated seasons
Phillips Haymakers football
Web IDL is an interface description language (IDL) format for describing application programming interfaces (APIs) that are intended to be implemented in web browsers. Its adoption was motivated by the desire to improve the interoperability of web programming interfaces by specifying how languages such as ECMAScript should bind these interfaces.

Description 
Web IDL is an IDL variant with:
 A number of features that allow one to more easily describe the behavior of common script objects in a web context.
 A mapping of how interfaces described with Web IDL correspond to language constructs within an ECMAScript execution environment.

Web specifications had been specified using OMG IDL since 1998, first with the DOM Level 1 specification. However, interfaces defined using OMG IDL were not able to specify behavior for JavaScript precisely, leading to issues with interoperability. WebIDL improved on this status quo by providing data types and binding specifications that make the intended behavior in JavaScript clearer.

Status of Web IDL specifications 
The first edition of the Web IDL specification became a Candidate Recommendation on 19 April 2012 and a W3C Recommendation on 15 December 2016. For many years the Editor's Draft of a potential second edition, was what most new web specifications referenced. On 5 October 2021, the Editor's Draft was moved to the WHATWG as the Web IDL Living Standard per an  update to the agreement between the W3C and WHATWG.

Usage 
 The W3C Wiki has a list of W3C Specifications that use Web IDL, and nearly all WHATWG specifications use it.
 The Chromium Project has a page about using WebIDL to specify interfaces in Blink. 
 Mozilla uses Web IDL in their software creation process, mapping implementations to Web IDL specs.
 When WebKit is built, the IDL files are parsed, creates the code to bind interfaces to implementations.
 In the ES operating system, every system API is defined in Web IDL, and can be invoked from JavaScript directly.

References

External links 
 List of standards that use Web IDL
 Web IDL syntax checker

Specification languages
Web browsers
BRAD Insight is a provider of information on the media and marketing industry in the United Kingdom. The product is managed by Mediatel Ltd. (an Adwanted Group company) who are based at Strand, London.

History
The firm's launch in 1954 was fuelled by the post-war revolution in the UK consumer magazine and newspaper markets. The British Rate And Data directory (known as BRAD) was first published in print and initially contained the details of around 2000 print media that were then accepting advertising. The final print copy of BRAD was published in March 2009. BRAD is now available online via subscription services known as BRAD connect & BRAD intelligence. BRAD currently contains more than 14,000 detailed media entries across seven media channels (Business Press, Consumer Press, Newspapers, TV, Radio, Out of Home and Digital).

In February 1987, Black Box Publishing launched the Account List File (known as ALF), a printed directory providing information about relationships between the UK's top spending advertisers, the brands they own and the advertising agencies they work with (including details of key personnel making advertising decisions on behalf of the brands). BBP was eventually bought by Data Management Services moving to offices in Ramillies Street in central London. At the time the data was sold through print and a software based CRM system. Eventually DMS was bought by Pearson and the ALF range was stabled with The Register and Magazine Business as Register Information Services, with offices in London near The Angel. The company was acquired by Emap in 1999 and ALF and BRAD were brought together. Following 276 editions, 267,145 pages and a total of 3.8 million updates, the final printed edition of ALF was released in August 2010. The ALF directory is now available online via subscription services known as ALF Connect and ALF Intelligence.

BRAD and ALF are both acronyms, standing for British Rate and Data and Account List File respectively. BRAD Insight was known as The Brad Group until it was re-launched in 2007 by Emap.

Current operations
New modular versions of ALF Intelligence based on key market factors have been added to the ALF Business Development portfolio. The latest, focusing on brands in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market, was released in July 2011.

Brad Insight continues to partner with the Guardian Media Group plc on various events, including the MEGAs and the Changing Media Summit. and also sponsors several other media events, such as the Media Festival and the FRESH Awards.

References

External links 
BRAD Insight
ALF Insight

Market research companies of the United Kingdom
Günthner is a German-language surname. Notable people with this surname include:

 (born 1964), German soccer referee
 (born 1976), German politician

See also
Günther
Güntner

German-language surnames
Avenaphora is an extinct genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is known from the Cretaceous of Lebanon and France.

Avenaphora is a Dolichopodidae sensu lato of uncertain affinities. It was originally placed in the subfamily Microphorinae by Grimaldi and Cumming in 1999, but the authors suggested that it could actually have a closer affinity with Parathalassiinae or Dolichopodidae sensu stricto. A later article published in 2017 suggested that Avenaphora actually has more similarities to the Parathalassiinae than the Microphorinae or Dolichopodidae s.str., but the authors did not place the genus in the Parathalassiinae as it does not have clear synapomorphy with them.

Species
The genus contains two species:
 †Avenaphora gallica Nel, Garrouste & Daugeron, 2017 – Piolenc amber, France, Early Santonian
 †Avenaphora hispida Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999 – Lebanese amber, Barremian

References

†
†
Prehistoric Diptera genera
Cretaceous insects
Alpine veronica is a common name for several plants and may refer to:

Veronica alpina, native to Europe and Asia
Veronica wormskjoldii, native to North America
Chatham Town Hall is a municipal building in Dock Road in Chatham, Kent, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Chatham Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.

History

Following the incorporation of Chatham as a municipal borough on 10 December 1890, civic leaders decided to procure a dedicated town hall: the site they selected was a plot of vacant land, which was owned by the War Office, located just to the south east of what was then a military storehouse.

The site was acquired and construction of the new building started in 1898. It was designed by George Edward Bond in the Renaissance style and opened on 23 January 1900 by Lord Rosebery. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto Dock Road; the central section of three bays, which slightly projected forward, featured four round headed widows on the ground floor, the borough coat of arms with three sash windows above on the first floor, a large round headed window on the second floor and a pediment containing a carving with the year "1899" above. At roof level the architect erected figures depicting justice, Britannia, agriculture and music. The section of three bays on the left, on the corner with Barrier Road, featured round headed doorways on the ground floor, a loggia with round headed openings on the first floor, sash windows on the second floor, flanked by Corinthian order columns which spanned the second and third floors, and a parapet above. Beyond that, there was a three-stage clock tower with a domed cupola; it originally housed an hour-striking clock by Potts & Sons (though this was replaced by an electric mechanism in the 1930s).

The principal rooms, which were on the first floor, were the mayor's parlour (on the left of the building), the council chamber (on the left of the building at the rear) and a large assembly hall with a proscenium arch (on the right of the building). In the 1930s, in anticipation of the Second World War, the local civil defence headquarters was established in the basement of the building. The town hall was the venue for various scenes in the satirical comedy film, Left Right and Centre, starring Ian Carmichael, in 1959.

The town hall served as the headquarters of Chatham Borough Council but ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged Medway Borough Council was formed with its headquarters at Gun Wharf in 1974. With the promotional motto "Putting The Arts Back Into The Medway", the town hall became the Medway Arts Centre in May 1987. It hosted concerts by rock bands such as My Bloody Valentine in January 1988 and went on to become the Brook Theatre, with a focus on children's theatre productions, in April 1997.

References

City and town halls in Kent
Government buildings completed in 1900
Government buildings with domes
Grade II listed buildings in Kent
Chatham, Kent
Kepler-70, also known as KIC 5807616 and formerly as KOI-55, is a star in the constellation Cygnus with an apparent visual magnitude of 14.87, and is 4200 light-years away. This is too faint to be seen with the naked eye; viewing it requires a telescope with an aperture of
 or more.
A subdwarf B star, Kepler-70 passed through the red giant stage some 18.4 million years ago. In its present-day state, it is fusing helium in its core. Once it runs out of helium it will contract to form a white dwarf. It has a relatively small radius of about 0.2 times the Sun's radius; white dwarfs are generally much smaller. The star may be host to a planetary system with two planets, although later research indicates that this is not in fact the case. If they are confirmed to exist, then the innermost planet has the highest temperature of any known planet.

Properties 
Kepler-70 is an sdB (B-type subdwarf star with a temperature of 27,730 K, equivalent to that of a B0-type star. It has a luminosity of , a radius of , and a mass about half of that of the sun. The star was an evolutionary giant less than 20 million years ago.

Kepler-70 is still fusing. When it runs out of helium, it will contract into a white dwarf.

Planetary system
On December 26, 2011, evidence for two extremely short-period planets, Kepler-70b and Kepler-70c, was announced by Charpinet et al. They were detected by the reflection of starlight caused by the planets themselves, rather than through a variation in apparent stellar magnitude caused by them transiting the star.

The measurements also suggested a smaller body between the two candidate planets; this remains unconfirmed.

If these planets exist, then the orbits of Kepler-70b and Kepler-70c have 7:10 orbital resonance and have the closest approach between planets of any known planetary system. However, later research suggested that what had been detected was not in fact the reflection of light from exoplanets, but star pulsation "visible beyond the cut-off frequency of the star." Further research indicated that star pulsation modes were indeed the more likely explanation for the signals found in 2011, and that the two exoplanets probably did not exist.

If Kepler-70b exists, then it has a temp of 7288 K, the same as that of an F0 star.

Notes

References

External links
 Kepler mission discoveries

 
Cygnus (constellation)
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Hypothetical planetary systems
Planetary transit variables
B-type subdwarfs