Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The Veterinary Drugs Directorate is the Canadian body responsible for putting all "veterinary products, such antimicrobials, growth promotion drugs and feed additives, through a rigorous approval process before they are licensed and sold for use" in Canada. It is part of the Health Products and Food Branch of Health Canada, and exists by virtue of the Food and Drugs Act. Its goal is "to protect human and animal health and the safety of Canada's food supply."

History

AMR
The WHO has defined Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as "the ability of a microorganism (like bacteria, viruses, and some parasites) to stop an antimicrobial (such as antibiotics, antivirals and antimalarials) from working against it. As a result, standard treatments become ineffective, infections persist and may spread to other [people]."

In 2011, Manisha Mehrotra, at the time director of the human safety division within the Directorate, spoke passionately about the need to crack down on the use of antibiotics such as cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones in the Canadian meat industry because of the risk of creating antibiotic resistant strains of viruses.

On 1 December 2018, "all medically important antimicrobials currently available over the counter for veterinary use, including those used in companion and food animals and in all dosage forms", were moved to prescription status. Antimicrobials are no longer to be used for growth promotion in Canada from this date.

Leadership
The Director-General from 2005 to 2007 was Siddika Mithani, who was once the President of the Public Health Agency of Canada, and is now the President of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

The Directorate has been led since at least June 2017 by Dr. Mary-Jane Ireland.

References

National agencies for veterinary drug regulation
Veterinary medicine in Canada
Food safety organizations
Regulators of biotechnology products
Pharmacy in Canada
Food law
Food and drink in Canada
Drug control law in Canada
Regulators of Canada
Health Canada
Animal welfare and rights in Canada
The following is a list of noted scientists from Nepal. The list, however, is not exclusive of foreign scientists of Nepalese origin or ones with dual nationalities.

B
 Binil Aryal
 Bishal Nath Upreti

D
 Dayananda Bajracharya

G
 Gehendra Shumsher

L
 Lujendra Ojha

M 
 Manoj Kumar Yadav

N 

 Niranjan Parajuli

P 

 Prakash Gautam

R
 Ram I. Mahato

S
Shankar Prasad Shrestha
Sanduk Ruit
Sudeep Thakuri

T
 Tej Kumar Shrestha

U
 Udayraj Khanal

Y
 Yadav Pandit

See also
Science and technology in Nepal
List of scientists

Nepalese
 
Lists of Nepalese people
Renata Christian (born 1983) is a Virgin Islander beauty pageant titleholder who was the winner of the Miss U.S. Virgin Islands 2007 pageant.

Biography
Christian, a lover of science, was raised in the U.S. Virgin Islands by her mother, who is a teacher, and by her father, an entrepreneur. She is a 2000 graduate of All Saints Cathedral School in Saint Thomas, and a 2004 chemistry and biology graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. In 2006, Christian began serving as the Pandemic Influenza Planning Coordinator for the U.S. Virgin Islands Government's Department of Health educating her community about the dangers of the "bird flu" influenza pandemic.

Christian, was crowned Miss U.S. Virgin Islands 2007 on February 4, 2007 and credits her aspirations to become a forensic scientist to an internship she completed with the Broward County Sheriff's Office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Christian participated in the Miss Universe 2007 pageant on May 28, 2007. Her gown and wardrobe for this Pageant were designed by Lisa Thon of Puerto Rico.

Christian was coached by Mytsooko King, Flor Morales, Felecita Donastorg, and Virgin Islands Senator Shawn-Michael Malone.

References

1983 births
Living people
Miss Universe 2007 contestants
United States Virgin Islands models
People from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Virginia Tech alumni
United States Virgin Islands beauty pageant winners
Thornton Gap is a wind gap located in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia separating the Shenandoah Valley from the Piedmont region of the state.

History
Thornton Gap was named for Francis Thornton (1711–April 14, 1749), owner of the land to the east and the "F.T. Valley". In 1740, he built a mansion in the Piedmont region near Nethers in Rappahannock County.

Historian J. Houston Harrison indicates in 1737 the Harrison family migrated through the Gap from Alexandria before their settlement in the valley and founding of Harrisonburg.

The privately owned Thornton's Gap Turnpike Company was formed to build a road over the mountains at Thornton's Gap. The toll road opened in 1806. 
 
Thornton Gap was one of the passages through the Blue Ridge Mountains between the Shenandoah Valley and the Piedmont region of Virginia used by Confederate General Stonewall Jackson to move his famous "foot cavalry" troops during the American Civil War.

Prior to the building of the Shenandoah National Park and the Skyline Drive by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression, the town of Beahm was located at Thornton Gap.

Sculptor William Randolph Barbee was the son of a toll collector at Thornton Gap; his son Herbert later erected a bust in his memory at the site.

Current information

Thornton Gap is the site of the mountain crossing of U.S. Highway 211. It is located at the border of Page County and Rappahannock County. At Thornton Gap, there is an entry point for the Skyline Drive, which runs between Front Royal and the northern terminus with the Blue Ridge Parkway at Rockfish Gap. The Skyline Drive generally following the mountain ridge tops through the Shenandoah National Park, which has its headquarters near Thornton Gap in the Town of Luray. The Appalachian Trail also passes through Thornton Gap.

See also 
 Former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia

References

External links

Geographical coordinates:  (click for maps and satellite photos of Thornton Gap)
Virginia Places web site Much information about Virginia's geography

Internet
 Francis Thornton's tombstone

Wind gaps of Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
Mountains of Page County, Virginia
Mountains of Rappahannock County, Virginia
Shenandoah National Park
is a Japanese voice actor and singer affiliated with Arts Vision.  Some of his major anime roles include Son Goku in Saiyuki, Kira Yamato in Gundam Seed, Gundam Seed Destiny alongside Rei Tanaka and Akira Ishida, Kazuki Fuuchouin in GetBackers, Masaru Daimon in Digimon Savers, Kaoru Hanabishi in Ai Yori Aoshi, and Tomoki Sakurai in Heaven's Lost Property. In video game franchises he voices Sanada Yukimura in Sengoku Basara, Keiichi Maebara in Higurashi When They Cry, Kilik in Soulcalibur, and various characters in Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time. He partially voices Shirogane Takeru in the Muv-Luv series. Hoshi was also known for his voice roles of villains as Goro Akechi from Persona 5, Death Gun from Sword Art Online, and Lio Shirazumi in The Garden of Sinners  & Sentarō Miya in Kono Oto Tomare! Sounds of Life.

For his work, Hoshi has been awarded the voice acting award in the Anime Grand Prix in both 2005 and 2006. Additionally, in the 2007 Seiyu Awards,  Hoshi was a nominee in the category "Best Actors in supporting roles" for his portrayal as Kira Yamato in the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.

Filmography

Anime

Film

Video games

Tokusatsu

Drama CD

Dubbing

Discography

Albums

References

External links
  
  
 
 Sōichirō Hoshi at GamePlaza-Haruka Voice Acting Database 
 Sōichirō Hoshi at the Seiyuu.info database
 

1972 births
Living people
Male voice actors from Fukushima Prefecture
Japanese male video game actors
Japanese male voice actors
Japanese male pop singers
King Records (Japan) artists
Singers from Fukushima Prefecture
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese singers
21st-century Japanese male singers
Arts Vision voice actors
People from Aizuwakamatsu
The Wamba River is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Angola. It arises at an elevation of around  as the confluence of several small streams in the Lunda Norte Province of Angola, a region of low hills and shallow ravines. In Angola it is known as the Uamba River.

It flows northward, where it forms a section of the Angola/DRC border, then for most of its length runs through the Bandundu Province to its confluence into the Kwango River at an elevation of .

Location

See also
List of rivers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
List of rivers of Angola

References

Rivers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Rivers of Angola
International rivers of Africa
Border rivers
Angola–Democratic Republic of the Congo border
Walter Thurnherr (born 11 July 1963) is a Swiss government official who has served as Chancellor of Switzerland since 2016. Although he holds a traditionally nonpartisan office, he was elected as a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC). When it merged with the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP/PBD) to form The Centre (DM/LC) in 2021, Thurnherr joined the new party.

On 16 August 2023 he announced that he would leave his position before the end of 2023.

Biography

Early life
Born in Muri, Aargau, Thurnherr graduated as a physicist at the ETH Zurich in 1987, before studying mathematics at the University of Bern. In 1989, he joined the ranks of Switzerland's diplomatic corps. In 2002, he was appointed chief of staff of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs under Federal Councillor Joseph Deiss. The following year, he was named chief of staff of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, first under Pascal Couchepin, then Deiss and finally Doris Leuthard. He followed Leuthard when she took over the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications in 2011 as her chief of staff.

Federal Chancellor 
He stood for election to succeed Corina Casanova as Chancellor of Switzerland on 9 December 2015, as the first unopposed candidate in 90 years. He was elected by the Swiss Federal Assembly with 230 votes out of 234. He assumed office on 1 January 2016. He was reelected on 11 December 2019 with 219 votes out of 224.

In a 2023 interview, Thurnherr called for Switzerland to become more involved in international matters.

Personal life 
Thurnherr is active on Twitter as of 2023, where he often shares his passion for physics and mathematics. He speaks English, German, French, and learned Russian as a diplomat working in Moscow. He married and has two children. In his free time he enjoys hiking and reading.

References

External links

Official biography

1963 births
21st-century Swiss politicians
Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland politicians
Federal Chancellors of Switzerland
Living people
ETH Zurich alumni
University of Bern alumni
Algeria participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 October to 18 October 2018.

Medalists

Mixed NOC

Athletics

Badminton

Algeria qualified one player based on the Badminton Junior World Rankings. 

Team

Boxing

Boys

Girls

Fencing

Algeria qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2018 Cadet World Championship.

Gymnastics

Artistic
Algeria qualified one gymnast based on its performance at the 2018 African Junior Championship, however they did not participate in the competition.

Trampoline
Algeria qualified one gymnast based on its performance at the 2018 African Junior Championship.

Multidiscipline

Judo

Algeria qualified two competitors based on the International Judo Federation World ranking list.

Boys

Girls

Mixed team

Rowing

Algeria qualified 3 competitors (1 male and 2 female) for the games.

Boys

Girls

Sailing

Algeria qualified two boats based on its performance at the African Techno 293+ Youth Olympic Games Qualifier.

Boys

Girls

Swimming

Algeria qualified 3 competitors in swimming for the games.

Boys

Girls

Weightlifting

Algiera qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2018 African Youth Championships.

Wrestling

Algeria qualified three wrestlers based on its performance at the 2018 African Cadet Championships. 

Boys' freestyle

Boys' Greco-Roman

References

2018 in Algerian sport
Nations at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Algeria at the Youth Olympics
Marcello Capra (born 1953 in Turin) is an Italian guitarist. His style enables the listener to hear a rhythm although everything is played on guitar (John "Bo Bo" Bollermberg).

Discography

Vinyl

CD

External links
 Official website
 Personal MySpace
 Label
 Interview by Gaetano Menna

Italian guitarists
Italian male guitarists
Living people
1953 births
Musicians from Turin
Linda Medley (born May 17, 1964 in Stockton, California) is an American comic book author and illustrator, known for her Castle Waiting series of comic books and graphic novels.

Biography and early career
Born in Stockton, California, Medley now lives in Seattle, Washington.

Before embarking on Castle Waiting, Medley worked in the comics industry as a penciller, inker, painter, colorist, and sculptor. Her pencilling work includes stints on DC Comics' Justice League America (1991) and Doom Patrol (1993), as well as the Galactic Girl Guides for Tundra Press.

As a colorist, Medley worked for Image Comics in 1994–1995, most consistently on Deathblow. She colored DC's Batman and Robin Adventures for two years spanning 1995–1997.

A freelance illustrator since 1985, Medley has illustrated children's books for Putnam, Grosset & Dunlap, Houghton-Mifflin, and Western Publishing. Her paintings have appeared on the covers of Paradox Press's Family Man, Howard Cruse's Stuck Rubber Baby, and TSR, Inc.'s Dragon magazine.

Castle Waiting 
Castle Waiting tells the story of an isolated, abandoned castle and its eccentric inhabitants. Medley illustrates Castle Waiting in a style reminiscent of the work of Arthur Rackham and William Heath Robinson.

Medley conceived of Castle Waiting in 1984, when she was studying folklore and children's book illustration in college. Intending to do her own take on some of Grimm's fairy tales, Medley found herself most interested in the unexplained pasts — and their often unresolved fates — of the tales' background characters.

The first Castle Waiting publication was Castle Waiting: The Curse of Brambly Hedge, which was self-published by Medley with a 1996 grant from the Xeric Foundation. Medley self-published seven issues of an ongoing Castle Waiting series in 1997-98. In 1999, Medley self-published a Castle Waiting hiatus issue. Jeff Smith's Cartoon Books started publishing Castle Waiting (volume two; 4 issues) in 2000. In 2001, Medley went back to self-publishing and put out five more issues of the title. In 2006, Fantagraphics Books began publishing Castle Waiting, and as of April 2009, fifteen new issues have been published by them.

Medley is currently working on a series of nine graphic novels based on L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz books.

Awards 
Medley was a 1996 Xeric Award recipient. In 1996, she was an Ignatz Award nominee for Outstanding Anthology or Collection. In 1996, she was an Eisner Award nominee for Best Writer/Artist; and in 1998, she won two Eisner Awards, for Best Ongoing Story (Castle Waiting) and for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition. Also in 1998, Medley was a Lulu Award nominee for Lulu of the Year.

Notes

References

External links
 Medley bio and art samples at Lambiek.net's Comiclopedia
 Fan site with an extensive bibliography

1964 births
Living people
American female comics artists
American women cartoonists
Comics colorists
Writers from Stockton, California
Writers from Seattle
Eisner Award winners for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition
American cartoonists
21st-century American women
This article describes the group stage of the 2014–15 LEN Champions League.

Format
12 teams were drawn into two groups of six teams, where they play each other twice. The top fthree teams will advance to the final six.

Group A

Group B

External links
Official website

2014–15 LEN Champions League
George Annand (c.1798 – 9 January 1856) was a politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), a member of the Victorian Legislative Council.

Annand was born in Banffshire, Scotland, and arrived in the area known then as the Port Phillip District of New South Wales around 1841.

Annand was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council for North Bourke from August 1853 until he resigned in July 1855.

Annand died in Hawthorn, Victoria on 9 January 1856.

References

1798 births
1856 deaths
Members of the Victorian Legislative Council
Scottish emigrants to colonial Australia
People from Banffshire
19th-century Australian politicians
John Joseph "Taps" Gallagher (July 16, 1904 – February 7, 1982) was an American football and basketball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Niagara University in 1936. However, his greatest contributions were made as the head basketball coach at Niagara from 1931 to 1943 and again from 1946 to 1965, compiling a record of 486–262.

Gallagher died on February 7, 1982, in Niagara Falls, New York.

Head coaching record

Football

References

External links
 Buffalo Hall of Fame profile

1904 births
1982 deaths
American men's basketball players
Basketball coaches from New York (state)
Basketball players from New York City
Niagara Purple Eagles athletic directors
Niagara Purple Eagles football coaches
Niagara Purple Eagles men's basketball coaches
St. John's Red Storm football players
St. John's Red Storm men's basketball players
Sportspeople from Brooklyn
Players of American football from New York City
Ami Agha oglu Mammadov (; 192226 March 1944) was a Soviet Navy Matros and a posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. Mammadov was posthumously awarded the title on 20 April 1945 for his actions during the capture of Mykolaiv. Mammadov reportedly destroyed several German vehicles with his anti-tank rifle and was killed when the house he was defending collapsed under German fire.

Early life 
Mammadov was born in 1922 in Baku in the family of a worker. He graduated from seventh grade. After completing his education Mammadov worked as a fitter and then a driver in the Azizbekovneft oilfield.

World War II 
In 1942, Mammadov was drafted into the Soviet Navy. He became a Matros in the Black Sea Fleet Naval Infantry. In May 1943 he became an Anti-tank rifleman in the 384th Separate Naval Infantry Battalion. In the fall of 1943, he fought in the amphibious operations to capture Taganrog, Mariupol, and Osipenko.

In late March, the 28th Army began fighting to capture Mykolaiv. To help their advance,  a detachment from 384th Battalion of 55 sailors under the command of Senior lieutenant Konstantin Olshansky was landed in Mykolaiv. Mammadov took up positions in a wooden house along with nine other soldiers under the command of Starshina 1st class Yury Lisitsyn. At dawn, the detachment was attacked by German troops. The attack was repulsed by soldiers positioned in a cement shed. The German troops renewed the attack, attempting to bypass the cement shed, and were stopped by fire from the wooden house. The German forces brought up mortars, tanks, and artillery, shelling the positions of the landing force. During the fourth attack, the German troops concentrated on the wooden house, killing one of its defenders. Before the fifth attack, German troops used Nebelwerfers and thermite shells to set fire to the wooden house. Three of the defenders were killed by shrapnel and machine gun fire. Most of the defenders of the house were wounded. Mammadov reportedly continued to fire his anti-tank gun, disabling a tank, two armored cars, and six firing points. Mammadov reportedly killed dozens of German soldiers. A sixth attack was repulsed, and during a seventh attack  the burning house collapsed under tank fire. Mammadov and five others died in the building.  

Mammadov was buried in a mass grave in the park of 68 Marines in Mykolaiv. On 20 April 1945 Mammadov was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin, along with the other participants in the operation.

Legacy 
A bust of Mammadov was built in Baku near School No. 101.

References 

1922 births
1944 deaths
Heroes of the Soviet Union
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Soviet military personnel of World War II from Azerbaijan
Soviet military personnel killed in World War II
Soviet Navy personnel
Military personnel from Baku
The 2021 Reading Council election took place in 2021 to elect members of Reading Borough Council. This was on the same day as other local elections. The election was originally due to take place in May 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Council elections for the Reading Borough Council were last held on 2 May 2019 as part of the 2019 United Kingdom local elections. The council will undergo a major boundary revision to apply from the 2022 elections.

All locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who are aged 18 or over on polling day are entitled to vote in the local elections.

Results summary

Ward Results

Abbey

Battle

Caversham

Church

Katesgrove

Kentwood

Mapledurham

Minster

Norcot

Park

Peppard

Redlands

Southcote

Thames

Tilehurst

Whitley

References

Reading
2021
2020s in Berkshire
May 2021 events in the United Kingdom
Ian Phillips may refer to:

 Ian Phillips (footballer)
 Ian Phillips (philosopher)
 Ian Phillips (politician)
Alice Monkton Duncan-Kemp (1901–1988) was an Australian writer and Indigenous rights activist.

Biography
Born on 3 June 1901 at Charleville, Queensland, Duncan-Kemp was the daughter of William and Laura Duncan (née Davis). She grew up on a leasehold property west of Windorah with her two sisters. Her only brother died in 1903 and her father in 1907, leaving his widow to raise three girls. She elected to remain on the remote property, raising cattle with the assistance of local Aborigines, hired hands and, when they were old enough, Duncan-Kemp and her two sisters.

Educated at home for many years, she completed her schooling at Spreydon College in Toowoomba as a boarder.

She married New Zealander Frederick Clifford Kemp in November 1923 in Longreach with whom she had five children. Previously a grazier, her husband moved into banking and the family moved around rural Queensland with him.

Well ahead of her time, she believed that "Aborigines were the true owners of the land" and understood the devastating effect that white settlement had had on them.

Duncan-Kemp retired to Oakey in Queensland and died there on 4 January 1988. Her husband predeceased her and she was survived by a daughter and two sons, a daughter and son having also died before her.

Works 

 Our Sandhill Country (1933) memoir
 Where Strange Paths Go Down (1952)
 Our Channel Country (1961)
 Where Strange Gods Call (1968)

References 

1901 births
1988 deaths
20th-century Australian women writers
Australian indigenous rights activists
Writers from Queensland
People from Charleville, Queensland
To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian is the somewhat-autobiography and memoir of Stephen Ambrose. The 2002 book talks about his perspective on issues throughout American History, as well as his various experiences that have slowly shaped him into the person he was. It also covers topics, such as Western expansion and The Transcontinental Railroad. It was written only months before he died in October 2002.

Autobiographies
Books by Stephen Ambrose