Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
2012 had a very severe drought in the Sahel, the semiarid region of Africa that lies between the Sahara and the savannas. Countries included in this region are Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, and Eritrea. Droughts in the Sahel occur quite often and tend to reduce the already meager water supply and stress the economies of developing countries in that region.

Future droughts of the Sahel region 
The droughts are becoming increasingly more common, worse and more threatening due to global warming. A possible explanation to the aridity trend is the supplements of an oceanography phenomenon called El Niño. An idea is that evaporation is occurring at higher rate due to the change in Sea surface temperature, this then impacts the amount of rain the Sahel region receives Another factor to keep into consideration is the response of our atmosphere to stimulants like greenhouse gases and carbon emissions.

Societal impacts

Mass famine 
Valerie Amos, UN Humanitarian Chief during 2012, released a statement during the year stating that over 15 million people were malnourished in West Africa and the Sahel region. The main contributor to the famine was the drought of Sahel, ensued from a combination of failing crops and El Niño.

Mauritania and Chad recorded a loss in crop yield of over 50% when compared to 2011. Food reserves in the areas affected were very low and combined with corn prices soaring by 60-85% compared to averages over the last five years. In Chad alone this food crisis affected some 3.6 million people. In places like Burkina Faso over 2.8 million were suffering from famine and in Senegal over 800,000 did not have enough to eat.

External links 
 FAO, the 2012 Sahel Crisis
 SOS Children 2012, Sahel drought
 The Guardians Poverty Matters Blog May 2012, Baaba Maal: people in the Sahel region need food and water now
 ABC News, May 2012, UN: 18 Million in West Africa to Go Hungry in 2012
 CNN, June 2012, A distress call from Africa's Sahel: Millions might starve

References 

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Wyscig pokoju – Warszawa-Berlin-Praga is a Polish-East German film based on the Peace Race. It was released in 1952.

External links
 

1952 films
East German films
1950s Polish-language films
Polish documentary films
Documentary films about cycling
Documentary films about Poland
Documentary films about Germany
1952 documentary films
1950s German films
The Vachon family is a French-Canadian family long associated with professional wrestling in Canada and the United States, headed by Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon, his brother Paul "Butcher" Vachon - both longtime NWA and AWA veterans - and their sister Vivian. At one point the Vachons were joined by a storyline brother named "Stan Vachon" who worked with Maurice and Paul Vachon in tag team matches.

In 1975, the family was the subject of a documentary The Wrestling Queen and, in 2007, was featured in World Wrestling Entertainment's The Most Powerful Families in Wrestling. The Vachons are noted to have lived in France in the 17th century. The Vachons have been noted as tough and rough family but they have a very rich history. In 2004, Maurice and Paul Vachon were inducted as a tag team into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum.  Vivian Vachon and Luna Vachon were inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum in the Lady Wrestler category in 2015 and 2020 respectively.

Members

Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon (1929–2013), wrestled as a successful singles competitor and as a successful tag team competitor with Paul in the AWA and NWA.
Paul "Butcher" Vachon (b. 1937), retired professional wrestler, who made his name in American Wrestling Association, National Wrestling Alliance and Georgia Championship Wrestling.
Vivian Vachon (1951–1991), sister of Paul and Maurice Vachon who appeared with her brothers in the AWA.
Luna Vachon (1962–2010), step-daughter of Paul Vachon, also became a wrestler, most notably in the World Wrestling Federation. She was married to wrestler David Heath, also known as Gangrel.
Ian Carnegie (b. 1980), son of Vivian Vachon, former amateur wrestler and a member of the Ottawa High Hookers, a leading Canadian professional arm wrestling club.

The Vachon family name has also been adopted by wrestlers unrelated to the family, for instances by Pierre "The Beast" Vachon and Damien "Pitbull" Vachon, Canadian independent wrestlers who present themselves as the sons of Paul Vachon and have wrestled as a tag team in CWA Montreal, Great Canadian Wrestling, the Millennium Wrestling Federation, NWA: Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling, NWA: New England, and Paulie Gilmore's New World Wrestling.

The Vachons are profiled in the 2019 documentary film Mad Dog and the Butcher (Les Derniers vilains).

Media
The Most Powerful Families in Wrestling. [DVD]. (2007). World Wrestling Entertainment.

References

External links
Vachon family gallery at Online World of Wrestling
Stackelberg (; ), also Stakelberg is the name of an old and influential Baltic German noble family of German origin, represented at the Swedish and Finnish houses of nobility.

History
The family was first mentioned in 1244 in Köln in a written document with Waldewerus de Stackelberg and in 1306 in Riga with Henricus de Stackelberg. They were mentioned as vassals of the Prince-Bishops of Dorpat. The family members were raised to the rank of Baron in 1714 and later in 1727 to the rank of Count in Sweden. They were also awarded with the title of Imperial Count in 1776 and in 1786. The title of Baron in Russian Empire was granted to them on December 7, 1854. Different branches of the Stackelberg family use different surnames; for instance, a nobiliary particle preposition i.e. von. The Stackelberg family used to be one of the biggest landowning families in the Baltic region.

Notable members 

 Berndt Robert Gustaf Stackelberg (1784–1845), Swedish military officer, diplomat and governor of Saint Barthélemy
 Count Ernst von Stackelberg (1813–1870), Russian general and a diplomat
 Count Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg (1766–1850), Russian diplomat
 Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (1732–1800), Russian ambassador
 Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (1786–1837), Baltic German, Imperial Russian archaeologist
 Count Reinhold Adolphe Louis Stackelberg (1822–1871), Swedish estate owner and Christian revivalist preacher

References 

Stackelberg family
Russian noble families
Swedish noble families
Baltic nobility
German noble families
Mechmont is a commune in the Lot département in south-western France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Lot department

References

Communes of Lot (department)
Elections to Preston Municipal Borough council were held in late 1947.

Results

1947 English local elections
1947
1940s in Lancashire
Superplan was a high-level programming language developed between 1949 and 1951 by Heinz Rutishauser, the name being a reference to "Rechenplan" (i.e. computation plan), in Konrad Zuse's terminology designating a single Plankalkül program.

The language was described in Rutishauser's 1951 publication Über automatische Rechenplanfertigung bei programmgesteuerten Rechenmaschinen (i.e. Automatically created Computation Plans for Program-Controlled Computing Machines).

Superplan introduced the keyword  as for loop, which had the following form ( being an array item):

 Für i=base(increment)limit:  + addend =

See also 
 Compiler

References

Further reading 
 
   (77 pages)

Programming languages created in 1949
Procedural programming languages
Non-English-based programming languages
Swiss inventions
Heinz Rutishauser
Konrad Zuse
1940s establishments in Switzerland
Patrice Lancelot David de Pury known as David de Pury (December 4, 1943 - December 27, 2000) was a Swiss businessman and diplomat. He was the Swiss trade ambassador, representing Swiss interests at the General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade and at the Inter-American Development Bank. He was the chair of ABB, and chair and publisher of Le Temps.

Biography 
De Pury was born into a Swiss family that has been nobilitated in 1651 by Henri II. d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville and had their origins in Neuchatel, Switzerland. His father, Jacques de Pury, was an attorney and head of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche for which he led Nippon Roche in Tokyo, Japan. His younger brother is Simon de Pury.

De Pury was a delegate of the Federal Council for Trade Agreements in Switzerland and served as Switzerland's Trade Ambassador, and representing the country at the General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade in 1987. De Pury succeeded Fritz Leutwiler as the Co-Chairman of ABB, serving in that capacity from 1992 to 1996. He later served as the Chairman of BBC Brown Hoveri. He held a number of government offices, including working in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Bern. He represented Switzerland in The Hague, Brussels and Washington DC. In the 1980s he served as the Governor for Switzerland at the Inter-American Development Bank. He was a board member of Nestlé, Ciba-Geigy and Zurich Insurance Group and chairman and publisher of Le Temps. In 1996 he co-founded the wealth management firm de Pury, Pictet, Turrettini.

De Pury was Vice President of the Lucerne Classical Music Festival. In 1995 he called for a liberalization of the Swiss economy and was criticized for trying to "dismantle" the welfare state. In April 1993 he spoke to university students at the Harvard Kennedy School about governmental and commercial issues. He was chosen to speak at the school due to his active role in the annual International Management Symposium in St Gallen, Switzerland.

De Pury died from cancer on 27 December 2000 at a hospital in Zürich.

References 

2000 deaths
20th-century Swiss businesspeople
David
Swiss diplomats
Swiss business executives
Swiss hedge fund managers
Swiss publishers (people)
Paul Steven Zollo (born August 9, 1958) is a singer, songwriter, author, journalist and photographer.

Paul Zollo is a songwriter, singer, recording artist for Trough Records, author of many books, photographer, and music journalist. He is presently the Senior Editor of American Songwriter magazine.

The books he's written include "Songwriters On Songwriting," "More Songwriters On Songwriting," "Conversations with Tom Petty, Expanded Edition," and "Hollywood Remembered."

The leader of the L.A. band The Ghosters, with whom he made one self-titled album of his original songs in 1984, he's made two solo albums, Orange Avenue and Universal Cure.

He has written songs with many songwriters and artists, including Darryl Purpose, Steve Allen, Dan Bern, Bob Malone, Stephen Kalinich, and Severin Browne.

Journalist 

Zollo was the editor of SongTalk magazine for many years, and went on to become Senior Editor of American Songwriter magazine and Managing Editor of Performing Songwriter magazine. He has also contributed articles to many magazines including Variety, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Musician, Oxford Press, Playback, Gorgeous, Boulevard, Music Connection, and Campus Circle.

Personal life 

His father, Burt Zollo, was also a writer, the author of three books (The Dollars & Sense of Public Relations [McGraw Hill], Prisoners, A Novel [Chicago Academy Press], and State & Wacker, A Novel [iUniverse]) and many magazine essays and articles. A former colleague of Hugh Hefner at Esquire magazine, he contributed to the first issues of Playboy magazine, including the inaugural Marilyn Monroe issue, under the pseudonym "Bob Norman".

He has one son, Joshua Zollo, who is 22. Joshua graduated this year from CSUN, and is a full-timeproducer of the podcast Your Mom's House with Tom Segura, a job started as an intern.

Paul Zollo currently lives and works in Los Angeles, and lives in the heart of Beverly Glen.

Bibliography 

The Beginning Songwriter's Answer Book (1990)
Songwriters on Songwriting
Songwriters on Songwriting (Expanded Edition) (2003)
 Hollywood Remembered (An Oral History of Its Golden Age) (2002)
Conversations with Tom Petty (2005)
Sunset & Cahuenga (A Novel)
The Schirmer's Complete Rhyming Dictionary. (2007)
More Songwriters on Songwriting (2016)
''Conversations with Tom Petty', Expanded Edition' (2020)

References

External links 
Paul Zollo on Flickr
Zollo on Instagram *
Zollo's own website, Bluerailtoad: *online magazine bluerailroad.com

Living people
Singers from Chicago
American photographers
American male journalists
Writers from Chicago
1958 births
Singer-songwriters from Illinois
Lake Verneuil is a lake in northern Quebec, Canada.

Lakes of Nord-du-Québec
Keano Kini () (born 14 April 2004) is a professional rugby league player who plays for the Gold Coast Titans as a  or  in the National Rugby League (NRL).

Background
Kini was born in Auckland, New Zealand. His family relocated to the Gold Coast where Kini attended league powerhouse Palm Beach Currumbin State High School. Kini was a Northcote Tigers junior.

Playing career
In 2020, Kini was signed by the Gold Coast Titans after being spotted playing touch football in Auckland. In 2021 and 2022, Kini played for the Titans' Queensland Cup feeder side, the Burleigh Bears. In 2023, despite still being on a development contract, Kini was elevated to the Gold Coast Titans first grade side.

Kini made his first grade debut from the bench in his side's 26–24 victory over the Parramatta Eels at Lang Park in round 10 of the 2023 NRL season.

References

External links
Gold Coast Titans profile 
NRL profile

2004 births
Living people
New Zealand rugby league players
Burleigh Bears players
Gold Coast Titans players
Rugby league fullbacks
Rugby league wingers
Podgornoye () is a rural locality (a sloboda) in Podgorenskoye Urban Settlement, Podgorensky District, Voronezh Oblast, Russia. The population was  3,785 as of 2010. There are 33 streets.

References 

Rural localities in Podgorensky District
Alsodes igneus is a species of frogs in the family Alsodidae endemic to Chile; it is only known from its type locality, Tolhuaca National Park, Malleco Province, on the western slopes of the Andes. The specific name igneus, meaning "something that is of fire", was chosen to symbolize the survival of the population from a great forest fire that affected the type locality in 2000.

Description
Male Alsodes igneus measure about  in snout–vent length (based on a single male) and females about  (based on two females, including the holotype). The snout is short and slightly truncated in dorsal view. There is a black ribbon extending below the canthus rostralis; the background colour is khaki. The dorsal surface is granular. Toes are scarcely fringed and webbing is absent. Tadpoles are up to  in length.

Habitat
The habitat of A. igneus is Nothofagus woodland; adults have been found at the edge of a small stream and the tadpoles among rocks within the stream. The altitude of the type locality is .

References

igneus
Endemic fauna of Chile
Amphibians of Chile
Amphibians of Patagonia
Frogs of South America
Amphibians described in 2005
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Jian River may refer to:

 Jian River (Guangdong) (鉴江)
 Jian River (Sichuan) (湔江)
German rapper Bonez MC has released three studio albums and five collaborative albums. He was awarded for sales of 6.6 million units in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Albums

Studio albums

Collaborative albums

EPs

Mixtapes
 2008: Mehr geht nicht

Singles

Other charted songs

Featured in 

Other charting songs as featured in

References

Discographies of German artists
Hip hop discographies
Parag Ashok Dahiwal (born 24 April 1983) is a player for the Singapore national cricket team. He was born in Pune, Maharashtra, India. Parag Dahiwal is a slow left-arm orthodox spinner. He also represented Maharashtra state under 16, 19 and 22 age group teams and West Zone. Parag was also part of the under 16 India team camp which happened in Hyderabad, India in the year 1998.

References

Singaporean cricketers
Singaporean people of Indian descent
1983 births
Living people
Cricketers from Pune
Ishtiyāq,  meaning "longing" or "craving", is a personal name mostly used as name used for a male child in the Muslim, popularly used by Muslims in the Indian subcontinent. It's also spelled as Ishtyaq, Ishtiaqe and Ishtiaque. Notable people with the name include:

Ishtiaq Ahmad, multiple people 
Ishtiaq Mubarak (1948–2013), Malaysian hurdler
Ishtiaq Muhammad (born 1992), Hong Kong cricketer
Farhat Ishtiaq (born 1980), Pakistani writer

References

External links
 "Ishtiaq" at www.all-babynames.com

Arabic masculine given names
Masculine given names
Daniel Josefsson (born October 15, 1981) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player currently playing with HC Vita Hästen of the HockeyAllsvenskan (Allsv). Josefsson has previously played in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) with HV71, Södertälje SK, Modo Hockey, AIK IF and Leksands IF.

References

External links 

1981 births
Living people
AIK IF players
HV71 players
Leksands IF players
Malmö Redhawks players
Modo Hockey players
Rögle BK players
Södertälje SK players
Swedish ice hockey defencemen
HC Vita Hästen players
Normanton by-election may refer to one of four parliamentary by-elections held in the British House of Commons constituency of Normanton in West Yorkshire:

1904 Normanton by-election
1905 Normanton by-election
1933 Normanton by-election
1947 Normanton by-election

See also
Normanton (UK Parliament constituency)
The Sandy Point Farmhouse is a historic home at Sandy Point State Park, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It is a five-part plan consisting of a two-story central block connected to two wings by single-story hyphens. It was built in an 18th-century style in the 19th century and typical of Maryland domestic architecture. The house was constructed about 1815 for John Gibson, a member of the Annapolis elite and a relative of Samuel Ogle, an 18th-century Governor of Maryland.

The Sandy Point Farmhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Gallery

References

External links
, including photo from 1972, at Maryland Historical Trust
Sandy Point State Park website

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Houses in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
National Register of Historic Places in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Houses completed in 1815
1815 establishments in Maryland
Feedback Is Payback is the debut album from 1208 . It was released in February, 2002 on Epitaph Records and was followed by Turn of the Screw in 2004. The album was co-produced by Fletcher Dragge of fellow punk band, Pennywise.

Track listing
All songs written by 1208
"1988"	–	3:28
"Lies That Lie"	–	2:33
"Just Anyone"	–	2:46
"Outside Looking In"	–	2:46
"Scared Away"	–	3:08
"Erase 'em All"	–	2:45
"Pick Your Poison"	–	3:18
"Jimmy"	–	2:54
"Lightshow"	–	2:22
"Retire"	–	2:22
"Slowburn"	–	3:14
"What I Saw"	–	2:40
"Speak Easy"	–	2:29
"Obstructure"	–	2:51

Credits
 Alex – vocals, guitar
 Neshawn – guitar
 Bryan – bass
 Manny – drums
 Recorded at Stall #2, Redondo Beach, California, USA
 Produced and mixed by Darian Rundall and Fletcher Dragge
 Engineered by Darian Rundall
 Mastered by Gene Grimaldi at Oasis Mastering

References

External links
Epitaph Records album page
Epitaph Records band page

2002 debut albums
1208 (band) albums
Epitaph Records albums
The first season of The Great American Baking Show, released under the title The Great Holiday Baking Show, premiered on ABC on November 30, 2015 as part of ABC's holiday programming schedule. Six amateur bakers competed in twelve challenges throughout the competition for the title of America's best holiday baker.

This season was hosted by husband and wife duo Nia Vardalos and Ian Gomez. The judging panel consisted of original The Great British Bake Off judge Mary Berry and American pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini. As with the British series, this season was filmed in Welford Park with slight holiday decorative modifications made in the set known as "The Tent".

After four weeks of competition, Lauren Katz was crowned the winner with Nicole Silva and Tim Samson as runners-up.

Bakers

Results summary

Color Key:

Episodes

Episode 1: Cookies
For the first signature bake, the bakers were given two hours to make two unique batches of ten cookies, with one batch having icing. Later in the technical bake, bakers only had one hour to bake sixteen brandy snaps according to Mary Berry's recipe. The final bake of the week called the showstopper required bakers to bake a structured gingerbread with decorative designs and cookies around it within five hours.

Color key:

Episode 2: Cake
Festive holiday bakes continued in the tent as bakers had two hours to create a yule log sponge cake with a sweet filling of their choice. The technical bake was based on the recipe of Johnny Iuzzini's tiramisu cake with ladyfinger crisps. For the final showstopper bake, the bakers created a "Twelve Days of Christmas" fruitcake that revolved around one of the verses from the traditional Christmas carol.

Episode 3: Pastry
In the semifinals, the bakers created two batches of breakfast pastries with any holiday flavor of their choosing. The technical tested the skills of the remaining bakers in Mary Berry's Christmas fruit tart. For the final pastry bake, the bakers created a centerpiece made from cream puffs and pastry pieces for a spot in the final three.

Episode 4: Final
The final three begun with the signature bake, a holiday pie, to be baked under two-and-a-half hours. The pie also had to be accompanied with a delectable sauce on the side. In the technical, the bakers baked a candy cane-shaped bread with delicate icing and fruit. The final showstopper of the season lasted five hours, as bakers built up to make a three-dimensional presents cake.

Ratings

References 

1
2015 American television seasons
The 1917 League Island Marines football team, sometimes referred to as "Mahan's Marines", represented the United States Marine Corps stationed at the League Island Navy Yard in Philadelphia during the 1917 college football season. Former Harvard star Eddie Mahan, a three-time All-American from 1913 to 1915, led the team.

Four League Island players were named to the 1917 All-Service football team: fullback Eddie Mahan (Paul Purman, first team); halfback Johnny Scott (New York Times, 1st team); tackle Corbeau (NYT, first team); and center Lud Wray (NYT, first team).

Schedule

References

League Island Marines
League Island Marines football
The Secret of My Success is a song performed by Night Ranger from their album Big Life as well as on the soundtrack to the 1987 comedy film, The Secret of My Success.

The star of the film, Michael J. Fox, was the person to request the band to write and record the song.  It reached No. 12 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and No. 64 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S. The song was nominated for the Golden Globe Award in the category of Best Original Song in 1988, but lost to "(I've Had) The Time of My Life," the central theme of Dirty Dancing, played by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes. The video for the song featured Vince Neil, Tommy Lee and "Weird Al" Yankovic acting as a horn section.

Personnel
Band members
Brad Gillis - lead and rhythm guitars, backing vocals
Jeff Watson - lead and rhythm guitars
Jack Blades - bass, lead and backing vocals
Alan Fitzgerald - keyboards, piano
Kelly Keagy - drums, lead and backing vocals, percussion

Additional musicians
David Foster - additional keyboards
Michael Boddicker -  additional synth programming
David "Reverend" Boruff - additional synth programming
Tris Imboden - additional drum overdubs
Michael Landau - additional guitar
Bill Champlin - additional background vocals

References

1987 singles
Night Ranger songs
Songs written by David Foster
Song recordings produced by David Foster
Songs written for films
1987 songs
Songs written by Jack Blades
MCA Records singles
Navy Heights is an unincorporated community in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. It began as a housing project in nearby Astoria.

References

Unincorporated communities in Clatsop County, Oregon
Oregon populated places on the Columbia River
Unincorporated communities in Oregon