Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The California Debris Commission was a federal commission created in 1893 by an act of Congress to regulate California streams that had been devastated by the sediment washed into them from gold mining operations upstream in the Sierra Nevada. It was created to mitigate the damage to natural seasonal river flow and navigation, which had been caused by the extensive use of hydraulic mining. The act was codified under Navigation in 33 U.S.C. Chapter 14 (§§ 661-683). Given substantial power by Congress, the commission significantly reduced the stream damage caused.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) had conducted similar works for the government since the beginning of the internal improvements program and it was considered the most knowledgeable organization. However, work involving California streams was outside its assigned responsibilities under the Rivers and Harbors Act. A commission was established to support the stream protection work instead of the normal Congressional House Committee on Rivers and Harbors. The commission consisted of three officers of the Corps of Engineers, appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. As with the other works, they operated under the supervision of the Chief of Engineers and under the direction of the Secretary of War, who was later replaced by the Secretary of the Army.

Hydraulic mining causes large-scale erosion where employed to move unconsolidated sediments for mineral processing; it also causes similar large-scale sedimentation in downstream areas with a decreased stream gradient.  The tons of sediment moved in this man-made and natural process resulted in raising the riverbeds along the Yuba, Sacramento, and some other rivers.  This in turn increased the threat of floods in areas along the rivers, including such towns as Marysville on the Yuba. Over time this sediment would eventually move downstream to other river confluences and San Francisco Bay, disrupting navigation in those channels.

Congress created the California Debris Commission to address the man-made damage and mitigate its effects. Several methods were used to solve the adverse effects.  The commission dredged the sediment from the rivers and deposited it on available land nearby; in some areas they constructed larger basins to contain the debris, along the Yuba River and other rivers, the mountains of sediment were piled along its banks, effectively making levees from the debris to protect against future flooding. 

Among the members of the commission were Douglas MacArthur in the early 1900s and Ulysses S. Grant III in the early 1920s.

The Water Resources Development Act of 1986 eliminated the commission, with its work now the responsibility of the Corps' South Pacific Division.

References

See also
Clean Water Act
List of navigation authorities in the United States

Gold mining in California
United States Army Corps of Engineers
Government agencies established in 1893
1986 disestablishments in California
1893 establishments in California
Water pollution in the United States
Water in California
Government agencies disestablished in 1986
Clytie illunaris is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1813. It is found in France, Spain, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

Technical description and variation

Clytie illunaris Hbn. (= gracilis B.-Haas.) (62 b). Forewing grey, or dark ash grey, or, more rarely, pale bone colour; inner and outer lines blackish, very seldom clear, often interrupted, or even altogether absent; submarginal line pale, only visible in the dark grey examples, always preceded by a black irregularly zigzag line, not reaching costa but blackest below it; orbicular stigma a faint dark dot; reniform a pale figure of 8, often divided into two spots; hindwing pale grey or bone colour, with a broad diffuse grey submarginal band, always darker and better defined in the female; the pale bone colour forms may be separated as ab. ossea ab. nov. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) (62 b); in ab. brunnea ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the ground colour of forewing is brown, the markings equally obsolete; while in ab. obscura ab. nov. (= ab. 3 Hmps.) the forewing, except at base of inner margin, is suffused with red brown, the subterminal line alone being visible.

Subspecies
Clytie illunaris illunaris
Clytie illunaris legraini

Biology
There are multiple generations per year.

The larvae feed on Tamarix species, including Tamarix gallica.

References

External links

Lepiforum e.V.

Ophiusina
Moths described in 1813
Moths of Europe
Moths of Africa
Moths of the Middle East
Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
This is a list of members of the 52nd Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2006 to 2009, as elected at the 2006 election held on 9 September 2006.

 On 13 September 2007, the Labor member for Brisbane Central and Premier, Peter Beattie, resigned. Labor candidate Grace Grace won the resulting by-election on 13 October 2007.
 The opposition Liberal and National parties merged to create the Liberal National Party of Queensland on 27 July 2008.
 On 5 October 2008, the member for Indooroopilly, Ronan Lee, resigned from the Labor Party and joined the Queensland Greens, becoming their first ever member of parliament in the state.

See also
2006 Queensland state election
Beattie Ministry (Labor) (1998–2007)
Bligh Ministry (Labor) (2007–present)

References

Members of Queensland parliaments by term
21st-century Australian politicians
The butterflies of New Zealand include twelve endemic species, as well as several introduced and migrant species. Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths, is the third largest insect order in New Zealand.

Species list

Conservation
Very little is known about any butterfly extinctions since human settlement of New Zealand since they leave few remains. The majority of New Zealand invertebrates are found in forests, so it is possible that some butterflies became extinct due to the large scale forest clearance after human settlement.

See also
List of Lepidoptera of New Zealand
Fauna of New Zealand
Environment of New Zealand

References

Further reading

External links
New Zealand Butterfly Species
Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand - "Butterflies and moths"
New Zealand Entomological Society
Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust

 
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New Zealand
Butterflies
New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand, Butterflies
Thiollierea kaalaensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia.

References

Endemic flora of New Caledonia
Endangered plants
kaalaensis
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Giulio Gentile (died 9 January 1572) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino (1552–1572).

Biography
On 27 April 1552, Giulio Gentile was appointed during the papacy of Pope Julius III as Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino. He served as Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino until his death on 9 January 1572.

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Angelo Cesi, Bishop of Todi; and the principal co-consecrator of Giulio Giovio, Coadjutor Bishop of Nocera de' Pagani (1553).

References

External links and additional sources 
 (for Chronology of Bishops) 
 (for Chronology of Bishops) 

16th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
1572 deaths
Bishops appointed by Pope Julius III
Emily Winfield Martin is an American artist and author-illustrator of children's books. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

After graduating from art school in 2005, Martin began selling her visual art through the online store Etsy, thereafter achieving acclaim in The New York Times , on CNN, and on The Martha Stewart Show as one of Etsy's original and most enduring success stories. Eventually Martin parlayed these successes into a career in professional book publication.

Martin has written and illustrated seven children's books: an enigmatic book of story fragments & illustrations called The Imaginaries, middle grade fairy tale retelling Snow & Rose, picture books The Wonderful Things You Will Be, Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey, Day Dreamers: A Journey of Imagination, and The Littlest Family's Big Day. A series of vignettes, Oddfellow's Orphanage, which she also wrote and illustrated, was described by Publishers Weekly as a "poignant and gently humorous debut […] set in an unusual orphanage." She also produced a popular crafts book, The Black Apple's Paper Doll Primer: Activities and Amusements for the Curious Paper Artist.

Bibliography

Children's fiction
Oddfellow's Orphanage (2012)
Snow & Rose (2017)

Instructional
The Black Apple's Paper Doll Primer: Activities and Amusements for the Curious Paper Artist (2010)

Picture books
Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey (2013)
Day Dreamers: A Journey of Imagination (2014)
The Wonderful Things You Will Be (2015)
The Littlest Family's Big Day (2016)
The Imaginaries (2020)
This is a Gift for You (2021)
Wonderful Babies (2022)

References

External links

  	 
Random House Books author video at YouTube
Interview about Dream Animals (November 2013) 
Oddfellow's Orphanage at Random House Books
 

American children's writers
American children's book illustrators
Artists from Portland, Oregon
Writers from Portland, Oregon
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) is the national central agency in Malta responsible for receiving, analyzing, and disseminating financial intelligence to combat money laundering and terrorism financing. It was founded on October 1, 2002. The FIAU is an independent government agency. It operates as the national financial intelligence unit (FIU) in compliance with international standards and frameworks.

Powers and functions
The FIAU collects financial intelligence and passes it on to the police, who can then carry out criminal investigations or arrest/prosecute any person. The FIAU also exchanges information with foreign financial intelligence agencies and supervisory authorities in Malta or overseas to investigate suspicious financial activities.

As an administrative intelligence agency, FIAU can demand and collect information from any individual, authority, or entity, including the police, government ministry, public department/agency, and any supervisory authority. Such a demand for information "overrides any obligation of secrecy or confidentiality under any other law."

FIAU operates independently and its activities are not disclosed on the public domain.

Activities
In 2022, FIAU organized its first international conference of bank account register administrators and other specialists from 21 European countries, which was endorsed by the European Commission.

Notable cases and controversies
According to its 2019 annual report, the FIAU forwarded 61 cases of money laundering to the police for investigation. In addition, it received more than 2,500 suspicious transaction reports from banks, legal professionals, casinos, gaming companies and real estate agencies, up by 65% from the previous year.

The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit operates opposite Malta's financial entities. One of its primary responsibilities is enforcing Anti-Money Laundering (AML) legislation. Over the years, the FIAU expanded the criteria for violations under said legislation, leading to increased administrative penalties. Administrative penalties in 2021 increased to €12.4 million from €4.7 million in 2020, creating speculations among experts in the financial sector that FIAU is enjoying the "moral authority to impose fines."

The FIAU gained media attention due to its case against Pilatus Bank in 2018. In September 2022, Pilatus Bank owner Ali Sadr Hasheminejad, won his case in front of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, which recommended a suspension of all proceedings by Malta against Ali Sadr until it decided on the case, after he claimed that he was wrongfully prosecuted by the Maltese financial authorities.

See also
 Malta Financial Services Authority

References

External links
 

2002 establishments in Malta
Government agencies established in 2002
Financial regulatory authorities of Malta
Francesco Verri (11 June 1885 – 6 June 1945) was an Italian track cycling racer who won three gold medals at the 1906 Intercalated Games in  Athens. He later won the Six Days of Buffalo in 1915, teaming with Reggie McNamara.

References

1885 births
1945 deaths
Italian male cyclists
Italian track cyclists
Cyclists at the 1906 Intercalated Games
Sportspeople from Mantua
Cyclists from the Province of Mantua
Medalists at the 1906 Intercalated Games
Road incident deaths in Italy
The European Union Amateur Boxing Championships is a competition for amateur boxers from the European Union and its candidate countries (thus Turkey is a leading participant).  The championships are organised by the continent's governing body, the European Boxing Confederation (EUBC). The first edition of the men's tournament took place in 2003 in Strasbourg, France and the women's in 2006 in Porto Torres, Italy. The men's tournament was held annually from 2003 to 2009 and every four years since 2014, while the women's tournament was held annually from 2006 to 2011 and every four years since 2013.

EUBC events
In 2008 AIBA changed names of age groups (Junior->Youth, Cadet->Junior).

Sources:

Editions

Men

Women

Medals

Men (2003-2018)
As of 2018 European Union Amateur Boxing Championships.

 :pl:Mistrzostwa Unii Europejskiej w boksie

Women (2006-2017)
As 2017 Women's European Union Amateur Boxing Championships.

 :pl:Mistrzostwa Unii Europejskiej w boksie

Combined (Men and Women)

European Union Junior Championships
1.European Union Junior Championships - Rome, Italy - June 6–11, 2006

2.European Union Junior Championships - Warsaw, Poland - May 21–26, 2007

European Union Cadet Championships
1.European Union Cadet Championships - Porto Torres, Italy - June 12–16, 2007

See also
 World Amateur Boxing Championships
 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships
 European Amateur Boxing Championships

Results Database
 http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/AAAChampionships.html
 http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/EuropeanUnion.html
 http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/EuropeanUnionw.html

References

External links
 http://www.eubcboxing.org/
 Women's tournaments' results
 Men's tournaments' results

 
Recurring sporting events established in 2003
Amateur boxing competitions
Boxing competitions in Europe
Matthew Pierce (born December 3, 1977) is an entrepreneur, university lecturer, and game designer. He is a former NCAA Champion and was a member of the United States Men's National Swim Team.

Early life
Matthew Pierce attended Stanford University, where he was a member of the men's swimming and diving team. The team won the NCAA Championship in 1998. Pierce was an All-American, an NCAA Champion in the 200-yard butterfly  and a gold medalist at the World University Games for USA Swimming.

Career
After graduating from Stanford, Pierce co-founded Rosum Corporation which was later acquired by TruePosition. He then moved to Los Angeles, received his MBA at UCLA Anderson and became VP of Strategy at Originate.
 
Matthew now serves as co-founder and CEO of O Labs, a joint venture between Originate, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, and ICM Partners. O Labs incubates and operates early-stage portfolio companies that attempt to address the needs of large enterprises. Pierce is a regular contributor to Southern California's Silicon Beach and the Los Angeles startup community.

Pierce is a lecturer at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a visiting scholar in UCLA’s Economics Department, where he teaches entrepreneurship.

Pierce is also a game designer, serving as founder and chief creative officer of Robot Dinosaur Games.  He created the game Scenarium and co-founded Versus, a real-money video game tournament platform backed by O Labs.

References

1977 births
Living people
Stanford University alumni
American venture capitalists
American company founders
American chief executives
American game designers
Stanford Cardinal men's swimmers
Universiade medalists in swimming
American male swimmers
FISU World University Games gold medalists for the United States
Medalists at the 1999 Summer Universiade
A barred irregular galaxy is an irregular version of a barred spiral galaxy. Examples include the Large Magellanic Cloud and NGC 6822. Some barred irregular galaxies (like the Large Magellanic Cloud) may be dwarf spiral galaxies, which have been distorted into an irregular shape by tidal interactions with a more massive neighbor.

References

 

Galaxy morphological types
"Bite My Tongue" is the second single from You Me at Six's third studio album Sinners Never Sleep, released on 4 December 2011 as a digital download in the United Kingdom. The single reached number 124 on the UK Singles Chart and number 4 on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart. The song features guest vocals from Oliver Sykes of Bring Me the Horizon.

Music video
A music video to accompany the release of "Bite My Tongue" was first released onto YouTube on 6 November 2011 with a total length of three minutes and forty-five seconds.

Track listing

Promotional CD

Chart performance

Release history

References

2011 singles
You Me at Six songs
2011 songs
Songs written by Josh Franceschi
Virgin Records singles
Polydor Records singles
Marcial Mora Miranda (January 12, 1895 – May 13, 1972) was a Chilean politician, and a minister in the cabinet of Chile in 1930s and 1940s. Mora was the president of Central Bank of Chile from 1939 to 1940.

References

1895 births
1972 deaths
People from Itata Province
Chilean people of Spanish descent
Radical Party of Chile politicians
Chilean Ministers of the Interior
Foreign ministers of Chile
Deputies of the XXXV Legislative Period of the National Congress of Chile
Members of the Senate of Chile
Presidents of the Central Bank of Chile
University of Chile alumni
This is a list of the extreme points of Switzerland.

Elevation

Latitude and longitude

References

See also

Extreme points of Earth
Geography of Switzerland

Geography of Switzerland
Switzerland
Lists of coordinates
Extreme
Arnesen is a Danish-Norwegian patronymic surname meaning “son of Arne”.  

Notable people with the surname include: 

Arne Arnesen (1928–2010), Norwegian diplomat and politician
Bodil Arnesen (born 1967), Norwegian operatic soprano
Christian Arnesen (1890–1956), Norwegian wrestler
Deborah Arnie Arnesen (born 1953), American politician
Dag Arnesen (born 1950), Norwegian jazz pianist
Eric Arnesen (born 1958), American historian
Frank Arnesen (born 1956), Danish footballer
Heidi Arnesen, Norwegian orienteering competitor
Kim André Arnesen (born 1980), Norwegian composer
Lasse Arnesen (born 1965), Norwegian alpine skier
Liv Arnesen (born 1953), Norwegian cross-country skier
Randolf Arnesen (1880–1958), Norwegian trade unionist, cooperativist and politician

Danish-language surnames
Norwegian-language surnames
The Tankersley Rosenwald School, also known as the Tankersley Elementary School, is a historic American Craftsman-style school building in Hope Hull, Alabama, a suburb of Montgomery.  This Rosenwald School building was built in 1922 to serve the local African American community.  The money to build the school was provided, in part, by the Julius Rosenwald Fund.  It was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on June 26, 2003, and to the National Register of Historic Places as a part of The Rosenwald School Building Fund and Associated Buildings Multiple Property Submission on January 22, 2009.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Montgomery County, Alabama
Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in Montgomery County, Alabama
Historical Marker Database

References

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
School buildings completed in 1922
Defunct schools in Alabama
American Craftsman architecture in Alabama
National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Alabama
Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage
Rosenwald schools in Alabama
Historically segregated African-American schools in Alabama
1922 establishments in Alabama
Shabalyniv () is a village in Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion (district) of Chernihiv Oblast (province) in northern Ukraine. It belongs to Korop urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.  It has a population of about 1600 people.

History
The village was founded in the 17th century, although remains have been found locally that go back to the Bronze Age.

Until 18 July 2020, Shabalyniv belonged to Korop Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernihiv Oblast to five. The area of Korop Raion was merged into Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion.

People
The village is known for its association with Joseph Popov and his wife Vera Bogdanovskaya Popova. Vera was active in introducing both education and medicine into the village as well as being one of the first female chemists. She is also thought to be one of the first women to give her live for chemistry when she blew herself up whilst trying to create a chemical which is now known to be unstable. She is buried in the village and there is a monument to her that was built in 1897.

Shabalyniv was also home to Fedir Dudko who was a writer and journalist born here in 1885. He wrote under the pseudonyms Odud F. Karpenko. He died in New York in 1962.

References

Sosnitsky Uyezd
Villages in Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion
The Gemini spacecraft was equipped with a non-androgynous mechanism for docking with the Agena target vehicle or Augmented Target Docking Adapter. It was the first American craft that could dock to another in space.

The Gemini side of the mechanism consisted of 3 latch receptacles around the forward end (the rendezvous and recovery section) of the spacecraft. The Agena side of the mechanism consisted of a truncated cone to guide the nose of the Gemini spacecraft into 3 corresponding latches. A notch in the cone aligned with the "indexing bar" on the Gemini spacecraft to orient the two spacecraft in roll.

Unlike the later Apollo Docking Mechanism, the Gemini docking mechanism did not provide internal access between the docked spacecraft; it only locked them together and provided an electronic umbilical to control the Agena from the Gemini capsule.

References 

 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20110010964_2011009594.pdf

Docking Mechanism
Spacecraft docking systems
Broadway Records was a record label founded in 1947. Vincent Puccio Sr. founded the new label in Los Angeles. His brother, Gasper, played a key role in the early years and went on to found Houston Records in 1958. The Broadway disc label was maroon with silver script. Sometimes "Value" appeared under the cursive "Broadway". Value Hit Parade Tunes was another label owned by Puccio. Both labels were found on millions of 78s, 45s, and LPs. By 1989, with the emergence of the compact disc, Broadway Records was out of business. Both catalogues were sold to 108th Street Records.

It was unrelated to the previous record company of the same name.

See also
 List of record labels

References
 The American Record Label Book by Brian Rust (Arlington House Publishers, 1978)

American record labels
1947 establishments
1980s disestablishments
Hottonia is a genus of aquatic flowering plant in the family Primulaceae. It comprises two species, both of which are known by the common name featherfoil:

Hottonia palustris, or water violet, native to Europe and western Asia
Hottonia inflata, or American featherfoil, native to North America

The two species differ markedly in the size of the flowers, which are showy in the Eurasian H. palustris but much smaller in the North American H. inflata, and in the thickness of the stem, which is swollen in H. inflata but not in H. palustris. The two species also differ in their breeding system: H. palustris is heterostylous, whereas H. inflata is not.

Carl Linnaeus named the genus in his 1753 book Species Plantarum, commemorating the botanist Peter Hotton.

References

Further reading

External links

Primulaceae
Primulaceae genera
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus