Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Peter de Jager is a South African-born Canadian computer engineer, best known for his Y2K early 1990s outcry warning, and was the namesake of the de Jager Year 2000 index that began trading on the American Stock Exchange in 1997.

De Jager co-authored "Countdown Y2K: Business Survival Planning for the Year 2000 and periodically writes for Canada's Municipal World magazine, focusing on Change Management.

Y2K
From around 1980, as an IBM employee, he internally alerted them to the problem.

In 1993 de Jager wrote a three-page item titled "Doomsday 2000" about the effects of simple date calculations, and "testified before Congress in 1996." His initial estimation of "the cost of fixing Y2K at between $50 billion and $70 billion" was subsequently reported to have been too low: Numbers like "only" $200 Billion to over $300 Billion proved more correct (for world-wide expenditures), with $120 Billion by USA firms.

De Jager registered and built www.year2000.com, a website he later sold.

Part of his "we don't know in advance what will fail, ... so we have to fix everything" message was quoted by The New York Times in the summer of 1998, which listed examples of cascading effects on "smoke alarms, lighting systems and even thermostats in individual apartments." Fears of elevators that would go up and not come down were reported.

Although de Jager was quoted as not owning "a single share of any year-2000 stock" and that he "never mentioned a vendor from the stage" his year2000.com website had "a list of Y2K consultants and experts;" Forbes magazine wrote that he "makes money selling advertising on his Y2K web site."

In 2009, the Lifeboat Foundation presented de Jager with its Guardian Award, with this citation: "The 2009 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Peter de Jager on the tenth anniversary of Y2K which he helped avert. This award is in recognition of his 1993 warning which alerted the world to the potential disaster that might have occurred on January 1, 2000 and his efforts in the following years to create global awareness of the problem, and the possible solutions. His presentations, articles, and more than 2,000 media interviews contributed significantly to the world’s mobilization to avoid that fate."

Personal life
De Jager was born in South Africa in 1955.

De Jager and his wife, Antoinette, have two sons.

References

External links
 Peter de Jager autobiography, 20 years after Y2K

1955 births
Living people
Canadian computer specialists
South African emigrants to Canada
Andrea Badoer (1447–1525) served as ambassador of the Republic of Venice to the Court of Henry VIII of England from 1509 to 1515. His dispatches are today read in the Calendar of State Papers, Venice.

References

15th-century births
16th-century deaths
Republic of Venice diplomats
Ambassadors of the Republic of Venice to the Kingdom of England
People of the Tudor period
Andrea
Pyt-Yakh () is a town in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the east bank of the Bolshoy Balyk River, southeast of Khanty-Mansiysk. Population:

History
The town was formed by merging the settlements of Mamontovo and Pyt-Yakh in 1990. The name of the town means "place of good people" in the Khanty language.

Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as the town of okrug significance of Pyt-Yakh—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the town of okrug significance of Pyt-Yakh is incorporated as Pyt-Yakh Urban Okrug.

Economy
The town's economy is based on oil and natural gas extraction.

References

Notes

Sources

Cities and towns in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
The Church of St Hugh at Durleigh in the English county of Somerset was built in the 11th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

History

The building was first constructed in the 11th century and then revised and restored in the 14th and 15th centuries. It underwent Victorian restoration in the late 19th century.

The parish is part of the benefice of Bridgwater Holy Trinity and Durleigh Saint Hugh within the Diocese of Bath and Wells.

Architecture

The stone church consists of a two-bay nave and a chancel. The two-stage tower dates from the 14th century. The tower has four bells.

Inside the church is a 15th century octagonal font.

See also  
 List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells

References

Grade II* listed buildings in Sedgemoor
Grade II* listed churches in Somerset
Sumanirole (PNU-95,666) is a highly selective D2 receptor full agonist, the first of its kind to be discovered. It was developed for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and restless leg syndrome. While it has never been approved for medical use  it is a highly valuable tool compound for basic research to identify neurobiological mechanisms that are based on a dopamine D2-linked (vs. D1-, D3-, D4-, and D5-linked) mechanism of action.

In 2004, Pfizer announced the end of their clinical development program for sumanirole, citing “recent studies that failed to sufficiently distinguish sumanirole from currently available therapies”.

See also
 Ropinirole

References

Abandoned drugs
Amines
Dopamine agonists
Imidazoquinolines
Ureas
The  flows from Mount Unzen to the Ariake Sea in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.

River communities 
The river passes through or forms the boundary of the following communities:

Nagasaki Prefecture
Unzen, Minamishimabara

References 

Rivers of Nagasaki Prefecture
Rivers of Japan
Ursa is a village in Adams County, Illinois, United States. The population was 609 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Quincy, IL–MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Geography
Ursa is located at  (40.074653, -91.370776).

According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Ursa has a total area of , all land.

History
The first settlers came to Ursa in 1823.

Demographics

As of the 2020 census there were 609 people, 245 households, and 144 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 268 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 93.27% White, 0.16% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 1.64% from other races, and 4.76% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.49% of the population.

There were 245 households, out of which 26.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.61% were married couples living together, 8.16% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.22% were non-families. 33.47% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.24% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.86 and the average family size was 2.21.

The village's age distribution consisted of 24.4% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 26.6% from 25 to 44, 22.5% from 45 to 64, and 19.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38.4 years. For every 100 females, there were 113.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.5 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $46,719, and the median income for a family was $72,500. Males had a median income of $42,361 versus $30,000 for females. The per capita income for the village was $29,957. About 1.4% of families and 4.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.1% of those under age 18 and 2.8% of those age 65 or over.

Registered Historic Place
Ursa Town Hall

References

Villages in Adams County, Illinois
Quincy, Illinois micropolitan area
Villages in Illinois
1823 establishments in Illinois
Events in the year 2002 in the Palestinian territories.

Incumbents
Palestinian National Authority (non-state administrative authority)
 President - Yasser Arafat (Fatah)

Events
 January 2 - Karine A Affair: Israeli naval commando captures the Palestinian Authority owned freighter "Karin A" in the Red Sea, en route to Gaza. The vessel is found to be carrying 50 tons of weapons from Iran, including short-range Katyusha rockets, antitank missiles and high explosives.
 February 16 – Karnei Shomron pizzeria bombing: Three Israeli teenagers are killed in a suicide bombing at a pizzeria in the Israeli settlement of Karnei Shomron in the northern West Bank. The PFLP claims responsibility.
 February 22 – Bombing attack on a supermarket in the Israeli settlement of Efrat.
 March 7 – Bombing attack on a hotel in Ariel.
 March 29 – May 3 Operation Defensive Shield – Large-scale Israeli operation conducted into Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank aimed at halting Palestinian suicide bombings against civilians in Israel during the Second Intifada.
 March 31 – Bombing attack on a medical center in the Israeli settlement of Efrat.
 April – The Israeli government approves the construction of a continuous security barrier which would separate the Palestinians in the West Bank from Israeli population centers, in order to prevent the infiltration of Palestinian Arab terrorists.
 April 1 - April 11 Battle of Jenin – Israel attacks Palestinian militants in the city of Jenin.
 April 2 – May 10 Battle of Bethlehem – Israel occupies Bethlehem and tries to capture wanted Palestinian militants who were hiding in the Church of the Nativity.
 April 3 – April 8 Battle of Nablus – Israel attacks Palestinian militants in the city of Nablus.
 April 15 – Palestinian political figure Marwan Barghouti is captured by the Israel Defense Forces in Palestinian Authority administered city of Ramallah.
 June 22 – Israel launches Operation Determined Path.
 July 16 – Emmanuel bus attack: Nine Israelis are killed in an attack on Dan bus No. 189 traveling from Bnei Brak to Emmanuel in the northern West Bank.
 July 22 – An Israeli warplane fires a one-ton bomb at an apartment in a densely populated neighborhood of Gaza City, killing Salah Shehade, top commander of Hamas's military wing (the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades), and 14 civilians are killed including Shehade's wife and nine children.
 August 14 – Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti is sentenced to five life sentences after being convicted by a civilian Israeli court on charges of murdering Israeli civilians and membership in a terrorist organisation.
 October 25 – Hundreds of Israeli soldiers, backed by scores of tanks and other military vehicles, take control of the Palestinian administered city of Jenin in response to a suicide bombing that killed 14 people.

Notable deaths

 August 16 - Abu Nidal, 65, founder of Fatah - The Revolutionary Council, a militant Palestinian group, commonly known as the Abu Nidal Organization.

References

See also
 2002 in Israel

 
2000s in the Palestinian territories
Years of the 21st century in the Palestinian territories
Palestinian territories
Palestinian territories
The Ocean City Open is a defunct tennis tournament that was played on the Grand Prix tennis circuit in 1977. The event was held in Ocean City, Maryland.  Vitas Gerulaitis won the singles title while Alex Metreveli and Bill Scanlon partnered to win the doubles title.

Finals

Singles

Doubles

References
 ITF archives

Defunct tennis tournaments in the United States
Grand Prix tennis circuit
Ocean City, Maryland
Carpet court tennis tournaments
Recurring sporting events established in 1977
1977 establishments in Maryland
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1977
1977 disestablishments in Maryland
Bernd is a Low German short form of the given name Bernhard (English Bernard).

List of persons with given name Bernd
The following people share the name Bernd.

Bernd Brückler (born 1981), Austrian hockey player
Bernd Eichinger (1949–2011), German film producer
Bernd Heinrich (born 1940), biologist and author at the University of Vermont
Bernd Helmschrot (born 1947), German football player
Bernd Herzsprung (born 1942), German actor
Bernd Hölzenbein (born 1946), German football player
Bernd Jeffré (born 1964), German paracyclist
Bernd Klenke (born 1946), German sport sailor
Bernd Posselt (born 1956), German politician (CSU)
Bernd Schneider (footballer) (born 1973), German football player
Bernd Schneider (racing driver) (born 1964), German racecar driver
Bernd Schröder (born 1942), German football manager
Bernd Schuster (born 1959), German football manager and former player
Bernd Stange (born 1948), German football manager
Bernd Stelter (born 1961), German comedian 
Bernd Michael Rode (born 1946), Austrian chemistry professor
Bernd Rosemeyer (1909–1938), German racecar driver
Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918–1970), German composer
Bernd Sturmfels (born 1962), mathematician teaching at UC Berkeley
Bernd Leno (born 1992), German football player, goalkeeper playing for Arsenal F.C.
Thomas Anders (born 1963), German singer, lead singer of Modern Talking, birth name is Bernd

Characters
Bernd das Brot, German children's television character
Bernd Doppler, character in TV series Dark

See also
Bernt
Save Bernd, a humor website

German masculine given names
Masculine given names
Ines Mandl (April 4, 1917 – August 5, 2016) was an Austrian-born American biochemist who was awarded the Garvan-Olin Medal in 1983 for her work on the enzyme collagenase. She was a professor at Columbia University.

Early life and education
Ines Hochmuth was born in 1917, in Vienna, the only child of Ernst and Ida (née Bassan) Hochmuth. She completed elementary and secondary school in Austria, then married one of her father's colleagues, Hans Mandl, and moved to London. In Ireland during World War II, she earned a diploma in chemical technology from University College Cork.

After the war, she pursued graduate education in chemistry in the United States, earning a master's degree in 1947 and completing doctoral studies in 1949, at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn (now New York University Tandon School of Engineering).

She was one of the last students of Carl Neuberg, the "Father of Biochemistry."

Career
Ines Mandl accepted a job in the surgery department at Columbia University after finishing her PhD in 1949, and stayed at Columbia for the rest of her career. In 1950, she became the first scientist to extract collagenase from the bacterium Clostridium histolyticum. Other work involved the study of respiratory distress in newborns, and the biochemistry of pulmonary emphysema. She held a teaching appointment in microbiology, and co-authored more than 140 academic publications.

In 1972, Mandl founded an academic journal in her field, Connective Tissue Research; she was editor of the journal from its first issue until her retirement in 1986.

Her work was recognized in 1977 with the Carl Neuberg Medal from the American Society of European Chemists and Pharmacists, and in 1983 with the Garvan Medal from the American Chemical Society. She was also awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the New York Academy of Sciences.

Legacy
Ines Mandl made a substantial endowment to her alma mater, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, for undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships in chemical engineering and biological sciences. In recent decades, collagenase has begun to find various practical medical applications.

The Ines Mandl Medical Foundation of Budapest held an award competition in celebration of Mandl's 90th birthday in 2007.

References

External links 

 Interview with Ines Mandl at the Leo Baeck Institute Archives.

Further reading

1917 births
2016 deaths
American women biochemists
Austrian emigrants to the United States
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
21st-century American women
The Kingsbury Manx is an American indie rock group from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States.

History
The original members of The Kingsbury Manx met in middle school. They then attended different colleges and reunited during the summer months to play and record together. One of their demos caught the ear of Chicago-based label Overcoat Recordings, who issued their debut self-titled album in 2000. Despite little promotional effort from the label, the album became a cult success, including recognition in UK music magazine NME 's Top 50 of 2000. A second LP (Let You Down) followed in 2001 and a third album and EP (Aztec Discipline and Afternoon Owls) in 2003. The band has toured with many indie bands of note including The Sea and Cake, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Iron and Wine, The Pernice Brothers, The New Pornographers, Calexico, Stephen Malkmus, Clinic, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and Brightblack Morning Light. Over the last few years, there have been a couple lineup changes with original members Kenneth Stephenson and Scott Myers leaving while adding Clarque Blomquist and Paul Finn. In 2005, the group split with Overcoat and signed to Yep Roc, who released The Fast Rise and Fall of the South. The album was mixed by Wilco's Mikael Jorgensen. 

The band are currently on Odessa Records and released their fifth album Ascenseur Ouvert! on April 21, 2009, followed by a sixth, The Bronze Age on 5 March 2013.

Members
Current
Bill Taylor (guitar/vocals/various)
Ryan Richardson (drums/vocals/bass/various)
Clarque Blomquist (bass/drums/various/vocals)
Paul Finn (keys/vocals/various)

Former
Kenneth Stephenson (guitar/vocals)
Scott Myers (bass/keyboards)

Discography
The Kingsbury Manx (Overcoat Recordings, 2000)
Let You Down (Overcoat, 2001)
Afternoon Owls EP (Overcoat, 2003)
Aztec Discipline (Overcoat, 2003)
The Fast Rise and Fall of the South (Yep Roc, 2005)
Ascenseur Ouvert! (Odessa, 2009)
The Bronze Age (Odessa, 2013)

References

External links
Official website

American folk rock groups
Indie rock musical groups from North Carolina
Musical groups from Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina
Musical groups established in 1999
Yep Roc Records artists
1999 establishments in North Carolina
The International Religious Freedom Report 2007, of U.S. Department of State, estimated that more than 8 million foreigners are living and working in Saudi Arabia, including Muslims and non-Muslims.

There are 400,000 Sri Lankans, as well as a few thousand Buddhist workers from East Asia, the majority of which are: Chinese, Vietnamese, and Taiwanese. There is also a possibility that a percentage of Nepalese immigrants also help make up the estimated 8 million foreign residents in Saudi Arabia.

This amount of foreign inhabitants makes about 1.5% of Saudi Arabia's population Buddhists, or around 400,000 nominal Buddhists, most likely giving Saudi Arabia the largest Buddhist community in the Middle East or Arab World.

See also 
 Index of Buddhism-related articles

References

The US State Department's International Religious Freedom Report 2007 - Saudi Arabia 

Saudi Arabia
Religion in Saudi Arabia
Wanbao Town () is a rural town in Louxing District of Loudi City, Hunan Province, People's Republic of China.  As of the 2015 census it had a population of 4,4500 and an area of .

History
In 2015, Chayuan Town was merged into Wanbao Town.

Administrative division
The town is divided into 24 villages, the following areas: Xinping Village, Zhushan Village, Wanbao Village, Longjing Village, Wangxing Village, Bajiao Village, Qunyi Village, Gaochong Village, Qingshan Village, Hushi Village, Jiangxi Village, Shibu Village, Yagu Village, Moshi Village, Xinbai Village, Qingjiang Village, Fushan Village, Datang Village, Kuangjia Village, Xinzhi Village, Dongfanghong Village, Qiaoquan Village, Shilin Village, and Fuchong Village ().

Geography
The town is bordered to the north by Dake Subdistrict, to the east by Maotian Town of Xiangxiang, to the south by the towns of Hongshandian and Shexingshan, to the southwest by Hetang Town, and to the northwest by Shuidongdi Town.

Transportation

Provincial Highway
Provincial Highway S209 is a major north-south highway runs through the town.

Railway
The Luoyang–Zhanjiang Railway, from Luoyang City, Henan Province to Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province runs through the town.

The Shanghai–Kunming high-speed railway runs west-east through the southern town.

Expressway
S70 Loudi–Huaihua Expressway, more commonly known as "Louhuai Expressway", is a west-east highway passing through the town.

References

Divisions of Louxing District
Clethra barbinervis, the Japanese clethra, is a species of flowering plant in the family Clethraceae. It is native to eastern Asia, where it is found in southern China, Korea, and Japan. Its natural habitat is in open mountain forests. It is a common species in Japan, and is often found in disturbed secondary forests.

It is an upright shrub growing to . Its leaves are deciduous, dark green, and are  long. Racemes of small, fragrant, white flowers  long are produced in late summer and autumn. Mature specimens have peeling bark. The bark is plain, blackish brown with twigs turning back. 

This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Though hardy in cultivation, it requires a sheltered location in temperate regions.

Gallery

References

barbinervis
Flora of China
Flora of Eastern Asia
Plants described in 1846
Taxa named by Philipp Franz von Siebold
Taxa named by Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
Arbeidsgiverforeningen Spekter is an employers' organisation in Norway.

It was established in 1993 as the Norwegian Association of Publicly Owned Companies (Norges arbeidsgiverforening for virksomheter med offentlig tilknytning). The name was shortened to Arbeidsgiverforeningen NAVO in 1999, and Arbeidsgiverforeningen Spekter in 2007. It organizes about 180 companies that are partially or formerly public-owned. Employees in these companies are generally organized within LO Stat. The CEO is Anne-Kari Bratten.

References

Employers' organisations in Norway
Organizations established in 1993
Organisations based in Oslo
|}

The Heron Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbreds. It is run at Sandown Park over a distance of 1 mile (), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late May.

The event was formerly held at Kempton Park. It was staged at Goodwood in 2005 and 2006, and transferred to Sandown Park in 2007.

The Heron Stakes is usually part of a fixture called the Brigadier Gerard Evening which also features the Brigadier Gerard Stakes and the Henry II Stakes. The Heron Stakes was held at a separate meeting a week before Brigadier Gerard Evening in 2021.

Records

Leading jockey since 1978 (5 wins):

 Frankie Dettori – Lord Florey (1990), Proclamation (2005), Cogito (2012), Without Parole (2018), King of Comedy (2019)

Leading trainer since 1978 (10 wins):
 Sir Michael Stoute – Dalsaan (1980), Spark of Life (1981), Diaglyphard (1985), Neshad (1987), Magical Strike (1989), Among Men (1997), Kalaman (2003), Final Verse (2006), Tazahum (2011), Consort (2015)

Winners since 1978

See also
 Horse racing in Great Britain
 List of British flat horse races

References

 Paris-Turf:
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 pedigreequery.com – Heron Stakes – Sandown.

Flat races in Great Britain
Sandown Park Racecourse
Flat horse races for three-year-olds
That's Not What I Meant! How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships is Deborah Tannen's first book presenting, for a general audience, her linguistic approach to explaining how ways of speaking affect relationships.  Predating by four years her phenomenally bestselling book about gender differences in ways of speaking, You Just Don't Understand, this book approaches communication and miscommunication from a linguistic point of view rather than a psychological one, emphasizing differences between the genders. The book lays out the linguistic devices and rituals that constitute "conversational style", such as indirectness, pacing, pausing, humor, overlap, and interruption, and shows their effects when styles differ.

See also
 Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
 Nonverbal communication

References

Sociology books