Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Samir Atallah () (born  24 June 1941 ) is a Lebanese journalist, author and political analyst.

Life
Samir Atallah was born near Jezzine, Lebanon in a small village called Bteddine El Loqch. Atallah is married to May Francis, from a Southern town called (Mieh ou Mieh) near Saida and has two children, Nasri and Maria. He resides in Beirut. His son Nasri Atallah is also a writer, and works in the digital media field.

Journalism and literary career
Atallah writes a daily column in the Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat and a weekly editorial in the Lebanese daily An-Nahar. He is a regular guest on Lebanese and Arab television and radio stations as a political and social commentator. Atallah has written his daily column in Asharq Al-Awsat since 1987 and has been with An Nahar in various roles intermittently since the late 1950s. He has been the paper's correspondent in various European capitals as well as correspondent to the United Nations.

Atallah was also managing editor of Al-Anba in Kuwait, editor-in-chief of Al-Sayad in London and Al Osbo' il Arabi in Beirut.

He is the author of a number of novels, historical books and travelogues. In a career spanning five decades, he has met and interviewed many leading figures in the contemporary world from Margaret Thatcher and Jacques Chirac to Indira Gandhi and Queen Elizabeth II.

Decorations and awards

Atallah was awarded the Order of Merit (Lebanon) medal by President Michel Suleiman in June 2013 for his contribution to Lebanese journalism and literature.

In 2008, he was awarded the Newspaper Column Award by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum during a ceremony at the Arab Media Forum in Dubai.

Published works
 The Village Years (in English)
 Traveler Without A Port (Moussafir Bila Mina' - Published in London)
 The Pistachio Salesman (Ba'ee al Fustok - Published in Beirut)
 Journeys in the Lands of Others (Masafat fi Awtan al Akhareen - Published by Dar An Nahar, Beirut)
 On People and Cities (Nass wa Moudoun - Published by Dar Al Hani)
 The Ink Caravan (Qafilat al Hibr - Published by Saqi Books, London)
 The Generals of the Levant (Generalat al Sharq - Published by Saqi Books, London)
 Sinbad's Diary (Awraq al Sindibad - Published by Dar Al Hadr)
 Youmna (Published by Dar An Nahar)

References

External links
 Samir Atallah Biography on Asharq Al-Awsat website (Arabic)

1941 births
Living people
Lebanese columnists
Lebanese journalists
Writers from Beirut
Lebanese emigrants to Kuwait
Lebanese emigrants to the United Kingdom
People from South Lebanon
Girls in Green, also known as Girls under Trees, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the German painter August Macke, executed in 1914. It depicts a number of girls among the trees on the edge of a lake, where the color areas of the figures and the environment seem to merge. The painting is in the collection of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.

History
Macke was a member of the Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter, but unlike his colleagues Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, he had little involvement in theoretical discussions. In essence he was mainly a colourist and he always looked for warmth and rhythm in his works. In doing so, he was influenced by the Orphistic ideas of Robert Delaunay about color relationships and the fragmentation and interpretation of shapes based on light and color.

In November 1913 Macke moved with his wife Elisabeth to Hilterfingen, on Lake Thun, in Switzerland. He started working on his largest painting, Mädchen im Grünen, before going on a tour of Tunisia with Paul Klee in April 1914, confirming that the style of his later works had already been formed before that trip. Macke was killed at the start of World War I, in September 1914, at the front in France.

Description

The painting shows a number of girls playing among the trees on the edge of Lake Thun. A group placed closer together in the background corresponds to the girls in the foreground, depicted in front, back and side views. Macke emphasizes the perspective and dynamic structure by displaying the three figures cut off by the frame slightly obliquely and placing them one behind the other in depth.

However, the figurative aspect is clearly subordinate to the fleeting play of light and shadow and the constant change in tonality. The image of the girls completely blends with the environment. Man and nature are intertwined by the formal treatment and the loose brushwork that structures all the elements in the same way. Color dissolves all objects in a picturesque balance. The blue of the lake is continued in the girls' dresses. In their clothes, the cool blue contrasts with warm reds, yellows and browns, giving the composition a certain tension. Everything shows a well-considered structure. The various patches of color, including the white dresses, are carefully arranged. What counts is the overall impression of harmony between man and nature. This is reinforced by a suggestion of movement created by the segmented design. The pattern of the spots and the rhythm in the surfaces tends strongly towards abstraction.

Honors
Girls in Green was the subject of a West Germany 30 cent postage stamp in 1974.

See also
List of works by August Macke

References

External links

1914 paintings
Paintings by August Macke
Paintings in the Pinakothek der Moderne
Stones Bitter Super League II was the official name for the year 1997's Super League championship season, the 103rd season of top-level professional rugby league football in Britain, and the second to be played in summer.

Teams
Twelve teams were selected to play in the second Super League season, however Salford Reds were promoted into the League, taking the place of relegated Workington Town.

Season summary
For this season, the Leeds club added 'Rhinos' to their name for the first time.

During the year a secondary title, known as the Stone's Premiership, was also played for the last time on Sunday 28 September, with the final being contested between Wigan Warriors and St. Helens with Wigan coming out victorious 33-20 after a Harry Sunderland Trophy-winning performance by captain Andy Farrell.

At the end of the season Bradford Bulls were crowned League champions by virtue of finishing the season at the top of the table.

At the end of the 1997 season the Paris Saint-Germain club was dissolved. Oldham suffered a similar fate - they finished bottom of the league and were relegated to the First Division, but by the end of October had entered liquidation and were dissolved with over £1m in debts. The clubs assets including its name and history were retained for a second Oldham club which entered the Third Division for the 1998 season.

A post-season Super League Test series between Australia and Great Britain was also held in England.

Table

Premiership

All 12 teams qualified for and competed in a knockout play-off series for the Premiership Trophy. Wigan defeated St Helens in the last final at Old Trafford. Following this season it was abolished and replaced with the Super League Grand Final which would determine the Champions rather than the current first past the post system.

See also
1997 World Club Championship
1997 Challenge Cup

References

External links
Super League II at wigan.rlfans.com
Super League II results at rugby-league-world.com
Super League II at rugbyleagueproject.com

 
1997 in English rugby league
1997 in French rugby league
Grant Briggs   (March 16, 1865 – May 31, 1928) was a 19th-century Major League Baseball catcher and outfielder. He began his professional baseball career in the Eastern League in 1887 and was playing with the Syracuse Stars of the International Association in 1889 when the Stars decided to join the American Association for the 1890 season. He appeared in 86 games for the Starrs and also played for the Louisville Colonels in 1891 and St. Louis Browns in 1892. He played minor league ball again in 1893 and was out of baseball in 1894 before he returned to the Colonels for one more game in 1895.

External links
Baseball-Reference page

1865 births
1928 deaths
19th-century baseball players
Major League Baseball catchers
Major League Baseball outfielders
Syracuse Stars (AA) players
Louisville Colonels players
St. Louis Browns (NL) players
Danbury Hatters players
Worcester Grays players
Syracuse Stars (minor league baseball) players
Reading Actives players
Binghamton Bingoes players
Oil City Oilers players
Twin Cities Twins players
Washington Little Senators players
Baseball players from Pennsylvania
Marinette (minor league baseball) players
JustBooks Solutions Pvt Ltd is a chain of rental libraries in India modeled on franchising. The company was founded at the NSRCEL incubator at IIM Bangalore and was formerly known by Strata Retail and Technology Services Pvt. Ltd. Initially operating in Bangalore, it has franchises in major cities across the country. In December 2016, the company raised  from CoCreate Ventures and was rebranded as JustBooks Solutions Pvt Ltd. The libraries use RFID to keep track of books.

The company has expanded its operations to Chennai, Kochi, Vishakapatnam, Mangalore, Nagpur, Mumbai, Pune , Hyderabad and other cities .

References

Further reading
Are books passe? These new-age libraries in Bengaluru beg to differ
Reinventing the library

Libraries in Bangalore
Nordstrand Idrettsforening is a sports club in Nordstrand, Oslo, Norway. The club has sections for alpine skiing, association football and handball. It formerly had sections for orienteering, track and field and Nordic skiing. The club colors are white and blue.

General history
It was founded in 1919 as a merge between Skiklubben Freidig (founded 1891) and Sportsklubben Grane (founded 1893). The club counts 1891 as its founding year.

In 2009 it incorporated neighboring club Ljan IF.

Handball
In handball the club has won the National championships several times, both the men's and women's team. Notable players are Heidi Sundal, Susann Goksør Bjerkrheim, Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk, Alma Hasanić Grizović, Amanda Kurtovic and Vilde Ingstad.

The women's team currently plays in the First Division (second tier), and the men's team plays in Postenligaen (first tier) as the cooperation team BSK/NIF which is fielded together with neighbors Bækkelagets SK.

Football
Grane was a founding member of the Football Association of Norway, and also became the first Norwegian Football Cup champion in 1902.

The men's football team plays in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football.

Skiing
Freidig and Grane were both skiing clubs. Freidig had the ski jumping hill Lerskallen, which was later taken over by Grane and then Nordstrand. The clubs had several able skiers. The highest ranked competitor at the Holmenkollen ski festival was Herman Huitfeldt, who placed seventh in the Nordic combined in 1895. Walter Aigeltinger finished third in the B class in 1902, and also played on Grane's football team. Th. B. Dürendahl and Wilhelm Wettergren competed successfully in Central Europe in the early 1900s.

The club's best known member is alpine skier Kjetil André Aamodt.

Athletics and orienteering
Athletics was added to the club's roster in 1921. Rolf Johannson became Norwegian champion in the 1500 metres in 1930, and also took a silver medal in 1929 and bronze medal in 1933. In 1929 he also took a bronze medal in the 800 metres. In the throwing events, Halfdan Johnsen took silver medals in shot put with both hands in 1925 and 1926, whereas Joel Arnesen won a bronze medal in the triple jump in 1929.

In orienteering the club won the relay at the National Championship for men in 1947, and for women in 1974.

References

External links
Official site
Official site , BSK/NIF

Sport in Oslo
Handball clubs in Norway
Orienteering clubs in Norway
Football clubs in Oslo
Defunct athletics clubs in Norway
Association football clubs established in 1891
1891 establishments in Norway
Multi-sport clubs in Norway
The Pécs TV Tower is a television tower in Pécs, Hungary, standing on the Misina peak of Mecsek (535 meters), measuring 197 metres, the tallest building in Hungary, with a publicly accessible observation deck at a height of 75 metres, and a restaurant at 72 metres. The tower was built from 1968 to 1973. There is a dinosaur exhibition at the restaurant level, with two life-sized dinosaur mock-ups, depicting the once native Komlosaurus.

External links 
 https://web.archive.org/web/20081225073417/http://www.vendegvaro.hu/Tv-torony-Pecs

Towers in Hungary
Towers completed in 1973
Buildings and structures in Pécs
Tourist attractions in Pécs
Yan'an Elevated Road () is an elevated expressway in the city of Shanghai, China. It runs along Yan'an Road in its entirety, continuing from the east terminus of G50 Shanghai-Chongqing Expressway at Huqingping Interchange (close to Hongqiao International Airport) to just beyond the old building of Shanghai Natural History Museum, at which point it ends and rejoins Yan'an Road on the surface. Traffic is then partly directed underground to the Bund Tunnel (completed 2010). Motorists continuing east can cross the Huangpu River using the East Yan'an Road Tunnel to Pudong.

The maximum speed on the expressway is 80 km/h.

Construction on the first portion of the elevated roadway, from the Inner Ring Road to Hongqiao Airport, began on 28 November 1995 and was completed on 2 December 1996. The expressway originally stretched down the whole length of Yan'an Road, ending with a left-turning ramp onto the surface road of the Bund. In 2008, to improve cityscape in the historic area near the Bund, the easternmost section of the expressway was demolished.

Part of the elevated expressway is decorated by blue neon lights, which were featured in James Bond movie Skyfall.

Exit list 

 Yan'an E Road Tunnel (Westbound entrance and Eastbound exit)
 Henan S Rd (WB entrance and EB exit)
 Xizang M/S Rd (WB entrance and EB exit)
 North-South Elevated Road
 Shimen 1st Rd (WB exit and EB entrance)
 Maoming N/S Rd (WB entrance and EB exit)
 Huashan Rd (WB exit and EB entrance)
 Jiangsu Rd
 Kaixuan Rd (WB exit and EB entrance)
 Inner Ring Road South (No EB Entrance)
 Inner Ring Elevated Road North
 Hongqiao Rd, Gubei Rd (WB exit and EB entrance)
 Hongxu Rd, TO Middle Ring Road
 S20 Outer Ring Expressway, Hongqiao Airport Terminal 1
 Continues as G50 Shanghai–Chongqing Expressway

References 

Road transport in Shanghai
The 2009–10 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball season marks the 101st season of Missouri Valley Conference basketball.

Preseason
In the preseason, Northern Iowa was the conference favorite – returning all five starters and 9 of the top 10 players from their MVC championship team.  UNI received all but one first-place vote in the preseason poll of MVC coaches, media, and sports information directors.  Creighton received the other first place vote.  The preseason player of the year was 2009 MVC conference tournament MVP Osiris Eldridge of Illinois State – who tested the NBA draft waters over the offseason.

Also in the preseason, three MVC players were named to the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award preseason candidate list: Dodie Dunson of Bradley, Adam Koch of Northern Iowa and Josh Young of Drake.

MVC Preseason Poll

Preseason All-MVC Team
Kwadzo Ahelegbe, Northern Iowa
Osiris Eldridge, Illinois State
Tony Freeman, Southern Illinois
Adam Koch, Northern Iowa
P'Allen Stinnett, Creighton
Josh Young, Drake

Preseason Player of the Year 
Osiris Eldridge, Illinois State

Regular season

Non-conference
Bradley was dealt a tough blow in their season opener as, for the fourth consecutive season, the Braves suffered an injury to a key player.  Senior guard Dodie Dodson broke two bones in his forearm in Bradley's home opener against Idaho State.  Bradley won the game, 74–69, but likely lost Dodson for the season. In another memorable opening games, Creighton hung tough at number 21 Dayton, but ultimately lost down the stretch 70–60.  The Bluejays led 46–41 at the half and were within 3 points with 2 minutes left to play.  Jake Kelly also made his debut for Indiana State, scoring 16 in an 88–58 win over Nebraska-Kerney.  Kelly transferred to Indiana State from Iowa to be closer to home after the death of his mother.

Mountain West – Missouri Valley Challenge
The Missouri Valley Conference won the inaugural challenge with 6 wins to the Mountain West's 4 wins. 2009 marked the inaugural year of the Mountain West - Missouri Valley Challenge – matching teams from the MVC against teams from the Mountain West Conference in an effort to bolster strength of schedule for both leagues.  Match-ups were set in January 2009 and were based on 2008–09 preseason projections. 
 November 13: Bradley @ BYU – Bradley L 60–70
 November 20: Colorado State @ Indiana State – Indiana State W 65–60
 November 21: Southern Illinois @ UNLV – SIU L 69–78
 December 5: Air Force @ Missouri State – Missouri State W 58–48
 December 12: TCU @ Wichita State – Wichita State W 80–68
 December 19: Creighton @ New Mexico – New Mexico W 66–61
 December 19: Illinois State @ Utah – Illinois State W 73–63
 December 22: San Diego State @ Drake-San Diego State W 76–73 (OT)
 December 23: Wyoming @ Northern Iowa - Northern Iowa W 72–54

Conference season

Postseason

MVC Tournament

Conference awards & honors

Weekly awards
MVC Players of the Week
Throughout the conference season, the MVC offices name a player and newcomer of the week.

References

External links
MVC Official website
2009–10 MVC Men's Basketball on-line media guide
The Apache XML project is part of the Apache Software Foundation and focuses on XML-related projects.

It consists of several sub projects:

Active sub projects
Xerces: An XML parser for Java, C++ and Perl
Xalan: An XSLT stylesheet processor for Java and C++ which implements the XPath query language.
Forrest: A standards-based documentation framework
XML-Security: A project providing security functionality for XML data 
Xindice: A native XML database 
XML Commons: A project focusing on common code and guidelines for XML projects 
XMLBeans: An XML-Java binding tool

Projects related to webservices
SOAP: Is an old implementation of the SOAP. This project based on IBM's SOAP4J implementation. It should no longer be used for new projects. Instead you should favour the Axis implementation.
XML-RPC: Apache XML-RPC is a Java implementation of XML-RPC, a protocol that uses XML over HTTP to implement remote procedure calls.
Axis: Apache Axis is the current implementation of the SOAP for Java and C++. It is the successor for the SOAP project.
WSIF: Web Services Invocation Framework is a simple Java API for invoking Web services.

No longer developed projects
AxKit: An XML-based web publishing framework in mod_perl 
Crimson: A Java XML parser derived from the Sun Project X Parser 
Xang: Framework for rapid development of dynamic server pages in ECMAScript (JavaScript)

XML software
XML
The Stagg Tree, officially the Amos Alonzo Stagg Tree and formerly known as the Day Tree, is a giant sequoia in Alder Creek Grove in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. It is the fifth largest tree in the world and the tallest giant sequoia south of Lincoln in Sequoia National Park. Stagg features the second largest footprint of any living giant sequoia, measuring  in circumference at ground level, and second only to Boole. The tree is believed to be over 3,000 years old, making it one of the oldest living giant sequoias.

Stagg has sat upon the private land of the Rouch family, making it the largest privately owned tree in the world. However, it remains freely accessible to the public.

History
The tree was renamed in 1960 after Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965), a pioneering football coach at the University of Chicago who spent much of the last several decades of his life coaching in Stockton in the nearby San Joaquin Valley.

In 1993, a group of climbers scaled the full height of the tree and discovered a hollow room inside its trunk near the very top.

On September 17, 2019, the Save the Redwoods League announced it had agreed to pay the Rouch family $15.6 million by December 31 to formally protect Stagg and the surrounding grove. Once the deal is finalized, the League plans to spend another $4.75 million on ecosystem studies and restoration work before handing the grove over to the U.S. Forest Service to be incorporated into Giant Sequoia National Monument. It will then become the largest giant sequoia on land managed by the U.S. Forest Service, edging out the Boole Tree of Converse Basin Grove, the current largest on forest service land.

The Stagg tree was saved from the Castle Fire in 2020 by a sprinkler system set by firefighters.

Dimensions
L. Day noticed the tree in 1931 and, with help from two others, made measurements of it in 1932. Wendell Flint, the author (with photographer Mike Law) of To Find the Biggest Tree, measured it in 1977 as follows:

See also
 List of largest giant sequoias
 List of individual trees
 List of oldest trees

References

External links
Composite image of the Stagg Tree; Copyright: photographer James Balog
Aerial footage of the Stagg Tree; Copyright: Animal Planet, Redwood Kings, 2013.

Natural history of Tulare County, California
Individual giant sequoia trees
History of Tulare County, California
In re Debs, 158 U.S. 564 (1895), was a US labor law case of the United States Supreme Court decision handed down concerning Eugene V. Debs and labor unions.

Background
Eugene V. Debs, president of the American Railway Union, had been involved in the Pullman Strike earlier in 1894 and challenged the federal injunction ordering the strikers back to work where they would face being fired. The injunction had been issued because of the violent nature of the strike. However, Debs refused to end the strike and was subsequently cited for contempt of court; he appealed the decision to the courts.

The main question being debated was whether the federal government had a right to issue the injunction, which dealt with both interstate and intrastate commerce and shipping on rail cars.

Judgment

Justice David Josiah Brewer for a unanimous court held that the U.S. government had a right to regulate interstate commerce and ensure the operations of the Postal Service, along with a responsibility to "ensure the general welfare of the public." Justice Brewer said the following in summing up the judgment:

Significance
In Loewe v. Lawlor the Supreme Court stated that unions were in fact potentially liable for antitrust violations. In response Congress passed the Clayton Act of 1914 to take unions out of antitrust law. Debs would go on to lose another Supreme Court case in Debs v. United States.

See also

US labor law
 In re
 Debs v. United States
 List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 158

Notes

References
 Papke, David Ray. (1999) The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas

External links
 
 

United States Constitution Article One case law
United States Supreme Court cases
United States Commerce Clause case law
United States labor case law
1895 in United States case law
Rail transport strikes
United States Supreme Court cases of the Fuller Court
Eugene V. Debs