Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The Kosovo men's national basketball team (, ) represents Kosovo in international basketball. They are controlled by the Basketball Federation of Kosovo, the governing body for basketball in Kosovo. Kosovo has been a member of FIBA since 13 March 2015.

History

Pre-independence
The Basketball Federation of Kosovo was founded in 1991. During the Yugoslavian era, Kosovo had its own Superleague and lower divisions, in both genders. In the 1990s, Kosovo declared political and sports independence from the Yugoslav system, organising its own league, based on different teams from seven major cities of Kosovo. Some basketball players from Kosovo, especially Kosovo Serbs and Gorani, participated as part of the Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia national teams.

After independence
Kosovo were not allowed to play international matches, not even friendlies by FIBA, until 2015, when the Basketball Federation of Kosovo became an official member of FIBA and FIBA Europe. Kosovo took part in EuroBasket qualification for the first time in 2017. On 31 August 2016, Kosovo played their first official international match against Slovenia during the EuroBasket 2017 qualifiers.

A year later, the national team achieved their first ever win on 2 August 2017 by defeating Macedonia 72–68 in their first match during the 2019 FIBA World Cup European Pre-Qualifiers. After the win, Kosovo would pick up one more victory during the Pre-Qualifiers, against Estonia 75–69 to finish with a (2–2) record to advance to the first round of World Cup qualifying. In the next round, Kosovo would eventually see their World Cup hopes vanish, as the team went winless before being eliminated. Despite all of that they maintain to reach the second qualifying round in their debut participation, reaching the round of 32 best Basketball teams in Europe.

After missing out on reaching the 2019 FIBA World Cup, Kosovo went through pre-qualifiers in order to reach EuroBasket 2022. However, the team would only compile a (2–8) record during the pre-qualifying process to be unable to advance.

Competitive record

FIBA World Cup

Olympic Games

EuroBasket

Results and fixtures

2023

Team

Current roster
The following is the Kosovo roster called up for the EuroBasket 2025 pre-qualifiers third round matches against Switzerland and Denmark, held from 19 July–5 August 2023.

Depth chart

Head coach history

Retired numbers

See also

Sport in Kosovo
Kosovo men's national under-20 basketball team
Kosovo men's national under-18 basketball team
Kosovo men's national under-16 basketball team

References

External links
Official website 
Kosovo FIBA profile
Kosovo National Team – Men at Eurobasket.com

Basketball
Men's national basketball teams
Senior
Strangeways is a weird western/Western comic book mini-series created and written by Matt Maxwell.  Published in a graphic novel format instead of single issues, it is currently appearing in a serial version at Comic Book Resources.

The story is set in the Western United States after the end of the Civil War but before the closing of the frontier. It is an example of Weird West fiction, combining elements of horror (specially werewolves) and science fiction within a Western setting.

Publication history

Originally solicited for publication by Speakeasy Comics in 2005, Strangeways was pulled from their schedule by the author when it became clear that Speakeasy's financial troubles would shut the company down before completion of even the first story arc.  Recently resolicited by Highway 62 Press, the first Strangeways graphic novel, Strangeways: Murder Moon () was published in 2008.

The second story Strangeways: The Thirsty was serialized at Blog@Newsarama.com and then at Robot6 at Comic Book Resources.

See also
High Moon
Dead Irons

References

External links
Strangeways on Matthew Maxwell's site
Strangeways album on Flickr

2008 comics debuts
American graphic novels
Werewolf comics
Western (genre) comics
Marthe Mercadier (23 October 1928 – 15 September 2021) was a French actress.

Filmography

Awards
 In 1974, she was named Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
 In 1989, she won the Molière Award of the Best Comic Show.
 In 2007, she was named Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.

Other
In 2011, she participated in Danse avec les stars (French version of Dancing with the Stars) and in the Balajo's anniversary, the famous night-club rue de Lappe in Paris.

In April 2014, her daughter Véronique announced her mother's Alzheimer's disease.

Dancing with the Stars
She was one of the contestants during the First season of Danse avec les stars. With her partner Grégoire Lyonnet, she finished in the 6th position.
She participated in 2011, aged 82 years old which made her the oldest participant ever, to date, in the French version of Danse Avec Les Stars.
This table shows the route of Marthe Mercadier and Grégoire Lyonnet in Danse Avec Les Stars.

References

 Biography

External links 

 
 

1928 births
2021 deaths
French film actresses
French stage actresses
French television actresses
People from Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine
20th-century French actresses
21st-century French actresses
Recipients of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Deaths from dementia in France
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Seed loading is a technology used primarily in remote data backup solutions. It prevents large amounts of backup data being sent over the Internet. Instead, the backup is performed locally on a storage medium (e.g. an external hard disk) which is then shipped to the external storage location, where it is stored in the appropriate account. This method saves the user much time and bandwidth.

In general, this method of external backup is highly effective when the backup solution supports incremental or differential backups. The first backup is then performed using seed load technology; afterwards only new and changed data has to be backed up over the Internet.

References 

Computer data
Fabio Blanco Gómez (born 18 February 2004) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a right winger for Villarreal CF B.

Club career

Early career
Blanco trained in the youth ranks at his hometown club UD Almería before moving to Valencia CF when he was 15. He played with Valencia until the end of the 2020–21 season when he allowed his contract to run down and became a free agent. That summer he chose to join Eintracht Frankfurt, signing a contract until 2023 amidst reported interest from Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Barcelona
However, after failing to settle in Germany and following a lot of upheaval to the back room staff in Frankfurt involving a new manager, sporting director and chairman, Blanco signed for FC Barcelona in January 2022. He was given a two and half year contract with a €100m release clause. Barcelona were well placed in negotiations because they had appointed José Ramón Alexanko and Mateu Alemany as new head of La Masia and sporting director respectively, with both having previously worked with Blanco at Valencia.

Blanco made his senior debut with the reserves on 29 January 2022, replacing Santiago Ramos Mingo in a 2–2 Primera División RFEF home draw against Real Madrid Castilla. He scored his first senior goal on 19 March, netting the winner in a 2–1 home success over UE Cornellà.

In October 2022, along with Antonio Aranda, Emre Demir and Sergi Rosanas, Blanco was called into involvement with the first team squad training by first team Barcelona manager Xavi Hernandez.

Villarreal
On 20 June 2023, Blanco was announced at Villarreal CF, being initially assigned to the B-team in Segunda División.

International career
On 25 October 2022 playing for the Spanish under-19 age group team Blanco provided the assist for the goal by Real Madrid’s Cesar Palacios in a 1-0 win over Germany U19.

References

External links
 
 

2004 births
Living people
Spanish men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Almería
FC Barcelona Atlètic players
Villarreal CF B players
Primera Federación players
Spain men's youth international footballers
Simon was a relay-based computer, described by Edmund Berkeley in a series of thirteen construction articles in Radio-Electronics magazine, from October 1950. Intended for the educational purpose of demonstrating the concept of digital computer, it could not be used for any significant practical computation since it had only two bits of memory. In 1950, it sold for US$600. Some have described it as the "first personal computer", although its extremely limited capacity and its unsuitability for use for any purpose other than as an educational demonstration make that classification questionable.

History 
The "Simon project" arose as a result of the Berkeley's book Giant Brains, or Machines That Think, published in November 1949. There, the author said:

 
In November 1950, Berkeley wrote an article titled Simple Simon for Scientific American magazine, that described digital computing principles to the general public. Despite Simon's extreme lack of resources (it could only represent the numbers 0, 1, 2 and 3), Berkeley stated on page 40 that the machine "possessed the two unique properties that define any true mechanical brain: it can transfer information automatically from any one of its "registers" to any other, and it can perform reasoning operations of indefinite length." Berkeley concluded his article anticipating the future:

Technical specifications 
The Simon's architecture was based on relays. The programs ran from a standard paper tape, with five rows of holes for data. The registers and ALU stored only 2 bits. The user entered data via punched paper, or by five keys on the front panel. The machine output data through five lamps.

The punched tape served not only for data entry, but also as  memory storage. The machine executed instructions in sequence, as it read them from the tape. It could perform four operations: addition, negation, greater than, and selection.

Notes

External links 
 Simon's FAQ
 Edmund Berkeley's Simon Relay Processor. Archived
 
 Edmund C. Berkeley Papers, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.  Box 22 has correspondence, memos, accounting records, and notes on the development and marketing of small robots, including Relay Moe, Franken, Tit-Tat-Toe Machine, Test Your Nerve Machine, Simon, and mechanical brain kits.

Electro-mechanical computers
1950s computers
Computer-related introductions in 1950
"I Could Be Happy" is a song by Scottish new wave band Altered Images, released as the first single from their second album, Pinky Blue. Their second top-10 hit in the UK, the song peaked at number seven in December 1981, and remained on the chart for 12 weeks. It also reached the top 40 in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand and was their first and only single to chart in the United States, on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart at number 45 in April 1982.

Music video
The music video for this song was a brief mainstay on MTV in its early days. The band members are shown holding different pastel pieces and playing them like they were their musical instruments, and singer Clare Grogan is shown singing the "I could be happy, I could be happy" part in scenes where those lyrics are on the screen with a dot weirdly moving around, but hitting each syllable in time. Near the end, the band members put their pieces down to show it draws a very colorful happy face, then the video ends with Grogan riding out the song with the band playing their real instruments. (MTV initially accidentally said the song was from their Happy Birthday album.)

Track listings
7-inch single
A. "I Could Be Happy"
B. "Insects"

12-inch single
A1. "I Could Be Happy"
B1. "Insects"
B2. "Disco Pop Stars"

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end chart

Certifications

References

1981 songs
1981 singles
Altered Images songs
Epic Records singles
Portrait Records singles
Song recordings produced by Martin Rushent
La Tuque Airport  is a registered aerodrome located adjacent to La Tuque, Quebec, Canada.

See also
 La Tuque Water Aerodrome

References

Registered aerodromes in Mauricie
La Tuque, Quebec
Bernard Georges (born 24 August 1955) is a Seychellois politician who currently serves as the Leader of Government Business in the National Assembly of Seychelles.

Biography

A lawyer by profession, he is a member of the Seychelles National Party, and was first elected to the Assembly in 2002.  Georges' popularity in Seychelles was fueled in part by his radio program on Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation's SBC Radio which explained the laws and how they worked to people of Seychelles.  He and his wife, Annette, run the law firm, "Georges and Georges", which specializes in property and commercial disputes.  In 2015, he was appointed to Judge of the Court of Justice for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa.

Education
He is a graduate of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

References

External links

Member page on Assembly website
Georges is appointed Judge of the Court of Justice

1955 births
Living people
Members of the National Assembly (Seychelles)
People from Les Mamelles
Seychellois lawyers
Seychelles National Party politicians
Seychellois people of French descent
Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Kent Peak can refer to:
Kent Peak (Boulder Mountains, Idaho), on the border of Blaine and Custer counties
Kent Peak (Boundary County, Idaho)
Kent Peak (Ravalli County, Montana)
In the analytic theory of continued fractions, a chain sequence is an infinite sequence {an} of non-negative real numbers chained together with another sequence {gn} of non-negative real numbers by the equations

where either (a) 0 ≤ gn < 1, or (b) 0 < gn ≤ 1. Chain sequences arise in the study of the convergence problem – both in connection with the parabola theorem, and also as part of the theory of positive definite continued fractions.

The infinite continued fraction of Worpitzky's theorem contains a chain sequence. A closely related theorem shows that

converges uniformly on the closed unit disk |z| ≤ 1 if the coefficients {an} are a chain sequence.

An example

The sequence {¼, ¼, ¼, ...} appears as a limiting case in the statement of Worpitzky's theorem. Since this sequence is generated by setting g0 = g1 = g2 = ...                           = ½, it is clearly a chain sequence. This sequence has two important properties.

Since f(x) = x − x2 is a maximum when x = ½, this example is the "biggest" chain sequence that can be generated with a single generating element; or, more precisely, if {gn} = {x}, and x < ½, the resulting sequence {an} will be an endless repetition of a real number y that is less than ¼.
The choice gn = ½ is not the only set of generators for this particular chain sequence. Notice that setting

generates the same unending sequence {¼, ¼, ¼, ...}.

Notes

References
H. S. Wall, Analytic Theory of Continued Fractions, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1948; reprinted by Chelsea Publishing Company, (1973), 

Continued fractions
This is a complete list of ice hockey players who were drafted in the National Hockey League Entry Draft by the San Jose Sharks franchise. It includes every player who was drafted, regardless of whether they played for the team. The Sharks came into existence in 1991 when the NHL expanded into northern California as a compromise to the owners of the Minnesota North Stars, who wanted to relocate the team into the area.

Key
 Played at least one game with the Sharks
 Spent entire NHL career with the Sharks

Draft picks
Statistics are complete as of the 2022–23 NHL season and show each player's career regular season totals in the NHL.  Wins, losses, ties, overtime losses and goals against average apply to goaltenders and are used only for players at that position.

See also
1991 NHL Dispersal and Expansion Drafts

References
General

Specific

draft
 
San Jose Sharks
American Grain Complex, also known as "The American", Russell-Miller Milling Co. Elevator, and Peavey Co. Elevator, is a historic grain elevator and flour milling complex located in South Buffalo, Buffalo, Erie County, New York. The complex consists of three contributing buildings and two contributing structures. They are the Elevator Building (1905/1906, 1931), Flour Building (1906-1924), office building (c. 1920), Moveable Marine Tower, and railroad tracks.  The Elevator Building consists of the mainhouse, workhouse, and fixed marine tower, all built in 1905–1906, and an annex constructed in 1931.  The complex was last owned by ConAgra Foods, who closed the elevator and mill in June 2001.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

References

External links

Historic American Engineering Record in New York (state)
Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Infrastructure completed in 1931
Grain elevators in New York (state)
Buildings and structures in Buffalo, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Buffalo, New York
Samuel Howard Blackmer (March 2, 1902 – December 25, 1951) was a Vermont attorney, politician, and judge.  He was appointed as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court in 1949, and served until his death.

Early life
Blackmer was born in Bennington, Vermont on March 2, 1902, the son of Samuel Huling Blackmer and Fanny (Abbott) Blackmer.  He attended the schools of Bennington, and in 1920 he graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.  He graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1924, and was a member of Zeta Psi and Delta Sigma Rho.  In 1927, Blackmer received his LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Lincoln's Inn Society.  He was admitted to the bar in 1927, and practiced in Bennington as the partner of Judge William J. Meagher, who had married Fanny Blackmer after the 1911 death of Samuel Huling Blackmer.

Early career
A Republican, Blackmer served as an Old Bennington village trustee from 1927 to 1938.  He served as a justice of the peace from 1929 to 1938, and was Bennington's municipal court judge from 1929 to 1932.  from 1933 to 1935 he represented Bennington in the Vermont House of Representatives.  He served as State's Attorney of Bennington County from 1935 to 1937.

During the governorship of George Aiken, Blackmer served as his executive clerk from 1937 to 1938.

Judicial career
In 1938, Aiken appointed Blackmer a judge of the Vermont Superior Court.  He rose through seniority to become the court's chief judge, and served until 1949.  In April 1949, Blackmer was named as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, filling the vacancy created when John C. Sherburne was promoted to chief justice.  Blackmer served on the Supreme Court until his death, and was succeeded by Stephen S. Cushing.

Death and burial
Blackmer died unexpectedly of a heart attack in Bennington on December 25, 1951.  He was buried at Old Bennington Cemetery.

Family
On July 20, 1925, Blackmer married Katrina Roosevelt Schuyler, the daughter of Marie Louise (Nelson) Schuyler (b. 1865) and the Reverend Philip Schuyler (1861-1942), a member of New York's prominent Schuyler family.  They were the parents of a daughter, Patricia Ann (1927-1998).

Legacy
The Samuel H. Blackmer Memorial Library was incorporated in August 1952.  It was established in the Bennington County Courthouse, and included the books from Blackmer's personal law library, as well as an endowment from his family.

References

Sources

Books

Newspapers

Internet

Magazines

External links

Samuel Howard Blackmer at The Political Graveyard

1902 births
1951 deaths
People from Bennington, Vermont
Hotchkiss School alumni
Yale University alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
Vermont lawyers
Republican Party members of the Vermont House of Representatives
State's attorneys in Vermont
Justices of the Vermont Supreme Court
Burials in Vermont
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American judges
20th-century American lawyers
The Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) (pronounced: sessie) provides data and analysis about student engagement in community colleges.  Like its counterpart in four-year institutions, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), the CCSSE survey instrument is used to gauge the level of student engagement in college.  The survey is administered to community college students during the spring academic term.  The survey questions assess institutional practices and student behaviors that are correlated highly with student learning and student retention.

The survey serves three purposes for community college administrators and instructors:
 benchmarking—comparison to national norms on educational practice and performance by community and technical colleges. 
 diagnosis—identification of areas in which an institution could improve students’ educational experiences and outcomes. 
 monitoring/accountability—documentation and improvement of institutional effectiveness over time.

The CCSSE survey instrument was first piloted in 2001. From 2002 through 2010, more than 1,770,000 students at 754 community colleges in 49 U.S. states, British Columbia, Nova Scotia and the Marshall Islands participated in the survey. CCSSE is a product and service of the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE), which is part of the Program for Higher Education Leadership in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at The University of Texas at Austin. CCCSE's director is Linda García, Ph.D.

See also 
 Undergraduate education

External links 
 Survey instrument website
 Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) official website
 IPEDS

Community colleges
Tegegne Bezabeh (born 9 September 1941) is a retired Ethiopian sprinter. He competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics in the 400 m event with the best achievement of sixth place in 1968.

His best time (45.42) on 400 meter is also current Ethiopian record.

References

1941 births
Living people
Ethiopian male sprinters
Olympic athletes for Ethiopia
Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics
African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
African Games silver medalists for Ethiopia
Athletes (track and field) at the 1973 All-Africa Games
20th-century Ethiopian people