Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The FIBA Women's World Ranking is the FIBA's rankings of national women's basketball teams. FIBA ranks women's national teams in both senior and junior competitions. It also publishes combined rankings for all competitions involving both sexes.

Calculation
Since November 2019, FIBA uses a game-based system similar to the men's ranking.

Until 2019
FIBA still uses the competition-based system to determine its women's rankings. As noted above, this system was also used to determine men's rankings prior to 2017. FIBA has announced that it will introduce a game-based ranking procedure similar to that currently used for men's rankings in the indeterminate future.

Events' weights
FIBA uses a weighted arithmetic mean to determine the statistical weight of each of the tournaments. Each event is assigned point weight that is based partly on how competitive the tournament is and partly on which national teams are participating:

Competition ranking points

As opposed to football tournaments, teams still have to go through a series of consolation and classification rounds even if they've been eliminated from title contention, so that a complete ranking of the teams will be possible.

Cycle and updates

The calculations are done after the tournaments stated above in a group of two Olympic cycles (8 years). The oldest tournament outside the 8-year period is discarded and replaced with the newest competition.

This means that in every computation, there are:
 Four continental championships
 Two FIBA Women's Basketball World Cups
 Two Olympic basketball tournaments

Example
The ' 1000.0 points were calculated by this method:

After the conclusion of the 2017 continental championships, the points gained from the 2009 continental championships were replaced with those gained from the 2017 editions.

References

External links
FIBA Women's World Ranking

World Rankings
Sports world rankings
Basketball rankings
Arturo Scattini (Bergamo, 11 July 1890 – Rome, 16 October 1970) was an Italian general during World War II.

Biography

During the First World War he fought with the rank of captain in the 59th Infantry Division, earning two Bronze Medals of Military Valor for his conduct during the First and Second Battle of Monte Grappa. In 1933 he assumed command of the 7th Libyan Regiment, and in 1937 (with the rank of colonel) that of the 9th Bersaglieri Regiment, which he held until November 1939. In April 1939, in command of the 9th Bersaglieri Regiment, he participated in the Italian invasion of Albania, receiving a Silver Medal of Military Valor for the capture of Shkoder.

From November 1939 to January 1940 he was attached to the Army Corps of Treviso, after which he was transferred to the Ministry of War. From October 1940 to July 1941 he was head of the Information Office of the Albania General Headquarters, receiving the Military Order of Savoy for his work during the Greco-Italian War and the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia. He was promoted to brigadier general on 1 January 1942, and on 1 June of the same year he was appointed deputy commander of the 80th Infantry Division La Spezia, fighting in Tunisia; on 29 March 1943 he assumed command of the Division following the death of his predecessor, General Gavino Pizzolato. He was captured by the British in May 1943, with the final surrender of all Axis forces in Tunisia, and held in the United Kingdom as a prisoner of war.

He was released in 1944, following the Armistice of Cassibile, and rejoined the Italian Co-belligerent Army, where he was given command of the "Friuli" Combat Group. On 8 February 1945 the Combat Group was sent to replace the 5th Kresowa Infantry Division on the Gothic Line, in the Brisighella sector, holding the front on the Senio river. The combat group participated in the 1945 spring offensive, liberating Riolo dei Bagni on 11 April 1945 and then advancing towards Castel Bolognese and Imola along the Via Emilia, together with the Polish Carpathian Division. After bitter fighting against the Germans in Casalecchio dei Conti, on the morning of April 21, Scattini and his 87th Infantry Regiment "Friuli" were among the first Allied units to enter Bologna.

After the end of the war, Scattini became Inspector-General of Infantry of the postwar Italian Army in 1949, and commander of the 8th and later the 9th Territorial Defence Command. In 1952 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. After retiring, he became honorary president of the National Bersaglieri Association. He was the father of film director Luigi Scattini and grandfather of actress Monica Scattini.

References

1890 births
1970 deaths
Italian generals
Italian military personnel of World War II
Italian military personnel of World War I
Recipients of the Silver Medal of Military Valor
Recipients of the Bronze Medal of Military Valor
Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
People from Bergamo
Air Force Band Münster (Luftwaffenmusikkorps Münster) was founded in 1958 to serve as a military band for the German Air Force. It was initially formed in Uetersen as a single unit, Air Force Band 1. Two more were created in March 1959. Following this, the three units were garrisoned in Karlsruhe, Münster, and Neubiberg. On 26 October 2011, the merging of the three bands was announced by the Federal Minister of Defence in the course of a planned reform. On 24 March 2014, the three Air Force Bands combined to form Air Force Band Münster, or Air Force Band 3.

History 
The original three Air Force Bands shadowed the Bundeswehr in Upper Bavaria, Swabia, Franconia and Upper Palatinate during military ceremonies. They often operated beyond German borders as part of public relations. This included numerous excursions abroad, namely concerts in Italy, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Canada, missions in the US, UK, Switzerland, Turkey, Portugal, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Romania, Austria, Uzbekistan, Oman, and Afghanistan. Many of the concerts were charity events, with proceeds being donated to a specific cause or charitable organization. Following the unification of the three bands, nearly all public concerts serve as charity events.

Naturally, the majority of Air Force Band's tasks were in Germany. These included providing music for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, their appearance as "The Merry Musicians" on ZDF, as well as the NATO Music Festival in Kaiserslautern and Mönchengladbach. They played many concerts, including ones in Karlsruhe, Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel, Braunschweig, Stuttgart, and in 1998 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, which marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Berlin blockade. Unification of the three bands has not changed their repertoire; Air Force Band Münster still performs regularly. Along with traditional concerts, their activities now include recording for television and CD production.

Directors
Johannes Schade (11 July 1956 – 1 May 1964)
Ottomar Fabry (2 May 1964 – 22 September 1987)
Simon Dach (23 September 1987 – 30 September 1992)
Hans Orterer (1 October 1992 – 30 June 1996)
Lutz Bammler (1 July 1996 – 31 March 2003)
Christian Blüggel (1 April 2003 – 29 Juli 2003)
Michael Wintering (30 July 2003 – 21 April 2010)
Martin Kötter (22 April 2010 – 31 December 2011)
Timor Oliver Chadik (1 January 2012 – 31 December 2014)
Christian Weiper (1 January 2015 - 21 February 2022)
Alexander Kalweit (22 February 2022)

References 

German military bands
Units and formations of the German Air Force
Bundeswehr
Münster
Musical groups established in 1958
Military units and formations established in 1958
1958 establishments in Germany
Air force bands
Bear Creek Falls is the final of the two waterfalls on the North Fork Skykomish River in the U.S. state of Washington.  The falls are located within a short, narrow canyon.

The falls, at just 25 feet high, are quite insignificant, however are quite significant in terms of how much water is flowing over them.  They drop about 8 meters in a series of cascades and punchbowls.  Because the gorge is rather twisted, it is hard to see portions of the falls, let alone photograph them.

References 

Waterfalls of Washington (state)
Waterfalls of Snohomish County, Washington
Tiered waterfalls
The Rackley Roofing 200 is a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race held at Nashville Superspeedway in Gladeville, Tennessee. The race, which was previously held from 2001 to 2011, returned to the schedule in 2021 after ten years away.

The event replaced a race that was held on the same date at nearby Nashville Speedway USA (also known as the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway) from 1996 to 2000. The race had been held in August during its entire first run on the Truck Series schedule, except for 2011 when it was moved to July. The track was shut down in 2012 and as a result, the race was removed from the schedule along with the track's second race in the spring, which had been held in 2010 and 2011.

The Truck Series—joining the Cup and Xfinity Series—returned to the speedway in 2021. Rackley Roofing was announced as the race's title sponsor in March of that year.

Past winners

2002, 2006 & 2009: Race extended due to a green–white–checker finish.

Spring race (2010–2011)

The Bully Hill Vineyards 200 was a second Truck Series race that was held at Nashville Superspeedway on Good Friday. For the 2010 and 2011 seasons, it was the first of two Camping World Truck Series events held in Nashville, the second being the Lucas Deep Clean 200, which was held in July. It was sponsored by Bully Hill Vineyards.

2010 marked the inaugural event of the Nashville 200. In October 2009, the parent company of the Superspeedway, Dover Motorsports, Inc. announced that it would be closing Memphis Motorsports Park, which was previously scheduled to host a Truck Series race on June 26.  It was announced shortly afterward that the Memphis race would be replaced with a second race at Nashville. The race, which was scheduled for April 2, would mark the opening race of a doubleheader with the Nationwide Series, which would race the following day at the track.

With the first race, Nashville Superspeedway would become the only race track on the schedule to host two Truck Series races and not host a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event. The race was only run twice, as the track was shut down following the 2011 season. Kyle Busch, driving a Toyota for Kyle Busch Motorsports, won the event both years it was held.

Past winners

Multiple winners

Drivers

Teams

Manufacturer wins

References

External links
 

1997 establishments in Tennessee
NASCAR Truck Series races
 
Annual sporting events in the United States
Motorsport in Nashville, Tennessee
Megasis ragonoti is a species of snout moth in the genus Megasis. It was described by Patrice J.A. Leraut in 2003 and is known from Altai, Russia.

References

Moths described in 2003
Endemic fauna of Altai
Phycitini
L. orientalis  may refer to:
 Lactuca orientalis, a plant species
 Lacuna orientalis, a sea snail species
 Lasionycta orientalis, a moth species found in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
 Laxmannia orientalis, a tufted perennial herb species in the genus Laxmannia endemic to Australia
 Leptorhynchos orientalis, an annual or perennial herb species in the genus Leptorhynchos endemic to Australia
 Limaria orientalis, the file shell, a bivalve mollusc species
 Liquidambar orientalis, the Oriental sweetgum or Turkish sweetgum, a deciduous tree species native to the eastern Mediterranean region
 Lonchoptera orientalis, a spear-winged fly species in the genus Lonchoptera

See also
 Orientalis (disambiguation)
The Sweden Billie Jean King Cup team represents Sweden in the Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and is governed by the Swedish Tennis Association.

History
Sweden competed in its first Fed Cup in 1964.  Their best result was reaching the quarterfinals on four occasions.

Current team (2017)
Johanna Larsson
Jacqueline Cabaj Awad
Cornelia Lister
Mirjam Björklund

Results

2010–2019

External links

Billie Jean King Cup teams
Fed Cup
Fed Cup
Agrotis coquimbensis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Coquimbo Region of Chile.

The wingspan is about 34 mm.

External links
 Noctuinae of Chile

Agrotis
Moths of South America
Moths described in 1903
Endemic fauna of Chile
Compsolechia ptochogramma is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Pará, Brazil.

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are grey, more or less irrorated (sprinkled) with whitish on an oblique area from the middle of the costa to the tornus. There are black dots towards the costa at the base and one-sixth and a thick very oblique black streak from the dorsum at one-sixth crossing more than half the wing. The stigmata are small, indistinct and dark fuscous, the discal approximated, the plical obliquely before the first discal. There is a patch of dark fuscous suffusion on the costa preceding the subterminal line, this is represented by a white dot on the costa at three-fourths, and a transverse series of several minute whitish dots beyond it on the lower half of the wing. Immediately beyond this is a triangular blackish costal blotch, adjoining which beneath is a white blotch not reaching the margin crossed by two black dashes. The hindwings are dark fuscous with a short slender grey hair-pencil in the submedian fold.

References

Moths described in 1922
Compsolechia
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
Maurice Thomson (1601/04–1676), of St Andrew's parish, Eastcheap, City of London and of Haversham in Buckinghamshire, was an English merchant, slave trader and Puritan, said to be "England's greatest colonial merchant of his day". He obtained a monopoly of the Virginia tobacco trade.

He was the eldest son and heir of Robert Thomson of Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, by his wife Elizabeth Harsflet, daughter of John Harsflet (alias Halfehead, Harsnett) of Watton-at-Stone. His sister Mary Thomson married William Tucker, a merchant and one of the first plantation owners in the Colony of Virginia. His younger brothers included Col. George Thomson (c. 1607 – 1691), a merchant, Parliamentarian soldier and MP for Southwark; Robert Thomson, youngest brother, who was also a merchant; Paul Thomson and Sir William Thomson.

In the early 1650s, Thomson and business associate Rowland Wilson had engaged James Pope to act as agent on their ship Friendship, for a number of slaving voyages to Gambia. Dresser quotes them as instructing Pope to, along with loading the ship with African slaves for Barbados, "find 15 or 20 many lusty young Negers and bring them home with you for London".

Thomson married Dorothy Vaux, daughter of John Vaux, of Pembrokeshire, by whom he had children including John Thompson, 1st Baron Haversham (c. 1648 – 1710), eldest son and heir; and Mary Thomson, who became the wife of William Owfield (1623–1664), MP.

He owned estates and property including Elsham, Lincolnshire, which manor he purchased in 1655, and Worcester House, Mile End Green, which he sold in 1675 to the Church. He died in 1676 and was buried in the chancel of Haversham Church.

References

Sources
Brenner, Robert, Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653, 2003; 
McCartney, Martha W., Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary
Richard B. Sheridan, Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623-1775, pp. 88–90 
Biographical details: ancestry.com 
John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies, p. 523 

1676 deaths
English merchants
People from Watton-at-Stone
Year of birth uncertain
English slave traders
Ship owners
The Pasir Gudang City Council (MBPG; , Jawi: مجليس بندارايا ڤاسير ڬودڠ) is the city council which administrates Pasir Gudang in Johor Bahru District, Johor, Malaysia. This agency is under Johor state government. MBPG is responsible for public health and sanitation, waste removal and management, town planning, environmental protection and building control, social and economic development and general maintenance functions of urban infrastructure. The MBPG main headquarters is located at Pasir Gudang.

History 
Formerly known as Pihak Berkuasa Tempatan Pasir Gudang (PBTPG) (Pasir Gudang Local Authority) a subsidiary of Johor Corporation (JCorp).  It is the first local authority in Malaysia that was privatised, although Johor Corporation is the investment arm of the Johor State Government. This agency was granted municipal status on 2 August 2010 and named Pasir Gudang Municipal Council (MPPG; ). On 22 November 2020, it was upgraded to city council called Pasir Gudang City Council (MBPG; ).

Departments 
Finance & Administration (Kewangan & Pentadbiran)
Corporate & Public Relations (Korporat & Perhubungan Awam)
Treasury (Perbendaharaan)
Contract & Quantity Survey (Kontrak & Ukur Bahan)
Enforcement (Penguatkuasaan)
Urban Services (Perkhidmatan Bandar)
Information Technology (Teknologi Maklumat)
Building (Bangunan)
Engineering (Kejuruteraan)
Social & Community (Kemasyarakatan)
Management Services (Khidmat Pengurusan)
Property Management (Pengurusan Harta)
Valuation (Penilaian)
Urban Planning (Perancangan Bandar)

Administration areas (Zone)
Pasir Gudang Parliament Constitution
Air Biru 1
Air Biru 2
Air Biru 3
Mawar
Dahlia
Cendana
Nusa Damai
Taman Scientex
Flora Heights
Tebrau Parliament Constitution
Pasir Putih
Tanjung Puteri Resort
Kota Masai 1
Kota Masai 2
Kota Masai 3
Kopok
Cahaya Baru
Kong Kong
Air Putih
Sungai Tiram
Bandar Seri Alam
Masai

See also
 Johor Bahru City Council
 Iskandar Puteri City Council

References

External links 

Former MPPG official website 

1977 establishments in Malaysia
Pasir Gudang
Pasir Gudang
City councils in Malaysia
Victoria ("Vicky") Anne Lupton (born 17 April 1972 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire) is a retired female race walker from England.

Athletics career
Lupton twice competed for Great Britain at the Summer Olympics: 1992 and 1996. She set her personal best (45.19 minutes) in the 10 km race in 1995. She represented England in the 10 km walk event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Four years later she represented England, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

International competitions

References

 sports-reference

1972 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Sheffield
British female racewalkers
English female racewalkers
Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games competitors for England
Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain
The United Community School District is a public school district headquartered in a rural area outside of Boone, Iowa.  It is mainly in Boone County, with a smaller area in Story County, and serves the town of Luther and the surrounding rural areas (between Boone and Ames.

Dr. Pam Dodge, superintendent of Ogden Community School District, became superintendent through a shared agreement in 2020.  The previous superintendent, John Chalstrom, was placed on administrative leave in January 2020, after being arrested for drunken driving.

Schools
The district operates two PK-6 schools, both on the same campus in rural Boone:
 United North Elementary School
 United South Elementary School

Since 2009, students from United can attend secondary school in Ames or Boone.

References

External links
 United Community School District

School districts in Iowa
Education in Boone County, Iowa
Education in Story County, Iowa
Freedom National Bank was an African-American owned bank in Harlem (New York City) founded in 1964 and shut down in 1990. Freedom National served Harlem's Black community and was one of the largest Black owned banks in the U.S. Its main office was at 275 West 125th Street.

History
Freedom National Bank was founded in 1964 by investors including Jackie Robinson and Dunbar Simms McLaurin (1920–1973). The New York Times referred to it as "biracial" when it was founded in 1964. 

A 1966 Harvard Crimson article was critical of the bank. Freedom National competed with another Black owned and focused bank, the older Carver Federal Savings and Loan Association (now Carver Bancorp).

Freedom National failed in 1990 during a recession as it faced loan defaults and internal division. When it was shut down, Freedom National had $101.9 million in assets, two branches in Brooklyn,  22,000 depositors, and 97 employees. The bank had also struggled in the mid-1970s but was able to return to profitability.

In 1990, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) bailed out depositors up to the U.S. government's $100,000 guarantee for deposits. The decision was seen as a serious "blunder", in contrast to FDIC's treatment of the vast majority of "800 bank failures in the last four years". In those cases, FDIC did not just pay off insured accounts, but instead facilitated new owners to take over failed banks so that the customers received all their money back.

References

Bank failures in the United States
Banks established in 1964
Banks disestablished in 1990
Defunct banks of the United States
1964 establishments in New York City
1990 disestablishments in New York (state)
Harlem
USS Beacon may refer to:

  was a  built in Canada initially for the US but which served in the Royal Navy as 
  was an  during the Vietnam War

Beacon
Hrabě, Hrabětová is a Czech surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Antonín Hrabě (1902–?), Czech weightlifter
 František Hrabě, Czechoslovak slalom canoeist
 Václav Hrabě (1940–1965), Czech poet and writer

Czech-language surnames
Os triangulare may refer to:
Triquetral bone
A nearby accessory bone of the wrist
The Medvezhy Ruchey mine is a large copper mine located in the center of Russia in Krasnoyarsk Krai. Medvezhy Ruchey represents one of the largest copper reserves in Russia and in the world, having estimated reserves of 354.7 million tonnes of ore grading 0.39% copper.

References 

Copper mines in Russia
FIDA may refer to:

Acronyms
Federacion Internacional de Abogadas (International Federation of Women Lawyers)
International Fund for Agricultural Development (Fonds international de développement agricole)
Islamic Front for Armed Jihad (Front Islamique du Djihad Armé), an organization during the Algerian Civil War
Palestinian Democratic Union (Al-Ittihad al-Dimuqrati al-Filastini)
Federal Independent Democratic Alliance, a front organization used by South Africa's apartheid-era government

Other uses
Fida, a 2004 Indian Hindi film
Fidaa, a 2018 Indian film by Shekhar Kammula
Fida International, Finnish non-governmental humanitarian organization
Fida (name), an Arabic given name