Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Cock and Bull is the title of a volume composed of two novellas by Will Self, which includes the stories Cock and Bull. The two stories are characterized by empty, emotionless, phatic sex; rape; cruelty; and violence. The book was originally published in 1992 by Bloomsbury.

Plot summaries

Cock
A woman grows a penis and then uses it to rape her tedious, alcoholic husband and his patronising, evangelical mentor from Alcoholics Anonymous. In the story's final twist, the woman comes into non-consensual contact with her violating member, and makes allusions to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Bull
A sensitive rugby player-cum-writer for a small magazine grows a vagina behind his knee. His megalomaniacal general practitioner, having discovered the vagina during an examination, conceals it from Bull, telling him it was 'a burn and a wound', though later visits Bull at home, fixated on this popliteal yoni. The doctor, removing the bandages from the site, reveals the truth, and seduces Bull while he is traumatised and huddled beneath the sink.
Gender stereotypes are examined; much fun is made of modern literary criticism and its often clichéd takes on the gender debate.

Reviews
"In recounting such events, Mr. Self demonstrates an uncanny ability, similar to that displayed by Kafka in The Metamorphosis, to lend utterly absurd events an aura of verisimilitude by grounding the fantastic in the mundane. He possesses all those gifts a satiric writer might want: an eye for the telling detail, an ear for the pretensions of contemporary locution, an ability to write idiosyncratic prose that twinkles with cleverness and wit. Unfortunately, in this volume, these copious gifts are all too frequently put in the service of a misogynistic and ridiculously sophomoric vision. " Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times''

References

External links
Official Will Self site

1992 British novels
British novellas
Novels by Will Self
1992 debut novels
Bloomsbury Publishing books
The Metro ExpressLanes project is a transport project in Los Angeles County, California that debuted in 2012 to "improve traffic flow and provide enhanced travel options on I-10 and I-110 in Los Angeles County". It includes a range of infrastructure developments on the Harbor Transitway and the El Monte Busway. The existing high-occupancy lanes on these transitways were converted to high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes. Associated works included a major upgrade to El Monte bus station, expansion of Metrolink's Pomona Station, the creation of a new transit station at Union Station and increased park and ride capacity and bike lockers at many transit stations. In addition, new vanpool vehicles and buses will be purchased. The project was delivered by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the California Department of Transportation, and others. The budget was $290 million and construction, which began in 2011, was completed in February 2013. Some transit improvements for the Metro Silver Line are still being worked on.

Project elements
The Metro ExpressLanes project includes:
 Conversion of the El Monte Busway on Interstate 10 between Interstate 605 and Alameda Street (near Union Station) in Downtown Los Angeles to high-occupancy toll lanes
 Conversion of the Harbor Transitway on Interstate 110 between Harbor Gateway Transit Center and Adams Blvd in Downtown Los Angeles to high occupancy toll lanes
 Implementation of the Metro Silver Line
 Enhanced bus priority system at traffic signals in Downtown Los Angeles
 59 new alternative fuel buses
 Operating subsidy during a demonstration period
 Renovation and expansion of El Monte Station, a large regional bus station
 A new busway station on the El Monte Busway for Union Station
 Upgrades to Harbor Transitway Park & Ride lots
 Expansion of Metrolink's Pomona–North station
 More bicycle lockers at the Harbor Gateway Transit Center
 New Bus Maintenance Facility in Downtown Los Angeles
 100 New Metro Vanpools
 Implement Express Park in Downtown Los Angeles, an intelligent parking system allowing demand-based pricing and real-time space availability information

Gallery

References

External links

Los Angeles County Congestion Reduction Demonstration National Evaluation Plan — (U.S. Department of Transportation)

Project
Bus rapid transit in California
Australian Irish Sign Language or AISL is a minority sign language in Australia. As a Francosign language, it is related to French Sign Language as opposed to Auslan which is a Banzsl language which is related to British Sign Language. AISL was brought to Australia from Ireland in 1875 by a group of Dominican nuns (including a Deaf nun) where three schools were established and used AISL as a language of instruction. Due to oralist policies, the use of AISL was discontinued as a language of instruction in the early 1950s. There are now around 100 signers of this language, most of whom are in their early seventies and onwards, though there may be younger CODAs.

History
According to the Irish Deaf Society, Irish Sign Language (or ISL) "arose from within Deaf communities," "was developed by Deaf people themselves," and "has been in existence for hundreds of years." In 1875, a group of Dominican nuns (including a Deaf nun named Sister Gabriel Hogan) came to Australia from Ireland, bringing with them ISL. From there and the establishment of three schools, AISL was used as a language of instruction until the early 1950s. Prior to the 1875 arrival of ISL, British Sign Language (BSL) came to Australia in 1825 with the arrival of John Carmichael from Edinburgh. The first schools for Deaf children were established in 1860 in both Sydney and Melbourne, however, the trajectory of BSL towards Auslan and that of ISL towards AISL differed. Indeed, it was along the Protestant/Catholic line that the languages were taught, where Protestant schools taught BSL-later-Auslan, and Catholic schools taught ISL-later-AISL.

Both AISL and Auslan, however, stopped being used as languages of instruction after the disastrous Milan Congress of 1881, where by the 1950s, oralism cemented across Australia. Since then, AISL has stopped being used in Deaf clubs or wider community settings, now only being used by small friend groups from the now-closed schools and between family members. Although Australia has a National Policy on Language, it only mentions Auslan (not even Australian Aboriginal sign languages). As of 2017, there were not teachers, professionals, nor interpreters who are able to provide services in AISL.

See also
 Irish Sign Language
 Auslan
 Australian Aboriginal sign languages
 Old French Sign Language
 French Sign Language

References

Further reading
 

French Sign Language family
Sign languages of Australia
Kvutza, kevutza or kevutzah ( "group") is a communal settlement among Jews, primarily in pre-state Israel; the word was used in reference to communal life. First there were kvutzot (plural of kvutza) in the sense of groups of young people with similar ideals living and working together; and after 1909 and for many years to follow, in the sense of collective settlements created by such groups. The kvutza collective settlement was distinguished from the kibbutz settlement in that it intended to remain small and mainly agricultural, whereas the larger kibbutzim were intended to expand with agriculture, industry and other productive pursuits. Later, as the distinction disappeared, most kvutzot were renamed kibbutzim. Notable example: Degania Alef.

Further reading
Ideological motives in the formation of kvutzot in the days of the Second Aliyah 

Israeli culture
Intentional communities in Israel
Agricultural labor
Agriculture in Israel
Cooperatives in Israel
Hebrew words and phrases
Rural community development
Socialism
Types of populated places
Laura Ellman is a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate for the 21st district. The district, located in the Chicago metropolitan area includes all or parts of Bloomingdale, Carol Stream, Lisle, Naperville, Warrenville, West Chicago, Winfield, and Wheaton.

Career 
Ellman defeated incumbent Republican Senator Michael Connelly in the 2018 Illinois general election by 1179 votes. Ellman, a senior independent assessor at Argonne National Laboratory, has a degree in mathematics from Grinnell College and a masters in applied statistics from the University of Iowa.

As of July 2022, Senator Ellman is a member of the following Illinois Senate committees:

 Agriculture Committee (SAGR)
 (Chairwoman of) Appropriations - Revenue and Finance Committee (SAPP-SARF)
 Energy and Public Utilities Committee (SENE)
 (Chairwoman of) Financial Institutions Committee (SFIC)
 Higher Education Committee (SCHE)
 (Chairwoman of) Next Generation of Energy Committee (SENE-ENGE)
 Redistricting - DuPage County Committee (SRED-SRDC)
 (Chairwoman of) Subcommittee on Next Generation Nuclear (SENE-SNGN)
 Transportation Committee (STRN)

References

External links
 Laura Ellman for 21st District State Senate official campaign site

Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
Argonne National Laboratory people
Grinnell College alumni
Democratic Party Illinois state senators
Politicians from Naperville, Illinois
University of Iowa alumni
Women state legislators in Illinois
Living people
MacDonald v Vapor Canada Ltd, [1977] 2 S.C.R. 134 is a leading constitutional decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on the Trade and Commerce power under section 91(2) of the Constitution Act, 1867.

Background
The federal Trade-marks Act provided remedies for acts or business practices that are "contrary to honest industrial or commercial usage in Canada". The constitutionality of these provisions were challenged as ultra vires of the federal government as it created civil remedy and cause of action for tort and contractual matters which is generally under the power of the provincial authority over property and civil rights.

Federal Court of Appeal upheld the provision as valid under the Trade and Commerce power.

The Supreme Court held in a unanimous decision that the provisions were unconstitutional.

Opinion of the Court
Chief Justice Laskin, writing for the Court, found that the provisions did encroach on the province's authority over property and civil rights and could not be upheld under the trade and commerce branch. In considering the trade and commerce clause he examined the "general trade" branch of the clause first articulated in Citizen's Insurance Co. v. Parsons (1881). Laskin proposed a three-stage test for the "general trade" branch. First, there must be a "general regulatory scheme". Second, the scheme must have the "oversight of a regulatory agency", and third, the scheme must have a concern with "trade as a whole rather than a particular industry".

Aftermath
The test was later modified by General Motors v. City of National Leasing (1989).

See also
 List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (Laskin Court)

1977 in Canadian case law
Canadian federalism case law
Supreme Court of Canada cases
Supreme Court of Canada case articles without infoboxes
The first annual Urban Music Awards were presented by Jazzy Jeff and Kurtis Blow Sydney's Homebush State Sports Centre on Friday 21 July 2007. Big winners of the night included Savage and Jade McRae.

Performers
Aaradhna
Boo-Yaa Tribe
DJ Nino Brown
Israel
Kid Confucius
Fast Crew
N’Fa
Deni Hines
Jade MacRae
Mareko
Guy Sebastian
Savage 
Paulini
Phrase
Yukmouth

Nominees and Winners
Winners in Bold

Best R&B Single
Jade MacRae – Superstar 
Guy Sebastian – Oh Oh
Israel – Work Da Middle 
Savage – Moonshine

Best Hip Hop Single
Fast Crew – I Got
Scribe and P-Money – Stop the Music
Bliss n Eso – Up Jumped The Boogie/Party at My Place
Hilltop Hoods – Clown Prince

Best R&B Album
Israel – Chapter One
Jade MacRae - Jade MacRae
Vassy – My Affection
Ricki Lee – Ricki Lee

Best Hip Hop Album
Figgkidd – This Is Figgkidd
Savage - Moonshine
Bliss n Eso – Day of the Dog
Fast Crew – Set The Record Straight

Best Male Artist
Scribe 
Guy Sebastian
Figgkidd
Savage

Best Female Artist
Aaradhna 
Jade MacRae
Paulini
Maya Jupiter

Best R&B Group
Adeaze
Random
Shakaya
Brown Sugar

Best Hip Hop Group
Bliss n Eso
Hilltop Hoods
Fast Crew
Deceptikonz

Best New Talent
FiggKidd
Savage 
Jade MacRae
Fast Crew

Best DJ (Australia)
Peter Gunz 
Nino Brown
Eko
DJ Tikelz
Priority One Djs.com

Best DJ (New Zealand)
P-Money 
DJ Sir-Vere
DJ Logical 
DJ CXL

Best Video Clip
Guy Sebastian – Oh Oh
Israel – Work Da Middle
Hilltop Hoods – Clown Prince
Bliss n Eso – Up Jumped The Boogie/Party at My Place

Best Radio Show
Trail Blazin – Nino Brown - 96.1FM 
K Sera and the Dirty Dozen – 96.1FM 
Lowie's Hot 30 Countdown - 104.1FM 
Black Label Show – 93.7FM

Best Club Night (Aus)
Fat @ Gas
Candy Shop
Soul Clap 
Red Room

Best Club Night (New Zealand)
Chocolate City 
Reprezent 
Fu Bar 
RnB Superclub

Best International Act
Kanye West
Snoop Dogg
Destiny's Child
Chris Brown

References

External links
UMA '06 Page

2006 in Australian music
2006 music awards
New Zealand music awards
Australian music awards
2006 in New Zealand music
Por or POR may refer to:

Por
Por (Thai word)
Por, Armenia, a town
 Por, a Spanish preposition
 Por, a Portuguese preposition

POR
 POR (gene), cytochrome P450 reductase
 Portugal, IOC country code
 Power-on reset
 Program of Record (PoR), a term used in US government procurement
The Policy, Organisation and Rules of The Scout Association in the United Kingdom

Politics
 Partido Obrero Revolucionario (disambiguation), commonly referred to by the Spanish initials POR
 Party of the Right (disambiguation), any of several organizations

Places
 Portland Transportation Center, US, Amtrak station code 
 Pori Airport, Finland; IATA airport code
 Porth railway station, Wales; National Rail station code

See also
Poor (disambiguation)
Pore (disambiguation)
The Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT) represents a joint approach to public policy information, campaigning and advocacy on the part of several Christian denominations in the United Kingdom.

History 
It was formed in 2007 by the Baptist Union of Great Britain, Methodist Church of Great Britain and the United Reformed Church. In March 2015 the Church of Scotland became part of the team.

The objectives of the joint approach are to share working resources, combine campaigning voice and demonstrate practical working together by the member churches 'to live out the gospel of Christ in church and society'.

Issues addressed jointly include peacemaking, social justice, climate change, food banks and challenging the UK government to rethink its approach to social security benefit sanctions, supporting the Select Committee for Work and Pensions' call for a full independent review of benefit sanctions policy in their report published in March 2015.

Rachel Lampard MBE, former team leader  on secondment from JPIT to the Methodist Church in Britain, served as vice-president of the Methodist Conference during the year 2016/17.

Notes

References

External links
 

Christian organisations based in the United Kingdom
Parioglossus marginalis, also known as the blackmargin dartfish, is a species of dartfish native to the brackish waters of the coast of New South Wales, Australia and around the northern part of the North Island and Great Barrier Island in New Zealand, This species may be an introduced species in New Zealand, being brought from Australia in ship's ballast water. This species can reach a length of  SL. It is thought by some workers that Parioglossus neoclaedonicus from New Caledonia may be a synonym of P. marginalis and that the Caroline Islands species Parioglossus verticalis , which is known form just a single specimen, may also be synonymous with this species. To resolve these taxonomic uncertainties molecular studies will be required.

References

marginalis
Fish described in 1985
Freshwater fish of New Zealand
Freshwater fish of Australia
Gary Wilkinson is an English rugby league coach who was head coach of the Sheffield Eagles and subsequently in temporary charge of Doncaster.

Wilkinson had a career as a player in the amateur leagues in Hull before moving into coaching where he proved he could develop young players and produce winning teams. After a successful spell as Hull Kingston Rovers's Academy boss he took over the first team in 2002, winning the Northern Rail Cup and reaching the quarter-finals of the promotion play-offs. He fell victim to changing fortunes in the Hull Kingston Rovers' boardroom and moved on to Hull F.C. as under-21s coach and had a brief spell on the backroom staff at Doncaster. In 2004 he was appointed coach of the successful GB Students' squad. In 2006 he was head coach of the Sheffield Eagles.

Wilkinson was a part-time coach at the Eagles, on weekdays he runs a pest control business in Hull. When he was appointed at the start of the 2006 season he immediately helped the Eagles by bringing in players from the Hull area and from the student game. The team took time to gel but eventually finished second in National League Two after an eleven-game unbeaten run, qualifying for the play-offs. They then beat Crusaders and Swinton to gain promotion to National League One. He resigned as the Eagles' head coach on 15 October 2006, citing personal reasons.

In April 2007 Wilkinson made a dramatic return to rugby league coaching when he took temporary charge of Doncaster following the suspension of their coach Keiran Dempsey and his assistant. His first game in charge was against the Sheffield Eagles at the Don Valley Stadium and Wilkinson's team recorded a victory by 24 points to 20. In May 2007 Doncaster entered into a CVA to avoid potential liquidation and Wilkinson was told not to continue as coach.

External links
Hull KR history
Doncaster RLFC website

Living people
Doncaster R.L.F.C. coaches
English rugby league coaches
Hull Kingston Rovers coaches
Sheffield Eagles coaches
Year of birth missing (living people)
Rugby articles needing expert attention
In geometry, the rhombihexaoctagonal tiling is a semiregular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of rr{8,6}.

Symmetry 
The dual tiling, called a deltoidal hexaoctagonal tiling represent the fundamental domains of *4232 symmetry, a half symmetry of [8,6], (*862) as [8,1+,6].

Related polyhedra and tilings 

From a Wythoff construction there are fourteen hyperbolic uniform tilings that can be based from the regular order-6 octagonal tiling. 

Drawing the tiles colored as red on the original faces, yellow at the original vertices, and blue along the original edges, there are 7 forms with full [8,6] symmetry, and 7 with subsymmetry.

See also 

 Tilings of regular polygons
 List of uniform planar tilings

References
 John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strass, The Symmetries of Things 2008,  (Chapter 19, The Hyperbolic Archimedean Tessellations)

External links 

 Hyperbolic and Spherical Tiling Gallery
 KaleidoTile 3: Educational software to create spherical, planar and hyperbolic tilings
 Hyperbolic Planar Tessellations, Don Hatch

Hyperbolic tilings
Isogonal tilings
Semiregular tilings
Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology – Volume 2 is the second installment in the Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology series. Originally published in hardcover as Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Take Your Breath Away in 1977, this issue contains 29 stories from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine that, by the editors, were believed to be the best published the preceding year (1977).

References

1977 anthologies
Mystery anthologies
Works originally published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Dial Press books
Olivier Richters (born 5 September 1989) is a Dutch bodybuilder and actor who stands at 218 cm. 

In 2021, Richters portrayed Ursa in the 2021 film Black Widow in a minor role. He also appeared in The King's Man and Louis Wain in 2021, and in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny in 2023.

Richters also holds the record for the "tallest professional bodybuilder" as of 2021, 12.7 cm taller than Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson.
He was on the cover of the November 2018 Netherlands' edition of Men's Health,  and the subject of a documentary by the magazine. Richters claimed   his inspiration was Richard Kiel, the actor of equal height who had portrayed the henchman Jaws in two James Bond films.

Filmography

Lifestyle and health 
Due to his size, Richters maintains a regimen of 5,000 calorie intake for filming, and 6,500 to 7,000 calories for all other purposes, within a 24 hour period. The intake is spread out in seven meals, with one of them at 3:00 a.m., and consists of carbs, up to 1000 grams of various meats and vegetables, in addition to an oat shake, made of "ultra-fine oats, blended with a whey scoop". In his interview with Adil Ray at Good Morning Britain, Richters maintained that he is "pushed" to keep up with his diet.

Richters was born with pectus excavatum, causing the bones of his ribcage to grow in such a way to squeeze the cardiac muscle. CT-scans revealed his heart was 20% smaller than it should have been. He underwent a procedure involving breaking the ribs and allowing the heart and lungs to continue growing, something made possible due to his still young age at the time, and extending his lifespan. Richters spent six months recovering (two under morphine, his third month was spent learning to gain basic mobility-walking, cycling and swimming- and his fourth month saw a return to weightlifting).

According to The Times, Richters' stature is the result of the natural growth process and does not suffer from gigantism, a condition where a tumor would normally affect the pituitary gland, causing abnormal height growth. A DNA test revealed he was 48.2% Scandinavian, accounting for his height.

In a documentary by Joost Lammers, on September 9 2020, Richters announced he had tested positive for COVID-19 after a visit to his mother-in-law.

In March 2013, Richters and his two siblings founded a company which provides athletes with resources and foods supplements.

References

External links
 
 The Dutch Giant at YouTube
 Muscle Meat

1989 births
Dutch bodybuilders
Dutch male voice actors
Dutch people of Scandinavian descent
Dutch male film actors
Living people
Giants
Theodore Livingston (born March 5, 1963), better known as Grand Wizzard Theodore, is an American hip hop DJ. He is widely credited as the inventor of the scratching technique. In addition to scratching, he gained credibility for his mastery of needle drops and other techniques which he invented or perfected.

Early life
Born in the Bronx, New York, Theodore's brother, Mean Gene, was his mentor, who began teaching him the technique of DJing at an early age. Theodore was later apprenticed by Grandmaster Flash.

In 1975, Theodore was playing records in his bedroom with the volume all the way up. Furious with the noise, his mother entered the room and Theodore paused the record to hear his mother scold him about the volume of the music. While holding the record still, he accidentally moved it back and forth but liked the sound it made. From there on, he played with records often and developed the technique known as scratching.

A dramatization of Theodore's invention of the record scratch was featured on Comedy Central's television show Drunk History, narrated by Questlove.

Career
In the early 1980s, Theodore was a part of the group Grandwizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five. They released "Can I Get a Soul Clap" in 1982. He was also featured in the 1983 film Wild Style, as well as contributing to the film's soundtrack. He explains the origin of the scratch in the documentary, Scratch.

Legacy
Theodore's phrase "Say turn it up" from his track "Fantastic Freaks at the Dixie" was sampled by hip hop and rap acts such as Public Enemy (on the track "Bring the Noise"), Bomb the Bass (on the track "Megablast"), and many others.

References

External links
 
 
DJ Grand Wizzard Theodore Interview at NAMM Oral History Collection (2012)

1963 births
Living people
American hip hop musicians
American hip hop DJs