cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Human Development Index
Criticism
The Human Development Index has been criticized on a number of grounds including alleged ideological biases towards egalitarianism and so-called "Western models of development", failure to include any ecological considerations, lack of consideration of technological development or contributions to the human civilization, focusing exclusively on national performance and ranking, lack of attention to development from a global perspective, measurement error of the underlying statistics, and on the UNDP's changes in formula which can lead to severe misclassification in the categorisation of 'low', 'medium', 'high' or 'very high' human development countries.
Economists Hendrik Wolff, Howard Chong and Maximilian Auffhammer think that very often, the data which is used to construct the statictics for the HDI is wrong.. According to them, there are three sources of error in the data: They found that 11 %, 21% and 34% of countries are currently misclassified in the development bins due to the three sources of data error. The authors suggest that the United Nations should stopthe practice of classifying countries into development bins because the cut-off values seem arbitrary, can provide incentives for strategic behavior in reporting official statistics, and have the potential to misguide politicians, investors, charity donors and the public who use the HDI at large. In 2010 the UNDP reacted to the criticism and updated the thresholds to classify nations as low, medium, and high human development countries. In a comment to The Economist in early January 2011, the Human Development Report Office responded to a January 6, 2011 article in the magazine which discusses the Wolff et al. paper. The Human Development Report Office states that they undertook a systematic revision of the methods used for the calculation of the HDI and that the new methodology directly addresses the critique by Wolff et al. in that it generates a system for continuous updating of the human development categories whenever formula or data revisions take place.
The HDI uses a weighted average for the different values. This means that it can be used - to some extent - to compare countries. It cannot be used to show the problems inside a country. Also the index only takes into accounrt people of 20 years or older. This leaves out problems such as infant mortality and children who do not reach that age.
Economist Bryan Kaplan points out another problem: Things needed in everyday life are underrepresented, education is overrepresented. Unless the whole population is made of students and pupils, it is not possible to reach the maximum score for the education parameter. At the moment, a Scandinavian country is at the top of the list. This means that the HDI measures "how Scandiavian" a country is. It would also mean that the country at the top of the list has no potential for improvement, which is certainly not the case.
2011 data
The 2011 Human Development Report was released on 2 November 2011. Below is the list of the "Very High Human Development" countries:
Note: The green arrows, red arrows , and blue dashes mean changes in rank when compared to the new 2011 data HDI for 2010 – published in the 2011 report (p. 131).
<ol> <li>🇳🇴 Norway 0.943 <li>🇦🇺 Australia 0.929 <li>🇳🇱 Netherlands 0.910 <li>🇺🇸 United States 0.910 <li>🇳🇿 New Zealand 0.908 <li>🇨🇦 Canada 0.908 <li>🇮🇪 Ireland 0.908 <li>🇱🇮 Liechtenstein 0.905 <li>🇩🇪 Germany 0.905 <li>🇸🇪 Sweden 0.904 <li>🇨🇭 Switzerland 0.903 <li>🇯🇵 Japan 0.901 <li>🇭🇰 Hong Kong 0.898 ( 1) <li>🇮🇸 Iceland 0.898 ( -1) <li>🇰🇷 South Korea 0.897 <li>🇩🇰 Denmark 0.895 </ol>
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🇮🇱 Israel 0.888 <li>🇧🇪 Belgium 0.886 <li>🇦🇹 Austria 0.885 <li>🇫🇷 France 0.884 <li>🇸🇮 Slovenia 0.884 <li>🇫🇮 Finland 0.882 <li>🇪🇸 Spain 0.878 <li>🇮🇹 Italy 0.874 <li>🇱🇺 Luxembourg 0.867 <li>🇸🇬 Singapore 0.866 <li>🇨🇿 Czech Republic 0.865 <li>🇬🇧 United Kingdom 0.863 <li>🇬🇷 Greece 0.861 <li>🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates 0.846 <li>🇨🇾 Cyprus 0.840 <li>🇦🇩 Andorra 0.838 </ol>
Brunei 0.838 <li>🇪🇪 Estonia 0.835 <li>🇸🇰 Slovakia 0.834 <li>🇲🇹 Malta 0.832 <li>🇶🇦 Qatar 0.831 <li>🇭🇺 Hungary 0.816 <li>🇵🇱 Poland 0.813 <li>🇱🇹 Lithuania 0.810 ( 1) <li>🇵🇹 Portugal 0.809 ( -1) <li>🇧🇭 Bahrain 0.806 <li>🇱🇻 Latvia 0.805 <li>🇨🇱 Chile 0.805 <li>🇦🇷 Argentina 0.797 ( 1) <li>🇭🇷 Croatia 0.796 ( -1) <li>🇧🇧 Barbados 0.793 </ol>
Château de Saint Cloud
The Château de Saint Cloud was a château in Paris, France. It was sometimes called the Palace of Saint Cloud. It was burned down during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. It was once a private property of Queen Marie Antoinette. Since December 2006, there has been a movement to rebuild the Château de Saint-Cloud.
Early history
The building was originally called the "he Hôtel d'Aulnay". In the 16h century, it was expanded into a château by the Gondi banking family. The estate was in the hands of the Gondi family till 1658. At that time it was bought by Philippe of France, Duke of Orléans, the only brother of Louis XIV of France. The estate remained the personal property of the descendants of Philippe of France. It was a country residence, as opposed to the Palais Royal in the center of Paris.
Queen Marie Antoinette
After negotiating for a long time, the Château de Saint-Cloud was bought in 1785 by Louis XVI. He bought it for Marie Antoinette. She thought that the air of Saint-Cloud would be good for her children. Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans, who had not visited the château since his morganatic marriage to his mistress Madame de Montesson, sold it for 6,000,000 livres. Marie Antoinette started changing Saint-Cloud in 1787-1788. She used her preferred architect Richard Mique. He had also decorated parts of the Palace of Versailles for the queen.
Emperor Napoléon III
During the Second Empire, Emperor Napoléon III and Empress Eugénie held their imperial court at Saint-Cloud during the spring and the autumn. There was also a reception for Queen Victoria in honour of her 1855 visit to France. In 1859, a model railway was built in the private park. It was built for Napoléon, Prince Imperial, the 3-year-old son of emperor Napoléon III,.
King Philip's War
King Philip's War (Metacom's War) was a war between Native Americans and English colonists. King Philip's War was fought between 1675 and 1676 in the area of the United States that is now New England.
When the Pilgrims left England, they came to live in Massachusetts near the Indians. As more Puritans arrived, they needed more land and they took it. Metacom, or "King Philip" as he was called in English was the leader of one of the Wampanoag Pokanoket tribes. His father had made a treaty with the English.
The English began to fear the power of the natives. The two sides accused each other of violating the treaty and preparing for war. John Wussausmon was Christian convert and a trader. He told the English that Philip was preparing an alliance to attack them. When he was found dead, the English executed three Indians for his murder, and people on both sides became more angry. Philip brought together a large force of Indians and attacked the Puritan settlements. The resulting war was large. The Indians lost and thousands of them died but not before the whole countryside suffered much loss. Many towns burned and every inhabitant was enveloped some way in the conflict. When King Philip was killed by a native, his head was cut off by Benjamin Church to be brought back to Plymouth. 500 Indians were also taken prisoner and made slaves.
Melbourne Cup
The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major horse race. It happens once a year. People say it is The race that stops a nation, it is for horses three-years-old and over, and it is 3200 metres long. The event has been held on the first Tuesday in November since 1861 (except on one year during the Second World War) by the Victoria Racing Club, on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne. Many people say it is the most important "two-mile" horse race in the world.
The race was first held over two miles, about 3,218 metres, but after Australia changed to the metric system in 1972 it was changed to 3,200 metres. This made it 61 ft 6in shorter, and Rain Lover's 1968 race record of 3min.19.1sec was changed to 3min.17.9sec. Now, the record holder is the 1990 winner Kingston Rule with a time of 3min 16.3sec.
The race starts at 3.00pm Melbourne (AEST) time.
Attendance
The event is one of the most popular events to watch in Australia. Over 110,000 people attend the race. Some people dress in traditional formal raceday clothing. Other people dress in different kinds of strange and amusing costumes, In 2005 a total of 383,784 race fans went to the Melbourne Cup Carnival annual event
History
Archer won again the next year. However, because the owner's application form arrived late the next year, Archer was unable to try for a third cup. Many owners boycotted (did not race in protest) the race, so it started with only seven horses. That is the smallest number in the history of the cup.
The winner of the Melbourne Cup last year was Rekindling, from Great Britain.
Off the track
'Fashions On The Field' is a major focus of the day. Raceday fashion sometimes draws almost as much attention as the race itself. The miniskirt received worldwide attention when model Jean Shrimpton wore one on Derby Day during Melbourne Cup week in 1965.
In Melbourne, the race day is a public holiday. In the rest of Australia most people watch the race on television and gamble. Some people bet at the TAB (the Australian betting office). Other people bet in workplace cup "sweeps". (In "sweeps" each person pays a small amount [e.g. $3] and draws a random horse. First, second, and third place then share the money.)  In 2000 it was estimated that 80 percent of the adult Australian population placed a bet on the race that year.
Betting on the Melbourne Cup has become more and more popular over the years, with one time a year punters having a crack at picking the winning horse.
Unbiseptium
Unbiseptium, also called eka-americium, is the hypothetical chemical element with atomic number 127 and symbol Ubs. It comes immediately after unbihexium, element 126, which is expected to be the most stable element on an island of stability.
Naming
The name unbiseptium is a systematic element name, used as a placeholder until its discovery is confirmed. Transuranium elements beyond californium are always created artificially, and the element usually ends up being named for a scientist or a laboratory that does work in atomic physics.
Synthesis of unbiseptium
Unbiseptium has had one failed attempt at synthesis in 1978 at the Darmstadt UNILAC accelerator by bombarding a natural tantalum target with xenon ions.
Saint-Ouen-du-Mesnil-Oger
Saint-Ouen-du-Mesnil-Oger is a commune. It is found in the Basse-Normandie region in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
Wawel Dragon
The Wawel Dragon is a well known Polish folktale. The dragon lived in a cave under Wawel Hill, on the banks of the Vistula River. Wawel Hill is in the city of Kraków, in Poland. The Wawel Cathedral and Kraków's castle are built on Wawel Hill. In the cathedral there is a statue of the dragon. The dragon's cave under the castle is now a popular tourist stop.
Lotorps IF
Lotorps IF is a sports club in Lotorp in Sweden. It was established on 15 March 1923. The women's bandy team has played three seasons in the Swedish top division. The women's soccer team played three seasons in the Swedish top division between 1978 and 1997.
Hazara
The Hazara division is an administrative area of the present Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It includes the Haripur District, Abbottabad District, Mansehra District, Battagram District, Kohistan District and the Kala Dhaka former tribal enclave, now renamed as the Tor Ghar District. The native language spoken in the area is Hindko.
Essential oil
An essential oil is a liquid from a plant. Essential oils contain chemical compounds that are useful for their scent. They are used in aromatherapy. Perfumes are made with essential oils.
Indiana's 9th congressional district
Indiana's 9th congressional district is a congressional district in the state of Indiana. The counties are Brown, Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Jackson, Johnson, Lawrence, Monroe, Morgan, Orange, Scott, Washington. The people who live in the district elect a person to represent the district in the United States House of Representatives. The district is currently represented by Republican Troy Hollingsworth.
Essential oil
Around the world, essential oils are being studied in modern clinical trials to test ancient claims of healing. They are being studied for their effectiveness as antibacterial agents, fungicides, insecticides, pain relief, stress reduction, and skin problems.
Name
The name essential oil comes from theories in the Middle Ages of a fifth element. People than believed that there were four basic elements that everything was made of: fire, water, air and earth. The elusive "soul" of things was called the quintessential element or the fifth element. Over time, quintessential was shortened to essential. Alchemists said that this element could change iron to gold. Some believed it held the planets in their orbits.
Producing the essential oil
Most essential oils today are steam distilled. This process separates out the aromatic essential oils from the solid plant matter. With steam distillation, it can take thousands of pounds of plant matter to create just one liter of essential oil.
Other methods include expelling and solvent extraction. Expelling is using pressure to squeeze the essential oil out of the plant. This method is generally used for citrus oils. Solvent extraction uses substances such as carbon dioxide to extract the essential oil. This method is used for delicate plants such as rose and jasmine, which can be too fragile to go through the distillation process.
Mary Kay Letourneau
Mary Katherine Schmitz (formerly Letourneau; January 30, 1962 – July 6, 2020) was an American schoolteacher. She pleaded guilty in 1997 to two counts of felony second-degree rape of a child. The victim was Vili Fualaau, who was 12 or 13 at the time and had been her sixth-grade student. She was born in Tustin, California.
While awaiting sentencing, she gave birth to Fualaau's child. With the state seeking a six-and-a-half year prison sentence, she reached a plea agreement calling for six months in jail, with three months suspended, and no contact with Fualaau for life among other terms.
Shortly after spending three months in jail, the police caught Letourneau in a car with Fualaau. She was later given a prison sentence for the maximum allowed by law of seven-and-a-half years. Eight months after returning to prison, she gave birth to Fualaau's second child, another daughter. She was imprisoned from 1998 to 2004.
Letourneau and Fualaau began a 14-year marriage in May 2005. They divorced in 2019.
Letourneau died of colon cancer on July 6, 2020 at the age of 58.
Lucas Mangope
Kgosi Lucas Manyane Mangope (27 December 1923 – 18 January 2018) was a South African politician. He is the former leader of the Bantustan of Bophuthatswana and founder and former leader of the United Christian Democratic Party, a minor political party based in the North West of South Africa.
In 1988 he was briefly overthrown by members of a military police unit, and was reinstated following intervention by the South African Defence Force.
Frankenwald
The Frankenwald (roughly translates to Franconian forest) is a mountain range. It is in the district of Oberfranken in Bavaria. It connects the Fichtelgebirge to the Thuringian forest. It is a long forested plateau. The hills in the plateau form a watershed between the Rhine and the Elbe rivers.
It was settled in the 13th century. The main branches of industry were porcelain-making, forestry, and the production of charcoal. Rafts were built to get the wood into the larger cities, along the Main river, and the Rhine. First, the people setlted on the plateau. They cut down some forest, and settled in the clearing that was created that way. A well preserved example of such a setltlement is Wilhelmsthal. Only at a later date did people settle in the valleys.
In the Frankenwald, the following landscapes are prevalent:
Scott, Louisiana
Scott is a municipality in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is the second largest municipality in the state. The population grew to over 8,000 according to the 2010 census results.
Scott is a suburb of Lafayette and is part of the Lafayette Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Larnaca
Larnaca is a city on the southern coast of Cyprus. It is the capital of the Larnaca District.
Renal cell carcinoma
Renal cell carcinoma is a type of renal cancer (cancer of the kidneys). Often, if it is found early, it can be cured. However, if the cancer has already spread to other parts of the body metastasized by the time it is diagnosed, it is much more difficult to treat successfully.
Signs and symptoms
In bad cases, patients may also have symptoms of metastasis (symptoms in other parts of the body where the cancer has spread)
Treatment
When renal cell carcinoma is diagnosed early on, the best treatment is to remove the sick kidney. This is called nephrectomy. Sometimes, only part of the kidney has to be removed, and the rest can be left in. (This is called a partial nephrectomy).
However, when renal cell carcinoma is more severe (this is called stage IV disease), it is much harder to treat. Current treatments include Interleukin-2, which Improves the cancer in about 5-10% of cases. Other treatments include Nexavar, Torisel, Sutent, Interferon, and Bevacizumab. In some cases, surgeons might remove both the original tumor in the kidney and the ones that spread to other parts of the body. carcinoma. In patients whose cancer has spread to their liver, surgery to remove liver tumors may be helpful.
Oncophage cancer vaccine may also help treat renal cell carcinoma.
The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead!
The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead! is the sixteenth studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth. It was released by frontman Dave Mustaine's record label, Tradecraft, on September 2nd, 2022. It is the first album with drummer Dirk Verbeuren, and second album with guitarist Kiko Loureiro. While Megadeth was recording the album, bassist David Ellefson was fired from the band due to sexual videos of him being put on the internet. The bass recordings he made were taken off of the album, and replaced with recordings from Steve Di Giorgio, the bassist for Testament.
Background
In June 2019, the band cancelled many of the shows they were going to play at. This was because frontman Dave Mustaine had throat cancer. The band said they would keep making the album. In November 2018, Mustaine posted a few seconds of new music from the album on Twitter. At the time, the album was supposed to come out in 2019.
The band went back to recording music for the album in 2020. It was now planned to be released in 2021. While talking to fans on Zoom, Mustaine said the album would be named The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead!. He also said that the band might change the album's name later. The band tried to release the album in early 2022, but had problems printing vinyl records. The album was finally released in September 2022.
Sam Panopoulos
Sotirios "Sam" Panopoulos (Σωτήριος Πανοπούλος; 1934 – 8 June 2017) was a Greek-born Canadian cook and businessman. He was born in Vourvoura, Greece. He was known as the inventor of Hawaiian pizza.
With his brothers Elias and Nikitas, Panopoulos owned the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario. They offered typical American items such as burgers and fries, and also American Chinese dishes, some of which also mix sweet and savory flavours. In the early 1960s Panopoulos started offering pizzas, recently popular in the USA. In 1962 he had the idea to add canned pineapple to pizza.
Panopoulos died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in London, Ontario on 8 June 2017, aged 83.
Little spotted kiwi
The little spotted kiwi (Apteryx owenii) is a species of kiwi. This bird does not fly. It runs on the ground. The little spotted kiwi is the smallest of all kiwis.
Appearance
This bird has light brown-gray feathers with white bands. Its bill, or beak, is long and pale in color. Its legs and toes are short and dark.
Habitat
In 2012, there were about 1650 little spotted kiwi alive.
In 1983, human beings started bringing little spotted kiwi from Kapiti Island and other places to other islands where they can live and raise chicks away from weasels, dogs, and the other animals from Europe that were killing and eating them.
Food
Little spotted kiwi look for food at night and hide during the day in burrows, hollow logs, or other hiding places. They live in pairs. Pairs of adult little spotted kiwi will fight each other over good places to look for food. They will scratch at each other with their claws and pull out each other's feathers. Little spotted kiwi look for food by touching the ground with their long beaks. They eat earthworms, insects, and other animals with no bones. The male kiwi and female kiwi will sing together as they look for food.
Forcalqueiret
Forcalqueiret is a commune of 3,061 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
Mario Kart Arcade GP 2
Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 is the second Mario Kart game for arcades. It was released on March 14, 2007. There are 11 total playable characters in the game. You can choose to play in Time Trial Mode or Grand Prix Mode. In Time Trial mode you can race solo or against Staff Ghosts. In Grand Prix, you can choose between 50cc, 100cc, 150cc, or 200cc, and you race against players or against computers.'''
Power-ups
You can use powerups as items. Along with the other games in the Mario Kart Arcade GP series, there are about 100 items in the game, making this and the others have the most items in a Mario Kart game at the time.
Tracks
There are 32 Tracks and 8 cups to the full game.
Karts
When turning regularly, your kart loses speed. However, if you hit R before turning, you will perform a small hop and start drifting as long as you keep holding the button and steering left or right. Not only does this maintain your speed, it will also start building up boost power for a mini turbo.
Facts
Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 is the second game in the Mario Kart Arcade GP series and the seventh in the Mario Kart series overall. You can use powerups as items. There are 32 Tracks and 8 cups to the full game. Mario Kart Arcade GP is the initial installment in the series. Originally designed for the Tri-force arcade board (also used for F-Zero AX) by Namco, players can race as one of eleven characters on twenty-four tracks. There are a total of six cups, with four tracks in each, equalling twenty-four. If you're a gamer that strives to see all aspects of the game, you are likely to spend around 50 hours to obtain 100% completion. Coins have three uses, they increase your overall speed, they give you a tiny boost, and they can unlock objects. The biggest bruiser in Mario Strikers: Battle League is still the biggest powerhouses in Mario Kart 8. Bowser has the fastest speed stat in the game along with Wario. Statistically, the Pipe Frame is the best car in the game: it has great acceleration, handling, and a great mini-turbo. It also has decent traction but like many of the other cars on this list, suffers from its weight and speed. The player can jump by pressing the Brake while holding the gas pedal. To drift, the player does the same thing as jumping, but by turning the wheel to the desired direction. In the latest update, the player can also use the Mario button to jump. The game Mario Kart Arcade GP 1 includes only four playable characters, all of which appeared from the previous games: Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach and Yoshi. Items are thrown by making hand movements, which the game registers by an attachment to the player's wrist. Mario Kart Arcade GP DX is the third Mario Kart Arcade GP game, which was released in Japanese arcades on July 25, 2013, and in North American and European arcades in 2014 (previously announced for end of 2013), but the game was available in all Dave & Buster's restaurants from February 16, 2014 until April 2014. Daisy, Lakitu, and King Boo are the Japanese Exclusive characters that can be downloaded in Japanese Mario Kart Arcade GP DX game.
Saint-Ouen-le-Houx
Saint-Ouen-le-Houx is a former commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Livarot-Pays-d'Auge.
Languages of the United Kingdom
Languages of the United Kingdom include:
Self-portrait
A self-portrait is a picture of the artist drawing it. The earliest example of a self-portrait made was Jan van Eyck in 1433. The most famous self portrait painter was Vincent van Gogh. He painted a picture of himself 37 times from 1886 to 1889.
Alexander Kristoff
Alexander Kristoff (born July 5, 1987) is a Norwegian road bicycle racer. He currently rides for the cycling team UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates.
He won a bronze medal in the road race at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
In the Grand Tour races, he won the Stages 12 and 15 of the 2014 Tour de France, the Stage 21 of the 2018 Tour de France and the Stage 1 of the 2020 Tour de France.
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Toad the Wet Sprocket is an American alternative rock band from California. They formed in 1986, while they were in high school. Their name comes from a monologue (one person doing all the talking) performed by Eric Idle, called "Rock Notes" on the 1980 album, Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album.
President of Lebanon
The president of the Lebanese Republic is the head of state of Lebanon. The president is elected by the parliament for a term of six years, which is not renewable.
Blanket
A blanket is a large, usually rectangular piece of cloth, generally used on a bed over a sheet to keep the sleeping person warm. Some blankets are knitted or crocheted while others are made of two layers of cloth sewn together with stuffing in the middle. Blankets can be made with hollow fibre or feathers.
Other names for blankets are quilts, duvets, and comforters, depending on their thickness, construction and/or stuffing.
The word blanket probably came from the 14th century. A special kind of fabric called Blanket fabric was created by a Flemish weaver who lived in Bristol, England.
Uses
Blankets may also be used on the ground for a picnic or other places where people want to sit without their clothing getting dirty or wet.
Firefighters use a special fire blanket to protect household items such as chairs from water damage.
Types of blankets
Electric blankets are heated by electricity. Blankets were traditionally made of wool because it is warm, naturally fire-retardant, and allows air to circulate well, while today synthetic fibers are frequently used. Throw blankets are smaller blankets, often in decorative colors and patterns, that can be used for extra warmth outside of bed.
Other kinds are horse blankets, used to keep horses warm, and saddle blankets, used to prevent the horse's saddle from rubbing on its skin.
Blanket terminology is also used in the printing industry. A blanket is a rubber coating over different layer of compressible material. It wraps around a cylinder and insures transfer of ink form the printed material (where the image is ink defined) to the paper. Blankets are used for offset, gravure, flexo, etc.
2013 Australian federal election
The 2013 Australian federal election to elect the members of the 44th Parliament of Australia took place on 7 September 2013. The centre-right Liberal/National Coalition opposition led by Opposition leader Tony Abbott of the Liberal Party of Australia and Coalition partner the National Party of Australia, led by Warren Truss, beat the incumbent centre-left Labor Party government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
The 44th Parliament of Australia opened on 12 November 2013, with the members of the House of Representatives and territory senators sworn in. The state senators were sworn in by the next Governor-General Peter Cosgrove on 7 July 2014, with their six-year terms commencing on 1 July.
Aa Bhi Ja O Piya
Aa Bhi Ja O Piya is an Indian romantic movie. It starts Dev Sharma, Smriti Kashyap played the lead role and Ridoanul Haque Siyam, Rakesh Shrivastav, Richa Kalra, Carl Zohan, Mukul Nag & Akanksha Sinha played supporting role. The movie directed by Rajesh Harivansh Mishra.
Storyline
“Seeds of love planted” in the heart do sprout – irrespective of circumstances”​ City educated Kaushal resides with his parents in a remote picturesque Jharkhand village. Converting his passion for Bonsai plantation into profession he has his own Nursery. Kalpana, a city girl from an army family is on a research tour with her mother and driver. Their car meets an accident in a storm. Kaushal rescues and brings them home. Circumstances force them to extend their stay at the village. For the first time Kalpana experiences village life and is exhilarated. Natural beauty of the surroundings and the dignity and simplicity of village culture leave her awestruck. Assisting in her research, Kaushal shows her interesting historical and natural locales. In the process, the extremely handsome but lovesick Kaushal gets to interact closely with the very attractive, courteous and caring Kalpana. With graceful urban manners she is different from anyone else in the village.​ ​ Feelings develop between the youngsters but they are unable to express. Kalpana returns to the city. Kaushal is forlorn. They both have trouble adapting to regular lives. Only with separation they realise that the strange feelings sprouted during the short interaction was love. It seems destiny had it all planned. But practical circumstances force them to rethink – are they actually made for each other? Kalpana is engaged to Karan, a businessman’s son. Her father is a very strict Army Major. Even a hint about her feelings towards Kaushal will spur him to violent reaction.​ ​ There is no communication between Kaushal and Kalpana even as they yearn for each other. In such circumstances.​
Chris Jordan
Christopher James Jordan is a cricketer from Barbados. He plays for England cricket team. He was born on October 4, 1988.
Group 3 element
A group 3 element is a group in the periodic table of chemical elements.
Is one of the 18 groups in periodic table of elements. In this group are:
The first two elements of this group are known, while the other two do not know whether it was lutetium and lawrencium or lanthanum and actinium.
Vice President of the United States
The vice president of the United States (often referred to as VP or VPOTUS) is the second highest executive officer of the federal government of the United States, after the president. The vice president ranks first in the presidential line of succession and is also the officer of the legislative branch and the president of the Senate and the presiding officer of the Senate.
Kamala Harris is the 49th and current vice president of the United States, in office since January 2021.
Inauguration
The president elect, vice president-elect, or incumbent president and vice president immediately began their four-year team on inauguration day every four years on January 20. The original inauguration date was held on March 4, but was later changed in 1933.
Presidential line of succession
The vice president ranks first in the presidential line of succession, if the president dies, resigns, or is impeached. Only eight vice presidents have succeeded the president in resignation or death such as, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Gerald Ford.
Although it's unclear who succeeds the vice president in resignation, death or impeachment, but the speaker of the house might rank in the succession.
John C. Calhoun and Spiro Agnew are the only U.S. vice presidents to have resigned from office.
Travel and Transportation
Although any U.S. Air Force aircraft the vice president is aboard is referred to as "Air Force Two", during of the flight. In-country trips are typically handled with just one of the two planes, while overseas trips are handled with both.
Residence
Number One Observatory Circle is the official residence of the vice president and the second family. It has been the official residence of every U.S. vice president since Nelson Rockefeller in 1974.
Protection
The United States Secret Service is in charge of protecting the vice president and the second family at all times.
Living former vice presidents of the United States
The most recent former vice president to die was Walter Mondale (1977–1981) on April 19, 2021 at the age of 93.
Saint-Pair
Saint-Pair is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
Karlstad, Minnesota
Karlstad is a city in Kittson County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 710 at the 2020 census.
Earl Bakken
Earl Ethan Bakken (January 10, 1924 – October 21, 2018) was an American engineer, businessman and philanthropist. He founded Medtronic, where he developed the first external, battery-operated, transistorized, wearable artificial pacemaker in 1957.
Saint-Léger-lès-Authie
Saint-Léger-lès-Authie is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Earl Bakken
Bakken retired from Medtronic in 1989 and moved to a 9-acre estate in the Kona District of Hawaii he calls Bakken Hale.
Bakken died at his Hawaii home on October 21, 2018 at the age of 94.
Boyz II Men
Boyz II Men is an American boy band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were popular in the early 1990s. Founded in 1988 as a quintet (group of five people), Boyz II Men found fame as a quartet (group of four), with members Nathan Morris, Michael McCary, Shawn Stockman, and Wanya Morris, on Motown Records during the early 1990s.
Based on sales, Boyz II Men is the most successful R&B male vocal group of all time. It has recorded five #1 R&B hits between 1992 and 1997 and has since sold more than 90 million albums and 50 million singles. Three of its #1 hits, "End of the Road", "I'll Make Love to You", and "One Sweet Day" (with Mariah Carey), set and broke records for the longest period of time a single remained at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Amine Gemayel
Amine Pierre Gemayel (أمين بيار الجميٌل; born 22 January 1942) is a Lebanese politician. He was the President of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988 and was the leader of Kataeb Party.
IMAX
IMAX is a kind of movie projection system, which shows movies on a very large screen. It was first introduced in Japan in 1970.
List of Korean surnames
This is a list of Korean family names, in Hangul alphabetical order. Note: (S) means South Korea. (N) means North Korea.
The most common of these names is Kim, followed by Lee and Park. These three family names are held by around half of the ethnic Korean population. , 286 Korean family names were in use.
Det brenner i natt!
Det brenner i natt! is a 1955 Norwegian drama movie directed by Arne Skouen and starring Claes Gill, Elisabeth Bang, Harald Heide Steen, Gudrun Waadeland, Thor Hjorth-Jenssen, Helge Essmar, Harald Aimarsen.
Tatsuya Mochizuki
Tatsuya Mochizuki (born 20 April 1963) is a former Japanese football player.
Tustin, California
Tustin is a city in Orange County, California, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. As of 2019, Tustin had a population of 79,348. The city is located next to the county seat, Santa Ana.
Ingleton
Ingleton may refer to:
Weaving
Weaving is the interlacing of two sets of threads at right angles to each other to form cloth. Weaving is usually done on a loom.
One set of threads is called the warp. These threads are held taut and in parallel order on the loom by harnesses creating a space called the shed. The weft thread is wound onto bobbins. In old-fashioned hand weaving the bobbins are held in a shuttle, which carries the weft thread through the shed. The warp threads are moved over and under the weft threads. Modern high speed weaving does not use a shuttle.
Zapotec peoples
The Zapotec are a native tribe of people from Mexico. People think there are between 300.000 and 400.000 people. Most of them live in the state of Oaxaca. Most of them speak either Zapotec dialect continuum or the Chatino language. Before Christopher Columbus came to America, the Zapotec civilisation was highly developed. It also included a system of writing.
Jennifer Lynch
Jennifer Chambers Lynch (born April 7, 1968) is an American movie and television director and screenwriter. She was born in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area and is the daughter of filmmaker David Lynch. She is also an author. She wrote the novel The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer.
Lynch directed the 2008 movie Surveillance. That movie won top prize at Stiges Film Festival. She later directed the thriller movie Chained. That movie was rated NC-17 at first. However, Lynch cut down the content in Chained so it could get an R rating.
Lynch then said that NC-17 had failed, because audiences connected it with the old X rating.
Hallock, Minnesota
Hallock is a city in and the county seat of Kittson County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 906 at the 2020 census.
Crochet
Crochet is a way of creating fabric from yarn or thread using a crochet hook to pull loops of yarn through other loops. It is similar to knitting, except that usually only one loop is active at one time, and that a crochet hook is used instead of knitting needles. Also, crochet can not be made by machine. Crochet uses more yarn than knitting but is faster to make by hand.
Crochet is used to make clothing, household items like tablecloths, blankets and potholders, and toys. Lace is often made by crocheting, though it can be made by knitting and weaving as well.
Crocheting is also a great craft for younger children. The stitches are easy and their small hands are able to hold the crochet hook. They are also able to see progress very quickly and that motivates them to continue. It is very easy to start again after setting the project down, which will help to keep young people involved in the craft.
US and UK Terminologies
The US and the UK use different names for the same crochet stitches. If you are using a pattern, make sure you know if it uses US or UK terminology so you read it correctly.
Here are the main differences.
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist.
Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He lived there in his early years. His father was a journalist and a diplomat who served in Hong Kong and Shanghai, China in 1906 and 1910. Wilder went to school there in those years.
He attended Oberlin College from 1915 to 1917. He got his B. A. from Yale University in 1920. In 1926 he got a master's degree in French literature from Princeton University. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1930 to 1936.
During World War II, he worked in military intelligence in North Africa and Italy.
Wilder won three Pulitzer Prizes for his writing. His second novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey won in 1928. His most famous play, Our Town won in 1938. Another play, The Skin of Our Teeth won in 1943. He was Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University in 1950 and 1951. He was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963. In 1965 he was the first person to receive the National Medal for Literature.
Derry, Louisiana
Derry is an unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is on Louisiana Highway 1. It is the closest town to Magnolia Plantation, a National Historic Landmark.
There is an abandoned school next to the St. Matthew Baptist Church off Louisiana Highway 119 near Derry.
Saint-Léger-lès-Domart
Saint-Léger-lès-Domart is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Saint-Paul-du-Vernay
Saint-Paul-du-Vernay is a commune. It is in the region of Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department. This is in the northwest of France.
Marco Cornez
Marco Antonio Cornez Bravo (15 October 1957 – 21 May 2022) was a Chilean football goalkeeper. He played for Club Deportivo Palestino, Universidad Católica, Club de Deportes Antofagasta, Everton de Viña del Mar and Municipal Iquique. He was a goalkeeper for Chile national football team at the 1982 FIFA World Cup. His international career lasted from 1982 to 1995. Cornez was born in Valparaíso, Chile.
Cornez was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2021. He died on 21 May 2022 from the disease in Santiago de Chile, aged 64.
South Bohemian Region
South Bohemia is an administrative unit (kraj) of the Czech Republic. The capital city is České Budějovice.
The Bohemian Forest is in the south-west. The region is located in the drainage basin of Vltava river. Other significant rivers are Malše, Lužnice, Otava, Nežárka and Lomnice. South Bohemia is famous for its countless ponds. Rožmberk Pond is the largest one. Much of Šumava National Park is also in the region.
The region is divided into 7 districts:
Loom
A loom is a machine for weaving thread or yarn into textiles. Looms can range from very small hand-held frames, to large free-standing hand looms, to huge automatic mechanical devices.
The invention of the power loom by Edmund Cartwright was very important in the Industrial Revolution.
Schlieren, Switzerland
Schlieren (Zürich German: Schlierä) is a city of the district of Dietikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
María Isabel Rodríguez
María Isabel Rodríguez (born November 5, 1922) is a Salvadoran physician, academic, and politician. She was born in San Salvador, El Salvador. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador from 1956 until 1957, one of the first assemblywomen in the country. She was the Minister of Health and Social Welfare from 2009 until 2014 during the Mauricio Funes presidency.
Hugh Cook (science fiction author)
Hugh Walter Gilbert Cook (9 August 1956 – 8 November 2008) is a science fiction author. Cook was born in Essex, England, and moved to New Zealand. Then in 1997 he moved to Japan.
Fazilatunnesa Bappy
Fazilatunesa Bappy (31 December 1970 – 2 January 2020) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician. She was a member of the Awami League. She was elected to the Jatiya Sangsad, Bangladesh's national parliament, in 2011. She served two terms until 2018. She was born in Narail.
Bappy died on 2 January 2020 in Dhaka at the age of 49.
Saint-Philbert-des-Champs
Saint-Philbert-des-Champs is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
Joseph Weizenbaum
Joseph Weizenbaum (8 January 1923 - 5 March 2008) was a German-American mathematician and computer scientist. He was born in Berlin. He became famous for writing the program ELIZA, which simulated a doctor, in the 1960s. He also became well-known for having a critical attitude to what computers can and should do. Weizenbaum died of a stroke at age 85, in 2008.
Söderhöjdens BK
Söderhöjdens BK was a sports club in the town of Stockholm in Sweden. It was established in 1971. The club played three seasons in the Swedish women's bandy top division.
Scarf
A scarf is a piece of fabric worn on or near the head or around the neck for warmth, cleanliness, fashion or for religious reasons. Neck scarves are usually knitted or crocheted, while headscarves are usually woven.
Many Muslim women wear a headscarf known as a hijab. In the Persian Gulf Region it is called a sheila.
Plzeň Region
The southern part of the region has the drainage basin for the Otava River. The northern part, especially around Plzeň, is more industrial.
Administrative divisions
The Plzeň Region is divided into 7 districts (okresy):
Saint-Léger-sur-Bresle
Saint-Léger-sur-Bresle is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Originally named Saint-Léger-le-Pauvre, the commune was renamed Saint-Léger-sur-Bresle in 1956.
Voice-tracking
Voice-tracking is a technique used by some radio stations in radio broadcasting to make an illusion of a live disc jockey or announcer sitting in the studios of the radio station when one is actually not in the station.
Background
Voice-tracking refers to the process of a disc jockey prerecording the parts when they speak on the radio. It is then mixed with songs, commercials and other elements to make it sound like a live air shift. Voice-tracking is mostly used in radio stations, especially during the night, overnight, weekend, and holiday time periods. Most radio stations also use it as a way to save money instead of having disc jockeys around the clock.
Variations
Sometimes, voice-tracking is done so that people can do other jobs. For example, a DJ may also have a job as a program director or general manager. Voice-tracking allows that person to record a three-hour shift in less than a half-hour, leaving him or her time to do office work. A popular live weekday morning radio host can record parts for a Saturday show, allowing him or her to be on the air six days a week without spending more time at the station. It is also helpful during holidays such as Christmas or Easter, when people are off spending time with their families.
Formatics
Different radio stations want their DJs to speak only at certain times. Here is an example:
As an example, see the picture below:
As one song ends, the next song begins. At this point, the DJ doesn't start talking until the second song starts and he stops at the point where the song's vocals start.
James Hinchcliffe
James Hinchcliffe is a Canadian racecar driver. He drives in the IndyCar Series. He was born on December 5, 1986 in Oakville, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. Hinchcliffe is known for his media personality as well as his racing. He has become a very popular driver. Hinchcliffe named his website "Hinchtown" and he is the town's "mayor".
Hinchcliffe started in IndyCar in 2011. He drove for the Newman/Haas team. He won rookie of the year. Later, his team stopped racing in IndyCar and he had to find a new team. For 2012, he was hired by Andretti Autosport. A year later he had a very successful year. He won three races in St. Petersburg, Brazil, and Iowa. He continued driving for Andretti. In 2015, Hinchcliffe joined Schmidt Peterson Motorsports and replaced Simon Pagenaud. During Monday practice before the 2015 Indianapolis 500, Hinchcliffe suffered serious injuries in a crash.