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Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
Dr. Bibi Ameenah Firdaus Gurib-Fakim (Mauritian Creole pronunciation: [bibi amina fiːədos ɡəʁib fakim]) GCSK (born 17 October 1959) is a Mauritian politician and biodiversity scientist who served as the sixth president of Mauritius from 2015 to 2018. In December 2014, she was selected to be the presidential candidate of the Alliance Lepep. After Kailash Purryag resigned on 29 May 2015, both Prime Minister Sir Anerood Jugnauth and Leader of the Opposition Paul Berenger positively welcomed her nomination, which was unanimously approved in a vote in the National Assembly.

Gurib-Fakim is the first woman elected as president of the country and is the third woman to have served as Head of State following Queen Elizabeth II and Monique Ohsan Bellepeau, who preceded her in this office and was her first Vice President. She served as a 2019 keynote speaker of Cambridge University's conference "Africa Together: Which Way Forward?" hosted by the African Society of Cambridge University.

Anerood Jugnauth
Sir Anerood Jugnauth GCSK KCMG PC QC (29 March 1930 – 3 June 2021) was a Mauritian statesman, barrister, and key political figure. He served six terms as Prime Minister, two terms as President and one term as Leader of Opposition. Often called the father of the Mauritian economic miracle, he led Mauritius through unprecedented economic growth and modernization as both Prime Minister and President.

He diversified the economy beyond sugarcane into tourism, textiles, offshore services, IT, and knowledge sectors, while modernizing infrastructure like airports, ports, and roads.

Under his leadership, Mauritius became a republic in 1992, improved living standards, expanded social welfare, and secured UNESCO World Heritage Sites. He also championed Mauritius’s sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago internationally, leaving a legacy of economic prosperity and political stability for the country.
Mark Pender
Mark "The Loveman" Pender (born August 21, 1957) is an American trumpet player and vocalist who has played with Southside Johnny, Little Steven and Bruce Springsteen. Since 1993, he has performed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien as a member of The Max Weinberg 7 and The Tonight Show Band. He formerly performed on Conan as a member of the Basic Cable Band from 2010 to 2018. He is a member of The Miami Horns, leads his own band, The Mark Pender Band, and plays regularly with La Bamba & The Hubcaps.

As a member of The Miami Horns he has toured and/or recorded with, among others Diana Ross, Gary U.S. Bonds, Joe Cocker, Darlene Love, Robert Cray and Bon Jovi. As an individual he has sessioned with David Bowie, They Might Be Giants, Buster Poindexter and Blackmore's Night.

Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt (né Lento; born November 22, 1950), also known as Little Steven or Miami Steve, is an American musician and actor. He is a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, in which he plays guitar and mandolin. He has appeared in several television drama series, including as Silvio Dante in The Sopranos (1999–2007) and as Frank Tagliano/Giovanni 'Johnny' Henriksen in Lilyhammer (2012–2014). Van Zandt has his own solo band called Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, intermittently active since the 1980s.

In 2014, Van Zandt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band. Van Zandt has produced music, written songs, and had his own songs covered by Springsteen, Meat Loaf, Darlene Love, Ronnie Spector,
Nancy Sinatra, Pearl Jam, Southside Johnny, Artists United Against Apartheid, and the Iron City Houserockers, among others.
1952 Western Reserve Red Cats football team
The 1952 Western Reserve Red Cats football team represented the Western Reserve University—now known as Case Western Reserve University—as a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1952 college football season. Led by second-year head coach Edward L. Finnigan, the Red Cats compiled an overall record of 5–4 with a mark of 1–4 in conference play, placing in a three-way tie for sixth in the MAC. Wes Stevens and George Roman served as assistant coaches for the team.

George Roman
George Roman (February 20, 1926 – June 30, 2002) was a professional American football defensive tackle who played three seasons for Boston Yanks/New York Bulldogs and New York Giants in the National Football League (NFL).

Roman was born in Rankin, Pennsylvania and grew up in Verona, attending Penn Hills High School in Penn Hills.
Kaiser-Frazer
The Kaiser-Frazer Corporation (1947–1953 as Kaiser-Frazer) was an American automobile company. It was founded jointly by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and automobile executive Joseph W. Frazer. In 1947, the company acquired the automotive assets of Graham-Paige, of which Frazer had become president near the end of World War II. Kaiser-Frazer was one of a few US automakers to achieve success after World War II, if only for a few years. Joseph W. Frazer left the company in 1949, replaced as president by Henry's son Edgar F. Kaiser.

In 1953, Kaiser bought the ailing Willys-Overland company, mainly for its Jeep brand, and merged the Kaiser and Willys operations under the "Kaiser-Willys Corporation". The Willys-Overland branch was renamed "Willys Motors", until ten years later, in 1963, it was renamed Kaiser Jeep.

Willys
Willys (pronounced /ˈwɪlɪs/ "Willis") was a brand name used by Willys–Overland Motors, an American automobile company, founded by John North Willys. It was best known for its design and production of World War II–era military jeeps (MBs), Willys M38 and M38A1 military jeeps as well as civilian versions (Jeep CJs), and branding the 'jeep' military slang-word into the '(Universal) Jeep' marque.
2025 CEBL season
The 2025 CEBL season is the seventh season of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL). The regular season began on May 11 and ends on August 10. The league now plays a 24-game season, 4 more than the previous 20-game schedule.

On May 25, 2025, the Montreal Alliance played the Ottawa BlackJacks at IGA Stadium in Montreal, the first professional basketball game played outdoors in Canadian basketball history. However, the game was suspended at halftime due to court conditions and declared a no contest.

Vancouver Bandits
The Vancouver Bandits are a Canadian professional basketball team based in Langley, British Columbia, that competes in the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL). The Bandits play home games at Langley Events Centre, located in the Metro Vancouver district. They were formerly known as the Fraser Valley Bandits, but after a sale of the team, the name was changed to the Vancouver Bandits.
1994–95 ECHL season
The 1994–95 ECHL season was the seventh season of the ECHL. Before the season started, the Huntsville Blast moved their operations from Huntsville, AL to Tallahassee, FL and became the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks and the Louisville IceHawks suspended operations. The Wheeling Thunderbirds finished first overall in the regular season and the Richmond Renegades won their first Riley Cup, defeating the Greensboro Monarchs four games to one.

League history was made on March 18, 1995 at the Norfolk Scope when Hampton Roads Admirals goaltender Corwin Saurdiff became the first goalie to score a goal against the Charlotte Checkers.

Tallahassee Tiger Sharks
The Tallahassee Tiger Sharks were a minor league professional ice hockey team that played in Tallahassee, Florida, from 1994 to 2001 as members of the East Coast Hockey League. The Tiger Sharks home rink was the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center. While in Tallahassee, the franchise was affiliated with the NHL's New York Islanders, Florida Panthers, and Montreal Canadiens. Since the loss of the Tiger Sharks franchise, several attempts have been made by local residents to bring ice hockey back to Tallahassee. Thus far, none of these efforts have been successful.
2024–25 KBL season
The 2024–25 KBL season is the 29th season of the Korean Basketball League (KBL), the highest level of basketball in South Korea. The regular season began on 19 October 2024.

The Busan KCC Egis were the defending champions, having won their sixth KBL title after defeating the Suwon KT Sonicboom in the previous season, but were eliminated in the regular season.The Changwon LG Sakers won their first championship in its 28-year history after defeating Seoul SK Knights in the finals.

The Changwon LG Sakers qualified for the 2025 Basketball Champions League Asia and both the champions and runners-up qualified for the 2025–26 East Asia Super League.

Seoul SK Knights
The Seoul SK Knights (Korean: 서울 SK 나이츠) is a professional basketball club in the Korean Basketball League. The club was originally founded by Jinro Group in 1997 as Cheongju Jinro McCass. Before the official launch of the basketball club, Jinro Group filed for bankruptcy due to the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and eventually sold the club to SK Telecom.
2015–16 FC Basel season
The 2015–16 FC Basel season was the club's 123rd season and their 21st consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football since their promotion in the 1993–94 season. Basel's 2015–16 Swiss Super League campaign began on 19 July at home against Vaduz. In addition to the Swiss Super League, Basel also participated in the season's Champions League, Europa League, and Swiss Cup.

Breel Embolo
Breel Donald Embolo (born 14 February 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Rennes and the Switzerland national team.

Born in Cameroon, Embolo moved with his mother and siblings to France before finally settling in Switzerland. After working his way through their junior teams, Embolo made his professional debut for Basel in March 2014, and won the Swiss Super League in all three of his first seasons before moving to Germany after being signed by Schalke 04 for a reported fee of €20 million. Shortly after moving to the Bundesliga, he suffered an ankle injury that ruled him out for nearly a year. He later played for Borussia Mönchengladbach before moving to Ligue 1 to play for Monaco.

Embolo made his senior international debut in 2015, earning over 80 caps. He represented Switzerland at the UEFA European Championship in 2016, 2020, and 2024, and at the FIFA World Cup in 2018 and 2022.
2004 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 2004 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University as a member of the Big East Conference during the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Rich Rodriguez, the Mountaineers compiled an overall record of 8–4 with a mark of 4–2 in conference play, sharing the Big East title with Boston College, Pittsburgh and Syracuse. West Virginia was invited the Gator Bowl, where the Mountaineers lost to Florida State. The team played home games at Milan Puskar Stadium in Morgantown, West Virginia.

2004 Florida State Seminoles football team
The 2004 Florida State Seminoles football team represented the Florida State University as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by 29th-year head coach Bobby Bowden, the Seminoles compiled an overall record of 9–3 with a mark of 6–2 in conference play, placing second in the ACC. Florida State was invited to the Gator Bowl, where the Seminoles defeated West Virginia. The team played home games at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida.
2023–24 Cornell Big Red men's basketball team
The 2023–24 Cornell Big Red men's basketball team represented Cornell University in the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Big Red, led by seventh-year head coach Brian Earl, played their home games at Newman Arena in Ithaca, New York, as members of the Ivy League.

2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 6, 2023. The regular season ended on March 17, 2024, with the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament beginning with the First Four on March 19 and ending with the championship game at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on April 8.
Bolivian Socialist Falange
The Bolivian Socialist Falange (Spanish: Falange Socialista Boliviana, FSB) is a Bolivian political party established in 1937. It is a far-right party drawing inspiration from Falangism. It was the country's second-largest party between approximately 1954 and 1974. After that, its followers have tended to gravitate toward the government-endorsed military candidacy of General Juan Pereda (1978) and, especially, toward the ADN party of former dictator Hugo Banzer.

Nationalist Democratic Action
Nationalist Democratic Action (Spanish: Acción Democrática Nacionalista, ADN) was a right-wing political party in Bolivia led by Óscar Daza Márquez. The ADN was founded on March 23, 1979 by the military dictator Hugo Banzer after he stepped down from power. As leader of the ADN, Banzer ran in the 1979, 1980, 1985, 1989, 1993, and 1997 presidential elections.
Induction training
In human resource development, induction training introduces new employees to their new profession or job role, within an organisation. As a form of systematic training, induction training familiarises and assists new employees with their employer, workforce and job design. The scale of induction training varies between organisations, with smaller firms typically conducting induction in the early months of employment, in comparison to larger corporations who dedicate greater time and resources to its completion.

Training and development
Training and development involves improving the effectiveness of organizations and the individuals and teams within them. Training may be viewed as being related to immediate changes in effectiveness via organized instruction, while development is related to the progress of longer-term organizational and employee goals. While training and development technically have differing definitions, the terms are often used interchangeably. Training and development have historically been topics within adult education and applied psychology, but have within the last two decades become closely associated with human resources management, talent management, human resources development, instructional design, human factors, and knowledge management.

Skills training has taken on varying organizational forms across industrialized economies. Germany has an elaborate vocational training system, whereas the United States and the United Kingdom are considered to generally have weak ones.
Bruce Howard (baseball)
Bruce Ernest Howard (born March 23, 1943) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher with the Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles and Washington Senators between 1963 and 1968. A native of Salisbury, Maryland, he attended Villanova University. His son, David Howard, also played in the major leagues.

He was traded along with Don Buford and Roger Nelson from the White Sox to the Orioles for Luis Aparicio, Russ Snyder and John Matias on November 29, 1967. He went 0–2 with a 3.77 earned run average (ERA) in 31 innings with the Orioles before being dealt to the Senators for Fred Valentine before the trade deadline on June 15, 1968.

In a six-season career, Howard posted a 26–31 record with 349 strikeouts and a 3.18 ERA in 120 appearances, including seven complete games, four shutouts, one save, and 528+2⁄3 innings of work.

1968 Baltimore Orioles season
The 1968 Baltimore Orioles season was a season in American baseball. The team finished second in the American League with a record of 91 wins and 71 losses, 12 games behind the AL and World Series champion Detroit Tigers. The team was managed for the first 80 games by Hank Bauer (who won 43 of them) and he was replaced right after the All-Star break by Earl Weaver. The Orioles' home games were played at Memorial Stadium.

Following the season, it was announced that the American League, along with the National League, would be split into two divisions for the 1969 season in order to accommodate the admittance of two new franchises to each league. The Orioles were assigned to the new American League East division.
1988 Aloha Bowl
The 1988 Eagle Aloha Bowl was a college football bowl game, the fourth of seventeen in the bowl season of the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season. The seventh edition of the Aloha Bowl, it was played on December 25 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The game matched the #14 Houston Cougars of the Southwest Conference against the #18 Washington State Cougars of the Pacific-10 Conference.

Underdog Washington State scored all of its points in the second quarter and forced a last-second Houston turnover in notching a 24–22 win on Christmas Day. The bowl appearance was Washington State's second of the 1980s and was the first bowl victory for Washington State since the 1916 Rose Bowl.  This was the final game for head coach Dennis Erickson at WSU; he left for the University of Miami in March.

Washington State climbed up to sixteenth in the final AP poll, and Houston dropped to eighteenth.

1988 Houston Cougars football team
The 1988 Houston Cougars football team represented the University of Houston during the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Cougars were led by second-year head coach Jack Pardee and played their home games at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The team competed as members of the Southwest Conference, finishing in third. Just two seasons after finishing 1–10 (0–7 SWC), the Cougars finished the season with a 9–3 record and ranked 18th in the final AP Poll. They were invited to the 1988 Aloha Bowl in Honolulu, Hawaii, where they lost to Washington State.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Baltimore)
St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, more commonly called Old St. Paul's Church today, is a historic Episcopal church located at 233 North Charles Street at the southeast corner with East Saratoga Street, in Baltimore, Maryland, (United States) near "Cathedral Hill" on the northern edge of the downtown central business district to the south and the Mount Vernon-Belevedere cultural/historic neighborhood to the north. It was founded in 1692 as the parish church for the "Patapsco Parish", one of the "original 30 parishes" of the old Church of England in colonial Maryland (now part of the Episcopal Church, U.S.A. and the Anglican Communion).

The church reported 418 members in 2021 and 506 members in 2023; no membership statistics were reported in 2024 parochial reports. Plate and pledge income reported for the congregation in 2024 was $207,132 with average Sunday attendance (ASA) of 88 persons.

Mount Vernon, Baltimore
Mount Vernon is a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, located immediately north of the city's downtown. It is named for George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in Virginia, as the site of the city's Washington Monument.
Heat kernel signature
A heat kernel signature (HKS) is a feature descriptor for use in deformable shape analysis and belongs to the group of spectral shape analysis methods. For each point in the shape, HKS defines its feature vector representing the point's local and global geometric properties. Applications include segmentation, classification, structure discovery, shape matching and shape retrieval.

HKS was introduced in 2009 by Jian Sun, Maks Ovsjanikov and Leonidas Guibas. It is based on the heat kernel, which is a fundamental solution to the heat equation. HKS is one of the many recently introduced shape descriptors which are based on the Laplace–Beltrami operator associated with the shape.

Spectral shape analysis
Spectral shape analysis relies on the spectrum (eigenvalues and/or eigenfunctions) of the Laplace–Beltrami operator to compare and analyze geometric shapes.  Since the spectrum of the Laplace–Beltrami operator is invariant under isometries, it is well suited for the analysis or retrieval of non-rigid shapes, i.e. bendable objects such as humans, animals, plants, etc.
Persoonia prostrata
Persoonia prostrata is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the northern tip of K'gari in Queensland, but is presumed to be extinct. It is similar to Persoonia stradbrokensis but is a prostrate shrub with smaller leaves and flowers.

Persoonia stradbrokensis
Persoonia stradbrokensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub or tree with hairy young branchlets, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, and yellow flowers borne in groups of up to twenty on a rachis up to 100 mm (3.9 in), each flower with a leaf or scale leaf at its base.
Wendy Greuel
Wendy Jane Greuel (born May 23, 1961) is an American politician. She served as Los Angeles City Controller from 2009 to 2013. Greuel was the second woman elected to citywide office in Los Angeles, after her predecessor Laura Chick.

Previously, she served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 2002 to 2009, where she served as President Pro Tempore and represented the 2nd District, which includes portions of the San Fernando Valley. Greuel was a candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles in 2013, losing to Eric Garcetti, followed by a loss running for California's 33rd congressional district.

She was the first woman to advance to a Los Angeles mayoral runoff, performing better than previous female candidates Linda Griego in 1993, Kathleen Connell in 2001 and Jan Perry also in 2013.

Laura Chick
Laura N. Chick (born 1944) is an American politician. She served as Los Angeles City Controller from 2001 to 2009.

Chick served as a council member for Los Angeles City's Third District from 1993 to 2001, after which she became the first woman to hold citywide office as the Los Angeles City Controller. Known for her bluntness, Chick released over 170 audits and reports during her tenure, including one that exposed a backlog of untested DNA rape kits at the Los Angeles Police Department.

In 2009, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed her as California Inspector General to oversee the use of federal funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Her role ended when the office was eliminated in December 2010. Before entering politics, Chick had been a stay-at-home mother, managed a family-owned retail business, and worked as a social worker.
1937 Drexel Dragons football team
1937 Drexel Dragons football team represented Drexel Institute of Technology—now known as Drexel University as a member of the Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference during the 1937 college football season. Led by 11th-year head coach Walter Halas, the Dragons compiled an overall record of 6–2 with a mark of 3–1 in conference play, winning the Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference title.

Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference (1926)
The Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference, also known as the Eastern Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Conference, and called the Central Pennsylvania Conference in 1927, was an intercollegiate football conference that operated from 1926 until the 1940s. Its members were located in the state of Pennsylvania. The conference was formed on February 22, 1926, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with five charter members: Dickinson College, Franklin & Marshall College, Gettysburg College, Muhlenberg College, and Ursinus College. Drexel Institute—now known as Drexel University—was added as the conference's sixth member in 1935.