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Sakkie Blanché
Johannes Petrus Izak "Sakkie" Blanché is a South African politician who served in Parliament both before and after the end of apartheid, representing variously the National Party (NP), the Federal Alliance (FA), and the Democratic Alliance (DA). He also served in the Gauteng Executive Council.

Blanché represented the NP in Parliament during apartheid; the Mail & Guardian said that he was "an arch-conservative". When the FA was founded in 1998, Blanché left the NP to become the FA's provincial leader in Gauteng, an office he held from August 1999 to December 2003. During that time, on 2 February 2001, Blanché was returned to Parliament, taking up a seat in the National Assembly that had been vacated by the FA's Louis Luyt.

Although the FA's union with the DA was short-lived, Blanché remained with the DA and stood on its list for re-election to the National Assembly in 2004. He was elected to represent the Gauteng constituency and served until the 2009 general election.

Federal Alliance (South Africa)
The Federal Alliance (Afrikaans: Federale Alliansie) was a small South African political party that contested the South African general election in 1999. The party was led by business magnate Louis Luyt, and founded in 1998.
They later joined the Democratic Party and the New National Party to form the Democratic Alliance  but eventually broke away. The party did not contest the general election in 2004, instead fielding two candidates to the Gauteng Provincial Legislature on the DA's electoral lists. The FA gained these two seats in 2005 when the MPLs defected during the floor crossing window. This soured its relationship with the DA and ended all co-operation between the two parties.

After contesting the 2006 municipal elections in Gauteng, failing to win any seats, the FA instead joined the Freedom Front Plus in 2007, with leader Pieter Mulder and Luyt announcing the merger.
Cryptothecia austrocoreana
Cryptothecia austrocoreana is a species of crustose and corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichen in the family Arthoniaceae. Found in South Korea, it was formally described as a new species in 2017 by Jung-Jae Woo, László Lőkös, Edit Farkas, and Jae-Seoun Hur. The type specimen was collected by the first author near Seonamsa (Suncheon, Jeollanam Province) at an altitude of 160 m (520 ft); here it was found growing on the bark of Meliosma myriantha. It also grows on the bark of Carpinus tschonoskii. The lichen is only known to occur at the type locality. The specific epithet austrocoreana refers to the southern part of South Korea.

Lichen products found in Cryptothecia austrocoreana include barbatic acid as a major constituent, minor amounts of atranorin, and trace amounts of chloroatranorin. Only six other species of genus Cryptothecia contain barbatic acid.

Lichen product
Lichen products, also known as lichen substances, are organic compounds produced by a lichen. Specifically, they are secondary metabolites. Lichen products are represented in several different chemical classes, including terpenoids, orcinol derivatives, chromones, xanthones, depsides, and depsidones. Over 1000 lichen products of known chemical structure have been reported in the scientific literature, and most of these compounds are exclusively found in lichens. Examples of lichen products include usnic acid (a dibenzofuran), atranorin (a depside), lichexanthone (a xanthone), salazinic acid (a depsidone), and isolichenan, an α-glucan. Many lichen products have biological activity, and research into these effects is ongoing.
CCI Ammunition
CCI (also known as Cascade Cartridge Inc.) is an American ammunition manufacturer based in Lewiston, Idaho. CCI manufactures rimfire and centerfire handgun ammunition, including primers for handloaders and an industrial ammunition production line. CCI made the first .22 Long Rifle Mini-Mag rimfire ammunition in 1962 and, in 1975, they developed the .22 Stinger rimfire ammunition, a high velocity .22 Long Rifle product. Today, CCI makes a wide range of rimfire and snake shot ammunition.

Centerfire ammunition
A center-fire (or centerfire) is a type of metallic cartridge used in firearms, where the primer is located at the center of the base of its casing (i.e. "case head").  Unlike rimfire cartridges, the centerfire primer is typically a separate component seated into a recessed cavity (known as the primer pocket) in the case head and is replaceable by reloading the cartridge.

Centerfire cartridges have supplanted the rimfire cartridge, with the exception of a few small calibers. The majority of today's handguns, rifles, and shotguns use centerfire ammunition, with the exception of some .17 caliber, .20 caliber, and .22 caliber rimfire handgun and rifle cartridges, a few small-bore/gauge shotgun shells (intended mainly for use in pest control), and a handful of antiquated rimfire and pinfire cartridges for various firearm actions.
Chris Sheridan (sportswriter)
Chris Sheridan (born May 14, 1965) is a sportswriter who formerly covered the National Basketball Association for ESPN. He previously worked 18 years for the Associated Press. After leaving ESPN, his basketball Web site, Sheridan Hoops, launched on September 5, 2011. On July, 9th, 2014, he was the first major NBA journalist to report that LeBron James would sign with and return to the Cleveland Cavaliers during his free agency. The report was ultimately confirmed by ESPN on July 11, 2014.  Sheridan has covered Team USA senior men's national team longer than any American sportswriter, having first reported on them at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. The website was closed in April, 2016.

Sheridan is a Marquette University graduate with a degree in journalism.

Sports journalism
Sports journalism is a form of writing that reports on sporting topics and competitions.

The appetite for sports resulted in sports-only media such as Sports Illustrated and ESPN. There are many different forms of sports journalism, ranging from play-by-play and game recaps to analysis and investigative journalism on important developments in the sport. Technology and the internet age has massively changed the sports journalism space as it is struggling with the same problems that the broader category of print journalism is struggling with, mainly not being able to cover costs due to falling subscriptions. New forms of internet blogging and tweeting in the current millennium have pushed the boundaries of sports journalism.
Thasopoula
Thasopoula (Greek: Θασοπούλα, romanized: Thasopoúla) is a rocky islet in northern Greece, in the Thracian Sea. It lies off the Nestos River delta, roughly in the middle of the eastern part of the Thasos channel, between Thasos and the coast of the Kavala regional unit. It has an area of 0.716 square kilometres, and its highest point reaches 111 metres. The islet is uninhabited. It is 15 nautical miles from Kavala and has three beautiful beaches.

There are colonies of gulls, ''Phalacrocorax carbo'' (cormorants), and herons in the area, and the islet is covered with Mediterranean maquis vegetation.

The Keramoti Winter Swimmers and Water Sports Association organizes an annual open-water race with a total distance of 2.4 kilometres, starting in Keramoti and finishing at Thasopoula.

Thasopoula is one of 30 small islands and islets that the Greek state plans to lease to private parties through the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund for a period of 50 years.

Kavala
Kavala (Greek: Καβάλα, Kavála [kaˈvala]) is a city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala regional unit.

It is situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thasos and on the A2 motorway, a one-and-a-half-hour drive to Thessaloniki (160 kilometres (99 miles) west) and a forty-minute drive to Drama (37 km (23 miles) north) and Xanthi (56 km (35 miles) east). It is also about 150 kilometers west of Alexandroupoli.

Kavala is an important economic centre of Northern Greece, a center of commerce, tourism, fishing and oil-related activities and formerly a thriving trade in tobacco.
Richard Bernstein (bass)
Richard Bernstein (born July 30, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American bass opera singer. A Metropolitan Opera company member since 1995, Bernstein has appeared in over 500 of its performances, including the Grammy award-winning Akhnaten in 2022. His repertoire includes the bel canto of Rossini (Mustafà in L'italiana in Algeri), classic French opera (Sancho Panza in Don Quichotte), and 20th-century works (Superintendent Budd in Albert Herring), among others.

Satyagraha (opera)
Satyagraha (/ˈsɑːtjəˈɡrɑːhɑː/; Sanskrit सत्याग्रह, satyāgraha "insistence on truth") is a 1980 opera in three acts for orchestra, chorus and soloists, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by Glass and Constance DeJong.

Loosely based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, it forms the second part of Glass's "Portrait Trilogy" of operas about men who changed the world, which also includes Einstein on the Beach and Akhnaten.

Glass's style can broadly be described as minimalist. The work is scored for 2 sopranos, 2 mezzo-sopranos, 2 tenors, a baritone, 2 basses, a large SATB chorus, and an orchestra of strings and woodwinds only, no brass or percussion. Principal roles are Sonja Schlesin, Mahatma Gandhi, Hermann Kallenbach and Parsi Rustomji.

The title refers to Gandhi's concept of nonviolent resistance to injustice, satyagraha, and the text, from the Bhagavad Gita, is sung in the original Sanskrit. In performance, translation is usually provided in supertitles.
Hara Prasad Shastri
Hara Prasad Shastri (Bengali: হরপ্রসাদ শাস্ত্রী; 6 December 1853 – 17 November 1931), also known as Hara Prasad Bhattacharya, was an Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist, and historian of Bengali literature. He is most known for discovering the Charyapada, the earliest known examples of Bengali literature.

Sanskrit College and University
Sanskrit College and University (erstwhile Sanskrit College) is a prestigious state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It focuses on liberal arts, offering both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Ancient Indian and world history, Bengali, English, Sanskrit, Philosophy,Linguistics, and traditional oriental learning (Advaitya Vedanta) and Pali.
Don Cusack in High Fidelity
Don Cusack in High Fidelity is the debut solo studio album by American rapper Donwill. It was released on March 23, 2010, via Interdependent Media. Produced by Aeon, Keelay and Zaire, Algorythm, A-Plus, Astronote, Brickbeats, Martin Slo, Neon Collars, The Twilite Tone, Von Pea, Wale Oyejide and Donwill himself, it features guest appearances from Ragen Fykes, Che Grand, Peter Hadar, Bad Lucc, Ced Hughes, Harlems Cash, Jermiside, Kay, Mykestro, Nicky Guiland, Opio, Spec Boogie, Uzoy and Tanya Morgan.

The Twilite Tone
Anthony Christopher Khan (né Craig; born July 13, 1971), known by his stage name The Twilite Tone, is an  American record producer, recording artist, composer, DJ, and radio host. He has worked with Gorillaz, Kanye West, Common, Big Sean, John Legend, My Brightest Diamond and U-God among others.
AJK Jaguars
The AJK Jaguars (Urdu: آزاد جموں و کشمیر زگوار ) was a Pakistani men's professional Twenty20 cricket team that competed in the Haier T20 League and based in Mirpur, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. The Jaguars played at the Mirpur Cricket Stadium and was owned by the AJK Regional Cricket Association.

Mirpur, Azad Kashmir
Mirpur (Potwari: مرپر [mɪɾˈpəɾᵊ]; Urdu: ميرپور [miːɾˈpuːɾ]), officially known as New Mirpur City, is the capital of Mirpur district located in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It is the second largest city of Azad Kashmir and the 74th most populous city in Pakistan.

A significant portion of the population from the district, the Mirpuri diaspora, migrated to the United Kingdom in the mid-to-late 1950s and in the early 1960s. Mirpur is thus sometimes known as "Little England". Many British products are found, and many shops in the city accept the pound sterling.
Mário Carlos
Mário Jorge Costa Carlos (born 21 February 1983), known as Mário Carlos, is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a winger.

A graduate of Vitória de Setúbal's youth academy, Carlos made his professional debut for the Sadinos on 22 August 2002 against Boavista. Carlos scored his first goal for Vitória de Setúbal on 4 January 2003, in a 2–1 home loss to Sporting CP.

Vitória F.C.
Vitória Futebol Clube (Portuguese pronunciation: [viˈtɔɾiɐ ðɨ sɨˈtuβal]), commonly known as Vitória de Setúbal, is a Portuguese professional football club based in Setúbal that used to compete in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football, at the Estádio do Bonfim. At the moment, they are playing in the first division of the Setúbal FA district championship after many financial problems. The club was born under the original name Sport Victoria from the ashes of the small Bonfim Foot-Ball Club.

When it comes to main achievements in Portugal, Vitória de Setúbal has won four trophies: three Taça de Portugal and one Taça da Liga. Internationally, Vitória has won a Small Club World Cup and an Iberian Cup. Historically, it is one of the most decorated clubs in the country.
Artiach (cycling team)
Artiach was a Spanish professional cycling team that existed from 1984 to 1995. It was merged into the Kelme–Sureña team for the 1996 season, becoming Kelme–Artiach. Pedro Delgado won the general classification of the 1985 Vuelta a España with the team.

Pedro Delgado
Pedro Delgado Robledo (pronounced [ˈpeðɾo ðelˈɣaðo roˈβleðo]; born 15 April 1960), also known as Perico ([peˈɾiko]), is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer. He won the 1988 Tour de France, as well as the Vuelta a España in 1985 and 1989. He finished in the top 10 of eighteen Grand Tours.

Delgado tested positive for the known masking agent Probenecid during the 1988 tour. The drug, which had been placed on the International Olympic Committee's list of banned substances in January of that year, had not yet been banned by the sport's governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale; as a consequence, Delgado was allowed to continue racing and was not charged with any doping offence.

He now works as a sports commentator for Televisión Española during important cycling events.
Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits
Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits is a compilation album released by American R&B/soul singer and Motown legend Marvin Gaye, released on the Motown label in 1976 on LP and 1987 on CD. 
The hits collection, with the exception of Gaye's signature 1960s hits "Can I Get a Witness", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", was a review of Gaye's signature 1970s hits including the socially conscious anthems "What's Going On" and "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)", erotically focused material like "Let's Get It On", "I Want You" and "After the Dance", his bluesy and funky autobiographical "Trouble Man" and the live version of his quiet storm classic, "Distant Lover". The album has received a Gold as well as a Platinum Certification by the RIAA in 1993.

Can I Get a Witness
"Can I Get a Witness" is a song composed by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland and produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier as a non-album single for American recording vocalist Marvin Gaye, who issued the record on Motown's Tamla imprint in September 1963.
Just Because (Ginuwine song)
"Just Because" is a song by American R&B singer Ginuwine. It was co-written by Greg Lawson and Damon Sharpe and recorded for his third studio album The Life (2001). Production on the track was helmed by Ric Wake, with additional production by Richie Jones. The song was released as the album's second international single in August 2001. "Just Because" reached the top 20 of the New Zealand Singles Chart.

Official Aotearoa Music Charts
The Official Aotearoa Music Charts, formerly the Official New Zealand Music Chart (Māori: Te Papa Tātai Waiata Matua o Aotearoa), is the weekly New Zealand top 40 singles and albums charts, issued weekly by Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand). The Music Chart also includes the top 40 Hot Singles chart, the top 20 New Zealand artist singles and albums, the top 20 Hot New Zealand singles, and top 10 compilation albums. All charts are compiled from data of both physical and digital sales from music retailers in New Zealand.

The chart also publishes gold and platinum certifications of albums and singles, according to thresholds set by Recorded Music NZ, through the database on radioscope.net.nz.
Walton Stinson
Walton Stinson (born July 2, 1948) is an American sound engineer, business executive, and entrepreneur. In 1982, Stinson helped introduce digital audio to the United States. He is co-founder and CEO of ListenUp, a privately held Colorado-based company that in 2019 was the 10th largest consumer electronics specialty dealer in the US.

Stinson was inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame in 2009, along with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Irwin M. Jacobs, former Chairman of Qualcomm, and Richard E. Wiley, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Irwin M. Jacobs
Irwin Mark Jacobs (born October 18, 1933) is an American electrical engineer and businessman. He is a co-founder and former chairman of Qualcomm, and chair of the board of trustees of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. As of 2019, Jacobs had an estimated net worth of $1.2 billion.
Gavia schultzi
Gavia schultzi is an extinct species of loon from the Middle Miocene of Austria. It is amongst the oldest known species in the genus and larger than the older Gavia egeriana from the Early Miocene Czech Republic.

Middle Miocene
The Middle Miocene is a sub-epoch of the Miocene epoch made up of two stages: the Langhian and Serravallian stages. The Middle Miocene is preceded by the Early Miocene, and followed by the Late Miocene.

The sub-epoch lasted from 15.97 ± 0.05 Ma (million years ago) to 11.608 ± 0.005 Ma. During this period, a sharp drop in global temperatures took place. This event is known as the Middle Miocene Climatic Transition.

For the purpose of establishing European land mammal ages, this sub-epoch is equivalent to the Astaracian age.
Bolshaya Izhora
Bolshaya Izhora (Russian: Больша́я Ижо́ра) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Lomonosovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland. It is adjacent from the west to Saint Petersburg. Population:  3,314 (2010 Census); 3,831 (2002 Census); 3,967 (1989 Soviet census).

Gulf of Finland
The Gulf of Finland (Estonian: Soome laht; Finnish: Suomenlahti; Russian: Фи́нский зали́в, romanized: Finskiy zaliv; Swedish: Finska viken) is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland to the north and Estonia to the south, to Saint Petersburg—the second largest city of Russia—to the east, where the river Neva drains into it. Other major cities around the gulf include Helsinki and Tallinn. The eastern parts of the gulf belong to Russia, and some of Russia's most important oil harbors are located there, including Primorsk. As the seaway to Saint Petersburg, the gulf is of considerable strategic importance to Russia. Some of the environmental problems affecting the Baltic Sea are at their most pronounced in the shallow gulf. Proposals for an undersea Helsinki–Tallinn Tunnel through the gulf have been made.
Karnataka College of Percussion
The Karnataka College of Percussion (KCP) is a music school in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, which is dedicated to the teaching of the Carnatic percussion and vocal music of South India. It was founded in approximately 1964 by the mridangam player T. A. S. Mani.

The college features a percussion ensemble called Tala Tarangini, which has performed throughout Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia, and which has collaborated with numerous jazz rock musicians, including Charlie Mariano, Okay Temiz, Iain Ballamy, Dissidenten, and Embryo.

Charlie Mariano
Carmine Ugo Mariano (November 12, 1923 – June 16, 2009) was an American jazz saxophonist who focused on the alto and soprano saxophone. He occasionally performed and recorded on flute and nadaswaram as well.
Wangjialing coal mine flood
The Wangjialing coal mine flood was an incident that began on Sunday, March 28, 2010, when underground water flooded parts of the Wangjialing coal mine in the Shanxi province of People's Republic of China. A total of 261 people were in the mine when workers first broke through an abandoned shaft that was filled with water. Over 100 managed to escape, but 153 workers were trapped in nine different platforms of the mine.

Television reports spoke of the survivors attaching themselves by belts to the wall of the mine as waters rushed in. They hung there for three days until a mine cart drifted by and they got in. Most workers are safe with a few dozen still trapped as of 5 April, if the official numbers are correct; families claim the actual number is higher.

The mine belongs to state-owned Huajin Coking Coal Co. Ltd. At the time, workers were building the mine's infrastructure to allow it to produce 6 million tons of coal per year at full production.

Hejin
Hejin (Chinese: 河津; pinyin: Héjīn) is a county-level city of Yuncheng City, in the southwest of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China, located on the east (left) bank of the Yellow River. It borders Jishan and Wanrong counties to the east and south, Linfen to the north, and Hancheng in Shaanxi across the Yellow River to the west. As of 2002, it had a population of 360,000 residing in an area of 593 km2 (229 sq mi). The city and its surrounding area is home to abundant aluminium reserves. During the Qin dynasty, Hejin was known as Pishi County (皮氏县; Píshì Xiàn), renamed to Longmen County (simplified Chinese: 龙门县; traditional Chinese: 龍門縣; pinyin: Lóngmén Xiàn) during the Northern Wei, and finally Hejin County (河津县; Héjīn Xiàn) in the Song dynasty. The city's name (河津) literally means "river ford", due to the need of a fording of the Yellow River at the time. In 1994, Hejin was upgraded to its present status as a county-level city.
Acorn Stakes
The Acorn Stakes is an American Grade I race at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York for three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies. It is raced on dirt over a distance of one mile and a sixteenth with a current purse of $500,000. It is the first leg of the US Triple Tiara and is followed by the Coaching Club American Oaks then the Alabama Stakes. The filly must win all three races to win the Triple Tiara, as well as the third leg of the "National" Triple Tiara (Kentucky Oaks and George E. Mitchell Stakes are the others).

The Acorn Stakes was run at Aqueduct Racetrack from 1960 to 1967 and 1969 to 1975. There were two divisions in 1951, 1970 and 1974. There was a dead heat for first place in 1954 and again in 1956. The race was run at one mile from its inception until 2022. In 2023, the New York Racing Association lengthened the race to 1+1⁄16 miles. The 2024 Acorn was held at Saratoga Race Course at 1+1⁄8 miles due to construction at Belmont Park.

Elmont, New York
Elmont is an unincorporated hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located in northwestern Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, United States, along its border with the borough of Queens in the City of New York. The population was 35,265 at the time of the 2020 census.

The hamlet is famous for Belmont Park which hosts the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the prestigious Triple Crown of thoroughbred racing. Elmont is also home to UBS Arena, home of the NHL's New York Islanders.

Elmont has tried incorporating itself as a village multiple times, but has been unable to successfully do so.