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2024 West Coast Conference baseball tournament
The 2024 West Coast Conference baseball tournament was held from May 22 through 25 at Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin South, Nevada. It was the second of four baseball tournaments the WCC has scheduled for the venue.  The six team tournament winner, the San Diego Toreros, earned the league's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

The tournament used the 6-team format adapted in 2022 where 3 plays 6 and 4 plays 5 in first day elimination games.

San Diego Toreros baseball
For information on all University of San Diego sports, see San Diego Toreros

The San Diego Toreros baseball team is the college baseball program that represents the University of San Diego (USD). The Toreros compete in NCAA Division I as a member of the West Coast Conference (WCC). The team plays its home games at Fowler Park.

The Toreros have appeared in nine NCAA Division I baseball tournaments. As of 2025, 25 USD alumni have played in Major League Baseball, most notably World Series champion Kris Bryant.
Romanów, Łódź East County
Romanów [rɔˈmanuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rzgów, within Łódź East County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 9 km (6 mi) east of Rzgów and 17 km (11 mi) south-east of the regional capital Łódź.

Łódź East County
Łódź East County (Polish: powiat łódzki wschodni) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Łódź, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county). The county consists of areas to the east and south of the city, and contains three towns: Koluszki, which lies 24 km (15 mi) east of Łódź, Tuszyn, 20 km (12 mi) south of Łódź, and Rzgów, 14 km (9 mi) south of Łódź.

The county covers an area of 499.32 square kilometres (192.8 sq mi). As of 2006 its total population is 64,574, out of which the population of Koluszki is 13,407, that of Tuszyn is 7,178, that of Rzgów is 3,338, and the rural population is 40,651.

Until 2002 the county also included the areas which now form Brzeziny County.
Linda Orange
Linda Ann Orange (née Smith; September 25, 1950 – November 20, 2019) was an American politician who was a Democratic member and deputy speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives. Orange represented the 48th Assembly District, which consists of portions of Colchester, Lebanon, Mansfield, and Windham.

In 2014, Orange, who was endorsed by the NRA Political Victory Fund, faced a Democratic primary challenge over her stance on gun control.

Orange died from pancreatic cancer on November 20, 2019, at the age of 69.

Windham, Connecticut
Windham (/ˈwɪndəm/ WIN-dəm) is a town in Windham County, Connecticut,  United States. It contains the former city of Willimantic as well as the communities of Windham Center, North Windham, and South Windham. Willimantic, an incorporated city since 1893, was consolidated with the town in 1983. The town is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The population was 24,428 at the 2020 census.
The Wettest County in the World
The Wettest County in the World is a 2008 historical novel by Matt Bondurant, an American writer who features his grandfather Jack and grand-uncles Forrest and Howard as the main characters in the novel.

The book tells of the trio during the Depression and Prohibition in rural Virginia, who made a living bootlegging moonshine. The novel is told from both the perspectives of the three Bondurant brothers, mainly focusing on the youngest, Jack, and of the writer Sherwood Anderson, who described Franklin County in that period as the "wettest county in the world" while working there as a journalist during Prohibition.  The film Lawless (2012), directed by John Hillcoat, is based on the book with a screenplay by Nick Cave.

Moonshine
Moonshine is high-proof liquor, traditionally made or distributed illegally. The name was derived from a tradition of distilling the alcohol at night to avoid detection. In the first decades of the 21st century, commercial distilleries have adopted the term for its outlaw cachet and have begun producing their own legal "moonshine", including many novelty flavored varieties, that are said to continue the tradition by using a similar method or locale of production.

In 2013, moonshine accounted for about one-third of global alcohol consumption.
O'Conor dynasty
The O'Conor dynasty (Middle Irish: Ó Conchobhair; Modern Irish: Ó Conchúir) are an Irish noble dynasty and formerly one of the most influential and distinguished royal dynasties in Ireland. The O'Conor family held the throne of the Kingdom of Connacht up until 1475. Having ruled it on and off since 967, they ruled continuously from 1102 to 1475. Moreover, the O'Conor parent house the Uí Briúin and Síol Muireadaigh ruled Connacht on many occasions – but not continuously – between 482 and 956. The house of O'Conor also produced two High Kings of Ireland, Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair and his son Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, the last High King of Ireland. The family seat is Clonalis House outside Castlerea in County Roscommon.

The current O'Conor Don is Desmond O'Conor (b. 22 September 1938) who lives in Rotherfield, East Sussex in England.

Rotherfield
Rotherfield is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. It is one of the largest parishes in East Sussex. There are three villages in the parish: Rotherfield, Mark Cross and Eridge. The River Rother, which drains much of the county and discharges at Rye Harbour, has its source on the south side of the hill on which Rotherfield village is built.
Back to Life (3OH!3 song)
"Back to Life" is a song by American hip-hop duo 3OH!3. It was released on March 5, 2013, as the third and final single from their fourth studio album Omens, via Photo Finish Records. The song was written by Sean Foreman, Nathaniel Motte and Greg Kurstin.

Photo Finish Records
Photo Finish Records is an American independent record label founded by Matt Galle in 2006. Based in New York City, the label specializes in alternative rock, pop, and electronic artists. It was first distributed through Atlantic Records, then Universal Music Group. Virgin Music Label & Artist Services, which is owned by UMG, became its distributor in late 2019.
Paopi 11
Paopi 10 – Coptic calendar – Paopi 12

The eleventh day of the Coptic month of Paopi, the second month of the Coptic year. On a common year, this day corresponds to October 8, of the Julian calendar, and October 21, of the Gregorian calendar. This day falls in the Coptic season of Peret, the season of emergence.

Paopi
Paopi (Coptic: Ⲡⲁⲱⲡⲉ, Paōpe), also known as Phaophi (Ancient Greek: Φαωφί, Phaōphí) and Babah (Arabic: بابه, Baba), is the second month of the ancient Egyptian and Coptic calendars. It lasts between 11 October and 9 November of the Gregorian calendar, unless the previous Coptic year was a leap year.

The month of Paopi is the second month of the Season of Akhet (Inundation) in Ancient Egypt, when the Nile floods inundated the land. (They have not done so since the construction of the High Dam at Aswan.)
Aliabad-e Kohneh
Aliabad-e Kohneh (Persian: علي آبادكهنه, Sorani Kurdish: عەلی ئاوای کۆنە، also Romanized as ‘Alīābād-e Kohneh) is a village in Palanganeh Rural District, in the Central District of Javanrud County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 150, in 35 families.

Central Kurdish
Central Kurdish, also known as Sorani Kurdish, is a Kurdish language variety spoken in Iraq, mainly in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as the Iranian provinces of Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and West Azerbaijan. Central Kurdish is one of the two official languages of Iraq, along with Arabic, and is in administrative documents simply referred to as "Kurdish".

The term Sorani, named after the Soran Emirate, refers to a variety of Central Kurdish based on the dialect spoken in Slemani. Central Kurdish is written in the Kurdo-Arabic alphabet, an adaptation of the Arabic script developed in the 1920s by Sa'ed Sidqi Kaban and Taufiq Wahby.
Joule thief
A joule thief is a minimalist self-oscillating voltage booster that is small, low-cost, and easy to build, typically used for driving small loads, such as driving an LED using a 1.5 volt battery. It can use nearly all of the energy in a single-cell electric battery, even far below the voltage where other circuits consider the battery fully discharged (or "dead"); hence the name, which suggests the notion that the circuit is "stealing" energy or "joules" from the source – the term is a pun on "jewel thief".

The circuit is a variant of the blocking oscillator that forms an unregulated voltage boost converter.

Joule
The joule (/dʒuːl/ JOOL, or /dʒaʊl/ JOWL; symbol: J) is the unit of energy in the International System of Units (SI). In terms of SI base units, one joule corresponds to one kilogram-metre squared per second squared (1 J = 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−2). One joule is equal to the amount of work done when a force of one newton displaces a body through a distance of one metre in the direction of that force. It is also the energy dissipated as heat when an electric current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second. It is named after the English physicist James Prescott Joule (1818–1889).
Erfan al-Hiyali
Erfan al-Hiyali (Arabic: عرفان الحيالي) was the Defence minister of Iraq, serving in the Cabinet of Haider al-Abadi. The Iraqi parliament voted on al-Hiyali as defense minister on 30 January 2017. He was succeeded by Najah al-Shammari on 24 June 2019. He was also formerly the Commander of Iraqi Central Command.

Haider al-Abadi
Haider Jawad Kadhim al-Abadi (Arabic: حيدر جواد كاظم العبادي; born 25 April 1952) is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq from September 2014 until October 2018. Previously he served as Minister of Communication from 2003 to 2004, in the first government after Saddam Hussein was deposed.

He was designated as prime minister by President Fuad Masum on 11 August 2014 to succeed Nouri al-Maliki and was approved by the Iraqi parliament on 8 September 2014. Al-Abadi was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018.

In office throughout the majority of the War in Iraq (2013–2017) which he announced victory against ISIL, he later left the office of Prime Minister in 2018, following rising domestic discontent and widespread violent protests.
Marko Nešić (born 1873)
Marko Nešić (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Нешић; March 2, 1873 – April 30, 1938) was a Serbian composer and tamburitza musician. He composed a number of folks songs for tambura, such as Neven Kolo, Žabaljka, Bogata sam imam svega and Đuvegije gde ste da ste.

Kolo (dance)
Kolo (Serbian: Коло) is a South Slavic circle dance, found under this name in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia. It is inscribed on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage for Serbia.
Master Crewe as Henry VIII
Master Crewe as Henry VIII is a 1775 portrait painting by the British artist Joshua Reynolds. It depicts John, the three-year old son of the British politician John Crewe. The younger Crewe would grow up to become a soldier and took part in the Macartney Embassy of 1793. He later succeeded his father as Baron Crewe.

The composition was inspired by Holbein's sixteenth century Portrait of Henry VIII. The work as submitted to the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1776 at Pall Mall. Horace Walpole praised the way Reynolds had transformed the "swaggering and colossal haughtiness" of the original image to the "boyish jollity of Master Crewe". The painting is in a private collection but is a long-term loan to the Tate Britain. A mezzotint based on the painting was created by John Raphael Smith.

John Raphael Smith
John Raphael Smith (25 May 1751 – 2 March 1812) was a British painter and mezzotinter. He was the son of the landscape painter Thomas Smith and the father of John Rubens Smith, a painter who emigrated to the United States.
Axel Müller (rugby union)
Axel Müller Aranda (born 25 November 1993) is an Argentine rugby union player.

Muller has signed with the French rugby club Toulon to play in the Top 14. He represented Argentina's under-20 team at the 2013 IRB Junior World Championship. He was selected to play for Argentina at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

He is a former decathlete and played American football as a youngster. At the age of 9 his father got a job in the United States so he moved with his family and lived in Ahwatukee in Phoenix, Arizona. They moved back to Argentina when he was 17.

Argentina national under-20 rugby union team
The Argentina national under-20 rugby union team, officially nicknamed Pumitas, represents Argentina at a national level. The team plays in the World Rugby U20 Championship. It also competes at the South American Junior Championship as of 1972 and the U20 Rugby Championship since 2024.
Kristyn Masters
Kristyn Simcha Masters is an American bioengineer who is professor and Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Colorado Denver. She works as Director of the Anschutz Medical Campus Center. Her research looks to create tissue-engineered models of disease, with a focus on cancer and cardiac disease.

Biomaterials (journal)
Biomaterials is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on and applications of biomaterials. It is published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is Kam W. Leong  (Columbia University) and David Williams is an honorary editor. The journal was established in 1980.
Jana Blahová
Jana Blahová (born 22 November 1984) is a Czech sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-2000s. She won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged.

Blahová also finished eighth in the K-2 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's K-2 500 metres
The women's K-2 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing.  The K-2 event is raced in two-person kayaks.

Competition consists of three rounds: the heats, the semifinals, and the final. All boats compete in the heats. The top three finishers in each of the two heats advances directly to the final, while the remaining top nine finishers in both heats move on to the semifinal. The top three finishers in the semifinals join the heats winners in the final.

Heats took place on August 19, the semifinal took place on August 21, and the final was on August 23.
Juan River
The Juan River (Chinese: 涓水), also known as Baiguo River (Chinese: 白果河), Yisu River (Chinese: 易俗河) and Xingle River (Chinese: 兴乐江), is a left-bank tributary in the middle reaches of the Xiang River in Hunan, China.

The river rises in the Changshan Mountains (Chinese: 昌山) of Shuangfeng County, and its main stream runs generally southwest to northeast through Shuangfeng, Hengshan and Xiangtan counties, joining the Xiang at Yisuhe of Xiangtan. The Juan River has a length of 103 kilometres (64 mi), and its drainage basin covers an area of 1,764 square kilometres (681 sq mi).

Xiangtan County
Xiangtan County (simplified Chinese: 湘潭县; traditional Chinese: 湘潭縣; pinyin: Xiāngtán Xiàn)  is a county in Hunan Province, China; it is under the administration of Xiangtan City. Located on the east central Hunan, the county is bordered to the north by Yuhu, Yuetang Districts and Xiangtan City, to the west by Xiangxiang City and Shuangfeng County, to the south by Hengshan and Hengdong Counties, and to the east by Zhuzhou County and Tianyuan District of Zhuzhou City. Xiangtan County covers an area of 2,132.80 km2 (823.48 sq mi), and as of 2015, it had a registered population of 979,600 and a resident population of 857,200. The county has 14 towns and 3 townships under its jurisdiction, and the county seat is at Yisuhe Town (易俗河镇).
Keshya Nurvita Hanadia
Keshya Nurvita Hanadia (born 21 December 1988) is an Indonesian badminton player. She won the 2008 Smiling Fish International in the mixed doubles with Lingga Lie. In 2011, she won in the same discipline at the Indonesia International together with Andhika Anhar. In the women's doubles event, she was the champion of the Auckland International.

Thailand International (badminton)
The Thailand International (Thai: การการแข่งขันแบดมินตันนานาชาติ ปุ้มปุ้ยแชมเปี้ยนชิพ) is an open international badminton tournament held in Thailand. It is one of the most important tournaments in Thailand behind the Thailand Open and Thailand Masters. The tournament is also known as the Thailand Satellite or Smiling Fish International and became an International Challenge level tournament in 2016. The name of the tournament comes from that of a Thai food company from Trang, where the competition is held. In 2023, the tournament was renamed as Thailand International Challenge.
International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management
The International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering performance management and measurement. The editors-in-chief are Dr Nicky Shaw and Dr Luisa Huatuco. The journal was established in 1952 and is published by Emerald Group Publishing. It is the official journal of the World Confederation of Productivity Science.

Emerald Group Publishing
Emerald Publishing Limited is a scholarly publisher of academic journals and books, headquartered in Leeds, England. Originally focused in the areas of social sciences and management, including management, business, education, and library studies, Emerald also publishes in the areas of health, science, engineering, and technology.

Emerald Publishing began as an independent publishing house, formed by Keith Howard (OBE) and a group of management academics from the University of Bradford. Howard stepped down as Chairman of the Emerald Group in 2017.
Vicky Williams became the CEO of Emerald Publishing in 2018, replacing Richard Bevan, who took over Howard's role of Executive Chairman.   Emerald Group Publishing was acquired by US-based Cambridge Information Group on 10 June 2022.
Billy Howat
Billy Howat is a Scottish curler.

At the national level, he is a 1985 Scottish men's champion curler.

In 2015–2016 he was president of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club (Scottish Curling Association). Some years before it he was president of the Ayr Curling Club.

Scottish Men's Curling Championship
The Scottish Men's Curling Championship is the national men's curling championship for Scotland. The championship usually decides which team of curlers is sent to the World Women's Curling Championship, but in Olympic years, the winner must play the British Olympic representative to play to determine the Scottish team at the Worlds. Beginning in 2021, Scotland's World Championship teams will be selected by Scottish Curling instead. In 2026, the championship will determine which team is sent to the European Curling Championships, with the exceptions of in the Olympic year, where the current Olympic representatives will have a playoff against the Scottish Champions, and in the year preceding the Olympics, where the Olympic representative will be selected for the Europeans as preparation for the Olympics.
Castres XIII Rugby League Knights
Castres XIII Rugby League Knights is a French rugby league club based in Castres, within the French region of Tarn, Occitania. Established in 2013, the club competed in the National Division 2 Midi-Pyrenees regional league.

Occitania (administrative region)
Occitania (French: Occitanie [ɔksitani] ⓘ; Occitan: Occitània [utsiˈtanjɔ]; Catalan: Occitània [uksiˈtaniə]) is the southernmost administrative region of metropolitan France excluding Corsica, located in the south of the country, created on 1 January 2016 from the former regions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. The Council of State approved Occitania as the new name of the region on 28 September 2016, coming into effect on 30 September 2016.

The modern administrative region is named after the larger cultural and historical region of Occitania, which corresponds with the southern third of France. The region of Occitania as it is today covers a territory similar to that ruled by the Counts of Toulouse in the 12th and 13th centuries. The banner of arms of the Counts of Toulouse, known colloquially as the Occitan cross, is used by the modern region and is also a popular cultural symbol. In 2022, Occitania had a population of 6,080,731.
Senn Kreol
Senn Kreol (In English: Creole Channel, French: Chaîne Créole) was a television channel in Mauritius. Owned by the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation, which is the national state broadcaster, the channel was launched on 30 January 2013.

On 3 April 2023, MBC rebranded and reorganized its channels, and MBC 2 became a predominently Creole channel shared with other programming. MBC 17 is now simulcasting TiVi5Monde.

TiVi5 Monde
TiVi5 Monde (French pronunciation: [ti vi sɛ̃k mɔ̃d]), stylized as TiVi5 MONDE, is an international pay television channel launched at the end of January 2012 by the Francophone network TV5 Monde, which is aimed to children (4–13 years). Its main goal is to teach French to young children through dedicated programs.

In the other regions, TiVi5 Monde is a block on TV5 Monde.
Criticism of Twelver Shia Islam
Criticism of Twelver Shia Islam dates from the initial ideological rift among early Muslims that led to the two primary denominations of Islam, the Sunnis and the Shias. The question of succession to Muhammad in Islam, the nature of the Imamate, the status of the twelfth Shia Imam, and other areas in which Shia Islam differs from Sunni Islam have been criticized by Sunni scholars, even though there is no disagreement between the two sects regarding the centrality of the Quran, Muhammad, and many other doctrinal, theological and ritual matters. Shia commentators such as Musa al-Musawi and Ali Shariati have themselves, in their attempts to reform the faith, criticized practices and beliefs which have become prevalent in the Twelver Shia community.

Ali Shariati
Ali Shariati Mazinani (Persian: علی شریعتی مزینانی, 23 November 1933 – 18 June 1977) was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who specialised in the sociology of religion. He is regarded as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century. He has been referred to as the "ideologue of the Islamic Revolution", although his ideas did not ultimately serve as the foundation for the Islamic Republic.
Mihai Marinescu
Mihai Marinescu (born 25 January 1989) is a professional Romanian racing driver formerly competing in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series.

Marinescu was born in Brașov, Romania and currently works as a race engineer for Jenzer Motorsport.

Jenzer Motorsport
Jenzer Motorsport is an auto racing team based in Switzerland. Founded in 1993 by Andreas Jenzer the team is currently competing in Italian F4 and Formula 4 CEZ and has had a number of drivers who would turn out to be successful in motorsport, most notably Formula One driver Yuki Tsunoda and 2015 Nürburgring 24 Hour winner and DTM runner-up Nico Müller.
History of the Japanese in Los Angeles
There is a Japanese American and a Japanese national population in Los Angeles and Greater Los Angeles. Japanese people began arriving in the United States in the late 1800s and have settled in places like Hawaii, Alaska, and California. Los Angeles has become a hub for people of Japanese descent for generations in areas like Little Tokyo and Boyle Heights. As of 2017, Los Angeles has a Japanese and Japanese American population of around 110,000 people.

Gardena, California
Gardena is a city located in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 61,027 at the 2020 census, up from 58,829 at the 2010 census. Until 2014, the U.S. census cited the City of Gardena as the place with the highest percentage of Japanese Americans in California. Gardena's Japanese American population contributes to the South Bay region of Los Angeles being home to the highest density of Japanese companies within the mainland United States.