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Peace Officer Exemplary Service Medal
The Peace Officer Exemplary Service Medal (French: La Médaille pour services distingués des agents de la paix) is a Canadian service medal for peace officers.  The medal honours 20 years of exemplary service by peace officers as designated by the governor general.  It is, within the Canadian system of honours, the sixth and newest of the exemplary service medals.

Service medal
A service medal is an award to individuals who participated in designated wars, campaigns, or expeditions, or who have fulfilled specific service requirements in a creditable manner. Service medals are sometimes also campaign medals.
Aida Cirujales
Aida Brosas Cirujales (born June 5, 1952 in Tiwi, Albay, Philippines) is a retired Bicolana public school teacher, writer of tigsik, poem, poetic debate, Bikol debate, oration and songwriter. She is also known as "Tigsik Queen" in Camarines Sur. She taught at Gainza Central School until her retirement.

She became a panelist of Premio Tomas Arejola for Bicol Literature year 2007. Also a resident tigsik writer in Bikol Daily, Bicol Mail for the program "Sa Pagtabang Sana" in DZGE-Canaman, Camarines Sur, poetry and Bikol debate for the program "Taragboan" in the same station. Today, several of her writings can be read at the Bicol Standard-Bicol News.

She is the author of the book "Tigsik" published by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) in 2008. Cirujales is a member of Sumaro Bikolnon and Parasurat Bikolnon, two cultural organizations in Camarines Sur.

Tiwi, Albay
Tiwi, officially the Municipality of Tiwi (Central Bikol: Banwaan kan Tiwi; Tagalog: Bayan ng Tiwi), is a  municipality in the Province of Albay, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 56,871 people.

It is notable for its geothermal energy facilities and traditional pottery craft. It became the first water-based geothermal system in the world to generate more than 160 megawatts of power and now has an installed capacity of 289 MW. The town is also known for its coron, handcrafted pottery made in different shapes and sizes. Visitors can see the Tiwi Geothermal Power Plant from Naglagbong Geothermal People’s Park, often called Nag Park.
Blue October discography
The discography of Blue October, an American rock band, consists of thirteen studio albums, five live albums, two video albums, two extended plays, two box sets, twenty-five singles and twenty-two music videos.

Blue October
Blue October is an American rock band originally from Houston, Texas, formed in 1995. It currently consists of singer/guitarist Justin Furstenfeld, drummer Jeremy Furstenfeld, multi-instrumentalist Ryan Delahoussaye, bassist Matt Noveskey, and lead guitarist Will Knaak.

The band has had twenty-one top 40 singles on the alternative rock chart over the span of thirteen studio albums, and is best known for its platinum singles "Hate Me" and "Into the Ocean" from their 2006 platinum album Foiled. Blue October has won numerous Houston Press music awards including Best New Act (1998), Best Pop/Rock artist (1999, 2000, 2002, 2003), and album of the Year for History for Sale in 2003.
Turkvision Song Contest 2015
The Turkvision Song Contest 2015 (Turkish: Türkvizyon Şarkı Yarışması 2015) was the third edition of the Turkvision Song Contest, which took place in Istanbul, Turkey; and organised by Turkish Music Box Television (TMB). A total of twenty-one Turkic regions, which have either a large Turkic population or a widely spoken Turkic language, participated in the contest, as well as one Turkic ethnic groups who do not have a defined region. Several regions of the Russian Federation were on the preliminary participation list for the contest, but were later forced to withdraw due to the Ministry of Culture banning Russian regions from the TURKSOY organisation. There was no semi-final this year, whilst the final took place on 19 December 2015.

International Organization of Turkic Culture
The International Organization of Turkic Culture or TÜRKSOY is an international cultural organization of countries with Turkic populations, speaking languages belonging to the Turkic language family.

The General Secretary of Türksoy is Sultan Raev, the former Minister of Culture of Kyrgyzstan and deputy General Secretary of Organization of Turkic States. Türksoy has its headquarters in Ankara, Turkey.
Ilze Graubiņa
Ilze Graubiņa (8 November 1941 – 24 January 2001) was a Latvian pianist. She was born in Riga and trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Abram Shatskes and Jakov Flier, to whom she subsequently served as an assistant.

Graubiņa won the 1964 Johann Sebastian Bach Competition, and three years later she was appointed a teacher at the Jāzeps Vītols State Conservatory, where she has taught since; Armands Ābols, Andris Grigalis, Sandra Jalanecka, Karina Jermaka, Inese Klotina, Olga Pryadko and Victor Santapau and Manuel Angel Ramirez from Spain, have been trained under her. Her recording debut was a Johann Sebastian Bach monophonic LP for Melodiya.

International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition
The International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition (German: Internationaler Bach Wettbewerb Leipzig) is a music competition in Leipzig, Germany, held by the Bach-Archiv Leipzig. It was founded in 1950 and was held every four years from 1964 to 1996 with five subjects and is now held every two years with three changing subjects violin / baroque violin, piano, harpsichord or in the fields of voice, cello / baroque violoncello and organ. From 1965 the competition is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions in Geneva.
Nishi-Ōmiya Station
Nishi-Ōmiya Station (西大宮駅, Nishi-Ōmiya-eki, lit. "West Ōmiya Station") is a passenger railway station on the Kawagoe Line located in Nishi-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Saitama Prefecture
Saitama Prefecture (埼玉県, Saitama-ken; Japanese pronunciation: [saꜜi.ta.ma, sai.ta.maꜜ.keɴ]) is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Saitama Prefecture has a population of 7,338,536 (January 1, 2020) and has a geographic area of 3,797 km2 (1,466 sq mi). Saitama Prefecture borders Tochigi Prefecture and Gunma Prefecture to the north, Nagano Prefecture to the west, Yamanashi Prefecture to the southwest, Tokyo to the south, Chiba Prefecture to the southeast, and Ibaraki Prefecture to the northeast.

Saitama is the capital and largest city of Saitama Prefecture, with other major cities including Kawaguchi, Kawagoe, and Tokorozawa.
Quintus Ancharius (praetor 56 BC)
Quintus Ancharius was a politician in the 1st century BCE in Ancient Rome. He was tribunus plebis in 59 . He took an active part in opposing the agrarian law of Julius Caesar, and in consequence of his services to the aristocracy of Rome was made praetor in 56, during which time he was a juror in the case of Publius Sestius under Lex Plautia Papiria.

Ancharius received the province of Macedonia the following year, succeeding Lucius Piso. He stayed there one or possibly two years. Nothing more is known of his rule or his successors; the next known ruler of the province is Titus Antistius in 50 BCE.

One of Cicero's letters is written to Ancharius.

Lex Plautia Papiria
The lex Plautia Papiria de civitate sociis danda was a Roman plebiscite enacted amidst the Social War in 89 BCE. It was proposed by the plebeian tribunes Marcus Plautius Silvanus and Gaius Papirius Carbo. The law further extended Roman citizenship to Italian communities – expanding the previous lex Julia de civitate – that had previously rebelled against Rome during this war.
Margaret J. Gamper
Margaret J. Gamper (1907– March 18, 2002) was a pioneer of modern natural childbirth. One of Gamper's students was Dr. Robert Bradley, who developed the Bradley method of natural childbirth.  Gamper wrote two books on childbirth, "Relax, Here's Your Baby" and "Preparation for the Heir Minded".

Bradley method of natural childbirth
The Bradley method of natural childbirth (also known as "husband-coached childbirth") is a method of natural childbirth developed in 1947 by Robert A. Bradley, M.D. (1917–1998) and popularized by his book Husband-Coached Childbirth, first published in 1965. The Bradley method emphasizes that birth is a natural process: mothers are encouraged to trust their body and focus on diet and exercise throughout pregnancy; and it teaches couples to manage labor through deep breathing and the support of a partner or labor coach.
Travis Cole
Travis Cole (born June 14, 1979) is an American former professional football quarterback. He is a 1997 graduate of Lakeridge High School in Lake Oswego, Oregon and played football and baseball for the Pacers. Cole was selected in the 52nd round of the 1997 Major League Baseball draft by the Toronto Blue Jays, but chose to attend Foothill College instead. After completing his juco career, Cole transferred to the University of Minnesota, where he played quarterback on the football team and pitcher on the baseball team. He has since spent time on the rosters of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Arizona Rattlers, and Utah Blaze. He has since retired from football and is a technology consultant for Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington.

Utah Blaze
The Utah Blaze was a professional arena football team based in Salt Lake City, Utah and competed in the West Division of the Arena Football League.  Home games were played at the EnergySolutions Arena. In 2013, the team did not submit proper documentation to remain in the AFL and the entire roster was reassigned to other teams in the league.
Schloss Elmau
Schloss Elmau is a four-story castle and national monument with hipped roof, tower and porch, situated between Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Mittenwald in a sanctuary of the Bavarian Alps, Germany. It lies at the foot of the Wetterstein mountains in a Naturschutzgebiet (nature reserve), belonging to the Krün municipality. It was built by philosopher and theologian Johannes Müller and architect Carl Sattler between 1914 and 1916.

Wetterstein
The Wetterstein mountains (German: Wettersteingebirge), colloquially called Wetterstein, is a mountain group in the Northern Limestone Alps within the Eastern Alps, crossing the Austria–Germany border. It is a comparatively compact range located between Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Mittenwald, Seefeld in Tirol and Ehrwald along the border between Germany (Bavaria) and Austria (Tyrol). The Zugspitze, the highest peak in Germany, is the tallest in the range.

The Wetterstein mountains are an ideal region for mountaineers and climbers. Mountain walkers sometimes need to allow for significant differences in elevation. The proximity of the range to the south German centres of population, the scenic landscape and its good network of cable cars and lifts mean that the mountains are heavily frequented by tourists for most of the year. There are, however, places in the Wetterstein that are rarely or never visited by people.
Östanå Castle
Östanå Castle (Swedish: Östanå slott) is a castle in Sweden. It is located in the Österåker Municipality of Stockholm County, and is situated some 50 kilometres (31 mi) north-east of Stockholm City. The castle overlooks the main shipping channel into Stockholm through the Stockholm archipelago, and the ferry port of Östanå, from which ferries cross to the island of Ljusterö, lies just to the west of the castle.

Between the 14th and 17th centuries, various families from the Swedish nobility owned the castle. The original wooden building was destroyed in 1719, during the Russian Pillage, and the current main building was built between 1791 and 1794. At the end of the 19th century the castle was home to Erik Gustaf Boström, the then prime minister of Sweden. The Boström family sold the castle in 2006, and by 2016 it was in a poor state of repair, and up for sale for 35 million kronor.

Ljusterö
Ljusterö is an island in Sweden.

It is in the northern part of the Stockholm archipelago in Österåker Municipality, Stockholm County. It is approximately 65 kilometers north of central Stockholm.

With an area of 62.05 km2, it is the 17th largest island in the country.

The island is accessed from the mainland by regular ferries from Östanå as well as by boat from central Stockholm.

It has approximately 1,500 permanent residents and 25,000-30,000 residents during the summer season due to the large number of summer houses.
Lorne Greene's New Wilderness
Lorne Greene's New Wilderness (or just New Wilderness) is a Canadian television nature documentary series debuting 14 September 1982 starring Lorne Greene. The series initially aired on CTV but was syndicated in 80 per cent of the U.S. and 23 foreign countries. It was a follow-up to an earlier, similar 1970s documentary series entitled The Untamed World (later titled The Untamed Frontier).

It was a multiple award-winning wildlife program, number one in its time slot for five years running.

Nature documentary
A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures. Nature documentaries usually concentrate on video taken in the subject's natural habitat, but often including footage of trained and captive animals, too. Sometimes they are about wildlife or ecosystems in relationship to human beings. Such programmes are most frequently made for television, particularly for public broadcasting channels, but some are also made for the cinema. The proliferation of this genre occurred almost simultaneously alongside the production of similar television series which is distributed across the world.
Blake Stern
Blake Stern (June 25, 1917 – December 22, 1987) was an American tenor, best known as an oratorio singer, and a professor emeritus of music at Yale University, where he taught voice.

He was born in Logan, Iowa. A graduate of Grinnell College in 1940, he was an intelligence officer in the US Navy during World War II. After the war, he enrolled at Juilliard School
in New York City before becoming a teacher at the Yale faculty for 32 years. One of his pupils was tenor John Stewart. During his career he performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall and toured the world.

Grinnell College
Grinnell College (/ɡrɪˈnɛl/ grin-EL) is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, United States. It was established as Iowa College in 1846 by a group of Congregationalists from New England. It has an "open curriculum", which means students need not follow a prescribed list of classes. The college's 120-acre campus includes several listings on the National Register of Historic Places.
Eurovision Debate
The Eurovision Debate is a live televised debate between the lead political candidates ("Spitzenkandidaten") running to be the next President of the European Commission. Produced by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and broadcast across Europe via the Eurovision network, the debate is hosted by the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. The aim of the debate is to help public service media play their role in the democratic process by helping to better inform citizens and encouraging participation in the elections.

Candidate
A candidate, or nominee, is a prospective recipient of an award or honor, or a person seeking or being considered for some kind of position. For example, one can be a candidate for membership in a group or election to an office, in which case a candidate selection occurs.

"Nomination" is part of the process of selecting a candidate for either election to an office by a political party, or the bestowing of an honor or award. This person is called a "nominee", though "nominee" is often used interchangeably with "candidate". A presumptive nominee is a person or organization whose nomination is considered inevitable or highly likely. The phenomenon of being a candidate in a race for either a party nomination or for electoral office is called "candidacy". The term "presumptive candidate" may be used to describe someone who is predicted to be a formal candidate.
Kerfoot
Kerfoot is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Alexander Kerfoot (born 1994), Canadian ice hockey player

Benjamin Kerfoot (born 1992), English actor

Eric Kerfoot (1924–1980), English footballer

John Barrett Kerfoot (1816–1881), American Anglican bishop

John D. Kerfoot (1835–1903), American lawyer and businessman

John Barrett Kerfoot
John Barrett Kerfoot (March 1, 1816 – July 10, 1881) served as Rector of the College of St. James near Hagerstown, Maryland, as President of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and as the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Minnesota Purple Rage
The Minnesota Purple Rage were a professional indoor American football team based in Mankato, Minnesota.  They were members of the original Indoor Football League founded in 1999 and began play in 2000.  They competed in the Southern Division of the Eastern Conference and played their home games at the Verizon Center.

Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center
The Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center is a 5,280-seat (8,200 for concerts) multi-purpose arena in Mankato, Minnesota, built in 1994 and opened in early 1995. It is home to the Minnesota State Mavericks men's ice hockey team and women's ice hockey team, and also hosts musical performances, conventions and other events. Prior to its construction, the team played their home games at All Seasons Arena.

Until April 1, 2019, the arena's naming sponsor was Verizon Communications, one of America's major telecommunications companies.
Dhimitër Xhuvani
Dhimitër Xhuvani (23 May 1934 – 19 September 2009) was an Albanian writer and screenwriter.

Xhuvani was born in 1934 in Pogradec. His father, Kostaq Xhuvani, was a respected teacher from Elbasan. In 1944, during World War II, his family fled from Pogradec and took refuge in Mokër, where they stayed until their country was liberated, after which they moved to Elbasan. After finishing medical high-school he worked in the rural hospitals of Librazhd, Peqin, Gramsh, and Cërrik. After leaving medicine he continued his studies in the Faculty of History and Philology in Tirana and later in Moscow.

Dhimitër is the winner of many literary awards, and his work has been translated in many languages including Italian, French, English, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.

He died in Tirana of natural causes at the age of 75.

Gramsh (municipality)
Gramsh (Albanian definite form: Gramshi) is a town and a municipality in Elbasan County, central Albania. The municipality was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Gramsh, Kodovjat, Kukur, Kushovë, Lenie, Pishaj, Poroçan, Skënderbegas, Sult and Tunjë, that became municipal units. The seat of the municipality is the town Gramsh. The total population is 16,533 as of the 2011 census, in a total area of 739.75 km2. The population of the former municipality as of the 2023 census is 6,786.

The town is connected with Elbasan, Korça, Pogradec, Skrapar, Librazhd and Berat. The town is crossed by the river Devoll.
2022 Sunoco Go Rewards 200 at The Glen
The 2022 Sunoco Go Rewards 200 at The Glen was the 22nd stock car race of the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series, and the 28th iteration of the event. The race was held on Saturday, August 20, 2022, in Watkins Glen, New York at Watkins Glen International, a 2.454 miles (3.949 km) permanent road course. The race took the scheduled 82 laps to complete. After Ty Gibbs and William Byron spun for the lead with 5 laps to go, Kyle Larson, driving for JR Motorsports, took over the lead and held off A. J. Allmendinger for his 13th career NASCAR Xfinity Series win, and his first of the season. Byron and Gibbs had dominated the race, leading 35 and 25 laps. To fill out the podium, Sammy Smith, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, would finish 3rd, respectively.

This was the debut race for Brad Perez. Austin Wayne Self was also scheduled to make his debut in this race, but had failed to qualify.

Brad Perez
Bradley Adam Perez (born January 21, 1997) is an American professional stock car racing driver and pit crew member. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 45 Chevrolet Camaro SS for Alpha Prime Racing and No. 07 for SS-Green Light Racing and part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 10 Ford Mustang for Fast Track Racing. He previously worked as a tire specialist in the Truck Series for Rackley W.A.R. from 2021 to 2022.
Naaman Forest High School
Naaman Forest High School is a public secondary school located in Garland, Texas, United States. Naaman Forest enrolls students in grades 9-12 and is a part of the Garland Independent School District.

In 2009, the school was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.

Educational stage
Educational stages are subdivisions of formal learning, typically covering early childhood education, primary education, secondary education and tertiary education. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognizes nine levels of education in its International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) system (from Level 0 (pre-primary education) through Level 8 (doctoral)). UNESCO's International Bureau of Education maintains a database of country-specific education systems and their stages. Some countries divide levels of study into grades or forms for school children in the same year.
Buffalo Bulls baseball
The Buffalo Bulls baseball team was a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the University at Buffalo in Amherst, New York, United States. From 2001 to 2017, the team was a member of the Mid-American Conference East division, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level. The Bulls played their home games at Amherst Audubon Field on the UB campus. The Bulls were coached by Ron Torgalski for the program's final 11 seasons, from 2007 through 2017. At the conclusion of the 2017 season, the program was eliminated by the university.

Ron Torgalski
Ronald J. Torgalski is an American former college baseball and college basketball coach. He was most recently the head baseball coach for the University at Buffalo. During his nine seasons as coach of the Bulls, he compiled an overall record of 220–361.
Sha Wenhan
Sha Wenhan (simplified Chinese: 沙文汉; traditional Chinese: 沙文漢; pinyin: Shā Wénhàn; 1908–1964), was a Chinese historian, revolutionary, educator and politician. He served as Governor of Zhejiang Province and President of Zhejiang University.

Revolutionary
A revolutionary is a person who either participates in, or advocates for, a revolution. The term revolutionary can also be used as an adjective to describe something producing a major and sudden impact on society.