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Barend Jan Terwiel
Barend Jan (Baas) Terwiel (born 24 November 1941) is a Dutch-Australian anthropologist, historian and Thai studies scholar. He has written books on ethnology of Tai peoples and Ahom, the history and culture of Thailand as well as historical travel of Europeans to mainland Southeast Asia. He retired in 2007, although he still writes about Thailand, releasing a new edition of his book Thailand's Political History in 2010. He authored 11 articles over 47 years from 1972 to 2019 for Journal of the Siam Society.

Tai peoples
Tai peoples are the populations who speak (or formerly spoke) the Tai languages. There are a total of about 93 million people of Tai ancestry worldwide, with the largest ethnic groups being Dai, Thai, Isan, Lao, Shan, Ahom, Zhuang, Tày, Nùng, Táy, and some Northern Thai peoples.

The Tai are scattered through much of South China and Mainland Southeast Asia, with some (e.g. Tai Ahom, Tai Khamti, Tai Phake, Tai Aiton) inhabiting parts of Northeast India. Tai peoples are both culturally and genetically very similar and therefore primarily identified through their language.
The Great Adventure (Hong Kong TV series)
The Great Adventure is a 2005 Hong Kong modern serial drama starring Francis Ng, Dayo Wong and Flora Chan. It was produced by One Dollar Production and was aired on ATV Home from 5 December 2005 to 22 January 2006. This series tells about the changes in Hong Kong between the 1970s and 1990s.

ATV Home
ATV Home (Chinese: 亞洲電視本港台) was a free-to-air Cantonese television channel in Hong Kong, owned and operated by Asia Television. It was formed in September 1963 as a result of the split of the bilingual Rediffusion Television subscription service (which was primarily owned by British company Rediffusion) into dedicated Cantonese and English-language services. In 1969, the broadcaster was granted a license for over-the-air broadcasting.

Facing heavy competition from its free-to-air competitor TVB Jade, a change in ownership in 2010 and an attempt to cut back on dramas in favour of more current affairs, news, and talk programming resulted in further financial losses and internal conflicts. Owing to ATV's deterioration and other issues, on 31 March 2015 ATV's over-the-air broadcasting license was revoked effective 2 April 2016; the channel signed off shortly before midnight on 1 April 2016, and was replaced on analogue transmission by RTHK TV 31.
Cinevilla
Cinevilla is a backlot in Slampe parish in the Tukums Municipality in Latvia, and was created for the outdoor shootings of the feature film Defenders of Riga. It is the only backlot in Latvia, and consists of different sections, including a section with village architecture, a section with prehistorical dwellings, and one with city streets, with replicas of historical buildings and constructions of Riga, the capital of Latvia. The backlot has a small canal to resemble the Daugava river quays of the Riga old town. The Stone Bridge is also there as well as the historical Lübeck and Pontoon bridges.

Cinevilla is now a major tourist attraction, and is the only such large-scale open-air cinema exhibition in the Baltic States. In 2008, Jānis Streičs shot the film Rudolf's Gold on the lot, simulating a Kurzeme farmstead.

Vecrīga
Vecrīga ("Old Riga") is the historical center and a neighbourhood (as Vecpilsēta) of Riga, Latvia, located in the Central District on the east side of Daugava River. Vecrīga is famous for its old churches and cathedrals, such as Riga Cathedral, St. James's Cathedral and St. Peter's Church.
Magnus Eliassen
Magnus Eliassen (born 2 January 1981 in Bodø) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and record producer.

In 2003, under the pseudonym Magnetisk Nord, he released his debut EP Tinglysing. He had a single entitled "Lois is Happy". In 2005, he released his studio solo album entitled Second Grace on Monomegamy Records and gaining popularity won the by:Larm Audience Award in 2006. Since then, he has had a number of releases and collaborations.

In 2011, he recorded the charity single "Til dem du e glad i", in collaboration with Kråkesølv with proceeds going to the Norwegian Røde Kors (Red Cross)

In 2011, Eliassen returned to the chart in the form of band named Sirkus Eliassen (being a duo between Magnus Eliassen and his younger brother Erik Eliassen). The single entitled "Hjem til dæ" reached No. 16 on VG-lista, the official Norwegian Singles Chart.

By:Larm
by:Larm is a music festival and conference located in Oslo, Norway. It was first held in 1998, and, for the first ten years of its existence, moved between different Norwegian cities, before permanently settling in Oslo in 2008.

by:Larm was formed as a way for the Nordic music business to get together for both conferences and a concert programme consisting of new music from the Nordic countries, often on the verge of success. Since the start in 1998 the festival has gradually increased in prominence and size, and as of 2019 gathers 5000 festival guests alongside 3000 delegates from the Nordic and international music industry, making it the most important meeting place for the Nordic music business and biggest festival of its kind in Scandinavia.
Refinable function
In mathematics, in the area of wavelet analysis, a refinable function is a function which fulfils some kind of self-similarity. A function  is called refinable with respect to the mask  if

This condition is called refinement equation, dilation equation or two-scale equation.

Using the convolution (denoted by a star, *) of a function with a discrete mask and the dilation operator  one can write more concisely:

It means that one obtains the function, again, if you convolve the function with a discrete mask and then scale it back.
There is a similarity to iterated function systems and de Rham curves.

The operator  is linear.
A refinable function is an eigenfunction of that operator.
Its absolute value is not uniquely defined.
That is, if  is a refinable function,
then for every  the function  is refinable, too.

These functions play a fundamental role in wavelet theory as scaling functions.

Dirac delta function
In mathematical analysis, the Dirac delta function (or  distribution), also known as the unit impulse, is a generalized function on the real numbers, whose value is zero everywhere except at zero, and whose integral over the entire real line is equal to one. Thus it can be represented heuristically as

such that

Since there is no function having this property, modelling the delta "function" rigorously involves the use of limits or, as is common in mathematics, measure theory and the theory of distributions.

The delta function is named after physicist Paul Dirac, and has been applied routinely in physics and engineering to model point masses and concentrated loads. It is called the delta function because it is a continuous analogue of the Kronecker delta function. The mathematical rigor of the delta function was disputed until Laurent Schwartz developed the theory of distributions, where it is defined as a linear form acting on functions.
2013–14 Liga Națională (women's handball)
The 2013–14 Liga Națională was the 56th season of Romanian Women's Handball League, the top-level women's professional handball league. The league comprises twelve teams. Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea were the defending champions, for the seventh season in a row, but the team was dissolved during the summer of 2013.

HCM Baia Mare won the title.

CSM București (women's handball)
Clubul Sportiv Municipal București, also known as CSM București, CSM or CSM Bucharest, is a professional women's handball team based in Bucharest, Romania, that competes in the Liga Naţională and the EHF Women's Champions League. Founded in 2007, the club has traditionally worn a blue kit since inception. The team has played its home matches in the 5,300-capacity Polyvalent Hall in the Tineretului Park in southern Bucharest. CSM București established itself as a major force in both Romanian and European handball in the late 2010s, winning EHF Champions League in its debut season and reaching the Final Four three consecutive times. This success was replicated in the league, where the club won four consecutive times. The official CSM mascot is a "tiger". CSM Bucharest is one of the most widely supported handball clubs in Romania.
Daniel Freedman (musician)
Daniel Freedman is an American drummer, percussionist, and composer known for his work in jazz, world, and popular music. He has performed and recorded with artists including David Byrne, Angélique Kidjo, Anat Cohen, Avishai Cohen, Mulatu Astatke, and Lionel Loueke.

David Byrne
David Byrne (/bɜːrn/; born May 14, 1952) is an American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member and the principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the new wave band Talking Heads.

Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, and moved to the US with his family as a child. He co-founded Talking Heads in 1975 in New York City. After releasing eight albums, including seven certified gold or platinum, Talking Heads disbanded in 1991.

Byrne has released solo recordings and worked with media including film, photography, opera, fiction, and non-fiction. He has collaborated with artists including Brian Eno, Fatboy Slim, X-Press 2, Ryuichi Sakamoto and St. Vincent. Byrne has received an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, a Special Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award, and was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Talking Heads.
Niel Tupas Sr.
Niel Demaulo Tupas Sr. (November 27, 1932 – November 24, 2015) was the Governor of the province of Iloilo, a representative of the 5th District of the same province to the Batasang Pambansa (1978–1984) and Philippine Congress (1987–1998), and mayor of Barotac Viejo, Iloilo.

Tupas was a Bachelor of Law graduate and the first President of the Municipal Mayors' League of Iloilo in 1973 and Municipal Mayors' League of the Philippines. He was also the President of Western Visaya's Municipal Mayors' League in 1977. Tupas is the father of former Iloilo representative Niel Tupas Jr.

Legislative districts of Iloilo
The legislative districts of Iloilo are the representations of the province of Iloilo in the various national legislatures of the Philippines. The province is currently represented in the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines through its first, second, third, fourth and fifth congressional districts.

The highly urbanized city of Iloilo City and the province of Guimaras were last represented as part of Iloilo in 1986 and 1995, respectively.
2000 Ericsson Open – Women's doubles
Martina Hingis and Jana Novotná were the defending champions, but none of them competed this year. Novotná also retired at the end of the 1999 season.

Julie Halard-Decugis and Ai Sugiyama won the title by defeating Nicole Arendt and Manon Bollegraf 4–6, 7–5, 6–4 in the final. It was the 9th title for Halard-Decugis and the 12th title for Sugiyama in their respective careers. It was also the 2nd title for the pair during the season, after their win in Sydney.

Ai Sugiyama
Ai Sugiyama (杉山愛, Sugiyama Ai; born July 5, 1975) is a Japanese former tennis player. She reached the world No. 1 ranking in women's doubles on the WTA Tour and had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. In her career, she won six singles and 38 doubles titles, including three Grand Slam titles (one with Julie Halard-Decugis and two partnering Kim Clijsters), and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title (partnering Mahesh Bhupathi). Sugiyama held the all-time record, for both male and female players, for her 62 consecutive Grand Slam main-draw appearances, until she was surpassed by Roger Federer at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships.
Tania Kuteva
Tania Kuteva (born 1958 in Bourgas, Bulgaria) is a historical linguist specializing in grammaticalization, language contact and discourse grammar.

Her surname is Romanized as Kuteva in academic publications, and as Kouteva (following Danchev's system) for administrative purposes.

Evolution of languages
The evolution of languages or history of language includes the evolution, divergence and development of languages throughout time, as reconstructed based on glottochronology, comparative linguistics, written records and other historical linguistics techniques. The origin of language is a hotly contested topic, with some languages tentatively traced back to the Paleolithic. However, archaeological and written records only extend the history of language into ancient times and the Neolithic.

The distribution of languages has changed substantially over time. Major regional languages like Elamite, Sogdian, Koine Greek, or Nahuatl in ancient, post-classical and early modern times have been overtaken by others due to changing balance of power, conflict and migration. The relative status of languages has also changed, as with the decline in prominence of French and German relative to English in the late 20th century.
Mariveles
Mariveles, officially the Municipality of Mariveles (Tagalog: Bayan ng Mariveles), is a municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 156,200 people, making it the most populous in the province.

Philippine Economic Zone Authority
The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), formerly known as the Foreign Trade Zone Authority (FTZA) and Export Processing Zone Authority (EPZA), is a Philippine government agency attached to the Department of Trade and Industry.

It was created to help promote investments in the export-oriented manufacturing industry into the country by assisting investors in registering and facilitating their business operations and providing tax incentives. PEZA also assists investors who locate in service facilities inside special economic zones in the country (areas are called PEZA Special Economic Zones) which are usually business process outsourcing and knowledge process outsourcing firms. Other activities also eligible for PEZA registration and incentives include establishment and operation within special economic zones for tourism, medical tourism, logistics and warehousing services, economic zone development and operation and facilities providers.
Predrag Amižić
Predrag Amižić (Serbian Cyrillic: Предраг Амижић; born 5 September 1960) is a Serbian politician. He was the mayor of Žitište from 1992 to 2001 and a member of the Vojvodina provincial assembly from 2012 to 2016. He currently serves in the Žitište municipal assembly. Amižić is a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS).

Žitište
Žitište (Serbian Cyrillic: Житиште, pronounced [ʒîtiːʃte]; Hungarian: Begaszentgyörgy; Romanian: Jitiște) is a town and municipality located in the Central Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2022 census, the town itself has a population of 2,550, while Žitište municipality has 13,412 inhabitants.
VSI
VSI may stand for:

Vertical shaft impactor, a type of impact crusher

Vertical speed indicator, an instrument in an aircraft monitoring rate of descent or climb

Very Short Introductions, a series of books published by Oxford University Press

Virtual Switching Instance, in VPLS

Voluntary Service International, the Irish branch of Service Civil International

VMS Software Inc. A vendor/supporter of OpenVMS related software.

VSI Group, British dubbing and translation company
VSI Berlin GmbH, German subsidiary
VSI Translation & Subtitling BV, Dutch subsidiary

Vendor's Single Interest insurance, a type of insurance that only protects the lien holder, as opposed to dual coverage insurance

Voltage Source Inverter, DC to AC converter

Service Civil International
Service Civil International (SCI) is an international peace organisation, founded by Swiss pacifist Pierre Cérésole in the aftermath of World War I to foster understanding and a culture of peace between people from different countries. Since 1920 SCI has organised international volunteering projects in the form of workcamps and has expanded to have branches in 40 countries, as well as partner organisations who help run the projects.
Oklahoma Teachers' Retirement System
Oklahoma Teacher's Retirement System (OTRS) is the pension program for public education employees in the US State of Oklahoma. As of June 30, 2014, the program had nearly 168,000 members. Public education teachers and administrators are required to be OTRS members; support staff can join voluntarily. State law established OTRS in 1943 to manage retirement funds and provide financial security for public education employees. Its first checks to retirees were sent out in 1947. It is administered by a staff and 14-member board of trustees. Its current executive director is Tom Spencer, who started in that position on November 1, 2014.

Pension fund
A pension fund, also known as a superannuation fund in some countries, is any program, fund, or scheme which provides retirement income. The U.S. Government's Social Security Trust Fund, which oversees $2.57 trillion in assets, is the world's largest public pension fund. Pension funds typically have large amounts of money to invest and are the major investors in listed and private companies.  They are especially important to the stock market where large institutional investors dominate.  The largest 300 pension funds collectively hold about USD$6 trillion in assets. In 2012, PricewaterhouseCoopers estimated that pension funds worldwide hold over $33.9 trillion in assets (and were expected to grow to more than $56 trillion by 2020), the largest for any category of institutional investor ahead of mutual funds, insurance companies, currency reserves, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, or private equity.
Javine Hylton
Javine Dionne Hylton (born 27 December 1981), often known mononymously as Javine, is an English former singer and songwriter. She gained recognition on ITV's Popstars: The Rivals and represented the UK at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv with "Touch My Fire". Javine's cover version of "You've Got a Friend" was the theme music to Garfield: The Movie in 2004.

Garfield: The Movie
Garfield: The Movie (or simply Garfield) is a 2004 American live-action animated comedy film based on Jim Davis' comic strip Garfield. Directed by Peter Hewitt and written by Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow, it was produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox with the co-production of Davis Entertainment Company, and stars Breckin Meyer as Jon Arbuckle, Jennifer Love Hewitt as Dr. Liz Wilson and features Bill Murray as the voice of Garfield, who was created with computer-generated imagery.

Garfield: The Movie was released in the United States on June 11, 2004. Despite receiving negative reviews from critics, the film was a commercial success, grossing $208.1 million worldwide on a $50 million production budget. A sequel, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, was released in 2006. The film is also dedicated to Lorenzo Music, the original voice of Garfield, who died on August 4, 2001.
Pandanus conicus
Pandanus conicus, commonly known as screw palm, is a species of plants in the family Pandanaceae found only in Queensland, Australia. It is a slim tree up to 10 m (33 ft) tall with spreading branches, and the trunk bears numerous small spiny "warts". The leaves may be up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long and 3.5 cm (1.4 in) wide, with sharp spines on the margins. They are arranged in densely clustered whorls at the ends of the branches.  The plant inhabits rainforest and vine thickets on the east coast of the northern half of Cape York Peninsula, south to about Coen. This species is dioecious, meaning that pistillate (functionally female) and staminate (functionally male) flowers are borne on separate plants. It was first described in 1960 by American botanist Harold St. John.

Harold St. John
Harold St. John (July 24/25 1892 – December 12, 1991) was a professor of botany at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 1929 to 1958. A prolific specialist in field botany and systematics, he is credited with naming about 500 new species of Pandanus, along with many other species, especially in the Pacific Islands.
2015 Hong Kong ATP Challenger
The 2015 Hong Kong ATP Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Hong Kong, between 27 January and 1 February 2015.

Sanam Singh
Sanam Krishan Singh (born 11 January 1988) is a former Indian tennis player. Singh won the doubles gold medal and the bronze in the team event at the 2010 Asian Games. He added another Asian Games medal to his tally by winning the Silver medal in Doubles in the 2014 Asian Games held at Incheon. Singh played college tennis at the University of Virginia between 2007 and 2011. Singh is currently an assistant Tennis coach at Harvard University.
José del Carmen Quesada del Río
José del Carmen Quesada del Río (1833-1885) was a Chilean lawyer and magistrate.

He was born in Concepción, Chile in 1833. He studied humanities at the Instituto Nacional and studied law at the university. He qualified as a lawyer on January 14, 1858. A lover of classical literature and the physical sciences and mathematics, he studied Greek and Latin under the direction of the orientalist Vendel Heyl. Established in his hometown, was appointed interim judge in April 1862. Later he settled in the city of Los Ángeles, Chile, and he became chairman of the Democratic Club (Club de la Democracia) on August 20, 1869. In 1876 he was appointed Judge of Lebu. Shortly after, he headed the judiciary in Chillán, a position he held until the day of his death in late November 1885.

Lebu, Chile
Lebu [ˈleβu] is a port city and commune in central Chile administered by the  Municipality of Lebu. Lebu is also the capital of Arauco Province in Bío Bío Region. It lies on the south bank of the mouth of the Lebu River.

The commune includes Mocha Island. It is the closest continental town from Easter Island, 3,520 km away.
Job Garner-Jacob W. Miller House
Job Garner-Jacob W. Miller House is a historic home located at Harrison Township, Delaware County, Indiana. It was built about 1842, and is a two-story, square, Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a hipped roof, wraparound porch, wing and rear addition.: 2

The house is named, in part, for Jacob W. Miller, who lived in the home for many years. A native of Stark County, Ohio, Miller was a prominent businessman in Delaware County, involved in the grocery and livestock industries. Miller joined the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio in 1868. He soon became the company's president before  withdrawing from the business in 1872.: 3

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Wrought Iron Bridge Company
The Wrought Iron Bridge Company was a bridge fabrication and construction company based in Canton, Ohio, United States. It specialized in the fabrication of iron truss bridges and was a prolific bridge builder in the late 19th century. It was one of the 28 firms consolidated by J. P. Morgan into the American Bridge Company in 1900.  Many of its bridges have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.