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John Warlick McDonald
John Warlick McDonald (February 18, 1922 – May 17, 2019) was an American diplomat. He was appointed to the rank of ambassador twice by Jimmy Carter and twice by Ronald Reagan to represent the United States at United Nations World Conferences. From 1974 to 1978, he was the deputy director general of the International Labour Organization.

McDonald was born in Koblenz, Germany, while his father was stationed there with the U.S. military. He had B.A. and a J.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and graduated from the National War College in 1967. After law school, McDonald entered the U.S. Foreign Service.

McDonald co-founded Global Water and later founded the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy.

Foreign Service officer
A Foreign Service officer (FSO) is a commissioned member of the United States Foreign Service. FSOs formulate and implement the foreign policy of the United States. They spend most of their careers overseas as members of U.S. embassies, consulates, and other diplomatic missions, though some receive assignments to serve at combatant commands, Congress, and educational institutions such as the various U.S. service academies.

As of 2021, there were over 8,000 FSOs.
Pogo, Mali
Pogo is a village and rural commune in the Cercle of Niono in the Ségou Region of Mali. The commune has an area of approximately 550 square kilometers and includes 18 villages. In the 2009 census it had a population of 16,308.

Ségou Region
Ségou Region (Bambara: ߛߋߓߎ ߘߌߣߋߖߊ tr. Segu Dineja) is an administrative region in Mali, situated in the centre of the country with an area of 64,821 km2 (25,028 sq mi), around 5% of Mali. The region is bordered by Sikasso Region on the south, Tombouctou and Mopti on the east, Burkina Faso to the southeast and the Koulikoro Region to the west. In 2009 it had 2,336,255 inhabitants, making it the second most populous region of Mali. Its administrative capital is the town of Ségou.
Keenan & Associates
Keenan & Associates is a privately held insurance consulting and brokerage firm that was founded in 1972 by John Keenan. The firm is based in Torrance, California and is the largest independent broker in California. The firm works with schools, healthcare organizations and municipalities for employee benefits, workers' compensation, health benefit management services, risk management, and property and liability. In April 2013, the Upland City Council appointed Keenan as the Insurance Broker of Record. In April 2017, Keenan became part of AssuredPartners, Inc.

John Keenan is the founder and chairman of Keenan & Associates.

Since it was first established in the 1970s, the company has grown to contain nine offices located throughout California, employing over 750 people.

Torrance, California
Torrance is a city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States, neighboring Redondo Beach, Rolling Hills Estates, Palos Verdes Estates, and Lomita. The city is part of what is known as the South Bay region. Torrance has a moderate year-round climate with average rainfall of 12 inches (300 mm) per year. Torrance has one and a half miles (2.4 km) of beachfront abutting Santa Monica Bay and 30 parks. It is the birthplace of the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO). The population was 147,067 at the 2020 census, and was estimated at 139,576 in 2024.
Allan A. Davidson
Allan A. Davidson, QC was a lawyer and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Northumberland County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1874 to 1882 and from 1896 to 1899 as a Conservative member.

He studied law, was called to the bar in 1840 and set up practice in Newcastle, New Brunswick. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly in 1870. In 1880, he was named Queen's Counsel. Davidson was a member of the Legislative Council of New Brunswick from 1882 to 1889. He was elected again to the provincial assembly in 1896 after James Robinson was elected to the House of Commons.

Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
The Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick (French: Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick) is the deliberative assembly of the New Brunswick Legislature, in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. The assembly's seat is located in Fredericton. It was established in Saint John de jure when the colony was created in 1784 but came into session only in 1786, following the first elections in late 1785. The legislative assembly was originally the lower house in a bicameral legislature. Its upper house counterpart, the Legislative Council of New Brunswick, was abolished in 1891.  Its members are called "Members of the Legislative Assembly", commonly referred to as "MLAs".
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
"Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards" is a 1988 song by English singer/songwriter Billy Bragg. The song was released as an advance single from the album Workers Playtime on 30 August 1988. Bragg was accompanied on the original recording by Martin Belmont, Bruce Thomas, Cara Tivey, Mickey Waller and Bragg's long-standing roadie Wiggy, with backing vocals by Michelle Shocked and Phill Jupitus among others. The recording was produced by Joe Boyd with Wiggy. The single had two songs on the b-side: a re-recording of Bragg's "Wishing the Days Away" featuring Tivey, and a cover of the Flying Burrito Brothers' "Sin City" featuring Hank Wangford, both produced by John Porter and Kenny Jones.

The Flying Burrito Brothers
The Flying Burrito Brothers are an American country rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1968, best known for their influential 1969 debut album, The Gilded Palace of Sin. Although the group is known for its connection to band founders Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman (both formerly of the Byrds), the group underwent many personnel changes and has existed in various incarnations. Now officially known as the Burrito Brothers the band continues to perform and record new albums.
Köln Frankfurter Straße station
Köln Frankfurter Straße is a station situated at Gremberghoven, Cologne in western Germany on the Cologne Airport Loop and the Cologne–Overath railway. It was opened with the Cologne Airport loop on 13 June 2004.

It is served by the S19 services of the Cologne S-Bahn, which run at 20-minute intervals on weekdays and every 30 minutes on the weekend. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.

S19 (Cologne S-Bahn)
Line S19 is a S-Bahn line of the S-Bahn Köln network in Germany. It is the youngest line in that network. It is operated by DB Regio with class 423 electric multiple units.

The S19 runs until the early evening from Düren via Cologne to Blankenberg (Sieg), Herchen or Au (Sieg) on Monday to Saturday and between Düren and Hennef (Sieg) on Sundays and public holidays. Services to/from Herchen or Au do not stop in Blankenberg. It shares most of this route with line S12, but it runs through Cologne/Bonn Airport instead of through Porz. It operates every 20 minutes between Düren and Hennef (Sieg), with one course every hour extending to Blankenberg or Herchen and another to Au (Sieg). Since December 2019, it has runs all night, every night between Düren and Hennef, every 30 minutes between 9 pm and 4 am.

Two trips of the S19 are extended every night to/from Aachen in order to provide connections between Aachen and the Cologne Bonn Airport.
Pont de l'Artuby
Pont de l'Artuby, also called Pont sur l'Artuby or Pont de Chaulière, is a two-lane road bridge that connects Route D 71 to the Artuby Gorge in the Var department in the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. The nearest towns are Aiguines and Trigance, which are 22 and 13 km (13.7 and 8.1 mi) away respectively.

Artuby
Artuby (French pronunciation: [aʁtybi]; Artubi in Provençal) is a river in France, crossing the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes and Var departments, and a sub-tributary of Rhône by the Verdon and Durance. It is 53.8 km (33.4 mi) long. Its drainage basin is 373 km2 (144 sq mi).
1997–98 French Division 1
The 1997–98 Division 1 was the 60th season of Division 1, the top French professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1932. The season began on 2 August 1997, and concluded on 9 May 1998.

This season saw a change in the league format, with the number of teams reduced to 18 from 20, shortening the season from 38 to 34 rounds. As a result, four clubs which had been relegated at the end of the previous season were replaced by only two, Châteauroux and Toulouse, who entered as winners and runners up of the 1996–97 French Division 2. Defending champions of the 1996–97 season were Monaco.

Lens won the championship for the first time in their 92-year history, becoming the 26th club to become French football champions. Lens won their league title with 68 points, edging out second-placed Metz on goal difference, for whom this was their best result in history.

1996–97 French Division 2
The 1996–97 Division 2 season, organised by the LNF was won by LB Châteauroux and saw the promotions of LB Châteauroux and Toulouse FC, whereas FC Perpignan, FCO Charleville, SAS Épinal and Stade Briochin were relegated to National.
Vittoria Guazzini
Vittoria Guazzini (born 26 December 2000) is an Italian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam FDJ United–Suez. She is also a member of Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Oro, the sport section of Polizia di Stato, one of the national police forces.

Italian National Time Trial Championships
The Italian National Time Trial Championships are held annually to decide the Italian time trial champions across several categories of rider. Marco Pinotti has the most wins with 6 (4 in row). Marco Velo also had 3 wins in a row. In the women's event, Elisa Longo Borghini has the most titles with six.
Lists of number-one albums
The following articles contain lists of number-one albums:

List of number-one albums in Argentina

List of number-one albums in Australia

List of number-one albums (Finland)

List of number-one albums in Greece

List of number-one albums (Ireland)

List of number-one albums (Japan)

List of number-one albums (Mexico)

List of number-one albums (New Zealand)

List of number-one albums in Norway

List of number-one albums (Poland)

List of UK Albums Chart number ones

List of Billboard 200 number-one albums

Lists of Billboard 200 number-one albums
This is a list of number-one albums in the United States by year from the main Billboard albums chart, currently called the Billboard 200.

Billboard first began publishing an album chart on March 24, 1945. The chart expanded to 200 positions on the week ending May 13, 1967, and adopted its current name on March 14, 1992. Since May 25, 1991, the Billboard 200 positions have been derived from Nielsen SoundScan sales data, currently contributed by approximately 14,000 music retailers. In December 2014, Billboard updated the methodology of the Billboard 200 albums chart to also include on-demand streaming and digital track sales.

Starting on the issue dated January 18, 2020, Billboard updated the methodology to compile the chart again by incorporating video data from YouTube, along with visual plays from digital platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, Vevo, and as of the issue dated May 23, 2021, Facebook.
Smarano
Smarano (Nones: Smaràn) was a comune (municipality) in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of Trento.  It was merged with Coredo, Taio, Tres and Vervò on January 1, 2015, to form a new municipality, Predaia.

Nones dialect
Nones (autonym: nònes, Italian: Noneso, German: Nonsberger Mundart) is a dialect named after and spoken in the Non Valley in Trentino, northern Italy. It is estimated that around 30,000 people speak in Non Valley, Rabbi Valley and the low Sole Valley.

Ethnologue and Glottolog classify it as a dialect of the Ladin language, It is alternatively considered as a dialect belonging to the range of Gallo-Italic languages of Northern Italy.
Mackley
Mackley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Alan Mackley (1913–1982), Australian cricket umpire

Arthur Mackley (1865–1926), English actor and film director

Garnet Mackley (1883–1886), New Zealand businessman and politician

Geoff Mackley, New Zealand photographer

George Mackley (1900–1983), English wood engraver

Ian Mackley (born 1942), British diplomat

Shane Mackley, Australian rugby league player

Alan Mackley
Alan E Mackley, (1911 – 28 January 1982) was the first Australian cricket Test match umpire from Western Australia.

He umpired one Test match between Australia and England at Adelaide in January 1963. Mackley's partner in this match was Colin Egar.

He umpired 51 first-class matches between 1951 and 1965, all (except his Test match) in Perth.

Mackley was later a member of the Western Australian Cricket Association Appeals Board, and the Umpires' Appointment Board.
Institute of Applied Sciences Ruhengeri
The Institute of Applied Sciences Ruhengeri (French: The Institut D’enseignement Superieur De Ruhengeri, INES), or simply INES - Ruhengeri, is a private research university located in the Northern province of  Rwanda. It was established on November 17, 2003.

The acceptance rate is around 80-90%, making it one of the most accepting universities in Rwanda.

It is located in the city of Ruhengeri. In 2019, the university started a five year long collaboration with Bingen Technical University of Applied Sciences to research and improve farming practices in the area.

Northern Province, Rwanda
Northern Province (Kinyarwanda: Intara y'Amajyaruguru; French: Province du Nord; Dutch: Noordelijke Provincie) is one of Rwanda's five provinces. It was created in early January 2006 as part of a government decentralization program that re-organized the country's local government structures.

Northern Province comprises most of the former provinces of Ruhengeri and Byumba, along with northern portions of Kigali Rural. It is divided into the districts of Burera, Gicumbi, Gakenke, Musanze, and Rulindo.

The capital city of Northern Province is Musanze.

The province's official languages are English, French and Kinyarwanda.

The governor, appointed by presidential decree, is currently Hon. Maurice MUGABOWAGAHUNDE.

The preceding governors of Northern province were Dancilla Nyirarugero, Gatabazi Jean Marie Vianney, Claude Musabyimana, Bosenibamwe Aimée, Boniface Rucagu,  formerly governor of Ruhengeri Province.
Morgins
Morgins is a village in the municipality of Troistorrents in the district of Monthey in the canton of Valais in southern Switzerland.

It is noted for skiing and is part of the Portes du Soleil ski resort. It is located at 1333 m in the Val de Morgins, a side valley of the Val d'Illiez in the Chablais Alps at the foot of the Dents du Midi.

The road up the Val de Morgins leads to the Pas de Morgins, the pass into France.

Pas de Morgins
Pas de Morgins (el. 1369 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Alps between the canton of Valais in Switzerland and France. It is located at the top of the Val de Morgins, which turns off  the Val d'Illiez at Troistorrents.

The road through the Val de Morgins is marked by a series of hairpin curves.

It connects Monthey and Abondance.
2024 deaths in the United States
The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2024. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order as set out in WP:NAMESORT.
A typical entry reports information in the following sequence:
Name, age, country of citizenship at birth and subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, year of birth (if known), and reference.

Utah State Senate
The Utah State Senate is the upper house of the Utah State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Utah. The Utah Senate is composed of 29 elected members, each representing one senate district. Each senate district is composed of approximately 95,000 people. Members of the Senate are elected to four-year terms without term limits. The Senate convenes at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City.

The last elections were held in 2024.
HVDC DolWin3
HVDC DolWin3 is a high voltage direct current (HVDC) link to transmit Offshore wind power to the power grid of the German mainland.    The project differs from most HVDC systems in that one of the two converter stations is built on a platform in the sea.  Voltage-Sourced Converters with DC ratings of 900 MW, ±320 kV are used and the total cable length is 160 km.

The overall project is being built by Alstom with the cables supplied by Prysmian and offshore platform by Nordic Yards.  Construction commenced on the onshore converter station at Dörpen West in May 2014  and on the offshore platform in October 2014. As of summer 2015 the platform was being fitted out and the first converter transformer was installed on 17 July 2015.  The project was handed over to its owner, TenneT, in 2017. The grid connection is in operation since September 2018. A fund managed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners has invested in this offshore transmission platform.

Prysmian Group
Prysmian S.p.A. is a multinational company with headquarters in Milan, Italy, specialising in the production of electrical cable for use in the energy and telecom sectors and for optical fibres. Prysmian is present in Europe with 48 plants, 23 in North America, 13 in LATAM, 13 APAC, 7 MEAT.

It is the world leader in the production of cables for wind farms. The company is listed on the Borsa Italiana in the FTSE MIB index.

On 4 December 2017, it took over 100% of the General Cable group in the US, to then complete the merger by incorporation the following year.
Distributed-queue dual-bus
In telecommunications, a distributed-queue dual-bus network (DQDB) is a distributed multi-access network that (a) supports integrated communications using a dual bus and distributed queuing, (b) provides access to local or metropolitan area networks, and (c) supports connectionless data transfer, connection-oriented data transfer, and isochronous communications, such as voice communications.

IEEE 802.6 is an example of a network providing DQDB access methods.

Isochronous signal
In telecommunications, an isochronous signal is a signal in which the time interval separating any two significant instants is equal to the unit interval or a multiple of the unit interval. Variations in the time intervals are constrained within specified limits.

"Isochronous" is a characteristic of one signal, while "synchronous" indicates a relationship between two or more signals.
Rai Thistlethwayte
Rai Thistlethwayte (born 21 April 1980) is an Australian rock, pop and jazz musician and songwriter. Thistlethwayte is an accomplished pianist, guitarist, and vocalist. He is the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and primary songwriter in the Australian pop rock band Thirsty Merc. From 2004, Thirsty Merc released a string of hits in the Australian charts including "In the Summertime", "Someday, Someday", "20 Good Reasons", "Emancipate Myself", "My Completeness", "When the Weather Is Fine" and "Mousetrap Heart". He is currently based in Melbourne. As a solo artist, Thistlethwayte performs under the name 'Sun Rai'.

When the Weather Is Fine (song)
"When the Weather Is Fine" is the fourth and final single released from Australian pop rock band Thirsty Merc's debut album, Thirsty Merc (2004). The song appears only on the 2005 re-packaged version of the album.
TC's Trikes Coyote
The TC's Trikes Coyote is an American ultralight trike that was designed by TC Blyth and produced by TC's Trikes of Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee. Originally known as the TC Trike, with the introduction of strut-braced Mustang wing the model became known as the Coyote.

Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee
Soddy-Daisy is a city in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 13,070 at the 2020 census and estimated to be 13,619 in 2022. The city was formed in 1969 when the communities of Soddy (to the north) and Daisy (to the south), along with nearby developed areas along U.S. Route 27, merged to form Soddy-Daisy. It is becoming a bedroom community of nearby Chattanooga and is part of the Chattanooga Metropolitan Statistical Area. Sequoyah Nuclear Generating Station is located in Soddy-Daisy.
Breiter Graben
Breiter Graben (Upper Sorbian: Šěroka hrjebja) is a canal in Landkreis Görlitz, Saxony, Germany. It is also known as Flutgraben (Přiliwowa hrjebja) and runs between the north-western edge of the lignite open-cast mine Nochten and the village of Mulkwitz where it joins the river Struga, a tributary of the river Spree. On its course, it passes north of the village Mühlrose. Its acidic, iron-rich water, originating from an open-cast mine, heavily pollutes Struga river.

Open-pit mining
Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique that extracts rock or minerals from the earth.

Open-pit mines are used when deposits of commercially useful ore or rocks are found near the surface where the overburden is relatively thin. In contrast, deeper mineral deposits can be reached using underground mining.

This form of mining carries several risks to the health and safety of miners, and can have a significant negative impact on the environment.
Simanjuntak
Simanjuntak is one of Toba Batak clans originating in North Sumatra, Indonesia. People of this clan bear the clan's name as their surname.
Notable people of this clan include:

Daniel Simanjuntak, Indonesian diplomat

Harry Truman Simanjuntak (born 1951), Indonesian archaeologist and prehistorian

Jintar Simanjuntak (born 1987), Indonesian karateka

Marsillam Simanjuntak (born 1943), Indonesian politician

Maruli Simanjuntak (born 1970), Indonesian military general

Parlagutan Simanjuntak (born 1967), Indonesian politician

P. W. T. Simanjuntak (1935-2021), Indonesian Lutheran minister

Riko Simanjuntak (born 1992), Indonesian professional footballer

Samuel Simanjuntak (born 1999), Indonesian professional footballer

Marsillam Simanjuntak
Marsillam Simanjuntak (born 23 February 1943 in Yogyakarta) is a retired Indonesian politician who served as Secretary of the Cabinet from January 2000, as Minister of Justice from June 2001, and as Attorney General of Indonesia between July 2001 and August 2001.

Simanjuntak graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Indonesia in 1971. In 1974 he was held in a military detention center over his alleged involvement in the Malari incident. He was never prosecuted during or after his detention.

In October 2006 Simanjuntak was appointed President of the Presidential Working Unit Management and Reform Programme (UKP3R).
Martin Klempa
Martin Klempa (born July 20, 1973) is a Slovak former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played in the Slovak Extraliga with HK SKP Poprad, HC Košice and MHK Kežmarok and also played in the Russian Superleague with Molot-Prikamye Perm and in the British Elite Ice Hockey League for the Belfast Giants and the Coventry Blaze.

Molot-Prikamye Perm
Molot-Prikamye Perm (Russian: Молот-Прикамье Пермь) is a professional ice hockey team based in Perm, Perm Krai, Russia. They are playing in the Supreme Hockey League, the second level of ice hockey in Russia.