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Q11282605 The Outsiders (Traditional Chinese: 鬥魚; Pinyin: Dou Yu; meaning "Fighting Fish") is a 2004 Taiwanese romance and action series starring then newcomers Dylan Kuo, Ady An, Blue Lan and Michael Zhang. The drama is often referred to as the Taiwanese version of the popular Hong Kong film series Young and Dangerous...
Q16728033 Christi Lynn McGarry simply known as Christi McGarry, is a Filipino-American beauty pageant titleholder from Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, recently crowned Binibining Pilipinas Intercontinental 2015 at the Binibining Pilipinas 2015 pageant held on March 15, 2015 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City, Phi...
Q18233242 Izatullo Khayoyev (Tajik: Иззатулло Ҳаёев, Izzatullo Hayoyev; Russian: Изатулло Хаёевич Хаёев, 22 June 1936 – 25 April 2015) was the Vice-President of Tajikistan between December, 1990 and June 25, 1991 and Prime Minister of Tajikistan between June 25, 1991 and January 9, 1992. Previously he served as Chairme...
Q3601262 Ruhbergia brevicorna is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatopsidae family. The type locality is in New South Wales, Australia.
Q502600 Chip RAM is a commonly used term for the integrated RAM used in Commodore's line of Amiga computers. Chip RAM is shared between the central processing unit (CPU) and the Amiga's dedicated chipset (hence the name). It was also, rather misleadingly, known as "graphics RAM".
Q1627108 Mavericks is a surfing location in northern California outside Pillar Point Harbor, just north of the town of Half Moon Bay at the village of Princeton-by-the-Sea. After a strong winter storm in the northern Pacific Ocean, waves can routinely crest at over 8 m (25 ft) and top out at over 18 m (60 ft). Routinel...
Q6574920 This is a list of Italian politicians belonging to a religious minority, different from the dominant Roman Catholicism.To ensure notability, only leading politicians (ministers, deputies, senators, MEPs, regional councillors, mayors of big cities, party leaders, etc.) are included in the list. Active politicia...
Q2075837 Bernardo Parentino, also known as Bernardo Parenzano (c. 1450 – c. 1500) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Padua. To his detriment, he is still being been confused and superimposed by another person with the same name, an Augustine monk who took the name Fra Lorenzo (c. 1437–15...
Q14716184 Lake Michigan Catholic High School is a parochial, Roman Catholic high school in St. Joseph, Michigan. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo.Lake Michigan Catholic (LMC) was formed by the merger of St. John and St. Joseph Catholic Schools in 1969. Since then LMC has been a PS-12 school sy...
Q5092757 Cheryl Moch was a founding board member of the Jewish feminist organization (JFO). She is a writer and playwright, living in New York City with her daughter Hannah. Her play, Cinderella, the Real True Story, which celebrates gay marriage, has been performed around the world. Moch designed the poster for the Je...
Q1767764 Nesoryzomys swarthi, also known as the Santiago nesoryzomys or Santiago Galápagos mouse, is a species of rodent in the genus Nesoryzomys of family Cricetidae. It is found only on Santiago in the Galápagos Islands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.It was considered extinct since it ...
Q1564701 Liu Peng (Chinese: 劉怦; 727 – November 4, 785), formally Duke Gong of Pengcheng (彭城恭公), was a general of the Chinese Tang dynasty, who served as military governor (Jiedushi) of Lulong Circuit (盧龍, headquartered in modern Beijing) briefly in 785 following the death of his cousin, the warlord Zhu Tao.
Q1754089 Grigor Dimitrov was the defending champion, but did not complete in the Juniors this year.Andrey Kuznetsov defeated Jordan Cox in the final, 4—6, 6–2, 6–2 to win the Boys' Singles tennis title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.
Q3513953 Pietro Canavelli (in Italian, his personal spelling; known as Petar Kanavelić in Croatian; 27 December 1637 – 16 January 1719) was a Croatian writer who wrote poems in Croatian and Italian. He is regarded as one of the greatest Croatian writers of the 17th century.
Q1160132 István Láng (Hungarian: [ˈiʃtvaːn ˈlaːŋɡ]; born 1 March 1933) is a Hungarian composer.
Q2272595 The following is a list of the 25 comuni of the Province of Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in Italy.
Q3751133 Manuel Turrillas Ezcurra (1 January 1905 – 20 October 1997) was one of the most popular composers of Navarre. He was born in Barásoain, where he started in music in the local band, having learned his scales from the church organist. At the age of 20 he moved to Pamplona and immediately joined the band "The Pam...
Q17066349 The Rolling Valley Conference is a high school athletic conference in west central Iowa. The league began play in the 2013-14 season. Members include five former members of the Western Valley Activities Conference, five former members of the Rolling Hills Conference, and one former member of the West Central ...
Q16881714 Qorban Kandi (Persian: قربان كندي‎) may refer to:Qorban Kandi, Hashtrud, East Azerbaijan ProvinceQorban Kandi, Malekan, East Azerbaijan ProvinceQorban Kandi, West Azerbaijan
Q16898889 Punta San Carlos is a small fishing village on the west coast of the state of Baja California just off Highway 1, about 80 kmsouth of El Rosario on a dirt track. It is part of the Municipio of Ensenada. The area has become a popular Windsurfing and Kitesurfing destination.
Q16967193 The Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills or TEAMS was the second standardized test used in Texas, from 1984 until 1990. It was used for grades 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11. If the student passed, he or she no longer needed to take the exam. Passing the Grade 11, or Exit level, examination was required for g...
Q18164509 "Tonight" is the third digital single released by South Korean pop band Spica. It was released on August 28, 2013 under B2M Entertainment with distribution through CJ E&M Music and Live.
Q24705546 Mustafa Bayram was from Yemen and Selman Reis' nephew. After Selman Reis fell into a dispute with Hayreddin al-Rumi in 1528, he was murdered later on by al-Rumi. The two had fights because Selman Reis was relieved of the duty to lead the Ottoman Navy in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. However he refused to step...
Q4219737 Nikolai Lukashenko, also known as Kolya Lukashenko (Russian: Николай Александрович Лукашенко, Belarusian: Мікалай Лукашэнка - Mikalay Lukashenka, born August 31, 2004) is a Belarusian public figure and the third son of Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus.
Q2725777 Burke is a city in Gregory County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 604 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Gregory County.
Q7351940 Roberto Vigoreaux Lorenzana (born January 12, 1956 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican producer, TV show host, actor, singer, and former Senator. He is the son of TV producer Luis Vigoreaux, and the younger brother of Luisito Vigoreaux.
Q1265209 Dun Carloway (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Chàrlabhaigh) is a broch situated in the district of Carloway, on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, Scotland (grid reference NB18994122). It is a remarkably well preserved broch - on the east side parts of the old wall still reach to 9 metres tall.
Q7349905 Robert Sobel (February 19, 1931 – June 2, 1999) was an American professor of history at Hofstra University and a well-known and prolific writer of business histories.
Q1389702 Economizers (US and Oxford spelling), or economisers (UK), are mechanical devices intended to reduce energy consumption, or to perform useful function such as preheating a fluid. The term economizer is used for other purposes as well. Boiler, power plant, heating, Refrigeration, ventilating, and air conditio...
Q6762875 Marie Louise Hilson Katzenbach (December 8, 1882 – February 4, 1970) was an American educator who was the first female president of the New Jersey State Board of Education.Marie Louise Hilson was born in 1882 in Trenton, New Jersey, to Cleaveland Hilson and Matilda Emily Hunt. She was the great-great-granddaug...
Q7171700 Prof. Petar Gburčik (Cyrillic: Петар Гбурчик)(30 October 1931 - 29 October 2006) was a Serbian scientist and a Professor of Meteorology at the University of Belgrade. He was the author of first mathematical models of the numerical weather prediction, which were used operationally in the Weather Service of Yugo...
Q6386379 Kellyville is an unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States. Its elevation is 758 feet (231 m).
Q2149043 The ringneck blenny (Parablennius pilicornis) is a species of combtooth blenny widespread in coastal waters of Eastern Atlantic from Spain and Portugal to Möwe Bay, Namibia, in the Mediterranean Sea from Morocco, Algeria, Spain. In the Southwest Atlantic it is found near Brazil and Patagonia, Argentina. Also i...
Q3539309 Trinxat is a food from the Pyrenees, principally Andorra and the Spanish comarcas of Cerdanya and Alt Urgell. It is made with potatoes, cabbage and pork meat, and resembles Bubble and Squeak. The name, meaning “mashed” or “chopped”, is the past participle of the Catalan word trinxar, which means "to slice".
Q7234706 Potassium heptafluorotantalate is an inorganic compound with the formula K2[TaF7]. It is the potassium salt of the heptafluorotantalate anion [TaF7]2−. This white, water-soluble solid is an intermediate in the purification of tantalum from its ores and is the precursor to the metal.
Q6281263 General Joseph Bacon Fraser commanded the 48th Armored Division of Georgia and Florida Army National Guard. His military career spanned from World War I to the Korean War before retiring a lieutenant general in 1956. He was also a former mayor of Hinesville, a timber baron, and one of the first resort develope...
Q5546225 George Stephen Whiteoak (born 24 September 1995) is an English footballer who plays for Macclesfield Town as a defender.
Q18153138 KFC Israel (Hebrew: קנטאקי פרייד צ'יקן‎) was the Israeli franchise of KFC, which opened its first branch in Israel in the 1980. The chain closed its last location on 2012.
Q23461615 Ice River Springs is a private label bottled water producer for retailers and food service operators and manufacturer of the Ice River Green brand of bottled water. The company runs a plastics recycling operation, BMP Recycling, that takes bottles collected by municipalities and produces food grade recycled P...
Q16919055 Nome Public Schools (NPS), also known as the Nome City School District, is the school district serving the city of Nome, Alaska. The district has one of the highest efficiencies in Western Alaska. The current superintendent of the district is Jamie Burgess.Though public schools have existed in Nome since 19...
Q21313851 Peltasta zonula is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Aleksey Maksimovich Gerasimov in 1930. It is found in Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan.Adults have been recorded from mid-April to mid-July at elevations of 600 to 900 meters.
Q22279476 Rob Okun is a writer-editor, activist known for his strong advocacy for the pro-feminist men's movement. He is a former executive director of the Men’s Resource Center for Change (MRC), one of the earliest men’s centers in North America. Okun is the editor of Voice Male, the magazine chronicling masculinities...
Q3223584 Zig-Zag, Snakes and Ladders (a didactic fiction about cartography), and also known in French as Le jeu de l'oie (une fiction didactique à propos de la cartographie), is a French short film made in 1980. It was written and directed by filmmaker Raúl Ruiz and produced by France 2 to promote a new map exhibition ...
Q38251865 Countess Park railway station served the village of Bellingham, Northumberland, England from 1859 to 1861 on the Border Counties Railway.
Q7274806 The R54 is a provincial route in South Africa that connects Potchefstroom with Villiers via Vereeniging.
Q6386072 Kelly Errin Herndon (born November 3, 1976) is a former American football cornerback. He was originally signed by the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted free agent in 1999. He played college football at Toledo. Although he entered his first NFL camp in 1999, Herndon waited until 2002 to play in his first NFL ...
Q8018817 Sir William Arthur Steward (20 April 1901 – May 1987) was a British Conservative party politician, who served as Member of Parliament for Woolwich West from 1950 to 1959.Steward was educated at Norwich Model School and privately and became a restaurateur and farmer. He served as Senior Catering Officer with th...
Q5111154 Christine Quinn-Brintnall (1952 – May 19, 2014) was an American jurist.Quinn-Brintnall took office in November 2000 after being elected to the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division II, which covers Pierce County and 12 other counties. Between 2004 - 2007, she served as the court's Chief Judge.
Q1310370 Varkaus Airport (IATA: VRK, ICAO: EFVR) is an airport in Joroinen, Finland, about 16 kilometres (10 mi) south of Varkaus.
Q16957943 Nightnurse was an indie rock band from London, UK who had some success in the late 1990s. They released three singles, with their second "Skirt" reaching no.11 in the UK Independent Singles Chart in February 1998. They were the first band to ever release an MP3 single 'IDF/Big Sleep' and were recognised by th...
Q423128 Zdeněk Liška (16 March 1922 – 13 August 1983) was a Czech composer who produced a large number of film scores across a prolific career that started in the 1950s. He was revelatory in his contribution to the development of electronic music. His music in this field is noticeable and dramatic, based on a unique m...
Q66689 Carl Wilhelm Severing (1 June 1875, Herford, Westphalia – 23 July 1952, Bielefeld) was a German Social Democrat politician during the Weimar era.He was seen as a representative of the right wing of the party. Over the years, he took a leading influence in the party district of Ostwestfalen and Lippe. He was a pa...
Q7115766 Oxspring railway station was a short lived station built by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway to serve the village of Oxspring, South Yorkshire, England. The station opened on 5 December 1845 but due to cost-cutting measures it was closed, along with Dog Lane, Hazelhead and Thurgoland, on...
Q6036362 Robert E. Parsons (April 15, 1892 – July 1966) was an American politician who was the 70th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1948 to 1949.
Q1262916 Nosalin [nɔˈsalin] (formerly German Nitzlin) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Postomino, within Sławno County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south-east of Postomino, 10 km (6 mi) north-east of Sławno, and 183 km (114 mi) nort...
Q4819963 Audition (オーディション) is a Japanese novel by Ryu Murakami published in 1997 and published in English in 2009. It was the basis for the film by Takashi Miike released in 1999 and a possible English-language film adaptation.
Q4697874 Air Force is the newspaper published by the Royal Australian Air Force. The paper is produced fortnightly and is uploaded online so that members can access it when deployed overseas.
Q5219798 Danish Taimoor (Urdu: دانش تیمور‎) (born 16 February 1983) is a Pakistani actor and model. He began his career in 2005 and appeared in "Mystery Series" (Do saal baad, Dracula); both episodes were directed by Imran khokhar and aired on Indus Vision. He is notable for his role in Urdu drama series' and telefilms...
Q2140555 United Nations Security Council Resolution 2062 was unanimously adopted on 26 July 2012. It related to the situation in Cote d'Ivoire and extended the mandate of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) until July 2013.
Q16480594 Amphiphyllum is a group of plants in the family Rapateaceae described as a genus in 1931.The only known species is Amphiphyllum rigidum, endemic to the Cerro Duida of Amazonas State in southern Venezuela.
Q18647053 Patrick Spiegelberg (born in 1984 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish singer, songwriter, dancer, choreographer and vocal producer. He has also performed with the stage name Glamboy P, and has earlier used the names Patrick Hellegård and Rick Spiegel.
Q18736858 Douglas Nicol Anderson (25 March 1914 – 1989) was a Scottish professional football left back who played in the Football League and Scottish League.
Q28957072 Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool created by HashiCorp. It enables users to define and provision a datacenter infrastructure using a high-level configuration language known as Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL), or optionally JSON. Terraform supports a number of cloud infras...
Q33101528 An Evening with Raoul was a weekly musical variety talk show hosted by Raoul Imbach, with the band The Wild Tortillas. Imbach is a counselor and deputy chief of mission of the Embassy of Switzerland in the Philippines, and a singer more popularly known by his renditions of Filipino and Italian songs.The progr...
Q6018825 Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in living organisms. It deals with the structure and function of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and other biomolecules.Articles related to biochemistry include:
Q4948572 Botesdal is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 1.
Q4020896 World Heroes 2 is a 1993 fighting arcade game developed and published by ADK with the assistance of SNK. It was originally released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade cabinet on April 26, 1993. It is the sequel to the 1992 fighting arcade game World Heroes, as well as the second title of the World Heroes series. It w...
Q896718 A brackish-water aquarium is an aquarium where the water is brackish (semi-salty). The range of "saltiness" varies greatly, from near freshwater to near marine and is often referred to as specific gravity (SG) or salinity. Brackish water aquaria is a popular specialization within the fishkeeping hobby. Many spe...
Q2866447 Aseel Omran (Arabic: أسيل عمران‎) is a saudi singer who rose to fame not only in saudi but also in other countries in the Middle East when she entered the reality show Gulf Stars and Heya wa Huwa, which means Her and Him. She has signed onto Rotana, the Arab World's largest record label.Aseel Omran was born o...
Q5363235 Ōmi-Maiko Station (近江舞子駅, Ōmi-Maiko-eki) is a railway station in Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan.
Q4025024 Zuula was a metasearch engine that provides search results from a number of different search engines. Zuula can be used to carry out standard web searches, image searches, video searches, news searches, blog searches, and job searches. Results are available from major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, a...
Q7453340 Serge Michel Odzoki (born 29 December 1948) is a Congolese politician. A member of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT), he is a journalist by profession and worked for years as a diplomat before serving in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Sports and Youth from December 2007 to September 2009. He...
Q5314140 Dunbar Glass Co. was a glassmaking company in Dunbar, West Virginia. It operated from 1913 to 1953. Some of the company's craftsmen formed Kanawha Glass Company when the Dunbar Glass company folded.
Q5234302 David Graham (June, 1875-January 1962, Carlisle) was an English rugby football player, from Aspatria, in Cumberland.He played once for England, against Wales in the 1901 Home Nations Championship.He played for Aspatria RUFC, Keswick RFC, Rochdale, New Brighton and Cumberland, as well as Aspatria Hornets rugby ...
Q1263822 The Space Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS), is a system of hypergolic liquid-propellant rocket engines used on the Space Shuttle. Designed and manufactured in the United States by Aerojet, the system allowed the orbiter to perform various orbital maneuvers according to requirements of each mission prof...
Q6829229 Michael E. Chernew is an American expert in the field of health economics. He is a member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine.Chernew graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree and his PhD in economics is from S...
Q5217174 Daniel Forsell (born 4 January 1982) is a Swedish footballer who plays as a defender.
Q4888132 Benivar-e Vosta (Persian: بنيواروسطي‎, also Romanized as Benīvār-e Vostá; also known as Benvār-e Vostá and Bonvār-e Vostá) is a village in Jarahi Rural District, in the Central District of Mahshahr County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 50, in 10 families.
Q17000349 The Ballet Royal de la Nuit (Royal Ballet of the Night), Ballet Royal de la Nuict in its original spelling and often referred to simply as the Ballet de la Nuit, is a ballet de cour with a libretto by Isaac de Benserade and music by Jean de Cambefort, Jean-Baptiste Boësset, Michel Lambert and possibly others,...
Q18161547 Veronica Ryan (born 1956 in Plymouth, Montserrat) is a Montserrat-born British sculptor. She moved to London with her parents when she was an infant. She resides in New York City, having left Britain in 1990.
Q18921873 Ryan Peter Hedges (born 8 July 1995) is a professional footballer who plays for Aberdeen and the Wales national football team.
Q20437985 Đorđe Nikolić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Николић; born 13 April 1997) is a Serbian professional football goalkeeper, who plays for Aarau on loan from Basel in the Swiss Super League.
Q41600380 Jessie Wilson Manning (October 26, 1855 – ?) was an American author and lecturer. Born in Iowa in 1855, she was an active worker and eloquent speaker on literary subjects and for the cause of temperance.
Q42165036 Hassan Dyamwale (born 1 June 1941) is a Tanzanian middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 800 metres at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Q4384416 Team Bath Football Club was an English association football club affiliated with the University of Bath in the city of Bath, Somerset. The club, which was formed in 1999, allowed players to combine professional football with higher education. In nine seasons, Team Bath rose rapidly through the English football...
Q1841458 Viva Last Blues is the third studio album by Will Oldham. It was released under the moniker Palace Music on Drag City in 1995. The album features Oldham on vocals and guitar, and was recorded by Steve Albini.
Q8012382 William Marshall Chamberlain Hodgson (March 18, 1912 – October 27, 1988) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1985, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.
Q1408854 Valerio Bertotto (Italian pronunciation: [vaˈlɛːrjo berˈtɔtto]; born 15 January 1973) is an Italian football manager and former footballer, who played as a defender.
Q511139 Hagenbach is a Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district of Germersheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the Verbandsgemeinde is in Hagenbach.The Verbandsgemeinde Hagenbach consists of the following Ortsgemeinden ("local municipalities"):BergHagenbachNeuburg am RheinScheibenhardt
Q5570308 The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) is a coalition of NGOs and indigenous peoples organizations engaged in the global policy debate related to forests. The mission of the Global Forest Coalition is to advocate the rights of forest-dependent peoples as a basis for forest policy and addressing the direct and unde...
Q7379602 The Runa ABC of Johannes Bureus was the first Swedish alphabet book and its purpose was to teach the runic alphabet in 17th century Sweden.The runology pioneer Johannes Bureus was a religious Christian, but he also thought that the Christian influence had replaced the runic alphabet with the Latin alphabet. Hi...
Q7954695 WQLE (960 AM) was the last official call sign of a now defunct radio station in Kane, Pennsylvania.
Q7374268 Royal Heroine (1980–2002) was a Thoroughbred Champion racehorse foaled in Ireland who raced in England and France and then in the United States where she set a North American record for a mile on turf while winning the inaugural running of the Breeders' Cup Mile in 1984.
Q7859702 Tyble [ˈtɨblɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sokolniki, within Wieruszów County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) west of Sokolniki, 11 km (7 mi) east of Wieruszów, and 97 km (60 mi) south-west of the regional capital Łódź.
Q1948753 Crambophilia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
Q7453841 Sergei Aleksandrovich Udod (Russian: Серге́й Александрович Удод; born June 12, 1988) is a Russian professional football player. He last played in the Russian Second Division for FC Biolog-Novokubansk Progress.
Q6176098 Jeffrey Kessler may refer to:Jeffrey L. Kessler (born 1954), American sports attorneyJeffrey V. Kessler (born 1955), American politician
Q7356025 Rocky Taylor (born Laurie Taylor in 1946) is an English stuntman and actor. Taylor was born in Bermonsdey South East London England. His first appearance as a stuntman was an uncredited role in Dr. No. He has since been a stuntman for many famous and successful films including multiple James Bond and Indiana J...
Q7935384 Most of the foreign nationals visiting Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are granted visa free access.Saint Vincent and the Grenadines signed a mutual visa-waiver agreement with the European Union on 28 May 2015 which was ratified on 15 December 2015. This agreement allows all citizens of states that are contra...
Q136176 The ZiL-118 Yunost (Youth) was a microbus built by Zavod imeni Likhachova (Russian: Завод имени Лихачёва, Factory named for Likhacov), or ZiL.Based on the ZIL-111 limousine, the ZiL-118 Yunost (Youth) was developed in 1961, on the factory's own initiative. Only 20 were built because of a lack of interest of gov...