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74392570 | 2016 EMY Africa Awards | The 2016 EMY Africa Awards was held at the Banquet Hall, State House, Accra on June 18, 2016.
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74392572 | Tapestry (board game) | Tapestry is a 2019 strategy board game designed by Jamey Stegmaier and published by Stonemaier Games.
Reception.
Among game reviewers, Tapestry has been "divisive". "Dicebreaker" noted the many possible routes to victory as a positive element. Abram Towle also praised this aspect of the game and gave it an overall positive review, stating, "Put another one up in the 'win' category for Stonemaier Games." Writing for "Ars Technica", Dan Thurot praised the game's simplicity relative to other "civilization" games, stating, "In a genre packed with over-complicated (and over-long) entries, Tapestry fulfills its promise of a two-hour civilization game with minimal rules." He noted, however, that it does not allow for the "narrative" element common to most civilization games. Additionally, both Thurot and "Dicebreaker" expressed some disappointment that the building miniatures ultimately did nothing more than take up space on the player's capital city board.
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74392574 | Lupinus arvensis | Lupinus arvensis is a species of lupine that is native to Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. It is a subshrub that grows in a montane tropical biome.
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74392586 | HMS St David (MO7) | HMS "St David was a converted from the fishing trawler Suffolk Monarch" for the Royal Navy in 1978.
Description.
"St David" was long, wide, and tall. It had a gross tonnage of . It was powered by Mirrlees-Blackstone diesel engines which provided and allowed for a speed of . As a minesweeper, "Venturer" was not equipped with any armament and had a crew of thirty-five.
History.
The ship was built as "Suffolk Monarch" by Cubow of Woolwich in 1973 as a stern fishing trawler and was sold to Small & Co. "Harvester" was then chartered as HMS "St David" by the Ministry of Defence on 1 November 1978, alongside its sister ship . It was converted into a minesweeper at Lowestoft and commissioned in Bristol on 30 November 1978. "St David" was allocated to the 10th Mine Countermeasures Squadron out of Cardiff and was equipped for deep team minesweeping.
On completion of its charter, "St David" was returned to civilian service in November 1983 and renamed back to "Suffolk Monarch" in a new role as a standby safety vessel. In 1990, the ship transferred ownership to Britannia Marine of Lowestoft and was renamed Britannia Monarch. It changed owners again to Vroon Offshore Services and was renamed again to VOS Monarch in 2009, and was taken out of service in 2010. The ship was scrapped in Alang, India, in 2011.
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74392639 | Lancaster City Centre | Lancaster City Centre is the main cultural hub, economic and commercial centre of the city of Lancaster in Lancashire, England. The city extends around the eastern side of the River Lune and is directly inland from Morecambe Bay on the Irish Sea. The city centre is the core area of the wider City of Lancaster district and parts of the county of Cumbria to the north and northeast. The city centre is one of three economic hubs for the surrounding districts of Ribble Valley and Wyre as well as the Westmorland and Furness unitary area of Cumbria.
History.
The city centre has existed since 79 AD in the Roman Period of Great Britain and it was around this time period when the castle was built and occupied by the Duchy of Lancaster and played a vital role in the War of the Roses against the armies of Yorkshire. The castle today is one of the oldest in the country. In 1094, the priory church was granted a charter and became one of the first recorded pieces of history about Lancaster's existence. Since the industrial revolution, the city was home to many industries from the 18th century to the 20th century. The main industries in the city at the time were candle making, sailcloth making, rope making and shipbuilding. Since the decline of the industrial revolution, Lancaster suffered from economic decline and high unemployment rates like many parts of the north of England. The city underwent regeneration and is now a popular tourist destination.
Landmarks.
The city is home to many notable landmarks dotted in and around the immediate city centre. The most notable landmarks are:
Port of Lancaster.
The city centre became an important inland port along the River Lune for ships to and from the Irish Sea at Morecambe Bay. The Port of Lancaster was also vital in the economic growth of the city and surrounding areas at the time. Notable ships that docked at the port include in 1797 Bee and Ceres, in 1798 Elephant and in 1800 Cragg, The last slave ship was built in the port. The castle was used for a HMP prison until 2011 and has since been reused as a tourist attraction, venue and cultural area for many festivals and reenactments.
Castle and Priory.
Lancaster Castle is one of the oldest castles in the whole of the United Kingdom and was built around 79 AD during the Roman times. The castle was a key defense fort in the War of the Roses between Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Lancaster Priory was originally built as a monastery during the Anglo-saxon period and is located within the walls of Lancaster Castle. It was given a charter in 1094 after being founded by Roger de Poitou on the site of the earlier Anglo-Saxon church, which was assumed to be a monastery dating from the 9th century. It is the oldest church in Lancaster and along with the castle is a grade-I listed building. It also is on an elevated hill surrounded by the castle and can be seen for miles. It is also an important place of worship and also hosts events, weddings and other events from the local community.
Churches and other places of worship.
Lancaster City Centre is home to many churches and other places of worship. Notable churches in the city include the Grade II*-listed Lancaster Cathedral, which is located on the brow of the hill above the city centre. It's spire can be seen on the cityscape and was built in 1798 originally as a mission church for the city before it was rebuilt between 1857 and 1859 on a different site with the spire and tower. It is an active place of worship. Other notable churches in the city include:
Additionally, the city is home to many Catholic, Baptist, Jehovah's Witness, Latter Day Saints and Methodist churches as well as the Salvation Army and community churches. Lancaster is also home to a wide array of mosques and is also home to a Hindu temple. The notable mosques in the city centre are: Moorlands Islamic Centre, Lancaster Islamic Society, Raza Mosque Lancaster and prayer rooms in both the University of Cumbria in Lancaster and University of Lancaster.
Geography.
The city centre is located on a slight peninsula along the River Lune which comes inland from the Irish Sea at Morecambe Bay and runs along the northern and western banks of the city centre. It separates the northern suburbs of the city from the main city centre. The city centre acts a place of education, work, worship and culture for the surrounding towns and villages in Northern and Western Lancashire. As well as the southern parts of Cumbria and is also one of two cities in the county of Lancashire. The other being Preston in the Central Lancashire region of the county. Other major economical city centres of note include Carlisle City Centre, Liverpool City Centre, Salford City Centre, Manchester City Centre and Chester City Centre.
Transport.
The city centre is served by Lancaster railway station on the West Coast Mainline. There are also multiple bus services in and around the city centre. Another station that once served the city was Lancaster Green Ayre railway station but this has since closed and is now part of a footpath between Morecambe, Lancaster and Wennington.
Places of education.
Lancaster University is ranked at 122th of 1000 universities in the United Kingdom and around the world. The university had an estimated student population of 13,336 in a 2015 study. The university saw around seven decades of regeneration and new developments in terms of teaching and courses. The campus is located in the Bailrigg area of the city on the southern outskirts. The University of Cumbria also has a campus in the city centre.
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74392654 | Windmill of Elene | The Windmill of Elene is a former windmill in Elene, Zottegem, Belgium.
The mill was built in 1762, following permission granted by Empress Maria-Theresa to Pieter Emanuel Joseph d'Hane. In the following centuries, it was owned by the heirs of the d'Hane de Steenhuyze family from Ghent.
The mill was damaged during World War I. Attempts to repair the mill stopped in 1923. It has not been operational since then. In 1979, the mill was protected as a monument. In 1984, urgent conservation repairs were carried out. Despite this, the windmill is in a state of decay.
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74392661 | Buckollia volubilis | Buckollia volubilis is a species of plant in the Apocynaceae family. It is native to
the Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda. Rudolf Schlechter, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its twining ( in Latin) growth habit, using the synonymous name "Raphionacme volubilis".
Description.
It is a woody climbing plant reaching 3–4 meters in height. It has tuberous roots. Its greyish-brown, densely warty stems and branches are covered in fine, soft hairs when young but become hairless with age. The stems are up to 10 millimeters in diameter. The leaves occur in clusters or opposite one another on the stem. The egg-shaped leaves are 35–65 by 7–24 millimeters with the broader part of the blade toward the tips. The leaves are covered in fine, soft hairs and can have wavy margins. The tips of the leaves are variable and can be pointed, blunt or notched. The bases of the leaves are wedge-shaped. Its petioles are 1–3 millimeters long and covered in fine to wooly hairs. Its Inflorescences slightly to densely covered in white, wooly hairs with peduncles that are 2–8 millimeters long, and pedicels that are 1–2 millimeters long. The pedicels have narrow, triangular bracts that are 1 millimeter long. Its aromatic flowers have 5 egg-shaped, maroon sepals that are 1.5–2 by 1.5–2 millimeters, covered in white, wooly hairs on their outer surface, and have pointed tips. Its 5 hairless petals are fused at the base forming 0.8–1.2 millimeter long tube. The triangular to egg-shaped, green to yellow-green lobes of the petals are 5–7 by 2–3 millimeters. The tips of the petals are pointed to blunt. The petals have dull red-brown, globe-shaped glandular swellings at their base. The flowers have a structure between the petals and the stamens called a corona. Its corona has thread-like lobes that are 4–9 millimeters long and radially aligned with the sepals. The coronal lobes are pink with yellow-brown bases. The flowers have 5 stamen with anthers that are 1–1.5 by 0.7 millimeters and filaments that are 1 millimeters long. The pistils have column-shaped styles that are 1 millimeter long, and blunt to concave stigma that are 1.5 millimeters long. Each stigma bears a structure called a pollen translator. The elliptical pollen translators have hemispherical bases that are covered in a sticky surface. The grey-brown fruit are densely covered in warty protrusions and are 145–190 by 6–8 millimeters. The smooth seeds are 5–7 by 2 millimeters and tufted with white hairs that are 25–30 millimeter long.
Reproductive biology.
The pollen of "Buckollia volubilis" is shed as permanent tetrads.
Distribution and habitat.
It has been observed growing in moderately wet to arid savannahs at elevations of 400 to 1300 meters.
Uses.
It has been reported as being used as a wild edible plant in Hamer and Konso communities in Ethiopia, and as a medicinal plant in Nandi communities in Kenya.
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74392666 | List of FC Kansas City players | FC Kansas City (FCKC) was an American women's soccer club which began play in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in its inaugural season of 2013 and was dissolved after the 2017 season in November 2017.
The club swept all of the 2013 season's annual NWSL awards and won two consecutive NWSL Championships in 2014 and 2015.
After folding, its roster was relocated to Salt Lake City, Utah-based expansion team Utah Royals FC, which also folded in 2020. The roster was then relocated back to Kansas City to the expansion team Kansas City Current, the successor to FC Kansas City, which began play in the NWSL in 2021 season as Kansas City NWSL.
All FC Kansas City players who have appeared for the team in an official competition or have been contracted to play for the team are listed below.
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74392678 | Alex Etheridge | Alex Etheridge was a 13-year-old boy from Phoenix, Arizona whose battle with bone cancer received international attention, leading to recording with the Minneapolis rock band Soul Asylum and a viral video of a meeting with his musical hero, Travis Barker of Blink-182.
Background.
Alex was diagnosed with bone cancer in January 2022, at age 12. Since then he underwent treatment including chemotherapy, radiation, and two clinical trials, which required travel to Houston, Texas.
Alex played drums and guitar since age 5. Playing music gave him a positive focus during long, painful hospital stays. He was a fan of pop-punk bands such as Green Day and Blink-182, in particular drummer Travis Barker.
In January 2023, doctors estimated that Alex had only six months to live.
Soul Asylum and "Home Sweet Home".
Through the nonprofit organization Kill Kancer, Alex met the members of Minnesota alternative rock group Soul Asylum, first through a Zoom call and in March 2023, at the band's invitation, Alex and his family traveled to Minneapolis to meet in person. (Kill Kancer was founded by Mary Beth Mueller, the widow of original Soul Asylum bassist Karl Mueller, who died of esophageal cancer in 2005.)
Soul Asylum singer Dave Pirner and bassist Jeremy Tappero met Alex at Flowers Studio in Minneapolis, which was founded by musician Ed Ackerson, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2019; Ackerson's widow Ashley donated the studio time to Alex. At Flowers, the trio recorded Alex's song "Home Sweet Home". The song is about how Alex's thoughts of returning home helped him deal with being in the hospital. It was largely written by Alex himself, who had worked out the drum parts, lyrics, and main guitar riff before meeting with Soul Asylum. He and the band spent four hours in the studio working on the song, which was later released on SoundCloud.
Alex performed his music live in May 2023 with the Arizona punk band Authority Zero.
Blink-182.
A report on Phoenix TV station KSAZ-TV was seen by Australian social-media influencer Samuel Weidenhofer, who traveled from Melbourne to help arrange a meeting with Alex's idol Travis Barker. Alex met Barker backstage at Blink-182's June 14, 2023 concert in Phoenix, and Alex and his family sat in the front row for the concert later. The two spent more than an hour together, talking and playing drums, including an introduction to Barker's wife Kourtney Kardashian via FaceTime.
Weidenhofer recorded the meeting with Barker and released it later as a TikTok video, which has received more than 17 million views as of July 2023.
Death.
Alex's condition worsened around July 18, and friends and family gathered to say goodbye. He also received a message from Barker, and spoke with LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne and actress Jennifer Lawrence.
He died in the morning of July 19, 2023.
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74392691 | The Russian Factory in the Nineteenth Century | The Russian Factory in the Nineteenth Century is a book by Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky originally published in Russian in 1898. For this he was awarded his doctorate by Moscow University. It was republished in Russia several times, running to three editions and two reprints by 1928. John P. McKay regarded the book as an "all-time outstanding contributions to Russian economic history, and to economic history in general". Tugan-Baranovsky was a Legal Marxist, and in opposition to the populist narodniks, he argued that the Russian Empire far from being able to avoid going through a capitalist stage of development, had already experienced substantial capitalist development.
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74392701 | Clan Mother | Clan Mother may refer to:
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74392734 | Chu Kim Duc | Chu Kim Duc is a Vietnamese Architect, co-founder and director of Think Playgrounds. Her work at Think Playgrounds focuses on ensuring children's right to play within the public realm.
Early Life and Education.
Duc was born in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 1980. After graduating from Hanoi University of Architecture with a degree in Urbanism, she studied the History of Gardens, Heritage and Landscape in Versailles before founding an architectural firm in Vietnam.
Career.
Think Playgrounds.
Due to rapid urban development in Hanoi, outdoor play spaces for children are difficult to locate. Realizing the scarcity of playgrounds during a visit to Hanoi, American photographer Judith Hansen contacted Duc to help build a playground for children. In comparison to other similar high-density Asian cities with 39m2 of green space per inhabitant, Hanoi has only 11.2m2 per capita. In an interview with Duc, she recounts the lack of free playgrounds with proper equipment in Hanoi when they started their work in 2014 as a volunteer group, believing it would have a negative effect on childhood development.
Their process of construction engages local people to build a connection between a public space and the nearby residents. Duc recounts that the most difficult aspect of building a playground is ensuring the local users have the capacity to maintain it. They hold an event called ‘Playday’ which gives children a chance to play and immerse themselves in nature and raise people's awareness.
To further educate about climate change and other environmental problems, most of the materials used in the playgrounds come from recycled materials such as thrown away tires, timber, steel and plastic. By repurposing these materials into slides, zip lines, jungle gyms and other equipment, Duc believes that the materials have a stronger impact on child-like exploration and their senses. This speaks to a similar level of ‘outdoor risky play’ first introduced through Adventure Playgrounds by landscape architect Carl Theodor Sørensen, in Denmark, 1943.
In 2016, Think Playgrounds was registered as a social enterprise. Since establishing Think Playgrounds, they have worked with residents, partners, and communities around Vietnam to build over 180 public playgrounds for children from repurposed materials.
Recognition.
In 2020, Chu Kim Duc was recognized in the 2020 BBC list of 100 Women for her work promoting children's right to play in Vietnam.
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74392810 | Ruth Morgan | Ruth Morgan (October 12, 1870 – March 11, 1934) was an American peace activist during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Working as a manager at Bellevue Hospital in New York City during the early 1900s, she was placed in charge of the Bureau of Hospital Services operated by the American Red Cross in France during World War I. Evaluating the nursing care and social needs of the soldiers serving with the American Expeditionary Forces upon her arrival, she quickly determined that significant improvements were needed and established "Flying Squadrons" of nurses "to be sent 'flying' over France in motor cars to each mobile, evacuation or military hospital where any American soldiers, brigaded with the French, had been sent." Equipped with food and medicine for the soldiers, they also frequently served as translators between the soldiers and their French physicians since many of the Americans they were assisting did not speak French.
Deeply affected by what she witnessed in France during that war, she rose to international prominence through her appointments during the 1920s to leadership positions with national and international advocacy organizations, including the League of Nations. Speaking to a gathering of women in 1925 as chair of the National League of Women Voters' committee on international cooperation, Morgan said:
"Our destinies are in our own hands... If war goes on, it will be our own fault. We can no longer be deluded by the idea that such catastrophes are matters of fate. The establishment of peace is the responsibility of every woman in this room."
Formative years and family.
Born in Staatsburg, New York on October 12, 1870, Ruth Morgan was a daughter of William Dare Morgan (1838-1887) and Angelica Livingston Hoyt (1847-1933) and the sister of suffragists and social reformers Geraldine Morgan Thompson (1872-1967) and Margaret Lewis Morgan Norrie (1869-1927), the latter of whom was the eldest of the Morgan sisters and eponym of the Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park in Dutchess County, New York. Their younger brother, journalist Gerald Morgan Sr. (1879-1948), reported on the Nazi invasion of Belgium for the "New York Tribune" during World War II.
Grandchildren of Morgan Lewis, the third governor of the State of New York who was a son of Francis Lewis, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, Margaret, Ruth, Geraldine, and Gerald Morgan grew up to become prominent members of society and civic leaders in their own right. Ruth Morgan received a private education at home through a governess hired by her parents, who were members of the Episcopal Church. When she was old enough to travel, she was sent for further education to the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Tours, France.
As young women, Ruth and Margaret Morgan joined the Colony Club during its first years of operation, and actively helped to recruit Eleanor Roosevelt and suffragist and conservationist Rosalie Edge as new members to the club during the early 1900s.
Hospital career and activism.
Employed as a manager at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, beginning sometime around 1905, Ruth Morgan continued to work in that capacity into the mid-1920s, dividing her residency time between her hometown of Staatsburg and Washington Square in the city. In 1917, she was appointed by New York City Mayor John Purroy Mitchel to chair the Cooperative Committee of Women on Defense.
During World War I, she was appointed as a high commissioner for the American Red Cross and served in France. She is credited with the planning and implementation of "Flying Squadrons" of nurses who transported food and medicine by automobile to "mobile, evacuation or military hospital[s] where any American soldiers, brigaded with the French, had been sent." Observed Morgan:
"Wounded and dying American soldiers were being placed in hospitals which were strange to them, and where they were not understood. Our men could not speak French. The French staffs could not talk English. Something had to be done.
No one but the patients themselves will ever fully realize the tonic these women were…. Men who had gone over the top, who had become unconscious on the battle ground and were carried into a French hospital, woke out of their sick faint fearing they had been taken prisoner by the Germans. When they found they could not understand the language, they were sure they had been trapped…. When the flying squadrons reassured soldiers, they relieved the French physicians' curative task."
During the 1920s, Morgan chaired the National League of Women Voters' department of international cooperation for the prevention of war. Among the agencies and initiatives supported during her tenure were the World Court in 1924 and the Kellogg-Briand Pact in 1928.
In 1921, she chaired the Women's Council on the Limitation of Armaments, which was held in Washington, D.C. from November 12, 1921, to February 6, 1922, as part of the Washington Naval Conference that resulted in the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty.
On April 19, 1922, Morgan presented the opening remarks at a highly publicized New York City League of Women Voters' event, during which she introduced Viscountess Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, the American-born, British politician who had become the first woman to be seated as a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Lady Astor, who had returned to America to participate as a delegate to the Pan-American Conference of Women in Baltimore, Maryland from April 20 to 29, gave a pre-conference address to the New York audience, which included Carrie Chapman Catt and other leading women's rights activists, as well as Morgan's fellow Colony Club members, civic leaders and prominent members of society.
In early 1925, Morgan participated in the League of Nations Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1926, she chaired the International Alliance of Women's committee for peace and a League of Nations committee in Geneva.
In 1932, she was one of six hundred women who participated as delegates to the five-day National League of Women Voters' convention in Detroit, Michigan. These delegates were appointed and authorized "to decide the participation in government...attempted during the next two years by their constituent State or local leagues in forty-two States, the District of Columbia and Hawaii."
Illness, death and interment.
Morgan fell ill after chairing a conference hosted by the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War in Washington, D.C. in January 1934. She died at the age of sixty-three at her home in Manhattan on March 11, 1934. Following funeral services at Grace Episcopal Church in Manhattan on March 13, which were attended by her family and friends, including U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and Sara Roosevelt, the mother of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Morgan was interred in the Morgan family's mausoleum at the Saint James Episcopal Churchyard in Hyde Park, New York.
Social and political affiliations.
Morgan was a member of multiple political and social organizations during her lifetime, including the:
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74392819 | Hayler coat of arms | Hayler is a English heraldic coat of arms. It was used by the English "Hayler" family. The surname Hayler was first found in Hampshire during the "early" Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England period, in the then, Kingdom of Wessex.
History.
The Hayler surname derived from the Anglo-Saxon name "Alard," which is an abbreviated form of the personal name "Adelard." In today's language both of the Old English names translate as "'Noble Strength'."
Family seat.
In the 11th Century, during the High Middle Ages and from very early times, The Hayler family held a Family seat in Hampshire for many centuries. Hampshire was where the Hayler surname first originated from. The Family Seat position, granted their own Coat of arms.
When a Hayler family member inherited the Family seat they would phase themselves as e.g. ""Thomas Hayler of" "the Kingdom of Wessex", "Thomas Hampshire of Hayler" or "Thomas Hayler of Hampshire of the Kingdom of Wessex"." The family as a "collective" could have been known as ""The Hayler of Hampshire and Kingdom of Wessex"."
There have been recordings of variants about the Hayler name, and it has been mentioned in the Domesday Book. It is highly likely that it is evidence of the Hayler Family's Seat and residence in Hampshire which could show the historic connection of the family within the Hant's area.
Coat of arms.
The Hayler family have a personal and unique coat of arms. It is believed that the Heraldic coat of arms of the Hayler family was granted before the end of the 12th century.
Translation.
Crest: An Argent shield with three Azure bars between ten Azure "fleur-de-lis."
Origin: Hampshire, Kingdom of England.
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74392825 | Beach soccer at the 2023 South American Beach Games | Beach soccer competitions at the 2023 South American Beach Games in Santa Marta, Colombia were held between July 18 and 21, 2023 at the "Estadio Fútbol Playa" of the "Parque Multideportivo 500 Años".<br>
It was organized by ODESUR, with the supervision of CONMEBOL jointly with the Colombian Football Federation.
Schedule.
The competition schedule is as follows:
Participation.
Eight nations participated in beach soccer events of the 2023 South American Beach Games.
Group stage.
The top teams of each group advanced to the Gold medal match, the second teams advanced to the Bronze medal match. The teams finishing in third and fourth proceeded to play in consolation matches against the teams finishing in the same position in the other group to determine their final rank.
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74392859 | Magherafelt (District Electoral Area) | Magherafelt is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland. The district elects five members to Mid Ulster District Council and contains the wards of Coolshinny, Glebe, Lissan, The Loup and Town Parks East. Magherafelt forms part of the Mid Ulster constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
It was created for the 1985 local elections, where it was called Magherafelt Town until 2014, and contained five wards (Ballymaguigan, Knockclogrim, Lecumpter, Town Parks East and Town Parks West). For the 1993 local elections it gained an additional ward, Glebe. For the 2014 local elections it was reduced to five wards.
2023 Election.
2019: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
2023: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
2019–2023 Change: No change
2019 Election.
2014: 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
2019: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
2014–2019 Change: DUP gain from UUP
2014 Election.
2011: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
2014: 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
2011-2014 Change: Sinn Féin loss due to the reduction of one seat
2011 Election.
2005: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
2011: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
2005-2011 Change: Sinn Féin gain from DUP
2005 Election.
2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
2005: 3 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
2001-2005 Change: No change
2001 Election.
1997: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
2001: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
1997-2001 Change: No change
1997 Election.
1993: 2 x DUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP
1997: 2 x DUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP
1993-1997 Change: No change
1993 Election.
1989: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin
1993: 2 x DUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin
1989-1993 Change: SDLP gain due to the addition of one seat
1989 Election.
1985: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin
1989: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin
1985-1989 Change: No change
1985 Election.
1985: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin
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74392867 | Hlayiseka Chewane | Hlayiseka Crucief Chewane is a South African politician and medical doctor who was a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa for the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) from 2015 to 2017.
Biography.
Chewane was a member of the Students' Representative Council (SRC) of MEDUNSA for three consecutive terms and served as president for one term. He qualified as a medical doctor and has practiced in the public and private sectors.
Chewane joined the Economic Freedom Fighters in 2013. He attended the party's Policy Conference as well as the National Assembly on "What is to be Done". He was elected to the EFF Central Command Team (CCT), the party's highest decision-making structure between conferences, at the party's first National Peoples Assembly in December 2014. In June 2015, he was sworn in as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa; he filled the casual vacancy that arose when Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala was expelled from the EFF. Chewane was appointed to serve on the Portfolio Committee on Health.
Chewane resigned from the National Assembly on 1 January 2017 and Sophie Thembekwayo was appointed to take up his seat. He unsuccessfully stood as an EFF parliamentary candidate in the 2019 national and provincial elections.
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74392873 | A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School! | is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mai Tanaka. It began serialization in Square Enix's "Monthly G Fantasy" magazine in November 2014.
Publication.
Written and illustrated by Mai Tanaka, "A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School!" began serialization in Square Enix's "Monthly G Fantasy" magazine on November 18, 2014. Its chapters have been compiled into fifteen "tankōbon" volumes as of June 2023.
During their panel at Sakura-Con 2017, Yen Press announced that they licensed the manga for English publication.
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74392877 | K1000 rally | K-1000 or Karnataka 1000 is the longest running motorsports rally in India. It is the third oldest rally in the world. K1000 is the flagship annual event organised by Karnataka Motor Sports Club (KMSC), one of the founder members of FMSCI, the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India.
Started in 1975, K1000 is run over 1000 miles over a span of two or more days running across multiple states. Originally run as a Time, Speed Distance (TSD) rally, currently K1000 is run as a Special Stage Rally and is part of the Indian National Rally Championship (INRC).
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74392908 | Astyanax brevirhinus | Astyanax brevirhinus is a small species of freshwater fish known only from a river basin in northeastern Brazil. It is somewhat understudied and lacks a conservation status, but it is present in a region that is the subject of an ecological restoration project - the Jequitinhonha River. Specifics of diet and behavior are unknown, though shoaling activity has been observed in laboratory conditions.
The species name "brevirhinus" means "short nose"; this is because "A. brevirhinus" can be told apart from several congeners by its abbreviated snout length. Other factors, such as a lateral stripe and horizontal humeral spot, are shared with other "Astyanax" species, but aspects of dentition and fin structure can be used to differentiate. Nonetheless, these and other aspects - such as the deep body and silver scales - are not uncommon features within Astyanax as a whole.
Taxonomy.
Astyanax brevirhinus was first cataloged by prolific German-American ichthyologist Carl H. Eigenmann in 1908. The type specimen, however, was collected much earlier; the Thayer expedition to Brazil, an ecological and biological endeavor undertaken by multiple scientists, took place in 1865, and resulted in various type specimens that were later recognized as new species by those that had attended. (Another example is a congener of "A. brevirhinus", "Astyanax bourgeti".) The original description of "A. brevirhinus" was somewhat brief, but it received a more detailed update from Eigenmann in the 1921 volume of "The American Characidae", a series of articles published in the journal "Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College" and later compiled into a book.
"Astyanax brevirhinus" has not undergone any notable taxonomic changes during its existence as a species, and lacks any known synonyms.
Etymology.
The species name "brevirhinus" means "short-nosed". This is in reference to the particularly short snout that helps differentiate "A. brevirhinus" from its congeners. The genus name "Astyanax", while slightly less clear, is linked to the Iliad; Astyanax was a Trojan warrior, and son of prince Hector. The reason for this allusion, while not articulated in the nominal text, is thought to refer to the type species "Astyanax argentatus", which has large, silvery scales, like armor or a shield.
"Astyanax brevirhinus" lacks a common name, but "shortsnout astyanax" has been suggested based upon physical traits and the specific epithet.
Description.
"Astyanax brevirhinus" reaches a maximum of roughly TL (total length, with the tail fin included). The holotype specimen was SL (standard length, excluding the tail fin). The body is about 2.5 times as long as its depth, which makes for a fairly deep-bodied fish. The snout is notably short. The body is deepest at the point just after the start of the dorsal fin. There are 6 scale rows above, 35 scales in, and 4 scale rows below the lateral line. There are 11 rays in the dorsal fin, and 28 rays in the anal fin. The premaxillary has between three and five teeth on each side, which can help differentiate "A. brevirhinus" from similar species with fewer teeth, such as "Deuterodon burgerai" (which was originally placed in "Astyanax", and has only two or three teeth in the same position).
The body is a base silvery color. There is one humeral blotch, which is either rounded or horizontally elongated, and a dark lateral stripe that meets a blotch of dark pigment on the caudal peduncle. This blotch extends through the median caudal-fin rays. (When preserved in alcohol, the dark lateral band turns silver, and the humeral spot becomes obscured.) The caudal fin is mostly a middlingly-dark opaque color, while the middle rays are darkened (especially towards the tips). When in distress, such as during laboratory transport or in conditions perceived as threatening, individuals of "A. brevirhinus" may slightly darken in color.
Sexual dimorphism.
Male specimens of "A. brevirhinus" exhibit bony hooks on the rays of the anal and pelvic fins. This is a feature seen on most species of Astyanax, though some demonstrate bony hooks on all fins instead of just the pelvic and anal. Otherwise, no morphometric or coloration differences are known between the sexes of "A. brevirhinus".
Distribution and ecology.
"Astyanax brevirhinus" is endemic to the Jequitinhonha River basin in Brazil. The holotype specimen was collected along the Jequitinhonha valley during the Thayer expedition in 1865–66. Its preferred water parameters appear to be within the pH range of 6.2–7.5, and the temperature range of –; tests with higher water temperatures upon captive specimens have resulted erratic swimming behavior and difficulty staying close to the surface of the water.
Observation in laboratory conditions reveals shoaling behavior amongst conspecifics of "A. brevirhinus", not uncommon in species of "Astyanax" (both captive and wild). Otherwise, little has been published of the species' diet or behavior. It is known to live in the same river basin as congener "Astyanax turmalinensis", but sympatric behavior has not been observed. Other congeners within a similar general region include "Astyanax lacustris", "Astyanax jacobinae", and "Astyanax epiagos", all from rivers to the northeast of Brazil.
Conservation status.
"Astyanax brevirhinus" has been classified as data deficient by the IUCN. Without further knowledge of its distribution, biology, and general population trends, a definite conservation status cannot be ascertained. Previous diamond mining activity in the Jequitinhonha River region has been met with an ongoing preservation project in hopes of restoring local flora and fauna diversity, but the prognosis is not entirely positive; the riparian zone has been deemed unlikely to return to its former health. However, efforts have not been entirely without payoff, and the riparian zone has had some recovery in the past 7 to 11 years, which means that aquatic species like "A. brevirhinus" are likely to retain the associated benefits if the trend continues.
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74392948 | Zig (album) | Zig is the upcoming fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Poppy, set for release on October 27, 2023, through Sumerian Records.
Background.
In a December 2022 interview with "Revolver", Poppy revealed that she was working on her fifth studio album. In March 2023, she announced a new single called "Church Outfit", which was released on April 4. The single marked her return to Sumerian Records following a short signing with Republic Records for her 2022 EP "Stagger". On July 19, 2023, Poppy released the single, "Knockoff", and announced the album, "Zig" for release on October 27, 2023. Following the announcement, the album was immediately made available for pre-order.
Music and lyrics.
Sumerian Records has listed the album on Apple Music as "alternative". The singles that have been released for the album so far have all been produced by Ali Payami and described as dark pop.
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74392962 | Barbecue in Alabama | Alabama has various barbecue styles and dishes and is noted for hickory-smoked pork and chicken prevalence. White sauce, a mayonnaise-based barbecue sauce, was invented in Decatur, Alabama in 1925.
History.
Barbecue became popular in Alabama during the early 19th century, although its roots go back to Native American cooking styles. Local militias often hosted barbecues to incentivize their members to attend yearly drills and were also hosted as political or civic gatherings. By the late 1820s, some social reformers opposed barbecues, arguing that they encouraged "political debasement" or that the presence of alcohol and merrymaking was a moral concern. However, these anti-barbecue efforts were unsuccessful. The earliest barbecue restaurants in Alabama were opened in the 1890s, as Americans moved into the cities because of accelerating industrialization. Pork and chicken became the primary meats served because of their local availability. In 2015, the Alabama Department of Tourism launched "The Year of Alabama Barbecue", a campaign to promote Alabama's barbecue restaurants. The oldest continuously operating restaurant in Alabama is the Golden Rule Bar-B-Q, founded in 1891.
Styles of barbecue.
Traditional barbecue in Alabama centers around pork cooked in open pits over hickory wood. Other hardwoods, such as oak and pecan, are also used. Smoked pork is often pulled and eaten on a bun as a sandwich with coleslaw and dill pickles. A vinegar-based barbecue sauce similar to that found in North Carolina barbecue is common in northern Alabama. A tomato-based barbecue sauce is most common south of Birmingham.
Evergreen, Alabama is known for the invention of Conecuh sausage.
Alabama white sauce.
Alabama white sauce is a mayonaisse-based barbecue sauce commonly used with barbecue chicken, an Alabama specialty. Typical ingredients of white sauce include vinegar, lemon juice, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, and horseradish. It is believed to have been invented by Bob Gibson at the Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q in Decatur in 1925. The sauce's popularity was confined mainly to northern Alabama until 1994 when it began to be bottled and sold commercially.
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74392967 | Bombing of Khmelnytskyi (2022–present) | The shelling of Khmelnytskyi and the region began after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Course of events.
2022.
At 23:50 on March 29, several explosions sounded during the air raid alarm in Khmelnytskyi. The city, for the first time since the full-scale war, was subjected to a missile strike. The target of the Russians was an infrastructure facility. According to Mayor Oleksandr Simchyshyn, there were no casualties, a fire broke out at the scene of the attack, which was localized.
On June 25, in the Khmelnytsky region, air defense forces shot down two Russian missiles. The wreckage of one of the missiles fell in a forest in Kamyanets-Podilskyi district.
In the morning of July 24, during another rocket attack, several explosions occurred, 3 cruise missiles of the Russian army were shot down by air defense forces over the Khmelnytsky region.
On October 6, the Russians conducted another missile attack on the region, with no casualties.
On October 10, a massive rocket attack took place throughout Ukraine, affecting the Khmelnytsky region. In the regional center, three missile strikes damaged a substation, causing power and water outages in the city for two days. There were no casualties among the population. It was also reported that several missiles were shot down over the territory of the region.
On the morning of October 22, during the air raid alarm, Russian forces launched a missile strike on energy infrastructure. In several settlements of the region, the power went out.
On October 31, a Russian missile was shot down over the territory of the Khmelnytskyi region. The wreckage hit private housing, there were no casualties.
On November 15, two missiles struck Khmelnytskyi. The Russian missiles hit energy infrastructure, part of the city was left without electricity.
On December 31, the Russians conducted two missile attacks on Khmelnytskyi, part of the city was left without electricity, more than 8 people were wounded. As a result of injuries, one girl died. 8 civilian cars, 13 residential buildings and warehouses were also damaged.
2023.
On February 10, at about 4 a.m., Iranian kamikaze drones attacked an energy infrastructure facility in one of the communities of Shepetivka district. On the same day, a Russian missile hit a critical infrastructure facility in Khmelnytskyi. There were no casualties among the population, half of the city was left without electricity. A missile and a drone were shot down over the region.
On February 18, Russian ships fired four missiles at Ukraine from the Black Sea, two of which were shot down and two others hit a military facility and a public transport stop in Khmelnytskyi. As a result of the attack, two people were injured, ten high-rise buildings, three educational institutions, one civilian car were damaged; The shock wave broke one and a half thousand windows.
On the night of February 27, Khmelnytsky was attacked by three kamikaze drones, several buildings were damaged, a SES rescuer who was extinguishing a fire from arrival was killed; Four people were injured: later one of them, a firefighter, died of his injuries in the hospital.
On the morning of May 13, at 4:17, the Russian forces with the help of Iranian-made drones attacked a military facility in the Black Island community. After hitting the facility, a series of high-power detonations occurred. The shock wave damaged educational institutions, medical institutions, administrative buildings, industrial facilities, multi-story and private residential buildings in the territory of the Chornoostrovska and Khmelnytskyi communities. Near the village of Gruzevitsa, railway tracks were damaged, which delayed the movement of trains. About 30 people were wounded.
Explosions occurred on the territory of the 649th aviation storage of missile weapons and ammunition. It is known from open sources that a large number of obsolete aerial bombs were stored here, the UOSM-DM enterprise from the Ukroboronservice warehouse, where expired ammunition was disposed of is also located here. Satellite imagery shows that the area was completely destroyed.
On the night of June 12–13, air defense forces were working during the air raid alarm to shoot down missiles. Rocket debris damaged 6 residential buildings. There were no injuries or deaths.
On the night of June 20–21, air defense forces shot down 6 drones. The wreckage of one of them fell on a private residential building.
On the night of June 22–23, the wreckage of a downed rocket fell near private housing in Khmelnytskyi. In one of the communities of the Khmelnytskyi district, several residential buildings were damaged by the shock wave.
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74392972 | 1998 Central Oklahoma Bronchos football team | The 1998 Central Oklahoma Bronchos football team represented the University of Central Oklahoma during the 1998 NCAA Division II football season as members of the Lone Star Conference. This was the 93rd season of Broncho football. The Bronchos played their home games at Wantland Stadium in Edmond, Oklahoma, which has been Central's home stadium since 1965. The team was headed by coach Gary Howard in his 22nd season as head coach. The Bronchos finished the regular season with an undefeated 11–0 record and the Lone Star Conference Championship. The Bronchos also made the program's second appearance in the NCAA Division II playoffs. Entering the playoffs the Bronchos were the number one ranked team in the country. The Bronchos they won their first-round game over NAIA Football National Championship with a win over , but lost their second-round game against . In 2000, the NCAA forced Texas A&M–Kingsville
to forfeit their entire 1998 season due to use of inelgible players. As a result, the University of Central Oklahoma officially recognizes this season as an undefeated 13–0.
Rankings.
The Bronchos began the 1998 season ranked 13th in the Division II Committee poll. They rose to a tie for 5th by the end of the month. The Bronchos would rise to No. 2 by mid October. The Bronchos would gain the number one ranking after the Ouachita Baptist game and hold the top spot until the playoffs.
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74393008 | Algeria at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics | Algeria competed at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, Finland, from 6 to 14 August 2005. Algeria participated with 10 athletes.
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74393011 | Amadou Baba Diarra | Amadou Baba Diarra was a Malian politician and military figure. Diarra was the second vice president of ruling junta from 1968 to 1979.
He was born ca. 1933 in Diena, in Koutiala Cercle. He volunteered in the French colonial army in 1953. He became second lieutenant in February 1965, and lieutenant two years later.
Diarra was a member of the ruling junta which took power and ousted Modibo Keïta on 19 November 1968. Lieutenant Diarra was appointed second vice president of the junta. He was promoted to the rank of captain in October 1971. Diarra was appointed as Minister of Finance from 1970 to 1973, and Minister of Planning in 1975.
Diarra was promoted colonel in 1978, and served again as Minister of Finance from 1978 to 1979. In the same year he became deputy secretary general of the sole legal party, Democratic Union of the Malian People (UDPM). He was promoted to brigadier general in October 1982 and division general four years later. He successively became Minister of State in charge of Equipment (1983-1985), Minister of State in charge of Planning (1985-1988), before be appointed as president of the Economic and Social Council until March 1991. He retired in 1992 when Moussa Traoré was deposed.
He died in May 2008.
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74393015 | Hugo Ayaviri | Hugo Ayaviri (La Paz, Bolivia, December 21, 1978) is a Bolivian mountain climber and guide.
In 2021, he became the first Bolivian to summit Broad Peak and K2 without oxygen in ten days.
After climbing Ñanga Parbat in early July 2023, he reached the peak of Gasherbrum II without oxygen on July 19, 2023.
Biography.
In 2008, he became an instructor of high-mountain rescue; in 2009, he graduated as a high-mountain guide, under the auspices of the Unión Internacional de Asociaciones de Guías de Montaña (UIAGM).
In 2015, he was the general secretary of the Association of Mountain and Trekking Guides of Bolivia (AGMTB) and technical director of Socorro Andino Boliviano (SAB).
Ascents.
He has specialized in rock and mountain ascents, climbing the most important mountains of Bolivia's Cordillera Real and Cordillera Occidental.
In 2021, together with the Belgian climber , he summited Broad Peak on July 18, followed by K2 on July 28, without oxygen in ten days; at the time, only eight persons had accomplished this feat without oxygen.
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74393034 | Non si può morire dentro | "Non si può morire dentro" (transl. "One cannot die inside") is a 1976 song composed by Gianni Bella (music) and Giancarlo Bigazzi (lyrics) and performed by Gianni Bella.
The first song composed by Bella on the piano, unlike the previous ones composed on the guitar, the song eventually turned to be his major success as a singer. Characterised by the use of falsetto, it won the Festivalbar and topped the Italian hit parade for 10 weeks.
The single ultimately was the second best selling single of the year, behind Lucio Battisti's "Ancora tu". Bella also recorded a Spanish-language version of the song titled "De amor ya no se muere".
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74393040 | Sontham | Sontham may refer to:
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74393049 | O'Houlihan (dynasty) | The source of the name "hUallacháin" (Houlihan) is from the progenitor of the family Prince Uallachan Mac Flann: "A rough-fettering lord of distinguished valour, venomous- weaponed, h-Uallachan." An Irish warrior and Prince of Siol Anmchadha. His name means "Proud", or "Arrogant".
The Houlihan family is a noble house and clan descending from Uí Mháine. We can see this in the patronymic naming system: "Uallachan, son of Flann, son of Flannchadh, son of Innrachtach, son of Maelduin, son of Donngal, son of Anmchadh, son of Eoghan Buac."
There is 3 different lines of Houlihan which come from different places. The name found in this article is the main line whom were "Chiefs of Siol Anmchadha in Hy-Maine" as listed in John O'Hart's Pedigree of the Irish Nation.
History.
Notable persons of the name.
King Giolla Finn Mac Uallachain, Chief of the Name Ó hUallacháin, Chief of Siol Anmchadha, King of Siol Anmchadha (1096-1101)
Archbishop of Cashel Donal Ua hUallacháin (1171-1182)
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74393070 | Beach handball at the 2023 European Games – Men's tournament | The men's beach handball tournament at the 2023 European Games was held from 20 to 22 June at the Tarnów Beach Arena.
Preliminary round.
"All times are local (UTC+2)."
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74393082 | Carson Buschman-Dormond | Carson Emanuel Buschman-Dormond (born October 27, 2002) is a Canadian soccer player who plays for York United FC in the Canadian Premier League.
Early life.
Buschman-Dormond began playing youth soccer with Fusion FC, later joining the Vancouver Whitecaps Academy, where he played for one season when he was 12. He then returned to playing with Fusion FC and received a scholarship offer to Simon Fraser University to play with the men's soccer team, when he was in tenth grade. He then joined the Blaise Soccer Academy, run by former Swiss national team player Blaise Nkufo.
In 2019, he went on trial with Estonian club Viljandi JK Tulevik, but did not sign with them as he was underage, and afterwards trialed with Dutch side De Graafschap, before returning to Vancouver. Overall, he went on trial with seven different teams in six different countries, including the youth sides of German clubs Borussia Mönchengladbach and Hertha Berlin.
Club career.
In February 2021, he joined Estonian Meistriliiga side Viljandi JK Tulevik. He made his debut in the first game of the season on March 13 against FC Kuressaare, scoring his first goal in the match. He scored two goals and added three assists in twelve league matches, also helping the club reach the semi-finals of the Estonian Cup.
In June 2021, he was sent on loan to Swiss club FC Zürich on a two-year loan, with a purchase option. He spent the majority of his time playing with the U21 side which played in the third tier Swiss Promotion League, but also appeared in eight friendlies with the first team.
In late June 2023, he signed with Czech club FC Sellier & Bellot Vlašim, ahead of the 2023-24 season. However, a few weeks later in July 2023, he signed with Canadian Premier League club York United FC for the remainder of the 2023 season, with a club option for 2024.
Personal life.
Buschman-Dormond is a dual Canadian and Dutch citizen.
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74393107 | Guillermo Gallegos | Guillermo Antonio Gallegos Navarrete (born 24 June 1970) is a Salvadoran lawyer and politician of the Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA). He currently serves as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador and previously served as the president of the Legislative Assembly
Early life.
Guillermo Antonio Gallegos Navarrete was born on 24 June 1970 in Sensuntepeque, Cabañas, El Salvador. He graduated from the Technological University of El Salvador as a bachelor in legal sciences.
Political career.
Gallegos was elected as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador from San Salvador in the 2000 legislative election. He was re-elected to the Legislative Assembly in 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021.
On 16 January 2010, Gallegos and eleven other deputies of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) split from the party and established the Grand Alliance for National Unity. Gallegos was the party's founder.
In July 2013, Gallegos called for an investigation into the activities of Raúl Mijango regarding the government's ongoing truce with criminal gangs. On 4 July 2013, Mijango claimed that homicides would decrease in 72 afters after an increase in homicides, to which Gallegos stated "a person who has knowledge, control, and knows how the gangs act, and says that in 72 hours homicides may drop is also in some way an accomplice". Mijango refuted Gallegos' claim.
On 17 May 2021, Gallegos, along with four other government ministers, was named by the United States government as being corrupt.
2024 election.
In April 2023, Gallegos stating he would seek re-election to the Legislative Assembly in the 2024 general election, but later, in June 2023, he stated that he was running for mayor of San Salvador Centro. The following day, he reverted his decision, stating that he would be seeking re-election to the Legislative Assembly.
Gallegos and other leaders of GANA believed that incumbent president Nayib Bukele would run for re-election with GANA rather than switching to Nuevas Ideas. Gallegos stated that GANA would endorse Bukele's re-election campaign if he ran under the banner of another party instead of GANA and that GANA would not participate in the presidential election unless Bukele was the party's candidate. On 26 June 2023, the day after Bukele officially registered as Nuevas Ideas' presidential candidate, Gallegos confirmed that GANA would not run a presidential or vice presidential candidate, stating that the party supported Bukele's re-election campaign.
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74393117 | Fini (company) | Fini is a Spanish confectionery company founded in 1971. It is one of the largest confectionery companies in the world.Brazil is the company's main market and the company's products are present in more than 85,000 Brazilian points of sale, making Fini the market leader in Brazil.
History.
In 1953, Dom Manuel Sánchez Cano founded a small chewing gum factory. 1971, Dom Manuel started to manufacture sweets. In 1980, the company began to expand, opening distribution centers in Portugal and Spain.
In 1998, the company arrives in Brazil.In 2001, the company's factory in Jundiaí was inaugurated. The factory in Jundiaí is the only outside Europe.
In 2018, Fini launched its brand of candies aimed at well-being and health.
In 2019, Fini launched an ice cream line in Brazil, in partnership with the company Froneri.
See Also.
Candy
Candy Shop
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74393126 | Sperrin (Magherafelt District Electoral Area) | Sperrin was one of the three district electoral areas in Magherafelt, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014. The district elected five members to Magherafelt District Council, and formed part of the Mid Ulster constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
It was created for the 1985 local elections, and contained the wards of Draperstown, Lower Glenshane, Maghera, Swatragh and Tobermore. It was abolished for the 2014 local elections and largely replaced with the new Carntogher DEA with Draperstown moving to the Moyola DEA.
2011 Election.
2005: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP
2011: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP
2005-2011 Change: No change
2005 Election.
2001: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent
2005: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP
2001-2005 Change: DUP gain from Independent
2001 Election.
1997: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
2001: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent
1997-2001 Change: Sinn Féin gain from SDLP, Independent leaves UUP
1997 Election.
1993: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
1997: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
1993-1997 Change: No change
1993 Election.
1989: 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1993: 2 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP
1989-1993 Change: Sinn Féin gain from Independent Nationalist
1989 Election.
1985: 2 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP
1989: 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1985-1989 Change: SDLP gain from Sinn Féin, Independent Nationalist leaves SDLP
1985 Election.
1985: 2 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP
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74393141 | Edmonton WAM! | The Edmonton WAM! is a ringette team in the National Ringette League's (NRL) Western Conference. The team is one of two NRL teams based in Edmonton, Alberta, with the other being the Edmonton Black Gold Rush. Their other provincial rival are the Calgary RATH.
Team history.
The WAM! were founed in 2004 at the same time as the NRL, which was first established in 2002, was moving towards playing its first season. It was not until 2007–08 that a proper National Ringette League division became a part of the annual Canadian Ringette Championships, but the WAM! found early success and won a national title representing Alberta in the Open Division at the 2007 national championships.
The team won its first official NRL title at the 2010 Canadian Ringette Championships, hosted in Saskatoon. The WAM! avenged a loss from the 2009 gold medal game by defeating the Cambridge Turbos in the final by a score of 2–0 with goaltender Keely Brown posting a shutout. The Turbos and WAM! met in the final for a third straight year at the 2011 Championships, and Edmonton secured its second consecutive national title with a 4–2 victory in which Brown made 50 saves.
The team remained competitive, including winning back-to-back bronze medals in 2014 and 2015. Defender Jenna Debaji was named to Team Canada for the 2016 World Ringette Championships, where the team won silver.
After the 2022 season, veteran Emily Lubbers retired from playing and became the head coach of the WAM! She had played with the team since 2011, winning two silver and two bronze medals each at the national championships. In her first season as coach, Lubbers led the WAM! to a 22–4 record to finish atop the Western Conference. The team also played an exhibition match against the Alberta junior team in February ahead of the Canada Winter Games. The team was a favourite ahead of the 2023 Canadian Championships in Regina. There, the WAM! went undefeated to win their first national title since 2011. Gillian Dreger, Melissa Mitsuka, and Annie Debaji were all named to the tournament all-star team.
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74393144 | Golden Rule Bar-B-Q |
Golden Rule Bar-B-Q is a barbecue restaurant chain in Alabama. It has been in continuous operation since 1891.
History.
The first Golden Rule Bar-B-Q restaurant was founded in Irondale, Alabama by the Williams family in 1891. Located on a major dirt road, the restaurant originally catered to travelers. The original wood building had dirt floors, but it was later moved to a new location with a wood floored dining room. The restaurant served barbecue pork and other refreshments. The construction of U.S. Route 78 placed the restaurant on a major route between Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia. Because it served beer, it was popular with travellers who had to pass through dry counties on their way to Atlanta.
Ellene Williams married Jabo Stone in the 1930s, and they ran the restaurant together. The location was moved again in the 1960s when the highway was widened, and the new building had neon signs and a metal awning. The Williams-Stones had no children to inherit the business and eventually decided to sell the restaurant. In 1969, the restaurant was sold to Michael Matsos, a Greek American from Massachusetts who operated La Paree, a successful steakhouse in Birmingham. Jabo Stone had frequently visited Matsos' steakhouse, and Matsos in turn had enjoyed Stone's restaurant. LIke with his other restaurants, Matsos hired Greek chefs and managers to help him run the restaurant.
Matsos expanded the restaurant's menu to include Coca-Cola, French fries and a green salad. He later moved the restaurant to a new location near the Interstate 20 in the 1970s.
As of 2007, the restaurant was being run by Michael's son Charles. It had 29 locations throughout Alabama in 2013. The chain was purchased by Brian Kemp in 2023. It is the oldest continuously operating restaurant in Alabama.
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74393145 | Oakland school shooting | Oakland school shooting may refer to:
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74393146 | 2023 Korean Mixed Doubles Curling Championship | The 2023 Korean Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, Korea's national mixed doubles curling championship, will be held from July 23 to 31 at the Uijeongbu Curling Stadium in Uijeongbu, South Korea. The winning pair will become the Korean National Team for the 2023–24 curling season. They will represent Korea at the 2024 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship with the location still to be determined. Through regional qualifiers, the field was narrowed down from over forty teams to just eighteen who competed in the national championship. Like the 2023 Korean Curling Championships, the event was held in three rounds.
Among the field of eighteen pairs were newly crowned champions in the men's and women's events, Jeong Yeong-seok and Kim Su-ji. Jeong, third on Park Jong-duk's Gangwon Province team paired up with Gangneung City Hall's Kim Seon-yeong for a second year in a row while Kim, second on Gim Eun-ji's Gyeonggi Province rink joined forces with Kim Jeong-min. Other notable pairs included defending champions Kim Ji-yoon and Jeong Byeong-jin of Seoul, who went 3–7 at the 2023 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Gangneung. Chuncheon City Hall's Kim Hye-rin paired with Yoo Min-hyeon, while Park Yu-bin and Lee Jeong-jae formed another team out of Seoul.
Teams.
The teams are listed as follows:
Round 1.
The first round of the championship will be held from July 23 to 28. The first-place team in each pool will advance directly to the second round while the second and third place teams advance to the playoff games.
Round robin results.
All draws are listed in Korea Standard Time ().
Draw 1.
"Sunday, July 23, 16:00"
Draw 2.
"Sunday, July 23, 20:00"
Draw 3.
"Monday, July 24, 8:00"
Draw 4.
"Monday, July 24, 12:00"
Draw 5.
"Monday, July 24, 16:00"
Draw 6.
"Monday, July 24, 20:00"
Draw 7.
"Tuesday, July 25, 8:00"
Draw 8.
"Tuesday, July 25, 12:00"
Draw 9.
"Tuesday, July 25, 16:00"
Draw 10.
"Tuesday, July 25, 20:00"
Draw 11.
"Wednesday, July 26, 8:00"
Draw 12.
"Wednesday, July 26, 12:00"
Draw 13.
"Wednesday, July 26, 16:00"
Draw 14.
"Wednesday, July 26, 20:00"
Draw 15.
"Thursday, July 27, 8:00"
Draw 16.
"Thursday, July 27, 12:00"
Draw 17.
"Thursday, July 27, 16:00"
Draw 18.
"Thursday, July 27, 20:00"
Playoff Games.
"Friday, July 28, 10:00"
Round 2.
The second round of the championship will be held from July 28 to 29. The top two teams will advance to the third round.
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74393166 | Ekinhan Erişkin | Ekinhan Erişkin (born December, 1989) is a full-time Professor at the Süleyman Demirel University in the area of Transportation Engineering. Eriskin is an author of several international manuscripts.
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74393210 | Rebecca Knaak | Rebecca Knaak (born 23 June 1996) is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Rosengård.
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74393232 | Hiden (restaurant) | Hiden is a Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant in Miami, in the U.S. state of Florida. The restaurant has eight seats and the menu has included suhshi. "Time Out Miami" has rated Hiden 5 out of 5 stars.
Hiden has been described as a "sister" restaurant to Taco Stand.
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74393239 | Rin Keys | Rin Keys (born 23 September 2008) is an American rhythmic gymnast of Japanese descent. She is the first to win a World Championship medal for the United States.
Career.
In June 2021 Rin debuted into the national team at the 2021 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, where she won gold in teams and bronze in the All-Around, with ball and with clubs.
The following year she won gold in teams, in the All-Around, with ball and with ribbon as well as silver with hoop at the Pan American Championships.
In 2023 at the Pan American Championships in Guadalajara, she won gold in teams, in the All-Around, with hoop and with ball, silver with clubs and bronze within ribbon. In July she was selected for the Junior World Championships in Cluj-Napoca along Megan Chu, Erika Rusak and the junior group. She won and historical bronze medal in the clubs final, becoming the first rhythmic gymnast from the US to win a World Championships medal at either junior and senior levels.
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74393261 | List of Union-Philanthropic Society members | The Union-Philanthropic Society is a college literary and debating society at Hampden–Sydney College in Hampden Sydney, Virginia. It was formed by the merger of the Union Literary Society and the Philanthropic Literary Society in 1928. The society has both collegiate and honorary members. Following is a list of Union-Philanthropic Society members.
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74393267 | Blackwater (District Electoral Area) | Blackwater was one of the four district electoral areas in Dungannon, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014. The district elected five members to Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council, and formed part of the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
It was created for the 1985 local elections, and contained the wards of Aughnacloy, Benburb, Caledon, Killyman and Moy. It was abolished for the 2014 local elections and divided between the Dungannon DEA and the Clogher Valley DEA.
2011 Election.
2005: 2 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP
2011: 2 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP
2005-2011 Change: No change
2005 Election.
2001: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP
2005: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP
2001-2005 Change: DUP gain from UUP
2001 Election.
1997: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
2001: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin
1997-2001 Change: Sinn Féin gain from UUP
1997 Election.
1993: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1997: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1993-1997 Change: No change
1993 Election.
1989: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1993: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1989-1993 Change: No change
1989 Election.
1985: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1989: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1985-1989 Change: No change
1985 Election.
1985: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
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74393271 | Casembroot | Casembroot (de Casembroot, van Casembroot) is a last name. Notable people with this last name include:
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74393276 | London Transport Act 1969 | The London Transport Act 1969 (1969 c.l) was a Local Act of the United Kingdom Parliament which concerned the London Transport Board. It was passed on the same day as the Transport (London) Act 1969, which provided for the abolition of the Board and the transfer of its functions to London Transport Executive under the auspices of the Greater London Council.
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74393285 | Kadence (restaurant) | Kadence is a Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant in Orlando, Florida, United States. Jennifer Bañagale and Mark Berdin are chefs, and the menu has included sushi.
Reception.
Kadence was awarded a Michelin star in 2022. Maddy Zollo Rusbosin of The Infatuation said Kadence "looks more like a pop-up modern art museum than an actual restaurant".
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74393286 | Debora Šijački | Debora Šijački is a computational cosmologist whose research involves computational methods for simulating the formation and development of the structures in the universe including galaxies, galaxy clusters, and dark matter, including collaborations in the Illustris project. Originally from Serbia, she was educated in Italy and Germany, and works in the UK as a professor at the University of Cambridge and deputy director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology.
Education and career.
Šijački is originally from Belgrade, the daughter of Serbian physicist , and grew up in Dorćol, a neighborhood of Belgrade. She was an undergraduate at the University of Padua in Italy, and completed a Ph.D. through Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany in 2007 for research performed at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. Her dissertation, "Non Gravitational Heating Mechanisms in Galaxy Clusters", was jointly supervised by and Simon White.
She came to the University of Cambridge in 2007–2010, as a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Astronomy. After continued postdoctoral research from 2010 to 2012 in the US at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, she returned to the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy in 2013 as a university lecturer. She became Reader in Astrophysics and Cosmology in 2016, and Professor of Astrophysics and Cosmology in 2021.
Recognition.
Šijački received the Otto Hahn Medal for her doctoral research. She was the 2019 recipient of the Ada Lovelace Award for High Performance Computing of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), recognizing her "numerous high-impact results in astrophysics based on numerical simulations on state-of-the-art supercomputers".
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74393307 | 1928 Mississippi College Choctaws football team | The 1928 Mississippi College Choctaws football team was an American football team that represented Mississippi College as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1928 college football season. In their fifth year under head coach Stanley L. Robinson, the team compiled a 7–1–2 record.
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74393316 | Rhacophorus larissae | The Cao Bang tree frog ("Rhacophorus larissae") is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. Scientists know it exclusively from the exactly one place: Lung Muoi in Vietnam's Cao Bang Province, approximately 1400 meters above sea level.
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74393335 | Oona Sevenius | Oona Sevenius (born 28 April 2004) is a Finnish footballer who plays for AC Milan as a striker.
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74393343 | 2023 Auckland shooting | On the morning of 20 July 2023, a mass shooting occurred in the central business district of Auckland, New Zealand. Three people were killed, including the shooter, 24-year-old Matu Tangi Matua Reid.
Background.
The second deadliest mass shooting in New Zealand took place in 1990 in Aramoana, with the deadliest being the terror attack in Christchurch in 2019, after which a firearm buy-back scheme was held and the Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines, and Parts) Amendment Act 2019 was passed by the New Zealand House of Representatives on 10 April 2019.
The gunman had been serving a sentence of home detention since March 2023 after being convicted of injuring with intent and family violence. He did not have a firearms license.
Incident.
On 20 July 2023, Matu Tangi Matua Reid entered the One Queen Street building near the Commercial Bay Shopping Centre in the Auckland CBD, which was undergoing renovations at the time, with a pump-action shotgun. He opened fire at the construction site at about 7:22am NZST, killing two people. Reid moved through the building while shooting, and eventually isolated himself in an elevator on the upper levels. Police arrived at 7:34am, with the Armed Offenders Squad arriving four minutes later. Officers entered the building while Reid was shooting. As well as the fatalities there were other injuries, including police. Reid was found dead. He had previously been employed at the same construction site.
Seven of the people injured suffered gunshot wounds, with three people injured by other means.
Responses.
The immediate area around the Queen Street / Quay Street intersection was put under lockdown. The shooting was noted due to being unusual in New Zealand, and for happening on the day of the first match of the local 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.
New Zealand prime minister Chris Hipkins issued a press statement, saying that there was no national security risk, and there would be no change in the nation's terror threat level. The New Zealand police commissioner, Andrew Coster, offered condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
Auckland Transport operate a ferry terminal near to the location of the incident, as well as trains and buses; they did not initially close the ferry service but did divert buses away from the nearby Britomart station. Later in the day, they announced that they would conduct a review of their response in terms of ensuring the safety of passengers, particular in the case of the ferry.
Women's World Cup.
The opening match of the 2023 Women's World Cup between New Zealand and Norway kicked off as planned on the evening of 20 July 2023 at Eden Park in Auckland. Hipkins acknowledged that "clearly with the FIFA World Cup kicking off this evening there are a lot of eyes on Auckland"; he said that the New Zealand government had been in conversation with FIFA and that the Women's World Cup would go ahead as planned. A Football Australia representative said that the shooting was not related to the World Cup.
The incident took place outside the M Hotel, where the Norway team was staying ahead of the match, and close to the fan zone. Norway captain Maren Mjelde said that while members of the team were woken by police helicopters, they "felt safe the whole time"; other players had been having breakfast on the ground floor and were kept inside by security when the lockdown was being put in place. A team spokesperson said that their match preparations were not affected. The United States team, who were set to play on 22 July also reported hearing the shooting, but stated that they were safe as well.
The FIFA Fan Festival, which had been planned to open on 20 July in Auckland CBD at The Cloud, was cancelled for the day with plans to open it at noon on 21 July. A minute of silence was observed just before the opening match in respect for the victims of the shooting.
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74393350 | Kriegeriaceae | The Kriegeriaceae are a family of fungi in the subdivision Pucciniomycotina. The family currently comprises four genera, one of which ("Kriegeria") contains a plant pathogenic species with auricularioid (laterally septate) basidia. The other genera contain species currently known only from their yeast states.
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74393352 | Lift Kodla | Lift Kodla () is a 2010 Indian Kannada-language comedy drama film directed by Ashok Kashyap and starring Jaggesh and Komal. It is a remake of the Telugu-language film "Mee Sreyobhilashi" (2007), which itself is based on the Japanese film "Ikinai" (1998). The film deals with the topic of suicides and released a day after television actors Indudhar and Hema committed suicide. The film was a box office success and ran for more than four weeks in theatres.
Plot.
The film follows Krishna (Jaggesh) and how he prevents a group of ten bus passengers (including Ring Road Gowda played by Komal) travelling from Bangalore to Kodachadri Hills from committing suicide.
Production.
After the success of "Manmatha" (2007), brothers Jaggesh and Komal starred together in this film.
Soundtrack.
The music was composed by V. Manohar. The song "Ondu Maathu" is plagiarised/translated from the song "Oru Vaarthai Solla" from the Tamil film "Ayyaa" (2005). The song "Chirunavvulatho Brathakali" from "Mee Sreyobhilashi" was reused as "Manasondu Iddare Marga".
Reception.
A critic from "The New Indian Express" wrote that "Director Ashok Kashyap has faithfully followed the original version. Had this film released a few years earlier, some of the people who had committed suicide might have changed their minds". V. S. Rajapur from "IANS" rated the film out of 5 stars and wrote that ""Lift Kodla" is a well made film - it has a good story, content, technical values and neat performances". A critic from "Filmibeat" wrote that "The movie is a mirror to reality. Don't miss the movie". A critic from "Indiaglitz" rated the film out of 10 and wrote that "This is a must watch film for those who are planning to end their life. Live your life full and for the deep neck problems suicide is not the answer". A critic from "Chitraloka" wrote that ""Lift Kodla" is a film that no self-respecting Kannada film goers would want to miss".
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74393362 | Girls and Their Monsters | Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America is a 2023 non-fiction book written by Audrey Clare Farley.
Synopsis.
The story of the Morlock girls, identical quadruplets, born in 1930.
Critical reception.
The "Los Angeles Review of Books" called "Girls and Their Monsters" a "fascinating story".
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74393385 | On My Own (Ricki-Lee Coulter song) | "On My Own" is a song recorded by Australian singer and songwriter Ricki-Lee Coulter. It was written by Coulter and Australian production duo DNA Songs, and was released in March 2023 as the lead single from her upcoming fifth studio album.
Background.
Prior to the release of "On My Own", Coulter's last music release was three years prior with "Last Night" (2020), and had since dedicated her career to television, hosting the tenth season of "Australia's Got Talent" in 2022 and the eighth season of "Australian Idol" in early 2023.
Upon announcing the release of "On My Own", Coulter described the song as "the song of my life. If this is the last song I ever put out I can hang my hat up and say 'OK, I'm happy'. It's everything I've ever wanted to say in a song", further explaining "what I love about this song is that it's a bit left-field, it's not what people are expecting from me. My favourite lyric in the whole song is 'I found sparks in the darkest places so watch me start a fire in the rain'. No matter what I've been through, even in the most difficult and challenging times when everything was against me, and people doubted me or said I couldn't... I did. I figured it out, I found a way, I made it happen and I did what nobody expected. That goes for everything in my life. That line represents my entire personality."
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74393408 | Nesrine Bahlouli | Nesrine Bahlouli (born 20 February 2003) is a French midfielder who plays for AC Milan.
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74393418 | Empire V (film) | Empire V () is a 2023 Russian urban fantasy film directed by Victor Ginzburg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Pelevin, and starring Pavel Tabakov as Rama II, a vampire apprentice, begins training to become a full-fledged vampire.
Plot.
Set in contemporary Moscow, Empire V is both fantasy vampire love story and sardonic satire of Russia's power elite, a vivid mirror image of a world ruled by beauty, blood and money.
Roman, a 19-year-old nobody, ponders the choices that have made him one of life’s losers. Lured by a street graffiti promising a better future, he is drugged and wakes in a glamorous mansion to find himself handcuffed and immobile. His captor is a vampire who must pass on his powers before committing suicide — the consequence of having lost a vampire duel. This process involves the transfer of a parasitic worm vampires call “The Tongue.” Roman is to be the Tongue’s new host and thereby a member of the secret elite who rule the world.
Roman is next confronted by Mithra, a mentor figure who seems rudely disinterested in his student. Mithra explains that Roman has been renamed Rama and that the Tongue is less parasite and more symbiotic passenger with objectives of its own. Rama also learns that vampires do not drink blood (which they call “Red Liquid”) but when they sample it, via the Tongue, they absorb all the knowledge and experiences of the donor.
Sampling various Red Liquid extracts from great minds of the past, Rama is tutored in the twin disciplines of Glamor and Discourse, rhetorical devices designed by vampires to blind humanity to the hidden reality of the world by focussing their minds exclusively on the pursuit of financial wealth. In an elaborate seqence involving vampire kung fu, a spectacular high speed car chase through Moscow and a rubber sex doll, Rama is also trained in the arts of Combat and Love—two sides of the same coin, he is told. Experimenting with his new powers Rama learns it is time for his first bite of human prey. Stalking an attractive young woman in the street, the bite gives him access to her innermost memories and he thoroughly enjoys the experience of manipulating her into bed.
Beginning to doubt the ethics of his new life, Rama is told of the next stage in his education. He will participate in something called “The Great Fall” and will do so alongside a fellow initiate, Hera. Meeting Hera online, Rama sees that she is young, beautiful and as confused by her new life as he is by his. After tasting the mysterious liquid that is his invitation to The Great Fall, and reciting the words, “Into darkness, backwards and downwards!” Rama is able to assume a bat-like form and fly. Swooping across the glittering nighttime Moscow skyline he encounters Hera and soon they arrive at a deep cave on the outskirts of the city. Back in human form the young couple meet senior vampire Enlil, the equivalent of human management, he explains. Hera points out that Enlil looks just like a vampire from the movies, to which he replies that vampires all over the world regularly fund vampire movies.
The real purpose of the Great Fall is to teach the initiates their own history. As well as teaching them why vampires hang upside down, Enlil explains that long ago The Tongue arrived on Earth from space within the form of a giant bat. After a period of “magnificent cruelty,” vampires bred a dairy species to feed their appetites: humanity. But instead of blood, vampires feed on something much more desirable. The human brain, he tells the kids, works like an antenna. When humans think about money it tunes into a particular frequency that generates a form of energy vampires live for. Making the human mind generate that energy is the real purpose of Glamor and Discourse.
Afterwards, in a park at dawn, as Rama’s feeble attempts to flirt with Hera actually work for him, Hera says she has heard of something called Bablos. This, she believes, is the liquid vampires drink instead of blood. On a later date she tells Rama that they are destined to taste Bablos together, yet still neither really understands what that means. Hera describes herself as a simple girl but Rama feels she is always one step ahead of him. When he discovers that Mithra is Hera’s mentor and sees how well she is treated, he begins to suspects the vampire world has plans for her. Any plans for Rama remain opaque.
At a high-status vampire event known as The Chaldean Ball, Rama is made to violently demonstrate his power over the human bureaucracy that administers the daily affairs of the vampire regime. Rama also learns, for the first time, that the regeime is widely known as “Empire V” and is deeply suspicious that he has not yet been taught this term by his own Discourse teacher.
At the same event, in a giant, underground cave, Rama is introduced to the Great Bat herself, a delightfully charming female human head atop the snake-like neck of a giant, alien bat-creature, also known as Ishtar. She tells Rama hers is simply the most recent head to be attached to this ancient living Goddess of the vampire world. Ishtar continues to be revered because she is fundamental to the production of Bablos. When humans radiate Bablos energy it passes through her body to become a liquid form, as if she were a giant still. When vampires taste the fluid in minute quantities they experience what it is to be a God.
Ishtar notices that Rama is uncomfortable with his new life and suggests he seek out Osiris, a vampire who left the tribe to live a “Tolstoyan” life of simplicity in the country. At his rural dacha Osiris explains to Rama, via an adaptation of Plato’s cave shadows analogy, that while multiple realities no doubt exist they are all subjective. And for Osiris there is only one subjective reality that matters: drinking home-distilled Vodka with his friends.
As he leaves the dacha Rama is nervously approached by one of Osiris’s drinking buddies, an out of work theology professor. He tells Rama that despite what the vampires believe, since God is unknowable there is always a way back to Him. Rama agrees to think about that.
It is time for Rama and Hera to taste Bablos. At a special Dacha and in a ritual overseen by Grand Priest Baal the couple are locked into elaborate feeding devices and given a tiny drop each. Rama is instantly delivered into a mindbending fractal vision that explain his own childhood dreams back to him and shows him the face of God. Immediately the experience is over he and Hera both want to do it again. This craving for Bablos, Vaal expains, is “The Thirst.”
After one insult too many Rama challenges Mithra to a duel which Mithra wins. For punishment Rama is paralyzed and forced to watch, via a tie pin camera, as Mithra accepts Hera’s invitation to spend the night with her. But shortly after the date begins the camera reveals a surgical operating theater where Mithra’s head is severed and placed beside the severed head of Hera now being kept alive on a machine. All along the vampire plan was that Hera would be the new face of the Great Bat.
Sometime later Hera explains to Rama that when the Great Bat is given a new head another vampire’s life must be ritually sacrificed. All the vampires expected the sacrifice to be Rama, hence nobody brought him fully up to speed with vampire lore. But because she loved Rama, not least for his humanity, Hera made sure the victim was Mithra. As she summons him to her side, Hera reminds Rama that in the vampire world the source of Bablos is the only friend he needs.
With a cast of Russian stars drawn from three generations of cinema, theater and music, cinematography by Alexei Rodionov, who lensed Elem Klimov's Come and See and ground-breaking fractal special effects from an international team at the cutting edge of this technology, Empire V is a unique take on Vampire mythology with a deeply Russian sensibility and an increasingly relevant message for our strange and scary times.
Release.
The novel was adapted into a film directed by Victor Ginzburg and starring Pavel Tabakov alongside Miron Fyodorov. It will premier at the Fantasia International Film Festival in July 2023. The Russian government refused to release a distribution permit for the film in 2022, effectively banning it in the country.
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74393422 | Camptobasidiaceae | The Camptobasidiaceae are a family of fungi in the subdivision Pucciniomycotina. The family currently comprises two genera, one of which ("Camptobasidium") contains an aquatic, hyphal species with auricularioid (laterally septate) basidia. The other genus contains species currently known only from their yeast states.
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74393431 | The Surf Club Restaurant | The Surf Club Restaurant is a Michelin-starred restaurant serving American cuisine in Miami, in the U.S. state of Florida. The restaurant operates within the Four Seasons Hotel Miami.
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74393452 | Community Lofts | Community Lofts is a non-profit organization introducing the sport of Pigeon Racing in the South African Townships and Rural Areas. Community Lofts promotes youth involvement and participation in the global sport of Pigeon Racing. The Organization creates opportunities to those in disadvantaged areas looking to enter and learn the sport.
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74393454 | AFC Women's Club Championship 2023 | The 2023 AFC Women's Club Championship (also known as the AFC Women's Club Championship 2023 – Invitational Tournament), will hod between 6 and 12 November 2023, is the fourth edition of AFC's premier women's club football competition. Eight clubs from eight AFC member associations will be competing in this tournament. A Final match may be organised between the winners of each group, in parallel with the AFC Champions League Final 2023–24 in May 2024.
Format.
The Tournament will be held in a centralized league format and for the first time, participating teams form east and west of Asia will be playing in two mixed groups.
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74393459 | Craig Von Dohren | Craig Von Dohren (born August 13, 1963) is an American Dirt Modified racing driver. A two time NASCAR Northeast Regional champion, Von Dohren has over 350 career wins, at 13 tracks in five states.
Racing career.
Craig Von Dohren's first victory came in 1980 at Big Diamond Raceway, two weeks before his 17th birthday. He has since gone on to win four 358 Modified titles at Big Diamond, as well as 12 track championships at Grandview Speedway, where he tops the all-time win list.
Von Dohren, who has focused his career on the Mid-Atlantic states, has also competed successfully at Georgetown Speedway DE, Hagerstown Speedway MD, and Penn National Speedway PA. He was inducted into the Northeast Dirt Modified Hall of Fame in 2022.
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74393466 | Rocca (restaurant) | Rocca is a Michelin-starred Italian restaurant in Tampa, Florida.
Description.
Rocca is an Italian restaurant in Tampa Heights.
Reception.
Rocca earned a Michelin star in 2023.
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74393467 | 2016 Sport Club do Recife season | The 2016 season was Sport Recife's 112th season in the club's history. Sport competed in the Campeonato Pernambucano, Copa do Nordeste, Copa Sudamericana, Série A and Copa do Brasil.
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74393487 | Francisco Javier Losada | Francisco Javier Losada y Pardo de Figueroa (1777–1847), 8th Count of Maceda, 6th Count of San Román, was a Spanish military commander.
Early career.
Losada joined the Provincial Regiment of Santiago as a captain in 1797. Shortly after the start of the war against England in 1805, he was promoted to colonel of the Provincial Regiment of Compostela and was garrisoned at La Coruña until the outbreak of the Peninsular War.
Peninsular War (1807–1814).
In June 1808 the Junta de Galicia promoted him to brigadier and he was given command of the La Coruña Volunteers Regiment, which saw action Zornoza, Balmaseda y Espinosa de los Monteros, before withdrawing to León and Galicia.
In 1809 he fought at Villafranca (18 March) and was given command of the 1st Division of the Army of the Left the following month. After fighting at Lugo, he was promoted to field marshal that July.
Serving under the orders of the Duque del Parque, Losada fought at Tamames, Alba de Tormes and Medina del Campo. In May 1810, Losada was commissioned to oversee the training of the regiments being sent to Galicia.
In July 1810 Losada was appointed second-in-command of the region of Asturias, where he saw combat against Bonet's forces on several occasions. On 18 March 1811 his troops were defeated at Puelo.
In June 1812, General Castaños named Losada commander of the Reserve Division of Santocildes' 6th Army.
He then participated in the siege and surrender of Tamames, Alba de Tormes and Medina del Campo During the withdrawal from that defeat, he distinguished himself at Villamuriel.
As part of the reorganisation of the 4th Army, he was given command of its 3rd Division, which saw action at Tolosa, Irún, and San Marcial (31 August 1813), where he was wounded.
Post-war career.
During the Hundred Days, Losada served in the Observation Corps of Navarra and Guipúzcoa, under Enrique O'Donnell, until September 1815, when he was given command of the 3rd Division of Ballesteros's Army of the Reserve, after having been promoted to lieutenant general the previous May.
In 1820, as governor of Santiago, he fought against the liberals, having to flee Galicia when the Constitution was proclaimed.
In 1823, Fernando VII appointed Losada inspector general of the Militias and commander-in-chief of the Provincial Royal Guard, post he held until 1836, when he was dismissed following the 1836 La Granja Mutiny.
In 1840 he supported General Espartero's pronunciamiento.
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74393511 | GPM J1839−10 | GPM J1839−10<ref name="10.1038/s41586-023-06202-5"> </ref> is a unique ultra-long period magnetar<ref name="10.1093/mnras/staa1783"> </ref><ref name="10.1093/mnras/stad208"> </ref> located in the Scutum constellation, which was discovered by the Murchison Widefield Array in Western Australia. Its unusual characteristics in violation of theory (which had never been before seen) were such they prompted a search of the archives of numerous other radio telescopes; data were found on the object dating back to 1988, heretofore unanalyzed inasmuch as it had not been an object of study or even known to exist at all.
The current understanding of neutron stars is that below a certain rate of rotation, called "the death line", they cease emissions. Uniquely, not only does GPM J1839−10 have an extremely slow rotation of approximately 20-minutes, it emits radio waves, the circumstances for which nothing are as yet known.<ref name="10.1093/mnras/stad208"> </ref>
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74393512 | Roswitha Scholz | Roswitha Scholz, born in Germany in 1959, is a philosopher and a social theorist. She works as a freelance editor for EXIT! magazine, which she co-founded in 2004, after participating in the Krisis group and magazine (founded in 1986 in Nuremberg by the philosopher Robert Kurz, Ernst Lohoff, Klaus Braunwarth and Udo Winkel).
Inspired by the social theory of Theodor W. Adorno, she revolutionized the theoretical current of value criticism in 1992 with her article Value is the male(Der Wert ist der Mann) which contained theses on socialization in relationship to the value form and the relationship between the sexes. The text initiated the theoretical current of value dissociation criticism, which enriched the field of value criticism with the feminist question, as well as transformed it in terms of both content and method.
She is committed to theorizing a question that remains, in her view, "an unsolved problem" in feminism, the internal link between capitalism and modern patriarchy and its metamorphoses, and tries to theorize a move beyond feminisms of equality, differancé, deconstructionism, materialism, ecofeminisms and "class struggle" feminisms.
Her writings broadly focus on racism, anti-Romanyism, the critique of ideology, epistemology, critical theory, Marxism and gender relations in modernity.
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74393516 | List of Major League Soccer players with 400 or more games played | This is a list of players who have appeared in 400 or more games in Major League Soccer, the top flight men's soccer league of the United States and Canada, dating back to its inaugural season in 1996. This list does not include appearances in the MLS Cup Playoffs.
List.
Key
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74393525 | Los Félix | Los Félix is a Michelin-starred Mexican restaurant in Miami, Florida. The menu has included tamales, pork cheek carnitas, and tacos al pastor, as well as crudo, sope, tetela, and tostada.
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74393551 | Artem Uskov | Artem Uskov is a Russian chess player.
Chess career.
He is the youngest International Master from Russia, qualifying for the title in December 2022 at the age of 12 years and 9 months. He was officially awarded the title in 2023.
In September 2022, he won the U12 Open category of the FIDE World Cadet Chess Championship 2022.
In December 2022 at the World Rapid Chess Championship, Uskov was involved in a bizarre incident against Vladislav Kovalev; Uskov captured Kovalev's rook without putting his capturing piece on the correct square (due to Uskov having mere seconds remaining on his clock). Kovalev brought this up to arbiters, and they agreed to replay the move, with Uskov getting only one second to perform it. Uskov attempted to use two hands to replay the move, which is not allowed, so the move was replayed again. Uskov then failed to play the move in one second, knocking over some pieces during his attempt and giving the win to Kovalev.
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74393569 | List of restaurants in Miami | Following is a list of notable restaurants in Miami, in the U.S. state of Florida:
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74393573 | Devin Sweet | Devin Sweet (born September 6, 1996) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2023.
Career.
Sweet attended Southeast Guilford High School in Guilford County, North Carolina, and played for their baseball team. He attended North Carolina Central University and played college baseball for the North Carolina Central Eagles.
On July 13, 2018, Sweet signed with the Seattle Mariners as an undrafted free agent. He split his first professional season between the rookie–level Arizona League Mariners, Low–A Everett AquaSox, and Single–A Clinton LumberKings. In 15 total appearances, Sweet accumulated a 4.66 ERA with 24 strikeouts and 2 saves in innings pitched. He spent 2019 with the Single–A West Virginia Power and High–A Modesto Nuts. Appearing in 34 total contests (15 starts), Sweet registered a cumulative 8–5 record and 2.76 ERA with 152 strikeouts in innings of work. Sweet did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He returned to action in 2021 with the Double–A Arkansas Travelers, where he made 25 appearances (13 starts) and logged a 5–6 record and 4.74 ERA with 93 strikeouts in innings pitched. He spent 2022 back in Double–A with Arkansas, and registered a 4–6 record and 5.28 ERA with 68 strikeouts in 58.0 innings of work.
Sweet returned to Double–A Arkansas in 2023, and made 27 appearances, where he logged a 1.54 ERA with 47 strikeouts and 5 saves in 35.0 innings of work. On July 19, 2023, Sweet was selected to the 40-man roster and promoted to the major leagues for the first time.
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74393585 | Verner Bertelsen | Verner Laurits Bertelsen (July 19, 1918 – August 17, 2015) was an American politician from Montana.
Born in Froid, Roosevelt County, Montana, Bertelsen was appointed as Montana Secretary of State in April 1988 following the death of Jim Waltermire, who died in an airplane crash while campaigning for state governor. Bertelsen served until January 1989.
Political Career.
Bertelsen served as a Powell County Commissioner from 1951 to 1957, and a Montana House Representative from 1975 to 1984. He was the chairman of the Local Government and Revenue Oversight Committee. Governor Ted Schwinden appointed Bertelsen to Secretary of State.
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74393586 | Seongryugul Cave | Seongryugul Cave is a limestone cave in Uljin, South Korea, which was designated natural monument No 155 of South Korea on May 10, 1963.
It is also called "Seonyugul" (仙留窟) and "Jangcheongul" (掌天窟). The name, "Seongryu", which means a place where sacred Buddhas stayed, and derives from the fact that Buddha statues were sheltered and protected in this cave during the Japanese invasion of Korea of 1592.
The length of the main cave is about 330m, and the length of the underground cave about 540m, giving a total length of approximately 870m, and has an area of 137,454m2. A lake is developing in the cave due to the flows of the Wangpicheon, a river next to the cave. Within the cave there are many stalactites, stalagmites, and stone pillars formed from their joins.
During the 1592 Japanese invasion, about 500 people took refuge in this cave, and it is said that the Japanese troops blocked the entrance, resulting in the deaths of all inside.
Significance.
The entrance of the cave has a stone engraved with a travelogue from the Silla Dynasty confirming that the cave has been a sacred place of scenic beauty since ancient times. As do other historical materials about Seongnyugul Cave from various eras: such as the story of Prince Bojildo (the Unified Silla period), a book (late Goryeo dynasty) a poem (earlynJoseon dynasty), and a painting (late Joseon).
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74393588 | Ethel Burkhardt Arnold | Ethel Burkhardt Arnold ("née" Burkhardt) was a female tennis player from the United States who was active in the late 1920s and 1930s.
At the 1930 U.S. Championships she was fifth-seeded U.S. player and reached the quarterfinals of the singles event, which she lost in three sets to the top-seeded U.S. player Marjorie Morrill.
She married Albert M. Arnold, a salesman from San Francisco, in May 1931. After her marriage she only played tournaments on the American West coast until 1935. Between 1934 and 1935 she won 14 consecutive tournaments.
Burkhardt Arnold was ranked in the top 10 of U.S. women in 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1935. She reached her highest ranking in 1935 as the No.2 player behind Helen Jacobs.
In August 1935, she was a member of the United States team for the Wightman Cup contest against Great Britain, held at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills in New York City. The United States team won the event 4–3 and Burkhardt Arnold competed in two singles matches. She lost her first match in two sets to Dorothy Round but won her second match, the decisive tie of the contest, against Kay Stammers in three sets.
She twice won the singles title at the Pacific Coast Championships which was held during those years in Berkely. At the 1929 edition she defeated Anna McCune Harper in the final in two sets and in 1935 won her second title after a two-set victory in the final against Carolin Babcock. After the tournament she became a professional. She made her professional debut in January 1936 at the Madison Square Garden in New York and competed in a series of matches against Jane Sharp.
In 1974 she was inducted into the USTA Northern California Hall of Fame which was established that year.
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74393598 | Ikinai | Ikinai (also known as Suicide Bus) is a 1998 Japanese comedy drama film directed by debutant Hiroshi Shimizu and starring Dankan and Nanako Okouchi.
Reception.
Peter Bradshaw of "The Guardian" wrote that "Hiroshi Shimizu is a debutant director, a former assistant to Takeshi Kitano, and his Ikinai is an unexpectedly moving essay on the nature of death". Derek Elley of "Variety" wrote that "Neat idea of a dozen Japanese who hire a tour bus with the express purpose of committing communal suicide partly succeeds as a stylized, existential road movie, but an underdeveloped script leaves the viewer with too much time to ponder the story’s loose ends instead of being engrossed in the characters and ambience".
Remakes.
The film was remade in India twice: in Telugu as "Mee Sreyobhilashi" (2007) and in Kannada as "Lift Kodla" (2010).
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74393600 | Nikolay Averin | Nikolay Averin is a Russian chess player.
Chess career.
In December 2022 at the World Blitz Championship, he was involved in an incident with Ahmed Adly, where Adly complained to arbiters that Averin's friends were shouting and distracting him, which lead to him losing on time. The arbiters allowed them to replay the game after much deliberation, with the game ending in a draw, much to the frustration of both players.
In another incident at the same event, Ehsan Ghaem Maghami complained about Averin adjusting his pieces during Maghami's turn, and wanted the arbiters to penalize Averin. The game was later agreed to a draw.
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74393694 | 2023–24 King Cup | The 2023–24 King Cup, or The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup, is the 49th edition of the King Cup since its establishment in 1957. The tournament is scheduled to begin on 24 September 2023 and conclude with the final in May 2024.
Al-Hilal are the defending champions after winning their tenth title last season.
Format changes.
On 3 March 2023, the SAFF announced that the number of teams in the tournament was increased from 16 to 32. This will be the first tournament since 2020 in which Saudi First Division League teams will participate.
Participating teams.
A total of 32 teams will participate this season, 18 of which compete in the Pro League and 14 in the First Division.
Round of 32.
The draw for the Round of 32 was held on 19 July 2023. All times are local, AST ().
Round of 16.
The draw for the Round of 16 will be held on 27 September following the conclusion of the Round of 32. All times are local, AST ().
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74393707 | Mario Brero | Mario Brero (born March 29, 1946) is a Swiss private detective. In 1989 he founded "Alp Services" in Geneva, a private investigation business, focusing on banks, law firms and wealthy clients. After his methods became public and he was sentenced by a French court in 2014, Alp services focused on "reputation management" by spreading negative information for his clients from the former Soviet Union, VIPs from small African states, and most notably the Middle East, such that "Le Monde" called it a "destabilization and surveillance company".
In 2021, his firm was hacked and the results published in 2023 as Abu Dhabi Secrets, how Alp Services was contracted by the UAE government to spy on citizens of 18 countries in Europe and beyond. Alp Services sent the names of more than 1000 individuals and 400 organizations in 18 European countries to the UAE intelligence services, labelling them as part of the Muslim Brotherhood network.
Brero was also convicted of coercion in 2021.
Early life and education.
Mario Brero was born on March 21, 1946. He has represented himself as a graduate of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, though he left 1967/8 after one semester.
Career.
In 1986, Brero exported computers and semiconductor manufacturing equipment from the United States to the Eastern Bloc, for which he was indicted by US prosecutors. Brero denied the charges, but stopped the business.
In 1989, influenced by Jules Kroll´s international corporate-investigation business, he founded "Alp Services" in Geneva, according to "Le Monde" initially as a subcontractor for Kroll, focusing on banks, law firms and wealthy clients; According to news reports Brero began showing off his wealth. In 2007, he also founded Diligence sarl.
In 2012, Brero worked for Prince Albert of Monaco to smear Robert Eringer, former head of Monegasque intelligence services, for example by having his staff edit Eringer's Wikipedia page on March 10, 2013 stuffing it with a fake blogpost quote of a supposed expert in psychology "Marie-Jeanne Dubois", claiming Eringer was suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder.
In 2012, Brero had been hired to find out if Anne Lauvergeon, chief of the mining division at the French nuclear-power company Areva committed fraud. Brero paid phone-company employees to disclose her and her husbands call information. When Lauverggeon found out, she successfully sued him for invasion of privacy. In 2014, he received only a suspended sentence for "complicity in concealment of violation of professional secrecy", but his reputation suffered. He had about 15 employees at that time.
From then on Brero contracted with a different clientele: oligarchs from the former Soviet Union, like Oleg Deripaska, and Vladimir Smirnov, other billionaires from Eastern Europe, including Bulat Utemuratov (Kazakh oligarch) and Nursultan Nazarbayev (autocratic President of Kazakhstan from 1991-2019), VIPs from small African states like Omar Bongo (Gabon), Denis Sassou-Nguesso (president of the Republic of the Congo since 1997), and the Middle East, focusing on spreading negative information, which he called "offensive viral communication campaigns". Brero contracted with Montenegro, Nigeria, Angola, Uzbekistan, Monaco and Saudi Arabia. He worked for Bryan Singer, Bernard Arnault and Beny Steinmetz. Brero has hired hackers to get confidential banking information, and used honey traps, sent a sex worker to compromise a person, for example when he contracted with Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier whom Dmitry Rybolovlev had accused of defrauding him.
From March 2015 to summer 2017, Alp Services's fees were nearly 6 million Swiss francs, including payment for subcontractors, informers in Switzerland and abroad, private investigators, translators and drivers.
Former journalist Roland Jacquard, a self-professed expert on extremism of European Muslims recommended the secret service of the U.A.E. to hire Brero in their competition with Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood. When in August, 2017, Brero persuaded the Emiratis to hire him to deliver the "power of dark PR" with "an initial four-to-six-month budget of a million and a half euros", Jacquard received his commission. Brero offered to attack Tariq Ramadan , to smear Youssef Nadas son Hazim Nada, as well as the Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organization. Alp employees created damning Wikipedia entries and lobbied World-Check about Nada´s alleged "ties to terrorism" eventually ruining his business. Brero recruited mainstream journalists Ian Hamel, Louis de Raguenel, and scholars like Lorenzo Vidino, paying the latter 13,000 €. In 2019, Brero attacked Islamic Relief Worldwide by feeding information to Andrew Norfolk, of the London "Times", accusing one member Heshmat Khalifa to be a terrorist, so eventually the German government stopped working with Islamic Relief. Targets also included Sihem Souid, a public-relations consultant for Qatar and Kamel Jendoubi, a human-rights advocate.
Between 2017 and 2021, more than one thousand people in Switzerland and Europe were registered by Alp Services, for an amount invoiced to the Emirati secret services of nearly six million euros. In 2021, Brero was convicted of coercion of an employee. A former employee said that Brero "wanted to have files on everyone, kompromat in short".
In 2021, Alp Services was hacked, and an investigation of the leaked data was published in early 2023 by the European Investigative Collaborations under the name Abu Dhabi Secrets. "Le Monde" subsequently called Alp services a "destabilization and surveillance company".
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74393729 | St Mary's Church, Riccall | St Mary's Church is the parish church of Riccall, a village north of Selby in North Yorkshire, England.
The oldest part of the church are the three western bays of the nave, which date from the mid- or late-12th century. The tower was built around the end of that century, then in the early 13th century, arcades were added, followed in the late 13th century by the chancel and north chapel. The chancel was repaired some time after 1472, when a south chapel was added. Between then and the English Reformation, the nave was heightened, a rood loft added, the aisles were widened, and a porch was built.
Between 1862 and 1877, the church was heavily restored by John Loughborough Pearson. He rebuilt the tower and heightened it, constructed a new east window, roofs and porch, and rebuilt parts of other walls. In 1966, the church was grade I listed.
The church is built of Magnesian Limestone and has a Welsh slate roof. The tower is at the west end and has two stages, while the nave is of five bays, with aisles, and the chancel has two bays. Some windows on the north side are Perpendicular, but most date from the 19th century.
The church's most noted feature is the south doorway, built in the 1150s and reset twice, most recently in the 15th century. It has three orders of arches and its voussoirs are decorated with a variety of Biblical, mythological and everyday scenes. Some designs have been held to have a Viking influence. Inside, there are remains of a brass dedicated to Maud and Robert Kelsey, dating from about 1500, two Baroque wall tablets, and a coat of arms of George III of England, painted in 1792. There is also a 17th-century communion rail.
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74393740 | EuroBasket Women 2025 | The 2025 European Women Basketball Championship, commonly called EuroBasket Women 2025, is the 40th edition of the continental tournament in women's basketball, sanctioned by the FIBA Europe.
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74393784 | Rectangular Stadium | Rectangular Stadium may refer to:
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74393864 | Tannatonn Palakawong na Ayudhaya | Tannatonn Palakawong na Ayudhaya (; born November 10, 1970) is a Thai singer, stage actor and musical director.
Biography.
Early life and career beginnings.
Nicknamed "Au", his father was an ordnance officer who worked on TNT bombs. His name means "Music Keeper".
He started his career in the showbiz by taking part in his academy's stage plays, Ramkhamhaeng University (RU), including participating in SMG Singing Contest.
Solo artist.
He rose to prominence with the release of the mini-album (EP) "TNT" in 1995, produced by veteran Sutee Sangsareechon. His debut song was "Kerd Pen Phuchai" (เกิดเป็นผู้ชาย, "born to be a man"), an old song of Sangsareechon which is remixed in blues rock genre.
Other songs were popular during that time included "Ron" (ร้อน, "hot") and "Ram La" (ร่ำลา, "farewell").
Shortly before the release of the mini-album, he also sang for a Sprite TV commercial.
The following year, he released a full-studio album in the same title with 14 tracks.
In 1999, Tannatonn moved to a major label RS Promotion and released his second studio album titled "Khon Tannatonn" (คนธรรพ์ณธร). The best-known songs in this album were "Huajai Kradard" (หัวใจกระดาษ, "paper heart") and "Mue Rak Man Huai" (เมื่อรักมันห่วย, "when love sucks").
Musical style.
Tannatonn initially had a hard rock, blues rock, and alternative rock sond throughout the mid-1990s before shifting into a more pop rock-based sound during the early 2000s. He is known as a singer with a powerful high-pitched voice, similar to Surush Tubwang of Hi-Rock.
Personal life.
He married his girlfriend, Gornviwan "Kao" Sriphan, who was 16 years younger than him, on November 22, 2022.
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74393866 | 1859 in Australian literature | This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1859.
Births.
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1859 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
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74393878 | 39th Guards Rocket Division | The 39th Guards Rocket Glukhovskaya, Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division (Russian: 39-я гвардейская ракетная Глуховская ордена Ленина, Краснознамённая, орденов Суворова, Кутузова и Богдана Хмельницкого дивизия) is a military formation of the Russian Federation. It is part of the 33rd Guards Rocket Army.
As part of the Strategic Rocket Forces, the unit currently operates RT-2PM Topol ballistic missiles. It is garrisoned in Pashino, Novosibirsk Oblast.
History.
The division was formed as the successor to the 1st Guards Artillery Division in 1960, first as the 212th Rocket Brigade but later in 1961 reorganized as the 39th Guards Rocket Division.
Since its formation the unit has operated multiple generations of missiles:
Structure.
Structure as of 1995:
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74393898 | Johnny-on-the-spot | Johnny-on-the-spot is a slang term for someone who is conveniently in the right place at the right time. It may refer to:
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74393900 | Easton Lucas | Easton James Lucas (born September 23, 1996) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Oakland Athletics organization.
Career.
Lucas attended Grace Brethren High School in Simi Valley, California. He enrolled at Pepperdine University to play college baseball for the Pepperdine Waves.
Miami Marlins.
The Miami Marlins selected Lucas in the 14th round, with the 411th selection, of the 2019 Major League Baseball draft. He spent his first professional season split between the rookie–level Gulf Coast League Marlins and Low–A Batavia Muckdogs. In 13 games (9 starts), Lucas registered a 3.63 ERA with 41 strikeouts in innings pitched.
Baltimore Orioles.
On December 2, 2019, the Marlins traded Lucas to the Baltimore Orioles for Jonathan Villar. Lucas did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He returned to action in 2021, and spent the season with the High–A Aberdeen IronBirds. In 27 appearances, Lucas logged a 3.96 ERA with 50 strikeouts and 1 save across innings of work.
Lucas spent all of 2022 with the Double–A Bowie Baysox, recording a 4.76 ERA with 65 strikeouts in innings across 32 contests. He returned to Bowie to begin the 2023 season. On May 19, 2023, while with the Baysox, Lucas, Chayce McDermott, and Nolan Hoffman threw a combined no-hitter against the Altoona Curve. On June 5, the Orioles promoted him to the Triple-A Norfolk Tides. In 20 combined games for Bowie and Norfolk, he registered a 2.73 ERA with 37 strikeouts and 1 save in innings pitched.
Oakland Athletics.
On July 19, 2023, the Orioles traded Lucas to the Oakland Athletics in exchange for Shintaro Fujinami.
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74393909 | American Legion Post 43 | American Legion Post 43, in Hollywood, California was founded in 1919 by World War I veterans in the motion picture business such as founding members Cecil B. DeMille, Walter Long, and Adolph Menjou. Known as the "Post to the Stars", members have included Hollywood luminaries such as Gene Autry, Humphrey Bogart, Ernest Borgnine, Clark Gable, Charlton Heston, Stan Lee, Ronald Reagan, Mickey Rooney, and Rudy Vallee.
The post's historic clubhouse was completed in 1929, formally opening its doors on July 4th. It was built in the Egyptian Revival style by architects and fellow Legionnaires, Gene and Joe Weston. The property features an iconic art-deco bar that has since become a popular filming location. Its 6,000 square foot theater has been a popular venue for studios to introduce new stars to the veteran community since its inception, and recently completed a multi-million dollar renovation to bring it up to date with modern digital sound and projection technology in 2019.
Unlike many posts around the country, Post 43 has been able to maintain its relevancy into the 21st century, attracting many of the recent veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan with its forward thinking leadership continuing to partner with Hollywood and assist transitioning veterans into the many technical roles needed in Hollywood.
The property was recognized by the City of Los Angeles, Cultural Heritage Commission, Cultural Affairs Department Historic-Cultural Monument No. 462 on November 3, 1989, and by the Windsor Square-Hancock Park Historical Society landmark #101 in 2010.
In popular culture.
The property has been featured in many film and telvision shows from "Squadron of Honor (1938) to "The Shining" (1980), "Star Trek" (2009), and "American Crime Story" (2016).
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74393923 | John Leighly | John Leighly (November 6, 1895 – July 9, 1986) was a 20th-century American geographer and professor.
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74393988 | Miguel Ángel Estay | Miguel Ángel Estay Peña (born 2 May 1991) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a midfielder for clubs in Chile and Tahiti.
Football career.
A left-footed playmaker from the Deportes La Serena youth system, where he came at the age of 14, Estay played on loan at Deportes Linares in the 2012 Chilean Tercera A. He permanently played for Deportes La Serena between 2013 and 2014.
From 2014 to 2016, he played for Deportes Ovalle in the Segunda División Profesional. In the second half of 2016, he switched to Provincial Ovalle in the same city, winning the Tercera B league title and earning promotion.
In 2017, he emigrated to French Polynesia and signed with AS Central Sport in the Tahiti Ligue 1 alongside César Castillo, after they were spotted by the President and the assistant coach and player of the team, Efraín Araneda, in Ovalle, Chile. In the squad, they coincided with his compatriots Sergio Sandoval and Diego Cifuentes, in addition to Araneda. All of them took part in the 2017 OFC Champions League, with Estay scoring against both Madang FC and Lupe o le Soaga.
Back in Chile, he played for Colchagua in the Segunda División Profesional, his last club.
Personal life.
Estay is a relative of the Chilean-Tahitian footballers Efraín Araneda Estay and Diego Araneda, father and son.
He went on playing football at amateur level for clubs such as Fedenort from Coquimbo.
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74394005 | Second Battle of the James River (1673) | The Second Battle of the James River was a naval battle between a Dutch fleet under joint command of admirals Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest and Jacob Binckes and an improvised English squadron on 12 and 13 July 1673 (O.S.) in the Hampton Roads near the James River, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
Background.
In 1667, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War Dutch admiral Abraham Crijnssen fought the Battle of The James River (1667) in which he captured the English merchant fleet laden with tobacco from the Colony of Virginia and of the Province of Maryland. Tobacco was an important export product of the English colonies in the North America. Because of the Navigation Acts the Dutch had since the early 1650s formally been excluded from this trade, which motivated the Dutch navy to capture as much of the product as possible during the war, or at least destroy as much as possible. When the conflict resumed a few years later during the Third Anglo-Dutch War the Dutch navy again was keen on disturbing the English tobacco trade. The Admiralty of Zeeland and the Admiralty of Amsterdam had separately sent out two squadrons, under the commands of Cornelis Evertsen and Jacob Binckes respectively, to conduct commerce raiding against English and French shipping in the Western Hemisphere in 1673. These squadrons had united in the Caribbean and, after first retaking Saba and St Eustatius from the English, they decided to raid the coast of the English colonies on the Atlantic Seaboard, like Crijnssen had done before them in the previous war.
The raid by Crijnssen had motivated governor William Berkeley of the Virginia colony to ask for naval reinforcements from England. In the Spring of 1673 he received the support of two English frigates: HMS Barnaby (50) under captain Thomas Gardiner and HMS Augustine (50), commanded by captain Edward Cotterell. These ships would form the nucleus of an improvised English fighting force that was further made up of armed merchantmen that would defend the combined Virginia and Maryland tobacco fleets that was about to depart for England in early July 1673.
The Battle.
The Dutch fleet of about 20 ships (including prizes) entered the Chesapeake Bay on 11 July 1673 (O.S.; 21 July 1673 N.S.) and anchored in Lynnhaven Roads. They could see the masts of the Virginia tobacco fleet in the Hampton Roads. The English first decided to adopt a defensive stance, but their hand was forced the morning of 12 July 1673 (O.S.) when suddenly the eight ships of the Maryland tobacco fleet appeared sailing unsuspectingly straight at the Dutch fleet. The English warships had to engage the Dutch to avoid the Maryland ships falling into their hands without a fight.
The problem that faced the English commander was that the Dutch ships were anchored in a spot that dominated the escape route of the Maryland merchantmen: the tip of the "Horshoe shoals" that the ships had to round before being able to sail up the James river. The English warships needed to manoeuver in such a way that the merchantmen had enough room to get around this point, without running aground, or onto the Dutch cannon. The Dutch also had the weather gage. The crews of the merchantmen that were pressed into service to assist the two English frigates were not up to this: four ran aground before a shot was fired, and a fifth ran away. Only one armed merchantman, commanded by captain Grove, remained with the warships.
When the three remaining English ships had come within a cable length of the anchored Dutchmen they came about and ran before the wind toward the James river. The Dutchmen took the bait, weighed anchor, and followed them. Captain Grove's ship ran aground at this point in time.
HMS Barnaby now engaged the Dutch flagship "Swaenenburgh" (former HMS Saint Patrick) of Evertsen, by coming hard about and crossing "Swaenenburgh's" bow, raking her with a broadside at the same time, while HMS Augustine continued toward the mouth of the Elizabeth river after having fired a single broadside at the Dutch. Gardiner alone fought an hours long running battle with "Swaenenburgh" and the other Dutch warships, until the falling dusk made them break off the fight. The Dutch then started to mop up the stranded English ships, capturing four ships. But while sailing up to join the anchored ship of Binckes, "Swaenenburgh", misjudging the shoals, also ran aground.
While the battle was raging the Maryland ships (bar one) escaped past the Virginia Capes, while most of the Virginia tobacco fleet escaped up the James river, toward Jamestown, where they found protection under the imaginery guns of Fort Nansemond.
Afraid of the English fort's suspected guns the Dutch ships kept their distance for five days, unable to get to the main tobacco fleet. They only were able to burn the four stranded ships and two that fell into their hands. During this wait they captured a number of unsuspecting ships among which a ketch captained by a certain captain Samuel Davis. This little ship had important passengers on board, among whom was James Carteret, the illegitimate son of the proprietor of New Jersey, George Carteret, and his bride Francess Delavall. Also aboard was Samuel Hopkins. Both were co-conspirators against the governor of New Jersey, and so ill-disposed toward the English establishment in New Jersey.
Aftermath.
At first the Dutch commanders did not understand the importance of Carteret and Hopkins. Carteret and his bride were soon released, and Carteret helped arrange an exchange of prisoners with governor Berkeley. But a few days later, when Evertsen questioned Hopkins and captain Davis of the captured ketch more closely, Hopkins blurted out that governor Lovelace of the New York colony, up to 1664 the Dutch colony of New Netherland, was absent from his post, and that Fort James on the point of Manhattan (formerly protecting New Amsterdam, which was now called New York) was only weakly defended. This motivated Evertsen and Binckes to attempt to surprise the fort, and land marines on Manhattan, which resulted in the Dutch recapture of New Netherland on 31 July 1673 (O.S.)
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74394041 | Finance Committee (works council) | The Finance Committee or Economic Committee () is a financial advisory body that analyses financial situation of the company, in order to help the works council carry out its duties in a German company.
History.
The Finance Committee was first introduced in 1952 in section §68 of the Works Constitution Act. The committee consists of an equal number of members chosen by the works council and the employer. Initially, trade unions proposed a Finance Committee that had full co-determination rights, with decision making power on financial matters, but the employer succesfully reduced the scope of the committee to receiveing information.
Legality.
The Finance Committee is defined in section §106 of the Works Constitution Act. If a Works Council exists and represents more than 100 permanent employees, they must establish a Finance Committee, or else it is a breach of Works Council duty. If there is a Central Works Council, the Finance Committee becomes the responsibility of the Central Works Council. There is no equivalent responsiblity for the Group Works Council.
According to §118, if a company is primarily religious, charitable, educational, political or artistic in nature e.g German Red Cross or Max Planck Institute, then the Finance Committee is largely reduced to financial planning during mass-layoffs as defined in §111-112.
The Finance Committee is different from other "committees" of the Works Council within the meaning of §28. The Finance Committee optionally has non Works Council members and a semi-autonomous role in discussing/negotiating with the employer, for example to select external experts (to advice the Finance Committee on more complex topics that exceed the internal knowledge of the Finance Committee). In contrast, regular Works Council committees consist of works council members only.
Activity.
The Finance Committee must meet with a representative of management on a monthly basis per §108.
The company must also inform the Finance Committee about its financial activities. 10 areas of financial reporting are explicitly outlined in §106(3) and §108(5) including potential acquisitions, employee layoffs, expansions/downsizing, profit and loss reporting. This list is not exhaustive, and other topics that are of financial interest to the works council are included as well.
If the Finance Committee is not given adequate information, accessible documentation in good-time by management, the (Central) Works Council can call in a conciliation committee to mediate between the employer and Finance Committee, and if necessary, make a binding award on how and what financial information is furnished.
Composition.
The Finance Committee should have between three to seven members (all employees), including at least one (Central) Works Council member. Regular employees as well as executive management employees are eligible to be on the Finance Committee. The Finance Committee members serve the same term as the (Central) Works Council, however they can be replaced at anytime by a majority vote of the (Central) Works Council.
The Works Council however, can delegate specific tasks of the Finance Committee to other internal Works Council committees, which has advantage of being up to 22 members instead of 7 in larger Works Councils. German legislators had a practical concern that if a committee becomes too large, the employer might be more reluctant to share financial information in full.
Like the Works Council, members of the Finance Committee serve on an honorary basis, without loss of wages from their regular work. This includes prepatory meetings in outside of mandatory monthly meetings with the employer.
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74394051 | Mike Klassen | Mike Klassen is a Canadian politician and communications strategist who was elected to Vancouver City Council in the 2022 municipal election. He is a member of ABC Vancouver.
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Distribution and habitat.
The species occurs on the Cape York Peninsula of Far North Queensland in open forest habitats. The type locality is Aurukun.
References.
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