Curling started to be at the Olympic Games in 1998. Wheelchair curling was introduced to the Winter Paralympics program in 2002. People from 16 countries played wheelchair curling in 2017.
Wheelchair curling is governed by the World Curling Federation. Wheelchair curlers play on teams of four people. One person on the team throws a 19.96 kilogram granite stone across an ice track. The track is 45 meter long. At the end of the track is a big circle. It has 4 rings. The diameter is 183 centimeters. There is a dot in the center. A team tries to get their stones the closest to the center. After each team throws ten stones, the team with the most stones closest to the center wins.
The person who throws the stone sits in their chair on a rubber mat. They use a special stick to assist in throwing the stone.
People who can play wheelchair curling have to have a disability. There are several eligible types of disabilities. They include paraplegics, people with cerebral palsy, people with amputations of the lower limbs, and people with multiple sclerosis.
Para-snowboarding
Para-snowboarding is a type of snowboarding. People with physical disabilities compete in para-snowboarding.
Because people with different types of disability snowboard, people are separated into three groups. In Paralympic sport, these are called classes. The classes are SB-LL1, SB-LL2 and SB-UL.
Financial regulation
Financial regulation is supervision of financial institutions to certain rules and guidelines.
The aim is to keep the financial system honest and legal. Regulation may be done by either a government or non-government organization. Also, financial regulation has increased the variety of financial products available.
In the early modern period, the Dutch were the pioneers in financial regulation. The first recorded regulation was a ban on short selling done by the Dutch authorities in 1610.
The objectives of financial regulators are usually:
Kalapani
Kalapani is a territory disputed between India and Nepal.
Mountain pine beetle
Mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) is a species of insect pest which lives in the forests of western Canada and the United States. The beetle feeds on the inner bark of pine trees like the lodgepole pine, forming tunnels under the bark to lay their eggs. Normally, the mountain pine beetle prefers to attack sick or old trees because they can't defend themselves easily. However, sometimes the beetles become so numerous that they will group up and start attacking healthy trees in massive outbreaks. This makes the control and monitoring of mountain pine beetle very important for the forest industry in Canada and the U.S., because massive outbreaks of mountain pine beetle can kill entire forests.
Recently, a large outbreak of the beetle in British Columbia became a major problem, killing millions of trees across the province. Due to global warming making it easier for the beetle to survive high in the Canadian Rockies, the beetle was able to spread into Alberta, Canada, where the beetle has never been seen before. Scientists are worried that there is nothing stopping the mountain pine beetle from spreading across the entire continent now.
Anthony Cumia
Anthony Cumia (born April 26, 1961) is an American radio personality and broadcaster. He was born in Elwood, New York.
Cumia is best known as the co-host of the "Opie and Anthony" radio show with Gregg "Opie" Hughes that aired from 1995 to 2014, alongside comedian Jim Norton from 2001.
In 2014, Cumia was fired by SiriusXM Radio after posting a series of tweets, which they deemed to be "racially-charged and hate-filled". He started his own video podcast soon after named "The Anthony Cumia Show", which aired until September 2017. He has since been the co-host of "The Artie and Anthony Show" with comedian and actor Artie Lange.
Scuol
Scuol is a municipality of the district Inn in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is the largest municipality by area in Switzerland.
It is a well known spa town and ski resort and is the business center of the Unterengadin valley.
On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Ardez, Guarda, Tarasp, Ftan and Sent merged into the muncipality of Scuol.
Tom Brewer
Thomas Austin Brewer (September 3, 1931 – February 15, 2018) was an American baseball player. He was born in Wadesboro, North Carolina. He played for the Boston Red Sox from 1954 to 1961. Brewer was selected to play in the 1956 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
Brewer died in Cheraw, South Carolina on February 15, 2018 at the age of 86.
Orlando Cepeda
Orlando Manuel "Peruchin" Cepeda Pennes (; born September 17, 1937) is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball first baseman. He is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
During a 17-year career, he played with the San Francisco Giants (1958–66), St. Louis Cardinals (1966–68), Atlanta Braves (1969–72), Oakland Athletics (1972), Boston Red Sox (1973), and Kansas City Royals (1974).
Cepeda was selected to play in seven Major League Baseball All-Star Games during his career, becoming the first player from Puerto Rico to start one.
Satellite Awards
The Satellite Awards are annual awards given by the International Press Academy that are commonly known in entertainment industry journals and blogs.
The awards were originally known as the Golden Satellite Awards. The award ceremonies take place each year at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles.
Teresa Gisbert Carbonell
Teresa Gisbert Carbonell de Mesa (November 30, 1926 – February 19, 2018) was a Bolivian architect and art historian. She specialized in the history of the Andean region. She was born in La Paz, Bolivia.
From 1954 to 1970, she taught Bolivian culture and art history in the Faculty of Humanities at the Higher University of San Andrés and in 1972 and 1975 she taught American Art in the Faculty of Arquitecture of this same institution. She directed the Bolivian Cultural Institute from 1985 to 1989 and was president of the International Council on Monuments and Sites in Bolivia from 1986 to 1992.
Gisbert Carbonell in La Paz on February 19, 2018 at the age of 91.
Peggy Cooper Cafritz
Peggy Cooper Cafritz (born Pearl Alice Cooper; April 7, 1947 – February 18, 2018) was an American art collector, educator, civil rights activist, philanthropist and socialite. She was born in Mobile, Alabama, and studied at Georgia Washington University.
In 1968, she organized a black arts festival and had inner-city students in to the festival. This program became the magnet school Duke Ellington School of the Arts, which she and Malone founded in 1974 and which they modeled after New York City's High School of Performing Arts.
Cafritz died of complications from pneumonia in Washington, D.C. on February 18, 2018 at the age of 70.
Tourist attraction
A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists like to visit because of its looks, beauty, culture, nature, history, fun and how it feels to be there.
There are different kinds of tourist attractions.
Some are "natural" such as beaches, tropical island resorts with coral reefs, hiking and camping in national parks, mountains, deserts and forests. Some are cultural such as historical places, monuments, ancient temples, zoos, aquaria, museums and art galleries, botanical gardens, buildings and structures (e.g., castles, libraries, former prisons, skyscrapers, bridges), theme parks and carnivals, living history museums, signs, ethnic enclave communities, historic trains and cultural events. Factory tours, industrial heritage, creative art and crafts workshops are the object of cultural niches like industrial tourism and creative tourism. Many tourist attractions are also landmarks.
Sokoto River