title: Jordan Adams

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Jordan LaVell Adams (born July 8, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for Gladiadores de Anzoátegui of the Superliga Profesional de Baloncesto (SPB). He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. He was the first UCLA freshman to score 20 or more points in his first four games, and was an all-conference first-team selection in the Pac-12 Conference in his sophomore year. After deciding to forgo his remaining college eligibility and enter the 2014 NBA draft, Adams was selected by Memphis Grizzlies in the first round with the 22nd overall pick. He played two seasons with Memphis before being waived after multiple knee surgeries.

Early life
Adams was born in Atlanta to John Adams, a nutrition manager, and Sabrina Robinson Johnson, a dental hygienist. His parents never married but remained friends. When Adams was in the fourth grade and his life began to revolve around American football and basketball, he moved from his mother's house to his father's. One of Adams' coaches was usually his father from when he was six until he was 16.

Adams attended Central Gwinnett High School in Lawrenceville, Georgia, for his first two seasons. He transferred to Oak Hill Academy in Virginia for his final two seasons, where he was the ninth player in their basketball program's rich history to score 1,000 career points.

Considered a four-star recruit by ESPN.com, Adams was listed as the No. 9 small forward and the No. 41 player in the nation in 2012.

He also played Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball with the Atlanta Celtics. Shortly after Celtics' coach Korey McCray became an assistant coach at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Adams accepted an athletic scholarship to play for the UCLA Bruins.

College career
Adams in 2012 joined fellow incoming freshman Shabazz Muhammad, Kyle Anderson, and Tony Parker in a UCLA recruiting class considered the best in the nation. The first of the four recruits to sign, Adams was the only one that was not a McDonald's All-American in high school. Despite the competition, he remained committed to UCLA.

He began the 2012–13 season with 20 or more points in the first four games, becoming the first UCLA freshman to accomplish that feat; he was the first Bruin in any class to start the season with four straight since Don MacLean (6 straight) in 1990–91. Though he did not start until the seventh game of the season, Adams was second on the team in scoring behind Muhammad. He finished the season starting in 27 of 33 games played, ranked eighth in the Pac-12 Conference in scoring with 15.3 points per game, led the conference with 73 steals, and was fourth with an 84.3 free throw percentage. UCLA coach Ben Howland and Arizona Wildcats coach Sean Miller were surprised that Adams did not make the conference's all-freshman team. Miller further believed that Adams should have been named to the All-Pac-12 team as well as the conference's all-defensive team. In the semifinals of the 2013 Pac-12 tournament, Adams scored 11 points in the last six minutes in a comeback victory over Arizona. However, he broke his right foot on the final play of the game; he had fractured the same foot in high school. Without Adams, the Bruins lost their next two games, including a season-ending loss to the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the opener of the 2013 NCAA tournament. Two days after the season ended, Howland was fired and replaced by Steve Alford. Adams did not play basketball for four months while his foot healed.

In his sophomore season in 2013–14, Adams said he enjoyed his role under Alford and his "very open" system, more so than he did with Howland. Coaches gave Adams the nickname 'Spider-Man', after his ability for steals with his "web on the ball." Early in the season, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin wrote that it could be Adams' last college season given his prospects of playing professionally in the NBA. Adams shot 50% from the field during the Bruins' non-conference schedule, and began Pac-12 play with 21 points on 8-for-13 shooting against the USC Trojans. However, he shot just 36.2% in the next 10 games, before shooting 10-for-14 against Utah for 24 points, his then-career high against a Pac-12 opponent. On February 27, he and Anderson missed one game after being suspended for a violation of team rules. On March 6, Adams scored a career-high 31 as UCLA clinched a No. 2 seed in the upcoming 2014 Pac-12 tournament with a 91–82 win at Washington. The Bruins won the tournament, with Adams hitting a three-point field goal that broke a tie with 45 seconds remaining in a 75–71 upset over No. 4 ranked Arizona in the championship game. For the season, he led the team in both scoring at almost 18 points per game, shot a team-best 83.6 percent of his free throws, led the conference in steals at 2.8 per game, and broke the school record for steals in a season previously set by Cameron Dollar (82) in 1997. Adams was voted to the All-Pac-12 first team, and was also named UCLA's most outstanding team player.

In April 2014, Adams declared early for the NBA draft, foregoing his final two years of college eligibility. Many analysts believed he had a chance to be a first-round pick. He finished his career at UCLA having played 69 games while averaging 16.4 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 2.1 assists. He made 46.7 percent of his field goals and had a school-record 2.43 steals per game.

Professional career

Memphis Grizzlies (2014–2016)
On June 26, 2014, Adams was selected in the first round with the 22nd overall pick of the 2014 NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies. General manager Chris Wallace said Adams graded high in basketball analytics, and vice president of basketball operations John Hollinger praised his ability to "find ways to score and score without needing the ball [in his hands first]". However, Head Coach Dave Joerger as well as the Grizzlies' fans preferred another shooting guard, Rodney Hood, who was taken next by the Utah Jazz with the 23rd pick. After two Summer League games, Adams signed with the Grizzlies on July 7. He began the 2014–15 season with minimal playing time with the Grizzlies, and received multiple assignments to the Iowa Energy of the NBA Development League. While he spent most of the season in the D-League, Adams appeared in 30 games for Memphis, typically when they were behind by a large margin. In limited action, he shot 40 percent from three-point range and his active hands on defense led to a high steal rate.

During the offseason, Adams underwent minor surgery to repair the meniscus in his right knee after averaging 16 points in four games to help the Grizzlies win the Orlando Summer League in July. However, he missed most of the 2015–16 exhibition season as he continued to bothered by soreness related to the procedure. Adams appeared in two out of the team's first four games of the regular season before being sidelined by right knee soreness. On January 12, 2016, he underwent right knee surgery and missed the rest of the season. On June 15, Adams underwent cartilage transplant surgery on his right knee, a procedure that generally addresses issues with motion, bone damage and pain. The following month, he watched Grizzlies summer league games holding a crutch in one hand and wearing a knee brace. Following the preseason on October 24, Adams was waived by the Grizzlies after he was expected to miss the season.

Recent years
The following year, Adams joined the Portland Trail Blazers to play in the 2017 NBA Summer League. He played with the Sons of Westwood in The Basketball Tournament 2018, and competed with Al Wadha of Syria in the Dubai International Basketball Championship in 2019. In February 2019, Adams was acquired by the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA G League. He appeared in two games, averaging 1.5 points, before being waived in March.

In March 2020, Adams joined Venados de Mazatlán of the CIBACOPA of Mexico. In two games, he averaged 23.5 points, 7.0 rebounds, 1.5 assists, and 2.0 steals per game.

On July 17, 2020, Adams signed with Libertadores de Querétaro of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP). After posting 34 points and 10 rebounds against Panteras de Aguascalientes, he was named LNBP player of the week on October 25. He averaged 25.4 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.5 assists, and 2.2 steals per game.

On November 19, 2020, Adams signed with Club Comunicaciones of the Liga Nacional de Básquet. He played with Comunicaciones until April 2022.

After a stint with Libertadores de Querétaro in July and August 2022, Adams played for Club Atlético Aguada in October and November 2022.

In February 2023, Adams joined with Gladiadores de Anzoátegui in Venezuela.

Career statistics

NBA statistics

Regular season

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Memphis
| 30 || 0 || 8.3 || .407 || .400 || .609 || .9 || .5 || .5 || .2 || 3.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Memphis
| 2 || 0 || 7.5 || .333 || .000 || .600 || 1.0 || 1.5 || 1.5 || .0 || 3.5
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 32 || 0 || 8.2 || .402 || .385 || .607 || .9 || .6 || .6 || .2 || 3.2

Playoffs

|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2015
| style="text-align:left;"| Memphis
| 4 || 0 || 2.5 || .667 || 1.000 || .500 || .3 || .0 || .3 || .0 || 1.8
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 4 || 0 || 2.5 || .667 || 1.000 || .500 || .3 || .0 || .3 || .0 || 1.8

College statistics

|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2012–13
| style="text-align:left;"| UCLA
| 33 || 27 || 30.3 || .447 || .307 || .843 || 3.8 || 1.8 || 2.2 || .4 || 15.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2013–14
| style="text-align:left;"| UCLA
| 36 || 36 || 30.1 || .485 || .356 || .836 || 5.3 || 2.3 || 2.6 || .1 || 17.4
|-class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2| Career
| 69 || 83 || 30.2 || .467 || .331 || .839 || 4.6 || 2.1 || 2.4 || .2 || 16.4

References

External links

UCLA Bruins bio

1994 births
Living people
21st-century African-American sportspeople
African-American basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in Argentina
American expatriate basketball people in Mexico
American expatriate basketball people in Syria
American expatriate basketball people in Uruguay
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Atlanta
Iowa Energy players
Libertadores de Querétaro players
Memphis Grizzlies draft picks
Memphis Grizzlies players
Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Virginia) alumni
Rio Grande Valley Vipers players
Shooting guards
UCLA Bruins men's basketball players
Venados de Mazatlán (basketball) players


title: Nokia C2-01

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The Nokia C2-01 is a mobile phone produced by Nokia. The Nokia C2-01 supports 3G and has a 3.2 megapixel back camera. It has a single SIM card. The handset was introduced to the markets in 2011. It replaced its predecessor, the Nokia 2700 classic and Nokia 2730 classic and has improved specifications.

Features
The Nokia C2-01 has a 3.2 megapixel back camera to capture images, as well as UMTS capabilities.
It also has Bluetooth and supports J2ME applications (MIDP 2.1). Removing or replacing the battery wipes the memory requiring the phone to be reset manually for Date, time, etc.

Specification sheet

References

C2-01
Mobile phones introduced in 2011
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery


title: Farzaneh Rezasoltani

text:
Farzaneh Rezasoltani (, born September 13, 1985) is a cross-country skier competing for Iran. She will compete for Iran at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the 10 kilometre classical race.

References

1985 births
Living people
Iranian female cross-country skiers
Cross-country skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Olympic cross-country skiers for Iran
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: Lelde Priedulēna

text:
Lelde Priedulēna (born 20 July 1993, in Sigulda) is a former Latvian skeleton racer, and was the 2016 Junior World Champion in the sport. She participated at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Before starting skeleton racing, Priedulēna was a track and field athlete, competing in the 60, 100, and 200 metre sprint events. Like other Latvian skeletoners, she is coached by sled-builder and former Latvian bobsleigh driver Dainis Dukurs, and rides a Dukurs-built sled.  She began international competition in 2010 on the Europe Cup circuit, but recorded only five starts during two seasons before being elevated to the Intercontinental Cup and World Cup tours. In the summer of 2017, she tore a cruciate ligament, but elected to forgo surgery and continue training in preparation for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
In February 2019 Priedulēna announced end of her professional career due to the injuries.

Notable results
Priedulēna's first race in international competition was during the 2010–11 Europe Cup season at Igls, but she did not record a finish because her sled flipped and went down the track without her. She finished a total of four races in two seasons on the Europe Cup, recording one fourteenth-place finish at Königssee before being elevated to the Intercontinental Cup.  Her first World Cup race was at Altenberg in 2011–12, where she finished 22nd.  She split her time between the ICC and the World Cup until 2016. On the World Cup, her best finish has been 4th, most recently in 2017 at Whistler. She finished the 2016–17 World Cup overall rankings in 7th place.

Priedulēna competed in the Junior Worlds from 2012 until 2016, her last year of eligibility, in which she took gold.  She represented Latvia at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, finishing 14th, and in the Senior World Championships from 2013 to 2017, finishing 7th at Königssee in 2017. In European Championships her best finish was 6th, at Igls in 2017.

References

External links

1993 births
Skeleton racers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Skeleton racers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Living people
Olympic skeleton racers for Latvia
Latvian female skeleton racers
People from Sigulda
21st-century Latvian women
21st-century Latvian people


title: Kōri no ue ni Tatsu yō ni

text:
is the sixth single by Japanese pop singer Miho Komatsu, released under Amemura O-Town Record label.. It was released 14 October 1998. It reached #5 rank for first week and sold 54,760 copies. It charted for 14 weeks and totally sold 162,420 copies.

Track listing
All songs are written and composed by Miho Komatsu and arranged by Hirohito Furui

OA (on air) version, single and album version have different arrangements. OA version was never officially released in any CDs.
"One Side Love"
 (instrumental)
"One Side Love" (instrumental)

Usage in media
Kōri no ue ni Tatsu yō ni
for Anime television series Case Closed (Detective Conan) as 6th ending theme

References

1998 singles
1998 songs
Miho Komatsu songs
Being Inc. singles
Amemura-O-Town Record singles
Case Closed songs
Songs written by Miho Komatsu
Song recordings produced by Daiko Nagato


title: Raphael Maier

text:
Raphael Maier (born 9 August 1992) is an Austrian skeleton racer. He is a participant at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

References

1992 births
Skeleton racers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Living people
Olympic skeleton racers for Austria
Austrian male skeleton racers
21st-century Austrian people


title: Chinbatyn Otgontsetseg

text:
Chinbatyn Otgontsetseg  (born April 30, 1991) is a cross-country skier competing for Mongolia. She competed for Mongolia at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the 10 kilometre classical race. She ended up placing in 70th place in a field of 76 competitors.

Otgontsetseg qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics.

References

1991 births
Living people
Cross-country skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Mongolian female cross-country skiers
Olympic cross-country skiers for Mongolia
Asian Games medalists in ski orienteering
Ski-orienteers at the 2011 Asian Winter Games
Asian Games bronze medalists for Mongolia
Medalists at the 2011 Asian Winter Games
Cross-country skiers at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
21st-century Mongolian women
21st-century Mongolian people


title: Dance Raja Dance

text:
Dance Raja Dance is a 1987 Indian Kannada-language dance film, directed and produced by Dwarakish for his Dwarakish Chitra banner. The film stars newcomers Vinod Raj, Divya and Sangeetha.

The film released to positive response by critics and audience and the lead star Vinod Raj was lauded for his dancing skills. For this movie, the climax was shot by helicopter, apart from that they used five cameras to shoot this climax scene. Actually it was Dwarakish's Dream to shoot Mysore from an aerial angle. He dropped that idea due to a financial crisis. But the then Chief minister Ramakrishna Hegde learned of this dream and he helped Dwarakish to do so. He called his minister Siddaramaiah to go to Mysore with a helicopter. He went with the helicopter and told Dwarakish to utilize the helicopter.

The song "Dance Dance Raja Dance" from this film was included in the widely popular video game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories along with few other Indian songs in a radio channel Radio Del Mundo.

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Vijaya Anand, with lyrics by Chi. Udaya Shankar and R. N. Jayagopal. Music director A. R. Rahman, who was Dilip then, had assisted Vijaya Anand on the keyboards.

References

External links

1987 films
1980s dance films
1980s Kannada-language films
Indian dance films
Films directed by Dwarakish


title: The Astronaut Wives Club

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The Astronaut Wives Club is a 2015 American period drama television series developed by Stephanie Savage for ABC. It is based on Lily Koppel's 2013 book of the same name. The series tells the story of the wives of the Mercury Seven—America's first group of astronauts—who together formed the Astronaut Wives Club. Actresses Dominique McElligott, Yvonne Strahovski, JoAnna Garcia, Erin Cummings, Azure Parsons, Zoe Boyle, and Odette Annable play the roles of the astronauts' wives.

The Astronaut Wives Club premiered on June 18, 2015.  Following the completion of its run, the series' developer noted the series had been planned as a miniseries, telling a complete story.
However, series creator Stephanie Savage revealed in an interview with Variety that the producers were interested in making the series an anthology in case it gained a renewal for a second season. Possible seasons would have featured wives of men in the 1920s, wives of World War II soldiers, wives of men who work on Wall Street, and wives of men in the 1980s, among other possible scenarios.

Cast and characters

Main
JoAnna Garcia as Betty Grissom
Yvonne Strahovski as Rene Carpenter
Dominique McElligott as Louise Shepard
Odette Annable as Trudy Cooper
Erin Cummings as Marge Slayton
Azure Parsons as Annie Glenn
Zoe Boyle as Jo Schirra
Desmond Harrington as Alan Shepard
Bret Harrison as Gordon Cooper
Wilson Bethel as Scott Carpenter
Aaron McCusker as Wally Schirra
Kenneth Mitchell as Deke Slayton
Sam Reid as John Glenn
Joel Johnstone as Gus Grissom
Luke Kirby as Max Kaplan

Recurring
 Evan Handler as Duncan "Dunk" Pringle
 Matt Lanter as Ed White
 Antonia Bernath as Susan Borman
 Stella Allen as Alice Shepard
 Madison Wolfe as Julie Shepard
 Lorelei Gilbert as Candy Carpenter
 Dana Gourrier as Antoinette Gibbs
 Haley Strode as Jane Conrad
 Holley Fain as Marilyn Lovell
 Nora Zehetner as Marilyn See
 Alexa Havins as Pat White
 Ryan Doom as Donn F. Eisele

Production
The Astronaut Wives Club was originally scheduled to be broadcast during the 2013–14 American television season. On February 5, 2014, ABC officially ordered a limited series of ten episodes. It was expected to premiere on July 24, 2014, but was pushed to spring 2015 to undergo changes. It premiered on June 18, 2015.

Episodes

Reception
The Astronaut Wives Club has received mixed reviews. Review aggregator site, Metacritic, has given the series a "mixed or average" score of 60 out of 100, based on 23 critics. On another review aggregator site, Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 50% rating, based on 28 reviews. The critical consensus there reads: "The Astronaut Wives relies on poorly paced storylines and clichéd characters, both used in service of a fact-based narrative that would have been better served in a more serious context."

See also
 Apollo 11 in popular culture
 Men into Space
 The Cape (1996 TV series)
 The Right Stuff (TV series)

References

External links

2010s American drama television series
2015 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
American Broadcasting Company original programming
English-language television shows
Project Mercury
Television shows based on books
Television series about astronauts
Television series about NASA
Television series based on actual events
Television series by ABC Studios
Television series set in the 1960s
Television shows set in Mississippi
Scott Carpenter
Gordon Cooper
John Glenn
Gus Grissom
Wally Schirra
Alan Shepard
Deke Slayton


title: Yuki Sasahara

text:
is a Japanese skeleton racer. He was a participant at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

References

1994 births
Skeleton racers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Living people
Olympic skeleton racers for Japan
Japanese male skeleton racers
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Japanese people


title: Ambri (poem)

text:
"Ambri" () (also commonly known as "Mother") is a Punjabi language narrative poem by Anwar Masood.

It was inspired by a real event that happened in 1950, in which teacher Anwar Masood himself had an incident in his class, when one of his students beat his mother to almost death, while he was appointed as a schoolmaster in the village near Kunjah. Written in a time span of a decade between 1962 and 1972 (by Anwar's own accounts). It was first published in 1974 in Mela Akhiyan Da, and then a revised edition was published in 2007. It is written in a dialogue style with non-rhythmic scheme like Aik Pahar aur Gulehri of Allama Iqbal, except in pentameters rather than tetrameters. Poem reviewer Pashaura Singh Dhillon says about Anwar Masood as a poet, "He is a poet that has the rare gift of being able to take a very serious subject and make it light and entertaining".

It is considered as a magnum opus of Anwar, and most emotionally depicted poem about mothers love by him. It is often recited by Masood in annual mushairas, mother days and in annual all Pakistani Poets gathering. The book in which the poem was published comprises a total of 11 poems. Except for Ambri, all the other poems are comical poems. The book received highly positive reviews and till now, 40 editions of the book had been published across the country.

Inspiration

Poet Anwar Masood is widely known for his hysterical humour and comical poetry. At the same time, he writes classic genre of poetry. Ambri was one of his poems that depicted indescribable (according to him Unbayanable) love of a mother towards her son. Anwar Masood often describes how he got the inspiration for the poem:

He said that he tried to write two times about this incident but he was not satisfied with it as enough feelings were not there. Then, after ten years, when he was on his job in Pindigheb, he wrote about the whole incident and he didn't even have to change the names of the boys in his poem. He said that, at that time, he had come to realize that the poem had come to him with its own lines. It was meant to be written like this- a delayed poem, rather than when I was forcing myself to write it. He further said that this poem definitely was "Namz-e-Muarah".

Poem
Originally this poem was written in Punjabi and was published in his Punjabi book Akhiyan Da Mela which also includes ten other nazams, along with this poem, and was originally published in 1974. Following is the listing of the original, translated and the English version of the poem:

Reception
Ambri received highly positive response by the readers and critics. It was first published in Mela Akhiyan Da in 1974, a Punjabi language book that comprised eleven poems including Ambri. All poems were based on comical poetry (Makholya Shaairi) except Ambri. The book became a major hit and got a good critical reception. It was declared best seller of 1974. By 2012, the book has been published in 40 editions by the publishers Ferozsons. Ambri was considered as a 'masterpiece' by Anwar, as he blends his emotions about the incident in such a splendid form that one can not control himself, while reading, from bursting into tears. Ambri is highly requested by the audience in the Mushairas and in the annual gatherings of Pakistani poets. Ambri is adapted in many languages including Urdu, Hindi, Sanskrit, English and Persian.

Video presentation
In 2010, Ambri (originally given name Maa Di Shan) video presentation was  done by ATV Islamabad on the eve of Mother's Day. It stars Anwar Masood himself as a narrator of story, directed and produced by Muneeb Ahsan, co-produced and cinematography done by Umer Gulzar. The video was originally shot at Islamia School, Kunjha where this incident actually happened in 1950. The whole poem was narrated in Punjabi and translated and subtitled by Nargis Bano. This video presentation also received a positive response due to the stills and background music used in it, which blends the intensity of the poem into the deep emotions of a mother's love.

See also

Anwar Masood
List of Pakistani poets
List of Urdu language poets
List of Punjabi-language poets

References

External links
 Anwar Masood on Pakistan Academy of Letters
 Anwar Masood on Facebook
 Anwar Masood on YouTube
 Recorded poetry of Anwar Masood

1972 poems
1972 poetry books
Punjabi language
Punjabi poetry
Punjabi literature
Pakistani poetry
Pakistani literature
Ferozsons books


title: Hiroatsu Takahashi

text:
is a Japanese skeleton racer. He is a participant at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

References

External links

1984 births
Living people
Japanese male skeleton racers
Olympic skeleton racers for Japan
Skeleton racers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Skeleton racers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
20th-century Japanese people
21st-century Japanese people


title: Sayonara no Kakera

text:
is the seventh single by the Japanese singer Miho Komatsu, and the last single released under the Amemura-O-Town Record label. It's her first maxi-single. Originally it was supposed to be released as 8 cm single, but the plan has changed. The single reached #17 first week and sold 37,980 copies. It charted for four weeks and totally sold 58,540 copies.

Track listing
All songs are written and composed by Miho Komatsu and arranged by Hirohito Furui

the song was used as the ending theme for the TV Asahi show Paku2 Gurumenbo.
"BOY FRIEND"
 (instrumental)
"BOY FRIEND" (instrumental)

Usage in media
Sayonara no Kakera
for TV Asahi show Paku2 Gurumenbo as ending theme

References

1999 singles
Miho Komatsu songs
Songs written by Miho Komatsu
1999 songs
Being Inc. singles
Amemura-O-Town Record singles
Song recordings produced by Daiko Nagato


title: Goce Smilevski

text:
Goce Smilevski (born 1975) is a Macedonian writer. He was born in Skopje. He studied at the Sts Kiril and Metodij University in Skopje, at Charles University in Prague and at the Central European University in Budapest. Two of his novels have been translated into English: Conversation with Spinoza which won the Macedonian Novel of the Year Award in 2003, and Freud's Sister, which won the EU Prize for Literature in 2010.

References

1975 births
Macedonian novelists
Living people
Writers from Skopje
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje alumni
Charles University alumni
Central European University alumni


title: Dom Parsons

text:
Dominic Edward Parsons (born 8 September 1987) is a British former skeleton racer. He won a bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and also competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. He retired from the sport at the end of 2019.

Career
Parsons began as a runner for Blackheath and Bromley Harriers Athletic Club, running the 400m. He switched to skeleton in 2007 after being introduced to the sport by Adam Pengilly at the Bath bobsleigh and skeleton push-start track. He made his Europa Cup debut in 2008, and finished fourth at the 2009 and 2010 IBSF Junior Skeleton World Championships.

Parsons made his Skeleton World Cup debut in December 2012, finishing 17th in a race at La Plagne in France. In 2013, Parsons won a bronze medal at a World Cup event in Calgary, Canada. Parsons competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, finishing tenth. Parsons finished fifth overall in the 2014–15 and 2015–16 Skeleton World Cups, and tenth overall in the 2016–17 Skeleton World Cup. In January 2018, Parsons finished fourth at the World Cup event in St. Moritz, Switzerland. He achieved three consecutive top ten finishes in the World Championships between the 2014 and 2018 Olympics, finishing seventh in 2015, tenth in 2016 and eighth in 2017.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Parsons came first in the second practice run. His sled was specifically designed for the Pyeongchang track. He later won a bronze medal in the men's skeleton event. His medal was Great Britain's first at the Games, and the first for a British male in skeleton since John Crammond at the 1948 Winter Olympics. Parsons' starting speed has been hampered by an ankle injury on the way to a dentist's appointment, which required ligament reconstruction surgery.

On 28 December 2019, the British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association announced that Parsons was retiring from competition, after starting the season's first two races in Lake Placid, and that teammate Jerry Rice will take his place on the World Cup roster.

Personal life
Parsons is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Bath, researching combustion in turbo-diesel engines. Parsons and Kristan Bromley own a company which produces sleds. Parsons is in a relationship with Australian skeleton racer Jaclyn Narracott.

References

External links

1987 births
Skeleton racers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Skeleton racers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Living people
Olympic skeleton racers for Great Britain
English male skeleton racers
Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in skeleton
Sportspeople from London
Alumni of the University of Bath
Team Bath winter athletes
20th-century British people
21st-century British people


title: Query-level feature

text:
A query-level feature or QLF is a ranking feature utilized in a machine-learned ranking algorithm.

Example QLFs:
 How many times has this query been run in the last month?
 How many words are in the query?
 What is the sum/average/min/max/median of the BM25F values for the query?

Machine learning algorithms


title: Alexandros Kefalas

text:
Alexandros Kefalas (born 21 December 1984) is a Greek skeleton racer. He is a participant at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He carried Greece's flag at the closing ceremony.

References

1984 births
Living people
Greek male skeleton racers
Skeleton racers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Olympic skeleton racers for Greece
20th-century Greek people
21st-century Greek people


title: St. Paul Historic District (St. Paul, Virginia)

text:
St. Paul Historic District is a national historic district located at St. Paul, Wise County, Virginia. It contains 23 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures in the central business district of St. Paul. Most contributing resources consist of commercial buildings dating from the 1920s to 1950s.  Notable buildings include the Ennis House (1887), Hillman/Ennis House (c. 1890), the old St. Paul Hotel (1901), National Bank building (c. 1900), Gaiety Movie Theater (1920s), The Lyric (c. 1950), and Cavalier Theater/ Phillips Building (c. 1955).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Buildings and structures in Wise County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Wise County, Virginia


title: Saitan Kyori de

text:
is a single by Japanese singer Miho Komatsu and her first single released under the Giza Studio label. Unlike her previous single which was released as maxi-single, this one was released in 8cm single format. The single reached #16 for the first time and sold 21,130 copies. It charted for three weeks and sold 37,140 copies.

Track list
All songs are written and composed by Miho Komatsu and arranged by Hirohito Furui

it is used as an ending song for the TBS show Rank Oukoku.
single version and album version have different arrangements
"My destination..."
 (instrumental)
"My destination..." (instrumental)

References

1999 singles
Miho Komatsu songs
Songs written by Miho Komatsu
1999 songs
Giza Studio singles
Being Inc. singles
Song recordings produced by Daiko Nagato


title: Ward Wilson

text:
Ward Hayes Wilson (born April 26, 1956) is a Senior Fellow and director of the Rethinking Nuclear Weapons project at the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), a think tank focusing on nuclear disarmament based in London and Washington, D.C. He lives and works in Trenton, New Jersey.

Career
Although Wilson was not widely published in the nuclear weapons field until 2007, he has quickly moved into “the forefront” of the debate about the value and utility of nuclear weapons and deterrence. He is one of five co-authors of a 2010 report sponsored by the Swiss government titled “Devaluing Nuclear Weapons,”

Wilson is best known for his argument that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not force Japan's surrender; a prevalent argument which some have recently come to challenge.

Wilson was awarded the top prize ($10,000) in the Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge in 2008 for his “impressive and detailed critique of nuclear deterrence.” He received a substantial grant the following year to write, travel, and speak on nuclear weapons issues.
Traveling extensively over the last four years, he has presented arguments that challenge accepted ideas about nuclear weapons before government and public audiences on six continents. Wilson has spoken at the State Department, the Pentagon, the U.K. House of Commons, the European Parliament, the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Naval War College, and universities including Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Georgetown, and University of Chicago. Wilson launched his book, Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons, at the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs in February 2013.

Awards and honors
RFK Fellow, The Robert Kennedy Memorial Foundation, 1981.
Doreen and Jim McElvaney Prize, 2008. A $10,000 for the best essay on nuclear weapons worldwide in 2008.

Works
Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. Review.
In addition to the Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons book, Wilson is an avid writer of op-eds, journal articles, reports, and briefing papers.
"Strengthening Nonproliferation", British American Security Information Council, October 2013
"Rethinking the Utility of Nuclear Weapons,” Parameters, 2013.
"Myth of Nuclear Necessity," op-ed, The New York Times, January 13, 2013.
“The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence,” Nonproliferation Review, 2008.
“The Winning Weapon? Rethinking Nuclear Weapons in Light of Hiroshima,” International Security, 2007.

See also

Doomsday Clock

References

External links
Ward Wilson, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Ward Wilson, author of “Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons” presents his book at the United Nations, UNODA
Interview with Ward Wilson, author, “5 Myths of Nuclear Weapons”, July 22, 2019
RealistRevolt, a project by Ward Wilson

Living people
Arms control people
1956 births


title: Lightship Museum, Esbjerg

text:
The Lightship Museum () in the harbour of Esbjerg in southern Denmark consists of a private museum open to the public on board the Horns Rev lightship. Dating from 1912, the Horns Rev, also known as  Motorfyrskibet Nr. I, is the world's oldest and best preserved motor lightship. It houses a highly regarded exhibition of life and work on board.

History
The world's largest and best preserved wooden lightship, Motorfyrskibet Nr. I, was built at the Rasmus Møller shipyard in Fåborg. The contract was signed in June 1912 and the ship was delivered on schedule in August 1914. From the beginning it was intended to serve shipping from the Port of Esbjerg. Apart from short periods when it was stationed elsewhere or undergoing maintenance, it spent most of its working life off Esbjerg, first at Vyl Station or at Horns Rev Station where it last served in 1980. Both these positions lie west of Esbjerg in the North Sea. Its final period of service was off the island of Møn (at Møn SE Station) from 1981 to 1988. In 1989, on the recommendation of the Ministry of Culture, it was acquired by Fonden til bevarelse af Motorfyrskib Nr.1 (Foundation for the preservation of Motor Light Vessel No. 1). It opened as a museum in July 1990.

The positions the lightship served at Horns Rev and Vyl, which indicate one of the most dangerous reefs in Danish waters, have now been replaced by light buoys.

Motorfyrskib No. I

Built of oak, the ship has a length of , a breadth of  and a draught of . Its displacement is 342 tonnes. It originally had a 125-horsepower, two-stroke engine which was later replaced with a three-cylinder, 180-horsepower diesel engine. Initially, the light could be hoisted up and down the mast and could be prepared for use on deck but it was later permanently secured at the top of the mast. It was displayed amidships from a round lantern. The ship's hull is painted with the colours of the Danish flag: red with a white horizontal band and a vertical white stripe.

Museum
Located at Esbjerg's new area "Havneøen" at the northernmost end of the harbour, the museum ship is open to visitors from May to August, Monday to Friday, 11 am to 4 pm. It features an exhibition illustrating in detail the role and importance of Denmark's lightships.

See also
Lightvessel Gedser Rev
Horns Rev

References

External links
Motorfyrskib nr. 1 "Horns-rev" website

Buildings and structures in Esbjerg
Museum ships in Denmark
Tourist attractions in the Region of Southern Denmark
Museums in the Region of Southern Denmark
Museums established in 1990
Horns Rev


title: Heartbreak Library

text:
Heartbreak Library (; lit. "Page 198 of That Man's Book") is a 2008 South Korean romantic drama film starring Lee Dong-wook and Eugene. It is an adaptation of a short story of the same name written by Korean author Yoon Sung-hee. It tells the story of a librarian who is first furious at a man who rips out page 198 of  books, then becomes intrigued, and finally decides to help him after learning that he's heartbroken after his girlfriend broke up with him then left a note to look up page 198, without mentioning which book.

Plot
Eun-soo works conscientiously as a librarian in a seaside village. One day, she catches a mysterious man damaging some books at the library; the man, clad in a black suit with a black tie, tears out a single page from every book he comes across. At first, Eun-soo accuses him of book vandalism and reports him to the police, but she soon becomes curious regarding the complex story behind his actions. Joon-oh's girlfriend had suddenly left him with only a mysterious note, "Look up page 198." So Joon-oh goes to the library everyday and tears out page 198 from every book, hoping that he will find a message that might lead to his beloved or at least the reason for her disappearance. When Eun-soo checks the library database, she discovers that Joon-oh's girlfriend was a bibliophile, checking out a total of 956 books from the library. Eun-soo initially advises Joon-oh to let his ex-girlfriend go if that's her wish, because keeping trying to trace her is just an empty obsession. But since Joon-oh shows no sign of quitting, and she herself has just broken up with her boyfriend and is feeling her own loss in love, Eun-soo decides to help him decipher the messages on page 198 of all the books.

Cast
Lee Dong-wook - Kim Joon-oh
Eugene - Jo Eun-soo
Jo Ah-ra - Seon-mi
Gi Ju-bong - Hong-soo
Yoo Tae-gyun - director
Jo Deok-hyun - Mr. Kim, the guard
Go Soo-hee - Miss Paeng, calligraphy professor
Yoo Da-in - neighborhood girl that walks across ledge
Jung Ho-jin - Ja-bong
Park Dong-jin - Chul-woo
Jo Jung-il - Jin-mok
Kim Hyun-joo - Min-joo
Lee Jong-gu - psychologist
Jo Seok-hyun - office worker
Lee Hwa-ryong - spontaneous photographer
Park Hwi-soon - student preparing for bar exam
Jung Eun-pyo - pharmacist
Shin Cheol-jin - Old Guard
Lee Jae-yong - Chairman Song

References

External links

2008 romantic drama films
2008 films
South Korean romantic drama films
Films directed by Kim Jung-kwon
DSP Media films
2000s South Korean films


title: Aimee Watson

text:
Aimee Watson (born 28 July 1987 in Sydney) is an Australian cross-country skier. She competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. And 2018 Pyeong Chang

Her younger brother Callum Watson also represented Australia in cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Competition record

References

External links

1987 births
Living people
Cross-country skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic cross-country skiers for Australia
Australian female cross-country skiers
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: John de Derlington

text:
John de Derlington (John of Darlington) (died 1284) was an English Dominican, Archbishop of Dublin and theologian.

Life
Derlington became a Dominican friar, and it has been inferred that he studied at Paris at the Dominican priory of St Jacques, because his name is mentioned as working on the second edition   (Concordantiæ Magnæ, about 1250) of Hugues de St Cher's Latin concordance. In 1256 he was made a member of Henry III's council, and taken into the king's confidence, also at some point becoming Henry's confessor.

In 1256 Derlington persuaded the king to release a converted Jew of Lincoln, imprisoned on suspicion of complicity in the murder of a child. In 1258 he helped draw up the Provisions of Oxford, as one of the king's nominees; in 1263 he was present at the drawing up of the instrument by which Henry III agreed to submit the questions arising from the provisions of Oxford to the arbitration of Louis IX.

In August 1278 Derlington was part of a mission to Rome from Edward I with William of Louth and Henry of Newark. In negotiations with Pope Nicholas III, he was appointed a collector of papal revenue in England. The collection of the "tenth" was a long task, but it had hardly begun when Derlington was raised to the see of Dublin, which had been vacant since the death of Fulk Basset in 1271. The appointment was the Pope's personal choice, made to resolve a confusing situation involving a bitter struggle between two rival nominees, Fromund Le Brun  and William de la Corner. Edward received Derlington's homage and fealty on 27 April 1279, and the next day restored him to his temporalities. He was consecrated on 26 August, at Waltham Abbey, by Archbishop John Peckham. The contentious collection of the tenth kept Derlington from his see, and the king allowed him to be represented by an attorney in Ireland, and gave him special license to remain in England.

Other troubles also detained Derlington, including a clash with Peckham. In 1283 Edward I seized the collected tenth for the crusade, but then was compelled to give it up. With other business over, Derlington set off for Ireland, but had not gone far from London, when he went down with a mortal sickness. He died on 28 March 1284, and was buried in the choir of Blackfriars church in London.

Notes

Attribution

Year of birth missing
1284 deaths
English Dominicans
Archbishops of Dublin
13th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland
13th-century archbishops


title: Why Britain is at War

text:
Why Britain is at War is a polemic treatise written by Harold Nicolson and first published by Penguin Books on 7 November 1939 shortly after the Second World War began. In the book, Nicolson explores Adolf Hitler's insatiable grasp for power, the foreign policy brinkmanship and deception ploys adopted by Nazi Germany, and Hitler's use of actual and implied force to get his way at the negotiation table. The Penguin Special edition originally cost 6d (six old English pennies) and sold a hundred thousand copies.

Harold Nicolson
At the time of writing, Nicolson was National Labour Member of Parliament (MP)   for Leicester West. Nicolson had been among the few MPs to raise questions in the House of Commons about the threat of fascism.

Origin of book
On 25 September 1939, Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin Books, commissioned Nicolson to write a Penguin Special of 50,000 words to present to the British people the reasons why they were at war with Germany, and why it was so crucial to defeat Nazism.

The book quickly became a bestseller and sold 100,000 copies and had three reprints by February 1940. Anthony Eden wrote to Nicolson that he was "very much in favour of my Penguin and has bought many copies".

Using high irony, low sarcasm and the telling phrase Nicolson sought to ensure the public were fully aware of the threat of Nazism during the Phoney War between the fall of Poland in October 1939 and the German invasions of Denmark and Norway in April 1940.

Book outline
By initially introducing the story of murderer George Joseph Smith, Nicolson quickly compares the methods and strategies adopted by Hitler to force Britain and France to accede to his demands for territory, including the Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia and later Poland.

Nicolson provides details on Hitler's early life and also critically reviews Mein Kampf. Separate chapters deal with each of the territorial claims being made by Nazi Germany - starting with the seizure of the Rhineland in March 1936, through the forced Anschluss for Austria in March 1938, the foreign policy issues surrounding the Munich Agreement between March and September 1938, the seizure of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 and then the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939.

The book concludes with a review of the main causes for the outbreak of the war and suggestions as to its aims and purposes.

References

1939 non-fiction books
United Kingdom home front during World War II
Propaganda in the United Kingdom
World War II propaganda


title: Kaze ga Soyogu Basho

text:
is the ninth single of the Japanese pop singer Miho Komatsu released under Giza Studio label. The single was released one and a half months after the previous single Saitan Kyori De. This is the last single released in 8 cm single format. The single reached #9 in its first week and sold 33,240. It charted for 8 weeks and sold 52,650 copies.

Track list
All songs are written and composed by Miho Komatsu and arranged by Hirohito Furui

the song was used as the first opening song for the anime series Monster Rancher. OA (on air) and single version have different arrangement. OA version was never officially released on CDs.
"Elephant"
 (instrumental)
"Elephant" (instrumental)

References

1999 singles
Anime songs
Miho Komatsu songs
Songs written by Miho Komatsu
1999 songs
Giza Studio singles
Being Inc. singles
Monster Rancher
Song recordings produced by Daiko Nagato


title: Pathankot Cantonment railway station

text:
Pathankot Cantonment railway station (station code: PTKC) is located in Pathankot district in the Indian state of Punjab and serves Pathankot .

Name change
Chakki Bank railway station was renamed Pathankot Cantonment railway station in 2013.

The railway station
Pathankot Cantonment railway station is at an elevation of  and was assigned the code – PTKC.

History
The -long  broad gauge Amritsar–Pathankot line was opened in 1884.

The -long -wide narrow-gauge Kangra Valley Railway from Pathankot to Joginder Nagar was commissioned in 1929.

The line from  to  was constructed in 1915. The Mukerian–Pathankot line was built in 1952. The construction of the Pathankot–Jammu Tawi line was initiated in 1965, after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, and opened in 1971.

Electrification
Electrification work of the Jalandhar–Jammu line is completed in 2015.

Loco shed
Pathankot Cantonment had a steam loco shed which has now been decommissioned.

References

External links
 Trains at Chakki Bank

Railway stations in India opened in 1952
Railway stations in Pathankot district
Firozpur railway division
Transport in Pathankot


title: Steins Creek

text:
Steins Creek, a stream or arroyo tributary to the San Simon River, that arises within an east–west running canyon, in Hidalgo County, New Mexico with its mouth in Cochise County, Arizona.  This canyon provides the gap, called Stein's Pass, through which the railroad and Interstate 10 pass through the Peloncillo Mountains.  Steins Creek has its source at , and its mouth in the San Simon Valley, where its waters usually sink into the soil, short of any confluence with the San Simon River.

See also
 List of rivers of Arizona
 List of rivers of New Mexico

References

Rivers of Cochise County, Arizona
Rivers of Hidalgo County, New Mexico
Rivers of New Mexico
Rivers of Arizona


title: Hannah Trigger

text:
Hannah Trigger (born 5 February 1987) is an Australian snowboarder. She is a participant at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

References

1987 births
Living people
Snowboarders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Olympic snowboarders for Australia
Australian female snowboarders
21st-century Australian women
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: Francesca Barracciu

text:
Francesca Barracciu (born 11 June 1966, Sorgono) is an Italian politician. She is a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP).

Early life and career
Graduated in philosophy and pedagogy, she was a teacher of literary and Latin subjects at high schools as well as a consultant for cultural activities at public and private institutions.

Politics
She entered politics in the 80's, militating in the PCI then PDS, DS and PD. She was regional secretary of Sardinian PD from July to December 2008. She has been assessor and municipal councilor of the municipality of Sorgono, as mayor of the same municipality from 2005 to 2010 (elected with 100% as the only candidate); she also was Regional Councilor of Sardinia from 2004 to 2013.

In 2009 he ran for the European Parliament in the ranks of the PD in the Islands constituency and obtained 116,844 preferences, making her the first of the non-elected, and then taking over from Rosario Crocetta on 17 December 2012, after his resignation for the election as President of the Sicilian Region.

On 29 September 2013 he won the centre-left primary in the first round ahead of the regional elections in Sardinia in 2014 with 44.3% of the vote and 22,808 preferences. On the following 30 December, however, after some pressure from members of her party, she renounced to participate in the electoral competition, as she was investigated in the investigation into the "crazy expenses" of funds to regional groups, and was therefore replaced by economist Francesco Pigliaru, later elected President of Sardinia.

On 28 February 2014 she was appointed Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism led by Minister Dario Franceschini, in the Renzi Government, resigning as MEP, ratified on 11 March 2014.

Her appointment caused serious perplexity as Matteo Renzi himself, at the time new secretary of PD, asked Barracciu to renounce the race as a center-left candidate for the Presidency of Sardinia despite the victory in the primary, two months from the vote, because investigated for the use of regional funds. However Renzi and the Minister of Reforms Maria Elena Boschi defended the appointment of Barracciu, and other undersecretaries under investigation, reiterating that the guarantee notice should not be judged as a definitive sentence.

In 2015 she ran for city councilor in her city Sorgono, in support of the mayoral candidate Vincenzo Rodi and his list "A future for Sorgono". The list, however, suffered a heavy defeat; the left-wing civic candidate, the trade unionist CGIL Giovanni Arru, was elected mayor, whose "Unita Mente" list obtained 68% (789 votes), surpassing Rodi stopped at 33% with 372 votes; however Barracciu with 88 votes is the most voted on the losing list after the mayoral candidate by entering the city council.

In November 2019 she left the PD and joined new Matteo Renzi's political party Italia Viva.

Judicial proceedings
In September 2013 she was entered in the register of suspects together with 33 other exponents: two months later, the then MEP and candidate for governor, was heard by the prosecutor Marco Cocco to answer for the failure to report on expenses made by the regional council group between February 2006 and January 2009, for a total of thirty-three thousand euros in mileage reimbursements for fuel.

On 21 October 2015 she was indicted on charges of having used public funds for purposes other than those envisaged, for an amount of approximately 81,000 euros, during her mandate as regional councilor of Sardinia from 2004 to 2013. Barracciu has announced her resignation as Undersecretary for Culture and Tourism of the Renzi government.

On 5 December 2017, the Court of Cagliari sentenced Barracciu to 4 years of imprisonment for aggravated embezzlement in the context of the scandal on funds destined for groups of the Regional Council of Sardinia and spent for non-institutional purposes. The total expenditure declared is around 80 thousand euros. In May 2019, the Cagliari Court of Appeal sentenced the former Undersecretary for Culture of the Renzi government to 3 years, 3 months and twenty days in prison.

References

1966 births
Living people
Democratic Party (Italy) MEPs
MEPs for Italy 2009–2014
21st-century women MEPs for Italy
Democratic Party (Italy) politicians
Italia Viva politicians


title: Stephanie Magiros

text:
Stephanie Magiros (born 5 May 1991 in Paddington, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian snowboarder. She was a participant at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Magiros also competes in artistic gymnastics with the hope of becoming the first Australian to make back-to-back Summer and Winter Olympic Games.

References

1991 births
Snowboarders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Living people
Olympic snowboarders for Australia
Australian female snowboarders
Australian Ninja Warrior contestants
Sportswomen from New South Wales
21st-century Australian women


title: AirStrato

text:
AirStrato is a solar powered medium-sized unmanned aerial vehicle that was being developed by ARCAspace. There were two variants planned, AirStrato Explorer with a target flight ceiling of 18,000 m and AirStrato Pioneer with a target flight ceiling of 8000 m.  It was planned to carry a 45 kg payload consisting of surveillance equipment, scientific instruments or additional battery pods for extended autonomy. The first prototype maiden flight  took place on February 28, 2014. It was equipped with a fixed landing gear. Two more prototypes were constructed that lacked a landing gear. Instead ARCA opted for a pneumatic catapult as a launcher and landing skids and a recovery parachute for landing. Both prototypes performed take-off and landing testing and low altitude flights.

Development

AirStrato was first presented by ARCA on February 10, 2014, as an alternative to the stratospheric balloons that had been used before in missions involving the Helen and Stabilo programs and the high altitude flights for the ExoMars program. Although capable of carrying less payload than a helium or solar balloon, the aircraft had a much lower cost per mission and could stay in the stratosphere for longer periods of time. Unlike a weather balloon that could not be steered and relied on wind forecasts to predict its trajectory the AirStrato could be remote controlled by a pilot on the ground. At that time ARCA designed the UAV to fulfill its own requirements for high altitude equipment testing and had a commercial version of the aircraft for consideration. The first prototype was equipped with a fixed landing gear and had two electric motors.

After a series of runway testing on rough ground, suspensions were added to the landing gear to improve handling and the number of electric motors was increased to four. The first prototype flew on February 28, 2014. ARCA released several images of AirStrato taking off and flying at very low altitude. The press release stated that the right landing gear suspension was damaged on landing.

For nine months ARCA did not make public any news on the progress of the program, until November 10 when it released a short teaser on the aircraft featuring two other models in red and yellow colours performing flights. The two models lacked a landing gear. On its website it presented the aircraft as intended to fill a gap between large military grade UAV and small scale affordable drones for small businesses and individuals. On November 25 it made public the product website alongside a much longer video presenting the aircraft taking off from a pneumatic launcher and performing low altitudes flights. The aircraft were equipped with landing skids and deployable parachutes. Two versions of the aircraft are available, a larger stratospheric flying model with longer endurance, named Explorer and a slightly smaller version intended for lower altitudes and having less endurance, named Pioneer.

In 2015, ARCA received $215,000 of seed funding from Anova Technologies to develop the  AirStrato UAV.  Additional funding, totaling $750,000, was to be invested if ARCA met certain development milestones, including flight tests and FAA certification.  However, after a series of business disputes about additional funding, the AirStrato program was sold to Anova Technologies.

Design

Airframe
The airframe is constructed entirely from composite materials making possible for radio antennae to be placed inside the fuselage instead of outside such is usual for normal aircraft. At the base of the fuselage, underneath the wings there are two skids used for mounting and sliding across the side rails of the pneumatic catapult. Another small skid is installed underneath the frontal part of the fuselage that attaches to the middle rail of the catapult. Two more large skids are placed at the far edge of the wings. The parachute container is installed in the frontal part of the fuselage. The parachute can be deployed for landing or in case of emergency.

Engines and power
Six electric driven propeller engines are installed on the wings that generate a combined thrust of 250 lbf at sea level. Although the power output remains constant as altitude increases the propellers lose their effectiveness but are still able to provide cruising speed of 152 km/h at altitude for the Explorer and 100 km/h for the Pioneer. The electrical motors are powered by internal batteries during night and solar panels during daytime. The solar panels generate 2800W for the Explorer and 1800W for the Pioneer.

Avionics and control
The aircraft are equipped with inertial flight stabilization and autopilot. The GPS is linked with the transponder providing both altitude and coordinates, capable of being integrated into the US NextGeneration Air Transportation System. The control is via internet, using GSM networks where available and satellite connection everywhere else. The autopilot prevents the aircraft from entering restricted areas, can automatically takeover flying in case all communication is lost and attempt to contact ARCA technical support in case of emergency. It also is able to fly to a predetermined secure area and automatically deploy the parachute in case connection can no longer be established. The autopilot can also control the on-board camera to target specific locations and film them for a pre-determined period of time. The connection between the aircraft and the ground pilot are encrypted using Transport Layer Security with AES 256 encryption standard.

Pneumatic launcher
A compressed air catapult is used as a takeoff method for both models. The internal pneumatic piston has a force of 2,200 lbf, able to propel the aircraft to take-off speed in less than a second. It is also constructed from composite materials and has an internal compressor that requires an external power source (power outlet or generator). It is made of three parts: the upper part that contains the rails, compressor and canister and the leg that is made of the main part and a crosspiece.

Variants

Explorer

It was the most expensive of the two models and with the projected highest performance. The Explorer was also the only one designed to be able to fly into the stratosphere, although no high-altitude flight tests were ever attempted to confirm its performance. It was also to include components such as transponder and satellite internet connection devices that are optional for the Pioneer. It was to have a larger wingspan, more solar cells and longer endurance. The selling price was advertised as $140,000.

Pioneer

Pioneer was advertised to have lower overall performance than the Explorer but greater maneuverability and rate of climb. It was to use the same ground station and the same connection protocol as the Explorer. It could be equipped with all the accessories of the Explorer, including transponder, satellite connection, 4K resolution gimbal camera, FLIR camera, deployable containers etc.

Specifications

AirStrato Explorer

AirStrato Pioneer

References

External links
 AirStrato website
 ARCA website

Solar-powered aircraft
Unmanned aerial vehicles of Romania
ARCAspace


title: Sunnydale Farm

text:
Sunnydale Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Pound, Wise County, Virginia. The complex includes contributing and noncontributing buildings, structures, and sites dating from the 19th century or before to the 1960s. The Sunnydale Farm House, was built about 1919, and is a 1 1/2-story, frame Craftsman bungalow with vinyl and novelty weatherboard siding.  Also on the property are the contributing stone well, a ruinous stone and frame root cellar, a frame chicken house, a frame blacksmith shop with a wagon and tractor, and a family cemetery.  Other contributing resources are the sites of the Millard cabin and associated root cellar, coal mine openings, and the site of a coal mine tipple and bridge ruins.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

References

Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Houses completed in 1919
Buildings and structures in Wise County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Wise County, Virginia
Blacksmith shops


title: Pukamuqu

text:
Pukamuqu (Quechua, puka red, muqu hill / joint, "red hill") is a mountain in Peru. It is situated in the Cusco Region, Cusco Province, Cusco District. It is a natural viewpoint of the city of Cusco situated at a height of . On top of the mountain there is a statue called Cristo Blanco (Spanish for "white Christ").

References

Mountains of Cusco Region
Monuments and memorials in Peru
Colossal statues of Jesus
Mountains of Peru


title: Jarryd Hughes

text:
Jarryd Hughes (born 21 May 1995) is an Australian snowboarder. He achieved second in boardercross at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

Career
He competed at the 2012 FIS Snowboard World Cup as a 16-year-old and came in at 10th place at the Stoneham World Cup in Quebec, Canada. Since his debut he has gone on to win a Gold and a Silver Medal at the FIS Junior World Championships, win the Lake Louise World Cup in 2013 and represent Australia at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

While still one of the youngest athletes on the World Cup Tour, Jarryd has been a consistent performer in the top-10 on the World Cup Circuit and been the youngest ever World number-one. In January 2016, Jarryd won Gold in the Snowboardcross event at X Games in Aspen Colorado making him the youngest ever winner and the first Australian male to win a Gold Medal at Winter X. He won the Silver Medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

References

External links

1995 births
Australian male snowboarders
Snowboarders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Snowboarders at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Snowboarders at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic snowboarders for Australia
X Games athletes
Living people
Olympic silver medalists for Australia
Olympic medalists in snowboarding
Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Sydney
Sportsmen from New South Wales


title: List of restaurants in Switzerland

text:
This is a list of notable restaurants in Switzerland.

Restaurants in Switzerland

 Piz Gloria
 Hiltl Restaurant
 Restaurant Talvo

Restaurants in Zürich

 Bauschänzli
 Bernhard-Theater Zürich
 Blindekuh
 Grimmenturm
 Hiltl Restaurant
 Irchelpark
 Ristorante Cooperativo
 Theater am Hechtplatz
 Theater Rigiblick
 Villa Belvoir
 Zunfthaus zur Meisen
 Zunfthaus zur Saffran
 Zunfthaus zur Zimmerleuten

See also

 Swiss cuisine
 List of companies of Switzerland
 List of Michelin starred restaurants Switzerland
 Lists of restaurants

References

External links

Switzerland
Restaurants


title: Anata ga Iru kara

text:
is the 10th single by Japanese singer Miho Komatsu, under Giza studio label. It released on 21 June 2000. From this work until Miho Komatsu's 6th album ~ Hanano~ there was no arrangements from Hirohito Furui. Same as on the 7th single Sayonara no Kakera, this one is released in maxi-single format. The single reached #9 in its first week and sold 55,900 copies. This is last single which reached top 10 ranks in Oricon.

Track list
All songs are written and composed by Miho Komatsu

arrangement: Daisuke Ikeda
the single was used as an ending song for the animated feature film Case Closed: Captured in Her Eyes. At present this is Miho Komatsu's last Detective Conan song.

arrangement: Yoshinobu Ohga
As <everyplace ver.> (instrumental)
arrangement: Kūron Oshiro
this is re-arrangered version song from 3rd album Miho Komatsu 3rd ~everywhere~
 (instrumental)

References

2000 singles
2000 songs
Miho Komatsu songs
Being Inc. singles
Giza Studio singles
Case Closed songs
Japanese film songs
Songs written for animated films
Songs written by Miho Komatsu
Song recordings produced by Daiko Nagato


title: Galerie Buchholz

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Galerie Buchholz is an art gallery specializing in international contemporary art with exhibition spaces in Cologne, Berlin and New York City. The gallery was founded in Cologne in 1986 by Daniel Buchholz, and today is run jointly with Christopher Müller.

History

The gallery's exhibition spaces are located in Cologne at Neven-DuMont-Strasse 17, in Berlin at Fasanenstrasse 30, and in New York at 17 East 82nd Street. Since its founding the gallery has had various locations in Cologne. Its first location was at Bismark Strasse 50, in a former storage facility of the Cologne gallerist Rudolf Zwirner. In 1988, the gallery opened at Venloer Strasse 21. In 1990, Buchholz and gallerist Esther Schipper opened Buchholz & Schipper, a shop specializing in multiples, at Albertusstrasse 26. In 1992, Buchholz & Buchholz opened on Breite Strasse 36, an exhibition space in the second antique bookshop of Daniel Buchholz's father.

Since 1994, Galerie Daniel Buchholz has been located at Neven-DuMont-Strasse 17, in the primary location of the antiquarian bookstore that his father founded. Daniel Buchholz converted the former storage spaces of the bookstore into exhibition spaces, and, since his father's death in 1993, has continued to run Antiquariat Buchholz parallel to the gallery. This address remains the headquarters for the gallery today. The art historian Christopher Müller began organizing film programs and co-curating exhibitions in the gallery in 1996. Since 2000 he has been a partner in the gallery.

In 2008, Galerie Buchholz established a location at Fasanenstrasse 30 in the Charlottenburg neighborhood of Berlin.

In 2015, it opened an exhibition space in New York City, at 17 East 82nd Street on the Upper East Side, Manhattan.

Exhibitions
In 1985, Daniel Buchholz organized exhibitions with artists John Armleder and Brian Eno in the former storage facility of Rudolf Zwirner in Cologne. Following this, he founded a space called Daniel Buchholz, where he mounted exhibitions of John M. Armleder, Olivier Mosset, Udo Lefin, Allan Belcher and Uwe Lausen, Ken Lum, Dieter Roth and the Canadian artist collective General Idea. In 1987 Buchholz organized an exhibition on the history of multiples and exhibitions of the complete graphic works of Blinky Palermo and Sigmar Polke.
In the same year, Buchholz presented his first collaboration with the artist Isa Genzken.  Buchholz organized her exhibition project Musix, in which he showed Genzken's concrete "World Receiver" radio sculptures in the window of a HiFi electronics store in Cologne. In the following of 1988, Genzken had her first solo exhibition with Daniel Buchholz, and has been primarily represented by the gallery ever since. In 1990, Daniel Buchholz presented the exhibition project "Samson" by Chris Burden. In 1993 he opened a new gallery under the name Buchholz & Buchholz. It was here that he presented his first exhibition by the artist Wolfgang Tillmans, whom the gallery continues to represent today.

Alongside the exhibitions by represented artists, Galerie Buchholz regularly presents curated and historical exhibitions. For example, the 2013 and 2015 exhibitions on the life and work of French writer Raymond Roussel; or the 2014 symposium and exhibition on the occasion of the 70th birthday of the American theorist and curator Douglas Crimp, organized together with Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch and Marc Siegel. In 2017, Christopher Müller and Diedrich Diederichsen organized the exhibition "Cosmic Communities: Coming Out Into Outer Space - Homofuturism, Applied Psychedelia & Magic Connectivity" in the New York gallery.

The gallery participates in the fairs Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Cologne, and Paris+ par Art Basel.

Publications
In 1997, the gallery began publishing artist catalogues under its own press, including monographs on Isa Genzken, Jutta Koether, Michael Krebber, and Wolfgang Tillmans. The gallery has also published a work of scholarship by Michael Sanchez on the French author Raymond Roussel.

Selected artists
Galerie Buchholz represents numerous artists, including:

Gallery

References

External links
 Official website

Art museums and galleries in Berlin
Art museums and galleries in Germany


title: Yen Lu

text:
Yen Lu may refer to:

 Yan Wuyou, also known as Yan Lu/Yen Lu
 Lu Yen, Taiwanese composer


title: Cameron Bolton

text:
Cameron "Cam" Bolton (born 21 November 1990) is an Australian snowboarder. He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

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External links

1990 births
Living people
Australian male snowboarders
Olympic snowboarders for Australia
Snowboarders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Snowboarders at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Snowboarders at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Melbourne
Sportsmen from Victoria (state)


title: Outwood Academy Normanby

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Outwood Academy Normanby (formerly Hillsview Academy) is a secondary school with academy status, located in the Teesville suburb of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. It has a mixed intake of boys and girls ages 11–18, with 600 pupils on roll .

The school is operated by Outwood Grange Academies Trust, and the current principal is Andrew Wappat.

History
The school was established as Hillsview Academy on 1 September 2014, through the merger of Eston Park and Gillbrook academies on the Gillbrook site. Although Gillbrook supported the merger, Eston Park opposed it with the proposal prompting parental protests. Both the predecessor schools had been rated as inadequate by Ofsted. Eston Park was placed in special measures on the 22 May 2013 and Gillbrook in serious weaknesses in December 2013. The two schools adopted a joint Governing Board who arranged the merger.

Both predecessor schools and the merged Hillsview Academy were operated by Academies Enterprise Trust (AET).

A 2017 Ofsted report found Hillsview Academy to be "inadequate", noting instances of racism, bullying, truancy and smoking. Hillsview Academy was placed into special measures and in May 2019 AET announced that the school would be transferred to a new sponsor organisation, Outwood Grange Academies Trust (OGAT).

In September 2019 the school was renamed Outwood Academy Normanby and control transferred to OGAT.

The Former sixth form building is due to become "Outwood Alternative Provision Eston" in September 2020.

Uniform
The school's uniform comprises a black school jacket (blazer), white shirt/blouse, black trousers/skirt and tie.

References

External links

Academies in Redcar and Cleveland
Secondary schools in Redcar and Cleveland
Academies Enterprise Trust
Educational institutions established in 2014
Normanby
2014 establishments in England


title: Hilda Beatrice Currie

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Hilda Beatrice Currie (born Hilda Beatrice Hanbury; 24 July 1872 – 19 September 1939) was a British voluntary worker and Liberal Party politician.

Early life, Italy
She was the only daughter of the Quakers, Sir Thomas Hanbury and Katherine Aldam Pease of Ventimiglia, Italy. She grew up at the botanical gardens her parents were creating.

She lived much of her early life in Italy, where she was closely identified with the training of nurses, for which she was decorated by Elena of Montenegro, the Queen of Italy. She founded and maintained the first school for hospital nurses in Italy at Rome, for which she received the Benemerenti medal from the Pope.

Wiltshire
After moving to Britain she took up residence in Upham House, Aldbourne, Wiltshire, which she had purchased in 1909.

In 1913 she married Sir James Currie. When her husband was knighted in 1920 for his services as Director of Training, Ministry of Labour, she became Lady Currie.

She joined the Liberal party and became a member of the executive of the Women's National Liberal Committee, also serving as its treasurer. She undertook much local voluntary work regarding nursing and the welfare of the blind. She was selected as Liberal candidate for the Devizes Division of Wiltshire at the 1922 general election; as her home constituency, she was already known to a number of the local electorate. This was a Unionist seat that the Liberals had not won since their landslide victory of 1906. At the previous general election in 1918, the Unionists had polled two-thirds of the vote. Although the Unionists held the seat, Lady Currie was able to reduce their majority.

Her husband died in 1937. In 1939 she died at home of pneumonia.

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1872 births
1939 deaths
Liberal Party (UK) parliamentary candidates
Recipients of the Benemerenti medal
British expatriates in Italy


title: Eubotrys recurva

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Eubotrys recurva is a plant species native to the Eastern United States. Common names include deciduous mountain fetterbush and red-twig doghobble.

Distribution and habitat
The plant grows in moist forests, bogs, granitic domes, etc., at elevations up to 1500 m (5000 feet). It has been reported from Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia and New York State.

Description
Eubotrys recurva is a branching shrub up to 4 m (13 feet) tall. Leaves are up to 8 cm (3.2 in) long. Flowers are campanulate, white to pale pink. Fruit is a dry capsule.

See also

 Eubotrys racemosa

References

Vaccinioideae
Flora of the Northeastern United States
Flora of the Southeastern United States
Flora of the Appalachian Mountains
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


title: Diving at the 2015 European Games

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The Diving events at the 2015 European Games took place at the Baku Aquatics Centre, Baku from 18 to 21 June 2015. Eight events were contested, six from the Olympic program, 3 metre and 3 metre synchronised springboard, and platform for both men and women. In addition, two non-Olympic events, men's and women's 1m springboard, were held. The Olympic events of men's and women's 10 metre synchronised diving were not held.

Diving was not included in the earliest list of sports confirmed for the 2015 Games, as the European swimming authorities at that stage were minded not to take part. However, following negotiations with the organising authorities, a compromise was reached whereby, in 2015, these events were for junior divers only - in effect, athletes between the ages of 14 and 18.

Qualification

160 divers are expected to take part. National Olympic Committees will be restricted to one entry in each synchronised event, and two entries in each individual event. As host, Azerbaijan is entitled to a minimum one diver.

Following the European Junior Diving Championships in July 2014 (Bergamo, Italy), LEN will confirm the quotas per nation and  based on an average ranking by NOC from the last three European Junior Diving Championships.

Timetable

Participating Countries
The number beside each nation represents the number of athletes who will compete for each country at the 2015 European Games.

Medal table

Medalists

Men's

Women's

References

Sports at the 2015 European Games
European Games
2015


title: Metal ion buffer

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A metal-ion buffer provides a controlled source of free metal ions in a manner similar to the regulation of hydrogen ion concentration by a pH buffer A metal-ion buffer solution contains the free (hydrated) metal ion along with a complex compound formed by the association of the ion with a ligand in excess. The concentration of free metal ion depends on the total concentration of each component (ligand and metal ion) as well as on the stability constant of the complex. If the ligand can undergo protonation, the concentration of the free metal ion depends also on solution pH.

A considerable improvement in the detection limit of a liquid-membrane ion-selective electrode has been achieved by using a metal-ion buffer as internal solution.

References

Inorganic chemistry
Acid–base chemistry
Equilibrium chemistry
Buffer solutions


title: Kimi no Me ni wa Utsuranai

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is the 11th single of the Japanese singer Miho Komatsu released under Giza studio label. The single reached #19 rank first week and sold 15,020 copies. It charted for 2 weeks and totally sold 19,640 copies.

Track list
All songs are written and composed by Miho Komatsu and arranged by Yoshinobu Ohga

 (instrumental)

References

2000 singles
Miho Komatsu songs
Songs written by Miho Komatsu
2000 songs
Giza Studio singles
Being Inc. singles
Song recordings produced by Daiko Nagato


title: Daejeo station

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Daejeo Station is a station of the Busan Metro Line 3 and BGLRT Line located in Daejeo-dong, Gangseo District, Busan, South Korea. It is a southern terminus of Line 3 at this station. During the construction, the Line 3 Station was known as Jungni Station, and Busan-Gimhae Light Rail Station known as Seoyeonjeong Station.

Station Layout

Exits

References

External links
 Cyber station information, Line 3 from Busan Transportation Corporation
 Cyber station information, BGLRT Line from Busan Transportation Corporation

Busan Metro stations
Gangseo District, Busan
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 2005
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 2011


title: Zhansaya Abdumalik

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Zhansaya Abdumalik (; ; born 12 January 2000) is a Kazakhstani chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM). She is the first Kazakhstani woman, and the 39th woman overall, to earn the GM title. Abdumalik has a peak FIDE rating of 2505 and has been ranked as high as No. 11 in the world among women. Abdumalik has been a two-time girls' World Youth Champion as well as a girls' World Junior Champion. She is also a two-time Kazakhstani women's national champion, and has represented Kazakhstan in women's events at the Chess Olympiad, World Team Chess Championship, and the Asian Nations Chess Cup. On April 20, 2022, Zhansaya became the President of the Almaty Chess Federation.

Abdumalik began playing chess at age five. She emerged as a chess prodigy, first qualifying for the girls' World Youth Championships at age seven and winning gold medals at the under-8 level at age eight and the under-12 level at age eleven. She earned the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title at 14 years old in 2014 and the International Master (IM) title at 16 years old in 2016. Having previously earned silver and bronze medals at the under-20 girls' World Junior Championship, she won the gold medal in 2017. After achieving all of her norms for the GM title across 2017 and 2018, Abdumalik became a Grandmaster in 2021 by reaching the 2500 rating threshold in Gibraltar in the last leg of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2019–21. She also had a career-best performance rating of 2699 at the tournament. In her career, she has defeated several Grandmasters rated above 2600, including Yaroslav Zherebukh when he was rated 2642 to help earn her first GM norm.

Early life and background
Zhansaya Abdumalik was born on 12 January 2000 to Alma and Daniyar Ashirov in Almaty. Her parents made her last name the same as the first name of her paternal grandfather at his request in large part because he told her parents that she would become famous if they gave her that name. She was taught how to play chess by her father at age five and joined a chess school with her older brother Sanzhar at age six. While her brother switched from chess to track and field after three years, Abdumalik stayed in chess and quickly emerged as a prodigy. She entered her first tournament, Almaty's city championships, the same year she started training at a chess school. In January 2007, she became the under-8 Kazakhstani national champion the same month she turned seven years old. As a result, she qualified for the under-8 girls' division of the World Youth Chess Championships, where she finished in fourth place with a score of 8/11. During 2007, she also began working with Nikolay Peregudov, a Kazakhstani International Master (IM).

A year later, Abdumalik again participated in the under-8 girls' World Youth Championship, this time in Vũng Tàu in Vietnam, and won the gold medal. After a loss in her opening game, she won her final ten games, including victories over Qiyu Zhou, Gunay Mammadzada, and Kelly Wang, who finished in second, third, and fourth place respectively. Her score of 10/11 was 1½ points ahead of Zhou in second place. With this gold medal, she became the first Kazakhstani world champion in chess. Earlier in the year, she had also won the same division of the Asian Youth Chess Championships. After working with Peregudov through 2011, Abdumalik spent a year at the ASEAN Chess Academy in Singapore training with Zhang Zhong, a Singaporean Grandmaster (GM). Back in Kazakhstan, she then was coached for several years by David Arutinian, a Georgian GM, and Vladimir Chuchelov, a Belgian GM who had coached the Dutch national team. When Abdumalik was around 18 years old, she was working with Zahar Efimenko, a Ukrainian GM who was a second to world champion Vladimir Kramnik.

Chess career

2009–2014: Under-12 World Champion, WGM at age 14

Abdumalik earned her first FIDE rating in April 2009, starting out at 1854 at age nine. She was directly awarded the Woman FIDE Master (WFM) title at age 10 as a result of her silver medal in the under-10 girls' division at the 2010 World Youth Championship in Greece. A year later, she was directly awarded the Woman International Master (WIM) title as a result of her silver medal in the under-20 girls' division of the 2011 ASEAN+ Age Group Championships in Indonesia. She finished in joint first place at both tournaments, but ended up in second because of the tiebreak criteria. At the World Championships, she tied with the winner Nomin-Erdene Davaademberel with a score of 9/11, a point ahead of third place. At the ASEAN Championships, she scored 6½/9 to tie with the winner Võ Thị Kim Phụng and the bronze medallist Chelsie Monica Ignesias Sihite.

During 2011, Abdumalik also reached milestone ratings of 2000 and 2100 for the first time. Her earliest tournament that counted towards her rating in 2011 was the 2010 World Chess Tour IM tournament in Moscow, where she gained 62 rating points. Although she entered the tournament with a rating of 1870, she scored 5½/12 against much higher-rated opponents, including five draws against five International Masters and a win against Pavel Rozanov, a FIDE Master (FM) rated 2297. A series of large rating jumps culminated in Abdumalik winning her second World Championship title at the end of the year, this time in Brazil in the under-12 girls' division. She scored 8/9, a full point ahead of second place. In addition to her second World Championship, she also won the under-11 girls' division of the World School Chess Championship for the second year in a row earlier in the year. Abdumalik came close to defending her under-12 World Championship the following year in 2012, but finished in joint second place. She scored 8½/11, a ½ point behind the winner, Vaishali Rameshbabu, the only player she lost to during the event. She also participated in the under-20 girls' World Junior Chess Championships that year for the first time, scoring 7/13. Outside of the world championships, Abdumalik earned her first Woman Grandmaster (WGM) norm at the Alushta summer tournament in Ukraine, where she scored 7/11 and was undefeated against players with an average rating of 2282.

During 2013, Abdumalik crossed ratings of 2200 and 2300 for the first time. She entered the Kazakhstani women's national championship and finished runner-up to Guliskhan Nakhbayeva, who won on the tiebreak criteria after they both scored 7/9. She also entered the open section of the under-20 junior national championship and won both the rapid and blitz events. Later in the year, Abdumalik had a breakthrough at the World Junior Championships in Turkey. She won the silver medal as a 13-year-old with a score of 9½/13, a point behind only Aleksandra Goryachkina, one of the two players she lost to in the event. Among the players Abdumalik defeated in the event was Deysi Cori, a WGM rated 2433. With this achievement, she earned her second WGM norm and was later named the Best Girl Under-20 at the 1st Annual Asian Chess Excellence Awards. Late in the year, Abudmalik had another big achievement, winning the Brno Open in the Czech Republic as the sixth-highest rated player in the event. She scored 7½/9, a full point ahead of the two highest-rated players, Toms Kantāns and Vojtěch Plát, who came in joint second with several others. Abdumalik began 2014 by achieving her final WGM norm at the Gibraltar Chess Festival in February. She scored 5½/10 against opponents with an average rating of 2366, notably defeating Felipe El Debs, a GM rated 2520. As she had already reached the 2300 rating threshold, she earned the WGM title less than a month after turning 14 years old. She had another successful result in speed chess later in the year, winning the bronze medal in 2014 Asian Women's Blitz Championship behind gold medallist Tan Zhongyi and silver medallist Dronavalli Harika. Her career-best rating during the year was 2379.

2015–2016: International Master title

Abdumalik satisfied her first two requirements for the IM title in 2015, securing her first IM norm at the Reykjavik Open, which in turn also helped her reach the 2400 rating threshold needed for the title. During the tournament, she defeated two Icelandic GMs, Henrik Danielsen and Héðinn Steingrímsson, and won six games in total as part of a 6½/10 overall score. Towards the end of the year, Abdumalik scored 9½/13 for the second time in three years at the World Junior Championships, which were held in Khanty-Mansiysk in Russia. With this performance, she won the bronze medal, having tied with silver medallist Alina Bivol and finishing a ½ point behind the winner Nataliya Buksa. Although she lost two games, including one to Bivol, she was the only player to defeat Buksa.

Abdumalik completed her two remaining requirements for the IM title in 2016. She earned her second IM norm at the Women's Asian Nations Cup with a 5½/7 start to the tournament. She followed this up by winning her first Kazakhstani women's national championship towards the middle of the year. As the top seed, she again scored 7/9, this time a ½ point ahead of Yelena Ankudinova in second place. At the end of the year, she also won the Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska Memorial tournament for her third and final IM norm. She scored 7/9 against opponents with an average rating of 2403, a ½ point ahead of second-place finisher Anastasia Bodnaruk. Overall, she compiled a performance rating of 2623, having scored 1½ points above what was needed for the IM norm. With this performance, she became an International Master at age 16, about a month before turning 17. Back in speed chess, Abdumalik played the Women's World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships, finishing in sixth place in the World Rapid event.

2017–2021: World Junior Champion, Grandmaster title

Abdumalik maintained a rating in the low 2400s throughout nearly all of 2017. Although was only the 42nd highest-ranked player in a field of 118 at the Aeroflot Open B, she finished in 15th place, one point behind the winner. After she lost rating points in the middle of year, in part from a third-place finish at the Kazakhstani women's national championship, Abdumalik recovered by earning her first GM norm at the World Open in the United States. She scored 7/9 to finish in equal second place and won the prize for the top finisher among players rated between 2300 and 2449 by a full point. She faced six GMs and defeated three of them, including Yaroslav Zherebukh, who was rated 2642 and remains the highest-rated player she has ever defeated. Her performance rating for the tournament was 2650. Abdumalik closed out the year by winning the World Junior Championship in Italy. As the top seed, she finished a point ahead of second place with 9½/11, clinching the gold medal in the last round with a win against Jennifer Yu. At the Women's World Rapid and Blitz Championships at the very end of the year, Abdumalik had another top ten finish, coming in eighth place in the World Blitz event out of 100 participants behind only GMs.

The following year, Abdumalik earned her final two GM norms in succession at the Karpos Open in March and the Budapest Spring Festival in April. She scored 7/9 at the former event to finish in fifth place. At the latter event, she was in contention for first place after starting with a score of 6/7 and defeating Tamás Bánusz, a GM rated 2617, but lost her last two games. With all three norms, she only needed to reach a rating of 2500 to earn the GM title. She came close to reaching 2500 at her next tournament, the Open Internacional Llucmajor in Spain. Having started the event with a rating of 2484, she peaked at an unpublished rating of 2496.5 in the middle of the event before losing her next two games, the first to G.A. Stany. Later in 2018, Abdumalik entered her first Women's World Chess Championship, which was played as a 64-player knockout tournament at the time. As the 15th seed, she made it to the quarterfinals. All four of her matches went to tiebreaks. Abdumalik won the first three matches against 50th seed Padmini Rout, 18th seed Zhao Xue, and 31st seed Jolanta Zawadzka in the first set of tiebreaks, played in a 25+10 rapid format. She then was eliminated by 7th seed Mariya Muzychuk. Both players each won once in the two-game classical match, the 25+10 rapid pair, and the 10+10 rapid pair before Muzychuk advanced by winning their first blitz game and drawing the other.

Abdumalik continued to maintain a rating in the high 2400s through 2019 and 2020. She was the youngest player invited to participate in the inaugural Cairns Cup, a round-robin tournament for ten of the world's leading women's players. She finished in the middle of the field with an even score of 4½/9. Although Abdumalik defeated M. Amin Tabatabaei, a GM rated 2638, at the Gibraltar Chess Festival in early 2020, her rating dropped to 2461 a month later after a poor result at the Aeroflot Open A. In March 2020, Abdumalik was invited to participate in the third leg of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2019–21 at Lausanne as a replacement player after Zhao Xue needed to withdraw due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. She had good results at the tournament, finishing third place out of twelve players with 6/11 and regaining 17 rating points to get back to a rating of 2478.

Because of the pandemic, Abdumalik did not play another tournament until the women's national championship at the end of the year, which she won, albeit while falling to a rating of 2472. She entered her next tournament, the fourth leg of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Gibraltar, needing 28 rating points to meet the threshold for the Grandmaster title. She won the tournament with a score of 8½/11, clinching victory with a draw in the penultimate round and finishing in clear first by 1½ points. She also gained 33 points, and first reached a rating of 2500 after her ninth round win against Valentina Gunina, a game that lasted 133 moves and over six hours in which Gunina continued to play on in spite of the position being dead-drawn for a long period of time. With this win, she qualified for the Grandmaster title at age 21. Overall, she had a performance rating of 2699 at the tournament. She also reached a career-best women's ranking of No. 11 in the world.

On May 30, 2022, Zhansaya Abdumalik became the champion of the Women's Bundesliga in chess, having won an early victory with the OSG Baden-Baden team.

National representation
Abdumalik has represented Kazakhstan at three Women's Chess Olympiads. She made her debut at the 2014 Tromsø Olympiad in Norway on the third board, behind Guliskhan Nakhbayeva and Dinara Saduakassova, and ahead of Madina Davletbayeva and Gulmira Dauletova. Although Kazakhstan was only the 17th best out of 136 teams by average rating, they finished in sixth place primarily on the strength of the performances by Saduakassova and Dauletova as the team scored 17 points (+8–2=1). Abdumalik had an even score of 4½/9, and had the team's only win against Eesha Karavade in their third round draw against the higher-rated team from India. Although Abdumalik fared better at the 2016 Baku Olympiad, Kazakhstan did not have as good of a result. The team finished in 37th with 13 points (+6–4=1), below their starting rank of 31st. With Nakhbayeva and Saduakassova both absent, Abdumalik played on the top board ahead of Dauletova, Sholpan Zhylkaidarova, Yelena Ankudinova, and Aisezym Mukhit. She scored 6/10. At the 2018 Batumi Olympiad, Kazakhstan finished in 11th place with 16 points (+6–1=4), close to their starting rank of 8th. They were the only team to beat the host country of Georgia's top team, who won the bronze medal. Abdumalik played on the second board behind Saduakassova and ahead of Nakhbayeva, Dauletova, and Assel Serikbay. She scored the best on the team with 7½/11 and had one of her team's wins against Georgia, albeit still while losing rating points overall.

Abdumalik has been a member of two of Kazakhstan's Women's World Team Chess Championship teams and three Women's Asian Nations Cup teams. She played on the top board both times at the former event but did not fare well in either occasion, scoring 1½/8 in 2015 and 3½/8 in 2019, losing rating points in both instances. Abdumalik has had better results at the Women's Asian Nations Cup. After a poor performance in her first appearance in 2014, she scored 5½/8 in 2016 to score her second IM norm. She clinched the norm with a 5½/7 start highlighted by a win against Batkhuyag Munguntuul, a Mongolian WGM. Her team also won the bronze medal behind China and Uzbekistan, and she individually won a silver medal on the second board. Although her team did not fare as well in 2018, she still had a good performance with a score of 4½/6.

Playing style

Abdumalik has a strong preference for playing 1.e4 (the King's Pawn Game) with the white pieces compared to other opening moves. With the black pieces, she commonly defends against 1.e4 with the Sicilian defence (1.e4 c5), and commonly defends against 1.d4 (the Queen's Pawn Game) with the Grünfeld Defence (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5).

Personal life
Abdumalik has been a student at the Innovative Technical College in Almaty, where she has studied computer programming.

Abdumalik and her parents opened the Zhansaya Abdumalik Chess Academy in 2014. The academy has grown to have three branches with over 700 students in total.
Former World Champion Anatoly Karpov attended the opening of the academy, where he and Abdumalik played a four-game speed chess match. While Karpov won both rapid games, Abdumalik won one of the blitz games and drew the other.

Outside of chess, one of Abdumalik's hobbies is boxing. She also likes fishing, and previously had swimming as a hobby when she was growing up.

Notable games

 Yaroslav Zherebukh (2642) – Zhansaya Abdumalik (2397), 2017 World Open: Round 8; Torre Attack, . Annotations from National Master (NM) Sam Copeland, a chess journalist and one of the competitors in the event, are included below.
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Bg5 Bg7 4. e3 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. c4 Ne4 7. Bh4 c5 8. O-O Nc6 9. Nc3 Nxc3 10. bxc3 Qc7 11. d5 ["Right or wrong, I've personally never liked these kinds of advances. White's structure has no flexibility any more."] 11... Na5 12. Qc2 e5 13. dxe6?! ["The engine already likes Black after this, but maybe Black was already better? ...f5 is coming, and Black's position looks nice if White declines to capture."] 13... Bxe6 14. Nd2 f5 15. Rad1 Rae8 ["As a Dutch player, Black's position is an ideal fantasy for me. :)"] 16. Rfe1 Kh8 17. Bf1 b6 18. Qd3 Qc6 19. Qc2 Qc7 20. f4 Qf7 ["Black makes an instructive re-maneuver. After Zherebukh denied her Qa4, Black reroutes the queen to the more flexible f7."] 21. Qd3 d5 22. cxd5 Bxd5 23. c4 Be4? ["(23... Bc6! looked stronger according to the engine. Logically, permitting the exchange of the Nd2 for the light-squared bishop is a concession.)"] 24. Nxe4 Rxe4 25. Qd7 Bc3 26. Re2 Bf6 27. Qxf7 ["(27. Bxf6+! Qxf6 28. Qxa7 Nxc4 29. Rd7 still has play, but White would be happy to get here.)"] 27... Rxf7 28. Bxf6+ Rxf6 29. Red2 Rxe3 30. Rd7 Nc6 31. g3 a6 32. Rb7 Nd4 33. Rb1 Ra3 34. Rb2 Re6 35. Kg2 h6 36. Kh3 g5 37. Bg2? ["Zherebukh misses Abdumalik's next move."] 37... Ne2! ["...Ng1# and ...Nf4# are threatened. Zherebukh is completely busted."] 0–1

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References

External links

 Zhansaya Abdumalik's biography

2000 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Almaty
Kazakhstani female chess players
Kazakhstani chess players
Chess grandmasters
Female chess grandmasters
World Youth Chess Champions
Chess Olympiad competitors
Chess players at the 2022 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for Kazakhstan
21st-century Kazakhstani women