Datasets:

izumi-lab

/

wikipedia-en-20230720

like 7

Follow

Izumi Lab. 15

74398685

Liga Dart Polska

Liga Dart Polska "(League Dart Poland)" is a series of darts tournaments held in Poland, consisting of local qualifiers, from which 4 top players from each city participating in the competition advance to the grand final. The first edition of the series was held in 2023. Format. Qualifying events for amateur players are organised by local darts teams and held in various locations across Poland. 4 players qualify through these events. The tournament format involves holding 6 qualifying tournaments in each city participating in the competition. The format for each qualifying tournament is "first to 5 legs." In each local qualifying tournament, players accumulate points for the final standings of their respective cities, with the top 4 players from each city advancing to the grand finals. The format for the League Dart Poland finals is as follows (as of 2023): Participating cities. The following cities hosted local qualifiers in the 1st edition:

74398712

Bastide (restaurant)

Bastide was a Michelin-starred French restaurant in West Hollywood, California. The restaurant closed in 2011.

74398716

The Principles of Banking

The Principles of Banking is a 2012 non-fiction book written by Bangladesh-born English banking practitioner and educator Moorad Choudhry and published by John Wiley & Sons. Overview. The book explains the original principles of banking, including lending policy and liquidity management, and why these need to be restored in order to avoid another bank crisis at the time of the next economic recession. It covers asset-liability management, liquidity risk, internal transfer pricing, capital management, and stress testing. The book considers business cycles as patterns of stable and stressful market behavior, and provides examples illustrating the key principles of bank asset-liability management. It illustrates how unsound banking practices in previous bank crashes were repeated during the creation of the 2007-2008 financial market crisis. It also offers readers access to an accompanying website holding policy templates and teaching aids. In the second edition of The Principles of Banking, contents are organized into six parts: Author. Moorad Choudhry is an independent non-executive director at Recognise Bank Limited in London, a non-executive director at the Loughborough Building Society and an independent non-executive member of the Risk Committee at Nubank, in Sao Paulo. He is Honorary Professor at University of Kent Business School. He was latterly Treasurer, Corporate Banking Division at The Royal Bank of Scotland. He began his career at the London Stock Exchange in 1989. Moorad is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, a Fellow of the London Institute of Banking and Finance, a Fellow of the Global Association of Risk Professionals, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and a Freeman of The Worshipful Company of International Bankers. Moorad was born in Bangladesh and lives in Surrey, England. He was educated at Claremont Fan Court school, the University of Westminster and the University of Reading. He obtained his MBA from Henley Business School and his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London. Publication information. "The Principles of Banking" was first published by John Wiley & Sons in Singapore in 2012. The second edition was published in 2022 and expands upon the original edition, incorporating updates in developments and regulations and in the banking industry, including Basel III Final Form and its constituent elements of The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book, Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book, and Recovery and Resolution Planning, as well as covering the impact of COVID-19 on banks, risk management, and balance sheet management. Reception. Nihar Mehta, who holds the position of Chief Corporate Development Officer at Monument Bank Ltd in London, expressed his high regard for "The Principles of Banking". He considers it the most crucial text for those in the banking industry and strongly believes that it should be an obligatory part of everyone's personal growth agendas. Mr. Mehta drew on his past experiences when he was a part of the UK Financial Services Authority, leading the change in control team. His responsibilities then included scrutinizing and granting regulatory approvals for intricate banking transactions, an example being the takeover of Northern Rock by Virgin Money. During that process, he found himself relying significantly on Professor Choudhry's text as a key reference for acquiring banking licenses. Ted Teo, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NUS Business School in Singapore, shared his experience of teaching a banking course. He initially struggled to find suitable textbooks that presented a real-life banking perspective, a challenge he managed to overcome when he discovered books by Professor Choudhry. According to him, Choudhry's books accurately portray the perspective and methodology employed by bankers. They stand out by offering a practical and non-theoretical approach to understanding banking.

74398718

History of women's rugby union matches between Australia and Canada

Australia and Canada first played against each other on 6 June 2014 in Tauranga, New Zealand. They have only met on five occasions with Canada winning every match, the 2017 Rugby World Cup in Ireland was the only World Cup where they have faced each other.

74398719

2004 in Angola

Events from the year 2004 in Angola

74398730

Gonda Gopal

Bhai Gonda Gopal was a warrior, leader, statesman and preacher of Sikhism under Guru Har Rai and Guru Tegh Bahadur. Early Life. He was born in a Yadav Odia Hindu family in Dhauli, Odisha. He was connected to Sikhism due to the Udasis who used to arrive at Dhauli for pilgrimage every year. Preaching in Afghanistan. He was sent to Kabul to preach Guru Nanak's word and he established there a dharamsala. According to Sarup Das Bhalla in Mehima Prakash, one day as he sat in contemplation concentrating his mind on the Guru`s feet, he fell into a trance. At the same moment, Guru Har Rai sat motionless in the sangat at Kiratpur for several hours on end. Even the call for the Guru ka Langar went unheeded. When he at last arose, he told the sangat of how Bhai Gonda at Kabul had kept him bound to his seat. The Guru did not, continues the Mahima Prakash, wish to interrupt Bhai Gonda's meditation. Guru Tegh Bahadur sent half of his Akal Sena to Kabul and the other half with him to Assam and Bengal. Life in the Balkans. In Croatia and Dalmatia and the Battle of Mohács. The Sikhs were an irregular force in Croatia and Dalmatia under the Holy Roman Empire. It is doubtful as to how many Sikhs were present in the Akal Sena in Europe although it is most likely to be at 1,000. On the morning of 12 August the Duke of Lorraine decided to move to Siklós, because the position and the hard ground there made it more appropriate as a battleground. The Ottoman army caught the Imperial army near Nagyharsány and the nearby Nagyharsány Hill, with its heavily wooded steep slopes. Their cavalry, consisting of 8,000 Ottoman Sipahis, tried to outflank this Habsburg army wing from the left. The commander of the wing, the Elector of Bavaria, immediately sent a courier to the Duke of Lorraine, informing him that this wing was under threat. Orders were given and sent quickly and positions were taken immediately to resist the attack of the superior Ottoman forces, which had twice the number as the Imperial forces. The Habsburg infantry held their position, and Gen. Enea Silvio Piccolomini with his Sikh cavalry regiments flanked the Sipahis and successfully counterattacked and stopped the advance of the Ottoman Sipahi cavalry. The Akal Sena did receive many casualties including Bhai Gonda Gopal; they left back for Punjab after celebrating Lohri with John III Sobieski. Ambassador and statesman Paul Rycaut noted the bravery of Bhai Gonda Gopal in saving Hungary from Ottomans in 1687.

74398734

Acrorenal mandibular syndrome

is an extremely rare multiple congenital anomalies syndrome characterized by skeletal and renal abnormalities. These anomalies include split hand and split foot malformations, renal agenesis, polycystic kidneys, uterine malformations, and underdeveloped or absent bones. Although the cause of Acrorenal mandibular syndrome is unknown, it is thought to be autosomal recessive. Signs and symptoms. Some characteristic features of Acrorenal mandibular syndrome include a high-arched palate, split foot, split hand, absent or malformed kidneys, absent tibiae, absent fibula, underdevelopment of the radius, and underdevelopment of the ulna. Although less likely, those with Acrorenal mandibular syndrome may also have abnormalities of the collar bones, abnormal sense of smell, abnormalities of the uterus, hip dislocations, underdevelopment of the zygomatic bone, low-set posteriorly rotated ears, micrognathia, pectus carinatum, underdeveloped lungs, and a short neck. Acrorenal mandibular syndrome can cause intrauterine growth retardation. During pregnancy, mothers of newborns with Acrorenal mandibular syndrome may have less amniotic fluid. Causes. Although Acrorenal mandibular syndrome is thought to be autosomal recessive, the syndrome is more common in female children born from consanguineous marriages.

74398753

University of Rochester Yellowjackets

The University of Rochester Yellowjackets comprise the 23 intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Rochester, located in Rochester, New York. All varsity teams compete in the NCAA Division III, except for their men's squash team, which competes in Division I. The Yellowjackets are affiliated with the University Athletic Association (UAA) and the Liberty League. Team colors are "Rochester" blue (PMS 541 C) and "dandelion" yellow (PMS 109 C). Rocky the Yellowjacket is the mascot. Championships. NCAA team championships. The University of Rochester Yellowjackets have won 4 team national championships and 14 individual national titles:

74398760

HD 27322

HD 27322, also known as HR 1342, is a double star located in the northern circumpolar constellation Camelopardalis. The visible component is faintly visible to the naked eye as a white-hued point of light with an apparent magnitude of 5.92. The object is located relatively close at a distance of 313 light-years based on Gaia DR3 parallax measurements, and it is drifting closer with a heliocentric radial velocity of approximately . At its current distance, HD 27322 A's brightness is diminished by 0.24 magnitudes due to interstellar extinction and it has an absolute magnitude of +0.98. HD 27322 A has a stellar classification of A3 V, indicating that it is an ordinary A-type main-sequence star that is generating energy via hydrogen fusion at its core. Abt & Morell (1995) gave a hotter and slightly more evolved classification of A2 IV-V, indicating that it is an A-type star with a luminosity class intermediate between a main sequence star and a subgiant. At the age of 640 million years, HD 27322 A has completed 79.5% of its main sequence lifetime. It has 1.9 times the mass of the Sun and 2.64 times the radius of the Sun. It radiates 54.7 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of . HD 27322 A is metal deficient with an iron abundance 56% that of the Sun's ([Fe/H] = −0.25) and it spins rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of . The object was generally classified as a solitary star. However, evidence of HD 27322 being a double star first arose when an X-ray emission with a luminosity of was detected around the star. A-type stars are expected to be X-ray quiet, so it might be coming from a hidden companion. A 2016 spectroscopic survey detected a companion around HD 27322. It has 1.3 times the mass of the Sun and it has an effective temperature of 6,492 K. HD 27322 B is metal deficient with a [Fe/H] of −0.5 and it spins modestly with a projected rotational velocity of 20 km/s.

74398797

Perelisky, Poltava Oblast

Perelisky () is a village in the Poltava Raion, in the Poltava Oblast in central Ukraine. Until 18 July 2020, Perelisky was located in Zinkiv Raion. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Poltava Oblast to four. The area of Zinkiv Raion was merged into Poltava Raion.

74398811

Beatitudes (album)

Beatitudes is an album by saxophonist and composer Bobby Watson and double bassist Curtis Lundy. It was recorded on April 11, 1983, at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was released on vinyl later that year by New Note Records. In 1997, the album was reissued on CD by Evidence Music. On the album, which features five Watson originals, a Lundy composition, and Gigi Gryce's "Minority", Watson and Lundy are joined by pianist Mulgrew Miller and drummer Kenny Washington. Reception. In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote: "Watson already had a distinctive sound at this early stage and his solos in the advanced hard bop setting are enthusiastic and fairly original." Sid Gribetz of "JazzTimes" stated: "The music here is crackling and sharp... Watson plays with a deep strong tone and an attack full of verve and bite... Lundy was at that time already a long-term associate of Watson's, and their empathy is evident on the recording... the songs are more than just tunes to blow on-they are lyrical and coherent, lending to fine playing that remains memorable."

74398839

Manzke

Manzke is a Michelin-starred restaurant in Los Angeles, California. According to the Michelin Guide, the restaurant offers a "ten-course tasting menu boasting a contemporary style that blends French techniques with Californian influences and Asian notes". "The Infatuation" says Manzke serves American and French cuisine.

74398842

Corn Exchange, Barton-upon-Humber

The Corn Exchange is a commercial building in the Market Place in Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, England. The structure, which is now used as a private members club, is a Grade II listed building. History. In the mid-19th century, a group of local businessmen decided to form a trust, managed by a board of 15 trustees led by a local builder, William Graburn, to finance and commission a purpose-built corn exchange for the town. The site they selected was on the north side of the Market Place. The building was designed by D. W. Aston of Kingston upon Hull, built by Willford & Dinsdale in yellow gault bricks at a cost of £1,000 and was officially opened in February 1854. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of three bays facing onto the Market Place. The ground floor, which was rusticated, featured three round headed openings with voussoirs and keystones, while the first floor was fenestrated by round headed casement windows flanked by short Corinthian order pilasters supporting architraves and keystones. There were quoins at the corners and, at roof level, there was a cornice, supported by paired brackets, and a Welsh slate roof. Internally, the principal rooms were the market hall on the ground floor and a reading room on the first floor. The trustees got into financial difficulties at an early stage and, by 1861, the building was being marketed for sale. It was acquired by the lord of the manor, Major George Charles Uppleby, whose seat was at Barrow Hall. Uppleby allowed the building to be used for drill practice by the 12th Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteers in which he served as an officer. The use of the building as a corn exchange declined significantly in the wake of the Great Depression of British Agriculture in the late 19th century. Instead, it was converted for use as a private members club known as the Barton Constitutional Club in 1888. It evolved to become the Barton Conservative Club and later the Barton Corn Exchange Club. As such, it was equipped with snooker tables and became a venue for local snooker matches. It also became the base for the Barton Community Band, which rehearses there twice a week, and for the Barton-upon-Humber Lions Club.

74398850

Luo Xiaowei

Luo Xiao Wei (Chinese: 罗小未)(September 10, 1925 - June 8, 2020) started her education at the St. John's University in Shanghai where she graduated in 1948 as an architecture major. She became a lecturer afterwards, and with the 1952 Reorganization of Chinese Higher Education, she found herself working with Tongji University In Shanghai. There, she practiced as a teaching assistant, lecturer, associate professor and professor, as well as eventually becoming the founder of the Architectural History and Theory department at the institution. Exchange of Architectural Thought and Culture. Luo Xiao Wei systematically introduced one of the first courses on Western history, theory and thought into the Chinese architectural curriculum, and authored a plethora of textbooks, many of which have been adopted and are now fundamental to the curriculum of over 300 schools across the country. While she gained recognition and respect in China for these accomplishments, Luo Xiao Wei is celebrated not for a one-sided import of information and ideas but rather the exchange of cultures between the east and west during her time abroad. After the implementation of the 1978 Open Door Policy, she is considered to have entered her 'golden age' of teaching, in which she spent a vast amount of time abroad immersing herself in various countries both learning and teaching: she conducted numerous lectures at overseas universities and would dedicate a large portion of her time engaging in academic discussions with local practitioners and scholars. Despite being such a big proponent of western architectural theory, she was one also of the first to vocalize a move away from eurocentrism ideologies. She emphasized that by learning about western architecture, one must understand "what it is and why it is the way it is" because "if one is unable to analyze and criticize it, one would not be able to learn from it," which was the real goal of looking at and studying cultures outside of one's own. The First Textbooks. Scholarly literature in Luo Xiao Wei's specialization was not abundant when she first entered the field of teaching. Recognizing this, she took it upon herself to compile and publicize information that could fill this gap. Given the extremely limited resources as well as the multidisciplinary knowledge that was needed to put these texts together, this was no easy feat; she additionally believed that imagery would be a priceless contribution to these publications as many viewing the books would have no way of ever visiting the structures in person. In total, she produced over 10 types of teaching materials composed up a multitude of textbooks, photo collections, and presentation slides. Books such as "A Pictorial History of World Architecture", as she promised, were filled with images of architectural forms, construction detailing, and building facades painstakingly compiled in order to advance academic knowledge in the area. Restoration Work. Luo Xiao Wei was also passionate about restoration work of heritage buildings within her hometown of Shanghai. As such, she was involved in the protection of notable structures and worked on heritage conservation policies within the architectural realm. Due to this efforts, many see her as a pioneer in the preservation of culture and conservation work in Shanghai and even gained the nickname of 'the Goddess of Protection' for this work.

74398869

Miho Hamaguchi

Miho Hamaguchi (Japanese: 浜口 ミホ) (March 1, 1915 – April 12 , 1988) was a Japanese architect as well as the first female architect to have been licensed as a Class 1 architect in Japan. She was born to a well-to-do family, the Hamadas, in Dalian, China. She started her studies in Home Economics at what is now Ochanomizu University and would actively attend architectural lectures without enrolling as women were not officially permitted to do so. She went on to practice under Kunio Maekawa and later start her own firm in Aoyama. Domesticity as a Tool for Social Change. Miho Hamaguchi is accredited with having hugely influenced and pioneered the modern kitchen. She wrote about this in her book, "The Feudalism of Japanese Houses" (Nihon jūtaku no hōkensei, 1949), which advocated for the dissolution of gender and class hierarchies in spaces. Much of the residential realm at the time operated under traditional feudal structures in which spaces were meant to prioritize ‘the master of the house’ while women were reduced to the role of housekeeper. Later in the decades directly following the Second World War, the gendering of spaces changed to giving those considered more public and productive masculine associations while feminine spaces were those characterized by being private and domestic. To further emphasize this dynamic of gender and hierarchy of space, kitchens, being domestic, were considered secondary to more public and formal rooms intended to host gatherings, and as such, kitchens would be positioned on the peripheries of the house, hidden from sight. Miho Hamaguchi saw housing reform as not only a way to flatten the hierarchy in the domestic realm but also as a way to change the perception of women and their status within society. She is believed to have went on to design thousands of houses, although the only known one that still remains in its original state is The G House, also known as the Nakamura House. Following the end of World War II, she was also given an opportunity by the Japan Housing Corporation to help with the reconstruction of housing through danchi apartments, in which she enacted much of her vision. The end of the war saw the rise of the middle class, leading to the dissolution of the role of the maid, meaning tasks once attributed to the maid now fell onto the wife. Under this context, Miho Hamaguchi implemented a combined kitchen-dining arrangement and centralized it within the house in order to allow for better visibility to and from cooking duties. She also took advantage of the technological advancements of the time that allowed electric appliances to help our with domestic duties. This allowed the kitchen-dining to be a central piece of family life and aided in nurturing relations within the nuclear family.

74398887

Novosilske, Crimea

Novosilske (; ; ) is a village located in Chornomorske Raion, Crimea. Population:

74399004

Greek Marriages Act 1884

The Greek Marriages Act 1884 is an act of the British Parliament which allowed courts to declare the validity of Greek Orthodox marriages made between 1836 and 1857. The marriages were celebrated either in their homes or at the Greek Church in London, which by this time had become St Sophia's Cathedral. The Marriage Act 1836 made marriage the business of multiple religious organisations, and the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 made it the business of the state. But there was concern among the Greek community that Greek Orthodoxy had not been one of the religious organisations. If this was so, their marriages would be invalid. The Act laid out a procedure for a court to declare such a marriage valid, and the requirements for doing so. The first case brought under the Act was "Zarafi v Attorney General", in August 1885.

74399041

William Linnell

Willian Linnell (1826 in London, England – 1906) was a British painter and draftsmen. He was the son of the painter John Linnell (1792-1882). Linnell is particularly noted for his 1840 drawing of Smugglerius, which is an écorché sculpture of a man posed in imitation of the ancient Roman sculpture known as the Dying Gaul. His work is held in the permanent collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University, the Tate Museum in London, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C..

74399052

Tantilla olympia

Tantilla olympia is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. The snake is found in Honduras.

74399147

World Lacrosse Men's U20 Championship

The World Lacrosse Men's U20 Championship, formerly known as the World Lacrosse Men's U19 Championship, are held every four years to award world championships for the under-20 age group in men's lacrosse. The tournaments are sanctioned by World Lacrosse. These championships were first held for men in 1988. The 2020 competition was planned to be held as an under-19 tournament, but was postponed to 2021 as an under-20 tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic, and then was postponed once again to 2022 as an under-21 tournament. The next tournament is planned to be held as an under-20 event in 2025.

74399181

1921–22 Massachusetts Agricultural Aggies men's ice hockey season

The 1921–22 Massachusetts Agricultural Aggies men's ice hockey season was the 14th season of play for the program. The Aggies were coached by Elton Mansell in his 5th season. Season. The school got a jump on the ice hockey season by having the rink ready by early November. Though it didn't have ice at the time, there was still an effort to get underway as soon as possible to give the team the best chance to produce a winning season. 20 men showed up for the first meeting but coach Mansell hoped to have as many as 30 by December after the football team had released its players. In the meantime, as many as 16 games were being planned up until mid-February. Aside from the roster turnover, the biggest change the team had to content with was the abandonment of the rover position as MAC agreed to move towards 6-man hockey. After returning from the winter break, the Aggies started with a match against one of the top college teams in Dartmouth. "Hubba" Collins kicked off the scoring but the offense was unable to join in. MAC's defense, lead by Collins, was able to hold off the Greens for much of game, however, Dartmouth was slowly able to take over the match. While the Aggies ended up losing the match, they had acquitted themselves well their strong performance. The Aggies quality was born out in the next game when they upset Yale on the road. In front of 2,000 Bulldog supporters, Collins was again a terror at both ends, scoring twice in the first 11 minutes of the game. Yale cut into the lead before the period was out but a further goal from Sharky Lyons gave MAC a lead it would not relinquish. The rare defeat of an Ivy League team put the Aggies in the running to be the best of the small teams. Any pretentions that the team had were curtailed by an embarrassing loss to MIT. Through two periods the Aggies were the better of the two outfits but the team was unable to score. The hard pace caught up with MAC in the third and the tired bunch could do nothing to stem the onslaught from the Engineers. MIT scored six goals in the final frame to turn the match into a farce and send the bewildered Aggies packing. The team rebounded with a win over Amherst but the offense was still subpar. While MAC outshot the Lord Jeffs 51–20, they could only manage one score. Fortunately, Kroeck was equal to the task and posted his first shutout to bring the Aggies back to .500. The low-margin hockey continued against Bates when the team got a second shutout win. The Aggies took a trip through New York in late January end ended up on the losing side of the ledger. MAC was stymied by a strong Cornell squad who scored thrice in the first 10 minutes of the game. Play evened out afterwards but only Gordon was able to break through for a goal. The following night, the team met Hamilton for their first game at the Russell Sage Rink, the first on-campus indoor facility in the country. The Continentals used the fast ice to their advantage and turned the match into a track meet. MAC was able to keep pace for the first half of the game and even managed to open the scoring on a shot from Hodsdon. Unfortunately, Hodsdon accidentally shot the puck into his own goal and kicked off a deluge from Hamilton. Over a 7-minute span in the third, the home team racked up four more goals and took control of the game. Two quick scores from MAC gave the Aggies a change but penalties to Collins and Lyons in the waning moments ended the comeback attempt. A few days later, MAC fought a pitch battle with Army that saw the Aggies narrowly hold off a determined Cadet squad. Lyons and Collins opened the game with goals in the first 8 minutes but the West Pointers closed the gap before the end of the frame. Army tied the game at the beginning of the second but Collins' second marker gave MAC the lead once more. After a quick goal from Army at the start of the frame, the Aggies picked up the pace in the third and hemmed Army in their own end for much of the period. With less then 2 minutes left, Lyons and Haskins teamed up in a rush down the ice with the former securing the game winner in thrilling fashion. The following weekend, the team took a trip down to Philadelphia for their first games at the new Ice Palace. Despite their train arriving late, the team was able to win its first game over the St. Nicholas Hockey Club. The team was able to use the clean ice to skate up and down the rink, stunning the onlookers who weren't expecting such an effort from the Aggies. Collins was the star on both sides of the puck and opened the scoring, however, the team found itself down at the start of the third. After Doc Gordon tied the game with a low-angle shot, Shorty Hodsdon got his second goal of the year and put MAC into the lead with just 2 minutes to play. The following night, MAC was back on the ice against another professional outfit and still appeared to be their equals. Neither team managed to score in the first period, despite several attempts by Collins and Lyons. Collins finally got his team on the board midway through the second but the Quakers charged back to tie soon afterwards. Neither team seemed to able to take advantage until Quaker City changed to a 3-man defense that caught MAC off-guard. The home team scored four times in a 6-minute span and handed the Aggies another loss. The team wrapped up its season with a rematch at Amherst and ended with a second shutout victory. Plimpton, the Sabrinas' goaltender, was the star of the game and kept his team in the match in the face of a withering attack from the Aggies. Eventually, something had to give and a goal from Haskins at the start of the third proved to be the game-winner. After the team's successful season, the financial difficulties of the athletic department came to the fore when the school decide against holding its customary banquet for the players. After a appeal to the student body, a banquet was held for both the ice hockey and basketball teams a month after the season ended. Francis Tucker served as team manager. Schedule and results. !colspan=12 style=";" | Regular Season

74399195

Tantilla petersi

Tantilla petersi, Peters's black-headed snake, is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. The snake is found in Ecuador.

74399205

Spiral Bridge

Spiral bridge

74399245

Vari-Typer

Vari-Typer is the brand name of a variable-spacing typewriter used between the 1930s and the early 1980s in printing, as well as for the production of office documents of typographic quality. Operating principles. Unlike the ordinary typewriter, which for mechanical practicality creates characters occupying the same lateral space as one another - the mechanisms creating the typed character and advancing the document are usually decoupled - the Vari-Typer assigned more or less lateral space to each character according to its shape, e.g. a semicolon ";" may occupy less lateral space than a "w", as in formal typography. It was also possible to change the style of characters typed, for example to italicize or to insert a bold title. History and timeline. The first typewriter with proportional spacing and interchangeable characters was developed in the 1880s by James Bartlett Hammond. Marketed in the United States and Europe, Hammond's machine enjoyed some success. It was then developed by the Hepburn company, which went bankrupt in 1933.2. The business was then taken over by Ralph C. Coxhead, who marketed the machine first under the name Coxhead Composing Machine, then under the name Vari-Typer. On Coxhead's death, the company was acquired by Addressograph-Multigraph, which originally manufactured duplicators and desktop offset presses, and then began to diversify into the field of typesetting. Addressograph-Multigraph grew into AM International, who would modify the brand name first to "VariTyper", and later to "Varityper", launched its first phototypesetter, the AM 725 model, in 1967. Varityper machine production ended in 1978, with the end of Varityper typeface production following eight years later. Varityper was sold to Tegra, Inc - in 1988 they purchased the company's assets, and in 1994, the Varityper brand name. Varityper machines, and proportional spacing typewriters in general, were overtaken during the 1970s by word processing systems which constituted one of the foundations of the new sector of office automation then emerging with the adoption of microelectronics facilitating straightforward automated justification of text. Use in the office world and in the graphic industries. Used mainly in small printing houses for small-scale commercial work, in integrated printed matter for the production of office documents, or even by secretaries for the typing of quality documents, the Vari-Typer was the ideal complement to the small offset presses that were beginning to spread in these same sectors. It offered an inexpensive way to compose typographic-quality texts for printing. For some categories of work, they also saved paper because a text composed in this way took up significantly less space than the same text typed in monospace (i.e. not justified), while also increasing in readability. The Vari-Typer was straightforward to use, allowing significant time savings for work of average quality. In 1950, Princetown University Press estimated the average cost of a technical book (composition on Linotype and letterpress printing) at $600. The cost of the same work done on a justifying typewriter and printed in offset was $380. Thus, some work traditionally entrusted to printers could be recovered by the offices (reports, simple forms, etc.). However, the machines also came with some disadvantages. Their construction being relatively delicate, they were not especially suited for intensive use: misalignment of mechanisms resulting in minor variations in the vertical positioning of the letters were common, with the results easily identifiable by the reader's eye. Similarly, to justify a text it was necessary to type it twice, once in monospace, then again, with the calculations necessary for the justification taken into account. To avoid this problem it was often planned to leave the text monospaced, and it is possible that the use of justifying typewriters (such as IBM's Selectric Composer) contributed to the gradual understanding of the merits of unjustified texts, a style of presentation traditionally rejected by typographers and printers. This simplifying of the work of justified typesetting with typewriters and offset printing did not go unnoticed by the leaders of some press companies. During the 1926 general strike in Britain, The Times continued to issue a two-page double-sided edition "printed" on a Multigraph duplicator and printed in 48,000 copies. Almost a quarter of a century later, during a national strike in 19467, and again in Chicago in 1949, during the composers' strike against the Taft-Hartley Act that abolished the union monopoly on hiring, several dailies used Vari-Typers to ensure their production. Although some North American newspapers (in Canada, Florida, Texas and New Jersey, for example) were encouraged enough by this experience to equip themselves with IBM Selectric Composers and Proportional Spacing Typewriters in order to escape the control of the book syndicate, typewriter-type typesetters eventually proved unsuited to the rigors of the daily press - the quality of the letters was insufficient, the photoengraving processes used were not fast enough and the deadlines imposed by the new organization of work did not suit advertisers.

74399251

County Route S-59 (Bergen County, New Jersey)

County Route 59 (Bergen County, New Jersey)#Spurs

74399266

Beneteau 44 CC

The Beneteau 44 CC (Centre Cockpit), also called the Oceanis 44 CC, is a French sailboat that was designed by Bruce Farr as a cruiser and first built in 1994. The interior was designed by Armel Briand. The design is a centre cockpit version of Farr's aft cockpit Beneteau 440 design. Production. The design was built by Beneteau in France, from 1993 to 2002, with about 150 boats built, but it is now out of production. Design. The Beneteau 44 CC is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of hand-laid glassfibre, with wood trim. It uses vinylester resin for the outer skin and polyester resin for the interior. It has a masthead sloop rig, with a keel-stepped mast, two sets of 18° swept spreaders and aluminium spars with discontinuous stainless steel wire standing rigging. Mainsail in-mast furling was factory standard. The hull has a raked stem, a reverse transom with steps to a swimming platform, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel with a weighted bulb. It displaces and carries of cast iron ballast. The boat has a draft of with the standard keel. The boat is fitted with a Swedish Volvo or Japanese Yanmar diesel engine of for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds and the fresh water tank has a capacity of . The design has sleeping accommodation for four to six people, with two and three cabin interior layouts. The two cabin interior is typical and has a double island berth in the bow cabin, a "U"-shaped settee and two additional seats in the main salon and an aft cabin with a central double island berth. The galley is located on the starboard side just aft of the companionway ladder. The galley is of straight configuration and is equipped with a three-burner stove, a refrigerator, freezer and a double sink. A navigation station is forward of the galley, on the starboard side. There are two heads, one in the bow cabin on the starboard side and one on the port side in the aft cabin. Cabin maximum headroom is . For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of . The design has a hull speed of and a PHRF handicap of 126. Operational history. In a 2009 review, "Yachting Monthly" reported, "she is a heavy boat, and takes a fair bit of wind to get going." A 2017 "SpinSheet" review noted, "personally, I don't find many center cockpit sailboats aesthetically pleasing. To my eye, Beneteau's 440 aft cockpit version of this model is more handsome, but this is purely personal taste and has nothing to do with the merits of this design. To their credit, the design team did an admirable job with a difficult design task".

74399295

IWL 2nd Division

The Indian Women's League 2nd Division, known as Hero IWL 2nd Division for sponsorship ties with Hero MotoCorp, is the women's second tier professional football league in Indian football. The competition is established in 2023, with the first season starting from 2023-24. The league was launched as India's first women's second tier professional football league.

74399313

Tantilla psittaca

Tantilla psittaca is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. The snake is found in Honduras.

74399319

IWL 2nd Division 2023-24

The 2023–24 Indian Women's League 2nd Division season is the first season of the IWL 2nd Division, second tier women's football league in India.

74399332

Augusto Frederico Schmidt

Augusto Frederico Schmidt (Rio de Janeiro, April 18, 1906 – Rio de Janeiro, February 8, 1965) was a poet of the second generation of Brazilian Modernism who spoke of death, absence, loss and love in his works. Biography. Augusto, son of a German Ashkenazi, worked as a special adviser for international affairs to the President of the Republic of Brazil and as Brazil's ambassador to the UN and the then European Economic Community. Married to Yedda Ovalle Schmidt, he was also an editor and owner of the Schmidt Bookstore and Publishing House in Rio de Janeiro. He collaborated with his nephew José Alberto Gueiros, known as Zezinho Gueiros, editor of Monterrey Publishing House, specialized in the stories of "Giselle, the naked spy who shook Paris", a pulp fiction format novel based on a pamphlet that David Nasser had created for "Diário da Noite". Augusto died in 1965 leaving no descendants, and was buried in the São João Baptista Cemetery. He had two sisters, Anitta and Magdalena, the latter being his proofreader. He was the grandson of the Viscount Schmidt (Frederico Augusto Schmidt), one of the richest men in the Empire, who had accumulated an immense fortune with an import and export company - Schmidt & Cia, located at 70 Alfândega Street. Work and career. In addition to being a poet, Augusto Frederico Schmidt was president of the Club de Regatas Botafogo between 1941 and 1942. One of the last acts of his administration was conceiving the fusion of the club he headed with the soccer club of the same name, Botafogo Football Club, creating Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas. The idea originated after the death of basketball player Armando Albano during a match between the two clubs. Despite being the creator, the position of president of the new club did not remain with Schmidt, but with Eduardo Góes Trindade, then president of the other club. A creative and versatile spirit, Augusto was also an entrepreneur, having been one of the founders of the DISCO supermarket company in Rio de Janeiro, as well as a majority shareholder in Orquima S/A, the precursor of Brazilian nuclear energy, which was taken over by Nuclebrás in 1975. He was a personal friend of President Juscelino Kubitschek (1902-1976) and created JK's famous slogan: "50 years in 5". He wrote numerous speeches for the president and several of his ideas came to fruition, such as the creation of the Pan-American Operation (OPA), an initiative that would inspire the Alliance for Progress, created by the United States in the Kennedy administration. He was also special advisor to the Presidency of the Republic for international affairs, and later, ambassador of Brazil to the UN and the then European Economic Community. Among his main books are "O Galo Branco" (1948), "Estrela Solitária" (1940) and "Prelúdio à Revolução". As an editor, he published important books such as "Casa Grande e Senzala", by Gilberto Freyre, and "Caetés", by Graciliano Ramos. In his early years, he was also the main editor of integralist writers, especially Plínio Salgado. Schmidt Bookstore and Publishing House. In 1930, Schmidt founded the Católica Bookstore in Rio de Janeiro, which would later become the Schmidt Bookstore and Publishing House, a meeting place for modernist intellectuals of the time. The group known as the "Círculo Católico" met there. The Bookstore was active until 1939, when it was merged and its headquarters were acquired by Zélio Valverde, whose firm Schmidt became a partner. Among the writers released by Schmidt Publishing House are major authors such as Graciliano Ramos, Raquel de Queiroz, Vinícius de Moraes, Gilberto Freyre, Jorge Amado, among others.

74399351

Open-source artificial intelligence

Open-source artificial intelligence is the application of open source practices to the development of artificial intelligence resources. Many open-source artificial intelligence products are variations of other existing tools and technology which major companies have shared as open-source software. Companies often developed closed products in an attempt to keep a competitive advantage in the marketplace. A journalist for Wired explored the idea that open-source AI tools have a development advantage over closed products, and could overtake them in the marketplace. Popular open-source artificial intelligence project categories include large language models, Machine translation tools, and chatbots. For software developers to produce open-source artificial intelligence resources, they must trust the various other open-source software components they use in its development.

74399405

Prisca Thévenot

Prisca Thevenot (born 1 March 1985) is a French politician from Renaissance. Since July 2023, she has been State Secretary for Youth and National Universal Service in the Borne government. She has been spokesperson for La République en Marche since November 2020. She was elected Member of Parliament for Hauts-de-Seine's 8th constituency in the 2022 French legislative election. Biography. Personal life. Thevenot was born in Strasbourg to Maurituan parents who settled in France at the end of the 1970s to pursue university studies. In 1987 the family moved to the Paris region. Prisca Thevenot completed a Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles at the Lycée catholique Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague and continued her studies at the EM Lyon Business School from which she graduated in 2009. She is married with two children. Political career. In the 2017 French legislative election she contested Seine-Saint-Denis's 4th constituency, but was defeated by incumbent Communist MP Marie-George Buffet. In November 2020, she was appointed spokesperson for La République en Marche with Maud Bregeon.. In June 2021, she was elected regional councillor of the Regional Council of Île-de-France for Seine-Saint-Denis during the 2021 French regional elections, on the list carried by Laurent Saint-Martin. In the 2022 French legislative election, she was a candidate in Hauts-de-Seine's 8th constituency for Ensemble. She won the most votes in the first round, and was elected deputy in the second round with 65.75% of the vote, against Annie Larroque Comoy (LFI - NUPES). She became a member of the Social Affairs Committee in the National Assembly. In July 2023, she was appointed State Secretary for Youth and National Universal Service in the Borne government.