The Tày people,also known as the Thổ,T'o,Tai Tho,Ngan,Phen,Thu Lao,or Pa Di,is a Central Tai-speaking ethnic group who live in northern Vietnam. According to a 2019 census,there are 1.8 million Tày people living in Vietnam. This makes them the second largest ethnic group in Vietnam after the majority Kinh (Vietnamese) ethnic group. Most live in northern Vietnam in the Cao Bằng,Lạng Sơn,Bắc Kạn,Thái Nguyên,and Quảng Ninh provinces,along the valleys and the lower slopes of the mountains. They also live in some regions of the Bắc Ninh and Bắc Giang provinces. They inhabit fertile plains and are generally agriculturalists,mainly cultivating rice. They also cultivate maize,and sweet potato among other things.
The State of Vietnam was a governmental entity in Southeast Asia that existed from 1949 until 1955,first as a member of the French Union and later as a country. The state claimed authority over all of Vietnam during the First Indochina War,although large parts of its territory were controlled by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Ball High School is a public secondary school in Galveston,Texas,United States. Ball,which covers grades 9 through 12,is a part of Galveston Independent School District.
Edward Cullen is a character in the Twilight book series by Stephenie Meyer. He is featured in the novels Twilight,New Moon,Eclipse and Breaking Dawn,and their corresponding film adaptations,and the novel Midnight Sun—a re-telling of the events of Twilight from Edward's perspective. Edward is a telepathic vampire who,over the course of the series,falls in love with,marries,and fathers a child with Bella Swan,a human teenager who later chooses to become a vampire as well. In the films,Edward is played by actor Robert Pattinson.
Vinamilk,formally the Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company is the largest dairy company in Vietnam. Based on the UNDP 2007 Top 200 largest firms in Vietnam report,it was also the 15th largest company in Vietnam and formerly the most valuable public company listed in Vietnam. In 2010,it is the first company in Vietnam to be included in the Forbes Asia's 200 Best Under A Billion list that highlights 200 top-performing small- and mid-sized companies with annual revenue under US$1 billion.
Positive train control (PTC) is a family of automatic train protection systems deployed in the United States. Most of the United States' national rail network mileage has a form of PTC. These systems are generally designed to check that trains are moving safely and to stop them when they are not.
On May 28,2008,shortly before 6 p.m.,two westbound MBTA trains collided on the Green Line D branch between Woodland and Waban stations,behind 56 Dorset Road in Newton,Massachusetts. An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) originally found the cause of the accident to be due to the operator texting while driving,but the NTSB later found that the operator of the rear train,Terrese Edmonds,had not been using her cell phone at the time of the crash,but rather went into an episode of micro-sleep,causing her to lose awareness of her surroundings and miss potential hazards up ahead. The collision killed Edmonds,and numerous others were injured. Fourteen passengers were taken to area hospitals;one was airlifted. This crash,along with another similar accident a year later,led the NTSB to set higher standards and regulations regarding the use of cell phones while operating a train.
The 2008 Chatsworth train collision occurred at 4:22:23 p.m. PDT on September 12,2008,when a Union Pacific Railroad freight train and a Metrolink commuter rail passenger train collided head-on in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles,California,United States.
Kinh Dương Vương is a legendary ancient Vietnamese figure,mentioned in the 15th-century work Đại Việt sửkýtoàn thư by having unified all the tribes within his territory into one state,and as the founder of the Hồng Bàng dynasty. He is considered the first sovereign of the Vietnamese people.
The Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 is a United States federal law,enacted by Congress to improve railroad safety. Among its provisions,the most notable was the mandate requiring positive train control (PTC) technology to be installed on most of the US railroad network by 2015. This was spurred by the 2008 Chatsworth train collision the month prior to passage of the act. After two delays,the technology was operational on all required railroads by the end of 2020.
Deborah A.P. Hersman is a former board member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board who served as its 12th chairman. She completed two terms as chairman and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 16,2013,for a third term. On March 11,2014,she announced she would join the National Safety Council as its president and CEO. She is currently the chief safety officer at Waymo.
On the morning of December 1,2013,a Metro-North Railroad Hudson Line passenger train derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station in the New York City borough of the Bronx. Four of the 115 passengers were killed and another 61 injured;the accident caused $9 million worth of damage. It was the deadliest train accident within New York City since a 1991 subway derailment in Manhattan,and the first accident in Metro-North's history to result in passenger fatalities. The additional $60 million in legal claims paid out as of 2020 have also made it the costliest accident in Metro-North's history.
On the evening of February 3,2015,a commuter train on Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line struck a passenger car at a grade crossing on Commerce Street near Valhalla,New York,United States. Six people were killed and 15 others injured,seven severely. It is the deadliest crash in Metro-North's history,and was at the time the deadliest rail accident in the United States since the June 2009 Washington Metro train collision,which killed nine passengers and injured 80.
SS El Faro was a United States-flagged,combination roll-on/roll-off and lift-on/lift-off cargo ship crewed by U.S. merchant mariners. Built in 1975 by Sun Shipbuilding &Drydock Co. as Puerto Rico,the vessel was renamed Northern Lights in 1991 and,finally,El Faro in 2006. She was lost at sea with her entire crew of 33 on October 1,2015,after steaming into the eyewall of Hurricane Joaquin.
David A. Sleet is an American scientist recognized for championing the application of behavioral science to unintentional injury prevention and helping to establish injury prevention as a global public health concern. He has published hundreds of articles and book chapters and was co-editor of the Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention.;Injury and Violence Prevention:Behavioral Science Theories;Derryberry’s Educating for Health;and the international prize-winning World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention.
On September 29,2016,an NJ Transit commuter train crashed at Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken,New Jersey. The accident occurred during the morning rush hour,at one of the busiest transportation hubs in the New York metropolitan area. One person died,and 114 others were injured. The train operator,who was in the cab car,was among the injured.
The men's football tournament at the 2021 SEA Games was held from 6 –22 May 2022 in Vietnam. Ten Southeast Asian nations participated in the men's tournament. The group stage and semi-finals were played in Việt Trìand Nam Định,while Hanoi hosted the bronze and gold medal matches. Men's teams are restricted to under-23 players with a maximum of three over-aged players allowed.
