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Columbia race riot of 1946
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On the night of February 26–27, 1946, a disturbance known as the Columbia Race Riot took place in Columbia, the county seat of Maury County, Tennessee. The national press, which covered it extensively, called it the first "major racial confrontation" after the Second World War. It marked a new spirit of resistance by African-American veterans and others following their participation in World War II, which they believed had earned them their full rights as citizens, despite Jim Crow laws.
Race relations in the county were tense, and several lynchings had taken place in the recent past. (See Lynching of Henry Choate and Lynching of Cordie Cheek.)
James Stephenson, an African-American Navy veteran, was with his mother at a store, where she learned that a radio she had left for repair had been sold. When she complained, the white repair apprentice, Billy Fleming, struck her. Stephenson had been a welterweight on the Navy boxing team and retaliated by hitting Fleming, who crashed through a window. Both Stephenson and his mother were arrested, charged with disturbing the peace, pled guilty, and paid a $50 fine. However, Fleming's father convinced the sheriff to charge them with attempted murder. When whites learned that Fleming had gone to a hospital for treatment, a mob gathered. A risk arose that the Stephensons would be lynched.
Julius Blair, a 76-year-old black store owner, arranged to have the Stephensons released to his custody. He drove them out of town for their protection. When the mob did not disperse, about 100 African-American men began to patrol their neighborhood, located south of the courthouse square, determined to resist. Four police officers were shot and wounded when they entered "Mink Slide", the name given to the African-American business district, also known as "The Bottom". Following the attack on the police, the city government requested state troopers, who were sent and soon outnumbered the black patrollers. The state troopers began ransacking black businesses, stealing goods and cash, and rounding up African Americans. They cut phone service to Mink Slide, but the owner of a funeral home managed to call Nashville and ask for help from the NAACP. The county jail was soon overcrowded with black "suspects". Police questioned them for days without counsel. Two black men were killed and one wounded, allegedly while "trying to escape" during a transfer. About 25 black men were eventually charged with rioting and attempted murder.
The NAACP sent Thurgood Marshall as the lead attorney to defend Stephenson and the other defendants. He gained a change of venue, but only to another small town, where trials took place throughout the summer of 1946. Marshall was assisted by two local attorneys, Zephaniah Alexander Looby, originally from the British West Indies, and Maurice Weaver, a white activist from Nashville. Marshall was also preparing litigation for education and voting-rights cases.
Marshall gained acquittals for 23 of the black defendants, even with an all-white jury. Marshall and two Tennessee attorneys required an escort to leave the county safely. At the last murder trials in November 1946, Marshall won also acquittal for Rooster Bill Pillow, and a reduction in the sentence of Papa Kennedy, allowing him to go free on bail.
According to historian Dorothy Beeler, "the Columbia incident and the reaction to it were major events of the late 1940's, which helped create a base from which black organizations gathered strength for the Civil rights|civil rights push of the 1950's and 1960's.”
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Ana Louisa Soares
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Ana Luisa Soares is a Portuguese architect and co-founder of Fala Atelier, an architectural firm based in Oporto. She began her architectural journey in a small town near Porto called Marcos de Canaveses, where her early exposure to construction and architecture sparked her interest in the field.
Early Life and Education.
She completed her master of architecture at FAUP (Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto) in 2007 and participated in an exchange program at Tokyo University in 2012. Before establishing her own practice, Ana Luisa gained professional experience by collaborating with international architecture offices, including Harry Gugger Studio in Basel in 2011 and Toyo Ito & Associates in Tokyo in 2012.
Career.
Academic career.
Ana Luisa has also been actively engaged in academia, serving as a visiting professor at various institutions such as HEAD Geneva, University of Toronto FA, TU Munich, Munster FA, and Bratislava's Faculty of Architecture.
Industry career.
In 2012, Ana Luisa co-founded Fala Atelier with Filipe Magalhães; Ahmed Belkhodja later joined the firm in 2013. Fala means "informal conversation" in Portuguese, which reflects their approach to architecture. The firm initially focused on interior projects and gradually expanded to encompass new construction and building projects. Fala Atelier's early projects garnered attention online and abroad, leading to their growth as a reputable architectural practice.
While Fala Atelier entered the field for the enjoyment it brings, the studio faces challenges in practicing in Portugal, where the impact of the economic crisis has been significant, leading to a market primarily focused on commercial refurbishments. The rise in tourism has resulted in the conversion of many historic buildings into Airbnb listings, which, while providing work opportunities, has also led to a considerable loss of heritage. Nevertheless, Fala Atelier thrives on refurbishment projects, using simple yet bold design moves to create spatial transformations. Their design philosophy involves opening up volumes to create expansive living spaces, which are then subtly divided using techniques and languages instead of rigid boundaries. Their interiors feature bright white backgrounds accentuated with vivid shades of greens and blues. The studio's carefully composed illustrations of their projects are not only representational but also integral to their design process, incorporating traces of occupation and inhabitants. Fala Atelier actively participates in architectural competitions, especially Swiss ones, where they explore more radical solutions that may inform their residential commissions.
Since 2013, Ana Luisa has been associated with Fala Atelier and has contributed to the firm's lectures and teaching engagements across multiple global cities, including London, Paris, Berlin, Milan, Venice, New York, Chicago, and Sydney, among others.
Ana Luisa is known for her geometric and colorful aesthetic displayed in various building designs across Porto.
The work of Fala Atelier has been showcased at significant architectural events such as the biennials in Venice and Chicago, as well as at the Serralves Foundation and the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris. For the Serralves Foundation's “Live Uncertainty”, an exhibition exploring contemporary art's portrayal of societal anxieties, Fala Atelier designed a folly pavilion that featured a cube-shaped structure with geometric cut-outs covered by dusky pink curtains. The firm has also held solo exhibitions in Panama, Italy, Macedonia, France, and Portugal.
Recognized for their achievements, Fala atelier's projects have been featured in international media outlets, such as DOMUS, l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, and the Architectural Review.
The firm has also published '01,' a collection of their early projects, and received recognition from Rice University's spotlight award. Additionally, DOMUS magazine acknowledged Fala Atelier as one of the 50 most relevant young architecture offices worldwide in 2020.
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Heritage (restaurant)
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Heritage is a Michelin-starred restaurant in Long Beach, California. The restaurant serves California / American cuisine in the Rose Park neighborhood.
Heritage is the first Long Beach restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star.
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Gurjunene
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Gurjunene, also known as (-)-α-gurjunene, is a natural carbotricyclic sesquiterpene that is most commonly found in gurjun balsam, an essential oil compound extracted from plants of the genus "Dipterocarpus." The following reaction that synthesizes gurjunene can be catalyzed by alpha-gurjunene synthase:(2"E",6"E")-farnesyl diphosphate formula_1 (–)-α-gurjunene + diphosphate
Related compounds.
Several related compounds are known, including β-gurjunene and γ-gurjunene.
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Ecojet
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Ecojet Airlines Limited, styled as ecojet, is a proposed British regional airline based at Edinburgh Airport, Scotland. It aims to commence operations in early 2024 with flights between Edinburgh Airport and Southampton Airport.
History.
Founding.
On 17 July 2023, reports emerged that Dale Vince, the founder of Ecotricity and a prominent climate change activist, had formed a new company by the name of Ecojet, which planned to become the world’s first electric airline using a fleet of aircraft powered by renewable energy. The airline had appointed Brent Smith, a former Flybe pilot and the founder of Q400 specialist Altsel Aviation, to its team alongside Peter Davies, the former Chief Executive of companies including Brussels Airlines, Air Malta, and Air Southwest, who is also the founder and CEO of the Airline Management Group.
Ecojet Airlines Limited was founded on 27 August 2021 as Fresh Airlines Limited, and this name was changed on 2 May 2023 following Dale Vince's appointment as a Director.
Proposed operations.
The airline has said that it hopes to eliminate single-use plastics from its services, and will also serve plant-based meals and provide crew with sustainable uniforms. Whilst initially it will use traditional kerosene-fuelled aircraft, it plans to shift to electric aircraft once it has begun operations and received its operating licences and airport slots.
Brand imaging.
The airline's livery is based on a stylised rendition of the flag of the United Kingdom. As such, its slogan is "Flag Carrier for Green Britain," with this also being a reference to the eponymous company founded by Dale Vince which has shareholdings in ventures such as Ecotricity.
Fleet.
Ecojet intends to launch with the 19-seat Twin Otter aircraft before upscaling to a 70-seat Dash 8 airliner 18 months thereafter.
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Omar Valencia
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Omar Javier Valencia Arauz (born 8 June 2004) is a Panamanian professional footballer who plays as a defender for New York Red Bulls II of MLS Next Pro, on loan from C.D. Plaza Amador.
Career.
Loan to New York Red Bulls II.
On August 11, 2022, Valencia was loaned to Red Bulls II for the remainder of the 2022 season, their last in USL Championship. Valencia made his debut for the team on October 1, 2022, against Phoenix Rising FC.
On February 8, 2023, Red Bulls II exercised their option to extend Valencia's loan through the 2023 season, the team's first in MLS Next Pro.
International.
Valencia was featured in Panama's squad at the 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, earning 4 caps throughout the tournament. On July 6, 2023, Valencia was called up to senior Panama national football team during the 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
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Shin Sushi
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Shin Sushi is a Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant in Los Angeles, California.
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2023 Israeli Basketball League Cup
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The 2023 Israeli Basketball League Cup, for sponsorships reasons the Winner League Cup, is the 18th edition of the pre-season tournament of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. Twelve Israeli Premier League team's will participate except from Ironi Ness Ziona that will play in the Basketball Champions League Qualification in those days.
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Still Life with Bread and Eggs
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Still Life with Bread and Eggs (Le pain et les oeufs) is an 1865 painting by Paul Cézanne in the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum. It is considered one of Cézanne's most important early still life paintings. In 2022 it was discovered it had been painted over an earlier portrait, possibly a self-portrait.
Description.
The painting, which depicts a baguette, eggs, and red onions with a pewter tankard, a knife and a wine glass on a cloth-draped tabletop, is one of Cézanne's few dated paintings. The painting is from his "dark period" and is done in a realist style, as were many of his early works before he moved into an impressionist style and then post-impressionist. In 1865 it was rejected for an exhibit at the Salon. According to "Le Monde" it is "one of Paul Cézanne's most important early still lifes".
Discovery of earlier portrait.
In 2022 a portrait was discovered beneath the still life when the museum's chief conservator, Serena Urry, removing the painting from an exhibit in which it had been included and examining it for potential maintenance requirements, noticed unusual patterns in the cracking and "on a hunch" had it x-rayed.
Description of earlier portrait.
The portrait is rotated a quarter turn beneath the still life. The sitter is rendered in 3/4 view.
Because Cézanne dated few paintings, it is believed to be the earliest firmly dated portrait by the artist. Museum curators believe it is likely a self-portrait; if so it may also be one of the earliest depictions of the artist, who was in his 20s the year he painted the still life. Cézanne completed dozens of self-portraits, but almost all were in pencil and were created after the 1860s.
The museum as of December of 2022 planned further investigation, including consulting with Cézanne experts and further imaging work such as multispectral imaging and x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. The still life was returned to exhibit alongside an image of the portrait. It has been in the Cincinnati Art Museum's collection since 1955, when Mary E. Johnston donated it to the museum.
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Cynortinae
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Cynortinae is a subfamily of harvestmen in the family Cosmetidae.
Description.
The subfamily was defined within Cosmetidae
Taxonomy.
The subfamily includes the following genera:
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Igor Lestar
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Igor Lestar (born 11 June 1972 in Uppsala, Sweden) is an international serial entrepreneur known for his success in establishing and managing numerous multinational businesses. He is the owner of Hut4 Capital, his most recent venture.
Hut4 Capital is a private investment umbrella corporation of a group of companies with business activities covering industries such as software, digital media and publishing, fintech, and real estate. The member companies include Synami, Snowball Games, Clip Media Group, Liquiditas, and Praedium.
Lestar was also the owner of Seavus, a company he established in 1999, that grew out to be a multinational success offering products and services that were recognized for their value by numerous world-renowned companies. He was also the owner of BtoBet a company that provides I-betting software and technology solutions for the I-gaming industry. In 2020, BtoBet was sold to Aspire Group while in the same year, Aricoma Group part of KKCG Group acquired Seavus.
Former companies.
Seavus.
Igor Lestar founded the software company Seavus in 1999. Originally based in Malmo, Sweden, Seavus underwent a significant transformation in 2004 under Lestar's leadership. He implemented a new sales strategy, establishing sales offices in Boston and London, and developed an integrated online sales system.
In 2010 Seavus launched SEDC, a specialized center for the training and education of people, in the areas of programming, design, computer networks, software testing, digital marketing, and data science. In 2013, Seavus Group acquired Alexandria IT Center that later became part of SEDC.
In 2015, Seavus acquired the IT consultancy company Ontrax, strengthening its presence in Sweden and renaming it Seavus Stockholm AB in 2017. With Lestar at the helm, Seavus achieved substantial growth, employing over 800 people and operating in more than 15 offices across Europe and the USA. The company successfully served clients in various industries, including telecommunications, banking, technology, automation, automotive, consumer electronics, gaming, education, health, marketing, insurance, and fintech.
After leading Seavus as CEO until February 2017, Lestar transitioned to the role of Chairman of the Board of Seavus Group. In 2020, Seavus was acquired by ARICOMA Group, a subsidiary of the KKCG Group.
BtoBet.
In 1999 Lestar started a division for i-Gaming within Seavus that in 2017 became BtoBet, a company specialised in sports betting software solutions and services. Under the Lestar’s leadership BtoBet transformed into a leading B2B provider of sports betting software, solutions, and services to leading Tier 1 operators and newer brands. The company was sold to Aspire Group in 2020.
EuroEvents.
In 2017, Igor Lestar invested in a EuroEvents a company specializing in organization and preparation of conferences. The company was active until 2020, and forced to withdraw from the market due to COVID-19.
Hut4 Capital.
Igor Lestar is currently the owner of Hut4 Capital which is the umbrella of group of companies with business activities in various industries such as software development (Synami), digital media and publishing (Clip Media Group), game development (Snowball Games), real estate (Praedium) and fintech (Liquiditas).
Synami.
The origins of Synami trace back approximately 21 years ago when it emerged as a division within the Seavus Group. Today Synami is a fully developed IT company that provides various software solutions in the area of project management. Seavus Project Viewer, Schedule Reader, Schedule Cleaner, iMindQ, PPMCore.
Synami's portfolio encompasses a significant presence among reputable companies, including a substantial portion (70%) of the highly successful Fortune 500 corporations from industries such as oil & gas, construction, automotive, manufacturing etc.
Clip Media Group.
Clip Media Group is the largest digital media company in North Macedonia. It specializes in digital marketing services, content creation, and development of websites, and web-based solutions. The company consists of the first private media agency in North Macedonia, Makfax (acquired in 2009); a news aggregator Grid.mk (launched in 2011); 4 news outlets covering daily news, both locally and internationally (Reporter.mk – launched in 2014, Topsport.mk and USB.mk – launched in 2017); and marketing and web apps for measuring public opinion. With its activity, size, and transparency Clip Media Group is among the most reputable and credible publishers in the country.
Praedium.
Praedium was established in 2008, as a property management company dedicated to providing solutions for commercial property requirements with a specialized focus on marketing, investing, building, managing, and renting office space. Praedium owns approximately 9,000m2 of commercial space, as well as 13,000m2 of land.
Snowball Games.
Igor Lestar is also the owner of Snowball Games, an indie gaming studio that creates, develops, and publishes mobile games. Snowball Games was previously part of Seavus Group as a gaming department, but it was later transformed into a standalone company. In 2023, Snowball Games with Yatzy Ultimate, was included in WeArePlayEurope a section of Google Play, that promotes successful stories from indie studios around the world that build apps and games.
Liquiditas.
Liquiditas is a fintech company that was established in 2023 in Malta specializing in providing finance solutions aimed at bridging the liquidity challenges in a most seamless way, offering its services across Europe.
Personal life.
Igor Lestar is currently living in Malta, with his wife and two children.
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XRN
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XRN or xrn may refer to:
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Disappearance of Carlee Russell
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Carlee Russell is an Hoover, Alabama (Birmingham metropolitan area) nursing student who reported she was abducted on July 13, 2023.
The alleged disappearance led to a great deal of press coverage. Russell appeared at her parent's house on July 15, after being missing for 49 hours, and questions have been raised as to whether the abduction actually occurred.
Russell reported to police that she was kidnapped from the side of Interstate 459 after stopping because she saw an unattended young child on the side of the highway. She made a 911 call shortly before the claimed abduction at 9:34pm on July 13, which has been publicly released. She later reported that she was placed inside a tractor trailer truck, escaped, and was re-captured and put in a car. After saying she was undressed and photographed while blindfolded, though not bound at the wrists to avoid marks of being bound, she says she escaped again.
She had $107 in cash in her right sock when police talked with her.
After her return, investigators into the incident reported on facts they had learned. In the days prior to her disappearance, Russell had done online searches such as "Do you have to pay for an Amber alert," "How to take money from a register without being caught," "Birmingham bus station," "One way bus ticket from Birmingham to Nashville" and about the abduction movie "Taken".
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Rakhee Gulzar filmography
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Raakhee Gulzar (born Rakhee Majumdar on 15 August 1947) professionally known as Raakhee, is an Indian actress who has appeared in Hindi and Bengali films. Rakhee has worked in more than 100 films throughout her career.
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Urubupungá Airport
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Urubupungá–Ernesto Pochler Airport, formerly , was an airport that served Castilho and Urubupungá Complex, in Brazil until 2003, when services were suspended. It was closed and abandoned and in 2005.
History.
Urubupungá–Ernesto Pochler Airport was built by CESP as a support structure for the operation of the Urubupungá complex, formed by the hydroelectric plants Ilha Solteira, Jupiá and Três Irmãos on Paraná river.
In 1984 the facility was transferred to Infraero, and a few years later, before 2003, it was transferred to DAESP.
In 2003 services were suspended due to bad conditions of the runway and in 2005 it was closed and abandoned.
Access.
The airport was located south of downtown Castilho.
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2023 FIBA U16 Women's European Championship Division C
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The 2023 FIBA U16 Women's European Championship Division C was the 17th edition of the Division C of the FIBA U16 Women's European Championship, the third tier of the European women's under-16 basketball championship. It was played from 18 to 23 July 2023 in Andorra la Vella, Andorra.
First round.
The draw of the first round was held on 14 February 2023 in Freising, Germany.
In the first round, the teams were drawn into two groups of four. All teams advance to the playoffs. The winners of both groups advance directly to the semifinals; the other teams will play the quarterfinals.
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New York State Register of Historic Places
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The New York State Register of Historic Places is a listing of "properties significant in history, architecture, engineering, landscape design, archeology, and culture" in the State of New York. The register was created by the New York State Historic Preservation Act of 1980 and is adminsitered by the State Historic Preservation Officer, who is also the commissioner of the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
In order to be listed on the state register, a property is first nominated. The nomination is then reviewed by the Survey and National Register Unit of the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) for compliance with the criteria set forth by the National Park Service for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). If a nomination appears to meet the criteria, further investigation of the property is done. The SHPO then solicits comments from the property's owners and local officials. Next, the public is notified and a review is performed by the State Board for Historic Preservation. If the board recommends the nomination, it is sent to the State Historic Preservation Officer for review. Finally, if the officer approves, the property is entered into the register and sent to the National Park Service as a nominee for the National Register of Historic Places. This process often takes more than one year to complete.
The Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS) is a database of properties listed on the state register. Properties listed on the register may be eligible for tax credits and historic preservation grants.
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Yunnan-Tibet railway
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The Yunnan-Tibet Railway (Chinese 滇藏铁路, Pinyin Diān-Zàng tiělù) is a railway line under construction connecting Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, with Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region. It is one of three planned railways to Tibet in the "Mid-to-Long Term Railway Network Plan (revised in 2008)", the other two are Chuanzang railway (Sichuan–Tibet) and Xinjiang–Tibet railway
It's total length will be 1,594.4 km. It will connect to the Sichuan–Tibet railway in Bomê (pinyin : Bōmì)
See also.
Sichuan–Tibet railway
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Harminder Dulowal (Bodybuilder)
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Harminder Dulowal born 7th November,1986 is an Indian Vegetarian Bodybuilder from Punjab.He has won the title of Mr Asia and is a WFF Certified International Judge..He is also the President at FIF (Fitness International Federation).
Early Life.
Harminder was born and raised in a Sikh family from Punjab who began his journey as a bodybuilder from participating in schools and colleges where he started receiving the title as a winner. He had completed his graduation from Khalsa college,Jalandhar with B.P. Ed and M.P. Ed from Punjabi university, Patiala.
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Kenza al-Awrabiya
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Kenza al-Awrabiya (en ) surnamed Kenza al Mardhia is a Berber princess, as the daughter of Isaac ben Mohammed ben Hammid. She married Idris I. And by this matrimonial alliance, she enabled him to exercise power over the territory of the Awraba, her tribe. She is the mother of his posthumous son Idris II. Alongside the regent of the kingdom Rachid, she exercised a leading political role during the minority of her son. Throughout her life, Kenza maintained her status of matriarch in accordance with Berber customs, as such she arbitrated the smooth running of the division of the kingdom between her grandsons.
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Daria Bond
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Daria Bond is a smartphone announced by Daria Hamrah. The phone has a triple-camera setup with a 50 MP main camera, a 6.78 inches FHD+ Infinity-O display, and a 4700 mAh Li-Po battery. It ships with Android 13.
Specifications.
Hardware.
The Daria Bond is built with an aluminum frame and a glass back for the screen. The device is available in Black, Green and Silver. It also has stereo loudspeakers. A USB-C port is used for charging and connecting other accessories.
Daria Bond uses the MediaTek MT6877V Dimensity 7050 system-on-chip, with 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of non-expandable internal storage.
Daria Bond has a 4700 mAh battery, and is capable of fast charging at up to 67 W.
Daria Bond features a 6.78-inch 1080 x 2400 Super AMOLED display. The display has a 20:9 aspect ratio.
Daria includes triple rear cameras. The wide 24 mm f/1.9 lens 50-megapixel sensor, The ultrawide 8-megapixel sensor and the macro 2-megapixel sensor. the front-facing camera uses an 16-megapixel sensor. It is capable of recording 4K video at 30 fps.
Software.
Daria Bond was released with Android 13 with Daria OS 4.0 software. Daria Hamrah has promised 2 years of major Android OS updates.
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Streak-crowned mountain tanager
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The Streak-crowned mountain tanager (Dubusia stictocephala) is a species of Neotropical bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. Streak-crowned mountain tanager is found only in north to south-central Peru. The Streak-crowned mountain tanager is sometimes regarded as a subspecies of the Buff-breasted mountain tanager but has been distinguished otherwise in 2023 by the International Ornithologists' Union.
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List of French films of 2024
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This is a list of French films that are scheduled to release in 2024, including co-productions with other countries.
Most Expensive Films.
The most expensive French films of 2024 are as follows:
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San Giovanni Barra station
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San Giovanni Barra is an underground metro station on line 2 of the Naples Metro. It opened on June 2010.
History.
Opened at the end of the 19th century, the new station was activated on 28 November 1909 to replace the old one. In the early 2000s it underwent substantial modernization works, completed in 2010. The new platforms were relocated about a hundred meters (in the direction of Naples) from the original ones, on the site of the old goods yard, abandoned at the end of the 1990s. The entrance to the station, which always takes place from Piazza San Giovanni Battista, where the old station building is located, leads to a large parking lot and to the sidewalks. Next to the station is the tram depot, as well as the terminus stop, of San Giovanni a Teduccio. The car park has never actually been open to the public, despite being a useful train-car interchange to reach the center and the western suburbs of the city.
Since 14 December 2014 the station serves as the terminus for the metropolitan trains of line 2 of the Naples Metro.
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2023–24 CEV Cup
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The 2023–24 CEV Cup will be the 52nd edition of the second most important European volleyball club competition organised by the European Volleyball Confederation.
Participating teams.
The drawing of lots was held on 19 July 2023 in Luxembourg City.
Format.
Qualification round (Home and away matches):
Main phase (Home and away matches):
Final phase (Home and away matches):
Aggregate score is counted as follows: 3 points for 3–0 or 3–1 win, 2 points for 3–2 win, 1 point for 2–3 loss.<br>
In case the teams are tied after two legs, a "Golden Set" is played immediately at the completion of the second leg.
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Biała Góra, Kamień County
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Biała Góra is a settlement in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, located within the Gmina Międzyzdroje, Kamień County.
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El Camino (1963)
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El Camino is a 1963 Spanish drama directed by Ana Mariscal and released in 1964. Set in rural post-war Spain, with a screenplay by Mariscal and José Zamit, it is a film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Miguel Delibes published in 1950.
Synopsis.
The film is set in rural post-war Spain in Cantabria, specifically the village of Molledo (in the Iguña Valley). Daniel, nicknamed "the Owl," must leave his native village to go study in the city. His father, the village cheese maker, insists on a good education for his son so that he does not end up like him. In the days preceding his departure, Daniel and his friends create mischief in the village and observe the adult world around them. In an atmosphere stifled by the Christian morality imposed by the church and reinforced by the women of the village, Daniel prepares himself to leave.
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Armadale and Thornlie lines
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Armadale and Thornlie lines may refer to the following suburban railway lines in Perth, Western Australia:
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Centre of Experimental Medicine SAS
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The Centre of Experimental Medicine (CEM) of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) was established in 2018 by merging of the Institute of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, the Institute of Normal and Pathological Physiology and the Institute of Heart Research into one Centre.
CEM's research primarily focuses on understanding the causes, developmental mechanisms, and potential preventive measures, as well as the diagnosis and treatment options for diseases that hold significant societal importance. CEM research places particular emphasis on conditions affecting the cardiovascular and nervous systems, metabolic disorders, mental disorders, and diseases originating during prenatal and early postnatal developmental stages.
CEM conducts research using a variety of models, including in silico, in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo approaches, with the ultimate goal of translating acquired knowledge into clinical practice.
An integral aspect of the work of CEM researchers involves evaluating the impacts of bioactive natural substances, their derivatives, and novel synthetic compounds that exhibit pharmacotherapeutic potential. Additionally, CEM investigates animal models simulating human diseases, as well as the study of the side effects associated with toxic agents, chemical compounds, and radiation exposure.
Organisational branches.
The Institute of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology (IEPT).
The institute is dedicated to deepening understanding of the effects of substances on biological systems, encompassing the assessment of toxicity as well as the study of drug actions. By employing a combination of experimental models, advanced computational methods, and innovative techniques, the IEPT seeks to unravel the intricate mechanisms underlying substance-organism interactions. The IEPT conducts research utilizing a diverse array of methodologies, including in vivo, in vitro, and in silico approaches. The current primary research interest of CEM is focused on pharmacological interventions in injuries induced by oxidative stress and inflammatory reactions.
The Institute of Heart Research (IHR).
The IHR focuses primarily on conducting fundamental medical research within the field of cardiovascular diseases. The primary objective of this research is to acquire knowledge and understanding of the mechanisms involved in regulating heart function in the context of serious civilization diseases, studying them at cellular, subcellular, and molecular levels. The IHR SAS places particular emphasis on investigating various aspects such as myocardial ischemia, hypoxia, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cardiomyopathies, heart and vessel injuries resulting from tumor treatments, inflammation, dyslipidemia, and subsequent heart complications. The institute conducts research on mechanisms like ischemic preconditioning, intracellular signaling, properties and functions of membrane transport systems, the role of connexin channels in protecting against heart arrhythmias, as well as studying new mechanisms associated with specific cardioprotective drugs.
The Institute of Normal and Pathological Physiology (INPP).
The INPP primarily engages in fundamental research within the field of experimental medicine, with a specific emphasis on both normal and pathological physiology, particularly related to the cardiovascular and nervous systems. Notably, INPP dedicates significant attention to areas such as hypertension, circulation disorders, the structure of the cardiovascular system, social stress, brain information processing, mechanisms of posture and balance control, and modeling processes within the nervous and cardiovascular systems. The institute has cultivated collaborations with various research institutions and clinical departments in Slovakia and internationally.
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The 2023 FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix will be the 30th Summer Grand Prix season in ski jumping for men and the 12th for women.
Map of Grand Prix hosts.
All 5 locations hosting world cup events for men (5), for women (4) and shared (4) in this season.
Podium table by nation.
Table showing the Grand Prix podium places (gold–1st place, silver–2nd place, bronze–3rd place) by the countries represented by the athletes.
Points distribution.
The table shows the number of points won in the 2023 FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix for men and women.
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List of storms named Milenyo
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The name Milenyo was used by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) to name two tropical cyclones within the Philippine Area of Responsibility in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.
Following 2006, PAGASA retired the name "Milenyo" and replaced it with "Mario" for the 2010 Pacific typhoon season.
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La Botte
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La Botte was a Michelin-starred, fine dining restaurant in Santa Monica, California. The restaurant closed in 2014.
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Mahishasur Marddini
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Mahishasur Marddini (মহিষাসুরমর্দ্দিনী) () is a 2022 India-Bengali film written and directed by noted Bengali filmmaker Ranjan Ghosh. It was headlined by his muse Rituparna Sengupta along with Saswata Chatterjee, Parambrata Chattopadhyay and a bunch of young theatre actors. The film was produced by AVA Film Productions Pvt. Ltd. and co-produced by Vinayak Pictures.
Mahishasur Marddini was nominated by FIPRESCI-India (India-Chapter of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics) in a list of Top 50 Indian films for their Annual Jury Award Grand Prix 2022. In a critical reading of the film, FIPRESCI-India had carried a review that read, "Ghosh uses the ‘Mother’ image to glorify
the sacrifice and tolerance of Bengali middle-class
women in post-colonial Bengal. Through this film, he
wants to build a tunnel back to mythical times so that
the apparent reality merges with the real to infuse life
into the sculpture of contemporary reality. That is
why as an ending the film inherits a utopian social
concept while a Dalit girl has broken all prejudices of
patriarchy and her social enlistment is not restricted
by upper-class Brahmanical stereotypes."
It was released in November 2022 and is touted as the director's boldest work till date in which he experiments with form and style, combining the elements of theatre and cinema. The film was screened at the "Jawaharlal Nehru University", "Jamia Millia Islamia University" and the "Pondicherry University". Earlier it became the first Indian feature film to screen at any theatre festival anywhere in India when it played at the 21st Habitat Theatre Festival, 2022, organized by the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
Theme.
Presented by director Ghosh as a letter of protest as also an apology to women, the film is a one night-one location intersectional narrative about guilt-ridden memories, fake appearances of nobility that human beings put on, and how these appearances eventually crumble.
It avoids a mechanical plot and is presented in the form of a seven-act play bringing together a collage of moments to establish the idea of a nightmarish world for the girl child and women. It marries the formal elements of cinema and theatre. The entries and exits of characters, performances, dialogues and discourses, staging and blocking, use of props, lighting and shot-taking allude to the language of film and the formal elements of theatre.
The film creates a bleak and haunting world that evokes shame and leaves the viewer bruised.
Plot.
In 2021, UNESCO included Kolkata's Durga Puja in its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. It is a religious cultural event signifying the victory of good over evil and worships the female form of God. Mahishasur Marddini is another name for Durga.
A ten-year-old deaf-mute girl is gangraped and murdered a night before Durga puja is scheduled to begin in Kolkata. She happened to live through her days and nights at the local Hindu crematorium and Muslim graveyard.
The story shifts to the house of a landlady and her four college-going tenants busy with last-minute festival preparations. Hearing faint wails from their backyard, they rush out to find a seven-day-old female infant dumped outside in a garbage bin. They rescue the baby and look after her.
Through the night, they receive a few guests, some expected, some unexpected. The incidents that unfold thereafter reveal the trials and tribulations faced by women all over. The characters too have their moment of catharsis as they realize that a girl-child or a woman in distress is nothing short of humanity in peril.
Scripting and pre-production.
Ghosh had started penning the story almost a decade back. In an interview to Daily Eye, he had said that the origin of the story lay in the Nirbhaya incident of 2007 that apparently left him bruised. The screenplay took another ten years to take shape, and was finally ready to go into production in 2019-'20, according to him.
Pre-production spanned from October 2021 until January 2022. Recce was carried out extensively in and around Kolkata to scout for the house and other locations. Ghosh had apparently looked at more than a dozen old houses before finalizing the location in Chinsura in Hooghly district.
Principal photography and post-production.
The film was shot on the Alexa Mini Camera by cinematographer Subhadeep Dey, an FTII alumnus. The schedule was of a total of fifteen days and was shot in two phases since the shoot got stalled because of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. In Ghosh's own words, he had planned a detailed shot-breakdown of the film with the DOP for 25 days to achieve the final result in 15 days of the shoot.
The film was edited by Amit Pal who had earlier edited Ghosh's Ahaa Re (Festival Cut). The music production was done by newcomer music director Avijit Kundu. The Sound Design was done at the Eskay Videos Pvt. Ltd. by Abhik Chatterjee and final mix by Ayan Bhattacharya. Both are alumni of the state-run Kolkata film institute named after Satyajit Ray, SRFTI.
Reception.
The film had a limited theatrical release on 25th November, 2022, in Kolkata and nearby districts, owing to its experimental nature. It had a run of 50 days at the theatres with moderate commercial success. The general audience were reportedly unsettled by the dark theme of the film.
Veteran NDTV critic Saibal Chatterjee wrote in CivilSocietyOnline.com, "Mahishasur Marddini has an unusual feel and texture. It combines the grammar of cinema, the methods of proscenium theatre and the interpretative tools of socio-political observation to throw light on what ails a society that worships the Mother Goddess but denies women equality and dignity. Mahishasur Marddini is an important film because it stares at the rot in the soul of India in the face while crafting a hard-hitting and urgent cautionary tale about a night without end."
Senior author and film critic S. Viswanath gave the film a 4/5 * rating on High on Films and wrote, "Conceived in the course of a single night, and specifically, as also conveniently, consciously set in one single location – a haunting decrepit mansion, Ghosh, through his chorus of characters drives his homily as the players introspect and dissect the heart-rending incident as also reflect upon their own past deeds. Taking to theatrical format for his searing and soul searching tale, Ghosh holds a mirror to the maleficent society depicting as to how, irrespective of men/women, they can be as inured and unconcerned to the untold sufferings of the women in our society."
US-based author and indie-film curator Kalpa Shah gave the film a 4/5* rating and wrote for Cinematic Illusions, "The film transcends entertainment, and cuts across ethnic and linguistic borders. It goes beyond an apology to all women, especially to those who are often the victims of unspeakable crimes. Staged as a theatre-drama with actors entering and exiting from the ‘wings’, uttering their lines, playing their parts, and all of this cinematically, the film forces us to open our eyes against those crimes that ostensibly go unseen, brushed away under the bloodied carpet of cultural acceptance, political greed and society’s resignation."
Veteran film author and critic Shoma A. Chatterji reviewed the film saying, "Ranjan Ghose's fourth feature film Mahishasura Marddini has attempted an experiment in creating an innovative form of blending a theatrical performance with a full-length feature film. He has tried to revolutionise how we talk about theatre as not only a medium of words, but that of fully realised productions with visual cues. Mahishasura Marddini offers a classic example of this experiment."
Ambar Chatterjee of East Mojo felt "Mahishasur Marddini is a fairly complex, nuanced & cerebral film. Ranjan Ghosh categorically uses the structure of a stage play and skillfully combines it with some of the best aspects that cinema has to offer like flashbacks."
The Telegraph online wrote, "Ghosh draws upon the 2012 Nirbhaya incident to address the issue of violence on women, constructing a narrative that hangs between reality and allegory. With mythological characters underlining the drives and motives of the characters in the film, Mahishasur Marddini portrays how gendered violence continues to hide itself behind an apparent liberal outlook and social privileges."
The Times of India gave the film a 3* rating and write, "Mahishasur Marddini moves beyond tackling gender violence and also addresses the idea of privilege, which is so often missing from films about inequality. It ties in with the film’s overall messaging about how society is quick to demonise the ‘other’ but not the systems that we enable. Rituparna, Saswata and Parambrata do a good job, although better character writing could have added some edge to the film. The ending is well-styled and quite befitting. Ghosh has called the film ‘a letter of apology to women,’ but he may be selling the film short since it proves to be more intersectional than expected. Don't put this on your OTT pile, a big-screen viewing may be worth your while with this one."
Legacy.
Mahishasur Marddini went on to become the first of its kind Indian film that was screened at any theatre festival anywhere in India. On 27th September, 2022, it was screened at the prestigious IHC Theatre Festival, held annually in Delhi, by the India Habitat Centre. The organizers had selected the feature film to play at their theatre festival "to make people think about theatre, even though they had not come to watch a play”. The festival took that idea forward with the screening of director Ghosh’s Mahishasur Marddini, followed by a panel discussion on how the movie successfully combined the elements of both the artforms.
The film was also screened and archived at the Department of Cinema Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, "Jawaharlal Nehru University", Mass Communication Research Centre, "Jamia Millia Islamia University" and the Mass Communication Department of "Pondicherry University". At all these screenings, the feedback of the students were very encouraging, the director said in an interview. The film had apparently got a standing ovation at the Pondicherry University.
Soundtrack.
The soundtrack has music composed by Avijit Kundu, with lyrics by Subhadeep Kantal. The music was released on 8 November 2022.
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HPS Investment Partners
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HPS Investment Partners (HPS) is an American investment firm headquartered in New York City. The firm focuses on investments in private credit and public credit as well as private equity and real assets. Outside the United States, the firm also has offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.
In 2022, the firm was ranked by Private Debt Investor (under "Private Equity International") as the third largest private debt investment firm based on total fundraising over the most recent five-year period.
Background.
In 2007 Scott Kapnick founded Highbridge Principal Strategies after leaving Goldman Sachs. It was formed as the private equity and credit investment division of Highbridge Capital Management (Highbridge) within J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Its strategies included mezzanine capital, bonds, direct lending and growth capital.
In 2009, as a result of 2007–2008 financial crisis, many hedge funds suffered from redemption. However Highbridge Principal Strategies grew significantly during this period.
In February 2011, Highbridge Principal Strategies was expanded after Highbridge acquired Gávea Investimentos and had let go of its event-driven trading team.
In December 2014, "Institutional Investor" reported that Kapnick and the management team of Highbridge were in discussions with JPMorgan Chase to lead a management buyout of the firm. The talks were focused mostly on Highbridge Principal Strategies. One of the main reasons for the buyout was the Volcker Rule which put strict limits on how much banks can invest in alternative investments which would be detrimental to Highbridge. Another reason was how Highbridge staff were compensated with bank stock which put the firm at a disadvantage when hiring and retaining staff compared to privately held hedge funds since the bank was a highly regulated entity. Finally, Jes Staley who headed J.P. Morgan Asset Management and was instrumental in Highbridge's acquisition back in 2004 had left the firm in 2013 and was replaced by Mary Callahan Erdoes. In fact by this period, Highbridge co-founders Glenn Dubin and Henry Swieca and former Highbridge President Todd Builione had all left Highbridge.
By 2015, Highbridge Principal Strategies became the larger more dominant part of Highbridge due to its performance and popularity amongst investors. It managed $22 billion in assets under management while the hedge fund side managed $6 billion. It was one of Highbridge's most successful ventures.
In October 2015, it was reported that only Highbridge Principal Strategies would be separating from JPMorgan Chase. JPMorgan Chase would keep the Highbridge and its hedge funds operations as well as a minority stake of Highbridge Principal Strategies. In March 2016, the buyout was completed from Highbridge and JPMorgan Chase. This lead to an independent firm being spun out as HPS Investment Partners.
In July 2018, Dyal Capital acquired a minority investment in HPS.
In April 2023, "Financial Times" reported that HPS had almost $100 billion in assets under management after it had raised $12 billion for a new junior credit fund.
Controversies and legal actions.
On November 21, 2018 LBI Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Afterwards the company created a bankruptcy-exit plan where HPS would take over the company. Bondholders of the company such as York Capital Management and Caspian Capital launched a lawsuit to oppose the deal and stated the plan was product of insider trading and fraud. Both LBI Media and HPS denied the allegation and said the plan followed standard market practices and big boy letter was signed. In April 2019, HPS and the bondholders came to an agreement on the plan after agreeing to boost recoveries for bondholders. HPS then took over LBI Media.
On August 17, 2020, Citigroup filed a lawsuit against HPS, Brigade Capital and Symphony Asset Management , seeking the return their share of $504 million from a near $900 million payment that Citi said it paid by mistake to Revlon's lenders. The payments were related to loans made to Revlon by various private lenders which included the three firms. The lenders took the position that they were not obligated to return the money. On February 16, 2021, a Federal court ruled that the lenders are under no obligation to return any of the monies mistakenly received. However Citigroup asked the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for an appeal and on September 8, 2022, the court ruled in favour of Citigroup reversing the 2021 ruling. The lenders then requested an appeal but were denied by the court on October 12, 2023.
In June 2023, Jacob Chetrit sued HPS over 850 Third Avenue claiming the firm filed a fraudulent deed. Chetrit claimed when he handed over the property to HPS, he signed a deed showing the balance on the loans to be $320 million. However HPS created a separate deed showing a balance of only $266 million. The reduced loan amount allowed HPS to charge Chetrit more for other expenses like an exit fee and interest costs.
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Startup India Seed Fund Scheme
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The Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS) is an Indian government initiative aimed at fostering innovation and supporting startups at their early stages. Launched by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of India, the scheme is part of the larger "Startup India" campaign, which seeks to promote entrepreneurship and create a robust ecosystem for startups in the country. The program provides financial assistance to eligible startups, helping them transform their innovative ideas into viable business ventures.
Background.
Many startups face challenges during their nascent stages, such as funding constraints and lack of resources. Recognizing these obstacles and the need to bolster the startup ecosystem, the Indian government introduced the Startup India initiative in January 2016. The initiative aims to create a conducive environment for startups, enabling them to thrive and contribute significantly to the country's economic growth.
Launch of the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme.
The Startup India Seed Fund Scheme was launched on January 16, 2021 by Central Government of India under the aegis of the Startup India program. The primary objective of the scheme is to provide financial support to startups during their early stages, typically known as the seed stage. By assisting startups in this critical phase, the government hopes to encourage innovative ideas and fuel entrepreneurship across various sectors.
Government Recognition and Financial Support.
Under the SISFS, a total of ₹945 crore was approved to be allocated for a four-year period spanning from 2021 to 2025. Of this amount, ₹611 crore, approximately two-thirds of the total budget, has already been assigned by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) to fund eligible startups and incubators.
The initiative has gained significant traction, with about 160 incubators receiving funds from the DPIIT. These incubators, in turn, are responsible for disbursing the financial support to over 1,000 selected startups across India. The primary objective of this disbursement process is to fuel the growth and development of innovative startups and ideas throughout the country.
Moreover, the scheme is geared towards supporting a substantial number of entrepreneurs, aiming to benefit more than 3,600 innovators through the backing of 300 incubators.
In a notable recognition of the valuable contributions made by the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Design (CIED) at the Islamic University of Science & Technology (IUST) in nurturing a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation among the youth, the DPIIT has approved financial support of ₹5 crore to IUST. This financial assistance is specifically designated to bolster startups in the region of Jammu and Kashmir.
In the 2023-24 financial year, the Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade (Startup India Section), operating under the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has allocated a seed fund of ₹63 lakh (non-recurring), which includes the management fee, to the Atal Incubation Centre-Sri Krishnadevaraya University Confederation, based in Anantapur. This disbursement was made as part of the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme, aimed at promoting and supporting startups in the country.
In June 2023, Four startups, three from Nagaland and one from Assam, have each been granted a loan of Rs 10 lakh under the SISFS.
Key objectives.
The Startup India Seed Fund Scheme is designed to achieve several key objectives:
Eligibility criteria.
To avail benefits under the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme, startups are required to meet certain eligibility criteria:
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Luiz Antonio Nabhan Garcia
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Nabhan Garcia (born May 22, 1958) is a Brazilian politician and farmer, who was the Secretary of Land Affairs in the government of President Jair Bolsonaro, in addition to being appointed as president of the Rural Democratic Union.
Nabhan Garcia is a rancher and farmer, with farms in São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul, he became known for his clashes with the landless in Pontal do Paranapanema, in western São Paulo, between 1990 and 2010.
Ruralist Democratic Union.
The secretary became known for preaching the radicalism that resulted in several conflicts in Pontal do Paranapanema in the mid-1990s, during the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Later, already at the head of the movement to refound the UDR, in 2003 his name was involved in a rumored arrest of a farmer accused of illegal possession and smuggling of weapons, affiliated with the entity. Accused in flagrante delicto with nine large caliber weapons for the exclusive use of the Armed Forces, cattle rancher Manoel Domingues Paes Neto reported to the Federal Police (PF) that Nabhan, with a ninja cap covering his face, sunglasses and a cap, was standing between farmers and security guards. who allowed themselves to be photographed carrying large-caliber weapons by the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo, “to scare the Landless Workers' Movement and inhibit land invasions in Pontal do Paranapanema”. This statement was read by the former CPMI (Mixed Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) rapporteur on Land, João Alfredo (Psol-CE), who concluded that there are “strong indications that Nabhan Garcia and other rural landowners in Pontal do Paranapanema encourage the organization of private militias. That report ended up defeated and became a separate vote, with the parallel report by Deputy Alberto Lupion (DEM-PR) prevailing.
FHC’s Minister of Agrarian Reform, in whose role he served in Pontal do Paranapanema, Raul Jungmann – who has always been critical of the Landless Workers' Movement – says that Nabhan’s stance as president of the UDR and the positions he has adopted in the Bolsonaro government do not help in the solution the demands of the field.
The CAR model, with 6 million areas registered in the last seven years, according to the engineer, has a very low validation rate because, like the Federal Revenue Service, it does not have an intelligence structure that allows verification, which, instead of solving can exacerbate tensions.
Nova Bandeirantes and the fall of General Jesus.
In a message via the WhatsApp application, addressed to a small group of friends and trusted servants, General Jesus Corrêa said that he was leaving Incra just as he was starting the most complex work, attacking the 30 superintendencies, “wherever there are, in some of them , real criminal organizations installed”. He mentioned the superintendencies of Mato Grosso and Rondônia as the most problematic and said why he thinks it fell:
More explicitly, Colonel Marco Antônio dos Santos, who occupied the Board of Management of Incra, told Crusoé magazine that the group was fired, not for delay in regularization, as the secretary argued, but for going against its interests.
In the 40-minute interview with Pública, made before the crisis that overthrew General Jesus Corrêa, Nabhan Garcia got irritated several times, especially when asked about the strong influence of the ruralist group on Funai. “How can you ignore a bench that has 305 parliamentarians?”, He said. In the end, he ended the interview sharply, upset with questions about the lack of a government agenda for indigenous organizations and movements that fight for land. Pública sent new questions about the reaction of the military who left Incra and their participation in the conflicts in Pontal do Paranapanema, but the secretary did not respond.
In August, Nabhan Garcia suffered a bitter defeat in the STF with the removal of the prerogative to interfere in crucial issues for the ruralist caucus, such as the identification and demarcation of indigenous lands. The attribution was linked to the Agriculture portfolio, but the STF sent it back to the Ministry of Justice along with the Funai structure. That is, legally, Nabhan Garcia cannot interfere in demarcation.
The comings and goings of Funai by ministries are seen by the coordinator of the Organization of Indigenous Peoples of Rondônia, Northwest of Mato Grosso and South of Amazonas (Opiroma), José Luiz Kassupá, as a sign that the government may try to return the autarchy to the command of Nabhan Garcia through a new provisional measure.
According to him, there are reports that even old villages occupied by isolated groups are destroyed with the purpose of de-characterizing areas of traditional indigenous use and, thus, reducing the indigenous territory to legalize invasions. And he claims that Incra has been carrying out surveys in places occupied by small squatters within indigenous territories and protected forest areas with the aim of regularizing illegal possessions. "We've already seen this: they say it's for the small and then they pass it on to the landowners."
For the entities, Nabhan Garcia as an agrarian manager and indigenist is, at the very least, a sign of the government's complacency with the backward segment of agribusiness and of retrogression in the rights of traditional peoples.
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Zvyozdnoye leto
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"Zvyozdnoye leto" (; ) is a song by Russian singer Alla Pugacheva.
This song was the first that Pugacheva wrote together with the poet Ilya Reznik. It was originally recorded at the tone studio of the Armenfilm film studio for the children's film "Starry Summer" (directed by Levon Grigoryan) in September 1978. The idea to invite Pugacheva to perform songs for the film was accidental, many children read poems at the auditions, and sang mostly hits of the young singer Alla Pugacheva.
In January 1979, Pugacheva presented her first concert program, "The Woman Who Sings", in which she included "Zvyozdnoye leto". For the album "Podnimis nad suyetoy!" (1980) Pugacheva recorded new versions of this song.
Although the song was not released as a single, it was a huge success in the Soviet Union. In the hit parade Zvukovaya Dorozhka it held a leading position for several months. The song was awarded the Pesnya goda award. And Pugacheva herself performed it at her concerts and in various TV shows.
In 2023, a remix of the song created by Geoffplaysguitar became the soundtrack to the game "Atomic Heart".
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Md. Hafizur Rahman
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Mohammad Hafizur Rahman (, ; 1902-1984), known as Md. Hafizur Rahman (মো: হাফিজুর রহমান), was a distinguished bengali senior civil servant, bureaucrat and minister. His tenure spanned the British colonial India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh periods. Rahman held various administrative posts, served as Minister of Food and Agriculture and Commerce Minister in the Central Government of Pakistan and Minister of Finance and Planning of East Pakistan. A vocal advocate for balanced regional development, he spoke against the unequal allocation of funds favoring West Pakistan over East Pakistan.
Early life and education.
Hafizur Rahman was born in 1902 in Kawrat, Noapara, Kendua, Mymensingh district. He was the second among six brothers and four sisters. Lutfur Rahman, Hamidur Rahman, Habibur Rahman and Hafiz Ahmed Rahman were among his brothers. He achieved remarkable academic success, securing scholarships throughout his education from lower primary to postgraduate levels. He graduated with honors in Economics from University of Dhaka, obtaining a first-class degree in both his Bachelor of Arts in 1924 and Master of Arts in 1925.
Career.
After graduation, Hafizur Rahman began his career as an Assistant Lecturer at Dhaka University from 1925 until he joined the Bengal Civil Service on July 8, 1926. From August 1928 to July 1938, he served in various districts of Bengal, fulfilling the duties of a Magistrate Revenue Officer. He also worked in the Co-operative Department as an Assistant Registrar of Cooperative Societies. In 1942, he became an Assistant Secretary in the Home (Defense) Department and also was the Deputy Secretary, Public Health and Local Self-Government Department until the establishment of Pakistan in 1947.
After the establishment of Pakistan, Rahman held several administrative posts until 1951. He served as Additional District Magistrate in Dhaka and held positions of Director of Textiles in the Government of East Pakistan, Director of Procurement and Distribution in the Civil Supplies Department.
Civil Service of Pakistan.
In 1951, Hafizur Rahman was promoted to the Civil Service of Pakistan. In 1953, he became the Chief Controller of Jute Regulations and District Magistrate of Backergunge District. He actively participated in international conferences as member of Pakistan's Delegation, including the ECOSOC Conference in Geneva in 1954. After returning from Geneva, he served as Joint Secretary in the Planning Board of the Government of East Pakistan and later as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture of the Government of Pakistan from 1955 to 1957 until his retirement.
Hafizur Rahman was reappointed Officer on Special Duty, with the status of Divisional Food Commissioner, in the Department of Food, Government of East Pakistan 1957 to 1958.
Ministerial Positions.
Hafizur Rahman was appointed as Minister of Food and Agriculture in the central government of Pakistan from October 1958 to 1960. He led the Pakistan delegation to the 10th Session of the F.A.O. conference in Rome in 1959. In order to study the developments that the European countries have attained in the various sectors of Agriculture, he also visited Spain, U.K., Holland, Turkey and Syria.
After a reshuffling of portfolios between the Ministers of the Presidential Cabinet Minister, he was made Minister of Commerce from 1960 to 1962. As Commerce Minister, Hafizur led a ministerial level delegation in May 1961 to Burma to secure rice exports to meet Pakistan's rice needs and food security.
As federal ministers of the central government, Hafizur Rahman, A. K. Khan, and Habibur Rahman served a crucial role in upholding the interests of East Pakistan for its development. Their focus on economic disparity between East and West Pakistan laid the groundwork for the later formulation of the six-point demands. However, to curtail their influence, ministerial portfolios were subject to constant divisions and changes, resulting in significant reductions in the portfolios of three bengali ministers without prior input or consensus. On June 29, 1960, Hafizur held discussions with Muhammad Ibrahim regarding the appropriate course of action in response to Ayub Khan's speeches, inclinations, and actions concerning the Constitution. Privately, the ministers concurred on demanding provincial autonomy for East Pakistan in all matters except defense, foreign policy, and currency, which they considered as the minimum requirement to fulfill East Pakistan's needs and safeguard it from exploitation. As President Ayub Khan did not accede to their views, Hafizur resigned from his ministerial position and relocated to East Pakistan, where he subsequently served as the Minister of Finance and Planning of East Pakistan from 1962 to 1965.
As Finance Minister, Hafizur Rahman brought up the issue of economic disparity between East and West Pakistan. He emphasized the need to examine demands for separate industrial units based on economic and physical advantages and stressed the importance of industrializing East Pakistan to address the economic imbalance and bridge the gap of disparity between the two wings of the country. He urged industrialists and bankers to create more capital in East Pakistan.
Throughout his tenure, he also held the portfolios of Planning and Industries at various times. Rahman represented Pakistan as the leader of the delegation during a successful mission to Tokyo, Japan, in March 1964, focusing on obtaining aid for the country's development.
He was also a member of the Third planning commission.
After Bangladesh emerged as a new state, Hafizur Rahman continued to contribute to the development of Bangladesh's post-war broken economy under the Presidency of Ziaur Rahman.
Commercial and industrial involvement.
Outside of his government positions, Hafizur Rahman was involved in various commercial and industrial organizations.
Personal life and legacy.
Hafizur Rahman was an avid traveler and visited Europe, Japan, and the Middle East. His hobbies included reading and gardening. He was married to Anwara Begum and had two sons and four daughters. His son Anisur Rahman was a key member in developing the two-economy theory which led to the development of the 6-Point Programme presented by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to the West Pakistan government during the struggle for independence. His daughter Husne Ara Kamal was the director at the Institute of Social Welfare and Research who married the son of Abbasuddin Ahmed, Mustafa Kamal who later became Chief Justice of Bangladesh. His granddaughter Nashid Kamal is a vocalist, writer and widely regarded as a Nazrul exponent. Through his granddaughters Naeela Sattar and Nazeefa Monem marriages, Ismail Sattar, son of M. A. Sattar and ASM Mainuddin Monem, son of Abdul Monem are his grandson-in-laws. His great granddaughter, Armeen Musa is a Grammy nominated singer-songwriter and composer.
Hafizur Rahman passed away on May 15, 1984. His funeral was held at Tiptop Mosque in Dhaka.
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Discosomaticinae
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Discosomaticinae is a subfamily of harvestmen in the family Cosmetidae.
Description.
The subfamily was defined within Cosmetidae
Taxonomy.
The subfamily includes the following genera, within two tribes:
Discosomaticini Roewer, 1923
Roquetteini Medrano, Kury & Mendes, 2021
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All India Tanzeem-e-Insaaf
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All India Tanzeem-e-Insaaf or Tanzeem-e-Insaaf is an Indian Organisation which pays attention towards Minority and Dalit Rights. It was founded by Syed Azeez Pasha in 2013 and is National President till its foundation. It is a constituent wing of Communist Party of India since 2022.
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Manitoba Herd
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The Manitoba Herd is a ringette team in the National Ringette League's (NRL) Western Conference. The team is based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Team history.
The Herd were founded in 2016 as the Manitoba Intact. They took their name from a corporate sponsor that made a Manitoba team's return to the NRL possible after the province's previous entry folded in 2013 due to financial difficulties. Winnipeg-based teams had a longer history with the NRL, but were hampered by the league's demanding travel. The Winnipeg Prairie Fire had been an on-ice success, finishing in second place in the Canadian Ringette Championships in what would be their final season in 2013. For several years the province also hosted a second NRL team, the Manitoba Jets. Those teams made an effort to host games in other areas of the province, such as Steinbach, which hosted a series between the Prairie Fire and Edmonton WAM! in 2013. The establishment of the Intact, then, filled a significant gap for the National Ringette League. In 2021, the team rebranded as the Manitoba Herd, a name that had been used informally in the past to reference Manitoba's ringette squads at the Canada Games.
Manitoba hosted the 2018 Canadian Ringette Championships, which includes the NRL playoffs, in Winnipeg. Manitoba won its opening series against the BC Thunder to advance to the Elite Eight, but did not manage to win another game and finished in 8th place. Manitoba again defeated the Thunder in a knockout series in 2019, and ultimately finished in 7th at the national championships. The 2020 and 2021 championships were ultimately cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
After play resumed in 2022, the team put added emphasis on growing the game locally and saw larger crowds supporting the team. In 2022, Herd player Belle Paisley was named to the Canadian junior national team ahead of the World Ringette Championships, where Canada won silver.
The Herd's current head coach is Andrea Ferguson, who was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 2022 for her contributions to ringette. Ferguson is a former national junior champion and captain of the Prairie Fire who also won the player-of-the-year award in the Finnish Elite League in 2003.
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Colleplax
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Colleplax – a structure present in chileate brachiopods.
It is a triangular plate in the umbonal region of the ventral valve, covering an area that is otherwise externally exposed through the resorption of a part of the ventral valve. This aperture is supposed to have been covered by adhesive tissue, but no similar structure exists in any living brachiopod, so other interpretations have also been proposed.
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Emily Austin (journalist)
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Emily Austin (born May 24, 2001) is a journalist, social media influencer, model, actress and independent NBA broadcaster.
Early life.
Born on May 24, 2001 in the US to Israeli parents, she grew up on Long Island and studied at Hofstra University.
Career.
Sports.
Originally planning to study medicine, Austin began interviewing athletes on Instagram during the COVID pandemic on a show she started called “Daily Vibes with Emily Austin”. This led her to working at MTV on “Music Lives On”. She also worked for Sports Illustrated as a host at NFL and boxing events.
In 2023, she started an NBA Podcast called The Hoop Chat w/ Emily Austin where she features NBA players on her show.
Other work.
Austin was a judge at the Miss Universe 2022. Austin is an ambassador for Puma and joined the Israeli mission to the UN where she handles English communications and public relations. She has written for sites such as "Newsweek". Austin is a sought after speaker at events and conferences.
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Swimming at the 2000 Summer Paralympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley SM6
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The women's 200m individual medley SM6 event took place on 20 October 2000 in Sydney, Australia.
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Ferkeriinae
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Ferkeriinae is a subfamily of harvestmen in the family Cosmetidae.
Description.
The subfamily was defined within Cosmetidae
Taxonomy.
The subfamily includes the following genera:
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Philippe Bekaert
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Philippe Bekaert was a professor in visual computing at the Expertise center for Digital Media EDM of Hasselt University, Belgium. His research areas include omnidirectional (360°) and free viewpoint video, immersive environments and Virtual Reality, multicamera systems, management of large data transfer, and general-purpose GPU computing.
With his EDM research group of Visual Computing he participated in European and national research and development projects on the intersection of arts, cinema, TV broadcasting, and visual computing.
Philippe Bekaert was convinced of the need to work together with creatives in the arts and entertainment: "“We want to stretch the boundaries of the use of technology, not by creating faster systems and problem-solving devices, but by asking what we can do with this technology to enhance human perception and experience"“. He worked closely together with theatre and live performance company CREW in about 13 VR and MR based performance.
He was initiator and cofounder of spin-of companies like AZilPix, Camargus and Panokkel, commercializing broadcast video production systems following novel approaches.
Early life and education.
Philippe Bekaert was born in 1967 during a Sabena flight Kinshasa-Geneva-Brussels. Philippe finished his engineering education from KU Leuven with a Master in Physics (1985-1991) and a Master in Informatics (1991-1993). He was married to oncologist Annelies Maes and has three daughters.
Expertise Centre for Digital Media.
Philippe joined EDM on the 1st of August 2002 as a full-time professor of informatics and headed the research group of Visual Computing. He participated in numerous European and national research and development programs, and has 208 publications.
CREW.
Philippe Bekaert and artist Eric Joris of CREW (performance company) started cooperating in 2003 at EDM of University Hasselt. Philippe started developing for CREW and in 2006 joined the Board of Directors. EDM and CREW teamed up in EU research FP7 programs 2020 3D media 2009-2013 and Dreamspace 2013-2016, in the EU Culture Programme New Media, performing arts and spectatorship 2009-2011, in Belgian national and regional [ej4] research programs like IBBT Art&D Programme VR/Real Virtuality 2008-2009, XPlo eXplorative Television Project 2011-2013 and in the EU Transregional program Transdigital 2010-2012.
For ‘Crash’ 2004 Philippe custom built omnidirectional cameras, wrote live, stitching and editing software, as well as he composed the technical configuration. The immersants in this production wore HMD’s and were manipulated at a kind of tilting beds, to produce certain illusions and to overcome simulator or motion sickness. With "U_Raging Standstill" (2005) and "Eux" (2009) the whole configuration became mobile with the immersant walking around. For "O_Rex" Philippe developed an outside-in tracking system based upon the work of Ramesh Raskar. The system had to steer laptops on a driving platform in a 3D physical space, augmenting the world behind their screen. For ‘Line-up’ (2007) and ‘Terra Nova’ (2011) he built a configuration and a pipeline for immersing 12 until 55 participants together in a live theatrical performance. "Terra Nova" premiered at the Festival of Avignon in 2011. "W_DoubleU" (2009) and "Headswap" (2013) have two walking immersants observe the world using each other’s view: "“Each of the participants receives an HMD helmet that allows her/him to see the environment around the other one’s head. They both have to find their way in public space [...] a schizophrenic relationship with your immersive counterpart”."
The work with CREW was performed in Europe, Northern America, and Asia in conferences, festivals and arthouses like Festival d’Avignon (FR), Spielart (DE), Shangai world Expo (CH), Empac (US), Siggraph (US), FMX (DE) and Steirisches Herbst Graz (AU).
References.
External links
Website Azilpix http://www.azilpix.com
CREW www.crew.brussels
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David Fadairo
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David Fadairo (born 7 November 2000) is a Nigerian footballer who plays for Czech club FC Baník Ostrava as a winger, on loan from Lagos Islanders.
Club career.
Fadairo made his Slovak Super Liga professional debut for FK Železiarne Podbrezová on 9 March 2019 in a game against MŠK Žilina.
External links.
[[Category:Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic]]
[[Category:Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Lagos]]
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Flirteinae
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Flirteinae is a subfamily of harvestmen in the family Cosmetidae.
Description.
The subfamily was defined within Cosmetidae
Taxonomy.
The subfamily includes the following genera:
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Elena Motta
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Elena Sofía Motta Kolleff (born in 2000) is a Guatemalan politician and political scientist. A member of Semilla party, she is member-elect of the Congress of Guatemala for Guatemala City district, having been elected in 2023 general election. She will take office on 14 January 2024 and will become the youngest female member of Congress to take office in the Guatemalan legislative history, surpassing Andrea Villagrán, who took office at age 25.
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Swimming at the 2000 Summer Paralympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley SM7
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The men's 200m individual medley SM7 event took place on 20 October 2000 in Sydney, Australia.
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Sinaiyah Jadeed (Riyadh)
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Sinaiyah Jadeed (), officially Second Industrial City (), is an industrial district in eastern-southernmost Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located east of al-Misfat and south of Iskan along the al-Kharj Road in the sub-municipality of al-Sulay. It was established in 1976 during the reign of King Khalid bin Abdulaziz as part of the second national five-year development plan of 1975–1980. It assumed its current name around 1984 and covers an area of 4700 acres. It is overseen by the Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones (MODON).
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Tesu
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TESU may refer to:
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Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa
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The Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa (formally the Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Act of 2023) will make South African Sign Language an official language of South Africa.
The bill for the amendment was introduced in the National Assembly on 11 January 2023 by Ronald Lamola, the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development. It was adopted unanimously by the assembly on 2 May, and signed by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 19 July of the same year. It will come into force on a date to be proclaimed by the president in the "Government Gazette".
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Friends Meeting House, Lancaster
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The Friends Meeting House in Lancaster, Lancashire, England is a Quaker meeting house built in 1708. It is an active Friends meeting house, and a grade II* listed building.
The earliest meeting house on the site was built in 1667, and its date stone survives in the current building.
External links.
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Tedford (name)
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Tedford is both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
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Duisburg Cathedral Mosque
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Duisburg Cathedral Mosque is the largest mosque in Germany. Located in the city of Duisburg in the west of Germany, a building with a Silver dome 23 meters high and a minaret 34 meters high. The mosque has a community center and a religious school. The initiator of the mosque in Duisburg was the local Muslim community.
History.
Duisburg is one of the cities in the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany). The main branches of industry are ferrous metallurgy and mechanical engineering. A significant part of the population of Duisburg are foreigners.
According to census data for 2015, about 64 % of foreigners living in the city are ethnic Turks. Most of the Turkish emigrants came to Germany in the 60s as guest workerss, they performed low-paid and physically hard work that the natives of the country did not agree to. According to a study on the integration of foreigners into German society conducted by the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2014y, Turkish residents of Duisburga are the least integrated into German society.
Duisburg is home to the second largest (after Berlina) Turkish community in Germany. The area of Marksloh (), where the mosque was built, resembles Turkish cities: signs are in Turkish, the Turkish population prevails.
Most of the Turkish migrants in Duisburg today are employed in trade. They open Turkish restaurants, Turkish cafes and eateries in the city, the so-called Donerbuden ( — doner kebab eatery).
The construction of a mosque in Duisburg was initiated by Muslim women with the support of Laila Ezmal, the authorized representative of the city magistrate for the integration of migrants.
The mosque in Duisburg with a 23-meter-high silver dome and a 34-meter minaret was opened on October 26, 2008. Inside the mosque there is a hall for 1200 people, a community center and a school. The construction cost of the mosque was approximately 7.5 million euros (6 million pounds), about half was funded by the EU and North Rhine-Westphalia, the other part by the Turkish Muslim community of Ditib.
The interior of the mosque is richly decorated with gold, turquoise, red and white paintings, and the room is illuminated by golden chandeliers. The mosque was named «Muradiye»
At the opening of the mosque, the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Jürgen Rüttgers delivered a speech to the representatives of the German and Turkish public who had gathered in connection with this event. Ali Bardakodlu, president of Turkey's highest religious body, came to the opening of Germany’s largest mosque.
The media noted that the opening of the mosque in Duisburg, unlike some other German cities, took place in a calm atmosphere.
The Muslim community of the city is considered quite liberal. She takes part in ecumenical meetings with representatives of Christian churches and hopes that the new mosque will become «the center of intercultural and interreligious dialogue».
At the opening ceremony of the mosque, Mehmet Ozay, head of the Ditib Turkish-Islamic Union in Marksloh, said: «We have nothing to hide, so it’s time to say goodbye to our mosques that were hidden in the backyard.»
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2024 in American television
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The following a list of events affecting American television in 2024. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations, channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing oraddin their network affiliations; information on controversies, business transactions, and carriage disputes; and deaths of those who made various contributions to the medium.
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Morvarid petrochemical company
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Morvarid Petrochemical Company is a private joint-stock company that was registered in Iran Companies Registration Office on October 5, 2005 with number 256444. The location of this company is in Asaluyeh, one of the branches of Bushehr province. The production capacity of this company is more than 1 million tons of products per year. Morvarid Petrochemical Complex is located on a land of approximately 20 hectares in South Pars Special Economic Zone (Asaluyeh) and in the second phase of petrochemical industries. The ethylene unit of this complex was put into operation in March 2008. On August 16, 2010, it was handed over to Farhangian Savings Fund through the Privatization Organization to cancel the government's debt, and then to Petrofarhang according to the legal peace agreement.
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2023 Mykolaiv attacks
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On 20 July, 2023, a series of air strikes were carried out by Russia on the southern Ukrainian port cities. These attacks resulted in at least three fatalities and caused damage to a Chinese consular building. The strikes marked the third consecutive night of such incidents.
Background.
The attacks were part of an ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. They were seen as retaliatory strikes by Russia, following its withdrawal from a deal that allowed Ukrainian Black Sea grain shipments. Russia accused Ukraine of being behind explosions on a bridge used for transporting Russian military supplies.
The Attack.
The strikes involved the launch of 19 missiles and 19 drones by Russian forces. Ukrainian military reported that they managed to shoot down five of the missiles and 13 of the drones. The attacks resulted in significant damage to several residential buildings and caused a large fire in the city of Mykolaiv.
Casualties.
Three people were reported dead as a result of the strikes. In the city of Odesa, a security guard was killed and at least eight other people were injured, including a child. A married couple was killed in Mykolaiv. The Kyiv Independent reported that the strike against Mykolaiv resulted in 19 people being injured, including at least five children. Eight people sought medical help, and two, including a child, were hospitalized.
Aftermath.
The strikes also caused damage to the Chinese consulate in Odesa and destroyed 60,000 tons of agricultural products destined for China. Ukrainian officials viewed the attacks as a threat to global food security, as Ukraine is a major grain exporter. The international community was urged to respond more actively to the situation.
Reactions.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned the attacks, stating that "Russian terrorists continue their attempts to destroy the life of our country." He expressed confidence that Ukraine would withstand these attacks. Meanwhile, the Chinese government, an ally of Russia, did not immediately comment on the incident.
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Aouda Doukalia
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Aouda Doukalia () is one of the wives of the Alaouite Sultan Moulay Ismail and the mother of Sultan Mostadi ben Ismail. She is native of Doukkala. In 1738 she entered in negociations with the General of the Abid al-Bukhari to seat her son Moulay Mostadi on the throne. They accepted and crowned him in place of Sultan Mohammed ben Ismail who was thus overthrown. Her son Moulay Mostadi sealed stronger alliances than his predecessors, he was the greatest obstacle for Moulay Abdallah and several battles resulted between these two sultans.
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The Western Balkans strategy
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The Western Balkans Strategy (also known as the Credible Enlargement Perspective and the Enhanced EU Engagement for the Western Balkans) is a policy pursued by the EU with its partners and accession candidates in the western region of the Balkan Peninsula. Announced by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in his 2017 State of the Union address, this policy brings together the objectives of the global strategy for CSDP and the enlargement policy specific to the states in this region.
History.
In 1999, the European Union launched the Stabilization and Association Process (SAP) to strengthen its role in the region and provide long-term support for the reconstruction and development of countries in the wake of the wars in the former Yugoslavia. At international level, this approach was accompanied by the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe, supported by the EU, NATO, the OSCE, the IMF, the World Bank and other major international players. Since then, an annual EU-Balkans summit has been organized; the first was held in Zagreb in November 2000, and in 2003 the Thessaloniki European Council reaffirmed that all SAP countries were potential candidates for membership.
In 2018, this regional sub-group comprised five of the six candidate states (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) and Kosovo, which only has the status of a potential candidate. Each of these states has signed a Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU to facilitate their approximation to EU standards (Copenhagen criteria and eventual "acquis communautaire").
To support and reinvigorate the candidate countries' efforts to meet the accession criteria, the European Commission, through its President, adopted a strategy at the end of 2017 focusing on priorities and areas for enhanced joint cooperation. The strategy detailed by Jean-Claude Juncker in his State of the Union address in September 2017 and prepared in advance by the Commission and EEAS includes an action plan focusing on six initiatives relating to the EU's strategy in the Balkans with an increased budget allocated to pre-accession instruments and regional initiatives.
According to the President of the European Commission: "If we want more stability in our neighborhood, we must offer credible prospects to the countries of the Western Balkans"; he also added that "there will be no further accessions during the term of office of this Commission" (2014-2019). Beyond this regional policy, the EU is also committed to working alongside its member states and partners to resolve local issues such as the debate over the name of Macedonia, or the dispute over the delineation of the border between Kosovo and Serbia.
Specific features of the region.
With the redefinition of borders and forced population movements that followed the inter-ethnic conflicts of the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia, the Western Balkans were sharply divided, and deep-rooted tensions remained. The Dayton Accords put an end to the war in Bosnia (1995) by separating the country into two distinct regions and creating a federal government managed by a collective tripartite presidency and supervised by an international High Representative. The agreements also provided for the intervention of a NATO intervention force (IFOR), which was replaced by the European Union's Althea force in 2004. Kosovo became independent in 2008, at the cost of a mass exodus of Albanian and Serbian populations. Here too, a NATO force was set up (KFOR), supported by an administration mission that was replaced by the European Union's civilian mission EULEX Kosovo.
Since the fall of Yugoslavia and the end of the Communist regime, economic development in the Balkans has lagged significantly behind that of other regions in Eastern Europe; for example, in 1990, Macedonia's GDP was three times lower than Slovenia's; in 2003, it was fifty times lower. This lack of development has led to an expansion of black market and illegal activities in the region.
Demographic trends in the Balkans are also specific: the number of inhabitants is declining for two main reasons: the fertility rate is below 1 child per woman (compared with 1.4 on average in Europe - well below the generational renewal rate of 2.1), and with significant income and development gaps compared with the rest of Europe, a massive exodus (particularly of young people) is taking place; Macedonia is said to have lost almost a quarter of its population in twenty-five years; Serbia lost 160,000 people between 2002 and 2011, and the Serbian National Statistics Office estimates that the country could have fewer than 6 million inhabitants in 2030, compared with 7.7 in 2016. Bosnia-Herzegovina has also been hard hit by the phenomenon, with an estimated 170,000 departures over the past five years.
For High Representative Federica Mogherini: "The Western Balkans are part of Europe: we share the same history, the same geography, the same cultural heritage, as well as the same opportunities and challenges today and in the future [...] This strategy shows the path we must follow: for all our six partners, overcoming the past once and for all, and for all of us, making the process of bringing the Western Balkans closer to the European Union an irreversible one, and continuing to reunite the continent".
Goals.
Through six main initiatives, this strategy aims to support the transformation of the Western Balkans so that the countries concerned meet the values of the European Union and, in the longer term, are able to achieve the convergence criteria:
The strategy also sets out the steps to be taken by Montenegro and Serbia to complete their accession processes, with the aim of meeting the Copenhagen criteria by 2025.
Resources.
The European Parliament is responsible for managing the budget allocated to this policy; for 2018 alone, funding for pre-accession instruments has risen to 1.07 billion euros for the Western Balkans region, and is set to increase until 2020; over the period 2007-2017, it was around 9 billion euros. The main program is IPA II, which forms the financial basis of the new strategy; for the 2014-2020 period, a budget of 11.7 billion euros has been voted for this pre-accession instrument alone, which is managed in line with the objectives of the European institutions and the monitoring reports drawn up by the European Commission.
Monitoring of the use of aid is carried out by the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, which appoints permanent rapporteurs for all candidate and potential candidate countries; the Parliament expresses its positions in annual reports on each country.
The European Commission also points out that the Union is the leading investor and trading partner in the region, with a total annual volume of trade amounting to 43 billion euros (2016).
The Brdo-Brijuni and Berlin processes.
The Brdo-Brijuni Process is a diplomatic initiative launched by Croatia and Slovenia in 2013 with the aim of working together to stabilize the region and accelerate the EU accession processes of the countries in the Western Balkans region.
The Berlin Process was launched by Germany in 2014, along with a number of other EU countries and all the Western Balkan states; although it is not directly overseen by European bodies, some of the objectives are similar (mainly regional cooperation and development of the region's infrastructure and economy), and funding is provided by European and external bodies (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and European Investment Bank (EIB)).
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Thiruvananthapuram City Circular
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The Thiruvananthapuram City Circular is a bus service operated by the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala state, India. The service was launched in 2021 and currently operates on a circular route covering all the major parts of the city. The buses ply every 15 minutes during peak hours and every 30 minutes during off-peak hours. The fare for the entire journey is ranges from INR 10 to 30. This is the first public transportation system in Kerala with Hope on Hope Off model. Good Day Ticket provides unlimited travel in any city circular buses with a time limit of 24 hours.It has over 278 stops and 24 interchange points(major stops were intersecting two or more circular services.)
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Libitiinae
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Libitiinae is a subfamily of harvestmen in the family Cosmetidae.
Description.
The subfamily was defined within Cosmetidae
Taxonomy.
The subfamily includes the following genera:
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Swimming at the 2000 Summer Paralympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley SM7
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The women's 200m individual medley SM7 event took place on 20 October 2000 in Sydney, Australia.
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Cavalry FC U21
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Cavalry FC U21 is a Canadian soccer team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada that plays in League1 Alberta. They are the reserve club of Canadian Premier League club Cavalry FC.
History.
In March 2019, Cavalry FC created a U20 side to participate in the amateur Alberta Major Soccer League, which was the top amateur league in the province of Alberta.
In May 2023, Cavlary FC announced the formation of a U21 side that would compete in the new semi-professional League1 Alberta that was launching that year. The club would also feature players from the first team squad playing via the Canadian Premier League's downward player movement project.
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Balle O Chalaak Sajjna
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Balle O Chalaak Sajjna is a 2023 Indian Punjabi-language family drama film directed by Royal Singh, produced by Sukhi Dillon, Guri Pandher, Param Sidhu and Co-produced by Mainsite Pictures, Dave Sidhu & Naval Preet Rangi. The film starring Raj Singh Jhinjhar, Molina Sodhi, Harashjot Kaur, Vikram Chouhan and Nirmal Rishi in lead roles. The film schedule to release theatrically on 4th August 2023.
Release.
First song of "Balle O Challak Sajjna" was releasd on July 18, 2023.
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Tapir Valley tree frog
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The Tapir Valley tree frog (Tlalocohyla celeste) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae only found in the area of the Costa Rican Tapir Valley Nature Reserve.
Etymology.
The scientific name "Tlalocohyla celeste" for the species was chosen because of the light blue coloration observed in the axillary membranes and male vocal sac. The name was given as a tribute to the turquoise waters of a nearby river, the Río Celeste.
Description.
The size of the species is very small, only around 2 centimeters (0.8 inches) long. The frog is easily distinguishable from all other "Tlalocohyla" species due to its striking green coloration, featuring a prominent, incomplete light dorsolateral stripe bordered above by a faint reddish-brown stripe. Its back is adorned with distinct reddish-brown spots, and its ventral skin is completely transparent. There is light blue coloration in the armpits and on the male vocal sac.
The frog has slender upper arms and forearms, lacking an ulnar skin fold. Its palm has numerous rounded accessory palmar tubercles, and the inner metacarpal tubercle is large and elliptical. The finger discs are round, with the first finger's disc slightly smaller. The frog has smooth nuptial pads on the first finger's base. The webbing between the first and second fingers is minimal.
The hind limbs are slender, with a medium-sized elliptical inner metatarsal tubercle and no outer metatarsal tubercle. The skin is smooth, but granular on certain parts. The female's snout-vent length is longer than the male's. The frog's snout appears almost rounded from the back and rounded and protruding from the side. It has large, bulging eyes with horizontally elliptical pupils.
Distribution and habitat.
The sole known habitat of this species is only the type locality, an 8-hectare (20-acre) lentic wetland with an emergent benthic zone dominated by herbaceous vegetation, all of which is surrounded by a tropical rainforest located between two volcanoes in the Tapir Valley Nature Reserve, which is adjacent to the Tenorio Volcano National Park in northern Costa Rica. Its habitat is in the marsh's shallow region, which primarily has the grass species "Rhynchospora corymbosa". However, near the water in the riparian zone, the vegetation becomes more varied and includes shrubs and trees that eventually link to the forest found at higher elevations.
Behaviour.
It hides well among the vegetation, camouflaging itself on tall grasses. The species has a unique sound that they make with their vocal sacs, but they use it especially during high rains. The frog is primarily nocturnal, as it is usually active at night, but it can also be found in the early morning hours when breeding.
Reproduction.
This species practices axillary amplexus during reproduction, and fertilized females have been observed between June and September. Amplectant pairs are seen during the night and pre-dawn hours, separating shortly after egg-laying. Females can undergo multiple oviposition events during each breeding cycle. Egg masses are discovered on the tips of drooping leaves above the water from June to November.
This indicates that the eggs hatch into exotrophic tadpoles, which then fall into the still fresh water below. Each egg mass contains around 20 to 61 unpigmented eggs, longer in length than width, and approximately 2.0 mm in diameter. Tadpoles emerge ten days after oviposition, and after five days, they display clear developmental signs, turning light brown with black spots. Observations show individuals catching micromoths and small flies, suggesting their diet primarily consists of small vertebrates.
Discovery.
Donald Varela Soto, naturalist and co-owner of the Tapir Valley Nature Reserve, was the first to discover the species after noticing its peculiar sound. Around 2018, he already noticed the frog's shrill calls, as none of the other 16 frogs living there have a similar voice. He studied the wetland's sounds at night with biologist Valeria Espinall's help. Researchers actively searched for tadpoles to differentiate the species from others and understand its habitat requirements.
Despite comparisons to regional field guides and iNaturalist, the frog did not match any known species. Speculations arose about it being a young "Boana rufitela", but Soto remained uncertain due to the absence of the characteristic yellow line. Soto recorded a video of the frog and contacted other herpetologists. After a thorough analysis, it was confirmed that the frog was indeed a new species, and named "Tlalocohyla celeste" by the research team.
Conservation.
The conservation status of the Tapir Valley tree frog is currently unknown, but scientists think it is probably a critically endangered species and may be on the verge of extinction. The species resides in the Tapir Valley Nature Reserve, which was previously heavily grazed pasture land. Thanks to recent conservation efforts, the area has been restored to a wetland habitat, where the species now thrives. This indicates that the species, along with others in the wetland, including the Tapir Valley tree frog, possess significant adaptability and resistance to environmental changes.
While no direct predation observations have been made, the wetland harbors snakes and ctenid spiders, known frog predators. Opilionid arachnids have been seen scavenging a dead frog, and wasps have been observed attacking frog eggs and developing larvae.
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Al-Maidan Square
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Al-Maidan Square (), also known as just al-Maidan, is an old locality and area located in al-Rusafa district in Baghdad, Iraq that begins from Bab al-Mu'azzam to al-Rasheed Street. The square includes many buildings, markets, departments, government headquarters and neighborhoods where officials such as former Iraqi Prime Ministers Nuri al-Said and Ja'far al-Askari lived.
Confined between al-Rasheed Street and al-Jumhuriya Street, al-Maidan Square is considered one of the most prominent landmarks of Baghdad.
History.
The name "al-Maidan" means "the square". The area was designated for military purposes in the 9th century. Under Ottoman rule, the area was also used as a military training base for Ottoman soldiers who rested in the Qushla. The square was transformed from the place of the morning training of the Ottoman army to become a place for selling hay and barley to owners of horse-drawn carriages, and on Fridays the square turns into a place where Mamluks coming from the countries of Russia, the Caucasus, Armenia and Central Asia are sold. Executions were also held in the square.
During the era of British colonialism, a part of the square was taken to be built into a nightclub. There was also a famous hotel in the square, the Crescent Hotel, where Umm Kulthum famously sang during her visit in 1932. It is said that due to the small space of its hall, people in the square rented seats to listen to the lady’s singing after he had the hotel owners set up loudspeakers. The area has also become significant for the first sparks of demonstrations, coups, and sit-ins, in addition to its corridors, which were a focus for secret meetings and the beginning of national political activities against various regimes.
Al-Maidan Square is also famous for being the main garage area for the red double-decker buses that were iconic in Iraq and were a unique feature for the country. The first batch of red buses entered Iraq at the end of 1951 after demands for public transportation grew, consisting of 100 buses, and began operating in the streets of Baghdad. In the same year, another group of 20 double-decker buses arrived. Since that time, Baghdadis have become accustomed to these buses, which are distinguished by their red color, and which operate on regular lines and schedules. The red buses were nicknamed "secretariats" by Iraqis and materialized a spirit of competition between Baghdad and London when it came to public transportation. These buses were distinguished by their punctuality and low costs.
After recent events, al-Maidain Square declined and was described as a "poor courtyard containing only some of those who earn a living through simple work and others who used to frequent it." The street was filled with piles of waste. It became full of street vendors who blocked the sidewalks, as well as murderers, thieves, drug dealers, harassers, and bandits who attacked passers-by in light of the deteriorating security situation.
In 2016, al-Maidan Square was reopened by the Ministry of Transport and announced the operation of five lines to transport passengers on both sides of Baghdad.
Notable establishments.
There are many notable establishments in al-Maidan Square that exists to this day due to the popular commercial activities in the area. One of these is al-Sayyid's Cakes which is famous for selling pastries, especially cakes, since 1907. In front of al-Sayyid's Cakes is Hajj Zabala Juice famous for selling raisin syrup, which dates back to 1900.
Souk al-Haraj.
Souk al-Haraj is an old souk that sells many things, old and new. "Haraj" is the Arabic word for chaos. The exact age of the souk is not known to any of its workers or pioneers, but the old stories about it indicate that it is one of the oldest markets in al-Rusafa, and they say that it is even older than the Rusafa neighborhoods that were built by the Ottoman governors. The souk includes a catalog full of items including luxurious international paintings, Arab clothing, maqam recordings, machinery pieces, oud, old furniture, old clocks, rare antiques and many more. Rare antiques were a famous trading activity with Arabs, foreigners and amateur collectors.
Places of worship.
Al-Ahmadiya Mosque.
Al-Ahmadiya Mosque (), also known as al-Maidan Mosque (), is an old cultural mosque located in the square. Built between 1780 and 1802 during Ottoman rule, the mosque consists of a wide yard and a winter chapel raised from the ground and an adjoining porch, as well as a summer chapel in addition to a number of rooms adjacent to the wall of the mosque. Qur’anic verses, and the minaret of the mosque is located next to the dome, which is high and built of colored stones. On both sides of the main dome there are two small domes decorated with beautiful inscriptions and decorations.
Al-Muradiya Mosque.
Murad Pasha Mosque (), also known as al-Muradiya Mosque (), is an old mosque located opposite the old Ministry of Defense named after Kuyucu Murad Pasha who also built it. The mosque consists of a wide chapel surmounted by a flattened semi-spherical dome. It was decorated with simple motifs of Kashani, and besides it are six small and flat domes as well. In the northwest corner there is a minaret or minaret, which is also built of stone and decorated with colored decorations and stalactite.
Sulaymaniyah Mosque.
Sulaymaniyah Mosque (), whose name was Al-Nu’maniya Mosque (), is one of the ancient mosques in Baghdad located in al-Maidan Square and holds prayers that include Eid and Friday prayers.
Uzbek Mosque.
The Uzbek Mosque () is an old mosque located near Bab al-Mu'azzam and was built by the Emir of Uzbekistan in 1650 during a trip and became a center of gathering for Uzbek immigrants in Baghdad. The leader Abd al-Karim Qasim demolished the mosque 1961 during expansion works of the old Ministry of Defense, and it was rebuilt in a new form that still stands today. Qasim resorted to this mosque when the 1963 coup took place. He spent the night in the mosque before he was arrested and then executed.
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The 2023–24 season is the 48th season of competitive football in the history of Middlesbrough Football Club Women, their first since affiliation with the men’s team, and their second consecutive season in the FA Women's National League Division One North, the fourth level of English women's football. The club will also participate in the FA Cup, and the FA WNL Cup.
Competitions.
Division One North.
Matches.
The FA Women's National League fixtures were released on 17 July.
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Eber ben Pethahiah
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Eber ben Pethahiah (; ) was a scholar from Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia. Moritz Steinschneider indicates the possibility of the name being merely a pseudonym. It appears on the title-page of "Mar'eh ha-Ketab ve-Rashe Tebot", a guide to Judeo-German and its abbreviations, apparently abridged from a work of Hayyim ben Menahem of Glogau.
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Julia Magerl
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Julia Magerl (born 2 May 2003) is an Austrian footballer who plays as a defender for RB Leipzig.
Early life.
Magerl is a native of Voitsberg, Austria.
Club career.
Magerl started her career with Austrian side Sturm Graz, where she was regarded as one of the club's most important players.
International career.
In 2022, Magerl debuted for the Austria women's national football team against Romania, scoring on her debut.
Personal life.
Magerl has an older brother.
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Common Market Organization for Sugar
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The Common Market Organization for Sugar regulates the sugar market in the European Union. For a long time, it was also known as the EU sugar quota system, after its most notable aspect. The sugar production quotas were in place from 1968 to 2017. Before ending the system the quota system, a thorough restructuring of the sugar production sector took place between 2006 and 2010. What now remains of the Common Market Organization is a much looser regulation.
Legal base for the system.
The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community on 1 January 1958. It set common goals for the signatories and created: institutions, a common market, a customs union, and joint policies.
One of the joint policies that the Treaty of Rome created was the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The CAP was meant to allow the intended extension of the internal market to agricultural products. In summary, the goals of the CAP were: increasing agricultural productivity; ensuring a fair rural standard of living; stabilizing markets; ensuring availability of products; and ensuring reasonable prices. This could be done by encouraging agricultural production with remunerative and stable prices for farmers.
In order to attain the objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), common market organisations (CMO's) were created. One of the up to 21 CMO's that existed up to 2007, was the CMO for sugar, which introduced the EU sugar quota system. In 2007 the separate CMO's would become a single CMO.
Creating an internal market for sugar (1968).
Huge differences in productivity.
An internal market for sugar requires an internal market price for sugar beet, raw sugar and refined sugar (a.k.a. white sugar). However, in 1958, the sugar markets of the member states were very regulated and protected. There were very big differences in productivity of farmers and sugar producers. In some member states, the production of refined sugar was so inefficient that in 1968, their factories produced at a price tripple the world market price.
Intervention price, quotas, import regulation and export subsidies.
The essential features of the sugar quota system were: intervention prices, quotas, tariffs and export subsidies.
Most of the system was paid for by the European consumers. These paid a substantially above market price for sugar. As most sugar was used by industry, the total price paid for the system was far less notable than the increased price that the consumer paid for a package of white sugar.
Intervention price.
The intervention price was a main instrument of market regulation by the European Community. It simply meant that as soon as a market price fell below a certain treshold, intervention agencies bought surplus commodities.
The support prices were (high) guaranteed minimum prices for sugar beet, raw sugar and white sugar. (The raw cane sugar that the EEC imported to support certain countries was also bought at a above market prices).
In order to meet the goals of the CAP, the interventions prices for sugar were so high that even the least efficient producers could make an income.
From 2001 to June 2006, the support prices were as follows:
The actual wholesale prices were usually well above the intervention prices, which were in turn were normally well above world market prices. Intervention prices in Finland, Ireland, Portugal, the UK, Spain, Greece and Italy were somewhat higher.
The quotas.
Quotas were necessary because the regulation as a whole led to internal market prices way above the world market price. Without some limit on production, the most efficient producers would use their profits to increase production. Several quotas were to prevent the intervention price from leading to overproduction.
The quotas were determined based on the desired sugar production of each of the European Community member states, which was close to their beet sugar consumption. Each member state then allocated its national quota to sugar beet factories on its territory. These factories then converted their share in delivery rights for growers.
These quotas were divided into A and B quotas. The A quota was set to cover domestic production. The smaller B quota was a safety margin which could be exported with an export refund.
Sugar produced within the A and B quotum got a guaranteed support price, i.e. a minimum price whatever the actual world market price for sugar was. The support price for the A quotum was significantly above the world market price. Sugar produced above the quotas, known as 'C-sugar' or 'out-of-quota' sugar, had to be exported outside of the community, sold for non-food uses, or be stored and counted against next year's quotum. The C-sugar did not get an export subsidy.
Import regulation.
The European Community put tariffs and quotas on (raw) sugar import from other countries. This assured the coherence of the quota system, and was the principal cause of the internal sugar price being way above the world market prices.
There were a number of trade agreements that allowed (groups of) third countries preferential access to the Community market. It meant that a certain amount / quotum of raw sugar could be imported at low or no duties. Above this quotum, duties were so high that almost no trade existed.
This imported raw cane sugar, in its refined form was allowed to be used for food uses.
Export disposal.
The whole system of subsidized beet sugar production and subsidized raw cane sugar import and its refining in the European community, led to a European overproduction of white sugar. This had to be sold at low world market prices.
As long as the export was so-called B-sugar, the losses were refunded by the Community. If it was C-sugar, the producer had to bear the loss. The export of the white sugar produced from raw sugar imported from the ACP countries was paid for by the Community budget.
Developments.
New countries join (1973).
On 1 January 1973 the United Kingdom joined the European Community. This country imported a lot raw sugar from cane, which was processed by its sugar refineries. The Community therefore succeeded to some of the United Kingdom's trade commitments with former colonies in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific islands (The ACP countries). This gave preferential access to 1,300,000 t of raw sugar, especially for 400,000 t from Australia. This deal and the production expansion in the Community led to an almost equivalent (1,600,000 t) amount of white sugar getting pushed onto the world market by the European Community.
Later, the accession of Portugal in 1986 and Finland in 1995 led to accomodations for the sugar refineries in these countries. It allowed 82,000 t of raw sugar from Brazil and Cuba to be imported under Most Favored Nation arrangements.
The Uruquay Round Agreement on Agriculture (1995).
In 1995 the implementation of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture led to further changes. The EU agreed to reduce the amount of subsidized sugar exports by 21%, and to reduce the amount spent on subsidies by 36%. These reductions did not apply to the C-sugar exports or the white sugar export that was equivalent to the raw sugar import from ACP countries under preferential agreements.
The Everything But Arms initiative.
In March 2001 the EU adopted the Everything But Arms (EBA) initiative, which aimed to give duty free access to al goods exported by the least developed countries. Free access for sugar had to be realized starting with raw sugar import quotas in 2006, and leading to totally duty free imports in 2009.
Pressure for reform.
In time pressure to reform the quota system began to build up. The industrial users of sugar, which accounted for over 70% of consumption, were hindered by the high internal prices. These made that European processed products containing sugar were less competitive on world markets. Meanwhile, other sectors of the CAP were substantially reformed since 1992. These reforms moved away from price and production support measures, and move towards farm income support. This made the sugar regulations incoherent with the new orientations of the EU agricultural policy.
There were also international pressures to abolish the quota system. In a WTO dispute it was found that C-sugar exports were indeed benefitting from cross-subsidiation of within quota production. The EU practice of exempting the equivalent sugar export from preferential importants from its agreed reduction of export subsidies was also found to be contrary to treaty obligations. The Doha Development Round of the WTO led to an agreement to abolish all forms of agricultural export support by 2013.
Options (2001).
In 2001 the EU Council agreed to continue the CMO sugar regime till June 2006, but also asked the European Commission for proposals to replace the system. The EC described three options. The first option was to continue with the existing obligations and system. This was predicted to fail, because the least developed countries would ship their complete production to the EU under the EBA initiative. In time this would destroy even the most competitive European sugar production regions. A second option was to lower the internal market price and quotas. A lower price of about EUR 450 per tonne would diminish imports. The third scenario was a complete liberalization of the EU sugar market. It was expected that this would severely hurt the ACP countries and obliterate sugar production in the European Union.
Reform and restructuring (2005-2010).
In November 2005, the European Council agreed on a reform of the sugar quotas system. This had to comply with international obligations, and bring the CMO for sugar in line with the 2003 CAP reforms.
The intervention price for white sugar was to be cut from EUR 631.9/t to EUR 404.4/t in 2009/10. This would be called a reference price. The minimum price of sugar beet paid to farmers would be cut by 40%. A price reporting mechanism would monitor sugar prices throughout the union. After the restructuring period, the reference price would be used to determine when sugar had to be stored in a private storage system.
During a restructuring period from 2006/07 to 2009/10, the sugar production in the EU had to be reduced. The idea was to incite the less competitive sugar factories to leave the industry, while providing compensation for their owners and the social impact of closures.
The planned reduction was from 18,540,000 t to about 12,500,000 t. The restructuring or buy out would be financed by a levy on all sugar produced during the time. The highest compensation would be given for factories that would close down with renunciation of their quotas. Other compensation was for beet growers, diversification measures and transition measures.
The restructuring of the sugar sector would cost about EUR 5.4 bln. It led to a substantial productivity improvement in the sector.
The end of the EU sugar quotas system (2013).
The original plan was to end the quota system in 2015. In 2013 the European Parliament and Member States decided on a CAP reform, and agreed to end the sugar quotas in September 2017.
The current Common Market Organization for Sugar.
After the end of the quota system, member states were allowed to to provide voluntary coupled support linked to production. For sugar production, this was done by 11 member states.
The European Commission also allows and mandates collective bargaining by beet growers about all aspects of delivering beet, except for the price. This significantly strengthens their position towards the sugar manufacturers.
The Commission constantly provides market information and transparency to the sector. The Sugar Market Observatory is part of this effort.
The Commission can grant private storage aid, in case market volatility would cause high losses for producers that cannot store their product.
As a final instrument, the Commission can intervene on grounds of several disturbance clauses in the CMO regulation. These pertain to both sharp increases and sharp decreases in prices.
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Metergininae
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Metergininae is a subfamily of harvestmen in the family Cosmetidae.
Description.
The subfamily was defined within Cosmetidae
Taxonomy.
The subfamily includes the following genera:
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2023–24 Israeli Basketball Premier League
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The 2023–24 Israeli Basketball Premier League, for sponsorship reasons Ligat Winner, is the 70th season of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. The league will start on October 2023.
Format.
The regular season will be played in a 26-round round-robin format. The top 6 finishers will play the 5 rounds "upper house", with the other 7 teams playing the 7 rounds "bottom house". The 6 upper group teams, joined by the top 2 teams from the bottom group, will play the quarter finals as Best-of-5 series. The semifinals and finals will be played as Best-of-3 series.
Teams.
Hapoel Gilboa Galil has been relegated to 2023–24 National League after placing in the bottom place of the 2022–23 Premier League.
Hapoel Afula and [[[[Maccabi Ironi Ramat Gan|Maccabi Ironi Ramat Gan]] has been promoted to the league after qualified for the [[2022–23 Israeli Basketball National League|2022–23 National League]] final.
Regular season.
Positions by round.
The table lists the positions of teams after completion of each round.
References.
[[Category:Israeli Basketball Premier League seasons]]
[[Category:2023–24 in European basketball leagues|Israel]]
[[Category:2023–24 in Israeli basketball|Basketball]]
[[Category:Current basketball seasons]]
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Eleven vows
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Eleven vows ("Ekadash vrat") were part of the ethical system prescribed by Mahatma Gandhi mainly for all those residing in the ashram.
Gandhi insisted on observance of these eleven vows in Ashram.
The vows.
The eleven vows were:
Speech & book.
In 1915 Gandhi delivered an address to the students at Madras in which he discussed these vows. It was later published as 'THE NEED OF INDIA'.
He used to deliver a speech on the Ashram vows every Tuesday after prayers. These speeches were published as a book "Mangal Prabhat" in 1958.
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Command Z
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Command Z is a science fiction comedy web series directed by Steven Soderbergh. The series consists of eight episodes of varying lengths that ultimately comprise a 90-minute runtime.
Production.
In January 2023, Steven Soderbergh announced that he had filmed a science fiction satire series he was calling "The Pendulum Project". It was shot sometime in 2022 between shooting "Magic Mike's Last Dance" and "Full Circle" in New York. The show was independently financed by Soderbergh, and it was inspired by Kurt Andersen's book "". It stars Michael Cera, Roy Wood Jr., Chloe Radcliffe, JJ Maley, and Liev Schreiber.
Release.
A secret screening of "Command Z" was held on June 16, 2023 at the Metrograph in New York City before the series' release. It was officially released on July 17, 2023—the same date that the characters must travel back in time to in the show's universe. The series was made available for purchase on the website of Soderbergh's production company, Extension 765, and proceeds from the series are donated to Children's Aid and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.
Reception.
Chase Hutchinson at "Collider" gave the series a B-, feeling that the series was sometimes charming but also feeling like Soderbergh used it more as an exercise that he wasn't taking seriously. Shannon Connellan at "Mashable" found the series to be a worthwhile thought-provoking series about what small changes the world can make to improve the future.
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Periscope lens
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A periscope lens is a mechanical assembly of lens elements that uses a prism or mirror to redirect the light through the lenses with a 90° angle to the optical axis, like in a periscope.
Uses.
The Kenworthy/Netman Snorkel Camera System, introduced in 1967 by Norman Paul Kenworthy and Bob Nettman, uses periscope lenses to allow filming very small scale models and objects from a very close distance.
The Asus ZenFone Zoom smartphone, released in 2015, used an Hoya dual-periscope lens mechanism to achieve a 3x zoom.
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Animal Ethics in the Wild
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Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature is a 2022 book by the philosopher Catia Faria, that examines wild animal suffering as a moral problem. She contends that if we have a moral obligation to aid those in need, we should intervene in nature to prevent or alleviate the suffering of wild animals, as long as it is practical and leads to a net positive outcome.
Summary.
The book explores wild animal suffering as a moral issue and argues that there is a moral obligation to intervene in nature to alleviate this. It begins by establishing two main assumptions: suffering is bad, and if we can prevent or reduce suffering without causing greater harm and without jeopardizing other important values, we have an ethical obligation to do so. The first chapter emphasizes that nonhuman animals, including wild animals, are morally considerable beings due to their sentience and well-being, which should be equally valued regardless of species membership. The book contends that if death is bad for humans, it may also be bad for nonhuman animals, providing additional reasons to act on behalf of wild animals to prevent their suffering and death.
The subsequent chapters address various objections to intervention in nature, such as perversity and futility arguments, which suggest that intervention could make things worse or is bound to fail. The book rejects these objections, asserting that intervention should occur when the expected outcome is net positive for wild animals. Additionally, the concept of speciesism is examined, with the book arguing against unjustified disadvantages based on species membership. It rejects anthropocentrism as a justification for speciesism and criticizes flawed accounts of moral considerability, advocating for a broader understanding of positive obligations toward wild animals.
The book also discusses the prevalence of suffering in the lives of wild animals, detailing the ways their interests are systematically frustrated by natural events. It concludes that intervening to reduce wild animal suffering is both feasible and morally justified. Overall, the book calls for a more compassionate and proactive approach towards wild animals, urging readers to extend their ethical obligations beyond merely refraining from harm and actively intervening to help animals in need.
Reception.
In a review, Christopher Bobier praises the book for its engaging discussion of wild animal sentience and moral considerability. He asserts that it presents a compelling case for intervening in nature to mitigate the suffering and death experienced by wild animals and that scholars from various animal-related fields, including animal ethics, environmental ethics, ecology, conservation, and animal law, would find the book to be accessible and valuable. However, he notes that the book raises important questions about the practical implications of intervention, especially for individuals living in urban areas far removed from wilderness. Additionally, while the book does not address zoos directly, he queries whether they could serve as a means to reduce suffering for some wild animals, though ethical concerns about captivity should be explored further. Overall, he commends Faria's work for its contribution to the discourse on wild animal welfare, leaving readers with deeper insights and thought-provoking inquiries.
Josh Milburn's review praises the book for providing a comprehensive and rigorous philosophical argument for the notion that humans have a moral obligation to intervene in nature to reduce wild animal suffering. Milburn highlights Faria's responses to various objections raised against this, including the perversity and futility objections, which Faria counters with the "reversal test." Additionally he draws attention to Faria's response to the jeopardy objection, which suggests that intervention could jeopardize other non-suffering-based values. The review commends Faria's adept handling of relational arguments, where she identifies tensions in certain relationalist views and how she explores the issue of priority, perfectionist challenges, and the tractability of reducing wild animal suffering. Overall, Milburn notes that Faria's book offers a detailed and thought-provoking examination of the complex ethical considerations surrounding intervention in nature to alleviate wild animal suffering.
The book has received endorsments from the philosophers Kyle Johannsen, Jeff McMahan, Siobhan O’Sullivan, Clare Palmer, Valéry Giroux, Núria Almiron, Paula Casal, Alasdair Cochrane, Peter Singer and Oscar Horta. The biologist Marc Bekoff praised the book, stating that it should be "required reading for field researchers and anyone who spends a lot of time outdoors watching other animals".
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History of women's rugby union matches between Australia and the United States
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Australia and the United States first met on 2 August 1997 in Brisbane, Australia. They have played each other seven times with the US Eagles winning five of those encounters. They have met at three separate Rugby World Cup's — first at the 2002 Rugby World Cup in Spain, and also in the 2006 and 2014 tournaments. At the 2006 Rugby World Cup they faced each other in the pool stages and the play-offs with the United States winning both matches.
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List of programmes broadcast by Star Pravah
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Star Pravah is an Indian Marathi language general entertainment channel which is owned by Disney Star. This is the list of programmes broadcast by the channel.
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Russian darknet market conflict
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The Russian darknet market conflict is a cyber conflict in the Russian darknet drug market, which began after the closure of the largest seller Hydra in April 2022. The struggle manifests itself in mutual cyber attacks of sites and an aggressive advertising campaign.
History.
In April 2022, the servers of Hydra, the largest Russian darknet drug market, were closed in Germany. After this event, Russian darknet markets began to fight for the place of the market leader, arranging cyber attacks on each other and using aggressive advertising on the streets of Moscow.
In July 2022, Kraken and Solaris warned subscribers of their telegram channels to withdraw any cryptocurrency they had on the forum of the competing platform RuTor. A few days later, RuTor was subjected to cyber attacks and was temporarily closed. RuTor soon reopened and launched a cyberattack on the WayAway site, posting screenshots of the hack, claiming WayAway's security was too weak to be trusted.
In the fall of 2022, an advertisement for the Kraken site appeared on one of the advertising cubes in Moscow City, which caused a huge scandal in society. In October, the Solaris darknet marketplace attacked Kraken, RuTor, Mega, BlackSprut and other competitors using the services of the Russian hacker group Killnet, which later financed the Russian army in the Russian invasion of Ukraine with money stolen from drug shops. In December of the same year, a bus plastered with logos and a QR code from the darknet site Kraken blocked traffic on the Arbat in Moscow for several hours. In the same month, the Moldovan streamer and tiktoker Necoglai held a stream in a T-shirt with the logo of the Mega marketplace, suggesting people to use the legal file sharing service of the same name, he denies any involvement in advertising.
In January 2023, the Moriarty channel appears on Youtube. On it, an unknown man in a black suit and mask introduces himself as the creator of the Mega darknet market, talks about drug cartels and advertises his platform. And in the Moscow metro, ads of the Mega site began to appear with a QR code to go to the site. That same month, the WayAway forum hacking team hacked into the Solaris platform and attached it to Kraken. Powering on the Solaris Darknet Marketplace site now automatically opens the Kraken site. In mid-January, personal android applications of the darknet markets began to appear on Google Play, after their removal, sites began to place APK files for downloading the application in their telegram channels and sites.
In February 2023, advertisements for the BlackSprut site began to appear on Moscow's electronic billboards. Huge signs featured a woman wearing a futuristic mask and the text: “Come to me in search of the best.”
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Camptocarpus acuminatus
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Camptocarpus acuminatus is a species of plant in the Apocynaceae family. It is endemic to
the Madagascar. Pierre Choux, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after the tapering ( in Latin) tips of its leaves, using the synonymous name "Tanulepis acuminata".
Description.
It is a woody climbing plant. The oval to disc-shaped leaves are 27–41 by 13–19 millimeters. Its leaves taper to a distinctive tip. Its petioles are 3–5 millimeters long. It has small flowers that are 2.4–2.5 millimeters long. Its 5 petals are fused at the base forming a tube. The flowers have a structure between the petals and the stamen called a corona. The base of the corona forms a ring that is fused with the base of the petals and the stamen. Its corona has 5 thread-like lobes that are radially aligned with the stamen. Its flowers have 5 stamen.
Reproductive biology.
The pollen of "Camptocarpus acuminatus" is shed as permanent tetrads.
Distribution and habitat.
It has been observed growing in humid forests at elevations of 600 to 1200 meters.
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Michelle Colson
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Michelle Colson (born 19 September 1998) is a Belgian footballer who plays as a defender for Rangers.
Early life.
Colson is a native of Hasselt, Belgium, and studied economics.
Club career.
In 2019, Colson signed for Belgian side Anderlecht, where she was regarded as one of the club's most important players. In 2023, she signed for Scottish side Rangers.
International career.
Colson represented Belgium internationally at youth level and was first called up to the Belgium women's national football team for the 2023 Arnold Clark Cup.
Style of play.
Colson mainly operates as a defender and is known for her heading ability.
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Lester Watt
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Lester Leighton "Fuzz" Watt (April 2, 1894 – January 19, 1952) was an American football player and coach, He served as the head football coach at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa from 1927 to 1935, compiling a record of 27–42–7. Watt also coached track and field and gold as Grinnell and was an assistant coach in baseball.
Watt starred in athletics in high school in Villisca, Iowa and then at Grinnell, where he played college football as a quarterback. Watt coached at Argentine High School in Kansas City, Missouri from 1919 to 1926 and then at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa for a year before returning to Grinnell in 1927. Watt resigned from his post at Grinnell in early 1936 to enter business with the sporting goods department of L. H. Kurtz Co. In 1939, he was hired as football and basketball coach at Grinnell High School.
Watt died on January 19, 1952, at a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Ninotchka Matute
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Ana Silvia Ninotchka Matute Rodríguez (born in 1967), also known as Nino Matute, is a Guatemalan architect, urban planner and politician. A member of Semilla party, she is councillor-elect of Guatemala City, having been elected in 2023 mayoral election.
In 2023 mayoral election, Matute was nominated as a candidate for 2nd councilor for Semilla–Winaq–URNG–MAIZ coalition. After the presumptive candidate for mayor Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa was not registered due to legal problems and candidate for 1st councilor resigned, Matute was responsible for leading the coalition but maintaining her candidacy for 2nd councilor. According to the Electoral Law, if the coalition had won the elections, Matute would have taken office as mayor of Guatemala City. Surprisingly, the coalition led by Matute obtained 18% of votes and third place. Although the coalition did not win, Matute was elected as councilor and she will take office on January 2024.
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2023–24 Championnat National 3
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The 2023-24 Championnat National 3 is the seventh season of the fifth tier in the French football league system in its current format. For this season only, the competition is contested by 154 clubs split geographically across 11 groups of 14 teams. The teams include amateur clubs (although a few are semi-professional) and the reserve teams of professional clubs. The competition starts on 27 August 2023 and is scheduled to end on 19 May 2024.
Teams.
On 13 July 2023, the FFF ratified the constitution of the competition, and published the groups, although there were still some issues to be resolved at the time of publishing.
Changes from the 2022–3 season were as follows:
Promotion and relegation.
If eligible, the top team in each group is promoted to Championnat National 2. If a team finishing top of the group is ineligible, or declines promotion, the next eligible team in that group is promoted.
This season a total of 37 teams will be relegated to Régional 1, as a result of the restructuring of the French leagues. This will result in teams finishing in the bottom three places being relegated, along with the four worst eleventh-placed clubs, calculated from results against the teams placed 5th to 10th in their group.
Reserve teams whose training centres are categorised as category 2B or lower cannot be promoted to Championnat National 2 by the rules of the competition.
League tables.
Group A.
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Perdeu, mané
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Perdeu, mané is a phrase uttered by Luís Roberto Barroso and that has become a political slogan in Brazil.
Background.
On November 2022, after Lula da Silva overcame Jair Bolsonaro on 2022 presidential elections, Bolsonaro supporters mobilized against Supreme Federal Court ministers, which gathered in New York for a conference organized by Grupo LIDE, uttering insults in front of the hotel where the ministers were staying. Allan dos Santos, a far-right blogger and fugitive, attended the protests and verbally attacked a Brazilian which was passing through the street. While he was walking though the Times Square, Barroso was threatened by a Bolsonaro supporter.
At the gates of Harvard Club, were the conferece took place, Barroso was disturbed again by a Bolsonaro supporter. At this time, he replied the attacks with the phrase "Perdeu, mané, não amola!" (which translates to You lost, fool, don't bother me!). That was recorded by the fugitive Allan dos Santos and went viral on social media. There was huge political and press attention. In a interview for Mônica Bergamo column, Barroso claimed that the phrase was a "simple reaction" to the persecution against the members of the Federal Court in New York.
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Eduardo de la Barra (footballer)
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Eduardo Federico de la Barra Tobar (born 9 November 1953) is a Chilean football manager and former player who played as a defender for clubs in Chile and Brazil.
Playing career.
A defender, de la Barra played for clubs from the South zone in his country of birth. He played at the Chilean top division for Green Cross-Temuco (1973–75), Deportes Concepción (1977–1980, 1985), Naval (1981–82) and Fernández Vial (1983).
Abroad, he played for Brazilian Série A side Avaí in 1976.
A historical player of Deportes Concepción, he also played for them in the 1984 Segunda División, earning the promotion to the top division after becoming the runner-up.
Coaching career.
As a football coach, he has stated that his favourite formation is 4–4–2.
As a head coach, de la Barra had mainly led clubs from the South zone of Chile. In the top division, he coached Deportes Concepción in three times, Naval, also being the assistant of Luis Ibarra in the first half of 1990, and Everton de Viña del Mar twice.
In the second level, he coached Ñublense in 1994.
In the Tercera A, he coached Fernández Vial in 2010.
At youth level, he worked in the Universidad de Concepción youth ranks from 1996 to 2017 and subsequently he assumed as coach of the from 2017 to 2021.
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2023–24 Montpellier HSC season
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The 2023–24 season is Montpellier Hérault Sport Club' 120th season in existence and 22nd consecutive in the Ligue 1. They will also compete in the Coupe de France.
Competitions.
League table.
Matches.
The league fixtures were unveiled on 29 June 2023.
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Like a Man
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Like a Man may refer to:
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Syrotyne, Svatove Raion, Luhansk Oblast
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Syrotyne () is a village in Svatove Raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine.
Until 18 July 2020, Syrotyne was located in Troitske Raion. The municipality was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine and the number of raions of Luhansk Oblast was reduced to eight, of which only four were controlled by the government. Troitske Raion was merged into Svatove Raion.
Demographics.
According to the 2001 census, the vast majority of the population have Russian as their mother tongue (95.6%), followed by Ukrainian (4.23%).
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Gładysz, Gmina Choszczno
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Gładysz is a settlement in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, located within the Gmina Choszczno, Choszczno County. It is part of the sołectwo of Radaczewo.
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Andrew Pilkington
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Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Pilkington (1776 – 23 February 1853) was a British Army officer who served through the Napoleonic Wars and War of 1812. He saw initial service fighting as a marine at the Glorious First of June in 1794 where he was wounded twice, and subsequently served with his regiment, the 2nd Regiment of Foot, at the Invasion of Trinidad in 1795. Having returned to Britain Pilkington helped defeat the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and in the following year was part of the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland.
Pilkington began serving as a staff officer in 1800; while sailing to India in September his ship was captured by a French privateer, during which he was severely wounded. Released to continue on to India, Pilkington returned to Britain in 1803, subsequently serving as assistant adjutant general at Horse Guards for two years. Promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1809, he was sent to Nova Scotia as deputy adjutant-general. During the War of 1812 Pilkington commanded two expeditions, capturing Moose Island in July 1814 and Machias in September. He continued on in Nova Scotia until 1816. Made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1838, Pilkington received his final promotion, to lieutenant-general, in 1841.
Early life.
Andrew Pilkington was born about 1776, the second son of Thomas Pilkington, a member of the gentry from Bridgenorth. He had two brothers; Matthew, a reverend, and Thomas, a justice of the peace, and one sister, Mary Anne. His mother's maiden name was Phillips; she was the niece of an admiral.
Military service.
Early career and naval secondment.
Pilkington joined the British Army as an ensign in an Independent Company on 7 March 1783 and was promoted to lieutenant in that company on 24 January 1791. Towards the start of 1793, with the French Revolutionary Wars ongoing, Pilkington transferred to the 2nd Regiment of Foot. Given command of the light company of the 2nd, Pilkington was sent to serve in the Channel Fleet with his men as marines. Stationed on board the 100-gun ship of the line HMS "Royal George" and under the command of Captain Love Parry Jones, he fought at the Glorious First of June on 1 June 1794, during which engagement he was wounded by two splinters and had an epaulette shot off. In 1849 Pilkington received the Naval General Service Medal with a clasp for the battle.
Pilkington was promoted to captain on 2 March 1795, travelling with his regiment to serve in the West Indies Campaign in the same year. Still serving in the West Indies two years later, on 21 February 1797 Pilkington participated in the Invasion of Trinidad. After this he returned to Europe, being stationed in Ireland at the time of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 which he assisted in putting down. Continuing his wide-ranging service, in August 1799 Pilkington joined the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland.
Staff officer.
Having returned from Holland, in 1800 Pilkington transferred to the 3rd Foot Guards. Appointed an aide de camp to Major-General Frederick St John, on 9 October Pilkington was sailing to India with the general on board the East Indiaman "Kent" when the ship was attacked by the 20-gun French privateer "Confiance". Pilkington was severely wounded in the defence of the vessel, which lasted an hour and forty-seven minutes and ended when the French crew boarded "Kent". Thirteen men from "Kent" were killed and forty-four wounded. Released to continue on to India, Pilkington eventually returned to England in 1803 during the Peace of Amiens. With the Napoleonic Wars underway, Pilkington was appointed an aide de camp to Major-General Alexander Mackenzie Fraser upon his return and subsequently was promoted to major on 31 March 1804. At the beginning of the following year Pilkington served in the short-lived Hanover Expedition, in which Fraser commanded a brigade. He then served as an assistant adjutant-general at Horse Guards between 1807 and 1808.
War of 1812.
Moose Island.
Promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 5 October 1809, Pilkington was transferred to serve in Nova Scotia as the deputy adjutant-general at Halifax. During the subsequent War of 1812 Pilkington held several commands, including in 1814 for offensive operations in Passamaquoddy Bay. On 5 July that year he left Halifax with two troop transports carrying the 102nd Regiment of Foot, about 1,000 men. They joined with a naval force under Captain Sir Thomas Hardy at Shelburne on 7 July. The historian John Boileau describes Pilkington at this time as "an able officer who knew the local situation well". It was planned that the combined force would capture Moose Island and all the other islands in the bay between Maine and New Brunswick.
Hardy and Pilkington had chosen Shelburne to rendezvous at in order to keep the element of surprise over the Americans. They reached Eastport, the primary settlement on Moose Island, in the afternoon of 11 July. A subaltern was sent ashore with an ultimatum to the commanding officer of the 40th Infantry Regiment, Major Perley Putnam, requesting his surrender and noting that his garrison was vastly outnumbered and a successful defence impossible. Putnam was given five minutes to answer and initially rejected the demand, however he rescinded this decision as soon as Pilkington's troops began to board boats to make a landing. Fort Sullivan was also surrendered at the same time. Pilkington and Hardy then set about consolidating their control of Moose Island, on 14 July having the population either leave the island or become British citizens. Two thirds chose the latter option and Moose Island, along with others including Allen Island, were annexed to New Brunswick. Pilkington and Hardy left the island on 24 July, leaving behind a garrison of the 102nd which would become the last British troops to leave American soil when they finally departed from the island in 1818.
Machias.
Pilkington subsequently took part in an expedition under Lieutenant-General John Coape Sherbrooke in Penobscot Bay from 1 September that captured Castine. As part of this campaign, on 9 September Pilkington was sent by Sherbrooke to capture Machias. For this Pilkington was given command of the 29th Regiment of Foot, parts of the 60th Regiment of Foot, and elements of the Royal Artillery. Escorted by ships commanded by Captain Hyde Parker, Pilkington's force landed at Bucks Harbour, from Machias, in the evening on 10 September. While aware of the danger of ambushes from American forces in the night, Pilkington chose to push on to keep the advantage. After completing what he described as a "most tedious and harassing march", Pilkington's force reached the rear of Fort O'Brien, south of Machias, in the morning of 11 September.
The fort was garrisoned by a mixture of regular American troops and militia, totalling about 100 men. Pilkington advanced on the rear of the fort, making its seaward-facing guns useless to defend against the attack. After pushing in several American pickets the British arrived at the fort to find that the defenders had abandoned it minutes beforehand, leaving everything intact. Pilkington complained that the speed of the American retreat meant he was unable to take many prisoners. He occupied Machias without resistance an hour later.
Pilkington began to plan an attack into inland Maine, but before he could begin this he was contacted by Brigadier-General John Brewer of the Massachusetts Militia on 13 September. Brewer announced that his forces, controlling Washington County, would not in any way make war against the British. The civil leaders of the county then sent a similar message to Pilkington, who as such was able to report to Sherbrooke that all of the country between the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot had been captured at the cost of only two British lives. Sherbrooke then began the process of consolidating the Castine area under British government. Pilkington was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 4 June 1815, and continued as deputy adjutant-general in Nova Scotia until August 1816 when he resigned.
Post-war.
Pilkington continued to receive promotion after the end of the wars, becoming a brevet colonel on 12 August 1819, at which time he was serving on half pay in the 2nd Ceylon Regiment. He was then advanced to major-general on 22 July 1830, and subsequently was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 19 July 1838, before being promoted to lieutenant-general on 23 November 1841. In the same month as this he was appointed regimental colonel of the 82nd Regiment of Foot, from which position he transferred to the 20th Regiment of Foot in October 1850. In retirement he received a pension as a general officer who had completed distinguished military services. Pilkington died at his home, Catsfield Place, Sussex, on 23 February 1853, aged seventy-seven.
Personal life.
Pilkington married Maria Elizabeth Gibbs, the daughter of the judge Sir Vicary Gibbs, at Hayes on 9 May 1808. They would go on to have two daughters together, with all other three members of Pilkington's family outliving him:
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Fran Alonso
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Fran Alonso is a Spanish football manager who manages Celtic women.
Career.
In 2018, Alonso was appointed manager of English side Lewes. In 2020, he was appointed manager of Scottish side Celtic.
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74398577
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Washington Xe-100 reactor site
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A number of Xe-100 small modular reactors designed by X-energy will be installed for nuclear electric power production near the Columbia Generating Station in Washington, by the 2030s. It will be X-energy's second power plant after one in Texas due to be finished by 2030. The operator will be Energy Northwest, the operator of Columbia Generating Station, the only nuclear power station in the Pacific Northwest .
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2022-23 LEN Challenger Cup
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The 2022/23 LEN Challenger Cup was the inaugural edition of a water polo competition organised by the Ligue Européenne de Natation (LEN). It acts as the third tier, below the LEN Champions League and the LEN Euro Cup. Apollon Smyrnis of Greece became the first champions, defeating Terrassa of Spain in the final.
Group Stage.
Group A
Group C.
Group D
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Michael Amarook
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Michael Amarook (1941 – 1998) was an Inuit Canadian artist, sculptor, and Inuit activist who served as President of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) from 1977 to 1978 and from 1979 to 1981.
His artwork has been included in the collections of the Canadian Museum of History, the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. He also worked as a printmaking director for Sanavik, as well as serving as one of its first directors.
While President of the ITK its delegates voted unanimously to pass a resolution calling for the creation of Nunavut.
Amarook was from Baker Lake (Qamani’tuaq).
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Larbert Amateurs F.C.
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Larbert Amateurs Football Club was a football club from Larbert, in Stirlingshire, Scotland, which reached the second round of the Scottish Cup in 1937–38.
History.
Local amateur players formed sides under the name Larbert Amateurs occasionally either side of World War 1, but the formal Larbert Amateurs club was set up at the start of the 1923–24 season, at a meeting on 28 August 1923, the club joining the eastern division of the Scottish Amateur League.
Stirlingshire Cup.
The club's only success in the amateur system was reaching Scottish Amateur Cup final in 1924–25, losing 1–0 to Coldstream, Tocher scoring the only goal after 20 minutes. From 1925–26 to 1939–40, the club entered the Stirlingshire Cup. The club played in 16 ties in the main competition and the Consolation Cup for clubs eliminated before the final, and lost 14 of them.
The only two ties it won were against Falkirk Amateurs in the Consolation in 1932–33 (a 4–1 win, helped by Jack of Falkirk being sent off just before half-time for arguing against a penalty award) and against King's Park in the Consolation in 1925–26. Because of a bye and the withdrawal of Alloa Athletic, the latter match was the competition final, meaning that the Amateurs' first win in the competition also brought the club its only trophy. The original match (at Brockville) ended in a 2–2 draw, and the Amateurs won the replay, at the same venue, 3–2, with two goals from Maitland in the first half, and Peter Ure scoring the winner a few minutes from time.
Scottish Cup.
In 1931, following a satisfactory inspection of the playing field and its enclosure, the club joined the Scottish Football Association. This entitled the club to enter the Scottish Qualifying Cup, with a view to winning far enough through the competition to play in the Scottish Cup proper.
The club reached the quarter-finals of the Southern section twice, in 1936–37 and 1937–38, which meant the club was able to play in the Scottish Cup. In 1936–37, the club lost in the first round 3–1 at home to Solway Star, the visitors scoring 2 late goals as the Amateurs tired. The tie was played a week ahead of other ties as Celtic had been drawn at Stenhousemuir and the Amateurs wanted to avoid the fixture clash.
The following season, the club was drawn away at fellow amateur side Moorpark, and enjoyed an easy 5–2 win, R. S. Richardson scoring twice in the first half to set the side on its way; the only downside being that the crowd of 300 only generated gate receipts of £15. The second round draw gave the club a home tie with Morton, which caused the club to investigate switching the tie, on the basis that Victoria Park was too hemmed in and overlooked by housing to cope with a First Division side. The Scottish FA refused permission to change the venue entirely, but allowed the match to be hosted at Falkirk Amateurs' Watling Park, with Larbert being responsible for all costs as the nominal home team.
In the tie itself, the Amateurs, despite being only in the second division of the Amateur League, nearly pulled off a shock result, Wilson giving the side the lead after ten minutes, but the tie turning on the stroke of half-time, when Morton was given a penalty on the insistence of the linesman over Larbert claims for a free-kick (J. Reid being booked for his protesting); Morton ended up 3–2 winners thanks to a goal in the 74th minute. Unfortunately for the club, the extra expense of switching grounds proved to be unnecessary - the attendance for the tie was precisely 93, paying £4; the next lowest attendance in the round was 3,000 at Hamilton Academical. Even worse, the Scottish FA censured Larbert for not having a suitable ground, and gave the club two months to put it in order; the club launched a public appeal for the £50 required.
The end of the club.
Despite rumours before the start of the 1939–40 season that the club was in trouble, with a number of key individuals having left their posts, there was enough of an influx of new members to make the club's future look "decidedly bright". However, World War 2 interrupted the season, and the club went into abeyance for the war years. By 1942 the club was in arrears with its subscription to the Stirlingshire County Football Association, and, although the club was still considered an association member at the end of the war, it never re-started operations.
Colours.
The club's original colours were black and blue. From 1933 - and probably from 1926 - they were red and white hoops, with black and white as a change kit. The kit worn by the club in its tie with Morton was white with a single red hoop and red knickers.
Ground.
The club originally shared Ochilview with Stenhousemuir. The Warriors' joining of the Scottish League in 1927 made such arrangements untenable, and the club sought a new ground. In 1928 it occupied a new pitch, which the club called Blackmyre Park, next to Ochilview, but the situation remained unsatisfactory.
The club secured a new home in 1930, on a pitch next to the Torwood Foundry, gifted to the club by the club's honorary president (and director at the Foundry) Peter Forbes Jones. The club called the ground Victoria Park, as the pitch lay alongside Victoria Road, and the club brought over the pavilion from Blackmyre Park. The pitch area survives as Stewartfield Park.
Honours.
Scottish Amateur Cup
Stirlingshire Consolation Cup
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Dayse Oliveira
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Dayse Oliveira (born 31 May 1966, Rio de Janeiro) is an educator and socialist activist, active within the Black rights movement in Rio de Janeiro. She was the vice presidential candidate for the United Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU) in 2002, with José Maria de Almeida as the presidential candidate.
Oliveira was an activist within the Workers' Party (PT), having affiliations with the Brazilian trotskyist organization and then-affiliate of the PT . After the Socialist Convergence was expelled from the party apparatus for supporting the "Fora Collor" movement to impeach former president Fernando Collor, to the extent of calling for new presidential elections and running against the will of the larger PT, Oliveira joined the PSTU. She is also the founder of the Sindicato Estadual dos Profissionais de Educação do Rio de Janeiro (SEPE-RJ), a union in Rio de Janeiro state representing teachers and other employees in the education field. She currently is part of the Secretary of Gender and Combatting Homophobia.
Oliveira was the vice-presidential candidate of the PSTU, with José Maria de Almeida as the presidential candidate, during the 2002 presidential election. The presidential bid received 402,236 votes, and did not advance into the second round. She then ran for mayor in the city of São Gonçalo in 2004, receiving 6,723 votes, and again in 2012, receiving 2,576 votes. She was the candidate for the PSTU for senator for the state of Rio de Janeiro in 2006, obtaining 31,875 votes. In 2014, she ran for governor for the state of Rio de Janeiro and received 33,442 votes. In the second round, she declined to support either candidate, Luiz Fernando Pezão or Marcelo Crivella, and put in a null vote for the run-off. She ran for governor again in 2018, with and Samantha Guedes as candidates for the PSTU for the federal senate that same year. Oliveira obtained 17,499 votes.
Oliveira currently is a history teacher in São Gonçalo and is also a primary school teacher in Niterói, with both positions in public schools.
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Plavni, Zaporizhzhia Oblast
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Plavni () is a village in Vasylivka Raion in the southern Ukrainian oblast of Zaporizhzhia. It belongs to Vasylivka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.
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