title: Atlas Mara Limited

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Atlas Mara Limited, formerly referred to as Atlas Mara Co-Nvest Limited, is a financial services holding company formed to undertake the acquisition of target banks in Africa.

The Group's headquarters are located in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, with subsidiaries and investments in Botswana, Germany, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

History
Atlas Mara was founded on 28 November 2013, by former Barclays Executive Bob Diamond and entrepreneur Ashish Thakkar through Atlas Merchant Capital LLC and Mara Group Holdings Limited as their investment vehicles respectively. Atlas Merchant held 80% while Mara Group held 20% of the venture upon incorporation. The Group's geographical area of focus is on the African continent.

The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange as a SPAC on 17 December 2013, through an IPO which raised USD 325 million. As of 15 November 2021, the stock price had crashed and had lost over 99% of its IPO price (issued at IPO at £10.20 per share, last trade at 9.95 pence per share).  The ticker symbol in London is "ATMA.LN".  It trades by appointment in the United States on the Pink Sheets under the ticker symbol "AAMAF".

On 31 March 2014, Atlas Mara announced that it had made an offer to acquire sub-Saharan African bank ABC Holdings Limited and Frankfurt based African Development Corporation AG for approximately $265 million. This was to be done through a three phase acquisition strategy:

 The group would acquire 50.1% stake of BancABC through direct agreements.
 The group would make a voluntary offer to acquire a majority stake in the African Development Corporation, bringing total ownership in BancABC up to 88%.
 The group would make a subsequent mandatory offer for the remaining 12% stake in BancABC.
This acquisition would give the group presence in Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe and a minority stake in the Union Bank of Nigeria. The Transaction was scheduled to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2014.

On 24 May 2014, Atlas Mara announced that the group would be acquiring Government of Rwanda stake in the commercial arm of the Rwanda Development Bank (BRD).

In September 2014, Atlas Mara acquired a 20.9 per cent stake in the Union Bank of Nigeria from Asset Management Company of Nigeria for $270 million, putting its total holding in the firm at almost 30 percent.

On 22 September 2014, Atlas Mara made a mandatory offer for remaining 4.2% outstanding shareholding in ABC Holdings that the group did not hold in ABCH. The minority shareholders would either opt for a cash consideration or receive 0.0683 ordinary shares of Atlas Mara for each ABCH share held. This will lead to the delisting of ABC Holdings from both the Botswana and Zimbabwe Stock Exchanges. This delisting was finally concluded on 28 November 2014.

On 16 October 2014, Atlas Mara announced that it had completed its previously announced acquisition of the Development Bank of Rwanda's commercial banking business which had been spun off into a new subsidiary following an internal reorganization of BRD. This subsidiary was incorporated to run the commercial loan portfolio, BRD's Insurance brokerage firm and a piece of a commercial plot adjacent to BRD’s Kigali headquarters. In April 2015, the group announced its intention to acquire a significant minority interest in Banque Populaire du Rwanda SA (BPR). The group would then marge BPR's business to that span off BRD then acquire secondary shares from existing shareholders resulting in the Company having a controlling stake of the merged business.

In 2016, Atlas Mara completed the purchase of Finance Bank of Zambia (FBZ) with consideration settled by approximately $61 million in cash and 3.3 million Atlas Mara shares, not including deferred contingent consideration of up to 1.3 million Atlas Mara shares. FBZ will be combined with Atlas Mara's Zambian subsidiary, African Banking Corporation Zambia Limited ("BancABC Zambia"), with pro forma combined assets as at 31 December 2015 of approximately $567 million. The acquisition will position the merged bank as one of the largest banks in terms of branch footprint in Zambia with the physical presence increasing from 23 branches to 65 branches, a total of 176 ATMs and 23 agencies.

In April 2019, Atlas Mara announced that it had entered into a share swap with Equity Group Holdings Limited. The deal would see Atlas Mara transfer 62 per cent of Banque Populaire du Rwanda, 100 per cent of African Banking Corporation of Zambia, African Banking Corporation of Mozambique and African Banking Corporation of Tanzania to Equity Group in exchange for 6.27 per cent shareholding in Equity Group in a transaction valued at valued at US$105.71 million.

Member companies
The companies that comprise the Atlas Mara Group include, but are not limited, to the following:

Subsidiaries
 African Development Corporation AG – Holding Company – Frankfurt, Germany – 100% Shareholding – A commercial bank holding company.
 ADC Management Services – Holding Company – Port Louis, Mauritius – 100% Shareholding – A commercial bank holding company. Held through African Development Corporation.
 BancABC Tanzania – Dodoma, Tanzania – 74% Shareholding – A commercial bank in Tanzania, serving individuals and businesses. Held through ABC Holdings Limited.
 BancABC Zimbabwe – Harare, Zimbabwe – 100% Shareholding – A commercial bank in Zimbabwe, serving individuals and businesses. Held through ABC Holdings Limited.
 Tanzania Development Finance Company Limited – Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – 68% Shareholding – A development finance company. Held through ABC Holdings Limited.

Associate companies
 Union Bank of Nigeria – Lagos, Nigeria – 48% Shareholding – A commercial bank in Nigeria. UBN is listed on the Nigeria Stock Exchange.
 ICEA Lion Tanzania – Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – 47% Shareholding – An insurance company underwriting general insurance business in Tanzania. ICEA Lion Tanzania is a venture between Kenyan-based ICEA Lion Group and Tanzania Development Finance Company Limited.
 iVeri Payment Technologies – 49% Shareholding – A payment solution provider in South Africa. Held through ADC Management.
 Credit Insurance Zimbabwe Limited – Harare, Zimbabwe – 24% Shareholding – An insurance company underwriting general insurance business in Zimbabwe. Held through BancABC Zimbabwe.

Former investments
Investments span off from Atlas Mara include:

 Banque Populaire du Rwanda – 62% shareholding – A commercial bank in Rwanda, serving individuals and businesses and offering bancassurance services. BRD Commercial Bank's operations were merged to those of BPR creating Rwanda's the second largest bank by total assets. Atlas Mara's stake was acquired by Kenyan based KCB Group and merged with KCB Bank Rwanda.
 BancABC Botswana – Gaborone, Botswana – 100% Shareholding – A commercial bank in Botswana, serving individuals and businesses. The Bank was acquired by Nigerian based Access Bank Group and rebranded to Access Bank Botswana.

 Atlas Mara Bank Zambia – Lusaka, Zambia – 100% Shareholding – A commercial bank in Zambia, serving individuals and businesses. Was held through ABC Holdings Limited. In November 2015, Atlas Mara announced that it would be acquiring Finance Bank of Zambia and merge its operations to those of BancABC Zambia. This would result in the creation of Zambia's largest bank by branch network and fifth largest bank by assets. The Bank was acquired by Nigerian based Access Bank Group and merged into Access Bank Zambia.
 BancABC Mozambique – Maputo, Mozambique – 100% Shareholding – A commercial bank in Mozambique, serving individuals and businesses. Acquired by Access Bank Group and merged into Access Bank Mozambique.
 Rswitch Limited – Kigali, Rwanda – 88.54% Shareholding – A payment solution provider in Rwanda. Now a subsidiary of Millicom.

Governance
The chairman of the board of directors of Atlas Mara Limited, was Arnold O. Ekpe while John Vitalo served as the chief executive officer.  The current chairman is Michael Wilkerson.

See also

 List of banks in Africa

References

External links
 Atlas Mara Co-Nvest
 Development Bank of Rwanda
 BancABC

Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange
Banks established in 2013
Financial services companies established in 2013
Holding companies established in 2013


title: Amelyn Veloso

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Amelyn Esther Veloso-Zapanta (April 25, 1974 – August 24, 2017) was a Filipina broadcast journalist of CNN Philippines.

Before her death, she was the anchor of the morning show New Day, CNN Philippines Newsroom, and the public service program Serbisyo All Access. She was known for her signature trademark line, "Be Well" at the end of her programs. A co-anchor of Solar Daybreak from January 7, 2013 until August 22, 2014. she had stints with IBC 13 and TV5.

Death
On August 24, 2017, Veloso died due to liver metastasis secondary to breast cancer.

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title: Winfried W. Weber

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Winfried W. Weber is a German economist and management professor. He is director of the Mannheim Institute of Applied Management Research at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, with a research focus on new role models of management, global family business and entrepreneurship.

He is the founder of managemendenker.com, a blog on management practice, theory, and influential thinkers. Weber is also the president and founder of a non-profit management network, the Peter Drucker Society of Mannheim E.V., whose aim is to strengthen the leadership and networks of managers.

Education
Weber obtained his doctoral degree (PhD) in economics at Witten/Herdecke University; Reinhard Mohn is Chair for Corporate Governance, Business Ethics and Social Evolution.

Publications

Books
 Weber, Winfried W. (2021, in preparation): Die Purpose-Wirtschaft, Mannheim
 Weber, Winfried W. (2016): Einführung in das Management von Non-Profit-Organisationen, Mannheim
 Weber, Winfried W. (2007): Complicate your life, Göttingen
 Weber, Winfried W. (2005): Innovation durch Injunktion – Warum man Innovationen nicht planen (lassen) kann, Göttingen
 Weber, Winfried W. (1998): Führung und Lernprozesse in mittelständischen Weltmarktunternehmen - neue Ansätze zur Unternehmensglobalisierung, Bremen
 Weber, Winfried W. (1996):  Kundennähe in mittelständischen Weltmarktunternehmen, Bremen
 Weber, Winfried W. (1991): Defizite internationalen Management-Trainings - zur Bedeutung interkultureller Kommunikationsprozesse, Chur/Zürich

Editor and co-editor

 Weber, Winfried W., Ed. (2013): Versteht die Realwirtschaft noch, was die Finanzwirtschaft tut? Mannheim (in German and English language)
 Weber, Winfried W. (2010), Ed. with Gladius Kulothungan: Peter Drucker's Next Management. New Institutions, New Theories and Practices, Göttingen
 Weber, Winfried W., Ed. (2009): Peter Drucker – der Mann, der das Management geprägt hat. Erinnerungen und Ausblick zum 100. Geburtstag, Göttingen

Selected articles and interviews
 A new Management Caravanserai – Learning from the German Model
 From hierarchical organizations to networks, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan. 20th, 2014
 Germany's Midsize Manufacturers Outperform its Industrial Giants, Harvard Business Review, August 12, 2016
 Management-Guru Peter Drucker, Brandeins, September 2016
 List of publications
 Management training in the right context
 Why are Mittelstand champions so successful?
 Sennheiser: Motivated by the customer

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title: Epiphyas cetrata

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Epiphyas cetrata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Tasmania. The habitat consists of open forests.

The wingspan is about 16 mm.

References

Moths described in 1910
Epiphyas
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick


title: Gaya College

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Gaya College, Gaya (GCG) is an public state college located in Gaya, Bihar, India. Established in February 1944 during the British Raj, it is affiliated with Magadh University, Bodhgaya and is one of the prestigious colleges in Bihar. It was previously placed under Patna University between 1944 and 1951 and then Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Bihar University from 1952 until the establishment of Magadh University in 1962.

Degrees
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title: Holocola chlidana

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Holocola chlidana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Tasmania. The habitat consists of wet forests.

The wingspan is about 16.5 mm.

References

Moths described in 1927
Eucosmini


title: Epiphyas dotatana

text:
Epiphyas dotatana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania. The habitat consists of montane forests and wet eucalypt forests.

The wingspan is about 26 mm.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Daviesia species and possibly Acacia melanoxylon.

References

Moths described in 1863
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title: Trichochaeta

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Trichochaeta is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.

Species
Trichochaeta nemoteloides Bigot, 1878
Trichochaeta recedens (Walker, 1861)
Trichochaeta scapularis (Walker, 1861)

References

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title: Epiphyas epichorda

text:
Epiphyas epichorda is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Victoria.

References

Moths described in 1910
Epiphyas
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick


title: Epiphyas eucyrta

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Epiphyas eucyrta is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Tasmania. The habitat consists of wet heathlands at low altitudes.

The wingspan is about 16.5 mm.

References

Moths described in 1926
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title: Gilberto Silva (Portuguese footballer)

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Gilberto Manuel Pereira da Silva (born 26 March 1987 in Guimarães, Minho Province) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for S.C. Covilhã mainly as a central midfielder but also as a right-back.

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title: Ceramic valve

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A ceramic valve is a valve with ceramic trim, ball, seat, disc or lining.  A carbon steel or stainless steel body is used to protect the ceramic trim from being damaged by sudden thermal or mechanical shock. Advanced ceramics are used in the manufacture including alumina, zirconia and silicon nitride. Significant benefits of the use of ceramic in valves (when compared to steel or other traditional materials) include resistance to wear and their lower mass. Thanks to the excellent corrosion resistance, abrasive  resistance and wear resistance, ceramic valves are often used in severe corrosive and abrasive applications, such as FGD, and pneumatic refuse conveying systems.

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title: Pedro Sánchez

text:
Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (; born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since June 2017, having previously held that office from 2014 to 2016. Moreover, Sánchez is the current President of the Socialist International, having been elected to that position in November 2022.

Sánchez began his political career in 2004 as a city councillor in Madrid, before being elected to the Congress of Deputies in 2009. In 2014, he was elected Secretary-General of the PSOE, becoming Leader of the Opposition. He led the party through the inconclusive 2015 and 2016 general elections, but resigned as Secretary-General shortly after the latter, following public disagreements with the party's executive. He was subsequently re-elected in a leadership election eight months later, defeating Susana Díaz and Patxi López.

On 1 June 2018, the PSOE called a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, successfully passing the motion after winning the support of Unidas Podemos, as well as various regionalist and nationalist parties. Sánchez was subsequently sworn in as Prime Minister by King Felipe VI the following day. He went on to lead the PSOE to gain 38 seats in the April 2019 general election, the PSOE's first national victory since 2008, although they fell short of a majority. After talks to form a government failed, Sánchez again won the most votes at the November 2019 general election; further, in January 2020 he formed a minority coalition government with Unidas Podemos, the first national coalition government since the country's return to democracy.

Early life
Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón was born in 1972 in Madrid to a well-off family, son to Pedro Sánchez Fernández and Magdalena Pérez-Castejón. His father was a public administrator long employed at the Ministry of Culture's Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música (). He later became the owner of an industrial packing company. His mother worked as a civil servant in the social security system (later becoming a lawyer, graduating with her son at the same university). Raised in the Tetuán district, he studied at the Colegio Santa Cristina, also located in the district. According to Sánchez himself, he frequented breakdancing circles in AZCA when he was a teenager. He moved from the Colegio Santa Cristina to the Instituto Ramiro de Maeztu, a public high school where he played basketball in the Estudiantes youth system, with links to the high school, reaching the U-21 team.

In 1990, Sánchez went to study economics and business sciences. In 1993, he joined the PSOE after the victory of Felipe González in the elections that year. Sánchez earned a licentiate degree from the Real Colegio Universitario María Cristina, attached to the Complutense University of Madrid, in 1995. Following his graduation he worked in New York for a consulting firm.

In 1998, before entering a career in local and national politics, Sánchez started to work in Brussels in the PSOE's delegation to the European Parliament as assistant to MEP Bárbara Dührkop. He also worked in the staff of the United Nations high representative in Bosnia, Carlos Westendorp. He earned a degree in Politics and Economics in 1998 after graduating from the .

He earned a degree of business leadership from IESE Business School in the University of Navarra, a private university and apostolate of the Opus Dei. Sánchez obtained a diploma in Advanced Studies in EU Monetary Integration from the Instituto Ortega y Gasset in 2002.

Political career

Early local and national career
In 2003, Sánchez stood in the Madrid City Council election on the PSOE list headed by Trinidad Jiménez. He was 23rd on the proportional representation list, but the PSOE only won 21 seats. Sánchez did not become a city councillor until a year later, when two socialist councillors resigned. He quickly became one of the fundamental components of opposition leader Trinidad Jiménez's team. Between 18 May 2004 – 15 September 2009, he was one of the 57 members of the City Council of Madrid, representing PSOE in the city of Madrid. At the same time, he went to help the PSdG (PSOE's affiliated party in Galicia) contest the 2005 Galician regional election, in which PSdG won eight seats, allowing Emilio Pérez Touriño to become president of Galicia. In 2007, he was part of the Miguel Sebastián campaign for Madrid's premiership. In parallel to his seat at the city council, Sánchez started to work as instructor at the Universidad Camilo José Cela (UCJC) in 2008, lecturing about Economic Structure and History of Economic Thought.

Sánchez was elected to the Congress of Deputies for Madrid, replacing Pedro Solbes, Minister of Economy and Finance in the José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero cabinet, after Solbes retired from politics in 2009.

In the general election of 2011, which saw a heavy defeat for the Socialists, PSOE placed Sánchez 11th on the Proportional Representation list, while only electing 10 deputies. Having thus failed to win a seat, he focused on preparing his Doctorate in Economics at the UCJC, earning the PhD in November 2012 by writing a dissertation titled Innovaciones de la diplomacia económica española: Análisis del sector público (2000–2012) (English translation: Innovations of Spanish Economic Diplomacy: Analysis of the Public Sector (2000–2012)) supervised by María Isabel Cepeda González. In 2018 Sánchez was accused by the Spanish daily ABC of plagiarism. In order to refute the plagiarism allegations, Sánchez published his full thesis online.

In January 2013, Sánchez returned to Congress, replacing Cristina Narbona, who left her seat to enter the Nuclear Safety Council. In December 2013, after numerous Socialist leaders such as Elena Valenciano, Trinidad Jiménez, Miguel Sebastián, and José Blanco López attended his new book release, his name began to be discussed as a prospective candidate for the party leadership.

Sánchez officially launched his bid to party leader on 12 June 2014. He was elected as the Secretary-General on 13 July, after winning 49% of votes against his opponents Eduardo Madina and José Antonio Pérez Tapias (member of the Socialist Left platform). He was confirmed as Secretary-General after an Extraordinary Congress of the PSOE was held on 26–27 July that ratified the electoral result.

Leading the opposition
Representing a platform based on political regeneration, Sánchez demanded constitutional reforms establishing federalism as the form of administrative organization of Spain to ensure that Catalonia would remain within the country; a new progressive fiscal policy; extending the welfare state to all citizens; joining labour unions again to strengthen economic recovery; and regaining the confidence of former Socialist voters disenchanted by the measures taken by Zapatero during his term as Prime Minister amid an economic crisis. He also opposed the grand coalition model supported by the former Prime Minister and PSOE leader Felipe González, who lobbied in favour of the German system in case of political instability. Sánchez asked his European party caucus not to vote for the consensus candidate Jean-Claude Juncker of the European People's Party.

Upon taking office as PSOE's Secretary-General, Sánchez faced a political crisis after the formation of a new party, Podemos. Approximately 25% of all PSOE supporters switched their loyalties to Podemos. Sánchez's political agenda included reforming the constitution, establishing a federal model in Spain to replace the current devolution model, and further secularization of Spain's education system, including the removal of religion-affiliated public and private schools. He named César Luena as his second-in-command. On 21 June 2015, Sánchez was officially announced as the PSOE premiership candidate for the December 2015 general election. His party earned 90 seats, being second to rivals of Partido Popular (PP), who won the election with 123 representatives out of a parliament formed by 350. Since PP's leader did not stand officially for the premiership, following this Sánchez was requested by the King to form a coalition, but he was unable to obtain the support of a majority of representatives. This led to a further general election in June 2016, where he stood again as PSOE's prospective candidate to prime minister. The party won only 85 seats in the general election.

Removal and political comeback
Amid deep inner strife within the party started by September 2016 (the 2016 PSOE crisis), Sánchez lost support from the PSOE's federal committee in a key vote and was forced to resign as Secretary-General on 1 October 2016. His defeated proposal (107 in favour versus 132 against) was that of celebrate a snap PSOE primary election in October 2016 and a party congress in November.

In order to avoid obeying the directive of the PSOE's interim leadership to facilitate Mariano Rajoy's investiture as Prime Minister by means of an abstention and thus "betraying his word", Sánchez also renounced to his seat at the Congress of Deputies in October 2016, and started to prepare for a new candidacy to the leadership of the party in the upcoming primary election. Besides the renunciation of Sánchez, 15 PSOE MPs would break party discipline by voting against Rajoy, yet as Rajoy only needed the abstention from 11 PSOE MPs (out of 84), the latter was invested as Prime Minister.

After resigning as Secretary-General of the party and to prepare for his bid to party leadership, Sánchez made a tour aboard his car visiting base members in different parts of Spain. On 21 May 2017, Sánchez was re-elected Secretary-General for the second time with 50.2% of the votes, over his competitors Susana Díaz (39.94%) and Patxi López (9.85%).

Sánchez opposed the Catalan independence referendum and supported the Rajoy government's decision to dismiss the Catalan government and impose direct rule on Catalonia in October 2017.

In May 2018, after verdicts were announced in the Gürtel trial, PSOE filed a successful no-confidence motion against Mariano Rajoy. Per the Constitution, Spanish votes of no confidence are constructive; those bringing the motion must propose a replacement candidate for Prime Minister. Accordingly, the PSOE proposed Sánchez (who was not a member of the Congress of Deputies at the time) as Rajoy's replacement. With the passage of the no-confidence motion, Sánchez was automatically deemed to have the confidence of the Congress of Deputies and thus ascended as Prime Minister on 1 June 2018.

Premiership (2018–present)

Sánchez was sworn in as Prime Minister by King Felipe VI on 2 June. Sánchez said he planned to form a government that would eventually dissolve the Cortes Generales and call for a general election, but he did not specify when he would do it while also saying that before calling for an election he intended take a series of measures like increasing unemployment benefits and proposing a law of equal pay between the sexes. However, he also said he would uphold the 2018 budget approved by the Rajoy government, a condition the Basque Nationalist Party imposed to vote for the motion of no-confidence.

Spanish media noted that while Sánchez was swearing his oath of office on the Spanish Constitution, no Bible or crucifix were on display for the first time in modern Spanish history, due to Sánchez's atheism. After being sworn in, Sánchez announced that he would only propose measures that had considerable parliamentary support, and re-affirmed the government's compliance with the EU deficit requirements.

Foreign policy

Sánchez has taken a more active role in the international sphere, especially in the European Union, saying that "Spain has to claim its role" and declaring himself "a militant pro-European". On 16 January 2019, in a speech before the European Parliament, he said that the EU should be protected and turned into a global actor, and that a more social Europe is needed, with a strong monetary union. He stated in a speech in March 2019 adding that the enemies of Europe are inside of the European Union. In his second government, he continued strengthening the pro-European profile of its ministers, appointing José Luis Escrivá, the then chair of the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility and former chair of the EU Independent Fiscal Institutions Network, as minister for social security. In June 2020, the Sánchez government proposed deputy prime minister and economy minister, Nadia Calviño, to be the next chair of the Eurogroup.

In September 2018, during his first term in office as Prime Minister, Defense Minister Margarita Robles cancelled sales of laser-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia over concerns relating to the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. Overruling Robles, Sánchez ordered the sale to proceed because he had promised President of Andalusia Susana Díaz to help protect jobs in the shipyards of the Bay of Cádiz, highly dependent on the €1.813 billion contract with Saudi Arabia to deliver five corvettes. In response to the killing of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018, Sánchez defended the decision to continue arms sales to Saudi Arabia and insisted on his government's "responsibility" to protect jobs in the arms industry.

Following the fall of Kabul and the subsequent de facto creation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Prime Minister offered Spain as a hub for Afghans who collaborated with the European Union, which would later be settled in various countries. The Spanish government created a temporary refugee camp in the air base of Torrejón de Ardoz, which was later visited by officials from the European Union, including president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and president of the European Council Charles Michel. Von der Leyen praised Sánchez government's initiative, stating that the actions of Spain represents "a good example of the European soul at its best". US President Joe Biden spoke with Sánchez to allow the use of the military bases of Rota and Morón to temporarily accommodate Afghan refugees, while praising "Spain's leadership in seeking international support for Afghan women and girls".

On August 2022, during his state visit to Serbia as part of his overall visits to Balkan countries, Sánchez reaffirmed Spain's non-recognition of the independence of Kosovo.

Domestic policy
On 18 June 2018, Sánchez' government announced its intention to remove the remains of former dictator Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen. On 24 August 2018, Sánchez's cabinet approved a decree that modifies two aspects of the 2007 Historical Memory Law to allow the exhumation of Franco's remains from the Valley of the Fallen. After a year of legal battles with Franco's descendants, the exhumation took place on 24 October 2019, and Franco was reburied at Mingorrubio Cemetery in El Pardo with his wife Carmen Polo.

After the sentence in 2019 trial of Catalonia independence leaders Sánchez confirmed his support of the sentence, and denied the possibility of any indulgence, proclaiming that the sentence should be served by the convicts in its entirety, in spite of that two years later Sánchez granted indulgence to all convicts. Shortly after granting the indulgence, Sánchez stressed that despite the indulgence, there would never be a referendum for the independence of Catalonia, in response he was mocked by Gabriel Rufian and other Catalan politicians, who reminded him that two years prior he had made the same claim with regards to granting indulgences, and insinuated that it is just a matter of time before Sánchez will break his latest claims.

Under Sánchez's leadership, the Cortes Generales approved a total central government budget of 196 billion euros – the biggest budget in the country's history – in 2021, after he had won the support of the Catalan pro-independence Republican Left of Catalonia.

COVID-19 pandemic

On 13 March 2020, Sánchez announced a declaration of the state of alarm in the nation for a period of 15 days, to become effective the following day after the approval of the Council of Ministers, becoming the second time in democratic history and the first time with this magnitude. The following day imposed a nationwide lockdown, banning all trips that were not force majeure and announced it may intervene in companies to guarantee supplies. On July 14, 2021, the Constitutional Court of Spain, acting upon the 2020 appeal by Vox, sentenced by a narrow majority (6 votes in support vs. 5 votes against) that the state of alarm was unconstitutional in the part of suppressing the freedom of movement established by the Article 19 of the Constitution of Spain.

2023 snap election
After the negative outcome of the 2023 regional and local elections, Sanchez announced a snap general election for 23 July. In a speech, Sanchez stated that it was important to listen to the will of the people, but stressed the need to persevere with post-Covid economic recovery measures implemented by his government.

After Alberto Núñez Feijóo's failed attempt to form a government, the king asked Sánchez to try to form a government.

Ideology
Sánchez ran in the 2014 PSOE primary election under what has been described as a centrist and social liberal profile, later switching to the left in his successful 2017 bid to return to the PSOE leadership in which he stood for a refoundation of social democracy, in order to transition to a "post-capitalist society", ending "neoliberal capitalism". A key personal idea posed in his 2019 Manual de Resistencia book is the indissoluble link between "social democracy" and "Europe".

Sánchez is a strong opponent of prostitution, and supports its abolition.

Personal life

Sánchez married María Begoña Gómez Fernández in 2006 and they have two children. The civil wedding was officiated by Trinidad Jiménez.

Aside from Spanish, Sánchez speaks fluent English and French. He is the first Spanish prime minister fluent in English while in office (former PM José María Aznar learned English after leaving office). Foreign languages were not widely taught in Spanish schools until the mid-1970s, and former Prime Ministers were known for struggling with them.

He is an outspoken atheist.

Electoral history

Distinctions
 Medal of Salvador Allende (28 August 2018).
 Grand Collar of the Order of the Condor of the Andes (29 August 2018).
 Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru (27 February 2019).
 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (16 November 2021).

Notable published works
 Ocaña Orbis, Carlos y Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, Pedro (2013): La nueva diplomacia económica española. Madrid: Delta. .
 Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, Pedro (2019): Manual de resistencia. Madrid: Península. .

Controversial authorship
 In 2018 a newspaper revealed that his book La nueva diplomacia económica española includes the plagiarism of six other people's texts. The suspicion was extended to his doctoral thesis, whose authorship was questioned.

 Regarding Manual de resistencia, Sánchez is given as the author, but the falsity of this claim is deduced from the words of Sánchez himself, who states in the prologue that "This book is the result of long hours of conversation with Irene Lozano, writer, thinker, politician and friend. She gave a literary form to the recordings, giving me a decisive help". The mentioned writer, for her part, affirmed that "I made the book, but the author is the prime minister".

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title: Joseph Hallett III

text:
Joseph Hallett III (c.1691–1744) was an English nonconformist minister and author.

Life
The eldest son of Joseph Hallett II (1656–1722), he was born at Exeter in 1691 or 1692. He was educated at his father's dissenting academy, where among his class-mates was John Fox, who found him serious and studious. From 1710 he acted as assistant tutor, and early in that year he was attracted by the Advice for the Study of Divinity in William Whiston's Sermons and Essays (1709). He wrote to Whiston, who wrote back on 1 May 1710, seemingly under the impression that his correspondent was the father.

On 6 May 1713 Hallett was licensed to preach, and on 19 October 1715 was ordained at Exeter along with John Lavington. Alexander Gordon in the Dictionary of National Biography tentatively identified him as the Hallett who, according to Evans's list, was minister for a time to a congregation at Martock, Somerset. He signed the disclaimer of Arianism (6 May 1719) drawn up by his father, and took part in the controversy which divided the Exeter assembly, aiming to reconcile the unity of God with a recognition of the Son as subordinate deity. The outcome saw the elder Hallett and James Pierce excluded from their meeting-house, and the academy shut down.

On his father's death (1722) Hallett succeeded him as colleague to Peirce at the Mint Meeting. When Peirce died (1726) his place was taken by Thomas Jeffery, formerly a student at the elder Hallett's academy. Fox describes Hallett as "a popular preacher, learned and laborious". He died on 2 April 1744.

Works
Hallett attempted to steer, with Samuel Clarke, a course between Arianism and Trinitarian orthodoxy. Some of his conjectural emendations of the received text of the Hebrew scriptures, in A Free and Impartial Study of the Holy Scriptures … being Notes … Discourses, and Observations (1729; 2nd vol. 1732; 3rd vol. 1736) which was his major work, were variant readings later accepted by Benjamin Kennicott. He published:

 Reflections on the … Reasons why many citizens of Exeter [...], 1720.
 The Unity of God not inconsistent with the Divinity of Christ, 1720.
 A Funeral Sermon for the Rev. James Peirce, 1726.
 Index Librorum MSS. … et Versionum … Novi Fœderis, 1728.
 A Defence of a Discourse on the Impossibility of Proving a Future State by the Light of Nature, 1731, reply to Henry Grove).
 A Paraphrase and Notes on … Philemon]], 1731, (anon.).
 A Paraphrase … on the Three Last Chapters of … Hebrews, 1733.
 The Consistent Christian, 1738 (against Thomas Chubb, Thomas Woolston, and Thomas Morgan).

With some of these works anonymous, the attributions are uncertain. A Reply to Dr Waterland (1720) was by Hallett by common accord, according to John Enty. He wrote some further tracts in the Arian controversy and against the Deists. The Belief of the Subordination of the Son … no characteristick of an Arian (1719) is now thought on internal evidence to be by his father.

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1691 births
1744 deaths
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Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College  (KCGMC) is a co-educational medical college located in Karnal, Haryana. It was established in 2017 and is named in the honor of Indian-American Astronaut Kalpana Chawla. KCGMC is affiliated to PT. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences and is recognized by National Medical Commission (NMC) with an annual intake of 120 seats for MBBS.

Infrastructure

Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College and Hospital is spread over an area of more than 50 acres in the city of Karnal, Haryana. The hospital has more than 300 beds which are projected to be increased to 700 in a phased manner. Additionally, it has state of the art equipments such as Computerized Radiography, CT Scan, Color Doppler, Automatic Cell Counters, Laparoscope, Operating Microscopes, laser, TURP, facilities and fully functional biochemistry laboratory. The medical college building has all essential departments for 100 MBBS seats as per MCI guidelines including Preclinical, Para Clinical and Clinical Departments comprising demonstration rooms, museum, student laboratories and departmental library along with air conditioned central library and lecture theaters. There are separate hostels for boys and girls as well as residences for faculty and staff.

History

The construction of college campus and hospital began in late 2013 and was completed in 2017. It has a fully functional, state of the art outpatient department and hospital.

Accreditation
The college is affiliated to Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana. Approved by MCI for intake of 120 MBBS students every year.

Hospital
It is associated with Govt. Hospital, Karnal which serves as the teaching hospital.

Government of Haryana named the college in honour of the astronaut Kalpana Chawla.

See also

 List of medical colleges in Haryana
 Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayaya University of Health Sciences

References

Women's universities and colleges in Haryana
Hospitals in Haryana
Medical colleges in Haryana
Teaching hospitals in India
Education in Karnal
Karnal
Kalpana Chawla
2017 establishments in Haryana
Hospitals established in 2017


title: New Calton Burial Ground

text:
New Calton Burial Ground is a burial ground in Edinburgh. It was built as an overspill and functional replacement to Old Calton Burial Ground and lies half a mile to its east on Regent Road in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the south-east slopes of Calton Hill. On its southern edge it attaches to the north-east edge of the Canongate in the Old Town. It lies on a fairly steep south-facing slope with views to Holyrood Palace, the Scottish Parliament Building and Arthur’s Seat.

Of particular note is the Stevenson family plot, the resting place of several notable members of the family of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Background

It was initially necessitated by the construction of Waterloo Place, which had cut through the Old Calton Burial Ground, requiring an immediate re-interment of the bodies affected. This major engineering exercise took from 1817 to 1820 to complete. Bodies were carefully identified and moved, with their corresponding gravestone, if existing, to the new cemetery. Due to this fairly unusual circumstance a number of stones predate the cemetery but are indeed true markers of those interred. The new cemetery was made far larger than needed simply for the required reburials, and indeed exceeds the area of the entire space occupied by Old Calton Burial Ground as it was seen as a convenient and more open way of accommodating the growing number of dead caused by Edinburgh’s major expansion of the early 19th century.

Both the Old and New Calton burial grounds are not private cemeteries rather they were the parish burial grounds for the Carltonians who worshiped in Leith, being on the outer most edge of the parish it was considered too far to take their deceased for burial in Leith.

The design task of driving the cut through Old Calton Burial Ground to create Regent Bridge and Waterloo Place was undertaken by Archibald Elliot who died shortly thereafter and is buried in New Calton Burial Ground. The New Calton Burial Ground was laid out by Thomas Bonnar and the design was refined and completed by Thomas Brown.

The first recorded interment (as opposed to re-interment) is noted on a vault on the north wall, and relates to John Fyfe who died on 27 February 1817 and was buried in the newly constructed vault of his father, Andrew Fyfe, approximately midway along the north wall.

It was "opened to the public" in 1820. The period prior to this would have included the long process of carefully reburying up to 300 persons. It would not be appropriate to have visited during this period.

Layout

The task of laying out the new burial ground is believed to have been undertaken by Thomas Brown, Superintendent of Works for the city at that time.

The older stones all lie on the north-most edge of the cemetery. In some cases entire vaults are rebuilt.

The layout is generally rectilinear, and is laid out in a series of east–west terraces stepping down the hill.

Watch-tower

A watch-tower was built at its upper corner, near the entrance, to protect against graverobbing.

The tower was occupied as a house from the mid 19th century until around 1955. Despite being tiny (around 5m diameter internally) it is said to have accommodated a family of ten at one time: parents sleeping on the central floor (the livingroom), daughters on the top floor, sons on the lower floor.
Adjacent empty plots were utilised as garden ground to grow vegetables. The remnant rhubarb patch was still extant until the mid1980s.

The story that David Bryce lived here is highly unlikely to be true given his status and is more likely a confusion to his being buried here (see below).

Current condition (2014-present)

While the ground is well maintained in terms of grass-cutting, many stones are broken or vandalised plus many have been laid flat "for safety reasons" by the local authority.

In June 2019, tombs and monuments in the ground were defaced in Swastikas and offensive terms.

Notable persons interred

Rev George Husband Baird (1761–1840) principal of the University of Edinburgh
Dr James Begbie (1798–1869)
Rear Admiral James Bisset (1760-1824) (grave location unclear)
James Boyd (schoolmaster) (1795–1856)
Dr John Brown author (1810–1882)
David Bryce, architect (1803–1876)
Alexander Bryson scientist (1816–1866)
Sir Alexander Christison (1828–1918)
David Christison (1830-1912) physician and archaeologist
Robert Christison toxicologist (1797–1882)
Croall family plot
Professor L. B. C. Cunningham FRSE (1895-1946) physicist inventor of the gyro gunsight used in the Spitfire
William Dick (1793–1866) renowned vet and founder of the Dick Vet College in Edinburgh
Archibald Elliot, architect (1760–1823)
William Fowler (architect) (1824–1906)
Rear Admiral Alexander Fraser (1747–1829)
Vice Admiral Thomas Fraser (1796–1870) son of the above
Andrew Fyfe (1792–1862) chemist
Dr John Gairdner (1790-1876) physician
Admiral John Graham (1791–1854)
Very Rev John Inglis (1762-1834) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and his son,
John Inglis, Lord Glencorse politician and judge (1810–1891)
James Ivory, Lord Ivory  judge (1792–1866)
William Knox (1789–1825) Abraham Lincoln's favourite poet
David Laing (antiquary) (1793-1868) bookseller and librarian
William MacGillivray naturalist (1796–1852) (grave vandalised)
Alexander Kincaid Mackenzie (1768-1830) Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1817 to 1819
John McLeod (artist) (1812-1872)
Sir William Miller, Lord Glenlee (1755-1846)
John Moir (physician) (1808–1899) (grave location unclear)
David Ness (sculptor) (1786–1852)
Simon Taylor Ogilvie (1792-1875) Commander in the Royal Navy
Admiral David Peat (1793-1879) - memorial only, buried in Markinch
Robert Pitcairn (antiquary) (1793–1855)
General Roger Hale Sheaffe (1763–1851)
Andrew Skene FRSE (1784–1835) Solicitor General for Scotland in 1834 (A fine marble monument carved by Patric Park)
Rear Admiral Andrew Smith (d. 1831)
Alan Stevenson, lighthouse engineer (1807–1865)
Robert Stevenson (civil engineer) father to Alan and Thomas (1772–1850)
Thomas Stevenson’ lighthouse engineer, father of Robert Louis Stevenson (1818–1887)
Rev Dr Charles Richard Teape (1830-1905) Chaplain to the Bishop of Edinburgh (location unclear)
Rt Rev Charles Terrot (1790–1872), Bishop of Edinburgh
John Thin (architect) (1764–1827)
John Yule (1762-1827), botanist
Other graves of note include:

The Commonwealth War Grave to five merchant navy seamen "known unto God" whose bodies were recovered from the sea following an attack on the MV Atheltemplar on 1 March 1941 during World War II. In addition, the cemetery also contains four war graves from World War I, of a British Army soldier and officer and a Royal Air Force officer and aircraftsman.

The well-built Georgian style vault in the centre to David Gall, of Gall & Thomson (coachbuilders at 17 Greenside Place) is of note.

The carvings in the vault of Andrew Grierson (d. 1847) near the north-east corner.

Trivia

Although there is some reference to the burial ground being called "The Cemetery of the Admirals", this appears both rare and misplaced as the burial ground has fewer admirals than most Edinburgh cemeteries, with only three named on monuments and an alleged further three unmarked.
A high number of the gravestones moved from Old Calton Cemetery are noted as "tanners" and "leather workers" connecting to that area’s association with shoemaking.

References

Ruins and Remains, A Boyle 1985

Listed monuments and memorials in Scotland
Cemeteries in Edinburgh
Monuments and memorials in Edinburgh
Calton Hill
Category B listed buildings in Edinburgh
1820 establishments in Scotland


title: Øivind Bergh

text:
Øivind Bergh (3 December 190925 January 1987) was a Norwegian violinist and orchestral leader.

Biography
Øivind Ingvard Bergh  was born in Hamar, Norway. His parents were Even Johannesen Bergh (1873–1958) and Karen Hanssen (1881–1940).
He was the brother of musician Sverre Arvid Bergh (1915–1980) and the brother-in-law of actress  Eva Bergh (1926–2013). He was married in 1937 to Rigmor Hansen (1913–1994).

Bergh was educated in Dresden, Germany. In 1938 he was a violinist  with  the Oslo String Quartet and the following year he started his own orchestra. He was instrumental in establishing the  Norwegian Radio Orchestra and was the conductor of the orchestra from its inception in 1946 until 1976. He  contributed to more than 5,000 programs for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.

His book Moderne dansemusikk was published in 1946, and his autobiography Takt og tone in 1977.

Øivind Bergh  Memorial Prize
The Øivind Bergh  Memorial Prize (Øivind Berghs minnepris) was instituted in 1989. It is awarded  to young promising violinists, often with a background in folk music. The board of FolkOrg, Peer Gynt AS and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra select the winners of the annual prize.

References

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1909 births
1987 deaths
Musicians from Hamar
Norwegian musicians
NRK people


title: Fatherson

text:
Fatherson are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in Kilmarnock, consisting of Ross Leighton (guitar, lead vocals), Marc Strain (bass) and Greg Walkinshaw (drums). They have toured with the bands Biffy Clyro, Frightened Rabbit, Panic! at the Disco, Feeder, Twin Atlantic, Enter Shikari and Idlewild. The band have so far released four studio albums, I Am an Island (2014), Open Book (2016), Sum Of All Your Parts (2018) and Normal Fears (2022).

All four of their studio albums have reached the top 20 in the Scottish Albums Chart, with Open Book, Sum Of All Your Parts and Normal Fears reaching the top 5 in Scotland. In the United Kingdom, three of their albums have appeared in the UK Top 100 Albums Charts.

Career

Early career and I Am an Island (2011–2014)
Fatherson have released two singles. "Hometown", through King Tuts Recordings, and in 2012 "First Born". Following the inclusion of a song on BBC Radio 1's Introducing playlist, the band performed on the BBC Introducing stage at T in the Park where their set was aired on BBC Two. Further festival appearances during the summer culminated in a trip to America for an industry showcase.

Fatherson completed 2012 with their biggest tour to date playing venues such as The Garage in Glasgow, the Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh and The Ironworks in Inverness. In 2013, in-between recording their debut album, the band played around the country including appearances at The Great Escape in Brighton, This Is Fake DIY at The Old Blue Last in London, Stag & Dagger at the ABC 1 in Glasgow and the Main Stage at Rockness.

In 2014, the band released their debut album I Am an Island through a record label set up by their management. The band and label worked to together to independently finance and release the record without the standard record company structure. The release was a success and went to No.11 in the Scottish Album Chart, Top 40 UK Indie charts and peaked at No.5 on the iTunes alternative chart. The first single "I Like Not Knowing" received airplay throughout BBC Radio 1 with support from DJs such as Greg James, Zane Lowe, Huw Stephens and Ally McCrae. The band then toured throughout the UK pulling their biggest audiences to date, culminating in a sold-out show at Glasgow's Arches.

Fatherson played at festivals throughout the UK and performed again at T in the Park, this time at King Tut's Tent. The band has embarked on a UK and European tour supporting We Were Promised Jetpacks and released a new single "Mine For Me" on 21 July 2014. As confirmed at their performance at the Tartan Heart Festival in August, 2015, they are currently producing their second studio album. They are supporting the synth-pop trio PRIDES on their UK Headline Tour in October and November 2015.

Open Book (2016–2018)
In February 2016 the band embarked on a tour of the UK beginning on the 11th in Dundee's Reading Rooms playing singles from their upcoming second album including "Lost Little Boys" also released that month. They then played shows in Edinburgh's Liquid Rooms and Newcastle's Cluny 2 along with other UK cities. In May 2016 the band released their third single from their new album "Just Past the Point of Breaking"

In June 2016, the band released their second album Open Book through their new record label Easy Life, a subdivision of Sony Music UK. The band celebrated the release with a tour of the Scottish highlands and album launch parties in Glasgow and London. In the week following Open Book's release the band appeared on BBC Radio Scotland and STV Glasgow to discuss the album.

Sum Of All Your Parts (2018–2022)

Fatherson released their third studio album, Sum Of All Your Parts on September 14, 2018, via Easy Life Records. The lead single from the album "Making Waves" was released, with Leighton performing an acoustic version of the song at the 2018 TRNSMT festival at Glasgow Green. Making Waves was followed up with singles Charm School and Reflection.

Sum Of All Your Parts was released to favourable reviews and was a considerable success for the band. In their native Scotland, the album debuted at #3 on the Scottish Albums Chart. In the United Kingdom, it enjoyed moderate success on the UK Albums Chart, debuting at #67 and spent a total of one week on the chart before dropping out of the Top 100 albums.

Normal Fears (2022–present)

In April 2022, the band released their fourth studio album Normal Fears. It achieved considerable success in their native Scotland, charting at #2 on the Scottish Albums Chart and in the United Kingdom achieved moderate success, where it debuted at #47, spending one week on the UK Albums Chart.

On 23 July 2022, they were headliners at the Making Waves Music Festival, a new music festival held in the Ayrshire town of Irvine.

Band members

Current
Ross Leighton: Guitar, lead vocals (2010–present)
Marc Strain: Bass (2010–present)
Greg Walkinshaw: Drums (2010–present)

Previous
Chris Beltran: Guitar, keyboard, backing vocals (2010-2015)

Live
Elaine Glass: Cello, backing vocals (2010-2014)
Andy Black: Guitar, keyboard, backing vocals (2015-2016)
Kris Platt: Guitar, keyboard, backing vocals (2017)
Ciaran McEneny: Guitar, keyboard, backing vocals (2018–present)

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays
 Where the Water Meets the Land (2010)
 Hometown (2011, King Tuts Recordings)
 Sum of All Your Parts (Reimagined) (2019, Easy Life Records)

Singles
 "First Born" (2012)
 "Mine for Me" (2014, A Modern Way)
 "I Like Not Knowing" (2014)
 "Always" (2015, Easy Life/Sony Music UK)
 "Lost Little Boys" (2016)
 "Just Past the Point of Breaking" (2016)
 "Making Waves" (2018)
 "Charm School" (2018)
 "Reflection" (2018)
 "Honest to God" (2021)
 "Dive" (2022)
 "Better Friend" (2022)

References

Scottish indie rock groups
Musical groups from Kilmarnock
Musical groups established in 2010
Scottish alternative rock groups
2010 establishments in Scotland


title: Epiphyas eugramma

text:
Epiphyas eugramma is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Victoria.

The wingspan is about 16 mm.

References

Moths described in 1899
Epiphyas


title: Shelling of Donetsk, Russia

text:
On 13 July 2014, mortar shells fired from Ukrainian territory landed in the courtyard of a private home in the border town of Donetsk in the Rostov Oblast of Russia, according to Russian officials. The shelling killed one civilian and injured two others.

Background

Pro-Russian protests began in the neighboring Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine in February 2014 and eventually escalated into an armed insurgency by April. The Ukrainian government launched counterattacks, and by July 2014, had retaken significant territory from the pro-Russian rebels.

On Friday, 11 July, two days before the shelling, 36–37 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in a Grad rocket bombardment. In response, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced that for "every soldier's life, the militants will pay with dozens and hundreds of their own."

Shelling
Up to six mortar shells exploded on Sunday, 13 July, in Donetsk, Russia, a town of 50,000 that shares the same name as the much larger Ukrainian city and is just 1 km away from the Ukraine-Russia border. The mortar shells landed in the courtyard of a private home, killing a 46-year-old man, while injuring two others.

According to local officials, the shells were fired from Ukrainian territory. Russian officials said that the border towns near Ukraine, which Ukraine claimed were being used by rebels, were hit in the past by Ukrainian fire. A local government official said that the shelling happened around 9:20 AM.

According to the daughter of the man who was killed in the shelling, she "woke up in the middle of the night" (thus contradicting the earlier report of attack happening at 9:20 AM) and heard her younger brother scream, then she ran out of the house, and heard her father scream. After that, she and her brother went to the porch and found her father, who was killed, missing an arm.

Ukraine denied responsibility for the shelling, claiming it was a false flag attack by pro-Russian militants. The Ukrainian National Guard said it was never deployed in the region in which the shelling occurred.

Aftermath
The incident increased tensions between Russia and Ukraine, with Russia vowing a "response". Russia said it would be considering "surgical strikes" to target Ukrainian military positions near the border, but that there would not be a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Russia has asked military attaches from eighteen countries including the four other permanent members of the UN Security Council – China, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States – to visit the scene of the shelling.

Military attaches from eleven member-states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and foreign journalists have inspected the areas that came under fire from Ukraine's territory. Germany's military attache, Brigadier General Reiner Schwalb stated "Russia does not conceal the events. Our task is to understand the situation,".

Response

States
 – Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said in a radio interview on 13 July that the Ukrainian army is responsible for the shelling and that the incident could have "irreversible consequences". The Ukrainian chargé d'affaires in Moscow was summoned by the Russian Foreign Ministry and handed a note of protest.Kommersant reported on 14 July via an unnamed source close to the Kremlin that Russia is considering airstrikes against targets in Ukraine as a response to the shelling of Russian territory. "Our patience is not limitless," the source was quoted as saying, adding that Russia "knows exactly where they (Ukrainians) are firing from." When asked about the Kommersant report, Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, said: "It's nonsense, there is nothing to comment on, it's not true." Meanwhile, Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Yevgeny Bushmin called for a military response: "We need to use precision weapons, like Israel's, to destroy those (the Ukrainians) who launched the bomb."
 – Spokesman for the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Andriy Lysenko dismissed Russia's claims as "total nonsense" and denied that Ukrainian forces were behind the shelling. Lysenko suggested that the rebels could have been behind the attack in order to provoke Moscow to intervene on their behalf. President Petro Poroshenko further accused Russia of sending its army across the border and attacking Ukrainian servicemen.
 – State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki commented during a briefing held on 15 July on the incident. She said Russia failed to provide sufficient evidence confirming that Ukraine was indeed behind the July 13 cross-border mortar shelling.

Disputed entities
 – Separatists denied that they were behind the attack. DPR vice prime minister Andrey Purgin told a Moscow radio station, "We're accustomed to being blamed for all Ukrainian shellings."

See also
 Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War
 Russian cross-border artillery shelling of Ukraine (2014)
 Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

References

Donetsk
2014 in Ukraine
2014 in Russia
Donetsk
History of Rostov Oblast
July 2014 events in Ukraine
July 2014 events in Russia
Donetsk


title: Munna Bhai (film series)

text:
Munna Bhai is an Indian Hindi-language film series created, written and directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra under the Vinod Chopra Productions banner. It consists of Munna Bhai M.B.B.S., released in 2003, and its sequel, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, in 2006. The films share the same characters of Sanjay Dutt as Munna Bhai and Arshad Warsi as Circuit, with different plot elements and settings. Boman Irani features in each film as different characters. Both of the films received widespread critical acclaim and became huge commercial successes of their time.

Films

Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003)

Murli Prasad Sharma, nicknamed "Munna Bhai," is a good-hearted local gangster who engages in criminal activities. Munna Bhai pretends to be a doctor in order to impress his father, but after being revealed as a gangster to his father, who feels insulted, he decides to go to a medical college to obtain an M.B.B.S. degree to prove he can become a real doctor. The film follows Munna's extremely well-played struggle as he learns about the medical system and makes his way through the renowned medical college run by dean Dr. Asthana, the very man who insulted his father. He continues to cheat his way through college but changes over time while also instilling a more heartfelt and sensitive approach to patient care in the hospital.

Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006)

In the second installment of the series, Munna Bhai poses as a professor of history in order to meet with a radio jockey whose voice he has fallen in love with. She asks him to give a lecture and questions on Mahatma Gandhi, and as a result, he becomes a proponent of Gandhism and uses it to solve modern-life problems of the people.

Third Munna Bhai film
On 25 February 2016, Sanjay Dutt was released from Yerwada Central Jail after completing his sentence (2013–2016) for illegal possession of firearms in 1993. Vidhu Vinod Chopra announced on 29 September 2016 that production on the third Munna Bhai film starring Dutt in the title role may begin in 2017.
But the project got delayed again because Hirani decided to instead work on Sanjay Dutt's biopic, titled Sanju.

In June 2018, Hirani confirmed his future plans for films which included Munna Bhai 3, and he has confirmed to have begun working on story with his co-writer Abhijat Joshi. It will be his next project after Sanju is released.
The shooting of the 3rd instalment on the Munna Bhai series was going to start in June 2019 but got delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Short film

Munna Bhai Chale America (2007)
After the success of the first two films, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra planned to make a third film titled Munna Bhai Chale America. The short film was released in 2007 as an announcement teaser which followed the characters of Munna Bhai and Circuit learning English.
But the project got nowhere and the idea was cancelled altogether after Sanjay Dutt's conviction and subsequent imprisonment.
In 2018, after the release of "Sanju", Rajkumar Hirani said he would start work on the new films.

Cast and characters

Release and revenue

Awards

Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.
Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. was the recipient of a number of awards. At the 2004 Filmfare awards, it received the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, the Filmfare Best Screenplay Award, the Filmfare Best Dialogue Award, and the Filmfare Best Comedian Award in addition to four other nominations. It won a number of awards at the 2004 Zee Cine Awards including Best Debuting Director, Zee Cine Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role, Best Cinematography, and Best Dialogue.

Other ceremonies include the 2004 National Film Awards, where it won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film, and the 2004 International Indian Film Academy Awards, where it won the IIFA Best Comedian Award.

Lage Raho Munna Bhai

Lage Raho Munna Bhai is the recipient of four National Film Awards in addition to other awards. Some speculated that it would represent India as an entry for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Although ultimately losing to Rang De Basanti as India's official submission, the producers submitted it as an independent entry. However, neither film received an Oscar nomination.

References

Indian film series
Comedy film series


title: 2014–15 R.S.C. Anderlecht season

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The 2014–15 season is a season played by Anderlecht, a Belgian football club based in Anderlecht, Brussels. The season covers the period from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015. Anderlecht will be participating in the Belgian Pro League, Belgian Cup, Belgian Super Cup and the UEFA Champions League.

Review

Background

Pre-season
It was announced that Anderlecht would play six matches in preparation for the 2014-15 season, with games against Royal Knokke, Oudenaarde, Mons, Dynamo Kyiv, RFC Liège and Deinze with the pre-season matches starting from 28 June 2014 and ending on 22 July 2014.

Anderlecht kicked off their pre-season campaign with a 1-4 victory away to Royal Knokke on 28 June at Stadion Olivier. The club followed that with a 0-2 win at Oudenaarde, with goals coming from Youri Tielemans and Frank Acheampong. Anderlecht then drew 0-0 with Mons in match remembered less so for the result but more so for the return of Matías Suárez who had been out injured since October 2013 due to a serious knee injury he suffered in training at that time. On 11 July, Anderlecht faced Dynamo Kyiv in Austria. A match they won 2-1 thanks to a brace from Frank Acheampong.

On the following Wednesday, Anderlecht won their penultimate pre-season fixture when they beat RFC Liège 0-2 at the Stade du Pairay, with goals coming from Aleksandar Mitrović and Samuel Armenteros. Anderlecht won their sixth and final friendly match on July 22, beating Deinze 0-1 at the Burgemeester Van de Wiele Stadion thanks to a goal from Nathan Kabasele. Which meant the club ended pre-season unbeaten, winning five and drawing just one.

Transfers
Anderlecht's first summer signing was Brazilian Wigor Alan do Nascimento who was signed from Brazilian club Capivariano after a successful trial. The club also signed goalkeeper Mulopo Kudimbana on a permanent contract in June, with the Congolese international joining from Oostende. Samuel Armenteros, Michaël Heylen, Mehdi Tarfi and Fede Vico all returned from their loan spells at Feyenoord, Kortrijk, Zulte Waregem and Oostende respectively while Demy de Zeeuw left in the opposite direction following the completion of his loan spell from Spartak Moscow.

Numerous outgoings were completed also. Fernando Canesin completed a permanent transfer to Oostende, Nabil Jaadi left the club to join Italian Serie A side Udinese while Jordan Lukaku joined Oostende permanently after a successful loan spell. Four other players also completed permanent moves away from the club, Massimo Bruno to Red Bull Salzburg, Cheikhou Kouyaté to West Ham United, David Pollet to Gent and Dalibor Veselinović to Mechelen. Elis Koulibaly and Youri Lapage were loaned to Eendracht Aalst, the Belgian Second Division side also claimed to have signed Jonathan Kindermans on loan but Anderlecht later confirmed Kindermans was to join Eerste Divisie side Telstar on loan.

Guillaume Gillet also left the club on loan, he joined French Ligue 1 side Bastia on a season-long loan deal on 10 July.

July
On 20 July, Anderlecht played their first competitive fixture of the season in the 2014 Belgian Super Cup against Lokeren, a match they won 2-1 at their home ground of Constant Vanden Stock Stadium. Aleksandar Mitrović gave Anderlecht the early lead on twenty-nine minutes after a byline pass from Cyriac. Lokeren equalised on seventy-three minutes thanks to a looping header from Tunisian striker Hamdi Harbaoui. As the match was heading for extra time Anderlecht found a ninety first-minute winner, Andy Najar put in a cross which was met by Lokeren's Denis Odoi who put the ball into his own net for an own goal. That won Anderlecht their twelfth Belgian Super Cup triumph.

Match details
League positions are sourced by Statto, while the remaining information is referenced individually.

Belgian Pro League

Regular season

League table

Matches

Championship playoff

Playoff table

Matches

Belgian Super Cup

Belgian Cup

UEFA Champions League

UEFA Europa League

Appearances and goals
Source:
Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.
Players with names struck through and marked  left the club during the playing season.
Players with names in italics and marked * were on loan from another club for the whole of their season with Anderlecht.
Players listed with no appearances have been in the matchday squad but only as unused substitutes.
Key to positions: GK – Goalkeeper; DF – Defender; MF – Midfielder; FW – Forward

Club

Coaching staff

Other information

Transfers

Transfers in

Loans in

Total spending:   Undisclosed

Transfers out

Loans out

Total income:  Undisclosed

References

Anderlecht
R.S.C. Anderlecht seasons
Anderlecht


title: Telluride, Nevada

text:
Telluride is a ghost town in Lander County, state of Nevada in the United States.

History
In 1875 or 1876, the Battle Mountain Mining Company built a 30-ton concentrator nearby at the mouth of Willow Creek to serve the mines of Copper Canyon.  The concentrator closed in 1876.

In 1910, J. Hutchins found the Dollar Mine, located in an altitude of . Due to heavy snows, the find was not made public until the spring of 1911. The camp was named in 1911.  Although at the site there were the stores of several business and a saloon, the problem was the difficulty of access prevented further development for Telluride.  The mine was closed in 1912 and people had abandoned the site.  There were recent mining activity in the area and the only remains of the old site are scant ruins.

References

Ghost towns in Lander County, Nevada
Mining communities in Nevada
Gold mining in Nevada
Populated places established in 1875


title: Epiphyas euphara

text:
Epiphyas euphara is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland and New South Wales.

The wingspan is about 21 mm.

References

Moths described in 1945
Epiphyas


title: David Titley

text:
David William Titley (born 1958) is a professor of meteorology at Pennsylvania State University and the founding director of their Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk. He was also NOAA's chief operating officer from 2012 to 2013. Before assuming these positions, he was a rear admiral in, and the chief oceanographer of, the U.S. Navy, in which he served for 32 years. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society.

Life
Titley graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. degree in meteorology. He later attended the Naval Postgraduate School, earning an M.S. degree in meteorology and physical oceanography in 1989 and a Ph.D. degree in meteorology in 1998.

Titley initiated the Navy's Task Force on Climate Change, and serves on the CNA Corporation's Military Advisory Board. He was formerly agnostic about climate change, but later changed his mind after looking at the evidence of what factors influence climate–which are, according to Titley, "what are the larger things doing – what is the ocean doing? What is the sun doing? And what's our atmosphere doing?" Since then, he has described climate change as "one of the driving forces in the 21st century" and said that it contributed to the 2011 Arab Spring.

The Department of Defense requested that Titley present on their behalf at both Congressional Hearings and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meetings from 2009 to 2011.

Titley is a member of the Hoover Institution's Arctic Security Initiative, and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State, the Center for Climate and Security, Columbia University's Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, and the Association of Climate Change Officers.  He is a member of the National Academies of Science committee on Geoengineering and the Center for Naval Analysis' Military Advisory Board and co-chairs the National Research Council's "A Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences" committee. Titley sits on the Science and Security Board at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which among other things, enables him to participate in the discussions that determine the position of the Bulletin's famed Doomsday Clock. Titley is also on the Advisory Board of the Citizens' Climate Lobby.

Awards
In 2023 he received the Friends of the Planet award from the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) according to the executive director Ann Reid, “David Titley's focus on the importance of climate change in thinking about military preparedness and international relations is extraordinarily valuable”.

References

External links

 published on Dec 6, 2017 TED (conference)
David Titley: Climate Change is a National Security Risk March 7, 2019 Amanpour & Company

1958 births
Living people
Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences alumni
American meteorologists
Military personnel from Schenectady, New York
Naval Postgraduate School alumni
American oceanographers
United States Navy admirals
Fellows of the American Meteorological Society
American chief operating officers
Pennsylvania State University faculty
Scientists from Schenectady, New York


title: Epiphyas eveleena

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Epiphyas eveleena is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from South Australia and Western Australia.

The wingspan is about 18 mm.

References

Moths described in 1916
Epiphyas


title: Stephan Thiemonds

text:
Stephan Thiemonds (born April 5, 1971 in Lendersdorf/Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia), is a German author, who writes travelogues and short stories in the style of Gonzo Journalism and Magic realism, in which the boundaries between reality and fantasy become blurred. Due to his professional career, many of his stories can be categorised as Proletarian literature.

Life
Thiemonds trained as a coppersmith and a welder at GEA Cancler GmbH in Düren, and later qualified as a construction foreman and a European Welding Specialist (EWF). Between 2003 and 2022 he travelled as a service and commissioning technician across the world working for Buss SMS Canzler GmbH, based in Butzbach, Germany, a manufacturer of industrial machines, like Thin Film Evaporators, specialised in process engineering. Numerous professional and personal journeys to all continents inspired him to write his semi-autobiographical short stories. End of 2022 he changed full-time to DSI Laser Service Thailand Co., Ltd. for which he worked part-time since 2017.

In the summer of 2002 he began a bike journey that lasted many months, and took him all the way to Australia. He was sponsored on this endeavour, with people pledging €1 for every kilometer cycled. The monies collected were donated to the fund for the restoration of a fire-damaged spire that forms part of Merode Castle, the most famous landmark of his hometown of Merode, municipality of Langerwehe.

Since 2012 Thiemonds has lived with his partner and their daughter in Darmstadt. In 2015 he moved back to his origin home country Langerwehe. In 2017 he incorporated as a German Ambassador the not-for-profit organization Child's Dream. On 29 November 2018, the Saysa Morn Primary School, built under the auspices of Child's Dream and funded by Querweltein Unterwegs readers, friends and patrons, was inaugurated in the Cambodian province of Banteay Meanchey province.

359° - The Workaday Life Of An Industrial Gypsy
The main title of the German-language book series named Querweltein Unterwegs. In order to internationally easier legibility the author choosen the main title for the foreign-language book series Inscribed angle 359°. Its interpretation is ambiguous. On the one hand based on the occupational travel. On the other hand, with respect to the professional life. In addition, the inscribed angle should point to the nearly circular earth: an almost perfect 360° full angle. In contrast to this from the book title 1° is missing. Symbolic of this standing that neither travel nor professional life is circular perfect. How hard you try to matter, at least one piece is still missing. However, should the lack of a degree not be interpreted as a flaw, but indicate a belonging to the art of living area: on the left dealing with all requirements and entanglements that bring the travel and professional life with him. Thiemonds was inspired to foreign book series main title 359° during a professional stay in Shanghai. When visiting a shoppingmall, by the logo of the Chinese sportswear and sports equipment manufacturers 361˚.

A selection of his short stories from his German “Querweltein – Unterwegs“ series of books has been translated into English. It contains stories from China, Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Iran, Colombia, Antarctica, Denmark, Turkey, Sweden, Finland, Great Britain, Germany, from “Seventh Heaven“ and from “Above Clouds“.In 2016 a revised 359° edition was published in India.

Cover

The cover of the first English edition shows a hard hat held upside down. On its front, also wrong way up, the logo of the machinery and plant engineering company Buss SMS Canzler GmbH is depicted. As is usual in the international industry sector, the logo on the front serves to identify the wearer’s company affiliation. Within the helmet rests the earth, resembling an egg in an egg cup.

The angle measurement of 359° in the book title is meant to express that no man-made workmanship will ever achieve perfection (the geometric unit of a turn). The subheadingYou’ll Never Work Alone is borrowed in slightly altered form from the song title "You'll Never Walk Alone".

You’ll Never Work Alone!
The subtitle of the foreign Querweltein Unterwegs book series, You'll Never Work Alone !, was borrowed in slightly modified form, from the song title You'll Never Walk Alone. While referring „to go“ (together-through-life) to the lyrics „walk“, so the „work“ in the book subtitle is in conjunction with the (professional) work. Thiemonds was inspired for this pun during a professional stay in Liverpool. During his research on new England-stories that was published in 2008 in the Querweltein Unterwegs edition 3, Despite overtime explore the world, he came across the original Broadway anthem of FC Liverpool entered the football world was through the Fanblock The Kop and up is now sung before every home game. Emotionally touched by the backstory lyric, Thiemonds discovered parallels to the (professional) life of a single traveler. You'll Never Work Alone should remember that nobody, never accomplishes a productive activity all to yourself. Always there are people (or colleagues) who have either provided a preparatory work, or stand supportive aside during the actual work task. The subtitle is to encourage in (professional) difficult times to carry on / -to go forward/ - to work further. It is also intended to draw attention to always consider the personal work as a synergy.

Co-author of technical articles
In conjunction with his occupational activities at DSI Laser Service Thailand Co, Ltd, Thiemonds writes technical articles in the field of Laser Beam Welding technology together with Prof. Dr.-Ing Gerd Kuscher from the german welding society Schweißtechnische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, SLV Hannover. The articles are published in various trade journals, both in German and in English translations, for instance in Schweissen und Schneiden, Der Praktiker, Giesserei, Welding and Cutting. Their publisher is DVS-Media, also named Home of Welding, a devision of the German, technical-scientific professional association DVS - Deutscher Verband für Schweißen und verwandte Verfahren e. V. (german welding society).

Works
 2003 Querweltein – Eine Radreise voller Gegensätze (New Edition 2013 ),
 2005 Querweltein – Unterwegs: Schrauben, Spesen und Chinesen,
 2008 Querweltein – Unterwegs: Trotz Überstunden die Welt erkunden,
 2010 Querweltein – Unterwegs: Seemannsgarn oder Sabotage in der Antarktis,
 2015 Querweltein – Unterwegs: Berufsalltag oder Alltagsflucht,
 2015 Querweltein – Unterwegs: Die Entdeckung der Erfinderkinder, Iatros, Sonnefeld,
 2015 Querweltein – Unterwegs: Schweißen verbindet, Iatros, Sonnefeld, .

In English:
 2012 359° - Workadays Life Of An Industrial Gypsy – You’ll never work alone!,
 2016 359° – Worker, Writer, World-traveller – You’ll never work alone!. Notionpress, India, .
 2023 Welding connects – You'll Never Work Alone (Translation of the 2020 in German language published title Schweißen verbindet, revised and expanded with new stories). DVS Media Düsseldorf, ISBN 978-3-96144-197-6

In Chinese:
 2016 环游地球359°一位德国工程师的工业之旅》你不是一个人在奋斗！ (englisch, 359° - Workdays Life Of An Industrial Gypsy) Intellectual Property Publishing House, Beijing, .

Technical articles (selection):
 Repair of a steam turbine in Thailand using pulsed laser beam welding, Welding and Cutting (English) issue 02/2020, page 104-106.

 Problem-free without heat pre-treatment and post-treatment: Repair welding of cast iron with nodular graphite, published in Der Praktiker (German), issue 4/2023, page 156-159.

 Easily repair casting defects without heat pre- and post-treatment, published in Giesserei-magazine (German), issue 8/2023, page 32-35.

 Pulsed laser beam welding – start thinking big! Repair welding of a shock absorber housing, published in Welding and Cutting (English), issue 1/2023, page 10-13.

See also
Merode and Schloss Merode on the German-language Wikipedia
Querweltein Unterwegs on the German-language Wikipedia

References

External links
 Literatur by and about Stephan Thiemonds in the catalogue of the German National Library
 Querweltein Unterwegs Homepage book series (German)
 Buss SMS Canzler GmbH Website
 Merode Castle Website
 Web site about the bike trip around the world

1971 births
Living people
German male writers


title: Epiphyas fabricata

text:
Epiphyas fabricata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania. The habitat consists of montane forests and wet eucalypt forests.

References

Moths described in 1910
Epiphyas
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick


title: Ando, New South Wales

text:
Ando is a rural hamlet with a very small population in the Snowy Monaro Regional Council in southern New South Wales, Australia. The village is at the junction of the Monaro Highway and Snowy River Way, about  north of Bombala. The surrounding area is predominantly agricultural land holdings.

Ando was first settled around 1862 by Ghikas Boulgaris (locally known as Jigger Bulgary), a Greek convict who had been transported to New South Wales after being captured attempting to rob a British merchant ship in the Mediterranean Sea. Boulgaris, the first Greek migrant in Australia, took up land on the Bibbenluke estate and named it Ando.

A school opened in the village in 1913, but closed in 2011 when enrollments had dropped to just 6 students. The village also maintains a rural fire service and a community hall. A railway station at Jincumbilly, a few kilometers west served Ando and the surrounding pastoral areas between 1921 and 1975. There was a post office there from 1915 until 1981.

References

External links

Towns in New South Wales
Snowy Monaro Regional Council


title: Col des Chevrères

text:
The Col des Chevrères (elevation ) is a mountain pass situated in the Vosges Mountains, in the  Haute-Saône department of France, between Servance and Plancher-les-Mines. The Tour de France cycle race crossed the col for the first time on Stage 10 of the 2014 race.

Cycle racing

Details of climb
From Servance, to the north-west, the climb is  long, gaining  in altitude, at an average gradient of 5%. The steepest sustained sections are in excess of 11%, although some short sections above Miellin are at 18%.

From Plancher-les-Mines, to the south, the climb via Belfahy is  long, gaining  in altitude, at an average gradient of 3.9%.

Tour de France
On July 14, 2014, the Tour de France cycle race crossed the col for the first time en route from Mulhouse to La Planche des Belles Filles. When announcing the route, Christian Prudhomme explained his reasons for deciding to send the 2014 Tour over passes not used previously: "I like to use the other massifs than the usual Alps and Pyrenees. I believe the race can be won and lost anytime."

The first rider over the summit was the Spaniard, Joaquim Rodriguez.

References

Mountain passes of the Vosges
Mountain passes of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté


title: Govt. Polytechnic Nilokheri

text:
Guru Brahma Nand Ji Govt. Polytechnic Institute Nilokheri is a co-educational institution of higher learning located in the town of Nilokheri in the Karnal region of Haryana. It is one of the best institution in the polytechnic list of institutions of higher education in Haryana. The institute was established in 1947, by Govt. of India. It was re-established in 1951 is affiliated with the Haryana State Board of Technical Education (HSBTE), Panchkula and approved by All India Council of Technical Education, New Delhi (AICTE) and the Department of Technical Education, Govt. of Haryana (DTE). It is one of the best in North India. Diploma holders from this institute serve in various government organizations and institutions all over India.

History
The Guru BrahmaNand Ji Govt. Polytechnic Institute Nilokheri is one of the premier Technical Institutions in the country with an international repute. This was the first polytechnic to be set up in North India, and continues to get 100 per cent placement for its students. The institute is situated at a distance of 143 km. from Delhi on National Highway-I towards north. This Institute was originally located at Rasool (West Punjab) as Govt. school of Engg.  After partition, it was shifted to Chhachhrauli (District. Yamunanagar) and subsequently to Nilokheri in 1951. Nilokheri Polytechnic, Nilokheri established by the Govt. of India in 1947, was already in existence. Both these institutes kept running simultaneously till 1958 when these were merged on recommendation of Govt. of India and named as Punjab Polytechnic, Nilokheri with the reorganizing of the State on 1 November 1966, this institute was renamed as Haryana Polytechnic, Nilokheri, it was again renamed as Govt. Polytechnic Nilokheri, and recently it is renamed as Guru BrahmaNand Ji Govt. Polytechnic Institute Nilokheri. It was a part of the scheme called "Mazdoor Manzil" aimed at self-sufficiency for the rural-cum-urban township in all the essential requirements of life.

Admission & Recognition
Admission in Diploma Engg. courses in Guru Brahamanand Ji Govt. Polytechnic Institute were made on the basis of Diploma Entrance Exam till 2020 through online counselling & offline counselling if the seats remains vacant due to certain reasons. Post Covid-19 merit of Secondary School Examination (Matriculation) or equivalent qualifying examination through online counselling & offline counselling if the seats remains vacant due to certain reasons. Guru Brahamanand Ji Govt. Polytechnic Institute Nilokheri is affiliated with the Haryana State Board of Technical Education (HSBTE), Panchkula and approved by All India Council of Technical Education, New Delhi (AICTE) and the Department of Technical Education, Govt. of Haryana (DTE).

Academic programs
Guru Brahamanand Ji Govt. Polytechnic Institute Nilokheri offers post Tenth Class diplomas in the following three-year engineering programs:

Skill development programs
Institution also imparts training to artisans and unskilled personnel run under 100% Centre Sponsored Community Development through Polytechnic (CDTP) Scheme and courses Creation of Employment Generation Opportunities (CEGO). These courses help in up gradation of skill and generation of employment.

Campus
Govt. Polytechnic Nilokheri campus total campus size is around 26.4 Acres. The institute has around 600 Diploma students.

Student life

Poly-Fest
The Polytechnic along with other Polytechnic institute organizes its annual cultural fest Poly-Fest. It is a Two-day-long event held in October every year.

Annual Athletic Meet
Annual Athletic Meet is organized since 1968 in the month of March Every Year.

Training and Placement Cell
Training and Placement (T&P) Cell, has the primary aim of helping students to find a job during and after completion of Diploma Programme.

Consultancy
The institute is testing cement, concrete and soils for government deparmtnets, semi-government departments, public sector agencies and private sector agencies.

Alumni
The diploma holders from this institute have found employment in various government departments and public and private enterprises such as railways, MES, IIT, CPWD, PWD (B & R), PWD Irrigation, PWD (Public Health), Pollution Control Board, Housing Boards, HUDA, HSEB, MITC, and Panchayat Raj.  Some have started their own enterprises. Students of the institute have also been able enter other countries as well, such as Eritrea and Dubai.

National Cadet Corps
The institute also has a National Cadet Corps scheme. NCC (Army Wing) is operational in the Institute since 1960, having a strength of full COY of 160 NCC cadets under 7 HR.BN. NCC Karnal for better development of students enriching their overall personality. The cadets actively participate in social activities such as Save Earth Campaign during Earth Day, Swachhta Abhiyan on Gandhi Jayanti, Beti Bachao- Beti Padhao Abhiyan on International Day of the Girl Child & International Literacy Day etc.

Library
The library is stocked with around one lakh volumes, and 19 journals and magazines.  It subscribes to all prominent newspapers. It has a approximately 1000 square metres of built-up area consisting of a reading room with sitting capacity of 150. The library has a book bank, which provides students with textbooks for almost all the subjects.

Hostels for accommodation
There are two separate hostels for the accommodation of diploma students:
 Boys Hostel-A has 80 rooms for 240 students.
 Girls Hostel-B has 35 rooms for 105 students.

History
The concept of the diploma institute at Nilokheri as an engineering college was first introduced in year 2000. The college building was previously used by the students of Govt. Polytechnic Nilokheri was granted the status of Engineering college in 2016. The college was inaugurated by Manohar Lal Khattar, who was the Chief Minister of Haryana. It was established to facilitate and promote studies and research in emerging areas of engineering education with focus on new frontiers of technology and connected fields. The Guru BrahmaNand Ji Govt. Polytechnic Nilokheri (GBNGPN) formerly known as the Govt. Polytechnic Nilokheri (GPN)'s classes of  Diploma 1st year were shifted out en bloc to mark the beginning of GEC Nilokheri at its campus in new building. The Guru BrahmaNand Ji Govt. Polytechnic Nilokheri  (GBNGPN) is thus the mother institution of GEC Nilokheri.

See also
 Government Engineering College, Nilokheri
 List of universities in India
 Universities and colleges in India
 Education in India
 List of institutions of higher education in Haryana

References

 HSBTE RESULT

All India Council for Technical Education
Engineering colleges in Haryana
Technical schools
Karnal
Nilokheri