title: Hertl

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Hertl is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Björn Hertl (born 1976), German footballer
Jan Hertl (1929–1996), Czech footballer
Jaroslav Hertl (born 1989), Czech ice hockey player
Tomáš Hertl (born 1993), Czech ice hockey player

Unisex given names
Masculine given names
Surnames from given names


title: Charles Wyplosz

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Charles Wyplosz (born 5 September 1947 in Vichy, France) is a French economist. He is an editor of the International Centre for Economic Policy Research's VoxEU and is currently the director of the International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies (ICMB) and Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland.  He was a founding managing editor of Economic Policy.

Life
He earned  engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris (1970), Certificat Supérieur d'Études from Institut Supérieur de Statistiques des Universités de Paris (1972), and PhD in Economics from Harvard University (1978).

From 1978 until 1996 he was assistant professor of economics and associate dean at INSEAD and during the period 1986–1996 he was professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Since 1995 he is Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

He has been editor of Economic Policy since 1984. He has served as advisor to various governments (Russia, Cyprus, France) as well as to numerous organisations such the IMF, the World Bank, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Asian Development Bank. He served as Director of the International Macroeconomics Programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

His areas of research are macroeconomics, exchange rates and the labor market. He has worked extensively on money especially the European Monetary System, the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union, financial crisis, and capital mobility and economic transformation of former communist economies.

He has been awarded the Legion d'Honneur by the President of France.

Selected publications
 Macroeconomics: a European Text by Michael C. Burda and Charles Wyplosz (Oxford UP, 6th ed 2013 )
 The Economics of European Integration by Richard E. Baldwin and Charles Wyplosz (McGraw Hill, 2nd ed 2006, ))

References

External links
 Profile at The Graduate Institute
 Personal website

Living people
French economists
1947 births
People from Vichy
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
École Centrale Paris alumni
Academic staff of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Academic staff of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences


title: Gol Chakkar

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Gol Chakkar is a 2012 Pakistani comedy film directed by Shahbaz Shigri, produced and written by Aisha Linnea Akhtar. Film features Ali Rehman Khan, Hasan Bruun Akhtar, Usman Mukhtar, Salmaan Ahmed Shaukat, Uzair Jaswal, Adil Gul, Saboor Pasha, Asad Ali Shigri and special appearance by Shahana Khan Khalil. This film is a sequel to Sole Search on the life of a character Candy Bhai from the earlier version. Candy Bhai, along with some new characters, gets into trouble when the boys decide to head over to Rawalpindi.

Synopsis
A gang of fun-loving hooligans or Jinnah Boys find themselves in trouble when they cross paths with a small-time gangster from the other side of the tracks.

Cast
 Ali Rehman Khan
 Hasan Bruun Akhtar
 Usman Mukhtar as Shera
 Uzair Jaswal
 Salmaan Ahmed Shaukat
 Asad Ali Shigri
 Adil Gul
 Saboor Pasha
 Shahana Khan Khalil
 Waqas

Soundtrack
The soundtrack includes Pindi Express Adil Omar and also features additional vocals by Usman Mukhtar in character as Shera.

Release
Theatrical trailer was released in September 2012 and the movie was screened in October 2012.

References

External links

2012 films
2012 comedy films
Pakistani independent films
Pakistani comedy films
2012 independent films


title: South Korean nuclear scandal

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A nuclear scandal took place in South Korea, when the country faced a series of shutdowns, of nuclear reactors because of fake documents. The documents dated back to 2012. South Korea itself depends heavily on nuclear power.

Investigation

During November 2012, two nuclear reactors were suspended by the country after discovering that the parts were supplied with fake certificates.

On 10 October 2013, South Korea indicted about 100 people, which included a top former state utility official with the charges of scandal. Officials further noted that they will bring back into compliance those reactors that were suspended for inspection and replacement of parts.

On 7 February 2014, the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission declared that its investigation since mid-2013, they found eight cases out of 2,075 samples of foreign manufactured reactor components that were supplied with fake documents. Although the names of dealing countries remains undisclosed.

See also
Nuclear power in South Korea
Corruption in South Korea
Anti-nuclear movement in South Korea
One Less Nuclear Power Plant
Tokyo Electric Power Company#Safety incidents
Nuclear and radiation accidents

References

External links
Scandal may cause South Korea to abandon nuclear power

Corruption in South Korea
Nuclear power in South Korea
Corporate scandals


title: Frances Fry

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Frances Fry was an English wildlife artist and illustrator, known for her work published as greetings cards (Medici Society) and calendars. She also wrote and illustrated The Colour Guide to British Birds and Their Eggs (Nimrod Press, 1990), and provided illustrations for Cyril Roger's The World of Zebra Finches (Nimrod Press, 1986), Watmough's The Cult of the Budgerigar (Triplegate, 1983), Frank Finn's Fancy Waterfoul (Nimrod Press, 1985). Additionally she wrote various articles on nature and animals as well as the "Country Diary" column for The West Somerset Gazette.

Fry lived in the West Country and was fond of walking the countryside of Exmoor, which provided inspiration for her paintings. An animal lover and conservationist, she had a wildlife-orientated garden. She listed gardening as one of her hobbies, together with bird- and animal-watching, photography and listening to classical music.

Early life

Career
Produced the book - A Colour Guide to British Birds and their Eggs - Published by Nimrod Press.

Produced a regular column in the Somerset County Gazette entitled "Frances Fry's Exmoor Diary"

References
Book Link
Host paper of Her Exmoor Diary
A page on Frances Fry
Announcement of passing

External links
Book Link
Host paper of Her Exmoor Diary
A page on Frances Fry
Announcement of passing

Notes

English illustrators


title: Hertner

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Hertner is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Fabian Hertner (born 1985), Swiss orienteer
Sebastian Hertner (born 1991), German footballer

See also
Herter
Hettner

German-language surnames


title: Fabian Stumm

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Fabian Stumm (born in 1981) is a German actor and director who studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City.

He played a leading role in the 2013 mystery thriller  by Lucien Förstner, and appeared in the award-winning Second World War drama Lore by Australian director Cate Shortland. His other credits include Posthumous with Brit Marling and Jack Huston; 56, which was nominated for the prestigious Max Ophüls Award; and the David Foster Wallace adaptation Neon Aura.

In 2009 he joined artist Keren Cytter's performance company D.I.E NOW on their international tour. His next collaboration with Cytter, the two-hander Show Real Drama, met with great success, the Houston Chronicle calling it "intriguing (...) Susie Meyer and Fabian Stumm bring humor, angst, and yesreal drama." The production was invited all around the world from London, Rome and New York City to Shanghai, Beijing and Seoul.

Stumm wrote and directed his medium-length film debut, Daniel, which was released in 2021. The film was awarded the prize of "Best Medium-Length Film" at the Achtung Berlin Filmfestival in 2022.

His feature directorial debut, Bones and Names (), premiered at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, where it was awarded the Heiner Carow Prize.

References

External links
Fabian Stumm Official Website

German male film actors
1981 births
Living people
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute alumni
People from Koblenz
German film directors


title: Bruce Fleming

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Bruce Fleming (born , 1937 in Twickenham, Middlesex), is a British fine art photographer who is notable for his pop art portraits of the 1960s and 1970s.  He is perhaps best known for his photography of the Hollies, Lulu, the Animals and of Jimi Hendrix for whom he produced the photo for the Jimi Hendrix Experience's album cover Are You Experienced in 1967.

Biography

Early career
Fleming was born in 1937 in Twickenham, Middlesex. His father was a musician and his mother, a housewife. Fleming had his schooling interrupted by the Second World War when he was evacuated, and attended a boarding school when the war finished. His father left the family home when Fleming was young and he was raised as a teenager by his mother, who funded his early interest in photography by buying him his first camera. Fleming began by photographing various pieces of artwork and water colourings which he would paint.

In 1952, when Fleming was 15, he attended Hornsey Art College but was drafted into National Service in 1955 and served in Northern Ireland. He later took up a position in the Royal Air Force which he soon left.  He had a series of menial jobs including a telephone operator, a waiter, a chef and a labourer. Still eager to make it as a photographer, Fleming came into contact with Ronnie Scott and socialised at his Jazz club in London.  Fleming started to work for Melody Maker magazine and came to prominence for his photography of Eartha Kitt.  During his work as a press photographer, Fleming survived a knife attack and gave up press in 1965 soon after he had photographed the funeral of Winston Churchill for The Sunday Times.

Pop art
Upon leaving press photography, Fleming met an influential public relations officer in London and was recruited as his personal photographer. The engagement brought Fleming into contact with the Rolling Stones and the Dave Clark Five and he became their personal photographer. From there, Fleming met Jimi Hendrix and became photographed the guitarist for many portraits; in 1967, Fleming composed the photo for the Jimi Hendrix Experience album cover Are You Experienced which he took which was taken in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew on 27 February 1967.

Recent career
Fleming is currently based in London and is married with children.

References

1937 births
British pop artists
Living people
Fine art photographers
Photographers from London
Jazz photographers
People from Twickenham


title: Goddotan

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is a Japanese variety show, broadcast since 2005 on TV Tokyo. In 2013, Toho produced a film based on the show, Goddotan kiss patience Championship - The Movie, directed by Nobuyuki Sakuma.  It debuted at number 15 on the Japanese box office chart.

References

External links
 Goddotan at TV Tokyo

TV Tokyo original programming
Japanese variety television shows
2005 Japanese television series debuts
Japanese comedy television series


title: Blaise of Amorion

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Saint Blaise of Amorium (Greek: Βλάσιος ό Άμοριεύς) was a medieval monk from the Byzantine Empire.
He was born in the mid-9th century in Amorion, Anatolic Theme. He studied in Constantinople and was ordained a deacon at Hagia Sophia. On a pilgrimage to Rome, he was taken captive and sold to "Scythians" (i.e. Bulgarians) by his travel companion. According to his "Vita", his buyer was a Bulgar nobleman, who released him in the hope that Blaise would stay and provide guidance in how to life a Christian life. He made his way to Rome, where he became a monk  for 18 years, during which he became famous for his piety. He went back to Constantinople to escape his growing reputation of holiness and was welcomed in the Stoudios Monastery, and he later moved to Athos. He died in 908 on a visit to Constantinople.

Notes

References
 BHG 278 = Βίος τοῦ ὁσίου πατρὸς ἡμῶν Βλασίου, ed.  H. Delehaye,  AASS. Nov. IV (1925), 657–669.
 Henri Grégoire, « La vie de Saint Blaise D'Amorium », Byzantion, vol. V, 1929–1930, p. 391-414 (ISSN 0378-2506)
 " Житие за Власий Аморийски // Vita Blasii Amoriensis" in ГРЪЦКИ ИЗВОРИ ЗА БЪЛГАРСКАТА ИСТОРИЯ  FONTES GRAECI HISTORIAE BULGARICAE Vol. 5, Издание на Българската Академия на Науките, Sofija 1964, 14-18
 Michael MCCormick, Origins of the European Economy. Connections and Trade. 300-900 A.D. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pages 202-208 (Part II, chapter 7, paragraph 3)

9th-century births
908 deaths
10th-century Christian saints
9th-century Byzantine monks
10th-century Byzantine monks
Byzantine saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Saints from Anatolia
Year of birth unknown
People from Amorium
Studite monks
People associated with Mount Athos


title: Fiduciary Institute of Southern Africa

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The Fiduciary Institute of Southern Africa (FISA) is a non-profit professional organisation. It represents fiduciary practitioners and sets high minimum standards for the industry .

Formation and activities
FISA was formed in 2008, when the Association of Trust Companies in South Africa (ATCSA), which was formed in 1932, was converted to a professional institute with individual membership.  A new constitution was adopted to reflect the change of name and membership. Prior to the change, members were the main trust companies in South Africa on a corporate membership basis.  After the change, members include employees of trust companies and individuals from the legal, accounting and financial planning professions.

FISA has approximately 700 individual members, who collectively manage assets in excess of R250 billion. They draft tens of thousand wills each year and administer around 50 percent of deceased estates reported to the offices of the Master of the High Court in South Africa. FISA also offers candidate membership for those wishing to enter the profession.

Activities of FISA members include estate planning, the drafting of wills, administration of trusts and estates, beneficiary funds, tax and financial advice and the management of client funds.

The organization is governed by a 10-person Council; as of 2023, the Chairperson was Eben Nel. Regional councilors represent the Northern, Gauteng, Central, Western Cape, Eastern Cape, and KwaZulu Natal regions.
FISA liaises with the Master's Office  and the South African Revenue Service in order to participate in optimising legal and compliance processes. It engages with the South African Treasury on issues that affect the industry and the public.

Education
FISA aims to raise awareness and standards of fiduciary practice through education to benefit both practitioners and the public. FISA holds an annual conference at which practitioners and academics in the fiduciary field present and discuss topical issues.
In 2011 FISA introduced a professional examination, in co-operation with the School of Financial Planning Law at the University of Free State, which gives successful candidates the designation of Fiduciary Practitioner of South Africa (FPSA).
FISA also has a Bursary Trust Fund, through which it pays for the tuition of successful applicants.

Outreach
FISA works actively to educate the public about fiduciary issues. It has a public helpdesk on its website which contains a complaints procedure and consumer education on executorships,  Wills,  and trusts. For the benefit of both its members and the public, the institute makes available the latest court decisions on fiduciary matters. The organization also has an active media campaign through which it educates journalists on fiduciary matters.

Affiliations
FISA has strategic alliances with other professional bodies such as the South African Institute of Tax Practitioners, the Law Society of South Africa and the Financial Planning Institute with which it signed a memorandum of understanding in 2012.

References

External links

Non-profit organisations based in South Africa
Business and finance professional associations
2008 establishments in South Africa
Organizations established in 2008


title: Vugava

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Vugava (also known as Bugava) is a white grape variety mostly cultivated on the Croatian island of Vis in central Dalmatia.

Vugava is often compared to Viognier due to its aromatic profile, but it has been genetically proven that they have no relationship. It is a very old variety, anecdotally said to be over 2,000 years old and to have been cultivated by the ancient Greek colonists when the island was known as Issa, or introduced by the Roman army, although there is hard no proof of this. There is even a debate on whether Agatharchides was referring to Vugava when he wrote: "On the island of Vis is a wine produced that no other wine equals".

Vugava requires a lot of attention and needs to be harvested at the right time. Although recognized as a high quality grape variety, it is usually used for blending with other varieties such as Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, or Sauvignon Blanc. This is because in its traditional form, Vugava wine has a very high sugar content and overripe aromas.  Vugava wines can best be described as having sweet and fruity flavors which may be lacking in terms of acidity levels.

Wines produced from Vugava grapes are best paired with savory foods rich in flavor, such as fish and poultry dishes.

References

Grape varieties of Croatia
Dalmatian grape varieties
White wine grape varieties
Vis (island)


title: José Jara González

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José Eduardo Jara González (born October 19, 1984), known as José Jara, is a Paraguayan former footballer who currently plays as a striker and midfielder.

References

External links

 Profile  at liga-indonesia.co.id

1984 births
Living people
Paraguayan men's footballers
Paraguayan expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Indonesia
Expatriate men's footballers in Indonesia
Liga 1 (Indonesia) players
Persepam Madura Utama players


title: Liopholidophis

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Liopholidophis is a genus of harmless snakes in the family Pseudoxyrhophiidae. The genus is endemic to the island of Madagascar.

Species
Eight species are currently recognized as being valid.

Liopholidophis baderi
Liopholidophis dimorphus
Liopholidophis dolicocercus
Liopholidophis grandidieri  – Grandidier's water snake
Liopholidophis oligolepis
Liopholidophis rhadinaea
Liopholidophis sexlineatus  – six-lined water snake
Liopholidophis varius

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Liopholidophis.

References

Further reading

External links

Pseudoxyrhophiidae
Reptiles of Madagascar
Snake genera
Taxa named by François Mocquard


title: Au milieu de ma vie

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Au milieu de ma vie is the eighth studio album by Canadian singer Garou, and his ninth album overall. The songs, all in French, are written by Gérald de Palmas, Pascal Obispo, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Francis Cabrel en Luc Plamondon. Garou sings Du vent, du mots in a duet with Charlotte Cardin. The album was produced by the London producers SMV (Sanctuary Music Vault).

Track listing
Au milieu de ma vie — 3:11
Avancer — 4:07
Toutes mes erreurs — 2:58
La fêlure — 3:34
Je lui pardonne — 3:54
Du vent, des mots — 3:15
L'ange gardien — 3:13
Le blues dans le sang — 4:13
Avec elle — 3:35
Seule une femme — 4:05
Tu sais — 3:24

2013 albums
Garou (singer) albums


title: Hoodrush

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Hoodrush is a 2012 Nigerian musical thriller film written, produced, and directed by Dimeji Ajibola, and starring OC Ukeje, Bimbo Akintola, and Gabriel Afolayan. It received two nominations at the 9th Africa Movie Academy Awards, Gabriel Afolayan eventually won the award for the category Best Actor In A Supporting Role.

The film tells a story of the challenges encountered by two brothers who strive to partake in musical talent shows.

Cast
OC Ukeje as Shez Jabari
Bimbo Akintola as Alhaja Khadijah
Gabriel Afolayan as Tavier Jabari
Chelsea Eze as Shakira
Ijeoma Agu as Kelechi

Reception

Critical reception
The film received mostly positive to average reviews. Nollywood Reinvented praised the film for its beautiful and well composed music and gave it a 69% rating, stating "the speedometer of the movie at the beginning may have been average, but it grew to a crescendo like an interesting novel one had doubts about, but became happy he read it to the end. This is a good movie". Sodas and Popcorn on the other hand believed the film would've been better with less songs. It gave a 4 out of 5 rating and wrote "This was a very beautiful script filled with lots of suspense, intrigue, emotion and a little bit of good ol’ action and my least favourite, the singing. The flashbacks were beautiful, the sex scenes were top notch, the fight scenes were actually believable, even better than some Hollywood struggle scenes".

Awards
Hoodrush received two nominations at the 9th Africa Movie Academy Awards including the category Achievement in Soundtrack. It also received eleven nominations at the 2013 Nollywood Movies Awards including the category Best Movie.

Africa Movie Academy Awards
AMAA 2013 Prize For Best Actor In A Supporting Role (won)
AMAA 2013 Prize For Achievement In Soundtrack (nominated)

Nollywood Movies Awards
Best Movie
Best Lead Actor (won)
Best Lead Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Director
Best Editing
Best Sound Design
Best Original Screenplay
Best Soundtrack (won)
Best Rising Star (male)
Best Rising Star (female)

See also
 List of Nigerian films of 2012

References

External links

2012 films
English-language Nigerian films
Nigerian thriller films
Nigerian musical films
2010s musical films
Films based on musicals
2010s musical drama films
Films shot in Lagos
Films set in Lagos
2010s thriller films
2012 drama films
2010s English-language films
Films shot in Nigeria


title: Tina Keane

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Tina Keane (born 1940) is a British artist who has worked with film, video, digital media, and performance, and been a forerunner of multimedia art in the UK. Reflecting a feminist perspective, her works have often explored gender roles, sexuality, and political concerns. She has stated that her work is primarily about "identity and play".

Biography
Keane studied at the Hammersmith College of Art and at the Sir John Cass School of Art (1967–70) and received an MA in Independent Film and Video from the London College of Printing (1995–96). She was a founder member of the non-profit women’s film distribution organization Circles - Women in Distribution. Keane also curated and programmed exhibitions and screenings including The New Pluralism exhibition at the Tate Gallery, with Michael O'Pray, in 1985.

Keane has been an important influence on successive generations of artists in the UK as a teacher at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, London, where she was Lecturer in Film & Video since 1982 and Research Fellow from 2003 to 2012. According to Malcolm Le Grice, "During the 1970s and ’80s, the teaching of women artists – including Tina Keane, Anna Thew, Anne Tallentire, Joanna Greenhill and Pam Skelton –was one of Saint Martins’ major contributions to art education. Their influence helped create a lasting shift in the gender profile in British art, and Saint Martins in general maintained a committed concern for gender, ethnicity and sexual politics throughout the Thatcher years.” Notable students who were mentored by Keane include Sandra Lahire, Sarah Turner and Isaac Julien.

Her 1978 multimedia work, She, presented at the Hayward Gallery, London, in 1978 was an early example of performance that incorporated live video and slide projections. Transparencies of neon signs, poetry and images of shop windows featuring mannequins were projected on a wall before which Keane performed, while video of the performance played on monitors surmounted with neon texts. Keane has said that the work brought into play "the actual and the recorded, the shop dummy, and the person, the illusion and the reality"

Transposition, first presented at the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, in 1992, used the body as a screen with video projected onto the naked backs of men as they glide sideways standing on a travelator. Keane subsequently re-edited the piece into a double screen video installation for the inaugural Tanks programme at Tate Modern, London, in 2012.

In 2015, Keane was one of the recipients of the 21st annual Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists, the largest individual awards made to visual artists and composers in the UK. Her pioneering, poetic film, 'Faded Wallpaper', was acquired by Tate in 2018.

References

1940 births
Living people
20th-century British women artists
21st-century British women artists
Feminist artists
Alumni of the London College of Communication
British art teachers


title: Eugnosta percnoptila

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Eugnosta percnoptila is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya and Tanzania.

The wingspan is 14–18 mm. The forewings are brownish grey with a golden sheen and with numerous tufts of raised scales. The hindwings are greyish brown with transverse striae.

References

Moths described in 1933
Eugnosta


title: Dufour-Lapointe

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Dufour-Lapointe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Maxime Dufour-Lapointe (born 1989), Canadian Olympic freestyle skier
 Chloé Dufour-Lapointe (born 1991), Canadian Olympic freestyle skier
 Justine Dufour-Lapointe (born 1994), Canadian Olympic freestyle skier

See also
 Dufour (surname)
 Lapointe (surname)

Compound surnames
French-language surnames
Surnames of French origin


title: Arakaza MacArthur

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Arakaza MacArthur (born 29 July 1995) is a Burundian professional footballer, who plays as a goalkeeper for Lusaka Dynamos F.C. in the Zambia Super League. Lusaka Dynamos Football Club is a Zambian football club based in Lusaka.  The club's nickname is "The Elite" and it lives up to its billing by way of the profile it commands in the media and general public. Lusaka Dynamos plays in the top division of the Football Association of Zambia league, called the Zambia Super League. Mac Arthur Popularly dubbed lion ("Saint lion") for his ability to produce spectacular saves, Arthur is widely regarded to be one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time in the East African region.

Background
Born in the south of the country in Makamba, MacArthur comes from a modest family, passionate about football. Very young, he discovers that his father is a big lover of the round ball who has his own football club made up of very young boys. McArthur realizes he was made to be in the woods, the proof is that he still does quite well. The fans like him despite his boyish size. Deep down, young MAC Arthur tells himself that you can't let go.

In 2007, he was selected by the Aigle noir team. He is a guardian and does wonders. Football lovers said to themselves "this child is terrible. His talent will take him far ". At the time, his club were playing the B League from within. Mac Arthur has often been called upon by the national coach to join the cadet squad.

In 2009, when his club Aigle Noir suffered a fall to return to the 2nd division, Arthur like most of his former teammates was recruited by the club Vital'O. To meet his desire to always improve, he moved to South Africa, to a goalkeeper academy "FAGA" (Farouk Abrahams Goalkeeper AcademY). Farouk Abrahams is a former South African national team goalkeeper, and he was the one who spotted him.

He helped his club Flambeau de l’Est to win the national championship for the 2013 season.

In July 2017, Mac Arthur joined Uganda side SC Villa after concluding a transfer from his home team Vital'O where he helped the club maintain a good position in the Uganda Super league.

In October 2018, Mac Arthur joined Kenya premier league side Kakamega Homeboyz, before joining Lusaka Dynamos late that year

Haipotei Foundation
Launched in May, the Haipotei Foundation, the nickname of this former porter of the various teams of Burundi, has assigned a glorious mission to the needy, including bringing food and drink for children in the street, donation school materials for needy children

"We had a chance to make a national and international career, our dream has always been to share the little we have with others. Today, on this great day of the launch of this foundation, I am delighted with this step We are more committed to helping vulnerable children and I think we will do our best to achieve our goal" Arakaza said.
Arakaza Mac Arthur donated to and supported more than 500 vulnerable children of Jabe center housing orphans. Among the items donated included food stuffs and school materials to help these young children to be able to study and have a brilliant future.

International career
He was invited by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

References

Living people
2019 Africa Cup of Nations players
Burundi men's A' international footballers
2014 African Nations Championship players
Burundian men's footballers
1995 births
Burundi men's international footballers
Burundian expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Expatriate men's footballers in Djibouti
Expatriate men's footballers in Uganda
Expatriate men's footballers in Kenya
Expatriate men's footballers in Zambia
Burundian expatriate sportspeople in Uganda
Burundian expatriate sportspeople in Kenya
Burundian expatriate sportspeople in Zambia
Flambeau de l'Est FC players
Vital'O FC players
SC Villa players
Kakamega Homeboyz F.C. players
Lusaka Dynamos F.C. players
Sofapaka F.C. players
Kenyan Premier League players
Djibouti Premier League players
Burundian expatriate sportspeople in Djibouti


The Star Awards for Favourite Onscreen Couple (Drama) was an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1994.

The category was introduced in 2011, at the 17th Star Awards ceremony; Christopher Lee and Jeanette Aw received the award for their roles in Breakout and it is given in honour of a pair of artistes–one actor and one actress (not necessary to be contracted under Mediacorp)–who portrayed a drama series couple that is deemed the most popular among the television audience. In 2011, the nominees were determined by a team of judges employed by Mediacorp. The rule was removed in 2012 to allow the public to determine the nominees entirely via online voting. Winners are also selected by a majority vote from the public via online voting as well.

Since its inception, the award was given to four onscreen couples – four different actors and two different actresses. Xu Bin and Chantalle Ng are the most recent and final winners in this category for their roles in Love At First Bite. Elvin Ng and Rui En; Qi and Aw; and Xu and Ng are the onscreen couples to win in this category twice. In addition, Lee and Jesseca Liu; Li Nanxing and Rui En; Ng and Rui En; Qi and Aw; Qi and Joanne Peh; Qi and Rui En; Xu and Ng have been nominated on two occasions, more than any other onscreen couple.

For the actors who were nominated in this category, Ng and Qi are the only actors to win in this category twice. In addition, Qi has been nominated on six occasions, more than any other actor. Li holds the record for the most nominations without a win, with three.

For the actresses who were nominated in this category, Aw is the only actress to win in this category four times, surpassing Rui En and Ng who has two wins. In addition, Rui En has been nominated on 11 occasions, more than any other actress. Ann Kok, Liu, Peh, Julie Tan, and Zhou Ying hold the record for the most nominations without a win, with two.

The award was discontinued from 2017, along with the Favourite Male Character and Favourite Female Character awards.

In 2022, the award was revived but came under a new name called Favourite Couple. Also, Favourite Male Character came with a new name Favourite Male Show Stealer	and Favourite Female Character came with a new name Favourite Female Show Stealer. The awards were retained in 2023.

Recipients

 Each year is linked to the article about the Star Awards held that year.

Category facts

Most wins

Most nominations

References

External links

Star Awards


title: Mark McGuire (musician)

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Mark McGuire (born December 31, 1986) is an American musician. A former member of Emeralds, McGuire is a multi-instrumentalist who has been producing solo material since 2007. He has released three solo albums and produces mostly instrumental music that combines electronica and acoustic guitars with psychedelic influences. He has toured internationally as a solo artist supporting among others Julianna Barwick and Jenny Hval while playing headlining shows in Europe, North America, Japan and Australia.

History

Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, McGuire first picked up a guitar at the age of 9 and played in a variety of high-school bands. In 2005 he joined the first incarnation of Emeralds but continued to work on his own material. Much of these recordings appeared on limited-run CD-Rs and cassettes distributed among friends. His first regular release was a 5-track EP, Solo Acoustic Vol. 2, that was part of a Steve Lowenthal curated series of acoustic songs on the VDSQ label. The record received praise from among others Al Doyle of Hot Chip.

In 2010 he released his first regular solo album Living With Yourself that included various pieces and arrangements recorded over a three-year period. The album was "inspired by my family, the friends I've known the best throughout my life, and everything that has led me to where I am right now". The album appeared on the Austrian label editions Mego to generally favourable reviews.

In 2011 McGuire decided to leave his native city and moved to Portland (OR). In the same year, Peter Rehberg of editions Mego curated and edited a collection of the self-released material McGuire had accumulated of the years. Entitled A Young Person's Guide To Mark McGuire, it contained two discs with twenty selected tracks. Before leaving Cleveland, McGuire had begun work on his next solo album, Get Lost, completing it in the first months after the move. He described it as 'reflection of a lot that was going on inside my head at that time and the things that were happening around me'. Released in September 2011, the album was described by the New York Times as 'album is warm, well paced, reassuring, confident and manageable in length; it's also self-consciously naïve in feeling, floppy and weirdly distant'.

In January 2013 it was announced that McGuire had left Emeralds for unspecified reasons. In the course of the year, he moved to Los Angeles after completing his third solo album, Along the Way. Released on February 3, 2014, through Dead Oceans Records, McGuire described the album as 'about the journey of an individual entering the world, and his quest for true knowledge about the universe and about himself'. From 2013 to 2014 McGuire played with The Afghan Whigs, also appearing on their 2014 album Do to the Beast.

Discography

Albums
Living With Yourself (2010)Get Lost (2012)Along the Way (2014)Noctilucence (2014) Beyond Belief (2015) Ideas of Beginning (2017)Do You Hear What I Hear (2018)EPSolo Acoustic Vol. 2 (2009)

CollectionA Young Person's Guide to Mark McGuire'' (May 2011)

References

Musicians from Cleveland
1986 births
Living people
Dead Oceans artists


title: Eugnosta unifasciana

text:
Eugnosta unifasciana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Tanzania. The habitat consists of a mosaic of Brachystegia-forest and semi-evergreen coastal forest.

The wingspan is 11–14 mm. The forewings are cream with ochreous suffusion. The hindwings are light grey.

Etymology
The species name refers to the characteristic median fascia in the forewing.

References

Endemic fauna of Tanzania
Moths described in 2010
Eugnosta


title: Cedarton

text:
Cedarton is a rural locality in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. In the , Cedarton had a population of 118 people.

Geography
The Stanley River forms the southern and part of the eastern boundary of Cedarton. Kilcoy–Beerwah Road runs through from south-west to north-east.

History
In the , Cedarton had a population of 118 people.

References

Suburbs of the City of Moreton Bay
Localities in Queensland


title: Rahim Khan (field hockey)

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Rahim Khan (Urdu:رحيم خان, born 20 April 1971) is a former Olympian and inventor of reverse flick, is a hockey legend who was  member of Pakistan field hockey team  who won the Men's World cup hockey tournament in 1994. He played 126 international matches by scoring 25 international goals and most on them on the reverse flick, he invented. He plays at right- in position.

Rahim Khan was born on 20 April 1971  at Mingora city of Swat District. He started hockey at school level. Earlier he played for a local club;Eleven Star, Saidu Sharif many years. He was first selected at national level, by Pakistan WAPDA hockey team. Then he joined Pakistan International Airlines (P.I.A) hockey club. He  was selected for Pakistani squad in 1991. Former Olympian, Rahim Khan played  five Champions Trophies, two World Cup and Atlanta Olympic. He won gold medal in 1994 Champions Trophy and World Cup, bronze medals in Asia Cup and Asian Games, silver medal in SAF Games and gold medal in World  Cup Qualifying round in his hockey carrier from 1991-1998. He was also awarded President Pride of Performance by Government of Pakistan. Rahim Khan is currently running a hockey coaching academy at Peshawar.

See also
List of Pakistani field hockey players

References

External links

1971 births
Living people
Pakistani male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Pakistan
Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Asian Games medalists in field hockey
Asian Games bronze medalists for Pakistan
Field hockey players at the 1994 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
1998 Men's Hockey World Cup players
People from Swat District
Sportspeople from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa


title: Mid-Century Loves

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Mid-Century Loves () is a 1954 Italian anthology historical melodrama film consisting of five segments directed by Glauco Pellegrini, Pietro Germi, Mario Chiari, Roberto Rossellini and Antonio Pietrangeli.

Plot

Episode # 01: "Romantic love", directed by: Glauco Pellegrini
In 1900 Elena, a young man from a rich bourgeois family, falls in love with the musician Mario. Her father and her aunt Matilde, however, would like the girl to marry a rich count. When Mario leaves for his tour, Matilde promises both young people to foster their feelings, while she actually destroys the letters they send each other, and persuades Elena that Mario has forgotten her. Elena ends up marrying the count.

Episode # 02: "War 1915-18", directed by: Pietro Germi
During the First World War, in a small Abruzzo village the very young lovers Antonio and Carmela get married and are expecting a child. Antonio is called to the front between the draft of 1900: Carmela and all friends and acquaintances are very proud of him and confidently await the end of the war. In the end the victory is announced and the celebrations are unleashed in the town: still no one knows that Antonio was killed in his first assault with the Sicily Brigade.

Episode # 03: "Postwar 1920", directed by: Mario Chiari
Alberto, an exalted squadist, leaves his country greeting his relatives and his girlfriend Susanna to take part in the March on Rome. In reality, he is mainly interested in Rome's nightlife and beautiful women. Susanna joins him in disguise and discovers him in a tabarin in equivocal attitudes with an entrîneuse, to whom she does not fail to reveal her contempt for her peasant girlfriend. But Susanna is not far behind in terms of beauty and sensuality, so much so that she is hired for a provocative number in the part of Salome, and she takes the opportunity to take her revenge on Alberto.

Episode # 04: "Naples 1943", directed by: Roberto Rossellini
During the bombings of the Second World War, actors and extras engaged in rehearsals at the Teatro di San Carlo rush into the air-raid shelter, and there the extra Carla and the airman Renato fall in love, but will be divided by death.

Episode # 05: "Girandola 1910", directed by: Antonio Pietrangeli
We are in the belle époque. A doctor advises a patient to limit his sexual activity; this however asks the doctor to mediate with his mistress so that she is less demanding. The woman is also having another relationship, and she too begs the doctor to intervene discreetly with the second man; and so on until among the whirlwind of lovers the doctor recognizes his wife.

Cast

L'amore romantico
 Franco Interlenghi: Mario
 Leonora Ruffo: Elena
 Paola Borboni: Matilde
 Carlo Ninchi:   Elena's father
 Luigi Tosi: Count Edoardo Savelli

Girandola 1910
 Lea Padovani: Isabella
 Andrea Checchi: Gabriele
 Umberto Melnati: Cocò, the policeman
 Carlo Campanini: Michelangelo, the doctor
 Franco Scandurra

Guerra 1915-18
 Maria Pia Casilio: Carmela
 Albino Cocco: Antonio
 Lauro Gazzolo: the master
 Amedeo Trilli

Dopoguerra 1920
 Alberto Sordi: Alberto
 Silvana Pampanini: Susanna
 Giuseppe Porelli: Fosco D'Agata
 Alba Arnova: Yvonne
 Arturo Bragaglia: zio di Alberto
 Franco Migliacci

Napoli 1943
 Antonella Lualdi: Carla
 Franco Pastorino: Renato
 Ugo D'Alessio

References

External links

1954 films
Italian drama films
Italian romance films
Italian historical films
1954 drama films
1950s romance films
1950s historical films
Films directed by Roberto Rossellini
Films directed by Pietro Germi
Films directed by Antonio Pietrangeli
Films directed by Glauco Pellegrini
Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli
Melodrama films
1950s Italian films


title: Eugnosta marginana

text:
Eugnosta marginana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Uganda. The habitat consists of open areas close to mountain rain forests.

The wingspan is 12–14 mm. The forewings are cream, suffused with ochreous in the basal half. The hindwings are grey, becoming slightly lighter towards the wing base.

Etymology
The species name refers to the dark edges in the forewing.

References

Endemic fauna of Uganda
Moths described in 2010
Eugnosta


title: Eugnosta misella

text:
Eugnosta misella is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa.

The wingspan is 9–11 mm. The forewings are ochreous brown with a faint pattern. The hindwings are dark fuscous.

References

Moths described in 1993
Eugnosta


title: Natalya Arinbasarova

text:
Natalya Utevlevna Arinbasarova (, ; born 24 September 1946 in Moscow) is a Russian actress who appeared in more than thirty films since 1965. In 1979 Arinbasarova was named Honored Artist of the RSFSR and in the same year she received the USSR State Prize for her role  in The Taste of Bread (1978).

Life and career
Natalya Utevlevna Arinbasarova was born on September 24, 1946. Her father was Utevle Turemuratovich, a military man, a Kazakh by nationality. At the time of the birth of his daughter, he studied in Moscow at the Frunze Military Academy. Her mother was Maria Konstantinovna, née Zhukovskaya, from a family of Polish refugees during the First World War. Natalya's siblings were older brothers Yuri and Arsen, younger brother Mikhail, younger sister Tatyana.

After the father graduated from the Military Academy, the family moved several times from place to place, until finally, in 1956, he settled in Alma-Ata.

Natalya Arinbasarova was initially interested in dance. After watching a film in which an excerpt from the ballet "Swan Lake" was shown in her childhood, Natalya desired to become a professional ballerina. She studied at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy until 1964 and joined the dance troupe of Almaty Opera Theater upon graduation. In 1965, director Andrei Konchalovsky cast her in his feature directorial debut The First Teacher. For her performance as Altynai, a peasant girl who supports the Communist teacher in her village, Arinbasarova won the prize for Best Female Lead at the Venice Film Festival in 1966.

Arinbasarova, also enrolled in VGIK, where she studied in Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova’s workshop, graduating in 1971. Gerasimov gave her the role of a young Kyrgyz ballet dancer in his contemporary epic By the Lake (1970). Her other important lead roles include the title role in the Chingiz Aitmatov adaptation Jamilya (1969) and the World War II heroine Manshuk Mamedova in The Song of Manshuk (1970) by Kazakh director Magit Begalin. Arinbasarova was cast by Tolomush Okeev in the social drama The Ulan (1977), by Polish filmmaker Jerzy Hoffman in Beautiful Stranger (1992), and by Ermek Shinarbaev in the Kazakh-French co-production A Tender Heart (1994). She also had a supporting role in the Kazakh picture Leila’s Prayer (2002), about a young girl living near the Semipalatinsk nuclear testing site.

Personal life
In 1965 Natalya Arinbasarova married Konchalovsky, to whom she stayed married until 1969. They had one son, Egor who later also became a prominent film director.

She later remarried, to cinematographer Nikolai Dvigubskiy. They had a daughter, Katya Dvigubskaya, who later became an actress and film director. Arinbasarova married the third time to director Eldor Urazbayev, with whom she worked on several films. Arinbasarova retained good relationships with all her husbands, who supported her both children through their studies and film careers.

Selected filmography

Awards
Volpi Cup (Best actress) at the 1966 Venice Film Festival for The first teacher.

References

External links

1946 births
Living people
Soviet female models
Soviet film actresses
Russian film actresses
Recipients of the Lenin Komsomol Prize
Volpi Cup for Best Actress winners
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Academicians of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences "Nika"
Actresses from Moscow
Russian people of Kazakhstani descent
20th-century Russian actresses
21st-century Russian actresses
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni
Mikhalkov family


title: Penrice Soda Products

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Penrice Soda Products was a company founded in 1935 in South Australia. It was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, named after its quarry near the small town of Penrice, South Australia. It was forced to close its soda ash production plant in Osborne and was placed in liquidation in August 2014.

History
Penrice Soda Products operations were founded by ICI Australia in 1935. The Dry Creek Saltfields and Osborne soda ash plant were acquired from ICI in 1989. The salt fields were sold to Ridley Corporation in 2005. Penrice Soda Products was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 2005. It was placed in liquidation in August 2014.

Operations
In addition to its large limestone and marble quarry just north of Angaston, it had a number of other establishments in South Australia, including the only soda ash production facility in Australia, located on the Port River in the north-western Adelaide suburb of Osborne.

On 24 June 2014, Penrice Soda Products announced that it would be closing its Osborne plant, and the Angaston quarry was sold to Adelaide Brighton Cement in July 2014.

Transport
Penrice Soda Products was the last company in South Australia to use the broad gauge rail network in South Australia with Genesee & Wyoming Australia operating the Penrice Stone Train from the Penrice Quarry on the Barossa Valley line to Penrice Soda Products' soda ash factory in Osborne. It ceased operating in June 2014 when the Osborne factory closed.

Soda ash plant
The company's soda ash plant at Osborne used steam from the Osborne Power Station, making that establishment Australia's biggest cogeneration facility.

The soda ash plant used salt from the St Kilda lagoons which was (normally) harvested in autumn and piped as a saturated brine solution under the Port River to the plant, and limestone from its Angaston quarry was transported to the plant by the Penrice Stone Train.

Using ammonia, these raw materials were converted to soda ash by the Solvay process. By-products discharged to the Port River included calcium chloride, ammonia, and insoluble residues, known as "calsilt". which required periodic dredging to avoid blocking the shipping channel.

References

Companies based in South Australia
Companies formerly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange
Non-renewable resource companies established in 1935
Australian companies disestablished in 2014
Chemical companies established in 1935
Australian companies established in 1935


title: Pascal Köpke

text:
Pascal Köpke (born 3 September 1995) is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for MSV Duisburg. He is the son of former German international goalkeeper Andreas Köpke.

Club career
Köpke spent ten years in 1. FC Nürnberg's youth team, before joining SpVgg Unterhaching in July 2013. Four months later he made his debut for the club as a substitute for Marius Duhnke in a 3. Liga match against VfB Stuttgart II, scoring the fourth goal in a 4–0 win. The goal – an overhead kick – was voted as goal of the month for November 2013.

In June 2018, Hertha BSC announced Köpke would join for the 2018–19 season, reportedly signing a four-year contract until 2022, after previously having been on the verge of a move to Hannover 96.

On 29 August 2020, Köpke returned to 1. FC Nürnberg. After three years in Nürnberg, he moved to MSV Duisburg for the 2023–24 season.

Career statistics

References

External links

Pascal Köpke at Kicker

1995 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Hanau
Footballers from Darmstadt (region)
Men's association football forwards
German men's footballers
SpVgg Unterhaching players
SpVgg Unterhaching II players
Karlsruher SC players
Karlsruher SC II players
FC Erzgebirge Aue players
Hertha BSC players
Hertha BSC II players
1. FC Nürnberg players
MSV Duisburg players
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
3. Liga players
Regionalliga players
Oberliga (football) players
Germany men's youth international footballers


title: Hertrich

text:
Hertrich is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Rainer Hertrich (born 1949), German businessman
Stefan Hertrich (born 1976), German singer and musician

See also
Herdrich

German-language surnames


title: Eugnosta anxifera

text:
Eugnosta anxifera is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in South Africa.

References

Endemic moths of South Africa
Moths described in 1993
Eugnosta


title: Leo Close

text:
Leo St John Close  (20 October 1934 – 18 January 1977) was an Irish Vincentian priest and Paralympian sportsman and organiser, who was first president of the Irish Wheelchair Association. Born in Drumcondra in 1934, in Dublin, Christian Brothers in Marino, at Belvedere College and at Mount St Joseph’s Cistercian College in Roscrea, he studied for at All Hallows College in Drumcondra. He was paralysed in an accident aged 23 while a young seminarian; as a wheelchair user his path to ordination was supported by the Archbishop McQuaid of Dublin, a family friend, and Fr William Purcell of All Hallows. He obtained a BA from University College Dublin in preparation for his anticipated role in education. Clerical students from All Hallows would often study at UCD parallel to their clerical studies; with the assistance of classmates, Close was able to attend lectures on the top floor of the Earlsfort Terrace building.
He continued his studies taking University College Dublin, obtaining a diploma in education, and an MA from Catechetics at the Lumen Vitae Institute in Brussels in 1963.

A lover of sport, he competed in archery, table tennis, javelin, shot put and discus amongst other events, despite his impairment. He was also a regular at Croke Park, where the RTÉ Commentator (another Drumcondra man) Michael O'Hehir would often point out Close sitting in front of Hill 16.
Close captained the Irish Team at the first Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome and competed for Ireland in the 1964 Tokyo Paralympic Games. He competed for New Zealand, where he was working as a priest, in  the 1968 Tel Aviv Paralympic Games and in the 1972 Heidelberg Paralympic Games.

After a meeting in the Mater Hospital in Dublin, he helped found the Irish Wheelchair Association, which he became the first chairman of a post he held until 1964, when he went to Dunedin, New Zealand, attending the Paralympics in Tokyo on the way. He was involved in organising disabled sports in New Zealand both locally in Otago and nationally. He also founded the Wheelchair Association in New Zealand.

In the 1975 New Year Honours, Close was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the paraplegic movement.

Death
Close was diagnosed with liver cancer in 1976 and died in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 18 January 1977.

References

External links

  (Ireland)
  (New Zealand)

Alumni of All Hallows College, Dublin
Alumni of University College Dublin
Irish emigrants to New Zealand
Irish Vincentians
New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Paralympic athletes for Ireland
Paralympic athletes for New Zealand
1934 births
1977 deaths
20th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests
People educated at Belvedere College
People educated at Cistercian College, Roscrea
Athletes from Dublin (city)
People from Drumcondra, Dublin
Christian clergy from Dublin (city)


title: Adda Djørup

text:
Adda Djørup (born August 18, 1972) is a Danish poet, novelist and short story writer.

Biography
Djørup was born in Aarhus, Denmark. She went to the Katrinebjergskolen (Katrinebjerg school) before dropping out and working for several years as an au pair, before returning for secondary school. She gained a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Copenhagen.

Djørup lives in Copenhagen.

Career
Djørup's first book was Monsieurs monologer, a collection of poetry, appeared in 2005.

In 2007, she published a collection of short stories, titled Hvis man begyndte at spørge sig selv. Several of the stories in the collection were set in southern Europe. Djørup revealed that these were informed by her own extensive sojourn in Spain and Italy.

Djørup's novel Den mindste modstand (The least resistance, 2009) won the EU Prize for Literature in 2010.

In 2011, Djørup wrote a drama, titled Korus’ Kabaret.

In 2015, she released a poetry collection titled Poesi og andre former for trods.

Awards
 2010, EU Prize for Literature.

References

21st-century Danish novelists
Danish women poets
1972 births
Living people
21st-century Danish poets
21st-century Danish women writers
Danish women novelists


title: Eugnosta assecula

text:
Eugnosta assecula is a species of moth of the  family Tortricidae. It is found in South Africa.

References

Endemic moths of South Africa
Moths described in 1909
Eugnosta


title: Saidi Tama Nduwimana

text:
Saidi Tama Nduwimana (born 6 June 1989) is a Burundian professional footballer, who plays as a goalkeeper for AS Inter Star in the Burundi Football League.

International career
He made his international debut for Burundi in 2011. He was invited by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

References

Living people
Men's association football goalkeepers
Burundian men's footballers
Burundi men's international footballers
Burundian expatriate men's footballers
2014 African Nations Championship players
Burundi men's A' international footballers
1989 births
21st-century Burundian people


title: Horse (1941 film)

text:
is a 1941 black-and-white Japanese drama film written and directed by Kajirō Yamamoto and starring Hideko Takamine. It is now best known for being the last film that Akira Kurosawa worked on before starting his own directorial career.

Plot
A young girl named Ine from a poor village family wants nothing more than to own a horse. Her family soon takes in a pregnant mare which they have signed on to care for over the winter. Financial troubles push the family towards the edge of ruin and neither they nor the horse have much to eat. The horse becomes very ill and the vet determines only grass will save it. Ine walks many miles through the snow to a hot spring where grass grows year-round and saves the horse's life. That spring gives birth to a colt and it looks as if Ine will finally have her horse. But when the colt is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army, as unpaid bills force the family to sell the colt. Ine takes a job in a mill to save money to buy her horse back. On the day of the auction, she is outbid and cries as the horse is led away for the last time.

Cast
 Hideko Takamine – Ine Onoda
 Kamatari Fujiwara – Jinjiro Onoda, Ine's father
 Chieko Takehisa – Saku Onoda, Ine's mother
 Kaoru Futaba – Ei, Ine's grandmother
 Takeshi Hirata – Toyokazu Onoda, Ine's older brother
 Toshio Hosoi – Kinjiro Onoda, Ine's younger brother
 Setsuko Ichikawa – Tsuru Onoda, Ine's little sister
 Sadao Maruyama – Mr. Yamashita, the teacher
 Sadako Sawamura – Kikuko Yamashita, the teacher's wife
 Sōji Kiyokawa – Mr. Sakamoto

Production
Horse was written and directed by Kajirō Yamamoto. Akira Kurosawa is credited as the film's production coordinator, but in his autobiography, Something Like an Autobiography, Kurosawa likened his actual role to "first assistant director". It is the last film Kurosawa worked on as an assistant before starting his own directing career. The film took three years to plan and a year to film. Yamamoto later stated in an interview that his then-assistant Kurosawa "took responsibility for second unit work" while Yamamoto worked on a musical comedy in Tokyo. Kurosawa wrote in his autobiography that he, in addition to his position as first assistant and second unit director, co-scripted and edited the film. The final shot of Uma has been compared to the final shot of Kurosawa's second film, The Most Beautiful, which also emphasizes the personal sacrifice of a young woman during wartime.

References

External links

Japanese black-and-white films
1941 films
Films directed by Akira Kurosawa
Films directed by Kajiro Yamamoto
Films with screenplays by Akira Kurosawa
Japanese drama films
1941 drama films


title: Wooded meadow

text:
Wooded meadows (also named wood-meadows, park meadows, etc.) are ecosystems in temperate forest regions. They are sparse natural stands with a regularly mowed herbaceous layer.

While frequent throughout Europe during the Medieval period and before, wooded meadows have largely disappeared. Wooded meadows originated with the practices of hunter-gatherer communities. They were important in terms of social organization around a natural resource and determined much of the community's interactions with the natural world. In the early 20th century, wooded meadows were used for fruit cultivation in Sweden; however, their prevalence has decreased substantially due to changes in land management and a movement toward more intensive types of agroecosystems. The more typical, calcicolous wooded meadows are common around the Baltic Sea.

Wooded meadows have high species richness. In some of the current Estonian wooded meadows, world-record species densities have been recorded (up to 76 species of vascular plants per square meter).

Literature
Kull, Kalevi; Kukk, Toomas; Lotman, Aleksei 2003. When culture supports biodiversity: The case of wooded meadow. In: Roepstorff, Andreas; Bubandt, Nils; Kull, Kalevi (eds.) 2003. Imagining Nature: Practices of Cosmology and Identity. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 76–96. (pdf)

References

External links
On wooded meadows at the Estonian Seminatural Community Conservation Association site

Ecology
Grasslands
Habitats
Land management
Meadows


title: Frans Fiolet

text:
Franciscus Antonius "Frans" Fiolet (born 20 July 1939) is a retired field hockey player from the Netherlands. He competed  at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics, where his team finished in ninth and seventh place, respectively.

References

External links

1939 births
Living people
Dutch male field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands
Field hockey players from The Hague
20th-century Dutch people


title: Eugnosta cataracta

text:
Eugnosta cataracta is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Namibia.

References

Endemic fauna of Namibia
Moths described in 2004
Eugnosta


title: Hutmarah

text:
Hutmarah is a village in Anantnag East tehsil in Anantnag district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is one of 105 villages in Anantnag East Tehsil  Block  Mattan along with villages like Seer hamdan and Mattan. It is divided into 9 main parts which are Hargam, Malpora, Nayakpora, Dangerpora, Sikh Mohalla, Peer Mohalla, Nai basti and Noor colony. The village is situated on the banks of Lidder River.Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs live  together  in this village.Moreover, the entire village lives in peace and harmony and there is no conflict of any kind. Villagers come forward in each other sorrows and happiness and they are of helpful nature.

Demographics
The population of Hutmarah was 2,885 at the 2011 Indian census, of which 1,398 were male and 1,487 were female.

References

Villages in Anantnag district


title: Tiit Aleksejev

text:
Tiit Aleksejev (born 6 July 1968) is an Estonian novelist and playwright.

Aleksejev was born in Kohtla-Järve. He studied history at the University of Tartu, and served as a diplomat in France and Belgium.

His debut novel was a thriller called Valge kuningriik (The White Kingdom, 2006). It won the Betti Alver literary award for best first novel. His second novel was a work of historical fiction, set in the time of the First Crusade. This novel called Palveränd (The Pilgrimage, 2008) won the EU Prize for Literature and was translated into several languages subsequently (e.g. Italian, Hungarian, and Finnish). In 2011, he published a third novel Kindel linn (Stronghold). Palveränd and Kindel linn are the first and second part of what is to become a trilogy.

His first play Leegionärid (Legionaries), about the fallen soldiers of the Estonian Legion, appeared in 2010 and premiered in 2013 in Rakvere. It received the Virumaa Literary Award in 2011. Another historical play, Kuningad (Kings) was published in 2014 and is about the murder of the four Estonian kings during the St. George's Night Uprising (1343).

Aleksejev lives in Tallinn.

References

External links
 Tiit Aleksejev at Estonian Writers' Online Dictionary

1968 births
Living people
21st-century Estonian novelists
People from Kohtla-Järve
Estonian dramatists and playwrights
University of Tartu alumni
Estonian male novelists


title: John Gossweiler

text:
Johannes Gossweiler  (24 December 1873, in Regensdorf – 19 February 1952, in Lisbon) aka John Gossweiler or João Gossweiler, was state botanist to the Government of Angola from 1899 until his death. He made important collections in every district of Angola and created the first phytogeographic map of that country. His collections of African plant specimens were sent regularly to
Lisbon (Jardim Colonial
and Jardim Botânico da Universidade),
the British Museum,
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,
and the University of Coimbra.
Duplicates were also kept at the Herbarium of the Instituto de Investigação Agronómica in Angola.
Today, many herbaria contain specimens he collected (see #Collections in herbaria).

Biography
Gossweiler studied horticulture in Zurich, Stuttgart and Dresden, later spending four years in London at the Royal College of Science in South Kensington, and 1897-98 at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He was inspired by William Turner Thiselton-Dyer while at Kew, and went on to work for the government of Angola in the country's botanical garden in Luanda, where he remained until his death in 1952.

Arriving in Angola, Gossweiler found the garden far from complete, and started collecting in the coastal area around Luanda and the Malanje Plateau. In 1905 he studied the indigenous plant sources of rubber of the Cuando-Cubango and Bié Plateau regions and collected many novel plants along the Okavango River.

The 'Cazengo Colonial Garden', the botanical garden of which Gossweiler would be director, was finally ready by 1907. Located on the site of an abandoned plantation, Gossweiler stocked it with indigenous species and plants from Sri Lanka, Goa, Malaysia and Tropical America. His collection of pressed specimens steadily grew. In 1915/16 he worked in Subliali, Pango Munga, the rainforest region of Mayombe, and near the source of the Zanza River, where he was accompanied by his wife Martha.

Following World War I Gossweiler worked for the 'Fomento Geral de Angola' from 1919 to 1926, during which time he made substantial collections along the southern bank of the Congo River, in the Dembos region and at Quiçama. In 1927 Gossweiler rejoined the government service and worked at starting an experimental cotton station in Catete, travelling to Amboim in 1932 to investigate coffee plant diseases. His collections grew with plants from the mist forest south of Cazengo. He then spent some time in Portugal at the University of Coimbra and the Colonial Garden in Lisbon, working on his collections.

Gossweiler embarked on two more collecting expeditions in Angola. In 1937-8 he joined a pair of Portuguese botanists, Luis Carrisso and F.A. Mendonça of Coimbra University, and Arthur Wallis Exell of the British Museum, on an extensive expedition covering some 13,000 km. On this expedition Carrisso suffered a fatal heart attack. Despite his death, work carried on, the results adding considerably to the 'Conspectus Florae Angolensis' of which the first volume, consisting of 55 parts, was published between 1937 and 1951. The other expedition was in 1947 when he collected in the forests of Dundo in the far north-east of Angola.

Gossweiler's collections amounted to some 14,000 specimens, and are housed at some of the world's important herbaria. "J. Gossweiler 14685 (BM)", a specimen of Anticharis aschersoniana, may be the last he collected (July 1950) that is preserved.

In 1936 Gossweiler's services were recognised by the Portuguese government, which awarded him the 'Comenda da Ordem do Imperio Colonial'. In 1950 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Linnean Society of London for his contributions to systematic botany.

Gossweiler died 1952 in Lisbon. In 1960, the Portuguese government granted his widow Marthe Gossweiler a life pension in recognition of his service to the country and for ceding his works to the country.

A statue of Gossweiler is located in the park next to the regional museum of Dundo. Two portraits of him were published in the 1950s.

Collections in herbaria

Specimens Gossweiler collected can be found in the following herbaria:

The table includes the number of specimen viewable online, either directly or through JSTOR.

Publications

Archive materials are held by:
University of Coimbra: A few of his letters are available online in the digital library of the University of Coimbra
Federal Archives of Switzerland
Natural History Museum Archives, London

Eponymy
Gossweilera S.Moore
Gossweilerochloa
Gossweilerodendron Harms.

Honours
 Commander of the Order of the Colonial Empire, Portugal (28 October 1935)

Further reading

Notes and references

Fellows of the Linnean Society of London
19th-century Swiss botanists
Swiss taxonomists
Angolan taxonomists
Angolan botanists
1873 births
1952 deaths
People from Dielsdorf District
Regensdorf
Immigrants to Portuguese Angola
Swiss emigrants


title: Eugnosta aphrobapta

text:
Eugnosta aphrobapta is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Brazil (Esprito Santo and Rondonia), Ecuador (Napo Province).

References

Moths described in 1931
Eugnosta


title: Bongund

text:
Bona gund (also called Bongund) is a village in Anantnag tehsil in Anantnag district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is one of 105 villages in Anantnag Block along with villages like Hutmarah and Bona Nambal.

References

Villages in Anantnag district


title: Eugnosta argentinae

text:
Eugnosta argentinae is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Argentina.

References

Moths described in 1967
Eugnosta


title: Heqaib

text:
Heqaib, also Hekaib or Hekayeb, was an ancient Egyptian nomarch of the 1st nomos of Upper Egypt ("Land of the Bow") under king Pepi II Neferkare, towards the end of the 6th Dynasty. He was also an officer in charge of military expeditions in Nubia.

Career

Born Pepinakht (ppjj-nḫt - "[King] Pepi is strong"), he led at least three expeditions, which are all recorded on the façade of his tomb at Qubbet el-Hawa (near Aswan), after a long list of his titles.
In the first expedition, Pepinakht led a surprise attack in the lands of Wawat and Irthet, slaying many warriors and taking many prisoners to the court of the pharaoh. Then, he was sent back to the same places (second expedition) where he captured some chieftains, and also brought back booty. For his third expedition, Pepinakht was instructed to bring back the corpse of Enenkhet; he was an expedition leader in charge to build a ship to reach the Land of Punt, but he was attacked and killed along with his escort by the "sand dwellers". Pepinakht's autobiography abruptly ends while he was attacking the sand dwellers. However, it's very likely that he was able to accomplish even this mission.

His capabilities and charisma earned him the nickname Heqaib (ḥq3-ỉb - "He who controls his heart") and then, after his death, a quick apotheosis. This fact may be representative of the great power achieved by local authorities in this period, which is a prelude to the forthcoming collapse of the Egyptian state. His son, named Sabni, apparently succeeded him in his charges. In a room in an official building on Elephantine were found several wooden boxes with names of local officials. One box bears the name of Heqaib. These boxes were most likely used in rituals around the funerary cult of the people mentioned on them.

Legacy

Shortly after Heqaib's death and divinization, a great number of people started to worship this "local saint" initially in front of his tomb at Qubbet el-Hawa, and later in a purpose-built sanctuary. From the various documents left by those devotees it is known that many of them were named "Heqaib" in his honour, and even some pharaohs are known to having left dedications in the sanctuary: among the royal statues found here can be mentioned those of Mentuhotep I (although posthumous), Intef II, Senusret III, Sekhemkare Amenemhat V, Neferhotep I, and Sekhemre-Wadjkhaw Sobekemsaf I, while it is known that Intef III ordered a restoration of the sanctuary during the early 11th Dynasty.

Heqaib's distant successors during the Middle Kingdom such as Sarenput I, Sarenput II and Heqaib III, expanded the sanctuary by building shrines dedicated to him and to themselves. However, with the advent of the troubled Second Intermediate Period the sanctuary was progressively abandoned and filled with debris, until its rediscovery by Edouard Ghazouli in 1932 and the subsequent excavations by himself and Labib Habachi.

References

Further reading

People of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt
Deified ancient Egyptian people
Nomarchs
Land of Punt


title: Eugnosta argyroplaca

text:
Eugnosta argyroplaca is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Arizona.

References

Moths described in 1931
Eugnosta


title: Igor Mazepa

text:
Igor Aleksandrovich Mazepa (; born 2 July 1976) is the director general of the Concorde Capital investment company in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Biography
He graduated from Kyiv National Economic University having completed graduation programs in International Economics and Law.

In 1997 he started his career of investment banker in Russian – American Investment Company Prospect Investments. In 2000—2002 he worked in the position of Managing Director at IC Foyil Securities New Europe, and then as director of  IC IFC (International Financial Corporation).

In 2004 he founded and became Director General of IC Concorde Capital. Many years the company retains the position of one of three best investment banks of Ukraine (according to the largest international information agency Thomson Reuters).

In 2008 he was elected as Chairman of the exchange committee of the Ukrainian Exchange,  and at present he continues to act in this capacity.

In July–September  2014 he acted as a member  of the Supervisory Committee of PJSC Alfa-Bank.

In 2010 he participated in the project of  ICTV channel “Ukrainian Dream” as one of investors of  promising business ideas of common Ukrainians.

The best manager in the exchange market of Ukraine as ranked by the publishing house “Economics”, in  2007- winner in the nomination “Personality of  the exchange market of Ukraine” of the financial rating of Business magazine.

Igor Mazepa's business name was involved in numerous scandals. In 2015 Igor Mazepa's corporation Concorde Capital founded a forex broker PrivateFX,
which became a technical successor of the scandalously ruined financial pyramid Forex Trend Limited
developed in 2011 by the arrested financial criminal Pavel Krymov.
The information about Igor Mazepa's 100% stake in the capital of the PrivateFX was
publicly confirmed by CEO of PrivateFX Alexander Bykov.
In April 2017 Igor Mazepa made a technical sale of PrivateFX to the unknown  front company
Prime Broker, without having closed the obligations to investors for almost $18 Millions.

References

1976 births
Living people
Ukrainian investors
Kyiv National Economic University alumni


title: Simen Spieler Nilsen

text:
Simen Spieler Nilsen (born 4 August 1993) is a Norwegian speed skater.

Career
He placed 15th in the 2013 World Allround Championships in Vikingskipet, Hamar. In the 2013 World Single Distance Championships in Adler Arena, Sochi, he placed 5th in the men's team pursuit.

Nilsen placed 25th in the men's 5000 metres in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Records

Personal records

Nilsen occupies the 28th position on the adelskalender with a score of 147.882 points

References

External links

1993 births
Norwegian male speed skaters
Speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic speed skaters for Norway
Sportspeople from Arendal
Living people
Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in speed skating
Olympic gold medalists for Norway
World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists


title: Eugnosta arrecta

text:
Eugnosta arrecta is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Afghanistan.

References

Moths described in 1970
Eugnosta


title: Giuseppe Soncini

text:
Giuseppe Soncini (born 1926 - died 1991) was an Italian politician. He was a member of the Italian Communist Party and a leading figure in the city government of Reggio Emilia in northern Italy. In this position he promoted links between Reggio Emilia and southern African countries, in particular anti-colonial and anti-apartheid movements. For this work he was posthumously given the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo award by the South African presidency.

Early life
He got a diploma as a factory designer; then he began working for the municipality of Reggio Emilia.
From 14 June 1944, he took part in the Italian Resistance against Fascism and Nazism; in the same period he joined the Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI).

At the end of the Second World War, he began working in the Officine Reggiane factory and, due to his organizational and managerial qualities, he was appointed Deputy Secretary of PCI Section Santa Croce “Reggiane-Officine Meccaniche Italiane” and member of the trade union inside the factory.

He led the struggle against the shutdown of the factory but this caused him some periods of detention. Nevertheless, he continued defense of workers’ rights. In fact, along those years he was news editor of the magazine “La voce operaia”, an insert of magazine “La Verità”.

Political activities

The period of PCI
After the shutdown of Officine Reggiane, Soncini went to Rome, where he attended the Istituto di Studi Comunisti (better known as Scuola delle Frattocchie) and passed a test to become journalist. This allowed him to work in the Press and Propaganda Section of the Party.

In the late Fifties, he went to the USSR to attend a course about economic and political theories, while Nikita Khrushchev was leading the country. Here Soncini learned Russian language and got in touch with many students, some of them from Asian and African countries.

After the Russian experience, by 1960, Giuseppe Soncini managed the "Ufficio Studi Provinciale" of PCI of Reggio Emilia: during the first half of Sixties, he published some reports and articles on economic, working and social conditions of Reggio Emilia district.

The roles of Chairman of Reggio Emilia’s Hospital and of Deputy Mayor
In 1964, he served as a city councillor of Scandiano’s municipality; then in 1967, he served as board member of Hospital Santa Maria Nuova of Reggio Emilia. When the hospital became Ente Ospedaliero Provinciale, Giuseppe Soncini was appointed as Chairman.

In 1970, Soncini became Chairman of Emilia Romagna’s Associazione Regionale Ospedali (AROER): in this period he promoted the important transition from a mutualistic healthcare system to a universal one. Between 1972 and 1977, he was also FIARO’s vice chairman: during the first two years, he was involved in negotiations for the first National Labour Agreement (ANUL in Italian), that included rules on private practice and on full-time medical practitioners.

In 1975, he left as a Chairman and was elected in the Council of Reggio Emilia municipality; then he was appointed Deputy Mayor on Human Resources, Statistics, Planning, Press and Public Relations Departments and kept this commitment also in 1976 whenUgo Benassi became Mayor. The same mayor entrusted him as Deputy Mayor on International Relationships in 1977, and, in 1980 as Deputy Mayor on Finance Department. His presence in the city council was confirmed both in 1980 and 1985, but he decided to leave in 1986. He was politically active until 1990 when he became provincial Secretary of Local Autonomies League.

International relationships

Soncini had an important role in leading Reggio Emilia into a network of international relationships, in particular with southern African countries.

Mozambique
While Soncini was Chairman of AROER, after a visit of a FRELIMO delegation, he proposed a twinning agreement between Reggio Emilia’s Hospital and the Hospital Central of Cabo Delgado to help liberated zones of Mozambique. In 1970, a pact ratified this twinning agreement and a Committee for Medical aid to Mozambican people was established and Soncini was appointed Chairman. The aid project was developed with physician Silvio Pampiglione and FRELIMO's Direcçao de Saude (health care management): it was decided to send medicines, health facilities and Italian practitioners in order to assist injured people and to train local healthcare assistants.

In 1972 Soncini visited Tanzania and liberated zones of Mozambique. On that occasion Franco Cigarini filmed a documentary. Soncini returned to Mozambique in 1975 to take part to celebrations of independence from Portugal and to sign a twinning agreement between Reggio Emilia and the city of Pemba, capital of Cabo Delgado, in order to improve technical and institutional collaboration and to reinforce the collaboration and friendship with Mozambican leaders such as Samora Machel, Joaquim Chissano and Marcelino dos Santos. In 1977 the “Comitato Unitario per l’amicizia, la cooperazione e la solidarietà con i popoli” was established.

South Africa
In the same year, on 26 June, the "Pact of Solidarity between Reggio Emilia and the African National Congress" was approved and signed by the mayor Ugo Benassi and Oliver Tambo. The following year, which UN proclaimed “International Year against Apartheid”, the publication of Italian version of “Sechaba”, the official magazine of ANC, started. Soncini was managing editor of it until 1984 when the last issue was published. Sechaba helped to raise awareness of the international struggle against apartheid in Italy.

In 1978, Giuseppe Soncini organized in Reggio Emilia the “National Conference of solidarity for independence and the sovereignty of Southern Africa Peoples against colonialism, racism and apartheid”, with the participation of delegates from ANC, Sof SWAPO, of Zanu-Zapu, of Mozambique and of other Southern African countries, as well as Italian leaders. On that occasion it was decided to organize a solidarity ship for southern Africa.

In April 1979 the National Committee was established, with Soncini as Coordinator, with the purpose to realize initiatives and campaigns to help anti-colonialist movements in Africa. National and International institutions referred to this Committee during those years. The Committee organized both solidarity ships Amanda (in 1980 from Genoa) and Rea Silvia (in 1984 from Livorno), bound for Namibia and South Africa respectively, with aid and facilities.

During the Eighties Giuseppe Soncini continued his activity of political and social commitment for African populations. He also promoted the conferring of honorary citizenship of Rome on Nelson Mandela in 1983.

In 1987, Soncini was invited by Oliver Tambo, ANC’s Chairman, to participate at the Arusha International Conference in Tanzania, an important event dealing with democratic transition in South Africa.

The last years
In the last years of his life Soncini, with his wife Bruna Ganapini, organized his personal archive, bearing witness to his role in Reggio Emilia’s community and his international solidarity work.

Giuseppe Soncini died in Parma on 4 April 1991, after a heart surgery operation. Marcelino dos Santos delivered the funeral speech and Benny Nato, as delegate of ANC in Italy, took part in the ceremony.

Awards
In April 2013, Giuseppe Soncini posthumously received the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo bronze award, an honour conferred by South Africa to people from other countries people who have been distinguished in the fight against apartheid and solidarity with liberation movements in Southern Africa. The award was delivered to his widow, Bruna Ganapini. The citation read:

Sources

 Biography of Giuseppe Soncini from Soncini-Cigarini Archive

1926 births
1991 deaths
Italian resistance movement members
People from Reggio Emilia
Italian Communist Party politicians


title: Benjamin Hafner

text:
Benjamin (Ben) Hafner (March 24, 1821 – 1899) known as "The Flying Dutchman" and "Uncle Ben", was an American locomotive engineer, who worked for the Erie Railway, and at the end of his life known as the oldest engineer in point of service in the United States.

Biography
Benjamin Hafner, who departed this life in the spring of 1899, was at that time the oldest engineer – in point of service – in the United States. "Uncle Ben", as he was affectionately and familiarly known on the Erie, was born in Baden, Germany, on March 24, 1821, and came to the United States with his parents in 1832. His father was Valentine Hafner, one of Napoleon's soldiers, serving as a first lieutenant, and was in the march to Moscow.

Mr. Hafner began railroading as a fireman in 1839, and in 1840 commenced running as engineer on the old slab-rail road between Baltimore and Cumberland, Maryland. He came to the Erie in 1848, and was one of the pioneer engineers running between Piermont and Port Jervis. Later he ran on the Illinois Central, and in 1857 made a business trip to Europe. On his return he re-entered the employ of the Erie and continued in active service until March, 1892, when he quit running, and was given the position of depot master at Port Jervis, in which capacity he acted until his death.

He was married February 14, 1858, to Miss Mary Catherine Goetz of Baltimore, and eleven children were born to them, five of whom are living. Mr. Hafner was an honored member of the B. of L. E., and stood high in the esteem of the Erie's officials, while every railroad man on the two divisions had a tender regard for the aged engineer, who was one of the best in his day.

Work

Railroad engineer

Ben Hafner was an active locomotive engineer for fifty years, who completed his semi centennial as active engineer on August 17, 1890. In this period he wrecked several locomotives, and was himself buried under the locomotive five times. Hafner was a man of romance and of glamor, and known among railroad men in the country as the "Flying Dutchman.

He came as engineers on the Erie in 1848 while there was still no railroad beyond Port Jervis. Before he had served nine years on the Baltimore and Ohio. His first locomotive on the Erie was the "Susquehanna", a Rogers engine. There were then less than 200 men on the payroll of the company, and a majority of them were freight handlers at Piermont. Ben Hafner left the Erie in 1854, and ran on the Illinois Central Railroad, but returned to the Erie in 1858. He has been buried under his locomotive five times so that it took hours to dig him out, and he never got a scratch.

The Locomotive Engineers Journal (1875) published the following story about Hafner:

In the years 1843 and 1844 Mr. Hafner was running an engine from the Relay House to Harper's Ferry, and ran the trains that carried President Polk's message between those points, there being no telegraph in those days.
In the year 1845 he ran an engine from Washington to Baltimore, and witnessed the laying of the first telegraph wire. The wire was first put in the ground, in a trench about two feet in depth, but this plan did not work, as the wire was not properly insulated. The plan was then adopted of placing the wire on upright poles, (of about one-half the height of those now in use) which proved a business. He remembers well the excitement incident to the successful transmission of messages from Washington to Baltimore.
During his service of thirty-five years as engineer, one passenger only has been killed on his train. He ran one engine on this road thirteen years, and another six years, and has run miles enough to travel around the world over forty times...

Once, at Ramsey's, the train running at fifty miles an hour, he collided with a coal car. The train was behind time, and he had already made up forty minutes between Port Jervis and that place – a run of about fifty-five miles. His engine turned upside down, and some of the cars were wrecked. Mrs. James Gordon Bennett was a passenger on the train. A brakeman was badly hurt. Mrs. Bennett took up a collection for him among the passengers, contributing liberally herself.

The 1854 strike at Erie

In a way Hafner triggered the 1854 strike at the Erie Railroad. It all started early in 1854, when Daniel McCallum then superintendent of the Susquehanna division, had drafted a renewed code of rules regulating the running of trains, which he submitted to the Directors of the company. They were pleased with it, and officially adopted it as supplementary to the existing rules. Charles Minot was then the general superintendent. The McCallum rules were adopted March 6, 1854, and Minot was directed to put them in force. He did not approve of some of them. He refused to promulgate the new code, and resigned.

McCallum took charge as general superintendent May 1, 1854, and his new rules were at once put in force. Trouble was not long in following. The engineers objected to the new order of things, particularly to Rule 6 of the McCallum code, which declared that every engineer would be held responsible for running off a switch at a station where he stopped, whether he should run off before or after receiving a signal to go forward from a switchman or any other person. The engineer, under this rule, was expected to see for himself whether the switch was right or not, and take no person's authority for the same at stations where trains stopped. The engineer, however, had a right to run past stations where he did not stop at a rate he was willing to hazard on his own account, the Company reserving the right to decide whether such running was reckless or not. " The road must be run safe first and fast afterward", the management declared.

The engineers also protested against the alleged "posting rule" of the company, under which notices of dismissal of engineers was at once posted with other railroad companies to the injury of the men. An abrogation of the distasteful rules was requested, June 15, by a committee, consisting of John Donohue, William Schrier, and John C. Meginnes. Superintendent McCallum's explanation and reply not being satisfactory, the engineers struck on June 17 – the first strike in the history of the railroad. This strike on the Erie was settled after ten days' paralysis of the business of the railroad, and a loss of many thousands of dollars to the company.

The engineer over whose case the strike resulted was Benjamin Hafner of the Eastern Division. On the evening of June 10 ran off a switch at Turner's. He was dismissed. After he was dismissed Hafner was sent for by Superintendent McCallum to talk about the incident. Hafner refused to go unless he was reinstated first. McCallum declined to reinstate him without a consultation. The matter was taken up by all the leading engineers on the Delaware and Eastern divisions, with the above result.

The "Flying Dutchman"

In 1869, while Jay Gould was President of the Erie, he ordered a locomotive made at the Brooks Locomotive Works at Dunkirk, which he named the George G. Barnard, after the famous Judge of that name. It was the handsomest locomotive ever made up to that time. It was decorated by paintings in oil, on every spot where one could be placed, by the late Jasper F. Crapsey, the artist. There were fourteen coats of varnish on the boiler. Gould selected Ben Hafner to be the engineer of the locomotive. The first trip Jay Gould ever took behind this locomotive with Ben at the throttle he was in a special car, bound for Susquehanna, 104 miles from Port Jem's. Gould told Hafner to go pretty fast. He went so fast that before they had gone many miles over the crooked Delaware Division Gould sent his colored porter ahead to tell Ben to go slower, much to the disgust of Ben.

Ben Hafner got the name of the "Flying Dutchman" in this way: One day in the summer of 1871 No. 8 was late when he took that train at Port Jervis. He had orders to make the run to Jersey City in as short a time as he could. The distance was eighty-nine miles. Hafner made the run in just two hours, including seven stops, one of which was fourteen minutes at Turner's for supper. The passengers were badly frightened at the speed of the train. When the train reached Jersey, one of the passengers passed Ben as he was leaning out of his cab, and yelled at him:
 "Say, I'd rather sail in the 'Flying Dutchman' than ride after you!"
From that day to this Ben Hafner has been the "Flying Dutchman" to all railroad men. In 1893 Hafner retired as an engineer after more than half a century on a locomotive, and since then has been depot master at Port Jervis. He was hale and hearty at seventy-six.

References
 This article incorporates public domain material from  H.R. Romans (eds.) American locomotive engineers: Erie Railway edition, illustrated Crawford-Adsit Co. Publishers, W.H. Welch, Proprietor in Chicago. 1899, p. 304; and other public domain material from books and websites.

External links
 When the locomotive came at catskillarchive.com
 Benjamin Hafner at ancestry.com.

1821 births
1899 deaths
American locomotive engineers
German emigrants to the United States
People from the Grand Duchy of Baden


title: Zaldora

text:
Zal dora (also called Zaldora) is  a village in Doru Shahabad tehsil in Anantnag district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is one of 62 villages in Doru Shahabad Block along with villages like Hakura Badasgam and Hardu Dehrana.

Demographics

Kashmiri is the Local Language here. Also
People Speaks Urdu and Hindi.
This is the only village in Anantnag district with Sikh population. This village contains more than 40 Sikh families. This village has two gurdwaras where all Sikhs worship twice a day.

References

Villages in Anantnag district


title: Rashid Léon Harerimana

text:
Rashid Harerimana is a Burundian professional footballer, who plays as a defender for A.S. Kigali and for the Burundi national football team.

International career
He was invited by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

References

External links

Living people
Burundi men's A' international footballers
2014 African Nations Championship players
Burundian men's footballers
1994 births
Men's association football defenders
Burundi men's international footballers
Footballers from Bujumbura
AS Kigali F.C. players


title: Ludwig Lesser Park

text:
The Ludwig Lesser Park () is a park in the Frohnau area in the northwestern part of Berlin. It is located between Schönfließer Straße to the north, Gollanczstraße to the west, Senheimer Straße to the east and Markgrafenstraße to the south. It is named for the landscape architect Ludwig Lesser, and was constructed around 1908.

References

External links

Parks in Berlin


title: Chakpath

text:
Chakpath is a place in Doru Shahabad tehsil in Anantnag district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is one of 62 villages in Doru Shahabad Block along with villages like Shangrin and Shankerpora.it is one of the famous village around doru shahbad it has a big garden having four chinars  it is near the garden kulamchinar it is one of the famous garden around the valley. Chakpath has an important place in the history of Kashmir. It is said that while on his way to different endeavours the famous ruler Yousuf Shah Chek used to rest under the chinars along with his baes.

Demographics
Kashmiri is the Local Language here. Also
People Speak Kashmiri and Urdu. Pin Code of Chakpath is 192210 which comes under srinagar postal division (Jammu kashmir Circle)

References

Villages in Anantnag district


title: Léopold Nkurikiye

text:
Léopold Nkurikiye is a Burundian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Vital'O F.C. in the Burundi Football League.

International career
He was invited by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

References

Living people
Burundi men's A' international footballers
2014 African Nations Championship players
Burundian men's footballers
Vital'O FC players
1989 births
Men's association football defenders


title: Leemhuis

text:
Leemhuis is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Jaap Leemhuis (1941–2014), Dutch field hockey player
Joan Leemhuis-Stout (born 1946), Dutch politician
Joost Leemhuis (born 1969), Dutch cricketer
Niels Leemhuis (born 1997), Dutch footballer

Dutch-language surnames