title: The Royal Sessions

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The Royal Sessions is a studio album by Paul Rodgers of Free and Bad Company fame. Released on 4 February 2014, it consists of ten covers of blues, rhythm & blues and soul songs recorded at Royal Studios in Memphis, Tennessee with local musicians and produced by Perry A. Margouleff. Rodgers chose songs for the album that inspired him in his youth.

Rodgers announced before the album's release that he would be donating all proceeds from it to the Stax Music Academy, an after-school music programme in Memphis, stating that he wanted to "pay the proceeds to the people who gave us this music".

The album entered the Billboard Blues Albums chart at number one, and debuted on the Billboard 200 at number 81.

Reception

Steven Thomas Erlewine, reviewing the album for AllMusic, describes it as "enjoyable". Glide magazine awarded it 8/10. USA Today gave it three stars out of four, with Jerry Shriver saying that "Rodgers' devotion rings true". The Winnipeg Sun gave it two and a half stars, describing it as "Enjoyable, but not essential." Le Parisien writer Michel Valentin viewed the familiarity of the songs as a drawback.

Track listing

The vinyl version of this album does not contain "Born Under a Bad Sign"
Amazon Exclusive includes three bonus tracks – "Shake", "Walk In My Shadow" and "Wonderful World"

Personnel

 Paul Rodgers – vocals
 Michael Toles – guitar
 Leroy Hodges – bass
 Michael Barar – viola
 Roy Brewer – violin
 Marc Franklin – trumpet
 Charles Hodges – Hammond B3
 Wesley Hovanec – assistant engineer, electric bongos, videography
 Jonathan Kirkscey – cello
 Beth Luscombe – viola
 Perry Margouleff – guitar, mixing, producer
 Lannie McMillan – tenor saxophone
 Susanna Perry-Gilmore – violin
 Jessie Munson – violin
 Royal horns – featured artist, horn
 Lester Snell – piano
 Gary Topper – tenor saxophone
 Archie Turner – Wurlitzer
 Mark Wallace – cello
 The Royal Singers – strings
 James L. Spake – baritone sax
 James Robertson – drums
 Steve Potts – drums
 Daniel Bean – assistant engineer
 Ryan Smith – mastering
 William Wittman – engineer, mixing

Charts

References

2014 albums
Paul Rodgers albums


title: Alexey Sobolev

text:
Alexey Sobolev (born in Novosibirsk on 1 September 1991) is a Russian snowboarder competing in slopestyle and big air.

Sobolev qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics where he finished in 20th place in the men's slopestyle, being eliminated in the semifinal.

He garnered attention because his board may reference the band Pussy Riot and because his helmet had his iPhone's telephone number printed on the side until he was forced to cover it up by officials.

Results
 2014 Winter Olympics

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
Russian male snowboarders
Olympic snowboarders for Russia
Snowboarders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Novosibirsk
21st-century Russian people


title: Manhattan Bridge Loop

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Manhattan Bridge Loop is a 1928 oil painting by American artist Edward Hopper, depicting the Manhattan Bridge in New York City. It is on display in the Addison Gallery of American Art of the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, which received the painting as a gift from art collector Stephen Carlton Clark in 1932.

When the Addison Gallery presented a special exhibition about the painting in 1939, Hopper provided a statement and drawings for the show.  Art historian Avis Berman has identified this painting as a significant example of how Hopper's paintings have affected the way people see New York City.  Critic Jackie Wullschlager has described it as a "sombre masterpiece", "an industrial cityscape with a lone flâneur casting his long shadow on an empty sidewalk".

References

External links
Manhattan Bridge Loop
Manhattan Bridge Loop in LIFE, April 17, 1950, p. 101.

1928 paintings
Paintings by Edward Hopper
Phillips Academy
Bridges in art


title: Deidre Henderson

text:
Deidre Marie Henderson (née Hulse; born September 4, 1974) is an American politician serving as the ninth lieutenant governor of Utah since January 4, 2021. From 2013 to 2021, she served as member of the Utah State Senate for District 7, which is based in Spanish Fork, Utah.

Early life and education
Deidre Henderson graduated from Taylorsville High School in Taylorsville, Utah. While pursuing a bachelor's degree in history from Brigham Young University, she was her own intern.
She graduated from BYU in 2021.

Career
Before joining the Utah State Senate, Henderson worked as a business consultant, and was involved in U.S. Congressman Jason Chaffetz's 2008 campaign.

Henderson started her political career working for the Jason Chaffetz election campaign. In 2012, Henderson was selected from among two candidates by the Republican convention and was unopposed for the November 6, 2012 General election, winning with 27,257 votes. This district formerly consisted of the East bench of the Salt Lake Valley and was held by Democratic Senator Ross I. Romero who retired from the Senate in 2012. The Utah State Legislature's 2012 redistricting plan moved District 7 from the Salt Lake Valley to the Southern portion of Utah County.

She was sworn into office in January 2013. In 2016, Henderson defeated her Democratic opponent, Andrew Apsley, with 83.65% of the vote to Apsley's 16.35%. and re-elected in 2016.

In the Senate, Henderson served on the Committee on Rule. Revenue and Taxation, Education, Business, Labor, and Economic Development Appropriations, and Higher Education Appropriations.

Henderson ran to replace Jason Chaffetz in the U.S. Congress representing Utah's 3rd congressional district in 2017. Henderson lost to State Representative Chris Herrod in the Republican convention.

Lieutenant Governor of Utah

On March 19, 2020, Henderson was selected as the running mate of incumbent Lieutenant Governor Spencer Cox in the 2020 Utah gubernatorial election Republican primary. After Cox won the Republican primary, Henderson became the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor.

Personal life
She married Gabe Henderson and they have five children. Henderson is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

References

Further reading
Government officials visit Sierra Bonita in Nebo School District
The Utah Capitol: A Vision of Pride and Beauty Speech given on the Utah Senate Floor by Senator Henderson

External links
Deidre Henderson at Ballotpedia
SB108: Protecting Birthing Centers from Protectionist Prohibitions Interview with Senator Henderson about her bill, SB108, from the 2016 Legislative Session

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1974 births
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
Brigham Young University alumni
Latter Day Saints from Utah
Lieutenant Governors of Utah
Living people
People from Spanish Fork, Utah
Place of birth missing (living people)
Republican Party Utah state senators
Women state legislators in Utah
Candidates in the 2017 United States elections


title: Iosif Jumanca

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Iosif Jumanca (December 23, 1893 – June 26, 1950) was an Austro-Hungarian and Romanian politician.

Born in Fólya, Temes County (now Folea, Timiș County) in 1903, he became a founding member of the Romanian branch of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party, which later became the Social Democratic Party of Transylvania and Banat. A journalist by profession, his political outlook encompassed both a strong patriotism on behalf of Austria-Hungary's Romanians and a commitment to social democracy. He was elected to the party leadership at three successive congresses: Nagyszeben (Sibiu) (December 1906), Budapest (December 1910) and Arad (October 1913). Although he viewed the socialist movement mainly in terms of struggle between classes rather than nationalities, Jumanca insisted on separate Romanian structures because he believed the many Romanian workers of Transylvania and Hungary were hesitant to join Hungarian-led political and trade movements for fear of Magyarization. He saw Romanian-led party sections and unions as a way to educate workers about their own language and history while safeguarding against Magyarization.

Near the end of World War I, on October 30, 1918, a Romanian council was created in Budapest with the goal of preparing the Union of Transylvania with Romania. This body had six representatives from the Romanian National Party and six social democrats, among whom was Jumanca. Moreover, he was present at the assembly in Alba Iulia that proclaimed the union, delivering a speech to the crowd of over 100,000 in which he emphasized the devotion to the national cause of the workers' movement. The following day, he was elected to the region's provisional parliament and named by the interim government as minister for industry.

The subsequent period witnessed negotiations for uniting the socialist movement in Romania's new provinces with that of the Old Kingdom, a process that culminated with a congress held in October 1920 that absorbed the socialists of Transylvania, Banat, and Bukovina into the Socialist Party of Romania. Eight individuals from these provinces were included in the party's leadership, Jumanca among them. Meanwhile, Ioan Flueraș traveled to Moscow to make contact with the Comintern; his experience there led social democrats to reject any ties with Soviet Russia. Thus, in February 1921, the social democrats of Transylvania, Banat, and Bukovina withdrew from the pro-Moscow executive of the Socialist Party and formed a provisional leadership, to which Jumanca was elected.

In May 1921, the socialist movement underwent a split at the founding conference of the Romanian Communist Party. The following month, a Federation of Romanian Socialist Parties was created by, among others, Jumanca, Flueraș, Gheorghe Grigorovici, Ilie Moscovici, and Constantin-Titel Petrescu; this was consolidated at a congress in August 1922. In May 1927, the Federation reorganized into the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSDR), with Jumanca elected to its leadership. He continued to be elected to executive positions within the party at three subsequent congresses, in 1930, 1933, and 1936.

Jumanca was among the social democrats elected to the Romanian Chamber of Deputies in 1928 and in 1931. Additionally, from 1932 to 1933, he was a member of the Cluj city council. In 1933, he was elected to the Senate, and he served until 1937. Although elected senator for Cluj County on November 29, it was not until the following February 1 that he was sworn in: the assassination of Ion G. Duca by the Iron Guard on December 29 seriously shook the political system. In the event, from the time he was seated until his term expired in November 1937, he was the only social democrat in the Romanian Parliament.

In 1938, with the onset of the National Renaissance Front royal dictatorship of King Carol II, Jumanca was among those social democratic leaders who decided to work within the new system, hoping to improve the situation of the workers while aware of internal threats (the rise of the far-right) and external ones (irredentist demands that threatened to break up the country). Working within the country's social insurance department, neither he nor other social democrats practiced politics, but instead focused on helping the workers' guilds achieve their demands.

On April 12, 1944, he had a meeting with Iuliu Maniu (the leader of the National Peasants' Party) and other socialists, where they discussed a possible program of collaboration. Unlike Grigorovici, Jumanca had not held a position in Carol's government; neither had he been in the king's parliament, as had Flueraș; nor had he even considered cooperating with the Ion Antonescu dictatorship at its onset. These considerations led the individuals who recreated the PSDR after the royal coup d'état of August 23, 1944, to elect Jumanca to the party leadership. In contrast, Grigorovici, Flueraș, , and Ilie Mirescu were excluded for their past collaboration.

Jumanca was a close ally of Titel Petrescu, whom he followed into the Independent Social Democratic Party after a split between pro- and anti-communist social democrats in March 1946. Along with other party leaders, the two were arrested in February 1948 by the authorities of the new Communist Romania. According to witnesses mentioned by historian , Jumanca was killed by torture at Gherla Prison, his body then transported to Văcărești Prison in Bucharest, in order to hide the evidence of the crime.

Notes

References
  Stelian Neagoe, "Un senator social-democrat în Parlamentul României", in Revista de științe politice și relații internaționale, Nr. 4/2006, p. 109-118

1893 births
1950 deaths
People from Timiș County
Romanian journalists
20th-century journalists
Ethnic Romanian politicians in Transylvania
Delegates of the Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania)
Members of the Senate of Romania
Councillors in Romania
Romanian Social Democratic Party (1927–1948) politicians
Inmates of Gherla prison
Romanian people who died in prison custody
Prisoners who died in Romanian detention
Romanian torture victims


title: Under the Stars (2007 film)

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Under the Stars () is a 2007 Spanish comedy-drama film directed and written by  based on the novel by Fernando Aramburu which stars Alberto San Juan alongside Emma Suárez, Julián Villagrán, and Violeta Rodríguez.

Plot
The plot follows freeloading trumpeter Benito Lacunza upon his return from Madrid to his Navarrese hometown (Estella-Lizarra) in the wake of his father's impending death, and his relation with brother Lalo, Lalo's partner Nines, and Nines' withdrawn daughter Ainara.

Cast

Production
The film is based on the novel El trompetista del Utopía by Fernando Aramburu. A Fernando Trueba PC production, it had the participation of TVE and Canal+. Shooting locations included Estella-Lizarra.

Release
The film was presented at the 10th Málaga Film Festival in March 2007. It was released theatrically in Spain on 15 June 2007.

Reception
Jonathan Holland of Variety considered that the film features "an ace performance from Alberto San Juan, who makes the movie his own by simply flooding it with humanity".

Javier Ocaña of El País deemed the film to be a "a comedy with dramatic overtones endowed with an unusual visual poetry".

Accolades

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| rowspan = "4" align = "center" | 2007 || rowspan = "4" | 10th Málaga Film Festival || colspan = "2" | Golden Biznaga ||  || rowspan = "4" align = "center" |
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| Best Director || Félix Viscarret ||
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| Best Actor || Alberto San Juan ||
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| Best New Screenplay || Félix Viscarret ||
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| rowspan = "9" align = "center" | 2008 || rowspan = "7" | 22nd Goya Awards || Best Adapted Screenplay || Félix Viscarret ||  || rowspan = "7" |
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| Best New Director || Félix Viscarret ||
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| Best Actor || Alberto San Juan ||
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| Best Actress || Emma Suárez ||
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| Best Supporting Actor || Julián Villagrán ||
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| Best Original Score || Mikel Salas ||
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| Best Cinematography || Álvaro Gutiérrez ||
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| rowspan = "2" | 17th Actors and Actresses Union Awards || Best Film Actor in a Leading Role || Alberto San Juan ||  || rowspan = "2" |
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| Best New Actor || Julián Villagrán ||
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See also
 List of Spanish films of 2007

References

External links

2007 comedy-drama films
2007 films
Spanish comedy-drama films
2000s Spanish films
2000s Spanish-language films
Films shot in Navarre
Films based on Spanish novels
Spanish-language comedy-drama films


title: Sphingobacterium

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Sphingobacterium is a genus in the family Sphingobacteriaceae. The genus Sphingobacterium is characterized by the high concentrations of sphingophospholipids as lipid components.

Species

S. alimentarium
S. anhuiense
S. arenae
S. bambusae
S. caeni
S. canadense
S. changzhouense
S. chuzhouense
S. cibi
S. cladoniae
S. composti
S. daejeonense
S. detergens
S. faecium
S. ginsenosidimutans
S. gobiense
S. griseoflavum
S. hotanense
S. jejuense
S. kitahiroshimense
S. kyonggiense
S. lactis
S. mizutaii
S. mucilaginosum
S. multivorum
S. nematocida
S. pakistanense
S. paludis
S. populi
S. psychroaquaticum
S. shayense
S. siyangense
S. spiritivorum
S. suaedae
S. thalpophilum
S. thermophilum
S. wenxiniae
S. yanglingense
S. zeae

References

Sphingobacteriia
Bacteria genera


title: Élisabeth Chaplin

text:
Élisabeth Chaplin (17 October 1890, Fontainebleau, France – 28 January 1982, Fiesole, Italy) was a French/Tuscan painter in the Nabis style.

She is known for her portraiture and Tuscan landscapes, most of which reside in the Pitti Palace’s Gallery of Modern Art collection in Florence. She has two self-portraits in the Vasari Corridor collection.

Family influences

Chaplin came from a family of painters and sculptors. Her mother was Marguerite de Bavier-Chauffour, a poet and sculptor. Her uncle was Charles Joshua Chaplin, a French painter and engraver. Charles Chaplin conducted art classes specifically for women at his studio. The American artist Mary Cassatt and the English artist Louise Jopling were among Charles Chaplin's students. He died when Elisabeth Chaplin was a baby.

Early life

In 1900 Elisabeth’s family moved to Italy, first to Piemonte and afterwards to Savona in Liguria. It was there that she started to teach herself to paint, with no formal training. When the Chaplin family took up residence at the Villa Rossi in Fiesole in 1905, Elisabeth had the chance to visit Francesco Gioli’s studio and meet painter Giovanni Fattori.

Chaplin’s visits to the Uffizi Museum were decisive. She learned from copying the classics. From 1905-1908, she painted her first large canvases and in 1910 her "Ritratto di Famiglia" (Family Portrait) won a gold medal from the Florence Society of Fine Arts (displayed in the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence).  In 1916 she moved with her family to Rome, where she would live until 1922. There she met Paul-Albert Besnard (1849-1934), a French painter and printmaker, who in 1913, was appointed to be the director of Villa Medici in Rome. He became one of Chaplin's mentors.

She participated in the Venice Biennale in 1914 and in the Paris Salon in 1922 and thereafter. She befriended French author André Gide and followed painter Maurice Denis, founder of the Nabis movement, whom she met in Florence in 1912.

Before World War II

From 1922 to 1930s, Chaplin lived at Villa Il Treppiede with her mother and life-long companion Ida Capecchi. Her nephew Robert Chaplin, a young and promising artist, lived with them from 1927 until his death from muscular dystrophy at age eleven in 1937.

Chaplin produced numerous portraits and frescoes during this time. She socialized with painters Giovanni Fattori and Luigi and Francesco Gioli, and art collector Bernard Bereson.

Return to France

From the mid 1930s until the early 1950s, Chaplin lived in Paris. She received civil commissions to produce decorative tapestries such as Summer and Autumn for the École Professionelle of Metz, France (1936–37) and murals for Paris churches Notre-Dame-du Salut and Saint-Esprit. In 1937, she won a gold medal at the International Exhibition in Paris and in 1938, she was awarded the French Legion of Honor.

Return to Tuscany

She returned to Villa Il Treppiede in Fiesole after the war and moved back permanently in the early 1950s. She continued to paint landscapes and portraits, many of family members and loved ones.

In 1946, the Uffizi Gallery acquired three of her paintings and requested a donation from the artist of her young Self-portrait with a Green Umbrella that now hangs in the Vasari Corridor.

During her lifetime there a number of major retrospectives in Florence of her work: Palazzo Strozzi (1946), Academy of Arts and Design (1956), and French Institute (1965).

Several of her works are on display in the national Gallery of Modern Art in Rome.

Chaplin donated her entire body of works (and those of her mother and nephew) to Florence. Fifteen of her paintings are on show at Palazzo Pitti's Modern Art Gallery, while almost 700 (paintings and sketches) are in storage.

She died in Fiesole in 1982.

See also

References

1890 births
1982 deaths
People from Fontainebleau
20th-century French painters
French women painters
Post-impressionist painters
20th-century French women artists
French emigrants to Italy


title: Hilal Areeha

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Hilal Areeha () is a Palestinian football team that played as part of the West Bank Premier League until 2012, when they were relegated to the West Bank First Division.

History
Hilal Areeha was established in 1974 in Jericho, during the Israeli occupation government period.

External links
 Hilal Areeha at kooora.com

Football clubs in the West Bank
Association football clubs established in 1974
1974 establishments in the Israeli Military Governorate


title: Crimes Ordinance

text:
The Crimes Ordinance  (), last amended in 1972, is a law relating to certain consolidated penal enactments. Like Macau, penal/criminal law in Hong Kong is different from what is applied in China.

History
The ordinance consolidated the original Crimes Ordinance of 1971 with several others ordinances:

 Coinage Offences Ordinance 1964 (Cap. 204)
 Criminal Intimidation Ordinance 1964 (Cap. 205)
 Explosive Substances Ordinance 1966 (Cap. 206)
 False Personation Ordinance 1964 (Cap. 207)
 Falsification of Documents Ordinance 1964 (Cap. 208)
 Forgery Ordinance 1964 (Cap. 209)
 Perjury Ordinance 1970 (Cap. 214)
 Punishment of Incest Ordinance 1964 (Cap. 216)
 Sedition Ordinance 1970 (Cap. 217)

Current version
The current provisions of the ordinance includes:

 Treason
 Other offences against the state
 Piracy
 Intimidation
 Perjury
 Incest
 Explosive substances
 Unmarked Plastic Explosives
 Criminal Damage to Property
 Forgery and related offences
 False Certification and personation
 Counterfeiting and kindred offences
 Sexual and Related Offences
 Preliminary offences
 Miscellaneous Offences

See also
 Legal system of Macau
 Law of Hong Kong

Penal/criminal codes from other parts of China:

 Penal Code of Macau

Penal/criminal codes from similar Common law jurisdictions:
 Crimes Act
 Criminal Code (Canada)
 English Criminal Code

External links

 Crimes Ordinance

Hong Kong legislation
Crime in Hong Kong
Criminal codes


title: Freerice

text:
Freerice, originally FreeRice, is a website-based application that allows players to donate rice to families in developing countries by playing a multiple-choice quiz game. For every question the user answers correctly, ten grains of rice are donated via the United Nations World Food Programme.
There are over 50 categories, including: English Proverbs, Multiplication Table, German, Flags of the World, and World Heritage Sites. The categories can be played on up to five difficulty levels, from easiest to hardest, depending on the subject. A user's total score is displayed as a mound of rice and the number of grains earned.

History
The website went live on October 7, 2007, with 830 grains of rice donated on its first day. The site was created by John Breen, a computer programmer, to help his son study for the SAT exam. The second word in its name was originally capitalized as "FreeRice". On November 20, 2007, the WFP launched a campaign to "feed a child for Thanksgiving", encouraging internet users "to take time out from traditionally the busiest online shopping period of the year and help the hungry" by playing the game. For a brief while, the amount of rice donated per correct answer was increased to 20 grains, though this was reduced to 10 grains of rice per answer within a few months.

In March 2009, Breen donated the FreeRice website to the World Food Programme.

Freerice 2.0 launch
In September 2010, the UN World Food Programme launched a new version of the game with social networking, groups, rankings, and achievements. As part of the launch, the site dropped the second capitalization in its name, going from "FreeRice" to "Freerice".

Freerice Beta Launch
In August 2018, the UN World Food Programme launched a newer, more improved version of the game on a new website. Apps for iOS and Android have also been released with this version of the website.

Effectiveness
In its first ten months of operation, Freerice donated over 42 billion grains of rice. One month after the inception of the viral marketing program, users had earned enough points for one billion grains of rice. The United Nations' World Food Program stated that this amount could feed 50,000 people for one day, since it takes 400 grams or about 19,200 grains of rice to feed one adult for a day. Using this calculation, enough rice was donated in 2008 to feed over 6,000 people daily for each day of that year. Since its inception, as of April 3, 2013, Freerice players had earned sufficient rice for over 10 million meals, assuming 2 meals per day.

Awards
 Digital Communications Award 2011 – Best Corporate Game
 Time magazine – 50 Best Websites 2011
 15th Annual Webby Awards – Honoree
 2010 Parent's Choice Awards – Online Learning
 Time magazine – 50 Best Websites 2008
 Yahoo! Pick of the Year 2007 – Charity Category – Winner
 Berkman Award to Freerice.com creator, John Breen. He was recognized with a Berkman Award on May 16, 2008, for creating Freerice. At the Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society's tenth anniversary gala dinner, recipients of the Berkman Awards were chosen for their outstanding contributions to the Internet's impact on society over the past 10 years.

References

See also

 Greater Good (click-to-donate-sites: The hunger Site, The Rainforest Site...)
 Ripple (charitable organisation)
 The Non Profits (free donations directory)
 Free Kibble (click-to-donate-site for dogs and cats)

External links

Freerice at WFP.org

Click-to-donate sites
Internet properties established in 2007


title: Józef Trojak

text:
Józef Trojak (21 March 1966 – 4 February 2014) was a Polish footballer who played as a defender.

Trojak made his debut for Górnik Wałbrzych in 1983. The team won the First League that year. He stayed for six years at the club, then transferred to Śląsk Wrocław for a year. At the end of the 1989–90 season, he returned to Wałbrzych, where he retired at the end of the 1990–91 season at the age of 35. He went on to become a coach.

He died after suffering a heart failure on 4 February 2014 in Grębanin at the age of 47.

His son Miłosz is a professional footballer, currently playing for Ekstraklasa club Korona Kielce.

References

1966 births
2014 deaths
Sportspeople from Wałbrzych
Footballers from Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Polish men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Śląsk Wrocław players
Górnik Wałbrzych (football) players
Ekstraklasa players
I liga players


title: Two Moons (disambiguation)

text:
Two Moons (1847–1917) was a Cheyenne chief.

Two Moons may also refer to:

 Two Moons (collage), a 2010 public artwork by India Cruse-Griffin, in Indianapolis, Indiana, US
 Two Moons (film), a 1920 American silent Western film
 "Two Moons", a 2012 song by Exo-K and Exo-M from Mama
 Two Moons, a 2000 piano composition by Ivan Fedele
 Two Moons, a 2000 novel by Thomas Mallon
 The Two Moons, a 2006 omnibus edition of the first two Giants novels by James P. Hogan

See also
 Walk Two Moons, a 1994 novel by Sharon Creech
 Moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, the two moons of the planet Mars


title: Sanctuary of Oropa

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The Sanctuary of Oropa () is a group of Roman Catholic buildings and structures in Oropa, frazione of the municipality of Biella, Italy. It is located at a height of 1,159 metres in a small valley of the Alpi Biellesi.

Madonna Della Oropa

The Black Madonna of Oropa, is a darkened wood pigmented statue of the Madonna and Child.

Legend
According to pious legend, a black wooden statue of the Virgin Mary carved by Saint Luke was found in Jerusalem by Bishop Eusebius of Vercelli and brought to Vercelli in the 4th century AD

The image was brought by Saint Eusebius of Vercelli from the Middle East, presumably from Syria or Lebanon to his diocese of Vercelli. During a mid-fourth century persecution of Christians by the local Celtic pagans, Eusebius retreated to the mountains of Sacro Monte di Oropa, about 9 miles from Biella, Italy and hid the statue of the Madonna in a cave. When they later tried to move the image, its weight was supernaturally increased and they had to leave it there, in the mountains, where it currently presides over a massive shrine. Pious believers interpret the supernatural weight of the image to be a sign from the Blessed Virgin Mary that she willed a sanctuary be built there.

Local legends further claim that before the arrival of Eusebius, the Celtic tribes worshipped a black fertility god which was allegedly replaced by the present Madonna and Child image.

The Black Virgin is also known as Madonna Nera di Oropa or María Reina de Monte Oropa, and she is the patroness of Lomas del Mirador City, in La Matanza Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

History

The image, of cedar of Lebanon, with face and hands painted black, and decorated with gold and gemstones. It "is a refined masterpiece by a sculptor from Valle d'Aosta dating back to the late thirteenth century." The statue is housed in the Old Basilica.

The venerated Marian image was first episcopally crowned by Bishop Giacomo Goria on 30 August 1620. The event is commemorated every 100 years since 1620 with a coronation held on the last Sunday of August. It was postponed for a year in 2020 due to the pandemic. Pope Francis granted an official decree of Pontifical coronation to the image on 5 August 2021, signed and executed by the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista Re at the Vatican. The coronation was officially carried out on 29 August 2021.

Santuario di Oropa

History
According to legend, a black wooden statue of the Virgin Mary carved by Saint Luke was found in Jerusalem by Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, carried to Oropa in the 4th century AD and placed into a small niche in a big boulder. In the Middle Ages, a church was built around the niche housing the statue, and was replaced in the early 17th century with what is known today as the Ancient Basilica. During the following two centuries, several other buildings were added to the complex, including the royal apartments of the House of Savoy, a big library and the Royal Gate, a masterpiece designed by the architect Filippo Juvarra in the 18th century.The last addition to the sanctuary was the Upper Basilica, a monumental church built between 1885 and 1960 due to the large number of pilgrims visiting Oropa. It can hold 3000 people and its dome is 80 metres high.

In 1617, the complex of the Sacro Monte di Oropa (literally Sacred Mount of Oropa) was built not far from the sanctuary. It is a devotional  path now composed of twelve chapels (plus another seven nearby) containing groups of statues representing scenes from the story of the Virgin Mary's life.

A new graveyard was built near the Sacro Monte in the 19th century, for noble families of the Biellese territory to build their family tombs. Some graves have freemason symbols, such as Quintino Sella's.

Devotion and popular beliefs
The statue of the black Madonna has always been venerated; several miracles and protections are attributed to the Virgin of Oropa. Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati was known for his devotion to the Black Madonna of Oropa.

During the centuries, people made ex-voto (for grace) pictures to thank the Virgin Mary. All of these pictures are still preserved in the sanctuary in the 'ex voto gallery'. The oldest picture dates back to 1522 and was made by painter Bernardino Lanino.

The popular belief says that the wooden statue has no woodworm despite its age, the foot is not worn out despite the ancient tradition of touching it for good luck, and that

dust does not settle on the faces of the Virgin and of the Baby.

Pilgrimages
Around 800,000 pilgrims and one-hundred pilgrimages visit the sanctuary each year.

According to the popular tradition, the town of Biella made a vow during the 17th century plague and its inhabitants were spared by the infection. Following this grace, the town does a pilgrimage every year to the sanctuary in order to thank the Virgin Mary.

The evocative and ancient pilgrimage from Fontainemore to Oropa takes place every five years.

Nature conservation
The mountain area surrounding the sanctuary is included in a regional park of 1,518.28 ha (code: EUAP0882) named Riserva Naturale Speciale del Sacro Monte di Oropa.

See also
 Oropa
 Sacro Monte di Oropa
 Giardino Botanico di Oropa
 CoEur - In the heart of European paths
 Path of Saint Charles
 Giro d'Italia

References

External links

 Short presentation of the sanctuary
 *Web Site of Monte Oropa

Basilica churches in Piedmont
Shrines to the Virgin Mary
Supernatural healing
Tourist attractions in Piedmont
Roman Catholic shrines in Italy
Filippo Juvarra buildings
Biellese Alps
Religious buildings and structures in Biella
Oropa
Statues of the Madonna and Child


title: Ravenscry

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Ravenscry is an alternative metal band from Italy.

History

The project began in August 2008, near Milan, by a meeting between Paul Raimondi (guitar), Fagio (bass) and Simon Carminati (drums). Soon after, Mauro Paganelli (guitar) joined the band.

A few months later, Giulia Stefani joined the band as vocalist.

On 21 December 2009 the band released their first, self-titled EP, which is being sold through their official website, iTunes and Amazon. It contains five tracks: Nobody, Calliope, and a suite called Redemption.

On 1 October 2010 Ravenscry signed with Wormholedeath/Dreamcell11 to publish their first album named One Way Out, which was released on 15 April 2011.

The album, The Invisible, was released on 24 February 2017.

100 was released on 15 May 2020.

Discography

 Ravenscry (EP) - 21 December 2009
 One Way Out (LP) - 15 April 2011
 The Attraction of Opposites - 27 May 2014
 The Invisible - 24 February 2017
 100 - 15 May 2020

Members

 Giulia Stefani (vocals)
 Paul Raimondi (guitar)
 Mauro Paganelli (guitar)
 Fagio (bass)
 Simon Carminati (drums)

References

 Ravenscry Official Website

External links

 Ravenscry Official Website
 Ravenscry | Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos
 Ravenscry

Italian gothic metal musical groups
Alternative metal musical groups
Italian musical quintets
Musical groups from Milan


title: Borislava Botusharova

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Borislava Botusharova (; born 26 November 1994) is a former professional tennis player from Bulgaria.

She has been an Old Dominion University tennis player. Botusharova was named the No. 6 ranked Newcomer/Freshman in the entire NCAA entering her first semester of college at ODU (Fall 2014). On 28 October 2013, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of world No. 407 whilst her best doubles ranking was No. 702 on 9 September 2013. She has also played once for the Bulgarian Fed Cup team in 2014, when she lost her singles match.

Professional career

ITF Circuit and college tennis
Botusharova made her debut in 2005 and started playing on the ITF Junior Circuit. She won several junior titles and played her first match on the pro circuit in 2009 and won her first and only title on the ITF Women's Circuit in 2013 in Varna, Bulgaria. In 2014, she was called up in the Bulgaria Fed Cup team.
In the same year, Botushrova began studying Tourism Management at the Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. She started playing college tennis and received the Conference U.S. Player of the Week award.

She played her last match at a $10k event in Adana, Turkey, in June 2014.

Personal life
Botusharova was born on November 28, 1994 in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria. She started playing tennis when she was five years old and her coach was mother Silvia. Botusharova's cousin is fellow Bulgarian tennis player Vivian Zlatanova.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner–ups)

Doubles: 3 (3 runner–ups)

Fed Cup
Botusharova debuted for the Bulgaria Fed Cup team in 2014, she has a 0–1 overall record.

Singles (0–1)

References

External links

1994 births
Living people
Bulgarian female tennis players
Sportspeople from Pazardzhik


title: Heritage Radio Network

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Heritage Radio Network is an independent 501(c)3 non-profit covering the world of food, drink and agriculture. The member-supported radio station has more than one million monthly listeners in over 200 countries.

History
In 2009, largely inspired by Carlo Petrini and his pirate radio station in Italy, Radio Bra Onde Rosse, Patrick Martins founded the Heritage Radio Network in the back of Roberta's in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The radio studio was built using two re-purposed twenty-foot shipping containers.

Since its inception, Heritage Radio Network has broadcast more than 4,000 shows and produced more than 30 regular weekly programs about such topics as food technology, beer, cheese, food history and politics, and cocktails. Shows feature guests ranging from chefs, food policy analysts, farmers, restaurateurs, musicians and artists. Previous guests have included Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, Joan Dye Gussow, Éric Ripert, Florence Fabricant, Marion Nestle, Danny Meyer, Jamie Oliver, Anthony Bourdain and more. All shows are archived and accessible on the Heritage Radio Network website and through iTunes and Stitcher Radio.

Programming

Ongoing series

Snacky Tunes
Hosted by Greg and Darin Bresnitz, a pair of twins with long-running connections to the worlds of hospitality and music, Snacky Tunes is a talk show that pairs interviews with chefs and musicians. Most episodes include live musical performances interspersed with the musicians' interviews.

Former and limited-run series

Awards and accolades

In February 2013, Heritage Radio Network was named one of Saveur 100 Favorite things of 2013. Heritage Radio Network is the recipient of a grant from The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and Culinary Arts.

References

Former pirate radio stations
Internet radio stations in the United States

Radio stations established in 2009
Podcasting companies


title: Preciosa (song)

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"Preciosa" () is a 1937 patriotic composition by Puerto Rican composer Rafael Hernández Marín.

History
In 1937, Hernández Marin wrote "Preciosa", while in Mexico. Years later, in 1947, he returned to Puerto Rico and became orchestra director at the government-owned WIPR Radio. His music became an important part of Puerto Rican culture. Hernandez formed Cuarteto Victoria (Victoria Quartet)  with Pedro Ortiz Dávila, Rafael Rodríguez, and Francisco López Cruz with whom he recorded the song.  A Puerto Rican group led by Manuel A. Jiménez (“Canario”) recorded Hernández's Preciosa, which, together with Lamento Borincano became unofficial national anthems of Puerto Rico.

Theme
Preciosa expresses feelings of love and nostalgia for Puerto Rico. It is considered one of the unofficial National Anthems of Puerto Rico The work includes a celebration of the three historical sociological traits that Puerto Ricans attribute to making their current culture and nationalism; the blend of Spanish, African and Taino.  The song makes reference to a tyrant who mistreats Puerto Rico and the song became an expression of autonomist patriotism.  However, all Puerto Ricans, regardless of their personal beliefs towards the political status of the island, celebrate when hearing the song.

Recordings

Following is a partial listing of recordings of the song by artists, alphabetically (incomplete).
Marc Anthony Romance Del Cumbanchero – La Musica de Rafael Hernández. Banco Popular. 1998.
Cécilia Cara
Vicente Fernández
Rafael Hernandez Marin
Joe Valle. Lo Mejor de Rafael Hernandez. Fania Records. 2012.
 Trio Los Andinos with Carmin Vega in "Los Andinos: Homenaje a Rafael Hernandez, con Carmin Vega". (2003, Disco Hit Productions)
Trio Voces de Puerto Rico

Joselito En la pelicula Joselito vagabundo AKA "El Falso Heredero"

References

1937 songs
Songs about Puerto Rico
Spanish-language songs
North American anthems
Boleros


title: Frank Purcell

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Frank Purcell (died 2 April 1960) was an Irish politician and trade union official. He served as General Secretary of the ITGWU in 1948. He was an Independent member of Seanad Éireann from 1954 to 1960. He was first elected to the 8th Seanad in 1954 by the Labour Panel. He was re-elected at the 1957 election but died in office in 1960. Edward Browne was elected to fill the vacancy.

References

Year of birth missing
1960 deaths
Irish trade unionists
Members of the 8th Seanad
Members of the 9th Seanad
Independent members of Seanad Éireann
Place of birth missing
Labour Panel senators


title: Athletics at the 2001 Summer Universiade – Men's 20 kilometres walk

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The men's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2001 Summer Universiade was held in Beijing, China on 29 August.

Results

References

Athletics at the 2001 Summer Universiade
2001


title: Close (Sub Focus song)

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"Close" is a song by British DJ and record producer Sub Focus. It was released on 21 April 2014 as the seventh single from his second studio album Torus. The song featured vocals from British singer MNEK in the album version. The vocals on the single version are performed by British singer Daniel Pearce. The new vocals were re-produced by Hal Ritson, who also provided backing vocals.

Music video
The official music video to accompany the release of the single was premiered through YouTube on 22 May 2014. It was directed by Brendan Canty and produced by Feel Good Lost and LoveLive. It was filmed during the Sub Focus LIVE event at O2 Academy Brixton on 17 April 2014. The video runs at a total duration of three minutes and fifty-four seconds.

Track listing

Credits and personnel

 Writer – Uzoechi Emenike
 Producer – Nick Douwma
 Vocal production – Hal Ritson
 Lead vocals – Daniel Pearce
 Backing vocals – Daniel Pearce, Hal Ritson
 Label – Virgin EMI Records, Mercury Records, RAM Records

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Release history

References

2013 songs
2014 singles
Sub Focus songs
MNEK songs
Mercury Records singles
RAM Records singles
Virgin EMI Records singles
Deep house songs
Songs written by MNEK
Songs written by Sub Focus


title: Van Çimento Sanayii

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Van Çimento Sanayii, Van Cement in English, is a cement factory located in Van, Turkey.

History and profile
Van Çimento Sanayi was established in 1969 as a state-owned cement factory and was attached to the Cement Industry (Çimento Sanayi Endüstrisi in Turkish). It remained as a state asset until 1996 when it was privatized. From 1996 to 2004 it was owned by the Rumeli Holdings. From 2006 to 2008 its owner was Orascom and it was Lafarge from 2008 to 2009. Then it was sold to its current owner, Aşkale Holdings, in September 2009.

From 1979 to 1982 Mehmet Gümüşburun was the director of the factory. The current general director of the factory is Nihat Kılıç. As of July 2013, the annual production capacity of the factory was 2 million tonnes.

References

1969 establishments in Turkey
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1969
Construction and civil engineering companies of Turkey
Turkish companies established in 1969
Van, Turkey


title: Camp Cameron, Arizona Territory

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Camp Cameron was a temporary U. S. Army camp located in Madera Canyon in Arizona Territory between 1866 and 1867.

Camp Cameron was established there at the base of the Santa Rita Mountains, after an epidemic of malaria forced the abandonment of Camp Mason.  Camp Cameron was about 16 miles northeast of Fort Mason and existed from October 1, 1866, to March 7, 1867.

References

American frontier
History of Santa Cruz County, Arizona
Camp Cameron, Arizona Territory
1866 establishments in Arizona Territory


title: Aida Folch

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Aida Benítez Folch (born 24 November 1986) is a Spanish actress.

Biography
Aida Benítez Folch was born in Reus on 24 November 1986. She started acting in 2002 when she was 14 years old and by 2017 had appeared in more than twenty films.

Selected filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

People from Reus
Spanish film actresses
Spanish television actresses
Actresses from Catalonia
1986 births
Living people
21st-century Spanish actresses


title: Amanda Bennett

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Amanda Bennett (born July 9, 1952) is an American journalist and author. She was the director of Voice of America from 2016 to 2020, and the current CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media. She formerly edited The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Lexington Herald-Leader. Bennett is also the author of six nonfiction books.

Early life and education
Bennett was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was raised in Boonton, New Jersey, where she attended Boonton High School, graduating in 1971. She graduated with a degree in English language and literature from Harvard College in 1975, where she was an editor on The Harvard Crimson.

Career

Bennett's journalism career began at the Harvard Crimson, where she was an editor. Following her 1975 graduation from Harvard College, she worked briefly as a bilingual (French-English) reporter on the Ottawa Citizen in Ottawa, Ontario. She had a 23-year career with The Wall Street Journal, which included reporting stints in Toronto, Detroit, Washington, D.C. and three years as bureau chief in Atlanta. In 1983, she became the second Wall Street Journal correspondent in China.

In 1987, she shared with her Journal colleagues a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for her work on how public health officials mischaracterized the AIDS epidemic in order to secure more public funding and financial support. In 1998, she left the Journal to become a managing editor at The Oregonian, a regional newspaper owned by the Newhouse chain and headed by the pioneer journalist, Sandra Mims Rowe. At the Oregonian, she headed the creation of investigative projects. Among the projects she led was a year-long investigation of the $1 billion local asset manager, Capital Consultants, that led to the September 2000, suit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission against the firm and its principal Jeffrey Grayson. The project was reported by veteran investigative reporters Jeff Manning and Jim Long. Bennett also led the Oregonian in an investigation of the Immigration and Naturalization Service that won the paper the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

In September 2001, she became editor of The Lexington Herald-Leader, a Knight Ridder paper. Twenty months later on June 2, 2003, Knight Ridder appointed her the first female editor in the 174-year history of their flagship paper, The Philadelphia Inquirer. In November 2006, Bennett stepped down as the Inquirers editor.

From November 2006 to June 2013, she was executive editor at Bloomberg News, where she created and ran a global team of investigative reporters and editors. She was also a co-founder, with journalist Lisa Kassenaar, of Bloomberg News' Women's project. Under her direction, a team of Bloomberg journalists for the first time tallied the personal assets of family members of a senior Chinese leader – vice president Xi Jinping. The story, which was widely circulated both inside and outside China, won the Polk Award and also resulted in Bloomberg's business in China being significantly disrupted. She resigned from Bloomberg News in November 2013.

Bennett has also been a freelance journalist and public speaker, and she has spoken at TED on journalism and end-of-life care.

In 2016, she was named the 29th director of Voice of America. In mid-June 2020, as the Trump administration replaced VOA's parent agency director with conservative filmmaker Michael Pack, Bennett announced her resignation.

In November 2021, she was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as the CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. On June 7, 2022, she testified in a nomination hearing in front of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Later that month on June 23, she won Foreign Relations Committee approval in an "en bloc" vote by the Democratic majority on the committee. Bennet was confirmed to the post of CEO by the Senate in a 60 to 36 vote on September 22, 2022. Bennet was sworn in on December 6, 2022, succeeding acting CEO Kelu Chao.

Professional affiliations
In 2003, she was elected to the Pulitzer Prize board. In 2010, she was elected co-chair of the Pulitzer Board. She was on the board of the Loeb Awards; the board of the Fund for Investigative Journalism; she was a board member of Axis Philly, a nonprofit online Philadelphia news site. She is on the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists. She is a trustee of the German Marshall Fund. She is on the advisory board of the Neiman Fellowship program at Harvard University  and is an advisory board member at the Philip Merrill Howard Center for Investigative Journalism. She is also currently a Lenfest Institute for Journalism Board Manager.

Personal life
She has two children with her late husband, Terence Foley, and four step-children with her husband, Donald E. Graham, whom she married on June 30, 2012. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Books written
 The Death of the Organization Man (1990)
 The Man Who Stayed Behind (with Sidney Rittenberg) (1993)
 The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness (with Lori Schiller) (1994)
 In Memoriam (with Terence B. Foley) (1997)
 Your Child's Symptoms (with Dr. John Garwood) (1995)
 The Cost of Hope: A Memoir (2012)

Awards and honors
Bennett shared the Prize for national reporting with her Wall Street Journal colleagues, and in 2001 led a team from The Oregonian to a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Projects by the Bloomberg Projects and Investigations team won numerous awards, including Loeb, Polk, Barlett & Steele, Headliners, Society of American Business Editors and Writers and Overseas Press Club Awards.

 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
 2011 Gerald Loeb Award for Magazines for "End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It."
 2018 Lifetime Achievement, Washington Women in Journalism Awards
 2019 National Press Club Fourth Estate Award
 Senior Fellow, University of Southern California's Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy

References

External links

1952 births
Living people
People from Boonton, New Jersey
Journalists from New Jersey
Journalists from Massachusetts
Writers from New Jersey
Writers from Cambridge, Massachusetts
American expatriates in Canada
American expatriates in China
Editors of Massachusetts newspapers
The Harvard Crimson people
The Wall Street Journal people
The Oregonian people
The Philadelphia Inquirer people
Bloomberg L.P. people
Voice of America people
Obama administration personnel
Trump administration personnel
Biden administration personnel
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service winners
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Magazines
Boonton High School alumni
Harvard College alumni
20th-century American women journalists
20th-century American journalists
21st-century American women journalists
21st-century American journalists
20th-century American women writers


title: Metcalfe's Food Company

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Metcalfe’s Food Company was a privately owned food business set up in 2010 by Julian Metcalfe, the founder of the sandwich chain Pret A Manger and Robert Jakobi. Metcalfe’s Food Company sold products under two brands Metcalfes Skinny and itsu grocery.

The company enjoyed a compound annual growth rate of over 200% in revenues between 2011 and 2014. In February 2014 the company had forecast to achieve £50 Million in sales within the next 3 years. As of December 2014, Metcalfe's Food Company were the fastest-growing, privately owned food and drink company in the UK.

Key people
Robert Jakobi was the Co-Owner and Managing Director of Metcalfe’s Food Company. He played a key role in the evolution of the business. Previously, an investment banker, Jakobi introduced chocolate covered edamame to the UK market in 2010 and sold them initially under his own ‘Pod bites’ brand in high-end stores such as Harvey Nichols and Selfridges. Convinced they had a lively commercial future, he sought a bigger platform for the product and after meeting Julian Metcalfe agreed to merge ‘Pod bites’ into Metcalfe’s Food Company and become the Managing Director in October 2010. The chocolate covered edamame are still one of the key products in the itsu [grocery] range.

Split
In May 2015 the company announced it would split the two brands into two. itsu grocery would become a core part of the Itsu business and Metcalfes Skinny would become a standalone business.

Metcalfes skinny
In January 2016 Diamond Foods acquired a minority stake in Metcalfes Skinny. The investment helped to maximise the growth potential of the brand in the UK and Europe.

In September 2016 the new owner of Kettle Foods Snyder's-Lance, Inc. acquired the remainder of the business.

Recognition
In December 2013, Metcalfe's Food Company were featured as one of ten ‘Ones to Watch’ in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100. The Fast Track 100 ranks the fastest growing privately owned companies in the UK.

In April 2014, Robert Jakobi along with Julian Metcalfe were named as London & South finalists for the 2014 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. The award is considered one of the world’s most prestigious business awards and is held in more than 145 cities and in more than 60 countries worldwide.

In May 2014, Metcalfe’s Food Company were announced as one of the winners of The Santander Breakthrough 50 Awards. The awards celebrate the UK’s top 50 most exciting fast-growth companies.

In December 2014, Metcalfe’s Food Company were ranked at number 4 in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100.

References

External links
Vegan Indian Food

Snack food manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Food and drink companies established in 2010
Food and drink companies disestablished in 2016
2010 establishments in England
2016 disestablishments in England


title: Council for American–Soviet Trade

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The Council for American–Soviet Trade was a proposal conceived and authored by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)'s international economic affairs department (IEA) to regularize commercial development between US corporation leaders and Soviet industrial  and state-controlled trade organizations. It became the forerunning blueprint for the eventual US-USSR Trade and Economic Council which was formally established in October 1973.

Origins

The Council for American–Soviet Trade (CAST) was initially proposed in February 1973 following the highly successful US-Soviet Trade Conference organized by the NAM in Washington at the Shoreham Hotel. With over 800 delegates and a high-level Soviet delegation led by Vice Minister of Foreign Trade V.S. Alkhimov, this conference was the largest gathering of its kind. CAST was designed in response to an official protocol which emerged from President Nixon's summit with Soviet premier Leonid Breznev during the Soviet leader's visit to Washington in June 1973. NAM's East-West Task Force had hosted a luncheon for Soviet Foreign Trade Minister N.S. Patolichev at the Washington International Club on June 22 during the Summit which reinforced the prominent role of NAM in the development of a permanent organizational mechanism. Soviet leadership had been impressed by NAM's follow-up including a June 1 meeting in New York City between Nicholas E. Hollis, NAM'-IEA's vice president and members of the East–West Task Force and Soviet deputy foreign trade minister V. Smeljakov where the CAST proposal was initially presented in writing with diagrams and proposed functions, including dual secretariat offices in Moscow and New York. NAM president E.D. Kenna testified on challenges of US-Soviet trade reform, including export credit extension and repeal of the Jackson–Vanik amendment before the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress on July 17  and underscored the CAST proposal as one approach to dealing with state controlled economies (Journal of Commerce, July 19, 1973). NAM's cautionary, qualified endorsement for exploring trade openings with the USSR contrasted with Chase Manhattan Bank's David Rockefeller, who pressed for wider export credit support and broader trade liberalization with the Soviets.

NAM mission to USSR: gamesmanship finale
V.S. Alkhimov subsequently extended an invitation  to visit the Soviet Union to NAM President E.D. Kenna, vice president N.E. Hollis and honorary chairman Burt F. Raynes (also chairman of Rohr Industries in Chula Vista, California). This visit occurred from September 23 to October 5, 1973, and enabled NAM to participate in the inaugural meetings for the US-USSR Trade and Economic Council in Moscow October 1 and the press conference announcing its formation on October 2 at Spasso House.

After all the gamesmanship surrounding rival concepts and leadership jockeying, what finally emerged was a dual secretariat (Moscow and New York staff offices) and governing statutes which closely resembled the CAST proposal as originally outlined by NAM staff after the US–Soviet Trade Conference. The visit also included side-trips to St. Petersburg (Leningrad) on the Baltic and the Georgian SSR capital of Tbilisi – enriched with numerous cultural excursions for spouses. The Soviet Government absorbed all in-country costs for the NAM mission. Although the NAM leaders were received at the ministerial level (Patolichev) and other Kremlin officials, a farewell audience with Soviet premier Breznev scheduled for the final day – was cancelled at the last minute ostensibly due to illness. But on the evening of October 4, the lights burned late at the Kremlin – and within twenty four hours, the Egyptian and Syrian armies opened the October War against Israel

Notes

External links
US-Russia Business Council
Measures of Maturity, My Early Life by N.S. Patolichev

Bilateral trading relationships
Soviet Union–United States relations
Foreign trade of the United States
Foreign trade of the Soviet Union


title: Nico Polychronidis

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Nico Polychronidis (born 8 November 1989) is a German Greek Olympic ski jumper. He competes for Greece.

Life
Polychronidis was born in Bremen in Germany. He entered a specialist skiing school at the age of twelve after precociously jumping on skis at the age of six. His first jump was in 1998 and at an FIS Continental Cup event in Pragelato in Italy he achieved a third place in 2009. He competed for Germany until he realised in 2012 that he had a better chance of competing at the Olympics if he was to use his Greek nationality. Polychronidis was born in Germany and his mother was German but he was able to claim Greek nationality through his Greek father. In order to switch teams he had to stop competing for a year with his first World Cup event being at Klingenthal 2013. He was able to attend the opening ceremony at the Sochi Olympics on 7 February 2014 in the Greek Winter Olympic team.

References

1989 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Bremen (city)
Ski jumpers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Greek male ski jumpers
Olympic ski jumpers for Greece


title: Gustavo Bermúdez

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Gustavo Ariel Bermúdez Ricciardi (born July 21, 1964 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentine actor.

Biography
Gustavo Bermúdez is the son of Manuel Bermúdez and Isabel Ricciardi. He has a brother who is three years older than him called, Gabriel. Gustavo studied at the Colegio La Salle.

Personal life
Gustavo Bermúdez and Andrea González met in 1983 when he was 19 years old and she 18 years old. In the year 1989, Gustavo Bermúdez married Andrea González, a teacher. The couple divorced in the year 2011. On September 25, 1991, the couple's first child, a girl, was born whom, they called Camila Bermúdez González. On October 21, 2000, the couple's second child, a girl, was born whom, they called Manuela Bermúdez González.

Since 2020, Gustavo Bermúdez is in a relationship with the actress and television presenter, Verónica Varano.

Career
Gustavo Ariel Bermúdez began his career in television in 1982. In 1982, he was part of the play El país de mi infancia. Between 1982 and 1983, he made the theatrical seasons of Monserrat. From 1983 to 1986, he was part of the cast of the youth television series Pelito. In 1985, he was the protagonist of the television series Rossé. In 1986, he was the protagonist of the television series El hombre que amo. In 1987, he was the protagonist of the television series Grecia with Grecia Colmenares. In 1988, he was part of the cast of the television series No va más (la vida nos separa). In 1990, he was the protagonist of the television series Quiero gritar que te amo with Andrea del Boca. In 1990, he was part of the cast of the television series Amándote II. In 1991, he was part of the cast of the television series El árbol azul. In 1991, he was the protagonist of the television series Celeste with Andrea del Boca. In 1991, he was the protagonist of the television series Antonella with Andrea del Boca. In 1993, he was the protagonist of the television series Celeste siempre Celeste with Andrea del Boca. In 1994, he was the protagonist of the television series Nano with Araceli González. From 1994 to 1995, he was part of the cast of the mexican television series Volver a Empezar. In 1995, he was the protagonist of the television series Sheik with Araceli González. In 1995, he was part of the play Romeo y Julieta. In 1996, he was he was part of the cast of the television series Alén, luz de luna. In 1997, he was he was part of the cast of the television series Laberinto sin ley. In 1998, he was the protagonist of the television series Alas, poder y pasión with Paola Krum. In 2002, he was the protagonist of the television series 1000 millones with Araceli González. In 2004, he was part of the cast of the television series Viva el español. In 2005, he was the protagonist of the television series El Patrón de la Vereda with Camila Bordonaba. From 2006 to 2007, he was part of the cast of the television series Sos mi vida. In 2014, he was the protagonist of the television series Somos familia with Ana María Orozco. Between 2015 and 2016, he made the theatrical seasons of Extraña pareja. In 2018, he makes a small participation in the television series El host. In 2021, he returns to television starring in the series Los protectores with Adrián Suar, Andrés Parra and Laura Fernández.

Filmography

Theater

Television

References

Argentine male actors
People from Rosario, Santa Fe
1964 births
Living people


title: Aziz Mekouar

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Aziz Mekouar (born 13 November 1950, Fes) is a Moroccan diplomat who has been serving as Ambassador to China (2018–present), the United States of America (2002-2011, making him the longest serving Moroccan Ambassador in Washington), Italy and the Order of Malta (1999-2002), Portugal (1993-1999), and Angola (1985-1993). He was appointed in 2016 by the King of Morocco on the Steering Committee as Ambassador to Multilateral Negotiations of COP22. He is the longest serving Moroccan Ambassador, the longest serving Moroccan Ambassador in Washington, and the only one to have been appointed to six different mandates.

He also served as Independent Chairman of the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and as a special adviser to the Presidency at the Banque Marocaine du Commerce Exterieur (BMCE) and board member at the Bank of Africa.

Personal life
Aziz Mekouar is a member of the highly aristocratic Mekouar family from Fes, which includes historical figures such as Hajj Taoudi Mekouar (d. 1189), Hajj Mohamed Mekouar (d. 1263), and Hajj Haddou Mekouar (d. 1232) who founded a rich lineage of prominent figures in government and business throughout the history of the country, and who were granted ‘Dahir’ privileges from several dynasties of sultans.

Aziz Mekouar is the grandson of the Moroccan nationalist Hajj Ahmed Mekouar (1892-1988), who is best known for being the first person to sign the Proclamation of Independence from the French, a ceremony that took place in the Mekouar Palace in Fes. He is the great-great-grandson of Hajj Ahmed Mekouar (1819-1886), Honorary Consul of Great-Britain and owner of a sugar and textile trade conglomerate with France and the United Kingdom, and the great-grandnephew of Minister of Foreign Affairs Hajj Mohammed Mekouar. Aziz is the son of Hajj Tahar Mekouar, who served as Ambassador in Lisbon and Rome then as Diplomatic Chief of Protocol to King Hassan II, and Hajjah Aïcha Benjelloun. Through his mother, he is the grandson of the former minister of Finance and minister of Justice Abdelkader Benjelloun, and the cousin of business magnate Othman Benjelloun. His maternal grandmother came from the Khrifia lineage of descendants of the Prophet Mohammed.

He is married to Italian aristocrat Marquise Maria Felice Cittadini Cesi and has one son.

Aziz Mekouar is a member of several clubs, such as the Metropolitan Club in Washington DC and Chevy Chase Club in Bethesda MD.

Education
Aziz Mekouar attended the Lycée Français Chateaubriand in Rome, the Lycée Français Charles Lepierre in Lisbon, followed by his preparatory classes at Lycée Louis le Grand, and obtained a graduate degree from HEC Paris in 1974.

He is fluent in Arabic, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Career
Aziz Mekouar was the ambassador of Morocco to Angola (1986-1993) and to Portugal (1993-1999). Mr Mekouar served as ambassador to Italy Malta, Albania and Sovereign Order of Malta (1999-2002). He was elected Independent Chairman of the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in November 2001 and re-elected in 2003. He had previously been appointed ambassador to the United States from June 19, 2002 until 2011. He participated in the negotiation of the Morocco and United States free trade agreement and the Millennium Challenge Account wherein the United States granted US$697 million for Moroccan development projects.

Today he is an independent advisor and consultant for a number of different companies.

Interfaith activities
As ambassador Mekouar made outreach to Jewish and evangelical Christians one of his priorities, he has helped organize numerous events promoting Christian-Muslim understanding.

Other functions
During his career, Mr Mekouar has also held other positions of responsibility, including:
Minister plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in Morocco (1985-1986)
Permanent representative of Morocco to the International Bureau for Information Technology (1978-1985).
First counselor and deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of Morocco in Rome (1977-1985).
Chairman of the financial committee of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Member and head of Moroccan delegations to several international conferences (1999 – 2005).
Chairman of the African Group of the UN organizations in Rome (2000-2005).
In 2008, Mekouar was appointed board member of Amorfix Life Sciences, a theranostics company developing therapeutic products and diagnostic devices targeting misfolded protein diseases including ALS, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease

Publications
Thesis on Fisheries and their contribution to the development of Argentina (1973).
Studies on "Asia-Dollar" and its future impact on the development of Southeast Asia (1974).
30 years of Italian Domestic Policy (1983).
30 years of Italian Foreign Policy (1983).

Decorations
Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Portugal.
Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ (Portugal).
Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Italy.

References

External links
 Kingdom of Morocco Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation

21st-century diplomats
Living people
1950 births
Ambassadors of Morocco to the United States
People from Fez, Morocco
Ambassadors of Morocco to Italy
Ambassadors of Morocco to Angola
Ambassadors of Morocco to Portugal
Moroccan civil servants


title: Tour Femenino de San Luis

text:
Tour Femenino de San Luis is a women's staged cycle race which takes place in San Luis, Argentina.

Overall winners

Jerseys
As of the 2015 edition:
 denotes the overall race leader
 denotes the highest placed rider who is under 23 years of age
 denotes the mountains classification.
 denotes he leader of the sprint competition
 denotes the highest placed Argentinian rider

Previous classifications
  In 2014 this jersey represented the combination classification leader
Source:

References

Sport in San Luis Province
Cycle races in Argentina