title: Kim Cheol-min

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Kim Cheol-min (Hangul: 김철민, ; born 29 November 1992) is a South Korean speed skater.

Career

Short track career
Kim started short track speed skating as a child. In 2010, Kim was selected for the South Korean national short track speed skating team to compete in the 2010-11 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup series, where he won gold in the 1500 metres at the fourth race in Shanghai and had two podium finishes as part of the relay team. In March 2011, Kim won the gold medal at the World Team Championships held in Warsaw, alongside overall world champions Noh Jin-kyu and Lee Ho-suk.

Long track career
In early 2011, Kim turned to long track speed skating. After winning two medals at the 2012 World Junior Speed Skating Championships in Obihiro, Kim was selected as a member of the South Korean national speed skating team for the 2012-13 season. He captured silver in the team pursuit race at the 2013 World Single Distance Championships, alongside 2010 Olympic champion Lee Seung-hoon and Joo Hyong-jun.

2014 Winter Olympics
At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Kim first competed on February 8, 2014 in the 5000 metres. In the 5000 m, Kim finished 24th among 26 skaters in 6:37.28.

The South Korean pursuit team for the 2014 Olympics consisted of Kim, Lee Seung-hoon and Joo Hyong-jun. South Korea eliminated Russia in the quarterfinal, which advanced them to face reigning Olympic Champion Canada in the semifinal. South Korea then beat the Canadian team by 2.96 seconds, with a final time of 3:42.32. The South Korean team eventually won the silver medal, defeated by the Netherlands in the gold medal final by 3.14 seconds, with a final time of 3:40.85.

Personal life
He is the brother of short track speed skater Kim Dam-min.

Records

Personal records (long track)

References

External links
 Profile from 2014 Olympic Games official website

1992 births
Living people
South Korean male speed skaters
South Korean male short track speed skaters
Olympic speed skaters for South Korea
Olympic silver medalists for South Korea
Olympic medalists in speed skating
Speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists
Universiade medalists in short track speed skating
FISU World University Games gold medalists for South Korea
Competitors at the 2013 Winter Universiade


title: J. D. Sheffield

text:
Jesse David Sheffield II, known as J. D. Sheffield (born August 13, 1960), is a physician from Gatesville, Texas, who was a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives.

On July 14, 2020, Sheffield was defeated in his re-election effort by Stephenville, Texas attorney Shelby Slawson by over 20% in the Republican primary runoff.

Background
Sheffield currently practices at AdventHealth in Copperas Cove.

Political career

Texas House District 59 encompasses Comanche, Coryell, Erath, Hamilton, McCulloch, Mills, San Saba, Somervell in Central Texas. Sheffield was one of former House Speaker Joe Straus's loyal supporters.

2010 Republican primary for 59th district
The 2010 election was Sheffield's first campaign for local or state office. He had served in student government during college. In the Republican primary in 2010, Sheffield polled 44.2 percent in his challenge to incumbent Sid Miller who had held the office since 2001.

2012 election for 59th district
Two years after his unsuccessful challenge to Miller, Sheffield gained the Republican nomination with 54.8 percent of the ballots cast. Sheffield easily won in the November general election with 78% of the vote district wide against Bill Norris, the Democratic nominee and a retired school teacher from Dublin. Norris had effectively dropped out of the race due to health reasons but remained on the ballot.

2014 election
Ralph lost his reelection bid in 2014.

2016 election
Brent Graves, an auctioneer from Stephenville, ran against Sheffield for the Republican nomination in 2016. Graves lost to Sheffield 61% to 38%, district wide. Sheffield ran unopposed in the general election

2018 election
In 2018, Sheffield defeated Chris Evans in the Republican primary. Sheffield ran unopposed in the general election.

2020 election
On July 14, 2020, Sheffield was defeated in his re-election effort by Stephenville, Texas attorney Shelby Slawson by over 20% in the Republican primary runoff. Slawson did not have an opponent in the 2020 general election.

Committees
During his time in the Legislature, Sheffield served on the Texas House committees of Appropriations, Corrections, Public Health, Rules and Resolutions.

Legislative voting record

Personal life
He is married to Janice Gray Sheffield, a former District Clerk of Coryell County.  Sheffield attends First Baptist Church, a congregation in Gatesville.

References

1960 births
American osteopathic physicians
Living people
Republican Party members of the Texas House of Representatives
People from Loraine, Texas
People from Gatesville, Texas
Physicians from Texas
Western Texas College alumni
Howard Payne University alumni
University of North Texas Health Science Center alumni
21st-century American politicians


title: Plocamopherus maculatus

text:
Plocamopherus maculatus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.

Distribution
This species was described from Hawaii where it is a moderately common nocturnal animal. It has also been reported from the Solomon Islands, the Marshall Islands and South Africa.

References

External links
 SeaSlug Forum info

Polyceridae
Gastropods described in 1860


title: Lee Cotter

text:
Lee S. Cotter is an American politician and a Republican member of the New Mexico Senate representing District 36 since January 15, 2013.

Education
Cotter earned his BS in civil engineering from New Mexico State University and his MBA from the University of Arizona.

Elections
2012 Challenging incumbent District 36 Democratic Senator Mary Jane Garcia a third time, Cotter and Senator Garcia won their June 5, 2012 primaries; Cotter won the November 6, 2012 General election with 9,146 votes (53.9%) against Senator Garcia.
2004 To initially challenge Senator Garcia, Cotter was unopposed for the June 1, 2004 Republican Primary, winning with 658 votes but lost the November 2, 2004 General election to Senator Garcia.
2008 Cotter and Senator Garcia won their June 8, 2008 primaries, setting up a rematch; Cotter lost the November 4, 2008 General election to Senator Garcia.

References

External links
Official page at the New Mexico Legislature

Lee Cotter at Ballotpedia
Lee S. Cotter at OpenSecrets

Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Republican Party New Mexico state senators
New Mexico State University alumni
Politicians from Las Cruces, New Mexico
University of Arizona alumni
21st-century American politicians


title: Apollonio di Giovanni di Tommaso

text:
Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso (1414 – 1465), was an Italian painter.

Biography
He was born in Florence and is also known as the "Master of the Jarves Cassone". Apollonio di Giovanni was recorded in Florence 1446 where he ran a workshop specialised in producing wedding chests known as cassoni and other such furniture. He died in 1465. He worked in partnership with the woodworker Marco del Buono Giamberti, whose son became Apollonio's pupil and heir.

Works

Apollonio or his surviving atelier as run by Marco del Buono Giamberti
are now credited with the creation of the illuminated golden tarot deck formerly known as the "Charles VI" or "Grigonneur", now normally called "the Estensi" after the noble Italian d'Este family who once owned it.

Its 17 remaining cards are held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. From Dec. 2021 to March 2022, the deck was exhibited at the French national playing card museum in Issy with other famous Italian illuminated tarots, such as the Visconti-Sforza tarot, in a show called Tarots Enlumines.

This masterpiece was further examined in a special technical Study Day conference on March 11, 2022.

References

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso on Artnet

External links
Italian Paintings: Florentine School, a collection catalog containing information about di Tommaso and his works (see pages: 100–105).

1414 births
1465 deaths
15th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Florence
Italian Renaissance painters


title: Kushi (mountains)

text:
Kushi is a mountain located in Pakistan, and part of the Toba Kakar Range.

References

Hindu Kush
Mountains of Balochistan (Pakistan)
Two-thousanders of Pakistan


title: Now! (Other Dimensions In Music album)

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Now! is the second album by the free jazz collective quartet Other Dimensions In Music, composed of trumpeter Roy Campbell, multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, bassist William Parker and drummer Rashid Bakr. It was recorded in studio in 1997 and released on the AUM Fidelity label. The music of the quartet is fully improvised.

Reception

In his review for AllMusic, Tom Schulte states: "Fascinating and richly woven, Now! is a classic mosaic of the current state of the N.Y.C. free jazz scene."
The JazzTimes review by Bill Milkowski thought that "ODIM is onto a group dynamic that is thoughtful, full of nuance and passion, sometimes provocative, sometimes poignant but never predictable."

Track listing
All compositions by Other Dimensions In Music
 "For the Glass Tear / After Evening's Orange" - 33:00
 "Tears for the Boy Wonder (For Winston Marsalis)" - 5:26
 "Blue Expanded"- 12:16
 "Whispers & Cries of Change (For Departed Musical Warriors)" - 6:04
 "Dawm"- 8:23
 "Steve's Festive Visions Revisited" - 8:20

Personnel
Daniel Carter - alto sax, tenor sax, flute, trumpet
Roy Campbell - trumpet, flugelhorn, pocket trumpet
William Parker - bass
Rashid Bakr - drums

References

1998 albums
AUM Fidelity albums
Other Dimensions In Music albums


title: Udo Gurgel

text:
Udo Gurgel (born 1938 in Schwerin, Germany) is a German engineer and designer of luge, bobsled and skeleton tracks.

Life
Gurgel studied  structural engineering at the School of Civil Engineering in Cottbus until 1963 and then at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. He then worked as an engineer on the team commissioned with the planning of a track for Oberhof, Germany in 1966: the Oberhof bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track. Since then, he has designed and constructed bobsleigh and toboggan runs.

In 1968, the Scientific and Technical Centre for sports facilities (STC sports facilities) in Leipzig, commissioned the first bobsleigh and luge track to be built in East Germany, following the first permanent track in West Germany: the Königssee bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track. Since Gurgel and his colleagues had no insight into the detailed planning of the Königssee track - i.e. because the countries were rivals because of the cold war - many technical solutions had to be rethought. Thus they developed the use of no wood for shuttering the curve geometry, the STC and the contractor Ulrich Müther together made a concrete formwork free injection method, which is still used in railway construction. In addition, use was made for the first time of calculations by a mainframe computer. The luge track in Oberhof was the first fully computer calculated path in the world.

The development of the luge and bobsleigh meant that from 1982-86 a second track in the Erzgebirge Altenberg was constructed. It was commissioned by the then Ministry for State Security which demanded secrecy, thus preventing successful teamwork which had a negative impact on construction, so that the track had to be rebuilt after a testing season. After this setback, engineers specialized more in design, planning and calculation and developed their own software, so that Gurgel's engineering firm is today a leader in the planning of bobsled and luge tracks around the world.

After German reunification, Gurgel became independent and in 1993 founded an engineering office in order to implement the long-term experience of STC sports facilities. Today the engineering firm is called Gurgel + Partner Leipzig with Mike Richter and Jörg Penseler. Gurgel is officially active only as a consultant.

Gurgel has lived in Leipzig since 1966.

Buildings (with the planning periods)
1968-1970: combined bob and luge track in Oberhof (first fully calculated on the computer, artificially cooled bobsleigh and toboggan run in the world)
1980, 1982-1986, 2007: combined bob and luge track in Altenberg and their reconstruction (considered as the most difficult track in the world)
1982-1985: toboggan run Sigulda, Latvia
1984-1986: combined bobsled and luge track for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada
1989-1991: combined bobsled and luge track for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway
1993-1995: combined bobsled and luge track for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan
1992, 1996-1998: combined bobsled and luge track for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Park City, United States (Draft 1500 meter track and rescheduling, the curtailment)
2003-2004: combined bobsled and luge track for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Cesana, Italy
2004-2006: combined bob and luge track for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler-Blackcomb in Vancouver, Canada
2009-2010: combined bobsled and luge track for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Krasnaya Polyana in Sochi, Russia (homologation in March 2012)

References

1938 births
Living people
Engineers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
German industrial designers
People from Schwerin


title: Cape Mentelle Vineyards

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Cape Mentelle Vineyards (commonly referred to as Cape Mentelle) is a wine estate in the Margaret River region, 274 km, south-west of Perth, Western Australia. The winery was founded by David Hohnen, a third-generation farmer who studied wine making and viticulture in California in the 1960s, and his brothers Mark and Giles. Cape Mentelle is one of the ‘founding five’ wineries in Margaret River, was established in 1970, and came to prominence by winning the Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy in 1983 and 1984 for their Cabernet sauvignon.

History
The winery is situated right next to oceanic Cape Mentelle, which it was named for. It was established by David Hohnen and his brothers Mark and Giles. The brothers planted the first vines in 16 hectares, now known as the Wallcliffe Vineyard.

David, Mark and Giles experimented in a rammed earth shed for six years until producing their first Cabernet sauvignon in 1976 The brothers worked with Tom Cullity, the founder of the first Margaret River winery Vasse Felix in 1967 to help produce their award-winning Cabernets of 1983 and 1984. In 1983 and 1984, Cape Mentelle won the Jimmy Watson Memorial Award for the best one-year old dry red wine.

In 1990, Veuve Clicquot acquired 50 percent of the Cape Mentelle Vineyard, and then in 2000 took 100 percent ownership of the vineyard. In 2002, the LVMH conglomerate bought Veuve Clicquot and with it the Cape Mentelle Vineyards.

In 2010, Cape Mentelle was the first winery in the Margaret River to attain the Entwine accreditation (total sustainable winegrowing Australia). This requires the winery to report annually and continue to minimise their impact on the surrounding environment.

In 2020, Cape Mentelle had their 50-year anniversary and celebrated it by having ocean photographer Eugene Tan (Aquabumps) take photos of the Cape and vineyard to document the Margaret River's 50th year as a wine region.

In January 2023, Endeavour Group announced it had made an agreement to acquire Cape Mentelle.

See also

 Australian wine
 List of wineries in Western Australia
 Western Australian wine

References

Notes

Bibliography

External links

Wineries in Western Australia
LVMH brands
Margaret River, Western Australia
1970 establishments in Australia
Food and drink companies established in 1970


title: Carlotta Brianza

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Carlotta Brianza (1867–1930) was an Italian prima ballerina, dancing with La Scala in Milan and later with the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg.

Biography

Born in Milan, Brianza studied at the ballet school of La Scala under Carlo Blasis. She went on to dance as the company's prima ballerina in Luigi Manzotti's Excelsior. She toured the United States with the ballet in 1883 and danced it in Saint Petersburg in 1887. Thanks to her popularity there, in 1889 she was hired by the Mariinsky Theatre where she danced with Enrico Cecchetti in Lev Ivanov's The Tulip of Haarlem in 1889. On 15 January 1890, she danced Aurora in the premiere of Marius Petipa's Sleeping Beauty. She continued her dancing career in Vienna, Italy, Paris and London before returning to Paris where she taught until she retired. In 1921, Sergei Diaghilev brought her out of retirement to dance (as the 'bad fairy', Carabosse) in The Sleeping Beauty.  She died in Paris in 1930.

Notable performances
Among Brianza's notable appearances are:

c. 1883: debut in Luigi Manzotti's Excelsior at La Scala, Milan
1883: one of five Star Premiere Danseuses in the Kiralfy Brothers Excelsior in New York
1887: as the Spirit of Light in Luigi Manzotti's Excelsior, Arcadia Theatre, Saint Petersburg
1890: as Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty
1892: as Sylvia in Sylvia, Arcadia Theatre, St Petersburg
1895: Sylvia, La Scala
1896: Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, staged by Giorgio Saracco, La Scala
1921: Carabosse in the Ballets Russes production of The Sleeping Beauty, London

See also
Women in dance

Further reading

References

1867 births
19th-century Italian ballet dancers
Dancers from Milan
Prima ballerinas
1930 deaths
Italian ballerinas


title: Pier Carlo Padoan

text:
Pier Carlo Padoan (; born 19 January 1950) is an Italian economist who served as Minister of Economy and Finance of Italy from 2014 to 2018.

Padoan was director of the International Monetary Fund for Italy from 2001 to 2005. On 1 June 2007, he became Deputy Secretary General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Early life
Padoan was born in Rome on 19 January 1950. In the 1970s, he graduated in economics at the La Sapienza University in Rome. During his years at the University, Padoan criticised in the magazine Marxist Critic the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, being influenced by the ideas of the Polish economist Michał Kalecki.

Academic career
Until 2007, he was Professor of Economics at the Sapienza University of Rome. From 1992 until 2001, he also was professor at the College of Europe, Bruges and Warsaw, and a visiting professor since 2001. He was also a visiting professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, University of Urbino, Italy, Universidad de la Plata, Argentina, and University of Tokyo, Japan. He has published in the field of European economics and political economy.

Career in the public sector

From 1998 until 2001, Padoan served as economic adviser to Italian Prime Ministers Massimo D'Alema and Giuliano Amato during EU budget negotiations like Agenda 2000, and the Lisbon Agenda, at summits of the European Council and the G8.

Padoan was an International Monetary Fund official from 2001 to 2005 as the Italian executive director and as board member in charge of European coordination. He is a consultant to the World Bank, European Commission and European Central Bank, where he has called for aggressive easing. During that period, he criticized budget cutbacks in the euro zone's weakest economies, struggling with debt, which he has called periphery countries.

Padoan served as deputy secretary general at the OECD in Paris between 2007 and 2014, taking on the additional role of the organisation's chief economist in 2009. He was the OECD's G20 Finance Deputy, leading the initiatives 'Strategic Response', 'Green Growth' and 'Innovation'.

Political career

Minister of Finance, 2014–2018
On 19 February 2014, Matteo Renzi chose Padon as Italy's new Minister of Economy and Finance. On 12 December 2016, when Renzi resigned as prime minister after the constitutional referendum, Padoan was confirmed again as finance minister by the new Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni. In June 2016, he was also elected chairman of the Party of European Socialists’ Finance Ministers Network.

Padoan often stated that the very tight fiscal rules which Europe currently has in place could be temporarily relaxed in order to make the necessary resources available to boost employment.

In a letter to the Juncker Commission's Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Pierre Moscovici in late 2014, Padoan and the finance ministers of the euro zone's other biggest economies – Michel Sapin of France and Wolfgang Schäuble of Germany – urged the European Commission to draw up EU-wide laws to curb corporate tax avoidance and prevent member states from offering lower taxes to attract investors, calling for a comprehensive anti-BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) directive for member states to adopt by the end of 2015.

Also during his time in office, Padoan implemented the Italian government’s 2015 plan to clean up over €200 billion in non-performing loans from the balance sheets of the country’s banks. He also oversaw the 2017 bailout of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Veneto Banca, and Banca Popolare di Vicenza.

Member of Parliament, 2018–2020

Padoan joined the Democratic Party and ran in the 2018 Italian general election in March for the constituency of Siena, where he was elected, defeating the League economic advisor Claudio Borghi.

In 2020, the Conte II Cabinet of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte nominated Padoan as Italy's candidate for the election of president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Padoan later pulled out of the race when Odile Renaud-Basso emerged as the front runner for the position.

Electoral history

First-past-the-post elections

Other activities

Corporate boards
 UniCredit, Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors (since 2020)

European Union organizations
 European Investment Bank (EIB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2014-2018)
 European Stability Mechanism (ESM), Member of the Board of Governors (2014-2018)

International organizations
 African Development Bank (AfDB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2014-2018)
 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2014-2018)
 European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2014-2018)
 International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2014-2018)
 Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2014-2018)

Non-profit organizations
 Scope Foundation, Member of the Honorary Board (since 2020)
 Fondazione Italianieuropei, Director
 Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Vice President of the Board

Publications
Padoan edited or authored 14 books and papers, from 1986 until 2010, with titles in English as follows:
 Innovation and Growth: Chasing a Moving Frontier by Vandana Chandra, Deniz Eröcal, Pier Carlo Padoan and Carlos A. Primo Braga. OECD, World Bank 2010.
 The Marshall Plan: Lessons Learned for the 21st Century, edited by Eliot Sorel and Pier Carlo Padoan. OECD 2008.
 Euro-American Trade and Financial Alliances, 2005 book, editor
 The Structural Foundations of International Finance, 2003 book, editor "advocates entrepreneurial co-ordination by productive enterprises"
 A Transatlantic Perspective on the Euro, 2000 paperback, editor  euro as potential global currency
 Monetary Union, Employment and Growth: The Impact of the Euro as a Global Currency, edited by Pier Carlo Padoan. Edward Elgar Publishing 2001.
 Technology accumulation and diffusion: is there a regional dimension? by Pier Carlo Padoan, World Bank Publications. 1997 (36-page working paper)
 Trade and the accumulation and diffusion of knowledge, by Pier Carlo Padoan, World Bank Publications. 1996 (47-page working paper)
 Europe between East and South by Siro Lombardini and Pier Carlo Padoan. 1994
 Political Economy of European Integration: Markets and Institutions by Paolo Guerrieri and Pier Carlo Padoan. 1989
 Political Economy of International Co-Operation by Pier Carlo Padoan and Paolo Guerreri. 1988
 The Political Economy of International Financial Instability by Pier Carlo Padoan. 1986

See also
 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

References

External links

1950 births
Democratic Party (Italy) politicians
Deputies of Legislature XVIII of Italy
Finance ministers of Italy
Italian economists
Living people
Politicians from Rome
Renzi Cabinet
Sapienza University of Rome alumni


title: 2014 in Ukraine

text:
The following lists events that happened in the year 2014 in Ukraine.

Incumbents
President:
 until February 23: Viktor Yanukovych
 February 23 – June 7: Oleksandr Turchynov (acting)
 starting June 7: Petro Poroshenko
Prime Minister:
 until January 28: Mykola Azarov
 January 28 – February 22: Serhiy Arbuzov (acting)
 February 22–27: Oleksandr Turchynov (acting)
 starting February 27: Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Events

January
 January 11 – Yuri Lutsenko, one of the leaders of the protests, is injured during clashes with the police.

 January 19 – New violent clashes erupt in Ukraine as a reaction to new strict anti-protest laws.
 January 20 – Violence spreads in Kyiv as protesters clash with police.
 January 21 – Violent clashes occur for a second day between protesters and police in Kyiv.
 January 22 – At least five people are shot dead and hundreds injured as demonstrators clash with police over new laws limiting the right to protest in Ukraine.
 January 24 – Unrest in Ukraine spreads to the cities of Khmelnitsky, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, Lviv (Lvov), Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lutsk, Rivne and Chernivtsi. In Rivne and Lviv, the offices of the governors were broken into; the Lviv regional governor was forced to sign a letter of resignation.
 January 28 – Euromaidan
 Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov submits his resignation to President Viktor Yanukovych in a bid to defuse the conflict in Ukraine.
 Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich accepts the resignation of Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov and his cabinet; the cabinet will continue to work until a new government is formed.
 Parliament repeals anti-protest laws which had led to protests.

February
 February 1 – Activist Dmytro Bulatov reappears after allegedly being tortured by the government.

 February 4 – At least 13 people die and five others are injured when a commuter train slams into a shuttle bus in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.
 February 7 – A man attempts to hijack a Pegasus Airlines flight from Kharkiv, and demands to be flown to Sochi; the pilots turned off the inflight monitors and landed in Istanbul, Turkey, where the passenger was arrested.
 February 15 – French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie breaks Sergey Bubka's 21-year-old record with a 6.16 metres leap in Donetsk.
 February 16 – Anti-government protesters in Ukraine end a two-month occupation of Kyiv's city hall, following an amnesty offer aimed at easing a standoff over President Viktor Yanukovych’s rule.
 February 18 – Violent clashes between police forces and opposition demonstrators reignite in Kyiv. The death toll rises to 14, six of them policemen who were shot dead during the confrontation.
 February 18 – Seven miners are killed and nine injured in an explosion at the Pivnichna coal mine in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast.
 February 19 – Euromaidan
 After protesters had resisted the police, opposition and President Viktor Yanukovych hold talks and reach a truce. The toll of riots over the past couple of days is at least 25 dead and 241 injured.
 The President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych sacks Volodymyr Zamana as Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; replacing him with Yuriy Ilyin.
 In a few cities in Western Ukraine anti-government protesters seize government buildings.
 February 20 – Euromaidan
 A shaky truce is broken with police and protesters renewing clashes on Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti, with scores of deaths reported.
 The mayor of Kyiv, Volodymyr Makeyenko, announces he is stepping down from his post and leaving Ukraine's ruling party Party of Regions.
 The European Union imposes sanctions against Ukraine including asset freezes and visa bans.
 At least 77 people are dead and large parts of Kyiv's occupied Independence Square are burning after a bloody escalation of Ukraine's three-month political crisis.
 February 20 – Alpine skier Bogdana Matsotska of the Ukraine olympic team decides to pull out of the Winter Games in Sochi, as widespread anti-government protests back home leave dozens dead and hundreds injured.
 February 21 – The Ukrainian government and opposition agree to form a unity government and to hold early elections.
 February 22 – Euromaidan
 The Parliament of Ukraine removes President Viktor Yanukovych from office and frees ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. The dismissed President describes measures taken by the Parliament as a "coup".
 Protesters claim control of the capital Kyiv with reports that President Viktor Yanukovych has fled to eastern Ukraine.
 Ukrainian economist and writer Oleksandr Turchynov is voted Speaker of the Parliament, and in that capacity acting President of Ukraine.
 February 23 – Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is blocked by Ukraine's customs in Donetsk from taking a plane to Russia.
 February 24 – 2014 Ukrainian revolution
 The European Commission recognizes Oleksandr Turchynov as Ukraine's legitimate interim president.
 Ukrainian economist and banker Stepan Kubiv, who worked as one of the commandants for the EuroMaidan demonstrations, is selected as governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.
 An arrest warrant is issued for the former President Viktor Yanukovych and other officials for their alleged role in killing protesters.
 February 25 – The United States administration formally declares that it no longer recognizes Viktor Yanukovych as Ukraine's president as "his actions have undermined his legitimacy".
 February 25 – The Parliament of Ukraine removes the five-pointed red star from its spire in a measure aimed at erasing the nation's Soviet legacy.
 February 26 – 2014 Ukrainian revolution
 Ukraine's interim President Oleksandr Turchynov formally becomes the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 Ukraine's acting interior minister Arsen Avakov says the elite Berkut police unit, blamed for the deaths of protesters, has been disbanded.
 February 26 – The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, orders snap military exercises near the Ukraine border.
 February 27 – 2014 Crimean crisis
 The Parliament of Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea announces a referendum to determine the region's future and ousts the regional government.
 Ousted President Viktor Yanukovich, whose whereabouts remained unknown before he turned up in Russia, issues a statement saying that he is still the legitimate president and "ready to fight to the end" to fulfill his deal with the opposition.
 Around 50 armed men bearing Russian national symbols seize the building of the Supreme Council of Crimea following clashes between the ethnic Tatar and Russian protesters. The interim authorities of Ukraine put security forces on alert.
 The Verkhovna Rada or parliament of Ukraine appoints Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the Prime Minister of Ukraine.
 February 27 – The Autonomous Republic of Crimea has announced that it plans to hold a referendum for independence the same day as the elections in Ukraine.
 February 28 – 2014 Crimean crisis
 Members of the Russian Parliament propose new laws that would make it easier for Russia to incorporate parts of Ukraine.
 Russia finally confirms that it has moved troops in Ukraine's Crimea region to protect its own interests.
 Mykhailo Kutsyn is appointed Chief of the General Staff and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 Acting General Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky formally calls on Russia to extradite ousted President Viktor Yanukovych along with 10 other figures; the list includes former Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka, former Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko, Yanukovich aide Andriy Klyuyev, and former Justice Minister Olena Lukash.
 Interim President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov says the Russian military is "directly involved" in the crisis in Crimea, while Interior Minister Arsen Avakov describes the events as "a military invasion and occupation".
 News agency Interfax-Ukraine reports that armed pro-Russian men have taken over control of two airports, among which Simferopol International Airport, and raised the Russian Navy flag.

March

 March 1 – Amid tensions in Ukraine's Crimea, the Federation Council of Russia authorizes President Vladimir Putin to use force.
 March 11 – The Crimean parliament and the Sevastopol City Council issued a letter of intent to unilaterally declare independence from Ukraine.
 March 16 – Official results of the Crimean status referendum show a large majority (reported as 96.77% of the 81.36% of the population of Crimea who voted) voted in favour of independence of Crimea from Ukraine and joining Russia as a federal subject.
 March 18 – The self-proclaimed independent Republic of Crimea signed a treaty of accession to the Russian Federation. The accession was granted but separately for each the former regions that composed it: one accession for the Autonomous Republic of Crimea as a republic, and another accession for Sevastopol as a federal city
 March 19 – The Ukrainian military began to withdraw from Crimea.

April
 April 15 – The Ukrainian parliament declare Crimea and the city of Sevastopol "occupied territories".

May
 May 2 – Clashes between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian groups broke out in multiple in the streets of Odesa.

July
 July 17 – A Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down and crashed near Torez in Donetsk Oblast.

September
 September 1 – 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
 Ukrainian forces battle pro-Russian rebels near Luhansk International Airport. The area is encircled by the pro-Russian forces for over 3 weeks.
 Valeriy Heletey, Ukraine's Defence Minister, accuses Russia of launching a "great war".
 September 3 – 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
 The RIA Novosti news agency reports that Russian photojournalist Andrey Stenin has been found dead in Ukraine. It was discovered that he died 4 weeks ago.
 Ukraine claims that the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and the President of Russia Vladimir Putin have agreed to a "permanent ceasefire". Russia later denies these claims.
 France halts delivery of the first of two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships to the Russian Navy due to circumstances in Ukraine.
 September 4 – The two-day NATO summit in Newport, Wales, begins. Leaders agree to apply further sanctions on Russia. NATO sources claim that there are "several thousand" Russian troops inside Ukraine.
 September 5 – The government of Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels agree to a cease-fire, fighting continues after the announcement.
 September 6 – In an official statement, Patriarch Filaret, who heads the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate, says that Russian President Vladimir Putin has fallen under the spell of Satan and faces eternal damnation to hell unless he repents.
 September 8 – Pro-Russian rebels release 1,200 prisoners under ceasefire deal.
 September 12 – The Government of Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists exchange dozens of prisoners agreed to as part of a ceasefire a week ago. Both sides still hold thousands of prisoners.
 September 14 – Heavy fighting resumes between Ukraine forces and rebels near Donetsk International Airport with at least six people dead.
 September 15 – Heavy shelling on the city of Donetsk leaves 6 people dead and 15 wounded.
 September 16 – Lawmakers from Ukraine ratify a landmark agreement with the European Union in tandem with a meeting of the European Parliament.
 September 17 – A rocket attack by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine kills 10 civilians and injures 12 others in the village of Nyzhnya Krynka near Donetsk.
 September 18 – The President of Ukraine visits the United States to seek assistance in combating separatists in eastern Ukraine.
 September 21 – More than 26,000 people in Moscow participate in the largest demonstration so far against Russian president Vladimir Putin and the War in Donbass.
 September 21 – Rallies in support of Ukraine and against the War in Donbass take place in Boston, New York, Sydney, Dublin, Madrid, London, Paris, Oslo, Tallinn, Limassol, Istanbul, Antalya, Cologne, Milan, Rome, Vienna, Munich, Prague, Berlin, Moscow, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Berlaul and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
 September 23 – President of Russia Vladimir Putin warns in a letter to his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko that Moscow will restrict Ukraine's access to Russian markets if Kyiv implements any part of a trade agreement with the European Union.
 September 25 – President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko announces a wide-ranging reform program entitled Strategy 2020 to prepare Ukraine for applying for European Union membership in 2020.
 September 29 – Renewed clashes around the Donetsk International Airport between the pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian government troops kill at least 12 people in the worst flareup of violence since the ceasefire accord earlier in September.
 September 30 – The Ukrainian military say they have repelled a renewed assault by the pro-Russian forces on the Donetsk International Airport. The airport has been under sustained assaults for over 2 weeks despite an official ceasefire.

October
 October 1 – At least 12 people are killed when shells hit a school and, in a separate shelling, a bus station in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk.

November
 November 2 – Voters in break away "people's republics" (Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic respectively) in Donetsk and Luhansk go to the polls for parliamentary and presidential elections. Rebel leaders Alexander Zakharchenko (Donetsk) and Igor Plotnisky (Luhansk) appear set for victory in early counting in elections which will be recognised in Russia but not elsewhere. International observers noted a very high turnout.
 November 12 – NATO claims that Russian Army troops and military equipment have entered Ukraine.
 November 26 – At least three people die in a new round of fighting between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists.
 November 27 – The Parliament of Ukraine meets for the first time since recent elections with Arseniy Yatsenyuk expected to be confirmed as Prime Minister.

December
 December 2 – The Parliament of Ukraine approves the formation of a new government that includes three foreigners who have received Ukrainian citizenship just hours before the vote: Georgian-born Alexander Kvitashvili, US-national Natalie Jaresko and Lithuanian Aivaras Abromavičius.
 December 12 – Prosecutors at Sary-Arqa District Court in Astana charge 30-year-old Yevgeny Vdovenko, a Kazakh citizen, of intentional and illegal participation in a military conflict abroad because he had fought alongside pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
 December 18 – The European Union imposes sanctions on Russia-occupied Crimea by banning investments and tourism in the region and halting oil explorations.
 December 22 – Kazakhstan renews its military cooperation with Ukraine, to which it promises vital supplies of coal, following a visit to Kyiv by the Kazakh leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
 December 23 – The Parliament of Ukraine removes the country's legislative block on forming military alliances, allowing the government to push forward with plans to accede to NATO.
 December 26 – Ukraine and pro-Russia rebels exchange nearly 370 prisoners in the largest such exchange since hostilities began in April this year.

Deaths
January 22 – Serhiy Nigoyan
February 18
 Valeriy Brezdenyuk
 Antonina Dvoryanets
February 20 – Ihor Kostenko
February 22 – Liudmyla Sheremet
March 10 – Olha Bura
March 18 – Serhiy Kokurin

See also
 Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War

References

2010s in Ukraine
Years of the 21st century in Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine


title: Plocamopherus maderae

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Plocamopherus maderae is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.

Description
This nudibranch is orange or yellow-orange in colour, with numerous small dark brown spots and fewer, larger, poorly-defined, orange spots and patches. The mantle edge has three pairs of branched papillae, one behind the branchial plume, one in front and one mid-way along the back. These are marked with white pigment and there is a variable amount of white pigment along the mantle edge and behind the gills. The papillae behind the branchial plume bear rounded bioluminescent organs. The tail is long, flattened and has a dorsal crest. It is muscular and can be used for swimming. The gills are large, sparsely branched and held erect. The rhinophores have lamellate tips and a tapering stalk and are similar in colour to the body. Maximum size is about 50 mm. This nudibranch is normally nocturnal, hiding beneath boulders in shallow water during daytime.

Distribution
This species was described from Madeira. It has subsequently been reported from the Canary Islands and the Cape Verde Islands.

References

Polyceridae
Gastropods described in 1842
Taxa named by Richard Thomas Lowe
Gastropods of Cape Verde
Molluscs of Madeira
Molluscs of the Canary Islands


title: Bride of the Century

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Bride of the Century (), also known as Hundred Year Bride, is a 2014 South Korean television series starring Lee Hong-gi and Yang Jin-sung. It aired on cable channel TV Chosun from February 22 to April 12, 2014 for 20 episodes. The fantasy/romance drama revolves around a family curse that causes the first wife of the first born son to die.

Plot
Taeyang Group is the largest conglomerate in South Korea. The Choi family who runs Taeyang has supposedly been under a curse for a hundred years that the first bride of the eldest son will always die. When the wealthy heiress Jang Yi-kyung (Yang Jin-sung) disappears right before her wedding to chaebol heir Choi Kang-joo (Lee Hong-gi), Na Doo-rim (Yang Jin-sung), a looka impostor, is brought in to take her place. Unlike the cold and calculating Yi-kyung, Doo-rim is sweet and sunny, and Kang-joo genuinely falls in love with her. As the wedding plans progress, Kang-joo and Yi-kyung's mothers both scheme and plot behind the scenes.

Cast
Lee Hong-gi as Choi Kang-joo
Lomon as teen Choi Kang-joo
Jeon Jin-seo as young Choi Kang-joo
A good-looking and educated second-generation chaebol heir. He has a prickly personality, and is self-indulgent and bad at relationships. But he is goodhearted underneath it all, and is harboring pain from his childhood.

Yang Jin-sung as Na Doo-rim / Jang Yi-kyung
Na Doo-rim is a sweet, homely girl who comes from a southern island village. Jang Yi-kyung is a chic, cold and calculating woman who wants to marry into the Choi family. Doo-rim and Yi-kyung are doppelgängers.

Sung Hyuk as Jang Yi-hyun
Yi-kyung's older half-brother. He is the operations manager of Ohsung Construction.

Jang Ah-young as Lee Roo-mi
An upper-class young woman with looks and brains who went to a prestigious university. Roo-mi becomes Doo-rim's rival for Kang-joo's heart.

Nam Jeong-hee as Park Soon-bok
Doo-rim's grandmother.

Park Jin-joo as Oh Jin-joo
Doo-rim's childhood friend.

Choi Il-hwa as Choi Il-do
Kang-joo's father, and CEO of Taeyang Group.

Kim Seo-ra as Kim Myeong-hee
Kang-joo's mother. The unloved wife of a wealthy man who tries to destroy her son's relationship with a girl from a poor family.

Jung Hae-in as Choi Kang-in
Kang-joo's younger brother, and an idol singer.

Kang Tae-hwan as Secretary Kim
Shin Eun-jung as Ma Jae-ran
Yi-kyung's mother, and CEO of Ohsung Construction.

 Kim Ah-young as Sung Joo-shin
Kim Yoo-jung as Leeann
Im Byung-ki as Butler Jang
Butler of the Choi family.

Kwon Eun-ah as Ahn Dong-daek
Butler Jang's wife.

Production
Filming began in Namhae on December 9, 2013.

After having dinner with the drama crew on December 16, 2013, an accident occurred on an icy street which lead to Lee Hong-gi suffering a dislocated shoulder and facial scratches. He was prescribed six weeks of rest and returned to the set on January 10, 2014.

Reception
It received a good response in Korea for a cable drama, with a peak viewership rating of 1.451%.

According to one of China's biggest internet portal sites QQ, Bride of the Century ranked number one on weekly and monthly charts in both March and April 2014, exceeding 100 million views. It was also ranked as the most searched phrase on China's microblogging service Weibo.

International broadcasting rights have been sold to Japan, U.S., China, Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries. A Chinese remake is expected to air at the end of 2014.

Ratings
In this table,  represent the lowest ratings and  represent the highest ratings.

Original soundtrack

References

External links
Bride of the Century official CSTV website

2014 South Korean television series debuts
2014 South Korean television series endings
South Korean fantasy television series
South Korean melodrama television series
South Korean romance television series
TV Chosun television dramas


title: Jean Renoir bibliography

text:
A list of books and essays by or about Jean Renoir:

Renoir, Jean


The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair is a novel by Swiss author Joël Dicker. It was published in the United States on 27 May 2014, by Penguin Books.
The original French version, La vérité sur l’affaire Harry Quebert, has sold more than one million copies.
Rights have been bought for translations into 32 languages. Including the translations, La vérité sur l’affaire Harry Quebert has sold more than three million copies.

Story

The novel is set in a coastal New Hampshire town (called Aurora in the original version and Somerset in the English translation). The protagonist, Marcus Goldman, is a successful young novelist who needs inspiration for his next book. Marcus heads to New Hampshire to stay with his college professor, Harry Quebert, to focus on his writing. When the body of Nola Kellergan is found 33 years after she went missing and Quebert is accused of her murder, Marcus works to uncover the truth. The result of his investigation becomes his next book.

Reception and honours

The book was very popular in Europe, but had middling reviews in North America, due to its use of cliches and its unflattering depiction of American culture.

The book has been described as a "breathtakingly plotted" story.
In late October 2012, the book won the 2012 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. It was also shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Femina. In November 2012, it was awarded the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. For this prize, 2000 French-speaking high school students vote on their favorite novel from the year's Prix Goncourt shortlist. In summer 2013 the book knocked Dan Brown's Inferno from the top of bestseller lists all over Europe. Early readers of the English translation have described the book as "literary and clever".
Considered Switzerland's answer to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and compared to the fiction of Nabokov and Roth as well as the television series Twin Peaks, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair was published in the United States by Penguin on 27 May 2014. It was one of the biggest original acquisitions in the history of Penguin Books.

Television adaptation

In August 2017, Epix and MGM Television announced that production for a 10-episode TV series named after the book was underway. Principal photography started in mid-August in Forestville, Canada and moved to Montreal in September to finish production in December. On 6 April 2018, 35 minutes of scenes from the series premiered at Canneseries, the television festival held in Cannes, France, each year. In the United States, the premier occurred on Epix on 4 September 2018, and the 10-episode show concluded its run on 6 November 2018. American actor Patrick Dempsey played Harry Quebert, while Ben Schnetzer, Damon Wayans Jr. and Virginia Madsen played other roles.

Notes and references

2012 novels
Crime novels
Mystery novels
21st-century Swiss novels
French-language novels
Novels set in New Hampshire


title: Plocamopherus ocellatus

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Plocamopherus ocellatus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.

Distribution
This species was originally described from the Red Sea.

References

Rüppell, E. & Leuckart, F.S., 1828. Neue wirbellose Thiere des Rothen Meeres. Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Afrika von Eduard Rüppell. Brunner, Frankfurt am Main. 1-22, pls 1-6.

External links
 SeaSlug Forum info

Polyceridae
Gastropods described in 1828


title: SIFCO Industries

text:
SIFCO Industries, Inc. (SIFCO), is a global metal component manufacturer based in Cleveland, Ohio.

Current operations
SIFCO is engaged in the production of forgings and machined components primarily for the aerospace and energy markets. SIFCO's products are made primarily of steel, stainless steel, titanium, and aluminum and include: OEM and aftermarket components for aircraft and industrial gas turbine engines, steam turbine blades, structural airframe components, aircraft landing gear components, aircraft wheels and brakes, critical rotating components for helicopters, and commercial/industrial products.

SIFCO's manufacturing facilities are located in Cleveland, Ohio; Alliance, Ohio; Orange, California and Maniago, Italy.

In 2016, Rolls-Royce accounted for 11% of SIFCO's sales and United Technologies Corporation accounted for 10% of SIFCO's sales.

History
SIFCO traces its roots to 1913.

In 2010, SIFCO acquired the forging business of T&W Forge, Inc. based in Alliance, Ohio.

In 2011, SIFCO acquired Quality Aluminum Forge based in Orange, California.

In 2016, Peter Knapper was named as president and CEO.

References

Companies listed on NYSE American
Manufacturing companies established in 1913
1913 establishments in Ohio


title: Elisa Monte

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Elisa Monte (born May 23, 1946) is an American artistic director, choreographer, and dancer who founded Elisa Monte Dance in New York City. Monte's first choreographic work, Treading (1979), defined her as an important innovator and contributor to contemporary dance. Her signature style, recognized as "daring, intense, and passionate, is classical and highly athletic."

Early life
Monte was born in Brooklyn, New York to Anthony Montemarano, a bookkeeper, and Elisa Montemarano. Both Monte and her older sister, Barbara,former Broadway performer, later shortened their surname to Monte.

Monte started her dance training in 1955 at the age of 9, studying ballet under the tutelage of Russian classical dancer Vladimir Dokoudovsky. Monte continued her ballet training through high school, taking classes at the School of American Ballet while attending the Professional Children's School for her formal education. Years later, Monte joined the professional dance world, beginning her modern dance studies with the Pearl Lang Dance Theater.

Dance career
Monte made her professional debut dancing with Agnes DeMille in the 1957 Broadway revival of Carousel, but her modern dance debut was not until the late 60s when she performed with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. In 1974 Monte joined Martha Graham Dance Company, performing as a principal dancer in such classics as Seraphic Dialogue, Clytemnestra, Appalachian Spring, and O Thou Desire Who Art About to Sing. In 1977, Moses Pendleton, a founding member of Pilobolus Dance Theatre, invited Monte to join the company for their 1977–78 season, during which Monte created Molly's Not Dead with Pilobolus, foretelling her future career as a choreographer.

In 1979, Monte and fellow Graham dancer, David Brown, starred in her first choreographic work, Treading; created during a Graham workshop for the company. As the piece was performed around NYC, critics and audiences alike marveled at the new choreographer's work. Monte was praised for "tun[ing] in to the sensuousness of the music" to create an effect "as lulling at the music." One reviewer wrote, "Monte's choreography is a significant addition to post-modernist dance, as effective as it is unusual." This not only led to the formation of her company, but also established Monte as an important innovator and contributor to contemporary dance.

Elisa Monte Dance

The Formation
In 1981, Monte formed Elisa Monte Dance (EMD) with the "conviction of bridging cultural barriers through the universal language of dance." Around the same time as the company's formation, legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey saw the performance of Treading and quickly brought the piece to his company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Monte was soon commissioned for a second piece for the Ailey Company, Pigs and Fishes, which debuted at City Center in 1982. She explained, "to me, pigs and fishes symbolize some of the basic things in life." Monte's jazzy, primal movements and swinging arcs of the pelvis produced "... a dance of great, almost violent energy... a bold exploration of space made by dancers pushing themselves beyond the bounce." The success of both pieces with the well-established Ailey Company helped launch EMD into the modern dance world, as well as concrete the friendship between Monte and her new mentor, Ailey.

In 1982, EMD was named Best Company at the International Dance Festival of Paris.

Monte/Brown Dance
As the company grew, Monte, with partner Brown as artistic director, created new works with a focus on diversity and multidisciplinary collaboration. A few years after the formation of the company, Monte and Brown married, and Brown began to choreograph new works for the company alongside Monte. In 1987, their daughter, Elia Brown, was born, and the formation of the family harmonized with the growth of the company: "For me, my work and my personal life are one thing. It's not two separate compartments to me at all. The art I do as a dancer-choreographer has always been who I am, and who I'm married to is who I am, and my child is who I am. So for me, it's all one picture." In 1998, Monte changed the company's name to Monte/Brown Dance. Under this new name, the company continued to grow with new works by the artists. In 2002, Monte and Brown divorced, and the company returned to its original name, Elisa Monte Dance.

EMD Today
Rooted in sensuality and controlled, sustained energy, Monte's work is notable for its expansive range of movement; hers is a diverse movement vocabulary that refuses stylistic conformity.
Monte often collaborates with artists in other disciplines, examples being: composers Glenn Branca, Richard Peaslee, Barbara Kolb, David Van Tieghem, Joe Dallarda; architects Todd Williams and Billie Tsien; visual artists Philip Tsiaras; and photographer and close friend, Roy Volkmann, for whom the 1985 piece, Volkmann Suite, was named.

Currently, the company is celebrating its 33rd year. Since the Company's inception, Monte has choreographed more than 45 works danced by this company and others, including Boston Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, San Francisco Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Ballet Gulbenkian of Portugal, Teatro alla Scala Ballet, Philadanco, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, North Carolina Dance Theater, the Batsheva Dance Company of Israel, and the PACT Contemporary Dance Company of South Africa; and has served as choreographer-in-residence at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Monte was among the first choreographers awarded commission by the National Choreography Project. This resulted in Monte creating VII for VIII for the Boston Ballet.

Now into her third decade of choreography, Monte's Volkmann Suite, Light Lies, Shattered and other recent works have received widespread acclaim and represent her continuing contribution to dance. Her 2014 world premiere, Lonely Planet, with an original score by David Van Tieghem, was a success at the company's performance at the New York Live Arts: "An impressive and powerful new work by Monte, 'Lonely Planet' is a grounded display of the incredible work this company delivers." As Artistic Director of the Company, Monte has seen her career come full circle. Just as Treading was created as part of an initiative to develop new choreographers from within the Martha Graham Dance Company, today Monte is strongly committed to identifying and nurturing new talent, "As I reflect on my evolution from student to teacher, I hope to be able to offer as much to younger dancers as I received from those who came before me."

Choreography
 Treading (1979)
 Pell Mell (1981)
 Anima (1982)
 Pigs and Fishes (1982)
 Lifetime (1983)
 Indoors (1984)
 Set in Stone (1984)
 VII for VIII (1985)
 White Dragon (1985)
 Dreamtime (1986)
 Audentity (1987)
 Turtles Eat Bones (1987)
 Dextra Dei (1989)
 Split Personality (1989)
 The World Upside Down (1990) with David Brown
 Last Temptation (1991)
 Between Going and Staying (1992)
 Broken Journey (1992)
 Diamond Song (1993)
 Fatidic Embrace (1994) with David Brown
 Mnemonic Verses (1994) commissioned by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
 Vejle/Border Crossing (1994) with David Brown
 Feu Follet (1995) with David Brown
 New York Moonglow (1995)
 Sticks and Stones (1996) with David Brown
 Volkmann Suite (1996)
 Tears Rolling (1997)
 Hurricane Deck (1998)
 Spin (1998)
 Amor Fati (1999)
 Day's Residue (2000)
 Shattered (2000)
 Light Lies (2002)
 Lost Objects (2002)
 Shekhina (2004)
 A Woman's Way (2005)
 Via Sacra (2005)
 Hardwood (2006)
 Slope of Enlightenment (2007)
 Arrow's Path (2009)
 Zydeco, Zare (2009) with Tiffany Rea-Fisher and Joe Celej
 Continuum (2010)
 Vanishing Languages (2011)
 Unstable Ground (2012)
 Terra Firma (2013)
 Lonely Planet (2014)

Stage
Carousel, City Center, New York City 1957 – Girl with Bear

References

Bibliography
 Anderson, Jack. (May 2, 1982) "Alvin Ailey to Open with Elisa Monte Premiere," The New York Times
 Dunkel, Ellen. (June 4, 1999). Record (Bergen County, New Jersey)
 Poon, Kina (March 2001). "Dance Matters: Upward Momentum," Dance Magazine
 S.,C. (June 2007). "Elisa Monte," Current Biography Magazine

External links
 Elisa Monte Dance

1946 births
Living people
American contemporary dancers
American female dancers
Dancers from New York (state)
People from Brooklyn
21st-century American women


title: South Heart rail terminal

text:
South Heart rail terminal is to be built five miles (8 km) west of South Heart, North Dakota by Watco and the Great Northern Project Development. It is to support the Bakken oil and gas industry. Work on the terminal is due to start in the first quarter of 2014, with completion expected next year. The terminal will include freight handling and wagon maintenance facilities, the former operated by Watco. It will be connected to the existing BNSF network, which will also operate the trains.

References

Buildings and structures in Stark County, North Dakota
Railway buildings and structures in North Dakota


title: Brunei–Oman relations

text:
Brunei and Oman established diplomatic relations in 1984. Brunei has an embassy in Muscat, and Oman has an embassy in Bandar Seri Begawan. Both countries are members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

History
Relations have been established since 24 March 1984 with both countries former protectorates of European powers, such as the British for Brunei and the Portuguese for Oman, and both are now governed by an Islamic absolute monarchy.

Economic relations
Several memorandum of understanding has been signed between the two countries such as agreement between the Universiti Brunei Darussalam with the Sultan Qaboos University in education sector and the establishment of Omani-Brunei Investment Company. There is also a co-operation in telecommunications between Telekom Brunei and Bahwan CyberTek with a joint-venture between the two companies.

See also
Foreign relations of Brunei
Foreign relations of Oman

References

Oman
Bilateral relations of Oman


title: Shaun Gallagher (author)

text:
Shaun Gallagher is an American author of four nonfiction books:

 Experimenting with Babies (2013).
 Correlated (2014).
 Experiments for Newlyweds (2019).
 Experimenting with Kids (2020).

He is a former magazine and newspaper editor and runs the website Correlated.org, on which "Correlated" is based.

Experimenting With Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid was published in October 2013 by TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The book adapts experiments from child-development research so parents can perform them on their babies. Gallagher was inspired to write the book by informal experimentation with his infant sons, whom he has called his "two favourite science projects".

Correlated: Surprising Connections Between Seemingly Unrelated Things was published in July 2014, also by TarcherPerigee. The book uses data from Correlated.org to present bizarre correlations.  Freakonomics predicted in 2011 that Correlated "will launch a thousand graduate theses", and Pee-wee Herman encouraged his fans to "help further the cause of science" by contributing to Correlated.

Experiments for Newlyweds: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform With Your Spouse was published in April 2019 by Sourcebooks.  As in Experimenting With Babies, the book adapts experiments from published academic research, but this time, the focus is on experiments that couples can perform with each other.

Experimenting With Kids: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Child Ages 2-5 was published in May 2020 by TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House. While the projects in Experimenting With Babies, are for ages 0-2, the projects in Experimenting With Kids are for ages 2-5.

References

Bibliography
Gallagher, Shaun (2013). Experimenting with Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid. TarcherPerigee. .
Gallagher, Shaun (2014). Correlated: Surprising Connections Between Seemingly Unrelated Things. TarcherPerigee. .
Gallagher, Shaun (2019). Experiments for Newlyweds: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform With Your Spouse. Sourcebooks. .
Gallagher, Shaun (2020). Experimenting With Kids: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Child Ages 2-5. TarcherPerigee. .

External links
Experimenting with Babies homepage
Experiments for Newlyweds homepage
Correlated homepage
Experimenting with Kids homepage

American science writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people


title: Rani Chatterjee

text:
Sabiha Shaikh  (born 3 November 1989), known professionally as Rani Chatterjee, is an Indian actress who primarily works in Bhojpuri films. One of the highest paid Bhojpuri actress, Chatterjee made her acting debut with the film Sasura Bada Paisawala (2004). The film still rank as the highest-grossing Bhojpuri film.

Chatterjee went onto establish herself as a leading actress with successful films such as Sita (2007), Devra Bada Satawela (2010), Ganga Yamuna Saraswati (2012), Nagin (2013), Rani No. 786 (2013), Dariya Dil (2014), Rani Banal Jwala (2015), Gharwali Baharwali (2016), Real Indian Mother (2016), Rani Weds Raja (2019) and Lady Singham (2022). She made her web debut with Mastram (2020) and television debut with Mast Mauli (2023). She has also received many film awards.

Early life
Chatterjee was born as Sabiha Shaikh in a Muslim family on 3 November 1989. She was born and brought up in Mumbai. Chatterjee did her schooling from  Tungareshwar Academy High school, Vasai. Rani, who is originally Sabiha Shaikh on her documents, shares an interesting reason behind it. Talking to a section of media recently Rani said, "In 2004 I was shooting for a Bhojpuri film titled Sasura Bada Paisawala and one day we were shooting a sequence in a temple where I have to bang my head on the floor. And while the shoot was on a few media people had come to interview me also there was a lot of crowd was also watching the shoot. So my director thought revealing my original name might create a scene as I am a Muslim. So when someone people asked my name he said Rani and when they asked about my surname so he couldn't think of anything and said Chatterjee as Rani Mukerji was very famous at that point of time. And she also became famous with this name".

Rani also adds, "My family was definitely angry on me for keeping that name as my identity but she convinced them as she really found that name lucky. Manoj Tiwari was opposite me in the film and it became a huge hit on box office. In fact, made many records. Due to which I was offered a lot of work and I became the highest-paid actress in Bhojpuri cinema".

Career
Chatterjee made her film debut in the 2003 Bhojpuri family drama Sasura Bada Paisawala featuring Manoj Tiwari. The film released in 2004 and was a success and won several awards. She followed it up with major hits like Bandhan Tute Na (2005), Damaad Ji (2006) and Munna Pandey Berozgar (2007). She earned a lot of critical acclaim for her titular role in Munnibai Nautanki Wali (2009). She won her first Best Actress Award for Devra Bada Satawela (2010).

The sixth Bhojpuri Awards in 2013 declared Chatterjee as the Best Actress of the year for her performance in Nagin. Rani has acted in a Punjabi film Aasra. In 2020, Chatterjee acted in MX player web series Mastram. She later acted in Kooku App web series Rani Ka Raja.

Filmography

Films

Note: The list does not include all the films featuring Rani Chatterjee.

Television

Web series

Award and nominations

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
Actresses from Mumbai
Indian film actresses
Indian television actresses
Indian web series actresses
Actresses in Bhojpuri cinema
Actresses in Hindi television
Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi participants
21st-century Indian actresses


title: British Acupuncture Council

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The British Acupuncture Council (BAcC) is a self-regulatory body for the practice of traditional acupuncture in the UK.

About
With around 3,000 members the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC) is the UK's largest self-regulatory body for practitioners of traditional acupuncture. The BAcC's aim is to ensure health and safety of the public at all times. In February 2013 the organisation became one of the first to appear on the Accredited Voluntary Register run by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care. For more information about the regulation of acupuncture in the UK and worldwide, see the article Regulation of acupuncture.

History
The BAcC was formed in June 1995 by the unification of five member acupuncture groups of its precursor body, the Council For Acupuncture (CFA 1980-1995).

The five original groups were:
 The Chung San Acupuncture Society
 The British Acupuncture Association
 The Register of Traditional Chinese Medicine
 The International Register of Oriental Medicine
 The Traditional Acupuncture Society.

It was unanimously agreed by the CFA members that one body should represent and govern professionally qualified traditional acupuncturists in all aspects of their work. Since its inception the BAcC has sought to act as a voluntary self-regulator of its members.

The British Acupuncture Association and Register was founded in 1961 with the other four groups being founded between 1984 and 1986. The total membership number at the BAcC's inception in 1995 was approximately 1500 growing to 1757 by 1996,the first year of its existence.

References
Listing on Professional Standards Authority Accredited Voluntary Register

External links
The British Acupuncture Council Website - www.acupuncture.org.uk

Acupuncture organizations
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
Medical regulation in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 1995
1995 establishments in the United Kingdom


title: Plocamopherus pecoso

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Plocamopherus pecoso is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.

Description
"In life its body shape is elongate, limaciform and anteriorly rounded. The head bears a fringed oral veil with eight short, small and ramified appendages. The oral tentacles are flat. Plocamopherus pecoso has a transparent white background color heavily speckled all over the body with small orange dots. These orange dots become much larger and fewer at the base of the foot. The presence of minute brown dots surrounding the lateral appendages base and along the keel was observed (these brown dots are present all over the body in other specimens of this species). There are some white dots that are usually situated on the notum along a non-continuous line at the margin of both sides of the animal and joining behind the branchial gills. They are also present along the margin of the fringed oral veil on the tip of the tail, tips of branchiae, clavus of the rhinophores, dorsal tubercles and oral veil appendages but they are slightly larger and scarce. The long rhinophores are translucent and speckled with brown at the peduncle and clavus. A white spot is present at the tip of the clavus. The rhinophoral sheath is long. There are three pairs of short lateral appendages; the two posterior pairs have a prominent, brown, rounded globular structure. Usually the posterior most pair has the larger globular structure, although exceptions have been observed. All lateral appendages are slightly ramified and whitish at the tip. There are three principal tripinnate branchial leaves, which do not form a complete circle around the anus. The posterior portion of the foot forms a well-developed keel that has a small crest tipped with white."

Distribution
This species was described from Luzon in the Philippines. It has only been found at other locations in the Philippines.

References

External links
 Image at "The Vibrant Sea"

Polyceridae
Gastropods described in 2006


title: Brigade Group

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Brigade Enterprises Limited is a real estate and property development company that is based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. The Brigade Group also has operations in Mangalore, Mysore, Chennai, Kochi, Hyderabad, Chikmagalur, Ahmedabad and a representative office in Dubai.  It has won national and international awards in the construction industry. It was founded by M.R. Jaishankar in the year 1986.

Brigade Group provides property management services, hospitality and education across several major cities in South India. The group also owns Brigade Foundation, which is a not-for-profit trust. Brigade has proved his potential in real estate and made it first lifestyle enclave and Brigade Exotica, which is known as tallest residential building in Bangalore.

Projects and History

The Brigade Group has Brigade International Finance Centre in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City and has built World Trade Center Bangalore, World Trade Center Chennai and World Trade Center, Kochi.
Brigade holds the WTCA licenses for all the major South Indian cities. Brigade Group has other projects in Bangalore 2023 Brigade Valencia, Brigade Calista, Brigade Aurum Eldorado thebrigadeproperties

References

External links

Brigade LinkedIn

Companies based in Bangalore
Real estate companies of India
Indian companies established in 1986
1986 establishments in Karnataka
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange


title: Rahul Mishra

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Rahul Mishra (born 7 November 1979) is an Indian fashion designer based in Delhi. He is the first Indian designer to be invited to showcase at the Haute Couture Week in Paris. He won the International Woolmark Prize in 2014 at Milan Fashion Week, becoming the first Indian designer to win the award. The winning collection was sold in stores around the world.

In 2008, he was awarded the MTV Youth Icon of the Year by MTV India.

Early and background

Mishra grew up in Malhausi, a sleepy village 53 miles off Kanpur. He spent his childhood with his grandparents, listening to an array of stories- religious, historical, moral, of balance and humanity. He did his graduate degree in physics from Kanpur University (now known as Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University). This was followed by post graduation in apparel design from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, where he won the Best Student Designer Of The Year in 2005.

In 2009, he became the first non-European designer to win a scholarship at Istituto Marangoni, Milan, Italy.

His wife Divya, also an NID graduate in apparel design, works with him.

Career

He made his debut in 2006 at Lakme Fashion Week with a collection using cotton handloom textiles from Kerala, especially off-white fabric with golden border of Kerala mundu. In 2009, he made reversible dresses, employing Kerala mundu on one side, with Banarasi fabric of the other side woven by traditional craftmen.

Mishra has showcased his work at fashion weeks in London, Dubai, Australia and is regular on the official calendar of Paris Fashion Week. He has also become known for incorporating traditional Indian textiles, and handmade artisanship to his work. He is the only Indian designer to be chosen by Rent the Runway, online rental boutique.

In 2013, he won the Indian leg of the International Woolmark Prize, thus going on to represent India and the Middle East at the 2014 International Woolmark Prize Competition in Milan. The five contenders included Christopher Esber representing Australia, Sibling for Europe, ffiXXed for Asia and Joseph Altuzarra for the Americas. Mishra's award-winning capsule range, "The Lotus Effect" was based on the hexagon shapes and Lotus motifs. The collection incorporated Chanderi fabric woven with 85% Merino wool with woollen zardozi embroidery by craftsmen in Kolkata. The collection was influenced by the monochromatic work of Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher. In February 2014, Rahul Mishra won the 2014 Woolmark Prize at Milan Fashion Week. The award carries an AUS $100,000 prize and was previously won by designers Karl Lagerfield, Giorgio Armani and Yves Saint Laurent, Mishra was the only Indian to have won the award.

References

External links

Indian male fashion designers
1979 births
Living people
Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University alumni
National Institute of Design alumni
Neighbourhoods in Prayagraj


title: Plocamopherus pilatectus

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Plocamopherus pilatectus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.

Distribution
This species was described from the Grenadines. It has subsequently been reported from nearby islands in the Caribbean Sea.

References

Hamann, J. C. and W. M. Farmer. 1988. Two new species of Plocamopherus from the western warm water Atlantic. The Veliger, 31 68-74.

External links
 http://www.malacolog.org/search.php?nameid=8706 Malacolog Version 4.1.1 A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

Polyceridae
Gastropods described in 1988


title: VA-185 (U.S. Navy)

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VA-185, nicknamed the Nighthawks, was an Attack Squadron of the U.S. Navy. It was established on 1 December 1986 and disestablished on 30 August 1991.

Operational history

1980s
In September 1987, the squadron was forward deployed to NAS Atsugi, Japan, and assigned to , home ported at Naval Station Yokosuka, Japan. From November 1987 to January 1988: The squadron flew support for Operation Earnest Will, escort operations for reflagged Kuawiti oil tankers during the Iran–Iraq War in the Persian Gulf. In September, VA-185, embarked on USS Midway, operated in the Sea of Japan during the 1988 Summer Olympics being held in Seoul, Korea, to demonstrate U.S. support for a peaceful olympics. In December 1989, Midway, with VA-185 embarked, maintained station off the coast of the Philippines during an attempted coup in that country.

1991 Gulf War

On October 2, 1990, VA-185 embarked on the Midway to the Persian Gulf in response to the Invasion of Kuwait in August. Between November 1990 and January 1991, the squadron flew missions in support of Operation Desert Shield, the build-up of American and Allied forces to counter a threatened invasion of Saudi Arabia by Iraq and were part of an economic blockade of Iraq to force its withdrawal from Kuwait.

From January to February 1991, the squadron participated in Operation Desert Storm. VA-185 led the first air strikes from naval elements operating in the Persian Gulf. During the Gulf War, squadron aircraft struck Iraqi naval targets and bases, airfields and bridges, and provided close air support for Allied ground forces. The squadron flew a total of 457 combat missions, comprising 940 combat flight hours and delivered 720,000 pounds of ordnance on enemy targets.

Fate
On 6 August 1991, the squadron held a disestablishment ceremony at NAF Atsugi, Japan. After transferring moving with CVW-14 on the Midway in Hawaii it was officially disestablished on 30 August 1991 before the Midway arrived back in the United States. Intruder aircraft from VA-185 were transferred to VA-115. Many the squadron's personnel transferred to VA-115 as well and returned to NAF Atsugi to continue duty with CVW-5.

Home port assignments
The squadron was assigned to these home ports, effective on the dates shown:
 NAS Whidbey Island – 01 Dec 1986
 NAF Atsugi – 13 Sep 1987 (VA-185 was forward deployed and based aboard .)

Aircraft assignment
The squadron first received the following aircraft on the dates shown:
 A-6E TRAM Intruder – 18 Feb 1987
 KA-6D Intruder – 19 Sep 1987

See also

 List of squadrons in the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons
 Attack aircraft
 List of inactive United States Navy aircraft squadrons
 History of the United States Navy

References

External links

Attack squadrons of the United States Navy
Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons
Military units and formations disestablished in 1991


title: Tele2 Russia

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Tele2 Russia is a Russian telecommunications company originally founded by Swedish Tele2. It has been operating since 2003. Since 2020, Tele2 Russia is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rostelecom. At year-end 2019, Tele2 Russia provides wireless services to more than 44.6 million subscribers.

As of beginning of April 2019, Tele2 is present in 67 subjects of Russia.

Tele2 Russia functions as a group of companies, and the parent structure of the holding is named Limited Liability Company "T2 RTK Holding" with the headquarters in Moscow.

Now the Russian company Tele2 Russia and the Swedish Tele2 AB are interconnected through the common brand and the corporate values of Tele2Way, which both companies propagate. Tele2Way values were established by the founder of the company Jan Stenbeck, and they reveal the essence of the company operation.

History

The history of the company began in the 1990s when the American-Swedish Millicom International Cellular established mobile network operators which provided D-AMPS services in various regions of Russia. In 2001 Millicom sold its Russian assets to the Swedish holding Tele2, which started implementing GSM services in its networks and moved them to their own brand.

Tele2 started operations in Russia in 2003. Within the first two years of operation in the Russian market (2003–2004) Tele2 started providing services in 12 regions. In 2011, the number of Tele2 users exceeded 20 million.

On March 27, 2013, it was announced that the Swedish group Tele2 decided to sell its Russian subsidiary Tele2 Russia to the VTB Group. On April 4, the deal was completed.

On October 17, 2013, the VTB Group closed the selling of 50% of Tele2 Russia shares to a consortium of private investors holding the Rossiya Bank, including Yury Kovalchuk (the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Rossiya Bank) and Alexei Mordashov (the Severstal co-owner), and also 5% of the shares were sold to Sogaz insurance group.

On February 6, 2014, Rostelecom and Tele2 Russia signed a framed agreement on integration of mobile assets into the ownership capital of the joint venture (JV) T2 Rus Holding. This deal resulting in creation of a new federal high roller on the cellular market was completed within a year. According to the terms of the agreement, Rostelecom transferred its assets to the JV and became one of the stakeholders of the merged company. The joint venture was created on the basis of T2 Rus Holding (later renamed into T2 RTK Holding), which owns all the operating companies of Tele2 Russia.

On March 28, 2014, the first stage of the deal on integration of Rostelecom mobile assets and creation of a new federal cell operator was completed. Seven Rostelecom subsidiaries — Sky Link, Nizhny Novgorod Communications, Baikalvestcom, BIT, Volgograd GSM, ETK and AKOS-came under the operational and financial control of Tele2 Russia. Tele2 Russia also gained operational control over Rostelecom's mobile integrated assets (Eline GSM, Tambov GSM, Uralsvyazinform, Dalsvyaz) through RT-Mobile, an affiliate of Rostelecom, established on April 1, 2014. As a result, Rostelecom became the joint venturer with a share in the authorized capital of 45% in votes and 26% of economic share.

On August 5, 2014, earlier than scheduled, Rostelecom completed the second and final stage of the deal with Tele2 Russia to create a new federal mobile operator, having transferred 100% of the shares of its affiliate RT-Mobile to the joint venture (JV). As part of the reorganization, Rostelecom's integrated mobile assets were allocated to RT-Mobile and also the licenses were reissued for the company. The deal resulted in transfer of all Rostelecom's mobile assets to the JV. Consequently, Rostelecom became the joint venturer with a share in the authorized capital of 45% in votes and 45% of economic share, and Tele2 Russia represented by the newly established T2 RTK Holding gained a share in the authorized capital of 55% in votes and 55% of economic share, meaning that Tele2 Russia took control over the joint venture. Thus, it was the completion of creation of a national mobile operator with a wide range of licenses and frequencies throughout the country (including 3G and LTE), which was present in 64 regions and had a significant share of 16% on the cellular market, provided by more than 38 million mobile subscribers.

On June 16, 2015, the mobile operator completed their corporate restructuring by associating 33 operational companies of the holding to its main structure T2 Mobile.  The restructuring neither required financial contributions nor left jobcut behind it. As a result, the number of legal bodies within the structure of Tele2 Russia was fairly reduced. The parent company is T2 RTK Holding, and its wholly owned subsidiary Т2-Mobile undertakes business operations under the “Tele2” brand.

On February 12, 2020, Rostelecom entered into a legally binding agreement on purchasing of 55% of T2 RTK Holding shares with VTB Bank and a consortium of investors. The settlement and transfer of ownership as part of the 100%-share consolidation transaction was completed on March 16, 2020.

Ownership

Since February 2020, the company is 100% owned by Rostelecom.

Up intil February 2020, each of the shareholders of T2RTK Holding had the right of preemption of the operator’s share. This rule was rooted in the holding’s Charter and it meant that if any of the owners received a proposal to sell his stake in total or partially, another owner could buy the stock at the price of the proposal within 30 days since the moment the third party claiming for purchase made the share sale offer.

In March 2019, it got about that Rostelecom would become the sole owner of Tele2 Russia, increasing its equity stake up to 100%. The information about it came up in January, and in February the Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo) gave resolution to increase the share of the state-owned company.

On March 12, 2019, it was announced that agreements on consolidating 100% of Tele2 Russia by Rostelecom were reached. It is specified that Rostelecom plans to preserve the brand and management of the company. According to Rostelecom's President Mikhail Oseevsky: Tele2 Russia has a strong team which proved successful with their results.

On February 12, 2020, Rostelecom received 100% of T2 RTK Holding. 17.5% of Tele2 shares was bought with own funds of the public operator;  27.5% was funded by  the additional issue of Rostelecom shares in benefit of VTB, a further 10% was an exchange for 10% of its own common stock owned by its subsidiary Mobitel. On March 16, 2020, the settlement and ownership transfer as part of the 100%-share consolidation transaction was completed.

Operations

Tele2 in Russia is a mobile network operator providing services under the standards GSM, 3G and LTE. Before it was sold to VTB, it had been the only foreign company successfully operating on the Russian cellular market. Until 2013, Russia for Tele2 AB was the major market, which, as of 2010, provided more than a half of subscribers in total and 34.7% (the biggest percentage among all the countries) of EBITDA.

In March 2020, the company reported on financial and operational results for 2019. As compared to 2018, Tele2 Russia revenue rose 14% to 163,3 billion roubles, at year-end 2019, the net profit totaled 6,6 billion roubles, the EBITDA increased by 50% and amounted to 65,6 billion roubles. As of December 31, 2019, the Tele2 Russia subscriber base counted 44.6 million people which is 5,3% more than in 2018. The average revenue per user (ARPU) also increased by 8,3% to 305 roubles.

According to the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor), in 2018, Tele2 demonstrated the best result of the LTE networks development rate within the sector, having doubled the number of LTE cell sites.

Lifestyle enabler

Originally, Tele2 Russia just like the Swedish company positioned itself as a discounter, accentuating the lowest price within the market. In 2016, the company made a decision to move beyond and developed a new strategy named Lifestyle enabler.

The model Lifestyle enabler means that Tele2 Russia supports its clients’ interests in all areas of life. Within the frames of this strategy, the operator creates services beyond the telecom industry in partnership with other business sectors. So that, in 2017, they launched a joint service with the Clouty online platform, which is an aggregator of online retailers. In June 2018, a digital medicine project – an application allowing to get a telemedical advice - was launched in partnership with the company Doc+. Among the other programs of the operator, there is an affiliate loyalty program with cashback to a mobile account, taxi services (joint service with Gett).

In October 2017, Tele2 Russia started a loyalty program named “Bolshe” (En: More) which was intended for subscribers’ personal preferences. The operator offered to the customers an opportunity to save by two ways: either with the use of cashback or with discounts for partners’ goods and services.
When choosing the cashback, a subscriber can get up to 40% of a product's cost to his mobile account. The money can be spent for mobile services or mobile commerce “Payments and transfers”. Any Tele 2 Russia subscriber, except for corporate plans users, can participate in the loyalty program. The program's partners include Yandex, Shokoladnitsa, AliExpress, Kino.Mail and others.

Communication platform “Other Rules”

In the beginning of 2017, the operator presented a new communication strategy for 2017—2021. The new concept involves an emphasis on innovative products that reflect the preferences of subscribers and support their lifestyle, and on excellent customer. The launch of the strategy was accompanied by the change of the corporate identity and slogan of the company. The new slogan sounds like “Tele2. Other rules”.

New opportunities were announced at the strategy presentation: possibility to transfer the unused minutes and internet traffic to the next month. This new feature, unique for the Russian market, demonstrates the ideology of the new platform creating visibility and advantages for subscribers. In October 2017, also first-ever on the Russian communications market, an additional feature was introduced – exchange of minutes to gigabytes.

On September 25, 2019, Tele2 Russia launched one-of-a-kind on the Russian telecom-market platform ‘Tele2 Exchange’. This service allows subscribers from all over the country to post offers for sale of unemployed minutes and Gigabytes from their plan package and backward to buy them from a number of lots posted at the Exchange. The money from the sales goes to the mobile account and the subscriber can spend it to pay for the telecom services. Within the first month after the launch the service was used by 2.5 million people.

eSIM

On April 29, 2019 Tele2 was the first in Russia to present an opportunity to switch over to eSIM in Moscow and Moscow region.

 In April 2019, MTS, Megafon and Beeline made a stand against adoption of eSIM in Russia.

On May 14, 2019, at the decision of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media (Minkomsvyaz), the release of Tele2 Russia eSim was suspended. On 20 September 2019, the Ministry lifted the ban.

5G

In August 2019, Tele2 Russia in association with Ericsson launched the first in Russia pilot 5G zone in Tverskaya Street in Moscow providing full outdoor coverage from the Kremlin to the Garden Ring. The pilot 5G zone operates in the 28 GHz band in NSA (Non-standalone) mode, which allows deployment of 5G in LTE networks and simplifies the implementation of the latest standard at the initial stage.

On August 23, 2019, the company performed testing of subscriber equipment in the pilot 5G network. The device based on Qualcomm® mobile platform Snapdragon™ demonstrated a peak throughput of about 2.1 Gbit/s and a minimum latency of 9 msec.

In October 2019, the company launched cloud games in the flagship store in Tverskaya street in Moscow to show the difference in the quality of gaming when connected to 4G and 5G networks. The game runs on a remote server, only the "picture" is transmitted to the user's device. During the cloud game in 5G network the company achieved the speed of more than 1 Gbit/s with a latency of 5 msec.

February 17, 2020 Tele2 conducted the first live broadcast on 5G networks in the urban environment in Russia. The live-stream was broadcast by Sony Xperia 5G device outdoors, on Tverskaya Street and Theater Square, in conditions of heavy traffic. During the tests, Sony mobile terminal based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chip and Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 modem provided a stable connection.

On August 15, 2020, Tele2 in association with a Swiss mobile operator Sunrise Tele2  launched 5G service for Russian subscribers arriving to Switzerland. The smartphones with fifth generation network support connect the 5G automatically when roaming.

“MVNO Factory”

In 2016 Tele2 Russia started to create mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) – the operators which do not have their own infrastructure and therefore use the network of another mobile operator. It is usually established by businesses with extensive client base for providing mobile services to customers on their own account. By November 2017, there were more than 10 MNVOs (most of them in Russia) on the basis of Tele2, of these, Rostelecom, Sberbank, Multiregional TransitTelecom, Tinkoff Bank. In November, the company launched their own MVNE-platform (mobile virtual network enabler), a set of standard systems, including billing, CRM, analytics tools and other components necessary for the work of MVNOs. With this platform, Tele2 Russia announced intention to streamline launching of MNVOs and create dozens of them each year. The company named this strategy “MNVO Factory”. Within 2018, the number of Tele2-based MVNO subscribers increased by 75% to 1.75 million people.

According to the results of 2019, there are more than 20 Tele2-based MNVOs (the majority of them in Russia), including Rostelecom, Sbermobile, MTT, Tinkoff Mobile, VTB Mobile. Their subscriber base reckons 3,75 million people, compared with last year, this figure increased by 115%.

Corporate responsibility

In 2019, Tele2 launched the Pereplavka environmental project aimed at sensibilization of the necessity to process e-waste.

Over the 3 weeks of the campaign, customers from 11 regions of Russia brought 1217 old mobile gadgets for processing. In October 2020, Tele2 scaled the project up and set special boxes for e-waste in 579 brand stores in 60 regions of Russia. All the gadgets are sent to “Ecopolis” which the only complex of e-waste recycling factories in Russia.

References

External links
 Tele2 Russia Website (English)

Mobile phone companies of Russia
Telecommunications companies established in 2003
Companies based in Moscow
Telecommunications companies of Russia
2003 establishments in Russia


title: PTAF

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PTAF (acronym of Pretty and Taking All Fades) is a hip hop crunk girl group from Los Angeles consisting of Kandi, K'Duce, and Alizé. They are most known for their viral song "Boss Ass Bitch", which garnered the attention of the public and scored them a record deal with Capitol Records in January 2014. In mid 2015, PTAF was dropped from Capitol Records after failing to find success with a second single. In 2017, the group announced on social media that they had split up and that the individual members were pursuing solo careers but still remain friends. In October 2020, the group came back together to be featured on a song with Ayce Nyce, which has been streamed over 1 million times worldwide.

PTAF came together at Crenshaw Charter. The song was released May 9, 2012 accompanied by a music video. The music video was filmed in front of a silver gate at the school SEA Crenshaw. On 29 March 2014, PTAF joined Vevo and released a more updated music video. Originally, the girls were going to say, "I don't like that bitch" repetitively but used "boss" to promote female empowerment. The song gained popularity when used virally by users on the video site Vine.

PTAF signed with Capitol Records around the time that Nicki Minaj released an unauthorized remix of "Boss Ass Bitch". Some press outlets reported that Minaj's mix drew Capitol's attention to the group, while others related that Capitol was already interested in the group at the time Minaj's remix was released. After "Boss Ass Bitch" was placed in the movie The Bronze, the group was contacted by actress Melissa Rauch to collaborate an original song for the film, which yielded the track "Fuck That". On May 14, 2021, Nicki Minaj officially released her "Beam Me Up Scotty" mixtape to streaming services, which included the "Boss Ass Bitch" remix. The remix debuted and peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Chart on the chart dated May 29, 2021.

Singles

References

External links

African-American girl groups
Hip hop groups from California
Capitol Records artists
Musical groups established in 2012
Living people
American crunk groups
Musical groups from Los Angeles
Rappers from Los Angeles
American women rappers
African-American women rappers
Musical trios from California
Women hip hop groups
Year of birth missing (living people)
2012 establishments in California
21st-century African-American people
21st-century African-American women


title: William M. Dennis

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William Miller Dennis I (January 18, 1810July 18, 1882) was an American businessman, Democratic politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.  He served in the first session of the Wisconsin State Senate and later served in the State Assembly, representing Dodge County.  He was also the 2nd bank comptroller of Wisconsin, and was the 7th and 10th mayor of Watertown, Wisconsin.

Biography

William M. Dennis was born in Newport County, Rhode Island, in January 1810.  At a young age, he moved to Troy, New York.  He subsequently moved to the Wisconsin Territory in 1837.

He was one of the earliest settlers in what is now Watertown, Wisconsin, and remained there for the rest of his life.  Shortly after his arrival, he was named as the first postmaster in that town.

Politically, Dennis associated with the Democratic Party, which was dominant in the state during these year.  He was elected to the last session of the 4th Wisconsin Territorial Assembly, serving in the Territory's House of Representatives in 1846.  That same year, he was elected as a delegate for Dodge County to Wisconsin's first constitutional convention.  The constitutional document produced by this convention was ultimately rejected by voters, but a subsequent effort secured Wisconsin statehood in 1848.  That February, Dennis was elected from Dodge County to represent them in the first session of the Wisconsin State Senate.

In 1852, he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Dodge County's 3rd Assembly district in the 6th Wisconsin Legislature.  His district comprised the southeast corner of the County.  That Fall, he was the Democratic nominee for the statewide elected position of  state bank comptroller.  He was the first person elected to this office (the previous holder was appointed by the Governor).  He was re-elected in 1855.

Subsequently, Dennis became president of the Wisconsin National Bank and was elected to two non-consecutive terms as mayor of Watertown, in 1862 and 1866.  His association with bad railway bonds significantly damaged his reputation and he never held elected office again after his second mayoral term.  After retiring from the bank, he made significant profitable investments in the region of Watertown, Dakota Territory, which he left to his sons.

He died at his home in Watertown, in September 1882.  His death was sudden and occurred after a period of apparent good health.

Personal life and family
William M. Dennis was married twice.  He had at least one daughter with his first wife.  After his first wife's death, he married Catherine Elizabeth Coughlin and had at least four more children.  He was survived by his second wife and five children.

Electoral history

Wisconsin Bank Comptroller (1853, 1855)

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1810 births
1882 deaths
People from Rhode Island
Politicians from Watertown, Wisconsin
Businesspeople from Wisconsin
Mayors of places in Wisconsin
Democratic Party Wisconsin state senators
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American businesspeople
Democratic Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly