title: Broken (MBLAQ EP)

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Broken is the sixth EP released by the South Korean boy group MBLAQ. The album was released online on March 24, 2014 at 12PM (KST). The album consists of 7 tracks, and Wheesung took part in the writing of the lyrics and composing for the title song Be a Man, whereby he gifted the song to MBLAQ. He expressed that "MBLAQ is the only male group that I wanted to give a song to, so it was a pleasure to work with them on the album. I am thankful for MBLAQ for conveying the feelings that I wanted from this track".

Concept
The concept shows the members' chic and strong 'masculine' mature image. Filter imitating broken glass overlaid by the members' images, which are included in the concept photos, were uploaded on the official MBLAQ's SNS and creates a rainbow set of colours. This is in contrast to the meaning of the album's name, Broken, whereby it shows how a heart can grow cold when broken, as portrayed by the members' angry and hard gazes.

Background
On March 20 at 12AM (KST), MBLAQ released their teaser of "Be a Man" on their official YouTube channel, J.Tune Camp. It shows the sleek and sophisticated images of the members, as they wore well-tailored black and white suits together with clean-cut hair, appearing mysterious with their sharp gaze. It further dramatizes the video through the added fog and shadow effects.

Track listing

Chart performance

Album chart

Single chart

Sales and certifications

Release history

References

External links
 MBLAQ's Official Site

2014 EPs
MBLAQ EPs
Korean-language EPs


title: Greg Burke (athletic director)

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Greg Burke (born October 22, 1956) is a former college athletic administrator. He was most recently the director of athletics for Northwestern State University from 1996 to 2022. He was hired in 1996 to replace long time Northwestern State athletic director Tynes Hildebrand. He currently works as the Director of Business Development and Public Relations for the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Foundation.

References

External links
 NSUDemons.com bio

1956 births
Living people
University of Mount Union alumni
Kent State University alumni
People from Alliance, Ohio
Northwestern State Demons and Lady Demons athletic directors
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: List of Auction Hunters episodes

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Auction Hunters is an American reality television series that premiered on November 9, 2010, on Spike.

Series overview
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Episodes

Season 1 (2010)

Season 2 (2011)

Season 3 (2012)

Season 4 (2013–14)

Season 5 (2014–15)

References

Lists of American non-fiction television series episodes


title: Philippines national dragon boat team

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The Philippines national dragon boat team is the national dragon boat team of the Philippines and represents the country in international dragon boat. There is an ongoing dispute between the Philippine Dragon Boat Federation and the Philippine Canoe-Kayak Dragon Boat Federation over which is the sole legitimate sporting body over the national dragon boat team. The Philippine Dragon Boat Federation is a member of the International Dragon Boat Federation while the Philippine Canoe-Kayak Dragon Boat Federation is the recognized by the Philippine Olympic Committee. However, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) have stated that as a Full Member of Sportaccord (the World Union of International Federations), the IDBF is the only recognized world governing body for dragon boating. Therefore, the IDBF Members are the national governing bodies for dragon boating in their own countries. The two organizations field their own dragon boat teams.

Tournament records

International Dragon Boat Federation tournaments
All tournaments organized by the International Dragon Boat Federation (IDBF) were represented by the national team, fielded by the Philippine Dragon Boat Federation.

IDBF World Championships

IDBF World Cup

IDBF Asian Championships

International Canoe Federation tournaments
All tournaments organized by the International Canoe Federation (ICF) was represented by a Dragon Boat Team fielded by the Philippine Canoe Kayak Federation.

ICF World Championships

ICF Asian Championships

Asian Games

External links
Philippine Dragon Boat Federation

References

Dragon Boat
Dragon boat racing in the Philippines


title: Angry Birds Transformers

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Angry Birds Transformers is a run and gun video game. The tenth installment in the Angry Birds series, the game is a crossover between Angry Birds and Transformers, featuring battles between the Autobirds and Deceptihogs, Angry Birds versions of the Autobots and Decepticons. It is published by Rovio Entertainment with collaboration from Hasbro. The game was released on October 15, 2014, for iOS, and was released for Android on October 30, 2014. The release includes related licensed merchandise and a toy line from Hasbro. The game's catchphrase is "Birds Disguised as Robots in Disguise".

Plot
The EggSpark has crashed into the surface of Piggy Island, cyberforming the Birds and Pigs and turning them into the Transformers. It has also turned the eggs into the EggBots, which are turning all pigs (except for King, Foreman, Chef, Corporal, Minion, and Professor Pig) into their minions and then turning non-living things into monsters that want to destroy life, replacing it with technological beings across the island. The Autobirds and Deceptihogs must put their differences aside to destroy the transformed pigs and to chase the mischievous Eggbots, ultimately rescuing the fate of their homeland.

Gameplay
The goal is to survive through the run, shooting at pigs, structures, and targets and transforming into vehicles, including cars, trucks, motorbikes, tanks, submarines, planes and flying saucers (which all stay at ground level)- since failure to survive results in no pigs popped and/or having no health for that character. Pigs can be eliminated by shooting directly at them, but it is sometimes easier to defeat them by shooting at the structures or making TNT explode. Since the gameplay is a side-scrolling video game, pigs who have gone out the screen can no longer be eliminated. The player can use the user's Facebook friends unlocked characters or randomly generated characters to assist in a level for a limited time.

Coins may be collected either during runs, popping pigs and/or simply by waiting and collecting coins that generate over time from freed areas. Some levels or features can be only unlocked when the player has upgraded enough Transformers to level 15. In addition, gems can also be collected and can be used to purchase and to keep going through the run.

Telepods
The game is the fourth game in the franchise to be compatible with Angry Birds Telepods, a toy line that is also used in other Angry Birds games such as: Angry Birds Star Wars II, Angry Birds Go, and Angry Birds Stella. When using Telepods, it can summon the toy's Transformer, and either boost its power or recharge its armor. It is a necessary to scan the toy's QR code each time after the app is closed since the application will "forget" the Telepods the user has previously scanned in.

Comic series
At SDCC 2014, IDW Publishing and Rovio announced an Angry Birds Transformers crossover comic books series; it was written by John Barber and art by Marcelo Ferreira and published in early 2015 as a four issue mini-series.

Reception

Angry Birds Transformers has received generally positive reviews, with a Metacritic score of 70/100 based on 13 reviews. The Guardian praised that the game appeals to Transformers fans, while also providing more proof that the Angry Birds can fit neatly into new stories and game genres, while the downside there are timers of multiple hours to upgrade a character, however gems to upgrade instantly (slowly earned or purchased with real money) make the upgrade happen instantly.

References

External links

2014 video games
Android (operating system) games
Transformers
Crossover video games
IOS games
Run and gun games
Transformers video games
Video games developed in Finland
Windows Phone games
Vince DiCola albums
Rovio Entertainment games
Exient Entertainment games


title: Habilaj

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Habilaj is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kavajë.

References

Populated places in Kavajë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Kryezi, Kavajë

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Kryezi is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kavajë. There is one school the Kisha Shen Mehilli.

References

Populated places in Kavajë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Çollakaj

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Çollakaj is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kavajë.

References

Populated places in Kavajë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Shtodhër

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Shtodhër is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kavajë.

References

Populated places in Kavajë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Zikularaj

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Zikularaj is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kavajë.

References

Populated places in Kavajë
Villages in Tirana County


title: M. R. Rajagopal

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M. R. Rajagopal (born 23 September 1947) is an Indian palliative care physician referred to as the 'father of palliative care in India' in honour of his significant contribution to the palliative care scene in India.

Rajagopal is the Founder Chairman of Pallium India,  a palliative care non-governmental organisation formed in 2003 and based in Kerala, India.

Rajagopal was the prime mover in the creation of the National Program for Palliative Care (NPPC) by the Ministry of Health of Government of India.

His advocacy has contributed to amendment of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act of India in 2014 and in its implementation—a critical step in reducing needless suffering and allowing millions to access pain relief.

A documentary film based on Rajagopal's life, titled 'Hippocratic: 18 Experiments in Gently Shaking the World' was released by Moonshine Agency, Australia, on World Palliative Care Day, 14 October 2017.

In 2018, the Indian Government honoured Rajagopal with the Padma Shri award, "one of the highest civilian awards" instituted in India for distinguished service. He was nominated in 2018 for the Nobel Peace Prize.

He published his memoir 'Walk with the Weary' in 2022, where he shares lessons he learned while walking along the road of life limiting illness with people who changed his outlook on what matters the most when living with a critical illness, and also at the end of life.

Rajagopal has co-authored many Lancet Commission reports and was one of the authors of the report on 'Value of Death' published in 2022.

Positions held
Rajagopal holds the following positions:
 Chairman of Pallium India
 Director, W.H.O Collaborating Centre for Policy and Training on Access to Pain Relief (Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences)
 Member, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Foundation Board

Rajagopal is on the editorial board of several international journals and has authored/edited two textbooks, several book chapters (including Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine) and more than 30 publications in scientific journals.

Current involvement with scientific journals:
 Member, Editorial Board, Indian Journal of Palliative Care.
 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.
 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy.
 Member, Editorial Board, Palliative Care: Research and Treatment.
 Member, Editorial Board, Pain: Clinical Updates; International Association for Study of Pain.

Achievements
Rajagopal is one of the founders of Pain and Palliative Care Society (PPCS) in Medical College, Calicut, Kerala in 1993. In 1995, PPCS was recognized as a model demonstration project by the World Health Organization for community based palliative care activities. It set up an Institute of Palliative Medicine (IPM), with numerous link centres.

Since 1996, Rajagopal has been working with the WHO Collaborating Center at Madison-Wisconsin and with Government of India to improve opioid availability in India.

In 2003, he with colleagues created Pallium India, a registered charitable trust with the intention of spreading palliative care to areas in India where they did not exist, and for palliative care advocacy. By 2016, the organization reached 15 of India's 29 states. In 2006, Pallium India created the Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences (TIPS) as its training, research and clinical demonstration unit. In 2012, TIPS was declared a WHO Collaborating Centre.

He was elected as Lifetime International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) Board Advisor in 2012.

Rajagopal is one of the five lead authors of the Lancet Commission report published in October 2017, which pointed out that more than 61 million people live in pain and suffering worldwide every year without access to palliative care. The report describes a possible global strategy for correction in this huge inequity in care and suggests and a low-cost essential package which could remedy the situation.

Rajagopal's contribution has been significant in bringing the Parliament of India to amend the draconian Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act of 1985. The Amendment was passed in 2014 Feb.

In 2014, Rajagopal was honored by Human Rights Watch with Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism, in recognition of his efforts to defend the right of patients to live and die with dignity.

In 2017, Rajagopal was named one of the 30 most influential leaders in hospice and palliative medicine by American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM).

The Government of India, in 2018, honoured Rajagopal with the Padma Shri award, "one of the highest civilian awards" for distinguished service in healthcare.

Rajagopal published his memoir 'Walk with the Weary' in 2022, sharing his journey as a palliative care advocate and practitioner.

Rajagopal co-authored many Lancet Commission reports including the 'Value of Death' report published in 2022.

Awards and honours
 Government of India's Padma Shri award in 2018
 Visionary in Hospice and Palliative Medicine by American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
 Healers of India award instituted by Appollo Hospitals and Network18.
 Navjeevan Inspiration of the Year award
 T.N.G Award conferred in memory of T. N. Gopakumar, the late Editor in Chief of Asianet News, in January 2017.
 Cancer Aid Society Annual Award for Excellence and Leadership in Palliative Care for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Countries
 Kairali People Doctors Award, 2015.
 Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism by Human Rights Watch in 2014.
 Dr Palpu Memorial award, Dr Palpu Foundation, November 2012
 Award for Excellence in Pain Management in Developing Countries: International Association for Study of Pain, Montreal, Canada. October 2009
 Marie Nyswander award, International Association for Pain and Chemical Dependency, New York, 31 October 2008
 "Care and Share" annual award for Social work. "Care and Share", USA, February 2007.

References

External links
 Pallium India website
 Book Review of Walk With The Weary by Dr. M.R. Rajagopal on Storizen

1947 births
Living people
20th-century Indian medical doctors
Indian palliative care physicians
Medical doctors from Thiruvananthapuram
Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine


title: Ballaj

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Ballaj is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Spanesh

text:
Spanesh is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Spille

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Spille is a coastal village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Stërbeg

text:
Stërbeg is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Sharrdushk

text:
Sharrdushk is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Zhabjak

text:
Zhabjak is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Beden, Albania

text:
Beden is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kavajë.

References

Populated places in Kavajë
Villages in Tirana County


title: List of sovereign states in the 1940s

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This is a list of sovereign states in the 1940s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 1940 and 31 December 1949. It contains 106 entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty. It includes 99 widely recognized sovereign states, six entities which were de facto sovereign but which were not widely recognized by other states.

Academic datasets differ in terms of the number of states in the 1940s. At the start of the 1940s, the lowest estimate of the number of states is in the mid-50s whereas the highest is in the low-70s. At the end of the 1940s, the lowest estimate is in the mid-70s while the highest is in the mid-80s.

Sovereign states

Other entities
Excluded from the list above are the following noteworthy entities which either were not fully sovereign or did not claim to be independent:
   was divided into four zones of occupation by France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
  China, Provisional Government of – Provisional Government of the Republic of China  was organized and recognized by Japan military authority during Second Sino-Japanese War.
  China, Reformed Government of – Reformed Government of the Republic of China  was organized and recognized by Japan military authority during Second Sino-Japanese War.
 East Turkestan, officially the East Turkistan Republic, existed from November 12, 1944 to December 22, 1949, when it was conquered by China.
  was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, but the legality of the annexation was not widely recognized. The Baltic diplomatic services in the West continued to be recognised as representing the de jure state.
  was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, but the legality of the annexation was not widely recognized. The Baltic diplomatic services in the West continued to be recognised as representing the de jure state.
  was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, but the legality of the annexation was not widely recognized. The Baltic diplomatic services in the West continued to be recognised as representing the de jure state.
  – Great Empire of Manchuria  was organized and recognized by Japan military authority after Mukden Incident. Recognized by Axis powers member states.
  – Mongol Military Government   was organized and recognized by Japan military authority during Second Sino-Japanese War. Recognized by Axis powers member states.
  National Government of the Republic of China – National Government of the Republic of China  was organized and recognized by Japanese military, combined Reformed Government and Provisional Government together. Recognized by Axis powers member states.
 The Saudi Arabian–Iraqi neutral zone was a strip of neutral territory between Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
 The Saudi Arabian–Kuwaiti neutral zone was a strip of neutral territory between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
  Slovakia – Slovak Republic  was organized and recognized by German military after Munich Agreement. Recognized by Axis powers member states. Recognized by Axis powers member states and several neutral states.
  The Sovereign Military Order of Malta was an entity claiming sovereignty. The order had bi-lateral diplomatic relations with a large number of states, but had no territory other than extraterritorial areas within Rome. Although the order frequently asserted its sovereignty, it did not claim to be a sovereign state. It lacked a defined territory. Since all its members were citizens of other states, almost all of them lived in their native countries, and those who resided in the order's extraterritorial properties in Rome did so only in connection with their official duties, the order lacked the characteristic of having a permanent population.
  Tangier was an international zone under the joint administration of France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal and Belgium.
  West Berlin  was a political enclave that was closely aligned with – but not actually a part of – West Germany. It consisted of three occupied sectors administered by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.

Notes

References

1940-1949
1940s politics-related lists
1940 in international relations
1941 in international relations
1942 in international relations
1943 in international relations
1944 in international relations
1945 in international relations
1946 in international relations
1947 in international relations
1948 in international relations
1949 in international relations


title: Blerimaj

text:
Blerimaj is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kavajë.

References

Populated places in Kavajë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Vorrozen

text:
Vorrozen is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kavajë.

References

Populated places in Kavajë
Villages in Tirana County


title: David Beerling

text:
David John Beerling  FLSW (born 21 June 1965) is the Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Climate change mitigation and Sorby Professor of Natural Sciences in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences (APS) at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

Education
Beerling was educated at University of Wales, College of Cardiff where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Botany in 1987 followed by a PhD in 1990 for research into the biogeography, ecology and control of two important and highly invasive alien plant species Japanese knotweeed Reynoutria japonica and Himalayan balsam Impatiens glandulifera. His PhD was supervised by Ron Walter Edwards CBE and he authored two ecological monographs on the species and scientific papers reporting simulated projections of their potential future distributions in Europe with global climate change.

Research and career

Beerling's research group investigate fundamental questions concerning the conquest of the land by plants and the role of terrestrial ecosystems in shaping Earth's global ecology, climate and atmospheric composition.  This is achieved by approaches that integrate evidence from fossils, experiments and theoretical models applied across spatial and temporal scales.  Increasingly, his group's research discoveries are informing our understanding of current global climate change issues.

Earth's atmospheric CO₂ history
An important early success of his biophysical approach to palaeobotany was the discovery of evidence for a substantial increase in the atmospheric CO₂ concentration and 'super-greenhouse' conditions across the Triassic-Jurassic (Tr-J) boundary, 200 million years ago, based on analyses of fossil stomata and leaf morphology from Greenland. This causally linked a catastrophic extinction event with the break-up of Pangaea.  Before his group's work, the Tr-J extinction represented one of the most poorly understood of the so-called 'big-five' mass extinctions in the Phanerozoic (past 540 million years). His paper resulted in major new international research programmes that subsequently identified evidence confirming the carbon cycle perturbation in marine and terrestrial sediments world-wide.  He extended this discovery by evaluating hypothesized causal mechanisms with numerical geochemical carbon cycle modelling in collaboration with the Yale University geochemist Robert Berner.

Beerling was the only UK participant in an international consortium led by James Hansen (former Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies) analysing Cenozoic CO₂ and palaeoclimate evidence to investigate the broader societal question of the target CO₂ level required to avoid 'dangerous' anthropogenic interference of the climate system.  Stabilization of human-made greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at a level avoiding this concern is a core objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The resulting 2008 'Target CO₂' paper made the front page of the UK newspaper The Guardian which commented:

Fossils and experimental palaeobiology
Beerling is a leading architect in the field of experimental palaeobiology, adopting advanced experimental research programmes to address fundamental questions raised by the fossil record of plant life.  Characterized by the formulation and evaluation of rigorous hypotheses, these programmes demonstrate how experimental evidence serves to deepen our causal understanding of past events.  By productively collaborating with Jonathan Leake, his group established essential missing functional evidence supporting the long-standing conjecture, based largely on 400-million-year-old-fossils from the Devonian Rhynie chert, that the establishment of rootless early land plants in skeletal soils was promoted by their mutualistic symbiotic partnership with soil fungi. They went on to reveal how the simulated high CO₂ Palaeozoic atmosphere and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi synergistically enhanced plant fitness to create uniquely strong selection pressures favouring the establishment of mycorrhiza-like partnerships in 'lower' land plants.  These findings now place fungi as key players in the earliest symbiotic events during the greening of the Earth's land-masses.

Beerling's investigations into vegetation interactions with past environments extend to those guided by the fossil remains of ancient polar forests.  Through a creative combination of experiments simulating high CO₂ ancient polar environments, and modelling of forest biogeochemistry, his group's analyses helped define our modern understanding of the physiological ecology of Mesozoic high-latitude forests [ref].  In doing so, they overturned 'textbook dogma' concerning the adaptive significance of polar forest deciduousness, established following Scott of the Antarctic's discovery of Glossopteris fossils on the Beardmore Glacier at 82ºS in 1912. BBC News covered these findings in a 2003 report 'Antarctic Scott's lasting legacy' and again in a 2011 report entitled 'Secrets of Antarctica's fossilised forests'.

Beerling's has published over 200 papers in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including Science and Nature.

Popular Science
Beerling's best-selling popular science book The Emerald Planet: How plants changed Earth's history  presents a case for recognising the role of plants in shaping Earth's history.  Reviewed in many journals (e.g. Nature) and newspapers, including The Times and The Guardian, the book was named by Oliver Sacks as his favourite non-fiction book of the year in The Observer. Sacks wrote of it

The Emerald Planet has been translated into three languages and attracted public acclaim and that of his academic peers.  The book formed the basis of a major three-part BBC Two television series, How to Grow a Planet, for which Beerling acted as the Scientific Consultant.  Enhanced public awareness of plant science followed, with the series attracting average viewing figures of 1.7 million per episode.  The book was reprinted by Oxford University Press in 2009 with a foreword written by Iain Stewart, the presenter of How to Grow a Planet. Beerling is also the author of an advanced technical book Vegetation and the terrestrial carbon cycle: the first 400 million years.

History of Science
Beerling is interested in the history of science and publishes occasional scholarly articles on this theme. These have included an invited commentary entitled 'Gas valves, forests and global change: a commentary on Paul Gordon Jarvis classic 1976 paper written to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and the discovery that Isaac Newton's interest in botany extended to thinking about how water moves from roots to leaves and into the atmosphere over 200 years before botanists got round to explaining it. His discovery was widely reported including in Scientific American and Science which coined the memorable 'Newton was no sap' strap line. In 2010, he wrote a piece for Nature discussing theoretical analyses revealing how plant investment in the architecture of leaf veins can be shuffled for different conditions, minimising the construction costs associated with supplying water to leaves. He placed these findings in the context of the pioneering English plant physiologist Stephen Hales's book Vegetable Staticks published in 1727. Hales observed that plants lose water by "perspiration" and then went one better by conducting experiments to quantify the process.

Funding
Beerling's research has been funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Department for International Development (DFID), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), The Royal Society, and The Leverhulme Trust. In 2012 he was awarded a prestigious European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant to research 'Carbon dioxide regulation of Earth's ecological weathering engine: from microorganisms to ecosystems'.

In 2015, he was awarded £10 million for establishing a Leverhulme Centre for Climate change mitigation which hopes to revolutionise approaches to climate change mitigation and transform the evidence base needed to alter land management options for mitigating climate change and promoting food security, whilst safeguarding natural resources. The vision is to develop and assess the role of enhanced rock weathering as a means of safely removing large amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere to cool the planet, while also mitigating ocean acidification.

 the plan is to deliver these aims through Earth system modelling, lab-based controlled environment experimental investigations and large-scale field studies, embedded with social science analyses of sustainability and public engagement. Beerling, Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation at the University of Sheffield, said:

Beerling added:
On 29 November 2018, the BBC's Science Editor, David Shukman, reported on progress of the Centre on the National BBC news and in an accompanying BBC New online article entitled Climate change: Can 12 billion tonnes of carbon be sucked from the air?

Awards and honours
Beerling was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Earth sciences for outstanding contributions to palaeobotany and palaeoclimatology in 2001. He was elected the 2008/9 Edward P Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar at the Yale Institute for Biosphere Science, Yale University. The Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholars Program was created in July 2002 with a private donation by Edward P. Bass to the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS), which he also established in 1991 with a gift to Yale University. In 2009, Beerling was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2009–2014), a scheme funded by the Wolfson Foundation and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills for recruiting or retaining respected scientists of outstanding achievement and potential to the UK. Beerling was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014, his certificate of election reads:

Beerling was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2022.

Beerling's life and career have been profiled in Steel Science, the online magazine of Science Communication at the University of Sheffield.

Personal life
Beerling is the son of Johnny Beerling former Controller of BBC Radio 1 and Carol Ann Beerling. Beerling married Juliette Fraser in 2011, they have one son Joshua.

References

Fellows of the Royal Society
Living people
1965 births
Geobiologists
Alumni of the University of Wales
Academics of the University of Sheffield
People from Royal Tunbridge Wells
People from Great Longstone
Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales

Kenrick, P


title: Support Command (New Zealand)

text:
Support Command was a support formation of the New Zealand Army. It was active from 1984 to 1998.

After the 1983 Defence Review the Army's command structure was adjusted to distinguish more clearly the separate roles of operations and base support training. There was an internal reorganisation within the Army General Staff, and New Zealand Land Forces Command at Byron Avenue in Takapuna, North Shore, was split into a Land Force Command and a Support Command. Support Command from then on comprised three elements, the Army Training Group in Waiouru, the Force Maintenance Group (FMG) based in Linton, and Base Area Wellington (BAW) based in Trentham, and assumed responsibility for individual training, third line logistics and base support.

The Force Maintenance Group of 19 units was designed to provide logistical support to both the Rapid Reaction Force (a battalion plus group) and the Integrated Expansion Force (brigade sized).

In 1985 the command's units were listed as two field squadrons (one TF, one RF/TF), at Linton and Petone, one engineer support squadron at Linton (25 ESS), one signals squadron (RF/TF) at Linton, one transport regiment (integrated RF/TF) at Linton, one general hospital at Linton, two RNZAOC  supply companies at Linton and Waiouru, 1 Base Supply Battalion at Trentham, 2 independent workshops (Waiouru and Linton), one base workshop at Trentham, one engineer workshop at Linton, the School of Military Engineering at Linton, the Military Police School at Trentham, and the RNZAOC Ordnance School at Trentham, plus three camp headquarters at Linton, Trentham, and Fort Dorset.

Later on the command's responsibility were described as the provision of individual training, equipment management, static support, and base support, and command of the Army Training Group (Waiouru) and 5th Base Logistics Group (Trentham).

The headquarters was initially at Palmerston North, but was moved to the Messines complex at Trentham in the 1990–1992 period. Brigadier Graham Birch commanded the formation about this time period.

Headquarters Support Command was disestablished in mid-1998, with the Army's training and support systems being transferred to the newly established Headquarters Land Command (New Zealand) and management of logistic and support functions going to Logistics Executive within the Army General Staff.

References

Military units and formations of the New Zealand Army
Army logistics units and formations
Military units and formations established in 1984
Military units and formations disestablished in 1998


title: Gërmej

text:
Gërmej is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Harizaj

text:
Harizaj is a village located in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Mlik

text:
Mlik is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Okshtun

text:
Okshtun is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Shkozet

text:
Shkozet is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Wilson Waigwa

text:
Wilson Waigwa (born February 15, 1949) is a Kenyan long distance and middle-distance runner.   He competed for Kenya in the 5,000 meters at the 1984 Olympics.  He also competed for Kenya at the 1987 World Indoor Championships and the 1984 World Cross Country Championships.

While competing for the University of Texas, El Paso he won the 1977 NCAA Championship in the 1,500 meters.  He first broke 4 minutes for the mile on February 15, 1974 and was a formidable world class miler for more than a decade.  His personal record was 3:50.73 set at the end of the 1983 season in Koblenz, Germany.  More than 3 decades later it still ranks as #88 on the all-time list at the time he was running he was in the top dozen.

References

External links

1949 births
Kenyan male middle-distance runners
Athletes (track and field) at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Kenya
Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Kenya
Living people
African Games silver medalists for Kenya
African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 1978 All-Africa Games


title: Damarkaj

text:
Damarkaj is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Robert A. Bradway

text:
Robert A. Bradway is an American businessman. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of Amgen.

Education
Bradway holds a B.S. degree in biology from Amherst College and an MBA from Harvard University.

Career
Bradway joined Morgan Stanley in New York in 1985 as a health care industry investment banker. In 1990 he moved to London, where he served as managing director of Morgan Stanley with responsibility for the firm's banking department and corporate finance activities in Europe.

Bradway joined Amgen in 2006 as vice president of operations strategy, and served as executive vice president and chief financial officer from April 2007 to May 2010. He was its president and chief operating officer from May 2010 to May 2012. In October 2011, he was appointed to the Amgen board of directors. Bradway was named CEO of Amgen in May 2012, and chairman of the board in January 2013.

During Bradway’s tenure as CEO, Amgen's annual revenue increased from $17.3 billion in 2012 to $26 billion in 2021, and annual R&D investment increased to $4.2 billion in 2020. Bradway oversaw the acquisition of Iceland-based DeCODE Genetics in 2012, Onyx Pharmaceuticals in 2013, and a 20.5% equity stake in Beijing-based BeiGene in 2020.

Boards and volunteer activities
Bradway serves on the board of directors of the Norfolk Southern Corporation and Boeing. He gave the 2016 commencement speech at the Keck Graduate Institute, which is part of The Claremont Colleges. He gave the 2017 commencement speech at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he serves on the board of trustees and on the board of the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics.

He is the chairman of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer and a member of the American Heart Association CEO Roundtable.

Public statements
Bradway was a keynote speaker at the 2015 World Medical Innovation Forum. In June 2017, he gave the keynote address at the commencement ceremony for graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management. Bradway was a speaker at Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Health virtual conference in June 2020.

Following the 2020 murder of George Floyd in May 2020, Bradway issued a statement condemning the murder as "senseless" and pledging to address racial inequality at Amgen, stating, "Let's take inspiration from science and trust that progress, like knowledge, builds upon itself, incrementally improving on what exists today until the cumulative adds up to something profound."

On October 1, 2020, Bradway testified before the House Oversight Committee and was questioned by Rep. Katie Porter (D. Cal) for his considerable compensation. He and four other top Amgen executives earned a combined $124.2 million over a three-year period spanning 2017–2019.

References

1963 births
American computer businesspeople
Businesspeople in the pharmaceutical industry
Life extensionists
Biogerontologists
Living people
American health care chief executives
American chairpersons of corporations
Harvard Business School alumni
Amherst College alumni
American chief operating officers
Chief executives in the pharmaceutical industry


title: Fliballie

text:
Fliballie is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Hasdushk

text:
Hasdushk is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Hamenraj

text:
Hamenraj is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Giovanni Gottardi

text:
Giovanni Gottardi (Faenza, 27 December 1733 - Rome, 1812) was an Italian painter, mainly of religious subjects.

He was active mainly in Rome, where he was a member of the Congregazione dei Virtuosi of the Pantheon. Some of his paintings were completed by his colleague Christopher Unterberger.  He painted Escape from Prison by St Peter for the church of Sant'Antonio Abate, Parma. He painted a Saints Augustine an Monica, and the Madonna of the Belt (1765) for the church of Sant'Agostino, Rome.

References

1733 births
1812 deaths
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
19th-century Italian painters
19th-century Italian male artists
People from Faenza
18th-century Italian male artists


title: Koçaj-Sheshaj

text:
Koçaj-Sheshaj is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Shahid Qambrani

text:
Shahid Ali Qambrani (born 2 February 1978) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played first-class cricket for several teams in Pakistan from 1998-99 to 2011-12.

Cricket career
Qambrani played several matches for the Pakistan Under-19 team in 1996 and 1997, opening the batting against the Under-19 teams of West Indies, England and South Africa.

He made his first-class debut in 1998-99 for Hyderabad in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy. In his sixth match, a few days after turning 21, he captained the team for the first time, scored his first century, and led Hyderabad to their first victory of the season by one wicket.

In 2001-02 Qambrani captained Dadu to second place in the sub-first-class Grade II division of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy. He was the most successful batsman in the tournament. When Dadu were promoted to first-class status for the 2002-03 season, he retained the captaincy, and led the team's batting with 257 runs at 25.70, but Dadu won no matches and lost their first-class status after the season. They won one match in the one-day tournament, in which Qambrani scored 112 not out in a 10-run victory over Lahore Blues and shared the Man of the match award.

Qambrani had his most prolific season in 2006-07 when he scored 686 runs at an average of 32.66, playing for Pakistan Customs, Hyderabad and Sindh. His highest score was 150 not out, scored for Hyderabad against Islamabad in 2009-10. It was the last of his eight first-class centuries. He last played first-class and List A cricket in 2011-12.

References

External links
 Shahid Qambrani at CricketArchive

 Portrait of Shahid Qambrani

1978 births
Living people
Pakistani cricketers
Sindh cricketers
Hyderabad (Pakistan) cricketers
Pakistan National Shipping Corporation cricketers
Pakistan Customs cricketers
People from Jamshoro District
Sportspeople from Sindh
Dadu cricketers


title: Methasanaj

text:
Methasanaj is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform, it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Al-Amali

text:
Al-Amali () means "the dictations", and is the title of more than thirty books by Shia Muslim scholars. The most prominent of these are:

 Al-Amali (Shaykh Mufid)
 Al-Amali (Ibn Babawayh)

Islamic literature
Shia hadith collections
Shia theology books
Shia bibliography


title: Thartor

text:
Thartor is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Rrogozhinë.

References

Populated places in Rrogozhinë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Bago, Albania

text:
Bago (, also Hallula) is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kavajë.

References

Populated places in Kavajë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Pizzey Park

text:
Pizzey Park is an open-air sports and recreation precinct in Miami, a suburb in the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The  site is owned and operated by the Gold Coast City Council.

History
The Pizzey Park sporting complex was established on a  site in 1969. It was named after the former Queensland Premier Jack Pizzey. It was previously a garbage dump.

The Australian Institute of Sport established their training facilities for canoe/kayak at Pizzey Park in June 1991 at a cost of $500,000. The park was expanded to accommodate this additional facility, extending westward into the neighbouring suburb of Mermaid Waters.

Facilities
Pizzey Park has sports fields for a wide variety of sports including: rugby league, rugby union, Australian Rules Football, soccer, netball, softball and athletics.

Skateboard and BMX facilities are available. The site also provides a network of tracks for walking, jogging and cycling, around a number of lakes as well as an off-leash dog park.

The site includes the Miami Aquatic Centre featuring two outdoor heated  swimming pools and one indoor  teaching pool.

See also

 Sports on the Gold Coast, Queensland
 Sport in Queensland

References

Rugby league stadiums in Australia
Soccer venues in Queensland
Rugby union stadiums in Australia
Netball venues in Queensland
Cricket grounds in Australia
Skateparks in Australia
Sports venues on the Gold Coast, Queensland
Burleigh Bears
Softball venues in Australia


title: Bukaq

text:
Bukaq is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2016 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kavajë.

References

Populated places in Kavajë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Girindra Mukerji

text:
Girindra Mukerji (born ) was an Indian anti-British activist, organizer, and agriculturist. His article "The Hindu in America" has been widely cited as a document describing early Indian immigration to the United States.

Early life
Mukerji was born in Calcutta, India in . He was, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, the son of a "Judge of one of the higher courts."

In 1901, he received an AB degree from Calcutta University, then briefly studied in Japan, at the Imperial University in Tokyo, before deciding to study in the United States.

Life in the United States
Mukerji moved to the United States in 1904, becoming a student at Oregon Agricultural College. While in Oregon, according to Gopal Stavig, he represented the Vedanta Society at the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland in summer 1905.

He moved to Berkeley, California in April 1904, hoping to study at the University of California, Berkeley; he started working to fund his education, and was a student by 1905.

Mukerji was a student leader among Indian students at UC Berkeley, described in the media as "having charge of the colony." His time at UC Berkeley was widely covered by American newspapers.

Student activism
Around 1906, according to British surveillance, Mukerji and Tarak Nath Das worked together as "agitators against British rule." Subsequently, wrote William C. Hopkinson, "Mookerjee and Dass then got together some five or six other students and formed a society called the Samiti, which is considered the most secret among all the societies with Hindu affiliations." The local media would subsequently describe him as a socialist.

In 1907, Mukerji co-founded the Association of Oriental Students at UC Berkeley, the first Asian American organization at the university, with members from India, Japan, China, and Thailand. He served as the organization's president during at least 1907–1908. While a student, Mukerji also worked as a United States immigration officer from March 1907 to March 1908, interviewing immigrants from India and learning about their labor conditions.

In November 1907, he published a booklet on American colleges focused on an Indian audience; the release was covered in newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle. British surveillance reported that his pamphlets were "circulated…widely through India, Japan, China, and other parts where there were Hindu students…" A subsequent article, "The Hindu in America," was published in the Overland Monthly in April 1908, and he was interviewed on "The Condition of Hindu Students in America" in The Modern Review in 1909.

In December 1907, Mukerji gave a scathing lecture on the British empire in India to UC Berkeley's Economics Club, which was covered in the San Francisco Chronicle, in an article titled "Hindu Arraigns Britons for the Ruin of India: Calcutta Graduate Scores England for Overtaxing of His People."

In January 1908, after his graduation, he led a student protest against J. Lovell Murray, a Christian evangelist who was in Berkeley to give a talk titled "Awakening the Orient" organized by the local Y.M.C.A. Just before Murray was about to enter Stiles Hall to give his lecture, 16 Indian students at UC Berkeley, including Mukerji, asked Murray to remove from his talk any references to the immorality of Hindu priests, and its use in the justification of the occupation of India by the British. Murray refused. Once Murray was finished speaking, Mukerji was invited to respond to the speaker. He spoke against the British occupation, followed by six other students from the group, until the organizers decided to shut down the event.

Agricultural research
Mukerji was a student of Professor Eugene W. Hilgard, an expert on agricultural chemistry. In 1907–1908, he received a Master of Science from the College of Agriculture at UC Berkeley; his thesis was entitled "A Comparative Study of Soil Columns in the San Joaquin Valley."

University President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, who was present at his farewell, spoke highly of his work and cited him as a role model for other Indians. He hoped to be able to apply his learnings, including Utah dry farming techniques, in India.

Leaving California, and return to India
In 1907, the Berkeley Daily Gazette reported that Mukerji was to "return to his home to take the chair of agriculture at the Calcuttat (sic) University."

Mukerji left for New York City in March 1908, where he was associated with the Society for the Advancement of India, supporting Indian students. He worked with Myron Phelps, a supporter of Indian freedom; a London Daily Express article critical of the Indian freedom movement described Mukerji as a "clever Hindu agitator" and Phelps' "major-domo." By 1909, he was living in Massachusetts, developing ideas to create a new library in India. He would later stay at Sister Nivedita's apartment in London.

Sarangadhar Das wrote that after graduating from UC Berkeley in 1908, Mukerji "worked as the Superindending (sic) Chemist in a sugar factory in Porto Rico, Cuba, and now is employed in the Bengal National College."

British surveillance records from 1911 placed Mukerji in the "mills of Cawnpore, United Provinces," where he was "still carrying on, although quite secretly, his agitation against Britain," while remaining in correspondence with students at UC Berkeley.

In 1914, the Hindusthanee Student reported that he was "prospecting in the Central Provinces."

Published works
 "Comparison of Soils in Arid and Humid Climates" (1907)
"The Hindu in America" (Overland Monthly, April 1908)

See also

 Tarak Nath Das
 Ram Nath Puri
 Sarangadhar Das

References

Scientists from Kolkata
Indian independence activists from Bengal
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of Calcutta alumni
Indian expatriates in the United States
Indian agriculturalists
20th-century Indian botanists
Asian-American movement activists
1880s births
Oregon State University alumni
Anushilan Samiti
Indian independence activists from West Bengal
Indian activists


The 2014 Southern Conference football season was the 93rd season of college football for the Southern Conference (SoCon) and formed a part of the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season.

It was the first season for two newcomers: the Mercer Bears, who previously played in the Pioneer Football League, and the VMI Keydets, who had an 80-year stint in the SoCon before joining the Big South Conference in 2003. The additions of Mercer and VMI, along with East Tennessee State, who is bringing back football in 2015, replaced the departure of Georgia Southern and Appalachian State who joined the Sun Belt Conference, as well as Elon who left for the Colonial Athletic Association.

Previous season
In 2013, both Appalachian State and Georgia Southern were ineligible for postseason play due to their transition to the FBS in 2014. Both schools had down years, each going 4–4 in conference play, with Georgia Southern posting a 7–4 overall mark to Appalachian State's 4–8. At the top of the conference was a three-way tie between Chattanooga, Samford, and Furman, who all posted 6–2 conference records. The three schools were declared co-champions, though only Samford and Furman were selected to participate in the FCS tournament.

Samford, who finished ranked #18 in the coaches poll, was defeated in the second round of the playoffs by Jacksonville State on the road, 55–14. Furman, ranked #22, beat South Carolina State in their opening round game in Orangeburg by a score of 30–20. They were knocked out the following week by North Dakota State, who went on to win their third straight national title.

Newcomer Mercer finished their tenure in the Pioneer League on a high note, going 10–2 and 6–2 in conference play, narrowly missing out on the playoffs. VMI was 2–10 in 2013, including a 1–4 mark in Big South play, beating Gardner–Webb.

Head coaches

Russ Huesman, Chattanooga – 6th year
Mike Houston, The Citadel – 1st year
Bruce Fowler, Furman – 4th year
Pat Sullivan, Samford – 7th year

Bobby Lamb, Mercer – 2nd year
Sparky Woods, VMI – 7th year
Mark Speir, Western Carolina – 3rd year
Mike Ayers, Wofford – 27th year

Preseason poll results
First place votes in parentheses

Rankings

Regular season

All times Eastern time.

Rankings reflect that of the Sports Network poll for that week.

Week One

Players of the week:

Week Two

Players of the week:

Week Three

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Week Four

Players of the week:

Week Five

Players of the week:

Week Six

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Week Seven

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Week Eight

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Week Nine

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Week Ten

Players of the week:

Week Eleven

Players of the week:

Week Twelve

Players of the week:

Week Thirteen

Players of the week:

Records against other conferences

FCS conferences

FBS conferences

Attendance

References


title: Tom Aikens (politician)

text:
This is about the Queensland politician. For the English chef and his restaurant, see Tom Aikens and Tom Aikens (restaurant).

Thomas Aikens (29 April 1900 – 30 November 1985) was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Politics
Aikens was a member of the Cloncurry Shire Council from 1924 to 1930, being deputy chairman 1927 to 1930. From 1936 to 1949 he was an alderman of the City of Townsville, being deputy mayor from 1939 to 1944.

Initially, Aikens was a member of the Labor Party, being secretary of the Cloncurry branch from 1933 to 1940. He was also the founder of their branch at Hermit Park. However, his Soviet sympathies caused him to be expelled from the party in 1940; the Hermit Park branch was also expelled from the Labor party in 1941 for the same reasons. The branch responded by forming its own political party, the North Queensland Labor Party (NQLP).

Aikens contested the 1944 state election in the seat of Mundingburra as an NQLP and was elected on 15 April. Effectively an independent (being the only member of his party in the parliament), he retained the seat in the elections of 1947, 1950, 1953, 1956 and 1957. An electoral redistribution abolished the seat of Mundingburra in 1959 so Aikens successfully contested the seat of Townsville South instead in the 1960 election held on 28 May. He retained that seat through the state elections of 1963, 1966, 1969, 1972 and 1974. On 12 November 1977 he was defeated in the 1977 election by ALP candidate, Alex Wilson.

References

Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
1900 births
1985 deaths
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland
20th-century Australian politicians


title: MAMA Awards in the Special Awards Category

text:
The following are the Special Awards given by the MAMA Awards.

Popularity/People's Choice Awards

Mnet PD's Choice/Judges' Choice

Professional/Technical-related Awards

Global awards

Performance Awards

Style in Music

Discovery of the Year

Best of Next

Others

Notes
 Each year is linked to the article about the Mnet Asian Music Awards held that year.

References
 "M.net Korean Music Festival Winners list by year". MAMA. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
 "M.net Korean Music Festival Broadcasts by year". MAMA. Retrieved 2014-06-19.
 "M.net Korean Music Festival Photos by year". MAMA. Retrieved 2014-06-19.

External links
 Mnet Asian Music Awards official website

MAMA Awards


title: Hajdaraj

text:
Hajdaraj is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kavajë.

References

Populated places in Kavajë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Peqinaj

text:
Peqinaj (, also Bardhor) is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kavajë.

References

Populated places in Kavajë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Rrakull

text:
Rrakull is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kavajë.

References

Populated places in Kavajë
Villages in Tirana County


title: Rrikaj

text:
Rrikaj is a village situated in the central plains of Albania's Western Lowlands region. It is part of Tirana County. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kavajë.

References

Populated places in Kavajë
Villages in Tirana County


title: First Raje ministry

text:
Vasundhara Raje was sworn-in as Chief Minister of Rajasthan state in India on 8 December 2003. She was elected as the leader of BJP in Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. She remained chief minister until 11 December 2008. Here is the list of ministers:

Chief Minister & Cabinet Ministers

Ministers of State with independent charge

Ministers of State

See also
Vasundhara Raje ministry (2013–)

References

2003 in Indian politics
Raje 01
Bharatiya Janata Party state ministries
2003 establishments in Rajasthan
2008 disestablishments in India
Cabinets established in 2003
Cabinets disestablished in 2008


title: Ramblin' (Paul Bley album)

text:
Ramblin' is an album led by jazz pianist Paul Bley recorded in Italy in 1966 and released on the French BYG Actuel label.

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "Ramblin' comes from an adventurous period in Paul Bley's career, at a time when he was associated with some of the more avant-garde elements. His playing often takes an attractively aggressive approach, which he tempered in later years".

Track listing
 "Both" (Annette Peacock) – 9:30
 "Albert's Love Theme" (Peacock) – 9:23
 "Ida Lupino" (Carla Bley) – 3:30
 "Ramblin'" (Ornette Coleman) – 5:50
 "Touching" (Peacock) – 7:30
 "Mazatalon" (Paul Bley) – 7:32

Personnel
 Paul Bley – piano
 Mark Levinson – bass
 Barry Altschul – drums

References

1967 albums
Paul Bley albums
BYG Actuel albums


title: Toshikatsu Yamamoto

text:
Toshikatsu Yamamoto (, Yamamoto Toshikatsu) (born 15 December 1929 Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan) is a physician who worked in the field of acupuncture.

Toshikatsu Yamamoto graduated in 1956 from his studies of medicine at the Nippon Medical School in Tokyo. After that he gained qualification in surgery, anesthesia, and obstetrics in New Jersey, New York and Cologne, Germany. In 1966 he went back to his home country and founded a hospital.

During the 1960s he developed Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture (YNSA). In 1991 he graduated from the University of Miyazaki with the research for scalp acupuncture. In 1998 he founded the Yamamoto Rehabilitation Clinic in Miyazaki.

Bibliography
 Yamamoto, Toshikatsu, Yamamoto Neue Schädelakupunktur. Kötzting/Bayer. Wald,  (1985, 1991 & 2004).
 Yamamoto, Toshikatsu, Yamamoto new scalp acupuncture, DVD-Video (2005).

External links

 Aishinkai Yamamoto Hospital (Japanese)
 YNSA
 Yamamoto Scalp Acupuncture (Japanese)

Acupuncturists
1929 births
Living people
People from Miyazaki Prefecture


title: Democracy International

text:
Democracy International means:

 Democracy International eV, a German organization with an international focus on the promotion of direct democracy
 Democracy International, Inc, a U.S. organization that advises and assists on behalf of governments, ministries and NGOs in democracy and governance projects


title: Democracy International eV

text:
Democracy International e.V. is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) working on strengthening direct democracy and citizens' participation at local level, in the nation states and on the global level. Democracy International has been existing as a loose network of democracy activists since 2002. The organisation was formally established in June 2011  as a registered membership association (eingetragener Verein e.V.) according to German non-profit law. Democracy International is politically independent and funded by membership fees and individual donations. The headquarters are in Cologne, Germany.

Organisation
Individual people and democracy groups of the council are both members of the organisation.
The members elect Democracy International’s executive board  at the general assembly, which is held at least every two years. The board steers the political course and represents the organisation externally.

Democracy groups with more than seven members can become a member of the council. The task of the council is to advise and to support the executive board with its work. Membership fees vary according to country of residence.

Association work
Democracy International regularly runs campaigns to promote democracy.

It also organizes conferences, provides knowledge on direct democracy and publishes the Direct Democracy Navigator. This online-tool helps people to compare direct-democratic instruments all over the world.

Engagement for lobby-transparency

Democracy International accuses the European Union of a lack of transparency when it comes to lobbyism. Democracy International promotes more transparency and a mandatory lobby register. Amongst others the organization started a campaign in 2014, in which proposals of citizens to dam in lobbyism in Europe have been selected. Democracy International then handed over the results to Sven Giegold, the European Parliament's rapporteur in the “Report on Transparency, Integrity and Accountability”. Since the Commission is headed by Jean- Claude Juncker, a voluntary lobby register has been put in place. Democracy International campaigns to make this register mandatory.

Campaign for a transnational European electoral law

The organisation promotes a transnational European electoral law. Democracy International favors European-wide, transnational electoral lists in the European Parliamentary Elections to strengthen the link between the citizens of the European Union and the parties that represent them.

Organisational support

The association also supports other democracy activists with their campaigns. Democracy International has close connections to Mehr Demokratie e.V. Germany, Mehr Demokratie Austria, Meer Democratie, Demokratie.nu in Belgium, OMNIBUS für Direkte Demokratie and the ECI campaign.

Demand for a new European Convention

Facing the legal changes of the European Union, which are the result of the European stability mechanism and the European fiscal pact, the organisation calls for the convocation of a new European Convention. A convention is an assembly not only of representatives of politics, economy and civil society, but should also include citizens.  Purpose of the assembly should be to give European citizens a direct say in the European Union’s decision-making. The aim is a democratic legitimated Europe. In 2014, the organisation started a campaign called ‚Democratic Europe Now‘, which is now a broad alliance of civil society groups from all of Europe. The association has established criteria for the composition of a new European Convention. To ensure maximum democratic legitimacy, it requires the Convention members to be not only representatives of the EU institutions and the Member States, but to include representatives  from the civil society sector and/or representatives directly elected by the European citizens. Additionally, the meetings should be transparent and open to the public. Rather than elaborating proposals that are then to be decided by the presidency, the Convention members should directly determine what the final draft should entail. In addition, Democracy International requires sufficient time for serious and thorough deliberation. The new Convention must give the working groups more than one year to complete their analyses and proposals. Participatory mechanisms should be in place, that allow citizens and civil society to give input and to contribute to the proceedings. To accomplish that the Convention needs to facilitate digital and traditional platforms for citizens and civil society. Finally, the results of the Convention process should be put to popular vote in all EU Member States on the same day, in a pan-European referendum.

Campaign for a European Citizens’ Initiative

In 2002 Democracy International together with numerous democracy activists throughout Europe campaigned for the inclusion of the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) in the EU draft Constitutional Treaty, which then was integrated in the Treaty of Lisbon. The ECI requires one million signatures from at least seven EU Member States to suggest an EU law proposal to the European Commission. Since the launch of the ECI on 1 April 2012, Democracy International advocates that the ECI must become more citizen-friendly and that the general public must be more aware of the first tool of direct democracy at transnational level.

In 2015 Democracy International has been campaigning for a reform of the European Citizens' Initiative. Window of opportunity was the revision of the ECI - the EU regulation on the European Citizens' Initiative demands a review of the ECI every three years. In this context of reform, Democracy International submitted to the EU institutions a set of reform proposals. Also, Democracy International run a broad campaign. The petition "Save the ECI", which French economist Thomas Piketty and the German political scientist Gesine Schwan both supported, was the core element of this campaign. More than 75,000 citizens from all across the EU signed the petition that Democracy International together with Mehr Demokratie e.V. and WeMove.eu handed over to the EU Parliament in Strasbourg on 28 October 2015. On the same day, the European Parliament adopted the report on the European Citizens' Initiative, which contained seven out of nine reform proposals by Democracy International. On 16 August 2017 Democracy International handed over 100,000 signatures of Europeans demanding a reinforcement of the ECI. The Commission published its proposal for a reinforced ECI by mid-September 2017. Democracy International had made eleven recommendations to the Commission. Two of them were fully accepted, six were partially accepted and three were either rejected or not mentioned. The revised ECI is expected to be in effect by the next European elections. Democracy International continues to campaign for a stronger follow up to successful ECIs.

Building a global network

Democracy International seeks to provide opportunities for activists and organisations who work on democracy to network and exchange ideas. The „Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy“, which takes place every two years, is the central platform connecting specialists, activists and organisations working on this subject internationally.

Research & Publications
Democracy International regularly issues monitoring reports and position papers on actual direct democracy issues. The reports assess actually held referendums and plebiscites with  international standards of direct democracy as set by the Venice Commission and leading experts on direct democracy.

Moreover, Democracy International is a core partner of the Direct Democracy Navigator, a unique global information platform that lists legal instruments of direct democracy available throughout the world.

References

External links
 Website of Democracy International
 Democracy International's Statutes

Direct democracy movement


title: Fisheries Museum

text:
Fisheries Museum or Fishing Museum may refer to:

 Brighton Fishing Museum
Destin History & Fishing Museum
 Fisheries and Maritime Museum, Esbjerg
German Hunting and Fishing Museum

 Fishing Museum, Palamós
North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum
Sebastian Fishing Museum
 Scottish Fisheries Museum

See also

Fishing museums


title: Operation Dolfyn

text:
Operation Dolfyn () was a military operation in Angola from  May 1983 by the South African Defence Force (SADF) during the Angolan Civil War and South African Border War.

Background
The aim of the operation locate and destroy the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) Eastern Command headquarters which was thought to be north of Cuvelai as well any other bases in the area. The operation took place during May and June 1983 and consisted of many small contacts.

Forces were divided into Task Force West under command of Col. Linford and Task Force East was under command of Col. Phillip Lloyd.  Each task force was allocated an Air Force MOAT with each MOAT having two Alouette Gunships plus one Alouette troop carrier helicopter under their command.

The operation ended at the beginning of July. The town of Cuvelai would again be the target of the SADF during Operation Askari at the end of December 1983.

Order of Battle for SADF
The SADF units consisted of elements from:
 Three companies of 32 Battalion,
4 SAI,
Regiment Groot Karoo.
 Reserve:
 Two Companies of 44 Parachute Brigade
 Mobile force from 61 Mechanised Battalion

Notes and references

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

Further reading

Conflicts in 1983
Military history of Angola
Cross-border operations of South Africa
Battles and operations of the South African Border War
1983 in Angola
1983 in South Africa
May 1983 events in Africa
June 1983 events in Africa


title: Cliff Pace

text:
Cliff Pace (born May 23, 1980) often called “Game Face Pace”, is a professional bass fisherman from Petal, Mississippi. Pace is the 43rd world champion of bass fishing and the 39th member of the B.A.S.S. Millionaires Club. Pace has predominantly fished the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (BASS) Bassmasters tournament series during his career but now competes in the Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour.

Biography
Cliff Pace was born in Petal, Mississippi. He has competed in 100 tournaments, and had three first-place finishes and twenty-five top ten finishes.

He resides in Petal, Mississippi and has a daughter, Jordan Baylee.

Career Stats
Tournaments Entered: 155
Winnings: $1,762,740.00
Wins: 4
Top 10s: 31
Top 20s: 48
Money finishes: 78
Classic Appearance: 8

Awards
2013 Bassmaster Classic Champion

2019 MLF Bass Pro Tour Stage Eight in Neenah, WI.

See also
 Angling
 Bass fishing
 Bassmaster Classic
 Fishing tournament

References

External links
 Bassmaster Home Page
 Bassmaster Angler's Profile: Cliff Pace
 Bass Fan Angler's Profile: Cliff Pace
https://majorleaguefishing.com/angler/cliff-pace/

1980 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Mississippi
American fishers
People from Petal, Mississippi


title: Fleet Command (SA Navy)

text:
Fleet Command is the South African Navy's single type command and controls all vessels and units of the South African Navy, besides Naval Headquarters. The commander of Fleet Command is a Rear Admiral and referred to as Flag Officer Fleet (FOF). The post was previously known as Chief of Naval Operations.

Fleet Command was formed on 1 April 1999 following a Defense review, with Rear Admiral Eric Green as the first Flag Officer Fleet.

Command, control and organisation
Four directorates are responsible for the day to day control of Fleet Command:

 Director Fleet Force Preparations (DFFP)
 Director Fleet Human Resources (DFHR)
 Director Fleet Quality Assurance (DFQA)
 Director Fleet Logistics (DFL)

Past Flag Officers Fleet
 1999 to 2005 - Rear Admiral Eric Green
 2005 to 2008 - Rear Admiral Hennie Bester
 2008 to December 2010 - Rear Admiral Robert Higgs
 December 2010 to 1 February 2014 - Rear Admiral Phillip Schoultz
 1 February 2014 to 31 March 2020 - Rear Admiral Bubele Mhlana
 1 April 2020 to current - Rear Admiral Musawenkosi Nkomonde

Force preparation
Director Fleet Force Preparations is responsible for the day-to-day running of the ships and submarines and for ensuring their operational readiness. The Maritime Reaction Squadron and Navcomcens also report into DFFP.

Maritime Reaction Squadron
The Naval Rapid Deployment Force (NRDF), now known as the Maritime Reaction Squadron (MRS), was formed in 2006.

The main aim of this specialised unit is to deploy infantry-trained South African Navy members in various peacekeeping roles within the African continent and to assist in boarding operations at sea, humanitarian operations and disaster relief.

The squadron consists of the following components:
Operational Boat Division (OBD), with 10 Namacurra-class harbour patrol boats and six Lima-class utility landing craft
Reaction Force Division (RFD), consisting of one naval infantry company with a command and support element
Operational Diving Division (ODD), consisting of four operational diving teams (ODT) of 17 divers

Human resources
Director Fleet Human Resources is responsible for all training and manning and also controls the training units.

Training units
SAS Saldanha - located on the West Coast and provides training and development for ratings
SAS Wingfield - located in the Greater Cape Town area; provides practical training for apprentices and the technical musterings
SAS Simonsberg - training in gunnery, anti-submarine warfare, communications, diving and seamanship
South African Naval College Gordon's Bay - training college for naval officers
Maritime Warfare School, Simonstown
NBCD School - nuclear, biological, and damage control training

Logistics
Director Fleet Logistics is responsible for all Logistics units as well as for the maintenance of the fleet.

Logistics units
 Naval Armament Depot
 Naval Dockyard
 Naval Stores Depot
 Fleet Maintenance Unit
 Naval Publications Unit

Quality assurance
Director Fleet Quality Assurance is responsible for the output of Fleet Command and monitoring Quality Assurance throughout Fleet Command.

References

South African Navy
Military units and formations in Cape Town


title: Eddie Beardmore

text:
Edwin James (Eddie) Beardmore  (1891–1985) was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Politics
Beardmore was a member of the Balonne Shire Council for 15 years, being deputy chairman for 8 years.

A member of the Country Party, Beardmore was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly at the 1957 election in the electoral district of Balonne. He retained the seat at the 1960, 1963 and 1966 elections. In 1969, he was in a serious car accident and did not contest the election later that year, ending his political service.

References

Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
1891 births
1985 deaths
20th-century Australian politicians
National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Queensland
Australian Members of the Order of the British Empire


title: Paraparap, Victoria

text:
Paraparap is a rural locality in the Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia. At the 2016 census, Paraparap had a population of 151 people.

The Paraparap Parish was made available for sale in the 1850s, but was much less successful than other sales in the region, with slightly more than half of the lots being sold in the initial sales. The remaining lots were sold gradually over the subsequent decades, with some not being sold until the early twentieth century. Paraparap was first listed as an address in the 1890-91 directory.

The area had a local progress association, the Paraparap and Pettavel Farmers' Progress Association, from March 1909. The association was responsible for the opening of the Paraparap State School and the Telephone Bureau and Post Office at the Moriac railway station. They later sought to improve roads within the area, and Hunts Road was opened as a result. At the road's opening in 1912, state Minister for Works William Edgar declared that project "the finest example of self-help I have ever seen in Victoria". The association was subsequently involved in the development of Hendy Main Road, which opened in 1920.

Paraparap State School (No. 3634) opened on 12 December 1909 near what is now the junction of Hunts Road and Hendy Main Road. It initially operated part-time, sharing a teacher with nearby Pettavel State School, but operated full-time by 1912. Wynd writes that the school "was the heart of the district" and "served as both meeting hall and church". A tennis court was built opposite the school in 1926. The school closed on 9 November 1951 due to lack of student numbers.

A postal receiving office opened at Paraparap on 16 November 1910. Paraparap Post Office opened on 1 July 1927 and closed on 19 February 1955.

The locality remains largely rural, and now contains the Drol Kar Buddhist Centre, the headquarters of the Geelong Veteran Cycling Club, the Giddings Road Nature Reserve, and a winery.

References

Towns in Victoria (state)


title: Net Park

text:
Net Park is a 38-story green and sustainable corporate tower located in Bonifacio Global City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is part of the office space portfolio of the Net Group, a developer who pioneered the concept of IT office building in the Philippines. The building will be part of the Net Metropolis 5th Ave, a mixed-use development considered as the nation’s first certified green project in Taguig.

The Net Park is the second tower to rise in the Net Metropolis, 5th Avenue. The property was developed by Charlie Rufino of the Rufino family and designed by Chad Oppenheim, a Miami-based architect who specializes in green architecture. It was built with the second Ascott Residences in the Philippines and was expected to reach completion in 2015, but was completed in 2016. Net Park is home to the Google head office in The Philippines.

Features
The Net Park has over 62,000 sqm. of office space with an estimated height of 38 floors. It will have grade A office floor plates with a full retail ground level, podium, and park. Net Park is slated to receive a BERDE certification. BERDE or more formally known as Building for Ecologically Responsive Design Excellence Program  is a green building rating system created by the Philippine Green Building Council to measure, verify, and monitor performance of buildings in the Philippines.

Design
Together with the other buildings in the Net Metropolis, Net Park is designed for sustainability. The skyscraper has passive external shading devices, roof mounted vertical access wind turbines, and a graywater reuse system designed to irrigate all on site landscaping. The towers are orientated to rotate of the other axis to allow natural light into the building and harness maximum sunlight penetration. Interior columns are also minimized to provide floor efficiency and every floor plate is flexible to accommodate differing tenant demands.

Location
The Net Park is built along 5th Ave., one of the main thoroughfares in Fort Bonifacio (Bonifacio Global City). It is on the same street as the Sun Life Centre, another green building certified by LEED and within the same block of major entertainment and dining complexes in BGC: Bonifacio High Street and The Fort Strip.

References

See also
 List of tallest buildings in Metro Manila

Skyscrapers in Bonifacio Global City
Skyscraper office buildings in Metro Manila


title: Aster DM Healthcare

text:
Aster DM Healthcare Limited is a publicly-traded multinational for-profit hospital conglomerate healthcare company founded by Azad Moopen in 1987. The company has its corporate headquarters in Dubai, UAE, and is registered in Bangalore, India. Aster DM Healthcare currently operates hospitals, medical centres, diagnostic centres, laboratories and pharmacies in six GCC countries and India. The corporation works in a variety of economic sectors through its brands Aster, Medcare, and Access.

History

Aster DM Healthcare was founded in 1987 in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, by Azad Moopen, a doctor turned entrepreneur. The company is a private sector healthcare provider in the Middle East. The India registered healthcare conglomerate covers an array of healthcare verticals, including hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and healthcare consultancy service.

In May 2011, Aster DM Healthcare opened its first medical centre in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The new centre was officially inaugurated by the veteran Indian play back singer K. J. Yesudas and various guests from the Government of Sharjah and Ministry of Health.

In February 2013, Aster DM Healthcare announced the interest of investing in the Philippines' healthcare sector. Initially, the company would start with the establishment of pharmacies and possibly hospitals in the later time. Moopen told reporters in a press conference for the launch of the DM Healthcare Foundation Philippines Inc., which is providing free paediatric cardiac surgery to at least 50 Filipino children in two years. In December, they launched its fifth Access Clinic in Jebel Ali Free Zone, or Jafza South, aimed at catering to the day-to-day healthcare needs of the employees in the neighbourhood.

In April 2014, the company announced the plans to establish help desks in Oman for 2 separate campuses of Aster Medcity, South Asia's largest quaternary care hospitals being set up in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India.

In November 2014, Aster DM Healthcare finalized Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Kotak Mahindra Bank to manage its Rs 1,200-crore initial public offering (IPO).

In March 2015, the cricketer Sachin Tendulkar opened Aster DM Healthcare's 150th pharmacy in Abu Dhabi. Sachin Tendulkar was the brand ambassador of Aster Pharmacy and CSR activities.

In October 2015, in one of the largest healthcare deals in West Asia, Aster DM Healthcare raised its ownership stake to 97% in Saudi’s Sanad Hospital.

In August 2016, the company took over Kavery Medical Institute, Bangaluru, upgraded and renamed it as Aster CMI Hospital, Bangaluru. The facility has 509 beds and multiple centers of excellence. It was inaugurated by cricketer Sachin Tendulkar on 27 August 2016.

In February 2018, Aster DM launched its initial public offering (IPO) and got listed on the Indian stock exchanges.

In August 2021, Aster DM Healthcare announced further expansion plans in India. Moopen told the PTI that the company would invest about Rs 235 crore in India to add 411 hospital beds in the next 18 months. As of June 2022, Aster DM Healthcare operates 16 hospitals in India. It has partner up with ReLiva Physiotherapy and Rehab for providing service to patients in physical therapy in January 2022.

In February 2022, Aster signed an agreement with Novartis to collaborate on digital transformation and clinical research.

In March 2022, the company entered into a partnership with Siemens Healthineers for technology upgradation and digital optimization in its GCC and UAE facilities.

In March 2022, Aster opened an AI research lab at the Indian Institute of Science campus in Bengaluru. According to Aster DM Healthcare, initially the focus of the facility would be research and development of AI tech for neurology.

On December 10, 2022, on its 35th anniversary, the company announced that its healthcare facilities in the United Arab Emirates had increased to 455 units.

Investors
In 2012, Olympus Capital Holdings Asia bought a minority stake in Aster DM Healthcare for about $100 million. The company did not reveal the size of the acquired stake. However, they announced that Olympus Capital Holdings is now Aster DM Healthcare's largest external investor and that its nominees will join the company's board. In May 2014, Olympus Capital Holdings Asia invested another $60 million into the company.

Subsidiaries

The company has 9 subsidiaries and 67 stepdown subsidiaries and 4 associate companies, including:
 Aster Medcity is the flagship hospital of Aster DM Healthcare. It is located in Kochi, Kerala and was opened in 2015. At present, it is a 1745 bed quaternary care healthcare centre in a 40-acre campus.
 Medcare Hospital is the private healthcare provider, operating state-of-the-art hospitals. It includes Medcare Multi-specialty Hospitals in Dubai and Sharjah, Medcare Women & Children Hospital, Medcare Orthopedics and Spine Hospital (MOSH), and 16 medical centers in the UAE.
 Access Clinic offers primary healthcare facilities in the industrial and residential areas in UAE, alongside allied services including X-ray and Laboratory facilities.
 Aster Pharmacy, established in 1989, comprises 200 stores and is one of the largest in the UAE, which provides prescription requirements to customers. In 2020, the organization received the DQA & DSES Award for constant improvements in various departments within 5 years. It is also a two-time winner of the SKEA Awards by the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ADCCI).
 Aster Labs is the diagnostic branch of Aster DM Healthcare. Aster Clinical Lab has a global reference lab at Bengaluru, 20 satellite labs and 190+ patient experienced centers across Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
 Dr. Moopen’s Medical College, formerly known as DM Wayanad Institute of Medical Sciences. The campus has a Nursing and Pharmacy colleges and numerous paramedical courses, and since 2022 academic year provides Post-graduate courses.

Aster Volunteers
 Aster DM Healthcare announced the launch of the 'Aster Volunteers' programme as part of the milestone 'Aster @30' campaign marking their 30th anniversary. The program aims to benefit communities in the Middle East, Africa, India, and the Philippines through medical and non-medical aid, and comprises over 40,000 volunteers.
 Aster DM Healthcare Founder Chairman & Managing Director Dr Azad Moopen briefed President Pranab Mukherjee about ‘Aster Emergency App’ in presence of Rajya Sabha Deputy during the launch of Aster Volunteers - Aster Emergency App to provide medical during the 'Golden Hour'.
 Aster Volunteers have finished the construction of 100 "Aster Homes" for the 2018 Kerala flood victims. Shri Pinarayi, the Chief Minister of Kerala, presented the beneficiary with the keys to the 100th home during an event held in Kochi. It marked the completion of the initial handovers of the 255 Aster Homes announced as part of the Rebuild Kerala program.

See also
 Health care provider

References

External links

Companies established in 1987
Health care companies of India
Health care companies of the United Arab Emirates
Emirati companies established in 1987
Health care companies established in 1987
Hospital networks in India
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
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