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Paradiso The Film is a movie that is at once comic, and also intensely profound and tragic. Though set in 1960's, in a city, somewhere resembling Kolkata, in India, yet, the story is relevant, now all the more. In fact, the theme of the movie is timeless. The loneliness of a man who mirrors the perception of his family, because of his self imposed silence is at once hilarious as well dark. In a way it mirrors the emptiness of our soul. The man lives in the world, one 'Real', one 'Imagined' till the point where both collide and become one. To see the movie is at once humbling and profound.
The Film's Music, was done by Sanjib Sarkar,
Lyrics by Dushyant & Sudeep Ranjan Sarkar Sung by Kavita Krishnamurthy, Sadhana Sargam, Sukanya & Tirtha,
Song Recorded & Mix From Octave Studio Kolkata, Under the banner of Nez Moving Pixels
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Bruche (river)
The Bruche is a river in Alsace, in north-eastern France. It is a left-side tributary of the Ill river, and part of the basin of the Rhine river.
The Bruche river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of .
The Bruche starts in the Vosges mountains, at the western foot of the "Climont" mountain, in the "commune" of Urbeis, (Bas-Rhin department), at an altitude of about . From here, the Bruche flows first to the north and then turns to the northeast.
The Bruche river flows within the Grand Est region, the Bas-Rhin department and 38 "communes".
Finally, the Bruche river flows into the Ill river in the city of Strasbourg, southwest of the historic centre.
The main tributaries of the Bruche river are the Magel, a right tributary long, and the Mossig, a left tributary long.
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is at Holtzheim in the Bas-Rhin department, for the period 1965 - 2017.
Wei Jingsheng
Wei Jingsheng (魏京生, born 20 May 1950, Beijing) is a Chinese human rights activist. He is the main leader of the Democracy Wall Movement in 1979. Wei was sentenced to prison because he has been criticized the former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and he has spent more than 18 years in prison.
Wei was awarded the Olof Palme Prize in 1994,  the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rights Award in 1996, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1996 and the National Endowment for Democracy Award in 1997. Wei Jingsheng has been nominated seven times for Nobel Peace Prize since 1993.
Wei is also the Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition and the Chairman of the Wei Jingsheng Foundation. Now Wei lives in Washington, D.C.
Moder (river)
The Moder is a river in Alsace, in north-eastern France. It is a left-side tributary of the Rhine river.
The Moder river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of .
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is at Auenheim.
The Moder starts in the Vosges mountains in the place called "Moderfeld" in the "commune" of Zittersheim, (Bas-Rhin department), at an altitude of about . From here, the Moder flows to the north and then turns to the southeast; in the final part, the river flows to the northeast.
The Moder river flows within the Grand Est region, the Bas-Rhin department and the following "communes" ː Zittersheim, Wingen-sur-Moder, Wimmenau, Ingwiller, Menchhoffen, Schillersdorf, Obermodern-Zutzendorf, Schalkendorf, La Walck, Pfaffenhoffen, Uberach, Niedermodern, Dauendorf, Ohlungen, Schweighouse-sur-Moder, Haguenau, Kaltenhouse, Oberhoffen-sur-Moder, Bischwiller, Rohrwiller, Drusenheim, Sessenheim, Dalhunden, Stattmatten, Auenheim, Fort-Louis, Rœschwoog, Neuhaeusel.
Finally, the Moder river flows into the Rhine river in Neuhaeusel.
The main tributaries of the Moder river areː
Virgil van Dijk
Virgil van Dijk (born 8 July 1991) is a Dutch professional footballer. He plays as a Center-Back for Premier League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team. He was born in Breda, North Brabant.
Van Dijk began his career with Dutch team Groningen. He played there between 2011 and 2013. Then he moved to Scottish Premiership team Celtic. He won two league titles and a Scottish League Cup in both his seasons at Celtic. In 2015, he moved to Southampton of the Premier League. On 1 January 2018, van Dijk joined Liverpool.
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Jean-François Hory
Jean-François Hory (15 May 1949 – 28 December 2017) was a French politician. He was born in Neufchâteau, Vosges. From 1981 to 1986, he was a member of the French Parliament. In 1989, he became a member of the European Parliament (MEP). While serving as a MEP, he was elected president of the Radical Party of the Left in 1992, a position that he held until 1996. In February 1995, he declared his candidacy for the French presidential election but later withdrew.
Hory died from cancer at the age of 68 on 28 December 2017 in Burgundy.
Murbach
Murbach is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Murbach Abbey is located near Murbach.
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Fernando Birri
Fernando Birri (March 13, 1925 – December 28, 2017) was an Argentine filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, critic and theorist. He was born in Santa Fe, Argentina. He was thought by many to be the father of the new Latin American cinema. He was known for his movie "Tire dié". Birri debuted with a short movie called "La primera fundación de Buenos Aires", which premiered in the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1986 Birri co-founded Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (The International School of Film and Television), in San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba.
Birri died in Buenos Aires of respiratory arrest complicated from a fall on December 28, 2017 at the age of 92.
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Zorn (river)
The Zorn is a river in north-eastern France. It is a right tributary of the Moder river.
The Zorn river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of .
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is at Hœrdt (Bas-Rhin).
The Zorn starts in the Vosges mountains in the "commune" of Walscheid, (Moselle department) as the "Yellow Zorn" (, ) at an altitude of about . The Yellow Zorn becomes the "Zorn" after its confluence with the right-hand tributary, the "White Zorn" (, ) at an altitude of about .
From here, the Zorn flows to the north and then turns to the east; in the final part, the river flows to the northeast.
The Zorn river flows within the Grand Est region, the Moselle and Bas-Rhin departments and 91"communes".
Finally, the Zorn river flows into the Moder river in Rohrwiller, (Bas-Rhin department).
The main tributaries of the Zorn river areː
Hsu Hsin-liang
Hsu Hsin-liang (; born 27 May 1941) is a Taiwanese politician. He is a formerly Chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). He was a supporter of the Pan-Blue Coalition from 2000 to 2008 but then supported the DPP in the 2008 presidential election.
He was expelled from the Kuomintang but broke ranks in 1977 when he ran and won as an independent in the election for Magistrate of Taoyuan County.
Hsu was involved in opposition activity during the first part of 1979. The government impeached him and removed him from office for two years.
John Thomaides
John Thomaides (born September 15, 1965) is the mayor of San Marcos, Texas. He was elected on December 13, 2016.
Thomaides was a member of the city council from 2003-2010. In 2010 Thomaides ran against Daniel Guerrero who had been elected Mayor of San Marcos in 2010, by a margin of 42 votes Thomaides served from 2011-2016 on the city council when he ran for mayor again in 2016 against local business owner, Ruben Becerra. In the 2016 December runoff, Thomaides beat Becerra by a margin of 42 votes- the same number he lost by in 2010. During his first year in office, Thomaides was the 6th Texas mayor to join the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda.
D Shivakumar
D. Shivakumar, or Shiv as he is popularly known, is a Bangalore born leader and a management thinker.
He is currently the Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy at Aditya Birla Group. Previously, Shivakumar was the Chairperson & Chief Executive Officer at PepsiCo Holdings Private Limited, India. Prior to that, Shivakumar was Senior Vice President for Emerging Markets at Nokia Telecommunications.
Shivakumar was born and raised in Bangalore, India.
He graduated from IIT, Madras in 1982 and from IIM, Calcutta in 1984. In 2005, he went on to study at The Wharton School.
Shivakumar started his career as a management trainee in the Consumer Products Division at Hindustan Ciba Geigy before shifting toHindustan Unilever Limited where he spent 19 years in sales, marketing and general management positions. He handled consumer major Hindustan Unilever’s foods business between 1989-97, leading brands like Lipton tea, Tree Top fruit juices and Waffles wafers in the snacks segment, before moving to handle shampoos, feminine hygiene and baby products.
He moved to Philips India as Chief Executive Officer of the consumer electronics division in 2003.
Shivakumar joined Nokia in 2006 as the Managing Director, India.
He was also instrumental in pushing low-cost mobile devices across rural India; making Nokia a dominant brand in India. During this time, Shivakumar was working with leaders like KV Kamath (former chief of the New Development Bank of BRICS countries) and V Balaraman (ex-CEO, Ponds) who were part of the Nokia Advisory Board. With regards to Shivakumar’s success in driving Nokia’s rural market penetration, V Balaraman had this to say:
"He opened up the Indian market to mobile phones using the HUL style of ensuring good distribution, branding and making the product available at various price points for different sets of consumers." V Balaraman, ex-CEO, Ponds.
The robust supply chain Shivakumar had helped build was tested during the battery crisis of 2007, in which Nokia India had to recall millions of devices due to defective batteries. How the company handled this situation later became a case study covered by the Indian School of Business.
Apart from robust supply chains, Shivakumar also oversaw product innovation at Nokia. Under his management, Nokia India launched a range of services, from Music to Agriculture, under the banner of Nokia Life Tools. The introduction of the phone torch, which was a runaway success as users found it a handy solution in case of power cuts, was also a major milestone during his time.
During his time at Nokia, the brand also built a salience within the Indian households by repeatedly betting big on cricket. The brand started its long-lasting tie-up with the Kolkata Knight Riders, owned by its brand ambassador Shah Rukh Khan. Nokia also sponsored the 2011 Champions League Twenty20 and the 2009 T20 World Cup, under Shivakumar’s management. In fact, Nokia India was one of the few brands willing to bet on Indian cricket and sponsor the first T20 World Cup hosted by South Africa in 2007, in which India defeated Pakistan in the finals.
Shivakumar moved on to become Sr. Vice President, Emerging Markets (India, Middle East, Africa) in 2011, handling a market that accounted for 40% of Nokia’s global business and comprised of around 90 countries.
Shivakumar’s time at Nokia is both praised and criticized. He is credited for driving Nokia’s brand from No. 71 to No. 1 in the country increasing their national market share from 46% to 56% by 2006. But he also saw it dip to 30% by 2011 and, towards the end of his time at Nokia, the brand was facing stiff competition in India from smartphone manufacturers like Apple and Samsung.
Looking back at his time at Nokia, Shivakumar points out that Nokia fell behind as the mobile market shifted almost overnight from voice to content-driven open operating systems like Android. He acknowledges that while the strategy they pursued at the time delivered, it did not foresee this sudden shift.
However, he believes in the humble, honest, caring and empathetic culture of Nokia and is of the opinion that its brand equity is still intact.
His contributions from this time have become case studies at Ivy League institutes like Harvard University and the Indian School of Business.
In fact, the Harvard Case Study titled ‘Emerging Nokia?’ looks at the successful strategies that Nokia adopted globally during Shivakumar’s time as the Managing Director of the Indian market. It examines how Nokia tapped into the emerging markets like China, India and the MEA while turning its back towards markets like Europe, Japan and the USA. The study looks at Shivakumar and his counterparts Colin Giles (heading the Chinese market) and Chris Braam (heading the MEA market).
In 2013, Shivakumar was appointed as the Chairperson & Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo Holdings Private Limited, India where he managed brand portfolios across beverages, snacks and nutrition. He is known for being the key driver for portfolio transformation and depended consumer engagement with flagship brands.
Upon his appointment, this is what PepsiCo Global Chairperson and CEO Indra Nooyi had this to say:
Shivakumar is one of India’s most respected business leaders. He has a proven ability to take billion-dollar businesses to the next level by maximizing innovation, execution and collaboration.
Under his leadership, PepsiCo launched brands like Quaker, Tropicana and Doritos in the Indian market. He was also the Chairman of Nourishco (which was a joint venture between PepsiCo and Tata Global Beverages). He and then Vice President of the nutrition category for PepsiCo India, Deepika Warrier, headed the launch of Quaker Oats+Milk, which had Sachin Tendulkar as the brand ambassador.
Shivakumar was at the helm when PepsiCo announced in 2013 that it was investing INR 33,000 crores in the Indian market to expand production and distribution.
He also oversaw the much talked about Pepsi walkout from the Indian Premier League. Pepsi ended its title sponsorship with IPL in 2015, two years before the 5-year contract was set to expire by 2017. This pulling out of the contract was due to the match-fixing scandals that had brought disrepute to the league.
Apart from overseeing India operations, he also managed PepsiCo’s franchise business across Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
Upon his departure from PepsiCo India, Sanjeev Chadha, chief executive at PepsiCo AMENA (Asia, Middle East and Africa) had this to say:
“He has been a key driver for portfolio transformation, helped develop our nutrition business, launching innovations with our Quaker and Tropicana brands and deepened consumer engagement with our flagship brands.”
As of January 2018, Shivakumar has joined Aditya Birla Group as the Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy & Business Development. In his current role, he reports directly to the Chairman of the Group, Kumara Mangalam Birla.
He heads the white cement business and the global textile business from the Group.
Aditya Birla Group is one of the largest Indian conglomerates with businesses spread across telecommunications, cement, chemicals, mining, textiles, financial services, retail and e-commerce, among others, in 36 countries.
D. Shivakumar is known for his friendly, approachable leadership style. At PepsiCo, he used to alternate between two offices every week to ensure his visibility and accessibility to the people he worked with. One of his offices also merely had a round table, to facilitate teamwork and collaboration.
At his time in Nokia too, people who have closely worked with Shivakumar said that one of his biggest contributions was to drive leadership within the organisation.
Chris Weber, EVP Sales And Marketing Nokia said in 2013, “In addition to what Shiv has done for Nokia externally – his personal convictions on the importance of leadership have resonated throughout the company.”
“He has been the de-facto HR manager and the best channel of communication between the junior most guy on the field to the head of businesses or units,” said Poonam Kaul, Director, Communications, Nokia India.
Shivakumar regularly discusses his thoughts on various topics with relation to management. From pointing out how the post of General Manager had slowly become irrelevant post globalization to what skills a fresh pass-out from an MBA school should possess to what the relationship between the individual leader and the company should be, Shivakumar engages with management theories by publishing articles and blogs.
He also shares his knowledge with corporate and college students alike by taking courses and appearing for guest lectures.
Shivakumar has published his thoughts and experiences in a book titled ‘Reflections’. He is currently working on his second book.
Shivakumar is an avid reader who regularly puts out his reading list and book reviews. He looks up to management gurus and leaders like Peter Drucker, Jack Welch, Robert McNamara and Harold Geneen as role models.
Shivakumar is also an avid sports watcher, following both the Manchester United and Barcelona football teams. When it comes to tennis, he is a fan of John McEnroe and Roger Federer.
Shivakumar resides in Mumbai, and is married to Hamsini Shivakumar, a semiotics’ entrepreneur and founder of Leapfrog Strategy Consulting.
Wiltz (river)
The Wiltz is a river in Belgium and Luxembourg. It is a left tributary of the Sauer river. It is part of the drainage basin of the Rhine river.
The Wiltz river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of .
The Wiltz starts in the Ardennes, in Bastogne, a municipality in the Belgian province of Luxembourg. The river is formed to the south of Bastogne by two small streams.
After a course of about in Belgium, the river gets into Luxemboug flowing to the east through the Oesling region. In the village of "Niederwampach" (Clervaux canton), the river turns to the south.
In "Kautenbach", commune of Kiischpelt (Wiltz canton), the Wiltz is joined by its main tributary, the Clerve (, ).
Finally, the Wiltz river flows into the Sauer river in Bourscheid, Diekirch canton.
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Sue Grafton
Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author. She mostly wrote detective novels. She was best known for her "alphabet series" of books, featuring the character Kinsey Millhone. The first in the series was ""A" Is for Alibi" (1982); the final was ""Y" Is for Yesterday" (2017). She also wrote screenplays for television movies. Crime writer Ross Macdonald was her biggest influence as a writer.
Grafton was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Her father was crime writer C. W. Grafton (1909–1982). She was divorced twice and had three children. She was married to Steven F. Humphrey until her death.
Grafton died of cancer on December 28, 2017 in Santa Barbara, California. She was 77.
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Jimmie C. Holland
Jimmie Cristine Holland (9 April 1928 – 24 December 2017) was an American medical researcher and psychiatrist. She was born in Nevada, Texas. She was the founder of the field of psycho-oncology.
In 1977, she worked with two colleagues to establish a full-time psychiatric service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The program was one of the first of its kind in cancer treatment, and trained its psychologists to specialize in issues specific to people with cancer.
Holland died of a heart attack on 24 December 2017 in New York City at the age of 89.
Thomas Hunter
Thomas Gregory "Tom" Hunter (December 19, 1932 – December 27, 2017) was an American actor and screenwriter. He was born in Savannah, Georgia. He was known for work in foreign Spaghetti Westerns.
Hunter began his movie carerr in a small role in Blake Edwards' "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" (1966). He was the star of Dino De Laurentiis's produced "The Hills Run Red" leading him to a career in European cinema with guest appearances in American television series.
Hunter was also the founder of the New England Repertory Company. He wrote the screenplays for "The 'Human' Factor" (1975) and "The Final Countdown" (1980).
Hunter died of pulmonary edema on December 27, 2017 in Norwalk, Connecticut at the age of 85.
Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco
María del Carmen Franco y Polo, 1st Duchess of Franco, Grandee of Spain, Dowager Marquise of Villaverde (14 September 1926 – 29 December 2017) was a Spanish noble. She was the only child of Spain's "Caudillo", dictator General Francisco Franco and his wife Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdés.
In Asturian fashion, she was known by many nicknames such as Nenuca, Carmelilla, Carmencita, Cotota and Morita. She was born in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. In 1950, she married Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde, a well known surgeon. In 1968 he conducted the first heart transplant operation in Spain. The couple had seven children. He died in 1998.
Franco died of lymphoma in Madrid on 29 December 2017 at the age of 91.
Sid and Marty Krofft
Sid Krofft (born July 30, 1929) and Marty Krofft (born April 9, 1937) are a Canadian brother team of television creators and puppeteers. They were important figures in children's television and variety show programs in the U.S., particularly throughout the 1970s and early 1980s.
They are largely known for a unique brand of fantasy programs, often featuring large-headed puppets, high-concept plots, and largely use of low-budget special effects. The team also dominated the arena of celebrity music/variety programs during the period.
They helped design the characters and sets for Hanna-Barbera's "Banana Splits" (NBC, 1968-1970), the Kroffts' producing career began in 1969 with the landmark children's television series "H.R. Pufnstuf".
Their works have included "The Bugaloos" (1970), "Lidsville" (1971), "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters" (1973-1975), "Land of the Lost" (1974), "The Lost Saucer" (1975), "Electra Woman and Dyna Girl" (1976), and "Wonderbug" (1976).
Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is the music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO).
Mehta was Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1967, and Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra from 1962 to 1978, being the youngest music director ever for any major North American orchestra. In 1969, he was appointed Music Adviser to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1981 Mehta became its permanent Music Director for Life.
In 2016, Mehta has been appointed as Honorary Conductor of the Teatro San Carlo, Naples.
In December 2016, the Israel Philharmonic announced that Mehta is to retire from his permanent position as music director in October 2019.
The Government of India honoured Mehta in 1966 with the Padma Bhushan and in 2001 with India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan.
In September 2006 the Kennedy Center announced Mehta as one of the recipients of that year's Kennedy Center Honors, presented on 2 December 2006 by President George W. Bush.
Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close (born July 5, 1940) is an American painter, artist and photographer.
Close was born in Monroe, Washington. He was raised in Everett, Washington. Close studied at the University of Washington and at Yale University. He suffered from dyslexia.
Close achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Close often paints abstract portraits of himself and others, which hang in collections internationally. Although a spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint and produce work that remains sought after by museums and collectors. Close also creates photo portraits using a very large format camera.
Close lives and works in Bridgehampton, New York and Long Beach, New York. He has two daughters with Leslie Rose. They divorced in 2011.
Close married to artist Sienna Shields whom he married in 2013.
Alcee Hastings
Alcee Lamar Hastings (September 5, 1936 – April 6, 2021) was an American politician and judge. He was the U.S. Representative for from January 3, 1993 until April 6, 2021. The district included most of the majority-black precincts in and around Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. He was a Democrat.
Hastings served as a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida until his impeachment and removal due to Hastings being involved in bribery-related actions. He was nominated to the court by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.
In January 2019, Hastings was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died from the disease in Boynton Beach, Florida on April 6, 2021 at the age of 84.
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in 2018. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, where they came from, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and a source.
Van Nuys
Van Nuys is a neighborhood in the central San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. As of 2000, the population is 136,443.
The town was founded in 1911 and named for Isaac Newton Van Nuys, one of its developers. It was annexed by Los Angeles on May 22, 1915.
Deaths in January 2018
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2018. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Months". Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.
Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, nationality, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and most importantly a source.
Rampage (2018 movie)
Rampage is an American science fiction monster movie directed by Brad Peyton. It is loosely based on the video game series of the same name by Midway Games. The movie stars Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Åkerman, Joe Manganiello, Jake Lacy, P. J. Byrne, Marley Shelton, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
It is produced by Warner Bros. and set in Chicago, Illinois.
New Line Cinema will release the movie on April 20, 2018 in 3D and IMAX.
2017 UK Independence Party leadership election
The 2017 UK Independence Party leadership election was held on 29 September 2017. UKIP members voted for who they want to lead the party. Henry Bolton won the election after receiving 30% of the vote.
The election was called for after the party's poor performance in the 2017 general election.
Nigel Farage decided not to run for the UKIP leadership position.
Bolton said that his victory stopped UKIP from becoming a fascist party. Waters left UKIP and created her own political party, For Britain, in October. Rees-Evans also left UKIP and created his own political party, Affinity.
Bulgarian Communist Party
The Bulgarian Communist Party (Bulgarian: Българска Комунистическа Партия; shortened BCP) was the ruling political party in Bulgaria from 1946 until 1990.
The party led a coup against the tsarist government in 1944.
Todor Zhivkov was leader of the party and Bulgaria from 1954 until 1989. He was the longest-serving leader of any Eastern Bloc nation. The party's first leader was Dimitar Blagoev.
On 11 December 1989, leader Petar Mladenov announced that the party was giving up its guaranteed right to rule. In 1990, the party became much more moderate and was no longer a communist party. In April 1990, the party changed its name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP).
Type 56 assault rifle
The Type 56 is a Chinese assault rifle which is a copy of the Soviet AK-47 assault rifle. The Type 56 was first used by the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during the Vietnam War along with the Soviet AK-47 and AKM assault rifles. The Type 56 is used by many armies and battlefields in Africa, Middle East and Asia.
Sir William Thompson Wright (born 1925) is a Northern Irish business owner and former Unionist politician. Wright grew up in Ballymena.
In the 1970s, Wright joined the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, and was elected as its Chairman. He stood for the party in North Antrim at the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention election in 1975, and was elected. He later followed the party leaders in joining the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), and was elected to Ballymena Borough Council.
In the 2011 Birthday Honours, he was awarded the CBE. In the 2018 Queen's Honours list, he received a knighthood.
Recy Taylor
Recy Elisabeth Taylor (December 31, 1919 – December 28, 2017) was an African-American kidnapping and rape victim and activist.
On September 3, 1944, she was kidnapped while leaving church and gang-raped by six white men. Even though the men admitted the rape to authorities, two grand juries subsequently declined to indict the men, meaning no charges were ever brought against her six assailants.
In 2011, the Alabama House of Representatives apologized on behalf of the state "for its failure to prosecute her attackers."
Taylor died of congestive heart failure in her sleep at a nursing home in Abbeville, Alabama on December 28, 2017, just three days before her 98th birthday.
Hulst
Hulst, Zeelandic and East Flemish: "('t) Ulst", is a municipality and village in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands.
About 27,000 people were living in the municipality in 2017.
About 11,000 people were living in the village in 2017.
The municipality borders the Western Scheldt, and the Belgian Province of East Flanders.
Hulst received city rights in 1180.
The nature reserve of the Drowned Land of Saeftinghe (Dutch: "Verdronken land van Saeftinghe") lies in the municipality.
Terneuzen
Terneuzen, Zeelandic and East Flemish: "Terneuzen" or "Neuzen", is a municipality and town in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands.
About 55,000 people were living in the municipality in 2017.
About 25,000 people were living in the town in 2015.
Terneuzen received city rights in 1584.
The south entrance of the Western Scheldt Tunnel is in Terneuzen.
Tabarnia
Tabarnia ("Tabàrnia" in Catalan) is a suggested name and a satirical political project for a portion of the Catalonian territory, Spain. It was created by the organization "Barcelona is not Catalonia" (AKA "Plataforma por la Autonomía de Barcelona", "Movement for an Autonomous Barcelona") as a satirical response towards the Catalonians separatists. Their main target is to establish up a new region in Spain besides Catalonia with some districts ("Comarcas" or "Comarques") from the provinces of Barcelona and Tarragona.
Its nomenclature is a neologism created from the provinces' names: Tarragona and Barcelona, and it would span these areas:
Proponents believes the area somewhat corresponds to the historic County of Barcelona, although its extension is considerably different.
On 24th September, 2012; "Barcelona is not Catalonia"'s members approved in a constituent assembly their statutes and a political program in order to get their own autonomy as an Autonomous Community within Spain.
The expression "Tabarnia" was used by the first time in 2015 as a territorial entity that would comprise part of the Catalonian seaside and Barcelona Metropolitan Area as a disagreement towards Catalan Government ("Generalitat Catalana"):
Proponents of Tabarnia demands to segregate themselves from the Catalan separatist movement and reclaims the right of a number of territories near the area of Barcelona and Tarragona to constitute themselves as an Autonomous Community within Spain. In the 2015 and 2017 Catalan regional elections, parties opposed to secession (mainly C's, PSC and PP) received a majority of votes and seats in some of these "comarques" (Tarragonès, Baix Penedès, Garraf and Baix Llobregat) including the city of Tarragona, but excluding the most populated Catalan city: Barcelona.
They allude to a series of fiscal arguments similar to those of Catalan separatism in regards to Spain, although in last Catalan election, Tarragona province showed more support for separatism than unionism.
In December, 2017 the satirical movement became trending topic in the social networks. Since then, they had been appear in Spanish and international media. According them, "Tabarnia is a historical region that comprised the ancient County of Barcelona, currently part of Tarragona and Barcelona provinces".
The rise of this movement creates tension among the Catalan separatist movement because of argumental contradiction and geostrategic risk using their same arguments for independence word by word. as a result, the catalan separatists contradicts themselves when they uses the "unionist" counter-arguments in order to discredit the Tabarnia movement. The territorial area that Tabarnia would comprise includes geostrategic assets that are fundamental for a viable independent Catalonia. The Port of Barcelona and Barcelona–El Prat Airport, some of the richest industrial sectors fall in fact inside areas that hold a majority of voters in favor of unionism, though in the city of Barcelona the pro-independence won the election.
The fact that Tabarnians are asking to be separated from the Catalonia that wants to be separated from Spain, has been interpreted by some newspapers as a reductio ad absurdum of the nationalistic logic in a XXI century Europe. Many Tabarnians believe that a sustained international media attention to this movement would defeat the catalan independence project by simply following their own arguments instead of opposing them.
An ongoing petition is taking place at Change.org in order to be sent to the Spanish Congress of Deputies to consider the creation of this new autonomous region.
Sluis
Sluis, Zeelandic and West Flemish: "Sluus", is a municipality and village in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands.
About 24,000 people were living in the municipality in 2017.
About 2,400 people were living in the village in 2014.
The municipality borders the Western Scheldt and the North Sea, and also the Belgian Provinces of West and East Flanders.
Sluis received city rights in 1290.
Action camera
Action camera is a small video camera made for sticking to a person while playing sport or traveling on a vehicle. This kind of camera is for used for filming an event in a way that people watching the film feel like they are looking from the eyes of person who are doing activities in the event themselves (first-person perspective). While action camera is made for filming, it can also take pictures. All films and pictures it took will be kept on a tiny card that you can pull them out and watch them later.
Action camera is made to be small and very light, so that a person who wear it does not feel its weight while doing his or her things. And it usually uses wide-angle lens to film as many details around as possible. Inside the camera, there is a battery that lasts long enough for you to film for few hours. Action camera is also made to be stronger than normal video camera, so that it keeps filming even when the wearing person moves at high speed or crashes into something.
Camera sellers usually give you a hard clear plastic box that fits with the camera when you buy it. When they do, you should store the camera in this box every time you are going to film something. This box will have holes, a belt, or a metal rod which you can use for tying it to a person, or screwing it on an object that person wears (usually a helmet). Some kind of these boxes can stop water from coming into it when closed, so you may use them to film under water without breaking the camera as well.
Michael Massee
Michael Groo Massee (September 1, 1952 – October 20, 2016) was an American actor. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Massee was perhaps best known for accidentally shooting Brandon Lee during the filming of the 1994 movie "The Crow". He was also known for his role as Ira Gaines in "24" and The Gentleman in the 2012 movie "The Amazing Spider-Man". He also reprised this role in the 2014 sequel "The Amazing Spider-Man 2".
Massee died of stomach cancer in Los Angeles on October 20, 2016 at the age of 64.
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David Adedeji Adeleke (born November 21, 1992), better known by his stage name Davido, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and record producer. His 2011 single "Dami Duro" was well-received throughout Nigeria. Along with his elder brother Adewale Adeleke, Davido is the co-owner of HKN Music (a record label home to Sina Rambo, B. Red and DeeKay). Davido has produced songs for Naeto C, Skales, Tiwa Savage and Sauce Kid. In April 2012, he signed an endorsement deal with MTN Nigeria. On October 23 2013, Davido partnered with Guinness Nigeria for the "Guinness World of More" concert.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Davido relocated to Lagos at a young age. His debut album "Omo Baba Olowo", released in 2012, was supported by the singles "Back When" featuring Naeto C, "Dami Duro", "All of You", "Overseas" featuring Sina Rambo, "Ekuro", "Gbon Gbon" and "Feel Alright" featuring Ice Prince. Between 2013 and 2015, Davido released the singles "Gobe", "One of a Kind", "Skelewu", "Aye", "Tchelete (Goodlife)" featuring Mafikizolo, "Naughty" featuring DJ Arafat, "Owo Ni Koko", "The Sound" and "The Money" featuring Olamide. The aforementioned singles were reportedly intended to be singles off the album, "The Baddest".
In January 2016, Davido announced via Twitter that he signed a record deal with Sony Music. His announcement was met with mixed reactions. The record label put out a press release to confirm the deal. Davido started his own label, Davido Music Worldwide (DMW), few months after signing with Sony. Dremo and Mayorkun are currently signed to the label. In July 2016, Davido signed a record deal with Sony's RCA Records.
Davido's second studio album A Good Time was released on November 22, 2019. The album features the previously released singles "If", "Fall", "Assurance", "Blow My Mind" and "Risky". Davido recorded A Good Time in Atlanta. He told Vibe magazine he wanted to record in a new environment. Davido described the album as a body of work for everybody and said it would consist predominantly of Afrobeats but would incorporate elements of other genres. Davido disclosed the album's title during an event held in Lagos in September 2019 and said it would be released the following month. He also unveiled excerpts of four songs from the album during the event. Following his performance at Powerhouse 2019, Davido spoke with Power 105.1's DJ Self and said the album will feature collaborations with artists including Summer Walker, Gunna, A Boogie and Chris Brown. All but one of the tracks on A Good Time were produced by Nigerian producers. The album's cover art features Davido, his father and a sculpture of his mother.
In May 2020, Davido announced that his upcoming third studio album would be titled A Better Time, and that it would include 11 tracks, with features from Nicki Minaj and Tiwa Savage. In July, he performed on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and was seen in studio with rapper Nas. On August 31, 2020, Davido returned to social media after taking a three-month break to chat with the Grammy Museum on Instagram Live about the rise of Afrobeats and other issues within the industry. During the Live session, Davido also revealed that he has completed work on his A Better Time. No release date has yet been specified. On September 10, 2020, Davido returned with the single, "FEM", alongside its music video.
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Oderen
Oderen is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.
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Orbey
Orbey is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.
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Erica Garner
Erica Garner (May 29, 1990 – December 30, 2017) was an American activist. She fought for police reform, especially in the use of force during arrests. Garner became involved in activism after her father, Eric Garner, died in 2014. A New York City police officer put him in a chokehold during an arrest and killed him.
Garner said that she believed her father's death had more to do with police misconduct than race, and in 2017, she rejected a meeting with the United States Justice Department to discuss the police killing her father.
During the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Garner supported Bernie Sanders, and appeared in an advertisement for him.
Garner died in a Brooklyn hospital while in a coma after she had a serious heart attack on December 30, 2017. She was 27 years old.
Jean-Pierre Lehmann
Jean-Pierre Lehmann (29 August 1945 – 21 December 2017) was an American-born Swiss economist. He was born in Washington, D.C.. He was professor of international political economy at IMD and the founding director of The Evian Group at IMD. In August 2011, he was appointed senior fellow at the Fung Global Institute (FGI).
Lehmann died on 21 December 2017 of a pulmonary embolism in Lausanne, Switzerland at the age of 72.
John C. Portman Jr.
John Calvin Portman Jr. (December 4, 1924 – December 29, 2017) was an American neofuturistic architect and real estate developer. He was born in Walhalla, South Carolina. He was known for popularizing hotels and office buildings with multi-storied interior atria.
Portman also had a large impact on the cityscape of his hometown of Atlanta, with the Peachtree Center, Hyatt, Westin, and Marriott hotels.
Portman died on December 29, 2017 in Atlanta of heart failure, aged 93.
Khalid Shameem Wynne
Khalid Shameem Wynne (28 August 1953 – 30 December 2017) was a Pakistani four star general. Wynne served as the 14th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee before retiring on 7 October 2013.
Before to his promotion, the official statement said that "General Wynne was appointed as Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee by President Asif Ali Zardari, on the advice of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani."
He also served as field operational Commander of the XII Corps in Quetta from 2007 till 2010, overseeing the Baloch insurgency and the fallout of the war in the Tribal Areas.
Wynne was killed in a car crash near Chakri, Punjab, Pakistan on 30 December 2017. He was 64 years old.
Juyin Sarauta
"Juyin Sarauta ("The Royal Ascendance) is a 2017 movie. It was directed by Falalu A. Dorayi. It was produced by Balaraba Ramat Yakubu and Ado Ahmad Gidan Dabino MON. It was produced in Nigeria by Ramat Productions Ltd and Dogarai Women Film. The lyrics playback was made by Fati Nijar.
The movie won Best Film in the Nigerian Language Award by Zuma Film Festival 2017 and also nominated for the Best Actor. The movie comes with difference as a medium of enlightenment, entertainment, information and education in the African continent especially of the South Sahara. The plot, the characterization and the dialogue are logically crafted to make the story exciting and educating. The producer, defines her attitude towards her intention as gender activist.
Sarki Yusufu (Ado Ahmad Gidan Dabino MON) is the emir of Jadarwa. His wives, concubines and other slaves get divided in moves to produce the next Emir. In the process, each faction fraternizes with a particular prince and that leads to murder, rituals, and confusion reigned in the palace. Jakadiya (Ladidi Fagge) and Uwar Soro (Hauwa Musa) connive to turn Ahmadu mad; Umar, the heir apparent is poisoned by Fulani Gaji (Zainab Muhammad); Bashari is framed for stealing from the Emir's coffers and is banished; and Suleimanu is sent away from the palace as a tender boy. At the end, the less privileged among the Princes and son of a concubine, Suleimanu, emerged as the Emir.
In 2015, Balaraba Ramat Yakubu wrote Juyin Sarauta to bring about a new concept on the women status in Northern Nigeria, where culture and religion dominate their essential rights. She discussed the concept with some people and conduct research in different areas. Together with staff of Ramat Productions, they came up with idea about role of women in determining the king in Hausaland. According to her,  “...the story is that it shows that women are the real power axis in Hausa society.”
But, to achieve the primary aim of the project, there is a need for adequate funding and support from development Partners like UNICEF, UN Women, UNDP, CEDAW, USAID, DFID and women organization NCWS, FOMWAN, CWO, JMA, WIN, NAWOJ, FIDA, WOFAN AND WRAPA should support the project morally and financially for the benefit of larger audience in order to safe guard societal values and socio cultural, economic, and political values for women for a better society. She eventually contacted many of them and succeeded in gaining a lot from them. Project Act-Nollywood provide a substantial funding for the startup of the project.
Principal photography began in March 2016, different areas where assessed for the best result but they crew cannot find suitable one which can be used to look as far as 100 years before coming of colonial master into Hausaland. The team agreed to build their own city for the purpose of the project. Danhassan town was chosen and new palace city was build on rented land of about 4 km.
Initially, the director, Falalu A. Dorayi screened and auditioned principal character (Sarki Yusufa) but when he was bring out to camera, he could not performed effectively, therefore, Ado Ahmad Gidan Dabino MON appropriated for the role and plays  perfectly.
The movie took about twenty days from 11th February to 3rd March, 2016. The movie was initially targeted for 10 days, however due to some logistics issues, more days were added.
However, for the purpose of the movie, the crew also borrowed a resident of district head of Danhassan, changed its exterior design and later restored it back to its previous condition.
Yacht charter
Yacht chartering is the renting a sailboat or motor yacht for sea traveling. This is a vacation activity, but it can be a corporate event.
There are two main kinds of the charter: bareboat and skippered. Bareboat charters are when a person is renting a boat and skippering it themselves. Skippered charter meaning that boat comes with a skipper but no additional crew.
George Walker (composer)
George Theophilus Walker (June 27, 1922 – August 23, 2018) was an African-American composer, educator and autobiographer. He was the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He received the Pulitzer for his work "Lilacs" in 1996.
Walker was born in Washington, D.C.. He studied at Oberlin College.
Walker taught music at Columbia University, Wayne State University, Wellesley College, Temple University, Washington University in St. Louis, Williams College and Montclair State University.
In 1946, Walker composed his String Quartet no. 1. A string orchestra arrangement of the second movement of that work received its world premiere in a radio broadcast that was conducted by pianist Seymour Lipkin.
Walker was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999. The following year, Walker was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame.
Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry proclaimed June 17, 1997 as “George Walker Day”. in the nation's capitol.
His autobiography, "Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist", was released in 2009 by Scarecrow Press.
Walker was the father of two sons, violinist and composer Gregory T.S. Walker, and playwright Ian Walker.
Walker died on August 23, 2018 from a fall at a hospital in Montclair, New Jersey at the age of 96.
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Kennington tube station
Kennington is a London Underground station on Kennington Park Road in Kennington. The station is at the junction of the Charing Cross and Bank branches of the Northern line. It is within the London Borough of Southwark. Its neighbouring stations to the north are Waterloo on the Charing Cross branch and Elephant & Castle on the Bank branch; the next station to the south is Oval. The station is in Travelcard Zone 2.
It is one of the station that has the notable loop, called Kennington Loop, similar to Timothy's Computer on Timothy North Metro and South Ferry on New York City Subway. It would be extended to Battersea Power Station via Nine Elms in the near future, to serve the near-refurbished Battersea Power Station.
Christine King Farris
Christine King Farris (born Willie Christine King; September 11, 1927) is the oldest and only living child of Martin Luther King, Sr.. She is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s only sister.