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SBS independent

SBS independent (SBSi) operated as the commissioning house for Australia's multicultural public broadcaster, the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), between August 1994 and December 2007. It was instituted via the landmark "Creative Nation" cultural policy initiative released in October 1994 by the Keating government. The core purpose of the institution was to commission multicultural content from Australian independent film and television producers. At the end of December 2007, SBSi ceased to function as an administratively independent institution, and was merged with the SBS Content and Online Division.

For the thirteen years that it operated, SBSi commissioned more than 810 titles spanning feature film, animation, television drama, documentary, comedy, variety and reality programs, totalling over 1500 hours of content. This content was often commissioned from inexperienced and early career television and filmmakers, many of whom come from non-English speaking and Indigenous backgrounds. SBSi titles have attracted significant critical acclaim internationally, winning in excess of 450 awards, including a 2003 Academy Award for Adam Elliott's animated short film, Harvie Krumpet.

SBSi was a significant cultural institution that reshaped production and representational practices in the Australian film and television sectors. Most significantly, through collaborative partnerships with other federal and state film financing organisations, SBSi helped to nurture a new generation of Indigenous filmmakers including Ivan Sen, Warwick Thornton and Rachel Perkins.
Its commissioned works have been widely recognised through film and television awards and acknowledged by broader community response throughout Australia and overseas.

SBSi commissioned feature films, drama series, animation, single documentaries, and documentary series.

Productions

A comprehensive list of SBS Independent productions can be found at the SBS Independent Commissioned Content Database. The titles listed below is a small sample of the more popular programs that gained distribution beyond their initial television exhibition.

Animation 
Animated Tales of the World
Bobtales
Harvie Krumpet
John Callahan's Quads!
Leunig
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello

Comedy 
Wilfred
Pizza (TV series)

Documentary 
The Prodigal Son
Australia By Numbers series
Fond Memories of Cuba
Golden Sandals: The Art of Reg Mombassa
John Safran's Music Jamboree
John Safran vs God
Nerds F.C.
Poles Apart
Sydney 2000
The Animated Leunig
Decadence
Bush School

Films

See also
Special Broadcasting Service

References

Television production companies of Australia
Special Broadcasting Service
Nathalie Fauquette

Nathalie Fauquette (born 23 March 1987) is a former French rhythmic gymnast, now a dancer. She started rhythmic gymnastic at the age of 7 and later trained under Katia Guillère.

After training for the 2008 Summer Olympics, she started a new career. In 2008, she appeared in the French musical Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Égypte (as a gymnast and dancer) and in 2010 she was cast as Mina in Dracula, l'amour plus fort que la mort (the part includes dancing and acting).

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1987 births
Living people
French rhythmic gymnasts
Belén de Umbría

Belén de Umbría is a town and municipality in the Department of Risaralda, Colombia. At a distance of approximately 70 kilometers from the capital Pereira. In 2023 the town had an estimated population of 25,276.

History 
The name Belén was chosen by a bishop who visited these lands in 1902, because they say that when he arrived at the village he commented: "this place looks like a manger, it should be called Bethlehem" and Umbria in homage to the Umbra, one of the most prominent tribes of this region. It was founded on August 10, 1890 and at this time it has more than 25,000 inhabitants.

Climate 
Belén de Umbría is stuated 1,634 metres above sea level, due to that elevation the town has a subtropical highland climate with an average annual temperature of 20°C.

References

Sources
 Luis Angel Arango Library: Belen de Umbria; Before and After its Foundation.

Municipalities of Risaralda Department
R (Ullah) v Special Adjudicator

Regina v. Special Adjudicator ex parte Ullah, also known as Do v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2004] UKHL 26 on appeal from [2002] EWCA Civ 1856, was a legal case in the United Kingdom. This was a joint decision, meaning two cases were heard at the same time, so the case may be cited as either of the case titles.

Decision

This was a decision of the United Kingdom Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, composed of Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Steyn, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Baroness Hale of Richmond and Lord Carswell.  The decision was made on Thursday 17 June 2004.

The issue in the case was whether a person can be deported from the United Kingdom to a state where there are known human rights abuses, or refused asylum to the United Kingdom when the applicant is from such a state.

The appellants in the cases, Mr Ullah and Miss Do, wished to rely on an Article of the European Convention on Human Rights other than Article 3 (no body shall be subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment). The Appellants wished to rely on Article 9 of the Convention, guaranteeing the right to freedom, thought and conscience. At first instance and in the Court of Appeal the Appellants' submissions were rejected and it was held that deporting a person to a country which violated Article 9 would not amount to a violation of Article 3 of the Convention, and thus an applicant could be deported to the state in violation of Article 9.

Particular notice should be drawn to Paragraph 4-6 of the judgment of Lord Bingham.  Here it is stated (using the judgment of the Court of Appeal, [2002] EWCA Civ 1856, as authority) that the Appellants, in order to rely on Article 9, would have to prove that the interference with Convention Rights was 'flagrant'. In the present case it was decided that the interference was not flagrant (see Paragraph 69-70 of the judgment by Lord Carswell for a brief discussion of the term 'flagrant'), which is why the appeal was dismissed in all courts.

Lord Walker and Baroness Hale delivered concurring judgments.

Constitutional significance
As stated, Bingham's judgment is significant in establishing (as the "Ullah principle") conditions on the applicability of judgments from the European Court of Human Rights. Bingham states that Section 2 of the Human Rights Act 1998 should be interpreted as stating that British courts "should, in the absence of some special circumstances, follow any clear and constant jurisprudence of the Strasbourg court".

References

External links
 The Judgement for the case Regina v. Special Adjudicator
For the European Convention on Human Rights

House of Lords cases
2004 in United Kingdom case law
2004 in international relations
United Kingdom immigration case law
Webb Ellis Cup

The Webb Ellis Cup is the trophy awarded to the winner of the men's Rugby World Cup, the premier competition in men's international rugby union. The Cup is named after William Webb Ellis, who is often credited as being the inventor of rugby football. The trophy is silver gilt and has been presented to the winner of the Rugby World Cup since the first competition in 1987. It has been won four times by South Africa (1995, 2007, 2019 & 2023), three times by New Zealand (1987, 2011 & 2015), twice by Australia (1991 & 1999), and once by England (2003).

The 38-centimetre trophy weighs 4.5 kg, is gilded silver and has two cast scroll handles. One handle bears the head of a satyr, the other the head of a nymph. On the face of the trophy, the words International Rugby Football Board, and below that arch The Webb Ellis Cup are engraved. The Webb Ellis Cup is also referred to (incorrectly) as the "Webb Ellis Trophy" or colloquially as "Bill," a nickname coined by the 1991 Rugby World Cup winners, the Wallabies.

History

There are two official Webb Ellis Cups, which are used interchangeably. One is a 1906 trophy made by Carrington and Co. of London, featuring a Victorian design of a 1740s cup by Paul de Lamerie, while the other is a 1986 replica.

John Kendall-Carpenter, former England forward and the organiser of the first Rugby World Cup, and Bob Weighill, the secretary of the International Rugby Board and also a former England forward, visited Garrard & Co, the crown jeweller in Regent Street, London. Director Richard Jarvis brought the particular cup down from the vault and showed it to both of them.

It was chosen for use in February 1987. Ronnie Dawson of Ireland, Keith Rowlands of Wales, Bob Stuart and  Dick Littlejohn of New Zealand and the Australians Nick Shehadie and Ross Turnbull approved the choice of the trophy. The trophy is cared for and restored after each tournament by silversmiths Thomas Lyte.

It was soon named "The Webb Ellis Cup". New Zealand became the first nation to win the Webb Ellis Cup when they won the 1987 Rugby World Cup. The Webb Ellis Cup has been held by four nations: New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and England.

The current holders are South Africa, after they beat New Zealand  12-11 in the 2023 Final in France. The trophy was on display in Newlands, South Africa until 2009, where it had stayed for two years following their victory in the 2007 tournament. Later, it was returned to the home of World Rugby, Ireland. One cup recently went on tour around the New Zealand provinces along with the Dave Gallaher Trophy, Bledisloe Cup, Hillary Shield, Women's World Cup, World Rugby Sevens Series and the Junior World Cup trophies.

See also

Paul Barrière Trophy

References

External links

 The History of the William Webb Ellis Cup
 Rugby Trophys

Rugby union trophies and awards
Rugby World Cup
Silver-gilt objects
Awards established in 1987
Požega, Serbia

Požega (, ), formerly Užička Požega (), is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of western Serbia. The population of the town is 12,362, while the municipality has 25,988 inhabitants.
The town also has a non-profit organization, called Forca Požega.

Settlements
Aside from the town of Požega, the municipality includes the following settlements: 

 Bakionica
 Velika Ježevica
 Visibaba
 Vranjani
 Glumač
 Godovik
 Gornja Dobrinja
 Gorobilje
 Gugalj
 Donja Dobrinja
 Dražinovići
 Duškovci
 Zaselje
 Zdravčići
 Jelen Do
 Kalenići
 Lopaš
 Loret
 Ljutice
 Mađer
 Mala Ježevica
 Milićevo Selo
 Mršelji
 Otanj
 Papratište
 Pilatovići
 Prijanovići
 Prilipac
 Radovci
 Rasna
 Rečice
 Roge
 Rupeljevo
 Svračkovo
 Srednja Dobrinja
 Tabanovići
 Tvrdići
 Tometino Polje
 Tučkovo
 Uzići
 Čestobrodica

Demographics

According to the 2011 census results, the municipality of Požega has a population of 29,638 inhabitants.

Ethnic groups
The ethnic composition of the town:

Economy
The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity (as of 2018):

Transportation

Požega is one of the main road and railway transportation centers in Western Serbia. It is located on the crossroads of the most important state roads in Western Serbia – State Road 21 and State Road 23. Also, a section of A2 motorway which is under construction passes through Požega. Also, it is a transportation hub between Kraljevo-Čačak-Užice railway and Belgrade–Bar railway.

Climate
Požega has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfb) with warm summers, and cold, snowy winters. With 124 days of fog a year, and only 1594 hours of sunshine, it is amongst the foggiest and least sunny towns in Serbia.

Media
Požega has several media with a local coverage:
 TV Stations: TV Požega
 Radio Stations: Radio Požega

Gallery

Notable people
 Miloš Obrenović I (1780–1860), first monarch of modern Serbia
 Dragiša Lapčević (1867–1939), politician
 Petar Leković (1893 — 1942), the first person to be awarded with Order of the People's Hero title
 Milovan Destil Marković (1957), artist
 Srđan Mijailović (1993), football player

References

External links

 

 
Municipalities and cities of Šumadija and Western Serbia
Illinois Route 96

Illinois Route 96 (IL 96) is a  north–south state highway in far western Illinois. It runs from IL 100 in Kampsville, not far from a ferry crossing across the Illinois River, to IL 94 north of Terre Haute.

Route description 

Illinois 96 follows much of the Great River Road in Illinois north from Kampsville, where it runs west to the Mississippi River and then turns north, passing U.S. Route 54 at a rural intersection and Interstate 72 at an old terminus near Kinderhook. It overlaps Illinois Route 106 west of Kinderhook and then runs parallel to Illinois Route 57 into Quincy. Within Quincy it follows 36th Street, State Street and 24th Street before overlapping briefly with U.S. Route 24. It also overlaps U.S. Route 136 in Hamilton, IL (across from Keokuk, Iowa) and Illinois Route 9 from Niota to Dallas City, Illinois.  Between Hamilton and Dallas City, Illinois 96 also passes through historic Nauvoo along Durphy and Mulholland Streets, two major streets that intersect in the middle of the town.

History 

SBI Route 96 originally followed the modern-day Illinois 96 from Niota south to Kinderhook. In 1941, the state announced that IL 96 was extended north through Dallas City and Lomax to Terre Haute.  Various state route designations (IL 96A) were used for Carmen Road between Lomax and Gulfport until the 1965 Mississippi River floods.  In March 1941, IL 96 was extended south to Hamburg to a historical ferry crossing. The Hamburg ferry stopped running in 1960. In 1950, Illinois 96 was rerouted into Kampsville, where another ferry crossing is located nearby on Illinois Route 108.

Major intersections

References

External links

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096
Transportation in Calhoun County, Illinois
Transportation in Adams County, Illinois
Transportation in Pike County, Illinois
Transportation in Hancock County, Illinois
Transportation in Henderson County, Illinois
Pūluga

Pūluga (or Puluga) is the creator in the religion of the indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman Islands.  According to Andaman mythology, Puluga ceased to visit the people when they became remiss of the commands given to them at the creation. Then, without further warning he sent a devastating flood. Only four people survived this flood: two men, Loralola and Poilola, and two women, Kalola and Rimalola. When they landed they found they had lost their fire and all living things had perished. Puluga then recreated the animals and plants but does not seem to have given any further instructions, nor did he return the fire to the survivors.

References

Creator gods
Flood myths
Culture of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Požega

Požega may refer to:

 Požega, Croatia, a city in western Slavonia, Croatia
 Požega County, an administrative subdivision of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia from the 12th century to 1920
 Požega, Serbia, a town in Zlatibor district of Serbia
 Požega (Novi Pazar), a village in Raska district of Serbia
 Eparchy of Požega, an Eastern Orthodox eparchy of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć, during the 16th and 17th century
1997–98 Premiership Rugby

The 1997–98 English Premiership (known as the Allied Dunbar Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the eleventh full season of rugby union within the top tier of the English rugby union system.

Newcastle Falcons won the league, for the first time, following their promotion from National Division 2 last season. Saracens finished just one point behind in second place, and the last placed club, Bristol, were relegated.

Participating teams and locations

Notes

Final table

Fixtures

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Sponsorship
Following ten years of sponsorship by the Courage Brewery, the life assurance group Allied Dunbar agreed to sponsor the top two divisions for £7,500,000.

Leading scorers
Note: Flags to the left of player names indicate national team as has been defined under World Rugby eligibility rules, or primary nationality for players who did not earn international senior caps. Players may hold one or more non-WR nationalities.

Most points 
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Source:

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See also
 English rugby union system
 History of the English rugby union system

References

External links
 Official site

 

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2004 in organized crime



Events
2004 reports show incarcerated Sicilian mafia boss Salvatore Riina had two heart attacks in May and December of 2003.
January 20 – Montreal cosa nostra boss Vito Rizzuto is arrested in relation to the murder of 3 Bonanno crime family captains. 
April 21 – Hostilities developed between Pietro Scarcella and rival mob figure Michele Modica led to an attempted assassination of Modica in a North York California Sandwiches shop, leaving an innocent victim, mother of three children, Louise Russo paralyzed, while Modica and his associates escaped unscathed.
June 12 – Lucchese crime family bookmaker Louis Barone pleaded guilty to manslaughter and assault.  Barone had asked another Lucchese associate, Albert Circelli, to keep his mouth shut regarding the singing performance inside Rao's in East Harlem and when Circelli was on his way out Barone shot him in the back and killed him, and shot a bystander named Albert W. Petraglia in the leg.   
June 30 – Lucchese crime family acting boss Louis "Louie Bagels" Daidone was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of loan-sharking and racketeering charges that accused him of conspiracy in the murders of two men, Thomas Gilmore and Bruno Facciolo, whose mouth Daidone stuffed a bird in as a message to future turncoats.  The trial featured star witnesses such as former acting bosses Alphonse D'Arco and Joseph DeFede, and hitmen Ken Cardona and Frank Gioia, Jr.
September – Bonanno crime family boss Joe Massino begins cooperating with police for reduced prison time. He begins recording conversations with him and underboss Vincent Basciano.
September 15 – Gambino crime family gangsters Edward Garafola, his son Mario, John "Johnny Rhino" Vitiello, Richard Calabro, Junior Campbell, a business agent with Laborers Union Local 79, and developer Frederick Contini were indicted for labor racketeering, extortion and fraud in connection with a scheme that ripped the MTA off of over $10 million.
 October 26 – Twenty-two members and associates of the Rudaj Organization are indicted on federal charges of committing numerous crimes in New York City and in Westchester County.
December 31 – Giuseppe Riina, son of Sicilian mafia boss Salvatore Riina, is sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment for extortion, Mafia association and money laundering.

Art and literature
Collateral (film)  starring Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith and Mark Ruffalo.
The Godfather Returns (novel) by Mark Winegardner
Growing Up Gotti (TV-series) .
"Biography"  – Joseph the Rat Valachi  (TV Documentary)
Layer Cake (film) 
The Way of the Wiseguy (non-fiction book) by Joseph D. Pistone
Katekyo Hitman Reborn! (REBORN!) (manga) by Akira Amano

Births

Deaths
August 17 – Frank Cotroni dies of cancer

References

Organized crime
Years in organized crime
Understanding in a Car Crash

"Understanding in a Car Crash" is a song by American post-hardcore band Thursday. It was the band's debut single and the lead single from their second album, Full Collapse, in late 2001. "Understanding" was chosen for release as a single and shot by Victory Records during the band's tour with Saves the Day without Thursday's consent.  The music video gained rotation on MTV2 and MMUSA upon its release in early 2002. The simple presentation features concert footage of the song's performance with shots cascading on top of one another.

"Understanding" has remained perhaps the band's most well known song and a concert staple. It is usually performed together with "The Other Side of the Crash/Over and Out (Of Control)," a song from the 2006 album, A City by the Light Divided, that tells the other side of the same story.

Music and lyrics
"Understanding in a Car Crash" has a reference to Neil Young's "The Needle and the Damage Done."

Reception
Kurt Morris of AllMusic chose "Understanding in a Car Crash" an AllMusic Pick in his review for Full Collapse. He described the song as "a warm, daydream piece that might give listeners a feeling that they are listening to a more modern, upbeat version of The Cure." It was cited as a favorite among six other songs in a 2004 article by the Las Vegas Mercury entitled "Road scholar: Crash course - The Doom-and-Gloom Alternatives to The Beach Boys' 'Little Deuce Coupe'." In it, writer Newt Briggs explains, "Leave it to the emo kids to turn a split second of underwear-soiling terror into a moment for deep thought and introspection."

Variety ranked it as one of the best emo songs of all time in 2022.

Personnel
Thursday
Geoff Rickly – vocals
Tom Keeley – lead guitar, vocals
Steve Pedulla – rhythm guitar, vocals
Tim Payne – bass guitar
Tucker Rule – drums

Additional musicians and personnel 
Sal Villanueva – production
Erin Farley – engineering, additional guitar

References

Thursday (band) songs
2001 songs
2002 debut singles
Józef Żmij

Józef Żmij was a Polish soldier and politician in the period before the World War II. During the Silesian Uprisings he took part in the fights around the village of Wisła Wielka in the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. After the war, in 1930s, he became the mayor of the town of Pszczyna, where he married Filomena née Kopeć . Arrested by the Germans after the Polish Defensive War, he was imprisoned in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.

Polish politicians
Polish soldiers
19th-century births
20th-century deaths
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
1998–99 Premiership Rugby

The 1998–1999 English Premiership (called the Allied Dunbar Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the 12th season of the league at the top of the English rugby union pyramid, the Premiership (rugby union).

This was the second season under the sponsorship of Allied Dunbar.

The league was expanded to include 14 teams instead of 12, with London Scottish, West Hartlepool and Bedford Blues being elected to the premiership. The league commenced on 5 September 1998 and finished on 20 May 1999.

Participating teams 

Notes

Table

* At the end of the 1998–99 season, Richmond and London Scottish were placed into administration and merged with London Irish, and thus did not compete in the subsequent season.

Results

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Leading scorers
Note: Flags to the left of player names indicate national team as has been defined under World Rugby eligibility rules, or primary nationality for players who did not yet earn international senior caps. Players may hold one or more non-WR nationalities.

Most points 
Source:

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Source:

Total Season Attendances

References

External links
 Official site

 

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England
All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (1991)

The All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (VKPB; ; Vsesoyuznaya kommunisticheskaya partiya bolshevikov, VKPB) is an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party operating in Russia and other former Soviet states. It was founded in November 1991 and led by Nina Andreyeva, a university teacher who was well known for her 1988 letter "I cannot give up my principles".

History

The VKPB has its origins in the "Bolshevik Platform" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The party is known for its sectarian positions, e.g. it opposes the Communist Party of the Russian Federation due to its "reformist" character and has refused to back its candidates for presidential election. It is also an outspoken critic of the Russian church and religion in general demanding the separation of church and state. It is also a critic of Vladimir Putin's regime.

It published a newspaper called  (),  (),  (),  (),  (),  (),  (),  () and  (). Its youth section is the All-Union Young Guard Bolsheviks.

During its history, the party has experienced several splits. Splinters often took similar names.

 All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (VKP(b)) — the split occurred in 1995 on the issue of the party's participation in parliamentary elections.
 All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (revolutionaries) (VKPB(r)) — split of 2015 of the left wing of the VKPB. The organization believes that the VKPB has moved away from the Bolsheviks traditions and has moved to the right tendency.
 In the summer of 2020, after the death of Nina Andreeva, formed the alternative Central Committee of the VKPB, which is based in Pyatigorsk. General Secretary is Nikolay Degtyarenko. The organization is called VKPB (North Caucasus Bureau) (VKPB (SKB)). The organization considers itself real VKPB.
In 2021, some of the party's primary organizations held an independent congress. These organizations received the informal name VKPB (Sverdlovsk Congress)

In 2022, the VKP(b) and VKPB (Sverdlovsk Congress) held a unification congress. The new party was named the Marxist-Leninist Party of Bolsheviks (MLPB). However, this decision was not made by all the primary organizations of the VKP(b).

References

External links
 Official website

1991 establishments in the Soviet Union
Anti-revisionist organizations
Neo-Stalinist parties
Communist parties in Russia
Communist parties in the Soviet Union
Far-left political parties
Far-left politics in Russia
Opposition to Vladimir Putin
Political parties established in 1991
Transnational political parties
Political organizations based in Russia
With a Boy Like You

With a Boy Like U is the official title of the debut solo album by Kary Ng, released on January 31, 2006. It is more commonly known among English speakers as With a Boy Like You.

Track listing
All songs are sung in Cantonese unless stated.

1. "With A Boy Like U"
Language: English
2. "戀愛天才" "Love Talent"
3. "句句我愛你" (Guei Guei Ngo Ngoi Nei) "Everyword Is I love You"
4. "愛你變成恨你" "My love for you has turn to hate"
5. "假想敵" "Imaginary Enemy"
6. "耍我" (Sa Ngo) "Need Me"
7. "明知做戲" (Ming Ji Jo Hei) "Intentional Act"
8. "欣澳別戀" "Joyful Australia Do not Love"
9. "給情敵的情書" "For Love Rivals Love Letter"
10. "南方的風"(Nan Fang de Feng) "South Wind"
Language: Mandarin
11. "台北四天三夜"(Tai Pei Shi Tian San Ye) Taipei Four Days, Three Nights)
Language: Mandarin

References

2006 debut albums
Kary Ng albums
Spirit of Prophecy

Spirit of Prophecy may refer to:

 Spirit of Prophecy (Latter Day Saints)
 Inspiration of Ellen White#Spirit of prophecy, a term sometimes used by Seventh-day Adventists to refer to the Holy Spirit and to Ellen White and her writings
2001 in organized crime



Events
April 5 – Bonanno crime family consigliere Anthony Spero was convicted of racketeering and ordering the murders of Louis Tuzzio, Paul Gulino and Vincent Bickelman.  Spero had supervised a violent Bonanno crew out of a Bath Beach, Brooklyn social club for more than 20 years.  
April 12 – The Italian magazine L’Espresso puts Matteo Messina Denaro on the cover with the legend: Ecco il nuovo capo della mafia (Here is the new boss of the Mafia).
 August 3 – Members of the Albanian Rudaj Organization attack Greek associates of the Lucchese crime family at a social club in a conflict over controlling gambling rackets in Astoria, Queens, New York City.
November – Giovanni Riina, Sicilian mafioso and son of Salvatore Riina, convicted of committing four murders in 1995.
December 6 – The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York indicted members of the New Springville Boys gang from Staten Island, which prosecutors alleged was a mob farm team for the Bonanno and Colombo crime families.  The crew was charged with burglarizing over 30 night-deposit boxes at banks across the country, netting $240,000, committing push-in robberies, loan sharking and money laundering.  They were also charged with hijacking a truckload of marijuana worth over $1 million, and selling drugs in their neighborhood.  Members included leader Lee D'Avanzo, Ned Bilali, Robert Catanese, Randy (Randy The Jew) Gordon, Francis Costanzo, William "Big Billy" Fauci, Joseph "Fat Joe" Gambino, and Edward Shamah.
Tadamasa Goto, the founding head of the Goto-gumi, a large affiliate of the largest known yakuza syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, got a queue-jumping liver transplant at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after giving a donation to the Center and getting a special visa deal from the FBI.

Arts and literature
The 51st State (film)  starring Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle.
Bandits (film)
Blow (film)  starring Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Jordi Mollà, Cliff Curtis, Ethan Suplee and Ray Liotta
The Cold Six Thousand (novel) by James Ellroy
Corky Romano (film)  starring Chris Kattan, Chris Penn and Vincent Pastore.
The Fast and the Furious (film)
Heist (film)  starring Gene Hackman and Danny DeVito.
Knockaround Guys (film)  starring Barry Pepper, Seth Green, Vin Diesel and John Malkovich
The Mexican (film)  starring Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Gene Hackman and James Gandolfini
The Score (film)
Swordfish (film)
Training Day (film)

Births

Deaths
February 21 – Alfred Embarrato "Uncle Al", Bonanno crime family Capo
October 22 – Raffaele Quasarano, Detroit crime syndicate leader and associate of Frank Costello and Frank Coppola.

References

Organized crime
Years in organized crime
Rudolf Lorenzen

Rudolf Lorenzen (5 February 1922 – 27 November 2013) was a German novelist.

Lorenzen was born in Lübeck. His best-known work, Anything But A Hero (Alles andere als ein Held), is about an ordinary German boy who grows up in pre-war Germany, serves in the German army during WWII and finds his way in the shipping business afterwards. He also wrote the short story "The Expedition", which takes place in the future, when a voyage begins to the furthest known planet in the solar system, Cerberus.

Lorenzen died in Berlin, aged 91.

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Writers from Lübeck
1922 births
2013 deaths
German male novelists
20th-century German novelists
20th-century German male writers
German Army personnel of World War II
PowerCon

powerCON is an electrical connector manufactured by Neutrik for connecting mains power to equipment in a small space. It looks and works similarly to the Speakon connector, with the line connector inserted in the chassis connector and twisted to make contact and lock. Both line and chassis connectors are fully insulated even when disconnected.

The original and most common version of the powerCON is rated at . It comes in two deliberately incompatible variants to prevent people connecting two mains supplies together. The  is blue and used for power sources (power flows out of a blue-ended cable, into a chassis socket). The  is grey and used for power drains (power flows from a chassis socket into a grey-ended cable). Couplers are available with one chassis socket of each type mounted on the ends of a plastic tube to extend cables.

Later, Neutrik introduced a larger  version of the powerCON. Unlike the  version, the  version comes in only one variant which appears to be intended for use as a source.

The main advantages of the powerCON are high current capacity in a small space (smaller than an IEC connector and double the current-carrying capacity) and locking action. The main disadvantages are cost and reliance on a single vendor. Older models are not designed to be connected/disconnected under load (which makes them unsuitable for equipment used by untrained personnel).

At the end of 2020, Neutrik released a re-designed version of the original PowerCON which is capable of connecting/disconnecting under load when mated with the corresponding connectors. Cable connectors with breaking capacity are recognizable due to the '-1' in their article number like NAC3FCA-1. Appliance connectors are recognizable due to the 'XX' added in their article number like NAC3MPXXA.

In January 2011, Neutrik announced a new variant of the connector called the . Unlike the traditional powerCON connectors, the new connector is specified with breaking capacity, meaning it is designed for disconnection under load The maximum current rating for the TRUE1 connector is reduced to  and it is not compatible with traditional powerCON connectors. The connectors are IP65 and UL50E rated when mated (connected) together, meaning that they are designed to be used in outdoor environments with a heavy dust and/or water presence.

References

Mains power connectors
Neutrik
Chazezesa Challengers

Chazezesa Challengers are a Zimbabwean Sungura music band formed in 1993 under the direction of the late System Tazvida in Chitungwiza. System, a Khiama Boys alumnus, grew sick of not receiving his fair share of royalties and decided to form his own band. Both his stints in Khiama Boys and the Sungura Boys had ended without any financial compensation. He recruited some experienced musicians, including his bassist brother Peter. The band of five are veterans of the Zimbabwe music scene. His brother Peter is a Nyami Nyami Sounds alumnus. Guitarist LeeRoy Lunga had played with both the Super Sounds and the Kasongo Band, while percussionist Lucky Mumiriki had experience with the Hurungwe Sounds and the Sungura Boys. The group is also known as Boyz DzeSmoko.

Music style
The group successfully mixed elements of sungura, jazz, South African mbaqanga and traditional sounds, creating an appealing and popular blend. The Chazezesa Challengers produced a string of hit albums in the mid-to-late 1990s; their debut, Rudo Tsika Nemagariro, sold more than 20,000 copies, while Mutunhu Unemago topped 30,000. Some of their top songs include Anodyiwa Haature, Kaserura Ndizvo, Smoko, Ndiridze Mhere, Ukarambwa Usacheme, and Vaforomani. System Tazvida is known for stressing that he liked better playing for rural crowds who he said liked and appreciated his music by singing along and dancing to it spiritedly when he did live shows. The Challengers were known for their humorous love lyrics and satirical subjects.
The band also toured in Mozambique, where they were popular.

Descent
The band experienced two deaths in quick succession, as drummer Wezhira Shoko and talismanic leader System Tazvida both died near the turn of the millennium. Peter Tazvida, System's brother who assumed leadership of the group after his brothers death also succumbed to illness in mid-2002. This, did not stop the group. Under the leadership of Lee Roy Lunga, the boys released their twelfth album, Smoko Pachena/Chabvondoka, in December 2002. The group however has seen waning popularity of Smoko and a decrease in sales of their music

Other projects
The Chazezesa Challengers operate a variety of community projects in Zimbabwe. In addition to operating their own soccer team for the unemployed, the group owns runs a children's club, their own studios, and mechanic business.

See also
Music of Zimbabwe
Shona music

External links
 Zimbabwe Music Guide A website about the Music of Zimbabwe
 Dandemutande Shona Music site and mailing list
 Zimbabwe Music Lyrics A site with lyrics by Zimbabwean musicians.

Zimbabwean music
1977 in organized crime

Events concerning organized crime from the year 1977.

Events
Pittston-based Bufalino crime family leader Russell Bufalino, one of the three dominant organized crime syndicates operating in Pennsylvania, is arrested and later imprisoned in Danbury Federal Prison.
February 2 – New York businessman Arthur Milgram, owner of a lottery ticket distribution service, is killed by New York mobsters.
April 1 – Thomas J. Palermo, a government informant, is found murdered.
May 5 – Charles "Ruby" Stein, a New York loanshark and associate of  Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, is lured to the 596 Club by Jimmy Coonan with members of the Westies and the Gambino crime family and murdered.
May 13 – While walking down 59th Street in Woodside, a middle-class neighborhood in Queens, Mickey Spillane is shot and killed by an unknown gunman after approaching an unmarked car. Although in semiretirement, Spillane's death would mark the official end of the decade long gang war between Spillane and Jimmy Coonan as power over Hell's Kitchen falls to the Westies.
July 15 – Australian anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay is kidnapped from a hotel carpark. Used shotgun shells and blood stains are found in his locked van. Drug baron Robert Trimbole is suspected of ordering the murder.
October 6 – Cleveland gangster Danny "The Irishman" Greene is killed by a car bomb after leaving from a dentist's appointment.
October 30 – Frank Lino is made, or officially inducted, into the Bonanno Family. Lino would eventually become a cooperating witness for the government in 2003.

Births
Giuseppe Riina, Sicilian mafioso and son of mafia boss Salvatore Riina.

Deaths
February 2 – Arthur Milgram, New York businessman
April 1 – Thomas J. Palermo, New York mobster and government informant
May 13 – Mickey Spillane, New York mobster
July 15 – Donald Mackay, Australian anti-drug campaigner
October 6 – Danny Greene, Cleveland gangster

References 

Organized crime
Years in organized crime
Schein

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

 Charles Schein (1928–2003), French polymer chemist of Romanian origin
 David D. Schein (born 1951), American author and academic
 Edgar Schein (born 1928), professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management
 Johann Hermann Schein (1586–1630), German composer
 Marcel Schein (1902–1960), American physicist of Bohemian origin

See also
Shine (disambiguation)
Bourbonese Qualk

Bourbonese Qualk were an experimental music group which existed from 1980 to 2003. The group were participants in the early 80s industrial & experimental music tape scene. Writing for CMJ, Martin Aston characterized Bourbonese Qualk as "post-punk, avant funk" along the lines of 23 Skidoo, A Certain Ratio, 400 Blows and early Cabaret Voltaire.

They're also known for their political activism, formed in the crucible of 1980s Britain amid such influences as the UK miners' strike, the Falklands War, Thatcherism, monetarism, local government corruption, squatting, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, and anarchism. Their work was often ambiguous and directly critical of power-politics of any color, often irritating members of the traditional organized left. In 1984 Bourbonese Qualk occupied a large empty building - The Ambulance Station - on the Old Kent Road in South London, which they turned into a base for their activities, a cooperative space for artists, musicians, and writers, and a center for radical political activism -- specifically as a coordinating center for the Stop the City anti-capitalist protests of 1984.

Discography
 Laughing Afternoon LP (Recloose Organization 1983)
 Hope LP (Recloose Organization 1984)
 The Spike LP (Dossier 1985)
 Preparing For Power LP (Recloose Organization 1986)
 Bourbonese Qualk LP (New International Recordings 1987)
 My Government is My Soul LP/CD (Fünfundvierzig 1990)
 Bo'Qu LP (New International Recordings 1990)
 Kneejerk Reaction EP (Praxis 1992)
 Qual EP (Praxis 1992)
 UnPop CD (Total F.I. 1993)
 Feeding the Hungry Ghost CD (Fünfundvierzig 1994)
 Autonomia CD (Praxis 1994)
 On Uncertainty (2000)
 Moscow (2002)
 Lies (2015)

References

External links
 Official archive of Bourbonese Qualk
 Crab's blog

British industrial music groups
Cassette culture 1970s–1990s
Experimental musical groups
Political music groups
Michael Waters

Michael or Mike Waters may refer to:

 Michael Waters (writer) (born 1949), American writer
 Mick Waters (education) (born 1949), British educational theorist
 Mike Waters (politician) (born 1967), South African politician
 Michael R. Waters, professor of anthropology and geography
 Mike Waters, wrestler with professional wrestling tag team The UK Pitbulls
 Mikey Waters, a fictional character played by River Phoenix in Gus Van Sant's 1991 film My Own Private Idaho

See also
 Michael Walters (disambiguation)
 Mick Waters (born 1941), Irish hurler
1996 in organized crime



Events
December 7 – Philadelphia crime family captain Joseph Sodano, based out of Newark, New Jersey, was shot to death for hiding money from the administration.

Arts and literature
The Funeral (film) starring Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, Vincent Gallo, Benicio del Toro and John Ventimiglia
Gotti (film) starring Armand Assante, William Forsythe, Frank Vincent, Dominic Chianese, Vincent Pastore and Tony Sirico
The Last Don (novel) by Mario Puzo
Last Man Standing (film) starring Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken and Michael Imperioli
Last Man Standing (film) 
Mad Dog Time (film) starring Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss, Jeff Goldblum, Burt Reynolds and Billy Drago
Bound (film)
Fargo (film)
Set It Off (film)
The Substitute (film)

Births

Deaths
 March 12 – Jack "Spot" Comer, Jewish-English gangster (83)
April 13 - James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, Lucchese Family associate known for the Lufthansa heist.
 December 7 – Joseph Sodano, Philadelphia crime family captain

References

Organized crime
Years in organized crime
Petrovec Municipality

The Municipality of Petrovec (, Petrovec) is a municipality in northern North Macedonia, near the capital Skopje. Petrovec is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. It is located in the Skopje Statistical Region.

Skopje International Airport is located in the Petrovec municipality.

Geography
The municipality borders with Studeničani Municipality and  Zelenikovo Municipality to the west, Ilinden Municipality and Kumanovo Municipality to the north, Sveti Nikole Municipality to the east, and Veles Municipality to the south.

Demographics
According to the 2021 Macedonian census, Petrovec Municipality has 9,150 residents. Ethnic groups in the municipality:

References

 
Skopje Statistical Region
Municipalities of North Macedonia
Keith Brown

Keith Brown may refer to:

Sports
Keith Brown (American football) (born 1983), American football wide receiver
Keith Brown (baseball) (born 1964), American baseball pitcher
Keith Brown (basketball), coach in 2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
Keith Brown (cricketer) (born 1963), English cricketer
Keith Brown (ice hockey) (born 1960), Canadian ice hockey player
Keith Brown (footballer, born 1954), English footballer (Grimsby Town)
Keith Brown (footballer, born 1979), Scottish footballer (Barnsley FC, Oxford United, Falkirk FC)
Keith Brown (pole vaulter) (1913–1991), American athlete and politician

Politicians
Keith Brown (Ontario politician) (1926–2015), retired businessperson and politician
Keith Brown (pole vaulter) (1913–1991), American politician and athlete
Keith Brown (Scottish politician) (born 1961), depute leader of the Scottish National Party and former Scottish government minister
Keith Brown (New York politician) (born 1968), member of the New York State Assembly 
Keith L. Brown (1925–2016), American diplomat

Others
Keith Brown, former stage manager of the piano group The 5 Browns
Keith Brown (author) (born 1967), technical and security author
Keith Brown (linguist), British linguist
Keith Kendle Brown (1901–1939), British aviator known as K. K. Brown
Vasili Pichul

Vasili Vladimirovich Pichul (; 15 June 1961 – 26 July 2015) was a Soviet and Russian film director, best known for his film Little Vera (Маленькая Вера, "Malenkaya Vera" in Russian), released in 1988. His film How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.

He died of lung cancer.

Selected filmography
 Little Vera (1988)
 How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea (1989)

References

External links

1961 births
2015 deaths
Soviet film directors
Russian film directors
Academicians of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences "Nika"
1995 in organized crime



Events

Arts and literature
American Tabloid (novel) by James Ellroy
Excellent Cadavers (non-fiction book) by Alexander Stille
Casino (film)  starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone
Tough Guy: The True Story of "Crazy" Eddie Maloney (autobiography) by Eddie Maloney 
The Usual Suspects (film)  starring Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Spacey, Chazz Palminteri and Pete Postlethwaite
Heat (film)

Births

Deaths 
Joseph Zingaro, Gambino crime family capo    
Louis Grecco, Patriacra crime family associate 
January 26 – William Cammisano "Willie the Rat", Kansas City mobster  
March 17 – Ronnie Kray, UK crime boss, Kray Firm
March 20 - Joseph Schiro-Scarpa, New York drug dealer affiliated with the Colombo LCN Family and son of mobster of Gregory "The Grim Reaper" Scarpa, Sr.
April 1 - Louis Raucci, Pittsburgh mobster involved in drug trafficking
June 23 - Frank Salemme, Jr., Patriarca crime family soldier and son of crime boss "Cadillac" Frank Salemme
August 13 - Dominic Musitano, Toronto mobster
September 1 – Joseph N. Gallo, Gambino crime family consigliere
September 21 – Albert Tocco, Chicago Outfit member
November 22 – Frank O'Hehir, Colombo crime family associate  
November 24 – Benjamin "Lefty Guns" Ruggiero, Bonanno crime family member

References

Organized crime
Years in organized crime
Jakobstads Tidning

Jakobstads Tidning (abbr. JT) was a Swedish language regional newspaper in Finland published between 1898 and 2008.

History and profile
Jakobstads Tidning was first published on 21 December 1898 originally as a weekly newspaper. In 2000, JT became a daily newspaper, having previously been published six times a week.

Its headquarters was located in Jakobstad with local offices located in Kokkola and Nykarleby. In 1996 the paper had a circulation of 11,972 copies.  JT'''s circulation was 12,130 copies, most of which were sold in Jakobstad and surrounding regions in northern Ostrobothnia. 

In 2008 it merged with Österbottningen to form Österbottens Tidning. At the time of the merge, Jakobstads Tidning was the third largest Swedish-language newspaper in Finland in terms of circulation, behind Hufvudstadsbladet and Vasabladet''.

References

1898 establishments in Finland
2008 disestablishments in Finland
Defunct newspapers published in Finland
Defunct weekly newspapers
Mass media in Jakobstad
Daily newspapers published in Finland
Newspapers established in 1898
Publications disestablished in 2008
Swedish-language newspapers published in Finland
Weekly newspapers published in Finland