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Hamid Motahari

Hamid Motahari (Persian: حمید مطهری born 25 April 1974 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian retired professional football midfielderand who is Head Coach and now he is currently assistant of Yahya Golmohammadi in Persepolis F.C.

Early life 
Hamid Motahari born 25 April 1974 in Tehran Iran.

Hamid Motahari is married and result of this life is a daughter named Harir.

Hamid Motahari is a former player and Iranianfootball coach.

Playing career

Club 
He started his football career with the youth of Vahdat F.C. team and at the same time he played for the youth and adults.

He joined Persepolis F.C. after playing for teams such as Sepahan and Keshavarz F.C.

He was a player at Persepolis F.C. until the end of his playing career, but with a serious injury, his playing career ended very quickly.

International 
He was playing in the Iran U-20 1991–1993 and the Iran U-23 1993–1995

Coaching career 
Hamid Motahari joined the railway team in 2009 at the age of 35 as a coach and was present in the technical staff of this club for about 2 years as an assistant coach.

In 2014, he became the head coach of Omid Perspolis F.C.. 

After a year, he joined Saipa F.C. and in 2016, he signed a contract with Paykan F.C. and was the assistant coach of Majid Jalali in this team for two years.

After a short experience, he joined Nassaji Mazandaran F.C. and then was a member of the technical staff of Shahr Khodro F.C. from 2020-2019.

When Yahya Golmohammadi was in the Perspolis F.C. team, he also took Motahari to this team. 

Hamid Motahhari has been Yahya Golmohammadi assistant in Perspolis F.C. since 2020. 

Saba Qom F.C. 2007-2009 assistan

Rah Ahan F.C. 2009-2011 assistan

Saipa F.C. 2014-2015 assistan

Paykan F.C. 2016-2018 assistan

Nassaji Mazandaran F.C. 2019 assistan

Shahr Khodro F.C. 2019-2020 assistan

Motahari is now Yahya Golmohammadi's assistant in Perspolis F.C.

Career Statistics 

 Club
 Vahdat F.C. 1990-1992
 Sepahan Azadegan League 1993-1996
 Fath Tehran F.C. Azadegan League 1995-1997
 Keshavarz F.C. Azadegan League 1996-1997
 Persepolis F.C. Azadegan League 1997-1999
 International

Honours 

 Persepolis

 Persian Gulf Pro League (2): 2019–20 , 2020–21
 Iranian Super Cup (1): 2020
 AFC Champions League runner-up: 2020

References

Other websites 
Hamid Motahari on Instagram
Hamid Motahari at Soccerway
Hamid Motahari at  PersianLeague.com
Hamid Motahari at  Sortitoutsi

1974 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tehran
Iranian footballers
Life skills

Life Skills are the abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable humans to deal and understand effectively with the demands and challenges that they face them in life.

Life Skills 
The World Health Organization in 1999 identified cross-cultural areas of life skills:

 Decision-making and Problem solving.
 Creative thinking (see also Lateral thinking and Critical thinking)
 Communication and Social Skills.
 Self-awareness and Empathy.

 assertiveness and equanimity;

Most of the times children get Life Skills when they play or do & Discover new things with adults.

Further Reading

References

Other Websites 

Life skills
Fordtown, Tennessee

Fordtown is an unincorporated community in Sullivan County, Tennessee, United States, The community's name was adopted due to the number of people with the last name Ford, who lived in the area. It is accessed by the road named after it, Fordtown Road.

References 

Unincorporated communities in Tennessee
Tri-Cities, Tennessee
Orientalism

Orientalism is a theory put forward by Edward Said in his book, Orientalism (1978). It explores how the West depicts the East, and argues the West depicts the East as 'Other' and essentially inferior. This 'Otherness' justifies the West's colonisation of the East.

References

History
Edward Said

Edward William Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian academic. He came up with the theory of Orientalism and wrote the book Culture and Imperialism.

1935 births
2003 deaths
Palestinian people
Tanzimat

The Tanzimat was a period of reform in the Ottoman Empire that began in 1839 and ended in 1876. It intended to modernise the Ottoman Empire, and allowed for religious freedom.

Ottoman Empire
Bloomingdale, Tennessee

Bloomingdale is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sullivan County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 9,888 at the 2010 census and 10,188 in 2013.
It is part of the Kingsport–Bristol (TN)–Bristol (VA) Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the "Tri-Cities" region.

Geography
Bloomingdale is located at .

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all of it land.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 8,918 people, 3,977 households, and 2,449 families residing in the CDP.

References

Related pages

Census-designated places in Tennessee
Tri-Cities, Tennessee
Shane Baxley

Shane Baxley (born February 13, 1986), is an American concept designer.

Baxley has created concept art for vehicles, characters and environments for titles, including Alita: Battle Angel, Bumblebee, the Loki series, and Spike Jonze's award-winning Apple Home Pod commercial. Most recently he has contributed designs to James Gunn's The Suicide Squad including Starro and The Thinker as well as designs for the to be released Peacemaker series and Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. Other contributions not yet released include Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi, Furiosa, Black Panther 2 and Blue Beetle.

Early life and education 
Shane Baxley was born in Santa Clara, California. He graduated from Los Gatos High School in 2004. Having graduated from Art Center College of Design's Transportation Design Department.

Career 
In 2012, he worked as a freelance designer for several automotive and product design studios including: Bertone, Boombang, Design by Eleven, L’Oreal and Astro Studios before shifting to film. In 2014, he appeared in eight episodes of the reality show Motor City Masters.

In 2015, Baxley launched Baxley Corp which handles a wide array of design and art direction.

In 2019, during the Covid pandemic he created the motorcycle brand known as BAX MOTO which is currently seeking prototype funding.

Most recently he contributed a short story to the book TRAVERSE: Vehicles From the Outer Rim of Imagination which donated profits to the Williams Syndrome Association.

References

External links 

 Official Website

Living people 
1986 births
Elizabethton, Tennessee

Elizabethton is a city in, and the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, United States. Elizabethton is the historical site of the first independent American government (known as the Watauga Association, created in 1772).

The city is also the historical site of the Transylvania Purchase (1775) which was a major site during the American Revolutionary War for both the Battle of Musgrove Mill (1780) and the Battle of Kings Mountain (1780). It was within the secessionist North Carolina "State of Franklin" territory (1784–1788).

Geography 
Elizabethton is located within the "Tri-Cities" area (encompassed by Bristol, Johnson City, and Kingsport) of northeast Tennessee.

Their time zone is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC): UTC-5 (Eastern Time).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which  is land and , or 1.62%, is water.

Weather

Education
Public Schools in Elizabethton are operated by Elizabethton City Schools. www.ecschools.net

Colleges
Satellite campuses of Northeast State Community College and Tennessee College of Applied Technology are located in the eastern part of the city off Tennessee State Route 91.

Milligan College and Emmanuel Christian Seminary are located in the southwestern part of the city off Tennessee State Route 359.

Notable people
 Paul Edward Anderson – Olympic gold medalist in weightlifting
 Margaret Bowen – led the March 12, 1929, walkout of 523 female co-workers at American Glanzstoff, beginning the 1929 labor strikes
 William Gannaway Brownlow – governor of Tennessee, U.S. senator, Methodist minister, and publisher of the Whig newspaper
 Samuel P. Carter – U.S. Army general and U.S. Navy admiral
 Charles Davis – University of Tennessee football player and Fox Sports analyst
 Landon Carter Haynes – Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, Confederate senator, lawyer, Methodist minister, and editor of the Tennessee Sentinel
 Alec McLean – Olympic rower
 Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson – early Elizabethton attorney and member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 Dayton E. Phillips – jurist and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
 Jeff Reed – Major League Baseball catcher
 Alfred A. Taylor – governor of Tennessee and congressman
 Robert Love Taylor – governor of Tennessee and U.S. senator from Tennessee
 Kenneth R. Wallace – United States Navy Blue Angels Pilot
 Kent Williams – Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives
 Jason Witten – National Football League tight end

References

Related pages
 Tri-Cities, Tennessee

Cities in Tennessee
Tri-Cities, Tennessee
Fall Branch, Tennessee

Fall Branch is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washington and Greene counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The population was 1,291 at the 2010 census. Some areas in Sullivan also use the Fall Branch ZIP code.

History
One of the earliest settlers at Fall Branch was Isaac White. He was a Revolutionary War veteran who arrived in the area in 1781. He eventually established a farm at what is now the intersection of Interstate 81 and State Highway 93. Another early settler, Gabriel Morgan, built a grist mill at Fall Branch in the early 1800s. The mill stood until the 1930s, when it was torn down.

By the early 1800s, Fall Branch was known as "Crouch Town", after a family of early settlers. The name had changed to "James' Cross Roads" by 1830, when a post office was established. The name "Falls Branch" had been adopted by 1854, and the "s" was dropped from "Falls" in 1883, giving the community its current name. The name was inspired by the waterfall the community's main creek, also called Fall Branch, spills over just before it empties into Horse Creek.

In 1836, Fall Branch was designated as the county seat of the proposed "Powell County", which would have consisted of parts of Washington, Greene, Sullivan, and Hawkins counties. While voters approved of the new county, it was rejected by the Tennessee Supreme Court on the grounds that it failed to meet the minimum size required by the state constitution for new counties.

Schools
A school, Fall Branch Seminary, was established at Fall Branch in 1842. Fall Branch High School, initially a two-year school, was established before 1900. The high school was consolidated with several other smaller schools to form Daniel Boone High School in nearby Gray in 1971.

Buildings
A number of buildings dating to the 19th century still stand in Fall Branch. The Masonic Lodge, home to Johnson Lodge No. 274, was completed in 1869. The Joseph Sheppard House, constructed in the late 1850s, was believed to have been used to hide Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. The Bud White Home was constructed by a local physician, Jonathan Blair White, in 1869.  The Hopper House, used as a boarding home for early Fall Branch Seminary students, was constructed in the first half of the 19th century.

Education
One school is located in Fall Branch; Fall Branch School, which serves grades PreK–8 in the Washington County portion of the community. West Pines Elementary School (grades PreK–8) previously served the Greene County portion until its closure in 2019. Grades PreK-5 now attend Baileyton Elementary in Baileyton and grades 6-8 now attend North Greene Middle School in Ottway. High school students attend North Greene High School (Greene County portion) and Daniel Boone High School (Washington County portion).

Transportation
Fall Branch is located off Interstate 81 exit 50, on State Route 93 near where Tennessee State Route 93 and Tennessee State Route 81 intersect South of Kingsport, north of Jonesborough and northeast of Greeneville.

Notable people
 Trevor Lawrence, starting quarterback for Clemson Tigers.

References

Census-designated places in Tennessee
Tri-Cities, Tennessee
Muni Metro

Muni Metro is a light rail system serving San Francisco, California, United States, operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni).

History

Market Street subway

On February 18, 1980, the Muni Metro officially began. It started with weekday N line service in the subway. The Metro service was put in phases. The subway was served only on weekdays until 1982. The K Ingleside line began using the entire Metro subway on weekdays on June 11, 1980, the L Taraval and M Ocean View lines on December 17, 1980, and the J Church line on June 17, 1981. Meanwhile, weekend service on all five lines (J, K, L, M, N) continued to use PCC streetcars operating on the surface of Market Street to the Transbay Terminal. The Muni Metro was closed on weekends. At the end of the service day September 19, 1982, streetcar operations on the surface of Market Street were discontinued entirely. The remaining PCCs taken out of service, and weekend service on the five light rail lines switch to buses for a while. Finally, on November 20, 1982, the Muni Metro subway began operating seven days a week.

Routes 

, the L Taraval is replaced by bus service, while other routes have resumed rail operation.

Operations 
Muni Metro runs from approximately 5 am to 1 am weekdays, with later start times of 7 am on Saturday and 8 am on Sunday. Owl service, or late-night service, is operated on much of the L and N lines by buses that show the same route designation.

References

Other websites 

– Live display of trains in the subway

 
Muni Metro#Routes
1980s establishments in California
The Great Peace (Kodra)

The Great Peace (also known as La Grande Pace) is a 20th-century painted in oil by the painter Ibrahim Kodra. He painted it in 1967. It is part of the collection of the Museum of Italian Parliament in Rome.

Description 
Kodra's painting, belonging to the artistic current of Cubism, portrays a man who releases a dove, symbol of universal peace.

Related pages 
 Italian Parliament
 Cubism
 Pablo Picasso

References

Other websites 
 La Grande Pace, Kodra, Parlamento Italiano

20th-century paintings
Italian paintings
Paintings by Ibrahim Kodra
Wörthersee Stadion

Wörthersee Stadion  is a  stadium in Klagenfurt, Austria. It is the home ground of SK Austria Klagenfurt .

History

The first Wörtherseestadion was built in 1960 as the home ground of the old SK Austria Klagenfurt with a capacity of 10,900. Although Austria Klagenfurt was relegated in 2004 the Carinthian government was for building a new stadium for the UEFA Euro 2008.

The new stadium was for 32,000 visitors. It was opened on 7 September 2007 with a a friendly match between Austria and Japan in front of 26,500 spectators. For the 2007-08 season FC Pasching was relocated to the stadium to ensure matches after the Euro 2008. Till the  bankruptcy in 2010 Pasching played under the name SK Austria Kärnten in the stadium. 2010 the stadium was renamed Wörthersee stadium because the name sponsor so far ( Hypo Group Alpe Adria) was in economic troubles. The stadium is now the homeground of SK Austria Klagenfurt. It also hosted final matches of the Austrian Cup.

Euro 2008 matches  
The  Wörthersee Stadion hosted 3 matches of Euro 2008.

Cup finals at Wörthersee stadium

References

Other websites

Sportpark Klagenfurt Official Website

Football stadiums in Austria
Duvar (movie)

Duvar is a 1983 Turkish-French drama movie directed by Yılmaz Güney and starring Tuncel Kurtiz, Zeynep Kuray, Ayse Emel Mesci Kuray, Malik Berrichi, Nicolas Hossein, Ahmet Ziyrek, Jacques Dimanche, Jean-Pierre Colin, Ali Berktay.

Other websites

1983 drama movies
Turkish movies
French drama movies
Armenian movies
Movies set in Turkey
Movies directed by Yılmaz Güney
Challenge Cup

The Challenge Cup was a tournament for football clubs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire It was played from 1897 to 1911.

History

It started in 1897 and was invented by John Gramlick. He was one of the founders of Vienna Cricket and Football-Club. The competition was  for all clubs in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. All teams came from the three major cities Vienna, Budapest and Prague. It was played in a knockout format.

The trophy is now in the possession of its last winner Wiener Sport-Club. The Challenge Cup was played for the last time in 1911. Today it is seen as a early version of the Austrian Cup (first held in 1918).

Champions

List of finals

Titles by club

Titles by country

References

Football in Austria
Austria-Hungary
Getting Even (1986 movie)

Getting Even is a 1986 American Cold War movie directed by Dwight H. Little and starring Edward Albert, Audrey Landers, Joe Don Baker, Caroline Williams. It was distributed by Vestron Video.

Other websites

1986 movies
1980s war movies
American war movies
Cold War movies
Movies directed by Dwight H. Little
Movies set in Texas
Dustin Poirier

Dustin Poirier Nickname "The Diamond" (born January 19, 1989 in Lafayette, Louisiana ) is an American professional mixed martial artist  who currently competes in the Featherweight and Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is a former Interim UFC Lightweight Champion (One time).

References

Other websites 

 Dustin Poirier Profile at UFC.com
 
 
 

1989 births
Living people
american mixed martial artists
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba

Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba (born 2 January 1981) is a Burkinabé military officer. He is the Interim President of Burkina Faso and Chairman of the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration (MPSR) since 2022. He removed President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré from power on 24 January 2022 during the 2022 Burkinabé coup d'état.

References

1981 births
Living people
African military people
People from Ouagadougou
Presidents of Burkina Faso
Current national leaders
Nanobiotix

Nanobiotix is a biotechnology company. It uses nanomedicine to develop new radiotherapy techniques for cancer patients. The home office of the company is in Paris. Also, it has offices in New York and Massachusetts.

Nanobiotix is a spin-off of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo.

Biotechnology companies
Technology companies of Europe
Companies of France
Marco Cappato

Marco Cappato (born 25 May 1971) is an Italian activist and politician. Cappato was an Italian Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009. He was a candidate for President of Italy in the 2022 elections.

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1971 births
Living people
MEPs for Italy
Italian activists
Former MEPs
People from Milan
Paolo Maddalena

Paolo Maddalena (born 27 March 1936) is an Italian lawyer and academic. He was a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy from 2002 to 2011. In 2022, he was nominated by members of the Italian Parliament as a candidate for President of Italy.

References

1936 births
Living people
Italian lawyers
Italian judges
Italian politicians
People from Naples
2022 Montenegrin pro-government protests

Protests began in Montenegro on 19 January 2022 against the proposition of URA to remove Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić and his cabinet from power. They are also against the formation of a temporary minority government. Since most ministers of the cabinet are close to Krivokapić, most ministers supported or attended these protests. 

The protests are being held in multiple cities such as Podgorica, Bijelo Polje and Berane. While most have been peaceful, there have been cases of violence at the protests, such as the assault of a reporter.

References

January 2022 events
2022 in Europe
Sheldon Silver

Sheldon Silver (February 13, 1944 – January 24, 2022) was an American Democratic Party politician, lawyer, and convicted felon. He was Speaker of the New York State Assembly from 1994 to 2015. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1977 to 2015. Silver was born in New York City.

Silver was arrested on federal corruption charges in early 2015, and resigned as Speaker of the Assembly shortly afterward. At his trial that November, he was convicted of all charges. Silver was resentenced in July 2020 to  years in prison.

Silver died on January 24, 2022 at a prison hospital in Ayer, Massachusetts from problems caused by kidney disease, aged 77.

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1944 births
2022 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from New York City
Lawyers from New York City
Criminals from New York City
People who died in prison custody in the United States
Deaths from kidney disease
US Democratic Party politicians
Ayberk Pekcan

Ayberk Pekcan (22 May 1970 – 24 January 2022) was a Turkish actor. He was born in Mersin, Turkey. His career began in 1995. He was known for playing Hıdayet in Winter Sleep (2014) and Erol in Mustang (2015).

Pekcan died on 24 January 2022 in Mersin from lung cancer, aged 51.

References

1970 births
2022 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Turkish movie actors
Turkish stage actors
Turkish television actors
Szilveszter Csollány

Szilveszter Csollány (; 13 April 1970 – 24 January 2022) was a Hungarian gymnast. He was born in Sopron, Hungary. He won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He also won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Csollány was hospitalised in November 2021 with COVID-19 and put on a ventilator in Budapest. He died from the infection on 24 January 2022, at the age of 51.

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1970 births
2022 deaths
Hungarian sportspeople
Gymnasts
Olympic gold medalists
Olympic silver medalists
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary
Caetano Veloso

Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (; born August 7, 1942) is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo. Veloso has won nine Latin Grammy Awards and two Grammy Awards. He was born in Santo Amaro, Bahia, Brazil. His career began in 1957.

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1942 births
Living people
Brazilian singer-songwriters
Brazilian musicians
Brazilian activists
Composers
Guitarists
Political activists
Grammy Award winners
Vaccine hesitancy

Vaccine hesitancy is not supporting vaccines and the spread of conspiracy theories against vaccines. Some believe that vaccines cause more harm than good. 

"Anti-vaccinationism" is about the opposition to vaccination; in more recent years, anti-vaccinationists have been known as "anti-vaxxers" or "anti-vax". Vaccine hesitancy is complex and context-specific, varying across time, place and vaccines. 

It can be caused by lack of proper scientifically-based knowledge and understanding about how vaccines are made or how vaccines work and psychological factors, including fear of needles or not trusting public figures and politicians. Some anti-vaxxers believe that vaccines cause autism, which is not true.

References

Conspiracy theories
Amirhossein Mahmoodi

Amirhossein Mahmoodi is an Iranian footballer. He plays as a centre back.

References

Other websites 

 
 Amirhossein Mahmoodi on Transfermarkt
 Amirhossein Mahmoodi on Persianleague
 Amirhossein Mahmoodi on Fbref
1998 births
Living people
Iranian footballers
Persian Gulf Pro League players
Association football midfielders
Iran youth international footballers
Esteghlal F.C. players
Persepolis F.C. players
Saipa F.C. players
Aluminium Arak players
Theresa Amayo

Theresa Guichard Amayo Brasini (13 July 1933 – 24 January 2022) was a Brazilian actress. She was born in Belém, Brazil. Her career began in 1953. Her best known roles were as Sonia in S.O.S. Mulheres ao Mar (2014) and Lillisa in The Pilgrim (2014). She also played Vitoria in the telenovela Pecado Capital (1975–1976).

Amayo died of kidney cancer on 24 January 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the age of 88.

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1933 births
2022 deaths
Deaths from kidney cancer
Brazilian movie actors
Brazilian television actors
Brazilian stage actors
Alon Wieland

Alon Carl Wieland (April 26, 1935 – January 22, 2022) was an American Republican politician and businessman. He was a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives, from 2002 to 2014. He was the Commissioner of Cass County, North Dakota from 1983 to 2003. Wieland was born in Underwood, North Dakota.

Wieland died in West Fargo, North Dakota on January 22, 2022, at the age of 86.

References

1935 births
2022 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from North Dakota
Businesspeople from North Dakota
US Republican Party politicians
Underwood, North Dakota

Underwood is a city in McLean County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 778 at the 2010 census.

References

Cities in North Dakota
Washburn, North Dakota

Washburn is a city in southern McLean County, North Dakota, United States. It is on the upper Missouri River. It is the county seat of McLean County. The population was 1,246 at the 2010 census.

References

Cities in North Dakota
County seats in North Dakota
Combined Statistical Area

Combined statistical area (CSA) is a term for a combination of nearby metropolitan (MSA) and micropolitan statistical areas (µSA) across the 50 US states and the territory of Puerto Rico that can demonstrate economic or social links. The OMB defines a CSA as consisting of various combinations of adjacent metropolitan and micropolitan areas with economic ties measured by commuting patterns. These areas that combine retain their own designations as metropolitan or micropolitan statistical areas within the larger combined statistical area.

Geography of the United States
Gernot Böhme

Gernot Böhme (3 January 1937 – 20 January 2022) was a German philosopher and author. He was the director of the Institute for Practical Philosophy in Darmstadt, Hesse from 2005 until his death. Böhme was born in Dessau, Anhalt, Germany. 

As a research scientist he worked at the Max-Planck-Institute with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. From 1977 to 2002 he was Professor of Philosophy at Technical University of Darmstadt. 

Böhme died on 20 January 2022 in Darmstadt, at the age of 85.

References

1937 births
2022 deaths
German philosophers
Writers from Hesse
Researchers
German academics
Stephen Churchett

Stephen George Churchett (10 April 1947 – January 2022) was an English actor and writer. He was born in Bromley, Kent, England. His career began in 1969. He was known for playing Marcus Christie in EastEnders. 

Churchett died in January 2022, at the age of 74.

References

Other websites

1947 births
2022 deaths
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
Actors from Kent
Writers from Kent
Dick Halligan

Richard Bernard Halligan (August 29, 1943 – January 18, 2022) was an American musician and composer. He was best known as a founding member of the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears. He won a Grammy Award in 1970. He composed the movie scores for Go Tell the Spartans (1978), Cheaper to Keep Her (1981), Fear City (1984), and the Chuck Norris movies A Force of One (1979) and The Octagon (1980).

Halligan died in Rome on January 18, 2022, at the age of 78.

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1943 births
2022 deaths
Grammy Award winners
American rock musicians
American pop musicians
American jazz musicians
American pianists
American trombonists
Musicians from New York
People from Troy, New York
Bill Owens (Massachusetts politician)

William Owens (July 6, 1937 – January 22, 2022) was an American politician and businessman. He was the first Black state senator in the Massachusetts State Senate. Owens was born in Demopolis, Alabama. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 until 1974. He was a Democrat. He was in the state senate from 1975 to 1982 and from 1989 to 1992.

Owens died on January 22, 2022 from COVID-19 in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 84.

References

1937 births
2022 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Boston, Massachusetts
Politicians from Alabama
US Democratic Party politicians
Businesspeople from Alabama
Businesspeople from Boston, Massachusetts
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Lyudmyla Yanukovych

Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Yanukovych (; née Nastenko; October 9, 1949) is a Ukrainian engineer. She is the ex-wife of fourth Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. She was the First Lady of Ukraine between 2010 until 2014. She has worked at the Yenakiyeve Iron and Steel Works, in the design and appraisal bureau. 

After her divorce from Yanukovych, she moved to Crimea.

References

1949 births
Living people
First Ladies of Ukraine
Engineers
Olena Zelenska

Olena Volodymyrivna Zelenska (; née Kiyashko, Кіяшко; born 6 February 1978) is a Ukrainian screenwriter. She is the current First Lady of Ukraine since 2019. She is the wife of President Volodymyr Zelensky.

In December 2019, Zelenska was added in the list of the 100 most influential Ukrainians by Focus magazine, taking 30th place.

On 12 June 2020, Zelenska announced that she had tested positive for COVID-19. Four days later, she was hospitalized as the infection became worse. Zelenska was released from the hospital on 3 July 2020.

References

1978 births
Living people
First Ladies of Ukraine
Ukrainian screenwriters
Sean Rad

Sean Rad (born May 22, 1986) is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Tinder, the online dating app.

Early life and education 
Rad was born on May 22, 1986 in Los Angeles, California. Rad began his studies at the University of Southern California (USC) but dropped out after two years.

Career 
Rad started his first company, Orgoo an application for messaging and video chat integration tool in 2004. He also founded Adly an influencer social media management company in 2009.

References 

1986 births
Living people
Businesspeople from California
Affiliated Computer Services

Affiliated Computer Services Inc. (ACS)  was a company that provided information technology services as well as business process outsourcing solutions to businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. ACS was based in Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1988, by Darwin Deason, ACS operated in nearly 100 countries, generating over $6 billion per year.

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) was founded by Darwin Deason in 1988. At first created as a data services provider to the financial services industry, Deason expand ACS's influence on the communications, education, financial services, government, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, retail, and travel and transportation industries.

In 1995 ACS became a public company and stopped bank data processing. By FY 1996 ACS became the fourth-largest commercial outsource provider in the United States.

In February 2010, following its purchase by Xerox, ACS was replaced by Urban Outfitters on the Standard & Poor 500 Index.

On July 1, 2015, Xerox sold the IT Outsourcing business to Atos. Xerox pointed out that ITO did not line up with its vision of integration of BPO (business process outsourcing) and the legacy document handling concerns. On July 29, 2016, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the suit at law by Matthew Sciabacucchi. The lawsuit contended that some Xerox Corp directors and officers had cancelled their fiduciary duties because of purchasing ACS for $6.4 billion in 2010.

On January 3, 2017, a company called Conduent was spun off as a divestiture from Xerox. The business scope of Conduent was generally identical to that of the former Affiliated Computer Services (ACS).

In February 2020 efforts to take down the company's former headquarters building in Dallas failed.

SEC Investigation 
In 2006, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reported ACS that they were conducting an informal investigation into certain stock option grants made by the company from October 1998 through March 2005. This was associated with the inadequate and unethical practice of reverse back-dating to specific low points available. ACS said the managers incorrectly backdated the price of grant options from 1994 to 2005.

During that time, ACS said they chose days on purpose the days when ACS's shares fell a dip as the effective date for the options, making them more valuable when exercised. Rich, King, and Edwards "used retrospect to select favorable grant dates," ACS said in a statement. CEO Mark King and CFO Warren Edwards, both involved in the wrongdoing. So they immediately resigned. The former CEO Jeff Rich previously retired at the beginning of the year.

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1988 establishments in the United States
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Northern Territory Government

The Government of the Northern Territory of Australia, also referred to as the Northern Territory Government, is the Australian territorial democratic administrative authority of the Northern Territory formed in 1978.

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1978 establishments in Australia
Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly

The Australian Capital Territory (commonly abbreviated as ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until (1938) is a landlocked federal territory of Australia consist of the national capital Canberra and some surrounding townships.

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Etchika Choureau

Etchika Choureau (19 November 1929 – 25 January 2022) was a French actress. She was known for her relationship with Hassan II of Morocco from 1958 until 1961. Her best known roles were in Children of Love, A Girl from Paris and Darby's Rangers.

Choureau died on 25 January 2022, at the age of 92.

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Sverre Stensheim

Sverre Malvin Stensheim (31 October 1933 – 22 January 2022) was a Norwegian cross-country skier. He competed in the 30 km and 50 km events at the 1960 and  1964 Winter Olympics. He came in fifth place in the 50 km in 1964. Stensheim was born in Oppdal, Norway.

Stensheim died on 22 January 2022 at the age of 88.

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Luigi Manconi

Luigi Manconi (born 21 February 1948) is an Italian academic, journalist and politician. He was a Member of Senate of the Republic between 1994 until 2001 and again from 2013 until 2018. He was nominated by the Italian Parliament as a candidate for President of Italy in the 2022 elections.

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Elisabetta Casellati

Maria Elisabetta Casellati, née Alberti (born 12 August 1946), is an Italian lawyer and politician. She is the President of the Italian Senate since 2018. She is the first woman to have ever held this position. In 2022, she was nominated as a candidate for President of Italy by centre-right coalition. Election president, the crash of lawyer Casellati who was already seen at the Quirinale.

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1946 births
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Ivanoe Bonomi

Ivanoe Bonomi  (18 October 1873 – 20 April 1951) was an Italian statesman. He was the 25th Prime Minister of Italy from 1921 until 1922 and again during 1944 until 1945.

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Enrico De Nicola

Enrico De Nicola,  (; 9 November 1877 – 1 October 1959) was an Italian jurist, journalist, politician. He was the head of state of republican Italy from 1946 to 1948. He became the first president of Italy on 1 January 1948.

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Laura Boldrini

Laura Boldrini,  (; born 28 April 1961) is an Italian politician and former United Nations official. She was President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy. She was the Spokesperson to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for Southern Europe.

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Giuseppe Saragat

Giuseppe Saragat (; 19 September 1898 – 11 June 1988) was an Italian politician who was the president of Italy from 1964 to 1971.

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Giovanni Gronchi

Giovanni Gronchi,  (; 10 September 1887 – 17 October 1978) was an Italian Christian Democratic politician. He was the president of Italy from 1955 to 1962.

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Giovanni Leone

Giovanni Leone (; 3 November 1908 – 9 November 2001) was an Italian politician, jurist and university professor. He was a founding member of the Christian Democracy (DC). He was the president of Italy from December 1971 until June 1978.

He also was prime minister from June to December 1963 and again from June to December 1968. He was also President of the Chamber of Deputies from May 1955 until June 1963.

Leone was the first Italian president to resign for a scandal. In 1978, he was accused of bribery and these allegations were proven false.

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2001 deaths
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Mariano Rumor

Mariano Rumor (; 16 June 1915 – 22 January 1990) was an Italian politician. He was a member of the Christian Democracy (DC). He was the 39th Prime Minister of Italy from December 1968 to August 1970 and again from July 1973 to November 1974. 

Rumor also was Minister of Agriculture from 1959 to 1963, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1974 to 1976 and Minister of the Interior in two brief times, in 1963 and from 1972 to 1973. 

Rumor was also Secretary of the Christian Democracy from 1964 to 1969.

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1990 deaths
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Nilde Iotti

Leonilde Iotti, commonly known as Nilde Iotti (; 10 April 1920 – 4 December 1999) was an Italian politician. She was a  member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI). She was the first woman and only member of the PCI to become President of the Chamber of Deputies.

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Irene Pivetti

Irene Pivetti (born 4 April 1963) is an Italian journalist, television presenter and politician. She has been President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 1996.

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Luciano Violante

Luciano Violante (born 25 September 1941) is an Italian judge and politician. He was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1979 to 2008.

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Gianfranco Fini

Gianfranco Fini (born 3 January 1952) is an Italian politician. He was the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2013.

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Fausto Bertinotti

Fausto Bertinotti (born 22 March 1940) is an Italian politician. He led the Communist Refoundation Party (Partito della Rifondazione Comunista) from 1994 to 2006. 

On 29 April 2006, he was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies, a position he held until 2008.

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Montefalcione

Montefalcione (Irpino: ) is a town and comune of the province of Avellino in the Campania region of southern Italy.

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Arthur Lira

Arthur César Pereira de Lira (born 25 June 1969), or simply Arthur Lira, is a Brazilian lawyer, farmer, businessman and politician. He has been the Federal Deputy for Alagoas since 2011. He is a member of Progressistas (PP). He is the President of the Chamber of Deputies since February 2021.

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Rodrigo Pacheco (politician)

Rodrigo Otavio Soares Pacheco (born 3 November 1976) is a Brazilian politician and lawyer. He is the President of the Federal Senate since 2021 and of the National Congress of Brazil since 2019. He was in the chamber of deputies from 2015 to 2019.

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Luiz Fux

Luiz Fux () (born 26 April 1953) is a Brazilian judge. He is the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Federal Court since 2020. He was appointed as a justice of the Court by President Dilma Rousseff in 2011 and had his nomination approved by the Senate. He is the first Jewish Brazilian member of the Court. 

He was a minister of the Superior Court of Justice.

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Slade Brockman

William Edward Slade Brockman (born 27 March 1970) is an Australian politician. He has been a Senator for Western Australia since 2017, representing the Liberal Party. He was elected President of the Australian Senate in October 2021 following the resignation of Scott Ryan.

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Pseudis platensis

Pseudis platensis is a frog that lives in Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil.

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Animals of South America
Andrew Wallace

Andrew Bruce Wallace (born 27 February 1968) is an Australian politician. He is the 31st Speaker of the House of Representatives since 2021. He is a member of the Liberal Party. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2016.

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Politicians from Melbourne
Powa Technologies

Powa Technologies was a technology company, based in the United Kingdom. It is known for its commerce, mobile commerce and e-commerce services. The company’s flagship product was the mobile application PowaTag.  In February 2016, investment company Wellington Management appointed professional services firm Deloitte as administrators of Powa Technologies.

History
Powa was founded in 2007 by British businessman Dan Wagner. The company got the largest Series A funding round for a technology start-up at the time, collecting $76 million in August 2013.  The investment attracted the attention of David Cameron.

In June 2014, Powa Technologies bought Hong Kong business MPayMe and its ZNAP technology. So Wagner suggested that Powa had a business value of $2.6 billion.

In 2015, they announced that their planned LSE £1.6 billion float would be suspended until the year.  By early 2016, the company had run into financial difficulties, missing payments to staff and third parties.

Its Hong Kong office did not pay its employees on time and its ex-employees within 7 days, with some employees having to seek help from the Labor Department. On 28 January 2016, Alessandro Gadotti became CEO of PowaTag in the effort of restructuring the business.

During his leadership, he also served as the Group's interim CEOs, supporting the process and the sale of the Group's companies. On February 19, 2016, Powa Technologies was transferred to management, and on February 23, 2016, Powa Technologies made 74 of its London-based staff redundant.

On 24 February 2016, Powa Technologies filed for bankruptcy and fired most of its employees. Wellington Management, an investment firm, has appointed Deloitte Professional Services as PowaTag administrators.

PowaTag 
PowaTag was a technology for mobile payments and mobile application by Powa Technologies. PowaTag was launched at a March 2014 event in New York by Powa CEO Dan Wagner. It was reported that at the time of launch, more than 240 retailers had signed up to use the service.  However, later reports showed that most of the companies had only written non-binding Letters of Intent. 

 Specifics

Thanks to the application, users could shop with a smartphone, where the payment and delivery data are tied to a specific smartphone device. The app contained elements of QR code detection, audio recognition, and beacon technology. 

Audio watermarks in the form of insensitive tones embedded within radio, commercials, or live broadcast events were detectable by the app, that taking users to a mobile commerce store where you could make a purchase.

See also 

 Contactless payment
 Electronic money

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2007 establishments in the United Kingdom
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Chief Justice of Australia

The Chief Justice of Australia is the presiding Justice of the High Court of Australia and the highest-ranking judicial officer in the Commonwealth of Australia. The current chief justice is Susan Kiefel, who is the first woman to hold the position.

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Gerard Brennan

Sir Francis Gerard Brennan (born 22 May 1928) is a retired Australian lawyer and jurist. He was the 10th Chief Justice of Australia, appointed by Prime Minister Paul Keating in 1995. Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser appointed Brennan to the court in 1981.

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Murray Gleeson

Anthony Murray Gleeson (born 30 August 1938) is an Australian former judge. He was the 11th Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1998 to 2008.

On 7 November 2008, Gleeson was appointed a non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

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Pekka Rinne

Pekka Rinne(pronounced [ˈpekːɑ ˈrinːe]; born 3 November 1982) is a Finnish former professional hockey goaltender. Drafted by the Nashville Predators in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft, Rinne became their starting goaltender during the 2008–09 season and quickly established himself as one of the NHL's best goaltenders. He won the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's best goaltender in the 2017–18 season, and was a finalist for the award four times. Rinne led the Predators to their first Stanley Cup Finals appearance in franchise history in 2017, losing to the Pittsburgh Penguins in six games.

Rinne is Nashville's franchise leader in wins and shutouts, and is a four-time NHL All-Star. He also holds the record for the most NHL wins by a Finnish-born goaltender. Rinne is one of only 12 NHL goaltenders to score a goal in either the regular season or the playoffs.

1982 births
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Robert French

Robert Shenton French  (born 19 March 1947) is an Australian lawyer and judge. He was the twelfth Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 2008 to 2017. He has been the chancellor of the University of Western Australia since 2017.

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Susan Kiefel

Susan Mary Kiefel  (; born 17 January 1954) is an Australian lawyer and judge. She is the chief justice of Australia since 30 January 2017. She has been on the High Court since 2007. Kiefel is the first woman to serve as Chief Justice.

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Wittibreut

Wittibreut is a municipality in Rottal-Inn in Bavaria, Germany.

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Wurmannsquick

Wurmannsquick is a municipality in Rottal-Inn in Bavaria in Germany.

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Rottal-Inn