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Truong Tan Sang
Towards leadership
Sang wis promotit tae the pairty’s nummer twa slot atween congresses in October 2009. His authority suin eclipsed that o General Secretary Nông Đức Mạnh, the anly person nominally abuin Sang in the pairty hierarchy, accordin tae a leaked diplomatic cable bi U.S. Ambassador Michael Michalak.
Sang "assumed mony o Manh's normal responsibilities," Michalak wrote. At diplomatic meetins, Sang coud "comment authoritatively, in detail an wioot notes," whauras Mạnh "appeared disengaged" while he reid a 30-minute prepared statement "verbatim an in a monotone." A BBC story describit rivalry atween Sang an Prime Meenister Dũng an describit thair relationship as "stairmy." Michalak describit baith Sang an Dũng as “pragmatic” an “mercat-orientit.” Baith are soothreners, but tradeetionally the pairty's tap slot haes gone tae a northrener. Nguyễn Phú Trọng, a northrener, wis appyntit general secretary at 11t Naitional Congress held in Hanoi in Januar 2011. The congress selectit a leet o Politburo members, an Sang is ranked first on this leet. Followin the congress, Trong wis named the tap rankin member o the pairty's Secretariat, Vietnam's maist pouerful decision-makin body, while Sang is ranked seicont.
Presidency
The Naitional Assembly electit Sang as state preses on 25 Julie 2011 wi 97.4 percent o the vote. The term o affice is five years. Sang tauld the Assembly that he wad defend Vietnam’s unthirldom an territorial integrity, an wad resolve the Spratly Islands dispute wi Cheenae peacefully. As the new preses, he will wirk tae set a foondation that will allou Vietnam tae be acome an industrialized an modrenized kintra bi 2020, Sang tauld the Assembly.
Unner pairty regulations, the preses is unner the authority o Secretariat, sae the poseetion is ceremonial. Sang's authority derives frae his poseetion as the senior member o the Politburo an as the seicont rankin member o the Secretariat.
Blu-ray
Blu-ray Disc (BD) is an optical disc storage medium makkit tae supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter an 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs an CDs. Ordinar (pre-BD-XL) Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, wi dual layer discs (50 GB) bein the industry staundart fur featur-length video discs. Triple layer discs (100 GB) an quadruple layers (128 GB) are available fur BD-XL re-writer drives. The name Blu-ray Disc refers tae the blue laser uised tae reid the disc, which allaes information tae be stored at a greater density than is possible wi the langer-wavelength reid laser uised fur DVDs. The major application o Blu-ray Discs is as a medium fur video material sic as featur fillums. Apairt fae the hairdware specifications, Blu-ray Disc is associatit wi a set o multimedia formats. Generally, thir formats aw fur the video an audio tae be stored wi greater defineetion than on DVD.
The format wis developed bi the Blu-ray Disc Association, a group representin makers o consumer electronics, computer hairdware, an motion picturs. The first Blu-ray Disc prototypes war unveiled in October 2000, an the first prototype player wis pit oot in Aprile 2003 in Japan. Efterwairds, it continued tae be developed till its offeecial lowsin in Juin 2006. , mair than 2,500 Blu-ray Disc teetles war available in Australie an the Unitit Kinrick, wi 3,500 in the Unitit States an Canadae. In Japan,, mair than 3,300 titles hiv been pit oot.
Durin the heich defineetion optical disc format war, Blu-ray Disc competit wi the HD DVD format. Toshiba, the main company thit supportit HD DVD, concedit in Februar 2008, pittin oot its awn Blu-ray Disc player in late 2009.
Villa del Prado, Baja California
Villa del Prado (Spaingie for Toun o the Meadae) is a ceety in Baja California in Tijuana Municipality. The ceety haed a population o 12,303 as o 2010.
Rosario
Rosario is the lairgest ceety in the province o Santa Fe, in central Argentinae. It is located 300 km northwast o Buenos Aires, on the wastren shore o the Paraná River. Rosario is the third maist populous ceety in the kintra an is the maist populous nan-caipital ceety in Argentinae, wi a growin an important metropolitan aurie; Greater Rosario haes a estimatit population o 1,276,000 as o 2012. Ane o its main attractions includes the neoclessical airchitectur that haes been retained ower the centuries in hunders o residences, hooses, an public biggins.
Asmara
Asmara (أسمرة, ኣስመራ, Asmera), lang syne kent as Asmera, meanin "They (feminine plural) makkit them unite" in Tigrinya) is the caipital an lairgest ceety in Eritrea, hame tae a population o aroond 579,000 fowk. At an elevation o 2,325 metres (7,628 ft), Asmara is on the edge o an escarpment that is baith the northwastren edge o the Great Rift Valley an o the Eritrean hielands. Textiles an clothin, processed meat, beer, shoes, an ceramics are the major industrial products.
History
The missionary Remedius Prutky passed throu Asmara in 1751, an describit in his memoirs that a kirk biggit thare bi Jesuit priests 130 years afore wis still intact.
Asmara, which wis pairt o the independent kinrick o Medri Bahri, wad briefly come unner the occupation o the Breetish backed an supported Yohannes IV o what wad nou be cawed Ethiopie. Unner his brief an brutal occupation, he gae his trustit Ras Alula the title o governor o Medri Bahri, tae which the fowk resistit. The leaders o Asmara despised his occupation an focht in a hauf a decade lang protractit guerrilla warfare tae free themselves frae his brief occupation, tae which thay eventually became successfu. But the war caused a lot o sufferin an Asmara wis amaist desertit.
Asmara acquired importance whan it wis occupied bi Italy in 1889 an became the naitional caipital in 1897. In the early 20t century, a railwey line wis biggit tae the coast, passin throu the toun o Ghinda, unner the direction o Carlo Cavanna. In baith 1913 an 1915 the ceety suffered ae slicht damage in lairge earthquakes. In the late 1930s the Italians chynged the face o the toun, wi a new structur an new buildings: Asmara wis cawed Piccola Roma (Little Roum).
While Eritrea wis unner Italian colonial rule, architecturally conservative early-20t-century Europeans uised Asmara "tae experiment wi radical new designs." Nouadays the major pairt o buildings are o Italian oreegin, an shops still hae Italian names (e.g., Bar Vittoria, Pasticceria moderna, Casa del formaggio, an Ferramenta).
Asmara wis populatit bi a numerous Italian community an consequently the ceety acquired an Italian airchitectural leuk. The ceety o Asmara haed a population o 98,000, o which 53,000 wur Italian Eritreans accordin tae the Italian census o 1939. This fact made Asmara the main "Italian toun" o the Italian empire in Africae. In aw Eritrea the Italians wur 75,000 in that year.
Mony industrial investments wur made bi Italy in Asmara, but the beginnin o Warld War II stopped the blossomin industrialization o the aurie.
Italy wis defeatit in 1941, an the Breetish administered the ceety frae 1941 tae 1952. In 1952, the Unitit Naitions resolved tae federate the umwhile colony unner Ethiopian rule. In 1961, emperor Haile Selassie I endit the "federal" arrangement an declared the territory tae be the 14t province o the Ethiopian Empire.
Durin the Eritrean war for unthirldom frae Ethiopie, Asmara's airport became a key in the conflict, as it wis uised bi the Ethiopians tae obtain airms an supplies frae ootside supporters. The last toun tae faw tae the Eritrean Fowkliberation Front in the Eritrean War o Independence, it wis besieged in 1990 an wis surrendered bi Military o Ethiopie troops athoot a fecht on Mey 24, 1991.
The ceety wis hame tae the US Airmy's Kagnew Station installation frae 1943 till 1977.
In Asmara the main leid is Tigrinya. Inglis, Arabic, an Italian are widely spoken an unnerstood.
Manuel Benavides
Manuel Benavides is a sma toun an seat o the municipality o Manuel Benavides, in the northren Mexican state o Chihuahua. As o 2005, the toun haed a total population o 200..
Guardiola de Berguedà
Guardiola de Berguedà is a municipality in the comarca o the Berguedà in Catalonie. It is situatit at the confluence o the Bastareny an Llobregat rivers in the north o the comarca. It is a important local commercial centre, an for this raison haes been less affectit bi depopulation than ither municipalities in the Berguedà. The extraction o lignite is important tae the local economy an aw. The toun is servit bi the C-1411 road frae Berga tae the Cadí tunnel, an is linkit tae La Pobla de Lillet an Castellar de n'Hug bi the B-402 road. The municipality includes a muckle exclave tae the north-wast.
25 November
The 25t o November is the 329t day o the year (330t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 36 days bidin.
Matra Rancho
The Matra Rancho wis a leisure activity vehicle creatit bi the French engineering group Matra in cooperation wi the automaker Simca tae capitalize on the off-road trend, stairtit bi the Range Rover, bi providin the "off-road look" at a lawer price.
Designed bi Antonis Volanis, the Rancho wis based on the pick-up version o Simca's popular supermini, the Simca 1100, uisin its front structur an a stretched chassis. The rest o the body wis made bi Matra frae fibreglass an polyester, includin the mouldings adornin the body, which made it leuk mair "sturdy". This technology wad later be uised on the Renault Espace, Europe's first MPV, which wis manufactured bi Matra. The grund clearance wis an aa increased. Unlik maist off-roaders, it wis na fitted wi all-wheel drive, retaining the 1100s front-wheel drive layoot. Ither elements retained frae the 1100 includit the dashboard an front seats (identical wi the anes foond in the Simca 1100 GLS). The Rancho wis pouered bi the 1442 cc, 80 bhp version o the Simca Type 315 straight-4 ingine.
During its life, the Rancho wis offered in several versions. Apart frae the basic Rancho, thare wis the Grand Raid, fitted wi sic "off-road" extras as an electric winch on the front bumper an the spare wheel mounted on the ruif - as well as a leemitit-slip differential. The Rancho X wis the upscale model, wi additional standard items sic as alloy wheels an metallic paint. The Découvrable model's rear cabin consisted o an open frame wi roll-doun fabric covers, which coud serve as an "open" caur during guid wather. Finally, the Rancho AS wis the commercial version, wi nae rear seat, makin it exempt frae the French tax on passenger caurs.
The vehicle that Matra proposed tae PSA as a replacement for the Rancho (which haed been available wi twa extra, rear-facing seats) wis a "monospace" (single box shape) concept, wi flexible seating, which wis ultimately rejected bi Talbot's parent company. Houiver, Matra managed tae sell it tae Renault an it became the Renault Espace.
Portuguese leid
Wha speaks Portuguese
The Portuguese leid is the 3rd maist spoken wastren leid (juist efter Inglis an Spaingie) wi aboot 200 million native speakers, an a puckle mair millions aw ower the warld acause the fowk o Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique etc. that traivelt tae mony different pairts o the warld.
Portuguese an Spaingie is baith romance leids an haes a lot o things in common. But they´re no the same. Whilk a Portuguese speaker can unnerstaund a Spaingie speaker, but maist o the times it disna happen. The same aboot Spaingie speakers unnerstaundin Portuguese speakers. A little example is: "Abri a janela muito rápido para jantar" (Portuguese) "Abrí la ventana muy pronto para cenar" (Spaingie) "A opent the windae gey fast sae A can hae denner" (Scots)
The places whaur fowk speaks Portuguese as their mither tongue is Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea Bissau, Macao (Region o Cheenae), Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé an Príncipe an in the ceeties o Goa, Damão an Diu (Indiae).
Wirds in Portuguese that's seemilar tae Scots anes
Portuguese an Scots haes wirds that means the same thing an leuk seemilar an aw. This is acause thir wirds cam frae the same leids (for example the Laitin, Greek or the French).
Cercs
Cercs is a municipality in the comarca of the Berguedà in Catalonie. It is seetuate on the richt bank o the Llobregat river abuin the Baells reservoir. It is the steid o a important pouer station that burns the lignite that is extract at Fígols an Saldes. The toun is servit bi the C-1411 road atween Berga an the Cadí tunnel.
Portuguese leid
Examples
Some Scots wirds cam frae Portuguese, for example tank (tanque) an cacao (cacau).
Cercs
The preroman kirk o Sant Quirze de Pedret is the source o twa pentit conjunts, that is nou displayed at the diocean museum in Solsona an in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona. The remains o the monastery o Sant Salvador de la Vedella is visible on a brae emergin in the middle o the Baells reservoir.
VHS
The Video Hame Seestem (better kent bi its abbreviation VHS) is a consumer-level analog recordin videotape-based cassette staundart developed bi Victor Company o Japan (JVC).
The 1970s wis a period whan video recordin became a major contributor tae the telly industry. Like mony ither technological innovations, ilk ane o several companies made an attempt tae produce a telly recordin staundart that the majority o the warld wad embrace. At the peak o it aw, the hame video industry wis caucht up in a series o videotape format wars. Twa o the formats, VHS an Betamax, received the maist media exposur. VHS wad eventually win the war, an tharefore succeed as the dominant hame video format, lastin throughoot the tape furmat period.
In later years, optical disc furmats began tae affer better quality nor video tape. The earliest o thir formats, Laserdisc, wisnae widely adoptit, but the subsequent DVD format eventually did achieve mass acceptance an replaced VHS as the preferred method o distribution efter 2000.
Pilar, Paraguay
Pilar is the caipital ceety o the Paraguayan depairtment o Ñeembucú, locatit alang the Paraguay River in the souothwastren pairt o the kintra. Locatit aboot 358 km (222 mi) frae Asunción, Pilar serves as an important centre o commerce an govrenment for the far soothwastren region o the kintra.
History
Pilar wis foondit bi Pedro Melo de Portugal on October 12, 1779. The oreeginal name o the settlemnt wis Villa del Ñeembucú, named for the nearbi Arroyo Ñeembucú that flows intae the Paraguay River. Fower years later it wis renamed Villa del Pilar bi Spainyie priest Marcial Antonio Uliambre, for the Basilica o Oor Lady o the Pillar (Catedral-Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar) in his hametoun o Zaragoza.
The auld toun cooncil biggin in Pilar is whaur umwhile preses Francisco Solano López is believed tae hae uttered a nou famous phrase in defiance against combatants in the costly War o the Triple Alliance : "Niver shall the sacred insignia o ma kintra faw frae ma haunds".
Climate
Situatit near the confluence o the Paraguay an Paraná rivers, Pilar is in a region o the kintra wi mony sma streams, rivers an wetlands that contribute tae a humid climate. The average annual temperatur is 22 °C (72 °F). Simmer temperaturs can reach as heich as 40 °C (104 °F), an it winter it drops tae as law as 2 °C (36 °F). The rainy months are Januar, Mairch, Aprile an October; the dryer are Mey an August.
Demographics
Pilar haes a tot population o 29,327, wi 14,298 men an 15,030 weemen, accordin tae information providit bi the General Directorate o Statistics, Polls an Census.
Tourism
The centre o the ceety is hame tae a lairge nummer o historical biggins datin back tae the foundin o the ceety.
The Basilica o Oor Lady o Pilar, whose feast day is celebratit on October 12, is a magnificent kirk constructit bi Italian missionaries tae the ceety.
Durin Semana Santa the ceety is the steid o a lairge fishin tournament an competition that attracts pairticipants an spectators frae aw ower Paraguay an Northren Argentinae.
The cieety's location on the Rio Paraguay provides a prime location for boatin an fishin. Thare are walkin paths, pavilions, an pairks locatit on the shores o the river. The shores o the calmer Arroyo Ñeembucú provide the ceety's residents wi a beach tae enjoy on het December days.
Transportation
Ferry traffeck frae the harbor o Pilar connects tae Puerto Cano in Argentinae. Thare is a paved heich-gate -#4 Naitional Heich-gate, 140 km lang- that stairts at San Ignacio an leads tae Pilar.
Till quite recently, thare wis nae paved route tae Asunción, an the ceety wis nearly isolatit durin periods o rain. The day, housomeivver, thare are daily buses tae various ither ceeties. The primary mode o transportation tae ither ceeties is byi bus frae the Central Terminal, which affers routes tae Asunción an its suburbs sic as Luque, Ñemby, an San Lorenzo, as well as Ciudad del Este, Villarica, Pedro Juan Caballero, Encarnacion, Santa Rita, Concepción, an Villa Hayes.
Athin the ceety, motorcycles an mopeds mak up the bulk o traffeck, wi bicycles an aa constitutin a significant percentage o traffeck. In addition, it is quite possible tae fynd fowk on horseback, in horse-drawn carts, on fuit, an in caurs or trucks on the same street.
Christian VI o Denmark
Christian VI (30 November 1699 – 6 August 1746) wis King o Denmark an Norawa frae 1730 tae 1746.
Crete
Crete (Κρήτη; ) is the laurgest an maist populous o the Greek islands, the fift lairgest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an ane o the thirteen admeenistrative regions o Greece. It forms a significant pairt o the economy an cultural heritage o Greece while retainin its awn local cultural traits (sic as its awn dialect, poetry, an muisic). Crete wis the centre o the Minoan ceevilization (c. 2700–1420 BC), the earliest "heich cultur" ceevilization in Europe, which biggit the first pailaces in Europe.
Human geografie
Crete is the maist populous island in Greece wi a population o mair nor 600,000 fowk. Approximately 42% live in Crete's main ceeties an touns whilst 45% live in rural auries.
Admeenistration
Crete wi its nearbi islands form the Crete Region (Περιφέρεια Κρήτης), ane o the 13 regions o Greece which wur established in the 1987 admeenistrative reform. Wi the 2010 Kallikratis plan, the pouers an authority o the regions wur redefinit an extendit. The region is based at Heraklion an is dividit intae fower regional units (pre-Kallikratis prefecturs). Frae wast tae east thir are: Chania, Rethymno, Heraklion an Lasithi. Thir are faur subdividit intae 24 municipalities.
The region's govrenor is, syne 1 Januar 2011, Stavros Arnaoutakis, who wis electit in the November 2010 local admeenistration elections for the Panhellenic Socialist Muivement.
Federation o Bosnie an Herzegovinae
The Federation o Bosnia an Herzegovinae (Bosnie, Croatie, Serbie: Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine Serbie Cyrillic: Федерација Босне и Херцеговине) is ane o the twa poleetical entities that compose the sovereign kintra o Bosnie an Herzegovinae (the ither entity is the Republika Srpska). The twa entities are delineatit bi the Inter-Entity Boundary Line. The Federation o Bosnie an Herzegovinae is primarily inhabitit bi Bosniaks an Bosnie Croats, which is why it is informally referred tae as the Bosniak-Croat Federation (wi the Bosnie Serbs as the third constituency o the entity).
The Federation wis creatit bi the Washington accords signed on 18 Mairch 1994, which established a constituent assembly that continued its wirk till October 1996. The Federation nou haes its awn caipital, govrenment, preses, pairlament, customs an polis depairtments, postal seestem (in fact, twa of them), and airline (BH Airlines). It uised tae hae its awn airmy, the Airmy o the Federation o Bosnie an Herzegovinae, though alang wi the Airmy o the Republika Srpska it wis fully integratit intae Airmit Forces o Bosnie an Herzegovinae, controlled bi the Meenistry o Defence o Bosnie an Herzegovinae, on 6 Juin 2006.
Cantons
The Federation o Bosnie an Herzegovinae is dividit intae ten cantons (Bosnie: kantoni Croatie: županije):
Five o the cantons (Una-Sana, Tuzla, Zenica-Doboj, Bosnie Podrinje an Sarajevo) are Bosniak majority cantons, three (Posavina, Wast Herzegovinae an Canton 10) are Croat majority cantons, an twa (Central Bosnie an Herzegovina-Neretva) are 'ethnically mixed', meanin there are special legislative procedurs for protection o the constituent ethnic groups.
A significant portion o Brčko Destrict wis an aw pairt o the Federation; housomeivver, when the destrict wis creatit, it became shared territory o baith entities, but it wis no placit unner control o either o the twa, an is hence unner direct jurisdiction o Bosnie an Herzegovinae.
Currently the Federation o Bosnie an Herzegovinae haes 79 municipalities.
Ceeties
Leet o the municipalities in Federation o Bosnie an Herzegovinae:
Sarajevo is no a municipality an comprises fower municipalities Centar, Novi Grad, Novo Sarajevo an Stari Grad. It haes a total population o 310,605 inhabitants.
Hostotipaquillo
Hostotipaquillo is a toun an municipality, in Jalisco in central-wastren Mexico. The municipality covers a aurie o 697.94 km².
Tver Karelian
Tver karelian "Karielan kieli" is a byleid o the karelian leid. It is spak in the Tver reegion o Roushie an is varra close tae the Karelian byleids spikken in northern Karelia.
Hostotipaquillo
As o 2005, the municipality haed a total population o 8,228.
Pemzashen
Pemzashen (Պեմզաշեն; umwhile Makhmudzhug, Mahmnutcuk, an Magmudzhuk) is a veelage in the Shirak Province o Armenie. Durin the Soviet era a sewin factory, construction materials plant, an a pairts factory tae supply hydro-electric stations wur based oot o Pemzashen. Efter the collapse o the USSR, maist o the veelage's residents hae foond thairsels oot o wirk an mony o the men hae muivit tae Roushie tae fynd jobs. In the past 15 year, ower 300 faimilies hae muivit awa frae the veelage. Thare is the problem o a lack o irrigation watter for crops or hoosehauld gardens, an the laund aroond the veelage is no flat or fertile (due tae nae irrigation). Plans are currently unnerwey tae put in an irrigation seestem.
Tver Karelian
Historie
The Tver karelians went tae the sooth efter the Swadish fowk attacked them in aboot the year 1800.
Turkmen leid
Turkmen (Latin script: türkmençe, türkmen tili, Cyrillic: түркменче, түркмен дили, Perso-Arabic: تورکمن ﺗﻴﻠی ,تورکمنچه; an aa Trukhmen) is the name o the naitional leid o Turkmenistan. It is spoken bi approximately 3,000,000 fowk in Turkmenistan, an bi an additional approximately 380,000 in northwastren Afghanistan an 500,000 in northeastren Iran.
Pemzashen
In the middle o veelage is a 7t century kirk adjacent tae the foondations o a 5t century basilica. Juist wast o the veelage aff o the main road leadin frae Pemzashen tae Artik is Arakelots Vank o the 11t century. Alang the road sooth tae Lernakert, is Makaravank biggit in the 10t tae 13t centuries forby, wi the kirk o Surb Sion o 1001. In the gorge belaw is a sma kirk biggit on earlier foondations constructit in the 18t century wi a hermits cell cut intae the cliff face ahint.
Hakka Cheenese
Hakka or Kejia is ane o the main subdiveesions o the Cheenese leid spoken predominantly in soothren Cheenae bi the Hakka fowk an descendants in diaspora throughoot East an Sootheast Asie an aroond the warld.
Due tae its uisage in scattered isolatit regions whaur communication is limited tae the local aurie, the Hakka leid haes developed numerous variants or dialects, spoken in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, and Guizhou provinces, includin Hainan island, Singapore an Taiwan. Hakka is no mutually intelligible wi Mandarin, Wu, Minnan, an maist o the significant spoken variants o the Cheenese leid.
There is a pronunciation difference atween the Taiwanese Hakka dialect an the Guangdong Hakka dialect. Amang the dialects o Hakka, the Moi-yen/Moi-yan (梅縣, Pinyin: Méixiàn) dialect o northeast Guangdong haes been typically viewed as a prime example o the Hakka leid, formin a sort o staundart dialect.
The Guangdong Provincial Education Depairtment creatit an offeecial romanization o Moiyen in 1960, ane o fower leids receivin this status in Guangdong.
Etymology
The name o the Hakka fowk who are the predominant oreeginal native speakers o the leid literally means "guest families" or "guest fowk": Hak 客 (Mandarin: kè) means "guest", an ka 家 (Mandarin: jiā) means "family". Amangst themselves, Hakka fowk variously cawed their leid Hak-ka-fa (-va) 客家話, Hak-fa (-va), 客話, Tu-gong-dung-fa (-va) 土廣東話, literally, "Native Guangdong language," an Ngai-fa (-va) 話, "Ma/oor leid".
Semperit Erse Caur o the Year
The Semperit Irish Car of the Year (Scots:Semperit Erse Caur o the Year) awaird wis established in 1978. It is organised an judged bi the Irish Motoring Writers Association (IMWA). It is sponsored bi tyre manufactuer Continental an specifically bi thair brand - 'Semperit'.
The IMWA haes developed a new wabsteid an it went live on December 19, 2008.
Mauritius
Mauritius (Mauritian Creole: Moris; Maurice, ), offeecially the Republic o Mauritius (Mauritian Creole: Republik Moris; République de Maurice), is an island naition aff the sootheast coast o the African continent in the soothwast Indian Ocean, aboot 900 kilometres (560 mi) east o Madagascar. In addition tae the island o Mauritius, the Republic includes the islands o Cargados Carajos, Rodrigues an the Agalega Islands. Mauritius Island is pairt o the Mascarene Islands, wi the French island o Réunion 200 km (120 mi) tae the soothwast an the island o Rodrigues 570 km (350 mi) tae the northeast.
Semperit Erse Caur o the Year
IMWA e.mail: secretary@imwa.ie
Mauritius
The Breetish teuk control durin the Napoleonic Wars an Mauritius became independent frae the UK in 1968. Mauritius's aurie is 2040 km2 wi Port Louis for caipital. It is a parliamentary republic an is a member o the Soothren African Development Community, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the African Union, La Francophonie an the Commonweel o Naitions. Mauritius haes an upper middle income economy.
Semperit Erse Caur o the Year
Current rules
Cars ar assessed bi the 28 jurors on the follaein criteria:
Bolívar Province (Ecuador)
Bolívar is a province in Ecuador. The caipital is Guaranda. Hintle o the province haes a ceul, 'sierra' climate, but the pairt in the lawer fuithills haes a wairm, tropical climate.
Cantons
The province is dividit intae 7 cantons. The follaein table leets each wi its population as o the 2001 census, its aurie in square kilometres (km²), an the name o the canton seat or caipital.
Mauritius
The island o Mauritius is renowned for haein been the ae kent hame o the dodo. This bird wis an easy prey tae settlers due tae its wecht an inability tae flee. It became extinct less nor aichtie years later.
Hodonín
Hodonín (Göding) is a toun on the River Morava in the sootheast o Moravie, in the Czech Republic. It lees in the Sooth Moravie Region. The population is 25,259 (2012). Hodonín wis first mentioned in 1046. In 1228 it became a toun. In 1850 Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first preses o independent Czechoslovakie, wis born thare.
In the vicinity o the toun thare is a ile field an a stratum o lignite, that wis umwhile transportit tae the toun o Otrokovice, a few kilometres frae the ceety o Zlín, bi a special watter chainel kent as the Baťův kanál. It wis biggit bi the famous Czech entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa an nou operates as a tourist attraction.
Twin touns
Hodonín is twinned wi:
Ford Mondeo
The Ford Mondeo is a lairge faimily caur that Ford Motor Company sells in various mercats the warld ower. The name "Mondeo" derives frae the Latin wird mundus, meanin "warld". The initial generation o the Mondeo wis developed as a "warld caur", alang wi North Americaen models mercatit as the Ford Contour an Mercury Mystique til 2000.
Rosario (disambiguation)
Rosario is the lairgest city o the Santa Fe province in Argentinae.
Rosario mey refer tae an aw:
Kilmaurnock
Kilmaurnock (Scots Gaelic: Cille Mheàrnaig) (forby kent as Killie anaw) is a mukkil burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland, wi aboot 44,734 indwallers. It is aboot haufgate atwein Glesga an Ayr, an is the seicont mukkilest toun in Ayrshire. The River Irvine rins throu its eistren bit, an the Kilmarnock Wattir passes throu it, gien ryz til the name 'Bank Street'.
The Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is bi Charles W Gray, Scottish architect wi' coloured gless bi French staint gless airtist Gabriel Loire
Marostica
Marostica (Venetian leid: Maròstega), is a toun an comune in the province o Vicenza, Veneto, northren Italy. It is maistly famous for its livin chess event an for the local cherry variety.
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, Али́са Зино́вьевна Розенба́ум; February 2 1905 – Mairch 6, 1982) wis a Roushie-American novelist, filosofer, playwricht, an screenwriter. She is kent for her twa best-sellin novelles, The Fountainhead an Atlas Shrugged, an for developin a filosofical seestem she cried Objectivism. Eddicatit in Roushie, she muived tae the Unitit States in 1926. She haed a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. Efter twa early novelles that war initially unsuccessfu in Americae, she achieved fame wi her 1943 novelle, The Fountainhead.
Westbourne Green
Westbourne Green is an aurie o Lunnon on the wastren edge o the Ceety o Wastmeenster.
Santo Domingo Tlatayapam
Santo Domingo Tlatayápam is a veelage an smaw municipality in Oaxaca in sooth-wastren Mexico. The municipality covers a aurie o 12 km². It is pairt o the Teposcolula Destrict in the centre o the Mixteca Region
As o the 2010 census, the veelage haed a population o 147 inhabitants, while the municipality haed a total population o 153 inhabitants. It is the third-smawest municipality in Mexico in population (follaein Santa Magdalena Jicotlán an Santiago Tepetlapa, baith in Oaxaca an aw).
Westbourne Green
Transport an locale
The nearest London Underground stations are Westbourne Park an Royal Oak on the Hammersmith & City Line.
Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (Celovec) is the caipital o the federal state o Carinthie in Austrick. Wi a population o ower 90,000 it is the saxt-lairgest ceety in the kintra. The ceety is the bishop's seat o the Roman Catholic diocese o Gurk-Klagenfurt an hame tae the Alpen-Adria University.
Twin touns — sister ceeties
Klagenfurt is twinned wi:
Ocoyoacac
Ocoyoacac is a toun an municipality in the State o Mexico in Mexico. The municipality covers an aurie o 134.71 km². It is ane o the 17 municipalities that border Mexico Ceety. It borders the Distrito Federal's wastren burgh o Cuajimalpa.
As o the 2010 census, the municipality haed a total population o 61,805 inhabitants.
Touns an veelages
The lairgest localities (ceeties, touns, an veelages) are:
Santo Domingo Tonaltepec
Santo Domingo Tonaltepec is a toun an municipality in Oaxaca in sooth-wastren Mexico. The municipality covers a aurie o km². It is pairt o the Teposcolula Destrict in the centre o the Mixteca Region
Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Ryal Philips, commonly kent as Philips) is a Dutch multinational engineerin an electronics conglomerate heidquartered in Amsterdam. It wis foondit in Eindhoven in 1891 bi Gerard Philips an his faither Frederik. It is ane o the lairgest electronics companies in the warld an employs aroond 122,000 fowk athort mair nor 60 kintras.
Philips haes a primar leetin on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchynge an is a constituent o the AEX index. It haes a secondary leetin on the New York Stock Exchynge.
Gisclareny
Gisclareny is a municipality in the comarca o Berguedà, Catalonie.
Economy
Agricultur is the uphaud o Gisclarany's economy, an in pairticular dryland fermin an ainimal husbandry
Frederick V o Denmark
Frederick V (Dens an Norse: Frederik; 31 Mairch 1723 – 14 Januar 1766) wis king o Denmark–Norawa an Duke o Schleswig-Holstein frae 1746 till his daith.
Muntain bluebird
The muntain bluebird (Sialia currucoides) is a middlin bird wichtin aboot 30 g wi a lenth frae 16 - 20 cm. They hae licht unnerbellies an black een. Adult males hae thin bills an are bricht turquoise-blue an somewha lighter unnerneath. Adult females hae duller blue wings an tail, grey breast, grey croun, throat an back. In fresh faw plumage, the female's throat an breast are tinged wi reid-orange, brounish near the flank contrastin wi white tail unnerpairts. Their caw is a thin 'few'; whilk their sang is warbled high 'chur chur'. It is the state bird of Idaho and Nevada. It is a omnivore an it can live 6 tae 10 years in the wild. It eats spiders, grasshoppers, flies an ither insects, an smaw fruits. The muntain bluebird is a relative o the eastren an wastren bluebirds.
24 November
The 24t o November is the 328t day o the year (329t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 37 days bidin.
Muntain bluebird
Feedin
These birds hover ower the grund an flee doun tae catch insects, fleein an aw frae a perch tae catch thaim. They mainly eat insects an berries. They mey forage in flocks in winter, when they mainly eat grasshoppers. Muntain bluebirds will come tae a platform feeder wi live meal worms, berries, or peanuts.
Rosen Plevneliev
Rosen Asenov Plevneliev (Росен Асенов Плевнелиев; born 14 Mey 1964) is a Bulgarie politeecian that wis Preses o Bulgarie frae Januar 2012 til Januar 2017. He wis the Meenister o Regional Development an Public Warks frae Julie 2009 til September 2011 as pairt o the cabinet o Boyko Borisov. In October 2011, Plevneliev wis eleckit as Preses in a seicont roond o votin; he wis inauguratit on 18 Januar 2012.
Biography
Rosen Plevneliev wis born in Gotse Delchev. He is o strynd frae Bulgarian refugees frae soothren Macedon that resattlit frae the day's toun o Petrousa in the municipality o Prosotsani in Drama regional unit, Greek Macedon, in 1913. The Plevneliev faimily name refers tae the Bulgarian name o the toun, Plevnya (Плевня, "barn").
Plevneliev studied at Blagoevgrad Mathematical an Naitural Sciences Heich Schuil, frae that he graduatit in 1982. In 1989 he graduatit frae the Heicher Mechanical-Electrotechnical Institute, Sofia, an in the same year becam a fellae at the Institute for Microprocessin Technology, Pravets. In 1990 he stairtit a private biggin company in Bulgarie. Amang ither projects, the company biggit the Sofia Business Pairk.
He is mairrit tae Yuliyana an thay hae three loons: Filip, Asen an Pavel.
Poleetical career
Plevneliev became Meenister o Regional Development an Public Warks unner Prime Meenister Borisov on 27 Julie 2009.
He wis annoonced as GERB's candidate for Preses o Bulgarie on 4 September 2011. He subsequently wan the presidential election in a seicont roond held on 30 October 2011, wi a majority o 52,58% o the vote. He defeatit Ivaylo Kalfin frae the Bulgarie Socialist Pairty in the seicont roond. He teuk the presidential oath on 19 Januar 2012 an offeecially teuk ower frae his predecessor Georgi Parvanov on 22 Januar 2012. Amang his priorities are admeenistrative reforms, energy efficiency an energy unthirldom an remuivin o ambassadors o Bulgarie in furren kintras that hae serrt as secret agents durin the Communist regime.
As a result o the 2013 Bulgarie protests agin monopoly an heich electricity prices, the conservative govrenment o Prime Meenister Boyko Borisov tendered its demission on 20 Februar 2013. Preses Plevneliev, actin in accordance wi the constitution, offert a mandate tae form a new govrenment athin the term o the current Parliament tae GERB, BSP an DPS but efter aw o them declined, Plevneliev appyntit a caretaker govrenment on 13 Mairch 2013, wi Marin Raykov, the Bulgarie ambassador in Paris as Prime Meenister an Meenister o Furren Affairs.
Plevneliev advocates for closer relations atween Bulgarie an the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae.
Muntain bluebird
Breedin
Their breedin habitat is open kintra athort wastren North Americae, includin muntainous auries, as far north as Alaska. They nest in pre-existin cavities or in nest boxes. In remote auries, these birds are less affectit bi competeetion for natural nestin locations than ither bluebirds. Muntain bluebirds are a monogamous breed. The male can be seen singin frae bare branches. The singin taks place richt at dawn, juist when the sun rises. Females uisually build the nests thairsels. Eggs are pale blue an unmarkit, sometimes white. The clutch size is fower or five eggs. Young are nakit an helpless at hatchin an mey hae some doun. Incubation normally last 14 days an the young will tak aboot 21 days afore they leave the nest. Baith males an females fiercely protect the nest.
State bird
The muntain bluebird is the state bird o Idaho an Nevada.
Conservation
Muntain Bluebirds are fairly common, but populations declined bi aboot 26% atween 1966 an 2014, accordin tae the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Partners in Flicht estimates the global breedin population of 4.6 million, with 80% spending some part of the year in the U.S., 20% breedin in Canadae, an 31% winterin in Mexico. The species rates an 8 oot o 20 on the Continental Concern Score. Mountain Bluebird is a U.S.-Canada Stewardship species, an is no on the 2014 State of the Birds Watch List. These bluebirds benefitit frae the wastwaird spread o loggin an grazin in the late nineteent an early twintiet centuries, when the clearin o forest creatit open habitat for foragin. The subsequent wanin o these industries, coupled wi the deliberate suppression o wildfires, led tae a dwindlin o open acreage in the Wast an the decline o the species. Mair recently, as laund-uise practices hae stabilizit, so hae Muntain Bluebird populations. Construction o nest boxes in suitable habitat haes providit a population boost an aw. Populations are declinin in auries whaur trees are too smaw tae provide naitural nestin cavities, an whaur forest an agricultural management practices hae reducit the availability o suitable nest steids. Amang birds that nest in cavities but canna excavate thaim on their awn, competeetion is heich for nest steids. Muntain, Wastren, an mair recently Eastren bluebirds compete for nest boxes whaur their ranges owerlap. Hoose Sparraes, European Starlings, an Hoose Wrens compete fiercely wi bluebirds for nest cavities an aw.
Sant Feliu de Codines
Sant Feliu de Codines is a municipality in the comarca o the Vallès Oriental in Catalonie, Spain. It is linkit bi a local road tae Caldes de Montbui an tae Centelles.
The toun wis first mentioned in 1059, when Mir Geribert wis made Baron o Montbui bi Ramon Berenguer I, Coont o Barcelona. It gained its unthirldom frae the barony in 1793 bi a decree o Charles IV.
Cherepovets
Cherepovets (Череповец) is a ceety in the wast o Vologda Oblast, Roushie, locatit on the banks o the Sheksna River, a tributary o the Volga River, an on the shores o the Rybinsk Reservoir.
Twin touns an sister ceeties
Cherepovets is twinned wi:
Leet o municipalities in Santa Catarina
This is a leet o the municipalities in the state o Santa Catarina (SC), Brazil.
Kershope Burn
Kershope Burn is a burn rinnin enteerly alang the mairch atween England an Scotland.
The river rises, as Clark's Syke, in a quaw in Kielder Forest in Northumberland kent as Hobb's Flowe, afore becomin Kershope Burn efter rinnin by Kershopehead, a fermtoun in Cumbria.
The river rins intae Liddel Watter at Kershopefuit, efter whit Liddel Watter merks the boond atween England an Scotland. The last wheen o yairds o the river flowes past the clachan at Kershopefuit an aneath the railwey brig o the umwhile Waverley Line. Atween 1862 an 1969 a passenger station kent various as Kershope or Kershopefoot wis locatit here.
Daihatsu Compagno
The Daihatsu Compagno is an automobile which wis produced bi Daihatsu in Japan frae 1964 tae 1970. The Compagno wis designed prior tae the acquisition o Daihatsu bi Toyota in 1967 an wis available as a fower-cylinder, twa-door sedan or convertible.
120,000 Daihatsu Compagnos wur produced atween 1964–1970, includin:
Maximum speed wis 110 km/h (68 mph) for the 800 cc model, 130 km/h (81 mph) tae 145 km/h (90 mph) for 1,000 cc models.
Nassau
Nassau mey mean the follaein:
Hoose o Nassau
O the Hoose o Orange-Nassau, ryal dynasty o the Netherlands:
Elena Makarova
Elena Alekseyevna Makarova (Елена Алексеевна Макарова, born 1 Februar 1973) is a Roushie tennis player.
Makarova played in the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour atween 1991 an 1999. Her best performances wur in 1995, when she wis rankit no. 36 in doubles, an in 1996, when she wis rankit no. 43 in singles.
Canon Inc.
Canon Inc. Kiyanon kabushiki-gaisha is a Japanese multinational corporation specialized in the manufactur o imagin an optical products, includin cameras, camcorders, photocopiers, steppers, computer prenters an medical equipment. Its heidquarters are locatit in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan.
Canon haes a primary leetin on the Tokyo Stock Exchange an is a constituent o the TOPIX index. It has a seicontary leetin on the New York Stock Exchange.
Inuyasha
Inuyasha (犬夜叉), kent as Inuyasha: A Feudal Fairy Tale (戦国御伽草子 犬夜叉) an aw, is a Japanese manga series written an illustratit bi Rumiko Takahashi.
Citroën C5
The Citroën C5 is a lairge family caur produced bi the French manufacturer Citroën syne early 2001. The C5 replaced the Citroën Xantia in the muckle faimily caur class.
North Macedonie–Turkey relations
North Macedonie–Turkey relations are the bilateral relations atween the Republic o North Macedonie an the Republic o Turkey.
History
Due tae historical, cultural, an human bonds, North Macedonie an Turkey hae very close an friendly relations. Shortly efter North Macedonie declarit its unthirldom frae the umwhile Yugoslavie in 1991 Turkey recognised North Macedonie's sovereignty as ane o the first kintras tae do so. Bilateral relations wur established on 26 August 1992. North Macedonie haes an embassy in Ankara an a consulate–general in Istanbul, while Turkey haes an embassy in Skopje an a consulate-general in Bitola. An aw, the Turkis leid is a co-offeecial leid in twa municipalities, alangside the Macedonie leid. Turkey an North Macedonie an aw hae good economic relations. Thare are seiveral Turkis companies present in North Macedonie, notably TAV Airports Hauldin an Şişecam. Baith kintras aspire tae join the European Union.
In a Gallup polls conductit in 2010, Turkey is viewed as a friendly kintra wi a positive eemage amang a lairge majority (80 percent) o fowk in the Republic o North Macedonie. Recognition o the Republic o North Macedonie bi Turkey is predicatit on North Macedonie uphsuldin the free movement an richt o Albanies in the kintra. In Februar 2018, Turkis preses Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed support o the Republic o North Macedonie's position during negotiations ower the dispute, saying that Greece's poseetion is wrong. Turkey supports the Republic o North Macedonia's bid tae join baith NATO an the EU.
Citizens frae North Macedonie o Turkis oreegin
There are 77,959 citizens declared as Turkis in North Macedonie, forming 3.85% o the population o the kintras. The Turks o North Macedonie serve as a bridge atween the twa states, an wur pairt o a programme for cooperation in the sphere o culture for the period atween 2009 an 2011. According tae the programme baith sides shall intensify the cooperation in different segments o culture an airt. Addeetionally, the kintras shall promote each ither's culture an open Cultural Information Centres - North Macedonie in Istanbul an Turkey in Skopje. On that occasion, the meenister o North Macedonie awso anoonced that the govrenment o North Macedonie decidit tae renew the hoose p Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's parents, located in the veelage o Kodžadžik near Debar. The Turkis authorities alloyed archaeologists frae North Macedonie tae make a copy o the Alexander Sarcophagus that afterwards will be displayed in a museum in North Macedonie.
Şırnak Province
Şırnak Province haes some muntainous regions in the wast an the sooth, but the majority o the province consists o plateaus, resultin frae the mony rivers that cross it. These include the Tigris, an its tributaries Hezil an Kızılsu, an an' a' Çağlayan. The maist important muntains are the Cudi (2089 m), the Gabar, the Namaz an the Altın. In some sources, Cudi is citit as the steid whaur Noah's Ark feenally reached dry land.
It haes a mixed population o Kurds, Assyrians, Turks an Arabs.
Destricts
Şırnak province is dividit intae 7 destricts (caipital destrict in bold):
Livingston
Livingston mey refer tae:
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; Aprile 24, 1934) is an American film, telly an theatre actress, sangster, dancer, activist an author. An Academy Awaird winner, MacLaine received the 40t AFI Life Achievement Award frae the American Film Institute in 2012, an received the Kennedy Center Honors for her lifetime contreibutions tae American cultur throu the performin airts in 2013. She is kent for her New Age beliefs, an haes an interest in spirituality an reincarnation. She haes written a series o autobiografical wirks that describe thir beliefs, document her warld travels, an describe her Hollywood career.
San Miguel
San Miguel, Spaingie for Saunt Michael, describes numerous locations.
Forts
Fort San Miguel or Fuerte (de) San Miguel is the name o various militar forts aroond the warld:
Villarosa
Villarosa is a toun an comune in the province o Enna, in the region o Sicily in soothren Italy.
Mazda AZ-Wagon
The Mazda AZ-Wagon wis a tiny station wagon based on the Suzuki Wagon R. The AZ is a reference tae Mazda's Autozam minicar marque. Thare war in tot fower generations up tae 2008. The first generation o AZ-Wagon wis introduced in Japan in 1994 as the Autozam Wagon.
The first generation o AZ-Wagon uised the same 3-cylinder 657 cc ingine as the Mazda Carol,an the turbo wis optional as wis all-wheel drive. The new 658 cc DOHC or SOHC ingine replaced the aulder SOHC 657 cc in 1995. The design wis refreshed in 2001.
Valya Samvelyan
Valya Samvelyan (Վալյա Սամվելյան) wis a popular Armenie female fowk-sangster.
Amang the maist popular sangs in her interpretation wur "Anushik Im Quyrik", "Antsar Aygus Nayelov", "Zov Gisher" an "Shorora" bi Sayat-Nova, gusan Sheram, Alexey Ekimyan an ithers.
She dee'd in a caur accident.
Her son Ara Gevorgyan is the producer o her posthumous "Toghetsir indz menak" (You did let me alane) an "Anushik im quyrik" (My sweet sister) albums.
San Miguel, Buenos Aires
San Miguel is in the northwast region o Greater Buenos Aires, 30 km frae the Ceety o Buenos Aires. San Miguel is the coonty seat o San Miguel Partido, an haes been a pairt o Greater Buenos Aires syne the early 2000s. The nummer o indwallers wis 157,532 accordin tae the 2001 census.
Fernanda Abreu
Fernanda Abreu (born 8 September 1961) is a Brazilian sangster.
Karelie
Karelie (Karelian an Finnish Karjala; Карелия, Kareliya; Karelen), the laund o the Karelie fowks, is an aurie in Northren Europe o historical significance for Finland, Roushie, an Swaden. It is currently dividit atween the Roushie Republic o Karelie, the Roushie Leningrad Oblast, an Finland (the regions o Sooth Karelie an North Karelie).