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Zindagi Ki Mehek
Season 2
Shaurya and Mehek are reborn. Mehek is born into a poor household where her father resents her being a girl. On the other hand, Shaurya is born into a wealthy family. Mehek grows to become a tomboy and again meets Shaurya. Mehek is a bold and fearless personality who quickly picks up fights. Shaurya is practising to become a boxer as his father hopes his son will one day win the gold medal. Visions of their previous life haunt both Shaurya and Mehek. Later, when Mehek and Shaurya have 20 years old, they are brought to the same college, both with the passion of boxing, their relationship constantly flickering because of this. Svetlana again tries to separate Mehek and Shaurya by killing them with the help of a superstitious baba when he reveals to her that if Mehek and Shaurya love each other a second time, her destiny will be sealed. Svetlana kills the sister of Mehek named Swati, who was trying to save Mehek. Mehek recalls her past life, but Svetlana fires two bullets at her. Mehek survives but pretends to be a ghost in front of Svetlana to make her feared. She then meets Shaurya. It is then revealed that Shaurya and Mehek's plan frighten Svetlana to such a level that she confesses her crimes. In the climax, Svetlana is killed by Durga Devi Trishula, and Kanta, who survived the tragedy caused by Svetlana 20 years ago, finds, probably by default of appearance, the avatars of Shaurya and Mehek and decides to live with them. Finally, Mehek and Shaurya get married and live happily together.
Broadcasts
A TV series named Mehek began on the English-Bollywood Channel called Zee World on 7 April 2019. In a new development, Zee World is showing the original series alongside a new cast of South Africans, known in character as The Gabela Family. Episodes from their own journey will run alongside the over 500 original episodes of Zindagi Ki Mehek.
Zee World introduces actors Shonisani Masutha, Kamogelo Mogale, Ndaba ka Ngwane and Nomava Kibare to Zee World viewers across Sub Saharan Africa.
This makes Zee World the first international Television outfit to produce a South African series alongside Indians actors and Mehek the first Zee World production to star actors from the African continent. In addition to the 505 original episodes of Zindagi Ki Mehek, viewers will be treated to 150 episodes from the South African cast.
Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen (which is also spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest island of the archipelago Svalbard. It was called West Spitsbergen until 1965. The name East Spitsbergen was proposed for the third-largest island of the group, Edgeøya.
Austrian Armenian Cultural Society
The Austrian Armenian Cultural Society was founded in 1974 at Vienna, Austria, the Austrian-Armenian Cultural Society is an organization that promotes cultural ties between Armenia and Austria and a lot more.
Spitsbergen
Today, it is the only island on Svalvard which is settled permanently. The island has a size of about 380 km by 220 km
Austrian Armenian Cultural Society
Among its many activities, it runs Armenian language lessons, useful programs to Armenia, youth camping events and way more.
Spitsbergen
There are only few active settlements on Spitsbergen, among them
There are several abandoned ones:
Ray Romano
Ray Romano (born December 21, 1957) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and screenwriter. He is best known as the star of the television series Everybody Loves Raymond. He acted in that series with Patricia Heaton.
Sanfourche
Sanfourche is a surname. People with the surname include:
He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs
"He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" is the first episode of the 19th season of The Simpsons. It was first shown on the Fox network on September 23, 2007. It is the first episode to be shown after The Simpsons Movie was first shown in movie theaters. The episode is about Homer Simpson trying to get a job that will let him fly an airplane. The episode was written by Joel H. Cohen. Mark Kirkland is the director of the episode. Lionel Richie and Stephen Colbert are guest stars in the episode.
Story
Mr. Burns tries to take a penny in a fountain. He falls in and almost drowns. Homer sees Mr. Burns in the fountain and helps Burns get out of it. Mr. Burns thanks Homer and asks him if he wants to go to dinner. Homer says that he likes Chicago-style pizza. Burns takes Homer to his private airplane to go to Chicago. Homer gets very good services in the plane. Homer is very happy when he is in Chicago. However, he is sad when he has to go back to Springfield. He says that he will not feel as happy as he was in Mr. Burns's airplane. Marge gets Homer a life coach named Colby Kraus. Colby wants to help Homer get happy by flying airplanes. He watches what Homer does for a few days. He learns that Homer is happier when he is at a bowling alley. Colby tells Homer to always wear the shoes he wears for bowling. Homer gets better at doing things and gets offers for new jobs. Homer does an interview for a job that will let him fly. However, he does not get hired.
Homer does not tell his family that he did not get the job. He goes to Krusty Burger so that his family thinks he is at his job. On the day after that, Bart sees Homer at Krusty Burger. Homer tells Bart about his interview and that he did not get the job. Bart makes Homer go to a pay phone to talk to Marge about it. Homer lies to her and tells her to go to an airport with him. Homer and Marge get on a plane so that Homer feels better when telling her the truth. However, the person flying it goes unconscious. Homer tries to fly the plane but does not know how. Marge makes the plane go up using the plane's yoke. She calls Colby with her cell phone and tries to get him to help. He talks to Homer and gives him motivation on getting the airplane down. The airplane comes down and gets on the runway. However, the plane keeps moving and falls in the ocean. Homer says to Marge that flying airplanes is not safe for him. He says that he will get his job back at the power plant with Mr. Burns.
Production
"He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" was the first new episode to show on television after The Simpsons Movie was shown in theaters. The start of the episode shows what happened to Springfield after the movie. Some of the characters that were in the movie are seen in the episode. The Simpson family's house is still in construction. Homer's pig named Spider Pig (a parody of Spider-Man) is with the family.
The episode was written by Joel H. Cohen. Mark Kirkland is the director of the episode. Stephen Colbert is the voice actor for Colby Kraus. He did not have to do an audition. He said he was happy to be part of the episode. He liked that Colby's name is similar to his and that Colby looks similar to him. Colbert said that he tried to make Colby sound similar to Tony Robbins.
Reception
About 9.7 million people saw the episode when it was first shown on television.
Brian Tallerico from UGO thought that the episode was not as good as The Simpsons Movie. He said that the writers went back to their "old clichés" and that the same jokes were said too many times. He liked the start of the episode that shows the events after the movie. Robert Canning from IGN said that the episode is "mediocre". He thought that Colbert being in the episode was "disappointing". He liked some parts of the episode. For example, Homer being in Chicago, and Colby giving Homer motivation on the plane. Richard Keller from TV Squad liked the episode and thought Homer was a better character in this episode. Al Jean said that this is one of his favorite episodes.
Maddy Horn
Madeline “Maddy” Horn (June 10, 1911 – July 2, 1971) was an American long track speed skater in the 1930s.
She became during her career North American outdoor and indoor Champion. She also became national outdoor and indoor champion, winning the indoor and outdoor all around championships four times each.
She represented her nation at the 1938 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women, where she finished second in the 500m and 1000m. She also competed in other international competitions, winning several races in Norway. She won 65 of her last 69 races. Horn set the 220 record in 20.2 seconds.
She was inducted into the National Speedskating Hall of Fame on May 14, 1966 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
She trained in other sports, such as softball.
Alan Young
Young was born on November 19, 1919 in North Shields, Northumberland, England. He was raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was married to Mary Anne Grimes from 1941 until they divorced in 1947. Then he was married to Virginia McCurdy from 1948 until they divorced in 1995. With Grimes he had two children and with McCurdy he had two. He was then married to his third wife Mary Chipman from 1996 to 1997.
On May 19, 2016, Young died in Woodland Hills, California at the age of 96.
Lied
The word Lied is used in music to describe the songs that were written by German-speaking composers of classical music. Songs composed by classical composers are sometimes called “art songs”.
In German culture the Lied as an art song goes back to the Middle Ages. Walther von der Vogelweide was a 12th-13th century minnesinger who composed and sang songs for important people at the royal court. Like most minnesinger, he was a poet as well as a composer, writing words for his own songs. The Lied in the Romantic period was usually written by two different people: the poet wrote the words and then the composer “set the words” to music. 19th century composers mostly took great care to choose good poetry for their songs. The poetry was often by famous poets such as Goethe and Schiller. Although most Lieder were composed in the Romantic period, the beginnings were there in the Classical music period. Mozart wrote a song called Das Veilchen (The Violet) and Beethoven wrote several songs.
It was Schubert who was to be the greatest of all Lieder composers. Schubert wrote over 600 songs. Very often he wrote in a form which had been used by Walther von der Vogelweide: three verses of which the first two have the same music (A-A-B, or as von der Vogelweide called them: “Stollen, Stollen, Abgesang”). Other songs of his are what is known as “durchkomponiert” (“through composed”). Here each verse is different, so that the composer can express the words of each verse with different music. The wonderful thing about Schubert’s songs is the way in which the piano accompaniments help the voice and show the meaning of the words. The piano was a fairly new instrument at the time and could do things that would have been impossible on the harpsichord. One of his earliest songs is the famous Erlkönig (Erlking). The piano accompaniment is very difficult to play because the right hand has continuous repeated octaves which describe the galloping of the horse in the wild, stormy night. Grettchen am Spinnrade is a song which sets a poem from Goethe's Faust. The young girl is sitting at the spinning-wheel thinking of her lover. The piano has a rippling accompaniment which sounds like the gentle clatter of the spinning-wheel. At the moment when the girl imagines her lover's kiss the piano part comes to a stop, then gradually starts up again as the girl wakes up to the world around her.
Composers often composed groups of songs which belong together. These are called a “song cycle” (“Liederkreis” in German). Schubert wrote two long ones: Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey) and Die schöne Müllerin (The Miller’s beautiful daughter). Both are about love affairs which end sadly.
Robert Schumann wrote many fine songs. He was a pianist before he became a composer, so it is not surprising that the piano parts of his songs are at least as important as the voice part. His song-cycle Dichterliebe (Poet’s love) contains some of his best songs. They often have a dream-like atmosphere. He especially liked setting words by the poets Joseph von Eichendorff and Heinrich Heine.
Johannes Brahms always made the singer’s part more important than the piano part. He learned a lot by studying Schubert’s songs and wrote some very famous Lieder. One of his best is the humorous Vergebliches Ständchen (Serenade in vain). His Four Serious Songs are very powerful. His famous Wiegenlied (Lullaby), a tune which everybody knows, is one of his songs.
Hugo Wolf is known almost only for his songs. They are very dramatic and he used some unusual harmonies which he had learned by listening to Wagner’s music. Some of Wolf’s songs are very short, he says a lot in a short space of time. His Italian song book and Spanish song book have some of his best songs.
Richard Wagner and Gustav Mahler both wrote wonderful Lieder, although they are mostly with orchestral accompaniment. Mahler’s songs are inspired by folksong. He even uses them in his symphonies. Das Lied von der Erde is a song cycle for two singers (mezzo soprano and tenor) and orchestra.
Richard Strauss is one of the last great Lieder composers. His Four last songs (with orchestra) seem to be saying “goodbye” to a great period of music history.
Guigou
Economy
The main activities of the town are agriculture (mainly potatoes and onions are cultivated there) and animal breeding (mainly sheep).
Alphabet
An alphabet is a writing system, a list of symbols for writing. The basic symbols in an alphabet are called letters. In an alphabet, each letter is a symbol for a sound or related sounds. To make the alphabet work better, more signs assist the reader: punctuation marks, spaces, standard reading direction, and so on.
The name alphabet comes from Aleph and Beth, the first two letters in the Phoenician alphabet.
This article is written with the Roman alphabet (or Latin alphabet). It was first used in Ancient Rome to write Latin. Many languages use the Latin alphabet: it is the most used alphabet today.
Alphabets
It seems that the idea of an alphabet – a script based entirely upon sound – has been copied and adapted to suit many different languages. Although no alphabet fits its language perfectly, they are flexible enough to fit any language approximately. The alphabet was a unique invention. p12 The Roman alphabet, the Cyrillic, and a few others come from the ancient Greek alphabet, which dates back to about 1100 to 800 BC. p167 The Greek alphabet was probably developed from the Phoenician script, which appeared somewhat earlier, and had some similar letter-shapes.
The Phoenicians spoke a Semitic language, usually called Canaanite. The Semitic group of languages includes Arabic, Maltese, Hebrew and also Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus. We do not know much about how the alphabetic idea arose, but the Phoenicians, a trading people, came up with letters which were adapted by the early Greeks to produce their alphabet. The one big difference is that the Phoenician script had no pure vowels. Arabic script has vowels which may, or may not, be shown by diacritics (small marks above or below the line). The oldest Qu'ran manuscripts had no diacritics. Israeli children to about the third grade use Hebrew texts with vowel 'dots' added. p89
No ancient script, alphabetic or not, had pure vowels before the Greeks. The Greek alphabet even has two vowels (Eta) and Epsilon) for 'e' and two (Omega and Omicron) for 'o', to distinguish between the long and short sounds. It appears that careful thought went into both the Phoenician invention and the Greek adaptation, but no details survive of either process.
Semitic scripts apparently derive from Proto-Sinaitic, a script of which only 31 inscriptions (plus 17 doubtful) are known. It is thought by some researchers that the original source of this script was the Egyptian hieratic script, which by the late Middle Kingdom (about 1900 BC ) had added some alphabetic signs for representing the consonants of foreign names. Egyptian activity in Sinai was at its height at that time. A similar idea had been suggested many years previously.
Short list of alphabets
A list of alphabets and examples of the languages they are used for:
Other writing systems
Other writing systems do not use letters, but they do (at least in part) represent sounds. For example, many systems represent syllables. In the past such writing systems were used by many cultures, but today they are almost only used by languages people speak in Asia. A syllabary is a system of writing that is similar to an alphabet. A syllabary uses one symbol to indicate each syllable of a word, instead of one symbol for each letter of the word. For example, a syllabary would use one symbol to mean the syllable "ga", instead of two letters of the alphabet "g" and "a".
Originally, 1200 BC in the Shang dynasty, Chinese characters were mainly "pictographic", using pictures to show words or ideas. Now only 1% of Chinese characters are pictographic. p97 97% of modern characters are SP characters. These are a pair of symbols, one for meaning ( s emantics) and the other for p ronunciation. p99 In many cases the P and S parts are put together into one joint character. Chinese is not one spoken language, but many, but the same writing system is used for all. This writing system has been reformed a number of times.
Kevin Burnham
Kevin Lobdell Burnham (December 21, 1956 – November 27, 2020) was an American two-time Olympic medalist and was a sailor. He won the silver medal at the 1992. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Burnham was born in New York City.
Burnham died on November 27, 2020 from problems caused by lung disease, aged 63.
Basin (geology)
Geological basins are one of the two most common places inland which collect sediment (the other is lakes). The type of rocks which form there tell about the palaeoclimate of the continent. The geology is of interest to oil prospectors, hydrologists and palaeontologists.
Panevėžys
Panevėžys is a city in the north of Lithuania. It is the fifth-largest city. The city is 50 km².
Basin (geology)
Death Valley example
Starting around 16 million years ago in the Miocene, and continuing into the present, a large part of the North American Plate has been stretched by being pulled apart. p611 The result has been the creation of a large and still-growing region of relatively thin crust; the region grew an average of 1 in per year initially and then slowed to 0.3 in per year in the last 5 million years. Geologists call this region the Basin and Range Province.
Panevėžys
History
Panevėžys was first mentioned in a document, that was written in 1503, September 7th. In the document, the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the King of Poland gifted some land to a parson from Ramygala. In exchange for the land, the parson had to build a church in the land to fight paganism. A small wooden church was built here.
Hopkins, South Carolina
Hopkins is a census-designated place (CDP) in Richland County, South Carolina, United States. It is located 11 mi southeast of downtown Columbia and is part of the Columbia Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the Hopkins CDP was 2,882.
Basin (geology)
Sediment
Because the basin is low-lying, it collects sediment. Rivers may run down into the basin from surrounding mountains. Floods or lakes may form with no outlet to the sea. Evaporation occurs; more sediment arrives, and so on. The strata which forms gives clues as to the palaeoclimate.
Herbécourt
Herbécourt is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Basin (geology)
Sediment
Other terms that are used to describe a basin are: drainage basin, catchment, catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, river basin, water basin, endorheic basin and watershed.
Drainage
Some basins, such as the Great Basin, do not drain to the sea. The water may drain into underground aquifers, or evaporate to form salt lakes.
Most basins, however, are drainage basins with rivers bringing their water into the sea. Many such rivers meander through a web of islands at the river delta, and bring along a huge amount of sediment in the form of mud, clay and sand. The Amazon and the Mississippi river systems are like this. The strata which form are quite different from inland basin lakes.
Feedback
Feedback is a connection, a loop, between the cause and effect of a process.
Electronic
Sometimes, output from an electronic source affects future input. This can form what is called a "feedback loop". In some cases the output reinforces the input, making it stronger; this is called "self-reinforcing", "positive", "runaway" or "amplifying". In other cases, the output blocks or stops some of the input; this is called a negative feedback loop.
Positive feedback
Think about a sound system with input from a microphone and output to a loudspeaker. If the sound coming out of the loudspeaker is heard by the microphone, a loop is created, from speaker, to the microphone, through the cord, and back into the speaker. The loop is made up of sound and the electrical energy that the microphone and loudspeaker use to create that sound. If nothing stops the sound and electricity in the loop, it will travel faster and faster, which is why feedback starts out as a low hum and turns into a high squeal very quickly
This is an example of a positive feedback loop: the output reinforces the input; it makes the input stronger.
Negative feedback
Think about two mirrors that face each other. The mirrors reflect each other infinitely, or forever, but in each reflection, the image in the mirror is slightly smaller than the image it reflects. The images get smaller and smaller until they are no longer visible. This is an example of a negative feedback loop: the output (the reflection) reduces the input; it makes the input smaller.
The runaway global warming hypothesis
Warm temperature caused a glacier to melt. As the glacier melts, areas that were at one time covered by snow and ice are now water or land. Because snow and ice reflect heat but water and land absorb heat, this causes the glacier to melt faster as more snow and ice is melted. This type of positive feedback is an example of thermal runaway.
Cybernetics
American mathematician Norbert Wiener made feedback loops more well known in 1948 in his book Cybernetics. Cybernetics is the study of feedback loops and their role in communication and control.
2009 Nova Scotia general election
The 2009 Nova Scotia general election was held on June 9, 2009 to elect members of the 61st House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
Flag of Ethiopia
The flag of Ethiopia was created in 1996.
2009 Nova Scotia general election
Results by party
Candidates lined up.
Flag of Ethiopia
Appearance
It has a horizontal tricolour of green, yellow and red, it is the National Emblem superimposed at the center.
Alfonso Milián Sorribas
Alfonso Milián Sorribas (15 January 1939 – 26 November 2020) was a Spanish Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in La Cuba, Spain. He became a priest in 1962.
Milián Sorribas died on 26 November 2020 in Zaragoza, Spain at the age of 81.
Dana Golan
Dana Golan is an Israeli peace activist. She was director of Breaking the Silence.
Breaking the Silence collected testimonies by soldiers, of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. They organized an exhibition at Willy Brandt House.
She testified at the Human Rights subcommittee, of the European Parliament. In 2010 University of California, Berkeley Hillel rejected her appearance requested by students.
Cathay Pacific
Cathay Pacific Limited is an airline based in Hong Kong. It transports passengers and cargo to over 120 cities world-wide. Its main base and hub is at Hong Kong International Airport. It is one of the six airlines in the world to get a five star rating from Skytrax. It won "Airline of the Year" award from Skytrax in 2003, 2005 and 2009. Its sister airline is Dragonair which serves destinations in mainland China and Asia. Cathay Pacific operates a fleet of Airbus A321, Airbus A321NEO, Airbus A330, Airbus A350 and Boeing 777. While Cathay Pacific Cargo uses 2 different models of the Boeing 747. The airline was created on the 24th of September in 1946, by Sydney H. de Kantzow and Roy C. Farrell. Cathay Pacific and Cathay Pacific Cargo, together with dragonair, carried nearly 27 million passengers and over 1.8 million tons of cargo and mail. Cathay Pacific is also one of the founding members of the Oneworld alliance.
1946–1960: The early years
Cathay Pacific was founded on the 24th of September in 1946 in Hong Kong by Sydney H. de Kantzow and Roy C. Farrell. Farrel bought the company the first Douglas DC-3, Nicknamed Betsy. They began by transporting cargo from Sydney to Shanghai on the 28th of January 1946. On the 11th of May 1946 they changed their route from Sydney to Shanghai to Sydney to Hong Kong, after China kept detaining the aircraft. Farrell and de Kantzow re-registered their business in Hong Kong on the 24th of September 1946 as Cathay Pacific Airways. They named the airline Cathay, because it was the ancient name given to China by the Europeans. The airline grew very fast. By 1947, it had 7 Douglas DC-3s and 2 Vickers Catalina seaplanes.
La Paz, Honduras
La Paz is the capital of the La Paz Department of Honduras. It has a population of 46,264 (2015 est.).
Cathay Pacific
1960–1990: Expansion
The airline prospered in the late 1950s and into the 1960s, and it purchased its then main rival, Hong Kong Airways, on the 1st of July 1959. In 1964, it carried its one millionth passenger and acquired its first jet engine aircraft, the Convair 880. In 1967, it became an all jet airline with the replacement of its last Lockheed L-188 Electra with a Convair 880. In 1971, Cathay Pacific Airways received the first Boeing aircraft 707-320B. By 1972 it had five 707s. In July 1976 it began operating a Boeing 707 freighter from Hong Kong to Seoul, Bangkok and Singapore. In 1974 Cathay Pacific planned a route from Hong Kong to London. with a Boeing 747. In 1979, Cathay Pacific received its first Boeing 747 and used it for the route. The first flight on this route took place on the 16th of July in 1979. In 1982, Cathay Pacific Airways introduced Cathay Pacific Cargo.
Transfer to Chek Lap Kok and transpolar flights
On Monday, the 6th of July 1998, Cathay Pacific terminated flights from Kai Tak International Airport to London Heathrow Airport after over 73 years of operation. The next day, Cathay Pacific began flights from New York John F. Kennedy International Airport to the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok. This flight was also the world's first nonstop transpolar flight from New York to Hong Kong.
The 49ers – employment dispute
On 9 July 2001, reportedly following a review of the employment histories of all its pilots, the company fired 49 of its 1,500 pilots. This group became known as "the 49ers". Nearly half of the fired pilots were captains, representing five percent of the total pilots.
Acquisition and downsizing of Dragonair
On 28 September 2006, Cathay Pacific underwent a shareholding realignment under which Dragonair became an owned subsidiary but continued to operate under its brand. In January 2016, Cathay Pacific announced it was rebranding Dragonair as Cathay Dragon. On 21 October 2020, Cathay Pacific announced that it would shut down all operations of Cathay Dragon and merge it with its parent company due to the lack of customers and heavy economic problems brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. This merger marked the end for the subsidiary carrier after 35 years of operation.
Economic challenges
To celebrate the airline's 60th anniversary in 2006, a year of roadshows named the "Cathay Pacific 60th Anniversary Skyshow" was held where the public could see the developments of the airline. In March 2009, the airline reported a record full-year loss of HK$8.56 billion for 2008, which was also the carrier's first since the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis.
Current developments
In 2010, the airline set another record high profit, amounting to HK$14.05 billion despite record losses set in the same decade. At the same time, Cathay Pacific had taken delivery of several new aircraft types, including the Airbus A330-300 and Boeing 777-300ER. Tony Tyler left his position as CEO at the airline on 31 March 2010. Chief operating officer John Slosar had succeeded as the new CEO. On 8 October 2016, Cathay Pacific retired their last passenger Boeing 747 with a farewell scenic flight around Hong Kong after over 35 years of service of the type. Cathay operated the 747 since August 1979, when it was on services to Australia.
2018 data breach
In 2018, the airline discovered a data breach. Data of around 9.4 million passengers were compromised during the breach, with 860,000 passport numbers, 245,000 Hong Kong identity card numbers, 403 expired credit card numbers, and 27 credit card numbers without CVV being accessed. No passwords were stolen. The breach was suspected in March 2018 but was confirmed only in May 2018. In March 2020, the company was fined £500,000 (U.S. $639,600) by the British Information Commissioner's Office.
2017-2019 transformation
Under new leadership, the airline started to transform its business after suffering from 2 years of consecutive loss. The strategy focuses on 5Ps – Places, Planes, Product, People, and Productivity to find new sources of revenue, deliver more value to its customers and improve efficiency and productivity. It has launched 13 new routes since 2017, introduced a wide range of changes to its service, including bringing back hot meals on its most busy route between Hong Kong and Taipei. The airline has also invested significantly in other hard product and digital offerings such as an upgraded website, new or refurbished lounges across its network, including the first airline lounge yoga studio. Wi-Fi was introduced in 2017 and will be retrofitted across its fleet by 2020.
Acquisition of HK Express
On 27 March 2019, Cathay Pacific officially announced it would acquire HK Express, the only low-cost carrier in Hong Kong. It cost Cathay Pacific in total HK$4.93 billion.
Hong Kong protests
During the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, Cathay Pacific employees participated in protests at Hong Kong International Airport. The Beijing government, which is a shareholder in Cathay Pacific, ordered Cathay to suspend any employees who participated in the protest. Cathay Pacific later suspended a pilot who was arrested during a protest.
COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic led to travel bans and significantly reduced flight demands, which caused Cathay Pacific to cut international flights in response. In 2020, 96% of all flights from March to May were cancelled, while the group's subsidiary HK Express suspended all flight operations from 23 March to 30 April 2020, due to reduced demand. At one point during the crisis, only 582 passengers flew with Cathay Pacific in an entire day.
In December 2020, the company said that it expected losses in the second half higher than the losses of the first half due to low demand, restructuring charges and impairments on its fleet.
In 2021, the company posted a record annual loss of $2.8 billion for 2020. It was also announced that the company would cut an additional 8,500 jobs.
In June 2021, the company said that losses in 2021 are expected to be lower than US$1.27 billion in 2020, due to cost-saving measures and strong demand for cargo flights.
Recapitalisation and government bailout
On 9 June 2020, Cathay Pacific, Swire Pacific and Air China halted stock trade pending the announcement. On 10 June, Cathay Pacific and the Government of Hong Kong jointly announced a HK$39 billion recapitalization plan and rescue package for Cathay Pacific.
Destinations
As of December 2022, Cathay Pacific serves 74 destinations including charter and cargo services, in 29 countries across Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania.
Fleet
Cathay Pacific operates a fleet of narrow-body and wide-body passenger aircraft composed of the Airbus A321, Airbus A321neo, Airbus A330, Airbus A350 XWB, and Boeing 777 aircraft. The airline also operates a fleet of 20 Boeing 747 freighters.
Current fleet
As of February 2023, Cathay Pacific operates the following aircraft: Since its inception in 1946, the Cathay Pacific fleet has operated many types of aircraft. The first aircraft was a World War II surplus Douglas DC-3, named Betsy. the first aircraft for Cathay Pacific, is now a permanent exhibit in the Hong Kong Science Museum.
Accidents and incidents
Cathay Pacific had ten incidents and accidents over its history, although none have resulted in a hull loss or loss of life since 1972. Cathay Pacific is generally regarded to have a good safety reputation and has been rated as one of the world's safest airlines.
Phosphate
A phosphate is a salt of phosphoric acid. Phosphates are important in biochemistry. Phosphates have the formula PO43- and a molar mass of 94.973 g/mol. An example of a phosphate is sodium phosphate. Three different types of phosphates are known. They are orthophosphate, PO43-; metaphosphate, PO32-; and pyrophosphate, P2O73-. They have a combining power of 3.
Structure
Phosphates are made of one phosphorus atom surrounded by four oxygen atoms. Many phosphates do not dissolve in water.
Elsie Muller-McLave
Elsie Muller-McLave (November 25, 1895 Brooklyn – October 26, 1967 Dobbs Ferry) was a female American speed skater.
She became a National and North American Outdoor and Indoor Champion. Her best season was in 1931.
She competed in all the three women's speed skating events at the 1932 Winter Olympics which were held as demonstration sport. She finished fifth in the 500 metres event. She didn't finish the qualification round of the 1000 metres event and competed in the 1500 metres event but was eliminated in the heats.
She trained in speed skating on the Hudson River and reservoirs.
She was inducted to the National Speedskating Hall of Fame on 18 May 1968.
Personal life
In 1929, she married Archibald Carlisle McLave (1893–1971).
New York's 19th congressional district
New York's 19th congressional district is a congressional district in New York. It is in the middle of the state and north of New York City. The counties of Columbia, Delaware, Greene, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan, and Ulster are all in the district, and parts of Broome, Dutchess, Montgomery, and Rensselaer counties are also in the district. The 19th district borders Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut to the east, and Pennsylvania to the southwest. The district is represented by no one since 2022.
LGBT rights in Peru
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Peru may face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Both male and female same-sex sexual activity is legal in Peru. However, houses headed by same-sex couples are not eligible for the same legal protections available to opposite-sex couples.
In January 2017, the ex-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski stabled a rule prohibiting all types of discrimination and hate crimes by sexual orientation. On January 9, 2017, a same-sex couple between a Peruvian citizen and a Mexican citizen started a process to legalize same-sex marriage between those. The 7th Constitutional Court of Lima was in favor of recognizing same-sex marriage, performed on Mexico after. However, the Supreme Court of Peru declined its request.
Movimiento Homosexual de Lima
In the 1980s, a foundation called Movimiento Homosexual de Lima (MHOL) started to fight for more LGBT rights. It was founded by a LGBT activist and ex-politician Óscar Ugarteche. In 2014, there was some cases of discrimination against LGBT people in MHOL. One example was to the MHOL's president.
History
In their old civilizations, like the Moche and Chimu culture, homosexuality was seen as normal; there are ceramics about LGBT persons engaging in sexual activity between same-sex couples.
Markus von Ahlen
Markus von Ahlen (born 1 January 1971) is a German football manager and a former player. He manages the Under-19 squad of Bayer Leverkusen.
List of countries in the 1870s
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Cook Islands Rarotonga
Markus von Ahlen
Honours
Bayer Leverkusen
Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Kapoor (born 12 March 1954) is a British-Indian sculptor. He was born in Mumbai. He works in London. His most famous sculpture is the Cloud Gate, a bean-shaped sculpture in Grant Park, Chicago.
List of countries in the 1870s
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South African Republic Transvaal
Anish Kapoor
Honors
Kapoor won the Turner Prize and Premio Duemilia.
In 2013, Queen Elizabeth II knighted Anish Kapoor.
Black paint fights
Anish Kapoor is also famous for a fight with other artists about black paint. When scientists invented a material called "Vantablack", Kapoor made a deal with them: He bought exclusive rights. This means he paid the company that owned Vantablack to let him be the only artist allowed to use Vantablack in art. Vantablack could be used to paint something so black that a flat circle would look like a deep hole. Other artists were angry with Kapoor because they wanted to use this paint too. One artist, Stuart Semple, made other paints, for example "Pinkest Pink" and "Better Black", and wrote on his website that Kapoor could not have any. Anyone buying the paint had to promise not to give any to Kapoor. Kapoor got some Pinkest Pink anyway and put a picture of himself on Instagram.
Islip, New York
Islip is a town in Suffolk County, New York.
Jeff Corey
Jeff Corey (Arthur Zwerling; August 10, 1914 – August 16, 2002) was an American stage, voice, movie, television, radio actor, movie director, and teacher. He was known for his role as Luke Benson in Superman and the Mole Men.
Corey was born on August 10, 1914 in Brooklyn, New York City. Corey was married to Hope Corey from 1938 until his death in 2002. They had three children. Corey died on August 16, 2002 after he fell in his house in Santa Monica, California, aged 88.
Laredo, Texas
History
Laredo was founded by Don Tomas Sanchez under the name of Villa de San Agustin de Laredo in 1755 in a colony called Nuevo Santander in New Spain. Today, most of Nuevo Santander is part of Texas.
Kenton County, Kentucky
Kenton County is a county in Kentucky. Its county seats are Covington and Independence.
Leon Wyczółkowski
Leon Wyczółkowski was a versatile artist, he created works using many technics - painting and graphic.
Biography
He was born in Huta Miastkowska near the Garwolin. In autumn 1875 he left to the Munich, where he start learning in the atelier of the Hungarian painter - Alexander von Wagner. In 1877 he started learning in the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków as a student of Jan Matejko. In 1880 he come back to Warsaw, when he earned his living mainly by painting portraits. In 1880 he moved to Ukraine where he spend more then 10 years of his life. In this Ukrainian period he painted his most famous pictures presenting rural life. In October 1895 he got a job as a lecturer in the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
In 1922 he handed over a collection of asian art to the National Museum in Poznań. For the donation, the painter received the manor house in Gościeradz near Bydgoszcz. He moved to the Gościeradź, where he created atelier. He died from pneumonia in 1936 in Warsaw. Gathering crowds funeral took place in Bydgoszcz. He was buried in the cemetery in Wtelno.
In 1937 Franciszka Wyczółkowska - wife of painter handed over to the city of Bydgoszcz 425 pictures and graphics, sketchbooks, personal things and atelier equipment of Leon Wyczółkowski. Since then, the regional museum in Bydgoszcz has been gradually expanding its collection by purchasing more works by the artist.
Hazebrouck
Hazebrouck (, Hazebroek,, Oazebroeke) is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 21,353 people lived there.
Špiro Guberina
Špiro Guberina (1 March 1933 – 27 November 2020) was a Croatian actor. He was born in Šibenik, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. His career began in 1957. He was known for his roles as Marko in The Secret of an Old Attic (1984), Stari in Agonija (1998) and as the Priest in The Last Will (2001).
Guberina died on 27 November 2020 in Zagreb, aged 87.
Rhythm game
Rhythm game, or rhythm action, is a type of music-themed action video game. These games mostly focus either on dancing or simulating the playing of musical instruments. Players must press buttons in time with commands from the game, which are in time with the rhythm of a song. Doing so will cause the game's protagonist or avatar to dance or play their instrument correctly, thus achieving a greater score. The game can be played with a hand-held controller, though different control devices have been made to play rhythm games, such as guitar- and drum-shaped controllers for musical instrument games, and pressure-sensitive pads (called dance mats) that the player must step on for dancing games. The Kinect for the Xbox 360 allows the player to use their whole body to control the game by tracking their movements. Some games have a multi-player mode, where players can play as members of a band or dance crew, or compete against each other.
The 1996 title PaRappa the Rapper was the first influential rhythm game. The basic design of the game became a pattern that later rhythm games followed. In 1997, Konami's Beatmania started popularity for rhythm games in Japan. The company's music division, Bemani, released many music games over the next several years. The most successful of these was dance mat game Dance Dance Revolution, which was also the only one to achieve large-scale success outside of Japan. The game's style was imitated by many other games, until the release of Harmonix's Guitar Hero. The game was inspired by similar, earlier Japanese games, but Harmonix added rock music aimed at a Western audience. The success of the game revived the genre and two hugely successful franchises were born in Guitar Hero and the later Rock Band. The success of both expanded the console video game market and its demographics. By 2008, rhythm games were considered to be one of the most popular video game genres, behind other action games. However, because there were so many spin-offs from the core titles in 2009, there was a nearly 50% drop in sales for music games, causing them to scale-back plans for further expansion in 2010.
Definition and game design
Rhythm game, or rhythm action, is a subgenre of action game that challenges a player's sense of rhythm, and includes dance games such as Dance Dance Revolution and other music-based games such as Donkey Konga and Guitar Hero. These games challenge the player to press the right button at the right time: the screen shows which button the player should press next, and the game awards points for being on the beat. The genre also includes games that measure both rhythm and pitch, in order to test a player's singing ability. In addition to rhythm, some games may challenge the player to control their volume by measuring how hard they press each button. While songs can be sight read without having performed them before, players usually practice to master more difficult songs and settings. Other rhythm games offer a challenge similar to that of Simon says, where the player must watch, remember, and repeat complex sequences of button-presses.
In some rhythm games, the screen will display an avatar who performs in response to the player's button-presses. However, they are usually in the background, and the avatar is less important to the player than it is to spectators. In single-player mode, the player's avatar will compete against a computer-controlled opponent, while multiplayer mode will allow two player-controlled avatars to compete head-to-head. The popularity of rhythm games has created a market for different controllers. These include a variety of controllers which look like musical instruments, such as guitars, drums, or maracas. A dance mat, for use in dancing games, requires the player to step on pressure-sensitive pads. Traditional control pads may also be used.
Origins and popularity in Japan (1970's - 2000)
Dance Dance Revolution, released in 1998, was a rhythm game in which players danced on pressure sensitive pads in time with on-screen commands. The game was highly successful not only in Japan but globally, unlike games such as GuitarFreaks, DrumMania and Beatmania (though Beatmania had some success in Europe). and pump it up in a similar rhythm game.
Released the same year, Enix's Bust a Groove revolved around similar dancing themes to Dance Dance Revolution but employed a more conventional input method. The game featured competitive one-on-one "battles" and also allowed the player more freedom than normally found in rhythm games.
Vib-Ribbon was released by NanaOn-Sha (the creator of PaRappa the Rapper) in 1999, and also did not use instrument-shaped controllers. In this game, players had to maneuver the protagonist through an obstacle course by pressing buttons at the correct time. These courses were generated in a way that depended on the background music and players could load their own music to play along. While it was praised for its unique style and timeless artistry, its simple vector graphics proved difficult to market and the game was never released in North America. Bemani's Samba de Amigo, released in 1999 and on Dreamcast in 2000, featured maraca-shaped, motion sensor controllers. The game made use of "social gaming", allowing two player gameplay and providing a spectacle for onlookers. In 2001, Taiko no Tatsujin combined traditional Japanese drums with contemporary pop music, and became highly successful in Japanese arcades. The game was later released on consoles in the West (as Taiko Drum Master) and the franchise continues to receive new installments in Japan. Gitaroo Man featured a guitar-playing protagonist, 4 years before the release of Guitar Hero, though the game employed a conventional rather than guitar-shaped controller. Gitaroo Man's creator, Keiichi Yano, further created Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, a rhythm game for the Nintendo DS using its touchscreen features, which was a highly demanded import title and led to a sequel in Japan and a Western variation of the game in Elite Beat Agents.
Dave Willis
David "Dave" Willis (born May 1, 1970) is an American voice actor, writer, and producer. He is best known for his work on the Adult Swim programs Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Squidbillies.
Rhythm game
Popularity in the West (2001–2008)
Harmonix, a company formed from a computer music group at MIT in 1995, released Frequency in 2001. The game allowed the player to control multiple instruments and gave a feeling of more creative control. The game was well-reviewed, but its abstract style did not allow the player to give a "performance" as in other games and thus proved difficult to market. Frequency was followed by a similar game, Amplitude in 2003. Harmonix later released more socially driven, karaoke-themed music games in Karaoke Revolution and SingStar (2003 and 2004 respectively). Donkey Konga, developed by Namco for Nintendo and released in 2003 (2004 in North America) achieved widespread success due to its use of Nintendo's Donkey Kong franchise.