Central Sulawesi (Indonesian: "Sulawesi Tengah") is a province of Indonesia. It is at the center of the island of Sulawesi. The capital and largest city is Palu. The population was 2,633,420 in the 2010 census. In 2014, the government reported the population as 2,839,290. The area of Central Sulawesi is
Gorontalo
Gorontalo (Gorontaloan: "Hulontalo") is a province of Indonesia. It is on the island of Sulawesi. Gorontalo is part of the Minahasa Peninsula. Gorontalo was part of the province of North Sulawesi until it became a new, separate province on 5 December 2000. The provincial capital and largest city is Gorontalo City.
Like many Indonesian provinces, Islam is the majority religion. Islam came to Gorontalo in the 15th century from Ternate and Bone. Non-govermental Islamic organisations such as Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah have offices in Gorontalo.
Christians are the second-largest population in Gorontalo. Most Christians are immigrants from North Sulawesi and other parts of Indonesia. They are 2.19% of the population. There are several churches in Gorontalo.
Other religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism are mostly followed by immigrants from other parts of Indonesia.
Indonesian is the official language of the province. Road signs and government documents are in Indonesian. However, Gorontaloan language is the most common spoken language in the province. There are several other languages that are similar and may be dialects of Gorontaloan. These include: Suwawa language, Atinggola language, Limboto language, Kwandang language, Tilamuta language and Sumawata language.
Gorontaloan is related to languages from North Sulawesi and the Philippines. Gorontaloan is written in the Latin alphabet. Gorontaloan is the language of everyday life. However, Indonesian language is used in schools, the media, and government.
Lowell Mason
Lowell Mason (January 8, 1792 - August 11, 1872) was an important person in American church music. He composed over 1,600 hymn tunes. Some of them are sung even in the 21st century.
Mason's most well-known tunes include the arrangement of "Joy to the World" and "Bethany". The latter is his setting to the hymn text "Nearer, My God, to Thee".
Mason was responsible for bringing music to American public schools. He is considered to be the first important music educator in the United States.
Mason was born in Medfield, Massachusetts. He died in Orange, New Jersey at age 80.
Boalemo Regency
Boalemo Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of Gorontalo.
Bone Bolango Regency
Bone Bolango Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of Gorontalo.
Gorontalo Regency
Gorontalo Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of Gorontalo.
Pohuwato Regency
Pohuwato Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of Gorontalo.
North Gorontalo Regency
North Gorontalo Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of Gorontalo.
West Sulawesi
West Sulawesi () is a province of Indonesia. It is on Sulawesi island. Its capital is Mamuju. The population was 1,158,651 in the 2010 Census. In 2014, the government reported the population as 1,284,620. The area of the province is 16,796.19 km. The province was established in 2004. It separated from South Sulawesi.
Main industries in the province are mining, agriculture and fishing.
The population in the 2010 census was 1,158,651. 171,356 people live below the poverty line of Indonesia.
Frontier(s)
Frontier(s) () is a 2007 horror movie. It was first shown at the Agde Film Festival in 2007. It had a limited release in the United States. The movie was originally rated NC-17 by the Motion Picture Association of America. The movie makers didn't want this rating, so the movie was released unrated. Earlier, it was shown at the After Dark Horrorfest.
A far right candidate is elected to the French presidency. That causes violent riots and protests in Paris.
A street gang made up of Muslim Arab teens hopes to get away from Paris. They need cash, though. The teens: Alex, Tom, Farid, a pregnant woman named Yasmine and her brother Sami perform a robbery during the chaos. Sami is shot. The group splits up. Alex and Yasmine take Sami to a hospital.
At the hospital, emergency room staff tell the police about Sami. Sami wants Yasmine to run before the police catch her. Sami's dying wish is he doesn't want Yasmine to have an abortion. Alex and Yasmine run away. Sami dies at the hospital.
Yasmine and Alex are chained in a muddy-floored pig pen. Alex breaks Yasmine's chains and allows her to run away. When the captors find out Yasmine has escaped, the family patriarch, von Geisler, cuts Alex's Achilles tendons.
Back in the pig pen, von Geisler grants Alex his last wish. Alex is killed.
A woman named Eva tells Yasmine she (Eva) is obedient. The family promised her that her parents would come back for her someday. Eva and Hans care for rejected children in the mine.
Eva takes Yasmine down to dinner. The family is waiting for her. They find out that Von Geisler is a former and still practicing Nazi. He has lived in the inn since the end of World War II. Von Geisler offers a toast to the new person. Yasmine quickly grabs a large knife. She takes von Geisler hostage. Hans grabs a shotgun. He shoots von Geisler dead. Hans himself is shot dead by Karl.
"Frontier(s)" was going to be one of the 8 Films to Die For at Horrorfest 2007. However, the United States' MPAA Ratings Board gave the movie an NC-17. So the movie was instead released unrated in ten U.S. theaters for one week. It was released on DVD the next week.
Manohla Dargis from "The New York Times" gave the movie high marks. She said: "There's enough blood in the unrated film "Frontier(s)" to satiate even the most ravenous gore hounds. The real surprise here is that this creepy, contemporary gross-out also has some ideas, visual and otherwise.
Rotten Tomatoes' approval rating was 55% for the movie. That was based on 20 reviews.
Jim Ridley from "The Village Voice", gave the movie a negative review. He said: "Give the French a taste of neo-fascism, race riots and paramilitary crackdowns, and they seek solace in the American cinema's current favorite pastime - vigorously art-directed torture porn.
F. W. Bernstein
F. W. Bernstein (born Fritz Weigle, 4 March 1938 – 20 December 2018) was a German poet, cartoonist, satirist and academic. He worked for the satirical monthly "Pardon". He was professor of caricature and comics at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1984 to 1999. He was one of the founding members of the "Neue Frankfurter Schule", which published the satirical "Titanic".
Bernstein died on 20 December 2018 in Berlin at the age of 80.
Gerard Bernacki
Gerard Bernacki (3 November 1942 – 21 December 2018) was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1967. He was titular bishop of "Sala Consilina" and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Katowice, Poland, from 1988 to 2012.
Bernacki died on 21 December 2018 in Prudnik, Poland at the age of 76. He was buried in Katowice.
Jiko Luveni
Jiko Fatafehi Luveni ( – 22 December 2018) was a Fijian politician. She was Speaker of the Parliament of Fiji. She was a member of the FijiFirst party.
On 22 December 2018, Luveni died at the age of 72 after a short illness.
Simcha Rotem
Simcha Rotem (born Simcha (Szymon) Rathajzer; 24 February 1924 – 22 December 2018) was a Polish-Israeli veteran. He was a member of the Jewish underground in Warsaw. He was the head courier of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB), which planned and executed the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis.
He was one of the last two surviving Jewish fighters in the Warsaw uprising and the last surviving fighter from the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising.
Rotem died on 22 December 2018 in Jerusalem from a long-illness at the age of 94.
Hellsing