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20231101.en_13194570_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Arab%20Commercial%20Bank | British Arab Commercial Bank | The British Arab Commercial Bank PLC (BACB) is an international wholesale bank incorporated in the United Kingdom that is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and regulated by the PRA and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It was founded in 1972 as UBAF Limited, adopted its current name in 1996, and registered as a public limited company in 2009. The bank has clients trading in and out of developing markets in the Middle East and Africa. |
20231101.en_13194570_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Arab%20Commercial%20Bank | British Arab Commercial Bank | BACB has a head office in London, and three representative offices in Algiers in Algeria, Tripoli in Libya and Abidjan in the Cote D'Ivoire. The bank has 17 sister banks across Europe, Asia and Africa. It is owned by three main shareholders - the Libyan Foreign Bank (87.80%), Banque Centrale Populaire (6.10%) and Banque Extérieure d'Algérie (6.10%). |
20231101.en_13194570_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Arab%20Commercial%20Bank | British Arab Commercial Bank | The bank provides services of trade finance, treasury, real estate lending, banking and payment services, and asset distribution and syndication. The current Chairman is Dr Yousef Abdullah Al Awadi, and the current Chief Executive Officer is Paul Jennings. |
20231101.en_13194570_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Arab%20Commercial%20Bank | British Arab Commercial Bank | The bank was founded in 1972 as UBAF Limited and changed its name to UBAF Bank Limited in 1977. It began as an affiliate of Midland Bank, and became an affiliate of HSBC when HSBC took over Midland Bank in 1992. The bank adopted the name British Arab Commercial Bank in 1996. |
20231101.en_13194570_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Arab%20Commercial%20Bank | British Arab Commercial Bank | In 2009, Commercial Bank of Egypt sold its 8% stake. At the time, the other shareholders were HSBC (49%), Libyan Foreign Bank (26%), Bank Al-Maghrib (8%), and Banque Extérieure d’Algérie (8%). Banque Centrale Populaire eventually bought out Bank Al-Maghrib and thus gained a stake in BACB. |
20231101.en_13194570_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Arab%20Commercial%20Bank | British Arab Commercial Bank | In 2010, HSBC sold its 49% shareholding to the Libyan Foreign Bank ("LFB"), a subsidiary of the Central Bank of Libya ("CBL"). Its share is 87.80%, with the other shareholders being Banque Centrale Populaire (6.10%), and Banque Extérieure d’Algérie (6.10%). On 2 June 2009, the Bank changed its corporate status from that of a private to a public company. |
20231101.en_13194570_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Arab%20Commercial%20Bank | British Arab Commercial Bank | In 2016, the bank opened a new representative office in Abidjan, to add to its existing representative offices in Algiers, and in Tripoli. |
20231101.en_13194570_7 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Arab%20Commercial%20Bank | British Arab Commercial Bank | BACB aims to facilitate cross-border trade through a sustainable revenue base with its chosen clients and markets. The bank is known for dealing with markets with which larger banks are often hesitant to do business, such as Middle Eastern and North African markets. The bank serves the rest of the African continent through relationships with a number of financial institutions and correspondent banks, particularly in Nigeria and Ghana. |
20231101.en_13194570_8 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Arab%20Commercial%20Bank | British Arab Commercial Bank | Most notably, the bank works with Saf Cacao in Cote D'Ivoire, and Casablanca-based steel company Acier Longofer in Morocco, becoming the first commercial bank to fund the latter. |
20231101.en_13194570_9 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Arab%20Commercial%20Bank | British Arab Commercial Bank | While the majority of the bank's clients are African and Middle Eastern companies and institutions, working with them brings it into regular contact with European exporters and importers. The bank also has sister banks in European countries, including Spain, Italy and France. |
20231101.en_13194570_10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Arab%20Commercial%20Bank | British Arab Commercial Bank | After a shaky performance over the preceding few years, BACB regained a stable position in 2016, and made a profit of £2.6 million before tax deductions. The bank's total assets also came to £2.9 billion that same year. The successful financial year also included an 11% increase in operating income to £42.7 million. |
20231101.en_13194583_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth%20Skyranger | Commonwealth Skyranger | The Commonwealth Skyranger, first produced as the Rearwin Skyranger, was the last design of Rearwin Aircraft before the company was purchased by a new owner and renamed Commonwealth Aircraft. It was a side-by-side, two-seat, high-wing taildragger. |
20231101.en_13194583_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth%20Skyranger | Commonwealth Skyranger | The Rearwin company had specialized in aircraft powered by small radial engines, such as their Sportster and Cloudster, and had even purchased the assets of LeBlond Engines to make small radial engines in-house in 1937. By 1940, however, it was clear Rearwin would need a design powered by a small horizontally opposed engine to remain competitive. Intended for sport pilots and flying businessmen, the "Rearwin Model 165" first flew on April 9, 1940. Originally named the "Ranger," Ranger Engines (who also sold several engines named "Ranger") protested, and Rearwin renamed the design "Skyranger." The overall design and construction methods allowed Rearwin to take orders for Skyrangers then deliver the aircraft within 10 weeks. |
20231101.en_13194583_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth%20Skyranger | Commonwealth Skyranger | The Skyranger's development in 1940 came shortly before the U.S. entered World War II. At that time, the U.S. government was purchasing almost any airplane in the two-seat, 50-90 horsepower class as training aircraft for the Civilian Pilot Training Program ("CPT Program" or "CPTP"), intended to develop tens of thousands of pilots for the possibility of U.S. involvement in the war. However, unlike its contemporaries heavily used in the CPTP such as the Piper Cub, Taylorcraft, Interstate Cadet, and Porterfield Collegiate, the Skyranger was rejected by the government for CPTP use as too challenging to fly. |
20231101.en_13194583_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth%20Skyranger | Commonwealth Skyranger | By 1942, Rearwin had produced only 82 Skyrangers (compared to hundreds or thousands of its competitors' planes) when World War II forced production to halt. |
20231101.en_13194583_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth%20Skyranger | Commonwealth Skyranger | In 1945 Commonwealth Aircraft re-established production of the Skyranger. The first 12 had to be hand-built, as the original jigs and tooling were recycled or scrapped during World War II. In 1946, production shifted to Valley Stream, New York. the Commonwealth Skyranger had minor modifications but was essentially the same as the pre-war aircraft. Commonwealth went bankrupt in 1946, and was dissolved in March of 1947, partly because the pre-war design failed to compete with new designs and cheap war surplus aircraft. |
20231101.en_13194583_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth%20Skyranger | Commonwealth Skyranger | The Skyranger was a high-wing light plane seating two people side-by-side. It had a conventional landing gear with a tailwheel. It was constructed with a fabric-covered steel tube fuselage and wooden wing (with a semi-symmetrical airfoil cross-section. The Skyranger was powered by a variety of opposed engines made by Continental Motors and the Franklin Engine Company, ranging from 65 to 90 horsepower. It sold for $1,795 to $2,400. |
20231101.en_13194583_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth%20Skyranger | Commonwealth Skyranger | The Skyranger handled differently from the other planes in its class (such as the Cub, Taylorcraft, Cadet, Collegiate, and Aeronca Chief), with a "heavy-airplane feel" (heavy controls, exceptional stability). With an unusually large vertical stabilizer for its size, the Skyranger was exceptionally susceptible to crosswinds during landing and taxiing. Unusually for the time and aircraft in its class, the Skyranger was also designed with slots in its outer wings to allow controllability at lower speeds. |
20231101.en_13194583_7 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth%20Skyranger | Commonwealth Skyranger | Prototype of the Skyranger family and first made public as the "Ranger," it featured a 65hp Continental A65 engine. The 65hp engine was later offered as a lower-cost option. At least 1 built. |
20231101.en_13194583_8 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth%20Skyranger | Commonwealth Skyranger | Initial production version, the model number was increased to reflect the use of a 75hp Continental A65 engine as standard. |
20231101.en_13194583_9 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth%20Skyranger | Commonwealth Skyranger | Up-engined version of the Skyranger 175 using the 80hp Franklin Engines' 4AC-176-F3. The engine change required a new cowling, but introduced an automotive-type starter and generator. New options increased the gross weight of the plane by 100lbs, so the fuselage tubing was strengthened. |
20231101.en_13194583_10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth%20Skyranger | Commonwealth Skyranger | A further up-engined version of the Skyranger 180F using the 90hp Franklin Engines' 4AC-199-E3. 1 built. |
20231101.en_13194583_11 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth%20Skyranger | Commonwealth Skyranger | Commonwealth Skyranger 175 with an 85hp Continental engine. This was the standard version produced by Commonwealth Aircraft Company. |
20231101.en_13194583_12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth%20Skyranger | Commonwealth Skyranger | 1 Commonwealth Skyranger 185 is on display at the Western Antique Aeroplane & Auto Museum, Hood River, Oregon. |
20231101.en_13194583_13 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth%20Skyranger | Commonwealth Skyranger | 1 Commonwealth Skyranger 185 is on display at the North Carolina Transportation Museum, Spencer, North Carolina. |
20231101.en_13194601_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSWA | PSWA | Professional Social Workers' Association (India), an association of Indian / Tamil Nadu social work professionals |
20231101.en_13194615_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Social%20Workers | Association of Social Workers | The Association of Social Workers (ASW) was the main professional body for non-specialised social workers in the United Kingdom. It was established as the British Federation of Social Workers (BFSW) in 1935 and changed its name in 1951. From 1949 it opened its membership to all social workers and from 1951 promoted itself as the body to join to work towards a unified profession. |
20231101.en_13194615_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Social%20Workers | Association of Social Workers | In 1970 the association finally achieved its aim by merging with six other social workers' organisations to form the British Association of Social Workers, having been a member of the Standing Conference of Organisations of Social Workers which had been led by Kay McDougall. |
20231101.en_13194660_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Time%20I%20Saw%20Archie | The Last Time I Saw Archie | The Last Time I Saw Archie is a 1961 comedy film set in the waning days of World War II. Robert Mitchum stars as Arch Hall Sr., a lazy, scheming American in the Civilian Pilot Training Program, an aviation school for pilots too old to fly aircraft but not too old to fly military gliders and liaison aircraft. Jack Webb produced, directed and costarred. |
20231101.en_13194660_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Time%20I%20Saw%20Archie | The Last Time I Saw Archie | The film is currently unavailable on DVD. There is an Internet petition to support a home video release. The campaign was initiated by the Jack Webb Fan Club Los Angeles Chapter. |
20231101.en_13194660_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Time%20I%20Saw%20Archie | The Last Time I Saw Archie | In flying school, lazy Private Archie Hall (Robert Mitchum) somehow dominates everyone around him, fellow trainees, sergeants and officers alike, and manages to avoid doing any work. Bill Bowers (Jack Webb), a Hollywood screenwriter in civilian life, becomes his sidekick. An initially hostile, suspicious trio of privates, Sam Beacham (Louis Nye), Russell Drexler (Joe Flynn) and Frank Ostrow (Del Moore), are penalized for opposing him and eventually smarten up and become his pals as well. Archie exudes so much self-confidence that Master Sergeant Stanley Erlenheim (Robert Strauss) becomes convinced that he is an undercover G-2 (counterintelligence) general. Erlenheim and his underling, Sergeant Malcolm Greenbriar (Harvey Lembeck), arrange it so that Archie and his buddies are given permanent passes and a personal jeep, so they can leave the training base whenever they please. Archie sees Cindy Hamilton (France Nuyen) every night, while Bill pairs off with Peggy Kramer (Martha Hyer). Archie also arranges for the three other privates to acquire gorgeous girlfriends as well. |
20231101.en_13194660_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Time%20I%20Saw%20Archie | The Last Time I Saw Archie | As time goes by, Bill comes to suspect that Cindy is a Japanese spy, but he cannot get Archie to take it seriously (even though Cindy keeps giving him money in outsized old bills). It turns out that Cindy actually is a spy, but for American counterintelligence, despite the opposition of her guardian, Colonel Edwin Martin, the base commander. Sergeants Erlenheim and Greenbriar get into trouble when they break down the door of her apartment, thinking they will catch her in the act of reporting to the enemy, only to find her presenting her findings to Martin. |
20231101.en_13194660_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Time%20I%20Saw%20Archie | The Last Time I Saw Archie | As the war winds down, requirements change and the trainees are given the choice of retraining to become either aerial gunners or glider pilots. Archie and Bill opt for the latter, despite the supposedly high casualty rate, so the other three do the same, only to discover that Archie and Bill have gotten themselves safe jobs at the base. However, the war ends before any of them see combat. |
20231101.en_13194660_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Time%20I%20Saw%20Archie | The Last Time I Saw Archie | Archie invites himself to spend a week with Bill in Hollywood. Bill is shown hard at work in his tiny office at a film studio; Archie has somehow become his boss, and has just been promoted to head of the studio. Bill jokes about seeing him in the White House. A later newspaper headline states that Governor Hall has decided to run for president. |
20231101.en_13194660_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Time%20I%20Saw%20Archie | The Last Time I Saw Archie | The movie cost nearly $2 million to produce, Webb's most expensive production at that time, but only grossed about half its production cost. |
20231101.en_13194660_7 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Time%20I%20Saw%20Archie | The Last Time I Saw Archie | The main character in The Last Time I Saw Archie, played by Robert Mitchum was based on Arch Hall Sr., whom screenwriter William Bowers knew in the war. However, the film was made without the permission of Hall, who successfully sued the producers and won a settlement. The film also features the debuts of baseball pitcher Don Drysdale and football quarterback Billy Kilmer in cameos. Portions of the film were shot at Fort MacArthur. |
20231101.en_13194660_8 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Time%20I%20Saw%20Archie | The Last Time I Saw Archie | The film review in The New York Times summarized The Last Time I Saw Archie as part of the "too many cooks syndrome", "... especially military chefs—spoiling the broth appears to be painfully true of 'The Last Time I Saw Archie'." The Los Angeles Times review said, "The most irritating fact is that it could have been a really hilarious picture, but every time the action shows promise of better things to come, it bogs down in the same old static situations and these receive no help from William Brower's script or Jack Webb's direction." |
20231101.en_13194660_9 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Time%20I%20Saw%20Archie | The Last Time I Saw Archie | In an unusual (if not entirely singular) approach to tie-in fiction, Jack Webb's production company decided to create the impression that the film was based on a pre-existing book. They commissioned a young Robert Carlisle (who would later distinguish himself as a war historian) to novelize the Bowers script, which he did, under his by-line, delivering it as the first-person memoir of a character named Burns instead of Bowers (first name still Bill). The adaptation was published as Archie (suggesting that this was the screenplay's original title) by Pocket Books in the guise of a non tie-in, standalone novel, in February 1960, 15 months prior to release of the film, likely prior to the start of production as well. (The only "tell" indicating the book's progeny is on the copyright page: In tiny print, the rights holder is Jack Webb's company, Mark VII Productions.) Novelizations of the era were commonly released weeks, even months, prior to a film's release, in the hopes that a strong selling book might drum up interest and even critic-proof the movie; but to have one designed to let the reader infer that it was the basis for the film that it was itself based on…well, it was a strategy worthy of Arch Hall himself. The novelization's subsequent tie-in edition, published under the revised title, The Last Time I Saw Archie—its cover featuring Nuyen, Mitchum, Webb and Hyer with arms linked, walking forward—didn't spill the beans either. Indeed, in small print, the cover gets to legitimately claim, "(Original title: ARCHIE)", extending the illusion that the book came before the uncredited screenplay. |
20231101.en_13194660_10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Time%20I%20Saw%20Archie | The Last Time I Saw Archie | Weaver, Tom. Eye on Science Fiction: 20 Interviews with Classic SF and Horror Filmmakers. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2003. . |
20231101.en_13194660_11 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Time%20I%20Saw%20Archie | The Last Time I Saw Archie | Weaver, Tom. I Talked with a Zombie: Interviews with 23 Veterans of Horror and Sci-Fi Films and Television. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2014. . |
20231101.en_13194677_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrotriche | Acrotriche | Acrotriche is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. Species occur in all states of Australia. They include: |
20231101.en_13194680_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Havilland%20DH.37 | De Havilland DH.37 | The de Havilland DH.37 was a British three-seat sporting biplane of the 1920s designed and built by de Havilland for aviator Alan Samuel Butler. |
20231101.en_13194680_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Havilland%20DH.37 | De Havilland DH.37 | The first example was named Sylvia for the sister of Alan Samuel Butler. It flew extensively for five years before being converted to a single-seater and having its engine upgraded to a A.D.C. Nimbus. It crashed in June 1927. |
20231101.en_13194680_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Havilland%20DH.37 | De Havilland DH.37 | The second aircraft was sold to Australia, and was flown by the Controller of Civil Aviation. Sold to the Guinea Gold Company in New Guinea, it was the first aircraft flown in that country. After a forced landing at Wau aerodrome in December 1937 it was put out of commission. |
20231101.en_13194689_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20freshwater%20ecoregions%20of%20Latin%20America%20and%20the%20Caribbean | List of freshwater ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean | This is a list of freshwater ecoregions in Latin America and the Caribbean, as identified by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). |
20231101.en_13194689_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20freshwater%20ecoregions%20of%20Latin%20America%20and%20the%20Caribbean | List of freshwater ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean | The WWF divides the Earth's land surface into ecoregions, defined as "large area[s] of land or water containing a distinct assemblage of natural communities and species". Ecoregions are grouped into complexes and bioregions, defined as, "a complex of ecoregions that share a similar biogeographic history, and thus often have strong affinities at higher taxonomic levels (e.g. genera, families)." The Earth's land surface is divided into eight biogeographic realms. Latin America corresponds, roughly, to the Neotropical realm, although northern Mexico lies within the Nearctic. |
20231101.en_13194689_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20freshwater%20ecoregions%20of%20Latin%20America%20and%20the%20Caribbean | List of freshwater ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean | Many consider this classification to be quite decisive, and some propose these as stable borders for bioregional democracy initiatives. |
20231101.en_13194689_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20freshwater%20ecoregions%20of%20Latin%20America%20and%20the%20Caribbean | List of freshwater ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean | Windward and Leeward Islands (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Saba, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Eustatius) |
20231101.en_13194689_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20freshwater%20ecoregions%20of%20Latin%20America%20and%20the%20Caribbean | List of freshwater ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean | Windward and Leeward Islands (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Saba, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Eustatius) |
20231101.en_13194689_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20freshwater%20ecoregions%20of%20Latin%20America%20and%20the%20Caribbean | List of freshwater ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean | Olson, D., Dinerstein, E., Canevari, P., Davidson, I., Castro, G., Morisset, V., Abell, R., and Toledo, E.; eds. (1998). Freshwater biodiversity of Latin America and the Caribbean: A conservation assessment. Biodiversity Support Program, Washington, D.C.. |
20231101.en_13194706_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan%20Stock%20Market | Libyan Stock Market | The Libyan Stock Market (LSM) was established by Suliman Alshahmy by Decision No. (134) of the General People's Committee (GPCO), on June 3, 2006, to form a joint stock company with capital of 20 million Libyan dinars, divided into 2 million shares with a nominal value of 10 LD per share. The first phase focused on introducing financial definitions and rules, the addition of several workshop courses, and a series of agreements with the Amman Stock Exchange and Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchange and the Egyptian Company for Clearance and deposit. |
20231101.en_13194706_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan%20Stock%20Market | Libyan Stock Market | Listed market securities include the National Mills and Fodder Company, the United Insurance Company, Bank of deserts, and the Libyan Insurance Company, Sahari Bank, and the Hay Alandalus Domestic Bank. The volume of subscription on July 2, 2007, totalled 49539 shares, with a total value amounting to 346.773 LD. |
20231101.en_13194706_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan%20Stock%20Market | Libyan Stock Market | "LIBYA 18 October 2007. A cooperation agreement was signed on Monday in London between the Libyan Stock Exchange Market and London Stock Exchange." |
20231101.en_13194706_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan%20Stock%20Market | Libyan Stock Market | The agreement was signed by the Chairman of Administration and General Director of the Committee for Libyan Stock Exchange Market and the Director of the London Stock Exchange. |
20231101.en_13194706_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan%20Stock%20Market | Libyan Stock Market | The agreement provides for training teams from the Libyan Stock Exchange in Tripoli and in London to enable them to run the stock market operations. In addition there will be regular reviews of the Libyan regulations and systems, to modernize them from time to time, and for seminars and conferences organized by the London Stock Exchange. |
20231101.en_13194706_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan%20Stock%20Market | Libyan Stock Market | The Libyan Stock Market closed following the eruption of the Libyan Civil War in February 2011. It remained closed until reopening the following year on 15 March 2012. |
20231101.en_13194706_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan%20Stock%20Market | Libyan Stock Market | The Libyan Stock Exchange has normal trading sessions from 10:00am – 5:00pm Sunday-Thursday, and holidays are declared by the exchange in advance. |
20231101.en_13194710_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | Yaakov Noach Litzman (, born 2 September 1948) is an Israeli politician and former government minister. A follower of the Ger Hasidic dynasty, he heads Agudat Yisrael, part of the United Torah Judaism alliance, in the Knesset. He previously served as Minister of Health and Minister of Housing and Construction. Litzman resigned from the Knesset in June 2022, as part of a plea agreement in which he admitted criminally obstructing the extradition of accused pedophile Malka Leifer. |
20231101.en_13194710_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | Litzman was born to Holocaust survivors from Poland, in a displaced persons camp in Allied-occupied Germany. When he was two years old, the family immigrated to the United States, settling in Brooklyn, first in the East New York section and then to the Borough Park, where he grew up. In 1966, at age 17, he immigrated to Israel, and continued his Torah studies. |
20231101.en_13194710_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | Litzman became active in politics under the guidance of the then-Gerrer Rebbe, Rabbi Simcha Binem Alter. Over time, Litzman became known as the rebbe's right-hand man, a role he continues under the present Gerrer Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Arye Alter. In 1999, the present rebbe asked Litzman to join the Agudat Yisrael faction of the United Torah Judaism list for the Knesset elections that year. He was subsequently elected, and became Chairman of the Finance Committee. He headed the UTJ list for the 2003 elections, and was re-elected, again becoming the Chair of the Finance Committee. He has since served as the leader of the UTJ and Agudat Yisrael faction in the Knesset. |
20231101.en_13194710_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | Litzman was re-elected again in 2006, retaining his chairmanship of the Finance Committee, and for a fourth time in 2009, after which UTJ joined the new government, in which Litzman was appointed Deputy Minister of Health, despite having no medical training or expertise. After Litzman was re-elected in 2013, UTJ were excluded from the coalition government. However, following the 2015 elections, he was re-appointed Deputy Minister of Health. Subsequently, Litzman appointed the first non-physician to serve as general-director of the Ministry of Health, in a move that was criticized by the Israel Medical Association. Litzman was appointed on 27 August 2015, Minister of Health, after a court challenge filed by Yesh Atid. |
20231101.en_13194710_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | Litzman served on the Knesset's Internal Affairs Committee from 1999 to 2001, and as the Deputy Chairman of the Knesset Labor and Welfare Committee. As part of the coalition agreement with the ruling government of Ariel Sharon in 2001, Litzman was appointed chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, a position he held until 2003, and again from 2005 to 2007. |
20231101.en_13194710_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | He formally resigned as health minister on 26 November 2017, in protest of railroad repair work happening on the Sabbath, becoming deputy health minister instead, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominally held the office, with Litzman acting as de facto minister. |
20231101.en_13194710_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | When Netanyahu was forced to resign the health office, among others, due to the pending prosecution of three criminal cases against him, on 29 December 2019, despite a recommendation by Israeli police to criminally prosecute Litzman in two separate cases, he was again appointed health minister. The move prompted backlash, including an open letter to Netanyahu from Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Leibler calling the promotion of Litzman "a slap in the face to the Australian Jewish Community, the Australian people, the community of Australian [immigrants] in Israel, and, most shockingly, to the survivors of Malka Leifer's alleged abuse". |
20231101.en_13194710_7 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | With the Thirty-fifth government of Israel, Litzman resigned from the Knesset as part of the Norwegian Law, and was sworn in as Minister of Housing and Construction. On 13 September 2020, Litzman resigned as Minister of Housing and Construction, in protest over a nationwide coronavirus shutdown scheduled to begin over the High Holidays of Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot, beginning on the first night on Rosh HaShanah, 19 September, for at least three weeks. On 18 November, he was re-appointed as Minister of Housing and Construction. |
20231101.en_13194710_8 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | In the runup to the 2021 Israeli legislative election, it was announced that Moshe Gafni would replace Litzman as leader of UTJ in the following Knesset. After the election and with the swearing in of the Thirty-sixth government of Israel, UTJ found itself in opposition for the first time since 2015. For the first time in his political career, he was not chair of a Knesset committee, a minister or deputy minister, or leader of a party. He announced in December 2021 that he would not run for reelection to the Knesset, citing his advanced age. |
20231101.en_13194710_9 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | Litzman served as minister of health during the coronavirus pandemic, and was criticized for his handling of the crisis. Due to his lenient attitude toward enforcing health guidelines in ultra-Orthodox communities from the start of the crisis, major outbreaks appeared in ultra-Orthodox communities throughout Israel. |
20231101.en_13194710_10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | In an interview in March 2020, Litzman stated: "I am sure that the messiah will come by Passover and save us the same way God saved us during the exodus, and we were freed. The messiah will come and save us all."An open letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lamented years of neglect that left the country's health care system at a low point during the coronavirus outbreak and urged that Litzman be replaced. |
20231101.en_13194710_11 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | On 2 April 2020, Litzman and his wife tested positive for COVID-19. He was the first member of the cabinet to be infected. As a result, he self-quarantined, and began working from home. Israel's Shin Bet reviewed Litzman's phone after his diagnosis and anyone found to have been in contact with him was contacted personally.Litzman was criticized for flouting social distancing guidelines after testing positive, with senior officials accusing him of putting his colleagues' lives in danger while knowingly breaking his own ministry's safety rules. Litzman was spotted praying at the home of a fellow member of his Hasidic sect three days after government guidelines went into effect barring such services. Additionally, after the guidelines had further intensified, Litzman was again spotted praying at a synagogue just outside his home. |
20231101.en_13194710_12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | In January 2022, Litzman signed a plea deal admitting that he had criminally assisted later-convicted paedophile Malka Leifer's attempt to evade extradition to Australia. Several other charges against Litzman relating to his activities as health minister were dropped as part of the plea agreement. The plea deal required Litzman to pay a nominal fine and to resign from the Knesset, which he did on 1 June 2022. In June 2022, Litzman was replaced as head of UTJ by Yitzhak Goldknopf. |
20231101.en_13194710_13 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | In a February 2016 discussion in the Knesset about Israeli health authorities being more sensitive towards LGBT people, Litzman compared LGBT people to the sinners who danced around the Golden Calf. |
20231101.en_13194710_14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | Litzman was criticized over statements that seemed to serve the interests of the tobacco companies, including hindering efforts to curb cigarette ads. In his first tenure as deputy health minister (2009-2013), Litzman opposed warning labels and stickers despite their role in reducing the habit in other countries. Litzman argued that the images of dirty lungs and teeth aimed at discouraging children and youth from smoking were "unaesthetic." |
20231101.en_13194710_15 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | In his second tenure (starting 2015), Litzman was criticized for opposing legislation prohibiting tobacco advertising in newspapers. Litzman argued that such laws would bankrupt newspapers, which rely on the advertising revenue. It was pointed out that Litzman had a conflict of interest due to his close association with ultra-Orthodox publications (Hamodia in particular) that rely on revenue from tobacco ads. Litzman had a conflict of interest concerning Hamodia, due to the fact that it is published by his Agudat Yisrael party and employs his wife. A bill was finally agreed upon after other MKs threatened to vote against a bill restricting retail operations on Shabbat and Jewish religious holidays. However, Litzman stipulated that he would only agree on condition that the ban did not include printed publications. |
20231101.en_13194710_16 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | Litzman made a plea deal on 27 January 2022 admitting to breach of trust for using his former position as deputy health minister to obstruct the extradition to Australia of Malka Leifer, who was accused and later convicted in the Adass Israel School sex abuse scandal. He had attempted to obtain false psychiatric evaluations that would deem Leifer unfit to face trial in Australia. Israeli police recommended on 6 August 2019 that Litzman be indicted for "fraud and breach of trust" (both related to the Leifer case), as well as bribery in another case. In May 2021, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced that he will indict Litzman for obstruction of justice and breach of trust. |
20231101.en_13194710_17 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov%20Litzman | Yaakov Litzman | Eli Beer, president of Israel's United Hatzalah ambulance service, criticized Litzman for refusing to allow Hatzalah's 6,000 volunteers to play a role in assisting the Health Ministry and Magen David Adom to conduct virus tests. Litzman claimed Hatzalah staff were less professional. |
20231101.en_13194746_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAM%20Football%20Awards | FAM Football Awards | The Football Association of Malaysia National Football Awards are presented to the best football local and foreign players and coaches. They have been awarded since the 2005–06 season. |
20231101.en_13194746_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAM%20Football%20Awards | FAM Football Awards | Since the establishment of the National Football Awards, it has had title sponsorship rights sold to two companies; 100plus was the most recent title sponsor. |
20231101.en_13194746_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAM%20Football%20Awards | FAM Football Awards | Formerly known as Most Favourite Goalkeeper (2005–07), now the award is called Best Goalkeeper Award. Shown below are the winners of the best goalkeeper award, as chosen by the public. |
20231101.en_13194746_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAM%20Football%20Awards | FAM Football Awards | Formerly known as Most Favourite Defender (2005–07), it is now known as Best Defender Award. Tabulated below are the winner of favourite defenders voted by public. |
20231101.en_13194746_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAM%20Football%20Awards | FAM Football Awards | Formerly known as Most Favourite Midfielder (2005–07), it is now known as Best Midfielder Award. Tabulated below are the winner of favourite midfielders voted by public. |
20231101.en_13194746_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAM%20Football%20Awards | FAM Football Awards | Formerly known as Most Favourite Striker (2005–07), it is now known as Best Striker Award. Tabulated below are the winner of favourite strikers voted by public. |
20231101.en_13194746_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAM%20Football%20Awards | FAM Football Awards | For the Most Valuable Players award, it has a winner for both local and foreign players. From 2008 to 2011, only local players were involved, because FAM had banned foreign players from participating in M-League. Formerly known as Supermokh Most Valuable Player (2011), it is now known as Most Valuable Players Award. |
20231101.en_13194746_7 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAM%20Football%20Awards | FAM Football Awards | The Golden Boot award is awarded to the top scorer of Malaysia Super League and Malaysia Premier League in that particular season. |
20231101.en_13194746_8 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAM%20Football%20Awards | FAM Football Awards | Formerly known as Most Favourite Football Association (2005–06), it is now known as Best Football Association/Club Award. |
20231101.en_13194746_9 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAM%20Football%20Awards | FAM Football Awards | Formerly known as Most Favourite Referee (2005–06), it is now known as Best Referee. In some seasons, the assistant referees were also awarded with Best Assistant Referee. |
20231101.en_13194752_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munbae-ju | Munbae-ju | Munbaeju is a Korean traditional distilled liquor that is considered one of the finest Korean spirits. Its name consists of the words munbae (문배), which means "wild pear" (Pyrus ussuriensis var. seoulensis), and ju (주; 酒), meaning "alcohol". This name is derived from its fruity scent from the wild pear, though no pear is used in its production. |
20231101.en_13194752_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munbae-ju | Munbae-ju | Munbaeju is brewed from wheat, hulled millet, Indian millet, and nuruk (fermentation starter), then distilled. |
20231101.en_13194752_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munbae-ju | Munbae-ju | Although it is South Korea's "Important Intangible Cultural Property Number 86-1", it originated from North Korea's Pyeongyang. Its origins are traced to the Goryeo Dynasty. The water used to produce Munbaeju comes from the Taedong River. A royal subject of Wang Geon presented him with home-brewed munbaeju, which his family had made with a secret recipe for generations. Wang Geon was so impressed with its taste, that he gave the subject a high-ranking position in the government. Ever since this event, Munbaeju was a wine drunk by kings, and is commonly served to important foreign dignitaries during welcoming receptions. |
20231101.en_13194753_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall%20Magruder | Marshall Magruder | Brigadier General Marshall Magruder (12 October 1885 – 4 July 1956) was born in Washington, D.C. He served in both World War I and World War II. His son was noted aircraft designer Peyton M. Magruder. BG Magruder retired from the US Army in 1946. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Section 30, Site 1092. |
20231101.en_13194754_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronius%20the%20Pythagorean | Cronius the Pythagorean | Cronius (; fl. 2nd century AD) was a celebrated Neopythagorean philosopher. He was probably a contemporary of Numenius of Apamea, who lived in the 2nd century, and he is often spoken of along with him. Nemesius mentions a work of his On Reincarnation, (), and Origen is said to have diligently studied the works of Cronius. Porphyry also states that he endeavoured to explain the fables of the Homeric poems in a philosophical manner. This is all we know about Cronius, although he appears to have been very distinguished among the Neopythagoreans. |
20231101.en_13194758_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calectasia | Calectasia | Calectasia is a genus of about fifteen species of flowering plants in the family Dasypogonaceae and is endemic to south-western Australia. Plants is this genus are small, erect shrubs with branched stems covered by leaf sheaths. The flowers are star-shaped, lilac-blue to purple and arranged singly on the ends of short branchlets. |
20231101.en_13194758_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calectasia | Calectasia | Plants in the genus Calectasia are small, often rhizome-forming shrubs with erect, branched stems with sessile leaves arranged alternately along the stems, long and about wide, the base held closely against the stem and the tip pointed. The flowers are arranged singly on the ends of branchlets and are bisexual, the three sepals and three petals are similar to each other, and joined at the base forming a short tube but spreading, forming a star-like pattern with a metallic sheen. Six bright yellow or orange stamens form a tube in the centre of the flower with a thin style extending beyond the centre of the tube. |
20231101.en_13194758_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calectasia | Calectasia | The genus Calectasia was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen and the first species to be named was Calectasia cyanea. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek words kalos " beautiful" and ektasis "development", alluding to the blue spreading perianth-tubes. |
20231101.en_13194758_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calectasia | Calectasia | Ludwig Preiss described C. grandiflora in 1846 and Otto Wilhelm Sonder added C. intermedia in 1856. In 2001, Barrett and Dixon reviewed the genus and added eight new species and in 2015 four more species were added making a total of 15. |
20231101.en_13194758_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calectasia | Calectasia | Calectasia species occur in the south-west of Western Australia and in the border areas between South Australia and Victoria. C. intermedia is only found in the latter region and the remaining species only in Western Australia. They occupy a variety of habitats, occasionally in seasonally swampy areas, but more usually in low heath or woodland on sand, or over laterite or granite. |
20231101.en_13194758_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calectasia | Calectasia | There is evidence that all Calectasia species have sand-binding roots and flowers that are buzz pollinated. It is possible that the similarity in appearance of Calectasia and Thelymitra variegata flowers indicate an example of Dodsonian mimicry. Calectasia grandiflora and Thelymitra variegata often occur in the same area. Individual Calectasia plants are often parasitised by a dodder-like plant in the genus Cassytha. |
20231101.en_13194758_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calectasia | Calectasia | Some species of Calectasia form specialised roots called stilt roots and can only regenerate from seed whilst others have tubers and can resprout from these. All stilt-rooted species are thought to be killed by fire and need up to five years without fire to flower and set seed. |
20231101.en_13194758_7 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calectasia | Calectasia | The following is a list of Calectasia species accepted by the Australian Plant Census as of October 2021: |
20231101.en_13194758_8 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calectasia | Calectasia | Calectasia pignattiana K.W.Dixon & R.L.Barrett – stilted tinsel lily, Pignatti's star of Bethlehem (W.A.) |
20231101.en_13194780_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n%20Dar%C3%ADo%20G%C3%B3mez | Rubén Darío Gómez | Rubén Darío Gómez (3 March 1940 – 23 July 2010) was a Colombian road racing cyclist. He won the two most important stage races in Colombia, the Vuelta a Colombia and the Clásico RCN two times. He also competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics. |
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