Middle East Command Camouflage Directorate for its meat processing business (in 1987, RFM purchased ownership rights for its exclusive use in the Philippines). For the next 15 years, RFM concentrated on growing its established core businesses and also introduced other grocery products, such as cake mixes, hotcake mixes, and ingredient mixes. As it entered the 1990s, RFM began acquiring of a number of local companies and established partnerships with foreign companies. In 1994, RFM divested its interest in hog operations and the poultry operations became known as Swift Foods Inc. (SFI). In 1995, RFM Properties and Holdings, Inc. was established to consolidate RFM's real 	RFM Corporation
3927754	estate assets as well as break into the property development business. Between 1995 and 2000, RFM briefly ventured into noodle manufacturing, tuna processing, bakeshop business with the acquisition of the Rolling Pin trademark, food franchising (Little Caesars Pizza and Dairy Queen) and thrift banking (Consumer Bank). In 1999, RFM formed a partnership with Unilever to produce and market its Selecta ice cream under the joint-venture company, Selecta Walls Inc., (now, Unilever-RFM Ice Cream Inc.). In 2001, RFM sold its soft drink subsidiary Cosmos Bottling Corporation to Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc. (now known as Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines	RFM Corporation
3927755	, Inc.). Cosmos continued to be listed in the Philippine Stock Exchange until 2013. In 2003, RFM spun off Swift Foods Inc., which formerly operated RFM's Swift poultry business, to become a separately owned company. By the end of the first decade of the 2000s, RFM significantly reduced its holdings in Philtown Properties, Inc. after 66% of the outstanding shares were declared as property dividends in 2008 and 15% in 2009. Recent developments. In November 2012, RFM sold its Swift processed meat business to the Pacific Meat Company Inc. (PMCI). RFM said the transaction's total value could reach between 	RFM Corporation
3927756	P800 million and P850 million. In January 2014, RFM acquired the Royal pasta brand from Unilever Philippines Inc. for $47.8 million (around P2.1 billion). The acquisition of the Royal pasta brand will allow the company to solidify its market leadership in the pasta category in the country. RFM's Fiesta brand is currently the top pasta brand in the Philippines, while the Royal brand is second. Brands. Bulk flour: Cake mixes: Pasta: Beverages: Refrigerated margarine: Ice cream (Unilever-RFM Ice Cream Inc.): UHT Milk: Corporate social responsibility. RFM Foundation Inc. is the social development arm of the company. Among 	RFM Corporation
3927757	its notable projects are the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines and Project Pagsulong. The Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines seeks to honor students who made excellent academic performances and their contributions to society. Project Pagsulong invites young Filipinos form a team and come up with innovative business ideas good enough to stand against proposals from other teams, as well as viable enough to provide real-life solutions for alleviating poverty. RFM Corporation RFM Corporation () is a publicly listed food and beverage company in the Philippines. RFM is a manufacturer of flour and flour-based products, milk, juice drinks 	RFM Corporation
3927758	2012 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup 2012 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup The 2012 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup season was the sixth season of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup. The season began at Circuito de Jerez on 28 April and ended on 30 September at MotorLand Aragón after 15 races. The races, contested by the riders on equal KTM 125cc machinery for the last season before switching to the 250cc 4-stroke Moto3 bikes for 2013, were held at eight meetings on the Grand Prix motorcycle racing calendar. German rider Florian Alt won the championship, securing the title with a third place in the 	2012 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup
3927759	first Aragon race. Championship standings. Points were awarded to the top fifteen finishers. Rider had to finish the race to earn points. 2012 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup The 2012 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup season was the sixth season of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup. The season began at Circuito de Jerez on 28 April and ended on 30 September at MotorLand Aragón after 15 races. The races, contested by the riders on equal KTM 125cc machinery for the last season before switching to the 250cc 4-stroke Moto3 bikes for 2013, were held at eight meetings on 	2012 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup
3927760	Robert Noel (businessman) Robert Noel (businessman) Robert Montague Noel (born 12 June 1964) is a British businessman, and the chairman of Hammerson since September 2020. He was the chief executive (CEO) of Land Securities, the largest commercial property company in the UK, from 2012 until March 2020. Early life. He is the eldest son of Henry Methuen Noel Noel (1927–1998), an Army officer and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, and Helen Elizabeth Anne Hutchison. Noel was educated at Marlborough College. He went on to study at Reading University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1986. is a qualified 	Robert Noel (businessman)
3927761	chartered surveyor. Career. On 31 March 2012, Noel succeeded Francis Salway as chief executive of Land Securities. Noel had been managing director of the company's London properties, having joined Land Securities in January 2010 from Great Portland Estates plc, where he had been property director since 2002. Noel has had other roles as chairman of the Westminster Property Association, a Director of The New West End Company and a trustee and director of the charity LandAid. In March 2020 he stood down as CEO of Land Securities, and has been the chairman of Hammerson since September 2020. Personal life	Robert Noel (businessman)
3927762	. Noel and his French wife Sophie have a son and two daughters, and own homes in London and Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. Noel has a tattoo on his bottom (believed to be an elephant), obtained in Thailand in his youth. Robert Noel (businessman) Robert Montague Noel (born 12 June 1964) is a British businessman, and the chairman of Hammerson since September 2020. He was the chief executive (CEO) of Land Securities, the largest commercial property company in the UK, from 2012 until March 2020. Early life. He is the eldest son of Henry Methuen Noel Noel (1927–1998), an Army officer 	Robert Noel (businessman)
3927763	Celaenorrhinus macrostictus Celaenorrhinus macrostictus Celaenorrhinus macrostictus is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and western Kenya. The habitat consists of forests. Celaenorrhinus macrostictus Celaenorrhinus macrostictus is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and western Kenya. The habitat consists of forests. 	Celaenorrhinus macrostictus
3927764	Middle East Command Camouflage Directorate Middle East Command Camouflage Directorate The British Middle East Command Camouflage Directorate (also known as the Camouflage Unit or Camouflage Branch) organised major deception operations for Middle East Command in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. It provided camouflage during the siege of Tobruk; a dummy railhead at Misheifa, and the largest of all, Operation Bertram, the army-scale deception for the decisive battle of El Alamein in October 1942. The successful deception was praised publicly by Winston Churchill. These operations contributed to victory by diverting enemy attention from real targets to dummy ones, wasting enemy ammunition	Middle East Command Camouflage Directorate
3927765	, preserving vital resources such as the single water desalination plant at Tobruk, and deceiving the enemy as to allied strength and intentions. Operation Bertram may have been the last army-scale physical deception ever to take place, since subsequent major deceptions, including those for the D-Day landings in Normandy, have included or consisted of electronic measures. The unit was led by the film director Geoffrey Barkas, with a team of professional artists recruited as camouflage officers or camoufleurs". The team included the artist Steven Sykes, the first Camouflage GSO2 in the British army. Recruitment of a leader. The unit 's leader, Geoffrey Barkas (1896–1979) served in the 1915 Gallipoli campaign and then in the later part of the Battle of the Somme in France, where he won a Military Cross. Between the wars, Barkas was a filmmaker, working as a writer, producer, and director. In 1937, Barkas joined Shell-Mex/BP under its publicity director Jack Beddington, who guided Barkas into military camouflage. In May 1940, he was rapidly drafted into the Royal Engineers by Beddington's brother Freddie, with a summary 10-day basic training course, followed by a camouflage course. He developed his thinking in Northern Ireland  in 1940, teaching, running demonstrations, and writing an instructional pamphlet. Foundation. Origins. At the end of 1940, Barkas and his camoufleurs were sent to Egypt, where he arrived on the British troopship on 1 January 1941. He arranged a flight to observe the desert from the air, noting patterns that he named as "Wadi", "Polka Dot" and so on that he hoped to use for camouflage. To get his fledgling unit recognised, he printed an unusually elegant booklet called "Concealment in the Field" in Cairo, the idea being to produce something clear, readable, and above all obviously different from the  mass of army manuals. He was surprised to have this at once recognised as a formal operational requirement by the British Army's Middle East Command, that is, as an essential item for every army unit. Barkas was promoted to Director of Camouflage with the rank of lieutenant colonel. On 19 September 1941, Steven Sykes became the first Camouflage GSO2 in Eighth Army and indeed in the whole of the British Army, and was promoted to Major. From the start of 1942, Peter Proud was the staff officer (GSO2) responsible for training and development. Camouflage Training & Development Centre, Middle East . The Camouflage Development & Training Centre (CDTC.ME) was set up at Helwan (Camp E) in November 1941, as the theatre counterpart of the original CDTC established at Farnham Castle. The Commandant was a regular officer, Major John Sholto Douglas, from the well-known Scottish family, with the British zoologist Hugh Cott, by now a Captain, as Chief Instructor. Regular liaison with Proud kept the staff abreast of the responses from their colleagues on the front-line, out in the Western Desert, as well as any developments from Home, with training adjusted to reflect the latest changes. The Centre had a development  wing, commanded by a captain from the Royal West African Frontier Force, A. E. Upfold, with a workshop and an experimental section. These produced "a stream of new ideas for dummy vehicles, tanks, aircraft and all the other portents of impending battle". Every new device was carefully tested by observation from the air, through collaboration with the Royal Air Force. Deception operations. Dummy railhead for Operation Crusader. One of Camouflage's first major deceptions was the dummy railway at Misheifa. Barkas assigned the artist Steven Sykes to build a convincing dummy to divert enemy attention from the real railhead at  Capuzzo bringing materiel for Operation Crusader. This complex deception involved of dummy railway, a dummy train, dummy sidings, and a selection of dummy tanks, all made of gerida palm hurdles and other simple materials, to look as if they had been delivered by the railway. More than 100 bombs were dropped on the Misheifa railhead, at least halving the attacks on the real thing at Capuzzo, giving the lie to the jokes about wooden bombs being dropped on wooden railways by an undeceived enemy. Barkas noted that "camouflage men must be among the few otherwise sane beings who yearn to  be bombed." The pioneering effort's success was achieved in a few weeks, amidst severe shortages of men and raw materials. The writer Julian Trevelyan recorded that Camouflage and deception in the siege of Tobruk. During the Eighth Army's retreat across Libya in 1941, the camouflage officer and former film art director Peter Proud and the camouflage sergeant William Murray Dixon found themselves trapped in the port city of Tobruk. Proud quickly set up a camouflage unit, acquiring a section of Australian engineers, a section of Royal Army Service Corps, and a company of Indian Pioneers (military labourers). Materials  of all kinds were in short supply in the siege. Proud improvised, using scrap wood, salvaged textiles to make camouflage nets, and even foodstuffs—camouflage paint was made by mixing rancid flour with spoiled Worcester sauce, described by Barkas as "a revolting but highly adhesive paste". Proud attracted the notice of army drivers by offering to camouflage their vehicles while they waited, with a sign advertising the "Camouflage Service Station". The reason for the surprising offer was in itself a deception, requiring numerous vehicle tracks in an area away from actual targets to give enemy tactical reconnaissance planes the impression  that dummy facilities, also built by Proud, were being visited intensively. Proud ran other camouflage schemes to protect three critical resources in besieged Tobruk: the harbour; the small Royal Air Force landing ground, with just three Hurricane fighters; and the town's water desalination plant, the town's main supply of drinking water. Tobruk's harbour had been heavily bombed by the "Luftwaffe" (the German air force), and several wrecked ships made approach difficult. Proud and Murray Dixon built dummy jetties and dummy wrecked barges, under which small but vitally important gunboats and transports could be hidden. The Royal Navy  thanked Proud after the siege "for his most efficient assistance". For the Royal Air Force, Proud had caves dug into the sides of a wadi to hide two of the Hurricanes. The third was hidden in a hole beside the runway, the same shape as the aircraft, and covered by a lid and some tents. Dummy aircraft and hangars were constructed to draw fire; these were marked as real on marked-up air photographs captured with a "Luftwaffe" airman. The aircraft all survived the siege, important both for air defence and for maintaining the morale of the defending troops. The  desalination plant was impossible to hide, and since it had been built by the Italians, the enemy knew exactly where and what it was. Proud and Murray Dixon therefore disguised the plant to look as if it had been destroyed by a bomb. A "trompe-l'œil" black hole was painted over the top and one side of the building, along with shrapnel marks, shortly after a real attack which missed the plant; a disused chimney was demolished; real rubble, empty oil drums and real wrecked vehicles, which were in plentiful supply, were brought to decorate the compound; and some fake  craters were constructed and decorated as if a stick of bombs had fallen right on target. The finishing touch was some real smoke from burning oily rags. The plant was not attacked again. Deception for El Alamein. Barkas' camouflage unit helped Montgomery to victory at El Alamein through a large scale deception codenamed Operation Bertram, which ran from August 1942 until the actual battle in October. Among other things, 600 tanks were disguised as supply lorries in the northern sector, while dummy tanks, supplies and a complete dummy water pipeline were deployed in the south. The deception succeeded, leading Rommel 's staff to believe the allied attack would be in the south, and to deploy substantial forces there. Barkas made the painter Tony Ayrton his deputy for Bertram. Ayrton worked tirelessly to put in place all the complex schemes, and to repair them when they were hit by a dust storm. Barkas described Operation Bertram as Winston Churchill, announcing victory at El Alamein in the House of Commons in London on On 11 November 1942, praised the success of Operation Bertram, and implicitly the work of the Camouflage Directorate, as follows: Techniques and inventions. A wide range of camouflage and  deception techniques and devices were invented or developed by the unit. Key people. The camouflage directorate consisted mostly of officers recruited from people who were artists in civilian life, many of whom were already well known. Hugh Cott was an exception, being an expert in animal camouflage with his then recently published textbook, "Adaptive Coloration in Animals" (1940), a book that had the distinction of being popularly carried for practical advice by army officers. The end of physical deception. Camouflage's Operation Bertram may have been the last army-scale physical deception, argues the writer and film director Rick Stroud , since all subsequent major deceptions, including those of Operation Bodyguard to protect the Operation Overlord "D-Day" landings in Normandy, have consisted mainly of electronic measures, though with physical touches, like the work done by architect and camoufleur Basil Spence to create a dummy oil storage facility for ships at Dover. Since then, the advent of reconnaissance satellites and continuous electronic monitoring have made army-scale deception ever more difficult. Middle East Command Camouflage Directorate The British Middle East Command Camouflage Directorate (also known as the Camouflage Unit or Camouflage Branch) organised major deception operations for Middle East Command in