Riot Squad (band)

One of the tracks, "Violence on the Streets", featured on US label 272 Records Punk Kills Vol 1 in late 2007.

Only six months after the album's release, Ched called it a day. He was Mansfield's Champion Plate Spinner for five years running and planned to go pro. This would naturally take up a great deal of time so something had to give. He was replaced by Mick, twin brother of Chiz (and also of the same previous bands). Mick soon swapped became guitarist to make way for Pete, who would take up the bass. In the interim and as a stand in for just two shows, as support to The Epoxies, Baz Barrett (Consumed, Fat Wreck Chords), not being one to turn down the chance to be part of one of his favourite bands of his teen years, joined the fold with just two hours of rehearsals. Baz also handled the sleeve design and layout of Persecute The Weak, Control The Strong.

The band released an international 7" split on their own label (Suicide Circle) in 2008 with The Crack Babies (Sweden), The Undertakers (Belgium) and Human Battle (Greece). This was followed up with a gig in Athens early in January 2009. The band also helped bring The Undertakers over to the UK.

Riot Squad played their last gig at Rebellion Festival 2009.

Discography

Chart placings shown are from the UK Indie Chart.

Singles/EPs

  * Religion Doesn't Mean a Thing (1981) Rot (demo tape)
  * "Fuck The Tories" (1982) Rondelet (#23)
  * "Riot In The City" (1982) Rondelet
  * Don't Be Denied EP (1983) Rot (#39)
  * I'm OK, Fuck You EP (1983) Rot (#11)
  * There Ain't No Solution (1984) Rot (#22)

Albums

  * No Potential Threat (1984) Rot (#13)
  * The Complete Punk Collection (1995) Anagram

  * Persecute the Weak, Control the Strong (2007) Suicide Circle Records

Appearances on compilations


Riot Squad (band)

Appearances on compilations

  * Police Power appeared on Pax Records Punk Compilation (year unknown)
  * Society's Fodder and Lost Cause appeared on 100% Hardcore Punk (1998) Captain Oi
  * Violence On The Streets appeared on Punk Kills Vol.1 (2007) 272 Records, CA, US
  * Speed Cameras appeared on Angry Scenes Vol. 3 (2008) Angry Scenes Records, UK


North Carolina Highway 280

North Carolina Highway 280 (NC 280) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina that runs from the city of Brevard in Transylvania County to the town of Fletcher in Henderson County. It is 18 miles (29 km) in length, starting at the intersection with US 64 and US 276 north of Brevard to US 25 and US 25A in the Asheville community of Arden.

Route description

NC 280 starts east from US 64/US 276, in Brevard

NC 280 begins at the junction of US 64 and US 276 near the city of Brevard. It then travels northeasterly through the unincorporated community of Pisgah Forest as a four-lane highway before crossing Little Mountain and entering the Boyd Township community, where it widens to four-lanes with a center turning lane. It runs for a total of 5.2 miles (8.4 km) through Transylvania County as Asheville Highway before entering Henderson County at which point it becomes Boylston Highway. It continues as a four-lane highway with a center turning lane for 6.1 miles (9.8 km) through rural northwestern Henderson County before intersecting NC 191 (Haywood Road) in the town of Mills River. NC 280 and NC 191 run concurrently for 1.1 miles (1.8 km). After crossing the Mills River, a tributary of the French Broad River, NC 191 turns north onto Old Haywood Road, and NC 280 continues as a divided 4-lane, limited-access road for 3 miles (4.8 km).

After crossing the French Broad River, the highway becomes New Airport Road at the intersection of Fanning Bridge Road in Fletcher, where it resumes the configuration of four-lanes with a center turning lane. Between the French Broad River and crossing I-26 and US 74 (exit 40) at a diverging diamond interchange, NC 280 often crosses between Fletcher, Henderson County and the southern reaches of Asheville, Buncombe County. From the I-26 interchange, the road continues for another 1.9 miles (3.1 km), terminating at the intersection of US 25 (Hendersonville Road) and US 25A (Sweeten Creek Road) in Arden.


North Carolina Highway 280

Although the highway runs primarily through rural farming and residential areas for most of its length, the stretch between Fanning Bridge Road and US 25 currently represents the most developed section of the highway. A growing number of national retailers, restaurants, and hotels can be found within a half-mile of the I-26/US 74 interchange.Asheville Regional Airport and the WNC Agricultural Center, site of the annual North Carolina Mountain State Fair. For 10.1 miles (16.3 km) of its path through Transylvania and Henderson counties, the highway runs adjacent to the eastern boundary of Pisgah National Forest.

History

Rerouted from its original path to become a connecting route from I-26 at the Asheville Regional Airport to the city of Brevard, its expanded and current form was originally known as the Brevard/I-26 Connector. Until 1991, NC 280 ran concurrent with NC 191 from Mills River in Henderson County to the community of Avery Creek in Buncombe County, at which point NC 280 turned onto Long Shoals Road (currently signed NC 146). The former eastern terminus of NC 280 was at US 25 (Hendersonville Road) in the community of Skyland, 1.9 miles (3.1 km) north of the highway's current terminus at US 25 and US 25A in Arden.

Major intersections

County                                    Location     mi                         km                                                                           Destinations                                           Notes
Transylvania                              Brevard      0.00                       0.00                                                                         US 64 / US 276 – Brevard, Hendersonville, Waynesville  To Brevard College and Cradle of Forestry
Henderson                                 Mills River  11.3                       18.2                                                                         NC 191 (Haywood Road) – Hendersonville                 South end of NC 191 overlap
12.4                                      20.0         NC 191 (Old Haywood Road)  North end of NC 191 overlap
Buncombe                                  Fletcher     16.0–                      25.7–                                                                        I-26 / US 74 – Hendersonville, Asheville               Exit 40 (I-26)
                                                       16.1                       25.9
Arden                                     18.1         29.1                                                                                Southern terminus of US 25A
                                                                                US 25 (Hendersonville Road) / US 25A north (Sweeten Creek Road) – Asheville
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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Royal Project Foundation

The Royal Project Foundation is a Thai non-profit organisation based in north Thailand. It was founded by King Bhumibol Adulyadej as an umbrella organization for his charitable initiatives and research.hill tribes.opium-growing and to revive forests and water resources.Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding in 1988.

History

King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the founder of the Royal Project Foundation

The project began in 1969, when King Bhumibol Adulyadej visited an opium-growing hill tribe village in Doi Pui.Agriculture, Kasetsart University, was testing and developing a suitable type of peach for the environment. It could provide higher incomes to the local people than opium-growing.Crown Property Bureau to give 200,000 baht to the project.

After the first few years, the project received support from international agencies. In 1972, the UN realised the importance of alternative agriculture to replace opium-growing. The UN/Thai Program for Drug Abuse Control was begun.

In 1992, the royal project changed its name to the Royal Project Foundation and became a public organisation for the people's benefit permanently.

Development centres

Today, the Royal Project Foundation has 38 development centres spread across five provinces in northern Thailand: Chiang Mai Province, Chiang Rai Province, Mae Hong Son Province, Lamphun Province and Phayao Province.

AngKhang Development Centre

In Chiang Mai, there are 27 development centres which include three Royal Agriculture Stations: Doi Ang Khang, Doi Inthanon, and Pang Da; one research station, Mae-Lod; and 23 development centres: Ka Noi, Khun Phae, Khun Wang, Teen Tok, Tung Rao, Tung Roeng, Tung Luang, Nong Khieo, Nong Hoi,

In Chiang Rai, There are three development centres: Pha Tung, Mae Poon Luang, and Sa Ngo.

In Mae Hong Son, there are six centres: Mae La Noi, Mae Sariang, Huai Nam Khun, Huai Nam Rin, Huai Pong, and Huai Lang.

In Lamphun, there is one development centre, Pha Bath Huay Tom.

In Phayao, there is one development centre, Pang Cha.


Royal Project Foundation

In Phayao, there is one development centre, Pang Cha.

Projects

Projects are changing, developing and adapting to the issues that need to be solved and improved in various communities and regions of Thailand.

Currently, 4,741 projects are part of the royal initiative.

Project Type                Region   Total
North                       Central  North East  South  Misc
Water Resources             1,255    511         851    631   0   3,248
Agricultural                47       51          44     28    0   170
Environmental               63       41          41     34    3   182
Career Development          89       35          121    94    0   339
Public Health               15       16          9      7     11  58
Transport / Communication   23       22          20     22    0   87
Social Welfare / Education  203      75          53     63    4   398
Integration / Other         105      62          52     33    7   259
Total                       1,800    813         1,191  912   25  4,741

The Marketing Project is research on the cost and profitability of the Royal Project's fruits and vegetables. This project also studies the customer behaviour in choosing and buying the products. This is to come up with the best marketing plan for selling the project's produce.

The environmental conservation project researches the highland environment, forests, water, and soil, to optimize sustainable yields.

The Royal Project Culinary

Although the Royal Project Foundations were founded to solve problems of deforestation, opium and poverty, many have since become tourist attractions in Thailand.

In end 2016, the Tourism Authority of Thailand held an "Amazing Dream Journey" contest, where winners had the chance to have a free trip to Thailand and sample dishes by a Thai celebrity chef (Chumpol Jangprai),

At the "KHAO" restaurant at Chiang Mai's Four Seasons hotel resort, chefs sources certain ingredients exclusively from farmers who work with the Royal Project, with a focus on preserving local knowledge on agriculture and helping communities become self-sufficient.

Royal Project winter fruit also featured at the ASEAN Tourism Forum held in Chiang Mai in January 2018.

  * Chaipattana Foundation
  * Crown Property Bureau
  * Doi Kham
  * Royal Rainmaking Project
  * Sufficiency Economy


Kurumbel Steppe

Kurumbel Steppe (Russian: Курумбельская степь) is a steppe in Omsk and Novosibirsk oblasts, Western Siberia, Russia. It is located between the Irtysh River and Lake Chany. The name comes from the former village of Kurumbel.

Birds

At least 126 species of birds nest here: demoiselle crane, little bustard, pallid harrier, red-footed falcon, black-winged pratincole, common crane etc.

In spring and autumn, numerous Arctic and sub-Arctic migrant birds stop here for rest and feeding.

Kurumbel steppe is of great international significance, for at least 5 bird species.

Lakes

Chany, Ulzhai, Chebakly, etc.

Gallery

  * [Lake Ulzhai]
    Lake Ulzhai
  *
  * Baraba steppe


Smoke control

For smoke control areas in the United Kingdom, see Clean Air Act 1956.

In the event of a fire, a smoke control system is used to keep a building's escape routes and access routes free from smoke, assist fire-fighting operations and delay or prevent flashover, thereby reducing the risk that the fire will escalate.

In the United Kingdom, the Smoke Control Association operates as a professional and advisory organisation in this field.

Standards

Within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Technical Committee ISO/TC 21/SC 11 is responsible for the development of standards concerned with smoke and heat control systems and components.

In Australia and New Zealand, joint standard AS/NZS 1668.1:2015 aims to provide:

standardized minimum requirements for mechanical air-handling and mechanical smoke control systems for use by designers, installers, inspectors and regulators of these systems.

Requirements for the maintenance of smoke control systems fall outside this standard.


Riverside Parkway

The Riverside Parkway is a 7-mile (11 km), five-lane limited-access road in the lower central business district of Grand Junction, Colorado. Paralleling the Colorado River, it connects several of the major highways in the city, and has bike lanes in both directions. Billboards are not allowed within 300 feet (91 m) of the parkway.


Myanophis

Myanophis is a genus of snake in the family Homalopsidae that contains the sole species Myanophis thanlyinensis. It is endemic to Myanmar, and was described in 2021 from two male and two female specimens found in the vicinity of the campus of East Yangon University.

Aside from genetic differences, it can be distinguished from all other homalopsid genera by its smooth dorsal scales, short tail length in relation to the body, separated nasal scales, unique number of ventral and subcaudal scales, and bilobed hemipenis in males. It is most closely related to the genera Myrrophis and Gyiophis, from which it can be distinguished by its bilobed hemipenis as opposed to unilobed in the other two genera.


Manuel Cortina

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cortina and the second or maternal family name is Martínez.

Manuel Cortina Martínez (born July 21, 1983, in Veracruz) is a Mexican canoeist. He participated in the 2007 Pan American Games and obtained three gold medals in canoe sprint.

Martínez also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but was eliminated in the semifinals of both the K-1 500 m and the K-1 1000 m events.

  * Sports-Reference.com profile


Wild Bank

Wild Bank is a hill in Stalybridge, just outside the Peak District National Park. Its western flank rises from the valley of the River Tame to a height of 399 metres. To the east of the summit, the ground falls away more gradually to Shaw Moor and Hollingworthhall Moor, beyond which are Mottram in Longdendale and Hollingworth. Since 2004, the moorland in the area of the pike has been classed as access land. From the summit the centre of Manchester, Winter Hill and the Cheshire Plain can be seen. On very clear days the mountains of Snowdonia are visible.

53°28′43″N 2°01′10″W / 53.47872°N 2.01955°W


Marcellinus of Gaul

Marcellinus of Gaul also known as Marcellin was the first bishop of Embrun from 354 AD.Africa Proconsularis.

Marcellin, went to Rome with two other bishops of North Africa, Vincent and Domnin, to attend a synod in 313 to judge the Donatists movement. They met the then Pope, Miltiades and from him received a mission. They went to Nice, where they landed, they say, after taking advice of the bishops assembled in Arles in 314. They went and preached the gospel to the inhabitants of Italian side of the Alps, from the shores of the sea to Vercelli, where Eusebius was chosen as bishop and where they separated.

Marcellin and his two disciples then headed towards the Alps and arrived in Embrun. As the main missionaries evangelizing in the regions they became the first bishops. Marcellin became the first bishop of Embrun and Vincent, bishop of Digne.


Riot City Blues

Riot City Blues is the eighth studio album by Scottish rock band Primal Scream, released on 5 June 2006 by Columbia Records.UK Albums Chart.electronic elements they had used on their previous albums XTRMNTR (2000) and Evil Heat (2003), returning to more traditional rock and roll.Will Sergeant, Warren Ellis, and Alison Mosshart, and was the last album to feature guitarist Robert "Throb" Young, who departed before the album's UK tour for personal reasons.

The album's first single "Country Girl" became the band's highest charting in their career. "Dolls (Sweet Rock and Roll)" and "Sometimes I Feel So Lonely" were also released as singles.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source            Rating
Metacritic        59/100
Review scores
Source            Rating
AllMusic
ARTISTdirect
The Guardian
Pitchfork         2.3/10
Q
Rolling Stone

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 59, based on 19 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

The album was released to varying reviews. A particularly scathing review by Pitchfork claimed that the album was "flat and dead. It's as if Primal Scream have run completely out of ideas and so they've reverted to the detestable fallbacks of honking harmonicas and bar-band choogles, acting like college freshmen who just discovered blues." While The Guardian said "...Primal Scream are the kind of band that would probably snap there's no such thing as a guilty pleasure, only good music and bad music. But their eighth album undermines that claim. On the one hand, it is conservatism dressed up as rebellion, derivative, self-parodic and very, very, stupid. On the other, it boasts an energy and a shamelessness that demands you abandon your vast array of reservations. No mean feat."

Riot City Blues was listed among the ten worst Scottish albums ever made in a 2007 online poll of music fans.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Primal Scream.


Riot City Blues

Track listing

All tracks are written by Primal Scream.

No.  Title                            Length
1.   "Country Girl"                   4:31
2.   "Nitty Gritty"                   3:38
3.   "Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar"  3:14
4.   "When the Bomb Drops"            4:34
5.   "Little Death"                   6:22
6.   "The 99th Floor"                 3:50
7.   "We're Gonna Boogie"             2:52
8.   "Dolls (Sweet Rock and Roll)"    3:58
9.   "Hell's Comin' Down"             3:27
10.  "Sometimes I Feel So Lonely"     5:06

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Primal Scream
  * Bobby Gillespie – vocals
  * Andrew Innes – guitar, mandolin, banjo, synthesizer
  * Martin Duffy – piano, organ, harmonium, harmonica
  * Robert Young – guitars, harmonica
  * Gary "Mani" Mounfield – bass guitar
  * Darrin Mooney – drums, percussion
Additional musicians
  * Alison Mosshart – additional vocals (3, 8)
  * Will Sergeant – guitar (4, 5)
  * Chris Allen – hurdy-gurdy (5)
  * Warren Ellis – violin (9)
  * Juliet Roberts – backing vocals (1, 2, 5, 10)
  * Sharlene Hector – backing vocals (1, 2, 5, 10)
  * Sylvia Mason-James – backing vocals (1, 2, 5, 10)
  * John Gibbons – backing vocals (1, 2, 5, 10)
  * Richard Beale – French horn (10)
  * Tim Bran - programming
Technical
  * Ryan Castle, Greg Gordon - engineer
  * Clive Goddard - recording

Charts

Weekly charts                                 Year-end charts

Chart (2006)                        Peak      Chart (2006)     Position
                                    position  UK Albums (OCC)  153
Australian Albums (ARIA)            54
French Albums (SNEP)                   74
Irish Albums (IRMA)                    14
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)            15
Scottish Albums (OCC)                  2
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)            81
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)     18
UK Albums (OCC)                        5

  * Riot City Blues at Discogs (list of releases)


North Carolina Highway 57

North Carolina Highway 57 (NC 57) is a 43.1-mile-long (69.4 km) primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina and a semi-rural traffic artery connecting Roxboro to a few small-to-medium-sized towns in The Triangle region north of the cities of Durham and Chapel Hill.

Route description

NC 57 begins at the junction with NC 86 just north of Hillsborough. It heads northeast through Orange County, passing through Schley and intersecting NC 157 in Caldwell. The route crosses into Person County and then runs concurrent with US 501 heading north through Timberlake and Somerset. Upon entering Roxboro, NC 57 and US 501 become concurrent with US 158 before entering town. The three routes intersect the northern terminus of NC 157 at the intersection of Main Street and at Long Avenue, US 158 splits from the NC 57/US 501 concurrency. At Leasburg Road, NC 57 splits from US 501 and then runs concurrent with NC 49, heading west and running concurrent with US 158 again before splitting from the NC 49/US 158 concurrency at the Concord Road intersection. The route continues to the northwest, going through Olive hill and passing by Hyco Lake before passing through Semora and intersecting NC 119. It continues to the northwest and then it enters Milton before reaching its northern terminus at the intersection with NC 62.

History

During the 1920s, NC 57 originally ran east–west from Roxboro to Henderson along present day US 158.

Major intersections


North Carolina Highway 57

Major intersections

County                                    Location  mi                                                                        km                                                                              Destinations                         Notes
Orange                                             0.0                                                                       0.0                                                                             NC 86 – Hillsborough, Yanceyville    Southern terminus
Caldwell, Orange County                   8.6       13.8                                                                      NC 157
Person                                             14.7                                                                      23.7                                                                                Southern end of US 501 concurrency
                                                                                US 501 south (Durham Road) – Durham
Roxboro                                   24.5      39.4                                                                                Southern end of US 158 concurrency
                                                                                US 158 east (Old Durham Road) – Oxford
24.9                                      40.1                                                                                Northern terminus of NC 157
                                                    NC 157 south (Main Street)

25.5                                      41.0                                                                                Northern end of US 501 concurrency; southern end of NC 49 concurrency
                                                    US 501 north / NC 49 north (Madison Boulevard) – South Boston, Virgilina

25.9                                      41.7                                                                                Northern end of US 158 / NC 49 concurrencies
                                                    US 158 west / NC 49 south (Leasburg Road) – Haw River
Caswell                                   Semora    38.2                                                                      61.5                                                                                Northern terminus
                                                                                NC 119 to US 58 – Mebane
Milton                                    43.1      69.4                                                                      NC 62 (Academy Street / Broad Street) / Fairview Drive – Yanceyville, Danville
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  * Concurrency terminus

  * North Carolina Bicycle Route 4 - Concurrent with NC 57 from downtown Roxboro to Kelly Brewer Road at Hyco Lake
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Royal Purple (disambiguation)

Royal purple, or Tyrian purple, is an ancient dye, or the color of that dye.

Royal Purple may also refer to:

  * Royal Purple (lubricant manufacturer), an American manufacturer which produces lubricants for automotive, industrial, marine, motorcycle, and racing use.
  * Royal purple (color), a shade of purple
  * Royal Purple Yearbook, the official yearbook of Kansas State University
  * Royal purple plant, Strobilanthes dyeriana
  * Royal Arch Purple


Kurumgram

Kurumgram is an old village located in Nalhati I CD Block in Rampurhat subdivision of Birbhum district in West Bengal State of India.

Geography

Total geographical area of Kurumgram village is 4.04 km2 and it is the 15th largest village by area in the sub district. Kurumgram's elevation / altitude is 40 meters above sea level. Time Zone- Indian Standard Time(IST) (GMT+5:30).

Kurumgram is located 60 km towards north from District headquarters Suri, Birbhum. 10 km from Nalhati town, 13 km from Rampurhat, 225 km from State capital Kolkata. The other cities nearby are Sainthia (45 km), Baharampur (60 km) and Bolpur (80 km). The Tarapith Tara Maa Temple is near to Kurumgram (22 km). The historic Lalbagh & Murshidabad are also not very far from Kurumgram (65 km). The nearby villages of Kurumgram are Kanupara, Sardha, Mehegram, Tejhati, Bujung, Dharampur, Barla, Raghunathpur, Gayta, Belun, Sadashibpur, Kanaipur etc.

Administrative & postal address

  * Gram Panchayat- Kurumgram Gram Panchayat.
  * Police Station- Nalhati.
  * Block Office - Nalhati I (community development block).
  * Sub Divisional Office- Rampurhat subdivision.
  * Assembly constituency- Nalhati (Vidhan Sabha constituency).
  * Lok Sabha constituency- Birbhum (Lok Sabha constituency).
  * Post Office- Kurumgram.
  * PIN Code- 731242.
  * STD Code- 03465 (Nalhati)
  * District Headquarter- Suri, Birbhum.
  * Divisional Headquarter- Burdwan.

Demographics


Kurumgram

Demographics

  * Kurumgram is a large village with total 932 families with an average of 4 persons in every family residing as per 2011 Census of India. The village has the population of 3728 of which 1903 are Males(51%) while 1825 are Females(49%). Children with age 0-6 is 410 which makes up 11% of total population of village, among them 52% are boys and 48% are girls. Population density of the village is 923 persons per km2. 24% of the total population in this village are General caste, 76% are Schedule caste.
  * Kurumgram village has higher literacy rate compared to West Bengal(76.26%). In 2011, literacy rate of Kurumgram village was 77.73% . In Kurumgram Male literacy stands at 83.44% while female literacy rate was 71.79%.
  * Out of the total population of the village, 1249 were engaged in work activities among them 54% Male and 13% Female population are working population. 78.38% of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 21.62% were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 1249 workers engaged in Main Work, 104 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 517 were Agricultural labourer.
Particulars          Total   Male    Female
Total No. of Houses  932     -       -
Population           3728    1903    1825
Child (0-6)          410     212     198
Schedule Caste       2844    1455    1389
Schedule Tribe       0       0       0
Literacy             77.73%  83.44%  71.79%
Total Workers        1249    1020    229
Main Worker          979     0       0
Marginal Worker      270     199     71

The local language is here Bengali. The other languages also spoken here are English & Hindi.

Government and politics

The main four political parties in Kurumgram are All India Trinamool Congress (TMC), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Indian National Congress (INC) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM).

Culture

Almost all Hindu festivals are celebrated. The Durga Puja, Kali Puja & Saraswati Puja are the three most celebrated festivals by the villagers.


Kurumgram

* Durga Puja is celebrated in the month of October–November. This is the biggest festival of the villagers. There are total 7 Durga Idols are worshiped during the four days of Puja in Kurumgram. Out of the 7 Pujas 4 of them are worshiped in Temple & 3 of them are worshiped in the Pandals. People from nearby villages get together and enjoy all the festivals.
  * As soon as the Durga Puja ends the villagers gets ready for the Kali Puja without taking any rest. The festival of India, the festival of lights "Diwali" is celebrated in the month of October/November after 21 days of Vijayadashami. Almost all the houses of Kurumgram are decorated with lights and lamps. Many Kali Idols are worshiped in Kurumgram. Among them there are four Puja Committees in Kurumgram who decorate their Pandals with various "themes". In that time many people from nearby villages come to Kurumgram to visit the "Theme Puja" pandals.
  * Saraswati Puja is Celebrated in the month of January/February. Saraswati is the Hindu Goddess of Knowledge. It is celebrated with a big village fair (Mela) which stays for 7 days. Many people from outside come to Kurumgram to visit and enjoy the fair (Mela) with family and friends by buying various things, and eating together in restaurants and with adventurous rides. Many cultural programmes are held then by the local Clubs like drama, singing, dance etc..
  * Beside that Raksha Kali Puja and Nabanna is also celebrated with much pomp and grandeur. Raksha Kali Puja is celebrated on first Saturday of April. Thousands of people gather there in Raksha Kali Temple of Kurumgram on that day. Nabanna is usually celebrated in the month of November/December.
  * Besides the festivals the villagers celebrates the Independence Day (15 August), Republic Day (26 January) and the birthdays of the great National Heroes, Literary Persons, Scientist and Spiritual Heroes with organising cultural programmes.

History

The village was founded in the 16th century by Garur Mitra. Further development of the village was done by Arjun Mitra Majumdar, grandson of Garur Mitra. The name of the village is based on the word Kurma (Tortoise in Sanskrit), since the initial landscape of the village resembled the body of a tortoise.

Transport


Kurumgram

Transport

  * By Road Service- There are 7 private buses to connect the village with Rampurhat directly & among these buses 1 bus goes Suri. Nearest National Highway is NH-60 (Morgram to Panagarh via Nalhati, Rampurhat, Suri, Dubrajpur, Ilambazar) which goes through Tejhati village which is 5 km towards west from Kurumgram. Kurumgram is connected with NH-60 through Sardha-Kurumgram-Tejhati road (12 ft width) which is maintained by the Government of West Bengal. Beside buses there are many "Toto Rikshas" available from Tejhati to reach Kurumgram. There are buses available in every 10 minutes from Tejhati to Rampurhat and Nalhati in common week days.
  * Railway Service- The nearest railway station from Kurumgram is Swadinpur-SDLE (9.5 km). The other railway stations nearby are Nalhati Junction-NHT (10 km) and Rampurhat Junction railway station-RPH (14 km). RPH-Rampurhat Junction is one of major Railway stations of Howrah Division of Eastern Railway zone which is connected with Kolkata, South Bengal, South India, some parts of Middle and Western India, North India, North Bengal and the whole North-East India.
  * Airports- The nearest domestic airport is Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport in Durgapur (124 km) and the nearest international airport is Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata.

Education


Kurumgram

Education

There are two Bengali medium Government primary schools (class I-IV) in Kurumgram - Kurumgram Boys Primary School & Kurumgram Girls Primary School. Beside that in Kurumgram there is a private missionary nursery (primary) English medium school- Sree Sree Ramkrishna Sishu Vidyapith. There also has a co-ed Government Bengali medium Higher Secondary School in Kurumgram - Mitrabhum High School which is the oldest High School in this area set up in 1921. Students from nearby villages and nearby towns come here to study. It is a very renowned school in Birbhum district. This school has a big play ground to develop in Sports too. Since its establishment, the school has been continuously developing extraordinary talent and thus created a benchmark in the field of study. But there are no colleges in Kurumgram village. The nearest colleges from Kurumgram are Rampurhat College & Hiralal Bhakat College (Nalhati), sofia girls college.

  * Mitrabhum High School
  * Nalhati I
  * Rampurhat
  * http://birbhum.org/
  * http://www.birbhum.gov.in/
  * "Mitrabhum High School" at ICBSE.com. Retrieved 24 January 2018.


Smoke in the Forest

For the film, see Smoke in the Forest (film).

"Smoke in the Forest" (Dym v lesu, Дым в лесу) is a short story by the Soviet children's writer Arkady Gaidar, first published in No.2, February 1939, issue of Pioneer magazine. Later that year it was published by Detizdat Publishers as a separate book with illustrations by P.Yermolayev. In 1940 Gaidar included it into his compilation Rasskazy (Short Stories).Smoke in the Forest, based upon Gaidar's story.

Plot summary

Saboteurs (referred to as 'belogvardeitsy', the 'White Guardians') set fire to the forest with the purpose of destroying the factory nearby. Pilot Fedoseyev, sent over with the reconnaissance mission fails to return in time. Volodya (the protagonist, a boy of 11) with Fenya (5) and her mother (pilot Fedoseyev's daughter and wife, respectively), travel in a lorry to the aerodrome.

While playing with Brutik (a puppy who's tagged along behind them), the boy gets lost. Rushing through the forest, he suddenly runs into injured pilot Fedoseyev whose plane, as it happens, has been shot down by the enemy. Sent back to the aerodrome, the boy gets lost again, then sets out to swim across the river and all but drowns, being in the end saved miraculously by a sheep-dog Lutta and the Red Army men following her. Brutik, though, while crossing the river, dies.


Riverside Park Bandshell

The Riverside Park Bandshell is a bandshell located in Riverside Park in Murphysboro, Illinois. The concrete bandshell was built in 1938–39 by the Works Progress Administration and the Murphysboro Park District. Riverside Park was opened in 1907; it was originally known as Buster Brown Park, as it was initially owned by the Brown Shoe Company. The park began hosting Murphysboro's annual 4th of July celebration in 1927, and the bandshell became part of the day's events as soon as it opened. The bandshell's inaugural concert occurred on July 4, 1939, and received an audience of 45,000; since then, the bandshell has hosted the opening concert for the celebrations each year. The bandshell has also hosted annual music festivals highlighting jazz, blues, and bluegrass musicians and provides a stage for other community events in the park.

The bandshell was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 6, 2012.

It was designed by architect Rudolph Zerses Gill.


Myanmar–Venezuela relations

Myanma–Venezuelan relations are the bilateral relations between Myanmar and Venezuela. Both countries currently have diplomatic relations and the ambassador of Venezuela in Vietnam is accredited to Myanmar.

History

On 29 July 2019, during the Venezuelan presidential crisis, Myanmar's representation to the United Nations joined a joint statement, addressed to Secretary-General António Guterres, in support of the government of Nicolás Maduro.

Diplomatic missions

Venezuela has a concurrent embassy to Myanmar in Vietnam.

  * Foreign relations of Myanmar
  * Foreign relations of Venezuela
  * Venezuela–Vietnam relations


Manuel Críspulo González y Soto

Don Manuel Críspulo González y Soto, 1st Marquis of Bonanza (10 June 1846 – 16 October 1933), was a Spanish entrepreneur of the González Byass wine and sherry company and a philanthropist.

Early life

González y Soto was born in Jerez de la Frontera, in Southern Spain, on 10 June 1846 as the fifth of a total of nine children.González Byass, his mother was Doña Victoriana Soto y Lavaggi. González y Angel had founded his wine company in 1835, aged 23. Five years later he had founded the corporation González & Dubosc with Juan Bautista Dubosc and Francisco Gutiérrez de Agüera, and the company was among the nine largest exporters of Spain. By the time of Manuel Críspulo's birth the González y Angel family was already considered among the most successful and wealthy of the city.St. Edward's College, Liverpool and was a student there in 1860. He was later sent to other places in Europe to finish his education and perfect his English and French.

Professional life and philanthropy

When González y Soto finished his education he returned to Spain and became director of the family business.brandy and liqueurs. A logo for the label Tío Pepe was also created.somatén,Miguel Primo de Rivera in the 1920s.

In Jerez de la Frontera he founded the Philharmonic Academy and the Santo Domingo School of Fine Art. He was a patron of the School of Applied Arts and Artist Workers in the same city. He also donated money for a painting of the Battle of Clavijo for the Santiago church in Jerez de la Frontera.spa of San Telmo constructed, a place which locals and people from all over Spain visited. One hall of the complex was dedicated for locals who could not afford treatment therapies and the lower ranked soldiers from the military garrison of Jerez de la Frontera. The local bourgeoisie also held parties at San Telmo.

González y Soto donated lands in Sanlúcar de Barrameda to the wounded soldiers of the wars in Cuba and the Philippines.

Personal life

On 30 November 1870 he married Doña María Josefa de Ágreda y Pérez de Grandallana. Together with her he had seven children.


Manuel Críspulo González y Soto

* Don Manuel Francisco González y de Ágreda (born 4 July 1873)
  * Don Diego Luis González y de Ágreda (born 13 June 1878, died 14 July 1901)
  * Doña María Josefa González y de Ágreda (born 8 April 1877)
  * Doña Petra González y de Ágreda (born 26 November 1878, died 10 April 1921)
  * Don José Luis González y de Ágreda, 2nd Marquis of Bonanza (born 30 March 1881)
  * Doña Isabel González y de Ágreda, 3rd Marquessa of Bonanza (born 19 November 1883)
  * Doña María de los Angeles González y de Ágreda (born 23 November 1884, died 25 January 1922)

Awards

He was made 1st Marquis of Bonanza on 6 February 1902 by Queen Regent Maria Christina of Austria, mother to the underage king Alfonso XIII of Spain.Grand Cross of Military Merit on 6 April 1926.Order of Charles III and Commander in the Order of Isabella the Catholic. He held a golden medal awarded by the Red Cross as well.


Wild Basin, Rocky Mountain National Park

View of Ouzel Falls

View of Calypso Cascades

Wild Basin a region in the southeast corner Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, United States. The primary entrance is located north of Allenspark off State Highway 7.

A dirt road leads to a ranger station, parking and horseback or hiking trails. The trail to Bluebird Lake and Ouzel Lake follows the North St. Vrain Creek (which is a tributary of the South Platte River)Cinclus mexicanus, also known as a dipper.

  * Alpine Visitor Center
  * Chronic, Halka and Williams, Felicie; Roadside Geology of Colorado: Second Edition; Copyright 2002 by Halka Chronic and Felicie Williams; Mountain Press Publishing Company; ISBN 0-87842-447-4
  * Dannen, Kent and Donna; Hiking Rocky Mountain National Park: Including Indian Peaks Wilderness: Ninth Edition; The Globe Pequot Press; Copyright 1978, 80 82 83, 85, 89, 94, 2002 by The Globe Pequot Press; ISBN 0-7627-2245-2
  * Scenic drives in Rocky Mountain National Park
  * Hiking information and pictures along the trail to Bluebird Lake in the Wild Basin
  * "Wild Basin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey

40°12′05″N 105°36′43″W / 40.20138889°N 105.61194444°W


Marcellinus

Marcellinus may refer to:

Ancient

  * Marcellinus (consul 275), Roman imperial official
  * Marcellinus (magister officiorum) (died 351), officer of Emperor Constans and of usurper Magnentius
  * Marcellinus (magister militum) (died 468), a Roman general in the invasion of Africa against Geiseric
  * Marcellinus (writer), author of a Life of Thucydides, 6th century
  * Marcus Egnatius Marcellinus, a senator of Imperial Rome, Consul Suffectus in 116
  * Marcellinus and Peter (died 304), two Christian martyrs
  * Pope Marcellinus (died 304), third century pope
  * Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 330–c. 400), Roman historian
  * Narcissus, Argeus, and Marcellinus (died 320), martyrs at Tomi
  * Marcellinus of Gaul (died 374), saint and evangelist
  * Marcellinus of Carthage (died 413), saint and martyr
  * Marcellinus Comes (Count Marcellinus, died 534), 6th-century chronicler

Modern

  * Marcellinus Champagnat (1789–1840), priest and saint, founder of the Marist Brothers
  * Marcellinus of Civezza (1822–1906), Italian Franciscan author
  * Saint Marcellinus (disambiguation)


Riot City: Protest and Rebellion in the Capital is a 2012 book by British academic, broadcaster and author, Clive Bloom. The book deals with the history of protest movements in London and political radicalism in the capital.

Background

Clive Bloom is an Emeritus Professor of English and American studies at Middlesex University. The book examines the rebellion in the city, particularly examining radical political movements. It investigates Occupy London, the 2010 United Kingdom student protests alongside historic movements. Bloom writes that 'protest is the raw and vital edge of being a Londoner'.

Reception

Chris Gilson, from the London School of Economics and Political Science wrote that the book was a 'timely work',Financial Times,The Spectator.

  * Full text at the Internet Archive


North Carolina Highway 403

North Carolina Highway 403 (NC 403) is a primary state highway located in U.S. State of North Carolina. The highway travels through Sampson, Duplin, and Wayne Counties between its southern terminus at U.S. Route 701 Business (US 701 Business) in Clinton and NC 55 in Williams. Between its termini, NC 403 connects to Interstate 40 (I-40) and Faison. The highway is primarily rural and predominantly travels through rural forests and farmlands. While signed in a north-south direction, NC 403 physically travels in a northeast-southwest direction along the duration of its route.

Prior to the establishment of NC 403, multiple secondary roads linked Clinton and Faison. NC 403 was established in 1933, running along secondary roads from US 701/NC 23 north of Clinton to US 117/NC 40 in Faison. By 1935, the southern terminus was shifted to NC 24 at Warsaw Road in Clinton. NC 403 was extended northeast from Faison to NC 55 in Williams in 1957. The southern terminus of NC 403 was once again moved from Warsaw Road to US 701 (modern-day US 701 Business) in 1966. In 2009, US 117 Connector was routed from I-40 to US 117, creating a 0.2-mile (0.32 km) concurrency near the I-40 interchange.

Route description


North Carolina Highway 403

Route description

NC 403 is a predominantly two-lane rural highway that traverses 25.7 miles (41.4 km) from Clinton to Williams. The southern terminus of NC 403 is located at an at-grade intersection with US 701 Business (Northeast Boulevard) northeast of downtown Clinton. From the intersection, NC 403 runs northeastward along the two-lane Faison Highway, exiting Clinton to the northeast. Outside of Clinton, the majority of the surrounding area is farmland and forested areas. However, some residential neighborhoods are located adjacent to NC 403 on the outskirts of the city. The highway crosses Beaverdam Swamp and makes a gradual turn northward. Beyond the initial curve, the highway makes several minor turns to return to a northeastern orientation. NC 403 intersects Keener Road which runs westward to the census-designated place of Keener. The highway crosses several other river branches of the Cape Fear River as it approaches I-40. As NC 403 approaches I-40, it widens to a four-lane divided highway. NC 403 meets I-40 at a diamond interchange (I-40 exit 355) southwest of Faison. US 117 Connector begins at the interchange, marking the beginning of the NC 403/US 117 Connector concurrency. NC 403 continues northeast for 0.2 miles (0.32 km) until reaching an at-grade intersection northeast of I-40. At the intersection, NC 403 turns southeastward toward Faison while US 117 Connector continues northeast toward Calypso.

[North Carolina Highway 403 traveling concurrently with North Carolina Highway 50 through the Historical District of Faison, North Carolina.]

NC 403 and NC 50 travel concurrently through the Faison Historic District in Faison.


North Carolina Highway 403

NC 403 travels 0.7 miles (1.1 km) before crossing into Duplin County. Approaching Faison, NC 403 makes a reverse curve before intersecting NC 50 west of the town. At the intersection, NC 50 turns to run concurrently with NC 403 to the east. Entering Faison from the west, NC 403 and NC 50 travel along Main Street to pass through the downtown area of Faison. Immediately east of the central business area, the highway crosses a CSX Transportation owned railroad line at an at-grade crossingUS 117/NC 50 at an intersection. The NC 403/NC 50 concurrency ends at the intersection as NC 50 turns south to follow US 117 toward Warsaw. NC 403 exits Faison to the east and the surrounding area becomes predominately farmland. The highway makes a turn to the northeast and intersects several secondary roads that run northwest to Calypso. NC 403 makes a turn to the southeast before intersecting Beautancus Road which runs north to Mount Olive. At the intersection, the highway turns back to the northeast, an orientation it largely remains for the duration of its route. NC 403 passes through a community southeast of Mount Olive, with several businesses and residential buildings located adjacent to the highway. From the community, NC 403 continues northeastward for 2.1 miles (3.4 km) and crosses the Northeast Cape Fear River and enters Wayne County. It continues 0.7 miles (1.1 km) to its northern terminus at NC 55 in the unincorporated community of Williams.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) measures average daily traffic volumes along many of the roadways it maintains. In 2016, average daily traffic volumes along NC 403 varied from 1,200 vehicles per day at the Northeast Cape Fear River to 12,000 vehicles per day along the section to roadway concurrent with US 117 Connector east of I-40. 403 is part of the National Highway System for 0.2 miles (0.32 km), entirely concurrent with US 117 Connector near Faison. Additionally, NC 403 connects with the National Highway system at I-40.

History


North Carolina Highway 403

History

In 1930, several graded secondary roads linked Clinton and Faison along the future routing of NC 403. 403 first appeared on North Carolina state highway maps in 1933. The highway began at US 701/NC 23 two miles (three point two kilometres) north of Clinton and ran northeast to US 117/NC 40 in Faison. From its establishment NC 403 was classified as a gravel or topsoil road. 403 was adjusted to the south ending at NC 24 (modern-day Warsaw Road) in Clinton.paved by 1940. 403 was extended northeast from US 117 in Faison to NC 55 in Williams. 403 routing was along pre-existing secondary roads between Faison and Williams. However, a new highway was created between modern-day Bill Clifton Road and Friendship Church Road, east of Faison. 403 was shortened by 0.4 miles (0.64 km) on its southern end. The southern terminus was moved from Warsaw Road to US 701 (modern-day US 701 Business), removing NC 403 from College Street. 403 near I-40 was adjusted upon the construction of a secondary road (Sampson County SR 1723) running from NC 403 to US 117. Completed by 1995, a curve along NC 403 east of I-40 was eliminated in favor of the modern-day intersection. 117 Connector was established from I-40 to US 117 near Calypso. The new connector route replaced Sampson County SR 1723 and was routed to overlap NC 403 for 0.2 miles (0.32 km) northeast of I-40.

Major intersections

County                                    Location  mi                                            km                                              Destinations                                                             Notes
Sampson                                   Clinton   0.0                                           0.0                                                                                Southern terminus
                                                                                US 701 Bus. – Newton Grove, Elizabethtown
                                         11.2      18.0                                                                                South end of US 117 Conn. overlap; exit 355 (I-40); diamond interchange
                                                                                I-40 / US 117 Conn. – Wilmington, Newton Grove

                                         11.5      18.5                                                                                North end of US 117 Conn. overlap
                                                                                US 117 Conn. north – Mount Olive, Goldsboro
Duplin                                    Faison    13.6                                          21.9                                                                                North end of NC 50 overlap
                                                                                NC 50 north – Newton Grove
14.3                                      23.0                                                    South end of NC 50 overlap
                                                    US 117 / NC 50 south – Goldsboro, Wilmington
Wayne                                     Williams  25.7                                          41.4                                            NC 55 – Kinston, Mount Olive                                             Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  * Concurrency terminus


North Carolina Highway 403

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  * Media related to North Carolina Highway 403 at Wikimedia Commons
  * NCRoads.com: N.C. 403


Leisure Lake, Missouri

Leisure Lake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Grundy County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 166.

It is located in western Grundy County and consists of a residential community set round a reservoir named Leisure Lake. Missouri Route 146 forms the eastern and northern edge of the CDP and leads southeast 8 miles (13 km) to Trenton, the Grundy County seat.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Leisure Lake CDP has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.8 km2), of which 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km2), or 5.10%, is water.

Demographics

Historical population
Census                 Pop.  Note  %±
2020                   166         —
U.S. Decennial Census


Kurumbapapperi

Kurumbalapperi is a village in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu, India. It is located between the cities of Tenkasi and Tirunelveli. The village was named for the groves of kurumbala (a sumal jackfruit) trees in the area. The vast majority of the inhabitants work in agriculture. One noteworthy feature is a large temple called Pathirakali Amman Koil that was constructed in the village.


Social employee

A social employee is a worker operating within a social business model. Following an organization's social computing guidelines, social employees use social media tools both for internal workflow and collaboration purposes and for external engagement with customers, prospects and stakeholders through a combination of social media marketing, content marketing, social marketing, and social selling.

Overview

The term "social employee" was first introduced to describe those exhibiting the emerging characteristics of workers operating under a social business model.

The term is often used interchangeably with similar designations like "employee advocate" or "social employee advocate".

Crucial to the perceived value of the social employee is the concept of the digital footprint. While organizations are able to generate large bases of followers through social media, research shows that brand marketing and engagement efforts through these networks are not as effective as those of individual employees.

The personal or employee brand

A foundational concept of the social employee is the idea of the personal or employee brand. This concept first gained popular attention in a 1997 FastCompany article by business leader Tom Peters titled "The Brand Called You".

With increased adoption of social media tools by both businesses and consumers in the early 21st century, many business leaders became increasingly concerned with social engagement, both internally among employees and externally with customers and other stakeholders.

As a result, many began to advocate for employee branding as a solution to this problem. This helped give new meaning to the concept of brand ambassadorship, positioning everyday employees in public, and potentially high-profile, engagement roles.

Characteristics

Engaged

Because social employee advocacy is dependent on the perceived authenticity of the employee, engagement is highly valued in social organizations. Further, data show the measurable impact of employee engagement on organizational productivity and profitability:

  * Happy employees were found to be 12 percent more productive.
  * In one study, engaged employees were found to be 38 percent more likely to produce at above-average rates.
  * Engaged companies were found to outperform disengaged companies by up to 202 percent.
  * Companies with strong focus on culture were found to have an average 13.9 percent turnover rate, while those with a low focus experience were found to have a 48.4 percent turnover rate.

Flexible job environment and work–life balance


Social employee

Flexible job environment and work–life balance

The number of professionals working mobile or remote has risen considerably since 2010. While estimates vary, one study found that number of organizations with mobile or remote employees is expected to rise from 24 percent in 2012 to 89 percent by 2020.

This change has been linked to a rise in social technologies, including biometrics, wearables, near-field communications, and augmented reality.work–life balance, with many believing that advances in technology can directly support efforts in this area.

Buys into the brand's story

In 2009, thought leader Simon Sinek presented a speech called "How Great Leaders Inspire Action" at a TEDxPugetSound event. Sinek's central argument in this speech was, "People don't buy what you do. They buy why you do it."social media marketing as a way to build authentic connections with stakeholders.

Collaborative

An implicit tenet in social business is that social technologies aren't a barrier to productivity, but rather a path to increased connectivity.enterprise software systems like IBM Connections to incorporate social communication models, such as mentions, wikis, and newsfeeds, reflects the changing communication dynamics within business. With an increase in diversity and sophistication in collaborative software platforms, social organizations have sought to find new creative ways to utilize these tools and secure employee buy-in around them.

Crowdsourcing has also become popular in social businesses. Examples include AT&T's program The Innovation Pipeline (TIP), begun in 2009, which has generated over 28,000 ideas that have led to over 75 projects with funding exceeding $44 million.

Another popular form of internal collaboration is the hack day, or hackathon. Organizations such as Netflix, Facebook, and IBM use hack days to pull employees out of their day-to-day work environments and encourage them to collaborate in nontraditional ways in an attempt to drive disruptive innovation.

Social employees are often encouraged to seek external collaboration opportunities with customers and prospects.

Social listener

A social listener is someone who engages in social listening, or social media monitoring, for professional means. Social employees can use social media monitoring for a variety of reasons, including professional development, industry news and trends, and gauging market sentiment.

Customer-centric


Social employee

Customer-centric

Advocates of customer-centricity in social business argue that social media has changed the dynamic from one-way brand messaging to shared interactions between brand and customer.customer engagement is seen as a means of creating more lasting connections with customers and prospects and empowering them to become brand promoters.

As a means of building social employees, some social advocates have also called for a broader definition of customer to include the employees themselves. In the book The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence, authors Vala Afshar and Brad Martin made the following argument:

A social business operates with the guiding principle that each employee's responsibility is to serve one another, and that those we serve, even internally, are our customers. To earn internal customer trust and loyalty, each employee must be dependable, available, responsive, and committed to the success of the whole.

Adaptable

The relatively quick proliferation and prioritization of social media in business has driven a need for organizations to be more flexible and responsive.

Common features of social employee programs

According to Weber Shandwick, 47 percent of employees are either already prepared to advocate for their employers or willing to learn. Of those, 21 percent are what the study refers to as "ProActivists," or early adopters, employees who actively use social media for professional purposes, with about half of this group already posting about their employer through social channels.

Pilot program

Many organizations begin with a social employee pilot program to determine best practices suitable to their organizational structure.Domo implemented a mandatory pilot program requiring the participation of all its staff, Dell recruited approximately 200 employee participants through what was called the Social Media and Communities (SMaC) University.

Discovery

A common first step in a social employee pilot program is an initial process of discovery in which organizations attempt to identify and quantify their current resources. This can include a roll call of employee early adopters, an internal audit of informal adoption of social tools and practices, or a skills test to determine current adoption rates.

Social computing policy

Many organizations will recruit employees to actively participate in designing the pilot program. A fundamental concern of social media use in business has been its potential for abuse—specifically regarding the release of confidential information, negative or off-brand messages, and security risks.

Training


Social employee

Training

To social organizations, social employee training helps to unify employee programs and tools throughout the organization and establishes a common knowledge base and set of best practices to assist employees in sharing and decision-making.social learning principles.

Social employee training often applies the 70/20/10 learning model as its basis. In this model, 70 percent of learning is self-directed, 20 percent is informal mentoring or coaching, and 10 percent is formal training. Applying this dynamic, many organizations work to design a "digital learning experience" in which employees can access learning modules and other subject-specific content to help them acquire new skills.

Training is often divided into mandatory basic skills modules and optional advanced skills modules. To determine what social knowledge an employee needs, a baseline or "social IQ" test is often administered.

Because social employee best practices affect organizational practice and culture in a broad way, upper management and executives are also encouraged to adopt social engagement best practices. Doing so is said to help drive buy-in among the workforce and reinforce organizational commitment to the program. Training for upper management and executives can often involve a process known as "reverse mentoring," in which a lower-level employee is brought in to help develop a senior-level manager's skills and basic digital literacy.

Social engagement and content marketing

Social engagement and sharing through both internal and external channels are considered key components of social employee design. Employees are encouraged to communicate with coworkers, customers, prospects, and stakeholders through social channels by sharing industry-related news or user-generated content.

Internally, this process is often centered on keeping employees updated on company and industry news, helping employees collaborate on projects, and building culture. Many enterprise-level social platforms have been developed to facilitate such objectives, including task management platforms, wikis, file-sharing tools, and messaging services.

Externally, the focus is often on customer engagement, often through content marketing practices. Research has shown that social sharing can have a positive impact on metrics such as brand engagement, web traffic, and sales.

Another popular social engagement strategy with stakeholders is resharing advocate-generated content through branded channels. This is believed to strengthen relationships with stakeholders and help to humanize the brand.

Assessment


Social employee

Assessment

Measuring the success social employee advocacy programs has presented a challenge to many organizations. While a small percentage of organizations assert that they are able to measure and validate their investment in social marketing, a larger percentage is either only qualitatively aware of the success of their social efforts or unable to measure whatsoever.

Social business thought leaders argue that assessing the success of social employee programs must take into account more than financial return on investment (ROI).

  * Number of employee profile views and connections
  * Number of leads from social channels
  * Rate at which employee network grows
  * Frequency of shares and interactions
  * Increase in online "chatter" about a brand
  * Ability to attract and retain skilled talent
  * Increases in visibility, inbound web traffic, brand recognition, and brand loyalty

Many organizations, however, do report financial benefits as well. Social employees are more likely to exceed their sales quota, and social businesses in general are more likely to see increased sales leads and increase in revenues.

Gamification, engagement, and culture-building programs

Culture-building programs vary in scope and complexity, but all use social media in some way to underscore employee, departmental, or organizational accomplishments.likes or follows, retweets), number of leads, or frequency of posts (i.e., status updates, tweets, blogs, etc.).gamification strategies such as leaderboards, achievement badges, and scavenger hunts.

  * Content marketing
  * Engagement marketing
  * Enterprise social software
  * Integrated marketing communications
  * Organizational culture
  * Reputation management
  * Social business model
  * Social marketing
  * Social media
  * Social media optimization
  * Social selling


Roberto Rodríguez (volleyball)

Roberto "Rafu" Rodríguez-Bertrán (born August 8, 1986) is a professional beach volleyball player from Puerto Rico who currently competes on the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit. He competes with Orlando Irrizarry.

Representing his home country at the Swatch FIVB World Tour during the 2006 season, playing with Christopher Underwood, they accumulated 30 points.

He also played at the AVP Young Guns 2009 at Fort Lauderdale

  * Roberto Rodríguez at the Association of Volleyball Professionals
  * Roberto Rodríguez at the FIVB beach volleyball database
  * Roberto Rodríguez at the Beach Volleyball Database


Myanmymar

Not to be confused with Myanmar.

Myanmymar is an extinct genus of fairyfly preserved in Burmese amber from Myanmar. It has only one species, Myanmymar aresconoides. It is dated to the earliest part of the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, around 99 million years old. As of 2011, it is the oldest known fossil mymarid.

Discovery and geologic time range

Myanmymar aresconoides was described by John T. Huber and George Poinar Jr. from a specimen of a female embedded in Burmese amber. The amber was recovered in 2001 from the Noije Bum 2001 Summit Site, a fossil amber mine in Hukawng Valley, Kachin State of Myanmar. The site is dated to the Albian-Cenomanian (97 to 110 million years ago) of the Early Cretaceous epoch. As of 2011, this makes Myanmymar aresconoides the oldest known fossil mymarid recovered.

Taxonomy

Myanmymar aresconoides is the only species belonging to the genus Myanmymar. It belongs to the family of fairyflies Mymaridae of the chalcid wasp superfamily Chalcidoidea.

The generic name Myanmymar is derived from a euphonious combination of "Myanmar" and Greek μῶμος (mōmos, "spot" or "blot"). The specific name means "resembling Arescon", from Arescon (an extant genus of fairyfly) and Greek -εἶδος (eidos, "like", "resembling").

Description

See also: Insect morphology

Possible male specimen of the M. aresconoides

Like other fairyflies, M. aresconoides is a tiny wasp. The entire body length of the specimen is about half a millimeter, 535 μm (0.0211 in). The head measures about 120 μm (0.0047 in) and have moderately sized eyes. The antennae have eight segments in the funicle and two on club-like tip (clava). The maxillary palps have three segments.


Myanmymar

The mesosoma (middle part of the body) is 200 μm (0.0079 in) long. It has narrow forewings, with wing venation extending up to two-thirds of the length and a rounded lobe at the base. On the margins are numerous long bristle-like projections (marginal setae), the longest of which is about twice the greatest width of the wing. The hindwings are also narrow with parallel sides. Their marginal setae are about seven times the width of the wing. Both wings do not possess microtrichia (small irregularly scattered hairs), except for two sparse rows beyond the venation of the forewings.

The legs have long tarsi with five segments. The tibia is not clearly visible but is assumed to be about the same length as the tarsi.

The metasoma is longer than the mesosoma, at 225 μm (0.0089 in). The ovipositor is 218 μm (0.0086 in) long, with the sheath slightly extending over the tip of the metasoma.

As the specific name suggests, M. aresconoides is very similar to the extant genus Arescon in wing shape and venation. Only three other modern mymarid genera (Boudiennyia, Eustochomorpha, and Borneomymar) share all the M. aresconoides characteristics of having forewing venation longer than half the wing length, five segments on the tarsi, and eight segments on the funicles. M. aresconoides is also unique among fairyflies in having three distinct segments on the palpi. In contrast, all modern mymarids have unsegmented palpi.

Another specimen of a possible male of the species was also discovered. It is 445 μm (0.0175 in) long, with a head 148 μm (0.0058 in) wide. However, it is impossible to ascertain if they belong to the same species due to the poor condition of the second specimen.

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Sepak takraw at the 1998 Asian Games – Women's circle

Sepak takraw at the
1998 Asian Games

Circle               men  women
Regu                 men  women
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Main article: Sepak takraw at the 1998 Asian Games

The women's circle sepak takraw competition at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok was held from 18 to 19 December at the Indoor Stadium Huamark.

Schedule

All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00)

Date                        Time     Event
Friday, 18 December 1998    09:00    Preliminaries
12:00                       Round 2
Saturday, 19 December 1998  09:00    Final

Squads

Cambodia                  China              Indonesia                  Japan
  * Duch Sorphorn           * Bai Jie          * Siti Hawa Djamalu        * Masumi Aikawa
  * Em Pisey                * Sun Xiaodan      * S. Kaliey                * Keiko Ishikawa
  * Ouk Sok San             * Tong Baoying     * Cici Miarsi              * Chiharu Oku
  * San Sopheap             * Wang Xiaohua     * Ita Hatijah Rauf         * Yumiko Shiba
  * San Sophorn             * Yu Ying          * Rice                     * Chihiro Toyoizumi
  * Suon Sarath             * Zhou Ronghong    * Alberthina Suryani
Laos                      Myanmar            Thailand                   Vietnam
  * Sanakhone Ekkavong      * Mar Mar Win      * Nittiya Boonjunag        * Đặng Thị Ngọc
  * Sisakhone Luanglath     * Moe Moe Lwin     * Kobkul Chinchaiyaphom    * Lê Thị Hồng Thơm
  * S. Phanthanivong        * Nu Nu Yin        * Lumpiang Pumpim          * Lưu Thị Thanh
  * S. Phengvenevongsoth    * San San Htay     * Buaphan Sawatdipon       * Nguyễn Thị Thúy Vinh
  * Noly Samontry           * San San Htay     * Wanwipa Seelahoi         * Trần Nguyễn Anh Phương
  * Soukthavy Sirivong      * Tin Tin Htwe     * Warn Sochaiyan           * Trần Thị Vui

Results

Preliminaries

Rank  Team       Score  Seed
1     Thailand   1147   Group 1
2     Myanmar    900    Group 2
3     Vietnam    777    Group 1
4     Indonesia  738    Group 2
5     Japan      565    Group 1
6     China      541    Group 2
7     Cambodia   392    Group 1
8     Laos       280    Group 2

Round 2


Round 2

Group 1

Rank  Team      Score
1     Thailand  3221
2     Vietnam   2567
3     Japan     1804
4     Cambodia  1357

Group 2

Rank  Team       Score
1     Myanmar    3272
2     Indonesia  2291
3     China      1797
4     Laos       1150

Final

Rank                             Team       Score
[1st place, gold medalist(s)]    Thailand   3708
[2nd place, silver medalist(s)]  Myanmar    3374
[3rd place, bronze medalist(s)]  Vietnam    2543
4                                Indonesia  2494

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Morchard Road

The Devonshire Dumpling

Morchard Road is a small hamlet in mid Devon, UK. It has a pub, the Devonshire Dumpling. It also has a railway station on the Tarka Line.

  * The Devonshire Dumpling public house

50°49′46″N 3°46′30″W / 50.82944°N 3.77500°W


Tallmadge

Tallmadge may refer to:

People

  * John Tallmadge, American nature writer
  * Benjamin Tallmadge (1754–1835), American soldier and politician; US Representative from Connecticut
  * Nathaniel P. Tallmadge (1795–1864), United States Senator from New York
  * James Tallmadge Jr. (1778–1853), United States Representative from New York
  * Frederick A. Tallmadge (1792–1869), American politician, US Representative from New York
  * Matthias B. Tallmadge (1774–1819), American politician, lawyer, and judge in New York state
  * Thomas Tallmadge (1876–1940), American architect

Places

  * Tallmadge Township, Michigan
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Other

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Savage Moon

Savage Moon is a PlayStation 3 and PSP tower defense strategy game by British studio FluffyLogic which sees the player protecting a remote, off-world mining facility from constant attack by Insectocytes, a type of carnivorous creature inhabiting the planets. The mission is to strategically place an array of upgradeable, defensive weapons in the way of the bugs. There is a range of towers, from rapid-fire machine guns to support towers such as the chaos tower.

The game was released for download on the European PlayStation Network on 24 December 2008 and in North America on 29 January 2009.

In 2010 the soundtrack to the DLC of Savage Moon: Waldgeist - also composed by Elsaesser, was nominated for Best Original Video Game Score in the 55th Ivor Novello Awards.

On 22 December 2009 a new game set in the same universe and featuring some of the same units and towers was released, titled The Hera Campaign.

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North Carolina Highway 2A

North Carolina Highway 2A (NC 2A) was a state highway located in southern Moore County, in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The highway traveled from an intersection with U.S. Route 1 (US 1), now May Street, northward through portions of Manly and Southern Pines to an intersection with NC 22 (now US 1). The highway was first listed as part of the Moore County road system by at least 1930. The route was improved to a paved surface by 1936. NC 2A was numbered sometime between 1945 and 1949. By 1952, it was cancelled and Highway 2 was designated over the route. It has since been numbered Secondary Road 2029 (SR 2029).

Route description

In 1951, NC 2A started at an at-grade intersection with US 1 (North May Street) in the southern portion of the community of Manly. From there, the highway ran northwesterly across the Seaboard Air Line Railroad to an intersection with a primitive trail (now Clark Street) in Southern Pines. The roadway continued northwestward to a bridge over a small, unnamed creek (now nonexistent). Turning slightly westward, the road proceeded to its northern terminus, an intersection with NC 2 (now an interchange with US 1).

History

By 1930, a highway in the location of NC 2A was added to the Moore County Highway System as a class C road, a county highway of the lowest importance. The entire length of the route was graded with an earthen surface, as was much of the highway system.0.9 miles (1.4 km) in length, as well as being improved to an asphalt surface.bituminous.0.74 miles (1.19 km) in length, and its entire length was paved. NC 2's route was replaced by NC 22.

Major intersections

The entire highway was in Moore County.

Location                                  mi    km                   Destinations                 Notes
Manly                                     0.00  0.00                 US 1 (N May Street) – Voss   Southern terminus; now unnumbered
Southern Pines                            0.10  0.16                 Clark Street                 Present-day SR 2023/SR 2097
0.75                                      1.21  NC 2 (Midland Road)  Northern terminus; now US 1
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi


North Carolina Highway 2A

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Leisure Painter magazine

Leisure Painter is a learn-to-paint magazine, first published in 1967. It is published monthly by The Artists’ Publishing Company, based in Tenterden, Kent, and costs £4.99 from newsagents, supermarkets and art shops. The magazine's editor is Ingrid Lyon.

Leisure Painter magazine gives step-by-step tuition to beginners and amateur painters, as well as advice on drawing and painting. Art tutors - including David Bellamy, Pamela Kay and Tony Paul - set projects, describe their working methods, and offer tips and hints for readers.

The magazine's articles include practical instruction on drawing and painting in different media; competitions and special offers; monthly critiques of readers' work; questions from readers answered; reports by art tutors on art materials, products, books and DVDs; updates on open competitions, exhibitions and art-related events; and workshops and holidays in the UK and abroad tutored by professional artists.

The magazine's website, PaintersOnline, was launched in September 2007. PaintersOnline is an online community, including a forum for sharing experiences and advice; blogs; a gallery to upload images of visitors’ drawings and paintings; and a searchable database of art clubs and art tutors.

  * Leisure Painter magazine web site


Kola Anubi

Oluwaseun Kolawole Anubi (born 24 March 1987 in Zaria) is a Nigerian football player currently with Warri Wolves F.C.

Career

Anubi moved from Insurance in 2004 to Brazilian top club Sport Club InternacionalEnyimba International F.C. After moving to Dolphins F.C., he was loaned out in 2008 to Akwa United F.C.

International

He was a member of the Nigerian team at 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship in the Netherlands where he played two games. He used to be a member of the Nigerian team at 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Finland and played all three games.

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List of teams and cyclists in the 1961 Vuelta a España

For the 1961 Vuelta a España, the field consisted of 100 riders; 50 finished the race.

By rider

Legend
 No.    Starting number worn by the rider during the Vuelta
 Pos.   Position in the general classification
 Time   Deficit to the winner of the general classification
 DNF    Denotes a rider who did not finish


No.  Name                          Nationality  Team                  Pos.  Time          Ref
1    Frans De Mulder               Belgium      Groene Leeuw          DNF   —
2    Jan Adriaensens               Belgium      Groene Leeuw          17    + 24' 43"
3    Constant De Keyser            Belgium      Groene Leeuw          31    + 1h 14' 40"
4    Lucien Mathys                 Belgium      Groene Leeuw          DNF   —
5    Jef Lahaye                    Netherlands  Groene Leeuw          23    + 40' 20"
6    Arthur Decabooter             Belgium      Groene Leeuw          DNF   —
7    Alfons Sweeck                 Belgium      Groene Leeuw          DNF   —
8    André Messelis                Belgium      Groene Leeuw          11    + 8' 29"
9    Marcel Seynaeve               Belgium      Groene Leeuw          19    + 26' 49"
10   René Van Meenen               Belgium      Groene Leeuw          DNF   —
11   François Mahé                 France       France                2     + 51"
12   Jean Dotto                    France       France                DNF   —
13   Marcel Rohrbach               France       France                DNF   —
14   André Le Dissez               France       France                DNF   —
15   Claude Sauvage                France       France                40    + 1h 43' 08"
16   Gérard Thiélin                France       France                DNF   —
17   Louis Bisilliat               France       France                DNF   —
18   Raymond Hoorelbeke            France       France                33    + 1h 32' 56"
19   Francis Pipelin               France       France                38    + 1h 36' 34"
20   Guy Ignolin                   France       France                DNF   —
21   Alves Barbosa                 Portugal     Portugal              18    + 25' 58"
22   José Carlos Sousa Cardoso     Portugal     Portugal              24    + 43' 52"
23   Carlos Carvalho               Portugal     Portugal              44    + 1h 54' 38"
24   Henrique Castro               Portugal     Portugal              49    + 3h 03' 05"
25   Antonio Baptista              Portugal     Portugal              DNF   —
26   Martins Almeida               Portugal     Portugal              DNF   —
27   José Pacheco                  Portugal     Portugal              DNF   —


27   José Pacheco                  Portugal     Portugal              DNF   —
28   Jorge Corvo                   Portugal     Portugal              DNF   —
29   Sergio Pascoa                 Portugal     Portugal              48    + 2h 33' 02"
30   Antonio Pisco                 Portugal     Portugal              DNF   —
31   Piet Damen                    Netherlands  Netherlands           DNF   —
32   Albert Edmond                 Netherlands  Netherlands           DNF   —
33   Piet Van De Brekel            Netherlands  Netherlands           DNF   —
34   Jan Hugens                    Netherlands  Netherlands           DNF   —
35   Dick Enthoven                 Netherlands  Netherlands           DNF   —
36   Huub Zilverberg               Netherlands  Netherlands           DNF   —
37   Mik Snijder                   Netherlands  Netherlands           DNF   —
38   René Lotz                     Netherlands  Netherlands           DNF   —
39   Ab Sluis                      Netherlands  Netherlands           DNF   —
40   Lambertus van de Ven          Netherlands  Netherlands           DNF   —
41   Arturo Sabbadin               Italy        Philco-Magni-Torpado  13    + 12' 46"
42   Georges Mortiers              Belgium      Philco-Magni-Torpado  DNF   —
43   Roberto Falaschi              Italy        Philco-Magni-Torpado  DNF   —
44   Guillaume Michiels            Belgium      Philco-Magni-Torpado  DNF   —
45   Antonio Accorsi               Italy        Philco-Magni-Torpado  29    + 1h 04' 01"
46   Renato Giusti                 Italy        Philco-Magni-Torpado  DNF   —
47   Giovanni Sensi                Italy        Philco-Magni-Torpado  DNF   —
48   Giovanni Veruchi              Italy        Philco-Magni-Torpado  DNF   —
49   Marino Franceschetto          Italy        Philco-Magni-Torpado  DNF   —
50   Tristano Tinarelli            Italy        Philco-Magni-Torpado  DNF   —
51   Miguel Pacheco                Spain        Licor 43              12    + 10' 03"
52   Fernando Manzaneque           Spain        Licor 43              7     + 5' 47"
53   Carmelo Morales Erostarbe     Spain        Licor 43              9     + 7' 38"


54   Luis Otaño                    Spain        Licor 43              21    + 32' 39"
55   Miguel Chacón                 Spain        Licor 43              DNF   —
56   René Marigil                  Spain        Licor 43              16    + 20' 30"
57   Ángel Guardiola Ortiz         Spain        Licor 43              20    + 30' 01"
58   Antonio Carreras              Spain        Licor 43              DNF   —
59   Emilio Hernan Diaz            Spain        Licor 43              27    + 56' 32"
60   Esteban Martín Jiménez        Spain        Licor 43              46    + 2h 12' 38"
61   Antonio Karmany               Spain        Kas–Royal Asport      8     + 6' 07"
62   José Segú                     Spain        Kas–Royal Asport      DNF   —
63   Benigno Aspuru                Spain        Kas–Royal Asport      50    + 3h 18' 31"
64   Marcel Queheille              France       Kas–Royal Asport      26    + 50' 44"
65   Manuel Martín Piñera          Spain        Kas–Royal Asport      45    + 1h 59' 24"
66   Francisco Gabica              Spain        Kas–Royal Asport      30    + 1h 04:20"
67   Juan Campillo García          Spain        Kas–Royal Asport      15    + 16' 48"
68   Eusebio Vélez                 Spain        Kas–Royal Asport      DNF   —
69   Rogelio Hernández Santibáñez  Spain        Kas–Royal Asport      32    + 1h 19' 50"
70   Antonio Jiménez Quiles        Spain        Kas–Royal Asport      22    + 36' 02"
71   José Pérez Francés            Spain        Ferrys                3     + 2' 23"
72   Julio San Emeterio            Spain        Ferrys                DNF   —
73   Antonio Bertrán               Spain        Ferrys                DNF   —
74   Juan Escola                   Spain        Ferrys                DNF   —
75   Emilio Cruz Díaz              Spain        Ferrys                DNF   —
76   Alberto Sant                  Spain        Ferrys                DNF   —
77   Vicente Aznar                 Spain        Ferrys                DNF   —
78   Juan Antonio Belmonte Prados  Spain        Ferrys                DNF   —
79   Manuel Perez Perez            Spain        Ferrys                DNF   —


79   Manuel Perez Perez            Spain        Ferrys                DNF   —
80   Jesús Loroño                  Spain        Ferrys                10    + 7' 47"
81   Jesús Galdeano                Spain        Faema                 25    + 47' 20"
82   Antonio Gómez del Moral       Spain        Faema                 5     + 3' 13"
83   José Gómez del Moral          Spain        Faema                 DNF   —
84   José Herrero Berrendero       Spain        Faema                 47    + 2h 24' 44"
85   Gabriel Mas                   Spain        Faema                 35    + 1h 29' 17"
86   Francisco Moreno Martínez     Spain        Faema                 37    + 1h 35' 45"
87   Salvador Rosa Gómez           Spain        Faema                 42    + 1h 48' 31"
88   Angelino Soler                Spain        Faema                 1     77h 36' 17"
89   Antonio Suárez                Spain        Faema                 4     + 2' 47"
90   Salvador Botella              Spain        Faema                 14    + 13' 57"
91   Vicente Iturat                Spain        Catigene              6     + 5:29"
92   Gabriel Company               Spain        Catigene              28    + 56' 41"
93   Aniceto Utset                 Spain        Catigene              41    + 1h 45' 14"
94   José Luis Talamillo           Spain        Catigene              DNF   —
95   Antonio Barrutia              Spain        Catigene              DNF   —
96   José Martín Colmenarejo       Spain        Catigene              39    + 1h 38' 18"
97   Adolfo Bello                  Spain        Catigene              DNF   —
98   Julio Jiménez                 Spain        Catigene              36    + 1h 29' 25"
99   José Manuel Quesada Nortes    Spain        Catigene              34    + 1h 25' 41"
100  Ángel Rodríguez López         Spain        Catigene              43    + 1h 51' 00"


By nationality


List of Lives of Omission characters

Promotional poster. From left to right: Michael So, Paris Yiu, Harry Kung, Jodie Chau and Laughing.

Lives of Omission is a 2011 television crime drama serial set and filmed in Hong Kong. Produced by Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), Chong Wai-kin serves as the drama's executive producer with Sharon Au and Choi Suk-yin as the executive writers. The drama centers around a squad of undercover officers from the Criminal Intelligence Bureau (CIB) of the Hong Kong Police Force, who are closely following the activities of Yee Fung (義豐), a large triad society.

Criminal Intelligence Bureau

Harry Kung

Damian Lau portrays Harry Kung / Kung Kar-pui (鞏家培), the senior superintendent of CIB.

Jodie Chau

Fala Chen portrays Jodie Chau / Chau Mong-ching (周望晴), known as Madam Jo, the senior inspector of CIB's A team. She is Laughing Leung's supervisor, later his girlfriend and fiancée. She was shot in the leg in episode 30 by Michael So who pushed her off a ledge to her death. She and Laughing got together in the middle of the series in episode 15.

Laughing

Michael Tse portrays Leung Siu-tong (梁笑棠), better known as Laughing, the drama's main protagonist. Laughing is the station sergeant CIB's A team, the subgroup in charge of monitoring criminal information and handling informants. Laughing is also responsible for recruiting and training young police officers in undercover work. Lap Ching, Siu-Kit, and Bubble are his students. He was suspended from all police duties in episode 15 for trading ketamine with Michael So in order to save Siu-Kit, but was later reinstated as a UC supervised by Jodie Chau. He is Jodie Chau's subordinate, later her boyfriend and fiancé.


List of Lives of Omission characters

Laughing is an extremely experienced undercover cop having spent most of his career working as an undercover in various triad societies. Prior to the events of Lives of Omission, Laughing spent two years in an illegal armed weaponry gang as a spy for the mainland Chinese police before returning to Hong Kong to work as a UC (undercover) instructor. In order to bust Yee Fung, one of Hong Kong's most powerful triad society, Laughing employs Michael as his informant. He is sentenced to life in prison for murder after he killed Michael to avenge Jodie's death.

Dog Head

Derek Kok portrays Sze To-Hoi (司徒凱), known as Dog Head (狗頭), the sergeant of CIB's A Team. He is addicted to gambling and is indebted to Yee Fung, so he is forced to help Mok Yat-lit deal with triad matters. He was dismissed by the police in episode 26.

Lap Ching

Jin Au-Yeung portrays Yeung Lap-ching (楊立青), known as Lap Ching (蠟青; lit. Asphalt), an undercover trainee mentored by Laughing, who is indebted to Mok Yat Lit.

Vicky Mung

Mandy Wong portrays Vicky / Mung Sam-ling (蒙心凌), known as Ah Mung (阿檬), an undercover trainee mentored by Madam Jo.

Young Master Kit

Daniel Chau portrays Suen Siu-kit (孙少杰), known as Young Master Kit (杰少), an UC trainee mentored by Laughing, and Fong Chun-Long's younger twin brother. He goes undercover on a mission assigned by Laughing in episode 14, but his identity was revealed when his ear piece was discovered by Michael So. He was injected with poisonous amounts of drugs which led to paralysis by Michael So in episode 15, but he completely recovers and resumes police office work in episode 29.

Bubble

Bella Lam portrays Lam Po-tim (林寶甜), known as Bubble, an undercover trainee mentored by Laughing.

T Two


List of Lives of Omission characters

T Two

Ronald Law portrays Kwok Ting-tin (郭定天), known as T Two, an UC trainee mentored by Madam Jo. He was later found to be a triad mole placed within CIB by Mok Yat-lit, who was his godfather. He was arrested and dismissed by the police in episode 25.

Yee Fung triad organisation

Mok Yat-lit

Cheung Kwok-keung portrays Mok Yat-lit (莫一烈), the leader of the Yee Fung triad. He is also the cousin-in-law of Harry Kung. He was killed under orders from Michael So and another triad senior, Choy Hing Fat in episode 23, when Michael tries to seize the power and influence he held within Yee Fung.

Lat Keung

Ben Wong portrays Tang Kwok-ban (鄧國彬), better known as Lat Keung (辣薑; lit. Spicy Ginger), one of Mok Yat-Lit's best assistants in the triad. He is later revealed to be an UC cop supervised by Harry Kung, but later renegades the latter. He was charged for setting fire to Yee Fung's red oil yard, almost killing Laughing, but was found not guilty of attempted murder in episode 23. He was killed by the police in episode 29 in a shootout.

Michael So

Bosco Wong portrays Michael So / So Sing-pak (蘇星柏), better known as Bai Co (跛Co; lit. Crippled Co) or Wai Co (威Co; lit. Dignified Co), Laughing's informant. Michael grew up in a privileged household and went to a prestigious private school. Before Michael finished high school, his father's business failed and his father committed suicide by setting his house on fire, killing all his family members except Michael. Since then, Michael joined Yee Fung. Michael is cunning, patient, and calculative, waiting for any sort of possibility to "move up" in the triad. Michael's obvious ambitions angered his leader, who later slipped information to the police of Michael's illegal drug trafficking business. As a result, Michael spent several years in jail.


List of Lives of Omission characters

After he is released from prison, Michael returns to Yee Fung and briefly works in the triad's funeral business. He meets Laughing and becomes his informant after Laughing promises Michael that he will help him move up in the triad. Michael gets into trouble with Laughing in episode 10 when he was arrested by Laughing for fatally running over Wai-lei, but was later released with the help of his girlfriend, Paris.

Michael and Paris Yiu have been dating since they were sixteen. After Michael and Paris graduated high school, Michael helped pay for Paris' law school expenses even after he joined Yee Fung. After Paris achieved a barrister license, she breaks up with Michael, wanting to end relations with him as well as to pursue her own ambitions and establish her career as a well-known and respected barrister.

In episode 30, he was shot and killed by Laughing in revenge for Jodie's death.

Fire Dragon

Adrian Chau portrays Fong Chun-lung (方俊龍), better known as Fire Dragon (火龍), is a newcomer to the Yee Fung triad and Suen Siu-Kit's older twin brother. After Suen Siu-Kit was seriously injured by Michael So, Fong decides to quit Yee Fung and stays with Kit.

Other characters

Paris Yiu

Kate Tsui portrays Paris Yiu / Yiu Ho-ho (姚可可), a barrister novice. She was born in a jail and takes offense of her family background. Paris and Michael have been dating since they were sixteen, and after graduating from high school, Michael helped pay for her law school tuition. After Michael was sentenced to several years in prison for illegal drug trafficking, Paris decides to end relations with him, but finds it hard to forget about him completely. They have an on-again and off-again relationship that resumes following her miscarriage of his baby in episode 27. Michael proposes to her and they wed in episode 29.

She had a sexual relationship with her mentor, Fung Ying-Kui, to further advance her career as a barrister.


List of Lives of Omission characters

In episode 29, she was later shot and "killed" by Michael in front of triad leaders, after she was found in possession of incriminating information that involved the drug operations of Ether Union as well personal information about its members. However, she was born with a strange condition that her heart is on the right side. Michael deliberately shot the left side of her body in order not to kill her.

Yuen Kwan-nam

Elena Kong portrays Yuen Kwan-nam (袁君嵐), an ex-convict who was sentenced to twenty years in prison. Before she went to jail, she was once the respected former wife of the leader of a large triad organization and briefly dated Harry Kung, who was an undercover working within the triad at the time. She later reconciles with Harry and enters into a romantic relationship with him.

Minor characters

  * Poon Fong-fong as Mok Fong-kei (莫芳琪), Harry's wife, Aidan's mother, Mok Yat-lit and Mok Wai-kei's cousin. She died from cancer in episode 9.
  * Tat Dik as Kung Lok-kan / Aidan (鞏樂勤), Harry's teenage son.
  * Mary Hon as Ho Sau-mei / Sophie (何秀美), Madam Jo's mother. She is an insurance sales executive.
  * Lily Leung as Chan Sam-mui (陳三妹), Paris' grandmother.
  * Yu Yang as Fung Ying-kui (馮應駒), Paris' mentor and Mok Yak-Lit's barrister. He had a sexual relationship with Paris.
  * Lam King-kong as Cheung Tat-kiu (張達橋), known as Tat Q (撻Q), Yuen Kwan-Nam's ex-follower and good friend.
  * Griselda Yeung as Joyce

Police


List of Lives of Omission characters

Police

  * Mak Ka-lun as Officer Cheung Man-bor (章文波), known as Bunny, leader of CIB's monitoring team.
  * Summer Joe as Officer Helen Tam Hoi-lun (譚海倫), CIB's liaison.
  * Hugo Wong as Inspector Wong Chi-king (汪子勁), inspector of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau (OCTB).
  * Ko Chun-man as Inspector Hui Tsan-hung (許振雄), inspector of CIB's hit team.
  * Joey Law as Officer Pang Kwan-ming (彭鈞銘), known as Husky (雪橇), member of CIB's surveillance team.
  * Calinda Chan as Wong Miu-fan (王妙芬), known as Pug (八哥; lit. Brother Eight), member of CIB's surveillance team.
  * Ho Chun-hin as Chik Chi-ting (戚梓庭), known as Shar Pei (沙皮), member of CIB's surveillance team.

Triad members

  * Peter Lai as Lee Yiu-kan (李耀根), one of the elder council members of Yee Fung. He speaks Shundenese dialect (a kind of native Cantonese in Shunde, Guangdong). He was killed by poisoning by Michael So in episode 26.
  * Leung Kin-ping as Mok Wai-lei / Willy (莫威利), Mok's first cousin and a member of Yee Fung. He was knocked down by a van and killed by Michael So in episode 10.
  * Dai Yiu-ming as Fu Luk / Fluke (符碌), a member of Yee Fung who helps organizes the triad's funeral businesses. He was killed by Mok Yat-lit in episode 20.
  * Kelvin Leung as Wu Chi-yin (胡志賢), one of Fu Luk's followers.
  * Candy Yuen as Ting Man (丁敏), Mok Yat Lit's mistress. She was arrested by the police in episode 23. Since she changed to be state witness and accused Yee Fung of being a triad, she was finally dismissed from the lawsuit.
  * Lives of Omission


Orang Asli Museum

The Orang Asli Museum (Malay: Muzium Orang Asli) is a museum in Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia that showcases the history and tradition of the indigenous Orang Asli people. It includes a library and a small theater hall, and was opened on 29 September 1987 by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.

  * List of museums in Malaysia
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Orang Asli Museum.
  * Lenzi, Iola (2004). Museums of Southeast Asia. Singapore: Archipelago Press. pp. 200 pages. ISBN 981-4068-96-9.
  * All Malaysia.info | Muzium Orang Asli
  * Orang Asli Temuan Web Site
  * Orang Asli Alternative Medicine

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