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6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
Good practices – Provide insights into how governments have improved the regulatory environment in the past in the areas measured by "Doing Business"
- Transparency in business regulation – Data on the accessibility of regulatory information measures how easy it is to access fee schedules ... | 6,121,900 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
There is no minimum capital requirement. By contrast, in Chad which ranked among the worst (181st out of 185) on this same subindex, there are 9 procedures required to start a business taking 62 days to complete. The official cost is 202% of the gross national income per capita. A minimum c... | 6,121,901 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
manufacturing company—hence the direct relevance of the indicators to foreign investors and large companies is limited. DB uses a simple averaging approach for weighing sub-indicators and calculating rankings. A detailed explanation of every indicator can be found through the DB website, an... | 6,121,902 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
does not consider the strengths and weaknesses of neither the global financial system, nor the financial system of every country. It also doesn't consider the state of the finances of the government of every country.
- "Doing Business" does not cover all the regulation, or all the regulato... | 6,121,903 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
in a country.
# History.
The "Doing Business" report has its origins in a paper first published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics by Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer called "The Regulation of Entry" in 2002. The paper presented data on th... | 6,121,904 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
limited governments have lighter regulation of entry." The paper became widely known because it provided quantitative evidence that entry regulation benefits politicians and bureaucrats without adding value to the private sector, or granting any additional protection.
Several countries hav... | 6,121,905 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
other academic studies, one for each set of indicators covered by the report.
In 2013, "Doing Business" covered regulations measured from June 2011 through May 2012. Over the previous decade, the reports recorded nearly 2,000 regulatory reforms implemented by 180 economies.
- Poland was t... | 6,121,906 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
it easier to start a new business, increasing the efficiency of tax administration and facilitating trade across international borders. Of the 201 regulatory reforms recorded in the past year, 44% focused on these 3 policy areas alone.
- Singapore topped the global ranking on the ease of d... | 6,121,907 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
Georgia, Norway, and the United Kingdom.
- For the first time data about Libya, Myanmar, San Marino, and South Sudan were collected.
- 114 economies adopted 238 regulatory reforms in 2012/13 (the reforms increased of 18% compared to the previous year).
In 2015, "Doing Business" covered r... | 6,121,908 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
against other large cities.
# Research and influence.
More than 3,000 academic papers have used data from the index. The effect of improving regulations on economic growth is claimed to be very strong. Moving from the worst one-fourth of nations to the best one-fourth implies a 2.3 percen... | 6,121,909 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
uncontroversial (except perhaps among corrupt officials who may gain from onerous regulations requiring bribes to bypass). As such, the index has influenced many nations to improve their regulations. Several have explicitly targeted to reach a minimum position on the index, for example the ... | 6,121,910 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
November 2017 EconTalk podcast explains the lasting influence in academia and policy circles of the Doing Business report.
# "Doing Business" Report.
The "Doing Business" Report (DB) is a report started by Simeon Djankov and elaborated by the World Bank Group since 2003 every year that is... | 6,121,911 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
of private firm is subject in all countries, and then, creates rankings for every country. The study is also backed up by broad communication efforts, and by creating rankings, the study spotlights countries and leaders that are promoting reforms.
The DB has been widely known and used by a... | 6,121,912 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
Bank Group, it demonstrates an ability to provide global knowledge, independent of resource transfer and conditionality. The annual exercise generates information that is relevant and useful.”According to the DB, regulation does matter for the development of the private sectors, and several... | 6,121,913 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
opportunities.
## Contents.
In 2017, the study contains quantitative measures of regulations for starting a business, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, getti... | 6,121,914 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
against abuse."
## Evaluation.
"Doing Business" is a controversial study, with passionate critics and devoted fans. As recognized by the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank, some have questioned the reliability and objectivity of its measurements while others doubt the relevanc... | 6,121,915 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
in the DB studies and have to be kept in mind when using the study:
- The indicators and measures are referred to the costs, requirements, and fees of doing business in the country's largest business city; thus conditions elsewhere within the country may differ.
- To achieve cross-country... | 6,121,916 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
may differ with other experts and with public officials. If so, the responses are cross-checked for consistency.
- The estimates assume that a business knows what is required and does not waste time. Satisfying regulatory requirements will obviously take longer if the business lacks inform... | 6,121,917 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
desirable outcomes. As stated by the DB 2010, about "405 articles have been published in peer-reviewed academic journals, and about 1143 working papers are available through Google Scholar".
The DB has acknowledged the limitation of getting data from one city to give information and a rank... | 6,121,918 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
are available from the DB website.
DB sometimes unintentionally has been widely used as a study to measure competitiveness. However, regulation rather than competitiveness is the main objective in the DB. Other studies that are also used to measure competitiveness and recognized as busines... | 6,121,919 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
the former director of the group responsible for the index had repeatedly manipulated its methodology, unfairly penalising the country's rankings during the administration of left-wing President Michelle Bachelet. In response, Bachelet announced that Chile would formally request a complete ... | 6,121,920 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
with public agencies in several countries in the areas such as ICT strategy, national infocomm planning and solutions implementation that can help increase the ease of doing business. One interesting fact is that although richer countries on average are ranked higher than poor countries, ar... | 6,121,921 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
to revision.
# Criticism.
The "Doing Business" methodology regarding labor regulations was criticized by the International Trade Union Confederation because it favored flexible employment regulations. In early reports, the easier it was to dismiss a worker for economic reasons in a countr... | 6,121,922 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
watchdog within the World Bank Group, published an evaluation of the "Doing Business" index. The report, "Doing Business: An Independent Evaluation", contained both praise and criticism of "Doing Business". The report recommended that the index be clearer about what is and is not measured, ... | 6,121,923 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
also removed as a guidepost for Country Policy and Institutional Assessments, which help determine resources provided to IDA countries.
A study commissioned by the Norwegian government alleges methodological weaknesses, an uncertainty in the ability of the indicators to capture the underly... | 6,121,924 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
narrowness of the indicators and information base, the data collection methodology, and the lack of peer review. It recommended that the report be retained, but that the aggregate rankings be removed and that a peer-review process be implemented (among other things). Regarding the topics of... | 6,121,925 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
the time needed to complete a procedure were based on some simplified assumptions: "It is assumed that the minimum time required for each procedure is 1 day. Although procedures may take place simultaneously, they cannot start on the same day (that is, simultaneous procedures start on conse... | 6,121,926 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
in a scientific article appeared on the Rivista italiana di economia demografia e statistica (Italian Review of Economics, Demography, and Statistics - RIEDS). World Bank partially reviewed the criteria inserting a new assumption for telematics procedures: "each telematics procedure account... | 6,121,927 |
6866136 | Ease of doing business index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ease%20of%20doing%20business%20index | Ease of doing business index
EDS). World Bank partially reviewed the criteria inserting a new assumption for telematics procedures: "each telematics procedure accounts for 0.5 day instead of one day (and telematics procedures can also take place simultaneously)".
# See also.
- Index of Economic Freedom
- List of cou... | 6,121,928 |
6866250 | Virtual Processor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virtual%20Processor | Virtual Processor
Virtual Processor
Tao Virtual Processor (VP) was a virtual machine from Tao Group.
# History.
The first version, VP1, was the basis of its parallel processing multimedia OS and platform, TAOS. VP1 supported a RISC-like instruction set with 16 32-bit registers, and had data types of 32- and 64-bit i... | 6,121,929 |
6866250 | Virtual Processor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virtual%20Processor | Virtual Processor
high level languages such as demarcation of subroutines, by-value parameters, and a very large theoretical maximum number of registers local to the subroutine for use as local variables.
The structure of VPCode, the Virtual Processor's machine code, was intended to be able to represent the constructs... | 6,121,930 |
6866250 | Virtual Processor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virtual%20Processor | Virtual Processor
vel languages such as demarcation of subroutines, by-value parameters, and a very large theoretical maximum number of registers local to the subroutine for use as local variables.
The structure of VPCode, the Virtual Processor's machine code, was intended to be able to represent the constructs requir... | 6,121,931 |
6866248 | Ambermoon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambermoon | Ambermoon
Ambermoon
Ambermoon is video game by Thalion Software released in 1993 for the Amiga. It was the second part of the unfinished "Amber Trilogy" ("Amberstar", released in 1992, being the first).
# Plot.
In Ambermoon, the player plays as the grandson of the hero of "Amberstar". The grandfather of the player e... | 6,121,932 |
6866248 | Ambermoon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambermoon | Ambermoon
enemy from "Amberstar". By way of a dimensional gate, the player briefly enters the world from the game "Dragonflight".
# Gameplay.
The graphics are a mesh of 2D (the outdoor world and many buildings) and 3D (dungeons, special buildings, and cities). Battles are turn-based and are animated in front of a sta... | 6,121,933 |
6866248 | Ambermoon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambermoon | Ambermoon
only the islands of Lyramion, but the moons of the game world as well. The game world is very large, and the player interacts with many non-player characters, some of whom become his companions.
# Development.
"Ambermoon" was only ever released in German for the Amiga. Although planned and developed the Eng... | 6,121,934 |
6866248 | Ambermoon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambermoon | Ambermoon
nt.
"Ambermoon" was only ever released in German for the Amiga. Although planned and developed the English version was never published. The last beta (v1.07) of the English version was released in 1998 through the Thalion Webshrine.
# Legacy.
"Ambermoon" was a major success for Thalion, but it ultimately f... | 6,121,935 |
6866262 | Shergotty meteorite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shergotty%20meteorite | Shergotty meteorite
Shergotty meteorite
The Shergotty meteorite is the first example of the shergottite Mars meteorite family. It was a Martian meteorite which fell to Earth at Shergotty (now Sherghati), in the Gaya district, Bihar, India on 25 August 1865, and was retrieved by witnesses almost immediately. Radiometri... | 6,121,936 |
6866262 | Shergotty meteorite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shergotty%20meteorite | Shergotty meteorite
a Martian meteorite which fell to Earth at Shergotty (now Sherghati), in the Gaya district, Bihar, India on 25 August 1865, and was retrieved by witnesses almost immediately. Radiometric dating indicates that it solidified from a volcanic magma about 4.1 billion years ago. It is composed mostly of p... | 6,121,937 |
6866265 | Affine shape adaptation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Affine%20shape%20adaptation | Affine shape adaptation
Affine shape adaptation
Affine shape adaptation is a methodology for iteratively adapting the shape of the smoothing kernels in an affine group of smoothing kernels to the local image structure in neighbourhood region of a specific image point. Equivalently, affine shape adaptation can be accom... | 6,121,938 |
6866265 | Affine shape adaptation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Affine%20shape%20adaptation | Affine shape adaptation
methods.
# Affine-adapted interest point operators.
The interest points obtained from the scale-adapted Laplacian blob detector or the multi-scale Harris corner detector with automatic scale selection are invariant to translations, rotations and uniform rescalings in the spatial domain. The im... | 6,121,939 |
6866265 | Affine shape adaptation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Affine%20shape%20adaptation | Affine shape adaptation
as is used in the multi-scale Harris operator provided that we extend the regular scale space concept obtained by convolution with rotationally symmetric Gaussian kernels to an "affine Gaussian scale-space" obtained by shape-adapted Gaussian kernels (Lindeberg 1994 section 15.3; Lindeberg and Ga... | 6,121,940 |
6866265 | Affine shape adaptation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Affine%20shape%20adaptation | Affine shape adaptation
formula_10 as
Then, the affine scale-space representations formula_12 and formula_13 of formula_6 and formula_10, respectively, are related according to
provided that the affine shape matrices formula_17 and formula_18 are related according to
Disregarding mathematical details, which unfortun... | 6,121,941 |
6866265 | Affine shape adaptation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Affine%20shape%20adaptation | Affine shape adaptation
that under any affine transformation formula_24 the affine-adapted multi-scale second-moment matrix transforms according to
Again, disregarding somewhat messy technical details, the important message here is that "given a correspondence between the image points formula_26 and formula_27, the af... | 6,121,942 |
6866265 | Affine shape adaptation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Affine%20shape%20adaptation | Affine shape adaptation
15.4; Lindeberg and Garding 1997). For the purpose of practical implementation, this property can often be reached by in either of two main ways. The first approach is based on "transformations of the smoothing filters" and consists of:
- estimating the second-moment matrix formula_1 in the ima... | 6,121,943 |
6866265 | Affine shape adaptation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Affine%20shape%20adaptation | Affine shape adaptation
the image domain,
- estimating a local affine transformation proportional to formula_36 where formula_37 denotes the square root matrix of formula_1,
- warping the input image by the affine transformation formula_39 and
- repeating this operation until formula_1 is sufficiently close to a con... | 6,121,944 |
6866265 | Affine shape adaptation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Affine%20shape%20adaptation | Affine shape adaptation
in the presence of noise while the second warping-based approach is usually faster.
In practice, the affine shape adaptation process described here is often combined with interest point detection automatic scale selection as described in the articles on blob detection and corner detection, to o... | 6,121,945 |
6866265 | Affine shape adaptation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Affine%20shape%20adaptation | Affine shape adaptation
described in the articles on blob detection and corner detection, to obtain interest points that are invariant to the full affine group, including scale changes. Besides the commonly used multi-scale Harris operator, this affine shape adaptation can also be applied to other types of interest poi... | 6,121,946 |
6866291 | Amnios | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amnios | Amnios
Amnios
Amnios is a 1991 video game for the Amiga platform. It is a top-down multi-directional-scrolling shoot 'em up, set on ten planets across ten levels. | 6,121,947 |
6866256 | Keenan Burton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keenan%20Burton | Keenan Burton
Keenan Burton
Keenan Burton (born October 29, 1984) is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the fourth round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Kentucky.
# Early years.
Burton attended DuPont Manual Magnet High School in Louisville, Kentuck... | 6,121,948 |
6866256 | Keenan Burton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keenan%20Burton | Keenan Burton
for 1,634 yards (6.0-yard average) and 25 touchdowns during his career. He completed 81 of 226 passes (35.8%) for 1,605 yards and 17 scores. He also recorded 98 tackles, along with 30 pass deflections and 10 interceptions, returning two of those picks for touchdowns, adding another score on a punt return.... | 6,121,949 |
6866256 | Keenan Burton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keenan%20Burton | Keenan Burton
Miami University (Ohio) and Boston College.
During his tenure on the football team in the 2004 and 2005 seasons he would only play in 8 games. Prior to the 2004 season opener, Burton suffered a left wrist fracture and would play in the first game before being side lined by the coaching staff. In 2005, he... | 6,121,950 |
6866256 | Keenan Burton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keenan%20Burton | Keenan Burton
flourish since he wasn't plagued with injuries for the first time since 2003. Burton led the Wildcats with 77 receptions for 1,036 yards and 12 touchdowns. He led the Wildcats in kick returns, averaging 24.7 yards per return. He had one kickoff return for a touchdown in the team's season opener in Louisvi... | 6,121,951 |
6866256 | Keenan Burton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keenan%20Burton | Keenan Burton
2007.
Burton began his senior season with the Wildcats strong. In the first five games of the season he would compile 422 receiving yards and 5 touchdowns. However struck by flu like symptoms and sprains in the knee and ankle would limit his playing time. He still managed to be second on the team for the... | 6,121,952 |
6866256 | Keenan Burton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keenan%20Burton | Keenan Burton
season.
# Professional career.
## Pre-draft.
Burton, along with Kentucky teammate Andre Woodson, was invited to the 2008 NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Indiana. Burton was a top performer in the vertical jump, broad jump, 3 cone drill, 20-yard shuttle, and 60 yard shuttle events at the combine. ... | 6,121,953 |
6866256 | Keenan Burton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keenan%20Burton | Keenan Burton
finished his rookie season with 13 receptions for 172 yards and one touchdown.
In 2009 Burton entered the Rams' Week 10 game against New Orleans as the team's leading receiver with 25 catches. However, his season ended in the first quarter with a knee injury when he landed awkwardly on a long pass route.... | 6,121,954 |
6866256 | Keenan Burton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keenan%20Burton | Keenan Burton
e team's leading receiver with 25 catches. However, his season ended in the first quarter with a knee injury when he landed awkwardly on a long pass route. "It's a patella injury," His coach, Steve Spagnuolo said. "It's a pretty bad injury." Burton became the third wide receiver, to go on the injured rese... | 6,121,955 |
6866300 | Rudakov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rudakov | Rudakov
Rudakov
Rudakov () is a stratovolcano located in the central part of Urup Island, Kuril Islands, Russia. The volcano has a wide crater which contains a wide crater lake.
# See also.
- List of volcanoes in Russia
# References.
- Global Volcanism Program | 6,121,956 |
6866306 | Antago | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antago | Antago
Antago
Antago is a 1990 computer puzzle game for the Amiga and Atari ST.
# External links.
- "Antago" at Atari Mania
- "Antago" at Lemon Amiga | 6,121,957 |
6866267 | Elon Moreh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elon%20Moreh | Elon Moreh
Elon Moreh
Elon Moreh () is an Orthodox Jewish Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located northeast of Nablus on the slopes of the Mount Kabir ridge, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. In , it had a population of .
The international community considers Israeli settlements in the... | 6,121,958 |
6866267 | Elon Moreh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elon%20Moreh | Elon Moreh
was a precedent-setting case - a positive one in the eyes of some Israelis, an illegal one according to international law.
The village's primary school "Nahalat Tzvi" is named after Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, who had been the leader of Gush Emunim. Elon Moreh also has a hesder yeshiva, called "Birkat Yosef", w... | 6,121,959 |
6866267 | Elon Moreh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elon%20Moreh | Elon Moreh
of two young Palestinians were discovered near Elon Moreh. They had disappeared shortly after the murder of two teachers near Jenin, 21 July. The army reported that they had been preparing a bomb. Their families strongly denied this.
On May 21, 1987, 8-year-old Rami Chaba was found dead in a cave with his h... | 6,121,960 |
6866267 | Elon Moreh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elon%20Moreh | Elon Moreh
and razed by Palestinians. The next morning, the bullet-riddled body of Rabbi Hillel Lieberman of Elon Moreh, a cousin of Senator Joseph Lieberman, was found on the outskirts of Nablus, where he had gone to check damage to the tomb.
On March 28, 2002, a Palestinian gunman infiltrated the village, burst into... | 6,121,961 |
6866267 | Elon Moreh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elon%20Moreh | Elon Moreh
knives. It is believed by security forces that a stabbing attack was prevented.
# Name.
In the Bible, Elon Moreh is where God told Abraham, "To your descendants will I give this land" (Genesis 12:7).
Jacob, the son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham, purchased land near Elon Moreh and Shechem (Genesis 33:19... | 6,121,962 |
6866307 | Melodifestivalen 1966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Melodifestivalen%201966 | Melodifestivalen 1966
Melodifestivalen 1966
Melodifestivalen 1966 (known as the Svensk sångfinal) was the selection for the eighth song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the seventh time that this system of picking a song had been used. 898 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The ... | 6,121,963 |
6866273 | SS Goya | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SS%20Goya | SS Goya
SS Goya
MS "Goya" was a Norwegian refugee ship that carried hundreds of Eastern European refugees to New Zealand in 1951. Most notably it carried several men who went on to play a significant role in the development of the New Zealand Muslim Association including Mazhar Krasniqi and Nazmi Mehmeti.
# Launch.
... | 6,121,964 |
6866273 | SS Goya | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SS%20Goya | SS Goya
New Zealand.
The ship departed Piraeus, Greece, and arrived in Wellington on 1 May 1951. Initially all the refugees were interned for three months at the former Prisoner of War camp in the small rural settlement of Pahiatua to learn English, New Zealand law and customs.
There were over 900 refugees on board, ... | 6,121,965 |
6866273 | SS Goya | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SS%20Goya | SS Goya
on board. The majority of the Muslims were Albanians and Bosnians but there was also a Turk, an Azerbaijani, three Bulgarians and two Tartars.
According to Mazhar Krasniqi, many of the Muslims observed Ramadan whilst in Pahiatua when it started in the first week of June. Within a few years they were mostly liv... | 6,121,966 |
6866273 | SS Goya | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SS%20Goya | SS Goya
later in 1951.
In 2001 a modest commemorative function attended by Lianne Dalziel was held at the Santorini Greek Restaurant in Christchurch to mark 50 years. In 2008 John Vakidis published his play "Tzigane", a fictionalised account of his parents journey on the ship. The play was first performed at the Downs... | 6,121,967 |
6866273 | SS Goya | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SS%20Goya | SS Goya
versity of Waikato, MPhil, 2016), Hamilton.
- L/22/5 (Labour Department/Series 22/Reference 5) "The International Refugee Organization Mass Resettlement to New Zealand Nominal Roll of Persons Departing from Piraeus, Greece on M/V GOYA on 31 March 1951"; and IA/52/15 (Internal Affairs/Series 52/Reference 15) "I... | 6,121,968 |
6866323 | Rob Heyvaert | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rob%20Heyvaert | Rob Heyvaert
Rob Heyvaert
Rob Heyvaert is a Belgian businessman, founder, chairman and former CEO of the Capital Markets Company (Capco), a global business and technology consultancy based in London, UK.
# Biography.
Before founding Capco, Rob Heyvaert created Cimad Consultants and sold it to IBM, and the became Gen... | 6,121,969 |
6866323 | Rob Heyvaert | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rob%20Heyvaert | Rob Heyvaert
the company's revenue jumped from $35 million to $100 million, with 900 employees.
In 2006 he appeared on the Belgian Flemish television channel VT4 in a television program called "De Topmanager," the Belgian version of The Apprentice.
In 2010, FIS acquired Capco for $300 million and Rob Heyvaert became ... | 6,121,970 |
6866323 | Rob Heyvaert | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rob%20Heyvaert | Rob Heyvaert
0 million and Rob Heyvaert became corporate executive vice president of FIS, member of the FIS Executive Management team, and responsible for the strategic direction of FIS' consulting services.
In 2011, Rob Heyvaert bought the penthouse on 54 Bond Street in New York (in the former building of the Bouweri... | 6,121,971 |
6866325 | Gavalohori | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gavalohori | Gavalohori
Gavalohori
Gavalochori () is a village of the Chania regional unit on the northwest coast of the island of Crete, in Greece. It is located on Cape Drapan in the Vamos municipality of the Apokoronas region. It is named after the Gavalas family who lived here during the reign of the Venetians. Gavalochori is ... | 6,121,972 |
6866325 | Gavalohori | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gavalohori | Gavalohori
kilometers from the coast at Almirida. It is a very old village with an interesting history explained in the local Folklore Museum. The population is around 350 but this number swells in the summer months as tourists, relatives and visitors arrive. The village has many shops including two taverns, two cafes,... | 6,121,973 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
Ten (band)
Ten (also typeset as TEN or ten) is a British melodic hard rock band which was formed in 1995. Up until June 2015, the band has released fourteen studio albums, four compilation albums, four EPs, a double live album, nine music videos and four lyric videos, with the latest one being "The Esoteric... | 6,121,974 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
Records, while the box set Opera Omnia, followed some months later, to huge critical acclaim.
# Biography.
## Formation (1994–1996).
Following the release of his first two successful solo albums, British vocalist-songwriter Gary Hughes was making the preparations to begin recording what was to be his thir... | 6,121,975 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
Doug Aldrich, Lanny Cordola and Ralph Santolla. However, when it was decided to lay down the guitar parts in England, the name of the guitarist Vinny Burns (Dare, Ultravox) was brought up. The name was quite familiar to Hughes, since they both knew each other from quite a few years back. Given the fact that ... | 6,121,976 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
and was warmly acclaimed by the fans and the press especially in the UK and Japan, where they were outselling huge rock bands, reaching sales of 100,000 records only during the first week of release. In order to support the album for the forthcoming tour, the band recruited bassist Martin "Shelley" Shelton (... | 6,121,977 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
The Year" by the readers of "BURRN!" magazine in Japan.
With the success of the first two albums and the growing popularity of the band, the first full-blown tour was arranged for the end of 1996. Before the tour, bassist Martin "Shelley" Shelton left the band and was replaced by Andrew "Drew" Webb. After a... | 6,121,978 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
and of powerful/epic atmospheres and influences. With the addition of bassist Steve Mckenna, the band toured heavily for a year, in support of their newly released album, while in 1998 the band's Japanese label ZERO Records and the European label Frontiers Records released a double live album named "Never Sa... | 6,121,979 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
1999, the band returned to the studio in order to begin the recordings of their next album. "Babylon", which was released in August 2000 and featured keyboard player Don Airey, was a concept album which was set in the future and was based around the story of a computer programmer and his tragic love affair. ... | 6,121,980 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
the place of Don Airey. In December 2001, Ten released "Far Beyond the World"; but just before the promotion of the new album had begun, guitarist Vinny Burns announced his departure from the band, citing creative differences.
## "Return To Evermore" and hiatus (2002–2007).
The band held auditions for the ... | 6,121,981 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
own record label Intensity Records, while in 2005 the band announced that they would release a double disk "Best Of" collection, aptly named "The Essential Collection 1995-2005", in order to celebrate the band's tenth anniversary. "The Essential Collection 1995-2005" featured newly recorded versions of the s... | 6,121,982 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
Hughes, Chris Francis, John Halliwell, Paul Hodson and session drummer Frank Basile, since bassist Steve Mckenna had left the band in December 2005. By 2007, Ten was put on a hiatus and by May 2008, lead guitarist Chris Francis had announced his departure from the band.
## Re-emergence and "Isla De Muerta" ... | 6,121,983 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
from the Babylon sessions named "Dawn Star" appeared, as part of the AhORa Rock podcast of the Rocktopia music site. Originally, "Dawn Star" was meant to be included on the Babylon album, but was removed from it just three weeks prior to its final release. In January 2011, it was announced that the band woul... | 6,121,984 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
their Fleetwoodstock charity gig, their very first live appearance since the band's reemergence, the band featured for the first time in a live setting, the new (at the time) lead guitarist Dan Mitchell and keyboard player Darrel Treece-Birch, alongside bassist Steve Mckenna, who, since August of the same ye... | 6,121,985 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
Europe and the 22nd of the same month in North America. The leading single off the album was the track "Gunrunning", the video clip of which was again directed by Devin Dehaven. The album's success culminated into its entry to the UK rock album charts on the 30th position for October 2012. Some months later,... | 6,121,986 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
eleventh studio album "Albion", the band unveiled their new lineup on Firefest 2014 - The Final Fling, featuring the band's current two lead guitarists, Dann Rosingana and Steve Grocott. The band appeared for the second time in their history in Athens, Greece on 9 May 2015, before they released their 12th st... | 6,121,987 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
track "We Can Be As One", the last two originally present on the band's latest two full-length studio albums Albion and Isla De Muerta.
## Return to Frontiers Records (2016–present).
In March 2016, the band announced their return to Frontiers Records, for a multi-album deal, starting with the release of th... | 6,121,988 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
2019, the band released their long-awaited compilation box-set entitled Opera Omnia. The box-set included every album released by the band since its inception back in 1995, up until Illuminati.
# Current members.
- Gary Hughes – lead and backing vocals, programming
- Dann Rosingana - lead guitar
- Steve ... | 6,121,989 |
6866266 | Ten (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten%20(band) | Ten (band)
esy and Creed" (2012)
- "Albion" (2014)
- "Isla De Muerta" (2015)
- "Gothica" (2017)
- "Illuminati" (2018)
## Live albums.
- "Never Say Goodbye" (1998)
## Compilation albums.
- "The Best of Ten 1996-1999" (1999)
- "X/The Name of the Rose" (1999)
- "The Robe/Bonus Collection" (1999)
- "The Essentia... | 6,121,990 |
6866309 | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max%20Planck%20Institute%20of%20Colloids%20and%20Interfaces | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
The Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (German: "Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung") is located in Potsdam-Golm Science Park in Golm, Potsdam, Germany. It was founded in 1990 as a succe... | 6,121,991 |
6866309 | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max%20Planck%20Institute%20of%20Colloids%20and%20Interfaces | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
are found in nature. With discoveries, scientists create tiny apatite crystals in bones, vesicles formed out of membranes, pores in membranes for fuel cells and microcapsules as vehicles for medical drugs - all are larger than an atom, yet too small to be seen with the na... | 6,121,992 |
6866309 | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max%20Planck%20Institute%20of%20Colloids%20and%20Interfaces | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Chemistry.
The Colloid Chemistry department, headed by Markus Antonietti, deals with the synthesis of various colloidal structures in the nanometer range. This includes inorganic and metallic nanoparticles, polymers and peptide structural units, their micelles and organi... | 6,121,993 |
6866309 | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max%20Planck%20Institute%20of%20Colloids%20and%20Interfaces | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
There is no synthetic material which is as soft and simultaneously so tear-resistant and yet is made mainly of water. The secret of this also lies in the interaction between three components (collagen, hyaluronic acid, proteoglycan). This unusual combination of characteri... | 6,121,994 |
6866309 | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max%20Planck%20Institute%20of%20Colloids%20and%20Interfaces | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
on natural materials (such as bone or wood) has potential applications in many fields. First, design concepts for new materials may be improved by learning from Nature. Second, the understanding of basic mechanisms by which the structure of bone or connective tissue is op... | 6,121,995 |
6866309 | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max%20Planck%20Institute%20of%20Colloids%20and%20Interfaces | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Department, in particular for studying hierarchical structures.
## Theory and Bio-Systems.
The Department of Theory and Bio-Systems, headed by Reinhard Lipowsky, investigates the structure and dynamics of molecules, colloids and nanoparticles in biological and biomimeti... | 6,121,996 |
6866309 | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max%20Planck%20Institute%20of%20Colloids%20and%20Interfaces | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
by molecular motors, dynamics of transcription and translation, as well as self-organization of filaments and membranes.
## Interfaces.
The Department of Interfaces, headed by Helmuth Möhwald, is primarily motivated to understand molecular interfaces and to relate this ... | 6,121,997 |
6866309 | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max%20Planck%20Institute%20of%20Colloids%20and%20Interfaces | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
(NMR, DSC).
## Biomolecular Systems.
The researchers in the Biomolecular Systems department, headed by Peter H. Seeberger, are using new methods for synthesizing sugar chains. Until recently most of the known naturally occurring sugars were those that supply energy to o... | 6,121,998 |
6866309 | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max%20Planck%20Institute%20of%20Colloids%20and%20Interfaces | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
therefore also be used for vaccine development, e.g. against malaria. Carbohydrates are thus of significant interest for medicine; the major significance of sugar residues on the surfaces of cells for biology and medicine has only been recognized during the past approxima... | 6,121,999 |
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