Concelho

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Concelho

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Concelho (usage county) is the informal and traditional name for a municipality in Portugal and its former overseas provinces:

  • List of municipalities of Portugal
  • Municipalities of Portugal
  • Municipalities of Macau

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Christopher Guard

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Christopher Guard
Born 5 December 1953 (1953-12-05) (age 56)
London, England
Occupation Actor Soundtrack

Christopher Guard (born 5 December 1953 in London) is an English actor.

  • Born: 1953 in England
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: 1970s-2001
  • brother to Dominic Guard
  • Cousin of actress Pippa Guard
  • Schooling: Latymer Upper, National Theatre at aged 20
  • Major Genres: 26 Drama, 11 Crime, 8 Mystery, 5 Adventure, 5 Comedy
  • Career Highlights: The Lord of the Rings (1978, voiced Frodo Baggins), The Tempest, Memoirs of a Survivor, Return to Treasure Island (1986)
  • First Major Screen Credit: Vienna 1900 (1973)

His best remembered roles are on television - as Marcellus in the BBC adaptation of I, Claudius, as Ferdinand in the BBC Shakespeare production of The Tempest, as Ken Hodges in the medical drama Casualty and as Bellboy in the 1988 Doctor Who serial The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. He demonstrated his singing ability in the film version of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music in the role of Erich Egerman.

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  • Christopher Guard at the Internet Movie Database
  • Christopher Guard Biography at Answers.com
  • Alan Rickman biography from the New Zealand Herald
  • Holby.tv

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1470s

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades: 1440s 1450s 1460s – 1470s – 1480s 1490s 1500s
Years: 1470 1471 1472 1473 1474 1475 1476 1477 1478 1479
Categories: Births – Deaths – Architecture
Establishments – Disestablishments

The 1470s decade ran from January 1, 1470, to December 31, 1479.

Contents

  • 1 Events and trends
    • 1.1 1470
    • 1.2 1471
    • 1.3 1472
    • 1.4 1474
    • 1.5 1475
    • 1.6 1476
    • 1.7 1477
    • 1.8 1478
    • 1.9 1479
  • 2 Prominent persons

Events and trends

1470

  • Battle of Negropont Venetian fleet failed to relieve the colony of Negropont, which was under Turkish attack
  • March 12 – Battle of Lose-coat Field (Wars of the Roses): Yorkists chased disrobing Lancastrians from the field.
  • August 20 – Battle of Lipnic; ?tefan cel Mare defeated the Tatars.
  • Around this date, the Tu’i Tonga dynasty lost temporal power over Tonga and the remnants of the Tongan Empire, after almost six centuries of rule. The Tu’i Ha’atakalaua dynasty ascended in its place.

1471

  • 14 April – Battle of Barnet: Yorkist victory, Warwick the Kingmaker was killed.
  • 4 May – Battle of Tewkesbury – Edward IV of England’s final victory over the House of Lancaster.
  • October 10 – The Battle of Brunkeberg occurred between Denmark and Sweden.

1472

  • May 31 – Treaty of Prenzlau was made between Albert III, Elector of Brandenburg and the rulers of Pomerania.

1474

  • Siege of Neuss Charles the Bold led unsuccessful siege during Burgundy Wars.
  • Battle of Héricourt Burgundy was defeated.

1475

  • January 10 – Battle of Vaslui – ?tefan cel Mare defeated a huge Ottoman army.
  • August 29 – Treaty of Picquigny – Louis XI paid Edward IV to stay in England and relinquish his claim on the French throne.
  • November – Battle on the Planta (Burgundy Wars)
  • The Second Castilian Civil War began.

1476

  • March 2 – Battle of Grandson
  • June 2 – Battle of Morat
  • July 26 – Battle of Valea Alb? – Mehmed II defeats ?tefan cel Mare

1477

  • January 5 – Battle of Nancy – Burgundy’s Charles the Bold is killed.

1478

  • Battle of Macomer – Sardinian rebels were defeated by the Aragonese.

1479

  • January 20 – Ferdinand II took the throne of Aragon. Ferdinand and his wife, Isabella, the Queen of Castile, now ruled over most of the Iberian peninsula.
  • January 25 – The Treaty of Constantinople officially ended the fifteen year war between Venice and the Ottoman Empire.
  • The Peace of Olomouc concluded the war between King Ladislaus II and Matthias Corvinus.
  • September 4 – The Treaty of Alcáçovas between Castile and Portugal ended the Second Castilian Civil War, which had begun in 1475.
  • October – The Battle of Câmpia Pâinii occurred, in which the Kingdom of Hungary defeated the Ottoman Empire and Wallachia.

Prominent persons

  • Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer and mathematician


A map of Europe in the 1470s.

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Lachenalia reflexa

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Lachenalia reflexa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Hyacinthaceae
Genus: Lachenalia
Species: Lachenalia reflexa

Lachenalia reflexa, commonly known as Yellow Soldier, is species of the genus Lachenalia native to South Africa.

Contents

  • 1 South Africa
  • 2 Australian weed
    • 2.1 Seed dispersal
    • 2.2 Danger as an introduced weed
    • 2.3 Control Methods
  • 3 External links

South Africa

The species is a native to South Africa, particularly in Cape Province. The plant flourishes where there is a winter rainfall and becomes dormant during dry seasons.

Australian weed

In Australia, the species is an introduced weed. The Yellow Soldier species is so dangerous to natural flora and fauna that it has been placed on the national weed alert program, one of only 28 weeds to be recognised as extremely dangerous to natural bushland.

Seed dispersal

Reaching approximately 10 cm (4″) when in flower, this weed spreads through two main methods, both of which lend to its common name.

The first of these two methods is simply dropping the seeds of the plant up to 20 cm (8″) away from the base of the original plant. Given that each flower produces between 40 and 60 seeds, and that each plant can produce up to ten flowers, the ability to spread is incredible. Yellow Soldier can grow in densities of up to 400 plants per square metre, with each plant capable of reaching full reproductive potential. This density prevents native plants from reclaiming lost ground.

The second method of seed dispersal is by clinging to the feet of native animals and humans. The small, black seeds become stuck in between the toes of animals and humans or in the tread of shoes. When the seed is eventually jolted out of its position, it falls to the ground and begins to germinate. Within two years it will have reproduced enough times to reach optimal density in a square metre, and gains another square metre or two every year from then on, with a possibly exponential growth rate.

Danger as an introduced weed

Yellow soldier is presenting a problem in Australia where it is considered a pernicious introduced weed.

Yellow Soldier damages not only native flora, but fauna as well. Its ability to completely dominate an area prevents native herbs and grasses from growing. In turn, this eliminates food sources for native fauna, lowering fauna levels to the point of non-existence.

Control Methods

The reason this weed is so hard to control is its ability to reproduce in such great numbers, and the damage it does when removed. Seeds of the Yellow Soldier are next to impossible to see in the soil or on the shoes of removalists, and germinate easily, negating the effect of the removal program. Removal by hand is labour intensive, with only 4m² (42 square feet) being removed in a 6-hour period (Weed Management Guide). The ability to grow back from its root system means that the entire plant must be removed from the ground, allowing other weeds to germinate.

Controlled burning is also ineffective; it actually increases the number of Yellow Soldiers in the area. In studies conducted, it has been found that fire increases the germination rate of Yellow Soldier seeds, and does not kill off any of the plants, due to its ability to grow back from its root system. The Yellow Soldier also germinates faster after a fire than native plants, allowing it complete dominance over a larger area than before the fire.

The only effective way to remove Yellow Soldier is through spot-spraying of herbicides. Once again, however, the ability to quickly germinate from seed means that multiple courses of spraying must be done in order to completely eliminate Yellow Soldier, and allow native species the chance to reclaim the soil. The herbicide used has been specially developed to kill only Yellow Soldier, but is very expensive, and can usually only be done through government funding. This prevents most environment and bush care groups from eliminating the species, and thus allowing it the chance to spread further.

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  • Lachenalia reflexa in Australia

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Lord Ebury

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Baron Ebury

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Baron Ebury, of Ebury Manor in the County of Middlesex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Since 1999 it is a subsidiary title of the earldom of Wilton. The peerage was created in 1857 for the Whig politician Lord Robert Grosvenor. He was the third son of Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster and his wife Lady Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Egerton, 1st Earl of Wilton. Both Lord Robert and his elder brother Lord Thomas were in special remainder to the Viscountcy of Grey de Wilton and Earldom of Wilton created for their maternal grandfather in 1801, and on the latter’s death in 1814 Lord Thomas succeeded as second Earl of Wilton. Lord Ebury was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He represented Westminster in Parliament as a Liberal. His grandson, the fifth Baron, served as a government whip from 1939 to 1940 in the government of Neville Chamberlain. In 1999 his eldest son, the sixth Baron, succeeded as eighth Earl of Wilton on the death of his cousin the seventh Earl.

Barons Ebury (1857)

  • Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury (1801–1893)
  • Robert Wellesley Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Ebury (1834–1918)
  • Robert Victor Grosvenor, 3rd Baron Ebury (1868–1921)
  • Francis Egerton Grosvenor, 4th Baron Ebury (1883–1932)
  • Robert Egerton Grosvenor, 5th Baron Ebury (1914–1957)
  • Francis Egerton Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton, 6th Baron Ebury (b. 1934)

for further barons, see Earl of Wilton.

See also

  • Earl of Wilton
  • Duke of Westminster
  • Baron Grey de Wilton
  • Baron Stalbridge

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National School of Government

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The National School of Government (previously known as the Civil Service College and the Centre for Management and Policy Studies, or CMPS) is a non-ministerial department of the United Kingdom government that runs training, organisational development and consultancy courses for UK civil servants and private individual learners. It is based at Sunningdale Park, near Ascot in Berkshire, but has other centres in Edinburgh and London.

National School of Government also manages Sunningdale Institute – a virtual academy of leading thinkers on management, organisation and governance.

References

  1. ^ About us, National School of Government, accessed 10 December 2007

See also

  • Cabinet Office
  • British Civil Service

External links

  • National School of Government

Coordinates: 51°24?11?N 0°38?23?W? / ?51.4030°N 0.6396°W? / 51.4030; -0.6396

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Categories: Non-ministerial departments of the United Kingdom Government | Civil service colleges | Further education colleges in Berkshire | Civil Service of the United Kingdom

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Darth Maleval

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Star Wars Legacy #4

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Publishing company Dark Horse Comics
Subject Star Wars
Genre Science Fiction
Release date(s) 4 October 2006
Country USA
Language English
Number of pages 32
Expanded Universe
Era Legacy
Series Legacy
Galactic Year 140 ABY
Canon C
Creative team
Script writer John Ostrander
Cover artist(s) Jan Duursema
Penciller(s) Jan Duursema
Inker(s) Dan Parsons
Colorist(s) Brad Anderson
Publisher(s) Mike Richardson

Star Wars: Legacy 4 is the fourth issue of the Star Wars: Legacy comic series written by John Ostrander and published by Dark Horse Comics on 4 October 2006. The story is set in the Star Wars galaxy 137 years after the Battle of Yavin in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

Synopsis

This issue is built on the background story of Darth Krayt usurping the Imperial throne, and Emperor Roan Fel establishing a stronghold for Loyalist troops on the world of Bastion. The story is told from the perspective of an Imperial Stormtrooper. “Legacy #4″ chronicles a few days in the life a fresh recruit, Trooper Anson Trask, and the members of Joker Squad. Their loyalty and resolve are put to the test as the Jokers and the whole of their unit - the 407th Stormtrooper Legion - are assigned to subjugate the rebellious dissenters of the 908th Legion. Trask must witness the effect of combat on his comrades and on family ties. Most of all, Trask must manage to evade the zealous wrath of the 407’s own field commander - the Sith Lord Darth Maleval.

Dramatis personae

  • Anson Trask; stormtrooper, 407th Legion (Human male)
  • Darth Maleval; Sith Lord; field commander, 407th Legion (Quarren male)
  • Gil Cassel; lieutenant, Joker Squad, 407th Legion (Human male)
  • Harkas; sergeant, Joker Squad, 407th Legion (Human male)
  • Hondo Karr; stormtrooper, Joker Squad, 407th Legion (Human male)
  • Jared Cassel; captain, 908th Legion (Human male)
  • Jes Gistang; gunner, Joker Squad, 407th Legion (Human female)
  • Vax Potorr; stormtrooper, Joker Squad, 407th Legion (Human male)

External links

  • Dark Horse Listing

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Mike Polich

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Michael J. Polich (born December 19, 1952 in Hibbing, Minnesota) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 226 games in the National Hockey League in 1977–81. Polich was a college hockey star for the University of Minnesota and also played for Team USA at the 1974 and 1975 Ice Hockey World Championship tournaments before signing a free agent contract with the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL in 1975. Polich spent most of the next three seasons in Canadiens system with their farm team the Nova Scotia Voyageurs of the American Hockey League, but he did get his name on the Stanley Cup in 1977 as a reserve on the Canadiens’ championship winning team. He also played for Team USA in the inaugural 1976 Canada Cup tournament. Polich’s NHL career finally took off after he signed for the Minnesota North Stars in 1978 where he became an accomplished defensive specialist and penalty killer. He finally retired in 1981 after three years as a regular North Star.

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  • Mike Polich’s biography at Legends of Hockey
  • Mike Polich’s career stats at The Internet Hockey Database

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Categories: 1952 births | Living people | American ice hockey players | Minnesota Golden Gophers ice hockey players | Minnesota North Stars players | Montreal Canadiens players | Nova Scotia Voyageurs players | People from St. Louis County, Minnesota | United States ice hockey biography stubs

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The Voodoo Lounge

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The Voodoo Lounge was a Dublin city club and music venue, based on Arran Quay in the Smithfield region near Dublin City Center. A mainly rock-based venue, it also played host to internationally touring metal, punk and dance acts.

Like the nearby The Dice Bar, it was owned by Hugh Morgan, singer for New York band The Fun Lovin’ Criminals. This is said, by the band, to be a reason for the venue selling pizza slices—they enjoyed Dublin night-life, but disliked the relative scarcity of places selling good pizza slices and so opened both a pizzeria attached to the existing Temple Bar venue Eamonn Doran’s and the Voodoo Lounge.

The Voodoo Lounge hosted a mainly “alternative” crowd, and was popular with a variety of musical and youth subcultures. Its alternative atmosphere was advanced further by its hosting of Dublin city’s only regular fetish and BDSM club. The effect of playing host to such a mix of different “alternative” groups, without being heavily dominated by any one of them, produced a hip reputation and an atmosphere that contrasted with many other Dublin clubs.

The Voodoo Lounge premises is now used as a card club where primarily poker is played. It is known as Voodoo Card Club.

Voodoo Lounge is also a 1994 album by the Rolling Stones.

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Sonali Bank

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Sonali Bank Limited
Type Public Limited Company
Founded 1972
Headquarters Motijheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Area served Bangladesh & Overseas
Key people Ali Imam Majumder(Chairman)
S. A. Chowdhury (CEO & Managing Director)
Industry Banking
Financial services
Products Finance and insurance
Consumer Banking
Corporate Banking
Investment Banking
Investment Management
Net income ? Tk 161.6 crore (US$ 23.5 million) 2008
Total assets ? Tk 20.64 billion (US$ 299.15 million) {December 2008}
Employees 26,085
Website Sonalibank.com.bd


Sonali Bank headquarter ar Motijheel, Dhaka

Sonali Bank (Bangla: ?????? ??????) is a state-owned commercial bank in Bangladesh. It is the largest bank of the country.. A fully state-owned enterprise, the bank has been discharging its nation-building responsibilities by undertaking government entrusted different socio-economic schemes as well as money market activities of its own volition, covering all spheres of the economy. Sonali Bank Limited singularly enjoys the prestige of being the agent of the Central Bank of Bangladesh in such places where the guardian of the money market has chosen not to act by itself.

Contents

  • 1 History
  • 2 Board of directors
  • 3 Functions
  • 4 Branches
  • 5 References
  • 6 External links

History

Sonali Bank was established in 1972 under the Bangladesh Banks (Nationalisation) Order, through the amalgamation and nationalisation of the branches of National Bank of Pakistan, Bank of Bhowalpur and Premier Bank branches located in East Pakistan until the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. When it was established, Sonali Bank had a paid up capital of 30 million taka. In 2001, its authorised and paid up capital were Tk 10 billion and Tk 3.272 billion respectively. The bank’s reserve funds were Tk 60 million in 1979 and Tk 2.050 billion on 30 June 2000.

Board of directors

The management of Sonali Bank is vested in a 7-member board of directors appointed by the government. The managing director is the chief executive. He is assisted by a deputy managing director, six general managers, and other senior executives. The general managers are in charge of the bank’s branches in the headquarters of the six administrative divisions of the country namely, Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet and Barisal. The bank has 32 departments at its head office including a training institute in Dhaka. On 30 June 2000, the total number of employees of the bank was 26,085.

Functions

Sonali Bank performs all traditional banking functions including deposit mobilization and lending. The bank discharges the treasury functions as the agent of the Bangladesh Bank. It collects tax, stamp duty and registration fees, operates special savings accounts, pays salaries to the teachers of schools, madrasahs, and colleges and pension to retired government employees. The bank provides funding to some income generating and economic development projects namely, Poverty Alleviation Credit Programme, Female Special Credit Programme, and Agro-based Industrial Credit Programme in the rural areas. It has a large participation in foreign exchange business and off-balance sheet activities. The total volume of foreign exchange business handled by the bank in 1979 was Tk 14.91 billion and in 2000, it was Tk 67.847 billion, 25.87% of which was related to exports, 32.2% to imports, and 41.93% to remittances. At present, the bank has correspondent relationships with 380 foreign banks/bank offices throughout the world.

The broad economic areas in which the bank currently lends and the amount of advances to those areas up to 30 June 2000 were agriculture and fisheries -Tk 25.526 billion, industry (small and cottage, and large and medium)-Tk 43.563 billion, retail/wholesale trade, hotels and restaurants-Tk 10.75 billion, transport/communication and storage -Tk 175 million, special credit programmes including poverty alleviation - Tk 2.207 billion, insurance, real estate and trade services - Tk 3.3 billion and others - Tk 70.194 billion.

Sonali Bank monitors its work through a performance budget. It has a marketing intelligence unit and conducts a programme of human resources development through training and motivation. It introduced the Lending Risk Analysis suggested by the Financial Sector Reform Programme. Business policies of the bank in the 1990s included fulfilling capital adequacy requirement, mobilizing deposits in large amounts, and making investments in more profitable ways. The bank diversified its activities in off-balance sheet items to expand its area of operations and increase non-interest based incomes.

Branches


Inside the Head Office at Motijheel in Dhaka

Sonali Bank has a total of 1297 branches . Out of them, 488 are located in urban areas, 696 in rural areas, and 2 are located overseas. It also operates the Sonali Exchange Company Inc. in USA and Sonali Bank (UK) Ltd., United Kingdom, to facilitate foreign exchange remittances. Sonali Bank UK remits up to 14 destinations across Bangladesh directly, these include Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Maulvibazar, Beanibazar, Balaganj, Biswanath, Jagannathpur, Sunamganj, Gopalganj, Nabigonj, Habigonj, Kulaura or Tajpur. There are currently three branches in the UK, one located in Brick Lane, London, another in Small Heath, Birmingham and in Manchester.

References

  1. ^ “Sonali income falls”. The Daily Star. http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=102006. 
  2. ^ “SONALI BANK LIMITED Balance Sheet”. Sonali Bank Ltd.. http://www.sonalibank.com.bd/fs.htm. 
  3. ^ Banglapedia article on Sonali Bank
  4. ^ “Overview of the Bank”. Sonali Bank. 2005. http://www.sonalibank.com.bd/overview_of_the_bank.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-14. “Sonali Bank, the largest & leading commercial bank of the country …” 
  5. ^ “Corporatisation not a panacea for NCBs’ problems”. The Financial Express. 2007-06-19. http://www.financialexpress-bd.com/index3.asp?cnd=6/19/2007&section_id=5&newsid=64551&spcl=no. Retrieved 2007-07-14. “For example, Sonali Bank, the largest bank in the country …” 
  6. ^ “Bangladeshi bank allowed back in Britain”. BBC. 2001-11-29. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1683055.stm. Retrieved 2007-07-14. “Bangladesh’s largest commercial bank, the Sonali Bank …” 
  7. ^ “Sonali Bank”. Banglapedia. http://www.banglapedia.org/httpdocs/HT/S_0493.HTM. Retrieved 2009-09-06. 
  8. ^ Overview of Sonali Bank

External links

  • Official website
  • Sonali Bank Limited, BusinessWeek report on Sonali Bank

Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonali_Bank”
Categories: Banks established in 1972 | Banks of Bangladesh

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