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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asma%20bint%20Abi%20Bakr
Asma bint Abi Bakr
Yazid tried to end Abdallah's rebellion by invading the Hejaz, and he took Medina after the Battle of al-Harrah followed by the siege of Mecca. His sudden death ended the campaign and threw the Umayyads into disarray, with civil war eventually breaking out. After the Umayyad civil war ended, Abdullah lost Egypt and whatever he had of Syria to Marwan I. This, coupled with the Kharijite rebellions in Iraq, reduced his domain to only the Hejaz.
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Asma bint Abi Bakr
Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr was finally defeated by Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, who sent Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf. Abdallah asked his mother what he should do, then left to take on Hajjaj. Hajjaj's army defeated and Abdallah died on the battlefield in 692 CE. The defeat of Abdallah ibn al-Zubayr re-established Umayyad control over the Empire.
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Asma bint Abi Bakr
A few years later in 740 CE the people of Kufa called Zayd ibn Ali, the grandson of Hussein, over to Kufa. Zaydis believe that in Zayd's last hour, he was also betrayed by the people of Kufa,."
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Asma bint Abi Bakr
Asma died a few days after her son who was killed on Tuesday 17 Jumada al-Ula in 73 AH". Asma died when she was 100 years (lunar) old.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaine%20Rodin
Alaine Rodin
Alaine Rodin is an American operatic soprano who has sung leading roles both in the United States and internationally.
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Alaine Rodin
A native of Berkeley California, she studied at the San Francisco Conservatory and the Juilliard School and trained with the Lyric Opera of Chicago's Young Artists programme, appearing in the LOC company premiere of Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles in 1990. She went on to sing Woglinde in Das Rheingold (New Orleans Opera), Antonia in Les contes d'Hoffmann (Opera Lirico de Costa Rica), Liù in Turandot (Guatemala City) and Marguerite in Faust (Augusta Opera). Rodin first came to international attention when appeared in the 1996-1997 Broadway performances of Terrence McNally's Master Class, where she sang "Vieni t'affretta" from Verdi's Macbeth. She made her European début as Micaela in Carmen at the Opéra Comique in Paris in February 1999.
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Alaine Rodin
In 2007, she appeared at the Utah Festival Opera as Clara in Porgy and Bess and with West Bay Opera as Liza in The Queen of Spades.<ref>Kreitman, Keith, "'Queen of Spades' deals strong hand", Oakland Tribune, 22 February 2007 (accessed via subscription 1 May 2010)</ref> As a member of the Linz Landestheater opera company during the 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 seasons, she has sung the title role in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Giulietta in Les contes d'Hoffmann and First Soprano in Philip Glass' opera Kepler, as well as singing with the company for the opera's North American premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, "Keplers Weltbild erobert New York", 26 March 2010 (in German, accessed 1 May 2010)
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Alaine Rodin
Her appearances on the concert stage have included those at Sarasota Opera and the Kyoto International Music Festival.
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Alaine Rodin
William Schuman: The Mighty Casey – A Baseball Opera In Three Scenes and A Question of Taste'' ; Juilliard Orchestra; 1994. Label: Delos Records
20231101.en_27010397_0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunio%20Mikuriya
Kunio Mikuriya
Kunio Mikuriya (Japanese: 御厨 邦雄, Mikuriya Kunio) is the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO).
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Kunio Mikuriya
Mikuriya has a BA in law from the University of Tokyo and a PhD in international relations from the University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies. During his career, Mikuriya has held various high-level positions in Japan's Ministry of Finance. He also had assignments as Counsellor in Japan's Mission to the WTO and a negotiator for Japan during the GATT Uruguay Round negotiations.
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Kunio Mikuriya
From 2002 to 2008, Mikuriya was the WCO Deputy Secretary General. On 28 June 2008, he was elected WCO Secretary General, and he took up this post on 1 January 2009. On 30 June 2013, he was re-elected to a second five-year term. Mikuriya has called for successful completion of the Doha Development Round, lobbied against the U.S. 100% container scanning law, and advocated enhanced trade facilitation measures during the global economic downturn.
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Kunio Mikuriya
Mikuriya, Kunio (2003), The Challenges of Facilitating the Flow of Commerce in a Heightened Security Environment, in UNECE (2003), Cosgrave-Sacks, Carol and Mario Apostolov (eds.), Trade Facilitation – The Challenges for Growth and Development.
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Kunio Mikuriya
Mikuriya, Kunio (2004), Legal Framework for Customs Operations and Enforcement Issues, (Chapter 3 of the World Bank's Customs Modernization Handbook).
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Kunio Mikuriya
Mikuriya, Kunio (2006), The Customs Response to the 21st Century, Global Trade and Customs Journal, Vol.1, No. 1.
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Kunio Mikuriya
Mikuriya, Kunio (2007), Supply Chain Security: The Customs Community's Response, World Customs Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2.
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Kunio Mikuriya
Mikuriya, Kunio (2012), Chapter 1.7 Expansion of Customs – Business Partnerships in the 21st Century in: The World Economic Forum (2012) The Global Enabling Trade Report 2012, 77-84,
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Kunio Mikuriya
Mikuriya, Kunio (2013), Together, we are prepared for all eventualities, WCO news, No. 73, October 2013: 10-20,
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Kunio Mikuriya
Mikuriya, Kunio (2014), Communication: sharing information for better communication, WCO news, No. 73, February 2014: 12-13,
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Kunio Mikuriya
Mikuriya, Kunio (2014), Ready to implement the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement!, WCO news, No. 74, June 2014: 10-11,
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Kunio Mikuriya
Mikuriya, Kunio (2014), The WCO Council tackles the tough challenges facing Customs worldwide, WCO news, No. 75, October 2014: 10-11,
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Kunio Mikuriya
Mikuriya, Kunio (2015), Coordinated Border Management – An inclusive approach for connecting stakeholders, WCO news, No. 76, February 2015: 10-11.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pijava%20Gorica
Pijava Gorica
Pijava Gorica (; ) is a settlement in the Municipality of Škofljica in central Slovenia. It lies on the edge of the marshland south of the capital Ljubljana. The municipality is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.
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Pijava Gorica
Pijava Gorica was attested in written sources circa 1356 as Pieczpühel (and as Pyaweczpüchel in 1365, Pyawiczpühel in 1380, Piatzpuchel in 1463, Pyauitschpuhel in 1467, and Pyabicz puechell in 1490). The medieval transcriptions indicate that the Slovene name was originally *Pijavča gorica or *Pijavič(j)a gorica. The first element is probably a possessive adjective based on the oeconym Pijavec, referring to a property where water sinks into the ground. This may refer to Trstje Creek east of Pijava Hill (). The second element, gorica, means 'hill' in Slovene, and so the name literally means 'Pijavec hill' (or 'hill near the place where water sinks into the ground'). In the past the German name was Piautzbüchel.
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Pijava Gorica
The local church is dedicated to Saint Simon and Saint Jude and belongs to the Parish of Ig. It is a 15th-century Gothic building that was extended in the 17th century.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmytro%20Nepohodov
Dmytro Nepohodov
Dmytro Mykhaylovych Nepohodov (; born 17 February 1988) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Podillya Khmelnytskyi. Born in Ukraine, he played for the Kazakhstan national team.
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Dmytro Nepohodov
Nepohodov's first professional club was Olympique de Marseille in France Ligue 1, but he didn't make his debut in this team. Next he signed a contract with FC Metalurh Donetsk in Ukrainian Premier League and made his debut against FC Chornomorets Odesa on 18 April 2010.
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Dmytro Nepohodov
On 17 January 2018, Tobol announced that Nepohodov had signed a new one-year contract with the club.
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Dmytro Nepohodov
On 14 January 2019, Nepohodov signed for FC Ordabasy on loan from FC Astana, returning to Astana in January 2020. On 5 January 2022, Astana announced that Nepohodov had left the club after his contract had expired.
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Dmytro Nepohodov
On 27 January 2022, Nepohodov signed a one-year contract with Tobol. On 15 June 2022, Tobol announced that Nepohodov had left the club by mutual agreement.
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Dmytro Nepohodov
On 2 October 2018, Nepohodov was called up to the Kazakhstan national team for their UEFA Nations League matches against Latvia and Andorra on 11 October and 16 October 2018. He made his debut for the squad on 19 November 2018 in a Nations League game against Georgia.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.O.5
P.O.5
P.O.5 (Party on Five) was a Sunday noontime musical variety show that aired on TV5. The show premiered on April 11, 2010, and was broadcast live from the Westside Studios at the Broadway Centrum in Quezon City. Unlike its rivals ASAP and Party Pilipinas, P.O.5 featured mini-game and talent search segments. It aired its last episode on February 20, 2011. It was succeeded by Fan*tastik.
20231101.en_27010505_0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentacarbonylhydridomanganese
Pentacarbonylhydridomanganese
Pentacarbonylhydridomanganese is an organometallic compound with formula HMn(CO)5. This compound is one of the most stable "first-row" transition metal hydrides.
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Pentacarbonylhydridomanganese
It was first reported in 1931. Of the several ways to produce this compound, is the protonation of the pentacarbonyl manganate anion. The latter is formed from reduction of dimanganese decacarbonyl, (Mn(CO)5)2. The reaction is shown below.
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Pentacarbonylhydridomanganese
Salts of can be isolated as crystalline (μ-nitrido—bis-(triphenylphosphorus)) salt, which is smoothly protonated by CF3SO3H.
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Pentacarbonylhydridomanganese
This compound can also be formed by the reaction of a solution of pentacarbonyl(trimethylsilyl)manganese with water. The reaction is shown below.
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Pentacarbonylhydridomanganese
The compound has octahedral symmetry and its molecular point group is C4v. The H-Mn bond length is 1.44 ± 0.03 Å. A gas phase electron diffraction study confirms this data.
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Pentacarbonylhydridomanganese
The structure of HMn(CO)5 has been studied by many methods including X-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction, and electron diffraction. HMn(CO)5 can be related to the structure of a hexacarbonyl complex such as , and therefore has the following similar properties. The occupied molecular orbitals on the top are the 2 t2g orbitals. They are characterized as metal 3dπ orbitals. Since the antibonding 2π orbitals interact with the carbonyl groups, (or in this case, ) the t2g orbital is stabilized compared to the 3dπ orbital, which in turn will cause changes in the sigma and pi interactions.
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Pentacarbonylhydridomanganese
The pKa of HMn(CO)5 in water is 7.1. It is thus comparable to hydrogen sulfide, a common inorganic acid, in its acidity.
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Pentacarbonylhydridomanganese
A common reaction involving the HMn(CO)5 species is substitution of the CO ligands by organophosphines, as occurs both thermally and photochemically. In this way the following derivatives form: MnH(CO)3[P]2, MnH(CO)2[P]3, and MnH(CO)[P]4, (where [P] = P(OEt)3, PPh(OEt)2, PPh2OEt, PPh(OiPr)2).
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Pentacarbonylhydridomanganese
The compound HMn(CO)5 can be used to reduce olefins and other organic compounds, as well as metal halides.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganapati%20%28novel%29
Ganapati (novel)
Ganapati (Telugu: గణపతి) (1920) is a Telugu novel written by Chilakamarti Lakshmi Narasimham. It is one of the first Telugu novels written in modern Telugu and considered among the classic works of modern Telugu literature. It is also considered the first humorous novel in modern Telugu writing.
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Ganapati (novel)
Ganapathi is the name of the main protagonist. This novel portrays the lives of Ganapathi and his two previous generations (Grandfather and Father).
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Ganapati (novel)
The story revolves around various villages in the East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh, India in the backdrop of social setting in 1910-1920 and satirically criticises the
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Ganapati (novel)
practice of kanyasulkam (Now abandoned/banned practice of groom paying money to the bride's father). Though it sounds comic to read, the underlying truth reflects the acute poverty in Brahmin families.
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Ganapati (novel)
The story starts with the narrator attending a marriage and waiting to be served dinner. As it is quite late already, while waiting for the rasam to be served, he dozes off and has a dream.
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Ganapati (novel)
In the dream he sees a short, fat man who narrates his story and exhorts the narrator to bring it out into the world. It starts with a village in EastGodavari called Mandapalli where Papayya Sastry, the grand father of Ganapathi lives. Papayya faces many difficulties in his village so he go to Pune in Maharashtra, worked in the kingdom of Peshwas and earned some money. He comes back to his native village and married a girl by paying Kanyasulkam. After having a son (Gangadharudu), Papayya dies due to old age.
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Ganapati (novel)
Gangadharudu (literally means bearer of water in Telugu/Sanskrit) along with his mother migrates to Kakinada, District headquarters of Godavari District. After attaining young age, Gangadharudu starts earning by bringing drinking water to the households from the pond.
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Ganapati (novel)
Though he works all the day, it was difficult for the family to make ends meet. Later Gangaharudu's mother dies. Eventually he was married and soon dies after his son Ganapathi's birth.
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Ganapati (novel)
Since there is no one to help/take care of them, Ganapathi's mother moves to her brother's village with her kid. In the brother's house though they were given food and shelter they are treated as an additional burden by the brother's wife. Since his childhood Ganapathi amuses the whole village with his bizarre and comic acts like riding donkeys. He left the school in the preliminary level itself. Due to his acts he had to leave the village along with his mother.
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Ganapati (novel)
Then they settled in another village where Ganapathi opens a school for children (Though he himself never got educated properly). The ensuing sequences are full of comedy with village people trying to look for a suitable bride to Ganapathi. Ganapathi's mother goes to a pilgrimage to faraway places along with other village ladies and dies there.
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Ganapati (novel)
Ganapathi marries a girl by paying kanyasulkam to the bride's father (who actually not the father of the girl) with the help of donations from villagers. But it turns out that the girl was already married earlier. The first husband files a case on Ganapathi along with the self-proclaimed girl's father. To avade the arrest Ganapathi escapes from that village.
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Ganapati (novel)
This novel ends on a funny note with the author comes out of his dream by server pouring hot rasam on his hand in the marriage dinner.
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Ganapati (novel)
It is highly successful in those days with people gathering in groups near the radio sets to listen to this comic play.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ple%C5%A1e%2C%20%C5%A0kofljica
Pleše, Škofljica
Pleše () is a settlement in the hills east of Škofljica in central Slovenia. The Municipality of Škofljica is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.
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1992 Soviet Cup final
The 1992 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, on 10 May 1992. The Soviet Union was in the process of being dismantled with all organizations such as the Football Federation of USSR abandoned. Therefore, the game was administered by the Russian Football Union.
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1992 Soviet Cup final
The match was the 51st Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Spartak Moscow and PFC CSKA Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Spartak qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Russian Federation. Spartak played their 15th Cup Final winning on 10 occasions including this one. CSKA came to the final as the defending champions and it was their eighth Cup Final and for the third time they were defeated at this stage.
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1992 Soviet Cup final
All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Spartak and CSKA both qualified for the competition automatically.
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1992 Soviet Cup final
Previously these two teams met each other in the early editions of the competition on several occasions. However this was their first time and the last that they met in the finals of the Soviet Cup.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Elderfield
Matthew Elderfield
Matthew Elderfield (born 12 January 1966) was Deputy Governor and Head of Financial Regulation at the Central Bank of Ireland, a position sometimes referred to colloquial in Ireland as the Financial Regulator between January 2010 and October 2013. He is also the former chief executive of the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA).
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Matthew Elderfield
Elderfield graduated from Cambridge University in 1988 with a master's degree in International relations, and earned a bachelor's degree in foreign service, cum laude, from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University in 1987.
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Matthew Elderfield
He was at asked at a parliamentary committee "In regard to baseline qualifications, if your staff is regulating the financial sector, should it not be the case where they should have the bare minimum required in the market as well, a qualified financial adviser status, or they've gone through certain industry exams. It's obviously important to have." But Mr Elderfield disagreed: "I don't agree with that. But I think I'm conflicted because I've never taken a professional exam in my life."
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Matthew Elderfield
Elderfield was chief executive of the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA, the financial services sector in Bermuda) from July 2007. During his two years as head of the financial regulator in Bermuda, Elderfield introduced reforms to strengthen the island's reputation for international insurance, banking and fund management. He strengthened regulation in Bermuda by significantly increasing staff numbers, expanding the BMA's learning and development programme, and introducing a scoring system for management.
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Matthew Elderfield
Prior to joining the BMA, Elderfield spent eight years at the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) as a head of a number of departments responsible for exchange and clearing-house supervision of secondary markets, listing policy and for banking supervision. He was the official responsible for supervising Northern Rock in the months before the collapsed bank applied for its first bailout. He represented the FSA on the Basel Accord Implementation Group and chaired the FSA panel responsible for economic capital model review.
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Matthew Elderfield
Before joining the FSA, Elderfield established the European operation of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and held position at the London Investment Banking Association, the British Bankers Association and a Washington DC-based consultancy firm, the Institute for Strategy Development.
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Matthew Elderfield
Elderfield earned an annual salary of €340,000 a year at the Central Bank of Ireland compared to a salary of $730,000 (€533,000) in Bermuda and was said to be at his desk from 7.30am to 7pm on weekdays while working a half-day on Sundays.
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Matthew Elderfield
Elderfield was appointed in October 2009 by the Governor of the Central Bank, Patrick Honohan. He succeeded Patrick Neary, who retired early over the handling of the regulator's investigation into the €87 million in secret directors' loans at Anglo Irish Bank. Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan welcomed his appointment, saying: "The appointment of Mr Elderfield, particularly given his extensive international regulatory experience, is a key step in the restructuring of financial services regulation in Ireland." He took up his position in January 2010. He has been tasked with the rebuilding of the financial regulators function and restoring its reputation, overseeing the recapitalisation of the banks, helping to wean them off the funding support of Government guarantees, match Ireland's regulatory changes with the raft of measures coming internationally, and strike a measured balance in his approach to maintain a competitive position for the Irish financial services sector at a global level. Mr Elderfield said he intended to pursue a policy of 'assertive' regulation, backed up by the credible threat of enforcement. An Irish Times poll suggests that he is meeting success in restoring credibility to the Financial Regulators office with 68% responding positively. In April 2010 he said that there was "critical absence of intellectual firepower within his staff
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Matthew Elderfield
Following the transfer of loans to NAMA at the end of March 2010, the regulator's office announced under the Government's guarantee scheme must now meet a core equity ratio of 8 per cent by the end of 2010. This is to ensure that they can withstand future losses.
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Matthew Elderfield
On 30 March 2010, following an application by the Financial Regulator's office, the High Court appointed joint provisional administrators to Quinn Insurance Limited, part of the Quinn Group of companies. According to the Irish Independent, eight subsidiaries of Quinn Insurance provided guarantees of €1.2bn to cover Quinn Group's debts, prompting the regulator to seek the appointment of provisional administrators in the High Court. The Quinn Group took action to counter the moves by the Financial Regulator, mobilising its employees into street protests, financial discussions with its creditors, in an effort to seek a resolution to the uncertainty created by the appointment of provisional administrators to Quinn Insurance. On 15 April 2010, the Irish Times reported that Quinn Insurance decided not to fight the appointment of a permanent administrator. This was following a direct challenge by Elderfield to the groups owner, Irelands former richest man, Sean Quinn, to "Show me the money" that would have solved the financial difficulties.
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Matthew Elderfield
He is a British citizen and is married. His interests are cycling, Leeds United, music and lives in Sandymount, Dublin.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20migration%20to%20Malaysia
Japanese migration to Malaysia
The history of Japanese migration in Malaysia goes back to the late 19th century, when the country was part of the British Empire as British Malaya.
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Japanese migration to Malaysia
Even during the relatively open Ashikaga shogunate (1338–1573), Japanese traders had little contact with the Malayan peninsula; after the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate and their policy of national isolation, most contact came to an end, though traders from the Ryukyu Islands continued to call at Malacca. The 1911 census found 2,029 Japanese in Malaya, four-fifths female; however, other sources suggest the population may already have reached four thousand people by then. In British North Borneo (today the Malaysian state of Sabah), the port city of Sandakan was a popular destination; however, the city today has little trace of their former presence, besides an old Japanese cemetery.
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Japanese migration to Malaysia
The December 1941 Japanese invasion and subsequent occupation of Malaya brought many Imperial Japanese Army soldiers to the country, along with civilian employees of Japanese companies. After the Surrender of Japan ended the war, Japanese civilians were mostly repatriated to Japan; about 6,000 Japanese civilians passed through the transit camp at Jurong, Singapore. In the late days of the war and the post-war period, around 200 to 400 Japanese holdouts were known to have joined the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), aiming to fight against the British post-war attempt to re-establish control of Malaya. The largest concentration at Kuala Kangsar, Perak seem to have been executed by Lai Teck; however, others would go on to join the Malayan Communist Party and remain hidden in the jungles. As late as 1990, two elderly Japanese civilians from that period remained in hiding with the MCP in the jungles on the Malaysia–Thailand border. They emerged and requested repatriation to Japan after the end of the Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–89). In media interviews these individuals stated that they remained behind because they felt morally obligated to aid the fight for Malayan independence from the British.
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Japanese migration to Malaysia
In the late 2000s, Malaysia began to become a popular destination for Japanese retirees. Malaysia's My Second Home retirement programme received 513 Japanese applicants from 2002 until 2006. Motivations for choosing Malaysia include the low cost of real-estate and of hiring home care workers. Such retirees sometimes refer to themselves ironically as economic migrants or even economic refugees, referring to the fact that they could not afford as high a quality of life in retirement, or indeed to retire at all, were they still living in Japan. However, overall, between 1999 and 2008, the population of Japanese expatriates in Malaysia fell by one-fifth.
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Japanese migration to Malaysia
During the early Meiji era, Japanese expatriates in Malaya consisted primarily of "vagabond sailors" and "enslaved prostitutes". Most came from Kyushu. The Japanese government first ignored them, but in the era of rising national pride following the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, came to see them as an embarrassment to Japan's image overseas; however, their presence and the money they earned formed the basis for the early Japanese commercial enclaves and small businesses in Malaysia. Soon after, the expansion of those businesses, and of Japan's commercial interests in Southeast Asia, would spark changes in the composition of the population. Japan worked with local colonial authorities to suppress Japanese women's participation in the sex trade, and by the 1920s most prostitutes had been forced to repatriate to Japan.
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Japanese migration to Malaysia
By the early 20th century, most Japanese in Malaya worked in rubber cultivation. At the peak of the industry's success in 1917, there were 1,776 Japanese employed on rubber plantations. They worked primarily at Japanese-owned plantations, concentrated in Johor, Negeri Sembilan, and Borneo. By 1917, Japanese planters owned in Johor alone. However, British legislation enacted that year restricted the sale of land greater than to foreigners; the Japanese consul lodged a strong protest, as the Japanese were the most-affected among all foreigners, however to no avail. By the mid-1920s, the number of rubber plantation workers had declined to around 600, in concert with the fall in international rubber prices. Between 1921 and 1937, 18 of the 23 Japanese corporate-owned plantations in Malaya shut down.
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Japanese migration to Malaysia
More urbanised Penang shows a somewhat different pattern of economic development. As in other parts of Malaya, the early Japanese community there was based around prostitution. As early as 1893, the community had set up its own cemetery. In a form of "spillover effect", other Japanese tertiary sector workers followed them and set up their own businesses catering to them, such as medical and dental services and hotels; these also found customers among local people, who saw them as high quality while being lower cost than the equivalents patronised by Europeans. The Japanese were also credited with opening the island's first cinemas and photo studios. Many of these businesses clustered around Cintra Street and Kampung Malabar (see list of streets in George Town, Penang). With the growth in the number of Japanese ocean-liners travelling between Japan and Europe which called at Penang, the hoteliers were able to expand their customer base beyond prostitutes; they used the capital and experience they had already accumulated to establish higher-quality establishments to cater to the needs of travellers.
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Japanese migration to Malaysia
In the 1970s, the number of Japanese subsidiaries and joint ventures in Malaysia increased significantly. By 1979, roughly 43% of Japanese JVs in Malaysia were engaged in manufacturing, primarily in the electronics, chemicals, wood products, and chemicals. The movement of Japanese manufacturing to southeast Asia, including Malaysia, intensified with the implementation of strong-yen monetary policies under the 1985 Plaza Accord. Japanese subsidiary companies in Malaysia show a tendency to employ a far higher number of expatriate staff than their British or American competitors; a 1985 survey found a figure of 9.4 expatriate Japanese staff per subsidiary, though noted a declining trend.
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Japanese migration to Malaysia
In the aftermath of the 1931 Mukden Incident which led to the establishment of Manchukuo, anti-Japanese sentiment began to grow among the ethnic Chinese population of Malaysia. In Penang, Chinese community leaders encouraged people to boycott Japanese shops and goods. The hostile environment contributed to the outflow of Japanese civilians. In the lead up to and during the Japanese occupation of Malaya, Chinese people suspected that the remaining Japanese were spies and informants for the Japanese government, though in fact the major collaborators were local Chinese who dealt in Japanese goods, as well as people from Taiwan who, bilingual in Hokkien and Japanese, served as intermediaries between the locals and the Japanese.
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Japanese migration to Malaysia
Japanese management practises in Malaysia in the 1980s and 1990s show a different pattern of interethnic relations. Some authors suggest that the Japanese show favouritism in promotion towards Malaysian Chinese over bumiputera, due to their closer cultural background. Despite efforts to localise the management of JVs, most managers continue to be expatriates. One author, however, noted a repeating pattern in several companies she studied: there would be a single high-up local manager, an ethnic Chinese man who attended university in Japan and married a Japanese woman; however, the Japanese wives of other expatriates tend to look down on such women, and there is little social contact between them. Japanese staff in Japanese JVs and subsidiary companies tend to form a "closed and exclusive circle", and develop few personal relationships outside the workplace with their Malaysian peers and subordinates. This is often attributed to a language barrier, yet Japanese sent to Malaysia tend to possess at least some proficiency in English; as a result, other scholars suggest that cultural and religious differences, as well as the short stay of most Japanese business expatriates, play a role as well.
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Japanese migration to Malaysia
The Japanese Association of Singapore, established in 1905, would go on to establish branches in all of the Malay states. It was closely watched by the police intelligence services.
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Japanese migration to Malaysia
There are Japanese day schools in a number of major cities in Malaysia, including the Japanese School of Kuala Lumpur in Subang, Selangor, the , the , and the . The Perak Japanese School is a supplementary education programme in Ipoh, Perak.
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Japanese migration to Malaysia
Japanese expatriates prefer to live in high-rise apartment buildings close to Japanese schools or other international schools.
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Japanese migration to Malaysia
In Japan, interest in the history of Japanese prostitutes in Malaysia in the early days of the 20th century was sparked by Tomoko Yamazaki's 1972 book Sandakan hachiban shokan, a recording of oral history of women from the Amakusa Islands who had gone to Sandakan and then returned to Japan in the 1920s. Yamazaki's book went on to win the Oya Soichi Nonfiction Prize (established by novelist Sōichi Ōya), and enjoyed nationwide popularity. It was fictionalised as a series of popular films, the first of which, the 1972 Sandakan No. 8 directed by Kei Kumai, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Endon Mahmood, late wife of ex-Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, born to a Malay father and a Japanese mother
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Japanese migration to Malaysia
Tun Fuad Stephens, first Chief Minister of the state of Sabah in Malaysia, and the first Huguan Siou or Paramount Leader of the Kadazandusun community
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Michael Hobbs (rugby union)
Michael Joseph Deans Hobbs (born 18 October 1987) is a retired professional rugby union player. Hobbs previously played for the Blues and Highlanders in the Super Rugby competition. He also played for the Wellington Lions in the Air New Zealand Cup. His playing positions are First Five-Eighth and Inside Centre.
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Michael Hobbs (rugby union)
Hobbs was born in Wellington, New Zealand and was Head Boy at Wellington College in 2005. He is the son of former All Black Captain and NZ Rugby chairman Jock Hobbs and the nephew of former All Black fullback and Australian rugby union coach Robbie Deans.
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Michael Hobbs (rugby union)
Hobbs represented both New Zealand Schools and New Zealand Under-19s before moving to Brisbane, Australia to undertake study at the University of Queensland. He debuted for the Lions in the 2008 season after spending the two previous years contracted to the Queensland Reds Rugby Academy. He also had a stint with the Melbourne Rebels in the inaugural Australian Rugby Championship season. He went on to be drafted by the Blues for the 2009 Super 14 season.
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Michael Hobbs (rugby union)
After starting the 2010 Super rugby season by scoring four tries in the first three games, Hobbs suffered a fractured vertebra in his back and underwent spine surgery in Los Angeles.
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Michael Hobbs (rugby union)
During the 2012 Super rugby season, Hobbs's father Jock died after a long battle with leukaemia. The 2012 ITM Cup saw Hobbs move north from Wellington to North Harbour. He played the first 3 matches before limping out of the Counties match early with ankle damage. Hobbs returned to the side for their final game against Tasman. At the end of the season he was granted an early release from his NZRU contract to take some time away from rugby.
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Michael Hobbs (rugby union)
In March 2013, Hobbs signed a one-year deal with the Panasonic Wild Knights in the Japan Top League. Panasonic won both the Japan Top League and Japan Cup championships in the 2013/14 season. At the completion of his contract with Panasonic, Hobbs signed with the NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes to remain in Japan for another two seasons.
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Michael Hobbs (rugby union)
After helping guide the NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes to their first ever win in the Japan Cup wildcard playoffs during the 2014/15 season, Hobbs was unable to take the field in the 2015/16 season due to undergoing shoulder surgery.
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Michael Hobbs (rugby union)
In 2016, Hobbs announced that he was taking a break from rugby to study for an MBA at Stanford University.
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Gangadhar Pradhan
Pradhan was born in Parikula, a village in Puri district, Odisha. He was a sickly baby; his father, Muralidhar Pradhan, a farmer, and mother, Dwitika Devi, whose previous children had died, dedicated him to Balunkeshwar, the presiding deity of the temple in the nearby village of Dimirisena. When he was six, he became a Gotipua dancer at the temple and discovered a vocation for dance. He later trained at Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya in Odissi and in playing the mardala, and accompanied Sanjukta Panigrahi as her co-dancer and percussionist. He was an accomplished choreographer.
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Gangadhar Pradhan
He founded Orissa Dance Academy in Bhubaneswar in 1975, and Konark Natya Mandap in Konark in 1986, and also established both the Konark Dance and Music Festival (also in 1986) and the Dhauli dance festival (in 2001), as well as several smaller dance festivals, and ran the Chitralekha Dance Academy Festival in Canada. He was a past president of the Orissa Sangeet Natak Akademi. In his later years, he organised a project to document the folk dance styles of the state.
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Gangadhar Pradhan
Pradhan had a son and three daughters. In early 2010 he underwent an angioplasty at an Apollo hospital in Bhubaneswar, but he died on 10 October at the age of 62 after a cerebral haemorrhage.
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Gangadhar Pradhan
Pradhan was the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Utkal University. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1998 and the Padma Shri (Indian's fourth highest civilian award) in 2008.
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Guiyang school
The Guiyang school was the first established house of the Five Houses of Chán. Guiyang is named after master Guishan Lingyou (771–854) and his disciple, Yangshan Huiji (813–890).
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Guiyang school
Guishan was a disciple of Baizhang Huaihai, the Chan master whose disciples included Huangbo Xiyun, who in turn taught Linji Yixuan, founder of the Linji school. After founding the Guiyang School, Yangshan moved his school to what is now modern Jiangxi.