Plot.

Once one of the best rock climbers in his college years, Yong-nam (Jo Jong-suk) is now a grown man, who is without a job and forced to live with his parents just to get by. Yong-nam is constantly reminded of this fact by his older sister Jung-hyun, who urges him to neaten up and make an impression at their mother’s upcoming 70th birthday festivities.  For his mother’s birthday, Yong-nam insists they should celebrate it at the Cloud Garden, with Yong-nam secretly knowing that his old crush and fellow ex-rock climber Eui-joo (Im Yoon-ah) is working there. Yong-nam acts surprised to see Eui-joo and in order to impress her, he lies to her and claims that he now has a successful career, much to her surprise.  However, at the same time, nearby, a toxic white gas is released from a truck close by to the Cloud Garden and quickly spreads to its immediate surroundings, causing mass pandemonium in the city. During this, Eui-joo discovers via a phone call from a close friend, that Yong-nam had lied to her about his job, and she becomes curious as to why.  Oblivious to what is happening outside, Yong-nam’s family are shocked to see the converging white gas and urged by Eui-joo, they return to the Cloud Garden but not before Jung-hyun stumbles and is quickly overwhelmed by the gas.  In order to get themselves and Jung-hyun to safety, everyone heads to the roof, but much to their horror, they discover that the door to the roof is locked. With everyone else occupied, Yong-nam proceeds to shatter a window and leap across to the adjacent building. Only equipped with a makeshift harness, Yong-nam manages to scale the Cloud Garden and reach the top of the roof, where he opens the door for his family. Once everyone is assembled on the roof, they manage to hail a passing rescue helicopter with crude SOS signals. However, Yong-nam and Eui-joo are prevented from boarding the helicopter, as their inclusion would exceed the weight limit on the helicopter gondola. Due to the rising gas, they are then forced to wrap themselves up in improvisational safety gear and leave the Cloud Garden to seek higher ground.  Once the two manage to find a suitable building, they proceed to signal to another passing helicopter. However, upon seeing a group of students trapped in a building opposite them, they redirect the helicopter to the students and away from themselves.  After failing to be rescued twice, Yong-nam and Eui-joo realise that the only way to escape the rising gas is to head towards the tower crane, the highest point in the vicinity. At the same time, they are discovered by a drone, which they use to provide directions towards the tower crane.  After running and climbing across numerous buildings, the drone finally loses power, leaving Yong-nam and Eui-joo at a dead end, as they realise that none of the surrounding buildings are close enough to get to the tower crane. Just as they begin to despair, multiple drones begin to converge towards their location, and Yong-nam is able to suspend a rope across the buildings by utilising one of them. Yong-nam and Eui-joo then attempt to swing across, but their combined weight proves too much for the drone, and the two fall, seemingly to their deaths. However, the two manage to survive the fall and reach the tower crane, from where they are eventually extracted from by a rescue helicopter.  Once on safe ground, Yong-nam tearfully reunites with the rest of his family. As Yong-nam and Eui-joo face one another to say goodbye, they agree to see each other again sometime. As they stand smiling, rainfall starts to descend, dissipating the last of the white gas from the city.

Production.

Principal photography began on August 4, 2018, and wrapped on December 12.

Release.

"Exit" was first released in South Korea on July 31, 2019.  Following this, "Exit" was then released in parts of the United States on August 2, 2019.  Overall, "Exit" was shown in at least 16 different countries which are listed below:  The film was selected as the opening film of the 4th London East Asia Film Festival, held from October 24 to November 3, 2019.

Reception.

Box office.

"Exit" was a box office success and proved to be a popular film upon its release.  Despite being released alongside The Divine Fury on July 31, "Exit" managed to take the No. 1 position at the box office on its premiere, recording an opening day total of 409, 026 admissions. "Exit" then proceeded to break the record for the fastest movie to reach 1 million moviegoers, reaching the milestone just two days after its initial release. Notably, "Exit" was only the second Korean film to maintain the No.1 spot at the box office for two successive days in 2019; the critically-acclaimed Parasite being the first such film to do so.  "Exit" maintained a high number of admission sales over the course of the week, surpassing the 2 million admissions mark and 3 million admissions mark, respectively four and six days after its release.  Over the coming weeks, "Exit" continued to attract a steady number of viewers, reaching the 9 million mark, 36 days after its release.  Eventually, "Exit" managed to accrue a total of 9,425,294 admissions nationwide, becoming the third highest-selling domestic film in South Korea for 2019, and the sixth highest-selling film for all movies screened in South Korea.  Overall, "Exit" grossed a worldwide total of US$69,501,772, of which US$67,380,750 was earned from South Korea alone.

Critical response.

The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 83%, with an average rating of 6/10. One of the critics, Yoon Min-sik of "The Korean Herald", described "Exit" as a “fun, action-packed film” where “for every flaw, the flick had many more enjoyable elements”, showing the potential to become ““the” summer blockbuster of the year.” Furthermore, "Exit" was praised for its incorporation of lightheartedness, described as “a new breed of disaster film that has never been seen before” and “a film to be enjoyed by all ages.”  In contrast, Carlos Aguilar of "The Los Angeles Times" was more mixed in his review, pointing towards a lack of originality of the overall story, labelling it a “trite commodity.” He commented that despite “the amusing hurdles”, "Exit" was ultimately “a simplistically digestible and ultimately predictable big-budget outing with a slight edge.”

Exit () is a 2019 South Korean disaster action comedy film, written and directed by Lee Sang-geun, and starring the likes of Jo Jong-suk and Im Yoon-ah. The film follows the story of a grown man who attempts to reconnect with an old crush, but following a chain of events, they end up trying to escape from a mysterious white gas that threatens to engulf the entire Seoul district.

Exit (Originaltitel: ) ist eine Action-Komödie des südkoreanischen Regisseurs Lee Sang-geun aus dem Jahr 2019. In dem Film breitet sich nach einem Anschlag ein toxisches Gas im Bezirk aus. Cho Jung-seok und Im Yoona klettern und rennen in den Hauptrollen über den Dächern der Stadt, um dem Gas zu entkommen.


Early life.

Gillot was born in Caen, to an accountant and a physical therapist. She started In 1985, at age 9, she left home to train at Paris Opera Ballet School.  When Gillot was 12, she grew 12 centimetres in a year, and was diagnosed with double scoliosis. Fearing a surgery would leave her disabled, she opted to wear a brace instead. She wore it for 6 years, only remove it when she was dancing, and hid it from her peers.

Career.

As dancer.

In 1990, at age 15, Gillot joined the Paris Opera Ballet's corps de ballet. She is the youngest-ever dancer to do so. She was promoted to "coryphée" in 1992. She obtained her teaching certification at age 18. At first, she was only casted in minor, non-dancing role. Therefore, she flew to New York, hoping to audition for New York City Ballet. However, Manuel Legris contacted her, and convinced her to return to Paris. She got more roles after she returned.  Gillot was promoted to "sujet" in 1994. In 1999, she was named "première danseuse". She stayed in that position for five years, but had danced lead roles including the title role in "Paquita" and Odette/Odile in "Swan Lake".  Initially, Gillot wasn't interested in contemporary roles, but choreographers, including William Forsythe and Mats Ek created roles for her when she wasn't cast in classical roles. Eventually, she became the company's exemplar for contemporary works.  In 1997, Gillot originated a role in Carolyn Carlson's "Signes". She performed it again, in 2004, and led to her being named "étoiles". She is the first dancer to achieve the rank of "étoiles" following a contemporary work. She was promoted at age 28, which was relatively late. Her repertoire include works by Rudolf Nureyev, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. She had originated works for choreographers including Jiří Kylián, Wayne McGregor and Crystal Pite.  In 2018, Gillot retired from Paris Opera Ballet following a performance of Pina Bausch's "Orpheus and Eurydice". Gillot was 42, the company's maximum retirement age, a rule which Gillot found "stupid." She had plans to perform in contemporary works following her retirement.

As choreographer.

Gillot first choreographed in 2007. Her first work is a piece with Dresden Semperoper Ballett principal Jiri Bubenicek, which was performed in festivals. She had since choreographed for Conservatoire de Paris, a hip-hop group and several pieces for television. She was later commissioned by the Paris Opera Ballet, making her the first in-house female dancer to choreograph for the company. Her piece, "Sous Apparence", premiered in 2012.

Style.

Choreographer Wayne McGregor commented she could "do anything choreographically that you throw at her, and then more." Carolyn Carlson, who created "Signes", the piece that led to Gillot's promotion, said Gillot was "especially gifted in a cosmic, mystic realm, capable of transforming that mysticism into movement." "Dance Magazine" called her "powerfully athletic and spiritually enraptured."

Other ventures.

Fashion.

She was part of the luxury French brand Céline's Spring/Summer 2015 campaign, shot by Juergen Teller : "I thought of it more as a dialogue between three artists." she declared.  Before that, she was the image of Repetto and appeared in several fashion editorials - alone or together with other principal dancers of Paris Opera Ballet (shot by Philippe Robert in 2008, by Soan & Seng in 2015).  She confirmed her interest into fashion participating in a film by Daniel Askill : "Even where the dancer is more conventionally dressed, the film and choreography work their own transformations. Paris Opera ballerina Marie-Agnès Gillot wears a black lace dress from McQueen, yet as she dances it becomes the shroud of a dying swan, a goth ballgown, the robes of a flying angel".  "Gillot held court as the Grand Master of the Grand Temple" in Gareth Pugh's Fall 2016 show that took place at the art deco Freemasons’ Hall in Covent Garden during London Fashion Week.

Activism.

As an activist, Gillot became involved with children's causes, AIDS, Cancer, and women's issues. As an ambassador of Doctor Jacques Leibowitch’s ICCARRE (Intermittent, in Canny short Cycles, Antiretrovirals may Retain Efficiency), she performed, alongside Marianne Faithfull and the sisters, Katia and Marielle Labèque, at the Jean-Paul Gaultier headquarters in 2015.

Personal life.

Gillot has a son, whom she chose to raise on her own.

Marie-Agnès Gillot (born in 1975) is a French ballet dancer and choreographer. She danced with the Paris Opera Ballet as an "étoiles". She is also POB's first in-house female dancer to choreograph for the company.

Marie-Agnès Gillot (* 7. September 1975 in Caen) ist eine französische Ballerina der Opéra de Paris (Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris), wo sie den höchsten Status einer Tänzerin (Étoile) erreichte. Sie ist auch Choreographin.


Early years and education.

Huang was born in the coastal city of Tainan, Taiwan. His family immigrated to the United States and moved to Oneida, Kentucky, and then to Oregon. He graduated from Aloha High School, outside Portland.  Huang received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 1984, and his master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1992.

Career.

After college he was a director at LSI Logic and a microprocessor designer at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). On his 30th birthday in 1993, Huang co-founded Nvidia and is the CEO and president. He owns a portion of Nvidia's stock worth about US$1.3 billion as of 2016. He earned $24.6 million as CEO in 2007, ranking him as the 61st highest paid U.S. CEO by "Forbes".

Philanthropy.

Huang gave his alma mater Stanford University US$30 million to build the Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Center. The building is the second of four that make up Stanford's Science and Engineering Quad. It was designed by Bora Architects of Portland, Oregon. Huang gave his alma mater Oneida Baptist Institute $2 million to build Huang Hall, a new girls' dormitory and classroom building.  In 2007, Huang was the recipient of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Pioneer Business Leader Award for his work in both the corporate and philanthropic worlds.

Awards.

In 1999, Jensen Huang was named Entrepreneur of the Year in High Technology by Ernst & Young.  In 2003, Huang received the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award, which recognizes a leader who has made exceptional contributions to driving the development, innovation, growth, and long-term opportunities of the fabless semiconductor industry, from the Fabless Semiconductor Association. He was also a National Finalist for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2003 and was an Award Recipient for the Northern California region in 1999.  Additionally, Huang is a recipient of the Daniel J. Epstein Engineering Management Award from the University of Southern California and was named an Alumni Fellow by Oregon State University.  Huang was awarded an honorary doctorate from Oregon State University at the June 13, 2009, commencement ceremony.  In 2018, Huang was listed in the inaugural "EDGE 50", naming the world's top 50 influencers in edge computing.

Personal life.

While at Oregon State, Huang met his future wife, Lori, his engineering lab partner at the time. Huang has two children. He is said to be a cousin of AMD CEO Lisa Su, but this has been dismissed by her. Politically, when asked about the election of Donald Trump, Huang stated that he favors a more liberal government and hoped that "the institution of the United States will continue to support diversity, be mindful of tolerance, and hopefully help us to not forget that there are people in every part of our country that we need to bring along."

Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang (; born February 17, 1963) is a Taiwanese-born American billionaire businessman and electrical engineer. He co-founded the graphics-processor company Nvidia in 1993 and has been its president and chief executive officer (CEO) since inception. Huang graduated from Oregon State University before moving to California. He earned a master's degree from Stanford University. In 2008, "Forbes" listed him as the 61st highest paid CEO in a list of U.S. CEOs and one of the wealthiest Asian Americans.

Jen-Hsun Huang (; * 17. Februar 1963 in Tainan, Taiwan), auch Jensen Huang, ist ein taiwanesisch-US-amerikanischer Unternehmer und Manager. Huang war 1993 Mitbegründer des Grafikprozessorherstellers Nvidia und ist seitdem CEO des Unternehmens. Im Mai 2020 wurde sein Vermögen auf ca. 8,1 Milliarden US-Dollar geschätzt.


Career.

Political satire.

War Drags You Out.

War Drags You Out is a series of digital illustrations depicting prominent political and religious figures as drag queens. The project was shared on January 2014, and it is the first to be published under the pseudonym Saint Hoax. The artist received multiple death threats shortly after publishing the project due to his inclusion of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Osama bin Laden in the series. The depiction of the late king and bin Laden offended religious extremists and made the artist a target for criticism and death threats. Some of the threats were publicly shared on Hoax's social media accounts, others were sent directly to his email address. However, the project was well received by the media and praised as a strong political commentary.

Social awareness.

Happy Never After.

In 2014, Saint Hoax published their campaign Happy Never After. The artist used images of Disney princesses to spread awareness about domestic violence. The princesses were illustrated with bruises on their faces and a slogan that read "When did he stop treating you like a princess?" accompanied the visuals. Hours after the posters were published on the artist's website, the campaign went viral. Happy Never After became one of the most shared domestic violence campaign. In November 2014, it was used as the official anti-domestic violence campaign in Amsterdam.

Once Upon A War.

In March 2016, Saint Hoax visited a Syrian refugee camp in Akkar, Lebanon and photographed Syrian girls dressed as Disney princesses. This was a collaborative project with Plastik Magazine, Beirut based visual magazine, and MALAAK, an Akkar-based NGO that builds schools for Syrian refugees and provides aid. The proceeds of the project went directly to MALAAK.

Social Media.

Saint Hoax uses social media, particularly Instagram, as their main platform. They’re mostly known for posting edited videos and images that satirize political and pop cultural figures.

Saint Hoax is a pseudonymous Syrian artist, satirist and socio-political activist. They use various mediums to subversively depict political and popular figures. They're also known for taking Disney characters out of context and using them for social awareness.

Saint Hoax (stilisiert: "SAIN†HOAX", deutsch: "Heiliger Streich") ist das Pseudonym einer aus Syrien stammenden kunstschaffenden Person. Saint Hoax setzt sich auf humoristische sowie ernsthafte Weise in seinen Werken mit aktuellen gesellschaftlichen und politischen Themen auseinander. Im Zentrum der Werke stehen dabei oft Figuren oder Objekte aus der Popkultur, wie Disney-Figuren, sowie politische Machthaber. Typischerweise reißt Saint Hoax die Figuren oder Objekte aus ihrem Kontext und stellt sie in einem anderen Licht dar, um auf gesellschaftliche und politische Probleme aufmerksam zu machen.


Career.

Peng earned a degree in business administration in 1994 from Hangzhou Institute of Commerce, which was later renamed as Zhejiang Gongshang University. Following her graduation, she taught at the Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics for five years. Peng quit teaching shortly after marrying, and with her husband (who would later run Taobao, Alibaba's eBay reminiscent marketplace) joined Jack Ma in founding Alibaba in September 1999. They were one of the many husband and wife teams making up the 1/3rd ratio of women amongst Alibaba's founding partners that the company would later become positively praised for.  Her early responsibilities with the company involved managing the HR department of Alibaba, which she herself created. During this period, one of her notable accomplishments is developing the "mom and pop" model at Alibaba, in which one "mom" focused on teamwork and motivation, while one "pop" handled performance assessments.  From January 2010 to February 2013, Peng was the CEO of Alipay. Alipay became the most successful payment gateway within China under her management, expanding to over 800 million users as of 2014. As of the end of 2014, it was valued at around $60 billion.  In March 2013, Peng took over as CEO of Alibaba Small and Micro Financial Services. There, she made significant progress in searching for innovations in the mobile payments system.  In 2013, Peng's name was frequently floated by the Chinese press as a candidate for Alibaba's next CEO. However, another executive eventually got the job.  In 2014, Peng founded Ant Financial Services Group. In September 2015, Alibaba and Ant Financial together took a combined 40% stake in Indian mobile wallet operator Paytm, placing Peng as a member of its board of directors In 2016, Ant Financial broke the record for the world's largest private fundraising found for an internet company at $4.5 billion, placing the company at an approximately $60 billion valuation.  She also served as chief people officer, the chief human resources officer for Alibaba Group for over 10 years. In this position, she oversaw the approximately 35,000 employees under Alibaba.  Peng became a billionaire in 2014 based on Alibaba's valuation prior to its record-setting IPO.

Personal life.

Three years after she began teaching, Peng married Sun Tongyu. She later divorced him for a short period, but then remarried him.  Porter Erisman, in his 2012 documentary Crocodile in the Yangtze about Alibaba's early years, described Peng as "a funny and down-to-earth" leader.

Accomplishments.

As of 2016, Peng was listed as the 35th most powerful woman in the world by "Forbes", #35 on their list of Power Women for 2016, and #17 on their list of Asia Power Women for 2016.  In 2015, she was ranked as the third richest woman in the tech sector by Wealth-X, and the #11 Most Powerful Woman in Asia by Fortune.

Peng Lei ( born 1972/73), also known as Lucy Peng, is a Chinese billionaire businesswoman. She is one of the founders of the e-commerce company Alibaba Group. As of March 2017, Peng was one of 21 self-made women billionaires in China.

Peng Lei (; geboren 1972/73), auch bekannt als Lucy Peng, ist eine chinesische Geschäftsfrau. Sie ist eine der Gründerinnen des E-Commerce-Unternehmens Alibaba Group. Im März 2017 war Peng eine von 21 Selfmade-Milliardärinnen in China.'


Early life and education.

Born Robert Ray Redfield Jr. on July 10, 1951, Redfield's parents were both scientists at the National Institutes of Health; Redfield's career in medical research was influenced by this background. Redfield attended Georgetown University, and at college worked in Columbia University laboratories where investigations focused on the involvement of retroviruses in human disease.  Redfield earned a Bachelor of Science from the university's College of Arts and Sciences in 1973. He then attended Georgetown University School of Medicine, and was awarded his Doctor of Medicine in 1977.

Career.

Army medical service.

Redfield's medical residency was undertaken at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) in Washington, D.C., where he completed his postgraduate medical training and internships in internal medicine (1978-1980), as a U.S. Army officer. Redfield completed clinical and research fellowships at WRAMC, in infectious diseases and tropical medicine, by 1982.  Redfield continued as a U.S. Army physician and medical researcher at the WRAMC for the next decade, working in the fields of virology, immunology and clinical research. During this period he collaborated with numerous teams at the forefront of AIDS research, publishing several papers and acting as an advocate for strategies to translate knowledge gained from clinical studies to the practical treatment of patients afflicted by chronic viral diseases. In 1996, Redfield retired from the army as a colonel, to concentrate on setting up a multidisciplinary research organization dedicated to developing research and treatment programs for chronic human viral infection and disease. To this end, he co-founded the Institute of Human Virology based at Maryland, together with his HIV research colleague Robert Gallo and viral epidemiologist William Blattner.

Academic positions.

Redfield served as a tenured professor of medicine and microbiology at University of Maryland, Baltimore, chief of infectious disease, vice chair of medicine, and a co-founder and associate director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Redfield is known for his contributions in this period—in clinical research, in particular, for extensive research into the virology and therapeutic treatments of HIV infection and AIDS. In the early years of investigations into the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s, Redfield led research that demonstrated that the HIV retrovirus could be heterosexually transmitted. He also developed the staging system now in use worldwide for the clinical assessment of HIV infection. Under his clinical leadership at the University of Maryland the patient base grew from just 200 patients to approximately 6,000 in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and more than 1.3 million in African and Caribbean nations. Under his research leadership his clinical research team successfully competed for and won over 600 million dollars of research funding.

CDC leadership.

Redfield has served as the director of the CDC since March 26, 2018. In his inaugural address to the CDC Redfield said "[The agency is] science-based and data-driven, and that's why CDC has the credibility around the world that it has.” He was nominated for the post by President Donald Trump, after the President's first appointee resigned in scandal. His nomination was considered controversial, and was opposed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which cited Redfield's lack of experience administering a public health agency, his history of scientific misconduct, and his religious advocacy in response to a public health crisis. "Mother Jones" refers to his advocacy of a religious agenda in response to the AIDS crisis  The first confirmed case of COVID-19 was discovered in the US on January 20, 2020, while Redfield was serving as director of the CDC. Redfield testified to Congress on March 2, 2020, about the outbreak of COVID-19 in the US. Given the lack of testing on patients and healthcare workers requesting testing, Florida Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz asked Redfield about who was responsible to ensure testing could be performed on individuals who needed to be tested. Redfield could not name a specific individual and looked to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of infectious disease at the NIH, who said, "The system is not geared to what we need right now... that is a failing."  Public health reporter Laurie Garrett opined, "Redfield is about the worst person you could think of to be heading the CDC at this time. He lets his prejudices interfere with the science, which you cannot afford during a pandemic."

Awards and service.

Redfield has received several awards over the course of his career as a physician-scientist, including an honorary degree from the New York Medical College, a lifetime services award from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Immunology and Aging, and the Surgeon General's Physician Recognition Award. In 2012, along with William Blattner, he was named entrepreneur of the year at the University of Maryland. In 2016 he was named the inaugural Robert C. Gallo, MD Endowed Professors in Translational Medicine.  Redfield also served as a member of the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS from 2005 to 2009, and was appointed as chair of the International Subcommittee from 2006 to 2009. He is a past member of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council at the National Institutes of Health, the Fogarty International Center Advisory Board at the National Institutes of Health, and the Advisory Anti-Infective Agent Committee of the Food and Drug Administration.

Controversies.

HIV vaccine research.

In 1992, the Defense Department investigated Redfield after he was accused of misrepresenting the effects of an experimental HIV vaccine, the study of which he had overseen.  On the basis of this data, in 1992, the U.S. Senate gave a $20 million appropriation for a private company, MicroGeneSys, to develop a therapeutic HIV vaccine based on the protein gp160, which went into clinical trials. Randy Shilts, author of "And The Band Played On," wrote that the idea of a therapeutic vaccine was a radical idea that came to Redfield while reading his children a book about Louis Pasteur which he then discussed with Jonas Salk who was in support. At the time a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, Redfield was the army's leading AIDS researcher, and a proponent of the vaccine.  In July 1992, Redfield gave an abstract presentation on the vaccine at the international AIDS conference in Amsterdam. Based on preliminary results of 15 of the 26 patients who got the vaccine, Redfield said that the viral load of patients getting the vaccine was lower than patients who did not get the vaccine. Most researchers believe that viral load is a good indicator of vaccine effectiveness. The vaccine later turned out to be ineffective. Many researchers, however, were skeptical of the data, and were unable to reproduce Redfield's analysis. US Air Force scientist Major Craig Hendrix, MD (now at Johns Hopkins) said that Redfield committed scientific misconduct by selecting data that were favorable to the vaccine.  In 1993, a U.S. Army investigation acknowledged accuracy issues with the HIV vaccine clinical trials, but concluded that their investigations "did not support the allegations of scientific misconduct", and he was subsequently promoted to colonel. Redfield is quoted in "Big Shot: Passion, Politics, and the Struggle for an AIDS Vaccine," the comprehensive book on the controversy, as saying of his accusers, "I am disappointed in the institutions for not holding the individuals accountable for what I consider conduct unbecoming of an officer."  Redfield continued studies of the gp160 vaccine; the results of the 27-author phase II clinical trial were published in the "Journal of Infectious Disease" in 2000, concluding that the vaccine was ineffective, with Deborah L. Birx as lead author. Redfield's multi-site study was a collaboration between the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health, The work did not, however, result in an effective vaccine.

HIV interventions.

The 1993 investigation did say that Redfield had an "inappropriate" close relationship with the non-governmental group "Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy" (ASAP), which promoted the gp160 vaccine. The group was founded by evangelical Christians that worked to contain the HIV/AIDS outbreak by advocating for abstinence before marriage, rather than passing out condoms — a view Redfield says he's since changed.  Redfield served on the board of ASAP, which gay groups criticized for anti-gay, conservative Christian policies, such as abstinence-only prevention. Redfield also authored the foreword to the book co-written by ASAP leader W. Shepard Smith, "Christians in the Age of AIDS" which discouraged the distribution of sterile needles to drug users as well as condom use calling them "false prophets." The book described AIDS as "God's judgment" against homosexuals. At the time of his nomination to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Redfield maintained close ties with those who disagree with the homosexual lifestyle and anti-HIV activists, although he has publicly supported the use of condoms and denied ever promoting abstinence-only interventions. However, in the 2000s, Redfield was a prominent advocate for the "ABCs of AIDS" doctrine which promoted abstinence primarily and condoms only a last resort.

CDC director's salary.

In 2018, after Redfield was appointed to the CDC, Democrats and watchdog groups criticized his $375,000-a-year salary, which was significantly higher than the $219,700 salary of his predecessor, Tom Frieden, and higher than that of his own boss, Alex Azar, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (and former president of a division of Eli Lilly).  Azar and the head of the FDA had taken significant pay cuts on moving into government service, but their salaries are set by Congress while the salary of the CDC director is not. Within a few days, Redfield asked for and received a pay reduction to $209,700 from $375,000 because "[he] did not want his compensation to become a distraction from the important work of the CDC."

Coronavirus data.

On 6 April 2020, Redfield stated on AM 1030 KVOI Radio in Tucson, Arizona, “[t]hose models that were done, they assume only about 50 percent of the American public would pay attention to the recommendations. In fact, what we’re seeing is a large majority of the American public are taking the social distancing recommendations to heart. And I think that’s the direct consequence of why you’re seeing the numbers are going to be much, much, much lower than would have been predicted by the models.".  On 21 May 2020, The Atlantic Magazine reported on the intentional conflation of the viral and antibody testing results that the CDC, under Redfield's leadership, has been compiling data on since the beginning of the year. This conflation of the tests' results has led to misrepresentations in the media and in public opinion of the current state of the virus's spread. Several states have now also adopted this approach for reporting on the number of tests given and their results, and they've used those faulty, unscientific statistics to aid in the planning for reopening their states.

Personal life.

Redfield is married to Joyce Hoke, whom he met while delivering babies as a medical student when she was a nursing assistant. They have six children and nine grandchildren.

References.

Notes Bibliography

Robert Ray Redfield Jr. (born July 10, 1951) is an American virologist. He is the current Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the current Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, having served in both positions since March 2018.

Robert Ray Redfield jr. (* 10. Juli 1951) ist ein US-amerikanischer Virologe und der 18. Leiter des Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in der Trump-Administration. Er leitet diese Behörde während der COVID-19-Pandemie in den Vereinigten Staaten. Als Wissenschaftler befasste er sich vor allem mit dem HIV-Virus und AIDS.


Biography.

Dahyun was born in Seongnam, Gyeonggi province, on May 28, 1998. Dahyun grew up with her parents and older brother. At a young age, she started singing with her Christian church choir. Dahyun first attracted attention as a sixth grader in elementary school with a dance at church named the "eagle dance" which was posted on YouTube. Dahyun was recruited to become a trainee for JYP Entertainment after a talent scout saw her performance at a dance festival, and she subsequently trained with them for over three years. In 2015 Dahyun competed in "Sixteen", a reality television show created to select the members of JYP Entertainment's new girl group. Dahyun was subsequently selected to join Twice, as one of the nine successful participants in the competition. In October 2015, Twice officially debuted with the release of their first mini-album, "The Story Begins" and the lead track "Like Ooh-Ahh". In addition to regular singing, Dahyun serves as one of Twice's rappers, along with fellow group member Chaeyoung. In Gallup Korea's annual music poll for 2017, Dahyun was voted as the seventeenth most popular idol in South Korea. In November 2018, right-wing Japanese lawmaker Masaru Onodera criticized Dahyun for wearing a T-shirt made by Marymond, an organization that raises funds for helping comfort women, victims of sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. In the aftermath, "The Korea Times" criticized J. Y. Park, the founder of JYP Entertainment, for failing to speak up in her defense.

Kim Da-hyun (; born May 28, 1998), known mononymously as Dahyun (), is a South Korean singer and rapper. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Twice formed by JYP Entertainment.

Kim Da-hyun (* 28. Mai 1998 in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do) ist eine südkoreanische Sängerin und Mitglied der Girlgroup Twice. Zumeist tritt sie unter ihrem Vornamen Dahyun (Hangeul: ) auf.


World War II.

The Nazi German invasion of Poland was disastrous for the town. Almost 80% of buildings were destroyed in air attacks and artillery bombardments. Houses around the market square and the local synagogue were burned. German occupiers carried out numerous mass executions of underground resistance fighters (from Home Army to Bataliony Chłopskie). At the beginning of 1941, the Nazi administration established a ghetto in the southern part of Zwoleń for local Jews as well as all transports from neighbouring villages. In March 1941, Jews from Przytyk were transferred to Zwoleń (fact disputed by some scholars claiming that by then Jews of Przytyk were already removed). On December 22, 1941 the "Jüdischer Wohnbezirk" was formally registered. By April 1942, the unfenced, open ghetto had some 4,500 inhabitants living in 239 houses (7 per room on average). Hundreds were homeless. On August 19–20, 1942 approximately 5,000 Jews were shipped in from Gniewoszów ghetto nearby. The Germans also brought to the ghetto Jews from other locations (Janowiec, Pionki, Jedlnia, Garbatka), further increasing their numbers. It is estimated that prior to mass deportations there were 6,500–10,000 Jews living there (top estimate by historian Adam Rutkowski has also been disputed). The Zwoleń ghetto was liquidated on 29 September 1942. All inmates (about 8,000 according to Daniel Blatman) were made to walk to the railway station in Garbatka. A few hundred prisoners unable to walk were shot along the way. From there, all Jews were transported in Holocaust trains to Treblinka extermination camp.

Postwar development.

In 1954, a new Zwoleń County of Kielce Voivodeship was created, which was a great boost to the town economy. Factories and new schools were opened including a meat plant and a branch of Radom's Łucznik Arms Factory. In 1975, after administrative reform of the communist Poland, all counties were dismissed, and Zwoleń became part of Radom Voivodeship. Zwoleń County returned in 1999 following the collapse of the Soviet empire.  The town is located in southeastern corner of Mazovian Voivodeship, at the crossroads of two national roads: the 79th (Warsaw - Sandomierz - Kraków - Bytom), and the 12th (Łęknica - Dorohusk). Zwoleń does not have a rail station, but maintains bus connections with several towns and cities. The town has a sports club Zwolenianka and other sports associations. Every year in late June, The "Name day of Pan Jan" ("Imieniny Pana Jana") Festival takes place there, in memory of Jan Kochanowski. The poet himself is buried at the local Catholic church of the Holy Cross.

International relations.

Twin towns — Sister cities.

Zwoleń is twinned with:

Zwoleń ( "Zvolin") is a town in Poland, in Masovian Voivodeship, about east of Radom. It is the capital of Zwoleń County. Population is 8,048 (2009). Zwoleń belongs to Sandomierz Land of the historic province of Lesser Poland, and is located on the Zwoleńka river. The town has a sports club "Zwolenianka", founded in 1923.

Zwoleń ist die Kreisstadt des Powiat Zwoleński der Woiwodschaft Masowien in Polen mit etwa 7700 Einwohnern. Sie ist Sitz der gleichnamigen Stadt-und-Land-Gemeinde mit Einwohnern (Stand ).


Career.

Ord attended the University of Melbourne, where he initially studied computer science. On completing his first degree, he switched to studying philosophy to pursue his interest in ethics: "At this stage I knew that I wanted to make a large positive difference in the world and it seemed that studying ethics would help."  For his graduate studies, Ord moved to the University of Oxford, where he obtained a B.Phil., and a D.Phil. in philosophy. Having submitted his doctoral thesis, 'Beyond Action: applying consequentialism to decision making and motivation’, Ord was retained as a junior research fellow by Balliol College, Oxford.  Since 2014, Ord has been at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, where he holds the position of a Senior Research Fellow. Ord describes his focus as “the big picture questions facing humanity.” He is a trustee of the Centre for Effective Altruism and of 80,000 Hours.

Research.

Ethics.

Ord’s work has been primarily in moral philosophy. In applied ethics, he has worked on bioethics, the demands of morality, and global priority setting. He has also made contributions in global health, as an advisor to the 3rd edition of Disease Control Priorities Project.. In normative ethics, his research has focused on consequentialism, and on moral uncertainty.

Existential risk.

Ord’s current main research interest is existential risk. His book on the topic — "The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity" — was published in March 2020.

Giving What We Can.

At Oxford, Ord resolved to give a significant proportion of his income to the most cost-effective charities he could find. Following a number of enquiries from people interested in making a similar commitment, Ord decided to set up an organisation geared towards supporting like-minded donors.  In 2009, Ord launched Giving What We Can, an international society whose members have each pledged to donate at least 10% of their income to anti-poverty charities. The organisation is aligned with, and part, of the effective altruism movement. Giving What We Can seeks not only to encourage people to give more of their money to charity, but also stresses the importance of giving to cost-effective charities, arguing that "research shows that some are up to 1,000 times as effective as others." By February 2020 Giving What We Can had grown to over 4,500 members, who have pledged over $1.5 billion to charities.  Ord himself decided initially to cap his income at £20,000 per year, and to give away everything he earned above that to well-researched charities. A year later, he revised this figure down to £18,000. This threshold rises annually with inflation. As of December 2019, he had donated £106,000, or 28 percent of his income. Over the course of his career, he expects his donations to total around £1 million.

Personal life.

Ord lives in Oxford with his wife, Bernadette Young, a medical doctor. She is also a member of Giving What We Can.

Toby David Godfrey Ord (born 18 July 1979) is an Australian philosopher. He founded Giving What We Can, an international society whose members pledge to donate at least 10% of their income to effective charities, and is a key figure in the effective altruism movement, which promotes using reason and evidence to help the lives of others as much as possible. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, where his work is focused on existential risk. His book on the subject—""—was published in March 2020.

Toby David Godfrey Ord (* 18. Juli 1979 in Melbourne) ist ein australischer Philosoph und Ethiker. Er ist Gründer der internationalen Organisation "Giving What We Can", deren 4.300 Mitglied sich verpflichten, mindestens 10 % ihres Einkommens an wohltätige Einrichtungen zu spenden. Er ist eine bekannte Figur der Bewegung Effektiver Altruismus. Ord ist Senior Research Fellow am ‘’Future of Humanity Institute‘‘ der University of Oxford. Die Schwerpunkte seiner Forschung und Lehrtätigkeit liegen auf den Themen Existentielles Risiko, Normative Ethik und Praktische Ethik, sowie auch auf Formale Logik, Metaphysik und Epistemologie. In März 2020 veröffentlichte er ein Buch zum Thema Existentielle Risiken mit dem Titel "The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity" in März 2020.


Series overview.

In Silver Lake, Los Angeles, Cal (Kit Williamson) learns that Thom (Van Hansis), his boyfriend of four years, has been cheating on him with Jeremy (Matthew McKelligon). Though upset, Cal decides that he does not want to end the relationship. However, Cal also cheats with Jeremy. Though he intends to tell Thom about the affair, he does not. At the same time, Cal's best friend Kathy (Constance Wu) and her boyfriend Ian (John Halbach) reach their six-month anniversary, marking the relationship as Kathy's longest but Ian's shortest.

Soundtrack.

The music of EastSiders is as diverse a representation of LGBTQ identities as the characters in the show. From Blake Lewis, Xiu Xiu and Adore Delano, to Logan Lynn, Nelly Furtado and Little Brutes, the soundtrack across all four seasons features a mix of queer artists and allies, spanning all musical genres.

Episodes.

The first two episodes were released through YouTube on December 14, 2012, and December 21, 2012. On April 2, 2013, Logo TV announced that it secured the rights to stream the series. The first two episodes were posted to the network's website on April 19, 2013, with the remaining episodes beginning a weekly release schedule starting April 22, 2013. Wolfe Video acquired worldwide digital and DVD rights to the feature film cut of the first season on January 15, 2014. It was released on DVD and digital download on August 12, 2014. It also became available through iTunes.  The second series premiered on September 15, 2015 with the simultaneous release of its first three episodes on Vimeo's on demand service. At the time the series would release exclusively through Vimeo until October 3, 2015, on which release on other digital platforms and on DVD.

Production.

After the initial two episodes aired, the remaining seven were funded through crowdfunding via Kickstarter. The campaign began on January 7, 2013 and met its goal $15,000 four days later on January 11, 2013. The campaign closed on February 6, 2013, with $25,785 raised. The series launched a second Kickstarter campaign to fund the second season on April 14, 2014, with a goal of $125,000; the campaign closed on May 19, 2014, with $153,170 raised.  The series is filmed on location in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.

Reception.

After the release of the first two episodes, "The Daily Dot" described the series as "charming, sharply written, and well-acted," specifically praising Guarino and Wu, and felt that the future of the series was "promising." "Next Magazine" also felt that the first two episodes were "top-notch", especially as it noted "the demographic [depicting the lives of young gay men] is still pretty unrepresented when it comes to well-produced series," and included the first season Kickstarter among those it recommended for backing. IndieWire recommended the series, because it was "giving Logo the kind of soap opera they should have on-air." "NewMediaRockstars" felt that the first season was met positively because fans "were eager for a quality series that portrayed realistic LGBT relationships without making sexual orientation the characters' defining feature."

Awards and nominations.

The first season was nominated for a 2013 Satellite Award for Original Short-Form Program. "LA Weekly" awarded the series a 2013 Web Award for Best Web Series – Drama. It won the 2013 Indie Series Award for Best Ensemble and was nominated for five others. In 2016, "EastSiders" received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Digital Daytime Drama Series, and Hansis was nominated for Outstanding Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series for portraying Thom. The series also received ten Indie Series Award nominations in 2016, including Best Web Series – Drama, and won for Best Ensemble – Drama.

EastSiders is an American dark comedy web series created by Kit Williamson. It premiered on YouTube on December 14, 2012, and began streaming through Logo TV's website on April 23, 2013. Set in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, the series follows couple Thom (Van Hansis) and Cal (Williamson) as they struggle with infidelity and substance abuse. It also explores the relationship between Kathy (Constance Wu), Cal's best friend, and her boyfriend Ian (John Halbach) as they reach their six-month anniversary, making it Kathy's longest relationship.

EastSiders ist eine US-amerikanische Webserie von Kit Williamson über das Leben von zwei schwulen Männern in Kalifornien. Die Erstausstrahlung erfolgte im Dezember 2012 auf YouTube. Seit Ende 2017 ist sie bei Netflix zu sehen.


Pakistani cricket team in India in 1960–61

Pakistanische Cricket-Nationalmannschaft in Indien in der Saison 1960/61

Background.

Writing for "The Indian Express" cricketer Abdul Hafeez Kardar who played for both India and Pakistan maintained that if Pakistan "does well in the first two test matches", they would go on to win the series. He felt that the visiting side had the "strongest batting power house ever to be sent out" by Pakistan and that Hanif Mohammad, "the most matured opener of the game", would the main "hurdle" for India.

Squads.

The Indian squad for the series was announced on 30 November 1960. Rajasthan's all-rounder Rusi Surti was the only new inclusion in the squad. Vijay Manjrekar and Subhash Gupte made their comeback to the squad after a year. It was reported that the Pakistan squad would be announced only an hour before commencement of the First Test. To their squad announced before the First test, Ijaz Butt, Shujauddin Butt, Mohammad Munaf and Intikhab Alam were added for the first-class game against Central Zone.

Test series.

1st Test.

Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first on what was described as a pitch without the "usual grass" on it while staying "firm" and with "little dew".

2nd Test.

The Indian team selectors made changes to the squad following the First Test; wicket-keeper Naren Tamhane, V. M. Muddiah, Salim Durani were included in place of Pankaj Roy, Nana Joshi and Ajit Wadekar. The Pakistani side included Alimuddin.

3rd Test.

Leading up to the Third Test, pacer Surendranath was included in the Indian squad while Pankaj Roy was dropped. Pakistan made one change in the team that played the Second Test; Intikhab Alam replaced Alimuddin. A "grassy wicket" aiding bowlers, both seamers and spinners, was expected before the game.

4th Test.

The Indian selectors included Datta Gaekwad and Baloo Gupte in place of Abbas Ali Baig, Bapu Nadkarni and Subhash Gupte after the Third Test. Further, following the first-class game between Pakistan and Indian Board President's XI, wicket-keeper Budhi Kunderan and Vijay Mehra were added to the squad. Showers were predicted on the day one of the Test following intermittent rains on the day preceding the game.

5th Test.

In the Indian side that played the Fourth Test and the squad, Datta Gaekwad, Surendranath, Baloo Gupte and Naren Tamhane were replaced with Indrajitsinhji, Prakash Poddar, Bapu Nadkarni and Vaman Kumar for the Fifth.

Broadcast.

The series was aired on All India Radio for Indian listeners. For the Second Test the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram, Devraj Puri and V. K. Chakrapani served as commentators, while for the Fourth Test, the Maharaja was accompanied by Pearson Surita and P. Ananda Rau, and Pakistan's Omar Kureishi as the guest commentator.

The Pakistan national cricket team toured India in the winter of 1960–61. They played five Test matches against the India national cricket team, and also played against several local Indian squads.

Die Tour der pakistanischen Cricket-Nationalmannschaft nach Indien in der Saison 1960/61 fand vom 2. Dezember bis zum 13. Februar 1960 statt. Die internationale Cricket-Tour war Bestandteil der Internationalen Cricket-Saison 1960/61 und umfasste fünf Tests. Die Serie endete 0–0 unentschieden.


History.

Although the history of Paris is long, that of its municipal government, in its present form, is less than half a century old. Paris and its environs were always governed directly by the highest French polity of the time: the Crown before the French Revolution, and a state-appointed "préfet" (governing the Seine département) afterwards. The office of mayor of Paris existed for brief periods during the 18th and 19th centuries, but it was not an institution of government before 1977.  From its creation in 1977 to 2019, Paris functioned as both a "commune" and as a "département", and had a unique method for governing both; the Council of Paris, with the Mayor of Paris as its president, met either as a municipal council ("conseil municipal") or as a departmental council ("conseil général"/"conseil départemental") depending on the issue to be debated.  In 2017, the National Assembly passed a law merging the functions of the commune and department into the City of Paris ("Ville de Paris"), which came into effect on January 1, 2019.  The modern administrative organization of Paris still retains some traces of its previous incarnation as the government of the Seine "département". The Paris Police Prefecture ("Préfecture de police"), which also has authority over the fire brigades of Paris, for example, has jurisdiction extending to the "petite couronne" (small corona or halo) of Paris, the three bordering "départements" (Seine-Saint-Denis, Hauts de Seine, and Val de Marne) for some operations such as fire protection and rescue operations, and the "Préfecture de Police" is still directed by France's national government. Paris has no municipal police force, although it does have its own brigade of traffic wardens.

Electoral system & composition.

The commune is divided into 17 electoral districts representing the 20 municipal arrondissements ("arrondissements municipaux") in which voters simultaneously elect members for a district council ("conseil d'arrondissement") and the city council ("conseil municipal"). For the 2020 municipal election, arrondissements 1, 2, 3 & 4 were grouped to create a single electoral district called "Paris Centre". No district elects fewer than 10 district members and 3 council members nor more than 40 district members and 18 council members. There are 354 district council members and 163 council members in total. A selection of members on each district council — roughly half the number of seats of their respective district councils, and the name(s) at the top of the party lists in those districts — are elected and serve simultaneously as city council members, which form the municipal council called the Council of Paris. The council elects the Mayor of Paris the week following the municipal election requiring an absolute majority of councillors in the first or second round, but by a plurality in a third round if required.  The districts and city council are elected using closed party-list proportional representation in a two-round system with a majority bonus. A list which garners an absolute majority in the first round in which at least 25% of registered voters participates automatically wins half of all seats in the arrondissement, with the remaining half of seats distributed proportionally using the D'Hondt method to all lists receiving over 5% of the vote, including the winning list. If no list meets these requirements in the first round, a second round is scheduled a week later. All lists which won over 10% of the vote in the first round are qualified to run in the second round. Furthermore, the remaining lists which won at least 5% of the vote in the first can merge with qualified lists for the second round, but are not required to do so. In the second round, only a plurality is needed to win the majority bonus. This electoral system results in the possibility that a list may end up winning a majority of seats in an arrondissement without winning an absolute majority of votes.

Councillors elected for the 2008–2014 term.

This table summarises the 163 councillors elected in 2014 Paris municipal election.  See List of Paris' councillors for the full list.

The Council of Paris (French: "Conseil de Paris") is the deliberative body responsible for the governing of Paris, the capital of France. It possesses simultaneously the powers of a municipal council ("conseil municipal") and those of a departmental council ("conseil départemental") for the "département de Paris", as defined by the so-called PLM Law ("Loi PLM") of 1982 that redefined the governance of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Paris is the only territorial collectivity in France to be at once a "commune" and a "département".

Der Stadtrat von Paris (französisch: Conseil de Paris) ist das beratende Gremium für die Stadt Paris, die Hauptstadt von Frankreich. Es hat die Befugnisse eines Gemeinderats ("conseil municipal") und ebenso die eines Départementrat ("conseil départemental") für das "Département de Paris", entsprechend dem sogenannten PLM-Gesetz ("Loi PLM") von 1982, das die Verwaltung von Paris, Lyon und Marseille neu regelte. Paris ist die einzige Gebietskörperschaft in Frankreich, die zugleich eine Gemeinde und ein Département ist.


Gameplay.

The player takes control of Nathan and has to collect items, talk to NPCs, and solve riddles in order to advance in the story. Later in the game, the player can toggle the protagonist's AVR headset, which allows them to see the augmented virtual reality, revealing different hotspots in the game's world. The AVR headset is needed to solve certain kinds of riddles.

Plot.

One day, Nathan wakes up and his girlfriend Jay is missing. In order to contact her, he has to have his AVR headset repaired. After visiting a shop downtown and repairing his headset, Nathan finds that his girlfriend is a hacker and involved in obscure hacking activities. Nathan wants to find out the truth and gets dragged into a world of technomancers, AVR graffiti artists, hacker gangs, tribes of crypto shamans, digital archaeologists, epic cyberwars, and virtual reality debauchery.

Development.

VirtuaVerse was created by the Finnish indie developer Theta Division Games. The team consists of heavy metal band Master Boot Record who was responsible for the story, sound, and music, Alessio Cosenza alias Elder0010 who was responsible for the programming, and Valenberg who did the art for the game. Furthermore, the game was localized into several languages by the team Warlocs. Development of the game started in 2016, and after four years, it was released on May 12, 2020.

Reception.

"VirtuaVerse" received "generally favorable reviews", according to review aggregator Metacritic, based on 10 reviews.  Claudio Magistrelli from the Italian online magazine The Games Machine gave the game a rating of 8.3 out of 10, and said: "VirtuaVerse is a lot of things. It is a tribute to old school point&click adventures and, at the same time, a modern take on the genre. It is also an act of love to cyberpunk and his themes. But more than anything else, VirtuaVerse is a great adventure set in a detailed world built on a great pixel graphic, fantastic music and a suggestive atmosphere."  Jörg Luibl from the German online magazine 4Players gave the game a rating of 76%, saying "Despite its old-fashioned statics and occasional illogical moments, VirtuaVerse is an entertaining point&click adventure with great cyberpunk flair and in interesting story."

VirtuaVerse is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Theta Division Games and published by Blood Music for Windows. The game is set in the future and features science fiction and cyberpunk elements. It was released on May 12, 2020 on the online platforms Steam and GOG.

VirtuaVerse ist ein Point-and-Click-Adventure, entwickelt von Theta Division und veröffentlicht von Blood Music für Microsoft Windows, macOS und Linux. Das Spiel spielt in der Zukunft und weist Science-Fiction- und Cyberpunk-Elemente auf. Es wurde am 12. Mai 2020 auf den Online-Plattformen Steam und GOG veröffentlicht.


History.

"Ocean Monarch" was built by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd, Walker, at a cost of £2,500,000. She was yard number 119, and was launched on 27 July 1950, with completion in March 1951. She was the first postwar-built ship designed especially for the American cruise market. "Ocean Monarch" was awarded a gold medal by the American Institute for Designing for her "outstanding beauty and unusual design features of a cruise ship".  "Ocean Monarch" was used on the New York - Bermuda route. As well as conveying passengers she was used to supply fresh drinking water to the island. She served with Furness Withy via subsidiary Furness Bermuda Line until 1966. On 22 September she was laid up in the River Fal, Cornwall. In 1967, she was sold to Navigation Maritime Bulgare and renamed "Varna". Operated by Balkantourist, Varna, She was used on cruises from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. "Varna" was laid up in 1970 at Perama, Greece. In 1973, "Varna" was chartered by Sovereign Cruises, but only made two voyages with them. She was then laid up again. Her name was changed to "Venus" in 1977, and "Riviera" in 1978. in 1979, she was refurbished for use by Trans-Tirreno Express.  She was chartered by SUR-Seereisen, Germany, who announced a series of Mediterranean cruises to take place in summer 1981. Her name was changed to "Reina del Mar". Before these cruises took place the ship was renovated. On 28 May 1981, a fire broke out which completely gutted the passenger accommodation. The ship was towed out of Ambelakia, where the renovation was being carried out. The tow parted and "Reina del Mar" ran aground on Salamina Island. After being refloated, she was moored near "Rasa Sayang", which had also been gutted by fire. On 1 June 1981, a new fire broke out on "Reina del Mar", and she was then scuttled off Kynosoura.

Description and propulsion.

The ship had a crew of c250 and carried up to 414 passengers, all 1st class. She was long with a beam of.

Reina del Mar was a cruise ship which was built by Vickers-Armstrongs in 1950. Originally named Ocean Monarch, she served with Furness Withy for fifteen years, then with a Bulgarian company for three years, renamed Varna. She spent much of the 1970s laid up, and was renamed Venus and then Riviera. In the early 1980s, she was renamed "Reina del Mar" and refitted for further use as a cruise ship, but a fire gutted her; and she was scuttled on 1 June 1981 after another fire broke out.

Die Warna (bulg. "Варна") war ein 1951 gebautes Kreuzfahrtschiff, das bis 1967 als "Ocean Monarch" unter britischer Flagge, bis 1977 unter bulgarischer und bis zum Untergang 1981 mit verschiedenen Namen unter griechischer Flagge im Einsatz war.


Early life and education.

Dorfman was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 26, 1937, and was raised in Roxbury and Newton. She was the eldest of three daughters of Arthur and Elaine (Kovitz). Her father worked at a grocery chain as a produce buyer; her mother was a housewife. Her family was of Jewish descent. She studied at Tufts University, where she majored in French literature. During her junior year, she went on exchange to Europe, where she worked in Brussels for Expo 58 and lived in Paris, living in the same student accommodation as Susan Sontag. Dorfman graduated in 1959 and subsequently moved to New York City, where she was employed as a secretary by Grove Press, a leading Beat publisher. When she returned to Boston, she pursued a master's degree in elementary education at Boston College.

Career.

After earning her master's degree, Dorfman spent a year teaching fifth grade at a school in Concord.  Calling herself the "Paterson Society", Dorfman began arranging readings for many Beat authors who had become friends, maintaining an active correspondence with them as they traveled the world. In 1963, she began working for the Educational Development Corporation whose photographer, George Cope, introduced her to photography in June 1965. She made her first sale two months later, in August 1965, for $25 of a photograph of Charles Olson which was used on the cover of his book "The Human Universe". Due to economic limitations, she did not buy her own camera until 1967, when she sent a check for $150 to Philip Whalen who was then in Kyoto, Japan, and he in turn enlisted Gary Snyder, who could speak Japanese, to purchase the camera and mail it to her. In May 1968, she moved into the Flagg Street house which would become the basis of her "Housebook". Dorfman's principal published work, originally published in 1974, was "Elsa's Housebook – A Woman's Photojournal," a photographic record of family and friends who visited her in Cambridge when she lived there during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Many well known people, especially literary figures associated with the Beat generation, are prominent in the book, including Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso, and Robert Creeley, in addition to people who would become notable in other fields, such as radical feminist Andrea Dworkin, and civil rights lawyer Harvey Silverglate (who would become Dorfman's husband). She also photographed staples of the Boston rock scene such as Jonathan Richman, frontman of The Modern Lovers, and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.  In 1995, she collaborated with graphic artist Marc A. Sawyer to illustrate the booklet "40 Ways to Fight the Fight Against AIDS". She photographed people, both with and without AIDS, each engaged in one of forty activities that might help AIDS victims in their daily life. The photographs were exhibited 1995 at the Lotus Development Corporation in Cambridge, in Provincetown and New York City. The artist donated the costs of producing the photographs for this project.  Dorfman co-starred in the documentary "No Hair Day" (1999).  She was known for her use of the Polaroid 20 by 24 inch camera (one of only six in existence), from which she created large prints. She photographed famous writers, poets, and musicians including Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg. Due to bankruptcy, the Polaroid Corporation entirely ceased production of its unique instant film products in 2008. Dorfman stocked up with a year's supply of her camera's last available 20 by 24 instant film.  Dorfman's life and work were the subject of the 2016 documentary film "The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography", directed by Errol Morris.  Her portraits are held in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Harvard Art Museums, the Portland Museum of Art in Maine and others.

Personal life.

In 1967, Dorfman met Harvey Silverglate, who was representing the defense in a drug trial. Dorfman thought the case could be the subject of a book and talked it over with him, after which Silverglate asked to take a portrait of him and his brother to give to their mother. They married nearly a decade later in 1976. Together, they had one son, Isaac.  Dorfman died on May 30, 2020 at her home in Cambridge. She was 83 according to her husband and she suffered kidney failure.

Elsa Dorfman (April 26, 1937May 30, 2020) was an American portrait photographer. She worked in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was known for her use of a large-format instant Polaroid camera.

Elsa Dorfman (geb. 26. April 1937 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; gest. 30. Mai 2020 ebenda) war eine amerikanische Porträt-Fotografin. Sie war vor allem bekannt für ihre Arbeit mit einer Großformat-Polaroid-Kamera.


Criminal career.

Lamm was a member of the Prussian Army, but was forced out of his regiment after he was caught cheating at cards. After he was discredited, Lamm emigrated to the United States shortly before the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Lamm became a holdup man, and quickly started adapting his military training, his study of tactics, and his precision and discipline into the art of crime. He theorized that a heist required all the planning of a military operation, which included the development of contingency options in the event of unforeseen problems. Bank robberies in the United States were largely improvised at the time, resulting in varied degrees of success and failure among heists. Lamm sought to take the guesswork out of bank robbing. Lamm was arrested in 1917 after a botched holdup and served a brief stint in a Utah prison, where he developed what became known as "The Lamm Technique", in which he pioneered the concept of "casing" banks.  The system involved carefully studying a target bank for many hours before the robbery, developing a detailed floor plan, noting the location of safes, taking meticulous notes and establishing escape routes. He would occasionally have a man pose as a journalist to better understand the inner workings of the bank. Lamm assigned each gang member a specific job, along with a specific zone of the bank they were charged with surveying and a strict timetable to complete their stage of the robbery. Among the jobs he assigned to his fellow robbers were the lookout, the getaway driver, the lobby man and the vault man. He also put his men through a series of rehearsals, some of which involved using a full-scale mock-up of the interior of the bank. Lamm stressed the importance of timing during these practice runs, and used stopwatches to ensure the proper results were achieved. He only allowed his gang members to stay in a bank for a specific period of time, regardless of how much money they could steal.  Lamm is also credited with devising the first detailed bank robbery getaway maps, which he called "gits". Once Lamm targeted a bank, he mapped the nearby back roads, which he called "cat roads", to a tenth of a mile. He meticulously developed getaway plans for each of his robberies. Before every heist, Lamm obtained a nondescript car with a high-powered engine, and often recruited drivers who had been involved in auto racing. Lamm pasted a chart on the dashboard for the driver, which included block-by-block markings of escape routes, alternative turns and speedometer readings. Before each run, Lamm and the getaway driver clocked each route to the second under various weather conditions. Practice runs on the escape routes and alternative routes would take days to master. Using this system, Lamm and his gang conducted dozens of successful bank robberies from the end of World War I to 1930, taking more than $1 million in total. They were considered the most efficient gang of bank robbers of the era.  Lamm had several run-ins with the authorities, using several aliases. After he and an accomplice were arrested in, in February 1927, Lamm's past came up when police discovered previous criminal suspicion. In a bond hearing to determine Lamm's fate (he was using the alias "Robert J. Masden" at the time), evidence showed that he was arrested in San Francisco in December 1914 (under his actual name), on a charge of robbery, but there was no known disposition of the case. Also under his real name, he was arrested in Superior, Wisconsin, in June 1918 under suspicion of being connected with a hold-up. He was told to leave the city after no connection could be established. He was arrested under the alias "Harry K. Lamb" in Kansas City, Missouri, in July 1918, but was released. And as "Thomas Bell" he was arrested in St. Joseph, Missouri, in December 1920, on a charge of burglary. This was the alias he was originally identified as upon his death in 1930. In May 1929, Lamm was arrested in Benton, Illinois, and it was discovered he was a suspect in robbery of the Northwestern National Bank of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Death.

Lamm died on December 16, 1930 after a botched bank robbery in Clinton, Indiana. After stealing $15,567 from the Citizens State Bank, getaway driver and ex-rum-runner W. H. Hunter noticed a local barber approaching the car with a shotgun. The barber was one of thousands of Indiana citizens organized to help police fight a growing number of bank robberies in the state. The driver panicked and pulled a fast U-turn, causing the Buick sedan to blow a tire after jumping a curb. Lamm and his men seized a second car, but were forced to abandon it after they realized it could go no more than because it was fitted with a governor, which the car's owner had installed to prevent his elderly father from driving recklessly.  The gang seized a third vehicle, a truck, but because it had very little water in the radiator, they were forced to seize a fourth vehicle (another car), which had only one gallon of gas in the tank. Lamm and his gang were cornered near Sidell, Illinois, by about 200 police officers and armed citizens. A massive gun battle ensued, in which Hunter was wounded and later died. Lamm and another gang member, 71-year-old G. W. "Dad" Landy, shot themselves in the head rather than surrender. Two survivors of Lamm's gang, Walter Dietrich and James "Oklahoma Jack" Clark, were captured and eventually sentenced to life in an Indiana state prison.

Legacy.

Lamm is widely considered one of the most brilliant and efficient bank robbers to have ever lived, and has been described as "the father of modern bank robbery". By his death in 1930, the Lamm Technique had already been widely imitated by other bank robbers across the country. Infamous bank robber John Dillinger studied Lamm's meticulous bank-robbing system and used it extensively throughout his criminal career. Dietrich and Clark met Dillinger during their stint in the Indiana state prison following Lamm's death. The pair were permitted to join Dillinger's gang on the condition they teach him everything they knew about the Lamm Technique.

Herman Karl Lamm (April 19, 1890 – December 16, 1930), known as Baron Lamm, was a German-American bank robber. His robberies paid close attention to detail of the target properties, and he has been described as "the father of modern bank robbery". A former Prussian Army soldier who immigrated to the United States, Lamm believed a heist required all the planning of a military operation. He pioneered the concepts of "casing" a bank and developing escape routes before conducting the robbery. Using a meticulous planning system called "The Lamm Technique", he conducted dozens of successful bank robberies from the end of World War I.

Hermann Lamm (* 19. April 1890 in Kassel; † 16. Dezember 1930 in Sidell, Illinois) war ein deutsch-amerikanischer Bankräuber. Bei seinen Raubüberfällen achtete er genau auf Details der Zielobjekte und wurde als „der Vater des modernen Banküberfalls“ beschrieben. Lamm, ein ehemaliger Soldat der preußischen Armee, der in die USA eingewandert war, glaubte, ein Überfall erfordere die volle Planung wie bei einer Militäroperation. Er war Pionier der Konzepte, eine Bank zu auszukundschaften („casing“) und Fluchtwege zu entwickeln, bevor er den Raub durchführte. Mit einem sorgfältigen Planungssystem namens „The Lamm Technique“ führte er Dutzende erfolgreicher Banküberfälle seit dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs durch.


Life.

Minderhout was born in Rotterdam. For unknown reasons, he was known as the 'Green Knight of Rotterdam'. He arrived in Bruges in 1652. He may have spent time in Italy in 1653. In 1663, he joined Bruges' Guild of Saint Luke. Subsequently, from 1672 until his death in 1696, van Minderhout lived in Antwerp where he became a member of the local Guild of Saint Luke. He gifted a large canvas of an oriental port to Antwerp's guild to be exempted from any guild duties. In 1673, he married his second wife, Anna-Victoria Claus. The couple had five children, of whom two, Antoon van Minderhout (26 Sept 1675 – 22 Dec 1705) and Willem August van Minderhout (28 Aug 1680 – 31 June 1752), became painters.  He was the master of Lucas Smout the Younger.  He died in Antwerp.

Work.

Hendrik van Minderhout mainly painted large views of seas and harbours and marine battles. His subjects included realist views such as of the ports of Antwerp and Bruges, as well as imaginary views of Mediterranean and oriental ports. It has been suggested that the wide variety of works bearing the signature Hendrik van Minderhout points to the existence of two artists of the same name who were active at the same time.  His later marine works are comparable to that of the Dutch seascape painter Willem van de Velde the Younger.  Van Minderhout was appreciated as a staffage painter by his Antwerp colleagues and it is known that he contributed the figures to works by local landscape and perspective painters including Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg and Jacob Balthasar Peeters.

Hendrik van Minderhout (1632 – 22 July 1696) was a Dutch-born marine painter who was primarily active in the Flemish cities Bruges and Antwerp. He also collaborated as a staffage painter with Flemish landscape and perspective painters.

Hendrik van Minderhout (* 1632 in Rotterdam; † 22. Juli 1696 in Antwerpen) war ein niederländischer Marinemaler, der vor allem in den flämischen Städten Brügge und Antwerpen wirkte und als Staffagemaler mit anderen flämischen Landschafts- und Perspektivmalern zusammenarbeitete.


Family.

He married Datin Muhaini Zainal Abidin in 1986. His son or popularly Dafi was a former student of Akademi Fantasia Season 5, an entertainment reality show that is now a singer.

Education.

Ismail Sabri started his schooling at Sekolah Kebangsaan Bangau in 1967. He then continued his education at Sekolah Menengah Air Putih, Kuantan in 1973 and Sekolah Menengah Teknik Kuantan, Pahang in 1976. He then studied form six at Jaya Akademik and continued his studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya in 1980. The title of his LL.B thesis is "Layanan terhadap tahanan politik di Malaysia" (approximately Treatment of political detainees in Malaysia).

Career.

He started his career in 1985 as a lawyer. He was appointed as Member of Temerloh District Council in 1987 and Member of the Temerloh Municipal Council in 1996. In 1995, he was appointed Political Secretary to the Minister of Culture, Arts and Tourism, Datuk Sabbaruddin Chik. He also was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Pahang Tenggara Board (DARA) in 1995 as well as the Malaysian Tourism Promotion Board in the same year. Before entering Parliament in 2004, Ismail Sabri served as Chairman of the National Sports Complex.

Politics.

In 1987, he was appointed Member of the Temerloh Umno division committee. Then, in 1988, he was appointed as Temerloh UMNO Division Information Chief. In 1993, he was promoted to Head of Division Youth Movement, Deputy Head of Division (2001) and became Head of Temerloh UMNO Division in 2004.  Ismail Sabri was elected to Parliament in the 2004 election, becoming the first member of the new seat of Bera. He was re-elected in 2008 election, and was appointed in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi as Minister for Youth and Sports (2008-2009). In April 2009, under new Prime Minister Najib Razak he became the Minister for Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism (2009-2013). After the 2013 election, in which he retained his parliamentary seat, he was appointed as the Minister for Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry (2013–2015). He served as Federal Minister of Rural and Regional Development (2015-2018).  On December 20, 2018, he was appointed to carry out his duties as the new UMNO Deputy President after his incumbent was elected President (de facto) from 18 December 2018. He was appointed as the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament since 2019.

Controversy.

Boycott call.

In 2015, Ismail Sabri sparked a firestorm of protest over his Facebook post urging Malay consumers to boycott the monopolising and profiteering Chinese businesses who discriminate non-Chinese entrepreneurs, arguing that it was necessary for Malays to exercise consumer power to prevent "profiteering" by the Malaysia's ethnic Chinese that control over 90% of Malaysian economies.  In reply, political analyst Wan Saiful Wan Jan, head of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs think tank, said in personal capacity that any Malaysian voter regardless of race, would be repelled by Ismail's comments. “I think the reaction of any right-minded Malay or Chinese who believes in Malaysian unity would be of disgust. “And I think, or at least hope, that the Chinese voters will remember what he said when it comes to the vote”. Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar stated that the minister would be investigated under the Sedition Act 1948 and Ismail Sabri has since deleted the Facebook post.

Low Yat 2.

In 2015, Ismail Sabri once again provoked controversy when he proposed to set up "Low Yat 2", a digital gadget mall expected to house solely Malay traders. Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a component party of Barisan Nasional, criticised the proposal. MCA publicity bureau chairman Datuk Chai Kim Sen labelled Datuk Ismail Sabri Yaakob as a regressive Cabinet Minister for his proposal. MCA president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said that the setting up of Low Yat 2 would only hurt racial relations, and described the proposal for the bumiputra-only mall as an “antagonistic approach”. MCA public services and complaints bureau advised Ismail Sabri to approach issues from a multi-racial viewpoint and stop making ridiculous statements such as “Chinese traders are profiteers” and “a Malay-only Low Yat 2” and said that “We are appalled at Ismail Sabri’s attempt to apply his race-centric thoughts onto the issue of Chinese schools and to accuse others of being racist. His thinking is completely illogical, and this mentality of his must be discarded at once in order to become a true minister for all races”. Fellow UMNO member Saifuddin Abdullah also criticised the proposal, saying that Ismail Sabri’s proposal would not be beneficial to Malays and Malaysians in general, pointing out that having business areas where traders are separated by ethnicity will only backfire.  Many Malay netizens also criticised the proposal, with many mocking the concept of Low Yat 2. Two Sarawak United Peoples' Party (SUPP), a Barisan Nasional component party, Youth leaders later lodged a police report Ismail Sabri, claiming his speech on ‘Low Yat Plaza 2 for Malay traders’ on Tuesday was seditious. The ministers also demanded the state authorities bar him from entering Sarawak. SUPP Youth central publicity and information secretary Milton Foo said that “He is not fit to be a minister after making several racist remarks in nature. After his ‘boycott of Chinese merchants’ remark in February, now again he did it. Obviously, he is not repentful". On 8 December 2015, Ismail Sabri officiates the opening of all-Malay MARA Digital Mall at Medan Mara, Kuala Lumpur. Although the traders are all Malay, Ismail calls on the minorities to support the mall.

Taylor's University sponsorship cancellation.

On 16 September, Taylor's University bus service contractor Wawasan Sutera used vehicles bearing the university’s logo to ferry passengers to the 916 red shirt racial rally without its permission. Two days later, Taylor's University announced that they would terminate the contract with Wawasan Sutera. Subsequently, Ismail Sabri announced that Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Mara) would terminate the sponsorship for the next intake of students to Taylor’s University, in what was seen as a tit for tat exchange. He did not name the reasons behind the revocation. Social media was abuzz when a screenshot of a statement allegedly made by him went viral, ordering the Mara director-general to terminate the sponsorship of its students with immediate effect.  Democratic Action Party (DAP) MP Teresa Kok criticised the decision, calling it a "personal vendetta and abuse of power", and called for the cabinet to censure Ismail Sabri, as well as challenging him to publicly reveal the reasons for the decision, as well as publish the internal report which led to the decision. MCA Publicity Bureau Chairman Senator Chai Kim Sen said the minister’s inability to state even one reason for this decision was not only “unbecoming” but “even childish”. Saying that Ismail Sabri was infamous for his racist remarks when he called for the boycott of Chinese businesses, MCA’s Chai said his latest announcement about Mara would only “further weaken his already-tarred reputation as a racist”. He further condemned the minister for working against the government’s aspirations of producing 160,000 foreign students by 2020 and added, “Education institutes are expected to remain apolitical.

Turtle eggs issue.

On 4 November 2015, a photograph of Ismail Sabri having dinner at a seafood restaurant in Sandakan together with Beluran Umno chief Datuk James Ratib went viral. A plate of a dozen of turtle eggs on the dinner table was seen in the photo. Ismail denied consuming the turtle eggs, citing "health reasons". On 9 November 2015, Ismail claims that he was not aware of the law that prohibits the possession and consumption of turtle eggs in Sabah, which is one of the protected species under the Sabah Wildlife Conservation Enactment 1997. On 19 November 2015, another photos surfaced and went viral on Facebook showing fragments of turtle eggshells on the table in front of some of the diners. Following the issues, various non-governmental organisation (NGOs) and research organisation of Sabah urge Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) to take action against the guests of the dinner as well as the restaurant that served the eggs. According to Ismail Sabri, he has directed his lawyers to take legal actions against parties who accused him of consuming the turtle eggs, of which three of the lawsuits were directed to Daily Express newspaper for publishing three allegation articles on him consuming protected turtle eggs which he claimed "the articles suggested he was evading responsibility, had no respect for the Wildlife Conservation Enactment and showed disregard towards the investigation process". His judicial review bid were however dismissed by the high court in Sabah with Judge Ravinthran Paramaguru said the case had been filed in the High Court of Malaya and the jurisdiction of the Kota Kinabalu High Court was limited to cases registered in the state, while the recent decision to transfer the lawsuits to Kuala Lumpur court were seen as against the Malaysia Agreement where Malayan Court had no power to transfer the case under their court authority as enshrined under Article 145(3A) of the Federal Constitution to determine "which court a case shall be transferred must necessarily be subject to the limitation that it can only transfer a case to a court which has the jurisdiction to hear the case". DAP leader Lim Kit Siang also agree the case should only be heard in Sabah court rather than need to be transferred to Kuala Lumpur. On 6 September, the suit was dropped by Ismail without need to go through trial after the matter have been resolved amicablly through a case management between him and the newspaper.

Vaping industry.

On 9 November 2015, Ismail Sabri stated that he supports the vaping industry in Malaysia. He says that the Malay-dominated industry is a success story for bumiputera entrepreneurism despite health warnings by the Malaysian Health Ministry. He has gone further in hoping that the unregulated industry can expand globally. Many prominent doctors and physicians have publicly chided Ismail Sabri's support for the industry, including the Sultan of Johor Ibrahim Ismail, who publicly decreed that all vape outlets must be shut down by 1 January 2016.

2018 pre-general election comment.

On 13 April 2018, Ismail Sabri again provoked a controversy when he said "Every vote for the DAP is akin to giving power to the Pakatan Harapan (PH) pact to eliminate the purported Malay “special rights” and the “uniqueness” of Islam" as was reported by the Malay language-newspaper "Utusan Malaysia". This was subsequently responded by Kit Siang, who said that Ismail Sabri seemed "to be attempting to frame the coming general election as a battle between the Malays and Chinese as well as between Islam and its enemies", and asked if Ismail Sabri and the UMNO-owned newspaper of "Utusan Malaysia" would be charged under the government's recently passed "Anti-Fake News Act 2018" for the provocative comments. Kit Siang also explained that Pakatan Harapan's basic documents, including its election manifesto, had been clear and specific in giving unconditional support to Article 153 on Malay special rights and Article 3 on Islam as the official religion of the Federation, also saying that although the DAP or other races party managed to form a new government in the country if winning the election, the Malays will never perish since the overwhelming majority of Malaysian voters are still Malays and the overwhelming majority of parliamentary and state assembly constituencies in the country are Malay voter-majority constituencies.

Dato' Sri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob (Jawi: اسماعيل صبري بن يعقوب; born 18 January 1960) is a Malaysian politician currently serving as the Senior Minister for Security and Minister of Defence since March 2020 after the collapse of the Pakatan Harapan administration. He also served as the Leader of the Opposition from March 2019 to February 2020. He has also served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bera since 2004. He is the Vice-President and member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a major party in the Perikatan Nasional coalition.

Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob (* 18. Januar 1960) ist ein malaysischer Politiker und amtierender Vize-Premierminister und Minister für nationale Sicherheit. In diesen Ämtern ist er seit März 2020 nach dem Zerfall der Pakatan-Harapan-Regierung tätig. Er war von März 2019 bis Februar 2020 Oppositionsführer. Er ist seit 2004 Mitglied des Parlaments von Malaysia. Er ist der Vizepräsident der rechtskonservativen Partei United Malays National Organisation (UMNO).


History.

In 1882, the private society De Vereeniging was established with a concert hall at the Keizer Karelplein. Around 1900 the old Nijmegen concert hall turned out to have had its best time, plans were made for a new one. That these plans were not a superfluous luxury, was evident from the attitude of conductor Willem Mengelberg. He refused to visit Nijmegen any longer as long as nothing was done to the accommodation. After the construction of a new concert hall was started in 1914, the official opening took place in February 1915. The architect of the whole was Oscar Leeuw from Roermond. It took another two years before the small hall (Kleine Zaal) was opened. The Vereeniging turned out to have become a 'Gesamtkunstwerk', because both the architect Oscar Leeuw and his brother Henri Leeuw jr. (Painter and sculptor) had contributed. The figurative work was developed in Nijmegen by the painter Huib Luns and the Antwerp sculptor Egidius Everaerts, while the non-figurative work was made by the sculptor Jacques Oor.  Erected in strict, classically oriented Um 1800 forms. Various characteristics of Art Nouveau and Art Deco can be found in the building. Mengelberg is known to have found the building 'the most beautiful Concerthall in the Netherlands'. The great hall is known for its good acoustics. Other rooms in the building are the Entrance and Colonnade, the Keizer Karelfoyer, the Annazaal, the Sociëteitskamer, the Leeuwzaal and the Grand Café Restaurant. Originally the building would serve as a concert hall with opera or theater and as a ball or exhibition hall. The building is considered the 'opus magnum' of Oscar Leeuw's oeuvre.

Concertgebouw de Vereeniging is a concert hall located in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The facility officially opened in 1915 and is built in a mixture of Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles. It has a capacity of 1,800, and is renowned for its outstanding acoustics for orchestral music.

Concertgebouw de Vereeniging ist ein Konzerthaus in Nijmegen, Niederlande. Das Gebäude am zentralen Kreisel "Keizer Karelplein" dient als Spielstätte für klassische Musik, Jazz, Pop- und Rockmusik und steht als Rijksmonument unter Schutz.