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BRC
BRC may refer to: Organisations and institutes * Bioinformatics Resource Centers, a group of Internet-based research centres for infectious disease research * Biological Records Centre, a data and records repository for UK species * Bisexual Resource Center, an educational non-profit in the US * Black Radical Congress, a social justice organisation for those of African descent in the US * Black Resource Centre, an Aboriginal Australian organisation in the mid-1970s * Black Rock Coalition, an artists' collective * British Rabbit Council, an organisation for owners of pet rabbits * British Red Cross, a humanitarian network in the UK, affiliated with the international Red Cross * British Retail Consortium, a trade association for retail traders in the UK * Brotherhood of Railway Carmen (1890-1986), a US trade union * Bulgarian Red Cross, a humanitarian network in Bulgaria, affiliated with the international Red Cross Travel and transport * Belt Railway of Chicago, the terminal railroad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Rock Coalition
The Black Rock Coalition is a New York-based artists' collective and nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the creative freedom and works of black musicians. Founding and purpose The BRC was founded in 1985 in New York City by Vernon Reid (guitarist for the rock band Living Colour), Greg Tate (journalist for the ''Village Voice''), Dk Dyson (lead singer of Eye & I), and Konda Mason (producer), but today has members from around the world. Members that helped propel BRC at that time include but are not limited to; Chuck Mosely (lead singer, Faith no More,1983-1988), Angelo Moore (lead singer, Fishbone), Corey Glover (lead singer, Living Colour), Bevis M. Griffin (frontman, Banzai Kik). Many of these members were key players in the formation centered on the band Living Colour to start with. The Black Rock Coalition was created to band black rockers together in the music world because of racial discrimination in the music industry. At the time of formation of the BRC, societ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burning Man
Burning Man is an event focused on community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance held annually in the western United States. The name of the event comes from its culminating ceremony: the symbolic burning of a large wooden effigy, referred to as the Man, that occurs on the penultimate night of Burning Man, which is the Saturday evening before Labor Day. The event has been located since 1991 at Black Rock City in northwestern Nevada, a temporary city erected in the Black Rock Desert about north-northeast of Reno, Nevada, Reno. As outlined by Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey in 2004, the event is guided by ten principles: radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, Civic engagement, civic responsibility, leave no trace, leaving no trace, participation, and immediacy. The event originated on June 22, 1986, on Baker Beach in San Francisco as a small function organized by Larry Harvey and Jerry James, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biological Records Centre
The Biological Records Centre (BRC) established in 1964, is a national focus in the UK for terrestrial and fresh water species recording. The term "biological records centre" is also used in the context of local centres, now frequently referred to as "local environmental records centres" (LERCs). History The Biological Records Centre (BRC) was set up in 1964 by the Nature Conservancy (UK) at its recently opened Monks Wood Experimental Station near Huntingdon. BRC developed from the Atlas of the British Flora project of the Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI) to map the distribution of British (and Irish) flowering plants, which had established basic principles for biological recording in the UK. The former BSBI project leader, Franklyn Perring, established BRC with the project's original data and data processing equipment. Function As part of the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), BRC provides a focus for the collation, management, dissemination and interp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belt Railway Of Chicago
The Belt Railway Company of Chicago , headquartered in Bedford Park, IL, is the largest switching terminal railroad in the United States. It is co-owned by six Class I railroads — BNSF Railway, Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway (the BRC's north-south main line's northern terminus is, like the Indiana Harbor Belt, the Milwaukee District West Line in Chicago's Cragin neighborhood), CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern Railway, and Union Pacific Railroad — each of which uses the switching and interchange facilities of the BRC. Owner lines and other railroads bring their trains to the Belt Railway to be separated, classified, and re-blocked into new trains for departure. The BRC also provides rail terminal services to approximately 100 local manufacturing industries. The company employs about 440 people, including its own police force. BRC trackage The BRC has 28 miles (45 km) of mainline route with interchanges to each of its owner railroads, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Retail Consortium
The British Retail Consortium (or BRC) is a trade association for retail businesses in the United Kingdom. History The British Retail Consortium was formed in January 1992 with the merger of the British Retailers' Association and the Retail Consortium. In 1998 it produced the first edition of the BRC Food Technical Standard and Protocol for food suppliers. This has been widely adopted not just throughout the UK but around the world. BRC went on to produce other global standards, which became a separate brand that were sold to the LGC Group in 2016. Functions It campaigns for the retail industry and is the authoritative voice of retail, recognised for its powerful campaigning and influence within government and as a provider of in-depth retail information. The BRC leads the industry and works with their members to tell the story of retail, shape debates and influence issues and opportunities which will help make that positive difference. Their work represents the careers o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Red Cross
The British Red Cross Society is the United Kingdom body of the worldwide neutral and impartial humanitarian network the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The society was formed in 1870, and is a registered charity with more than 17,200 volunteers and 3,400 staff. At the heart of their work is providing help to people in crisis, both in the UK and overseas. The Red Cross is committed to helping people without discrimination, regardless of their ethnic origin, nationality, political beliefs or religion. Queen Elizabeth II was the patron of the society until her death on 8 September 2022. In the year ending December 2019, the charity's income was £244.9million, which included £68.7M from government contracts and grants. It spent £197.5M (80%) of its income delivering its charitable activities. Guiding ethos The mission of the British Red Cross is to mobilise the power of humanity so that individuals and communities can prepare for, deal with and recover f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Radical Congress
The Black Radical Congress or BRC is an organization founded in 1998 in Chicago. It is a grassroots network of individuals and organizations of African descent focused on advocating for broad progressive social justice, racial equality and economic justice goals within the United States. History At the organizing congress in Chicago in June 1998, 2,000 people participated in creating the organization.Black Radical Congress , social justice wiki, accessed 2 January 2007 However, their first mission predates the organizing congress, having been publicly endorsed and published by a number of high-profile black scholars and activi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Carlos De Bariloche Airport
San Carlos de Bariloche Airport ( es, link=no, Aeropuerto de San Carlos de Bariloche) , also known as Teniente Luis Candelaria Airport, is an international airport serving the city of San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina. The airport covers an area of and has a terminal; it is located out of the city. Airlines and destinations Accidents and incidents Accidents involving fatalities *13 May 1957: A LADE Vickers VC.1 Viking, registration T-3, flew into mountainous terrain, out of San Carlos de Bariloche. All 16 occupants of the aircraft perished in the accident. *16 March 1975: A LADE Fokker F27-400M, tail number TC-72, struck a mountain, west of the city, while on approach to the airport inbound from El Palomar. There were 52 fatalities. *21 November 1977: An Austral Líneas Aéreas BAC 1-11, registration LV-JGY, that was operating a domestic non-scheduled Buenos Aires–Bariloche as Flight 9, made a premature descent and crashed into mountainous terra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bioinformatics Resource Centers
The Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRCs) are a group of five Internet-based research centers established in 2004 and funded by NIAID (the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.)Overview, Bioinformatics Resource Centers , National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), January 10, 2008. The BRCs were formed in response to the threats posed by emerging and re-emerging pathogens, particularly Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Category A, B, and C pathogens, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bisexual Resource Center
The Bisexual Resource Center (BRC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, that has served the bisexual community since 1985. Originally known as The East Coast Bisexual Network, it incorporated in 1989 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and changed its name to the Bisexual Resource Center in 1993. Describing itself as one of the oldest nationally focused bisexual organizations in the U.S. the BRC's current president is Jessica (Belle) Silverman. It provides education about bisexual and progressive issues and support for bisexual people. The organization, the most active American bisexual advocacy and resource group, also sponsors bi-positive programming, holds a support group, promotes visibility at Pride events and provides speakers about bisexuality. It has a "long-standing role as a clearinghouse for bisexual information," and has a lending library with approximately 200 books about bisexuality and some movies. In 1987, The East Coast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Resource Centre
The Australian Union of Students (AUS), formerly National Union of Australian University Students (NUAUS), was a representative body and lobby group for Australian university and college of advanced education students. It collapsed in 1984 and was succeeded by the National Union of Students in 1987. NUAUS The NUAUS formed in 1937 as a representative body for Australian university students. An early president (1940) of the NUAUS was Frank Coaldrake, who was also the founding editor of the pacifist newspaper '' The Peacemaker'', the Chairman of the Australian Board of Missions and, just before his death, the Archbishop-elect of Brisbane. John Bannon, who would later be elected the 39th Premier of South Australia, was President of NUAUS in 1968. AUS Australian Union of Students (AUS) was established in December 1970 as a successor to the NUAUS, changing its name to reflect the addition of colleges of advanced education to the tertiary education system in Australia. The 28 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Rabbit Council
The British Rabbit Council (BRC) is an organisation for rabbit enthusiasts in the United Kingdom. Rabbits are the UK's third most popular pet. History The British Rabbit Council was formed in 1934 when the British Rabbit Society and the National Rabbit Council of Great Britain and her Dominions merged. Recognised breeds There are over 50 breeds recognised by the British Rabbit Council and over 500 varieties. These are divided into four groups – Fancy, Lop, Normal Fur, Rex. Structure To enter most rabbit shows, participants must be Council members and their rabbits must have a metal ring around one hind leg registered in their name. In breed classes, the rabbits are judged to a standard. See also * American Rabbit Breeders Association * List of rabbit breeds As of 2017, there were at least 305 breeds of domestic rabbit in 70 countries around the world. A rabbit breed is a distinct variety created through selective breeding (or occasionally natural selection) for speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
