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European Of The Year (Reader's Digest Award)
Since 1996 the editors of the European editions of the ''Reader's Digest'' magazine have named "European of the Year" individuals who best embody the traditions and values of Europe. * 1996: Roman Catholic Father Imre Kozma, chairman of the Hungarian Malteser Caritas-Service. * 1997: Norwegian Frederic Hauge, founder of the environmental group Bellona Foundation, Bellona. * 1998: British people, British solo-skipper Pete Goss, who saved his French friend Raphael Dinelli during a solo yachting competition. * 1999: Danish Inge Genefke, for her commitment to the treatment and rehabilitation of torture victims. * 2000: Paul van Buitenen, who uncovered mismanagement within the European Commission. * 2001: Linus Benedict Torvalds, the inventor of Linux. * 2002: Eva Joly, former adjudicator in France (among others in the Bernard Tapie, Tapie corruption scandal regarding Elf Aquitaine). * 2003: Šimon Pánek, founder of People in Need. * 2004: German jurist Peter Eigen, founder of Transpa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reader's Digest
''Reader's Digest'' is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, it is now headquartered in midtown Manhattan. The magazine was founded in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila Bell Wallace. For many years, ''Reader's Digest'' was the best-selling consumer magazine in the United States; it lost that distinction in 2009 to '' Better Homes and Gardens''. According to Media Mark Research (2006), ''Reader's Digest'' reached more readers with household incomes of over $100,000 than '' Fortune'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', '' Business Week'', and '' Inc.'' combined. Global editions of ''Reader's Digest'' reach an additional 40 million people in more than 70 countries, via 49 editions in 21 languages. The periodical has a global circulation of 10.5 million, making it the largest paid-circulation magazine in the world. It is also published in Braille, digital, and audio editions, and in a large-type edition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transparency International
Transparency International e.V. (TI) is a German registered association founded in 1993 by former employees of the World Bank. Based in Berlin, its nonprofit and non-governmental purpose is to take action to combat global corruption with civil societal anti-corruption measures and to prevent criminal activities arising from corruption. Its most notable publications include the Global Corruption Barometer and the Corruption Perceptions Index. TI serves as an umbrella organization. From 1993 to today, its membership has grown from a few individuals to more than 100 national chapters, which engage in fighting perceived corruption in their home countries. TI is a member of G20 Think Tanks, UNESCO Consultative Status, United Nations Global Compact, Sustainable Development Solutions Network and shares the goals of peace, justice, strong institutions and partnerships of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group (UNSDG). TI is a social partner of Global Alliance in Managemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Minder
Thomas Minder (born 26 December 1960 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland) is a Swiss entrepreneur and politician. Minder was elected to the Swiss Council of States for the canton of Schaffhausen in 2011. He is an independent but sits with the Swiss People's Party. He is known in Switzerland for having filed an initiative entitled "against rip-off salaries", created on 31 October 2006 and submitted on 26 February 2008, which proposed that the remuneration of executives in public Swiss companies be more tightly controlled by the shareholders. The initiative, one of the world's most restrictive on corporate governance, was accepted by 67.9% of the population and all the cantons on 3 March 2013. He is the initiator of a Federal law to better protect the concept of "Swissness". Biography Minder grew up in Neuhausen, attended secondary school at Rosenberg, college at the ''Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Neuchâtel'' and Fordham University, where he obtained an MBA. He is a first lieute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnieszka Romaszewska-Guzy
Agnieszka Maria Romaszewska-Guzy (born 15 January 1962) is a Polish press and television journalist, director of Biełsat TV (2007–2024) and since 2011, vice-president of the Association of Polish Journalists. Biography Romaszewska-Guzy is the daughter of Zofia Romaszewska and Zbigniew Romaszewski. After the imposition of martial law, she was interned for five months. Until 1989, she cooperated with the opposition movement, participated, inter alia, in the Freedom and Peace Movement. In 1987, she graduated from the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw. She was a spokesman for the National Founding Committee of the Independent Students' Association (NZS), and then a member of the National Audit Committee of the NZS. Her husband, Jarosław Guzy, was the first chairman of the NZS. During her doctoral fellowship in the United States, Romaszewska-Guzy was an intern at The Washington Times, The Washington Post and the weekly The New Republic. In 1991, she worked in Ż ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belsat TV
Belsat (; ; stylised as B☰LSAT) is a Polish free-to-air terrestrial and satellite television channel aimed at Belarus. The channel is a subsidiary of Telewizja Polska, TVP S.A. From the outset, it has been co-funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Poland), Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and international donors. Broadcasting platforms Satellite and cable networks Belsat broadcasts from the Astra 4A, Astra 4A satellite, which covers the European region of the Post-Soviet states, former USSR. In Ukraine, it is available on most cable networks. In Poland, it is carried by approximately 20% of cable networks. In Belarus, however, it is unavailable on cable or digital networks due to a ban by the authorities. Internet The channel's programming is broadcast live via the belsat.eu website, YouTube, and the BelsatSmart app for Smart TVs. Meanwhile, the БелсатТВ app for Android (operating system), Android and iOS tablets and smartphones allows viewers to watch l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Concordia Disaster
On 13 January 2012, the seven-year-old Costa Cruises vessel ''Costa Concordia'' was on the first leg of a cruise around the Mediterranean Sea when it deviated from its planned route at Isola del Giglio, Tuscany in order to perform a sail-by salute, sailed closer to the island than intended, and struck a rock formation on the sea floor. This caused the ship to angle of list, list and then to partially sink, landing unevenly on an underwater ledge. Although a six-hour rescue effort brought most of the passengers ashore, 32 people died: 27 passengers and five crew. A member of the salvage team also died following injuries received during the recovery operation. An investigation focused on shortcomings in the procedures followed by ''Costa Concordia'' crew and the actions of her captain, Francesco Schettino, who The captain goes down with the ship#Counter-examples, left the ship prematurely. He left about 300 passengers on board the sinking vessel, most of whom were rescued by hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monika Hauser
Monika Hauser (born 24 May 1959 in Thal, Switzerland) is a Swiss-born Italian physician, gynecologist, and humanitarian. She is the founder of Medica mondiale, an internationally renowned women's rights and aid organization.Nicholas Watt, Ian Traynor and Maggie O'Kane (14 April 1999)Serbs have rape camp, says Cook''The Guardian''. Hauser lives and works in Cologne. Early life and education Hauser spent her youth in the Swiss village of Thal, Saint Gallen, in German-speaking Switzerland, before continuing her medical studies in Innsbruck, Austria. She completed her doctorate in medicine in Innsbruck and Bologna in 1984, obtained her German medical licence in 1988 and completed her gynaecological specialization at the Essen University Hospital in 1998.Laureates: Monika Hauser |
Iana Matei
Iana Matei is a Romanian activist and founder of Reaching Out Romania, an organisation which aims to find and rehabilitate victims of forced prostitution and sex trafficking. Early life Iana Matei was born in Orăștie, Romania. Her mother was a pentathlete, and her father was a football coach. When Matei was three years old, her family moved to Bucharest due to her father's work, then later moved to the industrial city of Pitești. Matei met her husband Dmitri while she was restoring the . They married and had a son. Matei later divorced Dmitri due to domestic violence, abuse, and alcohol abuse issues. In 1989, at the start of the Romanian Revolution, Matei participated in riots and other protest activities against the Communist government. After an incident where Matei lost her bag with her identity documents during a protest in University Square, she believed it was no longer safe to stay in the country and fled. She left her son with her mother and illegally immigrated to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Franz
Joachim was, according to Sacred tradition, the husband of Saint Anne, the father of Mary, mother of Jesus, Mary (mother of Jesus), and the maternal grandfather of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Gospel of James, part of the New Testament apocrypha. His feast day is 26 July, a date shared with Saint Anne. In Catholic tradition The story of Joachim, his wife Anne (or Anna), and the miraculous birth of their child Mary, the mother of Jesus, was told for the first time in the 2nd-century apocryphal infancy-gospel the Gospel of James (also called the ''Protoevangelium of James''). Joachim was a rich and pious man, who regularly gave to the poor; however, Charles Souvay, writing in the ''Catholic Encyclopedia'', says that the idea that Joachim possessed large herds and flocks is doubtful. At the temple, Joachim's korban, sacrifice was rejected, as the couple's childlessness was interpreted as a sign of divine displeasure. Joachim consequently withdrew to the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Nowak (economist)
Maria Nowak (27 March 1935 – 22 December 2022) was a Polish economist. Biography Nowak was born on 27 March 1935. After getting her diploma for the London School of Economics, Nowak worked for the French Agency for Development and for the World Bank. Since the 1980s, she has been working in the field of micro-credit based on the model of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by .... Nowak founded the Association for the Rights to Economic Enterprise (ADIE). Nowak served as President of ADIE and of the European Microfinance Network (EMN). Nowak died on 22 December 2022, at the age of 87. References * 1935 births 2022 deaths Polish economists Polish women economists Sciences Po alumni Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour Command ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AIDS
The HIV, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system. Without treatment, it can lead to a spectrum of conditions including acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). It is a Preventive healthcare, preventable disease. It can be managed with treatment and become a manageable chronic health condition. While there is no cure or vaccine for HIV, Management of HIV/AIDS, antiretroviral treatment can slow the course of the disease, and if used before significant disease progression, can extend the life expectancy of someone living with HIV to a nearly standard level. An HIV-positive person on treatment can expect to live a normal life, and die with the virus, not of it. Effective #Treatment, treatment for HIV-positive people (people living with HIV) involves a life-long regimen of medicine to suppress the virus, making the viral load undetectable. Treatment is recommended as soon as the diagnosis is made. An HIV-positive person who has an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruedi Lüthy
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Ruedi may refer to: * Ruedi (given name), German given name * Ruedi Reservoir, on the Western Slope of the Continental Divide on the Fryingpan River, Colorado, United States of America * Ruedi–Allgower classification, system of categorizing pilon fractures of the distal tibia See also * Rüedi * Rudi (other) * Rudy (other) Rudy is a masculine given name, a nickname and a surname. Rudy may also refer to: Places Poland * Rudy, Silesian Voivodeship, a village * Rudy Landscape Park, Silesian Voivodeship * Rudy, Lublin Voivodeship, a village * Rudy, Krotoszyn Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
