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A candidata ao Senado, Simone Tebet (PMDB) compareceu a reunião empresa de Costura -, Campo Grande, MS nesta quarta-feira, 27 de agosto.
Simon Francis Mann (born 26 June 1952) is a British mercenary and former British Army officer. He had been serving a 34-year prison sentence in Equatorial Guinea for his rôle in a failed coup d'état in 2004, before receiving a presidential pardon on humanitarian grounds on 2 November 2009.
Mann was extradited (in his words as there was no extradition treaty) from Zimbabwe to Equatorial Guinea on 1 February 2008, having been accused of planning a coup d'état to overthrow the government by leading a mercenary force into the capital Malabo in an effort to kidnap or kill President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Charges in South Africa of aiding a coup in a foreign country were dropped on 23 February 2007, but the charges remained in Equatorial Guinea, where he had been convicted in absentia in November 2004. He lost an extradition hearing to Equatorial Guinea after serving three years of a four-year prison sentence in Zimbabwe for the same crimes and being released early on good behaviour.
Upon Mann's arrival in Equatorial Guinea for his trial in Malabo, public Prosecutor Jose Olo Obono said that Mann would face three charges – crimes against the head of state, crimes against the government, and crimes against the peace and independence of the state. On 7 July 2008, he was sentenced to 34 years and four months in prison by a Malabo court. He was released on 2 November 2009, on humanitarian grounds.
Simon Mann's father, George Mann, captained the England cricket team in the late 1940s and was an heir to a stake in the Watney Mann brewing empire that closed in 1979, having been acquired by Grand Metropolitan (which, in 1997, became Diageo plc on its merger with Guinness). His mother is South African.
Mann was educated at Wellesley House and then Eton College. After Eton, Mann trained to be an officer at Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Scots Guards on 16 December 1972. By 1976 he held the rank of Lieutenant. He later became a member of the SAS and served in Cyprus, Germany, Norway and Northern Ireland before leaving the forces in 1985. He was re-called to action from the reserves for the Gulf War.
Mann then entered the field of computer security; however, his interest in this industry lapsed when he returned from his service in the Gulf and he entered the oil industry to work with Tony Buckingham. Buckingham also had a military background and had been a diver in the North Sea oil industry before joining a Canadian oil firm. In 1993, UNITA rebels in Angola seized the port of Soyo, and closed its oil installations. The Angolan government under Jose Eduardo dos Santos sought mercenaries to seize back the port and asked for assistance from Buckingham who had by now formed his own company. Buckingham hired a South African organisation called Executive Outcomes, in which Mann and Buckingham were involved.
Mann went on to establish Sandline International with fellow ex-Scots Guards Colonel Tim Spicer in 1996. The company operated mostly in Angola and Sierra Leone, but in 1997 Sandline received a commission from the government of Papua New Guinea to suppress a rebellion on the island of Bougainville and the company came to international prominence, but received much negative publicity following the Sandline affair. Sandline International announced the closure of the company's operations on 16 April 2004. In an interview on the Today Programme, Mann indicated that the operations in Angola had netted more than £10,000,000. (Source: Wikipedia)
Simon stood out from the crowd for me mainly because of his yellow bow tie and I liked the way he carried himself with an air of determination and confidence without being arrogant. We met at the street crossing and I introduced myself as we waited for the lights to change. I think Simon thought he could just say ‘no” and I would walk away and leave him alone, but he couldn’t escape the fact that we were both going to be standing there waiting for the lights to change.
So I took this awkward opportunity and continued to explain the project and why I chose him out from everyone else. Of course my intention was to use flattery to see if this would bring him round and as you can see the rest is history.
As it turns out Simon has done some modelling in the past and this was quite obvious the minute I looked through the viewfinder as he had that focused, confident stare that screamed experience.
After a few shots he warmed up and he told me that he had just resigned from his position working for a well-known Sydney Museum and was now considering teaching yoga and opening his own studio.
I took several different shots of Simon from close up to full length, but feel that this one really fits him the best. If only I had of managed to get all of his bow tie in frame. Oh well, this is a learning project!
Thanks for being part of the stranger project and good luck with your yoga studio.
This picture is #128 in my 2nd round of The100 Strangers Project.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
Posted By Steven Ogg (Simon) - When the XandOgg strikes a pose, they do it swiftly and with a splash of vogue! @walkingdead_amc… t.co/39UyGsFOG1 #StevenOgg #TWD #TheWalkingDead #TheSaviors November 23, 2016 at 12:10PM
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Posted By Steven Ogg (Simon) - Watching this doc on monkeys in my hotel after a great day of shooting SOLIS! Weeeeeee! #BBC @BBC t.co/JDttGTjNbs #StevenOgg #TWD #TheWalkingDead #TheSaviors December 06, 2016 at 03:54AM
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Men's Singles - Preliminary Round , 2018 Liebherr Men's world cup. Disney Events Arena, Paris. 18-22 November 2018
This was taken on Monday 12th Oct 2015 for Chester Performs during their 2015 Chester Literature Festival. This evening’s events consisted of:
Simon Hughes: Who Wants to be a Batsman?
Michael Billington with Alex Clifton: The 101 Greatest Plays
For more information about the festival see:
www.chesterperforms.com/literature
For more information about Chester Performs and other events they produce see:
#ChesterLitFest
Simon Callow during his book signing session following his fascinating talk about Orson Welles. It was an honor to meet this warm and wonderful gentleman.
Posted By Steven Ogg (Simon) - RT @ccollinsjr: For those that don't know ... good to get up on the real deal #GetWoke #StayWoke t.co/lZLzppV8pK #StevenOgg #TWD #TheWalkingDead #TheSaviors November 29, 2016 at 03:33PM
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Simon-Stevin Square, Bruges (B)
Statue by Eugène Simonis
Simon Stevin (1548/49 – 1620) was a Flemish mathematician and military engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical. He also translated various mathematical terms into Dutch, making it one of the few European languages in which the word for mathematics, wiskunde ("the art of what is certain"), was not derived from Greek (via Latin).