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Ashes and Diamonds
Ashes and Diamonds
Directed by
Andrzej Wajda
Written by
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Starring
Zbigniew Cybulski,Ewa Krzyzewska,Waclaw Zastrzezynski
Distributed by
Janus Films
Release date(s)
October 3, 1958
Running time
110 min.
Language
Polish
Ashes and Diamonds (Polish: Popi? i diament) is a 1958 film directed by Polish film director Andrzej Wajda, based on the novel by Polish writer Jerzy Andrzejewski. It completes Wajda's Three War Films trilogy, following A Generation and Kanal.
The title comes from a 19th Century poem by Cyprian Norwid and references the manner in which diamonds are formed from heat and pressure acting upon coal.
Synopsis
The film takes place in an unnamed small Polish town on May 8, 1945, the day Germany officially surrendered ending World War II. Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski) and Andrzej (Adam Pawlikowski) are veteran Home Army soldiers who have been assigned to terminate communist Commissar Szczuka (Waclaw Zastrzezynski), but botch their first attempt to ambush him, killing instead two civilian cement plant workers. They are given a second chance in the town's leading hotel and banquet hall, Monopol.
Meanwhile, a grand fe is being organized at the hall for a newly appointed minor minister (and current town mayor) by his assistant, Drewnowski (Bogumil Kobiela). Drewnowski is in fact a double agent, present at the first attempt to kill Szczuka. Maciek manages to sweet talk himself into a room with the desk clerk, who is also a fellow Warsaw native. They sadly reminisce about such things as the older section of town and the chestnut trees which were lost when the Germans destroyed most of the city in the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising. While Maciek and Andrzej bide their time to strike Szczuka, Maciek becomes infatuated with the hotel's barmaid, Krystyna (Ewa Krzyzewska).
Meanwhile, Szczuka is attempting to locate his long lost son, Marek. Unbeknownst to the old soldier (Szczuka served during the Spanish Civil War like many communists in the 1930s), Marek has been serving in the Home Army and was recently captured by the Red Army. Marek was serving under the officer Andrzej will replace.
Maciek's crush on Krystyna grows as the hour he must assassinate Szczuka nears, while Drewnowski becomes giddy at the thought at what his boss' promotion will do for his own career. Drinking with a cynical reporter until he is quite drunk, Drewnowski barges into the banquet dinner. In short order he sprays the guests with a fire extinguisher, pulls the tablecloth (and everything on it) to the floor and finds himself out of a job.
After sleeping with Krystyna, Maciek goes for a walk with her and ends up in a bombed-out church. She finds an inscription on the wall, a poem by Cyprian Norwid:
So often, are you as a blazing torch with flames
of burning rags falling about you flaming,
you know not if flames bring freedom or death.
Consuming all that you must cherish
if ashes only will be left, and want Chaos and tempest
Or will the ashes hold the glory of a starlike diamond
The Morning Star of everlasting triumph.
Attempting to fix her broken heel, Maciek stumbles into a crypt where the bodies of the men he helped kill that morning are laid out awaiting burial. He then decides he must carry out his orders, and when Szczuka forgoes his car to walk to the detention area holding his son, Maciek takes advantage of the opportunity to shoot him. As Szczuka falls, fireworks celebrating the end of the war fill the sky.
The next morning, Maciek goes to where Andrzej awaits in a truck. From concealment he watches as Drewnowski arrives thinking he will join them, but Andrzej is aware that Drewnowski is only doing it because he has no other choice. Andrzej throws him to the ground and drives off. When Drewnowski sees Maciek, he calls out to him. Maciek flees and runs into a patrol of Polish soldiers. He is shot and ends up dying in a trash heap.
References to the Warsaw Uprising
The main character, Maciek, has to wear a sunglass all the time, since he was in the Warsaw Uprising, which took place between August 1 and October 2 (63 days in total), and where insurgents used the Warsaw sewers to move between the Old Town and the Downtown of Warsaw. Maciek being part of the uprising explains his hatred of the Soviets, who were on the other side of the Vistula but did not help the insurgents at all. He also mentions Warsaw as a beautiful memory to the porter, obviously referring to the almost total (85%) destruction of Warsaw by the Germans following the uprising.
External links
Ashes and Diamonds at the Internet Movie Database
Ashes and Diamonds at Allmovie
Criterion Collection essay by Paul Coates
v?d?eFilms directed by Andrzej Wajda
1950s
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Beach soccer
Beach soccer
Highest governing body
FIFA
Nickname(s)
Beach Football, Beach Footie, Beasal
First played
1992
Characteristics
Contact
Contact
Team members
5 at a time
Category
Outdoor
Ball
Football
Beach Football (Beasal) is a variant of the sport of football. The game itself is played on a beach, or some form of sand, and emphasises skill, agility and shooting at goal.
Whilst football has been played informally on beaches for many years, the introduction of beach soccer was an attempt to codify rules for the game. This was done in 1992 by the founders of Beach Soccer Worldwide, a company set up to develop the sport and responsible for the majority of its tournaments to this day. This was a major foundation for what we now know as beach soccer and what has led to the sport rapidly growing in populartity.
The irregularity of the soft-sand playing surface leads to a totaly different style of play which is played in football, where players must improvise. The compact pitch, much smaller than a regular football pitch, allows players to score from anywhere on the sand. This leads to high scoring games, with an average of sixty attempts at goal in a single game, with an average scoring rate of one goal every three or four minutes, which means around eleven goals are scored in total per game.
Contents
1 History
1.1 Foundation of the Sport 1992-1993
1.2 Growth of the Sport 1994-2000
1.3 Recent Years 2001-Present
2 Rules
2.1 Players
2.2 Match Length
2.3 Referees and Discipline
3 Pitch
4 Main Beach soccer tournaments
4.1 International
4.2 Confederation
4.2.1 Europe
4.2.2 Asia
4.2.3 Africa
4.2.4 Oceania
4.2.5 South America
4.2.6 North America
5 World Rankings
6 References
7 External links
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History
Foundation of the Sport 1992-1993
Children playing informal Beach Soccer
Beach Soccer (Beasal) started in Brazil, more precisely at Leme beach, Rio de Janeiro, and has grown to be an international game. The participation of internationally renowned players such as flamboyant Frenchman Eric Cantona, legendary Spanish strikers Michel and Julio Salinas and Brazilian stars such as Romario, Jior and Zico has helped to expand television coverage to large audiences in over 170 countries worldwide, making Beach Soccer one of the fastest growing professional sports in the world and converting it into a major showcase for international commercial opportunity.
Beach Soccer had been played recreationally all over the world for many years and in many different formats. In 1992 the laws of the game were envisioned and a pilot event was staged by the founding partners of BSWW in Los Angeles. By 1993, the first professional beach soccer competition was organized at Miami Beach, with teams from the United States, Brazil, Argentina and Italy taking part.
Growth of the Sport 1994-2000
In April 1994 the first event to be covered by network television transmissions was held on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro and the city hosted the first Beach Soccer World Championship in 1995. The competition was won by the host nation, making Brazil the first ever World Champions of Beach Soccer. The success of the tournament saw commercial interest begin to match developments on the pitch and growing demand for the sport around the world gave rise to the Pro Beach Soccer Tour in 1996.
The first Pro Beach Soccer Tour included a total of 60 games in two years across South America, Europe, Asia and the United States, attracting major names both on and off the pitch. Interest generated by the tour in Europe led to the creation of the European Pro Beach Soccer League in 1998, providing a solid infrastructure that would increase the professionalism of the spectacle on all levels. The EPBSL, now known as the Euro BS League, brought promoters together from across the continent and satisfied the demands of the media, sponsors and fans. Only four years on from its creation, the successful first step in the building of a legitimate Worldwide Competition Structure for the sport of Pro Beach Soccer had been taken.
Behind the scenes key developments were also taking place, with the Beach Soccer Company relocating its headquarters to Europe, firstly to Monaco and then Barcelona, before becoming Pro Beach Soccer, S.L. in April 2000. One year later they would join forces with Octagon Koch Tavares, who had continued to organise the World Championships and events in South America, to form a single entity known as Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), with the aim of unifying all major Pro Beach Soccer tournaments in the world under the same structure and providing representation of the sport to major sponsors, the media and FIFA.
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Mobarakeh Steel
Type
Public
Founded
1993
Headquarters
Esfahan, Iran
Key people
Mohammad Rajaei (Chairman and CEO)Morteza Talaei (Chief Operating Officer)
Industry
Steelmaking
Products
SteelSlabHot-Briquetted ironSponge ironRods & Bars
Website
http://www.mobarakeh-steel.ir
Mobarakeh Steel Company (MSC, Persian: ????? ?????? , Foolad Mobarakeh) is an Iranian steel company, located 65 km south west of Esfahan, near the city of Mobarakeh, Esfahan Province, Iran. It is Iran's largest steel maker, and one of the largest industrial complexes operating in Iran. It was first commissioned after the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and officially initiated operations during 1993. Underwent major revamping during year 2000, and is presently schedule for a second and third revamping, due in 2009 - 2010, bringing the total steel output to 7,200,000 metric tons per year. The company owns the successful football club, Sepahan F.C..
Contents
1 Production Processes: Overview
2 Iron Plant Complex
3 Steel Making and Continuous Casting Plant
4 Mobarakeh Steel Company products
5 Expenses and Investment: 2007
6 Sales Channels
7 Export Department
8 Development
9 Manufacturing Units
10 See also
11 Notes
12 References
13 External links
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Production Processes: Overview
MSC iron ore (raw material) comes from mines in Golgohar and Chadermaloo (Kerman and Yazd provinces) and are converted to pellets in the Pelletizing Plant (diameters: 8-10 mm). After being reduced in the Direct Reduction (DR) Plant and removed of oxygen, pellets are converted to (sponge iron). Sponge iron and iron scrap is melted in electric arc furnaces, after which liquid steel is purified in secondary purification units. The steel chemical compound is designed by customer demand. Then, it transported to casting machines for slab production. After cooling, slab is rolled at the Hot Rolling mill, creating hot coils (thickness: 1.5-16mm). Some are sold; other go to the Hot finishing mill for complementary work and hot sheet transformation or the cold rolling mill to lower strip thickness to 0.18mm. Coldrolled coils are also dedicated for the Tinning, Galvanizing, and prepainting lines.
Iron Plant Complex
The Iron Plant Complex has 10 main production line units (the rest are auxiliary and back up units). Iron ores with large grains from Golgohar are converted by ball mills in the Pelletizing plant. After mixing with Chadermalou's smaller grains and bentonite in blending machines it's changed to pellets (diameter: 6-25 mm) and screened by a two-story roller screen. Pellets solidify in an induration tunnel or furnace at 1280 C. The Lime Production Plant receives limestone from the Hozmahi mine, which is then calcinated in two rotary kilns at 780-1050 C. After screening, calcinated lime may be used in the Lime Plant, consumed in the Palletizing Plant, Briquet Unit or for industrial water production.
At the Direct Reduction plant, pellets are charged in Midrex? [1] shaft furnaces after misco-grain screening (less than 5mm). Two reducing gases (derived from cracking natural gas or methane, consisting of Co and H2) are injected into the furnace, combine with oxygen from the pellets resulting in CO2+H2O. Without oxygen, pellets become sponge irons. After screening, sponge irons are transferred to the Steel Plant. Sponge irons with a diameter less than 5 mm go to the briquet unit to produce briquets (diameter above 25 mm). Then, they are transferred to the Steel Plant with the sponge iron.
Steel Making and Continuous Casting Plant
The Steel Making & Continuous Casting Plant has eight electric arc furnaces receiving sponge iron and other additives. They are melted with about 15% scrap in the furnace, which has a capacity of 180-200 tons. The plant also has four (to be increased to eight in current revamping) ladle furnaces and one (to be doubled) degassing vessel, used to adjust the final chemical mix and purity, as well as adjusting casting temperature. Additionally, there are four continuous slab casting machines, each having two arc casting strands (radius: 10.5 m). They produce the plant final product, called slabs. These slabs are 10 m in length, 20 cm in thickness and 65-188 cm (adjustable) width. Slab production capacity is 4,200,000 t/yr (revamping year 2000), to be increase in steps to 5,400,000 and 7,200,000 MTPY. Slabs are manually cooled and scrafed in the Slab Cooling & Conditioning plant.
Mobarakeh Steel Company products
MSCs products consist of hot and cold rolled sheets and coils, pickled coils, narrow strip coil, tinplate sheet and coil galvanized coil, prepanted coil and slab. These products are produced according to national and international...(and so on) To get More information , you can visit some products about buffalo china plates, electric clothes iron, . The Super Real Love Doll products should be show more here!