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"Francis Monkman (born 9 June 1949, in Hampstead, North London, England) is an English rock, classical and film score composer, and a founding member of both the progressive rock band Curved Air and the classical/rock fusion band Sky. He is the son of the late Kenneth Monkman, an authority on the writer Laurence Sterne, and of the late Vita née Duncombe Mann. ==Career== Monkman was a pupil at Westminster School where he studied organ and harpsichord, later studying at the Royal Academy of Music, winning the Raymond Russell prize for virtuosity on the harpsichord and becoming a member of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. In the late 1960s he founded the rock band Sisyphus, which evolved into the pioneering band Curved Air. He played on their first three albums, leaving after the release of Phantasmagoria (1972) and returning briefly for the tour which resulted in the release of the album Live (1975). He contributed to the Renaissance album Prologue (1972), worked with Al Stewart including contributing to the album Past, Present and Future (1973) as well as Lynsey de Paul on her Surprise album and toured with The Shadows on their 20 Golden Greats Tour (1977). Also in 1977, he collaborated with Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno on the project 801. In 1978, he played all keyboards on Brian Bennett's solo album Voyage. In the late 1970s, he recorded music for television. In 1978, together with guitarist John Williams he founded the classical/rock music fusion band called Sky, with which he stayed until 1980. In 1980, he resumed classical performances and recordings including the soundtrack to the British film, The Long Good Friday. The album Energism included the electronic "Achievements of Man", from which extracts were used as the theme to the BBC programme Think Again. In 1981 a new album was released, Dweller on the Threshold, with Andy Latimer (guitar). He also composed the piece "Current Affairs", used by Channel 4 as the introduction to their "Engineering Announcements" segment, provided by the IBA. ==Instruments (career)== Francis Monkman played guitar as well as keyboards in Curved Air, switching between them when playing live. According to the sleeve notes for the second Sky album, Sky 2 he also played additional guitar parts on his composition "FIFO", alongside John Williams and Kevin Peek. ;Keyboards *1977-1978: (tour with The Shadows) ;Piano ==References== ==External links== * Francis Monkman's website * 2006 Interview * Francis Monkman on the Curved Air website * Biographical information on the Sky website Category:1949 births Category:People from Hampstead Category:English rock guitarists Category:English keyboardists Category:English composers Category:People educated at Westminster School, London Category:Curved Air members Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Music Category:Living people Category:Sky (band) members Category:801 (band) members Category:Matching Mole members "
"New Holland Publishers is an English-based international publisher of non- fiction books, founded in 1955. The company is owned by private owners and has offices in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. ==History== The publishing firm was established as "Holland Press" was on 20 June 1955 in Southwark, London, England, and renamed to New Holland Publishers in 1988. It currently operates offices in London and Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia. The company went through a significant round of redundancies from 2008–2011. In 2013 the company sold US publishing rights to over 200 titles to Bloomsbury; and in 2014 over 1,400 titles to Fox Chapel. == References == Category:Book publishing companies based in London Category:Companies based in the London Borough of Southwark Category:Publishing companies established in 1955 Category:1955 establishments in the United Kingdom "
"The BMEL headquarters in Bonn, Germany BMEL offices on Wilhelmstraße, Berlin The Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (), abbreviated BMEL, is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its primary headquarters are located in Bonn with a secondary office in Berlin. From 1949 to 2001 it was known as the Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests (). Through an organizational order by the German Chancellor on 22 January 2001, it became the Federal Ministry for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture after the Consumer protection function was transferred from the Federal Ministry for Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit). The name Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection was adopted on 22 November 2005 simply to alphabetize its functional parts in the German language. Due to the political restructurings of the 18th German Bundestag in December 2013 the division "Consumer Protection" was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection. == Organization == The current Minister for Food and Agriculture is Julia Klöckner. The Parliamentary State Secretaries are Hans-Joachim Fuchtel and Uwe Feiler. Beate Kasch is the Permanent State Secretary.https://www.bmel.de/EN/ministry/organisation/state- secretaries/state-secretaries_node.html In addition to the Ministry Management (including management staff), it consists of eight departments (as of September 2020)https://www.bmel.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/_Ministerium/Organisationsplan.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v;=6: * Department 1: Central Division * Department 2: Consumer health protection, nutrition, product safety * Department 3: Food safety, animal health * Department 4: Agricultural markets, food industry, export * Department 5: Forests, sustainability, renewable raw materials * Department 6: EU affairs, international cooperation, fisheries * Department 7: Agricultural production, horticulture, agricultural policy * Department 8: Rural development, digital innovation == Agencies == Under the auspices of the BMEL are various Federal agencies, legally independent institutions under public law and government research institutes: * Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety * Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food * Federal Office of Plant Varieties * Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) * Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants * Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health * Max Rubner-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Nutrition and Food * Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries * Agency for Renewable Resources ==Federal Ministers== == See also == *List of Federal Ministers of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (Germany) *Julius Kühn- Institut *Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) == References == == External links == * Website Food and Agriculture Germany Germany, Food and Agriculture Category:2005 establishments in Germany Germany Category:Forestry in Germany "