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Atu may refer to: * Atu, a character in Samoan mythology * Atu Bosenavulagi, an Australian rules footballer * Atu, Iran, a village in Iran * Atu Moli, New Zealand rugby union player * Atu'u, a village on Tutuila Island, American Samoa ATU may refer to: Organizations Universities * Allameh Tabataba'i University, Iran * Arkansas Tech University, United States * Atlantic Technological University, Ireland Other organizations * African Telecommunications Union * Amalgamated Transit Union, trade union in Canada and the US * ATU Network, a caucus group within the Amicus trade union * Autoridad de Transporte Urbano or Urban Transport Authority, Lima, Peru * Anti-Terrorist Unit (Liberia) * Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit, Croatia * Asian Taekwondo Union, the official governing body for Taekwondo in Asia Other uses * Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, a catalogue of folktale types * Abstract Tribe Unique, rap musicians using #ATU hashtag * Amphibious Task Unit * Antenna tuning unit An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atu Bosenavulagi
Atunaisa Bosenavulagi (born 17 September 2000) is a former Australian rules football, Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), having previously played for the Collingwood Football Club. Early football Bosenavulagi played junior football for the Boroondara Hawks in the Yarra Junior Football League, helping them win the premiership in 2017. Bosenavulagi also played under-18s football for the Oakleigh Chargers in the TAC Cup, before getting selected by Collingwood. In his junior years, Bosenavulagi represented Australia as a junior representative in rugby sevens, as well as playing Australian rules football. He played for the Oakleigh Chargers 9 games in 2017, while juggling both codes, seeing him often play football on Saturday and rugby on Sunday. In 2018, he played all 18 games for the Oakleigh Chargers, kicking 15 goals, and helping lead them to the Grand Final, which they lost to the Dandenong Stingr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autoridad De Transporte Urbano
The Urban Transport Authority for Lima and Callao (; ATU) is a specialised technical organisation of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications. Its main function is to integrate and articulate urban public transportation in the Lima metropolitan area. Organised transport systems such as the Lima Metro and the Metropolitano are dependent on the ATU. History Since the late 2000s, various candidates for mayor of Lima proposed the creation of an autonomous transportation authority that would replace the Urban Transportation Management and complement the Autonomous Authority of the Electric Train (AATE) that at that time was part of the Municipality of Lima, until, in 2009, by ordinance issued during the second APRA government, the AATE once again became part of the Ministry of Transport and Communications. The purpose of the planned authority was the supervision and integration of urban transportation in Lima Province and that could then have an agreement with the muni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Rapid Deployment Force
The Finnish Rapid Deployment Force (FRDF) () is the spearhead international force of the Finnish Defence Forces (FDF). It can also be used for national defence. The force is trained to participate as part of multinational peacekeeping and crisis management operations, and can be deployed at short notice. Although the FRDF is an addition to rather than a replacement for traditional peacekeeping forces, many Finnish peacekeepers have FRDF training, and FRDF soldiers are mostly used as a recruitment pool for international peacekeeping missions, which may consist of a mix of normal reservists, FRDF-trained reservists and professional soldiers (mostly officers). Formed in 1996, the first battalion became operational in 1998. Elements of the group were first deployed in 1999 as a part of the KFOR operation in Kosovo. Order of battle The FRDF currently consists of: * Mechanized jäger battalion (''Jääkäripataljoona 101'') equipped with Sisu Pasi APCs *Combat engineer battalion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abstract Tribe Unique
Aaron Pointer, better known by his stage name Abstract Rude, is an American rapper from Los Angeles, California. He is the rapper of Abstract Tribe Unique, alongside dancers Zulu Butterfly and Irie Lion King, turntablist DJ Drez and producer Fat Jack. He is also a member of Haiku D'Etat along with Myka 9 and Aceyalone and The A-Team along with Aceyalone. Career Pointer's career began at Los Angeles' historical Good Life Cafe, a renowned open mic venue. He would practice his rapping every Thursday night at Good Life. He is also a member of the Project Blowed crew that emerged from the Good Life scene. In 2009, he released the album '' Rejuvenation'' on Rhymesayers Entertainment. It was entirely produced by Vitamin D. Discography Albums Solo * '' Rejuvenation'' (2009) * ''Keep the Feel: A Legacy of Hip Hop Soul'' (2015) Abstract Tribe Unique (Abstract Rude, DJ Drez & Fat Jack) * ''Underground Fossils'' (1996) * ''Mood Pieces'' (1997) * ''South Central Thynk Taynk'' (199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index
The Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index (ATU Index) is a catalogue of folktale types used in folklore studies. The ATU index is the product of a series of revisions and expansions by an international group of scholars: Originally published in German by Finnish folklorist Antti Aarne (1910), the index was translated into English, revised, and expanded by American folklorist Stith Thompson (1928, 1961), and later further revised and expanded by German folklorist Hans-Jörg Uther (2004). The ATU index is an essential tool for folklorists, used along with the ''Motif-Index of Folk-Literature''. Background Predecessors Austrian consul Johann Georg von Hahn devised a preliminary analysis of some 40 tale "formulae" as introduction to his book of Greek and Albanian folktales, published in 1864. Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, in 1866, translated von Hahn's list and extended it to 52 tale types, which he called ''"story radicals"''. Folklorist J. Jacobs expanded the lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taekwondo
Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In addition to its five tenets of courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self-control and indomitable spirit, the sport requires three physical skills: ''poomsae'' (, Form), ''kyorugi'' (, Sparring) and ''gyeokpa'' (, Breaking Technique). Poomsae are patterns that demonstrate a range of kicking, punching and blocking techniques, kyorugi involves the kind of sparring seen in the Olympics, and gyeokpa is the art of breaking wooden boards. Taekwondo also sometimes involves the use of weapons such as swords and nunchucks (nunchaku). Taekwondo practitioners wear a uniform known as a . Taekwondo is a combat sport which was developed during the 1940s and 1950s by Korean martial artists with experience in martial arts such as karate and Chinese martial ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Taekwondo Union
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The Asian Taekwondo Union or WT Asia is the official governing body for Taekwondo in Asia as a regional organisation of World Taekwondo. References External links * World Taekwondo Taekwondo Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit
Anti-Terrorist Unit Lučko (ATU Lučko) (, also known as the Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit ( is the police tactical unit of the Croatian Police stationed in Lučko near Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Initially distinguishing itself in the Croatian War of Independence, it has gone on to become Croatia's leading police tactical unit. Like all police units in the country, it is under the command of the Ministry of the Interior (Croatia), Ministry of the Interior. It is a member of the ATLAS Network, an association of European police tactical units. Several of its operators have gone on to achieve notability, including Croatian mixed martial arts fighter Mirko Cro Cop, Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović. History The unit was established on 7 September 1990. It initially comprised 225 volunteers, many of whom had been enrolled in the First Croatian Police Officer course (), which was formed in order to create a police force loyal to the new Croatian government during the political tensions l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-Terrorist Unit (Liberia)
The Anti-Terrorist Unit (ATU), also known as the Anti-Terrorist Brigade, was a paramilitary force of the government of Liberia, established by then-President Charles Taylor in 1997–98. Chuckie Taylor, Charles Taylor's son, served as commander of the force for a period. The ATU was initially organized ostensibly to protect government buildings, the executive mansion, the international airport, and to provide security for some foreign embassies. It was a special forces group consisting predominantly of foreign nationals from Burkina Faso and The Gambia, as well as former Revolutionary United Front (RUF) combatants from Sierra Leone. The ATU had no legal basis for its existence, and was not under the command of the Ministry of Defense. The ATU absorbed Taylor's most experienced NPFL civil war fighters, including undisciplined and untrained loyalists. Sam Bockarie (alias Mosquito), and Brig. Gen. Abu were named as being among the ATU's senior personnel in a report issued in Octo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATU Network
ATU Network was a caucus group within the Amicus trade union that sought to attract members and employees of Amicus who support the Labour Party and who are sympathetic to Blairism. It announced its formation in January 2005. The group's name probably derives from ''Amicus the union'', the union's campaigning slogan. The founders of ATU Network, who signed the group's founding statement, are: * Les Bayliss, Assistant General Secretary of Amicus * Cath Speight, a full-time officer who is Regional Secretary for Amicus's Wales Region and a member of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee * Kevin Coyne, a full-time national officer who was then the Regional Secretary of the North West Region ATU Network competed with the larger and more established Unity Gazette grouping. That group pursues broad left aims and objectives. Activities ATU Network is believed to have campaigned against the rule change that introduced the requirement to elect new Full-Time Officers. That ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atu, Iran
Atu () is a village in, and the capital of, Kaseliyan Rural District of Zirab District, Savadkuh County, Mazandaran province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort .... Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 565 in 133 households, when it was in the Central District. The following census in 2011 counted 351 people in 129 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 510 people in 185 households, by which time the rural district had been separated from the district in the establishment of Zirab District. See also Notes References Populated places in Savadkuh County {{Savadkuh-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amalgamated Transit Union
The Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) is a labor organization in the United States and Canada that represents employees in the public transit industry. Established in 1892 as the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees of America, the union was centered primarily in the Eastern United States; as of 2020, ATU has had over 200,000 members throughout the United States and Canada. History The union was founded in 1892 as the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees of America. The union has its origins in a meeting of the American Federation of Labor in 1891 at which president Samuel Gompers was asked to invite the local street railway associations to form an international union. Gompers sent a letter to the local street railway unions in April 1892, and based on the positive response arranged for a convention of street railway workers. The convention began on September 12, 1892, in Indianapolis, Indiana, attended by fifty delegates from twenty-two locals. Many o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
