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SMC may refer to: Organisations * IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society * Special Metals Corporation, an alloy manufacturer * Supreme Muslim Council, former organization in Mandatory Palestine * San Miguel Corporation, a Philippine conglomerate * Samsung Medical Center, a hospital in South Korea * Salmaniya Medical Complex, a hospital in Bahrain * Shanghai Municipal Council, a government in Shanghai during late 19th to early 20th century * SMC Corporation, a Japanese industrial automation company * Social Marketing Company, a Bangladeshi non-profit organisation * Suzuki Motor Corporation, a Japanese multinational corporation * Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, a software collective in India * Scottish Mountaineering Club * Sufi Muslim Council, UK * Singapore Mediation Centre * Satyrs Motorcycle Club * The Singing Machine Company, a karaoke equipment provider Education * St. Michael's College, Iligan City, Philippines * Santa Monica College, California, US * Sargodha Medical Col ...
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San Miguel Corporation
San Miguel Corporation (), abbreviated as SMC, is a Philippine multinational conglomerate with headquarters in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila. The company is one of the largest and most diversified conglomerates in the Philippines. Originally founded in 1890 as a brewery, San Miguel has ventured beyond its core business, with investments in various sectors such as food and drink, finance, infrastructure, oil and energy, transportation, and real estate. Its flagship product, San Miguel Beer, is one of the best selling beers in the world. San Miguel's manufacturing operations have extended beyond its home market to areas such as Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and Australia. In total, its products are exported to 60 markets around the world. History In 1889, a Manila businessman, Enrique María Barretto de Ycaza y Esteban, applied for a royal grant from Spain to establish a brewery in the Philippines. He was awarded the grant for a period of twenty yea ...
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IEEE Systems, Man, And Cybernetics Society
The IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (IEEE SMCS) is a professional society of the IEEE. It aims "to serve the interests of its members and the community at large by promoting the theory, practice, and interdisciplinary aspects of systems science and engineering, human-machine systems, and cybernetics Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion, where the effects of a system's actions (its outputs) return as inputs to that system, influencing subsequent action. It is concerned with ...". History The earliest incarnation of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society was the IRE Professional Group on Human Factors in Electronics, formed in 1958. The Group would later change its name to IEEE Professional Technical Group on Human Factors in Electronics (1963), IEEE Human Factors in Electronics Group (1964), Man-Machine Systems Group (1968), Systems, Man and Cybernetics Group (1970), and finally Systems, ...
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Supreme Military Council (Ghana)
The Supreme Military Council (SMC) was the ruling government of Ghana from 9 October 1975 to 4 June 1979. Its chairman was Colonel I.K. Acheampong. He was also the Head of state of Ghana due to his chairmanship. SMC I and II The period of the SMC can be divided into two eras. These are : *Acheampong era - SMC - 1 (October 9, 1975 - July 5, 1978) *Akuffo era - SMC 2 - (July 5, 1978 - June 4, 1979) Formation of the Supreme Military Council On 9 October 1975, the National Redemption Council was replaced by the Supreme Military Council. Its composition consisted of Acheampong, the chairman, and the others including all the military service commanders such as Lt. Gen. Akuffo the Chief of Defence Staff, and the army, navy, air force and Border Guards commanders respectively. Some officers were promoted, some changed portfolios and many others were dropped. The Commanders of the First and Second Infantry Brigades of the Ghana Army were also included. It is thought that this cou ...
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Modern Centre Party
The Modern Centre Party (, SMC) was a social-liberal political party in Slovenia led by Minister of Economical Development and Technology Zdravko Počivalšek, who succeeded former Prime Minister and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Miro Cerar as the party president. It formed in 2014 and merged with Economic Active Party in 2021, to form a party Concretely. History The party was established during the founding congress on 2 June 2014 as the ''Party of Miro Cerar'' (''Stranka Mira Cerarja'', SMC). SMC was spearheaded by Miro Cerar, a law professor and legal advisor to parliament, and the son of a famous Yugoslav Slovene athlete. The party rapidly ascended to top opinion polls shortly after its establishment. Only six weeks after its establishment, on 13 July 2014, the party received 34.6% of the vote in the 2014 parliamentary election, winning a plurality of 36 seats in the National Assembly, the most parliamentary seats of any party in the independent nation's history. M ...
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SMC Corporation
is a Japanese TOPIX Large 70 company founded in 1959 as Sintered Metal Corporation, which specializes in pneumatic control engineering to support industrial automation. SMC develops a broad range of control systems and equipment, such as directional control valves, actuator An actuator is a machine element, component of a machine that produces force, torque, or Displacement (geometry), displacement, when an electrical, Pneumatics, pneumatic or Hydraulic fluid, hydraulic input is supplied to it in a system (called an ...s, and air line equipment, to support diverse applications. SMC's head office is located in Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The company has a global engineering network, with technical facilities in the United States, Europe, and China, as well as Japan. Key production facilities are located in China and Singapore, and local production facilities are in United States, Mexico, Brazil, Europe, India, South Korea, and Australia. Market regions SMC has 4 ...
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Santa Monica College
Santa Monica College (SMC) is a Public university, public community college in Santa Monica, California. Founded as a Junior college#United States, junior college in 1929, SMC enrolls over 30,000 students in more than 90 fields of study. The college initially served pre-college Secondary education in the United States, high school students, eventually expanding its enrollment to educate college-age and non-traditional students with the intention to transfer to a four-year university. The college has high transfer rates to four-year universities such as the University of California and California State University campuses, being a leader among state community colleges in transfers to the former. History 20th century Santa Monica Junior College was established in September 1929 with seven faculty members and 153 students in classes held on the second floor of Santa Monica High School. Attended primarily by high school students, it was originally part of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unif ...
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Social Marketing Company
Social Marketing Company (aka SMC) is a Bangladeshi non-profit organisation which offers education and products for family planning, maternal and child health, and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and AIDS. It is the largest social marketing company in Bangladesh. Early history The Social Marketing Project was initiated in 1974 when AI.D./Washington, at the request of the Government of Bangladesh, contracted for a two-year program to distribute non-clinical contraceptives throughout the country. A sole-source contract was awarded to Population Services International (PSI), which then signed an agreement with the Government of Bangladesh establishing the activity as a parasternal one, with a project council serving as the board of directors. In 1990, it became a company governed by a board of directors made out of volunteers. AKM Shamsuddin was the founding managing director of the company. Mohammad Mahbubuzzaman was the founding chairman of the company. The coun ...
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Supreme Muslim Council
The Supreme Muslim Council (SMC; ) was the highest body in charge of Muslim community affairs in Mandatory Palestine under British control. It was established to create an advisory body composed of Muslims and Christians with whom the High Commissioner could consult. The Muslim leaders, however, sought to create an independent council to supervise the religious affairs of its community, especially in matters relating to religious trusts (waqf) and shariah courts. The British acceded to these proposals and formed the SMC which controlled waqf funds, the orphan funds, and shariah courts, and responsible for appointing teachers and preachers. The SMC continued to exist until January 1951, when it was dissolved by Jordan and its function transferred to the Jordanian Ministry of Awqaf. A SMC was reconstituted in the occupied territories in 1967 as the judicial authority of the Muslim community in Israel in matters of personal status of its members under Israel's confessional communi ...
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Spartanburg Methodist College
Spartanburg Methodist College (SMC) is a private college in Saxon, South Carolina, United States, with a Spartanburg, South Carolina, Spartanburg postal address. The college is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and enrolled 1,128 students for the 2024 fall semester. History Spartanburg Methodist College has a rich and inspiring history dating back to 1911. It was founded as the Textile Industrial Institute (TII) by David English Camak, a visionary who was deeply moved by the challenges faced by southern cotton textile workers. Camak's vision led to establishing an elementary and secondary school in a vacant house near Duncan Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church. With the support of Walter S. Montgomery, president of Spartan Mill, the school steadily grew, eventually becoming a mission of the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Founding and early years (1911-1919) In 1913, the college acquired its present campus. It began constructing Charles ...
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Scottish Mountaineering Club
Established in 1889, the Scottish Mountaineering Club is a club for climbing and mountaineering in Scotland. History The Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) was formed in Glasgow, Scotland, in March 1889, as one of Scotland's first mountaineering clubs. The club was initially proposed by William W. Naismith, William Wilson Naismith, a Scottish accountant and mountaineer, who published a letter in the ''The Herald (Glasgow), Glasgow Herald'' in January 1889 that suggested establishing a Scottish version of the Alpine Club. According to club records, the object of the SMC was: The purpose of the SMC was to document the exploration of the Scottish Highlands and its local flora and fauna. Soon after its inception, the SMC began publishing the ''Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal'' in 1890. The Journal provided their members and other alpine groups with lists of accommodations, guidebooks and maps of climbing areas. In 1945, the SMC joined the British Mountaineer Council, a coalitio ...
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Southwestern Michigan College
Southwestern Michigan College is a Public college, public community college with its main campus near Dowagiac, Michigan. It also has a campus just outside the city limits of Niles, Michigan. History Southwestern Michigan College was founded on November 19, 1964 after the voters of Cass County, Michigan approved a $1.5 million tax levy to fund a Cass County Community College. The name of the college was voted on and adopted by the board of trustees and approved in March 1965. On September 12, 1965, ground was broken for the main campus in Dowagiac, Michigan, the ground breaking was at the site of the arts building. Classes began at Southwestern Michigan College in September 1966. In April 1966 the college already had enrolled 175 students before the buildings were completed, with the expected first class to be 240 students. By August the college had passed that goal and had 295 Students enrolled. On September 11 the colleges enrollment was 335 students. The local ratio of are ...
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Suzuki Motor Corporation
is a Japanese multinational mobility manufacturer headquartered in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka. It manufactures automobiles, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines. In 2016, Suzuki was the eleventh biggest automaker by production worldwide. Suzuki has over 45,000 employees and has 35 production facilities in 23 countries, and 133 distributors in 192 countries. The worldwide sales volume of automobiles is the world's tenth largest, while domestic sales volume is the third largest in the country. Suzuki's domestic motorcycle sales volume is the third largest in Japan. History In 1909, Michio Suzuki (1887–1982) founded the Suzuki Loom Works in the small seacoast village of Hamamatsu, Japan. Business boomed as Suzuki built weaving looms for Japan's giant silk industry. In 1929, Michio Suzuki invented a new type of weaving machine, which was exported overseas. The company's first 30 ...
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