.africa

.Africa is the proposed Internet generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) for the African and Pan African communities and users wherever they may reside. The .africa gTLD serves as a regional domain for individuals and entities based in and out of Africa.

Status

The .Africa gTLD has not yet been delegated to any organization as registry operator. The .Africa application that was submitted by DotConnectAfrica Trust is now the subject of an unresolved disagreement with ICANN (DCA Trust vs ICANN) following an Independent Review Panel (IRP) Process that was invoked by DCA Trust under ICANN’s accountability mechanism in October 2013. The IRP was administrated by the International Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) New York, US.

DCA Trust had passed all the new gTLD applicant evaluation criteria, but before the Initial Evaluation (IE) result was issued, a Governmental Advisory Committee GAC Objection Advice that had been issued in Beijing in April 2013 was later accepted by the ICANN Board in early June 2013 which caused the ICANN Board to instruct ICANN staff that DCA Trust’s .Africa new gTLD application will not be approved. This had caused the non-completion of the evaluation of DCA Trust’s application; which then led DCA Trust to challenge the ICANN Board decision through a series of accountability mechanism.

Africa (Petrarch)

Africa is an epic poem in Latin hexameters by the 14th century Italian poet Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca). It tells the story of the Second Punic War, in which the Carthaginian general Hannibal invaded Italy, but Roman forces were eventually victorious after an invasion of north Africa led by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the epic poem's hero.

Background

Africa and De viris illustribus were partially inspired by Petrarch's visit to Rome in 1337. According to Bergin and Wilson (p. ix). It seems very likely that the inspirational vision of the Eternal City must have been the immediate spur to the design of the Africa and probably De viris illustribus as well. After returning from his grand tour, the first sections of Africa were written in the valley of Vaucluse. Petrarch recalls

The fact that he abandoned it early on is not entirely correct since it was far along when he received two invitations (from Rome and from Paris) in September 1340 each asking him to accept the crown as poet laureate. A preliminary form of the poem was completed in time for the laurel coronation April 8, 1341 (Easter Sunday).

Africa (Perpetuum Jazzile album)

Africa is 2009 Perpetuum Jazzile album. By large most successful song from the album is a capella version of Toto's "Africa", the performance video of which has received more than 15 million YouTube views since its publishing in May 2009 until September 2013.

Track listing

References

Valli (disambiguation)

Valli is the Goddess consort of the Hindu God Murugan

Valli may also refer to:

See also

Valli (film)

Valli is a 1993 Tamil language film directed by K. Natraj, written and produced by Rajinikanth. It stars Sanjay and Priya Raman in the lead roles. The film's music was composed by Ilayaraja. This movie was dubbed into Telugu as 'Vijaya'. Rajinikanth scripted the film and appeared in an extended guest role. It was a big failure at the box office incurring huge losses to Rajinikanth, the producer.

Plot

Valli (Priya Raman) returns to her village after studying for 15 years in the city. Her cousin (Hariraj) celebrates her arrival to the city. He was in love with Valli since childhood days, but changed after she went to study in the city. She is no more in love with him. She falls in love with a city guy called Shekar (Sanjay) who comes to the village with his friends for hunting. Shekar cheats her and escapes to the city. Later Shekar is brought back by her cousin. Instead of marrying the city guy she kills him for cheating her.

Cast

Production

Valli (TV series)

Valli (Tamil: வள்ளி) is an Tamil soap opera that airs on Sun TV. The show premiered on 17 December 2012. It was initially aired from Monday to Friday at 2:00PM IST and later extended up to Saturday. A new show named Chandralekha replaced this show at 2:00PM and pushed this serial to 3:00PM IST instead since 6 October 2014. The show starring by Raj Kumar and Vidhya in lead roles.

The show is produced by Saregama and directed by R.P Maradhu, K.Shanmugam, R.Nandhakumar and N. Sundhareshwaran. The show completed its 900th episode on 8 February 2016. It also airs in Sri Lanka Tamil Channel on Vasantham TV.

Plot

Valli series is a story that portrays the courage shown by a small town girl who is very simple and ordinary by the looks. She runs away from the small town due to the troubles caused by her maternal uncle as he tries to get Valli married to a local guy for money.

Valli starts a fascinating journey seeking fresh hopes in life and an environment to suit herself. She hides her own identity in the new environment and tries settling into a new life without any burdens and sorrows. During this period, There comes a new problem which she had never imaged about.