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The word 'attar' is believed to have been derived from the Persian word itir, [3] which is in turn derived from the Arabic word 'itr (عطر), meaning 'perfume'. [4] [5]The earliest recorded mention of the techniques and methods used to produce essential oils is believed to be that of Ibn al-Baitar (1188–1248), an Al-Andalusian (Muslim Iberia) physician, pharmacist and chemist.
The board recommends nominees for agency director to a panel of four elected city officials: the New York City Public Advocate, the New York City Comptroller, a New York City borough president, and a representative of the City Council. The panel then elects the agency head, who serves a four-year term.
[4] [2] [5] [7] The comptroller's regulations are compiled in Title 44 of the New York City Rules. [8] If vacancies should simultaneously occur in the offices of Mayor of New York City and New York City Public Advocate (formerly president of the city council or board of aldermen), the comptroller would become acting mayor. [9]
The New York state comptroller is an elected constitutional officer of the U.S. state of New York and head of the New York state government's Department of Audit and Control. [2] Sixty-one individuals have held the office of State Comptroller since statehood. The incumbent is Thomas DiNapoli, a Democrat.
Notable mosques in the New York metropolitan region include the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, Masjid Malcolm Shabbaz, and the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson, New Jersey. In 2023, Mayor Eric Adams announced new rules allowing mosques in the city to broadcast the adhan on Fridays, and at sundown during the holy month of Ramadan.
Moroccanoil is an Israeli [2] [3] cosmetics company headquartered in New York City, [4] [5] [6] specializing in hair care products containing argan oil. The company was founded in 2008 in Montreal by Chilean-Canadian Carmen Tal and her Israeli then-husband Ofer Tal.
Thomas Peter DiNapoli (born February 10, 1954) [1] [2] is an American politician serving as the 54th and current New York State Comptroller since 2007. [3] A member of the Democratic Party, he was appointed by a bipartisan majority of the New York State Legislature to the position of comptroller on February 7, 2007.
A pile of goods outside the Cooper & Levy store in Seattle during the Klondike Gold Rush includes a container of Pratts Astral Oil, right of center. Charles Pratt and Company was an oil company that was formed in 1867 by Charles Pratt and Henry H. Rogers in Brooklyn, New York. It became part of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil organization in ...