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17326184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulekha.com | Indulekha.com | Indulekha.com () is an infotainment web portal for Malayalam books, movies, music, videos and paintings. The website publishes film and book reviews as well as other entertainment features. The website is edited by Swapna Tom Mangatt.
Indulekha is the first Keralan website to enter the Limca Book of Records after its exhibition of the complete works of Jnanpith Award winner M T Vasudevan Nair. Held between 18 April – 19 May 2006, the exhibition was the first of its kind in the history of Indian internet. Visitors were able to read selected pages from each of the books and leave their comments on the works.
Channels
The PINK channel depicts trends and temptations in fashion, home making, food and travel. And there's a section of personal finance named, Money Plant.
The GREEN channel is for the written word and the painted world, adorned by geniuses from Vaikom Muhammad Basheer to Balachandran Chullikkad; from Raja Ravi Varma to Bini Roy. The channel repletes with innovative features including excerpts from books and the best collection of Malayalam e-literature.
The ORANGE channel entertains with Malayalam movie and music updates, reviews, interviews and interesting videos.
References
External links
Indulekha official website
The HINDU bookworms on the net
The HINDU soccer book fair
Limca Book Of Indian Records
New Indian Express - Indulekha.com Enters Limca Book of Records
Indulekha - A journey through Malayalam literary works
New Indian Express Report on India's first online cartoon exhibition
Malayalam-language mass media
Mass media in Kerala
Online companies of India |
17326196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Masters%20Series%20Hamburg%20%E2%80%93%20Doubles | 2008 Masters Series Hamburg – Doubles | Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan were the defending champions, but Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić defeated them 6–4, 5–7, [10–8], in the final.
Seeds
All seeds receive a bye into the second round.
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
External links
Draw
Doubles |
17326215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20spreadsheet | Logical spreadsheet | A logical spreadsheet is a spreadsheet in which formulas take the form of logical constraints rather than function definitions.
In traditional spreadsheet systems, such as Excel, cells are partitioned into "directly specified" cells and "computed" cells and the formulas used to specify the values of computed cells are "functional", i.e. for every combination of values of the directly specified cells, the formulas specify unique values for the computed cells. Logical Spreadsheets relax these restrictions by dispensing with the distinction between directly specified cells and computed cells and generalizing from functional definitions to logical constraints.
As an illustration of the difference between traditional spreadsheets and logical spreadsheets, consider a simple numerical spreadsheet with three cells a, b, and c. Each cell accepts a single integer as value; and there is a formula stating that the value of the third cell is the sum of the values of the other two cells.
Implemented as a traditional spreadsheet, this spreadsheet would allow the user to enter values into cells a and b, and it would automatically compute cell c. For example, if the user were to type 1 into a and 2 into b, it would compute the value 3 for c.
Implemented as a logical spreadsheet, the user would be able to enter values into any of the cells. The user could type 1 into a and 2 into b, and the spreadsheet would compute the value 3 for c. Alternatively, the user could type 2 into b and 3 into c, and the spreadsheet would compute the value 1 for a. And so forth.
In this case, the formula is functional, and the function is invertible. In general, the formulas need not be functional and the functions need not be invertible. For example, in this case, we could write formulas involving inequalities and non-invertible functions (such as square root). More generally, we could build spreadsheets with symbolic, rather than numeric data, and write arbitrary logical constraints on this data.
References
J. Bongard et al.: Reports on the 2006 AAAI Fall Symposia, AI Magazine 28(1), 88-92, 2007.
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M. Kassoff, M. Genesereth: Predicalc, A Logical Spreadsheet Management System, The Knowledge Engineering Review, Vol. 22:3, 281-295, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Spreadsheet software |
20464225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20Basque%20regional%20election | 2009 Basque regional election | The 2009 Basque regional election was held on Sunday, 1 March 2009, to elect the 9th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in Galicia. It would be the first time that the elections for two of the Spanish "historical regions"—namely, those comprising Andalusia, Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country itself—were held simultaneously. This would evolve into an unwritten convention in subsequent years, with Basque and Galician elections being held concurrently in 2012, 2016 and 2020.
The 2009 Basque election was the first one to be held without any major electoral candidacy from the abertzale left, after their previous iterations—the Communist Party of the Basque Homelands (PCTV/EHAK) and Basque Nationalist Action (ANV)—had been outlawed in September 2008 because of their reported ties to ETA and the outlawed Batasuna party. In early February 2009, two political groupings formed by abertzale left members to contest the election, Demokrazia Hiru Milioi (D3M) and Askatasuna ("Freedom"), were barred from contesting the election by both the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court. In response, the abertzale left asked their voters to cast invalid ballots, both in protest to the court rulings and seeking to prevent tactical voting in favour of either Lehendakari Juan José Ibarretxe's Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) or Eusko Alkartasuna (EA).
The election resulted in an upset, as Basque nationalist parties lost their parliamentary majority for the first time in 30 years, paving the way for a non-PNV led government. The Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left (PSE–EE) under Patxi López gained seven seats to command a 25-strong caucus, the best historical showing of the party in a Basque regional election. The People's Party (PP), which had switched leaders less than a year before the election as former leader María San Gil quit over disagreements with the national leadership of Mariano Rajoy, had a net loss of two seats from 2005. The new Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) party, founded in 2007 by former PSOE member and regional minister Rosa Díez was able to achieve a breakthrough in Álava and have its regional candidate Gorka Maneiro elected. Meanwhile, PNV's previous coalition partners, Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) and Ezker Batua (EB), suffered a harsh electoral downturn with both their leaders losing their seats and resigning in the aftermath of the election.
The PSE formed a minority government with López as the first non-PNV lehendakari since 1979 through a confidence and supply agreement with the PP. While both parties had established an uneasy alliance in the Basque Country since the late 1990s despite their overall national rivalry, this would constitute the most relevant agreement reached between both parties at any level of administration.
Overview
Electoral system
The Basque Parliament was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of the Basque Country, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the regional Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a lehendakari.
Voting for the Parliament was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in the Basque Country and in full enjoyment of their political rights. The 75 members of the Basque Parliament were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of three percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Álava, Biscay and Gipuzkoa, being allocated a fixed number of 25 seats each to provide for an equal representation of the three provinces in parliament as required under the regional statute of autonomy. This meant that Álava was allocated the same number of seats as Biscay and Gipuzkoa, despite their populations being, as of 1 January 2009: 315,280, 1,154,628 and 704,173, respectively.
The use of the D'Hondt method might result in a higher effective threshold, depending on the district magnitude.
Election date
The term of the Basque Parliament expired four years after the date of its previous election, unless it was dissolved earlier. The election decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Gazette of the Basque Country (BOPV), with election day taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication. The previous election was held on 17 April 2005, which meant that the legislature's term would have expired on 17 April 2009. The election decree was required to be published in the BOPV no later than 24 March 2009, with the election taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for the Parliament on Sunday, 17 May 2009.
The lehendakari had the prerogative to dissolve the Basque Parliament at any given time and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process. In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a lehendakari within a sixty-day period from the Parliament re-assembly, the Parliament was to be dissolved and a fresh election called.
Lehendakari Ibarretxe had been scheduled to announce a snap election for autumn 2008 following his expected failure in holding a proposed referendum on the Basque Country's political status for 25 October 2008, to be averted by the Spanish government. The electoral defeat of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) in the 2008 Spanish general election in the region and internal opposition from the PNV leadership to an immediate election delayed the scheduled snap vote to early 2009. Finally on 3 January 2009, Ibarretxe took advantage of Galician president Emilio Pérez Touriño's previous announcement of a Galician election for 1 March to call the Basque election simultaneously, a move which was interpreted by the media and by political parties as intending to caught his political rivals by surprise (particularly, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the People's Party (PP), by forcing them to run two simultaneous election campaigns).
Background
The Ibarretxe Plan, a major proposal by Lehendakari Juan José Ibarretxe to reform the 1979 Basque Statute of Autonomy and turn the region into an associated state to Spain as a way to ending the ongoing conflict with the paramilitary ETA group, was brought to a standstill following its parliamentary defeat in a vote in the Congress of Deputies on 1 February 2005 and the subsequent electoral setback of Ibarretxe's coalition in the April 2005 regional election. On 22 March 2006, ETA declared a "permanent ceasefire" to allow for a peace process to ensue with the Spanish government under then-Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, but peace talks terminated as a result of the 2006 Madrid–Barajas Airport bombing on 30 December.
Later into the legislature on 28 September 2007, Ibarretxe attempted to revive his statute reform plan by announcing a new "right to decide roadmap" which provided for a referendum on the proposal being held by 25 October 2008, whether it was in agreement with the Spanish government or without it. The law establishing the legal framework allowing the Basque government to hold the vote was approved by the Basque Parliament in June 2008, but was subsequently suspended and overturned by the Constitutional Court, which ended up ruling that the law and the proposed referendum were unconstitutional.
On 31 August 2006, the leadership of Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) had voted for terminating their electoral alliance with the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) ahead of the 2007 foral and local elections, after seven years of collaboration; on 10 November 2008, the decision was made irreversible after EA announced its maintainment ahead of the incoming 2009 regional election. The 2007 elections had seen strong gains for the Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left (PSE–EE) and a decline for the parties supporting Ibarretxe's government, PNV, EA and Ezker Batua (EB), a situation confirmed one year later in the 2008 Spanish general election in the region as the PSE–EE emerged as the most voted party with 38.1% and 9 out of 18 Congress seats.
Concurrently, and in application of the 2002 Law of Political Parties—which allowed the outlawing of parties "whose activity violates democratic principles, particularly when it seeks to deteriorate or destroy the regime of freedoms or prevent or eliminate the democratic system by promoting, justifying or exculpating attacks on the life or integrity of people, legitimizing violence as a method to achieve political objectives or politically supporting the action of terrorist organizations to achieve their purposes of subverting the constitutional order"—the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court barred several parties from contesting elections because of their reported ties to ETA and the outlawed Batasuna party; namely, the Communist Party of the Basque Homelands (PCTV/EHAK), Basque Nationalist Action (ANV), several groupings created specifically to contest the 2007 local elections (such as Abertzale Sozialisten Batasuna and Abertzale Sozialistak) or the 2009 regional election (Demokrazia Hiru Milioi and Askatasuna).
Parliamentary composition
The Basque Parliament was officially dissolved on 6 January 2009, after the publication of the dissolution decree in the Official Gazette of the Basque Country. The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of dissolution.
Parties and candidates
The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.
Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:
Opinion polls
The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 38 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Basque Parliament.
Results
Overall
Distribution by constituency
Aftermath
Invalid votes
After Demokrazia Hiru Milioi (D3M) and Askatasuna ("Freedom") were outlawed in February 2009, Basque separatists were asked to cast their vote for D3M, whose ballots would be counted as invalid. According to some sources, the pro-independence Basque left (that were formerly represented by Batasuna and later by EHAK) was surprised by the lower support of their void option. If the void votes are to be counted as the support of this option, it would have obtained the worst results in their history, having received 100,924 void votes, 50,000 less than in the previous regional election and less than half their historical top in the 1998 election.
Major electoral analysis has been performed on the results and the issue of the void votes by pro-Basque nationalist and non-Basque nationalist parties alike. It is a frequent misunderstanding that, had the votes for the illegal lists been counted as valid, they would have been entitled to seven seats. Actually, taking into account that the average of "normal" void votes (struck-out names, double-voting, etc.) in the last three Basque regional elections (1998, 2001 and 2005) was about 0.4%, and assuming that all the void votes that could not be accounted for by that statistic alone were cast for a hypothetical unitary abertzale list (instead of for two different lists, Askatasuna and D3M), those ~97,000 votes would have accounted for at most 6 seats.
Government formation
The election results saw the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) of Lehendakari Juan José Ibarretxe securing a clear victory with 38.1% of the vote and 30 seats, but it came at the expense of Ibarretxe's erstwhile allies, Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) and Ezker Batua (EB). Together with Aralar, which had seen a remarkable rise of support in absence of electoral competition from other abertzale left parties—a result of their illegalization because of their ties with ETA and Batasuna—the parties in support of Ibarretxe could only muster 36 out of the 75 seats in the Basque Parliament, against 39 of the combined totals for the Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left (PSE–EE), the People's Party (PP) and Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD), meaning that for the first time since 1979 the possibility existed for a non-PNV lehendakari to be appointed. Upon learning of the results, PP regional leader Antonio Basagoiti proclaimed his satisfaction and announced his support for Socialist Patxi López as new lehendakari, who had previously announced that he felt "legitimated to lead the change" and would be running for investiture.
As the PNV–EA–EB alliance—in government since 2001—was no longer workable, the PNV attempted to figure out a coalition agreement with the PSE to remain in power, mirroring the historical collaboration that the two parties had maintained from 1986 to 1998, and hinting at withdrawing PNV's support to Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's government in the Cortes Generales if the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) did not back their plan. The PSE rejected supporting a new PNV administration even if Ibarretxe was replaced with a different candidate, conditioning any agreement on Patxi López becoming lehendakari, which the PNV refused. Instead, the PSE proposed the formation of a minority cabinet led by López that could be supported by the PP, ruling out a full-fledged coalition. Concurrently, the PSOE's national leadership supported López's bid and defended the PSE's autonomy to agree on any pact that their local branch deemed fit, despite the PNV's threat of withdrawing their support nationally.
Seeking to provide the new government of parliamentary stability, the PSE and the PP—which had been and still were arch-rivals at the national level—reached an unprecedented confidence and supply agreement on 30 March that would see the Basque nationalists ousted from power after 30 years of uninterrupted government. The PNV, which had dubbed any such agreement as "legitimate" but as a "fraud to the electorate" and an "act of political aggression", announced a "harsh" opposition to López's government and vowed to put forth Ibarretxe as their candidate in the investiture session, citing their "right" to head the government as the top-voted party. As part of their agreement, the PSE would support PP's Arantza Quiroga as new president of the Basque Parliament and treat the PP as their "preferred" parliamentary partner, whereas the PP would refrain from moving or supporting any vote of no confidence on the new cabinet.
López was elected as new lehendakari on a 39–35 vote in the investiture session held on 5 May 2009, garnering the additional support of the sole legislator from Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD), and was sworn in two days later. Simultaneously, his political defeat led Ibarretxe to announce his farewell from politics altogether, a move which would allow his party to reorganize itself from opposition hands-free and, eventually, lead to the abandonment of Ibarretxe's sovereigntist plans and discourse.
Notes
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20464229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go%20In%20and%20Out%20the%20Window | Go In and Out the Window | "Go In and Out the Window" is a popular song composed by Hall of Fame songwriter Lew Pollack (1895–1946). The song remains popular
as a children's music standard.
The lyrics of the song were featured in Shirley Jackson's horror novel "The Haunting of Hill House."
Melody c. 1762; lyrics "Bear Went" c. 1939 (Linscott); Earliest Date for US version of Go in and Out the Window: 1911; certainly dates back to 19th century. English versions published 1898.
External links
http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/go-in-and-out-the-window--version-3-english-1898.aspx
Children's songs
Songs written by Lew Pollack |
17326228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20structural%20engineering | History of structural engineering | The history of structural engineering dates back to at least 2700 BC when the step pyramid for Pharaoh Djoser was built by Imhotep, the first architect in history known by name. Pyramids were the most common major structures built by ancient civilizations because it is a structural form which is inherently stable and can be almost infinitely scaled (as opposed to most other structural forms, which cannot be linearly increased in size in proportion to increased loads).
Another notable engineering feat from antiquity still in use today is the qanat water management system.
Qanat technology developed in the time of the Medes, the predecessors of the Persian Empire (modern-day Iran which has the oldest and longest Qanat (older than 3000 years and longer than 71 km) that also spread to other cultures having had contact with the Persian.
Throughout ancient and medieval history most architectural design and construction was carried out by artisans, such as stone masons and carpenters, rising to the role of master builder. No theory of structures existed and understanding of how structures stood up was extremely limited, and based almost entirely on empirical evidence of 'what had worked before'. Knowledge was retained by guilds and seldom supplanted by advances. Structures were repetitive, and increases in scale were incremental.
No record exists of the first calculations of the strength of structural members or the behaviour of structural material, but the profession of structural engineer only really took shape with the Industrial Revolution and the re-invention of concrete (see History of concrete). The physical sciences underlying structural engineering began to be understood in the Renaissance and have been developing ever since.
Early structural engineering
The recorded history of structural engineering starts with the ancient Egyptians. In the 27th century BC, Imhotep was the first structural engineer known by name and constructed the first known step pyramid in Egypt. In the 26th century BC, the Great Pyramid of Giza was constructed in Egypt. It remained the largest man-made structure for millennia and was considered an unsurpassed feat in architecture until the 19th century AD.
The understanding of the physical laws that underpin structural engineering in the Western world dates back to the 3rd century BC, when Archimedes published his work On the Equilibrium of Planes in two volumes, in which he sets out the Law of the Lever, stating:
Archimedes used the principles derived to calculate the areas and centers of gravity of various geometric figures including triangles, paraboloids, and hemispheres. Archimedes's work on this and his work on calculus and geometry, together with Euclidean geometry, underpin much of the mathematics and understanding of structures in modern structural engineering.
The ancient Romans made great bounds in structural engineering, pioneering large structures in masonry and concrete, many of which are still standing today. They include aqueducts, thermae, columns, lighthouses, defensive walls and harbours. Their methods are recorded by Vitruvius in his De Architectura written in 25 BC, a manual of civil and structural engineering with extensive sections on materials and machines used in construction. One reason for their success is their accurate surveying techniques based on the dioptra, groma and chorobates.
During the High Middle Ages (11th to 14th centuries) builders were able to balance the side thrust of vaults with that of flying buttresses and side vaults, to build tall spacious structures, some of which were built entirely of stone (with iron pins only securing the ends of stones) and have lasted for centuries.
In the 15th and 16th centuries and despite lacking beam theory and calculus, Leonardo da Vinci produced many engineering designs based on scientific observations and rigour, including a design for a bridge to span the Golden Horn. Though dismissed at the time, the design has since been judged to be both feasible and structurally valid
The foundations of modern structural engineering were laid in the 17th century by Galileo Galilei, Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton with the publication of three great scientific works. In 1638 Galileo published Dialogues Relating to Two New Sciences, outlining the sciences of the strength of materials and the motion of objects (essentially defining gravity as a force giving rise to a constant acceleration). It was the first establishment of a scientific approach to structural engineering, including the first attempts to develop a theory for beams. This is also regarded as the beginning of structural analysis, the mathematical representation and design of building structures.
This was followed in 1676 by Robert Hooke's first statement of Hooke's Law, providing a scientific understanding of elasticity of materials and their behaviour under load.
Eleven years later, in 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, setting out his Laws of Motion, providing for the first time an understanding of the fundamental laws governing structures.
Also in the 17th century, Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz both independently developed the Fundamental theorem of calculus, providing one of the most important mathematical tools in engineering.
Further advances in the mathematics needed to allow structural engineers to apply the understanding of structures gained through the work of Galileo, Hooke and Newton during the 17th century came in the 18th century when Leonhard Euler pioneered much of the mathematics and many of the methods which allow structural engineers to model and analyse structures. Specifically, he developed the Euler–Bernoulli beam equation with Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782) circa 1750 - the fundamental theory underlying most structural engineering design.
Daniel Bernoulli, with Johann (Jean) Bernoulli (1667–1748), is also credited with formulating the theory of virtual work, providing a tool using equilibrium of forces and compatibility of geometry to solve structural problems. In 1717 Jean Bernoulli wrote to Pierre Varignon explaining the principle of virtual work, while in 1726 Daniel Bernoulli wrote of the "composition of forces".
In 1757 Leonhard Euler went on to derive the Euler buckling formula, greatly advancing the ability of engineers to design compression elements.
Modern developments in structural engineering
Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, materials science and structural analysis underwent development at a tremendous pace.
Though elasticity was understood in theory well before the 19th century, it was not until 1821 that Claude-Louis Navier formulated the general theory of elasticity in a mathematically usable form. In his leçons of 1826 he explored a great range of different structural theory, and was the first to highlight that the role of a structural engineer is not to understand the final, failed state of a structure, but to prevent that failure in the first place. In 1826 he also established the elastic modulus as a property of materials independent of the second moment of area, allowing engineers for the first time to both understand structural behaviour and structural materials.
Towards the end of the 19th century, in 1873, Carlo Alberto Castigliano presented his dissertation "Intorno ai sistemi elastici", which contains his theorem for computing displacement as partial derivative of the strain energy.
In 1824, Portland cement was patented by the engineer Joseph Aspdin as "a superior cement resembling Portland Stone", British Patent no. 5022. Although different forms of cement already existed (Pozzolanic cement was used by the Romans as early as 100 B.C. and even earlier by the ancient Greek and Chinese civilizations) and were in common usage in Europe from the 1750s, the discovery made by Aspdin used commonly available, cheap materials, making concrete construction an economical possibility.
Developments in concrete continued with the construction in 1848 of a rowing boat built of ferrocement - the forerunner of modern reinforced concrete - by Joseph-Louis Lambot. He patented his system of mesh reinforcement and concrete in 1855, one year after W.B. Wilkinson also patented a similar system. This was followed in 1867 when a reinforced concrete planting tub was patented by Joseph Monier in Paris, using steel mesh reinforcement similar to that used by Lambot and Wilkinson. Monier took the idea forward, filing several patents for tubs, slabs and beams, leading eventually to the Monier system of reinforced structures, the first use of steel reinforcement bars located in areas of tension in the structure.
Steel construction was first made possible in the 1850s when Henry Bessemer developed the Bessemer process to produce steel. He gained patents for the process in 1855 and 1856 and successfully completed the conversion of cast iron into cast steel in 1858. Eventually mild steel would replace both wrought iron and cast iron as the preferred metal for construction.
During the late 19th century, great advancements were made in the use of cast iron, gradually replacing wrought iron as a material of choice. Ditherington Flax Mill in Shrewsbury, designed by Charles Bage, was the first building in the world with an interior iron frame. It was built in 1797. In 1792 William Strutt had attempted to build a fireproof mill at Belper in Derby (Belper West Mill), using cast iron columns and timber beams within the depths of brick arches that formed the floors. The exposed beam soffits were protected against fire by plaster. This mill at Belper was the world's first attempt to construct fireproof buildings, and is the first example of fire engineering. This was later improved upon with the construction of Belper North Mill, a collaboration between Strutt and Bage, which by using a full cast iron frame represented the world's first "fire proofed" building.
The Forth Bridge was built by Benjamin Baker, Sir John Fowler and William Arrol in 1889, using steel, after the original design for the bridge by Thomas Bouch was rejected following the collapse of his Tay Rail Bridge. The Forth Bridge was one of the first major uses of steel, and a landmark in bridge design. Also in 1889, the wrought-iron Eiffel Tower was built by Gustave Eiffel and Maurice Koechlin, demonstrating the potential of construction using iron, despite the fact that steel construction was already being used elsewhere.
During the late 19th century, Russian structural engineer Vladimir Shukhov developed analysis methods for tensile structures, thin-shell structures, lattice shell structures and new structural geometries such as hyperboloid structures. Pipeline transport was pioneered by Vladimir Shukhov and the Branobel company in the late 19th century.
Again taking reinforced concrete design forwards, from 1892 onwards François Hennebique's firm used his patented reinforced concrete system to build thousands of structures throughout Europe. Thaddeus Hyatt in the US and Wayss & Freitag in Germany also patented systems. The firm AG für Monierbauten constructed 200 reinforced concrete bridges in Germany between 1890 and 1897 The great pioneering uses of reinforced concrete however came during the first third of the 20th century, with Robert Maillart and others furthering of the understanding of its behaviour. Maillart noticed that many concrete bridge structures were significantly cracked, and as a result left the cracked areas out of his next bridge design - correctly believing that if the concrete was cracked, it was not contributing to the strength. This resulted in the revolutionary Salginatobel Bridge design. Wilhelm Ritter formulated the truss theory for the shear design of reinforced concrete beams in 1899, and Emil Mörsch improved this in 1902. He went on to demonstrate that treating concrete in compression as a linear-elastic material was a conservative approximation of its behaviour. Concrete design and analysis has been progressing ever since, with the development of analysis methods such as yield line theory, based on plastic analysis of concrete (as opposed to linear-elastic), and many different variations on the model for stress distributions in concrete in compression
Prestressed concrete, pioneered by Eugène Freyssinet with a patent in 1928, gave a novel approach in overcoming the weakness of concrete structures in tension. Freyssinet constructed an experimental prestressed arch in 1908 and later used the technology in a limited form in the Plougastel Bridge in France in 1930. He went on to build six prestressed concrete bridges across the Marne River, firmly establishing the technology.
Structural engineering theory was again advanced in 1930 when Professor Hardy Cross developed his Moment distribution method, allowing the real stresses of many complex structures to be approximated quickly and accurately.
In the mid 20th century John Fleetwood Baker went on to develop the plasticity theory of structures, providing a powerful tool for the safe design of steel structures. The possibility of creating structures with complex geometries, beyond analysis by hand calculation methods, first arose in 1941 when Alexander Hrennikoff submitted his D.Sc thesis at MIT on the topic of discretization of plane elasticity problems using a lattice framework. This was the forerunner to the development of finite element analysis. In 1942, Richard Courant developed a mathematical basis for finite element analysis. This led in 1956 to the publication by J. Turner, R. W. Clough, H. C. Martin, and L. J. Topp's of a paper on the "Stiffness and Deflection of Complex Structures". This paper introduced the name "finite-element method" and is widely recognised as the first comprehensive treatment of the method as it is known today.
High-rise construction, though possible from the late 19th century onwards, was greatly advanced during the second half of the 20th century. Fazlur Khan designed structural systems that remain fundamental to many modern high rise constructions and which he employed in his structural designs for the John Hancock Center in 1969 and Sears Tower in 1973. Khan's central innovation in skyscraper design and construction was the idea of the "tube" and "bundled tube" structural systems for tall buildings. He defined the framed tube structure as "a three dimensional space structure composed of three, four, or possibly more frames, braced frames, or shear walls, joined at or near their edges to form a vertical tube-like structural system capable of resisting lateral forces in any direction by cantilevering from the foundation." Closely spaced interconnected exterior columns form the tube. Horizontal loads, for example wind, are supported by the structure as a whole. About half the exterior surface is available for windows. Framed tubes allow fewer interior columns, and so create more usable floor space. Where larger openings like garage doors are required, the tube frame must be interrupted, with transfer girders used to maintain structural integrity. The first building to apply the tube-frame construction was in the DeWitt-Chestnut Apartment Building which Khan designed in Chicago. This laid the foundations for the tube structures used in most later skyscraper constructions, including the construction of the World Trade Center.
Another innovation that Fazlur Khan developed was the concept of X-bracing, which reduced the lateral load on the building by transferring the load into the exterior columns. This allowed for a reduced need for interior columns thus creating more floor space, and can be seen in the John Hancock Center. The first sky lobby was also designed by Khan for the John Hancock Center in 1969. Later buildings with sky lobbies include the World Trade Center, Petronas Twin Towers and Taipei 101.
In 1987 Jörg Schlaich and Kurt Schafer published the culmination of almost ten years of work on the strut and tie method for concrete analysis - a tool to design structures with discontinuities such as corners and joints, providing another powerful tool for the analysis of complex concrete geometries.
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries the development of powerful computers has allowed finite element analysis to become a significant tool for structural analysis and design. The development of finite element programs has led to the ability to accurately predict the stresses in complex structures, and allowed great advances in structural engineering design and architecture. In the 1960s and 70s computational analysis was used in a significant way for the first time on the design of the Sydney Opera House roof. Many modern structures could not be understood and designed without the use of computational analysis.
Developments in the understanding of materials and structural behaviour in the latter part of the 20th century have been significant, with detailed understanding being developed of topics such as fracture mechanics, earthquake engineering, composite materials, temperature effects on materials, dynamics and vibration control, fatigue, creep and others. The depth and breadth of knowledge now available in structural engineering, and the increasing range of different structures and the increasing complexity of those structures has led to increasing specialisation of structural engineers.
See also
Base isolation
History of sanitation and water supply
Qanat water management system
References
External links
"World Expos. A history of structures". Isaac López César. A history of architectural structures over the last 150 years.
3rd-millennium BC introductions
Structural engineering |
17326234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyot | Lyot | Lyot may refer to:
Bernard Lyot, French astronomer
Lyot filter
Lyot stop
Lyot depolarizer
Lyot (lunar crater)
Lyot (Martian crater)
2452 Lyot, asteroid
Bernard Lyot Telescope |
17326268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%20and%20Navy%20YMCA | Army and Navy YMCA | The Army and Navy YMCA is a historic YMCA building at 50 Washington Square in Newport, Rhode Island. It is a five-story concrete, masonry, and brick building, designed by Louis E. Jallade and built in 1911 by the Norcross Brothers. It occupies a small, irregularly-shaped city block at the upper end of Washington Square, Newport's historic civic center. The building was constructed in a Beaux Arts style, with limestone finish predominating on the main facades, with some terra cotta paneling. Mrs. Thomas Emery, a philanthropist from Cincinnati, Ohio, funded its construction to provide services for Navy members when Newport was a major center of the United States Navy. YMCA closed after the Navy significantly reduced its presence in Newport in 1973. The building now serves as low income (section 8) housing.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Although it is within the boundaries of the Newport Historic District, a National Historic Landmark, it does not contribute to its significance, which has a cutoff date of 1820.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
External links
Quahog.com information on History
Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Buildings and structures completed in 1911
Buildings and structures in Newport, Rhode Island
YMCA buildings in the United States
Historic American Buildings Survey in Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport, Rhode Island |
17326275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohse | Lohse | Lohse is a German-language surname. Notable people with the name include:
Adolf Lohse (1807–1867), Prussian master builder and architect
Anna Lohse (1866–1942), Danish teacher and women's rights activist
Bobby Lohse (born 1958), Swedish sailor
Brian Lohse (born 1968), American politician
Bruno Lohse (1911–2007), German art dealer and looter during World War II
Detlef Lohse (born 1963), German physicist
Ernst Lohse (1944–1994), Danish architect and designer
Gustav Lohse (1911–1999), German film editor
Hinrich Lohse (1896–1964), Nazi German politician and convicted war criminal
Kyle Lohse (born 1978), American baseball pitcher
Martin Lohse (born 1971), Danish composer and visual artist
Martin J. Lohse (born 1956), German physician and pharmacologist
Oswald Lohse (1845–1915), German astronomer
Otto Lohse (1859–1925), German conductor and composer
René Lohse (born 1973), German ice dancer
Richard Paul Lohse (1902–1988), Swiss painter and graphic artist
Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899–1940), German avant-garde painter
German-language surnames
Surnames from given names |
17326286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory%20of%20everything%20%28disambiguation%29 | Theory of everything (disambiguation) | A theory of everything is a hypothetical physical theory that would explain all known physical phenomena.
Theory of everything may also refer to:
Philosophy
Theory of everything (philosophy), a hypothetical all-encompassing philosophical explanation of nature or reality
A Theory of Everything, a book by Ken Wilber dealing with his "integral theory"
Film and television
"The Theory of Everything" (CSI), an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
The Theory of Everything (2006 film), a TV film
The Theory of Everything (2014 film), a biographical film about Stephen and Jane Hawking
Music
Theory of Everything (album), 2010 album by Children Collide
The Theory of Everything (Ayreon album), 2013
The Theory of Everything (Life On Planet 9 album), 2014
Theory of Everything, a series of tracks by electronic composer DJ-Nate, of which two are used as the background music of levels in the video game Geometry Dash
See also
Theory of Everything (podcast), a radio show and then podcast by Benjamen Walker
Toe (disambiguation) |
17326290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSDAP/AO%20%281972%29 | NSDAP/AO (1972) | The NSDAP/AO is an American neo-Nazi organization. It was founded in 1972 by United States citizen Gary Rex Lauck (born in 1953) in Fairbury, Nebraska. The organization's name stands for "NSDAP Aufbau- und Auslandsorganisation" ("NSDAP Development and Foreign Organization").
Lauck's organization claims to be a continuation of the original NSDAP – the German initials for the full name of the Nazi Party – and supplies neo-Nazis worldwide with propaganda material. Since 1973 this new NSDAP/AO publishes neo-Nazi magazines – "NS-Kampfruf", for example – by his own account in ten languages. As one of its political aims it demands the readmission of the NSDAP as an eligible party in Germany and Austria. The group has also been active in a number of countries across Europe, both co-ordinating with local movements and distributing propaganda individually.
References
External links
NSDAP/AO
'Farmbelt Fuehrer' loses web case, BBC News, January 25, 2002.
When Laws Conflict, Intelligence Report, Issue Number 103, Fall 2001
Elliot Welles: A Survivor Faces A New 'Fuhrer', Anti-Defamation League, Press Release, May 22, 1996
Nancy Finken: Nebraska's Nazi, Nebraska Public Radio, March 24, 1995 (quoted after Statewide, Nebraska's weekly news journal)
Nazi Lauck NSDAP/AO
Neo-Nazi organizations in the United States
Organizations established in 1972
Organizations based in Lincoln, Nebraska |
17326302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster%20Adams | Buster Adams | Elvin Clark "Buster" Adams (June 24, 1915 – September 1, 1990) was a major league outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies in and between and .
Early life
Adams was born in 1915 in Trinidad, Colorado. He graduated from Bisbee High School in Bisbee, Arizona, in 1935. He spent a year playing in the Western Association before moving to the Pacific Coast League (PCL) for the 1936 season.
Early professional career
In 1936, Adams began playing for the Sacramento Solons of the PCL; he played in the PCL off-and-on for the next 16 seasons. When Adams broke his leg during the 1936 season, he had been leading the PCL in stolen bases, but he missed much of the season with that injury. Adams was in spring training with the St. Louis Cardinals in March 1939 when his jaw was fractured after he was struck with a thrown ball. He still made his major league debut on April 27, 1939 for the Cardinals, but appeared in only two games that season. He was cut in early May.
In May 1941, Alan Ward of the Oakland Tribune wrote that Adams had been playing with a stomach illness for a couple of seasons. He was hitting .423 for the Sacramento Solons at the time. Adams finished the season with a .285 batting average in 1941 and then hit .309 the next season.
Later career
Adams returned to the majors with the Cardinals in 1943, playing in eight games before being traded to the Phillies. He played the rest of that season, all of 1944, and the first 14 games of 1945 with the Phillies. Though Adams had been able to play through his stomach ailment, the illness rendered him ineligible to serve in the military in 1944.
In May 1945, Adams was traded back to the Cardinals for John Antonelli and Glenn Crawford. Adams played mostly in center field; a slot had opened up in the outfield because Stan Musial was serving in the military. Adams put together his best season with the Cardinals in 1945 and finished 18th in voting for the MVP Award. He finished the season with 109 runs batted in; his 101 RBI with the Cardinals was a record for a Cardinals center fielder until 1987.
Adams also played in 1946 with the Cardinals and 1947 with the Phillies. He returned to the PCL after that and played until 1951.
In 576 major league games over six seasons, Adams posted a .266 batting average (532-for-2003) with 282 runs, 96 doubles, 12 triples, 50 home runs, 249 RBI and 234 bases on balls. He recorded a .979 fielding percentage playing at all three outfield positions.
Later life
Adams died of congestive heart failure in Rancho Mirage, California, in 1990.
References
External links
1915 births
1990 deaths
Baseball players from Colorado
Columbus Red Birds players
Major League Baseball outfielders
People from Trinidad, Colorado
Philadelphia Phillies players
Rochester Red Wings players
Sacramento Solons players
St. Louis Cardinals players
San Diego Padres (minor league) players
San Francisco Seals (baseball) players
Springfield Cardinals players |
20464233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20Newsweek%20Champions%20Cup%20%E2%80%93%20Singles | 1998 Newsweek Champions Cup – Singles | Michael Chang was the two-time defending champion, but did not participate this year.
Marcelo Ríos won the title, defeating Greg Rusedski 6–3, 6–7(15–17), 7–6(7–4), 6–4 in the final.
Seeds
The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
Qualifying
Seeds
Qualifiers
Lucky loser
Nicolás Lapentti
Qualifying draw
First qualifier
Second qualifier
Third qualifier
Fourth qualifier
Fifth qualifier
Sixth qualifier
Seventh qualifier
References
Official results archive (ATP)
Official results archive (ITF)
Newsweek Champions Cup |
17326311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%20Redhawks | Washington Redhawks | The Washington Redhawks was a culture jam created by a group of Native Americans to draw attention to the Washington Redskins name controversy. In 2020, the team retired the Redskins branding amidst the removal of many names and images as part of the George Floyd protests. The football team was later renamed the Washington Commanders in 2022.
Action
On December 13, 2017 a Native American group, Rising Hearts, created several authentic-appearing websites and a Twitter campaign, that seemed to announce that the Washington Redskins had agreed to change its name to the Washington Redhawks for the 2018 season. The sites included one for the team, and for several news outlets: The Washington Post, ESPN, Sports Illustrated and the Bleacher Report. After an initial period, a disclaimer was posted on each spoofed page with a link to a press release explaining the group's action.
The organizers describe their tactic as culture jamming, and state that their intention is to stimulate debate that will eventually lead to an actual name change. Rather than presenting the continued hostility of the debate, their action provided an opportunity for change advocates to write about the positive responses and outcomes that would follow the change.
Rising Hearts Coalition included Rebecca Nagle (Cherokee Nation), Sebastian Medina-Tayac (Piscataway), Valarie Marie Proctor (Cedarville Band of Piscataway), Jair Carrasco, (Aymara), Lindsay Rodriguez (Cheyenne Arapaho), Jordan Marie Daniel (Kul Wicasa Oyate) and Nick Courtney (Makah).
Response
The Washington Redskins posted a message on their own web site stating: "This morning, the Redskins organization was made aware of fraudulent websites about our team name. The name of the team is the Washington Redskins and will remain that for the future."
At a news conference the following day the organizers of Rising Hearts stated that their effort was satire or parody, and were surprised that the Redskins issued a statement denying any plans to change, as if it were serious, or "fake news".
Reaction to the "culture jam" was varied among Native Americans depending upon whether the action was taken seriously or recognized for what it was. Some who took it seriously were elated, then felt betrayed when they found out it was not true. However, the action was supported by some long-time activists on the issue including Suzan Shown Harjo and Jacqueline Keeler, who agreed that it served to stimulate new attention. In an interview, the organizers took exception to the framing of their action as a "hoax", which has negative connotations of intending to mislead, which was not their intent.
Washington Post sports columnist Thomas Boswell wrote based upon his experience when his alma mater, Amherst College, changed its mascot in 2016 from "Lord Jeff" to the "Mammoths". Although he was as attached to his team's mascot as any fan, he understood the reason for the change, and got over it quickly. The reason was letters that were discovered revealing that Lord Jeffery Amherst had advocated the use of smallpox-infected blankets as a weapon against Native Americans not to defeat, but to exterminate them. "Nicknames such as the Lord Jeffs and the Redskins are two illustrations of the same issue. In the beginning, no one means any harm. But once you know better, and don’t change, that's when the harm starts." Boswell later explained that while dropping the team nickname, which was never official, was no big deal; changing the name of the town and college also named for the same person would be difficult.
In Forbes, Demetrius Bell compliments the creators, stating "The best part of any hoax is ultimately how believable the hoax could be and from top to bottom, this is one of the more believable hoaxes that you'll see. If the team did indeed make the incredibly shocking decision to change their nickname and logo, then it wouldn't be a huge shock to see them go the conservative route with a change as relatively simple as this."
In July 2020, the team retired the Redskins branding amidst the removal of many names and images as part of the George Floyd protests. On February 2, 2022, the team was renamed the Washington Commanders.
Parody websites
References
21st-century controversies
Anti-indigenous racism in the United States
Cultural appropriation
National Football League controversies
Native American topics
Native American-related controversies
Sports mascots in the United States
Name controversy |
17326318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Simons | David Simons | David Simons may refer to:
David G. Simons (1922–2010), American physician and U.S. Air Force officer who set a record of high-altitude balloon flight
J. David Simons (born 1953), Scottish novelist and short story writer
David Simons, developer of Simons' BASIC
Dave Simons (1954–2009), American comic book artist
D. Brenton Simons, president and CEO of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
See also
David Simon (disambiguation)
David Simmons (disambiguation) |
17326321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20Wide%20Bay | ABC Wide Bay | ABC Wide Bay is an ABC Local Radio station based in Bundaberg broadcasting to the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland. This includes the towns of Maryborough, Gympie, Hervey Bay and Mundubbera.
History
The station began broadcasting as 4QB in 1948 originally as a relay of the national program. The station was originally based in Maryborough, the traditional capital of the Wide-Bay region.
The station negotiated with the School of Arts in 1950 to rent out a small office on the first floor of the school's building for broadcast, and thus it was opened 20 November, 1950. Programs originally consisted of music and local information. The station's local services increased over the years, and in 1952 the first proper newsroom was established with Don Harvey at the helm.
In October of that year a new Rural Officer position was established and that person was responsible for putting to air a special rural program every day. In 1954 and 1962 new renovations to the transmitters meant that the station could reach many more communities outside the Maryborough region.
In 1990 the station moved from its Maryborough studios to a new studio at 58 Woongarra Street in Bundaberg, to better broadcast to the region. The ABC still administered a Maryborough bureau, on 146 Bazaar Street, which staffed a rural reporter to cover news from that region.
The ABC closed its Maryborough bureau in the late 1990s to early 2000s.
In April 2022, the ABC opened a new Hervey Bay bureau to improve its coverage of the Fraser Coast. Staffed by two journalists, the new Hervey Bay bureau on Boat Harbour Drive was established as part of the ABC's regional expansion. To mark the bureau's opening, ABC Wide Bay held an outside broadcast at Scarness Jetty, which was attended by Gardening Australia personality Costa Georgiadis.
Transmitters
The station broadcasts through the following main AM and FM transmitters along with low power FM repeaters:
Local Programs
ABC Wide Bay broadcasts four local programs throughout the week.
Wide Bay Rural Report 6:15 - 6:30 - presented by Megan Hughes
Breakfast 6:35 - 8:00 - presented by David Dowsett
Mornings 10:00 - 11:00 - presented by Ross Kay
Saturday Breakfast 6:00 - 8:00 - presented by Ross Kay
At all other times the station is a relay of ABC Brisbane, which itself at times broadcasts networked programming from across Australia.
Staff
As of 2021, there are a total of ten full-time staff and several casuals at ABC Wide Bay.
References
See also
List of radio stations in Australia
Wide Bay
Radio stations in Queensland |
17326366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Kennedy | Mark Kennedy | Mark Kennedy may refer to:
Mark Kennedy (judge) (born 1952), American jurist
Mark Kennedy (Australian footballer) (born 1972), Australian rules footballer
Mark Kennedy (boxer) (born 1967), Jamaica boxer
Mark Kennedy (footballer, born 1976), Irish football player
Mark Kennedy (musician) (born 1951), Australian musician
Mark Kennedy (police officer) (born 1969), British undercover police officer
Mark Kennedy (politician) (born 1957), American politician and university president
See also
Marc Kennedy (born 1982), Canadian curler |
20464254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20Andorran%20parliamentary%20election | 2009 Andorran parliamentary election | Parliamentary elections were held in Andorra on 26 April 2009, the fourth under the 1993 Constitution. The elections were held at the end of the normal four-year term of the General Council (Consell General, Andorra's parliament), but also following months of intense pressure from Co-Prince Nicolas Sarkozy to change the country's banking secrecy laws.
The Social Democratic Party led by Jaume Bartumeu was the clear winner, with 45.03% of votes for its national list, followed by the "Reformist Coalition" led by the Liberal Party of Andorra (32.34%) and the new Andorra for Change party (18.86%). The Social Democrats hold fourteen seats in the General Council, against eleven for the Liberals and three for Andorra for Change.
The electorate, restricted to Andorran citizens, was 20,298 voters out of a population of about 85,000. There were 114 candidates for 28 seats, more than one candidate for every 200 voters. Turnout was 75.3%.
Issues
The main issue in the elections is the possible changes required to Andorra's economic model to facilitate its international relations.
On 11 March 2009, three weeks before the 2009 G-20 London Summit, the Head of Government Albert Pintat made a unilateral declaration in Paris promising to improve the exchange of information (for tax purposes) about non-residents who hold bank accounts in Andorra. He committed the incoming government to drafting changes to the banking secrecy laws by 1 September 2009, which would then be passed by the General Council before 15 November 2009. He also announced that he would not be leading the Liberal Party of Andorra in the elections so as to devote his time to negotiating tax treaties with other countries, starting with France. Such agreements would also abolish the punitive customs duties which France and Spain impose on Andorran exports (33% and 25% respectively). The Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party have agreed to cooperate in the drafting of the new legislation.
The negotiation of tax treaties is complicated by the present tax structure of Andorra. The state is funded mostly by indirect taxation, such as levies on water supplies and telecommunications, and by fees for administrative permits. The Social Democratic Party proposes the introduction of income tax and value added tax, albeit at low rates, whereas the Liberal Party prefers keeping changes to the tax system to a minimum. Andorra for Change rejects any changes whatsoever to the current system.
A third issue is the relationship Andorra should have with the European Economic Area (EEA): at present, Andorra has a limited set of bilateral agreements with the European Union in the fields of economic, social, and cultural cooperation, signed in June 2004. The Social Democratic Party favours expanding these into a fully fledged association agreement; the Liberal Party is more reticent, but has promised to cooperate in any discussions.
Electoral system
Twenty-eight "general councillors" were elected on 26 April 2009, based on party lists (closed list system):
two general councillors from each of the seven parishes, elected from the list with most votes in each parish;
fourteen general councillors elected from national lists using the largest remainder method of proportional representation.
The parish lists and the national list are independent of one another: the same person cannot appear on both the national list and on a parish list, and voters cast two separate ballots (there is no requirement to vote for the same party for both lists).
Party lists
Results
References
"Law 28/2007": Llei 28/2007, del 22 de novembre, qualificada de modificació de la Llei qualificada del règim electoral i del referèndum.
External links
Official site on the 2009 parliamentary elections from the Government of Andorra
El Periòdic d'Andorra , daily newspaper
Diari d'Andorra, daily newspaper
Homepages for party lists
Reformist Coalition
Social Democratic Party
Andorra for Change
National Union of Progress
Greens of Andorra
Parliamentary
Andorra
Parliamentary elections in Andorra
General Council (Andorra)
April 2009 events in Europe |
17326391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery%20Park | Artillery Park | The Artillery Park (also known as the Churchyard Cemetery) is an historic cemetery at North Road and Narragansett Avenue in Jamestown, Rhode Island. It is located at a high point on the southern part of Conanicut Island. It was originally laid out in 1656 as a burying ground and militia training ground, but appears to have been used as a burying ground only since the 1740s. When British forces occupied the island in 1776, there was a brief skirmish there, and the British afterward used the area as a military staging ground. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References and external links
Town of Jamestown: Artillery info
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
1656 establishments in Rhode Island
Jamestown, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island |
17326407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ning%20Chunhong | Ning Chunhong | Ning Chunhong (; born January 21, 1968) is a Chinese chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She was in the Top 50 Women rating list from October 2001 to 2002.
In 1992 she won the women's section of the World University Chess Championship in Antwerp, Belgium.
She was awarded the title of FIDE Arbiter in 2008.
Ning plays for Tianjin chess club in the China Chess League (CCL).
See also
Chess in China
References
External links
1968 births
Living people
Chinese female chess players
Chess woman grandmasters
Chess arbiters
Place of birth missing (living people) |
20464260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldenstriped%20soapfish | Goldenstriped soapfish | The goldenstriped soapfish (Grammistes sexlineatus), also known as the lined soapfish, golden-striped bass, radio fish, sixline soapfish, six-lined perch or white-lined rock cod, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, related to the groupers and classified within the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae. It is has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution.
Description
Grammistes sexlineatus is a middle sized fish, which can grow to a maximum length of 30 cm. Its background body color is dark brown with a maximum of six white to yellow horizontal lines. The number of lines depends on the maturity of the fish. Juveniles have white to yellow dots on a dark background until an approximate size of 17.5 mm. Thereafter, the points gradually become lines. At a length of 5 cm, these soap fish have three horizontal lines. Only from 8 cm long that the soapfish gets the six distinctive horizontal lines. Note that in adult specimens close to the maximum size, these lines tend to sever to form small strokes and points.
Distribution and habitat
The six lined soapfish is widespread throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific area from the eastern coast of Africa to the oceanic islands of the Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii and the Red Sea as well as from southern Japan to northern New Zealand.
This soapfish occurs in coastal rocky and coral reefs from shallow to 40–50 meters depth.
Biology
Individuals are generally solitary in their reef habitat. They usually stay hidden in crevices, and are most active at night.
Like other fish in the subfamily Grammistinae, this species produces a toxin from the skin. The toxins in the skin secretions are known as grammistins. These secretions resemble lathered soap and are the basis for the common name of Soap Fish. This is not caught as a food fish because the flesh reportedly has a bitter, unpleasant taste.
Taxonomy
The goldenstriped soapfish was first formally described as Perca sixlineata in 1792 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828) with the type locality given as the East Indies or Japan.
References
External links
goldenstriped soapfish
Fish of the Indian Ocean
Fish of the Pacific Ocean
goldenstriped soapfish |
17326413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Adams%20%28baseball%29 | Jim Adams (baseball) | James J. Adams (born 1868) was an American major league baseball catcher. He played professionally for the St. Louis Browns.
Career
Adams was born in 1868 in East St. Louis, Illinois. He played in one game for the St. Louis Browns on April 21, 1890. He hit one single in four at-bats during the game. In addition to his brief appearance for the Browns, he played on various minor league teams from 1889–1892 and again in 1899–1900.
He was briefly the player/manager of the Aspen, Colorado team in the Colorado State League in 1889.
References
External links
Baseball Almanac
1868 births
Baseball players from Illinois
Major League Baseball catchers
St. Louis Browns (AA) players
19th-century baseball players
Year of death unknown
Sportspeople from East St. Louis, Illinois
Pueblo Ponies players
Aspen (minor league baseball) players
Fort Worth Panthers players
Carthage (minor league baseball) players
Ottumwa Coal Palaces players
Macon Central City players
New Orleans Pelicans (baseball) players
Memphis Giants players
Springfield Ponies players
Lawrence (minor league baseball) players
Fitchburg (minor league baseball) players
Hampton Crabs players
Minor league baseball managers |
20464277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20Comorian%20legislative%20election | 2009 Comorian legislative election | Parliamentary elections were held in the Comoros on 6 December 2009, with a second round on 20 December. The elections were originally scheduled for July 2009, but were postponed until after a constitutional referendum was held in May 2009. They were then scheduled to take place on 29 November, but were delayed again. The result was a victory for the Baobab Movement, a coalition supporting President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi.
Electoral system
The elections were held using the two-round system with 24 single-member constituencies. The remaining nine seats in the Assembly of the Union were filled by appointees from the assemblies of the autonomous islands of the Comoros, Grande Comore, Mohéli and Anjouan, with each island selecting three members.
Campaign
Most candidates supporting President Sambi campaigned as the Baobab coalition, named after their identifying symbol, the Baobab tree.
Results
References
Comoros
2009 in the Comoros
Elections in the Comoros
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results |
17326416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsan%20Powys | Betsan Powys | Betsan Powys (born 1965), is a Welsh journalist and former Editor of Programmes for BBC Radio Cymru.
Biography
Powys was born in Cardiff. A native Welsh speaker after being educated at Ysgol Gyfun Llanhari, Powys joined BBC Wales as a News Trainee in 1989, before joining the newsroom in Cardiff as a bilingual, bi-media reporter. Moving to Current Affairs in 1994 she reported undercover, where one investigation required her to pose as one half of a swinging couple in the "Garden of Eden", a West Wales brothel.
Powys then presented the Welsh language news programme Newyddion, was chief reporter on the European current affairs series , and joined Huw Edwards to front United Kingdom national election specials.
Powys was lent for a period to BBC One's flagship current affairs programme Panorama, during which time she returned to Wales to give birth to her daughter. Her first report for Panorama was an investigation into the way Jehovah's Witnesses deal with allegations of child abuse, while her first worldwide exclusive occurred when she persuaded the commanding officer of 30 Royal Welch Fusiliers held hostage in Goražde, Bosnia, to allow her to interview colleagues and friends, agreeing to his condition that the programme would be broadcast only "in the Gaelic tongue."
After working for a period at ITV Wales, she returned to BBC Wales as Culture and Media Correspondent, and as a result of presenting Week In Week Out she won the BT Welsh Journalist of the Year. Powys also presented the Welsh-language version of Mastermind on S4C.
From 11 September 2006, Powys replaced the retiring David Williams, and took editorial charge of all BBC Wales' daily political output ahead of the Welsh Assembly elections in 2007. She resigned from this role in June 2013.
Powys is a frequent contributor to Radio Cymru's popular and is regarded as a stalwart of the programme, adding much to its 'flagship' status as the BBC's most prestigious Bangor-produced daily news broadcasts. She was appointed Editor of Programmes (in effect, director) of BBC Radio Cymru in May 2013, taking up her post from July 2013. In June 2018, Powys announced that she would leave the role, with effect from Autumn 2018.
Since leaving the BBC, Powys has returned to broadcasting for both television and radio. In December 2019 she joined Dewi Llwyd and Vaughan Roderick as co-presenter for S4C and BBC Radio Cymru's coverage of the 2019 General Election (Etholiad 2019). During the Election campaign Powys also fronted The Leaders Lounge for BBC Radio Wales. In July 2020, she replaced Llwyd as presenter of (, a Welsh-language equivalent to Question Time).
Personal life
Powys lives with Dylan Hammond, a former artist. She lists her hobbies as choral singing, harp music and competing in choral recitation competitions at local and chapel . She is a member of the Gorsedd of the Bards and has adopted the bardic name Betsi Treganna.
References
External links
Betsan's blog – BBC Wales' political editor. I'll be blogging the inside track on Welsh politics.
Betsan Powys Welsh Assembly Election blog
1964 births
Living people
Welsh-speaking journalists
BBC Cymru Wales newsreaders and journalists
BBC Radio Wales presenters
Welsh bloggers
People educated at Ysgol Gyfun Llanhari
People educated at Ysgol Tryfan |
17326435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperStudio | HyperStudio | HyperStudio is a creativity tool software program distributed by Software MacKiev. It was originally created by Roger Wagner in 1989 as "HyperStudio 1.0 for the Apple IIGS", later versions introduced support for Mac and Windows.
It can be described as a multimedia authoring tool, and it provides relatively simple methods for combining varied media. It has been available for purchase off and on over the years, and is now being marketed by Software MacKiev as "Version 5.1", which is aimed mostly at an educational market.
References
External links
Evan Trent, About This Particular Macintosh
Indiana University, "Indiana University Knowledge Base"
1988 software
HyperCard products |
20464316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avisauridae | Avisauridae | Avisauridae is a family of extinct enantiornithine dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period, distinguished by several features of their ankle bones. Depending on the definition used, Avisauridae is either a broad and widespread group of advanced enantiornithines (following Cau & Arduini, 2008), or a small family within that group, restricted to species from the Late Cretaceous of North and South America (following Chiappe, 1992).
Description
Avisaurids were among the largest and last enantiornithines to have lived, although they are also among the most poorly preserved. The majority of them are known primarily from fossilized tarsometatarsal bones, the part of a bird's leg formed by fused metatarsals (the bones which comprise the foot in humans). As a result, members of this family are distinguished from other enantiornithines exclusively by features of the tarsometatarsal and pedal phalanges (toe bones).
Unlike in some prehistoric birds, avisaurid tarsometatarsals were not completely fused, with the distal (outer) parts of the metatarsals being separate from each other. The proximal (near) half of metatarsal III (the long bone in the middle of the tarsometatarsus) is convex from the front. The inside edge of this bone's trochlea (toe joint) has a bony tab which points downward, known as a plantar projection. The innermost bone of the tarsometatarsus, metatarsal I, is small, laterally compressed (flattened from side-to-side), and J-shaped from the side. It is connected to a reversed hallux sporting a very large and curved claw.
Chiappe and Calvo (1994) found that the Avisauridae shared adaptations of the foot — including a fully reversed and distally placed hallux with a large claw — that indicated the ability to perch in trees. They argued that an arboreal habit was most likely for all of the Avisauridae.
History and classification
Avisauridae was erected as a family by Brett-Surman and Paul in 1985. At that time the family consisted of a few fossils that they believed belonged to small non-avian dinosaurs. They doubted that these fossils belonged to birds due to the presence of several features of the tarsometatarsus. In Avisaurus (the only avisaurid known at that time), only the proximal parts of the metatarsals were fused, the proximal part of metatarsal III was wide, and the hypotarsus (a wide ridge extending down the back of the tarsometatarsus) was poorly developed.
However, Chiappe later reassigned the Avisauridae to the class Aves (which is equivalent to the clade Avialae in modern usage) and the subclass Enantiornithes in 1992. He noted that the features used to exclude avisaurids from birds are in fact present in some early birds such as Archaeopteryx, as well as various Cretaceous bird groups. Avisaurids also had a thin metatarsal IV (the outermost long bone of the tarsometatarsus) and a bony knob on the front of metatarsal II (the most innermost long bone of the tarsometatarsus) for the insertion of M. tibialis cranialis (the muscle which flexes the ankle, also known as the M. tibialis anticus or M. tibialis anterior), both believed to be enantiornithean features.
Chiappe defined the family as the common ancestor of Neuquenornis volans and Avisaurus archibaldi plus all its descendants. In 2008, the family was given a broader definition courtesy of Cau and Arduini. They redefined the group as Avisaurus archibaldi and all genera more closely related to it than to either Longipteryx, Gobipteryx or Sinornis. Matt Martyniuk gave the name Avisauroidea to this group, although the erection of that name has been criticized by Cau. Under this broader definition, several other enantiornitheans, such as Enantiophoenix, would qualify as members of the family. Nevertheless, enantiornithean taxonomy is notably difficult to resolve, and some analyses on enantiornitheans have not resolved the family. However, this may be due to such analyses focusing on early Cretaceous enantiornitheans (which are numerous and well-preserved) rather than fragmentary late Cretaceous taxa, such as most avisaurids.
The following is a cladogram based on Cau and Arduini (2008):
References
Cretaceous birds
Prehistoric dinosaur families |
17326445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20colleges%20and%20universities%20in%20Bacolod | List of colleges and universities in Bacolod | This is a list of colleges and universities in Bacolod, Philippines.
Universities
C
Carlos Hilado Memorial State University
S
STI West Negros University
U
University of Negros Occidental – Recoletos
University of Saint La Salle
Colleges
A
ABE International Business College – Bacolod Campus
AMA Computer College – Bacolod Campus
B
Bacolod City College
Bacolod Christian College of Negros
C
Colegio San Agustin – Bacolod
College of Arts & Sciences of Asia & the Pacific – Bacolod Campus
J
John B. Lacson Colleges Foundation – Bacolod
L
La Consolacion College Bacolod
LaSalTech Inc.
N
Negros Occidental Language and Information Technology Center
O
Our Lady of Mercy College – Bacolod
R
Riverside College, Inc.
V
VMA Global College
Victory Business College, Inc.
External links
Colleges and Universities: Official website of the Bacolod City local government
Bacolod |
17326468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%20Farm | Bailey Farm | The Bailey Farm is an historic farm at 373 Wyatt Road in Middletown, Rhode Island. Now reduced from more than to about , the farm is a well-preserved example of a 19th-century island farm. It was owned by members of the Bailey family, possibly as early as the late 17th century, into the 19th century. The original main house appears to be a mid-18th century structure that was given a significant Greek Revival treatment in the 19th century. It is a 1-1/2 story Cape style house, three bays wide, with a central chimney. The main entrance is centered on the northern facade, and is flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, with an entablature above. The corners of the building are pilastered. A series of outbuildings stand nearby. There is a second complex of buildings on the northwest part of the property, built in the 1930s near the location of the Bailey family cemetery.
The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Houses completed in 1838
Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Houses in Newport County, Rhode Island
Greek Revival houses in Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Middletown, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island |
17326482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang%20Jilin | Zhang Jilin | Zhang Jilin (; born June 24, 1986) is a Chinese and Australian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2008.
Career
Zhang Jilin first represented China in the World Youth Chess Festival in Menorca in 1996. She played then three times subsequently at the World Girls U-20 Championship in 2004, 2005 and 2006, finishing in the top ten on all three occasions.
In June 2007, she qualified for the Woman Grandmaster title. She earned the required norms at:
2002 China Women's Team Championship in Beihai, China (February 5–17); score 7/9
2006 World Junior Chess Championship (Girls) in Yerevan, Armenia (October 3–16, 2006); score 7/11
3rd Singapore Masters International Open in Singapore (December 26–30, 2006); score 5/9
In 2008 Zhang qualified from the Chinese Zonal tournament to play in the Women's World Chess Championship in Nalchik, Russia. She was knocked out in the first round by Inna Gaponenko.
She was awarded the International Arbiter title in 2010. Zhang moved with her family to Sydney in 2016 and in August 2017, Zhang switched her national federation from China to Australia.
In 2018 Zhang was selected to play for the Australian team at the Batumi Chess Olympiad on third board.
In the China Chess League, Zhang played for Shandong team, which won the gold medal in 2007 and 2010.
References
External links
Jilin Zhang chess gales at 365Chess.com
Zhang Jilin team chess record at Olimpbase.org
Zhang Jilin's official website (in Chinese)
Title Application for International Arbiter (IA)
1986 births
Living people
Chess woman grandmasters
Chess players from Harbin
Australian female chess players
Australian people of Chinese descent
Chess arbiters |
17326487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyce%20%28disambiguation%29 | Dyce (disambiguation) | Dyce is a suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Dyce may also refer to:
Dyce station (Manitoba), a train station in Dyce, Manitoba, Canada
Dyce Academy, a school in Dyce, Scotland
Dyce railway station, Dyce, Scotland
People with the surname Dyce
Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), Scottish dramatic editor and literary historian
Charles Andrew Dyce (1816–1853), Singaporean artist
Keith Dyce (1926–2014) Dean of the Dick Vet School in Edinburgh
William Dyce (1806–1864), Scottish artist
See also
Dice (disambiguation) |
17326499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20of%20Ireland | Climate of Ireland | The climate of Ireland is mild, humid and changeable with abundant rainfall and a lack of temperature extremes. Ireland's climate is defined as a temperate oceanic climate, or Cfb on the Köppen climate classification system, a classification it shares with most of northwest Europe. The island receives generally warm summers and cool winters.
As Ireland is downwind of a large ocean, it is considerably milder in winter than other locations at the same latitude, for example Newfoundland in Canada or Sakhalin in Russia. The Atlantic overturning circulation, which includes ocean currents such as the North Atlantic Current and Gulf Stream, releases additional heat over the Atlantic, which is then carried by the prevailing winds towards Ireland giving, for example, Dublin a milder winter climate than other temperate oceanic climates in similar locations, for example Seattle in the United States.
The prevailing wind blows from the southwest, breaking on the high mountains of the west coast. Rainfall is therefore a particularly prominent part of western Irish life, with Valentia Island, off the west coast of County Kerry, getting almost twice as much annual rainfall as Dublin on the east ( vs. ).
January and February are the coldest months of the year, and mean daily air temperatures fall between during these months. July and August are the warmest, with mean daily temperatures of , whilst mean daily maximums in July and August vary from near the coast, to inland. The sunniest months are May and June, with an average of five to seven hours sunshine per day. Though extreme weather events in Ireland are comparatively rare when compared with other countries in the European continent, they do occur. Atlantic depressions, occurring mainly in the months of December, January and February, can occasionally bring winds of up to to Western coastal counties, with the winter of 2013/14 being the stormiest on record. During the summer months, and particularly around late July/early August, thunderstorms can develop.
Temperature
Ireland experiences a lack of temperature extremes compared to other areas at similar latitudes. There is regional variation, with inland areas being cooler in winter and warmer in summer than their coastal counterparts.
The warmest areas are found along the southwest coast. Valentia Island has the highest average temperature, at 10.9 °C.
The coldest areas are found inland. Mullingar has the lowest average temperature, at 9.3 °C.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland was 33.3 °C at Kilkenny Castle, on 26 June 1887. The lowest temperature was -19.1 °C at Markree Castle on 16 January 1881.
Six of the warmest ten years in Ireland have occurred since 1990. Due to climate change, it is estimated that the temperatures will rise everywhere of up to 3.4 degrees by the end of the century.
Extreme heat and cold are both rare throughout the country. Summer temperatures exceeding 30 °C are rare, usually only occurring every few years (2021, 2018, 2016, 2013, 2006, 2005, 2003, 1995, 1990, 1989, 1983, 1976 and 1975 are recent examples), although they commonly reach the high 20s most summers. Severe freezes occur only occasionally in winter, with temperatures below -10 °C being very uncommon in the lowlands, and temperatures below freezing uncommon in many coastal areas. However, temperatures in the Wicklow Mountains are said to reach -10 °C annually.
Frost
Air frost occurs frequently in the winter, with most areas seeing over 40 days of air frost every year. In northern areas, air frost occurs on average 10.2 days every January, the month in which air frost occurs most frequently. In the Sperrins and the Glens of Antrim air frost occurs around 80 days a year. The pattern is similar with ground frost, with on average around 100 days of ground frost in the lowlands and over 140 in the mountains. The number of frost days in Ireland have declined massively over the past decade. The largest season decrease has been known to take place in winter.
Frost is rarer along the coast, in urban areas and also in western and southern areas.
Roches Point, County Cork receives the fewest days with air frost, with an average of 7.0 days with air frost recorded annually.
Kilkenny, County Kilkenny receives the most days with air frost, with an average of 53.0 days with air frost recorded annually.
In Dublin, Dublin Airport records air frost on average 24.3 days per year, while Casement Aerodrome (which is further inland) records air frost on average 41.3 days per year.
Sunshine
The sunniest months are May and June. During these months sunshine duration averages between 5 and 6½ hours per day over most of the country. The southeast gets the most sunshine, averaging over 7 hours a day in early summer. December is the most overcast month, with an average daily sunshine ranging from about 1 hour in the north to almost 2 hours in the southeast. Over the year as a whole most areas get an average of between 3¼ and 3¾ hours of sunshine each day. Irish skies are completely covered by cloud roughly half of the time.
The sunniest part of the island is the southeast coast. Rosslare, County Wexford was historically the sunniest area, however the station was closed by Met Éireann in 2007. The sunniest station throughout the 1981 to 2010 period was Ballyrichard HSE in Arklow, County Wicklow, which received an average of 4.41 hours of sunshine per day.
The cloudiest (i.e. least sunny) parts of the island are generally the west and northwest of the country. Over the 1971-2000 averaging period, Claremorris, County Mayo was the cloudiest station, receiving just 1,072 hours of sunshine per year. From 1981 to 2010, Birr, County Offaly, in the midlands, was the most cloudy (overcast) station, receiving on average 3.2 hours of sunshine per day, considerably less than the stations at Malin Head in the north or Belmullet in the west.
Inland areas tend to receive less sunshine than coastal areas due to the convective development of clouds over land. Cloud develops because of vertical air currents caused by thermal heating of the ground.
Precipitation
Precipitation
Rainfall is the most common form of precipitation on the island, and is extremely common throughout Ireland, although some parts of the west coast receive twice as much rain as the east coast. Rainfall in Ireland normally comes from Atlantic frontal systems which travel northeast over the island, bringing cloud and rain. Most of the eastern half of the country has between of rainfall in the year. Rainfall in the west generally averages between . In many mountainous districts rainfall exceeds per year. The wettest months almost everywhere are December and January. April is the driest month generally, but in many southern parts June is the driest.
The average number of "wet days" (days with more than of rain) ranges from about 151 days a year along the east and southeast coasts, to about 225 days a year in parts of the west.
The wettest weather station is Glanagimla, Leenane, Co. Galway, which averages rain per year. The wettest synoptic weather station is Valentia Island, which receives of rain per year, on average.
The driest weather station is at Ringsend, Co. Dublin, which receives of rain per year, on average.
The weather station with the highest number of "wet days" is Belmullet, with 193 days per year, while the station with the lowest number of "wet days" is Dublin Airport, with 128 days per year.
Rainfall records
Source:
The driest year recorded in Ireland was 1887, with of rain recorded at Glasnevin, County Dublin.
The longest drought in Ireland occurred in Limerick between 3 April 1938 and 10 May 1938 (37 days).
The greatest monthly total was ; recorded at the Cummeragh Mountains, County Kerry, in October 1996.
The greatest annual total was ; recorded at Ballaghbeena Gap in 1960.
The greatest daily total was ; recorded at Cloone Lake, County Kerry, on 18 September 1993.
Snowfall
Severe cold weather is uncommon in Ireland with the majority of winter precipitation coming in the form of rain, although hills and mountainous regions in the country can commonly see up to 30 days of snowfall annually: the Wicklow Mountains region sometimes experiences 50 or more days of snowfall each year. Most low-lying regions of the island only see a few days of lying snow per year (from December to March inclusive), or may see no snow at all during some winters.
However, there are preparations for snow and ice, including the distribution of grit, salt, and other snow-treatable minerals. In late 2011, the Irish Government set up "Winter-Ready", in order to prepare the country for such severe weather.
Due to its variability (which is mainly because of the influence of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift, as well as Ireland's northerly latitude and vulnerability to Siberian/Arctic winds) Ireland's weather during the winter months is difficult to predict. The aforementioned factors make both extremely low temperatures and relatively mild temperatures possible.
The snowiest weather station is Clones, County Monaghan, which receives, on average, 18 days of snow and/or sleet per year. Of these, 6.2 days have snow lying at 09:00. The least snowy weather station is Valentia Island, County Kerry; which receives, on average, 5.6 days of snow and/or sleet per year. Of these, 0.8 days have snow lying at 09:00.
Hail
Hail, like snow and sleet, is also rare in Ireland; however, it can occur at any time of the year. It is most common in spring during thunderstorms.
Malin Head, County Donegal receives the most hail, with an average of 48.4 days per year.
Roche's Point, County Cork receives the least hail, with an average of 8.0 days per year.
Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms are quite rare in Ireland. They are more likely to happen in late spring, although they can occur at any time of the year.
Cork Airport, County Cork experiences the least thunder; receiving it 3.7 days per year on average.
Valentia Island, County Kerry experiences the most thunder; receiving it 7.1 days per year on average.
Wind
Generally, the coast tends to be windier than inland areas, and the west tends to be windier than the east.
The station with the highest mean wind speed is Malin Head, County Donegal, averaging at . Malin Head also receives the most gale-force winds, recording them on average 66.0 days per year.
The station with the lowest mean wind speed is Kilkenny, County Kilkenny; averaging at .
The station that records the lowest number of gale-force winds is Birr, County Offaly; recording them on average 1.2 days per year.
The highest wind speed ever recorded in Ireland was at Fastnet Lighthouse, County Cork on 16 October 2017.
Tornadoes are very rare in Ireland, with around less than ten reported every year - mostly in August.
Fog
Fog is more common inland and on higher altitudes; mainly during winter and during the morning at times of high pressure.
The foggiest station is that at Cork Airport, County Cork, which has 99.5 days of fog per year.
The least foggy station is that at Valentia Island, County Kerry, which has 8.9 days of fog per year.
Visibility
Visibility is generally very good, because of the proximity of industry to the coast, allowing breezes to disperse any smog. Mist and fog often occur, as well as coastal fog in the east, but it is generally not long-lasting. However, in winter, it can be slow to clear.
Climate change
Climate charts
See also
Geography of Ireland
Climate change in the Republic of Ireland
References
External links
Met Éireann
Ireland |
17326515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine | Maxine | Maxine may refer to:
People
Maxine is a feminine given name.
Maxine Andrews (1916–1995), member of The Andrews Sisters singing trio
Maxine Audley (1923–1992), English actress
Maxine Brown (country singer) (1932-2019), American country music singer
Maxine Brown (soul singer) (born 1939), American soul and R&B singer
Maxine D. Brown, American computer scientist
Maxine Carr, convicted of perverting the course of justice in relation to the Soham murders (not to be confused with Maxine Moore Carr / Maxine Waters below)
Maxine Elliott (1868–1940), American actress
Maxine Fassberg (born 1953), CEO, Intel Israel
Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940), Chinese American author and Professor Emerita
Maxine Kumin (1925–2014), American poet and author
Maxine Mawhinney (born 1957), newsreader on the BBC News 24-hour television channel
Maxine McKew (born 1953), Australian politician and journalist
Maxine Medina (born 1990), Filipino model, beauty pageant titleholder, Miss Universe Philippines 2016, and top 6 Miss Universe 2016
Maxine Nightingale (born 1952), British R&B and soul music singer
Maxine Peake (born 1974), English actress
Maxine Reiner (1916–2003), American actress
Maxine Sanders (born 1946), British Wiccan
Maxine Sullivan (born Marietta Williams, 1911–1987), American jazz vocalist/performer
Maxine Waters (born Maxine Moore Carr, born 1938), American politician
Maxine (wrestler) (born 1986), stage name of American former professional wrestler, model, and former WWE Diva Karlee Pérez
Fictional characters
Maxine Peacock, from the British soap opera, Coronation Street
Maxine Chadway, from the television series Soul Food
Maxine Conway, from the Australian drama series, Wentworth
Maxine Minniver, from the British soap opera, Hollyoaks
Maxine Barlow, from the British drama series Waterloo Road
Maxine Mayfield, "Max" or "Madmax", on the Netflix series Stranger Things
Max Caulfield, or Maxine, main character in the video game Life Is Strange
Maxine Shaw, from the American television sitcom Living Single
Maxine, a character in a line of Hallmark Cards
Maxine Guevara, main character of the American TV series Dark Angel
Maxine Baker, daughter of Animal Man (Buddy Baker) in DC Comics
Maxine Tarnow, main character in Thomas Pynchon's novel Bleeding Edge
Other uses
Maxine, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
3977 Maxine, an asteroid, see List of minor planets: 3001–4000
Maxine Virtual Machine, an open source Java virtual machine
Music
"Maxine" (Sharon O'Neill song), a song from Sharon O'Neill
"Maxine", a 2007 reissue bonus track on the album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
"Maxine", a song by John Legend from the album Once Again
"Maxine", a song by Donald Fagen from the album The Nightfly
"Maxine", a 1996 rap song by early Eminem from the album Infinite
See also
Max (disambiguation)
Maximilian
Maximus (disambiguation)
English feminine given names
Feminine given names |
17326520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoakim%20Gruev | Yoakim Gruev | Joakim Gruev (, died 1912) was a Bulgarian teacher and translator. He was born on 9 September 1828 in the town of Koprivshtitsa. He was a teacher at the leading Bulgarian high school in Plovdiv. He was the author of a number of textbooks.
References
Bulgarian writers
Bulgarian educators
19th-century Bulgarian people
Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
People from Koprivshtitsa
1828 births
1912 deaths
19th-century Bulgarian educators |
20464325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Snow | Don Snow | Don Snow (born 13 January 1957, in London) is a British vocalist, Hammond organist, pianist, guitarist, bass guitarist, drummer and saxophonist who is primarily known for his work with the new wave bands Squeeze, the Sinceros and the Catch, as well as Procol Harum. He has also frequently toured with Van Morrison and played Hammond organ and piano on three of his albums.
Career
He started his career in 1978 as an original member of the new wave/power pop outfit the Sinceros, who were signed to Epic Records and released a string of successful albums. Around this time, he also played with Lene Lovich and Bill Nelson, before he joined Squeeze in 1982, replacing Paul Carrack. At this time, he recorded with drummer Chris Whitten as the Catch, releasing the single "25 Years" which reached number 3 on the German charts, sold half a million copies and stayed on the charts for 40 weeks. He also recorded with artists such as Judie Tzuke, Tracey Ullman, Nik Kershaw, ABC and Sheila Walsh.
In 1987, he joined Tina Turner for her Break Every Rule World Tour and recorded the album Live in Europe. He also recorded with Roger Daltrey, Tom Jones, Jimmy Somerville, Chris Eaton, Holly Johnson, Boy George, Jaki Graham and Gary Moore. On 11 June 1988, Snow played the first Nelson Mandela benefit at the Wembley Arena along with Al Green, Joe Cocker, Natalie Cole, Jonathan Butler, Freddie Jackson, and Ashford & Simpson.
In 1990, Snow played with the John Lennon tribute band in Liverpool, before he re-joined Squeeze in 1991 for touring. In 1992, after appearing on records by Tina Turner, Judie Tzuke, Thomas Anders and Heartland, he played keyboards for Procol Harum and later played for Van Morrison. He joined Squeeze for the third time in 1995 and played with Morrison again in 1998.
Since 2000, he has recorded releases with Kylie Minogue, Melanie C, Joe Cocker, Mark Owen, Michael Ball, released several solo albums and recently produced Alexis Cunningham.
In December 1992, he changed his name to Jonn Savannah. He now lives in Medford, New Jersey.
Discography
Album credits
1978 – Lene Lovich – Stateless
1979 – The Sinceros – The Sound of Sunbathing
1979 – The Barron Knights – Tell the World to Laugh
1979 – Peter C. Johnson – Peter C. Johnson
1980 – Johnny Logan – Save Me
1980 – The Vibrators – Batteries Included
1981 – The Sinceros – Pet Rock
1981 – The Quick – Ship to Shore
1981 – The Sinceros – 2nd Debut
1981 – Fingerprintz – Beat Noir
1982 – Jona Lewie – Heart Skips Beat
1982 – Judie Tzuke – Shoot the Moon
1982 – Squeeze – Sweets from a Stranger
1982 – Fern Kinney – All It Takes Love to Know Love
1983 – Wendy & the Rocketts – Dazed for Days
1983 – Bianca – Where the Beat Meets the Street
1983 – Judie Tzuke – Ritmo
1983 – Tracey Ullman – They Don't Know
1984 – The Catch – Balance on Wires
1984 – Nik Kershaw – The Riddle
1984 – Nik Kershaw – Human Racing
1984 – Tracey Ullman – You Caught Me Out
1984 – Tin Tin – Kiss Me
1984 – Paul Da Vinci – Work So Hard
1985 – ABC – How to be a Zillionaire!
1985 – Gianni Morandi – Uno So Mille
1985 – Sheila Walsh – Shadowlands
1987 – The Catch – Walk the Water
1987 – Roger Daltrey – Can't Wait to See the Movie
1987 – Model – Model
1987 – Chris Eaton – Vision
1988 – Tina Turner – Live in Europe
1989 – Holly Johnson – Blast
1989 – Jimmy Somerville – Ready My Lips
1989 – Tom Jones – At This Moment
1989 – Gary Moore – Wild Frontier
1989 – Jaki Graham – From Now On
1989 – Baby Ford – Beach Bump
1991 – Thomas Anders – Whispers
1991 – Tina Turner – Simply the Best
1991 – Judie Tzuke – Left Hand Talking
1991 – Heartland – Heartland
1991 – This Picture – A Violent Impression
1992 – Judie Tzuke – I Can Read Books
1993 – Van Morrison – Too Long in Exile
1994 – Van Morrison – A Night in San Francisco
1994 – Hanne Boel – Misty Paradise
1994 – Gregory Gray – Euroflake in Silverlake
1995 – Brian Kennedy – Intuition
1995 – Martyn Joseph – Martyn Joseph
1995 – Jimmy Somerville – Dare to Love
1995 – Van Morrison – Days Like This
1996 – Ray Charles – Strong Love Affair
1996 – Squeeze – Ridiculous
1996 – Right Said Fred – Smashing!
1996 – Judie Tzuke – Under the Angels
1997 – The Vibrators – Demos & Raities
1999 – Joe Cocker – No Ordinary World
1999 – Ashley Maher – The Blessed Rain
1999 – Siggi – Siggi
1999 – Emmet Swimming – Big Night Without You
2000 – Kylie Minogue – Light Years
2000 – Ruth – Ruth
2001 – Russell Watson – The Voice
2001 – Steve Balsamo – All I Am
2003 – Melanie C – Reason
2003 – American Idol – Season 2
2003 – Ruben Studdard – Superstar
2003 – Sandi Russell – Incascedent
2004 – American Idol – Season 3
2004 – Mark Owen – In Your Own Time
2005 – Bernie Armstrong – The Face of Christ
2006 – Heavy Little Elephants – Heavy Little Elephants
2006 – Michael Ball – One Voice
2007 – Pawnshop Roses – Let It Roll
2009 – Carsie Blanton – Carsie Blanton
2009 – Alcaz – On Se Dit Tout
2010 – Alexis Cunningham – Wonderlust
2011 – Alexis Cunningham – Love at the End of the World
2014 – Die Fantastischen Vier (feat. Jonn Savannah) – 25
References
External links
Official website
Don Snow' Fan page at procolharum.com
1945 births
Living people
English male singers
English multi-instrumentalists
English record producers
English new wave musicians
Procol Harum members
Squeeze (band) members
English expatriates in the United States
People from Medford, New Jersey
The Vibrators members
The Sinceros members |
20464326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell%20Centre | Grenfell Centre | Grenfell Centre, also known as The Black Stump, is a high rise office building located at 25 Grenfell Street in the Adelaide city centre. It is the ninth tallest building in Adelaide, South Australia, with a height of 103 metres (338 feet). It was the tallest building in the city until surpassed by the Telstra House in 1987. It has 26 floors and was completed in 1973. In the 1980s, the building's foyer and interior were refurbished. A ten-metre antenna was attached in 1980 and upgraded with digital transmitters in 2003, increasing the height a metre further.
In 2007, the building was redeveloped, and two frameless glass cubes were constructed at the entrance of the building. This redevelopment earned it the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Commercial Architecture Award of Commendation.
, Oracle uses the building; over the last few years, the company logo has been displayed at the top.
Its nickname, "black stump", in reference to the building's appearance, is also a colloquial Australian phrase.
See also
List of tallest buildings in Adelaide
References
Skyscrapers in Adelaide
Buildings and structures in Adelaide
Skyscraper office buildings in Australia
Office buildings completed in 1973 |
17326550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%20Calder%20Cup%20playoffs | 1983 Calder Cup playoffs | The 1983 Calder Cup playoffs of the American Hockey League began on April 5, 1983. The eight teams that qualified, four from each division, played best-of-seven series for Division Semifinals and Division Finals. The division champions played a best-of-seven series for the Calder Cup. The Calder Cup Final ended on May 19, 1983, with the Rochester Americans defeating the Maine Mariners four games to zero to win the Calder Cup for the fourth time in team history.
Playoff seeds
After the 1982–83 AHL regular season, the top four teams from each division qualified for the playoffs. The Rochester Americans finished the regular season with the best overall record.
Northern Division
Fredericton Express - 98 points
Nova Scotia Voyageurs - 87 points
Maine Mariners - 86 points
Adirondack Red Wings - 77 points
Southern Division
Rochester Americans - 101 points
Hershey Bears - 85 points
New Haven Nighthawks - 84 points
Binghamton Whalers - 80 points
Bracket
In each round, the team that earned more points during the regular season receives home ice advantage, meaning they receive the "extra" game on home-ice if the series reaches the maximum number of games. There is no set series format due to arena scheduling conflicts and travel considerations.
Division Semifinals
Note: Home team is listed first.
Northern Division
(1) Fredericton Express vs. (4) Adirondack Red Wings
(2) Nova Scotia Voyageurs vs. (3) Maine Mariners
Southern Division
(1) Rochester Americans vs. (4) Binghamton Whalers
(2) Hershey Bears vs. (3) New Haven Nighthawks
Division Finals
Northern Division
(1) Fredericton Express vs. (3) Maine Mariners
Southern Division
(1) Rochester Americans vs. (3) New Haven Nighthawks
Calder Cup Final
(S1) Rochester Americans vs. (N3) Maine Mariners
See also
1982–83 AHL season
List of AHL seasons
References
Calder Cup
Calder Cup playoffs |
17326559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontline%20%28The%20Bill%29 | Frontline (The Bill) | "Frontline" was a three-part storyline in the long-running police procedural British television series The Bill. Broadcast in 2008, the storyline is significant in the show's history as it was the final plot to feature the death of an on-screen character, PC Emma Keane, which came in the first part of the plot.
Prelude
Unlike storylines during the serialised era of 2002-2005, the Frontline plot did not have multiple, long-running plots in the buildup. However, one ongoing storyline was that of the posse run by Sergeant Callum Stone. While Stone was not borderline corrupt, he used certain methods that were not legal. He was seen as a maverick when he arrived, but one of his biggest secrets came weeks after his arrival in the autumn of 2007; Stone was part of a uniform search for a missing girl, Chloe Parks, but it came to a tragic end when she was found dead at the bottom of a fire escape at a disused hospital. Stone let things get personal when footage emerged of the girl several years earlier stating she was sexually abused by her father Martin (Chris Walker). When he failed to confess in interview, PC Will Fletcher, Family Liaison Officer for the Parks family in the case of Chloe's death, went after him when he assaulted his wife. Finding Martin atop the fire escape where Chloe committed suicide, Stone forced Fletcher off the negotiation before goading Martin into jumping. Fletcher was mortified, but Stone callously told him "What goes around, comes around". After initial harsh feelings between the two, Fletcher sought Stone's help in the spring of 2008 when PC Sally Armstrong demanded justice for a suspected rapist who attacked the sister of one Armstrong's friends. Reminding Stone of his "alternative methods", Fletcher got him on side, and after the man gave evidence against a suspected drug dealer, Stone joined the arrest team before telling the suspect who was responsible for calling the cops. Taking Fletcher, Armstrong and PC Benjamin Gayle to the home of the suspected rapist, they lay in wait until a group of thugs burst in and savagely assaulted him, responding to the callout and arresting the men responsible. Happy with their alternative justice, the four officers formed a posse. A few weeks later, Armstrong was paired with PC Emma Keane when a burglar was seriously assaulted during a home invasion. Dejected that the victims may end up being prosecuted for defending their home, Armstrong took Keane to Stone to ask if there were any alternatives. Stone was furious that Armstrong asked Keane to get involved, as her father was a DCI at the DPS. Keane, however, thought Stone was harbouring a crush on her and began undermining him. After forcing her way onto an undercover operation, Stone laid down the law as she put herself in danger, attempting to kiss him before pulling out as he was drawn in, stating that her suspicions about him fancying her were confirmed.
Synopsis
Part 1: Shockwave
The events of Shockwave take place the day after the undercover operation, Armstrong noticing Keane tease Stone as he told her to be careful whilst out on patrol. As Armstrong tried to get Keane to talk about their interaction, an explosion is heard nearby, turning onto a street to witness a second blast take out a street market. As they tended to the casualties, Armstrong called in for assistance. During the rescue efforts, Keane found a man masquerading as a doctor who sexually assaulted a woman trapped in a car during the blast. Keane was then assaulted during her attempts to arrest the man, leaving Stone determined to track the man down, who also gave false medical advice to a victim who was rushed into hospital unconscious as a result. The relief were left in shock by the events, drawing similarities to the 7/7 attacks 3 years earlier. As the day progressed, Armstrong and Keane paired to track down the phony doctor, but ended up arguing when Keane pressed for details on Stone's posse. Splitting up, they found the man and apprehended him, although Stone arrived to witness him assault Keane once again. As they argued about the legality of Stone's actions, Keane accused him of being corrupt and stormed off. Whilst patrolling, Keane discovered smoke pouring from a building and started an evacuation. As she evacuated, DCI Jack Meadows called her to inform her that SO15 (Counter-Terrorism) revealed the bombs that detonated were fertilizer-based. As backup rushed to her aid, Keane came across a man with a suspicious package. As her colleagues closed in, the bomb detonated, finding Keane seriously injured. As Stone battled in vain to save her life, her devastated colleagues watched on as Keane succumbed to her injuries.
Part 2: Aftershock
The events of Aftershock take place the morning after Keane's death. The uniform relief are in shock, none more so than Sergeant Stone and PC Armstrong. Superintendent John Heaton introduces DI Karen Lacy (Liz May Brice) of SO15 to DCI Meadows and the rest of CID, who has been tasked with investigating what was a total of 8 deaths between the first two bombings and the third that killed Keane. The first clue comes in the form of a letter delivered to the station "To the friends and colleagues of PC Keane, wrong place, wrong time". The second was James Marfield (Henry Miller), a friend of the first victim, Michael Gilcrest, whose nightclub was blown up by the first of the two bombs. Discovering a link to a pornography site, it was revealed that Gilcrest had links to the owner of the photocopy shop that was target of the second bombing. DC Mickey Webb investigated the owner of the business blown up where Keane died, Jeff Bowman (Mark Moraghan), and later discovered he was linked to right-wing extremism, despite his business being an immigration charity, found via a clue from the bomber captioned "Lesson Two: Fascist in Hiding". A note to victim Gilcrist was traced to an internet café, and a suspect was soon arrested, however Sergeant Stone had to stop an emotional PC Armstrong attacking the man; later in the day, Stone's own aggressions came to the fore when he tried attacking Sergeant Dale Smith for suggesting he was attracted to Keane. The man arrested was paranoid and twitchy, refusing to comment, and a new clue emerged with a letter pointing them in direction of a delivery made to their suspect's neighbour. However, the house was empty, but they soon realised they had been ambushed when DC Kezia Walker stood on a pressure pad that triggered a bomb. As the bomb squad attended to defuse the device, they discovered the device was meant to frame their man in custody, now revealed to be convicted identity thief Carl Adams (Mark Bagnall). When DC Grace Dasari linked a repeated clue, "The Elvis Four", she realised it was an anagram of the four evils, a belief of the four worst things made more prevalent by the internet (pornography, racism, identity theft and paedophilia). Realising 3 of the 4 had been targeted, the investigating officers concluded that the bomber had one more attack planned.
Part 3: End Game
The events of End Game take place a week after Keane's death. With the criminal's ideals identified, DC Dasari invited bomb targets Jeff Bowman and Carl Adams to the station to be questioned about their links, along with Michael Gilcrest's friend James Marfield. Out on the streets, PCs Fletcher, Gayle and Armstrong attended a break-in at an industrial unit, and when Fletcher tried calling the person who made the report, he unintentionally set off a flour bomb that left Armstrong shaken but unharmed. A memory stick found at the scene was used to tell the investigating team they had four hours to find a bomb before a sex offender would be blown up. Stone, back at work after his attack on Smithy, joined his posse as they investigated a software company that was linked to Bowman and Marfield. A name came from their searches, Colin Moore, and Smithy paired with DC Webb to put surveillance on his brother Bill. As he was arrested, Webb identified Colin Moore as James Marfield, making DCI Meadows realise the prime suspect was under their noses all along. With Colin already gone from the station, the need to find him heightened. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection division sent a list to Sun Hill, which they cross-referenced with Colin Moore's clients, and they discovered the name Peter Waverley on both lists. As his home and business were searched, Bill Moore revealed Colin searched paedophilia online to ensnare sex offenders, but Bill's wife caught him and assumed the wrong thing, and that the last bomb was personal. Waverley revealed his wife had the package and was heading to collect their children from school. Stone ducked out of Keane's funeral to find Mrs. Waverley, and as he and Webb found her car, they worked to rescue her baby from the back seat. As Meadows and Dasari found Colin, they tried to talk him down, but he set the bomb off anyway, however Stone was able to rescue the baby before Mrs. Waverley's car exploded. Stone then attended Keane's funeral, telling her friends, family and colleagues that her killer had been brought to justice.
Aftermath
The aftermath of the events lead to two character exits, one immediately after and the other later in the year. PC Reg Hollis was mentioned to have resigned in Lucky Lucky Lucky, the episode that came after Frontline: End Game. Actor Jeff Stewart was due to be written out in 2008 after controversially being axed by show producers, but Stewart was so devastated at losing a role he'd been in for 24 years that he attempted suicide by slitting his wrists on set. While Stewart's last on-screen scene came weeks earlier, his exit was explained away by a decision to resign in the wake of Keane's death. The other exit was that of Inspector Gina Gold; having been a hard as nails, iron-fisted manager during her time on the show, the character of Gold began to crumble under pressure out of fear of losing another officer, having been close friends with Keane. This came to light in the episode Lifesaver, in which Sgt. Stone and PC Armstrong rescued a suicidal woman from her car that had crashed into the River Thames, and again in the episode Demolition Girl when Armstrong is almost crushed by the debris of an imploding tower block tried to stop a woman running back into the building. In An Honour to Serve- Part 2, Gold was mortified to think Sergeant Dale Smith, her best friend, was killed in an armed siege. After Smithy was rescued by SO19 to end the siege, Gold handed in her resignation and retired.
Cast
Supt. John Heaton - Daniel Flynn
DCI Jack Meadows - Simon Rouse
Insp. Gina Gold - Roberta Taylor
DI Karen Lacy - Liz May Brice
DI Samantha Nixon - Lisa Maxwell
Sgt. Callum Stone - Sam Callis
Sgt. Dale Smith - Alex Walkinshaw
PC Emma Keane - Melanie Gutteridge
PC Sally Armstrong - Ali Bastian
PC Will Fletcher - Gary Lucy
PC Benjamin Gayle - Micah Balfour
DC Kezia Walker - Cat Simmons
DC Mickey Webb - Chris Simmons
DC Grace Dasari - Amita Dhiri
Colin Moore - Henry Miller
Jeff Bowman - Mark Moraghan
Carl Adams - Mark Bagnall
References
The Bill episodes |
17326562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibson | Sibson | Sibson may refer to:
Places
Sibson, Cambridgeshire
Sibson, Leicestershire
Peterborough/Sibson Airport, also known as Sibson aerodrome, near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
People
Gareth Sibson (born 1977), British writer, broadcaster and lawyer
Harry Sibson (1919–2010)
Francis Sibson (1814–1876), British physician and anatomist
John Sibson (1930–2014), Australian politician
Richard B. Sibson (1911–1994), New Zealand ornithologist
Richard H. Sibson (born 1945), New Zealand geologist
Robin Sibson (1944–2017), British mathematician and educator
Tony Sibson (born 1958), British professional boxer
Ray Sibson (1951–Date),English
Anatomy
Sibson's aortic vestibule, the aortic vestibule
Sibson's fascia, the suprapleural membrane
Sibson's aponeurosis, the suprapleural membrane
Sibson's groove, formed by the prominent lower border of the pectoralis major muscle
Sibson's muscle, the scalenus minimus muscle |
20464345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20Mauritian%20general%20election | 2010 Mauritian general election | General elections were held in Mauritius on 5 May 2010. The coalition comprising Mauritius Labour Party under Navin Ramgoolam, the Militant Socialist Movement under Pravind Jugnauth and the Mauritian Social Democrat Party under Xavier Luc Duval, won a majority with 41 seats in the parliament. The Mauritian Militant Movement-led coalition under Paul Berenger finished second with 18 seats. The Mauritian Solidarity Front won one seat and the Rodrigues Movement won the two remaining seats. The elections were the ninth to be held since independence from the United Kingdom in 1968.
The Mauritius Labour Party, the Mauritian Social Democrat Party (PMSD) and the Militant Socialist Movement (MSM) formed an electoral coalition called Alliance de L'Avenir () for this election. Ramgoolam, the alliance leader, allotted 35 seats to his own party to compete for the 60 seats on the island, whereas the MSM was given 18 and the PMSD 7. Before the election, it appeared that Berenger might gain back the PM's post that he held from 2003 to 2005; he was the first prime minister since independence that was not of South Asian origin. Berenger led his own alliance of parties, known as the Alliance du Coeur (), a reference to the official logo of the Mauritian Militant Movement, by far the biggest party in that alliance. Parties based in Rodrigues compete for the two remaining seats, with the Rodrigues People's Organisation and the Rodrigues Movement being the main parties there.
During the election, 62 seats in the National Assembly of Mauritius were contested with a further 8 seats to be designated by the electoral commission under a complex formula designed to keep a balance of ethnic groups in the parliament. The candidates must declare which ethnic group (Hindu, Muslim, Chinese or "general population") they belong to in order to run for a seat. In 2010, 104 of the candidates refused to do so, resulting in them being disqualified, leaving 529 candidates for the seats. Around 130 foreign observers, including some from the African Union and the Southern African Development Community, were present to monitor the voting process.
Around 900,000 people were eligible to vote in the election. The main issues debated were economic and constitutional reform, fraud, corruption, drug trafficking and ethnicity. Paul Berenger accused the incumbent government of abusing the state-owned television station, the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation, to influence voters. He also accused his political opponents of using communalism and of negatively drawing attention to his minority Franco-Mauritian ancestry to swing voters against him.
The Alliance de l'Avenir obtained 49.31% of the total votes and 41 seats whereas the Alliance du Coeur seized 42.36% of votes and 18 seats. The remaining parties and independent candidates obtained 8.14% of the votes. From the 62 seats, only ten women were elected.
After the Alliance de L'Avenir was declared winner of the poll, its leader, Navin Ramgoolam, mentioned that he would govern in the interest of every Mauritian so that no one would be left behind. He added that the priorities of his government were the improvement of road infrastructures, the security of the people, education, health and youth development. Paul Berenger, who conceded defeat after the election, said that members of his party would continue their fight for a better Mauritius. He claimed that this election had not been free and fair, attributing the defeat of his alliance to numerous factors including biased coverage of the election by the state-owned television station, more financial resources by his political opponents, communalism and the electoral system. However, he would be prepared to work with the government for electoral reform, especially because his alliance had obtained only 18 of the 62 seats despite seizing 43% of popular votes.
On May 7, 2010, the Electoral Supervisory Commission made their decision on the non-elected candidates to occupy the 8 additional seats in the National Assembly based on the religious and ethnic declarations of the candidates not elected, a system referred to as the 'Best Loser system'. Exceptionally, instead of 8, only 7 candidates were designated. Per the normal procedure, 4 best loser seats are allotted to candidates not elected but having obtained the highest percentage of votes as a member of a political party. However, they had to be of an appropriate religion or ethnic to maintain a balance in the parliament. 4 other seats are to be allotted so as not to change the result of the election. The Alliance de L'Avenir was allotted 4 additional seats whereas the Alliance du Coeur obtained 2 additional seats. Whereas the Electoral Supervisory Commission had no problem in attributing one seat to one candidate of the Rodrigues People's Organisation, they had difficulty in choosing a candidate for the 8th seat, which normally has to be a Sino-Mauritian of one of the two other successful parties in this election. But given neither the Mauritian Solidarity Front nor the Rodrigues Movement had candidates of this community during this election, no candidate was named for the 8th additional seat.
Observers from the African Union for this election declared that the Best Loser system is problematic for the national unity of the country though it can reinforce social cohesion. They also considered the 2010 Mauritian general elections to have been 'free and transparent'.
Results
References
Elections in Mauritius
Mauritius
General election |
20464385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Eichholtz | Jacob Eichholtz | Jacob Eichholtz (1776–1842) was an early American painter, known primarily for his portraits in the Romantic Victorian tradition. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in a family of prosperous Pennsylvania Germans, he spent most of his professional life in Philadelphia. A coppersmith by trade, he turned to painting and achieved both recognition and success despite being mainly self-taught as an artist. He is known to have painted over 800 portraits over the course of 35 years. Hundreds of his works are housed in art museums, historical societies, and private collections throughout the United States.
Early life
He was born to Leonard and Catharine Eichholtz, who owned and run the Bull's Head Tavern on East King Street in Lancaster; his father took part in the American Revolutionary War. At age 11, Jacob with his brothers attended the English School at Franklin College in Lancaster where he learned the three Rs — reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic. He also took lessons from a sign painter since his parents noticed his inclination to draw, but eventually he was apprenticed as a coppersmith. After his apprenticeship ended, he started as a tinsmith working with sheet iron. By 1805, Eichholtz opened his own shop in Lancaster where he, "mended sugar boxes, tinned copper kettles, and made coffee pots, wash basins, lanterns, stills, and funnels."
Eichholtz married Catharine Hatz Michael (1770–1817), a young widow with two children; they had four children of their own, Caroline, Catharine Maria, Rubens Mayer, and Margaret Amelia. In 1818, he married Catharine Trissler of Lancaster, and they had nine children, Edward, Anna Maria, Elizabeth Susanna, Benjamin West, Angelica Kauffman, Rebecca, Henry, Robert Lindsay, and Lavallyn Barry.
From tinsmith to painter
From 1808 to 1812, Eichholtz hired several workers to work in the shop, and devoted most of his time to offering his fellow Lancastrians, at first, painted tinware, and then, small profile portraits on wood panels, in order to diversify his business and satisfy his passion for drawing. After developing his abilities as profile painter and gaining enough clients to sustain his family, Eichholtz decided to make painting his main vocation. In 1808, Eichholtz advertised that he "executes Portraits and Profile paintings" in the Lancaster's Intelligencer and Weekly Advertiser. In his own words, "I commenced the coppersmith business on my own account, with pretty good luck; still the more agreeable love of painting continually haunted me."
Two already established painters, James Peale and Thomas Sully, influenced Eichholtz.
In 1808, James Peale visited Lancaster and became acquainted with Eichholtz, who commissioned Peale his portrait. Thomas Sully befriended Eichholtz when he was visiting Lancaster on business and accepted his invitation to work in his painting room. At that time, Sully was not impressed by Eichholtz's attempts in painting calling them hideous; however, he left him his brushes as a gift before leaving Lancaster. Later, Sully wrote that he was surprised and gratified to see how much Eichholtz's painting skills improved, and that, "Eichholtz would have made a first-rate painter had he began early in life with the usual advantages." During the winter of 1811–1812, Eichholtz traveled to Boston where he spent several weeks at the studio of Gilbert Stuart copying his works under Stuart's supervision. Stuart encouraged Eichholtz to continue painting. In 1815, Eichholtz sold his business and turned to painting. In 1820, he visited Baltimore to fulfill portrait commissions; he also worked in Pittsburgh and Delaware.
In 1823, Eichholtz moved to Philadelphia where he, as he later wrote, faced both, "an incessant practice of ten years, and constant employment." He was exhibiting with the Society of Artists at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Later life and death
Eichholtz relocated back to Lancaster in 1830 where he died in 1842. He and his family were originally interred at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on South Duke Street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In the early 1850s, Holy Trinity Church sought to expand its churchyard, so the church relocated the majority of gravestones and the remains to the new Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lot 33 of Area B, including the remains of Eichholtz and his family. Eichholtz was reburied in the same grave together with both of his wives and their children. By 2014, Eichholtz's gravestone, which was made of marble, had deteriorated due to age and acid rain, rendering the inscription illegible. Local historians have called for the restoration of his headstone, as well as the installation of a brass plaque at the grave site to mark his achievements.
Recognition
For decades the artistic legacy of Jacob Eichholtz was overlooked. As time passed, a reassessment of the significance of his achievements took place and "his portraits of Thaddeus Stevens and James Buchanan are generally accepted as the best that were done of these statesmen."
Gallery
References
Further reading
Hensel, W. U. Jacob Eichholtz, Painter: Some "loose Leaves" from the Ledger of an Early Lancaster Artist. An Address Delivered at the Opening of an Exposition of the Evolution of Portraiture in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Under the Auspices of the Lancaster County Historical Society and the Iris Club. Lancaster, Pa: Press of the Brecht printing Co, 1912.
Rebecca Beal papers, 1949-1982, Eichholtz's great-granddaughter, The Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Milley, John Calvin. Jacob Eichholtz, 1776–1842, Pennsylvania Portraitist. Master's thesis, University of Delaware, 1960.
External links
Thomas R. Ryan. Jacob Eichholtz (1776-1842), Lancaster County Historical Society
List of Jacob Eichholtz Portrait Subjects
1776 births
1842 deaths
18th-century American painters
American male painters
19th-century American painters
American portrait painters
Artists from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Artists from Philadelphia
Burials at Woodward Hill Cemetery
19th-century American male artists |
20464397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20Mexican%20legislative%20election | 2009 Mexican legislative election | Legislative elections were held in Mexico on 5 July 2009. Voters elected 500 new deputies (300 by their respective constituencies, 200 by proportional representation) to sit in the Chamber of Deputies for the 61st Congress.
Opinion polls
Opinion polling, by pollster Demotecnia, that was taken less than a month before the election showed the Institutional Revolutionary Party with 36%, the National Action Party with 31%, and the Party of the Democratic Revolution with 16%.
Voto en blanco
A none of the above movement, dubbed "voto en blanco", or "blank vote", had arisen in response to the perceived corruption of the three major parties running in this election. Starting as a small group on blogs and YouTube, the movement had expanded its ranks, with politicians and intellectuals, such as Jose Antonio Crespo, supporting the movement. Pollster Demotecnia showed that 3% of the people would be willing to boycott the elections in response to the "voto en blanco" movement.
Opposition to the movement came from organizations such as the Federal Electoral Institute, a government institute who seeks to expand voter participation, who claimed that the response to an unsatisfactory democracy is not to have fewer people vote but to have more people involved in the electoral process.
Results
References
Mexico
Legislative election
Legislative elections in Mexico
July 2009 events in Mexico |
17326580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recount%20%28film%29 | Recount (film) | Recount is a 2008 political drama television film about Florida's vote recount during the 2000 United States presidential election. Written by Danny Strong and directed by Jay Roach, the television film stars Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr., Laura Dern, John Hurt, Denis Leary, Bruce McGill, and Tom Wilkinson. It premiered on HBO on May 25, 2008. The television film won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Television Movie and Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special for Roach, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for Dern.
Plot
Recount chronicles the 2000 U.S. presidential election Bush v. Gore case between Governor of Texas George W. Bush and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. It begins with the election on November 7 and ends with the Supreme Court ruling, which stopped the Florida election recount on December 12.
Key points depicted include: Gore's retraction of his personal telephone concession to Bush in the early hours of November 8; the decision by the Gore campaign to sue for hand recounts in Democratic strongholds where voting irregularities were alleged, especially in light of the statistical dead heat revealed by the reported machine recount; Republican pressure on Florida's Secretary of State Katherine Harris in light of her legally mandated responsibilities; the attention focused on the hand recounts by media, parties, and the public; the two major announcements by Florida Supreme Court spokesman Craig Waters extending the deadline for returns in the initial recount (November 21, 2000) and ordering a statewide recount of votes (December 8, 2000), and later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court; and finally the adversarial postures of the Supreme Courts of Florida and the United States, as well as the dissenting opinions among the higher court's justices.
Production
Director
In April 2007, it was announced that Sydney Pollack would direct the film. By August, weeks away from the start of principal photography, Pollack withdrew from the project due to a then-undisclosed illness, and was replaced by Jay Roach. Pollack died of cancer on May 26, 2008, one day after Recount premiered on HBO.
Casting
On September 24, 2007, it was announced that Kevin Spacey would star as Ron Klain.
Filming
Recount was shot in Jacksonville and Tallahassee, Florida.
Cast
Reception
Awards and nominations
2008 Emmy Awards:
Won: Outstanding Made for Television Movie
Won: Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special (Jay Roach)
Won: Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or Movie
Nominated: Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie
Nominated: Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special
Nominated: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie (Kevin Spacey and Tom Wilkinson)
Nominated: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie (Bob Balaban and Denis Leary)
Nominated: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie (Laura Dern)
Nominated: Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special
2009 66th Golden Globe Awards:Won: Laura Dern - Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominated: Denis Leary - Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominated: Tom Wilkinson - Best Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominated: Kevin Spacey - Best Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominated: Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television2009 Directors Guild of America Award:Won: Jay Roach - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television/Miniseries2009 Writers Guild of America Award:Won': Danny Strong - Best Writing in Long Form - Original
Reviews
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 78%, based on 18 reviews, and an average rating of 6.4/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 66 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Mark Moorman of Het Parool, gave the film a rating of four stars on a scale of five, calling Recount an "amazing and funny reconstruction".
Response to fictionalization
Some critics have made charges of bias against the film. Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Recount may not be downright blue, but it's not as purply as it wants to appear. Despite its equal time approach, Recount is an underdog story, and thus a Democrat story." Film critic Roger Ebert disputed claims of bias in his review of the film, stating, "You might assume the movie is pro-Gore and anti-Bush, but you would not be quite right."
In an interview with CNN's Reliable Sources, director Jay Roach responded that the film, "wasn't 100 percent accurate, but it was very true to what went on. ... That's what dramatizations do: stitch together the big ideas with, sometimes, constructs that have to stand for a larger truth." Roach cited All the President's Men as an example. Jake Tapper, an ABC newscaster who was a consultant for the film also stated in response that the film is "a fictional version of what happened" and "tilts to the left because it's generally told from the point of view of the Democrats." The Washington Post further stated that Tapper noted that "while some scenes and language are manufactured, 'a lot of dialogue is not invented, a lot of dialogue is taken from my book, other books and real life.' "
Florida Supreme Court spokesman Craig Waters agreed that the script departed from the actual statements he made on live television from the courthouse steps in the fall of 2000. "But the words spoken by the actor who played me [Alex Staggs]," Waters said, "are accurate paraphrasis of the things I actually said or of the documents released by the court at the time."
Warren Christopher, who was sent by Gore to supervise the recount, has objected to his portrayal in the film. According to the San Jose Mercury News, Christopher: Baker agreed that the film exaggerated his rival's stance: "He's not that much of a wuss," said Matea Gold of the San Jose Mercury News''.
Democratic strategist Michael Whouley has objected to the amount of swearing he does in the film, and was also uncomfortable with a scene involving a broken chair.
In contrast, Bush legal advisers James Baker and Benjamin Ginsberg have largely given the film good reviews; Baker even hosted his own screening of it, though he does refer to the film as a "Hollywood rendition" of what happened.
Gallery
References
External links
2008 television films
2008 films
2008 drama films
2000 United States presidential election in Florida
2000s English-language films
2000s political drama films
American films based on actual events
American political drama films
Drama films based on actual events
Drama television films
Films about the 2000 United States presidential election
Films directed by Jay Roach
Films scored by Dave Grusin
Films shot in Jacksonville, Florida
Films with screenplays by Danny Strong
HBO Films films
Political films based on actual events
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie winners
Television films based on actual events |
20464429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Dawson%20%28musician%29 | John Dawson (musician) | John Collins Dawson IV (June 16, 1945 – July 21, 2009), nicknamed "Marmaduke", was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was best known as the leader and co-founder of the country rock band the New Riders of the Purple Sage. He sang lead vocals on most of the band’s songs.
Musical career
John Dawson was born in Chicago. His family moved to California in 1952. The son of a Los Altos Hills, California filmmaker, he took guitar lessons from a teacher and friend from the Peninsula School in Menlo Park, California. For high school he attended the Millbrook School near Millbrook, New York. While at Millbrook, he took courses in music theory & history and sang in the glee club.
Dawson's musical career began in the mid-1960s folk music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. There he met fellow guitarist David Nelson, and was part of the rotating lineup of Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, a jug band that included Jerry Garcia and several other future members of the Grateful Dead. Dawson was also heavily influenced by the Bakersfield sound genre of country music.
After a stint at Occidental College, Dawson remained in the Los Angeles metropolitan area for several years. By 1969, Dawson had returned to Los Altos Hills to attend courses at Foothill College. Along with Nelson, he also contributed to the sessions for Aoxomoxoa, the Grateful Dead's third studio album. He also began to write a number of country rock songs, a development coinciding with Garcia's newfound interest in playing pedal steel guitar. Joined by Nelson, they formed the New Riders of the Purple Sage. The New Riders became the opening act for the Grateful Dead, and their original lineup included three Grateful Dead members — Garcia on pedal steel, Phil Lesh on bass, and Mickey Hart on drums. Within a year, Dave Torbert replaced Lesh and Spencer Dryden replaced Hart in the New Riders lineup, with Garcia continuing to play in both bands. In 1970 and 1971, the New Riders and the Grateful Dead performed many concerts together. In November 1971, Buddy Cage replaced Jerry Garcia as the New Riders' pedal steel player, allowing NRPS to tour independently of the Dead.
During this same period, Dawson continued to appear as a guest musician on Grateful Dead studio albums, including Workingman's Dead (1970) and American Beauty (1970). With Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter, he co-wrote the song "Friend of the Devil".
In the years that followed, Dawson and Nelson led a gradually evolving lineup of musicians in the New Riders of the Purple Sage, playing their psychedelic influenced brand of country rock and releasing a number of studio and live albums. Songwriting duties were generally divided between Dawson (who grew gradually less prolific before enjoying a resurgence on the band's final studio album) and a succession of three bassists: Torbert, Skip Battin (best known for his work with the Clarence White-era Byrds) and Roger McGuinn Band veteran Stephen A. Love. In 1982, David Nelson and Buddy Cage left the band. John Dawson and the New Riders carried on without them, taking on more of a bluegrass influence with the addition of multi-instrumentalist Rusty Gauthier to the group. NRPS continued to tour intermittently and released the occasional album. Then, in 1997, Dawson retired from the music business, moved to Mexico, and became an English teacher, and the New Riders disbanded.
In 2005, David Nelson and Buddy Cage revived the New Riders of the Purple Sage, without Dawson's participation but with his agreement and moral support. Subsequently Dawson made several guest appearances at New Riders concerts.
Dawson died in Mexico of stomach cancer on July 21, 2009.
Notes
References
1945 births
2009 deaths
American expatriates in Mexico
American rock guitarists
American male guitarists
Deaths from cancer in Mexico
Deaths from stomach cancer
20th-century American guitarists
New Riders of the Purple Sage members
20th-century American male musicians
Musicians from Chicago |
17326591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huo%20Jianqi | Huo Jianqi | Huo Jianqi (; born January 20, 1958) is a Chinese film director. Like the cinematographer turned director Gu Changwei, Huo Jianqi began his cinematic career in the art department. Nearly all of Huo's films have been written by his wife and collaborator, Qiu Shi, who works under the name "Si Wu." Unlike many of his contemporaries (and predecessors), Huo rarely has had issues with the Chinese government regarding his films, leading some western critics to label him the "darling director of China's film bureaucracy."
Career
Huo attended the Beijing Film Academy in the early 1980s as part of the "Fifth Generation" (which also included directors like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige). After graduation, he worked as an art director, including on films such as Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Horse Thief (1986). Huo's own career as a director did not begin, however, until 1995 with The Winner and would not achieve true international success until his 1999 film, Postmen in the Mountains. The simple tale of a father and son traveling through the mountains of Hunan delivering mail proved a success in both China, where it eventually won the Golden Rooster for best film, best director, and best actor Teng Rujun, and abroad in foreign festivals. Upon its release in the United States, the film was praised by critics for its sincerity, critic Roger Ebert noted that the film was "so simple and straightforward that its buried emotions catch us a little by surprise." Huo repeated that film's success with his subsequent project, including 2000's A Love of Blueness and 2002's Life Show (which won the Golden Goblet for best film at the Shanghai International Film Festival).
Huo scored another success with his adaptation of author Mo Yan's The White Dog and the Swing, entitled Nuan. The film, starring Guo Xiaodong and Li Jia in the titular role, won the Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival, as well as another best picture Golden Rooster.
Filmography
References
External links
Huo Jianqi at the Chinese Movie Database
Huo Jianqi at Cinemasie
Film directors from Beijing
Beijing Film Academy alumni
Art directors
1958 births
Living people |
17326609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Steinberg | Roman Steinberg | Roman Steinberg (after 1938, Roman Kivimägi; 5 April 1900 – 30 May 1939), was an Estonian Greco-Roman wrestling bronze medal winner in middleweight class at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Steinberg was also three times Estonian wrestling champion 1921–1923, coached by Robert Oksa.
He died after contracting tuberculosis, age 39, and was buried at Alexander Nevsky Cemetery, Tallinn.
See also
Estonia at the 1924 Summer Olympics
References
External links
Picture of Roman Steinberg at the Estonian Olympic Committee webpage
GBR Athletics
FILA Wrestling Database
1900 births
1939 deaths
People from the Governorate of Estonia
Olympic wrestlers of Estonia
Olympic bronze medalists for Estonia
Wrestlers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Estonian male sport wrestlers
Olympic medalists in wrestling
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
People from Lääneranna Parish
Tuberculosis deaths in Estonia
20th-century deaths from tuberculosis |
17326611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Barker%20House | Benjamin Barker House | The Benjamin Barker House was a historic house on Main Road in Tiverton, Rhode Island. Built c. 1850, it was a two-story wood-frame structure with an impressive Greek Temple front, with full-height fluted Ionic columns supporting a full triangular pediment. The pediment (as did the gable at the opposite end of the house) had an astylistic triple window in it. The roof was topped by an octagonal cupola with belvedere, with two narrow chimneys piercing the ridge line. It is possible the house was designed by Russell Warren, who is documented to have designed a number of other high-style Greek Revival houses in the region. The purchaser is believed to be Benjamin Barker, a lumber merchant operating in nearby Fall River, Massachusetts.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, after it was extensively destroyed by fire. It was demolished in 1981. The property it stood on, at the northwest corner of the junction of Main Road and Rhode Island Route 24, was associated with The Coachman, a restaurant, and is now the site of an assisted living facility.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Houses completed in 1850
Buildings and structures in Tiverton, Rhode Island
Houses in Newport County, Rhode Island
Burned houses in the United States
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island
Greek Revival houses in Rhode Island
Demolished buildings and structures in Rhode Island
Buildings and structures demolished in 1981 |
17326614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20Do%20You%20Solve%20a%20Problem%20Like%20Maria%3F%20%28Canadian%20TV%20series%29 | How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? (Canadian TV series) | How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? was a Canadian reality competition television series that aired on CBC Television. It premiered on June 15, 2008 at 8pm EDT, and concluded on July 28, 2008. The show is based on the series of the same name which aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom in 2006. The Canadian version was cancelled after one season.
The premise of the contest was to find a musical theatre performer to play the lead role of Maria von Trapp in the 2008 Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Mirvish revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto. Initial auditions were held in seven Canadian cities. The show was hosted by Gavin Crawford and featured Simon Lee, Elaine Overholt, and John Barrowman as the judges for the show.
The first episode of the show featured the top 50 auditioners at the show's Maria School being cut to 20. The second episode had the Marias performing in front of Lloyd Webber in London, and then the 20 were cut to 10 with his input. Beginning June 22, the Marias performed live in Toronto every Sunday night with a live orchestra. The voting results aired on the following night.
Finalists
Ten contestants made it through the audition rounds and performed during the live shows.
* at the start of the contest
Results summary
Live shows
The live shows saw the finalists eliminated one by one following both individual and group performances. Once eliminated, the leaving contestant ended the program by leading a performance of "So Long, Farewell" from The Sound of Music with the remaining contestants.
Week 1 (June 22, 2008)
Following the first week of the competition, Alison was the first Maria to be eliminated from the competition. The show performances were:
Group performances:
"How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" (from the musical The Sound of Music)
"I Have Confidence" (from the musical The Sound of Music)
Sing-Off
Week 2 (June 29, 2008)
As the mission for this week, the potential Marias had to prove how fit they are by taking part in a thorough workout.
For their individual performances, the contestants sang songs by Canadian artists to celebrate Canada Day.
The show performances were:
Group performances:
"My Favorite Things" (from the musical The Sound of Music)
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell)
Sing-Off
Week 3 (July 6, 2008)
For their individual performances, the contestants sang songs from the musicals.
The show performances were:
Group performances:
"Do-Re-Mi" (from the musical The Sound of Music)
"Seasons of Love" (from the musical Rent)
Sing-Off
Week 4 (July 13, 2008)
As the mission for this week, the contestants act with the children to help separate between the potential Marias.
The show performances were:
Group performances:
"The Lonely Goatherd" (from the musical The Sound of Music)
"Don't Rain on My Parade" (from the musical Funny Girl)
Sing-Off
Week 5 (July 20, 2008)
This week, just like the British version, the mission was a chemistry test with John Barrowman, which involved his giving the Marias a surprise kiss.
The show performances were:
Group performances:
"I Have Confidence" (from the musical The Sound of Music)
"It's a Grand Night for Singing" (from the musical State Fair)
"Sway" (The Pussycat Dolls)
Sing-Off
Week 6 (July 27, 2008)
For their individual performances, the contestants sang songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The show performances were:
Group performances:
Finalists: "Anything You Can Do" (from the musical Annie Get Your Gun)
Finalists: "My Favorite Things" (from the musical The Sound of Music)
Finalists and former Marias: "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" (from the musical The Sound of Music)
Elicia and Janna: "The Sound of Music" (from The Sound of Music)
After being announced as the season winner, Elicia concluded the season with a performance of "The Sound of Music".
After the show
Elicia MacKenzie won the most votes, as announced prematurely on the Canadian Press wire at 7:30pm, July 28, half an hour before the show aired in the Toronto area.
On August 14, 2008 it was announced that runner-up, Janna Polzin, had been cast as an "alternate Maria" for the Toronto stage production. Janna played Maria twice a week (Wednesday evenings and Saturday matinees), while Elicia will perform the role six times weekly (Tuesday evenings, Wednesday matinees, Thursday through Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees).
Some viewers of the show have claimed that the panel and Lloyd Webber favoured Janna over the other performers in the competition. However, Elicia MacKenzie ended up beating Janna in the final.
References
External links
Official Program Website at cbc.ca
TV, eh?
2000s Canadian reality television series
2008 Canadian television series debuts
2008 Canadian television series endings
CBC Television original programming
Music competitions in Canada
Singing talent shows
The Sound of Music
Television series by Temple Street Productions |
17326619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabendu%20Ghosh | Nabendu Ghosh | Nabendu Ghosh (27 March 1917 – 15 December 2007) was an Indian author in Bengali literature, and screenwriter. He has written screenplays of classic Bollywood movies like, Sujata, Bandini, Devdas, Majhli Didi, Abhimaan and Teesri Kasam. He has written stories for movies like Baap Beti, Shatranj, Raja Jani. He has also acted briefly in Do Bigha Zameen, Teesri Kasam and Lukochuri. Later in his career, he directed four movies as well.
Biography
Nabendu Ghosh was born 27 March 1917 in Dhaka (presently in Bangladesh). At the age of 12 he became a popular actor on stage. As an acclaimed dancer in Uday Shankar style, he won several medals between 1939 and 1945. Ghosh lost a government job in 1944 for writing Dak Diye Jaai, set against the Quit India Movement launched by Indian National Congress. The novel catapulted him to fame and he moved to Calcutta in 1945. He soon ranked among the most progressive young writers in Bengali literature.
After partition, Urdu was declared the state language of East Pakistan; thereby banning all Bengali literature and films. It was this political division that prompted Nabendu Ghosh to join Bimal Roy in 1951, when he left New Theatres in Kolkata, to make films for Bombay Talkies. Others in the team who also shifted were Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Asit Sen, Paul Mahendra, Kamal Bose and later Salil Chaudhury. After Bimal Roy's death, Ghosh worked extensively with Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
Nabendu Ghosh has written on all historical upheavals of 1940s – famine, riots, partition – as well as love. His oeuvre bears the distinct stamp of his outlook towards life. His literary efforts are 'pointing fingers.' There is a multi-coloured variety, a deep empathy for human emotions, mysterious layers of meaning, subtle symbolism, description of unbearable life. Love for humanity is also reflected in his writings. He has to his credit 26 novels and 14 collections of short story. He directed the film Trishagni (1988), based on Saradindu Bandopadhyay's historical short story Maru O Sangha.
He died on 15 December 2007. He is survived by two sons, Dr Dipankar and filmmaker Shubhankar, and daughter Ratnottama Sengupta (film festival curator, author, and former The Times of India film journalist). His wife Kanaklata had died in 1999. His autobiography, Eka Naukar Jatri was published in March 2008. His daughter-in-law, Dr Soma Ghosh is an acclaimed classical vocalist, and was conferred with the Padma Shree award in 2016.
To commemorate his birth centenary, an English translation of his science fiction novel, Aami o Aami (1999), was released on 25 March 2017. He had worked on the translation with his grandson, Devottam Sengupta. The book is known as Me and I in English.
Filmography
Screenwriter
Parineeta (1953)
Biraj Bahu (1954)
Baadbaan (1954)
Aar Paar (1954)
Devdas (1955)
Yahudi (1958)
Insan Jaag Utha (1959)
Sujata (1959)
Bandini (1963)
Teesri Kasam (1966)
Majhli Didi (1967)
Sharafat (1970)
Lal Patthar (1971)
Abhimaan (1973)
Jheel Ke Us Paar (1973)
Do Anjaane (1976)
Ganga Ki Saugandh (1978)
Krodhi (1981)
Director
Parineeta (1953) (Assistant director)
Trishagni (1988)
Netraheen Sakshi (1992)
Ladkiyaan (1997)
Anmol Ratan: Ashok Kumar (Documentary/ 1995)
Awards
Literary awards
Bankim Puraskar from the Bangla Academy, Govt. of West Bengal
Haraprasad Ghosh Medal from Bangiya Sahitya Parishad
Bibhuti Bhushan Sahitya Arghya
Bimal Mitra Puraskar
Amrita Puraskar
Film awards
1997: Honoris Causa conferred by Film and Television Institute of India for his "Significant Contribution to Indian Cinema"
1988: National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director – Trishagni
1969: Filmfare Best Screenplay Award, Majhli Didi (1969)
BFJA Award for Best Screenplay: Majhli Didi (1969)
BFJA Award for Best Screenplay: Teesri Kasam (1967)
Film World Award for Best Screenplay (Do Anjaane)
References
Mukul (2010), 20-minute documentary by Subhankar Ghosh.
External links
Nabendu Ghosh profile at Upperstall
1917 births
2007 deaths
Bengali-language writers
People from Dhaka
Bengali novelists
Bengali writers
Indian male screenwriters
Filmfare Awards winners
Bengal Film Journalists' Association Award winners
Indian autobiographers
Hindi-language film directors
Bangladeshi screenwriters
20th-century Bangladeshi writers
20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Indian film directors
20th-century Bangladeshi male writers
Novelists from West Bengal
Screenwriters from Kolkata
20th-century Indian novelists
Film directors from Kolkata
Director whose film won the Best Debut Feature Film National Film Award
Producers who won the Best Debut Feature Film of a Director National Film Award
20th-century Indian screenwriters |
17326621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%20Xiaobing | Gu Xiaobing | Gu Xiaobing (; born July 12, 1985) is a chess player from China. She was awarded by FIDE the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2003.
Gu competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2001 and 2012.
She was in the FIDE Top 20 Girls rating list from January 2003 to January 2004.
She achieved the norms required for the WGM title in the Women's Zonal 3.3 Championship in 2001, 2001 World Junior Girls Championship and Women's Chinese Chess Championship in 2002.
Gu finished runner-up to Elisabeth Pähtz in the World Junior Girls Championship 2005 in Istanbul, Turkey.
In January 2016, Gu won the Australian Women's Masters, a round-robin tournament held in Melbourne, Australia.
She is the director of Yangzhou Yunhe chess academy since 2013.
See also
Chess in China
References
External links
Official blog
Gu Xiaobing chess games at 365Chess.com
Xiaobing Gu chess games at 365Chess.com
1985 births
Living people
Chess woman grandmasters
Chess players from Jiangsu
People from Taizhou, Jiangsu |
20464442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20Portuguese%20legislative%20election | 2009 Portuguese legislative election | The 2009 Portuguese legislative election was held on 27 September, to renew all 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic. The Socialist Party, led by incumbent Prime Minister José Sócrates, won the largest number of seats, but didn't repeat the overall majority they gained in 2005.
The Socialist Party of Prime Minister José Sócrates came in first despite losing 9% of the vote and 24 seats.
In these elections there were approximately 9.5 million Portuguese at home and abroad called to determine the 230 seats in the Assembleia da República and 18th constitutional government in Portugal after 1976. The Socialists won the election with a clear lead over the conservative Social Democrats, with big gains for the People's Party and for the Left Bloc.
The election took place during the regular end of the previous four-year legislative period. From 2005 to 2009 ruled by the Socialist Party (PS), led by José Sócrates, with an absolute majority. The opinion polls at the beginning of the official election campaign on 12 September 2009, showed a too close to call race between the Socialists and the conservative Social Democrats, but just days before the election the Socialists increased their lead over the Social Democrats. A total of 13 parties and two coalitions competed in this election.
Focus of the campaign was the impact of global economic, the financial crisis and the construction of new infrastructure projects, including the high-speed rail link Lisbon-Madrid and Lisbon-Porto-Vigo, and the new Lisbon airport.
Neither of the two major parties won an absolute majority in the Assembly of the Republic, so, the future prime minister had to form a coalition, or at least rely on other parties to govern. In that case, José Sócrates was in a better position than Manuela Ferreira Leite, since the Portuguese left won by 54.23% of the vote and 128 seats, against 39.54% and 102 deputies to the right.
On 12 October, José Sócrates was invited by President Aníbal Cavaco Silva to form government. The new cabinet was announced on 22 October and sworn in on 26 October.
Voter turnout was one of the lowest in Portuguese election history, as 59.7% of the electorate cast a ballot.
Background
In the February 2005 early elections, the Socialists, under the leadership of José Sócrates, won 45% of the votes and 121 MPs, the 1st time the Socialists won a majority and the 1st time a single party won a majority since Cavaco Silva's PSD victory in 1991. The PSD suffered a heavy defeat, achieving their worst results since 1983, and faced with this failure, the then PSD leader and outgoing Prime Minister, Pedro Santana Lopes, resigned from the leadership and called an election for party chair.
PSD 2005 leadership election
In the party's congress in April 2005, Luís Marques Mendes became party leader winning 56% of the delegates, against the 44% of his rival, Luís Filipe Menezes. The results were the following:
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate
! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes
! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%
|-
|bgcolor=orange|
| align=left | Luís Marques Mendes
| align=right | 497
| align=right | 56.6
|-
|bgcolor=orange|
| align=left | Luís Filipe Menezes
| align=right | 381
| align=right | 43.4
|-
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Turnout
| align=right | 878
| align=center |
|-
| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Results
|}
CDS–PP 2005 leadership election
CDS–PP leader Paulo Portas, resigned from the leadership following the disappointing result of the party in the 2005 elections saying that "in no civilized country in the world, the difference between Trotskyists and Christian Democrats is one percent", referring to the result of the BE. A snap leadership congress was called to elect a new leader. Two candidates were in the ballot: Telmo Correia, the preferred candidate of Paulo Portas, and José Ribeiro e Castro, more critical of Portas. Ribeiro e Castro was easily elected and the results were the following:
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate
! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes
! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%
|-
|bgcolor=|
| align=left | José Ribeiro e Castro
| align=right | 492
| align=right | 56.0
|-
|bgcolor=|
| align=left | Telmo Correia
| align=right | 387
| align=right | 44.0
|-
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Turnout
| align=right | 879
| align=center |
|-
| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Results
|}
During the first months in his government, Sócrates raised taxes to cut the deficit and initiated a policy of strict budgetary rigor. At the same time, he faced a very harsh summer with Wildfires across the country. That same October, the Socialists suffered a heavy defeat in the 2005 local elections, winning just 108 cities, a drop of 4, against the PSD's 158 mayoral holds. The PS was also unable to retake control of Lisbon and Porto. In January 2006, a new President was elected. Aníbal Cavaco Silva, PM between 1985 and 1995, became the first center-right candidate to win a presidential election, although only just. The PS candidate, former PM and President Mário Soares polled a disappointing third place with just 14% of the votes. In 2007, a referendum for the legalization of abortion was held. After the failure of the 1998 referendum, the Yes side prevailed winning 59% of the votes against the No's 41%, making abortion legal in Portugal.
While the deficit reduction had been successful, and with the economy growing above 2% of GDP, the government faced heavy opposition for its policies, particularly from teachers unions. In March 2008, more than 100,000 teachers protested in Lisbon against Sócrates and his Education minister, Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues.
CDS–PP 2007 leadership election
On April 2007, former CDS–PP leader Paulo Portas challenged the then party leader, José Ribeiro e Castro, for the leadership and was elected for his former job by a landslide. The results were the following:
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate
! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes
! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%
|-
|bgcolor=|
| align=left | Paulo Portas
| align=right | 5,642
| align=right | 74.6
|-
|bgcolor=|
| align=left | José Ribeiro e Castro
| align=right | 1,883
| align=right | 24.9
|-
| colspan=2 align=left | Blank/Invalid ballots
| align=right | 38
| align=right | 0.5
|-
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Turnout
| align=right | 7,563
| align=center |
|-
| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Results
|}
PSD 2007 leadership election
In the Social Democratic Party, incumbent leader Luís Marques Mendes was being very criticized for his opposition strategy and was left weakened after the PSD disappointing result in the 2007 Lisbon mayoral by-election, where the PSD polled 3rd with less than 16% of the votes. Marques Mendes called a snap leadership election and was challenged by his rival in the 2005 PSD congress, Luís Filipe Menezes. Menezes easily defeated Marques Mendes. The results were the following:
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate
! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes
! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%
|-
|bgcolor=orange|
| align=left | Luís Filipe Menezes
| align=right | 21,101
| align=right | 53.6
|-
|bgcolor=orange|
| align=left | Luís Marques Mendes
| align=right | 16,973
| align=right | 43.1
|-
| colspan=2 align=left | Blank/Invalid ballots
| align=right | 1,279
| align=right | 3.3
|-
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Turnout
| align=right | 39,353
| align=right | 62.42
|-
| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Official Results
|}
PSD 2008 leadership election
The then PSD leader, Luís Filipe Menezes, elected in September 2007, resigned after just 6 months in the job. In the following leadership elections, held in May 2008, Manuela Ferreira Leite became the first woman to lead a major party in Portugal, winning 38% of the votes, against the 31% of Pedro Passos Coelho and the 30% of Pedro Santana Lopes. The results were the following:
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate
! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes
! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%
|-
|bgcolor=orange|
| align=left | Manuela Ferreira Leite
| align=right | 17,278
| align=right | 37.9
|-
|bgcolor=orange|
| align=left | Pedro Passos Coelho
| align=right | 14,160
| align=right | 31.1
|-
|bgcolor=orange|
| align=left | Pedro Santana Lopes
| align=right | 13,495
| align=right | 29.6
|-
|bgcolor=orange|
| align=left | Patinha Antão
| align=right | 308
| align=right | 0.7
|-
| colspan=2 align=left | Blank/Invalid ballots
| align=right | 351
| align=right | 0.8
|-
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Turnout
| align=right| 45,592
| align=right | 59.13
|-
| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Official Results
|}
Entering 2009, Portugal was strongly hit by the effects of the financial crisis that was shaking the global economy, and, therefore, the country entered in a recession. As a result, the government adopted stimulus measures that worsened the public finances and increased the deficit and the debt. In the European elections of June 7, 2009, the PSD stunned pundits by winning a European election for the first time since 1989, with 31.7% of the votes. The Socialists suffered a huge defeat, winning just 26% of the votes, a drop of 18%.
Electoral system
The Assembly of the Republic has 230 members elected to four-year terms. Governments do not require absolute majority support of the Assembly to hold office, as even if the number of opposers of government is larger than that of the supporters, the number of opposers still needs to be equal or greater than 116 (absolute majority) for both the Government's Programme to be rejected or for a motion of no confidence to be approved.
The number of seats assigned to each district depends on the district magnitude. The use of the d'Hondt method makes for a higher effective threshold than certain other allocation methods such as the Hare quota or Sainte-Laguë method, which are more generous to small parties.
For these elections, and compared with the 2005 elections, the MPs distributed by districts were the following:
Parties
The table below lists the parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic during the 10th legislature (2005-2009) and that also partook in the election:
Campaign period
Party slogans
Candidates' debates
Opinion polling
National summary of votes and seats
|-
| colspan=11|
|-
! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" alignleft|Parties
! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes
! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%
! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |±pp swing
! colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |MPs
! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |MPs %/votes %
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |2005
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |2009
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |±
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |±
|-
|
|2,077,238||36.56||8.4||121||97||24||42.17||10.4||1.15
|-
|
|1,653,665||29.11||0.3||71||81||10||35.22||4.3||1.21
|-
|
|592,778||10.43||3.1||12||21||9||9.13||3.9||0.88
|-
|
|557,306||9.81||3.4||8||16||8||6.96||3.5||0.71
|-
|
|446,279||7.86||0.3||14||15||1||6.52||0.4||0.83
|-
|
|52,761||0.93||0.1||0||0||0||0.00||0.0||0.0
|-
|
|25,949||0.46||||||0||||0.00||||0.0
|-
|
|21,876||0.38||0.3||0||0||0||0.00||0.0||0.0
|-
|
|16,924||0.30||||||0||||0.00||||0.0
|-
|
|15,262||0.27||||2||0||2||0.00||0.9||0.0
|-
| style="width:10px;background-color:#013220;text-align:center;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |Ecology and Humanism Front
|12,405||0.22||||||0||||0.00||||0.0
|-
|
|11,503||0.20||0.0||0||0||0||0.00||0.0||0.0
|-
| style="width:10px;background-color:#000080;text-align:center;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |Portugal Pro-Life
|8,461||0.15||||||0||||0.00||||0.0
|-
|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#CC0033 align="center" |
|align=left|Labour
|4,974||0.09||||||0||||0.00||||0.0
|-
|
|4,632||0.08||0.0||0||0||0||0.00||0.0||0.0
|-
|
|3,265||0.06||||2||0||2||0.00||0.9||0.0
|-
|colspan=2 style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid
|width="65" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,505,278
|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|96.91
|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.2
|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|230
|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|230
|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|0
|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.0
|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|—
|-
|colspan=2|Blank ballots
|99,086||1.74||0.1||colspan=6 rowspan=4|
|-
|colspan=2|Invalid ballots
|76,894||1.35||0.2
|-
|colspan=2 style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total
|width="65" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,681,258
|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|-
|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout
||9,519,921||59.68||4.6
|-
| colspan=11 style="text-align:left;" | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
Distribution by constituency
|- class="unsortable"
!rowspan=2|Constituency!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S
!rowspan=2|TotalS
|- class="unsortable" style="text-align:center;"
!colspan=2 | PS
!colspan=2 | PSD
!colspan=2 | CDS–PP
!colspan=2 | BE
!colspan=2 | CDU
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Azores
| style="background:; color:white;"|39.7
| 3
| 35.7
| 2
| 10.3
| -
| 7.3
| -
| 2.2
| -
| 5
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Aveiro
| 33.8
| 6
| style="background:; color:white;"|34.6
| 7
| 13.0
| 2
| 9.0
| 1
| 3.8
| -
| 16
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Beja
| style="background:; color:white;"|34.9
| 2
| 14.6
| -
| 5.7
| -
| 10.0
| -
| 29.1
| 1
| 3
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Braga
| style="background:; color:white;"|41.7
| 9
| 30.8
| 6
| 9.7
| 2
| 7.8
| 1
| 4.6
| 1
| 19
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Bragança
| 33.0
| 1
| style="background:; color:white;"|40.6
| 2
| 12.6
| -
| 6.2
| -
| 2.4
| -
| 3
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Castelo Branco
| style="background:; color:white;"|41.0
| 2
| 29.8
| 2
| 8.4
| -
| 9.1
| -
| 5.1
| -
| 4
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Coimbra
| style="background:; color:white;"|38.0
| 4
| 30.6
| 4
| 8.8
| 1
| 10.8
| 1
| 5.7
| -
| 10
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Évora
| style="background:; color:white;"|35.0
| 1
| 19.0
| 1
| 6.4
| -
| 11.1
| -
| 22.3
| 1
| 3
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Faro
| style="background:; color:white;"|31.9
| 3
| 26.2
| 3
| 10.7
| 1
| 15.3
| 1
| 7.8
| -
| 8
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Guarda
| style="background:; color:white;"|36.0
| 2
| 35.6
| 2
| 11.2
| -
| 7.6
| -
| 3.3
| -
| 4
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Leiria
| 30.1
| 4
| style="background:; color:white;"|34.9
| 4
| 12.6
| 1
| 9.5
| 1
| 5.1
| -
| 10
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Lisbon
| style="background:; color:white;"|36.4
| 19
| 25.1
| 13
| 11.0
| 5
| 10.8
| 5
| 9.9
| 5
| 47
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Madeira
| 19.4
| 1
| style="background:; color:white;"|48.1
| 4
| 11.1
| 1
| 6.2
| -
| 4.2
| -
| 6
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Portalegre
| style="background:; color:white;"|38.3
| 1
| 23.8
| 1
| 8.0
| -
| 10.8
| -
| 12.9
| -
| 2
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Porto
| style="background:; color:white;"|41.8
| 18
| 29.2
| 12
| 9.3
| 4
| 9.2
| 3
| 5.7
| 2
| 39
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Santarém
| style="background:; color:white;"|33.7
| 4
| 27.0
| 3
| 11.2
| 1
| 11.8
| 1
| 9.2
| 1
| 10
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Setúbal
| style="background:; color:white;"|34.0
| 7
| 16.4
| 3
| 9.1
| 1
| 14.0
| 2
| 20.1
| 4
| 17
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Viana do Castelo
| style="background:; color:white;"|36.3
| 3
| 31.3
| 2
| 13.6
| 1
| 8.6
| -
| 4.2
| -
| 6
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Vila Real
| 36.1
| 2
| style="background:; color:white;"|41.1
| 3
| 10.1
| -
| 5.5
| -
| 2.9
| -
| 5
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Viseu
| 34.7
| 4
| style="background:; color:white;"|37.5
| 4
| 13.4
| 1
| 6.5
| -
| 2.9
| -
| 9
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Europe
| style="background:; color:white;"|43.3
| 1
| 23.8
| 1
| 4.7
| -
| 4.7
| -
| 4.4
| -
| 2
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Outside Europe
| 22.0
| -
| style="background:; color:white;"|54.5
| 2
| 3.2
| -
| 2.0
| -
| 1.0
| -
| 2
|-
|- class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9"
| style="text-align:left;" | Total
| style="background:; color:white;"|36.6
| 97
| 29.1
| 81
| 10.4
| 21
| 9.8
| 16
| 7.9
| 15
| 230
|-
| colspan=12 style="text-align:left;" | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
Maps
Notes
References
External links
Preliminary results of the 2009 election
Portuguese Electoral Commission
See also
Politics of Portugal
List of political parties in Portugal
Elections in Portugal
2009 elections in Portugal
2009 legislative
September 2009 events in Europe |
20464485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Best%20Of%20%28Sash%21%20album%29 | The Best Of (Sash! album) | The Best Of is a greatest hits album by German DJ Sash!. It was released by Hard2Beat on 20 October 2008. It's a double album, including all of Sash!'s celebrated hits (on the first disc) and 12 remixes from four different songs (on the second disc).
Track listing
Disc one
Encore Une Fois (Blunt Radio Edit) featuring Sabine Ohmes from It's My Life – The Album
Ecuador featuring Adrian Rodriguez from It's My Life – The Album
Stay featuring La Trec from It's My Life – The Album
La Primavera featuring Patrizia Salvatore from Life Goes On
Mysterious Times featuring Tina Cousins* from Life Goes On
Move Mania featuring Shannon from Life Goes On
Colour the World featuring Dr. Alban & Inka Auhagen from Life Goes On
Adelante featuring Adrian Rodriguez and Peter Faulhammer from Trilenium
Just Around the Hill (Dance Radio Edit) featuring Tina Cousins* from Trilenium
With My Own Eyes featuring Inka Auhagen from Trilenium
Ganbareh featuring Mikio from S4!Sash!
Run featuring Boy George from S4!Sash!
I Believe featuring TJ Davis from S4!Sash!
It's My Life (The Very First Single) from It's My Life – The Album
Raindrops (Encore Une Fois) (Kindervater Edit) featuring Stunt
Raindrops (Encore Une Fois) (Fonzerelli Re-Work) featuring Stunt
Just Around the Hill featuring Tina Cousins from Trilenium
Disc two
Ecuador (Javi Mula & Joan Reyes Remix)
Ecuador (Will Bailey & Calvertron Remix)
Ecuador (Bad Behaviour Remix)
Stay (Cedric Gervais Vocal Remix)
Stay (Fonzerelli Re-Work)
Stay (Bass Slammers Remix)
La Primavera (Static Shokx Remix)
La Primavera (Twocker's Popcorn Remix)
La Primavera (3Style Remix)
Mysterious Times (7th Heaven Remix)
Mysterious Times (Spencer & Hill Remix)
Mysterious Times (Sound Selektaz Club Mix)
This is a slightly different edit of the song.
Personnel
SASH! – producer
Tokapi – producer
Written by: Ralf Kappmeier, Thomas Alisson, Sascha Lappessen
Features/Vocals by: Sabine Ohmes, Rodriguez, La Trec, Patrizia, Tina Cousins, Shannon, Dr. Alban, Inka, Peter Faulhammer, Boy George, T.J. Davis, Sarah Brightman, Stunt
Remixes by: Kindevater, Fonzerelli, Javi Mula, Joan Reyes, Will Bailey, Calvertron, Bad Behaviour, Cedric Gervais, Bass Clammers, Static Shokx, Twocker, 3 Style, 7th Heaven, Spencer & Hill, Sound Selekataz
Chart performance
The album reached No. 39 in the top 40 of the UK Albums chart in 2008.
300,000 copies sold in less than three months in the UK and achieved platinum status.
Notes
There is also an Extended Edition of the album, containing extended versions of the first 13 tracks of the first disc. This edition was only available from the iTunes Store.
References
Sash! compilation albums
2008 greatest hits albums
Dance Nation (record label) compilation albums |
20464491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920%20Horncastle%20by-election | 1920 Horncastle by-election | The 1920 Horncastle by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Horncastle in Lincolnshire on 25 February 1920. The seat had become vacant when the sitting Coalition Unionist Member of Parliament, William Weigall, who had held the seat since 1911, resigned upon being appointed Governor of South Australia.
Candidates
The Unionists, as representatives of the Liberal-Conservative Coalition government of David Lloyd George had as their candidate, Stafford Hotchkin (1876-1953), a farmer, former soldier, Sheriff of Rutland and a local Justice of the Peace. The Liberals were represented by Samuel Pattinson (1870-1942), a local businessman and sometime Alderman of Lincolnshire County Council. William Holmes stood for the Labour Party.
The "Coupon" revisited
Hotchkin quickly received the endorsement of both the prime minister and the leader of the Conservative Party, Bonar Law. In his letter to Hotchkin, Lloyd George emphasised the need to resuscitate and develop British agriculture in which task he said Hotchkin as a ‘practical farmer’ would be able to help the government. Bonar-Law stressed the continuing need for parties to work together in the national interest in difficult times. In effect Hotchkin was receiving the equivalent of the government ‘coupon’ which had been issued at the 1918 general election.
Issues
Agriculture
Agriculture dominated the election in this rural constituency. Labour had hopes of picking up the votes of the agricultural workers who were members of the National Union of Agricultural Workers, but William Holmes was reported as alienating potential supporters by making speeches about revolution and bloodshed. It was expected that the Liberals would gain land workers’ votes put off by the apparent extremism of Holmes’ electioneering. While the Coalition government was losing popularity across the country, it was reported that Hotchkin was a strong local candidate who knew about farming from a practical point of view. In the post-war environment, the availability and price of food and of animal feed were also issues. All the candidates strongly supported the encouragement and development of small holdings. Hotchkin was a sometime Chairman of the Lindsey Small Holdings Committee
Government influence
A related concern was government influence over private life and business, through over-regulation and bureaucracy, as well as examples of waste and extravagance from an administration in far away London. This theme was taken up by the Liberal, who also attacked Labour for their plans for nationalisation.
Result
The declaration of the poll did not take place until 9 March 1920 because of the government’s continuing to keep in force a wartime regulation delaying the announcement of election results. By this time news of H H Asquith's by-election win in Paisley had become known and this encouraged the Liberals to hope for a good result at Horncastle. In the event, however, the seat was held for the Coalition by Hotchkin with a majority of 1,413 over Pattinson, with Labour in third place. Turnout was 77.1% as opposed to 68.2% at the previous general election, which had been a straight fight between Unionist Coalitionist and Liberal candidates.
Candidates’ reaction
All three candidates were able to draw a positive conclusion from the result. Hotchkin was clearly gratified to have won and credited his success to a combination of popular satisfaction with the Coalition government and his status as a local man. Pattinson blamed his lack of success on the intervention of a Labour candidate, splitting the anti-coalition vote and presumably hoping Labour’s third place would discourage them from standing a candidate at future elections. Holmes said he had done well, coming late into the contest a perfect stranger to the constituency and was pleased to have established a solid Labour movement there.
Hotchkin took his seat in the House of Commons on Friday 12 March 1920. He served as MP for Horncastle until 1922 when Pattison won the seat at that year’s general election.
Aftermath
The intervention of the Labour party was not viewed as a success as they chose not to contest the seat at the 1922 general election. At this election, the new Unionist MP retired and Pattinson gained the seat for the Liberals. Labour avoided running a candidate again until 1929 when their candidate took enough votes off the Liberals to allow the Unionists to win again.
References
1920 elections in the United Kingdom
1920 in England
By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Lincolnshire constituencies |
20464498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20Saint%20Kitts%20and%20Nevis%20general%20election | 2010 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election | General elections were held in Saint Kitts and Nevis on 25 January 2010 for eleven of the fourteen or fifteen seats in the National Assembly. The other three or four members of the National Assembly will be appointed by the Governor-General after the elections.
The ruling Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP), led by Prime Minister Denzil Douglas, won a fourth term in office. It was opposed in the campaign by the opposition People's Action Movement (PAM), led by Lindsay Grant. Both parties received much of their support from the island of Saint Kitts, which chooses eight of the eleven elected members of the National Assembly.
On the neighboring island of Nevis, local parties, including the Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) and the Concerned Citizens' Movement (CCM), vied for three seats in the National Assembly. Support from Nevisian political parties could decide control of the national government in a tight election.
The continuing economic crisis was a major issue in the campaign. The national debt of Saint Kitts and Nevis had risen to US$2 billion under the SKNLP government, roughly $50,000 per citizen. Prime Minister Denzil Douglas shrugged off accusations that he had let the debt spiral upward during his fifteen years in office:
"It is important for me to state that St. Kitts and Nevis has never missed any payments on the national debt under Labour. This is very important. Many countries owe less, but are repeatedly unable to service their debt."
Background
Before the 2010 election, the Labour Party controlled seven of the eight seats allocated to the island of Saint Kitts in the Assembly. The opposition People's Action Movement (PAM) controlled the other Saint Kitts seat. From nearby Nevis, the Concerned Citizens' Movement (CCM) controlled two of Nevis' three seats in the Assembly, while the opposition Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) controlled the other seat.
Prime Minister Douglas, speaking to a crowd of approximately 15,000 in Basseterre on 9 January 2010, announced the dates for the upcoming election. He set Nomination Day for 15 January 2010, with the general election to be held on 25 January.
Conduct
Armed police had to respond to protests alleging voting irregularities in the constituency where the PAM leader Lindsay Grant was up against Glen "Ghost" Phillips of the SKNLP. PAM supporters contended that "outsiders" were being brought into the Half Way Tree Community Centre, seven miles (11 km) from the capital Basseterre, to vote. Elsewhere in the country, voting was reported to be calm "amidst overcast skies following some intermittent morning showers."
According to 2022 reporting by the OCCRP, there is evidence that Henley and Partners CEO Christian Kälin helped to finance the campaign of Denzil Douglas. Henley had set up a passport selling scheme in St. Kitts and Nevis during Douglas's tenure. At the same time, Henley entered into at least three agreements with the SCL Group or its affiliated companies to help each other in the Caribbean region. Henley has denied financing the Douglas campaign. However, Douglas stated in an unpublished 2018 interview that Henley did fund his campaign and that the SCL Group was hired to manage the campaign. Henley responded by calling Douglas a liar.
Results
On Saint Kitts, the SKNLP won six out of the eight seats. The PAM gained a new National Assembly member, Eugene Hamilton, while PAM deputy leader Shawn Richards retained his seat. Prime Minister Denzil Douglas retained his seat for Constituency Six by a margin of 1905 votes to 179.
On Nevis, the Concerned Citizens' Movement (CCM) won two seats, with the Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) taking the third.
References
Saint Kitts
Elections in Saint Kitts and Nevis
2010 in Saint Kitts and Nevis |
20464517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibriten%20High%20School | Hibriten High School | Hibriten High School (HHS) is a comprehensive, four-year high school accredited by the NC Department of Public Instruction and the Southern Colleges and Schools. The school is located at the foot of Hibriten Mountain, the western end of the Brushy Mountains in Lenoir, North Carolina.
History
Hibriten Academy
The Hibriten Academy was founded in 1885 on the Wildwood Road. It was a larger school than most of the ones for that period of time as it had three teachers and students of all ages. The rooms were heated with pot-bellied stoves, and the boy students had to cut the wood to keep the fires going. Water was carried to the rooms in a bucket and the students had their own cup to pour the water into from the bucket. Hibriten Academy was consolidated with Kings Creek High at the end of the 1932 school term.
Building and construction of Hibriten High School
Following a survey of the schools of Caldwell County in 1963, the State Department of Public Instruction recommended that three of the rural schools—Oak Hill, King's Creek, and Happy Valley—be consolidated. It was also recommended that a new building be constructed on a new site for the consolidated high school. Thirty-five acres of land, located in the Lower Creek section of the county, were purchased at a cost of $37,500.
In 1962, an architect was employed for a period of two years to complete plans for the building. Designed in a plan similar to a split-level building, the school consists of three levels and contains departments in science, home economics, English, French, math, social studies, music, physical education, drama, child care center, and vocational studies which include technical drafting, business, introduction to vocations, agriculture, carpentry, graphics, electronics, bricklaying, and the work study programs of industrial cooperative training and distributive education. The building also includes administrative offices for the principal, assistant principal, secretary, guidance suite, visual air room, two first-aid rooms, and a conference room. The cafeteria seats 250 people.
Located at the foot of the Hibriten Mountain, the school was given the name of Hibriten High School. Its mascot is a panther, and the school colors are red, black, and white. It is located two miles from the main thoroughfare of the city of Lenoir. The school was officially opened in the fall of 1966 with Kenneth A. Roberts as principal and Ronald Beane as assistant principal. Student enrollment for the 1966-67 school term was 715, with a faculty of 42. The class of 1967 graduated 118 students. Five elementary schools send students to Hibriten High School.
The gymnasium and music building were completed in 1972 with the gym seating 1800 people.
School bands
The Hibriten High School Symphonic Band is the main band of the school. It was established in 1966. As of Spring 2017, the bands (both symphonic and concert bands) have accumulated fifty-three superior ratings (21 consecutive by the symphonic band from 1994 to 2014), with most of them in Grade VI music (the most difficult level).
Of note are the band directors who taught at Hibriten and who are now in the North Carolina Bandmaster's Hall of Fame. These include George Kirsten (George Kirsten's sister Dorothy Kirsten sang operatic mezzo-soprano in the NY Metropolitan Opera), and Camilla Graeber. Other HHS Band directors have been honored by the Northwest District of the NC Bandmasters Association including Dennis Carswell, John Craig, and Bill Witcher.
School songs
The fight song was written by Captain Ralph Ostrom. The alma mater was written by Kathryn Wilson and John Craig.
Notable alumni
Nick Easton, NFL offensive lineman
Bobby McMillon, singer, musician, and storyteller
References
Public high schools in North Carolina
Schools in Caldwell County, North Carolina
1966 establishments in North Carolina |
17326640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remember%20the%20Day%20%28album%29 | Remember the Day (album) | Remember the Day is the first full-length album by the British Progressive metal band Exit Ten.
Track listing
"Technically Alive" – 3:51
"Godspeed" – 3:37
"Resume Ignore" – 3:40
"Warriors" – 3:42
"Remember the Day" – 3:59
"Perish in the Flames" – 3:48
"Reveal Yourself" – 3:23
"Out of Sight" – 4:42
"Fine Night" – 4:25
"Something to Say" – 6:30
Credits
Ryan Redman - Vocals
Stuart Steele - Guitar, backing vocals
Joe Ward - Guitar
James Steele - Bass
Chris Steele - Drums
Mark Williams - Production
Critical response
The album received a "KKKK" (equivalent to 4/5) rating in Kerrang! magazine. Reviewer Steve Beebee described the album as "a mighty firm introductory handshake", singling out the tracks Technically Alive and Resume Ignore for specific praise and suggesting that the album might appeal to fans of Deftones and Still Remains.
References
Exit Ten albums |
20464520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20Aruban%20general%20election | 2009 Aruban general election | General elections were held in Aruba on 25 September 2009. The elections were the seventh to be held for membership of the Estates since autonomy was granted by the Dutch in 1986, and resulted in a victory for the Aruban People's Party, which won 12 of the 21 seats in the Estates.
Background
Prior to this election the People's Electoral Movement (MEP) were the governing party, holding eleven seats. The main opposition Aruban People's Party (AVP) held eight with the Network of Electoral Democracy and the Aruban Patriotic Movement holding a seat apiece.
Electoral system
The 21 members of the Estates were elected for a four-year term using proportional representation, carried out in a single nationwide constituency. Each party was allowed to place up to 29 people on their party list. The party or coalition with a majority was allowed to select a Prime Minister.
Campaign
Eight parties and 167 independents contested the elections. The Aruban Director of the Register of Population and electoral council member Sharline Luidens forbade the press from taking photos inside polling stations during the election.
Pre-election polls showed the AVP were expected to win, campaigning to reduce inflation and abolish a tax on local business. The AVP also pledged to address concerns over the island's oil refinery operated by Valero Energy, which had been closed since mid-July 2009 and had provided jobs for around one thousand people, as well as a recent decline in tourists visiting the island. The People's Electoral Movement (MEP) pledged to diversify the economy and reduce debt and living costs.
The parties were represented by specific colors during the campaign; the AVP was known as the "green party," the MEP was the "yellow party" and the independent Real Democracy Party was identified as the "red party."
Results
A turnout of 86% was recorded for the election which proceeded without disruption. Governor Fredis Refunjol and his wife, Clarette, voted at the Sacred Heart School in Savaneta early Friday morning and urged all Arubans to vote as well. Incumbent Prime Minister Nelson Oduber and his wife, Glenda, cast their ballots at the EPB School in Hato, on the edge of Oranjestad. AVP leader Mike Eman voted in the afternoon at the Colegio Arubano, a junior-senior high school, with his wife, Doina, and his brother, Henny Eman, who was Aruba's first Prime Minister. Doina Eman, who is originally from the United States, had recently acquired her Dutch passport and this was the first Aruban election in which she was eligible to vote.
Polls closed in Aruba at 7:00 pm local time. Early results began filtering in approximately 8:30 pm. The first results reported in were from the Noord District, which showed a marked support for the AVP. Twelve election precincts in Oranjestad, the capital, were also won by the AVP early in the evening. The AVP, which is identified by the color green, also won eight polling stations in San Nicolas, the site of the recently closed Valero Energy oil refinery.
Support declined for Nelson Obuder's MEP party across the island. The MEP, which is known as the "yellow party", captured its traditional stronghold of Santa Cruz, as well as precincts in portions of Savaneta and Paradera. Support for the MEP ultimately dropped from eleven to eight seats in the Estates.
The AVP, led by Mike Eman, claimed 48% of the vote and twelve seats in the Estates, making Eman the 5th Prime Minister-Elect of Aruba with an absolute majority of three seats in the 21-seat House. The MEP won 36% of the vote and eight seats, with the final seat being won by the Real Democracy Party. This meant that Nelson Oduber, the demissionary Prime Minister of Aruba, had lost control of the Estates for the first time in eight years. Eman arrived at the AVP party headquarters in Oranjestad, where he was greeted by approximately 2,000 supporters dressed in green, the color of the AVP. The victory was marked by AVP supporters letting off fireworks and unfurling flags in the green livery of the party. In his speech, Eman thanked Aruba's Latino and Haitian communities. The winning party of an Aruban election traditionally celebrates with a parade following the election.
Reactions
Oduber blamed the MEP's defeat on Dutch interference in Aruba's affairs, in particular referring to a recent announcement that the Dutch authorities would commence an investigation into corruption on the island. Oduber also singled out Valero Energy CEO Bill Klesse, accusing him of taking sides in the election against the MEP by closing the refinery shortly before the election took place. In a speech carried only on Aruban Channel 22, Oduber did not congratulate the winning AVP. Instead, he said that the AVP should work to fulfill its "unreal promise" to Arubans.
References
External links
Aruba Press: AVP Triumphant - Aruba has a New Government
Real Democracy Party 2009 campaign site
General election
Aruba
Elections in Aruba |
20464528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testing%2C%20adjusting%2C%20balancing | Testing, adjusting, balancing | In heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), testing, adjusting and balancing (TAB) are the three major steps used to achieve proper operation of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. TAB usually refers to commercial building construction and the specialized contractors who employ personnel that perform this service.
In general, the TAB specialist performs air and hydronic measurements on the HVAC systems and adjusts the flows as required to achieve optimum performance of the building environmental equipment. The balancing is usually based upon the design flow values required by the Mechanical Engineer for the project, and the TAB contractor submits a written report which summarizes the testing and balancing and notes any deficiencies found during the TAB work. Many times facility managers will use a TAB contractor to assist in identifying preexisting or common issues with a facility. While not necessary to be a TAB contractor, many contractors tend to hold professional air balancing certifications.
Testing
Testing is the use of specialized and calibrated instruments to measure temperatures, pressures, rotational speeds, electrical characteristics, velocities, and air and water quantities for an evaluation of equipment and system performance.
Adjusting
Adjusting is the final setting of balancing devices such as dampers and valves, adjusting fan speeds and pump impeller sizes, in addition to automatic control devices such as thermostats and pressure controllers to achieve maximum specified system performance and efficiency during normal operation.
Balancing
Balancing is the methodical regulation of system fluid flows (air or water) through the use of acceptable procedures to achieve the desired or specified design airflow or water flow. When beginning the balance of a system, you must locate the terminal with the least amount of flow in regards to the engineer's drawing. Once the "low" terminal has been located, you can then proceed to adjust all other diffusers/grilles (air) or circuit balancing valves (water) to proportionally match the original "low" terminal. There must be at least one terminal that is wide open to achieve optimum efficiency.
Notes
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning |
20464542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arboretum%20de%20Segrez | Arboretum de Segrez | The Arboretum de Segrez is a historic arboretum located within the Domaine de Segrez on Rue Alphonse Lavallée, Saint-Sulpice-de-Favières, Essonne, Île-de-France, France.
The arboretum was established in 1857 as a scientific undertaking by Pierre Alphonse Martin Lavallée (1836-1884), a French botanist and horticulturist. It included a herbarium and botanical library, and by 1875 was one of the largest collections of woody plants in the world. After Lavallée's death in 1884, scientific cultivation of the arboretum ceased, but a number of mature specimens can still be seen on the domain's grounds.
See also
List of botanical gardens in France
References
Domaine de Segrez
Saint-Sulpice-de-Favières: Segrez
Arboretum Segrezianum. Icones selectae Arborum et Fruticum in Hortis Segrezianis collectorum. Description et figures des espèces nouvelles, rares ou critiques de l'Arboretum de Segrez. Paris : J.B. Baillière et fils, 1880–1885.
Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, The Macmillan Company, 1914, page 347.
Conservatoire Jardins Paysages entry (French)
Gralon.net entry (French)
Segrez, Arboretum de
Segrez, Arboretum de |
20464547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Murff | Red Murff | John Robert Murff (April 1, 1921 – November 28, 2008) was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Milwaukee Braves. Listed at , 195 lb., Murff batted and threw right-handed. He attended Gettysburg College.
A native of Burlington, Texas, Murff started his professional baseball career in A and AA ball. On June 8, 1951, while pitching for the Texas City Texans, he threw a no-hitter against the Harlingen Capitals. A year later, he pitched innings of a 20-inning game, in a lost cause against the Texarkana Bears, who defeated the Texans, 3–2. Then, in 1955, he won The Sporting News Minor League Player of the Year Award and was named Texas League Pitcher of the Year after going 27–11 for the Dallas Eagles.
Murff entered the majors in 1956 with the Braves as a 35-year-old rookie, having been signed by Milwaukee scout Earle W. Halstead. In a story chronicled in Murff's biography "The Scout", Halstead negotiated with Dick Burnett, owner of the Dallas Eagles in the Texas League, where Murff played. The two sides reached an impasse until Halstead proposed a game of gin rummy with the winner setting the terms of the trade. Halstead won and the Braves paid Burnett $40,000 and three players from the 40 man roster to obtain Murff's contract. In part of two seasons, he posted a 2–2 record with a 4.65 ERA and three saves in 26 appearances, including two starts, giving up 26 earned runs on 56 hits and 18 walks while striking out 31 in innings of work.
Following his majors career, Murff coached in the minors and managed the 1960 Jacksonville Braves of the South Atlantic League. As a scout for the New York Mets, he discovered and signed future Hall of Famer pitcher Nolan Ryan and All-Star catcher Jerry Grote. Ryan, later named president of the Texas Rangers, noted his friendship with Murff in his 1999 Hall of Fame induction speech.
In the early 1970s, Murff helped start the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor baseball program, and retired to Tyler, Texas in 1991 after serving 34 years as a scout. He was inducted into the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989 and the Texas Scouts Association Hall of Fame in 1999, and in 1994 the UMHB's ballpark was named in his honour, Red Murff Field.
Murff died in a Tyler nursing home at the age of 87.
Further reading
SABR BioProject
BR Bullpen
External links
, or Baseball Almanac
1921 births
2008 deaths
Atlanta Braves scouts
Baseball players from Texas
Baton Rouge Red Sticks players
Gettysburg Bullets baseball players
Dallas Eagles players
Houston Astros scouts
Industriales de Valencia players
Jacksonville Braves players
Louisville Colonels (minor league) players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Mary Hardin–Baylor Crusaders baseball coaches
Milwaukee Braves players
Minor league baseball managers
Montreal Expos scouts
Nashville Vols players
New York Mets scouts
Texas City Texans players
Tyler East Texans players
Wichita Braves players
People from Milam County, Texas |
17326648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20received%20by%20CeCe%20Winans | List of awards received by CeCe Winans | This is a comprehensive list of major music awards received by CeCe Winans, an American Gospel singer.
Awards
References
Winans, Cece |
17326659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEC%20Bank | CEC Bank | CEC Bank (prior to May 6, 2008 Casa de Economii și Consemnațiuni, but already known then as CEC), is a state-owned Romanian banking institution.
In 1990, shortly after the Romanian Revolution of 1989, CEC had a 32.9% share of the Romanian market for banking; by 2006 this had fallen to 4.03%. At the end of 2009, CEC Bank had 1,351 branches, more than 800 of which were in rural Romania, many with only one or two employees. As of August 2009, the bank had 2.7 million customers.
History
CEC was founded in 1864—five years after the union of the two Danubian Principalities, and more than a decade before the Romanian state as such—as the Casa de Depuneri și Consemnațiuni (literally "Deposits and Consignments House" but effectively "Deposits and Consignments Bank": the Romanian casa is used analogously to the French caisse; both are related to the English cash). In 1880, the name was changed to Casa de Depuneri, Consemnațiuni și Economie ("Deposits, Consignments and Savings House"). In 1881, the financially independent Casa de Economie ("Savings Bank"), was set up under its aegis.
In 1887, the cornerstone of the CEC Palace was set; the building opened as the bank's headquarters in 1900. As of 2012, CEC Bank is still headquartered there, although the building has been sold to the municipality of Bucharest for an eventual museum; CEC Bank is leasing the building until they build or otherwise obtain an appropriate modern headquarters.
Romania entered World War One belatedly on the Allied or Entente side, and was largely overrun by the forces of the Central Powers. A portion of the bank's management remained in occupied Bucharest, while another portion relocated to Iași, in Northeast Romania. Prime minister Ion I. C. Brătianu decided to send the Bank's treasury, as well as other assets including the treasury of the National Bank of Romania, to Iași and later to Moscow.
In 1930, the Casa de Economie was spun off as an institution in its own right, the Casa Generala de Economii ("General Savings House" or "General Savings Bank"), which in 1932 became the Casa Naționala de Economii si Cecuri Postale ("Savings and Postal Cheques National House", "National Bank for Savings and Postal Cheques", etc.). The two entities were joined back together at the start of the Communist era, in 1948.
In Communist Romania, CEC created a number of types of accounts, including passbook savings accounts with various combinations of interest and prizes, and opened branches throughout Romania. From 1970 to 1985, CEC made housing loans as well. After the 1989 revolution, CEC began activities such as granting loans to other banks and dealing in government securities. In 1996, Law No. 66 reorganized CEC as a joint-stock company with the Finance Ministry as its sole shareholder. Beginning in 2005, moves were made toward privatization. A 2006 attempt at privatization was cut short when the government was dissatisfied with the bids. The possibility of privatization has been in play as recently as January 2011.
Notes
External links
English-language portion of site
Banks of Romania
Companies based in Bucharest
Banks established in 1865
Romanian brands |
17326663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Sonnambula%20%28Balanchine%29 | La Sonnambula (Balanchine) | La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) is a ballet by the co-founder and ballet master of New York City Ballet, George Balanchine, made to Vittorio Rieti's music using themes from the operas of Vincenzo Bellini including La Sonnambula, Norma, I Puritani and I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1830–35).
The ballet premiered as The Night Shadow with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo on Wednesday, 27 February 1946, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, with sets and costumes designed by Dorothea Tanning and costumes executed by Karinska. It was first performed by the New York City Ballet on 6 January 1960 at City Center of Music and Drama.
The ballet tells the story of a Coquette, a Poet, and a beautiful Sleepwalker. The original 1946 program describes the story as follows: Amid the somber walls of a decaying castle a masked ball has just begun. The host, an eccentric nobleman, receives his guests, among them a poet and a dazzling coquette. The poet, seduced by her charms, dances with her as the guests gradually leave the scene, then she too leaves. As the poet turns to follow, he sees a lovely white apparition gliding across the roofs toward him. It comes nearer and he sees that it is a beautiful somnambulist. He loses his heart to her at once, unaware that she is the wife of the host who keeps her locked away from the world. They dance, and he sees to join her in her realm of dreaming sleep. But they are seen. The coquette, flushed with jealousy, steals out to tell the host....All too soon the marvelous sleep-walker drifts away. The poet would follow her but the guests reenter and their dancing forms a barrier. Finally, he breaks through and disappears but the host follows too and stabs him. As he lies unconscious among the terrified guests the white figure of his love appears once more, gently raises him and together they glide away.
The ballet was renamed La Sonnambula in 1961, and has been revived numerous times.
Original cast
Alexandra Danilova
Maria Tallchief
Ruthanna Boris
Frederic Franklin
Leon Danielian
Marie-Jeanne
Nicholas Magallanes
Michel Katcharoff
References
Souvenir Program for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 1946-47 season. New York: General Program Corporation, 1946.
Playbill, New York City Ballet, Friday, 20 June 2008
Repertory Week, New York City Ballet, Spring Season, 2008 repertory, week 8
Reviews
John Martin, "BALANCHINE DANCE IN WORLD PREMIERE; 'Night Shadow' Introduced by Ballet Russe at City Center --Music From Operas", New York Times, 28 February 1946
Allen Hughes, "Ballet: 'La Sonnambula'; City Troupe Adds a Balanchine Dance to Repertory at State Theater", New York Times, 7 January 1965
Alastair Macaulay, Four Distinct Dream Worlds, Sharing the Same Language of Classical Ballet, New York Times, 19 January 2008
Deborah Jowitt, review, Village Voice, 5 February 2008
External links
Entry for La Sonnambula at the Balanchine Trust website
Ballets by George Balanchine
New York City Ballet repertory
1946 ballet premieres
Ballets by Vittorio Rieti
Ballets designed by Barbara Karinska
Ballets to the music of Vincenzo Bellini
Adaptations of works by Eugène Scribe |
17326667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninole%20Hills | Ninole Hills | The Ninole Hills, also known as the Ninole Volcanic Series, are steep eroded hills of shield basalts on the south side of the Island of Hawaii. Recent data suggests that these hills are either the remnants of large escarpments that pre-date the Mauna Loa volcano (the largest active volcano in the world), or uplifted blocks from the oldest parts of the Mauna Loa fault system.
The Ninole Hills are remains of the top rim of a big deep hollow left when the prehistoric Punalu`u landslide slid away. The rim over time eroded into deep canyons as lava from Mauna Loa ran down into the hollow and slowly filled it instead of burying the rim area, until now parts of the tops of the inter-canyon ridges are still unburied.
It is apparent from the ruggedness of the eroded hills that they are much older than the surrounding landscape. Most of the surface of Mauna Loa is thought to have formed within the last 4,000 years, but the Ninole Hills are estimated to be between 100,000 and 200,000 years old. During this period there seem to have been massive failures in the support of the south wall of Mauna Loa, resulting in debris landslides that removed chunks out of the volcano, revealing remnants of the older sections of Mauna Loa.
Footnotes
Landforms of Hawaii (island)
Hills of the United States |
20464549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20Macanese%20legislative%20election | 2009 Macanese legislative election | Legislative elections were held in Macau on 20 September 2009. The official campaign began on 5 September, and several candidates received warnings from the Electoral Affairs Commission for having begun campaign activities beforehand.
As in 2005, there are 29 seats, only 12 of which are elected by universal suffrage under the highest averages method. The rest are "elected" by the functional "constituencies" or appointed by the Chief Executive.
The pro-democracy lists
This year, there are four lists advocating universal suffrage and political reforms.
In both 2001 and 2005, the New Democratic Macau Association, also referred as the democrats by local media, received the highest number of votes. Due to the divisors (1,2,4,8,...) employed in the highest averages method, they only managed to win 2 seats on both occasions (they would have achieved 3 seats had the original d'Hondt formula been used instead). Because of this, they split into two lists, namely Associação de Próspero Macau Democrático (APMD) and Associação Novo Macau Democrático (ANMD), contesting the election with the same manifesto. Similar strategies have been used by the Democratic Party of Hong Kong in the Hong Kong legislative elections, with mixed successes. APMD is led by Antonio Ng while Au Kam San leads ANMD, which means both lists have outgoing deputies (deputados) as their leading candidates.
The democrats campaign for one man one vote for the CE in 2014 (with nominations from the 300-member election committee) and direct election with public nominations in 2019. For the AL, they suggest abolishing all indirectly elected seats in 2013 and the end of appointed seats by the CE in 2017.
Agnes Lam, a local writer and an assistant professor of the University of Macau, leads the newly formed Observatório Cívico campaigning for direct election for the chief executive (CE) in 2019 and a directly elected legislative assembly (AL) by 2023. In addition to universal suffrage, Observatório Cívico also campaigns for reforming the electoral system by introducing multiple votes. She has also spoken against self-censorship in the local media and emphasised the importance of freedom of press. Some have questioned her pro-democracy views, with her being vice president of the pro-Beijing Macao Youth Foundation.
Associação de Activismo para a Democracia, the most radical list of the four, concentrates on campaigning for universal suffrage for both CE and AL by 2019, but is less concerned about other issues. Their leading candidates were removed by the security during a CCAC (Comissariado Contra a Corrupção) rally for "clean election", which was represented by all 16 lists, after shouting slogans on stage. They only received 654 votes (0.52%) in 2005.
Ng Seng Fong's pullout
The 4th candidate of Au Kam San's list (Associação Novo Macau Democrático or ANDM), Ng Seng Fong has resigned and pulled out from the election on 16 September. A local Chinese language newspaper revealed that Ng was given a 3-year sentence in July for frauds dating back to 2005. Ng claimed that she herself did not know about the said court case and only found out about it on the internet. It is unclear how the court case carried out without her knowledge given that she commutes from Zhuhai to Macau frequently using her BIR (Macau ID card) to go through the custom. She has now filed an appeal against the decision. The police has launched an investigation into the leaks of these reports. It is claimed that only a handful of officers have access to the said records.
The pro-Beijing lists
The pro-Beijing lists can be divided into two categories, the ones with links to the business sector (especially the gaming industry) and those with traditionalist backgrounds.
This year, they turn their attention to the economic crisis which has hit the gambling industry of Macau particularly badly. União para o Desenvolvimento emphasises on the need to diversify the local economy as well as reforming labour laws. União Macau-Guangdong on the other hand campaigns for greater cooperation between Macau and mainland China. Family reunification for immigrants from mainland China is also a campaign issues for various lists.
Some of the pro-Beijing lists include political reform in their manifestos. However, they do not appear to support universal suffrage in the near future. UPP for example suggests the enlargement of election committee which would continue to elect the chief executive indirectly. AACPP and Aliança P’ra Mudança go further by claiming that Macau is "not ready" for universal suffrage.
Gaming industry
The gaming industry has a strong presence in the election. Casinos in Macau currently employ 50,000 people, it is therefore expected that at least four seats would go to candidates with links to the industry according to a study carried out by Hong Kong Baptist University. Angela Leong, the director of STDM is expected to be re-elected under the list Nova União para Desenvolvimento de Macau. Melinda Chan, the leading candidate for Aliança Pr'a Mudança, has also worked in the gaming and hotel industry. She campaigns against raising tax rates for the casinos and insists that casinos should bare no social responsibilities. Chan Meng Kam, the owner of Golden Dragon casino, together with Ung Choi Kun are running for re-election under the list Associação dos Cidadãos Unidos de Macau. They came second in 2005, but it was later revealed that their list was linked to a vote buying case for which 7 people were sent to prison.
The election commission ruled that it is illegal to display campaign materials in casinos. However, the list of Angela Leong has ignored this ruling and continued to display political posters in Grand Lisboa, a casino owned by STDM.
Macanese candidates
A unified list consisting of mainly candidates with Portuguese descent (Macanese), some born in Macau and others in Portugal, contests in this legislative election, under the name Voz Plural - Gentes de Macau. The list also has Chinese members. The platform calls for the protection of the heritage of Macau in a modern context of multiculturalism. One of the main issue they campaign for is to protect rights of foreign workers in RAEM, in bid to win votes from the sizeable Philippines and Indonesian communities. Voz Plural is the only list which campaigns in roughly equal proportions in Chinese, Portuguese and English (see below).
The top two candidates of Nova Esperança, José Pereira Coutinho and Rita Santos, are both Macanese. However, unlike Voz Plural, Nova Esperança concentrates on issues of labour rights and social issues. The outgoing deputy José Pereira Coutinho has proposed, but without success, the trade union bill twice during his time in the assembly so far.
Both lists support gradual political reforms and increasing the number of directly elected deputies in AL. However, their programs are less ambitious than the pro-democracy lists. In particular, Voz Plural does not campaign for universal suffrage according to their manifesto, due to a perception that such claim is not realistic for the next 4 years, proposing instead the increase of directly elected members from 12 to 18.
Languages
There is no restriction on the choice of language used in the campaigns. Traditionally, candidates concentrate on winning votes from the Chinese majority. With the participation of Voz Plural, more efforts are being made to translate manifestos into minority languages this year. For the first time, ANMD (and APMD) will make use of its campaign air time on the Portuguese channel of TDM. União Promotora para o Progresso (UPP) also campaigns in both Chinese and Portuguese. Associação de Apoio à Comunidade e Proximidade do Povo (AACPP), Observatório Cívico and Voz Plural all campaigns in three languages (Chinese, Portuguese and English). AACPP even sends out leaflets in Braille.
The use of Portuguese became an important election issue this year. During a debate between the two leading Macanese candidates, Casimiro Pinto and José Pereira Coutinho, organised by Ponto Final, discrimination against monoglot Portuguese was discussed. Apart from Voz Plural, Aliança Pr’a Mudança also supports multilingualism. Their education policies include promoting bilingual (Chinese and Portuguese) teaching in Macau. UPP also supports bilingualism favouring stronger ties with other lusophone trading partners.
Controversies
UPP's false start
União Promotora Para o Progresso (UPP), a list associated to the Kaifong association, has breached election regulations by distributing campaign materials outside the legal campaign period (5 to 18 September). On 20 August, Au Kam San of the ANMD made an official complaint to the electoral commission after UPP distributed leaflets on the street and published campaign advertisements with pictures of the UUP candidates in a local magazine, União Geral das Associações de Moradores de Macau. The said magazine was published with subsidies from Fundação Macau. The democrats accused Fundação Macau of financing "illegal" campaigns using public funds. However, the president of the electoral commission, Vasco Fong, ruled that the actions of UUP were due to ignorance and refused to punish the list.
Internet war
There have been reports that some candidates received malicious emails containing a virus that would delete all the data of victims' computers. Observatórico Cívico claimed that they received tens of such messages. Many rumours have been spread on various internet forums. Many accusations were made against the democrats on the CTM forums, including claims of Au Kam San's link to Falun Gong.
Smears against Kwan Tsui Hang
Anonymous posters were displayed throughout the city making false accusations against the outgoing deputy and the leader of União Para o Desenvolvimento, Kwan Tsui Hang. The posters claimed that Kwan was against government's recent cash relief scheme and would rather allocate the funds for corruption purposes. Kwan has denied all such claims. Despite having complained to the election commission, the posters continued to appear on the streets asserting people were making the wrong choice (for electing Kwan).
Ballot and Results
There are in total 16 lists, down 2 from 2005. In one form or another, 9 lists have contested in the 2005 election. The ballot order was announced on 29 July.
The election commissioner delayed the announcement of the final results after recording a large number of spoilt votes. On the first count, there were 6,539 spoilt votes, but 5,467 of them have been validated on the recount. Melinda Chan, the leading candidate of Aliança Pr'a Mudança, immediately filed a complaint against the decision arguing that according to electoral law, a tick should be put inside the designated box for the vote to be valid. On 28 September, the court of last repeal (o Tribunal de Última Instância) ruled in favour of Melinda Chan and concluded that only 41 of the original spoilt votes should be valid. The ruling does not change the overall outcome of the election with the 12 original elected deputies remaining elected, but there is a slight change in the "ranking" of the lists.
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| 4 ||style="background-color:;"| || Prosperous Democratic Macau AssociationAssociação de Próspero Macau Democrático (民主昌澳門)
| 16,424 || 11.58 || N/A || 2 || +2
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| 2 ||style="background-color:;"| || New HopeNova Esperança (新希望)
| 12,908 || 9.10 || +1.11 || 1 || ±0
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| 15 ||style="background-color:;"| || New Democratic Macau AssociationAssociação de Próspero Macau Democrático (民主昌澳門)
| 11,024 || 7.77 || -11.03 || 1 || -1
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| 6 ||style="background-color:;"| || Civil WatchObservatório Cívico (公民監察)
| 5,329 || 3.76 || N/A || 0 || ±0
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| 9 ||style="background-color:;"| || Activism for Democracy AssociationAssociação de Activismo para a Democracia (民主起動)
| 1,141 || 0.80 || N/A || 0 || ±0
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| 14 ||style="background-color:;"| || Plural Voices Peoples of MacauVoz Plural Gentes de Macau (齊聲建澳門)
| 905 || 0.64 || N/A || 0 || ±0
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| 11 ||style="background-color:;"| || Democratic Society AllianceAliança da Democracia de Sociedade (社會民主陣線)
| 256 || 0.18 || N/A || 0 || ±0
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|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Total for Pro-democracy camp
| 47,987 || 33.83 || +5.08 || 4 || +1
|-
| 7 ||style="background-color:;"| || United Citizens Association of MacauAssociação dos Cidadãos Unidos de Macau (澳門民聯協進會)
| 17,014 || 12.00 || -4.58 || 2 || ±0
|-
| 10 ||style="background-color:;"| || New Union for Macau's DevelopmentNova União para Desenvolvimento de Macau (澳門發展新連盟)
| 14,099 || 9.94 || +0.61 || 1 || ±0
|-
| 1 ||style="background-color:;"| || Macau-Guangdong UnionUnião Macau-Guangdong (澳粵同盟)
| 10,348 || 7.30 || N/A || 1 || +1
|-
| 5 ||style="background-color:;"| || Alliance for ChangeAliança Pr'a Mudança (改革創新聯盟)
| 7,857 || 5.54 || N/A || 1 || +1
|-
| 3 ||style="background-color:;"| || Union for the Progress and DevelopmentUnião Para o Progresso e Desenvolvimento (同力建設聯盟)
| 5,389 || 3.80 || N/A || 0 || ±0
|-
| 12 ||style="background-color:;"| || Union for DevelopmentUnião Para O Desenvolvimento (同心協進會)
| 22,098 || 14.88 || +1.59 || 2 || ±0
|-
| 13 ||style="background-color:;"| || Union for Promoting ProgressUnião Promotora Para o Progresso (群力促進會)
| 14,044 || 9.90 || +0.30 || 1 || -1
|-
| 16 ||style="background-color:;"| || Association for Helping the Community and Engagement with the PeopleAssociação de Apoio à Comunidade e Proximidade do Povo (親民愛群協會)
| 2,334 || 1.65 || -0.71 || 0 || ±0
|-
| 8 ||style="background-color:;"| || "Social Justice" TeamEquipa de "Justiça Social" (社會公義)
| 1,627 || 1.15 || N/A || 0 || ±0
|-style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Total for Pro-establishment camp
| 93,810 || 66.16 || -5.10 || 8 || -1
|- class="unsortable"
!colspan=3 style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total and Turnout!!style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 149,006 !!style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 59.91 !!style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| +1.52 !!style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 12 !!style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| ±0
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Valid votes || 141,797 || 95.16
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" |
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Invalid votes || 6,498 || 4.36
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" |
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Blank votes || 711 || 0.48
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" |
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Eligible voters
| 248,708
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" |
|-
!style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=8|Functional constituencies and appointed members
|-
| — ||style="background-color:;"| || Macau Business Interest UnionUnião dos Interesses Empresariais de Macau(澳門僱主利益聯會) for business
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || 4 || ±0
|-
| — ||style="background-color:;"| || Employees Association Joint Candidature CommissionComissão Conjunta da Candidatura das Associações de Empregados(僱員團體聯合) for labor
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || 2 || ±0
|-
| — ||style="background-color:;"| || Macau professional Interest UnionUnião dos Interesses Profissionais de Macau(澳門專業利益聯會) for professionals
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || 2 || ±0
|-
| — ||style="background-color:;"| || Excellent Culture and Sports Union AssociationAssociação União Cultural e Desportiva Excelente(優裕文康聯合會) for welfare, culture, education and sport
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || 2 || ±0
|-
| — ||style="background-color:;"| || Members appointed by the Chief Executive
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | || 7 || ±0
|}
The strategies of the democrats paid off, they managed to increase 1 seat which means there will be 4 pro-democracy deputies (including José Pereira Coutinho) in the new assembly. The traditionalists lost one seat despite both UPP and UPD increased their number of votes. In fact, UPD received the largest number of votes as a single list and saw the largest increase in votes. For the pro-business camp, there remain 5 deputies, 4 of which from the gaming industry. Analysts pointed out that there has not been a huge change in the make up of the AL which continues to be dominated by the pro-Beijing camp.
Candidates lists and results
Turnout
28 polling stations were open from 9am to 9pm. A total of 149,006 (59.91% of registered voters) people voted, a record high. The regional breakdowns are as follows.
References
External links
Official results
2009 elections in China
2009 legislative
2009 in Macau |
17326671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20H.%20Baldwin%20House | Charles H. Baldwin House | Charles H. Baldwin House is a historic house on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, United States, that is part of the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, but is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
Description
The house is a -story wood-frame structure, finished on the exterior in brick, clapboards, and shingles. It was designed by William Appleton Potter and Robert Anderson and built in 1877–78, and is an excellent example of a transitional style between the Queen Anne and Shingle styles. The building features the asymmetrical and busy massing, with many gables, an extended porch with turned columns, and brick chimneys with decorative tops. The house was built for United States Navy Admiral Charles H. Baldwin as a summer house.
The house was listed on the NRHP December 8, 1971.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
External links
Houses in Newport, Rhode Island
Houses completed in 1877
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Historic American Buildings Survey in Rhode Island
William Appleton Potter buildings
Shingle Style houses
Shingle Style architecture in Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport, Rhode Island
Historic district contributing properties in Rhode Island
Queen Anne architecture in Rhode Island
1877 establishments in Rhode Island |
20464555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EQTEC | EQTEC | EQTEC PLC (formerly REACT Energy PLC and Kedco PLC) is a bioscience energy company operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland which was established in 2005.
Stock market listing
Kedco floated on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange on Monday 20 October 2008. Kedco was admitted to the AIM at 17.5c per share giving the company a market capitalisation of €35 million. Share price since launch spiked at over 30 cent a share before falling over the following months and as of early May 2010 stands at 7 cent a share. The company has made significant losses since its foundation in 2005, however losses have fallen along with revenue since an investment by FBD and entry into the LSE. On 17 February 2010 the company announced that it had "been unable to secure financing on suitable terms" for a development in Newry and that it may have to "pursue alternative means of maintaining adequate cash reserves including management of its working capital position". On 10 May 2010 the company admitted that it had still not been successful in finding alternative funding and announced the appointment of external advisers to assist in this aim. The company was subsequently able to source adequate funding to meet its day to day obligations, however February 2011 saw renewed fears being expressed that the company was about to delist from the AIM. Subsequently the Chief Executive Officer resigned on 31 March 2011.
React Energy plc
At the company's AGM in November 2013 it was decided to change the company's name from Kedco PLC to REACT Energy PLC to reflect the company's changed business focus. The share price of the company has remained volatile since renaming and trading in the company's shares was briefly suspended in December 2014 amid concerns about the future viability of the company.
In 2016, Farmer Business Development plc invested in REACT to keep the project afloat.
EQTEC
In February 2017, the company was once again renamed, this time to EQTEC PLC.
Kedco
Kedco operated 2 distinct divisions targeting both Residential and Industrial client bases.
The Power division specialises in power generation from sustainable fuel sources with Kedco providing bio-science solutions to industrial clients by converting waste into an energy resource.
The Energy division supplied renewable energy heating products within Ireland, primarily to residential customers. Kedco registered with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland as Wood Pellet Ireland.
Both divisions remained in operation for a period of time, however the company stated in a press release in late 2008 that "Kedco Power constitutes the main part of the company going forward". The company subsequently decided to cease supplying products to the domestic market and since 2012 it has focused exclusively on industrial energy solutions.
See also
Bioethanol
Anaerobic digestion
Wood pellets
References
Renewable energy companies of Europe
Renewable energy companies of the United Kingdom
Energy companies of the Republic of Ireland
Renewable energy in Ireland
Companies based in Cork (city)
Companies listed on the Alternative Investment Market |
20464565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaineer%20Militia | Mountaineer Militia | Mountaineer Militia was a local anti-government paramilitary group, members of which plotted to blow up an FBI building Clarksburg, West Virginia in 1996. The group also used the name West Virginia Mountaineer Militia, and had ties with another militias from other states.
Plot and arrest
On October 11, 1996, seven men having connections with the Mountaineer Militia, a local anti-government paramilitary group, were arrested on charges of plotting to blow up the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Criminal Justice Information Services Division in Clarksburg, West Virginia, after a 16-month investigation. The group had even considered the killing United States Senator Jay Rockefeller and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan in a "holy war" against the "tiranous" U.S. government.
While members of the group had been assembling large quantities of explosives and blasting caps, militia leader Floyd Raymond Looker obtained blueprints of the FBI facility from a Clarksburg, West Virginia firefighter. Plastic explosives were confiscated by law enforcement officials at five locations in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Looker was taken into custody after arranging to sell the blueprints for $50,000 to an undercover FBI agent, whom he believed to be a representative of an international terrorist group. In 1998 Looker was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Two other defendants were sentenced on explosives charges, and the firefighter drew a year in prison for providing blueprints. The charges with those who were judge include conspiracy to manufacture explosives, transport explosives across state lines and place them near the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services center in Clarksburg. Two of the arrested, Edward Moore and Jack Phillips, were charged for the making and dealing in explosives, including homemade nitroglycerine and C-4. Before the arrests, Moore said to Mr. Looker and the Government informer that he had perfected a homemade rocket-propelled grenade. Also, the authorities said, the group held a training practices in which they detonated an improvised explosive that left a hole two feet wide and four feet deep.
Other arrested were James R. Rogers, (40) a firefighter from Clarksburg. He is accused for the providing of 12 photographs of blueprints of the FBI complex, including plans for the underground computer center, with the objective to attack that part of the complex. The group also posted a video on the internet called "America Under Siege," alleging acts authorized by the federal government against its own people.
Convictions
On March 29, 1998, the leader Floyd "Ray" Looker was convicted and sentenced to 18 years in a federal prison. Looker (57), was among the first to be charged under a 1994 antiterrorism law that makes it a crime to provide material resources to terrorists activities. While Looker pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charges, on several occasions he mentioned that the plans and materials he had couldn't have made the attack successful. James R. Rogers, was sentenced to 10 years.
Notes
Terrorism in the United States
Paramilitary organizations based in the United States
Right-wing militia organizations in the United States
1996 in West Virginia
1995 establishments in West Virginia
1990s disestablishments in West Virginia
Organizations based in West Virginia |
20464572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Frank%20%28disambiguation%29 | Anne Frank (disambiguation) | Anne Frank (1929–1945) was a young Jewish girl and a German-born diarist.
Anne Frank may also refer to:
Anne Frank: The Biography, a biography of Anne Frank by Melissa Müller
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, the diary of Anne Frank
Anne Frank: The Whole Story, a television mini-series about Anne Frank by Robert Dornhelm
5535 Annefrank, an inner main-belt asteroid named after Anne Frank
See also
Ann Frank Lewis (born 1937), American political strategist |
17326681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955%E2%80%9356%20St.%20Louis%20Hawks%20season | 1955–56 St. Louis Hawks season | The 1955–1956 Saint Louis Hawks season was the 10th season for the franchise. After 4 last-place seasons in Milwaukee, the Hawks relocated to St. Louis. The city had once been home to the St. Louis Bombers, an early BAA franchise that folded in 1950. The Hawks were on the verge of becoming one of the top teams in the NBA, led by second year forward Bob Pettit, who would earn the very first MVP award in NBA history. The Hawks would finish in third place with a 33–39 record.
In the playoffs against the Minneapolis Lakers, the Hawks were triumphant in Game 1 by a single point. Game 2 was played in Minneapolis, and the Hawks were blown out by 58 points in Game 2. The third game was contested in St. Louis. Once again, the Hawks would win by 1 point to advance to the Western Finals. In the three games, the Hawks were outscored by 56 points. In the Western Finals, the Hawks would win the first 2 games against the Fort Wayne Pistons. However, the Pistons would rebound to take the next 3 games and win the series.
Regular season
Season standings
Record vs. opponents
Game log
Playoffs
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 1
| March 16
| Minneapolis
| L 97–103
| Bob Pettit (22)
| Kiel Auditorium
| 0–1
|-
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 1
| March 17
| Minneapolis
| W 116–115
| Bob Pettit (25)
| Kiel Auditorium
| 1–0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 2
| March 19
| @ Minneapolis
| L 75–133
| Bob Pettit (14)
| Minneapolis Auditorium
| 1–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 3
| March 21
| @ Minneapolis
| W 116–115
| Bob Pettit (41)
| Minneapolis Auditorium
| 2–1
|-
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 1
| March 22
| @ Fort Wayne
| W 86–85
| Al Ferrari (17)
| War Memorial Coliseum
| 1–0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 2
| March 24
| Fort Wayne
| W 84–74
| Al Ferrari (21)
| Kiel Auditorium
| 2–0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 3
| March 25
| @ Fort Wayne
| L 84–107
| Alex Hannum (18)
| War Memorial Coliseum
| 2–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 4
| March 27
| Fort Wayne
| L 84–93
| Jack Coleman (19)
| Kiel Auditorium
| 2–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 5
| March 29
| @ Fort Wayne
| L 97–102
| Jack Coleman (20)
| War Memorial Coliseum
| 2–3
|-
Awards and honors
Bob Pettit, NBA Most Valuable Player Award
Bob Pettit, All-NBA First Team
References
Hawks on Basketball Reference
Atlanta Hawks seasons
St. Louis
St. Louis Hawks
St. Louis Hawks |
17326685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asl%C4%B1%20G%C3%B6kyoku%C5%9F | Aslı Gökyokuş | Aslı Gökyokuş (born 26 October 1977) is a Turkish singer.
Life and career
Early experience with Music
Aslı Gökyokuş, who is also known as Aslı was born on 26 October 1977 in Istanbul. Her work in music began with the band that she helped form during her years at high school, which was called "Phoenix". The group started off like any other garageband, which had their members doing their own thing and performing gigs at their high school whenever possible. Following their high school years, a few of the founding members of the band left and only to be replaced by new interested members. Of course, Aslı stayed as she continued performing and working with her band mates. With the new group members being added, the band decided to change their names to that of, "Mary Jane". Their music basically consisted of rearranging cover hits and performing at local halls, bars and wherever they had been invited to perform.
Working with other Turkish artists
Their first performance occurred at the Beyoğlu Guitar Bar. They then went on to perform at the famous Kemancı rock bar for three years in Istanbul. Aslı has worked with Ümit Öztürk (at guitar) in the album Neresindeyim; Sessizzce song is Ümit's song in the album. It was during this period that Aslı's publicity and fame began to rise. Her strong vocal performance with the band helped her raise some eyebrows and so it was not long before she found herself being offered to be a back vocalist for famous Turkish rock artist, Haluk Levent. Aslı had worked with Haluk for short period of time. She then moved on and agreed to be a back vocalist for yet another famous Turkish artist, Teoman. Aslı had worked with Teoman for a longer period of time and through these experiences, she began to gain further knowledge in the music industry. Moreover, during the same period as she was being a back vocalist, she took courses in singing and solfège which naturally expanded her knowledge in music in general.
Neresindeyim & Su Gibi
Following all these experiences and background knowledge she achieved, Aslı decided to step up and record her own album with the support of her friends, Serkan Çeliköz and Selim Öztürk who are members of the famous Turkish group, Kargo. Aslı would go on and sign a contract with Sony Music Turkey and concentrated her attention at working into releasing her first album. Unfortunately, things did not seem as easy as earlier as expected and so the following year she relied on the help of famous composers, Serkan and Selim to direct her attention as well as guide her through this first solo journey into releasing an album. After all the intensive work at the studio for roughly three years, Aslı had finally been able to release her first album in 2000 which was titled, "Neresindeyim" in 2000. Some of the singles released from this album includes "Ölüm Kapımı Çalmasa da", "Keşf’i Alem" and "Sessizce". The album had some relative success at the beginning, though it was not a popular sell-out album. Due to that, Aslı took a little break from the whole music industry and finally ended up coming out with her second album called "Su Gibi" in 2004. Some of the singles released off from this album include, "Su Gibi", "Tüm Şehir Ağladı", and "Kördüğüm". All of the tracks in this album had been composed by Aslı herself.
Dans Etmeye İhtiyacım Var
In April 2007, Aslı went on to release her third album which is titled, "Söylediğim Şarkılarda Saklı". Surprisingly, it has managed to achieve a lot of attention and success thus far. Her first single released, "Dans Etmeye İhtiyacım Var" (which means "I need to dance") is frequently played on Turkish radio and TV stations. A few months afterwards, Aslı went on to release her second single called, "Yardımcı Olmuyor" (which means "It doesn't help"). It too has managed to receive a lot of attention and airplay throughout Turkish Radio and TV stations as well.
Discography
Albums
Neresindeyim (2000)
Su Gibi (2004)
Söylediğim Şarkılarda Saklı (2007)
Dünya (2018)
Singles
Büyüdük (2010)
Gökyüzünde Yalnız Gezen Yıldızlar (2012)
Üç Cemre (2015)
References
1977 births
Living people
Women heavy metal singers
Turkish rock singers
Turkish singer-songwriters
21st-century Turkish singers
21st-century Turkish women singers |
17326687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword%20%28comics%29 | Sword (comics) | Sword, in comics, may refer to:
The Sword (comics), an Image Comics series from the Luna Brothers
S.W.O.R.D. (comics), a Marvel Comics organisation that deals with alien threats
Sword (Wildstorm), a Wildstorm character who first appeared in the Fire From Heaven crossover, he is an alternate universe version of Union
Sword, the alter ego of Chic Carter, a Golden Age superhero who appeared in Smash Comics and Police Comics
Sword of Sorcery, a title featuring Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
See also
Swords (disambiguation)
Swordsman (comics)
Silversword (comics) |
17326690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20California%20Proposition%204 | 2008 California Proposition 4 | Proposition 4, or the Abortion Waiting Period and Parental Notification Initiative, also known to its supporters as Sarah's Law, was an initiative state constitutional amendment on the 2008 California General Election ballot
The initiative would prohibit abortion for un-emancipated minors until 48 hours after physician notifies minor's parent, legal guardian or, if parental abuse has been reported, an alternative adult family member.
Proposition 4 was rejected by voters on November 4, 2008.
Specific provisions
The proposed initiative, if enacted as a constitutional amendment, would:
Provide exceptions for medical emergency or parental waiver.
Permit courts to waive notice based on clear and convincing evidence of minor's maturity or best interests.
Mandate reporting requirements, including reports from physicians regarding abortions on minors.
Authorize monetary damages against physicians for violation.
Require minor's consent to abortion, with exceptions.
Permit judicial relief if minor's consent is coerced.
Fiscal Impact
Health and Social Services Costs. Annual costs in the range of $4 million to $5 million for the state and about $2 million for counties, and potential one-time Medi-Cal automation costs unlikely to exceed a few million dollars.
Costs to Local Law Enforcement and Courts. Annual costs in the range of $5 million to $6 million per year.
Potential Offsetting Savings. Unknown, potential savings to the state in health care and public assistance costs from decreases in sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancy.
Supporters
The Friends of Sarah, the Parental or Alternative Family Member Notification Act. is the official ballot committee.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arguments in favor of Prop. 4
Notable arguments that have been made in favor of Prop. 4 include:
34 other U.S. States have had notification laws in place for as long as 25 years.
When a minor obtains an abortion without the knowledge of a family member or guardian, her health can be endangered if health complications arise after the abortion.
If a minor becomes pregnant because of sexual violence or predation, a sexual predator may be missed, because the abortion clinic may not report the sexual crime.
Donors
As of September 27, 2008, the six largest donors to Prop. 4 are:
Jim Holman, $1,525,590. (Of this, $1.35 million is listed as a loan.)
Don Sebastiani, $530,000.
Knights of Columbus, $200,000.
Life Legal Defense Foundation, $50,000.
The Lenawee Trust, $100,000.
The Caster Family Trust, $100,000.
Path to ballot and prior attempts at passage
The signature-gathering drive to qualify the 2008 Parental Notification petition for the ballot was conducted by petition management firm Bader & Associates, Inc. at a cost of $2,555,000.
Proposition 4 represents the third time that California voters will have considered the issue of a parental notification/waiting period for abortion. The two previous, unsuccessful, initiatives were California Proposition 85 (2006) and California Proposition 73 (2005).
When Prop 73 lost in 2005, some supporters thought that a similar measure would fare better in a general election. However, Prop 85 did worse. Unlike 85 or 73, Proposition 4 allows an adult relative of the minor seeking an abortion to be notified, if the minor's parents are abusive.
Camille Giulio, a spokeswoman for the pro-4 campaign said that the November 2008 election represents a better opportunity for parental notification legislation because:
There will be a higher voter turnout in November 2008 than when 85 and 73 were voted on.
Socially conservative voters will be motivated to come to the polls to vote in favor of the much higher profile Proposition 8. While at the polls, they are likely to also vote in favor of 4.
The two previous campaigns represented narrow defeats in low budget campaigns.
Opposition to Prop. 4
The Campaign for Teen Safety is the official ballot committee against the proposition.
American Academy of Pediatrics, California District
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, District IX
California Academy of Family Physicians
California Family Health Council
California Nurses Association
California School Counselors Association
California Teachers Association
Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California
California NOW
Equality California
The Let California Ring coalition
Arguments against Prop. 4
Notable arguments that have been made against Prop. 4 include:
Mandated parental notification laws do not work. No law can mandate family communication.
Some teenagers can't go to their parents for fear of being forced to leave their home, abuse, or worse.
Prop 4 may force these teens to delay medical care, turn to self-induced abortions, or consider suicide.
The reason there are fewer teen pregnancies in states mandating parental notification is that more teenage girls choose to go underground and have unsafe abortions which go unreported.
Fear of parents being notified in the event of an abortion is highly unlikely to motivate teens to practice abstinence.
This proposition is extremely gender-biased. It is unlikely that any law would mandate the notification of the father's parents.
The vote will be biased as those affected by the bill, namely minors, are unable to vote on it.
If a teen seeks the support of another adult, her parents would automatically be reported to authorities, and an investigation would ensue.
Consultants
The No on 4 campaign has hired the Dewey Square Group as a consultant.
Donors to opposition
As of September 27, some of the top donors to the opposition campaign were:
A number of different Planned Parenthood affiliates, including the Los Angeles, Mar Monte, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Shasta Diablo and Pasadena offices, $4,485,000
California Teachers Association, $450,000.
California Family Health Council, $80,000.
Committee for a New Economy, $25,000.
ACLU, Northern California, $50,000.
ACLU, Southern California, $10,000.
Susan Orr, $100,000.
John Morgridge, $100,000.
Lawsuit filed over Prop. 4 language
Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California and others filed a lawsuit with the Sacramento County Superior Court in early August to strike out all references to "Sarah" and "Sarah's Law" and "other misleading language in the voter's guide" for Proposition 4. The title "Sarah's Law" refers to the case of 15-year-old "Sarah" who died as a result of an abortion in 1994. Proposition 4's ballot language in the official voter's guide suggests that "Sarah" might have been saved had her parents known about her abortion. Opponents of Proposition 4 argue that "Sarah" was not considered a minor in Texas, where the abortion was performed, and that she already had a child with a man who claimed to be her common-law husband. If this is the case, the proposed law, Proposition 4, would not have helped her, since it wouldn't have applied to her. Based on this reasoning, opponents asked that the references to Sarah be stricken.
Judge Michael Kenny of the Sacramento Superior Court ultimately ruled against the opponents, allowing the original proposed ballot language and arguments, including references to Sarah, to stay in the official California voter's pamphlet.
Polling information
The Field Poll has conducted and released the results of four public opinion polls on Proposition 4, in July, August, September, and October.
Mark DiCamillo, director of the polling agency, said he believes the current version is running stronger because Latinos overwhelmingly favor it and are expected to vote in higher-than-usual numbers in November.
Newspaper endorsements
Editorial boards in favor
San Diego Union Tribune
Orange County Register
Editorial boards opposed
Los Angeles Times
San Francisco Chronicle
Results
References
Further reading
To defeat Obama, conservatives take the initiative
Fisher: Anti-abortion ballot measure still a bad idea
External links
California's official voter guide on Proposition 4
Text of initiative
Signature validation progress sheet, from the California Secretary of State.
CaliforniaPropositions.org Prop 4 information page
California Voter Online guide to Proposition 4
Smart Voter Guide to Proposition 4
Campaign Expenditures for Proposition 4, Parental Notification
Supporters
Sarah's Law
Yes on 4
Parents' Right to Know California
Opponents
No on Proposition 4
4
United States state abortion legislation
Initiatives in the United States |
17326705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Bernardo%2C%20Durango | San Bernardo, Durango | San Bernardo (also, Bernardo) is a town and seat of the municipality of San Bernardo in the state of Durango in Mexico. As of 2010, the town had a population of 700.
References
Fotos de Fotos de San Bernardo, Durango
Populated places in Durango |
17326732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asli | Asli | Asli may refer to:
Orang Asli, the indigenous people in Malaysia
Aslı, a Turkish feminine given name
Asli (surname)
Asli Demirguc-Kunt (born 1961), Turkish economist
Asli Hassan Abade, Somali pilot |
17326743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Sadler%20%28yacht%20designer%29 | David Sadler (yacht designer) | David Sadler (13 February 1921 – 5 March 2014) was a British yacht designer who was responsible for a number of classic production yachts during the period from 1960 to 1980. His designs include the Contessa 26, the Contessa 32, the Sadler 25, the Sadler 29 and the Sadler 32. The Contessa 32 is his most successful design, with over 750 built.
References
1921 births
2014 deaths
British yacht designers |
17326784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase%20Hoyt | Chase Hoyt | Chase Henry Hoyt (born August 29, 1980) is an American film, television, and stage actor.
Biography
Hoyt was born in Tucson, Arizona to Karen Carol McGurren and Robert Quentin Hoyt. Hoyt attended boarding school at Lawrence Academy in Groton, Massachusetts. In his senior year, because it was mandatory to graduate, Hoyt took his first theater class. After graduating, he returned home, where he attended the University of Arizona, majoring in business.
In 2001, Hoyt left college to study theater at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England. He was mentored by Greg de Polnay, and appeared in two Shakespearean plays, King John, and All's Well that Ends Well. After his training, He moved to Los Angeles and studied under coach Stephen Book.
Hoyt first worked as an extra on the TV shows American Dreams, and Eve (U.S. TV series). He also co-starred on the TV shows, Star Trek: Enterprise, and Numb3rs. While auditioning for a Hallmark movie, he was asked to read for another part, and found himself playing the son of James Gammon in the Hallmark made for TV movie, What I did For Love. Hoyt was in the independent film, Alien 51, opposite Heidi Fleiss.
Hoyt has also appeared in numerous short and feature films, including "Out of the Shadows," "Afterlife," and "The Yellow Butterfly," which has won domestic and international awards. Aside from theatrical work, In 2005, Hoyt appeared on the popular show, Fear Factor, where he and his teammate won the competition after eating over one hundred live African stink beetles and leeches, and crashing two Camaros on a Los Angeles race track.
Filmography
Thule (2010) - Lt. Grady, Co-producer
What I Did for Love (2006) - Zeb Ryder
Fear Factor (2005) - Contestant/Himself
Dr. Chopper (2005) - Reese
Numb3rs (2005) - Paparazzi #1
Star Trek: Enterprise (2005) - Starfleet Lieutenant
Legion of the Dead (2005) - Justin
The Aviator (2004) - Usher
Alien 51 (2004) - Doctor Psychobilly
Eve (U.S. TV series) (2003) - Lounge Drunk
American Dreams (2003) - Lacrosse Captain
American Tragedy (2000) - Attorney
The Translator (2000) - Dock Boy
References
Fear Factor Review/interview
External links
Arizona Daily Star Article
What I Did for Love review
A Midsummer Night's Dream Award
Chase Hoyt Official Website
1980 births
American male actors
Living people
University of Arizona alumni |
17326786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%20Street%20Meeting%20House | Clarke Street Meeting House | The Clarke Street Meeting House (also known as the Second Congregational Church Newport County or Central Baptist Church) is an historic former meeting house and Reformed Christian church building at 13-17 Clarke Street in Newport, Rhode Island. Built in 1735, the structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
History
The meeting house was built in 1735 and served as a worship place for the Second Congregational Church, originally a Calvinist congregation. From 1755 to 1786, Ezra Stiles, a well-known minister who later became president of Yale University, pastored the church and lived in the Ezra Stiles House across the street. During the American Revolutionary War, British forces occupied the meeting house and minister's house for use as a barracks and hospital from 1776 to 1779. After the war, a committee of Second Church members, including William Ellery, Henry Marchant, Robert Stevens and William Channing wrote to John Adams in Europe requesting that he contact Reformed congregations there for assistance in repairing the church due to the British army's damage to the building. Adams responded that he would be unable to help because of differences in European attitudes toward soliciting for funds. Regardless of the difficulties, the building was extensively repaired in 1785.
The congregation later left the building and merged with Newport's First Congregational Church to become United Congregational Church to which the building was sold in 1835. In 1847 the Central Baptist Society, which broke off from the Second Baptist Church in Newport, purchased and extensively modified the building. The Central Baptist Church later reunited with the Second Baptist Church and then in the 1940s reunited with the First Baptist Church in Newport to form the United Baptist Church. The church's original steeple blew down in the 1938 hurricane.
In 1950 St. Joseph's Church of Newport purchased the meeting house and further renovated the structure. The Clarke Street Meeting House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Around the 1980s the structure was converted into condominiums.
Notable congregants
William Vernon, merchant
Henry Marchant, U.S. District Judge
William Ellery, signer of Declaration of Independence
Gallery
See also
United Congregational Church (disambiguation)
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
Churches completed in 1735
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
United Church of Christ churches in Rhode Island
Churches in Newport, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport, Rhode Island
18th-century churches in the United States
Historic district contributing properties in Rhode Island |
17326791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alrafidain%20University%20College | Alrafidain University College | Al-Rafidain University College is a private academic institution in higher education of public interest established on November 23, 1988. It was founded by The Iraqi Society for Statistical Sciences. The actual work study started in 1988/1989 and is considered one of the oldest private academic colleges in Iraq. The college awards bachelor's degrees in various scientific disciplines and is subject to the laws, regulations, instructions and regulations of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research through direct scientific and educational supervision on its various activities. Granted by the college recognized by that ministry.
Al-Rafidain University currently includes thirteen medical, engineering and scientific departments. The duration of the study in each stage is four years. The student is awarded a bachelor's degree in engineering and science in his specialization, except for the Department of Dentistry and Pharmacy. The academic system in the college is an annual system consisting of two semesters except for the pharmacy department, which apply the semester system. The certificates granted to the student are approved by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and other relevant ministries for the purposes of recruitment and studies. The university has a number of different faculties, including 12 medical labs, 25 engineering and scientific laboratories, as well as 60 classrooms and 40 halls in another building. The college also has artistic, cultural and poetry activities as well as annual scientific conferences and seminars as well as sports activities.
College Buildings
College now has three buildings, the main building located in Palestine Avenue / Baghdad distract, which contains the Deanship of the College and some engineering and scientific departments such as communications engineering and computer technology engineering, the second building located in AL- Banook Avenue / Baghdad district which contains other engineering and scientific departments such as cooling and air conditioning engineering, and the building of the dental hospital in the Cairo Avenue / Baghdad .
Faculties
The College includes study in:
Computer and Communications
Computer Engineering
Civil Engineering
Telecommunications Engineering
Law
Pathology
Business Management
Computer Science
Administration
Accounting
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning.
Pharmacy
Dentistry .
College Council
The College Council (the highest scientific and administrative authority in the College) is formed according to the Iraqi Universities and Colleges Law. It consist of the dean of the college, the members of the heads of scientific departments, the dean's assistant and a representative of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research who meets the requirements of the college member and one of the specialized experts chosen by the Council The College is for a period of two years and is renewable once and one representative from the institution of the university who meets the requirements of the faculty. The College Council may summon, when necessary, to attend its sessions, the opinion of which is to use its competency and expertise and has no right to vote.
The College Council shall undertake the implementation of the College's scientific and educational policy and shall approve the curriculum and vocabulary of the academic subjects and the granting of certificates and degrees according to the laws and regulations in force. It will organize the scientific research and provide its requirements and the use of lecturers from inside and outside the country
See also
List of universities in Iraq
References
External links
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research list of private universities
Al Rafidain University College
Rafidain
Education in Baghdad
Educational institutions established in 1988
1988 establishments in Iraq |
17326815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20to%20River%20Festival | River to River Festival | The River To River Festival is an annual arts festival held in summer in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The festival presents live art and installations in public spaces and in partnership with institutions in Lower Manhattan. It is presented by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
The festival includes dance, visual and performance art, poetry, film, music, theatre, and other events that are free and open to the public.
History
The River To River stival was founded in 2002 by American Express, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Alliance for Downtown New York, Arts Brookfield, Battery Park City Authority, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and South Street Seaport. It was created as an effort to revitalize the Lower Manhattan community after the September 11 attacks by promoting cultural activity and making Lower Manhattan an important experience of New York City's history, art, and commerce.
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council became the lead organizer and producer of the festival in 2011.
References
Arts festivals in the United States
Festivals established in 2002
Festivals in New York City
2002 establishments in New York City |
17326841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmerston-Little%20Italy | Palmerston-Little Italy | Palmerston-Little Italy is a neighbourhood in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its boundaries, according to the City of Toronto, are by Bathurst Street to the east, Bloor Street to the north, Dovercourt Road to the west and College Street to the south. It is a mature downtown neighbourhood. Within this official neighbourhood of the City of Toronto are two neighbourhoods, Palmerston and Little Italy and the commercial enclave of Mirvish Village.
History
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Ontario provincial and Metropolitan Toronto governments proposed running a six-lane north–south expressway to the east of Grace Street. This was an extension of Highway 400 and would have gone from a proposed Crosstown Expressway in the vicinity of Davenport and Dupont, south to the Gardiner Expressway. In the 1960s, opposition to the Spadina, Crosstown and Christie expressway projects led the then City of Toronto to oppose the Christie and Crosstown projects. After the cancellation of the Spadina Expressway by the province, the Crosstown and Christie expressway projects were abandoned as well. Son to Italian immigrants, Johnny Lombardi founded one of the first multilingual radio stations in Canada, CHIN in 1966, in Palmerston–Little Italy.
The neighbourhood is primarily residential, consisting mainly of residential side streets full of semi-detached homes, mostly built in the early 20th century.
The major streets are Bloor Street to the north, running east–west, a four-lane arterial road commercial in nature. Bloor Street has many commercial storefronts and businesses. To the east is Bathurst Street, running north–south, another four-lane arterial road with mostly residences along both sides. Running east-west is Harbord Street, a four-lane arterial road with a mix of residences and commercial storefronts and restaurants. Also running east–west is College Street a four-lane arterial road with a vibrant commercial strip named Little Italy, one of the original ethnically Italian districts of Toronto. To the west, north–south streets include Ossington Avenue, a four-lane arterial road, mainly residential and Dovercourt Road, a four-lane road, entirely residential.
Demographics
Total population (2016): 13,826
Major ethnic populations (2016):
78.2% White; 22.5% English, 19.8% Irish, 18.3% Scottish, 17.5% Canadians, 11.7% Italian, 10.3% German, 10.0% Portuguese
2.4% Black
2.8% South Asian
1.7% Latin American (of any race)
Total population (2011): 13,746
Major ethnic populations (2011):
77% White; 20.1% English, 17.0% Irish, 15.4% Scottish, 13.5% Canadians, 13.0% Portuguese
2.9% Black
2.6% South Asian
1.9% Latin American (of any race)
Total population (2001): 14,740
Major ethnic populations (2001):
77.1% White; 17.6% Portuguese, 16.3% English, 16.2% Canadians, 14.5% Italian, 12.3% Irish, 11.6% Scottish, 10.3% German
2.8% Black
2.8% South Asian
1.7% Latin American (of any race)
Landmarks
Notable landmarks in the neighbourhood include:
Honest Ed's (closed 2016)
Bathurst Street Theatre
Harbord Street Bridge
Mirvish Village
Mirvish Village is a commercial enclave on Markham Street, which is one block west of Bathurst Street, and encompasses the two sides of the street and back alleys for one block south of Bloor Street. The entire city block on each side is about to undergo a major transformation.
The area that makes up Mirvish Village is made up of a series of former Victorian homes on Markham Street which housed independently owned shops, art studios, cafes, bookstores, boutiques and galleries. Between 1959 and 1963, the late Ed Mirvish of Honest Ed's bought up the east side of the block, immediately south of his store, with the intention of tearing down the houses and building a customer parking lot. Toronto's municipal government refused to issue a building permit; therefore, Mirvish converted the buildings into art studios and galleries with the help of his wife, Anne, a sculptor. Later, he purchased the houses on the other side of the street. His son owned the David Mirvish Gallery, which opened in 1963 as one of Mirvish Village's first shops and which continued for 15 years; along with David Mirvish Books which continued for several more years.
A new chapter began with the Honest Ed's / Mirvish Village Proposed Redevelopment project, designed by Vancouver Architect Gregory Henriquez is schedule to complete construction in 2023. 23 buildings are considered heritage and will be preserved and renovated inside. The retail storefronts will remain small and varied. The heritage buildings on the east side will have both affordable and market rental apartment buildings behind them. A pedestrian marketplace and “Honest Ed’s Alley” are proposed on the east side and a park and daycare will be included on the west side. Honest Ed's was demolished in 2016.
Education
Secular English-oriented public schools in Palmerston–Little Italy are operated by the Toronto District School Board. In addition to the Toronto District School Board, three other publicly funded school boards operate in Toronto. The publicly funded English-oriented separate schools in Toronto are operated by the Toronto Catholic District School Board. Secular French-oriented public schools are provided by Conseil scolaire Viamonde, whereas French-oriented public separate school are provided by Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir. However, the latter school board does not operate a school in the neighbourhood. Public schools in the area include:
Central Commerce Collegiate is located on Shaw Street, built in 1916.
Harbord Collegiate Institute is located on Harbord Street, built in 1892.
King Edward Public School is a public Junior and Intermediate school on Lippincott Street. King Edward offers Extended French and French Immersion programs that is only available by applying. In order to be eligible for the Gifted Program, students are required to pass an entrance test after grade 3. King Edward offers a wide variety of extra curricular programs, including Band, Basketball Team, Chess Club, Choir, Strings, and Volleyball Team.
See also
Palmerston Boulevard
Italians in Toronto
References
External links
Palmerston-Little Italy neighbourhood profile
Neighbourhoods in Toronto |
17326871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Tamworth%20Borough%20Council%20election | 2008 Tamworth Borough Council election | The 2008 Tamworth Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2008 to elect members of Tamworth District Council in Staffordshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.
After the election, the composition of the council was:
Conservative 24
Labour 5
Independent 1
Background
Before the election the Conservatives held 23 seats, Labour had 6 and there was 1 independent councillor. 10 seats were being contested, with the Conservatives defending 8 and Labour 2. Among the councillors defending seats were the former Conservative council leader Ron Cook in Spittal ward and the Mayoress Mary Oates in Wilnecote. Labour would have needed to gain every Conservative seat that was being contested in order to deprive the Conservatives of a majority.
Election result
The results in Tamworth were one of the first local election results to be declared and saw just one seat change hands. The Conservative party gained Galscote ward from the Labour to hold 24 seats, compared to 5 for Labour. Galscote was taken by Conservative, Nicola Annandale, who was the fiancee of the leader of the council Jeremy Oates. Overall turnout was 29.97%.
The Conservative leader of the council Jeremy Oates said that voters were "fed up of party politics and have voted on the delivery of services". However the Labour Member of Parliament for Tamworth, Brian Jenkins said that people had wanted "to give the Government a kicking" and that the election had been "all about national issues".
Ward results
References
2008
2008 English local elections
2000s in Staffordshire |
17326881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadler%2025 | Sadler 25 | The Sadler 25 is a 7.42-meter (24 ft 4 in) fiberglass sailing yacht, designed in 1974 by David Sadler of Great Britain as an evolution of his earlier Contessa 26 which was in turn an evolution of the Nordic Folkboat. Although both the Folkboat and the Contessa 25 had relatively narrow long keel hulls, Sadler's new design utilised a wider hull to give more form stability and the (then) new finkeel together with a skeg-mounted rudder.
Built between 1974 and 1981, the Sadler 25 was normally rigged as a masthead sloop, and was offered with the option of deep or shallow fin keels, twin bilge keels or a centre plate.
In its deep-fin configuration, the Sadler 25 was a successful cruiser-racer which quickly became popular in yacht clubs throughout the U.K., and completed Round Britain and Trans-Atlantic voyages.
The Sadler 25 is widely regarded as one of the classic late-20th-century production yachts, and many examples are still giving faithful service both cruising and racing.
Specifications
LOA: 7.42 m (24 ft 4 in)
LWL: 5.84 m (19 ft 2 in)
Beam: 2.67 m (8 ft 9 in)
Draft (fin keel): 1.42 m (4 ft 8 in)
Draft (shallow fin): 1.16 m (3 ft 10 in)
Draft (bilge keel): 0.99 m (3 ft 3 in)
Draft (centre plate): 0.7 m/1.5 m
Displacement: 1814 kg (4000 lb)
Ballast Ratio: 47%
References
Sailing yachts
1970s sailboat type designs |
17326897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiverton%20Four%20Corners%20Historic%20District | Tiverton Four Corners Historic District | Tiverton Four Corners Historic District encompasses the main village center of Tiverton, Rhode Island. The district extends along Main Road north and south from its junction with East Road and Puncatest Neck Road, or West Road. The area consists of sixteen historic buildings, predominantly 18th and early 19th-century houses, as well as the 1868 Union Public Library, mill-related resources at the Mill Pond which was situated just southeast of the main intersection, and the A. P. White Store.
Originally inhabited by the Pocasset tribe, John Clarke and William Coddington – who in 1637 had purchased Aquidneck Island across the Sakonnet River from present-day Tiverton from the Narragansett tribe – also obtained from the Wampanoags use of land on the eastern side of the water. Land grants were made by Plymouth Colony as early as 1659, but formal development of the area did not begin until around 1679. After Plymouth Colony was absorbed by Massachusetts, the freemen of the area agitated for separation from it and to be joined to the Colony of Rhode Island. The dispute was not settled until 1746.
The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Gallery
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
References
External links
Tiverton Historical Society, Chace-Cory House
Tiverton, Rhode Island
Historic districts in Newport County, Rhode Island
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island |
17326903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Granville%20Sharpe | Henry Granville Sharpe | Henry Granville Sharpe (April 30, 1858 – July 13, 1947) was the 24th Quartermaster General of the United States Army from 1916 to 1918.
Early life
Sharpe was born in Kingston, New York, in 1858, and was the son of Civil War veteran Brevet Major General George H. Sharpe and his wife, Caroline Hone (Hasbrouck) Sharpe. Both of his parents were descendants of the Hasbrouck family; his maternal grandfather was Congressman and Rutgers University president Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck; his paternal great-grandfather was Congressman Abraham Joseph Hasbrouck.
His sister, Katherine Lawrence Hasbrouck, married Congressman Ira Davenport, and his brother Severyn Bruyn Sharpe was the Ulster County judge in 1898. He is also a descendant of Louis DuBois.
He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating in 1880.
Career
Sharpe served on frontier duty with the 4th Infantry Regiment (United States) at Fort Laramie, Wyoming for the next year and a half. Following a six months' leave of absence, he submitted his resignation from the Army to take effect June 1, 1882.
About fifteen months later on September 12, 1883, Sharpe was reappointed to the Army as a commissary of subsistence with the rank of Captain and assigned to temporary duty at New York City. He was then stationed at West Point 1884 to 1889.
From 1889 to 1898, he served as a commissary officer at various locations to include Washington, Oregon and the St. Louis Depot. He was promoted to the rank of Major on November 13, 1895. He transferred from St. Louis to Boston on March 15, 1897, but assumed his duties there only after he had purchased and distributed supplies for the relief of sufferers from the Mississippi flood at St. Louis, Missouri and at Cairo, Illinois.
When war with Spain was imminent in April 1898, he was appointed chief commissary of the First Army Corps, and deployed with the Corps to Puerto Rico. There he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and appointed an assistant commissary general of subsistence. He remained on duty in Puerto Rico until December 21, 1898.
For a short time, he was assigned to the Chicago Depot as purchasing commissary general, but in September 1899 he was ordered to Washington to act as assistant to the Commissary General of Subsistence. This assignment lasted until the spring of 1902. He was then sent to Manila as chief commissary of the Division of the Philippines. By that time he been promoted to the rank of Colonel and was the senior officer in the Subsistence Department.
On October 3, 1900, he was elected as a hereditary companion of the New York Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States by right of his father's service in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Sharpe's tour of duty in the Philippines lasted until he was again recalled to Washington to act as assistant to the Commissary General of Subsistence. He served in this capacity from June 22, 1904, to October 8, 1905. He was commissioned Commissary General of Subsistence with the rank of Brigadier General on October 12, 1905, and was reappointed for a second four-year detail in 1909.
In the summer of 1907, he sailed to Europe at his own expense to investigate the supply departments of the British, French, and German armies. He visited the schools for bakers and cooks maintained by those armies. The data he obtained on the use of rolling kitchens in the French and German armies materially assisted in the development of similar equipment suitable for the U.S. Army.
Upon his return to Washington in September 1907, General Sharpe submitted recommendations to the War Department urging the establishment of a supply corps. While these were not adopted, they undoubtedly proved helpful when the subject of consolidating the Quartermaster, Subsistence, and Pay Departments into one agency was being considered four years later. Sharpe was so enthusiastic about establishing a consolidated supply corps that Quartermaster General James B. Aleshire called him the father of consolidation. Many of Sharpe's friends recommended that he be selected to head the newly created Quartermaster Corps in 1912. But when his classmate, General Aleshire, was appointed, Sharpe accepted a subordinate post in the Corps and worked devotedly to prove the value of consolidation.
When ill health brought General Aleshire's retirement four years later, General Sharpe was appointed to succeed him as Quartermaster General on September 16, 1916. This was approximately seven months before the United States declared war against Germany.
World War I
The Quartermaster Corps and the War Department generally were unprepared for World War I. The supply bureaus within the Quartermaster Corps were eager to procure and ship as quickly as possible the enormous quantities of supplies for which they were responsible. However, their uncoordinated procurement resulted in excessive and unbalanced railway shipments that overtaxed port facilities and finally developed into a serious congestion of the railroad system in the winter of 1917–18. By that time shortages in clothing, hospital equipment, and other supplies were causing hardships in Army camps, and it was charged by some that the lack of adequate clothing and shelter was responsible for an epidemic of pneumonia sweeping through the camps.
General Sharpe was held responsible by many for a large share of the supply crisis that had developed.
These developments stirred a widespread uneasiness that led to a Congressional hearing on the conduct of the war. In the end the General Staff took complete control of supplies and the Office of the Director of Purchase and Storage in the Purchase, Storage, and Traffic Division was erected on the foundation of the Quartermaster Corps.
On December 15, 1917, a War Council was formed consisting of the Secretary of War, the Assistant Secretary of War, the Quartermaster General, the Chief of Artillery, the Chief of Ordnance, the Judge Advocate General, and the Chief of Staff. The War Council was to oversee and coordinate all matters of supply and to plan for the more effective use of the military power of the nation. While serving on the Council, General Sharpe was required to delegate all his administrative duties to an acting chief Quartermaster designated by the Secretary of War.
In June 1918, General Sharpe was relieved from duty with the War Council and assigned to the command of the Southeastern Department. The following month he was appointed a Major General in the line of the Army, with rank from July 12 and officially ceased to be Quartermaster General.
General Sharpe requested retirement on May 1, 1920, he was then 62.
Retirement and death
In his later years, he lived in Providence, Rhode Island, where he died at the age of 89, on July 13, 1947. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
General Sharpe was a Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States by right of his father's service in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Legacy
General Sharpe was inducted into the Quartermaster Hall of Fame in 1989.
References
External links
1858 births
1947 deaths
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
United States Military Academy alumni
United States Army generals of World War I
United States Army generals
American military personnel of the Spanish–American War
Quartermasters General of the United States Army
Commissary General of Subsistence (United States Army) |
17326905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%2C%20Count%20of%20Vermandois | Louis, Count of Vermandois | Louis de Bourbon, Légitimé de France, Count of Vermandois, born Louis de La Blaume Le Blanc, also known as Louis de/of Vermandois (2 October 1667 – 18 November 1683) was a French nobleman, illegitimate but legitimised son of Louis XIV, King of France by his mistress, Louise de La Vallière. He died exiled and disgraced at the age of 16, unmarried and without issue.
Early life
Louis de La Blaume Le Blanc was born on 2 October 1667 at the Castle of Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 2 October 1667 to Louise de La Blaume Le Blanc de La Vallière, Mademoiselle de La Vallière (1644–1710). His father was his unmarried mother's long-time lover, Louis XIV, King of France (1638–1715). Her parents had been in an extramarital affair for about 6 years by then, but their relationship was nearing its end. They had had 4 children together, only one of whom, the already legitimised Marie-Anne de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Blois (1666–1739) was still alive when La Blaume Le Blanc was born. He was named after his father.
At the age of 2, in 1669, La Blaume Le Blanc was legitimised, given the surname de Bourbon (of Bourbon), as opposed to the surname de France (of France) bore by his legitimate half-siblings. He was also created Count of Vermandois (comte de Vermandois) and appointed Admiral of France (Amiral de France).
Life with the Orléans family
In 1674, when Vermandois was 7 years old, his mother entered a Carmelite convent in Paris, and from then on, saw very little of his son. He was entrusted to the care of his aunt (the wife of his paternal uncle, Philippe I, Duke of Orléans [1640–1701]), born Princess Elizabeth Charlotte "Liselotte" of the Palatinate (1652–1722), known as court as Madame or Madame Palatine. He lived with the Orléans family in the Palais-Royal in Paris, and became close with his aunt, despite her well-known disdain for the king's "bastards".
The Duke of Orléans was infamous for being effeminate and practicing le vice italien ("the Italian vice"), being homosexual or bisexual. He had children from both of his arranged marriages but had many male (and possibly also some female) lovers before and during them. One of these lovers was Philippe of Lorraine (1643–1702), known as the Chevalier de Lorraine ("Knight of Lorraine"), a man described as having an attractive face and a sharp mind, but also being "insinuating, brutal and devoid of scruple", as well as being "as greedy as a vulture". The young count became involved with the knight and his circle, which included among others François-Louis, Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon (later titular king of Poland and prince of Conti; 1644–1709). He joined a secret group of young aristocrats called La Sainte Congregation des Glorieux Pédérastes ("Holy Congregation of Glorious Pederasts").
When the king learned of his son's involvement with the duke's circles, he exiled the Chevalier de Lorraine and several other members of the "congregation". He reprimanded his son and decided to send him away from the royal court. It was suggested that 15-year-old Vermandois should be married as soon as possible to cover up the scandal, possibly to 6-year-old Louise-Bénédicte de Bourbon, Mademoiselle d'Enghien (1676–1753), the daughter of Henri-Jules, Duke of Enghien (later Prince of Condé; 1643–1709).
Exile and death
In June 1682, Vermandois was exiled to Normandy. Hoping to mend the relationship between father and son, his aunt Madame suggested that he be sent as a soldier to Flanders, then under French occupation. Agreeing with his sister-in-law, the king sent his son to the Siege of Kortrijk, where Vermandois soon fell ill. He was advised by a doctor that he should return to Lille and recover, but, desperate for his father's love, he remained on the battlefield. He died in Flanders on 18 November 1683, less than a month short of his 17th birthday, and was buried in the Arras Cathedral. His aunt and sister greatly mourned his death, while his father reportedly did not shed a tear. His mother, by then a Carmelite nun under the name of Sœur Louise de la Miséricordie ("Sister Louise of Grace"), was still obsessed with the sin of her affair with the king and said upon hearing the news of his son's death, "I ought to weep for his birth far more than his death".
It was later suggested that he might have been the Man in the Iron Mask, which could not be true as the unidentified prisoner died in 1703.
Ancestry
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17326949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Sharpe | Henry Sharpe | Henry Sharpe may refer to:
Henry Granville Sharpe (1858–1947), US Army officer
Henry Sharpe (priest) (fl. 1620s), Anglican priest in Ireland
Henry A. Sharpe (1848–1919), Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court |
17326956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost%20%28disambiguation%29 | Localhost (disambiguation) | localhost may refer to:
localhost, the loopback device IP address
.localhost, a reserved top-level domain name
Localhost (software), facilitates access to a peer-to-peer virtual file system via the BitTorrent protocol |
20464588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20Queensland%20state%20election | 2009 Queensland state election | The 2009 Queensland state election was held on 21 March 2009 to elect all 89 members of the Legislative Assembly, a unicameral parliament.
The election saw the incumbent Labor government led by Premier Anna Bligh defeat the Liberal National Party of Queensland led by Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg, and gain a fifth consecutive term in office for her party. Bligh thus became the first female Premier of any Australian State elected in her own right.
The 2009 election marked the eighth consecutive victory of Labor in a general election since 1989, although it was out of office between 1996 and 1998 as a direct result of the 1996 Mundingburra by-election.
Key dates
Results
| colspan=7 |* The two-party preferred summary is an estimate by Antony Green using a methodology by Malcolm Mackerras.
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Seats changing hands
¶ Ronan Lee was elected as a member of the Labor Party in 2006, but he defected to the Greens in 2008.
One of the gains by the Liberal Nationals was the defeat of the Minister for Sustainability, Climate Change and Innovation Andrew McNamara (Hervey Bay). The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education, Training and the Arts, Bonny Barry (Aspley), was also defeated.
Date
The previous state election was held on 9 September 2006 to elect the 89 members of the Legislative Assembly. In Queensland, for the government to serve a full-term, an election will be held approximately three years following the previous election. In Queensland, Section 80 of the Electoral Act 1992 states that an election must be held on a Saturday; and that the election campaign must run for a minimum of 26 or a maximum of 56 days following the issue of the writs. Five to seven days following the issue of the writs, the electoral roll is closed, which gives voters a final opportunity to enrol or to notify the Electoral Commission of Queensland of any changes in their place of residence.
Legislative Assembly
The Labor Party, led by Premier Anna Bligh, and the LNP, led by Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg, were the two main parties in Queensland at the election. It was the first election contested by the LNP following its creation with the merger of the National and Liberal parties. At the previous election, Labor won 59 seats, the Nationals won 17 seats, the Liberals won eight seats, One Nation won one seat, and independents won four seats. Former Labor MP Ronan Lee joined the Greens in 2008, thus becoming their parliamentary leader. Lee lost his seat at the election.
A redistribution saw Labor notionally pick up three seats. Therefore, the LNP notionally needed to pick up 22 seats rather than 20 seats to form a majority government, which equated to an unchanged uniform 8.3 percent two party preferred swing.
Former Premier Peter Beattie resigned in September 2007, which triggered the October 2007 Brisbane Central by-election.
Parties contesting the election
† Contested 2006 elections as Liberal Party (49 seats) and National Party (40) seats.
Both the Australian Labor Party and the Greens contested all 89 seats. This was the first Queensland state election in which the Greens contested every seat. The LNP contested every seat except Gladstone (held by an Independent), which they avoided for strategic reasons. A total of 397 candidates contested the election—the largest number of candidates to contest a Queensland election since 1998.
Post-election pendulum
Polling
Newspoll polling was conducted via random telephone number selection in city and country areas. Sampling sizes usually consist of around 1000 electors, with the declared margin of error at around ±3 percent.
See also
Candidates of the Queensland state election, 2009
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 2006–2009
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 2009–2012
References
External links
Electoral Commission Queensland
2009 Queensland election - Antony Green ABC
2009 elections in Australia
Elections in Queensland
2000s in Queensland
March 2009 events in Australia |
17326970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Metsger | Rick Metsger | Richard Thomas Metsger (born August 16, 1951) served in the Oregon State Senate from 1999 to 2011. President Barack Obama nominated Rick Metsger to serve on the Board of the National Credit Union Administration on May 16, 2013. The U.S. Senate confirmed Mr. Metsger on August 1, 2013, and he took the oath of office on August 23, 2013. He served as the ninth NCUA Board Chairman from May 1, 2016, through January 22, 2017.
Prior to his political career, Metsger was a sportscaster, teacher, and served on the board of directors of a credit union in Portland, Oregon.
Vice Chairman of the NCUA Board (Aug 4, 2014 - May 2016)
President Barack Obama nominated Metsger to serve on the Board of the National Credit Union Administration on May 16, 2013. The United States Senate confirmed Metsger on August 1, 2013.
After he took the oath of office on August 23, 2013, Metsger shared his vision "for NCUA to be recognized as an agency that manages its own fiscal house well, proposes regulatory action that is effectively targeted to achieve the desired outcome without placing unnecessary burdens on the credit unions themselves and, above all, maintains the confidence and trust the American public places in their local credit union."
On September 18, 2014, the NCUA Board designated Board Member Metsger as Vice Chairman of NCUA, pursuant to the requirements of NCUA's rules.
On Jan. 1, 2014, NCUA Board Chairman Debbie Matz appointed Metsger as NCUA's representative on the Board of NeighborWorks America, one of the nation's preeminent affordable housing and community development organizations.
He succeeded former NCUA Board Member Gigi Hyland, who left the NCUA Board October 5, 2012. Metsger's term continues through August 2, 2017.
During his tenure as Vice Chairman, Metsger has focused on modernizing regulations and the federal credit union charter to provide credit unions with greater flexibility to innovate and grow as well as regulatory relief. Metsger led the agency's efforts to update its regulations concerning fixed assets and credit unions' fields-of-membership regulation.
Chairman of the NCUA Board (May 2, 2016 - January 22, 2017)
Metsger was appointed chairman of the NCUA Board effective May 1, 2016 by President Barack Obama. As NCUA Board Chairman, Metsger heads the independent agency that charters, regulates, and supervises more than 3,700 federal credit unions. NCUA also operates the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which protects the accounts of millions of Americans at more than 5,800 federally insured credit unions. Metsger succeeds Board Chairman Debbie Matz, whose tenure ended April 30, 2016.
Early life and career
Metsger was born in Portland, Oregon, where he attended elementary school. He graduated from Centennial High School in Gresham. In 1972, he earned a bachelor's degree in communication from Lewis & Clark College, where he also earned a master's degree in teaching in 1975.
Metsger taught at Sam Barlow High School in Gresham from 1973 to 1976 and was an assistant basketball coach at Lewis & Clark during that same time.
From 1993 to 2001, he served on the board of directors of the Portland Teachers Credit Union.
Sports anchor
In 1977, Metsger was hired as a sportscaster for Portland television station KOIN, eventually working his way up to sports anchor and sports director. In the early 1990s, Metsger was moved to a combination news and sports role. In August 1992, hours after completing an investigative report about leaking nuclear waste tanks at the Hanford Site, Metsger was fired from the station. The report aired three weeks later (narrated by another reporter), and later won the Best Investigative Reporting award from the Oregon Associated Press Broadcasters Association.
Political career
In 1998, Metsger sought his first political office, running as a Democrat for the Oregon State Senate in the 14th state senate district (later renumbered the 26th due to redistricting). He was unopposed in the Democratic primary, and in the general election; he defeated former Oregon House member Jerry Grisham, who had defeated incumbent Ken Baker in the Republican primary. Metsger was re-elected in 2002 and 2006.
In 2008, he became a candidate for Oregon Secretary of State, running to succeed incumbent Bill Bradbury, but lost the Democratic primary to Kate Brown. Metsger sought the Democratic nomination for Oregon State Treasurer in the special election to replace Ben Westlund, but lost to fellow Democrat Ted Wheeler.
During Metsger's 12 years in the Oregon State Senate, he chaired the Business and Transportation Committee and served on committees with jurisdiction in the areas of education, revenue, the judiciary, human services and consumer protection.
Metsger sponsored laws that expanded state-chartered credit unions' field of membership, refunded millions of dollars to consumers, combated predatory payday lending, and created the largest public transportation investment in the state's history.
Metsger left the Legislature in 2011. After his departure, Metsger owned and managed his own strategic communications consulting firm focused on the areas of financial services, capital construction, energy and transportation.
See also
Oregon state elections, 2008
References
Oregon state senators
Living people
1951 births
American sports announcers
Television anchors from Portland, Oregon
People from Gresham, Oregon
Lewis & Clark College alumni
Oregon Democrats
21st-century American politicians |
17326979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DePauw%20Avenue%20Historic%20District | DePauw Avenue Historic District | The DePauw Avenue Historic District is a national historic district just northeast of downtown New Albany, Indiana, across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. The district consists mostly of Depauw Avenue from Vincennes Street in the west to Aebersold Drive to the east, and includes portions of the 1200 block of Beechwood Avenue and two residences on Vance Street. New Albany High School is located on the southern edge of the district.
Depauw Avenue is named for New Albany's Depauw family. Washington C. DePauw, a wealthy New Albany banker, was the original owner of the land. He made the bulk of his money from the American Glass Works, which by 1890 produced two thirds of the plate glass in the United States. His summer estate was what became Depauw Avenue. His son Charles Depauw started developing the land, but the first buildings were constructed after Charles died, leaving it to his widow Letitia. The district began as a neighborhood for upper-class residents, and quickly became a preferred place to live in New Albany. The initial four properties were built between 1906 and 1908, an additional four in 1911, and the bulk of the remainder built in the 1920s. Construction slowed during the Great Depression, and then concluded in the 1940s.
Of the seventy-one primary buildings in the district, sixty-eight are considered to contribute to the historic integrity of the district, with fifteen contributing outbuildings. Architectural styles are a mix of Colonial Revival, Craftsman/Bungalow (of which 39 of the district's 68 domiciles are), Dutch Colonial Revival, Queen Anne, and Tudor Revival. Residences on the eastern side of the district are long and are affected by the creekbed that runs by the district.
In 1994 an architectural study determined that DePauw Avenue could eventually achieve National Register status. In 2006 the Indiana Department of Natural Resources gave a grant of $6,150 to the city of New Albany to prepare DePauw Avenue, Cedar Bough Place Historic District, and the Shelby Place Historic District for registration on the National Register of Historic Places. (Depauw Avenue has an architectural style similar to Shelby Place's, but contains mostly larger domiciles, showing more architectural diversity.) All three neighborhoods were placed on the National Register on March 19, 2008.
References
Historic districts in New Albany, Indiana
Buildings and structures in Floyd County, Indiana
National Register of Historic Places in Floyd County, Indiana
Populated places established in 1906
1906 establishments in Indiana
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana |
20464593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamelan%20Council | Gamelan Council | The Gamelan Council – Asia-Pacific Public Health, Microfinance, and Development Centre (Gamelan Council) is an international non-governmental, non-profit initiative addressing the public health, microfinance, and international development needs of communities in, on, and around the Pacific Rim. For these purposes, the Gamelan Council views the Asia-Pacific region quite broadly in line with APEC; the jurisdictions covered are claimed to account for approximately 65% of the world's population. The Council's activities, which include conducting research, making investments, and providing education and advice, are centrally coordinated.
History
The Gamelan Council is an offshoot of the Global Consulting Group (GCG), a non-profit, non-partisan consulting firm created under the aegis of Global Student Response (GSR) and focused on supporting international development efforts which has since been disbanded. As GCG's efforts became more geographically focused on the Asia-Pacific region and thematically focused on public health and microfinance developmental issues, the Gamelan Council formed to focus specifically on these areas.
The name of the organization is a combination of the Indonesian word referring to a music ensemble, 'Gamelan', and an English word referring to a Native American, community-fostering ritual, 'Council' (the same term used to refer commonly to a group of individuals providing advice and counsel). These two terms capture the Gamelan Council's goal of harmoniously unifying the arrays of forces and ideas affecting the areas on which the Gamelan Council focuses its efforts.
Jurisdictions addressed
The Gamelan Council operates predominantly in 73 states and territories on, near, and around the Pacific Rim, including every jurisdiction with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and several other, significant population centres adjacent to or closely linked to the Pacific Rim (e.g., India, Nepal, and Pakistan). In 2010, the Gamelan Council also commenced pilot projects in both (a) Central Asia (i.e., Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan) and (b) South America (i.e., Paraguay, Uruguay, Guyana, and Suriname) which complement its other activities centered on the Pacific Rim.
These jurisdictions are divided into three main geographic groups and are listed below, organized generally by geography (i.e., Americas from north to south; Asia from west to north and then south; and Oceania from west to east):
Key activities
The Gamelan Council focuses on three main sets of activities addressing public health, microfinance, and international development issues. These include (a) research (e.g., conducting targeted studies of trends in the public health, microfinance, and international development sectors); (b) investment (e.g., raising capital to support successful Asia-Pacific microfinance providers and assisting entrepreneurs developing new technologies addressing public health needs throughout the Asia-Pacific region); and (c) education and advice (e.g., developing seminars, providing consulting services to social entrepreneurs, and coordinating conferences on public health, microfinance, and international development in the Asia-Pacific region).
See also
Microfinance
International Development
Epidemiology
Non-governmental organization
Social entrepreneurship
APEC
Notes
External links
Gamelan Council – Asia-Pacific Microfinance, Public Health & Development Centre
Organizations established in 2005
International economic organizations
International organizations based in Asia
International organizations based in Oceania
International organizations based in Laos
Microfinance organizations
International development agencies
International finance institutions
Public health organizations
International medical and health organizations |
17327009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%20Route%20189 | Maryland Route 189 | Maryland Route 189 (MD 189) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Falls Road, the highway runs from MD 190 in Potomac to Great Falls Road and Maryland Avenue in Rockville. MD 189 connects Rockville with Potomac and the Great Falls of the Potomac River in southwestern Montgomery County. The highway was constructed from Rockville to Potomac by the early 1920s and extended toward Great Falls in the early 1930s. MD 189 was expanded to a divided highway around its newly constructed interchange with Interstate 270 (I-270) in the late 1980s. The highway was truncated at both ends in the late 1990s.
Route description
MD 189 begins at an intersection with MD 190 (River Road) in the village center of Potomac. Falls Road continues south as a county highway to MacArthur Boulevard and the entrance to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, which includes the Great Falls of the Potomac. MD 189 heads north as a two-lane undivided road that passes through several sharp curves between the Bullis School to the southeast and the Falls Road Golf Course to the northwest. The highway meets the western end of Montrose Road shortly before entering the city of Rockville. MD 189 expands to a four-lane divided highway ahead of its intersection with Wootton Parkway. The highway continues through a single-point urban interchange with I-270 (Eisenhower Memorial Highway) shortly before reaching its northern terminus at a four-way intersection with Great Falls Road, Maryland Avenue, and Potomac Valley Road. Great Falls Road (formerly a direct continuation of Falls Road, now a left turn at the intersection) heads north toward the west end of downtown Rockville and Maryland Avenue heads northeast directly toward downtown.
History
MD 189 was paved as an macadam road from Montgomery Avenue (now MD 28) in Rockville to Potomac by 1921. The highway was extended as a concrete road from Potomac to what is now MacArthur Boulevard near Great Falls in 1930. MD 189 did not originally have an interchange with Washington National Pike (now I-270). The highway's single-point urban interchange with I-270 was built in 1988. As part of that project, MD 189 was expanded to a four-lane divided highway from south of Wootton Parkway to Maryland Avenue. The latter intersection was placed in its present form at that time, replacing the seamless transition from Falls Road to Great Falls Road just north of I-270. MD 189 was rolled back from Great Falls to its present southern terminus in Potomac in 1999. The highway was removed from Great Falls Road in Rockville in 2000.
Major intersections
See also
References
External links
MDRoads: MD 189
Maryland Route 189
189 |
17327014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20Preview | Television Preview | Television Preview (also known as "New TV Preview") is a market research company that purports to test pilots of new television shows while actually looking for audience's reactions to commercials presented in a "home-like" atmosphere between breaks in these shows. Based in Evansville, Indiana, Television Preview is a division of RSC the Quality Measurement Company, a member of the ArsGroup. The preview offer is considered a scam because, even though Television Preview takes no money from viewers, the company is not associated with any actual television producers and the "pilots" they preview are years old. Viewers are instead asked to rate the commercials they see. Also, under the guise of selecting prizes they'd like to win in a drawing, viewers choose their "favorites" from pages of pictures of consumer products.
The process
Television Preview randomly sends out invitations and tickets to specific screenings, usually held in hotel conference rooms. The invitation contains text, such as that shown below, insinuating that the viewer will help decide what will be featured on television's next fall lineup:
Instead, viewers are shown old television pilots that were never picked up. They are asked to give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down style rating, and then fill out pages of questionnaires about their purchasing preferences, brands they like, products they are likely to use, and so forth.
The programs
The programs can vary from screening to screening, but most often they seem to be two shows: a 1997 drama called Soulmates featuring Kim Raver, and a comedy called City starring Valerie Harper. City was a short-lived show from 1990. Audience members are either told that Valerie Harper is looking to make a comeback, and wants viewers to judge her likability, or that screenwriter Paul Haggis, who wrote the show, wants to retool it for next fall, but needs viewer's opinions on its feasibility first. Other attendees have reported being shown the pilot of Dads, a comedy show from 1997 starring C. Thomas Howell and Steven Eckholdt.
Associated companies
Within a few business days after the viewings, most participants receive phone calls come from a California based company called "Datascension", in which participants are asked additional questions about the presentation. The company has been known to make frequent, repeated calls, in the event no one at the participant's number answers, or if they reach an answering machine.
References
External links
Television Preview's official site
Datascension's website
American television commercials
Companies based in Evansville, Indiana
Confidence tricks
Market research companies of the United States |
17327020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower%20House | Eisenhower House | Eisenhower House, formerly known as the Commandant's Residence or Quarters Number One of Fort Adams, is a historic house that is part of Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island.
History
The building was built by George C. Mason & Son in 1873. Its first inhabitant was General Henry Jackson Hunt. Dwight D. Eisenhower used the house as his summer residence during his presidency in 1958 and 1960. Initially, in 1958, the President was living at the Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island. However, with his passion for golf, he moved to this location as it was close to the Newport Country Club. It then became the "Eisenhower House" and the Summer White House.
Today
The Eisenhower House became part of Fort Adams State Park after the U.S. Navy transferred Fort Adams to the State of Rhode Island in 1964. The residence was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is used for weddings and other social events.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island
List of residences of presidents of the United States
References
External links
Rules for use/renting
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Houses completed in 1873
Houses in Newport, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport, Rhode Island
Historic district contributing properties in Rhode Island
1873 establishments in Rhode Island |
17327032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff%20on%20the%20Wind | Chaff on the Wind | Chaff on the Wind (1986) is a novel by Ebou Dibba. Set in the Gambia during the 1930s, it was published by Macmillan of London.
Plot summary
Two young men, Dinding and Pateh, travel by ship from a rural village to the main city. Pateh is outgoing and reckless, with an eye for the ladies. Dinding is socially cautious, but sensible and possessing of business acumen. In the city, Dinding meets a young man, older than himself but not yet middle-aged, named James. James is a Christian and a very serious person. He becomes a major influence on Dinding.
Pateh gets a job on the loading docks, and seduces a young girl named Isatou. Pateh is fond of fine and showy clothes. To maintain his clothing budget and his schedule with the ladies, Pateh begins working as a smuggler.
Later, Isatou marries Charles, an old man who had never married before. He is the cousin of a Signare. Isatou does not feel close to Charles. After their marriage, Isatou finds herself pregnant with Pateh's child. The pair chooses to flee to Senegal. Dingding continues to prosper in business, and Pateh goes to work for Dinding. Pateh and Isatou become parents. While the child is still an infant, a French colonial policeman confronts Pateh with evidence of Pateh's criminal activities. Pateh sets the evidence on fire. During a fight with the policeman, the officer strikes a mortal blow. Pateh dies with his family by his side.
1986 novels
Novels set in the Gambia
Gambian novels
Fiction set in the 1930s
Macmillan Publishers books |
17327035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine%20B%C3%A9cl%C3%A8re | Antoine Béclère | Antoine Louis Gustave Béclère (17 March 1856, Paris - 24 February 1939), virologist, immunologist, was a pioneer in radiology. In 1897 he created the first laboratory of radiology in Paris.
References
French virologists
French immunologists
1856 births
1939 deaths |
17327090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta%20Heart%20Institute | Alberta Heart Institute | Alberta Heart Institute may refer to:
Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, Canada
Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, Canada |
20464628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20Brains%20discography | Bad Brains discography | This is a comprehensive discography of Bad Brains, a Washington, D.C.-based hardcore punk band that also plays reggae and uses styles of funk and heavy metal into their music. To date, the band has released nine full-length studio albums (including an instrumental dub album), four EPs, four live recordings, one compilation album, one demo album, and more than a dozen singles.
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilation albums
Demo albums
Extended plays
Singles
Music videos
Other appearances
Let Them Eat Jellybeans! (Alternative Tentacles LP, 1981) featured the 45 version of "Pay to Cum"
New York Thrash (ROIR cassette, 1982) featured the songs "Regulator" and "Big Takeover" from Bad Brains
Rat Music for Rat People (CD Presents, 1982) (Songs "How Low Can a Punk Get?" and "You")
Pump Up the Volume Motion Picture Soundtrack (1990) (Song "Kick Out the Jams" with Henry Rollins)
H.R. appeared on the song "Without Jah, Nothin'" by P.O.D., track 13 on the 2001 album Satellite.
H.R. also appeared on the song "New Sun" on Long Beach Dub All-Stars' debut album Right Back (1999).
The band contributed the music of "Re-Ignition" to a remix of Lil Jon's "Real Nigga Roll Call".
"I Against I" appeared in the video game Matt Hoffman's Pro BMX 2 as well as EA's Skate.
"Soul Craft" was featured in the video game Backyard Wrestling 2.
"Banned in D.C." appeared in the video game Tony Hawk's Proving Ground.
"Banned in D.C." also appeared in the video game Saints Row.
"Right Brigade" appeared in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV.
A considerable part of the punk documentary American Hardcore (2006) is devoted to Bad Brains.
H.R. and Darryl Jenifer contributed to "Riya" on rapper Ill Bill's album The Hour of Reprisal.
"Re-Ignition" is heavily sampled on drum and bass producer Hive's "Ultrasonic Sound."
References
External links
Entry at 45cat.com
Punk rock group discographies
Reggae discographies
Discographies of American artists
Discography
Heavy metal group discographies |
23570396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers%20Vagabond | Vickers Vagabond | The Vickers Vagabond was Vickers' entrant for the second Lympne light aircraft competition, held in 1924. It was a conventional small biplane, with a very unusual method of trimming. It was eliminated from the trials at an early stage and only one was built.
Development
Following the first Lympne trials held in 1923 for single-seat motor-gliders, the Air Ministry organised a similar event in 1924, this time for low-powered two-seat aircraft. The engine capacity limit was set at 1,100 cc. and, as before, the wings had to fold for easy transport and storage. The trials took place between 29 September and 4 October. Several companies built aircraft for them, including the Blackburn Bluebird, Hawker Cygnet, Supermarine Sparrow and two from Westland, the Woodpigeon and Widgeon.
The Type 98 Vagabond was Vickers' entry. It was a single-bay, wire-braced biplane with wings of constant chord except towards the rounded trailing tips. The wings had equal span and carried marked stagger. There were ailerons on both upper and lower wings, with flaps inboard on the lower wings which could be folded to assist wing-folding. The pilot and passenger sat in open cockpits, the latter under the upper wing. The pilot's upward view was enhanced by a small cutout in the trailing edge of the top wing. The fuselage had a more rounded cross-section than that of the earlier Viget, Vickers' single-seat entry to the 1923 competition, extending a little below the lower wing. The 32 hp (24 kW) Bristol Cherub III flat twin engine was mounted in a smooth nose with the finned cylinders exposed for air cooling. The horizontal tail was similar to that of the Viget, but the fin and rudder were much more rounded. Because of the stagger, the mainwheels were in front of the lower wing, braced to the lower fuselage logeron aft to the front wing spar and forward to a point roughly below the upper wing leading edge.
A most unusual feature of the Vagabond was the method of longitudinal trimming. Rather than changing the angle of the tailplane with respect to the fuselage, the whole rear part of the fuselage was hinged just ahead of the lower wing's trailing edge. This was controlled via a handwheel between the two cockpits; the rear fuselage was raised at the start of a landing descent to increase drag and slow the aircraft.
Early flight trials, with H.J.Pain as pilot revealed a need to stiffen the engine mountings. When this was done, the Vagabond, now fitted with a three-cylinder 1,095 cc Blackburne Thrush radial engine flew well enough at Lympne, but was eliminated in the preliminary rounds. Only one Vagabond, registered as G-EBJF on 1 July 1924 was built. It was deregistered on 24 January 1928.
Specifications
References
Notes
Bibliography
1920s British sport aircraft
Vagabond
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1924 |
23570403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%20Lake%20%28Halifax%29 | Nelson Lake (Halifax) | Nelson Lake Halifax is a lake of Halifax Regional Municipality, lying northeast of Dartmouth City in Nova Scotia, Canada.
See also
List of lakes in Nova Scotia
References
National Resources Canada
Lakes of Nova Scotia |