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Kynance Mews | Location & History | Kynance Mews Location Kynance Mews is located in London's Kensington district, bisected by Launceston Place. The Gloucester Road adjoins the east end of the east part of the mews. Part of the north wall of the western end backs onto the grounds of Christ Church on the corner of Victoria and Eldon Road, the church is accessible through a set of steps in the west end of the mews. The mews is part of the De Vere Conservation Area. History It was known as Cornwall Mews until 1924, having been built as stabling for the Cornwall Gardens development to the |
Lawrence Cohn | null | alma mater, City College of New York [CUNY]. [2016]; "Living Blues Magazine Awards." [1] Producer of the Year [2] Best Historical Project: Pre-War. [2018]. |
Lake Ridge Academy | School Leadership | Lake Ridge Academy School Leadership Head of School Mitch White joined Lake Ridge Academy in 2018 after previously serving as the Dean of Academic Planning for the Weber School in Atlanta, Georgia. Other administrators include Michael Shaulis, who serves as Head of Academics and Director of Upper School. Timothy Unger holds the position of Director of Middle School, while Katherine Hatcher fulfills the role of Director of Lower School. In the Admission's Department, Dr. Megan Zahler and Edie Sweeterman are the Director of Enrollment Management and Senior Admission Officer, respectively. The Director of College Counseling is Keeon Gregory. The CFO |
Ma'ruf Amin | Early life and career & Vice presidential candidacy and victory | Bisri from Rembang's Pesantren Raudlatuth Thalibin. In a significant development, Bisri withdrew his name from the race and Ma'ruf was then elected to the position by NU's 33rd Congress.
Several weeks after his ascendancy to NU's highest post, Ma'ruf was elected to be the chair of MUI, succeeding Muhammadiyah's Din Syamsuddin on 27 August 2015. Vice presidential candidacy and victory President Joko Widodo announced that he would run for re-election in the 2019 presidential election. His vice president Jusuf Kalla was not seen as eligible for another term because of the term limits set for the positions of president and vice-president. |
Len Ford | 1945 and 1946 seasons & 1947 season | pass from Pete Elliott. Later in the season, he scored a touchdown against Wisconsin on an end-around, a play Michigan employed frequently with Ford. 1947 season By 1947, Ford had grown to 215 pounds, 25 pounds heavier than he had weighed in 1945. Led by All-American halfbacks Bob Chappuis and Bump Elliott, the undefeated 1947 Michigan team has been selected as the best team in the history of Michigan football. Nicknamed the "Mad Magicians", the Michigan squad finished with a 10–0 record, capped by a 49–0 victory in the Rose Bowl over USC on New Year's Day. Ford |
Lawndale, California | Geography | area of 2.0 square miles (5.2 km²), all land.
Lawndale is bordered by Redondo Beach on the west and southwest, Hawthorne on the north, Torrance on the southeast, and unincorporated area of El Camino Village (also known as Alondra Park) on the east.
Lawndale is serviced by Interstate 405, Hawthorne Boulevard(State Route 107), and by Artesia Boulevard(State Route 91), which becomes a freeway farther east. Lawndale is 5.7 miles southeast of Los Angeles International Airport.
Lawndale is serviced by following public transit: the Lawndale Beat, the Gardena Bus 1, Metro Green Line and by Metro buses 211, 40 and 740.
The weather is nice and |
MS Multi-section car (New York City Subway car) | Additional Information | feature, however, would not become standard for all subway cars until the R44 order in 1971. |
Leningrad Front | History | of the war. From September–November 1944, the front participated in the Baltic Offensive, it advanced in the Narva-Tartu direction, and then towards Tallinn. Following the capture of continental Estonia, elements of the front, along with the Baltic fleet, took part in recapturing the Moonsund archipelago. These were the last offensive operations of the front. Forces of the Leningrad Front were then stationed on the Soviet-Finnish border, and all along the Baltic coast from Leningrad to Riga. Later, the Leningrad front was reinforced with elements of the recently disbanded 2nd Baltic Front. These forces were primarily stationed near the Courland Pocket, |
Luca Mora | Club career | Luca Mora Club career Mora made his professional debut in the Lega Pro for Alessandria on 19 September 2014 in a game against Pavia. |
Lightning GT | Battery | pack 'strings'. The 9 kW standard onboard charger can fully recharge the batteries in five hours from a dedicated 32amp wired socket or 12 hours from any standard socket. An optional on-board charger connected to a suitable dedicated domestic power source can recharge the car from zero in 2.5 hours. A full charge will give the vehicle a 'usable' mixed use range of over 322 km (200 miles). Lightning are developing further battery combinations to take the range further on a standard pack. A range extender option is being developed which will enable significantly longer journeys. |
Knox County, Tennessee | Civil War | joined the Confederacy along with the rest of Tennessee after the second referendum for secession passed in 1861.
Knox County remained under Confederate control until September 3, 1863, when General Ambrose Burnside and the Union army marched into Knoxville unopposed. Union Colonel William Harris, son of New York Senator Ira Harris, wrote his father:
'Glory be to God, the Yankees have come! The flag's come back to Tennessee!' Such were the welcomes all along the road, as we entered Knoxville, it was past all description. The people seemed frantic with joy. I never knew what the Love of Liberty was before. The |
MV Finest | Puget Sound service | on November 26 that year. The state governor visited the ship and terminal at Kingston while attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony on November 19 in advance of scheduled service. |
Lawrence Cohn | null | Lawrence Cohn Lawrence Cohn is best known as one of the creators of Legacy Recordings, a branch of Sony Music Entertainment and as the originator and producer of the Roots 'N' Blues series.
Cohn was educated as a lawyer and became Vice-President of CBS/Epic Records and later head of Playboy Records and Music. One of his responsibilities at CBS was to co-supervise the Country Music Division. He was also COO & minor partner in the short-lived CBS Records-Bob Dylan generated label, "Accomplice Records." [1980-82] He has continued his career as a producer, writer |
Indiana Pacers | 2005–2010: Danny Granger era | since the 1980s, the 2007–08 season displayed many signs of growth in the team, especially towards the end of the season. Off-court legal distraction from Jamaal Tinsley, Marquis Daniels, and Shawne Williams in the middle of the season did not help the Pacers struggles, and injuries to Tinsley and Jermaine O'Neal damaged the Pacers' already weak defense and left almost all point guard duties to recently acquired Travis Diener, who saw minimal minutes on his previous NBA teams. Despite this, and a 36–46 record, the Pacers had a very strong finish to the season, which included a desperate attempt to |
Ma'ruf Amin | The Ahok affair & Family | apology, saying that the matter was resolved. Despite Ma'ruf's willingness to let the matter rest, an organization known as the Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs reported Ahok to the criminal investigation unit of the Indonesian National Police for allegedly having harassed Ma'ruf and wiretapped his phone conversations with former President Yudhoyono despite previous denials by Ahok's legal team of the latter act.
In a separate interview, conducted after Ma'ruf's selection as a vice presidential candidate, he stated that he regretted testifying against Ahok and added that he was "forced" to do so. Family Ma'ruf's first wife, Siti Churiyah, died on 22 October 2013 |
Lewis (lifting appliance) | External lewis | made with a pair of handles so that two men can manoeuvre heavy blocks of stone into position. A mechanical kerb lifter can also be made to fit mechanical lifters like forklifts or crane-trucks so that larger stones can be placed.
In stone yards, a slab lifter is hung from a shed gantry or forklift to transport slabs of stone between storage racks and stone processing machines. It consists of two hinged, weighted friction pads that close astride the top of a slab, and are pulled tightly together by the weight of the slab itself.
The slab lifter uses two safety |
Long Yellow Road (Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio album) | Release history | Long Yellow Road (Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio album) Release history A total of five tracks were recorded at a 1961 February 'recital' in Tokyo and were released by Asahi Sonorama and King Records in various formats and combinations at various times. The first track released, "Solveig's Song", was distributed in Japan as a "sonosheet" (a.k.a. "phonosheet" or Flexi disc) in the 1961 April issue of a monthly Asahi Sonorama music publication. The other four tracks were released a few days later in a special edition sonosheet "book" (Japanese Title: 黄色い長い道、秋吉敏子帰国記念特集 = Long Yellow Road, Toshiko Akiyoshi Homecoming Commemorative Special Edition). |
Kamacite | Meteorites & Abundance & Associated minerals & Meteor crater Arizona | chondrites it was found that they contain generally less nickel then average. Abundance Since kamacite is only formed in space and is only found on Earth in meteorites, it has very low abundance on Earth. Its abundance outside our solar system is difficult to determine. Iron, the main component of kamacite, is the sixth most abundant element in the universe and the most abundant of those elements generally considered metallic. Associated minerals Taenite, and tochilinite are minerals that are commonly associated with kamacite. Meteor crater Arizona Kamacite has been found and studied in Meteor Crater, Arizona. Meteor Crater was the |
Kingsley Kuku | International engagements / Recognition & Interests & Personal life | which was held on May 9, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia USA, Kuku delivered a moving acceptance speech and pleasantly surprised the guests as he dedicated the honour to President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria who Kuku described as the man "who accorded me an opportunity to unravel, nurture and deploy my talents creditably to the service and advancement of Nigeria". Interests Kuku enjoys writing, consistent study in Global Peace & Security,
Enlightened Discussions In Defence Of Human Rights & Political Discourses. Personal life Kuku is an ardent and unrepentant respecter of family values. |
Major League Baseball on ABC | 1983-1989 television package | seasons working backup games, was apparently very miffed over ABC Sports' delay in announcing him as their top baseball announcer. Unlike Jackson, whose forte was college football, Michaels had gigs with the Cincinnati Reds and San Francisco Giants before joining ABC in 1976. TV Guide huffed about Jackson by saying "A football guy, on baseball!" Jackson was unavailable for several World Series games in 1979 and 1981 because of conflicts with his otherwise normal college football broadcasting schedule. Thus, Michaels did play-by-play for games on weekends.
Earl Weaver was the #1 ABC analyst in 1983, but was also employed by the |
Major League Baseball on ABC | 1978-1979 & 1980s | inning and a two-run single in the bottom of the ninth. 1980s ABC hardly showed any baseball games during the regular season in the 1980s and when they did, it was only on either Monday or Thursday nights from the end of Sweeps Week in late May until the NFL preseason started in the first week of August, and then not again until the playoffs. ABC also had a clause where they could air a game the last day of the regular season if it had playoff implications, such as in 1987 in regards to the Detroit Tigers' American League |
Lee Rourke | Novels | Lee Rourke Novels Vulgar Things in which Jon Michaels - a divorced, disaffected and fatigued editor living a nondescript life in North London - wakes one morning to a phone call informing him that his uncle has been found dead in his caravan on Canvey Island. Dismissed from his job only the day before and hung-over, Jon reluctantly agrees to sort through his uncle's belongings and clear out the caravan. What follows is a quixotic week on Canvey as Jon, led on by desire and delusion, purposeful but increasingly disorientated, unfolds a disturbing secret, ever more enchanted by the island |
Kirwan House (Maryland) | History & Significance | centerpiece of the complex is a ca. 1889 2 testacy, 5-bay, wood-frame I-house with an attached 2-story, 3-bay, wood-frame, front-gable store. A ca. 1889 wood-frame dairy stands immediately east of the house. Also present are a wood-frame pump house, two wood-frame sheds, a concrete fountain, and concrete garden pavers and wall remnants, all dating to the 1940s. Significance The James E. Kirwan House and Store is a historic structure on Kent Island registered with the Maryland Historical Trust and is the only preserved example of a 19th-century general store and farm site on Kent Island. Its self-sufficient facilities, extensive merchandise |
Lawndale, California | History | Electric "Red Car" system. It ran down the middle of Railway Ave. (now Hawthorne Blvd.) until 1933. In 1927 the Santa Fe railroad arrived. After World War II, the immense demand for housing from returning veterans and California newcomers resulted in Lawndale's formation as a bedroom community. On December 28, 1959 it was incorporated as a city in Los Angeles county.
Starting in the 1970s Lawndale's relatively low housing prices but more desirable location relative to its neighboring cities attracted absentee landlords and a substantial portion of its residents increasingly became renters.
For a time in the 1980s, with new cycle of |
K260AM | Station history | K260AM Station history The station signed on as a translator for KSTZ in September 2011, but after it was announced that KZHZ "Hits 105.9" and its rhythmic format was sold to Iowa Public Radio a month earlier in August, Saga Communications quietly acquired the format and intellectual property from Connoisseur Media (KZHZ's parent company) and announced on October 25, 2011, that it would relaunch the format on both KIOA 93.3-HD2 and on translator 99.9, on the closing of KZHZ's sale to IPR. Hits 99.9 officially signed on on Thursday, October 27, 2011, after stunting with kissing sound effects, poking fun |
Justin Verlander | 2015 & 2016: Cy Young runner-up, American League strikeout leader and 2,000 career strikeouts | complete game shutout, and second career complete game one-hitter. Verlander finished 2015 with a 5–8 record in 20 starts, but his other stats were a considerable improvement over the previous season. He had a 3.38 ERA and 1.088 WHIP. His walk rate dropped to 2.2, while his strikeout rate inched back up to 7.6. 2016: Cy Young runner-up, American League strikeout leader and 2,000 career strikeouts On May 8, Verlander recorded his 1,981st strikeout in his Tiger career, surpassing Jack Morris for second place on the list of all-time Tiger strikeout leaders. He only trails Mickey Lolich, who had 2,679 |
Jerzy Sikorski | History of Science consultant & Journalist & Encyclopedist | by the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science. Journalist Between 1966 and 2007 Jerzy Sikorski published a number of articles in Mazury-Warmian Communications (Komunikaty Mazursko-Warmińskie), on the history of Poland's ancestral Baltic seashore Pomerania, and the Polish regions of Warmia and Masuria. He also published articles on the life and activities of the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
Sikorski was a member of the editorial staff at Komunikaty Mazursko-Warmińskie, and also a member of staff at Frombork's Commentaries (Komentarze Fromborskie), and also the substitute editor-in-chief of Olsztyn Yearly (Rocznik Olsztyński), Encyclopedist Jerzy Sikorski published a number of short biographies |
Justin Lee Collins | Radio & Television and film | 2. Collins was heard performing a Tom Jones impersonation on BBC Radio 1's Chris Moyles Show in January 2008.
In 2014, Collins returned to radio with his own weekly show on Fubar Radio, an uncensored station featuring Andy Parsons and Mark Dolan. Collins' show currently runs Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 8.00pm - 10.00pm with co-host Sam Hutt. The show is also available via iTunes in podcast form. Television and film In 2002, Collins made shows for Bravo and MTV and became the host of the companion show for the first series of Strictly Come Dancing. He was replaced by Claudia |
M. R. Kurup | Biography | country for propellants, propulsion and pyrotechnics. He was a member of the team selected by Vikram Sarabhai to design the first Indian satellite launch vehicle, which was composed of Kurup, Vasant Gowarikar, A. E. Muthunayagam and Udupi Ramachandra Rao among others. He was the Design Project Leader of the second stage and was closely associated with the project till the launch of the vehicle on 10 August 1979. Later, he moved to Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, established a similar plant in the 1970s and superannuated from service as the director of the SHAR centre.
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Job creation index | United States | surpassing its closest competitors District of Columbia and South Dakota's score by 10 points. North Dakota has held this spot since 2009. Rhode Island earned a spot at the bottom of the job creation index with a score of 12. In 2013, the average score in the U.S. was 20, up 2 points from 2012. Nearly all states have shown significant improvement in job creation. The survey showed that northern states in the midwest are seeing a growth in jobs much more so than in other parts of the US. The results are based on telephone interviews from Gallup, which |
Lucky Love | Critical reception & Music video & European version | end of last year. "Lucky Love" was released as their first single in the U.K., where it became an instant smash—a fact that should come as no big surprise to anyone who's heard the song. More than a few programmers predict Number One, and you'll get no argument here."
Music & Media wrote: "All the hits from the Happy Nation CD are a hard act to follow, but the Swedish quartet succeeds here hands down. Are they maybe on a special frequency allowing them to download top melodies?" Music video Two videos were produced for the song. European version The first, |
Len Ford | 1947 season | Ford, who sparked a forward wall that never let the Bucks threaten. His end was practically impregnable. He smashed Ohio interference time and again, he continually harassed Dick Slager and Pandel Savic, the Ohio passers, and he made life miserable for Pete Perini, blocking one punt and rushing the Buckeye punter on nearly all of his kicks.
Michigan finished first in the AP Poll and won the 1947 college football national championship, sharing the honor with Notre Dame, which had been first in the polls before the Rose Bowl. After the 1947 season, the Associated Press (AP) selected Ford |
Lush! | null | occasions live on Radio 1 to listeners across the UK and the world. Shows such as the Essential Mix, Seb Fontaine and Judge Jules were broadcast to electric atmospheres. Fergie broadcast his final BBC Radio 1 show live from a pub on the complex. Following the show, his DJ set at Lush! was broadcast live on the Essential Mix. Seb Fontaine was quoted as saying Lush! was one of the best club on the planet with an atmosphere not to be matched anywhere else he had ever played.
Resident DJs throughout the years have included Col Hamilton, Ryan Mullin, Andy Condie |
Madonna (2015 film) | Plot | a brain-dead, pregnant young woman named Jang Mi-na is brought to the hospital after a mysterious car crash. In exchange for a sum of money, Hye-rim agrees to Sang-woo's instructions that she track down Mi-na's next-of-kin and get them to sign an organ donation consent form for her heart. As Hye-rim delves into Mi-na's past and discovers that Mi-na was bullied since childhood for her hair color, weight and poverty, to her adulthood as a sexually abused factory worker who becomes a prostitute named "Madonna," the more Hye-rim forms a strange bond with her comatose patient and becomes determined to |
Lorain County Regional Airport | Facilities and aircraft | Lorain County Regional Airport Facilities and aircraft Lorain County Regional Airport covers 1,149 acres (465 ha) at an elevation of 793 feet (242 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt runway, 7/25, 5,002 by 100 feet (1,525 x 30 m).
In the year ending August 11, 2010 the airport had 42,610 aircraft operations, average 116 per day: 82% general aviation, 18% air taxi, and <1% military. 88 aircraft were then based at the airport: 82% single-engine, 10% multi-engine, 6% helicopter, and 2% jet. |
Lymore, Montgomery | Building history | possibly his other house Plas Llysen or Llysun, which was set in his other Montgomeryshire park at Llanerfyl. The house had a close-studded frontage, with an open three-bay loggia on the ground floor, six gables, and, rising from the centre, a pyramid-roofed look-out tower. This lookout tower can be compared with the stair-turret lookout at Plas Mawr, Conwy and a very similar tower on Oak House West Bromwich.
A series of letters between Edward Herbert and his agent Roger Jones provides a fairly detailed outline of the building work that was taking place. In the first letter Lord |
Life Flight (New Zealand) | Air ambulance | Both carry patients between hospitals around New Zealand to receive specialist medical care. The service flies an average of four emergency trips to hospitals around New Zealand per day. ZK-LFW has custom paintwork (bandages) designed by Weta Workshop.
Pilot Ian Pirie commented that flying patients by air presents unique challenges, such as ensuring soft landings for patients with spinal injuries, or flying very low with patients with brain or diving injuries. He commented that calls involving premature babies were often the most rewarding, as he was often able to see how much they had grown when later flying them home after |
Lichchavi Express | Coaches & Service | Lichchavi Express Coaches The 14006 / 05 Anand Vihar Terminal Sitamarhi Lichchavi Express has 1 AC 2 tier, 2 AC 3 tier, 12 Sleeper Class, 5 General Unreserved & 2 SLR (Seating cum Luggage Rake) Coaches. In addition, it carries a Pantry car coach.
As is customary with most train services in India, Coach Composition may be amended at the discretion of Indian Railways depending on demand. Service The 14006 Anand Vihar Terminal Sitamarhi Lichchavi Express covers the distance of 1,193 km (741 mi) in 29 hours 00 mins (41.14 km/hr) & in 26 hours 00 mins as 14005 Sitamarhi Anand Vihar Terminal Lichchavi |
Leopold Ritter von Dittel | null | Leopold Ritter von Dittel Leopold Ritter von Dittel (May 29, 1815 – July 28, 1898) was an Austrian urologist born in Fulnek, a community now located in the Czech Republic.
Dittel received his medical doctorate in 1840 from the University of Vienna, and as a young man worked as a physician in Trentschin-Teplitz. From 1853 to 1857, he was an assistant to Johann von Dumreicher (1815-1880) and a surgical assistant at the university hospital in Vienna. Later, he became surgeon-in-chief of the Allgemeines Krankenhaus, and in 1865 attained the title of associate professor.
He is credited for developing a number of innovative |
Mad World | Music video | song ends. The video has over 137 million views since it was uploaded to YouTube on 9 January 2006. |
Legal history of China | Republican China & Development after 1949 | Guomindang codes, however, were implemented nationwide. Although government leaders were striving for a Western-inspired system of codified law, the traditional Chinese preference for collective social sanctions over impersonal legalism hindered constitutional and legal development. The spirit of the new laws never penetrated to the grass-roots level or provided hoped-for stability. Ideally, individuals were to be equal before the law, but this premise proved to be more rhetorical than substantive. In the end, most of the new laws were discarded as the Guomindang became preoccupied with fighting the Chinese Communists and the invading Japanese. Development after 1949 According to Chinese communist |
MYH6 | Clinical significance | al. was found in a patient population with late-onset hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. An Arg to Gln variant was found at position 795 (Arg795Gln). This mutation was located in a region of MHC-α shown to be important for binding essential light chain. Subsequent studies have also found additional mutations in MYH6 linked to both hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy.
Mutations in MYH6 cause atrial septal defect. One underlying mutation is a missense substitution at Ile820Asn, which alters the association of alpha-myosin heavy chain with regulatory light chain. MYH6 has been shown to be the predominant sarcomeric disease gene for secundum-type atrial septal |
Lyons Government | Response to the Great Depression | and armaments manufacture. Lyons saw restoration of Australia's exports as the key to economic recovery. A devalued Australian currency assisted in restoring a favourable balance of trade.
A dramatic episode in Australian history followed Lyons first electoral victory. NSW Premier Jack Lang refused to pay interest on overseas State debts, the Lyons government stepped in and paid the debts. The national Parliament then passed the Financial Agreement Enforcement Act to recover the money it had paid. In an effort to frustrate this move, Lang ordered State departments to pay all receipts directly to the Treasury instead of into Government |
Lossa Engineering | Jay LaRossa | Lossa Engineering, Jay LaRossa was born in the San Fernando Valley, California, on September 9, 1970. Both sides of his family owned motorcycle dealerships in Southern California. LaRossa grew up customizing cars and anything with wheels, two wheels or four. He opened his first business customizing cars and trucks in 1998 and quickly gained world wide recognition with vehicles appearing in magazines from US to Japan. Jay's shop built several high end vehicles for large aftermarket companies to be displayed at the yearly SEMA Show. Around 2007 Jay started to focus on motorcycles, because of the |
Legal history of China | Modernization of China’s Legal Practices | reforms, the demand for modern legal services has increased. As the rule of law expands, law firms are playing an increasingly important rule in assisting people and businesses comply with legal requirements.
Since the establishment of China's current legal system in 1978-81, the Chinese bar exam has been instrumental in increasing the quality of China's lawyers. The current passing rate for China's bar exam is only 10 percent. Additionally, as a developing nation, China has been worried about the negative impact of opening up its legal services sector to foreign competition. However, the entry of foreign lawyers to China has increased |
Keramat (state constituency) | History | Keramat (state constituency) History It was abolished in 1995 when it was redistributed. |
Major League Baseball on ABC | 1965 & 1970s | "(Robinson) had a high, stabbing voice, great presence, and sharp mind. All he lacked was time."
It was around this time that ABC suggested that Major League Baseball reduce their regular season schedule to just 60 games. ABC wanted the on the games to only be played on weekends. They also wanted to promote it the way that football is promoted, as a major television event. 1970s Under the initial agreement with ABC, NBC, and Major League Baseball (1976-1979), both networks paid $92.8 million. ABC paid $12.5 million per year to show 16 Monday night games in 1976, 18 in the |
Malay language in the Philippines | History | Malay language in the Philippines History The use of Malay was a result of extensive interactions between the native kingdoms in the Philippines and the various ancient Malay civilizations that existed in modern-day Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia as it was the trade language of the entire Maritime Southeast Asian region. The Laguna Copperplate Inscription, the earliest-known document found in the Philippines was written in a mix of Old Malay, Classical Tagalog and Old Javanese and in the Kawi alphabet which recorded interactions between the classical civilizations in Luzon with the Javanese kingdom of Majapahit and the Malay Srivijaya Empire.
The Old |
Major League Baseball on ABC | 1980-1982 & 1983-1989 television package | and Tommy Lasorda) because of his commitment of hosting the Pittsburgh Steelers' 50th Anniversary dinner in Pittsburgh on October 9, 1982, which was broadcast live on Pittsburgh's ABC affiliate, WTAE-TV and Pittsburgh's NBC affiliate, WPXI-TV. ABC's Jim Lampley interviewed the winners in the Cardinals' clubhouse after clinching the National League pennant in Game 3. 1983-1989 television package On April 7, 1983, Major League Baseball, ABC, and NBC agreed to terms of a six-year television package worth $1.2 billion. The two networks continued to alternate coverage of the playoffs (ABC in even numbered years and NBC in odd numbered years), World |
Kofi Adu | Personal life & Craft | Agyekum Kufuor. Although he originally journeyed to Accra to sing, Agya Koo has been featured in over 90 Ghanaian movies, 15 of which remain his favorite. Personal life In June 2016, Adu got remarried to Rita Asiedu in London, UK after dating for 4 years. He was previously married to Victoria Owusu Adomako but divorced. Craft Avoiding the normal procedure of thoroughly reading a script before acting in films, he told Joy FM's former morning show host Kojo Oppong Nkrumah that while actors and actresses are typically given scripts two weeks before they begin shooting, his God-given talent allows him |
Law Uk Folk Museum | History | Law Uk Folk Museum History It is not definitively known when Law Uk was completed, but it is estimated that the house was constructed in the mid 18th-century. This was about the time when the Law family moved to Hong Kong from Bao'an County in Guangdong province. The approximate date of construction is backed up by official documents from the Qing Dynasty that dated from 1767 and 1796. The existence of these documents—which were in the Law family's possession—came to light when Law Uk was rediscovered. At the time it was built, the house was on Hong Kong Island's |
Major League Baseball on ABC | 1989 | cameramen, their audio men, the guys involved with their telecasts are baseball fans. They love baseball. It took us a while to get up to speed in that area. But once we did, we began to cover it as well as it's been covered. I'm tremendously proud of what we have done, especially from the 1985 postseason coverage on. We got to a point, especially in the last couple of years, (where) nothing can stop us now. And the only thing that stopped us was the fact we lost the rights.
— Al Michaels to the Chicago Tribune on October 17, 1989.
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Liberal socialism | Ethical socialism | important ideology of the British Labour Party. Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee supported the ideology, which played a large role in his party's policies during the postwar 1940s. Half a century after Attlee's tenure, Tony Blair, another Labour Prime Minister, also described himself as an adherent of ethical socialism, which for him embodies the values of "social justice, the equal worth of each citizen, equality of opportunity, community". Influenced by Attlee and John Macmurray (who himself was influenced by Green), Blair has defined the ideology in similar terms as earlier adherents—with an emphasis on the common good, rights and |
JR Freight Class DB500 | Overview & History | JR Freight Class DB500 Overview The Class DB500 was developed to replace ageing Class DE10 diesel-hydraulic locomotives used for shunting duties at smaller freight terminals such as Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture. The locomotive has a single water-cooled four-cycle straight six-cylinder diesel engine, with a power output of 184 kW (247 hp), sufficient to haul 500-tonne trains. History The Class DB500 entered service at Shimonoseki Freight Terminal from the start of the revised timetable on 4 March 2017. |
Lynch Island | Antarctic Specially Protected Area | Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA 110) for its biological values, especially its relatively luxuriant plant communities. The continent’s only two flowering plants, Antarctic hair grass and Antarctic pearlwort, are abundant. The soils associated with the grass swards contain a rich invertebrate fauna. |
La Vita Nuova | Structure & Critical reception | to his mourning after her death, and his determination to write of her "that which has never been written of any woman."
Each separate section of commentary further refines Dante's concept of romantic love as the initial step in a spiritual development that results in the capacity for divine love (see courtly love). Dante's unusual approach to his piece — drawing upon personal events and experience, addressing the readers, and writing in Italian rather than Latin — marked a turning point in European poetry, when many writers abandoned highly stylized forms of writing for a simpler style. Critical reception American poet |
Liberal socialism | Ethical socialism | profit to "functionless owners"—capitalist rentiers. However, Tawney did not denounce managers as a whole, believing that management and employees could join together in a political alliance for reform. He supported the pooling of surplus profit through means of progressive taxation to redistribute these funds to provide social welfare, including public health care, public education and public housing.
Tawney advocated nationalisation of strategic industries and services. He also advocated worker participation in the business of management in the economy as well as consumer, employee, employer and state cooperation in the economy. Though he supported a substantial role for public enterprise in the |
Make Me (Janet Jackson song) | Background | 22, it was released as a digital download for purchase. Although claims were made that "Make Me" is a tribute song to Michael's 1979 single "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough", Jackson later stated in an interview with Ryan Seacrest it is not, despite the similarity of the lyrics in the song's outro.
"Make Me" was written by Janet Jackson, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Thomas Lumpkins, and Michaela Shiloh. Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers have also been credited as the song samples Fonzi Thornton's song "I Work For A Livin'", written and produced by them for the 1982 Soup For One |
Like a Prayer (album) | Development & Composition | a warning about the dangers of AIDS, to which Madonna had lost friends. Its inclusion was decided after Warner Bros. had agreed to release an album by stand-up comedian Sam Kinison the year before, although he had stated that AIDS came from gay men involved in bestiality. Madonna dedicated the album to "My mother, who taught me how to pray". Composition According to Stephen Holden, the album "teems with 60's and early 70's echoes – of the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, and Sly and the Family Stone – all pumped up with a brash, if occasionally klutzy, 80's sense of |
Legal history of China | Legal reforms under the 1982 Constitution | driven by economic liberalisation. Whilst there has been resistance to politically sensitive legal concepts in non-commercial or public laws, changes have filtered from commerce-related laws. For example, the Administrative Penalty Law (1996) and Administrative Procedure Law (1990) were enacted to stop government interference in state enterprises. The same laws allow citizens to sue officials for abuse of authority or malfeasance.
In addition, the reformed 1997 criminal law and the criminal procedures laws were amended to introduce significant reforms. The criminal law amendments abolished the crime of "counter-revolutionary" activity but only on paper. In fact the term changed into "crimes of endangering |
Lymore, Montgomery | Building history | the New Build, in Montgomery Castle, but this is unsubstantiated. Although Lymore is thought primarily as being a timber framed house, a huge quantity of bricks were used in the extensive kitchen and service wing that lay to the south. This was pulled down after 1795. Early bricks were also used in the walled garden and the Steward's house which was reconstructed in 1931.
The earliest drawing of Lymore is dated July 1684, when it was sketched by Thomas Dineley, who was accompanying the Duke of Beaufort on his progress through Wales. The north frontage of the house |
Lewis Waterman | Other career paths | to Boston in 1864. In the late 1860s Waterman and his wife Sara Ann Roberts were converted to Spiritualism; his wife gained some fame (and income) as a medium, only to be unmasked and publicly pilloried as a charlatan. In the wake of this and the death of an infant daughter in the summer of 1870, Waterman left his wife and remaining children and moved to New York. In New York, Waterman attended lectures at the American Institute of Phrenology, from which he graduated that same year. Waterman remained keen on phrenology until the end of his life. By 1871 |
Little Hadham | Hadham Hall | buried with the body of King Charles I of England, and after his execution, Capell's heart was preserved in a silver box.
In 1661, after the Restoration, Arthur Capell's son, also called Arthur Capell, became the first Earl of Essex. The new Earl commissioned a lavish reconstruction of his father's Tudor mansion, Cassiobury House, around 1677–1680, and he moved the family seat to Cassiobury. Meanwhile, the silver box containing the late Arthur Capell's heart, had remained in the safekeeping of the Bishop of Winchester, and the Bishop presented it to the new king, Charles II of England. In 1703, |
Kaide Ellis | 2018 | was sin binned during the match for repeated infringements during the second half. |
Li Gong (computer scientist) | Academic achievements & Career | field of interest of the IEEE." Career Li Gong started his career as a researcher, primarily in the fields of computer systems, networking, and information security. He served as both Program Chair and General Conference Chair for ACM CCS, IEEE S&P, and IEEE CSFW. He was Associate Editor of ACM TISSEC and Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Internet Computing. Before going into the industry, he first worked at Odyssey Research in Ithaca, New York, and later at the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. He held visiting positions at Cornell and Stanford and was a Guest Chair |
Mad Dog O'Malley | Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation (1993–1997) & Maryland Championship Wrestling (1998–1999) | Flash the following day. Other notable tag team partners on the "indy circuit" included Bobby Taylor, The Inferno Kid, Lucifer, Morgus the Maniac, Cueball Carmichael, and Buster Maccabi.
Over the next two years, O'Malley wrestled Pat Patterson, Jr., "Hollywood" Bob Starr, Bluedust, and The Wiseguys (Jimmy Cicero & Steve Corino). In 1997, he teamed with Lucifer to face his former tag team partner Joe Thunder and Gino Caruso. Maryland Championship Wrestling (1998–1999) By the late-1990s, O'Malley was also competing in other Mid-Atlantic independents such as Cueball Carmichael's Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance and Maryland Championship Wrestling. During this time, he battled "Hollywood" |
Major League Baseball on ABC | 1970s & 1976-1977 | and ABC "Ratings couldn't get more from one network so we approached another." NBC's Joe Garagiola wasn't very fond of the new broadcasting arrangement at first saying "I wished they hadn't got half the package. Still, "Game", half of the postseason - we got lots left." 1976-1977 In 1976, ABC picked up the television rights for Monday Night Baseball games from NBC. For most of its time on ABC, the Monday night games were held on "dead travel days" when few games were scheduled. The team owners liked that arrangement as the national telecasts didn't compete against their stadium box |
Lynwood Baptist Church | Programs | a relationship with God can affects the outcomes of those situations.
Lynwood Baptist Church is an active sponsor of Upward Sports where children learn sports while being taught about Jesus Christ. The church provides local community children an opportunity to become involved in the Upward programs such as basketball, cheerleading and football through Lynwood’s participation on this program. |
Katrina Patchett | Career | they became the French national champions. The couple also reached fourth place at the IDSF Open in 2007. After three years in France, Patchett moved to Slovenia to dance with Blaz Pocajt and compete in the professional category at the age of 22. Towards the end of 2010, Dereymez and Patchett decided to renew their partnership. They both competed on TF1's Danse avec les stars. Patchett won the first season of Danse avec les stars with her partner French singer/songwriter, Matt Pokora, on 19 March 2011.
Patchett speaks French, and lives in Paris. |
Judicial independence in Australia | Appointment | his appointment following a strong media campaign against him. Jordan was considered a brilliant lawyer but was never appointed to the High Court, which Sir Owen Dixon described as a tragedy, hinting that it may have been due to his "queer views about federalism", a reference to Jordan's strenuous support for the power and rights of the States as against the Commonwealth. The appointment of a former politician is not always partisan, for example Robert McClelland a member of the Labor Party and former Attorney-General, was nominated for appointment to the Family Court by the Liberal–National government. Whilst he was |
Los Angeles Poverty Department | History | in the country and the first arts-based initiative for the Los Angeles homeless population. Since its inception, the LAPD has been dedicated to giving expression to the homeless community's struggle to create meaning out of their own lives and to avoid a sentimentalized or stereotyped narrative of victimization. Material is often developed and rehearsed through community workshops and feedback sessions, continually evolving through conversation with the community.
The ultimate enactment of ensemble members' lives in front of an audience seeks to transform the audience into witnesses rather than spectators.
In addition to ongoing workshops and the creation of new work, |
Little Satan | Analysis | and will always be the Great Satan." |
Kazakhstan Sports Palace | History | hockey tournament of the 2011 Asian Winter Games. Ice hockey preliminaries actually started two days before the Opening Ceremony of the Games on 30 January. The matches played in the main and newly built minor arena with 1,200 seats. Currently, the minor arena is the home arena for HC Astana of the Kazakhstan Hockey Championship.
In 2011, Kontinental Hockey League commissioners declared that this arena is one of the worst in the league. The main reason is the low capacity. Barys Astana managers decided to build the new Barys Arena with 12,000 seats. It opened for the 2015-16 KHL season. |
Legal history of China | Modernization of China’s Legal Practices | Fangda Partners, Haiwen & Partners, Jun He Law Offices and Lehman, Lee & Xu.
To defend lawful rights and interests of its members; to enhance professional competence of lawyers; to strengthen professional self-regulation in order to promote sound development of the legal profession and endeavor to build up socialist state with rule of law and to develop social civilization and progress.
Conducting education in, inspection of, and supervision over lawyer's professional ethics and rules of conduct.
Giving professional guidance to lawyers, exchanging working experience, protecting lawyers legitimate rights and strengthening non-governmental exchanges with foreign lawyers and has made contribution to the improvement of |
Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. City of Thibodaux | Majority opinion | determination by a state court of decisive issues of state law.” The majority opinion went on to say that:
The special nature of eminent domain justifies a district judge, when his familiarity with the problems of local law so counsels him, to ascertain the meaning of a disputed state statute from the only tribunal empowered to speak definitively – the courts of the State under whose statute eminent domain is sought to be exercised – rather than himself make a dubious and tentative forecast. This course does not constitute abnegation of judicial duty. On the contrary, it is a wise and |
Ludvík Čelanský | Biography | Conservatory, then at the dramatic school of the National Theatre and at Pivoda Operatic School. Čelanský was engaged as a kapellmeister at the opera house in Plzeň until 1895, in Zagreb from 1898 to 1899, and then as the third kapellmeister of the National Theatre Orchestra. He was forced to withdraw in 1900 when Karel Kovařovic took the administration of the theatre.
Čelanský left for Lviv, where he established the opera house. Following his return, in 1901, he founded the Czech Philharmonic with striking members of the National Theatre Orchestra. However, he yielded the administration of the orchestra to Oskar Nedbal |
Limbo | Latin Fathers & Medieval theologians | they cannot enter the kingdom of heaven, that is, eternal life". So great was Augustine's influence in the West, however, that the Latin Fathers of the 5th and 6th centuries (e.g., Jerome, Avitus of Vienne, and Gregory the Great) did adopt his position. Medieval theologians In the later medieval period, some theologians continued to hold Augustine's view. In the 12th century, Peter Abelard (1079–1142) said that these infants suffered no material torment or positive punishment, just the pain of loss at being denied the beatific vision. Others held that unbaptized infants suffered no pain at all: unaware of being deprived |
Lewis (lifting appliance) | Two-pinned lewis | inserted into opposing holes that are drilled into the top of the stone at about 15° from vertical, and at least 75 mm deep. It operates by gripping the stone (like two fingers lifting a tenpin bowling ball) as the weight of the stone is taken up by a crane or winch. The advantage of using this type of lewis is that it is simple to prepare—two angled drill holes are all that is necessary. Like other types of lewis, it is susceptible to pulling out as the stone is lifted. It should always be tested before hoisting, and used in |
Leake Street, Fremantle | null | Leake Street, Fremantle Leake Street in Fremantle is between Market Street and Pakenham Street. It was named after George Leake, the first resident magistrate of Fremantle in 1839.
As a side street it was neglected early on for road surface improvement.
In the early twentieth century it was frequently cited as a problematic street with the members of the "Leake Street Push" being seen as disorderly and lawless. |
Long-billed crow | Description | Long-billed crow Description The long-billed crow is a large crow growing from 45 to 53 cm (18 to 21 in) in length including its relatively short tail. The large bill tapers from a broad base and is black, as are the legs and feet. The plumage is glossy and entirely black. The call of this crow has been likened to the yapping of a puppy "cruk...cruk...cruk".
The long-billed crow can be differentiated from other crows by its large size and glossy plumage, its long beak and its white iris. The only other crow within its range is the Torresian crow (Corvus orru) which |
Leila Khaled | TWA Flight 840 (1969) & El Al Flight 219 (1970) | blew up the nose section of the aircraft. After this hijacking, and a photograph of her (taken by Eddie Adams) holding an AK-47 rifle and wearing a kaffiyeh was reproduced in many publications, she underwent six plastic surgery operations on her nose and chin to conceal her identity and allow her to take part in a future hijacking, and because she did not want to wear the face of an icon. El Al Flight 219 (1970) On September 6, 1970, Khaled and Patrick Argüello, a Nicaraguan–American, attempted to hijack El Al Flight 219 from Amsterdam to New York City as |
Malay language in the Philippines | History | Malay spoken in the archipelago also reflected the religious nature of the region - the archipelago was inhabited by a mix of Buddhist, Animists and Hindus. Upon the arrival of Portuguese conquistador Ferdinand Magellan in Cebu, his slave, Enrique, a Malaccan-native had to speak on his behalf since he was a native-Malay speaker who acted as a translator between Spanish, Portuguese and Malay. Enrique likely perished in Mactan Island during the battle that killed Ferdinand Magellan in 1521. The name of Visayas itself originated from Srivijaya, an ancient Malay empire that ruled Sumatra and parts of the Malay Peninsula.
The use |
Leytonstone School | History | became a mixed comprehensive under a borough re-organisation of schools and changed name to Leytonstone School.
Business and Enterprise specialist school status was achieved in 2007. Successful re-designation in 2008 enabled Leytonstone to retain this specialism and acquire a further specialism, 'Leadership Partners' in February 2009. It has also been designated an HPSS (high performing specialist school). |
Limbo | Modern era | the sons of God, through the second Adam, Jesus Christ, our Saviour.
Through the 18th and 19th centuries, individual theologians (Bianchi in 1768, H. Klee in 1835, Caron in 1855, H. Schell in 1893) continued to formulate theories of how children who died unbaptised might still be saved. By 1952 a theologian such as Ludwig Ott could, in a widely used and well-regarded manual, openly teach the possibility that children who die unbaptised might be saved for heaven. He also told about Thomas Cajetan, a major 16th-century theologian, that suggested infants dying in the womb before birth, and so before ordinary |
Kyivan Rus Park | Organization & Location | Kyivan Rus Park Organization The charitable organization "Slavic fund" was founded with the intention of creating a historical and cultural Center of Kievan Rus'. The intent was to reconstitute and reconstruct the Kiev Detinets (the fortified part of Kiev in the 5th to 13th century) with a maximum of historical authenticity, cultural and architectonical characteristics, as well as recreating the atmosphere of the epoch of Kievan Rus'.
The reconstructed Kremlin was built using the research of Kievan Rus' history: U. Aseev, M. Braychevskiy, G. Ivakin, S. Kilievich, A. Kutovoy, B. Rybakov, M. Tihomirov, P. Tolochko, I. Shevelev, and others. Location Kopachiv |
Knaben | Post-war | 1973, the mining company announced it would cease operations. The mines were finally closed on 30 April 1973, and the village was more or less abandoned. A museum, Knaben Gruvemuseum has been established in the old administration building, and is run by Knabens Venner and Kvinesdal municipality. Norsk Bergverksmuseum is running a pilot project at the Knaben mining community.
A large sand deposit in the valley is a visible result from 88 years of mining activity. The percentage of molybdenum was low, on average below 0.2%. The sand deposits cause some leaching of metals (cadmium, copper and molybdenum), and flotation of |
Landcruisin' | Background & Release and reception | Doogh in London. A.K. Paul produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered the song, which features his songwriting, instrumentation, and programming. He is also responsible for the song's sound design and effects. Release and reception On 21 March 2016, Pitchfork Media reported that Jai and A.K. Paul had created the Paul Institute. Although the nature of this project was not disclosed at the time, a press release revealed that it is a collaboration between the brothers, and artist Muz Azar, with the intent of also potentially introducing other artists. Devoid of information, its website prompted visitors to provide their country and telephone |
Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian) | Ergodic theory & Symplectic geometry | far, there is a corresponding result also referred to as Liouville's theorem. In Hamiltonian mechanics, the phase space is a smooth manifold that comes naturally equipped with a smooth measure (locally, this measure is the 6n-dimensional Lebesgue measure). The theorem says this smooth measure is invariant under the Hamiltonian flow. More generally, one can describe the necessary and sufficient condition under which a smooth measure is invariant under a flow. The Hamiltonian case then becomes a corollary. Symplectic geometry In terms of symplectic geometry, the phase space is represented as a symplectic manifold. The theorem then states that the |
Lewis (lifting appliance) | External lewis | lifting device used in the stonemasonry trade since Medieval times. The external lewis was originally shaped like a pair of scissor-tongs, and swung from a treadwheel crane.
This type of tong device has been known as dogs and the holes in the stone as dog holes for many centuries. Many old bridges and walls in UK still have dog holes to reveal how the stones were lifted particularly onto bridge parapets.
The external lewis has been modified to handle kerbstones and large slabs of polished stone in contemporary stone yards.
A manual kerb lifter is a large, adjustable pair of tongs, |
Ludwig Lewin Jacobson | Jacobsonian organ | granted a royal stipend to enable him to travel through Germany and France.
During his sojourn in Paris Jacobson devoted a great deal of time to the study of practical medicine and surgery, and was so successful that the Danish government, on his return in 1813, obtained for him admission into the French army in order that he might study the medical system employed therein. In 1814 he served in a field-hospital near Leipzig, and became dangerously ill with fever when the lazaretto was attacked and pillaged by Cossacks. He returned to Denmark the same year (1814) and received from the |
Lesko Synagogue | History | Lesko Synagogue History The synagogue was built during the years 1626-1654 by the Sephardic Jewish community of Lesko. By the twentieth century, it was one of six synagogues in the town, and the only one whose building survived the Second World War, although in a very damaged state; the interior was devastated by the German invaders of Poland. For almost two decades after the war, it was neglected. It was renovated from the 1960s onwards.
The building was constructed in the mannerist-early baroque style with characteristic gables decorated with volutes and stone baroque vases. Some of the elements are gothic |
Malcolm Turnbull | Professional career | of Goldman Sachs Australia, eventually becoming a partner in Goldman Sachs and Co. Additionally, he worked as a director of Star Technology Systems from 1993 to 1995. During this time Turnbull was also the chairman of Axiom Forest Resources, which conducted logging in the Solomon Islands under the trading name Silvania Forest Products. The latter's work was described by the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau as a "clear-felling operation", and the then Solomon Islands Prime Minister Solomon Mamaloni reportedly threatened to close it down for "constant breaches of logging practices", according to a critical article in the Solomon Times.
Turnbull purchased |
Lojban | Lojban as a programming language & Lojban as a speakable logic & Morphology | be translated to Lojban.
Like with some programming languages Lojban grammar can be parsed using parsing expression grammars. Lojban as a speakable logic Lojban has been shown to be translated in some of its parts into predicate logic. There are also analogies between Lojban and combinatory logic. Morphology Lojban has three word-classes: predicate words (brivla), structure words (cmavo), and name words (cmevla). Each of them has uniquely identifying properties, so that one can unambiguously recognize which word is of which part of speech in a string of the language. They may be further divided in sub-classes. There also exists a special |
Mad World | Background | Mad World Background "Mad World" was originally written on acoustic guitar when Orzabal was 19 after being inspired to write a new wave song in the vein of Duran Duran's "Girls on Film". After a few false starts with Orzabal on vocals, he suggested Smith sing it and "suddenly it sounded fabulous".
"Mad World" was intended to be the B-side for the band's second single "Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love)", but their record company stated that "Mad World" could be a single in its own right. The band then opted to re-record "Mad World" with producers Ross Cullum and |
Louisville Thoroughbreds | null | Louisville Thoroughbreds The Louisville Thoroughbreds are a men's chorus based in Louisville, Kentucky. They are the first 7-time International Champion chorus of the Barbershop Harmony Society, winning the Gold Medal in 1962, 1966, 1969, 1974, 1978, 1981 and 1984. |
Governorship of Mitt Romney | Abortion | laws. He vetoed a bill on pro-life grounds that the bill would expand access to emergency contraception in hospitals and pharmacies. He returned from his vacation house in New Hampshire to veto the bill, because the Lt. Govorner, Kerry Healey would have signed the bill into law. The legislature voted overwhelmingly to overturn the veto and pass the bill into law on September 15, 2005. At the time of the veto, Romney said he does not support abortion except in cases of rape, incest, and when the life of the mother is threatened. He opposed the U.S. Supreme |
Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. City of Thibodaux | Thibodaux abstention | amounted to an interpretation of a vague Louisiana law and, thus, a determination of the circumstances under which the city could or could not exercise the power it claimed to have under the 1900 Louisiana law.
The decision in Thibodaux gave rise to a new principle, the "Thibodaux abstention", which is defined as "[a] federal court’s act of declining to exercise its jurisdiction to allow a state court to decide difficult issues if importance in order to avoid unnecessary friction between federal and state authorities".
A key difference between the Pullman and Thibodaux doctrines is that under Pullman the court retains jurisdiction |
Like a Prayer (album) | Commercial performance | certified multi Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of three million units. After the advent of the Nielsen SoundScan era in 1991, the album sold a further 575,000 copies. Like a Prayer has sold over 4 million copies in the United States. In Canada, the album debuted at number two on the RPM Albums Chart on May 1, 1989. The album was present for a total of 37 weeks on the chart, and was certified five times platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) for shipments of 500,000 copies.
In the United Kingdom, Like a |
Makete District | Social situation & Economy | Social situation Currently, the biggest challenges to be met by administration, are to improve the transportation infrastructure and provide better health care. HIV/AIDS appears to be a special challenge for the region. The persons tested HIV-positive increased from 3,900 in 1988 to over 10,000 in 2002. Approximately 5% of children under 17 years are orphans. Consequently, care for orphaned children make up a large part of the expenses. A program funded by UNICEF, Mama Mkubwa offers financial support. Programs of numerous NGOs and faith-based organizations (FBOs) put special emphasis on combatting malnutrition. Economy Agriculture provides the livelihood of most people |
Mad World | Song versions & B-side | notable differences being the additional echo added to the intro and middle sections and the subtraction of a subtle keyboard part from the bridge. A later remix by noted British music producer Afterlife was featured on the 2005 reissue of the Tears for Fears greatest hits collection Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92). B-side "Ideas as Opiates" is a song that originally served as the B-side to the "Mad World" single, and was later re-recorded for inclusion on The Hurting. The song takes its name from a chapter title in Arthur Janov's book Prisoners of Pain and features lyrics related |
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