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Ian Dempsey
Ian Dempsey is the current presenter of Today FM's breakfast show, which runs from 7 to 9am every weekday morning. He has won several major awards for his programmes and remains one of the most popular broadcaster in Ireland.

Extension du domaine de la lutte

Extension du domaine de la lutte, in English 'broadening of the struggle' , is the debut novel of French writer, Michel Houellebecq, which was published in 1994, and later made into a 1999 film directed by and starring Philippe Harel.

Amendment 42 would add the following section to Article XVIII of the Colorado Constitution.

Effective January 1, 2007, Colorado's minimum wage shall be increased to $6.85 per hour and shall be adjusted annually for inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index used for Colorado. This minimum wage shall be paid to employees who receive the state or federal minimum wage. No more than $3.02 per hour in tip income may be used to offset the minimum wage of employees who regularly receive tips.

The present minimum wage in Colorado is $5.15 per hour. This is the federal minimum wage, which was last increased in 1997.

To put this in perspective, according the USDA's Economic Research Service, the per capita income for Colorado in 2004 was $36,113. According to the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, the population of Colorado in July of 2004 was 4,653,139. This works out to a total income for all Coloradans of $168,038,808,087. According to the Economic Research Service, the total number of jobs in Colorado in 2004 was 2,988,926. Assuming a 2,000 hour work year, this implies that the average salary of a Coloradan in 2004 was slightly more than $28.11 per hour, more than four times the proposed new minimum wage.

Eric Alfred Knudsen (born July 29, 1872, in Waiawa, Kauai, Hawaii; died February 12, 1957, in Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii) was a noted writer, folklorist, lawyer and politician who grew up and lived on Kauai. His father was Valdemar Knudsen, a west Kauai sugar plantation pioneer.

He married Cecilie L'Orange on September 15, 1905, in Oslo, Norway. They had five children.

Knudsen was a delegate from Kauai to the 1904 Republican National Convention. He was also a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives, and served as its Speaker from 1905-1907.

He is most known for his writings and collections of short stories of and about Hawaiian folklore and culture.

Liam Bennett

Liam Bennett is a former Wexford senior hurler who died Wednesday, October 18, 2006. He was a Faythe Harriers clubman and was a member of the Model side that reached successive All Ireland finals in 1976 and 1977. He also won the All-Ireland minor final in 1968. Liam was a popular painter and sign-writer and was also a keen cyclist. He fell suddenly ill while out cycling on Sunday the 15th of October 2006 and later passed away at Wexford General Hospital on the Wednesday.

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Ian Dempsey
Ian Dempsey is the current presenter of Today FM's breakfast show, which runs from 7 to 9am every weekday morning. He has won several major awards for his programmes and remains one of the most popular broadcaster in Ireland.

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No.

Spoil Sport

Each sigmoid sinus begins beneath the temporal bone and follows a tortuous course to the jugular foramen, at which point the sinus becomes continuous with the internal jugular vein. ermm

Originally posted by Spartan005
No. It's not a bad idea, actually, you're just a douche

Olive Mount chord

The Olive Mount chord Liverpool, England was a 300-metre stretch of track that provided access to the Canada Dock Branch. It was removed in the 1970's as dock traffic declined. The delays resulting in its removal have now become a limiting factor in access to the Port of Liverpool.

"Secretary of State for Transport, Douglas Alexander yesterday revealed that the Olive Mount Chord was one of several projects to be included in the government's productivity transport innovation fund."

Margaret Waters was an English murderess hanged by executioner William Calcraft on 11 October 1870 at Horsemonger Lane Gaol (also known as Surrey County Gaol) in London.

She was known for baby-farming. Charged with five counts of wilful murder as well as neglect and conspiracy, Waters was convicted of murdering an infant named John Walter Cowen. Her sister, Sarah Ellis, was convicted in the same case for obtaining money under false pretenses and sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour.

HMS Panther was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was completed by Laird, Son & Company, Birkenhead, in 1897

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Nick Arcade

Nick Arcade was a game show hosted by Phil Moore that aired on the Nickelodeon television network in America from 1992 to 1993 (in the first season, the shows were taped in 1991 and aired in early 1992), airing originally during weekend afternoons. The show was the first in America to regularly intermix live action with animation using a bluescreen (Knightmare was the first show worldwide). Two teams of contestants played two initial rounds, with the winner advancing to play against the video game wizard of the day.

Allan Birnbaum (May 27, 1923 - July 1, 1976) was an American statistician who contributed to statistical inference, foundations of statistics, statistical genetics, statistical psychology, and history of statistics.

Birnbaum was born in San Francisco. His parents were Russian-born Orthodox Jews. He studied mathematics at the University of California, doing a premedical programme at the same time. After taking a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1945, he spent two years doing graduate courses in science, mathematics and philosophy, planning perhaps a career in the philosophy of science. One of his philosophy teachers, Hans Reichenbach, suggested he combine philosophy with science.

He went to Columbia University to do a PhD with Abraham Wald but, when Wald died in a plane crash, Birnbaum asked Erich Leo Lehmann, who was visiting Columbia to take him on. Birnbaum's thesis and his early work was very much in the spirit of Lehmann's classic text Testing Statistical Hypotheses.

Birnbaum stayed at Columbia until 1959 when he moved to the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, becoming a full Professor of Statistics in 1963. He travelled a good deal and liked Britain especially. In 1975 he accepted a post at the City University, London. He died the following year.

The article in the Leading Personalities volume opens with the declaration, "Allan Birnbaum was one of the most profound thinkers in the field of foundations of statistics." The assessment is based on Birnbaum's 1962 article and the publications surrounding it. Birnbaum's argument for the likelihood principle generated great controversy; it implied, amongst other things, a repudiation of the approach of Wald and Lehmann, that Birnbaum had followed in his own research. Leonard Jimmie Savage opened the discussion by saying

Without any intent to speak with exaggeration or rhetorically, it seems to me that this is really a historic occasion. This paper is landmark in statistics because it seems to me improbable that many people will be able to read this paper or to have heard it tonight without coming away with considerable respect for the likelihood principle.

Although Birnbaum made other contributions, none compared with this for impact or continuing resonance.

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Found this interesting becuase my last name Thatcher.......my very distant family must have been poor.

Thatching

A thatched pub (The Williams Arms) at Wrafton, near Braunton, North Devon, EnglandThatching is the art and craft of covering a roof with vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge, rushes and heather. It is probably the oldest roofing material and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates throughout the world. Thatch is still commonly employed by traditional builders in developing countries, usually with low-cost, local vegetation. In Western Europe it is no longer a roofing material of the poor.

Hemiptera is a large, cosmopolitan order of insects, comprising some 67,500 known species in three suborders. Traditionally these taxa were treated as two separate orders, Homoptera (Auchenorrhyncha and Sternorrhyncha) and Heteroptera; the former name is now obsolete (the group was paraphyletic), and the latter name is falling into disuse, often replaced by Prosorrhyncha. Referring latest investigations the name Auchenorrhyncha should also be replaced by Archeorrhyncha and Clyeporrhyncha.

Members of the "Heteroptera" are typically called true bugs, and this name sometimes is used for members of "Hemiptera" as a whole. The name heteroptera comes from their forewings having both membranous and hard portions. It is also essentially this same feature which gives the order its name, hemiptera, coming from the Greek for half-wing.

Members of the Hemiptera are distinguished from all other insects by both adults and nymphs having a proboscis that includes a salivary channel as well as a food channel. The proboscis is usually specialized to suck the juices from various parts of plants, including seeds, although some species are predatory (on arthropods and sometimes other small animals), and a few are adapted to suck blood from mammals. In addition, the space between the overlapping wings in the members of this order forms a triangular shape near the head which is commonly used to identify a true bug.





Sternorrhyncha






Auchenorrhyncha






Coleorrhyncha




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* 1 Suborder Prosorrhyncha
* 2 Suborder Archaeorrhyncha
* 3 Suborder Clypeorrhyncha
* 4 Suborder Sternorrhyncha
* 5 External links

Suborder Prosorrhyncha

There are 25,000 known species in over 60 families.
Aphids
Aphids

Suborder Archaeorrhyncha

Some authors prefer this name to refer to the Fulgoromorpha, or Planthoppers.

Suborder Clypeorrhyncha

This name is sometimes used to refer to the Cicadomorpha.

Suborder Sternorrhyncha

There are 12,500 species.

External links
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Hemiptera

* Truebug Net: Excellently designed site on most aspects of Hemiptera. Beautifully illustrated.
* General description and economic impact
* Descriptions of some important or interesting species
* Tree of Life project

Tokyo Sky Paradise Orchestra

Founded in 1985 by Asa-Chang, the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (東京スカパラダイスオーケスト&#12521, commonly abbreviated as "Skapara", was initially comprised of more than 10 veterans of Tokyo's underground scene. At the time, the band's sound was unlike that of any of its contemporaries in the then fledgling Japanese ska scene, and over the course of the past 21 years, their innovation has proved to have been very influential on Japanese music as a whole. Its sound, the product of the musical influences of its numerous members, is an eclectic mix of traditional ska, jazz, and rock. In the vein of many other more traditional ska acts, many of Skapara's songs are purely instrumental.

Since its inception, the band has done countless live performances in the streets and clubs of Tokyo, and has toured both Europe and the United States. Although many fans, artists, and record companies outside of Japan have expressed interest in facilitating the expansion of the band's popularity to a global level, its music remains largely unavailable in most of the rest of the world. Despite this, however, the band enjoys great commercial success and popularity within Japan, where its records have consistently climbed the music charts.

Party Up

Party Up is a song by rapper DMX.

Party Up is one of DMX's most well known songs and is from his best selling album ...And Then There Was X, released in 1999. The track featured on the computer game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004. There have been 3 versions of the song so far. One is the explicit/album version. The other is the censored album version, and then there's the highly censored radio/video edit which is much more censored then the clean album version.

~Da Moose~
Strangelove

The Campbell-Stokes recorder is a kind of sunshine recorder. It was invented by John Francis Campbell in 1853 and later modified in 1879 by Sir George Gabriel Stokes. The original design by Campbell consisted of a glass sphere set into a wooden bowl with the sun burning a trace on the bowl. Stokes's refinement was to make the housing out of metal and to have a card holder set behind the sphere.

This basic unit is still in use today with very little change. It is probably the most common sunshine recorder in use today, outside of the United States where the Marvin sunshine recorder is the instrument generally used by the National Weather Service.

The unit is designed to record the hours of bright sunshine which will burn a hole through the card. However, at sunrise and sunset the sun is lower in the sky and will tend to leave a scorch mark on the card which may at the extreme end be difficult to see.

The glass sphere - typically 10 cm (4 inches) in diameter - is designed to focus the rays from the sun onto a card mounted at the back and is set on a stand. The card is held in place by grooves of which there are three overlapping sets, to allow for the height of the sun during different seasons of the year. In the northern hemisphere the winter card is used from the 15th of October to the 29th of February, the equinox card from the 01st March to the 11th of April and the 03rd of September to 14th of October. The summer card is therefore used from the 12th of April to 02 of September. Each card is marked as to the hour, with local noon being in the centre, and is read in 10th's. The unit is set in a stand facing south to enable the maximum amount of sun to be recorded. Of course it is of great importance to set the unit in an area where the sun will not be blocked by buildings, trees or flagpoles.

A modification to the standard unit for Polar regions is the addition of a second, north facing, sphere and card, to record the sunlight during the summer when it remains in the sky for 24 hours.