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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.
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.[1] This is the federal minimum wage, which was last increased in 1997.[2]
To put this in perspective, according the USDA's Economic Research Service, the per capita income for Colorado in 2004 was $36,113.[3] According to the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, the population of Colorado in July of 2004 was 4,653,139.[4] 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.[5] 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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Die Schwalbe
Die Schwalbe is the German chess composition society and issues the bimonthly magazine Die Schwalbe.
Die Schwalbe was founded on 10th of February 1924 in Essen as Vereinigung von Problemfreunden zur Förderung der Aufgabenkunst (Society of problem friends for advancement of chess composition art). There had been 15 foundation fathers from the Ruhr Area lead-managed by Dr. Wilhelm Maßmann. Anton Trilling was their first president. In 1972 Die Schwalbe became a member of Deutscher Schachbund (German chess union) initiated by Gerhard Wolfgang Jensch.
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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.
In the United States of America, Department of Motor Vehicles (or DMV) is the most common name of the government agency of a U.S. state which administers the registration of automobiles (e.g., by issuing license plates), and/or the licensing of drivers (e.g., by issuing driver's licenses). In some states these two functions are performed by separate state agencies. Usually, the DMV is considered a bureaucracy.
Contents [hide]
1 Terminology and organization
1.1 Names
1.2 Organization within the government
1.3 Jurisdiction and exceptions
2 Driver's licenses and identification
3 The DMV in popular culture
4 Equivalent agencies in other countries
5 External links
5.1 Official sites
[edit] Terminology and organization
Driver licensing and vehicle registration in the United States is handled by the state government in all states but Hawaii, where counties perform DMV functions. Although the federal government could theoretically take over such functions through its ability to regulate interstate commerce, it has refrained from doing so.
[edit] Names
The phrase "DMV" is most commonly used to describe the agency (where it exists); however, diverse titles are used in different states:
Department of Motor Vehicles (California)
Bureau of Motor Vehicles (Ohio, Indiana)
Registry of Motor Vehicles (Massachusetts)
Motor Vehicle Division (Arizona, New Mexico)
Driver and Vehicle Services Division (Minnesota)
Motor Vehicle Administration (Maryland)
Office of Motor Vehicles (Louisiana)
Department of State / Secretary of State (Michigan)
Secretary of State, Vehicle Services Department and Driver Services Department (Illinois)
Transportation Cabinet (Kentucky)
Motor Vehicle Commission (New Jersey)
New Jersey has confusing titles for the high office holders in this part of government: The head of the New Jersey Department of Transportation is referred to as the "Commissioner," while the head of the MVC/MVS is referred to as the "Chief Administrator."
Department of Driver Services (Georgia)
Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety (Nevada - former title of a department which has since been divided)
Department of Licensing (Washington)
Department of Transportation (Iowa)
Oregon Department of Transportation, Driver and Motor Vehicles Division (DMV) (Oregon)
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (Pennsylvania)
Texas Department of Transportation, Vehicle Title and Registration Services (Texas)
Motor Vehicle Division (North Dakota) [vehicle registrations]
Drivers License and Traffic Safety Division (North Dakota) [driver licensing]
Division of Motor Vehicles (North Carolina)
Department of Safety, Division of Motor Vehicles (New Hampshire)
Texas Department of Safety, Driver License Division (Texas)
[edit] Organization within the government
Furthermore, there is much diversity in how the Department of Motor Vehicles (or equivalent) is situated within the structure of a state's government.
Hawaiʻi is the only U.S. state where no part of the state government performs DMV functions; it has completely delegated vehicle registration and driver licensing to county governments. In the City & County of Honolulu, the functions are further delegated to an office of the Department of Finance.
In Kentucky, the Transportation Cabinet sets the policies and designs for licenses and vehicle registration, but the actual registration and licensing are handled by offices of the county governments.
In the District of Columbia, which is not part of any state, the DMV (formerly the Bureau of Motor Vehicle Services) is part of the city government.
In a few states, driver's licenses and vehicle registrations are handled by separate departments. For example, in the state of Washington, the Department of Motor Vehicles only deals with vehicle registrations, while the Department of Licensing is responsible for driver's licenses. Similarly, a separate department may administer vehicle inspection. For example, in Virginia, the Department of Motor Vehicles handles both driver licensing and vehicle registration, while the Virginia State Police and the Department of Environmental Quality administer safety inspection and emission inspection, respectively.
In others, the DMV is not a separate cabinet-level department, but instead is a division or bureau within a larger department. Examples of departments which perform DMV functions include the Department of Justice (Montana), the Department of Public Safety (Texas), the Department of Revenue (Missouri and Arkansas), and the Department of Transportation (Pennsylvania and New Jersey). In New Hampshire, the Division of Motor Vehicles is a division of the Department of Safety.
Some states do not separate DMV functions into distinct organizational entities at all, but simply bundle them into a laundry list of responsibilities assigned to an existing government agency. Thus, in Michigan and Illinois, the Secretary of State's offices perform responsibilities which would be handled by the DMV in other states.
[edit] Jurisdiction and exceptions
Usually, all long-term residents of a state who wish to operate motor vehicles must possess a driver's license issued by their state DMV, and their vehicles must show license plates (and current registration tags or stickers) issued by that agency.
The main exceptions to this rule are vehicles registered by the federal government. The Office of Foreign Missions at the U.S. Department of State has a Diplomatic Motor Vehicles program which issues driver's licenses to foreign diplomats and their dependents, registers their vehicles, and issues special "CONSUL" license plates. The General Services Administration issues vehicle plates for the federal vehicle fleet (although federal employees who drive must hold driver's licenses issued by their home state).
In some states, besides conducting the written and hands-on driving tests that are a prerequisite to earning a driver's license, DMVs also regulate private driving schools and their instructors.
[edit] Driver's licenses and identification
In countries with no national identification card (like the United States), driver's licenses have often become the de facto identification card for many purposes, and DMVs have effectively become the agency responsible for verifying identity in their respective states. See Identity documents in the United States.
[edit] The DMV in popular culture
DMVs in general have a reputation for mediocre and sometimes rude customer service and long wait times. As a result, jokes about DMVs have become common (and even somewhat of a cliché) in American comedy, and DMVs are often the subject of satire in television shows and movies. Humor about long lines, unenthusiastic employees and departmental policies is common, as are stereotypical depictions of driving testers, usually portrayed as unsympathetic and callous. However, some DMV services are now available by mail or via the Internet, making some of this humor somewhat irrelevant to the actual operation of many departments.
In the popular American television show The Simpsons, Patty and Selma (Marge Simpson's sisters) work at the DMV.
The American rock band Primus released a song called DMV on their 1993 album Pork Soda.
In the American cartoon Megas XLR (aired on the Cartoon Network), the main character, Coop, has his giant robot towed for parking in the wrong place, and is forced to go to the DMV when he finds out his license has expired. He is noted as saying, several times throughout the episode, "I hate the DMV!"
In a Family Guy episode, Peter's ancestor, Nate Griffin (who is portrayed to be black), sought his revenge on white people for slavery by inventing the DMV.
In the TV series The Simpsons, Marge Simpson's sisters work at the DMV. The series pokes fun at waiting times with comments such as "Now we just have to laminate your drivers license, you will receive it in two to three weeks" The two sisters, despite being lazy and generally unenthusiastic seem to enjoy the suffering and displeasure of their customers.
In an episode of Married... with Children, Al has to go to the DMV. Apart from noticing that the common language in the DMV seems to be Spanish, he has to face his son's revenge, who found a job as driving tester there, for the very fact that he made him find himself a job. In later episodes, Bud kept that job and reported from various uncomfortable and bizarre events.
In the Seinfeld episode "The Fusilli Jerry", the DMV gives Kramer someone else's license plates, which read "ASSMAN".
In the short play DMV Tyrant by Christopher Durang, a man unsuccessfully attempts to renew his driver’s license, eventually concluding that moving out of New York will be a more effective solution than continuing negotiation with the DMV.
In a cell phone commercial a man being held against his will watches in agony as his captors use up his cell phone minutes as a means of torture. This process concludes with a call to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
In a recent Punk'd episode, Kutcher mathematically teamed up with DMV when they pranked Sugar Ray Leonard.[1]
In another recent radio commercial for buffalo wings, a man walks up to a desk and an unenthusiastic woman says in an agitated voice "Welcome to the DMV, how can I help you?".
Comedian Dane Cook has referred to the DMV as "Satan's *******".
Paul Graham has commented that "You could probably write a book about how to succeed in business by doing everything in exactly the opposite way from the DMV."
[edit] Equivalent agencies in other countries
United Kingdom – Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
Canada (Province of Québec) - Société de l'Assurance Automobile du Québec
Canada (Province of Ontario) - Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO)
Bulgaria - Traffic Police
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.
William Henry Crossland
William Henry Crossland was a nineteenth century architect from Leeds, England.
He is best remembered for his three most important commissions.
The first is Rochdale Town Hall, built in 1866-71.
The second is the Holloway Sanatorium, built in 1873-85. This was project commissioned by the philanthropist Thomas Holloway, and is located at Virginia Water, Surrey.
The third, which was also commissioned by Thomas Holloway, is Royal Holloway College, a short distance away from the Sanatorium in Egham, Surrey. This was built in 1883-88.
The Holloway Sanatorium and Royal Holloway College were both inspired by the Château de Chambord in the Loire Valley, France, and are considered by some to be among the most remarkable buildings in the South of England.
The student bar in Founder's Building at Royal Holloway is named 'Crosslands' in his honour.