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Cassie (voiced by Chantal Strand) is a shy, cute, reserved and sweet pink female dragon who is Emmy's best friend. She possesses a magical tendency to shrink when she is too shy, sad, or scared, may occasionally come across as slightly insecure and uncertain, and is prone to worrying, especially about making a mistake. However, Cassie is distinguished by her kind heart and maternal sweetness, primarily as a result of her responsibilities as an older sister and babysitter to a myriad of younger siblings. Cassie also is characterized by her color combination of pink and yellow, along with blue speckles in some areas. Cassie knows just about everything there is to know about Dragon Land and has a deep love of fairytales, both stemming from her love of reading, as well as being an amazing singer and dancer. Her dragon orb-shaped badge glows when she feels confident and believes in herself.
Zak (voiced by Jason Michas) and Wheezie (voiced by Kathleen Barr) are conjoined twin green and purple dragons with opposite personalities; Zak is male, and Wheezie is female. Zak is neat and clean, worries a lot, and is pessimistic about many things. His catchphrase is "Take it easy, Wheezie!", which he often says when Wheezie takes off running, dragging him with her. Wheezie, on the other hand, is bold, hyper, confident, and free-spirited, with a tendency to be messy, much to her brother's annoyance. Her catchphrase is "Love it!", when she loves something. The two have a shared love of music and performing and they often perform in talent shows and recitals together. Zak and Wheezie always fly with Enrique, though they rarely flew with any human friends in the first two seasons. In the third season, Enrique became their partner following his debut
. Their dragon badges are musical notes that glow when they work together and get along, though they will sometimes glow independently when one of them accomplishes something on their own of significance. Although they fight a lot, they are very close and they love and care about each other a lot. In the episode "Not Separated at Birth" the viewers get a view of what Wheezie and Zak would look like separately as if they were born that way. They get in a fight and Queztel decides to grant them their request to be separated. Finally being able to live separately, it is short lived as they want to be back together.
Quetzal (voiced by Eli Gabay) is an elderly yellow male dragon originally from Mexico who is the teacher at The School in the Sky where young dragons attend. He tries to encourage his students to find solutions to their problems on their own, but is a sounding board who offers stability and comfort, as well as sound advice. In the episode "Snow Dragon", Quetzal mentions it has been hundreds of years since he visited the dragon snow sculpture as a child, implying he is centuries old. He speaks Spanish with a very strong accent. He also has an identical twin brother named Fernando who works in his garden.
Broadcast 
PBS Kids (US) CBeebies (UK) France 5 (France) Playhouse Disney (Latin America Mexico And Spain) TVO (Canada) TV12 (Singapore) EBS (Korea) Kids 1 (South Korea)

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1999 American television series debuts
English-language television programs
A fugitive is a person fleeing (or running away) from arrest.

The Fugitive, The Fugitives, Fugitive, or Fugitives may be:

 The Fugitive (1993 film), starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, 
 The Fugitive, a novel by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
 "The Fugitive" (song), a 1966 song by Merle Haggard
 "The Fugitive", a song by Iron Maiden from Fear of the Dark
 fugitive.vim, a plugin (or a part of the software) for the Vim text editor

Related pages
Edo Castle is a castle built on a flatland in the year 1457. It was built by Ōta Dōkan. It is part of the Tokyo Imperial Palace in Chiyoda, Tokyo. It was restored by Tokugawa leyasu. It was destroyed by fire many times.

Notes

Sources 

Castles in Japan
Buildings and structures in Tokyo
15th-century buildings and structures
Rishabh Rajendra Pant (born 4 October 1997) is a professional Indian cricketer who plays for India, Delhi, and the Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League. In December 2015, he was named in India's squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. On 1 February 2016, during the tournament, he hit an 18-ball fifty, the fastest at this level. He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for India in January 2017, his Test debut in August 2018, and his One Day International (ODI) debut in October 2018. In January 2019, Pant was named the ICC Emerging Player of the Year at the 2018 ICC Award.

He was a student of Tarak Sinha in Indian Public School, while taught by Bharti Pandey.

References 
https://nbanewscity.com/rishabh-pant-moves-to-26-in-icc-test-batsman-ranking/amp/ 
 https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/world-cup-2019-former-india-coach-picks-this-player-ahead-of-rishabh-pant-to-bat-at-no-4/story-5AbAb2e9cpChf2AijdNI1L.html

1997 births
Indian cricketers
Living people
WNET, channel 13 (branded as "THIRTEEN"), is a non-commercial educational, public television station in  Newark, New Jersey. WNET is owned by WNET.org, which was originally called the Educational Broadcasting Corporation The station also has studios in Manhattan and its transmitter is at One World Trade Center.
Original productions 
WNET has produced, created, or presented many PBS shows. These are some:
 Amanpour & Company (2018–present)
 American Masters (1983–present)
 Australia: Beyond the Fatal Shore (2000)
 Bill Moyers Reports: Earth On Edge (2001)
 Barney & Friends (1992–2010) (Original Series)**
 Black Journal
 Bob the Builder (2005–2018)**
 Charlie Rose (1991–2017)
 Colonial House (2004)
 Cyberchase (2002–present)
 Dickens (2003)
 DNA (2003)
 The Great American Dream Machine (1971–1972)
 Great Performances (1972–present)
 Live from Lincoln Center (1976–present)
 The Mind
 Nature (1982–present)
 NOW
 The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (2002)
 Shining Time Station
 Simon Schama's Power of Art
 The Story of English
 Tavis Smiley (2004–2017)
 Thomas and Friends (2004–2017)**

References

Other websites 
 Official website
 Public Broadcasting Service
 WNET logos and screenshots from the 1950s to the present day

Peabody Award winners
American television stations
Newark, New Jersey
Merriam  is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States. It is part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area.  As of the 2010 census, the city population was 11,003.

References

Cities in Johnson County, Kansas
Hermosa Beach is a beachfront city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Its population was 19,728 at the 2020 U.S. Census.

References

Cities in California
Settlements in Los Angeles County, California
Duane Lee Chapman, Sr. (born February 2, 1953), better known as Dog Chapman or simply Dog, is an American reality TV star, bounty hunter, and a former bail bondsman.

Chapman became known as a bounty hunter for his successful capture of American rapist and Max Factor heir, Andrew Luster, in Mexico in 2003. He was later given his own series, Dog the Bounty Hunter (2004 – 2012), on A&E.

After Dog the Bounty Hunter ended, Chapman appeared alongside his late wife and business partner, Beth Chapman, in Dog and Beth: On the Hunt (2013 – 2015), on CMT.

Chapman married Alice Elizabeth "Beth" Barmore in 2006. The couple had two children. The Chapmans appeared on many television series together. In 2017, his wife Beth, was diagnosed with throat and lung cancer. She died on June 26, 2019 from the disease at the age of 51.

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Édith Scob (21 October 1937 – 26 June 2019) was a French actress. She was born in Paris. Scob was best known for her role as Christiane Génessier, the daughter with a disfigured face, in Eyes Without a Face (1960).

Scob died on 26 June 2019 in Paris at the age of 81.

References

Other websites
 

1937 births
2019 deaths
French movie actors
French television actors
French stage actors
Actors from Paris
Rolf Maurer (16 April 1938 – 6 June 2019) was a Swiss road racing cyclist. He was born in Hedingen, Zürich. He started his professional career in 1960. In 1964, he won both the Tour de Suisse and Tour de Romandie. He retired in 1969.

Maurer died on 6 June 2019 in Hedingen, at the age of 81.

References

Other websites

Rolf Maurer at Cycling Archives

1938 births
2019 deaths
Swiss cyclists
Sportspeople from the canton of Zürich
This is a list of rulers of Iceland, ruling from 1262 to 1944.

Possession of Norway (1262–1814)

Possession of Denmark (1814–1918)

Kingdom of Iceland (1918–1944)

Republic of Iceland (1944—present)

References

History of Iceland
The President of Iceland () is the head of state of Iceland. The incumbent is Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson, who is now in his first term as president.

The president is elected to a four-year term by popular vote, is not term-limited, and has limited powers. The presidential residence is in Bessastaðir in Garðabær, near the capital city Reykjavík.

List
There have been six Presidents of Iceland since the establishment of the republic.

Term: 1 appointed · 2 died in office · 3 uncontested

References
Sveinn Björnsson (27 January 1881 -25 January 1952) became a member of Reykjavik town council in 1912 and was its president in 1918-20. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, he was a member of the Althing in 1914-1916 and 1920, and following Iceland's independence from Denmark in 1918 he acted as minister to Denmark in 1920-1924 and 1926-1940. The German occupation of Denmark in 1940 resulted in Iceland's autonomy (Denmark had been responsible for Iceland's foreign affairs), and Björnsson was elected Regent of Iceland three times in 1941-1943, assuming the prerogatives previously held by the Danish king. When Iceland became a republic in 1944 he was chosen to be the first president of Iceland by the Althing. He served from 1944 to 1952, being re-elected unopposed in 1945 and 1949. He died in Reykjavik more than one year before his second term of office was due to expire.

Björnsson, Sveinn
Björnsson, Sveinn
Icelandic politicians
Presidents of Iceland
This is a list of presidents of Iraq since 1958.

List

Timeline 

Iraq
presidents
Saint John's or St. John's may refer to:

Places

Canada 
 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
 St. Johns (provincial electoral district), in North Winnipeg
 St. John's (electoral district), a defunct federal riding in Quebec from 1867 to 1892
 St. Johns, Ontario
 St. Johns, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario
 Saint John, New Brunswick
 St. John's Island, British colony from 1763 to 1798 when it was renamed Prince Edward Island
 St. Johns and Fort St-Jean, now called Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu

Czech Republic
 Svatý Jan pod Skalou (Saint John Under the Cliff), a village in central Bohemia
 Svatý Jan nad Malší (Saint John Above Malše), a village in south Bohemia, Czech Republic

Ireland 
 St. Johns, County Kildare, a civil parish in County Kildare
 St. Johns, County Roscommon, a civil parish in County Roscommon

New Zealand 
 Saint Johns, New Zealand, a suburb of Auckland
 St John's Bush, New Zealand, a reserve in Auckland
United Kingdom 
 St John's, Isle of Man
 St Johns, London, England
 St John's, Redhill, Surrey, a hamlet adjoining the town of Redhill
 St. John's, Surrey, England
 St John's, South Yorkshire, England
 St Johns, Worcester, England
 St John's Wood, London, England
 St John's Lane, the home of Bristol City F.C. until 1904
 St John's Rock, a 19th-century name for Dubh Artach, Scotland

United States 
 St. Johns, Arizona
 St. Johns, Maricopa County, Arizona
 St. John's River (California)
 St. Johns, Florida
 Port St. John, Florida
 St. Johns County, Florida
 St. Johns River, Florida
 St. Johns, Illinois
 Saint Johns, Indiana
 St. Johns, Michigan
 Saint Johns, Ohio
 St. Johns, Portland, Oregon
 Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands

Elsewhere
 St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda 
 St Johns, South Australia
 St. Johns, Saba, a village on the Caribbean island of Saba, a special municipality of the Netherlands
 Saint John's Island, Singapore
Education
 Saint John's College (disambiguation)
 Saint John's University (disambiguation)
 St. John's Preparatory School (disambiguation)
 St. John's School (disambiguation)
 St. John's Seminary (disambiguation)

Other uses
 St. John's Church, Jhelum, Anglican church in Jhelum, Punjab, Pakistan
 Saint John's Health Center, Santa Monica, California
 St. John's Mine, a cinnabar mine in Vallejo, California
 St. John's Red Storm, the athletic program of St. John's University in New York City
 St Johns railway station, in the southeast London borough of Lewisham
 Adela Rogers St. Johns (1894–1988), American writer
 HMCS St. John's (FFH 340), a Halifax-class frigate in the Canadian Navy
 Hypericum perforatum, St John's wort herb
 Leeds St Johns, a British rugby league football club today known as Leeds Rhinos
 Saint John's Arms, another name for the looped square (⌘)
Salina  is a city in Saline County in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is the county seat of Saline County. In 2010, 47,707 people lived there.

Geography
Salina is at  (38.8402805, -97.6114237. It has an elevation of . It is in north-central Kansas at the intersection of Interstate 70 and Interstate 135. It is  north of Wichita, Kansas,  west of Kansas City, Missouri, and  east of Denver, Colorado.

Salina is in the Smoky Hills area in the Great Plains. It is close to the Smoky Hills River and the Saline River.

The United States Census Bureau said the city has a total area of .  of that is land and  is water.

Weather
Salina has a lot of severe thunderstorms, and they can get tornadoes.

People

Economy
Salina was the first place for Lee Jeans. They opened in 1889.

The biggest employers are:

Media
The Salina Journal is the local newspaper. They publish every day.

References

Other websites

City
 City of Salina
 Salina - Directory of Public Officials
 Salina - Chamber of Commerce
Schools
 USD 305, Salina Public Schools
 Sacred Heart Junior/Senior High School

Historical
 Smoky Hill Museum
 Salina Arts & Humanities Commission
 Special Collections:  A gift of William A. Phillips, the founder of Salina
 , from Hatteberg's People on KAKE TV news

Maps
 Salina City Map, KDOT

Cities in Saline County, Kansas
1858 establishments in Kansas Territory
County seats in Kansas
Saline County (standard abbreviation: SA) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2020 census, 54,303 people lived there. The largest city and county seat is Salina.

History

1800s
In 1860, Saline County was created.

Education

Unified school districts 

 Ell-Saline USD 307
 Salina USD 305
 Southeast of Saline USD 306

References

Other websites

County
 
 Saline County - Directory of Public Officials
Maps
 Saline County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

 
1860 establishments in Kansas Territory
Early life and education
Adams was born on May 27, 1946 in High Point, North Carolina. Her parents were Benjamin Shealey and the former Mattie Stokes. She graduated from West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey, in 1964. Adams received her B.S. degree in 1969 and her M.S. degree in 1972, both from North Carolina A&T University and both in Art Education. She continued her studies to receive her Ph.D. in Art Education/Multicultural Education from Ohio State University in 1981.

Political career

State legislature
Adams was a member of the Greensboro City School Board from 1984 to 1986 and a Greensboro City Council member from 1987 until 1994.
She was appointed to the North Carolina House District 26 seat in 1994 to replace Herman Gist, who died in office. The district is in Guilford County and includes most of southeastern Greensboro. She had previously said she was going to challenge Gist for that seat in the Democratic primary that year. After being appointed to the seat, Adams faced conservative businessman and retired engineer O. C. Stafford in the Democratic primary. Adams won the primary election.

Adams then won a full term in the general election, beating Republican Roger G. Coffer. She had a rematch with Stafford in the general elections of 1996 and 1998 (Stafford ran as a Republican). Adams won both elections. In 2000 Adams did not have an opponent in the Democratic primary; she defeated Republican real estate broker Jim Rumley in the general election.
In 2002, after redistricting, Adams' seat was changed from the 26th district to the 58th district. Her only challenger that year was Libertarian lawyer David Williams, who withdrew from the race in October because he was moving to Colorado. His name still appeared on the ballot, but Adams won with around 86% of the vote.

Adams has been challenged for her seat for many years by Republican legal assistant and party activist Olga Morgan Wright. Wright has run for the seat held by Adams in nearly every election since 2004. Adams defeated Wright and Libertarian challenger Walter Sperko with 66% of the vote in 2004. In the next election Adams had no competition in the primary; she defeated Wright in the general election 66%–34%. In 2008, the year that Barack Obama was elected president, Democratic voters had a high rate of participation, and Adams defeated Wright 71.35%–28.65%

In 2008, Adams was elected to a second term as chair of the North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus.
She was vice-chair of the Government Committee in the state House. Previously she was chair of the Appropriations Committee as well as vice-chair of the Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee.

In 2010, Adams was challenged in the Democratic primary by Ralph C. Johnson. She defeated Johnson with 76.56% of the vote. Adams next faced Republican Darin H. Thomas in the general election, beating him 63.15%–36.85%. In 2012, Adams did not have any primary opposition and defeated Olga Wright in the general election by a margin of 79.86%–20.14%.
Congress
In April 2013, Mel Watt, the only congressman to have served the 12th District since its creation in 1993, was appointed as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Adams ran in the special election to replace him, and won. She was sworn in on November 12, 2014, to complete the remaining seven weeks of Watt's term. After swearing in, Adams became the 100th female member of the congressional class, beating the previous record of 99. Adams formally filed paperwork to run in both the Democratic primary for a full two-year term in the 114th Congress and the special election for the balance of Watt's 11th term. Adams won re-election in 2018.
Analysts thought that Adams was at a geographic disadvantage in the five-way primary for both the special and regular elections (held on the same day). She is from Greensboro, but the bulk of the district's population is in Charlotte. However, with three candidates from Charlotte in the race splitting that region's vote; Adams won both primaries with approximately 44 percent of the vote, a few thousand votes over the 40 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff. She faced Republican Vince Coakley, a former television and radio broadcaster from Matthews, in both the general and special elections, which were held on the same day in November. The 12th was a heavily Democratic district with a majority-black voting population and a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+26, and Adams was favored in both the special and general election. She won both.

Adams is the second woman of color to represent North Carolina in the House. The first was Eva Clayton, who represented much of eastern North Carolina from 1992 to 2002.
In the 2016 presidential election, Adams endorsed Hillary Clinton and pledged her support as a superdelegate.

She is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus, and the Congressional Arts Caucus.

Committee assignments
 Committee on Agriculture (Vice Chair)
 Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations
 Committee on Education and Labor
 Subcommittee on Workforce Protections (Chair)
 Committee on Financial Services
 Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion

Other work
Adams has been a professor of art at Bennett College in Greensboro, as well as the director of the Steel Hall Art Gallery. In 1990, Adams helped co-found, with Eva Hamlin Miller, the African American Atelier, an organization established to increase awareness and appreciation for visual arts and cultures of African Americans.
She is the chairperson of the North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus Foundation, which gives scholarships to students who are attending one of North Carolina's Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Personal life
Adams is divorced and has two children. She is noted for the many different hats that she wears.

References

Other websites
Congresswoman Alma Adams official US House website
Alma Adams for Congress
 
 
Civil Rights Greensboro 

1946 births
20th-century American politicians
21st-century American politicians
Living people
African American politicians
Colin Zachary Allred (born April 15, 1983) is an American politician and civil rights attorney. He used to be a professional football player. He is a Democrat. Since 2019, he is the U.S. Representative for . That district covers the northeastern corner of Dallas. It also has many of its northeastern suburbs such as Garland, Richardson, the Park Cities and Rowlett.

When he was a football player, he was a linebacker who played for the Tennessee Titans in the National Football League (NFL). Allred stopped playing football to go back to law school for a Juris Doctor degree, from the University of California, Berkeley. He then worked in the Obama administration and the U.S. Attorney's office.

Football career 
Allred went to Hillcrest High School in Dallas, and then to Baylor University. He played college football at Baylor; he was a linebacker. In December 2005, Allred graduated from Baylor with a B.A. degree in history.

Allred joined the Tennessee Titans after the 2006 NFL Draft on May 4, 2006.
Law career
After his football career, Allred went to law school. He graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law in 2014. Then, Allred was a special assistant in the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of General Counsel.

After that, Allred worked as a lawyer at the Perkins Coie law firm, where he worked on voting rights cases. He also served as the lawyer for different political candidates and advocacy groups.

Politico, a political news source, described him as a "civil rights attorney."

U.S. House of Representatives
On April 21, 2017, Allred said he would challenge the current Representative from his district, Republican Pete Sessions, in the 2018 election. Allred won the most votes in the Democratic primary, but did not get more than 50 percent; he won by 20 points. Two of the other candidates also used to work in the Obama administration. In the May 22 runoff election, Allred beat Lewisville businesswoman Lillian Salerno, receiving 69.5% of the vote.
Allred then competed with Sessions for the 32nd District seat. As of the November 2016 election, the seat was considered a "swing district" because Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received marginally more votes than Donald Trump even as Sessions, a Republican, was reelected with no major-party opposition. Allred has described himself as a moderate Democrat.

On November 6, 2018, Allred was elected to the United States House of Representatives for the 32nd district of Texas. Allred's victory was considered an upset because Sessions has been in Congress since 1997 and has represented the 32nd District since 2003. Allred became the second person to represent this district since it was created in 2003, and the first Democrat. Sessions used to represent the nearby 5th District, but had switched after the district maps were changed.
In February 2019, Allred endorsed Julian Castro in the 2020 presidential race. Castro, like Allred, is from Texas. Castro used to be the Housing and Urban Development Secretary.

Service 
Allred was elected in November 2018 as co-president of the 116th Congressional Freshman Class. The other president was Representative Haley Stevens of Michigan.

Committee assignments 

 Committee on Foreign Affairs
 Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa and International Terrorism
 Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
 Subcommittee on Aviation
 Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
 Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
 Committee on Veterans' Affairs
 Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs

Caucus memberships 

 Congressional Black Caucus
 New Democrat Coalition

Personal life
Allred married Alexandra Eber on March 25, 2017. Their son, Jordan, was born on February 12, 2019.

References

Other websites
Other websites

 Congressman Colin Allred official U.S. House website
Colin Allred for Congress
Tennessee Titans bio
Baylor Bears football bio

1983 births
American football linebackers
Living people
Tennessee Titans players
21st-century American politicians
Lawyers from Dallas
United States representatives from Texas
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
Politicians from Dallas
Sportspeople from Dallas
African American politicians
Nanette Diaz Barragán (; born September 15, 1976) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 44th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she used to be a Hermosa Beach City Councillor from 2013 to 2015.

Early life and education
Barragán was born in Harbor City, Los Angeles; she grew up the youngest of eleven siblings, raised by immigrants from Mexico in Torrance and the surrounding area, where she attended North Torrance High School and played softball. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000 and her Juris Doctor at the University of Southern California in 2005. There, where she was part of the Interdisciplinary Law Journal.
During college and until 2003, Barragán worked as the executive director of the Gillian S. Fuller Foundation (formerly the Fuller Foundation); she was in charge of giving money to worthy nonprofits focused on education, the environment, and youth programs. Funded organizations included Heal the Bay, the Nature Conservancy, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Para Los Niños, Proyecto Pastoral, and Literacy Partners.

Legal career
In 2003, Barragán was as an extern to Justice Carlos Moreno at the California Supreme Court. In 2004, she worked as an extern at the Los Angeles Legal Aid Foundation, a law firm for low-income people in Los Angeles. There she helped pro per workers who needed help filing claims for unpaid overtime and meal breaks.
In 2005, Barragán got an externship at the United States Attorney's Office, Central District of California where she worked with lawyers in the Organized Crime and Terrorism section. While there Barragán helped on a money laundering trial team, in investigations, and in prosecuting Central Violations Bureau cases.

Barragán then joined Latham & Watkins LLP, where she worked on cases from land use to securities. While at Latham, Barragán was the lead lawyer in an immigration asylum case for a mother and child from Guatemala that took three years. After Hurricane Katrina, Barragán and her colleague Blake Megdal flew to Biloxi, Mississippi to provide pro bono help to victims of the hurricane withinsurance claims. She also served as a child advocate and was the Spanish-speaking adoption lawyer for low income families seeking adoptions.
Early political career 
Barragán started her political work with the Clinton White House in the Office of Public Liaison. She was doing African American outreach, and helped the President with African American groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 1999, Barragán worked with the NAACP's Washington Bureau. Afterwards, she volunteered for many federal and local candidates while on the Board of the L.A. County Young Democrats for three years prior to attending law school.

In 2012, Barragán took a break from her law firm to move to Florida to work on President Barack Obama's campaign with the voter protection team. She worked as the out-of-state volunteer lawyer director and recruited other lawyers across the country to volunteer in Florida to make sure every eligible voter had the chance to vote.
Hermosa Beach City Council 
In 2013, after working in Florida for Obama, Barragán ran for Hermosa Beach City Council, fighting an oil company's proposal to drill 34 oil and water injection wells in Hermosa Beach and into the Santa Monica Bay. Barragán beat six candidates and was the top vote-getter. She became the first Latina ever elected and the first woman in ten years.

She resigned from office on July 31, 2015 to run for Congress in the state's 44th district.

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2016 
Barragán announced her candidacy for California's 44th congressional district on Equal Pay Day in mid-April 2015. The seat was held by Democrat Janice Hahn, who decided to run for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in 2016.
In June 2015, a local newspaper said that her reason for running was that "The district is one where only 60 percent graduate from high school and 10 percent go on to college. That's how people live. I'm one of those 10-percenters who beat the odds. (…) I've achieved the American dream. Now I’m coming home to make sure others have the same shot at the dream."

After announcing her candidacy, Barragán received major endorsements, including EMILY's List， National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC)， the California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV)， the Latino Victory Project， South Gate Mayor Henry Gonzalez (ret.), South Gate Council members Bill De Witt, Maria Davila and Belen Bernal， Carson Commissioner Janice Schaffer, and many of congressional members including Rep. Linda Sanchez, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Eric Swalwell, Raul Ruiz, Ruben Gallego, Joaquin Castro, and Lois Frankel.

In the November 8 general election, Barragán beat state senator Isadore Hall III to replace Hahn.
Committee assignments 
 Committee on Homeland Security
 Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security
 Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency
 Committee on Natural Resources
 Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
 Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans

Caucus membership 
 Congressional Hispanic Caucus
 Congressional Progressive Caucus
 Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus
 Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues
 Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus

References

Other websites
 Congresswoman Nanette Barragán official US House website
 Campaign website
 
 
 

1976 births
21st-century American politicians
Living people
United States representatives from California
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
Lawyers from Los Angeles
Politicians from Los Angeles
Karen Ruth Bass (born October 3, 1953) is an American politician who is the Mayor of Los Angeles. She was the U.S. Representative for California's 37th congressional district from 2013 to 2022. A Democrat, she previously represented the 33rd congressional district from 2011 to 2013.

Bass represented the 47th district in the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2010. She served as the 67th Speaker of the California Assembly (2008–2010), and was the second woman and the third African American to be Speaker. Since 2019, Bass has also served as the chair of the Black Congressional Caucus. 

Bass was a possible candidate to become Joe Biden's vice-presidential running mate in the 2020 election. In September 2021, Bass announced her retirement from the U.S. House in order to run for Mayor of Los Angeles. She won the mayoral election in November 2022, becoming the first female mayor and the second black mayor of the city.
Early life, education, and medical career
Bass was born in Los Angeles, California. Her parents were Wilhelmina (née Duckett) and DeWitt Talmadge Bass. Her father was a letter carrier. She was raised in the Venice/Fairfax neighborhood and went to Hamilton High School. She studied philosophy at San Diego State University (1971–1973). Then, she got a B.S. in health sciences from California State University, Dominguez Hills (1990).

Bass worked as a physician assistant and as a clinical instructor at the USC Keck School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program. Bass also founded Community Coalition, an organization in South Los Angeles. Later on, in 2015, Bass earned a Master's degree in social work from the University of Southern California (USC).
California Assembly
As the Assemblymember for the 37th district, Bass served the cities and communities of Culver City, West Los Angeles, Westwood, Cheviot Hills, Leimert Park, Baldwin Hills, View Park-Windsor Hills, Ladera Heights, the Crenshaw District, Little Ethiopia and parts of Koreatown and South Los Angeles.

Leadership
She was a part of Barack Obama's national African American Leadership Council. She also served as a california co-chair of Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

Speaker Fabian Núñez appointed Bass California State Assembly Majority Whip (2005–2006) and Majority Floor Leader for the 2007–2008 legislative session. She was chair of the Select Committee on Foster Care and vice chair of the Legislative Black Caucus.
As chair of the Legislative Black Caucus, she ordered a report to research the basic demographic profile of black californians. The report included their basic social and economic conditions. The State of Black California report included a statewide organizing effort to involve black californians in identifying their concerns and making legislative recommendations.

After the defeat of Proposition 93, Speaker Fabian Núñez left the Assembly at the end of the 2007-2008 session because of term limits. As the next-highest-ranking Democrat in the Assembly, Bass was in a good position to take the role. After gaining the support of some other Legislators who had also been seeking the Speakership, Bass was elected Speaker on February 28, 2008 and then sworn in as Speaker on May 13.

After she left the Speaker's office, Bass was named Speaker Emeritus.

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections
Elections

2010 
Bass could not run for reelection in the California Assembly 2010 due to term limits. On February 18, 2010, she confirmed that she would run to succeed retiring U.S. Representative Diane Watson in California's 33rd congressional district. Bass won the election with over 86% of the vote, beating Republican James Andion on November 2, 2010.

2012 
In 2012 she had no primary opponent, and won the general election with 86%. She raised $692,988.53 and spent $803,966.15, leaving $52,384.92 on hand and a debt of $3,297.59.

Committee assignments
 Committee on the Judiciary
 Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet
 Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations
 Committee on Foreign Affairs
 Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights (Chair)
 Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Caucus memberships
 American Sikh Congressional Caucus
 Congressional Black Caucus
 Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
 United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus

2020 U.S. presidential election

In July 2020, Bass was discussed as a potential running mate for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

2022 Los Angeles mayoral election
In September 2021, Bass announced her plans to run for Mayor of Los Angeles in the 2022 election.

Bass won the election, beating real estate businessman Rick Caruso, to become the first woman and second black mayor of Los Angeles.

Political positions
Bass is generally considered a liberal, with ratings of 100% or close from liberal interest group capitol Weekly Positions. Conservative groups like the California Republican Assembly Positions have consistently awarded her a 0%.
Bass is a very strong supporter of gun control. Her National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund Lifetime Score is an F. The Gun Owners of California Positions on Gun Rights have also given Bass an F. Congresswoman Bass recently has voted against the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act that would reduce general gun control laws. In 2010, while campaigning for Congress Bass supported the expanded firearm registration bill. That bill, with other rules, would have made all gun dealers report their sales to the Department of Justice.

Bass has spoken against President Trump's national emergency declaration in 2019.

Bass, once considered a social liberal, has seen her ratings go down with LGBT organizations. She once had a 100% rating with the Human Rights Campaign but now ranks below most Democrats with a score of 88%. She is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Personal life
From 1980 to 1986, Bass was married to Jesus Lechuga. Following their divorce, Bass and Lechuga raised their daughter and four stepchildren together.

Bass suffered the death of her only child, daughter Emilia Wright, and her son-in-law Michael Wright, in a car accident in 2006.

References

Other websites
 Congresswoman Karen Bass  official U.S. House website
 Karen Bass for Congress
 
 
 

1953 births
21st-century American politicians
African American politicians
United States representatives from California
Mayors of Los Angeles
Living people
O2, O-2, o2, O2, or O2 may refer to:

Science and technology 

 O2, the common allotrope of the chemical element oxygen
 O2, an EEG electrode site according to the 10–20 system
 SGI O2, a Unix workstation computer
 UOC O2, institutional repository of the Open University of Catalonia

Places 

 The O2, an entertainment district in London, England
 The O2 Arena, the arena within The O2
 O2 Arena (Prague) or Sazka Arena, an arena in Prague, Czech Republic
 O2 Centre, an indoor shopping and entertainment centre on Finchley Road, London, England
 O2 Residence, a part of the Jumeirah Lake Towers in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
 O2 World (Berlin), an indoor arena in Berlin, Germany
 O2 World (Hamburg), an indoor arena in Hamburg, Germany
 Otoyol 2, a motorway in Turkey called "O2"
 The O2 (Dublin), the former name of 3Arena

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music
Music

Albums
 O2 (FireHouse album) (2000) album of the rock band FireHouse
 O2 (O-Town album) (2002) album by American boy band O-Town
 O2 (Tonéx album) (2002) album by Gospel singer Tonéx
 O2: Avalon Remixed, a 2002 album by Avalon
 O2 (Son of Dave album), 2006 album by Son of Dave

Songs
 "O2", a song by Orange Range from Panic Fancy
 "O2", a 2002 song by Sleater-Kinney from One Beat

Other arts, entertainment, and media 
 Ö2, a radio service for Austria and South Tyrol
 O2, a character in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
Businesses and organisations 
 O2, trading name for Telefónica Europe, a European telecommunications provider
 O2 Store, a chain of retail stores owned and operated by Telefónica Europe, with regional subsidiaries:
 O2 (Ireland), merged into Three Ireland
 O2 (UK)
 O2 Czech Republic
 Telefónica Germany
 Telefónica Slovakia
 O2 Academy, a chain of music venues
 O2 Global Network, an international network for sustainable design
 O2 Wireless USA or H2O Wireless, a prepaid wireless service by Locus Telecommunications
 O2TV, a Russian independent socially political TV channel

Vehicles 
 Cessna O-2 Skymaster, a military twin-engine light aircraft
 Douglas O-2, a military single-engine observation biplane
 O 2-class submarine, a class of submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy
 Oldershaw O-2, a glider
 SP&S Class O-2, a 1910 steam locomotives class
 USS O-2 (SS-63), a 1918 United States O class submarine
Other uses 
 O-2, a pay grade in the US uniformed services
 First Lieutenant in the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps
 Lieutenant (junior grade) in the Navy, Coast Guard, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
H2, H02, or H-2 may refer to:

Arts and media
 Armenia 2 (H2), a private television company broadcasting in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh
 H2 (TV channel), the rebranded name of the former channel History International
 H2 (manga), a baseball manga by Mitsuru Adachi
 Halo 2, a video game for the Xbox, created and developed by Bungie
 Halloween II (2009 film), initially abbreviated to H2
 Hollywood Squares, referred to as H2 informally during the 2002-2004 seasons

Computing
 , level 2 heading markup for HTML Web pages, see HTML element#heading
 H2 (DBMS), an open-source Java SQL database-management system
 DSC-H2, a 2006 Sony Cyber-shot H series camera
 HTTP/2, major revision of HTTP, often abbreviated in discussions as h2, and identifying itself to other servers as h2 in TLS negotiation or h2c in the HTTP Upgrade header
 LGA 1155 CPU socket, also known as Socket H2

Roads and transportation
 Interstate H-2, a highway in Hawaii, located on the island of Oahu
 London Buses route H2

Science and mathematics
Biology and medicine
 H02, a code for "Other inflammation of eyelid" in ICD-10 Chapter VII: Diseases of the eye, adnexa
 ATC code H02 Corticosteroids for systemic use, a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
 British NVC community H2, a heath community in the British National Vegetation Classification system
 Histamine H2 receptor
 Prostaglandin H2
 H-2, the Major histocompatibility complex of the mouse (equivalent of the Human Leukocyte Antigens)
  or , wide- or narrow-sense heritability

Chemistry
 H2, the chemical formula for hydrogen gas (Dihydrogen)
 Hydrogen-2, H-2, 2H (called deuterium), the isotope of hydrogen with one proton, one neutron, and one electron

Other uses in science and mathematics
 H II region, a region of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionized
 , one of the three laryngeals in the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language
 The Hardy space H2

Vehicles
Vehicles

Air and space
 H-II, a family of Japanese liquid-fueled rockets
 H-IIA
 H-IIB
 H-II Transfer Vehicle, a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency unmanned spacecraft
 H-2 MUPSOW, a precision-guided glide bomb manufactured by Pakistan
 Landgraf H-2, an American single-seat twin-rotor helicopter produced in 1944
 Standard H-2, a U.S. Army reconnaissance plane produced in 1916

Rail
 LB&SCR H2 class, a British LB&SCR locomotive
 H02 locomotive (Germany), a high-pressure steam locomotive made in 1930 
 Saxon XII H2, a German steam locomotive produced in 1922
 PRR H2, a model within the American PRR locomotive classification
 H2, designation for METRORail Siemens S70 light rail vehicles

Road
 Hummer H2, a car model 
 Kawasaki H2 Mach IV, 1970s two-stroke motorcycle
 Kawasaki Ninja H2, 2010s supercharged motorcycle
Sea
 HMAS Success (H02), a Royal Australian Navy Admiralty S-class destroyer completed in 1918
 HMS Exmouth (H02), a British Royal Navy E-class destroyer commissioned in 1934
 HMS H2, a British Royal Navy H class submarine commissioned in 1915
 USS H-2 (SS-29), a U.S. Navy H-class submarine commissioned in 1913

Other uses
 H-2A Visa, a United States visa for temporary or seasonal agricultural work
 H2, the second half of the business year
 H2 lamp, a halogen vehicle headlamp no longer manufactured
 H2, a model of hurricane tie manufactured by Simpson Strong-Tie Co.
 Sky Airline (IATA code H2)
 Area H2, an Israeli-controlled area under the Hebron Protocol
Hutchinson is the biggest city and county seat in Reno County, Kansas, United States. It is on the Arkansas River. In 2010, 42,080 people lived there.

History

Hutchinson was created in 1871. It banned alcohol, and people called it the "Temperance City". It officially became a city in August 1872.

In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a railroad from Herington through Hutchinson to Pratt.

Also in 1887, local salt deposits were found. Salt mining would become a big industry in Hutchinson. The city eventually got the nickname "Salt City".

Geography
Hutchinson is at  (38.0608445, -97.9297743) at an elevation of 1,535 feet (468 m).

Hutchinson is on the northeast bank of the Arkansas River in the Great Bend Sand Prairie region of the Great Plains. Cow Creek, a tributary of the Arkansas River, goes southeast through the city.

The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  is water.
Weather
Hutchinson has a humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa). It is almost a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). It has hot, humid summers and cold, dry winters.

People

2010 Census
In 2010, there were 42,080 people, 16,981 households, and 10,352 families living in Hutchinson.

Government
Hutchinson is a city of the first class with a council-manager form of government.

Hutchinson is the county seat of Reno County, so it is the administrative center of Reno County. The county courthouse is  downtown, and all departments of the county government have their operations in the city.

Hutchinson is in Kansas's 1st U.S. Congressional District. In the Kansas Legislature, Hutchinson is in the 34th district of the Kansas Senate. It is in the 102nd, 104th, and 114th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives.

Infrastructure
Infrastructure

Transportation
Reno County Area Transit (RCAT) provides local public transport bus service. It has three bus routes. The routes are colored Red, Blue, and Yellow. Greyhound Lines offers long-distance bus service on its route through Hutchinson from Wichita to Pueblo. Bus service is provided daily towards Wichita and Salina by BeeLine Express (subcontractor of Greyhound Lines).
Three railroads go through Hutchinson. One is the La Junta Subdivision of the BNSF Railway. It runs east–west through the city. Amtrak uses the La Junta Subdivision to give passenger rail service. Hutchinson is a stop on the Southwest Chief. It provides daily train service between Chicago and Los Angeles. Another railroad is the Tucumcari Line of the Union Pacific Railroad. It runs northeast–southwest through the city. Lastly, Hutchinson is the end point of two lines of the Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad:  the Hutchinson Subdivision, which enters the city from the south, and the Great Bend Subdivision, which enters the city from the northwest.

Health care
There are two hospitals in Hutchinson. Hutchinson Regional Medical Center is a not-for-profit general medical and surgical facility. It offers many different services including emergency care. The other hospital is Summit Surgical. It is a specialized corporate surgical facility.
Media
The Hutchinson News is the city's main newspaper. It is published every day. Hutchinson Community College publishes a weekly student newspaper, the Collegian.

Parks
The Sand Hills State Park is on the northern part of Hutchison.

References

Other websites

City
 
News
 The Hutchinson News, local newspaper
Schools
 USD 308, local school district
Historical
 Hutchinson, Kansas History
 Hutchinson, Kansas Community Networks
 , from Hatteberg's People on KAKE TV news
 , from Hatteberg's People on KAKE TV news
Maps
 Hutchinson City Map, KDOT

Cities in Reno County, Kansas
County seats in Kansas
The Smoky Hills are an upland area of hills in the Great Plains are of North America. They are in the Midwestern United States, mostly in north-central Kansas and a small part of south-central Nebraska.

Geography
The Republican River, Saline River, Solomon River, and Smoky Hill River all go east through the Smoky Hills. This is because they start in the High Plains. Starting in the 1940s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation dammed these rivers at points in the Smoky Hills for flood control and irrigation reasons. This created many reservoirs. These include Cedar Bluff Reservoir, Kanopolis Lake, Kirwin Reservoir, Waconda Lake, Webster Reservoir, and Wilson Lake.

Land in the Smoky Hills is mostly used for farming. The region doesn't have very many people. There are cities that are small, but there are no big cities. The two biggest cities in the Smoky Hills region are Salina, Kansas and Hays, Kansas.

References

Other websites
Other websites

Geography of Nebraska
Mountain ranges of the United States
Regions of Kansas
The Republican River is a river in the central Great Plains area of North America. It starts in the High Plains of eastern Colorado, and it goes east  through the U.S. states of Nebraska and Kansas.

References

Other websites

 Republican River Compact Compliance , State of Colorado
 The Republican River, A 2018 survey of the political and social ecology of the Republican River by Denis Boyles

Rivers of Kansas