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Trump refused to concede upon hearing the news. The administrator of the GSA, Emily W. Murphy, did not cooperate with president-elect Biden until November 23. Many Republicans in the Senate claimed that the election was still unsettled, and Attorney General William Barr allowed the Justice Department to investigate alleged "massive voter fraud."
In an interview with the Associated Press published December 1, Attorney General William Barr acknowledged: "To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election." By January, Trump had lost 60 lawsuits.
On January 2, 2021, during an hour-long conference call, Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to change the state's vote totals by the 11,780 votes he needed to win the state. During the call, Trump falsely suggested that Raffensperger could have committed a criminal offense. On January 11, the phone call was cited in a new article of impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives.
Self-declared "alternate electors" voted in protest; these votes had no legal validity. Well over a hundred Republican representatives promised to contest the counting ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Experts debated whether Trump was trying to perform a self-coup.
On January 6, 2021, Trump spoke at a "March to Save America" rally on the Ellipse. There, he encouraged the crowd to "fight like hell" and said he'd be marching with them to the United States Capitol, although he did not join them. The crowd arrived at the Capitol building and broke in. At the same time, the electoral colleges votes were being counted, and those in the House and Senate had to be evacuated. Five people died from the events, while dozens more were injured, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation opened over 170 investigations into the events.
Throughout the campaign, many polls almost always showed Democratic nominee Joe Biden ahead of Trump. Trump's campaign rejected these polls, claiming how they incorrectly predicted a Hillary Clinton victory in the 2016 presidential election. Many people had also come to distrust polls; a study from the Pew Research Center showing that even when Biden led Trump by a wide margin, many people still believed that Trump would win the election.
Trump's polling worsened throughout June and July, mainly in battleground states and states that mainly vote Republican. A mid-July "Washington Post"/ABC News poll showed Biden's double-digit lead holding.
In August, Trump's polling slightly improved. One national poll conducted then showing Biden leading by just three percent nationally. Trump also began to improve in state polls; one CNN poll at the time showed Biden up by just one percentage point in 15 battleground states. Towards the end of the month however, Biden's lead started to grow again.
After the 2020 Republican National Convention, Trump's polling improved. By the end of August, Trump had a lead against Biden in key states such as Ohio where he led 50% to 45%, and was polling neck-and-neck with his opponent in other important states such as Florida.
Trump's national polling numbers fell heavily again following his performance at the first presidential debate and his COVID-19 diagnosis at the end of September and beginning of October, as Biden's lead went over 10 points. A Washington Post/ABC News poll taken around this period showed Biden's lead to be 53% to 43%.
Trump overestimated his polls on Election Day but lost re-election. Although polling accurately predicted the winner of 48 out of 50 states and the District of Columbia, Biden’s margin of victory in many states was much smaller than expected.
Charley Marouani
Charley Marouani (7 December 1926 – 29 July 2017) was a French impresario and celebrity agent. He was born in Sousse, Tunisia. Marouani began his career as a photographer in Nice. Afterwards, he became a talent agent, representing Jacques Brel, Barbara, Sylvie Vartan, Henri Salvador, Joe Dassin and Salvatore Adamo.
Marouani became a knight of the Legion of Honour in 2009.
Marouani died on 29 July 2017 in Corsica, France at the age of 90.
Demeter Bitenc
Demeter Bitenc (21 July 1922 – 22 April 2018) was a Slovenian movie actor. He has appeared in 75 movies from his career's beginning in 1953 until his retirement in 2004. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Bitenc best known roles are in "Island of the Amazons" (1960), "Apache Gold" (1963), "Target for Killing" (1966), "The Seventh Continent" (1966), "Poppea's Hot Nights" (1969), "The Ravine" (1969), "Private Vices, Public Pleasures" (1976), "Cross of Iron" (1977), "The Secret of Nikola Tesla" (1980), "War and Remembrance" (1988), "Outsider" (1997) and in "Long Dark Night" (2004).
Bitenc died on 22 April 2018 in Ljubljana at the age of 95.
Rock ptarmigan
The rock ptarmigan (') is a medium-sized gamebird in the grouse family. It is known simply as the ptarmigan in the UK and in Canada, where it is the official bird for the territory of Nunavut, Canada, and the official game bird for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is known as the snow chicken"' in the United States. In Japan, it is known as the "raichō" (雷鳥), which means "thunder bird". It is the official bird of Gifu, Nagano, and Toyama Prefectures and is a protected species nationwide.
List of Cuban scientists
The list of Cuban scientists include:
List of Filipino scientists
The List of Filipino scientists include:
Dastilbe
Dastilbe is a prehistoric bony fish. It could reach a length of 25-60 mm, with a maximum length of about 150 mm.
It was probably an anadromous fish, meaning it lived most of its life in the sea but swam to fresh water to spawn (reproduce). Larger individuals of this predatory fish fed on smaller fishes and probably they were cannibalistic.
Slim Mahfoudh
Slim Mahfoudh (c. 1942 – 30 July 2017) was a Tunisian actor. He acted on the stage, movies, and on television series like "Al Khottab Al Bab" and "Choufli Hal" which are his best known works. He was born in Tunis, Tunisia.
Mahfoudh died of lung cancer on 30 July 2017 in Tunis at the age of 75.
Arrondissements of the Cher department
There are 3 arrondissements in the Cher department. The French departments, and in other countries, are divided into "arrondissements", which may be translated into English as districts (in some cases, as boroughs). The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture.
The arrondissements of Cher are:
H. Sayeeduddin Dagar
Hussain Sayeeduddin Dagar (20 April 1939 – 30 July 2017), popularly known as Saeed Bhai, was an Indian classical vocalist. His songs were dedicated to the Dhrupad tradition. The oldest existing form of north Indian classical music (Hindustani classical music). He was a part of the Dagar family of musicians. He was born in Alwar, Rajasthan.
Dagar represented the 19th generation of Dagar Tradition. His cousins Nasir Moinuddin Dagar and Nasir Aminuddin Dagar were known as the Senior Dagar Brothers. Similarly, Nasir Zahiruddin and Nasir Faiyazuddin Dagar were known as the Younger Dagar Brothers. His other cousins were Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, Zia Fariduddin Dagar, and Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar.
Dagar died on 30 July 2017 of a heart attack in Pune, Maharashtra at the age of 78.
Warren Keith Urbom
Warren Keith Urbom (December 17, 1925 – July 28, 2017) was an American judge. He was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska from 1970 until his retirement in 2014. He was nominated to the position by President Richard Nixon.
Urbom was born in Atlanta, Nebraska. He studied at Nebraska Wesleyan University and at the University of Michigan. Urbom died in Lincoln, Nebraska on July 28, 2017, at the age of 91.
Kidnapping of Ciro Cirillo
On April 27 1981, in Naples, Italy, the Red Brigades kidnapped 60-year-old Christian Democrat (DC) politician Ciro Cirillo. They killed his two-man escort in the garage of his apartment building.
At the time Cirillo directed reconstruction efforts in Campania devastated by the earthquake in the Irpinia region on November 23, 1980.
Cirillo was released after a controversial ransom paid by the Italian government.
The outcome of the Cirillo kidnapping stood in sharp contrast to the kidnapping of the Italian former Prime Minister Aldo Moro. When Moro was abducted by the Red Brigades in 1978, the Christian Democrats in government immediately took action rather waiting for a solid negotiation.
Cirillo died on 30 July 2017 at the age of 96.
Arrondissement of Bourges
The arrondissement of Bourges is an arrondissement of France, in the Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital, and prefecture of the department, is the city of Bourges.
When the Cher department was created on 1800, the "arrondissement" of Bourges was part of that original department.
The "arrondissement" of Bourges is the central "arrondissement" of the Cher department. It is bordered to the north by the Loiret department, to the east by the Nièvre department, to the south by the Saint-Amand-Montrond "arrondissement", to the southwest by the Indre department and to the west by the Vierzon "arrondissement".
The "arrondissement" of Bourges is the largest "arrondissement" of the department in area, , and the one with more people living in it (173,889 inhabitants).
The cantons in the "arrondissement" of Bourges are:
The "arrondissement" of Bourges has 131 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː
Deaths in August 2017
Paulo Garcia
Paulo de Siqueira Garcia (13 May 1959 – 30 July 2017) was a Brazilian physician and politician. He was a member of the Workers' Party. He was the mayor of Goiânia from 1 April 2010, when then-mayor Iris Rezende resigned in order to run for Governor at the 2010 election until 2016. He was born in Goiânia, Goiás.
On 30 July 2017, Garcia died of a heart attack at his home in Goiânia, aged 58.
Collateral adjective
A collateral adjective is an adjective whose word origin is different from the noun it represents. English has many collateral adjectives from French, Latin, and Greek, because many English words come from these languages. For example, the adjectives for the native English words "horse" and "moon" are "equine" and "lunar". Equine comes from the Latin "equus". Lunar comes from the Latin "luna". This is why the study of horses is called "equine science" and the calendar for the moon called the "lunar calendar".
Nouns sometimes have both collateral and derived adjectives -- adjectives whose origin is the same as the noun they represent. For example, "father" has the adjective "fatherly" coming from father. It also has the collateral adjective "paternal" from the Latin word "pater", which also means "father".
Liu Wen-hsiung
Liu Wen-hsiung (; 8 September 1954 – 31 July 2017) was a Taiwanese politician. He served in the Legislative Yuan from 1999 to 2008. He was a member of the People First Party from 2000 until his death in 2017. He was born in Keelung, Taiwan.
Liu died of complications from a heart attack on 31 July 2017 at a hospital in Anle, Taiwan at the age of 62.
Junkie XL
Antonius Tom Holkenborg (born 8 December 1967 in Lichtenvoorde), known by his stage name Junkie XL and occasionally JXL, is a Dutch multi-instrumentalist, composer, DJ, producer, and engineer. Originally known for his trance productions, he has moved to producing electronica and big beat music and film scores in recent years. Junkie XL is probably best known for his remix of Elvis Presley's "A Little Less Conversation".
In movie scores, he is perhaps known for his work on films like "", "", the Deadpool movies, and the DC Extended Universe beginning with "" with Hans Zimmer, also contributing to the theme song for "Wonder Woman". He was originally hired to write the music for "Justice League" but left the project with director Zack Snyder and was replaced with Danny Elfman. However, when Snyder was brought back to complete his version of the movie, later titled "Zack Snyder's Justice League", Junkie XL was brought back as well and finished the music for it.
Junkie XL was born in Lichtenvoorde, Gelderland, Netherlands.
Jacinda Ardern
Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern (; born 26 July 1980) is a New Zealand politician. She is the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand and Leader of the Labour Party since 2017. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 2008. She has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Mount Albert since March 2017.
Ardern was born in Hamilton and grew up in Morrinsville and Murupara. After graduating from the University of Waikato in 2001, Ardern began her career working as a researcher for Prime Minister Helen Clark. She later worked in London in the Cabinet Office, and was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. Ardern was first elected as an MP in the 2008 general election, when Labour lost control after nine years. She was later elected to represent the Mount Albert electorate in a by-election in February 2017.
Ardern was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party on 1 March 2017, after the resignation of Annette King. Just five months later, after Labour's leader Andrew Little resignation, Ardern was elected as party leader. She led her party to win 14 seats at the 2017 general election on 23 September, winning 46 seats to the National Party's 56. After working with New Zealand First, a minority coalition government with Labour and New Zealand First was formed, supported by the Green Party. Ardern became Prime Minister and she was sworn in by the governor-general on 26 October 2017. She became the world's youngest female head of government at age 37. Ardern later became the world's second elected head of government to give birth while in office when her daughter was born in June 2018.
Ardern calls herself a social democrat and a progressive. Her government has focused on the New Zealand housing crisis, child poverty, and social inequality. In March 2019, she became popular because of her leadership during the Christchurch mosque shootings and for introducing strict gun laws in response. For much of 2020, she also became popular for the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ardern led the Labour Party to a historic victory in the 2020 general election, winning a majority of 65 seats in Parliament.
Ardern was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, and grew up as a Mormon. She was raised in Morrinsville and Murupara, where her father, Ross Ardern, worked as a police officer. Her mother, Laurell Ardern ( Bottomley), worked as a school catering assistant. She studied at Morrinsville College, where she was the student representative on the school's board. She later went to the University of Waikato, graduating in 2001 with a Bachelor of Communication Studies (BCS) in politics and public relations.
Ardern became interested in politics because her aunt asked her to help her with campaigning for New Plymouth MP Harry Duynhoven during his re-election campaign at the 1999 general election.
Ardern joined the Labour Party at the age of 17 and became a senior figure in the Young Labour party of the party. After graduating from university, she spent time working in the offices of Phil Goff and of Helen Clark as a researcher. She volunteered at a soup kitchen in New York City in the United States and worked on a workers' rights campaign. Ardern moved to London, England where she became a senior policy adviser for British prime minister Tony Blair. Ardern also worked at the Home Office to help with a review of policing in England and Wales.
In early 2008, Ardern was elected President of the International Union of Socialist Youth.
Ahead of the 2008 election, Ardern was ranked 20th on Labour's party list. She would soon return from London to campaign full-time for a seat in the New Zealand Parliament. She also became Labour's candidate for the safe National electorate of Waikato. Ardern lost the election, but entered Parliament as a list MP because of her high ranking in the party list. She became the youngest sitting MP in Parliament.
Opposition Leader Phil Goff promoted Ardern to the front bench, naming her Labour's spokesperson for Youth Affairs and for Justice (Youth Affairs). She made appearances on TVNZ's "Breakfast" programme as part of the "Young Guns" feature, alongside National MP and future National Party leader Simon Bridges.
Ardern ran for the parliament seat of Auckland Central for Labour in the 2011 general election, running against incumbent National MP Nikki Kaye for National and Greens candidate Denise Roche. She lost to Kaye by 717 votes. However, she returned to Parliament because of her party list ranking, on which she was ranked 13th.
After Goff resigned from the Party leadership, Ardern supported David Shearer for party leader. She was promoted to the fourth-ranking position in his Shadow Cabinet on 19 December 2011, becoming a spokesperson for social development under the new leader. Ardern ran again in Auckland Central at the 2014 general election. She again finished second, but increased her own vote and lowered Kaye's majority from 717 to 600. She was soon ranked 5th on Labour's list and because of this, Ardern still returned to Parliament where she became Shadow spokesperson for Justice, Children, Small Business, and Arts & Culture under new leader Andrew Little.
Ardern later ran for the Labour nomination for the Mount Albert by-election to be held in February 2017. The by-election was held because of the resignation of David Shearer. When nominations for the Labour Party closed on 12 January 2017, Ardern was the only nominee and was selected. On 21 January, Ardern took part of the 2017 Women's March, a worldwide protest in opposition to Donald Trump, the newly inaugurated President of the United States. She was confirmed as Labour's candidate at a meeting on 22 January. Ardern won a landslide victory, winning 77 per cent of votes cast in the preliminary results.
Following her win in the by-election, Ardern was elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party on 7 March 2017, after the resignation of Annette King. Ardern's vacant list seat was taken by Raymond Huo. However, Ardern would remain as Deputy Leader for exactly five months because she was elected Leader of the Labour Party in August.
On 1 August 2017, just seven weeks before the 2017 general election, Ardern became Leader of the Labour Party and also Opposition Leader, after the resignation of Andrew Little. Ardern was confirmed in an election to choose a new leader at a meeting the same day. At 37, Ardern became the youngest leader of the Labour Party in its history. She is also the second female leader of the party after Helen Clark. At first, Little had talked to Ardern on 26 July and said he thought she should take over as Labour leader, although Ardern said no and told him to "stick it out".
At her first press conference after her election as leader, she said that the upcoming election campaign would be "relentless positivity". After her appointment, the party had a large amount of public campagin donations, reaching NZ$700 per minute at its highest. When Ardern became party leader, Labour rose in opinion polls. By late August the party had reached 43 per cent as well as beating the National Party in opinion polls for the first time in over a decade. Critics said that her ideas were similar to Andrew Little's and believed that Labour's sudden increase in popularity was because of her youth and good looks.
In mid-August 2017, Ardern said that a Labour government would create a tax working group to look for the chance of increasing taxes for the wealthy and lowering them for middle-class working families. This idea became unpopular and Ardern said that her tax plan would not be pushed in a first term of Labour government. Minister of Finance Steven Joyce found that the Labour Party had a $11.7 billion "hole" in its tax policy.
The Labour and Green parties' proposed water and pollution taxes also became unpopular from farmers. On 18 September 2017, farmers and lobbyists protested against the taxes in Ardern's hometown of Morrinsville. During the protest, one farmer had a sign calling Ardern a "pretty Communist". This was criticised as sexist by former Prime Minister Helen Clark.
In the final days of the general election campaign, the National Party took a slight lead over the Labour Party.
In the 2017 general election held on 23 September 2017, Ardern was re-elected to her Mount Albert electorate seat by 15,264 votes. Preliminary results from the general election showed that Labour received 35.79 per cent of the party vote to National's 46.03 per cent. After more votes were counted, Labour increased its votes to 36.89% while National dropped back to 44.45%. Labour gained 14 seats, increasing its parliamentary representation to 46 seats. This was the best result for the party since losing power in 2008.
After the election, Ardern and Deputy Leader Kelvin Davis began talks with the Greens and New Zealand First parties about forming a coalition against National Party which did not haven enough seats for a majority. On 19 October 2017, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters agreed to form a coalition with Labour, making Ardern the next Prime Minister. The Green Party also supported the coalition. Ardern named Peters as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. She also gave New Zealand First five posts in her government, with Peters and three other ministers in her Cabinet.
Ardern was sworn-in as the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand by Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy on 26 October 2017. Ardern said that her government would be "focused, empathetic and strong".
Ardern became New Zealand's third female Prime Minister after Jenny Shipley (1997–1999) and Helen Clark (1999–2008). She is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders. At aged 37, Ardern is also the youngest person to become New Zealand's head of government since Edward Stafford, who became premier in 1856.
On 19 January 2018, Ardern announced that she was pregnant, and that Winston Peters would become acting Prime minister for six weeks after the birth. Following the birth of a daughter, she took her maternity leave from 21 June to 2 August 2018.
Ardern focused on cutting child poverty in New Zealand by half within a ten years. In July 2018, Ardern announced the start of her government's flagship Families Package. The package would increase paid parental leave to 26 weeks and introduced a $60 per-week universal BestStart Payment for low and middle-income families with young children. In 2019, the government a school lunches pilot programme to help cut child poverty numbers. She also increased welfare benefits by $25, expanding free doctor's visits and giving free menstrual hygiene products in schools.
Ardern's government added increases to the country's minimum wage over a period of time. Her government also cancelled the National Party's planned tax cuts, saying instead it would focus on healthcare and education. The first year of post-secondary education was made free on 1 January 2018 and the government agreed to increase primary teachers' pay by 12.8 (for beginning teachers) and 18.5 per cent by 2021. Even thought the Labour Party campaigned on a capital gains tax for the last three elections, Ardern promised in April 2019 that the government would not pass a capital gains tax under her leadership.
On 2 February 2018, Ardern went to Waitangi for the annual Waitangi Day commemoration and she stayed in Waitangi for five days. Ardern became the first female Prime Minister to speak from the top marae. Her visit was popular among Māori leaders, with commentators seeing the difference between her performance to the Prime Ministers before her.
In September 2019, she was criticised for her handling of an allegation of sexual assault against a Labour Party staffer. Ardern said she had been told the allegation did not involve sexual assault or violence before a report about the incident was published in "The Spinoff" on 9 September. Many did not believe this as one journalist found that Ardern's claim was "hard to swallow".
Ardern does not support putting people who use cannabis in prison and promised to hold a referendum on the issue. A non-binding referendum to legalise cannabis was held at the same time of the 2020 general election. Ardern said she used cannabis when she was young during a televised debate before the election. In the referendum, voters did not support the proposed cannabis legalisation and many found that Ardern not supporting the 'yes' campaign may have caused the legalisation's defeat.
On 5 November 2017, Ardern made her first official trip to Australia, where she met Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for the first time. Relations between the two countries had not been good because of Australia's treatment of New Zealanders living in the country, and shortly before taking office. Turnbull said of Ardern: "we trust each other...The fact we are from different political traditions is irrelevant".
In November 2017, Ardern announced that the government would being part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations even though the Green Party did not support it. On 25 October 2018, New Zealand ratified the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, which Ardern had described as being better than the original TPP agreement.
In December 2017, Ardern supported for a United Nations resolution criticising U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
On 24 September 2018, Ardern became the first female head of government to go to the United Nations General Assembly meeting with her baby present. Her address to the General Assembly on 27 September had positive support from the United Nations where she talked about climate change, for the equality of women, and for kindness.
In October 2018, Ardern criticized China for its Xinjiang re-education camps and human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslim minority in the country. Ardern was also worried about the treatment of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. In November 2018, she met with Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi and offered any help New Zealand could give to solve the Rohingya crisis.
On 23 September 2019, at a United Nations summit in New York City, Ardern had her first formal meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump. She said that Trump showed "interest" in New Zealand's gun buyback policy.
On 28 February 2020, Ardern criticised Australia's policy of deporting New Zealanders, many of which had lived in Australia but had not become Australian citizens.
On 15 March 2019, 51 people were fatally shot and 49 injured in two mosques in Christchurch. In a statement broadcast on television, Ardern said that the shootings had been carried out by suspects with "extremist views" that have no place in New Zealand, or anywhere else in the world. She also described it as a well-planned terrorist attack.
She announced a period of national mourning and created a national condolence book that she opened in the capital, Wellington. She also travelled to Christchurch to meet first responders and families of the victims. In an address at the Parliament, she said that she would never say the name of the attacker: "Speak the names of those who were lost rather than the name of the man who took them ... he will, when I speak, be nameless". Ardern became popular in the country and the world for her response to the shootings. A photograph of her hugging a member of the Christchurch Muslim community with the word "peace" in English and Arabic was projected onto the Burj Khalifa. A mural of this photograph was opened in May 2019.
In response to the shootings, Ardern announced her government's plans to push for stricter gun laws. She said that the attack had shown many weaknesses in New Zealand's gun law. On 10 April 2019, less than one month after the attack, the New Zealand Parliament passed a law that bans most semiautomatic weapons and assault rifles, parts that turn guns into semiautomatic guns, and higher capacity magazines.
On 15 May 2019, Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron co-chaired the Christchurch Call summit for the purpose to bring together countries and tech companies to end the ability to use social media to organise and promote terrorism and violent extremism.
On 14 March 2020, Ardern announced the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand saying that the government would be requiring anyone entering the country from midnight 15 March to isolate themselves for 14 days. She said the new rules will mean New Zealand has the "widest ranging and toughest border restrictions of any country in the world". On 19 March, Ardern said that New Zealand's borders would be closed to all non-citizens and non-permanent residents, after 11:59 pm on 20 March (NZDT). Ardern announced that New Zealand would move to a nationwide lockdown, at 11:59 pm on 25 March.
National and international media had positive responses about her leadership and quick response to the outbreak in New Zealand. "The Washington Post" said her interviews, press conferences and social media is a "masterclass in crisis communication". In mid-April 2020, two people sued Ardern and other government officials, saying that the lockdown limited their freedoms and was made for "political gain". The lawsuit was dismissed.
On 5 May 2020, Ardern and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced plans to create a trans-Tasman COVID-safe travel zone that would allow residents from both countries to travel freely without travel restrictions.
Opinion polls showed the Labour Party with nearly 60 per cent support. In May 2020, Ardern rated 59.5 per cent as "preferred prime minister".
In the 2020 general election, Ardern led her party to a landslide victory, winning an overall majority of 65 seats in the 120-seat House of Representatives, and 50 per cent of the party vote. She was also re-elected to her seat on the Mount Albert electorate by 21,246 votes. Ardern said her landslide victory was because of her response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic impacts it has had.
On 2 December 2020, Ardern declared a climate change emergency in New Zealand and promised that the country would be carbon neutral by 2025 in a parliamentary motion. She said that the public will be required to buy only electric or hybrid vehicles. This was supported by the Labour, Green, and Māori parties but was opposed by the opposition National and ACT parties.
In response to the housing affordability issues, Ardern proposed the removal of the interest rate tax-deduction, lifting Housing Aid for first home buyers, giving away infrastructure funds and expand the Bright Line Test from five to ten years.
On 12 December 2020, Prime Minister Ardern and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown announced that a travel route between New Zealand and the Cook Islands would be created in 2021. It would allow a two-way quarantine-free travel between the two countries. On 14 December, Prime Minister Ardern confirmed that the New Zealand and Australian Governments had agreed to create a travel route between the two countries the following year. On 17 December, Ardern also announced that the government had bought two more COVID-19 vaccines from the pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Novavax for New Zealand and its Pacific partners.
On 26 January 2021, Ardern stated that New Zealand's borders would remain closed to most non-citizens and non-residents until New Zealand citizens have been "vaccinated and protected", a process that will not begin until mid-2021.
In early December 2020, Ardern showed support for Australia during an issue between Canberra and Beijing over Chinese Foreign Ministry official Zhao Lijian's Twitter post saying that Australia had committed war crimes against Afghans. She described the image as not being correct, adding that the New Zealand Government would raise its concerns with the Chinese Government.
On 16 February 2021, Prime Minister Ardern criticised the Australian Government's decision to remove dual New Zealand–Australian national and ISIS bride Suhayra Aden's Australian citizenship. Aden had migrated from New Zealand to Australia at the age of six and became an Australian citizen. In response, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison defended the decision to take away Aden's citizenship, saying legislation removing dual nationals of their Australian citizenship if they were engaged in terrorist activities. After a phone conversation, the two leaders agreed to work together to address what Ardern said was "quite a [hard] legal [problem]".
In response to the 2021 Israel-Palestine crisis, Ardern said on 17 May that New Zealand "condemned both the rocket fire we have seen from Hamas" and "a response that has gone well beyond self-defence on both sides". She also said that Israel had the "right to exist" but Palestinians also had a "right to a peaceful home, a secure home".
When she became Labour Party leader, Ardern had positive coverage from the media, including international medias such as CNN, with many calling it the 'Jacinda effect' and 'Jacindamania'.
Jacindamania was seen as an important reason behind New Zealand gaining global attention and media influence in many reports. In a 2018 trip, Ardern got a large amount of media attention after delivering a speech at the United Nations in New York City. Many saw her as the "cure to Trumpism". Many saw her as an example against masculine diplomacy like U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin".
Ardern has been described as a celebrity politician. She has become popular for her leadership following the Christchurch mosque shootings, COVID-19 pandemic and the Whakaari / White Island eruption.
Ardern was one of fifteen women selected to appear on the cover of the September 2019 issue of British "Vogue", by guest editor Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. "Forbes" magazine placed her at 38 among the 100 most powerful women in the world in 2019. She was included in the 2019 "Time" 100 list and was a candidate for "Time"'s 2019 Person of the Year. Many believed that she would win the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for her handling of the Christchurch mosque shootings. In 2020, she was listed by "Prospect" as the second-greatest thinker for the COVID-19 era. In 2021, New Zealand zoologist Steven A. Trewick named the flightless wētā species "Hemiandrus jacinda" in honour of Ardern. A spokesperson for Ardern said that a beetle ("Mecodema jacinda"), a lichen, and an ant had also been named after her.
In May 2021, "Fortune" magazine gave Ardern the top spot on their list of world’s greatest leaders, saying her leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as her handling of the Christchurch mosque shootings and the 2019 Whakaari/White Island eruption.
Ardern has called herself as a social democrat, a progressive, a republican and a feminist. She called former Prime Minister Helen Clark as a political hero. She believes that the large amount of child poverty and homelessness in New Zealand is a "blatant failure" of capitalism.
Ardern believes in removing the Māori electorates and they should be decided by Māori, saying, "[Māori] have not raised the need for those seats to go, so why would we ask the question?" She supports teaching of the Māori language in schools.
In September 2017, Ardern said she wanted New Zealand to have a debate on removing the monarch of New Zealand as its head of state.
Ardern has supported same-sex marriage, and she voted for the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Act 2013 which legalised it. In 2018, she became the first New Zealand prime minister to march in a pride parade. Ardern supported legalising abortion and removing it from the Crimes Act 1961. In March 2020, she voted for the Abortion Legislation Act that would make abortion legal.
She described taking action on climate change as "my generation's nuclear-free moment".
Ardern has also supported a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. She has criticised Israel over the death of Palestinians during protests at the Gaza border.
Ardern is a second cousin of Mayor of Whanganui Hamish McDouall. She is also a distant cousin of former National MP for Taranaki-King Country Shane Ardern.
Ardern's partner is television presenter Clarke Gayford. The couple first met in 2012. They did not spend time together until Gayford talked to Ardern about a controversial communications bill. On 3 May 2019, it was reported that Ardern was engaged to be married to Gayford.
On 19 January 2018, Ardern announced that she was pregnant with her first child, making her New Zealand's first prime minister to be pregnant in office. On 21 June 2018, she gave birth to a girl the same day, becoming only the second elected head of government to give birth while in office (after Benazir Bhutto in 1990). On 24 June, Ardern revealed her daughter's name as Neve Te Aroha.
Though raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LSD), Ardern left the church in 2005 because the church's views did not support her own political views. In January 2017, Ardern said she was agnostic, saying "I can't see myself being a member of an organised religion again". As prime minister in 2019, she met the President of LDS Church, Russell M. Nelson.
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Fanas
Fanas is a former municipality of the district of Davos in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2011 the former municipalities of Fanas and Valzeina merged into the new municipality of Grüsch.
Lisa Duck
Lisa Duck is a cartoon character created by Walt Disney. She is the auntie of Donald Duck and she is famous for being a singer. She created the song My Hero 2last Remix.
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Jérôme Golmard
Jérôme Golmard (9 September 1973 – 31 July 2017) was a former French No. 1 male tennis player. He was born in Dijon, France.
Golmard reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 22 in April 1999, winning 2 singles titles and reaching the semifinals of Monte Carlo in 1999. Golmard finished his career with over $2.2 million in prize money. Among the many notable players he beat on the ATP Tour are former World No. 1s Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Gustavo Kuerten, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Marcelo Ríos and Carlos Moyá, as well as Grand Slam champions Richard Krajicek, Goran Ivanišević, Albert Costa, Gastón Gaudio, Thomas Johansson and Michael Chang.
Golmard was diagnosed in 2014 with ALS. Golmard died on 31 July 2017 of the disease at his Boca Raton, Florida home at the age of 43.
Video editing is the act of changing video by arranging or changing the order, or content of the video. It is used to show information in things like video essays, movies, television and adverts (commercials). Video editing has been used more in recent years because more people are able to use it than ever, since the wide spread use of personal computers.
The idea of editing videos at home was not practical at first, because of the price of video editing equipment. In fact, the original 2" Quadruplex System was so expensive, television companies usually only had one of them.
Ever since the year 1999 with the release of Windows ME, and the more successful Windows XP, almost every single home computer has had the capability to edit video. There are also more expensive products for this process, such as the ones created by Adobe, and Sony's Sony Vegas. There has also been an attempt by many companies, to try and make video editing, Automation, Google for instance with Google Photos, their photo storage service.
Nowadays, video editing has many different aspects. Originally, it was only about cutting and resequencing. It has now exploded into many different processes, such as special effects. These types of editing have different jobs attached to them.
Open source video editing, is exactly what it says on the tin. This software is usually free and is developed by members of the public, or a nonprofit organisation.
Moana is an American movie that was released on November 23, 2016 to theaters in the United States. It was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 55th movie made by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It cost $150 million to make the movie, and the movie made about $642 million in the box office. "Moana" is named for its main character Moana, a native Polynesian daughter who saves the people of her island from a blight.
Jeffrey Brotman
Jeffrey Harold Brotman (September 27, 1942 – August 1, 2017) was an American attorney and businessman. He was the co-founder and chairman of Costco Wholesale Corporation.
Brotman served on the boards of several public companies and according to Businessweek magazine is "connected to 13 board members" and sat on the Board of Directors of the Million-Dollar Roundtable at the United Way of King County.
Brotman was born in Tacoma, Washington. He was raised with a Jewish family. Brotman studied at the University of Washington. In 1976, he married Susan Thrailkill. They had two children.
Brotman died on August 1, 2017 in Medina, Washington at the age of 74.
Steve Trevor
General Steven Rockwell Trevor is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is the sidekick and often involved in a romantic relationship with the superhero Wonder Woman.
The character was created by William Moulton Marston and first appeared in "All Star Comics" #8 (December 1941). Steve Trevor is a trusted friend, love interest and partner who introduces Diana (Wonder Woman) to "Man's World", and has served as Wonder Woman's United Nations liaison.
The character has appeared in many adaptations of the comics. He has been voiced by actors such as Tahmoh Penikett, Nathan Fillion, and George Newbern, among others in various "Wonder Woman" and "Justice League" productions. Lyle Waggoner played the character in the 1970s "Wonder Woman" series. Chris Pine played Trevor in the 2017 DC Extended Universe movie "Wonder Woman" and will reprise the role in "Wonder Woman 1984" (2019).
Lukenie River
The Lukenie River is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Victoria Herridge
Victoria "Tori" Herridge (born 1980) is a female paleontologist who was born in Britain. She works for the Natural History Museum in London
Herridge spent most of her childhood in Sussex in England.
She got a first class biology degree at university in 2002. In 2015, she was in the documentary T. Rex Autopsy.
Lutshuadi River
The Lutshuadi River is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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T. Rex Autopsy
T. Rex Autopsy is a 2015 documentary when a team of four paleontologists dissect a silicon "Tyrannosaurus". The four palentologists were Tori Herridge, Stephen Brusatte, Matthew T. Mossbrucker and Luke Gamble, who is the lead anatomist. The T. rex was based off the most complete fossil, "Sue".Flag of Guinea
The national Flag of Guinea was created on November 10, 1958. The flag is a vertical tricolour of red, yellow and green.
Feldis/Veulden
Feldis/Veulden is a former municipality of the district of Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Feldis/Veulden, Scheid, Trans and Tumegl/Tomils merged into the new municipality of Tomils.
Sant'Antonio (disambiguation)
Sant'Antonio can mean:
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Fréland
Fréland is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Three letter rule
In English, the three letter rule (or short word rule) is the observation that content words are three letters long at least.
One- and two-letter words are mostly function words. Examples: "I", "at", "he", "if", "of", "or", etc. Therefore, content words almost all have at least three letters. Notice that content words with fewer than three phonemes get an extra letter or letters which are "phonetically redundant": the extra letters do not change the sound. Examples are such as "ebb, "add, "egg, "inn, "bee, "awe, "buy", "owe", etc.
Carl E. Reichardt
Carl Edwin Reichardt Jr. (July 6, 1931 – July 13, 2017) was an American banking executive. He was born in Houston, Texas. He was a graduate of the University of Southern California. During his career, he served as President of Wells Fargo & Company from 1978 through 1983.
Reichardt also served on the boards of a number of corporations, include Pacific Gas & Electric, ConAgra, HCA, McKesson, HSBC Holdings PLC, and the Newhall Management Corporation.
Reichardt died on July 13, 2017 at his home in Belvedere, California from cardiopulmonary arrest at the age of 86.
Hugh Beaver
Sir Hugh Beaver (May 4 1890 - January 16 1967) was the creator of the Guiness Book of World Records (1955 and still publishing). He came up with the idea after a big debate about if the bird they saw was indeed the fastest of its type. In 1954 he sent Norris and Ross McWhirter to create a fact finding agency. He knew they would be up to the job.
List of Brazilian scientists
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List of Iranian scientists
The following is a list of notable Iranian scientists.
Hywel Bennett
Hywel Thomas Bennett (8 April 1944 – 25 July 2017) was a Welsh actor. Bennett was known for his recurring title role as James Shelley in the television sitcom "Shelley" (1979–84), and its sequel "The Return of Shelley" (1988–92).
After becoming known for his role in the comedy movie "The Virgin Soldiers" (1969), Bennett made appearances in movier such as "Loot" (1970) and "Percy" (1971). He was in "EastEnders" during 2003 as gangster Jack Dalton.
Bennett died on 25 July 2017 at the age of 73.
Arrondissement of Saint-Amand-Montrond
The arrondissement of Saint-Amand-Montrond is an arrondissement of France, in the Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital, and subprefecture of the department, is the city of Saint-Amand-Montrond.
When the Cher department was created on 1800, the "arrondissement" of Saint-Amand-Montrond was part of that original department.
The "arrondissement" of Saint-Amand-Montrond is the most southern "arrondissement" of the Cher department. It is bordered to the north by the Bourges "arrondissement", to the northeast by the Nièvre department, to the east and southeast by the Allier department, to the south by the Creuse department and to the west by the Indre department.
The "arrondissement" of Saint-Amand-Montrond has an area of and a population of 65,145 inhabitants.
The cantons in the "arrondissement" of Saint-Amand-Montrond, (with their INSEE codes) are:
The "arrondissement" of Saint-Amand-Montrond has 116 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː
Oldest people
This is a list of tables of the oldest people in the world.
Only some parts of the world verify (check) that these people are as old as they say they are, and they have only been verifying (checking) for the past few decades at most.
This list is copied from the Gerontology Research Group's list of the World's Oldest Person Titleholders. As the oldest living person generally is a woman, a sequence of oldest women would be nearly redundant to this list. A sequence of oldest living men follows this sequence.
As the oldest living person generally is a woman, there is here a chronological list of men who have hldd the title of the the world's oldest living man since 1960:
Swordplay Showdown
Swordplay Showdown is an activity in Wii Sports Resort. In this single-player activity, the player must attempt to defeat all enemies by hitting them with his or her sword. The stage (aka level or theme) is cleared when the player successfully kills all enemies. The game will end early and the player will loose if the player gets hit by enemies three times in one stage.
Most times, enemies can be defeated with a single hit per enemy. However, on some upper levels, enemies may require either two or three hits to be defeated. Enemies that require two hits will be wearing either red or purple armor and will display two hearts next to their name. Enemies that require three hits to be defeated will be wearing black armor and will display three hearts next to their name. Enemies that require more than one hit to be defeated will be alerted to the player via the use of a "jump-force" alert audio sound.
There are 20 possible stages or levels to be cleared. The themes are as follows:
After clearing the volcano theme, the user unlocks 10 additional bonus "reverse" stages. These stages are the same themes in the same order, except the fight is played in the opposite direction. Additionally, reverse themes are more difficult than their standard equivalent.
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