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# 2008 Welsh local elections

The 2008 Welsh local elections took place on 1 May 2008 to elect members of all twenty-two local authorities in Wales. They were held alongside other local elections in the United Kingdom. The previous elections were held in 2004.

## Results

| Party | Votes | % | +/- | Councils | +/- | Seats | +/- |
| Labour | 253,029 | 26.6% | 4.0% | 2 | 6 | 345 | 134 |
| Independent | 217,369 | 22.9% | 0.3% | 4 | 1 | 334 | 13 |
| Plaid Cymru | 159,847 | 16.8% | 0.4% | 0 | 1 | 206 | 31 |
| Conservative | 148,708 | 15.6% | 4.6% | 2 | 1 | 174 | 67 |
| Liberal Democrats | 123,175 | 13.0% | 0.9% | 0 | | 165 | 19 |
| Blaenau Gwent PV | 9,187 | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0 | | 8 | 8 |
| Llais Gwynedd | 7,119 | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0 | | 13 | 13 |
| Green | 6,568 | 0.7% | 0.5% | 0 | | 0 | |
| Other | 25,214 | 2.7% | 1.6% | 0 | | 19 | 17 |
| No overall control | n/a | n/a | n/a | 14 | 5 | n/a | n/a |

## Councils

In all 22 Welsh councils the whole of the council was up for election.
| Council | Previous control | Result | Details |
| Blaenau Gwent | Labour | No overall control gain |
| Bridgend | No overall control | No overall control hold |
| Caerphilly | Labour | No overall control gain |
| Cardiff | No overall control | No overall control hold | Details |
| Carmarthenshire | No overall control | No overall control hold |
| Ceredigion | No overall control | No overall control hold | Details |
| Conwy | No overall control | No overall control hold |
| Denbighshire | No overall control | No overall control hold |
| Flintshire | Labour | No overall control gain |
| Gwynedd | Plaid Cymru | No overall control gain |
| Isle of Anglesey | Independent | Independent hold |
| Merthyr Tydfil | Labour | Independent gain |
| Monmouthshire | Conservative | Conservative hold | Details |
| Neath Port Talbot | Labour | Labour hold |
| Newport | Labour | No overall control gain |
| Pembrokeshire | Independent | Independent hold |
| Powys | Independent | Independent hold |
| Rhondda Cynon Taff | Labour | Labour hold |
| Swansea | No overall control | No overall control hold |
| Torfaen | Labour | No overall control gain |
| Vale of Glamorgan | No overall control | Conservative gain |
| Wrexham | No overall control | No overall control hold |
# 81st Scripps National Spelling Bee

The 81st Scripps National Spelling Bee finals took place on May 30, 2008.

## Competition

Two hundred eighty-eight champion spellers competed in the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., a new record. Most of the spellers were from the United States, with a small showing from other locations such as Ghana, Jamaica, New Zealand, and South Korea. Twenty-two were Canadian. Wikipedian Emily Temple-Wood was one of the competitors. Sriram Hathwar, who would be a co-winner of the 2014 bee six years later, set a new record as the youngest ever participant to date, only a month past his 8th birthday.

## Champion

The winner was Sameer Mishra, a 13-year-old eighth grader at West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School, in Indiana. He was sponsored by his hometown newspaper, the Journal & Courier. His winning word was guerdon. He won $35,000 in cash and more than $5,000 in prizes.
In rounds 3 through 15, Mishra spelled "demitasse", "quadrat", "diener", "hyssop", "macédoine", "basenji", "numnah", "chorion", "nacarat", "sinicize", "hyphaeresis", "taleggio" and "esclandre" correctly, in that order. In second place came Sidharth Chand, 13, misspelling "prosopopoeia" as "prosopopoea". In third place came 13-year-old Tia Thomas, misspelling "opificer" as "epificer".
In a comical moment during the spelling bee, he mistook the word "numnah" for "numb nut".
Mishra incorrectly spelled "sudation" in Round 2 as "sudatian". However, because a speller's combined score from Rounds 1 and 2 determines whether he or she advances in the competition, a speller can incorrectly spell a word in Round 2 without being eliminated.

## TV coverage

As with previous years, coverage was divided amongst American Broadcasting Company properties, the quarter-finals were broadcast on ESPN360, and the semi-finals were aired by ESPN, and the finals were broadcast by ABC. Unlike other ESPN-produced telecasts for ABC, ESPN branding was not used, even though the telecasts adopted the newer-styled ESPN graphics package.

## Word list championship round

* guerdon
* prosopopoeia
* esclandre
* introuvable
* taleggio
* Kulturkampf
* hyphaeresis
* opificer
* aptyalism
* sinicize
* oxylophytic
* tamale
* posaune
* ecrase
* nacarat
* shtetl
* rhyton
* Huapango
* parfleche
* lemel
* bogatyr
* ziarat
* martellato
* chorion
* fumagillin
* satyagraha
* escabeche
* Nietzschean
* ranunculaceous
* boulangère
* ommateal
# Mikhail Remizov

Mikhail Grigorievich Remizov (Russian: Михаил Григорьевич Ремизов; 9 November 1948 – 17 September 2015) was a Russian stage and film actor.

## Biography

In 1973 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School (Vasily Markov's course). A year earlier he starred in the television movie Big School-Break, and it was his first role in the cinema. He served in the Russian Army Theatre, Youth Theatre Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk Drama Theater, the Moscow Literary and Drama Theatre of the WTO and the New Drama Theatre.
Since 1996, he was the actor of the Stanislavsky Moscow Drama Theater.

## Death

He died on the night of September 17, 2015 of a heart attack aged 66. He was buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery.

## Selected filmography

Source:
* Big School-Break (1972)
* Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)
* Life Is Beautiful (1980)
* Muhtar's return (2003)
* Wedding Ring (2008)
# 2002 Volvo Women's Open – Doubles

Åsa Carlsson and Iroda Tulyaganova were the defending champions, but none competed this year.
Kelly Liggan and Renata Voráčová won the title by defeating Lina Krasnoroutskaya and Tatiana Panova 7–5, 7–6$^{(9–7)}$ in the final.

## Seeds

* Shinobu Asagoe / Trudi Musgrave (first round)
* Rossana de los Ríos / Tatiana Poutchek (first round)
* Alicia Molik / Adriana Serra Zanetti (quarterfinals)
* Galina Fokina / Anastasia Rodionova (first round)

## Draw
### Key

* Q = Qualifier
* WC = Wild card
* LL = Lucky loser
* Alt = Alternate
* SE = Special exempt
* PR = Protected ranking
* ITF = ITF entry
* JE = Junior exempt
* w/o = Walkover
* r = Retired
* d = Defaulted
* SR = Special ranking

### Draw

| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 | S Asagoe T Musgrave | 6$^4$ | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | L Krasnoroutskaya T Panova | 7$^7$ | 6 | | | L Krasnoroutskaya T Panova | 6 | 6 | | | | | | |
| | Y Fedak E Kozhokina | 6 | 6 | | | Y Fedak E Kozhokina | 2 | 3 | | | | | | |
| | W Choptang S Viratprasert | 1 | 4 | | | | | | L Krasnoroutskaya T Panova | 7$^8$ | 6 | | | |
| 3 | A Molik Ad Serra Zanetti | 6 | 1 | | | | | | S Talaja M Weingärtner | 6$^6$ | 2 | | | |
| | An Barna S Cohen-Aloro | 3 | 0$^r$ | | 3 | A Molik Ad Serra Zanetti | 2 | 4 | | | | | | |
| | S Talaja M Weingärtner | 6 | 6 | | | S Talaja M Weingärtner | 6 | 6 | | | | | | |
| Q | L Nikoyan J Vakulenko | 2 | 2 | | | | | | | | | L Krasnoroutskaya T Panova | 5 | 6$^7$ |
| | Y-j Cho M-r Jeon | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | K Liggan R Voráčová | 7 | 7$^9$ |
| WC | M Thangphong T Vitayaviroj | 1 | 0 | | | Y-j Cho M-r Jeon | 2 | 6$^3$ | | | | | | |
| | K Liggan R Voráčová | 6 | 7$^7$ | | | K Liggan R Voráčová | 6 | 7$^7$ | | | | | | |
| 4 | G Fokina A Rodionova | 3 | 6$^2$ | | | | | | K Liggan R Voráčová | 6 | 6 | | | |
| | Z Gubacsi L Bacheva | 6 | 2 | 4 | | | | | T Tanasugarn A Widjaja | 3 | 3 | | | |
| | Z Hejdová L Průšová | 2 | 6 | 6 | | Z Hejdová L Průšová | 6$^4$ | 5 | | | | | | |
| | T Tanasugarn A Widjaja | 7 | 6 | | | T Tanasugarn A Widjaja | 7$^7$ | 7 | | | | | | |
| 2 | R de los Ríos T Panova | 5 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | |
# Pori railway station

Pori railway station (Finnish: Porin rautatieasema, Swedish: Björneborgs järnvägsstation) is a railway station in Pori, Finland. It has VR service to Tampere and to Port of Pori. Since Pori is a terminal passenger station, the traffic is quite moderate. Pori railway station serves approximately 225,000 people annually.

## History

Tampere–Pori railway and the first railway station in Pori were opened in 1895. This station was destroyed in the 1918 Finnish Civil War and replaced a year later with a new one. The present railway station was constructed 1938 in a different location. Functionalism-style building was designed by Finnish architect Thure Hellström.
Haapamäki–Pori railway [fi] was opened along with the new station in 1938. It was connecting Pori with Central Finland but the traffic ceased in 1985.

## Departure tracks

Pori railway station has two platform tracks. Trains departing the station primarily use track 1.
# Ballindine

Ballindine (Irish: Baile an Daighin, meaning 'town of the fortress') is a village in County Mayo, Ireland. It is located along the Western Railway Corridor, 6.5 km (4 miles) south of Claremorris. The N17 road passes through the village, carrying over 10,000 vehicles daily, and it connects to the R328 road on the south side of town.

## History

The remains of a possible fort are located in a field next to the National School. Folklore states that Ballindine got its name from this fort—Baile an Daingin meaning "Town of the Fortress" and that the souterrain, just outside it, was connected underground to the ruins of the old church in Cloonmore about 2 km (1.25 miles) to the east and also to the ruins of the old church in Garryduff, 5 km (3 miles) west.
Ballindine is in the Roman Catholic parish of Kilvine. Church records are held at the South Mayo Family Research Centre in Ballinrobe. Old school records dating to the 1800s are held in the present National School.

## Events and community

The village has had a monthly cattle and sheep fair since the 1960s and the Ballindine September fair was well known in West of Ireland. The July fair was also called 'The Gooseberry Fair' and Ballindine marked this tradition with an annual 'Gooseberry Festival' until 2002.
The Western Alzheimer's Foundation is headquartered in Ballindine.

## Sport

The Ballindine Gaelic footballers join with Irishtown to form the Davitts team who play in red and black. The combined Davitts club plays in Division 1A league and Senior Championship. In 2011 Davitts won the Intermediate County Championship after beating Burrishoole in the final. They went on to win the Intermediate Connacht Championship after defeating Padraig Pearses.

## Transport

Ballindine railway station was opened on 30 April 1894, and closed on 17 June 1963.
The N17 passes through the village. However, as of 2010, the village was due to be bypassed as part of the Claremorris–Tuam dual-carriageway which (as of 2012) was in the early stages of planning.

## Notable people

* Sabina Coyne, actress and wife of the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, is a native of Cloonrane, a townland in County Galway one kilometre south of Ballindine.
* Pippa Hackett, Green Party) Senator.
* Pat Rabbitte, former leader of the Labour Party, was born in Woodstock, a townland near the village, and still owns a family home there.
# Mohmand Agency bombing

On 9 July 2010, a suicide bombing occurred in a market in Yakaghund, Mohmand Agency, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. At least 104 people were killed while more than 120 people were wounded. This was the last of a streak of attacks that was the record most major terrorist attacks (over 40 deaths) in a row in the Pakistan war on terrorism, with least 7 in a row, much more than the previous record of 2 which happened only 2 times; marking an escalating of the War on Terrorism in Pakistan.

## Background

In late 2009 and early 2010, the Pakistani military had been engaged in a campaign to clear militants from the Mohmand Agency and the surrounding area, with the commander of forces in the area claiming that 80 per cent of militants had been cleared as of September 2009. The area, which borders Kunar Province, Afghanistan, had been the scene of violence prior to the attack as a result of spillover from neighbouring Afghanistan and other areas of Pakistan.

## Attack

At least 104 people were killed and over 120 injured in a bomb blast which left a crater in the road 5 feet (1.5 m) deep. The target of the attack was believed to be a meeting (jirga) of tribal elders near the local government headquarters. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack. According to a local Taliban spokesman, the meeting was targeted as it was convened to discuss a plan against the Taliban.
The attack was thought to be revenge for an offensive carried out by the Pakistani Army against militants in the tribal area. The blast caused significant damage to the market area, as well as to a local prison, from which several prisoners were able to escape through a wall which was partially destroyed.

## Aftermath

The more seriously injured casualties were taken to hospital in Peshawar, the administrative centre of the tribal areas while the less seriously injured were treated in local hospitals. This was the deadliest attack in 2010 in Pakistan up till that time.
# Largo Bay

Largo Bay is a bay on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth, on the coast of Fife, Scotland.
Lower Largo is a village right on the bay, with small harbour. Upper Largo is adjacent, just inland and above the bay and at the foot of Largo Law (an extinct volcano). The Fife Coastal Path, which is a long distance footpath from Kincardine to Newburgh, runs along the side of the bay. There is also a racehorse named Largo Bay after the location, currently trained by Michael Madgwick and owned by Joe Lane.
# Rue Charlemagne

The Rue Charlemagne (French pronunciation:) is a street in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, in the Saint-Gervais quarter, near the Saint-Paul quarter.
# Ordinary Dreams; or How to Survive a Meltdown with Flair

Ordinary Dreams; Or How to Survive a Meltdown with Flair, is a black comedy written by Marcus Markou, which premiered at the Trafalgar Studios on 14 May 2009 and ran until 6 June. The cast included Sia Berkeley, Adrian Bower, James Lance and Imogen Slaughter. The story concerns a character who during a recession has a breakdown and fantasizes about becoming the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
The Spectator magazine review called it "A bourgeois sitcom with a macabre heart and a central character who responds to stress by indulging in a satirical dream-life". The review in The Sunday Times was scathing and gave it one star.
The play was directed by Adam Barnard and produced by James Seabright.
# 1957 Wightman Cup

The 1957 Wightman Cup was the 29th edition of the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held in Edgeworth, Pennsylvania in the United States.
| United States 6 | Edgeworth, Pennsylvania, United States 1957 Grass | Edgeworth, Pennsylvania, United States 1957 Grass | Great Britain 1 |
| 1 2 3 1 Althea Gibson Shirley Bloomer 6 4 4 6 6 2   2 Dorothy Head Knode Christine Truman 6 2 11 9     3 Darlene Hard Ann Haydon 3 6 6 3 4 6   4 Dorothy Head Knode Shirley Bloomer 5 7 6 1 6 2   5 Althea Gibson Christine Truman 6 4 6 2     6 Althea Gibson / Darlene Hard Sheila Armstrong / Shirley Bloomer 6 3 6 4     7 Louise Brough / Margaret Osborne duPont Ann Haydon / Anne Shilcock 6 4 6 1 ||||
# 1963 NCAA College Division Tennis Championships

The 1963 NCAA College Division Tennis Championships were the first annual tournaments to determine the national champions of NCAA College Division men's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States.
Cal State Los Angeles won the inaugural team championship; the Golden Eagles finished two points ahead of runners-up Southern Illinois in the standings (9–7).
This was the first tournament held exclusively for teams from the NCAA's College Division (now Divisions II and III). Larger universities were placed into the University Division (now Division I), whose eighteenth-annual tennis championship was played during May 1963 at Princeton University and won by USC.

## Host site

The 1963 championships were hosted at Washington University in St. Louis.

## Team scoring

Until 1983, the men's team championship was determined by points awarded based on individual performances in the singles and doubles events.
# 1963 NCAA University Division tennis championships

The 1963 NCAA Tennis Championships were the 18th annual tournaments to determine the national champions of University Division men's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States.
Defending champions USC captured the team championship, the Trojans' sixth such title. USC finished eight points ahead of rivals UCLA in the final team standings (27–19).
This was the first tournament held exclusively for teams from the NCAA's University Division (now Division I). Smaller universities were placed into the College Division, whose inaugural tennis championship was played in St. Louis and won by Cal State Los Angeles.

## Host site

This year's tournaments were contested at the Lenz Tennis Center at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.

## Team scoring

Until 1977, the men's team championship was determined by points awarded based on individual performances in the singles and doubles events.
# The Principle of Deference in Islamic Law

The Principle of Deference to variant opinions in Islamic law (Arabic: قاعدة مراعاة الخلاف, romanized: qa'idat mura'at al-khilaf) is a legal rule defined by the Kuwaiti Encyclopedia of Islamic Jurisprudence as: “Whoever believes that something is permissible should refrain from doing it if someone else believes it is forbidden. Likewise, with regard to obligation, it is desirable for someone who sees the permissibility of something to do it if there are among the imams those who see it as obligatory.”

## Scholarly Views

Some scholars take this rule, including:
* Al-Zarkashi
* Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam
* Taj al-Din al-Subki
* al-Suyuti
Some of these scholars consider that staying out of a dispute is better than getting involved in it, and some of them say that being considerate of a dispute is a form of piety. Those who take this rule cite the Qur'an: “Avoid much suspicion; Indeed, some suspicion is sinful,” and the hadith: “Leave what makes you doubt you for what does not make you doubt.”
Among the scholars are those who do not allow it to be taken, including:
* Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

## Conditions for Application

Applying this principle requires certain conditions to be met.
* The first condition: that observance does not lead to violating an established text of Sharia, and this includes two issues:
** The first issue: That observance does not lead to violating the Qur’an or the established Sunnah.
** The second issue: That observance does not lead to violating consensus (ijma').
* The second condition: that it is possible to combine the opinions of the scholars. If the imams disagreed about something with more than one opinion, and it was possible to combine their statements, we would combine them and come out of the disagreement.
# Htun

Htun is a word used in Burmese names. The people of Myanmar have no customary matronymic or patronymic naming system and therefore have no surnames. Notable people with Htun in their name include:
* Htun Htun Min (born 1992), Burmese Lethwei fighter
* Htun Aung (born 1967), Burmese military officer
* Maw Htun Aung (born 1984), Burmese politician, social activist and technologist
* Tet Htun Aung (born 1956), Burmese politician and MP
* Htun Eaindra Bo (born 1966), three-time Myanmar Academy Award-winning actress and singer
* Aik Htun, Burmese businessman, managing director of the Asia Wealth Bank
* Htet Htet Htun (born 1992), Burmese actress, TV Host, model and beauty pageant titleholder
* Htun Htun (born 1983), Burmese actor and singer
* Kyi Soe Htun (born 1945), award-winning film director, producer and screenwriter of Burmese cinema
* Mala Htun (1969–2025), American political scientist, professor of political science at the University of New Mexico
* Naing Zayar Htun (born 1985), footballer from Burma
* Nan Sandar Hla Htun (born 1993), Burmese actress, model and former beauty queen
* Sai Sam Htun (born 1946), Burmese businessman and founder of Loi Hein Company
* Sao San Htun (1907–1947), the hereditary chief of the Shan State of Mongpawn
* Sein Lyan Htun, short film director from Myanmar who has won international awards
* Si Phyo Htun (born 1990), Burmese actor
* Thein Htun (born 1947), retired Burmese Major-general and politician
* U Chan Htun (1906–1988), Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma
* Wynn Zaw Htun (born 1982), Burmese chess International Master
* Zaw Win Htun (born 1992), Burmese singer of ethnic Rakhine descent
* Htun Lwin (1948–2019), Burmese meteorologist
* Ye Htun Min (born 1984), Burmese hip hop singer-songwriter, musician, actor and model
* Htun Myint Naing, aka Steven Law, Burmese businessman
* Htun Htun Oo (politician) (born 1961), Burmese politician and MP
* Htun Htun Oo (attorney-general), the Attorney General of Myanmar (Burma)
* Htun Htun Oo (chief justice) (born 1956), the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Myanmar (Burma)
* Khun Htun Oo (1943–2022), chairman of Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD)
* Htun Naung Sint (born 1997), Burmese singer and actor
* Yupar Htun Tin (born 1993), Burmese model, make-up artist, and beauty influencer
* Htun Wai (1920–2005), three-time Myanmar Academy Award-winning Burmese actor