After 2010 redistricting, Stark campaigned for the 15th district seat in 2012, narrowly finished first in the primary but lost in the general election to fellow Democrat Eric Swalwell.
Stark had been the longest-serving member of Congress from California, serving continuously from January 3, 1973 through January 3, 2013.
Stark was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was raised in San Francisco, California. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1972, Stark moved to Oakland to run in the Democratic primary against 14-term incumbent U.S. Representative George Paul Miller of Alameda in what was then the 8th district. In the 1972 general election, he defeated Republican Lew Warden with 53% of the vote. He was re-elected a total of 18 times until loosing in the 2012 primaries to Eric Swalwell.
On October 18, 2007, Stark made the following comments on the House floor during a debate with Congressman Joe Barton of Texas:
Following the initial criticism to his statements, when asked by a radio station if he would take back any of his statements, Stark responded "Absolutely not. I may have dishonored the Commander-in-Chief, but I think he’s done pretty well to dishonor himself without any help from me."
Stark revealed he was an atheist in 2007, which made him the first openly atheist member of Congress. In 1989, he married Carolyn Layton nee Wente. They divorced in 1991. He then married Deborah Roderick.
Stark died on January 24, 2020 at his home near Annapolis, Maryland of leukemia, aged 88.
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Joe Barton
Joe Linus Barton (born September 15, 1949) is an American Republican politician. He represented in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 2019. He is a member of the Tea Party Caucus.
Barton supported deregulation of the electricity and natural gas industries, and serves as vice-chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committees.
Barton was divorced from his first wife in 1992, remarried in 2002, and divorced from his second wife in 2015. He has four children.
In November 2017, nude selfie pictures of Barton surfaced online, which he acknowledged were authentic, and which he apologized for to his constituents. An anonymous Twitter user posted the photo of Barton. Many people believe that Barton is a victim of "revenge porn" (the act of posting sexual-related media without the person's permission).
William Reynolds Archer Jr.
William Reynolds “Bill” Archer Jr. (born March 22, 1928) is a American lawyer and politician. Archer served two terms, from 1967 to 1971, in the Texas House of Representatives – changing from the Democratic to the Republican party in 1969.
Archer Jr. later represented Texas in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican for 30 years, from 1971 until 2001, serving for his last six years as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.
Kevin Brady
Kevin Patrick Brady (born April 11, 1955) is an American politician. He is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1997. He is a member of the Republican Party.
United States House Committee on Ways and Means
The Committee on Ways and Means is the chief tax-writing committee of the United States House of Representatives.
Members of the Ways and Means Committee are not allowed to serve on any other House Committee unless they apply for a waiver from their party's congressional leadership.
The U.S. Constitution requires that all bills about taxation must come from in the House of Representatives. Since House rules is that all bills about taxation must go through this committee, the committee is very important, as is its Senate counterpart, the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance.
Recent chairs have included William Reynolds Archer Jr., Bill Thomas, Charles Rangel, Sander Levin, and Dave Camp. On November 4, 2015 Representative Kevin Brady of Texas was chosen to replace Representative Paul Ryan as chairman.
ERTU
The Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU), "Ittihād al-Idhā‘ah wal-Tilīfizyūn al-Miṣrī"), formerly the Arab Radio and Television Union, is the public broadcaster of Egypt, operated by the Egyptian government. It is a member of the European Broadcasting Union.
Egyptian Radio began broadcasting on 31 May 1934 in agreement with the Marconi Company. The General Manager of the station was Said Basha Lotfi from May 1934 to December 1947. In December 1947, the contract with Marconi was suspended in favour of an Egyptian national broadcasting station. The station is known also for its call "This is Cairo" (in Arabic هنا القاهرة pronounced Houna al Qaahira). It is considered the First Program (in Arabic البرنامج الأول) of the ERTU.
Later on three main new radio channels were added, the pan-Arab The Voice of the Arabs (صوت العرب) in 1953, Egyptian Radio's Second Programme (البرنامج الثاني) in 1957 and the pan-Arab Middle East Radio (إذاعة الشرق الأوسط) in 1964. All four stations broadcast on high powered medium wave transmitters covering most of the Middle East and North and East Africa.
There are six state-owned broadcast and satellite channels in Egypt:
Nilesat allowed for the launch of several specialized TV channels in addition to Egyptian Satellite Channel (ESC) and Nile TV. All are owned by the Egyptian state.
Specialized channels include:
Richard Neal
Richard Edmund Neal (born February 14, 1949) is an American politician and the U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Democratic Party and a former city councilor and mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Following the Democrats winning the House majority, Neal became the next Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee in January 2019.
Temuera Morrison
Temuera Derek Morrison (born 26 December 1960) is a New Zealand actor. He is known for his role as Dr. Hone Ropata on the New Zealand soap opera "Shortland Street". He later starred as Jake "The Muss" Heke in the 1994 movie "Once Were Warriors" and its 1999 sequel "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?."
Morrison became known internationally after playing bounty hunter Jango Fett in "" (2002) and Commander Cody in "" (2005). He also played Boba Fett in the post-2004 reprints of "The Empire Strikes Back" and in "The Mandalorian". Recently, he became known for voicing Chief Tui in Disney's" Moana" (2016).
Psephology
Psephology (from Greek "psephos" ψῆφος, 'pebble', as the Greeks used pebbles as ballots) is a branch of political science which deals with the study and scientific analysis of elections.
Farmway LRT Station
Farmway LRT Station is a light rail transit station in Sengkang, Singapore. It opened on November 15 2007. It is part of the Sengkang LRT Line.
Its name was from the old roads near the station.
SBS Transit Website
Chinese calligraphy
Chinese calligraphy is calligraphy that is done in China. Chinese calligraphy is compared to painting, poetry, and music.
In China, calligraphy is called "shūfǎ" (). It means "way/method/law of writing". It is called "shodō" () in Japan. It means "way of writing" in Japanese. It is called "seoye" () in Korea. It means "skill of writing" in Korean.
Four of the most important tools in Chinese calligraphy are called the "Four Treasures of the Study". They are the ink brushes, the ink, the paper, and the inkstone. Many calligraphers also usually use water-droppers, paperweights.
Calligraphy usually follows a certain order when writing.
Turkey Time
Turkey Time (gmt+3) (also called gmt+3) is a time zone used in Turkey since September 2016. The time is 3 hours ahead of gmt. In 2016, Turkey's government had decided to scrap daylight saving time changes to the country.Northern Cyprus followed Turkey on October 30, 2016but returned to Eastern European Time on October 29, 2017.In October 2017, the Turkish government announced to return to daylight saving time on October 28, 2018,but later cancelled these plans.
Compassvale LRT Station