Clinton Lake is a reservoir on the southwestern part of Lawrence, Kansas. The lake was created by Clinton Dam being built. The 35 square miles (91 km²) of land and water is maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Clinton Lake is formed mostly by the Wakarusa River coming east from Shawnee County. The Wakarusa River goes through the Clinton Dam. It stays south of Lawrence, and it continues east to the Kansas River near Eudora. Main tributaries include Deer Creek, Rock Creek, Washington Creek, Dry Creek, Coon Creek and Camp Creek.
Cities along or near Clinton Lake include Clinton, Stull and Lawrence.
The woods around the lake have many white tail deer, quail, wild turkey, doves, rabbits, and squirrels. Bald eagles, great blue heron, gulls, cormorants, and various types of birds that travel. This includes American white pelicans and Canada geese. They can be seen above and around the lake at different times of the year. Clinton Lake also has many fish.
Bogusław Schaeffer
Bogusław Julien Schaeffer (6 June 1929 – 1 July 2019) was a Polish composer, musicologist and graphic artist. He a member of the avant-garde "Cracow Group" of Polish composers alongside Krzysztof Penderecki and others. He was a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Kraków from 1963. He was also an academic teacher at Hochschule für Music in Salzburg, Austria. Schaeffer's "Klavier Konzert" was on the soundtrack of David Lynch's 2006 movie "Inland Empire".
Schaeffer was born in Lwów, now Lviv, Ukraine. He died on 1 July 2019 in Salzburg, at the age of 90.
Djibouti at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Djibouti competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia which was held 15 September to 1 October. This was the fifth time Dijibouti went to the olympics since their first time in 1984 in Los Angeles. Dijibouti sent two athletes to the Olympics in 2000, both participated in track and field events. The two athletes were; Omar Daher Gadid who competed in the men's marathon and Roda Ali Wais who competed in the women's 800 meters. Gadid did not finish the marathon while Ali Wais did not pass the first round of her event.
There was only one female athlete from Dijibouti to compete in the 2000 Olympics. This was Roda Ali Wais. She set a record for being the youngest female from Dijibouti to compete in the olympics. She was 16 years old. She was also the first woman from Dijibouti to compete in the olympics. She participated in the second heat of the women's 800 meter event. She finished last in her heat. Only the top two athletes from her heat qualified to move on to the next event.
There was only one male athlete from Dijibouti to compete in the 2000 Olympics. This was Omar Daher Gadid. He competed in the men's marathon. He did not finish the marathon. There were 18 other athletes that did not finish the marathon. An athlete from Ethiopia won gold medal in the event.
Judicial activism
Judicial activism is about judicial decisions that are thought of being based on personal opinion, rather than on existing law. It is sometimes used as an antonym of judicial restraint.
Kansas Supreme Court
The Kansas Supreme Court is the most powerful court in the state of Kansas. It has seven justices. It is led by Chief Justice Lawton Nuss, the court supervises the legal profession, administers the judicial branch, and serves as the state court of last resort in the appeals process.
After the Kansas–Nebraska Act passed in 1854, President Franklin Pierce chose Samuel Dexter LeCompte as the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Kansas Territory.
In "State v. Limon", the Kansas Supreme Court unanimously struck down part of a law that sentenced Matthew Limon to prison over a decade longer than a heterosexual would have received. This was because there were different age of consent laws for homosexuals.
The court has ruled that the $2.7 billion in school funding was not good enough and was given out unfairly. It then suggested the Kansas legislature increase money for schools and change the way the money was given out. Many Republicans saw this as judicial activism. Some Republicans called for changes in how justices are chosen.
In "Hermesmann v. Seyer", the Court said that a woman is can sue the father of her child for child support even if conception happened because of a criminal act (such as statutory rape) committed by the woman against the father. It also said that a mother being a possible criminal due to the criminal statutes had nothing to do with determining the father's child support amount.
Abilene, Kansas
Abilene (pronounced ) is a city in Dickinson County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat. In 2010, 6,844 people lived there. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum is in Abilene.
Abilene is at (38.919721, −97.217329). It has an elevation of 1,155 feet (352 m). The city is on the north side of the Smoky Hill River in the Flint Hills region of the Great Plains.
The United States Census Bureau says the city has an area of . All of it is land.
Abilene has one daily newspaper, "The Abilene Reflector-Chronicle".
These radio stations are in Abilene:
AM
FM
Abilene is in the Wichita-Hutchinson, Kansas television market.
Five-star general and President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower is from Abilene. President Eisenhower is buried in Abilene, along with his wife Mamie and their eldest son Doud. They are buried on the grounds of his presidential library.
Buchegg
Buchegg is a municipality in the district of Bucheggberg in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. The municipality was created on 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Aetigkofen, Aetingen, Bibern, Brügglen, Gossliwil, Hessigkofen, Küttigkofen, Kyburg-Buchegg, Mühledorf and Tscheppach merged to form the new municipality of Buchegg.
Sándor Popovics (footballer)
Sándor Popovics (22 June 1939 — 1 July 2019) was a Hungarian-Dutch association football manager and a professional footballer in the position of forward. He was born in Keszthely, Hungary.
As a footballer he played for Újpest Dózsa (1958–1960). He continued his football career in Germany at SpVgg Fürth (1960–1963) and later moved to Holland to play for Sparta (1963–64), and FC Zaanstreek (1964–1966).
After retiring form playing, Popovics coached Dutch amateur clubs Quick (1970–1971), MVV '27 (1971–1972), RFC Rotterdam (1972–1974), Overmaas (1974-1976), Unitas (1976–1977), Xerxes (1977–1978) and Barendrecht (1978–1980).
He also held the position of general manager at ADO Den Haag and was named head scout at NAC in February 2002
He became a naturalized Dutch citizen in 1970. Popovics died on 1 July 2019 from Alzheimer's disease in Roosendaal, Netherlands, aged 80.
Ralph Brill
Ralph L. Brill (December 19, 1935 – June 21, 2019) was an American legal scholar. He was born in Chicago. Brill was Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He was Dean of the college from 1970 to 1974. His works helped shape some rules and requirements for the American Bar Association.
Brill died on June 21, 2019 in Chicago at the age of 83.
Theotokos
Theotokos (Greek: ) is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus, used especially in Eastern Christianity.
Djibouti at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Djibouti competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, United States. These were July 28 to August 12. This was the first Olympic Games Dijibouti participated in. Dijibouti sent three athletes to Los Angles. All three competed in marathon events. The three athletes were; Djama Robleh, Ahmed Salah, and Omar Abdillahi Charmarke. None of them won a medal.
All three of the athletes from Dijibouti competed in the men's marathon. The marathon started at Santa Monica College and finished at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Djama Robleh was the flag bearer for Djibouti. He finished in eighth place. His time was two hours, eleven minutes, and thirty-nine seconds.