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Harry suffers another emotional blow, when his godfather, Sirius Black is killed during a battle with Death Eaters at the Department of Mysteries, but Harry ultimately defeats Voldemort's plan to steal an important prophecy and helps uncover Umbridge's sinister motives.
Rowling stated: "And now he [Harry] will rise from the ashes strengthened."
A sideplot of Order of the Phoenix involves Harry's romance with Cho Chang, but the relationship quickly unravels.
Says Rowling: "They were never going to be happy, it was better that it ended early!"
In the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry enters a tumultuous puberty that, Rowling says, is based on her and her younger sister's own difficult teenage years.
Rowling also made an intimate statement about Harry's personal life: "Because of the demands of the adventure that Harry is following, he has had less sexual experience than boys of his age might have had".
This inexperience with romance was a factor in Harry's failed relationship with Cho Chang.
Now his thoughts concern Ginny Weasley, Ron's sister, a vital plot point in the last chapter when Harry ends their budding romance to protect her from Voldemort.
A new character appears when former Hogwarts Potions master Horace Slughorn returns to replace Severus Snape, who takes over the Defence Against the Dark Arts post.
Harry excels in Potions by using an old textbook once belonging to a talented student known only as, "The Half-Blood Prince."
The book contains many handwritten notes, revisions, and new spells; Hermione, however, believes Harry using it is cheating.
Through private meetings with Dumbledore, Harry learns about Lord Voldemort's orphaned youth, his rise to power, and how he splintered his soul into Horcruxes to achieve immortality.
Two Horcruxes have been destroyed, and Harry and Dumbledore locate another, although it is a fake.
When Death Eaters invade Hogwarts, Snape kills Dumbledore.
As Snape escapes, he proclaims that he is the Half-Blood Prince–Harry's admired mentor is actually his hated enemy.
It now falls upon Harry to find and destroy Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes and to avenge Dumbledore's death.
In a 2005 interview with NBC anchorwoman Katie Couric, Rowling stated that [after the events in the sixth book] Harry has, "taken the view that they are now at war.
He does become more battle hardened.
He’s now ready to go out fighting.
And he’s after revenge [against Voldemort and Snape]."
Final book
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry, Ron and Hermione leave Hogwarts to complete Dumbledore's task: to search for and destroy Voldemort's remaining four Horcruxes, and then find and kill the Dark Lord.
The three put themselves against Voldemort's newly formed totalitarian police state, an action that tests Harry's courage and moral character.
According to J.K. Rowling, a telling scene in which Harry uses Cruciatus and Imperius (unforgivable curses for torture and mind-control) on Voldemort's servants shows a side to Harry that is "flawed and mortal."
However, she explains that, "He is also in an extreme situation and attempting to defend somebody very good against a violent and murderous opponent".
Harry comes to recognise that his own single-mindedness makes him predictable to his enemies and often clouds his perceptions.
When Severus Snape is killed by Voldemort later in the story, Harry realises that Snape was not the traitorous murderer he believed him to be, but a tragic anti-hero who was loyal to Albus Dumbledore.
In Chapter 33 ("The Prince's Tale") Snape's memories show that he loved Harry's mother Lily Evans, but their friendship ended over his association with future Death Eaters and "blood purity" beliefs.
When Voldemort killed the Potters, a grieving Snape vowed to protect Lily's child, although he loathed young Harry for being James Potter's son.
It is also revealed that Snape did not kill Albus Dumbledore, but carried out Dumbledore's prearranged plan.
Dumbledore, who was dying from a slow-spreading curse, wanted to protect Snape's position within the Death Eaters and spare Draco Malfoy from completing Voldemort's task to murder him.
To defeat Harry, Voldemort steals the Elder Wand from Dumbledore's tomb.
It is the most powerful wand ever created, and he twice casts the Killing Curse on Harry with it.
The first attempt merely stuns Harry into a deathlike state.
In the chapter "King's Cross", Dumbledore's spirit tells Harry that when Voldemort failed to kill baby Harry and disembodied himself, Harry became an unintentional Horcrux; Voldemort could not kill Harry while the Dark Lord's soul shard was within Harry's body.
Voldemort's second Killing Curse also fails because Voldemort used Harry's blood in his resurrection.
Voldemort's soul shard within Harry was destroyed because Harry willingly faced death.
In the next chapter, "The Flaw in the Plan", it is established that Harry, not Voldemort, became the Elder Wand's true master.
In the book's climax, the Elder Wand disobeys the Dark Lord's command and rebounds the curse onto Voldemort, killing him.
J.K. Rowling said, the difference between Harry and Voldemort is that Harry willingly accepts mortality, making him stronger than his nemesis. "
The real master of Death accepts that he must die, and that there are much worse things in the world of the living."
After Voldemort's defeat, Harry joins the Auror Office for a revolutionised Ministry of Magic.
Ten years afterwards, Harry is appointed department head by new Minister of Magic Kingsley Shacklebolt.
Ron, who helped George run the Weasley Wizarding Wheezes Joke Shop for a time, is also an Auror.
In the end, Rowling said his old rival Draco Malfoy has overcome his animosity after Harry saved his life three times in the seventh book.
In the Deathly Hallows epilogue, set nineteen years after Voldemort's death (i.e. 2017), Harry and Ginny are married and have three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lilly Luna.
In the eight Harry Potter movies from 2001-2011, Harry Potter has been played by British actor Daniel Radcliffe.
Radcliffe was asked to audition for the role of Harry Potter in 2000 by producer David Heyman, while in at a play titled Stones in His Pockets in London.
The Harry Potter role has earned much money for Radcliffe.
As of 2007, he has an estimated wealth of £17 million.
In a 2007 interview with MTV, Radcliffe stated that, for him, Harry Potter is a classic coming of age character: "That's what the movies are about for me: a loss of innocence, going from being a young kid in awe of the world around him, to someone who is more battle-hardened by the end of it."
He also said that for him, important factors in Harry's psyche are his survivor's guilt about the death of his parents and his lingering loneliness.
Because of this, Radcliffe talked to a bereavement counsellor to help him prepare for the role.
Radcliffe was quoted as saying that he wished for Harry to die in the books, but he clarified that he, "can't imagine any other way they can be concluded".
After reading the last book, where Harry Potter and his friends survive and have children, Radcliffe stated to be glad about the ending and lauded author J. K. Rowling for the conclusion of the story.
Characterisation
According to author J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter is strongly guided by his own conscience, and has a keen feeling of what is right and what is wrong.
Having "very limited access to truly caring adults", Rowling said, Harry "is forced to make his own decisions from early age on."
He "does make mistakes", she conceded, but in the end, he does what his conscience tells him to do.
According to Rowling, one of Harry's pivotal scenes came in the fourth book when he protects his dead schoolmate Cedric Diggory's body from arch villain Lord Voldemort, because it shows he is brave and unselfish.
Rowling also said that Harry's two worst character flaws are "anger and occasional arrogance", but that Harry is also innately honourable. "
He's competitive, and he's a fighter.
He doesn't just lie down and take abuse.
But he does have native integrity, which makes him a hero to me.
He's a normal boy but with those qualities most of us really admire."
After the seventh book, Rowling commented that Harry has the ultimate character strength, being able to do what even Voldemort can not: he is not afraid of death.
Rowling has also maintained that Harry is a suitable real-life role model for children. "
The advantage of a fictional hero or heroine is that you can know them better than you can know a living hero, many of whom you would never meet […] if people like Harry and identify with him, I am pleased, because I think he is very likeable."
Outward appearance
Rowling also gave Harry Potter an uncanny outward appearance.
Throughout the entire series, Harry sports his father's perpetually untidy black hair, his mother's green eyes, and a lightning bolt-shaped scar on his forehead because of his encounter with Lord Voldemort and round, thick eyeglasses.
She explained that this image simply came to her when she first thought up Harry Potter, seeing him as a "scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy".
In the books, Harry's scar serves as an indicator of Voldemort's presence: it burns when the Dark Lord is near or feeling particularly murderous or exultant.
According to Rowling, by attacking Harry when he was a baby, Voldemort gave him "tools (that) no other wizard possessed – the scar, and the ability it conferred, provided a magical window into Voldemort's mind."
Asked why Harry's forehead scar is lightning bolt-shaped, Rowling said, "to be honest, because it’s a cool shape," and joked, "I couldn’t have my hero sport a doughnut-shaped scar."
Abilities and interests
In the books, Harry is categorised as a "half-blood" wizard in the series, because although both his parents were magical, his mother, Lily Evans, was "Muggle-born".
According to Rowling, to characters for whom wizarding blood purity matters, Lily would be considered "as loathsome as a Muggle", and derogatively referred to as a "Mudblood".
Throughout the series, Rowling wrote Harry Potter as a gifted wizard apprentice.
She stated in a 2000 interview with South West News Service that Harry Potter is "particularly talented" in Defence Against the Dark Arts, and also good in Quidditch.
Rowling said in the same interview that until about halfway through the third book, his good friend Hermione Granger –written as the smartest student in Harry's year– would have beaten Harry in a magical duel.
From the fourth book onwards, Rowling admits Harry has become quite talented in the Defence Against the Dark Arts and would beat his friend Hermione in a magical duel.
His power is evident from the beginning of the series; specifically, Harry shows immediate command of a broomstick, produces a Patronus at an early age and survives several confrontations with Voldemort.
Harry is able to speak and understand Parseltongue, a language associated with Dark Magic, which, according to Rowling, is because he harbours a piece of Lord Voldemort's soul.
After Voldemort destroys that soul piece in the seventh book's climax, Harry loses the ability to speak Parseltongue.
Harry "is very glad" to have lost this gift.
According to Rowling, Harry's favourite book is Quidditch Through the Ages, an actual book that Rowling wrote (under the pseudonym Kennilworthy Whisp) for the Comic Relief charity.
When Harry's parents were murdered by Lord Voldemort, they left behind a large pile of wizard's gold, used as currency in the world of magic, in a vault in the wizarding bank, Gringotts.
This becomes Harry's source of paying for all of his Hogwarts textbooks, wizarding clothing, and spending money.
As is the case with most wizards in the Harry Potter series, his wand is among his most valued magical items.
Harry's is made of holly, a wood Rowling chose because it is said to get rid of evil.
It forms a deliberate contrast to the wand of his nemesis Lord Voldemort, whose wand is made of yew, which symbolises death.
Rowling states she later learned that in the Celtic calendar a type of wood is assigned to each month; and Harry's fictional birthday (31 July) is linked to holly.
Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger also happened to get wands made from the appropriate woods identified the Celtic calendar, according to their fictional birth months.
Another valued and useful possession is Harry's Cloak of Invisibility.
In his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he gets it anonymously as a Christmas gift.
He later learns it was given by Albus Dumbledore, who had it in turn from Harry's father.
Harry also owns half of a pair of two-way mirrors, given by his godfather Sirius Black, as a means of maintaining covert communications.
In Book 7, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when Harry and several friends are captured at Malfoy Manor, which Lord Voldemort was using as his headquarters, Harry uses the mirror to communicate with Aberforth Dumbledore, who sends rescue in the form of Dobby the House Elf.
After Sirius' death, all of his remaining possessions were passed along to Harry.
This included the Black family residence, located at Number Twelve Grimmauld Place, and all the contents and furnishings of the house, including Kreacher (the old Black family House Elf).
Harry also inherited the remainder of Sirius' wealth in wizard's gold at Gringotts.
Another notable possession of Harry's is a magical knife, given to him by Sirius Black.
The knife has the power to open most mechanical locks and magical seals.
The knife was destroyed when Harry attempted to use it on a lock in the Department of Mysteries, when instead of opening the desired lock, an enchantment destroyed the knife's blade.
By the end of Deathly Hallows, Harry possesses all three Deathly Hallows: the Cloak of Invisibility, the Resurrection Stone, and the Elder Wand, They are three of the most powerful magical items in all of the wizarding-world.
However, Harry lost the Resurrection Stone inside the Forbidden Forest, and decides to leave it there.
Harry also takes the Elder Wand and lays it with Dumbledore's body, so the power of the wand might be extinguished if he dies a natural death.(In the movie, Harry destroys it by snapping it in half.)
However, the new portrait of Dumbledore in the Headmaster's Office agrees that Harry should keep the Invisibility Cloak for himself, since it was his father's.
Throughout most of the books, Harry also has a pet owl named Hedwig, used to deliver and get messages and packages.
When Hedwig is killed in the seventh book, the author said she expected the strong emotional reaction of her readers: "The loss of Hedwig represented a loss of innocence and security.
She has been almost like a cuddly toy to Harry at times.
I know that death upset a lot of people!"
In the novels, Harry is the only child of James and Lily Potter, but orphaned as an infant.
Rowling made Harry an orphan from the early drafts of her first book.
She felt an orphan would be the most interesting character to write about.
However, after her mother's death, Rowling wrote Harry as a child longing to see his dead parents again, incorporating her own anguish into him.
Harry's aunt and uncle kept the truth about their deaths from Harry, telling him they died in a car accident.
Through his marriage to Ginny Weasley, Harry links the Peverell and the House of Black families.
It is unknown whether there have been other links between the two families' history, but this is possible, as they are among the most prominent wizarding families.
In 2002, Harry Potter was voted No.
85 among the "100 Best Fictional Characters" by Book magazine and also voted the 35th "Worst Briton" in Channel 4's "100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate" program.
In addition, Harry Potter is spoofed in the Barry Trotter series by American writer Michael Gerber, where a "Barry Trotter" appears as the eponymous anti-hero.
On his homepage, Gerber describes Trotter as an unpleasant character who "drinks too much, eats like a pig, sleeps until noon, and owes everybody money."
The author stated "[s]ince I really liked Rowling's books […] I felt obligated to try to write a spoof worthy of the originals."
In real life, Harry's iconoclastic appearance has become cult.
According to halloweenonline.com, Harry Potter sets were the fifth-best selling Halloween costume of 2005.
In addition, wizard rock bands like Harry and the Potters and others regularly dress up in the style of Harry Potter, sporting painted forehead scars, black wigs and round bottle top glasses.
Wizard rock is a musical movement dating from 2002 that consists of at least 200 bands made up of young musicians, playing songs about Harry Potter.
The movement started in Massachusetts with the band Harry and the Potters, who cosplay as Harry during live performances
Harry Potter appears in the Robot Chicken episode "Nutcracker Sweet" voiced by Seth Green.
He is shown to have Firebolt in a delicate place on himself.
Quinton Flynn voices Harry Potter in the episode "Password: Swordfish."
When the threat of the puberty creature Pubertis is known, Harry sees Dumbledore about this and receives a stone that might help him fight Pubertis.
Upon confrontation with Pubertis, he rubs the stone two times, which summons ghosts to punch it.
When it comes to the third time, (the stone starts "chafing") Dumbledore appears and tells Harry that the stone can only be warmed up three times (four if you take a week off) and that Pubertis cannot be destroyed since it lives in everyone.
In Epic Movie, a 2007 parody movie, he is played by Canadian comedian Kevin McDonald, whereas Harry is portrayed as being somewhat of a pervert as seen when Harry tries to touch Susan Pevensie's breasts.
Episodes of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy has spoofed Harry as Nigel Planter.
Unlike Harry, Nigel has an L-shaped scar on his forehead.
In an episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Potter is referenced trice, once when Jimmy is watching a reel of movies rapidly (Where Hagrid says "You're a Wizard, Harry") and later in the filming for Jimmy's movie, as Jimmy plays a parody of Harry, called "Terry Bladder".
Wizards of Waverly Place once referenced Harry, as Justin was wearing a robe and glasses like Harry, to which Alex comments on with trying to guess who he looks like ("Barry something", "Jerry something", etc.)
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Oregon-grape, Berberis aquifolium  or Mahonia aquifolium is a shrub whose classification is in dispute, generally considered as Mahonia.
Recently, this classification has been supported by their rusts.
Originally, the Oregon Holly Grape (Mahonia aquifolium) is from the Pacific Northwest of United States of America.
Cultivated in Europe, and bird dispersed has became a weed, not restricted to gardens
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Alma Center is a village in Jackson County, Wisconsin, United States.
The population is 446 people as of 2000.
The area of Alma Center is about 1 square mile, thanks to the United States Census Bureau.
The Blair Press Alma Center - Local newspaper
Almena is a village in Barron County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
The population is 720 people as of 2000.
The area of Almena is about 1 square mile, thanks to the United States Census Bureau.
Almond is a village in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States.
The population was 459 people in 2000.
The area of Almond is 1 square mile, thanks to the United States Census Bureau.
Flowering almond, an ornamental shrub, also known as the Korean cherry
Indian almond, an ornamental shade tree also known as the Umbrella tree
River Almond (Scotland)
Almond (town), Wisconsin
Almond, New York:
Almond (village), New York
Almond (town), New York
West Almond, New York
Almond Township, Minnesota
Almond Elementary School (Los Altos, California)
Steve Almond, American author
Edward Almond, American military officer
Gabriel Almond, American Prolific Political Scientist
James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor of Virginia
Lincoln Almond, Governor of Rhode Island
Marc Almond, English vocalist and recording artist
David Almond, British writer
Mark Almond, British writer
Paul Almond, Canadian television and motion picture director and novelist
Philipp van Almonde, Dutch vice Admiral
Mark-Almond, English music group of the 1970s
Amherst is a village in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States.
The population is 1,035 people as of 2010.
Village of Amherst website
AmherstPublic Schools
Amherst Girl Scouts
Amherst Junction is a village in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States.
The population is 305 people as of 2000.
Amherst Junction has an area of 1.2 square miles, of which .04 square miles is water.
Professor Alan Dix of Lancaster University is an author of text books.
He took part in the 1979 Maths Olympiad in Romania for the UK Team and got a silver medal.
Alan Dix Homepage
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Chien Hsin University (UCH; traditional Chinese:健行科技大學；simplified Chinese:健行科技大学) is a university in Jhongli City, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
CYU is also known as Chien Hsin Tech (健行科大).
Chien Hsin University opened in 1933 and now about 10,000 students go there.
The university is noted for teaching and research in the science and engineering, especially energy engineering.
Colleges and universities in Taiwan
20th-century establishments in Taiwan
A native of Santiago de Compostela in the Galicia region of northwest Spain, she wrote in both Galician  and Castilian.
La Flor (1857) (the Flower)
A mi madre (1863) (to my mother)
En las orillas del Sar (1884)
La hija del mar (1859) (the daughter of the sea)
Flavio (1861)
El cadiceño (1863)
Ruinas (1866)
Las literatas (1866)
El caballero de las botas azules (1867)
El primer loco (1881)
El domingo de Ramos (1881)
Padrón y las inundaciones (1881)
People from Santiago de Compostela
Road surface or pavement (American English) is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended for vehicle  or foot traffic.
It is used primarily as a road surface.
Pavement, (British English) generally refers to a sidewalk or walkway.
In the past, gravel road surfaces, cobblestone and granite setts were extensively used.
These surfaces have mostly been replaced by asphalt or concrete laid on a compacted base course.
Road surfaces are frequently marked to guide traffic.
In 1984 Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House on the Prairie, while traveling in a wagon with her parents, wrote about the first time she saw pavement:
The first paved roads were created by the Carthaginians about 600 BC.
The ancient Romeand destroyed Carthage but may have borrowed the idea of paved roads.
They went on to build over  of roads throughout their empire.
Thomas Telford (1757–1834) was a Scottish civil engineer.
He is noted for building flat roads that required fewer horses to pull the wagons.
His roads were well designed and supported heavy loads.
John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), was a Scottish engineer and road-builder.
He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface that drained quickly.
His roads were more durable and less muddy than soil-based roads.
By 1870, in the United States roads were being built using asphalt spread with rakes and made compact by steam rollers.
In 1894, Clifford Richardson, an American engineer, determined that roads paved with asphalt did not contain enough coarse gravel.
He produced a specification for the most durable pavement of the time.
By 1907, 1907 natural asphalt was being used less than petroleum-based asphalt for roads.
Automobiles became more popular and more roads were needed.
This created new methods of producing asphalt.
World War II created a need for better and stronger pavement on which to land heavy aircraft.
The ancient Romans were the earliest large-scale users of concrete.
But after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, concrete was only used rarely.
Concrete as a building material was redeveloped in the mid-18th century.
One of the most significant uses of concrete pavement came about in the 1950s with the start of the Interstate Highway System in the US.
There are about 45,000 miles of interstate highway in the US.
About 60 percent is concrete.
The Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) is a Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The ministry's headquarters are still in Bonn and the second office is in Berlin.
The Federal Ministry of Health Services () was formed in 1961.
Between 1969 and 1991 it was part of the Federal Ministry of Youth, Family, and Health or Youth, Family, Women and Health
It became independent again as the Federal Ministry of Health in 1991.
In 2002 it took over control of Social Security, but the in Federal Ministry of Health and Social Security () only lasted for three years.
In 2005 it was reduced to just health, and the Social security part of its work went to the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs ()
Jobs of the BMG
Keeping efficient the
legal health insurance system
nursing insurance system
Protecting and improving the quality of the health service
Protecting the interests of the patients
Keeping membership rates
Promote good health and prevention, including
:Infection protection law
Other agencies
Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Products ()(BfArM) in Bonn
Federal Centre for Health Education ()(BZgA) in Cologne
German institute for medical documentation and information () (DIMDI) in Cologne
Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Pei), (Federal Office of Serums and vaccines) ()in Langen (Hesse.)
Robert Koch-Institut (RKI) in Berlin
Other health ministries
The European commission deals with health matters through either the health and consumer protection office or the office for occupation, social matters and equal opportunities
The state health ministries in Germany are often part of the state Department of Social Security. *
In Austrian health is part of the Federal Ministry of Health and Women
In Switzerland the health department is part of the Ministry of the Interior in Bern.
The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety of Germany (BMU) is a ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Its first headquarters is in Bonn.
It has a second base in Berlin.
The Federal Ministry of the Environment () is in charge of the ecological policy of the federal government.
It is also in charge of environmental protection.
Being in charge of nuclear reactor safety helps the BMU protect the environment.
The Federal minister appoints two junior ministers () to help him.
These two help the minister in the Bundestag and in making policy, they have no power to make rules or change the way the department works.
Department ZG: Central division, environmental protection
Department AI: Climate protection, renewable energies and international cooperation
Department WA: Water-supply, waste management, soil conservation and residual wastes
Department IG: Pollution protection and health consequences, environment and traffic, plants and chemical safety
Department N: Nature and protection of species, genetic engineering, countryside and forestry *Department RS: Radiation protection,
The Federal Office of Conservation Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN),
the Federal Office of Radiation Protection Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS) and
the Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt
Rat von Sachverständigen für Umweltfragen (SRU), the Committee of Experts on Environmental Questions *Wissenschaftlichen Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU), The Scientific Advisory Board on Global Environment Changes
the Reaktorsicherheitskommission (RSK), the Reactor Safety Commission
the Strahlenschutzkommission (SSK),the Radiation Protection Commission
the Störfall-Kommission (SFK), the "Disruptive Incident" Commission
the Technischen Ausschuss für Anlagensicherheit (TAA) the Technical Committee on Systems Safety and
the Umweltgutachterausschuss (UGA) Environmental Experts Committee.
In 2005 the BMU's budget was 769 million euros.
This is about ten percent of the total amount spent on the environment by the federal government.
This is because several other ministries also have money to spent on environmental tasks.
The ministry was set up on 6 June 1986, about five weeks after the serious reactor disaster at Chernobyl.
The Federal Government wanted to bring all responsibility for preventing a disaster in Germany, or clearing up if a disaster happened, under one ministry.
The first minister stayed for less than a year, because he became Minister President of Hesse.
His successor became director of the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP.
The time when Angela Merkel was in charge was not very good for the BMU.
Economic problems became more important than environmental protection .
The red-green coalition of 1998 saw Jürgen Trittin of (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) become minister.
The idea of an environmental tax and ending nuclear power became important.
Villa Los Almácigos is a city and municipality of the Santiago Rodríguez province, in northwestern Dominican Republic.
It is also called Los Almácigos, or just simply Villa.
On 6 March 1863, there was a meeting in this town of the leaders of the Restoration War against Spain.
The Dominicans had lost the first battles and in this meeting they decided to stop the fight for a moment and they went to Haiti to prepare for the next battles.
In 1937, it was named Villa Generalísimo in honor of the dictator Trujillo but in 1962 the town got again its old name.
Villa Los Almácigos was elevated to the category of municipal district of San Ignacio de Sabaneta by the law 659 of 2 May 1974.
It is municipality since 19 September 1996.
The municipality had, in , a total population of 11,183: 6,069 men and 5,684 women.
Villa Los Almácigos is on the northern side of the Cordillera Central ("Central mountain range") and has a total area of , about  of the total area of the province of Santiago Rodríguez.
The city is an elevation of , and at  to the west of Sabaneta, the capital of the province.
Epic Records is an American record label with several sub-companies around the world.
It is currently owned by Sony BMG, but was originally owned by CBS.
The company started in 1953, and over the years has signed artists and bands such as Fiona Apple, Michael Jackson, Céline Dion, Pearl Jam,  KISS, AC/DC, Rage Against the Machine, Heart, Boston  and Modest Mouse.
Imprint labels
The following is a list of labels Epic Records has distributed:
Beluga Heights (2008–present)
Collective Music Group (2012–present)
DC Flag Records (2004–present)
Freebandz (2012–present)
Immortal Records (1994–present)
Glowworm Records (2002–present)
Battery Records (2004–present)
Verity Gospel Music Group (2008–present)
Vested in Culture (2012–Present)
Volcano Entertainment (2006–present)
550 Music (1993–2000)
Beluga Heights Records (2006–2008)
Blue Sky (1974-1982)
Caribou Records (1976-1985)
Cold Chillin' Records (1993–1999)
Date Records (1960s)
Epic Records Nashville (? -
May 2006)
Epic Street (1993–1998)
Cleveland International Records (1976-1983)
CTI Records (1980)
Tuff City Records (1983–1984)
Hidden Beach Records (1998–2007)
Gamble (1972-1975)
Glacial Pace (mid-1990s)
Invictus Records (1973-1976)
Jet Records (1978-1983)
Kirshner Records (1974-1983)
LaFace Records
MJJ Music (1991–2001, 2010)
Nemperor Records (1977-1990)
Ode Records (1967–1969, 1976–1979)
OKeh Records (1965–1970, 1994–2000)
Pasha Records (1979-1990)
Philadelphia International Records (1971–1984)
Portrait Records (1976–1992)
Ruthless Records (1999-2009, defunct)
Scotti Brothers (1979-1988)
SOLAR Records (1989–1993)
T-Neck Records (1972-1984)
Tabu Records (1978–1991)
TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) (1975-1977) (1981-1982)
Work Records (1994–2000)
Virgin Records (1976-1978), (1982-1986)
Epic Records artists
Current artists
Andre 3000
Avril Lavigne (Internationally with Epic; Domestically with Columbia UK)
Bando Jonez
Bobby Shmurda
Casey Veggies
Cashius Green
Curtis Fields
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JLS (US)
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Mr. Probz
New Hollow
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Paloma Faith (RCA Records Label in the UK)
Rowdy Rebel
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The Airborne Toxic Event
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Aniwa is a village in Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States.
The population is 272 people as of 2000.
Aniwa has an area of 2.1 square miles, of which .04 square miles is water.
Shawano County, Wisconsin
Mumpf is a municipality of the district Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Murgenthal is a municipality of the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Limerick () is a city and the county seat of County Limerick in the historical province of Munster, in the midwest of Ireland.
The city lies on the River Shannon, with three main crossing points near the city centre and has a 2006 population of 91,000 inhabitants within its urban area.
Limerick City Council
LimerickPride
Architecture of Limerick
Various online history resources from Limerick City Library
Establishments in the Republic of Ireland
Wexford (coming from Old Norse Veisafjǫrðr meaning "mudflat, stagnant pool", also Irish: Loch Garman, Latin: Menapia) is the county town of County Wexford in the Republic of Ireland.
It is found near the south-eastern tip of Ireland, close to Rosslare Europort.
The town is connected to the capital, Dublin, via the N11 National Primary Route (European route E1), and the national rail network.
It also has a major ferry port with modern terminal, Rosslare Europort.
The port is located in South East Wexford.
Drogheda ( or ) (Droichead Átha in Irish, meaning "Bridge of the Ford") is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, 56 km (35 mi) north of Dublin.
Drogheda Tourism
Drogheda Borough Council
Architecture of Drogheda
Photo Survey of Navan Drogheda existing railway line
Drogheda Port
Drogheda Chamber of Commerce
IDA Ireland, Drogheda profile
Drogheda's Municipal Art Gallery
Drogheda United FC
Droichead Arts Centre
Muri, a municipality in Switzerland
Muri, a district of the canton of Aargau, Switzerland
Muri Abbey
Muri, a village in Karksi Commune
Muri, a village in Luunja Commune
Muri, a town and emirate in Nigeria
Muri, Ranchi, a town in Ranchi district, Jharkhand
MURI, Multi-University Research Initiative
Andre Muri, Norwegian footballer
There is also a village in Austria, called Hallstatt.
It is pronounced the same way
Hallstadt is a town in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg.
It is on the left bank of the river Main, 4 km north of Bamberg.
The town has a population of about 8500 people.
County Kildare () is an Irish county to the southwest of Dublin.
It is in the province of Leinster.
The name comes from the Irish, meaning church (Cill) of the oaks (Dara).
County Kildare Community Network
http://www.kildare.ie
http://www.kildarecoco.ie
Local area plan
Straffan Steam Museum Website
The 36th Ryder Cup Matches were held between 22 and 24 September 2006 at The K Club, Straffan, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
Team Europe won the competition by a score of 18½ to 9½, equalling their record winning margin of 2 years earlier.
This was the first time Europe had achieved three successive victories.
Swedish rookie Henrik Stenson made the winning putt, just moments after Luke Donald had sunk a putt to ensure Europe retained the trophy.
Official Ryder Cup site for Team USA
Official Ryder Cup site for Team Europe
Ryder Cup  Discussion
Ryder Cup Diary
Official K Club website
Sport in the Republic of Ireland
Dawlish () is a town on the south coast of Devon, South West England.
It is 12 miles from the County town of Exeter.
The town has a population of around 13,000 people.
During the eighteenth century, it grew from a small fishing port to become a well-known seaside resort.
infodawlish.co.uk  An informative look at the Town & Businesses of Dawlish
Dawlish (DMOZ.org)
Newquay () is a town, civil parish, seaside resort, and fishing port on the north Atlantic coast of Cornwall, South West England.
It is bounded to the west by the River Gannel and its associated salt marsh, and in the east by the Porth Valley.
The town has been expanding inland (south) since it was founded.
According to the 2001 census it had a permanent population of 19,423.
It is the largest holiday resort in Cornwall and is served by Newquay Airport.
The large beach provides very good conditions for surfing.
There are numerous shops varying from the usual charity shops to shops selling many different brands of surf clothing.
There are many places to enjoy eating within the town.
As with the rest of the British Isles and South West England, Newquay experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters.
The nearest Met Office weather station is St. Mawgan/Newquay Airport, about 3.5 miles to the north east of the town centre.
Temperature extremes in the area since 1960 vary from  in June 1976 and August 1995  down to  during January 1987.
Newquay Town Council
Treninick entry in the Domesday Book
1st Newquay Scout Group
Newquay Nightlife - Guide to bars, hotels, restaurants, beaches and more
Cairnryan is a small Scottish village overlooking Loch Ryan and is notable today for its large modern ferry port, operated by P&O, which links Scotland with Larne in Northern Ireland.
The village has been of vital importance in maritime history.
Larne Ferry Web - for news & history of ferries to Larne
Stranraer (Gaelic: An t-Sròn Reamhar, ) is a town in the south of Scotland in the west of the region of Dumfries and Galloway and in the county of Wigtownshire.
It was formerly the ferry port connecting Scotland with Belfast in Northern Ireland.
Ferries now leave from Cairnryan.
Coleraine () is a very large town in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland near to the mouth of the River Bann.
It is  northwest of Belfast and  east of Derry City, both of which are linked by major roads and railway connections.
George Best Belfast City Airport to the south–east, City of Derry Airport,  to the west, and the main regional airport, Belfast International Airport, to the south are all relatively accessible from Coleraine.
Famous people who have lived in Coleraine include the actor James Nesbitt, Andrew Bonar Law who was Prime minister of the United Kingdom for a short period in the 1920s, and also suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams.
Coleraine Borough Council
Coleraine Community Safety Partnership
Coleraine Youth Forum
Towns in Northern Ireland
County Down, (Contae an Dúin in Irish - meaning the Fort) is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, and one of the nine counties of the ancient province of Ulster
The county forms an area of 2,448 km² (945 square miles).
The estimated population in 1992 was 416,600, a more recent approximation puts it at about 516,000.
The county town is Downpatrick, and the largest town is Bangor.
Harris, Walter (attributed).
The Ancient and Present Stare of the County of Down...'''Dublin.
The Memoirs of John M. Regan, a Catholic Officer in the RIC and RUC, 1909–48'', Joost Augusteijn, editor, District Inspector, Co. Down 1930s, 1919, .
County Down website
Armagh and Down Tourism
Culture Northern Ireland - Industrial Heritage of County Down
Down Gaelic Athletic Association/Cummann Lúthchleas Gael Coiste An Dún
Genealogy indexes for County Down
Ardglass Fishing port on East Down coast
Rostrevor (in Irish: Ros Treabhair, i.e. Trevor’s Wood, also Caislean Ruairi, i.e. Rory's Castle) is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland.
It is on Carlingford Lough and the hill of Slieve Martin, at the base of the Mourne Mountains and on the Kilbroney River.
It had a population of 2,444 in the 2001 Census.
The town is known for its folk music festival, Fiddler's Green Festival.
It is in the Newry and Mourne District Council area.
The name 'Rostrevor' first appeared circa 1618 and was named after Rose Ussher (the daughter of Henry Ussher, the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh) by her husband Edward Trevor (who came from Brynkynallt in Wales).
Villages in Northern Ireland
1610s establishments in Europe
Tropical Storm Chris was the fourth tropical storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season.
Forming on July 31 in the Atlantic Ocean east of the Leeward Islands from a tropical wave, Chris moved generally to the west-northwest, skirting the northern fringes of the Caribbean islands.
Chris was a relatively short-lived storm, reaching a peak intensity with winds at 65 mph (100 km/h) on August 2, while positioned north of St. Martin.
The storm gradually weakened before finally dissipating on August 5, near eastern Cuba.
Overall impact was minimal, amounting to moderate amounts of rainfall throughout its path.
A tropical wave moved westward off the coast of Africa on July 27.
At first, deep convection was spread throughout the wave axis, though dry air greatly decreased the convection on July 28.
The wind field remained well-defined as it continued westward, and deep convection increased two days later along the northern end of the wave axis.
Dvorak classifications began on July 30 in response to an increase in vertical depth and organization of the convection.
On July 31 a buoy recorded a change of wind direction from northeast to west, indicating a small low pressure area formed.
Convective organization rapidly increased as it turned to the northwest, and the system developed into Tropical Depression Three on August 1 while located about 235 miles (375 km) east-southeast of Barbuda.
Forecasters originally predicted wind shear from an upper level low would prevent strengthening and cause dissipation within three days.
However, the depression continued to organize as deep convection continued to develop near the circulation despite moderate amounts of wind shear, and the system strengthened into Tropical Storm Chris six hours after developing.
The convection slowly covered the entire system, and by late on the 1st Chris reached winds of 60 mph (95 km/h) while passing 50 miles (80 km) north of the northern Leeward Islands.
The structure of Chris continued to improve and become more symmetrical, and an upper level eye feature developed early on August 2.
Outflow improved in all quadrants, as well, and the storm reached a peak intensity of 65 mph (100 km/h) shortly thereafter while located 120 miles (195 km) east of St. Thomas.
Ins pite of the initial predictions of Chris intensifying to a hurricane as a ridge of high pressure forced it west-northwestward, upper level shear dissipated the well-defined inner core of the storm, and Chris started to weaken.
Early on August 3, strong wind shear over Chris removed the deep convection from the low level circulation, while a building ridge to its north turned the storm towards the west into an area of drier air.
By mid-day on the 3rd the circulation was devoid of any convection within 85 miles (135 km), while the deeper convection spread across Puerto Rico and Hispaniola.
Late on August 3, deep convection developed over the center of circulation again, though persistent vertical shear weakened Chris to a tropical depression on August 4.
Because of computer models predicting lesser amounts of shear, forecasters mentioned the possibility of moderate strengthening in the Gulf of Mexico to a 60 mph (95 km/h) storm.
However, convection remained minimal, and Chris degenerated into a remnant area of low pressure late on August 4.
Late on August 5, convection increased in the remnants of the storm, and forecasters indicated the potential for slow development over the Gulf of Mexico due to marginally favorable conditions.
The redevelopment never happened, and the remnant circulation dissipated near Havana, Cuba on August 6.
When the National Hurricane Center published its first advisory on Tropical Depression Three, the governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and the British Virgin Islands also gave out Tropical Storm Warnings for their respective territories.
When the depression strengthened to Tropical Storm Chris, Tropical Storm Warnings were also issued for Saba, Sint Eustatius, Saint-Barthélemy, and Saint Martin.
Three Royal Caribbean cruise ships changed their paths to avoid the storm.
FEMA representatives coordinated with local emergency management officials in the United States Virgin Islands to determine if preparation necessities would be needed, such as hospital usage, shelters, and sand bags.
In St. Thomas, all jet flights were cancelled in and out of the island, though small airlines were permitted to fly during the storm.
Ferry service from Saint Martin to Anguilla was cancelled for a short period of time.
Saint Martin officials recommended citizens to secure all loose items, for coastal residents to prepare for high surf, and for construction sites to secure all loose equipment.
A small craft advisory was also issued for coastal waters of Saint Martin due to strong waves from the storm.
On August 1, officials in Puerto Rico issued a tropical storm warning for the island.
The next day, approximately 600 tourists evacuated the islands of Vieques and Culebra.
Citizens in Puerto Rico prepared for the storm by stocking up on supplies and visiting gas stations.
On August 2, the government of the Bahamas issued a Hurricane Watch for the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Acklins and Crooked Islands, Ragged Island, Inagua, and Mayaguana.
In response to the threat, officials urged citizens to stock up on hurricane supplies, while boat owners in Staniel Cay secured their boats in preparation for the storm.
In response to the storm's projected path into the Gulf of Mexico, prices for crude oil rose on the New York Mercantile Exchange at branch offices in London.
Anticipation of a threat to supply by a potential Hurricane Chris coupled with high demand during an ongoing heat wave were cited as part of the reasons in the price move.
In New Orleans, officials including Mayor Ray Nagin prepared for a possible evacuation of the city if Chris entered the Gulf of Mexico as a hurricane.
The evacuation plan included moving all residents out of the city as a worst-case scenario, intended to avoid a re-occurrence of Hurricane Katrina around 1 year prior.
Florida Emergency Management requested 10 mobile recovery centers, and placed hospitals in the Florida Keys on standby for evacuation.
Officials in Mississippi identified the need for 110 to assist in an evacuation process in case of a possible landfall.
Both Louisiana and Texas emergency operation centers monitored the progress of the storm, though did not execute any preparation action.
St. Thomas received brief amounts of heavy rain, with totals of over 3 inches (75 mm).
Anguilla reported light rain and wind gusts of up to 21 mph (34 km/h).
In St. John the storm caused peak wind gusts of 23 mph (37 km/h) along with moderately heavy rainfall of nearly 3 inches (75 mm), along with reports of lightning near the storm's center.
Though impact was minimal in Saint Martin, Governor Franklyn Richards recognized the storm preparations served as a wake up call for citizens who were not ready for the hurricane season.
In San Juan, Puerto Rico, the storm caused very little wind or rain.
Convection dissociated from the center of the storm produced 30 mph (48 km/h) wind gusts and over 1.3 inches (33 mm) of rain in Culebra.
Rainfall peaked at 3.09 inches (78 mm) in Fajardo.
Rainfall from the storm caused the Fajardo River to overflow its banks.
In Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, heavy rainfall caused severe flooding.
Las Américas reported 5.01 inches/127 mm of rainfall from Chris.
Several people were left temporarily homeless from the flood waters entering their households.
The flooding left many roads impassable near the capital city, and also resulted in landslides.
The flooding also covered rice fields in the northeastern portion of the country.
The National Office of Meteorology issued flood warnings for residents in low-lying areas and near rivers in the northeast and southeast portions of the country.
Despite the flooding, overall damage was minor, and there are no casualties associated with Chris.
National Hurricane Center's archive on Tropical Storm Chris
Saint Thomas is an island in the Caribbean Sea.
It is a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI).
The territorial capital and port of Charlotte Amalie is on the island.
As of the 2000 census, Saint Thomas had 51,181 people, about 47% of the US Virgin Islands total.