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Today, the river drives the Linth–Limmern power stations in its upper reaches.
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is an international body that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system.
It was established after the G20 London summit in April 2009 as a successor to the Financial Stability Forum (FSF).
The Board includes all G20 major economies, FSF members, and the European Commission.
Hosted and funded by the Bank for International Settlements, the board is based in London, United Kingdom.
Basel Committee on Banking Standards
Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions
Authorite des Marches Financiers
Ministere de l'Economie et des Finances
Bundesanstalt fur Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht
Bundesmknisterium der Finanzen
Deutsche Bundesbank
International Association of Insurance Supervisors
International Organisation of Securities Commissions
Banca d'Italia
Commissione Nazionale per le Societa e la Borsa
De Nederlandsche Bank
Banca Espana
Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad
Swiss National Bank
Swiss Federal Department of Finance
Financial Conduct Authority
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
US Department of Treasury
US Securities & Exchange Commission
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is an international organisation in the financial sector.
It monitors the global funancial system, and make recommendation on how it can be improved.
It was established at the G20 summit in London, in April 2009.
The idea at the summit was to improve a solution that existed already, the Financial Stability Forum (FSF).
The Financial Stability board is organised as an association: All G20 states, all participants of the FSF and the European Commission are members of this association.
The board is hosted and funded by the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.
Richard Bruce Hunter (July 6, 1939 – July 6, 2018) was an American competition swimmer.
He represented the United States at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
Hunter swam in the men's 100-meter freestyle, advanced to the finals, and finished fourth overall with a time of 55.6 seconds.
Yohn had many small parts in movies, such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and television shows, such as Rhoda,  ER, Murphy Brown, Quantum Leap and Kojak.
She had recurring roles on The Famous Teddy Z, State of Grace, Beverly Hills, 90210, and Picket Fences.
She voiced Fievel and Tanya Mousekewitz's mother in An American Tail and its sequels.
The 2017 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 23 September 2017 to elect the membership of the 52nd New Zealand Parliament along with the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
The last parliament was elected on 20 September 2014 and officially ended on 22 August 2017.
Jacinda Ardern became New Zealand's third female Prime Minister, and Winston Peters again became Deputy Prime Minister, a role he had first held in 1996–98.
This ended nine years under the National Party Government.
Ardern became Prime Minister after the Labour Party agreed to create a coalition with Peters's New Zealand First party, thus making him Deputy Prime Minister.
Their shared votes were larger than that of English, thus defeating him.
Around 3.57 million people were registered to vote in the election, with 2.63 million (79.8%) turning out.
Advance voting proved popular, with 1.24 million votes cast before election day, more than the previous two elections combined.
The centre-right National Party, led by Prime Minister Bill English, had governed since 2008 in a minority government.
It was the first election for English as incumbent Prime Minister, having replaced John Key on 12 December 2016 and the first since 1975 where both major parties had leadership changes.
The main opposition parties to the National government were Labour (the official opposition), led by Jacinda Ardern, the Green Party, and New Zealand First.
2017 elections in New Zealand
Winston Raymond Peters  (born 11 April 1945) is a New Zealand politician.
He was the Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2020.
He served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1996 to 1998.
He serves under a coalition government alongside Jacinda Ardern upon the 2017 election.
Peters led the populist New Zealand First party since 1993.
He was a Member of Parliament from 2011 to 2020, having served from 1979 to 1981 and 1984 to 2008.
James Peter Edward Shaw (born 6 May 1973) is a New Zealand politician.
He is the leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand.
In October 2017 he became the Minister outside Cabinet for Statistics and Climate Change Issues.
Following Metiria Turei's resignation in August 2017, Shaw became the Green Party's only leader for the 2017 general election.
David Breen Seymour (born 24 June 1983) is a New Zealand politician.
He is the Epsom electorate MP, and leader of ACT New Zealand.
Seymour worked in public policy in Canada.
, official campaign website
Profile, New Zealand Parliament website
, official website promoting his assisted dying bill
Marama Kahu Fox is a New Zealand politician.
She was elected to the New Zealand parliament at the 2014 general election as a representative of the Māori Party.
Referemces
The 2020 New Zealand general election was held after the currently elected 52nd New Zealand Parliament is dissolved or expires.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the election date as Saturday 17 October 2020.
Election changes
Electorate boundaries for the next election are due to be redrawn in 2019, after the 2018 census and Māori electoral option.
This means that unless a snap election is called before 2019, the next general election will be the first to use boundaries based on the 2018 census.
Seat projections
2020 elections
21st century in Oceania
October 2020 events
Simon Joseph Bridges (born October 1976) is a New Zealand politician and lawyer.
He was the Leader of the New Zealand National Party and Leader of the Opposition from 27 February 2018 to 22 May 2020.
He has been the Member of Parliament for Tauranga since 2008.
Bridges has served in several Cabinet portfolios, including  Minister of Transport (2014–2017), Minister of Economic Development (2016–2017) and Leader of the House (2017).
On 22 May 2020, following poor polling for the party, Bridges was challenged for the party leadership and replaced by Todd Muller.
He would go onto retiring from the leadership of the party less than two months later.
The 1994 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak happened on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1994.
This was the third tornado outbreak in the United States to happen on a Palm Sunday.
40 people were killed in this outbreak, and 491 were injured.
On the morning of March 27, a moderate risk was given for Alabama.
By 9:00 a.m., thunderstorms began to develop.
At 9:18 a.m., a tornado watch was issued for eastern Mississippi and northern Alabama.
Tornado warnings were issued at 11:00 a.m. CST.
At 11:39 a.m., a tornado struck the Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama, killing 22 people, including the groom's 4-year-old daughter.
At noon EST, a PDS tornado watch was announced for northern Georgia.
Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes entered Georgia by 12:42 p.m. EST and continued throughout the afternoon.
The Storm Prediction Center announced a tornado watch for eastern Louisiana and central Mississippi.
However, no tornadoes touched down on March 27.
A tornado watch was also announced in the Carolinas.
Tornadoes hit this area through the afternoon, including an F3 in Georgia and South Carolina, injuring 12.
Another tornado injured 13 in North and South Carolina.
Tornadoes continued to hit Alabama between 4:00 and 5:30 p.m. CST, damaging a high school.
A funnel cloud was seen at 6:00 p.m. CST.
The storm had winds up to 60 mph.
The final tornado struck Greenville County, South Carolina at midnight on March 28.
The NWS offices in Birmingham, Atlanta, and Athens did not stop issuing warnings until early in the morning on March 28.
The 2016 Australian federal election was an election held on Saturday 2 July to elect all 226 members of the 45th Parliament of Australia.
It lasted eight weeks.
It was the first under a new voting system for the Senate that replaced group voting tickets with optional preferential voting.
Incumbent Malcolm Turnbull was narrowly re-elected by forming a coalition government with other smaller parties.
Results aftermath
After a week of vote counting, no party had won enough seats in the House of Representatives to form a majority government.
Neither the Liberal/National Coalition's incumbent Turnbull Government nor the Australian Labor Party's Shorten Opposition were in a position to claim victory.
Turnbull talked with the crossbench.
He won a confidence and supply support from Bob Katter, Andrew Wilkie and Cathy McGowan in the event of a hung parliament and resulting minority government.
On 10 July, Shorten conceded defeat.
Turnbull claimed victory later that day.
Australian Electoral Commission: 2016 federal election
ABC Elections: 2016 Federal Election Guide
2016 elections
Richard Luigi Di Natale (born 6 June 1970) is an Australian politician.
He has been a senator for Victoria since 2011.
He also served as the leader of the Australian Greens from 2015 to 2020.
Di Natale was elected to the national Senate in the 2010 federal election.
He was the lead Greens Senate candidate in Victoria in the 2007 federal election but failed to win a seat.
Di Natale became federal parliamentary leader of the Australian Greens on 6 May 2015 following the resignation of Christine Milne.
Di Natale led the Greens at the 2 July 2016 federal election.
Nicholas Xenophon (né Xenophou; 29 January 1959) is an Australian politician.
He was a Senator for South Australia from 2008 to 2017.
He was the leader of two political parties: Nick Xenophon Team federally, and Nick Xenophon's SA-BEST in South Australia.
From 1997 to 2007, he was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council, serving as an independent.
When the Nick Xenophon Team changed its name to Centre Alliance, Xenophon himself stopped to be directly involved with the party.
The 2019 Australian federal election elected members of the 46th Parliament of Australia on 18 May 2019.
The election was called following the end or expiry of the 45th Parliament as elected at the 2016 double dissolution federal election.
How the night unfolded with no clear winner at The Guardian
Australian Electoral Commission: 2019 federal election
ABC Elections: 2019 Federal Election Guide
The Poll Bludger Federal Election 2019
The Tally Room
How did we vote? -
A detailed breakdown of Australia's election
2019 elections
May 2019 events
Abiy Ahmed Ali (Amharic: አብይ አሕመድ ዐሊ Oromo (*Latin text): Abiyi Ahmed Alii; (Oromo on Geez text: አቢይ አህመድ አሊ born 15 August 1976) is an Ethiopian politician serving as the 4th prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia since 2 April 2018.
He was the third chairman of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) that governed Ethiopia for 28 years until it was dissolved and the Prosperity Party was created and the first Oromo in that position.
Abiy is an elected member of the Ethiopian parliament as Prime Minister and former member of the Oromo Democratic Party (ODP), which was one of the then four coalition parties of the EPRDF, until its rule ceased in 2019 and he formed his own party, the Prosperity Party.
As the first Ethiopian and the first African head of Government, he won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending the 20-year post-war territorial stalemate war between Ethiopia and Eritrea led by the then Government of Ethiopia and current Government of Eritrea.
Abiy Ahmed was sworn in on October 4, 2021, after he got first elected, his term will end after October 4, 2026.
He served first as prime minister when former Prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned.
Abiy Ahmed was born on August 15, 1976 in Beshasha, Ethiopia.
From Ahmed Ali a Muslim father and a Tezeta Wolde a Christian mother from different ethnicities.
His father was an Oromo and Abiy's mother was an Amhara despite different religions and ethnicities they got married and had Mutiple children.
Abiy was the 13th child of his father and was the sixth and youngest of his mother.
His father had four wives of one of whom his mother was who she had 6 children with.
When Abiy was a teenager, he served in the Ethiopian National defense forces fighting off the communist Derg a regime which overthrow Emperor Haile Selassie I. The later Prime Minister also served as a lieutenant Colonel for the Ethiopian National Defense Forces
Ahmed's education starts when he earned a bachelor's degree at "Computer Engineering from the Microlink Information Technology College in Addis Ababa in 2009."
Abiy went further on and got a Master of Arts in transformational leadership degree from Greenwich University in London which is a business school.
A later went on to further get more degrees.
He also got a MBA degree from Leadstar College of Management and Leadership in Addis Ababa in 2013.
He also In 2017, started his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and got in work as a regular student there, at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies, at Addis Ababa University the oldest University in Ethiopia.
He did his Ph.D. work on the Agaro constituency with his Ph.D. thesis called “Social Capital and its Role in Traditional Conflict Resolution in Ethiopia: The Case of Inter-Religious Conflict In Jimma Zone state”.
Abiy published a related short research article on de-escalation strategies in the Horn of Africa in a special journal issue dedicated to countering violent extremism.
Abiy lived in France and had a French girlfriend it is told that she loved Abiy but Abiy went to Ethiopia to pursue his political career which he later became Prime Minister.
Abiy later went to Ethiopia and found a women who he fallen in love with called Zinash Tayachew who is from the same ethnic background as his mother is.
Director of Information Network and Security Agency.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed founded INSA or the Information Network Security Agency and became its director from 2008 through 2010.
INSA is an organization which spies on people which the government targets it also secures and encrypts Ethiopia's cyber security.
Abiy Ahmed through his jamming capabilities as learning intelligence measures in South Africa was able to create such an organization and become its director.
Estonia uses Eastern European Time (EET) (UTC+02:00) during winter, and Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) (UTC+03:00) during summer.
Estonia has observed daylight saving time since 1981 when it was part of the Soviet Union.
However, it wasn't used in 1989-1996 and 2000-2001.
The President of Ethiopia, officially the President of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia is the head of state of Ethiopia.
The position is largely a ceremonial one.
The executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister of Ethiopia.
The current president is Sahle-Work Zewde, who took office on 25 October 2018.
World Statesmen - Ethiopia
Rahim Huseynov Alihuseyn oglu (), (born 5 April 1936) is an Azerbaijani politician.
He was the 3rd Prime Minister of Azerbaijan.
Russian Cities of over 100,000 population at Citypopulation.de
Danny Lee Burton (born June 21, 1938) is an American politician.
Burton is the former U.S. Representative for .
He represented the , serving from 1983 until 2013.
He is a member of the Republican Party and the Tea Party Caucus.
Archive.org – Congressman Dan Burton official U.S. House site – (official site deactivated)
Archive.org – Dan Burton for Congress
The BR standard class 5 4-6-0 was one of the 12 standard classes of steam locomotive built by British Railways in the 1950s.
It was essentially a development of the LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0.
172 were built between 1951 and 1957 and they were numbered 73000–73171.
Five locomotives have been preserved.
Southern Railway (U.S.)
In analytical chemistry, quantitative analysis is the determination of the absolute or relative abundance (often expressed as a concentration) of one, several or all particular substance(s) present in a sample.
Colorimetric analysis is a method of determining the concentration of a chemical element or chemical compound in a solution with the aid of a color reagent.
It is applicable to both organic compounds and inorganic compounds and may be used with or without an enzymatic stage.
The method is widely used in medical laboratories and for industrial purposes, e.g. the analysis of water samples in connection with  industrial water treatment.
The equipment required is a colorimeter, some cuvettes and a suitable color reagent.
The process may be automated, e.g. by the use of an AutoAnalyzer or by Flow injection analysis.
An optical filter is a device that selectively transmits light of different wavelengths.
It is usually made of coloured glass or plastic.
Optical filters are commonly used in optical instruments (such as colorimeters), as photographic filters and to colour stage lighting.
The Romford–Upminster line is a railway branch line in Greater London.
It connects , on the Great Eastern Main Line, to Upminster, on the London, Tilbury and Southend Line and London Underground.
The route is  long and there is one intermediate station at Emerson Park.
The line is single-track throughout and is electrified at 25 kV AC.
The speed limit is .
As of May 2015 services are operated by London Overground.
There are two trains per hour in each direction.
List of Secretaries General
Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay KG GCB CH DSO PC (21 June 1887 – 17 December 1965), nicknamed Pug, was a British Indian Army officer and diplomat.
He was  Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during the Second World War and he was the first Secretary General of NATO from 1952 to 1957.
Ismay was the principal link between Churchill and the Chiefs of Staff Committee.
Ismay also accompanied Churchill to many of the Allied war conferences.
NATO Declassified - Lord Ismay (biography)
Indian Army Officers 1939−1945
Generals of World War II
Paul-Henri Charles Spaak (25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972) was a Belgian politician and statesman.
He is thought to be as one of the founding fathers of the European Union.
Spaak entered politics in 1932 for the Belgian Workers' Party (later the Belgian Socialist Party).
He became Prime Minister of Belgium in 1938 and held the position until 1939.
During World War II, he served as Foreign Minister in the Belgian government in exile under Hubert Pierlot.
After the war, he twice served the position of Prime Minister, first for under a month in March 1946 and again between 1947 and 1949.
In 1945, he was chosen to chair the first session of the General Assembly of the new United Nations.
He served as the first President of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe between 1949 and 1950 and became the first President of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) between 1952 and 1954.
Fondation Paul-Henri Spaak
The Presidency Project – Remarks at the Presentation of the Medal of Freedom to Paul Henri Spaak, Secretary General of NATO – 21 February 1961
NATO Declassified - Paul-Henri Spaak (biography)
Belgian social democrats
Dirk Uipko Stikker,  (5 February 1897 – 23 December 1979) was a Dutch banker, industrialist, politician, and diplomat.
In 1964, Stikker was awarded an honorary doctorate by Brown University.
He died in Wassenaar in 1979, aged 82.
NATO Declassified - Dirk Stikker (biography)
In January 1947, Brosio became the Italian ambassador to Soviet Union and got involved with the peace treaty negotiations between the countries.
In 1952 he became ambassador to the UK, to the USA in 1955 and from 1961–1964 to France.
On May 12, 1964 the NATO council chose Brosio to replae Dirk Stikker as a secretary general.
He resigned September 3, 1971.
On September 29, 1971, U.S. President Richard Nixon awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
NATO Declassified - Manlio Brosio (biography)
Luns was one of the most popular Dutch politicians of the time.
He served a total of eight cabinets and stayed in office nineteen years, becoming the longest-serving Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2 September 1952 until 6 July 1971.
He retired from Dutch politics and became the 5th (and also longest-serving) Secretary General of NATO for 13 years from 1 October 1971 until 25 June 1984.
Mr. J.M.A.H. (Joseph) Luns (Parlement & Politiek)
NATO Declassified - Joseph Luns (biography)
Biography on NATO
Manfred Hermann Wörner (24 September 1934 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt – 13 August 1994 in Brussels) was a German politician and diplomat.
He served as the Defense Minister of West Germany between 1982 and 1988.
He then served as the seventh Secretary General of NATO from 1988 to 1994.
His term as Secretary General oversaw the end of the Cold War and the German reunification.
He was diagnosed with colorectal cancer, but continued to serve until his death.
Willem Werner Hubert "Willy" Claes (; born 24 November 1938) is a Belgian politician.
He served as the eighth Secretary General of NATO, from 1994 to 1995.
Claes was a member of the Socialist Party.
NATO Declassified - Willy Claes (biography)
NATO's Who is Who
George Islay MacNeill Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen  (born 12 April 1946) is a Scottish politician.
He served as the 10th Secretary General of NATO from 1999 to 2004.
He served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1997 to 1999, before becoming a life peer as Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, of Islay in Argyll and Bute.
Lord Robertson of Port Ellen profile, www.parliament.uk
NATO Declassified - Lord Robertson (biography)
Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo (born 10 September 1940) is an Italian diplomat.
He served as Deputy Secretary General of NATO from 2001 to 2007 and as acting Secretary General of NATO from 17 December 2003 to 1 January 2004.
He served as ambassador of Italy to the Western European Union and to the Committee for Policy and Security of the European Union.
He is member of the Italy-USA Foundation.
Jakob Gijsbert "Jaap" de Hoop Scheffer (; born 3 April 1948) is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat.
He is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
He served as the 11th Secretary General of NATO from 5 January 2004 until 1 August 2009.
NATO Declassified - Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (biography)
Appointment as Secretary General - NATO announcement
Profile of Jaap de Hoop Scheffer  - by journalist Robert van de Roer, NATO website
The Gospel Oak to Barking line (sometimes unofficially called the GOBLIN) is part of the Network Rail system.
It is  long from one terminus to the other.
It carries both through goods trains and London Overground passenger trains, connecting Gospel Oak station in north London and Barking station in east London.
The line is part of Network Rail Strategic Route 6, and is classified as a London and South East Commuter line.
For much of its existence the line has played a minor role in London's transport system.
It is now receiving significant investment to increase its capacity.
This will include full 25 kV AC overhead electrification which is due to be completed in 2018.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen (; born 26 January 1953) is a Danish politician.
He was the 24th Prime Minister of Denmark from November 2001 to April 2009 and the 12th Secretary General of NATO from August 2009 to October 2014.
The prime minister of Denmark (; literally "Minister of the State") is the head of government of the Kingdom of Denmark.
The Constitution of 1849 established a constitutional monarchy by limiting the powers of the monarch and creating the office of the prime minister.
The inaugural holder of the office was Adam Wilhelm Moltke.
The Prime Minister's Office ()
Official Denmark Constitution, from the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Poul Oluf Nyrup Rasmussen (, informally Poul Nyrup, born 15 June 1943) is a Danish politician.
He was the Prime Minister of Denmark from 25 January 1993 to 27 November 2001 and President of the Party of European Socialists (PES) from 2004 to 2011.
He was the leader of the governing Social Democrats from 1992 to 2002.
He was a member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009.
Party of European Socialists manifesto for European elections 2009
President's page on PES website
Europe and a New World Order – A Report for the Party of European Socialists by Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
The North London line is a railway line of the London Overground.
It passes through the inner suburbs of north London, England.
The route is a rough semicircle between the south-west and the north-east, avoiding Central London.
The line is owned and maintained by Network Rail and London Overground.
The line began as a part of the North London Railway but there have been many changes.
The current route is the result of a series of amalgamations, closures and reopenings.
There is a mixture of third rail and overhead line electric power supply.
It is an important freight route and is used by the Richmond to Stratford passenger services of the London Overground.
It is part of the National Rail network.
Between Richmond and Gunnersbury, London Underground's District line shares tracks with London Overground services.
This part is also owned and maintained by Network Rail.
Jan Henry Tungeland Olsen (20 August 1956 – 10 July 2018) was a Norwegian politician.
He was Minister of Fisheries from 1992 to 1996.
He was born in Tromsø, Norway.
Olsen was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2008.
He died from the disease under hospice carer in Tromsø on 10 July 2018, aged 61.
José María Setién Alberro (18 March 1928 – 10 July 2018) was a Spanish Roman Catholic prelate.
He was born in Hernani, Spain.
He was auxiliary bishop of San Sebastián between 1972 and 1979, and bishop between 1979 and 2000.
It was led by the Salihiyya Sufi Muslim poet and militant leader Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, also known as Sayyid Mohamed.
He called for the removal of British and Italian colonies in Somalia, the defeat of Ethiopian forces, the expulsion of Christianity and the establishment of a Muslim Somali state.
On 3 March 1905 Hassan, the so-called "Mad Mullah" declared himself Sayyid of Nogal (Nugaal valley) in the Khatumo region.
The territory coincided approximately with the actual Nugaal area in modern Khatumo State.
It was ruled like a kind of sultanate on behalf of the Mahdi.
Hassan's rule was ended by Italy in 1911.
After the collapse of Hassan’s resistance movement, rebellion and revolt occurred with disputes between different tribes in Northern Somalia.
The Dervish legacy in Somalia and Somaliland has been influential.
It was the "most important revivalist Islamic movements" in Somalia, state Hasan and Robleh.
The movement, and particularly its leader, has been controversial in Somalia.
Some cherish it as the founder of modern Somali nationalism.
Others see it as an ambitious Muslim brotherhood militancy that destroyed Somalia's opportunity to move towards modernization and progress in favor of a puritanical Islamic state embedded with Islamic education.
Its ideas are enshrined in the constitution of Somalia.
Sultanates in northern Somalia
Mad Mullah
Darawiish
The West London line is a short railway in West London.
It links  in the south to Willesden Junction in the north.
The line is an important cross-London link especially for freight services.
Southern and London Overground provide regular passenger services.
Georgia and South Carolina
The first tornadoes touched down between 1:00 and 2:00 p.m. in Georgia.
At 2:21 PM, Tornado Watch 183 was issued for northern and central Georgia and the northwest corner of South Carolina.
During the mid-afternoon hours, the severe thunderstorms moving northeast spawning tornadoes in South Carolina.
The first violent tornado was reported in Spartanburg and Gaffney, South Carolina.
North Carolina and Virginia
Other F4 tornadoes broke out to the north.
At 4:33 PM, Tornado Watch 185 was issued for much of South Carolina and western and central North Carolina.
The watch was a PDS.
One tornado caused 30 injuries in Belwood, North Carolina before killing four people in the Toluca community.
Later, a tonrado hit Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
At the same time, weaker tornadoes caused damage in Durham and Granville counties.
7 deaths were reported with at least 168 people injured.
Hail was reported in Columbia, South Carolina and Monroe, North Carolina, and severe wind damage was reported from Georgia to Maryland.
Damage was seen in every North Carolina county between I-95 and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
A Look Back at the Western Carolina Violent Tornado Outbreak of 5 May 1989
The Watford DC line is a commuter railway line from London Euston to Watford Junction in Watford, Hertfordshire.
Its services are operated by London Overground.
The line runs beside the West Coast Main Line (WCML) for most of its length.
The London Underground Bakerloo line shares the section of the line from Queen's Park to Harrow & Wealdstone.
The rolling stock used on the line is Class 378 "Capitalstar".
The "DC" in the title refers to line being electrified using direct current.
This was done in the early twentieth century by the London and North Western Railway.
By contrast the WCML uses alternating current from overhead lines.
The East London line is part of the London Overground network.
It runs from north to south through  East London.
The railway was built in 1869 by the East London Railway Company.
It reused the Thames Tunnel which was built for horse-drawn carriages.
The line became part of the London Underground network in 1933.
It closed on 22 December 2007 for refurbishment and expansion.
In April 2010, it reopened as part of the London Overground network.
Phase 2, which links the line to the South London line with a terminus at , opened on 9 December 2012.
This created an orbital railway around inner London.
Orbital railway
East London line from Highbury & Islington to Surrey Quays
South London line from Surrey Quays to Clapham Junction
West London line from Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction
North London line from Willesden Junction to Highbury & Islington
The South London line is an Inner London part of the London Overground rail network.
The line is run together with the East London line to provide direct services between  and Highbury & Islington.
The line is  long and there are eight stations.
Most of the line is on a high viaduct over other transport infrastructure.
There is an interchange with London Underground at .
The line is in Travelcard Zone 2.
Professor John Dunn Laird, Baron Laird  of Artigarvan (23 April 1944 – 10 July 2018) was a Northern Ireland life peer and former chairman of the cross-border Ulster-Scots Agency.
In 2013 Laird allegedly offered to lobby for a firm against parliamentary rules.
As a result, he resigned from the Ulster Unionist Party.
He was created a life peer on 16 July 1999 as Baron Laird, of Artigarvan in the County of Tyrone.
Lord Laird website
John Laird, Crossbencher Stratagem
Ulster's 'Braveheart' on rebel hunt, Interview with the Sunday Tribune, 22 January 2006 (Newshound)
Debrett's Limited
Parliamentary answers 2010/11.
The President of the European Commission is the head of the European Commission.
It is the executive branch of the European Union.
The President of the Commission leads a cabinet of Commissioners.
The President, is chosen by the Council and Parliament, and decides (with each country) who the other members are and what they do.
The post was established in 1958.
Each new President is nominated by the European Council and formally elected by the European Parliament, for a five-year term.
The current President is Ursula von der Leyen, who took office on 1st December 2019.
She is a member  of the European People's Party (EPP) and is the former minister of defence of Germany.
Commission of the European Economic Community (1958–1967)
Commission of the European Communities (1967–2009) and European Commission (2009–present)
Commission President (official website)
Terms of office
Organisation of the European Commission CVCE (Previously : European NAvigator)
Presidential candidates debate 2014
José Manuel Durão Barroso (; born 23 March 1956) is a Portuguese politician.
He is the current non-executive chairman at Goldman Sachs International.
He was the 11th President of the European Commission (2004–2014) and the 115th Prime Minister of Portugal (2002–2004).
Gaston Egmond Thorn (3 September 192826 August 2007) was a Luxembourg politician.
He served as the 20th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1974–79), President of the United Nations General Assembly (1975), and the seventh President of the European Commission (1981–85).
Jean Rey (15 July 1902 – 19 May 1983) was a Belgian politician.
He served as the 2nd President of the European Commission from 1967 to 1970.
He served as European Commissioner for External Relations from 1958 to 1967.
Jean Rey (EU)
Address given by Jean Rey on the merger of the executive bodies (Strasbourg, 20 September 1967)
Belgian liberals
Franco Maria Malfatti () (13 June 1927 – 10 December 1991) was an Italian politician.
He served as the 3rd President of the European Commission from 1970 to 1972.
He served at Italian level as Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1979 to 1980 and Italian Minister of Education from 1973 to 1978.
Sicco Leendert Mansholt (; 13 September 1908 – 29 June 1995) was a Dutch politician.
He served as the 4th President of the European Commission from 1972 to 1973.
Mansholt is known as one of the founding fathers of the European Union.
He served as European Commissioner for Agriculture from 1958 to 1972, Minister of Agriculture, Fishing and Food Supply from 1945 to 1958, Minister of Economic Affairs in 1948 and Acting Mayor of Wieringermeer in 1945.
He was a member of the Member of the House of Representatives on several occasions.
Dr. S.L. (Sicco) Mansholt Parlement & Politiek
François-Xavier Ortoli (16 February 1925 – 30 November 2007) was a French politician.
He served as the 5th President of the European Commission from 1973 to 1977.
He served as Minister of the Economy of France from 1968 to 1969.
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead,  (11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003) was a British Labour Party, SDP and Liberal Democrat politician, and biographer of British political leaders.
Jenkins was elected to Parliament as a Labour MP in 1948.
He served as Home Secretary from 1965 to 1967 and Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1967 and 1970.
He was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party on 8 July 1970, but resigned in 1972 because he supported entry to the European Communities, while the party opposed it.
In 1977, he was appointed President of the European Commission, serving until 1981.
He was the first British holder of this office, and is likely to be the only such (considering the United Kingdom's decision in June 2016 to leave the European Union).
He was also a known historian, biographer and writer.
His A Life at the Centre (1991) is thought to be as one of the best autobiographies of the later 20th century, which "will be read with pleasure long after most examples of the genre have been forgotten".
"Roy Jenkins (The Rt Hon Lord Jenkins of Hillhead)", Fellows Remembered, The Royal Society of Literature
Leaders of the Social Democratic Party (UK)
Pieter "Piet" Dankert (8 January 1934 in Stiens – 21 June 2003 in Perpignan) was a Dutch politician.
Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin (; 5 February 1907 – 27 June 2000) was a French Christian democratic politician.
He served as the  Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the crisis of that year.
"The Little Plum" Time June 10, 1957
Morris, Peter. "
Homo politicus; the political careers of Pierre Pflimlin and Jacques Chaban‐Delmas."
Modern & Contemporary France 1.1 (1993): 42-44.
Enrique Barόn Crespo (born 27 March 1944 in Madrid) is a Spanish politician, economist, and lawyer.
He is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and was a member of the European Parliament for the Party of European Socialists group until 2009.
After election to the European Parliament he was President of the European Parliament (1989–1992), and was PES Group chairman from 1999 to 2004.
He was Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (1992–1995).
European Parliament: Your MEPs
European Parliament Office in Spain
Egon Alfred Klepsch (January 30, 1930 – September 18, 2010.)
was a German politician (CDU).
In 1979 Klepsch became chairman of the EPP parliamentary group.
After he had stood in vain in 1982 for the office of President of the European Parliament, he was elected in 1992.
In 1994 he retired from the European Parliament and became an advisor to Deutschen Vermögensberatungs AG.
: Honorary Companion of Honour of the National Order of Merit (25.03.1994)
Patrick Cox (born 28 November 1952) is an Irish politician and former television presenter.
He was President of the European Parliament from 2002 to 2004.
He served as a member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 2004.
Before this Cox was a journalist and presenter with RTÉ's Today Tonight and then a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork South-Central.
Josep Borrell i Fontelles (born 24 April 1947 in La Pobla de Segur, Lleida) is a Spanish politician.
He was President of the European Parliament from 20 July 2004 until 16 January 2007.
The Prime Minister of Luxembourg is the head of government in Luxembourg.
His official residence and office is in the Hôtel de Bourgogne at 4 rue de la Congrégation in the city of Luxembourg.
Before 1857, the Prime Minister was the President of the Council.
In addition to these titles, the Prime Minister uses the title Minister of State.
Since the foundation of the party system, only one cabinet (between 1921 and 1925) has not included members of more than one party.
Most of the time, governments are grand coalitions of the two largest parties, no matter their ideology; this has made Luxembourg one of the most stable democracies in the world.
Two cabinets (between 1945 and 1947) included members of every party represented in the Chamber of Deputies.
Former living prime ministers
Website of the Prime Minister of Luxembourg (in French)
The Prime Minister of Croatia (), officially the President of the Government of the Republic of Croatia (), is Croatia's head of government, and is the de facto the most powerful and influential state officeholder in the Croatian government.
There are eleven living former Heads of government (3 former Presidents of the Executive Council of SR Croatia and 8 former Prime Ministers of Croatia).
The last former head of government to die was Hrvoje Šarinić (1992-1993) on 21 July 2017.
Ema Derossi-Bjelajac (sometimes rendered Derosi-Bjelajac; 3 May 1926 – 20 June 2020) was a Croatian politician.
She served as the President of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Croatia from 1985 until 1986.
She was the first woman to hold a title equivalent to a head of state in modern day Croatia.
DEROSSI-BJELAJAC, Ema at lzmk.hr
Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić (; born 24 December 1934) is a Croatian politician.
He served as the President of Croatia from 2000 to 2010.
He was the last President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1991) and served as Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement (1991), as well as Speaker of the Croatian Parliament (1992–1994), a judge in Našice and mayor of his home town of Orahovica.
Andrej Plenković (; born 8 April 1970) is a Croatian politician and diplomat.
He serves as  Prime Minister of Croatia since 19 October 2016.
He has been the Chairman of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) since 2016.
Andrej Plenković Personal website
MEP Andrej Plenković Profile at European Parliament website
You Tube Channel Personal You Tube Channel
Twitter account "Personal Twitter account"
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (; born 29 April 1968) is a Croatian politician and diplomat.
She was the 4th President of Croatia from 2015 to 2020.
She is the first woman to be elected to the office.
At 46 years of age, she also became the youngest person to assume the presidency.
Office of the President of Croatia
President of the Republic of Croatia 2000–2010
Franjo Tuđman, also written as Franjo Tudjman (; 14 May 1922 – 10 December 1999) was a Croatian politician and historian.
He became the first President of Croatia and served as president from 1990 until his death in 1999.
He was the 9th and last President of the Presidency of SR Croatia from May to July 1990.
Thomas Rulon Osmond (born October 26, 1947) is an American musician and activist.
He is known mostly as a non-performing member of the Osmond family.
Osmond is the first deaf missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Tom Osmond on Osmond family Official site
The Lea Valley lines are two commuter lines and two branches in North East London.
They run along the valley of the River Lea.
They were part of the Great Eastern Railway and they are now part of the Anglia Route of Network Rail.
On 31 May 2015, services from London Liverpool Street to Chingford, Cheshunt and Enfield Town were transferred to London Overground.
Services between London Liverpool Street and Stratford via Tottenham Hale to Hertford East and Bishops Stortford remain with Greater Anglia.
The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international NGO that promotes children's rights, provides relief, and helps support children in developing countries.
A latrine is a toilet or an even simpler facility which is used as a toilet within a system of sanitation.
For example, it can be a communal trench in the earth in a camp to be used as emergency sanitation, a hole in the ground (pit latrine), or more advanced designs, including pour-flush systems.
Liu Zhenhua (; July 1921 – 11 July 2018) was a Chinese People's Liberation Army general (shang jiang) and politician.
He was born in Tai'an, Shandong Province.
He joined the Communist Party of China in 1938.
Liu fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War and Korean War.
He was a member of the 9th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and a delegate to the 8th National People's Congress.
In 1964, he was promoted to major general.
He was Ambassador of China to Albania from 1971 to 1976.
Incrementalism, a theory (also used in politics as a synonym for gradualism)
Increment and decrement operators, the operators ++ and -- in computer programming
Incremental computing
Incremental backup, which contain only that portion that has changed since the preceding backup copy.
Increment, chess term for additional time a chess player receives on each move
Incremental games
Increment in rounding
Sir James Dyson  (born 2 May 1947) is a British inventor, industrial design engineer and founder of the Dyson company.
He is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner.
His net worth is £7.8 billion.
It is located in Rotherhithe, which is part of London Borough of Southwark.
It is in Travelcard Zone 2 and the next station to the north is .
To the south, the railway splits into two branches.
One goes to .
The other goes to New Cross, Crystal Palace and West Croydon.
The station was closed in late 2007 for refurbishment.
It re-opened on 27 April 2010 as part of the London Overground network.
Canada Water is a London Underground and London Overground station located in Rotherhithe, in south-east London, England.
It takes its name from Canada Water, a lake which was created from a former dock in the Port of London.
The station is located on the Jubilee line between  and Canary Wharf stations and on the London Overground East London line between  and  stations.
It provides an interchange point between the two lines.
Saint Marinus, the founder of the state San Marino
San Marino City, the capital city of the Republic of San Marino
San Marino (river), a river in the Italian peninsula
Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, the circuit that hosts the San Marino Grand Prix
San Marino, California, a city in Los Angeles County, United States
San Marino Calcio, a former football club in the state San Marino
Aspach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Aspach, Thuringia, Germany
Aspach, Upper Austria, Austria
Aspach, Moselle, in the Moselle department, France
Aspach, Haut-Rhin, in the Haut-Rhin department, France
Aspach-le-Bas, in the Haut-Rhin department
Aspach-le-Haut, in the Haut-Rhin department
Asbach
Auenstein, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Aargau
Auenstein, a part of the municipality of Ilsfeld in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Schloss Auenstein, a castle at Auenstein, Switzerland
Berne (more commonly Bern), the capital of Switzerland
Berne, Germany, a municipality in Lower Saxony
Eric Berne, Canadian psychiatrist
Ellikon an der Thur, a municipality
Ellikon am Rhein in the municipality of Marthalen
Hinterrhein (river), a tributary of the Rhine
Hinterrhein, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Graubünden
Hinterrhein (district), a district in the canton of Graubünden
Oberblegisee is a lake in the canton of Glarus, Switzerland.
It is above the municipality of Luchsingen and below the peaks of Glärnisch.
Oberblegisee  report on fishing in the lake
Towcester, the Roman town of Lactodorum, is an affluent market town in south Northamptonshire, England.
The town is about  southwest of Northampton and about  northwest of Milton Keynes, the nearest main towns.
Towcester is famous for its racecourse.
Greyhound racing is also held at the same venue.
In 2010 the World Hovercraft Championship was held on the racecourse.
In fiction the "Saracen's Head Inn" in Towcester features in Charles Dickens's novel The Pickwick Papers as one of Mr Pickwick's stopping places along what is now the A5 trunk road.
Prehistoric and Roman periods
Towcester may be the oldest town in Northamptonshire.
There are Iron Age finds in the town, so it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the country.
There is evidence that it was settled by humans since the Mesolithic era (middle stone age).
There is also evidence of Iron Age burials in the area.
In Roman Britain, Watling Street, now the A5 road, was built through the area.
A garrison town called Lactodurum was built.
Two candidate sites for the Battle of Watling Street, fought in 61 AD, are close to the town.
Saxon period and Medieval age
When the Romans left in the 5th century, the area was settled by Saxons.
In the 9th century, Watling Street became the frontier between the kingdom of Wessex and the Danelaw, so Towcester became a frontier town.
Edward the Elder fortified Towcester in 917.
In the 11th century, the Normans built a motte and bailey castle on the site.
Bury Mount are the remains of the fortification and is a scheduled ancient monument.
It was renovated in 2008 with an access ramp added and explanatory plaques added.
Sant'Antonino () is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.
It is one of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France.
Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines is a commune.
In 2015, 5,136 people lived there.
The valley of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines is called the Val d'Argent.
It has five municipalities: Aubure, Lièpvre, Rombach-le-Franc, and Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines.
Official website of the commune of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines
Everipedia () is a for-profit, wiki-based online encyclopedia founded in December 2014.
The site was launched in 2015 as a fork of Wikipedia.
The company is headquartered in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
In 2017, Everipedia was the largest English-language encyclopedia by number of pages.
Everipedia was co-founded by Sam Kazemian, Theodor Forselius, Travis Moore, Mahbod Moghadam, George Beall, and Christian Deciga.
It started as a small project of Sam Kazemian and Theodor Forselius in Kazemian's college dormitory room at UCLA in December 2014.
In December 2017, the site announced that co-founder of Wikipedia Larry Sanger had joined as chief information officer.
On October 18, 2019, Sanger announced that he had resigned from his position at Everipedia and returned his stock holdings in Everipedia without compensation in order to establish the Knowledge Standards Foundation and develop the website Encyclosphere.
Explaining the venture, Sanger said, "We need to do for encyclopedias what blogging standards did for blogs: there needs to be an 'Encyclosphere.'
We should build a totally decentralized network, like the Blogosphere—or like email, IRC, blockchains, and the World Wide Web itself."
Article development
Anyone can contribute to a page by making an account.
Everipedia allows users to create any page on anything as long as the content is cited and neutral, even on non-notable topics.
Startups, celebrities and other contributors are permitted to create their own articles, as long as the content is sourced.
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