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If a worker with a disability needs reasonable accommodations to do their job, that does not mean they are not qualified to do their job.
As long as the worker is able to do their job with the help of accommodations, they are qualified to do the job.
Some accommodations are very simple, like letting a worker have a glass of water at their desk so they can take medicines.
Examples of other accommodations are:
Letting a worker have special equipment that helps them do their job (like a special phone for a person who has trouble hearing)
Changing the worker's schedule (for example, so they can go to doctor's appointments)
Changing the way that work jobs are explained or chosen
However, the accommodation must be "reasonable."
An accommodation is not reasonable if it would be very difficult or very expensive.
If an accommodation is not reasonable, the employer does not have to give it.
What is Employment Discrimination?
Not hiring someone who can do a job, just because they have a disability
Firing a worker who can do their job, just because they have a disability
Not letting a worker get a better job, just because they have a disability
Not letting a worker get the same training as workers without disabilities
Keeping a worker with a disability separate from workers without disabilities
Harassing a worker with a disability
Paying a worker with a disability less than other workers without disabilities
Not letting a worker with a disability have a reasonable accommodation to help them do their job
If a person with a disability thinks their employer has discriminated against them, they can make a complaint to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
The complaint has to be made within 180 days of when the discrimination happened.
If the EEOC thinks discrimination has happened, they will send a letter that tells the person with the disability that they have the right to sue (file a lawsuit against) their employer.
The person with the disability may then file a lawsuit in federal court.
Title II: State and Local Government Activities - and Public Transportation
What Do State and Local Governments Have to Do?
Government Activities
State and local governments have to give people with disabilities the same chances as people without disabilities to use all of their programs and services.
If people with disabilities need reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in these programs, the state or local government has to make them.
Go to public schools
Work for state or local governments
Have health care that is just as good as what people without disabilities have
Use social services (programs run by the state or local government for people who need help)
Use the courts
Vote - in a place that meets any special needs that people with disabilities might have (for example, all voting places have to be accessible to people in wheelchairs)
Make their buildings accessible to people with disabilities (for example, by building wheelchair ramps, adding elevators, and adding bathrooms that can be used by people in wheelchairs)
Make reasonable accommodations to rules and ways of doing things, if a person with a disability needs this (for example, by letting a person with a disability have someone help them vote, if they cannot write, read, or see)
Have ways to communicate with people who have disabilities in hearing, speaking, or seeing
A special part of Title II covers public transportation.
It protects people with disabilities from being discriminated against by public transportation.
This includes city buses, subways, commuter trains, Amtrak, and all other transportation that the public can use.
Make sure that any new vehicles they buy are accessible for people with disabilities
Honestly try to buy or lease used buses that are accessible
Remake buses to be accessible
Wherever there is a bus or train line that runs on a fixed route (it cannot make special stops), the government must provide paratransit.
Paratransit is a service for people with disabilities who cannot use the regular public transportation system.
Paratransit (usually a car or bus) picks them up and drops them off where they need to go.
If a person with a disability thinks that they have been discriminated against by a state or local government, they can complain to the United States Department of Justice.
A few different things might happen after the person files their complaint:
The complaint might be sent to a mediation program.
The person with a disability, someone from the state or local government, and a mediator will all meet together.
The mediator's job is to help everyone come up with a solution that everyone can agree to.
The Department of Justice may bring a lawsuit against the state or local government
A person with a disability can also file their own lawsuit in a federal court, saying that the state or local government discriminated against them.
The person does not need to complain to the Department of Justice first, or have the Department of Justice tell them they have the right to sue.
Title III: Public Accommodations
Who Is Covered by Title III?
Title III protects against discrimination by "public accommodations."
Public accommodations are private organizations or people which own, lease, or run places meant for the public to use.
Examples of public accommodations include:
Transportation services provided by private companies
Commercial facilities (like office buildings, factories, and warehouses)
Private companies that give tests and teach classes to people who want educational or job-related certification
There are two types of places that are exempt from Title III, and do not have to follow its rules.
Places controlled by religious organizations, including churches, synagogues, mosques, and other places of worship
Private clubs
What Do Public Accommodations Have to Do?
All public accommodations have to do these things:
When a new building is built, the new buildings have to be accessible.
If a building is being "altered" (changed), the changes have to make things accessible, if possible.
(For example, if a doorway is being moved, the new doorway must be wide enough for a wheelchair to get through.)
But public accommodations do not have to make their changes accessible if that would add more than 20% to the cost of making the change.
Get rid of any barriers in their buildings that make those buildings not accessible.
(For example, by moving a table or vending machine that makes a hallway too narrow for a wheelchair to get through.)
The rules for what is "accessible" are set out in the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessibility Design.
Examples of these rules include:
Adding elevators, wheelchair lifts, or wheelchair ramps to buildings that only have stairs
Making doorways wide enough for wheelchairs to get through
Adding special phones for people with hearing problems
Putting Braille on elevator buttons for blind people
Most public accommodations (but not commercial facilities) have to do these things:
Make sure that all people with disabilities have equal access to everything that people without disabilities do.
They have to create reasonable accommodations if this would help make things equal.
(For example, see the picture above: a state park has built a wheelchair ramp so that people in wheelchairs can fish in the same park as people without disabilities.
Without this ramp, people with disabilities would not have equal access to the park, because they would not be able to fish in the park like people without disabilities could.)
When building or changing swimming pools, wading pools, and spas, they have to make an accessible way for people with disabilities to get in and out.
Make sure people with disabilities can buy and do things in the same places people without disabilities can.
Get rid of rules that make it impossible for people with disabilities to buy and do things in public accommodations.
Make reasonable accommodations in rules and ways of doing things, to make sure that people with disabilities can buy and do things in public accommodations.
(For example, a clothing store might have a rule that only one person is allowed to be in a dressing room at one time.
Some people with disabilities need help getting dressed.
The store would have to change their rule to say that two people are allowed in a dressing room if one of them needs help getting dressed because of a disability.)
Have special tools to communicate with people with disabilities (like a special phone for talking with people who are deaf or have trouble hearing).
Make transportation accessible to people with disabilities (for example, private companies that provide transportation have to have at least some accessible vehicles, like wheelchair vans, or buses that can get closer to the ground so people in wheelchairs can get on without having to climb stairs)
Private companies that teach classes or give tests must make reasonable accommodations to make it possible for people with disabilities to take the classes or tests.
Some examples of reasonable accommodations are:
Giving extra time for a person with a learning disability to take a test
Changing the way a class or test is given to a person with a disability (for example, having a sign language interpreter for a deaf person, or having someone read books from the class out loud to a blind person)
Making sure that the class or test is in an accessible building
If a person with a disability thinks that they have been discriminated against by a public accommodation, they can complain to the United States Department of Justice.
They can write a letter, fax a letter, or use an online form at http://www.ada.gov/filing_complaint.htm.
The person with a disability, someone from the public accommodation, and a mediator will all meet together.
The Department of Justice may bring a lawsuit against the public accommodation.
If a person is unable to write, fax, or type a complaint because of a disability, the Department of Justice will make reasonable accommodations to help.
The person can call the Department of Justice's ADA Information Line.
The Information Line is answered by ADA Specialists.
A person with a disability can explain their complaint, and the Specialist will write it down for them.
If the person is deaf and uses American Sign Language, a Specialist can take their complaint by videophone (so they can see each other and sign back and forth to each other).
Title IV: Telecommunications
Who Is Covered by Title IV?
What Do Telecommunications Companies Have to Do?
Title IV says that all telecommunications companies in the United States have to make sure that people with disabilities have equal access to telecommunication.
This means that they have to provide telecommunication services that are just as good as what people without disabilities get.
For example, they have to:
Create relay services.
A relay service is a way for a telephone operator to help a person with a speaking or hearing disability to call a regular phone.
To do this, the person with the disability uses a keyboard or some other special tool.
Make their relay services available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Not charge people with disabilities any more than they charge people without disabilities.
Relay services have changed a lot since 1990.
At first, the most common relay services were teletypewriter (TTY) and Telecommunications for the Deaf (TDD) devices.
These were like phones with typewriters attached.
Two people with TDDs could type back and forth to each other.
Or, if a person with a disability wanted to call a regular phone (like a pizza restaurant), they could type into the phone, an operator would read the message out loud to the pizza restaurant, listen to the restaurant's answer and type it back to the person with a disability.
Title IV also led every state in the U.S. to create Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS), such as STS relay.
STS stands for Speech-to-Speech.
It was created for people who have speaking problems.
STS relay operators listen to what the person is saying and repeats it in a clear voice to make it easier for the other person to understand.
Today, many calls that use TRS are made over the Internet by consumers who use broadband connections.
Some are Video Relay Service (VRS) calls, while others are text calls.
Either way, communication assistants translate between the signed or typed words of a consumer and the spoken words of others.
In 2006, according to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), VRS calls averaged two million minutes a month.
Title V: Miscellaneous
Title V includes various other extra rules.
For example, it says:
Nothing in the ADA changes or cancels anything in Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Section 504 was the first law to give any civil rights to people with disabilities.
No one may be punished for using their ADA rights, or helping someone else use their ADA rights.
(Punishing a person for this reason is called retaliation.)
The ADA Information Line, run by the U.S. Department of Justice: Speak to an ADA Specialist who can help you understand what the ADA says and how it applies to a situation
Matey Kaziyski (; born 23 September 1984) is a Bulgarian volleyball player.
He was a member of Bulgaria men's national volleyball team in 2003-2012 and Japanese club Panasonic Panthers, a participant of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008, bronze medalist of the World Championship 2006, World Cup 2007 and European Championship 2009.
He is a multiple winner of the CEV Champions League and FIVB Club World Championship with the Italian club Trentino Volley.
At just over , Hodgkinson was on the small side for a goalkeeper, but made up for the lack of height by his good positional play.
He played for Sheffield United from 1954 through 1971 and for the England national football team from 1957 through 1960.
Sheffield United career
William Bruce Davis (born January 13, 1938) is a Canadian actor, television director, and activist.
He is best known for his role as The Smoking Man on The X-Files.
Recently, he has been an activist to stop global warming.
williambdavis.com
The Isuzu Rodeo was a mid-size SUV sold from 1991-2004.
From 1991-1997, the 2.6-liter 4-cylinder 120 horsepower engine was standard on the 2WD Rodeo S. The Rodeo had an optional V6 engine and four-wheel drive.
The first series Rodeos had a number of safety issues.
It had very poor crash test scores.
Front airbags were installed for the first time in 1995.
The second generation Rodeo came out in 1998.
A new V6 engine gave it much more power.
While the exterior design did not change very much, it became known as one of the best SUVs available at the time.
But it could not keep up with the other SUVs in the market.
Isuzu would later replace the Rodeo with the Ascender, a badge-engineered GMC Envoy in 2005
The GMC Envoy was a midsize SUV sold by the GMC division of General Motors.
It was introduced in 1998.
In 2002 the Envoy was improved and rode on the same chassisas the new Chevrolet TrailBlazer.
The Envoy was later given an extended wheelbase.
In 2004 it was given a trim package called XUV.
This was an Envoy XL with no third row seating and a retractable roof over the cargo bay.
This was an attempt to make it both an SUV and a pickup truck.
The resulting odd-looking Envoy XUV did not sell well.
2009 was the last model year for the Envoy.
It had daytime running lights, electronic stability control, anti-lock brakes and a rollover sensor that automatically deployed the side curtain air bags.
It was replaced by the GMC Terrain.
Isiah Lord Thomas III (born April 30, 1961) is a retired American basketball player.
He played professionally for the Detroit Pistons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Thomas was just over 6 feet tall, making him a "small man" by basketball standards.
He was one of the greatest point guards in basketball history.
His only peer in the 1980s was Earvin "Magic" Johnson who played for the Los Angeles Lakers.
He grew up poor on Chicago's South Side.
As a boy he showed a talent for basketball.
At this time Thomas realized his basketball skills might help his family get out of poverty and the unsafe neighborhood.
Thomas attended the Indiana University.
He was a member of the US men's basketball team at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Because of the US boycott, the team did not go to Moscow.
Thomas was a first round draft choice by the Detroit Pistons.
He was signed to a 4-year contract.
In 1984 Thomas was given an 11-year, $12 million contract.
This was both the longest and highest paying player contract in Detroit Pistons history.
A torn achilles tendon forced him to retire in 1994.
Accomplishments and honors
Thomas was the 1982 NBA Rookie of the Year.
He was named the Most Valuable Player in the 1984, 1986 and 1990.
He played in twelve All-star games.
In 1996 he was named one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history.
Thomas has one of the best records in NBA history.
He scored a total of 18,822 points averaging 19.2 points per game.
He was named to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team.
In 2000 he was named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Audencia Nantes School of Management is a business school in Nantes, France.
It is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
The school enrolls 3000 students from almost 50 countries.
It offers bachelor's, international master's, specialised masters and MBAs degrees.
It also offers executive education courses.
The school was started in 1900 as the École Supérieure de Commerce de Nantes.
The school's name was changed in 2000 to its current name, Audencia Nantes School of Management.
The name Audencia comes from two Latin words: audientia (meaning to hear or listen) and audacia (meaning boldness or daring).
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an action role-playing, open-world video game which was made by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
Skyrim is the fifth game in The Elder Scrolls Series.
Skyrim comes after The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
Skyrim was released worldwide on November 11, 2011 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
Three add-ons were later released for Skyrim; Dawnguard, Hearthfire and Dragonborn.
The legendary edition of Skyrim was released on June 4, 2013, this included ‘’The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’’ Dawnguard, Hearthfire and Dragonborn.
Skyrims main story revolves around the player character and their quest to defeat Alduin the World-Eater, A dragon which is said to destroy Tamriel.
Tamriel is the continent that Skyrim is placed.
The game takes place two hundred years after The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion takes place.
The game Skyrim is set in the fictional area of Skyrim.
During the course of the game, oves their characters skills.
In ‘’Skyrim’’ the user can travel anywhere in the game world due to it being open world.
The game was created using the Creation Engine, it was rebuilt for Skyrim.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was released to critical acclaim, with reviewers.
The game sold over 20 million copies across all three platforms.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an action role-playing game, it uses first-person and third-person perspectives.
The player can freely travel around Skyrim, it is an open-world game.
It has wilderness, dungeons, cities, towns, fortresses, villages,and bandit bases.
Players can travel the world using horses or by fast traveling which allows the player to travel to any discovered place.
The game’s main quest can be completed or ignored, up to the players choice.
Some quests rely on the main story's progression.
Bad Rats: The Rats' Revenge is a puzzle video game from 2009.
It was made by Invent4 Entertainment for Microsoft Windows.
The mission of the game is to solve physics puzzles to take revenge on cats.
The game is known for its popularity and terrible reputation among Steam users.
The goal of each stage is to use rats to activate an object to kill a cat.
The player must place objects within a time limit.
The player's score is based on the objects used and time taken.
The game did not receive professional reviews on Metecritic or GameRankings.
According to Kotaku, it is a "nearly universally reviled" game.
http://www.invent4.com/rats/
Ramus Pomifer (Latin for apple branch) was a constellation found between Hercules and Lyra.
It represented a branch held in Hercules' left hand.
It later formed a new constellation: Cerberus et Ramus (along with Cerberus, that shared many of the same stars).
Natural Wonder is a live album by American musician Stevie Wonder.
It was recorded in Osaka, Japan and released on November 21, 1995.
It was both Wonder's second album to be released in 1995 and his fourth live album and first since 1970's Stevie Wonder Live.
"Dancing to the Rhythm" *– 7:07
"Love's in Need of Love Today" – 6:02
"Master Blaster (Jammin')" – 3:36
"Stevie Ray Blues" *– 2:27
"Higher Ground" – 3:59
"Rocket Love" – 4:47
"Stay Gold" – 4:21
"Ribbon in the Sky" – 8:37
"Pastime Paradise" – 3:22
"If It's Magic" – 3:34
"Ms. & Mr. Little Ones" *– 4:17
"Village Ghetto Land" – 3:26
"Tomorrow Robins Will Sing" – 4:20
"Stevie Ray Blues" is a tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan.
"Dancing to the Rhythm" & "Ms. & Mr. Little Ones" are new songs.
"Overjoyed" – 3:59
"My Cherie Amour" – 3:20
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours" – 2:45
"Living for the City" – 4:26
"Sir Duke" – 2:46
"I Wish" – 4:06
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" – 2:21
"Superstition" – 5:37
"I Just Called to Say I Love You" – 4:38
"For Your Love" – 5:06
"Another Star" – 5:55
Song Review: A Greatest Hits Collection is a 1996 double disc greatest hits album by Stevie Wonder.
Wonder would release another greatest hits album called At the Close of a Century three years later.
"Part-Time Lover" (7" single version)
"I Just Called to Say I Love You" (single version)
"Superstition" (single version)
"Sir Duke"
"My Cherie Amour"
"I Was Made to Love Her"
"Overjoyed"
"Hey Love"
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)"
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (single version)
"Ribbon in the Sky" (edit)
"Master Blaster (Jammin')" (7" single version)
"Living for the City" (single version)
"Uptight (Everything's Alright)"
"Do I Do"
"Send One Your Love"
"Ebony and Ivory"
"All I Do"
"For Your Love" (7" single version)
"You Will Know" (radio edit)
"Boogie On Reggae Woman" (single version)
"Higher Ground" (single version)
"These Three Words"
"Stay Gold"
"Love Light in Flight"
"Kiss Lonely Goodbye" (edit)
"Hold On to Your Dream"
1998 edition
"Isn't She Lovely"
"I Just Called to Say I Love You"
"Master Blaster (Jammin')"
"Happy Birthday"
"Living for the City"
"He's Misstra Know It All"
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
"Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday"
"For Your Love"
"Kiss Lonely Goodbye"
At the Close of a Century is a box set album that has Stevie Wonder's greatest hits from 1962-1995 and was released on November 21, 1999.
Fingertips (Pts.
1 & 2) - (6:55)
Uptight (Everything's Alright) - (2:53)
Nothing's Too Good For My Baby -(2:38)
Blowin' in the Wind - (3:43)
A Place in the Sun - (2:45)
Hey Love - (2:45)
I Was Made to Love Her - (2:37)
Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) - (3:01)
I'm Wondering - (2:55)
Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day - (2:46)
You Met Your Match - (2:38)
For Once in My Life - (2:50)
I Don't Know Why - (2:45)
My Cherie Amour - (2:50)
Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday - (3:04)
Never Had a Dream Come True - (3:13)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours - (2:40)
Heaven Help Us All - (3:15)
We Can Work It Out - (3:17)
If You Really Love Me - (2:56)
Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer - (2:56)
Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You) - (8:07)
I Love Every Little Thing About You - (3:55)
Superstition - (4:26)
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life - (2:55)
You And I - (4:34)
I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) - (4:52)
Too High - (4:36)
Visions - (5:23)
Living For The City - (7:23)
Golden Lady - (4:47)
Higher Ground - (3:42)
All In Love Is Fair - (3:43)
Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing - (4:45)
He's Misstra Know-It-All - (5:36)
You Haven't Done Nothin' - (3:29)
Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away - (5:02)
Too Shy To Say - (3:29)
Boogie On Reggae Woman - (4:55)
Creepin' - (4:20)
Sir Duke - (3:51)
I Wish - (4:12)
Knocks Me Off My Feet - (3:36)
Pastime Paradise - (3:27)
Isn't She Lovely- (6:36)
Ngiculela ~ Es Una Historia ~ I Am Singing - (3:48)
If It's Magic - (3:12)
As - (7:09)
Another Star - (8:22)
Send One Your Love - (4:01)
All I Do - (5:16)
Rocket Love - (4:39)
I Ain't Gonna Stand for It - (4:39)
Master Blaster (Jammin') - (5:11)
Lately - (4:05)
Happy Birthday - (5:58)
That Girl - (5:13)
Ribbon in the Sky - (5:40)
Do I Do - (10:30)
Love Light in Flight - (6:54)
I Just Called To Say I Love You - (4:22)
Overjoyed - (3:42)
Part-Time Lover - (4:12)
Go Home - (5:19)
You Will Know - (5:02)
Skeletons - (5:24)
Gotta Have You - (6:26)
These Three Words - (4:54)
For Your Love - (5:01)
How Come, How Long (Babyface feat.
Stevie Wonder) - (5:15)
"Fingertips (Part 2)" – 3:10
"Uptight (Everything's Alright)" – 2:52
"Hey Love" – 2:43
"I Was Made to Love Her" – 2:35
"For Once in My Life" – 2:48
"My Cherie Amour" – 2:52
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)" – 2:39
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" – 2:50
"Superstition" – 4:05
"Higher Ground" – 3:11
"Living for the City" – 7:23
"You Haven't Done Nothin'" – 3:24
"Boogie On Reggae Woman" – 4:11
"I Wish" – 4:09
"Sir Duke" – 3:53
"Master Blaster (Jammin')" – 4:51
"That Girl" – 5:09
"Do I Do" [Edit] – 5:01
"I Just Called to Say I Love You" – 4:22
"Overjoyed" – 3:43
"Part-Time Lover" – 3:42
"Superstition" – 4:28
"Sir Duke" – 3:54
"I Wish" – 4:14
"Master Blaster (Jammin')" – 5:09
"Isn't She Lovely" – 3:21
"I Just Called to Say I Love You" – 4:23
"Ebony and Ivory" (duet with Paul McCartney) – 3:42
"As" – 3:29
"Never Had a Dream Come True" – 3:13
"I Was Made to Love Her" – 2:37
"Heaven Help Us All" – 3:13
"Overjoyed" – 3:44
"Lately" – 4:07
"For Your Love" – 5:02
"If You Really Love Me" – 2:59
"Higher Ground" – 3:44
"Do I Do" – 5:05
"Living for the City" – 3:41
"Part-Time Lover" – 4:14
"Uptight (Everything's Alright)" – 2:53
"We Can Work It Out" (The Beatles cover) – 3:15
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)" – 2:38
"Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" – 3:04
"I'm Wondering" – 2:54
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" – 2:58
"I Don't Know Why (I Love You)" – 2:47
"A Place in the Sun" – 2:49
"Blowin' in the Wind" (Bob Dylan cover) – 3:04
"Send One Your Love" – 4:02
"Pastime Paradise" – 3:28
"Fingertips, Pts.
1 & 2 (Live)" – 6:55
"Boogie On Reggae Woman" – 5:13
"You Haven't Done Nothin'" – 3:23
"He's Misstra Know It All" – 5:34
"Happy Birthday" – 5:54
"Fingertips, Part 2 (Live)" – 3:10
"A Place in the Sun"" – 2:49
"To Feel the Fire"– 3:47
The catholic mass is made of two parts: One that changes during the year, and the other one that does not.
The one that does not change is usually called Ordinary.
The part that canges is usually called Proper.
The Latin names for these are Ordinarium and Proprium.
When talkin about the music performed in Church, an ordinary usually consists of the following (which are either songs or prayers):
Agnus dei
Protestant and Eastern Orthodox often use the same songs, but they have adapted the texts.
Nowadays, the text is often translated to the local language.
Shirley Stelfox (11 April 1941 – 7 December 2015) was an English actress.
She was best known for her role as Edna Birch on the British soap opera Emmerdale.
Profile , filmdope.com; accessed 21 November 2015.
Shirley Stelfox(Aveleyman)
Mattiwilda Dobbs (July 11, 1925 – December 8, 2015) was an African-American coloratura soprano.
She was one of the first black singers to enjoy a major international career in opera.
After winning the International Music Competition in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1951, she made her professional operatic debut at the Holland Festival, as the Nightingale in Stravinsky's The Nightingale, in 1952.
Interview with Mattiwilda Dobbs by Bruce Duffie, March 28, 1994
Mary Joan Okum (née Kath; October 27, 1924 – December 8, 2015), known by her performing name Bonnie Lou, was an American musical pioneer.
She was one of first female rock and roll singers.
She was also one of the first artists to gain crossover success from country music to rock and roll.
She was the "top name" on the first country music program regularly broadcast on a national TV network.
Lou was one of the first female co-hosts of a successful television talk show, and a regular musical performer on popular shows in the 1960s and 1970s.
She "was a prime mover in the first days of rockabilly," and is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
Abduction is the criminal act of taking a person away by means of fraud, persuasion, by threat of violence or by force.
Kidnapping, by comparison, is limited to a threat of violence or forcefully taking adults or the by the taking of children.
It often involves some form of false imprisonment.
In some states, kidnapping and abduction are treated as the same thing.
But in most jurisdictions they are separate crimes.
Unlawful interference with family members such as removing a child from its parents is abduction.
It does not matter if the minor consents or not.
Kidnapping is the unlawful taking of a person against their will.
Abduction can also mean the taking of any female person for the purposes of prostitution, concubinage or (forced) marriage.
Child abduction
During wars, children are often abducted.
They may be treated brutally or killed.
They may be victims of sexual violence or may be used as soldiers.
Children are abducted both by armed parties or governments.
They may be taken as an act of retaliation against a population.
International child abduction
When a marriage breaks down, it is not uncommon for one parent to wish to return, with his or her children, to their state of origin.
This is usually without the permission of the other parent.
This becomes an international child abduction.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child requires "State Parties shall take measures to combat the illicit transfer and non-return of children abroad".
Also that they "promote the conclusion of bilateral or multilateral agreements or accession to existing agreements".
International child abductions are a matter treated by civil law and in some cases criminal law.
Abduction vs Kidnapping, Kids Live Safe
Family Abduction, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Embezzlement is the theft or misappropriating of funds or assets belonging to a company or government.
It is the misusing of property lawfully entrusted to a person who then converts it for his or her own use.
Accounting embezzlement is hiding the theft of funds by the manipulation of accounting records.
Embezzlement is most commonly a corporate crime.
There are many different ways to embezzle funds. "
Skimming off the top" is when a person continually takes a small amount over a period of time.
Someone may disappear after taking a large amount of funds.
Managers may steal money by under-reporting income and keeping the unreported funds.
The US Internal Revenue Service requires the reporting of all income when a person files their income tax forms.
Failure to include embezzled funds in their gross income can bring charges of tax evasion by the IRS.
This is in addition to any other jurisdictions criminal charges of embezzlement.
Action role-playing games (or action RPG) is a sub-genre of role-playing video games.
It includes action or action-adventure games.
Eskender Mustafaiev (Ukrainian: Ескендер Аметович Мустафаєв; born July 17, 1981) is a swimmer from Aqyar/Sevastopil.
He won a gol medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the 50 metre freestyle S4 race.
Mustafaiev was a member of the swimming team from Ukraine at the the 2011 IPC European Swimming Championships in Berlin, Germany.
He competed in the  Men’s 50m Freestyle S4.
When he was 31-years-old, Mustafaiev won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the 50 metre freestyle S4 with a time of 38.26 seconds.
He also competed in the 100m freestyle, 50m backstroke and 200m freestyle races in London.
He was one of three people from the Ukraine who was from Crimea who competed in London.
The other two sportspeople were swimmer Dmytro Kryzhanivskyi and shooter Olha Mustafaieva.
He finished last in the 50m backstroke final.
After the 2012 Games, they gave him the Order of Merit for his sport work.
At the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal, Mustafaiev won a gold in the men’s 50 freestyle S4 with a time of 37.96 seconds.
He won a silver medal in the men’s 100 freestyle S4.
He lost the race to Slovenia's Darko Duric, who defeated him by a third of a second.
In October 2014, Mustafaiev, two other Crimean Paralympic and Deaflympic swimmers and a Crimean Paralympic or Deaflympic coach lost their Ukrainian sports scholarship.
This was decided after reports they moved to Russia.
Deimatic defence is when prey startle predators and so get time to escape.
The predator gets a shock, and often jumps back when startled.
Many prey use this tactic when a predator gets close.
It is an anti-predator defence.
This method is a fake, where a real aposematic warning signal is genuine.
Many species of frog put on warning displays; but only some of these species do have poison glands.
Where predators are initially startled but learn to eat the displaying prey, the display is classed as deimatic, and the prey is bluffing;
Where they continue to avoid the prey after tasting it, the display is taken as aposematic, meaning the prey is genuinely distasteful.
In the second case, the behaviour is both deimatic and aposematic.
It startles the predator, and the display truly indicates the prey is bad to eat.
Tax advantage refers to the financial gain which applies to certain accounts or investments.
These include accounts that are, by statute, tax-reduced, tax-deferred, or tax-free.
Governments establish tax advantages to encourage private individuals to contribute money when it is considered to be in the public interest.
An example is retirement plans, which often offer tax advantages to incentivize savings for retirement.
In the United States municipal bonds may also be exempt from certain taxes.
In countries in which the average age of the population is increasing, tax advantages may put pressure on pension plans.
For example, where benefits are funded on a pay-as-you-go basis, the benefits paid to those receiving a pension come directly from the contributions (money paid) of those of working age.
If the proportion of pensioners to working-age people rises, the contributions needed from working people will also rise proportionately.
In the United States, the rapid onset of Baby Boomer retirement is currently causing such a problem.
An eye-spot (or ocellus) is an eye-like marking on the body of an animal.
They are found on butterflies, reptiles, felids, birds and fish.
Eye-spots may be a form of mimicry: the spot looks like the eye of a larger animal.
Its function may be to draw a predator's attention away from the most vulnerable body parts; or to look like an unpleasant or dangerous animal.
There is evidence that eyespots in butterflies are anti-predator defences.
Some are deimatic displays to distract, startle or scare off predators, or at least to deflect attacks away from vital body parts.
Butterfly eyespots may also play a role in mate recognition and sexual selection, like the eyespots on larger organisms.
A tax deduction is a way to reduce the amount of income that is subject to a tax.
Tax deductions and tax credits both lower the amount of money a person has to pay in taxes.
But they do it differently.
A tax deduction is subtracted from the gross income of a taxpayer.
For example, if a couple had an income of $60,000 for the year, and they had paid $10,000 in interest on their mortgage, their taxable income would be reduced to $50,000.
The value of a tax deduction depends on a person's tax rate, which rises with income.
A tax credit, by comparison, has the same value for all taxpayers.
In the USA, there are hundreds of different tax deductions.
Some are only available to taxpayers in certain income brackets.
Some are available to businesses in particular industries.
The Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) is a subspecies of ringed seal (Pusa hispida).
Usually seals live in the sea, but Saimaa ringed seals live in Lake Saimaa in Finland.
There are only 320 Saimaa ringed seals in the world.
They are among the most endangered seals in the world.
After the last ice age was over, dry land was rising slowly.
This isolated Lake Saimaa from the sea.
Some seals were also isolated in Saimaa.
Their successors become Saimaa ringed seals.
An adult Saimaa ringed seal is between  long and weighs between .
Usually male seals are larger than females.
Their colour is dark gray, with circular white ring patterns.
Saimaa ringed seals give birth towards the end of February.
They dig a nest in snow on top of lake ice.
Snow nest gives shelter for young seal pups.
If there is not enough snow, young seals do not survive.
In 2010s, volunteers help seals by building artificial piles of snow on lake ice.
Studies by the University of Eastern Finland showed the ringed seals would nest in man-made snowdrifts the same as natural snowdrifts.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons living in the U.S. state of Alaska are able to marry.
A U.S. district court declared Alaska's denial of same-sex marriages unconstitutional on October 12, 2014.
Hate crime/sexual orientation laws
State law does not address hate crimes based on gender identity or sexual orientations.
Anchorage, however, does have an ordinance "to outlaw discrimination in Anchorage based on sexual orientation or gender identity".
Anchorage makes up 41% of the total population of Alaska.
The Regnenses, Regni or Regini were a British Celtic people.
They were ruled by a king.
Their their territory or kingdom was later a civitas of Roman Britain.
Their capital was Noviomagus Reginorum, known today as Chichester in modern West Sussex.
Before the Romans conquered Britain their land and capital appear to have been part of the territory of the Atrebates.
Possibly they were part of a confederation of tribes.
The tribe made use of hill forts more than other tribes around them.
Their location in southern England would have made them a more civilized people.
They would have had contact with Europe through trading exposing them to new ideas. '
Regninses', means "people of the kingdom".
It is not known how they came by that name.
It was recorded by the Romans but it could be a translation or a name the Romans gave them.
Their ruler was Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus.
Tacitus said of him:
The theory that Cogidubnus was created legatus, a rank only ever given to senators, is based on reconstructing the damaged Chichester inscription.
It would read as Cogidubni regis legati Augusti in Britannia ("king and imperial legate in Britain").
It could also be Cogidubni regis magni Britanniae ("great king of Britain").
A property tax (or millage tax) is a levy on property that the owner is required to pay.
The tax is imposed by the governing authority of the jurisdiction in which the property is located.
The tax may be paid to a national, state, provincial, county, regional, or municipality governmant.
This is in contrast to a rent or mortgage tax, which is based on a percentage of the rent or mortgage value.
There are four broad types of property: land, immovable property, personal property  and intellectual property.
Real property (also called real estate or realty) means the combination of land and improvements.
Under a property tax system, the government requires and/or performs an appraisal of the monetary value of each property.
A tax is assessed based on that value.
Forms of property tax used vary among countries and jurisdictions.
Real property is often taxed based on its classification.
Classification is the grouping of properties based on similar use.
Properties in different classes are taxed at different rates.
Examples of different classes of property are residential, commercial, industrial and vacant real property.
In Israel, for example, property tax rates are double for vacant apartments versus occupied apartments.
In the Canadian province of British Columbia a speculation tax  on residential properties has been introduced in 2019.
A special assessment tax is sometimes confused with property tax.
These are two distinct forms of taxation: one (Ad valorem tax) relies upon the appraised fair market value of the property being taxed.
The other (special assessment) relies upon a special enhancement called a "benefit" for its justification.
The property tax rate is often given as a percentage.
It may also be expressed as a per mille (amount of tax per thousand currency units of property value), which is also known as a millage rate or mill (which is also one-thousandth of a currency unit).
To calculate the property tax, the authority will multiply the assessed value of the property by the mill rate.
Then they will divide by 1,000.
For example, a property with an assessed value of $50,000 located in a municipality with a mill rate of 20 mills would have a property tax bill of $1,000 per year.
Isham Russell "Rusty" Jones II (April 13, 1942 – December 9, 2015), better known as Rusty Jones, was an American jazz drummer.
He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, but was raised in Chicago, Illinois.
Jones was known for performing with Marian McPartland and Stéphane Grappelli.
John Trudell (February 15, 1946 – December 8, 2015) was a Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist.
He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969.
He was partners with Marcheline Bertrand, Angelina Jolie's mother, until her death in 2007.
During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement.
Official John Trudell website
Ron Bouchard (November 23, 1948December 10, 2015) was an American NASCAR driver.
He was the 1981 NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year.
He was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
Bouchard began his NASCAR career in 1981 in the #47 J.D. Stacy Buick for owner Jack Beebe (Race Hill Farm team).
In 1982 Bouchard finished a career-high eighth in the final points standing with 15 Top 10 finishes in 30 races.
He ran full-time in 1983, 1984, and 1985.
Ron's Biography
As a result, mayor Rahm Emanuel fired Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy on December 1, 2015.
Few days later, Emanuel apologized for the shooting, but since then, Emanuel has received criticisms and negative comments towards him and his administration.
Video of the shooting, captured on one police cruiser's dashboard camera, was released to the public on November 24, 2015, over 13 months after the shooting.
Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder within hours after the video's release.
After turning himself in to authorities, he was initially ordered held without bail at Cook County Jail,  but released on November 30  after posting bail.
There have been numerous protests denouncing Laquan McDonald's death.
In November 27, a major day for shopping in the U.S., a group of protesters chanted "sixteen shots" and other slogans while marching on Michigan Avenue, the city's central shopping district.
This caused some businesses to shut their doors and the police closed Michigan Avenue, a six-lane street.
The FBI opened an investigation into McDonald's death, and the city of Chicago approved a five-million dollar settlement in April 2015, although no lawsuit was filed.
The police had originally claimed that McDonald had lunged at an officer.
However, video footage contradicts that claim; McDonald made no lunges.
External video dashcam footage
Coban, manufacturer of dashboard cameras  used by the Chicago Police
Adolph "Dolph" Schayes (May 19, 1928 – December 10, 2015) was an American professional basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He was a top scorer and rebounder, he was a 12-time NBA All-Star and a 12-time All-NBA selection.
Schayes won an NBA championship with the Syracuse Nationals in 1955.
He was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
He played for the Philadelphia 76ers from 1948 through 1964.
He coached the Philadelphia 76ers from 1963 through 1966 and the Buffalo Braves from 1970 through 1972.
Dolph Schayes biography at NBA Encyclopedia
SS Daniel J. Morrell was an American Great Lakes ore carrier.
It was 603 feet long.
The ship usually carried iron ore.
The Morrell sank during a severe storm on November 29, 1966.
The ship broke in two before sinking.
Twenty-eight of the Morrell's 29 crewmen died during the sinking.
Only one crewman survived.
Jon Landau (born July 23, 1960) is an American movie producer.
He is best known for his work with James Cameron: Titanic (1997), Solaris (2002) and Avatar (2009).
He also produced Campus Man (1987), Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (1989), Dick Tracy (1990) and Alita: Battle Angel (2018).
Landau was born in New York City, New York.
He was the son of Edie, a producer, and Ely A. Landau, a studio executive and producer.
Mikael Agricola ( ) (c. 1510 – 9 April 1557) was a priest who is often called the "father of written Finnish".
In addition, Agricola, Aleksis Kivi and Elias Lönnrot are regarded fathers of a national literature in Finnish.
In his time, Finland was part of Sweden, a Catholic country.
He learned the ideas of the Reformation, and thought everyone should be able to read the Bible.
To help people in Finland to learn to read, Agricola published a ABC book and a prayer book in Finnish around year 1544.
He also translated large sections of the Bible into Finnish.
Agricola, Mikael (1510 - 1557) Finnish Dictionary of National Biography online.
The Finnish Reformer was a student of Luther – and Finland's educator
TOP 09 is a political party in the Czech Republic.
It is a right-wing, conservative party.
The chairman of the party is former finance minister Miroslav Kalousek and the honorary chairman is former foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg.
TOP 09 have 26 members in the Chamber of Deputies and 4 members in the European parliament.
The party's policies are based on conservatism and pro-Europeanism.
Miroslav Kalousek (born 16 December 1960) is a Czech politician, former Finance minister, leader of TOP 09 party, and member of Chamber of Deputies.
Avon is a town in the state of Indiana, in the United States.
As of the 2010 census, the population was 12,446.
The Chamber of Deputies of Parliament of the Czech Republic () is the lower house of parliament of the Czech Republic.
It has 200 members.
They serve for 4 years.
The current parliament was elected in 2013.
The Phillips Curve shows the relationship between unemployment and wage inflation in an economy.
It shows that as unemployment goes down, wages go up.
It was discovered by British economist William Phillips.
He studied wage inflation and unemployment in the United Kingdom from 1861 to 1957.
The theory states that economic growth causes inflation.
This causes more jobs to become available which lowers unemployment.
In the 1970s high levels of inflation and unemployment were occurring at the same time.
This disproved the theory, at least in the long run.
Many economists feel that the Phillips curve still has value in the short run where there is still a tradeoff between inflation and unemployment.
Momoko Kōchi (born Momoko Okouchi March 7, 1932 - November 5, 1998) was a Japanese actress.
She is best known for her roles in the original  Godzilla, playing the character of Emiko Yamane.
Kōchi later played the same role in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah in 1995.
She starred in The Mysterians, playing Hiroko Iwamoto.
Kōchi was discovered in 1953 in Toho's New Face Contest.
By the late 1950s she found herself typecast into science fiction and horror movies.
She decided to pursue formal acting.
In the 1960s she was on stage doing Shakespeare.
She also did occasional television commercials.
She didn't act in movies again until 1995.
Kōchi died at age 66 in Tokyo Japan on November 5, 1998 from intestinal cancer.
The European perch (Perca fluviatilis), also known as the common perch, redfin perch, big-scaled redfin, English perch, Eurasian perch, Eurasian river perch, Hatch or in Anglophone parts of Europe, simply the perch, is a type of fish.
It belongs in genus Perch and lives in Europe and Siberia.
It is typically less than 25 cm long.
It has greenish basic colour with 5-9 black bands, and red fins.
European perch lives in water  which contains no salt or very little salt.