Henry Nodle Butler (born February 16, 1954) is an American professor of law, economics, and public policy and former executive director of the Law and Economics Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School in Arlington, Virginia.

Butler formerly served as the director of the Judicial Education Program at the American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Institution Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. A conservative, he supports free markets with little regulation. He has acted as an expert witness in a legal cases involving antitrust, restrictive covenants, damages, joint ventures, and other issues.

Butler ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the U.S. House of Representatives for Virginia's 11th congressional district in  1992; he lost the general election to Democrat Leslie L. Byrne.

Early life and education
Butler is the son of M. Caldwell Butler, who served as a Republican U.S. Representative for Virginia's 6th congressional district from 1972 to 1983.

Butler received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Richmond in 1977. He then attended Virginia Tech, where he earned a Master of Arts in 1979 and a Ph.D. in 1982. There he studied under James M. Buchanan, a Nobel Economics Laureate.

Butler received a Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law in 1982, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.

Career
Butler spent three years at Texas A&M University as an assistant professor of management before becoming a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School during the 1985-86 academic year. From 1986 to 1993, Butler was a professor at George Mason University School of Law, renamed Antonin Scalia Law School. After 1992 Butler Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Distinguished Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Kansas School of Law and School of Business, and for a short time served as dean of the Chapman University, Argyros School of Business and Economics and chairman of the Chapman University Law and Organizational Economics Center before moving to Chapman in 2001.

Butler has been involved in the political and legal spheres. While at George Mason University, he served as director of the Law and Economics Center at the George Mason University School of Law, which operates the Economics Institutes program for federal judges. In December 1995, Butler introduced the Economics Institute for State Judges at the University of Kansas' Law and Organizational Economics Center. Before assuming the GMU Law deanship in 2015, Butler was a George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law. In 2019, he became the inaugural Allison and Dorothy Rouse Dean of the Antonin Scalia Law School. After he yielded the deanship to Ken Randall, Butler assumed the Henry G. Manne Chair in Law and Economics.

Butler has written extensively on law and economics. He has written a casebook, Economic Analysis for Lawyers (with Christopher Drahozal, Carolina Academic Press), used at the Economics Institute for State Judges. Other books by Butler include Unhealthy Alliances: Bureaucrats, Interest Groups, and Politicians in Health (1994, American Entreprise Institute) The Corporation and the Constitution (with Larry E. Ribstein; 1995, American Entreprise Institute); and Using Federalism to Improve Environmental Policy (with Jonathan R. Macey; 1996, American Enterprise Institute).

Butler serves on the Legal Advisory Council of the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest and the Advisory Board of the Atlantic Legal Foundation.

References

External links

Profile from the Atlantic Legal Foundation
Profile from Northwestern University School of Law
Entry on the Political Graveyard
Report of Henry N. Butler to the Kansas Insurance Commissioner
Website at George Mason University

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Pass Christian (), nicknamed The Pass, is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 6,307 at the 2019 census.

History

Pre-European history
The exact date when Native Americans first arrived in the Gulf Coast area is not known, but artifacts have been found suggesting that humans have inhabited the area for many thousands of years.

Indian mounds can be found throughout the Gulf coast region of southern Mississippi, but many have been destroyed by artifact hunters, farmers, developers, and flooding. A 1768 English map shows one large mound existed on the shore near to Market Street. Others existed at Bayou Portage and the Shelly Plantation on the shore north of the Bay of St. Louis near DeLisle. The mounds and middens in the area containing arrowheads, pottery, and human skeletons were pilfered by amateur archaeologists over the years and many of the items recovered are in private collections. At the border of Pass Christian and Long Beach near where White Harbor Road meets Hwy. 90 there once existed an Indian village, whose inhabitants were referred to by locals as "The Pitcher Point Indians".  The approximate location of the Indian Village is just a few hundred yards east of White Harbor Road. There are no ruins at this location but the beach in this area has produced many arrowheads and pottery shards over the years.

French explorers
Pass Christian was discovered by French-Canadian explorers in 1699, shortly after the first French colony was established in Biloxi. In June 1699, while sounding the channel at the Pass Christian peninsula, the French named that channel Passe aux Huîtres for the many oysters they found there. Pass Christian was named for a nearby deepwater pass, which in turn was named for Nicholas Christian L'Adnier, who lived on nearby Cat Island beginning in 1746.

The Widow Asmard
In 1781 all of Pass Christian peninsula was owned by Julia de la Brosse (Widow Asmard). Upon her death in 1799, Widow Asmard deeded 800 arpents – the entire downtown Pass Christian – to Charles Asmar, a free person of color, who upon his death left the property to his heirs. Pass Christian was officially chartered as a town in 1848.

Antebellum Period
The town was a famous resort prior to the American Civil War. It was a favorite location for the beach and summer homes of the wealthy of New Orleans, who built a row of historic mansions along the shoreline, where Scenic Drive was one of the country's notable historic districts. The Southern Yacht Club, established in 1849, was the first yacht club in the South and the second in the United States, and was originally located in Pass Christian before moving to New Orleans in 1857. The first sailing regatta on the Gulf Coast was sailed in the Mississippi Sound on July 21, 1849, and organized by the Pass Christian Regatta Club with twelve boats participating.

Hurricanes and disaster management

Hurricane Camille
Pass Christian was in the path of two of the most intense hurricanes ever to hit the United States--Hurricane Camille on August 17, 1969, and Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005. Each hurricane caused the near total destruction of the city.

Hurricane Camille destroyed the Richelieu Apartments killing eight people who had chosen to ride the storm out. Early Sunday, August 17, the storm was southeast of New Orleans by 200 miles. A Hurricane Warning was then announced for the entire Mississippi Coast. Evacuation was advised but some of the occupants of the Richelieu apartments allegedly ignored the warning. The fictional hurricane party depicted in Hurricane, a 74-minute TV movie featuring some notable stars, includes original footage of Camille.

Hurricane Katrina

On August 29, 2005, Pass Christian was almost completely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Of the approximately 8,000 homes in Pass Christian, all but 500 were damaged or destroyed. In spite of the fact that the beachfront Scenic Drive follows the crest of a small bluff, affording it some elevation, most of the historic mansions along the road were severely damaged, and many were completely destroyed, including the superbly restored Greek Revival mansion "Union Quarters" described in the National Register of Historic Places as having been built in 1855. A cast-iron fence fronted the property, enclosing a Magnolia Historical Marker which was dedicated in 1960. It read, "Union officers were temporarily quartered here during the invasion of Pass Christian."

Hurricane Katrina totally destroyed the local public library. It was rebuilt.  Thirteen members of the city's police department retreated to the library after the police station became unsafe and water from the Gulf of Mexico began to pour in.

The library was immediately north of City Hall across a small parking lot but was at a lower elevation. When the water crested the elevation of City Hall, the police cars in the parking lot began to float and were carried around the parking lot by the current.  One car struck the south side doors, causing them to implode, and the Gulf of Mexico driven by Katrina's powerful winds rushed into the building.  With no way to fight against the current they were trapped inside a concrete box that was rapidly filling with water. Knowing that they had to escape they attempted to shoot the glass out of the north side of the building. This was unsuccessful, as the bullets ricocheted off the glass. The laminated glass proved impervious to the .45 caliber rounds of the police-issue handguns. The force of the water entering the building after the southern wall was destroyed by the car was far too strong to swim against. The only way out was with the current. Police Chief John Dubbisson swam to the rear doors that had to be opened where he successfully touched the push bar. He then grabbed a railing before the storm surge could carry him off. All that were inside the library made it outside and rode out the rest of the storm on the roof.

The storm surge from Hurricane Katrina that hit Pass Christian was estimated at 8.5 m (27.8 ft), which is the US record high, leveling Pass Christian up to half a mile inland from the shore; estimation of highest storm surges was complicated because high-water markers were also destroyed. Highway 90 along the beach was damaged, and the bridge over the Bay of St. Louis was thrown completely apart, not being reopened until a new bridge was partially completed in May 2007. (Connection was temporarily replaced by a ferry service.) Sewage contamination rendered the local water supply unusable, as some samples tested positive for more than 250 bacteria and parasites. By late September 2005, access was restricted south of the railroad tracks (about four blocks inland) without proper credentials, as crews continued to search for victims and clear debris. In early 2007, although rebuilding was underway in much of the city, a large portion of empty, deserted homes and other structures remain. Many residents were still living in FEMA trailers, and out-of-state volunteers were still needed for the rebuilding effort.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which  is land and  (44.97%) is water.

Geographically, the town of Pass Christian located on the Mississippi Sound, and is situated on a peninsula, with water on three sides: the Gulf of Mexico to the south, the Bay of St. Louis to the west and a long stretch of bayou to the north.

The unincorporated area north of the bayou, known as DeLisle, shares a zip code with Pass Christian, but is not within the city limits. DeLisle was formerly known as Wolf Town or Wolftown.

Pass Christian Harbor
The Municipal Harbor was formalized in 1956 with the creation of a Harbor Commission. In 1958, an 11-foot high, 350-foot long, concrete, breakwater wall was constructed in the sound by the T.L. James Company.

Demographics

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 5,686 people, 2,163 households, and 1,574 families residing in the city.

Economy

Manufacturing
The Du Pont White Pigment and Mineral Products Plant – now known as the Chemours DeLisle Plant – is located just south of I-10 in DeLisle. The plant is the 2nd largest producer of titanium dioxide in the world and has been in operation since 1979. The town of Pass Christian is near the plant, directly across the Bay of St. Louis. Some community members also expressed concerns that chemical releases, as reported on EPA's Toxic Release Inventory, from the DuPont plant could have contaminated the community's water and air. DuPont DeLisle's titanium dioxide plant reported the third highest amount of dioxin-like compounds in EPA's Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). In 2005, the Hurricane Katrina storm surge flooded significant portions of the plant. Unlike other aquatic organisms, blue crabs do not have the ability to metabolize quickly certain dioxin-like compounds Polychlorinated dibenzofurans that predominate in the coke and ore solids waste stream of the plant.

Seafood processing

Seafood production in the region has been severely impacted by large scale fish die-offs. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which occurred in the spring and summer of 2010—along with the presence of toxic sediments stirred up by Hurricane Katrina and record amounts of fresh water diverted into the Bonnet Carre Spillway in Louisiana—have brought seafood production to a standstill. Offshore oyster beds were hit especially hard. Field crews have reported a 50 percent to 65 percent mortality rate in some areas. An even greater mortality rate of 90 percent to 95 percent has been seen in other oyster beds.
According to research from The Nature Conservancy, "roughly 13 years ago, Mississippi was harvesting nearly 500,000 sacks of oysters annually ...." Today, those numbers have fallen as low as 3,500 sacks annually.

Tourism

Middlegate Japanese Gardens
Between 1923 and 1929 New Orleans residents Rudolf Hecht and Lynne Watkins Hecht developed Middlegate Japanese Gardens at their summer home in Pass Christian, Mississippi.
The Hechts built Middlegate Japanese gardens to perpetuate their pleasant memories of their
travels in Japan. The gardens are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Since 1923 when the Hechts established them, Middlegate Japanese Gardens have been private, residential gardens. The gardens were extensively damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The Smithsonian Institution has included the gardens on their Collection Search Center website.

Sherman Castle
James M. Sherman began construction of Sherman Castle in 1921. The building is constructed of concrete blocks and steel and contained a plaque which read "God is my Sculptor".

Dixie White House

Woodrow Wilson stayed a winter at Beaulieu when it was owned by John M. Ayer of New Jersey and leased by Herndons family. Built 1854 for John Bachelor and demolished after suffering from heavy damage from Hurricane Camille in 1969.

Government and Infrastructure

Municipal government
Pass Christian's government is a mayor–council government system. The current mayor is Jimmy Rafferty.

Board of Aldermen (2023)
 Ward I: Betty Sparkman
 Ward II: Regina Charlot
 Ward III: Kirk Kimball
 Ward IV: Victor Pickich
 Alderman-at-Large: Kenny Torgeson

Naval Construction Battalion Center
Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport, Mississippi, launched Seabees on Sept. 9 to neighboring communities throughout Harrison and Stone counties, including Pass Christian, to assist its citizens with disaster recovery in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In a measure to improve health, sanitation and morale, the Seabees cleared approximately three miles of railroad track for a temporary sewer line, they set up a laundry unit and installed a nine-head shower unit for the firefighters and volunteers. They also built temporary housing to house 1,000 people rendered homeless by the impact of Hurricane Katrina. 250 Seabees from detachments across the United States gathered behind the city's War Memorial Park, where they constructed a temporary police department headquarters and other municipal offices. This was not the first time that Seabees have answered the call to duty in Pass Christian. The naval construction teams performed a similar feat after Hurricane Camille struck the town hard in 1969.

Education
The Pass Christian School District operates the schools in the city, and in the inland, unincorporated areas around and to the north of DeLisle. The district operates one early childhood/pre-K facility (University of Southern Mississippi Child Development Center), two elementary schools (DeLisle Elementary & Pass Christian Elementary), one middle school (Pass Christian Middle School) and one high school (Pass Christian High School).

Pass Christian High School was recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School in 2005; Pass Christian Middle School in 2012; and DeLisle Elementary in 2013.

The parochial elementary and middle school of St. Paul's Roman Catholic church was destroyed by Katrina, and the school was merged with the neighboring Long Beach parochial school to form St. Vincent de Paul School. Coast Episcopal High School is a parochial high school in Pass Christian.

Notable people
 Bidwell Adam, Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi (1928-1932)
 Bryan Austin, country music artist
 Phelan Beale, original owner of Grey Gardens
 Clyde F. Bel, Jr., businessman from New Orleans and state representative for Orleans Parish, 1964–1972 and 1975–1980; spent much of his later life in Pass Christian
 Edward Price Bell, Chicago journalist
 Carolyn Crawford, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
 Scottie Cuevas, former member of the Mississippi State Senate
 Deborah Jeanne Dawkins, former member of the Mississippi State Senate
 Walter Gordon, veteran of World War II Easy Company, as portrayed in the miniseries Band of Brothers
 Lawrence Guyot, civil rights activist
 Captain John Handy, jazz musician
 John Henderson, member of the U.S. Senate from 1839 to 1845
 Doyle Overton Hickey, office in the United States Army who retired to Pass Christian
 Jimmy Johnson, cartoonist and creator of the syndicated newspaper comic strip Arlo and Janis
 Jeanette Kimball, jazz pianist
 Gene Lang (American football), former NFL runningback
 Margaret Loesch, television executive and producer, formerly founding CEO of Fox Kids Networks and the US Hallmark Channel, currently CEO of The Hub, a TV network
 Cory McGee, professional middle distance runner, 2020 Olympian
 Tig Notaro, stand-up comic, born in Jackson, Mississippi but raised in Pass Christian until kindergarten
 Oliver Randolph, African American lawyer and politician
 Robin Roberts, ABC News' Good Morning America anchor
 Jesmyn Ward, novelist, winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction; born in DeLisle
 Larry Yarborough, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives

See also

 J.W. Randolph School (Pass Christian, Mississippi)

References

Further reading
 Legett, Margaret Ann. Middlegate Japanese Gardens: Preservation, Private Property and Public Memory''. 2004.

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PDA may refer to:

Science and technology
 Patron-driven acquisition, a mechanism for libraries to purchase books
Personal digital assistant, a mobile device
 Photodiode array, a type of detector
 Pitch detection algorithm, to find the pitch of a signal
 Polydiacetylenes, a family of conducting polymers
 Predictive analytics, a form of business analytics
 Pushdown automaton, in automata theory

Biology and medicine
 Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the main type of pancreatic cancer
 Pathological demand avoidance, in psychology
 Patent ductus arteriosus, a heart defect
 Posterior descending artery, an artery
 Potato dextrose agar, a microbiological media for culturing yeast and fungus

Music
 "PDA" (song), a song by Interpol
 "PDA", a song by the Backstreet Boys from This Is Us
 "PDA", a song by Audio Adrenaline from Audio Adrenaline
 "P.D.A. (We Just Don't Care)", a song by John Legend
"PDA", a song by Emily Burns

Organizations
 Parenteral Drug Association, a global pharmaceutical trade association
 Pharmacists' Defence Association, UK
 Peruvian Debate Association, for inter-school debating
 Pinoy Dream Academy, the Philippine franchise of Endemol's Star Academy
 Population and Community Development Association, Thailand
 Private defense agency, an enterprise which would provide personal protection and military defense services to individuals
 Professional Driver Association, of NASCAR drivers before the 1969 Talladega 500
 Public development authority, government-owned corporations in Washington, US

Politics
 Alternative Democratic Pole, a political party in Colombia (Polo Democrático Alternativo)
 Progressive Democratic Alliance, a former political party in British Columbia, Canada
 Progressive Democrats of America, a progressive political organization
 Party of Democratic Action, a Bosniak party in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Movement of Democratic Action, a political party in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Pokret demokratske akcije)
 Aruban Democratic Party, an Aruban political party (Partido Democrático Arubano)

Law and culture
 Public display of affection, an act of physical intimacy in the view of others
 Pregnancy Discrimination Act, US
 "PDA" (The Office), an episode from the American television sitcom The Office
 Past Doctor Adventures, spin-off novels from the BBC's Doctor Who
 Pub Design Awards, UK
 Professional Development Award, offered by the Scottish Qualification Authority
 Pathological Demand Avoidance

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The Glover's Needle (or St Andrews Spire) is a spire-carrying tower in the city of Worcester, England.

Location
The tower is a prominent landmark of the city, from road, rail, or the River Severn, and can be seen for miles around. It is located in St Andrews Gardens close to Worcester College of Technology. The spire used to crown the church of St Andrew but this was demolished in the late 1940s. The Glover's Needle is seated on Deansway Road, Worcester Cathedral being very close to the south and All Saints Church to the north. On the western side of the spire the pedestrian can descend into gardens that lead onto the River Severn. Across the road from the Glover's Needle is a "House of Fraser" shop which stands on the site of the old graveyard of St Andrews. At night the spire is illuminated (but not the tower below) and a blue glow is projected from inside one of the windows. The blue represents St Andrew, the colour of the Scottish flag.
The blue glow and night lighting were paid for by the Rotary Club of Worcester Severn, to commemorate the millennium in 2000.

History
St. Andrews, a church with a tall spire, was built in the 15th century, but this was destroyed in a great storm of 1733. The spire was rebuilt in 1751 by Nathaniel Wilkinson. It was constructed by using the ingenious method of kite flying to carry up the stones. Worcester people took the new masterpiece to their hearts and named it the 'Glover's Needle'. This name came from the industrial glove making that was executed in Worcester. The entire structure measures approximately 245 feet. It is the tallest spire in the country to have such a narrow angle of taper. In the 1920s the slum housing which crowded round the church was demolished. The congregation of the church was thus reduced by a large degree. The church fell into decay, had an overgrown churchyard, few parishioners and a tiny parish of five acres. In the 1940s, the council accepted the Bishop of Worcester's offer of the church. They decided to demolish the church and create a garden of remembrance to replace it, but decided to leave the tower and spire, freestanding. The rest of St Andrew's church was demolished in 1949. The original top was replaced by a copy; the original can be found in the public garden which replaced the demolished church.

Developments near the millennium
As a millennium project, a clock was installed in the tower and now the hours are struck on the council bell. A recently reinstated custom is to have the council bell strike from 18:45 to 18:50 before a full meeting of the council. In the early 2000s a fence was put around the base of the spire. A few years ago, the RSPB has taken the Glover's Needle into their own hands and the actual spire is now used for special birds of prey for roosting. Live web cams have been installed in the tower.

Bells
The Glover's Needle formerly housed a set of five bells. These were hung full circle for proper English style change ringing. In 1870, four of the bells were sold but the tenor (heaviest bell) was retained in the old bell frame. This bell weighs 20 CWT — 1 ton. This is the so-called council bell mentioned above. It is unlikely that the Glover's Needle could sustain a ring of bells today as there is no church to buttress the swaying tower.

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Fabiana Pierre-Louis is an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. She is the first Black woman on New Jersey's highest court. She is also the youngest person to be on the court. Before joining the court, Pierre Louis worked as attorney-in-charge of the U.S. Attorney's Trenton and Camden branches and as a partner at the law firm of Montgomery McCracken.

Early life and education

Pierre-Louis' family lived in Brooklyn before moving to Irvington, New Jersey. She is the daughter of Haitian American immigrants and speaks Haitian Creole fluently.

Pierre-Louis graduated from Union Catholic Regional High School in 1998. She earned a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University and a juris doctor from Rutgers Law School.

Career

Pierre-Louis worked as a law clerk for New Jersey Supreme Court Justice John E. Wallace Jr.. Pierre-Louis worked for almost ten years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the office of United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey. She was also the attorney-in-charge of the  U.S. Attorney's Trenton and Camden branches. After that, she became a partner at the law firm of Montgomery McCracken.

On June 5, 2020, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said he wanted to name Pierre-Louis to the New Jersey Supreme Court. She would replace Walter F. Timpone, who was almost at the state's retirement age for judges. On August 24, 2020, the New Jersey Senate's Judiciary Committee voted 11-0 to send her nomination to the full Senate, and on August 27, 2020, the Senate voted 39-0 to confirm her to the Court.

Pierre-Louis swore her oath of office on September 1, 2020. She is the first Black woman on the court. She is also the youngest judge ever on the court.

Personal life

Pierre-Louis and her husband, Robert Reeves, have two sons. As of 2020, the family lives in Mount Laurel.

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John Fahey (23 January 1928 – 18 March 2019) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for over twenty five years.

Early life
Fahey was born in Clonmel, County Tipperary in 1928. He was educated locally at the Christian Brothers School. Following his education he worked as a farmer, an auctioneer and an insurance broker.

Politics
Fahey first entered politics in 1950 when he was elected to Waterford County Council. He held his seat on that authority until 1970, and later from 1974 to 1999.

He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary South constituency at the 1965 general election. It was his second attempt to get elected, having earlier contested the 1961 general election. From the 1977 general election onwards, he was elected for the Waterford constituency. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries from 1970 to 1973.

Like many other TDs, Fahey began to grow disillusioned with the leadership of Jack Lynch by the late 1970s. He and others were particularly concerned that George Colley would succeed Lynch as leader of Fianna Fáil and Taoiseach. Fahey was instrumental in forming the so-called "gang of five" with Albert Reynolds, Mark Killilea, Tom McEllistrim and Seán Doherty. This group began to lobby the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party on behalf of Charles Haughey, whom they regarded as a better choice for leader than Colley.

Haughey was the eventual winner of the leadership contest and rewarded Fahey by appointing him Minister of State at the Department of Environment, a post he held from 1979 to 1981. He was not re-appointed in any future Haughey government but remained a Haughey loyalist. Fahey contested the 1989 European Parliament election for the Munster constituency but was not elected. He was annoyed at his running mate in the constituency, and subsequently voted against the proposed Fianna Fáil–Progressive Democrats coalition; this action lost him the party whip. He re-applied for membership of the party in 1990 and was re-admitted.

Fahey lost his seat at the 1992 general election. He served out his council term on Waterford City Council, and retired from politics in 1999.

He died on 18 March 2019, aged 91.

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Laurențiu Rebega (born 20 February 1976) is a Romanian politician and since 2014, a member of the European Parliament (MEP).

In the European Parliament, Laurentiu Rebega is a full member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (COMAGRI) and the Committee on Petitions (PETI) and a substitute in the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and Committee on Regional Development (REGI). He is also a member of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.
He is a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR).

Education
In 2004, Laurentiu Rebega received his bachelor's degree from the Zootechnology faculty of the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (USAMV), the Zootechnology faculty, in Bucharest Romania.
As a student, he has been involved in various student organizations and student related activities. For example, he was the representative of the Student League at USAMV in Bucharest, the president of the Sports Association Agronomia and the editor in chief at Impact studentesc magazine.
In 2003, he took the course Young farmers offered by Grindsted Agricultural College in Denmark.
After graduation from USAMV, he got back to Denmark, at the Grindsted Agricultural College where he enrolled for Junior Leaders in Agricultural Business, a 2-year programme. Therefore, between 2004 and 2006, he studied and worked on projects in the field of agricultural management.
Between 2007 and 2009, he enrolled for an MA degree in Management and Rural Development at the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest. Between 2009 and 2011, he studied Rural and Regional Development Project Management at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, from where he received his second MA degree.
In 2012, he attended the short-term course on Foreign Policy and Diplomacy offered by the Diplomatic Institute of Romania.
He graduated International Politics, an MA programme offered by the Centre Européen de Recherches Internationales et Stratégiques, a post-graduate school that provides education designed for professionals.

Career
Between 2004 and 2006, Laurentiu Rebega worked in Denmark as a junior agricultural engineer. After his return to Romania, he worked in Bucharest as an agricultural engineer for ISPIF, then he was recruited as an expert in logistics by ADT Projekt. Afterwards, he became a production director for the company JD Agro Cocora and a GM for SC Semina SA. He also worked as a consultant for the department of agriculture at SDC Agro Seed SRL.
In 2010, he chose to join the Conservative Party's Prahova county local branch where he very soon became president.
In 2012, following the local elections in Romania, Laurentiu Rebega secured a mandate as a county counsellor. Then, he was elected vice-president of the Prahova County Council. In 2014, he became the vice-president of the Conservative Party at a national level and the coordinator of the Agriculture and Rural Development Department. Starting from October 2018 he is Vicepresident of the PRO Romania party.

At the European Parliament
In 2014, as a candidate of the PSD-PC-UNPR party coalition, he ran for the European Parliament elections organized at the end of May 2014. At 38 years old, he has become one of the 32 Romanian members of the European Parliament.
Until June 2015, he was a member of Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, one of the 8 political groups at the EP. For one year, during June 2014 and June 2015, he was a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (COMAGRI) and the Committee on Petitions (PETI) and a substitute in the Committee for Fisheries (PECH). He was also a member in the Delegation to the EU-Armenia and EU-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and the EU-Georgia Parliamentary Association Committee.
In January 2015, he resigned from the Romanian Conservative Party and thus, became a politically independent Member of the European Parliament. A couple of months later, in June 2015, he left the S&D group at the EP and joined the newly formed political group, the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF). On 1 March 2018, Laurențiu Rebega left the ENF Group and became an independent Member of the European Parliament. Starting from April 2018 he became a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR).
Since June 2015, Rebega has been a substitute in the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and Committee on Regional Development (REGI) and became a member of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.

On his personal website, Laurentiu Rebega highlights that his entire ideological and participatory activity stands up for individual liberties, national sovereignty and the protection of the freedom of expression in all its forms. Rebega expresses his unconditional patriotism and loyalty for national values and Romania's unitary state principles.

"I firmly believe that the good of one nation does not necessary mean the bad of the other, therefore my patriotic and nationalist beliefs will always be part of my political actions. I will stand up for national ideals, history, traditions, Christianity and inherited customs and I will actively participate in the process of Romanian values' recognition at a European and global level. I am and I will always be the one who follows the rightful aspirations of the Romanian revolution from 1848, namely the territorial unity, the spirit of emancipation and affirmation of the Romanian nation, its just, national harmony.My activity is based on the defense of Romania's territorial integrity and national sovereignty, the support of Christianity, in general and the Orthodox faith, in particular, the protection of individual liberties, with a focus on the freedom of speech."

Rebega is a strong supporter of the unification of the Republic of Moldova with Romania.

Laurențiu Rebega is the first Romanian in the EU history who run for elections in one of the European institutions. During the elections held on 17 January 2017, Laurențiu Rebega was amongst the seven candidates for the presidency of the European Parliament.

Books
"Terorism și Contra-terorism în UE: lecții din trecut" - book published in 2017 at Mica Valahie publishing house,  written in Romanian language

"Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in the EU: Lessons from the past" -book published in 2017 at Mica Valahie publishing house, , written in English language.

"Romania from Romania and Romania from the European Union" - book published in 2018 at Mica Valahie publishing house,  written in Romanian language.

Personal life
Laurentiu Rebega is married and has two daughters.

References

External links
 (in Romanian)
Profile of MEP Laurentiu Rebega (in the EP database)

1976 births
People from Vălenii de Munte
MEPs for Romania 2014–2019
Agricultural engineers
Living people

Laurențiu Rebega


A writ of election is a writ [rit/] issued ordering the holding of an election.

In Canada, a writ is the only way of holding an election for the House of Commons. When the Government wants to or is required to dissolve Parliament, a writ of election is drawn up for each riding in Canada by the Chief Electoral Officer. They are then formally issued by the Governor General.

Where a single seat becomes vacant, a writ is also issued to trigger the by-election for that seat.

Elections

Writ of election


VVV may refer to:

 VVV (magazine), a surrealist ,reality publication
 VVV-Venlo, a Dutch football team
 Valvoline, an American company which trades on the NYSE as VVV
 Varsity Victory Volunteers, a Japanese-American paramilitary unit in Hawaii
 Venus Versus Virus (a.k.a. V.V.V.), a manga by Atsushi Suzumi
 Vereniging voor Vreemdelingenverkeer, the tourist board of the Netherlands
 Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht, the Dutch Association for Women's Suffrage
 Vista Variables in the Via Lactea, an astronomical survey of the bulge and disk of our galaxy
 Valvrave the Liberator, a Japanese mecha anime series
 Valhalla Vintage Verb, a computer program that creates reverberation effects for music production

See also
 VV (disambiguation)

VVV


DAVIC, Digital Audio Video Council, was founded in 1994 with the aim of promoting the success of interactive digital audio-visual applications and services by promulgating specifications of open interfaces and protocols that maximise interoperability, not only across geographical boundaries but also across diverse applications, services and industries.  It was a non-profit international organization based in Switzerland.

DAVIC was closed, according to its statutes, after 5 years of activity.

At the most DAVIC had 222 companies from more than 25 countries as members, although over its life 295 organisations were members at some stage. It represented all sectors of the audio-visual industry: manufacturing (computer, consumer electronics and telecommunications equipment) and service (broadcasting, telecommunications and CATV), as well as a number of government agencies and research organisations.

The four major sets of specifications culminated in 1999 with the 1.4 version. The 1.5 version of DAVIC was a set of additional tools and service definitions opening the road towards the setting of IP based audiovisual services such as the TV Anytime and TV Anywhere services. Version 1.3.1 was re-structured and was approved as an ISO/IEC standard and technical report (ISO/IEC 16500 and ISO/IEC TR 16501).

The management of DAVIC had proposed the continuation beyond the 5-year date with a program of work centred on two projects: TV Anytime and TV Anywhere. The membership did not support the continuation of DAVIC but the idea of TV-Anytime continued as a new organisation.

1.4.1 specifications

 Description of DAVIC Audio-Visual Functionalities
 System Reference Models and Scenarios
 Service Provider System Architecture and Interfaces
 Delivery System Architecture And Interfaces
 Service Consumer System Architecture
 Management Architecture and Protocols
 High and Mid Layer Protocols
 Lower Layer Protocols and Physical Interfaces
 Information Representation
 Basic Security Tools
 Usage Information Protocols
 Systems Dynamics, Scenarios and Protocol Requirements
 Conformance and Interoperability
 Contours: Technology Domain

1.5 specifications
 Jitter concealment tools
 Applicability of DAVIC 1.5 Intranet Architecture to TV Anywhere and TV Anytime Scenarios
 DAVIC Cable Modem
 DAVIC Intranet Technical Platform Specification
 TV Anytime and TV Anywhere

See also
 ATSC
 DVB
 ISDB

External links
 DAVIC's home page - password protected -- link broken as of 23 May 2013, now redirects to a (building) Development Approvals site for Victoria, Australia.
 Web archive version of 2005 www.davic.org - password protected -- link broken as of 23 May 2013, now redirects to a (building) Development Approvals site for Victoria, Australia.
 Web archive version of 2005 www.davic.org, but cannot download the documents from here
 Copies of DAVIC previously published specifications now available for download
 Leonardo Chiariglione website - evangelist for DAVIC

Technology trade associations
Organizations established in 1994
Organizations disestablished in 1999
International trade associations

DAVIC


Arena is a 2011 American independent action film directed by Jonah Loop, and starring Kellan Lutz and Samuel L. Jackson. The film is about an illegal web show pitting fighters against each other in a gladiatorial combat.

Plot
The Deathgames is a popular, controversial, and illegal web-show featuring a modern day gladiator arena where combatants fight to the death for the entertainment of online viewers, including a group of college students, and a group of Singaporean office workers. Government authorities have been searching to shut down the operation, but to no avail. David Lord (Kellan Lutz), a fireman and paramedic, gets into a terrible car accident with his pregnant girlfriend, Lori (Nina Dobrev), who does not survive the crash. Grief-stricken, David contemplates suicide, but decides against it. Later he drowns his sorrows at a local bar, while a mysterious woman, Milla (Katia Winter), watches him from afar. After witnessing him easily subdue the bar's bouncer, Milla seduces David before incapacitating him and allowing him to be kidnapped.

Milla, it turns out, is a recruiter for The Deathgames, which is run by the confident Logan (Samuel L. Jackson) and his two assistants Kaneko (Irene Choi) and Kawaii (Lauren Shiohama). Kaden (Johnny Messner), the executioner, is doubtful of the fighting ability of a mere "doctor." David is locked in a small cell and befriends a fellow fighter in the cell next to his, Taiga (Daniel Dae Kim), who tells him that he was coerced into participating due to a threat on his wife's life. David reluctantly wins his first fight, and Milla becomes more invested in his success (as she gets paid when he wins). Logan tells David that he will set him free if he wins ten fights in a row.

In order to persuade David to fight again, Kaden reveals that Taiga's wife is in their hands and will be killed if he fails to win his next fight. After David wins, it is revealed that his opponent was Taiga, who was given the same task for his wife. Remorsefully, David kills Taiga, but not before incurring serious wounds of his own. It is then that David officially accepts Logan's offer (win ten battles and he will be set free), on the one condition: the tenth and final opponent must be Kaden himself.

Milla begins to feel bad for David after seeing how badly he is hurt and personally attends to his wounds. She becomes closer to him as he fights his next few fights and has him moved to a more comfortable room with more space and a bed. She brings him food and women. After each fight she personally dresses his wounds. Eventually she realizes her attraction to him, dyes her hair black (as was David's wife) and Milla and David have sex.

For the penultimate fight, Kaden arranges for the release of a South African serial killer named Brutus Jackson (Derek Mears), which leads Logan to believe that Kaden is afraid of David. Before the fight, David tells Milla to contact his brother Sam, who he has not seen since the car accident. She does so, but Sam does not seem to want to hear from David. David defeats Brutus in brutal fight, and Logan is distressed. Logan has a doctor create a drug to inject into David, which will slow him down and make him an easy victim for Kaden in their fight.

Large crowds watch online as Kaden initially pummels David, but much to Logan's surprise, David begins to gain the heavy advantage. As they fight, it is revealed through flashbacks that "David Lord" is the assumed name of a secret government agent (surname Searle) who was specifically sent to infiltrate The Deathgames. The phone call to "Sam" was in order to alert his superior, Agent McCarty (James Remar), about his location via phone tracing. It is also revealed that Milla secretly switched Logan's drug with a simple saline solution prior to the fight. A group of American soldiers invade the facility and arrest Milla, Kaneko, and Kawaii. Filled with rage after defeating and killing Kaden, David hunts down Logan and corners him in a stockroom. As David is about to strike the deadly blow, soldiers arrive, snapping David out of his murderous fury. Logan escapes.

Agent McCarty consoles David as he deals with the fact that he had to kill so many people and assures him that Logan will be caught. Milla apologizes to David as she is escorted away, and McCarty assures David that she is in good hands.

Cast

Development
The film had a budget of around $10 million. Filming began in May 2010 in Louisiana. The script was written by Michael Hultquist, Robert Martinez and Tony Giglio. Filming took place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Visual effects veteran Jonah Loop made his directorial debut with this indie film.

Reception
Arena has received mostly negative reviews. Criticism focused mostly on the hammy script and shallow plot.

References

 http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=27604
 https://web.archive.org/web/20100602124613/http://www.horror-movies.ca/horror_18212.html
 http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/04/samuel-l-jackson-kellan-lutz-eyeing-deathsport-exclusive.html
 http://www.movieweb.com/news/NE65E766TQ1C96
 https://web.archive.org/web/20110726072820/http://screencrave.com/2010-04-16/samuel-l-jackson-and-kellan-lutz-join-deathgames/
 https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63K0TB20100421
 http://www.movieweb.com/news/NEmvKsmvViIcqm

External links

American action films
2011 action films
2011 films
Films about death games
Films about gladiatorial combat
Films shot in Louisiana
Stage 6 Films films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films

Arena (2011 film)


Dynamic Science Fiction was an American pulp magazine which published six issues from December 1952 to January 1954. It was a companion to Future Science Fiction, and like that magazine was edited by Robert W. Lowndes and published by Columbia Publications. Stories that appeared in its pages include "The Duplicated Man" by Lowndes and James Blish, and "The Possessed" by Arthur C. Clarke. It was launched at the end of the pulp era, and when publisher Louis Silberkleit converted Future to a digest format in 1954, he decided not to do the same with Dynamic, simply cancelling the magazine.

Publishing history and contents
Although science fiction  had been published in the United States before the 1920s, it did not begin to coalesce into a separately marketed genre until the appearance in 1926 of Amazing Stories, a pulp magazine published by Hugo Gernsback. By the end of the 1930s the field was booming. Between early 1939 and mid-1940 publisher Louis Silberkleit launched three sf pulp magazines: Science Fiction, Future Fiction, and Science Fiction Quarterly. All three had ceased publication by the end of World War II, killed by a combination of falling sales and wartime paper shortages. In 1950 and 1951 Silberkleit revived Future Fiction, and Science Fiction Quarterly, and the following year he launched Dynamic Science Fiction, with the first issue dated November 1952. All three of the magazines were edited by Robert W. Lowndes, who had also edited most of the earlier issues for Silberkleit. In mid-1953 Silberkleit cut rates and slowed down payment to contributors as a result of falling circulation. By this time Silberkleit was experimenting with the digest format for Science Fiction Stories, and he soon cancelled Dynamic Science Fiction, leaving only Science Fiction Quarterly in pulp format.

Silberkleit initially paid reasonably good rates, and Lowndes was able to obtain some good quality material. Some of the  stories include Arthur C. Clarke's "The Possessed" (March 1953); Lester del Rey's "I Am Tomorrow" (December 1952), and James Blish and Lowndes' novel The Duplicated Man (August 1953, with Lowndes' name concealed by a pseudonym, "Michael Sherman"). Lowndes also published  nonfiction, including two long critical essays by James E. Gunn, "The Philosophy of Science Fiction" (serialized in the March and June 1953 issues), and "The Plot Forms of Science Fiction" (serialized in the October 1953 and January 1954 issues). These four articles formed Gunn's Master of Arts thesis; Gunn subsequently became a prominent science fiction critic.

Bibliographic details

Robert W. Lowndes was the editor of all six issues of Dynamic Science Fiction, which remained in pulp format throughout its run. It was priced at 25 cents throughout, and was 128 pages for the first four issues, and 96 pages for the last two.

Three issues were reprinted in the U.K. by Thorpe & Porter, of Leicester. These were dated January, June and November 1954, and were pulp format. They were priced at 1/- and were 96 pages. They correspond to the U.S. issues from June 1953, December 1952, and January 1954 respectively.

There are no anthologies of stories drawn solely from Dynamic Science Fiction, but in the 1960s Ivan Howard edited several anthologies for Silberkleit's publishing imprint, Belmont Books, with contents drawn solely from Silberkleit's magazines. These included:
  Six of the seven stories are from Dynamic Science Fiction, mostly from the first issue.
  Four of the eight stories are from Dynamic Science Fiction.

Notes

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1954 disestablishments in the United States
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Fantasy fiction magazines
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Science fiction magazines established in the 1950s
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Science fiction magazines disestablished in the 1950s

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Blanche Lambert Lincoln (born Blanche Meyers Lambert; September 30, 1960) is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected to the Senate in 1998; she was the first woman elected to the Senate from Arkansas since Hattie Caraway in 1932 and youngest woman ever elected to the Senate at age 38. She previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing  from 1993 to 1997.

Lincoln was the first woman and the first Arkansan to serve as chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. She also served as the Chair of Rural Outreach for the Senate Democratic Caucus. In 2010, she ran for a third term, but was defeated in a landslide by Republican John Boozman, whose brother, Fay Boozman, she had defeated in 1998. She is the founder and a principal of Lincoln Policy Group, a consulting firm.

Early life, education and private career
A seventh-generation Arkansan, Blanche Lambert was born in Helena, Phillips County, the daughter of Martha (née Kelly) and Jordan Bennett Lambert. Her father was a rice and cotton farmer. Her older sister, Mary Lambert, is a film director. She received her early education at the local public schools in Helena, and was the student council president at Central High School from 1977 to 1978.

Lincoln attended the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where she was a member of the Chi Omega sorority. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College (now known as Randolph College) in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1982, earning a Bachelor's degree in biology. She originally sought to go into nursing.

After graduating from college, Lincoln served as a staff assistant for U.S. Representative Bill Alexander, a Democrat from . She remained in Alexander's office until 1984.

U.S. House of Representatives
In 1992, Lincoln defeated Bill Alexander in the Democratic primary, by a margin of 60 to 40 percent. She subsequently won the general election, beating Republican Terry Hayes with 70% of the vote. Her election to the House coincided with the election of fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton as President of the United States.

She called herself a centrist Democrat and was among the minority of Democrats to support CAFTA. While in the House, she was one of only 17 Democrats to vote for the Teamwork for Employees and Managers Act of 1995 which sought to change federal employment laws. The law was vetoed by President Bill Clinton. She voted in favor restricting class action lawsuits and tightening rules on personal bankruptcy. Lincoln was also one of the few Democrats in Congress to vote in favor of Bush administration's tax cuts and she supports the permanent elimination of the estate tax.

On April 5, 1995 she was one of only 27 Democrats in the House to vote in favor of the Contract With America Tax Relief Act, which was approved by the House. Lincoln also co-sponsored and supported legislation to amend the constitution to require a balanced-budget amendment. In 1996, she championed the Freedom to Farm Act.

She was reelected to a second term under her married name, Blanche Lincoln, and served in the House of Representatives until 1997. Lincoln chose not to run for reelection in 1996; she was pregnant at that time.

U.S. Senate

First term
In 1998, Lincoln returned to politics and ran for the Senate seat being vacated by incumbent Senator Dale Bumpers. She defeated her Republican opponent, Fay Boozman, a state senator and the brother of future U.S. Representative John Boozman, 55 percent to 42 percent.

Lincoln concentrated primarily on issues involving farmers and rural issues. She was one of the primary advocates of the Delta Regional Authority, which is designed to spur development in the lower Mississippi Delta region.

Second term
In 2004, Lincoln was re-elected, defeating Republican state Senator Jim Holt (R-Springdale) by 56%-to-44%, even as President Bush carried the state with 54% of the vote.

In March 2007, Lincoln called for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, claiming that the firing of eight federal prosecutors created a "serious breach between the Justice Department and Congress, a breach that I'm not sure can be repaired with Mr. Gonzales at the helm." She and Senator Pryor were particularly upset that Gonzales reneged on a promise to have a replacement for Bud Cummins, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, go through a Senate confirmation. Gonzales resigned in August 2007.

In 2007, Lincoln played a key role in brokering the compromise that led to passage of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008.  Also known as the "farm bill," this legislation provides resources for nutrition, conservation, rural development, and renewable energy. Lincoln led the charge against defeating an amendment to the pending Farm Bill which would have capped government Agricultural subsidy payments at $250,000 per year, per farm. According to Lincoln, it was unfair to some farmers in her state, notably cotton growers. Even though the amendment passed (56–43), Lincoln threatened a filibuster if any amendment did not get a 60-vote majority, so the amendment was withdrawn after passage.

Lincoln was in the 2007 documentary 14 Women, directed by her older sister, Mary Lambert.

In September 2009, Lincoln pledged to filibuster any legislation containing a Public health insurance option, such as the Affordable Health Care for America Act (the Democratic-controlled, House of Representatives' preferred health care reform bill).  This move came as a surprise to liberal Democrats, who largely interpreted the move as a betrayal of traditional Democratic values.  Lincoln voted in favor of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Senate bill that eventually became the Barack Obama administration's health care reform law. However, she voted against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, a package of amendments to the Affordable Care Act—passed via reconciliation process, to circumvent united Republican attempts to block the bill's passage—in the Senate.

Lincoln's votes on health care appeared to be positioning her as a high-profile, "conservative Democrat", to avoid being perceived as a "liberal" by an Arkansas voting public that had turned increasingly Republican. In 2009 she spoke out in opposition to the pro-labor union bill known as the Employee Free Choice Act; this garnering her the praise of conservative interest groups like Americans for Tax Reform, but also bitter criticisms from labor unions, who publicly threatened to discourage Arkansas' remaining Democratic-leaning voters from voting for her.

In November 2009, Lincoln voted against bringing Guantanamo Bay prisoners to the United States for trial.

On December 9, 2010, Lincoln missed, by three minutes, a critical vote to repeal Don't ask, don't tell after a dental appointment. A supporter of the bill, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), told reporters: "She was very frustrated and apologized to both of us." She said she would have voted for repeal had she made the vote. On December 18, she voted in favor of final passage of the bill.

2010 re-election campaign
With the Obama administration having become hugely unpopular in her home state, Lincoln's re-election strategy in 2010 was to depict herself to Arkansas voters as "independent" of the Democrats. After first narrowly surviving a primary challenge by the state's then-Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter with an early endorsement from former President and Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton, Lincoln lost in November 2010 to Republican congressman John Boozman by a landslide, 58% to 37%.

Caucuses and committees

In 2004, Lincoln co-founded the Senate Hunger Caucus. The caucus was established to provide a bi-partisan forum for Senators and staff to discuss, advance and engage the Senate's work on national and international hunger and food insecurity issues.

Lincoln also helped form the Moderate Dems Working Group, a coalition of moderate Senate Democrats whose stated goal is to work with Senate leadership and the administration toward finding bipartisan solutions to controversial political issues. In addition, she co-founded and currently co-chairs Third Way, a moderate think-tank whose self-described goals are "an economic agenda that is focused on growth and middle class success; a culture of shared values; a national security approach that is both tough and smart; and a clean energy revolution."

Lincoln served on the Senate Finance Committee; Special Committee on Aging; Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; Senate Social Security Task Force; Rural Health Caucus; Senate New Democrat Coalition and chair of the Rural Outreach for the Senate Democratic Caucus.

On September 9, 2009, she became Chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee. In the Committee's 184-year history, she was the first Arkansan and the first woman to serve as Chairman.

After Congress
Lincoln remained in Washington after her re-election loss in November 2010, working as Special Policy Advisor at the firm of Alston & Bird.

In 2011 Lincoln became chair of Small Business for Sensible Regulations, a project of the National Federation of Independent Business.

In July 2013, Lincoln founded her own political consulting firm called Lincoln Policy Group.

Electoral history

See also
Women in the United States Senate

References

External links
Blanche Lincoln 2010 Reelection Campaign Website (archived)
 Senator Blanche Lincoln Official Senate Website (archived)

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Living people
People from Helena, Arkansas
University of Arkansas alumni
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Randolph–Macon College alumni
Members of Congress who became lobbyists

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is a Japanese voice actor and singer affiliated with Raccoon Dog. He won the Best New Actor Award at the 3rd Seiyu Awards and Best Supporting Actor Award at the 5th Seiyu Awards.

Voice acting career
In an interview held at the Anime Expo, when answering what inspired him to become a voice actor, Nobuhiko Okamoto mentioned that he has always been a big fan of Slam Dunk and thought the character Rukawa was really cool, so he wanted to be like him.

In the third Seiyu Awards held on March 7, 2009, he won the award for best rookie actor for his portrayals of Accelerator in A Certain Magical Index, Shin Kanzato in Persona: Trinity Soul, and Ryuji Kuhoin in Kure-nai, when he graduated from university.

In the fifth Seiyu Awards held on March 5, 2011, he won the award for best actor in a supporting role for his portrayals of Takumi Usui alongside with Ayumi Fujimura, Aki Toyosaki, Hiromi Igarashi,  Sanae Kobayashi, Atsushi Abe, Yū Kobayashi, Kazuyoshi Shiibashi , Mitsuhiro Ichiki, Fumihiro Okabayashi, Takashi Ōhara, Ayako Kawasumi &  Kaori Ishihara in Maid Sama!, Eiji Niizuma in Bakuman, and Accelerator alongside Rina Satō, Satomi Arai & Atsushi Abe in A Certain Magical Index.

He has voiced Yū Nishinoya in Haikyu!!, Katsuki Bakugo in My Hero Academia, Rin Okumura in Blue Exorcist, Ghiaccio in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Karma Akabane in Assassination Classroom, Isaac "Zack" Foster in Angels of Death, Yoichi Saotome in Seraph of the End, Louis Napoleon in Captain Tsubasa, Khun Aguero Agnes in Tower of God, Genya Shinazugawa in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Ryo Kurokiba along side with Chinatsu Akasaki, Junichi Suwabe & Yoshitsugu Matsuoka in Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma, Garfiel Tinsel in Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, Bete Loga in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Liebe in Black Clover, and Obi in Snow White with the Red Hair & Sudou alongside with Sakiko Tamagawa and Etsuko Kozakura in You're Under Arrest Full Throttle season 3.

Okamoto established and transferred to a new voice talent agency Raccoon Dog on April 1, 2022, following the closure of Pro-Fit on March 31.

Music career
Nobuhiko has voiced many roles, including his involvement in character CDs and insert songs (soundtracks) for the anime. On his 25th birthday, he announced his singing debut for the year 2012. On May 23, he released his first EP, Palette which reached number 9 on the weekly Oricon chart. On June 5, 2013, he released his second EP, Enjoy Full. On March 19, 2014, he released his first single, .

Personal life
He is skilled at playing shogi, having the Shogi Certification in 3rd Class. He appeared in several shogi events on Niconico and appeared in a Pokémon game event on Niconico as well. He also loves to play badminton. He's also the host of a radio program about gaming called RADIO 4Gamer from 2010 to 2015. Later, the program changed its name to RADIO 4Gamer Tap and continued on with Okamoto still being the host. The show was available on YouTube channel "4GamerSP." In his spare time he plays video games.

On March 21, 2020, Okamoto revealed that he is married to Asuka Ōgame after Shūkan Bunshun reported allegations of him having an extramarital affair. He apologized for his actions.

Filmography

Television animation

Original video animation (OVA)
 Akikan!: Perfection!? The Hot Spring Panic (2009) as Gorō Amaji
 Megane na Kanojo (2010) as Jun'ichi Kamiya
 Air Gear: Break on the Sky (2011) as Itsuki Minami
 Blue Exorcist: Runaway Kuro (2011) as Rin Okumura
 Shukufuku no Campanella OVA (2011) as Leicester Maycraft
 Code:Breaker (2012) as Rei Ōgami
 Hanayaka Nari, Waga Ichizoku: Kinetograph (2012) as Masashi Miyanomori
 Assassination Classroom (2013) as Akabane Karma
 Brothers Conflict OVA 2 (2013) as Hikaru Asahina
 Kamisama Kiss (2013) as Mizuki
 Hybrid Child (2014–2015) as Kotarō Izumi
 Star-Myu: High School Star Musical (2016) as Rui Tatsumi
 Kamisama Hajimemashita: Kako-hen (2016) as Mizuki

Original net animation (ONA)
 Momokuri (2015) as Shinya Momotsuki (Momo)
 Koro Sensei Quest (2016) as Karma Akabane
 The Heike Story (2021) as Taira no Sukemori
 Beyblade Burst Dynamite Battle (2021) as Phenomeno Payne
 Tiger & Bunny 2 (2022) as Ivan Karelin/Origami Cyclone

Theatrical animation
 Blue Exorcist: The Movie (2012) as Rin Okumura
 Tiger & Bunny: The Beginning (2012) as Ivan Karelin/Origami Cyclone
 Toaru Majutsu no Index: Endyumion no Kiseki (2013) as Accelerator
 Patema Inverted (2013) as Age
 Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary (2014) as Andromeda Shun
 Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi: Yokozawa Takafumi no Baai (2014) as Shōta Kisa
 Tiger & Bunny: The Rising (2014) as Ivan Karelin/Origami Cyclone
 Gekijōban Meiji Tokyo Renka: Yumihari no Serenade (2015) as Kyōka Izumi
 Assassination Classroom The Movie: 365 Days (2016) as Karma Akabane
 Koro-sensei Q! (2016) as Karma Akabane
 My Hero Academia: Two Heroes (2018) as Katsuki Bakugō
 Fafner in the Azure: The Beyond (2019) as Chaos Partland
 My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019) as Katsuki Bakugō
 WAVE!! Surfing Yappe!! (2020) as Rindō Fuke
 My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021) as Katsuki Bakugō
 Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022) as Takao
 Break of Dawn (2022) as Ginnosuke Tadokoro
 Rakudai Majo: Fūka to Yami no Majo (2023) as Kai
 Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023) as Liebe

Drama CDs

 Barajou No Kiss as Ninufa
 Heaven's Memo Pad as Hitoshi Mukai
 Nabari no Ou as Gau Meguro
 Rikei Danshi as Hazeru Mizunomoto (see below)
 Weekly Lying (Shukan Soine CD Series Vol.8 Ryo) as Ryo
 A Certain Scientific Railgun as Accelerator
 Yumeiro Patissiere as Makoto Kashino
 Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun as Sasahara Sohei
 Photograph Journey as Takara Yuzurihara
 Honeymoon Vol. 14 as Ayumu Kaido
 E:Robotts Model.917 as Shinonome
 Brothers Conflict Series 2 Vol. 4 as Hikaru Asahina
  The Best Place Vol. 2 as Ryo Tachibana
 Ookami-kunchi: Wolves Brothers Home as Ookami Heat
 Lovesick Ellie as Omi

Video games
2006
 Granado Espada as Racel
2009
 Little Anchor as Yoshua Lineberger (ヨシュア・ラインベルカー)
2010
 NieR Replicant as Nier
 Chaos Rings as Ayuta
 Death Connection as Leonardo
2011
 Corpse Party: Book of Shadows as Tsukasa Mikuni
 La storia della Arcana Famiglia as Ash
 Meiji Tokyo Renka as Izumi Kyoka
 Sleepy-time Boyfriend as Ryo
2012
 12 Ji no Kane no Cinderella ~Halloween Wedding~ as Roy Difentarl
 Be My Princess as Prince Wilfred Spencer
 Black Wolves Saga as Pearl
 Brothers Conflict: Passion Pink as Hikaru Asahina
 Jyuzaengi Engetsu Sangokuden as Cho Hi
 Lollipop Chainsaw as Swan and Killabilly
 Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. Full Boost as Leos Alloy
 SD Gundam G Generation Overworld as Fon Spaak
 Tokyo Babel as Uliel
2013
 2/2 Lover: Angels and Demons as Hinata, Setsuna
 Hanasaku Manimani as Fujishige Takara
 Hanayaka Nari, Waga Ichizoku Tasogare Polar Star as Masashi Miyanomori
 Koibana Days as Araragi Tsukasa
 Minus Eight as Maya Kazahara
 School Wars ~Sotsugyou Sensen~ as Naezono Oji
 Seishun Hajimemashita as Rikuno Kanade
 Storm Lovers 2 as Nanao Shiina
 Toki no Kizuna Hanayui Tsuzuri as Hatsushimo Senkimaru
2014
 Devil Survivor 2 Break Record as Daichi Shijima
 Dynamic Chord as Chiya Suzuno
 Gakuen Heaven 2: Double Scramble as Reon Yagami
 Happy+Sugar=Darlin as Tamaki Satomi
 Heart no Kuni no Alice ~Wonderful Twin World~ as Humpty & Dumpty
 Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire as Yuki (Brendan)
 Re-Vice[D] as Yukine
 Root Rexx as Soma Shiraishi
 Sengoku Basara 4 as Shibata Katsuie
 Vinculum Hearts ~Iris Mahou Gakko~ as Iris
2015
 Hyakka Yakou as Toki Kage
 Luminous Arc Infinity as Seed
 Touken Ranbu as Hizamaru
 Yume Oukoku to Nemureru 100 nin no Ouji-sama as Lecien
 Granblue Fantasy as Ceylan
2016
 Digimon World: Next Order as Shoma Tsuzuki
 Ikemen Revolution: Alice and Love Magic as Lancelot Kingsley
 Ikemen Royal Palace: Cinderella in Midnight as Rayvis Harnei
 Fate/Grand Order as Assassin of Shinjuku/Yan Qing
 Bungō to Alchemist as Tanizaki Junichirou

2017
 Granblue Fantasy as Gilbert

2018
 My Hero: One's Justice as Katsuki Bakugo
 The Thousand Musketeers as Hokusai
 Dragalia Lost as Orsem
 Shinen Resist as Rosa
 World End Heroes as Rinri Kitamura
 Food Fantasy as Souffle and Tequila
 Piofiore: Fated Memories as Yang

2019
 Onmyoji as Ootakemaru
 Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate as Iqbaal Ramadhan
 SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays as Fon Spaak
 BlackStar - Theatre Starless as Mizuki
 A Certain Magical Index: Imaginary Fest as Accelerator
 Promise of Wizard as Shino

2020
 Yakuza: Like a Dragon as Tianyou Zhao
 Disney: Twisted-Wonderland as Floyd Leech
 Identity V as Naib Subedar
 Helios Rising Heroes as Gray Reverse

2021
 Cookie Run: Kingdom as Mint Choco Cookie

2022
 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R as Ghiaccio
 The Diofield Chronicle as Andrias Rhondarson

2023
 Fire Emblem Engage as Alcryst
 Da Capo 5 as Haruto Mukoujima
 Fate/Samurai Remnant as Chiemon

Dubbing

Live-action
 Freddie Highmore
 Bates Motel (Norman Bates)
 The Good Doctor (Dr. Shaun Murphy)
 Leonardo (Stefano Giraldi)
 Power Rangers Mystic Force (Charlie "Chip" Thorn / Yellow Mystic Ranger (Nic Sampson))
 Ms. Marvel (Kareem / Red Dagger (Aramis Knight))
 The Last Summoner (Ah Jie)

Animation
 The Stolen Princess (Lester)

Discography

Mini-albums

Singles

Anime songs
 Chrome Shelled Reg
ios (as Layfon Alseif)
 (2009.08.07) Kokaku no Regios Character Songs -The First Session-
 愛のツェルニ (Ai no Zuellni) Feat. Layfon Alseif & Leerin Marfes (with Mikako Takahashi)
 (2009.08.28) Kokaku no Regios Character Songs -The Second Session-
 愛のツェルニ (Ai no Zuellni) Feat. Layfon Alseif
 Maid Sama! (as Takumi Usui)
 (2010.07.22) Kaichou wa Maid-sama! Character Concept CD4 – Another Side
 Promise
 Yumekui Merry (as Yumeji Fujiwara)
 (2011.02.25) Yumekui Merry Character Song – Fujiwara Yumeji
 終わらない夜を (Owaranai Yoru o)
 何色インユアドリーム (Nani iro in Your Dream)
 Sekaiichi Hatsukoi (as Kisa Shouta)
 (2011.07.06) Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Character Song Vol.3 Shoudou Alarm – Shouta Kisa
 衝動アラーム (Shodo Alarm)
 君に出逢えた奇跡 (Kimi Ni Deaeta Kiseki)
 Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream (as Wataru)
 (2011.07.20) Pretty Rhythm Aurora Dream Livetic Character Song act.4 1/1000 no Bigaku (as Callings with Takashi Kondō and Kenn)
 1/1000永遠の美学 (1/1000 Eien no Bigaku)
 1/1000永遠の美学 <instrumental>
 (2012.03.16) Pretty Rhythm Aurora Dream Prism Music Collection DX (as Callings)
 1/1000 永遠の美学 (1/1000 Eien no Bigaku)
 愛しのティンカーベル (Itoshi no Tinker Bell)
 Toaru Majutsu no Index and Toaru Majutsu no Index II' (as Accelerator)
 (2011.08.24) To Aru Majutsu no Index II Archives 4
 99.9% Noisy
 Sacred Seven (as Night Terushima)
 (2011.12.07) Sacred Seven Drama Character Album IV Fragment of S7 Kijima Night x Lau Feizooi
 Knight of Light
 Tiger & Bunny (as Ivan Karelin/Origami Cyclone)
 (2012.02.08) Tiger & Bunny Character Song Album Best of Hero
 Ao no Exorcist (as Rin Okumura)
 (2011.08.24) Ao no Exorcist OP2 – In My World
 In My World -青の炎 Edition- With Rin Okumura & Yukio Okumura (with Rookiez is Punk'd and Jun Fukuyama)
 (2011.08.31) Ao no Exorcist ED2 – Wired Life
 Wired Life (No Escape Remix) feat. Okumura Rin
 (2012.04.18) Atchi de Kotchi de (あっちでこっちで) (Atchi Kotchi opening single)
 あっちでこっちで (Atchi de Kotchi de) (as Atchi Kotchi with Rumi Ōkubo, Hitomi Nabatame, Kaori Fukuhara & Shintarō Asanuma)
 あっちこっちまいにち! (Atchi Kotchi Mainichi!) (duet with Rumi Ōkubo)
 あっちでこっちで (Instrumental)
 あっちこっちまいにち! (Instrumental)
 (2012.11.28) Retrospective World (Aoi Sekai no Chūshin de opening single)
 Retrospective World (duet with Hiro Shimono)
 Retrospective World (Gear solo version (ギア Solo バージョン))
 Retrospective World (Tezhilov solo version (テジロフ Solo バージョン))
 Retrospective World (Anime OP version (アニメOP バージョン))
 Retrospective World (off vocal version)
 (2013.07.31) 14 to 1 (Brothers Conflict ending single) (as Hikaru Asahina)
 14 to 1 (as Asahina Bros.+ Juli with Kenn, Daisuke Namikawa, Hiroshi Kamiya, Junichi Suwabe, Ken Takeuchi, Kazuyuki Okitsu, Tomoaki Maeno, Daisuke Ono, Kenichi Suzumura, Daisuke Hirakawa, Yūki Kaji, Yoshimasa Hosoya)
 (2014.10.01) Meiji Tokyo Renka Single – "Lunatic Kiss" (as Izumi Kyouka)
 Lunatic Kiss (duet with Kenn)
 Nostalgia (duet with Kenn)
 (2015.01.28) Brothers Conflict OVA ending single (as Hikaru Asahina)
 I Love You ga Kikoenai (as Asahina Bros. + Juli with Kenn, Daisuke Namikawa, Hiroshi Kamiya, Junichi Suwabe, Ken Takeuchi, Kazuyuki Okitsu, Tomoaki Maeno, Daisuke Ono, Kenichi Suzumura, Daisuke Hirakawa, Yūki Kaji, Yoshimasa Hosoya)
 見切れ桜 (Mikire Zakura)
 (2013.05.15) Tiger & Bunny -Single Relay Project "Circuit Of Hero" Vol.3
 青春Honesty (Seishun Honesty) (with Go Inoue)
 (2013.06.12) Tiger & Bunny -Single Relay Project "Circuit Of Hero" Vol.4
 見切れヒーローイズム (Mikire Heroism)
 チャチャチャdeワッショイ (Chachacha de wasshoi) (with Mariya Ise)
 Place to Place (as Io Otonashi)
 (2012.05.16) Atchi Kotchi Character Song Mini-Album
 キラメキサイクル (Kirameki cycle)
 Sakamichi no Apollon (as Seiji Matsuoka)
 (2012.07.25) Kids on the Slope Original Soundtrack Plus more & rare
 Hey Boy featuring Nobuhiko Okamoto as Seiji Matsuoka sings (ヘイボーイ <featuring 岡本信彦 as Seiji Matsuoka sings>)
 Bang Bang Bang featuring Nobuhiko Okamoto as Seiji Matsuoka sings (バンバンバン <featuring 岡本信彦 as Seiji Matsuoka sings>)
 Code:Breaker (as Rei Ōgami)
 (2012.11.28) Code:Breaker Character Song Vol.1
 Restoration to 0
 Ao no Exorcist (as Rin Okumura)
 (2012.12.19) Blue Exorcist Character Song
 Trailblazer
 Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East (as Murasame)
 (2013.03.22) Hakkenden -Touhou Hakken Ibun- Image Song CD Vol.1
 無敵のBuddy Muteki no Buddy
 Kamisama Hajimemashita (as Mizuki)
 (2013.03.20) Kamisama Hajimemashita Bonus CD Vol. 4
 Hitoshizuku
 (2013.04.17) Kamisama Hajimemashita Bonus CD Vol. 5
 ひとりあやとり (Hitori Ayatori)
 Bakuman (as Niizuma Eiji)
 (2013.07.24) Bakuman Character Cover Song Collection Album
 "Romance" (cover of original song by Penicillin)
 "Waiwai World" (cover of original Dr. Slump – Arale-chan opening theme)
 Brother Conflict (as Hikaru Asahina)
 Brothers Conflict Concept Mini-Album – O*TO*NA
 Gossip (duet with Daisuke Hirakawa)
 Otona Breakout (with Kazuyuki Okitsu, Daisuke Hirakawa, Junichi Suwabe, Kenichi Suzumura, Kosuke Toriumi, and Tomoaki Maeno)
 Brothers Conflict Vol. 3 Extras
 2 to 1 (duet with Daisuke Hirakawa)
 Brothers Conflict Christmas OVA
 Brand New Venus (with Kazuyuki Okitsu, Junichi Suwabe, Tomoaki Maeno, Yoshimasa Hosoya, and Kenn)
 O*HA*YO (with Kazuyuki Okitsu, Junichi Suwabe, Tomoaki Maeno, Yoshimasa Hosoya, and Kenn)
 Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun (as Mikoto Mikoshiba)
 (2014.09.24) Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Special Character Song CD Vol. 1
 Ore no Te de SPARKING!! (SPARKING in my hand!!)
 Ace of Diamond
 Ace of Diamond Character Song Vol. 4 (as Ryosuke Kominato)
 (2014.12.03) Oikaze ni Tsugu
 Assassination Classroom (as Akabane Karma)
 Opening Theme – The Theory of Savage Youth (with Mai Fuchigami, Aya Suzaki, Ryota Ohsaka, and Shintaro Asanuma)
 Second Opening Theme – Self-reliance Revolution (with Mai Fuchigami, Aya Suzaki, Ryota Ohsaka, and Shintaro Asanuma)
 Assassination Classroom: Second Season (as Akabane Karma)
 Opening Theme – QUESTION (with Mai Fuchigami, Aya Suzaki, Ryota Ohsaka, and Shintaro Asanuma)
 Second Opening Theme – Bye Bye YESTERDAY (with Mai Fuchigami, Aya Suzaki, Ryota Ohsaka, and Shintaro Asanuma)
 Vatican Miracle Examiner (as Hiraga Josef Kō)
 Ending Theme – Sacrament

Game (PSP) songs
 Death Connection
 (2010.06.16) Death Connection Character Song Album
 promise (as Leonardo)
 『恋は校則に縛られない!』(as Satoshi/Kyo)
 (2012.11.17)『恋は校則に縛られない!』オープニングテーマ「Brand New World」
 1.「Brand New World」with Yūki Kaji, Terashima Takuma, Miyu Irino, and Kōsuke Toriumi
 2.「Brand New World – Instrumental -」
 3.「Brand New World – Game Size -」
 4.「Brand New World – Instrumental / Game Size -」
 (2012.11.17) キャラクターソングコレクション Vol.03 羽々崎 暁/キョウ(岡本信彦)
 1.「Heads or Tails」
 2.「Brand New World -Satoshi ver.-」
 3.「Heads or Tails -only Satoshi ver.-」
 4.「Heads or Tails -only Kyo ver.-」
 5.「Heads or Tails – off vocal ver. -」
 6.「Brand New World – off vocal / Satoshi ver.-」
 Koi Hana Days
 (2013.06.26) Koi Hana Days OP&ED – Koi Tsubomi / Ai no Hanataba
 愛の花束 (Ai no Hanataba) (as Tsukasa Ranki)
 Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 5
 (2013.05.29) Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 5 〜Akatsuki no Koi uta〜 2 Vocal Song CD
 朝に夕べに (Ashita ni Yuube ni) (as Okita Souji)
 誠一路 (Makoto Ichiro) with Tetsu Inada and Takanori Hoshino
 Vinculum Hearts -Iris Mahou Gakkou-
 (2014.11.12) Vinculum Hearts -Iris Mahou Gakkou- Intro Theme
 Hajimari no Yakusoku (as Iris)

Drama CD songs
 Rikei Danshi. Benkyo ni Naru!? (as Hazeru Mizunomoto)
 (2009.06.24) Rikei Danshi. Benkyo ni Naru!? Character Song Vol.1 – Hazeru Mizunomoto
 並べ!元素記号 (勉強科目:化学) (Narabe! Ganso Kigou)
 原子分子マイン~ぼくらの理科室~ (『理系男子。』主題歌 【水ノ素 爆】 ソロバージョン) (Genshi bunshi Main ~Boku wa no Rika Shitsu~)
 モノローグドラマ 水ノ素 爆 編 (Monologue Drama Mizu no Moto Bao-Hen)
 (2010.10.27) Rikei Danshi. Benkyo ni Naru!? Character song Second stage Vol. 1 – Hazeru Mizunomoto & Genki Haihara
 結晶バンザイ! (勉強科目: 化学) (Kessho banzai! (Benkyou Kamoku: kagaku))
 情熱ヾ(*・∀・)ノスペクトル (勉強科目: 物理) (Jonetsu ( A ) no Spectrum (Benkyou Kamoku – Butsuri))
 葉緑体 ~僕と君と緑と光~ (勉強科目: 生物) (Yoryokutai ~Boku to Kimi to Midori to Hikari~ (Benkyou Kamoku: Seibutsu)) (by Daisuke Ono)
 進化☆ミラクル (勉強科目: 地学) (Shinka Miracle (Benkyou Kamoku: Chigaku)) (by Daisuke Ono)
 fellowそぞろfollow (fellow Sozoro follow) (with Daisuke Ono)
 ミニドラマ「ひまわり畑で」 (Mini Drama 'Himawari Hatake de) (with Daisuke Ono)

Cover songs
 Disney
 Disney Love Stories (Disney – Koe no Ojisama Vol.2)
 Hakuna Matata (duet with Hiro Shimono)
 Good Company

References

External links
 Official blog (in Japanese)
 Official agency profile  (as voice actor)
 Nobuhiko Okamoto at Kiramune (as singer)
 Nobuhiko Okamoto  at GamePlaza-Haruka Voice Acting Database
 Nobuhiko Okamoto at Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu Database

1986 births
Living people
Japanese male pop singers
Japanese male video game actors
Japanese male voice actors
Lantis (company) artists
Male voice actors from Tokyo
Seiyu Award winners
Singers from Tokyo
21st-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese singers
21st-century Japanese male singers

Nobuhiko Okamoto


The Secrétariat du Conseil du trésor (English: Treasury Board Secretariat) is a government department in the Canadian provincial Government of Quebec. Its primary function is to assist the Treasury Board and its chair in the function of government and the management of resources.

The ministry is divided into four sub-secretariats: budget policies and programs, public service personnel, remuneration policies and intersectorial coordination of negotiations, and public procurement.

The secretariat is overseen by the president of the Treasury Board, who is a member of the Executive Council of Quebec. The current president is Christian Dubé.

External links
Website of the Secrétariat du Conseil du trésor

References

Quebec government departments and agencies

Secrétariat du Conseil du trésor (Quebec)


Duty  is a term that conveys a sense of moral commitment or obligation to someone or something. The moral commitment usually results in action and is not a matter of passive feeling or mere recognition. When someone recognizes a duty, that person theoretically commits himself to its fulfillment without considering their own self-interest. This is not to suggest that living a life of duty entirely precludes a life of leisure; however, its fulfillment generally involves some sacrifice of immediate self-interest. Typically, "the demands of justice, honor, and reputation are deeply bound up" with duty.

Cicero discusses the concept of  duty in his work "On Duty". There, he suggests that duties can come from four different sources:
 as result of being human
 as a result of one's particular place in life (one's family, one's country, one's job)
 as a result of one's character
 as a result of one's own moral expectations for oneself

Other uses of the word have sprung from the root idea of obligation, a concept involved in the notion of duty. For example, the concept  is used to describe the services performed by a minister of a church, by a soldier, or by any employee or servant.

Many schools of thought have debated the idea of duty. Many assert mankind's duty on their own terms, but some philosophers have absolutely rejected a sense of duty.

Duty has to be accepted and understood on the basis of one's foundation of sense and knowledge. Therefore, duty and its manifestations vary with values from culture to culture. On one hand duty may be seen as terms of reference, job description, or behavior - and it is all of that ... but duty is not only about doing things right, it is about doing the right thing.

References

Related pages
Compulsory voting
Conscription
Deontological ethics

Ethics

Duty


Pavese is a dialect of Western Lombard language spoken in province of Pavia (Lombardy). In Pavese, differently from most of Western Lombard dialects, the "z" (ts or dz) is transformed into "s".

In the past, before the influence of Milanese, Pavese was more similar to Emiliano-Romagnolo language. In Lomellina a Piedmontese-influenced dialect is spoken; in the Oltrepò Pavese fully Western Lombard dialects (like that of Bobbio) or Emilian–Romagnol-influenced dialects (like that of Broni) are spoken; the southern part of the province of Pavia speaks Ligurian-influenced dialects.

Pavese is the language of I Fiö dla Nebia and Quèi Ad La Barcéla, two popular musical groups.

References

Western Lombard language

Pavese dialect


Menyanthaceae is a family of aquatic and wetland plants in the order Asterales.  There are approximately 60-70 species in six genera distributed worldwide.  The simple or compound leaves arise alternately from a creeping rhizome.  In the submersed aquatic genus Nymphoides, leaves are floating and support a lax, umbellate or racemose inflorescence. In other genera the inflorescence is erect and consists of one (e.g., Liparophyllum) to many flowers. The sympetalous, insect-pollinated flowers are five-parted and either yellow or white. The petals are ciliate or adorned with lateral wings. Fruit type is a capsule.

Species of Menyanthaceae are found worldwide. The genera Menyanthes and Nephrophyllidium grow only in the northern hemisphere, while Liparophyllum and Villarsia occur only in the southern hemisphere. Nymphoides species have a cosmopolitan distribution.

Menyanthaceae species are of economic importance as ornamental water garden plants, with Nymphoides being most commonly traded. The practice of growing non-native water plants has led to several species becoming naturalized or invasive.

Dimorphic heterostyly occurs in all genera but Liparophyllum.  In addition, four species of Nymphoides are dioecious.

Genera
Plants of the World Online accepts the following genera:
 Liparophyllum Hook.f.
 Menyanthes L.
 Nephrophyllidium Gilg
 Nymphoides Ség.
 Ornduffia Tippery & Les
 Villarsia Vent.

References

External links

Menyanthaceae of Mongolia in FloraGREIF

Asterales families

Menyanthaceae


Patcha Ramachandra Rao (21 March 1942 – 10 January 2010) was a metallurgist and administrator. He has the unique distinction of being the only Vice-Chancellor (2002–05) of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) who was also a student (1963–68) and faculty (1964–92) at that institution. From 1992 to 2002, Rao was the Director of the National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur. After his tenure as Vice-Chancellor of B.H.U., in 2005, he took the reins of the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) as its first Vice-Chancellor. He was to serve DIAT until his superannuation in 2007. From 2007 till the end, Rao was a Raja Ramanna Fellow at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

Early years
Rao was born on 21 March 1942 to S. R. Narayanaswamy Naidu and Laxmi Bai at Kavutavaram in the Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh. His father Narayanaswamy Naidu, was a government servant and retired as Deputy Registrar of Co-operative Societies while his mother, Laxmi Bai was also educated and studied up to matriculation when very few women were going to school. From his mother's side, Rao is the nephew of Narla Venkateswara Rao, a Telugu language writer, journalist and politician from Andhra Pradesh, Narla Gowri Shankar Rao, an assistant accountant-general (retired) in the Central Government of India, and Narla Tata Rao, a doyen of the power sector in India and a former chairman of the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board.

For the early part of his life, Rao's parents home-schooled him and admitted him to the seventh grade directly. He completed formal school at the early age of 13. Thereafter, he went on to study intermediate at the newly established Andhra Loyola College at Vijayawada and moved over to Osmania University, Hyderabad for higher education.  At the young age of 19 years, in 1961, Rao graduated with a master's degree in physics from the Osmania University in Hyderabad India. Thereafter, in 1963, Rao graduated from the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, with a B.E. degree in metallurgy. During his second year at I.I.Sc Bangalore, Rao was supported by the Dorabji Tata Trust. His long association with the Banaras Hindu University (B.H.U) began soon afterwards, when his mentor T.R. Anantharaman encouraged him to enroll in the doctoral program at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering at B.H.U (now Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi). Rao's pioneering doctoral dissertation in Rapid Solidification laid the foundation for the research in this area in India. He obtained his MSc in 1965 and PhD in 1968.

Research contributions
Rao pioneered research activities in the area of rapid solidification, an area pertaining to the solidification of liquids at the rate of a million degrees per second, in India in the mid-1960s. Such a process leads to the formation of extensive solid solutions, metastable intermediate phases and metallic glasses. He was the first outside the United States of America to conduct research in this technologically important area.  Rao discovered novel intermetallic phases and also the hitherto unexpected phases with 5-fold rotational symmetry. His interests then shifted to identifying the theoretical basis of the formation of such phases and he began to model their formation from a thermodynamic standpoint. Some of the expressions developed for the free energy of undercooled liquids are being used extensively by modellers. The techniques of rapid solidification which were once a matter of scientific curiosity have now been industrially exploited by the advanced countries in the form of novel metallic glass-based transformer core materials, fine grained high strength alloys, new hard magnetic materials etc.  Many noteworthy contributions made by Rao, his students and erstwhile colleagues at the Banaras Hindu University have brought immense recognition to India as an important centre for rapid solidification studies.

In the past decade, Rao's interests shifted to the synthesis of materials by following routes which are very similar to those practised by living organisms. This new area of investigation aptly called biomimetics has the potential of avoiding environmental pollution and energy expenditure. Most methods operate at room temperature and ambient pressure. Prof. Ramachandra Rao and his students and colleagues have successfully synthesised calcium carbonate, calcium hydroxy apatite and some metallic nanocrystals through this route. The calcium hydroxy apatite has the potential for prosthetic applications. Animal studies involving rabbits have been conducted at the Banaras Hindu University. One of Rao's students has commercialised the apatite powders for dental applications.

Besides biomimetics he has also worked on ceramic materials and their production by self-propagating high temperature synthesis (SHS). Other routes for nanomaterial synthesis were also explored. Studies were also conducted on natural composite materials like bamboo and synthetic composites and steels.

Since retirement Rao had been pursuing theoretical studies involving the specific heats of about eleven metals which undergo the hexagonal to body centred cubic phase transformation. He and his associates had discovered some systematics in the thermodynamic properties of these metals but a real solution to the problem has evaded them for over 25 years.

Association with national and international bodies
Rao was a fellow of all four science and engineering academies of the country: Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Sciences, India, and Indian National Academy of Engineering. He was also a fellow of The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. He served in the council of Indian National Science Academy from 1996 to 1998 and was serving vice-president when he died.

He was also a fellow of the Institution of Engineers. He played pivoted role in the societies associated with his profession. He had served as president of the Indian Institute of Metals and vice-president of the Materials Research Society of India.

Awards and honours
Rao received numerous honours and awards. The prominent among them are Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology of CSIR in 1985, INSA Prize for Materials Science in 1997, National Metallurgist Award in 2004 and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Gold Medal of INSA in 2005. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of Indian Institute of Science as well as that of the Department of Metallurgy, Banaras Hindu University. He was a recipient of Nayudamma Award of CSIR in 1999. The engineering profession has recognised his contribution with Vasvik Award in 1997, Distinguished Engineer Award of Institution of Engineers and Om Prakash Bhasin Award in 1998. For his contribution to the first Indian space experiment, he was awarded Inter Cosmos Medal of USSR in 1984.

Rao was a Platinum Jubilee lecturer of Materials Science Section of Indian Science Congress at Goa in 1993, Prof. Brahm Prakash Memorial Lecturer at Indian Institute of Science in 2000 and both Daya Swarup and N.P. Gandhi Memorial Lecturer of the Indian Institute of Metals in 1998 and 2004 respectively.

Personal life

Family
Dr. Rao was married to Sudha Rao in 1966. In his own words, "she has been a great support to me and let me pursue my professional life without any worry of running the family. She was herself an employee of Andhra Bank. She joined the Bank when it opened a branch in Varanasi at the beginning of 1980 and rose to become an officer.".

Positions held
 Professor, Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Coordinator School of Materials Science and Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. (Now Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi)
 Director, National Metallurgical Laboratory (CSIR), Jamshedpur
 Vice-Chancellor, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
 Vice-Chancellor, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune
 Emeritus Scientist and Raja Ramanna Fellow at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, Hyderabad

Honors and awards

Awards
 Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, 1970–71.Universities of Cambridge &Sussex
 National Metallurgist's Day Award, Min. of Steel & Mines, Govt of India, 1979;
 Intercosmos Medal, USSR 1984;
 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, CSIR 1985
 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Metallurgy Department, BHU 1994;
 Distinguished Materials Scientist Award, IE(India) (1995)
 Indian National Science Academy Prize for Materials Science 1997;
 VASVIK Award 1997
 Om Prakash Bhasin Award 1998
 Distinguished Engineer Award, IE(India) (1998)
 Nayudamma Award (1999)
 Distinguished Lecturership Award, Materials Research Society of India, 1999–2001;
 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Science 2001
 Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), 1999–2000;
 Nijhawan Award for Best Technical Paper Published from NML in the year 2001
 MRSI-ICSC Superconductivity & Materials Science Prize, MRSI, 2002;
 Best Paper Award LERIG-2002
 Prof. P. Banerjee Award for best technical paper (Ferrous) published in Indian Foundry Journal (2001–2002)
 Loyola Ratna – Awarded by Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada 2003;
 National Metallurgist Award, Min. of Steel & Mines, Govt of India, 2004;
 MRSI-ICSC Superconductivity & Materials Science Sr. Award, MRSI, 2005;
 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Gold Medal, INSA, 2005;
 Dr. Ramineni Foundation (USA) Vishishta Puraskar, 2007

Honors
 Platinum Jubilee Lecturer (1993), Materials Science Section, Indian Science Congress, Goa
 Dr.S.Roy Memorial Lecturer (1993), Jadavpur University, Calcutta
 Golden Jubilee Commemoration Lecturer (1996), Dept of Metallurgy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
 22nd Bhaikaka Memorial Lecturer (1996), The Institution of Engineers (India), Bangalore
 Prof. Brahm Prakash Memorial Lecturer (2000), Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore
 Prof.A.K.Seal Memorial Lecturer (1997), Indian Institute of Metals, Calcutta
 Prof.Daya Swarup Memorial Lecturer (1998), Indian Institute of Metals, Bangalore
 Professor N.P. Gandhi Memorial Lecturer (2004) of The Indian Institute of Metals.

Fellow
 Indian National Science Academy
 National Academy of Sciences
 Indian Academy of Sciences
 Indian National Academy of Engineering
 Institution of Engineers (India)
 Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
 The World Academy of Sciences, Italy
 Indian Institute of Metals
 Maharashtra Academy of Sciences

Member
 Materials Research Society of India
 Indian Science Congress Association
 Materials Research Society, USA

Honorary positions held
 President, The Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM), India Chapter
 President, Indian Institute of Metals
 Vice-president, Materials Research Society of India
 Vice-president, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.
 Sectional President, Materials Science Section, Indian Science Congress

Patents
 A process for the production of nano-sized neodymium-iron –boron permanent magnet alloy powder (No.374/Del/94, dated 31.3.94) Patent filed in the USA also.
 An improved process for recovery of gold from aqueous pregnant solution using the protein of Strychnos potatorum (No.894/Del/95, dated 17.5.95)
 An improved process for production of aluminium dry cell (No.1809/Del/96, dated 14.8.96)
 An improved process to produce ceramic tiles using industrial waste such as iron ore tailings (No.1800/Del/96, dated 14.8.96)
 An improved cooling grate for use in oil/gas melting furnaces (No.1653/Del/97, dated 20.6.97)
 An improved composition for the preparation of refractory materials useful in oil/gas based melting furnaces and a process for the preparation of said refractory materials (No.1654/Del/97, dated 20.6.97)
 An improved furnace for melting metals (No.1652/Del/97, dated 20.6.97)
 An improved process for the preparation of zirconium boride (No.2129/Del/97, dated 31.7.97) Patent filed in the USA also.
 An improved process for the preparation of ceramic matrix composition (No.2267/Del/97, dated 13.8.97)
 An eco-friendly process for the enrichment of nickel, cobalt and iron content in lateritic nickel ore (No.3510/Del/97, dated 8.12.97)
 An improved process for the extraction of nickel, cobalt and iron from lateritic nickel ores (No.3511/Del/97, dated 8.12.97)
 An improved process for the production of high purity nano-crystalline alumina powders (No.1116/Del/98, dated 27.4.98)
 An improved process for the production of neodymium-iron-boron permanent magnet alloy powder (No.287/Del/99, dated 19.2.99)
 An improved process for super concentration of iron ore fines useful for making ferrites (No.334/Del/99, dated 25.2.99)
 A process for the recovery of gallium from Bayer process liquors (United States Patent 7338589, )
 A process for preparation of Fe-based ultrasoft Ferromagnetic alloys. (Indian Patent 267/DEL/2002) Patent filed in the USA also.

Books & Publications

Books

References

Sources
 Biography of the First Vice-Chancellor of DIAT Pune
 Chronicle Interview for Prof. P Ramachandra Rao
 List of Winners of S.S. Bhatnagar Award
 List of Winners of the VASVIK Award for excellence in Material Science and Technology
 History of Banaras Hindu University
 From the Vice Chancellors Desk
 Alumni Association Obituary Page
 Profile of Dr. Patcha Ramachandra Rao
 Obituary Notice

1942 births
2010 deaths
Banaras Hindu University alumni
Academic staff of Banaras Hindu University
Indian Institute of Science alumni
Engineers from Andhra Pradesh
Indian metallurgists
Osmania University alumni
Scientists from Hyderabad, India
Telugu people
People from Krishna district
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science
Vice Chancellors of Banaras Hindu University
Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy
Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
Fellows of The National Academy of Sciences, India
20th-century Indian engineers
Fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi alumni

Patcha Ramachandra Rao


Irene Ferri (born 29 March 1972) is an Italian actress and television presenter.

Born in Rome, Ferri studied acting at Actors Studio in New York, with Susan Strasberg as tutor, and later at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.  She debuted as a film actress in 1995 in Giacomo Battiato's Cronaca di un amore violato; in the same period she starred in several commercials and was the television hostess of the RAI children's television programs A Tutto Disney and Solletico. She played main roles in several TV-series such as Questa casa non è un albergo, Sospetti, Le ragioni del cuore, and supporting roles in TV-series such as Tutti pazzi per amore and in films including Fascisti su Marte and Il giorno in più.

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Italian film actresses
1972 births
Actresses from Rome
Italian television actresses
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia alumni
Actors Studio alumni
Italian television presenters
Living people
20th-century Italian actresses
21st-century Italian actresses
Italian women television presenters

Irene Ferri