where does the source of political power in missouri lie
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major destination for barge traffic on the Mississippi. Following the passage of Amendment 3 in late 2004, the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) began its Smoother, Safer, Sooner road-building program with a goal of bringing of highways up to good condition by December 2007. From 2006 to 2010 traffic deaths have decreased annually from 1,257 in 2005, to 1,096 in 2006, to 992 for 2007, to 960 for 2008, to 878 in 2009, to 821 in 2010. The current Constitution of Missouri, the fourth constitution for the state, was adopted in 1945. It provides for three branches of government: the
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of all citizens of the State of Missouri. These include that all political power is vested in and derived from the people, to alter and abolish their constitution and form of government whenever they may deem it necessary to their safety and happiness, the inherent rights “all persons have a natural right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and the enjoyment of the gains of their own industry,” the definition of treason, the right to trial by jury, and that marriage in the State of Missouri is defined as being between a man and a woman. Constitution of Missouri
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slaveholding interests and augmented by defections from Free State Senators with Southern sympathies, was able to tally majorities. The Senate stood as the bulwark and source of the Slave Power – a power that required admission of slave states to the Union to preserve its national primacy. Missouri statehood, with the Tallmadge amendment approved, would set a trajectory towards a Free State trans-Mississippi and a decline in Southern political authority. The question as to whether the Congress could lawfully restrain the growth of slavery in Missouri took on great importance among the slave states. The moral dimensions of the expansion
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conference." Bevan's last decade saw his political position weaken year by year as he failed to find a winning issue that would make use of his skills. In 1952 Bevan published "In Place of Fear", "the most widely read socialist book" of the period, according to a highly critical right-wing Labour MP Anthony Crosland. According to The Times Literary Supplement the book was a "dithyramb with meanderings into the many side-tracks of Mr Bevan's private and public experience." Bevan begins: "A young miner in a South Wales colliery, my concern was with the one practical question: Where does power lie
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This wrong impression produced an explosion of different techniques at who it was primarily aimed at rather ironically, the working population from where the inexhaustible supply of the professional criminal, labour power and political power all came from this particular group and inevitably become an invaluable source of discipline and punishment to the rest of society. This doesn't mean to say, however, that society was split into a two-tiered society, one for punishment and one for the unpunished; what it does mean is that the intended recipients of the system of prison and punishment was primarily targeted at the disparate,
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where socialism links economics with politics, economics cannot act as a check on political power within a socialist society, as it can in a capitalist society. Macpherson countered that there is little evidence that economics does check political power. In fact, in many cases political power becomes subservient to economic power in the capitalist system. In this regard, socialism allows a better check on economic power toward political power than the converse under capitalism. Macpherson accuses Friedman of supplanting a Communist society for a Socialist one; at the very least Friedman does not differentiate between the two. Milton Friedman believed
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bought up the new lands or leased them from insurance companies that had invested in the area, and recruited thousands of black sharecroppers as workers. In contrast to the other cotton-growing areas of the South, where blacks had been disfranchised around the turn of the century, they were allowed to vote in Missouri and played a political role in this area. In the main, political power was held by white power brokers, especially Democrat J. V. Conran from the 1930s to 1960s. He worked closely with blacks in the region. An ally of Senator and President Harry S. Truman, Conran
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Joe Shannon Joseph Bernard Shannon (March 17, 1867 – March 28, 1943) was a Democratic political boss in Kansas City, Missouri who was a rival to the more dominant Pendergast political machine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Shannon was born in St. Louis, Missouri and moved in his youth to Girard, Kansas. He moved to Kansas City in 1879 where he was constable, city-market master, and studied law beginning practice in 1905. His faction were called the "rabbits" because they derived their power from those who lived along the Missouri River and Kansas River. His rival were
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Lie groupoid In mathematics, a Lie groupoid is a groupoid where the set formula_1 of objects and the set formula_2 of morphisms are both manifolds, the source and target operations are submersions, and all the category operations (source and target, composition, and identity-assigning map) are smooth. A Lie groupoid can thus be thought of as a "many-object generalization" of a Lie group, just as a groupoid is a many-object generalization of a group. Just as every Lie group has a Lie algebra, every Lie groupoid has a Lie algebroid. Beside isomorphism of groupoids there is a more coarse notation of
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was the first collector of customs for the Oregon Territory. Adair was a lawyer with political connections, and later was friend and advisor to Joseph Lane, one of Oregon's first senators. Frost, originally from Missouri, had come out to Oregon with a pioneer rifle regiment. Frost had been a sutler in this regiment, and his brother was quartermaster. When the American Civil War began, Frost, returned to Missouri where he served with the rebel militia. Frost lived in St. Louis, Missouri after the war. Another source states that "Columbia" was built by Thomas Goodwin and George Hewitt for Adair, Frost,
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Nikkō, Tochigi Nikkō covers a large area (1,449.83 km²) of rural northwestern Tochigi approximately 140 km north of Tokyo and 35 km west of Utsunomiya, the capital of Tochigi Prefecture. It is the third-largest city (by area) in Japan, behind Takayama and Hamamatsu. Both the Watarase River and the Kinugawa River pass through the city. Lake Chūzenji and the Kegon Falls lie in Nikkō, as does the Nikko Botanical Garden. The city's many mountains and waterfalls have made it an important source of hydroelectric power. The area has also been used for mining copper, aluminum and concrete. The weather in
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cannot expect a smooth manifold any longer. The solution is to revert the problem and to define: A smooth stack is a Morita-equivalence class of Lie groupoids. The natural geometric objects living on the stack are the geometric objects on Lie groupoids invariant under Morita-equivalence. As an example consider the Lie groupoid cohomology. Lie groupoid In mathematics, a Lie groupoid is a groupoid where the set formula_1 of objects and the set formula_2 of morphisms are both manifolds, the source and target operations are submersions, and all the category operations (source and target, composition, and identity-assigning map) are smooth. A
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temperature, the sound power level at distance "r" from the sound source is approximately related to sound pressure level (SPL) by where Derivation of this equation: For a "progressive" spherical wave, where "z" is the characteristic specific acoustic impedance. Consequently, and since by definition , where is the reference sound pressure, The sound power estimated practically does not depend on distance. The sound pressure used in the calculation may be affected by distance due to viscous effects in the propagation of sound unless this is accounted for. Sound power Sound power or acoustic power is the rate at which sound
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Big lie A big lie () is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book "Mein Kampf", about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously". Hitler believed the technique was used by Jews to blame Germany's loss in World War I on German general Erich Ludendorff, who was a prominent nationalist and antisemitic political leader in the Weimar Republic. The source of the big lie technique is this passage, taken from Chapter 10 of James
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more environmentally friendly, shore-based source of electrical power. An alternative is to run auxiliary diesels either on gas (LNG or LPG) or extra low sulphur distillate fuels, however if noise pollution is a problem, then cold ironing becomes the only option. A ship can cold iron by simply connecting to another ship's power supply. Naval ships have standardized processes and equipment for this procedure. However, this does not change the power source type nor does it eliminate the source of air pollution. The source for land-based power may be grid power from an electric utility company, but also possibly an
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The demons' belief that the spell exists is a lie that must be maintained, else it would undermine his power. As such, he is aided nearly exclusively by liberal use of his silver tongue. However, in most cases Evil does have a significant amount of "magical" power available to perform various tricks and effects. Evil is much like Death in its manner of transferring power, though with one major exception: It has a break-in period and accompanying test. One becomes the Incarnation of Evil by vanquishing the previous Incarnation, but after that there is a 30-day trial period, where the
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in thowse simple terms. What is CL What is Pa Where does 2/27 come from? How can this be scaled to loyds c5-a example? 50Mx2M =100m^2 2/27=0.07407407 pa=1.225 kg/m^3 P=9.074074*CL*G^2*V^3 g^2=225 v^3= 1728 P=9.074074*CL*388800 P=3527999.97*CL CL=0.0882 The free and open source OpenVSP can be used to model designs of CWKP systems. http://hangar.openvsp.org/vspfiles/350 Depending on the final application of a crosswind-kite-power source, appropriate kite control methods are involved. Human control exercised during the full flight session is exampled in crosswind stunt kiting and kiteboarding; the same has been in place for some electricity-producing crosswind-kite-power source, e.g., by Pierre Benhaiem of France.
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Auxiliary power Auxiliary power is electric power that is provided by an alternate source and that serves as backup for the primary power source at the station main bus or prescribed sub-bus. An offline unit provides electrical isolation between the primary power source and the critical technical load whereas an online unit does not. A Class A power source is a primary power source, i.e., a source that assures an essentially continuous supply of power. Types of auxiliary power services include Class B, a standby power plant to cover extended outages of the order of days; Class C, a 10-to-60-second
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Split Lie algebra In the mathematical field of Lie theory, a split Lie algebra is a pair formula_1 where formula_2 is a Lie algebra and formula_3 is a splitting Cartan subalgebra, where "splitting" means that for all formula_4, formula_5 is triangularizable. If a Lie algebra admits a splitting, it is called a splittable Lie algebra. Note that for reductive Lie algebras, the Cartan subalgebra is required to contain the center. Over an algebraically closed field such as the complex numbers, all semisimple Lie algebras are splittable (indeed, not only does the Cartan subalgebra act by triangularizable matrices, but even stronger,
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lie in keeping the voters dependent on the rewards they are providing in order to stay in power. Turnout buying occurs when a political party or candidate offers citizens compensation in order for them to turn out to the election, but does not monitor who they voted for specifically. According to research done by Nichter, the United States has seen its fair share of turnout buying in recent elections. During the 2004 election, five Democratic Party operatives in East St. Louis were convicted in federal court for offering cigarettes, beer, medicine and $5 to $10 reward to increase turnout of
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quick-start unit to cover short-term outages of the order of hours; and Class D, an uninterruptible non-break unit using stored energy to provide continuous power within specified voltage and frequency tolerances. Auxiliary power Auxiliary power is electric power that is provided by an alternate source and that serves as backup for the primary power source at the station main bus or prescribed sub-bus. An offline unit provides electrical isolation between the primary power source and the critical technical load whereas an online unit does not. A Class A power source is a primary power source, i.e., a source that assures
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little was left of the community. Today only a few house foundations, steps, and the paved riverfront boat dock remain. In 1994 the Lutheran Historical Society of Perry County erected a large marker on the site where the Wittenberg Lutheran Church once stood. Wittenberg lies at the southern end of Brazeau Bottom along the Mississippi River. To its west lie the Mississippi River bluffs, and to the east lie Tower Rock, Grand Tower Island, and Grand Tower, Illinois. Brazeau Creek empties into the Mississippi River at Wittenberg. The Grand Tower Pipeline Bridge crosses the Mississippi River at Wittenberg. Wittenberg, Missouri
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Countervailing power Countervailing Power, or countervailence, is the idea in political theory of institutionalized mechanisms that the wielding of power within a polity having two or more centers can, and often does, provide counter-forces that usefully oppose each other. This political organization stands in contrast to polities such as principalities where "various princes were absolute rulers in their domain" or in modern examples of totalitarian governments. Countervailance in formal political theory dates back at least to Medieval times, especially in Roman Catholic and early Protestant movements, not all of which were successful in achieving their own ends. The Conciliar Movement,
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Emperor held great symbolic authority but had little political power; which is often held by others nominally appointed by the Emperor himself. Today, a legacy has somewhat continued for a retired Prime Minister who still wields considerable power, to be called a "Shadow Shogun" (闇将軍). Unlike his European counterparts, the Emperor is not the source of sovereign power and the government does not act under his name. Instead, the Emperor represents the State and appoints other high officials in the name of the State, in which the Japanese people hold sovereignty. of the Constitution, in accordance with the Imperial Household
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in a court of law. In the typical case where there is a finding of nonjusticiability due to the political question doctrine, the issue presented before the court is usually so specific that the Constitution gives all power to one of the coordinate political branches, or at the opposite end of the spectrum, the issue presented is so vague that the United States Constitution does not even consider it. A court can only decide issues based on law. The Constitution dictates the different legal responsibilities of each respective branch of government. If there is an issue where the court does
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to the solid angle into which the light is emitted. When calculating radiance received by a detector, "Ω" refers to the solid angle subtended by the source as viewed from that detector. Spectral intensity in frequency, denoted "I", is defined as where "ν" is the frequency. Spectral intensity in wavelength, denoted "I", is defined as where "λ" is the wavelength. Radiant intensity is used to characterize the emission of radiation by an antenna: where Unlike power density, radiant intensity does not depend on distance: because radiant intensity is defined as the power through a solid angle, the decreasing power density
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a tool to install hierarchy and fulfill political agendas. She invites the readers to question ritual as no longer a self-fulfilling tool but also a power tool for mass governance. Ritual constructs an argument, all while maintaining social order. It does not ‘disguise the exercise of power’ - it is in itself the power. Power and authority play a strong role in Bell’s view of ritual: one does not necessarily have both. (197) A person in power may use that control to affect views within society, limiting other’s individual autonomy. (198) The power may be used through symbolic power, where
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Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. This definition of the Southern region does not necessarily correspond precisely to the states in the definition of the Solid South. For example, Maryland was rarely considered part of the Solid South, where Missouri, though classified as a Midwestern state by the U.S. Census, often was. A former slave state, Missouri became dominated by the Democratic Party after the Civil War. After the 1960s and passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, ensuring federal enforcement of registration and voting, African Americans in the region were able to register and vote, rejoining the political
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which emphasizes Wu wei in the sense of not striving, often considering the search for immortality secondary, laughable, or harmful. Sinologist Herrlee Creel considers Wu wei, as found in the "Tao Te Ching" and "Zhuangzi", to denote two different things. The first is quite in line with the contemplative Taoism of the Zhuangzi. Described as a source of serenity in Taoist thought, only rarely do Taoist texts suggest that ordinary people could gain political power through Wu wei. The Zhuangzi does not seem to indicate a definitive philosophical idea, simply that the sage "does not occupy himself with the affairs
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White River (Arkansas–Missouri) The White River is a long river that flows through the U.S. states of Arkansas and Missouri. Originating in the Boston Mountains of northwest Arkansas, it flows northwards into southern Missouri, and then turns back into Arkansas, flowing southeast to its mouth at the Mississippi River. The source of the White River is in the Boston Mountains of northwest Arkansas, in the Ozark–St. Francis National Forest southeast of Fayetteville. The river flows northwards from its source in northwest Arkansas, loops up through southwest Missouri through Branson, Missouri. In Branson the river forms Lake Taneycomo, where it is
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out both higher and lower order harmonics in the power system. The main difference between active power filters and passive power filters is that APFs mitigate harmonics by injecting active power with the same frequency but with reverse phase to cancel that harmonic, where passive power filters use combinations of resistors (R), inductors (L) and capacitors (C) and does not require an external power source or active components such as transistors. This difference makes it possible for APFs to mitigate a wide range of harmonics. The power conditioner will also have a "joule" rating. A joule is a measurement of
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"became a source of emotional reward for one's faith, a private vision in response to one's contemplation." In Bridget's version of the event, Mary does not lie in a bed while giving birth. The event occurs in a cave, where, dressed in white, Mary kneels or stands in devotion before the infant lying on the ground. Joseph holds a candle to illuminate the birth. Robert Campin's c. 1420 "Nativity" is representative of Bridget's narrative; the cave has been substituted by a shed with animals, Mary's handmaidens are present, while angels and shepherds rejoice. Christus simplified the narrative: removing the handmaidens
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After Germany's Surrender," by Henry A. Murray, October 1943: Never to admit a fault or wrong; never to accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time; blame that enemy for everything that goes wrong; take advantage of every opportunity to raise a political whirlwind Murray's work is neither referenced in Langer's ebook nor in the "Hitler's Source-Book" compiled by Langer, but it is clear Langer's work heavily depends upon that of Murray. Big lie A big lie () is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book "Mein Kampf", about the
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Popular sovereignty Popular sovereignty, or sovereignty of the peoples' rule, is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who is the source of all political power. It is closely associated with social contract philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Popular sovereignty expresses a concept and does not necessarily reflect or describe a political reality. The people have the final say in government decisions. Benjamin Franklin expressed the concept when he wrote, "In free governments,
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Isocracy An isocracy is a form of government where all citizens have equal political power. The term derives from Greek ἴσος meaning "equal" and κρατεῖν meaning "to have power", or "to rule". An Isocracy expands from the legal right of isonomia to political and economic systems, from equality of law, to equality in governance. To achieve this, an isocracy both combines and expands features of liberal rights and those in democratic rule. According to the nascent political movement of the same name an Isocracy embodies individual autonomy by extension informed consent and natural resources as the source of public income.
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opportunity to find out where the campaign contributions are coming from and the amounts of those campaign contributions. Additional information about the California Political Reform Act of 1974 can be obtained from the California Fair Political Practices Commission. The recall power is the power of the voters to remove an elective officer before the term of that officer expires. Although Proposition 218 does not directly affect the recall power, local voters can nonetheless use the local recall power in conjunction with the exercise of the local initiative power under Proposition 218. This is especially the case if one or more
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World energy consumption World energy consumption is the total energy used by the entire human civilization. Typically measured per year, it involves all energy harnessed from every energy source applied towards humanity's endeavours across every single industrial and technological sector, across every country. It does not include energy from food, and the extent to which direct biomass burning has been accounted for is poorly documented. Being the power source metric of civilization, World Energy Consumption has deep implications for humanity's socio-economic-political sphere. Institutions such as the International Energy Agency (IEA), the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), and the European Environment
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order multipole fields may dominate closer to the fish, where the current does not converge on one point for the anterior pole but makes a perpendicular gradient over the length of the fish. A dipole contribution is more accurate in fields farther from the source because in three dimensions the dipole contribution to the electric field decreases due to the inverse third power of distance. In contrast, the contributions from quadrupole sources decrease due to the source decreasing by an inverse fourth power of distance. When fish use their electroreceptive sense to detect the electric fields, it is different from
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hands of boyars who wielded the actual power behind the scenes. For others, like David Ransel and Paul Bushkovitch, it goes too far to portray relations between tsar and nobility like Keenan does, because it does not appreciate their complexity. Bushkovitch argues that the theoretic lack of limitations on the power of the tsar is irrelevant and instead claims that the ‘crucial question’ is where real power lay. In his view, this can only be shown by the political narrative of events. Bushkovitch placed the balance of power between the tsar, the individual boyars and the tsar’s favourites at the
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constitution. It is a matter of political tradition – not legal restrictions – that the president generally does not comment routinely on issues in the news, particularly when there is some controversy among the political parties. This distance from day-to-day politics and daily governmental issues allows the president to be a source of clarification, to influence public debate, voice criticism, offer suggestions and make proposals. In order to exercise this power, they traditionally act above party politics. The 12th and current officeholder is Frank-Walter Steinmeier who was elected on 12 February 2017 and started his first five-year-term on 19 March
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"f" from "M" to a left-invariant function on "G" is formula_34. Therefore, the bracket on "A" is just the Lie bracket of tangent vector fields and the anchor map is just the identity. Of course you could do an analog construction with the source map and right-invariant vector fields/ functions. However you get an isomorphic Lie algebroid, with the explicit isomorphism formula_35, where formula_36 is the inverse map. Consider the Lie groupoid where the target map sends Notice that there are two cases for the fibers of formula_39: This demonstrating that there is a stabilizer of formula_41 over the origin
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than on most other continents. The richest 10% receive over 40% of the nation's income in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Paraguay, while the poorest 20% receive 3% or less in Bolivia, Brazil, and Colombia. This wide gap can be seen in many large South American cities where makeshift shacks and slums lie in the vicinity of skyscrapers and upper-class luxury apartments; nearly one in nine South Americans live on less than $2 per day (on a purchasing power parity basis). Tourism has increasingly become a significant source of income for many South American countries. Historical relics, architectural and natural
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of which services are provided varies by vendor. Computers operate over a range of DC voltages, but utilities deliver power as AC, and at higher voltages than required within computers. Converting this current requires one or more power supply units (or PSUs). To ensure that the failure of one power source does not affect the operation of the computer, even entry-level servers may have redundant power supplies, again adding to the bulk and heat output of the design. The blade enclosure's power supply provides a single power source for all blades within the enclosure. This single power source may come
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Corcoran sees Mme Fisher as "quasi-vampiric," since she "does indeed draw blood from Max, when he slits his wrist in the house in front of her." Additionally, Mrs. Michaelis presented some apathy and detachment to her daughter, although Karen went so far as to classify her mother as "ruthless." At one point, Karen was aware that her mother's passive-aggressive parenting caused a key power shift between them: "She has made me lie for a week. She will hold me inside the lie till she makes me lose the power I felt I had." Aware of these troubling examples, in the
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16 votes short of approval. Other situations exist where one state has power over another political unit. A dependent territory is an example of this, where an area has its own political system and often internal self-government, but does not have overall sovereignty. In a loose form of association, some sovereign states cede some power to other states, often in terms of foreign affairs and/or defence. The foreign affairs of Bhutan, a Himalayan Buddhist monarchy, were partially handled by the neighbouring republic India (from 1949), in a loose form of association, although Bhutan is otherwise constitutionally separate and independent in
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and kinematic variables, while source variables are static and dynamic variables. In Fig. 7 we see that kinematic variables lie in the left column while dynamic variables lie in the right one. The diagram shows three phenomenological equations: those connecting two variables on the same level describe a reversible relation (i.e. a non-dissipative relation), while those linking force with velocity describe an irreversible relation (i.e. a dissipative relation). The dissipative nature is shown by the fact that one variable, velocity, changes sign under reversal of motion, while the other, force, does not. Since every global physical variable is associated with
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source of hypercomplex numbers. Georg Scheffers Georg Scheffers was a German mathematician specializing in differential geometry. He was born on November 21, 1866 in the village of Altendorf near Holzminden (today incorporated into Holzminden). Scheffers began his university career at the University of Leipzig where he studied with Felix Klein and Sophus Lie. Scheffers was a coauthor with Lie for three of the earliest expressions of Lie theory: All three are now available online through archive.org; see External links section below. In 1896 Scheffers became docent at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he was raised to professor in 1900.
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to North Dakota State. They were invited to the College Basketball Invitational where they defeated UC Santa Barbara in the first round before losing in the second round to Loyola–Chicago. Source Source !colspan=9 style="background:#000080; color:#D4AF37;"| Exhibition !colspan=9 style="background:#000080; color:#D4AF37;"| Regular season !colspan=9 style="background:#000080; color:#D4AF37;"| The Summit League Tournament !colspan=9 style="background:#000080; color:#D4AF37;"| College Basketball Invitational <nowiki>*</nowiki> The December 7 game vs Missouri State was postponed due to a power outage. 2014–15 Oral Roberts Golden Eagles men's basketball team The 2014–15 Oral Roberts Golden Eagles men's basketball team represented Oral Roberts University during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The
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High Grand Falls Power Station The High Grand Falls Hydroelectric Power Station, also High Grand Falls Dam, is a planned hydroelectric power station across the Tana River that harnesses the energy of the Kibuka Falls, in Kenya. The planned capacity of the power station is . The station is expected to be the most powerful hydroelectric energy source in Kenya. The power station would lie at Kibuka Falls, across the Tana River, a in the vicinity of Mwingi National Reserve, at the border between Kitui County and Tharaka-Nithi County, approximately north-east of the city of Nairobi, the country's capital and
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of agriculture and land management. River Rother, West Sussex The River Rother flows from Empshott in Hampshire, England, to Stopham in West Sussex, where it joins the River Arun. At long, most of the river lies within West Sussex except for the first which lie in Hampshire. The upper river, from its source to Midhurst, has been used to power watermills, with the earliest recorded use being in 1086, when the Domesday survey was conducted. Although none are still operational, many of the buildings which housed the mills still exist, and in some cases, still retain their milling machinery. This
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source or the load. The maximum power states that for a given source maximum power will be transferred when the resistance of the source is equal to the resistance of the load and the power factor is corrected by canceling out the reactance. When this occurs the circuit is said to be "complex conjugate matched" to the signals impedance. Note this only maximizes the power transfer, not the efficiency of the circuit. When the power transfer is optimized the circuit only runs at 50% efficiency. Also note that this equation does not work in reverse, the optimal output impedance of
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River Rother, West Sussex The River Rother flows from Empshott in Hampshire, England, to Stopham in West Sussex, where it joins the River Arun. At long, most of the river lies within West Sussex except for the first which lie in Hampshire. The upper river, from its source to Midhurst, has been used to power watermills, with the earliest recorded use being in 1086, when the Domesday survey was conducted. Although none are still operational, many of the buildings which housed the mills still exist, and in some cases, still retain their milling machinery. This upper section is also noted
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in intelligence gathering, sabotage or international terrorism (McCarthy cited ). Cole cites , where FISA defines a "foreign power" as "a foreign-based political organization, not substantially composed of United States persons." and defines an "agent" of a foreign power to be those who are "an officer or employee of a foreign power." This, he says, is too broad, giving the example where a "British citizen working here as an employee of Amnesty International is an 'agent of a foreign power.'". Cole finally points out that McCarthy does not address his suggestion that "[FISA] should be amended to permit defendants in
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as front organisations to hide the source of donations. Front organisations provide individuals and corporations a means of passing funds to the major parties anonymously or to avoid the tax deductibility limits of political donations. The Cormack Foundation is one such an organisation which raises funds for the Liberal Party, while John Curtin House Limited does the same for the Labor Party. Under the "Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918", these organisations are not required to disclose where its funds come from. Associated entities have become major conduits for political donations in Australia, in 2003–2004 donating $72.6 million to political parties. Some
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Titan Souls Titan Souls is an action-adventure video game developed by UK-based indie studio Acid Nerve and published by Devolver Digital. It was released on 14 April 2015. Between Earth and the real world beyond lie the Titan Souls, the spiritual source and sum of all living things. Now scattered amongst the ruins and guarded by the idle titans charged with their care, a solitary hero armed with but a single arrow is once again assembling shards of the Titan Soul in a quest for truth and power. "Titan Souls" is a strategic, open world, 2D, top-down action-adventure, where the
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of nuclear weapons in the country is outlawed. Despite common misconception, this act does not make nuclear power plants illegal, nor does it make radioactive medical treatments produced in overseas reactors illegal. A 2008 survey shows that 19% of New Zealanders favour nuclear power as the best energy source, while 77% prefer wind power as the best energy source. On 26 February 1990, FW de Klerk issued orders to terminate the country's nuclear weapons programme, which until then had been a state secret. South Africa becomes the first country in the world to voluntary give-up its nuclear weapons programme. Ireland,
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Lie algebra-valued differential form In differential geometry, a Lie algebra-valued form is a differential form with values in a Lie algebra. Such forms have important applications in the theory of connections on a principal bundle as well as in the theory of Cartan connections. A Lie algebra-valued differential "k"-form on a manifold, formula_1, is a smooth section of the bundle formula_2, where formula_3 is a Lie algebra, formula_4 is the cotangent bundle of formula_1 and Λ denotes the "k" exterior power. Since every Lie algebra has a bilinear Lie bracket operation, the wedge product of two Lie algebra-valued forms can
Lie algebra-valued differential form
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Boiler A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated. The fluid does not necessarily boil. The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler for use in various processes or heating applications, including water heating, central heating, boiler-based power generation, cooking, and sanitation. In a fossil fuel power plant using a steam cycle for power generation, the primary heat source will be combustion of coal, oil, or natural gas. In some cases byproduct fuel such as the carbon-monoxide rich offgasses of a coke battery can be burned to heat a boiler; biofuels such as bagasse, where
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and can tell where electricity is coming from and how strong it is. His powers allow him to absorb energy in order to make himself stronger. Black Lightning can then make himself stronger, faster, heal quicker and produce more lightning. Any source of electricity will do, but he has a fondness for absorbing lightning from thunderstorms. He can even drain power plants, which give him a huge boost, even if it does shut down power for the rest of the city sometimes. He can also use this power in an offensive way by draining energy from machines that might be
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11 attacks upon itself. ABC News broadcast clips from the sermon in which Wright said: Later, Wright continued : Clips from a sermon that Wright gave, entitled "Confusing God and Government", were also shown on ABC's "Good Morning America" and on Fox News. In the sermon, Wright first makes the distinction between God and governments, and points out that many governments in the past have failed: "Where governments lie, God does not lie. Where governments change, God does not change." Wright then states: [The United States] government lied about their belief that all men were created equal. The truth is
Jeremiah Wright controversy
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and replaces it with mere “eroticism” which was originally a female ascribed power. The Erotic The Erotic is a specialized term coined by writer and educator Audre Lorde in her essay "Uses of the Erotic: Erotic as Power". In this essay, Lorde she challenges the modern view of the erotic and eroticism in a patriarchal society and instead defines the concept as a source of feminine power. The Erotic is described as a source of personal power and political power. A power and source of information that women have been encouraged to suppress. Lorde shows how the erotic, rather than
The Erotic
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and the Northeast of the US. African countries with small scale electrical grids have a correspondingly low annual per capita usage of electricity. One of the most powerful power grids in the world supplies power to the state of Queensland, Australia. Wireless power transfer is a process whereby electrical energy is transmitted from a power source to an electrical load that does not have a built-in power source, without the use of interconnecting wires. Currently available technology is limited to short distances and relatively low power level. Orbiting solar power collectors would require wireless transmission of power to Earth. The
Energy development
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survivors", noting that Almodóvar is interested in depicting women overcoming tragedies and adversities and the power of close female relationships. Ryan Vlastelica from "AVClub" wrote: "Many of his characters track a Byzantine plot to a cathartic reunion, a meeting where all can be understood, if not forgiven. They seek redemption". Almodóvar stated that he does not usually write roles for specific actors, but after casting a film, he custom-tailors the characters to suit the actors; he believes his role as a director is a "mirror for the actors - a mirror that can't lie". Critics believe Almodóvar has redefined perceptions
Pedro Almodóvar
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December 2018, Ashcroft, who as Secretary of State does not have the power to issue subpoenas, asked Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway, who can issue subpoenas, to cooperate in an investigation of Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley for using public ressources in the 2018 United States Senate election in Missouri. Jay Ashcroft John Robert "Jay" Ashcroft (born July 12, 1973) is an American attorney, engineer, and politician serving as the 40th Secretary of State of Missouri. As Secretary of State, Ashcroft has forcefully pushed for stricter voter ID laws. He has made false claims about the extent of voter fraud.
Jay Ashcroft
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The Erotic The Erotic is a specialized term coined by writer and educator Audre Lorde in her essay "Uses of the Erotic: Erotic as Power". In this essay, Lorde she challenges the modern view of the erotic and eroticism in a patriarchal society and instead defines the concept as a source of feminine power. The Erotic is described as a source of personal power and political power. A power and source of information that women have been encouraged to suppress. Lorde shows how the erotic, rather than be discussed in sexual context, can be a motivating factor in the lives
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1 (meaning that the "p"th power of every element of "L" is in "K"). In this case the Lie algebra of "K"-derivations of "L" is a restricted Lie algebra that is also a vector space of dimension "n" over "L", where ["L":"K"] = "p", and the intermediate fields in "L" containing "K" correspond to the restricted Lie subalgebras of this Lie algebra that are vector spaces over "L". Although the Lie algebra of derivations is a vector space over "L", it is not in general a Lie algebra over "L", but is a Lie algebra over "K" of dimension "n"["L":"K"]
Purely inseparable extension
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in the Centennial Mountains on the Montana side of the Continental Divide. In 1888 he visited the site of Brower's Spring and left a metal tablet with his name and date where he believed the source to be located. In 1896 he published his findings "The Missouri: Its Utmost Source." Both sources ultimately drain into the Jefferson River which combines with the Madison River to form the Missouri at Missouri Headwaters State Park. Jacob V. Brower Jacob Vandenberg Brower (1844–1905) was a prolific writer of the Upper Midwest region of the United States who championed the location and protection of
Jacob V. Brower
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bicycles are considered as "bicycles" under Montana law as the law defines bicycles in a two part definition where the first part of the definition describes a conventional bicycle propelled solely by human power and the second part of the definition describes a bicycle equipped with an independent power source for propulsion in addition to foot pedals to permit muscular propulsion. (Montana Code 61-8-102). It should be noted that the definition as written does not define the power of the motor in Watts as is conventionally done for electric bicycles but rather in brake horsepower. Thus for an electric bicycle,
Electric bicycle laws
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incandescents) where color gets redder as the light source gets dimmer. The Kruithof curve from 1934 described an empirical relationship between intensity and color temperature of visually pleasing light sources. The input stage of a CFL is a rectifier, which presents a non-linear load to the power supply and introduces harmonic distortion on the current drawn from the supply. The use of CFLs in homes has no appreciable effect on power quality, but significant quantities of them in a large facility can have an impact. The power factor of CFLs does not significantly affect their energy-saving benefits for individual consumers,
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The device in the comic books was referred to as a 'neurolyser'. This is also where the concept of using Ray-Ban sunglasses was introduced. It is seen more in the shape of a flashlight than a pen-like shape made popular by the films. It does not simply erase memory like the movie counterpart does, but is a device used for manipulation and control. When neurolysed, a witness is simply hypnotized and does what ever Agent K or J wants them to do, such as provide information, believe a lie and/or pass that lie along as fact. A neuralyzer wipes the
Neuralyzer
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Persian officials, lists of things, the Ezra memoir (where Ezra speaks in first person), and the Nehemiah memoir (where Nehemiah speaks in first person). It is thus deduced that the writer of Ezra-Nehemiah had access to these four kinds of source material in putting together his book. Source criticism also leads many scholars towards redaction of the book of Isaiah from original multiple authorship. Source criticism is the search for the original sources which lie behind a given biblical text. It can be traced back to the 17th-century French priest Richard Simon, and its most influential product is Julius Wellhausen's
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the preceding conditions holds only under the assumption that "G" has finite center. Thus, for example, if "G" is compact "with finite center", the universal cover formula_48 is also compact. Clearly, this conclusion does not hold if "G" has infinite center, e.g., if formula_128. Note also that the last three conditions above are purely Lie algebraic in nature. If "G" is a compact Lie group, then where the left-hand side is the Lie algebra cohomology of formula_56 and the right-hand side is the de Rham cohomology of "G". (Roughly, this is a consequence of the fact that any differential form
Lie group–Lie algebra correspondence
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conflict between religions in Nigeria takes place in the state, too but Kano State Government used to take quick action to restore peace as the work hand in hand with the Nigeria Police Force although some people use to propagate lie against Kano People and the Government for political reasons. Christian schoolgirls of public and private schools have the right as Nigerians to wear type of dress according to the dress-code of the schools. Roman Catholic Diocese of Kano Christianity in Kano State Christians are a minority in Kano State, Nigeria, where Sharia is valid but does not affect any
Christianity in Kano State
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Engel group In mathematics, an element "x" of a Lie group or a Lie algebra is called an n"-Engel element, named after Friedrich Engel, if it satisfies the n"-Engel condition that the repeated commutator [...[["x","y"],"y"], ..., "y"] with "n" copies of "y" is trivial (where ["x", "y"] means "xyx""y" or the [[Lie bracket]]). It is called an Engel element if it satisfies the [[Engel identity|Engel condition]] that it is "n"-Engel for some "n". A Lie group or Lie algebra is said to satisfy the Engel or n"-Engel conditions if every element does. Such groups or algebras are called Engel groups,
Engel group
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M. Milligan), who toppled the Kansas City political machine, split the anti-Pendergast vote in the Democratic primary. Although the loss to Truman heralded the end of Stark's political career, he spent the remainder of his working life managing the Stark Brothers Nurseries. During this time, Stark influenced the political careers of Clarence Cannon and Stuart Symington. Stark died in Clayton, Missouri in 1972. The falling out between Stark and Kansas City boss Tom Pendergast following the 1936 election is widely believed to have been the turning point in Pendergast's fall from power. Pendergast held so much sway in Missouri in
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first decade of the 21st century, educational institutions such as the Mutundwe Campus of Kampala University have been added to the neighborhood. The Mutundwe Power Station, a 50 megawatt thermal power plant, was dismantled in 2011, but the Mutundwe electricity sub-station, where the power plant was located, still exists. This sub-station is a major transit point for power evacuated from the hydropower stations along the Nile River before it is transmitted to Entebbe, Masaka, and the Western Region. Parts of Mutundwe Hill lie in Lubaga Division, within the city of Kampala, Uganda's capital. Other parts lie in the newly created
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term as it was reclaimed and redefined as a source of pride and political power in the 1960s, although he does agree with the principal. In spite of this, Russell meant no offense or disrespect to those people who embraced the term Chicano; he just stated that it was not for him. Steven Loza, director of Ethnic Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of "Barrio Rhythm: Mexican-American Music in Los Angeles" may have had a different take than Russell on the term "Chicano" when he stated: "Chicano music is Andrew Russell ... He personified that whole
Andy Russell (singer)
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maneuvers. In gliding, the instrument is used almost continuously during normal flight, often with an audible output, to inform the pilot of rising or sinking air. It is usual for gliders to be equipped with more than one type of variometer. The simpler type does not need an external source of power and can therefore be relied upon to function regardless of whether a battery or power source has been fitted. The electronic type with audio needs a power source to be operative during the flight. The instrument is of little interest during launching and landing, with the exception of
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economic equality varies by economic system, historical period and society, so does housing inequality. Economic inequality is a primary contributing factor to housing inequality. The distribution of wealth in a region affects who has access to housing, and at what level. Social inequality is the difference in access to social goods brought about by social constructs such as power, religion, kinship, prestige, race, ethnicity, gender, age, and class. Social goods include the labor market, a source of income, healthcare, freedom of speech, education and political representation and participation. Social inequality may be a factor of housing inequality, as when individuals
Housing inequality
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of 902 feet is the alert level for the plant. Cooper Nuclear Station Cooper Nuclear Station (CNS) is a boiling water reactor (BWR) type nuclear power plant located on a site near Brownville, Nebraska between Missouri River mile markers 532.9 and 532.5, on Nebraska's border with Missouri. It is the largest single-unit electrical generator in Nebraska. CNS is owned and operated by the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD), a political subdivision of the state of Nebraska. Management support services for Cooper Nuclear Station is provided by Entergy Nuclear, the nation's second largest nuclear power operator. The facility is named after
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in more than 41,000 cases annually. On August 2, 2016, Michael Barrett, director of the Missouri State Public Defender System called on Nixon to act as a public defender in a criminal assault case. Nixon's communications director, Scott Holste, questioned the authority of Barrett to do so. The appointment follows a July 2016 legal action in which Barrett et al. challenge the constitutionality of restricting funds for indigent defense. On December 26, 2017, Judge Victor Howard ruled that "because the public defender does not exercise judicial power, a withholding of expenditures to it by the governor (the executive) does not
Missouri State Public Defender
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of "P" are in a natural one-to-one correspondence with any tensorial forms on "P" of adjoint type. Lie algebra-valued differential form In differential geometry, a Lie algebra-valued form is a differential form with values in a Lie algebra. Such forms have important applications in the theory of connections on a principal bundle as well as in the theory of Cartan connections. A Lie algebra-valued differential "k"-form on a manifold, formula_1, is a smooth section of the bundle formula_2, where formula_3 is a Lie algebra, formula_4 is the cotangent bundle of formula_1 and Λ denotes the "k" exterior power. Since every
Lie algebra-valued differential form
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Cooper Nuclear Station Cooper Nuclear Station (CNS) is a boiling water reactor (BWR) type nuclear power plant located on a site near Brownville, Nebraska between Missouri River mile markers 532.9 and 532.5, on Nebraska's border with Missouri. It is the largest single-unit electrical generator in Nebraska. CNS is owned and operated by the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD), a political subdivision of the state of Nebraska. Management support services for Cooper Nuclear Station is provided by Entergy Nuclear, the nation's second largest nuclear power operator. The facility is named after Humboldt natives Guy Cooper, Jr., and Guy Cooper, Sr. The
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flows under Missouri Route 37 and then U. S. Route 71 south of Carthage. The stream flows west passing south of Oronogo, under Missouri Route 43 and Missouri Route 171 and south of Carl Junction. It ends just west of the Missouri-Kansas border where it joins the Spring River northwest of the village of Klondike and southwest of Smithfield. Center Creek was named for the fact part of its watercourse is near the geographical center of Lawrence County. Center Creek (Missouri) Center Creek is a stream in southwest Missouri. Coordinates of the stream source in Lawrence County are: and of
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Government in the United States" (1914). Support for merit selection increased due to the perceived corruption of urban political bosses. Missouri voters adopted the system by initiative petition in November 1940 after several very contentious judicial elections, which were heavily influenced by the political machine of Tom Pendergast. Most low-level judges in Missouri are elected, except in Kansas City, St. Louis and Springfield, where the Missouri Plan is mandated by the state constitution for all judicial vacancies. After Missouri adopted this method for selecting judges, several other states adopted it, either in full or in part. The plan was put
Missouri Plan
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for bleaching substances and for killing microorganisms in air and water sources. Many municipal drinking water systems kill bacteria with ozone instead of the more common chlorine. Ozone has a very high oxidation potential. Ozone does not form organochlorine compounds, nor does it remain in the water after treatment. Ozone can form the suspected carcinogen bromate in source water with high bromide concentrations. The U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act mandates that these systems introduce an amount of chlorine to maintain a minimum of 0.2 μmol/mol residual free chlorine in the pipes, based on results of regular testing. Where electrical power
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and "organizational" (whoever sits at the top of an organisational power structure). Gene Sharp, an American professor of political science, believes that power depends ultimately on its bases. Thus a political regime maintains power because people accept and obey its dictates, laws and policies. Sharp cites the insight of Étienne de La Boétie. Sharp's key theme is that power is not monolithic; that is, it does not derive from some intrinsic quality of those who are in power. For Sharp, political power, the power of any state – regardless of its particular structural organization – ultimately derives from the subjects
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does not need the engine to travel anymore. In the Amalgam Comics published jointly by Marvel Comics and DC Comics, Oa the Living Planet, an amalgamation version of Ego and DC's Planet Oa, was featured under the Amalgam Comics imprint in "Iron Lantern" #1, where he is the source of power for the Green Lantern Corps. Another version of Ego in the Amalgam universe appeared in "Thorion of the New Asgods" as Ego-Mass, an amalgamation of Ego and the Source Wall. Ego appears in "Exiles" #53 (December 2004). Set in the universe of Earth-4162, Ego implants the Seeds of Awareness
Ego the Living Planet
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the motif of "sacca-kiriyā" to the ancient practice of calling out the names of gods and requesting something of them. The working-power of the "sacca-kiriyā" does not lie in its moral intention or fulfillment of duty, but rather whether the utterance agrees with the facts. Furthermore, for the ancient Buddhists, the fact that the Buddha never spoke untruth in itself provided the devotee with miraculous power. She construes that this ancient belief about the power of truthful facts has later been misunderstood by Buddhist commentators, and instead explained as the power of meditative attainment (), the power of loving-kindness and
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lie in areas particularly sensitive for wildlife. Another potentially promising type of low head hydro power is dynamic tidal power, a novel and unapplied method to extract power from tidal movements. Although a dam-like structure is required, no area is enclosed, and therefore most of the benefits of 'damless hydro' are retained, while providing for vast amounts of power generation. A "Hydrokinetic" turbine is an integrated turbine generator to produce electricity in a free flow environment. It does not need a dam or diversion. Instream Energy Systems has coined the phrase "Instream Energy Generation Technology" or IEGT places turbines in
Low head hydro power
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to a subgroup of , and so does preserve a complex symplectic form in a vector space of dimension twice as high. As explained below, the Lie algebra of is a real form of the complex symplectic Lie algebra . The Lie algebra of is given by the quaternionic skew-Hermitian matrices, the set of quaternionic matrices that satisfy where is the conjugate transpose of (here one takes the quaternionic conjugate). The Lie bracket is given by the commutator. The compact symplectic group comes up in quantum physics as a symmetry on Poisson brackets so it is important to understand its
Symplectic group
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owned by the Government of Serbia. In March 2018, the European electricity transmission association ENTSO-E warned over delay of electric clocks throughout Europe's power network due to lower frequency which was caused by the loss of electricity in the network. Namely, the loss was created due to political dispute between Serbia and Kosovo where the Kosovar power transmission company KOSTT took 113 GWh unauthorizedly from the network in the period of January-February 2018. Elektromreža Srbije has legal jurisdiction over Kosovar electricity transmission network, but due to political dispute, does not exercise full control over it. The direct loss of 113
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to apply the theorem in the opposite scenario. It does "not" say how to choose the source resistance for a given load resistance. In fact, the source resistance that maximizes power transfer is always zero, regardless of the value of the load resistance. The theorem can be extended to alternating current circuits that include reactance, and states that maximum power transfer occurs when the load impedance is equal to the complex conjugate of the source impedance. The theorem was originally misunderstood (notably by Joule) to imply that a system consisting of an electric motor driven by a battery could not
Maximum power transfer theorem
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Barklage due to his active political consulting work. As a result, Barklage resigned in February 2002, citing that it was for the betterment of the Senate if he step aside and not cause a distraction. David Barklage David Barklage (born April 21, 1961) is a Republican political consultant from Missouri. He is a Senior Partner at Barklage & Knodell and President of The Barklage Company. Barklage was raised in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and attended Cape Girardeau Central High School, where he was elected Student Body President. He then attended Southeast Missouri State University where he was elected to the Cape
David Barklage
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denoted by formula_2. It does not apply to all Lie groups, but works for a number of classes of connected Lie groups, including nilpotent, some semisimple groups, and compact groups. The Kirillov orbit method has led to a number of important developments in Lie theory, including the Duflo isomorphism and the wrapping map. Let formula_3 be the highest weight of an irreducible representation formula_4, where formula_5 is the dual of the Lie algebra of the maximal torus, and let be formula_6 the half the sum of the positive roots. We denote by formula_7 the coadjoint orbit through formula_8 and by
Kirillov character formula
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Monolight A monolight is a self-contained photographic flash lighting unit usually found in a studio. Each monolight has its own independent power source. It does not depend on a centralized power supply as a "pack and head" system does. Monolights are also independently controlled: each has its own power settings and light output. Flash power is predominantly measured by the industry in watt seconds, which is unit-equivalent to the joule. A simple monolight at a minimum consists of a power supply, power connector, and flash tube. Most monolights have a fairly common set of features, described below. Most monolights have
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David Barklage David Barklage (born April 21, 1961) is a Republican political consultant from Missouri. He is a Senior Partner at Barklage & Knodell and President of The Barklage Company. Barklage was raised in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and attended Cape Girardeau Central High School, where he was elected Student Body President. He then attended Southeast Missouri State University where he was elected to the Cape Girardeau City Council. Barklage began working in politics when he was a senior in college when he served as Campaign Manager to U.S. Congressman Bill Emerson. Barklage is the longtime political consultant and advisor to
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(until the 1970s) or thyristors (to the present day). In a line-commutated converter, the DC current does not change direction; it flows through a large inductance and can be considered almost constant. On the AC side, the converter behaves approximately as a current source, injecting both grid-frequency and harmonic currents into the AC network. For this reason, a line-commutated converter for HVDC is also considered as a "current-source converter". Because the direction of current cannot be varied, reversal of the direction of power flow (where required) is achieved by reversing the polarity of DC voltage at both stations. The basic
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proved that the electric motor was a practical alternative to the heat engine. The condition of maximum power transfer does not result in maximum efficiency. If we define the efficiency as the ratio of power dissipated by the load, "R", to power developed by the source, "V", then it is straightforward to calculate from the above circuit diagram that Consider three particular cases: The efficiency is only 50% when maximum power transfer is achieved, but approaches 100% as the load resistance approaches infinity, though the total power level tends towards zero. Efficiency also approaches 100% if the source resistance approaches
Maximum power transfer theorem
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women who want not just to vote, but to vote for something. As women were given the right to vote in 1919, suffragists turned their attention from the effort to secure the vote towards using their vote to build a better world. Members were identified as political, but not partisan. LWV Missouri encourages informed and active participation in government. The organization is nonpartisan and does not endorse or oppose any political party or candidate. LWV educates votes, encourages citizens to register to vote, and communicates policy priorities to government officials. They also provide training on voting procedures, candidate, issues, lobbying,
Missouri League of Women Voters
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Jefferson Jones Jefferson Jones (1817–1879) was a 19th-century American army colonel. He is best known for his role in leading the secessionist Kingdom of Callaway as its king in the 1860s. The source of Jones' rank of colonel is uncertain. He does not appear on lists of officers of the United States Army - either regular or volunteer. He may have had a commission in the Confederate Army or the Missouri State Guard which was formed from secessionist Missourians. The Kingdom of Callaway was a county in Missouri which did not agree with the politics of either side in the
Jefferson Jones