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Randall C. Kennedy is director of research and co-founder of Competitive Systems Analysis, an Information Technology consulting company. He was also a former Senior Analyst for Giga Information Group and writes for InfoWorld.

He is notable for determining an undocumented change to Microsoft SQL Server’s default handling of which network library is used in its Net-Lib (it changed from named pipes to TCP/IP in Microsoft Data Access Components 2.6, but was only noticed and rectified in version 2.7). He also discovered some strange benchmark results when comparing performance of SQL Server on Windows NT 4 versus Windows 2000 however caused a stir when he was prevented from publishing them in the magazine Network World after Microsoft threatened legal action on him because of a term in SQL Server’s clickwrap agreement.

Randall has a bias opinion when it comes to non commercial Free software. The thought of free software scares Randall, as shown in his latest articles “Why FOSS is still so unusable” and “A FOSS manifesto: We don’t need no stinkin’ users!”. The problem is Randall doesn’t want to lose any more business to Linux Enterprise. It has significantly impacted his business. His hopes that his past credibility will stop the madness as “IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista”.

Citing shifting market forces and the growing demand for economical alternatives to costly Windows and Office-based computers, the four leaders sense an ideal set of circumstances allowing Linux-based desktops to proliferate in the coming year. Linux is far more profitable for a PC vendor and the operating system is better equipped to work with lower cost hardware than new Microsoft technology.

This hurts Randall financially, as more and more hardware vendors draw to Linux as there alternative.

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Waterwise is an independent not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation promoting water efficiency and conservation based in London, UK. The organisation’s official name is The Waterwise Project.

Presently, the organisation is focused on decreasing water consumption in the UK by 2010 and on building a robust evidence base for large-scale water efficiency projects. Waterwise is the UK’s water “efficiency champion” – “reaching the parts others cannot reach, and transform the concept of water resource efficiency into something compelling for consumers and business users.” They are considered to be the leading authority on water efficiency in the UK.

Founding and Aims

The establishment of Waterwise was due to concerns of waters shortage and the upward trend in how much water is consumed in the UK. Factors that were taken into account were: current drought situation, geographical and climatological circumstances, consumer tendencies, available resources, and future prospects of supply. The following examples, situations, and comparisons were contemplated: • England has less rainfall than some North African countries.

• Southern England has experienced one of the driest winters and spring periods since 1904

• Low river flows and groundwater levels across Southern England have resulted in environmental problems

• Groundwater levels are falling and this is particularly so in the chalk aquifers which are very important to Southern England.

• There have been demographic and social changes: modern lifestyles result in a greater demand for water. There has also been an increase in smaller size households that use proportionally more water.

• Climate and global warming, as predicted by the UKCIP, is forecast to result in a deficit in soil moisture. This means that agriculture will compete with the water industry for increasingly scarce resources.

In 2006, all 26 UK water companies decided to establish an independent organisation which would promote water efficiency. In September 2006, The Waterwise Project was launched to build an evidence base and economic case for water efficiency in the UK. In England, the organisation sits on the Environment Minister’s Water Saving Group, alongside the water industry and regulators. . It was established with the stance that the key to water efficiency is reducing waste, not restricting use.

Waterwise has an independent Board, which is drawn from the government, regulators, academia, business, other organisations, and from the water industry. The board meets four times a year and is responsible for overseeing Waterwise’s activities and its strategic direction.

Waterwise’s present remit runs until September 2010. Its aim is to have decreased per capita consumption in the UK by that time and to have built a strong social, political, and economic case for water efficiency.

Audience and Partners

Waterwise works with all sectors of society to promote water efficiency and the wise use of water. To achieve their aims they work with key partners in water companies, governments (local, regional, and national), regulators, farmers, communities, businesses, civil society organisations, manufacturers, retailers, press and media, and individual consumers.

Activities and Events

Waterwise participates in and leads various projects and events in order to complete their objectives:

• Waterwise hosts the only annual Water Efficiency Conference in the UK on 8-9 April. The conference brings together policymakers, doers, and thinkers to learns about and further discuss issues related to water efficiency.
• Waterwise also runs the Waterwise Marque, founded in October 2006 and first awarded in 2007. The Marque is awarded annually to water using products which promote water efficiency or reduce water wastage. It is the first award scheme of its kind in the UK and aims to empower consumers to make water wise buys.

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The Waterwise Marque - award for water efficient products in the UK.

• Waterwise works closely with Government departments and regulators in developing policy to further water efficiency.
• Waterwise teams with UK water companies, universities, local governments, and builders to conduct large-scale water efficiency projects, workshops, and programmes. These projects range from water audits to domestic retrofit schemes to university lectures.
• Waterwise convenes The Saving Water in Scotland network which brings together key figures in Scotland to discuss and advance water efficiency.
• Waterwise also provides households, businesses, media, and the government with information on water in the UK and with assistance on water saving.
• Waterwise has ranked all current UK models of dishwashers and washing machines according to water efficiency.. They are working on rankings for showers, toilets, and taps.
• Waterwise also conducts research related to international water ecolabels, embedded water, water and climate change, and other various other research projects.
• Waterwise is part of the Blueprint for Water coalition which has laid out a ten step plan for sustainable water. The coalition is composed of Waterwise, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-UK), Salmon and Trout Association, The Wildlife Trusts, The National Trust, Association of Rivers Trust, Anglers’ Conservation Association, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, and The Fisheries and Angling Conservation Trust.

See also

Water conservation

Waterwise is also the registered name of an Australian company - Waterwise Systems Australia Pty. Ltd. Waterwise Systems provides complete greywater diversion systems for irrigation of domestic gardens.

References

1. ^ Walter Menzies, Chief Executive, Mersey Basin Campaign
2. ^ New Consumer Magazine
3. ^ WaterUK report to Select Committee of Parliament
4. ^ Water UK
5. ^ House of Commons, Early Day Motion, Water Efficiency, 26 October 2005
6. ^ Water Saving Group, Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
7. ^ Water Efficiency Journal
8. ^ Marketing Week, ‘Water Marque’ scheme aims to aid product marketing
9. ^ A report to Defra Reviewing International Models of External Water Use Restrictions, as one example of Waterwise’s policy work
10. ^ Using Water Wisely: How to Change Consumer Behaviour, University of Oxford
11. ^ Saving Water in Scotland network draw up action plan to guard against future water shortages, waterbriefing.org
12. ^ Water/B&Q Water Efficiency Campaign, an example of teaming up with business
13. ^ DirectGov Greener Living
14. ^ The Crikey Water Diet, based on Waterwise research on embedded water
15. ^ The Blueprint for Water

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?sa Qambar
President of Azerbaijan
In office May 19, 1992 – June 16, 1992
Preceded by	Ayaz Mütallibov
Succeeded by	Abülfaz Elçibay
Born	February 24, 1957 (1957-02-24) (age 51)
Nationality	azerbaijani
Political party	Equality Party
Spouse	Aida Ba??rova

?sa Qambar (?sa Q?mb?r in Azeri) (born February 24, 1957 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani politician and leader of Equality Party (Müsavat), the largest opposition block in Azerbaijan.

Biography details

?sa Qambar is married and has two sons. His wife, Aida Ba??rova, is a Doctor of History, a Professor at Baku State University.

2003 political events

Human Rights Watch commented on the 2003 elections:

Human Rights Watch research found that the government had heavily intervened in the elections campaign in favour of Prime Minister ?lham Aliyev, son of the current President Heydar Aliyev. The government had stacked the Central Election Commission and local election commission with its supporters, and banned local non-governmental organizations from monitoring the vote. As the elections drew nearer, government officials have openly sided with the campaign of ?lham Aliyev, constantly obstructing opposition rallies and attempting to limit public participation in opposition events. In some cases, local officials have closed all the roads into town during opposition rallies, or have extended working and school hours, in one case, even declaring a Sunday work day, to prevent participation in opposition rallies. (source: http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/eca/azerbaijan/index.htm)

See also

• President of Azerbaijan
• Politics of Azerbaijan
• National Assembly of Azerbaijan
• Foreign relations of Azerbaijan
• List of political parties in Azerbaijan

References

• Forrest, Brett (Nov. 28, 2005). “Over A Barrel in Baku”. Fortune, pp. 54–60.

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World of Fantasy #17 (April 1959). Cover art by Jack Kirby and Christopher Rule.

World of Fantasy was a science fiction/fantasy comic book anthology series published by Marvel Comics’ 1950s predecessor company, Atlas Comics. Lasting from 1956 to 1959, it included the work of several notable comics artists, including industry legends Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and Bill Everett.

The Marvel Comics antagonist Shrunken Bones (Dr. Jerry Morgan), of the supervillain team the Headmen, first appeared as a supporting character in a standalone science-fiction story, “Prisoner of the Fantastic Fog”, by then-unknown writer-artist Angelo Torres, in issue #11 (April 1958).

Publication history

World of Fantasy ran 19 issues, cover-dated May 1956 to August 1959, and was published bi-monthly for all but two issues, #8 and #9 (Aug. & Dec. 1957). It was edited by Stan Lee and written by himself and Atlas staff writers, the latter uncredited except for Carl Wessler.

Bill Everett, creator of the Sub-Mariner during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books, was the title’s most frequent cover artist, producing seven. The covers of #15 and #17-19 (Dec. 1958 and April-Aug. 1959) and a story each in #16 and #18 (Feb. and June 1959) marked some of the earliest work of Jack Kirby upon his return to Marvel Comics, after having co-created Captain America in 1940 and leaving the company a year later.

Other notable artists who contributed at least one story include Golden Age greats Carl Burgos, Kurt Schaffenberger, and Bob Powell; popular artists of the time including Bernard Krigstein, Joe Maneely, Joe Orlando, and Al Williamson; and future Marvel superhero pencilers of the 1960s Silver Age of Comics, including Ross Andru, Dick Ayers, Gene Colan, Don Heck, and Jim Mooney, and inkers Joe Sinnott and Jack Abel.

Footnotes

1. ^ Jeff Christiansen’s “The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe”: Shrunken Bones

References

• Grand Comics Database
• The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
• Atlas Tales: World of Fantasy

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Brandon was a federal electoral district in the province of Manitoba, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons from 1896 to 1953.

It was created in 1892 from parts of Marquette and Selkirk ridings.

In 1952, the constituency was merged with the constituency of Souris to form the district of Brandon—Souris.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

• 1896: D’Alton McCarthy - McCarthyite
• 1896-1911: Sir Clifford Sifton - Liberal
• 1911-1917: James Albert Manning Aikins - Conservative Party of Canada
• 1917-1921: Howard Primrose Widden - Unionist Party
• 1921-1930: Robert Forke - Progressive Party of Canada (1921-1926), Liberal-Progressive (1926-1930)
• 1930: Thomas Alexander Crerar - Liberal
• 1930-1938: David Wilson Beaubier - Conservative Party of Canada
• 1938-1950: James Ewen Matthews - Liberal
• 1951-1952: Walter Dinsdale - Progressive Conservative

Election results

By-election: On the death of Mr. Matthews’ on 24 November 1950

By-election: On the death of Mr. Beaubier on 1 September 1938

By-election: On the appointment of Mr. Forke to the senate on 30 December 1929

By-election: On the appointment of Mr. Forke as Minister of Immigration and Colonization on 5 October 1926

By-election: Mr McCarthy elected to sit for Simcoe North on 25 August 1896

See also

• Brandon—Souris
• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

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“The Graduates”
The O.C. episode
Seth, Summer, Ryan and Marissa
Episode no.	Season 3 (2005-2006) Episode 25
Written by	Josh Schwartz Bob DeLaurentis
Directed by	Ian Toynton
Production no.	2T6275
Original airdate	May 18, 2006 (FOX)
Episode chronology ? Previous Next ? “The Man of the Year” “The Avengers”

“The Graduates” is the 76th episode of the FOX television series, The O.C.. It was written by Josh Schwartz and Bob DeLaurentis and directed by Ian Toynton. It originally aired on Thursday May 18, 2006.

Guest starring

Plot

Seth denies the charges of arson that have been pressed against him. Sandy and Kirsten discuss matters with Seth. Ryan returns to Kirsten’s car and Volchok appears. Volchok threatens to press charges against Ryan for fighting him if he does not assist him.

Marissa, Summer, and Taylor help prepare for the upcoming graduation ceremony and discuss their sex lives. Julie delivers a letter to Marissa which was initially sent by her father, Jimmy. The letter issues Marissa with a life-changing proposition: she is offered a job for a year with her father on a boat. However, she only has 1 night to make her decision. Ryan supports Marissa’s plans to work on the boat.

Dawn stops by the Cohen’s house for graduation; Kaitlin Cooper also returns home unexpectedly. Seth tells the truth to his father, that he caused the fire with a joint.

At the graduation ceremony, the proud parents of Ryan, Marissa, Seth, Summer, and Taylor tearfully applaud their children’s completion of high school. Later that night, the Cohens, Coopers, and Roberts collectively attend a dinner and Sandy makes a toast.

Marissa tries to notify her mother of her plans to leave, but Julie reveals to Marissa that she already knew. Julie presents Marissa with her graduation present, a pearl necklace. Julie also admits to the mistakes she has made as a mother, however Marissa forgives her and tells her that she loves her unconditionally. Julie, Kaitlin and Marissa share an emotional “Cooper family hug”.

Dawn presents Ryan with a car as a graduation gift. Taylor and Sung-Ho plan to go to Sung’s home town in the DMZ to help defuse land mines.

Volchok calls Marissa and notifies her about Ryan’s involvement in his plan; she then questions Ryan. Dawn bids farewell to Ryan and leaves Newport.

Marissa’s Death

Sandy visits the DA’s office to meet on “neutral ground” - and pays a visit to his old office. Kirsten tells Seth that the fire was the best thing that could have happened to him (Sandy). Ryan gives Volchok the money that they got from pawning Marissa’s present, he then proceeds to have an angry fit when Marisa refuses to talk to him.

Sandy decides not to return to the Newport Group. The Core Four return to the model home for a swim and reflect on the past, and the journey which has united the “Core Four”. Seth presents Summer with her graduation present, his admission to Rhode Island School of Design.

As Ryan and Marissa are driving to the airport, a drunken Volchok rams Ryan and Marissa off the road and onto a hill. The car flips over, and lands upside down. Ryan isn’t hurt very badly and breaks the door window to get out and goes around to the other side to save Marissa before a gas leak causes his car to explode.

Ryan, who’s holding an almost lifeless Marissa, tells her that he’s going to go get help. But Marissa begs him to stay with her. She stays alive for a minute, then she looks at Ryan sadly until her eyes go blank. Before he is able to get help, she dies in his arms. As he cries with Marissa in his arms, he remembers the time when he thought he’d leave Newport forever and sees Marissa at the end of her driveway.

Music

• “I Don’t Care What My Friends Say” by Chris Holmes
• “Breaking The Ice” by Mojave 3
• “Speeding Cars” by Imogen Heap
• “Bossy” by Kelis
• “Chapters” by Commuter
• “Hallelujah” by Imogen Heap

Trivia

• Imogen Heap’s cover of “Hallelujah” is a homage not only to the Leonard Cohen song but a homage to Ryan leaving Newport in season 1 when Jeff Buckley’s cover was featured as Marissa was leaving Newport as well in this episode.

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“Wearing the Inside Out” is a song from Pink Floyd’s 1994 album, The Division Bell. It is the first Pink Floyd song since “Time” from The Dark Side of the Moon where Richard Wright sings lead.

It was never performed live by Pink Floyd, though it was performed on David Gilmour’s 2006 On An Island tour. It features on the DVD of the concert, Remember That Night, as an extra bonus track. It is one of two Pink Floyd songs performed on Gilmour’s tour that were never performed live by Pink Floyd, along with “Wot’s… Uh the Deal?” from Obscured by Clouds.

The LP version of “Wearing the Inside Out” differs from the CD release in structure and content.

Credits

• Music by Rick Wright
• Lyrics by Anthony Moore

• David Gilmour – Fender Stratocaster, whammy pedalled Fender Stratocaster, backing vocals
• Richard Wright – keyboards, lead vocals
• Nick Mason – drums and percussion
• Dick Parry – tenor saxophone
• Jon Carin – programming
• Guy Pratt – bass
• Sam Brown, Durga McBroom, and Carol Kenyon – backing vocals

Recorded January 1993 to January 1994 at The Astoria, Britannia Row Studios, and Abbey Road Studios in London.

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DBS

Jump to: navigation, search

The acronym DBS may refer to:

• Aston Martin DBS or Aston Martin DBS V12, automobile models
• Database system
• Discbox Slider, a carton board disc case
• Dealer Business System, a Supply Chain Management(SCM) application for Caterpillar’s dealers
• Direct broadcast satellite, a term used to refer to satellite television broadcasts intended for home reception
• Doctor of Biblical Studies, and academic degree
• Danaher Business System, lean manufacturing business model implemented by the Danaher Corporation
• Divestment, Boycott, Sanctions, the DBS acronym is used by international activist groups

In medicine:

• Deep brain stimulation, a surgical treatment for some movement disorders
• Dibutyl sebacate, an organic chemical

In music:

• The dB’s, a power pop band of the ’70s and ’80s
• d.b.s., a Canadian punk rock band from 1992-2001
• Death by Stereo, an American heavy metal/punk rock group from California
• Deep Blue Something, a band from Denton, Texas
• DBS e a Quadrilha, a Brazilian group of rap

In schools:

• Diocesan Boys’ School, a boys-only secondary school in Hong Kong
• Dublin Business School, a private business college in Dublin, Ireland established in 1975
• Durham Business School, the business school of Durham University, UK
• Discovery Bay School, a planned school in the English Schools Foundation family
• Douai Business School, an international business college in Douai, France established in 1991

In companies:

• Den Beste Sykkel (lit. “The Best Bike”), a Norwegian bicycle brand and manufacturer
• DBS Bank, a Singapore-based bank
• DBS Radio, the on-air name of Dominica Broadcasting Corporation
• DBS Radio, Dutch Broadcasting Service

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Southease
Location
Place	Southease
Local authority	Lewes
Operations
Station code	SEE
Managed by	Southern
Platforms in use	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	7,093
2005/06 *	7,245
2006/07 *	8,527
History
Key dates	Opened 1906
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Southease railway station is a railway station half a mile east of the village of Southease, East Sussex, England. It is on the Seaford Branch of the East Coastway Line. The station is surrounded by agricultural land. The South Downs Way crosses the Seaford Branch here.

History

The station was opened as “Southease and Rodmell Halt” on 1 September 1906, named after two nearby villages in the Ouse Valley: Southease, ½ mile to the west, and the slightly larger Rodmell, more than a mile away.

There was a racecourse between the railway line and the River Ouse from the late 1920s to the early 1940s

Infrastructure

The station is unmanned and has two platforms. There is a level crossing immediately north of the station leading to Itford Farm and the A26. The crossing is crossable by anyone, even though the gates are closed by default. There is also a footbridge over the line.

Services

Services from the station are provided by Southern.

The typical off-peak service is:

• 1tph (trains per hour) to Brighton
• 1tph to Seaford

Further services pass through non-stop

Gallery

References

1. ^ Mitchell, Vic and Smith, Keith (1986). Southern Main Lines - Haywards Heath to Seaford. Middleton Press. ISBN 0-906520-28-2
2. ^ Southease Parish Newsletter, October 2006

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Gaspare Ambrosini (born in Girgenti on October 24, 1886) was an Italian jurist and statesman. He died in Rome in 1986, less than three months away from his 100th birthday.

Career and contributions

In 1909 Ambrosini became the youngest professor of constitutional law of his times. In 1918, acting as private assistant to aging Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, played a noted role in the negotiation of the Treaty of Versailles.

Ambrosini escaped having to align himself with the ideology of fascism first by teaching colonial law and then by conducting extensive milestone studies on foreign federalism and abstract electoral systems.

After the end of World War II, Ambrosini becomes a member of the Constitutional Assembly and a key participant of the 18-member committee credited with the actual drafting of the Italian Constitution. He invented and introduced into the Italian Constitution the “regional state”, as an intermediary figure between the federal and the unitary state, in which regions have autonomy under the constitution rather than limited original sovereign power. This type of arrangement was foreshadowed in the 1924 Cadige constitution and was followed in a number of subsequent constitutions including the 1978 Spanish Constitution.

In 1946 Ambrosini was elected to the Italian House of Representatives where became the Chairman of its Foreign Relations Committee. In this capacity he played a key role in advocating Italy’s participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and providing political and academic leadership in the creation of the European Community for Steel and Coal and the European Community for Atomic Energy. With his academic assistance, these two entities were conceived along the until-then unknown figure of a “super-national” international entity with limited but own sovereign powers. This novel idea was at the foundation of the subsequent process of integration leading first to the European Economic Communities (EEC) and then to the European Union.

He also championed and justified with the UN the Italian international protectorate over Ethiopia which ended at the end of 1959.

In 1955 Ambrosini was elected by Parliament as a Justice of the Constitutional Court, of which he became the Chief Justice in 1962 holding that position until the end of 1967. He is credited with watershed constitutional decisions which asserted the primacy of the Italian Constitution not only over the laws adopted by the democratic Parliament but also in respect of those passed during the preceding fascist period; as well as the primacy of European law over Italian law. In this latter respect the Italian Constitutional Court opened and paved the path soon followed by the German Constitutional Court and many years later by other European member of the EEC leading to primacy of European law over the law of any member states.

Until his death Ambrosini chaired a government institution which meticulously documented all Italian activities in Africa.

He left behind a rich legacy of more than 50 treaties and books on Italian and comparative constitutional law, international law, history of institutions of government and African studies. At the age of 86, he wrote and published his last treaty comparing the Italian constitution to the principles of the French revolution and the American independence. Having maintained his university tenure for over half a century, he shaped the thinking of three generations of Italian jurists.

Recognition

One of Rome’s squares has been dedicated to him.

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