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The Starfires

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

The Starfires
Origin Los Angeles, California
Genre(s) Garage rock
Years active 1965-1967
Label(s) G.I. Records
Yardbird Records

The Starfires is a garage rock band from Los Angeles that is best known for one of the most sought-after 45s of the mid-1960’s, “I Never Loved Her”, which can command prices of $1000 or more (although reproductions of the single are available also). This is not the same band as the Starfires of Cleveland, the predecessor band to the Outsiders.

Contents

  • 1 Discography
    • 1.1 Singles
  • 2 Compilation Albums
  • 3 References

Discography

Singles

  • “Linda” b/w “I Never Loved Her”; G.I. Records (#4001); released May 1965.
  • “There’s Still Time”; Yardbird Records (#4005); released 1965.
  • “The Hardest Way:’ Yardbird Records (#4006); July 1966, according to the monarch #.

Compilation Albums

I Never Loved Her

  1. Pebbles, Volume 8 (LP)
  2. Pebbles, Volume 8 (CD)
  3. Essential Pebbles, Volume 1 (CD)
  4. Best of Pebbles, Volume 3 (LP and CD)
  5. Psychedelic Unknowns, Volume 1 (LP)
  6. Psychedelic Unknowns, Volume 2 (LP)

Linda

  1. Highs in the Mid-Sixties, Volume 1 (LP)
  2. Mondo Frat Dance Bash A Go Go (CD)

Cry for Freedom

  1. Pebbles, Volume 9 (CD)

There’s Still Time

  1. Basementville USA! (LP)
  2. Acid and Flowers (CD)

You Done Me Wrong

  1. Psychedelic Unknowns, Volume 3 (LP) – 2nd Edition
  2. Psychedelic Unknowns, Volume 3 (CD)

The Hardest Way

  1. You’re Playing with Fire (LP)
  2. Trip in Tyme, Volume 1 (CD)

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Carl Gustaf Hellqvist

Saturday, January 31st, 2009


“The Death of Sten Sture the Younger on the Ice of Lake Mälaren, 1520″

Carl Gustaf Hellqvist (December 15, 1851 – November 19, 1890) was one of Sweden’s most popular historical painters in the 19th century. He was born in 1851 in Kungsör, between Arboga and Eskilstuna at Lake Mälaren, Sweden, where he grew up and went to school.

In 1864 Hellqvist started to study art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, and in 1875 he was awarded the Royal Academy’s highest prize for his painting “Gustaf I anklagar Peder Sunnanväder och Mäster Knut inför domkapitlet i Västerås”.

Two years later in 1877 Hellqvist was awarded a travelling scholarship from the Academy, and he travelled around the European continent. He moved together with his fiancée, Julie, to Munich in 1879.

In 1882 he and Julie got married, and they left for Paris, where Hellqvist earlier had been present at the Paris Salon with his oil painting “The Death of Sten Sture the Younger on the Ice of Lake Mälaren, 1520″ (Swedish, “Sten Sture d y:s död på Mälarens is 1520“).

In August 1882 he was awarded the gold medal for his magnificent historical painting “Valdemar Atterdag Holding Visby to Ransom, 1361″ (Swedish, “Valdemar Atterdag brandskattar Visby 1361“) in Vienna, Austria.

Hellqvist suffered from painful head aches which forced him to take a leave from his teaching at Königliche akademische Hochschule für die bildende Künste in 1886. He ended his period of historical painting at the same time.

In 1889 Hellqvist’s disease was treated with electroconvulsive treatment, and he was ordered on a diet.

In 1890 it was announced that Hellqvist’s studio-objects were to be sold. Probably the most famous photograph of his studio was taken at the same time, which shows how a historical painter’s studio looked like during the late 19th century.

From March 1889, he stayed in a mental hospital in Munich, and he died there on November 19, 1890 at the age of 38. He was buried in Munich.

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Orléans Ward

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Orléans
Ottawa City Council
Councillor Bob Monette

Orléans Ward (Ward 1) is a city ward in the city of Ottawa, Canada. It was created before the 2000 Election when the area was amalgamated into the city of Ottawa. The ward covers much of the suburban community of Orléans in the east of the city. Previous to that, the ward existed in the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton Council. It contains the neighbourhoods of Convent Glen, Convent Glen South, Hiawatha Park, Orléans Wood, Riverglen, Queenswood Village, Chatelaine Village, River Walk, Queenswood Heights, Queenswood South, Fallingbrook and the eastern part of the Cardinal Creek neighbourhood (east of Trim Road). Not all of Orléans is in the Orléans Ward, as some of it is in Cumberland Ward and Innes Ward. It covers an area of 25.2 sq. km.

When the Ward boundaries changed for the 2006 election, there was only a small change to the ward boundary on Portobello.

It is represented by Bob Monette, city councillor as it the seat was vacated by Herb Kreling in September, 2005. Kreling had held the seat since its inception. Montette won in a by-election January 2006 his main opposition was former school board trustee Sheryl MacDonald and Elena Harder, daughter of city councillor Jan Harder. In the November 2006 general election Monette’s only opposition was Dennis Vowels.

Contents

  • 1 Population data
  • 2 Election results
    • 2.1 Ottawa-Carleton Regional municipality elections, 1994
    • 2.2 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections, 1997
    • 2.3 Ottawa municipal election, 2000
    • 2.4 Ottawa municipal election, 2003
    • 2.5 2006 by-election
    • 2.6 Ottawa municipal election, 2006
  • 3 External links

Population data

The Ward’s population was 48,300 in 2006. At the Canada 2001 Census it had 46,125 people.

Languages (mother tongue)

  1. English: 59.5%
  2. French: 28.8%
  3. Other languages: 11.7%

Religion

  1. Roman Catholic: 57.3%
  2. No religion: 10.9%
  3. United Church of Canada: 8.9%
  4. Anglican: 6.5%
  5. Muslim: 2.6%
  6. Lutheran: 1.7%
  7. Presbyterian: 1.5%
  8. Baptist: 1.1%
  9. Pentecostal: 1.1%

Income

  • Average household income: $89,128
  • Average income: $39,057

Election results

Ottawa-Carleton Regional municipality elections, 1994

Regional council
Candidate Votes %
Herb Kreling 3275 30.37
Bob Monette 3252 30.16
Keith De Cruz 3118 28.92
Bernard Pelot 766 7.10
Stan Lamothe 371 3.44

Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections, 1997

Regional council
Candidate Votes %
Herb Kreling 3648 41.39
Keith De Cruz 2730 30.98
Pierre Cantin 2435 27.63

Ottawa municipal election, 2000

City council
Candidate Votes %
Herb Kreling 7029 40.96
John Morgan 5564 32.42
Gerry Lalonde 4569 26.62
Ottawa Mayor (Ward results)
Candidate Votes %
Claudette Cain 10819 62.35
Bob Chiarelli 6129 35.32
Marc-André Belair 180 1.04
Georges Saade 93 0.54
Ken Mills 41 0.24
James A. Hall 31 0.18
Paula Nemchin 29 0.17
John Turmel 19 0.11
Morteza Naini 10 0.06

Ottawa municipal election, 2003

Ottawa municipal election, 2003: City council
Candidate Votes %
Herb Kreling 7182 72.89
Louise Malloy 2671 27.11
Ottawa Mayor (Ward results)
Candidate Votes %
Bob Chiarelli 5700 57.44
Terry Kilrea 3553 35.80
Ike Awgu 274 2.76
Ron Burke 126 1.27
Paula Nemchin 75 0.76
Donna Upson 69 0.70
John A. Bell 66 0.67
John Turmel 61 0.61

2006 by-election

Held on January 9 to replace the out going Herb Kreling.

Candidates

  • Elena Harder: Daughter of Bell-South Nepean Ward councillor Jan Harder
  • Debbie Jodoin: Socially Conservative political activist
  • Sheryl MacDonald: Orleans/Cumberland Public School Board Trustee 1997-2005, as well as former Human Rights Commissioner, provincial Labour Relations Board Member, United Way Director, Family Services Association Board Member, Citizen Advocacy Board Member, and Human Resources manager for Air Canada (28 years).
  • Pierre Maheu president of the Orléans Parks and Recreation Association and a member of the City of Ottawa’s Committee of Adjustment, ran for regional council in 1996, and in 2002 dropped out of the race for the Liberal Party of Ontario nomination in Ottawa—Orléans.
  • Louise Malloy: Seniors advocate and a retired military sergeant. Ran in the 2003 election, and lost to Herb Kreling.
  • Bob Monette: Former Cumberland Township councillor (1985-1991). Ran for regional council in 1994 but lost.
  • Gino L. Nicolini Owner of Nicolini Construction and Engineering Ltd. as well as several pizza shops in and around Ottawa namely Nicolini PizzaLand.
  • Michel Tardif Fringe candidate

Dropped out

  • Don Rivington - ran in Bay Ward in the 2003 election. Opted to run in mayoral race instead, to forward is one issue candidacy (that Ottawa should get an ombudsman)

Results

City council
Candidate Votes %
Bob Monette 2891 34.15
Sheryl MacDonald 2026 23.93
Elena Harder 1738 20.53
Louise Malloy 578 6.83
Debbie Jodoin 457 5.40
Pierre Maheu 409 4.83
Gino L. Nicolini 307 3.63
Michel Tardif 60 0.71

Ottawa municipal election, 2006

After facing seven candidates in the January by-election, incumbent councillor Bob Monette, faces off against Dennis Vowles, son of former Gloucester city councillor Ken Vowles.

City council
Candidate Votes %
Bob Monette 12201 69.98%
Dennis Vowles 5235 30.02%

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Gádoros

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Gádoros
Country  Hungary
County Békés
Area
 - Total 38.13 km2 (14.7 sq mi)
Population (2002)
 - Total 4,095
 - Density 107/km2 (277.1/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 - Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 5932
Area code(s) 68


Location of Békés County in Hungary

Gádoros is a village in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary.

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Boundary value analysis

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Software Testing portal

Boundary value analysis is a software testing design technique used to determine test cases covering off-by-one errors.

Introduction

Testing experience has shown that the boundaries of input ranges to a software component are likely to contain defects. For instance: a function that takes an integer between 1 and 12, representing a month between January to December, might contain a check for this range:

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Angelina National Forest

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Angelina National Forest
IUCN Category VI (Managed Resource Protected Area)

Angelina National Forest

Location Texas, USA
Nearest city Lufkin, TX
Coordinates 31°16?07?N 94°24?43?W? / ?31.26861, -94.41194Coordinates: 31°16?07?N 94°24?43?W? / ?31.26861, -94.41194
Area 153,179 acres (620 km²)
Established 1935
Governing body U.S. Forest Service

Angelina National Forest is a United States National Forest, one of four located in Texas. The 153,179-acre (619.89 km2) Angelina National Forest is located in East Texas in parts of San Augustine, Angelina, Jasper and Nacogdoches counties. It is managed together with the three other National Forests in Texas (Davy Crockett, Sabine, and Sam Houston) from Forest Service offices in Lufkin, Texas. There are local ranger district offices located in Zavalla. The forest lies in the Neches River Basin and on the north and south shores of Sam Rayburn Reservoir. Longleaf Pine is the predominant cover type in the southern portion of the forest, while Loblolly and Shortleaf Pine are the dominant Hundreds of wildlife species exist in the forest. Principal game in the is deer, squirrel, wild turkey, woodcock, quail, dove and duck. The forest provides wintering habitat for the threatened Bald Eagle. The Red-cockaded Woodpecker, an endangered species, is found throughout the forest.

History

Humans came to the area around 8,000 years ago. Archeological sites document the evidence of man’s presence over the entire period since then.

In 1934, the Texas Legislature approved a resolution to urge federal purchase of land to create National Forests in Texas. In 1935, acquisition began on the Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Sabine and Angelina National Forests.

References

  1. ^ Table 6 - NFS Acreage by State, Congressional District and County - United States Forest Service - September 30, 2007

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DWWW

Friday, January 30th, 2009

DWWW
City of license Quezon City
Broadcast area Metro Manila
Branding DWWW
Slogan The Premier Station.
Frequency 774 kHz
First air date 1974
Format news, public affairs, entertainment
Callsign meaning DWWW
Owner Interactive Broadcast Media Inc.

DWWW (774 kHz Metro Manila) is an AM station owned and operated by Interactive Broadcast Media Inc. in the Philippines. The studio is located at #32 E. Rodriguez Sr. Ave., Quezon City, while the transmitter is located at Brgy. Tagalag, Valenzuela City, Philippines. It plays mostly music during the afternoons and evenings.

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Rub?i

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Latvian rublis
Latvijas rublis (Latvian)
Latvian rublis issued 1992.
Latvian rublis issued 1992.
ISO 4217 Code LVR
User(s)  Latvia
Symbol Lvr (before numerals)
Coins none
Banknotes 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 200, 500 rublis
Central bank Bank of Latvia
Website www.bank.lv
This infobox shows the latest status before this currency was rendered obsolete.

The rublis was the name of the currency of Latvia from 1919 to 1922 and from 1992 to 1993.

First rublis

After the proclamation of the Republic of Latvia in 1918, a large variety of different currencies were in circulation - ostrubles, ostmarks, German Papiermark, the so-called Tsar rubles, kopecks, the so-called Money of Duma and kerenkas, as well as promissory notes of several town municipalities.

On March 22, 1919, the Provisional Government of Latvia authorized the Minister of Finance to issue the first currency notes of the Republic of Latvia - Treasury notes. They were denominated in rublis (plural: rub?i or rub??) and kapeikas (plural: kapeiku), with 1 rublis = 100 kapeiku. The Latvian rublis was worth 1½ Russian rubles. In the period from April 1919 to September 1922, currency notes were issued in denominations of 5, 10, 25 and 50 kapeiku and 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 and 500 rub??. No coins were issued.

The first state currency notes were printed in 1919 by Andrievs Niedra’s government, which was considered pro-German and illegal, and was overthrown in the same year. The legal government of K?rlis Ulmanis printed quite similar notes but with different signatures on them. This government recognized the previously printed banknotes as a legal payment means. The designer of these banknotes was J?lijs Madernieks.

On August 3, 1922, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the “Regulations on Money” which introduced the lats as Latvia’s national currency. The lats was equal to 50 rub??. The rublis remained in circulation alongside the lats for a time.

Second rublis

Latvia regained independence in 1991 and in the first four months of the year 1992, Latvia was adversely affected by inflation of the Russian ruble. In addition, the outgoing cash payments surpassed the incoming money amounts by 122 million rubles (5.9%) in February, but in April by 686 million rubles (29.2%), thus causing a very serious shortage of cash.

Since the money was issued by Russia, the Bank of Latvia was unable to improve the cash circulation in the country. The situation completely depended on the possibility for receiving or buying cash and credit resources from the Russian central bank. It was evident that a crisis could develop by the end of May, when the Bank of Latvia would not be able to execute even the most necessary payments.

To resolve the problem, on 4 May 1992, the Monetary Reform Commission of the Republic of Latvia passed a resolution “On Introduction of the Latvian rublis”. From 7 May 1992, a temporary currency, the Latvian rublis (LVR), was put into circulation as a legal tender parallel to the existing ruble notes. It was declared equal in value to the Russian ruble. The denominations of the Latvian rublis notes (widely known as repšiki, after then-governor of the Central Bank, Einars Repše) were 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 200 and 500 rub?i. The national currency - the lats - was introduced in 1993, replacing the rublis at the ratio of 1 lats = 200 rub?i.

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Micha? Kalecki

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Micha? Kalecki
Neo-Ricardianism
Birth June 22, 1899(1899-06-22)
Death April 18, 1970 (aged 70)
Nationality Poland
Field Macroeconomics
Influences John Maynard Keynes
Piero Sraffa
Influenced Joan Robinson
Nicholas Kaldor
Richard M. Goodwin

Micha? Kalecki (June 22, 1899 in ?ód? – April 18, 1970 in Warsaw) was a Polish economist who specialized in macroeconomics. Over the course of his life, he worked at the London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford and Warsaw School of Economics as well as an economic advisor to governments of Cuba, Israel, Mexico and India.

Kalecki has been called “one of the most distinguished economists of the 20th century” and has sometimes been regarded as a “left-wing” John Maynard Keynes. It is often claimed that he developed many of the same ideas as Keynes, before Keynes; however, since he published in Polish, he remains much less known to the English-speaking world.

Contents

  • 1 Biography
  • 2 Work
  • 3 Publications
  • 4 See also
  • 5 Further reading
  • 6 External links

Biography

Kalecki was born in ?ód?, Poland, in 1899 to a middle class family. His father owned a small scale weaving factory while his mother came from a family of public servants. He went to high school in ?ód? and afterward began studies at the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute. Between 1919 and 1921 he was a member of the Polish Armed Forces and consequently resumed his studies at the Gdansk Polytechnic. He did not, however, finish his degree. Between 1929 and 1936 he worked for the Institute of Studies of Economic Conditions and Prices (Instytut Bada? Koniunktur Gospodarczych i Cen) in Warsaw, during which time he wrote some of his most famous works. Unfortunately, as he published these in Polish or French rather than English, his contributions remained unrecognized until much later. In 1936 he moved to England where he first worked at the LSE and later at Cambridge. During the war he was a member of the Statistical Institute at Oxford University and worked on a economic plan of rationing under wartime conditions on which he collaborated directly with Keynes. He moved back to Poland in 1946 where he was an advisor to the Polish Central Planning Bureau and held a post in the Ministry of Finance.

Work

Kalecki’s works from 1933–35 introduced many concepts that were later stated in John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, published in February, 1936. However, as Kalecki’s works were published in Polish (and a few in French), they went unknown and unrecognized by the wider world. Kalecki’s claim of precedence to Keynes, in a 1936 article, likewise went into oblivion as the article was not translated into English.

Only his later works were published in English, but the delay in their translation cost him much fame. Eventually his theories on business cycles (1935, 1937, 1939, 1943, 1954) did gain him some recognition for their advancement of the use of mathematical dynamics in economics. In his works he used both Classical and Marxist concepts, relying extensively on the theories of class conflict, income distribution and imperfect competition. Those very concepts would later gain much popularity with the Cambridge Keynesians school, especially with economists such as Joan Violet Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor and Richard M. Goodwin, and would be used within the modern Post-Keynesian economics school.

In his study of Marxian-type unemployment and business cycle, Kalecki blamed the government for deliberately permitting unemployment in order to keep wages low.

In cost-of-production theory of value, he distinguished between sectors with “cost-determined prices” (such as manufacturing and services) and those with “demand-determined prices” (such as agriculture and raw-materials extraction).

Kalecki studied both the semi-capitalist economy in prewar Poland and the communist economy in the postwar Polish People’s Republic.

In the first half of the 1990s, Oxford University Press published 7 volumes of the Collected Works of Michal Kalecki, referring to him as “one of the most distinguished economists of the 20th century.” Many of his works were translated into English for the first time in this collection.

Publications

  1. “Mr Keynes’s Predictions,” Przegl?d Socjalistyczny, 1932.
  2. Essay on the Theory of the Business Cycle, 1933.
  3. Essai d’une theorie du mouvement cyclique des affaires,” Revue d’economie politique, 1935.
  4. “A Macrodynamic Theory of Business Cycles”, 1935, Econometrica.
  5. “The Mechanism of Business Upswing”, 1935, Polska Gospodarcza.
  6. “Some Remarks on Keynes’s Theory”, 1936, Ekonomista.
  7. “A Theory of the Business Cycle”, 1937, RES.
  8. “A Theory of Commodity, Income and Capital Taxation”, 1937, EJ.
  9. “The Principle of Increasing Risk”, 1937, Economica.
  10. “The Determinants of Distribution of the National Income”, 1938, Econometrica.
  11. Essays in the Theory of Economic Fluctuations, 1939.
  12. “A Theory of Profits”, 1942, EJ.
  13. Studies in Economic Dynamics, 1943.
  14. “Political Aspects of Full Employment”, 1943, Political Quarterly.
  15. “Professor Pigou on the Classical Stationary State”, 1944, EJ.
  16. “Three Ways to Full Employment”, 1944 in Economics of Full Employment.
  17. “A Note on Long Run Unemployment”, 1950, RES.
  18. Theory of Economic Dynamics: An essay on cyclical and long- run changes in capitalist economy, 1954.
  19. “Observations on the Theory of Growth”, 1962, EJ.
  20. Studies in the Theory of Business Cycles, 1933-1939, 1966.
  21. “The Problem of Effective Demand with Tugan-Baranovski and Rosa Luxemburg”, 1967, Ekonomista.
  22. “The Marxian Equations of Reproduction and Modern Economics”, 1968, Social Science Information.
  23. “Trend and the Business Cycle”, 1968, EJ.
  24. “Class Struggle and the Distribution of National Income”, 1971, Kyklos.
  25. Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy, 1933-1970, 1971.
  26. Selected Essays on the Economic Growth of the Socialist and the Mixed Economy, 1972.
  27. The Last Phase in the Transformation of Capitalism, 1972.
  28. Essays on Developing Economies, 1976.
  29. Collected Works of Michal Kalecki (1-6), Oxford University Press, 1990s, ISBN 1) 0198285388, 2) 0198286643, 3) 0198286651, 4) 019828666X, 5) 0198286678, 6) 0198286686

See also

  • Neo-Ricardianism
  • List of Poles

Further reading

  • Sadowski, Zdzislaw L.; Szeworski, Adam (2004). Kalecki’s Economics Today. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415299934. 
  • King, J. E. (2003). “An economist from Poland”. A History of Post Keynesian Economics Since 1936. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. pp. 35–55. ISBN 1843766507. 
  • Kriesler, Peter (1997). “Keynes, Kalecki and The General Theory”. in Harcourt, Geoffrey Colin; Riach R. A.; Riach, P. A. (ed.). A “Second Edition” of the General Theory. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415149436. 

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Dasc?lu River

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Dasc?lu River
Countries Romania
Counties Olt County
Mouth Olte?
Major tributaries
 - left Olti?or
Official River Code VIII.1.173.16

The Dasc?lu River is a tributary of the Olte? River in Romania.

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