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04/07/17 8:56:50 AM
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Oleg Mikhaylov

Oleg Sergeyevich Mikhaylov (born April 23, 1995) is a Russian football player who last played for PFC Spartak Nalchik.

He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Krasnodar-2 on July 12, 2013 in a game against FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Mikhaylov
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04/07/17 9:03:03 AM
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04/07/17 9:16:59 AM
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Blundell v Vardon

Blundell v Vardon, was the first of three decisions of the High Court of Australia concerning the 1906 Election for Senators for South Australia. Sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns, Barton J held that the election of Anti-Socialist Party candidate Joseph Vardon as the third senator for South Australia was void due to irregularities in the way the returning officers marked some votes. The Parliament of South Australia appointed James O'Loghlin. Vardon sought to have the High Court compel the Governor of South Australia to hold a supplementary election, however the High Court held in R v Governor of South Australia; Ex parte Vardon that it had no power to do so. Vardon then petitioned the Senate seeking to remove O'Loghlin and rather than decide the issue, the Senate referred the matter to the High Court. The High Court held in Vardon v O'Loghlin that O'Loghlin had been invalidly appointed and ordered a supplementary election. Vardon and O'Loghlin both contested the supplementary election, with Vardon winning with 54% of the vote.

The 1906 election
On 12 December 1906 there was an election in South Australia to choose three Senators, to sit from 1 January 1907 to 31 December 1912. The method of Senate voting at the time, referred to as block voting, set out in section 150 and 158 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902, to make a cross next to the name of the candidate. As there were three Senators to be elected, each voter was required to mark three candidates, so that the total formal votes is divisible by three to show the number of voters. On this occasion in South Australia the block voting system did not result in the usual landslide majority for one party, with support divided among the various candidates.

After the first count, Crosby had a majority of just 14 votes. The electoral officer, at the request of Vardon, directed a recount, after which Vardon had a majority of 34 votes and the candidates declared to be elected on 8 January 1907 were Sir Josiah Symon, Russell, and Vardon.

The political context in the Senate was that the minority Protectionist government, with the support of Labour, had 18 of the 36 seats while the Anti-Socialist had 16 seats, with the inclusion of Vardon. Thus the government could only expect a majority of votes, with the support of the Labour leaning independent from Victoria, William Trenwith, or the conservative Senator from Tasmania, Henry Dobson, who was elected as part of the Tariff Reform party.

Blundell v Vardon
Blundell filed a petition in the High Court, seeking a declaration that the election of Vardon was void and that either Crosby or himself should be declared to have been elected. The petition set out various grounds of irregularity said to have occurred in relation to the election. The petition initially sought to challenge the validity of the election of all Senators, including Senator Sir Josiah Symon and Blundell's party colleague Senator Russell, however he was given leave to limit the petition to only challenge the election of Vardon.

The Court appointed the Deputy-Marshall to conduct a recount. During the recount, it was thought that the 9,000 votes cast in the Division of Angas had been accidentally destroyed. The missing votes were around 12.8% of the votes cast in the election. It would appear however that these votes were later found, although it is unknown what, if any, effect these missing votes would have had on the recount. The Deputy Marshall identified 828 votes of doubtful formality in several classes. The question for the court was whether the irregularities affected the result of the election. Barton J followed Chanter v Blackwood[18] that focused on the disputed votes and the size of the majority, hence the attention in the judgement to the few hundred irregular votes and not the 9,000 missing votes.

Barton J went through each class, accepting most as valid votes, with Vardon in third place in front of Crosby by just two votes. 21 votes had rightfully been rejected because the presiding officer had initialled the votes in a place where the initials could not be seen on the folded ballot paper. Those 21 did not affect the result as 2 were for Vardon and none for Crosby. There were 185 votes that were rejected because they had not been initialled. Had these votes been valid, Vardon's majority of 2 would have been a minority of 4. Barton J held that the missing 9,000 votes were not shown to involve errors that would have been sufficient to affect the seats of Senator Sir Josiah Symon and Senator Russell. The identified errors by Returning Officers did however affected the outcome of the election for the third seat. On 1 June 1907 Barton J declared the election of Vardon to have been absolutely void, by reference to s205(iii) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902.

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04/07/17 9:18:08 AM
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Kelystic posted...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident


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04/07/17 9:19:06 AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blundell_v_Vardon
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04/07/17 9:19:25 AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack

Vantablack is a substance made of vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays[1] and is the blackest artificial substance known, absorbing up to 99.965% of radiation in the visible spectrum.[2][3]

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Error1355
04/07/17 9:32:57 AM
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San Cristobal Wash

The San Cristobal Wash is an ephemeral wash and watercourse of the San Cristobal Valley, flowing north into the Gila River Valley of the southwestern desert region of Arizona. Besides Death Valley, the Chihuahuan Desert area, and regions of Baja Peninsula North America, the southeast California deserts along the Lower Colorado River Valley, this drainage region is in the harshest desert regions of North America.

The wash flows northwesterly with the alignment of the northwest-southeast trending mountains and valleys of the former Basin and Range mountain ranges. The washes and arroyos combine into the San Cristobal Wash which enters the San Cristobal Valley at the south. The wash ends its watercourse one third of the way into the valley, and disappears about 8 miles (13 km) south of the Gila River. The majority of the wash lies in the southeast of Yuma County, but southeast drainages from the Growler Valley area drain extreme western Pima County.

Southern portions of the San Cristobal Wash extend to the southern ends of two valleys and the drainage bifurcates, draining the Mohawk Valley southeasterly on the west and the southern-(south-flowing into headwaters of San Cristobal Wash), Growler Valley, on the east.

Drainages going northwest combine from the southeast into the San Cristobal Wash: the Growler Wash from the Growler Valley east of the Granite Mountains (Arizona), and east of there the Daniels Arroyo, which flows adjacent to the Tenmile Wash Drainage in the Childs Valley of southern Arizona, Pima County. The Tenmile Wash Drainage is the next upstream drainage on the south, to the Gila River-(before the Gila makes its turn from the north).

Downstream, the next and last watershed drainage for the Gila River is the Lower Gila Watershed. The southeast border of the San Cristobal drainage is the Tule Desert Drainage, where the Tule Desert (Arizona) has a drainage south into Sonora, Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Cristobal_Wash
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Error1355
04/07/17 9:40:09 AM
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PHB2

Prohibitin-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PHB2 gene.

Interactions
PHB2 has been shown to interact with PTMA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHB2
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DelianSK
04/07/17 9:44:14 AM
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Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land is a young adult novel written by Stratemeyer Syndicate writers using the pen name Victor Appleton. It is Volume 10 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap. The novel is notable for inspiring the name of the Taser



PLOT
While Tom Swift is working on his latest new invention, the electric rifle, he meets an African safari master whose stories of elephant hunting sends the group off to deepest, darkest Africa. Hunting for ivory is the least of their worries, as they find out some old friends are being held hostage by the fearsome tribes of the red pygmies.

Swift builds two major inventions in this volume. The first is a replacement airship, known as The Black Hawk. This new airship is to replace The Red Cloud, which was destroyed during his adventures in Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice. This airship is of the same general construction as The Red Cloud, but is smaller and more maneuverable.

Of foremost notice is Swift's invention of the electric rifle, a gun which fires bolts of electricity. The electric rifle can be calibrated to different levels of range, intensity and lethality; it can shoot through solid walls without leaving a hole, and is powerful enough to kill a rampaging whale, as in their steamer trek to Africa. With the electric rifle, Tom and friends bring down elephants, rhinoceroses, and buffalo, and save their lives several times in pitched battle with the red pygmies. It also can discharge a globe of light that was described as being able to maintain itself, like ball lightning, making hunting at night much safer in the dark of Africa. In appearance, the rifle looked very much like contemporary conventional rifles.





Although the book exists in a historical context, a modern reading reveals bold racism in the plot.

In the book, the black people are rendered as either passive, simple and childlike, or animalistic and capable of unimaginable violence. They are described in the book at various points as “hideous in their savagery, wearing only the loin cloth, and with their kinky hair stuck full of sticks”, and as “wild, savage and ferocious ... like little red apes”."
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Error1355
04/07/17 9:52:20 AM
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Libya at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Libya (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Athletics
Men's Marathon

Mohamed Khamis Taher -> 75th place (2:35.46)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya_at_the_1992_Summer_Olympics
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JJWatt
04/07/17 9:56:23 AM
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayingolin_Mongol_Autonomous_Prefecture

Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, often abbreviated to Bayingol (literally "rich river"),[1] is an autonomous prefecture of the People's Republic of China, bordering Gansu to the east, Qinghai to the southeast, and the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south. It is the largest prefecture-level division nationally, with an area of 462,700 km2 (178,600 sq mi), even larger than its neighbouring province of Gansu. The prefectural capital is Korla.
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DelianSK
04/07/17 10:17:38 AM
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Chunking is a method of presenting information which splits concepts into small pieces or "chunks" of information to make reading and understanding faster and easier. Chunking is especially useful for material presented on the web because readers tend to scan for specific information on a web page rather than read the page sequentially.

Chunked content usually contains:

bulleted lists
short subheadings
short sentences with one or two ideas per sentence
short paragraphs, even one-sentence paragraphs
easily scannable text, with bolding of key phrases
inline graphics to guide the eyes or illustrate points which would normally require more words


Advantages of chunking

Chunking helps technical communicators or marketers convey information more efficiently
Chunking helps readers find what they are looking for quickly
Chunking allows material to be presented consistently from page to page, so users can apply previous knowledge of page layout and navigation and focus on the content rather than the presentation
The bite, snack and meal is a popular phrase for a specific means of chunking content.
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Error1355
04/07/17 10:29:11 AM
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Cause of action

In the law, a cause of action is a set of facts sufficient to justify a right to sue to obtain money, property, or the enforcement of a right against another party. The term also refers to the legal theory upon which a plaintiff brings suit (such as breach of contract, battery, or false imprisonment). The legal document which carries a claim is often called a Statement of Claim in English law, or a Complaint in U.S. federal practice and in many U.S. states. It can be any communication notifying the party to whom it is addressed of an alleged fault which resulted in damages, often expressed in amount of money the receiving party should pay/reimburse.

To pursue a cause of action, a plaintiff pleads or alleges facts in a complaint, the pleading that initiates a lawsuit. A cause of action generally encompasses both the legal theory (the legal wrong the plaintiff claims to have suffered) and the remedy (the relief a court is asked to grant). Often the facts or circumstances that entitle a person to seek judicial relief may create multiple causes of action. Although it is fairly straightforward to file a Statement of Claim in most jurisdictions, if it is not done properly, then the filing party may lose his case due to simple technicalities.

There are a number of specific causes of action, including: contract-based actions; statutory causes of action; torts such as assault, battery, invasion of privacy, fraud, slander, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress; and suits in equity such as unjust enrichment and quantum meruit.

The points a plaintiff must prove to win a given type of case are called the "elements" of that cause of action. For example, for a claim of negligence, the elements are: the (existence of a) duty, breach (of that duty), proximate cause (by that breach), and damages. If a complaint does not allege facts sufficient to support every element of a claim, the court, upon motion by the opposing party, may dismiss the complaint for failure to state a claim for which relief can be granted.

The defendant to a cause of action must file an "Answer" to the complaint in which the claims can be admitted or denied (including denial on the basis of insufficient information in the complaint to form a response). The answer may also contain counterclaims in which the "Counterclaim Plaintiff" states its own causes of action. Finally, the answer may contain affirmative defenses. Most defenses must be raised at the first possible opportunity either in the answer or by motion or are deemed waived. A few defenses, in particular a court's lack of subject matter jurisdiction, need not be pleaded and may be raised at any time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cause_of_action
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