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Marc Krickbaum

Marc Luther Krickbaum (born 1979) is an American attorney who was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa from 2017 to 2021.

Education
Krickbaum received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and political science with highest distinction and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa in 2001 and a Juris Doctor cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2006. Between college and law school, he taught English in Tokyo. During law school, Krickbaum worked at Mayer Brown in Chicago, at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, and for professors Jack Goldsmith and Michael Sandel, and for the Civil Appellate Staff of the United States Department of Justice. He was also a finalist in the Ames Moot Court Competition and won awards for best brief and best oralist.

Krickbaum is married to Katherine, an Assistant Attorney General at the Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, and has one daughter.

Legal career
After graduating from Harvard, Krickbaum clerked for Steven Colloton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and Mark Filip of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He then served as counsel to the Deputy Attorney General from 2008 to 2009 and as a trial attorney in the Civil Division in 2009. From 2009 to 2013 and again from 2016 to 2017, Krickbaum was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. From 2013 to 2016, he worked as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa. In his time as an AUSA, Krickbaum argued seventeen times before the Seventh and Eighth Circuits and assisted in the prosecution of Rod Blagojevich.

After being nominated to become U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa by President Donald Trump, Krickbaum was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on September 14, 2017. He was sworn into office on October 2, 2017. He resigned on January 7, 2021.

In July 2021, Krickbaum joined Winston & Strawn in Chicago as a partner.

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University of Bandundu

The University of Bandundu (UB) is a public university in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the province of Bandundu, city of Bandundu. At its creation, it was an extension of the University of Kinshasa, then called University Centre of Bandundu (C.U.B.). As of 2012 it had 800 students in six faculties. Instruction is in French.

History
The University was created 1 October 2004 as Bandundu Center University(C.U.B.), extension of the University of Kinshasa, and became autonomous in 2010 following Ministerial order No. 157/MINESU/CABMIN/EBK/PK/2010 27 September 2010.

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A.P.C. Mahalakshmi College for Women

A.P.C. Mahalaxmi College for Women, is a women's general degree college located in Thoothukudi, Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu. It was established in the year 1973. The college is affiliated with Manonmaniam Sundaranar University. This college offers different courses in arts, commerce and science.

Science

 * Physics
 * Chemistry
 * Mathematics
 * Zoology
 * Physics
 * Computer Science

Arts and Commerce

 * Tamil
 * English
 * History
 * Commerce

Accreditation
The college is recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC).

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How to Write an Essay/AP/Introduction

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AP (Advanced Placement) courses allow high school students to take and get credit for college-level classes. To get credit for a course, a student must pass the AP test. Unfortunately, not all colleges and universities in the US accept AP tests, and some may have their own independent exams. The AP is prepared by Collegeboard and their buddies at ETS (I think), also the writers of such tests as the SAT and PSAT. Courses cover a wide range of subjects, including Spanish, Calculus, English, Chemistry, and History.
 * Explanation of the AP program

 * Types of essays

1. Agree or Disagree 2. Author's attitude, tone, or point of view 3. Analyze effect 4. Author's purpose 5. General statement about society or human nature 6. Comparison/Contrast

Sources to use

 * AP Central

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Ritsumeikan Uji Junior and Senior High School

Ritsumeikan Uji Junior and Senior High School (立命館宇治中学校・高等学校) (also known as Rits Uji) is a private school located in the city of Uji south of Kyoto, Japan. The high school opened in 1994 and the middle school opened in 2003. It is currently one of four junior and senior high schools affiliated with Ritsumeikan University. The Ritsumeikan family of schools also includes Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, located in Beppu, and Ritsumeikan Primary School, located in north Kyoto.

The school is noted for its English language education programs and athletic achievement. The school introduced English immersion education in 2000, and in 2002, was designated a Super English Language (SEL) high school by the Japanese government. In 2009, the school was authorized by the IBO as the first Article 1 (government approved) Japanese institution in the Kansai region to provide the IB Diploma Program (IBDP). In 2014, the school was selected as a Super Global High School by the Japanese government, and in 2019 a World-Wide Learning (WWL) Hub School, both of which earned the school sizable supplementary grants.

In athletics, the school has a rich history of success in women's Ekiden relays, including multiple national championships. It also has had national level success in men's soccer, American football, baton twirling, baseball, and other sports.

Junior high school
The junior high school consists of five home rooms per grade year and has between 160 and 170 students per grade. Like the high school, the junior high school is known for its English language achievement and international-friendly environment. Roughly a quarter of all students have experience studying abroad and/or have English as a native language. The school offers four levels of English A1, A2, A3, and Regular. Most of the A1 students take part in the International Preparatory Stream (IPS), which prepares students to matriculate to the school's English language IBDP course.

Junior high school students are expected to take part in one of the school's many sports and culture clubs so as to experience a full school life of study and club. While the majority of students are Japanese, the school welcomes students with Japanese as a second language and offers JSL classes to students who require such support.

High school
The high school was the second affiliated high school established within the Ritsumeikan Academy. In each grade, there are approximately 350 to 360 students. Students select one of three courses, the Integrated Global Course (IG), the Immersion Course (IM), or the International Baccalaureate Course (IB).

IG Course
The IG Course is the largest course in the school. The language of instruction is Japanese. All students also take English classes according to their level, and French, German, and Chinese language classes are also available. IG students select either the Science Career Stream or the Global Career Stream.

The majority of students in the IG Course matriculate to one of the Ritsumeikan University campuses, though a minority matriculate to other schools in Japan. Therefore, the IG Course is a primarily a feeder course for Ritsumeikan University and Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.

IM Course
The IM course offers blended English and Japanese instruction and is designed for students who wish to become fluent in English in high school. First year coursework is in both languages, and from midway through their first year students go abroad to study for a whole academic year either in either Canada, Australia, or New Zealand. For their senior year, the bulk of classes are in English. Many IM students matriculate at Ritsumeikan University, while others chose schools in the Tokyo region. A small number of students from the IM Course elect to study overseas for university.

IB Course
Authorized by the IBO in 2009, the IB course has around 25 to 30 students per grade. All classes are taught in English by native-level speakers with the exception of Japanese language and literature classes. First-year classes prepare students for the challenge of the IB Diploma, and in the second and third year students study IB Diploma classes of their choice. The IB Course offers students the opportunity to earn a dual degree: the universally recognized IB Diploma as well as a standard Japanese high school diploma. Around half of the students matriculate internally from the junior high school, and the other half enter from other Japanese junior high schools or schools overseas.

The majority of students in the IB course chose typically choose to study at universities other than Ritsumeikan University. Historically, approximately half of the graduates have gone to study overseas and half have remained in Japan. The IB Course regularly achieves marks well above the world norm, with multiple students earning outstanding scores of over 40 (out of 45) in the IBDP. In 2012, one student achieved a rare perfect 45.

IB Diploma subjects include:
 * Group 5: Japanese A Literature SL/HL, English Literature SL/HL, English Language and Literature SL/HL
 * Group 4: Japanese B SL/HL, English B SL/HL
 * Group 3: Global Issues SL/HL, Business SL/HL, Economics SL/HL
 * Group 2: Physics SL/HL, Chemistry SL/HL, Biology SL/HL
 * Group 1: Mathematics SL/HL
 * Group 0: Art SL/HL

High School Dorm-Firits House
High school students can choose to live in the school's dormitory, known as Firits House. The dormitory is fully equipped for student living and is located 20 minutes from the school by bus in the town of Uji. The dormitory has the capacity to house 380 students. Many of the students in the dormitory are either in athletics or the IB Course, as students come from around the country and the world for the school's outstanding offerings in these areas.

Sports Festival（体育祭）
The school holds a traditional Japanese sports festivals every May. The entire school population participates in either the junior high or high school festival, which this is one of the most exciting and memorable events of the school year.

Kofusai(興風祭)
The school holds a culture festival, known as Kofusai every September over several days. This festival showcases student creativity in many areas such as song and dance, calligraphy, and dramatic performance. All students decorate their home room according to a theme they choose, and Kofusai is well attended by parents and friends.

Choir Competition
The choir competition is held by junior high school students in November, and features all classes competing against each other the school auditorium. Students prepare for weeks for this big event, which is well attended by parents.

Matriculation
As noted above, the majority of students from Ritsumeikan Uji matriculate at either Ritsumeikan University or Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, while a healthy minority attend other Japanese private, public, and national universities, as well American, British, Canadian, Australian and other overseas universities. The school has placed students at leading universities and colleges around the world including Brown University, Dartmouth College, Amherst College, Imperial College London, King's College London, Leiden University, the University of Melbourne, the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, Waseda University, Sophia University, Osaka University, and many others.

High school
Culture Clubs:

 * Art and Literature
 * Art
 * Brass Band
 * Broadcasting
 * Calligraphy
 * Drama
 * Flower Arrangement
 * International Challenge Club (ICC)
 * Photography
 * Natural Science/Robotics
 * Tea Ceremony

Athletic Clubs:

 * American Football
 * Baseball
 * Basketball (Boys'/Girls')
 * Badminton (Boys'/Girls')
 * Baton Twirling
 * Cheerleading
 * Dance
 * Handball
 * Japanese Swordsmanship
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 * Rugby
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Mabel Sharman Crawford

Mabel Sharman Crawford (3 June 1820 – 14 February 1912), was an Irish adventurer, feminist and writer.

Life
She was born Mabel Sharman Crawford on 3 June 1820 in Dublin to William Sharman M.P. and his wife Mabel Frideswid Crawford, a younger daughter in a large family. Her parents took the each other's surnames becoming William and Mabel Sharman Crawford.

Sharman Crawford was an adventurer who liked to travel and took careful notes wherever she went. When she returned from a trip to Tuscany she wrote about it and published it as a book. She did the same with a trip to Algeria. Her charity work with her sisters during the Irish famine informed her views of the places she saw. Sharman Crawford was also a feminist who did not hesitate to call out where she saw sexist whether in the cultures through which she travelled or in her own.

Sharman Crawford was a member of the National Society for Women's Suffrage as a central committee member. She researched into the subject of sentences and actions taken against men who beat their wives and used the results to write the article Maltreatment of Wives for the Westminster Review 139 in 1893. She was also an proponent of the Rational Dress Society.

Mabel Sharman Crawford died 14 February 1912 in Middlesex, England.

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Cookbook:Milk

| Dairy

Milk is a nutritious liquid produced by mammals. The milk of some mammals, particularly cows, goats, sheep, and buffalo, is collected for human consumption. It may be consumed either directly, usually after pasteurization, or processed into dairy products such as cream, butter, yogurt, ice cream, or cheese. In English, the term 'milk' used alone almost always refers to cow's milk.

Storage
When raw animal milk is left standing for a while, it turns sour. This is the result of fermentation: lactic acid bacteria naturally present in raw animal milk turn the animal milk sugar into lactic acid. This fermentation process is exploited in the production of various dairy products.

Pasteurized animal milk does not have these bacteria, so instead of souring it will putrefy if kept unrefrigerated, and should be stored between 1 and 4 C. The putrefaction of animal milk can be forestalled by using ultra-high temperature (UHT, also known as ultra-pasteurization) treatment; animal milk so treated can be stored unrefrigerated for several months until opened.

Fat content
Milk from different mammals has different fat contents. Fresh milk may be processed to modify the fat content in various ways prior to consumption. In many countries, commercially available cow's milk is classified by fat content.

USA

 * Skim/no fat milk: 0-0.5% milk fat
 * Low fat milk: 1% milk fat
 * Reduced fat milk: 2% milk fat
 * Whole milk: 4% milk fat

Processing
Milk is commercially available in many forms. These include powdered dried milk, evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, and shelf-stable milk.

Milk can be processed into cream, butter, yogurt, ice cream, or cheese.

Dietary tolerance
Lactose in animal milk is digested with the help of the enzyme lactase produced by the bodies of infants. In humans, production of lactase falls off in adulthood, in many cases to the point where lactose becomes indigestible, leading to lactose intolerance, a gastrointestinal condition that afflicts many.

Casein is the main protein in animal milk, and is particularly concentrated in cheese made with animal milk. Whey is the other major protein in animal milk, and is separated from casein in the manufacturing process of cheese made with animal milk. Both proteins can provoke undesirable symptoms in some people, although casein intolerance is more widely recognised and is often connected with gluten intolerance and coeliac disease.

Terminology
The term 'milk' is also used to refer to white or off-white creamy liquids made from plants. These include soy milk, rice milk, almond milk, oat milk, hemp milk, coconut milk, and banana milk. These can either be made at home or bought commercially; they rarely include any animal milk by-products, and so can be eaten by those who can't digest lactose or casein. Plant milks can sometimes be substituted for animal milk in recipes, although they may impact the flavour or texture of the resulting dish. Plant milks should be refrigerated, especially after opening, and used within a few days.

Uses
Milk possesses the ability to reduce the perceived spiciness level of some spicy foods thanks to the casein which binds with capsaicin oil and then carries it away.

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Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright

Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright PC, DL, JP, FRS (20 October 1840 – 9 January 1903), known before his elevation to the peerage in 1895 as Baron Henry de Worms, was a British Conservative politician.

Background and education
Henry de Worms was born in London on 20 October 1840, the third son of Solomon Benedict de Worms (1801–1882). His father owned large plantations in Ceylon and was made a Hereditary Baron of the Austrian Empire by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. His mother was Henrietta Samuel (d.1845), daughter of Samuel Moses Samuel. His siblings were George de Worms, 2nd Baron de Worms (1829–1902), Anthony Mayer de Worms (1830–1864), and Ellen Henrietta de Worms (born 1836).

Both on his father′s side and on his mother′s side he belonged to wealthy mercantile families. His paternal grandmother was Schönche Jeannette Rothschild (1771–1859), thus his paternal great-grandfather was Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty. As a result, his paternal great-granduncles were Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773–1855), Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774–1855), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836), Carl Mayer von Rothschild (1788–1855), and James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868). His uncles, who owned plantations in Ceylon with his father, were Maurice Benedict de Worms (1805–1867) and Gabriel Benedict de Worms (1802–1881). His maternal grandfather was a West Indian merchant, whose fortune Lord Pirbright inherited indirectly through his uncle George Samuel.

He was educated at King's College London. He was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1863, and became a fellow of King's College in the same year.

Political career
De Worms served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Greenwich from 1880 to 1885 and for Liverpool East Toxteth from 1885 to 1895 and held office under Lord Salisbury as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1886 to 1888 and as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1888 to 1892.

He was British Plenipotentiary and President of the Conference on Sugar Bounties in 1888, and later served as a Commissioner for the Patriotic Fund. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1888 and raised to the peerage as Baron Pirbright, of Pirbright in the County of Surrey, in 1895. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1889.

His publications include England's Policy in the East, The Earth and its Mechanism, The Austro-Hungarian Empire and Memoirs of Count Beust.

Lord Pirbright died at his residence in London on 9 January 1903, aged 62.

Family
De Worms married first, in 1864, Franziska "Fanny" von Todesco (1846–1922), eldest daughter of Eduard von Todesco, of Vienna. They had three daughters:
 * Hon. Alice Henrietta Antoinette Evelina de Worms (1865–1952); married 1st in 1886 John Henry Boyer Warner (d. 1891), of Quorn Hall, Loughborough and Kepwick Park, Northallerton; married 2nd in 1892 David McLaren Morrison; and left several daughters by her second husband.
 * Hon. Dora Sophia Emily de Worms (1869–?)
 * Hon. Constance Valérie Sophie de Worms (1875–1963); married in 1895 Count Maximilian of Löwenstein-Scharffeneck, a nephew of Wilhelm, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg. They had several children, including Hubertus, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, and she was thus the grandmother of Prince Rupert Loewenstein, manager of the rock band The Rolling Stones.

He divorced his first wife in 1886, and married secondly in 1887 Sarah Phillips, daughter of Sir Benjamin Samuel Phillips, and sister of Sir George Faudel Phillips, 1st Baronet. Both her father and her brother served as Lord Mayors of London.

Born Jewish, he was an active member of the Jewish community until he married a Christian woman. He then dissociated himself entirely from Judaism, and was buried at the Christian cemetery of St. Mark's in Wyke, Surrey.

The barony became extinct on his death as he had no sons. His second wife Lady Pirbright died in November 1914.

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Feminism in Taiwan

Taiwan has a complex history of feminist and women's rights movements with periods of progressiveness where feminism and strong female icons flourished and periods of strict authoritarianism where equality and individual rights were devalued. Thanks in part to the work of generations of feminists, Taiwan is nowadays one of the most gender-equal countries in Asia, consistently ranking higher than its East Asian neighbors in international indices on gender equality (6th globally according to Gender Inequality Index in 2019 and 29th globally according to the government's own calculation based on the Gender Gap Index in 2020).

The Japanese colonial period (1910s to 1945)
At the beginning of Japanese Colonial Rule, the government was in some ways more progressive than Taiwanese society. The Bureau of Social Education in the Japanese colonial government proposed policies to curb abuse and trafficking of adopted daughters, specifically to strengthen protection of such children and launch campaigns to raise awareness of such issues. In the same period, elimination of foot-binding was announced by the Japanese government in 1914. During the 1920s, the colonial government was relatively tolerant of political dissent, allowing the first autonomous women’s movement in Taiwanese history to flourish.

Autonomous Women’s Movement in the 1920s
Throughout the 1920s, progressive Taiwanese intellectuals and students published numerous articles to raise awareness on women's issues in the Taiwanese society. In 1921, fearing Japanese assimilation, the Taiwanese Cultural Association, a Taiwan petition movement demanding the formation of a local parliament, was founded. Many intellectuals traveled through Taiwan to raise public awareness about women’s rights and labor-related issues. Additionally, they opposed the trafficking of women and advocated for gender equality and universal suffrage. According to Doris Chang, the goal of the movements was to achieve the emancipation of Taiwanese women from colonial domination, patriarchal oppression, and capital exploitation.

As the New Culture movement occurred in China from 1915 to 1923, raising awareness of modern culture to replace the concepts of certain Confucian conducts, Taiwanese intellectuals were influenced by progressive ideas and eventually launched Taiwan's own New Culture Movement in the 1920s. During the movement, articles challenged the inferiority of women in the traditional Confucian system, stating that Heaven provided equality among both men and women, and advocated human rights. Intellectuals reinterpreted the concept of heaven and legitimized men and women’s common humanity and gender equity. Such new culture advocates also advocated women’s independence in marriage and family. A female intellectual, Su Yi-chen, urged women to resist any marriage coercion where parents force their daughters into unwanted marriages. She believed that marriages should be done freely between two individuals based on mutual respect and opinions.

Thus, from the 1920s to 1931, enhancement of gender equality and women’s status was promoted on Taiwan’s social and political grounds, including revisions to certain concepts in Confucianism.

Due to the industrialization in Taiwan in the mid-1920s, labor disputes increased between Japanese capitalists and Taiwanese laborers. Mostly female strikers protested against undesirable working conditions, unequal wages between men and women and more. Left-wing organizations such as the Taiwan Farmers’ Union and the Taiwan Communist Party promoted women’s rights, meanwhile regularly giving speeches awakening women farm laborers to unite with male laborers to go against Japanese capitalists. Such movements were helped by the Taiwan Cultural Association which in fact led to a military strategy for achieving independence from the Japanese empire in 1928.

While some autonomous women’s associations have succeeded in their movements, many feminist activists were aware of capitalists’ exploitation of women laborers. Compared with the revolutionary goals of the Taiwan Farmers’ Union and the Taiwan Communist Party, the goals of certain autonomous women’s associations were relatively moderate and reformist. Apart from promoting women workers’ rights and feminist movements in Taiwan, they enhanced in exchange of ideas and knowledge, also providing emotional supports among members between several association groups.

Ultimately, autonomous women’s organizations in colonial Taiwan were relatively short-lived due to intervention of the Japanese colonial government, which in the 1930s started suppressing left-wing women’s movements and social and political organizations that supported them such as the Taiwan Cultural Association and Taiwan Communist Party.

Government-affiliated Women’s Organizations
While autonomous women’s movements were suppressed, the government-affiliated women’s organizations in Japan as well as in its colonies flourished during Japan’s military expansion. Government-affiliated women’s associations such as the Patriotic Women’s Association, which was created as early as 1901, were in charge of consoling wounded military soldiers. Apart from supporting the troops and their families, members of the Association have also functioned as an institution for the colonial government to reinforce Taiwanese women’s identification with the Japanese nation. This identification includes fulfilling their “patriotic duties” by contributing their labor in industries and factories. In 1942, the Great Japan Women’s Association was created in northern Taiwan in order to eliminate unnecessary government-affiliated organizations and merge them as a whole new Great Japan Women’s Association. While adult women joined the Great Japan Women’s Association, Taiwanese high school girls were encouraged to join the Girl’s Youth Corps where some volunteered as nurses during the Pacific War.

The 1950s and 1960s (The early period of the rule of the ROC in Taiwan, including the White Terror)
After the Japanese defeat in World War 2 in 1945, when the Kuomintang gained control of Taiwan, rates of female workforce participation and functional literacy were higher in Taiwan than in mainland China. The political climate however, became increasingly repressive after the brutal crackdown on Taiwanese protestors in 1947. Having fled to Taiwan in 1948/1949, the government enacted martial law, under which civil liberties guaranteed in the constitution such as freedom of speech and freedom of assembly where severely restricted and political dissidents punished harshly. The following decades of hard authoritarian rule known as the “White Terror” were not conductive to the development of an autonomous women’s movement. While Government associated woman’s organizations worked to ensure female education on one hand, they reinforced traditional Confucian gender roles on the other. These gender roles were further emphasized through public education and mass media.

As the Taiwanese economy grew and industrialized in the 60s and 70s, the number of women in the workforce kept increasing, reaching 41,5% in 1973 (from 32.6 in 1966). Especially unmarried women were encouraged by the government to participate in the workforce. However, after they married and bore children many women left the workplace to take care of the children and their in-laws. This was due to traditional societal expectations, a lack of social support systems and a lack of opportunity to pursue careers in a male-dominated workplace. Even though laws passed by the KMT back in the 1930s, when it ruled China, formally guaranteed equal pay for equal work and paid maternity leave, these laws were not always followed in practice.

The 1970s
Although martial law was still active, the 1970s saw a weakening of authoritarian control in Taiwan, which gave rise to political opposition and various social movements.

Annette Lu is considered the founder of feminist thinking in modern Taiwan and established the first formal women's-rights movement in 1972. Like many other prominent activists of the time, she was a highly educated member of the middle class who had studied abroad. After completing her law studies at National Taiwan University as first of her class, she had accepted a scholarship at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where she encountered American feminism. After attaining her degree in 1971, she returned to Taiwan for a high-ranking government job.

Lu’s activism was first triggered by two ongoing debates in Taiwanese society: the first concerned a Taiwanese man who had murdered his wife in the US and fled to Taiwan, whom many defended publicly on the grounds that his wife might have cheated. The second was the rising number of female college applicants, which increased competition for college spots and led some to demand formal privileges for men. Lu’s articles vehemently criticized the dehumanization of the murdered wife and argued for fair competition between men and women for college spots.

In the following years, “Lu openly criticized male supremacy, parental preference for male offspring, double moral standards and inequality embedded in both family law and nationality law.” Double moral standards especially included the demand of female chastity, while male unfaithfulness was widespread and accepted. In 1974, she published her first theoretical book on feminism, named New Feminism. She argued that “gender differences ought to be diminished in their social roles and believed that individuals ought to have the option of remaining unmarried”, but she never went as far as criticizing the institution of marriage or the role of women in the family, emphasizing that taking care of the family was women’s “divine role”, nor did she openly support homosexuality. This very moderate feminism is the reason why she was able to disseminate her ideas in a conservative society under a repressive government.

In institutionalizing her ideas through various organizations, however, Lu faced conservative backlash and government censorship. In 1976, she founded the Pioneer Press in Taibei, which published fifteen books by prominent feminist thinkers in just one year, before having to close due to backlash in 1977. After delivering a twenty-minute keynote address during the Kaohsiung Incident in 1979, Lu was arrested, court-martialled and sentenced to twelve years in prison. She served five-and-a-half years and was released in 1985. She would later serve as the Vice President of the Republic of China between 2000 and 2008.

Despite the repressive political and social climate, Lu had successfully managed to disseminate her very moderate feminist ideas to educated middle class women, ensuring the continuation of the feminist movement into the 1980s.

The 1980s
Annette Lu was a leading figure of the feminist movement in Taiwan in the 1970s. Lee Yuan-chen, one of her associates, became a leading figure in the 1980s. Born in Kunming on the Chinese mainland, Lee's family moved to Taipei in 1949. She was an educated woman, having studied at the National Taiwan University’s Chinese Literature department, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in 1968 and a master’s degree in 1970. After graduating she started working in a teaching position at Tamkang University. She married a classmate and while their marriage was egalitarian at first, this changed after the birth of their child. Pushed into a traditional female role, she divorced her husband, went to the United States and enrolled at the University of Oregon. She became familiar with several feminist ideologies, which continued to influence her after her return to Taiwan in 1976.

After Lu’s imprisonment, Lee and several other associates founded the Awakening Publishing House in 1982. Its goals were to enable women to take sole control of their financial and emotional independence. It remained the only non-government affiliated group to challenge existing hierarchy and stand in for gender equality until the lifting of martial law in 1987. The monthly magazine Awakening dominated feminist discourse in the 1980s and Awakening Publishing House became an important gathering point for feminist activities, similar to Lu’s Pioneer Press in the previous decade. Awakening Publishing House’s role in the Taiwanese feminist movement would remain of great importance until the early 1990s.

The feminists belonging to Awakening Publishing House stood for a gender-egalitarian society. In this society, occupation should be determined by talents and interests rather than gender. Additionally, both men and women should be able to express themselves freely without the need to adhere to gender specific roles. To achieve this, they found communication and a mutual understanding between men and women to be a key factor. Awakening engaged in organizing or participating in workshops and panel discussions. By ensuring these events were covered by the media, they hoped to transfer these discussions from a public space into homes in Taiwan. They continued to face difficulties as women started to engage in male-dominated major affairs i.e. issues regarding politics or finance set in a public space. However, men were very reluctant to take over female-dominated minor affairs such as housework. Besides communication between men and women, Lee urged women to also discuss amongst themselves and support each other. This mutual support was especially important in dividing the responsibility for child upbringing, freeing up time to go to work, do voluntary service and participate in a public social life. Furthermore childcare should no longer be solely a responsibility of women. Instead both parents should divide time between them and childcare centers should enable women to return to work.

Following the end of martial law in 1987 and the democratization of Taiwanese society, feminist thought flourished in the 1990s and many legal aims of feminist organizations were achieved. This includes children being able to inherit women's last names, women being allowed to live without their husbands, and equal rights for women in divorce proceedings.

Late 1990s to now
In late 1990s, the feminist groups in Taiwan became more diverse and were reaching into more social issues like the division of household labour and the decriminalization of adultery. At the same time, inner differences started to appear, with certain groups deliberately distancing themselves from the feminist movement, and feminist opinions diverging on certain issues. The following section will cover in detail the development of feminist discourse and legislation within certain topics.

Sex Industry
In 1987, the Huaxi Street Parade in Taipei City, which cared for young prostitutes, and the ensuing controversy over the abolition of public prostitution brought to the fore the contradiction between the positions of "sexual liberation" and "sexual criticism" in the women's movement circle.

On September 4, 1997, the Taipei City Government announced the abolition of the "Management Measures for Prostitution" and the suspension of issuing licenses for prostitution. From the 6th, a full ban on prostitution was implemented. On the eve before the abolition of the "Prostitution Management Measures" was announced by the city government, on September 1, more than a hundred public prostitutes in Taipei City made a petition to the city government and the city council, hoping that the city government can suspend the abolition of prostitution, using the "two-year buffer" as the main appeal. Various feminist organizations, among them the Awakening foundation, came forward to support the demands of the prostitutes.

Supporting the abolition of prostitution, there were women's groups in Taipei that specialize in rescuing young prostitutes, such as the Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation and the Lixin Foundation. Both believed that the prostitution industry does not respect women's personality and exploits women, and should be abolished. Among them, Lin Fangmei believed that women are victims of the sex industry, and advocates that the sex industry and clients should be regulated, prostitution should be decriminalized, and that prostitution should not be punished. Shen Meizhen, who was engaged in the rescue of young prostitutes, believed that "the prostitution system violates human dignity and value", and the government should guide public prostitutes to change jobs.

Josephine Ho took the viewpoint of sexual liberation. She believed that sex work can also be a kind of selective liberation of the subject, demanding more appropriate working conditions for prostitutes. Wang Fangping of the Women Workers Unite Production Line believed that the middle-class women's movement ignores the livelihood of prostitutes, "Illegalizing prostitution does not mean banning prostitution, it just makes the sex trade move completely underground, and at the same time gives up all opportunities to protect the labor rights of prostitutes."

In the end, public prostitutes took advantage of the Mayor election of Taipei City in 1998 to support Ma Ying-jeou in the mayoral election campaign. After Ma Ying-jeou was elected mayor, he brought the case forward again, and finally won a two-year grace period for the abolition of prostitution.

To this day, gender groups and women’s activists still have different positions on sex workers, but most of them sympathize with sex workers and agree that prostitutes should not be punished. The attitude of society as a whole towards the sex industry is gradually opening up, and there are guided tours of the history and culture of the sex industry from time to time. In 2020, under the impact of the epidemic, the livelihood of many sex workers will be greatly affected, and at the same time, they will bear the stigma of causing the expansion of the epidemic. However, there is an association legal person Taiwan Sex Industry Workers' Rights Promotion Association, which is concerned about the situation of sex industry workers.

Right to work
After the 1970s, Taiwan’s economy grew, and the female labor force participation rate gradually increased, but the distribution of economic achievements was uneven. By 1989, the female labor remuneration rate was only 50%-70% of that of males. When women entered the workplace, they encountered gender discrimination in the process of recruitment, promotion, and retirement, and housework is also taken for granted.

In 1987, 57 female waiters at the National Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall in Taipei entrusted lawyers to ask for the abolition of the requirement that they must leave their jobs at the age of 30 or if they were pregnant. The institution replied:  “We are the highest cultural institution in the country. When receiving foreign guests, we must introduce noble cultural relics. The reception staff must be dignified, but women over 30 years old are old and pearly.” Such a reply made female employees and women’s groups quite dissatisfied, so they took to the streets and filed a complaint with the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall. But except for the 7th article of the constitution, which stipulates that "The people of the Republic of China, regardless of gender, are equal in law", they found no other relevant provisions based on which they could sue the Memorial Hall. Therefore, women's movement groups such as Awakening Foundation began to draft the "Gender Equality in Work Law". Finally, in 2001, the "Gender Equality in Work Law" was enacted to guarantee the equality of the right to work for both sexes. In 2007, it was amended as the Gender Equality Work Law to guarantee the equality of gender equality in work rights.

Prominent Taiwanese Feminists

 * Li Ang (writer) Feminist writer
 * Chen Hsiu-hui Feminist activist and politician
 * Fangge Dupan Feminist Poet
 * Josephine Ho Feminist scholar and activist
 * Huang Sue-ying Feminist activist and politician
 * Yenlin Ku Feminist involved in the women's movement in Taiwan
 * Annette Lu Feminist politician active in the Tangwai movement
 * Miss Ko Feminist singer-songwriter and rapper
 * Tina Pan Feminist politician and member of the Legislative Yuan from 1993 to 2002 and again from 2005 and 2016
 * Peng Wan-ru Feminist politician. Former director of the Democratic Progressive Party's Women's Affairs Department
 * Jolin Tsai Feminist singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and businesswoman
 * Wu Yi-chen Feminist lawyer and politician
 * Xie Xuehong Feminist activist and politician
 * Yang Fang-wan Feminist lawyer and politician

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Open Wide Music

The result was delete.  Sango 123  02:58, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Open Wide Music
non-notable band, does not meet criteria of WP:MUSIC - one independent release and a MySpace page. Stormie 02:01, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

-- After reviewing more documentation on Wikipedia, I believe I may have been in error when I posted the article. While the band has a fan base in the Greater Toronto Area and on the Internet, they may not not have had enough commercial success to warrant a Wikipedia article as of yet. The question is however: how many independent releases does a band need before they are immortalized with a Wikipedia page. In the history of music, there have been many bands which were obscure at the time that they were regularly performing.

Perhaps articles on independant bands who have had some commericial success but are largely unknown would be better suited to the proposed WikiMusic site.

I don't agree with the argument that a band with a MySpace profile is irrelevant. Many bands have profiles on the site because MySpace is inherently useful for promoting entertainers.

I don't have any control over whether my article stays or goes but I think it deserves posting in some sort of wiki-form somewhere. I posted the article because I know they had a large fan base and because I have heard instrumental tracks from their second album.

Thanks Stormie for opening my eyes a bit. I'm gonna read some more documentation before I do much else.

Codus 02:37, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. No harm done, Codus.  I do not think that Stormie was saying that having a MySpace profile makes a band irrelevant.  What Stormie was saying is that having a MySpace profile does not automatically make a band relevant.  If this band all of a sudden becomes popular outside of one small area, by all means make a Wikipedia article about it.  Until then, though I am going to have to maintain my vote of delete.  --דניאל talk  contribs   Email 03:32, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete I'm going to have to agree. --Chris Griswold 06:44, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete No assertion or proof otherwise of notability. Fails WP:MUSIC. Ryanminier 17:16, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

There are a ton of irrelevant articles on people with little or no notability. Search "independent musician" for comprehensive list. Asserting the notability of independent musicians seems like an exercise in futility. Most independent musicians with limited success are known only in their community. I don't have anything to lose from the article's deletion (other than time wasted), nor do I have anything to gain from it's acceptance. I wrote the article because I know the band has a following both in the GTA and on the Internet and therefore the likelihood that someone might search for information on the band on Wikipedia was good. It really is too bad that Wikipedia does not aim to collect information on all subjects, regardless of their overall relevance to the global community. Despite committment to notability, many wikipedia articles exist which list information about very obscure people.

Open Wide Music, like many artists in Canada, have yet to find commericial success on the scale comparible with American market, but they are not obscure in the culture of their city. In fact most Canadians bands are not well known until they break into the American market. Their lack of popularity outside their primary geographic location doesn't make them any less relevant to their fans. The only reason I am arguing for my article to stay is because I believe the band will generate a lot more fans upon the release of their second album which is likely going to be released in 2006. Once the band has a second independent release will they qualify for notability? Thanks for the taking time to participate in the discussion. Codus 19:21, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - per nom. Also, no reliable sources given.  Wickethewok 19:39, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Everyone except Danielrocks has barely commented other to say "Delete it". This isn't discussion. It's a witchhunt for pages that don't interest you. I'm starting to feel very unwelcome in the Wikipedian community since no one is taking the time to discuss the issues I've raised above. I came here to discuss the issue because this is a discussion page yet there is very little actual discussion going on. 21:23, 11 August 2006 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Codus (talk • contribs)
 * Comment. Codus, nobody wants you to feel unwelcome.  I believe that I speak on behalf of the entire Wikipedia community when I ask you to continue editing.  However, Open Wide Music clearly does not merit a Wikipedia page.  Generally, editors do not write long paragraphs on AfD discussions.  Rather, they write whether they feel it should be kept or deleted and briefly explain their opinion.  In addition, AfD is not a witchhunt for pages that do not interest us.  This is how we decide what pages deserve Wikipedia articles.  Don't be discouraged because this article will be deleted.  Instead, try working on other articles.  Once you get the hang of Wikipedia, you'll be less likely to make the same mistake.  --דניאל  Danielrocks123 talk  contribs   Email 21:50, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete WP:MUSIC is the guideline for whether or not a band is notable enough to be in Wikipedia.  Usually the most relevant parts of it for independent bands are nationwide touring, album release on notable indie or major labels, or being featured multiple times in the media.  A lot of bands end up in AfD discussions, and most are deleted based on these guidelines.  I haven't heard of any the bands so far that I have seen in AfD, yet I vote "keep" on any that meet any one guideline of WP:MUSIC.  Recreate the article when the band does tour Canada or has two albums on a significant label, and I'll certainly support keeping it.  And I agree with Danielrocks - hang in there and write about what you know.  --Joelmills 02:22, 12 August 2006 (UTC)


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Sergei Gaidukevich

Sergei Gaidukevich (Сяргей Гайдукевіч, Сергей Гайдукевич; born 8 September 1954, Minsk, Belarus) is a Belarusian politician. He was the Liberal Democratic Party candidate in the 2001, 2006, and 2015 elections for the office of President of Belarus. He was defeated in all attempts, since incumbent Alexander Lukashenko received an overwhelming majority of votes each time. He served as chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, from 1995 until September 2019, when he was succeeded by his son, Oleg Gaidukevich. He was then granted the title of Honorary Chairman at the 20th Congress of the Liberal Democratic Party. Gaidukevich has higher military education and served as an officer in the armed forces. Later he was a government functionary associated with various military issues.

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User:Balraj singh poonia

Balraj poonia Singh born(1976) australian Punjabi songwriter,social worker. He studied as chef,business management Certificates and done tyre business in his early life.

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Talk:Roscoe, Illinois

Important Notes Before Editing This Article
Please review the following to get a better idea of what you should add to this article:
 * 1) Please follow the Wikipedia USCITY guideline for layout and content.
 * 2) Please examine these great articles for ideas: Lock Haven, Pennsylvania / Stephens City, Virginia / Kent, Ohio / Tulsa, Oklahoma / Grand Forks, North Dakota.
 * 3) Please ensure a person meets Wikipedia Notability requirements before adding to the "Notable People" section.

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Beech Bottom

Beech Bottom may refer to:

 * Beech Bottom, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in the United States
 * Beech Bottom, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
 * Beech Bottom Dyke, an ancient dyke in the United Kingdom

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Rob Hayles

Robert John Hayles (born 21 January 1973) is a former track and road racing cyclist, who rode for Great Britain and England on the track and several professional teams on the road. Hayles competed in the team pursuit and Madison events, until his retirement in 2011. He now occasionally provides studio-based analysis of cycle races for British Eurosport.

Career
He first represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, where he rode the team pursuit. Hayles represented England in the points race and team pursuit at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, he won silver in the individual pursuit. He was a member of the pursuit team that came third, and rode the Madison with Bradley Wiggins, finishing fourth.

From 2001 to 2003 Hayles rode for the team in France.

During this time Hayles rode the Paris–Roubaix classic, one of cycling's five 'monuments', three times but was unable to finish the race on any occasion. Hayles still reports to love the paved classic despite his own poor fortune.

In March 2008 he was withdrawn from the Great Britain team at the world track championships in Manchester, and was suspended for 14 days after a blood test showed a haematocrit 0.3% above the limit. His licence was restored after two weeks. The rules regarding haematocrit testing for track cycling were subsequently changed as the resting period before an event can cause the red cell volume to exceed 50%, with subsequent blood tests often proving the riders to be clean.

He won the 2008 national road championships but was not selected to represent Great Britain in the Beijing Olympics.

On 1 November 2008 he returned to the team pursuit for the Manchester round of the World Cup series.

Personal life
As a child, Hayles lived in Cowplain, Hampshire and attended Padnell Junior School. Hayles' father John Hayles, who died in 2016, was an amateur racing cyclist who became a professional wrestler in his twenties. Hayles lives in Hayfield, Derbyshire, with his wife, former Olympic swimmer Vicky Horner, and their daughter, born 23 January 2006.

Road

 * 1996
 * Tour de Langkawi
 * 1st Stages 2 (TTT) & 7

 * 1997
 * 2nd Overall Premier Calendar

 * 2000
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG National Criterium Championships

 * 2004
 * 1st Stage 7 Tour de Normandie

 * 2008
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Road race, National Championships
 * 1st Beaumont Trophy
 * 1st Tour of Pendle
 * 1st Blackpool Grand Prix
 * 2nd National Criterium Championships

 * 2009
 * 2nd National Criterium Championships
 * 2nd Colne Town Centre Grand Prix

Track

 * 1993
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Kilo, National Championships

 * 1994
 * National Championships
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Kilo
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Madison (with Bryan Steel)
 * 2nd Silver medal blank.svg Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games

 * 1995
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Madison, National Championships (with Russell Williams)

 * 1996
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Points race, National Championships

 * 1997
 * National Championships
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Points race
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual pursuit
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Madison (with Russell Williams)

 * 1998
 * National Championships
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Points race
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual Pursuit
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Madison (with Jon Clay)
 * 2nd Silver medal blank.svg Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games

 * 1999
 * National Championships
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Points race
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual pursuit
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Madison (with Bradley Wiggins)

 * 2000
 * National Championships
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Points race
 * 1st MaillotReinoUnido.PNG Individual pursuit
 * UCI World Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Individual pursuit
 * 2nd Six Days of Grenoble (with Bradley Wiggins)
 * 3rd Bronze medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games

 * 2003
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
 * 3rd Individual pursuit, National Championships

 * 2004
 * UCI World Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Individual pursuit
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit
 * Olympic Games
 * 2nd Silver medal olympic.svg Team pursuit
 * 3rd Bronze medal olympic.svg Madison (with Bradley Wiggins)

 * 2005
 * UCI World Championships
 * 1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Madison (with Mark Cavendish)
 * 1st Rainbow Jersey Track.svg Team pursuit

 * 2006
 * Commonwealth Games
 * 1st Gold medal blank.svg Team pursuit
 * 2nd Silver medal blank.svg Individual pursuit
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

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Anita Allen (judge)

Dame Anita Mildred Allen DBE (born 21 December 1947) is the President of the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas, a position which she has held since 30 November 2010.

Career
Allen became a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Bahamas in 1995, and was elevated to Senior Justice in 2005. She also served as Acting Chief Justice in 2007. In November 2010, she succeeded Joan Sawyer as President of the Court of Appeal. She thus became the second woman to hold that post, and the third women in a high position in the judiciary of the Bahamas.

She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours.

Personal life and education
Allen was born in New Providence. She did her secondary education at Government High School, her LL.B. at The College of Law in London, and her Certificate of Legal Drafting at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill in Cave Hill, Saint Michael, Barbados.

She is married to former Cabinet Minister Algernon Allen. The couple have five children: Algernon Jr; Antoine, Aliya, Amil and Phylicia.

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prua

Etymology
Probably borrowed from a language of southern Italy (e.g. ), from, itself borrowed from. .

Noun

 * 1) prow, bow (of a ship)

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Svoboda

Svoboda  means "freedom" in various Slavic languages. It may refer to:

People

 * Svoboda (surname)

Media

 * Radio Svoboda, operated by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
 * Svoboda (newspaper), a daily Ukrainian language newspaper published in New Jersey by Ukrainian National Association

Music

 * Svoboda (DDT song)

Politics

 * Svoboda (political party) (All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda"), a nationalist political party in Ukraine
 * Freedom Movement (Slovenia)

Sports

 * NK Svoboda (disambiguation)

Places

 * Svoboda Factory Club, memorial building in Moscow
 * Svoboda, Pazardzhik Province, a village in Bulgaria
 * Svoboda nad Úpou, a town in the Czech Republic
 * Svoboda, a former name of the Russian town of Liski, Voronezh Oblast

Other uses

 * 2559 Svoboda, asteroid
 * Svoboda, a lighting device designed by Josef Svoboda

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Bihanga Island

Bihanga Island is located at Patharghata Upazila in Barguna District. It is an island of Baleshwari River. Although the island was discovered long ago, it was recently named Bihanga Island. The name Bihanga in Bengali language means "bird". To the locals it is known as the Dhanseer Char. At one time, the island had a lot of Dhanshee plants. It is located close to the World Heritage Sunderbans.

Geography
World Heritage Sundarbans in the west, Patharghata Upazila in the east, Chordwani Union and some parts of Sunderbans in the north and Baleshwari river in the south between the Bay of Bengal.

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Sherman Kent

Sherman Kent (December 6, 1903 – March 11, 1986), was a Yale University history professor who, during World War II and through 17 years of Cold War-era service in the Central Intelligence Agency, pioneered many of the methods of intelligence analysis. He is often described as "the father of intelligence analysis".

Early life and education
Kent was the son of U.S. Congressman William Kent and women's rights activist Elizabeth Thacher Kent, and the brother of Roger Kent and Adaline Kent. His grandfather was Yale professor Thomas Anthony Thacher, and he was great-great grandson of American founding father Roger Sherman. He was a graduate of The Thacher School (founded by his uncle Sherman Day Thacher) and Yale University where he studied European history with the intention of spending his career as an academic. After graduating in 1926, he spent several years teaching and doing research but joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) with the outbreak of the war in Europe in 1942.

Career
Sherman Kent first served within the Research and Analysis Branch of the OSS as Chief of the Europe-Africa Division. In this capacity, he oversaw much of the process which would now be considered intelligence preparation of the battlespace in support of planning for Operation Torch, the 1942 Allied invasion of North Africa. (An irreverent wit, Kent once proposed for the heraldic emblem of the often-zany OSS, "A horse's ass rampant on a Boston Social Register".)

After a post-war stint at the National War College, he returned to Yale for three years, during which time he penned his classic work, Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy. In November 1950, during the crisis that followed, the Chinese Communist incursion in the Korean War, which prompted a build-up and reorganization of the American Intelligence Community, he was called to Washington, DC, to assist Harvard historian William L. Langer, with whom he had worked in OSS, to form a new CIA Office of National Estimates (ONE). He succeeded Langer as chief of ONE in 1952, serving in that position for the next fifteen years under four Directors of Central Intelligence in four presidential administrations.

ONE was "a small organization, consisting of a Board of National Estimates of between five and twelve senior experts, a professional staff of 25–30 regional and functional specialists, and a support staff." Until it was dissolved, six years after Kent's retirement, in a Watergate-era CIA reorganization, ONE prepared more than 1,500 speculative National Intelligence Estimates for the President and top foreign policy-makers.

Kent led ONE through years of challenge and crisis, including McCarthy-era accusations against one of Kent's young aides, future presidential advisor William Bundy, and "predictive failures" during the Cuban Missile Crisis and other Cold War "flaps".

Kent's unique and enduring role within the US intelligence community was to formalize analytical "tradecraft" and methodologies, while encouraging creation of a "literature of intelligence" to provide a formal mechanism for the transfer of knowledge and experiences between generations of analysts.

Death and legacy
Sherman Kent retired from the CIA in 1967 and died in 1986.

In 2000, the CIA established a school in Kent's name dedicated to the pursuit of professionalism in the art and science of intelligence analysis.

History

 * Electoral Procedure Under Louis Philippe (Yale University Press, 1937)
 * Writing History (NY, 1941; 1967)
 * Election of 1827 in France (Harvard University Press, 1975)

Intelligence

 * Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy (Princeton University Press, 1949; 1966)
 * Words of Estimative Probability (CIA, 1964)
 * Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: Collected Essays
 * The Law and Custom of the National Intelligence Estimate (CIA, 1965)
 * The Making of an NIE (CIA, 1967)
 * The Theory of Intelligence (CIA 1968)

Autobiography

 * A Boy and a Pig, But Mostly Horses (NY, 1974) ("Recounts the adventures of three boys during the summer they spend working on a Nevada ranch in the 1920s")
 * *Letters (also listed as Buffalo Letters): Sherman Kent to His Family, 1936–1965 ([n.d., but "for Christmas 1990" mentioned in Acknowledgements; n.p., probably Washington D. C.]) (private publication for family members edited by Margaret Gourd-Barrett, published by Kent's widow, illustrated by Kent)
 * Reminiscences of a Varied Life (San Rafael, CA, 1991)

Biographic sources

 * Harold P. Ford, "A Tribute to Sherman Kent" in Studies in Intelligence (CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1980)
 * Steury, Donald Paul, ed. "Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: Collected Essays" (CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1994)

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St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

The St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference that competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III which is located in the Midwestern and Southern United States. There are 10 full member institutions as of the 2023–24 academic year.

Chronological timeline
Source:

 * September 1989: The SLIAC chartered with Blackburn, Fontbonne, Maryville, Parks, Principia, and Webster the original members.
 * September 1990: The SLIAC's first year gets underway. MacMurray and Westminster join the charter members.
 * February 1991: The first SLIAC men's basketball tournament is held.
 * February 1995: Westminster wins the men's basketball tournament title to earn the SLIAC's first automatic bid to an NCAA Division III national championship event.
 * September 1995: Greenville begins its first year as a member of the conference, bringing SLIAC membership to nine schools.
 * March 1996: MacMurray wins the women's basketball tournament title to earn the conference's first automatic bid to an NCAA Division III women's national championship event.
 * April 1996: Parks competes in its final conference event. Parks closed after the 1995-96 year and its academic programs were moved to the Saint Louis University campus.
 * November 1996: Blackburn, MacMurray, and Westminster share the first-ever SLIAC football title.
 * September 1999: The SLIAC begins its tenth year of operation.
 * November 1999: The fourth and final (until 2008) conference football title is awarded (six teams needed for conference to sponsor a sport).
 * September 2006: Eureka and Lincoln Christian begin play as the ninth and tenth members of the conference.
 * March 2007: Huntingdon and LaGrange admitted to the SLIAC as affiliate members in the sport of football. The SLIAC announces football will return in the fall of 2008 after a nine-year hiatus.
 * May 2007: William Wolper hired as the Conference's first full-time Commissioner (officially started in July).
 * November 2007: With the completion of the fall season, Lincoln Christian departs the SLIAC.
 * September 2008: Football begins play as the 13th conference sport after a nine-year hiatus.
 * September 2008: Spalding University admitted to the SLIAC to begin play during the 2009–10 academic year.
 * April 2009: The SLIAC announced it would cease its sponsorship of football; five football-playing schools join the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) as associate members for the sport. Huntingdon and LaGrange end football affiliation with the conference.
 * June 2010: University of Dallas admitted to the SLIAC as an affiliate member in the sports of men's golf, men's and women's cross country.
 * September 2010: University of Dallas is accepted as a full member into the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) and drops its affiliate membership with the SLIAC after the spring men's golf season.
 * December 2011: Iowa Wesleyan College admitted to the SLIAC as a full member to begin play during the 2013–14 academic year.
 * March 2020: MacMurray College announced it would close in May 2020 due to financial struggles.
 * June 2020: Iowa Wesleyan announced that it would leave the NCAA and return to the NAIA after the 2020–21 academic year.
 * June 2021: Mississippi University for Women admitted to the SLIAC as a full member beginning the 2023–24 academic year.
 * August 2022: Lyon College admitted to the SLIAC as a full member beginning the 2023–24 academic year.
 * March 2024: Fontbonne University announced its closure in 2025.

Current members
The SLIAC currently has ten full members; nine are private schools and one is public:

 * Notes:

Former members
The SLIAC had five former full members, all were private schools:

 * Notes:

Former associate members
The SLIAC had three former associate members, all were private schools:


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