The Château de Padiès is a mansion built on the site of a former castle, located in the outskirts of the village of Lempaut in the département of Tarn in southern France.

The Château de Padiès is a Renaissance château, built in its present form in the 17th century. It is set in the Lauragais region, known for the production of the dye woad (). Its “renaissance” façades have finely carved mullioned windows populated with fantastic mythical beings, lions' heads and symbols of plenty.

It has been established that the château existed at least before 1209. The Seigneurs were Cathar sympathisers and records from the Inquisition through to the 13th century are testimony to this. During the Wars of Religion, the château was attacked and pillaged by the Protestants in 1572; the then seigneur blew himself up with the aid of a barrel of gunpowder, his wife and children were taken to nearby Puylaurens where they became Protestant. The son rebuilt Padiès in its present form. Around a hundred years later with the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the family reaffirmed their Catholic origins. Later, the young Emmanuel de Las Cases stayed at Padiès; he recorded his fond memories of the generous lady of the house, Marie-Claire Villèle (aunt of Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, a future minister of Louis XVIII), and the gardens populated with boxwood animal heads, espaliered grenadiers, the birds, the fireplace one could sit in…. Las Cases went on to become a general under Napoleon, and to write the Mémorial de Ste Hélène.

The last of the Padiès were imprisoned in their château during the French Revolution. They were eventually pardoned because of their “grand old age”. They had no children. In 1800, Pierre de Padiès died leaving his property to his widow, Marie-Claire. She left the château to her family who in turn sold it to the Fabre family in 1826. Padiès remained in the Fabre family until 1992, the date of its acquisition by Denis Piel and Elaine Merkus, the new restorers.

Padiès appears to be a Toulousain hotel particulier transported to the countryside, yet the mass of the building and the diagonally placed towers recall the military role of the château.

As one of the three Seigneuries of Lempaut, Padiès was an integral part of village life. At the time of the Napoleonic census, forty five people lived in the immediate vicinity of the château. They built their shelters using local materials, they farmed, gardened, produced  food and clothes, baked bread, killed and processed pigs and generally lived…..and loved….. in a sustainable environment.

In 1998 they received the Special 40th Anniversary VMF Marquis de Amodio Prize for the extensive work completed on the building at that time.

The owners of the Château de Padiès are building an environment to reconnect Padiès with its surroundings in a sustainable way.

Padiès was listed on the Inventaire Supplémentaire des Monuments Historiques (ISMH) in 1928.

See also
List of castles in France

References

External links
 Official site
 Padiès blog - life at Padiès
 Lieux secrets du Pays Cathare on PADIES (Blog)
 Carnets du Sud à Lempaut, Tarn, au château de Padiès
 Office de Tourisme Revel

Castles in Tarn
Châteaux in Tarn (department)
Monuments historiques of Occitania (administrative region)


Lekhani may refer to:

Lekhani, Dhawalagiri, Nepal
Lekhani, Sagarmatha, Nepal


Kesiraju Srinivas (born 14 October 1966), popularly known as Ghazal Srinivas, is a Ghazal singer, actor, activist, and frame drum player from Hyderabad, India. He holds the Guinness World Record for most languages sung. He did a pioneering work in Telugu Ghazals. He also sings Ghazals in Hindi and Urdu languages. He gave performances in many countries across the world. As part of his peace mission he traveled to war-hit countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, etc. to spread the non-violence movement preached by Mahatma Gandhi. In 2005, he started Ghazal Charitable Trust to promote Ghazals and world peace.

Srinivas, a native of Palakol in West Godavari District, was born in Tekkali, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh. He worked as a librarian at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bhimavaram and Sainik School, Korukonda, for a decade. He started singing Telugu ghazals in 1986. He uses a frame drum as his only accompaniment.

Life
Srinivas was born in Tekkali, Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh. His grandfather Kesiraju Venkata Narasimham Pantulu was a freedom fighter. His father Narasimharao got settled in Palakollu as part of his job. His mother Rathnavali is a housewife. He got attracted towards music right from his childhood. He used to sing film songs on various stages. Despite his interest in music, his parents initially were not very keen on pursuing a career in Music. In 1980, he received an award in Light music from the prestigious Tyagaraja Gana Sabha. After this incident, his parents realized his talent in music and sent him to Pandit Hare Ram to learn Carnatic music. He did BA in political science from Andhra University. He also completed Bachelor of Library Science from University of Madras in 1989. Before turning into a full time Ghazal singer, he worked as a librarian in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bhimavaram, Korukonda Sainik school.

He is married to Surekha. The couple has a daughter named Samskruti.

Career
He mostly used to sing film songs from his childhood. In 1986, he happened to listen Ghazals written and composed by C. Narayana Reddy. Then he decided to make his unique style by experimenting with Ghazals. Narayana Reddy also encouraged him by penning lyrics suited for his singing. He also taught him tricks of the trade while singing Ghazals.
He has a unique style of singing Ghazals as he uses only one instrument kanjeera (tambourine) as his accompaniment. He sings the ghazals written by noted Telugu poet C. Narayana Reddy, and himself along with others.

He gave his first Ghazal performance in 1986. 1993 Rotary club sponsored his trip to USA to sing Ghazals to spread the national pride of India. After returning from that 60-day trip, he wanted to revolutionize the art of Ghazal singing, and started spending more time on it.

He used his art to bring peace and harmony in the society. To spread the message of peace taught by Mahatma Gandhi, he visited war hit countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, South Africa, and the middle east. In 2005, he took part in 1538 km peace march from Delhi to Multan along with Ramon Magsaysay Award winner Sandeep Pandey and more than 40 distinguished people from different fields. He composed an album Shanti Yatra (peace march) to promote healthy relationship between India and Pakistan. This album was released by Abdul Kalam in New Delhi, who was the president of India at that time. They distributed the music CDs to Pakistan citizens during their visit. In 2006, he participated in world peace conclave held in Lahore to oppose the development of atomic weapons. He observed two-day fast to support this cause.

In 2016, he played a vital role in the restoration of Pinakini satygraha Ashramam at Pallepadu of Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh which was founded in 1921 by Mahatma Gandhi.
He was felicitated with Peace Award for his Album Salam-Bogo by Afghan Olympic Association. He performed in the places like prisons in Warangal, Vizag, Vijayawada. In 2017 he sang the songs in Hebrew, English and Hindi languages in Israel Parliament. He also promotes talent in the youth to express poetical skills through Ghazals.

He raised funds for the new Ram Mandir being built in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh by performing Ghazal concerts across various places.

His Ghazal Charitable Trust along with North America Telugu Society (NATS) unveiled the statue of noted musician M. Balamuralikrishna in his native village Sankaraguptam in March 2020.

As part of Azadi Ka Amrita Mahotsav he has composed a song on the Telugu freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju when the prime minister Narendra Modi visited Bheemavaram in Andhra Pradesh in July 2022. He conducted JPL - Jaihind Premier League in Vizag on 26 October 2022, a first of its kind cricket tournament to promote Sanatana Dharma, and patriotism. The teams are named after the famous freedom fighters.

His audio of the recitation of 108 selected poems from Andhra Mahabharatam is released by Kanchi seer, Vijayendra Saraswati on 12 December 2022 in Peruru of East Godavari district.

Films
Srinivas has been part of a few films. He entered into the Telugu films as a lead actor in the film Vichitram directed by Jandhyala. This was the last film directed by Jandhyala. He also played a guest role in 2005 Telugu thriller, A Film by Aravind. In 2015, he acted in a film Anushtanam which is based on a story written by Gudipati Venkatachalam in the 1950s.

Filmography

Awards
He received an honorary doctorate from Cosmopolitan University, Missouri, USA in the field of performing arts in 2005. He also received D.Lit (Doctor of letters) from Acharya Nagarjuna University in 2008. Government of Andhra Pradesh conferred him with Kalaratna award in 2011. This award is presented every year to the people who have contributed greatly towards the field of arts and culture. NATS (North America Telugu Society) conferred him with the title Gaana Kalaa Vachaspati in 2012.

He received Lata Mangeshkar Memorial award on the occasion of her birthday celebrations in Pune on 18 September 2022. He performed some Hindi and Urdu Ghazals in her memory. He is also awarded INR 21,000.

He was conferred with Sant Kabir Sufi Gayaka award on April 30, 2023, in Indore, Madhya Pradesh as part of a festival commemorating Santh Kabir. The award is presented to him by Santosh Agnihotri, director of Akash Vani, Indore.

World Records
He entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for the first time in 2008 when he sang 100 songs in 100 languages. In 2009, he again set a new world record by singing 125 songs in 125 languages. He set the third world record by performing maximum number of concerts (55) in 24 hours in 2010.

Positions held
He served as an honorary adviser for rural development from 2005 to 2008 when Y. S. Rajasekhar Reddy was the chief minister of united Andhra Pradesh.

After Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated, Andhra Saraswata Parishath, a cultural organization which is dedicated to promote Telugu literature was renamed to Telangana Saraswata Parishath. A new organization is formed with the previous name with Ghazal Srinivas as its chairman in 2017. He organized international Telugu celebrations from 6th to 8th in January 2022.

He was the brand ambassador for Save Temples Mission organized by savetemples.org and Global Hindu Heritage foundation.

As part of the Save Temples mission, he raised awareness of protecting old temples by conducting concerts and bringing the plight of some old temples to government's notice.

Sexual misconduct allegations
A woman complained that Srinivas was harassed for months.  The police registered the case on Tuesday, 2 January 2018 after validating the evidence furnished by the victim, who lodged a two-page complaint with the Punjagutta police on 29 December 2017. Police said Srinivas had forced the woman to do body massage including private parts. "Under the veil he is living in, under the 'save the temples' disguise he's wearing like a thick blanket, neither my friends nor my mother will believe that he's such a sex pervert," said the woman.

Srinivas was taken into custody on charges of sexually harassing a woman, working as jockey for a web radio 'Alayavani' of 'Save Temples' organization. The police presented Ghazal Srinivas in court and he was remanded to judicial custody for 10 days. The singer was shifted to Chanchalguda Central Jail.

SaveTemples Organization suspended Dr. Ghazal Srinivas as Brand Ambassador where these allegations were reported.

References

External links

 Hat-trick by Ghazal Srinivas, publisher The Hindu, 3 November 2010
 Targeting Transformation. The Hindu, 5 August 2003

Indian male ghazal singers
People from Srikakulam district
1966 births
Living people
Indian librarians
Singers from Andhra Pradesh
People from Palakollu


Beltar may refer to:

Beltar, Nepal
Beltar (Dungeons & Dragons), a lesser deity in the Greyhawk setting of the Dungeons & Dragons game


Pokhari may refer to:

Pokhari, Sagarmatha, Nepal
Pokhari, Seti, Nepal


St. Lorenz (St. Lawrence) is a  medieval church of the former free imperial city of Nuremberg in southern Germany. It is dedicated to Saint Lawrence. The church  was badly damaged during the Second World War and later restored. It is one of the most prominent churches of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.

Architecture

The nave of the church was completed by around 1400. In 1439, work began on the choir in the form of a hall church in the late German Sondergotik style of Gothic architecture. The choir was largely completed by 1477 by Konrad Roriczer, although Jakob Grimm completed the intricate vaults.

In the choir one can find the carving of the Angelic Salutation by Veit Stoss, and the monumental tabernacle by Adam Kraft. The latter  includes a prominent figure of the sculptor himself.

The building and furnishing of the church was cared of by the city council and by wealthy citizens. This is probably the reason why the art treasures of St. Lawrence were spared during the iconoclasm during the Reformation period. Despite St. Lawrence being one of the first churches in Germany to be Lutheran (1525), the wealthy citizens of Nuremberg wanted to preserve the memory of their ancestors and refused the removal of the donated works of art.

The west facade is richly articulated, reflecting the wealth of the Nuremberg citizens. The facade is dominated by the two towers, mirroring St. Sebald and indirectly Bamberg Cathedral with a sharp towering West portal doorway, and an indented rose window 9 metres in diameter.

Organs

The church has three organs.
Main organ. Steinmeyer, Oettingen, 1937 rebuilt by Klais Orgelbau, Bonn, 2003. 5 manuals
Stephans Organ. Steinmeyer op. 34 from 1862 formerly in the Evangelical Lutherin Church, Hersbruck, Restored in 2002 by Klais Orgelbau, Bonn. 2 manual
Laurentius Organ. Klais Orgelbau, Bonn 2005. 3 manual.

Organists of St. Lorenz

The church has employed organists for over 500 years, many of them prominent musicians within Bavaria. Amongst the famous names are the following:
Nicholas Pair (Bayer) ca. 1448
Hans Seber 1510 - 1517
Hans Feller 1517 - 1525
Interregnum from 1525
Georg Nötteleins ???? - 1565
Paulus Lautensack 1565 - 1571
Wilhelm Ende 1571 - 1581
Kasper Hassler 1587 - 1616
Johann Staaten 1611 - 1618
Valentin Dretzel 1618 - 1634
Sigmund Theophil Staden 1634 - 1655
Albrect Martin Lunßdörffer 1688 - 1694
Johann Löhner 1694 - 1705
Wolfgang Förtsch 1705 - 1743
Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel 1743 - 1764
Johann Siebenkees 1764 - 1772
Johann Gottlieb Frör 1814 - 1823
Georg Friedrich Herrscher 1843 - 1870
Carl Christian Mattäus 1871 - 1914
Carl Böhm 1913 - 1917
Walther Körner 1918 - 1962

Gallery

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References

Sources

Lorenz
Nuremberg Lorenz
Nuremberg St Lorenz


Sikhs: Legacy of the Punjab was a temporary exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History that highlights the art, culture, and history of the Sikh people. It was dedicated and opened to the public on July 24, 2004 and is a part of the broader Smithsonian Sikh Heritage Project which was launched in 2000. It then traveled to venues in California and Texas.

The exhibition contains over 100 items from Sikh history and culture, including some artifacts that date back to the 18th century, many of which have been a part of private collections and have never been publicly viewed before. In addition, the exhibit contains photographs (two of them by Sikh historian and photographer Sandeep Singh Brar) that prominently highlight Darbar Sahib (The Golden Temple) and a copy of the Guru Granth Sahib from World War I.

References

External links
 A Virtual Tour of the Sikh Exhibit
 Sikh Heritage Foundation

Sikh mass media
Smithsonian Institution exhibitions
Art exhibitions in Washington, D.C.
2004 in Washington, D.C.


The concept of environmental space is the amount of any particular resource that can be consumed by a country without threatening the continued availability of that resource (sustainability), assuming that everyone in the world is entitled to an equal share.

The weakness of the concept is that it requires calculating the maximum sustainable consumption rate of each different resource globally. This rate could be set by either the maximum sustainable yield (say for forests or fisheries) or the assimilative capacity of the environment (e.g. for  or chlorine), but both quantities are very difficult to determine, so the 'environmental space' has rather large error limits and is therefore hard to defend in policy discussions. A further difficulty is that there is a different 'environmental space' for each kind of resource, and as they each necessarily have different units of measure, they cannot be added to get an overall environmental space for all the resources consumed by a country. The idea of environmental space was promoted quite strongly by Friends of the Earth Europe in the mid-1990s, but it is rarely used now, because of the aforementioned difficulties, and has essentially been superseded by 'ecological footprint'. The advantage of the ecological footprint is that every kind of resource use is converted to a land area basis, so that they can be added to produce an overall figure for a country, allowing comparisons to be made.

References

Economics of sustainability


The objective of synthetic array heterodyne detection is to isolate regions of a large area detector surface into virtual pixels.  This provides the benefits of having multiple pixels (for example, to make an image) without having to have physical pixels (i.e. isolated detector elements).  The detector can be a simple single wire output over which all the virtual pixels can be read out continuously and in parallel.  The  pixels are multiplexed in the frequency domain.

Of special interest, this solves two common and vexing problems encountered in optical heterodyne detection.  First, heterodyne signals are beat frequencies between the signal source and a reference source (dubbed local oscillator).  They are not DC light levels but oscillating signals and thus unlike conventional detectors the light flux from the signal cannot be integrated on a capacitor.  Therefore, to have an array of pixels, each pixel must be backed by AC amplifier and detection circuit which is complex.  With Synthetic array detection, all the signals can be amplified and detected by the same circuit.  The second problem Synthetic array detection solves arrises, not in pixel imaging but, when the signal is not spatially coherent across the surface of the detector.  In this case, the beat frequencies arising are differently phased across the detector surface and these destructively interfere producing a low signal output.  In synthetic array detection, each region of the detector has a different fundamental for its beat frequency and thus there is no stationary interference even if the signal's phase varies across the surface of the detector.

Illustration of the concept
Figure 1 shows a particular implementation format of the Synthetic Array method.  This implementation is called "Rainbow Heterodyne Detection" because the local oscillator has its frequencies spread out like a rainbow across the surface of the detector.

The output from the detector is a multi-frequency signal.  If this output signal is spectrally resolved then each different electrical frequency corresponds to a different location on the detector.

Implementation

Key difficulties
While the concept is simple, there is a key difficulty that must be overcome by any implementation: how to generate a rainbow of spread optical frequencies whose bandwidth of difference frequencies with respect to the detector is less than the electrical bandwidth of the detector.  That is to say, a typical detector might have a bandwidth on the scale of 100Megahertz.  If the biggest difference frequency is |ω6-ω6| then this difference need to be smaller than 100 Megahertz.  This in turn means the spacing between the adjacent difference frequencies must be less than 100Mhz and on average less than 100Mhz/number of pixels.  To see why this presents a problem consider dispersing white light with a prism. For any finite size prism you cannot get enough dispersion to create resolved (non-overlapping beamlets) that differ by less than a megahertz.  Thus dispersion methods cannot disperse a broadband light source to create the frequency shifted beamlets with narrowly spaced difference frequencies,   One possible way to achieve this is to have a separate laser source for every beamlet; these sources must be precisely frequency controlled so their center frequencies are separated by the desired shifts.  The primary problem with this is practical: The bandwidth and frequency drift of most lasers is much greater than 1 Mhtz. The lasers needed for this must be of sufficiently narrow  spectral purity that they can interfere coherently with the signal source.  Even so, having multiple narrow band precision frequency-tuned lasers is also complex.

Acousto-optic solution
One practical way to achieve this is to use an Acousto Optic Deflector.  These devices deflect an incoming light beam in proportion to the Acoustic driving frequency.  They also have the side effect of shifting the output optical frequency by the acoustic frequency.  Thus when one of these is driven with multiple acoustic frequencies a series of deflected beams are emitted each with a small and different shift in the optical frequency.  Conveniently, this works even if the source laser has low spectral purity since every sub-spectral component of the beamlet is mutually phase coherent with the source and shifted by the same frequency.  In particular this approach allows the use of inexpensive, high power or pulsed lasers as sources because no frequency control is required.

Figure 2 shows a simple 2 "pixel" version of this implementation.  A laser beam is deflected by a 25Mhz and a 29Mhz acoustic frequency via an acousto-optic modulator.  Two beams emerge and both are combined on the detector along with the original laser beam.  The 25Mhz beamlet illuminates the left half of the detector while the 29Mhz beamlet illuminates the right half of the detector.  The beat frequencies against the signal beam on the detector produce  25 and 29 MHz output frequencies.  Thus we can differentiate which photons hit the left or right half of the detector.  This method scales to larger numbers of pixels since AOD's with thousands of resolvable spots (each with a different frequency) are commercially available.  2D arrays can be produced with a second AOD arranged at right angles, or by holographic methods.

Multiplex
The method multiplexes all the spatial positions on the detector by frequency.  If frequencies are uniformly spaced then a simple fourier transform recovers the coherent image.  However, there is no reason the frequencies have to be uniformly spaced so one can adjust the number, size and shape of the pixels dynamically.  One can also independently change the Heterodyne gain on each pixel individually simply by making the LO beamlet more or less strong.  Thus one can extend the dynamic range of the receiver by lowering the gain on bright pixels, raising it on dim ones, and possibly using larger pixels for dim regions.

Comparison to traditional pixel arrays
The multiplex technique does introduce two limitations as well. In the case of imaging, the signals must not be changing faster than the Nyquist time constant implied by the difference frequency between adjacent pixels. If it does do the pixels blur or alias. (For non-imaging applications—such as when one is simply trying to collect more light but is limited by the spatial incoherence—that aliasing is not important since it doesn't change the incoherent sum of the pixels.) Additionally, when one is working near the shot noise limit the multiplex approach can raise the noise floor since all of the pixels see the shot noise from the whole array (since they all are connected by the same wire). (Again for non-imaging applications this may not be important).

References

Optoelectronics
Photonics


Pure London is the United Kingdom's leading fashion trade show which takes place twice a year in Olympia, London. The timings of Pure ties in with the seasonal trends and buying patterns.

Pure is predominantly focused on ready-to-wear womenswear, and has additional sections for young fashion (spirit) and footwear and accessories.

The trade-only event presents forward-order collections from over 1,000 fashion brands, with an audience of over 12,000 UK and worldwide retailers in attendance as audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. It includes clothing examples and catwalk performances, fashion talks and retail advice. In addition to the brand showcases, Pure London features two stages of catwalk scenes, and a seminar programme addressing issues in fashion and retail.

Pure London provides high street fashion retailers and independent fashion retailers with the opportunity to source trend-led, premium clothing and wholesale fashion from leading brands. It attracts over 12,000 high quality fashion buyers from independent and department stores, multiples and e-tailers. Partnering with WGSN, the fashion exhibition holds daily trend briefings for Autumn/Winter and Spring/Summer trends. The seminar programme has expanded to include advice on setting up online stores, visual merchandising and styling sessions.

References

External links
 Official web site

Fashion events in the United Kingdom
Ascential
Annual events in London
Olympia London


The 2008 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 4, 2008. It was part of the 2008 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Utah was won by Republican nominee John McCain by a 28.02% margin of victory. Prior to the election, all 17 news organizations considered this a state McCain would win, or otherwise considered as a safe red state. Highlighting its status as a GOP bastion, the Beehive State gave McCain one of his largest victories over Democrat Barack Obama, a near two-to-one margin. Obama did, however, manage to carry three counties, and he greatly improved on John Kerry's performance in 2004.

Primaries
 2008 Utah Democratic presidential primary
 2008 Utah Republican presidential primary

Campaign

Predictions
There were 16 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day:

Polling

McCain won every pre-election poll conducted in this state, each with a double-digit margin and with at least 55% of the vote. The final three-poll average showed McCain leading 59% to 31%.

Fundraising
John McCain raised a total of $1,165,621 in the state. Barack Obama raised $2,121,563.

Advertising and visits
Obama spent $297,645. McCain spent just $250. Neither campaign visited the state.

Analysis
Utah is a heavily Republican state that has not voted for a Democratic presidential nominee since Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide in 1964, and even then the margin of victory was small. Johnson is also the last Democrat to manage even 40 percent of Utah's popular vote. The majority of the state's population is Mormon and highly conservative, especially on social issues. Utah gave George W. Bush his largest margin of victory in 2004 over John Kerry, as Bush received over 71 percent to Kerry's 26 percent and carried every county in the state.

With 62.15 percent of the popular vote, Utah proved to be McCain's third strongest state in the 2008 election after Oklahoma and neighboring Wyoming.

Although McCain easily won Utah in 2008, Obama did very well for a Democrat in this Republican stronghold. Obama was able to reduce McCain's margin of victory by narrowly winning Salt Lake County, the state's most populous county that contains the state capital of Salt Lake City, by a mere 296 votes–the first time a Democrat had carried that county since 1964. Obama also carried Summit and Grand counties, both of which have significantly lower Mormon populations than the rest of the state. Nonetheless, Obama became the first Democrat to win the White House without carrying Carbon County since Woodrow Wilson in 1912.

Election 2008 proved to be remarkable as it was a Democratic presidential nominee's best showing in the Beehive State since 1968. In substantially Native American and non-Mormon – but historically heavily Republican – San Juan County, Obama's performance was the best by a Democratic presidential candidate since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940.

During the same election, popular incumbent Republican Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. was reelected to a second term in a massive landslide victory, taking in 77.74 percent of the vote over Democrat Bob Springmeyer's 19.65 percent and Libertarian Dell Schanze's 2.62 percent. At the state level, however, Democrats did manage to pick up two seats in the Utah House of Representatives.

Results

Results by county

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
 Grand (largest municipality: Moab)
 Salt Lake (largest city: Salt Lake City)
 Summit (largest city: Park City)

By congressional district
John McCain swept all 3 of the state's congressional districts, including one held by a Democrat.

Electors

Technically the voters of Utah cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Utah is allocated 5 electors because it has 3 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 5 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 5 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.

The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 15, 2008, to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.

The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All 5 were pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin:
Scott Simpson
Richard Snelgrove
Stan Lockhart
Enid Greene-Mickelesen
Mark Shurtleff

See also
 United States presidential elections in Utah
 Presidency of Barack Obama

References

Utah
2008
2008 Utah elections


John Scott (9 November 1923 – 11 November 2008) was a British television weatherman who appeared for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 during a 20-year broadcasting career.

Early life
He attended Spennymoor Grammar School in Spennymoor. He went to Nottingham Technical College (which eventually became Nottingham Trent University), leaving in 1941. In 1941, aged 17, Scott joined the Met Office, later joining the Royal Air Force and serving in Sullom Voe, Malta and North Africa during and after World War II. In the 1950s and 1960s he worked at RAF Watnall (now called the Nottingham Weather Centre), and in Nairobi, Kenya, and at RAF Uxbridge.

Broadcasting
Jack Scott made his television debut in May 1969 as the BBC's twentieth weather forecaster; he stayed with them until his retirement in 1983. As Scott was employed by the Civil Service rather than the BBC, when he left the BBC and the Met Office in 1983 aged 60, he was able to draw a Civil Service pension. He went on to work for the ITV company Thames Television (1983 – 1988) and was a presenter of Channel 4's magazine programme for the over 60s, Years Ahead, from 1988 to 1989. He also made regular appearances on Pebble Mill at One discussing weather-related topics and presented a series called Under the Weather.

Described by the BBC as a "pioneer", Scott introduced the famous magnetic symbols to viewers in 1975, which could sometimes slip or fall off during broadcasts. He also helped lay the foundations of the computerised system of forecasting used today. Mark Byford, the BBC's Deputy Director-General, praised Scott's "wonderful gift of authority and knowledge matched by a warm and accessible style."

Personal life
Scott was married to Marrion (who died in 2000) and had two sons, David (who survived him) and Jonathan, who died in a climbing accident in the Himalayas.
Jack was a member of Burnham Beeches Golf Club in Buckinghamshire. He lived in Iver Heath, in the former South Bucks district.

He died of cancer aged 85 on 11 November 2008.

References

External links
 Telegraph obituary
 Scott on the BBC website
 BBC obituaries

1923 births
2008 deaths
Alumni of Nottingham Trent University
Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
BBC weather forecasters
English meteorologists
English television presenters
People from South Bucks District
People from Spennymoor
Deaths from cancer in England
People educated at Spennymoor Grammar School


Rodrick or Rodricks may refer to:

People by given name
 Rod Rutledge (born 1975), American NFL football player
 Rodrick Del Rodgers (born 1960), American NFL football player
 Rod Hill (born 1959), American NFL football player
 Rod Monroe (American football) (born 1976), American football player
 Rodrick Rhodes (born 1973), American professional basketball player

People by surname
 Michael Rodrick (born 1970), American actor
 Stephen Rodrick, American journalist
 Dan Rodricks, American columnist and radio talk-show host
 Wendell Rodricks (1960–2020), Indian fashion designer

Other uses
 18689 Rodrick, an asteroid
 Rodrick Bridge, a historical bridge in Licking, Ohio; see List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
 Rodrick Heffley, a Diary of a Wimpy Kid character

See also
 Roderick
 Kirby (disambiguation)


Mammary artery may refer to:
 the internal thoracic artery (previously known as the internal mammary artery)
The internal thoracic artery is commonly chosen as a graft artery during coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
 the lateral thoracic artery (previously known as the external mammary artery)


La Passion de Simone is an oratorio (or opera) composed by Kaija Saariaho to a libretto in French by Amin Maalouf, first premiered in a staging by Peter Sellars. The work, subtitled "a musical journey in 15 stations", centers on the life and writings of Simone Weil and was conceived in the Passion Play tradition with episodes in her life linked to the Stations of the Cross. It is composed for SATB chorus, soprano soloist, spoken voice, orchestra and electronic instruments.

Performance history
La Passion de Simone was commissioned jointly by the New Crowned Hope festival in Vienna, the Barbican Centre, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. It had its world premiere on 26 November 2006 at the Jugendstiltheater in Vienna as part of Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope festival. The world premiere performers were the Klangforum Wien orchestra conducted by Susanna Mälkki; the Arnold Schoenberg Choir conducted by Erwin Ortner; Finnish soprano  as the narrator;  as the silent dancer (a directorial addition by Sellars), and Dominique Blanc as the voice of Simone Weil.

The work had its United Kingdom premiere at the Barbican Centre, London in July 2007 and its US premiere in August 2008 at the Lincoln Center, New York City, as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival. Unlike previous performances, the French premiere at the Opéra Bastille in June 2009 was performed without Sellars' staging. Nevertheless, Dawn Upshaw, for whom the role of the narrator was originally written, performed in all three premieres.

Chamber version (2013)
On a suggestion by director Aleksi Barrière and conductor Clément Mao-Takacs, the composer created a chamber version of the piece that has been more popular (both in terms of critical response and number of productions) than the original. It is the same length as the original version and the soloist's vocal line and the spoken text are unchanged. But the orchestration is for 19 musicians and uses no electronic elements, and four solo voices replace the SATB chorus –a feature that Saariaho later reused and developed in her opera Only the Sound Remains, which she started composing soon after completing the arrangement of La Passion de Simone.

This chamber version was premiered on 14 November 2013 in Bratislava, in the framework of the Melos-Ethos Festival for Contemporary Music, in a production conceived and realized by the French music theatre company La Chambre aux échos. The main character was performed by soprano , accompanied by a vocal quartet and an actress, and the chamber ensemble Secession Orchestra, conducted by Clément Mao-Takacs. The stage direction was devised by Aleksi Barrière. This "poignant production", which has been described as "superb in every sense" by the press, has since toured worldwide with soprano Sayuri Araida in the main role, and was performed as the local premiere of the chamber version in France, Finland and the USA among others.

Other stage productions were eventually created of this chamber version, among which: a new staging by Peter Sellars starring Julia Bullock (Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2015; Ojai Music Festival, 2016); the Australian premiere performance by Sydney Chamber Opera at the Carriageworks for the 2019 Sydney Festival, with soprano Jane Sheldon, conducted by Jack Symonds and directed by Imara Savage; and a semi-staged performance conceived by conductor Christian Karlsen with Anne Sofie von Otter (Royal Swedish Opera, 2020).

References

General references

Clements, Andrew, "La Passion de Simone" (review of the UK premiere), The Guardian, 12 July 2007. Accessed 15 November 2008.
Midgette, Anne, "An Earnest Meditation on a Life Devoted to Human Suffering" (review of the world premiere), The New York Times, 29 November 2006. Accessed 15 November 2008.
Saariaho, Kaija, Programme Notes for La Passion de Simone, Chester Novello music publishers. Accessed 14 November 2008.
Tommasini, Anthony, "Contemplations on the Life of Simone Weil, in a Range of Somber Hues" (review of the US premiere), The New York Times, 14 August 2008. Accessed 15 November 2008.

External links
Work details (original version)
Work details (chamber version)
Work details (chamber version), including score preview, Chester Novello

Compositions by Kaija Saariaho
2006 otatorios
Oratorios
Works by Amin Maalouf
Music commissioned by the Barbican Centre
Music commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic


Golf was one of the many sports which was held at the 2002 Asian Games in Asiad Country Club, Busan, South Korea between 3 and 6 October 2002.

The event was open to amateur players only. Golf had team and individual events for men and women.

Medalists

Medal table

Participating nations
A total of 82 athletes from 17 nations competed in golf at the 2002 Asian Games:

References

2002 Asian Games Report, Pages 420–425

External links
Official website

2002 Asian Games events
2002
Asian Games
2002 Asian Games


Aaptar  was a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of Eastern Development Region of Nepal. It became part of Rautamai Rural Municipality after reconstruction of administration in Nepal.

Fulfilling the requirement of the new constitution of Nepal in 2015, all old municipalities and villages (which were more than 3900 in number) were restructured into 753 new units.

At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 4494 people living in 862 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District
Rautamai


Balaltar  is a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2551 people living in 460 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District


Baraha, Sagarmatha  is a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2738 people living in 471 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District


Bărăi  is a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4613.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District


Basabote was a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of Eastern Development Region of Nepal. It became part of Limchungbung Rural Municipality after reconstruction of administration in Nepal.

Fulfilling the requirement of the new constitution of Nepal in 2015, all old municipalities and villages (which were more than 3900 in number) were restructured into 753 new units.

At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2274 people living in 415 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District
Limchungbung


Samuel Anthony Boulmetis Sr. (February 17, 1927 - May 30, 2021) was an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey who was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1973. The Hall's induction biography says that "His peers described him as an honest and intelligent rider, qualities he later demonstrated as a racing official and state steward for New Jersey."

Born in Baltimore, the son of a Greek tailor, Sam Boulmetis began his involvement in the horse racing industry as a stable hand at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. He began riding professionally in late 1948 and earned his first win in 1949 at Garden State Park then went on to win that year's riding championship at Monmouth Park Racetrack. He repeated as the leading jockey at Monmouth Park in 1953, 1955, and 1956.

The winner of numerous important races, Boulmetis won the Arlington Classic twice and the prestigious Washington, D.C. International Stakes and Canadian International Stakes, forerunners to the Breeders' Cup races which drew the best horses to the United States and Canada from around the world. For owner Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, he rode Fisherman in the 1956 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris, France. Among the other notable horses he rode was Hall of Fame inductee Tosmah with whom he won seven stakes races. In the 1955 Massachusetts Handicap, Boulmetis rode Helioscope to a track record time of 2:01 for 1¼ miles on dirt, unbroken as of 2008.

Throughout his career Sam Boulmetis raced primarily at tracks on the East Coast of the United States. He retired from riding after the 1966 season and in 1969 was appointed a steward at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. He retired in 2004 from his duties as a racing official and state steward for the State of New Jersey.

His son, Sam Boulmetis Jr., followed in his footsteps, becoming a professional jockey in 1973 and riding until 1981 when a racing accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. Sam Jr. is now a steward at Philadelphia Park Racetrack.

Sam Boulmetis' nephew is jockey Tony Black.

References

 Sam Boulmetis Sr. at the  United States National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
 Sports Illustrated October 15, 1956 article on Sam Boulmetis and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
 May 31, 2004 Thoroughbred Times  article titled Edwards succeeds Boulmetis as steward at Monmouth

1927 births
2021 deaths
American jockeys
United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees
Sportspeople from Baltimore
American people of Greek descent


is an action role-playing video game developed by Think & Feel and published by Square Enix. It was released for the Nintendo DS in Japan on August 6, 2009.

Gameplay
Blood of Bahamut is an action role-playing game in which up to four players battle giant beasts that are featured on both screens of the DS. In order to defeat a giant, players must first destroy its protective armor, then attack its "core," and finally attack its other body parts. The giants can summon smaller beasts, which the players must battle simultaneously. Defeating a giant's body parts and the smaller beasts will grant players "materials" which can be used to produce powerful weapons. The game will contain over 130 missions.

Plot
The game is set in a city built on the back of a great beast known as a Gigant. The city suddenly comes under attack and protagonists Ibuki and Yui must defend it as well as other cities that were built on Gigants that are awakening. The story features seven main characters in total. The Gigants are sentient, and will also attempt to defend themselves, taking part in battles. The Gigants include Bahamut, Ifrit, Shiva, Fenrir, and Gilgamesh, many of which are also summon monsters depicted in Square Enix's popular Final Fantasy series.

Characters
: The male main protagonist armed with a sword. He is a summoner with the power of the White Dragon residing in his body.
: Female main protagonist and Gigant-clan member who wields a cane staff.
: Commander of the Ifrit clan, uses a battle axe.
: Fenrir clan elder, wields a spear.
 Broke from the Shiva clan to travel the world as a 'free spirit', wields a handheld cannon.
: Another Gigant clan swordsman. Wields a samurai's katana.
: Knight of unknown origins, wields a greatsword.

Development
Blood of Bahamut was directed by Motomu Toriyama, who previously worked on numerous other Square Enix titles including Bahamut Lagoon, a tactical role-playing game for the Super Famicom. Before its official announcement, the trademarking of Blood of Bahamut prompted rumours of a connection to Bahamut Lagoon. Such a connection has not been confirmed or denied by Square Enix. Blood of Bahamut was produced by Eisuke Yokoyama, who recently worked on Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings. The team stated that their goal was to "[...] cross the limits of the DS with a dynamic feel and with a direct sense of control." The game's music is composed by Naoshi Mizuta. The official soundtrack was released in Japan on August 12, 2009.

Ignition Entertainment attempted to license the game to bring it overseas to the North American market; however, Square Enix declined the offer. Ignition's Shane Bettenhausen elaborated, "We just contacted them and they weren’t interested in licensing it. That was the kind of deal where they [Square Enix] were probably not going to publish it here so it was worth a shot."

Reception
Famitsu gave Blood of Bahamut a score of 31 out of 40. The game sold 66,000 copies the month of its release. Sales of the game reached about 89,193 copies by the end of 2009. It went on to reach 103,829 copies sold by the end of 2010.

References

External links

2009 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo DS games
Nintendo DS-only games
Role-playing video games
Square Enix games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Naoshi Mizuta


The Ottawa Lady Senators is a women's ice hockey organization, based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The organization organizes teams in several age divisions, including Intermediate in the Premier Women's Hockey League (PWHL). The women's senior-level ice hockey team formerly played in the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL), until 2010. The senior team was formerly known as the Ottawa Capital Canucks  and the  Ottawa Raiders.

History

The club began as the National Capital Raiders in 1998, becoming the Ottawa Raiders in 1999. The club played in the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) from 1999 until 2007, when the league folded. In 2007-08, the club re-organized as the Ottawa Capital Canucks, playing in the CWHL. For the 2007–08 season, the team played at the Sandy Hill Arena in central Ottawa.

In 2008, the Canucks team merged its operations with the Kanata Girls Hockey Association. The new organization was named the Ottawa Senators Women's Hockey Club, was partly sponsored by the Ottawa Senators NHL club, and operated three teams. The Senior AAA team played in the CWHL, the Intermediate team plays in the Provincial Women's Hockey League, and there is a Midget AA team that plays a tournament schedule. The new organization is based out of the Bell Sensplex in the Kanata suburb of Ottawa.

In 2010, it was announced that the CWHL would reduce its number of teams to five. The Senior AAA Ottawa Senators were disbanded and are no longer playing in the CWHL. The Intermediates and other level programs continue, and the Intermediate AA team is now a member of the Provincial Women's Hockey League.

Current roster 2022–2023

Notable former players
Katie Weatherston
Jamie Lee Rattray
Erica Howe
Stefanie McKeough
Fannie Desforges

References

External links
  CWHL web site
  Team's new Website
  Team's old Website

Women's ice hockey leagues in Canada
Ice hockey teams in Ottawa
Canadian Women's Hockey League teams
National Women's Hockey League (1999–2007) teams
1998 establishments in Ontario
Ice hockey clubs established in 1998
Women in Ontario
Amateur ice hockey


Basaha  is a town in Beltar Basaha Municipality in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. The formerly village development committee was merged to form a new municipality on 18 May 2014. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 7887 people living in 1464 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District


Bhumarashuwa  is a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 13,631 people living in 2531 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District


Bhuttar was a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of Eastern Development Region of Nepal. It became part of Rautamai Rural Municipality after reconstruction of administration in Nepal. It is now municipal headquarter of Rautamai rural municipality.

Fulfilling the requirement of the new constitution of Nepal in 2015, all old municipalities and villages (which were more than 3900 in number) were restructured into 753 new units.

At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3244 people living in 583 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District
Rautamai


The Chapultepec aqueduct (in Spanish: acueducto de Chapultepec) was built to provide potable water to Tenochtitlan, now known as Mexico City. This fresh water was transported from the Chapultepec springs. Two aqueducts following the same route from the springs were built by the Aztecs during the 15th century, the first destroyed by flooding and the second by the Spanish. After the Spanish conquest a colonial aqueduct was built, the ruins of which are located near Metro Sevilla.

Original Chapultepec aqueduct
The water level under Tenochtitlan was only 4–5 feet below the city. However, it was not a viable source of freshwater as the water retrieved was brackish. Shallow wells were constructed, and the water retrieved was used for household work. Construction of an aqueduct that brought fresh water, suitable for cooking and drinking, from Chapultepec springs to Tenochtitlan began in 1418. Building relied on mud and plant material to create the foundation, which rested on artificial islands that were spread 3 to 4 meters apart. Mounds consisting of mud were constructed on these islands and driven through with a wooden stake for support. The top of each mound had a hollowed out trough lined with compacted clay, and hollowed out logs were placed in the bottom of the flow path to bridge gaps between the islands. A wooden plank walkway flanked the aqueduct, making it easily accessible and a method of transportation from the city to the outlying areas. Once the water reached the city, it was delivered to small reservoirs and select households through a network of canals that extended in the four cardinal directions and branched off to individual streets.

Despite its relative longevity, the composition of the aqueduct could not withstand the forces of nature. Erosion weathered away the compacted clay, and in 1449, heavy rains triggered a flood that destroyed the aqueduct and effectively shut down Tenochtitlan for weeks.

Second Chapultepec aqueduct
After the destruction of the original aqueduct, the king of Texcoco, Nezahualcoyotl, ordered the construction of another water system using sturdier materials following the same route as the original. This aqueduct consisted of two mortar lined troughs made of stone masonry. The addition of the second trough allowed for water to be diverted to the second pipe when maintenance had to be performed on the other. This allowed for a continuous supply of fresh water to be delivered to the city. Like the original aqueduct, the second rested on a chain of artificial islands. The pipes were secured to the islands by wood pilings attached to a foundation of sand, lime, and rock. The aqueduct was constructed using wood, carved stone, and compacted soil, with portions made of hollowed logs, allowing canoes to travel underneath.

Colonial aqueduct
After his arrival in the Aztec empire, Hernán Cortés discovered the economic and political importance of the Chapultepec aqueduct. He took advantage of the city's dependence on the aqueduct and blocked the fresh water supply, eventually destroying it. Shortly after the Spanish conquest, he set about dividing the land among the conquistadors. He wanted to take the forest of Chapultepec for himself, but Charles V, King of Spain, denied his request and decreed that the springs were needed to provide the people with potable water and were thereby the property of the city of Tenochtitlan. Construction of a new aqueduct started under the reigning Viceroy Fernando de Alencastre, 1st Duke of Linares (1711-1716). The structure became known under another name as the Aqueduct of Belen, named after an old Belen convent it passed by. Built along the same path as the Aztec engineered aqueducts, it was constructed using Roman architecture, reflected in its 904 arches. In completion, it reached a total length of 4663 varas, roughly 4 kilometers. In conquest times, the aqueduct supplied the city with the majority of its freshwater, however, waterborne illness was a concern. In an effort to reduce the possibility of external contamination, iron and lead pipes were installed to replace the open troughs during the 19th Century. These shielded the water from air and outside contaminants but did not decrease the number of pathogen related illnesses and death.

Located on Chapultepec Avenue near Metro Sevilla, a small section, about twenty-two arches long, still survives today. Also standing today are two fountains associated with the aqueduct. The first is found wedged between Chapultepec Park and Metro Chapultepec. Constructed by the viceroy Agustín de Ahumada, this fountain was designed to divert a water to this section of the city. It also served a decorative and historical purpose. However, it is no longer in its original location: it was restored, enlarged and moved to its current location by Roberto Alvarez Espinoza in 1921. The second fountain, Salto del Agua, was built at the intersection of Eje Central and Arcos de Belen Street, where the historic center meets Colonia Doctores and Colonia Obrera. While it is at the original location, it is not the original fountain. It had deteriorated badly, and a reproduction was made by Guillermo Ruiz. The original is on display at the Museo Nacional del Virreinato in Tepotzotlán.

Historical images of the Aqueduct and Salto del Agua Fountain

See also
Chapultepec

References

Aqueducts in Mexico
Landmarks in Mexico City
Buildings and structures in Mexico City
Buildings and structures in Mesoamerica
Aztec sites
Aztec science and technology
Tenochtitlan


Chaudandi  is a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2715 people living in 469 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District
Chaudandigadhi


The 2008 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 4, 2008, and was part of the 2008 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Oklahoma was won by Republican nominee John McCain with a 31.3% margin of victory. Prior to the election, all 17 news organizations considered this a state McCain would win, or otherwise considered as a safe red state. A strongly conservative state located in the Bible Belt where evangelical Christianity plays a large role, Oklahoma has trended heavily Republican in recent years. Having voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every election since 1968, Oklahoma once again showcased its status as a Republican stronghold in 2008 with Republican John McCain capturing 65.65% of the vote. It was also the only state where McCain won every county and was even one of the 5 states along with Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and West Virginia in which McCain outperformed Bush's margin of victory from 4 years earlier, albeit slightly.

This was also only the second election since its statehood in which Oklahoma supported a different candidate than Virginia, with 1920 being the first. However, this has happened in all elections since, as Oklahoma has voted consistently Republican while Virginia has voted consistently Democratic.

Primaries
 2008 Oklahoma Republican presidential primary
 2008 Oklahoma Democratic presidential primary

Campaign

Predictions
There were 16 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day:

Polling

McCain won every single pre-election poll, and each with a double-digit margin of victory. The final 3 polls averaged McCain leading 62% to 34%.

Fundraising
John McCain raised a total of $2,050,335 in the state. Barack Obama raised $1,711,069.

Advertising and visits
Obama spent $613,515. McCain and his interest groups spent just $6,565. Neither campaign visited the state.

Analysis
Oklahoma gave John McCain his strongest showing in Election 2008 with a rounded percentage of 66% (65.65%) going to him. The Sooner State was also the only state in the country where every single county voted for McCain. Although the results were similar to 2004 in which George W. Bush swept every county in the state with 65.57% of the vote, McCain's margin of victory was slightly better - 0.08% more - in 2008. Oklahoma was one of five states where McCain outperformed George W. Bush, the other four being Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

Oklahoma, despite the large concentration of Native Americans in the state, remains one of the most reliably Republican states in the country. Although Democrats still had a majority of registered voters (as well as the governorship) at the time, the state's Democrats are very conservative by national standards.  Oklahoma is part of the Bible Belt, and voters in the state have a strong penchant for being values voters; that is, they are strongly and deeply conservative on social issues such as abortion and gay rights. McCain's selection of the socially conservative Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska proved to be an excellent fit for the Sooner State.  Obama was at a disadvantage beforehand in Oklahoma during the primary season when voters in the Sooner State backed Hillary Rodham Clinton with 54.76% of the vote compared to Obama's 31.19% and a significant amount (10.24%) going to John Edwards. Clinton won every county in the Oklahoma Democratic Primary except for Oklahoma County, home of Oklahoma City which Obama just narrowly carried. Most of Oklahoma's Democratic establishment were early endorsers of Hillary Clinton as well. Another setback for Obama was that U.S. Representative Dan Boren, the only Democrat from Oklahoma's five-member delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives, refused to endorse Obama.

Another key to McCain's victory was the highly populated counties of Tulsa County, which he won with over 62%, and Oklahoma County, which he won with over 58%. He also dominated the heavily Republican Oklahoma Panhandle by an almost four-to-one margin.  Despite the Republican landslide, Obama did improve upon John Kerry's performance in Oklahoma City and Tulsa. However, this was more than canceled out by his extremely weak showing in Southeast Oklahoma, historically the most Democratic region in the state. This socially conservative but fiscally liberal area, known as "Little Dixie," still votes Democratic at the local level and state levels.  It also warmly supported Bill Clinton of neighboring Arkansas in 1992 and 1996; Clinton's populism struck a chord among the region's voters. Democratic nominees from John Kerry on, on the other hand, have proven spectacularly bad fits for the region and the state as a whole.  Obama lost many counties in Southeast Oklahoma by more than two-to-one margins.

Also, Oklahoma was the only state in the country that didn't have a third-party candidate on the ballot, mostly because the state has the toughest ballot access laws in the country. Obama became the first Democrat to win without winning a single county in Oklahoma.

During the same election, incumbent Republican U.S. Senator James Inhofe was solidly reelected over Democratic State Senator Andrew Rice. Inhofe received 56.68% while Rice took in 39.18% and Independent Stephen P. Wallace received the remaining 4.14%. At the state level, Republicans made gains in the Oklahoma Legislature, picking up four seats in the Oklahoma House of Representatives and two seats in the Oklahoma Senate which gave the GOP control of the state legislature for the first time since statehood.

Results

By county

By congressional district
John McCain carried every congressional district in Oklahoma, including the one district held by a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives rather strongly.

Electors

Technically the voters of Oklahoma cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Oklahoma is allocated 7 electors because it has 5 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 7 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 7 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.

The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 15, 2008, to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.

The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All 7 were pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin:
Virginia Chrisco
Gail Stice
Pete Katzdorn
Robert Cleveland
Mary Phyllis Gorman
Bunny Chambers
Diane Murphy Gunther

The slate for the Democrats, which was not elected, consisted of Sally Freeman Frasier, Gene A. Wallace, Anita R. Norman, Tim Mauldin, Robert Lemon, David Walters, Walter W. Jenny Jr.

See also
 United States presidential elections in Oklahoma
 Presidency of Barack Obama

References

Oklahoma
United States presidential
2008


Dumre  is a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 11,749 people living in 2510 individual households.

There is another nepali town Dumre nearby Bandipur (about 3 km).

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District


Hadiya, Nepal  is a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 11331 people living in 2355 individual households. Cheetri and Bharmin is the major ethnic community with huge population while Magars, Sunuwar, Newar, Tharu and Madhesi are ethnic minorities living in the village.

The village is rural and connected mostly with gravel roads. Most of the houses are wooden with sparely modern houses made of bricks and cement. The center of town is crowded densely with unplanned buildings and weak infrastructures as well as pollution due to vehicles, scattered wastage and dusty gravel roads has created critical problem in the town and their lifestyle as every household waste their productive time  The hilly people brings their agricultural products to sell in the town and buys clothes, equipment and other goods.the town is the most populated municipality of Udayapur District besides Gaighat, Beltar and Katari. Agriculture is the major occupation while service sector is blooming recently.  The town was badly affected during 10 years of civil war which destroyed many infrastructures of town but now most of the governmental office has been re-constructed. Political leader Dr. Narayan Khadka has been elected several time as a representative of the town though town has been waiting for his policies to be implemented.

Schools

Private Schools
Budur Lal Vidhya Niketan PVT LTD
 Sudarshan Secondary School
 Chandi Bright Future

Government Schools
Shree Janta U. Ma. Vi. School
Shree Siddheshwory Ma. Vi. School
Shree Bhagwati Ma. Vi. School
Shree Jana Bikash U. Ma. Vi. School Bhima

Transports
Hadiya - Biratnagar
Hadiya - Kathmandu
Destination to Gaighat
Some small means of transport for local places like Fatepur, Sibai, and Beltar.

Agriculture
rice
maize
sugarcane
millet
oil seeds
vegetables (local)

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District
Chaudandigadhi


Hardeni  is a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2906 people living in 523 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District


Iname is a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3256 people living in 587 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District


Jalpachilaune (ward no. 16) is a populated place located in Triyuga municipality of Udayapur District in Province No. 1 of Nepal. At the time of 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 3,864 people living in 807 individual households.

Previously, Jalpachilaune was a separate village development committee in Udayapur District of Sagarmatha Zone in Eastern Region of Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,775 people living in 495 individual households.

Fulfilling the requirement of the new Constitution of Nepal 2015, MoFALD replaced all old VDCs and Municipalities into 753 new local level body (Municipality), thus Khanbu was merged with Triyuga Municipality.

See also
Jogidaha
Saune
Khanbu

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District
Triyuga Municipality
Wards and electoral divisions of Nepal


Jante  is a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2142 people living in 385 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District


Jogidaha (ward no. 1 of Triyuga municipality) is a populated place located in Triyuga municipality of Udayapur District in Province No. 1 of Nepal. At the time of 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 6,665 people living in 1,451 individual households.

Previously, Jogidaha was a separate village development committee in Udayapur District of Sagarmatha Zone in Eastern Region. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4698 people living in 872 individual households.

Fulfilling the requirement of the new Constitution of Nepal 2015, MoFALD replaced all old VDCs and Municipalities into 753 new local level body (Municipality), thus Jogidah was merged with Triyuga Municipality. Jogidah was arranged into two wards of Triyuga municipality, some part carved out from Jogidah and merged with ward no. 2 (Motiyahi) so total area of Jogidah (Ward no. 1) remained 46.5 KM² and total population was 4059.

Administration

See also
Saune
Khanbu
Jalpachilaune

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District
Triyuga Municipality
Wards and electoral divisions of Nepal


Katari is a Municipality in Udayapur District in the Koshi province  of south-eastern Nepal.It lies by the Tawa river (formed by unification of original Tawa river and Baidhyanath river) having the bridge of length 123.5m. This was established by merging two existing village development committees i.e. Triveni and Katari on 18 May 2014. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 7230 people living in 1410 individual households. Thirty years later, Katari had undergone rapid growth, achieving a population of 56,146 people by the 2011 census.

See also
Triyuga
Belaka
Chaudandigadhi

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District
Ekhabarpatrika.com Udayapur Katari

Populated places in Udayapur District
Nepal municipalities established in 2014
Municipalities in Koshi Province
Municipalities in Udayapur District


Katunjebawala  is a village development committee in Udayapur District in Province No. 1 of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3319 people living in 539 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District
Belaka


Ibragim-Bek Sarakaev (21 September 1883 – 1934) was one of the first Chechen writers and publicists, as well as a historian on the traditions and folklore of the Chechen people.

Biography

Sarakaev was born on September 21, 1883, in a fortress of Vedeno. At the beginning of the 20th century, Sarakaev completed his education in the city of Vladikavkaz and left in 1902 to the city of Tiflis. There he began his literary and journalistic career, working in the widely known and popular magazine Caucasus. In 1907, Ibragim-Bek Sarakaev moved to Vladikavkaz and got a job in the newspaper Terek (the then-visible revolutionary Sergey Kirov worked there also). Those years he had written "Nohcho", "Chechen", "Vedanho" and many other stories which were only published in 1911–14.

He also has more than 30 materials on the Chechen Republic that discuss problems of refereeing, culture and formation development, in which it openly criticised lawlessness and an arbitrariness made by representatives of the power. Stories and such large historic-philosophical researches such as Mjuridizm, Court and Execution of Shamil and others were published as well, and under his own surname. In the same years in Vladikavkaz, two large is art-documentary works of Ibragim-Beka Sarakaeva have been printed: in 1913, the book On Slums of the Chechen Republic, and in 1914, The Chechen Republic and Capture of Shamil. They were the first books in the history of the Chechen Republic, truthfully written by the Chechen about the life of the people. In those books, the literary skill of Ibragim-Bek Sarakaeva especially showed.

After the beginning of the First World War, Sarakaev registered in the Savage division. For courage shown in fights on southwest front, Ibragim-Bek was promoted to officer, and then further served as a lieutenant colonel. He was awarded with Sacred George's awards of IV degree and Sacred Anna of II degree with swords.

In the Soviet Republic

In 1914 Ibragim-Bek Sarakaev left for war and wrote and sketched his own stories, but was dissatisfied with their quality and he seldom set them into print. For last 20 years of his life of Ibragim-Bek Sarakaev has been written a little. After the revolution of 1917, he served as the official under special commissions in the Mountain Government. In the days of the civil war, under Kirov's recommendation, Sarakaev served in the well-known XI Red Army as the vice-commander on supply. After a victory of the Soviet power in the Chechen Republic, he became the deputy chief of militia of the Chechen region. The people's Commissariat of Internal Affairs was pursued, but died a natural death in 1934. He is buried in native village Vedeno.

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1883 births
1934 deaths
Chechen writers
Writers from the Russian Empire


The National Academic Library (; abbreviated BNU) is a public library in Strasbourg, France. It is located on Place de la République, the former Kaiserplatz, and faces the Palais du Rhin.

History
After the destruction of the municipal library and the city's archives by Prussian artillery during the Siege of Strasbourg, the German Empire founded the BNU on 19 June 1872. The task of arranging its collections was given to historian and professor, Rodolphe Reuss.

It became the regional library for the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine, as, according to German tradition, every region should have at least one library. It was also an Academic library.

The collections grew quickly, thanks principally to donations from all across Europe and the United States. But, even in spite of these generous donations, many priceless manuscripts, such as the Hortus Deliciarum had been destroyed and could never be replaced.

The present-day building, which is a work of architects August Hartel and Skjold Neckelmann, was opened in 1895.

After the territory of Alsace-Lorraine had been reverted to France following World War I, the question arose as to whether or not this library should be renovated and reopened. After some hesitation, the French government decided to keep the library.

The library now holds about 3,000,000 volumes, which is the second largest collection in France. The collection contains, amongst other things, ca. 2,300 incunabula, 6,700 manuscripts (plus 29,000 others from the archives – kept by the library – of the De Turckheim family, and several other thousands from the Alsatian Franciscan order) and 5,200 papyri.

References

External links

 Official Website

Library buildings completed in 1895
Libraries in Grand Est
University of Strasbourg
Organizations based in Strasbourg
Tourist attractions in Strasbourg
Monuments historiques of Strasbourg
1895 establishments in France
Libraries established in 1872
19th-century architecture in France


Khanbu is a populated place located in Triyuga municipality of Udayapur District in Province No. 1 of Nepal. At the time of 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 4,350 people living in 782 individual households.

Previously, Khanbu was a separate village development committee in Udayapur District of Sagarmatha Zone in Eastern Region of Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,271 people living in 557 individual households.

Fulfilling the requirement of the new Constitution of Nepal 2015, MoFALD replaced all old VDCs and Municipalities into 753 new local level body (Municipality), thus Khanbu was merged with Triyuga Municipality.

See also
Jogidaha
Saune
Jalpachilaune

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District
Triyuga Municipality
Wards and electoral divisions of Nepal


Integrated project delivery (IPD) is a construction project delivery method that seeks the efficiency and involvement of all participants (people, systems, business structures and practices) through all phases of design, fabrication, and construction. IPD combines ideas from integrated practice and lean construction. The objectives of IPD are to increase productivity, reduce waste (waste being described as resources spent on activities that do not add value to the end product), avoid time overruns, enhance final product quality, and reduce conflicts between owners, architects and contractors during construction. IPD emphasizes the use of technology to facilitate communication between the parties involved in the construction process.

Background
The construction industry has suffered from a productivity decline since the 1960s while all other non-farm industries have seen large boosts in productivity.  Proponents of Integrated project delivery argue that problems in contemporary construction, such as buildings that are behind schedule and over budget, are due to adverse relations between the owner, general contractor, and architect.

Using ideas developed by Toyota in their Toyota Production System and computer technology advances, the new focus in IPD is the final value created for the owner. In essence, IPD sees all allocation of resources for any activity that does not add value to the end product (the finished building) as wasteful.

IPD in practice

In Practice, the IPD system is a process where all disciplines in a construction project work as one firm. The primary team members include the architect, key technical consultants as well as a general contractor and subcontractors. The growing use of building information modeling in the construction industry is allowing for easier sharing of information between project participants using IPD and is considered a tool to increase productivity throughout the construction process.

Unlike the design–build project delivery method which typically places the contractor in the leading role on a building project, IPD represents a return to the "master builder" concept where the entire building team including the owner, architect, general contractor, building engineers, fabricators, and subcontractors work collaboratively throughout the construction process.

Multi-Party Agreements
One common way to further the goals of IPD is through a multi-party agreement among key participants. In a multi-party agreement (MPA), the primary project participants execute a single contract specifying their respective roles, rights, obligations, and liabilities. In effect, the multi-party agreement creates a temporary virtual, and in some instances formal, organization to realize a specific project. Because a single agreement is used, each party understands its role in relationship to the other participants. Compensation structures are often open-book, so each party's interests and contributions are similarly transparent. Multi-party agreements require trust, as compensation is tied to overall project success and individual success depends on the contributions of all team members.

Common forms of multi-party agreements include
 project alliances, which create a project structure where the owner guaranteed the direct costs of non-owner parties, but payment of profit, overhead and bonus depends on project outcome;
 a single-purpose entity, which is a temporary, but formal, legal structure created to realize a specific project;
 and relational contracts, which are similar to Project Alliances in that a virtual organization is created from individual entities, but it differs in its approach to compensation, risk sharing and decision making.

The role of technology in IPD

The adoption of IPD as a standard for collaborative good practice on construction projects presents its own problems. As most construction projects involve disparate stakeholders, traditional IT solutions are not conducive to collaborative working. Sharing files behind IT firewalls, large email attachment sizes and the ability to view all manner of file types without the native software all make IPD difficult.

The need to overcome collaborative IT challenges has been one of the drivers behind the growth of online construction collaboration technology. Since 2000, a new generation of technology companies evolved using SaaS to facilitate IPD.

This collaboration software streamlines the flow of documentation, communications and workflows ensuring everyone is working from 'one version of the truth'. Collaboration software allows users from disparate locations to keep all communications, documents & drawings, forms and data, amongst other types of electronic file, in one place. Version control is assured and users are able to view and mark up files online without the need for native software.  The technology also enables project confidence and mitigates risk thanks to inbuilt audit trails.

Criticism
A significant criticism of IPD that the single-minded focus on efficiency is often associated with a lack of concern for employee safety and well-being. This led to a poor safety performance and increased stress levels among construction workers, as they strive reach higher goals with less resources.

Job Order Contracting
Job Order Contracting, JOC is form of integrated project delivery that specifically targets repair, renovation, and minor new construction.  It has proven to be capable of delivering over 90% of projects on-time, on-budget, and to the satisfaction of the owner, contractors, and customer alike.

See also
 Building information modeling
 Lean construction
 Patrick MacLeamy - the inventor of MacLeamy Curve

References

Selected articles on integrated project delivery

2017 NIBS Delivering Better Facilities through Lean Construction and Owner Leadership
Integrated Project Delivery: A Platform for Efficient Construction BuildingGreen, November 1, 2008
Another look: Is IPD the solution? Daily Journal of Commerce, Oct. 20, 2008
Just a month old, the BIM Addendum has won national endorsements Philadelphia Business Journal, Aug. 21, 2008
Integrated Project Delivery Improves Efficiency, Streamlines Construction – Lean Management Approach Eliminates Waste and Enhances Project Outcome – Tradeline, July 16, 2008
Red Business, Blue Business: If architects do not take the leadership role on integrated practice, they will cede this turf DesignIntelligence, May 30, 2008
AIA: American Institute of Architects delivers new contract documents to encourage Integrated Project Delivery architosh, May 21, 2008
AIA Introduces Integrated Project Delivery Agreements Contract Magazine, April 28, 2008
Integrated Project Delivery pulls together people, systems, business structures and practices Daily Commercial News and Construction Record, Mar. 12, 2008
New Colorado Law Permits IPD For State and Local Governments – Colorado Real Estate Journal, February 5, 2008
Changing Project Delivery Strategy – An Implementation Framework Journal of Public Works Management & Policy, Jan. 2008; vol. 12: pp. 483–502
AIA and AIA California Council Partner Introduce Integrated Project Delivery: A Guide Cadalyst, Nov. 6, 2007
The Integrated Agreement for Lean Project Delivery Construction Lawyer, American Bar Association, McDonough Holland & Allen PC, Number 3, Volume 26, Summer 2006
Managing Integrated Project Delivery CMAA College of Fellows, November 2009

External links
Governor Ritter Signs Integrated Project Delivery Bill into Colorado Law
Integrated Project Delivery: First Principles for Owners and Teams – 3xPT Strategy Group, July 7, 2008: Construction Users Roundtable (CURT), Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), American Institute of Architects
National Institute of Building Sciences – many related articles on Integrated Project Delivery, Building Information Modeling
Design Responsibility in Integrated Project Delivery: Looking Back and Moving Forward – Donovan/Hatem LLP, Jan. 2008
HOUSE BILL 07-1342 Colorado State Government, June 1, 2007

Construction
Building engineering
Design


Laphagaun was a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of Eastern Development Region of Nepal. It became part of Rautamai Rural Municipality after reconstruction of administration in Nepal.

Fulfilling the requirement of the new constitution of Nepal in 2015, all old municipalities and villages (which were more than 3900 in number) were restructured into 753 new units.

At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2468 people living in 454 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

Populated places in Udayapur District
Rautamai


Helen Knothe Nearing (February 23, 1904 – September 17, 1995) was an American author, advocate of simple living and a lifelong vegetarian.

Biography
Helen Knothe was born on February 23, 1904, in Ridgewood, New Jersey, as the daughter of Frank Knothe, who had a clothing business. She grew up in an economically comfortable family of Theosophists and was a lifelong vegetarian, which is rare. She graduated from Ridgewood High School and studied the violin internationally. As a young woman, she had a romantic relationship with Jiddu Krishnamurti.

She and Scott Nearing started a relationship in 1928 and married nearly 20 years later, on December 12, 1947, when she was 43 and he was 64. In 1934, the couple left New York City for Winhall in rural Vermont, where they had purchased a rather large forest tract for $2200 and a moderate-sized farm for $2500. They aspired to live a more “purposeful” life and improve their health while disassociating from modern society. At the homestead, they lived a largely ascetic and self-reliant life, growing much of their own food and putting up nine stone buildings over the course of two decades. Cash was earned from producing maple syrup and maple sugar from the trees on their land and from Scott Nearing's occasional paid lectures. However, in her book Meanwhile, Next Door to the Good Life, Jean Hay Bright documents that the Nearings were both subsidized by substantial inheritances which supported their forest farm. In 1934, around the time they purchased the Vermont property, Helen inherited between $30,000–$40,000 from former suitor J. J. van der Leeuw (). Scott received an inheritance from his father that was said to be "at least a million dollars" in 1940 according to Nearing's son Robert. Hay Bright's calculations make clear that while very hard working homesteaders, the Nearings never came close to supporting themselves on their "cash crops" as they state.

Organic farming
Helen and Scott Nearing left the Vermont homestead in 1952 after the area saw an increase in ski tourism, moving to a homestead in Brooksville, Maine, on Cape Rosier, where they continued growing much of their own food using organic farming practices. They cultivated blueberries as a cash crop. In 1954, the couple published Living the Good Life which inspired many young, educated Americans to create simpler, rural lifestyles and the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and 70s. In 1994, Mother Earth News called Nearing the "mother of the back to the land movement." The magazine did first interview Nearing in 1971.

Vegetarianism
Nearing was a speaker at the World Vegetarian Congress held in Sweden in 1973 and in Orono, Maine, in 1975 and hosted by the International Vegetarian Union.

In 1980, Nearing published her vegetarian cookbook Simple Food for the Good Life. In 2016, 20 years after her death, the Portland Press Herald reported: "The book, which is still in print, contains the ultra-simple recipes for which she was known (such as Simple Celery Soup, made with celery, oil, one potato, water, salt and nutmeg). It was here she famously called herself “a far-from-enthusiastic and qualified cook.”"

In the summer of 1991, Helen and Scott were inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame of the North American Vegetarian Society.

Death
Helen Nearing died in 1995 as the result of a single-car accident in Harborside, Maine. The New York Times and NPR's Living On Earth ran obituaries after her death.

Legacy and Good Life Center
The Maine estate was left for The Trust for Public Land which established the Good Life Center to continue the Nearings' legacy. The resident stewards who live on site must maintain a vegetarian diet on the property. The resident steward position has drawn participants from across the country and others have cited Nearing as inspiration for starting their own homesteads. The Thoreau Institute acquired the papers of the couple.

Published works
 The Good Life Picture Album (1974)
 Simple Food for the Good Life (1980)
 Wise Words for the Good Life (1980)
 Our Home Made of Stone (1983)
 Loving and Leaving the Good Life (1992)
 Light on Aging and Dying (1995)

Co-authored with Scott Nearing
 The Maple Sugar Book: being a plain practical account of the Art of Sugaring designed to promote an acquaintance with the Ancient as well as the Modern practise, together with remarks on Pioneering as a way of living in the twentieth century. New York: John Day Co., 1950.
 Living the Good Life (1954)
 Socialists Around the World (1958)
 Building and Using Our Sun-Heated Greenhouse (1977)
 Continuing the Good Life (1979)
 The Good Life (1989)

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1904 births
1995 deaths
20th-century American non-fiction writers
20th-century American women writers
American cookbook writers
American tax resisters
American vegetarianism activists
American women non-fiction writers
Organic farmers
People from Brooksville, Maine
Writers from Ridgewood, New Jersey
Ridgewood High School (New Jersey) alumni
Road incident deaths in Maine
Simple living advocates
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