Rob Pruitt (born 1963/1964) is an American post-conceptual artist. Working primarily in painting, installation, and sculpture, he does not have a single style or medium. He considers his work to be intensely personal and biographical.

Pruitt has exhibited extensively in New York and internationally; in 2013 the Aspen Art Museum held his mid-career retrospective.

Early life and education
Pruitt grew up in Rockville, Maryland. He attended Corcoran College of Art and Design, where he became friendly with the admissions director, Tim Gunn. Pruitt transferred to Parsons School of Design when Gunn began teaching there. During college, Pruitt lived at the Chelsea Hotel and says he focused his energy on partying rather than studying.

Artwork

Early work
Pruitt began exhibiting in the early 1990s with his then collaborator, Jack Early. After a controversial exhibition, Red, Black, Green, Red, White and Blue, at Leo Castelli Gallery their partnership disintegrated and neither had major shows for several years.

While galleries refused to represent his solo work, Pruitt contributed to a few group shows. Pieces from this time dealt with his exclusion from the art world; his first sculpture at Gavin Brown's enterprise was an Evian fountain, which, as Mia Fineman points out, is related to baptism and rebirth.

In 1998 Pruitt caused another minor scandal with a piece called Cocaine Buffet which was shown at The Fifth International, Chivas Clem's artists run space. The show was co-curated by Jennifer Bornstein.  He installed a 16-foot mirror with a line of real cocaine running down the center, in which visitors were welcome to partake.  Publicity stunt, peace offering, minimalist sculpture, or indictment of the greed and glamour of the art world, it changed the sensation associated with his name.

101 Art Ideas You Can Do Yourself
The following year Pruitt held his first solo show, “101 Art Ideas You Can Do Yourself,” where he applied humor to the genre of language-based conceptual art. The recipe-style book was filled with instructions for making and decorating such as “Paint secret paintings on walls with glow in the dark paint” and “Draw yourself into your favorite comic strip.”  Others were suggestions on how to interact with the world in a different way, like “Sit on the toilet backwards” and “Go on an animal photo safari in a city: dogs, cats, pigeons, rats, and squirrels.”

The exhibition was thirty-five of these instructions realized, including an exercise bike facing a painting and a pile of pennies on the floor. During the time he was barred from the art world, Pruitt briefly worked for Martha Stewart Living, coming up with DIY craft ideas; a DIY sensibility runs throughout his work.

Pandas
In 2001 Pruitt showed the first of the glittery panda paintings that would become his trademark.
He explains his choice of subject matter thus: “I see it as a kind of corporate damage control -- like trying to market Perrier after they found benzene in it, or Firestone tires after they exploded.  I was a reviled figure, but everybody loves a panda.” He remembers childhood visits to the giant pandas at the National Zoo.
Pruitt has made many versions his panda painting using different techniques and stylizations of the same subject matter.

Critic Michelle Grabner analyzes the panda project thus: “The paintings' clichéd imagery neutralizes their real endangered status making us less culpable in the creatures' pending extinction. And therein lies the beauty of the clichéd image." She goes on, "This appropriation of similes, once strictly the providence of kitsch, has nothing to do with blurring the distinctions between high and low. Instead, rainbows and butterflies have come to symbolize a magical new world where order is without hierarchies, edification is without snobbishness[…]Pruitt produces his art without the slightest glance of irony. He makes glamorous and admirable our drive for worldly success while commiserating with our search for inner virtue.”
Although the paintings are designed and tightly crafted, they are imperfect; the artist's hand is evident. His use of glitter has been compared to Andy Warhol's diamond dust, but Pruitt describes his own work as “basically blown up versions of dining table craft projects... I’ve really enjoyed letting the world know that not everything is so mystified or so regulated to expertise—that you can make something really beautiful with a little ingenuity and some supplies from Michael’s.”

Pruitt collaborated with Jimmy Choo in 2012 to create a line of shoes and handbags featuring panda bears and animal prints.

In 2013 Pruitt installed his "Last Panda" show at Gavin Brown's defunct bar, the Passerby. The space, which was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, provided an apocalyptic setting for his rainbow-colored work.

Flea Market
Pruitt began his Flea Market happening for the 1999 Gavin Brown summer show. He invited artist friends to set up tables and sell whatever they wanted, be it their own artwork or junk from their apartment. The gallery space became a place to socialize with the artist, creating a feeling of community between makers and sellers. The Flea Market has since been repeated at art fairs and museums.

For the market's latest iteration, Pruitt is running an eBay store, which features a curated selection from his collection of secondhand objects.
Describing shopping as a familiar, comforting activity, he regularly attends estate sales.

Art Awards
The Guggenheim approached him in 2009 to reimagine their annual fund-raising event. Instead of the usual gala, Pruitt conceived a performance piece: a tongue-in-cheek, Oscars-style award show, with nominees for categories like Solo Gallery Show of the Year, Critic of the Year, and Best New Artist.  Like much of Pruitt's work, the show falls somewhere between sincerity and parody.
Although it is not unheard of to give awards for fine art (in Britain, for example, the Tate awards the prestigious Turner Prize), Pruitt's Art Awards are not universally popular with critics. Artist of the Year Mary Heilmann describes them as “serious and deep and cheesy at the same time.”

The 2013 rendition of the art awards appeared in Art in America and featured selfies of the nominees.

Pattern and Degradation
2010 saw Pruitt's sprawling solo show “Pattern and Degradation,” which was considered confirmation of his part of the art establishment. The show was held at Gavin Brown and spilled over to the nearby gallery Maccarone Inc.

It featured brightly patterned paintings influenced by Amish quilt designs. Pruitt was inspired by the idea of rumspringa, a time when Amish youths leave their community to experience the broader world before returning to the church and responsibility. He describes an artist's life as a kind of perpetual rumspringa, less constrained as artists are from the traditional expectations of society.

The show also included humanoid monsters made out of trash, collaged self-portraits, candy-filled stacks of painted tires, and photorealistic paintings of Cinnabon cinnamon rolls with geometrically piped paint for icing. Randy Kennedy describes a unifying theme to the multivalent show: “Everything in it seems to pivot on the idea of pattern and design as a valiant but usually doomed attempt to impose some order and beauty on a random, chaotic world.”

Gradient paintings
Pruitt has made a variety of paintings with colored gradients. The “Faces” series are scrawled line drawings of features that are then transferred onto gradients and flocked. Reminiscent of emoji, each face has a distinct emotion or personality.

These developed into a later series called “The Suicide Paintings,” window-like portals consisting of pure gradients juxtaposed by a differently colored frame. While the gradients are close to perfect, they are not digitally generated. These paintings were installed with chromed television sets and stacks of black and white cubes. They look like color studies, polluted vistas, and screen savers. Critic Florence Waters describes her experience with the work: "The absence of a story is made alarming by the scale and intensity of the encounter with colour on canvas."

Other projects
Pruitt and Jonathan Horowitz collaborated on an installation piece called Peacock Hill. In 2003 they bought a ramshackle, eleven-bedroom Victorian mansion in Fleischmanns, New York, painted it black, and decorated it like a haunted house with faux taxidermy and gothic furniture. Outside they arranged a graveyard using plywood tombstones with sardonic inscriptions. Ken Johnson compared it to the self-mocking art-as-life collaborations of Gilbert and George but overall described the project, as it was presented in a 2003 exhibit at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, as "self-congratulatory."

Pruitt used tombstones again in a 2008 show where he created monuments for celebrities who had died the previous year. They were installed in a room whose walls were papered in a year's worth of iPhone photographs.

In 2011 Pruitt created "The Andy Monument" for the Public Art Fund; it is a ten-foot-tall, chrome-finished statue of Andy Warhol. The sculpture resided outside the building that housed Warhol's Factory in the 1970s and early 1980s.

In 2016, Pruitt collaborated with the retailer J. Crew to design a limited edition piece of clothing: a rash guard inspired by his color gradient work. The Rob Pruitt™ for J. Crew Rash Guard retails for $125.00, with half of the proceeds donated to charity.

A recent demonstration of his work was showcased as part of the Desert X exhibit in the Coachella Valley from February 25 - April 30, 2017.

Art market
Represented by Gavin Brown's Enterprise and Massimo De Carlo, Pruitt shows regularly at art fairs. He is also known for throwing parties; on April 20, 2013 he turned MOCA's annual gala into a weed-themed bacchanalia, which raised over two million dollars.

In June 2013 his work set a record price  at a Christie's charity auction when a panda painting sold for $315,000, over twice its estimated value.

Personal life
Pruitt currently resides in New York City with his partner Jonathan Horowitz, who is also an artist.

Published works

External links
Official website
The Rob Pruitt Flea Market on eBay
The Rob Pruitt Book Club on eBay
Gavin Brown's Enterprise
Massimo de Carlo

References

American contemporary artists
1960s births
Parsons School of Design alumni
Living people
Post-conceptual artists


Plaster is a Canadian electro-jazz/electro-rock band formed in 2001 in Montreal.  Their sound has been compared to such artists as Amon Tobin, Kruder & Dorfmeister and Medeski Martin & Wood.  The trio's debut album, First Aid Kit, was released on Nov 10, 2005 and won the ADISQ award for Best Electronic or Techno Album in 2006.

History
Keyboardist Alex McMahon and percussionist Jean-Philippe Goncalves (also of Afrodizz and Beast) met while attending the Cégep de Drummondville. The pair formed Plaster in 2001 and were joined by bassist François Plante (also of Afrodizz) a year later.

The trio's name is derived from a slang term in Québécois for an adhesive bandage and its sound has been described as a mixture of electro-jazz, funk, and drum and bass  (however Goncalves has stated in an interview that he finds the term "electro-jazz" to be somewhat pejorative and described their sound as "electro-chunky-jam".)  Their sound is at times atmospheric, much like movie soundtracks; in a 2005 interview with the Montreal Gazette, McMahon stated that Plaster was interested in composing a movie score, but the band was still waiting on proposal. Their live performances are improvisational and have been described as having the energy of a rock show.  As per Plaster's biography from its official press kit, the band's sound is inspired by the music of Amon Tobin, The Herbaliser, Jazzanova, The Cinematic Orchestra, and Medeski Martin & Wood.

Plaster's debut album First Aid Kit was released on November 10, 2005. The album was originally to be released on the London label Ninja Tune, but due to frustration with the label's push-back of the release date they decided instead to sign with local label La Tribu.  The First Aid Kit release party, held at Montreal nightclub La Tulipe, was a great success; much to their own surprise the band opened to a capacity crowd and sold all the CDs they had on hand that night.  In 2006 First Aid Kit went on to win the ADISQ award for Best Electronic or Techo Album.

In 2005 the band also collaborated with Lauryn Hill; Hill was in Montreal looking for collaborators for a new project she was developing. Goncalves was invited to audition for her and to demonstrate his programming expertise.  He returned the next day for another session when a producer in attendance mentioned that Goncalves also played drums. Goncalves advised Hill that he was a member of a band and an hour later he was joined by his Plaster bandmates. During an interview with the Montreal Gazette Goncalves said of the experience: "We recorded until 6 in the morning, and then she left for New York City."  "It was 12 intense hours with la reine de R&B soul (the queen of R&B soul)," said McMahon. The pair were however would not elaborate much more on the collaboration.  "We had a lot of fun with her, but it's a delicate topic. I don't know what to say. It was nice," said Goncalves.

In 2011 the band returned to the studio to work on their second album.  In an interview with La Presse Goncalves stated that whereas Plaster's first album could be described as electro-jazz, their second album could be described as electro-rock. Titled Let It All Out, the album was released on May 15, 2012 and debuted at number 43 in Canada.

References

External links
Official website
Plaster on Myspace

Musical groups established in 2001
Musical groups from Montreal
Canadian electronic music groups
2001 establishments in Quebec


Lost Horizon is a fantasy adventure novel by James Hilton.

Lost Horizon or Lost Horizons may also refer to:

Film and television
Lost Horizon (1937 film), an adaptation of the novel
Lost Horizon (1973 film), a remake of the 1937 film
"Lost Horizon" (Mad Men), an episode of the television series Mad Men

Music
Lost Horizon (band), a Swedish metal band
Lost Horizons (Lemon Jelly album), 2002
Lost Horizons (Luca Turilli's Dreamquest album), 2006
Lost Horizons (Abney Park album), 2008
"Lost Horizons" (Gin Blossoms song), 1992

Other uses
Lost Horizon (video game), an adventure game by Animation Arts


Bobby Stuart (9 October 1913 – 1987) was a professional footballer who played as a defender for Middlesbrough, Plymouth Argyle and Whitby Town. He was born in Middlesbrough, England.

Bobby Stuart gained 3 England International caps as a Schoolboy, from the age of 14 (All Wins) (played then at Half back).

Signed amateur for Middlesbrough FC aged 15, Professional at 17 and made his debut for Middlesbrough at Highbury against Arsenal at 19. As the last line of defence, during the 1934–35 season, he scored 5 own goals against Middlesbrough playing in Left back position.

Towards the end of the 1938 season Middlesbrough played Stoke who then had the legendary Stanley Matthews on the right wing. The match report stated  'Stuart staying close to Matthews prevented the maestro performing his usual magic.'  When questioned how he  managed to achieve the feat he stated "I respected Stanley's skill so I just kept my eye on the ball and shuffled him into the corner", this allowing the defence to be ready to manage any eventual cross.'

He continued in the Left back position until the outbreak of World War II when he joined the RAF as L.A.C.
Post  war he played for 'The Boro' from 1945 to 1947 before being transferred to Plymouth Argyle till 1949.

He made over 250 appearances for Middlesbrough who at the time were in Division 1 (now the Premiership).

He was said to be one of the hardest kickers of a dead ball with either foot and although playing Left back for most of his (leather) footballing life he played Centre half as a Schoolboy and in the RAF.

He was also credited with being the fastest fullback in English football an attribute he passed on to his Granddaughter  Louise Collins (née Stuart) who competed at 200m in the 24th Olympiad in the Seoul Olympics for Great Britain in 1988.

1913 births
1987 deaths
Footballers from Middlesbrough
English men's footballers
English Football League players
Men's association football fullbacks
Middlesbrough F.C. players
Plymouth Argyle F.C. players
Whitby Town F.C. players
Royal Air Force airmen
Royal Air Force personnel of World War II


Sjúrður (or Sigurd), was, around the year 1300, lawman of Shetland and was also possibly lawman of the Faeroe Islands.

Sjúrður was, together with Bishop Erlendur, co-author of the Faeroese Seyðabrævið in 1298 - a document with land use rules for the Faeroe Islands, and the Faeroes' oldest document.

References

Faroese people of Scottish descent
Lawmen of the Faroe Islands
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
People associated with Shetland


Philip A. Kaufman (Phil Kaufman) (1942 – July 17, 1992) was an American engineer, the namesake of the Phil Kaufman Award, a prestigious award in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry.

He was president and CEO of Quickturn Systems, ex-chief of Silicon Compiler Systems. He died unexpectedly on his business trip to Japan in 1992.

References

Electronic design automation people
20th-century American engineers
1942 births
1992 deaths


TroopTube was an online video site from the U.S. military via their organization Military OneSource, to help military families connect and keep in touch while miles apart. TroopTube allowed people to register as members of one of the branches of the armed forces, family, civilian Defense Department employees or supporters. Members could upload personal videos from anywhere with an Internet connection. The videos were reviewed for content based on the terms of service before being posted to the site.

In May, 2009, TroopTube was recognized by the White House Office of New Media  as an innovative way for people to connect with troops, and was featured in a video produced by the White House. While access to TroopTube is blocked at some military bases, it was accessible via many other military bases and available to military families around the world. The site was based on technology developed by Delve Networks.

On July 31, 2011, the Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense closed the TroopTube web site citing declining usage as a result of the DoD's social media policy implemented in February 2010, permitting wider access to social media and video sharing websites.

References

External links
 White House
 TroopTube

United States Department of Defense
Video hosting
Defunct video on demand services
Internet properties established in 2008


This is a list of laws, court cases and reports on LGBT rights in Ireland.

An act for the punishment of the vice of buggery 1634
This was an act of the Irish Parliament which copied the Buggery Act 1534 as passed by the English parliament. This act made the death penalty the punishment upon conviction. The act did not define what buggery meant but it was widely understood to mean male to male penetrative sexual acts as well as sexual acts with animals.

Offences Against the Person (Ireland) Act 1829
This act restated that buggery was to be punished by the death penalty.

Offences Against the Person Act 1861

This act updated and streamlined the criminal law of Great Britain and Ireland. It outlawed many forms of practices including 'buggery' or male-to-male penetrative sex. The punishment was life imprisonment or a jail sentence of not less than 10 years. It abolished the death penalty for such acts, which had been law up to this point.

Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885

Commonly known as the Labouchere Amendment. This act outlawed what was termed "acts of gross indecency" between men both in public and in private. The definition was vague and included intimate acts falling short of penetrative sex between two men. Male to male sex was illegal under previous law but it was very narrowly interpreted by the courts. Usually, the courts required that penetration to have occurred for 'buggery' to have taken place. This new act made it much easier to punish the intimate acts of men together. The penalty was a maximum of two years imprisonment. The Irish author and dramatist Oscar Wilde was convicted in England under this act.

Vagrancy Act 1898
This prohibited soliciting or importuning for immoral purposes. It was originally intended as a measure against male to female prostitution, however, in practice, these measures were almost solely applied to male-to-male sex acts.

Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 1912
This allowed flogging to be used as a punishment for existing crimes in regards to sexual offences.

Criminal Law Bill 1921
Proposed to extend the provision criminalising gross indecency between males to gross indecency between females. This bill was dropped due to those who felt that to even criminalise female-to-female sex acts would draw attention to these acts and publicise them. As a result, female-to-female sex acts were legal, unlike male-to-male sex acts.

Norris v. the Attorney General (1980) (High Court)
David Norris, later to become a senator for Trinity College, Dublin and presidential candidate, took the Attorney General to the High Court over the criminalisation of male-to-male sex. He argued that the law infringed on his right to privacy to have consensual sex with a man and that since the introduction of the Constitution of Ireland the law passed under British rule became repugnant to the constitution. The High Court ruled against Norris. He appealed his case to the Supreme Court.

Norris v. the Attorney General (1983) (Supreme Court)
Having lost his High Court case Norris appealed his case to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the law by a three to two verdict.

Health (Family Planning) (Amendment) Act 1985
This act legalised the manufacture, sale, and importation of condoms in Ireland. Prior to this condoms were banned under the law. The law was changed to allow condoms in order to help protect the health and lives of gay men during the AIDS crisis.

Norris v. Ireland (1988) (European Court of Human Rights)

Having lost the Supreme Court case Norris took his case to the European Court of Human Rights. The European Court struck down the law criminalising male-to-male sex on the grounds of privacy. It was held that this infringed on the right of adults to engage in acts of their own choice. Irish law was regarded as too narrow and extreme.

Regulations regarding sexual orientation in the Irish Civil Service (1988)
These regulations affected the terms and conditions of employment of civil servants. These regulations prohibited discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or if a person was HIV positive.

Prohibition of Incitement To Hatred Act 1989
Prohibited inciting hatred on various grounds including a person's sexual orientation. This was the first piece of legislation to actually provide some protection gays and lesbians.

Video Recordings Act 1989

This act regulates the sale and supply of video recordings. It allows the Censor to suppress videos that are likely to stir up hatred against a person or group of persons on account of their sexual orientation as well as on other grounds.

Child Care Act 1991
This act regulates the service of fostering. This act permits same-sex couples to apply jointly for fostering. This may not have been intended at the time to permit same-sex couples to foster children, however, it has since become practice to allow same-sex couple to foster.

Adoption Act 1991
Up until this act, an adoption could only be granted to a married couple living together, the natural parents of the child, a relative of the child or a widow or widower. This act allowed a person not related to the child to adopt provided the Adoption Board was satisfied that this was in the best interests of the child. This meant that a single person irrespective of their sexual orientation could adopt a child. Presumably, this was to take place in exceptional circumstances. Same-sex and opposite-sex cohabiting couples were not permitted to apply for adoption. This has since been changed by the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993
Decriminalised acts of male-to-male sex. This act repealed the sections of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 on buggery over the age of 17 thereby setting an equal age of consent for same-sex or opposite-sex sexual intercourse. It also repealed as a whole the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, thereby abolishing 'acts of gross indecency between males' in law.

Unfair Dismissals (Amendment) Act 1993
Prohibited dismissing an employee on a number of grounds including sexual orientation.

Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 1993

This act provided the legal basis for social welfare payments and consolidated all previous acts regarding social welfare into one act. This act allowed for some social welfare payments to be given to cohabiting opposite-sex couples. Same-sex couples were not recognised and thus were unable to apply for any social welfare payments as a couple.

Health Insurance Act 1994

This act prohibited health insurance companies from varying their premiums on the grounds of a person's sexual orientation.

Domestic Violence Act 1996
Allows for a partner in a same-sex cohabiting relationship to apply for safety order or an interim protection order but does not allow for a permanent barring order which was at the time available to married couples and opposite-sex couples. This has since been changed. See Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011 below. Also see Domestic Violence Bill 2017

Powers of Attorney Act 1996
Widened a person's right to grant power of attorney beyond their family or next of kin. A person could grant power of attorney to another person i.e. their partner where that person becomes unable to make decisions for themselves due to mental incapacity. This law has since been amended by the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015.

Refugee Act 1996
Allowed refugee status to be conferred on an individual on the basis of a fear of persecution arising from their sexual orientation.

Freedom of Information Act 1997

This act allows the general public to have access to information and records kept about them by the civil service, state agencies and by private companies. The act allows information on a person's sexual orientation to be kept on record and to be shared.

Treaty of Amsterdam 1997

Sexual orientation was included amongst the grounds for prohibiting discrimination at work. In order to ratify the Treaty of Amsterdam, a referendum had to be held to amend the Irish constitution. The Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland amended the constitution in order to allow the state to ratify the Treaty of Amsterdam.

British-Irish Agreement 1998

The British-Irish Agreement provided the legal basis for the Good Friday Agreement. In the Good Friday Agreement, the British government gave a commitment to establish a Human Rights Commission for Northern Ireland. It also committed all public bodies to carry out their duties with due regard for the need to promote equality of opportunity on nine grounds including sexual orientation. The Irish government gave a similar commitment. The Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland allowed the Irish state to ratify the British-Irish Agreement.

Employment Equality Act 1998
Prohibited discrimination at work on a number of grounds including sexual orientation. The act covered aspects such as terms and conditions in employment contracts; promotion and demotion; harassment at work; indirect discrimination; pay and work conditions; membership of unions and professional bodies; and participating in training courses. Mechanisms were put in place to ensure the enforcement of this Act. A person can seek mediation or adjudication with the Equality Authority or go to the Equality Tribunal for a binding ruling which can only be appealed to the courts on a point of law. Under Section 37(1) as enacted, a religious institution that provided religious, educational or medical services enjoyed a broad exemption from this act, allowing religious-run schools and hospitals to take action against an employee or prospective employee in order to uphold their ethos. Since 98% of primary schools and 52% of secondary schools are religious run, this meant that up until 2015 a school could legally discriminate against a gay or lesbian employee. Section 37.1 was amended to narrow the grounds for legal discrimination by the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015.

Equal Status Act 2000
Prohibited discrimination on many grounds, including sexual orientation, in the provision of services and goods by commercial companies as well as by state institutions such as the civil service and state agencies. It covered a wide area of services such as financial produces–mortgages, savings, loans; access to building and clubs and societies–not be allowed to be told to leave on the grounds on ones sexual orientation from a nightclub etc.; the state through it civil service and its various agencies could not discriminate in matter such as–granting loans or grants to university, providing an individual dole to other social assistant; in terms of renting property a landlord could not refuse to offer accommodation to a gay man or couple or evict them on that basis. The Act also empowered the Equality Authority to monitor and enforce the law regarding equality in both the provision of goods and services and employment. A person can take a case to the Equality Tribunal in the event of discrimination occurring.

Finance Act 2000
Allowed cohabiting couples either same-sex or opposite-sex to apply for relief on Capital Acquisitions Tax on their property in limited circumstances.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2001
This restated the prohibition of discrimination in the provision of health insurance on the grounds of sexual orientation under the Health Insurance Act 1994. This applies to individuals and not same-sex couples.

Implementing Equality for Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals 2002
In a wide-ranging report on the situation of gays and lesbian in Ireland, the Equality Authority made many recommendations for change across many areas. Most of its recommendations were non-statutory. It called for all policies of the government departments to be equality proofed on the grounds of sexual orientation. It called for many changes needed to help benefit gays and lesbians for example hospital visits of partners of same-sex couples, provision of services where the provider are ignorant or unaware of the needs of gays and lesbians. It also called on for civil marriage to be widened to also for same-sex couples to marry. It also called on for civil partnership laws to be introduced if same-sex marriage is not allowed.

European Arrest Warrants Act 2003
This act gave legal effect to the EU Framework Decision on the issuing of European Arrest Warrants. A European arrest warrant applies to all of the EU. However, the Minister for Justice can refuse to surrender a person if it is believed that the European arrest warrant was issued in order to punish that person on the grounds of their sexual orientation as well as on other discriminatory grounds.

Civil Registration Act 2004
Placed a bar on the ability of two men or two women from entering into marriage. This reinforced the common law understanding, at the time, that marriage is between one man and one woman. This act allowed for marriages (between a man and a woman) to take place in other locations than a church and a registry office. This bar has since been removed by the Marriage Act 2015.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004
This act prohibited unfair discrimination in the provision of occupational pensions on the grounds of sexual orientation. This related to individuals only. This does not make a requirement for pension schemes to pay a death grant to the surviving partner of a same-sex relationship. This has been partially amended with the enactment of civil partnership and the enactment of marriage for same-sex couples. Married same-sex couples and civil partners are in general entitled by law to a death grant from an occupational pension scheme where that scheme does the same for married opposite-sex couples. A same-sex cohabiting couple do not enjoy this protection.

Equality Act 2004
Allows for positive action to be taken in the workforce in order to promote greater equality on all nine grounds as outlined in the act including sexual orientation. It also closes a loophole in regards to harassment whereby a person does not have to have the characteristics imputed to them in a situation of harassment. For example, if a person is subject to homophobic jokes but that person is not gay or lesbian they may take legal action to redress the harassment. Another new provision covers people who suffer from discrimination by association. Such persons can make a case even if they do not fall into one of the nine specific groups which are covered under the legislation. For example, someone who defends a co-work who is gay from harassment could, in turn, suffer from harassment, that person can take a case to the Equality Tribunal. Another development deals with indirect discrimination where a particular measure while appearing neutral on the face of it, has a disproportionate impact on a particular group or individual in the workplace. Companies are required to monitor the impact of their policies on their employers and adjust their policies to cater for different needs of their employees.

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005
This act restated the limit contained in the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 1993 prohibiting the granting of social welfare payments to same-sex couples. Some social welfare payments were given to opposite-sex cohabiting couples while more were given to married couples as well as widows and widowers. This has since been changed by the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010. (see below)

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006
This abolished the legal concept of buggery under the age of 17 and replaced it with a new offence of 'defilement of a child'. Buggery over the age of 17 had been abolished by the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993. The term 'defilement of a child' was gender neutral and this covered sexual intercourse with any person under the age of 17. Sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 15 carries a penalty of life imprisonment, while sexual intercourse with a person between the ages of 15 and 17 carries a penalty of 5 years or 10 if the person is in a position of authority.

Zappone v. Revenue Commissioners (2006) (High Court)

Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan, who got married in Canada and lived in Ireland, took the Revenue Commissioners to court since they refused to recognise their Canadian marriage and for refusing to grant them joint tax assessment. Married couples in Ireland are entitled to have their income jointly assessed as this reduces the overall amount of tax paid. The couple argued that marriage is not defined in the constitution to specify either same sex or opposite sex. They also argued that their rights were being infringed by the lack of recognition of their marriage. The High Court rejected the arguments of the couple. Ms. Justice Dunne did accept that the Irish Constitution does not define marriage as between opposite-sex couples, however, she argued that marriage was traditionally understood to be between a man and a woman and that this understanding of marriage ran through all court cases and legislation about the rights and duties of married couples. Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan initially decided to appeal their case to the Supreme Court. However, they decided to change the grounds of their challenge and this required them to issue a new legal challenge in the High Court. In their original case, they did not challenge the constitutionality of the Civil Registration Act 2004 which put into law an impediment on two couples of the same sex from getting married. After the opening up of marriage to same-sex couples under the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland and the Marriage Act 2015, their case became moot.

Options Paper (2006) (Dept. of Justice, Equality and Law Reform)
This was drafted by a working group of former politicians, civil servant and members from relevant NGOs. This working group was established by the then Minister for Justice, Equality, and Law Reform. It was chaired by Anne Colley. This paper examined the various options open to the government in regards to legal recognition of cohabiting couples, both same-sex and opposite-sex. It acknowledged that only the introduction of same-sex marriage would grant full equality for same-sex couples. However, the introduction of same-sex marriage would be constitutionally vulnerable. It recommended that civil partnership be introduced for same-sex couples.

Report on Cohabiting couples by the Law Reform Commission 2006

In this report, the Law Reform Commission suggested a scheme whereby same-sex and opposite-sex couples who lived together for 3 years (2 years if they have a child) could make arrangements or sign a legally binding contract in regards to taxation, pensions, inheritance, custody and other matters between themselves. Married couples automatically have a wide range of rights, protections, and duties under the law. Same-sex couples, who at the time could not marry, and opposite-sex couples who live together but who choose not to marry do not benefit from many of these rights unless specifically provided so by law. There were very few rights at the time conferred by law to such couples. The report did not propose a scheme such as civil partnership as this would prescribe a fixed bundle of rights and duties and would require cohabiting couples to opt-in. Instead, each couple would be free to sign a cohabiting contract that would have the force of law. On the death or break up of a relationship one or both of the parties could apply to court to get various court orders for payment or property if they are economically dependent. The report recommended that cohabiting couples should have the right to opt out of this arrangement but the courts could lay aside this opt-out if it was judged that this opt-out would cause injustice to a former cohabitant. In this report, the Law Reform Commission repeats the recommendations it gave in its previous consultation paper issued in 2004 but the Commission strengthened the recommendations to allow for a wider range of protections especially those affecting pensions and employment law. It contained a draft bill to allow for the legal recognition of cohabiting couples. Almost all of this draft bill was included as Part 15 of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010.

Parental Leave (Amendment) Act 2006
Entitles a person to take  leave which is paid time off work to care for their same-sex partner and to make arrangements to have them taken care off in the event of a sudden illness or in an emergency. This did not cover parental leave which was only available to married couples and opposite-sex cohabiting couples until 2016. See Paternity Leave and Benefit Act 2016.

European Communities (Free Movement of Persons) Regulations 2006
This statutory instrument put into law the EU directive 2004/38/EC. It allows same-sex couples where one person is an EEA national and the other who is a non-EEA national to live in Ireland without the requirement of getting a work permit. The same-sex couple had to be in a relationship for 2 years and the relationship had to be attestable, that is there is proof that the relationship was genuine. This did not cover Irish nationals who were in a relationship with a non-EEA national. In 2008 this loophole was closed and non-EEA national who is cohabiting with an Irish national is not required to get a work permit.

Treaty of Lisbon 2007
The Treaty of Lisbon was signed in 2007 and came into legal effect on 1 December 2009. In order for the Irish state to ratify the treaty the constitution had to be amended and this required a referendum to be held. The Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland amended the constitution to permit ratification. The Treaty of Lisbon gives legal effect to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. This Charter prohibits any discrimination in the workplace on the grounds of sexual orientation. The Charter is limited in its application to areas of law within the competencies of the EU. It is unclear what consequences this will have vis-á-vis Section 37(1) of the Employment Equality Act 1998 which grants an exemption to religious-run institution to discriminate legally in order to uphold the ethos of their institution.

Foy v. An t-Ard Chlaraitheoir (2007) (High Court)

Lydia Foy was born male and had a gender reassignment operation in 1992. She had sought to get the Registrar General to recognise her change of gender and issue a new birth certificate in her correct gender. The Registrar General refused to do this. Lydia Foy took the state to the High Court seeking an order to compel the Registrar General to issue a new birth certificate. The initial case was heard in 2000 and in 2002 a judgment was handed down. The High Court refused to order the Registrar General to issue a new birth certificate. Lydia Foy appealed the case to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, a number of other legal developments occurred. In 2002 the European Court of Justice heard a similar case about a transgender woman in the Christine Goodwin v. UK and the European Court of Justice ordered the UK government to recognise Christine Goodwin's new gender and issue a birth certificate. Also, Ireland ratified the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in 2003 and brought its provisions into domestic law. Lydia Foy brought fresh proceedings in the High Court arguing that her rights under the convention were being breached. In 2007 the High Court found in favour of Lydia Foy and declared that Ireland's law was incompatible with the ECHR and ordered that a new birth certificate be issued to Lydia Foy. The state did seek to appeal the case but in 2010 it dropped the appeal and accepted the outcome.

Passports Act 2008

This allowed the Passport Office to change the gender on a passport if a person had a gender reassignment operation. This was a first time in law that transgender persons were recognised.

Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act 2008

With this act, Ireland ratified a number of international conventions on the cooperation of justice systems concerning the arrest and extradition of criminals within the EU, with the United States, and under UN conventions. The Irish state can refuse to provide cooperation if the Minister for Justice believes that to do so will result in a person been punished on the grounds of their sexual orientation.

McD v. L (High Court) (2008)
In this case, a lesbian couple P.L. and B.M. had a child using sperm donated by J.McD. a gay friend of theirs. They had arranged a contract with J.McD. The role of J.McD. was to act as an 'uncle' to the child but not be involved in the daily life of the child. J.McD. went to court to establish guardianship over the child, as its natural father. The High Court refused J.McD.'s application. The High Court upheld the contract agreed by P.L. and B.M. and granted them sole guardianship and custody of the child at the centre of the case. Significantly the High Court acknowledged the lesbian couple and their child as a de facto family who enjoyed the rights granted to families under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The judge also called upon the Oireachtas to legislate for same-sex couple who raise children and recognise them as families.

European Communities (Free Movement of Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
This amended the 2006 regulations. It removed the requirement that a same-sex couple with one of the partners being a non-EEA national must have been resident in another member state in order to move to Ireland. This meant that an Irish citizen and his or her same-sex partner could move to Ireland. This change of law came about as a result of the Metock Case which was decided at the European Court of Justice.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009

This restated the ban on varying health insurance premiums on the grounds of sexual orientation and on other grounds. It is a similar provision to the Health Insurance Act 1994 and the Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2001.

McD v. L (Supreme Court) (2009)

The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the High Court. McD was not granted guardianship over the child as its natural father. The Supreme Court held that the family based on marriage was the only family type that is given constitutional recognition and thus refused to recognise the lesbian couple in this case as a family.

Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010

The Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 allows for same-sex couples to enter a civil partnership on the same terms as married couples. The act deals with a number of areas such as succession of property, pension entitlements, domestic violence, and maintenance in the event of a breakdown of a relationship. The social welfare benefits and the tax entitlements of civil partners were dealt with in other pieces of legislation (see the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010 and the Finance (No. 3) Act 2011). The act makes provision for recognition in Ireland of same-sex marriages and civil partnerships performed abroad, however, such unions will only be recognised as civil partners only. The act does not deal with residency of same-sex couples that wish to become civil partnered in Ireland. Civil partners must wait 2 years to get their partnership dissolved. Judicial separation is not allowed. Civil partners were not allowed at the time to adopt jointly through one civil partner was allowed to adopt a child as a single person. Also at the time, civil partners could not have joint guardianship over any children they raised together. This has since been changed under the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015. The first public civil partnerships took place in April 2011. With the passing of the marriage equality referendum, the law has changed and same-sex couples cannot now enter a civil partnership. See Marriage Act 2015.

The act also provides for legal recognition of cohabiting couples, both opposite-sex and same-sex, where they have been together for 5 years or 2 years if they have a child in common. Cohabiting couples are able to enter into a legally enforceable written contract where they can arrange their affairs on finance and property. Prior to this act, the courts refused to regard any contract between cohabiting couples as legally enforceable. Where a cohabitation relationship ends on breakdown or on death one or both of the cohabitants can apply to court to get a maintenance order, property adjustment order, pension adjustment order and other such orders that married couples can get when they are separating or divorcing, provided that the person bringing the case is or was economically dependent on the other cohabitant.

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010
Under this act Civil partners are treated the same as married couples and are entitled to all benefits that married couples can get. Same-sex cohabiting couples are entitled to claim benefits as a 'Qualified Adult' on the same basis as cohabiting opposite-sex couples. Since the coming into effect of this Act same-sex cohabiting couples will have their income jointly assessed when claiming social welfare. Since 2010 civil partners and married couples have been treated the same under subsequent acts on social welfare.

Finance (No. 3) Act 2011
This act grants civil partners the same tax entitlements as married coupled in income tax, stamp duty (which covers the buying and selling of homes), capital acquisitions tax (which covers the inheritance of property), capital gains tax, value-added tax (VAT) and other taxes and fees. This act covers civil partners only. Same-sex cohabiting couples are not entitled to the same range of tax entitlements and must enter a civil marriage or have entered into a civil partnership to avail of this. Some of the tax entitlements of civil partners have been made retrospective to 1 January 2011 such as capital acquisitions tax and stamp duty. Relief on income tax starts from the date of entry into a civil partnership. Married couples are treated in the same way as they gain relief on income tax from the date of marriage.

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011
This is an omnibus act covering many areas. It amends the Domestic Violence Act 1996. A person who is living or has lived in an intimate and committed same-sex or opposite-sex relationship will be able to apply for a barring order or a safety order. This expands the grounds of relief that a person can get. Previously same-sex couples could only get temporary relief such as stopping orders and interim protection orders. Also, this act will also allow a person to apply for a safety order against a person with whom he or she had a child in common but who have never lived together.

Finance Act 2012

This act amended the tax code to correct some anomalies between civil partnership and marriage. For example, civil partners might have had to pay tax on any maintenance payments where there is a child or other dependent involved due to separation or divorce. Married couples do not have to pay tax in this circumstance.

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency) Act 2012

This act gives the same protections to persons employed by an agency as to those who are directly employed on a temporary basis. The protections on unfair discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and other grounds is the same for agency workers as it is for other employees.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2012

This act prohibits the varying of the terms of health insurance policies or the premiums on the grounds of sexual orientation. This is similar to the Health Insurance Act 1994, the Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2001, and the Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2009.

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013

This act corrected very minor anomalies between the treatment of married couples and civil partners.

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013

This act allowed the press to attend family law cases provided the anonymity of the persons involved is respected. Up until then, all family law cases were held in private. If sensitive personal information is to be shared, the court can refuse the press entry or restrict the publication of any information shared in the court. Information relating to a person's sexual orientation is regarded as sensitive personal information.

Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014

This act merged the Irish Human Rights Commission and the Equality Authority together into one body known as the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. This act required that as far as possible members of the commission are drawn from the various minority groups including members from the gay and lesbian community.

Freedom of Information Act 2014

This act allows the general public to have access to information and records kept about them by the civil service, state agencies and by private companies. The act allows information on a person's sexual orientation or their civil status (i.e. that they are married or in a civil partnership) to be kept on record and to be shared. The original Freedom of Information Act 1997 was amended in 2003 to restrict the information shared and to increase the charges on members of the press and public in accessing information on record. The 2014 act reversed many of the restrictions introduced in 2003.

Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014

This inserted new provisions to prevent civil partnerships of convenience and it allows for civil partnership ceremonies to take place in the embassies of Ireland.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015

This act covers married couples, civil partners, cohabiting couples and people in other types of relationships (both intimate and non-intimate) and single people.

Children and Family Relationships Act 2015

This act is wide-ranging in its reform of the law regarding children. It provided for the legal regulation and recognition of donor-assisted human reproduction. It changed the law on guardianship of children. Before the act married parent automatically had guardianship rights over their children and the natural mother had automatic guardianship rights. The natural father did not have automatic guardianship rights although he could go to court to establish those rights or the natural mother could extend those rights to him by statutory declaration. This act automatically gives guardianship rights to natural fathers provided that they have been cohabiting with the natural mother for at least 3 months after the birth of a child in common. It also allows same-sex couples, either in a civil partnership or cohabiting, to apply for guardianship rights over any child they are raising together. It also allows for other relatives of a child such as, grandparents, aunts, uncles to also apply for guardianship rights over a child they are raising. The act changed the law on adoption and civil partners and cohabiting couples (either opposite-sex or same-sex) can apply for adoption after they have been living together for 3 years. The act extends adoption leave to civil partners and to cohabiting couples. This act has been modified by the Adoption (Amendment) Act 2017.

Gender Recognition Act 2015

The Gender Recognition Act 2015 provides for the legal recognition of a binary transgender person's name and gender on the basis of self-declaration. A person who wishes to change their legal gender must complete a statutory declaration that they intend to live in the new gender for the rest of their life, after which a Gender Recognition Certificate is issued to the applicant. This certificate entitles a person to have important documentation changed to reflect their new name and gender such as birth certificates and passports. In general, a person must be over the age of 18 to get a certificate, however an exemption to this can be granted by the courts to a person over the age of 16 on receipt of certain medical documentation.

Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Act 2015

This act amended the Constitution of Ireland to enable the Oireachtas to pass legislation in order to allow two persons, irrespective of their sex, to get married. The constitution was amended by the insertion of Section 4 of Article 41, stating 'Marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex'. The proposal was put to the people in a referendum and it was carried with 60% of the electorate voting, 62% voting Yes and 38% voting No.

Marriage Act 2015
The Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution required the Oireachtas to pass a law allowing same-sex couples the right to get married. The Marriage Act 2015 fulfills this requirement and commenced on 16 November 2015. Same-sex couples who wish to marry will have to give 3 months notice, the same as opposite-sex couples. Same-sex couples who entered a civil partnership will remain in that civil partnership. Same-sex couples who are already in a civil partnership can get married by giving 5 days notice. Should any couple in a civil partnership get married then their civil partnership is dissolved. Same-sex couples who got married abroad have had their marriages recognised from 16 November 2015. Since the coming into legal effect of the Marriage Act 2015 same-sex couples are not allowed to enter into a civil partnership in Ireland. The first same-sex couple to get married took place on 17 November 2015. The situation regarding same-sex couples who enter into a civil partnership abroad since 16 November 2015 is unclear as to whether their relationship will be recognised as marriage or as a civil partnership.

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015

This act is an omnibus piece of legislation and amends various unrelated laws. This act amends Section 37.1.  Section 37.1 as previously worded allowed a religious institution that provides religious, educational or medical services the right to legally discriminate against their employees in order to uphold their ethos. Given that some hospitals and many nursing homes, as well as 98% of primary schools and 52% of secondary schools, are religious run, then a gay or a lesbian teacher, doctor or nurse could have been discriminated against as their sexual orientation could have been seen to undermine the ethos of the school or hospital. This act narrows the scope of Section 37.1. It requires that any employer who wishes to use Section 37.1 must satisfy three tests. These tests are that (1) religion is a genuine occupational requirement of the position, (2) the action is objectively justified and (3) the means of achieving the aim are appropriate and necessary. Any action to take place under Section 37.1 must be about the conduct of the employee and not about their sexual orientation. Also, employees who work in religious-run institutions enjoy a right to privacy.

European Communities (Free Movement of Persons) Regulations 2015

This regulation transposes into Irish law the EU Directive 2004/38/EC. This provides an updated regulation on the right of residency. The Regulations provide for the facilitation of entry and residence for EU citizens and their family members. The Regulations also provide for a wider definition of "family member", to include a partner with whom the EU citizen has a durable relationship, duly attested, and the dependent parents, children under 21 and other dependent children of that partner. This does not involve the recognition of such partnerships for other purposes.

International Protection Act 2015
A person can claim asylum based on fear of prosecution arising from their sexual orientation.

LGBT Youth Strategy

As part of its programme for government, the newly elected minority government has promised to devise an LGBT Youth Strategy. The strategy is to focus on equality of opportunities, education, preventative health care, and support services. The Programme for Government states ‘We will develop an LGBT Youth Strategy that will encompass education, youth services, mental health and other issues. As part of this strategy, we will review the implementation of the National Action Plan on Bullying in our schools.’ The Minister for Children Katherine Zappone in May 2016 stated that she hoped the LGBT Youth Strategy would be published in one years time.

Paternity Leave and Benefit Act 2016

This extends paternity leave from 3 days to 2 weeks. It allows paternity leave to be combined with maternity leave and adoptive leave in certain tragic circumstances. Same-sex couples are treated the same as opposite-sex couples.

Criminal Justice (Aggravation by Prejudice) Bill 2016

The Republic of Ireland is somewhat unusual in that it does not have a hate crimes law. Ireland does have the Prohibition of Incitement To Hatred Act 1989, which prohibits incitement to hatred but that law is difficult to enforce. It is unclear if there have been any successful convictions under the 1989 Act. Under the Criminal Justice (Aggravation by Prejudice) Bill 2016 if a person is convicted of an offence the courts may determine that that offence was caused by a hatred towards a person and may impose a higher sentence if the courts deem that appropriate. Sufficient evidence will have to be given in the court for an offence to be considered an aggravated offence. The bill does not set out any minimum penalties. The bill names disability, sexual orientation and transgender identity as grounds for an aggravated offence. As this is a private member bill it remains to be seen if it will pass through the Oireachtas.

Modification of the Blood Ban 2016

Ireland introduced a ban on all men who have sex with men from donating blood. It was a ban for life. This ban was introduced in 1985 at the height of the AIDS crisis. The Minister for Health announced that the ban will be eased in light of evidence that has emerged in recent decades. Men who have sex with men will be able to donate blood provided they have abstained from sexual intercourse for at least one year. Men who have a history of sexually transmitted diseases will have to wait for five years to donate. This measure has been welcomed as a progressive step by GLEN (Gay and Lesbian Equality Network) however they note that the new measure still discriminates against men who are in a committed and sexually active relationship. Others have criticised the ban as not based on science and that the deferral period is too long and still re-inforces stigma on gay men and MSM people.

Convictions for Certain Sexual Offences (Apology and Exoneration) Bill 2016

This bill proposes that all men convicted of buggery or gross indecency under previous criminal law be exonerated from their conviction and that they are given an apology. The basis for the exoneration and apology is that it was wrong for the State to have prosecuted men who had consensual sexual acts with other men. The bill goes onto state that the apology and exoneration do not give cause to sue the State nor does it impose a liability on the State. This law does not apply to convictions for sexual acts with minors. If this bill passes into law the criminal records of men who were convicted will not be expunged as there is no facility for this to happen. Such men will continue to have a criminal record despite the exoneration and apology. Some concern has been raised over non-consensual sexual acts between adult men in the past. A motion before the Oireachtas is due on the 25th anniversary of decriminalisation. The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has stated that there are complications regarding the passing of this bill mainly on how to distinguish cases involving consenting adults and cases involving minors.

Adoption (Amendment) Act 2017

This act legislates for the 31st Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Act 2012. The act allows civil partners and same-sex married couples the right to apply for adoption. Children in long-term foster care can be adopted and step-parents may apply to adopt their spouses' child. Civil partners were given the right to apply for adoption under the Child and Family Relationships Act 2015.

Gender Recognition (Amendment) Bill 2017

This bill proposes to amend the Gender Recognition Act 2015. At present, a person aged 16 to 18 years must receive a court order, parental consent and the intervention of medical professionals before they can be issued a gender recognition certificate after a gender reassignment surgery. Under this bill, a person aged 16 to 18 will be treated the same as a person 18 years or older. It also proposes to amend the procedure for persons under the age of 16 who will normally have to get parental permission to undergo gender reassignment surgery. A court can dispense with parental consent if the court decides that the refusal of parental consent would not be in the best interests of the child. This bill will also empower the Minister for Justice to review the Gender Recognition Act in order to grant gender recognition certificates to persons who do not identify as exclusively male or female after a gender reassignment surgery.

Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018

The purpose of this bill is to require all primary and secondary schools to provide objective and fact-based sex education irrespective of the religious ethos of the school. At present sex education in primary and secondary schools is taught by the Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) Programme. RSE was introduced in 1999. Schools can modify the RSE programme in line with their ethos. The existing RSE programme has been criticised as being too heterosexist in nature as LGBT sexuality is ignored. Also, implementation of the RSE programme has been shown to be very inconsistent. This bill will require schools to teach an objective and fact-based sexuality programme that is inclusive of LGBT sexuality and gender issues and schools will not be able to use their ethos to prevent such sex education from happening.

Domestic Violence Act 2018

The purpose of this Act is to amend and consolidate the law in relation to domestic violence. This Act consolidates the provisions contained in the Domestic Violence Act 1996, the Domestic Violence (Amendment) Act 2002 and relevant provisions of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010, the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011, the Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013 and the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015. This Act also includes new provisions which must be enacted in order for Ireland to be able to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, more commonly known as the Istanbul Convention. Ireland signed the Istanbul Convention in November 2015. These new provisions include allowing a person to apply for an emergency barring order where that person has lived in an intimate and committed relationship with the respondent without being their spouse or civil partner or where that person is the parent of an adult respondent, and the inclusion of a provision to criminalise forced marriage. This Act also removes the underage marriage exemption in order to help to protect minors against forced marriage, as requiring both intended spouses to be at least 18 should assist in ensuring that potential spouses have the maturity to withstand parental or other pressure to marry a particular person.

Prohibition of Conversion Therapies Bill 2018

This bill will prohibit any counsellor, care worker, teacher, doctor, psychologist and other medical and mental health professionals from seeking to change a person's sexual orientation especially to 'cure homosexuality'. The penalty is a fine of €1,000 to €5,000 or a six-month jail sentence.

Apology for Persons Convicted of Consensual Same-sex Acts: Motion

This motion was passed by the Oireachtas on 19 June 2018. The motion was moved by the Taoiseach Leo Varakadar. The motion apologised to all men convicted under the law that criminalised same-sex acts. The State acknowledges that it was wrong to criminalise and prosecute men. The motion also acknowledged the chilling effected these laws had on the wider LGBT community in creating and fostering social stigma.

Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018

This act deals with the admission policy to primary schools, post-primary schools, and third level educational institutions. It prohibits educational institutions from refusing a pupil entry on a number of grounds including sexual orientation. It prohibits Catholic-run schools from giving preference to baptised Catholics over non-baptised children. However religious-run schools that are of a minority religion can continue to refuse admission to a pupil if they are not of the same religion of the school. Such minority religions are Church of Ireland (Anglican), Muslim, Jewish and so on. At the moment 89% of state-funded primary school are Catholic-run and 52% of state-funded post-primary schools are religious run. This means that on the religion ground many students could be discriminated against. This has proved to be controversial for students and parents who have no religion and for the Catholic Church. The Act has been commenced and from 1 September 2019 Catholic school may not refuse admission on the grounds of baptism.

Children and Family Relationship (Amendment) Act 2018

This act modifies Parts 2 and 3 of the Children and Family Relationship Act 2015, which have yet to be commenced. Parts 2 and 3 of the principal act deal with surrogacy. This amending bill makes minor technical changes which would allow some families who have conceived their children by surrogacy to gain legal recognition over their children in limited circumstances.

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Act 2018

This Act brings into effect many of the social welfare changes announced in Budget 2018. In addition, in a move anticipated by the Minister before the budget, a provision has been inserted in the Act which clarifies the survivor pension rights of same-sex couples.

Some pension schemes only grant a survivor pension to the spouse of an employee where the employee has married his/her spouse either before s/he retired or s/he reached a particular age (e.g. 60). LGBT employees who had retired before the introduction of Marriage Equality in 2015 and who were unable to marry their partners at that time lost the benefit.

A change in the law to benefit older LGBT people was supported by all parties.

The ameliorating provision in the Act provides that if the retired employee was in a committed relationship with a same-sex partner at the time they retired or reached a particular age and then married that partner within 3 years of the enactment of the Marriage Act 2015 they are deemed to be eligible for a survivor pension on the payment of the appropriate contributions. The provision is not retrospective as the committed relationship referred to in the Act is not, itself, recognised as a marriage by the State. (The Act resolves, inter alia, the issue in the David Parris case. The Act has similar provisions for civil partners.

Civil Registration Act 2019

This act has a number of unrelated provisions. One of the provisions is to make technical changes to the law to allow some female couples to have their details registered in the register of births, where they have a child in common. This bill applies only to female couples where they conceive in an Irish fertility clinic using an identifiable donor. Male couples are excluded from this bill as are couples where a person in the relationship is undergoing a gender transition. Same-sex couples who use a donor from abroad or use surrogacy are not recognised.

Parental Leave and Benefit Act 2019

Due to an anomaly in the law, male same-sex couples were not able to receive adoption leave and benefits although they were allowed to apply to adopt children. This law corrects that anomaly. This law gave parental leave to all couples (opposite sex, same sex, married, civil partnered, cohabiting) who have a child by natural means or who are having a child under donor conceived child. Adoption leave is 24 weeks leave from work paid through social welfare in order to allow a prospective parent bond with their newly adopted child.

National LGBTI+ Inclusion Strategy 2019

Following the Youth Strategy, a National Strategy was developed and launched for 2019 - 2021. As part of its vision, four thematic pillars were developed where LGBTI+ people are visible and included, treated equally, healthy, safe and supported. The strategy covers a wide range of government departments and agencies. A committee made up of government departments, agencies, NGOs and LGBTI+ representative organisations will oversee the implementation of the strategy.

See also
LGBT rights in the Republic of Ireland
List of LGBT rights by region
Recognition of same-sex unions in Ireland
Homosexuality laws of the world
List of Acts of the Oireachtas

References

LGBT rights in the Republic of Ireland
Laws and reports on LGBT rights in Ireland
LGBT


The Impact Nominal Index or INI was a computer system that enabled UK police forces to establish whether any other force holds information on a person of interest.  It was created by the IMPACT Programme led by the Home Office in 2006. INI was shut down in 2011 when it was replaced by the Police National Database (PND).
The system was built by the Web Technology Group, a former subsidiary of Cable & Wireless.

The INI was the first system to be delivered by the IMPACT Programme, set up to deliver improvements in the management and sharing of police operational information following Sir Michael Bichard's report on the Soham Murders.

References

External links

Policy Hub article on INI launch
NPIA IMPACT programme page
Web Technology Group

Law enforcement in the United Kingdom
Government databases in the United Kingdom
Law enforcement databases


The 2009 AF2 season was the AF2's 10th and final season. It was preceded by 2008. The regular season began on Friday, March 20 and finished on Saturday, July 25.  The league champion was the Spokane Shock, who defeated the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers 74–27 in ArenaCup X.

League info

Standings
Through Week 18

 Green indicates clinched playoff berth
 Purple indicates division champion
 Gray indicates best conference record

Playoffs

ArenaCup X

ArenaCup X was the tenth and final edition of arenafootball2's championship game in which the National Conference Champions Spokane Shock defeated the American Conference Champions Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers, 74–27. The game was held on Saturday, August 22, 2009. As part of the league's tenth anniversary celebrations, the game was held at the neutral-site Orleans Arena (within the Orleans Resort & Casino) in Las Vegas.

Because of legal issues regarding the ownership of arenafootball2 (the original Arena Football League had owned a controlling stake), the league legally disbanded two weeks after the game was played because of the parent's bankruptcy.  AF2's board of directors formed a new entity, Arena Football One, that assumed the Arena Football League identity after winning a bankruptcy court sale in late 2009.  Future championships for that league which, while "new", consists of AF2's board of directors, use the ArenaBowl as its championship, leading to the retirement of the ArenaCup.

The "new" Arena Football League began in 2010 with the defending champion Shock moving up. They went on to defeat the Tampa Bay Storm in ArenaBowl XXIII, thus winning consecutive titles in the premier level in consecutive years, with different league identities.

References

External links
2009 af2 stats

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Robert P. Epstein (born April 6, 1955), is an American director, producer, writer, and editor. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature, for the films The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.

In 1987, Epstein and his filmmaking partner, Jeffrey Friedman, founded Telling Pictures, a production company and team known for "groundbreaking feature documentaries".

In addition to nonfiction documentaries, Epstein's works include scripted narratives such as Howl, his award-winning film about Allen Ginsberg's controversial poem by the same name (starring James Franco), and Lovelace, the story about the life and trials of pornographic superstar Linda Lovelace (starring Amanda Seyfried).

Epstein is currently the co-chair of the Film Program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland, California.

He is openly gay.

Filmography

References

External links

1955 births
Living people
Film directors from New Jersey
American film producers
Directors of Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners
Grammy Award winners
News & Documentary Emmy Award winners
LGBT people from New Jersey
American LGBT film directors
People from New Brunswick, New Jersey


James Francis Guthrie,  (13 September 1872 – 18 August 1958) was an Australian politician. Born at Rich Avon Station in Victoria, he was educated at Geelong College before becoming a grazier, sheep breeder and woolbroker. In 1919, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Nationalist Senator for Victoria. In 1931, together with the rest of his party, he joined the United Australia Party. He held the seat until his defeat in 1937, taking effect in 1938.

Guthrie was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1946 New Year Honours. He died in 1958.

References

1872 births
1958 deaths
Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia
United Australia Party members of the Parliament of Australia
Members of the Australian Senate for Victoria
Members of the Australian Senate
20th-century Australian politicians
Australian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire


Wilhelm Stiassny (15 October 1842, Pressburg (Bratislava) 11 July 1910, Bad Ischl) was a Jewish Austrian architect.

Personal life
From 1857 to 1861, he studied at the Polytechnic in Vienna and afterwards studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Friedrich von Schmidt.

In 1867 Stiassny was appointed delegate to the Paris Exposition by the Ministry of Commerce, and the following year he settled in Vienna as an architect. Until 1905 he oversaw the construction of 180 palaces, schools, residences, factories, hospitals, and synagogues, including the Rothschild Hospital at Währing (1873), the Hall of Ceremonies in the Jewish section of the Vienna Central Friedhof, the Königswarter Institute for the Blind at Hohewarte, the Kindergarten in the second district of Vienna, the Rothschild Hospital at Smyrna, and the synagogues at Malacky, Jablonec nad Nisou, Čáslav, and Weinberge (Vinohrady, now a part of Prague). From 1878 to 1900 Stiassny was a member of the aldermanic board of Vienna and of the Donauregulierungs-Commission. From 1879 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Jewish community of Vienna.
In 1895, Stiassny founded the Society for the Conservation and Preservation of Art and Historical Monuments of Judaism, the world's first Jewish museum. He also served as head of the Jewish Colonization Association in Vienna.

Buildings

 Israelitisches Blindeninstitut in Wien-Döbling, 1872
 Rothschild-Hospital in Wien-Währing, 1873
 Synagogue in Malacky, 1886-87
 Synagogue in Jablonec nad Nisou, 1892
 Polnische Schul, Orthodox Synagogue at Leopoldgasse 29, Vienna, 1892-93
 Stanisławów Synagogue, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine 1895-99
 Jubilee Synagogue, today Jerusalem Synagogue in Prague, 1904-1906
 Synagogue in Wiener Neustadt, 1902
 Hall of Ceremonies in the Jewish section of the Vienna Central Friedhof, Israelitische Abteilung, 1. Tor
 More than 100 Apartment buildings
 Tombs, among which the tomb for the Austrian branch of the Rothschild family.

References

1842 births
1910 deaths
19th-century Austrian architects
19th-century Austrian people
Synagogue architecture
Austro-Hungarian Jews
Architects from Bratislava
Jewish architects
TU Wien alumni
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni


The 16th Cannes Film Festival was held from 9 to 23 May 1963. The Palme d'Or went to the Il Gattopardo by Luchino Visconti. The festival opened with The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Jury
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1963 film competition:

Feature films
Armand Salacrou (France) Jury President
Rouben Mamoulian (USA) Vice President
Jacqueline Audry (France)
Wilfrid Baumgartner (France) (BDF official)
François Chavane (France)
Jean de Baroncelli (France) (critic)
Robert Hossein (France)
Rostislav Yurenev (Soviet Union)
Kashiko Kawakita (Japan)
Steven Pallos (UK)
Gian Luigi Rondi (Italy)
Short films
Henri Alekan (France) President
Robert Alla (France)
Karl Schedereit (West Germany)
Ahmed Sefrioui (Morocco)
Semih Tugrul (Turkey) (journalist)

Official selection

In competition - Feature film
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:

Les Abysses by Nikos Papatakis
Alvorada by Hugo Niebeling
The Cage (La Cage) by Robert Darène
Carom Shots (Carambolages) by Marcel Bluwal
The Cassandra Cat (Až přijde kocour) by Vojtěch Jasný
Codine by Henri Colpi
The Conjugal Bed (L'ape regina) by Marco Ferreri
A Cozy Cottage (Kertes házak utcája) by Tamás Fejér
Empress Wu Tse-Tien (Wu Ze Tian) by Li Han Hsiang
The Fiances (I Fidanzati) by Ermanno Olmi
For Those Who Will Follow (Pour la suite du monde) by Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault
Glory Sky (Ouranos) by Takis Kanellopoulos
The Good Love (El Buen amor) by Francisco Regueiro
Harakiri (Seppuku) by Masaki Kobayashi
How to Be Loved (Jak być kochaną) by Wojciech Has
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) by Luchino Visconti
Like Two Drops of Water (Als twee druppels water) by Fons Rademakers
Lord of the Flies by Peter Brook
Optimistic Tragedy (Optimisticheskaya tragediya) by Samson Samsonov
El Otro Cristóbal by Armand Gatti
Rat Trap (Le Rat d'Amérique) by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
This Sporting Life by Lindsay Anderson
To Kill a Mockingbird by Robert Mulligan
Tobacco (Тютюн) by Nikola Korabov
The Venerable Ones (Los Venerables todos) by Manuel Antín
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? by Robert Aldrich

Films out of competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
 8½ by Federico Fellini
 The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock

Short film competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:

 A fleur d'eau by Alex Seiler
 Bouket zvezdi by Radka Batchvarova
 Citizens Of Tomorrow by Jamie Uys
 The Critic by Ernest Pintoff
 Das Grabmal des Kaisers by Istvan V. Szots
 Di Domenica by Luigi Bazzoni
 La ferriera abbandonata by Aglauco Casadio
 Geel by Costia de Renesse
 Geschwindigkeit by Edgar Reitz
 Le Haricot by Edmond Sechan
 Images du ciel - Égypte o Égypte by Jacques Brissot
 The King's Breakfast by Wendy Toye
 My Flat (Moj stan) by Zvonimir Berkovic
 Nakymaton Kasi by Veronica Leo
 Oslo by Jørgen Roos
 Playa Insolita by Javier Aguirre
 Un Prince Belge de l'Europe, Charles Joseph de Ligne by Jacques Kupissonoff
 Sous le signe de Neptune by A.F. Sulk
 The Ride by Gerald Potterton
 You by Istvan Szabo
 Zeilen by Hattum Hoving
 Zeleznicari by Evald Schorm

Parallel section

International Critics' Week
The following feature films were selected to be screened for the 2nd International Critics' Week (2e Semaine de la Critique):

 Alone or with Others (Seul ou avec d’autres) by Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux, Stéphane Venne (Canada)
 Barnvagnen by Bo Widerberg (Sweden)
 Déjà s'envole la fleur maigre by Paul Meyer (Belgium)
 Hallelujah the Hills by Adolfas Mekas (United States)
 Le Joli Mai by Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme (France)
 Pelle viva by Giuseppe Fina (Italy)
 Pitfall (Otoshiana) by Hiroshi Teshigahara (Japan)
 Porto das Caixas by Paulo César Saraceni (Brazil)
 Showman by Albert Maysles, David Maysles (United States)
 The Sun in a Net (Slnko v sieti) by Štefan Uher (Czechoslovakia)

Awards

Official awards
The following films and people received the 1963 Official selection awards:
Palme d'Or: The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) by Luchino Visconti
Jury Special Prize:
The Cassandra Cat (Až přijde kocour) by Vojtěch Jasný
Harakiri (Seppuku) by Masaki Kobayashi
Best Screenplay: Dumitru Carabat, Henri Colpi and Yves Jamiaque for Codine
Best Actress: Marina Vlady for The Conjugal Bed (L'ape regina)
Best Actor: Richard Harris for This Sporting Life
Short films
Short Film Palme d'Or:
Le Haricot by Edmond Séchan
In wechselndem Gefälle (A fleur d'eau) by Alexander J. Seiler
Jury Prize - Short Film: Moj Stan by Zvonimir Berković
Special Mention - Short Film: Di Domenica by Luigi Bazzoni & You by István Szabó
Short Film Technical Prize: Zeilen by Hattum Hoving

Independent awards
FIPRESCI
FIPRESCI Prize:
 This Sporting Life by Lindsay Anderson (In competition)
 Le Joli Mai by Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme (International Critics' Week)
Commission Supérieure Technique
Technical Grand Prize:
 The Cassandra Cat (Až přijde kocour) by Vojtěch Jasný
 Codine by Henri Colpi
OCIC Award
 The Fiances (I Fidanzati) by Ermanno Olmi
Other awards
Gary Cooper Award: To Kill a Mockingbird by Robert Mulligan
Best Evocation of a World-Shattering Epic: Optimistic Tragedy (Optimisticheskaya tragediya) by Samson Samsonov

References

Media

British Pathé: Cannes Film Festival 1963 footage
British Pathé: Cannes Film Festival 1963 Awards
INA: Opening of the 1963 festival (commentary in French)
INA: List of award-winners at the 1963 festival (commentary in French)

External links
1963 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
Official website Retrospective 1963
Cannes Film Festival:1963  at Internet Movie Database

Cannes Film Festival, 1963
Cannes Film Festival, 1963
Cannes Film Festival


William Barlow (October 26, 1822 – June 18, 1904) was an early Oregon pioneer and founder of Barlow, Oregon, United States.

Barlow arrived in Oregon as a young man in 1845.  He purchased land and founded the town of Canemah, now part of Oregon City, Oregon.
When William and his brother James were tending the toll gate on the Barlow Road in 1847, they met their brides-to-be, Rachel and Rebecca Larkins, the young daughters of William E. Larkins and his wife, Rachel Reed. On August 20, 1848, William married Rachel. She died a month later.

In 1852 he married widow Mrs. Martha Ann Allen; they had three children: Mary, Virginia and Cassius.

Sometime after 1848, Barlow purchased a  land claim from his father Sam Barlow for $6,000 ().  In 1891, he founded the town of Barlow on that land.  His residence, now known as the Barlow House, still stands near Barlow.

See also
Barlow Road

References

 "State of Oregon: Blue Book - Oregon's Cemeteries Web Exhibit". sos.oregon.gov. Retrieved 2022-08-15

Oregon pioneers
People from Oregon City, Oregon
1822 births
1904 deaths


In probability theory and directional statistics, a wrapped normal distribution is a wrapped probability distribution that results from the "wrapping" of the normal distribution around the unit circle. It finds application in the theory of Brownian motion and is a solution to the heat equation for periodic boundary conditions. It is closely approximated by the von Mises distribution, which, due to its mathematical simplicity and tractability, is the most commonly used distribution in directional statistics.

Definition
The probability density function of the wrapped normal distribution is

where μ and σ are the mean and standard deviation of the unwrapped distribution, respectively. Expressing the above density function in terms of the characteristic function of the normal distribution yields:

where  is the Jacobi theta function, given by

 and

The wrapped normal distribution may also be expressed in terms of the Jacobi triple product:

where  and

Moments

In terms of the circular variable  the circular moments of the wrapped normal distribution are the characteristic function of the normal distribution evaluated at integer arguments:

where  is some interval of length . The first moment is then the average value of z, also known as the mean resultant, or mean resultant vector:

The mean angle is

and the length of the mean resultant is

The circular standard deviation, which is a useful measure of dispersion for the wrapped normal distribution and its close relative, the von Mises distribution is given by:

Estimation of parameters

A series of N measurements zn = e iθn drawn from a wrapped normal distribution may be used to estimate certain parameters of the distribution. The average of the series  is defined as

and its expectation value will be just the first moment:

In other words,  is an unbiased estimator of the first moment. If we assume that the mean μ lies in the interval [−π, π), then Arg  will be a (biased) estimator of the mean μ.

Viewing the zn as a set of vectors in the complex plane, the 2 statistic is the square of the length of the averaged vector:

and its expected value is:

In other words, the statistic

will be an unbiased estimator of e−σ2, and ln(1/Re2) will be a (biased) estimator of σ2

Entropy

The information entropy of the wrapped normal distribution is defined as:

where  is any interval of length . Defining  and , the Jacobi triple product representation for the wrapped normal is:

where  is the Euler function. The logarithm of the density of the wrapped normal distribution may be written:

Using the series expansion for the logarithm:

the logarithmic sums may be written as:

so that the logarithm of density of the wrapped normal distribution may be written as:

which is essentially a Fourier series in . Using the characteristic function representation for the wrapped normal distribution in the left side of the integral:

the entropy may be written:

which may be integrated to yield:

See also

 Wrapped distribution
 Dirac comb
 Wrapped Cauchy distribution
 Von Mises distribution

References

External links
 Circular Values Math and Statistics with C++11, A C++11 infrastructure for circular values (angles, time-of-day, etc.) mathematics and statistics

Continuous distributions
Directional statistics
Normal distribution


Giant's Grave may refer to:

Giant's Grave, Cumbria, two standing stones near Black Combe, Cumbria
Giants' Graves, Arran, two Neolithic chambered tombs on the Isle of Arran in Scotland
Giants' grave, a type of Sardinian megalithic gallery grave built during the Bronze Age by the Nuragic civilization
Giant's Grave, Northern Ireland, an archaeological site in County Antrim
Giant's Grave, a district within the Briton Ferry West electoral ward, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
"Giant's Grave", a folk song about the docks at Briton Ferry
Giant's Grave, a feature of the prehistoric site at Parc Cwm long cairn, Swansea, Wales
Giants Grave F.C., an amateur Welsh football team based in Giant's Grave, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
Giant's Grave, Primrose Hill Park, a tumulus in Coventry


222 Main a high-rise office building in Salt Lake City, Utah,  United States, that was Utah’s first LEED Gold-certified high-rise.

Description

The structure stands 22 stories high and is located at 222 South Main Street in the Central City neighborhood. The shape of the building is designed to optimize views between currently standing buildings, includes a parking garage hidden behind the main structure and has  of office space with floor to ceiling windows. There are a total of 6,257 pieces of structural steel and bracing in the structure and wiring that stretches . Atop the building is a  glass veil that is illuminated with different colors at various times of the year.

The building cost $125 million (equivalent to $ million in ) and took nearly two years to complete.

LEED Certification
Originally, the building was expected to earn LEED Silver certification, but along the way improvements were made and the building ultimately earned LEED Gold certification.

Architect
The building was designed by architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM). SOM has also designed buildings such as the Willis Tower in Chicago, the Burj Khalifa in the United Arab Emirates (the world's current tallest building), and the Air Force Academy Chapel in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado. SOM also designed the One World Trade Center, which was built near where the destroyed World Trade Center once stood.

History
Construction on the building was completed in December 2009. The building was facing serious occupancy issues, with the pre-lease rate remaining at around 25% but rates subsequently increased, especially with the largely publicized lease announcement of Goldman Sachs. The building eventually became fully occupied.

In February 2014, the property's original owners (and current building manager), Hamilton Partners, sold the building to KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III (KBS) for $170.5 million (equivalent to $ million in ) in "a record-setting deal for commercial real estate in Utah's capital city, on a cost per-square footage basis." At the time of purchase, KBS already owned the Parkside Tower and Gateway Tech Center in Salt Lake City.

See also

 Buildings and sites of Salt Lake City, Utah
 List of tallest buildings in Salt Lake City
 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

References

External links

 Downtown Rising's 222 Main webpage
 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
 KBS's 222 Main webpage
 Hamilton Partners' 222 Main webpage
 U.S. Green Building Council
 U.S. Green Building Council – Utah Chapter

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold certified buildings
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill buildings
Skyscraper office buildings in Salt Lake City


Lwamondo is a village in the Vhembe District Municipality, of Limpopo Province, South Africa.  It has been ruled by Vho-Thovhele A. C. Nelwamondo, also known as Ndaedzo which is a regnal name, since 1971. He celebrated his Golden Jubilee in 2022.

Throne succession
 Tshilande
 Mapungwi
 Radali
 Mathule
 Maboho (rule 1830s died 1883)
 Phophi Sidemere (rule 1883 died 1942)
 Lupenyo Mugaguli (rule 1942 died 1970)
 Ndaedzo (ruling since 1971 - )

Villages in Lwamondo
Each of these villages runs its own affairs, under the Headman, who reports directly to Thovhele Aifheli Calvin Nelwamondo (Ndaedzo). The villages are as follows:
 Belemu
 Tshivhale
 Lukau
 Tshitavha : Nelwamondo Vhangani Alfred -Headman
 Badama : Nelwamondo Oupa - Headman
 Tshiseni : Nelwamondo Belson - Headman
 Mutandani
 Matatani
 Vhungwili :
 Tshifulanani
 Dzwerani
 Zwavhavhili
 Mugomeli
 Khumbe
 Pambani
 Tshikosi
 Mathule
 Vhunama
 Mahematshena
 Makambe
 Tshiozwi
 Tshiema
 Thuhwi
 Matavhela
 Tshishushuru
 Tshalovha
 Mvelaphanda
 Mutshetoni
 Tshidzete
 Mahunguni

Schools in Lwamondo
There are a number of schools in Lwamondo. Notably, the following:

 Belemu primary
 Tshivhale primary
 Tshiwedza primary
 Makakavhale secondary
 Matshele primary
 Maphuphe primary
 Shondoni secondary
 Luvhaivhai secondary
 Masembelwe primary
 Andries Mugaguli secondary
 Mathule primary
 Tshifulanani primary
 Mutshipisi primary
 Lwamondo secondary
 Tshifhumulo primary
 Ndaedzo secondary
 Mangomani primary
 Dzondo primary
 Mahematshena primary
 Dzwerani primary
 Tshikhovhokhovho primary

References

Populated places in the Thulamela Local Municipality


Muisi Ajao  (born 2 December 1978) is a Nigerian retired footballer.

He has played a few matches for Nigerian national team and played in the Belgian league and South African Premier League. He played for clubs in Singapore, Qatar and China.

International career
On 16 September 2001, Ajao debuted for Nigeria national football team against South Korea in 1-2 loss match.

References

External links

soccernetindia.com
Ajao declares his availability

1978 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Abeokuta
Yoruba sportspeople
Men's association football defenders
Nigerian men's footballers
Nigeria men's international footballers
Bendel United F.C. players
Shooting Stars S.C. players
Bridge F.C. players
Cercle Brugge K.S.V. players
Kaizer Chiefs F.C. players
Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. players
SHB Da Nang FC players
East Bengal Club players
Manning Rangers F.C. players
Belgian Pro League players
Nigerian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
Nigerian expatriates in Belgium
Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa
Nigerian expatriates in South Africa
Expatriate men's footballers in Vietnam
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Vietnam
Expatriate men's footballers in India


Cecil Beresford Ramage, MC (17 January 1895 – 22 February 1988) was a Scottish barrister, actor and Liberal politician.

Life
Following his education at the Edinburgh Academy, Ramage was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Scots at the outbreak of World War I. He served in Gallipoli, Palestine and Egypt and was awarded the Military Cross.

Following the war, he went up to Pembroke College, Oxford, where he became President of the Oxford Union. At Oxford he first took to the stage, appearing in Antony and Cleopatra with Cathleen Nesbitt, whom he married in 1921. They had two children. Instead of taking up acting as a profession after university, Ramage read law. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, and practised on the Oxford Circuit.

At the 1922 general election he was the Liberal candidate for the constituency of Newcastle West, but was defeated by David Adams of the Labour Party. Another election was held in 1923 and Ramage stood again and was elected as Member of Parliament (MP). He was only to be in the Commons for a short period, as he was defeated at the subsequent general election in 1924. He was the Liberal candidate at Southport at the 1929 general election, but failed to be elected.

By this time Ramage was a professional actor, appearing in New York, the West End of London and toured with the Old Vic Company in the Mediterranean. He had a number of minor roles in films, including Secret of Stamboul (1936), Nicholas Nickleby (1947) and Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).

His career eventually declined, and he retired from the stage and was separated from his wife, Nesbitt, who died in 1982, aged 93. He played the Crown Counsel in Kind Hearts and Coronets, whose devastating cross-examination of Louis Mazzini does much to discredit him.

Death
Cecil Beresford Ramage died in 1988, aged 93. Of the 64 former MPs who only served in the parliament of 1924, he was the last survivor, outliving his parliamentary service by 63 years.

Filmography

References

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1895 births
1988 deaths
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1923–1924
Royal Scots officers
Members of the Middle Temple
People educated at Edinburgh Academy
Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford
Presidents of the Oxford Union
Male actors from Edinburgh
British Army personnel of World War I
Recipients of the Military Cross
Scottish barristers
Scottish male stage actors
Scottish male film actors
20th-century Scottish male actors
British male comedy actors
British actor-politicians
Politicians from Edinburgh