Herbert Tocher with trophies Tocher and Tocher (1906 to c. 1968) were a firm of Anglo Indian taxidermists located in Bangalore, India. William Tocher was born in India in 1853 and was of Scottish ancestry. William’s father, James, had arrived in India with the East India Company.
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A Tocher and Tocher leopard skin rug with head mount from the 1920s, photographed in 2017. Tocher and Tocher produced hunting trophies during an era when hunting was considered a gentlemen's sport and was very popular especially during the time of the British Raj in India. They worked on skins which were presented to them by the shikaris of dignitaries, senior military and film stars etc. Tocher and Tocher manufactured full mounts, half mounts, head and shoulder mounts, head only mounts and rugs.
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In 2005 during a visit to the Van Ingen factory in Mysore by the taxidermy expert and writer Dr Pat A Morris, whilst carrying out research for a book on the Van Ingens Dr Morris came across two discarded Tocher and Tocher price lists and catalogues at the Van Ingen factory. According to the price lists, in 1923 Tocher and Tocher were the taxidermy specialists to the Vernay Faunthorpe American scientific expedition to India. The expedition was to source tiger and leopard taxidermy specimens for mounting and display in the Hall of Asian Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. A Tocher and Tocher Price List There are also references to Tocher and Tocher Taxidermy in a recent book named The Last White Hunter written by Joshua Mathew.
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The book chronicles the life of Donald Anderson who was once the movie stunt double for Stewart Granger in the 1958 film Harry Black and the Tiger. A stuntman and an accomplished hunter, Donald was the son of writer and big game hunter Kenneth Anderson. Donald mentions that Tocher and Tocher were the preferred taxidermists for all the big cats which both he and his father Kenneth hunted. Donald states that Herbert Tocher was friends with his father Kenneth and Herbert Tocher taught both the Andersons how to skin their animals and then prepare the skins for mounting.
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During the 1960s the Indian government began to open secure national parks and reserves in an attempt to preserve the numbers of wild tigers and leopards which were by now decreasing, this resulted in less hunting and the closure of the Tocher and Tocher business. During the late 1960s the Tocher’s studio and house in Bangalore were sold and the family migrated to London United Kingdom. In 1972 the Indian government finally banned the hunting of wild animals. Due to the modest quantities of taxidermy work produced by Tocher and Tocher, it is quite rare to find an example of their work today, however an item may appear for sale occasionally at an auction house or online.
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Nemekus Sakahikan 221 is an Indian reserve of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is near Tocher Lake.
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William became involved in taxidermy as a hobby; he later started his own taxidermy business in 1906. William Tocher died in 1938 and the business then passed to his son Herbert Tocher (born 1899), who together with his son, George, continued the business at their home and studio named Panthera in Fraser Town, Bangalore.
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Their taxidermy mounts were made from the skins of tigers, leopards, bears, foxes, deer and other wild animals native to India. They were a small family business and Herbert Tocher would personally hand paint the glass eyes for the specimens, as stated in their catalogues a tiger or leopard skin rug with head mount would take around two and half months to produce and a full tiger or leopard mount around six months. The name Tocher and Tocher Taxidermists is perhaps not as familiar as larger taxidermy firms of the time such as the Van Ingens.
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James Tocher Bain (26 February 1906 – 5 December 1988) was a pioneering Canadian engineer and also an inductee to Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame.
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In 1259, Aedh married a daughter of Dubhghall mac Ruaidhrí, King of Argyll and the Isles, whose tocher included 160 gallowglass warriors, commanded by Dubhghall's younger brother Ailéan.Duffy 2007 p. 1.
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John Tocher (29 September 1925 - 17 September 1991) was a British trade unionist and communist activist. Tocher worked in factories from the age of fourteen, but hoped to work on aeroplanes. When he reached eighteen, he was accepted into the Army Air Corps, serving until the end of World War II, when he returned to complete an apprenticeship at Avro. He joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), becoming a shop steward and then workplace convener at Woodford.
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While the strike was largely unsuccessful, Tocher was lauded for his leadership, and was elected as chair of the CPGB. Tocher remained a prominent union figure, leading industrial action in support of a 35-hour working week in 1972. He stood down from the CPGB executive in 1973. Having married and with young children, harassment resulting from negative articles about him in the press led him to resign from the CPGB, although he remained sympathetic to its principles.
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Giovanni, T.M, Wing-Keong Ng, Douglas Redford Tocher. "Fish Oil Replacement and Alternative Lipid Sources in Aquaculture Feeds">"Alternative Marine Resources". Fish Oil Replacement and Alternative Lipid Sources in Aquaculture Feeds, 2011.
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He remained an active trade unionist, and stood unsuccessfully to become president of the AEU in 1985. Tocher was due to retire in late September 1991, but he died a week beforehand.
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Višnja Arambašić, Nataly Anderson, Frank Jelinčić, Tocher Mitchell (2007). Zadar In Your Pocket, p. 22. The embroidering apron in which St. Simeon is dressed was a gift of the Serbian despot Djordje Brankovič.
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Norman Buchan on Hamish, Tocher no 43, School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1991, p 19-21 Henderson's own songs, particularly "Freedom Come All Ye", have become part of the folk tradition themselves.
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He had married Lady Mary Hay, daughter of Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll and Elizabeth Douglas, around 15 October 1616, with a tocher of 20,000 merks. He had a son and heir, Francis, and two daughters.
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In 1957, Tocher was elected as the AEU's Stockport District President, and became a delegate to the union's national committee. He became its Stockport District Secretary in 1964, then a full-time assistant divisional organiser, and eventually a divisional organiser. He also joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), serving on its executive from 1963. Tocher led a strike at Roberts Arundel in 1967 and 1968, against efforts to replace experienced workers with women, who the managers expected would work for lower pay and in worse conditions.
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According to the Sleat History, Áine Ní Chatháin's tocher consisted of one hundred and forty men from each surname that dwelt in the territory of her father, Cú Maighe na nGall Ó Catháin.Kingston (2004) p. 47, 47 nn. 89–90; MacGregor (2000) pp.
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23; The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland (1844) p. 446; RPS, 1293/2/10 (n.d.); RPS, 1293/2/10 (n.d.). In 1292, Maria was indebted to Nicholas de Meynell for 200 marks, part of the tocher of a daughter of hers.
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The year after that, a daughter of Dubhghall married Aodh na nGall Ó Conchobhair, with the latter receiving the bride's tocher of one hundred and sixty gallowglass warriors commanded by Dubhghall's brother, Ailéan.Lydon (2008) pp. 245, 248; Duffy (2007) pp. 1, 10 n.
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"Corey Tocher wins Conservative Party Saskatoon-University nomination" CTV News, March 10, 2018 Tochor resigned his provincial seat on September 11, 2019, the same day the Writs of election were issued for the 2019 Canadian federal election. He successfully held the seat for the Conservatives.
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Keith Douglas "Toch" Tocher (1921–1981) was a computer scientist known for contributions to computer simulation. Tocher was born in 1921 and gained a first-class BSc in Mathematics in 1941 from University College London, a BSc in Statistics in 1946 from University of London and a PhD in 1952 part-time at Imperial College London. In 1958 he worked for United Steel Companies under Anthony Stafford Beer, and developed the first discrete-event simulation package, the General Simulation Program (GSP), a program that used a common structure to execute a range of simulations. He was appointed professor of operational research at the University of Southampton in 1980.
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Giovanni, T.M, Wing-Keong Ng, Douglas Redford Tocher. "Fish Oil Replacement and Alternative Lipid Sources in Aquaculture Feeds">"Alternative Marine Resources". Fish Oil Replacement and Alternative Lipid Sources in Aquaculture Feeds, 2011. E. carlsbergii inhabits the water south of the Antarctica convergence to the Antarctic coast, and between the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic convergences.
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Barrow, Scott 1971, charter 435,1201-1205 The land in question was part of Eva's tocher (dowry) and is known to be Falside from the rubric on King William's charter. Falside still exists as a farm in Pitmilly. However, nothing remains at Pitmilly of whatever residence Eva's family occupied there, if indeed they did live there in the 12th century.
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The Sweeney, Robertson, and Tocher (SRT) division algorithm is used on the affected Pentium chips. It is implemented as a programmable logic array with 2,048 cells, of which 1,066 cells should have been populated with one of five values: . On the buggy chips, five cells that should have contained the value +2 were missing, instead returning 0.
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The Edinburgh magistrates gave an allowance to his widow Helen Barroun and their children, and a tocher or dowry of 1000 merks for their daughter Jean Rollok whenever she married a "worthy person".Marguerite Wood, Extracts from the Burgh Records of Edinburgh: 1589-1603 (Edinburgh, 1927), pp. 250, 266. His poems are to be found in Arthur Johnston's Delitiæ Poetarum Scotorum (1637).
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In February 1544 another daughter was married and Adam asked Mary of Guise for financial support as "sik materis requiris coist and expensis", and again in 1546 he mentioned to David Beaton his difficulty in paying "my dochteris tocher".Annie I. Cameron, (Shs: Edinburgh, 1927), pp. 59, 162. His son John married Janet Stewart, sister of the Earl of Atholl.
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The Varsity Choral Society, directed by Craig Tocher, sings every Christmas season at the Congregational Church of Manhasset,N.Y. The group is typically accompanied by string orchestra and organ. The Varsity Choral Society consists of professional and talented amateur vocalists from Port Washington, Manhasset and the greater Town of North Hempstead, N.Y. The group is open to anyone interested in the challenge of fine choral music.
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In 1978, Geordie Tocher and two companions sailed a dugout canoe (the Orenda II), based on Haida designs (but with sails), from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to Hawaii. The dugout was long, made of Douglas fir, and weighed . The mission was launched to add credibility to stories that the Haida had travelled to Hawaii in ancient times. Altogether, the group ventured some 4,500 miles (7,242 km) after two months at sea.
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Marriages, particularly higher in society, were often political in nature and the subject of complex negotiations over the tocher (dowry). Some mothers took a leading role in negotiating marriages, as Lady Glenorchy did for her children in the 1560s and 1570s. They could also act as matchmakers, finding suitable and compatible partners for others.J. E. A. Dawson, Scotland Re- Formed, 1488–1587 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007), , pp. 62–3.
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Another Sir Robert Menzies who was the eighth chief built Weem Castle, near the current Castle Menzies in about 1488. The castle was plundered in 1502 by Stewart of Garth in a dispute over the lands of Fothergill. Janet Menzies had married a Stewart about a century earlier, and Garth claimed the lands as part of her tocher, or dowry. Menzies appealed to the Crown, and James IV of Scotland found in his favour.
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The decline in membership and Morning Star circulation accelerated. The Young Communist League collapsed, while the growing crisis in the party also affected the credibility of its leadership as formerly senior and influential members left its ranks. In 1976, four of the party's top engineering activists resigned: Bernard Panter, Cyril Morton, Jimmy Reid and John Tocher, who had all been members of the Political Committee. At the base of the party the crisis in organisation was even more clear.
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In March, those who had stolen from the castle were arrested, and by April Edward had withdrawn his troops. He appointed Robert Tocher and Roger de Beler in 1323 to help administer his possessions in Melbourne using money obtained from confiscations of rebel property in Staffordshire. Edward stayed at Melbourne again in 1325, and while there he issued a right to collect tolls to the men of nearby Swarkestone to repair the bridge over the Trent.
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In 1923 GNSR was incorporated into the London and North Eastern Railway and, in 1948, became part of the Scottish Region of British Railways. The line closed to passengers on 31 December 1949, when driver Mr James Tocher drove the last passenger train into Alford Station. The goods service closed exactly sixteen years later on 31 December 1965, when the last train was driven by Mr Robert Asher, and attended by Mr James Elder, guard, both Aberdeen, and Mr Walter Mearns, fireman, Inverurie.
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In 1259, Dubhghall's daughter married the son of King of Connacht, and Ailéan is recorded to have commanded the woman's tocher of one hundred and sixty gallowglass warriors. When the Scottish Crown encroached into Isles in the 1260s, Dubhghall and Ailéan were noted supporters of the Norwegian cause. Both men played a prominent role in the Norwegian campaign against the Scots in 1263. Following the collapse of the operation and further pressure, the Norwegians agreed to hand the Isles over to the Scots.
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This woman's tocher consisted of a host of gallowglass warriors commanded by Dubhghall's brother, Ailéan. This record appears to be the earliest notice of such soldiers in surviving sources. The epithet borne by Dubhghall's son-in-law—'—can be taken to mean "of the Hebrideans", and appears to refer to the Hebridean military support that contributed to his success against the English. The careers of Dubhghall and his Clann Somhairle kinsman, Eóghan Mac Dubhghaill, exemplify the difficulties faced by the leading Norse-Gaelic lords in the Isles and along western seaboard of Scotland.
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148 n. 725–62. If the account of Rathlin Island given by the Bruce actually refers to Islay and Dunyvaig Castle, the description of the island's reluctant inhabitants being forced to assist the king could indicate that he did not trust the Clann Domhnaill lord. Furthermore, the claim that Aonghus Óg was Lord of Kintyre during this period could stem from the fact that, by the time the Bruce was composed, Eóin Mac Domhnaill was married to a daughter of the Robert II, and had gained this contested lordship by way of her tocher.
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The following year, the fifteenth- to sixteenth-century Annals of Connacht, the sixteenth-century Annals of Loch Cé, and the seventeenth-century Annals of the Four Masters reveal that Aodh travelled to Derry and married a daughter of Dubhghall, and thereby received a tocher that included one hundred and sixty gallowglass warriors commanded by Ailéan himself.Downham (2018) p. 229; Holton (2017) p. 133; Annals of the Four Masters (2013a) § 1259.5; Annals of the Four Masters (2013b) § 1259.5; Annála Connacht (2011a) § 1259.6; Annála Connacht (2011b) § 1259.6; Annals of Loch Cé (2008) § 1259.3; Lydon (2008) pp.
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The following year, Dubhghall again appears on record in Irish affairs, as the Annals of Connacht, the Annals of Loch Cé, and the Annals of the Four Masters reveal that Aodh travelled to Derry and married a daughter of Dubhghall, and thereby received a tocher that included one hundred and sixty gallowglass warriors commanded by Dubhghall's brother, Ailéan.Downham (2018) p. 229; Holton (2017) p. 133; Annals of the Four Masters (2013a) § 1259.5; Annals of the Four Masters (2013b) § 1259.5; Annála Connacht (2011a) § 1259.6; Annála Connacht (2011b) § 1259.6; Annals of Loch Cé (2008) § 1259.3; Lydon (2008) pp.
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Oliver Dragojević (; 7 December 1947 – 29 July 2018) was a Croatian recording artist who was considered one of the most enduring musical stars and cultural icons in Croatia with a discography that spanned nearly five decades.Zadar In Your Pocket by Višnja Arambašić, Nataly Anderson, Frank Jelinčić & Tocher Mitchell. Culture and Events (p11) His style blended traditional klapa melodies of Dalmatia, a coastal region in his native Croatia, with jazz motifs wrapped up in a modern production. For his influential musical career, he reached critical and commercial acclaim in Croatia and neighbouring countries, and numerous accolades, including numerous Porin and Indexi awards.
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These bonds were reinforced by calps, death duties paid to the chief as a mark of personal allegiance by the family when their head died, usually in the form of their best cow or horse. Although calps were banned by Parliament in 1617, manrent continued covertly to pay for protection. The marriage alliance reinforced links with neighboring clans as well as with families within the territory of the clan. The marriage alliance was also a commercial contract involving the exchange of livestock, money, and land through payments in which the bride was known as the tocher and the groom was known as the dowry.
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The Earl of Angus was married three times: (1) on 13 June 1573 at the Church of the Holy Rude, Mary Erskine, a daughter of the Earl of Mar and Annabell Murray.Thomas Thomson, A diurnal of remarkable occurrents that have passed within Scotland (Edinburgh, 1833), p. 334 Her "tocher" or dowry was 8,000 merks;HMC Mar & Kellie, vol. 1 (London, 1904), pp. 30-1. (2) 25 December 1575 (divorced 1587) Margaret, a daughter of George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes; (3) 29 July 1587 Jean Lyon, a daughter of John Lyon, 8th Lord Glamis, with whom he had a daughter Margaret, who died unmarried aged 15.
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Julian Goodare, 'The debts of James VI of Scotland', The Economic History Review, 62:4 (November 2009), pp. 926-952 at pp. 934, 937. The Chancellor John Maitland passed the Danish dowry money given to James VI to Seton.Miles Kerr-Peterson & Michael Pearce, 'James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts, 1588-1596', Scottish History Society Miscellany XVI (Woodbridge, 2020), p. 54. He invested it with several Scottish "burghs" or towns at 10% interest. James VI withdrew the money by 1594, much of it to finance the masque at the baptism of Prince Henry.A. Montgomerie, 'King James VI's Tocher Gude and a Local Authorities Loan of 1590', Scottish Historical Review, 37:123:1 (April 1958), pp. 11-16.
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Burnett returned for a third year with the Thunder in 1991–92 OHL season, with most of the previous year's team intact. In the OHL draft, Burnett picked future NHLer Ethan Moreau in the first round, and defenceman Ryan Tocher in the second round. Burnett's team topped 300 goals scored for the season. Todd Simon led the team, and the league in scoring with 53 goals, 93 assists, and 146 points, to win the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy. Other top scorers include Kevin Brown with 42 goals, 58 assists, and 100 points; Rick Corriveau with 21 goals, 57 assists, and 78 points; and Ethan Moreau with 20 goals, 36 assists, and 55 points in his rookie season.
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On Sunday, April 10, 2016, Davis had finished his qualifying run for a race at Rockingham Dragway in 4.130 seconds at 178.19 miles per hour, before his car shot to the left where he crashed into the guard-wall and his car barrel-rolled out of control. He suffered major injuries and was taken to Moore County Regional Hospital in Pinehurst, North Carolina, and later to UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he died that same day. Also injured in the accident was Ian Tocher, a photographer for Drag Illustrated who was hit by the tumbling car that Ronnie Davis was driving. He was airlifted to UNC Medical Center in Chappell Hill, North Carolina.
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Agnes Douglas, Countess of Argyll (1574–1607), attributed to Adrian Vanson Early modern Scotland was a theoretically patriarchal society, in which men had total authority over women, but how this worked is practice is difficult to discern. Marriages, particularly higher in society, were often political in nature and the subject of complex negotiations over the tocher (dowry). Some mothers took a leading role in negotiating and finding marriages, as Lady Glenorchy did for her children in the 1560s and 1570s, or as matchmakers, finding suitable and compatible partners. Before the Reformation, the extensive marriage bars for kinship meant that most marriages necessitated a papal dispensation, which could later be used as grounds for annulment if the marriage proved politically or personally inconvenient.
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A. Lawrence, "Women in the British Isles in the sixteenth century", in R. Tittler and N. Jones, eds, A Companion to Tudor Britain (Oxford: Blackwell John Wiley & Sons, 2008), , p. 384. Details from John Speed's map of Scotland in the version published in the Interregnum, showing Lowland and Highland women Marriages, particularly higher in society, were often political in nature and the subject of complex negotiations over the tocher (dowry). Some mothers took a leading role in negotiating marriages, as Lady Glenorchy did for her children in the 1560s and 1570s, or as matchmakers, finding suitable and compatible partners for others. Before the Reformation, the extensive marriage bars for kinship meant that most noble marriages necessitated a papal dispensation, which could later be used as grounds for annulment if the marriage proved politically or personally inconvenient, although there was no divorce as such.
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Party, it aimed to close a loophole in which by-elections are not required when a seat becomes vacant. Forbes protested that Regina Walsh Acres and Saskatoon Eastview would be without MLAs for over a year following the resignation of MLAs Steinley and Tocher who ran for federal seats while sitting as Sask. Party MLAs. Forbes also introduced The Public Disclosure of Travel and Expenses of Government Officials Act in March 2020 caused by a $1690 estimate to get the Premier’s travel expenses through an FOI; Forbes stated “Premier and minister’s expenses should be fully public, full stop”. Janna’s Law, an amendment to The Saskatchewan Employment Act (SEA) was passed in March 2020. In the Legislature, Forbes praised this as a step towards truth and reconciliation dubbing the amendment “Janna’s Law” in honour of Janna Pratt of Gordon First Nations.
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William Alexander, representing to Politburo of the CPGB receives applause from the Presidium of the Fifth Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, East Berlin, 16 July 1958. After the calamitous events of 1956, the party increasingly functioned as a pressure group, seeking to use its well-organised base in the trade union movement to push the Labour Party leftwards. Trade unionists in the party in 1968 included John Tocher, George Wake, Dick Etheridge and Cyril Morton (AEU); Mick McGahey, Arthur True and Sammy Moore (NUM); Lou Lewis (UCATT) and Max Morris (NUT). Ken Gill became the party's first elected officer in 1968 and ex-Communist Hugh Scanlon was elected president of the AEU with Broad Left support the previous year – defeating Reg Birch, the Maoist ex-party candidate. The Broad Left went on to help elect Ray Buckton (Aslef), Ken Cameron (FBU), Alan Sapper (ACTT) and Jack Jones (TGWU) in 1969.
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Tocher, Ian. "‘Big Daddy’ Describes Birth of the Burnout", published 18 March 2018, at Drag Illustrated (retrieved 23 September 2018) Don Garlits was the first to do burnouts across the starting line, which is now standard practise.Tocher, Ian. "‘Big Daddy’ Describes Birth of the Burnout", published 18 March 2018, at Drag Illustrated (retrieved 23 September 2018) Early on, traction compound RFI also produced the spectacular flame burnouts.Tocher, Ian. "‘Big Daddy’ Describes Birth of the Burnout", published 18 March 2018, at Drag Illustrated (retrieved 23 September 2018) The hazard of using flammable traction compound led NHRA to mandate use of water, instead.Tocher, Ian. "‘Big Daddy’ Describes Birth of the Burnout", published 18 March 2018, at Drag Illustrated (retrieved 23 September 2018) Burnouts eventually became a serious form of competition and entertainment in their own right. Considerable prize money or goods are sometimes involved, and cars may even be sponsored or purpose-built specifically as "burnout cars". Burnout contests are judged on crowd response, with style and attitude therefore being important factors.
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The 2017 summit took place on Tuesday, February 21, 2017. Speakers included Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch; Irwin Cotler, chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights; Jakub Klepal, executive director of Forum 2000; Can Dündar, exiled Turkish journalist; Zhanna Nemtsova, Russian journalist and activist; Anastasia Zotova, Russian activist and wife of Ildar Dadin; Antonietta Ledezma, daughter of imprisoned Venezuelan politician Antonio Ledezma; Chito Gascon, Filipino activist; Taghi Rahmani, Iranian journalist and husband of Narges Mohammadi; Alfred H. Moses, chair of UN Watch; El Sexto, Cuban graffiti artist and activist; Nyima Lhamo, exiled Tibetan activist and niece of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche; Biram Dah Abeid, Mauritanian anti-slavery activist; Astrid Thors, Finnish politician; Mohamed Nasheed, Maldivian activist; Medard Mulangala, DRC opposition leader; James Jones, documentary filmmaker; Kim Kwang-jin, North Korean defector; and Đặng Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese human rights activist. The 2017 Women's Rights Award was given to "Shirin", a Yazidi woman who escaped sexual slavery in the Islamic State, and author of I Remain a Daughter of the Light (Ich bleibe eine Tocher des Lichts), recently published in Germany. The 2017 Courage Award was given to Mohamed Nasheed, former president of the Maldives and the country's leading human rights activist.
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