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Production of the J/24 started in 1977 and the new partners expected to sell 250 boats that first year, and actually sold 750.
By early 1978 the class was popular enough to hold a one-design regatta in Key West with twenty boats competing and by that summer sixty-eight competed in Newport, Rhode Island.
Early successful designs included the 1983 J/22, as well as the 1983 J/35, with 330 produced.
The company classifies its designs into one design, offshore cruisers, offshore cruiser-racers, day sailers and weekend cruisers and pure racing designs
By 1992 a new generation of the Johnstone family was running the company, while the elder Johnstones remained involved.
Rod Johnstone's son Jeff Johnstone became president, while his son Alan Johnstone was named vice-president, while Phil Johnstone is legal counsel.
Rod Johnstone's nephew, Jim Johnstone, became sales director.
Five of Jim and Bob Johnstone's sons serve as members of the board of directors: Jeff, Alan, Stuart, Drake and Phil Johnstone.
All the family members involved in the company are serious sailors.
By 2020 the company had built more than 9,000 boats and had ten designs in production: the J/70, J/80, J/88, J/96, J/99, J/111, J/121, J/97E, J/112E and the 122E.
Summary of boats built by J/Boats, by year:
2020 Kuomintang chairmanship election
The 2020 Kuomintang chairmanship election () is scheduled for 7 March 2020.
This will be the eighth direct election of the party leader in Kuomintang history.
All registered, due-paying KMT party members are eligible to vote.
Kuomintang candidate Han Kuo-yu lost the 2020 Taiwanese presidential election held on 11 January 2020.
On the same date, Kuomintang chairman Wu Den-yih announced his intention to resign his post, and stated that other high-ranking officers would also resign.
On 14 January, the Kuomintang announced that a leadership election was scheduled for 7 March 2020.
Wu's resignation as chairman took effect on 15 January 2020.
From that date, Lin Rong-te assumed the chairmanship on an acting basis.
Candidates for the party leadership must be a party member.
The last day to declare candidacy for the 2020 leadership election is 31 January.
For the 2020 leadership election, each candidate is required to collect signatures from at least 3 percent of the party membership prior to 4 February 2020.
Registration of candidates will take place on 3 and 4 February.
In previous leadership elections, candidates were required to secure a simple majority in a two-round system before their certification as the victor.
The party's electoral rules were revised in 2018, so that the candidate with a majority of votes would win the election.
In elections with a single candidate, that candidate must win a simple majority.
If a vote is tied, another election must be held within thirty days.
Recounts can be requested if the margin between two candidates is within 0.2%.
Additionally, regulations regarding suffrage for overseas party members were tightened.
Unlike Taiwan-based members of the Kuomintang, who were eligible to vote after four months of party membership, overseas party members must have held membership for one year.
Chang Ya-chung declared his candidacy for the Kuomintang chairmanship on 14 January 2020.
Wu Chih-chang, leader of the Blue Sky Action Alliance, also announced his bid.
On 20 January, Hau Lung-pin began his campaign for the chairmanship.
Johnny Chiang entered the leadership election on 25 January.
Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail
Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail is a Canadian drama film, directed by Don Owen and released in 1966.
The film centres on Donna (Michèle Chicoine) and Gail (Jackie Burroughs), two young women who work together at a dress factory and live together as roommates, tracing the evolution and decline of their friendship in a documentary-style format.
The film makes use of the then-novel device of an unreliable narrator, ultimately revealing that the film is much more about the narrator's skewed perceptions of the women's relationship than it is about the women themselves.
It was inspired in part by the contemporaneous films of Jean-Luc Godard.
The characters of Donna and Gail recurred in Owen's 1967 feature film "The Ernie Game".
Prior to the release of "The Ernie Game", some critics who had seen only "Notes" perceived Donna and Gail as being in a quasi-lesbian relationship, but Owen demurred by saying "I really don't know, because, well, what is a lesbian relationship?"
The film won a Canadian Film Award in the General Information category at the 19th Canadian Film Awards in 1967.
Shi Shanshan
Shi Shanshan is a Chinese Paralympic powerlifter.
She represented China at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and she won the bronze medal in the women's 48 kg event in 2012.
At the 2010 Asian Para Games she won the gold medal in the women's 48 kg event.
At the 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships she won the silver medal in the women's 55 kg event.
At the 2018 Asia-Oceania Open Powerlifting Championships she won the silver medal in the women's 55 kg event.
We Believe in Dinosaurs
We Believe in Dinosaurs is a 2019 American documentary about the controversy surrounding the construction of the Ark Encounter museum in Williamstown, Kentucky.
The museum's goal is to promote young earth creationism and disprove evolution.
According to its directors, Monica Long-Ross and Clayton Brown, the goal of the film is “to spark an important dialogue about the thorny intersection of belief, religion, and science — crossing into the cultural bubbles where so many Americans seem to exist."
Their goal is not to convert creationists.
They go on to say, “We hope that the film can shine a light on the important science and religion conflicts that we face today, including the increasing incidents of science denial, and what the erosion of the separation of church and state means for America, as well as across the world.”
The title of the film is a reference to the Ark Encounter's attempt to blend religious beliefs with science.
The museum argues that dinosaurs existed alongside all modern animals including humans, but perished during the flood narrated in the Bible.
The prevalence of dinosaur-based displays also attracts younger attendees, who are the prime target for religious indoctrination.
Filmed over a four year period, "We Believe in Dinosaurs" follows three Kentucky residents during the construction of the Ark Encounter museum, which attempts to demonstrate the historicity and scientific accuracy of the bible as well as disprove evolution.
The Ark is built to what its creators believe to be the exact specifications given in the bible.
The film interviews and follows several people involved in the process.
Doug Henderson is an artist who creates realistic animals for the Ark Encounter and espouses creationist beliefs.
Dan Phelps is a geologist and activist who seeks to expose the falsehoods promoted by Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis.
David MacMillan is a former creationist.
MacMillan was previously a respected member of the nearby Creation Museum who was seen as an expert in the field.
Today he has been disowned by the church and shares his new perspective publicly through channels such as the Huffington Post.
Instead of detailing the finer points of the debate between evolution and creationism, the film looks more at the genesis of the museum itself.
It examines Williamstown and the businesses and government there that supported the museum.
It also looks at the organization of a protest put on by Tri-State Free Thinkers, a local atheist group with a pro-science stance.
Among those protesting the museum can be found a Baptist Pastor, Chris Caldwell.
Through the process of construction it is made clear that, for the people of Williamstown, Kentucky, the museum was ultimately a disappointment.
The tourism they hoped for quickly dried up as the novelty of the museum wore off.
The film also contains scenes of the completed museum and what type of programs they conduct, which drives home the museum's primary purpose.
Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter describes some of the footage:
One reviewer calls it an "unexpected David-and-Goliath story".
The surprising aspect is that it appears the scientists and protesters are often outmatched by the power of strong belief communities who have the political and financial connections to fund this project.
The film can be considered an exploration into the bigger themes of "truth, opinion and fact and how we manage these things in a democracy".
We Believe in Dinosaurs premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2019.
It was also screened at the AFI Docs Film Festival in June of 2019.
As of January 2020, the film has 90% on Rotten Tomatoes
Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter calls the documentary, "frustratingly incomplete at times", arguing that there could have been even more skeptical voices to explain exactly why the science at the Ark Encounter is incorrect.
He also says that it "convincingly and sometimes frighteningly explores the big-business connections to fundamentalist religion."
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DWIF
89.3 Max Radio (DWIF 89.3 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by Iddes Broadcast Group.
Its studios and transmitter are located at 116 M.L.
Tagarao St., Brgy.
Ilayang Iyam, Lucena, Philippines.
Imperial Church System
The Imperial Church System (German: "Reichskirchensystem", Dutch: "rijkskerkenstelsel") was a governance policy by the early Holy Roman Emperors and other medieval European rulers to entrust the secular governance of the state to as many celibate members of the clergy (especially bishops and abbots) of the Catholic Church as possible instead of to the non-celibate laity.
Emperors and kings did this because celibate clergymen could not produce legitimate heirs who could claim their inheritance at death, and thus not establish regional dynasties that could threaten the power of the imperial or royal house.
Upon their deaths, the areas governed by celibate clerics automatically reverted back to the ruler, who could then appoint their own new confidants to the position and thus retain control of all parts of the realm.
A bishop thus bestowed with temporal (secular) power of a prince, on top of his spiritual (religious) power as a bishop, was known as a prince-bishop, and his domain as a prince-bishopric (German: "Fürstbistum", "Stift" or "Hochstift"; Dutch: "prinsbisdom" or "sticht").