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Theobald, "Lupinus dedeckerae" Munz & Dunn (now "L. padre-crowleyi" C. P. Smith) and "'Trifolium dedeckerae" Gillett.
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Also she made the first collections of the following plants in California, most of them previously known in Nevada: "Agave utahensis" Engelm.
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var.
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"eborispina" (Hester) Breit., "Cryptantha scoparia" A.
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Nels., "Cymopterus ripleyi" Barneby, "Draba cana" Rydb., and "Eriogonum puberulum" S. Wats.
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In 1982 DeDecker founded the Bristlecone Chapter of the California Native Plant Society.
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In 1984, Susan Cochrane of the California Department of Fish & Game proved successful in her bid to name remote canyon south of Eureka Dunes in honor of DeDecker, hence, it is now called Dedeckera Canyon.
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In 1989 DeDecker, as a botanist who spent many years getting acquainted with the California desert, made a statement at the Hearing before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs House of Representatives on California Desert Protection Act of 1989.
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DeDecker was active in such organizations as Garden Club, Civic Club, League of Women Voters, botanical organizations, Inyo Associates, Death Valley ‘49ers.
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She has served a number of years as Park Liaison Chairman and as second vice-president of the Death Valley ‘49ers, a supportive organization for Death Valley National Monument.
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Dedecker was a community activist in relation to the Owens Valley Committee and Inyo County water issues.
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She has also was active in the Eastern California Museum, mostly a disillusioning experience, and in the Concerned Citizens, an activist organization to fight for the rights of Owens Valley in the water issues.
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As a hard-working environmentalist she fought to preserve Owens Valley and Eureka Dunes in California.
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She was active in the Democratic Party being on the Democratic Central Committee in Inyo County, and was appointed to the State Central Committee by Senator Charles Brown.
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In DeDecker’s memory and for her many contributions to the botany and history of the Eastern Sierra Nevada and northern Mojave Desert, The Bristlecone Chapter of the California Native Plant Society founded Mary DeDecker Botanical Grant, a small-grants program.
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1930 Australian Championships – Mixed Doubles
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In the duel between future married couples and multiple winners Nell Hall and Harry Hopman defeated
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Marjorie Cox and Jack Crawford 11–9, 3–6, 6–3 in the final, to win the Mixed Doubles tennis title at the 1930 Australian Championships.
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Source for seedings
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A Little Thing Called First Love
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A Little Thing Called First Love () is a 2019 Chinese romantic television drama starring Lai Kuan-lin, Zhao Jinmai and Wang Runze, Chai Wei.
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The series was first aired on Hunan Television from October 23 to November 21 2019 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays for 36 episodes.
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An ordinary girl falls head over heels for the most popular boy in school.
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Xia Miaomiao is a shy, artistic student who develops a crush on a handsome, talented classmate and embarks on a journey of self-discovery through college.
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Because of Liang Younian, Xia Miaomiao decides to make a change.
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Through the help of her friends, she starts to learn about fashion, join school clubs, and studies hard to raise her grades.
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Her ordinary life becoming more colorful by the day.
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Tech Nation (organisation)
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Tech Nation is a U.K. government Non-departmental public body, also known as a quango.
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Former Prime Minister David Cameron founded the organisation in 2010 under the name, Tech City.
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However, in 2018 Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Matt Hancock, announced that the government would be changing the organisation’s name to Tech Nation and expanding its remit to cover the whole of the United Kingdom with more integration into Britain’s financial technology sector.
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The organisation funds and develops UK-based companies and personnel working in the tech sector as well as expediting visa applications under the UK Visas and Immigration Tier 1 Exceptional Talent Visa.
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Following the 2008 financial crisis, a cluster of technology and digital media companies emerged around Old Street Roundabout, also nicknamed Silicon Roundabout.
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The companies, which mostly consisted of technology start-ups, were attracted by low rents and the area’s relative proximity to the City of London’s financial district.
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After his 2010 general election victory, working alongside advisors Steve Hilton and Rohan Silva, David Cameron unveiled plans to turn London’s East End into an international technology hub on a par with California’s, Silicon Valley.
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The announcement came as part of a broader plan to create more private-sector jobs to fill the gaps in the U.K.’s job market in the wake of public sector cuts.
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The plans also expanded Tech City’s reach beyond the so-called Silicon Roundabout on Old Street to the areas surrounding the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, with the Olympic Park Legacy Company providing office space inside the Olympic Park.
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However, policymakers later scrapped the Olympic park link-up idea.
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As well as using tax-payer money, Cameron’s government spearheaded a programme of interventions to attract foreign investment into the region.
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As well as using place branding and marketing, to attract foreign investment, the programme established a ‘one-stop-shop’ for investment; they named it the Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO).
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The U.K. government appointed entrepreneur Eric van der Kleij as TCIO’s chief executive.
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As well as holding talks with international I.T.
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groups, his remit also included encouraging entrepreneurs to set up in east London, supporting them attracting investment into the U.K. and encouraging people to buy products and services emerging from the U.K. technology sector.
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In 2012, Ten Downing Street appointed Cameron’s Digital Advisor, former Facebook and Google executive Joanna Shields to replace Eric van der Kleij as CEO, after van der Kleij chose not to renew his contract after its expiry.
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A 2013 audit of every company listed on the Tech City Map, a map showing the locations of different companies operating in TCIO’s catchment area showed that of the 1,340 companies shown on the list, 700 were PR companies or design agencies, 482 were labelled “miscellaneous” – a category which included charities, pubs, cafes and fashion boutiques while just 137 classed themselves as technology companies with a further 21 companies entered more than once or entered with no information or link to an external site, meaning that just 10% of the companies in the area did technology.
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Meanwhile, on a national scale, Cambridge had developed a cluster of companies working in the fields of biotechnology and engineering where, in 2011 it cluster of 1535 companies achieved a combined turnover of £11.8bn, making it one of the oldest and most successful tech clusters in Europe while wielding little political clout.
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A similar situation occurred in Manchester, where the digital content and ICT industries accounted for an estimated 45,800 jobs.
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Similar clusters emerged from Brighton in the south to Newcastle in the North, with most clusters outside of London funded by their member companies.
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In May 2015, the UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), part of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) cut Tech City’s funding.
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Since its inception in 2011, the quango had been receiving £2 million of taxpayer’s money annually via the UKTI.
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However, similarities in remit between the two organisations led to a rift between Shields, who at the time, was also working as Digital Advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron and the UKTI.
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After the fallout, the organisation secured investment from Innovate UK who also fall under the BIS.
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The organisation claimed that Innovate UK began funding them when their remit changed.
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Concurrently, the organisation accepted outside funding from PwC, KPMG and JLL sparking rumours of privatisation.
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Shields stepped down as CEO after holding the position for 15 months but stayed on as chairman and as a business ambassador for Britain’s technology industry.
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Former BlackBerry Limited marketing boss Gerard Grech succeeded her.
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Prime Minister David Cameron stood down following his 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum defeat.
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Under Cameron’s government technology played a big part in the government’s industrial strategy, but insiders from Britain’s technology industry were unsure what impact the change in government and Brexit would have on overseas investment and immigration.
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Teresa May’s government announced another 1000 exceptional talent visas but did not specifically allocate them to Tech Nation UK; instead, tech nation would have to compete with the Arts Council of England, the British Academy, the Royal Society and the Academy of Engineering.
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May did, however, top-up the quangos existing £2million grant with a £21M grant over four years, which when added to the company’s net commercial revenue of £3M gave the quango a budget of £28M spread out over four years.
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Following the £21M extra funding announced by Teresa May, Tech City UK rebranded as Tech Nation and widened its remit to include 11 technology clusters based in town and cities across Britain and Northern Ireland.
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The announcement received a mixed reception, as May informed senior industry figures that their regional hubs would report back to a central hub in London, and Tech North, Tech City UK’s sister project would be assimilated into the new organisation.
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The announcement led many entrepreneurs from outside of London to believe that the extra funding for the nationwide scheme would further centralise power in London.
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These words were a blow to Tech North, which upon its launch was structured as a subsidiary of Tech Nation UK, while Tech North’s chief executive, Claire Braithwaite resigned after nine months in office with sources reporting that she objected to the centralised control of the organisation and desired autonomy from London.
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Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond dealt another blow to Tech North when he dropped plans to create a £30m co-investment fund during his 2017 Autumn budget.
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Tech Nation became operational in 2018 and stated its new objectives to help the U.K. stand at “the forefront of technology innovation” and to develop Tech City’s Digital Business Academy courses.
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Since the quango’s launch, smaller technology and creative companies from East London, particularly Shoreditch claim that spiralling rents, shortages of skilled workers and poor internet connectivity were pushing pre-existing start-ups out of the area.
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Entrepreneurs also complained that only high-profile businesses those with links to the government were benefitting from the government’s investment in technology.
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From April 2014 to 2015, the quango issued just seven of its 200 allocated Exceptional Talent Visas.
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Miami Vice (disambiguation)
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Miami Vice is a 1980s American television series.
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Miami Vice may also refer to:
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Carlos Tobalina
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Carlos Tobalina may refer to:
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Venezuela involvement in regime change
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Venezuela involvement in regime change has entailed both overt and covert actions aimed at altering, replacing, or preserving foreign governments.
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During the Spanish American wars of independence, Venezuelan leader Simón Bolívar led expeditions to overthrow government loyal to the Spanish Empire.
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During the presidency of Hugo Chávez, his government made several, covert payments to regional allies.
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During the Spanish American wars of independence, Venezuelan leader Simón Bolívar overthrew the Viceroyalty of New Grenada, which was led by Juan José de Sámano y Uribarri.
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After the Captaincy General of Venezuela branched from the Viceroyalty of New Grenada in 1777, the captaincy soon found itself among the Venezuelan War of Independence and the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence was made in 1811.
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After Bolívar led the Admirable Campaign in 1813 and establishing the Third Republic of Venezuela, the Spanish reconquest of New Granada occurred and the Viceroyalty of New Grenada was re-established in 1816.
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In 1819, Bolívar began his expedition to overthrow the Viceroyalty of New Grenada and led Venezuelan troops and British Legions into Spanish territory.
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Bolívar's motive was to conquer New Grenada and to join the territory with Venezuela to establish Gran Colombia.
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Following the Battle of Boyacá, Viceroy Juan José de Sámano y Uribarri fled to Cartagena de Indias where he was not recognized.
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On 10 August 1819, Bolívar marched into Bogotá and months later during the Congress of Angostura, the State of Gran Colombia was declared on 17 December 1819.
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During the Thousand Days' War, the Colombian Liberal Party lost contested elections with the Colombian Conservative Party.
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According to de La Pedraja, what "had happened so often in the past in many other countries, the losing party turned to foreign help as the only way to attain victory" and that "key foreign help came from Venezuela".
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Venezuelan president Cipriano Castro granted Rafael Uribe Uribe's Liberal troops safety in Venezuela in 1901 and armed their troops.
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By August 1901, Castro sent 200 Venezuelan troops to aid the Liberals and to covertly blend into their ranks.
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In September 1901, Castro deployed an additional 1,200 troops along with canons, rifles and a machine gun into Colombia, with Venezuelans comprising a large portion of Liberal troops in border area.
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During the Battle of Riohacha, President Castro sent a gunboat to block Conservative reinforcements from entering the city's harbor and order Venezuelan general José Antonio Dávila to manage Venezuelan troops alongside the Liberals.
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Errors by Venezuelan forces resulted with Colombian reinforcements landing near Riohacha and countering the joint Liberal-Venezuelan forces, resulting in a mass retreat and a victory for the Colombian army.
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René de La Pedraja wrote:
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In 1955, forces loyal to Costa Rican former president Rafael Calderón, backed by the Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza García, crossed the border from Nicaragua and invaded Costa Rica.
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Venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez provided financial support to the rebels and, reportedly, air support.
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The invasion ultimatey failed.
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Since the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the Venezuelan government held plans to invade Guayana Esequiba.
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President Pérez Jiménez anticipated the invasion of Guyana in 1958, but was overthrown in the 1958 Venezuelan coup d'état prior to this.
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After being elected in 1964, Venezuelan president Raúl Leoni made several territorial disputes against Guyana, claiming land for Venezuela.
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