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Tipton graduated from Angleton High School, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Texas A&M University, and his Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law.
After graduating law school, Tipton served as a law clerk to Judge John D. Rainey of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
He previously was in private practice with Marek, Griffin, & Knaupp and Littler Mendelson.
Since 1999, he has been a partner at BakerHostetler in Houston, Texas, where his practice focuses on complex labor and employment and trade secret litigation.
On January 15, 2020, President Trump announced his intent to nominate Tipton to serve as a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
He will be nominated to the seat vacated by Judge Sim Lake who took senior status on July 5, 2019.
Boys' U17 European Volleyball Championship
The Boys' U17 Youth European Volleyball Championship is a sport competition for volleyball national teams with players under 17 years, currently held biannually and organized by the European Volleyball Confederation, the volleyball federation from Europe.
Cyanuric bromide
Cyanuric bromide is a heterocyclic compound with formula CNBr.
It contains a six-membered ring of alternating nitrogen and carbon atoms, with a bromine atom attached to each carbon.
It is formed by the spontaneous trimerisation of cyanogen bromide.
Cyanuric bromide can be used to synthesize substituted triazines.
For example it reacts with anilines to form derivatives of melamine.
With ammonia, melamine is produced.
Primary or secondary amines react.
Cyanuric trihydrazide is produced in the reaction with hydrazine.
When heated with urea at 140°C, ammelide is formed.
Cyanuric bromide reacts with water, particularly in alkaline conditions to cyanuric acid and hydrogen bromide.
Cyanuric bromide can add bromine to other compound, and when it is heated with acetic acid, acetyl bromide is produced.
Cyanuric bromide can formed in a reaction with potassium ferrocyanide with bromine at 200°C.
The trimerization reaction of cyanogen bromide (BrCN) is catalyzed by aluminium trichloride or hydrogen bromide.
Home Chat
Home Chat was a British weekly women's magazine, published by Amalgamated Press.
Alfred Harmsworth founded "Home Chat" to compete with "Home Notes".
He ran the Amalgamated Press and through them he published the magazine.
He founded it in 1895 and the magazine ran until 1959.
It was published as a small format magazine which came out weekly.
As was usual for such women's weeklies the formulation was to cover society gossip and domestic tips along with short stories, dress patterns, recipes and competitions.
One of the editors was Maud Brown.
She retired in 1919 and was replaced by her sister Flora.
It began with a circulation of 186,000 in 1895 and finished up at 323,600 in 1959.
It took a severe hit before the Second World War in circulation but had recovered before it was closed down.
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Wanda Stopa
Wanda Elaine Stopa (May 5, 1900 – April 25, 1924) was a Polish-American lawyer and murderer.
Stopa was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1900.
Stopa studied at The John Marshall Law School and became Chicago's youngest and first woman assistant U.S. district attorney.
Stopa tried to shoot her lover's wife at her home in Palos Park, but accidentally shot and killed their 65-year old gardener, Henry Manning.
She fled the scene and led the police on a manhunt.
Stopa committed suicide by ingesting arsenic in a Detroit hotel room.
Around 10,000 people attended her funeral.
She is buried at the Bohemian National Cemetery.
In 2019, Stopa's story was featured in a Season 13 of the American television series "Deadly Women", with Stopa being portrayed by Kelsie Feltrin.
St. Wolstan's Priory
St. Wolstan's Priory is a former Augustinian (Victorine) monastery located in County Kildare, Ireland.
St. Wolstan's Priory is located on the eastern edge of Celbridge, on the south bank of the River Liffey; it lies southeast of Castletown House and about east-northeast of Celbridge's Main Street.
The priory was founded in 1202 (or, according to William of Ware, 1205) by Adam de Hereford, one of the Anglo-Norman leaders of the Norman conquest of Ireland.
It was founded for canons of the order of St Victor and was named after the recently canonised Saint Wulfstan (died 1095).
The early buildings were nicknamed "Scala Coeli", "stairs of heaven."
The monastery was granted the lands around Donaghcumper Church.
In 1271 William de Mandesham, seneschal to Fulk Basset, Archbishop of Dublin, granted to the priory the lands of Tristildelane, modern Castledillon.
In 1308 a bridge across the River Liffey was built by John Ledleer next to the gate of St. Wolstan's.
In 1314 the churches of Stacumney and Donaghmore were granted to the sole and separate use of the prior.
In 1536 the priory and lands were seized by King Henry VIII as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
It was the first monastery in Ireland to be suppressed and the last prior, Richard Weston, was granted a room in the monastery and supplied with food and fuel for the rest of his life.
It was granted to John Alan in 1538.
The buildings of the priory were probably converted into a house for Sir John Alan before his death in 1561.
The Alen family lived at St. Wolstans for 216 years.
They resided in the priory for much of this period and later built the house.
In 1782 the ruins were visited and sketched by Austin Cooper (1759–1830).
In 1955 the site was purchased by the Holy Faith Sisters, who established St. Wolstan's Holy Faith Convent School.
The school has since moved site but retains the name of St Wolstan's Community School.
It was partially excavated in 2002 as part of an archeological assessment, but nothing of significance was found.
The remains consist of two gateways, a four-storey tower, and two fragments.
Nadia E. Brown
Nadia E. Brown is an American political scientist, currently a University Scholar and professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Purdue University, where she is also affiliated with the department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Brown is a scholar of American politics whose work focuses on identity politics, legislative studies, and Black women’s studies, using the theory of intersectionality to study topics across multiple disciplines.
Brown studied political science at Howard University, obtaining a BA in 2004.
She chose to study political science because of an interest in how power is distributed in society, and particularly how Black women engage in political activity.
In 2010 she completed her PhD in political science at Rutgers University, specializing in Women and Politics and American Politics.
She also received a Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies.
From 2010 to 2013, she was a professor of political science and African American studies, and affiliated with women's studies, at St. Louis University.
In 2014, Brown published the book "Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making", which studies how the policy preferences and legislative behavior of African American women legislators are influenced by experiences with racism and sexism during their lives, given the context that in 2013, only 239 of the 7,776 female legislators in the United States were African American women.
The book was reviewed positively not just for its substantive findings, but also for its analytical approach, with Muireann O'Dwyer writing that it "delivered an answer to the enduring question of how exactly intersectionality can be brought to bear on the empirical questions of social science".
"Sisters in the Statehouse" won the 2015 W.E.B.
DuBois Distinguished Book Award, as well as awards from Purdue University and the Association for the Study of Black Women and Politics.
In 2016, Brown was appointed a University Scholar at Purdue University, an honor which is intended "to recognize outstanding mid-career faculty who are on an accelerated path for academic distinction".
Brown was chosen as the American Political Science Association's Member of the Month for April 2019.
Brown is the lead editor of the journal "Politics, Groups, and Identities", which she has noted may make her the first Black woman to be the sole lead editor of a political science journal.
She has also been a member of the editorial board of the political science expert database Women Also Know Stuff.
Brown is an advocate for political scientists to communicate about their discipline with the media.
She has published in The Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and OZY, and been cited in outlets like The New York Times and The Washingtonian.
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Penn Valley Redevelopment Project
The Penn Valley Redevelopment Project was a 1971 plan to demolish homes in Kansas City’s Valentine Neighborhood and to replace them with a multimillion-dollar office and residential complex.
The project plan used Missouri’s Chapter 353 Urban Redevelopment Corporations Law.
The law allows “the right to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property in the redevelopment area” (Section 353.130) and the property “shall not be subject to assessment or payment of general ad valorem (property) taxes imposed by the cities affected by this law, or by the state or any political subdivision thereof, for a period not in excess of ten years” (Section 353.110).
The case was presented to the Kansas City City Plan Commission on April 1, 1971 and was unanimously defeated despite approval by the city staff.
However, the plan continued to affect the Valentine Neighborhood.
The application was submitted by the Penn Valley Redevelopment Corporation.
This corporation was organized by the Kansas City Life Insurance Company and other members of the Broadway Area (Business) Association.
The president was Donald L. Thompson who was also Financial Vice-president at Kansas City Life.
The plan included seven stages or phases:
Opposition to the plan led to the creation of the Valentine Neighborhood Association (VNA) in early 1971.
VNA’s first president, Joe Cigas, led the effort by residents to oppose the plan.
He was supported by City Councilman Joseph Shaughnessy, Jr. and mayor-elect Dr. Charles B. Wheeler, Jr.
In a May 16, 1972 speech to employees of Kansas City Life, Administrative Vice President Walter E. Bixby, Jr. reflected on why they pursued the plan:
Bixby also mentioned that he believed the creation of Penn Valley Community College in 1969 foreshadowed that the area would become more commercial.
He compared 1951, 1961, and 1971.