pat quinn illinois lt governor Democrat

Patrick Joseph Quinn was born December 16, 1948. He is the 41st Governor of Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party. Quinn became governor of the state of Illinois on January 29, 2009 when the previous governor, Rod Blagojevich, was removed from office after an impeachment conviction.
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Quinn won the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor in March 2002 and subsequently won the general election on the Democratic ticket alongside gubernatorial nominee Rod Blagojevich. In Illinois, candidates for lieutenant governor and governor run in separate primary elections, but are conjoined as a single ticket for the general election. This same ticket won re-election in 2006, where Quinn was unopposed in the primary. While lieutenant governor, according to his official biography, his priorities were consumer advocacy, environmental protection, health care, broadband deployment, and veterans' affairs.
On December 14, 2008, when David Gregory asked Quinn on NBC's Meet The Press about his relationship with Blagojevich, he said, "Well, he's a bit isolated. I tried to talk to the governor, but the last time I spoke to him was in August of 2007. I think one of the problems is the governor did sort of seal himself off from all the statewide officials... Attorney General Madigan and myself and many others....". Quinn has consistently stressed that his relationship with Blagojevich has been estranged at best, often pointing out that Blagojevich officially announced that Quinn was not part of his administration in 2006.
Governor of Illinois
On January 29, 2009 Rod Blagojevich was convicted and removed from office by a vote of 59-0 by the Illinois State Senate. Quinn was sworn in as Governor of Illinois, after earlier signing a written oath, at the chambers of the Illinois State House of Representatives by Illinois Supreme Court Associate Justice Anne M. Burke at 5:40 p.m. Central Standard Time.
On the morning of December 9, 2008, Blagojevich was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, and for solicitation of bribery for several instances of illegal acts, including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by Barack Obama's election to the presidency.
On December 12, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a motion with the Illinois Supreme Court to have them declare Blagojevich "unable to serve" and have Quinn installed as the acting governor of Illinois.
Due to Blagojevich's single digit approval rating, and Quinn's known rivalry with Blagojevich, the likely transfer of power was welcomed by many Illinois citizens and politicians, including attorney general Madigan and former Republican governor Jim Edgar. Such popularity has birthed a variety of faux election garb, such as "Pat Quinn for Governor '08" stickers and other such items circulated mostly via the internet.
On January 29, 2009, Blagojevich was convicted by the State Senate, having previously been impeached by the State House, and Quinn became the Governor of Illinois. info (c) wikipedia.org

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Patrick Dominic Quinn (aged 56) was born February 12, 1950, Philadelphia and died September 24, 2006, Bushkill, Pennsylvania. He was an American actor and a former president of the Actors' Equity Association. Quinn's father was a mortician.
Quinn studied theater at Temple University. After graduation from college he took his first Equity role in a touring company of Man of La Mancha. He also helped start the Charade Dinner Theater, the first Equity dinner theater in metropolitan Philadelphia.
His first Broadway role was in the 1976 revival of Fiddler on the Roof. He also was in the cast of Lend Me a Tenor, Beauty and the Beast, A Class Act and the 1998 revival of The Sound of Music.
Quinn's television credits included a recurring role on the ABC sitcom Bosom Buddies and parts on various soap operas. He also appeared in all three current versions of the NBC crime drama Law & Order.
Quinn, who had been a member of Equity since 1970, was elected to the council in 1977. He was elected president in 2000. In 1987 he helped organize the non-profit organization Equity Fights AIDS, which later merged with Broadway Cares.
At the time of his death, he was scheduled to succeed Alan Eisenberg as executive director of the association.
Quinn died from a heart attack at his country home in Bushkill, Pennsylvania, aged 56. He was survived by his life partner of twelve years, Martin Casella, three brothers, Jimmy, Jerry and John, one sister, Lizanne, their spouses, and nine nieces and nephews. info (c)wikipedia.org

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Of a total of 2,223 people aboard the Titanic only 706 survived the disaster and 1,517 perished. The majority of deaths were caused by hypothermia in the −2 °C (28 °F) water. Men and members of the lower classes were less likely to survive. 92 percent of the men perished in second class. Third class passengers fared very badly.
Six of the seven children in first class and all of the children in second class were saved, whereas only a 34 percent were saved in third class. Nearly every first-class woman survived, compared with 86 percent of those in second class and less than half of those in third class. Over all, only 20 percent of the men survived. First-class men were four times as likely to survive as second-class men, and twice as likely to survive as third-class men.
Another disparity is that more British passengers died on the Titanic than Americans, presumably because Britons in that era acted "gentlemanly," making sure others reached lifeboats.
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In one case in the third class, a Swedish family lost the mother Alma Palsson and her four children all aged under 10. The father was waiting for them to arrive at the destination. "Palsson's grief was the most acute of any who visited the offices of the White Star, but his loss was the greatest. His whole family had been wiped out."
The sailors aboard the ship CS Mackay-Bennett which recovered bodies from Titanic, who were very upset by the discovery of the unknown boy's body, paid for a monument and he was buried on 4 May 1912 with a copper pendant placed in his coffin by the sailors that read "Our Babe. The unknown child was later positively identified as Sidney Goodwin.
One survivor, stewardess Violet Jessop, who had been on board the RMS Olympic when she collided with HMS HawkeTemplate:WP Ships HMS instances in 1911, went on to survive the sinking of HMHS Britannic in 1916.
Titanic survivors who have recently passed away include Lillian Asplund on 6 May 2006 and Barbara Dainton (née West) on 16 October 2007.
Millvina Dean, who was only two months old at the time of the sinking, is the only living survivor of the Titanic. Although she is over 95 years old, she has remained active in Titanic-related events and lives in Southampton, England.
There are many stories relating to dogs on the Titanic. Apparently, a passenger released the dogs just before the ship went down; they were seen running up and down the decks. At least two dogs survived.
Titanic Survivors: What They Saw (1)

The RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, United Kingdom. For her time, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world.
On the night of 14 April 1912, during her maiden voyage, Titanic hit an iceberg and sank two hours and forty minutes later, early on 15 April 1912. The sinking resulted in the deaths of 1,517 people, making it one of the most deadly peacetime maritime disasters in history. The high casualty rate was due in part to the fact that, although complying with the regulations of the time, the ship did not carry enough lifeboats for everyone aboard. The ship had a total lifeboat capacity of 1,178 persons even though her maximum capacity was 3,547 people. A disproportionate number of men died also, due to the women-and-children-first protocol that was followed.
Titanic Survivors: What They Saw (2)

The Titanic used some of the most advanced technology available at the time and was, after the sinking, popularly believed to have been described as “unsinkable”. It was a great shock to many that, despite the extensive safety features and experienced crew, the Titanic sank. The frenzy on the part of the media about Titanic's famous victims, the legends about the sinking, the resulting changes to maritime law, and the discovery of the wreck have contributed to the interest in and fame of the Titanic that continues to this day.
Before the survivors even arrived in New York, investigations were being planned to discover what had happened, and what could be done to prevent a recurrence. The United States Senate initiated an inquiry into the disaster on 19 April, a day after Carpathia arrived in New York.
Meeting Millvina Dean - Last Titanic Survivor

The chairman of the inquiry, Senator William Alden Smith, wanted to gather accounts from passengers and crew while the events were still fresh in their minds. Smith also needed to subpoena the British citizens while they were still on American soil. This prevented all surviving passengers and crew from returning to England before the American inquiry, which lasted until 25 May.

Lord Mersey was appointed to head the British Board of Trade's inquiry into the disaster. The British inquiry took place between 2 May and 3 July. Each inquiry took testimony from both passengers and crew of the Titanic, crew members of Leyland Line's Californian, Captain Arthur Rostron of the Carpathia and other experts.

The investigations found that many safety rules were simply out of date, and new laws were recommended. Numerous safety improvements for ocean-going vessels were implemented, including improved hull and bulkhead design, access throughout the ship for egress of passengers, lifeboat requirements, improved life-vest design, the holding of safety drills, better passenger notification, radio communications laws, etc. The investigators also learned that the Titanic had sufficient lifeboat space for all first-class passengers, but not for the lower classes. In fact, most third-class, or steerage, passengers had no idea where the lifeboats were, much less any way of getting up to the higher decks where the lifeboats were stowed.
Contrary to popular mythology, the Titanic was never described as "unsinkable", without qualification, until after she sank. There are three trade publications (one of which was probably never published) that describe the Titanic as unsinkable, prior to its sinking, but they all qualify the claim, either with the word practically or with the phrase as far as possible. There is no evidence that the notion of the Titanic's unsinkability had entered public consciousness until after the sinking.

The first unqualified assertion of the Titanic's unsinkability appears the day after the tragedy (on 16 April, 1912), in the New York Times, which quotes Philip A. S. Franklin, vice president of the White Star Line as saying, when informed of the tragedy,

I thought her unsinkable and I based by opinion on the best expert advice available. I do not understand it.

This comment was seized upon by the press and the idea that the White Star Line had previously declared the Titanic to be unsinkable (without qualification) gained immediate and widespread currency.
An often-quoted story that has been blurred between fact and fiction states that the first person to receive news of the sinking was David Sarnoff, who would later found media giant RCA. In modified versions of this legend, Sarnoff was not the first to hear the news (though Sarnoff willingly promoted this notion), but he and others did staff the Marconi wireless station (telegraph) atop the Wanamaker Department Store in New York City, and for three days, relayed news of the disaster and names of survivors to people waiting outside. However, even this version lacks support in contemporary accounts. No newspapers of the time, for example, mention Sarnoff. Given the absence of primary evidence, the story of Sarnoff should be properly regarded as a legend.

Despite popular belief, the sinking of Titanic was not the first time the internationally recognised Morse code distress signal "SOS" was used. The SOS signal was first proposed at the International Conference on Wireless Communication at Sea in Berlin in 1906. It was ratified by the international community in 1908 and had been in widespread use since then. The SOS signal was, however, rarely used by British wireless operators, who preferred the older CQD code. First Wireless Operator Jack Phillips began transmitting CQD until Second Wireless Operator Harold Bride suggested half jokingly, "Send SOS; it's the new call, and this may be your last chance to send it." Phillips, who later died, then began to intersperse SOS with the traditional CQD call.
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Anti aging healthy tips secrets to longevity foods diet fruits and vegetables

The study of longevity fnd long-living persons.
Scientific collectives of some universities of USA and the Eurounion, including university of the English city of Leeds, have made the list of the products promoting rejuvenescence and renewal of youth of an organism and prolongation of life within the framework of joint researches.
The list, including two ten various foodstuff, is made on the basis of the opening made in last years connected to the biochemical mechanism of ageing of cells of a human body.
In each of included in the menu of long-livers products there are extremely active substances, is positive and effectively influencing on difficult biological processes, informs news.
The list included powerful antioxidizers - black chocolate, tea and coffee. All of them are rich the polyphenols having ability to restore struck cells and to extend their life.

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The list also includes apples, a black currant, a bilberry, broccoli, a sweet cherry, tomatoes, pomegranates, oranges, peaches, plums, a raspberry, a red grapes, a red onions, spinach, a strawberry and bread or flakes with bran.
Experts specify, that if other kinds of products - meat, a fish, milk, cereals give an organism necessary calories, fats and minerals, vegetables and first of all fruit - the biochemical elements protecting and make longer the term of life of cells.

26th President Theodore Roosevel biography

Theodore Roosevelt was born 1858 and died 1919. He American politics, 25-th vice-president of USA, 26-th president of USA in 1901—1909, the representative of the Republican party, the Nobel prize winner of the world for 1906 Theodore Roosevelt — the brother of the of the colleague, Franklin Delano Roosevel, and the wife of Franklin — Anna Eleanor Roosevelt — had Theodore Roosevelt the niece.
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Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York October, 27, 1858 in family of the dealer and the philanthropist of the Dutch origin. Theodore Roosevelt was the second child in family, he had one senior and one younger sister, and also the younger brother.
From the childhood the future president did not differ a sound health and suffered from an asthma. At the end of 1860 and the beginning 1870 family Ruzvel'tov travelled to Europe, Africa and to Near East. Elementary education Theodore Roosevelt has received basically in domestic conditions — owing to morbidity he did not go almost to school.
The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt

In 1876 Theodore Roosevelt has arrived in the Harward university, and in 1880 has ended him. Then has published the first essay and the beginnings to politicize, in particular has entered the Republican party. In 1882—1884 Theodore Rooseve was a member legislature of state New York. February, 14, 1884 in one day has lost mother and the wife. Some days before at him daughter Elis was born. After tragedy Theodore Roosevelt has left work and New York, having moved to Dakota, and the beginnings to conduct life of the farmer.
In 1886 he married in second time.
In 1895 it is appointed the police chief of city of New York. Since 1897 he is an assistant to naval minister in administration of the president William McKinley During the Spanish-American war 1898 took part in military actions on Cuba. With 1899 on 1900 the post of the governor of New York held.
In 1900 the team of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevel has won at presidential elections. March, 4 1901 William McKinley has entered a post of the president on the second term, Theodore Roosevel became vice-president. September, 6 the same year on William McKinley attempt was accomplished, and September, 14 he has died from the received wound. This very day Theodore Roosevel was given in the oath as the new president.
Theodore Rooseve has continued a rate William McKinley on refusal of an isolationism and becoming of America as the global imperialistic power actively working all over the world. He posesses expressions a politics big batoon "Big Stick" and « a world policeman ».
He was the first president who has invited in the White house of the representative afro-americans, the first American who has received the Nobel Prize of the world (for intermediary in the conclusion of the Russian-Japanese Portsmouth world).
In 1908 Theodore Roosevel has conceded a presidential post to the close employee William Howard Taft, going in 1912 to nominate the nominee on new term after a break. After the majority of the Republican party has not supported him in this initiative, and has put forward on the second term the William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevel has split a party and has created a new Progressive party from which has acted at elections of 1912. This split has resulted to that the candidate of democratic Party homas Woodrow Wilson has won.
At the end of 1910th years republicans again were united around Theodore Roosevel. In T.Roosevel't's January 6, 1919 has died from a blood clot in dream at home. President Vil'son has ordered to declare on him mourning and to lower a little flags on all country.
By some estimations if Theodore Roosevel has lived two more years, most likely, would return to the White house and itself, instead of his relative Franklin, would become the first president elected three times: at the elections of 1920 won by republicans in person Warren Gamaliel Harding, he would be the most natural nominee of the party.

actress cheryl holdridge died

Cheryl Holdridge was born June 20, 1944 and died January 5, 2009, of lung cancer. She was an American actress, best known for having been a cast member of the original Mickey Mouse Club.
The Mickey Mouse Club and the Mouseketeers photo (c) by dbking from flickr.
Holdridge's first husband was sportsman and athlete Lance Reventlow, the only son of Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton. The couple were devoted to each other, but maintained residences in separate states. Reventlow died in the crash of a small plane eight years after their marriage.
Her second husband Manning J. Post was a major figure in Democratic politics in California. He died of natural causes on March 13, 2000. Both of her marriages were childless. Holdridge was a long-time supporter of environmental causes and charities, and with her second marriage became more active in fund-raising events.
Holdridge first performed professionally at the age of nine, when she landed a role in the New York City Ballet's version of The Nutcracker in Los Angeles. Her first screen appearance was as an uncredited extra in the 1956 film production of Carousel.
She auditioned for The Mickey Mouse Club in the spring of 1956, was hired, and joined the club's "Red Team" the most visible and popular of the Mouseketeers. Though a good dancer, her weak singing voice kept her in the background of most musical numbers performed by the Mouseketeers. A competent actress with a pleasant speaking voice, she was employed for two of the show's episodic serials: Boys of the Western Sea and Annette.
After the show's run ended, Cheryl returned to Van Nuys High School and graduated from Grant High School with the winter 1961 class. She received a big break when she was cast in two episodes of Leave It to Beaver in 1959 as 'Gloria Cusick'. (She would later play an occasional, recurring role on that show as Wally Cleaver's girlfriend, Julie Foster.)

In May 1960, Holdridge went on a live tour to Australia with other former Mouseketeers. While there, she became involved with Lucky Starr, an Australian singer. She would later be linked in fan magazines and gossip columns with many other celebrities, including Elvis Presley.

Holdridge's television career went into high gear starting in 1960. She had guest appearances on over twenty different shows, including The Rifleman, My Three Sons, Bewitched, Bringing Up Buddy, and The Dick Van Dyke Show. She was also cast in the lead role of Betty in an unsold television series pilot based on the Archie Comics. While still very much in demand, Holdridge left acting abruptly in 1964 to get married.
After the death of her second husband, Holdridge made a cameo appearance in the 2000 feature film, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. In 2005 she appeared at Disneyland for 50th anniversary celebrations of both the opening of the park and The Mickey Mouse Club. More recently, she appeared in televised documentary specials about Cary Grant (2005) and Barbara Hutton (2006), and has also done a special feature interview for a Disney DVD. Bio info (c) http://en.wikipedia.org

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John Smoltz divorce
Smoltz met his wife at the Omni Hotel in downtown Atlanta. Smoltz is a born-again Christian who has made Atlanta his home, and is Chairman of the Board at Alpharetta-based King's Ridge Christian School, and a member of the Presbyterian Church in America. He also has a home at Sea Island, a golf resort on the Georgia coast. Smoltz produced an automated campaign phone recording on behalf of the candidacy of Ralph E. Reed, Jr. for Lt. Governor of Georgia during the 2006 primary. As a father of four children, he dedicated himself to the development of a new Christian school in the metropolitan Atlanta region.
Photo of John Smoltz (c) from Flickr by ztil301

On February 9, 2007, Smoltz's agent, Lonnie Cooper, released a statement informing the public of the decision by Smoltz and his wife Dyan to divorce after 16 years of marriage. Smoltz is a good friend of professional golfer Tiger Woods. The two often golf together. Woods has stated that Smoltz is the best golf player outside the PGA Tour that he has observed. John made his debut as a baseball commentator on August 16, 2008. He was the color-commentator along side Joe Simpson. On October 14, 2008, it was announced that Smoltz and Jeff Foxworthy were teaming up for charity.They will host an event on Nov.9 to raise money for the John Smoltz Foundation, which has supported numerous charitable endeavors in the Atlanta area over the past decade.
John Andrew Smoltz was born May 15, 1967 in Warren, Michigan. He is a Major League Baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent, but is close to signing with the Boston Red Sox. He is predominantly known as a starter and former Cy Young Award winner. However, before the 2001 season, his 13th, he became a closer. In 2002 he became only the second pitcher in history to have had both a 20-win season and a 50-save season (the other being Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley). He is the only pitcher in Major League history to top both 200 wins and 150 saves. He became the 16th member of the 3,000 strikeout club on April 22, 2008 when he fanned Felipe Lopez of the Washington Nationals in the third inning in Atlanta.
Smoltz throws a four-seam fastball that has been clocked as high as 98 miles per hour, a strong, effective slider, and an 88–91 mph split-finger fastball that he uses as a strikeout pitch. He also mixes in a curveball and change-up on occasion, and in 1999, he began experimenting with both a knuckleball and a three-quarters delivery, though he rarely uses either in game situations today.
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John Smoltz - Interview with Sharing the Victory Magazine