title: Rapid Support Forces

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The Rapid Support Forces (RSF; ) are paramilitary forces formerly operated by the Government of Sudan. It grew out of, and is primarily composed of, the Janjaweed militias which fought on behalf of the Sudanese government during the War in Darfur, and was responsible for atrocities against civilians. Its actions in Darfur qualify as crimes against humanity according to Human Rights Watch.

RSF is administered by the National Intelligence and Security Service, while during military operations is commanded by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). , the commander is General Hemedti ("Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo"). During the Sudanese political crisis of 2019, the military junta that took control of the country employed RSF to violently crack down on pro-democracy demonstrators. Along with other security forces, RSF carried out the Khartoum massacre on 3 June 2019. On 15 April 2023, fighting broke out between RSF and the SAF after RSF mobilized its forces in cities across Sudan, including in Darfur. SAF has designated RSF a rebel group. RSF forces claim to have occupied Khartoum International Airport and other areas in Khartoum.

Origin
RSF has its roots in the Janjaweed militias used by the Sudanese Government in its attempts to fight the anti-government insurgency during the War in Darfur. RSF was officially formed in 2013, following a restructuring and reactivation of Janjaweed militias in order to combat rebel groups in Darfur region, South Kordofan, and the Blue Nile states, following joint attacks by Sudanese Revolutionary Front rebels in North and South Kordofan in April 2013.

Leadership and numbers
RSF is headed by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ("Hemetti"), who has been its leader since it was created in 2013 or 2014. , Hemetti's brother Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo is deputy head of RSF.

RSF was estimated by Human Rights Watch as having about 5,0006,000 soldiers in February 2014 in Darfur. In 2016–2017, RSF had 40,000 members participating in the Yemeni Civil War. In late October 2019, 10,000 had returned to Sudan. In July 2019, about 1,000 RSF soldiers were present in Libya, supporting the Libyan National Army commanded by Khalifa Haftar.

According to Reuters, as of 2023, the force numbers 100,000 people.

Role

Migration control
In addition to its role in Darfur, RSF is deployed to patrol the border with Libya and round up Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees in response to the Khartoum process, which is an initiative between European and African states, including Sudan, to stem the flow of migrants to Europe.

Business interests
In November 2017, Hemetti used RSF to take over control of gold mines in the Darfur region, which led to him becoming one of the richest people in Sudan by 2019. Hemetti's brother Abdul Rahim, deputy head of RSF, heads the Al Junaid (or Al Gunade) corporation involved in gold mining and trading in Sudan.

In December 2019, a Global Witness investigation into RSF and Al Junaid argued that RSF and Al Junaid are closely linked in terms of financial transactions.  Global Witness stated that "the RSF and [Al Junaid had] captured a swathe of the [Sudanese] gold industry and [were] likely using it to fund their operations." The General Manager of Al Junaid stated to Thomson Reuters that there were no close links between the two.

RSF has two front companies called GSK, a Sudanese technology company, and Tradive General Trading LLC, a United Arab Emirates-based company, both controlled by Hemetti's brother Algoney Hamdan Dagalo.

In April 2023, Al Jazeera reported that RSF had sought out Western public relations firms to burnish its image, including by editing Wikipedia pages.

War in Darfur

During the War in Darfur, in 2014 and 2015, RSF "repeatedly attacked villages, burned and looted homes, beating, raping and executing villagers," aided by air and ground support from the Sudanese Armed Forces. RSF executions and rapes typically took place in villages after rebels had left. The attacks were systematic enough to qualify as crimes against humanity according to Human Rights Watch.

Relationship with the United Arab Emirates
The gold mined in Sudan was sent to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo kept most of his money, which he used to fund his paramilitaries. In 2019, Global Witness reported that UAE was a key supplier of military equipment to RSF. Dagalo was funded by the United Arab Emirates and met with the leader of UAE, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in February 2022. According to Sudanese diplomats, his closest ally in the Emirates is the country's vice president, Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

The UAE, which was supporting the RSF, conducted a covert operation under the pretence of aiding refugees. The operation involved supplying potent weapons and drones to the RSF, providing medical treatment to wounded fighters, and airlifting severe cases to one of its military hospitals. The operation was headquartered at an airfield and a hospital in Amdjarass in Chad.

Relationship with the Wagner Group
According to a report by Al Araby TV, there are allegations of a connection between the Wagner Group, a Russian paramilitary organization, and Hemetti. Leaked documents and sources reportedly indicate that the Wagner Group has provided training and equipment, including armored vehicles and helicopter gunships, to Hemetti's forces. The Russian company is alleged to have provided security services during Hemetti's visit to Russia in 2018.

Hemetti's association with the Wagner Group may raise questions about his own involvement in human rights violations, particularly given his role in the crackdown on protesters during Sudan's 2019 revolution and as the founder of the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group accused of committing human rights abuses in Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan. The Sudanese government has denied any connection to the Wagner Group, and the reports suggest that Hemetti may be using his position in the Sovereign Council to establish ties with the Russian company. Both Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and Sudan's military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had ties to the Putin regime in Russia. According to Business Insider, "The two generals helped Russian President Vladimir Putin exploit Sudan's gold resources to help buttress Russian finances against Western sanctions and fund his war in Ukraine."

International civil wars

Libyan Civil War
During the 2019 Western Libya offensive phase of the Second Libyan Civil War, in July 2019, about 1,000 RSF soldiers were present in Libya, supporting the Libyan National Army (LNA) commanded by Khalifa Haftar and based in Tobruk, which was fighting against the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) based in Tripoli.

Yemeni Civil War
RSF has participated in the Yemeni Civil War (2015–present), supporting the pro-Hadi forces. RSF and other Sudanese security forces, participating in the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen alongside Saudi and Emirati forces, have killed civilians and destroyed infrastructure, for which they are suspected of war crimes by Human Rights Watch. Saudi Arabia organised and financed this involvement, which brought financial resources to the RSF.

In 2016–2017, RSF had 40,000 members participating in the Yemeni Civil War. In October 2019, 10,000 had returned to Sudan.

2018–19 Sudanese protests and human rights abuses
RSF killed 100 protestors, injured 500, raped women and pillaged homes in the Khartoum massacre on 3 June 2019 during the 2018–19 Sudanese protests.  During the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Sudan, in June 2019, there were reports that RSF tied bricks of cement to the bodies of dead protestors to make them sink to the bottom of the Nile and never be found. The Central Committee of Medical Doctors stated that more than 100 people had been killed. On 6 June 2019, Kumi Naidoo, the head of Amnesty International, called for the "[immediate withdrawal of] all members of the Rapid Support Forces from policing and law enforcement anywhere in Sudan and especially in Khartoum".

In addition to the killings in Khartoum, other human rights violations during the 2018–19 crisis have been attributed to RSF, including the rape of 70 male and female protesters during the Khartoum massacre and the following days; the targeting of peaceful sit-ins; and attacks on hospitals.

The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors reported Janjaweed/RSF shooting dead nine people in the market of the village al-Dalij (or al-Delig) in Central Darfur on 10 or 11/12 June 2019. The massacre and the burning down of the market were interpreted by locals as a response to civil disobedience.

2023 War in Sudan

On 15 April 2023, fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and RSF broke out after RSF mobilised in cities across Sudan. Fighting was reported at the presidential palace and army headquarters.

The conflict resulted in RSF being designated as a rebel group by the Sudanese Armed Forces. On the day of the clashes which included the Battle of Khartoum, both sides claimed control over Khartoum and Merowe airports, and other sites.

On 17 April 2023, the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken and RSF leader gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, had talks, after which gen Dagalo agreed to a 24-hour armistice from 18 April 2023 “to ensure the safe passage of civilians and the evacuation of the wounded,”.
Another 72-hour nationwide cease-fire had been announced from midnight, 24 April 2023. The United States and Saudi Arabia had mediated the truce on humanitarian grounds. The fight had caused death of more than 500 people by 25 April 2023 and thousands were injured.
The foreign nations interfered in the conflict by providing military support to the warring parties. Rapid Support Forces supported by the Libyan militia leader Khalifa Haftar and the United Arab Emirates. The footage of thermobaric shells captured by the Sudanese military suggest that the thermobaric weapon was supplied by UAE to RSF. While the Egypt had sent military support to the Sudanese army.

Logo change
On 18 April 2023, RSF removed the word "Quds" (), an acronym of () ("Rapid Support Forces")—which happens to also be the spelling of Jerusalem—from its official logo. The previous version of the RSF's slogan contained the word "Quds" below the arrow in the middle of the logo, possibly in reference to the city of Jerusalem. The revised version of the logo without the word "Quds" was used in RSF's published statements, while the previous slogan remained on the RSF's Facebook and Twitter social media accounts. Prior to the logo change, the RSF described the advisor to the commander of the Palestinian Resistance Support Forces, Hamas, as a "terrorist movement," and Israeli attempted to mediate between RSF and SAF in the 2023 Sudan conflict.

References

External links
Official RSF Facebook

2013 establishments in Sudan
War in Sudan (2023)
Military units and formations established in 2013
Organisations of the Sudanese Revolution
Paramilitary organisations based in Sudan


title: Parnas fountain

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The Parnas Fountain is a fountain in Zelný trh square in Brno, Czech Republic. It is one of the most notable water fountains and baroque architectural monuments in Brno. It is a landmark of the square, located roughly in the middle of the square. Designed by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, it was built in 1690–1695 by Adam Tobiáš Kracker of Vienna.

References

Further reading
 SVITÁK, Zbyněk. Director operis kašny Parnas. In Jana Svobodová (ed.), Baroko. Příběhy barokního Brna. Brno: Muzeum města Brna, 2009. p. 44-49, .

Cultural infrastructure completed in 1695
European sculpture
Fountains in Europe
Brno
1695 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire


title: Iron Strikers F.C.

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Iron Strikers is an association football club based in Mombasa, Kenya. The club currently competes in the Kenyan Provincial League, and plays its home games at the Apostle Grounds.

References

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FKF Division One clubs
Football clubs in Kenya


title: Ron Veale

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Ronald Stuart Veale  is a Canadian jurist and former politician, who represented the electoral district of Riverdale South in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1981 to 1982. He was a member of the Yukon Liberal Party, and the party's leader from 1981 to 1984.

Veale assumed the leadership of the Yukon Liberal Party in 1981 after the resignation of Iain MacKay, also running in and winning a by-election on March 9, 1981, to succeed MacKay as MLA for Riverdale South. Under his leadership, however, the party was entirely shut out of the legislature in the 1982 election. Veale resigned the party leadership in 1984, and was succeeded by Roger Coles.

He subsequently returned to his law practice. He was later appointed to the Supreme Court of Yukon, of which he was the Chief Justice until his retirement in July 2020. Veale was appointed to the Order of Yukon in December 2020.

References

1945 births
Living people
Yukon Liberal Party MLAs
Judges in Yukon
Canadian lawyers
Yukon Liberal Party leaders
Members of the Order of Yukon


title: ASC CS Sucrière

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ASC CS Sucrière is a Senegalese football club based in Richard Toll.

They played in the top division in Senegalese football and is currently part of the Senegalese Second Division. Their home stadium is Stade Municipal de Richard Toll.

Achievements

Performance in CAF competitions
2006 CAF Confederation Cup: first round

Current squad

References

External links
Team profile

Football clubs in Senegal


title: JKU S.C.

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Jeshi la Kujenga Uchumi Sports Club, or simply JKU SC is a football club from Zanzibar.

The team won the Nyerere Cup in 1974.

Achievements
Zanzibar Premier League: 2
Champions: 2017, 2018.

Nyerere Cup: 1
Winners: 1974.

Performance in CAF competitions
CAF Champions League: 2 appearances
2018–19 – Preliminary Round
2018 – Preliminary Round

CAF Confederation Cup: 2 appearances
2016 – First Round
2006 – Preliminary Round

African Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearance
1975 – First Round

References

External links

Football clubs in Tanzania
Zanzibari football clubs


title: Shane O'Leary

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Shane Patrick O'Leary (born 12 March 1993) is an Irish-born professional rugby union player who represents  at the international level. He primarily plays at fly-half, but has also played as a centre. O'Leary currently plays for Pro D2 side Rouen, and for the Toronto Arrows in Major League Rugby (MLR).

He previously played for Nottingham, Ealing Trailfinders, Irish provincial side Connacht and Grenoble in France.

O'Leary qualifies as Canadian through his mother and first represented Canada when he played for their under-20 team at the 2013 Junior World Trophy. He began playing for the senior team in 2017 after being called up for trials ahead of the mid-year internationals.

Early life
Born in Cork, O'Leary grew up in Tipperary. He received his secondary education at the community college in Killaloe. In his youth he played for the Scariff rugby team and made the Munster under-18 clubs side while a member there and later moved to Young Munster. While at Young Munster, O'Leary was part of the Munster Rugby under-age set up. Shane's father Declan is coaching services manager with Coaching Ireland, working with a wide variety of sports.

Club career

Grenoble
Ahead of the 2013–14 season O'Leary moved to French side Grenoble in the Top 14, joining the team's academy. O'Leary had previously worked with Grenoble skills coach Mike Prendergast, who gave him his debut at Young Munster. Like O'Leary, Predergast was in his first season at the French club. O'Leary had also been assisted by Rugby Canada in his move to France, as the union had helped him to distribute information on himself and his availability to clubs around Europe in an attempt to break into professional rugby. Prendergast and O'Leary made up part a significant Irish contingent for the team, along with scrum-half James Hart, forwards coach Bernard Jackman and the captain Andrew Farley, an Australian-born former Ireland A player.

O'Leary impressed in the academy and was handed a debut for the senior side in the 2013–14 European Challenge Cup, coming on as a replacement against Bayonne on 10 October 2013. O'Leary made four further appearances, playing in the home and away games with London Wasps and Viadana. He was a replacement in all but one of these appearances, starting away to Wasps.

Connacht
It was announced in May 2014 that O'Leary would be returning to Ireland for the 2014–15 season. He signed for the provincial side Connacht, joining on a one-year deal. In his first season with the team O'Leary made four appearances in the Pro12, scoring two tries. He didn't feature in the 2014–15 Challenge Cup but featured in the team's play-off to qualify for the following season's Champions Cup. All of O'Leary's appearances for the senior team in his first year came from the bench. In August 2015, he agreed another one-year deal with Connacht.

In his second season, O'Leary played in three of Connacht's Challenge Cup games. He was used as a replacement against Newcastle Falcons in Galway, before starting the away fixture. O'Leary also started in the side's quarter-final meeting with his former club Grenoble. O'Leary continued to be used sparingly throughout the 2015–16 Pro12 campaign, but injuries to Jack Carty, AJ MacGinty and Craig Ronaldson led to him making more appearances later in the season. He made two starts and three substitute appearances in total during the course of the regular season as Connacht qualified for the league's play-offs. O'Leary was an unused substitute in the semi-final against Glasgow Warriors, but came on in the Grand Final against Leinster to help close out the game as Connacht claimed their first ever league title. He signed another contract extension in June 2016 to take him up to summer of 2017 with the province.

In the 2016–17 season, O'Leary appeared as a substitute in Connacht's opening five Pro12 games, and in the opening two rounds of the Champions Cup. He didn't in the Pro12 clash with Leinster, but returned for the following round against Newport Gwent Dragons. That month however, O'Leary suffered a concussion injury in training. This injury ruled O'Leary out for some time and he failed to make an appearance for the first team for the remainder of the season. In April 2017, it was announced that O'Leary would depart Connacht at the end of the season.

Atlantic Rock
In May 2017, O'Leary traveled to Canada to take part in trials for the national team. While there, he joined Canadian Rugby Championship side Atlantic Rock. O'Leary played in a single game for the St. John's-based side.

Ealing Trailfinders
In September 2017, it was announced that O'Leary had signed for Ealing Trailfinders in the English Championship. Signing for Ealing also meant linking up with Canadian international teammate Djustice Sears-Duru.

Nottingham
On 29 March 2018, O'Leary will leave Ealing Trailfinders to sign for English Championship rivals Nottingham ahead of the 2018-19 season.

Rouen
On 18 April 2020, O'Leary signs for French side Rouen in the Pro D2 ahead of the 2020–21 season.

Toronto Arrows
In October 2022 he signed with the Toronto Arrows for the 2023 MLR season.

International career
Qualified to play for Canada through his mother who was born in New Brunswick, O'Leary contacted Mike Shelley of Rugby Canada to inform the union of his eligibility after he was overlooked for the Ireland under-20 team. O'Leary was chosen in the Canadian under-20 squad for the 2013 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy. The faith in him was rewarded when he scored 45 points, finishing as the tournament's top scorer as Canada made it to the final, where they were beaten by the Italian under-20s.

In 2017 after departing Connacht, O'Leary was called up to trials for the Canadian senior team ahead of the team's June internationals. He was named to make his debut with a start at out-half in the team's opening game of the series against  on 10 June 2017.

References

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1993 births
Living people
Canadian rugby union players
Canada international rugby union players
Irish rugby union players
Canadian people of Irish descent
Irish people of Canadian descent
Connacht Rugby players
Rugby union players from County Clare
Rugby union players from County Tipperary
Rugby union players from County Cork
Rugby union fly-halves
Rugby union centres
Rugby union fullbacks
Canadian expatriate sportspeople in England
Irish expatriate sportspeople in England
FC Grenoble Rugby players
Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Club players
Nottingham R.F.C. players
Rouen Normandie Rugby players
Toronto Arrows players
2019 Rugby World Cup players


title: Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign

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Hillary Clinton is an American politician from the state of New York who was the Democratic Party's 2016 nominee for president of the United States. Clinton is the first woman in U.S. history to be nominated for president of the United States by a major political party. She was defeated in the 2016 general election by Republican Donald Trump.

The 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton was announced in a YouTube video on April 12, 2015. Clinton was the 67th United States Secretary of State and served during the first term of the Obama administration, from 2009 to 2013. She was previously a United States Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and is the wife of former President Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton served as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

Clinton's main competitor in the 2016 Democratic primary election was Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. She received the most support from middle aged and older voters, as well as from African-American, Latino and older female voters. She focused her platform on several issues, including expanding racial, LGBT, and women's rights, raising wages and ensuring equal pay for women, and improving healthcare. The Associated Press declared Clinton the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party after she reached the required number of delegates (including both pledged delegates and superdelegates) on June 6, 2016. Clinton announced that U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia would be her vice presidential running mate on July 22. Clinton and Kaine were nominated at the 2016 Democratic National Convention on July 26.

Clinton lost the general election to Republican Donald Trump on November 9, 2016. Clinton's narrow losses in the blue wall states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin were considered key to her defeat.

Background information

Post-2008 primary election campaign
As soon as Clinton ended her 2008 Democratic presidential primary election campaign and conceded to Barack Obama, there was talk of her running again in 2012 or 2016. After she ended her tenure as Secretary of State in 2013, speculation picked up sharply, particularly when she listed her occupation on social media as "TBD". In the meantime, Clinton earned over $11 million giving 51 paid speeches to various organizations, including Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks. The speeches, and Clinton's not releasing their transcripts, would be raised as an issue by her opponents during the upcoming primary and general election campaigns. In October 2016, leaked excerpts from a Goldman Sachs Q&A session cast doubts about her support for the 2010 Dodd–Frank financial oversight legislation.

Anticipating a future run, a "campaign-in-waiting" began to take shape in 2014, including a large donor network, experienced operatives, the Ready for Hillary and Priorities USA Action campaign political action committees (PACs), and other campaign infrastructure.

By September 2013, amid continual political and media speculation, Clinton said she was considering a run but was in no hurry to decide. In late 2013, Clinton told ABC's Barbara Walters that she would "look carefully at what I think I can do and make that decision sometime next year"; and told ABC's Diane Sawyer in June 2014 that she would "be on the way to making a decision before the end of the year."

Decision-making process
While many political analysts came to assume during this time that Clinton would run, she took a long time to make the decision. While Clinton said she spent much of the two years following her tenure, as Secretary of State, thinking about the possibility of running for president again, she was also noncommittal about the prospect, and appeared to some as reluctant to experience again the unpleasant aspects of a major political campaign. Those around her were split in their opinions, reportedly, with Bill Clinton said to be the most in favor of her running again, Chelsea Clinton leaning towards it, but several of her closest aides against it. She reportedly studied Obama's 2008 campaign to see what had gone right for Obama as compared to her own campaign. Not until December 2014, around the time of the Clintons' annual winter vacation in the Dominican Republic, did she say she decided for sure that she would indeed run again.

Expectations
According to nationwide opinion polls in early 2015, Clinton was considered the front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. She had gained a broader sweep of early endorsements from the Democratic Party establishment in the 2016 race than she did in 2008, although she did face several primary election challengers, and, in August 2015 Vice President Joe Biden was reported to be seriously considering a possible challenge to Clinton.

Clinton had a very high name recognition of an estimated 99% (only 11% of all voters said they did not know enough about her to form an opinion) and according to Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, she has had strong support from African-Americans, and among college-educated women and single women.

In Time magazine's 2015 list of "The 100 Most Influential People", Clinton praised Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who herself was considered as a potential challenger to Clinton, for being a "progressive champion". Warren decided not to run for president, despite pressure from some progressives.

Announcement
The Clinton campaign had planned for a delayed announcement, possibly as late as July 2015.

On April 3, 2015, it was reported that Clinton had taken a lease on a small office at 1 Pierrepont Plaza in Brooklyn, New York City. It was widely speculated that the space would serve as her campaign headquarters.

On April 12, 2015, Clinton released a YouTube video formally announcing her candidacy via email. She stated that, "Everyday Americans need a champion. And I want to be that champion." The week following her announcement, she traveled to early primary states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire. Clinton was the third candidate with support in national polls to announce her candidacy, following Republican Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky, while Florida Senator Marco Rubio announced his candidacy on April 13, the day after Clinton. Some Democrats saw the proximity of Clinton's campaign announcement to Rubio's as advantageous, as Clinton's announcement might overshadow Rubio's.

Clinton's campaign logo was unveiled on April 12, 2015, featuring a blue H with a red arrow through the middle.

Van tour

Clinton began her campaign by making short trips to early primary and caucus states. Immediately following her announcement, she made a two-day road trip in a customized Chevrolet Express van, nicknamed after Scooby-Doo, going from New York to Iowa, and stopping several times along the way, including a much publicized stop at a Chipotle Mexican Grill outside Toledo, Ohio, where Clinton was not recognized by the staff. The trip gained considerable media attention and was, according to her campaign, intended as a bit of political theater.

Clinton responded to very few questions from the press during the first month of her campaign. During her visits to early primary and caucus states, she did not hold any formal press conferences, and did not participate in any media interviews. On May 19, 2015, after 28 days, Clinton answered some questions from reporters at an event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Clinton's campaign announced she would make additional stops in Florida, Texas, and Missouri in May and June.

Kickoff rally

Clinton held her first major campaign rally June 13, 2015, at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on the southern tip of New York City's Roosevelt Island.

In her speech, Clinton addressed income inequality in the United States, specifically endorsed universal pre-kindergarten, paid family leave, equal pay for women, college affordability, and incentives for companies that provide profit sharing to employees. She did not address free trade agreements during the kickoff speech, but made statements the next day suggesting that the current negotiations should be abandoned unless improved.

The campaign said more than 5,500 people were in attendance, but estimates of crowd size by the press in attendance were less.

According to John Cassidy, staff writer at The New Yorker, Clinton, up to a point, took a populist tone:

On June 15, 2015, South Carolina Senator Clementa C. Pinckney, who had campaigned for Clinton earlier that day, was murdered along with eight others in the Charleston Church shooting. Clinton postponed campaign activities to join President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and other dignitaries at  Senator Pinckney's funeral.in Charleston on June 26, 2015.

Advertising
In August 2015, the Clinton campaign began a $2 million television advertising buy in Iowa and New Hampshire. The ads featured footage of Clinton's late mother, Dorothy Rodham, and of Clinton herself, and featured women, family, and children.

In a review of Clinton's 32 general election TV ads, the Associated Press found that 24 of those ads show or mention Trump. The majority of those 24 ads feature raw footage of him rather than others opining on his words and actions.

Platform

Clinton focused her candidacy on several themes, including raising middle class incomes, expanding women's rights, instituting campaign finance reform, and improving the Affordable Care Act.

In March 2016, she laid out a detailed economic plan, which The New York Times called "optimistic" and "wide-ranging". Basing her economic philosophy on inclusive capitalism, Clinton proposed a "clawback" which would rescind tax relief and other benefits for companies that move jobs overseas; providing incentives for companies that share profits with employees, communities and the environment, rather than focusing on short-term profits to increase stock value and rewarding shareholders; increasing collective bargaining rights; and placing an "exit tax" on companies that move their headquarters out of America in order to pay a lower tax rate overseas. Clinton opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), supported the U.S. Export-Import Bank, and stated that "any trade deal has to produce jobs and raise wages and increase prosperity and protect our security".

Given the climate of unlimited campaign contributions following the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, Clinton called for a constitutional amendment to limit "unaccountable money" in politics. In July 2016, she "committed" to introducing a U.S. constitutional amendment that would result in overturning the 2010 Citizens United decision.

On social issues, Clinton explicitly focused on family issues, particularly universal preschool. Clinton also prioritized closing the gender pay gap and reaffirmed that she believed that a right to same-sex marriage is protected by the U.S. constitution. Clinton stated that allowing undocumented immigrants to have a path to citizenship "s at its heart a family issue."

Clinton expressed support for the Common Core educational initiative, saying, "The really unfortunate argument that's been going on around Common Core, it's very painful because the Common Core started off as a bipartisan effort. It was actually nonpartisan. It wasn't politicized.... Iowa has had a testing system based on a core curriculum for a really long time. And  you see the value of it, you understand why that helps you organize your whole education system. And a lot of states unfortunately haven't had that, and so don't understand the value of a core, in this sense a Common Core."

In a December 7, 2015 The New York Times article, Clinton presented her detailed plans for regulating Wall Street financial activities by reining in the largest institutions to limit risky behavior, appointing strong regulators, and holding executives accountable.

Clinton supported maintaining American influence in the Middle East. She publicly opposed Trump's call to ban Muslims from the United States as "shameful" and "dangerous". She also claimed Trump's statement was "a reflection of much of the rest of his party", as "many GOP candidates have also said extreme things about Muslims." Clinton told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, "America can't ever be neutral when it comes to Israel's security and survival."

Strategy and tactics

Clinton campaign strategists reportedly believed that a strong liberal campaign would mobilize the same voters who swept Barack Obama to victory in 2008 and 2012. Her strategy of embracing Obama's policies proved highly effective with African American Democratic voters in the South Carolina Democratic primary.

By March 2016 Clinton's nomination seemed likely, so efforts turned to structuring a campaign against Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, and determining how to generate enthusiasm for Clinton among the Democratic electorate, which had not turned out in large numbers for primaries.

Clinton began the campaign with near-universal name recognition among voters, having been First Lady, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of State.

Focus on local issues
When Clinton campaigned she identified local issues of interest to the Democratic voters of the state. For example, in Mississippi, she expressed her concern about lead levels in the water in Jackson, the capital, where it was a hot issue.

Emphasis on experience and steady leadership
Over the course of her campaign, Clinton emphasized her experience and record in public life, particularly as secretary of state. Clinton also emphasized "the need for calm, steady, experienced leadership in the White House" in times of uncertainty, as well as the need to maintain the U.S.'s alliances across the Atlantic and the world.

Press relations
Clinton has had an uneasy, and at times adversarial relationship with the press throughout her life in public service. Weeks before her official entry as a presidential candidate, Clinton attended a political press corps event, pledging to start fresh on what she described as a "complicated" relationship with political reporters. Clinton was initially criticized by the press for avoiding taking their questions, after which she provided more interviews.

Technology
Clinton had access to the same technological tools that were used in Barack Obama's presidential campaign of 2012 and 2008. A team of over 50 engineers and developers previously with Google, Facebook, and Twitter was hired. The campaign used Timshel's The Groundwork platform for organizing data generated by mass e-mail programs, tracking donors, and analyzing marketing databases.

Ground game
In October 2016, the Clinton campaign had 489 field offices compared to Trump's 178. For context, Obama had 786 and some reports over 800 national field offices in 2012. Political science research suggests that there is a modest positive relationship between field offices and vote share.

Fundraising
Throughout the general election campaign, Clinton consistently led Trump in fundraising. Through August 2016, Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and Clinton's main super PAC, Priorities USA Action, had raised more than $700 million, while Trump had brought in $400 million. According to a September 2016 analysis by the Center for Public Integrity, "More than 1,100 elite moneymen and women have collectively raised more than $113 million" for Clinton's campaign. These bundlers, who collected checks from friends or associates and gave them to the campaign, included "lawmakers, entertainment icons and titans of industry"; among them were Ben Affleck, George Lucas, Marissa Mayer, and Sheryl Sandberg.

According to an article in The Washington Post, Clinton's presidential campaign benefited from a network of donors whom the Clintons had "methodically cultivated... over 40 years, from Little Rock to Washington and then across the globe. Their fundraising methods have created a new blueprint for politicians and their donors." By the end of September 2015, the campaign's fundraising effort for "Clinton's 2016 White House run... has already drawn $110million in support".

In response to the article, a campaign spokesman said that "it would be misleading, at best, to conflate donations to a philanthropy with political giving.... And regarding the campaign contributions, the breadth and depth of their support is a testament to the fact that they have both dedicated their lives to public service and fighting to make this country stronger." As the Post article pointed out, fundraising for the 2016 presidential campaign existed "in a dramatically different environment" than in the past, and the 2010 Citizens United v. FEC decision and ruling by "the Supreme Court has made it easier for wealthy individuals, corporations and unions to spend huge, unregulated sums on political activity".

In August 2015, the Clinton campaign announced that it had signed a joint fundraising agreement with the Democratic National Committee. The campaign set up a joint fundraising committee with the DNC, the Hillary Victory Fund, and 32 state committees. The Clinton campaign sent the DNC a memorandum of understanding in which the campaign agreed to help the DNC pay off debt in exchange for "joint authority over strategic decisions over the staffing, budget, expenditures, and general election related communications, data, technology, analytics, and research." The memo specified that these arrangements would be limited to "preparations for the General Election and not the Democratic Primary."

In the debate between Sanders and Clinton in New Hampshire prior to the New Hampshire primary Clinton, objecting to the inference that campaign contributions or speaking fees from the financial sector would influence her political decisions, characterized Sanders's references to her Wall Street connections as a "'very artful smear' campaign." He responded by saying, "It's a fact. When in the last reporting period her super PAC received $25million and $15million came from Wall Street, what is the smear? That is the fact."

The Clinton campaign entered September 2016 with $121.4 million in the bank, while the Trump campaign had $96 million.

Super PACs supporting Clinton
In May 2015, it was reported that the Clinton campaign lagged behind opposing Republican campaigns in gaining large donations from wealthy donors to supportive Super PACs. At that time, many potential liberal, big-money donors had not yet committed to support Clinton. Clinton's super PAC fundraising picked up significantly in the general election. Priorities USA Action, the main super PAC supporting Clinton, raised $23.4 million in August 2016. More than half of that amount came from its top five donors, and the amount included 11 seven-figure checks.

Super PACs that have supported Clinton include:

 Ready PAC, formerly Ready for Hillary, was founded by Clinton supporters in January 2013. It raised money and signed up supporters in expectation of her presidential bid. Ready PAC wound down operations in April 2015, handing over its 4-million person email list to the Clinton campaign.
 Priorities USA Action is the main super PAC supporting Clinton's candidacy. It is focused mainly on high-dollar donors. As of September 2016, it had amassed $132 million. The top six donors to the super PAC have given $43.5 million, which is a third of the money collected by Priorities USA Action. Top contributors include George Soros, Haim Saban and Thomas Tull. Other major donors include Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg. Following Clinton's loss in the New Hampshire primary, Priorities USA Action committed $500,000 to a radio campaign in South Carolina and $4.5million to Super Tuesday primaries. As of late January 2016, the fund had $45million. The super PAC raised $21.7 million in August 2016, marking its largest monthly fundraising haul.
 Correct the Record, which started as a campaign of American Bridge 21st Century, spun off as a separate super PAC in May 2015. Though super PACs are typically prohibited from coordinating with campaigns, Correct the Record coordinates with the Clinton campaign on digital content. A spokeswoman for the super PAC said "the coordination restriction would not apply because Correct the Record's defense of Mrs. Clinton would be built around material posted on the group's own website, not paid media." In April 2016, Correct the Record announced it would spend $1 million to find and confront social media users who post unflattering messages about Clinton. In September 2016, Correct the Record announced a project called "Trump Leaks." Correct the Record says it will pay anonymous tipsters for unflattering scoops about Donald Trump, including audio and video recordings and internal documents.

People

Campaign staff
Robby Mook served as campaign manager, and is the first openly gay person to serve in that role in a major presidential campaign.

Stephanie Hannon served as chief technology officer, and is the first women to serve in that role in a major presidential campaign.

Other campaign staff included John Podesta as campaign chairman, Joel Benenson as chief strategist and pollster, Jennifer Palmieri as communications director, and Amanda Renteria as political director. Longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin was the vice chairwoman of the campaign, and continued in the role she has long played for Clinton as traveling chief of staff and "body woman". Fundraising was led by Dennis Cheng as national finance director for the campaign, and main liaison between many major donors and Clinton. Future New York State Senator Alessandra Biaggi served as Deputy National Operations Director, and said: "Everything was urgent in the moment. It was total chaos and I loved it. We played very hard, and it was very hard to lose."

Policy advisors
Hillary Clinton named three senior policy advisers to lead policy development for her presidential campaign: Maya Harris, Ann O'Leary, and Jake Sullivan. Longtime Clinton staffer Jake Sullivan served as policy director, and Michael Schmidt, Michael Shapiro and Jacob Leibenluft were on Clinton's policy team.

The Clinton campaign had a large set of outside policy advisors who served on advisory groups.

Defense and foreign policy
Senior advisors included former CIA Director and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, former National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, Center for a New American Security CEO Michèle Flournoy, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and others. The campaign also had a decentralized system of "about a dozen advisory working groups for regional and functional issues" such as Asia, Europe, counter-terrorism, and human rights. Foreign Policy magazine reports that "the campaign boasts a surprisingly diverse cadre of experts, from early-career think tankers in their 20s to graying ex-diplomats in their 50s and 60s."

Economic and domestic policy
On economic policy, outside advisors with whom Clinton regularly consulted included Gene Sperling, former director of the National Economic Council; Neera Tanden of the Center for American Progress; Ann O'Leary; economists Alan Krueger and Alan Blinder; Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz; Jared Bernstein, the former chief economist to Joe Biden; and Heather Boushey.

On August 16, 2016, Clinton named Ken Salazar to lead her White House transition team.

Communications, advertising, and design firms
Two of the Clinton campaigns' top media buying agencies were GMMB (which focused on television) and Bully Pulpit Interactive (which focused on digital). The Clinton campaign's analytics director was Elan Kriegel, the co-founder of BlueLabs, a Democratic data firm. The campaign has also hired Burrell Communications, an African American advertising firm.

Graphic designer Michael Bierut of the firm Pentagram designed the campaign's distinctive "H" logo; Bierut volunteered his services. Bierut later recommended designer Jennifer Kinon to lead the in-house design team and design a comprehensive visual identity for the campaign.

Professionals in branding and marketing, such as Wendy Clark of Coca-Cola, and Roy Spence of GSD&M, were brought into the campaign to assist with "re-branding" Clinton.

Caucuses and primaries

Clinton won Iowa by the closest margin in the history of the state's Democratic caucus. O'Malley suspended his campaign after a distant third-place finish, leaving Clinton and Sanders the only two candidates. The electoral battle turned out to be more competitive than expected, with Sanders winning the New Hampshire primary while Clinton scored victories in the Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary. On four different Super Tuesdays, Clinton secured numerous important wins in each of the nine most populous states including California, New York, Florida, and Texas, while Sanders scored various victories in between.

On June 6, 2016, the Associated Press and NBC News stated that Clinton had become the presumptive nominee after reaching the required number of delegates, including both pledged and unpledged delegates (superdelegates), to secure the nomination. In doing so, she had become the first woman to ever be the presumptive nominee of any major political party in the United States. On June 7, Clinton officially secured a majority of pledged delegates after winning in the California and New Jersey primaries. President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren formally endorsed Clinton on June 9, 2016. Sanders confirmed on June 24 that he would vote for Clinton over Donald Trump in the general election and, on July 12, 2016, formally endorsed Clinton in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

On July 26, 2016, the Democratic National Convention officially nominated Clinton for president and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine for vice president. Clinton is the first woman in U.S. history to run for president as the nominee of a major political party.

Delegate count
The table below reflects the presumed delegate count following the 2016 Democratic primaries:

Presidential debates

The first presidential debate in 2016 took place between Clinton and Trump on September 26 at Hofstra University. This made Clinton the first woman to debate as part of an American presidential debate. The moderator was Lester Holt of NBC. A live-TV audience of 84 million viewers set a viewership record for presidential debates. All scientific polls showed that voters thought Hillary Clinton performed better than Donald Trump in the debate.

The second presidential debate in 2016 took place between Clinton and Trump on October 9 at Washington University in St. Louis. It was a town hall debate.

The third and last presidential debate between Clinton and Trump took place on October 19 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Health

In July 2015, Clinton became the first 2016 presidential candidate to publicly release a medical history. The Clinton campaign released a letter from her physician, Lisa Bardack of Mount Kisco, New York, attesting to her good health based on a full medical evaluation. The letter noted that there was a "complete resolution" of a brain concussion that Clinton suffered in 2012 and "total dissolution" of prior blood clots. Bardack concluded that Clinton had no serious health issues that would interfere with her fitness to serve as president. Despite this letter, rumors and conspiracy theories concerning Clinton's health proliferated online. In August 2016, Trump questioned Hillary's stamina and Sean Hannity called for Clinton to release her medical records, fueling these theories.

The US intelligence community noted that Clinton had health issues by August 27, 2016.
In September 2016, Clinton developed pneumonia. She left a 9/11 commemoration ceremony early due to illness. Video footage of Clinton's departure showed Clinton becoming unsteady on her feet and being helped into a van; this footage went viral. Later that evening, Clinton reassured reporters that she was "feeling great". The Clinton campaign initially stated that Clinton had become overheated at the event; later on September 11, the campaign acknowledged that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia two days earlier. Clinton spent three days recovering at home, canceling several campaign events, before returning to the campaign trail at a rally at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Following the 9/11 event, the Clinton campaign was criticized by some media outlets for a lack of transparency concerning Clinton's health. A subsequent poll found that 46% of respondents did not believe the campaign's disclosure that Clinton was suffering from pneumonia. Responding to concerns about transparency, Clinton released supplementary health records from Dr. Bardack, who found that she had had a non-contagious bacterial pneumonia infection and that she had recovered well with antibiotics and rest. Bardack wrote that she was "fit to serve as president of the United States."

Controversies

Email controversy

In March 2015, Clinton's practice of using her own private email address and server during her time as Secretary of State, in lieu of State Department servers, gained widespread public attention. Concerns were raised about security and preservation of emails, and the possibility that laws may have been violated. Nearly 2,100 emails contained in Clinton's server were determined to be classified when the state department had an opportunity to review them. According to Clinton they were not marked classified at the time she handled them. 65 emails were found to contain information classified as "Secret", more than 20 contained "Top-Secret" information, and the rest contained "Confidential" information. Government policy, reiterated in the nondisclosure agreement signed by Clinton as part of gaining her security clearance, is that sensitive information should be considered and handled as classified even if not marked as such. After allegations were raised that some of the emails in question fell into this so-called "born classified" category, an FBI probe was initiated regarding how classified information was handled on the Clinton server.

The FBI probe was concluded on July 5, 2016, with a recommendation of no charges, a recommendation that was followed by the Justice Department. On October 28, eleven days before the election, FBI Director James Comey informed Congress that the FBI was analyzing additional emails obtained during its investigation of an unrelated case. On November 6, he notified Congress that the new emails did not change the FBI's earlier conclusion. The next day, stock and currency markets around the world surged in response. According to Clinton, speaking to major donors after her loss and citing campaign data, the effect of the two letters the Director of the FBI released days before the election contributed to her defeat.

Benghazi hearings

On October 22, 2015, Clinton testified for a second time before the Benghazi Committee and answered members' questions for more than eight hours in a public hearing. The New York Times reported that "the long day of often-testy exchanges between committee members and their prominent witness revealed little new information about an episode that has been the subject of seven previous investigations...Perhaps stung by recent admissions that the pursuit of Mrs. Clinton's emails was politically motivated, Republican lawmakers on the panel for the most part avoided any mention of her use of a private email server." The email issue did arise shortly before lunch, in a "shouting match" between Republican committee chair Trey Gowdy and two Democrats, Adam Schiff and Elijah Cummings. Late in the hearing, Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, accused Clinton of changing her accounts of the email service, leading to a "heated exchange" in which Clinton "repeated that she had made a mistake in using a private email account, but maintained that she had never sent or received anything marked classified and had sought to be transparent by publicly releasing her emails," a claim that was later contradicted by James Comey.

According to The Hill, the hearings provided a positive momentum for Clinton's 2016 campaign, with her performance generating headlines such as "Marathon Benghazi hearing leaves Hillary Clinton largely unscathed" (CNN), and "GOP lands no solid punches while sparring with Clinton over Benghazi" (The Washington Post). Her campaign received a windfall of donations, mostly coming from new donors.

WikiLeaks
During the week of the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks released emails suggesting that the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee tilted the primary in favor of Clinton. In an excerpt of Donna Brazile's book, Hacks: The Inside Story, published in Politico magazine, Brazile wrote that she had found an unethical agreement between the Clinton campaign and the DNC which had allowed Clinton to exert "control of the party long before she became its nominee." In an interview on ABC's This Week on November 5, 2017, Brazile said that she had found no evidence of the Democratic primaries having been rigged in favor of Clinton.

Burns Strider
During the 2016 election, Correct the Record a pro Clinton pac suspended former Clinton advisor Burns Strider over sexual harassment allegations. Clinton was criticized when it was discovered that she was aware of sexual harassment allegations against Strider when he worked on her 2008 presidential campaign years earlier and against the advice of her staff refused remove him from her campaign. Clinton said she didn't fire Strider because “I didn't think firing him was the best solution to the problem”.

Basket of deplorables

On August 25, 2016, Clinton gave a speech criticizing Trump's campaign for using "racist lies" and allowing the alt-right to gain prominence.
At a fundraiser on September 9, Clinton stated: "You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it."
Donald Trump criticized Clinton's remark as insulting his supporters,
and some political analysts compared the statement to Mitt Romney's 47% gaffe in 2012.
The following day Clinton expressed regret for saying "half", while insisting that Trump had deplorably amplified "hateful views and voices".

The "Deplorables" nickname was adopted by some Trump supporters, with the Trump campaign inviting "deplorable Americans" on stage and using the label against Clinton in an advertisement.

Alleged promotion of ties between Trump and Russia
In May 2022, Hillary Clinton's former campaign manager said that Clinton had approved of a plan to pitch the now-discredited accusation to the media that there had been activity between computer servers belonging to the Russian bank Alfa-Bank and the Trump Organization, on or about Oct 30 2016.

Demographics and interest groups

Women

In national polling, Clinton enjoyed "the highest level of female support of any candidate in more than four decades," with a 24-point lead in among female registered voters in a Pew Research Center taken on the eve of the 2016 Democratic National Convention. The same polling also showed a 16-percentage point difference in support among women and men, a historically unprecedented gender gap. Supporters created a private, online group, Pantsuit Nation, to share images in support of the candidate and her campaign. Its 2.9 million members used Clinton's typical choice of business wear—the pantsuit—as a symbol of both the candidate and the historical fight for women's equality.

African-American community
Clinton enjoyed the overwhelming support of African American voters in the Democratic primary elections. Overall, 77 percent of black Democratic primary voters supported Clinton. Clinton performed especially well among black women voters. There was a very large age gap among black voters, with the majority of younger black voters (under age 30) favoring Sanders but the overwhelming majority of older black voters favoring Clinton.

In general election polling, Clinton continued to enjoy an overwhelming advantage among black voters. Nationwide polling in the summer months of 2016 showed Clinton with the support of between 83% and 91% of black voters. A key aim of the Clinton campaign was to ensure high voter turnout for African American voters; with President Obama making a personal appeal to black citizens to cast a ballot in the election. Younger black voters have been of particular concern to the Clinton campaign, because this demographic is more skeptical of Clinton than their elders.

Clinton has advocated criminal justice reform as well as support for African-American youth. However, critics have brought up her quote as First Lady regarding the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, in which she described young, impoverished black children who had to turn to crime: "They are often the kinds of kids that are called 'super-predators.' No conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel." These remarks were used by Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump to imply racism on Clinton's behalf.

LGBT community

Clinton made LGBT rights a central issue in her campaign. In addition to promoting broader LGBT rights, she also advocates for the right for transgender people to serve in the military. In the past few years, her public position on same sex marriage and "Don't ask, don't tell" (a Bill Clinton-era law preventing openly LGB people from serving in the military) has changed, although she expressed no regret over her previous views.

Clinton's stance on LGBT rights, like many Democrats, has shifted over time with public opinion. She opposed same-sex marriage, "favoring arrangements like civil unions", a position which "largely tracked public opinion". In 2004, she opposed a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, and in 2006 she said she would not oppose an effort by New York State officials to legalize same-sex marriage. In March 2013, she formally stated her support for same-sex marriage after stepping down as Secretary of State, stating she supported it "personally and as a matter of policy and law." In 2016, her Twitter account stated conversion therapy for minors should be ended.

Clinton condemned Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act. She supported the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. She also endorsed the Equality Act of 2015.

In December 2015, Clinton published a plan for LGBT rights. The next month, the Human Rights Campaign endorsed her for president. She criticized Bernie Sanders for calling the Human Rights Campaign "part of the establishment."

In March 2016, in an interview with MSNBC at Nancy Reagan's funeral service, Clinton credited Reagan with starting the national conversation about AIDS. Clinton's comments drew heavy criticism from LGBT groups and the media, who said that the Reagans had ignored the issue, causing Clinton to apologize and retract her statement.

In October 2016, Clinton became the first major-party presidential candidate ever to write an op-ed for an LGBT newspaper, writing for Philadelphia Gay News.

Endorsements

Clinton was endorsed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Dallas Morning News, and The Arizona Republic, editorial boards. The Houston Chronicle traditionally endorses Republicans later in the election, but chose to endorse Clinton in July. The Dallas Morning News had not endorsed a Democrat for president since 1940. The Cincinnati Enquirer had not endorsed a Democratic presidential candidate for almost 100 years. The Arizona Republic, which began publishing in 1890, had never endorsed a Democratic candidate.

USA Today, which had never endorsed a presidential candidate, broke the tradition and took sides in the race with an editorial which declared Trump as "erratic", describing his business career as "checkered", calling him a "serial liar" and "unfit for the presidency". The newspaper, however, said the "editorial does not represent unqualified support for Hillary Clinton." The Atlantic, which had only made two presidential endorsements in its 160-year history, endorsed Clinton.

A group of 70 Nobel laureates endorsed Clinton in an open letter released in October 2016. Among the signatories to the letter were chemist Peter Agre, economist Robert J. Shiller, and physicist Robert Woodrow Wilson.

Transition planning

A presidential transition was contingently planned from President Barack Obama to Clinton in accordance with the Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010 and the Edward "Ted" Kaufman and Michael Leavitt Presidential Transitions Improvements Act of 2015.

Potential Supreme Court nominees
From the beginning of her presidential candidacy, Clinton stated that she would like to nominate justices who would overturn the decision in Citizens United v. FEC, a case allowing corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns. Clinton also voiced support for judges who would vote favorably regarding abortion, unions, affirmative action, same-sex marriage, and President Obama's Clean Power Plan and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program. Clinton also stated that she would look for a nominee who represents the diversity of the country and has professional experience outside of working for large law firms and serving as a judge.

Potential nominees listed in August 2016 by the ABA Journal included Cory Booker, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Merrick Garland, Jane L. Kelly, Amy Klobuchar, Lucy H. Koh, Goodwin Liu, Patricia Millett, Jacqueline Nguyen, Sri Srinivasan and Paul J. Watford. Barack Obama's name was also floated.

Election results

The Clinton campaign held its election night celebration at the Javits Center in New York City, in an event headlined by speakers including Chuck Schumer, Andrew Cuomo, Bill de Blasio, and Katy Perry. At the conclusion of the event, cannons filled with translucent confetti were set to deploy from the glass roof of the Javits Center to symbolize "breaking the glass ceiling". The campaign initially obtained permits to set off fireworks from a barge on the Hudson River, but cancelled the display on November 7.

As the results came in on election night, November 8, 2016, Clinton lost in multiple states that she had been predicted to win, including the blue wall states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In the early morning hours of November 9, media sources declared Trump the winner of the presidency. Clinton lost the electoral vote while winning the popular vote, in what the New York Times called a "surprise outcome" after polls leading up to election day had predicted a Clinton victory. Despite her strong showing at the polls nationally, and encouraged by then-President Barack Obama, she congratulated Trump on the win in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016, and delivered her public concession speech at 11:50 AM ET, November 9, 2016, at the Grand Ballroom of the New Yorker Hotel.

On November 9, Clinton's Twitter account tweeted, "To all the little girls watching...never doubt that you are valuable and powerful & deserving of every chance & opportunity in the world [to pursue and achieve your own dreams]". Drawn from part of Clinton's concession speech, these words became the most retweeted political tweet of the year, the third most retweeted tweet of the year, and the top retweet in the United States.

Trump received 304 electoral college votes to Clinton's 227, with two Trump electors and five Clinton electors voting for someone else. In the nationwide popular vote, Clinton received over 2.8 million (2.1%) more votes than Trump. This is the widest-ever lead in the popular vote for a candidate who lost the election. It also makes Clinton the first woman to win the popular vote in an election for United States president.

Clinton's losses in the "blue wall" states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin played a major role in the outcome of the campaign.

Effectiveness
After a loss that was widely perceived as a surprise, critics alleged that the Clinton team ran an ineffective campaign. Several issues have been highlighted. A study by Wesleyan Media Project has shown that Clinton's TV ads "were almost entirely policy-free". The researchers wrote that "misallocated advertising funds" and "lack of policy messaging in advertising may have hurt Clinton enough to have made a difference". In Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign, reporters Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes state that the campaign had "little vision or inspiration", an "ineffective" strategy that focused on "turnout, not persuasion" and reliance on a "faulty analytic model", amongst other issues. Political scientist Stan Greenberg stated that Clinton focused on "[her] base and identity at the expense of class", that she did not call out "big-money special interests", and that her campaign focused too heavily on "data analytics". Media outlets pointed to other perceived weaknesses in the campaign, including the lack of a coherent message, an unwillingness to heed signs of trouble, and the failure to remedy some voters' perception that Clinton was simply untrustworthy. Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post named Clinton "the worst candidate of 2016".

Despite this, political scientists John M. Sides, Michael Tesler and Lynn Vavreck dispute the criticism that Clinton ran an inept campaign, saying that this is a "myth" and there is little evidence to support the criticism. A common critique of the Clinton campaign is that it did not campaign in Wisconsin (which Trump narrowly won); however, according to a study by political scientist Christopher J. Devine, it is "unclear" from the evidence "whether Clinton also would have gained votes, or even won, in Wisconsin had she campaigned in that state."

See also

 Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign
 Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign
 Mueller Report
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign, a best-selling book published in April 2017
 Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections (July 2016 – election day)
 What Happened by Hillary Clinton, published in September 2017

Notes

References

External links

 Campaign biography, "Hillary's Story"

 Hillary Clinton's top 10 campaign promises on PolitiFact.com
 Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign on Ballotpedia.org
 Hillary Clinton's fundraising data on OpenSecrets.org

2016 Democratic Party (United States) presidential campaigns
2016 in women's history
John Podesta
Hillary Clinton
Tim Kaine
2016 in American politics


title: James Millikin House

text:
The James Millikin House is a historic house located at 125 N. Pine St. in Decatur, Illinois. The house was built in 1876 for James Millikin, a wealthy Decatur businessman who later founded Millikin University. The house has a towered Italianate design which has been called the "most imposing Victorian remnant" in Decatur. A mansard roof on the tallest tower provides a Second Empire influence to the design. The house's interior decorations include colored marble fireplaces, art glass windows, and a fresco above the main staircase.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 3, 1974. Millikin University currently owns the house, which is open to the public as a museum.

References

External links
 James Millikin Homestead - official site

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
Italianate architecture in Illinois
Second Empire architecture in Illinois
Houses completed in 1876
Houses in Macon County, Illinois
Millikin University
Historic house museums in Illinois
Buildings and structures in Decatur, Illinois
Museums in Macon County, Illinois
University museums in Illinois
National Register of Historic Places in Macon County, Illinois


title: Bill Maher (disambiguation)

text:
Bill Maher (born 1956) is an American stand-up comedian, television host, political commentator, satirist and author.

Bill or William Maher may also refer to:
 Bill Maher (rower) (born 1946), American rower
 Bill Maher (athletic director), American director of athletics for Canisius College
 Bill Maher (hurler) (born 1994), Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer
 William Maher (hurler) (born 1979), Irish retired hurler, manager and selector
 William H. Maher (1846–1913), American businessman and author
 Will Maher (born 1995), British rugby league footballer


title: 2004 Idea Prokom Open – Men's singles

text:
Rafael Nadal defeated José Acasuso in the final, 6–3, 6–4 to win the Singles title at the 2004 Idea Prokom Open. It was his first career title.

Guillermo Coria was the reigning champion, but did not participate.

Seeds

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

References
Main Draw

Orange Warsaw Open
2004 ATP Tour


title: Sigue Cantando

text:
Sigue Cantando is the third full-length album released by the New Mexico musician Al Hurricane in 1973?.

Track listing

References

Al Hurricane albums
New Mexico music albums


title: Zero Woman: Dangerous Game

text:
is a 1998 V-Cinema erotic thriller film starring Chieko Shiratori. It is the sixth installment of the Zero Woman film series.

Plot
Rei, a woman without a past or identity, is an undercover agent to the Zero Department, a deadly underground division of the Japanese police force. Someone has been slaughtering innocent people for the medical Black market. Rei is assigned to kill the mysterious criminal, and her only lead is a mistress of a large criminal boss, who is seducing Rei.

Cast
 Chieko Shiratori as Rei
 Ichiho Matsuda as Nana
 Terunori  Miyazaki as Natsume
 Ken Miyawaki as Yamaguchi
 Daisuke Ryu as Mutoh
 Masayoshi Nogami as Kaneda
 Shira Shitamoto as Kirishima
 Keizo Nagashima as Tanabe
 Tadashi Okuno as Satake
 Satoshi Furukawa
 Mitsuyoshi Nakamura
 Masami Tachi

English dub cast
 Suzy Prue as Rei
 Pink Champale as Nana
 J.K. Ellemeno as Natsume
 Rodd Stone as Yamaguchi
 Ted as Mutoh
 Tristan Goddard as Kaneda
 Fergus Lawless as Kirishima
 Scott Cargle as Tanabe
 Chunky Mon as Satake
 Jonathan Boggs
 Jeff Gimble
 Skooter Larue

Release
The film was released direct-to-video on May 1, 1998, in Japan. The DVD version was released on November 24, 2000. Central Park Media licensed the film under their Asia Pulp Cinema label. The film was released on subtitled VHS on February 13, 2001. CPM later released the film on DVD with an English dub on March 9, 2004. The English dub was produced by Mercury Productions in New York City.

See also
 Girls with guns
 Zero Woman, for other films in the franchise

References

External links

1990s erotic thriller films
1998 direct-to-video films
1998 films
Central Park Media
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Girls with guns films
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Japanese erotic thriller films
1990s Japanese films
1990s Japanese-language films


title: San Pedro Claver

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San Pedro Claver, commonly known as San Pedro, is an Equatorial Guinean football club club based in Ebibeyin.

The club is likely best known for their 2007 appearance in the CAF Confederation Cup, in which they lost to Benfica Luanda of Angola 7–1 on aggregate in the preliminary round.

San Pedro Claver withdrew from the 2008 championship and no record exists of their being active since.

Performance in CAF competitions
CAF Confederation Cup: 1 appearance
2007 CAF Confederation Cup

References

External links

Football clubs in Equatorial Guinea


title: List of Oricon number-one singles of 1974

text:
The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Singles Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' physical sales. This list includes the singles that reached the number one place on that chart in 1974.

Oricon Weekly Singles Chart

References

1974 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Oricon 1974


title: Université Nationale du Bénin FC

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Université Nationale du Bénin FC is a football club of Benin, playing in the town of Porto-Novo. They play in the Beninese Second division.

In 1996 the team has won the Benin Cup.

Achievements
Benin Cup: 2:1996, 2007

Performance in CAF competitions
CAF Confederation Cup: 1 appearance
2008 CAF Confederation Cup – Preliminary Round

Stadium
Currently the team plays at the 15000 capacity Stade Charles de Gaulle.

References

External links

Football clubs in Benin
Sport in Porto-Novo


The 2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the 15th edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (34th edition if the Under-16 era is included), the annual European international youth football championship contested by the men's under-17 national teams of UEFA member associations. Azerbaijan, which were selected by UEFA on 20 March 2012, hosted the tournament between 5 and 21 May 2016.

A total of 16 teams competed in the final tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 1999 eligible to participate. Each match had a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time.

Portugal were crowned champions for the second time in the under-17 era, and sixth time overall, after beating Spain in the final 5–4 through a penalty shootout. France were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the group stage.

Qualification

The national teams from all 54 UEFA member associations entered the competition. With Azerbaijan automatically qualified as hosts, the other 53 teams contested a qualifying competition to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: the qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2015, and the elite round, which took place in spring 2016.

Qualified teams
The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament:

Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era (since 2002).

Notes

Final draw
The final draw was held on 8 April 2016, 12:00 AZT (UTC+4), at the Baku Olympic Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. Hosts Azerbaijan were assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the other teams were seeded according to their results in the qualification elite round, with the seven best elite round group winners (counting all elite round results) placed in Pot 1 and drawn to positions 1 and 2 in the groups, and the remaining eight teams placed in Pot 2 and drawn to positions 3 and 4 in the groups.
Pot 1: Portugal, Serbia, Ukraine, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France
Pot 2: Belgium (eighth best group winner), England, Austria, Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sweden, Scotland, Spain

Venues
The tournament was hosted in four venues, all in Baku:

Squads

Each national team had to submit a squad of 18 players.

Match officials
A total of 8 referees, 12 assistant referees and 4 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.

Referees
 Petr Ardeleánu
 Svein-Erik Edvartsen
 Bartosz Frankowski
 Gunnar Jarl Jónsson
 Fran Jović
 Peter Kráľovič
 Ville Nevalainen
 Mitja Žganec

Assistant referees
 Balázs Buzás
 Andrew Christiansen
 Lazaros Dimitriadis
 Marios Dimitriadis
 Emmett Dynan
 Vasile Ermișchin
 Alain Heiniger
 Neeme Neemlaid
 Edward Spiteri
 Ceyhun Sesigüzel
 Georgi Todorov
 Levan Varamishvili

Fourth officials
 Aliyar Aghayev
 Alain Durieux
 Orkhan Mammadov
 Sergejus Slyva

Group stage

The final tournament schedule was confirmed on 12 April 2016.

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the quarter-finals.

Tiebreakers
The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:
Higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
Superior goal difference resulting from the group matches played among the teams in question;
Higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still had an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 were reapplied exclusively to the group matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 applied;
Superior goal difference in all group matches;
Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
If only two teams had the same number of points, and they were tied according to criteria 1 to 6 after having met in the last round of the group stage, their rankings were determined by a penalty shoot-out (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were not relevant for qualification for the next stage).
Lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in the group matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
Drawing of lots.

All times were local, AZT (UTC+4).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, a penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).

Following a consultation between the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan (AFFA) and UEFA, it was decided to change the venue for the semi-finals and final from the Baku Olympic Stadium to the Dalga Arena and Bakcell Arena, respectively.

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Goalscorers
7 goals

 José Gomes

Note: José Gomes scored a total of 16 goals in the 2014–15 and 2015–16 season (including qualifying), making him the competition's all-time top scorer.

4 goals

 Abel Ruiz

3 goals

 Reiss Nelson
 Renat Dadashov
 Yari Otto
 Brahim Díaz

2 goals

 Christoph Baumgartner
 Benjamin Hadžić
 Atakan Akkaynak
 Diogo Dalot
 Miguel Luís
 Fran García
 Joel Asoro

1 goal

 Valentino Müller
 Romano Schmid
 Murad Mahmudov
 Farid Nabiyev
 Adrien Bongiovanni
 Milan Corryn
 Loïs Openda
 Sebastian Buch Jensen
 Jens Odgaard
 George Hirst
 Ben Morris
 Mason Mount
 Kai Havertz
 Sam Schreck
 Moise Kean
 Marco Olivieri
 Andrea Pinamonti
 Gianluca Scamacca
 Tahith Chong
 Ché Nunnely
 Dylan Vente
 Mesaque Djú
 Gedson Fernandes
 Domingos Quina
 Dejan Joveljić
 Igor Maksimović
 Pol Lozano
 Jordi Mboula
 Teddy Bergqvist
 Serhiy Buletsa
 Andriy Kulakov
 Denys Yanakov

1 own goal

 Luca Meisl (playing against Germany)
 Elchin Asadov (playing against Portugal)
 Tom Baack (playing against Bosnia and Herzegovina)
 Marko Ilić (playing against Netherlands)

Team of the Tournament

Goalkeepers
 Diogo Costa
 Iñaki Peña

Defenders
 Dujon Sterling
 Dan-Axel Zagadou
 Matthijs de Ligt
 Diogo Dalot
 Diogo Leite
 Rúben Vinagre

Midfielders
 Kai Havertz
 Gedson Fernandes
 Florentino
 Quina
 Brahim Díaz
 Manu Morlanes

Forwards
 Reiss Nelson
 Tahith Chong
 Jota
 José Gomes

References

External links

Azerbaijan 2016, UEFA.com

2016
Under-17 Championship
2016 Uefa European Under-19 Championship
2015–16 in Azerbaijani football
2016
May 2016 sports events in Europe
2016 in youth sport
2016 in youth association football
2010s in Baku


title: Don't Say (Jon B. song)

text:
"Don't Say" is a song performed by Jon B, issued as the lead single from his second studio album Cool Relax and produced by Jon-John. The song peaked at #68 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997.

Music video

The official music video was directed by Kevin Bray and features Sanaa Lathan as Jon B's love interest.

Chart positions

References

550 Music singles
1997 songs
1997 singles
Jon B. songs
Music videos directed by Kevin Bray (director)
Song recordings produced by Marc Nelson
Song recordings produced by Jon-John Robinson
Songs written by Marc Nelson
Songs written by Jon-John Robinson


title: Indian Hunter (Ward)

text:
Indian Hunter is an outdoor bronze sculpture by John Quincy Adams Ward, located at Central Park in Manhattan, New York.

It was cast in bronze in 1866 at the L.A. Amouroux, NY at a cost of $10,000. It was displayed at the Paris Exposition in 1867 and was later presented to the city of New York, where it was unveiled on February 4, 1869. The statue was the first sculpture by an American artist at Central Park, which at the time was only 11 years old.

Physical description
The plinth is polished Rockport granite, and the statue, which depicts a  larger than life size hunter and dog, is made of bronze. The dimensions of the monument atop the plinth is 10 ft (3m) wide, 5 ft (1.5m) deep, and 6'3" (1.9m) tall.

References

External links

1866 establishments in New York (state)
1866 sculptures
Bronze sculptures in Central Park
Outdoor sculptures in Manhattan
Sculptures by John Quincy Adams Ward
Sculptures in Central Park
Sculptures of men in New York City
Sculptures of Native Americans in New York (state)
Statues in New York City
Sculptures of dogs in the United States


title: 2003 City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council election

text:
Elections to City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council were held on 1 May 2003. Before the election, Wibsey Labour councillor, Keith Thomson, had defected to Independent. One third of the council was up for election, and it remained under no overall control.

Election result

This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:

Ward results

By-elections between 2003 and 2004

References

2003
Bradford
2000s in West Yorkshire


title: Chipukizi F.C.

text:
Chipukizi F.C., or simply Chipukizi, is an association football club based in Zanzibar.

The team currently plays in the Zanzibar Premier League.

References

Football clubs in Tanzania
Zanzibari football clubs


title: Lariana

text:
The Lariana or Capra di Livo is an indigenous breed of domestic goat from the province of Como, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is raised in the Livo valley and throughout the western Lario; the two names of the breed derive from these places. It is of Alpine type and has highly variable characteristics. Management is extensive: the animals are kept on alpine pasture from May to December, and brought under cover for the winter months.

The Lariana is one of the forty-three autochthonous Italian goat breeds of limited distribution for which a herdbook is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep- and goat-breeders. At the end of 2013 the registered population was variously reported as 2777 and as 3091. A breed named Val di Livo, from the same area and with the same characteristics, is also separately reported to DAD-IS; it was listed by the FAO in 2007 as extinct.

References

Goat breeds
Meat goat breeds
Goat breeds originating in Italy


title: Jack Carty (musician)

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Jack Carty is an Australian musician and songwriter from Bellingen, New South Wales. He currently resides in Brisbane.

Though none of his releases to date have achieved a high level of commercial success, they have received critical acclaim in his home country of Australia from national press including: The Australian, The Weekend Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald, and Arts and Entertainment websites including: The Music, TheAUReview, Timber & Steel, FasterLouder, Beat, and Music Feeds.

Carty has toured in Australia, the United States and Canada, appearing at festivals such as: South By South West (SXSW), Canadian Music Week (CMW), Woodford Folk Festival, Queenscliff Music Festival (QMF), and Mullum Music Festival. Carty has supported artists including: Josh Pyke, Justin Townes Earle, Matt Corby, Katie Noonan, Robert Ellis, Ingrid Michaelson and Joshua Radin. Carty completed his own headline tours (the most recent being in August/September/October 2013 launching "The Predictable Crisis of Modern Life" E.P.

Albums and EPs
Carty has released 5 albums and 2 EP's
Albums:
2011:  One Thousand Origami Birds
2012:  Break Your Own Heart
2014: Esk
2016: Home State
2018: "Hospital Hill" the strings album was released as a collaborative project with musician Gus Gardiner.

E.P's:
2010 "Wine & Consequence"
2013 "The Predictable Crisis of Modern Life") through Sydney based independent record label "Gigpiglet Recordings" distributed in Australia and New Zealand through Inertia Music Pty Ltd.

Honors and awards
In 2010 Carty won "Acoustic Singer-Songwriter of the Year" at the National MusicOZ Awards.

References

1987 births
Australian male singer-songwriters
Australian singer-songwriters
Musicians from New South Wales
Living people
21st-century Australian singers


The Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) is the principal department of the Colorado state government responsible for professional licensing and consumer protection.

As the consumer protection agency for the State of Colorado, DORA's nine Divisions and more than 40 boards, commissions, and advisory committees license and regulate more than 700,000 people and 24,000 businesses in the state. DORA serves as a resource for objective information about licensed Colorado industries, professions and occupations, takes consumer complaints and works to educate consumers about their rights.

Structure
DORA is composed of these divisions:
 Executive Director's Office
 Office of Policy, Research & Regulatory Reform
 Division of Banking
 Division of Civil Rights
 Division of Financial Services
 Division of Insurance
 Division of Professions and Occupations
 Division of Real Estate
 Division of Securities
 Office of Consumer Counsel
 Public Utilities Commission

History
The Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies was created in 1968, although several of the Department's divisions have been protecting Colorado citizens previously:
 In 1877, state regulation of Colorado banks began one year after statehood was achieved, when the Colorado Legislature first codified the process by which banking associations could be chartered and operated.
 In 1883, Colorado began to regulate insurance through the State Auditor's Office. In 1913, the Colorado Department of Insurance, now known as the Division of Insurance, was formed in response to widespread growth in the industry.
 In 1913, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission was created when the State Legislature created it as part of the passage of the Public Utilities Act of 1913.
 In 1923, regulation of the offer and sale of securities to investors began through the Division of Securities.
 The real estate industry has been regulated since 1925 through what is now the Division of Real Estate.
 In 1931, Colorado began chartering credit unions, when the General Assembly passed the Credit Union Act. Regulation of credit unions, savings and loan institutions and trust companies is conducted by what is now known as the Division of Financial Services.
 In 1951, Colorado became the third state to establish a civil rights agency, now known as the Colorado Civil Rights Division.
 In 1968, the Department of Regulatory Agencies was created pursuant to the "Administrative Organization Act of 1968". The act moved the aforementioned agencies into one umbrella department. The act also created the Division of Registrations (now known as the Division of Professions and Occupations) and moved many existing boards under its purview, some of which had been in existence for over a century.
 In 1976, Colorado passed the first Sunset Law in the United States. This law requires the periodic review of various agencies throughout state government. In 1985, the Colorado General Assembly passed the Sunrise law as a complement to the Sunset law. This law requires that a review be conducted on all proposals to regulate previously unregulated occupations or professions. The Office of Policy, Research and Regulatory Reform, an office within the Executive Director's Office of the Department of Regulatory Agencies, conducts these reviews.
 The Office of Consumer Counsel (OCC) was created by the General Assembly as a division of the Attorney General's Office on July 1, 1984. OCC is now located within DORA. Its mission is the representation of residential, small business and agricultural utility consumers on certain utility issues before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission.

Program Areas
Investigations
Criminal and compliance investigations, both in response to formal complaints and as part of regular audits.
Divisions: Civil Rights, Insurance, Professions and Occupations, Public Utilities Commission, Real Estate, Securities.

Enforcement
Resolution of complaints/charges received and proactive enforcement/compliance oriented investigations ensuring adequate consumer protection. Divisions: Civil Rights, Insurance, Professions and Occupations, Public Utilities Commission, Real Estate, Securities.

Consumer Representation During Utility Rate Approvals
Present evidence in support of consumers when utilities request rate increases. Divisions: Office of Consumer Counsel.

Consumer Assistance and Contact/Complaint Resolution
Informal complaint resolution, including responses to general consumer inquiries. Divisions: All.

Institutional Examinations
Examinations of all state-chartered financial institutions and insurance companies. Divisions: Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Real Estate, Securities.

Education, Outreach and Training
Proactive dissemination of information about consumer rights. Divisions: All.

References

External links

Regulatory Agencies
Bank regulation in the United States by state


title: Jack Carty

text:
Jack Carty may refer to:

Jack Carty (cricketer), Irish cricketer
Jack Carty (musician) (born 1987), Australian musician
Jack Carty (rugby union) (born 1992), rugby union player from Ireland

See also
John Carty (disambiguation)


title: Vliets, Kansas

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Vliets is an unincorporated community in Marshall County, Kansas, United States.  It is located at the southern terminus of Kansas Highway 87.

History
Vliets was laid out in 1889. It was named for the Van Vliet family, the original owner of the town site. A post office was opened in Vliets in 1897, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1992.

The community currently consists of a Co-op, a granary, and perhaps a dozen houses.

References

Further reading

External links
 Marshall County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT

Unincorporated communities in Marshall County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas


title: Rapture for the Geeks

text:
Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ (2009) is a non-fiction book by American Law Professor Richard Dooling. The book provides an alarming window into a hypothetical future technological singularity, where machine intelligence outstrips human intelligence. The book also provides a historical review of man's relationship with machines, including dangers caused by other technologies such as nuclear weaponry.

See also
 Technological singularity

References

2008 non-fiction books
Artificial intelligence publications
Books about existential risk
Futurology books


title: Tom Sutcliffe (politician)

text:
Tom Sutcliffe (2 July 1865 – 8 January 1931) was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician.

Educated at Haileybury and Oxford, Sutcliffe became head of the shipping company J. Sutcliffe and Sons.

He was elected at the 1922 general election as the Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby.
He was re-elected in 1923, but did not contest the  1924 general election.

He served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire during the years 1929–30,
and died aged 65 on 8 January 1931 at a nursing home in Harrogate, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, .

References

External links

1865 births
1931 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1922–1923
UK MPs 1923–1924
British businesspeople in shipping
People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford
High Sheriffs of Lincolnshire
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Great Grimsby


title: 2014 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles qualifying

text:
Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

Seeds

  Thomaz Bellucci (first round)
  Go Soeda (first round)
  Tim Smyczek (qualifying competition)
  Gilles Müller (qualified)
  Damir Džumhur (first round)
  Michael Berrer (first round)
  Malek Jaziri (qualifying competition, lucky loser)
  Peter Gojowczyk (first round)
  Denis Kudla (qualified)
  Frank Dancevic (qualifying competition, lucky loser)
  Peter Polansky (second round)
  Andreas Beck (second round)
  Simone Bolelli (qualifying competition, lucky loser)
  Tatsuma Ito (qualified)
  Filip Krajinović (second round)
  Daniel Brands (qualifying competition)
  Norbert Gombos (first round)
  Aljaž Bedene (qualifying competition, lucky loser)
  Pierre-Hugues Herbert (qualified)
  Sam Groth (qualified)
  Ričardas Berankis (qualifying competition)
  Ryan Harrison (qualified)
  Jimmy Wang (qualified)
  Yuichi Sugita (qualified)
  Andrej Martin (first round)
  Alex Kuznetsov (qualified)
  Marsel İlhan (qualified)
  João Souza (first round)
  Marc Gicquel (qualifying competition)
  Farrukh Dustov (second round)
  Rajeev Ram (qualifying competition)
  Guido Andreozzi (first round)

Qualifiers

  Luke Saville
  James Duckworth
  Alex Kuznetsov
  Gilles Müller
  Ante Pavić
  Konstantin Kravchuk
  Marsel İlhan
  Yūichi Sugita
  Denis Kudla
  Jimmy Wang
  Pierre-Hugues Herbert
  Tim Pütz
  Sam Groth
  Tatsuma Ito
  Jan Hernych
  Ryan Harrison

Lucky losers

  Malek Jaziri
  Frank Dancevic
  Simone Bolelli
  Aljaž Bedene

Qualifying draw

First qualifier

Second qualifier

Third qualifier

Fourth qualifier

Fifth qualifier

Sixth qualifier

Seventh qualifier

Eighth qualifier

Ninth qualifier

Tenth qualifier

Eleventh qualifier

Twelfth qualifier

Thirteenth qualifier

Fourteenth qualifier

Fifteenth qualifier

Sixteenth qualifier

External links

 2014 Wimbledon Championships – Men's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation

Men's Singles Qualifying
Wimbledon Championship by year – Men's singles qualifying


title: Graham Ward

text:
Graham Ward may refer to:

 Graham Ward (footballer) (born 1985), assistant manager of Wolverhampton Sporting
 Graham Ward (theologian) (born 1955), Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford
 Graham Ward (musician), drummer, sound engineer and sound designer


title: Picardy (wine)

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Picardy is an Australian winery at Pemberton, in the Pemberton wine region of Western Australia.  It was established in 1993 by Dr. Bill Pannell, his wife Sandra and their son Daniel; Bill and Sandra Pannell had previously founded the pioneering Moss Wood winery in the Margaret River wine region in 1969.

See also

 Australian wine
 List of wineries in Western Australia
 Western Australian wine

References

Notes

Bibliography

External links
Picardy – official site

Companies established in 1993
Pemberton, Western Australia
Wineries in Western Australia
1993 establishments in Australia


title: Amel Džuzdanović

text:
Amel Džuzdanović (born 26 August 1994) is a Slovenian retired footballer who played as a midfielder.

References

External links
NZS profile

1994 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Men's association football midfielders
Slovenian men's footballers
Slovenia men's youth international footballers
Slovenia men's under-21 international footballers
ND Gorica players
NK Brda players
ND Primorje players
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
Slovenian Second League players


title: 2014 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles qualifying

text:
Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

Seeds

  Kiki Bertens (first round)
  Pauline Parmentier (first round)
  Timea Bacsinszky (qualified)
  Michelle Larcher de Brito (qualified)
  Alexandra Dulgheru (second round)
  Danka Kovinić (qualifying competition)
  Claire Feuerstein (second round)
  Vesna Dolonc (first round)
  Nadiia Kichenok (first round)
  Lara Arruabarrena (first round)
  Zheng Saisai (first round)
  Luksika Kumkhum (second round)
  Magda Linette (first round)
  Estrella Cabeza Candela (first round)
  Victoria Duval (qualified)
  Tamira Paszek (qualified)
  Alla Kudryavtseva (qualified)
  Olivia Rogowska (first round)
  Sofia Arvidsson (first round)
  Verónica Cepede Royg (qualifying competition)
  Alexandra Panova (first round)
  Grace Min (second round)
  Aleksandra Wozniak (qualified)
  Maryna Zanevska (second round)

Qualifiers

  Alla Kudryavtseva
  Tereza Smitková
  Timea Bacsinszky
  Michelle Larcher de Brito
  Aleksandra Wozniak
  Lesia Tsurenko
  Paula Kania
  Ana Konjuh
  Victoria Duval
  Tamira Paszek
  Anett Kontaveit
  Andreea Mitu

Qualifying draw

First qualifier

Second qualifier

Third qualifier

Fourth qualifier

Fifth qualifier

Sixth qualifier

Seventh qualifier

Eighth qualifier

Ninth qualifier

Tenth qualifier

Eleventh qualifier

Twelfth qualifier

External links

2014 Wimbledon Championships on WTAtennis.com
2014 Wimbledon Championships – Women's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation

Women's Singles Qualifying
Wimbledon Championship by year – Women's singles qualifying
Wimbledon Championships