Donald I. Brenner was a Canadian judge who served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia from 2000 until he stepped down from the position in 2009 died he was , 64. In total Brenner spent more than 20 years as a member of the provincial Supreme Court.The Vancouver Sun called Brenner “the man who was most responsible for reforming the province’s top trial bench.”
(1945 – March 12, 2011)
Brenner was born in British Columbia to a World War II veteran and graduated from St. George’s School in Vancouver in 1962.[2] He obtained a commercial helicopter pilot’s license when he was eighteen years old.[2] He joined Canadian Pacific Airlines in 1966 as a
pilot and finished his professional pilot career as a Boeing 737 captain.[2]
Brenner obtained a bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia and enrolled in law school in 1967.[2] He received a law degree in 1970 and joined the bar in 1971.[2]
In 1999, Brenner became chairman of the Supreme Court of British Columbia’s litigation management committee.[2] He also co-founded the B.C. Supreme Court’s information technology committee.[2] Under Brenner, who became Chief Justice in 2000, the British Columbia Supreme Court adopted a code of civil rules, the first major change in the court’s procedures since the 19th Century.[2] The B.C. Supreme Court is also one of the technological in Canada, as Brenner spearheaded to move to adopt video conferencing, electronic filing systems, and adopt new litigation management systems.[2] Brenner stepped down as Chief Justice in 2009 and was succeeded by Chief Justice Robert Bauman.[2]
Don Brenner died unexpectedly of natural causes on March 12, 2011, at the age of 64.[2] He was survived by his wife, Robin, and two daughters.[2]
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Olive Patricia Dickason was a Canadian historian. She was a key figure in the study of Aboriginal History in Canada’s academic world died he was , 91..
(March 6, 1920 – March 12, 2011)
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, her family moved to the Interlake region after losing everything they owned during the Great Depression. Aged 12, she, her sister Alice, and her mother Phoebe went trapping and fishing to provide food for the family. “Living in the bush as I did during my adolescent years, I very soon learned that survival depended upon assessing each situation as it arose, which calls for common sense and realism,” said Olive. “You neither give up nor play games.” Encouraged by mentor, Father Athol Murray, she decided to finish high school in Saskatchewan, prior to pursuing post-secondary education. She completed a BA in French and Philosophy at Notre Dame College, an affiliate of the University of Ottawa.
She first became aware of her Métis ancestry as a young adult upon meeting some Métis relatives in Regina. She began a 24-year career in journalism at the Regina Leader-Post and subsequently, worked as a writer and editor at the Winnipeg Free Press, the Montreal Gazette, and the Globe and Mail. She promoted coverage of First Nations and women’s issues.
In 1970, aged 50, she entered the graduate program at the University of Ottawa. She had to struggle with faculty preconceptions regarding Aboriginal History – including arguments that it did not exist – before finally finding a professor (Cornelius Jaenen) to act as her academic advisor. “I was lucky… [a] Belgian fellow, who didn’t know much about Native people, but knew a lot about discrimination, took up my cause, and the university eventually admitted me.” She completed her Master’s degree at the University of Ottawa two years later, and her PhD in 1977. Her doctoral thesis, entitled The Myth of the Savage, was eventually published as were Canada’s First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from the Earliest Times and The Native Imprint: The Contribution of First Peoples First Peoples to Canada’s Character — Volume 1: to 1815 (1995), which she edited. In addition she also wrote Indian Arts in Canada, which won three awards for conception and design and coauthored The Law of Nations and the New World.
Dickason taught at the University of Alberta from 1976 to 1992. She retired from this professorship when she was 72, after fighting the mandatory retirement at age 65. Dickason filed suit against the University of Alberta, claiming its mandatory retirement policy was a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.[1] Dickason won her case in the lower courts, but lost in a 5-4 split at the Supreme Court of Canada.[2] Her time as a professor and her significant contributions to the literature of history in Canada have influenced a whole generation of scholars, and will continue to be the basis for much historical work done in the future.
Olive was awarded the Order of Canada in 1996,[3] and was the recipient of the Aboriginal Achievement Award in 1997. She has also been the recipient of numerous honorary doctorates throughout the years.
Family
Dickason had three daughters: Anne, Clare and Roberta.
Death
Olive Dickason died on March 12, 2011, one week after her 91st birthday
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Margaret Ethel Fish of Wilstead, Bedfordshire was the oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death of 111-year-old Elsie Steele on 18 October 2010 until her own death on 12 March 2011, aged 112 years 5 days.
( 7 March 1899 – 12 March 2011)
She was born at Tower Hamlets and married Frank Fish, a World War I veteran, in 1928. Frank died in 1987 at the age of 89 of a heart and lung condition.[4] Margaret is a former dressmaker and lived independently at Cople until the age of 104.[5] Later, she moved to live with her 71-year-old daughter Barbara for two years, and then she moved into Danecroft Nursing Home in Wilstead.[4]
Fish enjoyed television and having a good meal. When asked about her recipe to a long life she said to “not worry about it”; that there is no secret.[5]
She died in her nursing home on 12 March 2011, five days after her 112th birthday, since which time her health had declined.[6]
Fish had two daughters, Barbara and Elsie; several grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.[5]
Records
- On 18 October 2010 Elsie Steele died, Margaret Fish age 111 years 225 days became the oldest living person in the United Kingdom.
- On 12 March 2011 Margaret Fish died age 112 years 5 days.
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Shifra Lerer was an Argentine-born American Yiddish theater actress based in New York City died from a stroke she was , 95. Lerer appeared opposite every major Yiddish theater actor during her career, which lasted 90 years.[1][2] She was also cast in film roles, including the 1997 Woody Allen film, Deconstructing Harry.[1]
(August 30, 1915 – March 12, 2011)
Her father, a manager at a soap factory, had immigrated to Argentina from the Russian Empire to escape anti-Semetism and poverty through the sponsorship of philanthropist and banker, Maurice de Hirsch.[2] Lerer was born in the Santa Catalina colony[3] in Argentina on August 30, 1915.[2] Lerer was discovered in Buenos Aires by Yiddish theater legend, producer and actor Boris Thomashefsky, who was starring in the area, when she was just five[1] or eight[3] years old, at the recommendation of her sister (the actress Miryam Lerer). At ten she was participating in Yakov Botashanski’s productions in a theater circle. When she was older, she studied at a Spanish-language drama school and performed for three years on the Argentinian stage. She then passed the examinations for the actors’ union and became a member, playing with the star Miryam Karalova-Kambarov, then Moyshe Oysher and Florence Weiss, finally playing in serious drama roles with Zygmunt Turkov in Urteyl, Hirsh Lekert, Ivan Kruger and Di glokn-tsier fun Notr-dam (The Bell-ringer (Hunchback) of Notre Dame).[3]
She played with Yakov Ben-Ami and Bertha Kalich in Wolf’s Profesor Malok, Strindberg’s Der Foter, and Leyvick’s Der poet is blind gevorn (The poet became blind), with Samuel (Hymie) Goldenberg in Kalmanovich’s Hayntike kinder (Kids these days) and with Maurice Schwartz in Singer’s Moyshe Kalb.
In 1943 she was invited by Samuel Goldberg to perform at the Parkway Theater in Brooklyn (owned by Hymie Jacobson and his brother Irving). Her first performance was in Fun Niu York keyn Berlin; she then toured concertizing at places like the Arbeter Ring, the National Yiddish Workers Union, and Camp Boyberik. In 1946 she went back to Argentina where she worked with Ben-Zion Witler at the Mitre theater and thereafter toured and performed with him (she married Witler in 1957 – he died from a brain tumor in 1961.[2]). She joined the actors’ union in 1949 and played in Got, mentsh un tayvl with Mikhal Mikhalesko and Gustav Berger. In 1952 she participated in Herman Yablokoff’s production of Benyomin Ressler’s Onkl Sem in yisroel (Uncle Sam in Israel) in the Public Theater in New York.[3]
She ultimately decided to settle permanently in New York City.[2] Lerer worked actively in the Yiddish theater cicuit until she was 90 years old.[1]
Her second husband, Yiddish actor Michael Michalovic, died in 1987.[2] She was best friends with the late Yiddish theater actress, Mina Bern, who died in 2010.[4]
Shifra Lerer died of a stroke in Manhattan on March 12, 2011, at the age of 95.[2] She was buried in Block 67 of Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, Queens, next to her second husband, Michael Michalovic.[1][5] The cemetery’s Block 67 is reserved for who worked in New York City’s Yiddish theater industry.[4] Lerer was buried just rows from Boris Thomashefsky, who discovered Lerer at the age of 5 in Argentina.[4] She had no immediate survivors.[2]
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A convict in Springfield, Mass., who escaped from prison and allegedly went on a shooting rampage Saturday, killing one and wounding two police officers, apparently escaped to avenge the recent shooting of his mother, MyFoxBoston.com reported.
Tamik Kirkland, who is accused of taking part in at least three shootings, escaped the MCI Shirley, a minimum-security state prison about 50 miles from Boston, by stuffing a dummy in his bed during the head count on Monday.
Kirkland, who stood eligible for parole next February. Police are investigating how the victims in the shooting Saturday may be connected to the shooting of Kirkland’s mother.
Kirkland, described as a gang member, served jail time in 2003 on charges of intent to distribute cocaine and carrying firearms.
Some lawmakers criticized how Kirkland was in a minimal security prison.
“That’s absolutely ludicrous,” Assistant House Minority Whip Elizabeth A. Poirier (R-North Attleboro) said, according to the Boston Herald. “He should be in a more maximum, secure situation. He shouldn’t be under minimum sec- urity. Why do we do this?’’
Two plainclothes police officers responded to a duplex where a running car had been backed into the driveway. They called for more officers and a nearby state trooper arrived.
As police approached, a man dived into the trunk of the car. Police blocked the car and took the driver, an unidentified woman, into custody. When they opened the trunk, Kirkland popped out and opened fire on the officers, police said.
The state trooper and one of the local officers were each shot once in the chest before they returned fire, police said. Kirkland was shot several times and is in serious condition at Baystate Medical Center, police say.
The officers were wearing bullet-proof vests and were not seriously injured.
Police said the shootings occurred so quickly they did not realize until later that a 6-month-old girl was in the back seat of the car. She was not harmed.
State Police said Kirkland had forced his way into the woman’s home as he fled the barbershop. He was serving 2 1/2 to 4 years and was being held in the lowest-security section of the medium-security prison.
He was charged Saturday night with murder, armed assault with intent to murder, armed home invasion, assault with a dangerous weapon and illegal possession of a firearm.
State police identified the man fatally shot as 24-year-old Sheldon R. Innocent of Wilbraham.
The other victim, a 48-year-old barber whose name was not released, was in critical condition.
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President Obama statements with who he is and what he stands for has become quite clear through his actions. Through all the issues which he had no control, he has managed to gradually start to shape things up in the United States. The President continues to strategically picked his times to make a point so that all can see…
Donald Trump made a political blunder when he challenged the President citizenship. The only problem with Trumps display of confidence to look like a hero, instead became a issue when he looks like a fool, when the President produced his birth certificate!
Now the President was able to do something that the Bush Administration could not do… Kill Osama Bin Laden.
Obama is not a man that rants and raves about what he is going to do, but a man that lays out his plan and puts it into action. At one point the conservative believe that President Obama was a fool. Although as we look at the big picture everything is starting to happen exactly as he spoke it into existence.
With all the na sayers that still exist I am seeing that they can hear him now.Would it be safe to say that he may have secured another 4 years in the white house?
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Did you know that Identity theft is a term used to refers to fraud?
Did you know that identity theft involves someone pretending to be someone else in order to steal money or get other benefits?
Did you know that FTC estimates that as many as 9 million Americans have their identities stolen each year?
Did you know that identity theft is a little different from identity fraud, as identity fraud is the result of identity theft?
Did you know these types of Identity Theft?
Did you know these 14 tips to avoid identity theft?
1. Guard your Social Security number. It is the key to your credit report and banking accounts and is the prime target of criminals.
2. Monitor your credit report. It contains your SSN, present and prior employers, a listing of all account numbers, including those that have been closed, and your overall credit score. After applying for a loan, credit card, rental or anything else that requires a credit report, request that your SSN on the application be truncated or completely obliterated and your original credit report be shredded before your eyes or returned to you once a decision has been made. A lender or rental manager needs to retain only your name and credit score to justify a decision.
3. Shred all old bank and credit statements and “junk mail” credit card offers before trashing them. Use a crosscut shredder. Crosscut shredders cost more than regular shredders but are superior.
4. Remove your name from the marketing lists of the three credit reporting bureaus to reduce the number of pre-approved credit offers you receive.
5. Add your name to the name-deletion lists of the Direct Marketing Association’s Mail Preference Service and Telephone Preference Service used by banks and other marketers.
6. Do not carry extra credit cards or other important identity documents except when needed.
7. Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine. Copy both sides of your license and credit cards so you have all the account numbers, expiration dates and phone numbers if your wallet or purse is stolen.
8. Do not mail bill payments and checks from home. They can be stolen from your mailbox and washed clean in chemicals. Take them to the post office.
9. Do not print your Social Security number on your checks.
10. Order your Social Security Earnings and Benefits statement once a year to check for fraud.
11. Examine the charges on your credit card statements before paying them.
12. Cancel unused credit card accounts.
13. Never give your credit card number or personal information over the phone unless you have initiated the call and trust that business.
14. Subscribe to a credit report monitoring service that will notify you whenever someone applies for credit in your name.
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Did you know that the only four 8th seeded teams have managed to win a series versus the number 1 seeded team?
Did you know that the Denver 
Nuggets eliminated the Seattle SuperSonics 3–2 in 1994, Denver becoming the first 8 seed to beat a 1 seed?
Did you know that the New York Knicks eliminated the Miami Heat 3–2 in 1999 it was the second team to do so?
Did you know that the 1999 Knicks are the only 8th seeded team ever to reach the NBA Finals.
Did you know that the Golden Warrior defeated the Dallas Mavericks 4–2 in the 2007 Western Conference First Round?
Did you know that the 8th seed Memphis Grizzlies stunned the number 1 seed San Antonio Spurs 4-2?
Did you know that in 1994–95 Houston Rockets, a sixth seed, were the lowest seeded team to win the NBA Finals?
Did you know that in the 1994-95 NBA Finals, the Rockets swept the
Orlando Magic (57–25) in four games?
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Did you know that Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC, TYO: 8648) is an American global financial services company, the largest bank holding company in the United States, by assets, and the second largest bank by market capitalization?
Did you know that Bank of America serves clients in more than 150 countries and has a relationship with 99% of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies and 83% of the Fortune Global 500?
Did you know that as of 2010, Bank of America is the 5th largest company in the United States by total revenue,[10] as well as the second largest non-oil company in the U.S. (after Wal-Mart)?
Did you know that in 2010, Forbes listed Bank of America as the 3rd “best” large company in the world?
Did you know that Bank of America 2008 acquisition of Merrill Lynch made Bank of America the world’s largest wealth manager and a major player in the investment banking industry?
Did you know that Bank of America holds 12.2% of all U.S. deposits, as of August 2009,[13] and is one of the Big Four banks of the United States, along with Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo—its main competitors?
Did you know that the Bank of America was founded 1904 by Amadeo Giannini?
Did you know that Bank of America was originally called the Bank of Italy in San Francisco to cater to immigrants who were denied service from other banks?
Did you know that in 1922, Giannini established Bank of America and Italy in Italy by buying Banca dell’Italia Meridionale, itself only established in 1918?
Did you know that on March 7, 1927, Giannini consolidated his Bank of Italy (101 branches) with the newly formed Liberty Bank of America (175 branches)?
Did you know that in 1928, A. P. Giannini merged with Bank of America, Los Angeles and consolidated it with his other bank holdings to create what would become the largest banking institution in the country?
Did you know that Bank of Italy was renamed on November 3, 1930, calling it Bank of America?
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