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  Speaker (politics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In most cases the speaker is elected from among the members of the assembly by the members, and whips are not allowed to be among the selection.
Often the speaker performs his duties in a non-partisan manner, but in the United States, the Speaker is the most powerful position in the United States House of Representatives and participates in legislating.
Speaker of the Riksdag (Speaker of the Swedish parliament)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Speaker_(politics)   (480 words)

  
 Speaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A speaker can be anyone who speaks, especially when giving a speech, or lecture, especially a skilled orator (see also public speaking).
In linguistics, a speaker is who utters a message, and is typically the center of deixis in the message; (s)he refers to himself or herself with the first-person pronoun.
Also in linguistics, a speaker is a user of a spoken language, as opposed to a signer, a user of a sign language; or anyone who masters and uses a language, while only a native speaker has it as his or her mother tongue.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Speaker   (231 words)

  
 Maine House Speaker
John Richardson was sworn in as Speaker of the House of the Maine House of Representatives on December 1, 2004.
Speaker Richardson is serving his fourth term as the state representative from District 63, representing part of Brunswick.
Speaker Richardson is the 97th speaker of the Maine House of Representatives.
speaker.maine.gov /about.htm   (299 words)

  
 Speaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A speaker is a device which takes an electrical signal (which was at one time a sound wave), and converts it back into a sound wave.
In the speaker, electrical signals in the form of an AC current are sent through a loop which is immersed in a magnetic field.
Because the current is alternating, the speaker membrane is alternatively pushed to the left and then to the right in the figure.
theory.uwinnipeg.ca /mod_tech/node96.html   (164 words)

  
 speaker | Houses of Parliament
The Speaker, currently Rt Hon Michael Martin, MP for Glasgow, North East, is in fact the chief officer of the House of Commons.
It has become a generally accepted principle that, once the Speaker has been elected in one Parliament, he or she is re-elected in subsequent Parliaments and thus remains in office until he or she chooses to retire.
Speakers are elected at the beginning of each new Parliament (ie after every General Election), or when the previous Speaker dies or retires.
www.parliament.uk /works/speaker.cfm   (764 words)

  
 speaker_english   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Speaker's duty to the House is highlighted in the procedures (revised in 1989 and first used in 1990) for electing the Speaker in Ontario, where it is the Members themselves who nominate and, by secret ballot, elect one of their number to the position.
As the Members' chosen representative and the embodiment of the Assembly's authority and prestige, the Speaker conducts him or herself with absolute impartiality in the Chair, and considers it to be his or her duty to make decisions that are in the best interests of all Members, and that elevate the House as a whole.
For similar reasons, the Speaker does not vote, except in the case of a tie (this is referred to as the Speaker's "casting vote").
www.ontla.on.ca /side_bar/about_the_assembly/Out/speaker.htm   (1082 words)

  
 Tris Speaker | BaseballLibrary.com
Speaker and Ty Cobb were alleged to have participated, and AL president Ban Johnson secured their "resignations" as managers to protect baseball's image.
Although Speaker played only seven full seasons with Boston, he is second on the club all-time in both triples (106) and stolen bases (266), and is third behind Wade Boggs and Ted Williams in batting (.337).
Speaker is also the all-time ML leader in outfield assists (448) and double plays (139), as well as the AL leader in outfield putouts (6,706).
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/S/Speaker_Tris.stm   (3603 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Speaker
The Speaker presides over the House of Commons and is responsible for keeping order during debates and ensuring that the rules of the House are obeyed.
The Speaker lives in the Speaker's House in the Palace of Westminster and presides over the House dressed in a ceremonial fl robe.
The Speaker also represents, or speaks for, the House of Commons in its dealings with the monarch and has the responsibility of maintaining the dignity and privileges of the Commons.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/a-z_of_parliament/r-s/82065.stm   (244 words)

  
 Hosting a Speaker
Unless the speaker is already well-known, the abstract is the primary evidence that potential audience members have available as they decide whether to disrupt their calendars to attend the talk.
It's difficult to criticize or correct a speaker's abstract, of course, given that you and the speaker are supposed to be ritually honoring one another.
Speakers arriving at the airport are usually exhausted and dehydrated, so ask if they want to go to their hotel first, whether they want to make phone calls or stop by a store, or whatever.
polaris.gseis.ucla.edu /pagre/hosting.html   (5235 words)

  
 Can't Hear Modem Speaker
This setting turns the speaker on when the modem goes off-hook, and remains on while the modem handshakes with the remote modem.
SPEAKER VOLUME: Some modem include a "Loudness" command which can be used to set the volume for the modem speaker when it is on.
In this case, the "modem speaker" is controlled via your sound card - you must have volume up on your connected PC speakers, and the appropriate soundcard mixer channels must be on.
www.modemsite.com /56k/speaker.asp   (677 words)

  
 CanadaInfo: Government: Federal: Parliament: House of Commons: Speaker
The Speaker is also the Chairman of the Board of Internal Economy which is responsible for the administration of the 1500 House of Commons employees and its annual budget which exceeds $200 million.
Moreover, the Speaker is the representative of the House of Commons in its relations with the Crown, the Senate, and authorities outside Parliament.
Milliken was appointed Deputy Speaker of the House and Chairman of the Committees of the Whole House.
www.craigmarlatt.com /canada/government/house_speaker.html   (562 words)

  
 Speaker of the House
Speaker, one of our greatest Presidents, Ronald Reagan, was fond of saying that, ‘Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.’ President Reagan’s wise words are still true today.
Speaker, like this War itself, is about freedom.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) today made the following statement after President Bush addressed the nation to mark the one year anniversary of the transfer of Iraqi sovereignty to the Iraqi people...
speaker.house.gov   (941 words)

  
 Texas House of Representatives
Tom Craddick's rise to the Speaker's seat parallels the growth of the Republican Party in Texas.
Although his first session as speaker was marked by an unprecedented $10 billion budget deficit, Craddick helped the state overcome the budget shortfall while producing model ethics, insurance, tort and transportation reforms.
In 1975, Speaker Bill Clayton appointed Craddick as the first Republican committee chairman in 100 years, and he continued to hold chairmanships under Clayton's successors, Gib Lewis and Pete Laney.
www.house.state.tx.us /speaker/bio.htm   (539 words)

  
 Parliament of Australia: House of Representatives - Members
Mr Hawker was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives on 16 November 2004.
The Speaker is the principal office holder in the House of Representatives.
In addition to basic work as a Member, the Speaker presides at meetings of the House, represents the Chamber in dealings with Government and with other authorities, and in conjunction with the President of the Senate, oversees the Parliament's administration.
www.aph.gov.au /house/members/speaker.htm   (205 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/speakerspeaker
Speaker Speaker is trio from Seattle that plays fast, loud, hooky, petulant power pop.
It is a perfect distillation of Speaker Speaker's strengths: crackling performance skills and deliriously catchy songwriting.
speaker speaker is good at being awesome, hence and so forth and so on, this means that compensates for their so called lack of dancing skills.
www.myspace.com /speakerspeaker   (854 words)

  
 Lawyers with a Life - build a better future for yourself: Looking for a speaker?
Simon also has access to a network of some of the world's leading speakers with relevant industry expertise, all of whom are guaranteed to have lasting impact.
Engage your speaker to give a "thank-you" presentation to your referrers and clients for their business.
With your speaker's written permission, audio or video record the session so it can be played over again and again.
www.lawyerswithalife.com /speaker.html   (243 words)

  
 Speaker
The Bureau acts as a central clearing house for organizing a listing of speakers, topics and audio visual material helpful for assisting individual coin club program chairpersons in their efforts to secure outstanding educational program on a monthly meeting basis.
When it is published, send the speaker a copy of your club bulletin that announces their program.
It is a kind gesture to reimburse the speaker for travel costs, gas, etc. A suggestion is $5.00 for short distance and $10.00 for long distance.
www.nasc.net /speakers_list.htm   (1012 words)

  
 NIST - Speaker Recognition Evaluations
The official 1999 speaker recognition evaluation was conducted in early spring.
A high level overview of the 1999 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation as was presented at Eurospeech in 1999.
A high level overview of the 1998 and 1997 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluations as was presented at the RLA2C conference in Avignon, France, in April of 1998.
www.nist.gov /speech/tests/spk/index.htm   (939 words)

  
 Informed Comment
The voting patterns for the two deputy speakers are analyzed by Al-Zaman in Arabic.
Although the parliament members were supposed to vote for three slots, a Sunni Arab, a Shiite and a Kurd, for speaker and 2 deputy speakers, it appears that many deputies just voted for two candidates, the Sunni and the Shiite, not bothering about the Kurd.
Since the whole point of giving the Sunnis symbolic posts like speaker of the house was to mollify them and draw them into the new government, I'd say it was counter-productive to drive the Sunnis to popular protest about the process.
www.juancole.com /2005/04/speaker-of-parliament-elected-amid.html   (1864 words)

  
 Tris Speaker | National Baseball Hall of Fame
Despite spending most of his career in Ty Cobb's considerable shadow, Tris Speaker's.345 lifetime batting average and revolutionary defensive play made him one of Cobb's few rivals as the greatest player of the 1910s.
Speaker's specialty was hitting doubles - he led the league eight times and still holds the career mark with 793.
View the Hall of Fame ballot from the year Tris Speaker was inducted.
www.baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/Speaker_Tris.htm   (240 words)

  
 Financial Speaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As a financial speaker and educator committed to raising the technical and businesses competency of financial advisors, he has created the Advanced IRA Rollover and Distribution Training the Certified Retirement Financial Advisor Training and the Ultimate Marketing Bootcamp for Financial Advisors.
Larry’s distinguishing mark as your keynote financial speaker is that while he is entertaining, he provides your audience with tactical tools that make a difference on Monday morning.
While most speakers talk about "what to do", Larry tells your advisors "how to do it." Your producers won't just be talking about Larry's presentation for a week after his talk—they'll be implementing his distinctions for years in their business.
www.financial-speaker.com   (696 words)

  
 Speaker Workshop Project - Equipment
This is really not much more than a resistor in series - but by adding a bunch of switchable options, all possible Speaker Workshop impedance test and calibration capabilities can be done over and over without building anything further.
The switch labeled Ref is a three way toggle which is either shorting, or open, or uses one of the two reference resistors across the Z? spots.
I've measured those two resistors extremely accurately and they are used to calibrate the jig with Speaker Workshop.
www.speakerworkshop.com /SW/Project/Equipment.htm   (238 words)

  
 Howstuffworks "How Speakers Work"
The best recording, encoded on the most advanced storage device and played by a top-of-the-line deck and amplifier, will sound awful if the system is hooked up to poor speakers.
A system's speaker is the component that takes the electronic signal stored on things like CDs, tapes and DVDs and turns it back into actual sound that we can hear.
Speakers are amazing pieces of technology that have had a profound impact on our culture.
www.howstuffworks.com /speaker.htm   (146 words)

  
 Speaker Art
Over the years Speaker Art has built many highly regarded loudspeakers.
Speaker Art has always approached speaker design as both an art and a science, purposely avoiding the dogmatic approach from which the industry suffers.
We have no product cycles; we release new models when the results of our research excite the jaded ears of our friends and ourselves.
www.speakerart.com   (317 words)

  
 Office of Senator John Cornyn :: Name That Speaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Monday's "unprecedented" version of Name That Speaker comes as the nomination of Justice Priscilla Owen has now been obstructed for 210 weeks.
Your hint: This speaker "grew up across from the Statehouse." Remember, the rules are simple: Read the following quote and try to identify who said it.
The speaker above believes that using the filibuster to "indefinitely postpone" a judicial nominee would be a "mark of shame" on the Senate?
www.cornyn.senate.gov /namethatspeaker   (223 words)

  
 The Speaker Shop - stereo music and home theater systems architecturally integrated media systems for home and office ...
Speaker Shop understands that high performance home theater should achieve one goal - your total enjoyment of music, movies, and media.
Speaker Shop audio systems will provide you with years of musical enjoyment.
Speaker Shop service is much more than repairs only.
www.speakershop.com   (734 words)

  
 NIST Speaker Recognition - Eval 2001
They are intended to be of interest to all researchers working on the general problem of text independent speaker recognition.
To this end the evaluation was designed to be simple, to focus on core technology issues, to be fully supported, and to be accessible.
NIST Speaker Recognition web-site comments and corrections should be E-mailed to Mark Przybocki
www.nist.gov /speech/tests/spk/2001/index.htm   (112 words)

  
 Bose Lifestyle RoomMate Powered Speaker System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Lifestyle® RoomMate® powered speaker system is an ideal choice to extend the benefits of your Lifestyle® system to the den, kitchen or wherever you love to listen.
The RoomMate speaker system is also compatible with the Bose® link AL8 homewide wireless audio link.
The RoomMate speaker system takes up minimal space, is easy to get along with and gives you complete control around the house.
www.bose.com /controller?event=VIEW_PRODUCT_PAGE_EVENT&product=roommate_speaker_system_index_single&ck=0   (278 words)

  
 GNU and Free Software Speakers - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
We often get requests for speakers who can represent the GNU Project and/or the Free Software Movement at a conference, event or panel discussion.
Speakers are listed in alphabetical order by last name.
If you are not an experienced public speaker already, Toastmasters International is useful for practicing and learning about speaking.
www.gnu.org /people/speakers.html   (1401 words)

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