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For 2015 to 2019 she was Deputy Polish Ombudsman (serving Polish Ombudsman at the time was Adam Bodnar).
She was a Spring (part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group) Member of the European Parliament (MEP) elected in the 2019 European parliamentary election.
She left Spring on 28 October 2019 and is independent member of S&D.
Sylwia Spurek was born on 29 January 1976 in Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland.
She graduated University of Lodz Faculty of Law and Administration (2000).
She specializes in criminal, administrative, international and constitutional law.
In 2000, she was a scholarship holder of the Legal Fellowship Program, a participant of International Women’s Human Rights Clinic classes at the City University of New York.
In 2004 she completed a legislative application.
In 2012, she defended her doctoral dissertation on the legal aspects of preventing domestic violence, with a focus on isolating the perpetrator from the victim (supervisor: Eleonora Zielińska, judge of polish State Tribunal).
Since 1999, she has been involved in activities for human rights.
After graduation worked as Attorney-at-Law.
She was a lecturer at Gender Studies at the University of Warsaw and the Polish Academy of Sciences at postgraduate studies in Gender Mainstreaming.
She also lectured on legal subjects at Lazarski University and SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities.
From 2002 to 2005 at the Secretariat of the Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Status of Women and Men, where she dealt with, among others government bill on counteracting domestic violence.
In the years 2008–2015 she was a member of the Team for the European Court of Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In the years 2010–2012 she was a representative of the Chief of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland on the Rights Protection Committee.
Until 2014, she was an adviser to the Prime Minister in the Legal Department of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.
Then, until June 2015, she was deputy head of the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment and was responsible, among others, for coordinating government work on the ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.
On September 22, 2015, she became the deputy of the Polish Ombudsman for equal treatment.
She resigned from this function on February 28, 2019, after which she became involved in politics.
In March 2019, together with partner Marcin Anaszewicz, she published the book "Związek partnerski, rozmowy o Polsce" ("Domestic Partnerships, Talks about Poland", 2019), and all the profit from the sale of the book is transferred to the foundation International Movement for Animals Viva!.
At the beginning of March 2019, she became involved in the political project of Robert Biedroń - the Spring party.
Spurek was elected in the 2019 European parliamentary election from Greater Poland - Poznan constituency as a member of the European Parliament.
She belongs to the group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D).
Once elected to the European Parliament, she has since been serving on the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
Member of the Delegation for relations with Canada.
She left Spring on 28 October 2019.
She indicated as a reason for leaving party that the group has changed its statute.
Currently Spurek is independent member of S&D.
She was also believed as the 2020 The Left (a left-wing to centre-left political alliance in Poland) candidate for President of Poland, but she did not refer to this.
Hilger, Texas
Hilger is an unincorporated community in Fannin County, Texas, United States.
Hay-a-Park Gravel Pit
Hay-a-Park Gravel Pit is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, or SSSI, adjacent to the east side of the town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England.
Having been a disused and flooded quarry since the 1970s, it now consists of the large Hay-a-Park Lake and three smaller ponds, besides associated reedbeds, scrub, woodland and grassland.
It was designated as a SSSI in 1995 because it supports a number of wintering birds, including a large flock of goosander.
This site is "one of the most northerly inland breeding populations of reed warbler in Britain."
Hay-a-Park was once part of a royal park, an early landowner being Edward II.
The area once belonged to the Crown; then Edward II gave it to his favourite, Piers Gaveston.
After Gaveston was executed, it passed back to the Crown, but was subject to poaching for some time.
In the 14th century the area was known as "Park de la Haye" where Edward III bred horses.
Edward's fifteen-year-old wife Philippa of Hainault was given this land on the occasion of her marriage; she was later the mother of the Black Prince (whose statue stands in Leeds City Square) and John of Gaunt.
Another story says that in the 11th or 12th century Henry I conferred the lands to Gamel de Scriven, and they remained in the family under various names including Edward II until the last heir, Sir Charles Slingsby, died falling from his horse into the river in 1869, leaving no issue.
The area later became known as "Haya Park".
By the seventeenth century the land was at least partly wooded, and managed for timber.
By the end of that century it was owned by Lady Hewley, who used its rents to support the Church and charities.
When its farmland was valued in 1755 by Robert Moody of York, the land was considered potentially good for cultivation, but contemporary farmers were "poor idle drunken ignorant fellows" who spent Sundays in the alehouse; so that the land was "miserably run and full of weeds," with no prospect of land improvement.
In the 19th century the leasehold of Haya Park was purchased for the purpose of rectorial tithes by York Minster; it was still a royal park, where deer were protected.
Part of Hay-a-Park later became a gravel works, and the site occupies a section which has been "largely undisturbed since the completion of extraction in the early 1970s."
Hay-a-Park Gravel Pit is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), consisting of "standing open water and canals."
This reserve has no parking area, no visitor facilities, and no official public footpaths.
Fishing and swimming are not permitted, and dog-walking is discouraged due to disturbance of water birds.
The site is adjacent to the eastern edge of Knaresborough, accessible by public footpath from two unlabelled entrances on Park Lane, one located near the railway bridge, and the other next to Knaresborough Rugby Club.
The site was first notified on 15 June 1995, being "of interest for its breeding birds and wintering wildfowl."
It is one of about eight SSSIs in the Harrogate region, others being Ripon Parks, Farnham Mires, Hack Fall Wood, Cow Myers, Mar Field Fen, Quarry Moor, and Bishop Monkton Ings.
As described by Natural England in 1995, the site contains the 24-hectare Hay-a-Park Lake at the north end of the site, "three small ponds" at the south end, and "associated areas of reedbed, scrub, mature hedgerow and grassland," however as of 2019 much of the scrub had become woodland.
Of "national importance" are the goosander which winter here, numbering up to 315 birds as counted in 1995.
Of "local importance" are wigeon, greylag, coot and mallard.
In spring, oystercatcher, wigeon and various geese graze on the adjacent field.
Tufted duck, mallard and great crested grebe breed on or near Hay-a-Park Lake, as do common sandpiper and ringed plover.
Grasshopper warbler and sedge warbler breed on the small ponds.
The reed warbler breeds here too, being "one of the most northerly inland breeding populations of reed warbler in Britain."
The fly "Raphium laticorne" has been found in "nine lowland localities" in Yorkshire including at Hay-a-Park, and "Campsicnemus marginatus" has also been found here.
Although the former quarry pit Hay-a-Park Lake may be deep, Natural England recommends that the presence of any shallow water areas be maintained.
This is for the benefit of wintering waders and feeding ducks and geese.
Shallow waters allow aquatic plants to receive light, thereby allowing breeding conditions for dragonflies and damselflies.
"Protection of appropriate water quality" is required, as is regulation of potential incoming water and sediment.
"Bottom feeding coarse fish" must be removed, because they may "uproot plants and disturb sediments."
"Appropriate nesting and feeding conditions are maintained" with regard to open land, scrub and reeded areas.
"Recreational activities should be managed sympathetically to avoid conflict with the management of the waterbody for nature conservation," and "recreational use of woodland should be discouraged" should the site contain a heronry.
A 2012 assessment of the site was "unfavourable, declining."
Notices have been erected at two entrance points of the site, to remind the public that there has been a continuing concern about "illegal fishing" here.
There are also issues of freshwater fish-stocking, public access and disturbance.
A woman was photographed swimming recreationally in the lake in winter 2019, putting greylags to flight.
Some visitors to Hay-a-Park have been carrying out three categories of "operations likely to damage the special interest," namely articles 16a, 27 and 28 of Natural England's views about management of the SSSI.
Nevertheless, the published audit for the Knaresborough Development Plan of 2016 described the site as being available for recreational use, and designated it as an "important community area" (ICA).
Predrag Kovačević
Predrag Kovačević, known by his nickname Kova, is a Bosnian guitarist.
He first found mainstream success as a 1980s lineup member of a Bosnian garage rock band Zabranjeno Pušenje.
Kovačević joined a Sarajevo-based rock band Zabranjeno Pušenje in 1986, after their lead guitarist Mustafa Čengić left.
As a lead guitarist, he performed on their two studio albums: "Pozdrav iz zemlje Safari" (1987) and "Male priče o velikoj ljubavi" (1989).
In early 1990, he left the band with some other members.
In 2018 and 2019, Kovačević had some guest appearances at live concerts of Nele Karajlić, former lead vocalist of Zabranjeno Pušenje.
Kovačević has been living in Edmonton, AB since the 1990s.
Zabranjeno pušenje
2019 LCK season
The 2019 LCK season is the 9th season of the "League of Legends" and 8th season of the League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK).
Olesya
Olesya may refer to:
2008 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns softball team
The 2008 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns softball team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the 2008 NCAA Division I softball season.
The Ragin' Cajuns played their home games at Lamson Park.
The Cajuns were led by husband and wife duo Stefni and Michael Lotief.
Another Chance (Tammy Wynette song)
"Another Chance" is a song written by Robert Dawdry, Dennis Knutson and Jerry Taylor.
It was originally recorded by American country artist Tammy Wynette.
It was released as a single in March 1982 and became a top ten hit on the "Billboard" country songs chart.
"Another Chance" was recorded at Woodland Studios, located in Nashville, Tennessee.
The recording session was produced by George Richey, Wynette's husband and musical collaborator.
It was the first recording session of Wynette's to be produced by Richey.