query: International Relations only includes the entertainment industry.

pos: International relations International relations ( IR ) or international affairs , depending on academic institution , is either a field of political science , an interdisciplinary academic field similar to global studies , or an entirely independent academic discipline in which students take a variety of internationally focused courses in social science and humanities disciplines . In both cases , the field studies relationships between political entities ( polities ) such as states , sovereign states , empires , inter-governmental organizations ( IGOs ) , international non-governmental organizations ( INs ) , non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) , and multinational corporations ( MNCs ) , and the wider world-systems produced by this interaction . International relations is an academic and a public policy field , and so can be positive and normative , because it analyzes and formulates the foreign policy of a given State .   As political activity , international relations dates from the time of the Greek historian Thucydides ( c. 460 -- 395 BC ) , and , in the early 20th century , became a discrete academic field ( No. 5901 in the 4-digit UNESCO Nomenclature ) within political science . In practice International Relations and International Affairs forms a separate academic program or field from Political Science , and the courses taught therein are highly interdisciplinary .   For example , international relations draws from the fields of : technology and engineering , economics , communication studies , history , international law , demography , philosophy , geography , social work , sociology , anthropology , criminology , psychology , gender studies , cultural studies , culturology , and diplomacy . The scope of international relations comprehends globalization , diplomatic relations , state sovereignty , international security , ecological sustainability , nuclear proliferation , nationalism , economic development , global finance , as well as terrorism and organized crime , human security , foreign interventionism , and human rights , as well , as , more recently , comparative religion .

neg: Cinema of India The cinema of India consists of films produced across India . Cinema as a medium has gained immense popularity in the country and as many as 1,600 films in various languages of India are produced annually . Indian films have also come to be followed throughout South Asia , the Greater Middle East , Southeast Asia and other countries . Dadasaheb Phalke is known as the `` father of Indian cinema '' . The Dadasaheb Phalke Award , for lifetime contribution to cinema , was instituted in his honour , by the Government of India in 1969 , and is the most prestigious and coveted award in Indian cinema .   In the 20th century , Indian cinema , along with the Hollywood and Chinese film industries , became a global enterprise . As of 2013 , in terms of annual film output , India ranks first , followed by Nollywood , Hollywood and China . In 2012 , India produced 1,602 feature films . The Indian film industry reached overall revenues of $ 1.86 billion ( 93 billion ) in 2011 . This is projected to rise to $ 3 billion ( 200 billion ) in 2016 . In 2015 , India had a total box office gross of , the fourth largest in the world outside North America . Enhanced technology paved the way for upgrading from established cinematic norms of delivering product , altering the manner in which content reached the target audience . Biopics like Dangal and CGI-laden epics like Baahubali emerged as transnational blockbusters grossing over $ 200 million each in early 21st century . Indian cinema found markets in over 90 countries where films from India are screened . The Indian government extended film delegations to foreign countries such as the United States of America and Japan while the country 's Film Producers Guild sent similar missions through Europe .   The provision of 100 % foreign direct investment has made the Indian film market attractive for foreign enterprises such as 20th Century Fox , Sony Pictures , Walt Disney Pictures and Warner Bros. . Indian enterprises such as AVM Productions , Prasad 's Group , Sun Pictures , PVP Cinemas , Zee , UTV , Suresh Productions , Eros Films , Ayngaran International , Pyramid Saimira , Aascar Films and Adlabs also participated in producing and distributing films . Tax incentives to multiplexes have aided the multiplex boom in India . By 2003 as many as 30 film production companies had been listed in the National Stock Exchange of India , making the commercial presence of the medium felt .   The South Indian film industry defines the four film cultures of South India as a single entity . They are the Telugu , the Tamil , the Malayalam and the Kannada industries . Although developed independently over a long period , gross exchange of film performers and technicians as well as globalisation helped to shape this new identity .   The Indian diaspora consists of millions of Indians overseas for which films are made available both through media such as DVDs and by screening of films in their country of residence wherever commercially feasible . These earnings , accounting for some 12 % of the revenue generated by a mainstream film , contribute substantially to the overall revenue of Indian cinema , the net worth of which was found to be 1.3 billion in 2000 . Music in Indian cinema is another substantial revenue generator with the music rights alone accounting for 4 -- 5 % of the net revenues generated by a film in India .

neg: Showbiz Extra Showbiz Korea is a daily television entertainment news show that covers the South Korean entertainment industry broadcast in South Korea and throughout Asia on Arirang TV , which premiered on April 10 , 2002 . The show is produced in Korea , but broadcast in the English language . It 's also available on Viki with subtitles in multiple languages .   The show features segments that include `` Showbiz Today '' about the latest issues facing the Korean entertainment industry ; `` K-Chitchat '' that features a panel of experts discussing the latest Korean entertainment issues ; `` Stars ' Big Match '' that highlights stars gaining worldwide fame ; `` Fashion 101 '' that explores fashion and beauty trends of Korean celebrities ' `` Issue Makers '' that spotlights stars in the news this week ; `` Film Digest '' that features the latest movie releases ; and `` On Scene '' that takes you on filming sets , press conferences and showcases .

neg: Industrial musical An industrial musical is a musical performed internally for the employees or shareholders of a business , to create a feeling of being part of a team , to entertain , and/or to educate and motivate the management and salespeople to improve sales and profit . It can be used to increase staff awareness of public relations , advertising , marketing or corporate image .   Other terms for industrial musicals include the corporate musical or industrial show , but the latter can also refer to trade shows , which are publicity events organized by businesses in a specific industry to promote their products to potential buyers .   Industrial musicals are not restricted to corporations or to businesses involved in industry . They should not be confused with industrial music , or with musicals produced by businesses to be seen by the general public , for example , Disney 's stage production of The Lion King .

neg: General Entertainment was a Japanese film production company and video game developer . The company filed for bankruptcy in August 12 , 2011 .

neg: Major film studio A major film studio is a production and film distributor that releases a substantial number of films annually and consistently commands a significant share of box office revenue in a given market . In the North American , Western , and global markets , the major film studios , often simply known as the majors , are commonly regarded as the six diversified media conglomerates whose various film production and distribution subsidiaries collectively command approximately 80 to 85 percent of U.S. and Canadian box office revenue . The term may also be applied more specifically to the primary motion picture business subsidiary of each respective conglomerate .   The `` Big Six '' majors , whose operations are based in or around the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood , are all centered in film studios active during Hollywood 's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s . In three cases -- 20th Century Fox , Warner Bros. , and Paramount -- the studios were one of the `` Big Five '' majors during that era as well . In two cases -- Columbia and Universal -- the studios were also considered majors , but in the next tier down , part of the `` Little Three '' . In the sixth case , Walt Disney Studios was an independent production company during the Golden Age ; it was an important Hollywood entity , but not a major . Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , United Artists , and RKO were majors .   Today , Disney is the only member of the Big Six whose parent entity is still located near Los Angeles ( actually , on Disney 's studio lot and in the same building ) . The five others report to conglomerates headquartered in New York City , Philadelphia , and Tokyo . Of the Big Six , Paramount is the only one still based in Hollywood , and Paramount and Fox are the only ones still located within the Los Angeles city limits , while Disney and Warner Bros. are located in Burbank , Columbia in Culver City , and Universal in the unincorporated area of Universal City .   Most of today 's Big Six control subsidiaries with their own distribution networks that concentrate on arthouse pictures ( e.g. Fox Searchlight Pictures ) or genre films ( e.g. Sony 's Screen Gems ) ; several of these specialty units were shut down or sold off between 2008 and 2010 . The six major studios are contrasted with smaller production and/or distribution companies , which are known as independents or `` indies '' . The leading independent producer/distributors -- Lionsgate Films , The Weinstein Company , and former major studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer -- are sometimes referred to as `` mini-majors '' . From 1998 through 2005 , DreamWorks SKG commanded a large enough market share to arguably qualify it as a seventh major , despite its relatively small output . In 2006 , DreamWorks was acquired by Viacom , Paramount 's corporate parent . In late 2008 , DreamWorks once again became an independent production company ; its films were distributed by Disney 's Touchstone Pictures until 2016 , at which point distribution switched to Universal .   The Big Six major studios are today primarily backers and distributors of films whose actual production is largely handled by independent companies -- either long-running entities or ones created for and dedicated to the making of a specific film . The specialty divisions often simply acquire distribution rights to pictures in which the studio has had no prior involvement . While the majors still do a modicum of true production , their activities are focused more in the areas of development , financing , marketing , and merchandising . Those business functions are still usually performed in or near Los Angeles , even though the runaway production phenomenon means that most films are now mostly or completely shot on location at places outside Los Angeles .   Since the dawn of filmmaking , the U.S. major film studios have dominated both American cinema and the global film industry . U.S. studios have benefited from a strong first-mover advantage in that they were the first to industrialize filmmaking and master the art of mass-producing and distributing high-quality films with broad cross-cultural appeal . Today , the Big Six majors routinely distribute hundreds of films every year into all significant international markets ( that is , where discretionary income is high enough for consumers to afford to watch films ) . It is very rare , if not impossible , for a film to reach a broad international audience on multiple continents and in multiple languages without first being picked up by one of the majors for distribution .

neg: New international division of labour In economics , the new international division of labor ( NIDL ) is an outcome of globalization . The term was coined by theorists seeking to explain the spatial shift of manufacturing industries from advanced capitalist countries to developing countries -- an ongoing geographic reorganization of production , which finds its origins in ideas about a global division of labor . It is a spatial division of labor which occurs when the process of production is no longer confined to national economies . Under the `` old '' international division of labor , until around 1970 , underdeveloped areas were incorporated into the world economy principally as suppliers of minerals and agricultural commodities . However , as developing economies are merged into the world economy , more production takes place in these economies .   This has led to a trend of transference , or what is also known as the `` global industrial shift '' , in which production processes are relocated from developed countries ( such as the US , European countries , and Japan ) to developing countries in Asia ( such as China , Vietnam , and India ) and Latin America . This is because companies search for the cheapest locations to manufacture and assemble components , so low-cost labor-intensive parts of the manufacturing process are shifted to the developing world where costs are substantially lower . Companies do so by taking advantage of transportation and communications technology , as well as fragmentation and locational flexibility of production . From 1953 to the late 1990s , the industrialized economies ' share of world manufacturing output declined from 95 % to 77 % , and the developing economies ' share more than quadrupled from 5 % to 23 % .   The resultant division of labor across continents closely follows the North -- South socio-economic and political divide , wherein the North -- with one quarter of the world population -- controls four fifths of the world income , while the South -- with three quarters of the world population -- has access to one fifth of the world income .

neg: Corporate entertainment Corporate entertainment describes private events held by corporations or businesses for their staff , clients or stakeholders .  These events can be for large audiences such as conventions and conferences , or smaller events such as retreats , holiday parties or even private concerts .   It is also commonly used to mean corporate hospitality , the process of entertaining guests at corporate events .   The companies that provides corporate entertainment are called Corporate Event Planners or Corporate Booking Agencies .

neg: B movie A B movie is a low-budget commercial movie , but one that is not an arthouse film . In its original usage , during the Golden Age of Hollywood , the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double feature . Although the U.S. production of movies intended as second features largely ceased by the end of the 1950s , the term B movie continues to be used in the broader sense it maintains today . In its post -- Golden Age usage , there is ambiguity on both sides of the definition : on the one hand , the primary interest of many inexpensive exploitation films is prurient ; on the other , many B movies display a high degree of craft and aesthetic ingenuity .   In either usage , most B movies represent a particular genre -- the Western was a Golden Age B movie staple , while low-budget science-fiction and horror films became more popular in the 1950s . Early B movies were often part of series in which the star repeatedly played the same character . Almost always shorter than the top-billed films they were paired with , many had running times of 70 minutes or less . The term connoted a general perception that B movies were inferior to the more handsomely budgeted headliners ; individual B films were often ignored by critics .   Latter-day B movies still sometimes inspire multiple sequels , but series are less common . As the average running time of top-of-the-line films increased , so did that of B pictures . In its current usage , the term has somewhat contradictory connotations : it may signal an opinion that a certain movie is ( a ) a genre film with minimal artistic ambitions or ( b ) a lively , energetic film uninhibited by the constraints imposed on more expensive projects and unburdened by the conventions of putatively `` serious '' independent film . The term is also now used loosely to refer to some higher-budgeted , mainstream films with exploitation-style content , usually in genres traditionally associated with the B movie .   From their beginnings to the present day , B movies have provided opportunities both for those coming up in the profession and others whose careers are waning . Celebrated filmmakers such as Anthony Mann and Jonathan Demme learned their craft in B movies . They are where actors such as John Wayne and Jack Nicholson first became established , and they have provided work for former A movie actors , such as Vincent Price and Karen Black . Some actors , such as Bela Lugosi , Eddie Constantine and Pam Grier , worked in B movies for most of their careers . The term B actor is sometimes used to refer to a performer who finds work primarily or exclusively in B pictures .

neg: Interpersonal relationship An interpersonal relationship is a strong , deep , or close association or acquaintance between two or more people that may range in duration from brief to enduring . This association may be based on inference , love , solidarity , regular business interactions , or some other type of social commitment . Interpersonal relationships are formed in the context of social , cultural and other influences . The context can and may and perhaps will vary from family or kinship relations , friendship , marriage , relations with associates , work , clubs , neighborhoods , and places of worship . They may be regulated by law , custom , or mutual agreement , and are the basis of social groups and society as a whole .

neg: Art film An art film is typically a serious , independent film aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience . An art film is `` intended to be a serious artistic work , often experimental and not designed for mass appeal '' ; they are `` made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit '' , and they contain `` unconventional or highly symbolic content '' .   Film critics and film studies scholars typically define an art film as possessing `` formal qualities that mark them as different from mainstream Hollywood films '' , which can include , among other elements , a sense of social realism ; an emphasis on the authorial expressiveness of the director ; and a focus on the thoughts , dreams , or motivations of characters , as opposed to the unfolding of a clear , goal-driven story . Film scholar David Bordwell describes art cinema as `` a film genre , with its own distinct conventions '' .   Art film producers usually present their films at specialty theatres ( repertory cinemas , or , in the U.S. , `` arthouse cinemas '' ) and film festivals . The term art film is much more widely used in the United States , the UK and Australia than in Europe , where the term is more associated with `` auteur '' films and `` national cinema '' ( e.g. , German national cinema ) . Because they are aimed at small niche market audiences , they can rarely get the financial backing that will permit large production budgets , expensive special effects , costly celebrity actors , or huge advertising campaigns , as are used in widely released mainstream blockbuster films . Art film directors make up for these constraints by creating a different type of film , which typically uses lesser-known film actors ( or even amateur actors ) and modest sets to make films that focus much more on developing ideas or exploring new narrative techniques or film-making conventions .   A certain degree of experience and knowledge are required to fully understand or appreciate such films . One mid-1990s art film was called `` largely a cerebral experience '' that one enjoys `` because of what you know about film '' . This contrasts sharply with mainstream `` blockbuster '' films , which are geared more towards escapism and pure entertainment . For promotion , art films rely on the publicity generated from film critics ' reviews , discussion of their film by arts columnists , commentators and bloggers , and `` word-of-mouth '' promotion by audience members . Since art films have small initial investment costs , they only need to appeal to a small portion of the mainstream viewing audiences to become financially viable .

neg: International crime International crime may refer to :   Crime against international law  Crime against humanity  Crime against peace  War crime  International criminal law   or it may refer to transnational crime and transnational organized crime . The four biggest areas of transnational crime are :  Drug trafficking  Arms trafficking  Money laundering  Smuggling of cultural artifacts   Trans-national trafficking in human beings receives a great deal of attention by international bodies because of its particularly intimate nature .   It may also refer to :  International Crime ( 1938 film ) , a film directed by Charles Lamont   Category : International criminal law

neg: Only Love Only Love may refer to :   `` Only Love '' ( Nana Mouskouri song ) ( 1986 )  `` Only Love '' ( Wynonna Judd song ) ( 1993 )  `` Only Love '' ( The Braxtons song ) ( 1997 )  `` Only Love '' ( Anggun song ) ( 2011 )  `` Only Love '' ( Ben Howard song ) ( 2012 )  `` Only Love '' ( Shaggy song ) ( 2015 )  `` Only Love '' , Brotherhood of Man song from the album Singing a Song ( 1979 )  `` Only Love '' , a song by Alkaline Trio from the album My Shame Is True ( 2013 )  Only Love , a 1997 novel by Erich Segal  Only Love , a novel by Ann Maxwell writing as Elizabeth Lowell  Only Love ( film ) , 1998 made-for-TV film starring Marisa Tomei

neg: World Economy and International Relations World Economy and International Relations is the flagship journal of the IMEMO Institute in Moscow published from 1957 . It is available at practically all the major research libraries of the world , dealing with Russian and East European affairs .   The open access version of OCLC WorldCat lists as of January 7 , 2009 , the following holdings for the title under the Russian catalogue entry :   Australia 4  Canada 3  UK 7  USA 95   The transcription World Economy and International Relations alone yields currently 656 global book publications , quoting from the journal on Google Book Search .

neg: International Arts and Entertainment Alliance The International Arts and Entertainment Alliance ( IAEA ) is a global union federation of trade unions .   The alliance has three sections : the International Federation of Actors ( FIA ) , the International Federation of Musicians ( FIM ) , and the Media , Entertainment and Arts section of the UNI Global Union ( UNI-MEI ) . Trade unions affiliate to the appropriate section ; 90 unions hold membership of the International Federation of Actors , and 70 unions hold membership of the International Federation of Musicians .   In 2007 , the alliance joined the Council of Global Unions .

neg: American University School of International Service The School of International Service ( SIS ) is American University 's school of advanced international study in the areas of international politics , international communication , international development , international economic relations , peace and conflict resolution , global environmental politics , and U.S. foreign policy .   The School of International Service was created when AU 's Hurst Anderson was urged by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to create a school of practitioners prepared for foreign policy beyond the U.S. -- Soviet rivalry . Since 1957 , SIS has prepared thousands of graduates to represent their country in the global arena by `` waging peace '' and employing the hallmarks of thoughtful diplomacy .   SIS is the largest school of international relations in the United States , enrolling more than 2,000 students from over 150 countries . The school makes extensive use of the academic and governmental resources offered by the university 's location in Washington , D.C.   Foreign Policy , in its 2015 rankings of top international affairs programs , ranked the school 's master 's and undergraduate programs as 8th - and 9th-best in the world , respectively . SIS is also consistently ranked in conjunction with American University 's School of Public Affairs as a leading program in the country by U.S. News & World Report 's college and university rankings . SIS is also a full member of The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs .

neg: Culture of the United Kingdom The culture of the United Kingdom is influenced by the UK 's history as a developed island country , a liberal democracy and a major power ; its predominantly Christian religious life ; and its composition of four countries -- England , Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland -- each of which has distinct customs , cultures and symbolism . The wider culture of Europe has also influenced British culture , and Humanism , Protestantism and representative democracy developed from broader Western culture .   British literature , music , cinema , art , theatre , comedy , media , television , philosophy , architecture and education are important aspects of British culture . The United Kingdom is also prominent in science and technology , producing world-leading scientists ( e.g. Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin ) and inventions . Sport is an important part of British culture ; numerous sports originated in the country , including football . The UK has been described as a `` cultural superpower '' , and London has been described as a world cultural capital .   The Industrial Revolution , which started in the UK , had a profound effect on the socio-economic and cultural conditions of the world . As a result of the British Empire , significant British influence can be observed in the language , law , culture and institutions of a geographically wide assortment of countries , including Australia , Canada , India , the Republic of Ireland , New Zealand , Nigeria , Pakistan , South Africa , the United States and English speaking Caribbean nations . These states are sometimes collectively known as the Anglosphere , and are among Britain 's closest allies . In turn the empire also influenced British culture , particularly British cuisine .   The cultures of England , Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland are diverse and have varying degrees of overlap and distinctiveness .

neg: Policy studies Policy studies is the combination of policy analysis and program evaluation . It `` involves systematically studying the nature , causes , and effects of alternative public policies , with particular emphasis on determining the policies that will achieve given goals . ''   Policy Studies also examines the conflicts and conflict resolution that arise from the making of policies in civil society , the private sector , or more commonly , in the public sector ( e.g. government ) .   It is frequently focused on the public sector but is equally applicable to other kinds of organizations ( e.g. , the not-for-profit sector ) . Some policy study experts graduate from public policy schools with public policy degrees . Alternatively , experts may have backgrounds in policy analysis , program evaluation , sociology , psychology , philosophy , economics , anthropology , geography , law , political science , social work , environmental planning and public administration .   Traditionally , the field of policy studies focused on domestic policy , with the notable exceptions of foreign and defense policies . However , the wave of economic globalization , which ensued in the late 20th and early 21st centuries , created a need for a subset of policy studies that focuses on global governance , especially as it relates to issues that transcend national borders such as climate change , terrorism , nuclear proliferation , and economic development . This subset of policy studies , which is often referred to as international policy studies , typically requires mastery of a second language and attention to cross-cultural issues in order to address national and cultural biases . For example , the Monterey Institute of International Studies at Middlebury College offers Master of Arts programs that focus exclusively on international policy through a mix of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis called the `` Monterey Way '' .

neg: Internal conflict An internal conflict is the struggle occurring within a character 's mind . Things such as the character views for , but ca n't quite reach . As opposed to external conflict , in which a character is grappling some force outside of him or herself , such as wars or a chain breaking off a bike , or not being able to get past a road block . The dilemma posed by an internal conflict is usually some ethical or emotional question . Indicators of internal conflict would be a character 's hesitation or self-posing questions like `` what was it I did wrong ? '' . An internal conflict can also be a decision-making issue .   The term `` internal conflict '' is also widely used to describe a military conflict within a nation , such as a civil war . An internal conflict is a non-international conflict . It can be because of political , economic or religious causes .

neg: Motion Picture Editors Guild The Motion Picture Editors Guild ( MPEG ) is the guild that represents freelance and staff motion picture film and television editors and other post-production professionals and story analysts throughout the United States . The Motion Picture Editors Guild ( Union Local 700 ) is a part of the 500 affiliated local unions of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees ( IATSE ) , a national labor organization with 104,000-plus members . There are more than 6,000 members of the Editors Guild .   The MPEG negotiates collective bargaining agreements ( union contracts ) with producers and major motion picture movie studios and enforces existing agreements with employers involved in post-production . The MPEG provides assistance for securing better working conditions , including but salary , medical benefits , safety ( particularly `` turnaround time '' ) and artistic ( assignment of credit ) concerns .

neg: IMG img or IMG is an abbreviation for image   img or IMG may also refer to :   IMG ( company ) , global sports and media business headquartered in New York City but with its main offices in Cleveland , originally known as the `` International Management Group '' , with divisions including :  IMG Academy , an athletic training complex in Bradenton , Florida with facilities for multiple sports  IMG Artists , a performing arts management company with multiple worldwide offices  IMG College , a college sports marketing agency based in Winston-Salem , North Carolina  IMG Models , a modeling agency based in New York  IMG ( file format ) , the file extension of several different disk image formats which store a full digital representation ( image ) of disk drive or storage media  IMG , a prefix for camera image file names commonly used in Design rule for Camera File system  -LSB- img -RSB- , a tag used in BBCode to place an image  , an HTML element used to place an image ; see  IMG Worlds of Adventure , the largest indoor amusement park in the world located in Dubai , United Arab Emirates  Imagination Technologies , a semiconductor IP company ( also known as ImgTec )  Inside Mac Games , a game news site for the Macintosh  Integrated Microbial Genomes System , a framework for comparative analysis of the genomes sequenced by the Joint Genome Institute  International Marxist Group , a Trotskyist group in Britain between 1968 and 1982  International medical graduate , a physician who has graduated from a medical school outside of the country in which he or she intends to practice  International Medical Group ( Uganda ) , a conglomerate of health-related businesses headquartered in Kampala , Uganda  Iterated monodromy group , a concept in mathematics related to symbolic dynamics


query: Régine Chassagne is Canadian.

pos: Régine Chassagne Régine Chassagne ( -LSB- ʁeˈʒin ʃaˈsaːɲ -RSB- ; born 19 August 1976 ) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist musician , singer and songwriter , and is a founding member of the band Arcade Fire . She is married to co-founder Win Butler .

neg: Monsanto Canada Monsanto Canada Inc. is the Canadian division of Monsanto Company . It is headquartered in Winnipeg , Manitoba and has offices across Canada . In addition to seed products , Monsanto sells of herbicides including the world 's best-selling herbicide Roundup . The global headquarters of Monsanto is in the American city of St. Louis .   In October 2008 , Monsanto Canada was named one of `` Canada 's Top 100 Employers '' by Mediacorp Canada Inc. , and was featured in Maclean 's newsmagazine .

neg: Canadian (train) The Canadian ( Le Canadien ) is a transcontinental passenger train operated by Via Rail Canada with service between Union Station in Toronto , Ontario , and Pacific Central Station in Vancouver , British Columbia .   Before 1955 the Canadian was a Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ) train between Toronto and Chicago . In 1955 , CPR renamed its transcontinental route between Montreal/Toronto and Vancouver the Canadian , with new streamlined trains . Via Rail took over in 1978 , and in 1990 reduced the Canadian to Toronto - Vancouver service primarily along Canadian National tracks .

neg: Quebec comics Quebec comics ( bande dessinée québécoise -LSB- bɑ̃d dɛ.si.ne ke.be.kwaz -RSB- or BDQ ) are French language comics produced primarily in the Canadian province of Quebec , and read both within and outside of Canada , particularly in French-speaking Europe .   In contrast to English language comics in Canada , which largely follow the American model , Quebec comics are mostly influenced by the trends in Franco-Belgian comics . There is little crossover between the French and English comics worlds in Canada .

neg: Portneuf, Quebec Portneuf is a municipality in the Portneuf Regional County Municipality , in the province of Quebec , Canada . It is located on the Saint Lawrence River , between Quebec City and Trois-Rivières . The Portneuf River runs on the east side of the town centre .   The town of Portneuf is named after a seignory that was founded in 1636 , and first settled in 1640 .   The municipal territory consists of 2 non-contiguous areas , separated by the municipality of Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne . The smaller northern portion is undeveloped , whereas the southern piece is the main inhabited part with the population centres of Portneuf ( south of Autoroute 40 ) , and the adjacent Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf , north of A-40 . The present-day municipality was created in 2002 , when the old city of Portneuf merged with the town of Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf .   The town is located on the Chemin du Roy , a historic segment of Quebec Route 138 that stretches from near Montreal to Quebec City . The town is also close by to A-40 , where Provencher Street connects to the town at Exit 261 .   One of Portneuf 's major employers is a local paper mill owned by Metro Paper Industries , a Toronto-based paper company . Paper had been a major part of Portneuf 's development since the first paper mill opened in 1839 .

neg: REAL Women of Canada REAL Women of Canada ( Vraies Femmes du Canada in French ) is a socially conservative advocacy group in Canada . The organization was founded in 1983 .   REAL stands for `` Realistic , Equal , Active , for Life '' . The group believes that the nuclear family is the most important unit in Canadian society , and that the fragmentation of the Canadian family is a primary cause of social disorder . It lobbies the Government of Canada in favour of legislation to promote what it believes to be the Judeo-Christian model of family life , and to support homemaking . It is also opposed to feminism , abortion and LGBT rights ( and same-sex marriage in Canada as well ) .   The group has intervened in Supreme Court of Canada cases such as R. v. Morgentaler ( 1993 ) and M. v. H. ( 1999 ) . In R. v. Sullivan ( 1991 ) it argued that a fetus is a person .   Its objectives are , according to its website :   To reaffirm that the family is society 's most important unit , since the nurturing of its members is best accomplished in the family setting .  To promote the equality , advancement and well being of women , recognizing them as interdependent members of society , whether in the family , workplace or community .  To promote , secure and defend legislation which upholds what it considers the Judeo-Christian understanding of marriage and family life .  To support government and social policies that make homemaking possible for women who , out of necessity , would otherwise have to take employment outside the home .  To support the right to life of all innocent individuals from conception to natural death .   Part of their economic policies to help meet their objectives are increased tax relief for single-income families , families with children , and individuals with children .   REAL Women is similar in political and social outlook to Phyllis Schlafly 's Eagle Forum and to Concerned Women for America in the United States .   The organization has also heavily criticized individuals who have spoken out against Uganda 's criminalization of homosexual relations . On August 7 , 2013 , the group issued a statement criticizing Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird for speaking out on LGBT human rights issues in both Uganda and Russia as part of Canada 's foreign policy .

neg: Côte-Nord Côte-Nord ( -LSB- kot nɔʁ -RSB- , French for `` North Shore '' , area 247,633.94 km ² ) is the second largest administrative region by land area in Quebec , Canada , after Nord-du-Québec . It covers much of the northern shore of the Saint Lawrence River estuary and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence past Tadoussac .   While most of the region is in the same time zone as the rest of Quebec , the far eastern portion east of the 63rd meridian , including half of Anticosti Island , is officially in the Atlantic Time Zone .

neg: Fatima Houda-Pepin Fatima Houda-Pepin ( born December 26 , 1951 ) was a Quebec politician and a member of the National Assembly of Quebec , Canada . She represented the La Pinière electoral district ( the city of Brossard ) between 1994 and 2014 , and was a member from the Quebec Liberal Party until 2014 .   She was born in Meknes , Morocco . After doing studies in political sciences at Mohammed V University in Rabat and earning a bachelor 's degree in commerce at Lycée Al Khansa in Casablanca , she obtained a bachelor 's degree in political sciences at Université Laval , a master 's degree in international relations at the University of Ottawa , a doctor 's degree in international relations at Université de Montréal and a master 's degree in library and information science at McGill University .   She was a researcher in information society issues and has made international trips to study the evolution of information technology . She has worked as a consultant for the federal and provincial governments as well as for the city of Montreal . She was also a lecturer at Université de Montréal and the Université du Québec à Montréal . She received , for her work in the community , the Governor General 's Commemorative Medal in 1992 and was honoured during Women 's History Month in 1993 . She was also a member on the Montérégie development board .   She was first elected in 1994 and served as critic for international affairs , French-language affairs , immigration and cultural communities . Re-elected in 1998 , she was the critic for housing , information highway and government services . Re-elected when the Liberals regained power in 2003 , she was named the Chair of the Agriculture , Fisheries and Food committee .   During the 2007 election , Houda-Pepin was again the La Pinière candidate for the Quebec Liberal Party and was elected with 50.44 % of the votes . She was named the First Vice-President of the National Assembly .   On January 20 , 2014 , Houda-Pepin was expelled from the Quebec Liberal Party due to disagreement with the party 's views . The Liberal party had come out against the Charter of Quebec Values , legislation that would strip people from minority religions such as Jews and Muslims the right to wear `` overt '' religious symbols in public service . Catholics would be permitted to wear small crucifixes which is already the norm for adherents . The same proposed charter retains prominent Catholic symbols including a crucifix over the chair of the Quebec national assembly . Houda-Pepin argued that state employees employed in a coercive role should not wear religious symbols .   She ran for reelection in the 2014 election as an independent . The Parti Québécois opted not to run a candidate in the riding , instead directing its supporters to vote for Houda-Pepin . On election day , however , she was defeated by new Liberal candidate Gaétan Barrette .

neg: La Romaine, Quebec La Romaine , also known as Unamenshipit in Innu-aimun , is an Innu First Nations reserve in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec , Canada , at the mouth of the Olomane River on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence . It belongs to the Innu band of Unamen Shipu . Being an enclave within the Municipality of Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent , it is geographically within Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality but administratively not part of it . Directly adjacent to the reserve is the community of La Romaine consisting of a small French-speaking population .   La Romaine is only accessible by boat or via the La Romaine Airport . It is serviced by a nursing station , community radio station , arena , community and recreation centre , municipal water and sewer system , fire station , and an aboriginal police force .   The name La Romaine is the French adaptation of the word Ulaman . Before its spelling was standardized , the place has also been called in times past : Fort Romaine , Olomanshibu , Olomenachibou , Ulimine , Ouromane , Olomanoshibou , Olomano , Romaine , La Romaine , Grande-Romaine , Gethsémani-d'Olumen , Gethsémani , Uanaman Hipiht , Ulamen Shipit , and Ulaman Shipu . These names applied sometimes to the old post , sometimes the village or the reserve , or sometimes to the river that flows through the place . Except for Gethsémani , all these variations have the same source : Unaman Shipu , from unaman meaning `` vermilion '' or `` red ochre '' , and shipu meaning `` river '' . Deposits of this material are found on the banks of the Olomane River .

neg: Laurentide Ice Sheet The Laurentide Ice Sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square kilometers , including most of Canada and a large portion of the northern United States , multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs -- from 2.588 ± 0.005 million years ago to the present . < ref  name = `` ICS2013 '' > </ref> The last advance covered most of northern North America between c. 95,000 and c. 20,000 years before the present day , and among other geomorphological effects , gouged out the five Great Lakes and the hosts of smaller lakes of the Canadian shield . These lakes extend from the eastern Northwest Territories , through most of northern Canada , and the upper Midwestern United States ( Minnesota , Wisconsin , and Michigan ) to the Finger Lakes , through Lake Champlain and Lake George areas of New York , across the northern Appalachians into and through all of New England and Nova Scotia . At times , the ice sheet 's southern margin included the present-day sites of northeastern coastal towns and cities such as Portsmouth , New Hampshire , Boston , New York City , and Great Lakes coastal cities and towns as far south as Chicago and St. Louis , Missouri -- and then followed quite precisely the present course of the Missouri River up to the northern slopes of the Cypress Hills , beyond which it merged with the Cordilleran Ice Sheet . The ice coverage extended approximately as far south as 38 degrees latitude in the mid-continent .

neg: Champlain, Quebec Champlain is a municipality , located in Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality and the administrative region the Mauricie , in the province of Quebec , Canada . Located on the north shore of St. Lawrence River , Champlain is also part of the metropolitan area of Trois-Rivières .   Champlain is part of `` The Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec Association '' .

neg: Canadian Club of Toronto The Canadian Club of Toronto is a club in Toronto which meets several times a month to hear lunchtime speeches given by invited guests from the fields of politics , law , business , the arts , the media , and other prominent fields .   In the days before radio and television , the Club provided a chance for influential Torontonians to have contact with Canadian and international leaders in a variety of fields . Even today , the club manages to attract notable speakers . Some examples of speakers to address the club since the year 2000 include Paul Martin , Stephen Harper , Vladimir Putin , Paul Bremer , Bob Rae , Michael Dell , Jean Charest , John de Chastelain , Ted Rogers , Roy McMurtry , Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo , Margaret Atwood , Karen Kain , Ralph Klein , David Frum , Pamela Wallin , John Manley , Beverley McLachlin , Dalton McGuinty , Belinda Stronach , David Dodge , Pinball Clemons , Gordon Campbell , Louise Arbour , Adrienne Clarkson , Donovan Bailey , Anne Mulcahy , and Jack Layton .   The Canadian Club has long had a role in Canadian life as an opinion-formation vehicle for some of Toronto 's most prominent citizens .   The Canadian Club of Toronto was founded in 1897 by a Hamilton journalist . Speeches were initially given in the evening , but starting in 1899 , the club moved to its present lunchtime format . In 1903 , several members of the Canadian Club , concerned that the club was not sufficiently opposed to the wave of anti-British sentiment being expressed in the wake of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal decision , left the Canadian Club to found the more pro-British Empire Club of Canada .   As of 2010 , the Canadian Club 's luncheons are normally held on Mondays in the Fairmont Royal York Hotel . As noted on their website : `` The Canadian Club is not-for-profit and holds no political or religious affiliations . There are currently forty Canadian Clubs in various cities around Canada . ''

neg: Canadian studies Canadian studies is a college-level study of Canadian culture , the spoken languages of Canada , Canadian literature , Quebec , agriculture in Canada , the history of Canada , and Canadian government and politics .   Most universities that offer the discipline recommend that students take a double major ( e.g. Political Science , International Relations ) or French , if not included in the course . Some careers for students who take Canadian studies include the foreign service and working at Canadian embassies or the foreign embassies in Canada .   Scholars known for their work in Canadian studies include Fernand Ouellet , Linda Hutcheon , George Ramsay Cook , William T. R. Fox , Annette Baker Fox , Susan Swan , Christl Verduyn , Sergey Rogov , and George Melnyk . The Governor General 's International Award for Canadian Studies is an award for excellence in the field and was established in 1995 by the International Council for Canadian Studies .

neg: Canada China Business Council The Canada China Business Council or CCBC ( French : Conseil d'affaires Canada-Chine , Chinese : 加中贸易理事会 ) is a private , non-profit business association founded in 1978 to facilitate and promote business , trade and investment between Canada and People 's Republic of China . CCBC has offices in Toronto , Vancouver , Montreal , Calgary , Beijing , and Shanghai . CCBC is the de facto Canadian chamber of commerce in Beijing . It also has business incubators in Beijing , Shanghai , Montreal , and Calgary to help Canadian companies grow in China , and Chinese investors to succeed in Canada .

neg: Ste. Agathe, Manitoba Ste. Agathe ( pop . 631 in 2016 ) is a primarily francophone community in the Canadian province of Manitoba . It is located along the Red River in the Rural Municipality of Ritchot .   The village was founded in the mid-19th century on one of the Red River Trails by settlers from Quebec named Grouette , who built a homestead on the west bank of the Red River and farmed grain in the rich soil of the valley . A dock allowed other settlers to reach the east side of the river via ferry with their grain-laden Red River carts ; a community , originally called Pointe-à-Grouette , formed around the docking point at some time before 1871 .   The first mention of the name `` Ste. Agathe '' was some decades earlier , when the Roman Catholic Church organized the Red River colonies between St. Norbert and the United States border into the Parish of Sainte-Agathe . As that parish grew and split into numerous more manageable parishes , the parish containing Pointe-à-Grouette was renamed the Parish of Sainte-Agathe by Archbishop Alexandre-Antonin Taché in 1873 ; the town adopted the name at some time after that date . A church , a school , and eventually a convent were built at the townsite .   Ste. Agathe is located in the flood plain of the Red River and as such has always been prone to flood damage , but none was so severe or as notable as that experienced during the 1997 Red River Flood . The ring dike surrounding the town gave out in late April , causing the town to be inundated with over two metres of water . The village has recovered ; a new dike has been built and an interpretive centre has been created on the west side of the community .   Ste. Agathe is in the provincial riding of Morris and the federal riding of Provencher .

neg: Mortgage Professionals Canada Mortgage Professionals Canada ( French : Professionnels Hypothécaires du Canada ) is the national association representing Canada 's mortgage industry . Mortgage Professionals Canada 's membership included 12,000 mortgage brokers , mortgage lenders , mortgage insurers and other industry stakeholders .  Mortgage Professionals Canada ( formerly the Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals or CAAMP ) provides the Accredited Mortgage Professional ( AMP ) designation in Canada ( French : CHA ) , to qualifying mortgage professionals .   Mortgage Professionals Canada provides mortgage professionals with the Accredited Mortgage Professional ( AMP ) designation - the national designation for professionals in Canada 's mortgage industry .   Mortgage Professionals Canada is also a consumer advocate , educating Canadian consumers about obtaining a mortgage , and providing access to a cross-country network of mortgage professionals .

neg: Canada (band) Canada is an American indie folk-pop music group from Ann Arbor , Michigan . Its songs are generally acoustic and feature guitars , drums , cellos , glockenspiels , melodicas , rhodes piano , organ and accordions . The group is known for its group vocals and harmonies and energetic live shows where members switch instruments between songs .   `` With a blend of pop , folk , and country , Canada keeps an even keel with amazing melodies and even more engaging instrumentation , never becoming tiresome or trite in its mission to craft the perfect pop song ... They have made what could very well be the best pop album to come out of the ever-fruitful Detroit music scene in 2006 , and considering the quality of the competition , that 's no small praise . ''   The band , composed of long-time friends , formed in late 2004 and self-released the six song How Dare You EP in July 2005 . Soon after , they were approached by indie Michigan label Quite Scientific and soon signed with them to record a full length album . Recording took place during the fall and winter of 2005 in Lansing , Michigan on a soundboard originally used to mix portions of the second and third Star Wars films .   The band released its first album , This Cursed House , in June 2006 . The album became the No. 1 most-added album in college radio for June 20 , 2006 , and later climbed to No. 13 on the CMJ Radio Top 200 ( CMJ New Music Report , Issue 971 ) .   Canada proceeded to embark on a series of tours with friends Page France ( Suicide Squeeze ) , Saturday Looks Good To Me ( Polyvinyl ) Headlights ( Polyvinyl ) , and Margot and the Nuclear So and So 's . Joe , Ryan , and Aaron ( Shaul ) became brief members of Saturday Looks Good To Me during this time , playing bass , drums , and glockenspiel respectively . Ryan later became a more permanent member with the group and toured with them as their drummer during their 2007 US and European tours . Canada also performed at the 2006 Pygmalion Music Festival in Champaign-Urbana , the 2006/7/8 CMJ Music Marathon in New York City and SXSW 2006/7 in Austin .   Canada embarked on its longest ( 8 week ) nationwide tour in the summer of 2007 . The band was prepping the release of their second full-length ( which would have been called Put Singing Birds Into Your Messy Hair ) , when creative , scheduling , and recording issues put a halt to production in late 2008 . The band currently has no plans to re-unite , despite several offers for reunion concerts in Southeastern Michigan , however their second record may become available digitally sometime in the future .

neg: Alliance Quebec Alliance Quebec ( AQ ) was a group formed in 1982 to lobby on behalf of English-speaking Quebecers in the province of Quebec , Canada . It began as an umbrella group of many English-speaking organizations and institutions in the province , with approximately 15,000 members . At its height in the mid-1980s , the group had a network of affiliated anglophone groups throughout the province . However , a prolonged decline in influence , group cohesion , membership and funding ultimately led to its closure in 2005 .

neg: Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies The Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies is a research centre at York University in Toronto , Canada that supports interdisciplinary and discipline-specific research pertinent to Canadianists and Canada 's place in the world . Faculty affiliated with the Robarts Centre are concerned with Canadian society , its history , culture , thought , goals , values , and institutions . The Centre provides supervised research and writing opportunities for graduate students from a wide range of York graduate programs , and offers a series of public seminars , workshops , and conferences on major issues related to Canadian perspectives on Communications , Culture , the Fine Arts , History , Political Economy , Public Policy , and International Relations .

neg: Constitution of Quebec The constitution of Quebec comprises a set of legal rules which fall in either one of the follow categories :   The provisions of the Constitution Act , 1867 pertaining to the provinces of Canada in general and Quebec in particular ;  The organic laws relative to the distribution of powers of Quebec and the individual rights of persons . These are composed of some fifteen laws , the main ones being An Act respecting the National Assembly , the Executive Power Act , the Election Act , the Referendum Act , the Charter of human rights and freedoms , the Charter of the French language , etc. ;  Most of the constitutional conventions concerned with the Crown of Canada , the Executive and the Parliament ;  The common law rules on the royal prerogative exercised by the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec ;  The case law of the courts of Quebec and the federal courts of Canada ;   The Parliament of Quebec has the power to modify certain parts of Quebec 's provincial constitution , while certain other parts can only be modified by going through the process of amending the Constitution of Canada .

neg: Canadian Red Cross The Canadian Red Cross Society is a Canadian humanitarian charitable organization , and one of 190 national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies .   The mission of the Canadian Red Cross is to improve the lives of vulnerable people in Canada and around the world . The Society trains volunteers in emergency response , disaster response , and disaster assistance , and provides injury prevention services such as outdoor activities safety and first aid training . The Society , through the international network of the Red Cross , helps the world 's vulnerable populations , including victims of armed conflicts and communities destroyed by disasters . The current Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Red Cross is Conrad Sauvé .


query: John McCain works in politics.

pos: John McCain John Sidney McCain III ( born August 29 , 1936 ) is an American politician who currently serves as the senior United States Senator from Arizona . He was the Republican nominee for the 2008 U.S. presidential election .   McCain followed his father and grandfather , both four-star admirals , into the United States Navy , graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958 . He became a naval aviator , flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers . During the Vietnam War , he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire . In October 1967 , while on a bombing mission over Hanoi , he was shot down , seriously injured , and captured by the North Vietnamese . He was a prisoner of war until 1973 . McCain experienced episodes of torture , and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer . His war wounds have left him with lifelong physical limitations .   He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and moved to Arizona , where he entered politics . Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982 , McCain served two terms . He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 , winning re-election easily five times , most recently in 2016 . While generally adhering to conservative principles , McCain at times has had a media reputation as a `` maverick '' for his willingness to disagree with his party on certain issues . After being investigated and largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as a member of the Keating Five , he made campaign finance reform one of his signature concerns , eventually gaining passage of the McCain -- Feingold Act in 2002 . He is also known for his work in the 1990s to restore diplomatic relations with Vietnam , and for his belief that the Iraq War should have been fought to a successful conclusion . McCain has chaired the Senate Commerce Committee , opposed spending that he considered to be pork barrel , and played a key role in alleviating a crisis over judicial nominations with the bi-partisan group known as the Gang of 14 .   McCain ran for the Republican nomination in 2000 but lost a heated primary season contest to George W. Bush of Texas . He secured the nomination in 2008 after coming back from early reversals , but was defeated by Democratic candidate Barack Obama in the general election , losing by a 365 -- 173 electoral college margin and by 53 -- 46 % in the popular vote . He subsequently adopted more orthodox conservative stances and attitudes and largely opposed actions of the Obama administration , especially in regard to foreign policy matters . By 2013 , however , he had become a key figure in the Senate for negotiating deals on certain issues in an otherwise partisan environment . In 2015 , McCain became chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee .

pos: United States Senate Committee on Armed Services The Committee on Armed Services ( sometimes abbreviated SASC for Senate Armed Services Committee on its Web site ) is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of the nation 's military , including the Department of Defense , military research and development , nuclear energy ( as pertaining to national security ) , benefits for members of the military , the Selective Service System and other matters related to defense policy . The Armed Services Committee was created as a result of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 following U.S. victory in the Second World War . It merged the responsibilities of the Committee on Naval Affairs ( established in 1816 ) and the Committee on Military Affairs ( also established in 1816 ) .   Considered one of the most powerful Senate committees , its broad mandate allowed it to report some of the most extensive and revolutionary legislation during the Cold War years , including the National Security Act of 1947 . The committee tends to take a more bipartisan approach than other committees , as many of its members formerly served in the military or have major defense interests located in the states they come from .

neg: Scott Sales Scott Sales ( born July 26 , 1960 ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . He is a state senator in the Montana Senate and also serves as the president of that body . He previously served in the Montana House of Representatives , including a term as minority leader and as speaker of the House . Sales is from Bozeman .

neg: Meghan McCain Meghan Marguerite McCain ( born October 23 , 1984 ) is an American columnist , author , Fox News host and contributor , and blogger .   She is the daughter of 2008 presidential nominee and long-time U.S. Senator John McCain and Cindy Hensley McCain . McCain first received media attention in 2007 for her blog , McCain Blogette , on which she documented life on the campaign trail and mused about fashion , music , and pop culture . In 2009 , she became a contributing author for The Daily Beast , and in 2011 , began appearing as a contributor on MSNBC . In 2013 , she began hosting on the start-up Pivot channel and in 2014 assumed the co-host role on Pivot 's TakePart Live until that show was canceled later in the year .   In July 2015 , McCain joined Premiere Networks as host of the nationally syndicated radio program America Now . McCain also signed on as a FOX News contributor in July 2015 , and was officially named a regular co-host of the afternoon talk program Outnumbered on November 14 , 2016 .

neg: Straight Talk America Straight Talk America is a political action committee and intercampaign outreach vehicle created by Sen. John McCain . Originally formed during McCain 's 2000 bid for the Republican presidential nomination , it was revived again in 2005 , and then retired in 2007 as he announced his formal bid for the presidency in 2008 .

neg: Iowa Chicken The Iowa Chicken was a person in a chicken suit who followed John McCain and Rudy Giuliani around Iowa during the 2008 American presidential race , carrying a sign that read `` You ` Bawk ` ed at the Straw Poll ! '' This was done to both protest and bring attention to the fact that neither candidate competed in the Iowa Straw Poll . In the past , all Republican candidates have competed in the Straw Poll , and McCain and Giuliani 's decisions not to attend represented a break from tradition .   The identity of the Iowa Chicken has not been revealed , but he or she follows an American campaign tradition , including such precedents as 2000 's Corn Man .

neg: United States presidential election in Nebraska, 2008 The 2008 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 4 , 2008 as part of the 2008 United States presidential election . Voters chose 5 electors to the Electoral College , who voted for President and Vice President . However , this state is one of the two states of the U.S. that , instead of giving all of its electors to the winner based on its statewide results , just 2 of them vote based on the statewide results , and the others vote based on their individual congressional district results .   Nebraska , statewide , was not a swing state in 2008 . Located in the Great Plains of the United States , it is one of the most staunchly Republican states in the country . While some hypothetical general election match-up polls between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama showed the race to be seemingly close , they were largely regarded as outliers as more polls released showed McCain leading in double digits . McCain wound up carrying the popular vote in Nebraska by 14.93 points , taking in 56.53 % of the total statewide vote . However , Obama narrowly defeated McCain in Nebraska 's 2nd congressional district , which contains Omaha and the surrounding areas . Due to Nebraska 's system of allocating electoral votes to winners of Congressional Districts , Obama was able to win one electoral vote while John McCain received the state 's other four electoral votes .

neg: Wisconsin Republican primary, 2008 The 2008 Wisconsin Primary for the Republicans was held on February 19 , 2008 . Polls in Wisconsin opened at 7:00 AM and closed 8:00 PM ( local time ) John McCain won the primary .

neg: McCain Foods McCain Foods Limited is a Canadian multi-national privately owned company that was established in 1957 in Florenceville , New Brunswick , Canada . It is one of the world 's largest manufacturer of frozen French fries and other potato specialties . It is also held as one of Canada 's best managed companies with a platinum status recognizing their business performance and efforts throughout their organization .

neg: Party system A party system is a concept in comparative political science concerning the system of government by political parties in a democratic country . The idea is that political parties have basic similarities : they control the government , have a stable base of mass popular support , and create internal mechanisms for controlling funding , information and nominations .   The concept was originated by European scholars studying the United States , especially James Bryce and Moisey Ostrogorsky , and has been expanded to cover other democracies .  Giovanni Sartori devised the most widely used classification method for party systems . He suggested that party systems should be classified by the number of relevant parties and the degree of fragmentation . Party systems can be distinguished by the effective number of parties .

neg: United States Senate The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress which , along with the United States House of Representatives , the lower chamber , composes the legislature of the United States of America .   The composition and powers of the Senate are established by Article One of the United States Constitution . The Senate is composed of senators who represent each of the several states , with each state being equally represented by two senators , regardless of their population , serving staggered terms of six years ; with fifty states presently in the Union , there are 100 U.S. Senators . From 1789 until 1913 , Senators were appointed by legislatures of the states they represented ; following the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913 , they are now popularly elected . The Senate chamber is located in the north wing of the Capitol , in Washington , D.C.   As the upper house , the Senate has several powers of advice and consent which are unique to it ; these include the ratification of treaties , the confirmation of Cabinet secretaries , Supreme Court justices , federal judges , other federal executive officials , flag officers , regulatory officials , ambassadors , and other federal uniformed officers . In addition to these , in cases wherein no candidate receives a majority of electors for Vice President , the duty befalls upon the Senate to elect one of the top two recipients of electors for that office . It further has the responsibility of conducting trials of those impeached by the House . The Senate is widely considered both a more deliberative and more prestigious body than the House of Representatives due to its longer terms , smaller size , and statewide constituencies , which historically led to a more collegial and less partisan atmosphere .   The presiding officer of the Senate is the Vice President of the United States , who is President of the Senate ; in their absence , the President Pro Tempore , who is customarily the senior member of the controlling party , presides over the Senate . In the early 20th century , the practice of majority and minority parties electing their floor leaders began , although they are not constitutional officers .

neg: Republican Party presidential primaries, 1964 The 1964 Republican presidential primaries were the selection process by which voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for President of the United States in the 1964 U.S. presidential election . Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1964 Republican National Convention held from July 13 to July 16 , 1964 , in San Francisco , California .

neg: John Hughes (English politician) John Hughes ( 29 May 1925 -- 14 August 2009 ) was Labour Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Coventry North East in the United Kingdom from 1987 to 1992 .   Born in Tanfield Lea , County Durham , he served in the Royal Navy aboard during the Second World War . A former Durham and Keresley miner , storeman and transport union convener , in 1986 he successfully fought and received compensation following a claim of unfair dismissal as a result of his union activities from Austin-Rover 's Unipart works in Coventry .   Mr Hughes served as a Coventry City councillor for the Holbrook Ward , and chair of the Coventry District Labour Party from 1977 to 1981 . In his time on the Council , he was expelled three times from the ruling Labour group for defying the party whip over spending cuts , rent rises and school meal price rises .   He was MP for Coventry North East at a time when his Constituency Labour Party was the scene of particularly fraught left-right battles , even by the standards of the Labour Party in the 1980s . In 1985 , the left wing won control of the CLP at the AGM . Hughes had not been particularly prominent in the period leading up to this , but he came out of political semi-retirement as an `` elder statesman '' figure to become CLP chair . A few weeks later the sitting MP , George Park , announced his intention to retire at the next election , if he had not done so there would probably have been an attempt to deselect him . The CLP then went into the procedure for selecting a parliamentary candidate . At the selection meeting the right wing voted for Hughes as he seemed the weakest of the left-wing candidates , mainly because he was aged 60 and so might only serve one term as an MP . ( The losing candidates were , in decreasing order of votes : Ted Knight , Bob Ainsworth , Kate Allen and Reg Race . )   Hughes was elected at the 1987 general election at the age of 62 , old for a first-time MP but by no means unknown . In his time as an MP he hit the headlines when , on Monday 11 January 1988 , the Speaker ordered him out of the chamber , when during prayers he asked the clergyman not to bless the house in protest at the social impact of the government 's policies . The focus of this protest was the case of Matthew Mulhall , a constituent of Hughes , whose condition required a life-saving operation by the end of February , 1988 . The local hospital had repeatedly delayed the treatment that could save Matthew 's life . Hughes , himself a practicing Catholic , subsequently escaped punishment for his outburst by the Labour leadership . Then-Labour Chief Whip , Derek Foster went on to endorse the protest by Mr Hughes as `` utterly sincere . '' Hughes also attempted to have the law changed , preventing gas and electricity companies from cutting-off supplies of essential fuel and energy to individual homes . His Fuel and Energy Provision Bill was given its first reading on Wednesday , 27 July 1988 , but progressed no further due to lack of time .   In the run up to the 1992 general election his Constituency Labour Party had shifted to the right , and it de-selected him in favour of Bob Ainsworth . He fought the election as Independent Labour , polling 4,008 votes ( 8.5 % of total votes cast ) .

neg: Hillary: The Movie Hillary : The Movie is a 2008 political documentary about United States Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton . It was produced by the conservative non-profit organization Citizens United . The film was scheduled to be offered as video-on-demand on cable TV right before the Democratic primaries in January 2008 , but as `` electioneering communication '' to do so was illegal under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act which was enforced by the Federal Election Commission . The producers went to U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to get a declaration that they could show their movie and promotional ads for it despite BCRA . This case was titled Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and its final decision at the U.S. Supreme Court resulted in a major change in campaign finance law .   The documentary interviewed various conservative figures such as Dick Morris and Ann Coulter and reviewed various scandals in which Hillary Clinton purportedly participated , such as the White House travel office controversy , White House FBI files controversy , Whitewater controversy , and cattle futures controversy . The factual finding of the three-judge district court was that there was `` no reasonable interpretation -LSB- of the movie -RSB- other than as an appeal to vote against Senator Clinton '' , thus making it `` electioneering communication '' . The Supreme Court did not change that decision , but applied the strict scrutiny test for the First Amendment of the Constitution and said corporations could not be banned from making electioneering communications .

neg: John D. Johns John D. Johns ( born February 8 , 1952 ) is the CEO and President of the Protective Life Corporation .   John D. Johns was born in Gadsden , Alabama to J. D. and Margaret Griffin Johns . He graduated with honors in 1974 from the University of Alabama . Johns was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa , and served as president of the Jasons Honor Society and Kappa Alpha . He then earned a dual juris doctor from Harvard Law School and master of business administration from Harvard Business School in 1978 .   Johns joined the Protective Life Corporation in 1993 as Executive Vice President and CFO . Earlier in his career , Johns served as General Counsel at Sonat and helped found Maynard Cooper & Gale , a law firm in Birmingham , Alabama . He was inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor in late 2013 , in part for his nine years of service to the Alabama Commission on Higher Education .   Johns supports several Republican causes including campaigns for George W. Bush in 2004 , Rick Santorum in 2006 , John McCain in 2008 .

neg: John McCain presidential campaign, 2000 The 2000 presidential campaign of John McCain , the United States Senator from Arizona , began in September 1999 . He announced his run for the Republican Party nomination for the presidency of the United States in the 2000 presidential election .   McCain was the main challenger to Texas Governor George W. Bush , who had the political and financial support of most of the party establishment . McCain staged an upset win in the February 2000 New Hampshire primary , capitalizing on a message of political reform and `` straight talk '' that appealed to moderate Republican and independent voters and to the press . McCain 's momentum was halted when Bush won the South Carolina primary later that month , in a contest that became famous for its bitter nature and an underground smear campaign run against McCain .   McCain won some subsequent primaries , but after the March 2000 Super Tuesday contests he was well behind in delegates and withdrew . He grudgingly endorsed Bush two months later and made occasional appearances for him during the general election .

neg: Imperial Klans of America The Imperial Klans of America , Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist paramilitary organization styled after the original Ku Klux Klan ( KKK ) . In 2008 , it was reported that the IKA had the nation 's second largest KKK membership .   The IKA , headed by Ron Edwards , claims to be the sixth era of the Ku Klux Klan . Members of the 6th era , like members of previous eras , claim constitutional rights as part of the `` Unorganized Militia '' . The IKA claims to stand upon Supreme Court decisions in favor of previous Klans . They are headquartered near Dawson Springs , Kentucky and claim external Imperial Klan offices in Australia , Canada , England , Scotland , and South Africa , as well as throughout Europe and South America .   In 2011 , a recurring hoax concerning the IKA endorsing Barack Obama was once again exposed as a farce based on a parody website 's humorous reporting . In fact , in 2008 , Ron Edwards was quoted as supporting John McCain .

neg: Herding Cats: A Life in Politics Herding Cats : A Life in Politics is a book written by U.S. Senator Trent Lott , a Republican from Mississippi . Published by HarperCollins Publishers , Inc. on August 23 , 2005 , the book spans 320 pages . The major points of the book are Lott 's childhood in Grenada and Pascagoula , Mississippi , including his struggles with his alcoholic father ; his election to Congress ; his years in the House of Representatives during the Nixon , Carter , and Reagan administrations ( including his service as Minority Whip in that body ) ; and his service in the Senate , especially his service as Majority Leader during the Clinton and Bush Administrations . He recounts the formative events of his youth and the stories from his political life . From his decision to support Gerald Ford over Ronald Reagan in the 1976 Republican primary to his working partnership with Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle during the Clinton impeachment and the September 11 attacks in 2001 , Lott traces the inner workings of congressional life .   One major focus of the book is the comments Lott made at the birthday party of Sen. Strom Thurmond in 2002 and the subsequent intense media coverage , which eventually led to his resignation as the Senate Majority Leader in December 2002 . Lott names several figures who he believes orchestrated his downfall , including members of President George W. Bush 's administration , such as then-Secretary of State , Colin Powell , and former Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) head Joe Allbaugh ( who Lott claims has admitted that he intended to bring Lott down as Majority Leader ) ; as well as the successor to Lott as Majority Leader , Sen. Bill Frist .   Lott suggests that his forced resignation was a `` strategic plan '' devised by Bush and others who wanted Frist to take his place , since Frist supported key White House policies like the Medicare expansion , which Lott opposed . Lott notes , however , that his response to the Thurmond controversy played poorly in the media .   Lott wrote in the book that Frist betrayed him by not telling him about Frist 's decision to run for majority leader beforehand . Lott says he took Frist as his protégé , as Frist had no political/public experience when he was first elected to the Senate .   Some suggested that Lott 's book , which portrayed Frist in a negative light , was designed to impede Frist 's possible presidential campaign , but Frist did not run . Lott indicated in the book that he had repaired his relationship with Frist to some extent .   Lott also emphasizes his years as Majority Whip in the House and his years as Majority Leader in the Senate , where Lott claims to have built an efficient vote-getting organization and played a key role in several legislative accomplishments , including the Reagan-era budget cuts and tax cuts , and welfare reform and the tobacco settlement during the Clinton years . This emphasis may tie into Lott 's ambition to rejoin the Senate Republican Leadership .

neg: Nuclear option The nuclear option is a parliamentary procedure that allows the United States Senate to override a rule or precedent by a simple majority of 51 votes , instead of by a supermajority of 60 votes . The option is invoked by the presiding officer of the body ruling that the validity of a Senate rule or precedent is a constitutional question . The issue is immediately put to the full Senate , which decides by majority vote . The procedure thus allows the Senate to decide any issue by majority vote , regardless of existing procedural rules , such as current Senate rules specifying that ending a filibuster requires the consent of 60 senators ( out of 100 ) for legislation , and 67 for amending a Senate rule . The term `` nuclear option '' is an analogy to nuclear weapons being the most extreme option in warfare .   The nuclear option has only been used in practice twice -- in 2013 and 2017 , however the threat to use it dates back at least to 1917 , in opinions related to reform of the Senate 's filibuster rules . Subsequently , an opinion written by Vice President Richard Nixon in 1957 concluded that the U.S. Constitution grants the presiding officer the authority to override existing Senate rules . The option was used to make further rule changes in 1975 . In November 2013 , Senate Democrats used the nuclear option to eliminate filibusters on executive branch nominations and federal judicial appointments other than those to the Supreme Court . On April 6 , 2017 , Senate Republicans used the nuclear option to eliminate the exception for Supreme Court nominees , after the nomination of Neil Gorsuch failed to meet the requirement of 60 votes for ending the debate .   Before November 2013 , Senate rules required a three-fifths vote of the `` duly chosen and sworn '' members of the Senate -- ( usually 60 votes ) to end debate on a bill , nomination or other proposal ; they also require a two-thirds vote ( `` present and voting '' -- 67 or more votes ) to end debate on a change to the Senate rules . Those rules effectively allowed a minority of the Senate to block a bill or nomination through the technique of the filibuster . This had resulted in a de facto requirement that a nomination have the support of 60 Senators to pass , rather than a majority of 51 . A three-fifths vote is still required to end debates on legislation . Before April 2017 , Senate rules required a three-fifths vote to confirm nominations for Supreme Court nominees .   Under the new nuclear option proceedings , the majority leader and presiding officer , guided by parliamentary experts , go through a series of choreographed steps in which the leader suggests a change to the rules , the presiding officer challenges him , and then the leader calls a second vote on a rules change , which requires only 51 votes . This effectively ends what had become a 60-vote requirement for confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee or the passage of legislation .

neg: 72 Things Younger Than John McCain 72 Things Younger Than John McCain is a book by American blogger Joe Quint . The book lists items from popular culture that were invented after John McCain 's birth in 1936 , including nachos , Social Security , chocolate chip cookies , duct tape and ZIP codes . 72 Things Younger Than John McCain also includes people who are younger than McCain , even though the reader might believe them to be older . Quint used the book to show how the age of a candidate was more relevant to their success as President of the United States than gender or race .

neg: Economic policy of the Barack Obama administration The economic policy of the Barack Obama administration was characterized by moderate tax increases on higher income Americans designed to fund healthcare reform , reduce the federal budget deficit , and improve income inequality . His first term ( 2009 -- 2013 ) included measures designed to address the Great Recession and Subprime mortgage crisis , which began in 2007 . These included a major stimulus package , banking regulation , and comprehensive healthcare reform . As the economy improved and robust job creation continued during his second term ( 2013 -- 2017 ) , the Bush tax cuts were allowed to expire for the highest income taxpayers and a spending sequester ( cap ) was implemented , to further reduce the deficit back to typical historical levels . Towards the end of his tenure , the U.S. economy was nearing full employment such that the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates , real household income was nearing its pre-crisis peak , gas prices were very low , and GDP grew 3.5 % . He also implemented several environmental executive orders to address climate change and encourage clean energy industries , as the U.S. enjoyed an unprecedented increase in energy production . Both the stock market and corporate profits reached record high levels during his tenure , while inflation and interest rates remained near record low levels .   Conceptually , Obama advocated using government regulation to stem crony capitalism and tax revenue to stabilize and promote economic growth . Two of his important economic advisers were Jason Furman of Harvard University and Jeffrey Liebman of Harvard University . In 2006 , Obama wrote , `` We should be asking ourselves what mix of policies will lead to a dynamic free market and widespread economic security , entrepreneurial innovation and upward mobility -LSB- ... -RSB- we should be guided by what works . '' Speaking before the National Press Club in April 2005 , he defended the New Deal social welfare policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt , associating Republican proposals to establish private accounts for Social Security with Social Darwinism .

neg: Howard Opinsky Howard Opinsky was the national press secretary for U.S. Senator John McCain 's ( R-AZ ) 2000 presidential campaign .   Opinsky has been widely quoted in the media as a spokesman for candidates and causes and as a political strategist commenting on a variety of breaking news events . He has also been a guest lecturer at Harvard , Penn State , and various trade groups to discuss communication , the media , and politics .   Currently , Opinsky is executive vice president at Powell Tate , the Washington , D.C. office of Weber Shandwick . A veteran communication strategist and counselor to CEOs and senior executives , he has helped build , position , and protect some of the world 's best known brands .