The proposal was made by Dr. David S. Jenkins after he and Mrs. D. Ellwood Williams, Jr., a board member and long-time critic of the superintendent, argued for about fifteen minutes at this week's meeting.

Those holding this position argued that the ability to manipulate items of popular culture, the World Wide Web, the use of search engines to index knowledge, and telecommunications were producing a " convergence " which would be marked by the rise of " participatory culture " in the words of Henry Jenkins and the use of media appliances, such as Apple's iPod.

In February 2010 Jenkins argued in a Guardian article that the Falkland Islands are an example of anachronistic British colonialism and should be handed over to Argentine control.

If one was to assume that blending inheritance was at work, Jenkins argued that any favorable trait that might arise in a lineage for which natural selection could possibly work upon, would naturally be blended away from that lineage long before the much slower processes of natural selection could act upon it and improve it.

Abersychan was the birthplace of the politicians Roy Jenkins, Don Touhig and Paul Murphy ( MP for Torfaen ), and of the rugby footballers Wilfred Hodder, Candy Evans and Bryn Meredith.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

All that remained was for the Buccaneers to kick an extra point to win the game, but unbelievably it was blocked by DT Kris Jenkins to send the game to overtime.

Reliever Tim Stoddard ( 10 – 6 3. 82, 7 saves ) was acquired the same day for a minor leaguer ; veteran pitcher Ferguson Jenkins was released.

In April 1968 he was proposed for a Minister of State position by Roy Jenkins but nothing came of it.

It was not a commercial success in this form, and left the way free for Charles Francis Jenkins and his projector, the Phantoscope, with the first showing before an audience in June 1894.

Jenkins mentions use of the word in book titles including Life among the Moonies and Escape from the Moonies, and comments: " These titles further illustrate how the derogatory term ' Moonie ' became a standard for members of this denomination, in a way that would have been inconceivable for any of the insulting epithets that could be applied to, say, Catholics or Jews.

Jenkins was educated at Abersychan County School, University College, Cardiff, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was twice defeated for the Presidency of the Oxford Union but took First Class Honours in Politics, Philosophy and Economics ( PPE ).

Jenkins was principal sponsor, in 1959, of the bill which became the liberalising Obscene Publications Act, responsible for establishing the " liable to deprave and corrupt " criterion as a basis for a prosecution of suspect material and for specifying literary merit as a possible defence.

In January 1965 Patrick Gordon Walker resigned as Foreign Secretary and in the ensuing reshuffle Wilson offered Jenkins the Department for Education and Science ; however.

Roy Jenkins is often seen as responsible for the most wide-ranging social reforms of the late 1960s, with popular historian Andrew Marr claiming ' the greatest changes of the Labour years ' were thanks to Jenkins.

Historians and economists have often praised Jenkins for presiding over the transformation in Britain ’ s fiscal and current account positions towards the end of the 1960s.

When Labour returned to power in early 1974, Jenkins was appointed Home Secretary for the second time.

Jenkins was a candidate for the leadership of the Labour Party in March 1976, but came third out of the six candidates, behind Callaghan and Michael Foot.

On 22 November 1979 Jenkins delivered the annual Dimbleby Lecture which he called " Home Thoughts from Abroad ", detailing what he saw as the reasons for Britain's persistent underperformance as a failure of adaptability and problems associated with the two party system.

Jenkins ' Grave In December 1997, he was appointed chair of a Government-appointed Independent Commission on the Voting System, which became known as the " Jenkins Commission ", to consider alternative voting systems for the UK.

Jenkins wrote 19 books, including a biography of Gladstone ( 1995 ), which won the 1995 Whitbread Award for Biography, and a much-acclaimed biography of Winston Churchill ( 2001 ).

Roy Jenkins is fondly remembered by Private Eye as having a passion for claret and a distinct inability to pronounce his ' r's.

The bay and surrounding areas came under British control during the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

* 1740 – A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

* 1739 – Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

* 1748 – British and Spanish naval forces engage at the Battle of Havana during the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

* 1739 – War of Jenkins ' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.

* I. Jenkins and K. Sloan, Vases and Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and his Collection ( London, The British Museum Press, 1996 ), pp. 187 – 88, no.

Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM, PC ( 11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003 ) was a British politician.

When Wilson re-entered government in 1974 Jenkins returned to the Home Office, but, increasingly disenchanted by the swing to the left of the Labour Party, he chose to leave British politics in 1976 and was appointed President of the European Commission in 1977, serving until 1981: he was the first and to date only British holder of this office.

The Jenkins Commission reported in favour of a new uniquely British mixed-member proportional system called " Alternative vote top-up " or " limited AMS " in October 1998, although no action was taken on this recommendation.

At Prime Minister's Questions, Tony Blair agreed with questioner Brian Jenkins MP that the film was " an affront " to British sailors.

Repeated cases of reported Spanish mistreatment of British merchants, whom they accused of smuggling, caused public outrage, particularly the incident of Jenkins ' Ear.

* July 7 – War of Jenkins ' Ear: British troops repel those of Spain ( under Montiano ) in the Battle of Bloody Marsh in the Province of Georgia.

Its unusual name, coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1858, refers to an ear severed from Robert Jenkins, captain of a British merchant ship.

A succession of Anglophile ministers were appointed in Spain including José de Carvajal and Ricardo Wall – all of whom were on good terms with the British Ambassador Benjamin Keene in an effort to avoid a repeat of the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

Finally, at the end of his reign Spanish forces also successfully defended their American territories from a large British invasion during the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

The ten remaining confused passengers are Brian Engle, a troubled, off-duty airline pilot traveling to Boston to attend his ex-wife's funeral ; Dinah Bellman, a young blind girl with minor psychic powers ; fifth-grade teacher Laurel Stevenson, who takes to watching over Dinah ; Nick Hopewell, a junior attache & " mechanic " for the British Embassy ; Don Gaffney, a retired tool-and-die engineer on a trip to see his grandchild ; Rudy Warwick, a businessman ; Albert Kaussner, a talented teen violinist heading to a prestigious school of the arts ; Bethany Simms, a teenager being sent by her family to rehab ; Bob Jenkins, a mystery author who acts as the voice of logic ; and Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a psychotic breakdown.

* Albert Jenkins Humbert ( 1822 – 1877 ), British architect

The War of Jenkins ' Ear ( named for a 1731 incident in which a Spanish commander chopped off the ear of English merchant captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take it to his king, George II ) broke out in 1739 between Spain and Great Britain, but was confined to the Caribbean Sea and conflict between Spanish Florida and the neighboring British Province of Georgia.

* Sid Jenkins, a fictional character in British teenage drama Skins

* David James Jenkins ( 1824 – 1891 ), British MP for Penryn and Falmouth, 1874 – 1885

* David Jenkins, Baron Jenkins ( 1899 – 1969 ), British Law Lord