unreferenced date May 2008 A superstate is an agglomeration of nations and or states, often linguistically and ethnically diverse, under a single political administrative structure. This is distinct from the concept of superpower , although these are frequently seen together. It is also distinct from the concept of empire , where one nation dominates other nations through military, political, and economic power, as in the Roman Empire , although an empire may also be a superstate, as in ancient Persian Empire Persia , India and China . An example of a small superstate would be the republic of Yugoslavia before its breakup at the end of the cold war. An example of an ancient superstate would be China, under various dynasties. Euroscepticism Eurosceptics argue that the European Union is a current example of an emerging superstate. Constitutionally structured as Federation federated republic s, the United States of America and modern Germany may be considered superstates. The former Soviet Union , though being constitutionally defined as federated republic, was de facto a superstate due to a major cultural and linguistical diversity between its inhabited ethnicities, never really identified themselves as the single Soviet nation despite the official doctrine. The British Empire came close to becoming a superstate in the late 19th Century when there was an attempt to re organise both Dominions and Colonies into a single body as an Imperial Federation . Fictional superstates Atlantic Federation Gundam anime metaseries Earth Alliance Interstellar Alliance Eastasia Nineteen Eighty Four Eurasia Nineteen Eighty Four Fleet of Worlds Oceania Nineteen Eighty Four Galactic Empire Star Wars Galactic Empire Isaac Asimov Galactic Empire Isaac Asimov universe The Imperium of Man Megacity One Meccania Old Republic Star Wars United Federation of Planets Solarian League The World State Successor States See also European Union Imperial Federation Organization of American States People s Republic ... more details
European Superstate is a term mainly used to describe a potential result of the European Union s integration, though it could also be linked to other historical attempts to bring the continent together as one single national entity. Traditionally, the term European Superstate , particularly within the UK , is used as a criticism of further integration into the EU with the term implying a forced loss of national sovereignty. ref http www.sovereignty.org.uk features articles eucost.html ref Along with this connotation is the implication of the loss of individual state s national identity with the replacement of one single homogenous identity which groups such as UKIP argue is a goal which the EU is trying to achieve. ref http www.ukip.org content prince charles and the eu 490 nigel did the right thing ref The term is often used in contrast to an idea of a Federal Europe which argues that is to accommodate other national identitities with partial sovereignty being retained by individual member states, though often the terms are mistakely used synonymously. See also United States of Europe References references Category Political terms Category Politics of the European Union Category Nationalism ... more details
Eastasia may refer to Eastasia Nineteen Eighty Four , a fictional superstate in George Orwell s novel Nineteen Eighty Four East Asia , a subregion of Asia See also East Asia disambiguation disambig ... more details
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Unreferenced date December 2010 Infobox musical artist name Skyscraper image caption image size background group or band origin United Kingdom genre years active 1992&ndash 1997 label Incoherent Food Records br Scared Hitless br Dynosupreme Records associated acts Swervedriver br Milk Also Known As website current members past members Vic Kemlicz guitar, vocals br Adam Lamprell guitar br Adi Vines bass guitar br Craig Coggle drums br Bernhard Hoetzl drums br Oliver Grassett drums notable instruments Skyscraper was a UK based rock band formed during 1992. The original line up consisted of Vic Kemlicz guitar vocals previously of the Camden band Milk, ex Swervedriver bass guitarist Adi Vines and drummer Oliver Grasset, formerly of the band Pitchfork Skyscraper. From time to time Skyscraper also employed the services of guitarist Fuzz formerly of Silverfish band Silverfish to fill out the live sound until the arrival of guitarist Adam Lamprell, previously from the London band The Scissormen, in 1995. Drummer Craig Coggle joined the band in 1996. Although the band s music was superficially similar to the grunge style that was popular at the time, it contained a melodic inventiveness and a characteristically unusual guitar style which brought the band swift attention. Despite being favourites of the UK rock press, the band split after the recording of their second album, Shooters , in 1997. citation needed date December 2010 Discography EPs Choke Incoherent 1993 Lovesick Incoherent 1993 Man Made Hell Food 1994 Never Again Scared Hitless 1995 Petrified Dynosupreme 1996 Albums Superstate Dynosupreme 1995 Shooters Dynosupreme 1997 External links http www.xselectronics.co.uk Adi Vines homepage UK band stub DEFAULTSORT Skyscraper Category British rock music groups ... more details
have been recognized throughout the state of Illinois. ref name Superstate Cite web title Illinois Superstate Concert Band Festival url http www.music.uiuc.edu outreach Superstate.html accessdate ... University of Illinois Superstate Festival every year it has been eligible from 1996 2004, and was again ... School and Vernon Hills High School Wind Ensembles were named Honor Band at the Superstate Festival .... In 2011, Libertyville High School again won the top division of the Superstate Competition with its ... as Class AAA Honor Band at the SuperState Contest in 2012. ref name Superstate The school s jazz ... more details
Refimprove date August 2010 Third Position Europe a Nation was a policy developed by United Kingdom British Fascist politician Oswald Mosley as the cornerstone of his Union Movement . It called for the integration of Europe into a single entity. The idea of a united Europe began to develop in the final days of the World War II Second World War , where it was felt that the war had been a terrible waste of life and resources. Arguments began to appear claiming that the only way to avoid a repetition would be to tear down the divisions in Europe. These arguments, which initially appeared in Germany , informed much of Mosley s post War thinking. Europe a Nation consisted of the idea that all European states should come together and pool their resources including their Colony colonies to work as one giant superstate under a system of corporatism . For Mosley, it was the only viable alternative to the prospect of individual European countries carrying on alone, whilst the growing global market continued to make them poorer. Autarky was, therefore, a central aim of Europe a Nation, with Africa retained in colonial status to serve the needs of the European people explaining the occasional use of the term Eurafrika as an alternative name . Mosley summed up the arguments himself by stating that no lesser degree of union than that of an integral nation can give the will and power to act on the great scale.... No lesser space than all Europe, and the overseas possessions of Europe in a common pool, can give the room within which to act effectively . ref Oswald Mosley, European Socialism , The European , May 1956 ref The notion also had an important Geopolitics geopolitical dimension as Mosley saw it as the only defence against Europe becoming the scene of the power struggles between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War . See also The European magazine The European References div class references small references div External links http www.oswaldmosley.com um ... more details
Exec is the object oriented computer multitasking multi tasking kernel computing kernel of AmigaOS . It enabled pre emptive multitasking in as little as 256k of memory as supplied with the first Amiga 1000 s . ref name cunningham lee amiga exec cite web url http d87tube.district87.org media document 142.pdf title THE OBJECT ORIENTED AMIGA EXEC accessdate 2011 10 20 last Holloway first Tim ref Exec provided functionality for multi tasking, memory allocation, interrupt handling and handling of Dynamic linker dynamic shared libraries . Exec s heavy reliance on inheritance is what makes it so compact . ref name cunningham lee amiga exec It acts as a scheduling computing scheduler for tasks running on the system, providing pre emptive multitasking with prioritized round robin scheduling . Exec also provides access to other libraries and high level inter process communication via message passing . Other comparable microkernels have had performance problems because of the need to copy messages between address spaces. Since the Amiga has only one address space, Exec message passing is quite efficient. The only fixed memory address in the Amiga software address 4 is a pointer to exec.library , which can then be used to access other libraries. Exec was designed and implemented by Carl Sassenrath . Unlike traditional operating systems, the exec kernel does not run privileged . Contemporary operating systems for the Motorola 68000 68000 such as Atari TOS and SunOS used exception handling trap instructions for invoking kernel functions. This made the kernel functions run in the 68000 s supervisor mode , while user software ran in the unprivileged user mode . By contrast, exec function calls are made with the library jump table, and the kernel code normally executes in user mode. Whenever supervisor mode is needed, either by the kernel or user programs, the library functions Supervisor or SuperState are used. One limitation of the Exec kernel was that an uncooperative program cou ... more details
Infobox Organization name The National Platform for EU Research and Information Centre image formation 1986 type Non governmental organization NGO , Pressure Group headquarters Dublin , Ireland leader title Secretary leader name Anthony Coughlan website http www.nationalplatform.org The National Platform for EU Research and Information Centre shortened to National Platform is an Irish Eurosceptic lobby group which campaigns against greater European Union integration, and against a Federal superstate. It is a member of the EUDemocrats Alliance for a Europe of Democracies. Its motto is For a Europe of Independent Democratic Co Operating Nation States and has used phrases like Citizens for a Europe of independent democratic co operating countries, and against the development of a single EU State. The secretary of the National Platform research and information group is Anthony Coughlan , senior lecturer Emeritus in social policy at Trinity College Dublin . ref http www.youtube.com watch?v fEatOX46TJw&feature related Video of Anthony Coughlan speaking on behalf on of the National Platform Election Broadcast ref The group has made submissions to various government forums on EU policy such as the National Forum on Europe ref http www.forumoneurope.ie index.asp?locID 210&docID 487&COMMAND PRINTER National Forum for Europe ref Its members also issued press releases, submitted articles to various publications ref http www.munster express.ie local news turning us into real eu citizens Turning us into real EU citizens by Anthony Coughlan , Munster Express , Friday, June 13th, 2008 ref and contributed to debates on radio and television prior to the referenda on the Nice Treaty and for the Lisbon Treaty as well as sharing platforms with other like minded groupings. On Friday 21st November 2008 National Platform head Anthony Couglan ref http www.youtube.com watch?v oj2xwy7wuN0 Video of Anthony Coughlan speaking at the Forum for Europe www.youtube.com ref addressed the Oireachtas c ... more details
last Bryce title Cronies Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America s Superstate publisher ..., Robert, Cronies Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America s Superstate PublicAffairs, 2004 . s start ... more details
about a political group in the United Kingdom the political movement in China Chinese democracy movement The Democracy Movement DM is a crossparty Eurosceptic pressure group in the UK with around 150 local branches. History The Democracy Movement was founded by Lady Annabel Goldsmith in January 1999. She became its President ref name column1 cite news last Goldsmith first Annabel title What Jimmy taught me about the importance of the pound publisher The Daily Telegraph url http www.telegraph.co.uk opinion main.jhtml?xml opinion 2001 05 30 do01.xml date 2001 05 30 accessdate 2008 06 22 ref and her son, businessman Robin Birley businessman Robin Birley , served as the organisation s chairman until 2004. ref name DM launch cite news last Young first Robin title Goldsmith widow takes his mantle publisher The Times url date 2001 01 13 accessdate 2008 06 21 ref Democracy Movement originated from the ideas and campaign of the late James Goldsmith s Referendum Party in 1998. At its launch, describing the campaign as an effort in memory of Jimmy , Lady Annabel said blockquote I m not anti European my husband was half European and my children are a quarter French. I just don t want to be governed by Brussels, and I don t think people want to give up their sovereignty. Jimmy used to describe it as sitting at the top of the mountain watching a train crash that was like us heading for the European superstate. ref name democracy movement cite news last Sylvester first Rachel title I owe it to Jimmy to keep his dream alive publisher The Daily Telegraph url http www.telegraph.co.uk news uknews 1314585 I owe it to Jimmy to keep his dream alive .html date 2001 01 09 accessdate 2008 06 20 ref blockquote The DM is funded by donations from grassroots supporters although the Goldsmith family and the Eurosceptic businessman Paul Sykes businessman Paul Sykes have made large campaign donations in the past. Policy positions primarysources section date May 2008 It campaigns on a number of eur ... more details
In George Orwell s novel Nineteen Eighty Four , the Two Minutes Hate is a daily period in which Party members of the society of Oceania 1984 Oceania must watch a film depicting the Party s enemies notably Emmanuel Goldstein and his followers and express their hatred for them. Details from Nineteen Eighty Four The film and its accompanying auditory and visual cues which include a grinding noise that Orwell describes as of some monstrous machine running without oil are a form of brainwashing to Party members, attempting to whip them into a frenzy of hatred and loathing for Emmanuel Goldstein and the current enemy superstate. Apparently, it is not uncommon for those caught up in the hate to physically assault the telescreen , as Julia 1984 Julia does during the scene. The film becomes more surreal as it progresses, with Goldstein s face morphing into a sheep as enemy soldiers advance on the viewers, before one such soldier Fourth wall charges at the screen , submachine gun blazing. He morphs, finally, into the face of Big Brother Nineteen Eighty Four Big Brother at the end of the two minutes. At the end, the mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausted viewers chant B B ...B B over and over again, ritualistically. Within the book, the purpose of the Hate is said to satisfy the citizens subdued feelings of angst and hatred from leading such a wretched, controlled existence. By re directing these subconscious feelings away from the Oceanian government and toward external enemies which likely do not even exist , the Party minimizes subversive thought and behavior. In the first Two Minutes Hate of the book, the audience is introduced to Inner Party member and key character O Brien book character O Brien . Within the novel, hate week is an extrapolation of the two minute period into an annual week long festival. Origins of the term Orwell did not invent the term two minutes hate it was already in use in the First World War . ref name leicestershire At that time, British ... more details
Hills High School Band was also the Superstate Honors Band for the AA division in 2010. State ... as the Class AA Honor Band at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign sponsored Superstate band .... ref name superstate cite web url http vhhscougars.org index.php?module pagemaster&PAGE user ... Wind Ensemble Superstate 1st 1st 1st ICTM Math 1st 4th 4th 5th 7th 7th 3rd 1st 1st 3rd 3rd IDTA Dance ... more details
, it also implicitly is in the surrounding state on called the superstate . This state machine will attempt ... at the higher level context of the superstate on . This is what is meant by the system being in state ... behavior from its superstate s by simply ignoring commonly handled events, which are then automatically ... applied to states. For example, if a system is in the on superstate Figure 3 , it means that it s either .... That is why the on superstate is called an OR state. UML statecharts also introduce the complementary ... to a substate of heating, like toasting, rely on proper initialization of the heating superstate and perform ... state that is simultaneously a superstate ancestor of both the source and the target states. As described ... target state if the main target is a superstate of the main source state. Image UML state ... or discard these events. It is possible for a superstate to have a transition defined on an event ..., the substate takes precedence over the superstate, the event will be deferred and the transition for the superstate will not be executed. In the case of orthogonal regions where one orthogonal region ... more details
been accepted to the University of Illinois Superstate Festival over fifteen times, most recently in 2010. In 2010, Symphonic Band I was named Superstate AAA Honor Band after a truly inspiring performance ... from Symphonic Metamorphosis and David Gillingham s Apocalyptic Dreams at their Superstate AAA Honor ... more details
File British Empire 1897.jpg thumb The British Empire in 1897, marked in the traditional colour for imperial British dominions on maps Imperial Federation was a late 19th early 20th century proposal to create a Federation federated union in place of the existing British Empire . Motivators At the time, the British Empire consisted of many Colony colonies , some of which were largely self governing British Dominions dominions Canada , Dominion of Newfoundland , Australia , New Zealand , South Africa and others not British Raj India , British West Indies West Indies , Fiji . The future of the empire remained uncertain, as it was unclear what the end result would be if all colonies eventually became self governing. Among other concerns, it would be very difficult for British interests to be maintained if every colony was essentially already sovereign. Creating an Imperial Federation thus became a popular alternative proposal to colonialism colonial imperialism . The plan was never firm, but the general proposal was to create a single federal Sovereign state state among all colonies of the British Empire. The federation would have a common parliament and would be governed as a superstate . Thus, Imperial unity could be maintained while still allowing for democratic government. The colonies would increase their influence while United Kingdom Britain would be able to share the costs of imperial defence. The best features of large states could be combined with the best features of small states. It was seen as a method of solving the Home Rule problem in Ireland , as England , Scotland , and Ireland along with the other members of the Old Commonwealth would have their own Parliaments. United Kingdom Parliament Westminster would become a purely Imperial body. ref Morris, p.15 ref Supporters of Imperial Federation regarded the United Kingdom as having two possible futures imperial union and continued long term importance or imperial dissolution and the reduction of the status ... more details
Paul Sykes born 1943 is an English people English businessman, campaign finance political donor , noted opponent of the European Union and philantropist . Business Born in Cudworth, South Yorkshire Cudworth near Barnsley , South Yorkshire , Sykes was the son of a mining miner and left school with no qualifications. He had various manual jobs before setting up a business at the age of 18 to dismantle old buses and sell the engines as scrap to developing country developing countries in the Far East . He later moved into property development and built the Meadowhall shopping complex in Sheffield . His internet firm Planet Online was for a time Britain s largest internet service provider . In 1998 Sykes sold it for 85 million to Energis . ref http news.bbc.co.uk 2 hi uk news politics 3716706.stm Profile Paul Sykes 5 October 2004 . BBC News ref In 2004, his wealth was estimated at some 650 million. ref name DMail2089939 Politics Sykes is a vehement opponent of the European Union and is noted for his belief that it represents a Conspiracy theory conspiracy to create an dictatorship undemocratic superstate . By October 2004, he was estimated to have donated 6 million to eurosceptic campaigns. ref http news.bbc.co.uk 2 hi uk news politics 3961469.stm Paul Sykes on the EU Constitution 28 October 2004 . BBC News ref A former member of the Conservative Party UK Conservative Party , Sykes left the party in 1991 in a dispute over the Maastricht Treaty . In the United Kingdom general election, 1997 1997 general election he selectively funded eurosceptic Conservative candidates, and in 1998 pledged to use every means possible to persuade British voters to say no in a referendum on the euro single currency , saying he would raise hellfire to get the message across . The following year he began making large donations to the cross party Democracy Movement , founded by Lady Annabel Goldsmith as a successor to the Referendum Party . He also donated 500,000 to Denmark s successful anti ... more details
File Erik Meijer.jpg thumb 250px Erik Meijer Erik Meijer born on 5 December 1944 in Amsterdam is a Politics of the Netherlands Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Socialistische Partij , part of the European Left and sits on the European Parliament s Committee on Transport and Tourism . He is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs EU Committee on Foreign Affairs and a member of the Delegation to the EU Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee. Biography In European Parliament Election 1999 1999 European Parliament elections Meijer won the first seat for the SP in the European Parliament. Born in 1944, Erik, who lives in Rotterdam , studied social geography and later taught geography before becoming a civil servant . Politically active since the beginning of the 1960s, including as an executive member of Socialist Youth SJ , in the 70s he was elected to represent the Pacifist Socialist Party PSP on Amsterdam City Council . During this period he led the Proletarian Left within the PSP, which later split to form what now is Socialist Alternative Politics . Meijer stayed within the PSP. From 1982 to 1995 he served as a Provincial Councillor in South Holland , having been elected on a combined PSP Communistische Partij Nederland Communist Radical Party ticket. Following the formation of the Green Left , which united these tendencies, he became the party s national vice chair, a position which he held until 1995. At the beginning of 1996, Erik Meijer left Green Left for the SP. In 1998 he became chair of the SP branch in Delfshaven , Rotterdam s poorest district, where he lives, at the same time working to build up the party s European contacts. In the European Parliament the SP forms part of the United Left Group GUE NGL . The party s priority is resistance to the development of a European Superstate too far removed from the people and too closely attached to the interests of European multinational corporation multinational s. In the E ... more details
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