Chrome

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Chromeč

Chromeč is a village and municipality (obec) in Šumperk District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. The municipality covers an area of 5.48 square kilometres (2.12 sq mi), and has a population of 580 (as at 3 July 2006). First note about the village comes from 1353 when the recent area was kept by multiple owners. Since 17th Century Chromeč was considered to be part of the Bludov Manor. The municipality became autonomous in 1990. The POW camp for British pilots was established in the Sokolovna during World War II.

Notable persons

Josef Drásal – the tallest Czech ever, suffering of gigantism. Drásal was famous member of circus in his time with notable performance for French emperor Napoleon III.

References

Coordinates: 49°56′N 16°54′E / 49.933°N 16.900°E / 49.933; 16.900

Chrome (XM)

Chrome was one of ten dance/electronica music satellite channels operated by Sirius XM Radio on channel 83 (and since November 2005 on DirecTV 861), and was one of five dance music channels offered by XM. The channel played classic disco and dance music from the 1970s through the 1980s and freestyle music which was popular from the mid-1980s to early 1990s. On November 12, 2008, the channel was eliminated from the XM lineup with the XM/Sirius merger, and no equivalent music was made available.

Chrome was one of the first channels offered by XM Satellite Radio at launch; the first song played was "Get Down Tonight" by KC & The Sunshine Band. The last song played was Donna Summer's "Last Dance." Among one of its jingling promos was "Where Disco DOESN'T Suck."

During November and December 2004, the channel was pre-empted for Special Xmas on the satellite service.

Sirius/XM announced on December 16, 2008 that the format hole will filled by The Strobe (a channel that was heard exclusively on Sirius before its removal on November 12, 2008), the name of the disco/classic dance channel, effective January 15, 2009.

Vila (album)

Vila (trans. Fairy) is the third studio album by Bosniak recording artist Emina Jahović, which was released on 21 May 2009, by PGP RTS. Because Jahović signed a contract with PGP RTS she was banned on RTV Pink, a famous Serbian TV network that supports artists from City Records which released Emina's first two albums.

Background

Emina recorded the album over the past two years. She wrote the most songs by herself, except "Ne zaboravi" which is written and produced by Aleksandra Milutinović, who also worked on Emina's previous albums, and "Zver", which is co-written and co-produced by Dino Merlin. There is a duet with Dino on the album, "Med", which is written and produced by Emina. It is the only song that Dino ever sang that he hadn't written by himself. Emina said that she had written "Još ti se nadam" after she had broken up with Mustafa in 2006. She also said that she had chosen the name Vila for the album because she thinks that it's the best song she had ever written, so she wanted people to pay attention to it.

Vila (surname)

Vila (Eastern Catalan: [ˈbiɫə, ˈviɫə], Western Catalan: [ˈvila, ˈbiɫa]; Galician: [ˈbila]; Occitan: [ˈbilɔ, ˈvilɔ]; Portuguese: [ˈvilɐ]) is a popular surname in Catalan, Galician, Occitan and Portuguese that means 'village' or 'farm'. Other spelling: Villa, Villar, Vilar, Vilares, Villares, Villalta, Villalba.

Ávila (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

Ávila is one of the 52 electoral districts (circunscripciones) used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies - the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It is one of the nine electoral districts which correspond to the provinces of Castile and León. At the time of the 2011 election, Ávila was the largest town with 44,000 voters out of the total electorate of nearly 143,000. There were no other municipalities with electorates over 10,000.

Boundaries and electoral system

Under Article 68 of the Spanish constitution the boundaries must be the same as the province of Ávila and under Article 140 this can only be altered with the approval of congress. Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. The electoral system used is closed list proportional representation with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method. Only lists which poll 3% or more of all valid votes cast, including votes "en blanco" i.e. for "none of the above" can be considered for seats. Under article 12 of the constitution, the minimum voting age is 18.