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Encyclopedia > Robin Harper

Robin Harper is a Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the Scottish Green Party for the Lothians. ... The Scottish Green Party is the Green party in Scotland, and a full member of the European Federation of Green Parties. ... The Lothians is one of the eight electoral areas for the Scottish Parliament that each return 7 members elected by the Additional Members System. ...


Born on August 4, 1940 in Thurso, he the was the first ever elected Green parliamentarian in the United Kingdom when he was elected at the first election to the Scottish Parliament and served as his party's sole representative in the first Parliament (1999-2003) until he was joined by six Green colleagues at the 2003 election. He was elected as rector of Aberdeen University in 2005. August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... St. ... The polling date for the first Scottish Parliament election was held on 7th May, 1999. ... The Scottish Parliament (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba in Gaelic, Scots Pairlament in Scots) is the national unicameral legislature of Scotland. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The polling date for the second Scottish Parliament election was held on May 1, 2003. ... The word rector (ruler, from the Latin regere,) better known as rectum, has a number of different meanings. ... University of Aberdeen Motto: Initium sapientiae timor domini (The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom) Logo © University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen is a university in Aberdeen, Scotland, founded by William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen in 1495 as Kings College. ...


He serves on the Parliament's Audit Committee. Before his election, he was a teacher.


External Links

Biography of Robin Harper on the Scottish Green Party website.


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Politics of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3123 words)
The Scottish Green Party have won regional additional member seats in the Scottish Parliament, as a result of the proportional representation electoral system for the Scottish Parliament.
In 1999 this gave the UK its first green parliamentarian, Robin Harper.
The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) were formed in 1998 and operate as the foremost political party of the far-left in Scotland.
Bonnie J. Dorr's Publications (6103 words)
Roark, Brian, Yang Liu, Mary Harper, Robin Stewart, Matthew Lease, Matthew Snover, Izhak Shafran, Bonnie J. Dorr, John Hale, Anna Krasnyanskaya, and Lisa Yung, "Reranking for Sentence Boundary Detection in Conversational Speech", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse France, 2006.
Harper, Mary, Roark, Brian, Yang Liu, Robin Stewart, Matthew Lease, Matthew Snover, Izhak Shafran, Bonnie J. Dorr, John Hale, Anna Krasnyanskaya, and Lisa Yung, "Sparseval: Evaluation Metrics for Parsing Speech," in Proceedings of the International conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Genoa, Italy, 2006.
Harper, Mary Harper, Bonnie J. Dorr, John Hale, Brian Roark, Izhak Shafran, Matthew Lease, Yang Liu, Matthew Snover, Lisa Yung, Anna Krasnyanskaya, Robin Stewart, "Final Report on Parsing and Spoken Structural Event Detection", 2005 Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop, 2005.
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