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You'll notice I made some changes to this article as well as WikiFairy and WikiElf and all three of the articles' related cats and userboxes so that certain things were similar across the Wiki Woodland Creature articles. These aren't really content changes, but things like making sure all of the pages linked to the other two in a See Also section, or making sure that all three articles always capitalized the first letter of whatever came after wiki or making sure that all the articles had the same type of info on their respective userboxes. In the same line, I tried to keep the format of the userboxes and the category pages similar. I wrote descriptions for the category pages lacking them, and made sure that form stuff was the same on all of them. I also changed the userboxes so that all of the userboxes had linkes to the category as well as the article (only one or two of them had before). Anyway, like I said no real content changes
we need an article on wikifauna, that sums these up with "main article..." added to them, io only a catagory. also we need a wikiorc, thats not the random vandal as is a wikitroll, but a repeat povpusher. one that goes his pov, often accompanied by harassing opposition on the discussion pages, and not for the thrill of breaking rules, as does a wikitroll, but for the motive of pushing his pov. plenty of them around· Lygophile has spoken (admittedly an occasional wikiorc perhaps)
The WikiGnome userbox is using formatting different from the one used on the WikiFairy and WikiElf boxes. Since the box is used on a lot of userpages, I figured changing it without discussion would be a wrong thing to do, so I made a temporary version and wrote about it on Template talk:User wikipedia/WikiGnome. For now, the temporary version is transcluded on that talk page, but I might subst it at some time so that it doesn't get after the discussion. If you don't want the existing version to be replaced on userpages that already use it, the modified version could get its own template. Please let me know what you think. – Pretended leer {talk}
Here's what it would look like when used without parameters:Like the original, you can use a number to change the image. And like the fairy and elf userboxes, you can specify your own image, change the colours and change the floating side. I haven't made the font size changeable, but that should be easy enough to do. – Pretended leer {talk}
== WikiOgres ==
"WikiOgres are considered to be their friend, but not their companion." I don't understand this. What is this intended to mean? I don't understand it either, and nobody has explained it in almost 2 months, so I am taking it out. I am also making the corresponding change at WikiOgre and related comments on the talk page there. Wikipedia is not a Role Playing Game. (And if that is not stated in NOT, it should be.) 6SJ7 (talk)
When we come out of our caves, we tend to do a lot of the things gnomes do, but we also do a lot of things gnomes certainly would not do (like massive rewrites). Also doesn't apply when we're in our caves, although, like gnomes, we're still hard to see. I don't know what they mean by eating people. At least that's my take ;) Xavexgoem (talk)
The purpose of the WikiOgre userbox and page is to let people know that they may not get and answer for some months. Some Wikipedians have an expectation that others will always respond to them in a timely manner, leading to frustration and disappointment when dealing with WikiOgres. Knowing that they are dealing with a WikiOgre can relieve some of the frustration. Guy Macon
== Userbox for wikignomes? ==
Doesn't that defeat the whole idea of being a wikignome? Once you identify yourself as one... you aren't one... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.56.128.60 (talk)
(apologies for necroposting) Though I know your comment is tongue-in-cheek, I consider myself a WikiGnome because if I do what I do correctly, no one will notice I've done anything. I try not to draw attention to myself and I don't consider myself nearly as important as those who actually write the articles.
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MMA's first female superstar is ready for acting stardom in Disney's Star Wars spin-off 'The Mandalorian' (PHOTOS) - RT Sport News With her movie-star looks and world-champion fighting spirit, Gina Carano became the world's biggest star in women's MMA. Now she's set to become a Disney star, as part of the upcoming Star Wars spin-off series, The Mandalorian. The episodic drama, which launches on Disney's streaming service Disney+ on November 12, follows the life of a bounty hunter, with Carano playing one of the starring roles as Cara Dune, a former Rebel Shock Trooper-turned-mercenary who fought for the Rebel Alliance in the civil war. The role sees her star alongside Pedro Pascal and Carl Weathers, who became a worldwide superstar when he played Apollo Creed in the legendary Rocky movies. It's the latest role in Carano's increasingly successful post-fight career as an actress. Her first major movie role came in the 2011 action thriller Haywire, and led to her being cast in Fast & Furious 6 two years later, then Deadpool in 2016. Carano has appeared in 11 feature films in all, but her upcoming role in The Mandalorian is undoubtedly her most significant role to date. Carano's transition from MMA star to actress has been a remarkable one after the MMA starlet swapped the cage for the screen in 2009. Prior to that career change, Carano was one of the biggest names, and most popular faces, in the sport of mixed martial arts. Fighting for the now-defunct Strikeforce and Elite XC promotions, Carano defeated the likes of Julie Kedzie, Tonya Evinger and Kaitlin Young as she built a 7-0 record and become the face of women's MMA at the time. That run came to an end in a first-round TKO defeat at the hands of Cris Cyborg in August 2009 in a bout that proved to be her last as a professional mixed martial artist. Rumors of a possible return have come and gone over recent years, with the most recent linking her with a December 2014 bout with Ronda Rousey in the UFC, but reported contract negotiations for the fight hit a stalemate and the fight never materialized. Interestingly, Carano remains technically under contract with the UFC, with Dana White stating in 2014 that Carano still had four fights remaining on her original deal the UFC inherited when they purchased Strikeforce. But any thoughts of a possible return for Carano now seem far-fetched, with the former MMA superstar now well on the way to becoming an even bigger star in the acting world. Also on rt.com Michelle "Karate Hottie" Waterson's rise to fame (VIDEO)
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Lighthouses completed in the 19th century
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Transport infrastructure completed in 1880
Towers completed in 1880
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== History of the NHL ==
Wouldn't that become a subtopic, too? Maxim(talk)
Pretty much, as would the Stanley Cup articles I threw together. I just threw together articles that I thought were keys to the NHL's history: the NHL itself, history articles, and articles related to the Stanley Cup and it's history. It is entirely possible that Scorpion gets the Stanley Cup articles to a featured topic in it's own right, the four or so history articles form a separate FT, and the NHL article moved to FA as a stand alone. It's all good. Resolute
== Scope and article breakdown ==
The first thing I think we need to figure out is how to break down these articles. The more I look at it, the more I personally begin to favour a four article division, broken into 25 year periods, and 1992 to present. Thinking on it, I believe that History of the National Hockey League then becomes redundant to National Hockey League's history section, so once complete, that should probably be reduced to a simple index/disambig page pointing to the sub-articles created. So, as far as scope goes, this is what I propose:
National Hockey League
History of the National Hockey League (1917–1942)
History of the National Hockey League (1942–1967)
History of the National Hockey League (1967–1992)
History of the National Hockey League (1992–present)
I am already writing the first history article in my sandbox, and will probably have it moved to article space before anyone sees this message so as to encourage others to work on it, if they wish, or grab a different era to work on. Comments, ideas? Resolute
It seems that the date ranges were arbitrarily changed on the project page. You should one break point should be pre-expansion. Pre-war may be another good one. After that, I don't know others. However as a Buffalo Sabres fan I think the 1972 break point used on the project page is illogical. Actually, I just never updated the main page after coming up with this alternate. My original idea behind ending with 1972 was for the second article to end after the completion of the first expansion cycle (1967-72), but before the WHA, Summit Series, etc. I later decided on a straight 25 year block, as denoted above, as it makes the first two articles align with eras perfectly. 1942 is when the Original Six era began. The only change I might make later, is to end the third article at 1991 rather than 1992 so as to fit the start of the Sharks with the rest of the 90s expansion period. Resolute
== Template ==
, shown right, really needs to be updated. Clearly it is not focused on the evolution of the NHL, but of ice hockey itself. As part of this project, we might want to look into redesigning that template to be more accurate. Resolute
== Vancouver Canucks GT ==
I had an Ideal for a Good Topic and I though I would make a suggestion here to see if people thought it would pass and what all would need to be included. So here it goes. With all of the hard work by Orlandkurtenbach most of the 2010-11 Vancouver Canucks players are at or nominated for Good Article or better status. All of what I would call the "regulars" are in that group, meaning all players who have played over 30 games this year. I was wondering if there was a way to make this into a good topic, such as 2010-11 Vancouver Canucks roster or the more encompassing 2010-11 Vancouver Canucks. I'm guessing the first one won't fly but as I think this is quite the unique case I wasn't sure. There are issues with both as I see it. 1. Calling it the 2010-11 roster would be less encompassing which would probably mean that it would require ALL players to be at the GA level and not just the regulars. This would leave 13+ player articles who are not at GA or nominated to be improved. 2. If it is to be the 2010-11 Vancouver Canucks would the Canucks article need to be brought up to GA or just the 2010-11 Vancouver Canucks season or both? Not being solely confined to the roster should allow for only the major players to be involved excluding guys who played only a handful of games. However, would other players need to be added such as Marcus Naslund who had his jersey retired this year or the four new members of the ring of honor introduced this year? Since these have been big events in the season would they also need to be included in a topic about the year?
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In the end, we picked Disconnect as our favorite tool because it was the easiest to understand. It organizes the types of tracking requests it is blocking into different categories: advertising, analytics, social media and content. Mr. Grossman of WhiteHat Security also tested tracking blockers and chose Disconnect for similar reasons. He breaks his online activities into two separate web browsers to make himself more difficult to track: On one browser, he does everyday tasks like reading news articles; on the other browser he logs into accounts that are linked to his personal identity, like online banking sites and Amazon. But Mr. Grossman said that in the broad arms race between consumers and advertisers, the advertisers always find some way to outmaneuver us. "We're talking megabillion-dollar industries totally designed to track you online," he said. "That's their mission in life." Continue reading the main story
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==Arrangements==
The original edition of High School Cadets, as published in 1890 by Harry Coleman, included arrangements for band and also for:
piano solo
piano & mandolin
piano & banjo
mandolin & guitar
guitar solo
zither solo
banjo solo
It has also been arranged for:
accordion (George H. Farnell, 1934)
accordion (Lloyd Marvin, 1945)
brass quartet (John Jay Hilfiger, 2010)
flute solo ()
Modern band arrangements include:
a historically researched arrangement by Frank Byrne (Wingert-Jones Publications, 1998)
a concert band arrangement by John Pasternak (JM Publishing, 2014)
a simplified arrangement by Ralph Ford for beginning band (Belwin Mills Publishing)
a simplified arrangement by Andrew Balent for intermediate band (Carl Fisher, 2014)
==Recordings==
Sousa had a poor opinion of recorded music, considering that it would reduce the incentive to play live music and fearing its implications for the intellectual property rights of composers and musicians. However, he recognized the growing public interest in recordings, and despite his personal reservations he allowed his works to be recorded by numerous ensembles including his own band, although he generally declined to attend the recording sessions and designated others to serve as bandleaders for these occasions. High School Cadets proved popular with recording orchestras and bands, both in Sousa's era and in modern times. ===Historic recordings===
recording by Sousa's Grand Concert Band (circa 1899) Columbia Phonograph Co. brown wax cylinder
recording by Columbia Band (1902) Columbia Phonograph Co. 7 inch disc, 74 rpm
recording by Edison Military Band (1907) Edison Gold Molded Cylinder
recording by Prince's Band (early 1900s) Victor
recording by Victor Military Band (1911) Victor 35208 12 inch disc, 78 rpm
recording by Conway's Band (1921) Edison Blue Amberol cylinder #4316 (also issued as disc #7296)
recording by Sousa's Band, Nathaniel Shilkret conductor (1923) Victor 19064 10 inch disc 78 rpm
===Representative modern recordings===
recording by Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell conductor, from album Sound Off! (1960) Mercury Records
recording by Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel conductor, from album Peaches and Cream (1984) Vox Cum Laude Records
recording by Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler conductor, from album Sousa Marches (1985) RCA Camden Records
recording by USAF Heritage of America Band,. Lowell E. Graham conductor, from album Sousa (1995) Klavier Records
==References in popular culture==
The final portion of the march (one apiece of the C and D strains) was used for the melody of "The March of the Penguins" in Gloria Jean's 1939 film, The Under-Pup. (see External links)
Gloria Jean also sang the tune as a solo in the follow-up film, A Little Bit of Heaven. Themes from High School Cadets and from Sousa's The Thunderer form the basis of an arrangement by Robert W. Smith & Michael Story entitled "Sousa Times Twosa". High School Cadets is a popular selection in competitions for school marching bands. (see External links)
==Notes==
==References==
==External links==
Music, background and scenes from "The Under-pup"
Gloria Jean excerpt
A school concert band performing the march
Another school concert band
A high school marching band
Another marching band
A professional rendition
A self-playing Wurlitzer performs Sousa's "High School Cadet" March
Performance by the United States Marine Band, Miclael J. Colburn, conductor
1890 compositions
Sousa marches
American military marches
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Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone (25 September 1796 – 17 November 1883) was a British banker and politician. ==Background and education==
Loyd was the only son of Reverend Lewis Loyd and Sarah, daughter of John Jones, a Manchester banker. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. ==Banking==
Loyd's father had given up the ministry to take a partnership in his father-in-law's bank and became the founder of the London branch of Jones, Loyd & Co. Loyd joined his father's bank, and took control of the bank after his father retired in 1844. On his father's death in 1858 Loyd inherited an estate worth £ 2 million. In 1864 the bank became incorporated with the London and Westminster Bank. ==Political career==
Loyd sat in parliament as Whig member for Hythe from 1819 to 1826, and unsuccessfully contested Manchester in 1832. As early as 1832 he was recognized as one of the foremost authorities on banking, and he enjoyed much influence with successive ministries and chancellors of the exchequer. Loyd is considered as one of the great figures in British monetary history, particularly with respect to the Bank Charter Act of 1844. He was also opposed to limited liability and the introduction of a decimal currency. In 1850 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Overstone, of Overstone and of Fotheringhay, both in the County of Northampton. Lord Overstone was a member of The Club (Literary Club) and the Political Economy Club and served as High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1838 and as President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1851 to 1853. In 1847 and 1848, he served on the committee of the British Relief Association, which raised almost half a million pounds on behalf of the famine victims in Ireland. (see, Christine Kinealy, Charity and the Great Hunger. The Kindness of Strangers'. Bloomsbury, 2013)
==Family==
Lord Overstone married Harriet, daughter of Ichabod Wright, in 1829. They had one son, who died as an infant, and a daughter. His seat was Overstone House Overstone, Northamptonshire built in 1862-4 to a design by William Milford Teulon, brother of the more eminent -and notorious 'Rogue'- Victorian architect Samuel Sanders Teulon. Lady Overstone died on 6 November 1864. Overstone remained a widower until his death on 17 November 1883, aged 87. The barony died with him as he had no surviving male issue. His will was proven on 31 December at £2,118,803 17s. 5d. (roughly equivalent to £ in ). The majority of his considerable fortune was passed on to his daughter, the Honourable Harriet Sarah Loyd. She was the wife of Robert Lindsay, who assumed the additional surname of Loyd and was created Baron Wantage in 1885. Overstone's nephew Lewis Vivian Loyd inherited part of the estate, including the manor of Withybrook, Wolvey, Warwickshire. ==References==
== External links ==
The Overstone Papers in Senate House Library, University of London
~villages/berks/ardington_lockinge.htm
1796 births
1883 deaths
Members of The Club
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
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Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
High Sheriffs of Warwickshire
Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society
Loyd
UK MPs 1818–1820
UK MPs 1820–1826
Sheriffs of Warwickshire
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Amazon has faced harsh criticism in the past for displacing Main Street brick-and-mortar retailers. Now, the diverging fortunes of Amazon and many of the companies selling products on its own site are at the heart of the antitrust scrutiny Amazon faces in Washington and Europe. Investigators at the Federal Trade Commission and the House Judiciary Committee are examining whether Amazon abuses its position as the central online connection between people making products and those buying them. Amazon collects 27 cents of each dollar customers spend buying things its merchants sell, a 42% jump from five years ago, according to Instinet, a financial research firm. That does not include what companies pay to place ads on Amazon, a business that Wall Street considers as valuable as Nike. The pennies add up. Last year, the profit from retail was so high that it surprised even some senior leaders close to the business, according to two of the people involved. Thanks to the retail success, the company's profit exceeded its own Wall Street projections by more than $3 billion. Investments vs. Contributors Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and chief executive, lumps the many parts of the company into two buckets, according to the two people close to the business. One bucket is investments, or bets on the future like Alexa, its virtual assistant. The other is contributors, or the profitable businesses that provide money for Amazon's investments. To him, the retail operation is a contributor that can be squeezed for cash. Billions of dollars generated from selling products online go into investments like Alexa, which has 10,000 employees working on it, and the company's expensive Hollywood productions. And still, Amazon's consumer businesses, including Alexa and other pricey projects, produced $5 billion in operating profit last year. The financial success stems from a big strategy shift that was underappreciated when Bezos made it two decades ago. From the day the company started shipping orders in 1995, Amazon offered customers products the same way as traditional retailers like Target, buying them at wholesale and reselling them at a higher price. Four years later, Bezos and his team decided that Amazon would also let companies list items on the site for a cut of the sale, more like eBay and Alibaba. The change allowed Amazon to offer a wider variety of products. "We want to try and build a place where people can come to find and discover anything that they might want to buy online," Bezos said that year. The decision eventually turned Amazon into the one-stop shop it's known as today. Shoppers could find not only well-known brands like Tide detergent, but also obscure Christmas ornaments. Initially, the move empowered sellers and gave them access to millions of customers. They could ship their products however they wanted. And they could set their own price. Bit by bit, the sellers lost control. Lured Into Shipping When Amazon opened its doors to sellers, the fulfillment industry - for storing, packing and shipping online orders - was in its infancy. Many top sellers on Amazon ran their own warehouses. Seeing a competitive advantage in offering faster delivery times, Amazon opened cavernous warehouses near major cities. Inside, workers navigated endless rows to pick products from bins and pack them into boxes. The expansion left Amazon with extra space to fill, and the company turned to sellers. It pitched them on the idea of paying Amazon to store and ship their products, even those sold on other sites. James Thomson, a Canadian with a doctorate in marketing, managed a team responsible for signing up sellers, leading them on tours of Amazon's facilities near Reno, Nevada, Phoenix and elsewhere. "Look how vast this is," he recalled telling sellers. "Look at how we can easily absorb your 10,000 orders a month." "You do have a bigger warehouse than mine," Thomson remembered them saying, "but I have good rates." Several years later, Amazon's focus changed, and so did its pitch. In early 2011, only a few million people were Prime members, paying $79 a year for unlimited two-day shipping. But Amazon knew those members spent far more on the site. Executives wanted more people to sign up for Prime, and they wanted to sell those customers even more stuff. That year, Amazon began adding more perks to Prime. Most notable was unlimited video streaming of TV shows like "Mister Rogers" Neighborhood" and movies like "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." As more people became members, products eligible for Prime shipping became more popular. Amazon reminded sellers that if they used the company's warehouses, their items would be Prime eligible, too. "That is what we were selling," Thomson said. It worked. The number of sellers using Amazon's warehouses increased by 65% in 2013, according to a letter sent to investors. The company has since spent billions of dollars to continue building out its fulfillment network.
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== March 2016 ==
Hello, I'm CAPTAIN RAJU. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to List of The Next Step episodes has been undone because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. CAPTAIN RAJU (✉)
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How Brexit will really affect Britain's housing market Just 12 months ago, 'Project Fear' was in full swing with frontline Remainer, George Osborne, warning Brexit would push the UK into recession and see house prices plummet 18 per cent. A year on, and the Brexit camp is only too keen to point out that the prospect of Britain's divorce from Europe has barely left an imprint on house price growth or the economy. House prices are up 5.8 per cent in the year to February, according to latest figures from the Office for National Statistics today. Meanwhile, the Bank of England hiked its growth expectations in the most recent Inflation Report, with GDP expected to hit 2 per cent in 2017. But as Prime Minister Theresa May formally triggered Brexit negotiations at the end of last month, several key sets of data from the Bank of England were released - revealing things in the housing market may not be quite as rosy as hoped. Mortgage approvals for house purchase fell to 66,100 in February from 68,300 in January - below the consensus figure of 69,900. Meanwhile, net consumer credit - borrowing on credit cards, store cards, personal loans and car finance - increased by £1.4billion in February, below the £1.6billion average of the previous six months but slightly above the consensus of £1.3billion. Share this article Share 35 shares
Corporate borrowing also has begun to slow after a brief surge when interest rates were cut to 0.25 per cent in August last year. Net external finance raised by private non-financial corporations fell by £0.7billion in February, compared to an average increase of £2.4billion in the previous six months. Commercial property lending is also noticeably lower, with a critical measure - net lending - contracting for the second consecutive month in February. Net lending can be a more accurate measure of banks' appetite to lend and the amount of money they have available. It's the number you get when you subtract all of the loans paid back by borrowers in a period from all of the new loans made. When this figure is negative, banks are hoarding their cash, withholding it from the consumer economy. Small comfort is that at minus £108million, February's net lending against commercial property - offices and shops and the like - was an improvement from the previous month's figure of minus £738million. More widely, lender appetite is considerably down. At minus £4billion in February, net lending to the UK economy as a whole broke a streak of nine consecutive months in positive territory. Recent Nationwide figures suggested that house prices have peaked for now and inflation is on its way towards zero, with annual house price growth softening to 3.5 per cent in March and a 0.3 per cent fall month-on-month. Separate research from campaigning and advice body, HomeOwners Alliance and leading warranty provider, BLP Insurance, meanwhile suggests that more than 1 million UK adults have shelved plans to purchase a new property because of the vote to leave the European Union. The referendum result is just one of a number of factors leading increasing numbers of British homeowners to stay put rather than move property. The research found that over 7.5 million UK adults have put off plans to move this this year. A quarter said this was due to the increasing cost of living, another quarter said it was down to difficulty securing a mortgage or remortgaging and almost one in six of those who stated that they had put plans to move on hold said that the Brexit vote was behind their decision. What do these figures mean? Mortgage approvals reflect how willing banks are to lend to homeowners and those looking to buy their first property. Mortgages are considered the lowest risk form of debt - mainly because the loan is secured on your home and most people are likely to curb spending on nearly everything else before they stop repaying their mortgage. That these are falling - and they have been weak for the past three years already - is not a good sign. This is especially concerning given that mortgage rates are at their lowest ever level with a two year fixed rate available for an unbelievable 0.99 per cent. In plain English, people aren't buying and selling homes Partly this reflects weakness in the housing market, which is really struggling to deliver transactions: in plain English, people aren't buying and selling homes. Why? It's a chicken and egg situation: it could be because they can't (or think they won't) get a mortgage so they're not moving; it could be they think stamp duty is so expensive it makes more sense to spend that money building an extension instead of moving to a bigger house; or, it could be that sellers are refusing to part with homes they believe are worth more than buyers are willing to pay.
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Shimon Peres: Israel's warrior for peace dies In top leadership roles over the decades -- including Prime Minister and President -- the Labor Party veteran became a face of the Jewish State, instantly recognized and well-respected in Israel and across the globe. "There's no corner of this country that he hasn't touched," Zionist Union Chairman Isaac Herzog once said. "Everywhere he goes around the world, people listen to him." Peres retired from public office in 2014 after the end of his seven-year term as President. In Israeli politics for more than half a century, he held virtually every position in Cabinet, from minister of defense to Prime Minister, a position he held three times. He battled Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for Labor Party leadership in the 1980s and 1990s, eventually becoming Rabin's foreign minister. In that role, Peres concluded the Oslo Peace Accords, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 with Rabin and Yasser Arafat. "I am very grateful to him for a lifetime of thinking big thoughts and dreaming big dreams and figuring out practical ways to achieve them," President Bill Clinton once said of a man he considered a friend. After Rabin was assassinated in 1995, Peres became Prime Minister, calling early elections so the government would have a mandate to pursue a two-state solution. But a wave of Palestinian suicide attacks left Peres struggling to defend the peace process, ultimately costing him the next election. Former Israel Prime Minister and Nobel laureate Shimon Peres' career in politics spanned several generations. He's seen here during a meeting with Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout on May 5, 2010. Peres retired from public office in 2014 after a seven-year term as President. By then, he had been in Israeli politics for more than half a century, holding virtually every position in the Cabinet and emerging as a staunch advocate for peace in the Middle East. Here, Peres sits in his office in Tel Aviv, Israel, in November 1969. Peres, left, with then-Israel Defense Minister Ariel Sharon on January 2, 1974 in Ras Sudar in Egypt's Sinai Desert. The two were visiting one of the sites of the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and a coalition of Arab states. Peres, then Israel's Minister of Defense, pointing over Israel's northern border towards Lebanon during a tour of Lebanese border defenses on January 22, 1976. Defense Minister and acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres speaks with Israeli Arabs before Israelis go to the polls in Umm al-Fahm, Israel, on May 17, 1977 in the country's national elections. Shimon Peres speaking in the Druze village of Daliyat al-Karmel in Israel on May 10, 1977. Israeli Labor Party leader Shimon Peres in Paris in 1981. He chaired the left-leaning party until 1992. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, right, consults with Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin on November 26, 1986, during a vote in the Israeli parliament, Knesset, about shipments of arms to Iran. Right-wing Israeli Premier Yitzhak Shamir, center, walks past Labor party leaders Yitzhak Rabin, left, and Shimon Peres during a special Knesset summer session meeting on May 7, 1990, in Jerusalem. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, with an unidentified aide, signs a peace agreement on September 13, 1993 between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Oslo, Norway. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, President Bill Clinton and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat look on from behind. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin display their Nobel Peace Prizes on December 10, 1994 in Oslo, Norway. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, President Bill Clinton, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and PLO Leader Yasser Arafat, from left, pose at their one-day Summit of Peacemakers in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on March 13, 1996. Former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres makes a passionate plea for the Labor party to join a national unity government with the Likud party during a meeting of the party's central committee in Tel Aviv February 26, 2001. Peres' leadership spans decades, and generations. He retired from public office in 2014 after the end of his seven-year term as President. Israeli Vice-Premier Shimon Peres, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon attend the 32nd annual memorial ceremony for the late Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in the southern Israeli kibbutz of Sde Boker on December 7, 2005.
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Zimbabwe dared to hope. Then the military arrived Like the fleeting blossom of Jacaranda trees in spring, faith in the government of Zimbabwe's president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has waned, following another round of state violence towards unarmed citizens. A Harare woman wounded in the leg by a close-range gunshot from a soldier's gun is ferried in a wheelbarrow to seek medical help. Elsewhere in the capital, a young footballer is killed for standing outside his home - his sole crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time. These days, on the streets of Harare, an unnatural silence and fear have displaced the wild cheers of celebration that accompanied the 2017 resignation of Robert Mugabe as president. Hope has turned into mourning in cities around the country, where a general strike opposing Mnangagwa's 150% fuel price hike turned bloody. At least 12 unarmed civilians have been killed and hundreds injured in a brutal crackdown led by the military. Our nation has had its moment in the sun - and is now trapped in a cycle of terror and unrest. Armed soldiers are a fixture on the streets, manning roadblocks and fuel stations. When you board a public bus, a soldier wielding a machine gun stands lifelessly next to the conductor. The government resorting to military control of civilian life is the clearest sign of failed leadership by Mugabe's successors. It's clear that until the military is removed from civilian spaces, Zimbabwe will only plunge into deeper political and economic misery. "The buck stops with Emmerson Mnangagwa when it comes to apportioning blame for the ongoing violence." Photograph: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images The involvement of the military in civilian politics is not new. As far back as 1975, as the country struggled for its independence, young military officers at the main Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (Zanla) training camp wrote a communique that led to the removal of Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole as leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu) liberation party. Sithole had helped found Zanu in 1963, but the military manoeuvred to replace him with Mugabe. This interference in politics did not end after independence in 1980. In 2008, the then commander of the defence forces, General Constantino Chiwenga, stated that he would not salute any political leader who did not have liberation war credentials - echoing the same call by his predecessor, General Vitalis Zvinavashe. The military played a key role in violence during the elections of 2008 and 2002. While the involvement of the military in civilian politics was more constrained during Mugabe's authoritarian tenure, even the wily president eventually lost control - he was forced out of office at the hands of the military in November 2017. Since then, the military has felt more emboldened than ever in playing a stronger role in social, political and economic affairs. Retired officers have been appointed to key cabinet, party and state positions, including the vice-presidency, Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Parks Authority. A popular claim, in the era of rising authoritarianism, is that "strongman" leadership and militaristic discipline is necessary for economic reforms and a stable environment. But as we are seeing in Zimbabwe, the reality is that strong military men often lack the required governing expertise, resorting to heavy-handed tactics instead. The military is also standing in the way of citizens" fundamental freedoms - and it prevents civilian politicians and the young, who did not participate in the 1970s liberation war, from truly taking part in the political process. The Zanu-PF leadership has consistently rehashed liberation narratives to ward off any alternative leadership emerging - meanwhile it fails to develop new political and economic programmes to actually help Zimbabwe. What is happening in Zimbabwe? - video report Until this system changes, Zimbabwe will continue to be deprived of the wealth of skills its varied citizens have to offer in rebuilding the country. Restricting political options to those who participated in the war of independence and those who find favour with them, has stifled the emergence of any new vision to take the nation forward. The task of removing the military from civilian and political life is not going to be easy. Mnangagwa's party and the military have been intertwined since the 1970s, while he only came to power because of the military's support. But make no mistake about it: Mnangagwa is the commander-in-chief - only he can lawfully deploy soldiers on to the street or make them step down. The buck stops with Mnangagwa when it comes to blame for the ongoing violence.
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Jonathan Midol (born 13 January 1988) is a French freestyle skier and Olympic medalist. He was born in Annecy. He competed in ski cross at the World Ski Championships 2013, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where he earned a bronze medal in ski-cross. His brother is also a medallist skier, Bastien Midol. ==References==
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==Quotes cannot be Wikified==
Skomorokh, quotes by their nature cannot be wikified. The quotes have been provided to demonstrate that Wikiversity is indeed notable at the leading edge of pedagogical research and belongs in Wikipedia just as other similar inititiatives such as MIT's OpenCourseWare or One Laptop Per Child programs. If you wish to reinsert the wikifiy tag please place it near the top of the article to indicate you wish the entire article wikified without inviting insertions into quotes provided with citation to original sources for readers eddification. Many people have asked what is Wikiversity and what makes it notable. These research papers help answer those questions in detail for anyone who wishes to learn about Wikiviersity or edit the article in good faith. Thanks for your consideration in this matter. cc Wikiversity discussion page. Lazyquasar (talk)
One thing that could be done is to convert the inline citations to footnote referencing. See Citing sources for how to wikify the links. One thing that could be done is to remove that section. Its the majority of the article and reads like a giant advertisement created to promote the subject. == Applicability Section ==
Since no one really wanted to discuss the content itself, let's be bold. While there are a lot of good quotes here, they're best used as citations for content, and not simply as the content themselves. If the major content of an article is just quotes from other sources, what kind of article do we have? Not a very good one in my opinion. I'd recommend an interested party take these sources and create their own words to discuss the applicability of wikiversity using these as citations. Otherwise it just reads as some kind of testimonial section, or an advert as I tagged it. "Hey look how great this subject is, all these people say so!" If anyone needs those quotes for creating a section based on their own words, feel free to grab them from the history(
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Overweight Canadian mom sheds a third of her body weight Meet the fitness coach who turned her life around after a bout of post-pregnancy binge eating and amazingly lost a third of her body weight. Alyssa Pegios, 23, from Vancouver, enthusiastically satisfied her pregnancy cravings, munching on fast food every day after giving birth to her daughter in December. She developed severe morning sickness during her pregnancy, which caused her to binge whenever she felt she couldn't keep her food down. She also felt lethargic, and struggled to stay active. Scroll down for video But Alyssa got a serious wake-up call while celebrating Valentine's Day with her boyfriend Clayton, when she ended up eating all of her own chocolates - before moving onto her boyfriend's. The mother-of-one admits she felt incredibly embarrassed about how easily she found herself binging on unhealthy foods, and was ashamed of her behavior - and of her weight, which meant she could barely pick up her newborn 6lb daughter, Natalie Jade. After discovering her weight had soared to 178lbs, size 10 Alyssa decided enough was enough. The Canada native decided to become a beach body coach, and was astonished - and thrilled - to shed 41lbs in just five months; she now weighs a dainty 137lbs and wears between a size 2 and a size 4. But while Alyssa admits she hit her heaviest weight as a result of her pregnancy binges, and subsequent unhealthy habits, her stressful relationship with food is something she had suffered with for many years. Despite growing up in a sporty environment, Alyssa started to suffer from an eating disorder from the age of 15 and, as a result, her weight had fluctuated until she found out she was pregnant. 'I quit all the sports that I was doing when I was 14, because high school social life took over. I quit football, baseball, dance, field hockey and volleyball,' she explained. 'When I was 15 I became depressed and developed an eating disorder. I would binge and purge on food, I would work out twice a day every day. 'I stopped eating altogether at one point. My weight since then has fluctuated a lot over the years. I had put on a lot of weight as I got older and last year in April 2016, I learned I was pregnant. 'I couldn't keep any food down, so after I had given birth I ate everything in sight. I had horrible food cravings because I was so deprived my entire pregnancy. 'I ate fast food every single day because a new mom barely has any time to cook. I came up with every excuse in the book not to take care of my body. 'The day after Valentine's Day, I ate all the chocolate my boyfriend bought me and I ate all the chocolate I had bought him. 'After staring at myself in the mirror for a good five minutes, I said enough is enough. I knew if I continued down this path of binge eating, I would become miserable and develop post-partum depression.' As well as wanting to get healthy for her own sake, Alyssa explained that she was also desperate to turn her life around in order to set a good example for her baby girl, so that she will grow up to feel confident, healthy and happy in her own skin. 'I have a beautiful daughter to take care of and give her the best life possible,' the new mom said. 'I want her to grow up with a mom that loves every bit of herself. 'I want her to have a very healthy balanced lifestyle. I knew that thirty minutes a day of working out and a total change in my diet was a must if I wanted to be the best mother I could be.' Her diet has changed significantly from fast food seven days a week, burgers, fries, candy, chocolate, slushies and tacos to a healthy balanced meal with a cheat day once a week. Her exercise regime has changed as well. While she used to consume well above 2,500 calories, Alyssa's new diet and exercise routine means she now only consumes 1,300. But achieving the look she's always dreamed of was certainly not a smooth - or an easy - journey. Alyssa says that the biggest challenge she faced was to make the decision to lose weight in the first place. 'I did not exercise for years. When I would exercise in the past, I would only do cardio for about an hour. I now do homework outs that are thirty minutes long; perfect for a busy mom,' Alyssa said. 'They involve weight training and working multiple body parts at once, which increase the calories being burned.
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At long last, Cubs fans get to party like it's 1945 Chicago - Even when the Chicago Cubs pulled ahead, 3-1, Sunday against the Cleveland Indians as they sought to fight off elimination in the World Series, the crowd's roar was oddly muted, not the deep-from-the-belly howl so often heard across the North Shore from Wrigley Field this year. Yes, the Cubs had already scored more runs than in the previous two games combined. But this was just the bottom of the fourth, and it seemed as if a familiar Cub quality had settled over this World Series. Most everything the Cubs did didn't work, while the Indians went from one checkmate move to the next. There was such a long way to go. And there was so much that still could go wrong. In the end, the Cubs took a leaf from the Indians playbook, riding their best reliever longer than he had ever pitched in his major league career - 2-1/3 innings of 100-m.p.h. fastballs that left scorch marks on opposing bats. But after the Indians had scored the sixth inning to make it 3-2, ace reliever Arnoldis Chapman was no longer a luxury. Just as the Indians have ridden Andrew Miller's extended outings to the verge of a World Series title, Cubs manager Joe Maddon turned to Chapman so his team could stay alive. The Cubs" closer had never pulled off a two-inning save in his career. Sunday, with World Series elimination on the line, he went one out further. When Chapman's last fastball sailed past the flailing swing of the Indians" José Ramírez, there was nothing muted about Cubs" fans reaction. The Cubs had one a home game in a World Series for the first time since 1945. After the obligatory singing of "Go Cubs Go," they seemed happy to dance to anything the Wrigley deejay might throw at them. As the Cubs returned to the field well to wave at the crowd, the loudspeakers could have been playing Mozart's Prague symphony for all the North Siders cared. The party wasn't ending anytime soon. "I was stunned," said Tony Barone, a season ticket holder, of the decision to bring in Chapman in the seventh inning. "That's why Joe's the manager and not me." He predicted the Cubs would come back to win the World Series. Repeating the seemingly impossible two more times as the series shifts back to Cleveland shouldn't be too hard, right? Sunday night was a circus of the fantastic. There was the five-ring catch in the top of the second, when Cubs catcher David Ross missed a foul popup and first baseman Anthony Rizzo, behind him, managed to tip the ball to himself to complete the out. And then, one batter later, there was the moment when the Cubs did what they have tried to avoid at all costs this series - they gave up the first run. Ramírez stepped to the plate and belted a soaring solo home run to left field. The game was the first time that Cleveland has lost this postseason after scoring first. In the bottom of the fourth, All-Star Kris Bryant (1-for-14 coming into Sunday's game) nailed a solo shot to left field. And the rest of the lineup followed with the clutch hitting that had abandoned them during the previous two home games and put two more runs on the board. Before the game, fan Elias Vazquez had scrawled a few words in orange chalk on the brick outside Wrigley: "Just Enjoy the Show," he wrote. He explained, "you're not always in the World Series if you're a Cubs fan. You just enjoy it while it lasts." History is on the Indians" side. No team since the 1979 Baltimore Orioles has come back from a 3-1 deficit with the final two games on the road. Indians fans may remember another series, though, up 3-1 in the 2007 American League Championship Series against the Boston Red Sox. The Sox would go on to win the series and sweep the World Series. Indians manager Terry Francona, for his part, isn't thinking much about history. "I'm not real big picture," Francona said. "We'll show up whatever day is the next day and see if we can beat them."
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Trump has an easement to lease the roof space; he doesn't own it. But three tax experts, including Melanie Brock, an appraiser and paralegal who has worked on hundreds of New York City tax cases, told ProPublica that the income should still be reported on the tax appeals forms. It's hard to guess what might explain every inconsistency, said David Wilkes, a New York City tax lawyer who is chair of the National Association of Property Tax Attorneys. But, he added, "My gut reaction is it seems like there's something amiss there." Tax records for Trump personally and for his business continue to be subjects of contention in multiple investigations. The Justice Department has intervened in the investigation by the Manhattan district attorney, whose office has sought Trump's personal tax returns. Congressional lawmakers investigating his business dealings have sought documents from his longtime accountant, Donald Bender, a partner at Mazars. Trump is fighting the subpoenas in court. (Bender did not respond to requests for comment.) Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has said the committee is seeking to determine if Cohen's testimony about Trump inflating and deflating his assets was accurate. Cummings asked for Mazars" records related to Trump entities, as well as communications between Bender and Trump or Trump employees since 2009. Such communications, the subpoena stated, should include any related to potential concerns that information Trump or his representatives provided his accountants was "incomplete, inaccurate, or otherwise unsatisfactory."
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Heinz Neukirchen (January 13, 1915 – December 8, 1986) was an officer of the Kriegsmarine in World War II, and a Vizeadmiral in the People's Navy (Volksmarine) of the German Democratic Republic as well as President of the East German Directorate of Maritime and Port Industries. He was the author of several maritime books. Neukirchen was born in Duisburg, Germany, the son of a small farmer and vegetable dealer. After graduation from high school he worked an internship from 1931 to 1932, then one year as a freelancer for the Düsseldorfer News. Neukirchen began service in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in 1935. As a crewmember of the German cruiser Köln Neukirchen served in the Spanish Civil War and received the Spanish Cross. From 1939 to 1940, holding the rank of a boatswain, he was a harbor protection commander. Following several warrant officer courses, Neukirchen served from 1943 to 1944 as a watch officer on a mine ship. In the last year of World War II, he was a Lieutenant and commander of Submarine chaser stationed in Norway. In addition to this duty he became a National-Socialist guidance officer in 1944 and served in 1945 as a battery commander of Naval infantry. From 1945 to 1949 he was in Soviet captivity. He joined the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD) in 1949, and worked until 1950 as a manager of the NDPD political department in Mecklenburg. After one year he became the Deputy Chairman of the Board of the NDPD for the Berlin district. Neukirchen joined the Main Administration Sea Police (Hauptverwaltung Seepolizei (HVS)) on March 1, 1951. From 1954 to 1956, Neukirchen was Chief of Staff of the Sea Police. He was appointed to the rank of Rear Admiral on October 1, 1952. In 1956 he attended the Soviet Naval Academy. Upon his return, he served until 1961 as Deputy Chief of the People's Navy (Seestreitkräfte/Volksmarine) and as Chief of Staff of the People's Navy command. In 1959, he married Irmgard Neukirchen, a mother of 6 children from a previous husband. He commanded the People's Navy (Volksmarine) from 1961 to 1963, while Wilhelm Ehm attended the Soviet Naval Academy. After Ehm's return, he served again as a Deputy Chief of the People's Navy and Chief of Staff of the People's Navy command until his retirement from active service on November 30, 1965. On March 1, 1964, he was promoted to Vice Admiral. After 1965, Neukirchen served as the President of East Germany's Directorate of Maritime and Port Industries. From 1965-67 he also served as the first chairman of the Football Club FC Hansa Rostock. Neukirchen died in 1986 in Rostock, GDR. == Neukirchen's publications ==
Krieg zur See (Deutscher Militärverlag, Berlin 1966)
Handbuch Seeverkehr. Bd. 1 (1969)
Handbuch Seeverkehr. Bd. 2. Collective authors: Reinhold Dopatka u.a. Head Author: Günter Babst; (Editor) Reinhold Dopatka und Heinz Neukirchen (1970)
Handbuch Seeverkehr. Bd. 3. Head author: Gottfried Schulze; Lothar Uhlig; (Editor) Gottfried Schulze und Heinz Neukirchen (1970)
Seefahrt gestern und heute (Transpress, Berlin 1970)
"Häfen und Schiffe" (Transpress, Berlin 1974)
Piraten - Seeraub auf allen Meeren (Transpress, Berlin 1977)
"Geusen - Lieber ertrunken als gefangen" (Transpress, Berlin 1980)
"Klar vorn und achtern - Auf einem Schaukelpferd zum Rio de la Plata" (Transpress, Berlin 1983)
"Mit ungewissem Kurs" (Transpress, Berlin 1985)
Seemacht im Spiegel der Geschichte (Transpress, Berlin 1982)
Seefahrt im Wandel der Jahrtausende (Transpress, Berlin 1985)
Seelord Gerry oder Wiedersehen mit Afrika (Transpress, Berlin 1989)
His books have been translated into many languages.
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Army exercises Lockheed Martin PBL contract option ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army has exercised a contract option with Lockheed Martin for sustainment of a targeting and night vision system used by Apache helicopter pilots. The system -- the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor -- is a long-range, forward-looking infrared system with enhanced visual resolution. More than 1,300 M-TADS/PNVS systems have been delivered by Lockheed Martin to the U.S. Army and international customers for use on the AH-64. Lockheed Martin said the exercised option is worth 82 million and comes under a four-year performance based logistics contract it received from the Army in 2012. The overall value of that contract is $375 million. "The partnership between the Army Aviation and Missile Command Logistics Center and Lockheed Martin has built a comprehensive logistics solution that consistently meets or exceeds required aircraft readiness rates," said Rob Breter, Apache PBL senior program manager at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "During its peak operational tempo of more than 200,000 flying hours, the M-TADS/PNVS PBL program averaged a worldwide supply availability rate of 98 percent, increasing mission readiness for the aircrew." © 2015 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.
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But Lusk sees immigrants as a burden. So do nearly half (47%) of the white, working-class people polled, compared with 20% of white college grads. He says immigrants are draining the school and health care systems, and that some of them have brought crime to the city. Those who came illegally should be sent back, he says, but they probably never will be -- given how much of a financial interest many companies have in keeping them around. "If they legalize," he says, "we'll probably have a Hispanic mayor in 10 years." 'Let's move forward' Just a few blocks from the center of Albertville, a historical marker in front of the city's museum talks about migration. But it's referring to people who moved to this mountain town from Georgia and Tennessee in the 1800s. It wasn't until about 30 years ago, museum board member Danny Maltbie says, that immigrants from other countries started trickling in. Maltbie spends a lot of time digging up information about Albertville's history. Visit the retired automotive plant electrician while he's volunteering at the museum and he'll tell you about devastating tornadoes that ripped off roofs and forced the city to rebuild -- twice. He'll tell you that the railroad rumbling through town changed everything, bringing fertilizer for the first time and giving farmers the chance to grow crops in the tough mountain soil. He'll tell you that the arrival of the chicken plants decades ago boosted the economy and eventually brought thousands of immigrants here. And he'll tell you how happy he was to give a recent tour of the town cemetery to a class of high school students learning to speak English. "I thought that was a very good thing that those kids came to see our museum and learn about our history," he says. Now, he says, it's their history, too. "They're here," he says. "Let's accept them. Let's move forward." Local legend has it that signs near the US-Mexico border once informed immigrants that jobs were waiting for them in Albertville. Whether that's how they ended up here, there's no doubt they left their mark on the city once they arrived. The museum's volunteer board has debated how to deal with the influx. Inside the one-room museum, there are displays about the town's founder, its Main Street and its small African-American population. But immigration is a topic that hasn't yet been touched on the museum's walls. It's a sensitive issue, museum board member Glenda Wooten says, and they're still trying to sort out the right wording. This month, volunteers added a new entry to the official timeline they hand out to visitors: "1992: First Hispanics moved to Albertville from Mexico to work in the chicken plants. The children were enrolled in the school system, speaking no English and local administrators and teachers did not speak Spanish. Soon, Albertville City Schools' enrollment for Mexicans/Hispanic students was one of the largest in the state." 'Diversity is a strength' About 40% of Albertville High School's more than 1,300 students are Hispanic, Principal Deidra Robinson says. Students from different backgrounds didn't used to mingle much, she says, but now they stand shoulder to shoulder on the football field and sit together in the cafeteria. "They just grew up together," she says. And even when tension in the community has boiled over, she says, officials worked hard to keep it out of the schools. "We don't let immigration or the diversity of our school be a barrier to our success," she says. "We see it as part of our success.... It's helping prepare our students for the real world." A majority (60%) of working-class whites in the CNN/KFF poll say increasing diversity is enriching American culture. But 33% view diversity as a threat, and 38% say increasing diversity is harmful because "some people feel like they no longer belong." Robinson says teachers in Albertville make sure everyone has a place. The school system has programs dedicated to helping newcomers who are still learning English, she says, and most immigrants who need the classes are quick learners. There's one figure Robinson says she frequently mentions to skeptical parents and community members as she fights the misconception that large amounts of school resources are being spent on immigrants. Only about 10% of her students are still learning English, she says. "When somebody asks a question, they try to make it about color. I just go to turning it around.... Most of them are actually proficient in both languages," she says. "That's a comfort to some people." 'I believe in the rule of law' Chuck Ellis thinks of the way his 11-year-old daughter, Marli, wakes up in the morning.
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Prince Charles unhappy with arms role, new biography claims 3 February 2015 Last updated at 13:20 The Prince of Wales no longer wants to promote UK arms sales in Gulf states, a new biography by Catherine Mayer says. The book, Charles: Heart Of A King, which is not authorised by Clarence House, claims Prince Charles "doesn't like being used to market weaponry" and avoids doing so where possible. Its publication this Thursday comes ahead of the prince's tour to the Middle East later in February. Clarence House said the visit aimed to strengthen relationships in the region. Prince Charles has been a frequent visitor to the Middle East, and last month joined world leaders in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh to pay his respects following the death of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. 'Effective asset' Charles: Heart Of A King - written by Time magazine journalist Mayer - is being serialised in The Times newspaper. In the book, Mayer writes that Prince Charles has the confidence of key contacts in the Gulf region and has been an "effective asset" for the UK Foreign Office and the British intelligence community. On the arms issue, she says: "A source close to the prince says he doesn't like being used to market weaponry and now sidesteps such activities where possible." "If he has changed his mind, why doesn't the dissident prince speak up? One answer - according to insiders, is that he has done so, in - thus far - private communications. If he is uncomfortable with his itineraries, he will say so." She continues: "Another answer is that any noisy protests would diminish his usefulness in the Gulf. Some of the objectives of his recent trip to Saudi Arabia relied on that vanishing commodity: secrecy." Prince Charles is due to return to Saudi Arabia as part of a six-day Middle East tour starting on Saturday. He will also visit Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. A Clarence House spokesman said: "The Prince of Wales' upcoming visit to the Middle East is not about sales of defence equipment and is not essentially commercial. "The Prince of Wales undertakes official visits on behalf of Her Majesty's Government. "The five countries the prince is visiting in the Middle East are important allies and key partners to the UK. This visit to the Middle East like others is to strengthen relationships and highlight stability in the region." The spokesman added: "The programme has been designed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, its Middle East posts and Clarence House to make the most of the prince's knowledge and expertise, and to highlight both HRH's concerns and those of the UK government about conflict in the region." No exclusive access Mayer's biography also quotes a former staff member comparing Clarence House's internal rivalries to "Wolf Hall," with "common and bloody" turf wars between Prince Charles' employees. Clarence House has said the biography was not authorised and the author did not have any exclusive access to the prince or his staff. Mayer has said she made "no over-claims about access." Speaking to BBC Breakfast, she said she had spent "about six months trailing" Prince Charles for a Time cover story in 2013. "I had some help from Clarence House to not only attend events that press could accredit for, but also to talk to members of his inner circle and his friends," she said. "After that cover story came out I continued researching. I went to every event that it was possible to get to." Asked how much time she had spent with the prince "personally," she said: "I've sat down with him once and recorded a conversation." Ms Mayer added: "By the standards of other journalists I have spent a lot of time with him."
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Shimon Peres funeral: Leaders hail legacy of former Israeli leader Media captionIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led the eulogies World leaders have hailed the vision of the late Israeli leader, Shimon Peres, as he is laid to rest days after his death at the age of 93. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described him as "a great man of the world," as he led the eulogies. US President Barack Obama said the presence of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the funeral was a reminder of the "unfinished business of peace." Mr Abbas was among dozens of foreign dignitaries attending in Jerusalem. Security was intensified ahead of the ceremony, with several people arrested. Delivering an emotional address, Mr Netanyahu said that while Israel and the world grieved for Mr Peres there was hope in his legacy. "Shimon lived a life of purpose," he told thousands gathered at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl cemetery. "He soared to incredible heights. He swept so many with his vision and his hope. He was a great man of Israel. "He was a great man of the world." 'Biggest dreamer' Former US President Bill Clinton, who helped negotiate the Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians in the 1990s, said he was Israel's "biggest dreamer." "He imagined all the things the rest of us could do. He started life as Israel's brightest student, became its best teacher and ended up its biggest dreamer." Media captionPresident Obama said seeing Mr Abbas at the funeral was "a reminder of unfinished peace" US President Barack Obama closed the eulogies, comparing Mr Peres to "some of the other giants of the 20th Century that I've had the honour to meet, like Nelson Mandela and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth." Mr Peres, he said, believed in equality for Palestinians. "Even in the face of terrorist attacks, even after repeated disappointments at the negotiation table, he insisted that as human beings Palestinians must be seen as equal in dignity to Jews and must therefore be equal in self determination." Farewell to founding generation - by Kevin Connolly, BBC News On Mount Herzl where evergreen trees shaded the dusty walkways from the late-summer sunshine, an extraordinary congregation assembled to say goodbye to Shimon Peres. You could have worked out that it was his funeral from the guest list alone - Prince Charles and Barack Obama, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. It's hard to imagine any other leader being mourned in quite the same way. Israel said goodbye to the last of its founding generation and global diplomacy mourned a lost star, but the children of Shimon Peres grieved a father and spoke of him with elegance and simplicity. And Mr Peres remained in command to the end, choosing his own funeral music. It was a setting of an old prayer he remembered his grandfather singing to him in the pre-war Poland of the 1920s. Elegant and mournful, it played at the end of the old president's long journey, as it had played at the start. Before the ceremony began, Mr Abbas was seen shaking hands and speaking briefly with Mr Netanyahu. The last substantial public meeting between the two leaders was in 2010, with peace efforts completely suspended since April 2014. Hamas, the hardline Palestinian group that runs Gaza, condemned Mr Abbas's decision to attend the ceremony. Media captionShimon Peres was considered the last of Israel's founding fathers Mr Abbas, along with Mr Peres, was one of those who signed the Oslo peace accords in 1993, in the presence of Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin. Mr Peres, Mr Rabin and Mr Arafat were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East." All three have now died. Image copyright AP Image caption Taken months after the Oslo Agreement was signed, this photograph shows Shimon Peres, left, with Mahmoud Abbas, centre, and Egypt's then Foreign Minister Amr Moussa Mr Peres' reputation in the region is complicated by the 1996 shelling of Qana in southern Lebanon that killed more than 100 people who were sheltering in a UN compound. It happened when, as prime minister, he ordered an offensive against a wave of rocket fire by the militant Hezbollah movement. He later said it was a "bitter surprise" to find that several hundred people were in the camp at the time. Security operation Mr Peres' coffin was earlier escorted by a military honour guard from the parliament building in Jerusalem to Mount Herzl, Israel's national cemetery, where he was laid to rest alongside many of the country's former leaders. Jordan and Egypt - the only two Arab countries to have signed peace deals with Israel - both sent official representatives to the ceremony.
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Racing news and tips: Willie Mullins" Faugheen to miss Cheltenham Festival Faugheen, the 2015 Champion Hurdle winner, and Min, a leading contender for the Arkle Trophy, will both miss the Cheltenham Festival next month after Willie Mullins, their trainer, was forced to concede on Monday that neither horse will recover from an injury in time to line up at jumping's showpiece meeting. Mullins has dominated the Festival meeting in recent seasons, finishing the week as the leading trainer for the last four years, and five times in the last six. Ireland's champion trainer has suffered a series of setbacks in the current campaign, however, including the loss of about 60 horses following a dispute with leading owner Michael O'Leary over training fees. Vautour, last year's Ryanair Chase winner, suffered a fatal injury in November while Annie Power, last year's Champion Hurdle winner, was ruled out of a defence of her title last month. She will now be joined on the sidelines by two more leading contenders for championship events. Faugheen was the 5-2 favourite for the Champion Hurdle on Monday morning, while Min was quoted at around 7-2 second-favourite for the Arkle behind Nicky Henderson's Altior. Faugheen was ruled out of the defence of the Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown eight days ago with what Mullins hoped was a minor muscle problem, but a more serious injury came to light on Monday. Min also missed an intended engagement on the same card. "We had hoped Faugheen had just tweaked a muscle, but we've had it checked out and it's a stress fracture," the trainer said on Monday. "Min has a bruise. Hopefully both will still make the track this season. It's a real shame with Faugheen, we needed everything to go right and obviously it hasn't. "There are options at Fairyhouse [in mid-April] and Punchestown [in late April] for Min, and hopefully he makes one of them, while we'll try to get Faugheen ready for [the Irish Champion Hurdle at] Punchestown [on 28 April]." The news that two leading contenders for two-mile events on the Festival's opening day had both been ruled out caused inevitable upheaval in the ante-post betting, and also prompted speculation about possible changes of plan for other horses in the Mullins yard. Nicky Henderson's Buveur D'Air, who took the Contenders Hurdle at Sandown Park on Saturday, is the new favourite for the Champion Hurdle at a top price of 4-1, just ahead of the 5-1 chance Petit Mouchoir, who joined Henry de Bromhead after leaving the Mullins yard following the trainer's fallout with O'Leary. Both horses ran well in last season's Supreme Novice Hurdle, while Buveur D'Air then went on to beat Petit Mouchoir in the Grade One Top Novice Hurdle at Aintree in April. Neither horse, though, managed a win as impressive as that of Mullins's Yorkhill in the Neptune Novice Hurdle at Cheltenham, a race that has been won by several subsequent Champion Hurdle winners in the last 20 years. Yorkhill beat Yanworth, who is 11-2 for the Champion Hurdle, by one-and-three-quarter lengths at last year's Festival, but started the season over fences and had been seen as a contender for either the Arkle Trophy or JLT Novice Chase. Instead, he is now in the unusual position of being quoted as the 5-2 ante-post favourite for the JLT, a 5-1 chance for the Arkle and also at 5-1 for the Champion Hurdle, as the markets anticipate a possible switch back to timber. Altior, meanwhile, is now generally quoted at around 1-2 for the Arkle Trophy, while Identity Thief, at 16-1, is the first opponent in the betting that seems certain to be aimed at the race. Hereford 2.10 Late Shipment 2.40 Gardiners Hill 3.15 Gayebury 3.50 Sparkling River 4.20 Wild West Wind 5.10 Tikkanbar Newcastle 1.30 Outlaw Torn 2.00 Spirit Of The Vale 2.30 Green Or Black 3.05 Pass The Time 3.40 Eastern Dragon (nb) 4.10 Angelou 4.40 Genres (nap) Market Rasen 1.50 Domperignon Du Lys 2.20 Little Miss Poet 2.50 Bastien 3.25 Mwaleshi 4.00 Minella Fiveo 4.30 Barel Of Laughs
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Russia slams U.S. for 'ignorance' over death of Abu Mohammed al-Adnani MOSCOW, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- The Russian Ministry of Defense on Friday took offense to comments a U.S. military official made earlier in the week, calling it "a joke" that Russia is claiming responsibility for killing the Islamic State's spokesman. The Islamic State -- also identified as Daesh, ISIL and ISIS -- announced the death of its spokesman, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani on Tuesday. Since then, Russia and the United States have each taken responsibility for the airstrike that killed him in Syria's Aleppo province. Al-Adnani was one of up to 40 IS members killed by a Russian bomber, the Russian ministry said Wednesday. But the Pentagon said a "precision strike" by U.S.-led coalition forces killed al-Adnani in Al-Bab, a town near the city of Aleppo. U.S. Defense Department spokesman Peter Cook responded to the Russian assertion with doubt. "We have no information to support Russia's claim that they carried out a strike against Adnani," Cook said. "From the start, Russia has spent most of its time in its military campaign propping up the Assad regime. It has not devoted much, if any, effort targeting ISIL's leadership. At the same time, we have not seen the Russian military campaign use precision weaponry on a regular basis. I'm not going to wager a guess as to why they might have a motive to engage in this and to discuss this, and maybe it's just a misunderstanding on their part. I know what ISIL itself has said. I know what the Russians have said. We don't trust -- we are not going to be satisfied simply to trust ISIL and the Russians on this." Russia's Ministry of Defense responded on Friday, taking particular issue with comments made by an anonymous Pentagon official who called Russia's claim of responsibility "a joke." "Unlike the U.S.-led 'anti-ISIS coalition' consisting of over 60 countries, the Russian Aerospace Forces effectively eliminate all terrorist without unreasonable hunt for separate individuals," the ministry said in a Facebook post. "It is to be noted that the main goal of the strike carried out by the Russian Aerospace Forces on August 30 was not Abu Mohammad al-Adnani but the grouping of 40 ISIS militants. "It is not a surprise that the Pentagon has no information concerning the strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces on August 30. For a year, U.S. representatives almost every day have been claiming that in any case they do not coordinate their military operations in Syria with Russia. Gentlemen, so how can you get the data? "That is why the anonymous claims according to which the elimination of Abu Mohammad al-Adnani is a 'joke' is the sole thing they can say to justify their unawareness," the post, translated into English by the ministry, concluded.
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Serbia to receive MiG-29 fighters from Russia March 28 (UPI) -- Serbia is to soon receive six Mikoyan MiG-29 jets from Russia as a gift, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said. Vucic made the comment after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who personally approved the transfer, Tass {link: "http://tass.com/defense/937813" target="_blank"} reported. "President Putin will sign a decree in the coming days to transfer the planes to us," Vucic said. "Then, technical issues will have to be tackled: how to transport the planes, whether they should be disassembled into parts or one of the countries will provide its airspace for their flight. Of course, we favor the latter option because this is faster. "Putin personally approved all that we had talked with [Russian Defense Minister] Sergei Shoigu on 30 T-72S tanks, 30 BRDM-2s and six MiG-29 planes." Serbia is to receive six MiG-29 fighter jets, 30 T-72 tanks and 30 BRDM-2 reconnaissance and patrol combat vehicles from Russia for free. Serbia, however, will pay as much as about $249.8 million for the aircrafts' upgrading. The MiG-29 is designated the Fulcrum by NATO and first came into service in 1982. Serbia and Russia are also holding talks on Russian Buk-M1 and Buk-M2 short-range anti-aircraft missile systems and the Tunguska air defense missile/gun complex. Serbia is to receive another eight MiG-29 fighters and two battalions of Buk surface-to-air missile complexes from Belarus on the condition that Belgrade pays for their repairs and upgrade.
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Mohammad H. Ansari is a theoretical physicist expert in quantum physics. In 2006 he proposed that quantum gravitational effects can be seen on top of Hawking radiation of black hole. He is the first winner of John Brodie prize from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. In 2015 Ansari and Nazarov proposed a quantum version of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem in quantum heat engines that is an exact correspondence between Rényi entropy and Full Counting Statistics (FCS) of energy transfers. ==References==
==External links==
Mohammad H Ansari on ResearchGate,
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Canadian physicists
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==3 million what?==
"the English Government had to pay heavy damages of three millions of money." Leaves something to be desired.??? 3 million? USD? GBP? Thanx 68.39.174.150
I've removed it. The sentence still makes sense without a specific value (not that it had one anyway...) —Wereon June 28, 2005 18:31 (UTC)
== Data source ==
Some of the passages in this article are word for word with a.mil website. I'm thinking this should be fixed or revised. — TheBenignBovine| (talk)
Yes, and that point is noted below. On what grounds do you think the text needs to be fixed or revised? The source data is public domain, so there are no copyright issues here. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk)
Sorry, forgot the link to the website. — TheBenignBovine| (talk)
Bah. My fault. Didn't notice the note at the bottom. — TheBenignBovine| (talk)
== WikiProject class rating==
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot
==The Funeral==
Preserving The funeral section here for further discussion:
Through the gracious services of the CSS Alabama Association and the Raphael Semmes Camp #11, Sons of Confederate Veterans; the body of an unknown sailor found at the wreckage of the CSS Alabama will be given proper Confederate Honors. Ceremonies will consist of a Memorial Service, Wake, Funeral Procession, and Interment in Confederate Rest of Mobile's Magnolia Cemetery. His Memorial Service will be conducted July 26, 2007, in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Mobile, Alabama. His Wake will be in the home of Admiral Raphael Semmes on Government Street, on July 28, 2007. The Funeral Procession, route yet to be finalized, will take place July 28, 2007, culminating at Confederate Rest in Mobile's Magnolia. I agree that it had a very definite point of view. Though it is irrelevant, I am a native Alabamian and had five direct ancestors who died fighting for the C.S.A. I still agree that this entry looks like it was written for a meeting of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view (NPOV), representing fairly and without bias all significant views (that have been published by reliable sources). This is non-negotiable and expected on all articles, and of all article editors. Removed due to lack of NPOV in order to rate the article as "B" class on Alabama. The references with the most obvious violations of the NPOV policy are now marked in bold. Since this is an event that should have now already taken place maybe the editor could find a newspaper article (such as from the (Mobile Register) to use as a source? See: Neutral point of view
See also: Verifiability
See also: Manual of Style (capital letters)
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==Two Years on the Alabama==
I would encourage those of you who are interested in this article to read the Sinclair book. Its a well written personal account. I got involved just to add some images. ==Rebel Flags Afloat==
The relationship of the new source is unclear, since some parts are phrased as if they were quotes from the source - inline footnotes and appropriate punctuation would be needed to clarify which are direct quotes, and which are paraphrased by the editor Tedickey (talk)
== Making new page for each Expeditionary Raid ==
Gents,
Hang with me. I made the first new Expeditionary Raid page (see main article) and will make the other 6 as soon as possible, within a day or two, along with a navigator template, perhaps. I will come back and add some more prose to the front of the history section, and help get that and the image setting better in the page. The Gray Ghost (Grayghost01 (talk) )
== Entering references correctly ==
Hello all,
I am new at this and this is probably a very basic question. I made two additions to the CSS Alabama article and copied the reference format I found in the article. I do not know why it didn't work and why my links remained red and didn't go to the source but rather to the edit page.
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NBA: Portland Trail Blazers wallop Oklahoma City Thunder to end skid Damian Lillard had 17 points and nine assists before sitting out the fourth quarter, and the Portland Trail Blazers snapped a four-game losing streak with a 114-95 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night in Portland. Russell Westbrook scored 20, well off his league-leading average of 31.1 points a game for the Thunder, who have lost two of three after a six-game winning streak. Mason Plumlee added 18 points for Portland, which led by 26 in its first game back after a 1-4 trip. Six Trail Blazers finished in double figures in the second of back-to-back games. The team was coming off a hard-fought 121-120 loss to the Clippers on Monday night at Staples Center that extended its longest losing streak this season. The Thunder were without Victor Oladipo because of a right wrist sprain. at Cleveland 103, Memphis 86: Kevin Love scored 29 points, J.R. Smith and LeBron James each had 23, and the Cavaliers won their fifth in a row and ended the Grizzlies" six-game winning streak. Memphis rested center Marc Gasol for the first of back-to-back games against the defending NBA champions. Cleveland rested point guard Kyrie Irving, and Coach Tyronn Lue said that James, Love and Irving would not travel to Memphis for Wednesday night's game. Minnesota 99, at Chicago 94: Zach LaVine scored 24 points, Andrew Wiggins had 23 and the Timberwolves erased a 21-point deficit to get Coach Tom Thibodeau a victory in his first game in Chicago since the Bulls fired him in an acrimonious split in 2015. Minnesota ended a four-game losing streak. Golden State 113, at New Orleans 109: Stephen Curry scored 30 points, Kevin Durant had 27 to go with a big block on Anthony Davis in the final minute, and Warriors held on to win after again struggling against a lesser opponent on the road. Davis finished with 28 points and five blocked shots for the Pelicans. at Phoenix 113, New York 111 (OT): Eric Bledsoe had 31 points, including the go-ahead basket with 30 seconds to play in overtime, and the Suns slowed down the Knicks, who had won six of seven. Kristaps Porzingis scored 34 for New York. Orlando 131, at Atlanta 120: Serge Ibaka scored 29 points, Elfrid Payton reached career highs with 26 points and 14 assists and the Magic snapped a three-game losing skid.
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On July 12, for example, the sunrise azimuth is around 59 degrees (in the NE part of the sky). I did some experimenting and found that for that New York City, I get sunrise azimuth of 119 degrees on/around December 6 and January 12. Those may be off by a day or so. Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Got my astronomical terminology confused. I meant to say that the two dates given straddle the summer solstice, not the equinox. So the article is actually wrong. I'll dig around on the USNO site, and fix it. Thanks for the info. uFu
error: "On May 28 and July 12 the sunrise and sunset are aligned with the street grid lines, so that the sun is visible at the horizon from street level." This statement is still incorrect. The sun may be visible on the said dates only when setting in the west. The corresponding rising dates in the east would be around the winter solstice (approx. 6-months from the setting dates), since the 'east-west' street grid points to the southeast. The sun does not rise in the southeast during May and July. I don't have the exact dates, but a cursory calculation for the said setting dates seems accurate. I will remove the word sunrise from the article, but it would be nice if someone with the proper calculation software could add the correct rise dates. J. Crocker
Okay, it's taken me a year, but here's what I've got. According to this page, the approximate deviation of Manhattan avenues from true north is +28.9. By the foregoing discussion, that gives us a sunrise azimuth of 118.9, and a sunset azimuth of 298.9. Using a little trial-and-error here to determine when the sun's altitude is zero when its azimuth equals these values, I get dates for 2006 of Jan 11 and Dec 2 for the sunrise, and May 25 and Jul 17 for the sunset. That should be accurate to within one minute and 1/10 of a degree. uFu
Article should mention that the island was bought from a neighboring tribe, and not the ones Manhattan belonged to (The Choctaws). == Photo arrangement ==
Anyone like the new photo arrangement? I myself was looking at getting the Times Square one full right, but server was acting up, so I gave up. Now I see somebody put all photos at top. I hope everyone likes what I did - there are no more large gaps in the text caused by the photos, and I made them all the same width for a more professional look. I like the fact that there are a lot of great photos in the article, but this can cause weird layout issues. Paradiso
On my screen (1600x1200), ALL the photos are up top and the first paragraph is squeezed into 8% of the screen width on the left. After that there are no more photos. Maybe try putting them all in one table no wider than the widest jpg
I fixed it for me - photos were NOT inside table before
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== Demographics ==
I've heard that although Manhattan has 1M people residential, it has 30M employees working there. Does anyone have the facts to back that up, as I think it would be nice in the article. Additionally, Brooklyn is described as "it would be the 4th largest city," and I'd like to see a comparison like that
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Zandperl (talk • contribs)
== Uptown/downtown ==
In Manhattan, uptown means north and downtown means south
Not quite. Manhattan has a concept of "north on the grid" (of streets), which is different from due north (or magnetic north, for that matter). As the map shows, Manhattan is a long, narrow island; most streets are laid out parallel or perpendicular to the long sides of the island. Going northeast along a long street is called going "north on the grid" (or just "north", more commonly). Uptown means north on the grid, and downtown means south on the grid. —msh210
Technically, Msh210, you're right. But, seriously, who thinks "north" in Manhattan means due north?
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== September 2017 ==
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Russia, Serbia lash out at UN war tribunal's Karadzic verdict - RT News A UN war crimes tribunal has become an instrument of "revenge" and a place to "settle old scores," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, criticizing the court's decision to sentence Radovan Karadzic to 40 years in prison on genocide charges. The Russian Foreign Ministry asserted that the verdict, which is one of the harshest ever meted out by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), appears to be very one-sided, as it attributes the sole responsibility for the Yugoslav civil war to the Serbs. Read more The ICTY has acquitted numerous other participants of the Yugoslav civil war in the past, including Croatian General Ante Gotovina, Kosovo Albanian Ramush Haradinaj, and Bosnian field commander Naser Oric, according to the statement. "The civil war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and the NATO bombardments are a tragic chapter in world history," the Russian Foreign Ministry said. "It is hard to imagine that only one side committed all the crimes in that war. The ICTY, however, continues building a myth of the Serbs" sole responsibility for those events." This kind of approach has undermined interethnic reconciliation in the Balkans, the Foreign Ministry stressed. Karadzic had served as the Serb's leader in Bosnia during the civil war in the 1990s. The ICTY found him guilty on 10 out of 11 charges on Thursday. The only charge that was dropped related to allegations that Bosnian Serb forces had committed genocide in seven Bosnian municipalities. Read more He had been indicted on two counts of genocide, five counts of crimes against humanity, and four counts of violations of the laws of war for his role as President of Republika Srpska (the Bosnian Serb Republic) from 1992 to 1996. The Serbian Justice Minister, Nikola Selakovic, also accused the Hague-based court of bias against Serbs. "All justice that leads to the conviction of one people for crimes that were committed by everyone is selective," said Selakovic, adding that the ICTY's work over the last two decades has left a "bitter taste." In the meantime, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister, Gennady Gatilov, stated that the ICTY's activities have been "politicized." The Russian Foreign Ministry pointed out that Russia supported the creation of the ICTY back in 1993, but warned that the court should not become an instrument of revenge or a place to settle old scores. "These expectations have not come true," the Foreign Ministry said, adding that the ICTY judges don't even bother to hide some of the more questionable methods adopted by the court. Moscow also pointed out that the ICTY was set up as a temporarily body and has been working on an ad hoc provisional basis for the past 20 years. Moreover, the court has continually ignored deadlines set by the UN Security Council.
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Ian Foster promoted to All Blacks head coach role as successor to Steve Hansen Foster (right) with his predecessor Steve Hansen at the 2019 Rugby World Cup New Zealand have appointed Ian Foster to coach the All Blacks, replacing Steve Hansen who left the post at the end of the Rugby World Cup. Foster, 54, served as Hansen's assistant for eight years and saw off competition from Crusaders coach Scott Robertson to earn his promotion. "I feel truly privileged and honoured to be given this opportunity," he said. Warren Gatland and Joe Schmidt, former Wales and Ireland coaches respectively, had been linked with the job. Dave Rennie, who will leave Glasgow to take up the head coach role with Australia in July, and Jamie Joseph, who committed to leading Japan to another World Cup, had also been suggested as possible replacements for Hansen. New Zealand Rugby contacted 26 coaches over the vacancy, but Foster and Robertson, who has overseen three successive Super Rugby titles with the Crusaders, were the only two confirmed candidates. Robertson was the only other confirmed candidate for the All Blacks post "I'm incredibly proud of what we have achieved in the All Blacks over the last eight years and I'm excited and energised by a new coaching team who will join me," said Foster, who will announce his four-strong team of assistants at a later date. New Zealand won the World Cup in 2011 and 2015, but were beaten by England in the semi-finals of the 2019 tournament in Japan.
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Michelle tried to hug Nancy - and she was like, u wot m8? Well tbqfh I was never *quite* sure about Boris in the cabinet? I was like, Dave, please, you have done Glasto, you KNOW being inside the tent does not mean he will not piss in it, he was like, eeeeuw, can u not? But now he is like soz, my bad, Boris = nightmare, I'm like, do not tell me he has literally been weeing in there, Dave's like, only a couple of times, I'm like, swearing at everybody then, he's like, well that was to be expected, it is way worse, he will not stop crying? I'm like, SRSLY? Dave's like, srsly, when I said Oik would be helming PMQs Boris got properly hysterical, Nicki Morgan was totes drenched lol. So Mummy is like, darling everyone KNOWS the Johnsons have abnormal tear ducts, literally sluices, it goes with the blonde hair, I'm like, you might have warned us? She's like, well Willie and I have been tremendously preoccupied with the Mugabe style land-grab, you might tell Dave - I'm like, OMG look at the time, Mrs Obama must almost have finished inspiring schoolgirls in Tower Whatevers, Mummy's like, with her MOTHER, how marv, you know everyone calls Mrs Obama's mother the FGOTUS, simply priceless, imagine FGOUK, tho I'm sure I could make time - I'm like, sorry, here she comes now! Well everything is fine until Nancy gets home, Dave goes, ah here she is back from her TYPICAL BRITISH STATE SCHOOL, Michelle goes hey Nancy, hug?, wow, I am here because of you, the world needs girls like you to tackle the problems of climate change, poverty & disadvantage. Nancy is like, u fckng wot m8, Dad, does she even know we are Conservatives, btw stop hugging me pls I can't breathe. I'm like, actually I went to art school? Nancy's like, excuse me, Dad gave up on green crap like one million years ago & we literally heart poverty & disadvantage, tell her Dad. Dave's like *throws major shade at Nancy*, haha, kind of, Michelle, did I mention SOP, my new Share Our Privilege initiative? Michelle's like, cool, he's like, indeed, & Samantha and her mother will be SOP's Social Mobility Ambassadors, bringing their inspirational stories to deprived youngsters throughout the UK, I'm like *struggles with WTF face*, absolutely!!: ((( As seen by Catherine Bennett
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It also excludes Northern Ireland as they use districts for their first tier of local govt. So this vclears the way for the Counties of Ireland template to be re-named to "Traditional Counties of Ireland" while also removing the problematic City Councils from the template. By way of example, I've inserted it to the two Tipperary local govt articles.". Laurel Lodged (talk)
== County map descriptions ==
Sswonk brought up an interesting topic at the talk page of Sarah777 involving the location maps of Ireland which were all changed last year. They all use the same description "The island of Ireland, showing international border between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland, traditional provinces, traditional counties, and local authority areas in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland." I for one do not agree with these description and propose that they are all changed. For a start how can you have an international border between a sovereign state and a province? I suggest that they are changed to "County XXXX highlighted on an outline map of Ireland." as per the maps that they replaced. Bjmullan (talk)
Could I be very lazy and ask you to post an example of the options here? I know I wasn't too keen on the old version and I don't much like the new one either - maybe Sswonk with his good eye for nice maps could suggest a version? Sarah777 (talk)
I raised the issue of the map descriptions to point out the series of edits, shown here, on 18 June 2010. The latest maps are actually from 19 July 2010, and use the windier description that now stands. So, for ease of use, here are four descriptions of four types of map for County Wexford used since 2004, in order, oldest to newest:
map of County Wexford, Ireland
From:, uploaded 5 February 2004 by Morwen
County Wexford highlighted on an outline map of Ireland
From: Ireland_location_Wexford.jpg, uploaded 20 January 2010 by Asarlaí
Location of County Wexford on island of Ireland
From: County_Wexford.png, uploaded 18 June 2010 by Mabuska
The island of Ireland, showing international border between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland, traditional provinces, traditional counties, and local authority areas in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. From: Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Wexford.svg, uploaded 19 July 2010 by Mabuska
Certainly there are other options available to us as well, those are the descriptions that were used at the time of upload. My main point in mentioning this was that the latest description is written in a way that coincides with the use of ROI in the article leads. Sswonk (talk)
The descriptions should be simple. "County X highlighted on a map of Ireland" is fine. ~Asarlaí
The descriptions are fine - it's the flat pink/green combo is ugly. Could we have a topographical map with maybe different shades of green each side of the border then the county in question highlighted in topographical yellow? Something with a bit of style? Sarah777 (talk)
I did notice one of the golfers at the Masters yesterday had a pink shirt and green trousers - utterly naff. Sarah777 (talk)
Sarah777 those maps are the result of a very lenghty discussion and the colours settled for where what was agreed, and they don't look ugly. They actually do look good, and far better than the very pale and sealess maps that was there beforehand. Colour-wise i preferred something more along the Wikipedia conventions on map colours, however in the end that was what was agreed to. So are you guys seriously saying that the current description at Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Wexford.svg is inaccurate and wrong?? The map shows exactly what is being described. However if you check this edit at the base image for all the current county maps i created from Island_of_Ireland_location_map.svg, the exact same description as the base image which was inserted by Rannpháirtí anaithnid was copied over. No-one objected to the descriptions at the time so you can't pretend there was no agreement for it for if there was disagreement it wasn't voiced at the time. Also as we are depicting NI's counties in the map, when we state Ireland is is best used in reference to the island, otherwise it could imply they are part Ireland the state. @ Bjmullan, it is an international border, though we could simply state the United Kingdom instead. Mabuska (talk)
Steady on.
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USS Chafee (DDG-90) is an guided missile destroyer in United States Navy. She is named for Senator John Lester Hubbard Chafee (1922–1999), a Marine veteran of Guadalcanal who also served as the Secretary of the Navy. Chafee was laid down by the Bath Iron Works at Bath in Maine on 12 April 2001, launched on 2 November 2002 and commissioned on 18 October 2003. ==Ship history==
Chafee left her homeport of Pearl Harbor 20 May 2005 for her maiden deployment with the Carrier Strike Group (CSG). She returned to her homeport after a regularly scheduled deployment in support of the Global War on Terrorism. Chafee departed Pearl Harbor 9 April 2007, as part of the San Diego based Nimitz CSG and deployed to the U.S 5th Fleet (C5F) area of operations. On 1 June 2007, Chafee fired her main gun at Al-Qaeda suspects in the Puntland region of Somalia. The men were wanted for the 1998 United States embassy bombings. Chafee returned home to Pearl Harbor on 22 September 2007, marking the end a successful 167-day Western Pacific and Middle East deployment. Chafee is an active unit of the Pacific Fleet and operates out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; currently, Chafee is assigned to the carrier group. ==In popular culture==
The construction of USS Chafee and, from initial steel cutting to sea trials, was documented in the Discovery Channel television special "Destroyer: Forged in Steel". The destroyers were not referenced by name, but their numbers were visible on their bows. ==Coat of arms==
=== Shield ===
A white anchor on a background of blue surrounded by a thin wavy white border, and then surrounded by a red border that is marked with thirteen gold anchor - at the center of the shield - is borrowed from the Secretary of the Navy's Flag, in reference to John Chafee's time in that position. The thirteen stars is a reference to Rhode Island, Chafee's home state. The wavy border symbolizes the sea and Navy. The color white represents integrity. Blue and gold are the traditional colors of the navy, and the colors denote the sea the excellence, respectively. While the color red denotes courage. === Crest ===
In gold, an eagle is holding a red serpent with its beak. The eagle is clutching arrows with its talons, and it is perched on a representation of the Senate Chamber of the Capitol Building. Behind the eagle, a Naval Officer's sword and a Marine Corps mameluke in saltire points upwards. A laurel wreath serves as a back ground and encircles the eagle. The base of the crest is a blue and white decorative two swords signify Chafee's military service in two wars, specifically the mameluke symbolizes his time in the Marine Corps. The laurel wreath is a symbol Chafee's honor and achievement during his time as a marine, Secretary of the Navy, senator and governor. The eagle is a reference to the senator's time as the Secretary of the Navy. As mentioned before, the color gold and red represents excellence and courage, respectively. === Motto ===
Commanding the Seas. === Seal ===
The coat of arms is the shield that topped with the crest. The coat of arms is then placed on a white background, and is surrounded by a dark blue oval that is bordered by a gold chain. The ship's name is inscribed at the top of the oval, and the hull number is inscribed at the bottom. ==References==
==External links==
Official Ship's site
Arleigh Burke-class destroyers
Active destroyers of the United States
United States Navy Rhode Island-related ships
Ships built in Bath, Maine
2002 ships
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Long Plaid Skirts to Wear This Fall British designers have a history of toying with the enduring plaid skirt - the tartan kilt is, after all, a sartorial totem of Scottishness. The English designer Vivienne Westwood gave the style a punk treatment, ruching it in rebellious ways in the "80s (and continues to do so today) and the late Alexander McQueen played with the idea from the beginning of his career, with his controversial "Highland Rape" collection in the "90s, cutting a Royal Stuart red wool tartan in a dangerously low-cut pencil skirt. For her spring 2018 collection, shown in London last weekend, Margaret Howell presented a characteristically minimal A-line skirt in a black and white cotton silk check that reminded me of starched schoolgirl uniforms, golden September days in New England and the tea-length hemlines of the late 1930s and 1940s that feel spot-on today. Howell's design will be available with the first buds of spring, but for a tartan fix now, here are a few appealing autumnal options. Photo Burberry, $1,160, mytheresa.com. Photo Gucci, $1,825, matchesfashion.com. Photo Junya Watanabe Comme des Garçons, $900, farfetch.com. Photo JW Anderson, $1,065, modaoperandi.com. Photo Preen Line, $425, matchesfashion.com. Photo Sacai, $1,200, net-a-porter.com. Continue reading the main story
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Mutiny Festival cancels last day after two dead and 15 hospitalised FIFTEEN people have been taken to hospital following the events at a UK music festival yesterday. All were admitted to hospital as a result of incidents at the Mutiny Festival in Portsmouth. Among the 15, a woman, 18, and a man, 20, were confirmed dead by police this morning, Another person is currently in a critical condition. READ MORE: Revealed: The cost of free paracetamol to NHS Scotland A spokeswoman from Portsmouth Hospitals said: "We had 15 people come to the hospital which we thing were related to Mutiny Festival. "Two of them have sadly died and we have another in a critical condition, as well as another who remains in hospital. "Everyone else was in a minor condition." Queen Alexandra Hospital, where the festival-goers were taken, said that not all of the patients were admitted for drug-related issues. The spokeswoman said: "It's difficult to say how many were actually drug-related. "For example, this morning we had three more people come in but those were in relation to assault or intoxication." In Picture: The Scottish beaches rated "excellent" The annual event attracts thousands to the south coast of England every year. Posting on the Mutiny Facebook page, a statement from the organisers said: "Following the terrible news from earlier today, the team behind Mutiny Festival are incredibly sad to announce that the Sunday of the festival has been cancelled as a safety precaution. "The safety of our amazing customers has always been paramount to us and so to keep everyone safe and in respect to those who have passed, we have taken the decision not to open today. "As you can imagine, this decision was not taken lightly and was taken with the support of the local statutory authorities who we continue to work with. "Enquiries are being made into the circumstances of what has happened, but we must reiterate our advice to all our customers to responsibly dispose of any substances. "More information will follow when available, we appreciate your understanding at this difficult time." Parts of this article first featured on our sister site Portsmouth News.
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The Chengde Polled goat breed from northern Hebei Province in China is used for meat and cashmere wool production. ==See also==
Cashmere goat
==Sources==
Goat breeds
Fiber-producing goat breeds
Meat goat breeds
Goat breeds originating in China
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James Bond: No Time To Die trailer release date REVEALED? It's been a long time coming, but the first No Time To Die teaser trailer looks likely to be just around the corner. According to Trailer Track, the Daniel Craig James Bond teaser could arrive as early as next week to show in front of Brad Pitt's Ad Astra when it releases on September 18. If not then, allegedly by the end of the month in time for Joaquin Phoenix's Joker, which is out on October 4. Trailer Track tweeted: "If it's indeed ready to go, guessing either next week in time for Ad Astra, or between now and end of the month in time for Joker." They added: "Since a lot of it was shot IMAX would imagine they'd want to have its big-screen drop with an IMAX release." While the site's Anton Volkov tweeted a GIF of Craig's Bond smirking and wrote: "[That feeling when] you hear that your most anticipated teaser of the year this side of Nolan is ready for release." Meanwhile, another possible trailer release date is October 5 because it's International James Bond Day. The No Time To Die teaser will be the first official footage for the new James Bond movie since a behind-the-scenes look shared by director Cary Fukunaga in June. The video was exclusively from the Jamaica shoot, which is where the film's principal photography began in late April. The stylistic minute-long video shows 007 approaching a beach house with his gun cocked, while another scene sees the spy driving a Land Rover Defender.
Presumably, the hut is James Bond's home with Madeleine Swann, in his retirement from MI6. There's also a couple of shots of Lashana Lynch's Nomi, who is said to be his replacement as the new 007. Meanwhile, in town, we know Bond comes across Wright's Felix Leiter, who was last seen in Quantum of Solace. The CIA agent was absent from Sam Mendes" Skyfall and Spectre, so this is quite the reunion for the pair. According to the official plot synopsis, Felix has sought Bond out in retirement, to get help on a new mission. The official plot summary for No Time To Die reads: "Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. "His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. "The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology." Hopefully, the trailer will reveal the first look at Rami Malek's unnamed villain. No Time To Die will be released in UK cinemas on April 3, 2020.
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Terminally ill mum gifted with vow renewal ceremony A week before Donna Penny started her first round of chemotherapy, her boyfriend got down on one knee and proposed. Donna, who was first diagnosed with breast cancer at 35, later dreamed that she and Jason would get to renew their vows on their tenth anniversary. But fast-forward eight years and Donna, now 44, from the Sunshine Coast, is no longer sure she has that much time. In fact, she's already two years past what she calls her 'expiry date'. That's because, in 2013, the breast cancer returned, and it was terminal. Doctors told Donna she only had two years to live. It was the first time she ever saw Jason break down. When Donna and Jason first sat down together at the doctor's office in 2008 he had been 'Mr Positive', she told Daily Mail Australia. 'He said, "You'll be alright babe, we'll do it together and we'll do what we have to do,'" Donna recalled. 'He still loved me, even though he had a sick wife-to-be'. Jason stayed true to his word, sticking by Donna's side through the double mastectomy, chemotherapy, and the highs of being in remission for five years. After all they were in this together, through sickness and in health. And it's by her side, literally, that Jason has remained, always ready to snuggle with Donna when her fight becomes too much. 'He's just there for me, even when I'm angry,' she said. 'People see a very positive side to me but at home sometimes it's a very different story.' 'I can be quite moody and tired from the chemotherapy and he just says to me, "Do you need a cuddle?'" 'He's been there this whole time, being Mr Positive for me.' It was just after her 40th birthday that Donna, of the Sunshine Coast, found that the cancer had returned and spread to her bones. Donna's thoughts immediately turned to her little boy Kai, who was just 20 months old when she was first diagnosed nearly six years before. 'He's only known Mummy to be sick,' Donna said. 'Always going for treatments, scans and checkups.' 'I just felt sick, I felt numb. I thought about Kai having to grow up without a mummy. My focus was to say alive for as long as I could.' Jason and Donna knew they would have to sit their son down and explain that she would soon be starting treatment and losing her hair again. But when Donna went searching for books she could try to read to her little boy about the situation, she found nothing but 'doom, gloom, and disaster'. Then one day, while Jason was driving Kai to school, he simply asked his father: 'Out of all the mummys in the world, why my mummy?' It was a question that would inspire Donna to write the book 'Why My Mummy?' together with her son, explaining cancer in a way Kai could understand. 'Kids are not silly,' she said. 'They know something's going on. I believe in being honest.' 'Every time there's something on television, a new medicine or a breast cancer update, 10-year-old Kai always asks: "Is that going to make you better mum?'" 'That's so heartbreaking, but he's a little champion. He's the reason I'm still alive.' And he is what is helping Donna get through her fourth round of chemotherapy, which she admits has been a 'horrible' experience. 'Nausea, diarrhea, being tired,' she said. 'And then I have a week of getting over it and a few days of being well before I have to go back to the treatment again.' But one distraction that is also helping pass those harder days are Donna and Jason's upcoming vow renewal ceremony. The celebration at the Sunshine Castle at Bli Bli is being donated by My Wedding Wish, a national charity that gifts weddings to couples affected by terminal illness. It was Donna's friend Suzanne Riley, a marriage celebrant, that encouraged her to apply so that she could have the renewal ceremony she always dreamed of. Lynette Maguire, the chairman and chief executive officer of My Wedding Wish, immediately accepted Donna's application. 'We were touched by her story and her zest for life,' Lynette told Daily Mail Australia. 'She seemed to not let anything get her way and was passionate about her life, her family, and her friends.' And this time around Donna and Jason's June 1 ceremony will be all about family as she hopes to make more'mummy memories' for Kai, who will be the best man along with his 18-year-old brother Tyson.
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Inevitably, she was missing Timothy and fellow chief-of staff Fiona Hill (who had resigned with him). "Fiona would have angrily intervened to make sure Theresa was given enough time to perfect the speech," a source said. "She would have torn the eyes out of anyone who she thought was not protecting the PM's voice." With this pair no longer in Downing Street, Mrs May has relied heavily (too heavily, some are saying) on Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood. But as a civil servant, he had nothing to do with the party conference. Instead of launching a last-minute rescue bid on the speech, the PM agreed to be subjected to two major TV interviews on Tuesday afternoon - one, a fierce encounter with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg and another with Corbyn fan Jon Snow from Channel 4 News. Finally, a weary Mrs May rejoined her team to look at what by now was a much-abandoned and inadequate speech. This was around 6pm. But Mrs May left prematurely to attend another round of engagements with party activists. On her return at 11pm, still suffering a cold, she did a run-through of the speech before going to bed at midnight. Astonishingly, she never did a full rehearsal, reading it from start to finish with her team. Indeed, I'm told there wasn't the time - or the inclination. "She doesn't like doing that - it's not her style," said one MP. What madness. She should have been encouraged to stay in her hotel suite for hours - practising the speech, drinking hot lemon and honey drinks, with a doctor or voice coach on call. The fact that none of this was thought of speaks volumes about the calibre of people around her.
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Baton Rouge Officers Will Not Be Charged in Alton Sterling's Killing Another video of the shooting, filmed by the owner of the store, depicted the encounter from a different angle. That video showed one of the officers removing something from Mr. Sterling's pocket. Witnesses later said they saw a handgun on the ground next to Mr. Sterling - the federal government said it was a loaded.38 caliber revolver - but his relatives said they were not aware that he owned a gun. Mr. Sterling had a long criminal history, including convictions for battery and illegal possession of a gun. The Justice Department, which said it could not meet the high legal standard required to charge a police officer with willfully violating someone's civil rights, closed its inquiry last year. That decision was a significant disappointment to members of Mr. Sterling's family and other critics of the police, who regarded the shooting as a murder. In a summary of its findings, the department said it had reviewed multiple videos of the encounter and interviewed both officers, who said Mr. Sterling had been resistant throughout the encounter. "Officer Salamoni reported that he saw the gun coming out and attempted to grab it, but Sterling jerked away and attempted to grab the gun again," the Justice Department wrote last year. "Officer Salamoni then saw "silver" and knew that he had seen a gun, so he began firing. Both officers reported that after the first three shots, they believed that Sterling was attempting to reach into his right pocket again, so Officer Salamoni fired three more times into Sterling's back." Some witnesses offered contradictory accounts, but the Justice Department said the evidence was "insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt" that the officers violated federal law, which requires that an officer act deliberately and not merely with negligence, poor judgment or error. Photo A screen grab from a cellphone video that shows Mr. Sterling being held by two Baton Rouge police officers. Credit Arthur Reed, via Associated Press Yet L. Chris Stewart, a lawyer for Mr. Sterling's family, said last year that Justice Department officials had informed them that the actions of the officers "were outrageous, were inappropriate, were not following procedure." Lawyers also said that Mr. Sterling's relatives were shown enhanced video and audio clips revealing that Officer Salamoni had said to Mr. Sterling, "I'll kill you, bitch," or something like it, as he put a gun to Mr. Sterling's head. When the Justice Department ended its review, there were renewed protests in Baton Rouge, but they were relatively muted compared to those the previous summer. It then fell to Mr. Landry to determine whether the state would bring any charges. In his announcement on Tuesday, Mr. Landry broadly echoed the Justice Department's findings and defended the conduct of the officers, saying, for example, that their efforts to gain control of Mr. Sterling's hands were "well-founded and reasonable under the circumstances and under Louisiana law." He also said the officers were justified in their concern about whether Mr. Sterling was armed. Mr. Landry noted that it was not his office's role "to determine whether the Baton Rouge Police Department's policy was followed, or if certain tactics or language was more appropriate than others." Officers Salamoni and Lake have been on paid leave since the shooting. Before his announcement on Tuesday, Mr. Landry, a Republican former congressman who was elected attorney general in 2015, had said relatively little about the case. Soon after the shooting, he described it as "a tragic incident." As officials in Baton Rouge braced on Tuesday for more demonstrations, he adopted a similar tone. "As with every criminal case, we must analyze the evidence, the law and the facts and then draw a conclusion," he said. "But we are always mindful of the human element. I know the Sterling family is hurting. I know that they do not agree with this decision." Continue reading the main story
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The International League for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International, usually known as the Fourth International, was a Trotskyist political international led by Michel Varga. The group's origins lay in the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). Varga's League of Revolutionary Socialists of Hungary was based in Paris and was close to the Internationalist Communist Organisation (OCI), and in particular Pierre Broué. It joined the ICFI in 1963, but when the OCI left the ICFI in 1971, Varga's group took their side. Although Varga had sided with the OCI in the factional fight, he disagreed with their abandonment of the ICFI. When the OCI held a preconference in 1972 to form the Organising Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International (OCRFI), he spoke against, and was excluded from the new organisation. Briefly without international links, in 1973, Varga formed the "International League for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International". While initially quite isolated, it gained the support of groups such as the Revolutionary Workers League of Sweden in 1975 and the Revolutionary Labor League of Czechoslovakia in the 1980s. In 1984, disputes arose within the International League, and Varga was expelled in 1984, instead forming the Group of Opposition and Continuity of the Fourth International. In 1995, the group joined with the Revolutionary International Current, which had split from the International Workers League (Fourth International) to form International Workers Unity. == Member parties ==
Trotskyist Organization of the United States
Revolutionary Labor League of Czechoslovakia
Revolutionary Workers League of Sweden
League of Revolutionary Socialists of Hungary
==References==
Hungary - 1: The Present Day Relevance of the Transitional Programme
Robert J. Alexander, International Trotskyism, 1921-1985
==External links==
Michel Varga (Balazs Nagy) papers held at the University of London
Trotskyist political internationals
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A Supposed Stickler for the Rules, Now at the Center of a U.S.C. Scandal The experience of coming out to her parents stayed with her. "I've just kind of been, "Do what I want to do, when I want to do it," she said. Years later, established in her career as an athletic administrator, Heinel quickly developed a rapport with Haden, who has a gay son. Haden, and his successor, Lynn Swann, instituted few checks on Heinel's powers. From October until April, Heinel would meet every other Thursday with a subcommittee from the admissions office that included the dean of admissions and two assistants. At each meeting, Heinel would go through a list of recruits, including their test scores, transcripts and athletic profile, and within a few days would get a thumbs-up or thumbs-down on whether they would be admitted, according to both colleagues and the indictment. Sprinkled among those hundreds of recruits in 19 sports were the fraudulent athletic résumés that Heinel is accused of shepherding. Often those profiles were created by Janke, who was paid by Singer, but according to the affidavit, on at least one occasion, Heinel created a profile on a U.S.C. letterhead that made it appear as if the U.S.C. lacrosse coach were lavishing praise on a recruit who in reality had never played the sport. Almost always, within days of one of Singer's clients being conditionally admitted to U.S.C., a check for $50,000 or more made out to "U.S.C. women's athletics" or "U.S.C. athletics" would arrive in an envelope addressed to Heinel. In all, those checks added up to $1.3 million, which were deposited into accounts that Heinel largely controlled and could distribute to various teams. (Heinel also received $20,000 per month dating to last July from Singer in what court documents referred to as a "sham" consulting agreement.)
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Like right-wing populists, left wingers focus their ire on the elites that they accuse of betraying "the people." But, says Duncan McDonnell, a professor at Griffith University in Nathan, Australia who has written extensively on populism, leftists "do not argue that the people are threatened by dangerous "others" such as immigrants or Roma" in the way their right-wing counterparts do. Instead, they are more inclusive, says Dr. Albertazzi, using standard socialist policies "to bring people at the bottom of society into the community, by investing in health, education, and jobs." For a while that worked in Venezuela. While Mr. Chavez was president - until his death in 2013 - absolute poverty levels fell by two-thirds, unemployment halved, and infant mortality fell from 20 to 13 per 1,000 live births. But profligate spending and falling oil prices punctured the model, and Venezuela is now mired in economic chaos, with poverty levels rising again. In Greece, the left-wing firebrand Alexis Tsipras has scarcely been more successful in keeping his promises to the poor. He won office at the head of the populist Syriza party, campaigning against the old-style politicians who had led Greece into economic ruin, and against the austerity policies that the European Union and International Monetary Fund were urging as a remedy. In the end, in return for bailouts, Mr. Tsipras was obliged to cave to EU reform demands. Though he resolved the debt crisis, the reforms have not led to a significant recovery in an economy that has lost a quarter of its size. Though leftists rarely adopt right wingers" anti-foreign stance, left- and right-wing populists do share key attributes, says Professor McDonnell. "Populism posits a good homogenous people against a set of corrupt and distant elites who are oppressing them undemocratically so that their rights and prosperity are threatened," he says. And populists of all stripes "dislike the constraints that liberal democracy puts on them," McDonnell adds, often showing little patience for the checks and balances that the separation of powers is meant to guarantee. When you've won power, try to keep it Chavez gave the most dramatic expression to that attitude, setting up a Constituent Assembly that he controlled to sideline the existing parliament and to pack the judiciary with his allies. In Bolivia, President Evo Morales last year persuaded the country's top court to strike down constitutional limits on re-election, thus allowing him to stand for a fourth term next year, and as often as he likes thereafter. Such stories are not unfamiliar to voters in Hungary and Poland, where populist governments have instituted judicial reforms that appear to undermine the independence of the judiciary. Last November the deputy head of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, warned that legislation passed by the Law and Justice party in Poland posed "a systemic threat to the rule of law" there. In Hungary, President Orbán has also pushed through reforms that weaken the Constitutional Court, putting his government on a collision course with the European Union. "Populists say "if I'm speaking on behalf of the people, how can an unelected judge tell me what to do?" " explains Albertazzi. "They don't have much time for liberal democratic procedures." Leftist populist governments have had a mixed record: Venezuela has collapsed into political and economic unrest under Chavez's successor, Nicolás Maduro, while Bolivia under President Morales has enjoyed spectacular economic growth, slashing poverty and inequality. In Greece, the Syriza government's failure to stand up to outside pressure "has tainted the broader model," argues Cas Mudde, who studies populist movements at the University of Georgia in Athens. Follow Stories Like This Get the Monitor stories you care about delivered to your inbox. Populists on the right, meanwhile, have the wind in their sails in Europe and beyond. It remains to be seen which direction the new Italian government, torn between different priorities, will take, says Franco Pavoncello, president of John Cabot University in Rome. In Italy, he warns, "one of the worst things for a populist is to win the elections."
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Democrats and Republicans each have their own teams of staffers for the committee, but share a news clipping service for providing information to elected officials. Since their party holds a majority in the House, the Republican team controls the search terms for what news clips are culled, said Kristen Kopshever, a spokeswoman for the Democrats" office. "It's constantly like the the Daily Caller and Texas GOP Vote Blog and just these random conservative publications that have made it into our clips," she said. Kopshever echoed the representatives, noting that Smith had aggressively pursued investigations: intervening in a fraud case against ExxonMobil and the inquiry into Hillary Clinton's email server, for instance. Kopshever said her office tried to rely on apolitical sources, such as Science Magazine and the academic journal Nature, and that she could not speak for her Republican counterparts. "I don't know what their process is," she said. "We don't work a lot together." This article was amended on 3 December to correct a misstated attribution of a blog post, which was written by a pseudonymous writer, Tamino, not by climate scientist Roy Spencer.
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HMCS Fort William (pennant J311) was a that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. Entering service in 1942, the minesweeper participated in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort and in the invasion of Normandy. Following the war, the ship was laid up, but was reacquired during the Korean War. Fort William never re-entered service with the Royal Canadian Navy and in 1957, was sold to Turkey. Renamed Bodrum by the Turkish Navy, the ship was discarded in 1971. ==Design and description==
A British design, the Bangor-class minesweepers were smaller than the preceding s in British service, but larger than the in Canadian service. They came in two versions powered by different engines; those with a diesel engines and those with vertical triple-expansion steam engines. Fort William was of the latter design and was larger than her diesel-engined cousins. The minesweeper was long overall, had a beam of and a draught of. Fort William had a displacement of. She had a complement of 6 officers and 77 enlisted. Fort William had two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, using steam provided by two Admiralty three-drum boilers. The engines produced a total of and gave a maximum speed of. The minesweeper could carry a maximum of of fuel oil. Fort William was armed with a single quick-firing (QF) 12-pounder () 12 cwt HA gun mounted forward. The ship was also fitted with a QF 2-pounder Mark VIII aft and were eventually fitted with single-mounted QF 20 mm Oerlikon guns on the bridge wings. The 2-pounder gun was later replaced with a twin 20 mm Oerlikon mount. Those ships assigned to convoy duty had two depth charge launchers and four chutes to deploy the 40 depth charges they carried. ==Operational history==
The minesweeper was ordered as part of the 1941–1942 construction programme. The ship's keel was laid down on 18 August 1941 by Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co at their yard in Port Arthur, Ontario. Named for a community in Ontario, Fort William was launched on 30 December 1941. The ship was commissioned on 25 August 1942 at Port Arthur. The ship arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia on 24 September 1942 and underwent further dockyard work after a number of defects were found in Fort William's construction. The repairs took until October to complete, when the minesweeper began her work ups. In November, Fort William was assigned to Halifax Force as a local convoy escort and patrol vessel. On 11 January 1943 the minesweeper collided with Lisgar in Halifax Harbour, suffering significant damage. Fort William underwent repairs at Halifax that took a month to complete. In June 1943, the minesweeper transferred to Newfoundland Force, the local escort and patrol unit based at St. John's, Newfoundland. Fort William remained with that group until February 1944, when the minesweeper returned to Halifax to undergo a refit. Following the completion of the refit, the ship then sailed to Europe as part of Canada's contribution to the invasion of Normandy. Upon arrival in March, Fort William was assigned to the 31st Minesweeping Flotilla. During the invasion, Fort William and her fellow minesweepers swept and marked channels through the German minefields leading into the invasion beaches in the American sector. The 31st Minesweeping Flotilla swept channel 3 on 6 June. While operating off Port-en-Bessin, Fort William and sister ship fouled their sweeps on a wreck. While recovering their sweeps they came under fire from a shore battery near Saint-Laurent. The shore battery was silenced by naval gunfire from the battleship. The Canadian Bangors spent most of June sweeping Channel 14, the widened area that combined assault channels 1 to 4. The minesweepers spent the following months clearing the shipping lanes between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe. Towards the end of 1944, the minesweepers were also being used as a cross channel convoy escorts. In March 1945, Fort William returned to Canada to undergo another refit. The vessel rejoined the 31st Minesweeping Flotilla and remained in European waters until 21 September 1945. After returning to Canada, the minesweeper was paid off at Sydney, Nova Scotia on 23 October 1945. Fort William was placed in strategic reserve at Sorel, Quebec in 1946. In June 1951 the minesweeper was reacquired by the Royal Canadian Navy during the Korean War and modernized.
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Old African-American celebration given second life in New York NEW YORK An African-American celebration called Pinkster dating back to the 17th century is enjoying a quiet revival in New York, giving the city a fresh glimpse at the largely ignored contribution that black colonists made to America's emerging culture. Considered the oldest African-American holiday, Pinkster was virtually unknown to generations of New Yorkers until three years ago when a group of black history enthusiasts decided to resurrect it. The festivities, now an annual event, take place this weekend in lower Manhattan at the site of a colonial-era African-American burial ground that itself was almost lost to history until unearthed during a 1991 construction project. "Africans are always left out of history," said Christopher Paul Moore, a historian and retired curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City's Harlem. "The revival of Pinkster helps us to just have a fuller understanding, awareness of what was happening in this country." Pinkster was brought to the New World by settlers from the Netherlands, its name derived from the Dutch word "Pinksteren," meaning Pentecost, a Christian holiday falling on the seventh Sunday after Easter. Slaves and free colonists with African roots soon fused the holiday with their own traditions, giving Pinkster a distinctive American character. In its heyday, Pinkster was an week-long celebration that featured African music and dancing, and the crowning of a Pinkster king, portrayed by a slave dressed like a military officer. The holiday was pushed underground in New York state after a ban in 1811, long after the British ousted the Dutch from their foothold in North America. Pinkster gradually receded into the history books as the Afro-Dutch community lost touch with their colonial traditions. The New York City revival began when composer John Derek Norvell ran across the word "Pinkster" time and again while reading about early African-American music when he was a doctoral student. "As I was reading about it, I said - you know what - we need to bring the holiday back," said Norvell, a 61-year-old Harlem resident. The highlight of the event, organized by the African American Pinkster Committee of New York, is the crowning of the Pinkster King, and the telling of the holiday's story in traditional songs, percussion-driven music and dance. It is not the first of its kind in the state. The Philipsburg Manor in the Hudson Valley town of Sleepy Hollow has hosted a Pinkster celebration since the mid-1980s. Pinkster's resurrection in New York City comes at a time of renewed interest in its former slave market, with legislators pushing for a historical marker at the site. "People don't fully know how pervasive slavery was across the country - they think it's a southern issue and that the North didn't really deal with slavery," said Councilman Jumaane Williams, who backs the plan. "It's nothing further from the truth in New York City." For Norvell, it is also important to recognize that African-Americans in the northeast forged traditions of their own, though not as well known as Southern traditions such as banjo playing and juba, a dance style also called hambone. The event takes place at the African Burial Ground National Monument, housed on the ground floor in a federal office building. The original 6.6-acre cemetery, located just outside the original Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, was the final resting place for an estimated 15,000 free and enslaved Africans, according to the National Park Service, which manages the facility. "One of the things I feel is so important is that there's no shame in being the son or grand-son of slaves," Norvell said. "The body may have been enslaved but not the creativity or the soul or the spirit, and we need to honor that. Pinkster does that." (Editing By Frank McGurty and Chris Reese)
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Kenya: Murang'a MCAs Approve Sale of Controversial Land in Kabati By Ndungu Gachane The Murang'a County Assembly has approved a proposal by the Lands Committee to the controversial piece of land in Kabati. The assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution to have the land sold and the proceeds used to boost development, especially water projects. The 34-acre piece of land bought for Sh340 million has been at the centre of a controversy pitting Governor Mwangi Wa Iria, the Senate and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) after former Senator Kembi Gitura accused the county of buying it at an inflated price.
Two weeks ago, EACC officers grilled the over the purchase after an independent valuer claimed that the land's value in 2014 was Sh190 million and not Sh340 million. The assembly's Lands Committee, led by its chairman Gerald Wambugu, directed the Finance officeto initiate the process of selling off land within 14 days from Tuesday. Related Stories While contributing to the motion, MCAs noted that the land has not been beneficial to locals due to political interference and that it ought to be sold.
"The land has been lying idle despite its location in a prime area due to politics. We have decided that the land be sold and the monies pumped into the 35 wards to boost the budget on water and roads projects," Mr Stephen Habire Chege noted. The MCAs also claimed that the county has been experiencing budget implementation challenges due to delayed releases from the exchequer and that unlocking resources held in immovable assets which are underutilised is essential in addressing the budget deficit. But Kimorori Wempa MCA Amos Murigi, who hails from the area where the land is located, opposed the motion, saying that it is under investigation by the EACC and that it would be prudent to shelve the plans until investigations are concluded. "The land is under investigations and it would only be fair to let the EACC conclude investigations and, again, public participation was not carried out before bringing in the proposal (to sell it)," he said.
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- The Washington Post Thursday, June 25 Memorials of the Mall A National Park Service ranger leads a walking tour of America's front yard. Daily from 10 a.m.-noon and 8-10 p.m. Lincoln Memorial Plaza, 23rd Street NW and West Potomac Park. 202-426-6841. Free. Tot Rock: Jammin" at the Smithsonian presents Karen K Ages 2-8, a musical show that keeps hands clapping and feet jumping as Karen K rocks. Thursday-Friday at 10:15 and 11:30 a.m. Discovery Theater at S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Dr. SW. 202-633-8700. www.discoverytheater.org. $8, ages 2-16 $6, 1 and younger $3. Smithsonian Folklife Festival Performances by musicians, dancers and storytellers, and demonstrations by craftspeople, children's activities and cooking demonstrations. Thursday-Saturday from 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m., Sunday from 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Next Thursday through July 5 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Most evening concerts start at 7 p.m. The Mall, between Seventh and 14th streets SW. 202-633-6440. www.festival.si.edu. Free. Therapeutic yoga classes Beth Lawrence, Alaina Sadick and Kiersten Gallagher lead classes to reduce stress and balance the mind, body and spirit using gentle postures, progressive relaxation, breathing practices and meditation. Thursday and Monday at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday at 6 p.m. Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, 1632 U St. NW. 202-483-8600. www.smithcenter.org. $10/class, $25/month, registration requested. Washington Cathedral behind the scenes Age 11 and older. See gargoyles and stained-glass windows and climb stairs for a panoramic view of the city. Bring a camera. Weekdays except holidays at 10:30 a.m. Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-537-2228. www.nationalcathedral.org. $25, age 11 and 12 $21. Spring garden tours Learn about the history, design and the plants and flowers of the 13 acres of formal gardens on a one-hour guided tour. Thursday through Sunday and Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW. 202-686-5807. www.hillwoodmuseum.org. $15, 65 and older $12, 6 to 18 $5, 5 and younger free. Okinawa: Last great battle of World War II A National Park Service ranger discusses the valor displayed by both sides 70 years ago. 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. National World War II Memorial, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Matthew Hornberger, 202-359-7080. Free. Cooking demonstration: Unbeatable beans The Cook sisters discuss how to grow select snap beans and demonstrate two great ways to prepare and serve them. Noon and 12:45 p.m. U.S. Botanic Garden, Conservatory Garden Court, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333. www.usbg.gov. Free. Donna Washington, storyteller Ages 5-10 hear a collection of fun, interactive and celebratory hero stories that include giggling girls, a squirrel, an eel, a yappy dog, a determined parrot and a turtle. 2 p.m. Rosedale Library, 1701 Gales St. NE. 202-727-5012; and 4 p.m. Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202-243-1188. Free. Joe Romano, magician Ages 5-10 see comic book and graphic novel heroes come to life through magic and illusion. 4 p.m. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St. NW. 202-671-3121; Monday at 11 a.m. Rosedale Library, 1701 Gales St. NE. 202-727-5012; and 1:30 p.m. Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Library, 7420 Georgia Ave. NW. 202-541-6100; Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. Deanwood Library, 1350 49th St. NE. 202-698-1175; Wednesday at 3 p.m. West End Interim Library, 2522 Virginia Ave. NW. 202-724-8698. Free.
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== October 2007 ==
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A sizable community from the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) arrived during the Second World War. 1945 to 1967
As of 1945, the immigrants share of the population was below 2%. During the 1950s and 1960s, the recruitment of migrant workers was an important factor of immigration. The Nordic countries signed a trade agreement in 1952, establishing a common labour market and free movement across borders. This migration within the Nordic countries, especially from Finland to Scandinavia, was essential to create the tax-base required for the expansion of the strong public sector now characteristic of Scandinavia. Facing pressure from unions, work force immigration from outside of the Nordic countries was limited by new laws in 1967. On a smaller scale, Sweden took in political refugees from Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia after their countries were invaded by the Soviet Union in 1956 and 1968 respectively. Some tens of thousands of American draft dodgers from the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s also found refuge in Sweden. 1968–1991
In the latter half of the 1960s, the ideology of multiculturalism entered the political mainstream in Sweden, the first country in Europe. On 14 May 1975, a unanimous Swedish parliament led by the Social Democrat government of Olof Palme voted in favour on a new immigrant and minority policy which explicitly rejected the previous policy of assimilation and ethno-cultural homogeneity in favour of state-sponsored multiculturalism. The main driver of spreading Islam in Sweden is immigration since the late 1960s. As of 1970, the immigrants share of the population was below 7%. The demand for labor within the production industry declined and many Finns that had moved to Sweden in the late 1960s started to return to Finland. The period between 1970 and 1985 can be seen as a transition period from an immigration based on labor to an immigration based on refugee. Especially from former Yugoslavia (due to the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s) but also from countries in the Middle East and Latin America. After seeing a number of refugees in the first half of 1989 (20 000), Carlsson I Cabinet decided to limit refugee immigration to only include refugees by the definition of United Nations. ==Contemporary immigration==
Beginning in 2008, there was a long-term shift in the countries of origin, with a larger share of migrants with low education from non-European countries. In 2009, immigration reached its highest level since records began with 102,280 people migrating to Sweden while the total population grew by 84,335 – in 2012 a new highest level was reached, again in 2013, and by a large margin again in 2016. At the same time, in 2016 the number of asylum applicants fell from the 2015 record of over 162,800, to 28,939, and 25,666 in 2017. In 2010, 32,000 people applied for asylum to Sweden, a 25% increase from 2009, one of the highest numbers in Sweden since 1992 and the Balkan wars. The number of people that were granted asylum stayed the same as previous years. In 2009, Sweden had the fourth-largest number of asylum applications in the EU and the largest number per capita after Cyprus and Malta. During 2010 the most common reason for immigrating to Sweden was:
Labour migrants (21%)
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Students (14%)
Refugees (12%)
In 2010, 32,000 people applied for asylum to Sweden, a 25% increase from 2009; however, the number of people who received asylum did not increase because the large increase was much due to the allowing of Serbian nationals to travel without a visa to Sweden. Sweden has the highest asylum immigration per million inhabitants in Europe. The number of asylum seekers coming to Sweden increased beginning in 2014. 81,300 applied for asylum in 2014, which was an increase of 50% compared to 2013. It was the most since 1992, when 84,018 persons applied for asylum during the war in Yugoslavia. 77% (63,000) requests were approved but it differed greatly between different groups, such as Syrians and Eritreans where nearly everyone gets their application approved. In February 2015, it was expected that 90,000 apply for asylum in 2015 and 80,000 in 2016. The Swedish Migration Agency currently has shortage of 15,000 accommodations so they have to rent from private actors. At the end of April 2015, the figure for the year 2015 was revised down to 68,000–88,000 with 80,000 as the main scenario. Long processing times and that the situation in Iraq had not developed in the way the Swedish Migration Agency was fearing was the reasons for the revised figures. Nearly two weeks into October 2015, 86,223 had applied for asylum so far during the year.
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Dodgers close to signing Tom Koehler to help bullpen The Dodgers are close to an agreement on a major-league contract with right-handed pitcher Tom Koehler, who could aid the team's bullpen while providing insurance for the rotation. Koehler, 31, was non-tendered by Toronto earlier this month. He will still be under team control and eligible for arbitration for the 2019 season. The signing fits a pattern of bullpen construction practiced under the leadership of president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman. The team has found success in searching for undervalued assets with upside, and the organization believes itself capable of unlocking that hidden potential. After signing Brandon Morrow to a minor-league contract before the 2017 season, the team saw Morrow flourish into closer Kenley Jansen's primary setup man in October. Wary of further exceeding the luxury-tax threshold, the Dodgers allowed Morrow to sign with the Cubs this week and recommitted themselves to finding replacements. Koehler spent four seasons as a starter with Miami before seeing his production crater for the Marlins in 2017. Traded to Toronto, Koehler posted a 2.65 earned-run average in 15 appearances, all but one of them as a reliever. The Dodgers are expected to continue to mine the free-agent market for affordable options. They stayed on the sidelines as teams handed out multi-year contracts to relievers this past week at the winter meetings, and are not considered likely to make aggressive overtures for All-Star closers Wade Davis or Greg Holland. The team has proved capable of building a bullpen at a more affordable rate.
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Kathimerini: Bulgaria, Albania Take Action Fearing Refugee Influx Bulgaria and Albania are beefing up security along their border with Greece in fear that "thousands of refugees may show up at their doorstep," Greek daily Kathimerini writes. The development follows the "official" closure of the so-called Western Balkans route for migrants crossing into Europe from Turkey and heading further west to Germany. Bulgarian officials are quoted as saying a fence will be built if migratory pressure persists, while Albania is to hold joint military border patrols with Italy which has said it will lend a helping hand, Kathimerini explains. Italy for its part has suggested the Adriatic Sea might be used as an alternative route by migrants, even though there are no indications as of the moment. Some 42 000 migrants are currently though to be stranded across Greece, with over a third of them packed in camps in the country's north, near the border with Macedonia. Balkan Insight quotes Albania's Deputy Interior Minister Elona Gjebrea as telling a local TV station that negotiations are taking place with Greece on possible scenarios. Tirana has also authorized intensified patrols along the Albanian-Greek border.
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Why Boeing will cut more than 4,500 jobs by June A more competitive Boeing means fewer employees. The aerospace mammoth Boeing confirmed Tuesday that it will cut thousands of jobs by June. According to Reuters, about 4,000 positions will be stripped from its commercial airplane division and another 550 will be cut from from flight and lab testing. Boeing plans on shedding the positions through attrition and voluntary layoffs, not forced layoffs. Currently, Boeing employs about 160,000 people. The company had previously announced a vague plan for job cuts in February, citing the need to cut jobs to compete but without a set date or target. "To win in the market, fund our growth and operate as a healthy business, we are taking thoughtful steps to reduce the cost of designing and building our airplanes, part of which involves evaluating our employment levels across all of commercial airplanes," Boeing spokesman Doug Alder told reporters in a February statement. But as the airline industry has expanded, what's behind the current cuts? The airline industry has boomed in the past years, especially for Boeing and Airbus. The aircraft manufacturing titans are turning out more planes and expanding into more markets, with assembly and manufacturing plants slated to open in China. In 2015, Boeing also exceeded its forecast for plane delivery, with a record 762 finished planes reaching clients. But the company is also feeling the pressure of competition. Despite the record deliveries, Airbus is overshadowing Boeing in future orders. Last year, Airbus won 1,036 new sales or 57 percent of the total new orders placed with Boeing and Airbus, according to The Guardian. Airbus also advanced into many key areas where Boeing once dominated, including winning 63 percent of single-aisle sales - a portion of the industry where Boeing's sales of 737s provided a significant contribution to the US company's total earnings. During an internal webcast for employees, Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Ray Conner cited the single-aisle sales as one example of how Boeing was facing an expanding competition from Airbus. He called the situation "alarming," according to The Seattle Times. "Their biggest weapon that they're using in the competitions today is price," Conner told employees. "They are attacking us with price in every single campaign. And as a result of that, you know, we're being pushed to the wall." Boeing is also facing an intimidating backlog. As of December, Boeing's backlog was 5,795 unfilled orders for planes, which, according to BBC estimates would take seven and a half years at the current rate of production to complete. Buying airplanes years in advance is a tough sell for airlines that must account for many volatile factors, including oil prices, when purchasing additional aircraft. "I cannot see how you cut employment 10 percent and keep production levels increasing," Adam Pilarksi, senior vice president with Chantilly, Va.-based aviation consultancy Avitas, told The Seattle Times. "The two don't go together. Something has to give. Boeing's solution? Budget cuts. "We have said consistently this year that we have to reduce costs to be competitive and that that would include employment reductions," Boeing Communication Director Chaz Bickers told The Christian Science Monitor via email. "The 4,000 figure is an expectation - not a target." The company plans to cut 1,600 jobs through voluntary layoffs, according to Reuters. The cuts will initially be targeted toward executive and managerial level positions. Any other job cuts will be accomplished through attrition and keeping the positions that open up unoccupied. The company's plan also includes looking at non-labor cost saving maneuvers, which could range from renegotiating contracts, streamlining its supply chain, and finding other areas where it can reduce spending. The success of those programs would determine if further job or budget cuts would be needed. "The number of employees that may ultimately be affected depends on how successful we are at taking out cost through other means," Mr. Bickers told the Monitor.
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"Trump has been amazing for feminism": Thousands join Women's March in London against austerity and violence Thousands of protesters took to the streets of central London to show their opposition to violence against women and the gendered impact of austerity measures. Women in around 30 countries have assembled to protest against female oppression on the second anniversary of the first Women's March in 2017. The inaugural demonstration saw 6 million people across the world united in anger over the election of Donald Trump - who has a record of making demeaning comments about women - as US president. Join Independent Minds For exclusive articles, events and an advertising-free read for just £5.99 €6.99 $9.99 a month Start your free trial Get the best of The Independent With an Independent Minds subscription for just £5.99 €6.99 $9.99 a month Start your free trial Get the best of The Independent Without the ads - for just £5.99 €6.99 $9.99 a month Start your free trial Demonstrators gathered at 11am in Portland Place before heading towards Regent Street and along Haymarket, ending with a rally and speeches in Trafalgar Square. The theme for the London event was "bread and roses," commemorating the Polish-born American suffragette and worker's rights campaigner Rose Schneiderman. After the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 where 146 mainly female garment-industry workers died, Schneiderman said: "The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too." Watch more Women of all ages along with a smattering of men clutched bouquets of roses and brandished pithily sombre placards as they marched through the capital. "I will never understand why it is more shameful to be raped than be a rapist," read one sign. "I've seen better cabinets in Ikea," said another. "Anything you can do, I can do bleeding," chimed in one more. Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, a Women's March organiser, told The Independent she was marching because she was worried about the impact Brexit will have on women. "I was at the first Women's March - walking at the front next to Bonnie Greer and Sadiq Khan," the lawyer says. "I am here because we need to disrupt the status quo. Austerity has hit women hardest. Reports from the Fawcett Society show women are bearing the brunt of economic oppression." Placards reflected this sentiment across the colourful crowd of protesters who were wrapped in scarves and hats for warmth. Some wore cat-eared pink "pussy hats" as a sartorial rebuke of Mr Trump's notorious leaked comments about grabbing women by the genitals. "I am fast and furious like my name," said Anna Quick, who founded women's rights charity Verve. "I am here with my mother and daughter. There are three generations of us. And then there is Rocky the chihuahua. He is a male ally. He even has a Verve badge on," the 49-year-old added, gesturing to a small dog poking out of her bag. left Created with Sketch. right Created with Sketch.
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Robert John Riggins (born August 4, 1949), nicknamed "The Diesel" and "Riggo", is an American former football running back who played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Jets and Washington Redskins. He was known for his powerful running style and productivity well into the latter years of his career; in 1983 at age 34, he rushed for an NFL single-season record 24 touchdowns, and again led the league in rushing touchdowns the following season at age 35. Although he had only one Pro Bowl appearance in his career, Riggins had his greatest success in the postseason, and was named the Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl XVII where he scored one touchdown and rushed for 166 yards in a 27-17 win for the Washington Redskins over the Miami Dolphins. Riggins was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1992. ==Early life==
Riggins was born in Seneca, Kansas and attended Centralia High School in Centralia, Kansas, of partial Czech ancestry. While there, he was a three-sport athlete, earning high school All-American recognition in football, all-state honors in basketball and twice winning the Class B 100-yard dash state title. Riggins' high school is now located on John Riggins Avenue, which runs through a main part of Centralia. On October 12, 2012 John with his brothers Frank (Junior) and Bill Riggins were on hand to dedicate the Centralia High School football field renaming it Riggins Field in honoring their parents, Franklin Eugene and Mildred Riggins. The Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated a plaque and NFL Films was there to film the event. The Riggins brothers took center field for the opening coin toss and the Centralia High School Panthers went on to beat the Troy (Kansas) High School Trojans with a final score of 55–0. ==College career==
Riggins attended and played college football at the University of Kansas for the Jayhawks, where he was an All-American and two-time All-Big Eight Conference first-team selection. Riggins led the Jayhawks to a Big Eight Conference championship win in 1968. The team then went to the 1969 Orange Bowl, which they lost to Penn State, 15–14. During his senior season in 1970, Riggins rushed for 1,131 yards and scored a then school-record 14 touchdowns. He finished his career with 2,659 rushing yards, which broke Gale Sayers's career rushing record for the school Riggins is now ranked fifth for Kansas' all-time rushing leaders and 14th for total yards. While at Kansas, Riggins majored in journalism. ==Professional career==
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Riggins was drafted #6 in the first round of the 1971 NFL Draft by the New York Jets and as a rookie he became the first Jet to lead the team in both rushing and receiving. On October 15, 1972, the Jets set a team-record of 333 rushing yards against the New England Patriots, beating them 41–13. Riggins, who had 168 yards, and Emerson Boozer, who had 150 yards, became the only running back tandem in franchise history who both rushed for 150 yards in a game. Although he missed the final two games in 1972 because of knee surgery, Riggins rushed for 944 yards, four yards less than Matt Snell's franchise record. Riggins was among the top ten rushers in the American Football Conference in 1974 despite missing four games with a shoulder injury. After only four years with the Jets, he was already the fourth leading rusher in team history with 2,875 yards. In 1975, Riggins became the first player in franchise history to rush for 1,000 or more yards in a season. On December 21, 1975, he ran for 121 yards against the Dallas Cowboys which gave him 1,005 for the season. In what turned out to be his last season with the Jets, Riggins made his only appearance in the Pro Bowl. Riggins was named the Jets' MVP (now known as the Martin Award) in 1972 and 1975. ===Washington Redskins===
In 1976, Riggins signed as a free agent with the Washington Redskins, who offered him a five-year, $1.5 million contract, compared to the $63,000 he earned in his final year with the Jets. He was used mostly in short-yardage situations in his first season with Washington and missed much of the 1977 season with a knee injury. However, he gained more than 1,000 yards each of the next two seasons and was a major part of the Redskins' offense. ====Contract dispute====
During training camp in July 1980, Riggins requested to renegotiate his $300,000-per-year contract and the Redskins refused.
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A year on, my brother Mohamed Soltan is still on hunger strike in Egyptian jail As is typical of a "third culture kid" who spent their formative years continent hopping, I have been blessed with many great friends the world over, but no BFF (best friend forever). That is, besides my brother, Mohamed. I am the eldest of five and he's the closest in age to me. Naturally, we did everything together. Growing up and moving around so much, we learned to transition in and out of new communities and social circles. This left us with few constants, our immediate family being the only one that was guaranteed. As with most siblings, Mohamed and I fought like hell, but believed deeply that when push came to shove we would only ever have each other to lean on. When my husband and I welcomed our first child into the world, we were blessed to have been surrounded with love and support from family and friends, and Mohamed was at the top of that list. He dropped everything to come meet the little guy and help care for us during this transformative time. He swooned over every small thing our son did and could never get enough pictures and videos of him, or stories about him. Much like a proud new parent who mistakenly thinks others find their child's every move as fascinating and heartwarming as they do, Mohamed shared these with everyone he knew. Mohamed has been imprisoned for 17 months and, in protest at the terrible conditions in which he has been held, has been on a hunger strike for a year. He was arrested amid the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators who took to the streets following the coup in Egypt in 2013. He was shot in the arm during the violent dispersal of the Raba'a Square protests, then tortured upon detainment. He has suffered from infections and a total lack of medical care. Without any drugs or pain relief, Mohamed underwent ad hoc surgery performed by a cell mate using pliers. Months after Mohamed and my father were arrested, I had another baby boy. This time, Mohamed was not there to welcome him into the world or to pose for pictures. In fact, Mohamed could not recall my younger son's name as he would drift in and out of consciousness following the seizures and hypoglycemic comas he experienced in recent months. Many birthdays, one wedding and countless significant moments later, our family lives on without two of its most vibrant components. I live a seemingly normal life raising two beautiful young children, while he rots away in a dungeon in Tora Liman, one of the most notorious prisons in the world. Our brother has got married and is expecting a baby girl, and our two youngest siblings will graduate from high school and college without Mohamed or my dad in attendance. The days of our lives will keep passing and Mohamed's absence will continue to form a deep scar in our collective memories.
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Mbuyiselo Taaibos (born 1987/11/24)popular known as Jaybee da d.o.g stage name, a hip hop artist born and raised in the dusty street of Botshabelo, he released "how skeem" which is titled track of EP album released in 2017 featured tracks like Banna ka le bona, Rap war,Bathini abo kleva etc.
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Tesla Factory Safety Under Scrutiny After Worker Is Injured Earlier this week, a nonprofit news organization, the Center for Investigative Reporting, cataloged a series of injuries suffered by Tesla factory workers. They included back strain, repetitive-stress injuries and severe headaches that one worker attributed to fumes from an adhesive. The article said that Tesla's injury rate exceeded the industry average in 2016 and that the company had chosen not to report certain incidents as required under California labor law. In a blog post, Tesla said the article had incorrectly counted some injuries that actually occurred away from the car plant and had relied on "outright inaccurate information." The Division of Occupational Safety and Health said Friday that it had opened a second inquiry involving Tesla but would not specify the nature, saying no information could be released until the case was closed. Tesla issued a statement saying it took any injury "very seriously" and pledged full cooperation with the state agency. "Nothing is more important to us than the safety and well-being of those who work at Tesla every day," it said. The company also sought to distance itself from the April 9 incident, saying the injured worker was not under its supervision. "This injury involved a worker who had been hired by an independent contractor and was performing a procedure that had been developed by and was under the supervision of that contractor," Tesla said. "This contractor was also responsible for reporting the injury, which they did." David Michaels, who led the Occupational Safety and Health Administration under President Barack Obama and is now a faculty member at George Washington University, said the reports of injuries at Tesla were worth investigating. "If you have injuries, it means the manufacturing system is not working the way it's supposed to, or is not well designed," he said. "Injuries mean things aren't working the way they're supposed to." Tesla's chief executive, Elon Musk, has acknowledged that the company has struggled to work the kinks out of its assembly line as it gears up its first mass-market offering, the Model 3. He has described the debugging process as "production hell" and said recently that he was sleeping at the factory. Hailed only a year ago as a rising force in the auto industry, Tesla has traveled a bumpy road over the last several weeks. The company is counting on the Model 3 to increase revenue and pare its quarterly losses. Concerns over glitches in its manufacturing process recently prompted Moody's Investors Service to downgrade Tesla's credit rating and warn that the company could face a cash crunch later in the year. A federal safety agency is investigating a March 23 crash in which a California man died when his Tesla Model X sport-utility vehicle slammed into a concrete barrier on a highway near San Francisco. The accident happened with the Autopilot driver-assistance system engaged. Continue reading the main story
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If the general term isomers were used LSD would have many thousands of isomers, especially structural 555 (talk)
== Notable users section? ==
The notable users section is a section that basically says famous people have used the drug, yet it fails to mention any of these users... Famous people have used every drug in existence, this section seems pointless unless it names some of the well-known people who have discussed using it like Steve Jobs, James D. Watson, Jimi Hendrix, Ken Kesey, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Phil Jackson, and others. Wikipediarules2221
== Topeka, Kansas, 2000 ==
That William Leonard Pickard 2000 bust should be added to the timeline, it was supposed to have caused a 90% reduction in the amount of LSD availiable worldwide. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.104.101.235 (talk)
Agreed - it was a very important event. Go ahead and add it, and why not sign up with an account? Your IP address isn't private and reveals exactly where you are. -Chumchum7 (talk)
== Timeline ==
There is an identical copy of the timeline on History of LSD. The history page is the best place for such a long, detailed timeline. I'm removing the timeline from the LSD main page. Tova Hella (talk)
== Doctor who did the original, flawed chromosome studies ==
Here's a little factoid. I'm wondering whether it belongs in this page's Dangers/Genetic section, Jacobson's page, some other page, or nowhere at all. One of the doctors involved in the original research that indicated LSD was dangerous to chromosomes was Cecil Byran Jacobson, later convicted of numerous counts of fraud for selling his own sperm to his patients and other unethical practices. He's part of "Cohen et. al." in this page's Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#cite_note-dishotsky-52. Suggestions? Thundermaker (talk)
Interesting. The "chromosome damage" panic started in 1967 with a Science article by Maimon M. Cohen, et al. MM Cohen was apparently the main scientist promoting this idea, he went on to became a prominent geneticist. I can't find any MM Cohen articles with Jacobson as a co-author, can you be more specific? I can't find what I was looking at before that made me think Jacobson was on Cohen's team. Cohen was at SUNY from 1965-72 and then moved to Israel, and I can't find anything linking Jacobson to SUNY. So what I said above is probably wrong. Jacobson wasn't on the original team, more of a bandwagon-jumper. Thundermaker (talk)
Jacobson reported on birth defects in fetuses and babies of women who had taken LSD in a 1972 article in JAMA. This finding has not been confirmed, and as you mention Jacobson is not trustworthy. It would be worthwhile to discuss more about the Genetic/Birth Defect issue, maybe on the History of LSD page. "Chromosome damage" got an enormous amount of media attention at the height of the LSD "moral panic". It was discussed in the most prominent US scientific and medical journals even though it was clear from the beginning that caffeine, aspirin, etc. gave the same results (raising questions about the integrity of the researchers and journal editors). The factoid about Jacobson could be mentioned in this context. Tova Hella (talk)
Good suggestion, thanks! Thundermaker (talk)
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rimental studies have attempted to examine the effect of LSD on creative activity and aesthetic appreciation. However, most such studies are considered poorly designed or inconclusive by today's standards (cite Sessa 2008). One randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study from 1967 found 'behavioral evidence of greater aesthetic appreciation' six months after one to three doses of 200 micrograms LSD in 24 volunteers compared to 46 volunteers who received amphetamine or very low dose 25 micrograms LSD. (cite McGlothlin 1967)". Tova Hella (talk)
Reply: Please provide refs for #2 here so we can take a look at them. I have previously examined these claims in detail, and unless there is some new evidence, they are all anecdotal reports. Just so you understand where I am coming from, I am a proponent of the idea that psychedelics might help enhance creativity. However, I try not to let my personal bias interfere with Wikipedia.
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Despite Turkish Strife, Fashion Brands Stay True to Istanbul In recent years, homegrown and foreign brands have flocked to establish themselves in Istanbul, lending it a reputation as Europe's fourth fashion city. But Turkey, a country that physically and culturally straddles East and West, is in the midst of one of the most volatile periods in its recent history. The country has been grappling with a spate of terror attacks targeting both Turks and tourists, the fallout from the ongoing war in Syria, just over the border, a shuddering economic slowdown and a failed military coup last July that resulted in the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declaring a state of emergency. The state of emergency has since stifled most forms of legitimate opposition, triggering a wave of protests and mass rallies like that organized by the opposition Republican People's Party, attended by a million people in Istanbul last month. Day-to-day life goes on for millions of Turks. Still, tourist numbers are down, the Turkish lira has slumped and local consumer confidence has declined, putting considerable pressure on Istanbul's blossoming creative scene and its many small fashion brands. Although Turkey's textile, leather and clothing production has been in place for centuries, designing has not. Long a manufacturing center for mass-market retailers like Marks & Spencer and Inditex, as well as luxury labels like Burberry and Hugo Boss, the city has become a hub for the fast-growing Modest Fashion Movement geared to style-conscious Islamic women. It is also home to a slew of designers with a Western aesthetic, many of whom have expanded their businesses internationally. And for fledgling foreign brands operating or manufacturing in Turkey, the new status quo in the country has been more than unsettling. Photo An outfit from Dice Kayek, another sister-run label. "It has been a nightmare," Ms. Danesh said. After the coup, everything from Dropbox to PayPal ceased to function efficiently. There were delivery delays. "The factory kept telling me that everything was fine on the phone, but I could tell it was not," she said. By this time, she had signed deals to sell her stock at Harvey Nichols in London and to boutiques Dubai and the Spanish island of Ibiza. Many pieces in Ms. Danesh's initial 2017 summer collection were so delayed they had to be released as part of her subsequent cruise collection. "I still use the Istanbul factory because of the product quality," she said. "But I have moved shipping to Britain, which eats into margins but has also reduced the risk that I don't deliver orders in time." Despite the troubles, some fledgling brands with design studios in Istanbul remain upbeat. Manu Atelier is a small, family-run accessories label housed in an 18th-century building on a cobbled street in the Beyoglu district, an ancient quarter known for its leatherwork trade. Founded in 2014 by Merve and Beste Manastir, daughters of a leather craftsman who personally signs off on every piece, the company has grown rapidly in the last three years thanks to savvy use of social media, competitive prices and glowing endorsements by Vogue and Eva Chen of Instagram. The label is stocked at Selfridges and Saks and now has an office staff of 16 and a workshop of 30 artisans. "It has been a chaotic time," Merve Manastir said. "Locally, people have been less keen to go out and spend money, and visitor numbers are down. But honestly, we don't think about borders that much. Our business has grown so much internationally that we are less exposed in our home market. Photo The concept boutique Sanayi 313. "While we are very proud of our Turkish manufacturing roots, in terms of our identity, we consider ourselves a global luxury lifestyle brand," she said. That sentiment is shared by Ece and Ayse Ege, also sisters, who set up their couture and ready-to-wear label Dice Kayek in 1992, and celebrated their 25th anniversary in business this year. Although they split their time between Paris and Istanbul, their atelier has always been in the heart of their home city. "Emotionally, Dice Kayek feels Parisian, but our craftsmanship is entirely rooted here," Ece Ege said. "That has actually helped us in the last two years. Since we're in Turkey and can supply all of the raw materials and produce everything here, we've been able to keep the costs down despite the devaluation of the lira," she said. "It has actually become cheaper to make our garments, which we can then sell on in euros." She added that the company was more vulnerable to the volatility within the broader fashion industry than that of the Turkish political situation. Whatever happened, she said, they will never take their manufacturing operations elsewhere.
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Escalating the war in Afghanistan would be the wrong decision The Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan, was formed in 1994. It was led by Mullah Mohammed Omar, a veteran of the Afghan mujahedeen that fought invading Soviets from 1979-1989. Omar, seen here in an undated video image, died in April 2013, according to a representative for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. In this image taken off television by BBC Newsnight, Omar -- fourth from left -- attends a rally with Taliban troops before their victorious assault on Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, in 1996. The Taliban's aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and remove foreign influence from the country. Most of its members are Pashtun, the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Tanks manned by Taliban fighters are decorated with flowers in front of the presidential palace in Kabul on September 27, 1996. Taliban soldiers in Russian-made tanks fire on the forces of former Afghan defense minister Ahmad Shah Massood in October 1996. Afghan women in Kabul are covered head to toe in traditional burqas on October 16, 1996. After taking over Kabul, the ruling Taliban imposed strict Islamic laws on the Afghan people. Television, music and non-Islamic holidays were banned. Women were not allowed to attend school or work outside the home, and they were forbidden to travel alone. Three women hitch a ride on the back of a donkey cart as they pass by the ruins of Kabul's former commercial district in November 1996. This is an undated image believed to show the Taliban's former leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar. In 1997, the Taliban issued an edict renaming Afghanistan the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The country was only officially recognized by three countries: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In 1997, Omar forged a relationship with al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, pictured. Bin Laden then moved his base of operations to Kandahar, Afghanistan. In March 2001, Taliban soldiers stand at the base of the mountain alcove where a Buddha statue once stood 170 feet high in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. The Taliban destroyed two 1,500-year-old Buddha figures in the town, saying they were idols that violated Islam. After the 9/11 attacks, the United States conducted military strikes against al Qaeda training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime. In this long-exposure photo, a U.S. Navy fighter jet takes off from the deck of the USS Enterprise on October 7, 2001. An Afghan anti-Taliban fighter pops up from his tank to spot a U.S. warplane bombing al Qaeda fighters in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan on December 10, 2001. After massive U.S. bombardment as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom, the Taliban lost Afghanistan to U.S. and Northern Alliance forces. Afghans look into Omar's bedroom as they go through his compound on the outskirts of Kandahar on December 11, 2001. In April 2011, hundreds of prisoners escaped from a prison in Kandahar by crawling through a tunnel. The Taliban took responsibility for the escape. This picture shows a general view of the prison, top center, and the house, bottom right, from which Taliban militiamen dug the tunnel leading to the prison. Security guards stand outside the new Taliban political office in Doha, Qatar, before its official opening in June 2013. The Taliban announced that they hoped to improve relations with other countries, head toward a peaceful solution to the Afghanistan occupation and establish an independent Islamic system in the country. Zafar Hashemi, deputy spokesman for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, speaks during a news conference on July 29, when the news of Omar's death was announced.
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== Salmonella risk ==
Given that the risk of salmonella is now negligable in countries (such as UK) shouldn't salmonella be specified "in some countries" (unsigned by 82.27.161.226)
It seems that the "Health concerns" aren't specific to this topic and apply to "Egg as food" in general. The whole section could probably be substituted with a "see also link", etc. For now, I added
I think the "Caesar vinaigrette" really should be noted in the variations section; Because there are commercially available products for this variation I think it's fair to infer that it must be a "more" common variety. It appears that this variation is/was sometimes called "Golden Caesar" (e.g. this youtube video of TV ad. This name might not be especially current but it is at least historically relevant information and I think it should be mentioned in this article since there's not enough substance for a separate article about non-eggbassed Caesar salads. I added a ref for recipes an example that use mayonnaise, noted that using that retail may is pasteurized, and removed oil and vinegar since oil is normal and the addition of vinegar is never intended to increase the pH enough to kill salmonella. The ref I added was (it was the first google result when I searched "caesar salad"). I'm not current with the convention among wikipedians for web refs. I'll familiarize myself, but if, in the meantime, anyone is willing to update my notation, it would be appreciated. 135.23.238.2 (talk)
== "Often prepared tableside" ==
In this day an age? I have never seen a restaurant that serves it prepare it tableside, and it is an extremely common menu item in north America. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Surement (talk • contribs)
Late reply: I would characterize it as a fading tradition. Some high-end or very old-school establishments still do this, but tableside preparation as a concept has gotten much rarer in recent times. Another part of it would be that very few kitchens are even doing the dressing to order and are instead either making it beforehand or buying it bottled. There wouldn't be much point to having a server come out and show you how they poured a bottle onto some lettuce, but if prepared in the original style it would still be a good show. Beeblebrox (talk)
I changed the updated version from "It was originally prepared tableside." to "In its original form, this salad was prepared and served tableside." just for style. "Often" would be an inaccurate reading of the source. "Traditionally", or "originally" are correct and it's good relevant information. However, stylistically, I'm thinking that this info could be worked into the history section as opposed to intro. 135.23.238.2 (talk)
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If ballet offered a possible escape from poverty and oppression for Nureyev, the dream that skateboarding might do the same for the real-life protagonists of Bing Liu's stunning Oscar-nominated documentary Minding the Gap is one we see its subjects frequently escaping into as they skate around their hometown of Rockford, Illinois, an increasingly impoverished city in the heart of the American rustbelt that's still smarting from the ramifications of the 2008 financial crisis and the embedded racism and violence that economic dislocation only intensifies. Having filmed himself and his friends on-and-off since childhood, Liu's from-the-board observations on his own life and that of close friends Zack and Keire cover the best part of a decade and, as he returns home to catch up with them, we get to see them growing up on camera and being hit with the onset of adult responsibilities. But where the film surprises is the way it gradually becomes a story about 21st century masculinity as Liu and his friends reckon with the domestic violence they each experienced (unbeknownst to one another) at the hands of their fathers and step-fathers. What emerges is a moving portrait of the trauma of adolescence and the momentary escape from it that skateboarding offered them. That can't help but add power to the skateboarding scenes, which we see evolve from the endearingly scrappy to the (yes) balletic as Liu's filmmaking skills advance in line with their collective skating skills. But it's the tenderness and compassion that Liu brings to his friends" stories, as well as the brave, sensitive way he confronts his own past, that marks this out as something special. ■
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== 3rd Padiham Scouts ==
There's actual nothing to merge in that article - when I get to Lancashire article, it will be listed like all the other groups. I say, let it go. I used "merge" as a polite way of "let it go". I agree there is nothing substantial to actually add to a County article. It is however not under threat. If we could just make a redirect it would be easier than AfD or prod or speedy. Should we prod it for a start? BTW, I like your changes to the Cumbria article which I expanded when it was tagged for speedy delete. I have however added back the mention of the Oxford University link to Ennerdale Camp. Having had a large number of students working on the site twice a year for over 50 years is, I think, notable. I was part of it in the 1960s and am amazed it has lasted. The Cumbria page, like pretty well all the county articles, still has the defect of having no sources from outside Scouting. I'm not sure how to go about getting the external sources... As for the link with the Oxford Uni group - i must have missed that in the previous version of the article... it wasn't too easy to read through, I'm afraid - thanks for catching it. I've speedy tagged this, so I can't be the one to delete it. If you want any info, copy off
== Computational chemistry ==
There is no history section for this article, could you write a short one or simply tell me what the start date is for this branch of chemistry? Thanks:
Hi Sadi, I will have a go, but it will have to wait for about 12 days or so. I'm really busy in real life and that will force me to take a wikibreak next week. The question is a complex one. The term is later than the practice. When I started doing calculations in quantum chemistry, I thought of myself as a theoretical chemist or a quantum chemist. The term "computational chemistry" is much later, but it brought into the fold people who called themselves other things such as molecular modellers and so on. It needs to be handled carefully. Yes, thanks. Based on the history section of the computer article, I'm guessing that computational chemistry started developing in the 1970s (slowly) and then gained momentum in the 1980s? I plan to buy a basic computational chemistry textbook soon; maybe then I'll be able to contribute to the history section a bit. Later:
As you know theoretical calculations in Chemistry go back to Heitler and London in 1927. The first calculations carried out on digital computers was much earlier than you think. It was in the early 1950s, when what we now call semiempirical calculations were carried out. The first ab initio calculations on diatomic molecules were in 1956 at MIT. The first polyatomic calculation using Gaussian orbitals was in the late 1950s at Cambridge. Huckel calculations, generated by computer in Berkeley and Oxford were published in 1964. The first version of GAUSSIAN (Pople's program) was 1970, but other codes - ATMOL, POLYAYTOM, IBMOL, and others - all predate GAUSSIAN. The first bibliography (200+ pages) on ab initio molecular calculations was published in 1971. The 1960s were extremely active. I myself first used a computer in 1961. Molecular mechanics started in the 60s or at least the 70s. However, none of this was called computational chemistry. That term was I think first used in the late 1980s. The series "Reviews in Computational Chemistry" going back to around 1990 have had a number of articles outlining the history of computational chemistry in different countries - USA, UK, France, Canada and Germany at least. They contain stuff about hardware and the organisation of computer centres to facilitate large numerical calculations that could well be used in some of the history of computer articles that are linked from the place you mention. Those articles are pretty poor. Geeks have no sense of history. Very nice information. It would be interesting to find out who first coined or used the term "computational chemistry" in its current sense? We'll have to keep our eyes open. Let me know when you start putting some of the above information into the article. Also, yes I agree writing computer code and writing articles are two different things. Talk soon:
:Hi guys. I just want to add that the Journal of Computational Chemistry was first published in 1980, so the term goes at least as early as that.
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Hospital 'could have done better' over death of mother and baby Image copyright South Beds News Agency Image caption Rochelle Lyle was not given a CT scan which could have detected bleeding on the brain A hospital where a young mother and her premature baby died "could have done better," an inquest has heard. Rochelle Lyle, 26, was admitted to hospital in Bedfordshire when she was 26 weeks pregnant suffering from a headache on 20 March 2017. The inquest heard Ms Lyle, from Luton, was not given a CT scan which could have detected bleeding on the brain. Dr Bright Gyamoph apologised to Ms Lyle's family on behalf of the Luton and Dunstable Hospital Trust. The inquest in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, heard Ms Lyle was treated for suspected sepsis but was not seen by a neurologist. Image copyright South Beds News Agency Image caption Rochelle Lyle was a psychology graduate She was found unresponsive in her hospital bed on 25 March having suffered a heart attack. Her daughter Imaani was delivered by an emergency Caesarean section but there was a a delay of six minutes because a scalpel could not be found, the Bedfordshire senior coroner Emma Whitting was told. Ms Lyle, a psychology graduate, was then rushed to the specialist neuroscience unit at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, where she died the next day. Imaani died six weeks' later on 4 May 2017 at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital in the arms of her grandfather Laurie Lyle. Paediatric specialist Dr Jean Egyepong said Ms Lyle had suffered cardiac arrest, which meant no oxygen was sent to Imaani, who suffered a brain injury. A CT scan was then performed and revealed an abnormality in Ms Lyle's brain. Apologising to the family, Dr Bright Gyamoph, the clinical director for obstetrics at the hospital, said: "We could have done better." Since Ms Lyle died, he said the hospital had learned lessons and changed procedures. The inquest continues.
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Jesse Lee Petty a.k.a. The Silver Fox (November 23, 1894 in Orr, Oklahoma – October 23, 1971), was a professional baseball pitcher in the major leagues from 1921 to 1930, for the Cleveland Indians, Brooklyn Robins, Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs. He managed in the minor leagues in 1935 and 1936 for the Knoxville Smokies of the Southern Association and the Hopkinsville Hoppers of the Kentucky–Illinois–Tennessee League. ==External links==
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Pocock leads from the heart on the issue that paralysed his employers "There are certainly people who feel that radical inclusivity doesn't fit in their world-view or beliefs. I'm sympathetic to that, having grown up in those kinds of faith communities, but I strongly disagree and I think blaming people for who they are can be really damaging," he said. But Pocock's comments were also rooted in kindness and - importantly for the game with the Inclusion Policy - inclusivity. "Absolutely [we can play together], I've got family who have those views and we've had it out over the years," he said. "The bottom line is they're family. You talk about it in a civil way... and when you do that you realise we've got far more common ground than we have in difference of belief. "I just don't see who wins if we aren't able to relate to each other as humans and keep talking about things rather than having these really nasty polarising debates to decide who is and isn't part of our tribe based on their beliefs. "We all lose something when we aren't able to engage with people just because we disagree on something." How about that for holding up a mirror to modern Australia and its pockets of shouty self-righteousness? It was the shadow of this Australia that paralysed the board and management of Rugby Australia at the time the controversy unfolded. Loading The game's highest-paid, highest-profile player attacked a large number of his fellow Australians but RA chief Raelene Castle and her chairman Cameron Clyne made the calculated decision that, in the charged environment of anti-political correctness, doing nothing would do the least harm to the sport. It is impossible to say whether they were right. Many a coach and executive has told Fairfax Media their response showed that Folau was bigger than the game. But if there was any doubt over the complexities of the situation, Michael Cheika's muddled comments on the issue were instructive. Cheika never minces words but the best he could come up with on Folau was that children should be more critical of their idols. It's a valid point but it felt half-baked from the man to which Australian rugby fans look for a steer on the tough issues. Cheika sounded more like himself with his cryptic comment that Folau's anti-gay comments would not be "an ongoing issue, because I don't believe it is going to be ongoing." Might Folau's teammates have let him know behind closed doors that his comments put unacceptable pressure on them all? Into this mess of awkwardness and stifled messaging stepped Pocock this week, just as he linked up with Folau in Wallabies camp, with a reminder that our humanity can transcend our differences, if we want it to. "Ultimately, we all lose if our society isn't inclusive... if we have people who can't be who they are, are fearful or are discriminated against for simply being who they are," he said. Rugby more than most Australian sports considers itself inclusive at its core. It's a game in which props are as valued as fullbacks and two tribes can go to war on the pitch but share a beer in the dressing rooms immediately after. On the eve of one such clash, Australia vs Ireland, Pocock reminds us that living that value off the field requires kindness above all.
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Gitobu Imanyara (born c. 1954) is a Kenyan lawyer, journalist, and politician. ==Biography==
After Imanyara spent more than two years in Maximum Security Prison on charges associated with his work as a human rights lawyer, he founded the Nairobi Law Monthly in 1987. It was not supportive of Daniel Arap Moi's one party policy and Imanyara was arrested for not registering the magazine. He was again arrested in 1990 after writing a special issue entitled "The Historic Debate: Law, Democracy, and Multi-Party Politics in Kenya." At one point he was held in a prison psychiatric ward, though he re-released the issue following his own release. Receiving the International Editor of the Year by the World Press Review while in prison, he was called "the boldest voice for a free press in a country whose intolerant government does not hesitate to shut down publications and where most journalists practice self censorship." Imanyara was arrested for a third time in April 1991 after police confiscated the current issue of his journal. The offending information was about the formation of an opposition political party, and Imanyara was unable to notify his family or lawyer. His papers were ransacked without a warrant. While in custody, Imanyara developed a brain tumor which was treated. Kenyan aid money went down significantly after the arrest, and the U.S. State Department called it "another denial of freedom of expression in Kenya." He was awarded the World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award later that year, but due to authorities not allowing him to leave the country for it, Liberal International President Otto Lambsdorff brought it personally to Nairobi in early 1992. At the Kenyan general elections in December 1997, he won a regional landslide victory and was elected MP for Central Imenti Constituency. He continued to publish his newspaper, which was renamed the Africa Law Review. Imanyara is a member of the International Board of Article XIX, a member of the Advisory Board of the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, and also a member of the Media Institute for the advancement of the freedom of expression. In January 2008, Imanyara accused the Kenyan first lady Lucy Kibaki of assault and threatened to sue Kibaki over the alleged incident. The first lady was swift to deny the allegations, accusing Imanyara of blackmail after failing to secure the deputy Speaker's seat during the elections in Parliament. ==References==
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"I'd read up about bears and panthers, but Andi had persuaded me not to bring a bear spray because he thought it'd be more likely that it would explode. "I'd had a bad feeling deep down the whole time. "Leaving him on the mountains on his own was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. "To keep him safe, I told him to keep speaking loudly to scare other animals off. "And the whole time I looked for help, another thunderstorm was gathering. "It was a race against the clock at that point. But we won that one. "He's doing as best he can now, and is being treated properly in Germany." Andi added: "I was always feeling optimistic that I would survive the attack. "In fact, the greater risk was the helicopter not being able to fly through the mountains. "The chances of being attack by a bear like that are slim anyway - you're more likely for the bear spray to explode than be attacked."
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Joel Matip: Top four isn't good enough for Liverpool FC Joel Matip remembers his phone buzzing and being consumed, initially, with feelings of suspicion. It was the winter of 2015 and, having decided he would be leaving Schalke, he was wondering what the future might hold. So when an unrecognised number flashed up, his interest was pricked. Soon all became clear. 'I was like, "Hmmm....,"' says Matip, smiling as he relays the story. 'Then I knew it was special.' Punching the messages in at the other end of the line was Jurgen Klopp. Previously, Klopp's only dealings with Matip had been when he was Borussia Dortmund manager and their paths crossed during frenetic Ruhr derbies. This text message, though, was to open a new world. 'Only when the possibility of joining Liverpool came did I have personal contact with him,' Matip continues. 'Before that? Only on the field maybe when we were screaming at each other!' Klopp might not have recalled if he had previously squabbled with Matip, but what he did know was the value this tall, rangy defender would add to Liverpool's back four and sending the message so early, with other clubs circling, was crucial to getting him on board. When it was announced last February that the 25-year-old had decided to move to England, Klopp shook his head with delight that he had got his man. Time and performances have shown his judgment was not flawed. Share this article Share 17 shares Matip, in the main, has been excellent since arriving at Anfield, taking each challenge in his long, elegant stride. It's why the prospect of trying to keep Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero shackled does not fluster him and has led to suggestions that he has found English football easy. 'No, no,' he replies. 'It's really hard. It's much more physical than I'm used to. But this is the nature of the league. 'A few weeks ago I faced Diego Costa. Before it was Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Now it's Aguero. Every week you face high-quality teams. I just try to do my best.' That attitude shines through during two significant parts of this conversation, namely the topics of what Liverpool should strive to achieve and the issue that made headlines at the turn of the year: Cameroon. Though he had played only once for Cameroon since the 2014 World Cup, he was still included in their Africa Cup of Nations squad, despite indicating he was not available for selection. It led to a wrangle between Liverpool, the Cameroon FA and FIFA - and Matip missing five games in January. 'It's done now and I'm looking to the future,' he insists. 'I only wanted to stay here and play. It was not easy because I didn't understand what was going on. Now the problem is solved and I can concentrate on Liverpool.' Had he gone, Matip - who grew up wanting to be a midfielder like Patrick Vieira - could have returned with a winner's medal. So does he have any regrets? 'No,' he says. 'I knew they could win it. I was happy. Cameroon is a big football nation. I was happy for them because the last years were not easy and they got back to their old spot.' But will he represent them in the future? 'No.' Again his tone is unequivocal. 'It is Africa and you can never compare it to European things. I'll concentrate on Liverpool. It's done.' What isn't done is Liverpool's pursuit of a Champions League spot. The pressure is building and the next two games - away to Manchester City, home to Everton - will go some way to defining whether the club will meet their target for the campaign. Matip longs to be in that competition again. As a 19-year-old, he reached the semi-finals with Schalke in 2011, scoring a rare goal in a thrilling quarter-final win against the holders, Inter Milan, before Manchester United arrived in Gelsenkirchen. 'I have to say they beat us ugly,' Matip says. 'The first leg was 2-0 (the second leg at Old Trafford was 4-1). It was clear they were so much better but it was still a big thing to be in the semi-finals.' But is it a big thing for Liverpool just to be back in the competition? They have won only one trophy since 2007, one of the most fallow periods for silverware in their 125-year history, and the idea that just qualifying for Europe represents achievement does not sit comfortably with supporters.
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is a Japanese modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics. ==References==
1936 births
Living people
Japanese male modern pentathletes
Olympic modern pentathletes of Japan
Modern pentathletes at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Fukuoka (city)
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He edits that article a lot, and he includes a lot of unsourced and non-neutral content that adds a positive bias to the article's content. I believe that he works for this company and that there's a COI issue with him and this article subject." ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs)
:::My goodness, my ears are burning.- MrX 🖋
::::The gig is up, MrX! You've been able to fly under the radar for a long time, but you put your hand in the cookie jar too many times to not be caught. We know what you're up to, and your tyranny toward everyone while behind the cloak and sword of Mr X Incorporated is over! I'm gonna go blow the lid off the whole conspiracy, and the trails are all going to point to you! I also have evidence that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton. (I hope people here will get that joke and reference) :-P ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs)
:::::, please retract that statement or I'll have to take you to ANI for casting ASPERSIONS that MrX could be related to Mr C Incorporated or Hillary Clinton. StudiesWorld (talk)
::::::Neverrrr! :-P ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs)
::::::: This makes me think we may need a joke version of ANI, if only for April Fool's Day. StudiesWorld (talk)
::::::::Oh no! I knew my day of reckoning would eventually come. number of complaints), but it's not a punitive process and its not meant to be adversarial by design. Lastly, you cut out a lot of language there that stresses the precautionary principle and urges people to be mindful and cautious of anything that looks like it leans more towards harassment than productive activity. No, I'm sorry, I'm just very much opposed to replacing the present wording of that passage with your proposed language, well-intentioned as I am sure it is. Snow let's rap
Basically I removed a bunch of adverbs, meandering text, and pointed out the gang problem which is sorely lacking from the policy. Policies should be clear and concise with pertinent examples. Tony gave one example wrt 'outing' below, about how on-wiki activity reported in off-wiki RS articles critical of Wikipedia, as long as a pseudonym is not doxxed, can be cited as evidence. Your point about discussion GOOD prosecution BAD is very much in line with my thinking. Here is a second draft:
Also there are more paragraphs, the tag-team harassment bit does not need to be the renvoi of this paragraph, It could be in one of the other paragraphs. I just think this section is the right place to mention it, as that is often how it feels to many contributors who end up feeling, sometimes mostly mistakenly that they are dealing with teams. It is reassuring that policy reflects ideal practice, and from experience, I will tell you that tag-team behavior should be WP:NOTHERE but it's not. 🌿 SashiRolls t · c
Also just for info, you may want to compare two versions of WP:NOTHERE in terms of the veneer given to the question of tag-team POV Railroad: the current version " diverting dispute resolutions from objectives", which leads to the same place, is rather rickrolicking if you ask me, and is buried in a host of other boring links. Here is a proposed streamlining of the nothere policy, which can be commented on at the policy talkpage. The WMF should really activate wiki-who (authorship data) on wikipedia namespace (it's currently only activated for mainspace) so we could see who's effectively written the policies.🌿 SashiRolls t · c
I had no intention of commenting in this section, but because of the comments in a section below, where I had already commented earlier, I will now. I think that tightening up the existing wording in the Hounding section is a good idea. I think adding any of the proposed new material would be a mistake. It would open up the door to users who were properly being sanctioned for disruptive conduct trying to wikilawyer that they were being harassed by administrators and others. == Link to Trust & Safety? Add section on legitimate criticism? ==
Strangely, the word "safety" appears only once on the page as I write, the words "trust" and "support" are both missing from the policy page. Shouldn't we have a link to the T&S anonymous tip jar?
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Woman dies after trying to reach the famous 'Into the Wild' bus Veramika Maikamava and her husband Piotr Markielau wanted to reach Fairbanks Bus 142, where "Into the Wild" subject Christopher McCandless died in 1992, Alaska State Trooper spokesperson Ken Marsh told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Markielau called state troopers in Fairbanks on Thursday night to report that his wife had died, according to a news release from the Alaska State Troopers. The newlywed couple attempted to cross the Teklanika River, which was running high and fast due to recent rains, when Maikamava was swept under the water, the agency said. Markielau told state troopers that by the time he was able to pull his wife out of the water about 75 to 100 feet downstream, she was already dead. A trooper responded at the scene with volunteers from the Tri-Valley Fire Department, the Alaska State Troopers said. Maikamava's body was sent to the state medical examiner and an investigation into the incident is ongoing. Since the publication of Jon Krakauer's book "Into the Wild" in 1996, and the release of the movie in 2007, hikers from all over the world have trekked out to the Alaskan wilderness to retrace the steps of McCandless. In 2010, a Swiss hiker drowned while trying to cross the Teklanika River, less than a mile from the bus where McCandless lived. Several people are rescued from the Stampede Trail every year, Lynn Macaloon, the acting public information officer for Denali National Park and Preserve, told VICE in 2016.
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Man killed in South West crash A 43-year-old man had died after his vehicle came off the road and went into dense bushland in WA's South West. Police said the Forest Grove man was driving a Green Hyundai Accent hatchback eastward on Warner Glen Road just east of the Bussell Highway when the incident occurred. Witnesses are urged to call Crimestoppers. Photo: SMH Police said it appears the driver "failed to negotiate a sweeping left hand bend and drove off the road." A passing motorist found the crash site and notified police just after 6am on Saturday morning. Police, St John Ambulance and Department of Fire and Emergency Services attended the crash, but the driver died at the scene. Investigators would like to speak to anyone that saw the crash, or the vehicle driving prior to the crash. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or to make a report online at www.crimestopperswa.com.au
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60.234.197.105 can you please explain why you have edited this page removing many balanced and refrenced points to be replaced by what I can only see as your POV?212.85.1.2
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As it is it greatly broadens the information available on Wikipedia: The Free greatly adds to the information provided because it goes into depth in a specific aspect of the human eye which this page cannot go into depth about. Removing it from Wikipedia, would be very detrimental to Wikipedia being a comprehensive provder of free knowledgeDark Tichondrias
== Nasology ==
I have removed the following section from the article because Talking Heads - Phrenology at the Countway Library of Medicine describes Nasology as "an extended joke at the expense of phrenology":
==Shapes of the human nose==
Human noses can take many different shapes according to the individual. An attempt to make a classification of noses was made in Eden Warwick's Nasology, where the following classes are presented, associating them with character traits in a way akin to phrenology, this
Class I: The Roman, or Aquiline nose, which is rather convex, but undulating as its name aquiline imports. Class II: The Greek or Straight nose, which is perfectly straight
Class III: The African, or Wide-nostrilled nose, wide at the end, thick and broad, gradually widening from below the bridge. The other noses are seen in profile, but this one in full face. Class IV: The Jewish or Hawk nose, which is very convex, and preserves its convexity like a bow. It is thin and sharp
Class V: The Snub nose
Class VI: The Turn-up or Celestial nose, with a continuous concavity from the eyes to the tip
Image:Class_I_nose.jpg|Class I
Image:Class_II_nose.jpg|Class II
Image:Class_III_nose.jpg|Class III
Image:Class_IV_nose.jpg|Class IV
Image:Class_V_nose.jpg|Class V
Image:Class_VI_nose.jpg|Class VI
I'd keep this paragraph: the classification in se is correct, the figures are nice, but it is the interpretation that was intended to mock phrenology. I'll add however some extended comment to explain it. LHOON
Be careful of Class IV. Calling that caricature of a nose Jewish smacks of anti-Semitism. I am against using any part of this, as the classification scheme itself was part of the joke. I think the whole thing is in very poor taste, and does not belong in the Nose article. It might be appropriate in Phrenology as an example of the reaction to Phrenology, but I do not think it belongs here. :It seems interesting to me to keep a paragraph about human nose morphology. Rather than engaging in an edit and revert war about this however, let's get some other people's opinion about this issue, maybe there are other proposals too, that's what a talk page is for! LHOON
::I suggest removing it because these arbitrary distinctions in nose shape are obscure. They are also named after racial groups which is not objective. An objective approach would be to name them by shape, but even then there are more shapes than listed on the drawing gallery. :::Calling that caricature of a nose Jewish smacks of anti-Semitism. Don't be ridiculous. And this is why you prefer that the public remain uninformed about the different types of noses? ::::Calling that shape of nose Jewish is indeed a common tactic of anti-semites. I also question the reality of the so-called nose types. Noses vary in many ways, and trying to assign them to types is subjective and not useful, especially when some of the types are called Roman, Greek, African and Jewish. :::::Obviously, this is a sensitive to subject to many people, but rather than erasing the classifications, I propose that we include them in a historical and social context. The article needs discussion of the fact that in the past, anthropologists (and popular imagination) have assigned intellectual characteristics to physical features (essentially, races). Anti-Semitism and racism take this further to imputing "moral" characteristics to physical features. This would be a perfect place for a mention of the use of the disputed "Jewish nose" for propaganda purposes, for example in Nazi Germany. As to whether "nasology" (or whatever the classification of noses is called) is a joke: as late as 1949 a Yiddish textbook, Uriel Weinreich's College Yiddish, took nasal types seriously enough to include an informal survey listing the various types of noses that Jewish people possessed in a particular city, showing that they do not fall categorically under the "Jewish" type.
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Union bosses pump £3m into Jeremy Corbyn's faltering bid for Number 10 The Labour Party pushed the panic button on its election campaign today as union bosses gifted Jeremy Corbyn a £3 million fighting fund and a poll suggested he is heading for a humiliating defeat on December 12. Political party donation figures for the second week of the campaign revealed Unite the union has handed over a massive seven-figure war chest to fund Mr Corbyn's bid for Number 10. The news of the cash injection came after a major YouGov survey suggested Labour is on course to be crushed by Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party on polling day. The poll puts the Tories on 359 seats and Labour way back on just 211 - down 51 on the party's 2017 haul. If those numbers were replicated at the ballot box next month then Mr Johnson would have a majority of 68 seats. YouGov said the Tory surge was being driven by Labour's'red wall' crumbling with Mr Johnson on course to pick up 44 seats from his opponent's heartlands. Labour's ailing campaign and poor poll numbers reportedly prompted a major strategy rethink with Mr Corbyn now expected to focus his efforts in the coming weeks on shoring up support in Leave-voting areas. In a sign of just how bad the outlook is for the party, shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner today suggested Labour's plan is to hope for bad weather on December 12 so that Tory supporters may not bother to vote. Meanwhile, the party's long-running anti-Semitism crisis worsened as one MP candidate was sacked over allegations she posted anti-Jewish material on social media. Another candidate reportedly told her would-be constituents she could not bring herself to ask for their votes because of the party's handling of the crisis. Separately, Unite boss Len McCluskey attacked Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis after he said Mr Corbyn is not fit to be prime minister. The latest donations data published by the Electoral Commission showed that Labour received more cash than the Tories between November 13-19. Labour was handed £3.5m in that period with the vast majority coming from Unite while the Tories got just shy of £3m. The publication of the figures came after last night's YouGov poll sent a shockwave through the election campaign. The suggestion that Labour could finish on December 12 perilously close to the 1983 election low watermark for the party of 209 seats prompted speculation that Mr Corbyn would be forced to change tack. Claims then emerged that Labour intended to shift more of its efforts to Brexit-backing areas. Labour insiders told the BBC a key mistake had been overestimating the electoral threat from the Liberal Democrats, and underestimating the likelihood of Leave voters switching to the Conservatives. Labour's strategy so far has been to emphasise that the election is about more than Brexit and to get voters to focus on issues which would unite both Leavers and Remainers. The new plan is designed to appeal to those who voted for Brexit, and to try to convince them that Labour is not attempting to stop the UK leaving the EU by offering another referendum. Shadow cabinet members who back a Leave deal rather than Remain are expected to be given a higher profile in the final two weeks of the campaign. In a potential attempt to try to steady the party's bid for power, Mr McCluskey this afternoon took to the airwaves to defend his ally Mr Corbyn. But the interview on the BBC's World at One programme was largely dominated by questions about Rabbi Mirvis's comments after he said anti-Semitism in the Labour Party was a 'poison - sanctioned from the top'. Mr McCluskey hit back and said: 'I think that was wrong and quite extraordinary that a religious leader should come out and say that.' He added: 'I am sure that's what he believes if he said it, I just absolutely, fundamentally disagree with him.' Mr McCluskey's intervention came after Labour frontbencher Mr Gardiner suggested he hoped the YouGov poll, combined with bad weather on election day, would persuade Tory supporters not to bother voting. He told Sky News: 'For those who were thinking of voting Conservative, I hope this poll gives them great comfort, they sit back and they say "I don't need to go out and vote on polling day because it's wet and it's windy."' Mr Corbyn's hopes of getting Labour's campaign back on track were further hit by fresh candidate controversy. Carolann Davidson, who is standing in the seat of East Renfrewshire, reportedly told a hustings event she was 'horrified' at Mr Corbyn's failure to root out racism in the Labour Party. 'I know for almost everyone here, that I can't stand here and ask for your vote,' she said, according to the Politics Home website. 'I'm not going to, because we don't deserve it.'
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Construction group Robertson sees profits and turnover surge Image caption Robertson's new contracts included the construction of the new Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre The company constructing the new £330m Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre has reported a surge in profits and turnover in its 50th year. Stirling-based infrastructure and construction group Robertson said pre-tax profits climbed 81% to £21.4m in the year to March. It also reported record turnover of £453m. Robertson said there had been "continued and sustainable" growth across its 19 operating companies. Construction and house building were among several businesses to perform particularly well. It also expanded its offering in building services, civil engineering and rendering and roofing. Robertson, which was founded in Elgin, currently employs nearly 2,000 people across the UK, having increased employee numbers by more than 600 in the past 18 months. It expects its headcount to grow by a further 5% in the year ahead. Group turnover in England has grown to a record level of £100m as part of the company's ongoing regional growth strategy. Image copyright Robertson Group Image caption Bill Robertson said the group had started delivering on its five-year strategic plan Robertson said it had seen "major success" in the growth of its Partnership Homes business, which had now secured contracts to deliver over 2,500 homes over the next five years in Scotland. Robertson Homes also reported growth in private housing development, increasing the number of units sold in the year by 65%. It has started new developments in Dunbar, Strathaven and Mid Calder in Central Scotland and is currently operating on eight live sites. Chairman Bill Robertson said: "We are delighted with the continued progress across all of our 19 operating companies. "The group has now started delivering on its new five-year strategic plan with a strong focus on sustainability, innovation and productivity. "The continued success of the group will be based on generating sustainable and appropriate margins for any work undertaken."
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Gambia: Former President Must Stand Trial for Journalist's Murder press release Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, now living in exile in Equatorial Guinea, to be extradited back to Gambia to stand trial for the 2004 murder of Deyda Hydara, a newspaper editor who was the dean of Gambia's journalists and RSF's correspondent. RSF issued the call after an army officer confessed on July 22nd to Gambia's Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission that he carried out Hydara's murder and said it was ordered by President Jammeh. Detained since 8 February 2017, two weeks after Jammeh's removal from office and departure into exile, Lt. Malick Jatta told the commission how he and two other military officers - who, like him, were members of a special unit - shot Hydara in his car on the night of 16 December 2004. "We opened fire, myself, Alieu Jen and Sana Manjang," Jatta said, naming the two other officers. "Our correspondent's murder 15 years ago caused our staff a great deal of distress," RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. "Fifteen years later, we continue to demand justice. The investigation into this shocking crime must be relaunched and, given the gravity of the accusations against him, Yahya Jammeh must be extradited from Equatorial Guinea. The crimes against journalists that took place during his 22 years in power must not remain unpunished." Aged 58 and the father of four children, Hydara was co-founder and editor of the newspaper The Point, writing a widely-read column entitled "Good morning Mr. President," in which he commented on Gambia's politics and government. He was also the Gambia correspondent of both Agence France-Presse and RSF. Jammeh's 22 years as president were marked by constant persecution of the media. As well as Hydara's murder, he was reportedly implicated in the deaths of two other journalists, Chief Ebrima Manneh and Omar Barrow, and in many cases of censorship and imprisonment of journalists. Under Adama Barrow, who replaced Jammeh as president in January 2017, Gambia rose 30 places in a single year in RSF's 2019 World Press Freedom Index to be ranked 92nd out of 180 countries.
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Chase Coleman has built a $6.6b fortune from his hedge fund It's hard to criticise a hedge fund up 25.5 per cent in the first five months of this year, or a private equity unit that made $US5 billion on a single investment. Not everything's perfect, though, of course. For one thing, the firm may actually have too much money-something Coleman himself addressed recently. "It's not easy to manage a big pool of capital, and I'm challenged every day," Coleman said last week at a Morgan Stanley conference, according to people who attended the event. You have to be deliberate in how you do it, he added, which is why he spreads his investments across public and private markets. While assets have climbed, key personnel have departed, often to run their own money. Feroz Dewan, who ran public equities, left in 2015, as did Caleb Watts, Andrew Bellas and Alexander Captain. Lee Fixel, responsible for the firm's push into India and behind some of its most lucrative investments, is exiting this month after 13 years. And then there are the bubble-territory valuations. "Tonnes of capital has gone into the technology space, and that could potentially reduce returns," said Mark Buntz, chief financial officer of the William K. Warren Foundation, which has invested in Tiger Global's private investment funds for more than a decade. "But I expect that Tiger Global will exercise the same discipline it has in the past, and won't just go out and chase deals." Like Buntz, the majority of endowments and foundations that have entrusted money to Coleman are convinced he can navigate this. After all, he manages almost 50 per cent more than his mentor Robertson ever did. He's done it mostly with old-school stock picking and a staff of about 20 other investment professionals. His record of 20 per cent annualised returns for his hedge fund-with only two down years-and 25 per cent for private equity funds beats most peers. During the GFC, Coleman's hedge fund lost 26 per cent, followed by a paltry 1 per cent gain the next year. Credit:AP Coleman, who associates describe as reserved and a quintessential WASP, declined to comment for this article. He rarely speaks at public events and is seldom photographed. But he has been known to let his old-money guard down and get crazy. In 2016, Chase and his wife Stephanie bought a $US52 million Central Park co-op. Last year, the couple hosted an after-party to the Save Venice masquerade ball where guests, including Paris Hilton, were welcome to vandalise the soon-to-be renovated apartment, the New York Post's Page Six reported. It was a moment of unwanted publicity for Coleman, who grew up on the north shore of Long Island, the son of a lawyer and an interior designer. A descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, he attended Deerfield Academy, the elite boarding school in Massachusetts, and went on to co-captain the lacrosse team at Williams College. "I've known Chase since he was a young boy on Long Island and a good friend of my son Spencer," Robertson said. So it was natural that his first hedge fund job was at Tiger Management. Coleman worked as a technology analyst at Tiger for less than four years before getting a check from Robertson. In 2001, he became an official Tiger Cub, the term for Robertson proteges who started their own firms, a group that also includes Lee Ainslie and Andreas Halvorsen. Originally Tiger Technology, the firm expanded to payments, education and other sectors and changed its name to Tiger Global. In the early 2000s, Coleman and partner Scott Shleifer added private investments to the mix, realising before many of their peers that they might find higher returns outside of public markets. During the 2008 financial crisis, Coleman's hedge fund lost 26 per cent, followed by a paltry 1 per cent gain the next year. The young investor regrouped, vowing to return to his tech roots and avoid industries where politics or macro events could interfere. Investors say his success comes from concentrated bets, pressing winners and quickly cutting losers-skills he learned from Robertson. He told the Morgan Stanley crowd that the person who does best is the one with the panic button farthest from his keyboard. Other lessons he absorbed: Talent trumps experience, and hiring young people who can be coached produces the best money managers. The average age at Tiger Global is 32. The firm's holiday cards could be mistaken for a class hiking trip photo, except that everyone is wearing matching high-end parkas, pants, boots and backpacks. Coleman maintains a low profile but is friends with the likes of 11-time world surfing champion kelly Slater. Credit:Janie Barrett
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The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker, review: An impressive feat of literary revisionism that should be on the Man Booker longlist Why isn't Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls on this year's Man Booker longlist? There are always going to be contentious omissions, I know, but Barker's not only a veteran - she won in 1995 for The Ghost Road, the final volume of her magnificent First World War-set Regeneration trilogy - this latest work is an impressive feat of literary revisionism that reminds us that there are as many ways to tell a story as there are people involved. It's The Iliad as seen through the eyes of 19-year-old Briseis, the Queen of Lyrnessus who's taken as Achilles's "bed-girl," his "prize of honour" for mass slaughter. Barker's not the first to turn to the classics for inspiration. It's popular practice right now. Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire and Michael Hughes's Country, for example, transpose classical stories onto contemporary settings. While Barker's project is reminiscent of Madeline Miller's Circe, which re-told The Odyssey from the witch's point of view, not that of the warrior she waylays on his journey home. In giving female characters such as Circe and Briseis the voice they've traditionally been denied, readers glean a different version of events. "Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles...How the epithets pile up," Briseis begins. "We never called him any of those things; we called him "the butcher."" Barker's subject has long been gender relations during conflict, along with the machinations of trauma and memory, so she's in her element here. Her blood-drenched battle scenes are up there with the best of them, and she shows a keen understanding of the "never-ending cycle of hatred and revenge" fuelling the violence. Her focus, however, is that which takes place off the battlefield, inflicted on the women in the "rape camps." Reduced to objects, they're catalysts for conflict - Barker's Helen inspires ribaldry not worship, "The eyes, the hair, the tits, the lips/That launched a thousand battleships..." chant the soldiers - blamed for inciting hatred between men. Or they're regarded as the victor's spoils, claimed along with cattle and gold. Briseis is both. Taken as a slave, Achilles and Agamemnon then feud over her: "It doesn't belong to him; he hasn't earnt it," fumes the former. Men - Greek and Trojan alike - are afforded the privilege of vocalising their pain and loss, while women have to repress their suffering. "Silence becomes a woman," they're told, even when they're free. No longer an issue of decorum, now it's about staying alive. "I do what no man before me has ever done, I kiss the hands of the man who killed my son," declares Priam when he prostrates himself before Achilles begging for Hector's body. "And I do what countless women before me have been forced to do, Briseis thinks bitterly, "I spread my legs for the man who killed my husband and my brothers." The Gods flit around in the wings, but fundamentally this is a story about the very real cost of wars waged by men: "the brutal reality of conquest and slavery." In seeing a legend differently, Barker also makes us re-think history. The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker is published by Hamish Hamilton (£18.99)
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Also, a fish tank was placed in the kitchen, providing first class passengers with the freshest of fish. The liner operated on North German Lloyd's transatlantic route travelling from Bremen, with occasional calls at other ports, including Boston and New Orleans. The ship was steaming toward Germany from America with Captain Charles Polack, who had succeeded Dietrich Hogemann in 1913, when she received word of the outbreak of war. In addition to 1,216 passengers, including some British reservist, she was carrying $10,679,000 in gold and $3,000,000 in silver. The ship, bound for Bremen, was nearing Liverpool when directed to head back to the closest port in the neutral United States to avoid capture by the British Navy and French cruisers. Captain Polack had her normally all-buff funnels painted with black tops so as to resemble the liner or another ship of the British White Star Line as a form of disguise. Due to the liner's dwindling fuel Bar Harbor, Maine, though not a large port, was selected with the ship being brought in 4 August 1914 piloted by a local banker and yachtsman as none of the ship's officers were familiar with the port. North German Lloyd representatives met in Washington with officials of the Departments of State, Treasury, Commerce and the United States Revenue Cutter Service (USRCS) with the result was ordered to Bar Harbor to prevent unauthorized departure of foreign vessels but primarily to protect the transfer of gold and silver, as well as all mail and passengers, from Kronprinzessin Cecilie to shore to be transported by train to New York. Androscoggin, joined by the destroyer, arrived at Bar Harbor on 6 August with wild speculation in the press. On 7 November the ship moved to Boston where she was to remain while civil suits against the ship were resolved in federal court. ===American career===
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Kronprinzessin Cecilie was commandeered by the United States on 3 February 1917 and transferred from the United States Shipping Board (USSB) to the U.S. Navy when America entered the war that April. She was commissioned 28 July 1917 and renamed USS Mount Vernon after George Washington's Virginia home. She was fitted out at Boston to carry troops and materiel to Europe. Mount Vernon departed New York for Brest on 31 October 1917 for her first U.S. Navy crossing, and during the war made nine successful voyages carrying American troops to fight in Europe. However, early on the morning of 5 September 1918, as the transport steamed homeward in convoy some from the French coast, her No. 1 gun crew spotted a periscope some off her starboard bow. Mount Vernon immediately fired one round at German U-boat. The U‑boat simultaneously submerged, but managed to launch a torpedo at the transport. Mount Vernon's officer of the deck promptly ordered right full rudder, but the ship could not turn in time to avoid the missile, which struck her amidships, knocking out half of her boilers, flooding the midsection, and killing 36 sailors and injuring 13. Mount Vernon's guns kept firing ahead of the U‑boat's wake and her crew launched a pattern of depth charges. Damage-control teams worked to save the ship, and their efforts paid off when the transport was able to return to Brest under her own power. Repaired temporarily at Brest, she proceeded to Boston for complete repairs. Mount Vernon rejoined the Cruiser and Transport Service in February 1919 and sailed on George Washington's birthday for France to begin returning veterans to the United States. Mount Vernon pulled out of port on 3 March 1919 at 11 PM to return to the United States. Some of her notable passengers during her naval service were: Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations; General Tasker H. Bliss, Chief of Staff of the United States Army; Col. Edward M. House, Special Adviser to President Wilson; and Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War. ====Army====
On 17 October 1919 Mount Vernon was transferred to the War Department for operation by the Army Transport Service where the ship was assigned to the Army's Pacific fleet based at Fort Mason in San Francisco. USAT Mount Vernon made one trip between March and July 1920 to Vladivostok, Russia embarking elements of the Czechoslovak Legion to be disembarked at Trieste, Italy and 300 German prisoners of war for Hamburg, Germany. On return the ship was turned over to the United States Shipping Board and laid up at Solomons Island, Maryland. ==Scrapping==
At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the Americans offered the former Kronprinzessin Cecilie to the British as a troop transport, who refused on the pretext that she was too old.
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'Not qualified' ratings of Trump nominees puts American Bar Association in the spotlight Trump nominated VanDyke, who currently serves as a deputy assistant attorney general for the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the Department of Justice, last month for the post on the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. The President has repeatedly attacked the liberal-leaning 9th Circuit for rulings that have blocked administration initiatives, especially on immigration. "Mr. VanDyke's accomplishments are offset by the assessments of interviewees that Mr. VanDyke is arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking in knowledge of the day-to-day practice including procedural rules," William C. Hubbard, chair of the ABA's standing committee on the federal judiciary, wrote. "There was a theme that the nominee lacks humility, has an 'entitlement' temperament, does not have an open mind, and does not always have a commitment to being candid and truthful." So far, at least six of the President's nominees have received a "not qualified" rating as the Trump administration and the Republican-led Senate has transformed the face of the judiciary by placing nearly 160 nominees on the federal bench including two Supreme Court nominees. But the letter triggered an angry backlash from supporters of the Harvard-educated lawyer who called it a hit job from a liberal-leaning group. For decades, the ABA has been an influential voice in the confirmation process for judicial nominees, but it also over the years has come under criticism from conservatives who question its methodology and argue that it leans ideologically left. "The ABA is a liberal dark-money groups, fronting for trial lawyers who donate millions of dollars to Democratic politicians," said Mike Davis, who served as chief counsel for then-Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and now runs the Article III project, a group that supports Trump's nominees. Davis calls the ABA process "fatally flawed, as it is intentionally structured to couple liberal activists with a subjective, black-box process that oftentimes results in unfair hits on conservative judicial nominees." And Carrie Severino of the Judicial Crisis Network, which advocates for conservative nominees, charged that the lead evaluator of VanDyke, Montana attorney Marcia Davenport, previously contributed to Van Dyke's opponent in a 2014 election for a seat on the Montana Supreme Court. That criticism from this Congress has been muted of late, however, because Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, has praised the group's role. VanDyke is former solicitor general of both Montana and Nevada, but the ABA letter about his fitness for the federal bench was particularly harsh on his temperament. It notes that some interviewees raised concerns about whether VanDyke would be "fair to persons who are gay, lesbian or otherwise part of the LGBTQ community. "Mr VanDyke would not say affirmatively that he would be fair to any litigant before him, notably members of the LGBTQ community," the letter said. The ABA ratings have been used to criticize Trump nominees who liberal critics fear, and conservatives hope that will provide major rulings on issues such as abortion, the Second Amendment and affirmative action. And if some of those cases make their way to the Supreme Court, conservatives will be content to know that the strong conservative majority with Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh will be there to rule in their favor. As of last week, the Senate has now confirmed five judges the ABA deemed unqualified: Leonard Steven Grasz, Charles Barnes Goodwin, Holly Lou Teeter, Jonathan Kobes, and Justin Walker. Goodwin and Teeter received support from Democrats, while the other three were approved only with Republican votes. Overall, the setbacks have been few as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has pushed through a record number of appellate judges and often praises a legacy that will last decades. Two Trump judicial nominees who have been called unqualified by the ABA -- John O'Connor and Brett Talley -- have withdrawn from consideration. But the setbacks for McConnell and Trump have been far outweighed by their successes in confirming scores and scores of judges. Their effort to reshape the judicial branch with young conservatives is perhaps their longest-lasting legacy. Last week, Graham shepherded the confirmation of Justin R. Walker, 37, an assistant professor of law at the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville, who received a "not qualified" rating from the AVA, to be a judge on a US district court. A spokesperson for the ABA said that its rating process is done by a standing committee of the federal judiciary which is independent of the ABA leadership and does extensive peer reviews of the nominees writings and interviews with people who have worked with them. They have three criteria: integrity, temperament and experience and say that ideology does not factor in the evaluation at all.
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Father Christmas's winter wonderland homes are hotting up After a year in which the climate has been far more naughty than nice, even Father Christmas - in his various guises - is feeling the heat, according to the towns that claim to be his birthplace. From Alaska to Finland, half a dozen Arctic towns have staked a claim to be the home of Santa Claus or whatever other name he is locally known as. And almost without exception, these winter wonderlands are hotting up. In Sweden, festive tourists flock to Mora, which boasts a Santa headquarters known as Tomteland that follows local traditions dating back to the Viking era. But the effects of global warming are becoming harder to ignore. Reindeers are becoming confused by unseasonal temperatures, according to the indigenous Sami. This spring, there were bad floods, and in summer, nearby woodland was destroyed by wildfires that swept through many areas in Sweden. "I have consulted Mr Santa - or "Tomten" which is his real Swedish name - and he is very concerned about climate change," Anders Rosén, Mora's communications manager, told the Guardian. "He has a very strong message to the decision makers of the world: "Please take climate change seriously and make decisions in order to save the planet.""" A more stable climate would also be better for business. Local ski slopes and cross-country tracks sometimes have to be kept in operation by artificial snow machines. A few years ago, there was no snow on 25 December but the temperature this week is -10C and there have been some falls in recent days so hopes are high that this year will deliver a white Christmas. "Even without snow, we are very good at creating the right Christmas atmosphere," Rosén said. "The tradition of Christmas is very strong in Sweden." The Finnish city of Rovaniemireceives tens of thousands of letters to Santa from children around the world. Residents of the Lapland capital said the summer was freakishly hot and dry with temperatures above 30C for several weeks in a row. The winter snow arrived so late this year that tourist companies had to improvise with new activities for visitors, including hikes across lakes, where the ice is so crystal clear that fish can be seen near the bottom. "The lakes are normally covered in snow," said Sanna Kärkkäinen, the managing director of Visit Rovaniemi. "The weather has changed for sure in the past three to five years. It used to be more stable but now it goes from long mild periods to sudden extreme cold." Santa poses for a picture at the Santa Claus Office located on the Arctic Circle near Rovaniemi. Photograph: Attila Cser/Reuters In recent weeks, the weather has returned to something like its normal pattern and the population of the city - which triples each December with tourists from as far afield as Australia and the US - is once again living in a white landscape. Even so, the locals are worried. Every year, the character of Joulupukki (Old Man Christmas) delivers a festive message - and this year's was a call for action. "Our friend nature has been in trouble for a while now and now we all can give one gift together: we can help nature. I wish you all a merry Christmas," he told one reporter. Drøbak - a Norwegian town 25 miles (40km) from Oslo - is home to another Santa Claus post office, as well as a year-round Christmas house. The local tourist manager claims to be the cousin of Santa Claus, who is said to live in the nearby island of Håøya. Compared with other Christmas grottos, this is in a relatively southern location and so the climate is mild with only a 60%-70% chance of a white Christmas. When the seasonal lights were turned on at the start of Advent it was raining, but the snow has finally come. Hans Petter Treider, a local author who has written a book about the life and history of Santa Claus, said Drøbak was doing its bit to fight climate change with an electric ferry service to Santa's island and a promise to make the town centre car-free by 2030. "We have one earth, and we must take care of it," he said. City hall decorated for Christmas in North Pole, Alaska. Photograph: Robert Lype/Getty Images
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Patriots extend S Chung, sign three others By Reuters
The New England Patriots wrapped up a busy day Saturday as they signed free-agent defensive end Adrian Clayborn, running back Jeremy Hill and offensive lineman Matt Tobin and extended the contract of safety Patrick Chung. Clayborn and Hill were expected to sign with the Patriots after reports leaked out earlier this week that they would head to the defending AFC champions. Clayborn, 29, recorded 30 sacks in seven seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Atlanta Falcons. Hill, 25, rushed for 2,873 yards and 29 touchdowns in four seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals. Tobin provides additional depth on the offensive line for New England. The 27-year-old has played in 57 games (21 starts) during five seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles and Seattle Seahawks. He has played both left and right guard. Chung, 30, was heading into the final year of his contract. Terms of the extension have not been released, but the deal prevents Chung from hitting the free-agent market next season. The Patriots reportedly view Chung as a leader in the locker room, according to the Boston Herald. He has excelled as part of a trio of New England safeties that includes Devin McCourty and Duron Harmon. Last season, Chung finished with 84 tackles and an interception. He has 643 tackles and 10 interceptions in his nine-year career, spent solely with the Patriots. --Field Level Media Share or comment on this article Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.
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The troll, brilliantly, justifies its cruel actions by reference to a garbled reading of natural law, not dissimilar to the survival-of-the-fittest theorising that appears to underscore neoliberal free-market dogma, as espoused by the current crop of Conservative trolls from Sajid Javid to George "pencils" Osborne. Of course, the two dozen under-eights sitting around me weren't necessarily responding to the story on this level, although a caricature of a dissembling politician seemed universally recognisable, even to infants barely able to speak, who gurgled self-aggrandisingly at his appearance, like horrible West End theatre audiences do at a joke about some supposedly unfashionable brand of kitchenware. It appears that all is lost until two small children, Holly and Sean, emerge from the silent compliant mass to ask the troll "Why?" Why does he govern them in the way that he does? Under their persistent questioning the troll, and his belief system, eventually crumble. And I left the theatre feeling a little less hopeless, feeling that all it might take to stop the juggernaut of unfairness is for someone, anyone at this stage, to ask why. A child could do it. So why not then a funny, little old man? Maybe I am projecting my own anxieties on to the piece? Would a kids" show consciously carry such weight? Or is it natural that any thoughtful piece of art should do so? The similarly thoughtful young comedian Nish Kumar is currently appearing on the fringe with a show that explains, with knowing playfulness, why, in his opinion, there are no good rightwing comedians and no good leftwing action films, and how he takes the different pleasures he as a human needs from both, ideologically different, genres. Likewise, it would be hard to imagine an effective children's show written in support of child slavery and government by oppression and intimidation. It wouldn't seem right to justify these things to children. But perhaps the market for it would be there. So let's see someone write one, and let the market decide. Stewart Lee's A Room With a Stew is now at the Edinburgh festival fringe and will play in London from 21 Sept
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