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The financial habits Americans struggle with most The rules that financial pros say people should follow if they want to build wealth are usually straightforward - pay your bills on time, have cash on hand for a rainy day and invest money for your future. Sounds easy enough, but for many people these milestones can feel out of reach. The slow wage growth we've seen since the recession means that for many workers, there isn't much left from the paycheck after covering essentials such as housing, child care and food. Then there are goals such as paying off debt and saving for retirement that can take a back seat, particularly for people struggling with student loans, day-care expenses and high rent. A slew of surveys and economic reports released recently shed light on how well Americans are handling their money. Wondering where you stand? Take a look: Debt payments. Consumers have become much better about paying their bills on time since the recession, with delinquencies for major loan types dropping nearly across the board. This is good news because, as Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary has said again and again, one of the easiest ways to improve your credit score is to pay your bills on time. The share of closed-end loans, such as car and personal loans, that were late by 30 days or more dropped dramatically in the second quarter to 1.36 percent of accounts, far below the 15-year average of 2.27 percent, according to new data from the American Bankers Association. Closed-end loans are for a set amount, unlike credit cards or lines of credit, which allow balances to change from month to month. Credit card delinquencies rose slightly to 2.52 percent in the second quarter but were still below the long-term average of 3.74 percent. And the share of people with federal student loans who failed to make loan payments within three years of leaving school is down as more people take advantage of flexible payment options. Housing costs. Financial advisers generally recommend that consumers not spend more than a third of their total pay on housing, to free up cash for saving, paying down debt and spending on other necessities. But whether you rent or own, chances are you are struggling to stay under that threshold. About 20.7 million rental households - or about half of all renters - spent more than 30 percent of their income on housing in 2013, according to a report from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. For about 11 million of those households, the rent bill ate up more than half of their paycheck. (Map: Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Click here for an interactive version.) The situation is a little different for people who own a home. For homeowners, monthly mortgage payments, including property taxes, mortgage insurance and home insurance, took up about 36.5 percent of the average national wage in the first quarter of 2015, down from 37.4 percent a year earlier, according to a report from RealtyTrac and Clear Capital. [The cities where Americans are most likely to spend more than half of their paycheck on rent] Emergency savings. If you have any savings, you're ahead of the game. Some 62 percent of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings account, according to a survey of 5,000 consumers by GoBankingRates. That includes 21 percent of those surveyed who said they didn't even have a savings account. The findings are in line with a similar study by Bankrate.com, which found that 29 percent of people don't have an emergency fund. Despite the steady job growth of recent years, many Americans are struggling to save. Financial advisers and economists blame low wage growth, which might make it difficult for families to keep up with rising rent costs and growing child-care expenses. Not surprisingly, people who make more money save a bigger percentage of their pay. People in the bottom 90 percent of the income scale save close to zero percent of their pay each year, while those in the top 10 percent save close to 15 percent of their pay, according to an analysis by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economists with the University of California at Berkeley. But it's not too late to establish the habit. Financial advisers say people who save with a specific goal in mind - a vacation, a new car or to buy a home, for instance - may be more motivated to stick to their plan. Open a separate saving account and have the money funneled into the account automatically on a weekly or daily basis. [Nearly 30 percent of Americans are one emergency away from financial ruin] Retirement savings. People are getting better about saving for retirement. For the first time, the average amount that employees and employers contributed to 401 (k) s topped $10,000 this year, according to Fidelity Investments. The numbers show that both sides are putting more funds toward retirement, an important shift as companies continue to move away from pensions and the future of Social Security remains uncertain.
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Specifically as to how many member states there currently are? It's referenced further down, and I think this fact is trivial enough that LEAD#Citations doesn't require an extra citation in the lead. —JAO • T • C
Given that the number is ever growing and that the change in membership is not always reported all over the globe, I am not so sure that this doesn't need (just one) citation. If it was a fixed number or a well known number then I would agree but it is steadily increasing. I really think given the fact that the information is easily accessed elsewhere on the page, a citation here is unnecessary. == Animation of member states ==
The current animation showing which states joined when is currently very fast - any way of slowing it down a bit? Hadrian89 (talk)
Well yes, but I'm not sure how.—Blue-Haired Lawyer
== EU production of primary energy ==
report recognises the important role of NATO in the security architecture of the Europe and takes the view that the future collective defence of the EU should as far as possible be organised in cooperation with NATO.... The resolution notes that the “Berlin plus” arrangements, which allow the EU to have recourse to NATO assets and capabilities, need to be improved in order to allow the two organisations to intervene and effectively deliver relief in current crises.}} EU in the FIRST PART of its presentation never mention Nato.I suggest everibody to check EU official website to show how low is the level of the EU presentation in Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by EU 100% (talk • contribs)
We use the EU website as a source, not as a template. Arnoutf (talk)
This thing isn't sufficient to justify the low said "Excusatio non petita accusatio manifesta! "Your sorry is the symbol of your guilt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by EU 100% (talk • contribs)
What thing? What low level? Arnoutf (talk)
You deny the low level and you don't know neither latin words of law that is at the basis of all occidental international level must be removed from first part. —Preceding unsigned comment added by (talk • contribs)
THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. YOU ADDED THE LATIN AFTER MY COMMENT. (shouting intentended). That is rude, impolite, and your follow up comment shows bad faith on your part. Regarding your comment. I deny nothing, I just do not understand what you mean with "low level"; that is because your English is not up to communicating with other editors. You are NOT on Latin Wikipedia, but on English Wikipedia; and even if Latin was remotely relevant here (which it is not) you fail to make clear why the apparently random Latin quote has any meaning to this discussion. I would strongly advice you to take Kindergarten level English lessons before you start going out insulting other editors again. Also some reading up on basic guidelines of Wikipedia could do no harm Arnoutf (talk)
I'm sorry but in my opinion the presentation of EU is at a low level.I read the MAIN PRESENTATION just now of EU.I never read Nato. Sorry.I suggest all wikipedians to read it.I like to face problems with philosophy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by EU 100% (talk • contribs)
I probably should say this, but: EU 100% please stop editing Wikipedia. You are incapable of expressing yourself in English, and I remain to be convinced your Italian is much better. This having been said I think I've finally managed to guess/deduct what EU 100% is saying. In the article lead we say that
"Twenty-one EU countries are members of NATO",
in the context of international involvement. It could be argued that the EU's involvement with NATO is considerably less significant than the other organisations mentioned and does not warrant inclusion in the lead.—Blue-Haired Lawyer
Taking into consideration Article 17 of the Maastricht treaty (as amended), the St. Malo Declaration, the Berlin Plus agreement, the transfer of WEU capabilities to the EU under the CFSP and and the ESDP, the CJTF, ESDP access to NATO assets, the membership overlap between the organizations (European NATO countries that are in the EU and vice versa), observer status regulations with respect to NATO, WEU and EU etc. etc., I don't think it is reasonable to avoid mention of NATO when talking about defence in the context of the EU.
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By the time Albert died 30 years later, the conquest and formal Christianisation of present-day Estonia and northern Latvia was complete. Albert began his task by touring the Empire, preaching a Crusade against the Baltic countries, and was assisted in this by a Papal Bull which declared that fighting against the Baltic heathens was of the same rank as participating in a crusade to the Holy Land. Although he landed in the mouth of the Daugava in 1200 with only 23 ships and 500 soldiers, the bishop's efforts ensured that a constant flow of recruits followed. The first crusaders usually arrived to fight during the spring and returned to their homes in the autumn. To ensure a permanent military presence, the Livonian Brothers of the Sword were founded in 1202. The founding by Bishop Albert of the market at Riga in 1201 attracted citizens from the Empire and economic prosperity ensued. At Albert's request, Pope Innocent III dedicated the Baltic countries to the Virgin Mary to popularize recruitment to his army and the name "Mary's Land" has survived up to modern times. This is noticeable in one of the names given to Livonia at the time, Terra Mariana (Land of Mary). In 1206, the crusaders subdued the Livonian stronghold in Turaida on the right bank of Gauja River, the ancient trading route to the Northwestern Rus. In order to gain control over the left bank of Gauja, the stone castle was built in Sigulda before 1210. By 1211, the Livonian province of Metsepole (now Limbaži district) and the mixed Livonian-Latgallian inhabited county of Idumea (now Straupe) was converted to the Roman Catholic faith. The last battle against the Livonians was the siege of Satezele hillfort near to Sigulda in 1212. The Livonians, who had been paying tribute to the East Slavic Principality of Polotsk, had at first considered the Germans as useful allies. The first prominent Livonian to be christened was their leader Caupo of Turaida. As the German grip tightened, the Livonians rebelled against the crusaders and the christened chief, but were put down. Caupo of Turaida remained an ally of the crusaders until his death in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day in 1217. The German crusaders enlisted newly baptised Livonian warriors to participate in their campaigns against Latgallians and Selonians (1208–1209), Estonians (1208–1227) and against Semigallians, Samogitians and Curonians (1219–1290). ===Campaign against the Latgallians and Selonians (1208–1224)===
After the subjugation of the Livonians the crusaders turned their attention to the Latgallian principalities to the east, along the Gauja and Daugava rivers. The military alliance in 1208 and later conversion from Greek Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism of the Principality of Tālava was the only peaceful subjugation of the Baltic tribes during the Nordic crusades. The ruler of Tālava, Tālivaldis (Talibaldus de Tolowa), became the most loyal ally of German crusaders against the Estonians, and he died a Catholic martyr in 1215. The war against the Latgallian and Selonian countries along the Daugava waterway started in 1208 by occupation of the Orthodox Principality of Koknese and the Selonian Sēlpils hillfort. The campaign continued in 1209 with an attack on the Orthodox Principality of Jersika (known as Lettia), accused by crusaders of being in alliance with Lithuanian pagans. After defeat the king of Jersika, Visvaldis, became the vassal of the Bishop of Livonia and received part of his country (Southern Latgale) as a fiefdom. The Selonian stronghold of Sēlpils was briefly the seat of a Selonian diocese (1218–1226), and then came under the rule of the Livonian Order (and eventually the stone castle of Selburg was built in its place). Only in 1224, with the division of Tālava and Adzele counties between the Bishop of Rīga and the Order of the Swordbearers, did Latgallian countries finally become the possession of German conquerors. The territory of the former Principality of Jersika was divided by the Bishop of Rīga and the Livonian Order in 1239.
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On Tuesday, as he announced his intention to leave the Senate, Flake said that he thought "this fever will break" - this anti-establishment, Trumpist fever that led Flake to determine that he couldn't win next year. (It's a mutation of the fever that President Barack Obama lamented in 2012.) What will likely break it, though, isn't Republican voters rising up and declaring that they've had it with Trump and Trumpism. More likely to break the fever would be a string of losses by Bannon-backed Trumpist candidates, showing Republicans on Capitol Hill that Bannon's threats are empty. Bannon has gotten lucky before. But for now, he has proven much more adept at slapping ideological certificates of authenticity on candidates than on getting them elected to office.
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Arda Turan sentenced to prison for firing gun at hospital after nightclub fight with singer Barcelona midfielder Arda Turan has been sentenced to two years and eight months in jail after firing a gun at a hospital following a fight with a Turkish pop star. However, the 31-year-old - who is currently on loan at Turkish club Istanbul Basaksehir - has seen the verdict deferred by the court, meaning he will only be sent to prison if he commits a crime in the next five years. Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of 12 and a half years for sexual harassment, inflicting intentional injuries, shooting a firearm in a way to cause panic and carrying weapons without a license. He was found guilty on all charges apart from sexual harassment. Turan and singer Berkay Sahin were involved in an altercation in an Istanbul nightclub last year which left the singer requiring surgery on a broken nose. The former Atletico Madrid midfielder followed the singer to hospital, where he reportedly begged for forgiveness and asked to be shot over alleged comments made to Berkay's wife, Ozlem Ada Sahin, before the gun went off. Basaksehir fined Turan, who has continued to play for the club, ₺2.5 million (£4350,629) over the incident. Turan joined Barcelona from Atletico Madrid in 2015 in a deal worth €34m, going on to making 55 appearances and scoring 15 goal and winning La Liga twice. The Turkey international returned to his homeland on a two-and-a-half-year loan - the remainder of his Barcelona contract - in early 2018.
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The American force that liberated the internees at Santo Tomas was small in numbers, and the Japanese still had soldiers near the compound. Fighting went on for several days. The internees received food and medical treatment but were not allowed to leave Santo Tomas. Registration of them for return to their countries of origin began. On February 7, General Douglas MacArthur visited the compound, an event that was accompanied by Japanese shelling. That night and again on February 10, 28 people in the compound were killed in the artillery barrage, including 16 internees. The evacuation of the internees began on February 11. Sixty-four U.S. Army and Navy nurses interned in Santo Tomas were the first to leave that day and board airplanes for the United States. Flights and ships to the United States for most internees began on February 22. Although food became adequate with the arrival of American soldiers, life continued to be difficult. The lingering effects of near-starvation for so many months saw 48 people die in the camp in February, the highest death total for any month. Most internees could not leave the camp because of a lack of housing in Manila. The American military pressured all American internees to return to the U.S., including long-time residents and mixed-blood families who wished to remain in the Philippines. Tensions between the remaining internees and the American military were high. Slowly, in March and April 1945 the camp emptied out, but it was not until September that Santo Tomas finally closed and the last internees boarded a ship for the US or sought out places to live in Manila, almost completely destroyed in the Battle of Manila. == Collaborators with the Japanese ==
American intelligence investigated and detained about 50 internees suspected of being collaborators or spies for the Japanese. Most were cleared, but a few, although repatriated, had their cases referred to the FBI. Ernest Stanley, the interpreter, was reportedly investigated, but cleared of charges. He later went to Japan as an employee of the U.S. Army and became a Japanese citizen. He married a Japanese woman and took up residence in Tokyo and adopted a son. He lived in Tokyo the rest of his life. Earl Carroll defended himself and other camp leaders from allegations of collaboration in a series of newspaper articles in which he claimed the internees had waged a "secret war" against the Japanese. That view was generally accepted by Americans, and most internees were given a campaign ribbon for "contributing materially to the success of the Philippine campaign." Carroll and (posthumously) Grinnell received the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian decoration of the U.S. government. Scholars have characterized the cooperation between the Japanese and the internees at Santo Tomas as "legitimate collaboration. By working with the internees, the Japanese suppressed resistance, isolated Americans from Filipinos, freed up resources, and exploited the camp for intelligence and propaganda. In return the camp obtained greater autonomy, security, and a higher standard of living." ==Internees==
Roy Anthony Cutaran Bennett
Frank Buckles, shipping company employee and last known surviving World War I U.S. military service member. Dr. Dorothy Kinney Chambers. Laura M. Cobb, U.S. Navy nurse
William Henry Donald, advisor to Chiang Kai-shek
Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer, botanist
A.V.H. Hartendorp, journalist and author
Carl Mydans, photographer
Shelley Smith Mydans, journalist
Josephine Nesbit, U.S. Army nurse
Horace Bristol Pond, businessman
Evelyn Witthoff, medical doctor
==See also==
Camp Holmes Internment Camp
Escape to the Hills
Internment
John Hay Air Base
Los Banos Internment Camp
== References ==
==Bibliography==
== External links ==
The Secret Story of Santo Tomas (Part 1)
The Secret Story of Santo Tomas (Part 2)
Ernest Stanley — January 21, 1948
Lt. Col. Walter J. Landry Letter
Victims of Circumstance documentary
The Guardian obituary of Robin Prising mentions his memoir of his stay in the camp between the ages of 8 and 12: Manila, Goodbye
Internment Camp
World War II sites in the Philippines
Japanese prisoner of war and internment camps
Military history of the Philippines during World War II
History of Manila
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== Updating a Image ==
I've noticed on the wiki page for North Walsham the picture of St Nicholas Church is outdated (It's had significant building work on the tower). I wish to submit an updated image which is my own to update the image. Can I, and How do I submit this image to editors so its suitability can be assessed for inclusion on the page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Urbannorfolk (talk • contribs)
Urbannorfolk (talk)
Welcome to the Teahouse, Urbannorfolk. You don't need to submit your image to other editors for assessment. Providing that you own the copyright to the new photo and are willing to release it under a Creative Commons licence, you can be bold and replace the existing image. The best place to upload the image is to Wikimedia Commons. You can read about this at Wikimedia Commons. Cordless Larry (talk)
The form for uploading an image at Commons is here. Deor (talk)
Then,, once you've taken your photo and uploaded it to Commons, you can go to North Walsham, hit Edit, find where it says Cooper, personal chef to Janet Jackson, has been featured in two books by Kathy Ireland and Janet Jackson, contributing recipes. He is on the Nutrisystem council, discussed in several articles and shown on television programs and movies. However, there is a question of notability??? How can this possibly be? There are several profiles on wikipedia of far less famous people with little citations?? Why is this so difficult?? Help????? Ignisstatera (talk)
I assume you are referring to Andre Carthen? Please tell us the name of the article when asking questions about it. - Arjayay (talk)
Welcome to the Teahouse, Ignisstatera. I think the problem is that in order to demonstrate notability, we require significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the topic. Most of the sources you have cited only seem to mention Andre Carthen in passing. What you need to provide are sources that discuss him in more depth. I hope that helps. Cordless Larry (talk)
== Updating a Image ==
I've noticed on the wiki page for North Walsham the picture of St Nicholas Church is outdated (It's had significant building work on the tower). I wish to submit an updated image which is my own to update the image. Can I, and How do I submit this image to editors so its suitability can be assessed for inclusion on the page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Urbannorfolk (talk • contribs)
Urbannorfolk (talk)
Welcome to the Teahouse, Urbannorfolk. You don't need to submit your image to other editors for assessment. Providing that you own the copyright to the new photo and are willing to release it under a Creative Commons licence, you can be bold and replace the existing image. The best place to upload the image is to Wikimedia Commons. You can read about this at Wikimedia Commons. Cordless Larry (talk)
The form for uploading an image at Commons is here. Deor (talk)
Then,, once you've taken your photo and uploaded it to Commons, you can go to North Walsham, hit Edit, find where it says Cooper, personal chef to Janet Jackson, has been featured in two books by Kathy Ireland and Janet Jackson, contributing recipes. He is on the Nutrisystem council, discussed in several articles and shown on television programs and movies. However, there is a question of notability??? How can this possibly be? There are several profiles on wikipedia of far less famous people with little citations?? Why is this so difficult?? Help????? Ignisstatera (talk)
I assume you are referring to Andre Carthen? Please tell us the name of the article when asking questions about it. - Arjayay (talk)
Welcome to the Teahouse, Ignisstatera. I think the problem is that in order to demonstrate notability, we require significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the topic. Most of the sources you have cited only seem to mention Andre Carthen in passing. What you need to provide are sources that discuss him in more depth. I hope that helps.
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Genetics By Far The Biggest Factor In Autism Risk, Study Says For decades, researchers and parents have searched for clues about what causes autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which now affects about 1 out of every 59 children in the United States. Now, a sweeping new study looking at more than 2 million people from five countries (Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Israel and Australia) found that about 80% of an individual's risk of developing autism comes from inherited genetic factors and not from "environmental" influences, meaning anything other than changes to a gene's DNA. "Everywhere we looked, in five different samples, what we saw was that genetic factors were most important," study author Sven Sandin, a statistician and epidemiologist with the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, told HuffPost in an email. That might sound surprising to mothers and fathers who for years have read story after story emphasizing possible risk factors from air pollution to the overwhelmingly discredited (but enduring) vaccine hypothesis. And indeed, experts say the media and public have been disproportionately focused on the role of modifiable contributors to autism, when genetics are the major driving force. Here's what parents need to know. Genes are the biggest risk factor, but there are still lots of questions about which ones. In the new study, published in JAMA Psychiatry on Wednesday, Sandin and his co-authors used models to analyze population data from five countries that included more than 2 million people, more than 22,000 of whom had been diagnosed with autism. Looking at outcomes among family members and weighing them against factors such as shared environments and their specific genetic connections led to their conclusion that inherited genes account for about 80% of the risk of autism in children with the disorder. That's pretty much in line with similar recent studies that have suggested genes are the major contributing factor to ASD. What's notable about this new investigation, however, is its sheer size. "What's immense about this study is the number of children across the world that were [included] - two million in the study population - and the large span of time, of a 16-year follow-up," Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson, a pediatrician with Seattle Children's who did not work on the study, told HuffPost. "It's hard to argue with the kind of tonnage of that number." Of course, researchers have known for decades that genetics contribute to ASD. But now that they are grappling with just how significant a factor heredity is, there's mounting pressure to determine which specific genes contribute in which specific ways. And for now, that's largely a question mark. "There is a lot of work that still needs to be done," Sandin told HuffPost. "We still do not know which specific genes contribute to risk. Also, there are numerous potential environmental factors that could be related to ASD either directly or acting together with genes. We have, so far, only been scratching the surface." That doesn't mean modifiable factors don't have an impact. "If I were going to walk away after reading this study and talk to a family... I'd say, "OK, we still don't know the other 20%. It's fairly controversial, what makes up the modifiable part,"" Swanson said. Although they're often called "environmental" influences in the scientific literature, these factors go beyond things like the potential impact of chemical exposures on a person's likelihood of developing autism. Researchers are probing the possible role that everything from diet to infection during pregnancy might play. For now, the studies are ongoing. There just is not much that autism researchers and pediatricians can say in the way of, "If you avoid XYZ, you will decrease your child's risk of developing autism." In an editorial that accompanied the new study, a team of three autism and psychiatry experts said the media has focused disproportionately on those environmental factors, perhaps because they are modifiable. An understandable pull exists to focus on the things that parents might be able to control to a certain extent. But that may have contributed to an incorrectly skewed sense of how much nature versus nurture contributes to the autism risk. "Where we've gone awry is pointing fingers at things that don't cause autism," Swanson said. "Look at where we are right now with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine trust and look at where we are with outbreaks because there was erroneous, falsified, misinformation that for decades led parents to believe vaccines were causing autism spectrum disorders." Being aware of family risk can help with early intervention. Expectant parents who know they have some family history of autism might want to consider speaking with a genetic counselor if they have concerns, Swanson said.
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Kahurangi Taylor is a New Zealand beauty pageant titleholder who represented New Zealand at Miss World 2008 in South Africa. She was one of the 25 semifinalists in the competition. In 2015, Kahurangi won a NZD$100,000 Vodafone Foundation World of Difference Award, working alongside the outreach team at Te Ara Rangatu o te Iwi o Te Ata Waiohua (TAR) to benefit the community of Waiuku. This follows two years of work as a youth health project co-ordinator at Manurewa Marae. Kahurangi's iwi is Ngati Te Ata. ==References==
==External links==
1991 births
Living people
Miss World 2008 delegates
Miss New Zealand winners
People from Auckland
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A. Exeunt, when Raven said, "they promote never-ending edit wars", the "they" refers to shipping theories. Elite Lord Sigma
Oops
=== Romantic Relationship ===
It seems that this section keeps coming in again and again. Can we please confirm if these are'real facts' or just'shipping'? If the latter is true, may I request its removal, as well as the protection of this article? There is too much flak going on around here. With pleasure, A. Exeunt. I've already removed some shipping on some of the pages. The one I'm trying to keep normal is the Misty one. Either we've got some mad Pokéshippers on that page, or somebody just wants a theroy proven. 65.103.86.243
I really think we should leave the section alone for awhile. We'll discuss it tomorrow. 65.103.86.243
It's definetly just based on the person's opinion and not actual facts. Isn't there anything we can do to prevent it from being brought back? Every day I keep deleting it.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Super-staff (talk • contribs)
There kind of are facts that May and Ash like each other. Like I said, the Volbeat and Illumise episode, and the 2nd battle for the Balance Badge are big facts.65.103.86.243
Yeah, but that's not something that's set in stone. Wikipedia articles are supposed to be based on fact, not opinion. Sure, May and Ash might have chemistry but they are not a couple. It's never been stated that they have any sort of relationship. Besides, that 'romantic relationship' section doesn't have any information on other May ships such as May x Brendan or May x Drew! — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Super-staff. Good point. Should I post that? 65.103.86.243
In a word
Very well. I understand. There was too much controversity over May's age, and that had to be deleted here on the talk page. 65.103.86.243
There wasn't any controversy. There was a bunch of irrelevant chatting and insulting going on, so I deleted the lot of it. Please read Talk pages before doing anything like that again. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops)
Ugh, I keep deleting that romantic relationship section. Isn't there anything that can be done about this? As I said before, Wikipedia isn't about stating your own opinion and should be based on the facts. All I keep seeing in that section is some Advanceshipper (AshxMay supporter)'s opinion on whom May is'supposedly' in a relationship with. The biggest gripe I have with the section is that they make no mention of any other potential romantic relationships with May (which there are other possibilites). Maybe I could write up my own section.... but then again, I'm sure that person would delete it and replace it with their own Advanceshipping propaganda. e_e—Preceding unsigned comment added by Super-staff (talk • contribs)
Hmph, I think this section might be a good example of a confirmed relationship - no shipping, just confirmed facts. But as far as I know, Pokémon hasn't even reached that there is one. Yeah, that is a good example!, most of the characters on Pokemon seem to have no interest in romance, except for Brock and even's mostly for comedy.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Super-staff (talk • contribs)
Agreed. Sometimes I even wonder if the term 'romance' is in the producers' dictionary. Speaking of which, I just deleted yet another lovey-dovey section of Ash and May being together. This is all my fault. I never should have caused that age problem thingy. 65.103.86.243
Wat r u talking about?-Dudegirl
You know, now this whole thing will start again with Dawn from the new Diamond and Pearl episodes, even though Dawn does seem to like her friend Kenny... But May and Ash, NO! They're only friends, but Ash and Misty, thats another story. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.223.96.116 (talk)
== Pokémon in Party ==
Shouldn't any Pokémon May may have in the Japanese anime right now, but hasn't been aired in the U.S. officially yet be deleted?
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Duke claims fifth NCAA men's basketball crown Story highlights Tyus Jones had 19 points in the second half, 23 in the game All of Duke's points in the second half came from freshmen Wisconsin was led by Frank Kaminsky, the national player of the year The Blue Devils won the NCAA men's basketball championship in a thrilling title contest on Monday in Indianapolis, defeating a tough Wisconsin team 68-63. Duke freshmen guards Tyus Jones and Grayson Allen led the Blue Devils with 23 and 16 points, respectively. National freshman of the year Jahlil Okafor had 10 points despite spending most of the second half on the bench. Duke's fourth prized freshman Justise Winslow scored 11 points. "They showed such grit tonight," said Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski. Jones had 19 points in the second half as the Blue Devil guards got more aggressive in driving to the basket. Duke ended up with 10 more points from the free throw line after Wisconsin only committed two fouls in the first half. With the Duke guards dribbling hard into the lane more, the Badgers had 13 second-half fouls. "We just didn't get it done offensively," Wisconsin's Josh Gasser said. "We fouled too much the second half. They were just driving it hard." The national title is the fifth for Krzyzewski, moving him ahead of the late Adolph Rupp into second place among Division I men's coaches. It is also the fifth for the Duke program, tying it with Indiana and North Carolina for third most NCAA championships. Wisconsin was sparked by national player of the year Frank Kaminsky, who scored 21 points and had 12 rebounds. Nigel Hayes chipped in 13 points while Sam Dekker added 12, but shot poorly from the field. "He just was off with his outside shot," Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan said of Dekker. "We all would have liked to have seen one or two of those go down, but they didn't. And that happens in games." The first half was tight, though Duke briefly took a six-point lead midway through the period, before Wisconsin fought back. There were 13 lead changes in the first 20 minutes. Wisconsin took a nine-point lead in the second half but missed most of its shots down the stretch while Jones and Allen brought Duke back.
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10. 'Can you collect my one and only? And then my other one and only?' A client regularly books a chauffeured car to pick up his "one and only" girlfriend to take them to his residence. It turns out that his "one and only" girlfriend is different every single time, therefore our chauffeurs have to keep a tight lip when they were questioned and asked "have you ever chauffeured a women to his house before?." For once, the answer is always no.
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Russian oligarch: Donald Trump Jr emails are fiction The Russian oligarch named as wanting to pass 'incriminating' Kremlin information about Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump Jr on Wednesday claimed the emails revealing his role were 'fiction'. Aras Agalarov, a Russian-Azerbaijani real estate magnate, spoke in Moscow for the first time since the president's son published the email correspondence he had with Agalarov's star son's British manager Rob Goldstone. He distanced himself significantly from both his son and Donald Jr, and then from Goldstone, the paunchy Svengali who had been trying to make Emin into an international phenomenon. Agalarov and the president worked together to hold Miss Universe in Moscow in 2013, having met at the previous year's pageant in Las Vegas. The Kremlin has denied reaching out to a Moscow-based property developer Aras Agalarov (second lefty) and his son, singer Emin Agalarov (right), who arranged a meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr. to discuss allegedly compromising information about Hillary Clinton The Russian real estate magnate then worked on a Trump Tower Moscow project which was called off when Trump ran for office. Agalarov told Business FM: 'It is Emin who is acquainted with him [Trump jnr], I'm not. 'We held Miss Universe together and then there were these contacts. They are about the same age, so how do I know in which way they communicated? Well they did communicate about something, but I do not know (what).' He was asked by the host: 'Have you seen the letter itself, the correspondence that Junior Trump posted?' Aras replied: 'I think it's some kind of fiction. 'I do not know who is making this up. What does this have to do with Hillary Clinton? I don't know.' Then he distanced himself from Goldstone. 'I really do not know Rob Goldstone well. He worked with Emin for some time as a manager, probably, or promoted something in America, I do not know. In general, he worked. They communicated together.' The Agalarovs father and son also retained a high-powered New York attorney Scott Balber, who previous clients include Donald Trump. He represented the now president when he sued Bill Maher for $5 million, claiming the HBO host broke a promise to give the money to charity if Trump 'could prove he wasn't "the spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan'. The case was later dropped. Agalarov's distancing of himself from Donald Jr is at odds with what he said in November in the wake of the election. Back then, the billionaire told Russian state television about his dealings with Trump's'very pleasant family' and added: 'I saw [Trump's] sons, Eric and Don, many times and we're constantly writing to each other.' On Wednesday the Agalrovs' newly-appointed lawyer also went on CNN for a testy exchange with New Day anchor Chris Cuomo. Balber said that Goldstone was not acting on his clients' behalves when he sent the email to Trump Jr, and said that the call from the 'crown prosecutor' to Aras Agalarov described by the publicist had never happened. 'I really can't speak to what Rob Goldstone was thinking, or what he wrote, or why, but I'll tell you again that call didn't happen,' he said. 'I don't know if there was someone else who spoke to Donald Trump Jr. about this prospective meeting, but it wasn't my client.' Cuomo said that his characterization of what Goldstone wrote made it 'a doozy of a lie' and added: 'When did your client fire Mr Goldstone?' 'I don't know that he fired Mr. Goldstone,' Balber replied. 'The man told a lie like this about your client and he didn't fire him as his publicist?' Cuomo asked. Balber said that it was too early to say whether Goldstone had been fired. In fact the British-born, New York-based manager was in Greece when the bombshell story first emerged, on a cruise. The Kremlin also engaged in the growing row on Wednesday, to deny reaching out to Agalarov. Speaking to reporters Wednesday in Moscow, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov, insisted that the Kremlin has not spoken to Agalarov and has no ties to the Russian lawyer who was at the meeting. US intelligence agencies have accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of approving a hacking and influence campaign to sway the vote, claims fiercely denied in Moscow. Trump Jr and two other top campaign officials eventually met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya but both sides insist she provided no information on Clinton. Share this article Share 33 shares
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West Coast Eagles v Gold Coast Suns Eagles snatch victory by three points West Coast have come from behind to defeat Gold Coast by three points in their NAB Challenge match at Joondalup. Jeremy McGovern had a shot for goal with a minute to go but sprayed it and it appeared as though the Suns, which led all game, would hang on for an unlikely victory. But McGovern had an opportunity to make amends a minute later, this shot more difficult. And he nailed it to give the Eagles a three-point lead with four seconds to go. The Eagles held on to win 0.7.13 (55) to 1.6.7 (52). McGovern, the match-winner, said the match was played with the intensity of a regular-season fixture. "There was a bit of AFL game feeling," he said post-match. "The wind didn't work for me in that first one but luckily I had another go at it." Mark LeCras was dominant up forward with 25 disposals and two goals. "Gold Coast played really well. They're a young side and really took it up to us," he said. "We're just trying to get some minutes into all of us before the real stuff begins." The Suns' NAB Challenge campaign ends on Friday March 11 when they host the Crows; the Eagles host Essendon at Domain Stadium on Sunday March 13.
Jeremy McGovern marks 48m from goal. Where was his man? Kicks the match-winning goal with four seconds remaining.
Jeremy McGovern awarded free for high contact. Sprays the shot to win the game. One behind.
Fraser McInnes dobs a nice goal to give the Eagles a sniff. Four mins left.
LeCras has a shot from 35m but kicks it out on the full. Back to top
LeCras has a crack from long range but it just off target.
Clever goal to Mark LeCras, his second. He's had 20 disposals too. Josh Kennedy is showered and done for the day. Not injured, just played his allotted minutes.
Goal to Xavier Ellis with just seconds on the clock before three quarter-time. Back to top
Jeremy McGovern goal. Suns by 23. Misses the super goal by centimetres. Was just outside the arc when he kicked. Tom Keough (Suns) hurt Keough caught in a big Naitanui tackle and he's hurt. Coming from the field.
Ryan Davis kicks his second goal. Suns open up a 29-point lead.
Scott Lycett awarded the free after Matera barrels into him. Poor shot at goal by Lycett. Back to top
Sam Day takes a speccy over Pat McGinnity. And kicks the goal. Wow! Suns really turning it on. 14 games for 8 goals in 2015 for Day.
Former Eagle Ryan Davis is the beneficiary of a 50m penalty. Kicks the goal. Suns open up a 19-point lead.
Sean Lemmens super goal. $500 worth of footies going the way of Salisbury (South Australia). Back to top
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Martinevans123 (talk) "shifty looking eyes"! - you do know he's a politician, don't you? Use photo as stop gap - The use of the photo as a'stop gap' is better than no photo at all. The photo is a good likeness of Corbyn. Jonpatterns (talk)
Yes Having no image is absurd and ridiculous. I certainly think this photo would be suitable for the moment. AusLondonder (talk)
Comment. Current!!voting!! is 6 for, 2 against, using the photo as a temporary/stop-gap photo until a more suitable option can be found. The article has now been unprotected (quite rightly). So, I propose actioning it. Ghmyrtle (talk)
Yes We can all agree that it's not ideal, but it'll do for the time being until we get our hands on something better. Having that is vastly better than having no photograph at all. G-13114 (talk)
No - Use "Image 2" above as previously discussed. NickCT (talk)
No Looks like a photo of a cardboard cut-out at a video store due to excess "sharpening". And makes the poor guy look quite as bald as Edward VII. Collect (talk)
Comment I do not understand what the fuss is about. Both photos works until we receive one from the Labour Party. I can not see what harm the photo now used (or the proposed) would do. However the proposed photo is much more politics-ish than the one now used (the one with the black hat). Sure, he seems happy and it looks like he is heading towards the sea (it has personality), meanwhile David Cameron's picture lacks that and looks like he belongs in the finance sector. I really have no strong opinion on this matter and it surprises me how controversial Jeremy Corbyn is. He is a social democratic politician. You can not become more non-controversial than that as a politician. Really. Dnm (talk)
Yes I support any reasonable photo until a better one comes along. And I oppose political snark in the discussion. Cullen328 Let's discuss it
No Over-processed and ugly. I much prefer "3crop" shown below. Rwendland (talk)
Yes - The photo seems perfectly fine to me. Not sure what all the fuss is about. ====Remix of photo====
I've made a potentially better remix of the photo. It has a wider crop and less saturation, Jonpatterns (talk) :
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No - it literally shows him in a bad light, with a cheesy grin and shifty looking eyes. Not a suitable photo. TwoTwoHello (talk)
Yes - that "unfortunate facial expression" is what some people call "a smile." Acceptable quality for a stop-gap (despite that dreadful "dismantle Trident" lapel badge). Martinevans123 (talk) "shifty looking eyes"! - you do know he's a politician, don't you? Use photo as stop gap - The use of the photo as a'stop gap' is better than no photo at all. The photo is a good likeness of Corbyn. Jonpatterns (talk)
Yes Having no image is absurd and ridiculous. I certainly think this photo would be suitable for the moment. AusLondonder (talk)
Comment. Current!!voting!! is 6 for, 2 against, using the photo as a temporary/stop-gap photo until a more suitable option can be found. The article has now been unprotected (quite rightly). So, I propose actioning it. Ghmyrtle (talk)
Yes We can all agree that it's not ideal, but it'll do for the time being until we get our hands on something better. Having that is vastly better than having no photograph at all. G-13114 (talk)
No - Use "Image 2" above as previously discussed. NickCT (talk)
No Looks like a photo of a cardboard cut-out at a video store due to excess "sharpening". And makes the poor guy look quite as bald as Edward VII. Collect (talk)
Comment I do not understand what the fuss is about. Both photos works until we receive one from the Labour Party. I can not see what harm the photo now used (or the proposed) would do. However the proposed photo is much more politics-ish than the one now used (the one with the black hat).
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In Japan, Natsumi, 29, feeds her four-week-old daughter Miwa during Okuizome, a first food ceremony. Water Aid
In Japan, four-week-old baby Miwa has a first food ceremony. Natsumi, 29, feeds her daughter Miwa during the ceremony, which is called Okuizome. Water Aid
In Sweden, Sebastian, 31, cuts his newborn son Harry's umbilical cord in an operating theatre at Östersund hospital. The convention helps fathers feel more involved in the birth. Water Aid
In Sweden, Sebastian, 31, and Maria, 34 hold their baby son Harry. Sebastian cut his newborn son Harry's umbilical cord in an operating theatre at Östersund hospital. The convention helps fathers feel more involved in the birth. Water Aid
In India, Rinku, 22, applies thick, black "kajal" or kohl to her child Kritika's eyes, to ward off evil spirits. Water Aid
In India, two-year-old Kritika has a drink after her mother, Rinku, 22, has applied thick, black "kajal" or kohl to her child's eyes and forehead to ward off evil spirits. Water Aid
In Madagascar, Nome, 21, wears a "masonjoany" mask to protect herself from the sun and bad spirits. It is made by grinding a sandalwood tree branch and adding water to form a paste. She holds her newborn baby Jackie Marcel Stephan. Water Aid
In Madagascar, Nome, 21, wears a "masonjoany" mask to protect herself from the sun and bad spirits. She sits with her sister, who applied the mask. It is made by grinding a sandalwood tree branch and adding water to form a paste. She holds her seven-day-old baby, Jackie Marcel Stephan. Water Aid
In Madagascar, Nome, 21, wears a "masonjoany" mask to protect herself from the sun and bad spirits. It is made by grinding a sandalwood tree branch and adding water to form a paste. She holds her seven-day-old baby Jackie Marcel Stephan. Water Aid
In Ghana, Vida, 30, holds her one-month-old baby David in front of a tree from which bark is taken, boiled in water and then poured over her as part of "Kosoto" to protect her from stomach problems in future pregnancies. Water Aid
In Ghana, Vida sits with her children (L-R) Patrick, aged 11, one-month-old David, Hannah, aged five and Desmond, aged three, outside their home. Vida took part in the Kosoto custom following David's birth where bark from a tree is taken, boiled in water and then poured over her to protect her from stomach problems in future pregnancies. Water Aid
In Ghana, Mary, 21 stands with her husband Sampson and two-year-old son Nathaniel. They performed the Nila tradition where a traditional herbalist makes a small cut on the baby's cheek, thought to prevent the him from getting convulsions. Both parents also did the Nila tradition as infants. Water Aid Dr Seneviratne added that the study does not account for factors which could affect stress and a child's development, such as their financial background, parental techniques and whether they have experienced sexual abuse. Ross Brannigan, from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and lead author of the study, stated that "more research is necessary to prove a causal relationship" between prenatal stress and the development of personality disorders among children. "This study highlights the importance of providing mental health and stress support to both pregnant women and families during the antenatal and postnatal period," Brannigan said. Following the release of the study, several mental health professionals criticised its findings, explaining in a press release composed by mental health organisations Safely Held Spaces and A Disorder for Everyone that the term "personality disorder" is "controversial." Read more "It's important to be aware that personality disorder is a highly controversial label with no evidence to support it as admitted even by the clinicians who draw up the diagnostic manuals. It's hard to see how stress can increase the likelihood of an invented condition," said Dr Lucy Johnstone, a consultant clinical psychologist. "It is obviously true that mothers need support with stressful social and personal situations, which are all too common, and which make it harder to give infants the... care they need. But this is very different from the terrifying claim that these children may grow up to develop a so-called personality disorder." Dr Johnstone added that the study's findings place an "extra burden of worry" on expectant mothers.
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Murderer Sean Price threatens to kill prison guards A man sentenced to 38 years without parole for the horrific 2015 murder of a schoolgirl has been causing havoc behind bars. Sean Price stabbed Masa Vukotic 49 times in a Melbourne park in a brutal random attack, and has now threatened the lives of prison guards. His behaviour has prompted a call from prison authorities for a glass barrier to be erected during the murderer's next court appearance to protect the public gallery. On top of the death threats levelled against guards, the violent prisoner has vandalised his cell with faeces and threatened and abused female staff. He has been involved in a riot, attacked jail workers after a self-harm incident and made a violent escape attempt, The Herald Sun reported. 'I will get you. You are afraid because you know I will get you. Make no mistake, I will get one of you,' Price told one guard only weeks ago. Price established a pattern of intimidation and violence soon after being arrested, saying he had nothing to lose while threatening prison employees. The notorious convict is considered one of Victoria's most dangerous prisoners, and is escorted by the Security and Emergency Services Group when being moved. His last court appearance was conducted by video link due to the risk he poses to the public. That link then had to be cut when Price shouted obscenities and made sexual gestures. 'F**** off, bitch. Where did you get that from, you f***ing lying skunk,' he screamed as prosecutors made their submissions. An upcoming hearing at a county court relates to the breaching of a supervision order. Price killed 17-year-old Masa Vukotic after she went for an evening walk in a park in the Melbourne suburb of Doncaster. He told police he killed her because she was dressed 'like a yuppy' and'she started talking to a bird like f***ing Snow White'. Two days later he raped and assaulted a woman in the Christian bookstore where she worked, asking 'Where's your Jesus now?' during the rape. The victim - who reported suffering anxiety attacks years later - fought back. She bit and scratched Price, gouging his eyes while he tried to strangle her. 'I realised, like, she was fussing up too much and she was starting to change colours,' Price told police. 'I was like, "f*** not another one."' He victim told a court she thought he was going to kill her. 'I seriously considered the fact that they were going to be my last moments,' she testified. 'I'm angry that I was raped and assaulted. I'm angry he took a young girl's life.' Price applied for legal aid for the breach charge, provoking outrage from victims groups. The serial offender pleaded guilty to rape and assault in 2004. In 2006 he reportedly attacked former prime minister Tony Abbott when he toured the Thomas Embling secure mental health facility as health minister.
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The theology of the Catholic Church from WELL before the Reformation had developed 2 separate events - the Virgin Birth and the Immaculate Conception - but had not come to a definitive decision about the second. The Virgin Birth is the bit about no-sex-for-the-conception-of-Christ. Any Protestant who says otherwise isn't correct. It's a matter of terminology. Calvin, for one, understood the difference and was sure about the Virgin Birth and dismissive about the Immaculate Conception. The I.C. was a hot issue in theological debate from the 14th through the 19th century, when it was finally defined authoritatively. The Protestants missed out on the second doctrine because they left before it was defined. Some of them more or less believe it, but in an undogmatic way. On protestantism and the perpetuation of Virginity
LOL, well I'm not about to step into the bear trap of whether or not Protestants are right when they use the term. I only assert that (at least some sects) do use the term that way. Its my understanding that the Immaculate Conception didn't become official Catholic dogma until 1854, after the Reformation. Perhaps the term existed in a more nebulous form when the split happened and the two meanings evolved seperately(?) A Google search for "Immaculate Conception of Mary" shows 1,980 hits, the "Immaculate Conception of Jesus" shows 224 hits, so while people seem to use the term more often when referring to Mary they certainly don't exclusively use it for her. Thomas Jefferson uses the term "Immaculate Conception of Jesus" in a letter dated 1819 so the usage of the term is at least that old. 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.' Hmmm. Thomas Jefferson. Not the best witness for any kind of orthodox protestantism. HE sure was a Humpty Dumpty of the spirit - cut up scripture to match his preconceptions of what it SHOULD have said. :)
I only mentioned him to prove that the term "Immaculate conception of Jesus" was in use hundreds of years ago. For the record he mentions it only in a footnote and he is in opposition to it. Here's the letter: ~usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/ While trolling around Google I found something interesting, Muslims believe in the Immaculate Conception of Mary and Jesus. There are several issues that are all getting mixed up together:
The term "Immaculate Conception" is defined as the dogma that Mary never had original sin. The term has a definition. There is no scholarly disagreement about the definition of the term, though it is frequently misused. Saying that the frequent misuse is a scholarly or theological disagreement is foolish. Shakespeare is often misquoted as having written "Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well". No matter how often this mistake is made it will never be a scholarly disagreement, it will always be wrong. For the definition of the term you may check any dictionary you like. I just checked 3 online, and they all agreed. There is a theological disagreement about if the well known definition is theologically sound. Catholics believe that Mary was without sin from her beginning, many Protestants do not. The fact that this disagreement exists, does not make it the definition of the word into a disagreement. I can agree that the correct quote is "Alas poor Yorick, I knew him, Horatio" but still disagree on weather or not it as Shakespeare or Francis Bacon who wrote it. I can, of course, be wrong about the quote while arguing the valid controversy of identity of the author, but the two are still separate issues. Jesus Christ coming into being directly by the will of God and not by sexual intercourse is not usually a point of disagreement between Catholics and Protestants. Both agree that it is fact. This is called the "Virgin Birth" and not the "Immaculate Conception". The mother of Jesus, Mary, is never construed as having come into being without her parents having sexual intercourse by Catholics OR Protestants, and they could not possibly disagree on this since they hold the same opinion. As such, it isn't discussed, and doesn't have a term. However, if you try and make the term "Immaculate Conception" mean that, you would simply be wrong.
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Recovery auditing is the systematic process of reviewing disbursement transactions and the related supporting data to identify and recover various forms of over payments and under-deductions to suppliers. In other words, it is the recovery of lost money. ==History==
Recovery auditing was at first primarily for retail based companies. It was developed in the 1970s as a result of companies losing millions of dollars annually because of unpaid invoices, duplicate payments, discounts and allowances not received and general overpayments. Before recovery auditing, this "lost money" was too difficult to identify due to the large amount of transactions processed every year. Companies began investigating deeper into their accounting and found errors in their favor. Two of the largest contributions made by this industry was the Improper Payments Act of 2002 (IPIA) spearheaded by Paul Dinkins and the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. ==Types of Recovery Audit Services==
Accounts Payable
Contract compliance issues
Currency mistakes
Duplicate payments
Licensing compliance
Paid credit memos
Fictitious vendors
Improperly applied taxes
Missed cash discounts
Overpayments
Pricing errors
Risk Management
Shipping errors
Unclaimed checks
==References==
==See also==
Recovery Audit Contractor
Types of auditing
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Disparities in longevity should be addressed, expert urges -- ScienceDaily Clinicians, scientists and public health professionals should proudly "declare victory" in their efforts to extend the human lifespan to its very limits, according to University of Illinois at Chicago epidemiologist S. Jay Olshansky. In an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Olshansky writes that the focus should shift to compressing the "red zone" -- the time at the end of life characterized by frailty and disease, and extending the "healthspan" -- the length of time when a person is alive and healthy. Olshansky, professor of epidemiology in the UIC School of Public Health, discusses how human longevity has reached into its upper limits and has little room for further gains. He notes that at the turn of the 20th century, life expectancy at birth in most developed nations ranged from 45 to 50 years. With the emergence of major public health initiatives in the late 19th century -- including sanitation and the public provision of clean water -- mortality rates dropped, and life expectancy increased rapidly. The rise in longevity has slowed considerably in recent decades, and maximum lifespan has never changed much throughout human history. Today, 96 percent of infants born in developed nations will live to age 50 and older, more than 84 percent will survive to age 65 or older, and 75 percent of all deaths will occur between the ages of 65 and 95 years old. He also addresses the controversy that has erupted in the media lately over whether the human lifespan can increase indefinitely. "There's been a lot of focus in the news lately about what is the maximum human lifespan, with some researchers claiming that it has the potential to be infinite, but there is a biologically based limit imposed largely by the way in which our bodies are designed, and it can be expressed mathematically," Olshansky said. Based on the science and medicine available today, he contends that the probability of any significant increase in maximum lifespan in this century is remote. "There is reason to be optimistic that future breakthroughs in aging biology, if pursued, could allow humanity to live healthier longer," Olshansky said. "Some experts suggest that if death rates plateau at older ages, lifespans may continue to increase. This latter view has been challenged by the fact that an unrealistically high number of people would have to survive to age 105 (estimated 262,200) just for one person to exceed the world record for longevity by one year to 123 years." The downside of extremely long lifespans is that disease and disability tend to pile up toward the end of life. "You don't want to live to be over 100 years old if the last 20 years of your life are spent in pain and sickness," Olshansky said. "Ideally, you want to compress the years of decay and disease -- what I call the'red zone' -- into as few as possible at the very end of life. We should not continue to pursue life extension without considering the health consequences of living longer lives." Clinical trials that target aging have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and the American Federation for Aging Research is leading global efforts to secure funding for geroscience-related initiatives. "This will be the only way science can push through the biological barriers to life extension that exist today," he said. "Life extension should no longer be the primary goal of medicine when applied to people over age 65 -- the principal outcome and most important metric of success should be extension of the healthspan." Olshansky cautions that despite longevity-related progress, many disparities are largely unresolved. "Not everyone has access to health care, nutritious food, opportunities to get exercise and education that contribute to long lifespans," he said. Funding for elements of the Longevity Dividend concept was provided by the MacArthur Foundation, through its Research Network on an Aging Society, and a Glenn Award for Medical Research from the Glenn Foundation. Olshansky is co-founder and chief scientist at Lapetus Solutions, Inc.
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==Removed unsourced opinion and insult==
I removed the unsourced opinion and insult. The way the article is written now, the reference I added appears to support text introduce by other editors. I reverted back to a version that is well sourced. FloNight
==Please add where a knife rest goes==
If anyone knows, please add information about the placement of a knife rest. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.100.139.207 (talk)
== Western Bias ==
Why does the article begin with a neutral tone but actually is TOTALLY western culture biased? I don't mind if the article only focuses on western culture's table settings but that needs to be made known. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.146.10.166 (talk)
Feel free to add information regarding other cultures table settings. Gmcbjames (talk)
== Etiquette for proper table setting image ==
Here is a great explanation of a / formal table setting —Preceding unsigned comment added by Forkman2 (talk • contribs)
== Image gallery ==
Thank you for the addition of multiple images Hopefulromntic. I have rolled back to the gallery format rather than having the images line the right side of the article - as the image clutter is beyond the MOS for images - especially since at this point the article is a stub article and the images overwhelm the article. Please don't rollback the image gallery Hopefulromntic prior to a discussion on this issue on this talk page. I have enlarged the images in the gallery as this may be a concern and have titled the gallery section Formal dining. This will allow for images for informal dining to be used. If the other images on the page should be in the gallery, feel free to move them, especially the "Victorian image at the top of the page." I would suggest a more colorful image for the first image of the article in the future when one becomes available. For image guidelines see: Image use policy. Multiple images are discouraged as this is the purpose of Wikipedia Commons. However, since the images illustrate the article, I believe the use of a gallery is appropriate - see Galleries. Gmcbjames (talk)
== Laying a Table ==
The common English/British term is "Laying a Table", which I am adding to help searchers. The Article should certainly be largely divided into sections for different cultures; for example, if I recall aright, American practice differs from that found in Europe. 94.30.84.71 (talk)
==Lobster pick?==
In the first image lobster picks and formal dinners are coupled. At a formal dinner a lobster pick would never be used. The lobster would either be served with the meat ready scooped, or as a mousse. It's doubtful at a formal dinner that a lobster in its shell would ever be served anyway as it would be far too filling for a fish course and never be served as the entree. Giano (talk)
According to the Wikimedia Commons page at the photo was taken by AndreasPraefcke. I am notifying him about your concern and hope that he will respond here. Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile (talk)
Sorry, since I am not an expert in 19th-century table manners, I really cannot say anything about that. If Giano is indeed right, I guess the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim just got it wrong in their display. It's probably no use asking the museum, however, since they are surely too busy sueing me and Wikimedia for uploading/hosting these photos (see the latest news about this museum). *Yes, indeed they got it wrong! Nothing to do with the 19th century - some of us at least once a year still dine properly. Where shall I start? Those horrible silvery wine goblets would never be seen at a formal dinner. One has a wine glass, one for every course, placed just above the point of the knife for that course. The wine bottle should not be on the table at all; and we won't even speculate as to what the things like miniature wine coolers are used for; although, anyone who's ever dined in an officers' mess, with long speeches, will have a suggestion. The only time such a place setting may be acceptable is in a Germanic hunting lodge, but then lobster would not be served or ice on the table required. Regarding their law suit - Good Luck with that, I would ditch their photos.
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Beauronne may refer to:
Beauronne, Dordogne, a commune in southwestern France
three small rivers in southwestern France, all tributaries of the Isle River:
Beauronne (Chancelade), flowing through Chancelade
Beauronne (Les Lèches), flowing through Les Lèches
Beauronne (Saint-Vincent-de-Connezac), flowing through Saint-Vincent-de-Connezac
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A directory would merely link to other sites, all the article links I saw were internal with the exception of links to manufactures homepage. And the focus is pretty strict, unlike WP's overall scope. I think its a great link. Dekard
Mikeblas, sure there are better reasons. For one, the EL guidelines clearly state that links to be avoided are "Links to open wikis, except those with a substantial history of stability and a substantial number of editors." This domain was registered at the end of last year and hardly qualifies under substantial history. Heck, it doesn't even figure in at all. We won't even get to the substantial number of editors qualification. BTW, Mikeblas and Dekard, the two defenders of keeping this external link, are you the same Mikeblas and Dekard at who run that place? If so, is there somewhere here you've disclosed that you are connected to the site? MansonP
:Wow. This site is instructive to show how thoroughly a "public domain " can serve commercial goals. Likely Wikipedia will look like this one day, once someone figures out how to commandeer it. I found lots of ads but have yet to figure out how to list the 143 detailed articles. 70.15.116.59 (talk)
== Why is overvolting hardly mentioned? ==
I was under the impression that it is common practice to increase voltages to improve stability of overclocked components. It seems strange that this article makes almost no mention of this practice. (Most mentions are tangential at best, the main mention I found was in the section on Incorrectly performed overclocking.) The article on overvolting says it is part of overclocking, so why isn't it covered here. If overvolting is indeed a common practice, it deserves clearer coverage (perhaps under section 1.) If not, perhaps it deserves clearer coverage as something that is commonly mentioned in relation to overclocking, but why it is not practiced by those in the know. Zodon (talk)
== Throttling the overclocking article ==
I find the discussion as interesting as the article. But there are basic problems with the article direction. While some overclocking is designed into products and therefore somewhat safe, much is not. (Speaking as someone who destroyed a motherboard in a fix that overclockers assured me was in the "absolutely safe" category. One single change, the smallest possible with that clock, and presto, toasted board.) Apart from the unusually high technical understanding this article and Discussion shows, overclocking arouses passions. People start with a premise (perhaps a quite true premise), and "work outward" to support their argument. There are overclockers who are indignant that manufacturers throttle chips for marketing purposes. There are overclockers who are impatient with non-technical people, and want to dismiss their experiences out-of-hand as being "ignorant". There are overclockers with exceptional technical expertise who want to enlighten people and correct technical misunderstandings. There are overclockers who love their equipment, and enjoy the tuning process, in-and-of-itself. In some way and fashion, I've embodied each of them, at one time or another. The problem with the article is that there is no way to get closure in sections such as "Advantages". Even overclocking on purpose-built electronics will be less-well understood than "normal" operation. All this discussion of the technical characteristics of chips is great. I love it. But overclocking knowledge depends heavily on non-scientific, non-reproducable experiences. (Read "not encyclopedic".) Statements like the opening bullet in Advantages are wildly misleading. "The user can, in many cases, purchase a slower, cheaper component and overclock..." Certainly they can. They "can" also purchase an albino aardvark and teach it to dance. Whether a typical user is LIKELY to be able to do so is another question. Statements implying that overclocking is provisionally, basically, good are sheer, unprovable, unfounded speculation, and do NOT belong in Wiki. 67.180.48.127 (talk)
== Claims of "max overclock" ==
To say that the CPU-Z screenshot represents the maximum overclock possible on that CPU is misleading. (talk)
Are you referring to the pacitance in the devices, and this capacitance has to be charged or discharged past the threshold voltage for the device to switch.
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That is exactly what Pawel Zerka fears. A researcher with the left-leaning European Council on Foreign Relations, he said the mainstream parties have barely made an effort to appeal to younger voters, seeing them as a lost cause because so few actually turn out to vote. "So many young voters across Europe don't believe the future will be better than today and they believe the past was better than today," he said, citing repeated surveys. "The current European Union or the (mainstream) parties don't offer a credible or attractive vision for the future for the young." So the far right is stepping in. In Denmark, Peter Kofod, 29, has risen steadily since his first election in 2014 to city council. The following year, he became chairman of the youth wing of the anti-immigrant, populist Danish People's Party, which drew votes from a fifth of young voters. In Spain, Vox's gains have come at the expense of traditional conservatives, who were slow to counter the upstart far-right party's rise among the young. Its events include popular "Pints for Spain" evenings at bars, nightclubs and cafes, where no one over 25 is allowed in. Under Manuel Mariscal, the 27-year-old Vox spokesman and a newly elected lawmaker, the party's main Instagram channel has more than 300,000 followers, more than half of them younger than 34. A lot of its outreach happens on WhatsApp, where Vox's Madrid youth operation has nearly 1,750 active members. "A young kid who is highly motivated is capable of convincing many others. He talks to friends, he debates constantly with others, with family, that enthusiasm is contagious," said Luis Felipe Ulecia, the 24-year-old vice secretary for youth. A bracelet with the Spanish flag around his left wrist, he spoke to AP at a working-class bar in Madrid about the party's efforts to recruit the young. "We are not looking for high-and-mighty young leaders... they need to be street-smart. They need to know about Spain's countryside. And they need to have been to the polígonos," he said, in reference to factory hubs outside the cities. He later led a small outing of well-dressed young supporters in unfriendly territory in Barcelona, handing out pamphlets and at one point carefully confronting leftist activists. Although the party has a small footprint in Spain - elections in April made it the No. 5 political party in the parliament's lower house - it's already influencing political debates on migration and the country's territorial unity. Still, Vox's vote total was far lower than its social media following would indicate. This shows a possible ceiling for the ability of far-right groups to translate likes into votes, according to Manuel Mostaza Barrios, an analyst at the Madrid-based Atrevia consulting group. As he put it: "The candidates most followed on social media aren't necessarily those that get the most votes."
Aritz Parra contributed from Madrid, along with Elaine Ganley in Paris, Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, David Rising and Frank Jordans in Berlin, and Raf Casert in Brussels.
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Watch: Pinball wizards back in action at Athens museum People in Athens are reliving their youth at a pinball museum opened by a devoted fan of the game. It was hugely popular in Greece, but the craze died out 20 years ago with the rise of computer games. Nestled on a side street near the Acropolis, the Athens Pinball Museum is home to 100 fully functional machines which visitors can play, dating from the 1950s. Founder Panos Bitarchas, 47, who opened the museum six months ago, says it attracts all ages, as tourists, but is a particular draw for those who grew up in arcades and come looking for specific machines they remember. He explains: "People come in searching for the first pinball they played. When they find that they go directly there because it is the last memory they had from their childhood. It's nostalgia, it's the sounds, it's the smell." Sixty-five-year-old Michalis Kelemenis said he rushed to the museum as soon as he heard about it and didn't want to leave, having not played pinball since the 1980s. "I became a child again, [I feel like] I am 30 years old again. I am having a great time," he said. Thirty-nine-year-old Vasso Kostopoulou brought her 11-year-old son Anargyros. She said: "It is a truly great feeling to see it again and relive it again because there are now electronic versions but it's not the same thing. "We are teaching our son about flippers, so he can learn how games started, how they developed into video games." Bitarchas says in an age of smartphones, tablets, and video games, pinball machines are foreign to children and they are afraid they might break them. he has removed the coin operation slot from all the machines in the museum, wanting people to feel free to play. Visitors pay only a general admission charge. The idea for the museum came to Bitarchas when he received a pinball machine as a gift from his wife Chrysanthe, a Greek-American, in 2017. He had not played pinball for 20 years. That machine, a 1993 Bram Stokers Dracula, sits in the museum today. Leaving behind a career in the renewable energy industry, Bitarchas began scouring the Greek countryside for almost a year, following a trail of closed-down arcades and digging out dusty old machines from warehouses and having them restored. Bitarchas says the machines are a chronicle of pop culture and history, as well as historical events. The 1958 "Satellite" pinball machine by the Williams Manufacturing Company marks the first United States satellite launch, while the "Taxi" machine by WMS Industries from 1988 features an illustration resembling former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. "We can see here Gorbachev, perestroika, it was a very important time for the western world and what happened, we can see it in this pinball machine. "It's like art for my generation... classical things don't excite me. It's like other people watching paintings," says Bitarchas.
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Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford University. Mr Brin, 21, is assigned to show Mr Page around the campus.
The search engine project The pair begin to work together on a search engine called BackRub as part of a research project.
Google.com hits the web Google.com is registered as a domain, the name having been chosen as a play on the word "googol," the number one followed by 100 zeroes, to represent the near-infinite amount of content on the web.
The company is incorporated Google as a company is launched, filing for incorporation in California. The first office is in a garage. The company outgrows the garage and moves to new premises in Palo Alto with eight employees, then later the same year another relocation takes the company to Mountain View, where Google employs its first chef. The company raises $25m in equity funding.
The world's largest search engine Google is launched in ten new languages. Today search is available in more than 150 languages. In June Google becomes the world's largest search engine, with an index of one billion pages.
Eric Schmidt appointed CEO Eric Schmidt, a former director of Apple, becomes chairman of the board of directors, then in August he is appointed CEO. Meanwhile Mr Page is president of products and Mr Brin president of technology. The same year, Google image search launches. Google AdWords, first launched in 2000, is given an overhaul with cost-per-click pricing. Google News launches, as does Google Labs which allows users to try out beta technologies from the research and development team.
Blogger creators acquired The company acquires Pyra Labs, creators of Blogger. Google AdSense is launched. Google launches its IPO with a share price of $85. The company is valued at $27bn. Email service Gmail is launched. Google acquires Keyhole, a digital mapping company which later helps create Google Earth. The European headquarters in Dublin open.
Google maps the world February sees the launch of Google Maps and in June Google Earth is introduced. In October, the company announces the acquisition of video site YouTube. A number of new features launch this year including Google Calendar, Google Translate and Google Docs and Spreadsheets. In November, Google announces Android, the first open platform for mobile devices. Also this year, Google is named the best company to work for by Fortune. Street View is started in five US cities. But Google Earth receives some bad press as intelligence sources warn terrorists are using aerial footage from the feature to target British bases in Basra.
The introduction of Chrome Web browser Google Chrome is launched. Google Suggest, now known as Autocomplete, is introduced on Google.com, predicting search queries.
Google supports innovation Google Ventures is announced, a fund aimed to support innovation and new technology companies.
Nexus devices and driverless technology The Nexus series of smartphone and tablet devices using the Android operating system is launched. Google announces the development of technology for self-driving cars.
Larry Page reinstated as CEO Larry Page becomes CEO, ten years after he passed the title to Eric Schmidt, who is now named executive chairman. Google+ is launched.
Google campaigns against censorship Google is part of the campaign against the SOPA and PIPA bills in the US, saying they would censor the internet and impede innovation. In April, Google Glass is unveiled, as is Google Drive, a file creation and sharing platform.
Shares pass the $1,000 mark Less than a decade after Google's flotation, shares hit $1,000. A milestone for Android as it passes one billion device activations. A stock split creates a new level of non-voting shares and cements Mr Page and Mr Brin's control over the company.
Alphabet becomes holding company in big corporate overhaul A massive corporate overhaul separates Google's core business from its research divisions with a new holding company, Alphabet, of which Mr Page will be chief executive.
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== reply to your comments on my talk page ==
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See Jons63/Archive_1#Reverting_non-contentious_information for full discussion. == SaskTel ==
See SaskTel/Archives/2013#Peacock_Terms for full discussion. The Commissioner said the NHL Lifetime Achievement Award would be an annual award during the 2008 NHL Awards show. 68.188.177.195 (talk)
== Please stop ==
Please stop removing the redirect from my talk page. Buc (talk)
A talk page redirect is not appropriate for an account that you are using to edit. You can use the User Alternate Acct to direct readers to your other account, if that is your intention. Please aks me your question here. Buc (talk)
OK. Why does your user talk page Bole2 redirect to Buc? I asked a similar question on the Buc on June 24. There has been no reply. == Lennox Lewis ==
With regards this edit - have you got a source to confirm that. regards
This reference is the source.--
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Potrekhnovo (Потрехново) is a village in Gdovsky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia. ==References==
Rural localities in Pskov Oblast
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== April 2019 ==
Hello, I'm CAPTAIN MEDUSA. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Innu Meshkenu have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the help desk. ___CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk
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Wang had to spend a night on the train to reach Beijing to take part in the course, but she said it was worth it. "You can learn a lot here." She has already started to teach preschoolers in hometown, with support from parents who consider humanity the topic important. Starting with the lesson of "Who am I?" she puts gender cognition together with gender equality. Children also learn about sexual harassment and circle which part of their bodies they don't want to be touched on a drawing. "The course changed me," she said. "The concept here is very open, and it has become part of me."
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Despite Trump's attacks on McConnell over the summer, aides to the two men believe they share the same goals on taxes. Many believe that if they succeed on reworking taxes and lowering rates voters will forgive and forget the failure on health care. Some are argue that a failure on taxes could cost the GOP its House majority because voters will question whether Republicans can accomplish anything after gaining control of Congress and the White House. "It's extremely important. The failure of health care magnifies the importance of tax reform," Cole said. "You've got to get some big wins."
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A Municipality in Denmark with an Ambitious Program For Reducing Emissions Scandinavians usually top the charts for the happiest countries, the best living conditions, and the most concerned about nature. Another proof of this is the municipality of Sonderborg, which has set itself an ambitious program for reducing carbon dioxide. Pure, green, nature-friendly - all definitions are valid for Sonderborg. The municipality's management has been invited to a climate forum in Copenhagen. Sonderborg is particularly popular because its emissions reduction plan is more than ambitious. And not only the municipality as an institution, but the local business is involved in it. Roland Mahler, client: I think that's good - it's already happening everywhere. Lis Kaler, client: I have a fabric bag for my purchases so I don't carry plastic bags at home. In 2007, the municipality's carbon emissions were 700,000 tonnes. In 2020 they should be reduced by 50% and in 2029 they should be 0. Eric Lauritzen, Mayor of Sonderborg: I think we will succeed. We have a very big growth in green energy production, now we have biogas and solar parks. Local environmental organizations in every way stimulate environmental care. Peter Rathieu, "Project 0" Director: Of the amount of carbon dioxide in the area, the municipality is responsible for only 3% of it. It is clear that we need to think beyond the municipality - to get to the shops, the people, the companies. One way is for shops and establishments to receive a special category - in this case labels. The most prestigious, respectively the most sparing nature, is the green. Lars G. Andersen, store manager: We now have a white label, which means that we save between 10 and 20% of harmful emissions. However, our goal is green! Sonderborg's example is contagious and the municipality is confidently moving towards an ever-greener future.
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In May 1990, Vai released Passion and Warfare through Relativity Records, and following its release, the album had reached number 18 in the Billboard 200, selling over a million and a half copies worldwide. Passion and Warfare won Vai a number of awards such as Guitar World and Guitar Players "Best Album" and "Best Rock Guitarist" awards. Passion and Warfare has been cited as one of the most pertinent instrumental albums released. 1990 also saw the release of the Ibanez Universe seven-string guitar co-designed by Vai in conjunction with Ibanez. Vai left Whitesnake in 1990 to pursue his own musical avenues, and formed a band that included Devin Townsend on vocals, T. M. Stevens on bass, and Terry Bozzio on drums. The group released Sex & Religion on July 23, 1993, that was described as visceral in nature, combining a compositional and progressive metal rhythm section with Devin Townsend's vocal arrangements. After the following tour in support of the album, the group disbanded. Vai began working with Ozzy Osbourne in 1994, with whom he wrote and recorded the Ozzmosis album. Due to conflicts, the album was re-written and recorded with Zakk Wylde on guitar. In 1994, Vai won a Grammy award for his performance of "Sofa", from Zappa's Universe. While recording his fourth studio album Fire Garden, Vai took time to record and release the stripped down EP Alien Love Secrets. A departure from the often highly compositional and heavily produced style of his previous projects, the seven-track EP was recorded in four weeks and released through Relativity/Epic Records on March 21, 1995. Vai cites this record as one of his favorites, saying "The recording and release of Alien Love Secrets marked another turning point in my personal evolution. I was more concerned with making the record that I wanted to make, and not worry about what some others thought I should be doing." On September 17, 1996, Vai released Fire Garden, 19-track double album, through Epic, with the first half being primarily instrumental while the second half featured Vai on vocals. After the release of Fire Garden, Vai joined his former teacher Joe Satriani, along with guitarist Eric Johnson, for the second installment of the ongoing G3 concert tours. On each G3 tour, three guitar-centric headlining acts are chosen to perform their own sets, and then collectively jam to fan favorite songs at the end of the show. Live in Concert, a video of the 1996 tour was filmed in Columbus, Ohio and released on June 3, 1997. In 1998, Vai independently released a performance footage DVD of Alien Love Secrets. Also in 1998, Vai started the Make a Noise Foundation with his then-manager Ruta Sepetys. The goal of the foundation was to provide funding for musical education to those otherwise unable to attain it. Today, Vai often auctions items in his possession with proceeds going to the foundation. ===2000s===
In December 2001, Vai recorded two performances at The Astoria in London, with his band The Breed (composed of former David Lee Roth bandmate Billy Sheehan, guitarist/pianist Tony MacAlpine, guitarist Dave Weiner, and drummer Virgil Donati). This live show was released independently in DVD format as Steve Vai: Live at the Astoria, London in 2003, and was Vai's first of many successful live concert DVD projects. In 2004, Vai released twelve tracks from the DVD in an online only release. 2001 saw the limited release of The Secret Jewel Box, a conceptual ten-CD box set containing unique material from various eras of Vai's career. Four compilation albums (The Elusive Light and Sound, Vol. 1; Mystery Tracks – Archives Vol. 3; Various Artists – Archives Vol. 4; and Piano Reductions, Vol. 1) included as part of the box set, were released to the public both in 2001 and the years following. Also in 2001, Vai's record label Favored Nations released Live in Osaka. The release, which Vai himself produced and engineered, won him his second Grammy award for Best Pop Instrumental Album in February 2002. While most widely recognized for his stature as a rock guitar player, Vai is also a musical composer fluent in the composition and arranging of orchestral music. In May 2004, Vai premiered "The Aching Hunger", a project commissioned by the Netherlands Programme Service and performed with the Netherlands' Metropole Orchestra. "The Aching Hunger" performances consisted of two parts: the first showcasing Vai's original contemporary orchestral compositions, and the second consisting of Vai (on guitar) playing newly arranged material from his catalog with the orchestra.
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-R. S. Shaw
Thank you for making sense of this. I agree that a move to Red algae would be in order (there is currently a redirect from Red Algae to Red alga), so Red algae would be the article and Red alga the redirect. As to the use of the plural form, I'm not a biologist, but as an editor, the plural form makes more sense since most of the statements in the article are about algae in the aggregate. Sunray
Since your proposal has been there for a week and all those who have commented agree, we might as well proceed. Do you want to do the honors? Sunray
Or I can do it if you like. Sunray
I've done it. Not much change, actually. I noticed the current article doesn't mention the singular form, alga. Maybe it should. -R. S. Shaw
Why is the topic "Red tide" included under the "See Also?" There appears to be no disclaimer anywhere that Red Tides are caused by Dinoflagellates, not by Red Algae, just this option to move from the Rhodophyta to another phylum without a reason for doing so. This is misleading. I've added a note to reflect your concern. I do think that it is good to have a link to "Red tide" as many non-biologist types may be interested to know that they are different. Please check the note to make sure I've got it right. Sunray
It should be a "Note: Red Tides are caused by Dinoflagellates and not by Red Algae," not a "See Also," as this latter implies additional information on the correct topic. However, if your topic is the Rhodophyta, "Red Tides" is NOT additional information, it is spurious information. Correcting misinformation or pointing out difficulties in vernacular nomenclature that confuses the layman is always useful. This is also why it would be clearer to title the articles by their scientific names rather than their common names, Rhodophyta over Red Algae as an example. "Algae" may mean only the eukaryotic photosynthetic protists. But it also may include the photosynthetic bacteria. It is not a scientific term and lends itself to confusion. Rhodophyta, on the other hand, describes a specific monophyletic group of eukaryotic photosynthetic organisms that share a common origin. KP
==Uninformative photograph==
The photograph of red alga iridescence is uninformative because it's scale is unclear. Is it a satellite photo or a photomicrograph? Is it an algal outbreak or a single cell? 99.149.199.239 (talk) New user
Besides the fact that the picture name says "seagrass" I think it is a nice picture to show. I do agree that it seems out of place and could maybe be included elsewhere, perhaps in general information or in it's own section. Je402115 (talk)
==Kingdom==
Red algae are either a separate division in the Kingdom Plantae (Rhodophyta or Rhodophycophyta) or a separate phylum in the Kingdom Protoctista (Rhodophyta). Ref p.1 Woelkerling, W.J. in Cole, K.M. and Sheath, R.G. 1990. Biology of the Red Algae. Osborne
Anything written in 1990 is seriously out of date as regards classification, and should be mentioned only for historical reasons. Peter coxhead (talk)
I think more could be added on the overall taxonomy of the red algae. More evidence (e.g., monophyly of the proposed Eurhodophytina, multi-gene analysis from Yoon et al (2006), ultrastructural characteristics) from each of the main articles, as well as review articles (Maggs, Verbruggen, and De Clerck 2007) should be presented instead of just stating there's discrepancy in the taxonomy. A brief history of the taxonomy would be appropriate to add I think: starting with studies of female reproductive structures and development (most notably Kylin, others) and then the incorporation of molecular markers and combination of these characters up to the point of where it stands now. Je402115 (talk)
==Reproduction==
I couldn't find any information in this article whether they can reproduce vegetatively (for example by the slicing of the plant) or not. I would like to complete the Hungarian article, so if you can help me with this, I will thank you!
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Age: 363 days. Appearance: Once. And how's it been? You mean you don't know? I had a pretty big 2014 and I've been detoxing in bed ever since. Were there awful disasters and atrocities? I'm afraid so. Especially an earthquake in Nepal that everyone has forgotten about. I'm sorry to hear that. But is humanity still surviving and mostly still nice? Yes. I suppose that's something. Who had a good year? Space nerds, on balance, because we took incredible pictures of Pluto, and found liquid water on Mars. Why only on balance? Terry Pratchett and Leonard Nimoy died. That's sad. Who else had a good year? Tories. Also sad. Did they somehow form another coalition? Nope. They won an outright majority then watched Labour elect Jeremy Corbyn as their new leader. Who? Jeremy Corbyn. He's a lefty from the 1980s. Wait, but... I mean how did... No one really knows what happened, OK? Ed Miliband just turned up one day with a giant gravestone, then lost, then everything went crazy, and at the end Corbyn was doing prime minister's questions. Blimey. What else did I miss? Greece finally defaulted on its debt. So are they out of the euro now? Or were they let off? Neither. They just got another bailout and some new deadlines. Bor-ing. Who had a bad year? Sepp Blatter and Jeremy Clarkson. They both lost their jobs. Get in! Why? Suspended for corruption and punching someone for steak, respectively. I wish it had been the other way around. Tough. How does punching someone get you a steak? That was never really made clear. I think if you just punch everyone who doesn't bring you a steak, eventually you get a steak. Oh, and Ireland and the US legalised gay marriage. Great! And Harper Lee published another novel. Two Kill a Mockingbird? No. It's an ancient first draft called Go Set a Watchman. Any good? Not really. It's a bit depressing, actually. How come? Never mind. On the plus side, both Wayne Rooney and the Queen finally broke the big records. Which records? Goals scored and years reigned for England, respectively. Again, I kind of wish that...Tough. Do say: How did the Ashes go? Don't say: Excellent. How about the Rugby World Cup?
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I never cared about how literal the translation was in the first place, so how am I being inconsistent? I just want a readable lead sentence! Yours is not an improvement. Srnec (talk)
:::In all good fellowship, it seems to me that "Portuguese Overseas (Ultramar Português)", with the Portuguese term in parentheses and the word "Empire" following, is intelligible and serves well enough as a compromise between Cristiano Tomás's preference and yours. I admit that "Portuguese Overseas (Ultramar Português) Empire" is not ideal, but neither is yours, nor his. Carlstak (talk)
::::Also, I meant to say that "Ultramar Português" does not refer to "Portuguese folks who are abroad"; it refers to the Portuguese territories abroad. Those territories were the Portuguese "empire".Carlstak (talk)
==New map needed==
this map, with its dots (forts or feitorias) always have been controversial, it is clear POV by some foreign historian, whose name I cant tell, and not just that, it's not conventional at all, but it keeps appearing in wikipedia articles for years. Just for India, even wikipedia can help understanding the map is useless. read -WELL- the Portuguese section on the vassal Kingdom_of_Cochin and get to see its territory. This is one example. It would be useful if someone get maps from History books. ==Inconsistencies in Footnotes==
I spent some time cleaning up the Footnotes + Bibliography section, and there are references which can't be distinguished between multiple books by these authors:
Marley
Metcalf
Newitt
Ooi
Pearson
Russell-Wood
For example, "Marley, p. 76" can point to page 76 in either of these books:
Also, these last names are referenced, but there is no such author in the Reference or Bibliography sections:
Schwartz
Paquette/Pequette
IAmAmanis (talk)
@IAmAmanis. All of those errors should be taken care of. Long time to respond, bu now I have (some) time... LeftAire (talk)
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== First global empire ==
Being the first global empire is a claim that gets thrown around about both the Spanish and Portuguese Empires from time to time. The reason that the claim can be made for both is that it's such a nebulous concept to be a "global empire", and as such it's ripe material for potential POV-pushers. I would argue that the term is not informative but rather ambiguous in a way that contributes to confusion, and should as a result be avoided at all times. TompaDompa (talk)
It's far from nebulous; the Portuguese crown was the first to exert some authority in the continents of Europe, America, Africa and Asia simultaneously.
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The largest wildfire in California's history The Mendocino Complex fire became the largest wildfire in Californian history on Monday as it raged at the southern tip of the Mendocino National Forest. Rescue services battled to keep flames from descending into foothill communities. The Mendocino Complex Fire, which has destroyed 75 homes and forced thousands to flee, is the largest of eight major wildfires burning out of control across California, prompting US President Donald Trump to declare a "major disaster" in the state.
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Paris art scene roars back to life... with a little help from Brexit "If our generation did not reinvigorate the French art market, what would we be leaving to the younger people?" asks Jennifer Flay, director of the international fair of contemporary art in Paris. "So we decided to take ourselves seriously." As the 46th Foire internationale d'art contemporain (FIAC) prepares to open the doors of the Grand Palais this week, it is clear that not only did Flay and her colleagues achieve their goal, but they also created an environment in which artists and their work could flourish. The fair has gone from dusty irrelevance during a long sojourn in the suburbs to a glittering fixture on the art world calendar. London galleries are launching new spaces in Paris, and US dealerships, who would once have chosen London as their European base, are going to Paris instead. Is it the Brexit effect? The Macron effect? Or is it simply that with a revitalised art fair rivalling Frieze for international clout, a vibrant gallery scene, a growing number of serious young collectors and world-class museums, Paris is having a moment? In February 2018 the Los Angeles gallery Freedman Fitzpatrick opened a second space near the Hotel de Ville because, says its co-director Robbie Fitzpatrick, "over four years exhibiting at FIAC we realised we were making our highest number of sales outside the US in France, both to private collectors and institutions." They are not the only ones. On Wednesday, FIAC's preview day and private viewing, David Zwirner inaugurates his first continental outpost in the 8,600sq ft space once occupied by the famed French gallerist Yvon Lambert. Meanwhile, White Cube has announced it will open offices and a viewing room on Avenue Matignon early next year, and rumour has it that Pace Gallery and Hauser & Wirth are "looking." Neither will confirm or deny this, but both sent ambiguous emails when asked. "As always, we would need the perfect combination of the right strategy, opportunity and passion," wrote Iwan Wirth. "Ultimately, we remain completely committed to being embedded in London's vibrant cultural scene; that will not change." Tova Ossad, who founded the consultancy Ossad Art Management this year, does not think Paris will replace London. "I don't see it. There's too much to unravel. London's roots are too deep, and it is so international - you have Asia, the US and the Middle East. But galleries that identify as European may want to open there. And that's good for us both - two thriving markets working together." All the galleries coming from London emphasise its significance as a global art hub and while most concede that Brexit is a factor in their move across the Channel, it is not the only reason. Tracey Emin and Jay Jopling, who epitomise the Young British Art movement, are putting their faith in Paris. Photograph: Richard Young/Rex/Shutterstock Mathieu Paris, senior director of White Cube in London for the past six years, is returning to his native city to run the new space. "This is absolutely not an emergency solution to the political situation," he says. "The fact is that for the last seven years Paris has been back on the map. "It was always a city for artists and collectors but there was a decline after the second world war. You can really feel its renaissance now and we want to tap into the French tradition of the marchand d'art, showing great masterpieces in an intimate, discreet way from a beautiful Haussmann apartment in a prestigious area." This sounds like the antithesis of the pared-down Young British Artist movement of 1990s London from which White Cube emerged, its owner, Jay Jopling, the preeminent YBA dealer. Not so, says Tracey Emin, who lives in France for some of the year and has a studio there. "Jay only has two YBA artists now - me and Damien [Hirst]. Opening a space in Paris is a way of changing perceptions and expressing the gallery's identity." German-born Zwirner has said that identity is central to his decision, telling the Financial Times: "Brexit changes the game. After October my London gallery will be a British gallery, not a European one. I am European, and I would like a European gallery too." Glenn Scott-Wright's assertion that in these times of uncertainty "everybody needs a European base" seems to be the general consensus. Scott-Wright, co-director of Victoria Miro Gallery, says he sees "a definite shift towards Paris." "French auction houses have a more serious presence on the contemporary scene than before, and [François] Pinault and [Bernard] Arnault are hugely influential," he says of the magnates and collectors.
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== Missed one -IAdmin ==
Just FYI, PermaLink/913861106#Inactive_interface_administrators_2019-08-28 for Evad37, -IAdmin, inactivity in IAdmin functions. — xaosflux Talk
, thanks for the catch (and I also apologize about the tardiness of the newsletter this month). I'll put Evad37 on next month's newsletter. Mz7 (talk)
Begging your pardon,, but I've just gone and started it. ~ Amory (u • t • c)
== Courcelles and October 2019 issue ==
Not sure if it's proper to edit a newsletter that's already gone out. I wanted to note that Courcelles relinquished his CU/OS rights in September, but was not mentioned in that section of the newsletter. GorillaWarfare (talk)
The September issue hasn't yet gone out, so I've added that :) Sam Walton (talk)
Oh, excellent. Thanks! GorillaWarfare (talk)
Speaking of which, it's looking good to go to me - thoughts? Sam Walton (talk)
I usually ping and, they've a tendency to find things I don't and rephrase items for the better. FWIW,, I included these two items as the first would be quite helpful to sysops monitoring vandals and their targets (it's one of the chief reasons it's being created, I think) and the second would be a big policy change. ~ Amory (u • t • c)
:, thanks for doing this this month. I took a look, and I made this change which spelled out what "CFD/S" was. I am also not fully convinced on the notability of the RfC that was SNOW closed without change to current practice. I looked at the items that Samwalton9 removed, and I think the temporary watchlist feature would be noteworthy. I took a look, and it does not look like we included the previous "end portals" discussion back in April 2018: Administrators' newsletter/2018/5. That's all the nitpicks I've got, I think. Mz7 (talk)
::Agree with Mz7 regarding the SNOW close - I'm not sure what recent practice has been but I'm not generally in favour of reporting that the status quo remains. I've reinstated the watchlist point. Sam Walton (talk)
:::All right by me! I'm happy to send it out if you like ~ Amory (u • t • c)
::::Go for it! Mz7 (talk)
:::::Sent out, but even though it says there's nothing in the queue I ain't seeing it go out. All in due time I suppose... ~ Amory (u • t • c)
::::::Took longer than normal, but all set. ~ Amory (u • t • c)
== Mailing list ==
The first Admin newsletter nearly 3 years ago was sent to all admins. Currently there are 575 users on the mailing list of whom 201 are not admins leaving only 374 admins subscribed. This is not many of the 1,153 (as of now) administrator accounts (active and otherwise). 500 of them active (as of 2019-10-13 ) - defined as 30 or more edits during the last two months. However, many largely inactive admins dating back to 2004 or earlier occasionally do indeed carry out the occasional logged action from which it is evident that they may well not be familiar will all the important changes over the years which directly affect admin work. Perhaps it's time to encourage more admins to subscribe, but how can this now be achieved by not injuring the sensitivities of those who have not chosen to opt in, or who may not even have noticed the first newsletter before it was auto archived from their talk pages? Maybe from the beginning it should have been an opt-out rather than an op-in newsletter. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk)
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Before the first newsletter went out we had this discussion where consensus was against opt-out, which is how we arrived at the decision to send out the first issue to all admins and then go opt-in. Will give some thought to how we could encourage more admins to sign up.
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Peter Jackson's latest fantasy film Mortal Engines storms into cinemas
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== Socksuspect ==
Hi Anna Frodesiak, I opened a sockpuppet investigation earlier and you notified the socksuspect at their talk page. I am just wondering if this is compulsory? I had thought it was optional given that it can sometimes make the situation worse, so I just want to make sure I have it right. Cheers Flat Out let's discuss it
When you say "opened", you mean added the new sock to Sockpuppet investigations/OneMadScientist, right? Good question about the notification. I know of no reason why not to add the tag. Sockpuppet investigations says that when opening the case in the beginning it may be "sub-optimal" to give notice to the sock master. Is that what you were thinking of? Anyway, I add the tag so that before the account gets block, if the sock keeps editing, then others will know the story. If there's a reason not to tag, it would have to outweigh that reason, which seems like a pretty good reason. Anna Frodesiak (talk)
Yes I meant added the new sock, sorry. In this instance I was hoping a block would be implemented before the puppet realised there was a report, to avoid further escalation of the drama. Your reason for adding the tag makes perfect sense and I agree with your approach. I appreciate you taking the time to answer. Best wishes, Flat Out let's discuss it
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==From Sajjad143 about references==
Hi
Can you please help me in providing references to my articles? I will be very thankful to you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sajjad143 (talk • contribs)
Sure. I see someone has already given you links to the guidelines, but here's the bottom line:
References go like this:
Rabbits are cute. They eat carrots. Paste this at the bottom of the article:
==References==
Click save and all the references will automatically get listed at the bottom. Easy peasy. Good sources are newspapers, magazines, books, etc., not blogs, forums, or home made websites. Also, consider searching XXXXXX site:edu or XXXXXX site -com or Google Books. Anna Frodesiak (talk)
==Articles==
Hi, can you check the articles I created Pete Wheeler and Tony Delvichio and see if I need anything to check. I am eager to publish an article, thanks! Hulkster1 (talk)
Please provide links like this: Chair. Articles for creation/Tony Delvichio uses wikis as references. Please see RS. Pete Wheeler was deleted as "Attack page or negative unsourced BLP". Can you provide good sources for that subject? As I said before, you ought to work on articles that already exist first. Consider getting some edits that help you practice. Anna Frodesiak (talk)
I've done several Hulkster1 (talk)
That's good. Anna Frodesiak (talk)
==From Svpnikhil==
Okay, Sorry I will Rectify — Preceding unsigned comment added by Svpnikhil (talk • contribs)
No problem at all. Thank you very much. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk)
I want to know where u r operating from. Please tell what is your academic qualification?
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Spokesman says Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe is well
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is well and an online rumor that the 91-year-old leader is seriously ill is false, a state-run newspaper in Zimbabwe reported Thursday, citing a government official. The Herald quoted presidential spokesman George Charamba as saying the allegation in the ZimEye website was designed to make money by attracting more readers to the site. The allegation was made in a letter to the editor that the website later attributed to a former army captain in Zimbabwe. False rumors that Mugabe is dead usually circulate every January when the leader is on annual leave, the Herald quoted Charamba as saying. "You can doubt that there can be a New Year, but you cannot doubt that there will be a story on the president's alleged death every January," Charamba said. Zimbabwe's ruling party announced this week that it has begun organizing a birthday bash for Mugabe, who turns 92 next month. Such celebrations are usually held under the banner of the 21st February Movement, a youth branch of the ZANU-PF party named after the date of Mugabe's birthday. The president's office has said Mugabe is on a holiday in the Far East, without specifying which country the president is visiting with his family. Mugabe, one of Africa's longest serving rulers, has been in power since 1980, when white-minority rule ended in Zimbabwe.
Follow Christopher Torchia on Twitter at www.twitter.com/torchiachris Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Sneak Peek At The Big Panels Featuring C-Suite Speakers At 2019 CMC Annual Summit FAIRFAX, Va., May 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- As the only conference for multicultural marketing leaders developed by multicultural marketing experts, the CMC Annual Summit delivers more top-level content and compelling conversation with its dynamic panel discussions. The Culture Marketing Council: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing will bring together C-suite leaders from top agencies and marketing associations, celebrated creative directors and pop culture experts for a series of powerful panels, taking place June 10-12 at the Statler Hotel in Dallas and covering topics critical to connecting with today's complex and multicultural mainstream. In addition to a powerful panel featuring Wendy Blume, vice president of marketing for Advance Auto Parts, Federico Valiente, senior director of marketing for Pollo Campero, and Isaac Muñoz, senior business consultant of customer insights at Southwest Airlines who will discuss best practices from their recent culture marketing efforts, other sessions include: In an on-demand world of videos and images, your story matters. How do you connect your brand or service with the multicultural mainstream in an authentic, culturally fluent way? It's all about culture-driven content that is 100% American and 100% Latino. Moderated by Angela Rodriguez, vice president of strategic insights at Alma, this panel features Gil Gastelum, founder of Cosmica, Nuria Santamaria Wolfe, CEO and co-founder of Encantos, and Felix Contreras, host of Alt.Latino, NPR's program about Latin Alternative music and Latino culture. When it comes to running a marketing business, there are numerous considerations - from structure and billing to staffing and knowledge sharing. Moderated by Jorge A. Plasencia, co-founder, chairman & CEO of Republica Havas, this panel represents associations with Marla Kaplowitz, president & CEO of 4A's, independent agencies with Eduardo Perez, partner at PM3, and agencies that are part of a holding company with Franke Rodriguez, partner & CEO of Anomaly New York and Toronto, discussing how their strategies and approach differ. Latinas are the foundation of Hispanic marketing. While they remain the gatekeepers to the family and one of the most important consumers in the market, the Latina woman has changed in the last ten years, and advertisers need to adapt their strategies and efforts to reach her effectively. Two of the categories that have this important target are healthcare and beauty. This fireside chat, moderated by Salma Gottfried, Principal, Brand Management, Richards/Lerma, features Marie Quintana, SVP of marketing & communications for Tenet Healthcare, who will provide insights and strategies to win the hearts of U.S. Latinas. The CMC Annual Summit features high-caliber content thoughtfully curated by experts rather than sponsorships, breakthrough data and business-building best practices, and networking opportunities with the biggest players in the multicultural marketing industry. With early-bird rates available through May 3, the registration fee is all-inclusive with sessions, awards gala, meals and cocktail hours covered. Register here! For more information, visit culturemarketingcouncil.org and follow the CMC on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter at @cmchispanic using the conference hashtag #culturedriven. About CMC: Founded in 1996 as the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies, the Culture Marketing Council: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing is the national trade organization of all marketing, communications and media firms with trusted Hispanic expertise. SOURCE Culture Marketing Council: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing
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New drug blocks pancreatic cancer growth in mice, study finds -- ScienceDaily A newly developed drug can prevent the most common type of pancreatic cancer from growing and spreading in laboratory mice, according to a study led by Cedars-Sinai. The study, published recently in the journal Gastroenterology, also demonstrated in mice that the drug, called Metavert, may prevent patients from developing a resistance to currently used pancreatic cancer chemotherapies. "This is an exciting step toward improving survival rates in pancreatic cancer patients," said study lead author Mouad Edderkaoui, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai. "If the results are confirmed in humans, we could have a drug with the potential to significantly extend the lives of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), which is very difficult to treat." Pancreatic cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. This year, about 55,000 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with the disease and more than 44,000 will die, making it one of the deadliest cancers. The pancreatic cancer five-year survival rate is 7 percent. Ninety-five percent of pancreatic cancer patients are diagnosed with PDAC, which develops from cells lining small tubes in the pancreas. PDAC can be difficult to treat because the cancer cells prompt normal cells that reside in the pancreas -- called stellate cells -- to produce pancreatic scar tissue. Scar tissue makes it difficult for chemotherapy agents and blood to enter the pancreas, said study senior author Stephen J. Pandol M.D., director of Basic and Translational Pancreas Research at Cedars-Sinai. The cancer and stellate cell interaction also creates an environment that stimulates local tumor growth and cancer spread to distant sites in the body, said Pandol, a professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai. Additionally, the activity levels of certain enzymes rev up, fueling resistance to cancer treatments. "I've seen patients who respond to therapy for a while, and then the disease takes off because the cancer becomes smart -- it blocks chemotherapy from working," Pandol said. "Metavert targets that action." Over a four-year period, the investigators designed and synthesized new chemicals that inhibit cancer cell activity. They discovered that Metavert blocked drug resistance and also significantly boosted the positive effects of radiation and two chemotherapy agents commonly used in humans. In one of the mouse studies, Metavert increased the survival rate by about 50 percent. The investigators currently are developing a version of the drug to test in humans, Pandol said.
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Later governments failed to accept full responsibility for Britain's role in child migration, with former Prime Minister John Major publicly stating that he "was aware that there were allegations of physical and sexual abuse of a number of child migrants some years ago, but that any such allegations would be a matter for the Australian authorities." While Prime Minister in 2010, Gordon Brown publicly apologised to former child migrants on behalf of the government and established the Family Restoration Fund, and the majority of voluntary and public institutions involved apologised for their role. The survivors" stories Michael O'Donoghue Michael was born in Hampshire in 1942 and put in a Catholic care home when he was two-years-old, where he was raped by a male teacher and another boy, beaten by nuns and left constantly hungry. His mother tried to take him out of the home when she married an American serviceman but was allegedly told Michael had already been adopted and he was transferred to London and later to Australia in 1953. Michael was taken to Clontarf, where the physical abuse started on his second day and children said he would be flogged for any complaints. The Brothers organised boxing matches between the children, giving older boys authority to beat the younger ones, or else beat the children themselves. At "special punishment days," they were made to watch horses being killed unless they owned up to accusations made by the Brothers. Michael said animals were better fed than the children, who resorted to getting scraps out of bins and in one case roasting a cat, while doing heavy physical labour and being given very limited education. He was punished for bedwetting with electric shocks and sexually abused by the Brothers, as well as a theatre manager who would visit Clontarf to fondle the children. "Living with the injustice of perpetrators who always got away with it still makes me burn with anger," he said. "My mother died earlier this year, in her nineties, without any answers to why her son was treated with such cruelty by those we are supposed to be able to trust. We could have had a lifetime together, but instead we both endured the terrible loneliness and pain of the loss of family. I have lived a lifetime without identity and borne the terrible legacy of being a British child who was abandoned by my country." Marcelle O'Brien Marcelle, from Sussex, was placed in a foster home at the age of two and migrated to Australia by the Fairbridge Society when she was four. At the Fairbridge Pinjarra School, she was beaten, made to take cold showers and locked in a cupboard while being told she was a "bastard" whose parents were dead, which was not true. Children had to work cleaning the cottages, including where the staff lived, and in the laundry after school, and Marcelle remembered constantly feeling hungry. Sometimes she would eat handfuls of grain meant for pigs or take fruit from the orchard, but would be beaten if caught. Marcelle said she was sexually molested by the deputy principal at Pinjarra at the time, then raped and sexually assaulted at farms where she was sent to work. She felt pushed into marriage by the age of 18 so that she was "off Fairbridge's hands," having four children before the marriage broke down. She has suffered a mental breakdown and manic depression, and has been on medication for years. "Having stuffed up my childhood, they then wrecked my early adult years," said Marcelle, who has since found her mother and sister in London. She travelled from Australia to give evidence "to wake up the British Government, the British people, to exactly what happened to us all." Reuse content
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Kanailal Dutta (কানাইলাল দত্ত) (31 August 1888 – 10 November 1908) was a revolutionary in India's freedom struggle belonging to the Jugantar group. He was born in Chandannagar, West Bengal. He, along with Satyendranath Bose, was convicted by the British
for assassination of Narendranath Goswami, an approver of the British, in the Jail hospital of Alipore Central Jail on 31 August 1908. Satyendranath Bose was hanged till death on 21 November 1908. ==Early life==
Kanailal Dutta was born in Chandan Nagar, West Bengal. His father, Chunilal Dutta, was an accountant in Bombay. Kanailal's early school life was started in Girgaon Aryan Education Society School, Bombay and later he came back to Chandannagar and took admission Duplex College in Chandannagar. In 1908, he appeared BA exam from Hooghly Mohsin College, which was affiliated with the University of Calcutta. ==Revolutionary activities==
During his early college days, Kanailal met with Professor Charu Chandra Roy, who inspired him to join the revolutionary movement during the agitations against the Partition of Bengal. During 1905 movement against partition of Bengal, Kanailal Dutta was in the forefront from Chandannagar group. He also developed a close connection with the Gondolpara revolutionary group, which was led by Srishchandra Ghosh. In 1908, he moved to Kolkata and joined Kolkata based revolutionary group Jugantar. Kingsford assassination attempt
Just two days after the Muzaffarpur bomb attack (30 April 1908) aimed at killing Kingsford, the police raided and arrested a number of revolutionaries in Bengal on 2 May 1908. 33 revolutionaries were charged with waging war against the government. Kanailal Dutta was one of these men, who was also arrested on 2 May 1908 and detained in Alipore Jail. Alipore Bomb Case
Police raided premises at 32 Murari Pukur Road at Kolkata on 2 May 1908 and a bomb-factory was discovered as was a cache of arms, a large quantity of ammunition, bombs, detonators and other tools. They also confiscated Revolutionary literature. The raids were being conducted at various places throughout Bengal and Bihar, and more detention was on the move. Aurobindo Ghosh, Barindra Kumar Ghose, Ullaskar Dutt, Indu Bhusan Roy and many others were arrested. During this time one detainee, Narendranath Goswami (aka Norendra Nath Gossain), became approver of the British, and started revealing names of many persons to the police, leading to further arrests. Goswami was a resident of Srirampur near Chandernagore. He knew all the plans and activities of the revolutionaries. Appearing in the witness box he started implicating many of his former colleagues by mentioning their names. Barin Ghosh, Shanti Ghosh and Ullaskar Dutta's names were mentioned in attempting to blow off the governor's train at Chandernagore station in 1908; referring to the bomb outrage in the Mayor's house he mentioned name of Charu Chandra Roy, being the leader of the revolutionary outfit of Chandernagore; and on 24 June mentioned names of Aurobindo Ghosh and Subodh Chandra Mullick linking to revolutionary activities. A conspiracy hatched
The under-trial prisoners under the leadership in Barin Ghosh hatched a plan to escape from the Alipur Central Jail, and also to get rid of Goswami. B.C. Roy, Barrister-at-law, defending the prisoners, offered help with men and arms. Barin wrote letters from jail to Sudhangshu Jiban Rai, Preo Shankar Rai and Basanta Banerjee of Chandernagore to meet B. C. Roy for arrangements of arms. He also wrote to Shrish Chandra Ghosh to send phial, acid for the purpose of throwing to jail wardens and wax to copy keys. On Sunday, 23 August, one revolver was smuggled into the jail by Shudhangshu Jiban Rai. Next day Barin asked Hem Das to give it to Satyendranath with instruction to kill Goswami. That time Satyendranath was admitted in the jail Hospital. He expressed his inability to use such a big revolver, and returned it back. On Sunday, 30 August, another revolver reached Barin though Shrish. it was a smaller one.
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'I've got time - I've got that luxury lifestyle and some mothers don't have that luxury and have to get back to work. I'm just taking it as I can but I do love the show.'
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A three-chord song is a song whose music is built around three chords that are played in a certain sequence. A common type of three-chord song is the simple twelve-bar blues used in blues and rock and roll. Typically, the three chords used are the chords on the tonic, subdominant, and dominant (scale degrees I, IV and V): in the key of C, these would be the C, F and G chords. Sometimes the V7 chord is used instead of V, for greater tension. The I (tonic), IV (subdominant) and V (dominant) chords (primary triads) together encompass all seven tones of the tonic's major scale. These three chords are a simple means of covering many melodies without the use of passing notes. There are tens of thousands of songs written with I, IV and V chords. Almost all country, blues, and early rock and roll songs are three-chord songs. A great many pop songs are also I, IV and V chord songs. The order of the chord progression may be varied; popular chord progression variations using the I, IV and V chords of a scale are:
V – I – IV
I – V – IV – V
V – IV – I
Beside the I, IV and V chord progression, other widely used 3-chord progressions are:
I – vi – V
I – ii – V
In the mid-1960s, two of the most popular bands, The Beach Boys and The Beatles, began releasing songs that stretched the scope of rock and roll beyond three-chord songs. Even their earlier hits, such as "The Warmth of the Sun", or "She Loves You", featured chord progressions that were somewhat more complex. This led to a movement away from the country and blues base of rock and roll music, towards what would be termed simply rock music, and eventually resulted in the development of progressive rock and its many derivatives. However, the popularity of the three-chord song has always remained, particularly in punk rock, where the Ramones pioneered the three barre chord approach on their debut album Ramones, although on this album there were songs with five, six or seven chords. ==Quotes==
Songwriter Harlan Howard once said "country music is three chords and the truth." Lou Reed said "One chord is fine. Two chords is pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." Reed nevertheless wrote many songs with unique or complex chord progressions himself, such as the material on Berlin. ==See also==
Cadence (music)
I–V–vi–IV progression
Twelve-bar blues
==References==
Harmony
Song forms
Chord progressions
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In February 1971, the pollution committee advised Nixon aides to prioritize costs. The White House budget office obliged that October by creating a new program called Quality of Life Review, which assessed major environment, health and safety regulations. Tapped to lead the agency was bureaucrat Jim Tozzi, who had shown a passion for deregulation at the US Army Corps of Engineers.
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MARTIN ALLEN: Championship clubs should sign John Akinde Martin 'Mad Dog' Allen returns with his latest column for Sportsmail. He discusses John Akinde's remarkable form at Barnet, a potential successor to Kyle Walker at Tottenham and Everton's shrewd transfer business this summer.
All my old club Barnet's fans - and I include myself in that group - will be so relieved that with all these top strikers going for millions, nobody has put big money on the table for John Akinde. In the last three seasons, Akinde has scored 82 goals in 142 games. He has scored every 1.7 games for three years. How no-one has come in for him at Championship level is quite unbelievable. I signed him in 2014 on a free transfer when he was playing part-time for Alfreton, a small club just north of Nottingham. This pre-season, he's just scored against various West Ham, Swansea and Millwall sides in friendlies. I simply cannot understand it. Share this article Share 28 shares
My other old club Brentford have just signed a top quality young forward called Ollie Watkins from Exeter City. I remember 18 months ago, young Ollie - who even now is only 21 - was totally running the game for Exeter against my Barnet team, gliding past our defenders, creating chances for himself and his teammates. It's very rare in League Two you've got to get a player man-marked to try to stop him and we had to that day. Exeter have just sold another young player to Chelsea, 16-year-old defender Ethan Ampadu, and it just goes to show how their manager Paul Tisdale does a fantastic job developing, training and educating young players. I often wonder why supporters boo and abuse managers like they did Paul Tisdale when we beat them 18 months ago, when he's had a conveyor belt of young player sold for millions to keep that club up and running, alongside some exciting cup runs. They don't know how lucky they are.
It comes as no surprise that my former Barnet captain Andy Yeadom, who moved to Barnsley when his contract ran out, has clubs from the Premier League now chasing him. When I first arrived at Barnet, Andy was just a squad player, hardly playing and in-and-out of the team. But he's chirpy, enthusiastic, has self-belief, is willing to work and not afraid of the extra required. He can play right-back, central midfield, right wing, or, when we needed a goal, I used to put him up front alongside our main man Akinde. How many managers did I tell at Championship level two years ago to sign him when it was clear he would not sign a new contract with us? The best thing I liked about him was that I would ask him into my office to talk about team selection, training and generally if the group of players were OK. On more than one occasion he would have a go at me and tell me, face-to-face, we're not doing enough of this, we're not doing enough of that, I don't know why we're doing this and I don't know why we're doing that. I thought that boy's got guts and for the last few months of the season I nicknamed him Son.
On Monday I'm flying off to Kenya to spend a week coaching for the charity Tackle Africa. We will be travelling to Nairobi's townships to coach the coaches about all assets of football training at professional level and working with payers on ball work, defensive play, attacking play, fitness work and mental conditioning. It is wonderful to see the good football can do.
Tottenham have done a fantastic bit of business moving on Kyle Walker, offering Kieran Trippier a five-year deal leaving 19-year-old Kyle Walker-Peters to come through as back-up. I've seen the youngster play a few times and he is outstanding; so, so quick. That is another example of how well run Spurs are. They have managed to get £54million for a right-back who wasn't even first choice at the end of last season. Their manager, Mauricio Pochettino, is showing great faith in the squad of players he's got, without going out and buying superstars. He's remained in the background, very quiet. With two years' experience challenging for the title behind them, I think it'll be a special season for them.
Ronald Koeman's Everton will be challenging for the Champions League next season. Koeman has added to an already very good team. Michael Keane at centre-back is a fantastic player, dominant in the air and quick.
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Sandra Howard reflects on Swinging Sixties book of barely dressed beauties When Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon - now better known as the mother of Prince Harry's ex, Cressida Bonas - peeled off her clothes to be pictured with only a veil of black engine oil covering her modesty, she should have known it would cause a stir. But while Lady Mary's aunt was so appalled she took herself to bed for a week, the daughter of the 6th Earl Howe was certainly in good company. Posing alongside her were a topless Charlotte Rampling, breasts covered by a set of Green Shield stamps and an imperious Julie Christie, her unclothed left leg jutting provocatively from a trench coat. Not to mention yours truly, of course. However, I was far too shy to strip off, so was one of the only models who insisted on keeping my clothes on for John D. Green's seminal 1967 photographic book, Birds Of Britain. The book ruffled a few feathers when it hit the shelves, containing racy images of models, society girls, singers, actresses and debutantes of Swinging London - and looks set to ruffle a few more as the book is reprinted and the pictures, including previously unseen images, go on display in London in a new exhibition. John D. Green, then one of Britain's top advertising photographers, wanted to document 'a truly British phenomenon, the most fabulous "birds" who put Swinging London on the map', and the images were really quite risque. Apparently, Green and his friends came up with the idea in Kensington's Adam & Eve pub. The plan was to create a coffee table book celebrating all the key female movers on the London scene - and raising Green's profile. The first shoot - Lady Curzon's engine oil - took place on April 29, 1966. Her racing-driver grandfather was one of Green's heroes. The book pulls together an impressive cast, including singer Dusty Springfield; actress Susannah York; fashion designer Mary Quant; singer Marianne Faithfull; actress Jane Barry (Birkin); actress Jane Asher, then girlfriend of Paul McCartney; and Hayley Mills, child star, actress and daughter of Sir John Mills. The 'It-girl' of the day was the Hon Victoria Mills, then 19. The image of her playing topless poker at a casino is considered one of the most shocking - after all, she was the daughter of Lord Hillingdon, who ran Glyn, Mills & Co, a private bank founded in 1753. I was far too coy for anything wacky. I'd have worried about scrubbing off all that oil, that's for sure (apparently it took Curzon two weeks to get clean). I had merely agreed to go along to the shoot, in a studio off London's Commercial Road, as a favour for a friend. And as a recently divorced mother of one, I rejected the notion of doing something 'far out' and donned a demure dress. I did my own hair and make-up; there was none of the fuss of celebrity make-up artists and hair stylists back then. The attitude to models was different, too, and women were still treated very much as objects. 'Tell the girl to do x, y, z...' the shoot directors would say within my earshot. That attitude used to really irritate me. I had a name. The book was launched with a glittering party in Mayfair nightclub Sibylla's (named after Sibylla Edmonstone, a beautiful young aristocrat also pictured in the book) and sold a staggering 60,000 copies, 20 times the original print run. The book wasn't seen as that shocking within my circle of creative London friends, but outside the capital people were aghast. Plenty of Britons still lived very restrained lives, and didn't approve of well-bred girls 'debasing' themselves this way. Not everyone who bought it was happy. Birdwatchers had ordered the book in droves, expecting a manual about an entirely different species. They complained bitterly, returning said weighty tome - having undoubtedly enjoyed a good look first. Let's hope no one makes the same mistake with the reprint... The Birds Of Britain Exhibition is at Snap Galleries, 12 Piccadilly Arcade, London SW1 until November 26. The Big Book Of Birds Of Britain (hardback, signed limited edition, Ormond Yard Press) is published in February. snapgalleries.com
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Would you be able to take a look at it sometime? Ruhrfisch ><>°°
I'll move the map later tonight (see if anyone notices). I saw Upper Pine Bottom State Park at PR and will certainly give it some attention, probably tomorrow. On a slightly sobering note, although PR additions are quiet for the next couple of days, no less than nine requests were added on 22 October, and will hit the backlog on Monday night. Ouch! Brianboulton (talk)
Thanks - I will work on some PRs. For what it's worth, I'd gladly support if you ever had an RfA (and there are a fair number of admins (like myself and Moni3 and Geometry guy and others I am doubtlessly missing) who have the tools but don't do tons of admin work. Ruhrfisch ><>°°
Yes, I can help with these. If need be, we can move them back to Wikipedia from Commons. I added a map to Upper Pine Bottom. Ruhrfisch ><>°°
Thanks for the heads up - I was working from memory and kept seeing 1893 in the photo dates and made the mistake. We'll see what Awadewit says. I note the image of Colin Archer is already also used on the French WIkipedia too (in the few days since being moved to Commons), so I am reluctant to move them back here (but can do it if needed). Ruhrfisch ><>°°
== FYI: Galveston Bay Area ==
Just FYI, RJN reverted your removal of his banners on the article. I may have made an error in judgement. I went ahead and began making edits based on your feedback. I guess RJN had been staying quiet because we effectively had a truce. But when hesaw me making edits he went on a rampage. Hebegan arbitrarily removing whole sections of text from the article that he had problems with and ended up removing your comments and comments of another editor from the talk page. I repaired most of this but I am not sure what's going to happen next. I have responded on the talkpage. Brianboulton (talk)
Thanks. I'm refraining from further edits now. As I had mentioned before, though certainly I accept that the article still has issues, the acrimony in the past and now strikes me as regional bias issues (suggesting that some of the things the Bay Area has going for it can be subdivided from the rest of the Houston metro area takes away from the other communities in the area). But I just don't know what to do about that. P.S. If it means anything I grew up on the opposite side of Houston and have never lived in the Bay Area (and don't even live in the Houston area now). So I have no personal stake here other than my investment in time. Just FYI, I have requested mediation and am at the moment not editing further. RJN, however, is making some further edits... I don't know whether you still have an interest but for what it's worth, the acrimony surrounding this article has been "resolved" to the point where progress is again being made on the article albeit with difficulty. ==Evangelis Zappas PR==
Thank you for your time reviewing the article. I believe it has a potential for reaching 'ga' status. I will make the appropriate corrections/adjustments and post my comments the following (talk)
==File copyright problem with File:Sabina Poppea ==
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Hi Brian, I added and removed the 'no license' template from the file, so it should be OK now. Best, Voceditenore (talk)
Thanks for doing that - a complete oversight on my part.
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The damage wrought by Bronwyn Bishop more than just money Speaker Bronwyn Bishop has hit the headlines over her expense claims Photo: Andrew Meares It is the plumpest teat of all, so abundant and full with riches, you can spend an entire career on it, guzzling for all you're worth, and it doesn't even come close to withering. Parliamentary entitlements. Or, if you prefer, the greatest collection of jaw-dropping rorts available in the public or private systems. Charter flights, business-class airfares on commercial airlines, a ton of cash to spend on stamps sending those pointless generic letters to your electorate, mobile phones, a free car, a car with driver when you're in Canberra, overseas study tours, and so on and so on. Bronwyn Bishop and Tony Abbott, right, at the wedding of Greg and Sophie Mirabella, for which Bishop claimed $600 for return flights from Sydney. Photo: Rebecca Hallas Bronwyn Bishop, the current federal speaker of the house, although this tenure is threatened by her now-famous five-grand helicopter ride, has had access to the the teat since 1987. Advertisement For twenty seven years Bishop has had the opportunity to affix herself to it. Last year she charged taxpayers almost $1000 a day to travel in luxurious private limousines during a $90,000 fortnight with staff, in Europe. Thousands flushed away. All of it, this spending like the doomed Marie Antoinette, limos, the flights to a fellow minister's wedding, apparently, are legal. Not exactly in the spirit of things, but not against any law. And, you, like me, feel your belief, your trust, in the fidelity of the country's leaders slipping away with each new revelation. Is the world going to end 'cause the Speaker threw away a million dollars of our money on trips, tours, car rides and seats up the front of a bird, that did absolutely nothing to keep the country on an even keel? Of course it isn't. In a rich and buoyant nation like Australia it won't even touch the sides. Just as the world isn't going to end if the chronically unemployed keep drawing their benefits. Or single mums get a little government cash to keep them and their children alive. Or the disabled get a penny here, a penny there, to bring a little joy in their difficult lives. The difference is the leaders of our country have a moral responsibility to be frugal with our money. It's one thing to call for an increase in the GST or other taxes or making it difficult for the poor sods who can't get a job in some rural hellhole to get the dole, but their own house has to be in order. The behaviour of politicians like Bishop is particularly dangerous because of what it does to community attitudes, to our beliefs in a system that, generally, runs as smooth as anywhere in the world. This isn't the nepotism of Africa or the Middle East where a privileged few get to siphon their country's riches for a few years before they flee to a friendly regime. Bishop isn't Jose Eduardo dos Santos, the president of Angola, who has allegedly jammed away an estimated $20 billion in riches during his 34 year rule while his people slave away on two bucks a day. All the same, every time we hear of a politician like Bishop gilding their lives with our money, festooning themselves with the accruements of the wealthy, we lose that trust, the trust essential for government to work. And that's the real damage.
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Love Island's Joe Garratt charging fans £1 for selfies on nightclub tour LOVE Island's Joe Garratt is already making the most of life post-villa by charging fans £1 per selfie. The dumped telly star has been hitting the PA circuit for appearances up and down the country, most recently at a club in Reading. Joe is said to be charging fans £1 per selfie The floppy-haired sandwich maker has already done several paid PAs, and tonight he's at Q Club in Reading. Fans wanting to meet Joe will get to snap a picture with him for just £1. It's part of a bargain package that gives them club entry, VIP access and a meet and greet with a photo - all for just £4. It comes days after Joe sparked rumours he was returning to the villa by jetting back to Majorca. Joe has been a hit at his PAs with loads of fans wanting a snap with him
Joe is cashing in on his new found fame by charging for selfiesCredit: WENN
Love Island's Joe issues savage tweet after Lucie and Tommy twist group outing Love Island fans think Islanders ALL hang out on day off despite Casa Amor pucker up Love Island fans spot Maura's bizarre bum tattoo as she enters Casa Amor "be kinder" Love Island's Lucie's sister begs viewers to be more compassionate to her Flack to work Caroline Flack teases Love Island twist after surprise late night filming
Love Island's Molly-Mae's mother gets engaged as daughter looks for love Fans were sent into a frenzy when it became clear the sandwich seller was boarding a plane back to the sun-soaked island last week. However, he was just going out there to do a PA at a nightclub and not heading back to the show. Joe has previously said he will wait for Lucie while she finishes her stint in the show. However, it looks like he could be disappointed as she's already cracked onto Tommy Fury and is now in Casa Amor with six hunky new boys. There may not be a surfer dude in there for her, but she still looked seriously impressed when the girls were first introduced to the new arrivals on Friday night's show. Got a story? email [email protected] or call us direct on 02077824220. We pay for videos too. Click here to upload yours.
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Trump Wants To Detain Migrant Families Indefinitely. He Can't. The White House dramatically escalated its campaign to scare Central American families away from crossing the U.S. border on Wednesday, as officials announced plans to cancel the 1997 Flores settlement. The change would eliminate restrictions requiring the release of migrant children from family detention centers within 20 days. But the White House plan is going to face an uphill battle with math, among other things. The Trump administration has three family detention centers at its disposal, with a combined capacity of around 3,300 people on paper. Last month, some 42,500 migrants traveling as families crossed into the U.S. just between ports of entry, according to Customs and Border Protection. If those numbers hold as the Trump administration's new family detention policy goes into effect, ICE will fill its family detention to capacity in about three days. That would leave immigration authorities little choice but to release incoming families with a notice to appear in immigration court ― the same situation it faces today. "Not only is this cruel; it also doesn't accomplish anything," Kevin Landy, a political appointee during the Obama administration who led efforts to reform ICE detention facilities, told HuffPost. "A tiny fraction of the families who come here will be detained for an agonizingly long time. And Trump officials will probably not be especially concerned about ensuring humane conditions." ASSOCIATED PRESSIn this Aug. 9, 2018 photo provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, mothers and their children stand in line at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. The family detention center is run as a for-profit business by CoreCivic, the country's largest private prison contractor. ICE's family detention capacity is actually lower than its bed space numbers indicate. The two main centers in Texas, both of which are run as for-profit businesses by private prison contractors, use a system of pods to house detainees. ICE can't hold children in the same pod as unrelated adults. Children of different genders from separate families must also be housed separately. ICE does not publicly disclose the pod arrangements at those centers, which the agency considers proprietary information belonging to the private companies that run them. And the Karnes County Residential Center, ICE's second-largest family lock-up with about 830 beds, is currently housing adults rather than families. "It's not like they've been detaining every family for 20 days and then forced to release them because of Flores," Mark Greenberg, a senior fellow with the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, said. "They will continue to point to Flores as the problem, but the reality is they have had very little capacity for family detention." Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan has asserted that the Trump administration plan "eliminates a key incentive that encourages traffickers to exploit children." His words echoed a longstanding demand from immigration restrictionists within the Trump administration who deride Flores as a "loophole" allowing Central American families to evade deportation by filing humanitarian relief claims like asylum ― knowing that doing so will allow them to avoid landing in a detention center indefinitely. Acting Director of ICE Matthew Albence has expressed confidence that keeping families locked in detention while their cases play out will result in swifter deportations and discourage others from coming. Those migrant families who had their cases adjudicated while detained back in 2015, before a federal judge ruled that locking kids up indefinitely violated the Flores settlement, got a final decision within 50 days on average, Albence told CNN. But Barbara Hines, a former director of the University of Texas Law School's immigration clinic who worked with detained families during that period, distrusted ICE's figure. The average might have been skewed down by families who did not have lawyers or go through the appeals process, but she routinely saw cases that lasted between six and nine months, Hines said. "Quite a few of those cases were won," Hines said. "Certainly if you appeal your case, children are going to be in detention far longer than 50 days. And 50 days is unacceptable for children. It's really unacceptable for any migrant seeking protection in the United States... Solving the problem to them means destroying the asylum system." The White House's plan is certain to face legal challenges. But if it moves forward, it's unclear how the Trump administration will overcome the logistical hurdle posed by the lack of bed space in the face of record-level family crossings. ICE issued a request for contractors to submit plans for facilities capable of detaining up to 15,000 migrant families last year but has yet to move forward. An expansion of that magnitude would cost ICE about $2 billion per year ― about one-quarter of the agency's total budget. They will continue to point to Flores as the problem, but the reality is they have had very little capacity for family detention.Mark Greenberg, Migration Policy Institute
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Saint Amatus, also called St. Aimé, was a Benedictine monk. ==Life==
Born of a wealthy family, Aimé took the monastic habit at the Abbey of St. Maurice, Agaunum, where with the leave of the abbot, he dwelt in a little cell cut in a rock, with an oratory adjoining, which is now called our Lady’s in the rock. About the year 669, after serving as abbot Amatus was chosen bishop of Sens, in the Valais. He was an accomplished pastor, and here he was abled to distribute alms more plentifully among the poor. He had governed his diocese almost five years, when certain calumnies were spread about him. It was said that he had spoken negatively concerning the Mayor of the Palace, Ebroin. Despite the fact that no synod had been assembled to hear him, no sentence of deposition issued out, nor had he been charged with any crime, King Theuderic III banished him to Saint Fursey’s monastery at Péronne, where Ultan, the abbot, received him with all respect. Relieved of the responsibility of managing a diocese, Bishop Aimé found tranquility in exile. After the death of Ultan, Abbot Mauront was charged with the custody of the bishop, and took him first to the monastery of Hamaye; but soon after built a new abbey upon an estate of his own, at a place called Breüil in Flanders. Aimé removed with him to Breüil. Mauront welcomed him as a guest, and delegated to him the government of that abbey. Aimé, having settled the house in excellent order, shut himself up in a little cell near the church. Thus he lived five years with these monks, and died in 690. Some time before his death in 691, Theuderic came to regret his treatment of Aimé, and in satisfaction made several donations to the abbey of Breüil. Saint Aimé is commemorated on September 13. == Other uses ==
Places, presumably named after the Saint
colonial name of Djidioua (Algeria) in French
== See also ==
Saint Ame, of Grenoble, a Benedictine abbot and hermit who is also called Saint Amatus and has the same memorial day. Saint-Amé, a commune in the Vosges department in Lorraine in northeastern France. ==References==
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Collectors Shy Away From Art Market's Former Darlings The Gérôme work, painted in 1889, reappeared for sale on Tuesday at Sotheby's in London. Valued at 500,000 pounds to 700,000 pounds, or $647,000 to $906,000 at current exchange rates - a reflection of the $823,696 it had raised at an auction in 2005 - "Bathsheba" sold below the estimate to a single telephone bid of £488,750 with fees, or about $631,000. Gérôme's biographer, Fanny Field Hering, considered the painting a masterpiece, yet it has lost more than two-thirds of its value in the past 27 years. "The issue is that this period is just not sexy any more," said Wendy Goldsmith, an art adviser based in London, who was formerly the international head of 19th-century European art at Christie's. "So many collectors have moved through Impressionism and now over to contemporary." "There used to be plenty of Middle Eastern buyers for Gérôme," Ms. Goldsmith added. "However, the situation has changed: Either they don't have the same disposable income they once did, or they don't want to be seen to be spending it on art in the current climate." Photo "Lovers," by the American artist Lisa Yuskavage. Credit Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York/London By way of perspective, "Bathsheba" and its most recent price make a telling comparison with an exhibition of 14 new paintings by Lisa Yuskavage (an American born in 1962), an established "midcareer" contemporary artist with an auction high of $1.4 million, according to the salesroom-result database Artnet. The works previewed on Tuesday at the David Zwirner gallery in Mayfair. The female nude is a central theme in the work of both painters. But just as the ironic eroticism of Ms. Yuskavage's evocations of hippie-era free love differs from Gérôme's straight-faced Orientalism, so, too, do the markets for their works. Most of the paintings from her fifth solo show with Zwirner were sold before the exhibition officially opened on Wednesday, said Julia Joern, a partner at the gallery. The large-scale 2016 work "Lovers" - a subject not too dissimilar from that of "Bathsheba" - was among the higher-value sales at a show where works were priced from about $150,000 to $900,000. Sotheby's sale of 19th-century European pictures, attended by a sparse audience of no more than 30 people, was salutary viewing for those who buy art as an investment. There was one high note: The Ordrupgaard Museum in Copenhagen gave £1.4 million for the hauntingly minimal 1899 interior "White Doors, Strandgade 30," by the highly regarded Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916). Estimated to sell for at least £400,000, this 15-inch-high canvas had been entered from the estate of the Danish-American designer Jens Risom, co-founder of the Knoll furniture company. But other works, like Gérôme's "Bathsheba," were reappearing at auction and selling for less than their owners had paid for them, creating the impression that 19th-century painting has become a forgotten market for buyers. The decorative Giuseppe de Nittis (1846-1884) genre painting, "L'Arc de Triomphe, Paris," showing a fashionable couple on horseback in front of the famous arch, was bought at auction in 2009 for $1.3 million. This time, it sold to a Russian-speaking telephone bidder for £548,750, or about $709,000. And there were no takers at a low estimate of $125,000 for an understated 1851 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) landscape of the ramparts of La Rochelle, France, that had sold in 2006 for $374,400. Over all, the Sotheby's auction raised £5.5 million from 70 offered lots, with the Corot among 21 works that failed to sell - 30 percent of the offerings. Photo "White Doors, Strandgade 30," by the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi. Credit The Estate of Jens Rison, via Sotheby's
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Born July, 6th 1985 on Detroit's east side at 9:00pm at the Samaritan center. the fourth child to a family of 7 children 3 brothers and 3 sisters with him being the middle child. He attended Houghton elementary school, beard elementary school, Webster elementary school, Sherrard middle school, common wealth academy, sunrise academy, northwestern high school, south eastern high school, and graduated from western International in 2003. Although he went through a lot of schools his focus never changed, he remained fascinated with arts and Computers. by the time he graduated from high school he had the experience of a computer repair technician and did work of the like while working at a shoe store 2003-2006
even his co-workers seen his skills as proficient and pushed him to return to school. although school was attended his skills only grew as far as his understanding and that came from trial and error and tutorials online. He left the shoe store to work at one of Detroit's brimming Casinos. It is here he learned that his vision could not be obtained through their ranks. he left the casino in March 2009 in search of ambition and refusing to take anything that was not Information technology. He moved around a lot still keeping good contact with his mother and younger sisters, he moved back with his family after his brother became ill and money problems sprouted all over as the recession set in. in 2011 he moved out again on his on. He met his wife to be Tyesha Bailey online and encouraged her to come stay with him, after fighting off life's hardships together they decided January 2013 to get married and with his bride to be with child He did contract work until 2013. when he took on a full time position with Acro Service Corporation where he had started to master his skill sets and take on more knowledge than before. October 2013 he married Tyesha in Toledo, Ohio with his son Xajuan Bryan-Timothy Smith II as the only witness outside of the priest. With his vows he pushed further and harder than before and august 2014 he was hired to Hewlett-Packard just before there Split into to two fortune 50 Companies. He moved his family to Auburn, Hills his wife's old Town in November 2014. == References ==
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In chemistry, the organic compound triphenylene is a flat polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) consisting of four fused benzene rings. Triphenylene can be isolated from coal tar. It is also made synthetically by synthesis and trimerization of benzyne. One molecule of triphenylene has delocalized 18-π-electron systems based on a planar structure. It has the molecular formula. Triphenylene is a fully benzenoid PAH, meaning its structure is composed only of full benzene rings interconnected by carbon–carbon single bonds. The three benzene rings can be drawn as the three outer rings, with the central ring formed by one face of each and the three carbon–carbon single bonds. Being a fully benzenoid PAH means that triphenylene is much more resonance stable than its isomers chrysene, benzanthracene, benzophenanthrene, and tetracene. This makes it much more difficult to hydrogenate to the saturated hydrocarbon. In light of these characteristics, triphenylene may have uses in optics and electronics. Triphenylene is a disc-shaped molecule with a planar structure and three-fold rotation axes. Consisting of colorless needle-like crystals, it emits bluish purple fluorescence by UV irradiation. In terms of its crystallographic point group, the symmetry of triphenylene is classified as D3h in Schoenflies notation. Because of these characteristics, six-fold (in the 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, and 11 positions) alkyloxy- or alkylthiol-substituted triphenylenes can be used as a discotic mesogen in liquid crystalline materials. == References ==
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Boulder Growth & Income Fund, Inc. Declares Quarterly Distribution DENVER, Nov. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Boulder Growth & Income Fund, Inc. (NYSE:BIF) (the "Fund") announced the declaration of the Fund's quarterly distribution of $0.102 per share to occur in January 2020. This distribution is being paid as part of BIF's managed distribution program under which BIF will make per share distributions of $0.102 per quarter, or approximately $0.408 per year. As of market close on November 7, 2019, the distribution amounts to approximately 3.54% of market price and 3.00% of net asset value ("NAV") on an annualized basis. Due to the current discount of the Fund's market price to its per share NAV, and the fact that distributions are made in cash (i.e., at NAV), if Fund shares continue to trade at a discount at the time of this distribution, then it will be accretive to BIF's market-price-based return. The January 2020 quarterly distribution will be payable in cash to stockholders of record per the following critical dates: Pay Date Record Date Ex-Dividend Date Amount Per Share January 31, 2020 January 22, 2020 January 21, 2020
As previously announced, the Board of Directors instituted a managed distribution program in accordance with its Section 19 (b) exemptive order in November 2015. In adopting the program, the Fund seeks to provide a regular quarterly distribution to its common stockholders which is not dependent on the amount of income earned or capital gains realized by the Fund. Investors should not make any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of the Fund's distributions or the Fund's distribution policy. With each distribution that does not consist solely of net investment income, the Fund will issue a notice to shareholders and an accompanying press release that will provide detailed information regarding the amount and composition of the distribution and other related information. The amounts and sources of distributions reported in the notice to shareholders are only estimates and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during its full fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund will send shareholders a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell them how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes. The Fund Boulder Growth & Income Fund, Inc. is a non-diversified closed-end investment company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol "BIF." As of November 7, 2019, the Fund's NAV was $13.62 per share and the closing market price was $11.52 (a 15.42% discount to NAV). For more information on the Fund, please visit the Fund's webpage at www.bouldercef.com. The Fund is a closed-end fund and does not continuously issue stock for sale as open-end mutual funds do. The Fund now trades in the secondary market. Investors wishing to buy or sell stock need to place orders through an intermediary or broker. The share price of a closed-end fund is based on the market value.
ALPS Advisors, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of SS&C Technologies, Inc., is a leading provider of investment products for advisors and institutions. With over $16.9 billion in assets under management (as of 9/30/2019), the firm provides access to asset classes and boutique asset managers in real assets, alternatives, thematic/factor and fixed income through both ETF and open-end mutual fund structures. For more information, visit www.alpsfunds.com. About SS&C Technologies SS&C is a global provider of services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices around the world. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale and technology. Rocky Mountain Advisers, LLC RMA is an investment adviser registered with the SEC based out of Kansas. More information about RMA is available at www.bouldercef.com as well as the SEC's investment adviser search website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov. ALPS Portfolio Solutions Distributor, Inc., FINRA Member. SOURCE Boulder Growth & Income Fund, Inc. Related Links
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Scotland during the Roman Empire refers to the protohistorical period during which the Roman Empire interacted with the area that is now Scotland, which was known to them as "Caledonia". Roman legions arrived around 71, having conquered the Celtic tribes of "Britain" (England and Wales) over the preceding three decades. Aiming to annex all of the island of "Albion", Romans under Q. Petilius Cerialis and Gn. Julius Agricola invaded the Caledonians in the 70s and 80s. An account by Agricola's son-in-law Tacitus mentions a Roman victory at "Mons Graupius" which became the namesake of the Grampians but has been questioned by modern scholarship. The Romans then seem to have repeated an earlier Greek circumnavigation of the island and received submission from local tribes, establishing their border of actual control first along the Gask Ridge before withdrawing to a line south of the Solway Firth. This line was fortified as Hadrian's Wall. Several Roman commanders attempted to fully conquer lands north of this line, including a brief expansion that was fortified as the Antonine Wall. Despite grandiose claims made by an 18th-century forged manuscript, however, it is now believed that the Romans at no point controlled even half of present-day Scotland and that Roman legions ceased to affect the area after around 211. The history of the period is complex and not well-documented. The province of Valentia, for instance, may have been the lands between the two Roman walls, or the territory around and south of Hadrian's Wall, or Roman Wales. Romans held most of their Caledonian territory only a little over 40 years; they probably only held Scottish land for about 80 years, if at all. Some Scottish historians such as Alistair Moffat maintain Roman influence was inconsequential. "Scots" and "Scotland" proper would not emerge as unified ideas until centuries later. In fact, the Roman Empire influenced every part of Scotland during the period: by the time of the End of Roman rule in Britain around 410, the various Iron Age tribes native to the area had united as, or fallen under the control of, the Picts, while the southern half of the country was overrun by tribes of Romanized Britons. The Scoti (Gaelic Irish raiders) who would give Scotland its English name, had begun to settle along the west coast. All three groups may have been involved in the Great Conspiracy that overran Roman Britain in 367. The era saw the emergence of the earliest historical accounts of the natives. The most enduring legacies of Rome, however, were Christianity and literacy, both of which arrived indirectly via Irish missionaries. ==The dawn of Scottish history==
Scotland had been inhabited for thousands of years before the Romans arrived. However, it is only during the Greco-Roman period that Scotland is recorded in writing. The work On the Cosmos by Aristotle or Pseudo-Aristotle mentions two "very large" islands called Albion (Great Britain) and Ierne (Ireland). The Greek explorer and geographer Pytheas visited Britain sometime between 322 and 285 and may have circumnavigated the mainland, which he describes as being triangular in shape. In his work On the Ocean, he refers to the most northerly point as Orcas (Orkney). The earliest written record of a formal connection between Rome and Scotland is the attendance of the "King of Orkney" who was one of 11 British kings who submitted to the Emperor Claudius at Colchester in 43 following the invasion of southern Britain three months earlier. The long distances and short period of time involved strongly suggest a prior connection between Rome and Orkney, although no evidence of this has been found and the contrast with later Caledonian resistance is striking. Originals of On the Ocean do not survive, but copies are known to have existed in the 1st century so at the least a rudimentary knowledge of the geography of north Britain would have been available to Roman military intelligence. Pomponius Mela, the Roman geographer, recorded in his De Chorographia, written around 43, that there were 30 Orkney islands and seven Haemodae (possibly Shetland). There is certainly evidence of an Orcadian connection with Rome prior to 60 from pottery found at the Broch of Gurness. By the time of Pliny the Elder ( 79), Roman knowledge of the geography of Scotland had extended to the Hebudes (The Hebrides), Dumna (probably the Outer Hebrides), the Caledonian Forest, and the Caledonians.
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==Number of Stairs==
The number of stairs is actually closer or exact to 857 as I have recentally been to Greece myself. I can also refer to the book Nauplion-Palamidi A guide to the history and archeology by Elsie Spathari for citation. -The article already states that to reach the fortress there are 857 stairs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.232.82.21 (talk)
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There is a lot of money behind this, and it would be interesting to know whose. But money is one topic around which Bannon insists on discretion, shooing Klayman away when terms are being talked. He is otherwise remarkably transparent about his goals and theories, as if he has nothing to fear from exposure. Which is, frankly, terrifying.
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Markets set to rise despite global trade tensions European stocks were higher Tuesday morning despite an escalation of global trade tensions during the previous session. The pan-European Stoxx 600 was up by 0.3%, with most sectors trading in the black. Chemicals and tech stocks were among the top-performing sectors. President Donald Trump announced tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Brazil and Argentina on Monday - sparking further global trade tensions. In this context, basic resources stocks fell 0.8% in mid-morning deals - the sector is highly volatile to global trade and metal news. <iframe src="https://art19.com/shows/4420ff26-c17c-4c28-a654-a663d4bcbf60/episodes/5b55fd74-a277-4b6c-90ea-0be9b14546f7/embed" style="width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;" scrolling="no"></iframe> Furthermore, the U.S. trade representative also said Monday that it could put duties of up to 100% on certain French products. This is on the back of France's decision to apply a tax on digital companies. The U.S. trade office concluded that the French levy is harmful to U.S. tech companies. French luxury stocks were down on the news. Kering, Hermes and LVMH dropped more than 1% in mid-morning deals. Meanwhile, investors are monitoring several high-level meetings as NATO leaders gather in the U.K. to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the organization. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is receiving German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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== BLP Notice ==
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== Image vandal ==
I have also noticed the image vandal which affects two of my watchlist pages - I have tagged the "naughty" image for deletion since (thankfully) no other articles are using this photo. The uploader (which is a different user) has been notified of that as well by me since that image is five days old. But yes, thanks for removing that unrelated photo. Iggy (Swan)
, I was debating about tagging the image for deletion myself, however didn’t because I know there is a policy against censorship on Wikipedia. The image is truly obscene though and I am glad you took action since it is an orphaned image. Hopefully we can get that out of here, as it doesn’t belong if it doesn’t serve a purpose. Willy No1lakersfan (Talk - Edits)
I have checked Commons on the progress and the result was kept and the tag has been removed from the file page. They think the photo is "own work" by the uploader and the brief issue was not a reason to delete from Commons. Iggy (Swan)
== American Revolution Museum at Yorktown moved to draftspace ==
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== Hello I am James Aaron Sinclair owner of the Island ==
Hello I think there is something wrong I have tended to Sinclair Island nature preserve for 21 years. In the last 3-4 years I've had trusts and individuals trying to claim my Island there is a website google have made me for free and the local council and wildlife officials are now working with me to rectify all of this mess thanks very much for your time — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.26.73.205 (talk)
There is not much I can do for you. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not something that advertises for individuals. All we do is present articles that have a neutral point of view about notable subjects. If you could explain a little better what your problem is with this site I might be able to assist you better. Willy No1lakersfan (Talk - Edits)
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In Indonesia's capital, voters oust renowned Christian politician in show of Islamist power JAKARTA, Indonesia - Jakarta's first Christian governor in generations lost his reelection bid Wednesday, according to unofficial results, after a heated sectarian campaign that underscored the influence of hard-line Islamists in the world's most populous Muslim nation. Although the results were not final, early counts showed a decisive victory for Anies Baswedan, a Muslim candidate whose supporters portrayed the race as a referendum on the power of Islam in shaping the politics of Indonesia's capital. The outcome also raised questions about whether moderate Muslim political factions could face increasing pressure from hard-line groups energized by the Jakarta victory. The incumbent governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, was known for tough anti-corruption drives and challenges to hard-line Muslim groups that have taken on an increasingly central role in Indonesian politics. Comments he made last year led to charges of blasphemy that hung over the campaign. His blasphemy trial is scheduled to resume Thursday; if convicted, he faces up to five years in prison. "You won't see a governor as clean as Ahok again," said Tsamara Amany, a university student and activist, referring to the governor by his nickname. He called Purnama "a symbol of tolerance." But Indonesia's Islamist groups waged powerful opposition, holding rallies that brought out hundreds of thousands of people. [How comic book super heroes became part of the Jakarta election] Baswedan's apparent large margin of victory - 58 percent to 42 percent in an unofficial tally - contrasted with some polls pointing to a far closer race. Purnama won the first round of voting for governor in February in a three-way race. Official results of Wednesday's voting are to be announced in early May. The election also underscored the country's political rifts on the eve of a visit by Vice President Pence, who is scheduled on Thursday to visit Jakarta's Istiqlal Mosque, the largest in Southeast Asia. The blunt-speaking Purnama charged during the campaign that his Islamist opponents were betraying the constitution, and he urged Muslim voters in stump speeches to ignore imams who say Jakarta must have a Muslim governor. Baswedan, a smooth-talking former education minister, appealed for tolerance while also playing to hard-line sentiment. He declared that, as a Muslim, he would never vote for a Christian. "I don't really care about who would be governor," said Alissa Wahid, a prominent progressive activist. "But I am scared for the swinging pendulum of social change, especially in the Muslim community. They used mosques to spread hateful sentiments, and I am scared of the repercussions." In the election's first round, held in February, Purnama received 43 percent of the vote against two Muslim opponents. In the decisive runoff, he got around 42 percent - suggesting that he had hit his ceiling during the first contest. The population in Jakarta and the surrounding region is about 85 percent Muslim. [An Indonesian fatwa against "fake news"] "It's the downside of democracy. The best one doesn't always win," said Joko Anwar, a prominent film director and backer of Purnama. "It's going to give the intolerant groups more room and justification for what they have been doing, so they'll keep doing it even more." While the election sloganeering was mainly expressed in religious terms, the vote also reflected class tensions in a country with some of the starkest income inequalities in the world, analysts said. Purnama was overwhelmingly supported by the middle and upper class, but he alienated poorer constituencies with his harsh eviction policies in the north of the city. "There's a wide, disenfranchised social base that looks elsewhere than politics for representation," notably to Islamist hard-liners, said Ian Wilson, a lecturer and research fellow at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, who has researched the attitudes of Jakarta's poor communities. In the Kebun Kacang area of central Jakarta, a maze of narrow streets with a mosque on nearly every corner, working-class residents strongly favored Baswedan. "I will be supporting the Muslim," said young woman in a headscarf who declined to give her name. But a short walk away from Kebun Kacang, Jakarta transforms into wide boulevards and huge shopping malls. Trisha Dharmono, who works as an attendant in the Grand Indonesia shopping mall, said she is a Muslim but voted for Purnama because she thought he was effective. "My religion is my own business, not the business of imams," she said. Savic Ali, a progressive Muslim who runs news websites for Nahdlatul Ulama, the nation's largest Muslim organization, said he was worried about the future.
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Workers in the gig economy should get sick leave and holidays, landmark review to recommend The move stops short of calls by Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, for an outright ban on zero-hours contracts. The review stands in contrast to a similar exercise conducted by venture capitalist Adrian Beecroft ordered by David Cameron's Downing Street aides. The Beecroft review recommended scrapping swathes of employment legislation which was seen as a drag on entrepreneurism but the proposals were blocked by the Liberal Democats. Mrs May hopes to use the review as part of a bid to re-assert her authority and address claims that she is running a "zombie Government." Speaking as she launched the review last year, Mrs May said: "We are building a new centre ground in British politics; improving the security and rights of ordinary working people is a key part of building a country and an economy that works for everyone, not just the privileged few. "Flexibility and innovation are a vital part of what makes our economy strong, but it is essential that these virtues are combined with the right support and protections for workers. "The UK has one of the strongest labour markets in the world - with record numbers of people in work, and an unemployment rate almost half the EU average. "That's a proud record, but if we are to build a country that works for everyone - not just the privileged few - we need to be certain that employment regulation and practices are keeping pace with changing world of work." The review will address concerns that "rapidly changing business models and working practices continually stretch the limits of our employment rules." A total of 4.8million people are self employed, 900,00 on zero hours contracts and 1.7million in temporary work.
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Also metion in the first paragraph if sonata is a piano heavy composition or not, my impression is that it is, but maybe I am wrong. Hope this helps...
Works called sonatas often are (not always, and even then this is true more of the period after the Baroque era than afterwards), while sonata form can apply to compositions with any instrumentation - voices, instruments, both. Schissel : bowl listen 01:29, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
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i need to translate an article for the italian wikipedia, about the sonata. i know it's ignominous, but we still miss this entry.....
i'm sorry for me beeing so ignorant, but since i found this and that, which one is the best for me to translate? thanking you all in advance
==Mediant relationships==
"Thus,the second subject of the Waldstein sonata for piano is in E major, four fifths higher (C -> G -> D -> A -> E) than the tonic key of C major (...)"
As far as I know the relationship between E and C is not normally thought of as being "four fifths higher", although it is technically correct. More acccurately, E major has a median relationship to C major, because they are a third apart. Beethoven got very interested in these median relationships, i.e. he would modulate to keys minor and major thirds "above" and "below" the tonic. -Rich
You're quite right. I've edited the article accordingly. Also I removed the remark about how Beethoven never modulated two fifths higher, which is speculative and also pointless if you consider the "four fifths higher" thing as a mediant instead. The answer to that question would of course be that he never modulated from, say, C to D simply because it's not a dominant or mediant, the two relationships commonly employed. You might as well ask why he never modulated a tritone of a major seventh. EldKatt (Talk)
The question would not be completely facetious, because before Beethoven the mediant relationship was not yet viable as a dominant substitute, except in the specific case of the relative major in a minor key. Paradoxically, Beethoven's major innovation here was to make the dominant minor usable again as a secondary key for a minor tonic, as seen for example in the Piano Sonatas Op. 27 No. 2 in C-sharp minor and Op. 31 No. 2 in D minor, through his expansion of Haydn's techniques that could give this weaker secondary tonality enough weight: previously, when people like C. Ph. E. Bach used it, it only worked because his music tends to imply the higher classical standards and then not live up to them (I am aware that this judgement is very harsh, but there is some truth to it: his style, unlike that of the later Haydn, does not completely exploit the possibilities of the contemporary musical language). Beethoven's conquest of the mediants started timidly. Haydn and Mozart had no problem using the mediant major as a secondary tonality in minor keys, and soon made the submediant major also viable for the slow movement (e.g. KV 310, KV 466, KV 516). Haydn's innovation was to use chromatic mediants for the slow movement from the Quartets Op. 71 and 74 and the second half of the London Symphonies onwards, as well as many of the late piano trios: this soon became also possible for the trios of minuets, as in that of Op. 77 No. 2. It seems clear that if Haydn had not been stopped from composing by his illness, he would have continued alongside Beethoven; the slow movement of the unfinished Quartet Op. 103, his last work, uses the flat submediant major as a dominant, although this is a slow movement and so the harmonic opposition is weaker. Mozart's use was quite different; we need only look at two Piano Trios in E major to see this. In Haydn's (the late one with the fake pizzicato on the piano), Haydn uses the mediant relationship dramatically to move and set up a harmonic shock, by going from B major to G-sharp (A-flat) major at the start of the development with a false reprise.
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Cake from the Queen and Prince Philip's 1947 nuptials goes under the hammer The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh wed on November 20, 1947 The slice of fruit cake will be auctioned at Gorringes in East Sussex Due to its careful preservation and high alcohol content, it is still edible By Annabel Fenwick Elliott for MailOnline
A 68-year-old slice of wedding cake from the marriage ceremony of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh has emerged for sale, expected to fetch up to £500 at auction. The sliver of alcohol-laced fruit cake was one of 2,000 dished out to guests at the lavish wedding reception at Buckingham Palace on November 20, 1947. Amazingly, the slice - still wrapped in its original baking parchment - has survived the last 68 years intact, and thanks to the high level of alcohol it contains it is still edible. A 68-year-old slice of wedding cake (pictured) from the marriage ceremony of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh has emerged for sale, expected to fetch up to £500 at auction The Royal couple's wedding cake stood a whopping 9ft tall and consisted of four tiers. It has been preserved inside a white cardboard presentation box with the inscription: "E.P. Buckingham Palace 20th November 1947," in silver writing. Inside the box is a card that reads: "With the Best Wishes of Their Royal Highnesses The Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh." Experts say the cake could fetch as much as £500 when it goes under the hammer at Gorringes auctioneers in Lewes, East Sussex. The auction will take place a week before the Queen celebrates becoming the longest reigning monarch in British history having sat on the throne for 23,227 days. The 3.75 inch by two inch slice is being sold by a private collector whose father-in-law was manager of famous Mayfair restaurant Scott's. The slither of alcohol-laced fruit cake was one of 2,000 dished out to guests at the lavish reception at Buckingham Palace on November 20, 1947, after the Westminster Abbey ceremony (pictured) Amazingly, the slice - still wrapped in its original baking parchment - has survived the last 68 years in tact, and thanks to the high level of alcohol it contains it is still edible Experts say the cake could fetch as much as £500 when it goes under the hammer at Gorringes auctioneers in Lewes, East Sussex Philip Taylor, from the auction house, said: 'Gorringes is serving up some bizarre Royal nostalgia by offering a slice of wedding cake made to celebrate the marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten. 'The fruit cake slice was one of 2,000 given to guests at the Buckingham Palace reception after the ceremony in Westminster Abbey on November 20 1947. 'It is still wrapped in the original baking parchment and still retains a miniature doily and an inscribed card. 'The cake is in a remarkable state considering it its 68 years old. It has been very well preserved due to all the rum and brandy in it. Inside the presentation box is a card (pictured) that reads, "With the Best Wishes of Their Royal Highnesses The Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh" The Royal couple's wedding cake stood a whopping 9ft tall and consisted of four tiers The auction will take place a week before the Queen, pictured with Prince Phillip, celebrates becoming the longest reigning monarch in British history having sat on the throne for 23,227 days Mr Taylor added: 'You could eat it but I wouldn't recommend it. 'The present owner believes she acquired it from her late father-in-law, who was one-time manager at the prestigious Scott's Restaurant in Mayfair. 'Collectors have paid an awful lot of money for Royal artefacts in the past and a slice of cake from Queen Elizabeth's wedding is right up there. 'The sale of this slice coincides rather nicely with the momentous date in the Queen's life when she becomes Britain's longest serving monarch.' Share or comment on this article
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I'm sure there is information and you seem like you know what you're doing more than I do anyway. Garry says OK (talk)
I must agree with that as well. If it was more detailed, it would be fine. But it still doesn't make sense to have it at all. I think the best way to decide is to just use one source - not a million like done here, because obviously different places are going to say different genres. I say either expand the section, or move them to the genre section, where they do belong. And by the way, do you guys not think that the section could be vandalized as well? ΣПDiПG–STΛЯT (Talk)
== Curiosity + Where Did The Slant Mag. Review Go? ==
Out of curiosity, why is there a semi-lock on this article? lol
Also, where did the Slant Magazine review go? I realize that they're insulting Avril (Which makes me want to lkajgkajs them) but it still provides an unbiased look on this article, besides saying "Slant magazine gave it poor reviews". 66.60.210.32 (talk)
I think it was a dead link so it probably got removed. Zylo1994 (talk)
== Explicit ==
Are only two songs on this album explicit? "Girlfriend", and "I Can Do Better"
I Don't Have to Try and Everything Back But You are also explicit. == An Important Fact is Missing ==
I've read this Wiki article and those pertaining to the singles released from this album and I have yet to find which studio(s) the songs were recorded in. We have producer's credits, songwriting credits, session musicians, etc. etc. but nowhere is the studio listed. Can the gatekeeper of this Wikki article please include this information. Thank You. By the way, just as an aside, it's interesting to listen to Avril's recordings at this late date and hear in retrospect how much Taylor Swift and Ke$ha's productions/songs sound like Avril's. She is clearly a leader. 184.76.56.97 (talk)JSJR 01232014 —Preceding undated comment added
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20 Mark Hughes' gamble with team selection ended predictably enough and the upshot is that Stoke's haul of 20 points after 21 games is their worst at this stage of a Premier League season. 3 Hughes, with more than one eye on a New Year's Day showdown with Newcastle, left out four first-teamers and fielded teenagers Tom Edwards and Josh Tymon in a rickety back four, so a third clean sheet of the season was never really likely. 1 In Europe's big five leagues, only Serie A backmarkers Benevento have kept fewer clean sheets than Stoke. Benevento have managed just one. 46 Stoke boast the worst defensive record in the top flight with 46 goals shipped, eight more than next-worst West Ham. 9 They'll be pleased to see the back of Chelsea - their aggregate scoreline against the champions this season is 0-9 - and they've also been hit for five by Spurs and seven by Manchester City. This was probably the easiest game of Chelsea's year as well as the last. Only two minutes had gone when Moses skipped past his man on the right wing and was brought down. Willian curled his free kick in with pace and purpose and Rudiger soared above Stoke's central defenders and guided his header past Jack Butland. It was well created and well executed but it was also way, way too easy. Stoke struggled to get any kind of foothold in the game. They could not keep possession and they were a shambles at the back. Chelsea looked like they were going to score every time they attacked and before 10 minutes had elapsed, they were two ahead. This time, the goal was created by Pedro. He teased his man on the Chelsea left and made space for a cross. His centre was deflected but it looped to Drinkwater who was waiting on the edge of the box and he smashed a stunning volley into the top corner of the Stoke net with the outside of his right foot. Butland did not move. It was Drinkwater's first goal for Chelsea in the 13 appearances he has made for the club since his injury-blighted move from Leicester and he was playing with the kind of style and control that made him such a crucial member of Claudio Ranieri's title-winning side. Chelsea should have gone three ahead when Alvaro Morata easily beat Stoke's attempt at an offside trap and bore down on goal from the right. He hit his shot with power but Butland spread himself well and made an excellent block to keep the Spain striker out. It was only a brief reprieve. Chelsea did not let up and midway through the half, Willian probed the Stoke defence again on the edge of the box. He played a short square pass to Pedro, who bought himself a few feet of space by letting the ball run and tricking Josh Tymon. Pedro took one touch and then angled his shot past Butland into the corner of the net. Something approaching boredom began to set in for Chelsea after that and after the interval Stoke nearly pulled a goal back. Charlie Adam played a sublime pass beyond Gary Cahill for Saido Berahino to run on to but when Berahino tried to curl his shot round Thibaut Courtois, the Chelsea keeper dived to his left to push it away. Chelsea did not allow many incursions like that and Morata missed another golden chance after an hour. Put clean through for the third time of the afternoon, he hit his shot too close to Butland again and allowed him to block the shot. In a game where easy goals were there for the taking, Morata looked a long way from his best. It was nothing more than an inconvenience for Chelsea, though. Twenty minutes from the end, they got the fourth goal that was the very least their utter dominance deserved when Willian was brought down in the box by a clumsy challenge from Geoff Cameron. Willian picked himself up and drove his penalty down the middle to beat Butland. Second-half substitute Davide Zappacosta stroked home the fifth in the dying minutes before the Premier League's two nations took their leave of each other.
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Robert suggests they take Seb to Eliza’s birthday party. After attending the party, Robert informs Victoria she was perfectly fine. Robert goes to see Rebecca who asks if she can join him and Aaron on a date. Despite feeling awkward he agrees. Later, Victoria informs Aaron and Robert that Rebecca has vanished. They arrive back at Victoria’s and Robert is unhappy he and Aaron couldn’t go out on a date because it seems Rebecca wasn't missing after all and had only wanted to sleep. She tells them to keep Seb for the night as they are taking him to the zoo the next day. Later, Robert discovers that Joe had Rebecca arrested and confronts him. Arriving back at Keepers Cottage Robert discovers smoke and is told by Aaron he had to break in to get Seb as he’d been left unattended with the cooker was on. Rebecca is shocked to discover it was her fault, so Aaron, Robert and Victoria encourage her to go the hospital where she’s told she’s suffering with Executive Dysfunction. Robert and Aaron worry about Seb’s safety, whilst Robert praises Aaron for saving Seb, Aaron suggests Seb comes to live with them, but Robert is unsure about taking him from Rebecca after everything she’s been through. However, Rebecca calls Aaron and Robert round to Keepers Cottage and informs them she no longer trusts herself and tells them to take Seb. As they pack up his belongings, Rebecca says a tearful goodbye promising Seb she still loves him before handing him over to Robert. A couple of days later Robert and Aaron arrive home at The Mill with Seb where Liv is giving Aaron the silent treatment. As they talk about Gabby, Liv confesses to her role in drugging Lisa. Robert and Aaron are shocked but decide to protect Liv insisting she keeps it quiet. In September, he was thrilled alongside with Rebecca when Lachlan was sentenced to Life imprisonment without parole. A year later Victoria is raped by Lee and Robert attacks him, leading Robert to be arrested for grevious bodily harm. Robert pleads guilty to GBH with intent. Later Lee dies from a brain haemorrhage sustained from the attack. Robert and Aaron both decide to go on the run together. But later Robert hands himself in to the police for Aaron’s safety and then Robert is charged with Lee’s murder, he pleads guilty on the advice of his solicitor and is sentenced to life in prison, minimum fourteen years without parole until full time has been served. ==Casting==
e Robert to stay and run the farm, but Robert tells Andy that he doesn't belong there any more, before driving off. Robert returns to the cemetery after nightfall, and lays a rose on his Jack's grave, before leaving. ===2014–2019===
Five years later, Robert (now Ryan Hawley) returns and moves into Home Farm with his fiancée, Chrissie White (Louise Marwood) and her father Lawrence White (John Bowe). Robert learns that Donna has recently died and he is reunited with Victoria (now Isabel Hodgins) and their former stepmother Diane (Elizabeth Estensen) at The Woolpack. Robert gets into an argument with Andy, who has recently reunited with Katie (who had returned to the village during Robert's absence), and Andy punches him when he insults her. Lawrence doesn't like Robert and wants him out of Chrissie's life. When Robert learns Lawrence had an affair with Edna Birch's (Shirley Stelfox) husband, he tells Victoria, Finn Barton (Joe Gill), Val (Charlie Hardwick) and Eric Pollard (Chris Chittell). Chrissie's son Lachlan (Thomas Atkinson) soon moves into Home Farm. Robert catches Aaron Livesy (Danny Miller) and Ross Barton (Michael Parr) with his stolen car and he blackmails them into robbing Home Farm, in order to teach Lawrence a lesson. Ross knocks Lawrence unconscious but Chrissie comes home unexpectedly, Ross and Aaron threaten her. Robert feels guilty when Chrissie discovers that her mother's ring was stolen and Aaron helps get it back. Robert is surprised to discover that Aaron is gay. He calls him to say his car has broken down and kisses Aaron, before pulling away and driving off. They later have sex in a car at the garage. Robert is jealous of Andy and Katie and they get into a fight during Andy's stag night. Robert says that he is glad Jack is dead and that with him gone he will stay in the village as long as he wants. He also taunts Andy about his and Katie's affair. Victoria and Finn break up the fight. Andy warns Robert to stay away from the wedding. Andy and Robert eventually put their differences aside as Andy and Katie remarry.
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== De thesauris in Peru ==
Anybody know more about "De thesauris in Peru"? == Converso? ==
Could someone give a reference to the 'claim that Las Casas was descended from a converso family'? Many thanks. There are some references about it in the The Spanish Empire of Hugh Thomas. == Bartolomeu Casaus was a Catalan ==
ving far apart in time, with this same name. This article deals with the first and more famous man. But the references to Las Casas or to Bartholome de las Casas in many places, such as the Catholic Encyclopedia 1907-1913 is evidently to a later person. This later person wrote on Napoleon Bonaparte, for example, so it is physically impossible that he is the same person as the subject of this article. I want information on the later Bartholome de las Casas. Can anyone help? WikiSceptic
==Controversy over the Humanity of the Amerindians==
Unexact, this article is biased by a modern point of view. The most important fact is that he defended the fact the that indians were humans having a soul when some catholic theoligist believed they were non-human, finally the pope agreed with. Of course he was also considering that the Spanish colons committed crimes against the indians... but this is not essential in reguard of the importance of the question of the human nature of the indians. Well I didn't know his book so the article was not wrong but I'm sure of whatI write before too. I'm not how should I call the debate about human nature of the Indian : Contreverse de Valladolid in french (Valladolid controvesy?????) no, the humanity of indians was discussed before the controverse of Valladolid in the times of Isabelle
the Catholic. From that point on, the official stand of the Catholic Church was that the indians were
human beings. I think you saw the film, but this does not respect history, I fear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.16.199.194 (talk)
You should read the article again I :Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw·
==birthdate==
There seems to be some controversy about the year of his birth (1474 or 1484). Here is the source for the 1484 date: Helen Brand Parish and Harold E Weidman, S.J., "The Correct Birthdate of Bartolomé de Las Casas," Hispanic American Historical Review 56, no. 3 (August 1976): 385-403. I include this since it's been reverted once. Antandrus
Added as a footnote (after quite some delay!) grendel|khan
== De thesauris in Peru ==
Anybody know more about "De thesauris in Peru"? == Converso? ==
Could someone give a reference to the 'claim that Las Casas was descended from a converso family'? Many thanks. There are some references about it in the The Spanish Empire of Hugh Thomas. == Bartolomeu Casaus was a Catalan ==
ing far apart in time, with this same name. This article deals with the first and more famous man. But the references to Las Casas or to Bartholome de las Casas in many places, such as the Catholic Encyclopedia 1907-1913 is evidently to a later person. This later person wrote on Napoleon Bonaparte, for example, so it is physically impossible that he is the same person as the subject of this article. I want information on the later Bartholome de las Casas. Can anyone help? WikiSceptic
==Controversy over the Humanity of the Amerindians==
Unexact, this article is biased by a modern point of view. The most important fact is that he defended the fact the that indians were humans having a soul when some catholic theoligist believed they were non-human, finally the pope agreed with. Of course he was also considering that the Spanish colons committed crimes against the indians... but this is not essential in reguard of the importance of the question of the human nature of the indians. Well I didn't know his book so the article was not wrong but I'm sure of whatI write before too. I'm not how should I call the debate about human nature of the Indian : Contreverse de Valladolid in french (Valladolid controvesy?????)
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Julie Goodwin is arrested for drink-driving Masterchef winner Julie Goodwin has been arrested for drink-driving after fleeing the police and getting caught at more than double the legal limit. The 47-year-old did a U-turn away from a random breath test site and was chased by officers to a nearby side street in North Gosford, on the Central Coast, on Thursday. The 'devastated' Star 104.5 morning radio host said she had 'let everyone down' in an emotional statement after being charged with mid-range drink-driving. Scroll down for video Julie had been driving home from a 'celebratory function' that she was catering when she was stopped by police and failed the random breath test. She was taken to Gosford Police Station, where her blood alcohol reading was seen to be 0.107 - more than double the legal limit. Share this article Share 910 shares She was charged and her licence was suspended on the spot, however police said she was not charged for trying to flee the RBT. Julie said she felt 'great shame and regret' and said her actions were 'completely out of character,' in a lengthy statement following the arrest. 'It is with great shame and regret that I write these words,' she wrote. 'Last night while driving home from a celebratory function I had catered, I was stopped by police and subjected to a random breath test which I failed. I have subsequently been charged with mid-range drink driving. 'Needless to say I accept full responsibility for this error in judgment, which I believe is completely out of character for me.' Julie, who appeared on Australia's first season of Masterchef eight years ago, added: 'I want to take the opportunity to offer a heartfelt and unreserved apology to my family, my colleagues, and to the broader community. 'I would also like to apologise to everyone that has supported me over many years, I have let you all down. 'I am devastated that I have acted in a way so contrary to what I believe, to how I usually conduct myself, and to what I have taught my children.' The former I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here star concluded: 'Many lessons will flow from this, and I will learn from each of them.' Brisbane Water Chief Inspector Nigel Webber confirmed that police were holding a roadside RBT on the Pacific Highway at North Gosford when Julie approached in her Mini Cooper. 'Police will allege a Mini Cooper sedan approached the RBT site before conducting a U-turn and driving away,' Chief Insp Webber told the Daily Telegraph. Police followed her car to a nearby side street close to her cooking school and restaurant Julie's Place. They confirmed that 'a 47-year-old woman from Niagara Park' failed a road side breath test before being arrested. She will face Gosford Local Court on May 25.
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Shastri appointed as Indian cricket team's head coach By Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) - Former test allrounder Ravi Shastri has been appointed as India's new head coach until the 2019 World Cup, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said on Tuesday. Another ex-test fast bowler, Zaheer Khan, was named as bowling consultant while Rahul Dravid will accompany the national team on foreign tours as the batting consultant. Shastri, who played 80 test matches and 150 ODIs, also served as Indian team director in between 2014-16 before Anil Kumble was appointed as head coach. However, Kumble stepped down last month following differences with captain Virat Kohli. India's next international assignment is a three-test series which starts later this month in Sri Lanka. Share or comment on this article Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.
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His parents remained unconvinced about athletics as a career choice until Jackson won silver at the 1986 Commonwealth Games - his first major senior medal - when he was just 19. Success soon brought riches Jackson had barely dreamed of. Three years after leaving school he was driving past his old teachers in a Mercedes. He went undefeated at the European championships for 12 years in a row but Jackson's piece de resistance remains a 12.91 seconds 110m hurdles world record, which stood for more than a decade. He remains the 60m hurdles world record holder. The missing element of Jackson's career and the reason he is underrated in some quarters is the lack of an Olympic title. He won silver in Seoul in 1988 and was favourite to win gold in Barcelona four years later. But, inhibited by a rib cartilage injury, Jackson - usually clean as a whistle - hit four hurdles in the final and staggered over the line in seventh place. His training partner, the Canadian Mark McKoy, who together with his wife and baby daughter had stayed in Jackson's home in Cardiff in the run-up to the Olympics, won gold. Jackson has spoken at length of his devastation at missing out. "At first I thought, "That was such a shit race, can we do it again?"" he said. "The second thought was, "At least Mark won." "But that didn't make things easier to live with. I saw Mark every day and it was the most horrible thing to know he had won and I hadn't." In Atlanta in 1996, Jackson was again thwarted in his search of that elusive Olympic gold, pulling a muscle in the final of the 110m hurdles and missing out on a bronze medal by 0.02sec. His former teammate Iwan Thomas maintains that Jackson's legacy is unaffected by the absence of an Olympic title. "He might be a bit underrated because he never won the Olympics," said Thomas. "But the stopwatch doesn't lie, his world record was one of the longest standing in athletics and he was the ultimate professional." By 2004, when Jackson's outdoor world record was broken by the Chinese athlete Liu Xiang at the Athens Olympics, Jackson was watching from the BBC studio. He has covered most major athletics events since for the corporation and appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2005. He said getting a job with the BBC helped him deal with the anxiety attacks that accompanied the end of his athletics career. "When you spend all of your adult life doing something and suddenly that stops, you think: how am I going to earn money? How am I going to live?" he told the Big Issue in 2014. Jackson also revealed he had struggled with an eating disorder as he battled to lose weight to give himself a competitive edge early in his career. Friends suggest that he was not ready to come out in 2008 when asked by the Voice, Britain's biggest black newspaper, how he felt about people thinking he is gay. "I don't mind having people say what they like in that circumstance," he said at the time. "I know that I am not but I don't think it's for me to be going round screaming it from the rooftops. I think it's just rubbish. It makes no real sense to me." Fellow Welsh athlete Iwan Thomas, who first met Jackson at the Commonwealth Games in 1994, hailed Jackson's decision to come out. "I've always thought of him as an absolute superstar but I think the perception of him is even greater now," he said. "I think it's very different nowadays to 20 years ago where it might have been frowned upon. "I hope by Colin coming out it might give people in sport in particular the courage to do the same because sport can be quite a difficult place and very judgmental. "Only Colin knows but maybe that's why he left it so long. I'm going to give him a big hug when I see him because if even one person feels they can come out to their mum or dad because they've seen what Colin's done then that's amazing." Age: 50 Career: Jackson claimed his first senior medal at the Commonwealth Games in 1986, a silver in the 110m hurdles. A silver medal at the Seoul Olympics followed and he went unbeaten at the European Championships for 12 years. He set a world record to win gold at the Stuttgart World Championships in 1993 and won the world title again in 1999. He retired in 2003 after finishing fifth at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, the 71st appearance for Britain in his career. He has been a BBC athletics pundit and presenter since retirement. High point: Gold medal at the World Championships in Stuttgart in 1993 in 12.91sec, a world record which stood for more than a decade. Low point: Missing out on a medal when favourite to win gold at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.
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8 signs Merkel will definitely run for office again next year Angela Merkel has still not told the world whether she will run for a fourth term as German Chancellor in next year's national elections. Here are eight indications that she almost certainly will. Merkel has run for re-election twice now. But this is the longest she has left it before announcing her decision and the delay has kept the German media on tenterhooks. On Friday broadcaster N-tv reported that the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader will give a press conference on Sunday where she will address the issue. Here's why we believe she will run again. 1. She is still "young" It may seem like Merkel has been on the internal political stage since the dawn of time, but she is still only 62 years old. The trend for hip, young leaders such as Tony Blair and Barack Obama also seems to be going out of vogue. In the USA, the 75-year-old Bernie Sanders was pipped to the Democratic nomination for this year's elections by the 69-year-old Hillary Clinton, who was beaten to the presidency by the 70-year-old Donald Trump. The UK's new Prime Minister Theresa May is slightly younger than Merkel at 60, while France's François Hollande is also 62. 2. She loves her job In an interview with a popular YouTube star last year, Merkel spoke of her passion for the work she does. Asked by LeFloid what she enjoys in life, she answered "my job, and the opportunity to work through the day." This response might have come before the refugee crisis took its toll, but it was evident from the interview how much the biggest job in Germany means to the pastor's daughter. The thought of how to fill her days away from politics is probably not a pleasant one to the renowned workaholic. 3. Her party needs her Despite public discontent with her refugee policies, 59 percent of Germans think Merkel should run again, a survey by Forsa last week showed. As the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) have rode a rising tide of xenophobia in Germany, they have managed to score surprising election success at the state level, often at the expense of the CDU. The AfD celebrate their elections result in Berlin in September. Photo: DPA Merkel has become a hate figure for the far-right, who regularly denounce her as a a Volksverräterin (traitor to the people). But her unfussy, humble style still appeals strongly to the mainstream of German society. Recent votes in other countries have cast doubt on the accuracy of polling, but if it is to be believed in Germany, the CDU could not put a more popular candidate for Chancellor forward than the woman already there. 4. Her experience is needed more than ever Merkel has a strong sense of duty. In speeches on the refugee crisis she often repeats the moral case for allowing hundreds of thousands of Syrians to travel unregistered into the country. It is probable that this same character trait will motivate her to stay on as Europe's most important leader, due to the uncertain future that lies ahead for the continent. After Britain voted to leave the EU in June, Merkel described it as "a cut into Europe." With a Trump presidency calling the transatlantic alliance into question, and the far-right in with a shot of winning power in France, the Chancellor likely believes that her calm, moderating qualities are still needed on the international stage. 5. Obama already dropped a huge hint Barack Obama and Angela Merkel in Berlin this week. Photo: DPA Speaking in Berlin on Thursday, US President Barack Obama said that if he were German he would vote for Merkel. It was just one of a string of compliments the US President has showered upon his counterpart recently. Why would he keep talking her up if he didn't think she was going to run? It certainly doesn't hurt Merkel having the popular Obama praise her days before she makes her big announcement. 6. A close ally gave the game away "She will run for the post of chancellor," Norbert Röttgen told US television channel CNN earlier in the week. "She is absolutely determined, positioned and ready to contribute to reinforcing the international liberal order," he said. Röttgen is one of the most senior members of Merkel's CDU. People within the party deny that he is in the know on Merkel's intentions. But such an emphatic statement from a party leader can only really mean one thing. 7. Opponents within her ranks have surrendered Many media outlets have speculated that Merkel has held off on her announcement because the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party to her CDU, withheld their support.
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Malawi police arrest HIV-positive man paid by parents to have sex with scores of young girls Eric Aniva, who is HIV positive, unabashedly claimed he has had sex with more than 100 women, most of them underage. Some were as young as 12. He was paid to do this, often by the girls" parents, he said. On Tuesday, he was arrested on orders from President Peter Mutharika, who learned of the incidents through an interview Aniva gave the BBC last week. Aniva was charged with defilement, Malawi Police Inspector General Lexten Kachama told the Associated Press. "Out of the many women he had sex with, most of them were underage children," Kachama said, meaning they were younger than 16. The age of consent in Malawi was changed from 13 to 16 in 2011, the Guardian reported. Aniva is what's known as a "hyena," or a "fisis." The term, used in certain villages in the southeastern African country, refers to a male who is hired to have sex with women and girls for ritualistic purposes, the Atlantic reported. There are several circumstances in which a hyena might be used, but all are centered on the idea of ritualistic "sexual cleansing," or "kusasa fumbi." For example, in many rural areas of the country, a recent widow is expected to have sex with a member of her husband's family to exorcise the spirit of the deceased. If she doesn't, then any future deaths in the village can be blamed on her. If a family member would rather, though, he can pay a "hyena" to have sex with the widow in his stead, the New York Times reported. And such hyenas are often employed to have sex with girls as young as 10. It's customary for girls to go through this sexual ritual immediately after their first menstruation cycle and before their first marriage. That's generally early in life - In Malawi, 46.9 percent of girls are married before they are 18, according to the International Center for Research on Women, even though, as Al Jazeera noted, the country's parliament passed a law just last year outlawing marriage before 18. The girls reportedly hate the ritual but feel helpless to stop it. "They have no choice," Harriet Chanza, a national professional officer for family health and population at the World Health Organization, told CNN. "They are forced by their parents and guardians to go through those things. If anyone refuses, they would definitely be looked at as an outcast. There is a lot of peer pressure." The name hyena derives from the fact that they are "supposed to operate in stealth and at night," according to the New York Times. Eric Aniva has been neither stealthy nor secretive. Last week, Aniva, a resident of Nsanje district, in southern Malawi, gave an extensive interview with the BBC. During the interview, in what the author described as "boasting," Aniva claimed to have had sex with 104 women, most of them the age of schoolchildren. "Most of those I have slept with are girls, school-going girls," Aniva told the station. "Some girls are just 12 or 13 years old, but I prefer them older. All these girls find pleasure in having me as their hyena. They actually are proud and tell other people that this man is a real man, he knows how to please a woman." The BBC's Ed Butler, though, thinks he simply lost count by this point and estimates the number to be much higher. Aniva also said he has HIV, and, as dictated by the rules of kusasa fumbi, never wore a condom. Forgoing a condom is common practice for hyenas, Joyce Mkandawire, the communications adviser at Girls Empowerment Network in Malawi, a young womens" rights organization, told CNN in 2014. One reason is that a hyena, who is thought of in an almost spiritual manner, is considered to be high in morals and, as a result, free of HIV, the BBC reported. Aniva, who knew he was HIV-positive, continued performing the rituals without disclosing his diagnosis. It's unclear whether he infected anyone. It's likely that many more hyenas - and many of the women and children Aniva had sex with - also have HIV. According to a 2010 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey, sponsored in part by the U.S. Agency for International Development, UNICEF and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 10.6 percent of people ages 15 to 49 in Malawi are HIV-positive. After the July 21 publication of the BBC report, the president's spokesman, Mgeme Kalilani, released a statement obtained by the organization.
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:In a table with so few rows, I prefer clean and simple, i.e., no sorting and or other bells/whistles. Those features are clutter, but on a big table they more than pay for themselves with their features. On a small table, there really isn't any reward but they're still clutter. In my opinion, anyway. It's subjective though. Your mileage may vary NewsAndEventsGuy (talk)
== Request for Comment and Clarification: "Losing a Popular Vote" ==
We seem to be using terms like "win" and "lose" fast and loose. Can we take a moment to build a consensus as to what it means to "lose" the popular vote so we have an objective standard to measure future edits and avoid edit-warring? Here are a few options:
Lose the Popular Vote means to Secure Less than 50% of the Popular Vote
Lose the Popular Vote means to Secure Fewer Popular Votes than the Person who Received the Most Popular Votes
Lose the Popular Vote means to Secure Fewer Popular Votes than Any Other Candidate
If standard #1 is adopted, Donald Trump would have lost the popular vote in 2016 (along with every other candidate, but this would not materially change the article since he would still be listed as a president who "won" despite "losing"). If standard #2 is adopted it would mean Donald Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 along with every other candidate except Hillary Clinton, but - again - the article would not materially change (Trump would still be listed as a president who "won" despite "losing"). If standard #3 is adopted, only Frank Atwood would have lost the popular vote in 2016 as he received 337 votes, fewer than any other candidate (this would materially change the article). LavaBaron (talk)
===Survey===
#1 To a global, non-American audience to "lose" a vote would mean to secure less than 50% of the vote; as of the date of this RfC, a second-round presidential election is occurring in Austria because no one "won" (secured 50%+1) the vote in the first round... a two-round election has been discussed in France because conventional wisdom is that no one will "win" (secure 50%+1) the vote in the first round - we should use terminology that has broad, international understanding and is not American-centric. LavaBaron (talk)
#2 We should use terminology that is applicable to the nation about which the article is written. In federal (and most state) elections in the United States a person can win the popular vote and be elected to office by receiving the highest number of votes, even if that amounts to less than 50% (a plurality) of the vote. For example, in the U.S. presidential elections of 1992 and 1996, while no candidate won a majority of votes cast, Bill Clinton got the most votes both times, and so won the popular vote; everyone else got fewer votes, thus they lost the popular vote. (the same holds true for the elections of 1912, 1948, and 1968). Drdpw (talk)
I'd suggest we expand the article to include the elections of 1912, 1948, 1968, 1992, and 1996. LavaBaron (talk)
:Why? The winner of those elections also won (with either a majority or a plurality) the popular vote; this article is about candidates who won the election even though they lost the popular vote (ie. didn't get the most votes). Drdpw (talk)
::The winners of those elections won despite losing (failing to get a majority) the popular vote. LavaBaron (talk)
:::That's not the way Rss state it. Drdpw (talk)
:::It's an important grouping but one that should maybe be presented in a separate list/article. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk)
:::In the United States, "winning" the popular vote means getting a plurality. Dustin (talk)
#2 The meaning of both "win" and "lose" depends on the nature of the contest. In a winner-takes-all voting system (which this is), "winning" means performing better than anyone else and "losing" means not winning. I disagree that this is an issue related to Americentrism; rather, I'd argue that this is an issue related to unfamiliarity with the kind of voting system in place in the US presidential election.
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Gaynor Evans loses two stone having sex with TOYBOYS Gaynor Evans, 55, meets younger men on nights out with her daughters Says sex with toyboys has helped her drop two dress sizes Now she's an online agony aunt for a toyboy dating website By Natalie Brown For Mail Online
When her husband left her for the woman next door mum-of-four Gaynor Evans was left feeling frumpy, lonely and depressed. Fed up with staying in and watching TV on her own the 55-year-old, from Enfield, north London, started joining her single daughters on nights on the tiles - and it wasn't long before she discovered her inner cougar. The pubs and bars were full of men in their 20s and 30s who were looking for a good time just like Gaynor, who refused to accept her sex life was over along with her 20-year marriage. Scroll down for video Gaynor Evans found herself single when her husband left her for her friend and neighbour next door After nervously agreeing to a first date with a man young enough to be her son in 2009 Gaynor hasn't looked back. Enjoying up to two dates a week she said she's now addicted to dating toy boys, clocking up hundreds of internet dates. Share this article Share 108 shares What's more, after years of fad dieting, Gaynor said the energetic sex sessions she enjoys as a result has helped her shed more than two stones of flab and drop from a size 18 to 14. The recruitment manager said: 'When my husband left me I found myself sexually charged but with no one to go to. The only people I knew who were also single were my daughters, who are 37 and 36, so I went out with them. 'I started getting approached by much younger men and I was bemused at first, but then I thought why not? I just wanted to enjoy myself, still have a sex life and be free. I'm making up for lost time and it's liberating.' Gaynor on a night out with her daughter Kate, 36 (left) and on another girls night out with Laura, 37 (right) In a bid to rediscover her lost youth Gaynor wasted no time joining internet dating sites to hunt for younger men, joining specialist websites such as toyboywarehouse.com because many conventional sites don't allow more than a 15-year age gap between clients. She said: 'The youngest guy I've been out with was 20, the same age as my youngest son at the time, and I know I'm older than some of their mothers. There's a huge amount of chemistry between an older woman and a younger guy and the sex has been amazing. Toy boys have such stamina. I thought I knew all there is to know about sex until I started seeing younger men 'Toy boys have such stamina. I thought I knew all there is to know about sex until I started seeing younger men. 'I'm not swinging from the chandeliers or anything, but I can find myself lost. I do make a point of only seeing them only once or twice which saves me from getting too attached.' The serial dater also makes a point of not taking her men home for saucy liaisons, where her youngest son still lives. She said: 'I never tell my two boys about these things but the girls are always informed and know what I get up to. Then and now: Gaynor has shed two stones and dropped two dress sizes since dating younger men 'I'm a mother first and never take men home when my kids are there, which can make it hard because 95 per cent of them don't have their own places. They house share or still live with their parents so we can't go back to theirs. 'Instead I borrow my daughter's flat during the day when she's at work - she doesn't mind. I did also use my other daughter's flat once, but she wasn't so happy about it. You can always find somewhere. I duck and dive.' Despite her expert planning - Gaynor once flew a toy boy in from abroad as her youngest son flew out on holiday - she has been caught out in the past. She said: 'Once I did take a guy home and my son came back when he wasn't supposed to and found me delicately placed. It was very embarrassing.' With hundreds of internet dates under her belt Gaynor decided to self-publish Sex And The Signposts, a racy eBook charting her experiences as an unlikely cougar in August 2012. In the book she details some of her best - and worst - dates, as well as her saucy sex sessions. I borrow my daughter's flat during the day when she's at work - she doesn't mind
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Icelandic language at risk because robots can't grasp it When an Icelander arrives at an office building and sees 'Solarfri' posted, they need no further explanation for the empty premises: The word means 'when staff get an unexpected afternoon off to enjoy good weather.' The people of this rugged North Atlantic island settled by Norsemen some 1,100 years ago have a unique dialect of Old Norse that has adapted to life at the edge of the Artic. Hundslappadrifa, for example, means 'heavy snowfall with large flakes occurring in calm wind.'
Linguistics experts, studying the future of a language spoken by fewer than 400,000 people in an increasingly globalized world, wonder if this is the beginning of the end for the Icelandic tongue. Teachers are already sensing a change among students in the scope of their Icelandic vocabulary and reading comprehension. A number of factors combine to make the future of the Icelandic language uncertain. Tourism has exploded in recent years, becoming the country's single biggest employer, and analysts at Arion Bank say one in two new jobs is being filled by foreign labor. That is increasing the use of English as a universal communicator and diminishing the role of Icelandic, experts say. The problem is compounded because many new computer devices are designed to recognize English but they do not understand Icelandic. Icelandic ranks among the weakest and least-supported language in terms of digital technology - along with Irish Gaelic, Latvian, Maltese and Lithuanian - according to a report by the Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance assessing 30 European languages. But the revered Icelandic language, seen by many as a source of identity and pride, is being undermined by the widespread use of English, both for mass tourism and in the voice-controlled artificial intelligence devices coming into vogue. Linguistics experts, studying the future of a language spoken by fewer than 400,000 people in an increasingly globalized world, wonder if this is the beginning of the end for the Icelandic tongue. Former President Vigdis Finnbogadottir told The Associated Press that Iceland must take steps to protect its language. She is particularly concerned that programs be developed so the language can be easily used in digital technology. 'Otherwise, Icelandic will end in the Latin bin,' she warned. Teachers are already sensing a change among students in the scope of their Icelandic vocabulary and reading comprehension. Anna Jonsdottir, a teaching consultant, said she often hears teenagers speak English among themselves when she visits schools in Reykjavik, the capital. She said 15-year-old students are no longer assigned a volume from the Sagas of Icelanders, the medieval literature chronicling the early settlers of Iceland. Icelanders have long prided themselves of being able to fluently read the epic tales originally penned on calfskin. Most high schools are also waiting until senior year to read author Halldor Laxness, the 1955 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, who rests in a small cemetery near his farm in West Iceland. A number of factors combine to make the future of the Icelandic language uncertain. Tourism has exploded in recent years, becoming the country's single biggest employer, and analysts at Arion Bank say one in two new jobs is being filled by foreign labor. Share this article Share 27 shares That is increasing the use of English as a universal communicator and diminishing the role of Icelandic, experts say. 'The less useful Icelandic becomes in people's daily life, the closer we as a nation get to the threshold of giving up its use,' said Eirikur Rognvaldsson, a language professor at the University of Iceland. He has embarked on a three-year study of 5,000 people that will be the largest inquiry ever into the use of the language. 'Preliminary studies suggest children at their first-language acquisition are increasingly not exposed to enough Icelandic to foster a strong base for later years,' he said. Concerns for the Icelandic language are by no means new. In the 19th century, when its vocabulary and syntax were heavily influenced by Danish, independence movements fought to revive Icelandic as the common tongue, central to the claim that Icelanders were a nation. Since Iceland became fully independent from Denmark in 1944, its presidents have long championed the need to protect the language. Asgeir Jonsson, an economics professor at the University of Iceland, said without a unique language Iceland could experience a brain drain, particularly among certain professions. 'A British town with a population the size of Iceland has far fewer scientists and artists, for example,' he said. 'They've simply moved to the metropolis.' The problem is compounded because many new computer devices are designed to recognize English but they do not understand Icelandic.
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Tony Romo reflects on frustrating season IRVING, Tex. -- Quarterback Tony Romo stated the obvious on exit day Monday. The Dallas Cowboys' dreadful 2015 season was a frustrating season, a disappointing season and a forgettable season. "It was just a disappointing year for everybody," said Romo, who talked to the media at Valley Ranch for the first time since Thanksgiving Day. "It obviously was a very... just wasn't a great year." Romo played only 226 snaps this season. He made it through two full games and parts of two others. The Cowboys went 4-12, including 1-11 with three backup quarterbacks. Clearly things would have different if Rome would have stayed healthy. But he didn't want to go down that road. "You don't want to live in the world of what ifs," said Romo, who finished 83-of-121 for 884 yards with five touchdowns and seven interceptions. "It happened; it's unfortunate. We all knew when you come back what the reality of a collarbone situation is. But you know, I think we'll take steps, and do some things to make sure that doesn't happen. You'll see us hopefully play at a much higher level going forward." The Cowboys waited until they were eliminated from postseason contention before placing Romo on season-ending injured reserve. Although Romo's fractured left collarbone isn't fully healed yet, almost six weeks since he reinjured it against the Panthers, Romo insists he would have played in the playoffs. "Yeah, I would have figured out a way obviously to get back out there," Romo said. "That's what we play the game for, playing those games. It's disappointing that we're not in that part of it right now. Believe me, we're going to do everything we can to make sure this doesn't happen again." Romo first fractured his left collarbone in Week 2. He missed seven games before returning Nov. 22. But Romo fractured the collarbone again on Thanksgiving. Romo missed 10 games in 2010 with the same injury. He could undergo surgery to have a plate inserted to help prevent further injury to his collarbone. Romo said a decision will be made this month. "It's not a 'for sure,'" Romo said. "That's a thing that we'll look at the scan and see how it's improving, and then we'll make decisions. But there's more options. It's not just that." Romo has not played all 16 games in a season since 2012, and he turns 36 in April. --Defensive end Greg Hardy wants to come back to Dallas next year. That much is a given. The question is whether the Cowboys want to bring back the controversial defensive end and all his baggage. "Who wouldn't want to be a Cowboy?" Hardy said after the Cowboys' 34-23 loss to the Washington Redskins in the season finale. But did Hardy do enough to warrant a return? Hardy, 27, finished with six sacks, recording only two over the final eight games. He had only one tackle and one quarterback hit in the finale against the Redskins. If Hardy would have gotten two more sacks, he could have triggered a $500,000 incentive bonus in his contract. He never became the difference-maker the Cowboys envisioned. "I'm not the GM," he said. "If I was the GM, then I would be applying for that job. I can't answer that question. You'd have to ask the GM." Owner Jerry Jones said Hardy made a positive impact on the field even though the stat book might not suggest it. But Jones wouldn't acknowledge if he wanted him back. "He was an outstanding player and we may not have gotten his individual sack total up, but he made an impact across the board," Jones said. "He was a good player for us, and we'll evaluate real close any good player." The Cowboys gambled on Hardy last offseason, taking a public relations hit in order to boost their pass rush. Hardy had been involved in a May 2014 domestic violence incident, and spent all but one game on the commissioner's exempt list last season with the Carolina Panthers. The Cowboys signed him last March knowing that Hardy would face a suspension going into this season, which ended up being a four-game suspension after appeal. On top of the suspension, Hardy provided plenty of headaches for the Cowboys. On four different occasions, the team had to meet with Hardy on various issues, including two social media posts and an altercation with an assistant coach. Head coach Jason Garrett certainly didn't want to talk about Hardy at length on Monday during his season-ending news conference. Judging by his answers and reactions to Hardy questions, it's easy to draw a conclusion that Garrett may not want Hardy back.
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EU vetos Deutsche Boerse-London Stock Exchange merger deal BRUSSELS An attempted merger between the German and British stock exchanges was struck down by European regulators on Wednesday, formally ending a deal that unraveled in the wake of Britain's vote to leave the European Union. "We could not approve this merger on the terms... proposed," said European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, blocking the 29 billion-euro ($31 billion) deal to combine Deutsche Boerse (DB1Gn.DE) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE.L). A merger would have created Europe's biggest stock exchange. But the European Commission objected, saying the deal, which was the pair's fifth attempt to combine, would have resulted in a monopoly in the processing of bond trades. Selling MTS, the LSE's Italian fixed income trading platform, would have removed the Commission's concerns but LSE declined to do so. "How exactly these markets work and the products traded can seem like rocket science," said Vestager. "But actually our competition concerns with this merger are very simple." "In some markets Deutsche Börse and London Stock Exchange both provide the same services. And in some of these markets they are essentially the only players and the merger would therefore have led to a de facto monopoly." The EU rejection comes on the day the British government started proceedings for leaving the European Union, a move which industry sources have said undermined the merger plans. The Brexit decision had prompted German politicians to demand that the headquarters of the exchange group move from London to Frankfurt, creating a conflict that caused the deal to unravel. Further complicating the picture, German police and prosecutors had opened an investigation into possible insider trading by Deutsche Boerse Chief Executive Carsten Kengeter, the man who was set to lead the combined group. "It is always the same," said one Deutsche Boerse manager, commenting on the long saga of the two exchanges trying to join together. "Attempt to merge. Fall on your face. Save up money. Next merger attempt. Fall on your face," he said. While Wednesday's announcement marks the official end of the deal, there was already no hope left that it would go ahead after the LSE took the unusual step last month of saying it would not accede to EU demands that MTS had to be sold if the deal was to be approved. Shares in the LSE were up 2 percent at 3,085 pence by 1130 GMT on Wednesday, after it announced a share buyback, while shares in Deutsche Boerse were up 1.7 percent at 83.23 euros.
The proposed merger threw a spotlight on clearing, whereby stock, bond and derivatives trades are completed, even if one side of the deal goes bust. The LSE's clearing arm, LCH, is one of the world's biggest, and the exchange had agreed to sell its LCH's Paris arm to French bourse Euronext if the merger went ahead. That sale will now not happen, the LSE said. This presents a problem for Euronext, which had opposed the tie up of London and Frankfurt, because it uses LCH in Paris to clear its own share trades under a deal that expires next year. Euronext Chief Executive Stephane Boujnah said on Wednesday that it was still willing to buy the business. "But in the absence of obtaining an agreement, Euronext is fully committed to securing the best long-term solution for its post-trade activities," Boujnah said. LCH in London dominates the clearing of euro-denominated derivatives, an activity some EU policymakers want shifted to the euro zone to come under the supervision of the European Central Bank because Britain is leaving the EU. The bourse merger could have helped by shifting euro clearing to Deutsche Boerse's Eurex arm in Frankfurt. The collapse of the deal may now prompt the European Union to take action to engineer such a shift. (Additional reporting by Huw Jones in London and Andreas Kroener in Frankfurt; Writing by John O'Donnell; editing by Philip Blenkinsop, Greg Mahlich)
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Santa is pulled through Welsh village on skis by a 4x4 Simon Wilson, 26, delighted Wrexham residents with his festive stunt He got his friend to pull him round for hours and handed out chocolate to kids The blagger made headlines last month when he snuck into the MTV EMAs One little girl thought she was seeing the real Santa which made it 'worth it' By Bridie Pearson-jones For Mailonline
A Youtube star has been spreading festive cheer in his home town in North Wales by donning a Santa suit and skiing around handing out chocolate. Simon Wilson, 26, from Rhosllanerchrugog near Wrexham, took advantage of the icy weather and was towed round the village by his friends on the back of a 4x4. He bought a Father Christmas suit, borrowed some old skis and rallied round his friends when he woke up to a snowy scape on Saturday morning. As if he were waterskiing, he tied a rope to the back of a 4x4 and spent hours being pulled through Rhosllanerchrugog, high-fiving baffled kids and even handing out chocolate. In the video, the 26-year-old Youtuber is pulled up hill dressed as Santa and straddling a toy reindeer strapped to skis. Holding a selfie stick in one hand and barely clinging onto a rope on another the skilled santa manoeuvres through the streets of the Welsh village while sliding from side to side. The blagger made headlines last month when he snuck into the MTV EMAs. He can also boast bagging a £75,000 ringside seat for free at the Conor McGregor vs Floyd Mayweather mega fight earlier this year. 'I had about 24 hours to prepare which isn't a lot of time because I had to get a Santa suit from Tesco, plumbing pipe and rope and had to borrow skis. But, I got there in the end' he told the Daily Post. 'I just thought it was spreading a bit of Christmas spirit. It basically started snowing on Friday and I wanted to do a crazy video in the snow. 'There were loads of pictures flying around social media and one woman said I made her daughter's day because she thought I was the real Santa. 'It was worth making the video just for that' he added. Share or comment on this article
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Pitharcha is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae. ==References==
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Tomko is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Travis Tomko (born 1976), aka Tomko, the American professional wrestler
Al Tomko, the Canadian professional wrestler and wrestling promoter
Dewey Tomko (born 1946), the American professional poker player
Brett Tomko (born 1973), Major League Baseball pitcher with the Kansas City Royals
Jozef Tomko (born 1924), the Slovak Cardinal
Chad Tomko, University of North Carolina at Wilmington basketball player
George Joseph Tomko (born 4/9/1880 Lansford, Carbon County, PA died 4/26/1967 Tampa, Hillsborough, FL)
George Kenneth Tomko Sr. (born 5/30/1908 Cleveland OH died 2/25/1986 Homosassa Crystal River FL) Played the piano and collected antique tools
George Kenneth Tomko Jr. (born 5/6/1931 Cleveland OH died 5/27/2003 Crystal River FL) known as Lonesome George
George Kenneth Tomko III (born 1952 L. A. CA), One of many Tomko's world wide
George Kenneth Tomko IV (born 1980 Medina OH), professional safety surface installer, Pro-Techs Surffacing
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Niellé is a town in the far north of Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture and commune of Ouangolodougou Department in Tchologo Region, Savanes District. The border with Mali is located 30 kilometres north of town. Niellé is in the sub-Saharan Sahel savanna biogeography region, which is characterised by grasslands with trees, such as the baobab (Adansonia digitata), umbrella thorn acacia (Acacia tortilis) and other species. In 2014, the population of the sub-prefecture of Niellé was 29,022. ==Villages==
The 10 villages of the sub-prefecture of Niellé and their population in 2014 are:
==Notes==
Populated places in Savanes District
Sub-prefectures of Tchologo
Communes of Tchologo
Populated places in Tchologo
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Bucks rout Hornets, 137-96; Giannis" double-double run ends By
December 1, 2019, 4:47 AM 5 min read Giannis Antetokounmpo couldn't keep his double-double streak going, though it's hard even for the NBA's MVP to put up big numbers in only 20 minutes. Antetokounmpo scored 26 points but his streak ended at 19 games when he grabbed nine rebounds in his shortest outing of the season, and the Milwaukee Bucks coasted to a 137-96 victory over the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday night. Milwaukee (17-3) won its 11th straight and matched its highest point total of the season. The Bucks held a 17-point halftime lead and extended it to 101-75 entering the fourth quarter, allowing Antetokounmpo to sit out the final period. His streak of double-doubles to open a season left him short of Bill Walton's record of 34 with the Portland Trail Blazers in 1976-77. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had 29 for the Los Angeles Lakers in 1975-76. "I should have left him in," Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said with a wry smile. "He's doing amazing things and there's more to come. "We're trying to have conversations with him about being healthy and fresh and how important that is. Pretty incredible if you're being mentioned with the greats of our game. "Pat Connaughton (team-high 10 rebounds) probably stole it. He steals all the rebounds." Antetokounmpo wasn't worried about the end of his run. "That is not how I am built," Antetokounmpo said. "I am not built around stats. Obviously, I am just here to win." The Bucks put nine players in double figures and finished November with a franchise-best 15-1 record, losing only on a buzzer-beating shot in Utah on Nov. 8. The 41-point margin was the team's largest of the season. Milwaukee has the league's second-best record, behind the Los Angeles Lakers (17-2). Hornets veteran forward Marvin Williams said Antetokounmpo's dominating play was no surprise. "He's so competitive, always wants to win," Williams said. "I feel he always wants to play the right way. I've always been a fan of his. "I don't feel like he did anything different than he normally does. He plays with such aggression on both ends of the floor. He attacked the basket and made plays for himself. Then when it wasn't there he kicked it out to his shooters." Robin Lopez, starting at center in place of brother Brook, sparked the Bucks with three 3-pointers and 13 points in 16 first-half minutes and wound up playing 24 minutes. Robin was in the starting lineup with Brook sidelined by back soreness. "It was so cool to see him start the game that well and it just gave us a huge boost," Budenholzer said. "Brook is such a big part of what we do and to have Robin step in and make those, it was really important to us. And it feels like it's been coming." Robin Lopez ended 3 of 5 from beyond the arc and improved to 11 of 32 from 3-point range (34.3%), putting him ahead of his brother's percentage (28.9% on 97 attempts) this season. "Numbers speak for themselves, right," Robin Lopez said of his newfound 3-point prowess. "We got a lot of motion. We did a great job moving the ball, moving without the ball." Milwaukee shot 56.2% from the field (54 of 96) and limited Charlotte to 36.6% shooting (37 of 101). Devonte' Graham led the Hornets (8-13) with 24 points and Terry Rozier added 19. Milwaukee pulled away in the third quarter as it outscored the Hornets 35-26. Wesley Matthews had 12 of his 14 points in the quarter, going 3 of 4 from 3-point range and adding a three-point play. Khris Middleton came off the bench for the third straight game since returning from a thigh injury and added 15 points, and Ersan Ilyasova and D.J. Wilson each had 11.
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Friedel Rausch (27 February 1940 – 18 November 2017) was a German football player and manager. As a manager, he won with FC Luzern the Swiss championship in 1989 and the cup in 1992, thereby becoming the most successful manager in the club's history. In 1969, Rausch produced some headlines as he was bitten by an Alsatian during the derby of Schalke and Dortmund. End March/beginning April 2006, Rausch was diagnosed with skin cancer. ==See also==
List of UEFA Cup winning managers
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Bryony Gordon reveals she tried to talk Kate Middleton into running the London Marathon Signing up to run a marathon is usually something that involves a lot of thought, and quite possibly procrastination. But author Bryony Gordon, 36, has revealed how she made a split second decision to run the 2017 London Marathon after trying to persuade the Duchess of Cambridge to take on the challenge. The writer met Kate at the launch of the Heads Together campaign - which is the official charity of next year's marathon - at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic park in May. Author Bryony Gordon (right) made a split second decision to run the 2017 London Marathon after trying to persuade the Duchess of Cambridge to take on the challenge when then met at the launch of Heads Together in May this year She asked the Duchess if she would be running it and Kate apparently smiled politely and said that it probably wouldn't be possible because of 'a few security issues'. Describing the encounter in The Telegraph, Bryony wrote: 'Well, if I can do it (motions to, ahem, fuller figure) you can!' She added: 'Looking back I can only put my offer down to a moment of monarchy-induced madness in a period of general insanity.' However, the author of Mad Girl, which deals with her struggle with mental illness, including depression, OCD, bulimia and drug abuse, had committed to raise £10,000 for Heads Together by running the 26.2 miles in 2017. Author Bryony Gordon chats to Prince William at the Heads Together launch. She has praised the royals for their work on raising awareness of mental health issues And she has praised Kate, William and Harry for their work to change the national conversation around mental illness. The royal trio launched Heads Together earlier this year, bringing together some of the country's leading mental health charities to encourage people to speak openly about their issues and seek help. They expressed their hope the campaign would help people feel comfortable with their everyday mental wellbeing, feel able to support their friends and families through difficult times, and break down stigma. Bryony Gordon has written a memoir about her struggle with mental health issues, including bulimia and depression William, pictured with Bryony Gordon will today visit The London Eye with Harry and Kate for events to mark World Mental Health Day 'This is why I have the most enormous admiration for the Duke and Duchess and Prince Harry,' she said. 'This isn't simpering royalist support. It is genuine heartfelt thanks.' Today the royals will continue to work towards raising awareness by undertaking a series of engagements for World Mental Health Day. William, Kate and Harry will spend the day talking to those who have battled with psychological problems - and hear about the help they have received. At a reception in London, the royals will meet those whose lives were changed thanks to crucial support from a relative, colleague or friend. Later they will take to the London Eye with some of the people who have shared their experiences with them.
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Stars speak out against Harvey Weinstein
Movie stars Kate Winslet, George Clooney and Jennifer Lawrence are the latest to weigh in on the allegations that studio owner Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed multiple women over three decades. Weinstein has been accused by several women, including actress Ashley Judd, of sexual harassment or unwanted touching, dating back decades. Though he immediately admitted to misconduct and apologized for any inappropriate behavior, his former adviser Lisa Bloom stated last week that the movie mogul "denies many of the allegations as patently false" and his attorney Charles Harder claimed that he was preparing a lawsuit against The New York Times, the outlet that published the initial story. In the immediate aftermath of the women coming forward with their allegations, Weinstein was terminated by The Weinstein Company. "The way Harvey Weinstein has treated these vulnerable, talented young women is NOT the way women should ever EVER deem to be acceptable or commonplace in ANY workplace," Winslet said in a statement to Variety. Winslet, who won a best actress Oscar in 2009 for her role in The Weinstein Company's film "The Reader," added that Weinstein's behavior is âwithout question disgraceful and appalling and very, very wrong." "It makes me so angry," she added. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Clooney called Weinstein's actions "indefensible." After noting Weinstein's help in getting his movie and directing career started, Clooney said, "Iâve never seen any of this behavior -- ever.â He went on to note that while it was known Weinstein "had a tendency to hit on young, beautiful women," he said, "I had no idea that it had gone to the level of having to pay off eight women for their silence, and that these women were threatened and victimized." "I donât think that people were looking the other way; I think that people werenât looking, because in some ways, a lecherous guy with money picking up younger girls is unfortunately not a news story in our society," he continued. "I feel very bad for the victims." Jennifer Lawrence, who won an Oscar for her role in The Weinstein Company's "Silver Linings Playbook," told Variety, âI was deeply disturbed to hear the news about Harvey Weinsteinâs behavior. I worked with Harvey five years ago and I did not experience any form of harassment personally, nor did I know about any of these allegations. This kind of abuse is inexcusable and absolutely upsetting. My heart goes out to all of the women affected by these gross actions. And I want to thank them for their bravery to come forward." Fashion designer Donna Karan seemed to initially defend Weinstein in an interview with The Daily Mail, calling him "wonderful" and questioning the way women "present ourselves." She later walked back her comments in a statement obtained by Variety. "My statements were taken out of context and do not represent how I feel about the current situation concerning Harvey Weinstein. I believe that sexual harassment is NOT acceptable and this is an issue that MUST be addressed once and for all regardless of the individual," she said. "I am truly sorry to anyone that I offended and everyone that has ever been a victim.â
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If someone would like to offer alternatives views from other secondary sources and add those citations, that would be perfectly acceptable, but it is unacceptable to remove material from reputable sources that is properly cited. The additions about the Chattanooga campaign are OK on their face, albeit a bit long for the importance of the topic to Longstreet's career, but this is a fully cited article and it is unacceptable to add uncited material to it. If someone would like to add this material with the proper citations from secondary sources, go ahead (but run a spell check on it first, please). Hal Jespersen (talk)
I see that #1 was removed and #2 was at least partially cited, so I have tweaked it up. Thanks. Hal Jespersen (talk)
== "...Bragg who had no intention of listening to anyone." ==
This is not a neutral phrase to include in an encyclopedic statement. There's lots of these kind of interpretive statements in recent contributions by 110fremont. I remind the user that this isn't about being correct; its instead about proving one's points in any arena of disagreement. If one is going to add non-neutral language to a page, one is expected to bring the citation to prove such assertion. BusterD (talk)
== Suffolk edits ==
I don't have the Knudsen ref, so can't look further into this, but what does this mean? Johnston at First Manassas and Bragg prior to Perryville both used rails and interior lines strategically before Longstreet suggested it. And what does Gettysburg, which had no rail traffic involved, have to do with it? Are you saying that Longstreet was the first to suggest movement from Virginia to Mississippi or Tennessee? Certainly President Davis had suggested that previously. Most authors imply that Longstreet was merely looking for his own self advancement in getting out from underneath Lee's command, not promoting a new Confederate "grand strategy" (which is misusing the term in this context). Hal Jespersen (talk)
Unless this confusion is reconciled, I intend to remove the passages on August 2. Hal Jespersen (talk)
'Despite Lee's brilliant victory at Chancellorsville, Longstreet once again came under criticism, claiming that he could have marched his men back from Suffolk in time to join Lee.' Not clear. He had been following Lee's orders. Do you mean that Lee came under criticism from Longstreet? Valetude (talk)
== Infobox formatting problems ==
Ever since the infobox was changed from military person to officeholder, there is stray text around Longstreet's picture (). Does anybody know how to fix this? Thanks. -Cwenger (talk)
The image= parameter is different for that template (it does not use the "entire "In popular media" section needs multiple cites). It is recommended not to use decorative quotations (the template) in Wikipedia articles; these are intended only for call-outs. Thank you for your hard work. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. Regards, EyeSereneTALK
== Wounding at Wilderness ==
Around citation 44 the article states Gen Longstreet's nasty wound was received about a mile from the local where Gen Jackson was
mortally hit. I thought in Foote's third "C.W. Narrative" book he states it was a distance of around four miles. Since his books aren't part of any citations in the article (and sometimes noted for their accuracy) I'm not going to edit anything. Just curious which is accurate, if known. The shorter distance is also more creepy! Kresock (talk)
I got out my maps and measured. It is actually 4 miles, so I have updated the article accordingly. (Jackson was wounded near the current NPS Visitor Center, Longstreet on the Plank Road near the intersection with the Brock Road.) Thanks for catching the error. Hal Jespersen (talk)
== April 8 edits ==
I have made some modifications to the edits of April 8 regarding Longstreet's actions on July 2. The passage cited from Fuller was too rudimentary a description of what happened that morning; Fuller's book on Lee and Grant spends only seven pages on the entire Gettysburg campaign, after all. I added another footnote from Sears and Coddington, both of whom have lengthy descriptions about Lee and Longstreet on the morning of July 2. I also restored the citation from Wert, which had been removed with no explanation. If someone can find a citation from a reputable historian who claims that Longstreet enthusiastically and aggressively prepared for the battle on July 2, citations can be added to that effect.
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From leaky ceilings to clueless agents: tales from a first-time buyer "An Englishman's home is his castle." The definition of this old proverb, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is that an English person's home is a place where they may do as they please and from which they may exclude anyone they choose. I'd like a castle. At least in spirit. In reality, I'm looking for a one-bedroom flat. Surely that's not too much to ask for, today, in England? Sadly, low housing supply means that for many renters, who are lacking the necessary deposit and trapped in expensive private housing, the security that owning a home offers remains a dream. After living in cold, damp, rat-infested rentals for five and a half years I have decided that it really is time for me to escape generation rent. With a deposit in hand (thanks to the bank of mum and dad), I secured a mortgage agreement in principle after a surprisingly simple chat with a local independent financial adviser (IFA). Crucially, this shows me to be a serious buyer. Hopefully, I'll entice estate agents as I only need give a month's notice on my rented home. I've been told I can borrow £90,000, four times my income (rather than the three I'd expected), which with my deposit means I'm looking for properties costing around £110,000. I'm so keen to get my own place I haven't really reflected on the scale of the debt I'm about to take on. It's a staggering amount of money to lend someone in my shaky financial state (£20,000 owed in student loans and an overdraft). At 34, however, I think buying a house offers me a much happier future than renting, even if it does tie me down to a massive debt and, more so than renting, a specific area. Castles are out of the picture on my budget sadly. Living and working in Winchester, I'd be lucky to snare a Wendy house round my way, so I'm looking in Southampton and its surrounding areas. There are good transport links (a 45-minute commute awaits), shopping and entertainment. My rental experiences have influenced my thinking. As well as allocated parking I'd like a bathroom with a window to mitigate damp. Gas central heating too. All ideally in a modern, purpose-built block with owner-occupiers rather than tenants. Aside from Googling and talking to friends and families, I enter this world naively and concerned about overpaying, losing money or accidentally buying a dive. The only advice I have had is not to trust estate agents and always ask the next question. That gem came from my parents, who upon complaining to an estate agent about their newly purchased property were told, "you didn't ask the next question." It is a dog-eat-dog world and, so far, all of the estate agents have been trying to sell me a pup. At one place the agent responded to my question of "why has it been on the market for two years)?" with, "I'll leave that to you to work out." It wasn't too hard, as on entering the place, which was on sale for around £115,000, I was engulfed by the vile smell of cat urine. Looking at one modern flat in Eastleigh, for £120,000, I spotted a ceiling stain that had been painted over, which was seemingly a leak from upstairs. The agent offered the unlikely explanation of a suitcase on top of a cupboard rubbing the ceiling. "The only advice I have had is not to trust estate agents and always ask the next question." Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images Another flat did not require ground rent or maintenance charges, but instead I would have had to collaborate with neighbours over repairs, and there was no fund in place to cover them. A flat I viewed in a newish block in Southampton for £110,000 looked good but fortunately any possibility of me putting an offer in was ended by a chance chat with a friend who had learned of structural defects from his wife's friend who was clued up on local property. So I continued, hoping that any viewings will be with knowledgeable agents, unlike the one who arrived confessing he knew nothing about the property. Not that it mattered: the tight drive and view of a neighbouring property whose bedroom was stuffed to the ceiling with beer cans were enough to put me off forking out anything near the £119,000 asking price. I move on more informed. Asking the next question and learning from my experiences have been key in ruling out properties.
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