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U.S. to test emergency alert system in Alaska on Wednesday WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will run state-wide tests in Alaska on Wednesday of the country's Emergency Alert System, which uses television and radio to inform the public in the event of a national emergency.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said in a statement that the tests, which have been planned since September, would be conducted at 10 a.m. (2 p.m. EST/1900 GMT). U.S. airport security has been stepped up since a botched attempt on Christmas Day to blow up a Detroit-bound flight from Amsterdam using explosives smuggled on board. (Reporting by Alister Bull, editing by Sandra Maler)
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There are over 7,000 Australians in Israel. They form one of the largest community of expatriate Australians in West Asia. ==Notable people==
Israellycool - blogger
Mark Regev
Raymond Apple (rabbi)
David Bar-Hayim
Yosl Bergner
Ben Zygier
==See also==
Israelis in Australia
http://www.israellycool.com web site
==References==
Israel
Ethnic groups in Israel | 108 | null | null | 542,676,682 | "2013-03-07T21:29:49" | Australian Jews in Israel | 2,013 |
Today, it is customary for the team's sponsor to have considerable input into who the team's driver will be that represents their brand or product on the track. Today's NASCAR driver fits the mold that Waltrip first ushered into NASCAR in the 1970s. As a Fox Sports analyst and broadcaster, Waltrip's opinions, views and comments carry considerable weight with drivers, team owners, fans and NASCAR heads. Waltrip has never been shy about expressing his views, even if controversial. His critical comments about safety have played a significant role in many safety innovations current drivers enjoy today including the "HANS", (head and neck restraining device, credited for saving the lives of many drivers in all forms of motorsports), "soft walls" or "SAFER" (steel and foam energy reduction), barriers, "full face" helmets, and the new cars now driven by all NASCAR drivers. Waltrip has been a design consultant on some of the newer tracks including the Kentucky Motor Speedway, and the Nashville Superspeedway. Waltrip has a building which holds many of the race cars he drove throughout his career. On June 14, 2011, he was selected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2012. == Media appearances ==
=== Film and television ===
Waltrip's entertainment appearances were influenced by his early 1970s work with Ralph Emery in Nashville radio and television, and that led to his work as a fill-in for Emery. In the 1980s and 1990s, he would substitute for Emery on The Nashville Network's Nashville Now and later hosted himself the network's two successor variety shows, "Music City Tonight" and "Prime Time Country". Waltrip worked on Days of Thunder as Hendrick Motorsports was a major provider of cars and drivers (he helped hire Bobby Hamilton for the project), and one of his injury substitutes was lead stunt driver Greg Sacks. Waltrip was featured in a clip on the video testimony sight www.iamsecond.com talking about his faith in Jesus Christ in which he discussed the meaninglessness of the rest of his career, compared to that relationship. Waltrip has twice been a presenter at the GMA (Gospel Music Association) Music Awards, partnering with Kathy Troccoli both times. In 1999, they presented the "Song of the Year" award to Mitch McVicker and Rich Mullins for "My Deliverer". Rich Mullins and Mitch McVicker were thrown from their truck after not wearing seat belts, and Mullins was killed in the accident. In 2006, Waltrip and Nicole C. Mullen hosted a DirecTV special, Songs of Faith. In Pixar feature films Cars (2006) and Cars 2 (2011), he provides the voice of race announcer Darrell Cartrip. He also appeared in the broadcast booth in the movie The Ballad of Ricky Bobby where his phrase was "in racing you have good days and bad days and Ricky Bobby just had himself a bad day". On December 15, 2006, Waltrip played the role of Mother Ginger in the Nashville Ballet's production of The Nutcracker. He currently appears in advertisements for Toyota and Aaron's alongside his brother, Michael, where his gimmick is constantly asking Michael's permission to drive the Aaron's Dream Machine (a nickname for the #99 Nationwide Series car). Waltrip has also made a number of appearances in "comedic" segments appearing during his actual Fox broadcasts. He was featured in two NASCAR Series videos Darrell Waltrip: Quicksilver which explained Waltrip's career and future and he appeared in the NASCAR Video series where he teaches helpful driving tips for driving on the freeway and long-distance drives. In February, 2011, Waltrip appeared in The Day which was a one hour documentary about the tragic death of Dale Earnhardt at the 2001 Daytona 500. === Books and magazines ===
Waltrip has also been successful in the publishing field. In September 1994, he was featured as the cover story in Guideposts. His autobiography, A Lifetime Going Around in Circles, was a New York Times best-seller when it was released around the 2004 Daytona 500. The book was co-written with Jade Gurss. In May 2004, Waltrip became the second sports figure to be featured in former NBA player and basketball coach Jay Carty's One-on-One series of devotional books. Darrell Waltrip One-on-One: The Faith that Took Him to the Finish Line is a sixty-day devotional book featuring Waltrip's stories and how they can relate to Christian faith, and Carty's devotionals. (The series also features John Wooden and Mike Singletary.) | 976 | null | null | 586,686,829 | "2013-12-18T20:04:50" | Darrell Waltrip | 2,013 |
Boroughmuir given top-class mixture for Currie Published on Friday 13 January 2012 13:25 Boroughmuir have been handed an influx of professional experience as they bid to overcome a Currie side buoyant after competing in the British and Irish Cup when the teams clash at Malleny Park tomorrow. And, the resumption of the Premiership in its revised format, with teams either in a title or relegation group of eight, will also mark the return of former Edinburgh centre Malcolm Clapperton after suffering a torn hamstring when scoring a try on the opening day of the season for the Muir team he captains. Clapperton links up with a side that includes Ally Warnock, Sep Visser, Harry Leonard, Robin Hislop, Sean Crombie and Lewis Niven, all of whom are either past or present Edinburgh players. Clapperton said: "I was in the act of scoring when Dundee winger James Fleming collided with me and my leg stretched awkwardly. I had no idea then I'd be out for so long but at least I have been able to joke with Sean Crombie, our high scoring hooker with six tries, that I wanted to give him a bit of a start. "If I'd been a 21-year-old (he is 33) I'd probably have been back in action within a few weeks but I've planned my comeback carefully and one of the attractions tomorrow will be seeing how the likes of Harry Leonard has developed since I last played." Added Clapperton, who made the last of three appearances for Edinburgh in a try-scoring display against Llanelli in 2004: "This latest line-up has got to be one of the strongest Boroughmuir have fielded for years. Having lost twice to Currie this season, in league and cup, I have a feeling we are going to need all the talent we can muster." In fact, the league encounter at Meggetland saw Currie scrape home 18-15 in a match of high quality. This latest instalment could hinge on the impact of a front row which has Edinburgh youngsters Hislop and Niven, who makes his debut for Muir, propping Crombie who, after spells with Edinburgh and Borders, had a stint at Newcastle Falcons. In restarting from eighth place Muir's target will be the top three and a British and Irish Cup slot, whereas Currie lie fourth, nine points behind leaders Melrose and only a 100 per cent record from here is likely to see them claim a third title. Currie coach Ally Donaldson, who is forced to omit Mark Cairns, Barry Mansfield and Doug Fife in the short term, says: "We have steadily improved throughout the season and hope to take our recent good form into this match." Last weekend Currie showed just how ruthless mixing with English, Welsh and Irish pro opposition had made them by thrashing Lasswade 91-7 in the Cup. Playing in group B will be a new experience for Heriot's, who kick-off at Watsonians having warmed up by facing Dundee and Stirling. Coach Graham Marshall says: "Most niggling injuries have cleared, allowing us the luxury of a full squad to select from. Gregor Lawson gives us more flexibility in the back three and OJ Brown [tand-off] allows more options throughout the backline. "The forwards have a settled look with young Struan Cessford getting the nod ahead of Gavin Cameron (at prop)." A player to watch could be flanker Fraser Brown, who grabbed four tries in three league games before the break when he successfully converted from hooker. Watsonians, fresh from facing Boroughmuir in a friendly last weekend, are bolstered by former under-20 cap Ross Aitken returning at centre after injury while, in the forwards, ex- Scotland A man Mark Rennie has rejoined and will turn out at second row. Entering Group B having won the Second Division by eight points, the slates are now wiped clean in this pool. Stewart's Melville kick-off with a visit to Hawick while Edinburgh Accies are also Borders-bound with a trip to Jed-Forest.
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The news was worrisome but didn't derail the market's climb. Stocks edged higher Friday as investors saw the unemployment figures as an indication interest rates would stay low. A day earlier, the Dow jumped 200 points following an upbeat forecast from Cisco Systems Inc., the maker of computer-networking gear, as well as improved data on productivity and retail sales. The market's advance since last week is a reminder that investors have been willing to search for good news buried beneath often troubling headlines. Investors bets that the economy will improve has propelled the benchmark S&P 500 index up 58.1 percent since March. The recovery trade continued Monday, sending energy and materials stocks higher. Exxon Mobil Corp. rose 68 cents to $72.84, while Chevron Corp. rose 12 cents to $77.65. Gold producer Newmont Mining Corp. rose $1.51, or 3.1 percent, to $50.55 and hit a 12-month high. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 10.39, or 1.8 percent, to 590.74. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 0.2 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 1.8 percent, Germany's DAX index jumped 2.4 percent, and France's CAC-40 rose 2.1 percent.
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He mayu also be right that some of the points ive tried to make seem sensational - but when it boils down to it, regardless of theemphasis of the church, or regardless of how offfensive or sensational a doctrine is, The church DOES teach certain things. Stormrider's point about what the LDS refer to as the WOrd of WIsdom is a good point. In recent years they;ve empasized it more than they did in the early days of the church - but it was still ateaching of the church regardless of how important the leaders made it at any given time. I think the same applyes to some of the issues Stormrider and i have butted heads on - LDS teachings about the nature of God may seem sensational and offensive to outsiders, but the LDS prophets HAVE taught them, and as best as I can tell, still do. I've got references to Bruce McConkie making statments about the unusual nature of the LDS beleif about god that parallel J. Smith;'s teachings (smith being lds prophet #1, and McConkie being the prophet right before the current one). I would say that qualifies it enough to make it a fact, a doctrine, regardless of how much it is emphasized currently.Nother example - word of wisdom talks about takingit easy on meat except during winter, few follow that though because the church doesn't emphasis it - i'ld still say since its part of LDS Scripture its still a teaching of the church. Perhaps it might be wise to comment about the fact the church doesnt currently emphasis a specific aspect very much currently, while actually mentioning that particualr aspect. Stormrider? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alienburrito (talk • contribs)
== A suggestion for a rewrite ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alienburrito/Exaltation_%28LDS_Church%29
This is my attempt to make this article sound like its NOT from an official LDS church publication. There's an occasional turn of a phrase in there i'm not satisfied with, like comparing the ordaninces of the LDS
church to the Catholic idea of the sacrements...
give me some suggestions —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alienburrito (talk • contribs) | 489 | null | null | 522,898,057 | "2012-11-13T22:38:27" | Exaltation (Mormonism) | 2,013 |
Secretary Shinseki Orders Emergency Checks to Students Awaiting Education Benefits Thousands of Checks to Alleviate Student Financial Burden WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has authorized checks for up to $3,000 to be given to students who have applied for educational benefits and who have not yet received their government payment. The checks will be distributed to eligible students at VA regional benefits offices across the country starting Oct. 2, 2009. "Students should be focusing on their studies, not worrying about financial difficulties," Secretary Shinseki said. "Education creates life-expanding opportunities for our Veterans." Starting Friday, Oct. 2, 2009, students can go to one of VA's 57 regional benefit offices with a photo ID and a course schedule to request advance payment of their education benefits. Because not all these offices are located near students, VA expects to send representatives to schools with large Veteran-student bodies and work with Veteran Service Organizations to help students with transportation needs. A list of those VA regional offices is available at www.vba.va.gov/VBA/benefits/offices.asp. "I'm asking our people to get out their road maps and determine how we can reach the largest number of college students who can't reach us," VA's Under Secretary for Benefits Patrick Dunne said. "Not everyone has a car. Not everyone can walk to a VA benefits office." Although VA does not know how many students will request emergency funds, it has approximately 25,000 claims pending that may result in payments to students. The funds VA will give to students now are advance payments of the earned benefits for education benefits. This money will be deducted from future education payments. VA officials said students should know that after this special payment, they can expect to receive education payments on the normal schedule -- the beginning of the month following the period for which they are reimbursed. "This is an extraordinary action we're taking," said Shinseki. "But it's necessary because we recognize the hardships some of our Veterans face." More than 27,500 students have already received benefits for housing or books under the new Post-9/11 GI Bill, or their schools received their tuition payments. SOURCE U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
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Choose a good descriptive name for the file, and try to fill in as many of the other fields as you can. For "licensing", either choose the "recommended" option from the list, or place the image entirely in the public domain. Edit the article to use your image instead of the old one. Click the "Edit" label at the top of the article, and look for something like or > format, for example, or as a parameter in an infobox. GiftigerWunsch
== Pre-approval of projected username via email? ==
I'd like to register a username that shouldn't be (but could be understood to be) WP policy iffy. Could I email the leadership and get some sort of pre-OK? (I don't want to mention my projected username in public.) 83.250.231.9 (talk)
I suggest you use Request an account and use the "comments" box to explain why you think it should be OK. The team that process these requests will be experienced in assessing proposed user names. Fine, will do! 83.250.231.9 (talk)
= December 21 =
== Changing an article title ==
The title for the entry on Chretien de Troyes's Yvain, ou Le Chevalier au Lion mistranslates the romance's title as "The Knight OF the Lion." Some translations, like Burton Raffel's, referenced in the article's footnotes, make this same mistake, but it IS a mistake. It should be "The Knight WITH the Lion." It's an important distinction, not only grammatically but also for the interpretation of the allegory of the lion. However, I can't change that title according to the FAQ about editing an article's title, which says:
You move the article using the "move" button (to the right of the "edit this page" button). But in order to do this you must have an account that has reached autoconfirmed status, meaning it must be at least four days old and have made at least ten edits. If you are not an autoconfirmed user, or the move is controversial, or the page you wish to rename is move protected, visit Wikipedia:Requested moves. You may also request to have an admin grant you confirmed status. I have only just created an account and haven't made any edits yet. I'm not sure how "ten edits" are counted. Does that mean I have to edit 10 articles? Or make edits ten different times, even for a single article? In any case, I hate for an error like this to stand, just because I'm not yet authorized to make such a change. Alanbaragona (talk)
I'm afraid I have removed your addition to the article. One of Wikipedia's core policies is that it does not publish original research. Articles must stick to facts and opinions that have already been published in reliable sources. Your paragraph on the mistranslation of the name may well be true, but, until you can show that the ideas have been published in scholarly works, they should not be mentioned in the article. For the same reason I don't think you should change the article title. To answer your question, though, the ten edits can be to anything at all - even your post here counts towards the total. == changing picture? ==
How do you change the picture on the wiki page? 98.149.35.240 (talk)
If you have a picture that you think would improve a Wikipedia page, there are four steps to think about:
Copyright - is this a picture that you took yourself? If not, things get complicated very quickly, as the copyright-holder would need to provide evidence that they were willing to release their copyright (see Donating copyright materials for this). But if it is a picture you took yourself, we can go on to step two. Create an account - only logged-in users can upload images. See this page. Upload the file to Wikimedia Commons using this link. Choose a good descriptive name for the file, and try to fill in as many of the other fields as you can. For "licensing", either choose the "recommended" option from the list, or place the image entirely in the public domain. Edit the article to use your image instead of the old one. Click the "Edit" label at the top of the article, and look for something like or format, for example, or as a parameter in an infobox. GiftigerWunsch
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Markets Live: Gold stocks rebound 5:19pm: Well, that's it for 2013. It's been an exciting year, to say the least, and we are now signing off for a few weeks of holidays. We will be back mid-January, most likely on January 13, depending on the news flow. Thanks everyone for reading this blog and posting your many comments. We're looking forward to welcoming you back next year, re-energised and relaxed. Happy holidays and all the best for 2014! 4:45pm: In late news, Richard McIndoe has stepped down as chief executive of EnergyAustralia. In a statement issued late this afternoon, the company said McIndoe had "announced his intention to leave the business." McIndoe had led the significant expansion of the company and had accepted a role to "lead a Hong Kong-based energy technology business as its chairman." He will serve at EnergyAustralia until June 2014 to ensure a smooth transition to a successor. McIndoe is embroiled in a high-profile wrongful dismissal case involving a former EnergyAustralia executive Kate Shea. Shea has sought $6 million in compensation after claiming she was sacked for raising allegations of sexual harassment against the company's chief financial officer Kevin Holmes. The company and Holmes have strenuously denied the allegations and a judgment is pending from the Federal Court. An EnergyAustralia spokeswoman said McIndoe's departure was in no way related to the court case. 4:34pm: ANZ led the blue chips' charge today, soaring 2.1 per cent to $31.78, while miners were the biggest gainers in the top 200 stocks: 4:19pm: The sharemarket has closed at the day's high, extending yesterday's strong rally. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index jumped 63 points, or 1.2 per cent, to 5265.2, while the broader All Ords gained 59.5 points, or 1.1 per cent, to 5261.5. Among the sectors, financials rose 1.3 per cent, materials added 1.1 per cent and gold jumped 2.5 per cent in an impressive intra-day turnaround. 3:53pm: As a few readers have noted, gold stocks have made a stunning comeback this afternoon, with the sub-index now up 3.3 per cent after earlier being the only sector in the red. Apart from a small lift in the gold price (up 0.8% after the overnight 2%-plus sell-off), at the moment we can only assume that investors are hoping the sector has bottomed and are now doing some bargain hunting. Here's how some of the gold miners are doing: Newcrest: +6.% Resolute Mining: +8.7% Evolution Mining: +6.7% PanAust: +6.5% St Barbara: +6% 3:45pm: The ASX 200 is closing out the week on a positive note, ending its four-week losing streak, IG's Chris Weston: Volume has been huge, but this is purely artificial as it was options expiry yesterday. In this situation, options traders who had bought puts or sold calls would have had to deliver stock to the other side of the trade and subsequently cover and buy it back in the pre-market auction. For the rest of the day, it's been a story of buying in financials, discretionary and energy names. The energy space is being buoyed on the back of moves in natural gas, and this is another asset which continues to get attention as well, especially with the commodity printing a higher high. Momentum- and trend-focused traders are keen to stay long on natural gas right now, enjoying the strong mix of compelling fundamentals (stockpiles fell the most on record yesterday), while the price action suggests the bulls are firmly in control. On the equity side, my equity man (Evan Lucas) likes Santos and Oil Search. While the ASX has found good buyers this week below 5100 and could continue to move higher in the coming week or so, the same can't be said for the AUD, which needs to close above 0.8964, or it will print a tenth consecutive negative print. Surely we get a short-covering rally next week and end this run? The ASX200 over the past three months. 3:18pm: Whitehaven Coal has defeated an environmental challenge to government approval of its $766 million Maules Creek mine in New South Wales. A federal court judge ruled in favour of Whitehaven, dismissing a challenge from a group that was concerned the open-pit mine will destroy forest, deplete groundwater and spread coal dust on farms. | 990 | -3,307,176,539,872,684,500 | 2013-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Chelsea manager André Villas Boas calls 2-0 defeat to Everton the worst display of his time at the club Speculation over Villas-Boas' future has increased in recent days with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich twice visiting the club's training ground. Villas-Boas claims that did not affect the performance. "You don't expect any effects from that," he said. The Portuguese was also unmoved by the negative chants against him and claimed he could understand some of the frustration. He said: "It is part of the job. At the moment we are sitting fifth in the league and it is not enough for us." Everton took the lead after just five minutes when Steven Pienaar, making his first home appearance since rejoining the club last month, smashed a shot into the roof of the net. The hard-working Denis Stracqualursi doubled the lead 18 minutes from time. Villas-Boas said: "We suffered very early in the game. We then had the control of possession until the end of the first half but couldn't create enough chances. "In the second half the game was divided between the two teams and we had no clarity. "We were not able to create chances. In the end that lack of clarity punished us." The game was also another dismal one for £50million striker Fernando Torres who, without a league goal since September, again struggled in front of goal. The Spaniard's place could now be under threat with Didier Drogba soon to return from the African Nations Cup but Villas-Boas retains faith in him. He said: "He is trying a lot to get his chances and to shoot at goal. "Whatever time it takes, we will continue to pursue his confidence and full form until he eventually finds the back of the net." Everton's victory was their third in successive seasons over Chelsea at home and maintained their recent revival. Manager David Moyes, whose side beat Manchester City in their last home match, said: "That was a great result for us. "There were good parts of the performance as well but the strange thing is I think we can play much better. "I think we will play better once we get more confidence as the wins take us a long. "We got off to a great start with an early goal, which gave us something to hang on to, but we wanted it. "We had to ride our luck on a couple of occasions but in the second half we didn't look like we were going to concede." Moyes also hailed Pienaar, who is back at the club on loan after a year at Tottenham. He said: "He got clapped by everyone at the end, some of the stuff he did was terrific. "I said to him at the end it was like he had never been away. Sometimes clubs just fit players and maybe that is the case. Maybe this just suits him." Chelsea will assess an injury to England defender Ashley Cole tomorrow. The left-back limped off after a challenge by Phil Neville in the build-up to Stracqualursi's goal.
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Davewild (talk)
Conditional Oppose (meaning that I will support the deletion of those articles which are not verifiable or sources can't be found or are of dubious notability but only after an assessment by the person viewing it via google search etc) Agreeing fully with what 2. Nsk92 said above I think the solution to just nuke every article without even looking for sources is overkill and dare I say it, the lazy option. Roberta Flack was a BLP vio yesterday until I found some sources, you think the encyclopedia is better off deleting all articles which are unsourced, even decent and clearly notable articles like Flack which could be quickly sourced? That in my view is more damaging to building an encyclopedia. Rather, I think the best option would be for everybody to chip and whittle down that 50,000 BLP list and look for sources for each article. Unsourced info within article can always be removed. I do sympathise with the idea of this, yes it would be nice to rid of this huge workload and get this long standing problem out of the way but with a bit of effort from everybody to quickly look for sources and source them I think we could salvage a lot of notable content. However I am well aware that we could do with deleting a few thousand non notable bios which are not verifiable or clearly not appropriate for wikipedia and I endorse the deletion of those, in fact I have speedied and voted delete on a few AFDs recently of BLPs not because they are unsourced, but because no sources exist online to expand them and are not verifiable. So I think each articles should undergo a quick assessment and if no sources can be found delete but if they can, add them, providing the subject is within our guidlines. I am happy to contribute to whittling down this big list as often as I can to get it down to zero. But this is gonna take work folks. And by no means is deleting them all going to prevent the possibility of recreated BLP vios by newbies and by no means does it means that existing sourced articles are not widely open to potentially libellous material. While I see this as a project priority right now to rid of all BLPs gradually I think the sense of urgency that we are about to be sued is a little exaggerated. The reality is that most of the these unsourced BLPs do no contain contentious material but just need backing up/expanding. But lets deal with this the sensible way and check each article first before nuking. Also their seems to be an (incorrect) assumption that all unreferenced BLPs contain false information. This is not true. Most I've found are accurate and fully correct but are just in need of sources. Dr. Blofeld White cat
Strongest Possible Oppose. There are people who work very hard on articles. Deleting it in a swoosh is highly disrespectful to their efforts and is a, as somebody said up there, bad, bad, bad idea. Appropriate articles are not created overnight. They take a very long time with everybody building upon the previous version. Some references are hard to find. If the content is not potentially defamatory or insulting or something that not may be possibly challenged should be kept. Hamza
Oppose. There is a number of serious problems with this proposal, most of which have been already pointed out above. The net effect would - more likely than not - be harm to Wikipedia, instead of benefit. Finally, what's so special about unsourced, but otherwise uncontroversial BLPs? Why not extending this policy to all articles? GregorB (talk)
Oppose. I can see the general principle here, but, as phrased, I don't this is workable. Any Criteria for Speedy Deletion needs to be precisely phrased, so you would need a very specific definition of the meaning of "poorly referenced", leaving no reasonable doubt as to where the dividing line is, and this proposal doesn't provide one. Until that is fixed, I don't think we can even look at any other merits the proposal might have (and I'm far from convinced there). Anaxial (talk)
Oppose The fact that nobody had time or energy to source it doesn't make it false or unverifiable, so no reason to delete it. Debresser (talk)
Oppose NBeale (talk)
Oppose - Unreferenced perhaps, but if some effort has been made to provide sourcing it should be taken to AfD. | 1,017 | null | null | 346,781,825 | "2010-02-28T00:15:09" | Requests for comment/Biographies of living people/Phase I | 2,013 |
Somali rebel leader Aweys dead or badly hurt: family By Abdi Sheikh and Abdi Guled MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali Islamist rebel leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys is dead or seriously injured, a family member told Reuters on Sunday. His death would be a major blow to the rebels and a boost for President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed's government, which had tried unsuccessfully to broker peace talks with the 62-year-old cleric. Aweys, whom western security services say is close to al Qaeda, is an influential figure among the insurgents in Somalia, where he has headed various Islamist groups since the 1990s. "We understand that Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys was brought yesterday to his brother's house opposite the football stadium," said the Aweys's family member. "We were denied access but confirmed there were doctors in the area... The mood looks like he is dead. The whole area is surrounded by gunmen and there is no access," he added, of the house close to Mogadishu's football stadium. A pro-government militia said its fighters shot Aweys during battles in Wabho town on Friday, and he died of wounds later. But Aweys's movement, Hizbul Islam, denied that as propaganda. There were also rumors among militia fighters that another rebel leader, Hassan Turki had died In one of the worst flare-ups of the year, 123 people died in fighting for Wabho, mainly on Friday, between the joint forces of al Shabaab insurgents and Aweys's group, and the pro-government moderate Islamist militia Ahla Sunna Waljamaca. An Islamist insurgency since early 2007 -- the latest cycle in 19 years of conflict in Somalia -- has killed around 18,000 civilians and thousands more fighters. It has also drawn foreign jihadists into Somalia, enabled piracy to flourish offshore and unsettled the whole region, with East African neighbors on high security alert.
In Mogadishu where al Shabaab have been battling the security forces of president Ahmed, three people died on Sunday when a remote control mine meant for a police car struck a civilian vehicle. "The police car was driving at high speed and the bomb missed it and struck a civilian car which was behind the police car," eyewitness Abdullahi Farah Nor told Reuters. Gunmen in the capital also shot and killed Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe, director of privately owned radio station Shabelle, and injured a colleague. "They shot the director in the head and he died on the spot," an eyewitness told Reuters. Hirabe, 48, is the fifth journalist murdered this year in Somalia, one of the most dangerous places in the world for reporters to operate.
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Morocco calls hunger striker a "blackmailer" The following article has been retrieved from the archive and no longer contains the original video. Complicating EU-Morocco relations, a hunger striker in a Spanish airport is a political blackmailer from Morocco's point of view, and a freedom fighter for others. Rabat says Aminatou Haidar is not a human rights defender, but is pushing a political agenda, as a member of the Western Saharan Polisario Front. She has survived almost three weeks on sugared water in Lanzarote airport on the Canary Islands. Haidar was sent back there after being refused entry into her native Western Sahara by Moroccan authorities. Morocco annexed the territory in 1975. EU-Morocco association talks have been taking place in Brussels. According to Rabat, Haidar's hunger strike is holding up UN-assisted negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front. Haidar's supporters said her Moroccan passport was confiscated because she refused to say that Moroccan was her nationality. The Polisario Front has demanded independence for the Western Sahara since Spain relinquished colonial claims there in 1975. Morocco proposes broad self-government for the still disputed region. Since a United Nations-sponsored ceasefire in 1991, most of the territory has been controlled by the Kingdom of Morocco, with whom the EU emphasises close cooperation on democratic reform. Copyright © 2010 euronews Tags: Diplomacy, European Union, Morocco
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Defoe accuses police of harassment Footballer Jermain Defoe accused police of harassment today after he was pulled over just days after announcing he would sue a force for wrongful arrest. The England and Tottenham Hotspur star was at the wheel of his black Ferrari when he was pulled over by an Essex Police patrol after visiting his mother. Defoe travelled to see her hours after taking part in Tottenham's 2-1 win over Liverpool in their first match of the season yesterday. The stop check came three days after the sportsman announced he would sue the force over his "wrongful" arrest on suspicion of driving while disqualified. But Essex Police said the footballer was stopped as part of an operation to tackle a spate of burglaries in which valuable cars have been taken. Defoe's solicitor, Nick Freeman, who likes to be known as "Mr Loophole," said the actions of police "beggar belief." He said: "At best, this is an embarrassing cock-up. At worst, it smacks of something far more sinister, which can only add weight to growing concerns that they are being vindictive and my client is being harassed." Defoe was pulled over by a traffic police patrol in Chigwell shortly after 11pm last night. After checks were made on his identity he was allowed to continue. On Friday, the 26-year-old striker said he would take legal action against the force after he was arrested on suspicion of driving while disqualified. The Tottenham striker was pulled over while driving a Range Rover on July 27 and held for about five hours at a police station in Harlow, Essex. Defoe was disqualified from driving after a speeding conviction earlier in July but the ban was suspended pending appeal. The star, who lives in Cuffley, Hertfordshire, said he would give any damages he was awarded from the legal action to charity. Mr Freeman added that Defoe wanted to be reassured that the officers' actions were not victimisation. He said: "Mr Defoe was stopped for no reason after leaving his mother's home. "Coming as it does, just three days after announcing he is to claim damages from the same force, it leaves the police with some serious questions to answer." An Essex Police spokesman said: "Police in the Epping Forest area have been running Operation Phobia, which is aimed at tackling domestic burglary in affluent areas, and the theft of high value cars. "As part of that operation officers stopped a black Ferrari in Manor Road, Chigwell, at 11.14pm on Sunday. "They satisfied themselves that all was in order with the car and driver, and it continued on its way."
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result was redirect to List of earthquakes in Georgia (country). per nom and consensus. Redirect Keeper | 76
===2009 Georgia earthquake===
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Not a notable event. The USGS reports a magnitude of 5.9 with a maximum felt intensity of V "Rather Strong" on the Mercalli Intensity Scale. Some damage to buildings but no deaths. This is mainly a news story (Wikinews has an article) and there's nothing about this event that makes it worthy of inclusion here. Dawnseeker2000
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, AutomaticStrikeout (T • C)
Delete. Minor earthquakes occur all the time and unless one were to be large or serious enough to distinguish itself, it's non-notable. Ducknish (talk)
Delete but someone should offer to userfy this page to the creator (if still active) or someone else at the EARTHQUAKE. Medium or rare (small for California but big for Georgia) earthquakes probably should be consolidated to a catchall page, and this is a good candidate for that. Shadowjams (talk)
I left a note here for the Earthquake people. I don't anticipate any objection on canvassing grounds because I don't think anyone would object, but just so my motives are clear, full disclosure. Shadowjams (talk)
: Nomination withdrawn - I've created List of earthquakes in Georgia (country). We can just redirect the article to the new list. Dawnseeker2000
:: Nice work. – SJ +
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Mitt Romney can't count on home-state advantage in Michigan Reporting from Southfield, Mich. - Mitt Romney left his native Michigan behind 46 years ago. He has returned repeatedly during a presidential pursuit that is now in its sixth year, but rarely with the desperation evinced now. "Michigan's been my home, and this is personal," Romney says in a new TV ad that features vintage black-and-white photos, including one of a teen-aged Mitt and his square-jawed father, the state's late governor, George Romney. The candidate was speaking of the state's economic distress, but might as well have been addressing his presidential campaign, whose fate could rest on whether he beats back a strong challenge by his newest chief opponent, Rick Santorum, in the state's Feb. 28 primary. Evoking home-state memories proved effective when Romney won the Republican primary four years ago, but this year's effort comes with a strategic twist. Romney won in 2008 with lopsided support from the most conservative quarter of the GOP electorate, against the more moderate John McCain. This time, Romney's support is weakest among self-described "very conservative" Republicans, who see him as too moderate - and he is trying to prove his conservative credentials anew. The Republican right is increasingly lining up behind Santorum, a social conservative who presents the most serious threat yet to Romney's nomination chances. Polls indicate that Michigan could go either way, making Romney's attempt at repositioning himself a particularly acute task in this state, the first in the industrial Midwest to award delegates and a place where a loss could be shattering. Romney is promoting what he says were his conservative achievements as governor in left-leaning Massachusetts, including resisting efforts to make same-sex marriage available to couples from out of state. This is a strategy heavy with risk, now and in a general election. In describing himself as "severely conservative" to conservative activists last week, he drew attention to his past history of moderate positions on social issues, including abortion and gay rights, and the state healthcare law that became a model for President Obama's national plan. At the same time, his self-characterization risks alienating the middle-of-the-road voters he would need in November. On Wednesday, Romney launched his Michigan primary campaign with a rally in Grand Rapids, the capital of the state's conservative western side. But his lead in national opinion surveys has melted away, and new public and private polls show him trailing in Michigan. "He's stumbling," said Grand Rapids consultant Greg McNeilly, a former executive director of the state Republican Party, who is unaffiliated in the presidential contest. "If he were to lose Michigan, a state that has been considered a Romney stronghold for so long, it would be a significant blow to his campaign." In an effort to prevent that, Romney is reverting to the formula that worked earlier this year: He's going negative against his main opponent and leveling an intense media barrage that the other side hasn't got the resources to counter. Romney's effort is being backed by a pro-Romney "super PAC" that has already dumped more than half a million dollars into a Michigan ad drive attacking Santorum as a big-spending Washington insider. In last month's Florida primary, similarly sharp tactics helped Romney decisively defeat Newt Gingrich, his main rival at the time. According to a source familiar with advertising purchases, Romney and his super PAC are outspending Santorum by more than 40 to 1 through next Monday. (Santorum's backers were prepared to retaliate, minimally, with an ad showing a Romney look-alike firing mud at a cutout of Santorum.) As he carries his candidacy into the old Rust Belt - he is also campaigning this week in neighboring Ohio, which holds a key primary on March 6 - Romney is highlighting Santorum's votes in Congress against conservative initiatives that would have gutted labor union rights by instituting a national right-to-work law and repealed a federal statute that benefits unions in government contracting. Santorum, who at the time was representing a state with one of the largest numbers of union workers in the country, has said he would take a different position if he became president. Romney's campaign is also going after Santorum for a 1998 vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to a federal appeals judgeship that became her stepping stone to the Supreme Court. Santorum, with no state organization or realistic hope of matching Romney on TV, is counting on the backing of social conservatives, evangelical Christians and supporters of the tea party movement, who together could cast more than half of the primary vote. "Michigan primary voters are susceptible to the Christian social message. That populist, blue-collar conservatism, tinged with a little protectionism, plays pretty well here," said GOP strategist McNeilly. | 995 | -130,849,731,290,620,910 | 2012-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
John Wood sells well support arm to GE for $2.8bn The company said net proceeds from the deal after estimated tax, fees and expenses will be $2.6bn. For the year ended December 31, the Well Support Division had revenues of $947.1m, EBITDA of $165.9m and gross assets of $604.7m. Wood Group's Well Support division is comprised of three business platforms - electric submersible pumps (ESPs), pressure control and logging services. John Krenicki, chief executive of GE Energy, said that deployment of electric submersible pumps are one of the most effective methods of enhancing production. The US company has said it could spend up to $30bn on takeovers in the coming years as Jeff Immelt, the chief executive, renews GE's focus on heavy manufacturing after reaching a deal to sell its media unit and scaling back the GE Capital finance arm. "Five years ago, drilling and production in GE did not exist," Mr Krenicki told Reuters. "Over the last five years we've built it up to be an industry leader." In December GE bought oil drilling pipemaker Wellstream for $1.3bn. That followed a 2008 deal to buy pressure control equipment company Hydril for $1.1bn and a 2007 deal to buy privately held oil and gas field equipment maker Vetco Gray. Energy & Utilities and Oil & Gas vacancies at Telegraph Jobs
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NCAA probing U. Miami, hints at major shakeup
CORAL GABLES, Fla. - The NCAA said Wednesday it has been investigating the relationship between a convicted Ponzi scheme artist and the University of Miami for five months, and the allegations - if true - show the need for "serious and fundamental change" in college sports. Former booster Nevin Shapiro, now serving 20 years in federal prison, claims he treated players with sex parties, nightclub outings, cars and other gifts. Shapiro said his evidence will spark the NCAA's most severe punishment that could bring about the end of football at the University of Miami. Ex-booster: Scandal will destroy U. Miami football In an exclusive interview with CBS4 Miami's Jim Berry, Shapiro said the information the NCAA has in its possession is "going to be so detailed and to the truth that it will be impossible for any former players or current players to go around it." Shapiro told Yahoo! Sports he provided improper benefits to 72 football players and other athletes at Miami from 2002 to 2010. "If the assertions are true, the alleged conduct at the University of Miami is an illustration of the need for serious and fundamental change in many critical aspects of college sports," NCAA president Mark Emmert said in a statement. The Hurricanes' entire football team took the practice field Wednesday, even though Shapiro's claims involve several current players. Coach Al Golden said it was too soon to take disciplinary action. The Hurricanes open their season Sept. 5 against Maryland. "Everybody is practicing," said Golden, who is in his first season as Miami's coach. "If it is determined somebody broke rules, then certainly they'll be first dealt with.... As we get ready for Maryland, hopefully we'll swiftly learn if errors were made. If there are guys that are going to have to sit out games, we'll adjust our practice accordingly." Players weren't permitted to speak with the media. Last week, Emmert led a group of university presidents in drafting an outline for change in college sports, including higher academic standards, a streamlined rule book and new parameters for athletic scholarships. The group included Miami president Donna Shalala. "The serious threats to the integrity of college sports are one of the key reasons why I called together more than 50 presidents and chancellors last week to drive substantive changes to Division I intercollegiate athletics," Emmert said in his statement Wednesday. The allegations against Miami - a program that once reveled in an outlaw image and dealt with a massive Pell Grant scandal in the 1990s - have sparked the latest in a string of NCAA investigations involving some of college football's most high-profile and successful programs. In the past 18 months, football teams at Southern California, Ohio State, Auburn, Oregon, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia Tech and LSU all have been investigated or sanctioned by the NCAA. NCAA investigators were on the Miami campus this week in the wake of the allegations by Shapiro, and have interviewed Shalala and athletic director Shawn Eichorst. He was sentenced to prison in June for masterminding a $930 million Ponzi scheme, plus ordered to pay more than $82 million in restitution to investors. Golden said he's eager to obtain answers quickly, in part so his players don't repeat past mistakes. "If they were exposed to Mr. Shapiro, clearly we have to make sure we prevent that going forward," Golden said. "You do that by getting to the facts. How did this guy, if he did, get around our players like that? As a head coach, I want to know. I know our assistant coaches want to know. We want to make sure it never happens again. It shouldn't happen." Current Miami players named by Shapiro as receiving benefits included quarterback Jacory Harris, Ray Ray Armstrong, Travis Benjamin, Sean Spence, Marcus Forston, Vaughn Telemaque, Dyron Dye, Aldarius Johnson and Olivier Vernon. Former Hurricanes quarterback Robert Marve, now at Purdue, also was named by Shapiro, Yahoo! Sports said. Yahoo! Sports published its story Tuesday afternoon, saying it spent 100 hours interviewing Shapiro over the span of 11 months and audited thousands of pages of financial and business records to examine his claims. "I did it because I could," Shapiro said of his spending. "And because nobody stepped in to stop me." Kirby Hocutt in 2010. (Credit: AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File) A person familiar with the situation said much of Shapiro's access to Hurricane programs in recent years was approved by former athletic director Kirby Hocutt, who has since left the school for Texas Tech. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing joint investigation between the university and the NCAA. | 997 | -2,316,523,272,535,483,000 | 2011-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Jean-Paul Aron (27 May 1925 - 20 August 1988) was a French writer, philosopher and journalist. His most notable work is Les Modernes, which was published in 1984. Aron was born in Strasbourg. He was a close friend of Michel Foucault in the early 1950s, before a falling out over a lover. He was, like Foucault, an early person of renown in France to die of AIDS, and is widely credited for giving the disease a human face and challenging the public perception of the disease. During his lifetime, he published several historical works that examined middle-class social practices. He is buried at 6, rue du Repos in Paris. ==Selected publications==
===Novels and plays===
La Retenue (novel) Grasset, 1962
Point mort (novel) Grasset, 1964
Le Bureau (play), 1970
Fleurets mouchetés (play), 1970
Les Voisines (play), 1980
===Essays===
Essai sur la sensibilité alimentaire à Paris au XIXe siècle, Armand Colin, 1967
Philosophie zoologique, by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (presentation by Jean-Paul Aron), 10/18, 1968
Essai d'épistémologie biologique, Christian Bourgois, 1969
Anthropologie du conscrit français (with Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and Paul Dumont), Mouton, 1972
Le Mangeur du XIXe siècle, Laffont, 1973
Qu’est-ce que la culture française?, Denoël-Gonthier, 1975
Le Pénis et la démoralisation de l’Occident (with Roger Kempf), Grasset, 1978
Misérable et glorieuse, la femme du XIXe siècle (animated and presented by Jean-Paul Aron), Fayard, 1980
==References==
==External links==
Jean-Paul Aron's online cemetery records
Jean-Paul Aron's entry in the glbtq encyclopedia
1925 births
People from Strasbourg
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FOXNews.com - Democrats Question Obama's First-Year Travel Record President Obama told a fundraising audience in St. Louis this week that "it's nice to get out of Washington." But when the president found time to leave the nation's capital last year, his destination often wasn't just another city, but another country. Obama made more foreign trips during his first year in office - 10 trips involving 21 nations - than any U.S. president before him. Now, with the fate of health care reform, his top legislative priority, so uncertain, a number of prominent Democratic strategists have begun questioning whether Obama's aides should have scheduled more domestic travel during his first year in office, starting soon after Inauguration Day. "They made a decision to go fix the image of the United States overseas and use [the president's] popularity right then and there to do it," said Joe Trippi, a former campaign manager for Howard Dean. "I think that turned out to be a mistake," he said. "If that current tour that he's doing on health care had occurred with that popularity, he might have been able to get health care passed right then and there with the votes that he had, and carried that momentum into other domestic agenda items." Dee Dee Myers, a press secretary in the Clinton White House, wrote in Politico on Friday that Obama needs to "get back in touch" with the American people. "In the past few weeks, Obama has increased his travel outside Washington," she wrote. "That's a good move." Evolving over the last five decades, the modern presidency has seen the use of Air Force One ramped up to warp speed. More than two months lapsed in President Kennedy's term before he made use of his official airplane. By the Clinton era, however, political scientists had begun wringing their hands over "the perpetual campaign." According to an article, "The Permanence of the 'Permanent Campaign:' George W. Bush's Public Presidency," published in Presidential Studies Quarterly, President Clinton made 119 appearances in 87 cities in 1993. In 2001, President George W. Bush - despite seeing his official travel abruptly and dramatically curtailed by the September 11 attacks - kept up a similar pace, making 101 appearances in 88 cities, the article found. Adopting the Clinton model for first-year domestic travel, Bush managed to win congressional passage of his top two legislative agenda items: his tax cuts package and the No Child Left Behind education reform law. "The goal was to get [Bush] out into the states," recalled Jennifer Millerwise Dyck, a former communications officer in the Republican National Committee and Bush White House. "When you're talking about passing major legislation that will change people's lives, you want to be out there talking to them, explaining to them -- and also getting feedback, frankly, from the people, about how this really will impact them. We don't have all the answers in Washington," she said with a laugh, "and soon as we start to think we do, we're in trouble." By contrast, Obama in 2009 visited 58 cities in 30 states. (None of these figures includes vacation days.) But aides to Obama may now be embracing the "perpetual campaign" model. His current series of personal appearances on behalf of the endangered health care reform legislation has returned him to swing states like Missouri and Pennsylvania. And as the Washington Post noted, the president's newly intensive domestic itinerary has him "visiting media markets that touch multiple congressional districts." Fox News' Tommy Firth and CBS News' Mark Knoller contributed to this report.
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The Maid - By Kimberly Cutter - Book Review - NYTimes.com On Dec. 22, 1905, an Onion-like headline ran in The New York Times: "Joan of Arc Appears to Startle Mark Twain." The article described how the hosts at a dinner in Twain's honor had arranged for a model to arrive dressed as Joan. (Twain had long been entranced by her, and had even written a novel called "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.") When she entered the room, the author "had every appearance of a man who had seen a ghost." When he recovered, Twain said to the assembled guests: "I studied that girl, Joan of Arc, for 12 years, and it never seemed to me that the artists and the writers gave us a true picture of her. They drew a picture of a peasant.... But they always missed the face - the divine soul, the pure character." Not for lack of trying. Verdi and Tchaikovsky composed operas about her; Shakespeare and Shaw wrote plays about her; Ingrid Bergman, Jean Seberg and Milla Jovovich have all played her in films, to say nothing of the hundreds of lesser-known poets, painters and musicians who have claimed her fierce spirit as their own. Her story, of course, is irresistible: At 17 she led an army, facilitated the coronation of the rightful king of France and is often credited with turning the tide of the Hundred Years" War. She was burned to death at the stake for heresy in 1431, less than two years after she set forth on her divine military campaign. Now, adding to the heaven-high stacks of Joan-inspired material, comes Kimberly Cutter's first novel, "The Maid." Cutter, formerly the West Coast editor at W Magazine, has done an impressive amount of research on the facts of Joan's life. The main narrative is framed by scenes of Joan in prison shortly before her death and moves chronologically, beginning with the moment she first hears God's voice in the fields at the age of 12. Throughout, Cutter evokes the novel's medieval world with striking details. Wounds are dressed in olive oil and cotton, and stork is eaten for dinner. King Charles appears "in his white nightdress, hair trailing down his back in thin, oiled tentacles," and a starving, naked woman stuffs dirt in her mouth "greedily, as if it were a butter tart." But, as Twain observed, pinning down the mysterious interior of this woman - imaginatively experiencing how she came to be - has confounded many a writer, including Twain. Far too often Cutter's Joan (or "Jehanne," as the novel has it) is flat, overexplained, fragmented: "She wept. Horrified. Weeping, furious at herself for weeping. Amazed how much the words hurt her. "How dare you?" she screamed." Many of the scenes are fragmented as well - in a novel of 287 pages there are 150 chapters, which boils down to less than two pages per chapter - so it feels as if Cutter, unsure how to embody Joan, is in a race to get to the end of the story. To Cutter's credit, it takes true Joan of Arc-ian boldness to attempt this oft-told story in the first place, and the reader certainly recognizes intellectually, if not viscerally, Cutter's passion for her heroine. The ultimate problem is that Joan of Arc's sublimity makes it incredibly difficult, like hitting a bull's-eye from a great distance, to do her "divine soul" justice, to allow the fictional record to reflect the real woman with as much force and ingenuity as the historical one. As Twain observed: "All the rules fail in this girl's case. In the world's history she stands alone - quite alone." Perhaps in the end it's best to read Joan in her own words, to marvel, for example, at how she outwits her accusers during her trial. When asked the trick question of whether she is in a state of grace, this uneducated peasant responds, "If I am, may God keep me there, and if I am not, may God put me there." Seven hundred years later, the uncompromising brilliance of her answer - and her spirit - still illuminates our dark ages. Sarah Towers teaches creative writing at the Bard Prison Initiative.
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BYJ may refer to:
Beja Airport, Portugal (by IATA code)
Bina language, spoken in Nigeria (by ISO 639 code)
Bae Yong Joon, Korean actor | 43 | null | null | 479,456,640 | "2012-02-29T11:51:31" | BYJ (disambiguation) | 2,013 |
Afghanistan could face 'eye-watering violence' after troops leave An Afghan police officer stands guard near the site of an explosion in Kunduz, Afghanistan, last week. Photograph: Foulad Hamdard/AP Afghanistan could experience "eye-watering" levels of violence after foreign combat troops withdraw from Afghanistan in four years' time, the Nato representative in Kabul warned today. Mark Sedwill, the civilian counterpart to US commander General David Petraeus, also said that the target of handing over security responsibilities to the Afghan army and police by the end of 2014 might not be met. The alliance's plan for the "transition" of responsibilities from Nato's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to the still embryonic Afghan army and police will be high on the agenda at this week's Nato summit in Lisbon. Many European countries that contribute troops see the plan as their ticket out of an unpopular war, but Sedwill warned that success was not guaranteed and the 2014 date was merely an "inflection point" in a campaign that would continue for a long time. In some areas of the country transition could run "to 2015 and beyond" he said. Although the alliance hopes that foreign-led counterinsurgency operations will come to an end, troops would still be required to train and support the Afghan security forces and maintain "a strategic over watch" position, he said. He conceded that a "residual insurgency" was likely to continue in many parts of the country. "There would still be a certain level of violence and probably levels of violence that by western standards will be pretty eye-watering," he said. In such a scenario special forces units would be required to remain and fight, he said, in addition to the logistical support, training and equipment provided for Afghan units. Sedwill said that with so many uncertainties, Nato's 2014 deadline was "realistic but not guaranteed." He also warned that transition was "not a cheap option" that would allow troops to leave quickly. "We are not looking at forces flooding out of this country as transition starts. One of the key principles of this is you reinvest the transition dividend." Nato is refusing to announce where the transition process will start for fear of turning those districts into targets for insurgents to increase their operations and mount intimidation campaigns against government officials. Sedwill said that he expected Nato to hand over several provinces in the first half of next year. However, he said the transfer of responsibility for both security and development activities would vary across the country. In some areas, entire provinces would be transferred, while in others it would be districts, or even individual towns. Transition would take between 18 and 24 months in some areas, depending on the resilience of the insurgency and the capability of the Afghan army, police and the village militia-style "local police" that are being established. The Afghan police and army are being built up at breakneck speed. Both institutions remain beset with problems, including widespread illiteracy and drug abuse. The army has also struggled to recruit among southern Pashtuns, the group that predominates in areas of the country most affected by insurgency. The head of the Nato training mission, General William Caldwell, has complained that he does not have enough trainers to meet the transition deadline. The attempt to create an army and police up to the job of taking over requires vast sums of money. Even after they have been built up to strength, officials say they will cost around $6bn (£3.7bn) a year to run - about half of Afghanistan's current GDP and more than the US gives to both Israel and Egypt. Sedwill said the IMF had calculated that Afghanistan woukd not be able to pay for its own security forces until 2023.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result was Delete. Lack of sources is not the same as unverifiability is just plain wrong. No sources does in-fact mean delete. We are building an encyclopedia here, not creating or defining new terms. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs
===Neutrois===
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Non-notable neologism; only two sources - one of which doesn't mention the term, the other of which is not-reputable; recreation of deleted content; etc. -Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯
Delete per non-notable NEO. Suprised it wasn't speedy deleted when it was recreated. -Jahnx (talk)
Redirect to genderqueer per this source, which is about as comprehensive an RS as I found. There's a lot of personal interpretation in these non-societally-sanctioned gender identities and we've already got a couple of good (well, better) articles like that one and third gender to cover the area. redirecting to genderqueer brings back the stigma of politicization for a group that don't need anymore bs. redirecting to third gender does not work as it is largely a cultural and historical term. Taineyah (talk)
also, what does "Just Add Hormones" have to do with redirecting the article?Taineyah (talk)
This is the ONLY result for the word "neutrois" on Google Books. It uses the term in a definition of transgendered: Most generally used as an umbrella term that encompasses a range of people.... (standard TG definition, feel out of place in wrong body, etc.) It can also refer to those who present as androgynous or do not define themselves by gender at all. In some cases, these people self-identify as "genderqueer", "genderless", or "neutrois". There are many other names that people use to define themselves. There are no relevant hits on Google Scholar or Google News Archive. Keep Lack of sources is not the same as unverifiability. Wikipedia deletion policy states that if a page can be improved, to take that option rather than deletion. As for the non-reputable source, questionable sources may be used in articles about themselves. Finally, this article is still being built- see INSPECTOR. I do realize I'm not a user of this site and my vote may not be counted, but I hope you'll at least allow me to voice my thoughts on this. 24.70.106.141 (talk) Mendori
Comment What sources do you propose we use? At present, attempts are being made to obtain a copy of a German book which is supposed to have further references. Unfortunately, we're being forced to obtain an electronic copy from the British Library as it is a rare book and difficult to find. If we can find it, then we should be able to use that book to find further sources.Taineyah (talk)
My point exactly And that essentially proves that this is a non-notable neologism. -Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯
Shifting the goalposts much? Uh, no. That essentially says "hey, there's a source that may be particularly useful," not "this is totally worthless, delete it fast." If you're going to moan about sources, you need to actually evaluate the sources when found, not assume that because someone's citing from a rare book, the classification is non-notable. I'd ask that a certain amount of time be given to obtain and cite the book. Scott (talk)
Scouring the earth If a Wikipedia article existed for every term mentioned in a rare German book that is "supposed to have further references" there would be no notability guidelines at all. As it is, this is essentially unsourced material and the fact that it's virtually impossible to find even a reference to it shows that it is a neologism. And typing the word "uh" is not clever, Scott. Please don't use sarcastic jokes in the middle of the discussion while simultaneously trying to raise it. | 998 | null | null | 201,745,184 | "2008-03-29T04:16:14" | Articles for deletion/Neutrois (2nd nomination) | 2,013 |
== Valvasor ==
Might want to put a reference to Valvasor into the history as well. (17th century)
From the wiki page:
Valvasor was a pioneer of study of karst phenomena. Upon the proposal of Edmond Halley, who was not only an astronomer but also a geophysicist, and in 1687 his extensive treatise on the hydrology of the intermittent Lake Cerknica won him a Fellowship of the Royal Society. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.143.14.254 (talk)
== Kras ==
I'm not actually sure if the region in the specific sense extends south from Slovenia. The krš in general certainly does, but Kras? == Pictures from Italian Karst ==
I uploaded some pictures from Italian Karst into Karst
== Tower Karsts and Karst Formation ==
Not terribly knowledgeable about Karsts myself. I live in Cambodia, where we have many "tower karsts" throughout the southern part of the country. This article, however, largely only refers to the karst formations found in mid-latitude regions, and not to tower karsts and their formation (which you find only in Tropical zones I believe). ANy experts out there want to try updating with information tower karsts? Have slightly revised text to be a little more encompassing, but no one region really is featured. Perhaps the entire article needs expansion with sections on tropical karst, alpine karst, etc...? Ian mckenzie
==Move to plain old "karst"==
There are topographic features that result from the development of karst, but anything below ground is out of the domain of "topography". If explainations of karst formations and caves are to be given, I reckon the page be moved to karst. Cheers, Daniel Collins. I agree, this article covers more than just the topography but also details about formation, features, and dangers within karst areas. good thought! GEO310Lindsey GEO310Lindsey (talk)
== Nullarbor ==
Isn't the Nullarbor Plain in Australia Karst? It is the worlds biggest hunk of limestone! It also has a lot of limestone caves. I thought I'd ask here first rather than just putting possibly inaccurate information into the article. == more work needed ==
I've done some revising and rewriting, but more is needed. I took out some stuff that is more thoroughly examined elsewhere (in caves and speleothems, for example). Not sure whether explanations of karst pavement, clint/grike etc is appropriate here, or if separate pages for each makes more sense... Ian mckenzie
== 'karst' in other languages ==
67.180.143.138, I've reverted your alterations back to the original, as your version put inordinate attention on pronouncing the Chinese word rather than the simple point that other languages have different terms for karst. Also, as this is an English site, it is relevant to point out that there is no equivalent word in English, as a prelude to the next sentence (the international usage of the German term). BTW, I took the spelling of the word 'yienjung' from Karst in China, an English language book published by the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences in 1976. Ian mckenzie
== Nullarbor Plain ==
According to the Australian Wilderness Society, the Nullarbor Plain is indeed the world's largest Karst Landscape. I would suggest that perhaps whoever edits the information should add this information into the wiki. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.161.90.95 (talk). ==Chalk stream==
Does the Chalk stream belong in this topographical classification? Verne Equinox
Someone needs to find published material which states whether it belongs. == dynamics missing ==
I would appreciate information on the dynamics of the hydrological systems in caves and tunnels, and on such dramatical events as the onset of the rainy season in, say, Guatemala, the sudden increase of the water flow, the visibility and audibility of the subterranean changes above, on the surface, etc.77.162.130.139
== Gibraltar ==
I have removed the Gibraltar reference and excellent photograph, as a "monolithic limestone promontory" is not in itself a karst feature. Ian mckenzie
== Caves as the 'defining characteristic' ==
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Kid Icarus Uprising Pictures - CBS News
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, a Gato-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the muskallunge, a fish of the pike family found in the upper Mississippi Valley, the Great Lakes region, and northward. Her keel was laid down 7 April 1942 by Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut. She was launched 13 December 1942 (sponsored by Mrs. Merritt D. Graham, widow of Chief Torpedoman Graham who was lost in in July 1942), and commissioned 15 March 1943, Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) Willard A. Saunders (Class of 1927) in command. == First war patrol, September 1943 – January 1944 ==
Following shakedown, the new submarine departed New London for the Pacific, arriving Pearl Harbor 7 August. She cleared Pearl Harbor 7 September for her first war patrol, taking station off the Palau Islands. Muskallunge carried the first electric torpedoes to be fired in the war by an American submarine. She made two attacks on Japanese convoys; although handicapped by malfunctioning torpedoes, she managed to damage a passenger freighter and a cargo ship. On 25 October Muskallunge returned to Pearl Harbor. She sailed 27 November for her second war patrol, which was conducted in the western Carolines area and south of Guam. During this patrol Muskallunge scored hits on a tanker and two freighters, sinking one of the Noroto Maru class, before returning to Pearl Harbor 21 January 1944. From there, she went to the West Coast for overhaul. ==Third, fourth, and fifth war patrols, April – December 1944 ==
After overhaul at Mare Island early in the year, Muskallunge left Pearl Harbor 30 April on her third war patrol. In June she joined eight other submarines in an operation designed to intercept any enemy forces approaching the Marianas which the Navy was invading. In the ensuing Battle of the Philippine Sea two of these submarines landed fatal blows on Japanese carriers and American naval aircraft wiped out the Japanese Fleet's air arm in a one-sided melee known as "the Marianas Turkey Shoot." Muskallunge ended the patrol at Fremantle, Australia, 4 July. In company with, Muskallunge got underway 1 August for the South China Sea on her fourth war patrol. On 21 August off French Indochina she sank 7,163-ton passenger-cargo Durban Maru before being severely depth charged. The submarine docked in Fremantle 22 September for refit. Her fifth war patrol, 19 October to 14 December, saw her operating west of Palawan Passage. She then left Pearl Harbor 16 December for overhaul at Mare Island Navy Yard, returning 9 April 1945. == Sixth and seventh war patrols, April – August 1945 ==
On 26 April Muskallunge departed Pearl Harbor for patrol off Formosa. She also acted as lifeguard for Philippine-based airstrikes on China and Formosa on her sixth war patrol. She sailed to Midway Atoll via Saipan to complete the patrol on arrival 15 June. Her seventh and last war patrol started 30 July when Muskallunge got underway for the Kurile Islands, north of Japan. On 8 August she attacked several small ships through dense fog. Her guns damaged two of the Japanese ships, but enemy fire killed one of the submarine's gunners and wounded two other bluejackets. The news of victory brought orders to Tokyo Bay for the surrender ceremonies on board the battleship 2 September. The next day Muskallunge sailed for New London via Pearl Harbor and the Panama Canal. After operations with the Atlantic Fleet, she decommissioned and joined the Atlantic Reserve Fleet there 29 January 1947. Muskallunge received five battle stars for World War II service. == Humaitá (S14), 1957–1968 ==
Muskallunge recommissioned 31 August 1956 prior to transfer to Brazil; decommissioned 18 January 1957, and the same day was loaned under the Military Assistance Program. She served the Brazilian Navy as until returned to the United States in March 1968 and sunk as a target off Long Island, NY on 9 July 1968. == References ==
== External links ==
navsource.org: USS Muskallunge
Kill Record: USS Muskallunge
Gato-class submarines
Ships built in Connecticut
1942 ships
World War II submarines of the United States
Ships at the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
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Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean
Islands of the Pacific Ocean
Islands of Russia
Islands of Alaska
Volcanoes of Alaska
Volcanoes of the Pacific Ocean
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Nobody is participating on the forums (you can, anybody can)
2. I can't do the stuff you can do on the TV.com forums
Anymore suggestions? Oh, this is the month where the French are going to have a meeting to decide a Season 3 of our friend W.I.T.C.H....Tyar
Sorry, can't think of anything else. Well, let's keep our fingers crossed, I know projects like this one often fall back to, in my opinion, less intersting ones, like South Park, or the Simpsons, I mean come on, I like a good laugh as much as everyone else, but shows like those ones are just too much. They should prolong shows like W.I.T.C.H. more often, stupid budget restrictions. —May the Edit be with you, always. (T|C)
==Are You Excited?==
The month where we learn the fate of W.I.T.C.H.. Of course if they don't make a S3 then it won't be exciting... Tyar
I keep myself in check. If there is a season 3, it'll be great, if there isn't, no point in sulking, we didn't really have a say in it, plus, at least we have our memories. :) —May the Edit be with you, always. (T|C)
==Question==
Can I ask a really weird favor of you? As weird as this sounds, I need you to go to Sesshomaru's talk page and post that I am right about the sock puppet issue. I would, but if you go to the history of his talk page, I have tried numerous times to tell him but he deletes it without even reading it. He is accusing me of having multiple accounts and somebody who agrees with me that an edit made from his friend was vandalism, which it is! I have tried to much and I need somebody else to do it because he won't read anything I post on his talk page. Look at my userpage, you'll see the tag! Thanks, and a sockpuppet is another user account from the same person used to be an ally in an article discussion (sorry I had to type fast). Tyar
The whole situation seems like a big misunderstanding to me, Tyar. Look, just keep comments emotion free, ask for agguments, and see if they're flawed. Best advice I can give though, is this essay. I'm really not good at mediating though, so good luck, and I hope this all clears out soon. (seriously, read the essay) —May the Edit be with you, always. (T|C)
Thanks, I read it. However, the problem is, I am going to get banned permanently from the site if somebody doesn't clarify that I don't have a sock puppet! Tyar
Well, you could always tell them to make a request at Requests for checkuser, if they're so sure, they'll confirm you don't have a sockpuppet, and the incident will be solved. —May the Edit be with you, always. (T|C)
Thanks, never knew about there. Tyar
==One More Day==
One more day, and the deadline for announcing the W.I.T.C.H. status will be closed. Of course, they will probably announce that there will or won't be a third season long after we have forgotten about the matter... Tyar
We'll see. :) —May the Edit be with you, always. (T|C)
In American time, there is only 10 more hours until the deadline (in France I believe it is 4). I am going to check TV.com now to see the latest forum details.Tyar
Go for it! :) —May the Edit be with you, always. (T|C)
Time's been FAR up. Oh, I may have my account banned... Tyar
Did you hear the news? Tyar
That there isn't going to be a new season, and that they're searching for another production company? Yeah, I have. —May the Edit be with you, always. (T|C)
Three words: W.I.T.C.H. is ended. Tyar
Of course, it will live on in our memories and fanfics like mine. Tyar
Of course. :) —May the Edit be with you, always. | 1,004 | null | null | 270,044,778 | "2009-02-11T18:18:09" | Tyar/T-borg Discussions | 2,013 |
Indians cut 3 pitchers, including veteran Ohka GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) - The Cleveland Indians have cut veteran right-hander Tomo Ohka and two other pitchers. Ohka was in camp as a non-roster invitee. He and left-hander Ryan Edell were sent to Cleveland's minor league training camp on Sunday. Left-hander Rich Rundles was optioned to Triple-A Columbus. The Indians now have 59 players in camp. Ohka, who will turn 33 on Wednesday, made three spring training appearances. He allowed 14 hits and 10 runs, six of them earned, in 3 2-3 innings. He was signed to a minor league deal in December after spending 2008 at Triple-A Charlotte in the Chicago White Sox' system, going 5-11 with a 4.18 ERA. The native of Japan had a 50-63 record and 4.14 ERA in 184 games (172 starts) for Boston, Montreal, Washington, Milwaukee and Toronto.
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James Rhodes (born 6 March 1975 in London) is a British classical pianist. == Career ==
While attending a concert by the great Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov; Rhodes' childhood idol, he introduced himself to the piano Masterclass maestro Bryce Morrison. Following an intensive period of studying with Morrison and Colin Stone in London and Edoardo Strabbioli in Verona, Italy, the door was finally opened to allow him to become a professional pianist without any previous formal academic musical education or dedicated mentoring. The recording of his debut album, performed at the magical Potton Hall, tucked away in a seductive Brittenesque patch of Suffolk, is somewhat of a biographical expression of Rhodes's complex and unorthodox journey. Rhodes' first public recital was at Steinway Hall in London, on 7 November 2008. His second recital was at the Hinde Street Methodist Centre, London, on 4 December 2008. He performed his first full scale concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, in London on 6 February 2009. Rhodes released his first album, Razor Blades, Little Pills and Big Pianos, on 2 February 2009 with Signum Records. == Discography ==
Albums
Razor Blades, Little Pills and Big Pianos (2009), Signum Records
==References==
== External links ==
Official Website
Official MySpace page
Official Record Label Website
James Rhodes Management Website
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On the Bolt Report on Channel 10 at 10am tomorrow: Tony Abbott, Cassandra Wilkinson and Michael Kroger on the bizarre week - and how Gillard is turning victory into defeat. Plus the Labor MP who thinks only dumb voters can save Labor. Kevin Rudd, unfortunately, has pulled out.
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Islam terror group tells Christians: Leave north Nigeria or be attacked By msnbc.com staff Christians have been warned by a militant Islamist group to leave northern Nigeria or be attacked, according to media reports. Abul Qaqa, a purported spokesman for Boko Haram, said the terror group was "giving a three-day ultimatum to the southerners living in the northern part of Nigeria to move away," the English language Vanguard newspaper reported. The group has been linked to many attacks on Christians, most notably the bombings on Christmas Day killed 49 people, most of them at a Catholic church as services were ending. Nigeria's 160 million people are divided between the mainly Muslim north and predominately Christian south. Qaqa said Boko Garam wished "to call on our fellow Muslims to come back to the north." The BBC reported that Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, declared a state of emergency on Saturday in parts of four states hard hit by violence blamed on Boko Haram. It said Mr Jonathan vowed to "crush" the group, which he said "started as a harmless group" but had "now grown cancerous." Human rights activist Shehu Sani told CNN that the latest Boko Haram threat was credible, but many Christians born and raised in the north have nowhere else to go. "The killings will continue," he told CNN, adding that the state of emergency and an enhanced presence of the security forces would not improve the situation, alleging that troops had already been involved in human rights abuses and had done little to reduce violence. David Cook of Rice University, who has studied the rise of Boko Haram, told CNN that "if radical Muslim violence on a systematic level were to take hold in Nigeria... it could eventually drive the country into a civil war."
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Woman killed in NYC elevator accident
NEW YORK - Rescue officials say one person has been killed after an elevator accident in New York City. Officials say a woman was trying to get on the elevator on the first floor when it suddenly jerked upward and she was crushed between the elevator and the shaft, CBS New York reports. Fire officials say two other people had minor injuries. The accident occurred around 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Young & Rubicam building, located at 285 Madison Avenue at East 40th Street, CBS New York reports. Officials are still trying to figure out what happened. There have reportedly been elevator violations in the building, but it's unclear from when or from which of the building's elevators. Officials are still investigating.
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First Church of Christ, Scientist, located at 102 West University Parkway, across from the campus of Johns Hopkins University, in the Tuscany-Canterbury neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States is an historic structure that on December 27, 1982, was added to the National Register of Historic Places. ==History==
First Church of Christ, Scientist was built in 1911 by noted Baltimore architect, Charles E. Cassell, who designed the Chapel at the University of Virginia. ==Current use==
First Church of Christ, Scientist is still an active Christian Science church. ==See also==
List of Registered Historic Places in Maryland
First Church of Christ, Scientist (disambiguation)
==References==
==External links==
First Church Baltimore web page
National Register listings for Baltimore City and County, Maryland
Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Baltimore, Maryland
Christian Science churches in the United States
Churches in Baltimore, Maryland
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Reimer's 2nd straight shutout lift Leafs over Sens Reimer's 2nd straight shutout lift Leafs over Sens Feb 4 11:16 PM US/Eastern OTTAWA (AP) - James Reimer posted his second straight shutout, and Phil Kessel and Tyler Bozak each had three points to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 5-0 rout of the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night. Kessel and Bozak each had a goal and two assists, while Dion Phaneuf, Luke Schenn and Cody Franson also scored for Toronto. Reimer stopped 49 shots for his third shutout of the season and has now made 74 saves in his last two games. Craig Anderson, making his 17th straight start and 50th appearance, had little help from his teammates as he faced 40 shots. Ottawa fell to 3-2-0 against Toronto this year. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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== Editorial Board of Medscape ==
More for the Biography section. Barrett has served on the Editorial Board of Medscape. From the abbreviated biography:
Stephen Barrett, MD, a retired psychiatrist, is a nationally renowned author, editor, and consumer advocate. An expert in medical communications, he operates three Web sites and is consulting editor of "Nutrition Forum," a newsletter emphasizing the exposure of fads, fallacies, and quackery. His 46 books include The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America (Prometheus) and five editions of the college textbook Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Decisions (McGraw-Hill). Dr. Barrett is board chairman of Quackwatch, a board member of the National Council Against Health Fraud, a scientific advisor to the American Council on Science and Health, and a Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). In 1984, he received an FDA Commissioner's Special Citation Award for Public Service in fighting nutrition quackery. The above can be included in the following manner, with reference:
Barrett has also served on the Editorial Board of Medscape. Barrett is the consulting editor for the Consumer Health Library at Prometheus Books, has been a peer-review panelist for at least two medical journals, and has served on the editorial board of Medscape. That combines it very concisely without any fluff. Here it is with the codes:
Barrett is the consulting editor for the Consumer Health Library at Prometheus Books, has been a peer-review panelist for at least two medical journals, and has served on the editorial board of Medscape. If this isn't controversial, let's request unlocking for its inclusion. Please include the above as it seems to be an uncontroversial addition. :Fyslee, my oversight. I corrected my agreement on the Medscape sentence, please adjust your agreed text, too. Also just to be explicitly clear for the admins, I agreed to a modified sentence in a paragraph and not a bullet point format. :: Correct on all points. I'll notify MZMcBride. ::* Please make the "de-capitalization" change noted above. Done. Cheers. No controversy from me. I only wish it was as easy to add criticism as it is to add accolades. Anybody would think this is a biography or something... Shot info
: Done. Cheers. ==Scorecard==
Areas where no census for change exits includes the edit war removal of Kauffman and the Spiked article's quote being extended beyond RS for the actual quote from Dr Barrett to a non-RS opinion. Crowning "key" scientists etc, Spiked is a non-notable science etc "organization", little noted other than its political associations and corporate media services. Pfizer is notable and could be considered a creditable RS as the largest pharma research company, however Pfizer attribution must establish the context. So far no one has been able to satisfy "key scientists..." with or without the Pfizer attribution, so leave out the opinion of "key scientists..." etc. Kauffman's removal was merely stealth, editing warring, and finally timing at the edit protection to a version against prior consensuses, Sept'06-July/Aug'07. Kauffman discusses 5 of Stephen Barrett's articles at great length, Hufford directly mentions Dr Barrett's involvement in the controversial (according to New York Times magazine) "little Emiliy" JAMA article, an article whose methods were deprecated as "deceptive", as well as listing the five SB articles analyzed by Kauffman. There has been *no consensus* at all about th edit war removal of Kauffman, we are mostly discussing the Kauffman & Hufford articles at Quackwatch for the time being. The Criticism section is laughably barren. The primary critic Donna is still saying the critics are all bs. I'm unaware of any policy or guidelines saying there must be something other than a "laughably barren" Criticism section. I am aware of V, RS, BLP, and NPOV, which we've been working hard to follow. Kauffman's piece is from a fringe journal. We edit based on policy. Per BLP, it fails the inclusion criteria. Agreed? Mr.Guru talk
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== Summary ==
This is the cover artwork for The Platinum Collection by Sandra. Copyright belongs to Virgin Records. == Licensing == | 29 | null | null | 519,381,240 | "2012-10-23T12:54:04" | SandraThePlatinumCollection.jpg | 2,013 |
Watch: U2's Tribute to Bruce Springsteen for 60th Birthday The World Newser is World News' daily blog. Here, you'll find our staff's thoughts on the day's news and the way we build our broadcast. Plus, we'll share reports from our team of correspondents in the field, as well as producers behind-the-scenes.
September 25, 2009 10:30 AM The other day Bruce Springsteen turned 60 and Irish rockers U2 -- in concert at Giants Stadium -- paid tribute. U2 played a version of Bruce's "She's the Run." Bono changed up the lyric midway through to "He's the one." The band then went right into "Desire." User Comments
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Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast, however, urged Tunisian authorities to heed the "demand of the Tunisian people." Iranian authorities, meanwhile, have waged an all-out battle on political opposition since the protests and clashes after Ahmadinejad's re-election. It was the country's worst internal unrest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution - perhaps the closest modern parallel to the events in Tunisia. Mohsen Sazegara, a U.S.-based leader of the Iranian opposition, dedicated 15 minutes of his daily webcast to comparing Tunisia to Iran's "Green Movement." He concluded that the Tunisians succeeded because many members of the army and police refused to battle protesters. The events in Tunisia, however, found an unreceptive audience in Moammar Gadhafi, who has ruled neighboring Libya for more than 40 years. In a speech on national television, the Libyan leader criticized the loss of life and questioned the wisdom of ousting one president to replace him with another, and said the Tunisians were making a mistake by causing chaos in their country. "What reason is there to fight?" asked Gadhafi, dressed in an uncharacteristically demure black suit. "Tunisia's situation has never really been so bad that it deserved such a reaction from the people." The uprising in Tunis also had ripples in Sudan, where voters in the south were marking the of a weeklong independence referendum that is widely expected to lead to the creation of the world's newest country. Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted on an international indictment for war crimes in the western region of Darfur, also faces a rebellion in the west and east, and internal opposition. A recent hike in prices of oil and basic commodities had caused protests in Sudan universities and calls for resignation of local officials. The economic crunch is expected to increase with the likely southern separation. Similar cries came from the streets in Damascus, where President Bashar Assad has not matched his liberal economic policies with any political reforms. "Rulers in the Arab world should beware, they should work to bring down food prices and allay people's concerns otherwise they could meet the same fate," said Haitham Ahmad, a merchant. Activists in the tiny Gulf nation of Bahrain - where majority Shiites have challenged Sunni rulers for greater rights - were denied a license to hold a rally and gathered instead at the Tunisian Embassy to silently place flowers in solidarity with the rioters.
Murphy reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Associated Press writers contributing to this report: Sarah El Deeb in Khartoum, Sudan; Jenny Barchfield in Paris; Dale Gavlak and Jamal Halaby in Amman, Jordan; Hamza Hendawi in Cairo; Ali Akbar Dareini in Tehran, Iran; Elizabeth A. Kennedy and Bassem Mroue in Beirut; Zeina Karam in Damascus, Syria, and Diaa Hadid in Jerusalem. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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==Saber vs. sword==
the unregistered user who changed sword to saber was probably looking at one of various commercial websites, who also get it wrong. if you go to http:://www-nmcp.med.navy.mil/EduRes/AcademicAffairs/Contacts/chapter3.pdf, pages 3-24 & 3-25, Full Dress White, under Prescribable Items you find 'Sword (LCDR and above) 3501.84". as i said, various commercial websites, including marlow and white, call it a saber. they probably think this looks better for marketing, but they are wrong. a saber is by definition a curved 'backsword,' used primarily by cavalry. very few horses aboard ship and the naval officer's dress sword is straight.Toyokuni3 (talk)
== Warfare pins ==
I was told there was one way a navy member could wear three warfare pins on there uniform. Which way is that? There isn't, according to US Navy Uniform Regulations.—Preceding unsigned comment added by (talk • contribs)
This is true. You cannot wear three warfare pins; you only get to wear two. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FloydianHate (talk • contribs)
==New dress whites==
Recruits coming out of boot camp in February are receiving the "fancy crackerjack" dress white uniforms that were proposed in 2007 along with the throwback khakis. How should this be handled? It's not really a new uniform, just an update on an existing uniform. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lady Arwyn (talk • contribs)
==Service Khaki Headgear==
In the Service Khaki section, it mentions 3 types of authorized headgear, but mentions only two. The regs only state 2, which is about as credible of source as you can get: http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/support/uniforms/uniformregulations/chapter3/MaleChief/MC_Service/Pages/ServiceKhaki.aspx
== ring the 13 button trousers again? they were being phased out in favour of a zipper fly when i enlisted in 1964.Toyokuni3 (talk)
I was in from 1982 to 2003, and yes, the trousers had the 13-button fly. RM1(SS) (ret) 208.47.164.226 (talk)
==BDUs==
Has the Navy got an official replacement for the BDU? 72.209.40.27 (talk)
Here is a picture of the ngcu for anyone who knows how to upload it to the article http://www.marines.mil/unit/2ndmardiv/PublishingImages/100803-M-9915H-004.JPG
-cernel joson 12 aug 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.175.182.118 (talk)
==Summer Whites / Service Dress White==
It seems to me that the article as written incorrectly identifies service dress white (i.e. chokers) as the warm weather equivalent of SDBs. While this may be true in theory, in practice the dress uniform for warm weather for chiefs and officers is summer whites. Service dress white for E7 and above is usually reserved for formal ceremonies (e.g. changes of command), and I've never heard of it being worn as a warm weather equivalent to SDBs. This seems especially confusing because it seems like there's a disconnect between the prescribed wear of the E1 through E6 summer whites, which I think are the legitimate warm weather counterpart to their service dress blues, and the E7 and above version. I say this purely based on my commissioned experience; any salty old CPOs out there who have a better understanding of the uniform regs? The chokers are the equivalent of the dress blues in summertime. The reason they usually aren't worn is that they are uncomfortable, thus the choker nickname. Im confused. Is the new khaki service dress also replacing crackerjacks? Or are those still there? Arpadkorossy (talk)
== Three warfare pins ==
technically there is "no way" but you can have the two and wear the third on a belt buckle. | 974 | null | null | 583,228,848 | "2013-11-25T13:15:32" | Uniforms of the United States Navy | 2,013 |
Amazon increases revenue split for papers, magazines Amazon is increasing the revenue split for newspapers and magazines sold through its Kindle electronic bookstore. Amazon said late Monday that starting on December 1, publishers will earn 70 percent of the retail price minus delivery costs for each newspaper or magazine sold in the Kindle store. Amazon did not reveal the previous revenue split for newspapers and magazines but the online retail giant has come in for criticism from some publishers. James Moroney, publisher and chief executive of The Dallas Morning News, told a US Senate hearing in May of last year that Amazon was demanding 70 percent of subscription revenue. Amazon also announced the beta, or test, release of a "Kindle Publishing for Periodicals" tool which allows publishers to more easily add their newspaper or magazine to the Kindle store. "We are constantly working at improving the Kindle magazine and newspaper experience for both customers and publishers," Peter Larsen, director of Kindle periodicals, said in a statement. "Building on the recent introduction of Wi-Fi-enabled Kindles and the upcoming availability of newspapers and magazines on Kindle Apps, we're pleased to add an increased revenue share and a great new tool for making Kindle better and easier than ever for publishers," Larsen said. Amazon said that for newspapers and magazines to qualify for the 70-percent royalty terms, the publications must be able to be read on all Kindle devices and applications built for devices such as Apple's iPhone and the Blackberry. It said the new revenue split does not apply to blog publishers "because existing terms are generally more advantageous for them." Amazon's new 70-30 revenue split puts it in line with what Apple shares with developers of applications for its App Store and with newspaper and magazine publishers. Amazon cut the price of the Kindle in July and revamped the line in the face of a threat in the e-reader market from Apple's iPad and companies such as Sony and bookstore Barnes & Noble, which also offer e-readers. Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium
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== Initial Comments ==
I think it should be added to the page that Iran was mentioned five times, of those five times... 2 blamed Iran for helping Hezbollah, 2 blamed Iran for helping iraqi insurgents, 1 mentioned the UN sanctions imposed on them. The discussion page is hereby started. WatchingYouLikeAHawk
Let's make it the most well-documented and detailed Wikipedia article on a state of the union address ever. ~ Rollo44
Good idea. We should all recognize that it might be a mess while everyone is trying to collaborate, but it will all come together in the end. I'm recording it on TIVO on ABC, just FYI. I'll be checking this talk page regularly throughout this evening. WatchingYouLikeAHawk
should we include that he said nucular power (again) just kidding and if writing this is bad please inform me. Sometimesseespeople
Michael Chertoff shaved his beard and mustache, is this notable? lol ~ Rollo44
I don't want to put this up without being sure, but I was watching this with a large group, and we were all positive that at the end, when he went to shake Pelosi's hand at the end, he accidentaly grabbed her boob? Anyone else see this, or were we delusional? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Die Übermenschen (talk • contribs)
Don't worry. If it's true, we'll see it tomorrow on YouTube. ~ Rollo44
Do we know how many applause interruptions there were? 62 seems to be the unofficial consensus. 62 According to NBC. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.182.78.230 (talk). Does anyone know which terrorist Bush quoted during the address? It was kind of a dark point in the speech. That should be put in. ~ Rollo44
I recommend we go through the transcript and use it to flesh out his key points in the article. ~ Rollo44
Was it just me, or were multiple Senators sleeping? I swear, I saw Barak Obama and John McCain snoozing in their seats. Ittan
I thought so as well... I pointed it out on Obama, but my roomies seemed to think he was just writing something down...
==Transcript==
Could someone find the transcript? I know news agencies sometimes get them early from the white house so they know what happens beforehand. Matrixhax0r
Transcript Nationalparks
Response Nationalparks
== Main Page ==
We need to decide whether this article is ready to be on the Main Page. In my opinion, we just need a little tweaking and let the edit conflicts die down before posting it. Umm, shouldn't this be on the News section on the main page? It's rather important in my opinion, and while I think that the article could be fine-tuned a little bit, people will start to talk if the State of the Union address isn't on the Main Page. Rumors of an anti-American bias will circulate, and...Arius Maximus
It was already suggested...go to Main Page
I think we have a pretty decent working version now... should we frontpage it? I say front page it; it appears to be newsworthy enough. Tockeg
The process to even get it on the front page seems complicated. Anyone want to post the request? I posted a quick request here... hoping it's seen soon. If not, I could go on IRC or something and see if I can get someone's attention. :I'll get to that, too. Let's go to IRC! ::I suppose I haven't lurked near enough! What is the IRC server/room you are going to be on? Tockeg
::::wikipedia or #wikipedia-en...doesn't matter
::::Ah! Thank you! Tockeg
:::::Tockeg, you'll need the server too... it's irc.freenode.net. I posted a request there, which I'm told is the correct place to request. == Picture ==
I believe the fair use pic needs to go. While the White House is going to make images available soon, the fair use image we have is way to large and not needed. Zscout370 (Return Fire)
Why not just keep it until we have those Whitehouse images? I think any picture really serves to enhance the article's look at this point. It doesn't. Plus, the image is way to large, so if it is kept, it needs to be reduced by software. | 1,023 | null | null | 489,624,371 | "2012-04-28T13:50:56" | 2007 State of the Union Address | 2,013 |
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne was a character from the British 1950s comedy radio programme The Goon Show. He was voiced by Peter Sellers. In the episode "Who Is Pink Oboe? ", Valentine Dyall filled-in for the role in Sellers' absence. Grytpype-Thynne is the smooth spoken and sophisticated principal villain on the show, and is usually accompanied by his companion in crime, Count Jim Moriarty. The main plot usually follows an impoverished Grytpype-Thynne thinking up a money making scheme which involves (the usually equally-impoverished) Neddie Seagoon being the fall-guy. In early scripts, however, Grytpype was often cast as a government official, and not necessarily a villain. For instance in "The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea" he is a police inspector; in "The Whistling Spy Enigma" he is the secret Government agent who sends Neddie Seagoon to Hungary to booby-trap the boots of the national football team; and in "The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI" he is Prime Minister Neddie's butler and confidante, but also an undercover Soviet agent plotting with Moriarty to sell the guided NAAFI secrets to the Russians. In "The Histories of Pliny the Elder", he was Julius Caesar. In later series, he and Moriarty are much further down the respectability scale, often found sharing the same suit, eating newspaper stew, or living up trees, in dustbins, in open drains, or on top of disused factory chimneys. Grytpype's relationship with Moriarty also goes downhill in later series; he often refers to Moriarty in very insulting tones. The lowest point appears in "The Pam's Paper Policy"; on the way out of Ray Ellington's musical piece, there is the prolonged sound of clubbing, mixed in with Moriarty's howls of pain, and Grytpype says, "Let that clubbing be a lesson to you, you crutty French schlapper!" Grytpype sometimes offers Neddie things instead of cigarettes, such as gorillas or pictures of Queen Victoria. Seagoon's usual response is "No I'm trying to give them up", "No, they hurt my throat", or "I've just put one out". This happened most notably in "Rommel's Treasure", "The Great International Christmas Pudding" and "Napoleon's Piano". Grytpype often used the word "Charlie", meaning "chump", instead of "person" or "fellow", a trait that was also made fun of several times during the show. His book of ideas for schemes, alphabetically ordered, reads, "A… B… C… Charlie." In another instance, in "The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI", he refers to Seagoon as "Charlie". Seagoon states that his name is not Charlie, to which Grytpype responds, "I know, but for some reason I always think of you as Charlie". Having put one over on Seagoon, he and Moriarty would often break into song, singing "April in Pareess… We've found a Charlie". Sellers revealed in an interview for Irish television that he drew inspiration for the character from actor George Sanders; the script of "The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler of Bexhill on Sea" in The Goon Show Scripts, has a stage direction next to the first appearance of Grytpype 'Sanders throughout'. ==Sexuality==
In The Goon Show Scripts, published in 1972, it was revealed that Hercules Grytpype-Thynne was homosexual. The same authority also intimated that he was the half-brother of Willium "Mate" Cobblers, having the same mother, a certain "Vera Colin". Though potentially politically incorrect in current idiom, and apparently obscure to some observers, Grytpype-Thynne's sexuality is also evident from his name - a typical Milligan device which evaded BBC censorship. Grytpype's sexual preference occasionally appeared in the show. In "The Lost Emperor" he and Moriarity are held at gunpoint by Eccles, and they are trying to persuade him to close his eyes so they can escape. Notably, previous dialogue of this scene revealed Grytpype to be naked, having been taken hostage while in the bath. Eccles: If I close my eyes I won't be able to see you! Grytpype: (intimately) Will you miss me? Eccles: (alarmed) Here here here here! | 1,010 | null | null | 586,492,366 | "2013-12-17T14:12:02" | Hercules Grytpype-Thynne | 2,013 |
USS Edisto may refer to:
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was a transferred to the United States Coast Guard as and decommissioned in 1974
is an currently in service with the United States Coast Guard
United States Navy ship names | 58 | null | null | 548,454,327 | "2013-04-03T08:51:34" | USS Edisto | 2,013 |
- Tenebris —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.112.29.10 (talk)
== "You will experience an epiphany... and vote for Obama" ==
"My job this morning is to be so persuasive…that a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack." Barack Obama, Lebanon, NH, 7-JAN-2008
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081014054652AAE85XA
Just curious —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.64.113.55 (talk)
== M K Gandhi ==
I did not do a full reading of the article, but a Cntrl F search did not reveal Gandhi's name. The fact is that he is one of the best example of 'leader uses mass media to create a larger-than-life public image'. == good times ==
the article itself actually speaks against obama's cult of personality enough to the extent that he no longer needs inclusion —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.70.62.80 (talk)
== Ruler of This Page is Biased ==
The ruler of this page is obviously editing it according to his personal political leanings. The fact that he refuses to allow any reference to Barack Obama on this page in spite of the fact the there is a strong cult of personality for Obama occurring in this country speaks for itself. So much for freedom of speech. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Plitwin (talk • contribs)
There is no 'ruler of this page,' and to think that there is suggests that you should read some more about Wikipedia and how it works. This article is about the concept, 'cult of personality.' You have not added any information about that topic; you have only added your personal opinions, supported with a youtube video (not, at Wikipedia, a reliable source. If you have factual information about President Obama that is missing from the article about him, you could discuss it at Barack Obama. If you have factual information about cults of personality that is missing from this article, you'll need to be more clear about the facts you think are missing and the reliable sources that confirm them. If you have strong opinions to share, Wikipedia is not the right place for that. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs)
Now that I've carefully read Cult of personality, it's clear that President Obama does not in any way meet the term as it is described here. Have you read this article? -FisherQueen (talk · contribs)
:I would say that the brand new account who is inserting a point of view and blanking the page perhaps may have a bias. I see nobody attempting to rule or own this page. Chillum
::Since this user is using at least two different ips, I've taken the liberty of semiprotecting this article for a little while. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs)
== Why are all references to Barack Obama deleted? ==
As PAUL KRUGMAN, of the New York times states in his OpEd piece, "I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality." It seems rather Orwellian to systematically remove all references to Barack Hussein Obama in this entry, when he is clearly a contemporary example of a Cult of Personality. You almost can't find a recent reference to Cult of Personality that does not mention Barack Obama. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=1h&oq=obama+%22cult+of+personality%22&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_en&q=obama+%22cult+of+personality%22
Is it the case that POV is not allowed, or that only Liberal POV's are tolerated? It is very likely that those researching the term Cult of Personality are doing so because they have recently heard the term associated with Barack Obama. It is ridiculous to not acknowledge that association in this entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.9.202 (talk)
Please stop using multiple IPs to sock puppet this page. Chillum
May I point out that the source you are citing does not say that Barack Obama actually is a cult of personality, but only that the author is concerned that he will become one? | 1,005 | null | null | 580,106,913 | "2013-11-04T04:02:17" | Cult of personality | 2,013 |
*** We're all Tea Partiers now: The other big winner was the Tea Party. Indeed, it sounded like all the candidates -- even Romney -- were reading off the Dick Armey/FreedomWorks/Americans for Prosperity script. So many of last night's answers were about what the government SHOULDN'T be doing rather than what it SHOULD be doing (other than get out of the way). But that rhetoric raises this question: If the federal government should stay out of the way -- and if the 10th Amendment is so cherished -- why run for president? Why not stay governor of Massachusetts or Minnesota? One person who struggled a tad on the 10th Amendment talking point was Rick Santorum, even though he's fully embraced much of the economic rhetoric. After all, it's hard to legislate morality as Santorum wants to do when the GOP sounds more and more like the Libertarian Party. And that has to bring a smile to Ron Paul's face. Bachmann is as much a social conservative as Santorum in her voting record, but notice her consistency on the 10th Amendment when it comes to gay marriage -- a distinction from Santorum. Though, it was notable how she had to fix her answer three times. *** The biggest loser: Pawlenty: If there was one big loser last night, it was Pawlenty. Coming into the debate, no one raised the prospect of attacking Romney more than he did (with his "ObamneyCare" line). But when Pawlenty got into the batter's box, he didn't even swing; in fact, he struck out looking. After the debate in the spin room, his campaign dismissed that criticism, saying that Pawlenty didn't give the answer news outlets were hoping he'd give. But there's one problem with that explanation: It was the Pawlenty campaign that called SO MUCH attention and promotion to the candidate's dig at Romney before the debate. Either the candidate doesn't agree with his advisers on strategy or the campaign doesn't agree on strategy; either way, that's not a sign of a winning campaign. Seven months from now, Pawlenty could very well end up regretting this missed opportunity. And it underscores the early challenge for Pawlenty: The Minnesota Nice Guy wants to be the tough-talking Tea Party conservative, but he personally just may not be comfortable in that role. *** Good Newt, Bad Newt: That brings us to Newt Gingrich. Oh, boy. A week after his campaign imploded, the former speaker delivered a very uneven performance, displaying both Good Newt and Bad Newt. Good Newt: his elegant argument on the space program. Bad Newt: his "loyalty oath" rant on Muslims serving in the U.S. government. "I just wanna go out on a limb here," he said last night. "I am in favor of saying to people, "If you're not prepared to be loyal to the United States, you will not serve in my administration, period."" More: "We did this in dealing with the Nazis, and we did this in dealing with the Communists. And it was controversial both times, and both times we discovered, after a while, there are some genuinely bad people who would like to infiltrate our country, and we have got to have the guts to stand up and say, "No."" Unfortunately for Gingrich, that McCarthy-like line isn't going to help him after his rough news last week. *** The absence of a serious, substantive discussion on the economy: The other big loser of the night was a serious, substantive discussion on the economy. After spending the last few weeks criticizing the Obama administration on this subject, not a single GOP presidential candidate offered a convincing plan on how to create jobs. We heard plenty about lower taxes and less regulation. The problem: Taxes are already at their lowest level since the 1950, and that hasn't really jump-started the economy. Moreover, there was little regulation during the Bush administration, and that didn't produce a wave of jobs between 2001 and 2009. | 820 | 2,208,689,993,202,428,200 | 2011-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Human rights groups successfully sued the Dominican government previously in the Inter-American Court on Human Rights with regard to the same issue. In 2005 the court ruled the government could not use a parent's in-transit status as a reason to deny citizenship. The U.N. has already expressed concern that the ruling could create a human rights crisis. The decision could have "disastrous" implications, leaving those affected "stateless and without access to basic services for which identity documents are required," Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, told reporters in Geneva. In its decision, the Dominican Constitutional Court ordered a meticulous review of the civil registry back to 1929. The court ruling gives the country's Electoral Board one year to draw up a list of people to be excluded from citizenship. Blemi and others like her say the law leaves them with no future. "We don't have birth certificates that the children must have to study. We don't exist," said Blemi, a mother of three young children, the youngest only a month old. "Please don't do this to me - I'm going to die," said her grandmother, 82-year-old Sentilia Igsema, showing her Dominican voter ID card. "I'm asking myself what country am I from. I guess I'm from the country of the undocumented." (Additional reporting by Manuel Jimenez and Ezra Fieser in Santo Domingo.; Editing by David Adams and Prudence Crowther)
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Lawsuit says two-year-old boy ate used condom at Chicago McDonald's By Jonathan Stempel Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:14am EDT (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp has been sued by a woman who said her two-year-old son ate a used condom he found in the play area of one of its restaurants in Chicago. Anishi Spencer filed the complaint against the fast-food restaurant chain on Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of herself and her sons, Jonathan Hines and Jacquel Hines. According to the complaint, Spencer and her sons were at a McDonald's restaurant in Chicago's South Side on February 4, 2012 when Jacquel picked up the used condom from the floor, and shortly thereafter coughed up a piece of it. Both boys required medical care, and have suffered lasting injuries, pain and discomfort, the complaint said. Spencer accused McDonald's of negligence for failing to clean hazardous debris from the play area, and failing to use appropriate security measures to help uncover "deviant activities." The lawsuit seeks at least $50,000 of damages. "This is a very disgusting case," Jeffrey Deutschman, a lawyer for Spencer and her sons at Deutschman & Associates in Chicago, said in a phone interview. He said he tried to settle, but was unable to do so after having to deal with "layers and layers" of bureaucracy at McDonald's, which is based in Oak Brook, Illinois. McDonald's spokeswomen did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Jonathan is now 4 and Jacquel is now 3. The case is Hines et al v. McDonald's Restaurants of Illinois Inc et al, Cook County Circuit Court, No. 2013L002625. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Nick Zieminski)
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When East Meets West, Parents and Grandparents Collide When I was eight months pregnant, my British husband and I were living in my native country of India. I don't know how - and I wish I did, so that I'd know to avoid these awkward detours in conversation in the future - but chatting with my mother one afternoon, I landed on the subject of car seats. How my husband and I intended to buy one so that we could, you know, bring the baby home safely. This caught my very Indian, very traditional mother, much by surprise. "You're going to put a newborn baby all alone into a car seat instead of bringing him or her home in your arms?" she huffed over the phone. Car safety laws, and as a result car seats, are still a bit of a novelty in India. "What is safer than a mother's arms?" "A car seat," I replied and left it at that. That was not all. (How could it be?) Everything was a discussion, a debate, a clash of cultures in my biracial, bi-continent, bi-everything marriage. When my mother suggested - gently - that I consider not leaving the house for a period of 40 days so that my body could get the rest it needed, my husband simply laughed. Instead, after giving birth via C-section, as my baby lay in the neonatal intensive care unit with an extreme case of jaundice, my husband and I, feeling useless, helpless and alone, braved Indian bureaucracy and got my son's birth certificate, sat for two hours in an almost-empty restaurant, and made several trips to the hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit despite knowing we wouldn't be allowed in. That my recovery consisted of a dance of two steps forward, three steps back was hardly a surprise to anyone but me. When we took our newborn child and deposited him in a cot (and out of our bed, thank you very much) a mere three months into his little life, our Indian friends thought us heartless and cruel. Children in India tend to sleep with their parents, sometimes until the age of 5 or 6, and that we were sleeping in a different room was unfathomable to many people, who thought us cruel and lucky in equal measure. I was in a perpetual state of caught in the middle. Between two cultures, two worlds, two ideas, and two attitudes. Everything the West did, the East thought overly practical and selfish. Everything the East did, the West found hilarious and outdated. Slowly and surely (and after many "long talks"), my husband I learned to listen to both sides of our families. We took some of the East, some of the West, and most of what is referred to in the official parent handbook as "winging it," and created our own little ways, our own customs, our own bicultural rulebook. My 1-year-old has had a bed and a room of his own since the day he was born, but every time he had stomach problems, I called my mother to ask for the herbal remedies that have kept babies in this family gas-free for generations. When he started teething, the English side sympathized. The Indian side furrowed their brows and said, "Teething doesn't have to hurt," and chucked me a bottle of homeopathic pills. If I had to do it again, I wonder if I wouldn't do it a bit differently. Perhaps if I hadn't been so quick to reject the "outdated notions" of the East and gone back to work two months after my son was born, I wouldn't have suffered so much during my recovery. Perhaps, if I hadn't rejected the "cold practicality" of the West and taken those anti-depressants my doctor prescribed for me, I wouldn't have spent so much time hiding in a dark corner of myself. Perhaps if I had listened instead of judged, it might just all have been a wee bit easier. Almost a month after my son was born, a photographer friend took us all, including the dog, to the park. There's a photo of us looking tired and a little bit frustrated as we set up for the next shot, and as I look at it, it dawns on me that this lack of grace and confidence is perhaps what defines every new parent. In the modern world, we're all bombarded with a million different choices, no matter whether we're in the East or West, raising biracial children or not. Most of us are fortunate enough to inhabit a world where decisions are no longer made for us and we can create from all the various possibilities available, what we feel is best for our children. And maybe, in the end, that is what being a parent is all about.
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Video: Christy Clark at the finish of the Vancouver 10K Sun Run B.C. Liberal Leader Christy Clark crosses the finish line after finishing the Vancouver Sun Run on April 21, 2013. She wore a Boston Red Sox cap in solidarity with the city recently hit by bombs during its historic marathon.
Published Sunday, Apr. 21, 2013 07:07PM EDT Last updated Sunday, Apr. 21, 2013 06:04PM EDT
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Bulls try to downplay Del Negro-Paxson spat Bulls try to downplay Del Negro-Paxson spat
AP Sports Writer Associated Press Sports updated 6:41 p.m. ET April 14, 2010 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -Chicago Bulls general manager Gar Forman is downplaying last month's confrontation between coach Vinny Del Negro and vice president of basketball operations John Paxson. In a statement released before Wednesday's regular-season finale against Charlotte, Forman confirmed there was an "internal disagreement" that was the result of each "expressing their passion" about the well-being of players and the desire to win. Yahoo! Sports reported Paxson grabbed Del Negro's tie and shoved him before being restrained in a dispute over forward Joakim Noah's minutes after a game on March 30. Noah was recovering from a foot injury. Del Negro said before the Charlotte game that it's "unfortunate" that the story came out. © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Thames protester Trenton Oldfield 'could have died', says Sir Matthew Pinsent A protester who swam into the Thames to disrupt this year's Boat Race could have been killed, four-time Olympic gold medal rower Sir Matthew Pinsent told a court. Sir Matthew, who was assistant umpire during April's race, made a written statement to police just hours after Trenton Oldfield, 36, was plucked from the path of the speeding Cambridge and Oxford boats. Oldfield, of Myrdle Street, east London, denies causing a public nuisance but admits swimming in the path of the crews. Today London's Isleworth Crown Court heard that Sir Matthew was immediately behind the university crews on a launch with umpire John Garrett. Behind them were another 25 motorised boats with officials, police, sponsors and camera crews. Half way through the four-and-a-quarter mile race Sir Matthew, whose job was to look ahead of the crews, saw what he thought was a balloon in the water. He told Mr Garrett there was debris in the water ahead. But as they got closer Sir Matthew realised it was a swimmer who had chosen to swim into the path of the boats, he said. In a statement read by prosecution barrister, Louis Mably, he said: "The risk for the swimmer was great, he could have been killed if he had been struck by an oar or the rigging which is metal. The incident caused me alarm as one of my primary roles is the safety of the competitors and public at large. "I was worried about the safety of the swimmer. "If he had been hit by an oar or boat he could have cracked his skull, his neck, fallen unconscious and drowned." Sir Matthew has previously competed in three of the university boat races and acted as an official in four. Mr Garrett agreed the defendant could have been killed by the boats which were travelling at about 20mph. "I think he put his life at risk doing what he was doing," said Mr Garrett, who halted the race waving a red flag and using a megaphone. "He put himself in very high danger and it wasn't just himself he was putting in danger. "With so much traffic following on that tide there was a risk there may have been crashes between some of the boats." Mr Garrett said there had been warnings of swimmers the previous year but nothing ahead of 2012's competition which Cambridge eventually won after a restart. The court heard that a wetsuit-clad Oldfield, an Australian, had folded his clothes in a neat pile before entering the water. Spectators Andrew Mann and Debra Bailey had arrived in Barnes between the Hammersmith and Barnes bridges before the race where the engaged couple came across Oldfield. They talked to the defendant who told them: "I just want to be quiet," said Mr Mann in a prosecution statement. The witness said the pair later recognised Oldfield when they saw him in the water. After being removed from the river Oldfield was seen grinning and waving, the court heard. He was put on an RNLI boat without a police presence. A nearby off-duty officer, chief inspector Vincent Hall, who was watching the race, realised there was a potential danger to him from an increasingly angry crowd so boarded the boat and arrested him to prevent a breach of the peace. Asked why he had entered the water, the officer said Oldfield told him: "To protest against elitism." Officers from the police marine unit arrived and Oldfield was taken into some nearby toilets "because of the animosity against him from the crowd," prosecuting counsel said. The eight women and four men of the jury heard that Oldfield faced boos from the crowd who verbally abused him and were aggressive. When he was taken to the police station to be questioned, officers found Oldfield had a solicitor's telephone number written on his arm, the court heard, and it was claimed he said: "I did plan this."
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DiCaprio fails to beat 'Immortals' at box office Big-budget 3-D epic "Immortals" topped the top of the box office this weekend, beating an Adam Sandler comedy and a Leonardo DiCaprio biopic, industry estimates showed Sunday. Set in ancient Greece, "Immortals" scored $32 million in weekend receipts, pushing it past Sandler's "Jack and Jill," in which he plays both a successful Los Angeles advertising executive and his needy identical twin sister Jill. The comedy came in second with $26 million, according to monitor Exhibitor Relations. Animated kids' romp "Puss in Boots," last week's leader, took third place with $25.5 million. The flick features voice work by Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis and Billy Bob Thornton. In fourth was "Tower Heist," with an all-star cast led by Eddie Murphy, at $13.2 million. It was trailed by Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar," which stars DiCaprio as late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and raked in $11.5 million. Comedy sequel "A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas" fell to sixth place, with $5.9 million, besting futuristic thriller "In Time" starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried at $4.2 million. Dropping to the eighth spot was "Paranormal Activity 3," with $3.6 million over the weekend but an impressive total of $100.8 million over four weeks in theaters. A remake of the hit 1980s dance romp "Footloose" slipped to ninth at $2.7 million, ahead of the boxing robots of "Real Steel," with the Disney hit for children starring Hugh Jackman taking in $2 million. Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium
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Money Fund Assets Fell to $3.482T in Latest Week The Associated Press
Total money market mutual fund assets fell by $62.6 billion to $3.482 trillion for the week, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday. Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds fell by $10.36 billion in the latest week to $1.151 trillion. Assets of taxable money market funds in the retail category fell by $8.09 billion to $899.47 billion for the week ended Wednesday, the Washington-based mutual fund trade group said. Retail tax-exempt fund assets fell by $2.27 billion to $251.46 billion. Assets of institutional money market funds fell by $52.24 billion to $2.33 trillion for the same period. Among institutional funds, taxable money market fund assets fell by $46.97 billion to $2.153 trillion; assets of institutional tax-exempt funds fell by $5.27 billion to $178.76 billion. The seven-day average yield on money market mutual funds in the week ended Tuesday was 0.06 percent, unchanged from the previous week, said Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet Inc. in Westboro, Mass. The 30-day average yield was also flat at 0.06 percent, according to Money Fund Report. The seven-day compounded yield was 0.06, the same as the previous week, and the 30-day compounded yield was unchanged at 0.06 percent, Money Fund Report said. The average maturity of the portfolios held by money funds was 52 days, up from 51 days, said Money Fund. The online service Bankrate.com said its survey of 100 leading commercial banks, savings and loan associations and savings banks in the nation's 10 largest markets showed the annual percentage yield available on money market accounts fell to 0.32 percent as of Wednesday from 0.35 percent week earlier. The North Palm Beach, Fla.-based unit of Bankrate Inc. said the annual percentage yield available on interest-bearing checking accounts fell to 0.12 percent from 0.13 percent. Bankrate.com said the annual percentage yield was 0.62 percent on six-month certificates of deposit, down from 0.66 percent the previous week. Yields were 0.94 percent on 1-year CDs, down from 0.98 percent; 1.34 percent on 2 1/2-year CDs, down from 1.39 percent; and 2.19 percent on 5-year CDs, down from 2.23 percent.
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The speaker visits the groundhog the following summer. He sees “no sign of the groundhog” in the “whirling summer.” As he is indifferent to the annihilation of the groundhog‘s existence, nature is not merciless or cruel to suffering, but it is just indifferent. Then he feels his “withered heart” and think of Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Alexander the Great, Michel de Montaigne, and Saint Theresa. He realizes that no amount of money, power, faith, or fame can stop one’s fate to die and decay. The speaker in “The Groundhog” is a man who experience extraordinary change. His “senses shook” and could only think about his mortality as he first saw the decaying groundhog. But as time passes by, he matures emotionally and his views on decay changes dramatically. He is fully able to understand the inevitability of decay. He realizes that everything one lives for will eventually die and decay. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Canadiancofee (talk • contribs). ==Disputed fair use rationale for Image:1102824.jpg==
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== mer. He sees “no sign of the groundhog” in the “whirling summer.” As he is indifferent to the annihilation of the groundhog‘s existence, nature is not merciless or cruel to suffering, but it is just indifferent. Then he feels his “withered heart” and thinks of Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Alexander the Great, Michel de Montaigne, and Saint Theresa. He realizes that no amount of money, power, faith, or fame can stop one’s fate to die and decay. The speaker in “The Groundhog” is a man who experience extraordinary change. His “senses shook” and could only think about his mortality as he first saw the decaying groundhog. But as time passes by, he matures emotionally and his views on decay change dramatically. He is fully able to understand the inevitability of decay. He realizes that everything one lives for will eventually die and decay. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Canadiancofee (talk • contribs). ==english essay==
Phil Yoon
Period 7
The Groundhog
August 22, 2007
Nature and Decay
In the “The Groundhog,” Richard Eberhart explores death and decay as the poem’s primary theme. The speaker in “The Groundhog” is a man who experiences a loss of innocence by observing the metamorphosis of a dead groundhog for three years. Before he saw the dead groundhog, the speaker was afraid of his own mortality. But as time passes by, he comes to realize that death is inevitable. His encounters with the dead groundhog shapes his perceptions and emotions surrounding death and decay. The speaker first meets a dead ground hog in June. In vigorous daylight, the speaker sees the “maggots’ might” on a dead groundhog. Soon after, he feels his mind outshoot “naked frailty” and his senses wavering “dim.” Due to his “naked frailty,” the speaker is reminded of his own mortality. So he pokes the groundhog with “loathing” and a “angry stick.” His frailty is “naked” because he is sincerely afraid of dying and his sense becomes “dim” because he is overwhelmed by anguish and despair. He becomes indignant as nature shows no remorse for the groundhog’s death. | 969 | null | null | 423,439,130 | "2011-04-11T01:47:03" | Canadiancofee | 2,013 |
Baroness Scotland ex-cleaner charged - Telegraph By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor
Published: 3:49PM GMT 27 Nov 2009 The Attorney General could even be called as a witness if the case goes to trial and face uncomfortable questions over how thoroughly she checked Loloahi Tapui had a right to be in the UK. Tapui has been charged with possessing a false passport, fraud by false representation and overstaying her visa. She could face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty in a crown court of the fraud charge, which relates to her employment with Baroness Scotland. Baroness Scotland sacked Tapui as her cleaner after questions were raised as to whether she was in the country unlawfully but has faced calls for an inquiry after conflicting claims over what checks the law officer carried out. The Attorney General said she had seen "all relevant documents" including a passport but Tapui later claimed she had never been asked to show her passport. Tapui, 27, of Sutton Court Lane, Chiswick, west London, was charged after answering police bail. She will appear before City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on December 7, but the case could go to a crown court. The maximum sentence for the fraud charge is 10 years if heard in a Crown Court while the maximum for holding a false passport is two years in jail and for overstaying a visa six months in prison and a fine of £5,000. The case could be heard by magistrates or could be passed to the higher court. Equally Tapui could elect a trial by jury which would raise the prospect of Baroness Scotland being called as a witness. Her husband, Alexander Zivancevic, was cautioned for assisting unlawful immigration but will face no further charges, the Crown Prosecution Service said. Baroness Scotland has already been fined £5,000 after admitting failing to keep copies of documents. She apologised and was backed by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown despite calls for her to resign. Simon Clements, head of the CPS Special Crime Division, said: "Following an investigation by the UK Border Agency, I received a file of evidence on November 9. "I have decided there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to prosecute these offences."
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== Confusion ==
This article (and its single source) says that "Frederick of Liege" was bishop 1119-1121, succeeding Alexander. List_of_the_bishops_of_Liège says that Otbert of Liège 1091-1119 was succeeded by "Frederick of Namur" (linked to Frederick of Liege) who was bishop 1119-1121. The Catholic encyclopedia (a link from the Otbert article) says that Otbert was bishop 1091-1119 and then "The violent death of Henry of Namur (1119-21) won for him veneration as a martyr." So:
We have two names for the bishop before 1119: Alexander or Otbert
We have two names for the bishop after 1119: Frederick (of Liege or Namur) or Henry. PamD | 187 | null | null | 584,410,355 | "2013-12-03T19:32:09" | Frederick of Liege | 2,013 |
Ideas on promoting Highland produce suggested 8 March 2013 Last updated at 01:52 Various actions have been proposed to how food and drink produced in the Highlands can be better promoted. Highland Council officers said other areas such as Dumfries and Galloway, Argyll and Fife have successful local food networks. They said the size and geography of the Highlands was a challenge to achieving a similar network in the region. Officers have suggested helping businesses to promote their produce at major events. They have recommended that Highland Council make a £12,000 contribution towards this year's Highlands and Islands-themed Royal Highland Show. It has also been suggested that the local authority help to promote Highlands produce at the Ryder Cup golf tournament and the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Following consultation with producers, officers said a new Highland Local Food Co-ordinator post could be created and funded for three years. The co-ordinator would report to a proposed new Highland Local Food Steering Group. Highland Council's planning, environment and development committee will consider the proposals next week. Wound up The local authority buys local produce such as meat, poultry and free range eggs for the making of school dinners and other meals. Its programme of targets for 2012-17 already includes a commitment to promote and support local food production. Three years ago, council officers reported that local food producers felt "unsupported and isolated" even though help was available to them. Officials had carried out an appraisal of food and drink producers on behalf of the Scottish government. In a report to Highland councillors, they said many of the small firms contacted were unaware of support available through the Business Gateway. In 2009, the Highlands and Islands Local Food Network was wound up after Highlands and Islands Enterprise withdrew its funding.
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EU borrows €5bn to finance Portugal rescue The European Union borrowed €5bn from the the bond markets on Wednesday to finance rescue loans to Portugal. The 10-year bond, which was rated triple A, saw strong demand despite worries about the eurozone crisis; central banks and investors are happy to buy bonds from the EU as one entity despite the deepening crisis in the eurozone. The bond, which matures in September 2021, is guaranteed by all 27 members of the EU and offers yields of more than 90 basis points over similarly maturing German government bonds. Bankers said the reason for the strong demand was due to the bond being very safe, while offering a big pick-up in yield over Bunds. The EU said that the order book rose to about €7bn. One syndicate banker said: "It shows that Europe as an entity is much in demand. There might be problems on the periphery but some of the biggest investors and banks are willing to buy into Europe, if not the periphery." Bankers said the success of the bond, however, was unlikely to ease tensions in the eurozone amid worries about the possibility of Greek restructuring and fears over Italy. The EU's first bond in January for the rescue of Ireland saw overwhelming demand. A second bond in March was also a success. The EU issued the bond on Wednesday under the auspices of the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, the body run by the European Commission, which is responsible for €60bn of Europe's rescue funds. The European Financial Stability Facility is responsible for €440bn of the rescue package, with the International Monetary Fund making up the rest of the €250bn for a total of €750bn in rescue loans. The EU said it planned to launch further bonds raising €5bn in one or two transactions with maturities from 5 to 15 years in the coming weeks. In the remainder of 2011, the EU plans to issue one further benchmark bond. The combined upcoming funding in 2011 will be used for loans to Ireland and Portugal. "The operation took place under the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (EFSM). The funds raised will finance a further loan to Portugal, which receives lending as part of the financial assistance package," the European Commission, the EU executive, said in a statement. Banks that raised the money for the EU were Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, HSBC and UBS. Bankers say order books have been consistently strong for bonds raised on behalf of the EU or on behalf of the eurozone through the EFSF. The first EFSF bond this year saw orders rise above €40bn, one of the biggest books for a European government or supranational institution. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2011. You may share using our article tools.
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Jim Mortimer - Telegraph It could be argued that even without his comments Labour never had a chance. Margaret Thatcher had triumphed in the Falklands; the Alliance parties threatened gains; and Labour's Left-wing manifesto was dubbed "the longest suicide note in history." Mortimer, whose reputation was built on diplomacy, delivered the coup de grace when he needlessly announced on May 26: "The unanimous view of the campaign committee is that Michael Foot is the leader of the Labour Party." Though it later emerged that Foot's leadership had not even been discussed, the impression created was that Labour's fortunes had sunk so low that a vote of confidence in him was required. The campaign went into free-fall and while Mortimer had been appointed for five years, he left two years early, in May 1985. James Edward Mortimer was born in Bradford on January 12 1921. His father was a street-corner news vendor and ardent socialist; his mother started work in a textile mill at 12. The family moved south in the Depression, and after technical school Jim became a dockyard machinist's apprentice, joining his first union, the AEU, at 15. At 20 he moved to London, becoming a draughtsman with Lagonda. After a year at Ruskin College, Oxford, where he studied under GDH Cole, he joined the TUC economic department, while continuing his studies at the LSE. In 1948 he joined the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen (later Data), becoming editor of The Draughtsman and eventually also research officer. He rose fast in the movement, becoming an executive member of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions (CSEU) and a regular speaker at the TUC. He was one of the unions" most persuasive opponents of Common Market membership. Having consistently opposed incomes policies, Mortimer stunned colleagues in 1968 by accepting Barbara Castle's invitation to join the Prices and Incomes Board (PIB) with an 88 per cent pay increase. He did it in part because the Data leadership had moved well to his Left, though there was speculation that he would be a "Trojan horse" rather than make the policy work. But by the time Heath wound up the PIB, Mortimer had become convinced of its necessity. Although Mortimer was hailed as a lifelong party member when he joined Labour as General Secretary, he had in fact briefly belonged to the Young Communist League, and spent four years out of the party after being expelled for membership of the British-China Friendship Society. He had, however, fought council elections for Labour. He had first surfaced at national level as moderator of a debate at the TUC in 1981 between the candidates for Labour's deputy leadership. That December, he was shortlisted to succeed Ron Hayward as General Secretary, going on to beat the favourite, Alex Ferry of the CSEU, by one vote in the NEC. In organisational terms, Mortimer was a moderniser; he identified a £500,000 deficit and made tough economies. But his policy statements were in tune with the NEC's Left-wing majority: public investment in economic recovery; repeal of anti-union laws; an end to Common Market restrictions on Britain; and the removal of foreign bases and nuclear weapons. He replaced Hayward a week after the NEC decided to tackle Militant, having for years denied that it was a problem. Loth to expel anyone, Mortimer said he aimed to keep Militant inside the fold and was "not here as an axeman"; but at the 1982 party conference he won an enthusiastic response with his firm explanation of why the NEC would go on to expel Militant's five-strong editorial board. Mortimer claimed that Labour's defeat in 1983 was "primarily political and not organisational." At Labour's post-election conference, he paid tribute to Foot's leadership and attacked those in the party who had caused "real damage" - meaning James Callaghan, who had broken ranks on nuclear weapons. With Neil Kinnock as leader, Labour took the first tentative steps back toward the centre, leaving Mortimer out on a limb. When the party shifted its nuclear position to say it would keep Polaris, he insisted that Labour was still committed to a non-nuclear defence. And while Kinnock held back from supporting the 1984-85 miners" strike, Mortimer represented the party at Arthur Scargill's rallies. Larry Whitty, from the more moderate GMB union, succeeded him in mid-1985. Mortimer was at various times chairman of the Development Council for Mechanical and Engineering Construction; a member of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body and the Economic Development Council for the Chemical Industry; and a director of the London Co-Operative Society. | 975 | -8,697,668,932,086,029,000 | 2013-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
People's Power (Spanish and Portuguese: Poder Popular) is a common political rallying cry used in party names and slogans. Instances of its use include:
Lok Shakti, a political party in India
National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba, the Parliament of Cuba
People's Power (Angola), a political faction within the Communist MPLA in the 1970s
People's Power (Colombia), a political party in Colombia
Lakas ng Bayan ("People's Power"), a political party in the Philippines
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Elderly care: The other options 3 January 2013 Last updated at 09:55 There is now a growing consensus that elderly care needs reform. Councils are increasingly having to ration the support they provided in people's homes and the care home places they fund. But the big unsolved question is how to pay for change. In 2011 the government-appointed Dilnot Commission recommended an individual's lifetime costs be capped at £35,000 in England. But this would cost £1.7bn a year - a figure which would rise in the future. Ministers have spent the best part of two years discussing how to proceed, but have yet to reach agreement. In many ways that is not surprising. Reform of social care has actually been on the agenda since Tony Blair came to power in 1997, but a combination of cost and complexity has meant that no government has felt able to push ahead with reform. Lib Dem MP Paul Burstow has waded into the debate by suggesting the winter fuel allowance should be means-tested to pay for a cap on costs. But this has caused controversy among some and, what is more, David Cameron has always promised the payment - worth between £200 and £300 for the over 60s - would not be cut. So how else could it be paid for? Setting the cap at a higher level The Dilnot Commission actually suggested a level of between £25,000 and £50,000 with £35,000 being the favoured amount. The thinking was that this was a sum that was affordable enough to get people engaged with planning for old age, but low enough not to be a drain on the public purse. The hope was the insurance industry would start to develop products safe in the knowledge that the catastrophic costs - one in 10 face bills of over £100,000 - would be covered by the state. However, ministers are known to have being discussing whether it would be feasible to set the cap at a higher level, perhaps even as much as £75,000. This, of course, would be cheaper for the government. However, some have expressed concern that setting it so high would discourage people from planning for old age. Raiding other benefits and budgets Since the Dilnot recommendations were published a variety of other funding sources have been put forward to pay for it. Last summer the Nuffield Trust think tank highlighted a range of benefits that could be targeted. These included the free TV licences and travel concessions that older people are entitled to as well as the winter fuel allowance. It also suggested the NHS surplus - which stood at £2bn last year - could also be used. Others have looked at some of the tax-related benefits the elderly are entitled to, such as relief on capital gains tax at death and those related to pensions. Get everyone to pay This was actually proposed by the Labour government in its final months before the 2010 election. The then health secretary Andy Burnham, who is now the shadow health secretary, called for a universal levy that everyone but the poorest would have to pay. The figure put forward at the time was £20,000, which was thought to be enough to cover the costs of everyone who needs care. One of the options floated was allowing people to defer the payment until after they die, prompting the Tories to dub it a death tax. The idea was soon put on the backburner as the election campaign got into full swing, but many within the sector thought it was an excellent idea. Pool budgets with the NHS The NHS budget tops £100bn - six times what is spent on social care. If just a fraction of health spending was diverted to social care, councils argue it could make a big difference to the services they could provide. Even just a little more collaboration could make a difference as there is a great deal of cross over between the two sectors - particularly within NHS community services such as district nursing. Such moves benefit the NHS as well. When vulnerable elderly people do not get support from councils their conditions can worsen, leading to hospital admissions. To some extent this has already been recognised by ministers - by 2015 £1bn of NHS money will be reserved for supporting social care. But some believe there needs to be a much more radical approach. In Labour circles there is talk of merging the two budgets. How this would work in practice and whether it would negate the need for a cap on care costs remain to be seen.
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The was the second and last of the dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century. Following the Japanese ship-naming conventions, Settsu was named after Settsu Province, now a part of Osaka prefecture. During World War I she bombarded German fortifications at Tsingtao during the Battle of Tsingtao in 1914, but saw no other combat. She was placed in reserve in 1919 and was disarmed in 1922 in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty. Two years later, Settsu was converted into a target ship and she played a minor role at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. At the beginning of the Pacific War in 1941, the ship was used in an attempt to deceive the Allies as to the locations and activities of the Japanese aircraft carriers. Settsu reverted to her normal role as a target ship for the rest of the war; she was badly damaged when Allied aircraft carriers struck the naval base at Kure Naval District in July 1945. The ship was refloated after the war and scrapped in 1946–47. ==Background==
The Kawachi-class was ordered on 22 June 1907 under the 1907 Warship Supplement Program after the Russo-Japanese War as Japan's first dreadnoughts, although their construction was delayed by a severe depression. Their design was based on the with a uniform main-gun armament, although cost considerations prevented all the guns from having the same barrel length. ==Design and description==
Unlike her sister ship,, Settsu had a clipper bow that made her longer than her sister. The ship had an overall length of, a beam of, and a normal draft of. She displaced at normal load. Her crew ranged from 999 to 1100 officers and enlisted men. Settsu was fitted with a pair of license-built Curtis steam turbine sets, each set driving one propeller, using steam from 16 Miyabara water-tube boilers. The turbines were rated at a total of for a design speed of. She carried enough coal and fuel oil to give her a range of at a speed of. Settsu's main armament consisted of four 50-caliber 12-inch 41st Year Type guns in two twin-gun turrets, one each fore and aft of the superstructure, and eight 45-caliber 12-inch 41st Year Type guns mounted in four twin-gun turrets, two on each side of the superstructure. Settsu's secondary armament was ten 45-caliber 6-inch 41st Year Type guns, mounted in casemates in the sides of the hull, and eight 40-caliber quick-firing (QF) 4.7-inch 41st Year Type guns. The ship was also equipped with a dozen 40-caliber 3-inch 4th Year Type guns and four others were used as saluting guns. In addition, the battleship was fitted with five submerged torpedo tubes, two on each broadside and one in the stern. The waterline main belt of the ship had a maximum thickness of 12 inches amidships. It tapered to a thickness of at the ends of the ship. A strake of armor protected the casemates. The barbettes for the main guns were thick. The armor of Settsu's main gun turrets had a maximum thickness of 11 inches. The deck armor was thick and the conning tower was protected by 6 to 10 inches of armor. ==Construction and career==
Settsu, named for Settsu Province, was laid down at Kure Naval Arsenal on 18 January 1909. She was launched on 30 March 1911 and completed on 1 July 1912 at a cost of ¥11,010,000. Captain Morihide Tanaka assumed command on 1 December and the ship was assigned to the First Squadron. She spent most of the following year training and patrolling off the coast of China. When World War I began in August 1914, Settsu was at Kure. Together with her sister Kawachi, she bombarded German fortifications in October–November 1914 during the final stage of the Battle of Tsingtao. Settsu was assigned to the First Squadron until 1 December 1916 when she was placed in reserve for a refit at Kure. Upon its completion on 1 December 1917, the ship was assigned to the Second Squadron until 23 July 1918 when she rejoined the First Squadron. By this time, all 12 of the 3-inch 4th Year Type guns were removed and four 3-inch 4th Year Type anti-aircraft guns were added. Two of the torpedo tubes were also removed. | 1,012 | null | null | 579,457,178 | "2013-10-30T12:42:56" | Japanese battleship Settsu | 2,013 |
NFL Roundup: Calvin Johnson, Brandon Marshall, Vincent Jackson headline busy week for receivers The Detroit Lions signed star wide receiver Calvin Johnson to a seven-year contract extension that is the richest deal ever given a wide receiver. The $132 million contract, which will keep Johnson in Detroit through the 2019 season, includes $60 million guaranteed and tops the $120 million deal the Arizona Cardinals gave Larry Fitzgerald last year. The No. 2 pick out of Georgia Tech in the 2007 NFL Draft, Johnson could have become a free agent after the 2012 season. The deal was first reported by ESPN's Adam Schefter. The $60 million is the highest guaranteed figure in NFL history. The Bears avoided the free agent market, snapping up Brandon Marshall from the Dolphins for the price of two third-round draft picks on Tuesday. One day later, the team said it was aware of an alleged incident at a New York nightclub over the weekend before making the deal. More details: "Both the Bears and Dolphins were aware of what occurred over the weekend," Bears General Manager Phil Emery said in a statement released by the team. "We decided to move forward with the trade. We have high expectations for Brandon as a Bear." Marshall and his wife, according to a New York Post report, were at a nightclub in New York's Chelsea neighborhood when he and another football player who was not identified were thrown out because of an altercation at 4 a.m. Monday. Christin Myles headed out of the club as well and alleges that she suffered a black eye when she was punched by Marshall, who was swinging at someone else. The NFL will look into the matter, as it does with all such incidents. Marshall's past (which includes disorderly conduct, drunken driving and several incidents in which domestic violence was alleged) will figure in as the league determines whether to punish him. Marshall was involved in several incidents in Denver, including a 2007 altercation at a nightclub that preceded the drive-by murder of Darrent Williams, a teammate on the Broncos. In 2008, he was given a three-game suspension (later reduced to one game) for violating the league's personal conduct policy. Vincent Jackson, considered the best wide receiver on the free agent market, will play for the Bucaneers next season. But does his arrival in Tampa Bay make the Bucs contenders in the NFC South? Matt Brooks examines: The seven-year veteran was a big play threat for the San Diego Chargers, eclipsing 1,000 yards in three of the past four seasons and scoring 28 touchdowns over the last four years.That's a lot of production to bring aboard the pirate ship in Tampa for an offense that finished 21st in the league in yards per game and 27th in scoring. But how much will Jackson's arrival help young quarterback Josh Freeman, who was maddeningly inconsistent in his second years as the full-time starter? For starters, Jackson gives Freeman an elite deep threat to pair with Mike Williams - which can only help a guy who through the second most interceptions (22) in the NFL in 2011.... To compete with the likes of New Orleans and Atlanta, the Bucs will need drastic improvement on both sides of the ball. So far they've shown their commitment to that end in free agency. More NFL free agency news from Washington Post Sports: Vincent Jackson signs with Bucs for five years CB Eric Wright will sign with Tampa Bay Brandon Marshall: Bears say they were aware of alleged incident Pierre Garcon announces deal with Redskins on Facebook
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"We're now in the world of Gabby Giffords and Mayor Bloomberg and organizations that are organized to come out and support those who vote for gun safety and oppose those who don't," he said, referring to wealthy New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has been financing gun control efforts. But Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., expressed doubts. "If it were a real effective political strategy, you wouldn't have seen a lot of Democrats from Southern states voting with Republicans today," he said. Some Western Democrats voted against restrictions as well. NRA lobbyist Chris W. Cox thanked lawmakers for defeating the "misguided" background check expansion, saying it would have criminalized gun transactions between friends -- a charge Obama and others called untrue. Mayors Against Illegal Guns, financed by Michael Bloomberg, called the vote "a damning indictment" of the gun lobby's power. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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The Main Attraction may refer to:
The Main Attraction (film), a 1962 British drama film
The Main Attraction (album), a 1976 album by Grant Green
"Main Attraction", a song by Quiet Riot from the album QR III
"Main Attraction", a song by Suzi Quatro and Chris Andrews from the 1982 album Main Attraction (album)
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Bollywood union boycotts Australia over attacks Bollywood's biggest labour union said Thursday its members would refuse to work in Australia until attacks on Indian students there ceased. Two Bollywood movies - including one by Bollywood's largest producer, Yash Raj Films -- were to be shot in Australia this month. "None of our associate members will work in Australia until the racism issue is resolved," Dinesh Chaturvedi, head of the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE). FWICE, which represents 250,000 workers, including actors, lighting and sound technicians, camera operators and dancers, issued a notice to all Bollywood producers announcing the boycott. It was the latest snub by Bollywood over a wave of assaults on Indian students which have strained diplomatic relations between India and Australia. Last weekend, Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan rejected an honorary doctorate from a Brisbane university, in protest against the attacks on Indian students. Three recent Bollywood box-office hits -- Salaam Namaste (Greetings), Chak de India (Go India) and Heyy Baby -- were shot extensively in Australia. The union's announcement came a day after another attack on an Indian student was reported in Australia. Police said a 21-year-old Indian student was confronted Tuesday by five men in a college campus car park in the suburbs of the southern city of Melbourne, where many of the attacks have taken place. They demanded money and cigarettes from the man, then attacked him when he refused to comply, with one slashing him across the chest with a weapon believed to be a box cutter, causing minor lacerations. The issue came to world attention late last month when student Sravan Kumar Theerthala was left comatose after being stabbed with a screwdriver by gatecrashers at a Melbourne party. Many of the most serious cases occurred in Melbourne, where police estimate Indians account for about 30 percent of all robbery and assault victims. India's media have dubbed the attacks "curry bashing," and newspapers have been splashed with headlines such as "Australia, land of racists." The Australian government has called in the former head of Australia's elite Special Air Service (SAS) regiment to lead a task force examining the attacks. Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium
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The Far Eastern Republic (Дальневосто́чная Респу́блика, ДВР|r=Dalnevostochnaya Respublika, DVR|p=dəlʲnʲɪvɐˈstotɕnəjə rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə), sometimes called the Chita Republic, was a nominally independent state that existed from April 1920 to November 1922 in the easternmost part of the Russian Far East. Although nominally independent, it was largely controlled by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and its main purpose was to be a buffer state between the RSFSR and the territories occupied by Japan during the Russian Civil War. Its first president was Alexander Krasnoshchyokov. The Far Eastern Republic occupied the territory of modern Zabaykalsky Krai, Amur Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, and Primorsky Krai of Russia (the former Transbaikal and Amur oblasts and Primorsky krai). Initially, its capital was Verkhneudinsk (now Ulan-Ude), but from October 1920 it was moved to Chita. After the fall of Vladivostok on 25 October 1922, the civil war was officially declared over. Three weeks later, on 15 November 1922, the Far Eastern Republic was merged with the RSFSR. ==History==
===Establishment===
The Far Eastern Republic was established in the aftermath of the Russian Civil War. During the Civil War local authorities generally controlled the towns and cities of the Russian Far East, cooperating to a greater or lesser extent with the White Siberian government of Alexander Kolchak and with the succeeding invading forces of the Japanese Army. When the Japanese evacuated the Trans-Baikal and Amur oblasts in the spring of 1920, a political vacuum resulted. A new central authority was established at Chita to govern the "Far Eastern Republic" remaining in the Japanese wake. Initially, the Far Eastern Republic comprised only the area around Verkhne-Udinsk, but during the summer of 1920, the Soviet government of the Amur territory agreed to join. The Far Eastern Republic formed two months after Kolchak's death with the tacit support of the government of Soviet Russia, which saw it as a temporary buffer state between the RSFSR and the territories occupied by Japan. Many members of the Russian Communist Party had disagreed with the decision to allow a new government in the region, believing that their approximately 4,000 members were capable of seizing power in their own right. However, V.I. Lenin and other party leaders in Moscow felt that the approximately 70,000 Japanese and 12,000 American troops might regard such an action as a provocation, which might spur a further attack that the Soviet Republic could ill afford. On 1 April 1920, American forces headed by General William S. Graves departed Siberia, leaving the Japanese the sole occupying power in the region with whom the Bolsheviks were forced to deal. This detail did not change the basic equation for the Bolshevik government in Moscow, however, which continued to see the establishment of a Far Eastern Republic as a sort of Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in the east, providing the regime with a necessary breathing space that would allow it to recover economically and militarily. On 6 April 1920, a hastily-convened Constituent Assembly gathered at Verkhneudinsk and proclaimed the establishment of the Far Eastern Republic. Promises were made that the republic's new constitution would guarantee free elections under the principles of universal, direct, and equal suffrage and that foreign investment in the country would be encouraged. The Far Eastern Republic, controlled by moderate socialists, was only grudgingly recognized by the various cities of the region towards the end of 1920. Violence, atrocities, and reprisals continued to erupt periodically for the next 18 months. Japan agreed to recognize the new buffer state in a truce with the Red Army signed 15 July 1920, effectively abandoning Ataman Grigory Semenov and his Russia Eastern Outskirts. By October Semenov had been expelled from his base of operations in Chita. With Semenov out of the picture, the capital of the Far Eastern Republic moved to that city. On 11 November 1920 a provisional national assembly for the Far East met in Vladivostok. The gathering recognized the government at Chita and set 9 January 1921 as the date for new elections for the Constituent Assembly of the Far Eastern Republic. A new constitution closely resembling the United States Constitution was written and approved on 27 April 1921. | 1,014 | null | null | 581,444,798 | "2013-11-13T06:46:53" | Far Eastern Republic | 2,013 |
Photonic Products Group, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2009 Results NORTHVALE, N.J., May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Photonic Products Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: PHPG) has reported its consolidated financial results for its first quarter, which ended March 31, 2009. Revenues for the first quarter were $2.8 million, down 32% from the same period last year. Orders for the first three months were $1.6 million compared to $6.9 million in the first three months of 2008 with lower order activity in the first quarter of 2009 being primarily attributable to the effect of the current economic slowdown and its impact on our customers' business activity and demand for our products. Gross profit for the quarter was $382,000, or 13.6%, down from a gross profit of $1.5 million, or 36.0% in last year's first quarter. The Company reported a net loss of $ (314,000) for the quarter just ended compared with net income of $491,000 for the same period last year. This quarter's results included a benefit from income taxes of $236,000, reflecting the Company's recognition of a deferred tax asset, net of its current tax provision. Last year's results reflected a benefit from income taxes of $52,000, net of current tax expense. (Loss) /earnings per share were $ (0.03) diluted and basic in the current quarter. This compares with $0.05 basic and $0.03 diluted in the first quarter of 2008. First quarter 2009 results showed net cash provided by operating activities of $357,000, compared to net cash used by operating activities of $223,000, in the first quarter of last year. The Company ended the quarter with cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments of $3,750,000. Joe Rutherford, President and CEO of PPGI commented, "Our first quarter results are disappointing but not unexpected given the current economic conditions in the markets we serve. We have responded with cost cutting measures throughout both our operations in Northvale and our MRC operations in Sarasota. We have reduced our workforce levels to right size our operations to better align them with the current economic realities. Our mission remains to exceed our customer's expectations and to be responsive to those needs in the future." Founded in 1973, Photonic Products Group, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets products and services for use in diverse Photonics industry sectors via its portfolio of distinctly branded businesses. INRAD specializes in crystal-based optical components and devices, laser accessories and instruments. Laser Optics specializes in precision custom optical components, assemblies, and optical coatings. MRC Optics' business specializes in precision diamond turned optics, metal optics, and opto-mechanical and electro-optical assemblies. PPGI's customers include leading corporations in the Defense and Aerospace, Laser Systems, and Process Control and Metrology sectors of the Photonics Industry, as well as the U.S. Government. Its products are also used by researchers at National Laboratories and Universities world-wide. www.ppgrpinc.com Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934. These statements may be identified by their use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects," "should," "will," "plan," "anticipate," "targeting" or similar words. Such forward-looking statements, such as our expectation for revenues, new orders, and income, involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward looking statements are, but are not limited to, uncertainties in market demand for the company's products or the products of its customers, future actions by competitors, inability to deliver product on time, inability to implement its growth strategies or to integrate new operations, inability to realize synergies from its acquisitions, inability to raise capital, inability to retain key employees or hire new employees, and other factors discussed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward looking statements made in this news release are made as of the date hereof and Photonic Products Group, Inc. does not assume any obligation to update publicly any forward looking statement. | 946 | -1,073,455,918,593,826,400 | 2009-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
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The following dataset is constructed using entirely historical data up to the cutoff date "31-12-2013". The data comes from the WMT News dataset (https://data.statmt.org/news-crawl/en/) and Wikipedia. This dataset is the training dataset for a GPT-2-small-based model, and is available on Huggingface at the following location: "TiMa/TiMaGPT2-2013".
The dataset uses the same license as the WMT News dataset (https://data.statmt.org/news-crawl/README) as this is the less permissive license of the datasets that create this training dataset, further details are outlined in the paper.
Please refer to and cite the following paper when using this dataset in any downstream applications:
@inproceedings{drinkall-tima-2024, title = "Time Machine GPT", author = "Drinkall, Felix and Zohren, Stefan and Pierrehumbert, Janet", booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024", month = june, year = "2024", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics" }
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