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Would Strauss-Kahn's Downfall Mean More IMF Democratization? Last week, a high-ranking International Monetary Fund official lectured a conference of Latin American central bankers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, about not letting their economic booms overheat into financial crises. It's the sort of warning that any country should of course heed. But the IMF has lost a lot of clout in Latin America over the past decade - not just because its stern fiscal demands were widely blamed for worsening crises like Argentina's 2001 meltdown, but because as developing nations like Brazil, India and China build more macroeconomic muscle, they believe the Fund's leadership and philosophies are still too dominated by its U.S. and European founders. Which is why what happened a couple days later in New York probably matters more right now to those Latin central bankers than what they heard in Rio does. As Bloomberg's Sandrine Rastello points out in an excellent article today, the May 14 arrest of IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, for the alleged attempted rape of a Manhattan hotel maid, may do more than ruin a man touted as a future President of France. It's likely to fuel calls from Latin America and the rest of the developing world to drop the tradition whereby a European runs the IMF while an American runs its partner agency, the World Bank. As Eswar Prasad, a Brookings Institution senior fellow and former IMF official tells Rastello, "This event is likely to put into play the leadership and governance structure of the IMF in a dramatic and unanticipated manner." Things have been swinging in this direction already. Brazil, especially under former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, spent the past decade pushing open First World club doors for Third World up-and-comers - effectively turning the G-8, for example, into the G-20. As one high-ranking Brazilian diplomat reminds me, Brazil and kindred emerging powers like India are "committed to rendering decision-making processes in international bodies more representative, more democratic, more in tune with today's realities." Keeping the IMF and World Bank the economic equivalents of NATO, the diplomat adds, just perpetuates "the asymmetries of the past." And as Rastello points out, the IMF, which has grown to 187 members from the 45 it started with after World War II, was in fact democratizing under Strauss-Kahn. Or, as developing-nation leaders term it, the Fund was moving toward a more "merit-based" management approach. Last year, for example, rule changes gave China the third largest percentage of votes. But Strauss-Kahn's almost certain departure, and its ignominious circumstances, are just as certain to accelerate the push for a non-European to replace him. If that happens, his successor is more likely to be from Asia than from Latin America; but either way, the hope in emerging-market regions is that one of their own will be more in tune with the kind of "third-way" approach that Brazil took after the Argentine disaster - a hybrid of business-friendly fiscal discipline and poverty-busting social projects - instead of the narrower orthodoxy the IMF is known for. Meanwhile, Brazil's new President, Dilma Rousseff, is poised to announce a new program to eradicate extreme poverty at the same time economists are beginning to worry about inflationary pressures emerging again in Latin America's largest economy, now the world's seventh-largest. Regardless of who eventually replaces Strauss-Kahn - and where that person hails from - the IMF isn't likely to stop warning countries about those kinds of risks. blog comments powered by
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If you know so much about Ynetnews, how can it be that you never read www.jpost.com or www.haaretz.com or www.israelnn.com? They all have a similar feature, and all of them had it LONG before Ynetnews was even founded. Just this indicates that you are either totally ignorant of the facts or you were intentionally writing this as a commercial. Oh, and if you don't like the fact that in the chareidi world Yedioth is known as Idiot, send them an email and suggest that they write neutrally about chareidim. That will help more than denying the existance of any criticism against them (Yedioth). I have no problem with criticism on the article, although i think it should be writter in a tasteful manner and not the way you wrote it, and that is my only point. i have no issue with haredim or what they think about Yedioth, all i am saying is that there must be a better way to describe it other then saying Idiot on a wikipedia article. As for it being a commercial i totaly disagree and like i said feel free to modify and make it sound neutral and objective for all (isn't this what wiki is all about), and not to point out racist remarks in a blunt manner towards the newspaper, although criticism is fine by me. Davidoff
So explain how it can be that you had no knowledge at all of the existence of a 'talkback' feature on the abovementioned sites. Further, the 'Idiot' thing is merely to illustrate the expression used in the chareidi world when referring to Yedioth. There is nothing weird about it. I am not referring to Yedioth in that way - most chareidim do. And that's what the article says, and that's the way it is. If Yedioth doesn't like that, it should change its practices. Actually I would much rather see it the way Shuki wrote it, the way it looks now is not so nice. If you want to revert it to Shuki's version, feel free to do so. It looks fine now, with Shuki's edit. Thanks, issue resolved! I find Shuki's words very creative. Very nicely written. ==Notable articles==
If its notable you should explain why with apropriate source becouse the way I see its OR. See ORShrike
==Hacked?==
Is it true that Ynetnews was recently hacked by pro-Palestinian hackers as claimed in the following websites? http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20090102-pro-palestine-hackers-launch-offensive-israel-gaza-conflict
http://www.imemc.org/article/58292
If so, given the strong political meaning of the hacks, I would find it relevant enough to be included in the article. == Dates are wrongly attributed on many articles ==
Dates are wrongly attributed on around 170 Wikipedia articles by websites belonging to Yedioth Ahronoth such as Ynetnews and Ynet. "1995-06-20" is mentioned but that date is wrong. It would be great if people helped to correct them. --IRISZOOM (talk) | 721 | null | null | 584,791,293 | "2013-12-06T03:06:33" | Ynetnews | 2,015 |
==Personal life==
Barbarez is married to his high-school sweetheart Ana, who is from Mostar. They have two sons together, Filip-André (born 1994) and Sergio-Luis (1999). Barbarez is currently a member of the board of directors of the Hamburger SV. ==Career statistics==
===Club===
===International goals===
''Scores and results table. Bosnia and Herzegovina's goal tally first:
==Honours==
===Club===
Hannover 96
DFB-Pokal: 1991–92
Hamburger SV
DFB-Ligapokal: 2003
UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2005
===Individual===
Bundesliga Top Goalscorer (22 goals): 2000–01
Bosnian Footballer of the Year: 2001, 2003
==References==
1971 births
Living people
Bosnia and Herzegovina footballers
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate footballers
Bosnia and Herzegovina international footballers
FK Velež Mostar players
Hannover 96 players
1. FC Union Berlin players
F.C. Hansa Rostock players
Borussia Dortmund players
Hamburger SV players
Bayer 04 Leverkusen players
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
Expatriate footballers in Germany
Association football midfielders
Kicker-Torjägerkanone Award winners
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I'm not exactly sure what needs being mediated (though based on his various complaints about me I can make some guesses :), but I suppose that'll be presented by Sam. Bryan
==I. J. Good==
Why did you move I. J. Good to
I moved it because when I saw that article his name was listed as "Irving John Good", and so I foolishly assumed that it would be reasonable to have his article under a title of the form "firstname lastname" like most other biographical articles on Wikipedia. Unfortunately, the article failed to mention how nonsensical that would be; the "(called Jack)" had no useful context. Bryan
== New image markup ==
Hi, Bryan. I noticed that you used the new image markup at Alabama Hills. I should tell you that I converted a bunch of Sierra photos over to the new image markup (automatically generating thumbnails from the largest resolution). But, a lot of these photos were taken by mav, who pointed out that he not only downsampled to get the 300px, he also cropped. So, if we use the new image markup, we lose information. I reverted all of my changes (including in Alabama Hills, you can see in the history) and decided to wait for the image markup to allow a non-automatic thumbnail. Now, in the particular case of Alabama Hills, it looks OK: I don't believe that mav cropped here. I re-added my caption to the article. But, I wanted to give you a heads-up on the issue. Alabama Hills is OK - I didn't crop those thumbs. Okey-dokey. :) Bryan
==Thumbnail deletion==
Hi Brian! Here is an extract from Images for deletion:
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Abell.lensing.arp.300pix.jpg
Gravitational lens-thumb.jpg
Thumbnails made obsolete by the autothumbnail feature too Bryan
KEEP. I strongly object. I put Abell and Gravitational Lens pics onto WP. It's perfectly possible that if the new code proves unsuitable I might go back to the old code (for example, in the new code we can't have caption italics, caption text centring nor caption links). If thumbnails are deleted I'll have to reupload them which would be unacceptable. PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ABEL AND GRAVITATIONAL THUMBNAILS. Adrian Pingstone
Yes you can - just use the same old html markup but fmt the link as and your image will be limited to 250px. END OF EXTRACT
I don’t understand why thumbnails are being deleted at all since it would take 50000 of them to even make 1 Gigabyte (assuming each is 20K) and the entire WP database is 19 GB (if I remember correctly). Even though I’ve worked every day since January 2003 on illustrations I’ve still “only” put on 800 thumbnails. Thumbnails are not going to materially affect the size of WP and so are not really worth the trouble of transferring their names to IFD. However the stronger argument is that the new code is not fully satisfactory yet. We need to keep the ability to revert to the old code (and therefore use the old thumbs) if it was ever necessary. I would very much appreciate it if you do not list on IFD any thumbs with file names containing arp or ***pix. I don’t understand how Jiang’s code solves my problems with the new code. The old caption standard was italics, text centred and links were possible. None of that works now. I already know the code for setting thumbnail size. Do you know the code for the three caption adjustments I can’t do? I hope you can understand my concerns and leave my thumbnails off IFD. Best Wishes,
Adrian Pingstone
The reason I've been putting them up for deletion is not space concerns, but simply because they're orphans and I don't see them becoming non-orphans again at any point in the future now that there's code for thumbnailing. Even if you have a problem with the current formatting of image captions, you can still use the autothumbnail feature to get exactly the same result as before; try ced you here Requests for comment/Bryan Derksen in regards to your trolling. I will no longer be communicating with you. Sam Spade
Well, thank God for that. | 990 | null | null | 74,660,448 | "2006-09-09T04:33:49" | Bryan Derksen/Archive 5 | 2,015 |
== Inaccurate/Oversimplified Mechanism ==
The mechanism image is not quite correct; the product is not protonated until the addition of acid. The product is more acidic than the starting material, so the regenerated alkoxide would deprotonate the product in preference to the starting material. The deprotonation is mechanistically important as it drives the reaction thermodynamically. Agreed, the mechanism is not correct but it appears that it is taught this way a lot, all of the University/.edu web pages I looked through on a quick google search seemed to teach this oversimplified mechanism. I've found the complete/accurate mechanism in Solomons Organic Chemistry 6th edn from page 860 onwards. Meltyman (talk)
I think the mechanism of the very similar Aldol condensation gives a good impression how it really works. For anyone who wants to work on it, the mechanism is here. It has the beta-keto ester anion in the second last step, which is then protonated to the neutral molecule. Meltyman (talk)
...The problem was dealt with by the User:Thezookeeper, but then this section was deleted from the talk page which shouldn't be done. I restored this section to the talk page. Meltyman (talk)
== Requires beautification ==
The reaction schemes all have a different font size. It would be nice if they were about the same size. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.131.34.24 (talk)
== J. G. Schmidt? ==
This reaction is often also credited to a "J. G. Schmidt" (i.e. Claisen-Schmidt reaction). This article makes no mention of this. CrocodilesAreForWimps (talk) | 401 | null | null | 507,699,073 | "2012-08-16T15:31:40" | Claisen condensation | 2,015 |
Associated Press Pope Francis, Time magazine's 2013 Person of the Year, is seen an undated photo of the magazine cover provided by Time, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Time said the Catholic church's new leader has changed the perception of his organization in an extraordinary way in a short time. (AP Photo/ Pope Francis, Time magazine's 2013 Person of the Year, is seen an undated photo of the magazine cover provided by Time, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Time said the Catholic church's new leader has changed the perception of his organization in an extraordinary way in a short time. (AP Photo/ Pope Francis waves during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Pope Francis has been selected by Time magazine as the Person of the Year. In only his first year, the Pope was selected by the magazine's editors as the person who had the greatest impact on the world, for good or bad, during 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Pope Francis waves as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Pope Francis has been selected by Time magazine as the Person of the Year. In only his first year, the Pope was selected by the magazine's editors as the person who had the greatest impact on the world, for good or bad, during 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Pope Francis waves as he leaves after his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Pope Francis has been selected by Time magazine as the Person of the Year. In only his first year, the Pope was selected by the magazine's editors as the person who had the greatest impact on the world, for good or bad, during 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) NEW YORK (AP) - Time magazine selected Pope Francis as its Person of the Year on Wednesday, saying the Catholic Church's new leader has changed the perception of the 2,000-year-old institution in an extraordinary way in a short time. The pope beat out NSA leaker Edward Snowden for the distinction, which the newsmagazine has been giving each year since 1927. The former Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected in March as the first pope from Latin America and the first Jesuit. Since taking over at the Vatican, he has urged the Catholic Church not to be obsessed with "small-minded rules" and to emphasize compassion over condemnation in dealing with touchy topics like abortion, gays and contraception. He has denounced the world's "idolatry of money" and the "global scandal" that nearly 1 billion people today go hungry, and has charmed the masses with his simple style and wry sense of humor. His appearances draw tens of thousands of people and his @Pontifex Twitter account recently topped 10 million followers. "He really stood out to us as someone who has changed the tone and the perception and the focus of one of the world's largest institutions in an extraordinary way," said Nancy Gibbs, the magazine's managing editor. The Vatican said the honor wasn't surprising given the resonance in the general public that Francis has had, but it nevertheless said the choice was a "positive" recognition of spiritual values in the international media. "The Holy Father is not looking to become famous or to receive honors," said the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi. "But if the choice of Person of Year helps spread the message of the Gospel - a message of God's love for everyone - he will certainly be happy about that." It was the third time a Catholic pope had been Time's selection. John Paul II was selected in 1994 and John XXIII was chosen in 1962. In Argentina on Wednesday, Padre Toto, one of the many "slum priests" the pope supported for years as archbishop of Buenos Aires, praised Time magazine's selection. "I think the recognition of Time magazine is good news, because Pope Francis embodies one of the values of a church that's more missionary, closer to the people, more austere, more in keeping with the gospel," Toto said. "He had the genius of knowing how to express this sense of the church and hopefully his way of being will catch on with other political leaders, business executives, sports figures. His leadership is inspiring." Besides Snowden, Time had narrowed its finalists down to gay rights activist Edith Windsor, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Syrian President Bashar Assad. President Barack Obama was Time's selection for 2012. Time editors make the selection. The magazine polled readers for their choice, and the winner was Egyptian General Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who didn't even make the top 10 of Time's final list. | 1,009 | 7,113,277,200,503,571,000 | 2013-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
England failed to qualify for Euro 2008 but were back among the world elite in South Africa four years ago. Rooney, fresh off perhaps his best season at club level, led the line for Capello but failed to score as England barely made the final 16. Then, two years ago in the Ukraine and Poland, England were perhaps at their strongest in the Rooney era yet couldn't deliver. The man himself missed the first two games through suspension but he came back to lead them into quarter-final battle against Italy. They went out on penalties again. The next month or so will reveal much about the future - and legacy - of Wayne Rooney. Originally published as Rooney's career at a crossroads
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BOTH clubs had access to the best young talent in the country in their early draft years and have only recently started having more picks past the first or second round. So, officially, it's hard to single out one player from each club at this stage. However, based on potential, Touk Miller (Pick 29, 2014 national draft) could be a steal for Gold Coast, after the midfielder was just one of two Suns players to play every game in 2015. At the Giants, James Stewart (Pick 27, 2012 national draft) could turn into a handy player. Hawthorn - Paul Puopolo (Pick 66, 2010 national draft) WHO would've thought this pint-sized SANFL product would become a three-time premiership player with one of the great sides of the modern AFL era? A tackling machine and goal sneak, the speedy Puopolo isn't necessarily one of the Hawks" best players, but certainly one of their most valuable. One of the great footy stories. Melbourne - Tom McDonald (Pick 53, 2010 national draft) AN EMERGING key defender, McDonald had a breakout season in 2015, ranking 10th in the league for marks per game and sixth for spoils. Whether he's one-on-one with his opponent or helping out teammates as the loose man in defence, McDonald rarely makes mistakes in the air or with ball in hand. He also showed in his breakout season that he could push forward and have an impact. North Melbourne - Brent Harvey (Pick 47, 1995 national draft) WHAT more can we say about Boomer? A pick 47 who now sits second on the list for most AFL/VFL games ever played, Harvey is, obviously, a huge steal. A premiership player, four-time All-Australian and five-time best and fairest winner, Harvey's record speaks for itself. Port Adelaide - Robbie Gray (Pick 55, 2006 national draft) SINCE overcoming his early career injuries, the classy Gray has developed into one of the best midfielders and half-forwards in the competition over the past three seasons. The 27-year-old continued his rise up the individual ranks in 2015, ranking second in the league for goal assists per game, third for clearances and sixth for contested possessions. Could still get better. Richmond - Shane Edwards (Pick 26, 2006 national draft) A PLAYER who just continues to get better with the more games he plays, Edwards pushed for All-Australia selection in 2015, despite being hampered by calf and leg injuries. Not only does he apply outstanding forward pressure, he's developed his decision making and creativity skills with ball in hand. With over 150 games under his belt, Edwards has been a wonderful servant for the Tigers, hence why he was recently rewarded with a three-year contract extension. St Kilda - Jack Steven (Pick 47, 2007 national draft) AFTER struggling to break in to the Saints" star-studded line-up between 2008 and 2010, Steven has cemented his spot over the past five years, quickly developing into an elite midfielder. He took a big step up in 2015, averaging 27 disposals per game while laying more tackles and driving the ball inside forward 50 more than ever. At 25 and with 112 games to his name, Steven still has ample upside. Sydney Swans - Luke Parker (Pick 40, 2010 national draft) IT'S no wonder Parker has reportedly been heavily courted by other clubs this year, such has been the impact he's had on the competition in a short space of time. A tough, contested ball animal, Parker is already a premiership player and best and fairest winner at the age of 23. Will only get better. West Coast Eagles - Mark LeCras (Pick 37, 2004 national draft) ONE of the most dangerous and accurate small forwards in the competition, LeCras has averaged at least one goal per game in each of his 10 AFL seasons so far. And as the seasons have progressed, the blonde-headed Eagle has continued to win more of the footy, averaging a career-high 18 disposals and five marks per game in 2015, while also ranking sixth in the league for goal assists. Western Bulldogs - Tory Dickson (Pick 57, 2011 national draft) ALSO known as Tory Deadeye Dick-son, such is his near impeccable goalkicking accuracy. In his 57-game career to date, Dickson has kicked 98.32, including 50.12 in 2012. Remember it wasn't long ago when the small forward was tearing the Eastern Football League to shreds, slotting goals for fun for Noble Park in Division 1. Originally published as National draft bargains: Your club's steals
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==2006 Vandalism==
This article is a persistent recent target of vandalism (September 2006). The vandalism has persisted unfixed for 2 days sometimes. PLEASE add this article to your watch lists, for everyone who has contributed good edits. Mdrejhon
==A Nasty Typo==
Reading the article, I noticed a typo in the term "parachute rigger" - on five occasions, the "r" in "rigger" appears as an "n". I suggest a hasty correction. Fixed. Thanks for bringing this to attention. Rklawton
==Rewrite Needed==
I propose rewriting/reorganizing all parachuting related articles to make them more readable and navigable. Check out my sandbox for my current outline: Rklawton/Sandbox Rklawton
Your outline looks good to me. One point though; there's no need to separate every smallest component of a rig into an article of its own, or to have a separate article for high-speed and low-speed mals until the articles grow too big. "Parachuting" is too big at the moment; it should be split to several articles. However, there is no information on malfunctions at the moment so there is no justification for creating separate articles for them just yet. Skydiver
I agree. Rklawton
In principal it is a good thing, BUT there are serious problems the way the new structure invents distinctions between skydiving and parachuting. It is all skydiving, even a static line jump is refered to as a skydive by all skydivers and instructors in the sport. Technically you are in freefall until the end of the static line engages your deployment system. Sport jumpers use static line deployment as a training method and count it as skydives. Military calls sport jumps HALO jumps and uses modern sport equipment or very similar, they have adopted all the sport innovations including military using AFF jump training used in the sport world. Deployment system details are barely worthy of mention in this article it should be left for gear articles (it is see pilot chute), all use pilot chutes (except direct bag and that's typically BASE jumping). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.152.161.185 (talk • contribs). == Camera flying copyvio ==
The extremely long section about camera flying was copied verbatim from I replaced it with a two-sentence stub. Could someone who is familiar with camera flying write something from scratch? Thanks! Skydiving is Parachuting and is called skydiving by participants
Even a static line jump counts as a skydive for the short period until the end of the line. All people who actually jump call it skydiving including static line jumps. A skydiver, military included will ask how many skydives or jumps they have they never refer to the activity as parachuting. BASE is a different sport and there is a disticntion, a BASE jump uses a parachute descent but is not a skydive, BASE jumping already has a separate article. The text below draws many false distinctions for example the military uses very similar equipment to sports skydivers for HALO and would call an average sports jump a HALO jump, special forces even train using the same methods initially (AFF for the first few jumps). A true military HALO jump typically starts at altitudes requiring oxygen bottles (due to Surface-to-Air Missile threat), and in combat, canopy openings may be low enough to not be considered safe (i.e. insufficient for reserve chute opening). HALO jumping is taught in "Advanced Freefall" schools. Air temps at those altitudes are sub-zero. Not your average freefall jumps. HALO jumping was pioneered by MAC-V Studies and Observations Group (SOG) for use in Vietnam. Refer to "SOG: The Secret War of America's Commandos in Vietnam" by John L. Plaster Caisson 06 (talk)
Calling this "Parachuting" just makes it sound like this whole thing is written by whuffos DO NOT SPLIT THIS, and start calling it by the correct name, thanks my 2c (yup, I am a skydiver). I suggest you call this "skydiving" redirect parachuting to it, and structure the article appropriately, do not split and CERTAINLY do not split skydiving with parachuting, that would be a complete mess and an emarrassment for wikipedia. If you disagree go to a dropzone and get a skydiving license before editing this article SERIOUSLY. | 1,016 | null | null | 692,988,197 | "2015-11-29T18:17:29" | Parachuting | 2,015 |
Finding scarce food and toilet paper in Venezuela -- there's an app for that CARACAS, Venezuela - Harried Venezuelans who devote hours scouring supermarkets for increasingly scarce food basics and toilet paper have just received some digital help thanks to a young software developer. A free application for mobile devices written by Jose Augusto Montiel lets people notify one another where flour, sugar, milk, cooking oil and toilet paper are for sale. It has been downloaded more than 12,000 times. 'From what I've seen so far it's mostly toilet paper, followed by flour.' - App developer Jose Augusto Montiel The app, known as Abasteceme, or Supply Me, is Android-based and relies on Google Maps for geolocation. It leverages what is known in the tech world as crowdsourcing, with users notifying one another where a certain product is for sale. Basic items such as wheat flour and butter have gone missing on store shelves throughout Venezuela. Economists blame government-imposed price controls, while President Nicolas Maduro says greedy merchants are hoarding goods. "From what I've seen so far it's mostly toilet paper, followed by flour," Montiel said about what gets posted most. The 21-year-old chemical engineering student in the western city of Maracaibo said most of Abasteceme's users were in Caracas when he first made the app available on the Google Play website on May 29. "But now it has spread all over the country," he said. He said it's been overwhelming keeping the server that hosts the application from crashing and attending to users, who he says are clamoring for him to include more products. "People are asking for chicken, butter and soap above all," he said. Montiel said he also deletes a lot of entries when people notify him that supplies of a certain product have sold out. The program is designed to automatically erase notifications in two hours, he said. Montiel said he has no help beyond his sister, who assists with the program's aesthetics. "I'm also working to develop it for the Blackberry as a lot of people have them in Venezuela," he said. He said he wants to work on an iPhone version but can't afford a Mac to do that. He said he's earning just enough to cover costs.
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Kevin Sinfield cleared for a shot at Lewis Jones' all-time Leeds points-scoring record on Friday The former Crusaders favourite was charged by the Rugby Football League's match review panel with illegal use of the forearm on Hull KR stand-off Craig Hall during his side's 36-24 win at Craven Park on Saturday. The RFL says Sammut opted to enter an early-guilty plea in return for a one-match ban. Hull prop Mark O'Meley also admitted his guilt after being charged with dangerous play during his side's 22-10 win at St Helens and accepted a one-match ban which will rule him out of Sunday's home game against Widnes. Warrington utility player Stefan Ratchford is set to miss the next three months after being told he needs to undergo shoulder surgery. The 23 year-old, who has been an ever-present since joining the Wolves from Salford in the close season, hurt his shoulder in his side's 26-18 defeat at Leeds on Friday night. A club spokesman said: "Following an assessment of his shoulder, Warrington Wolves can confirm that Stefan will undergo surgery this evening and is expected to be out for up to 12 weeks." Veteran forward Nick Fozzard has confirmed his retirement from the game owing to a shoulder injury. The 35-year-old former Great Britain international, who was seeing out the final year of his career with Championship side Dewsbury, has a torn rotator cuff in his shoulder and has ended his time as a player early as a result. "I am gutted that we have lost a player of this calibre," said Dewsbury coach Warren Jowitt. "He would not have been back for nine months and he is devastated that his career has ended." A Challenge Cup and World Club Challenge winner with St Helens, Fozzard became one of the most feared front-rowers in the Super League with the Saints and was named in the 2007 Dream Team as a result. He also played for Leeds, Huddersfield, Warrington and Hull KR, as well as having another spell with the Saints. His last season in Super League came last year with Castleford.
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Joly compare Dieudonné au tueur Breivik, mais critique Valls Joly compare Dieudonné au tueur Breivik, mais critique Valls (AFP) - Il y a 23 minutes Paris - L'eurodéputée EELV Eva Joly a comparé mercredi Dieudonné au tueur norvégien Breivik, tous deux, selon elle, habités par "la haine," mais a jugé "dangereuse" la circulaire ministérielle visant à interdire le comédien et polémiste. "Dieudonné attise la haine en France et cela n'est pas supportable," a déclaré sur RTL l'ex-candidate à l'Elysée. "C'est très dangereux. Vous vous souvenez de Breivik en Norvège, 82 personnes tuées en exécution d'une haine bâtie de longue haleine. Dieudonné fait la même chose en France, il excite la haine antisémite et c'est totalement insupportable," a déclaré l'ex-magistrate d'origine norvégienne. L'extrémiste de droite Anders Behring Breivik avait commis un massacre de masse en juillet 2011 au nom de la lutte contre le multiculturalisme. Dieudonné "doit être combattu par les moyens légaux de la République, nous avons un système judiciaire, nous avons des incriminations d'incitation à la haine raciale" qu'il "suffit de constater et réprimer," selon celle qui fut juge d'instruction. Mais dans cette affaire,a-t-elle dit, "les moyens de la justice" n'ont "pas été employés d'une façon performante." La circulaire de Manuel Valls aux préfets visant à faire interdire la tournée de Dieudonné "me semble dangereuse," a poursuivi Mme Joly. "On fait une publicité insensée à Dieudonné, on donne une importance absolument disproportionnée à ce bonhomme," et "on expose la République, parce que qu'adviendra-t-il si les arrêtés préfectoraux étaient annulés?." "La tactique choisie par Manuel Valls n'est pas la bonne," selon elle. Le ministre de l'Intérieur a transmis aux préfets une circulaire énumérant les outils juridiques pour interdire les spectacles de Dieudonné, plusieurs fois condamné pour antisémitisme. Jean-Vincent Placé, chef de file des sénateurs écologistes, avait soutenu mardi cette initiative "volontariste et juste" Copyright © AFP 2014. Tous droits réservés. Plus "
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The Académie de l'air et de l'espace (AAE) is the French national Air and Space Academy. Established in 1983 in Toulouse on the initiative of André Turcat, the aims of the academy are the following: "To encourage the development of high quality scientific, technical, cultural and human actions in the realms of Air and Space, promote knowledge in these areas and constitute a focal point for activities". Its members, who come from all walks of aerospace life : pilots, astronauts, scientists, engineers, doctors, manufacturers, economists, lawyers, artists... all work together to achieve these essential goals. Its President is Gerard Brachet. == History ==
=== The vow of Colonel Edmond Petit ===
The idea of an air academy dates to 1954. Colonel Edmond Petit, then Head of Information of the Air Force service and literary editor of the French Air Force magazine, published numerous articles campaigning in favor of such an institution since the year 1954. He saw it mainly as an academy for French language texts on aeronautics, where the French Academy was "completely incompetent" and as the place to be able to develop History of aviation. === The establishment of the Academy because of the reputation of André Turcat ===
This project could not be completed until 1983, in a broader form. It is the former chief test pilot of the Concorde, André Turcat, who got the National Academy of Air and Space out of limbo as much through his reputation within French aeronautics as well as with the municipal authorities of Toulouse. The material support of La Ville Rose allowed the installation of the Academy on the site of the former Jolimont observatory and, for the hundredth anniversary of the first human flight, the thirty five founding members gathered on November 21, 1983 in a plenary assembly. Incorporated under the association law of 1901, declared a public utility in 1987, the Academy has declared its objectives to "encourage the development of high quality scientific, technical, cultural and human actions in the realms of Air and Space, promote knowledge in these areas and constitute a focal point for activities." === International Influence ===
The Academy organizes international conferences and forums, presents exhibitions, gives out awards or medals to people who have made distinguished contributions. It regularly publishes, every two or three months, "The Letter of the Academy" presenting several pages on a relevant aeronautical subject. Works on a larger scale result in publications by the Academy itself (as papers) or by private publishers (as books). By statute, the Air and Space Academy has sixty French members, thirty foreign associates, honorary members (chosen from amongst the pioneers of aeronautics and space), and correspondents who ensure an ongoing connection to the current activities of the aerospace world. Its members become honorary at the age of 75 or upon their request, while continuing, at their convenience, to take part in the work of the Academy. Members may join different sections according to their speciality. These five areas are:
scientific knowledge of air and space
applied sciences and technology of air and space
human presence and activities of air and space
ethics, law, sociology, and economics of air and space
history, literature, and arts of air and space
At the request of one of the tenured or honorary members, committees may be established to deal with current issues. In 2007 the academy adopted the name "Air and Space Academy". == References ==
== External links ==
Académie de l'air et de l'espace website
Clubs and societies in France
Organizations established in 1983
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The Maróczy Bind () is a pawn formation in chess, named after the Hungarian grandmaster Géza Maróczy and primarily, but not exclusively, played against the Sicilian Defence. It is characterized by white pawns on c4 and e4, with White's d-pawn having been exchanged for Black's c-pawn. White's c- and e-pawns control the d5 square, making it difficult for Black to free his position with...d5; Black often settles for the less active...d6 instead. Black often employs a Hedgehog formation against the Bind. ==History==
The first game known to feature the Maróczy Bind was Swiderski–Maróczy, Monte Carlo 1904. Oddly, no games are known where Maróczy played it as White. However, the 1906 March–April issue of the Wiener Schachzeitung reproduced from Magyar Sakklap Maróczy's annotations to the game Tarrasch–Marshall, Nuremberg (match) 1905 (which began 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.Nf3 a6 4.Nxd4 g6 5.Be2 Bg7 6.Nc3 Nc6). "On four consecutive moves (moves 3–6) Maróczy stressed the value of the move c4." For several decades, it was generally considered tantamount to a positional blunder for Black to allow the Maróczy Bind. For example, Harry Golombek, in Capablanca's 100 Best Games of Chess (1947), gave a question mark to Black's fourth move in the line 1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6, a form of the Accelerated Dragon variation of the Sicilian Defence, stating that 4...Nf6 was "necessary" to make White block his with 5.Nc3 and thus avoid the Bind. Golombek gave an exclamation point to 5.c4, establishing the Bind, explaining "This strong move gives White control of the centre and Black must grovel about to find a counter-attack." Reuben Fine, writing in 1948, also considered the Bind very strong for White. Beginning in the 1950s, the Maróczy Bind became less feared as new methods were found for Black to combat it. The ninth edition of Modern Chess Openings (1957) stated that Black had "worked loose" from the structures of the Bind. Larry Evans wrote in the tenth edition (1965) that in response to the Accelerated Dragon, the Maróczy Bind "was once considered a refutation but now has lost much of its punch. White retains an advantage in space but Black's position is fundamentally sound." That remains the prevailing view, but some recent writers still emphasize that Black must find active counterplay or else be "strangled". However, John Nunn and Joe Gallagher observe: Although the Maroczy Bind is slightly passive for Black, players such as Larsen, Petursson and Velimirović have shown that by patiently waiting for a lapse of concentration from White this line can offer winning chances for Black. The theoretical opinion is that White should maintain a slight advantage, but no one should believe that this is a line in which White cannot lose. ==Common opening lines==
Common opening lines that reach a Maróczy Bind position include:
The Accelerated Dragon variation of the Sicilian Defence: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6, followed by 5.c4. (See diagram.) The Taimanov Variation of the Sicilian: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6, followed by 5.Nb5 d6 6.c4. The Kan Variation of the Sicilian: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6, followed by 5.c4. The Petrosian Variation of the Queen's Indian Defence: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.a3 Ba6 5.Qc2 Bb7 6.Nc3 c5 7.e4 cxd4 8.Nxd4. | 978 | null | null | 640,959,286 | "2015-01-04T16:17:57" | Maróczy Bind | 2,015 |
Royal wedding: official photographs of Prince William and Kate released The final image adds the bride and groom's parents - the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and Michael and Carole Middleton - along with the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, best man Prince Harry, Kate's sister Pippa, her maid of honour, and brother James. In the picture, Charles wore the ceremonial uniform of the Welsh Guards but was shown in a very relaxed seated pose with his arm across the back of an ornate chair. Mr Burnand, married to Louisa and with four children, has also taken pictures of William and Harry and the Queen. The photographer followed tradition and posed the wedding party in Buckingham Palace's lavish throne room. In the picture showing just the couple they are arm in arm with the bride holding her bouquet in her left hand. The simple shot shows they are still excited after saying their vows less than two hours earlier. The large group shot of the whole wedding party is more formal, with William's family on his right while Kate's relatives are on the other side. The Queen and Duke are seated with a beaming Charles and his youngest son Harry standing behind them. At the end is Camilla holding the hand of her granddaughter, Eliza Lopes, one of the bridesmaids, while pageboy Tom Pettifer and another bridesmaid, Grace van Cutsem, stand nearby. Kate's family - Michael, Carole, James and Pippa - smile broadly, with the rest of the young bridal party in front of them - bridesmaids Margarita Armstrong-Jones and Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor with pageboy Billy Lowther-Pinkerton.
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This paper cup can be recycled -- unlike the 50 billion that end up in landfills By James Frater, CNN July 2, 2014 -- Updated 0938 GMT (1738 HKT)
50 billion paper cups end in U.S. landfills every year because they can't be recycled A British inventor has come up with a fully recyclable paper cup to cut this number down Once recycled, paper cup cardboard can be used up to further seven times Editor's note: Do you recycle your coffee cups? Share your views in the comments below or on Twitter using hashtag #CNNBusinessView. (CNN) -- Chances are if you bought your favorite coffee in a paper cup this morning, that cup cannot be recycled. 50 billion cups in the U.S. end up in landfills every year -- enough that if placed end to end, they would go to the moon and back roughly five times. British inventor Martin Myerscough was puzzled by this and has now come up with an alternative to make the recycling process easier. Most paper cups are made from cardboard with a thin layer of plastic tightly attached on to the cup. This keeps the drink warm and prevents the cardboard from becoming soggy. But it also makes the cup non-recyclable -- which comes as a surprise to many. A 2011 report by the UK-based consumer group Which? found that 8 in 10 people in the UK thought paper coffee cups could already be disposed of in paper recycling bins. The campaign group is now urging retailers to provide clearer information about recycling. Myerscough's Green Your Cup is different. "We went back a step, what we'll do is make the cup out of cardboard, without any plastic on it and we'll put a plastic liner in it afterwards," he said. This way the plastic lining can then be easily separated in a recycling plant -- the liner gets stuck in the filters, while the cardboard goes through and can be recycled and used up to further seven times as newspapers. Myerscough said there will be no difference to the consumer. "It will taste the same, it will look the same, you can put your lips to it the same. Instead of putting it in the general waste you put this in the recycling - that's it," he said. His company is now in talks with coffee shop chains and existing cup makers, in the hope the technology is adopted: "It'll take us till next year to get going properly. So the idea is to license the technology to existing cup makers, they can use part of their existing machines and buy our machine and bolt it on as well." Environment campaigners are praising the idea. "This goes to the heart of sustainable business practice and gives us all the chance to make better choices when we buy our favorite drink," Rainforest Alliance's Stuart Singleton-White said. Part of complete coverage on The Business View Nina dos Santos is a news anchor and correspondent based in London. She is the host of CNN International's show The Business View. June 13, 2014 -- Updated 1529 GMT (2329 HKT) Iraq produces 3.3 million barrels per day and has the world's fourth-largest oil reserves. But the current crisis is putting all this in danger. June 27, 2014 -- Updated 1527 GMT (2327 HKT) Who will lead the fractured European Union for the next five years? The question has caused weeks of bickering in already fractured EU. June 18, 2014 -- Updated 1222 GMT (2022 HKT) Sandwiched in between Iraq and Syria, Jordan's destiny seems to be one of a constant struggle for survival. John Defterios explains. June 16, 2014 -- Updated 1314 GMT (2114 HKT) The gas standoff between Russia and Ukraine could have a knock-on effect on Europe. Explore this map to find out why is the EU nervous. June 5, 2014 -- Updated 1416 GMT (2216 HKT) Bob Mazzer has photographed inside London's Tube network for 40 years. He's captured history. June 17, 2014 -- Updated 1206 GMT (2006 HKT) The UK capital promotes its tech stars and shows it can compete with Silicon Valley. Here are five companies that pitch to make it big. June 3, 2014 -- Updated 1029 GMT (1829 HKT) As debate rages over whether Banksys should be for sale, we direct you to the ones you can still see on the streets. June 2, 2014 -- Updated 1338 GMT (2138 HKT) While Ukraine's fight for freedom gets bloodier by the day and Russia faces the West's cold shoulder, one oligarch is using art to get his message across. May 29, 2014 -- Updated 1613 GMT (0013 HKT) | 1,011 | 8,189,292,757,998,860,000 | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
The Roman Holidays is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on NBC from September 9, 1972 to December 2, 1972. It ran for 13 episodes before being cancelled, and reruns were later shown on the USA Cartoon Express during the 1980s. ==Plot==
Very similar in theme to both The Flintstones and The Jetsons, The Roman Holidays brought a look at "modern-day" life in Ancient Rome, around 63 AD (with a 1970s touch), as seen through the eyes of Augustus "Gus" Holiday and his family. The opening showed a chariot traffic jam and a TV showing football on Channel "IV" (NBC was seen on TV Channel 4 in cities like New York, Los Angeles, San Antonio and Boston). An Ancient Roman setting was actually one of the ideas that Hanna-Barbera considered as they were working to create The Flintstones. Gus, his wife Laurie, their daughter Precocia (who, besides being the youngest of the family, is very intellectual) and their teen-aged son Happius,(nicknamed "Hap") reside in the Venus de Milo Arms run by their landlord Mr. Evictus, who excites Gus's tagline "Evictus will evict us!". Gus works for a bossy supervisor named Mr. Tycoonius at the Forum Construction Company, and after a hard day's marble lifting, he was greeted by the Holidays' pet, a lion named Brutus (who sounded a bit like Snagglepuss). Rounding out the cast is Hap's girlfriend, Groovia. Like many Hanna-Barbera series produced in the 1970s, the show was given a laugh track. ==Episodes==
==Cast==
Daws Butler - Brutus the Lion
Dom DeLuise - Mr. Evictus
Pamelyn Ferdin - Precocia Holiday
Stanley Livingston - Happius Holiday
Shirley Mitchell - Laurie Holiday
Harold Peary - Herman (Groovia's father)
Hal Smith - Mr. Tycoonius
John Stephenson -
Judy Strangis - Groovia (Happius' girlfriend)
Janet Waldo - Henrietta (Groovia's mother)
Dave Willock - Gus Holiday
==The Roman Holidays in other languages==
Brazilian Portuguese: Os Mussarelas ("The Mozzarellas")
Galician: Festas de Roma ("Roma´s Parties")
German: Die verrückten Holidays ("The Crazy Holidays")
Spanish: Roma me da risa ("Rome makes me laugh")
Italian: S.P.Q.R. - Sembrano Proprio Quasi Romani ("They really seem almost Roman")
==Comics==
Gold Key produced a comic book based on the series from November 1972 to August 1973. Only four issues were published. Pete Alvarado drew the first three; Jack Manning drew the final issue. ==Home Media releases==
The first episode, "Double Date", is available on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s Volume 1. On April 23, 2013, Warner Archive released The Roman Holidays: The Complete Series on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna–Barbera Classics Collection. This is a manufacture-on-demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com. ==References==
==External links==
Episode Guide
==See Also==
Asterix
1972 American television series debuts
NBC network shows
Fiction set in ancient Rome
Hanna-Barbera series and characters
1970s American animated television series
1973 American television series endings
USA Cartoon Express
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Columbia Falls (Salish: nq̓éyɫkʷm) is a city in Flathead County, Montana, United States. The population was 4,688 at the 2010 census. ==Geography==
Columbia Falls is located at (48.370379, -114.188943). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of, all of it land. The town is known as nq̓eyɫkʷm in Salish. == History ==
The Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls has served veterans since 1896. Its current housing facility was opened by Montana Governor Forrest H. Anderson at an official dedication ceremony in 1970. An E. M. Viquesney statue of a WWI doughboy was moved to the front of the Veterans' Home in 1972. The statue "originally stood in Kalispell, Montana, in the Main Street median in front of the Flathead County Courthouse." ==Demographics==
===2010 census===
As of the census of 2010, there were 4,688 people, 1,863 households, and 1,215 families residing in the city. The population density was. There were 1,994 housing units at an average density of. The racial makeup of the city was 94.4% White, 0.2% African American, 1.8% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 0.3% from other races, and 2.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.8% of the population. There were 1,863 households of which 35.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.9% were married couples living together, 12.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.5% had a male householder with no wife present, and 34.8% were non-families. 28.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 11% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.02. The median age in the city was 35.6 years. 26% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 26.8% were from 25 to 44; 25.3% were from 45 to 64; and 13.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.1% male and 51.9% female. ===2000 census===
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,645 people, 1,400 households, and 966 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,402.9 people per square mile (925.9/km²). There were 1,470 housing units at an average density of 969.1 per square mile (373.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 96.27% White, 0.25% African American, 1.23% Native American, 0.49% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 0.41% from other races, and 1.26% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.84% of the population. There were 1,400 households out of which 36.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.0% were married couples living together, 12.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.0% were non-families. 25.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.06. In the city the population was spread out with 28.3% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 28.6% from 25 to 44, 21.5% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 99.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.4 males. The median income for a household in the city was $31,128, and the median income for a family was $40,794. Males had a median income of $32,109 versus $20,023 for females. The per capita income for the city was $14,355. | 988 | null | null | 691,734,520 | "2015-11-21T21:20:19" | Columbia Falls, Montana | 2,015 |
Pakistan Taliban warns government of revenge attacks By Saima Mohsin, CNN November 8, 2013 -- Updated 1003 GMT (1803 HKT)
The Pakistan Taliban say Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif turned Pakistan into a U.S. colony They say they blame him for the death of their former leader, who died in a U.S. drone strike The terrorist group vows revenge attacks, starting with Sharif's home province of Punjab The group has chosen a new leader, who might be linked to the attack on Malala Yousafzai (CNN) -- The Pakistan Taliban has vowed to carry out revenge attacks on the national government after appointing a new leader following the death of their former chief in a U.S. drone strike. The terrorist group's new leader, Maulana Fazlullah, is a longtime militia commander possibly linked to the assassination attempt on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai. His elevation to the head of the extremist organization was announced Thursday. The grim warning to the Pakistani government came the same day from Asmatullah Shaheen, who served as interim leader before Fazlullah's appointment. Shaheen said the group would seek revenge against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his government for the death of former leader Hakimullah Mehsud, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in northwestern Pakistan last week. The initial focus of the attacks,he said, would be Punjab, Sharif's home province and political stronghold. "All areas will come under attack but Punjab will come first," Shaheen said. Punjab is Pakistan's most populous province. He blamed Sharif for turning Pakistan into a "colony" of the United States and for Mehsud's death. Shaheen said that proposed peace talks with the government are now off the table. There were never truly talks between the two sides, he said, and there never will be. The Pakistani government didn't respond to requests from CNN for comment on the matter. Afghan President criticizes U.S. drone strike that killed Pakistani Taliban leader Fazlullah, the new leader, is yet to make his own public statement following his elevation. He once led a Pakistan Taliban militia in the country's Swat region. The Pakistani military drove Fazlullah's group out of Pakistan in 2009, forcing it to operate from Afghanistan. Pakistani military sources said Fazlullah is believed to be in Afghanistan and is also believed to have been ordering attacks in Pakistan from there. Swat, in northwestern Pakistan, was where militants shot and wounded teen activist Malala in October 2012 as she was riding home from school in a van. The Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, and the Pakistani Interior Minister at the time, Rehman Malik, linked Fazlullah to the attack on Malala. Fazlullah is known as a hard-liner who broadcast fiery sermons and hard-line ideology via an extremist radio station, earning him the nickname "Mullah Radio." The station was shut down when he was pushed out of Pakistan. The group's Central Shura Council picked Fazlullah, along with a new deputy leader, Sheikh Khalid Haqqani. Pakistani Prime Minister: Drone strike won't derail Taliban peace talks Journalist Shaista Aziz contributed to this report. November 8, 2013 -- Updated 1759 GMT (0159 HKT) Photography beyond the news reports from CNN staff around the world. View this interactive projected path of Super Typhoon Haiyan that is lashing the Philippines. November 8, 2013 -- Updated 0148 GMT (0948 HKT) Holly Morris: The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident was the "world's worst." But many residents were unwilling to be displaced. November 8, 2013 -- Updated 1241 GMT (2041 HKT) Max Mosley, former chief executive of the FIA, explains his fight to have orgy photos removed, which he says were illegal. November 8, 2013 -- Updated 1126 GMT (1926 HKT) Old rice bags, fresh tree bark and condoms: This is football, rural Africa style, writes Jessica Hilltout. November 8, 2013 -- Updated 1214 GMT (2014 HKT) She has played football at the highest level for her country, but South Korea's Park Eun-seon is suffering "humiliating" scrutiny. November 8, 2013 -- Updated 0013 GMT (0813 HKT) Gena Somra reports on a retired attorney trying to eradicate the Nepalese practice of girls being sold by their families. November 8, 2013 -- Updated 0846 GMT (1646 HKT) CNN's Matthew Chance reports how Israel may be getting drawn into the Syrian war on its doorstep. November 8, 2013 -- Updated 1040 GMT (1840 HKT) | 1,015 | -1,911,558,055,449,922,600 | 2013-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Macrosiphoniella yomogifoliae is an aphid species. ==References==
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U.S. charges 3 in alleged rhino horn smuggling scheme WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Three people have been charged in Newark, N.J., New York and Miami with smuggling rhinoceros horns, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday. In a news release, the department said Zhifei Li, Shusen Wei and Qing Wang were charged as a result of "Operation Crash," a joint operation led by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the Justice Department to crack down on black market trade of endangered rhino horns. Li was charged in indictments handed up in Newark and Miami with conspiring to smuggle more than 20 raw rhino horns from the United States to Hong Kong in 2011 and 2012. Wei, described as a Chinese business executive and an associate of Li, faces charges of offering to bribe a federal agent in the Li case. Wang was charged in New York with participating in the smuggling of items made from rhino horns. The indictment alleges Li wired hundreds of thousands of dollars during a period of at least one year to a co-conspirator in the United States to fund purchases of rhinoceros horns. Wei is accused of smuggling the rhino horns by putting them in vases and mailing them to Hong Kong and China to a third party, in an effort to evade detection. Prosecutors said Li and Wei bought many of the horns from other co-conspirators in New Jersey. Li, who was arrested in January on charges previously filed in New Jersey, was also was indicted in Miami this week on wildlife trafficking and smuggling charges. He allegedly purchased two endangered black rhino horns from an undercover U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service agent while in Miami Beach, Fla., for the Original Miami Beach Antique Show.
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Men's surfing event to start on Gold Coast Date March 5, 2013 - 9:08AM
World surfing champion Joel Parkinson will begin his title defence on Tuesday after organisers gave the go-ahead to begin the season-opening Quiksilver Pro on the Gold Coast. The event will begin at 10am AEST with the first of 12 half-hour heats, with lengthy 1-1.5 metre waves (three to four foot) expected to provide some interesting competition on the day. Defending event champion Taj Burrow will be first up against fellow Australian Bede Durbidge and Brazil's Raoni Monteiro in the opening heat of the competition. Parkinson, who won his maiden world title last year, will compete against wildcard entrant Brent Dorrington and Matt Wilkinson in an all-Australian first-round clash. Advertisement That heat is scheduled to begin at approximately 12.30pm AEST. Legendary 11-times world champion Kelly Slater competes in the heat just before Parkinson's against American pair Kolohe Andino and Dane Reynolds. Brought to you by
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Especially during winter - no wind in the basin - sometimes occurs a bit of snowfall only in a let`s say 1 km radius of Marienhüttem which uses water to cool steel after being cast and rolled. http://www.marienhuette.at/images/contentimg/map.gif
== Definition ==
Maybe a stupid question, but if precipitation is defined as rain, hail, sleet, snowfall, etc., then why does the NOAA data for everywhere list snowfall averages that are greater in a given month than precipitation averages. I'm guessing that their data is from a rain gauge. Seems a little strange to use a definition that is different than NOAA's. Bradweir (talk)
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== Language options ==
If you look at the other languages on the Dutch wikipage of "Neerslag" it refers to this page. The Dutch page also got an enormous list of available languages. If I look at the available languages in this page it only shows a very limited number of available languages. Also it gives an error If I want to add the Dutch (Nederlands) page. I am not experienced/good at editing Wikipages so I was hoping someone can help me out. For your reference the Dutch page: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neerslag_(atmosfeer) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 11supplier (talk • contribs) | 388 | null | null | 688,061,656 | "2015-10-29T11:54:47" | Precipitation | 2,015 |
There are reports that some of those who have bought the blooms are trying to cash in on the enormous popularity of the installation by selling their flowers on internet auction site eBay for more than double their original price. An eBay spokesman told Britain's Daily Mail newspaper that such inappropriate listings would be canceled. Cameron praised all of those involved in the "extraordinary project," which he said had "brought forward from the British public a huge amount of reverence for those who have given their lives and served our country." "The numbers going to see this display have been truly extraordinary," he said at the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session in parliament, adding that money raised from the sale of the poppies was likely to fund valuable work by veterans' charities. Poppies have been used as a way of commemorating World War I for decades -- in Britain, thousands of paper flowers are sold for charity each year to be worn in people's lapels. The flowers grew over the battlefields of northern France and Belgium, inspiring one of the most famous poems written about the conflict, by John McCrae: "In Flanders fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row..." READ MORE: Poppy hijab honors Muslims, sparks controversy READ MORE: WWI battlefield soil carried to London for centenary
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Turkish Police and Protesters Clash in Istanbul's Taksim Square By Reem Makhoul Kostas Tsironis/Associated Press Scenes From Taksim Square: Footage from Turkey as clashes continue between protesters and the police in Istanbul's Taksim Square. ISTANBUL - Taksim Square was engulfed in chaos on Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning as riot police using tear gas and water cannons forced thousands of protesters from the square, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey struggled to contain a political crisis that has threatened the nation's economy and paralyzed the government. The square had been cleared by Wednesday morning, Reuters reported, though protesters remained in Gezi Park. For nearly two weeks, the prime minister has remained largely defiant, demanding that protesters leave the square, placing armed police officers on standby to sweep the area and insisting that the demonstrations were nothing like the Arab Spring protests that ousted entrenched leaders. But as homemade firebombs and tear gas wafted in the city center it seemed that Mr. Erdogan and his supporters had miscalculated the opposition's tenacity and conviction. "Thugs! Thugs!" a protester shouted at the police as she was shrouded in a cloud of tear gas. "Let God bring the end of you!" The demonstrations began over a plan to tear out the last green space in the center of the city, Gezi Park in Taksim Square, and to replace it with a mall designed like an Ottoman-era barracks. Mr. Erdogan, who once advised the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, to negotiate and compromise, sent out the police to clear the park. The tactic backfired, leading to large protests and expressions of frustration at Mr. Erdogan's rising authoritarian streak. Environmentalists and conservationists were joined in the protest by radical leftists and street hooligans. Mr. Erdogan pulled back the police, but for days Taksim has been a sprawling hub of grievance against him and his Justice and Development Party. On Monday, he offered to talk on Wednesday - but then sent the police back to clear out the protesters. By Wednesday morning, the operation had succeeded. At first, the city center took on the feel of a movie set: fireworks ignited by protesters and nonlethal sound bombs set off by the police punctuated the chants of "Istanbul is ours! Taksim is ours!" For hours, the police would advance, and then retreat to rest, mingle with onlookers, smoke cigarettes or buy snacks from street vendors. The chaos was contained to pockets of the square, and short clashes followed intervals of calm, allowing onlookers and tourists to gather in relatively safe spots and watch the action unfurl, and then run down side streets when the gas became too thick. By night, though, the scenes turned more violent, as the police moved to decisively clear the square - and some demonstrators fought back while others called for peaceful civil disobedience. For Mr. Erdogan, the smoldering violence represents his worst political crisis since coming to power a decade ago. It also highlights the kind of class politics that have divided society, with his conservative religious followers strongly supporting his position. But his political base - a majority - has not protected the economy, which is suffering as the currency loses value and the cost of borrowing rises. Analysts now worry that Mr. Erdogan, instead of finding a way out of the crisis, has only made it worse by hardening divisions among his constituents, and by digging in. Three people have been killed and at least 4,947 injured in the violence. "The leaders may be searching for a way out of the deadlock," wrote Melih Asik, a columnist in Milliyet, a centrist newspaper. "However, has inciting one half of the people against the other half ever been a remedy for overcoming such a crisis? If limitless anger does not give way to common sense, Turkey will have a very difficult job ahead." Mr. Erdogan, in rally after rally over the weekend, sought to energize the conservative masses who propelled him to power by invoking his personal history as an Islamist leader opposed to the old secular state and its undemocratic nature. His supporters represent a social class that was previously marginalized, and Mr. Erdogan has used his speeches to play on those class resentments.
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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 Merge and redirect to Habeas corpus petitions of Guantanamo Bay detainees, per consensus. Per primary editor's request advice on splitting out child articles in the future:
Child articles should be independently notable, and have enough specific significant information to form a reasonable, if short, article. Common information should not be duplicated - refer to the main article for any common details of the process, events etc. In the event that the main article becomes unwieldy this should be resolved by splitting off the list of cases with details into "List of habeas corpus petitions of Guantanamo Bay detainees" and further splitting the list as necessary. – Rich Farmbrough,. ===Bostan v. Bush===
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No evidence that this article is about a notable subject. Article lists no independent sources about this case, and Google searches (Books, News) didn't reveal any either, nor of its new name v. Obama. Fails N. Fram (talk)
I have also nominated for the exact same reason a number of very similar articles. All of these have no independent results in Google News or Goole Books and less than 100 distinct hits in Google, none at first sight from reliable independent sources. I have not included any similar cases where there looked to be more info available, as these either warrant an article or need a separate AfD. Fram (talk)
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However I-296 is actually already internally assigned as an unsigned 3.4-mile (5.5 km) segment of US 131 between I-96 to I-196. Further dampening this possibility is the fact that the Michigan Department of Transportation has a long history of constructing and maintaining freeways outside of the Interstate highway system. The speculation that M-6 may someday become I-296 exists solely among a few (quite literally a few) individuals on a highways-related Internet newsgroup. MDOT has never hinted at such a designation, nor have any calls for such a change come from local citizens or civic leaders. I'm thinking an encyclopedia article is not a good place to report that a couple people once surmised aloud that such a designation change could take place. If anyone has thoughts to the contrary, I'd like to hear 'em. === Other Edits ===
In addition, beyond basic grammatical and syntactical corrections, I changed the photo caption from "Wilson Avenue flyover" to "Wilson Avenue overpass" as this is a simple overpass structure—there is no flyover at this location. I also corrected the caption for the photo taken between Byron Center and Ivanrest Avenues (a better locational description, as it is nearly two miles east of Wilson Avenue at that point) as being in Byron Township. The City of Grandville is several miles away at this point and M-6 never enters that city, let alone entering the City of Wyoming which lies between M-6 and Grandville. CBessert (talk)
== Photo edits and thumbnail realignment ==
I have cropped each of the four photographs included in this article to remove the copious amounts of sky and clouds in each and to increase the area of the photo concentrating on the subject matter at hand. I also aligned the cropped photo thumbnails all to the right side of the article. While it's generally accepted that varying the placement of images in an article is a good thing, here the article is so short and dominated by non-paragraph elements (lists, bullet points, exit lists, etc. ), that having randomly placed images made it really hard to read. Plus, since the images have been cropped, they fit below the info box much better. I believe the article flows much better and is more readable with the photos both cropped and realigned. CBessert (talk)
== Assessment ==
This article contains all the big four, even if some of them are lacking. It's up at C-class. CL —
== "This article lacks a conmprehensive discussion of the controversy surrounding its construction." ==
I have removed that tag from the article. There are six paragraphs totaling approximately 900 words of content about the controversies from the 1970s, 80s and 90s leading up to the construction of the freeway. The other subsections of the current freeway's history discuss Geoffrey Feiger making the South Beltline a campaign issue in 1998 as well as a summary of the negative reaction to M-6's completion. If anyone has suggestions on what might be lacking in that content, please add specific comments here. Otherwise, I'm satisfied, as were the FAC reviewers, that the article is comprehensive. Imzadi 1979 →
I know that there are 900 words, but that is inadequate to cover the topic. Can you please include additional discussion in the article? What were the position taken by the major parties? Thanks, Racepacket (talk)
This article passed FA, which means it is Wikipedia's best work. It is assured that the controversy surrounding the construction of M-6 is adequately covered without going into too much detail. Dough4872
This is borderline POINT. == South Beltline name ==
One might want to take another look at the "South Beltline" name. I live near M-6 and have never heard it called this recently. The name is more often used as a casual reference to 28th street, hense the Beltine Bar situated on 28th. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.235.175.185 (talk)
I also live near M-6 and the name shows up in articles in The Grand Rapids Press as well as on the Kent County Road Commission road map. It might not be as common anymore as M-6, but it is still in use. Imzadi 1979 →
== 19.000 miles or 19,000 miles? ==
The way it is written now this highway is nineteen thousand miles long. Is that correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.226.124.112 (talk)
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Tuqiri named in Fiji squad to face Samoa Former dual international Lote Tuqiri will represent Fiji for the first time since 2000 in next Saturday's Pacific Test against Samoa at Penrith. The 35-year-old South Sydney winger was born in Fiji but played for Australia in both rugby union and league. Tuqiri was named in Rick Stone's 19-man squad on Sunday for the game in which the winners will take part in the Four Nations tournament with Australia, England and New Zealand later this year. Former New Zealand international Krisnan Inu was named in the Samoa side for the first time after playing for the Kiwis at last year's World Cup. Advertisement Stone is yet to decide on the final make-up of his side but pleased to retain the majority of the squad that reached the World Cup semi-finals in England. "Out of the 19 we have named, 13 played in the World Cup," Stone said. "We had a few unavailable, including Akuila Uate, Sisa Waqa, Apisai Koroisau and Wes Naiqama, however we have a good mix of youth and experience and I have no doubt they will do Fiji proud on Saturday night." Stone said the recent success of Fiji has helped grow the game in a country where rugby is still very much the No.1 sport. "We continue to work hard to raise the profile of rugby league in Fiji and this game provides us with another chance to do that off the back of the World Cup," Stone said. "The NRL clubs have been great in allowing their players to take part in the Pacific Test, which plays a significant role in growing the game." Samoa squad: Leeson Ah Mau (St George Illawarra), Fa'amanu Brown (Cronulla), David Fa'alogo (Newcastle), Krisnan Inu (Canterbury), Ricky Leutele (Cronulla), Isaac Liu (Sydney Roosters), Dunamis Lui (Manly), Reni Maitua (Canterbury), Penani Manumaleali'i (Cronulla), Suaia Matagi (Warriors), David Nofoaluma (Wests Tigers), Junior Paulo (Parramatta), Dominique Peyroux (Warriors), Jesse Sene-Lefao (Manly), Tim Simona (Wests Tigers), Michael Sio (Warriors), Kyle Stanley (St George Illawarra), Sam Tagataese (Cronulla), Daniel Vidot (Brisbane). Fiji squad: Waqa Blake (Penrith), Peni Botiki (Cutters), Jason Bukuya (Warriors), Regan Cambell-Gillard (Penrith), Kane Evans (Sydney Roosters), Aaron Groom (Asquith), Marika Koroibete (Wests Tigers), Eto Nabuli (Penrith), Kevin Naiqama (Penrith), Taqele Naiyaravoro (Wests Tigers), Semi Radradra (Parramatta), Vitale Jr Roqica (Cronulla), Osea Sadrau (Fiji), Ashton Sims (North Queensland, capt), Korbin Sims (Newcastle), James Storer (Illawarra), Alipate Tani (Illawarra Cutters), Atunaisa Turagaiviu (Fiji), Lote Tuqiri (South Sydney).
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==Requested move==
Höðr → Hodur Use English name. CDThieme
Add #Support or #Oppose followed by an optional one sentence explanation, then sign your vote with ~~~~
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===Support===
Support per the Naming conventions (use English) policy: Hodur seems to be the most common of the English spellings. Jonathunder
Support - This is an English-language encyclopedia, any number of English language versions of the name should be used before the current article title. DreamGuy
support Tree&Leaf
Support Hodur is established English name. Septentrionalis
Support. Let's not bewilder our readers by imposing foreign characters on article titles when English names exist. CDThieme
Support. No Account
Support. Quintusdecimus
Support. Mark
===Oppose===
Oppose. Hodur is not "the English name". There are many different ways to anglicize the name (Hodr, Hothr, Hödr, Höthr, Hod, Hoth, Hödur, Höthur, Hothur, Hodur, Hodhur, Hödhur, Hodhr, Hödhr, Hödh etc.) this is just one of many. Let's stick to the current spelling standard for Old Norse mythological names. And if you don't agree with the standard then please let's discuss the standard rather than individual cases. - Haukurth
OPPOSE, because there is no conventional spelling in English, as Haukurth says. A case when the standard applies. Oppose. Anglicizations are a nuisance. They are common in popular works and retellings, but not in scholarly treatises. We are trying to write an encyclopedia here, not a new Bullfinch's Mythology. Oppose Fornadan (t)
emphatically oppose (see discussion below) P.MacUidhir
Oppose see above. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Oppose as per P.MacUidhir
Oppose, strongly. All the many reasons have been given... Oppose, as per Haukurth. Wikipedia should adhere to scholarly standards. u◦p◦p◦l◦a◦n◦d
Oppose
oppose, this is taking on BC(E) proportions, with anti-diacritics-squads moving articles to score points without any involvement, or knowledge of the matter. This is unwikilike behaviour. As per Haukur, we need a solid policy for Old Norse names. dab (ᛏ)
Strong Oppose. Firstly, this is a decision to made by the page's regular editors, not some outsiders looking to tidy up loose ends. At the very least we should wait their is a policy before we start ignoring the voices of those who are knowledgable. Secondly, the page is more professional as it is, we need only ensure that all synonymous terms redirect here, or to a disambig linking here. Sam Spade
Oppose - I agree with Haukurth, translating a proper noun like this will just add confusion. Also, the most correct form of course is Höðr, a redirect from other known Anglicized names is sufficient. Strongly Oppose It was bad enough to lose the special Old Norse characters, but "Höðr"->"Hodur" is just yet another Anglisization, and bad one at that. It goes against the grain of anyone with the slightest knowledge of the subject - and I mean however slight. Do you want Wikipedia to be scholarly or do you want it to be yet another version of Brewster's? Cheers Io
Oppose. I would perhaps have no problem with a change of the name, but "Hodur" certainly is not the most common English language spelling. "Hod" seems to be much more common (try Googling the two: 85,900]]
Totally Oppose. recommend to keep it the current way. Gryffindor
Totally Oppose "Höðr" is the original name, while "Hodur" is an abusively modernized form which, while it conforms English standards and modern Icelandic spelling conventions, is unneeded as it refers to a deity that is no longer worshipped and can be referred to in a spelling conform to that of those who referred to it as current. | 1,015 | null | null | 604,713,232 | "2014-04-18T09:21:59" | Höðr | 2,015 |
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David Godwin Burchell BEM (23 September 1924 – 20 September 2009) was a South Australian business man, a recreational scuba diver and a football administrator. ==Early life==
Burchell was born in Millicent, South Australia. At the age of 16, he lost most of his right leg as a result of railway accident. After an unsuccessful attempt to join the Royal Australian Navy during World War II, Burchell was accepted by Royal Australian Air Force in 1944 and was discharged at the rank of Leading Aircraftman in 1946. After discharge, Burchell worked on cattle and sheep stations in the Australian outback. After returning to Adelaide, he took up the sport of high diving and for fifteen years performed with the South Australian Diving Troupe. In 1951, he started underwater diving which would become a lifetime interest. ==Business Life==
From 1951 to 1960, he worked as a country representative for the Shell Company. In 1960, he started two businesses, Adelaide Skin Diving Centre, a scuba diving centre which he later sold, and Featherston Interiors, a contract furnishing business which he operated until retirement. ==Discovery of the wrecks of HMAS Perth and USS Houston==
In 1967, Burchell led an expedition to locate and successfully find the wrecks of HMAS Perth and USS Houston, both sunk at the Battle of Sunda Strait during World War II. The bell from HMAS Perth, which was the object of David's search, is now in the collection of the Australian War Memorial. ==Community Service==
Burchell was the President of the North Adelaide Football Club from 1969 to 1971. In 1973, Burchell was one of six member of the South Australian Government's inquiry into scuba diving deaths in fresh water sink-holes and underwater caves in the South East of South Australia. The Report of the Committee "appointed to investigate safety precautions for Scuba Divers in Fresh Water Sink Holes and Underwater Caves" which was presented to the Government in January 1974 essentially recommended non-legislative response to the problem. The subsequent voluntary program of regulation via diver training and certification has been carried out by the Cave Divers Association of Australia. The success of the program is evident with the low fatality rate in cave diving since the implementation of the Report's recommendations. Burchell was a member and the patron of both the Underwater Explorers Club of South Australia and the Society for Underwater Historical Research. ==Awards==
In 1968, Burchell received a British Empire Medal (Civil Division) in ‘recognition of service to diving and collection of war relics.’
The City of Houston in Texas made Burchell an Honorary Citizen in recognition of the discovery of wreck of the USS Houston. ==Publications==
One Foot in the Grave: An Autobiography, 1967
The Bells of Sunda Strait, 1971, Rigby, Adelaide (ISBN 0851792286) and 1972, R. Hale, London: Rigby,Adelaide (ISBN 0709124813)
My World: An Autobiography, 1988, (ISBN 0731647572)
A Life Downunder: An Autobiography, 1999, Charnwood Library, UK (ISBN 0708991203)
==References==
1924 births
2009 deaths
Australian underwater divers
Australian writers
People from South Australia
Australian recipients of the British Empire Medal | 720 | null | null | 696,108,151 | "2015-12-20T23:51:40" | David Godwin Burchell | 2,015 |
The Trojan origin of France was such an established article of faith that in 1714, the learned Nicolas Fréret was Bastilled for showing through historical criticism that the Franks had been Germanic, a sore point counter to Valois and Bourbon propaganda. In similar manner, Geoffrey of Monmouth reworked earlier material such as the Historia Brittonum to trace the legendary kings of the Britons from a supposed descendant of Aeneas called Brutus. Likewise, Snorri Sturluson, in the prologue to his Icelandic Prose Edda, traced the genealogy of the ancestral figures in Norse mythology to characters appearing at Troy in Homer's epic, notably making Thor to be the son of Memnon. Sturluson referred to these figures as having made a journey across Europe towards Scandinavia, setting up kingdoms as they went. ==Alternative views on Troy==
A small minority of contemporary writers argue that Homeric Troy was not at the Hisarlik site, but elswhere in Anatolia or outside it — in England, Herzegovina, Scandinavia, or Pergamum. These proposals have not been accepted by mainstream scholarship. ==See also==
Ancient settlements in Turkey
Cities of the ancient Near East
Dardanians (Trojan)
The Golden Bough (mythology)
Historicity of the Iliad
Troad
Trojan language
Trojan War
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Archaeological sites in the Marmara Region
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Geography of Çanakkale Province
History of Çanakkale Province
Locations in Greek mythology
National parks of Turkey
Populated places established in the 3rd millennium BC
Visitor attractions in Çanakkale Province
World Heritage Sites in Turkey
3rd-millennium BC establishments | 441 | null | null | 695,073,912 | "2015-12-13T16:20:34" | Troy | 2,015 |
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Park Seong-ho (born 1974) is a South Korean male comedian. Park Seong-ho may also refer to:
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== The discovery ==
Article says:
Discovered by Humphrey Davy in 1812... In 1825 the Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Orsted produced aluminium for the first time. How can Humphrey Davy have discovered it if it wasn't produced until later? Shouldn't we say Orsted discovered it? (Webelements lists Orsted as the discover; it has Davy as giving it a name before it was discovered.) according to my research Davy discovered potasium and sodium but not alluminium. I have changed the article to reflect this. Actually you can discover comething without being able to produce it, as Davy did with Aluminium, he realised that it existed but couldn't make any. Yet that didn't stop him from naming it, and "officially" discovering it. Oh come on, you know you don't mean that. How about "you can predict something without being able to produce it". If I have a proof that a number must exist mathematically (consider if instead of the trivial proof that there is no largest prime, we had a non-constructive proof there is one), but it isn't constructive, I haven't "discovered" that thing, but merely proved (or in this case, better "predicted") it to exist. So in your sentence if he "realised that it existed" either 1) he realized it SHOULD exist, in which case he "predicted" it or 2) he realized it HAD to exist, in which case he "proved" it exists, but in any case without discovering any. 216.236.252.246 Anon. Oh come on yourself. Lots of elements were discovered using spectral analysis, using a prism, but Aluminum was discovered too early for this method. Removed
"Furthermore, Joseph Needham suggested finds in 1974 showed the ancient Chinese used aluminium (see "notes" linked above)." since I can't see any notes substantiating this, and there's no indication of what is meant by the statement. Aluminium metal? Salts? == Oxidation ==
There does not seem to be any mention about the effect that the rapid oxidation has on electrical conductors. Is this ever taken advantage of in practise? At least I believe it makes it very difficult to make good eletrical contact to aluminium conductors. That might deserve a note in the article. == Other Uses ==
Powdered alumin(i)um is commonly used for silvering in paint. Mention that, and this could get a Category:Pigments link. But I don't see a good place to just stick it in. I took the liberty of sticking it in with the other examples of usage. == Link suggestions ==
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How do i upload images then?????? please tell me how to do it legit so i dont get my profile banned??? would greatly be appreciated. Thanks
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Chang said the government should continue to prioritize employment, prevent systemic risks in corporate and local government debts and hold the bottom line of 6.5-percent economic growth. In 2015, the government rolled out a string of pro-growth measures to tackle economic slowdown, by promoting monetary easing, stepping up infrastructure construction and nurturing new growth points. The People's Bank of China, the central bank, cut the benchmark one-year lending and deposit rates and reserve requirement ratio (RRR) on Oct. 23 to shore up the economy, marking the fifth RRR reduction and the sixth round of interest cuts since last year. The move will further reduce financing burdens on enterprises and serve as a boon for the real economy.
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Pictures of the day: 21 September 2011 This monkey seemed to be adopting a thoughtful pose. The crested black macaque sat like Auguste Rodin's famous sculpture 'The Thinker'. Photographer Karsten Wrobel captured the scene beside a lake at Tangkoko National Park on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Karsten said: "I was travelling through the park when I saw this macaque sitting close to the shore of a lake. He rested his head on his foot and looked like he was thinking. It reminded me of Rodin's 'The Thinker'... Picture: Karsten Wrobel/Solent News
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As for Bon Jovi, his group faltered because it failed to address numerous concerns about its plans to potentially relocate north of the border. The Toronto group was rounded out by Larry Tanenbaum, chairman of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, and the Rogers family, which controls Rogers Communications. The Bills' lease agreement, signed off by Wilson and approved by NFL owners last year, became a serious obstacle because of a strict non-relocation clause that essentially prevented the team from moving before the 2020 season. The AP first reported in July that Rogers conducted a feasibility study that identified at least three potential stadium sites in the Toronto area that could potentially serve as the Bills' new home. © 2014 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Tony Popovic's players know their jobs, and they don't argue with each other. Both of those rules began to slide on Friday. It could be that Popovic's response to such a loss is less work, not more. 5. The Mariners have a new cult hero If you were at Bluetongue Stadium back in January 2012, for the night when Matt Simon departed for Korea, you'll understand how much the Mariners" faithful love a player whose endeavours reflect their own. No matter that his finishing could sometimes be less than accurate. Simon's desire to run all day, to put his head in where it hurt, and to treat lost causes like a missionary would an agnostic, were all grist to the supporters" mill. So the early signs from Malick Mane are promising to that end. Even at the A-League launch last Tuesday, Mane looked like a man counting down the hours til he could get onto the field. Yesterday, he was let off the leash. Malick Mane showed promising early signs. Source: Getty Images Coaches know that goals come not just from the particular move, but from an accumulation of influences that includes defences being unsettled and distracted throughout the game so their concentration begins to fray. Mitch Duke took the plaudits for his late winner, but Mane maybe deserves an assist. There was plenty of action, but only one goal as the Central Coast Mariners made it three straight in the F3 Derby. Marcos Flores was powerless to stop his former club taking the three points in Round 1 of the A-League. Originally published as "Victory are the new Brisbane Roar"
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Rob Gronkowski Earning Name for Scores and Spikes Elise Amendola/Associated Press Patriots fans have grown to love Rob Gronkowski, who has scored 31 touchdowns in 34 N.F.L. games, including playoffs. FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - Conan O'Brien featured him in a parody of the song "St. Elmo's Fire" on TV last week. The Worcester Sharks of the American Hockey League are paying him $7,500 to "spike" a hockey puck before one of their games next month. And on Friday afternoon, some 48 hours before the kickoff of the A.F.C. championship game, fans did their best imitation of Rob Gronkowski spiking a football, hoping to win free tickets to the game against the Baltimore Ravens. Gronkowski, the large, likable New England tight end - "a big-time goofball," according to his college position coach - has become a phenomenon. When he is not setting records for the Patriots, he is hearing his name dropped on late-night television - when O'Brien sang "Gronkowski's Fire" - or is the subject of praise emanating from the snowy mountains of Washington State. "I've talked about it quite a bit with my football buddies - I don't know how you match up against the guy," the former Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe said in a telephone interview Friday from Washington. "It's kind of like having LeBron James playing tight end for you. He's too big for the slow guys and too fast for the small guys." In just his second season, the 6-foot-6, 265-pound Gronkowski broke Kellen Winslow's 31-year-old record for yards receiving by a tight end. His 18 touchdowns were five more than the previous high for his position. He led the A.F.C. in scoring among nonkickers, becoming the first tight end to do so, and had seven games with two or more touchdowns, an N.F.L. best for tight ends. He scored three times against Denver last Saturday. In piling up such impressive numbers, Gronkowski has become a fan favorite. He certainly seems to be enjoying this run in his trademark fashion - making sure he gets as much fun as he can out of all the hard work. "All of this stuff is not going to go to his head," said Dana Dimel, Gronkowski's college position coach at Arizona. "He will never change. He will always be able to make people around him laugh and smile." That was also how Gronkowski was remembered by George Novak, his high school coach at Woodland Hills in Pittsburgh. "He had a great sense of humor and loved to clown around," Novak said in a telephone interview. "He was a good kid - and a great player." Novak first met Gronkowski when Gronkowski walked into his office to notify him that he would be enrolling at the school for his senior year. Gronkowski's parents had separated, and he moved from western New York to western Pennsylvania with his father, Gordon. "When he walked through my door that first time, I was shocked," Novak said. "He was so big, I thought he was a college coach. Two weeks later, he started practice. He's one of the best to ever come out of this area, and there have been some pretty good ones." Gronkowski played football, basketball and baseball at Woodland Hills and, according to Novak, "could have played any of them in college." While excelling in athletics, Gronkowski was also dealing with being away from his mother and younger brother, who remained in his hometown near Buffalo. There were times when Gronkowski's father would travel for work and Gronkowski would stay at the home of his close friend Noah Taylor, younger brother of the standout N.F.L. pass rusher Jason Taylor. "Those first couple months were really hard," Gronkowski said. "You are leaving your friends and family for the first time. It was kind of like my freshman year in college. I adjusted pretty well my freshman year and got to do what I did." After high school, he moved on to Arizona. Gronkowski said he became smitten by the university after accompanying his older brother on a recruiting trip to Tucson and chose to go there over other programs that wooed him, like Ohio State, Michigan and Miami. He was an instant smash for the Wildcats, despite dealing with a number of health issues. He missed three games as a sophomore with mononucleosis. He missed his junior season because of back surgery. He played in just 22 regular-season games, but it was enough to establish him as one of the best tight ends in college football. | 988 | -4,387,017,416,949,908,500 | 2012-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Liberals a sure thing for seat of Frankston despite MP Geoff Shaw being on the nose Embattled Frankston MP Geoff Shaw outside Melbourne Magistrates' Court. Source: News Limited THE Napthine Government would survive the early exit of rogue MP Geoff Shaw by winning a by-election for his electorate of Frankston, according to a poll of voters in the seat. The poll found that while the overwhelming majority of Frankston voters have an unfavourable view of Mr Shaw, who will face court next year on corruption charges, there has been a swing to the Liberal Party there since the latest state election. If Mr Shaw is convicted and has to leave Parliament before next year's state election, a by-election loss for the Liberal Party in Frankston would see Labor and the Coalition tied with 44 seats each, which would likely see an early general election. And in a blow to Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews, who hopes to win Government next year by campaigning against the east-west tunnel in the southeast of Melbourne, a clear majority of Frankston voters back the project. The Herald Sun/JWS Research poll surveyed 535 Frankston voters about their vote and local issues. Despite Mr Shaw's legal troubles, there has been a 2.2 per cent swing to the Liberal Party, the survey found, giving it a primary vote of 49 per cent. Labor's primary vote is down 1.4 per cent to 35 per cent, while the Greens are up 0.6 per cent to 9 per cent. The Liberal Party would comfortably retain Frankston with an increased two-party preferred majority of 54.4 per cent, the poll found. Alarmingly for Mr Andrews, who will campaign against the east-west tunnel in Frankston this week after being sin-binned from Parliament, 61 per cent of Frankston voters said they were in favour of the project. The poll also found 65 per cent of Frankston voters were satisfied with the emergency services at Frankston Hospital, the emergency department of which has been the subject of Opposition campaigning. Last week's proposed third airport, southeast of Melbourne has also found favour with Frankston voters, with 77 per cent backing the project. The poll found 64 per cent of Frankston voters have an unfavourable view of Mr Shaw, compared with 20 per cent who view him favourably. JWS Research pollster John Scales said the popularity of Premier Denis Napthine compared with Mr Andrews would help the Liberals' election chances. "The Liberals would likely take back Frankston if an election were held now, with Labor having made no inroads into the Liberals' margin at the last state election," he said. Last month, Dr Napthine said he could not foresee any circumstances where Mr Shaw would return to the parliamentary Liberal Party. His spokesman, Mark Lee, refused to comment on the poll results yesterday. "Mr Shaw resigned from the parliamentary Liberal Party in March," he said. "He is now an Independent member of Parliament." If a state election was held today, who would you vote for in the seat of Frankston? Liberal: 49% (2010 election 46.8%) swing +2.2 Labor: 35% (2010 election 36.4%) swing -1.4 Greens: 9% (2010 election 8.4%) swing +0.6 Other: 7% (2010 election 8.4%) swing -1.4 Two party preferred (state election): Liberal: 54.4% (2010 election 52.1) swing +2.3 Labor: 45.6% (2010 election 47.9) swing -2.3 How do you view Premier Denis Napthine? Favourable: 40% Unfavourable: 30% No particular view: 27% Never heard of Denis Napthine: 2% How do you view Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews? Favourable: 23% Unfavourable: 34% No particular view: 37% Never heard of Daniel Andrews: 5% How do you view Frankston MP Geoff Shaw: Favourable: 20% Unfavourable: 64% No particular view: 16% Never heard of Geoff Shaw: 0% Would you change your vote knowing a by-election might trigger an early state election? Yes: 18% No: 73% Undecided: 8% Who would you vote for if there was a by-election in the seat of Frankston? Liberal: 50% (2010 election 46.8%) Labor: 35% (2010 election 36.4%) Greens: 8% (2010 election 8.4%) Other: 7% (2010 election 8.4%) Two party preferred (by-election): Liberal: 54.5% (2010 election 52.1%) swing +2.4 | 1,014 | -1,108,131,613,817,854,300 | 2013-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
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== how do i make my own article? ==
how do i make or type my own article so every one can see it on wiki. this is a really awsome site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Souljagirl6295 (talk • contribs)
See Your first article. Happy wiking! NF24(radio me!) But if you thinking of writing an article about yourself, you can't. Well it's not that you can't create an Autobiography, but doing so is strongly discouraged (see Autobiography as to why). VivioFateFan (Talk, Sandbox)
== Pages are automatically being added to my watchlist ==
I do vandalism reversion and sometimes I notice pages I reverted vandalism on being added to my watchlist automatically. Is their anything I can do to prevent this? Thanks. Well, if you use twinkle, then there is a configuration available that stops this. If you are just doing it manually, then you must set your preferences to where it does not add pages by default. I (talk)
== External Links to Amazon? ==
Is it desireable to link pages of books and DVDs to Amazon? I look in Wikipedia if I want to know more about a book (customer ratings are not neutral enough in my opinion) and it would be convenient for users and probably profitable for Wikipedia. Generally speaking, Wikipedia does not link to commercial sites. Please see EXT for more information. Jeffpw (talk)
See also ISBN. PrimeHunter (talk)
If ISBNs are properly linked they already link to every possible site imaginable. Linking to Amazon would give them an unfair advantage over all the other booksellers, so that is not desireable. - Mgm|(talk)
== Aclinton ==
SHOCKING! I'm not sure what your question is about, could you please clarify? VivioFateFan (Talk, Sandbox)
I think hes referring the fact that he was editing for a "newspaper" to see how fast that it would get reverted. Peachey88 (Talk Page | Contribs)
In fact, 144.82.106.145 is so shocked he goes on a vandalism spree himself before being blocked. Perhaps this vandalism by journalists is only encouraging other vandals. Astronaut (talk)
== Editing ==
How do you make those table like things on the side of cities with their population... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Write me (talk • contribs)
You can for example use. There are other possibilities like many country specific infoboxes in City infobox templates. You can see what an existing article did by clicking "edit this page" and looking at the source. The bottom of the window will have links to used templates. PrimeHunter (talk)
== My user page was deleted ==
I took the time to create a user page. There was a lot of content put on it. My user page was DAnglFrd. I saved my last changes and it logged me out, when i logged back in everything was gone. There was nothing in the deletion log. I was just wondering what happened. Fred —Preceding unsigned comment added by DAnglFrd (talk • contribs)
That would be the gremlins. Seriously, that is very frustrating but I checked the deletion log and no one deleted the page; it never saved. Always make it a habit of highlighting your text and copying it before clicking save and this will never happen. | 1,012 | null | null | 174,794,488 | "2007-11-30T08:57:33" | Help desk/Archives/2007 November 25 | 2,015 |
Apple to Launch iPhone Trade-In Program
Aug. 27, 2013 - You soon will be able to walk into an Apple Store, fork over your old iPhone and walk out with some extra cash in your pocket. Apple will launch a trade-in program for iPhones soon and has begun training store employees on the program, ABC News has confirmed. The trade-in program was first reported by Bloomberg in June and then by AllThingsD, MacRumors and 9to5Mac this week. According to 9to5Mac, Apple will launch the program at some select stores this Friday, Aug. 30, and then roll it out more broadly during the month of September. Apple declined to comment on the program when reached by ABC News. According to ABC News' sources, customers will be able to bring in their old iPhone into the store and then an Apple store employee will provide a quote for the phone based on the model and the condition. If the customer decides to go through with the trade-in, they will be able to back up and wipe the phone at the store and then will be given an Apple gift card, which they can use to buy a new phone or other products at the store. According to 9to5Mac, Apple will take the old phones and they will be shipped to Brightstar, a wireless phone distributor, and from there they will be recycled for use in the United States. Apple will accept non-working iPhones, but won't provide cash for them. Instead they will be recycled by the company. The value of working iPhones will be based on the condition of the device and the model. ABC News' sources said an iPhone 5 in good condition could be worth as much as $300. Techcrunch and 9to5Mac report similarly that a 16GB iPhone 5 from AT&T will go for around $250. Gazelle, a trade-in website, offers slightly more for an 16GB, AT&T iPhone 5 in good condition at $315. Trade-in programs and sites have become a big business. Specifically, Gazelle has built a $100 million business on Apple product trade-ins. Just this month, the company has already offered more than 1.3 million iPhone quotes as Apple gears up to launch a new iPhone. During the summer Best Buy has also been holding special iPhone trade-in offers to boost exposure for its own program and clear models off shelves. According to various reports, the next iPhone -- presumably called the iPhone 5S -- will have a fingerprint reader, faster processor and will be available in a new "gold" or champagne color. Joining that iPhone is said to be a lower-cost model called the iPhone 5C, which will be available in a selection of colors. The phones are expected to be unveiled on Sept. 10 and be available in stores on Sep. 20. You can read all about the new iPhone rumors here.
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The 2001/02 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup was the 19th world cup season, a combination of ski jumping and cross-country skiing organized by FIS. It started on 23 Nov 2001 in Kuopio, Finland and ended on 16 March 2002 in Oslo, Norway. ==Calendar==
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& Cheryl Forberg, R.D. Book Awards: Food of the Americas: Native Recipes and Traditions by Fernando and Marlene Divina
Book Awards: General: Weir Cooking in the City by Joanne Weir
Book Awards: International: Provence Cookbook by Patricia Wells
Book Awards: KitchenAid Cookbook Hall of Fame: The Great Scandinavian Baking Book by Beatrice Ojakangas
Book Awards: KitchenAid Cookbook of the Year: Rick Stein's Complete Seafood by Rick Stein
Book Awards: Photography: Bouchon by Deborah Jones
Book Awards: Reference: On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee
Book Awards: Single Subject: All About Braising by Molly Stevens
Book Awards: Vegetarian: A Treasury of Vegetarian Recipes from Jewish Communities Around the World by Gil Marks
Book Awards: Wine and Spirits: Scotch Whisky by Charles MacLean
Book Awards: Writing on Food: Last Chance to Eat by Gina Mallet
==2004 winners==
Newspaper: Alison Cook Houston Chronicle
Magazine: Alan Richman, GQ
Book Awards
Book Awards: Baking: Simples Techniques for Sophisticated Desserts by Sherry Yard
Book Awards: Cooking from a Professional Point of View: Flavor by Rocco DiSpirito
Book Awards: Cooking of the Americas: It's All American Food by David Rosengarten
Book Awards: General: The Quick Recipe by the editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine
Book Awards: Healthy Focus & Vegetarian: Taste Pure and Simple by Michel Nischan with Mary Goodbody
Book Awards: International: From Curries to Kebabs by Madhur Jaffrey
Book Awards: KitchenAid Cookbook Hall of Fame: Techniques & Recipes by Barbara Tropp
Book Awards: KitchenAid Cookbook of the Year: The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion by PJ Hamel
Book Awards: Photography: New Japanese Cuisine by Michele Tabozzi
Book Awards: Single Subject: The All American Cheese and Wine Book by Laura Werlin
Book Awards: Tools & Techniques: BBQ USA by Steven Raichlen
Book Awards: Wine and Spirits: Wines of South America by Monty Waldin
Book Awards: Writing and Reference: A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove by Laura Schenone
==2003 winners==
Best Chef: California: Hiro Sone, Terra; St. Helena, CA
Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic: Jose Andres, Jaleo; Washington, DC
Best Chef: Midwest: Takashi Yagihashi, Tribute; Farmington Hills, MI
Best Chef: New York City: Marcus Samuelsson, Aquavit; New York, NY
Best Chef: Northeast: Barbara Lynch, No. | 572 | null | null | 697,530,822 | "2015-12-31T02:45:05" | James Beard Foundation Award | 2,015 |
He notices the groundhog’s sap has “gone out” and its “bony sodden hulk” remains. However, his emotions and perceptions towards death have changed since June. As the weather in Autumn is benign, he does not despise nature for being “ferocious” towards death. Everything the speaker has felt in June “had lost its meaning.” The speaker says the groundhog’s sap has “gone out” because the speaker’s anguish and despair have also “gone out.” Thus, the speaker loses his “loathing” for death as he has become “Mured up in the wall of wisdom.” The speaker is beginning to mature emotionally. During the next summer, the speaker returns to the groundhog. He sees “only a little hair” and “bones bleaching in the sunlight.” By now he has changed completely since his first visit. He does not experience anguish, melancholy, or despair at the sight of the groundhog. Watching the groundhog’s bones as if it was “architecture” or a “geometer,” the speaker finally begins to see the beauty in nature and decay. 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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== swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath.” Fitzgerald uses ocean imagery to make it easier to imagine the partygoers. These people have a grace of movement as they do not go against the tide. Like an ocean, they are in a never ending cycle. People constantly arrive and leave the party at a quick pace. Like a huge ocean wave, they arrive in big numbers. Then they disappear as a wave dissolves once it reaches shore. This cycle excites the partygoers as they can interact with new people. However, most of them don’t say thank or greet the host of the party as they move “swiftly.” Fitzgerald criticizes the rich for being rude. Finally, Fitzgerald criticizes the empathy of the rich. He compares the rich to “wanderers” and “confident girls.” The partygoers are wanderers because they arrive uninvited. They do not know the host. They visit Gatsby’s home as it is a hotel. They eat, drink, and socialize. Then, they leave. | 950 | null | null | 423,439,130 | "2011-04-11T01:47:03" | Canadiancofee | 2,015 |
What you need to know about me
"Moishe Rosenbaum" is not my real name. My primary interests:
experimental physics
physics teaching
football (American and Association)
baseball
sports broadcasting
sports officiating
I've lived for substantial periods in five different American states: Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Florida, and Virginia. I'm Midwestern United States by birth and culture, and have traveled extensively in the USA. I see more and more kerfuffles about Conflict of Interest editing, so to be clear -- I am heavily involved with the USIYPT, whose article I created, but I have no financial stake. At least not until someone hands me a seven-figure grant. | 154 | null | null | 693,375,157 | "2015-12-02T04:08:57" | Moishe Rosenbaum | 2,015 |
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The ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award is an annual award presented by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, in recognition of achievement by the best new composers of musical theater. The award was established in 1996, by Mary Rodgers in honor of her late father Richard Rodgers. Winners have included Eric Whitacre, Andrew Lippa, and James McBride. ==Award recipients==
==External links==
Official list of award-winners, at ASCAP.com
American music awards | 109 | null | null | 690,690,021 | "2015-11-15T00:45:23" | ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award | 2,015 |
A French mother is suing the French state, who she blames for the fact her teenage son was able to breeze through border patrol with a simple ID card and go unchallenged about his final destination - the front lines in Syria. READ
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People look at ideal bodies if told how to COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 19 (UPI) -- People unhappy with their bodies avoid magazine photos of bodies that not accompanied by articles suggesting they can look like models, a U.S. researcher says. Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, associate professor of communication at Ohio State University, and Joshua Paul Romero, a former graduate student at Ohio State, say the study involved 169 young adults who took part in a two-session study. In the first session, participants completed a questionnaire about life satisfaction. Included were questions about body satisfaction, along with questions about other aspects of life, which were added so participants would not guess the purpose of the study. In a separate session, the study subjects were told they would be evaluating a 21-page magazine via computers including 16 pages of advertisements. Half featured models with ideal body shapes and half had models with more average shapes, and each participant viewed a magazine featuring models of only his or her gender. Participants viewed one of two magazines -- the ads were identical in both versions, but one magazine featured articles about diet and exercise while the other had general interest articles unrelated to health or body improvement. The study, published in the journal Media Psychology, found people who indicated they were dissatisfied with their appearance spent about 50 percent more time looking at the ideal bodies when the editorial content was about body improvement, compared to when it was not.
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Ryan Bertrand fourth most expensive signing of transfer window after swapping Chelsea for Southampton Ryan Bertrand became the fourth most expensive Premier League signing of the entire transfer window just before 11pm last night when he joined Southampton permanently from Chelsea for £10 million. Bertrand had been on loan at Southampton since the summer and, having spent £26.8 million on Juan Cuadrado, Jose Mourinho was willing to make the deal permanent. The 25-year-old was a surprise starter in Chelsea's victorious Champions League final team against Bayern Munich in 2012 but had struggled for opportunities at Stamford Bridge, first when Ashley Cole was left-back and then since following the emergence of Cesar Azpilicueta and the addition of Filipe Luis. Bertrand has thrived since replacing Luke Shaw as Southampton's left-back and the club will feel they have pulled off something of a coup in trading the two full-backs and still making £22 million following Shaw's £32 million departure to Manchester United. Bertrand has agreed a deal to stay at Southampton until 2019 after also having had loan spells at Bournemouth, Oldham Athletic, Norwich City, Reading and Nottingham Forest in recent years. Southampton also completed the loan signing yesterday from Benfica of Serbian attacking midfielder Filip Djuricic. The 23-year-old was available after playing at German team Mainz during the first half of the season. "He's technical, fast and he can play in different positions in the midfield," said Southampton manager Ronald Koeman. Djuricic plays alongside Dusan Tadic in the Serbia team. "Yes, we talked to each other," said Tadic. "He is my good friend and he is a good player. He is a number 10 and he knows how to play football. He had a little bit of a difficult period at Mainz, but he is a really good player. He is 23 years old. He has potential and he has quality."
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Investing habits: The good and the bad Choosing good investments is a necessary condition for successful investing. But it's also important to engage in good behavior once those investments have been selected. The most recent issue of AQR Capital Management's quarterly newsletter for clients provides great insight into both the bad behaviors investors tend to engage in, as well as positive practices that can be used to address and correct bad habits and biases -- leading to improved long-term investment performance. We'll first look at the bad behaviors. Performance Chasing Extrapolating from the recent past to anticipate future performance is one of the strongest behavioral biases. It isn't surprising that investors, both individual and institutional, tend to buy the last three-to-five years' worth of winners and sell multi-year laggards -- whether it is asset classes, strategy styles, single stocks or funds. While there is strong evidence of short-term momentum -- measured in months, not years -- over the longer term an asset's return to its mean becomes more likely. Cash inflows from performance chasers tend to make expensive assets in bull markets even more expensive and cheap assets in bear markets even cheaper. This can lead an investor to buy an asset at its top (high) and sell it at its bottom (low). For example, the 2008 study by Andrea Frazzini and Owen Lamont, "Dumb Money: Mutual Fund Flows and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns," found that when sorting stocks between lowest-quintile and highest quintile based on the past three years of inflow, high-inflow stocks underperform low-inflow stocks over the next month by 0.85 percent (which is 10 percent per year). The main underperformance occurs six to 30 months after the inflow. Numerous studies have found that investor returns lag the returns of the investments they make -- what my colleague, and fellow author, Carl Richards called The Behavior Gap in his book by that name. Even institutional investors -- who are, after all, human beings subject to the same behavioral errors -- engage in this destructive behavior. Research has found that the managers fired by pension plan sponsors, typically based on three-year performance evaluations, subsequently go on to outperform the managers hired as their replacements. In addition, the 2014 study "Asset Allocation and Bad Habits," by Andrew Ang, Amit Goyal and Antti Ilmanen, found that a positive return in one asset class (domestic or international stocks or bonds) results in an increase in target policy weights of that asset class. And not just in the same and subsequent year, but for several years. A recent issue of Pensions & Investments reported that the target dates funds, including those run by industry leaders such as Black Rock, Fidelity, PIMCO and J.P. Morgan, were raising their equity allocations. Clearly, target date funds are subject to the same bad behaviors. Underdiversification Despite the well known and obvious benefits of diversification (it's often referred to as the only free lunch in investing) many investors tend to concentrate their portfolios. This mistake, which can be costly, is often caused by confusing the familiar with the safe. Unfortunately, iconic fund manager Peter Lynch contributed to this problem with his advice to "buy what you know." Being familiar with an investment may provide you with information. But that doesn't mean that the information is what economists would call "value relevant." If others have the same information (which is almost certainly the case, unless it's inside information) it's already embedded in the price, and thus has no value to you. Confusing the familiar with the safe can entice investors to concentrate risk. For example, home country bias can lead investors to overweight, often dramatically, the equities of their domestic market. Note that this investment mistake is a world-wide phenomenon. Investors all over the globe tend to overweight their domestic market, each believing (illogically) their home market is both safer and will provide higher returns. A second and related mistake is overweighting the stock of the company you work for. That's a particularly egregious error, because it combines investment risk and employment risk. That can put investors in double jeopardy because both these risks can show up at the same time. Seeking Comfort Investors often favor popular assets. AQR explains: "It is never fun to lose money but it is even worse to be "wrong and alone." They also noted famed economist John Maynard Keynes' warning about "the dangers of failing unconventionally." | 937 | 7,443,324,784,694,907,000 | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
General Motors met fin à la concurrence entre ses marques en Europe General Motors met fin à la concurrence entre ses marques en Europe (AFP) - il y a 1 heure Francfort - Le constructeur automobile américain General Motors (GM) a décidé de mettre fin à la concurrence entre ses marques sur le marché européen, en retirant Chevrolet pour laisser le champ libre à ses filiales allemande Opel et britannique Vauxhall. A compter de début 2016, "notre marque Chevrolet n'aura plus de présence générale en Europe de l'Ouest et de l'Est, en raison d'un modèle économique délicat et de la situation économique difficile en Europe," a expliqué GM dans un communiqué. Chevrolet détient environ 1% du marché européen, où il a écoulé près de 200.000 véhicules en 2012. GM, qui peine de longue date à dégager des bénéfices sur le marché européen, veut dorénavant concentrer sa stratégie sur Opel et Vauxhall, et ainsi réduire la complexité de son offre. Les activités européennes de GM ont accusé l'an dernier une perte d'exploitation (Ebit) de 1,8 milliard de dollars, après déjà 747 millions de dollars en 2011. "Cela améliorera (les perspectives des) marques Opel et Vauxhall et réduira la complexité du marché liée à la présence d'Opel et Chevrolet en Europe de l'Ouest et de l'Est," a-t-il expliqué. La décision a été accueillie avec satisfaction chez Opel, qui bataille depuis des années pour retrouver le chemin de la croissance, au prix de plusieurs plans de restructuration et de la décision d'arrêter sa production dans son usine allemande de Bochum (ouest) fin 2014. Pas de production en Europe "Cela va entraîner un renforcement de notre activité," a déclaré un porte-parole à l'AFP, soulignant une nouvelle fois la volonté d'Opel de croître sur le marché européen. Avec Vauxhall, il y affiche sur les onze premiers mois de l'année une part de marché de 6,7%. L'annonce de GM signe en quelque sorte le succès du patron d'Opel Karl-Thomas Neumann, qui depuis son arrivée en mars bataille pour convaincre sa direction américaine que le positionnement de Chevrolet est devenu trop proche de celui d'Opel, conduisant les deux marques à se livrer une guerre des prix aux conséquences néfastes pour le groupe. "C'est un signe de confiance pour Opel et Neumann, le fait que Detroit n'a plus besoin de concurrence interne," a estimé l'expert allemand Stefan Bratzel. Déjà en avril, M. Neumann avait obtenu de GM qu'il investisse 4 milliards d'euros d'ici 2016 pour lancer plus d'une vingtaine de nouveaux modèles Opel, comme l'Adam ou la Mokka, avec l'objectif de renouer avec les bénéfices en 2016. Le retrait du marché européen de Chevrolet va se traduire par une charge exceptionnelle nette de 700 millions à 1 milliard de dollars (515 à 736 millions d'euros), ventilée sur le dernier trimestre 2013 et les deux premiers de 2014, a précisé GM. Cette charge inclut notamment des dépréciations d'actifs et la restructuration chez ses concessionnaires. En revanche, la marque n'a pas de site de production en Europe, les voitures qui y sont écoulées étant produites en Corée du Sud. | 1,020 | 9,057,501,913,394,403,000 | 2013-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Send Me a Postcard is a song written by Robbie van Leeuwen, and recorded by Shocking Blue in 1968. With lyrics in Swedish by Per Gessle, the song was recorded in 1980 by Gyllene Tider, as Skicka ett vykort, älskling. ==Chart trajectory==
==References==
1968 singles
Dutch songs
Gyllene Tider songs
1968 songs
Songs written by Per Gessle
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White Easter Lilies can live many years if planted outside DETROIT, March 30 (UPI) -- Many will buy Easter lilies for themselves or as gifts, but U.S. flower experts remind the admirers of the white trumpet flowers to not throw out the plant. Wesley Berry chief executive officer of FlowerDeliveryExpress.com, said the Easter lily doesn't survive as a houseplant, but it can be transplanted outdoors where it will bloom again and bring years of enjoyment. The Easter lily is considered the traditional Easter flower because it symbolizes resurrection as well as goodness, purity, life, hope and innocence, Berry said. It takes several years of intense care and the perfect mix of soil and climate to produce quality lilies, but U.S. growers are reporting that this year's crop is exceptionally healthy and strong. During the holiday and in the house, plants prefer moderately cool temperatures as well as moderately moist, well-drained soil, Berry said. Once the Easter lily stops blooming, let soil in the plant container dry and remove it from the container without damaging the bulb and the roots. Choose a location protected from the wind and, in warm climates, protected from extreme heat. Those with clay soil should add peat moss to assure good drainage, Berry said. Plant the bulbs 6 inches deep, spacing them 12 to 20 inches apart. Dig a hole deep and wide enough to allow the roots enough room to spread out. Work the soil around each bulb. Cover the bulbs with soil and water thoroughly, Berry said. Cat owners should be warned as little as two leaves can make a cat sick and, if left untreated, can kill it in as little as three days.
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Unsung ambulance heroes feted for their work Nick Callanan of St John's Ambulance with CFA firefighters David Hawthorne and Shane Addison. Picture: Hamish Blair Source: News Corp Australia WHEN it come to bushfires the role volunteer firefighters play is at the forefront of everyone's mind. But there is another group of unpaid helpers who plays a vital but sometimes unsung role the St John First Aid crews. The 138 volunteers spent 3000 hours treating thousands of cuts, burns and respiratory problems on Victoria's fire zones. Those volunteers were celebrated at an event in the city on Wednesday. St John chief executive Stephen Horton said the dire fire season put the volunteers to the test. "St John Volunteers were vital in alleviating the burden on other emergency agencies like the CFA by treating firefighters as well as members of the community, leaving them to focus on the task of extinguishing the blaze." Nick Callanan, now a trained paramedic, was stationed at the Wallan blaze - the most damaging fire of the season which razed 18 properties. "The most amazing thing was all the firies who just knew to line up at the St John vehicle to be treated. We did a lot of eye washes so they could go back out on duty. "It's a great feeling being a First Aid Volunteer knowing you are helping people when it's needed most." To volunteer: stjohnvic.com.au/volunteer.
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Rodney King's legacy - latimes.com Rodney King used to tell a harrowing story about growing up in Altadena, where he and his three brothers rode their bicycles through the vacant hills behind the nearby Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the weekends. When he was 9, he and his older brother sat astride their Sting-Rays on a rise in the San Gabriels where they saw a Los Angeles County sheriff's squad car roll to a stop on a dead-end dirt road. Two deputies emerged, pulled what looked to be a young gang member from the back seat and began roughing him up. Rodney and his brother didn't stick around to watch. They high-tailed it home to tell their father. King's father, also named Rodney, had already begun the day's drinking out in the garage, in back of the house. He had scant patience with his boys' wide-eyed horror. That, he told them between swallows from a can of stout malt liquor, was the way things were. If the boys were smart, they'd keep out of the back seat of patrol cars. There was no way then or now to prove the veracity of Rodney's story, but it has the ring of truth. Glen, as friends and family called King, was born two months after the assassination of Malcolm X and four months before the Watts riots. He was 3 when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. died and a whole new round of rioting scorched African American neighborhoods across the nation. More than 20 years would pass before King's beating would trigger the next nationally televised race rage.
There is great, aching irony in King's dying on a day commemorating fatherhood. He left behind three children and outlived his father by five years. Rodney King Sr. drank himself to death in a bathtub at the family home. King, who was still in high school, was the one who discovered the body. His father earned his living cleaning office buildings after hours and often brought his sons along to help. Rodney Jr. remembered running the vacuum at 3 a.m., watching helplessly while his father opened another can of beer. Years before his well-documented run-in with police, when the old fear of getting into the back of a patrol car sparked the beat-down seen around the world, King learned to self-medicate like his old man. Expanding beyond his father's choices, he tried marijuana, PCP, cocaine - whatever he could acquire to deaden the fear and anxiety, but he always washed it down with alcohol just like Dad. I attended a Narcotics Anonymous meeting with him once, long before he became a sobriety TV star onDr. Drew Pinsky's group therapy reality show. King told his story to fellow addicts with genuine emotion that rumbled up and out of the deepest part of him, and he won their empathy and affection. He won mine too. VIDEOS: Rodney King and the L.A. riots Rodney Glen King was no angel. He brought much of his trouble on himself. From the first time we met a few years after the 1992 riots, he struck me as a sort of Baby Huey character - basically sweet-natured but always blundering into one disaster after another. I remember visiting him at his Rialto home days after he'd slammed an SUV into a retaining wall half a dozen years ago. Judging by the crumpled SUV, he shouldn't have survived; but there he was, grinning his infectious grin, scooting around in a wheelchair with a busted pelvis, aching to give life one more try. He never sought the public spotlight. When it found him, he was shy and ill-equipped to cope. Milton Grimes, his first and most supportive attorney, encouraged him to utter the five words for which he will best be remembered. They came from the heart of a frightened 9-year-old whose own father could not protect him from eenie-meanie-minie-moe justice. When he drowned in his own pool onFather's Day, 20 years after the riots that will always be associated with him, I thought first of all of the drunks before him who gave up on life. But upon reflection, King's true legacy shone past the booze and the pills and the reckless, aimless behavior that always haunted him. Can we all get along? Mostly, yes, thanks in some small way to him. And when we can't, we try harder than we ever did before. FULL COVERAGE: L.A. riots, 20 years later A former Los Angeles Times staff writer, Dennis McDougal is producing "Getting Along," a documentary on the life and times of Rodney King. He is the author of "Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty," and nine other books.
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Businesses like his operate legally in Oman while the transport of many of their goods is handled by the Iran-based merchants who own the fast boats and employ the drivers. They make their orders by telephone and often pay through exchange houses based in Dubai, the businessman said. Before the economic slowdown really began to bite around six months ago the Indian businessman's company boasted an average turnover of US$130,000 a week, selling mostly food and electronics goods, which ended up in Iranian markets. The current situation has left his company reliant on selling its goods to the few Omani government offices in Musandam province.
The rial's losses have accelerated in the past week despite the government's attempts to stem the slide through establishing an "exchange centre" designed to supply dollars to importers of some basic goods at a special rate, slightly cheaper than the market rate. Instead of allaying fears about the availability of dollars, the centre seems to have intensified the race for hard currency which has resulted in the rial losing more than 30 percent of its value over the last week. "My boss can't sell stuff in Iran at these prices," said Nader, a 32-year-old Iranian boatman, sitting in the businessman's office in Khasab, his weather-beaten face making him look much older than his years. "I'm picking up nothing from here now," he said. Major Iranian exporters who pack large dhows in Dubai with hundreds of tonnes of goods destined for Qeshm or Bandar Abbas face a similar problem. Iranian crewmen say they now wait 10 days for their vessels to fill up with cargo compared to one or two days a year ago. Official statistics show that Dubai's re-exports to Iran increased by more than 25 percent in 2011, topping $8 billion dollars. No figures have been released for 2012 but anecdotal evidence from traders and businessmen point to a distinct downturn since the beginning of this year that coincides with harsh new sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies that target Tehran's oil exports and banking industry. Oman's officially declared exports to Iran totalled $521 million in 2009, according to United Nations data. More recent data is not available because the governments do not regularly release statistics. At Khasab, the Iranians still operate from a dock inside the main port, which was closed off by a high security fence around a year ago, locals told Reuters. Unlike Khasab's fishing wharf, there is no access without permission from the Omani authorities. That doesn't stop Iranian boatmen freely entering the town during the day. But there is no intent to loiter. Despite the slump in smuggling there is another business to attend to: dropping goods off. "Look at my sheep," boatman Ismael shouted, pointing to the 30 sheep and goats huddled in his boat. He is set to receive around 2 million rials for each one, or around US$60, although the amount fluctuates because of the volatile exchange rate. "We're making good money from this." Along the harbor wall, hundreds of sheep and goats are being steered from the boats into waiting trucks. Selling livestock provides a seasonal bonus for Iran's smugglers in the run-up to the Muslim celebration of Eid ul Adha this month, which among other traditions is commemorated by symbolic sacrifice and the sharing of meat. Locals say the livestock is sent onwards to the UAE and Saudi Arabia for Eid, which falls on October 27 this year. With the cattle unloaded, it's time to make a swift return to Iran. Today the boatmen have jobs and the exporters are still in business, but they wonder for how long. "What should we do?" asked the Indian businessman. "Should we wait for things to get better or pack up now? I just don't know." (Editing by Susan Fenton)
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Private funds such as X2 Resources, which has raised as much as $US3.75 billion from investors, may be able to pick up bargains before an iron-ore rebound makes the assets viable, said Ernst & Young. "The smaller miners in both China and Australia could be the collateral damage," said Freya Beamish, a Hong Kong-based economist at Lombard Street Research. "Iron ore prices are on a structural downturn that could play out over several years." The price slide has put even the biggest producers in play. Ivan Glasenberg's Glencore in July approached Rio Tinto with a deal that would have created the world's largest mining company. Rio rejected the proposal the following month. The commodity, approaching $US70 a tonne, will fall to less than $US60 in the third quarter of 2015, Citi said in a report this month. Only BHP and Rio, the world's two largest mining companies, and Pretoria-based Kumba Iron Ore, controlled by Anglo American, produce profitably at that price, according to UBS analysts. "For those in the high-cost area, it's a case of survival," said Mike Elliott, global leader for metals and mining at Ernst & Young. "If you're only ever going to make money at the peak of a commodity price cycle, then you may call it quits." It's not only tumbling prices that are threatening smaller producers. Companies unable to recover their production costs also find it harder to obtain financing, while project writedowns become more likely, said Greg Smith, head of research at Fat Prophets. "There are going to be plenty of assets around or moth-balled operations, if it gets to that," said Smith. Resources companies sitting on millions of tonnes of reserves, mining licenses and other assets may also appeal to activist investors who could push for changes to boost returns. For instance, a breakup of Arrium, the iron ore producer that's fallen 83 per cent this year, might unlock value in the company's unit that makes rail wheels and metal balls, Morningstar said last month. Shares of Atlas Iron, which digs for iron ore in the Pilbara region, have tumbled 82 per cent this year. That's even after the company cut capital expenditure and raised cost-saving targets. BC Iron has dropped 89 per cent and Gindalbie has plunged 75 per cent. According to UBS estimates, Gindalbie started losing money when iron ore fell below $US98 a tonne, while Atlas and BC Iron became unprofitable when the price dropped through about $US80. Heading to oblivion? Very few miners can make money selling iron ore at current prices, while smaller players struggle. Photo: Michele Mossop 1:12pm: The Conversation has done an interesting Fact Check on Australian and US greenhouse gas emissions, following claims by the federal government that both countries are on track for similar reduction. ""We and the United States are pretty much on the same page. Over a 30 year period from 1990 to 2020, we have the same - roughly the same - reduction,"" Treasurer Joe Hockey said last week, echoing similar comments by Environment Minister Greg Hunt. But an apples-with-apples comparison shows that Australia lags far behind the US in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its energy, transport and industrial sectors, the website's Frank Jotzo writes. "To match US efforts, Australia would have to increase its 2020 ambitions from the current 5 per cent below 2000 to 21 per cent or even 29 per cent, depending on whether different population growth is taken into account, or not," he says. And Australia's per capita emissions level is higher still than that of the United States. The Treasurer's and Environment Minister's assertion that the targets are "effectively" or "almost exactly the same" rely on comparing the 2020 target emissions levels for both countries to a 1990 base year, and including all emissions sources, Jotzo adds. This distorts the picture, as in 1990 deforestation was still a large source of emissions in Australia. His bottom line: Australia's 2020 target is weaker than the existing US 2020 target, and a much stronger target will be required to match the US post-2020. Here's the whole article Australia needs to set a more ambitious target if it wants to match the US's planned cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Photo: AFP 12:55pm: Growth in China's immense factory sector stalled in November, with output contracting for the first time in six months, a private survey showed, adding to signs that the world's second-largest economy may still be losing traction. The flash HSBC/Markit manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to a six-month low of 50.0 from a final reading of 50.4 in October and well below the 50.3 reading forecast by analysts. | 1,012 | -2,918,115,380,891,257,000 | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
COP21: Hopes rise as EU forms alliance to push for deal Image caption The EU and 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries announced a new alliance at climate talks in Paris The European Union has formed an alliance with 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries in a final push for agreement at the climate summit COP21. The new alliance has agreed a common position on some of the most divisive aspects of the proposed deal. They say the Paris agreement must be legally binding, inclusive and fair - and be reviewed every 5 years. The EU will pay 475 million euros to support climate action in the partner countries up to 2020. The alliance has also agreed that the Paris text must include a "transparency and accountability system" to track nations' progress on their climate pledges, and share best practice. 'Extremely important' The talks here at Le Bourget have shown signs of progress since a draft text of the deal was agreed by all parties here last Saturday. This announcement from the EU is likely to boost the chances of a deal. "It is extremely important that at this stage of the negotiations 79 countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific and 28 European countries join forces fighting for a very ambitious agreement in this climate summit," said EU climate commissioner Miguel Arias Canete. "We consider it extremely important to have this joint position. We were united in Durban (2011); we are united now." Negotiators have been struggling to find agreement on a long-term goal for the Paris agreement, with small island nations in particular pushing for a deal that would seek to limit warming to 1.5C. "We are working to find the language to accommodate 1.5 degrees within the agreement," Mr Canete said. "We are still talking on it." The 475 million euros will be to support climate action, resilience-building and the environment in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. This seems to have been key in getting the support of these nations for a review process every five years. "We believe this agreement must be something very tangible with clear-cut targets, and that it be reviewed and examined every five years," said Dr Patrick Ignatius Gomes, the chairman of the African-Caribbean Pacific group of states. "There is no turning back." The alliance came as other ministers and observers talked up the chances of a deal. "Though we have some tough issues in the next few days to resolve, I am confident that we have the ability to do it," said US Secretary of State John Kerry at the meeting. There are still significant divisions on finance and on the roles that the developed and developing nations must play. But there is a growing sense that ministers are engaged. "We are advancing on everything," said France's climate ambassador Laurence Tubiana. "There is no issue where we are blocked," she added. "None." Follow Matt on Twitter: @mattmcgrathbbc UN climate conference 30 Nov - 11 Dec 2015 COP 21 - the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties - will see more than 190 nations gather in Paris to discuss a possible new global agreement on climate change, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the threat of dangerous warming due to human activities. Explained: What is climate change? In video: Why does the Paris conference matter? Analysis: Latest from BBC environment correspondent Matt McGrath In graphics: Climate change in six charts More: BBC News climate change special report
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For example, if the body of the message is always in a div like this:
:<div id="message-body">
Then the the following line of JavaScript will move the contents of that div element to the top body element:
:document.getElementsByTagName("body").innerHTML = document.getElementById("message-body").innerHTML;
Notes:
:getElementsByTagName gives you an array of elements. : gives you the first thing in that array. :getElementById returns just one element. No, i did not confuse Java with JavaScript, and i know they are different. My intent was to do parsing of the raw HTML using a Java Application. However, since JS alters the raw HTML in this case, it seems like a less viable solution. I was looking for something quick that didnt involve manually deleting nodes from inspector, but that method may have to do in this case. 216.173.144.188 (talk)
You can look at Google api. Ruslik_Zero
== Name of type of graph and tools to produce it ==
How do you can a graph that let's a user go through options? It is quite common in troubleshooting. For example, you have a lozenge with a question that you answers as yes/no, and then you follow one route or the other. Do you mean a Flowchart
Yes, thanks, I was missing this word. :Diagramming_software#Flowchart has some options, I think Dia_(software) is the only option that is multi-platform and open source. If you don't need to make very many, or if you want extra control over the graphics (shading, gradients, etc. ), then Inkscape is also a viable option. SemanticMantis (talk)
::I came along these two solutions, which seemed decent. But I went with GraphViz and installed it 2 minutes ago. It appears to be well developed and easy to use for the basic tasks. == Server Games ==
Hello friends,
I got something for you lot:
192.168.70.20server-2/Games-Collection/Hands-PC
If you know what to do, then you know what to do! Mr. Prophet (talk)
IP addresses that start 192.168. are private network addresses. Whatever you see there, we can't see it. I didn't know. I'm on payg 'kbs' internet price plan (a system that runs in this country), otherwise, I would've sought help in order to download the games. I thought it would be useful for some of you; got this only for you guys to be honest...since I'm always here and you guys always help me... This is inappropriate for Wiki Reference Desk. Is this not removable by some policy? 216.173.144.188 (talk)
I didn't know
In the future if you'd like to share links with the ref desk group, the talk page is a better place. SemanticMantis (talk)
Okay! == What command would do a crawl? ==
When dinosaurs still roamed the Earth, I studied FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC and a couple of other languages and, while the cable channel at the beach with beautiful music and community announcements looked like something which could be produced with simple computer programs in that era, it also had a crawl at the bottom of the screen, sort of like with TV weather bulletins. That's one thing we never did.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions •
Have a look at the (very long) news ticker. At a skim, I see that the very first ones on TV in the USA in the 1950s used paper tapes superimposed. Of course now it's all digital compositing. If you spend some time there, you might be able to figure out the technology likely to have been used during the time you mention. I feel like there's a specific technology used ~1980s-1990s but I can't recall or find the name, you may have some luck browsing Glossary_of_video_terms. SemanticMantis (talk)
I did look at news ticker but it didn't say how a programming language would do that. And "news ticker" would be too specific. Any Google search seems to give me information about Web crawling. | 979 | null | null | 666,124,485 | "2015-06-09T01:38:00" | Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2015 June 3 | 2,015 |
On how it feels to create a blockbuster ad campaign: "You always have a gut feeling about anything that you feel rings true. I have that feeling often. What you don't control is when you put it out in the world, and what people gravitate to. Why one thing goes viral and something else doesn't, is so hard to predict - otherwise we'd do it every day. I have all my clients saying, "I want one of those viral videos," and I always say "Yes, of course, we all want that." We want to do that every time out. It depends on what people are feeling, and what else is going on out in the world, and all those things you don't control. But definitely, once you do something like [Always "Like a Girl"], you want to do more. That's the aspiration. We're capable of it. It doesn't have to come out of another market. We're capable of it here in Canada." On her management style: "I talk about the importance of team all the time. We have this thing at work that I presented about four years ago. It's called "One Team One Dream." We created a logo and everything. Probably the first day I presented it, it seemed kind of cheesy, and somewhat obvious. But it was just to reinforce to everyone that this is how this agency has been so successful, that we operate as one team. You can't do anything on your own. It's something I learned from my mother, who never graduated from high school but ran this restaurant for 40 years. She said to me, "Don't be a jerk." That is probably the one thing I think about every day - and when I hire. We don't hire jerks. She said, "People can help you. They can happily help you, or they can silently hurt you" - get in the way, or those political things that happen sometimes. "As long as you're good to people, they'll be good to you." I've always held on to that."
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Honduras and its former president: Why a pariah may return SINCE the confused morning in June 2009 when its president was marched to the airport at gunpoint and sent packing, Honduras has been creeping back towards something resembling normal political life. Porfirio Lobo, a conservative who was elected president in a reasonably fair contest five months after the coup, is popular at home. Most of the world now recognises his government, meaning that the vital tap of international grants and loans to one of the poorest and most violent countries in the Americas has been turned back on. Last year the Honduran economy was restored to growth, which many forecasters think will accelerate this year and next. Yet political life in Tegucigalpa, the higgledy-piggledy mountain capital, cannot get back to normal until relations are patched up with Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, the left-wing former president, who remains in exile in the Dominican Republic. As long as Mr Zelaya is away, a hard core of governments, including Brazil, Argentina and left-wing allies of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, will have nothing to do with Honduras. While they freeze the country out, Honduras has little chance of rejoining the Organisation of American States, a regional group that is one of the remaining obstacles to a normal existence on the international stage. And since Nicaragua's president, Daniel Ortega, is one of those who still boycotts Honduras, previously routine co-operation among Central America's leaders has got harder. After his ejection from office Mr Zelaya was charged with a string of crimes, some related to his alleged attempt to prolong his time in office illegally, and others to do with misuse of public funds. Mr Lobo, anxious to move on and restore normal relations with the rest of the world, has managed to approve an amnesty to cover the political crimes. But this does not include the corruption charges and so Mr Zelaya remains on his Dominican beach. Both friends and foes of the mustachioed, stetson-wearing former president now want him back in the country. A loyal band of supporters sees Mr Zelaya's return as essential to undoing the coup. Their "resistance" movement has struggled to make an impact while its leader remains stranded offshore. Mr Zelaya's return would unite the left, neutralise ultra-left radicals in the resistance movement and at last provide Mr Lobo with a worthy opponent, says Víctor Meza, Mr Zelaya's former interior minister. Others think that Mr Zelaya's wife, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, is gearing up for a presidential bid on the back of her husband's eventual triumphant return. Yet the government also has reason to want Mr Zelaya back, or to at least tolerate the idea. His return could just as easily split the left as unite it: many in the resistance movement are no fans of the former president, though they opposed the manner of his removal. Mr Zelaya's return to Honduras would require him - if he wants to remain politically relevant - to address the country's problems, which include flourishing crime and wilting public services. He failed to do so while in office. According to a leaked cable, the American ambassador - who opposed the coup - wrote that Mr Zelaya's goal was "to enrich himself and his family while leaving a public legacy as a martyr who tried to do good but was thwarted at every turn by powerful, unnamed interests." But Mr Zelaya's supporters doubt he would get a fair trial. Either way, Mr Lobo would rather his opponent came back now, while his own approval ratings are healthy, than during some future crisis. Even so, a reconciliation is likely to be difficult. The attorney general and the supreme court are opposed to dropping the corruption charges against Mr Zelaya. Both were appointed for seven-year terms shortly before the coup by a congress that was vehemently anti-Zelaya. Mr Lobo could probably persuade the new congress, where his National Party has a healthy majority, to oust the judges. But after the constitutional earthquake of 2009, bullying the judiciary is the last thing he wants to be seen to be doing. Two opportunities lie ahead. A truth commission, originally due to report this month, will publish its delayed findings in mid-May. Mr Zelaya has declined to co-operate with the commission, labelling it a stitch-up. Nonetheless, it is likely to conclude that his removal was indeed unconstitutional and propose constitutional reforms to prevent a recurrence of the conflict of powers that lay behind the coup. It is expected to make recommendations regarding the return of Mr Zelaya, which will put pressure on those who are standing in the way of a compromise. | 967 | -8,135,292,779,650,854,000 | 2011-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
scope="row" | 3
|90
|12
|}
giving the addition
{|
|
300
40
90
+ 12
442
|}
so 34 × 13 = 442. This is the most usual form for a grid calculation. In countries such as the U.K. where teaching of the grid method is usual, pupils may spend a considerable period of time regularly setting out calculations like the above, until the method is entirely comfortable and familiar. === Larger numbers ===
The grid method extends straightforwardly to calculations involving larger numbers. For example, to calculate 345 × 28, the student could construct the grid with six easy multiplications
{|class="wikitable" border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=15 style="text-align: center;"
! scope="col" width="40pt" |
! scope="col" width="40pt" | 300
! scope="col" width="40pt" | 40
! scope="col" width="40pt" | 5
|-
! scope="row" | 20
|6000
|800
|100
|-
! scope="row" | 8
|2400
|320
|40
|}
to find the answer 6900 + 2760 = 9660. However, by this stage (at least in standard current U.K. teaching practice) pupils may be starting to be encouraged to set out such a calculation using the traditional long multiplication form without having to draw up a grid. Traditional long multiplication can be related to a grid multiplication in which only one of the numbers is broken into tens and units parts to be multiplied separately:
{|class="wikitable" border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=15 style="text-align: center;"
! scope="col" width="40pt" |
! scope="col" width="120pt" | 345
|-
! scope="row" | 20
|6900
|-
! scope="row" | 8
|2760
|}
The traditional method is ultimately faster and much more compact; but it requires two significantly more difficult multiplications which pupils may at first struggle with. Compared to the grid method, traditional long multiplication may also be more abstract and less manifestly clear, so some pupils find it harder to remember what is to be done at each stage and why. Pupils may therefore be encouraged for quite a period to use the simpler grid method alongside the more efficient traditional long multiplication method, as a check and a fall-back. == Other applications ==
=== Fractions ===
While not normally taught as a standard method for multiplying fractions, the grid method can readily be applied to simple cases where it is easier to find a product by breaking it down. For example, the calculation 2½ × 1½ can be set out using the grid method
{|class="wikitable" border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=15 style="text-align: center;"
! scope="col" width="40pt" |
! scope="col" width="40pt" | 2
! scope="col" width="40pt" | ½
|-
! scope="row" | 1
| 2
| ½
|-
! scope="row" | ½
| 1
| ¼
|}
to find that the resulting product is 2 + ½ + 1 + ¼ = 3¾
=== Algebra ===
The grid method can also be used to illustrate the multiplying out of a product of binomials, such as (a + 3)(b + 2), a standard topic in elementary algebra (although one not usually met until secondary school):
{|class="wikitable" border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=15 style="text-align: center;"
! scope="col" width="40pt" |
! scope="col" width="40pt" | a
! scope="col" width="40pt" | 3
|-
! scope="row" | b
| ab
| 3b
|-
! scope="row" | 2
| 2a
| 6
|}
Thus (a + 3)(b + 2) = ab + 3b + 2a + 6. == Mathematics ==
Mathematically, the ability to break up a multiplication in this way is known as the distributive law, which can be expressed in algebra as the property that a(b+c) = ab + ac. | 1,016 | null | null | 688,662,186 | "2015-11-02T08:54:06" | Grid method multiplication | 2,015 |
College football: To boo or not to boo? Chris Dufresne gets earful Question: I agree that you should never boo a college athlete but people are sometimes pretty ignorant. I was at the game and heard the boos around me and those close by. I asked if they were booing Prince. The answer was 100% no. They were booing the decision to put Prince in the game. We are starving for success at UCLA and want to see if the freshman kid Hundley just might be the answer. Did you ask the people booing if they were indeed booing Prince? Robert Lorenzi Answer: No more than you asked everyone in attendance - although that might be possible at UCLA home games this year. But do you think Kevin Prince, when he trotted on the field, knew people weren't booing him but were actually booing because he wasn't Brett Hundley? And isn't that the same thing as booing Prince? Also, from what I hear, Hundley isn't quite ready yet to lead UCLA's offense. No one at UCLA wants to play Hundley unless it's absolutely necessary. Hundley doesn't want to burn his redshirt year six games into his first season. Prince was the no-brainer call to replace Richard Brehaut in that emergency situation. He proved it by leading UCLA to victory, right? Q: Hey Chris DUHfresne, I am booing your article. It belongs in a high school newspaper. Are you going to be OK? Trojanh8ter A: You are so busy hating Trojans you missed the point. I'm a professional writer. I get paid. You can boo me until the cows come home or UCLA plays in a BCS game. Right now, put your money on the cows. Q: So you're saying college players aren't pros? Michael Murphy A: No. In fact, the NCAA just ruled no one could prove Cam Newton received any money for leading Auburn to last year's national title. The NCAA did determine Cam's dad tried to sell his son's services for $180,000, but couldn't connect any dots back to Auburn or Cam. So that pretty much settles it. You are not a pro player if the NCAA can't prove you are. Q: When is it OK to boo at a college football game? When the officials make an incorrect call. Lois Eisenberg
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Brazilian Senate eases Amazon protection rules
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Holker first opened to the public in 1950 - only the second private house to do so after Longleat - with nothing but a converted loo and a basic guidebook. The key to its transformation has been twofold. In the garden, Hugh and Grania have followed their instincts. They talk about how they listen to the plants, trees and shrubs, and talk to them, taking care not to offend. 'If something's not doing well,' Grania says, 'you've got to be careful not to say too much in front of it.' 'Otherwise they do just die,' Hugh says. 'They need the right neighbours too. And space. Ours are given all the love and space they need.' Not something the National Trust excel at, he remarks later when he shows me how a path has been redirected to avoid moving a beloved shrub. 'They wouldn't dream of doing this at the National Trust. They're all about preserving the wrong things.' He and Grania also listen to what the public wants. Vistas, benches for the elderly, paths for the less ambulant, a Pagan Grove, the Neptune Cascade, more planting; there are always new ways to give pleasure. 'We probably have higher standards in the house and garden than at any time in our history, largely because the public is so critical and demanding and has a great appetite for change. What I know for certain is that the public appreciates being invested in.' Hence the attention to detail, whether it's the car-park, designed by the architect Kim Wilkie, or the lavatories in the car-park of Cartmel Racecourse, part of the estate. 'Everyone said, don't bother,' Grania says. 'And what did it do? Won Top Loo of the Year!' With Holker in robust health, they are looking to its future, and their own. Four years ago Lucy agreed to step into her father's shoes. Freddy, who manages a sheep farm nearby, 'preferred, I think, to have an easier lifestyle elsewhere,' Grania says. 'He's quite alternative. He doesn't believe in conventional farming. He lives down a two-mile drive with potholes the size of this room and a river and no electricity. It is lovely. There's no light pollution, and no noise. But it's pretty odd.' Lucy is a painter. She divides her time between London, where she teaches at the Prince's Trust, and the Garden House, once lived in by Aunt Sybil. She started taking on some responsibilities for the estate two years ago. 'I won't look back,' Grania says. 'Holker's not mine. I don't think it is my home necessarily, even now.' 'I quite look forward to living somewhere without inherited disadvantages,' Hugh adds. 'We never really had time to look at this house and say, how would it be right for us? That's what I hope Lucy will have a chance to do. It's been great fun and we've had a very good time, but I'm ready to do a bit less. It is a fact that one is never off-duty. If one was minded to complain, there might be things to complain about. But that was a lesson from the Aunt Heap. Did they complain about having plentiful servants before the war, of having independence, quality of life and everything so plentiful in a gentle political age before the brutality and change that followed? They did not. It is fatal to look at the downside of this sort of job. There is so much plus.' 'A Time to Plant: Life and Gardening at Holker' (Frances Lincoln, £25) is available from Telegraph Books for £23 plus £1.25 p&p (0844-871 1515; books.telegraph.co.uk). Lord Cavendish will be signing copies of the book at the Holker Garden Festival (June 8-10, 015395-58838; holkerfestival.co.uk) This article is from the Telegraph Magazine, free every Saturday with the Daily Telegraph
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Five questions facing USC's football team this spring USC opens spring practice Tuesday. The Trojans will work out 15 times, concluding with a scrimmage at the Coliseum on April 14. All practices except the April 14 scrimmage are closed to the public. Here are five questions facing the Trojans: Is there anything left for Matt Barkley to work on? The senior said he would spend his fourth spring practice refining his footwork and throwing mechanics and becoming "a coach on the field." That's fine with Coach Lane Kiffin. "We've got to take our really good players and take them to another level," Kiffin said. "Our challenge for Matt will be to be the best player in college football. That starts right now." Is George Farmer ready to join former high school teammates Robert Woods and Marqise Lee as a star? After a midseason move to running back, a healthy Farmer returns to receiver with hopes of utilizing his speed to win a role. Junior De'Von Flournoy and redshirt freshman Victor Blackwell also are competing for the No. 3 spot. Are there any tailbacks left? Senior Curtis McNeal and third-year sophomore D.J. Morgan have experience. Redshirt freshman Javorious Allen does not. Isn't there a gaping hole at defensive tackle? USC lost Christian Tupou and DaJohn Harris, so George Uko is the most experienced player at the position. J.R. Tavai played as a reserve last season. Antwaun Woods, Cody Temple and Christian Heyward are competing to become contributors. Who are the new coaches? Lane Kiffin made three hires, choosing Scottie Hazelton to replace Joe Barry as linebackers coach, Marvin Sanders to fill the vacant defensive backs position and Tee Martin to replace Ted Gilmore as receivers coach.
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in Dataset Viewer.
The following dataset is constructed using entirely historical data up to the cutoff date "31-12-2015". 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/TiMaGPT2-2015".
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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