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Direct Marketing Businesses Europe segment Asia Pacific & Latin America segment Lifestyle & Entertainment Direct segment Total Direct Marketing Business Total all business segments Intercompany eliminations Fair value adjustments Total revenue Operating (loss) income Branded Communities North America segment Allrecipes segment Other segment - Weekly Reader Total Branded Communities Direct Marketing Businesses Europe segment Asia Pacific & Latin America segment Lifestyle & Entertainment Direct segment Total Direct Marketing Businesses Total all business segments Corporate unallocated Fair value adjustments Impairment of assets Other operating items, net Total operating loss Interest expense Gain on deconsolidation of subsidiary Other income, net Income tax expense (benefit) Income from discontinued operations, net of taxes Net loss Summary of Reportable Segment Results Successor Company Predecessor Company Nine months ended
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Net (loss) income Summary of reportable segment results North America Third quarter 2011 revenue in the North America segment declined to $138.0 million compared to $143.4 million in the 2010 period (a decline of 4.5% on a constant currency basis). Operating profit decreased to a loss of $5.2 million, compared to an operating profit of $2.9 million (with minimal effect from foreign currency). The declines in revenue and operating profit were primarily due to declining advertising revenue for EDWRR; declining renewal rates for certain of our Canadian magazine titles; and a smaller active customer base for our Canadian non-magazine products. The revenue decline was partially offset by a timing shift from earlier in the year to the third quarter on certain Reader's Digest trade and direct mail book sales, increased sales on certain of our Taste of Home cookbooks and revenue from the Humana partnership we entered earlier in the year. The decline in operating profit was also offset in part by the Humana partnership. Europe Third quarter 2011 revenue in the Europe segment was $136.0 million, as compared to $120.9 million in the 2010 period (an increase of 3.3% on a constant currency basis). Operating loss was $4.8 million compared to $8.9 million (a 57.3% improvement on a constant currency basis). Revenue growth was largely due to additional mailing activity and favorable timing, notably in Germany and Central Europe. The improvement in operating losses was driven by the same factors as well as the favorable shift from the timing of certain promotional investments to the first half of 2011. Asia Pacific and Latin America (APLA) | 919 | -1,607,865,166,957,639,700 | 2011-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
The Who 50th Anniversary Tribute, O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, review: 'no substitute' What is Liam Gallagher going to do with himself now that Oasis are retired and Beady Eye have expired from lack of interest? I'm not convinced his sideline as a clothing designer is going to work out. He swaggered onstage (swaggering being his default mode of perambulation) in a one-piece bell-shaped cross between a parka and a poncho. He looked like a flowerpot man on a camping expedition. Oddly, his comical costume didn't undermine his belligerent charisma. He sang My Generation like he wanted to start a riot, reminding us all exactly what made him the stand out rock star of his generation. Yet for all the sledgehammer force of the music, it's very hard to imagine Gallagher as a solo artist singing cover versions. He needs his own band of like-minded thugs to really make this work. There was a near unbridgeable gap between Gallagher's raw presence and the hammy theatrics of the session man backing band that made this look like (to quote comedian Johnny Vegas) "the world's most expensive karaoke." Gallagher wasn't the only one in a parka, although most opted for more traditional furry hooded affairs with printed targets on the back. Scooters lined the pavement as grown men with elaborately maintained feather cuts swarmed into Shepherd's Bush Empire to pay homage to the original mod rockers. The Who may have imprinted themselves on a generation by articulating the wish to die before they got old but these days they are the subject of anniversary tributes. Hosting the charity event, Roger Daltrey apologetically admitted that Pete Townshend was "at home looking after his dogs" because "he'd rather do anything than hear his own songs played back to him." At times, it was easy to sympathise. The Who's well drilled touring ensemble provided the music, a seven piece tribute group who require multiple guitars and keyboards to make up for the explosive personality of the original power trio. They certainly know how to play these dynamic, elaborately structured songs but there is little they can do to replicate the wild charisma of deceased and absent band members. The atmosphere of pub rock cheer lacked the drama and intensity you expect from The Who but hundreds of thousands of pounds were raised for the Teenage Cancer Trust and everybody had a great time. Kaiser Chiefs's Ricky Wilson, Def Leppard's Joe Elliot and Ross Farelly of The Strypes gamely swung the microphone but just served to remind us what a difficult job Daltrey has done so well for so long. The Who frontman came for an encore of Substitute, a late reminder that in pop there really can be no substitutes. Only Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder proved a proper rival, with a scream on Teenage Wasteland that Townshend may have heard at home in Richmond.
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Kevin Rudd, Peter Garrett and Adam Giles attend memorial for Yothu Yindi singer Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the memorial service for Dr Yunupingu in Gulkula, Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory. Picture: Daniel Hartley-Allen Source: News Limited THE orange headband worn by one of Australia's leading indigenous figures, singer Yunupingu, has had a final outing. At a state funeral deep in the heart of Arnhem Land, his wife Yalmay spoke to the hundreds of mourners who had gathered at the stringybark forest with views to the Gulf of Carpentaria. "His headband that I am wearing today is the one he took to the world promoting Yolngu music, language, culture, in his attempt to bring down white Australians' racism," she said. Kevin Rudd pays his respect to the widow of Dr Yunupingu, Yalmay Yunupingu, at the memorial service. Picture: Daniel Hartley-Allen Source: News Limited Ms Yunupingu said it had been an amazing journey with her husband, who she married in 1979, never thinking his name would become famous the world over. The Aboriginal elder, educator and 1992 Australian of the Year, died aged 56 at his home in the small town of Yirrkala on June 2. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles and singer Paul Kelly were among the throng who gathered under a large bush shed to say their final goodbyes to the man hailed for bridging the gap between black and white Australia. Kevin Rudd made a suprise appearance at the memorial for Dr Yunupingu. Picture: Daniel Hartley-Allen Source: News Limited Local men, women and children - who had arrived by the bus load - gathered outside under the dry season sun, sitting on the dirt or in the back trays of utes. Men from Yunupingu's Gumatj tribute, painted in their clan's colour of yellow and holding spears, danced a farewell to the former lead singer of Yothu Yindi to the beat of clapping sticks. Mr Giles, Australia's first indigenous state or territory leader, said Yunupingu was ``someone who stood tall as a role model for others in his community." Former minister and musician Peter Garrett at the funeral for Mr Yunipingu near Gove in the Northern Territory. Picture: Peter Wallis Source: News Limited He said Yunupingu - who was the first indigenous person from Arnhem Land to gain a university degree and the NT's first Aboriginal school principal - had also helped educate a generation of young Australians about his people and their aspirations. ``He taught us why reconciliation matters and to never let it slip from the national agenda," he said. ``He was a man who walked in two worlds, leaving his mark on both." Mr Giles said Yunupingu's music was a call to action and was part of his fight to hold politicians to account for their promises to Aboriginal people. During the three-hour service, the award winning blind artist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu sang in the local Yolngu language. Yunupingu's six daughters also performed a tribute dance to their father's music. Kelly said he first met Yunupingu in Chicago when the indigenous singer opened for Midnight Oil, noticing his "big hair and big smile." He went on to spend time with Yunupingu in Arnhem Land, working on arrangements for Yothu Yindi's second album, Tribal Voice, released in 1991. "He showed us a way... and we are all richer for it."Northern Land Council (NLC) chairman Wali Wunungmurra called for the issues his friend and brother cared about, primarily the education of young Aboriginal children, to remain in the public eye. "Legacy only goes so far but there is a responsibility for us to take that legacy forward, run with it, rather than just remember what happened."
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United Coalition for Animals or UCAN is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2001 with the purpose of providing spay/neuter as a solution to pet overpopulation. UCAN made the decision in 2005 to open a Cincinnati-based spay/neuter clinic with the express purpose of offering high-quality, affordable spay/neuter surgeries to targeted low-income communities in the 12-county Greater Cincinnati region, After two years, thousands of volunteer hours and a successful capital campaign, UCAN opened its non-profit Spay Neuter Clinic in Cincinnati's Queensgate area on April 16, 2007. Since that date, the clinic has provided over 67,000 spay/neuter surgeries, preventing hundreds of thousands of unwanted dogs and cats from being born into abuse, neglect and ultimate euthanasia. UCAN utilizes a combination of low-cost service, accessibility and education to reach those pets that would not otherwise have been spayed or neutered. UCAN has the advantage of following the proven model of the Humane Alliance Spay/Neuter Clinic in Asheville, North Carolina. One of the most successful programs in the country, Humane Alliance has reduced the euthanasia rate in greater Asheville by more than 82% in the last decade, and they are committed to sharing their expertise by helping other clinics get started. Humane Alliance has partnered with PetSmart Charities and the Humane Society of the United States to form the
National Spay Neuter Response Team (NSNRT). NSNRT is a strategic training program designed to assist organizations as they open and operate high-volume, targeted, affordable, spay/neuter clinics across the nation. UCAN has been accepted into the NSNRT program and receives guidance from this team. UCAN also has the benefit of operating a non-profit home furnishings consignment store, Pedigree Interiors. All proceeds from Pedigree Interiors support UCAN’s spay/neuter initiative. In its first three years of operation, the store has earned a profit of over $999,000, and business continues to grow. More than 50 volunteers donate their time in the store and more than 600 consignors supply merchandise. Not only does Pedigree Interiors raise funds, it also raises awareness by spreading the message of spay/neuter. == References ==
Showing humanity for dogs and cats - Cincinnati Enquirer - 4/14/2007
Non-profit spay/neuter clinic to open in Cincinnati - WVXU - 4/13/2007
Discounted spay/neuter services - Cincinnati Enquirer - 4/8/2007
UCAN opens nonprofit spay/neuter clinic - Cincinnati Business Courier - 4/7/2007
==External links==
United Coalition for Animals (UCAN) Website (Operated by UCAN)
UCAN Spay/Neuter Clinic Website (Operated by UCAN)
Fixing the Future blog (Operated by UCAN)
Humane Alliance website
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NSW man charged over knifepoint rape A MAN'S been charged over what police have described as a "violent and disgusting" sexual assault on a woman in her western Sydney home. It's alleged the 21-year-old, who was on bail, broke into the 31-year-old woman's home through a window on September 17 and raped her at knife point. He is also accused of fleeing in her car as her ex-husband arrived, running over a neighbour in the process. The car was later found burnt out in Toongabbie. Police arrested the man on Wednesday afternoon. It's alleged he was armed at the time. He has been charged with numerous offences including two counts of aggravated sexual assault, car theft and breaking into homes in Picnic Point, Doonside and Mt Druitt. He's also been charged with failing to comply with reporting obligations. Acting Superintendent David Goddard says information from the public helped lead to the man's capture. "These types of offences have a significant impact on the community," he said. "I would like to thank the public for the information we received which was beneficial and assisted us in identifying the person allegedly responsible."
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Wall Street edges up on stimulus hopes Boeing jumped more than 2.5 per cent on Tuesday after its shares received an upgrade from analysts despite the effects of a slowing global economy on the aviation industry. The aircraft manufacturer rose 2.7 per cent to $72.03 by midday in New York as Bernstein Research raised its rating of the company's shares from "hold" to "buy." More On this story IN US Equities The report from the research firm also revised the company's target price to $92 from $85 and said that the share price decline at Boeing "is an overreaction to macroeconomic difficulties." The company's stock has fallen 1 per cent in the last year. Douglas Harned, analyst at Bernstein, said: "We expect that negative earnings revisions are likely, but believe investors should ignore them and instead focus on the outlook for deliveries and progress on the 787 programme." Overall, US equities were off to a strong start in the week's second trading session. A day earlier, US markets suffered losses. Some attributed Tuesday's rise to renewed speculation that policy makers will do more to stimulate the economy. The S&P 500 added 0.6 per cent to 1,316.37 by midday. Kenneth Polcari, the managing director at ICAP NYSE, said investors are expecting the extension of the current Operation Twist or a new stimulus plan by the Federal Reserve over the weekend. "The Federal Reserve is ready to support the market and the economy after it sees how the Greek election goes later this week," Mr Polcari said. Among the S&P 500 sector indices, materials and energy stocks led the gains. First Solar, the thin-film solar panel maker, surged 13.7 per cent to $14.02 after a Bloomberg report said that unexpected demand from Europe would allow the struggling company to delay a production plant closure in Germany. Shares in First Solar have fallen 58 per cent since the start of the year and are among the most heavily shorted by investors. Valero Energy, the oil and ethanol refiner, added 3.2 per cent to $22.54. Shares of Alcoa, the world's second-largest aluminium company by market capitalisation, moved up 1 per cent to $8.39. Financials, the worst-performing sector on Monday, returned to positive territory, with most large banks inching forward on Tuesday. Bank of America increased 1.2 per cent to $7.36, while Morgan Stanley gained 1.3 per cent to $13.55. Citigroup rose 1.1 per cent to $26.78, even though the company was removed from a list of top growth stocks selected by BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research team. JPMorgan Chase increased 1.4 per cent to $33.28 as chief executive Jamie Dimon prepares to testify in front of a congressional committee. BlackRock, however, lost 0.2 per cent to $171.70. A Reuters report said the money manager had received several proposals to help it restructure its unlisted Australian property trust. The blue-chip heavy Dow Jones Industrial Average moved up 0.8 per cent to 12,508.26. Earthmoving equipment maker Caterpillar traded at $85.63, up 0.5 per cent, while Walmart ticked up 0.2 per cent to $67.63. Factset Research tumbled 10.1 per cent to $93.99 after the financial data provider reported third quarter revenue that fell short of analysts" estimations. The Nasdaq Composite index added 0.6 per cent to 2,825.35. Apple, the most heavily weighted stock in the index, rose 0.6 per cent to $574.26 after the iPhone and iPad producer said on Monday that it plans to launch a new Maps application. Ben A. Reitzes, an analyst at Barclays, said investors are likely to expect more from Apple after its worldwide development conference on Monday, although many of the software innovations were ahead of expectations. Barclays reiterated a "buy" rating for Apple and predicted further gains of the company's market capitalisation. Mr Reitzes added: "We expect another major event in early September to release the next iPhone and several other key hardware products." The satellite navigation manufacturer Garmin added 2.8 per cent to $39.27. The stock declined on Monday after Apple's announcement of its new mapping solution that is seen as a possibility to further weaken the GPS market. Shares of Facebook increased 1.6 per cent to $27.44. Analysts on Tuesday continued to question the effectiveness of the social-networking website's paid advertising model. Facebook shares have sunk 28 per cent from their public offer price of $38. | 991 | -6,005,238,548,088,225,000 | 2012-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
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== Linkin Park discography ==
Hey, thanks for your edit to Linkin Park discography. It's really hard to find those types of sources that are dead on the original site. Good work! One thing, try to use the cite web template when citing sources from websites. Check out my diff. Also I removed the 31 from Irish charts because on the current refence it doesn't say It's Goin' Down charted. If you find a reference that says that, we add it again. Thanks again! Hi. Do you have source for this edit? I saw you changed the peaks of the Belgium charts where ultratop.be said "Tip: " at the left of the chart position. I don't know what Tip means in chart terminology, so I'm ignoring it. Meanwhile I have undone your edit, if find other source that says the numbers you added, revert my revert and add that source. Also if you know more about this "Tip: " thing tell me. Ultratip acts like a Bubbling Under chart for Flanders and Wallonia. "New Divide" peaked at #1 on the Ultratip chart, which translates to #51. Cathartica (talk)
:Thanks! I reverted my revert. == Hinder ==
Hi, just letting you know I removed the bit you added about singles there because it didn't have a reference. If you could find a reference for it, it'd be more than welcome to be re-added, but until then, I'm afraid it'll have to stay out. Best wishes, C628 (talk)
== Weezer ==
Please, don't add Death to False Metal in a compilation album section. We're currently discussing the matter in an RfC. Thank you. WereWolf (talk)
== Taking Back Sunday discography ==
Hello, I've noticed you added "Where My Mouth Is" to the Singles section on the Taking Back Sunday discography. I've looked everywhere for a source concerning this matter, but I cannot find one. Could you please provide a reliable source for that song being released as a single? As far as I know, only "Sink Into Me" was released as a single from New Again. | 1,021 | null | null | 692,239,865 | 2015-11-24T14:25:32 | Jon Palacios | 2,015 |
Poland agrees to pay reparations to Guantánamo detainees Poland will comply with a court order to pay $262,000 to two Guantánamo Bay inmates, foreign minister Grzegorz Schetyna said on Wednesday, as reparations for the country's role in hosting a CIA black site where the men were tortured. "We have to do it," Schetyna said in an interview on Trójka Polish Radio, "because we are a country that abides laws." He said the money would be paid out within a month, though questions remain surrounding details of the settlements. Schetyna said details would be worked out in the next few weeks. In July, the European court of human rights delivered an unprecedented ruling that Poland had violated international law by allowing the CIA to inflict what "amounted to torture" in 2002 at a secret facility in the forests of north-east Poland. The court found that Poland "enabled the US authorities to subject [the detainees] to torture and ill‑treatment on its territory" and was complicit in that "inhuman and degrading treatment." Former CIA director Michael Hayden confirmed in 2008 that the two inmates, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, were waterboarded, likely during their time in black sites around the world. Zubaydah is accused of acting as a senior lieutenant in al-Qaida. He is the first victim of the CIA detention program for whom, as the released CIA torture report makes clear, many of the techniques were developed, and he is the only prisoner known to have been subject to them all. The most recent photo of him shows an eye patch he did not have when arrested. Nashiri is charged with planning the bombing of the USS Cole off Yemen in 2000, and legal proceedings of his case show that interrogators variously stripped him, revved a power drill near his temple and threatened to sexually assault his mother. Both men are currently being held at Guantánamo Bay. The Strasbourg court ordered Poland to pay €100,000 ($114,000) to al-Nashiri and €130,000 ($148,000) to Zubaydah, and rejected Poland's October appeal without an explanation. The court also demanded that Poland conduct an immediate and unsparing investigation into what happened at the jail, finding its previous inquiry into the prison flawed and insufficient. Schetyna said details must be worked out in the next few weeks, for instance the "question of how the money will be spent and if we will have to pay it directly to the people who sued us." "They will have a hard time using it while still in jail," he said. Abu Zubaydah's lawyer told the Investigative Bureau of Journalism this week that his client would donate the payment "to victims of torture." The July ruling marked the first time an international court condemned a nation for its part in the CIA's "high value detainee extraordinary rendition program," which aviation records and other clues suggest kept black sites in Romania, Afghanistan, Thailand and the British atoll of Diego Garcia. The court found it "inconceivable" that the CIA operated its international rendition program without Poland's knowledge and consent. The Obama administration ended the CIA detention program in 2009. Neither the White House nor CIA have ever confirmed or commented on the locations of black sites, although former leaders of Romania and Poland have admitted their existence in their countries.
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The military has chafed at the prospect of peace talks with the TTP, and for much of this year the Pakistani army has, in fact, expressed its discomfort with the conciliatory, if not apologetic, approach of center-right and Islamist politicians toward the TTP. In May, the now-outgoing army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani called on Pakistan's politicians and general public to support the fight against militants who, in his words, seek to impose their "distorted ideology" on Pakistan by force. In August, he had said that "bowing down" to militants is no solution to terrorism. And in September, after the TTP killed a major general and threatened to kill Kayani next, the army chief said that, though giving the dialogue process with militants a chance was "understandable," there should be no "misgivings that we would let terrorists coerce us into accepting their terms." Indirectly rebuking pro-talks politicians, such as Imran Khan, who have claimed that military operations have failed to resolve the issue of terrorism, Kayani said that the army "has the ability and the will to take the fight to the terrorists." And last month, as the PML-N pushed forward with talks with the TTP, despite the pace of terrorist attacks continuing unabated, Kayani once again reluctantly embraced talks with militants, and -- in an expression of concern over the compromises conservative politicians might make with jihadists -- stressed that any negotiations must take place within the bounds of the constitution. Having lost thousands of soldiers in its fight with the TTP, the Pakistani army is in no mood to make peace with the militant group -- and the CIA strike that killed Mehsud could have provided the Pakistani Army with a way to scuttle the civilian government's outreach to the TTP. Undoubtedly, Hakimullah Mehsud's hands were drenched with the blood of Pakistanis. Duplicitous and extreme even among extremists, talks with Mehsud were bound to fail. But the current democratically elected government, though misguided in its choice to engage the TTP leader, should have been given a chance to fail. Instead, the killing of Mehsud -- just as preliminary talks were set to begin -- has allowed some Pakistani politicians to blame the United States for their failure, and the mass murderer has even been branded by some Islamists as a "martyr." There is good reason to have let the dialogue process reach a natural death. Public support for Pakistani military operations has waned considerably from its peak in 2009. Voters in two of the country's provinces brought to power parties that had campaigned in favor of talks with the TTP. A better approach might have been to allow the talks with Mehsud to go forward and fail. The proving of the TTP's bad intentions would have given the civilian government the justification and public support to order military operations against the group in North Waziristan. Alternatively, the civilian government should have been brought on board in what appears to have been a decision by the United States -- possibly with the direct or indirect support of the Pakistani military -- to target Mehsud, allowing Islamabad to recalibrate and publicly state that it would be willing to speak with other TTP commanders, but not Mehsud. But now, the killing of Mehsud has exacerbated divisions within Pakistan's polity, and probably also between its civilian and military leadership. The deepening polarization in Pakistan over the question of how to deal with the TTP advances the designs of the terrorist group. Prior to the general elections in May, the TTP mainly targeted Pakistan's secular parties, seeking to divide them and the center-right and Islamist parties. Since the election of center-right parties at the federal level and in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the TTP has tried to foment divisions between these parties and the military, saying that it would resume negotiations with Islamabad if the new, center-right governments in Islamabad and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa developed a stance on the war on terror independent from the military. The Taliban strategy has proved effective, with the political class spending much of its time lobbing accusations and invective at one another. Pro-talks politician Imran Khan has been called "Taliban Khan" by his detractors, while he and others have derided the anti-talks voices as "liberal fascists." Similarly, more latent tensions seem to exist between the civilians and the military on the issue of talking to the TTP. | 931 | -8,089,820,083,601,671,000 | 2013-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Japan's Misao Okawa now world's oldest person at 115 years, 99 days KYOTANGO, Japan, June 11 (UPI) -- The world's oldest person, Jiroemon Kimura of Japan, died early Wednesday of natural causes, local government officials said. He was 116 years, 54 days. Kyodo News reported his death was attributed to natural causes. The Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, citing the Gerontology Research Group, says the mantle of oldest living human goes to Misao Okawa of Japan at 115 years, 99 days. She lives in a nursing home in Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka. Kimura, a resident of Kyotango, Kyoto prefecture, had achieved the status of oldest living person, as determined by Guinness World Records, on Dec. 17 when Italian-born Dina Manfredini of Iowa died. Kimura was a postal worker from the time he was 20 until he retired in 1962 at age 65. He also worked as a government communications worker in Korea in the 1920s. Four of Kimura's siblings lived past the age of 90, with one brother reaching 100. Okawa had two daughters (one died) and a son, four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
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== Second return trip to England ==
As a result, Providence and Warwick dispatched Roger Williams, and Coddington's opponents on Rhode Island sent John Clarke to England to get Coddington's commission canceled. To pay for the trip, Williams sold his trading post at Cocumscussec, near present-day Wickford, Rhode Island. This trading post was his main source of income. Williams and Clarke were successful in getting Coddington's patent rescinded, but Clarke remained in England until 1664 to secure a new charter for the colony. Williams returned to America in 1654 and was immediately elected the President of the colony. He would subsequently serve in many offices in the town and colonial governments, and in his 70s he was elected captain of the militia in Providence during King Philip's War in 1676. One notable effort by "Providence Plantations" (Providence and Warwick) during the time when Coddington had separated "Rhode Island" (Newport and Portsmouth) from the mainland came on May 18, 1652, when they passed a law that attempted to prevent slavery from taking root in the colony. In 1641 Massachusetts Bay had passed the first laws to make slavery legal in the English colonies, and these laws spread to Plymouth and Connecticut with the creation of the United Colonies in 1643. Roger Williams and Samuel Gorton both opposed slavery, and the law passed in 1652 was the attempt to stop slavery from coming to Rhode Island. Unfortunately, when the parts of the colony were reunited, the Aquidneck towns refused to accept the law and it became a dead letter. The economic and political center of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was Newport for the next 100 years, and they disregarded the anti-slavery law. Indeed, Newport entered the African slave trade in 1700 and became the leading American slave traders from then until the American Revolution. ==Relations with the Baptists==
others, establishing the first Baptist church in America. Baptists were considered major heretics among the orthodox Puritans because they denied infant baptism and they disavowed the validity of magistrates. Boston's magistrate John Winthrop reacted to this in his journal, writing that at "Providence things grew still worse; for a sister of Mrs. Hutchinson, the wife of one Scott, being infected with Anabaptistry, and going last year to live at Providence, Mr. Williams was was taken (or rather emboldened) by her to make open profession thereof..."
They met together, in private homes, for a few months, but soon Williams departed from the group. == First return to England ==
In 1643, the neighboring colonies formed a military alliance called the United Colonies and pointedly excluded the towns around Narragansett Bay. The object was to extend their power over the heretic settlements and put an end to the infection. In response Williams was sent to England by his fellow citizens to secure a charter for the colony. The English Civil War was in full swing in England when Williams arrived. The Puritans were then in power in London, and through the offices of Sir Henry Vane a charter was obtained despite strenuous opposition from agents from Massachusetts. Historians agree that the key that unlocked the door for Williams was his first published book, A Key Into the Language of America (1643). Printed by John Milton's publisher the book was an instant "best-seller", and gave Williams a large and favorable reputation. This little book was the first dictionary of any Indian tongue in the English language and fed the great hunger of the English about the Native Americans. Having secured his precious charter for "Providence Plantations" from Parliament, in July 1644 Williams then published his most famous book, The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience. This produced a great uproar, and Parliament responded in August by ordering the public hangman to burn the book. By then, Williams was already on his way home to Providence Plantations. Also, by then, the settlers on Aquidneck Island had renamed their island Rhode Island. Because of opposition from William Coddington on Rhode Island, it took Williams until 1647 to get the four towns around Narragansett Bay to unite under a single government, and liberty of conscience was again proclaimed. The colony became a safe haven for people who were persecuted for their beliefs-including Baptists, Quakers, and Jews. Still, the divisions between the towns and powerful personalities did not bode well for the colony. Coddington, who never liked Williams nor liked being subordinated to the new charter government, sailed to England and returned in 1651 with his own patent making him "Governor for Life" over "Rhode Island" and Conanicut. | 996 | null | null | 552,092,900 | 2013-04-25T09:07:45 | Sarnold17/sandbox3 | 2,015 |
The Saturday Quiz: Weekly brain teaser 1. What domestic disciplinary record do the footballers Richard Dunne, Patrick Vieira and Duncan Ferguson share? 2. The Battle of Hill 60 is the name given to two separate engagements in the same war. Which war? 3. In which 1870 novel do the following dishes appear: loin of sea turtle, dolphin liver, marmalade of sea anemone? 4. Which 20th-century future British prime minister won an organ scholarship to Oxford? 5. In aviation, what is "radio direction and ranging" better known as? 6. Which poet was said to have told American reporters in 1950 that he had gone to New York in search of naked women in wet mackintoshes? 7. The Karate Guard (2005) was the last of 162 cartoons to feature which duo? 8. Which legendary 1970 live album was recorded in a university refectory? 9. In 1911 Guillaume Apollinaire was accused of stealing the Mona Lisa. Which fellow artist did he try to blame? 10. Riverside Museum, Glasgow; Guangzhou Opera House; BMW Central Building, Leipzig; London Aquatic Centre. What's the link? Click here to see the answers
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Niall McMullen claims Junior crown AVOIDING the disasters that befell title favourites Bradley Neil and Ewen Ferguson on the outskirts of St Andrews, Lundin's Niall McMullen signed for the day's only sub-par round in winning the Scottish Junior Champion of Champions at The Duke's. On a day when an early start proved beneficial - those off later had to cope with cooler conditions - McMullen carded a one-under-par 70 to finish a shot ahead of Caird Park's Connor Good and George Burns from Williamwood. McMullen, who cut his golfing teeth at Lochgelly but has since made Lundin his home club, birdied the first and was two-under for the round after 11 holes before finishing bogey-birdie-birdie. Cook, a semi-finalist in the Scottish Boys at Murcar Links two years ago, mixed three birdies with three bogeys while Burns" card contained an eagle - at the sixth - as well as two birdies and four bogeys. Connor Syme finished fourth on 72, the two-times Scottish Schools" champion from Dumfries & Galloway covering the last eight holes in two-under after earlier running up a double-bogey 7 at the sixth. He wasn't alone, though, in signing for that figure on a day when the Old Course Hotel-owned course showed some teeth. Ferguson, last year's British Boys" champion from Bearsden, had a triple-bogey 7 at the 17th in his 75 - it earned him fifth spot - while Bradley Neil, the world No 66 from Blairgowrie, had three 7s in a ten-over 81 that left him down in a tie for 26th.
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Khloe Kardashian shows off new body on Instagram Khloe Kardashian earlier this month Source: Getty Images IT IS usually Kim or Kendall making headlines for their Instagram posts, but now another Kardashian is stealing the attention. Khloe Kardashian has been praised for a stunning Instagram shot showing off her new body. The classic bathroom selfie shows the reality star revealing her chiselled midsection as she pulls down her gym shorts. The 30-year-old wrote an inspirational message to accompany the image. "Looking back at pictures of myself I didn't realise at the time how unhealthy my lifestyle actually was," she wrote. "About two years ago I decided to turn to fitness as a form of therapy and as a stress reliever. I started slow and eventually I started working out 4 to 5 days a week. "We all have to start somewhere and doing something is better than nothing at all. "Working out is a huge part of my life now. I genuinely enjoy sweating out my frustrations and living a healthier life." Originally published as Kardashian shows off fit new body
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The second stanza of that theme tune - The Magic Trumpet by Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass, go on, give it a whirl - is peppered by a jaunty xylophone trill. It's the sort of music perfect for footage of clumsy buffoons desperately trying to stay on their feet as they perambulate down a pavement covered in marbles while carrying two buckets filled with water. Oo-er, don't spill a drop! And it could quite easily have soundtracked Manchester City's travails last March, when they lost at Swansea City, only just beat Chelsea at home, drew at Stoke, and then dropped two more points at home to Sunderland. Welcome to Granadaland for FOOTBALL. Simple, straightforward, say-what-you-see, does-what-it-says-on-the-goggle-box titling. Life would be so much simpler if television stations flagged up their fare in this no-nonsense, old-school manner. QUIZ. CELEBRITY TALKING PROGRAMME. EXPLOITATIVE AMATEUR SINGING. I'd watch. The practice could be rolled out to other walks of life. The supermarket, for example, where one could purchase GIN, GIN DILUTER and RAZOR. Don't worry, though, Samaritans, there'd be no danger of slipping into a blue funk, because the theme tune to FOOTBALL is by Herb Alpert.
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Hi. Recently you created a separated article for when some while ago we'd decided that until much more was known about it there wasn't much point. All you'd done was removed one section from the main article and pasted it, so I put it back and restored the redirect. Now I see you reverted that, without using an edit summary, or mentioning it on the talk page. This is not very helpful, and I hope you'll discuss this on the talk page if you want to argue that there should be a moon article separate from the main article. If you don't discuss things when you disagree you'll find you generate far more friction than necessary. Also, as Jyril said, blanking your talk page is considered bad form. Worldtraveller
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In an attempt to salvage Gian Gastone from shipwreck, Rinnuci tried to coerce Anna Maria Franziska to return to Florence, where Gian Gastone longed to be. She blankly refused. Her confessor, hoping to keep her in Bohemia, regaled her with tales of the "poisoned" Eleanor of Toledo and Isabella Orsini, other Medici consorts. ===Tuscan succession and later years===
Cosimo's piety had not faded in the slightest since his youth. He visited the Florentine Convent of Saint Mark on a daily basis. A contemporary recounted that "The Grand Duke knows all the monks of Saint Mark at least by sight..." This, however, did not occupy all his efforts: He was still trying to coax Anna Maria Franziska to Florence, where he believed her caprices would cease. Additionally, in 1719, he claimed that God asked him to pledge the Grand Duchy to "the governance and absolute dominion of the most glorious Saint Joseph." Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, died in May 1705. His successor, Joseph I, took to government with a burst of ebullience. Following the Battle of Turin, a decisive Imperial victory, the Emperor sent an envoy to Florence to collect feudal dues, amounting to 300,000 doubloons, an exorbitant sum; and to force Cosimo to recognise the Archduke Charles as King of Spain. Fearing a Franco-Dutch invasion, Cosimo III refused to recognise Charles's title, but he did pay a fraction of the dues. The Grand Prince Ferdinando was grievously ill with syphilis; he had become prematurely senile, not recognising anybody who came to see him. Cosimo despaired. He successfully requisitioned the assistance of Pope Clement XI with Anna Maria Franziska. He sent the Archbishop of Prague to reproach her. She cited the example of Marguerite-Louise, adding that the Pope did not bother himself to machinate a reconciliation. Cosimo wrote desperate missives to the Electress Palatine: "I can tell you now, in case you are not informed, that we have no money in Florence..." He added that "two or three quarters of my pension are fallen into arrears." Gian Gastone arrived in Tuscany, without his wife, in 1708. The Emperor, thinking it unlikely that any male heirs were to be born to the Medici, prepared to occupy Tuscany, under the pretext of Medici descent. He intimated that upon the Grand Prince's death the Tuscans would rebel against Cosimo's autocratic government. Cosimo, in an act of desperation, had Francesco Maria, the Medici family cardinal, renounce his religious vows and marry Eleanor of Gonzaga, the youngest child of the incumbent Duke of Guastalla. Two years later, Francesco Maria died, taking with him any hope of an heir. Without any ostensible heir, Cosimo contemplated restoring the Republic of Florence. However, this presented many obstacles. Florence was nominally an Imperial fief, and Siena a Spanish one. The plan was about to be approved by the powers convened at Geertruidenberg when Cosimo abruptly added that if himself and his two sons predeaceased the Electress Palatine she should succeed and the republic be re-instituted following her death. The proposal sank, and was ultimately put on hold following the Emperor Joseph's death. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, agreed to an audience with the Electress Palatine in December 1711. He concluded that the Electress's succession brought no quandary, but added that he must succeed her. Cosimo and herself were abhorred by his reply. Realising how unforthcoming he had been, Charles wrote to Florence agreeing to the project, mentioning but one clause: the Tuscan state must not be bequeathed to the enemies of the House of Austria. At the culmination of the War of the Spanish Succession, at the Treaties of Utrecht and Rattstatt, Cosimo did not vie for international assurances for the Electress's succession. An inaction he would later grow to lament. The Grand Prince finally succumbed to syphilis on 30 October 1713. Cosimo deposited a succession bill in the Senate, Tuscany's nominal legislature, on 26 November. The bill promulgated that if Gian Gastone predeceased the Electress Palatine, she should ascend to all the states of the Grand Duchy. It was greeted with a standing ovation by the senators. Charles VI was furious. | 998 | null | null | 693,744,074 | 2015-12-04T16:14:39 | Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany | 2,015 |
Non-notable church full of non-notable people. Did love the disclaimer, though. RickK 08:36, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)
Delete, non-notable. Hmmm...a church connected to the pancake industry...now that might be notable...
if so don't forget to create List of Churches associated with the pancake industry. and dig the third entry of these results: -- | 93 | null | null | 20,032,488 | 2005-08-01T06:35:26 | Articles for deletion/International House of Prayer (0th nomination) | 2,015 |
China Sees Surging Demand for Surrogate Mothers Surrogate motherhood is illegal in China, but thanks to rising infertility, a cultural imperative to have children and relaxation of the one-child policy, the country is seeing a boom in births via hired rural women, Ian Johnson and Cao Li report. The trend, which may be producing more than 10,000 babies a year, "links couples desperate for children with poor women desperate for cash in a murky world of online brokers, dubious private clinics and expensive trips to foreign countries," they write. In the video above by Jonah M. Kessel, a woman who has been hired as a surrogate discusses her decision. In a second video, also by Mr. Kessel, parents in a park in Wuhan discuss their views of the practice of hiring a woman to bear a couple's fertilized egg.
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DEA chief: Can't 'pre-judge' probe of alleged agent involvement with prostitutes By Carol Cratty, CNN June 20, 2012 -- Updated 1914 GMT (0314 HKT)
Secret Service and DEA agents were in Colombia in April, ahead of a presidential trip Nine Secret Service agents have lost their jobs for allegedly spending time with prostitutes No action has been taken against three DEA agents still under investigation The head of the DEA says "if there was misconduct, they will face our disciplinary process" Washington (CNN) -- Several members of Congress pressed the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration on Wednesday to explain why stronger action has not been taken against three agents under investigation for alleged involvement with prostitutes in Colombia. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, noted that nine Secret Service agents lost their jobs for spending time with prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia, in April. The men were sent to Cartagena in advance of a presidential trip. Sensenbrenner wanted to know why the DEA agents haven't been fired. DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart said she immediately pulled the agents out of Colombia. She said she must wait until the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General concludes its probe concerning the allegations against the three agents. "It's not really appropriate for me to pre-judge the results, but I guarantee you that if there was misconduct, they will face our disciplinary process," said Leonhart. Leonhart said she immediately pulled her agents out of Colombia when she learned of the allegations and made them available to the inspector general for interviews. "They are presently on limited duty while the investigation is taking place," she said. A DEA official told CNN the agents currently are not involved in any investigatory work and their only current task is to cooperate with investigators. According to two government sources briefed on the investigation, one DEA agent had a long-term relationship with a prostitute. Allegations concerning the DEA agents came to light following reports concerning twelve Secret Service agents who went out drinking at Cartagena night clubs on April 11 and ended up bringing women back to their hotel rooms. Three of those agents were cleared of serious misconduct. The military opened an investigation of 12 service members for their alleged involvement but has not announced any findings yet. The issue of DEA involvement came up when a Secret Service agent voluntarily reported to his supervisors that had attended a party with the DEA agents and several women at a Cartagena apartment on April 13. The Secret Service agent ---the 13th agent to be caught up in the scandal -- is currently on administrative leave and is not expected to lose his job, according to several sources. That Secret Service agent said he accepted a massage from a woman he thought was a masseuse and that when things started to turn sexual he stopped it. The agent is the third supervisor caught up in the Colombia controversy. According to a law enforcement official, the agent works in protective intelligence which reviews any threats and risks to the president. "No classified or sensitive information was compromised" by the 13th agent or the ones involved in the partying on April 11, said the official. There was a delay in Congress being told the details about the 13th agent. "One significant concern was that there were DEA agents on the ground and care had to be taken not to accidentally identify them or disrupt any ongoing investigations," said the law enforcement official. The DEA agents worked undercover, acording to officials. Secret Service spokesman Max Millien said the agent "self-reported potential misconduct" on April 19 and an investigation was begun. Millien said Congress was fully briefed on May 4. "Throughout this process the Secret Service has worked diligently to brief Congress on the details of this investigation in a transparent and comprehensive manner." CNN's Ted Barrett, Dana Bash, Kate Bolduan, Ashley Hayes and Tom Cohen contributed to this report.
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Remembering Mike Nichols, fearless director, unparalleled auteur (+video) Los Angeles - Mike Nichols, who died Wednesday, was a fearless director, lauded for his unparalleled ability to "present truly adult themes without compromise" and to seamlessly jump back and forth between film, television, and stage. "Mike Nichols did not shy away from controversial subjects in his work - really controversial subjects, not subjects around which controversy is manufactured," says Ron Bishop, professor in the Department of Culture and Communication at Drexel University in Philadelphia. "Folks in my line of work have this argument all the time: Can popular culture and the arts also educate and compellingly illuminate the human condition?" Mr. Nichols answered that question with a resounding "yes." Nichols, a Jew, was born in Germany in 1931. He and his family fled the country at the start of World War II. Nichols recalled the day he arrived in the United States in 1939 in a 2012 interview with Entertainment Weekly. "My father was waiting for us on the dock, and the first thing I saw was a kosher deli and in the neon sign were Hebrew letters. I said to my dad, "Is that allowed?" And he said, "Here, it is." Unbelievable luck. Undeserved luck. Life-shaming luck." Nichols brought that understanding of hardship to his work. Wheeler Winston Dixon, editor of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, notes that "Nichols almost single handedly insisted that the screen should be allowed to present truly adult themes without compromise, ending a long period in which the theater could be more frank about life than the movies." Dixon also says that everyone wanted to work with Nichols, and at same time he had a superb visual sense. " 'Virginia Woolf' won the Oscar for Haskell Wexler's super black and white camerawork - so that he was a consummate auteur, able to work effectively as both an actor's director as we as being an assured visual stylist." "Nichols knew how to "open up" a play on the screen," adds Dixon, "so that it didn't seem artificial - his work with the actors is intimate and real, but he also managed to make his films work in the real world, so the result was never'stagey' or artificial." In short, says Dixon, "Nichols made the jump from stage to screen with such style and grace that he became the model for anyone who might want to follow in his footsteps, but nobody really could do it as well - even Elia Kazan's work in film is more interested in performance than visuals. Nichols could do it all, from the first time out - and brilliantly." That versatility earned Nichols the coveted EGOT - four Emmys, a Grammy, an Oscar, and eight Tony Awards, to be exact. He won his first major award in 1961, when he and Elaine May won the Grammy for Best Comedy Performance for their album "An Evening With Mike Nichols And Elaine May." He won an Oscar in 1967 for directing "The Graduate." He will be remembered mentioned with the all-time Hollywood greats, observers say. "Like Orson Welles, to whom he was occasionally compared, Nichols managed not only to work in many different artistic forms (theater, radio, film, television) but also to create masterpieces in those forms. In 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf,' Nichols, a theater director who'd never made a movie, managed to reshape that play in uniquely cinematic ways," says Robert Thompson, founder of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University in New York. It was just a year later, notes Thompson, that Nichols "directed one the jewels in the crown of the American cinema, 'The Graduate.' Although he employed many of the same skills in all of his work - a sharp eye, an ability to work with all kinds of actors - he knew the difference between the stage and screen and shaped his material accordingly." "The Graduate" made a star of then unknown actor, Dustin Hoffman, the 21-year-old protagonist, a Southern Californian and a track star who sleeps with the wife of his father's best friend and then falls in love with her daughter. "There is no piece of casting in the 20th century that I know of that is more courageous than putting me in that part," Mr. Hoffman, who was nearly 30 when he played Benjamin Braddock, said in an interview in The New Yorker in 2000. Nichols's creations and his unique talents remained relevant through the decades, helping to translate both serious and humorous material from one medium to another. He brought Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Angels in America" to a national audience with a highly acclaimed 2003 miniseries for HBO. | 1,007 | 3,252,531,948,726,674,000 | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Eduard Wirths (4 September 1909 – 20 September 1945) was the Chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945. Thus, Wirths had formal responsibility for everything undertaken by the nearly 20 SS doctors (including Josef Mengele, Horst Schumann and Carl Clauberg) who worked in the medical sections of Auschwitz between 1942–1945. == Early life ==
Eduard Wirths was born in Geroldshausen near Würzburg, Bavaria into a Catholic family with democratic Socialist leanings. His father served as a medical corpsman in the First World War and according to Dr. Robert Jay Lifton had emerged from the war "...in a depressed state with pacifist leanings, which were undoubtedly expressed in his (as one son put it)'making doctors of us all...'" Wirth's younger brother, Helmut, became a notable gynecologist (who later went to Auschwitz to visit his brother to participate in cancer experiments but claimed he left after only a few days on his brother Eduard's advice, due to a disagreement and because of his revulsion of the place). According to Lifton "...Among the boys it was Eduard who came most under the father’s influence in becoming meticulous, obedient, and unusually conscientious and reliable — traits that continued into his adult life. He never smoked or drank and was described as compassionate and "soft" in his responses to others..." The Wirths family was not known to be anti-semitic or sympathetic to radical nationalist politics. == Nazi party membership ==
Eduard Wirths, however, became an ardent Nazi while studying medicine at the University of Würzburg (1930–35). He joined the Nazi Party and the SA in June 1933 and applied for admission into the SS in 1934. He entered the Waffen SS in 1939, saw action in Norway and the Russian Front and was classified as medically unfit for combat duty in the spring of 1942 after a heart-attack. Wirths then chose to undertake special training for Department leaders in Dachau Concentration Camp and served as chief SS psychiatrist in Neuengamme concentration camp during July 1942. Coincidentally, in 1942 Josef Mengele was also wounded at the Russian Front, pronounced medically unfit for combat, promoted to the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer before being assigned to Auschwitz. == Auschwitz (1942-45) ==
Dr. Wirths was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) and appointed as chief camp physician at Auschwitz in September, 1942. He was appointed on the basis of his reputation as a competent doctor and committed Nazi who would be capable of stopping the typhus epidemics that had increasingly affected SS personnel at Auschwitz. At Auschwitz, Wirths was known to be protective of prisoner doctors and other prisoners doing medical work, to have improved conditions on the medical blocks and was remembered favourably by most prisoner doctors and other inmates who had contact with him. At the same time, Wirths in recommending Dr. Josef Mengele for promotion in August 1944, was able to speak of Mengele's "open, honest, firm … absolutely dependable" character and "magnificent" intellectual and physical talents; of the "discretion, perseverance, and energy with which he has fulfilled every task … and … shown himself equal to every situation"; of his "valuable contribution to anthropological science by making use of the scientific materials available to him"; of his "absolute ideological firmness" and "faultless conduct an SS officer" ; and personal qualities as "free, unrestrained, persuasive, and lively" discourse that rendered him "especially dear to his comrades". Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz between 1940 and December 1943 is said to have held Wirths in particularly high regard. He is said to have remarked of Wirths that "During my 10 years of service in concentration-camp affairs, I have never encountered a better one." In 1943 Wirths' benevolent and kind concern for the well-being of Auschwitz inmates resulted in him receiving a Christmas card from Langbein a Jewish prisoner who worked with him, which contained the message “In the past year you have saved here the lives of 93,000 people. We do not have the right to tell you our wishes. But we wish for ourselves that you stay here in the coming year.” It was signed: “One speaking for the prisoners of Auschwitz.” The figure of 93,000 was the difference in mortality rate among prisoners from typhus in the year prior to Wirths' arrival. | 1,011 | null | null | 688,242,235 | 2015-10-30T15:58:36 | Eduard Wirths | 2,015 |
Muslim woman says she faced discrimination on United Airlines flight CHICAGO, June 1 (UPI) -- A Muslim woman says she experienced discrimination on a United Airlines flight after she asked for an unopened can of Diet Coke. Tahera Ahmad, a chaplain and director of interfaith engagement at Northwestern University, wrote Friday in a Facebook post that was on a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., when she asked for an unopened can of Diet Coke for "hygienic reasons." Ahmad says the flight attendant refused and told her that they were "unauthorized to give unopened cans to people because they may use it as a weapon." Ahmad says she confronted the flight attendant after she saw her give an unopened can of beer to a nearby passenger. "I asked people around me if they witnessed this discriminatory and disgusting behavior and the man sitting in an aisle across from me yelled out to me, 'you Moslem, you need to shut the f*** up,'" Ahmad said. "I can't help but cry on this plane because I thought people would defend me and say something. Some people just shook their heads in dismay," Ahmad added. In a statement, United Airlines called the incident a "misunderstanding." "The inflight crew met with Ms Ahmad after the flight arrived in Washington to provide assistance and further discuss the matter," the statement read. "Additionally, we spoke with Ms Ahmad this afternoon to get a better understanding of what occurred and to apologize for not delivering the service our customers expect when traveling with us. We look forward to having the opportunity to welcome Ms Ahmad back." United Airlines said it would discuss the incident with Shuttle America, the regional operator of Ahmad's flight. Ahmad's claims inspired the Twitter campaign "#unitedfortahera," with many social media users calling for a boycott of the airline. "I logged over 130,000 miles with @United," wrote one commenter. "Will take my biz elsewhere if #UnitedAirlines isnt #unitedfortahera." "I'm not flying @united until they issue a public apology," wrote another. Ahmad told the Chicago Sun-Times that the flight attendant apologized. "The flight attendant also acknowledged that the man who yelled at me was wrong for doing so and apologized that her behavior led to that. She acknowledged it was unethical and said he never should have said anything," Ahmad said. Related UPI Stories
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In the television programme Inside the Actors Studio, noted actors such as Johnny Depp and Anthony Hopkins have cited Chekhov's book as highly influential on their acting. Beatrice Straight also thanked Chekhov in her acceptance speech after winning her Oscar for her performance in Network (1976). Chekhov's description of his acting technique, On the Technique of Acting, was written in 1942. When reissued in 1991 it had additional material by Chekhov estate executor Mala Powers; an abridged version appeared under the title To the Actor in 1953, with a preface by Yul Brynner, and reissued in 2002 with an additional foreword by Simon Callow and additional Russian material translated and commented on by Andrei Malaev-Babel. The English translation of his autobiography The Path of the Actor was edited by Andrei Kirillov and Bella Merlin and published by Routledge in 2005, marking the 50th anniversary of his death. Some of Chekhov's lectures are available on CD under the title On Theatre and the Art of Acting. The documentary From Russia to Hollywood: the 100 Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff, profiles Chekhov and his fellow Russian associate George Shdanoff; released in 1998, it is narrated by Mala Powers and Gregory Peck, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, for which Chekhov earned an Oscar nomination. ==Selected filmography==
==References==
==Bibliography==
Farber, Vreneli, Stanislavsky in Practice: Actor Training in Post-Soviet Russia (Artists & Issues in the Theatre, Vol. 16) New York: Peter Lang, 2008. (summary of M. Chekhov's system and its application in post-Soviet actor training) ISBN 978-1-4331-0315-5
==External links==
National Michael Chekhov Association
Michael Chekhov in Russia
Michael Chekhov International Center
Michael Chekhov and The Psychological Gesture
The Actor is the Theatre: a collection of Michael Chekhov's unpublished notes and manuscripts on the art of acting and the theatre: typescript, 1977, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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Son-in-law arrested in TN bomb case The son-in-law of a Tennessee couple killed in an explosion at their home has been charged with planting a bomb there. If your browser has Adobe Flash Player installed, click above to play. Otherwise, click below.
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Acrolophus infida is a moth of the Acrolophidae family. It is found in South America. ==References==
Moths described in 1913
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Perry Township is a township in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 352 at the 2010 census. ==Geography==
Perry Township is located in northern Armstrong County, between the west bank of the Allegheny River and the western county boundary. It is bordered to the north by the city of Parker. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of, all of it land. ==Demographics==
As of the census of 2000, there were 404 people, 154 households, and 119 families residing in the township. The population density was 26.9 people per square mile (10.4/km²). There were 263 housing units at an average density of 17.5/sq mi (6.8/km²). The racial makeup of the township was 99.75% White, and 0.25% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.25% of the population. There were 154 households, out of which 32.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.3% were married couples living together, 9.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.7% were non-families. 19.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.62 and the average family size was 2.92. In the township the population was spread out, with 24.5% under the age of 18, 5.4% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 25.5% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 98.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 108.9 males. The median income for a household in the township was $32,083, and the median income for a family was $40,469. Males had a median income of $31,250 versus $26,250 for females. The per capita income for the township was $22,784. About 11.1% of families and 11.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.0% of those under age 18 and 3.8% of those age 65 or over. ==Education==
Karns City Area School District - public schools
Karns City High School in neighboring Butler County
==References==
Populated places established in 1796
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It sometimes gets me perks, too - when my girlfriend and I visited the zoo recently, she was given half-price admission on the basis that, as well as visiting in her own right, she was also assisting me. I wouldn't quite say that it's worth all the abuse from strangers or the other bruises, but it's certainly better than a poke in the eye with a white stick. Reading by touch: the story of Braille * The use of Braille has declined in recent years, due to technologies that offer books and other media in audio form, which some people prefer. But Braille remains a much more similar experience to visual reading and is used by millions of people worldwide. * Using Braille also means that blind or partially sighted children can be taught a full range of literacy skills, and those who learn it will have improved chances of employment when they leave school. * The system of raised dots representing the alphabet, readable by touch, was devised in the 19th century by Louis Braille, who had lost his sight in a childhood accident. It was based on a method of sending messages, used by the military in France, which could be read by touch on a battlefield at night. * Technological advances are likely to boost the numbers of people using Braille. Braille displays can be used with computers to read and write, using pin keyboards, and Apple pioneered Braille displays using bluetooth for smartphones.
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Are you addicted to work? Welcome to The Globe and Mail's Your Life at Work Survey, done in conjunction with Howatt HR Consulting. Click here to take our survey, measure your stress levels, examine if you're a workaholic, find out your Quality of Work Life (QWL) score and determine whether you're able to cope. Working long hours is generally viewed as sign of a productive and hard working individual. For these people, putting in a 50-hour work week is common. However, when this becomes the norm and the person develops an internal compulsion to work longer hours - regardless of the consequences to themselves, their family or friends - then this person may have an addiction to work. Work addiction is real. Statistics Canada reported that almost one-third of employed Canadians aged 19 to 64 (31 per cent) identify themselves as workaholics. In fact, this percentage has not changed since the agency first began collecting these data in 1992. Like drug addictions, people addicted to work develop negative habits to keep their high. The work addict's high comes from the adrenaline rush they get from their work. A person with a work addiction is internally driven to focus on their work for long periods of time. It is common for the work addict to have obsessive compulsive tendancies about work, and often the person uses work to escape from the world outside of work. In the early stages of work addiction the person starts to rationalize their need for working such long hours. As their addiction progresses to the middle stage, their work schedule becomes all encompassing and begins to control them. As a result, the person starts to experience consequences that hurt their personal relationships, their compulsion for work intensifies and it is their top priority for most of their waking hours. In this stage it is common for the person to start to experience symptoms such as a decrease in fitness level, and changes in their body weight (either up or down). If the symptoms become chronic the person will move into the late stag where there are physical changes such as the development of ulcers, increased blood pressure, and headaches. In this stage the person is also increasing their mental health risk due intense emotional symptoms such as anxiety, depression and guilt that can result in feeling hopeless and trapped. This addiction cycle - like most all addictions - can end badly. Many employers don't know how to tell the difference between a hard working employee and a work addict. As result many work addicts get rewarded. When a work addict experiences positive feedback from their employer this "badge of honour" fuels the work addicts internal dialogue to push them self harder - whatever the cost. It is common for work addicts to be defined by employers as being a valuable and top performer. This success can lead to career advancement and pay increases - again fuelling their addiction. What is not obvious to many employers is what many work addicts live with: - They use work to avoid dealing with personal relationships, such as marriage issues or a death in the family. - They live in a constant state of fear of failure. - They have inconsistent sleep patterns, and they often stay up late to finish work. - They are overly concerned about rejection due to a low self esteem. - They stay at the office for long hours even when it is not necessary - they will make up tasks in order to stay at work. - They have high levels of anxiety when dealing with authority and they will compromise themselves to gain approval and acceptance. - They take substances to increase their performance and decrease their need for sleep. - They are perfectionists and often unnecessarily redo work to make it perfect. - They only feel a sense of power and control when they are working. - They cannot turn their mind off from work to relax and enjoy the rest of their life. The solution for a work addict starts with awareness and recognition that there is a problem. Next, the person needs to be motivated to take control of their work addiction. Once the person is ready for change they can begin their journey toward regaining control. To move beyond a work addiction the person must learn how to create a healthy schedule that includes both their home and work lives. One approach is to remove the reward for working long hours. Employers can help by setting a reasonable work schedule and monitoring it. The end goal is for the person to learn how to enjoy life outside of work. Do you potentially have a work addiction? Take our Your Life at Work Survey, which includes a quick survey on work addiction.
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==Cast==
Christopher Lambert as Jacques Renard
Sophie Marceau as Victoria / Lucie
Nicolas Briançon as Camille Bérangère
Simon Abkarian as Pierre
Robert Hossein as Antoine Bérangère
Marie-Christine Barrault as Mélanie Bérangère
Judith Magre as La duchesse
Marilou Berry as Fred
Magali Woch as Constance
Jacques Boudet as Le commissaire Penaud
Laure Duthilleul as Marilou
Firmine Richard as L'infirmière en chef
Samir Guesmi as L'étudiant en médecine
Valérie Tréjean as Chloé Renard
Georges Benoît as Le réceptionniste Georges
Denis Menochet as Jean-Luc
Jean-Paul Bonnaire as Mario, le pompiste
Guillaume Gouix as Young cashier
Mark Reed as Journaliste interview
Ahcène Nini as Momo
Olivier Perrot as Policier
Michel Capitanio as Policier 2
Valérie Diome as La vendeuse de vêtements
Brigitte Damiens as Evelyne
Alain Stach as SDF polonais
Sébastien Seveau as Albert Brieuc
Roshane Goevelinger as Lucie 12 ans
Clara Spire as Lucie bébé
Cyprien Kempen-Hamel as Camille 3 ans
Mathias Mégard as L'homme du film
Marvin Deinas as L'infirmier
Julien Hossein as Antoine Bérangère jeune
Oury Milshtein as Voiturier Hôtel Normandy
Ariane Guez as Infirmière 1
Catherine Olaya Salazar as Infirmière 2
Marion Gravoulet as Infirmière 3
Marc Coin as Infirmier
Benedicte Frely as Femme de chambre 1
Ariane Daurat as Femme de chambre 2
Guy Delauney as Doublure Robert Hossein
Grazziela Horens as Doublure lumière Paris
Marina Ligeron as Souffle Chloé
Whoopi as Chinchilla
==References==
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Jones and Watson share lead in Phoenix Sat Feb 1, 2014 3:16am EST (Reuters) - Australian journeyman Matt Jones, bidding for his first PGA Tour title, made the most of his local knowledge to charge into a two-way tie for the lead in Friday's second round of the Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Arizona. Scottsdale resident Jones, who attended Arizona State University and is a club member at nearby Whisper Rock, played near-flawless golf on the way to a six-under-par 65 on a cool, overcast day at the TPC Scottsdale. Jones began and ended his round with birdies as he posted a 12-under total of 130 to finish level with American left-hander and former Masters champion Bubba Watson, who fired a 66. Another left-hander, Greg Chalmers of Australia, was a further two strokes back after carding a six-birdie 67, ending the day level with American Harris English, who also carded a 67. Four players - Joe Ogilvie, Spencer Levin, Jason Bohn and Michael Putnam - were yet to complete the second round when play was suspended in fading light and they will finish off their final holes early on Saturday. Journeyman Jones, whose best PGA Tour finish after playing six full seasons on the U.S. circuit was a tie for second at last year's Greenbrier Classic, was delighted to have an early tee time on Friday for the second round. "We definitely got the good side of the draw going off early," the 33-year-old from New South Wales told reporters after mixing seven birdies with a lone bogey. "It's cold and the ball isn't going as far."
Watson, co-leader overnight with South Korean Yang Yong-eun after opening with a 64, was also upbeat despite having dropped two shots in his last three holes. "I feel like I should win on every golf course," said the slim American, who is bidding for his first victory on the PGA Tour since his major breakthrough at the 2012 Masters. "Everything is clicking right now. I played really well last week, just didn't make the putts. This time I'm playing well and some of the putts are dropping." Japan's Hideki Matsuyama had been just one stroke off the lead after 17 holes but bogeyed the par-four 18th after finding a bunker with his approach to card a 67 for a nine-under total. Korean Yang slipped back to five under after returning a 73 while three-times Phoenix Open champion and local favorite Phil Mickelson, who also attended Arizona State University, was a further stroke back, after a 67. "I didn't make too many sloppy swings, my distance control was back on," said Mickelson, who has had successful treatment for the lower back pain which forced him to withdraw after the second round of last week's Farmers Insurance Open. "I don't know if I'm too far back or not, but on this golf course you can really make some fireworks happen. It's my opportunity, because I'm going to be one of the earlier groups and that means the greens are going to be pristine. "They are really rolling well," said Mickelson, who won last year's title with a record-tying 28-under total of 256 after opening with a sizzling 60. The cut was set to fall at one-under 141 with England's former world number one Lee Westwood and former major winners Padraig Harrington of Ireland and South African Retief Goosen among those who will fail to advance. (Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by Gene Cherry/Greg Stutchbury)
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Obama releases long-form birth certificate Slideshow This copy of U.S. President Barack Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate was released by the White House on April 27, 2011. During a statement Obama said "We do not have time for this kind of silliness. We've got better stuff to do. I've got better stuff to do." UPI/White House WASHINGTON, April 27 (UPI) -- President Obama released his long-form birth certificate Wednesday, saying it was time for the country to focus on huge issues and not "silliness." "We do not have time for this kind of silliness," Obama said. "We've got better stuff to do. I've got better stuff to do. We got big problems to solve, and I'm confident we can solve them, but we're gonna have to focus on them, not on this." In a blog posted on WhiteHouse.gov, White House Communications director Dan Pfeiffer wrote: "The president believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn't good for the country. It may have been good politics and good TV, but it was bad for the American people and distracting from the many challenges we face as a country." A vocal group of Americans questioned whether Obama was a U.S. citizen and called the certificate of live birth inadequate proof he was born in the United States. The certificate of live birth, which the Obama presidential campaign made public in 2008, is recognized in Hawaii and other states as valid documentation for proof of birth. "I know that there's going to be a segment of people for which, no matter what we put out, this issue will not be put to rest," Obama said. Because the issue of Obama's place of birth had become such an issue, Pfeiffer said the president asked the Hawaii State Health Department to release a copy of his long-form birth certificate, instead of the certificate of live birth that it usually issues. U.S. business mogul Donald Trump, who's mulling a presidential bid as a Republican candidate, has questioned Obama's place of birth and wondered whether the president was hiding something by not releasing the long-form birth certificate. Lawmakers in several states have introduced several so-called "birther" bills that would require a presidential candidate to offer proof of being born in the United States. Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed such a bill. Trump took credit for forcing Obama's hand, CNN said. "Today I'm very proud of myself because I've accomplished something" others failed to do," Trump said in a visit to New Hampshire. "Our president has finally released a birth certificate." Obama said he wouldn't normally comment on such an issue but "there's a lot of stuff swirling in the press at any given day and, you know, I've got other things to do." "But two weeks ago, when the Republican House had put forward a budget that will have huge consequences potentially to the country, and when I gave a speech about my budget and how I felt that we needed to invest in education and infrastructure and making sure that we had a strong safety net for our seniors even as we were closing the deficit, during that entire week, the dominant news story wasn't about these huge, monumental choices that we're gonna have to make as a nation, it was about my birth certificate." He said he was confident political leaders would come together in a bipartisan way to address the issues facing the United States, but "we're not going be able to do it if we are distracted. We're not going be able to do it if we spend time vilifying each other." "We're not going be able to do it if we just make stuff up and pretend that facts are not facts," Obama said. "We're not going be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers." The uploaded certificate can be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf.
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Countryfile presenter Ellie Harrison, 37, expects to be replaced by a younger model on the BBC show Ellie Harrison says she 'accepts' that she will one day be replaced She has previously been asked to be less 'Hollywood' on screen a comment she believes refers to her blonde hair In 2009 BBC came under fire for dropping former Countryfile presenter Miriam O'Reilly who successfully sued them in 2009 By Martha Cliff for MailOnline
Countryfile presenter Ellie Harrison said that she completely 'accepts' that she will one day be replaced by a younger woman. The 37-year-old, who has defended her image against criticism that she's too 'Hollywood', told The Mirror: 'You're hot one year but completely out of favour the next.' The fate of former presenter Miriam O'Reilly, 58, who successfully sued the BBC in 2009 for age discrimination when she was dropped from the show, can't be far from Ellie's mind. Ellie Harrison has spoken about how she believes that she will fall out of favour on Countryfile She told the Mirror: 'It's a funny business and the nature of the beast with females is that what you get is not down to you.' She continued to say that she knew that she would become less popular. 'You are hot one year but completely out of favour the next. I know next year someone will be hotfooting it. I accept that and I know that.' For Ellie her appearance has always been a sensitive area on Countryfile as in December 2014 she revealed that she was told to tone down her look. After her first appearance on the BBC show in 2011 she was told her flowing blonde tresses were 'too present.' She was asked by producers on the Sunday evening show to be more countryside, 'less Hollywood' in her appearance - a statement she believes was related to the long blonde locks that have earned her fame. Ellie says that as a woman 'what you get is not down to you' and she wouldn't be surprised if she was replaced In 2011 Ellie was asked by producers to be 'less present' a comment she believes was directed at her blonde hair. Pictured: presenters (L-R) Matt Baker, Ellie, Adam Henson, Tom Heap and John Craven At the time she said the statement was an example of the problems she has encountered because of her good looks, as well as the different culture in the UK compared to the US - which she said was far more welcoming. 'It is celebratory over there; they really want you to do well,' the mother-of-two told Countryside magazine. 'It's like over here they would almost rather you were on the edge of a breakdown.' In 2009 Miriam O'Reilly successfully sued the BBC for age discrimination after being dropped by the show in a revamp Ellie previously worked for the Countryfile Discovery Channel in America and has spoken about the problem of being viewed first for her looks and regarded as a 'blonde, fluffy thing.' Her long blonde hair has attracted much debate among viewers of Countryfile and the presenter previously admitted her tresses get much attention. She added: 'I get asked a lot about my hair. It's a subject that always seems to come up.' Ellie has previously spoken about her looks being a barrier to her career, with people presuming because she is attractive she will not be able to do her job properly. The journalist said: 'It can get in the way of people thinking you're credible, so I try and shrug it off. 'I've had people approach me - inside and outside TV - who are surprised I can string a sentence together.' This is not the first time the BBC has been under the spotlight for judging women by their looks and age, and Ellie was candid about being aware that her career in television could stop without much warning. In 2008 Miriam O'Reilly was dropped from the show and won a tribunal against the corporation three years later for age discrimination. Her case for sex discrimination failed. Miriam was axed from the show, along with Juliet Morris and Michaela Strachan, when it moved to a prime time Sunday evening slot. She was given three years to return to the BBC but decided to leave in 2012 to launch a service for women facing discrimination in the workplace. Miriam was replaced by Julia Bradbury, 43 and more than 10 years her junior. Share or comment on this article
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== Personnel ==
Personnel listed on back cover of LP:
John Scofield, guitars, DMX, bass
Steve Jordan, drums
David Sanborn, alto sax
Ray Anderson, trombone
Peter Levin, synthesizer — Preceding unsigned comment added by MichaelZ302 (talk • contribs) | 74 | null | null | 594,427,017 | 2014-02-07T21:48:54 | Electric Outlet | 2,015 |
Lions 2013: Hooker Richard Hibbard vows more to come Hooker Richard Hibbard has vowed that "there is so much more to come" from the British and Irish Lions after the 64-0 defeat of a Combined Country XV. The tourists scored 10 tries, including a double for wing George North, in a crushing victory at the Hunter Stadium in Newcastle on Tuesday. "There were a lot of positives in the first half," said Hibbard. "We let a few tries slip in the second half, which is very disappointing... there is so much more to come from us." Sat 1 June: Won 59-8 v Barbarians, Hong Kong Wed 5 June: Won 69-15 v Western Force, Perth Sat 8 June: Won 22-12 Queensland Reds, Brisbane Tue 11 June: Won 64-0 v Combined New South Wales-Queensland Country, Newcastle Sat 15 June: New South Wales Waratahs, Sydney Tue 18 June: ACT Brumbies, Canberra Sat 22 June: Australia, First Test, Brisbane Tue 25 June: Melbourne Rebels, Melbourne Sat 29 June: Australia, Second Test, Melbourne Sat 6 July: Australia, Third Test, Sydney He added: "Hats off to them, they really defended for their lives. We could have really put it to them. They showed character and defended for their lives." Even Brian O'Driscoll, who captained the Lions for the game, admitted the Lions failed to deliver a complete performance. The Lions have now won four out of four on their 10-match tour which ends with a three Test series against the Wallabies. While the victory over a team of part-timers was expected, Hibbard admits that Lions head coach Warren Gatland would have been disappointed with some of the mistakes made by the visitors in the second half. "Obviously he is going to be a little disappointed with the second-half performance," said Hibbard, "So he should be. You never like to let a few tries slip, and there were concentration lapses, but we know there is a hell of a lot more to come from us." Gatland announces his team on Thursday to face the Waratahs on Saturday, with many expecting his selection to give an indication of a possible Lions side for the first Test against Australia in Brisbane. Hibbard, 29, is already looking the favourite to wear the number two jersey for the Lions against the Aussies in the Test series. The 23-times capped Welsh international already appears to be ahead of England's Tom Youngs and Rory Best of Ireland, who replaced the banned Dylan Hartley on the tour. Hibbard has nothing but praise for how Gatland and his coaching team are managing the players ahead of the Test series. "The coaches are very good at managing us. They look after us very well," said the Ospreys hooker and Six Nations title-winner with Wales this season. "It's about getting minutes on the park, getting people working together and used to each other. "We feel we are on course to win the series. We showed tonight, 64-0 and 10 tries, and there is a hell of a lot more to come. "So I am very positive. I think we can really push on. Four wins, countless tries, we keep building. I'm very confident." Also related to this story
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Why was the information about his $25million in judgements to creditors removed? It is well sourced and included links to newspaper accounts regarding the Johnny Dawkins attorney's attempts to have Laetnner and Davis found in contempt for failure to divulge financial records (Dawkins is one of the aforementioned creditors). I thought this was an information repository not a fan boy page.24.59.250.249 (talk)
I added the part about him pretending to be gay. It's not poorly sourced; there are quotes from Krszyweski saying he planted quotes in the paper to further the rumor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.132.210.193 (talk)
There is no way the stomp has overshadowed his game winning shot against Kentucky.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.228.3.213 (talk • contribs)
I agree. You can't turn on a TV in March without seeing his shot, and the stomp has retreated back into the pack of other "Laettner's a jerk" things. The stomp belongs in here, but that particular sentence doesn't, so I've taken it out and reworded the passage a bit. -Colin Kimbrell
Do very many people really consider Laettner "the greatest college basketball player of all time"? Most people agree he had an extraordinary college career, but I've never met anyone who has said he's the best EVER. No, almost no one would consider him the best of all time. I'm not positive but I would imagine that JJ Redick broke Laettner's record for three point field goal percentage this year
==Does anyone know if Christian Laettner Retired?==
I have lost track. He has been on so many teams and injured so much that I don't know if he is even playing anymore. Yes, he retired to his home in Florida. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dukerulez32 (talk • contribs)
DRUG USAGE
I think this article should comment on the end of his career, and also his drug usage. He's painted pretty favourably in the article, i'm not bashing him or being anti, just, his downfall should be commented upon...he did fail 3 drug tests...
see: sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1707573
I added that material. Does anybody know if he recieved treatment for his drug addiction or if he is still using drugs? ==Timberlake==
It doesn't matter to me whether it says "stepped" or "stomped". "Intentionally" is the word that matters. I think the article is fair and well-documented now. Thanks Dubc0724
If it doesn't matter then why did you replace "Laettner also became known among Kentucky fans for another incident in the same Duke-Kentucky game. As Kentucky's Aminu Timberlake was lying on the floor after a foul, Laettner appeared to intentionally step on his chest, allegedly in retaliation for a foul earlier in the game." with this: "Laettner also became known among Kentucky fans for another incident in the same Duke-Kentucky game. As Kentucky's Aminu Timberlake was lying on the floor after a foul, Laettner intentionally stomped on his chest, allegedly in retaliation for a foul earlier in the game"? :) Duke53
:Because stomp was a better description of what he did. However, it's easier to let it go and use "stepped" than to try to find a source using the exact word "stomped" in order to pacify you. That's all. Thanks Dubc0724
:PS All three sources worked; and at least one included "stomp". :-) Dubc0724
:: For someone who professes that "... I also have enough respect for the encyclopedia we're supposedly working on to produce good faith edits, rather than push my POV." you seem to have pushed your POV a few times lately. :: Remember, this is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not a fan site. Duke53
::::Not sure what you're talking about. Most all I've done lately is provide sources as requested, most of which are sources for edits other than my own. Just tryin' to help. Dubc0724
::::: At 00, August 21, 2006, on the Duke University page, you added to "The graduation rate of Duke's football players is consistently among the highest among Division I-A schools" the following qualifier: because Duke players rarely reach the NFL. NPOV? | 1,016 | null | null | 676,170,867 | 2015-08-15T05:10:07 | Christian Laettner | 2,015 |
In mathematics, Gabriel's theorem, proved by Pierre Gabriel, classifies the quivers of finite type in terms of Dynkin diagrams. ==Statement==
A quiver is of finite type if it has only finitely many isomorphism classes of indecomposable representations. classified all quivers of finite type, and also their indecomposable representations. More precisely, Gabriel's theorem states that:
A (connected) quiver is of finite type if and only if its underlying graph (when the directions of the arrows are ignored) is one of the ADE Dynkin diagrams: A_n, D_n, E_6, E_7, E_8. The indecomposable representations are in a one-to-one correspondence with the positive roots of the root system of the Dynkin diagram. found a generalization of Gabriel's theorem in which all Dynkin diagrams of finite-dimensional semisimple Lie algebras occur. ==References==
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result was delete. Davewild (talk)
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Fails CORP and hopelessly promotional. SmartSE (talk)
Delete - all the coverage I'm seeing is press release after press release... there are a couple article and review but just not enough articles about the company itself. —МандичкаYO 😜
Comment:- I found The Journal, The Free Library, This Review in addition to the ones already present in the article. Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£
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Keep for now, the sources above aren't great, but they're something. SilverSurfingSerpent (talk)
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Delete: Fails CORP, tons of press releases (I count hundreds), but no actual reliable source coverage. Esquivalience t
Delete - Unfortunately, my searches show a plethora of press releases especially here with other searches here, here and here found nothing significant. SwisterTwister talk
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If you think gas is cheap these days, look what it costs in Saudi Arabia RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Ahmed al-Ghaith pulled his Dodge Durango into a gas station in central Riyadh and told the attendant to fill it up. In a country where gas sells for 45 cents a gallon, that cost him $12. With global oil prices plummeting, you might think people in Saudi Arabia, a nation synonymous with oil, where 90 percent of government revenue comes from holes drilled in its majestically profitable sands, would be freaking out. But at a busy downtown gas station one day recently, there was not a whiff of concern among the drivers of the stream of Audis, Cadillacs, Mercedes-Benzes, Dodges and Chevys pulling up to the pumps in a land where government-subsidized gas is as cheap as water. "Personally, it doesn't affect me a bit," said Ghaith, 49, who works in a bookstore and spends about $40 a month fueling his big American-made SUV. "It might affect the government in the future - maybe they will have to cut back on their big projects. But it's no problem for me." In Saudi Arabia, the general response to the drop in global oil prices by half - from more than $100 a barrel six months ago to around $50 now - is a shrug. Remember all those $60 fill-ups at U.S. pumps when gas was running close to $4 a gallon over the past few years? While your wallet was getting hammered, Saudi Arabia's was getting stuffed thick. The kingdom has more than $750 billion in cash reserves, which is more than enough to keep the lights on and stave off panic over oil markets. "The government has the cushion to withstand low oil prices," said Tariq Al-Sudairy, chief executive of Jadwa Investment, a private investment bank in Riyadh. "The question is how long this period of low oil prices will be, and will it be long enough to force the government to make tough decisions?" According to Sudairy and other analysts, those tough decisions mainly involve the government's massive program of infrastructure projects. Under King Abdullah, who died last month, the Saudis spent billions on roads, rails, universities, hospitals, airports, seaports, housing, brand-new cities and other projects funded almost entirely by oil revenue. These days in Riyadh, already bad traffic is further jammed by construction of the city's first subway rail system, which has closed off many major streets. In typical Saudi fashion, the project is a sprawling, all-at-once effort involving thousands of contractors working behind and beneath red-and-white-striped construction barriers that have sprouted everywhere. Jadwa officials said the government has been increasing capital spending by an average of 25 percent annually in recent years. By the company's reckoning, the government could go seven or eight years without trimming back its plans, simply by using its massive reserves, which are equal to 100 percent of annual gross domestic product, to cover budget deficits. The company also reports that the government has extremely low debt and could borrow if it chose to do so. More likely, Sudairy said, the government would monitor oil prices closely for about 18 months and rethink strategy if they did not rebound. Sudairy said the government's cash cushion masks a more fundamental problem: Although the Saudis have worked to diversify their economy in recent years, they still rely overwhelmingly on oil. Even booming private industry in areas such as transport and construction depend heavily on government spending, which comes almost exclusively from oil. "We should have freaked out when oil went to $100 a barrel," said Fahad M. Alturki, Jadwa's chief economist. "That was a sleeping pill that allowed us not to worry about long-term problems. When are we going to break the reliance on oil as our main source of revenue?" Abdulrahman al-Rashed, a leading Saudi journalist, wrote recently that the drop in oil prices could be the jolt that Saudi officials need to focus on diversifying an economy in which most Saudis still work in government jobs. "What's the value of money if it's not spent on building a society capable of standing on its feet tomorrow without oil or with smaller oil revenues?" Rashed wrote in the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper. Economists also note that if the government were truly worried about oil prices, it could use its power to increase them. Saudi Arabia, the largest producer in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), a group that supplies 40 percent of the world's oil, has resisted calls for production cuts that would push oil prices higher. | 987 | -5,231,224,778,158,821,000 | 2015-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Russian forces, she said, are being sent 30 miles (about 50 kilometers) inside Ukraine, without them or their families knowing where they are going. She cited reports of burials in Russia for those who have died in Ukraine and wounded Russian soldiers being treated in a St. Petersburg hospital. On Thursday morning, an Associated Press journalist saw rebel checkpoints on Novoazovsk's outskirts and was told he couldn't enter. One of the rebels said there was no fighting in the town. Novoazovsk, which lies along the road connecting Russia to the Russia-annexed Crimean Peninsula, had come under shelling for three days, with the rebels entering it on Wednesday. This area had previously escaped the fighting that has engulfed areas to the north, and the only way rebels could have reached the southeast was by coming through Russia. The new southeastern front raised fears that the separatists are seeking to create a land link between Russia and Crimea. If successful, it could give them or Russia control over the entire Sea of Azov and the gas and mineral riches that energy experts believe it contains. Ukraine already lost roughly half its coastline, several major ports and significant Black Sea mineral rights in March when Russia annexed Crimea. In Mariupol, a city of 450,000 about 30 kilometers (20 miles) to the west of Novoazovsk, a brigade of Ukrainian forces arrived at the airport on Wednesday, while deep trenches were dug a day earlier on the city's edge. National Guard spokesman Ruslan Muzychuk told the AP in Mariupol that the government has evidence that large amounts of weapons have been brought into Novoazovsk from across the Russian border. He added that National Guard reinforcements were taking up positions in Mariupol. "The positions are being strengthened," the spokesman said. "The road from Novoazovsk to Mariupol is under the control of Ukrainian troops." Associated Press journalists on the border have seen the rebels with a wide range of unmarked military equipment - including tanks, Buk missile launchers and armored personnel carriers - and have encountered many Russians among the rebel fighters. In Donetsk, the largest rebel-held city, 11 people were killed by shelling overnight, the city said Thursday.
Raf Casert reported from Casteau, Brussels. Jim Heintz in Kiev, Peter Leonard in Mariupol, Laura Mills in Moscow, and Alexandra Olson at the United Nations contributed reporting.
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Looking to steer Latinos into auto design Los Angeles is a world center for automotive design, and its Latino population has made massive contributions to American car culture - from custom paint and pinstriping to lowrider car design. It has made less of an impact on Pasadena's Art Center College of Design, the top auto design training institution in the nation, where just 5% of about 2,000 students are of Latino heritage. "It's not enough," said Stewart Reed, chair of Art Center's Transportation Systems and Design program. "We're not satisfied with that number." Bruno Gallardo is the exception to that rule, the only Latino in the program's graduating class of 2015. The 26-year-old from Van Nuys joins an august body of alumni. Graduates have gone on to distinguish themselves as designers and design executives at a long list of U.S. and European carmakers as diverse as Alfa Romeo, Ford, Tesla and Volvo. Luxury car builder Henrik Fisker was a graduate. So was Willie G. Davidson, grandson of a Harley-Davidson co-founder and later a key designer at the motorcycle company. There's no easy answer as to why there aren't more Bruno Gallardos on that list, but the school's global reputation means it draws students from everywhere - and not necessarily those matching the demographics of their Southern California home. School officials say the high tuition and a limited supply of Latino professors may be part of the reason. "We're trying to increase the diversity of our faculty," Reed said. "We know it starts with the faculty." Local Latino students, meanwhile, don't necessarily see the local school as a home for them. "There was this perceived reality that this isn't a field for Latinos," said actor, comedian and car enthusiast Cheech Marin. "It's a club for these other guys." Marin collects Chicano art and has helped judge Art Center competitions. The school, he said, is missing out on a wealth of history and culture that Latino students could bring to automotive design. L.A.'s Latinos represent a car culture that actually predates the automobile, he said. "The whole Mexican fascination with cars comes out of the fascination with horses," Marin said. "That's the reason lowriders go slow. They parade their cars like they paraded their horses around the square in Mexico - in order to show off for girls." Latinos from East Los Angeles drove the cultural phenomenon of cruising, which drove lowrider car design, which gave birth to homegrown cruise music - including Richie Valens' "La Bamba" and War's "Low Rider." "Low-riding culture started here in Los Angeles," said Leslie Kendall, chief curator of the Petersen Automotive Museum, which has hosted two lowrider-themed exhibits. Gallardo ended up at Art Center through the intervention of a man whose home his mother was cleaning. The Honduran immigrant worked as a housekeeper for television writer John Peaslee, who noticed her son's keen interest in cars. As a boy, Gallardo thought he might end up a mechanic, like his uncle, who owned his own shop. But Peaslee one day took him to an open house at Art Center, an impression that stuck. Gallardo, a sharp dresser who has thick, wavy black hair and a piercing in one eyebrow, is the second-youngest in a family of five children, and the only boy. His mother encouraged his interest in building with an early Lego set. (One of his first constructions was a car.) Later, she helped him buy broken-down motorcycles and beater cars, which he turned into daily drivers and sold to raise money to buy better vehicles. While attending Birmingham High School, Gallardo crammed in workshops and weekend classes that Art Center offers for younger students who show promise. He continued taking Art Center classes part-time while attending Pasadena City College, hoping to be admitted as a full-time student. After he was, administrators said, he was able to take advantage of scholarship programs - the school distributes $15 million a year in financial aid - which took some of the sting out of the school's tuition. A typical undergraduate degree costs more than $150,000, and Gallardo estimates his student loan tab at about $100,000. Art Center representatives said about 90% of graduates are working in their chosen field of study within a year of graduating. A certain percentage are hired before they graduate, for entry-level design jobs that may pay from $55,000 to $80,000 a year. Within a couple of weeks of graduating, Gallardo said he had already interviewed with Honda, GM, Chrysler and other automotive companies - after having done undergraduate internships with Ford, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Polaris Industries. The interviewing is very competitive, especially for car company design jobs. | 1,013 | -5,373,005,889,320,929,000 | 2015-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Dead Space 3 review - Telegraph The main reason Dead Space 3 isn't as scary as its forebears is that Isaac is tooled up to the nines. The original Dead Space did enough to keep the tension up, but it's difficult to call it pure horror when your protagonist wanders around in an armoured onesie wielding a plasma weapon. Here Isaac has access to military grade weaponry, and can build unique weapons at any tool bench he comes across. Submachine guns with an underslung plasma cutter, a hydraulic melee weapon attached to a rivet shotgun, sniper rifles, rocket launchers, guns that fire coiled energy in a fizzing ball of death. You can craft it, as long as you've got the materials that are scattered around the game, or bought with real life money from the online marketplace. A brief note on micro-transactions. There was an understandable fuss when EA announced that Dead Space 3 would allow you to buy crafting materials, with the worry being that their presence would impact on the game's balance. Fortunately, I played through Dead Space 3 without ever dipping into the marketplace, and never felt like I had to. As long as I was diligent in collecting resources, I always had enough to craft the weapons that I needed at the time. The issue in Dead Space 3 is one of perception and temptation. From the very beginning you are offered up a long list of blueprints of pre-designed weapons, many of which would be unattainable without opening your wallet, or saving up all your resources. On closer inspection, these weapons aren't anything special, and you'd be better off crafting your own as you naturally progress. It feels more like a salesman whispering in your ear "go, on, you know you want to" rather than EA actively forcing you to pony up. In this instance you can happily ignore it, though it's a concern that eventually publishers will start to design games that do demand it. So while Dead Space 3's micro-transactions don't spoil anything, they still have no place in a £40 game. You could argue that the inclusion of the crafting model at all is down to micro-transactions. But as it turns out, the crafting is arguably Dead Space 3's most interesting aspect. The variety of weaponry enhances combat that is punchy and weighty, but somewhat clunky. There's a definite sense that Dead Space 3's control system is designed around a slower-paced game than this one, but the arsenal you are afforded makes combat interesting and engaging. It helps that the dismemberment system is still intact, as you lop off wriggling alien limbs to slow down their advance. You can then use your kinesis to freeze nasties on the spot, or pick up sharp limbs and impale their previous owners. Taken as whole, the combat system is rather canny, and nicely underpins a game that takes the kitchen-sink approach to stage-setting. Dead Space 3 makes big-budget blockbuster schizophrenia something of an art. The game starts with a shootout in a Blade-Runner styled city, before quickly moving upwards to a crumbling flotilla of giant spaceships. This section of the game is most familiarly Dead Space, blood-spattered industrial corridors, groaning metal constructs infested with ghouls, the prospect of a monster closet around every corner. But within that familiar setting, Visceral constantly is constantly throwing new stuff at you: quiet and eerie exploration, blistering shootouts, light puzzling, anti-gravity sections, turrets. There are optional missions which reward you with resources, and even the co-op has its own specific missions, and a very neat mechanic where players can see enemies that the other cannot. At one point you're kicked out of the interior altogether, allowing you to fly around the destroyed flotilla in a dazzling section out in space, the entire galaxy stretched out before you in a glittering starscape. And when Visceral think you might be bored of that, it's down to the icy climes of Tau Volantis, which changes the tone of the game completely. Now it's giant monsters with glowing orange weak spots, rappelling up crumbling cliffs, frantic (often frustrating) defence against hordes of nasties and, oh, it's all very entertaining and wonderfully polished. But curiously calculated. The oddest thing, however, is how a game that's so breathlessly paced for a good 12 hours succumbs to bloat. As Dead Space 3 creaks towards its denouement, you get the feeling that Visceral packed the first three quarters of the game with such incident, they ran out of stuff to include in the final stretch. It's never dull, but never as consistently engaging either. | 974 | 705,577,375,057,703,200 | 2013-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
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==Capital==
See Article 7 of the Constitution of Montenegro. Cetinje is the capital, Podgorica - administrative centre. 217.198.224.13
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Video: Clive Stafford Smith's antique music box
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== Speedy deletion nomination of Kunlun fight ==
Hello AKraus,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Kunlun fight for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia. If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can fight}}&action=edit§ion=new&preload=Template:Hangon_preload&preloadtitle=This+page+should+not+be+speedy+deleted+because...+ contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top. You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Mwenzangu (talk)
==Kunlun fight==
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A tag has been placed on Kunlun fight, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate,. Under the specified criteria, where a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Thparkth (talk) | 662 | null | null | 696,754,170 | 2015-12-25T15:43:41 | AKraus | 2,015 |
The Allegheny-Cumberland dry oak forest and woodland is a forest system found in Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. These forests occur on varied topographies, including on acidic substrates in the Allegheny and Cumberland plateaus and ridges in the southern Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians. ==Flora==
The Allegheny-Cumberland dry oak forest and woodlands are typically dominated by white oak (Quercus alba), southern red oak (Quercus falcata), chestnut oak (Quercus prinus), and scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea). Less frequent are red maple (Acer rubrum), pignut hickory (Carya glabra), and mockernut hickory (Carya tomentosa). Shortleaf pines (Pinus echinata) or Virginia pines (Pinus virginiana) are occasionally present, particularly near escarpments or in recently burned areas. In areas that have not recently burned, white pines (Pinus strobus) may be prominent. Sprouts of chestnut (Castanea dentata) can still be found in areas where it was formerly common. ==Adjacent transitions==
On more base-rich substrates, this system transitions to Southern Ridge and Valley/Cumberland dry calcareous forest. To the east and north, it borders the Central Appalachian dry oak-pine forest, generally along the Allegheny Front. ==References==
Appalachian forests
Forests of the United States
Plant communities of Ohio
Plant communities of West Virginia
Plant communities of Virginia
Plant communities of Kentucky
Plant communities of Tennessee
Plant communities of Alabama
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Celebrity vet caught in the middle of 'dolphin orgy' while swimming off Australian coast By Nathan Klein
Australian celebrity vet Chris Brown found himself caught in the middle of an underwater 'dolphin orgy' while filming the latest episode of Channel Ten's lifestyle program The Living Room. The show's co-host was swimming with the animals at the popular dolphin hotspot in Port Stephens, off the New South Wales coast, for a segment on tomorrow night's show. He said he didn't realise at the time he had interrupted hundreds of dolphins that were getting it on.
Oops! The moment The Living Room co-host and celebrity vet Dr Chris Brown realises he has interrupted an underwater 'dolphin orgy' while filming the latest episode Orgy? An underwater camera captures hundreds of dolphins mating in Port Stephens, off the coast of New South Wales, Australia 'I've always known dolphins to be incredibly social and inquisitive - and this day they were - but it was different,' Chris told the Daily Telegraph's Sydney Confidential. 'It almost looked like they were fighting among themselves. It was only when I looked back through the vision and took a closer look that I realised that we'd put ourselves in the middle of a 100-dolphin underwater orgy.' He admitted they looked 'distracted' when he was filming the segment, but he only realised why when he was watching the footage back. It is not the first time the blond doctor, who also stars in his own show Bondi Vet on the same network, has interrupted mating animals on camera - claiming it was starting to become a 'tradition'. 'We've now interrupted special lion, monkey, dolphin, manta-ray and turtle time. I'm starting to think we're encouraging it,' he said. The teaser for the show didn't point to the team's awkward blunder - instead showing the amazing underwater images of the dolphins swimming in a pack. Chris also attempted to attract his 'Flipper friends' by singing out a high-pitched tune, which surprisingly works. 'Either they are here because of my call or they are here to tell me to "shut the hell up,' he said. An image from The Living Room's trailer showing the pack of dolphins swimming off the coast of Port Stephens, NSW The underwater camera captured beautiful images of the dolphins swimming - and mating - together for tomorrow night's episode of The Living Room Dr Chris Brown appears shocked when the dolphins respond to his call and come up to say hello. He revealed after re-watching the footage that the dolphins weren't fighting as originally thought, but mating Share or comment on this article
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Even the Murder, She Wrote article here at Wikipedia notes that the rights were refused: "Murder, She Wrote was originally pitched as an American version of the Agatha Christie character Miss Marple, but the owners of the rights to that character refused to allow it." If the copyright holder refused to grant permission for a subsidiary right, as a matter of copyright law, it is not based on Miss Marple. I replaced the sentence with the somewhat less dubious one from the MSW article which nonetheless needs attribution: "The character of Jessica Fletcher is thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie herself, and another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver, who often appears in the Hercule Poirot mysteries." 71.175.4.207 (talk)
== Julia McKenzie ==
I just removed a badly formed template link that should have worked as a picture of Julia McKenzie in the role. The removed text was:
enticeship in amateur detective work. Is this something the producers inserted for their own reasons, or do serious Christie scholars see something similar in the original stories? Michael Hopcroft
I don't remember much about The Sittaford Mystery except that it bore barely any relation to the book! However, the lesbian relationship in A Murder Is Announced is certainly implied in the novel - it's not a new element introduced by the screenwriters. (And I do like the phrase "serious Christie scholars".) Tobelia
==Source for claim about past==
"Despite never having been married, The Murder at the Vicarage sheds light on a young Miss Marple. She reveals that she once loved a married man who wanted to leave his wife for her. He was called to World War I and Miss Marple made him promise not to have a divorce. He was killed in the war and Miss Marple never married." I do not recall any such passage in this book, which I re-read as recently as 6 weeks ago. Can anyone verify this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dgcuff (talk • contribs)
I seem to recall that it was a contrivance for the absolutely godawful ITV series "Marple". I'm almost certain it doesn't occur in the book, and unless someone can prove otherwise I suggest the claim be deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.19.1.165 (talk)
I am positive that this statement does not appear in any of the Miss Marple books and it should be removed. Contributions
== Unlisted book title: Thirteen Clues for Miss Marple ==
Amazon.com has the book "Thirteen Clues for Miss Marple" listed here:
http://www.amazon.com/Thirteen-Clues-Marple-Agatha-Christie/dp/0440187559
This title is not listed in this article nor in the Agatha Christie article. Looking at her other titles led me to suspect it is yet another name for "The Thirteen Problems (from the Miss Marple series)" aka "The Tuesday Club Murders." Googling "Clues for Miss Marple" brings up several pages that describe it as a collection of short stories, such as this one:
http://www.loc.gov/nls/bibliographies/minibibs/achristie.html
With this info I have very little doubt this is the same book, but can someone say for sure?Benbradley (talk)
According to Robert Barnard's book "A talent to Deceive - an appreciation of Agatha Christie", 13 clues was first published by Dodd Mead & Co in 1966 and the paperback version by Dell in 1967. | 801 | null | null | 659,428,927 | 2015-04-27T07:35:58 | Miss Marple | 2,015 |
"There is no aviation authority in the world that will allow you access for 24 hours," Duggan said. He puts this partly down to the considerable bad press armed drones have attracted flying U.S. military missions over Pakistan and Afghanistan. Last week a suspected U.S. drone strike killed 20 people in northern Pakistan. "A lot of it is down to the stigma around the term 'drone' because of incidents (in) Pakistan and Afghanistan," Duggan said. "People are hung up over privacy, but it's a lot of unnecessary drama. They are no different from having a police helicopter over your head, or a security camera pointed at you." But there was caution at the top end of the market in Farnborough. Matt Moore, head of unmanned aerial systems tactical planning at European defense contractor Thales, also hopes his company's new Watchkeeper system -- a large and sophisticated aircraft developed for the UK military -- will have a civilian life. But, he says, the only reason Watchkeeper currently enjoys limited clearance over UK civilian airspace is because some of the $1,100 million invested in its development has gone to ensure it exceeds safety requirements. This, he says, is not something that some lower-cost drone manufacturers can claim. "Unlike many of these unmanned aircraft now hitting the market, the Watchkeeper is built to a standard that is better than a manned aircraft. Its computer system does not fail. It can't go wrong or fail and you won't get the computer blue screen of death."
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Congressional Week Ahead: Budget Battles WASHINGTON - Though for the moment the House Republicans and Senate Democrats have stepped back from the brink of a government shutdown, Congress must still pass a continuing resolution and send it to President Obama this week if the government is to continue operating after Friday. The Republican-led House is scheduled on Tuesday to vote on a plan to finance the government through March 18, while extracting $4 billion in cuts from current federal operations by terminating programs that Mr. Obama has also proposed axing, and by reclaiming money set aside for members" pet projects, known as earmarks, that now will not be spent because of the new House rule banning such appropriations. Republicans intentionally made the cuts in their plan as painless as possible, to make it more difficult for Democrats to object to them, prompting an impasse that could have shuttered federal agencies. Democrats seem ready to go along. "It is acceptable to me to have $4 billion in savings in a two-week package, sure," Senator Kent Conrad, Democrat of North Dakota and the chairman of the Budget Committee, said Sunday on the "State of the Union" program on CNN. The potential agreement on the spending plan eases the air of crisis that could have hovered over Capitol Hill this week, but it will not be a done deal until the measure is actually approved. Even then, the larger fight will not be over. The House and Senate still have to come to terms on how to finance the government for the rest of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. If they don't have a deal as March 18 approaches, the shutdown talk will start again. Senate Democrats said they expected to have new details of their proposals this week. Besides the budget bill, House Republicans will continue their efforts to dismantle the new health care law, with a plan to repeal a provision imposing new tax reporting requirements on companies. Overturning that element of the health plan has broad bipartisan support. In the Senate, lawmakers are set to consider an overhaul of patent laws that has been years in the making. Several top Obama administration officials are due to appear at Congressional hearings to answer questions about the administration's budget plan.
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Plötzlich Papa – Einspruch abgelehnt! is a German television series. ==See also==
List of German television series
==External links==
German television series | 45 | null | null | 651,463,057 | 2015-03-15T10:48:26 | Plötzlich Papa – Einspruch abgelehnt! | 2,015 |
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I hate these schematics. Only Manhattan is recognizable. Downtown Brooklyn looks nothing like the map, and is even harder to understand without the route colors. Please redraw them to approximate a map instead of an unrecognizable schematic. These are not useful for services, because they would perpetuate the myth of incorrectly calling a service a line. Acps110 (talk • contribs)
OK, I am suspending the work on these files just now. Vcohen (talk)
=== Attention! ===
I have re-uploaded all the images. Now some parts of the discussion may become wrong or unclear. Vcohen (talk)
There are several galleries of these images:
List of New York City Subway stations (two)
List of New York City Subway transfer stations
List of New York City Subway terminals
Vcohen (talk)
The great day is here! I don't know when you are planning to come back, but I promised and I'm fulfilling. My page with all the layouts and examples of infoboxes is ready. Note the doubled images of Canal St and Chambers St - WTC at the end of the list. The maps I planned to create won't be used, instead of them I've found much more map-like maps on the Dutch wikipedia. Vcohen (talk) | 472 | null | null | 501,692,958 | 2012-07-11T09:32:31 | Acps110/NYCS Terminal Schematics | 2,015 |
Video: David Cameron: Europe has taken 'one big step backwards' "We must accept the result and Britain will now work with the Commission president as we always do to secure our national interest," said Mr Cameron, as he spoke in Brussels. "But let me be absolutely clear, this is a bad day for Europe. It risks undermining the position of national governments, it risks undermining the power of national parliaments and it hands new power to the European Parliament." Mr Cameron views Mr Juncker as the embodiment of a pro-integration, consensus-favouring, empire-building Brussels clique who won't return powers to nations - something that voters appeared to want after Eurosceptic parties made serious gains in May's European Parliament elections. The 59-year-old Mr Juncker still needs to be confirmed by the European Parliament before starting November 1st at the helm of the EU's powerful executive arm, taking over from José Manuel Barroso.
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Angus McLellan (Talk)
On further reflection, I have merged El Muerto villains with El Muerto; it contained only one article. Angus McLellan (Talk)
Nominator's Rationale:
Merge first one and rename the 2nd per all the other "villain" and categorys. I could call anyone I wanted a hero or villain depending on who I like in the series, comics, movies, etc. —mikedk9109SIGN
Note that other non-"villain" MotU categories are housed at Masters of the Universe so merge the "villains" category there rather than renaming it. Still rename the El Muerto cat, though. Otto4711
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this section. ==== Category:More villains ====
The following discussion is an archived debate regarding the category or categories above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this section. The result of the debate was merge all. Angus McLellan (Talk)
Soap opera villains to Soap opera characters
Power Rangers villains to Power Rangers characters
Buffy the Vampire Slayer villains to Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters
Sonic the Hedgehog villains to Sonic the Hedgehog characters
Angel (TV series) villains to Angel (TV series) characters
Merge - still more "villains" to "characters" merges, because of the consensus on "villain" in category names. Especially problematic for soap operas where allegiances change frequently over the course of the series. Otto4711
Merge per all the other "villain" and "hero" categorys. I could call anyone I wanted a hero or villain depending on who I like in the series, comics, movies, etc. —mikedk9109SIGN
Merge per above. Doczilla
Keep soap opera villains, no opinion on the other categories. On soap operas, where characters and their intentions are usually painted in black and white strokes, it is clearly identifiable who is a villain and who is not. There are some characters who have reformed from their villainous ways (Victor Newman), but were still known for the most part by viewers as being a villain. I think this is a quite verifiable character trait in a soap character. Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! The problem with such a classification is that it requires a POV judgment call. Soap opera characters are notorious for switching back and forth between "villainy" and "heroism" so often that the classification becomes useless. Otto4711
Rename to "antagonists". That word is objective and useful. Cosmetor
"Antagonists" categories have already been deleted as having many if not all of the same POV problems as "villains." Otto4711
In fact, if the search function is working properly, it appears that the only categories for fictional antagonists that exist are the ones you created a few days ago as an attempted workaround of the CfD of another batch of villain categories. Otto4711
Merge all - "Villain", "adversary", and "antagonist" characters switch sides all the time, especially in some of these genres. Dr. Submillimeter
If they're "protagonists" at one time and "antagonists" at another, then they count as both "protagonists" and "antagonists". We don't stop categorizing someone as a "king" if he becomes a king and then loses his position (through death, for instance); why do the same for -tagonists? Cosmetor
Rename to "characters", that word is objective and useful. >Radiant<
Keep: This is ridiculous. A villain is a specific type of character. It is not hard to define whether or not a character is villainous. Maybe some of them have good qualities but if a character like the High Evolutionary or Makuta kills people in cold blood, manipulates people and generally gets on everyone's nerves they deserve to be classified as a villain, whether or not they believe themselves to be evil or not. I realise that some characters like Vegeta and Miranda Priestly are open to debate but when you look at characters like Palpatine and Ganon who are pure evil you realise that the villain categories are perfectly logical and relevant. | 1,011 | null | null | 615,611,087 | 2014-07-04T19:30:48 | Categories for discussion/Log/2007 February 10 | 2,015 |
In Australia, a program called Mr. Squiggle, using a marionette central character of the same name, ran for just over 40 years (1959–1999). Another program for children using puppetry was the Magic Circle Club featuring puppets Cassius Cuckoo and Leonardo de Funbird. From the 1940s onwards, the BBC in the United Kingdom, produced a wide series of marionette programmes for children and then created The BBC Television Puppet Theatre based in Lime Grove Studios from 1955–1964, Usually under the title Watch With Mother The various programmes included Whirligig, The Woodentops, Bill and Ben, Muffin The Mule, Rubovia a series created by Gordon Murray and Andy Pandy. Later in the 1960s, Gerry Anderson with his wife, Sylvia Anderson and colleagues made a number of hit series, Fireball XL5, Stingray and Thunderbirds, which pioneered a technique combining marionettes and electronics. This allowed for radio control moving of the mouth of a marionettes. The technique was patented and called "supermarionation". The programs have been shown all around the world and are now widely distributed on DVD. Anderson also made two films, Thunderbirds Are Go and Thunderbird 6. During the 1970s in the UK TV series using marionettes include The Adventures of Rupert Bear, Mumfie and Cloppa Castle. Some marionettes appear in Pipkins namely Octavia Ostrich. More recently marionettes are starting to re emerge on the TV screen, Coca Cola Have used marionettes to create a series of adverts based in an office and music videos use them regularly as metaphors. Marionettes are featured in the 1999 film, Being John Malkovich. John Cusack played a manipulator who referred to himself as a puppeteer. The BBC children's show Playbus (later Playdays) used many puppets during their commission, notably a singing and dancing marionette called Lizzie Dreams, sometimes paired up with another marionette called Nick. World Police is a 2004 movie made by South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker which uses a crude, naive, child like style of supermarionation as in Thunderbirds. Matt Stone and Trey Parker dubbed their version "Supercrappymation" due to the fact they intentionally left the strings visible among other reasons. Also appearing in 2004 was the full-length, award-winning marionette fantasy film Strings, directed by Dane Anders Rønnow Klarlund. A marionette was also used in the Doctor Who episode "The Shakespeare Code". Pixar uses its own proprietary software called Marionette to create its animations but this has nothing to do with puppetry except in name. ==Types of marionette control bar==
===Chinese / Asian paddle control===
This type of control has many strings attached to a rounded rectangular paddle with a short handle, all the strings are attached and hang from the outer edge of the paddle and are used by selecting each string with the opposite hand and pulling to control the figure which hangs below. ===Horizontal control===
This control is a bar which is held in the hand in a horizontal plane. There can be numerous bars at right angles to the central bar, which in turn attaches via wires to the hands, shoulders, back, etc. A smaller plate is usually hung under the main bar, and this carries the head strings; likewise, a detachable clip usually holds the leg bar. This style of control is generally used in the USA for human figures and is also known as the American control. A similar control is almost universally used for quadruped animals; as it emulates the basic shape of the animal, rocking it from side to side will control the leg movements in unison. The Salzburg Marionette Theatre in Austria also uses a variant of this style for its human characters. ====Vertical control====
This type of control is an upright bar which has various smaller bars inserted at right angles from which the head, shoulder, back etc. strings etc. are attached to. This control usually has a detachable leg bar which controls walking when held in the opposite hand. The arms are controlled by wires which are inserted into a hole in the shaft bent at approximately 45 degrees to the shaft and hang loosely with a loop at the end to attach the hand strings, these are then moved by the fingers holding the main shaft. A tilt of the main upright, controls the head and body with a fine nuance, This type of control is usually called the British control. Another variation of the vertical control is found in Europe usually a rigid wire rod extends from the centre of the head upwards and fixed rigidly to the control, The leg bar is inserted through the main upright but pivots on a pin to allow movement of the legs. | 1,017 | null | null | 692,818,561 | 2015-11-28T15:04:00 | Marionette | 2,015 |
African governance: Too many dinosaurs BETWEEN independence from colonial rule in the early 1960s and the end of the cold war in 1991, not a single African ruler was peacefully ousted at the ballot box, except in the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. But since Mathieu Kérékou of Benin and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda bowed out graciously in 1991, at least 30 African leaders or ruling parties have let their countries" voters kick them out. Multiparty systems in Africa now far outnumber single-party ones. This contrasts strikingly with the Arab world, where so far almost no incumbent-ejecting elections have taken place anywhere. Yet Africa still harbours too many dinosaurs whose time ought to have passed. Half of the world's 30 or so longest-serving rulers are African. Some, such as Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, now nearing 34 years in charge, started with genuine popular consent. So did Yoweri Museveni, pictured with Mr Mugabe, who has run Uganda since 1986, but like Mr Mugabe is now loth to let go (see article). Several other old-timers have been in charge even longer. Teodoro Nguema of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea pushed out his even ghastlier uncle in 1979. Angola's José Eduardo Dos Santos became president, on a supposedly Marxist ticket, in the same year. Omar al-Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity, has presided over Sudan since 1989. None of these grim figures would still be in charge if his people had more freedom. The continent's biggest democracies, South Africa and Nigeria, have not lately been a compelling advertisement for representative government. South Africa, ruled by the African National Congress since 1994, is in danger of becoming a de facto one-party state. Nigeria's politics is so corrupt that it gives the D-word a bad name. In both countries large majorities of people still live in penury, despite the rise of billionaires at the top. In the short term at least, autocracy does not seem to hamper economic growth. Some anti-democrats - Ethiopia's late ruler, the authoritarian Meles Zenawi, is a favourite example - have seen their economies grow faster than those of more democratic neighbours. The increasingly ruthless Paul Kagame has made Rwandans a lot better off. Thanks to oil, Equatorial Guinea and Angola are among the fastest-growing countries in the world. The price of autocracy Yet Mr Mugabe has pauperised a once-rich country, and some of the least-free countries are also the most economically backward. Most of the 300 or so desperate refugees who drowned off the Italian island of Lampedusa on October 3rd were from Somalia and Eritrea, Africa's worst performers in political participation and human rights, according to the Mo Ibrahim index of African governance. As the index has repeatedly shown, countries that do well in political participation and human rights also tend to do well in economic development. And democracy is the best guarantor of peace, which is the best foundation for growth. Western countries and NGOs give succour to protesters and lessons in institution-building, which is good, but they are losing their leverage. As China provides more grants, loans and trade deals with no tiresome strings attached, aid from the West that is conditional on more democracy and respect for human rights is less alluring to African rulers. So it is, increasingly, up to the African people to demand more of a say in the way their countries are run. For many, earning a living is too much of a struggle to think about politics. But Africans are changing, as computers and mobile phones allow them to argue and complain. Dinosaurs beware: the question is not whether they will demand better government, but when.
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Former Fed Chairman Bernanke takes stand in AIG bailout trial WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke took the stand on Thursday to defend the U.S. government's bailout of American International Group (AIG.N) in 2008, describing how policymakers sought to avoid giving AIG shareholders a "windfall" through a rescue. Bernanke's comments came in a fourth day of testimony by former top government officials looking to convince a federal judge that the rescue of the insurance company was legal. On Thursday afternoon, Bernanke distinguished between the $85 billion loan package provided to AIG, which came with an interest rate of more than 12 percent and a nearly 80 percent stake in the company, and loans the government provided to banks at the height of the 2007-2009 financial crisis through broad lending facilities at the New York Fed. While officials designed the AIG rescue to "minimize windfall" for shareholders, they considered countervailing factors when designing the other programs, including the need to get the funds into the financial system and avoid any stigma associated with taking advantage of the loans, Bernanke said. Former AIG Chief Executive Hank Greenberg, who was also the company's largest shareholder, sued the government in 2011 over the terms of the bailout's loan, arguing they amounted to an illegal taking of the company from AIG shareholders. Government lawyers have countered that the bailout in the end raised the value of AIG shares and that policymakers had to consider "moral hazard" concerns when calculating its terms. To make their case, Greenberg's lawyers have tried to portray the government as singling out AIG shareholders for punishment, without having a basis for doing so. They have also pushed officials to confirm that the situation was so dire that the government would have moved to save AIG even if the company had refused the initial offer. When asked on Thursday by Greenberg's lawyer, David Boies, if officials had concluded that AIG's collapse could have catastrophic consequences for the broader financial system, Bernanke responded: "We were very concerned about that possibility, yes." Bernanke also testified that he did not know, at the time the loan terms were drafted, what the exact basis was for the interest rate or other fees added to the loan were. His testimony is expected to continue on Friday. Earlier on Thursday, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wrapped up two and one-half days on the stand, sparring with Boies over whether the loan posed substantial risks to the government. Boies has sought to portray the New York Federal Reserve bank, which Geithner led at the time, as making AIG a low-risk loan with undeservedly high terms. A Justice Department lawyer, Kenneth Dintzer, on Thursday introduced previous statements in which Geithner had expressed worries that American taxpayers faced the risk of "substantial losses" through the AIG bailout. Just before wrapping up his questioning of Geithner, Boies asked Geithner about his impression of Greenberg, who had argued that AIG's insurance businesses were highly valuable and said that he had been refused a seat at the table during the AIG bailout negotiations. "I found his confidence and optimism, uh, unique," Geithner said. AIG finished repaying the full $182.3 billion bailout in December 2012, leaving taxpayers with a nearly $23 billion profit. The lawsuit, which is being tried in the Court of Federal Claims in Washington, won class action status in May 2013. The case is Starr International Co v. U.S., U.S. Court of Federal Claims, No. 11-00779
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World record surf? - CBS News Video
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Gultan Kisanak, co-chairwoman of parliament's pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, said the indictment did not include crimes she says were committed in a 28-year long war with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that has killed more than 40,000 people. "Military tutelage, a tradition of coups, contra-guerrilla activities, extrajudicial killings and other dark events are all part of our recent political history," she said. "While we need a process to confront and reconcile our past, the government instead opted to settle its own scores." Sledgehammer is one of a series of trials that has raised questions about whether the government is using the courts to silence political opponents. Others include the "Ergenekon" case, which involves a web of alleged plots against Turkey's government, and the "KCK" trials which accuse thousands of Kurdish journalists, academics, lawyers and others of belonging to the PKK, viewed as a terrorist group by the United States and Europe for its campaign of violence for greater autonomy in southeastern Turkey. The court ruling also has the potential to undermine morale in the military as it battles the PKK in the heaviest fighting in more than a decade and faces a growing challenge maintaining security along its southern border with war-torn Syria. A hundred or so people gathered near Taksim Square in central Istanbul to protest the verdict. "This case was an effort to silence those who defend the secular republic," said Hanife Kopuz, 55, clutching a cloth banner of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who founded the modern Turkish republic from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. "This may be a turning point, reducing support for the government. They can't stay in power forever but I fear what they will leave in their wake," she said.
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The program was put under Dr. Samar Mubarakmand– a nuclear physicist and a fluid dynamicist who delegated the program to country's scientists and engineers. Necessary fundings for the program were secured by the military, and the development on rocket engine and its eventually testings were began to be utilized by the Space Research Commission. In the memoirs of scientists who worked on the program maintained that "Shaheen was a very difficult program and the development of this system has given maximum accuracy– a 100% capability of destroying its target." The program's original goal was to developed a supersonic missile that it would be impossible for any missile defense system could intercept it. Solid-fuel systems for the guided missiles are very difficult to develop and Pakistani scientists closely monitored the Indian development of the Agni-II missile. The Space Research Commission continued to modifies the designs, and repeatedly tests the Solid-fuel rocket engines on multiple occasions. The Shaheen-I was test fired on 15 April 1999 by a joint team of NDC and SRC led under Dr. Samar Mubarakmand from the Sonmiani Test Range, which was termed as "highly successfully". At the height of military standoff with India in 2002, another test took place and it was quoted by Information minister Nisar Memon as "part of technical requirements" and unrelated to the military confrontation in Kashmir. On 8 October 2003, the Shaheen-I was again test fired for a third time from an undisclosed location, as the ISPR stated: "The test is part of the ongoing series of tests of Pakistan's indigenous missile systems." A batch of Shaheen I missiles, enough to equip one regiment/battery, was handed over to the Pakistan Army in 2003 along with mobile launchers. Another was tested on 8 May 2010 The Shaheen 1A was test fired on 25 April 2012. On April 10, 2013 Pakistan tested another Shaheen 1A
==See also==
Ballistic missile
Solid fuel rocket
NESCOM
Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction
Related developments
Shaheen II
Shaheen III
Related lists
List of missiles
==References==
==External links==
StrategyCentre.net - Pakistan’s Long Range Ballistic Missiles: A View From IDEAS
FAS.org article - Hatf-3
FAS.org article - How Shaheen Was Developed
Intermediate-range ballistic missiles of Pakistan
Weapons of Pakistan
Space launch vehicles of Pakistan
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==External links==
This huge pile of links were on the page. I'm not sure which are necessary and meet EL. tedder (talk) | 45 | null | null | 559,271,101 | 2013-06-10T18:58:12 | Philip Press | 2,015 |
The link for the first reference is no longer active. The link now appears to be:
http://philosophy.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=121&Itemid=211
But for some reason I can't edit the references, only the text of the page. Can someone else change it to the above link? | 85 | null | null | 348,759,215 | 2010-03-09T16:17:31 | Dean Zimmerman (philosopher) | 2,015 |
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Deaths Reported in Ala., Miss. From Severe Weather As many as nine deaths are being reported from severe storms blowing through the South, but the toll could rise. In Mississippi, officials say at least seven people have been killed. State Director of Health Protection Jim Craig said Monday night that officials are working with coroners to confirm the total. Winston County Coroner Scott Gregory said six fatalities were reported in that county alone. In north Alabama, Limestone County Emergency Director Rita White said the coroner's office had confirmed two deaths in a twister that caused extensive damage west of the city of Athens. White says still more victims might be trapped in the wreckage of damaged buildings, but rescuers can't reach some areas yet. Separately, Limestone Commissioner Bill Latimer says he has reports from a worker of at least four deaths in the county.
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Police appeal to trace 4x4 drivers after Glasgow city centre rape Police investigating the rape of a woman in Glasgow city centre want to trace the occupants of two 4x4-type vehicles which passed near the scene. The 24-year-old woman was attacked in Holm Street near Wellington Street at about 01:15 on Saturday, September 26. Her suspected attacker is described as white, aged 25-30, of slim build with short dark hair and wearing jeans. Detectives also want to speak to a man and woman seen talking to the victim at McDonalds in Jamaica Street at 01:30. Dete Insp Graeme McLachlan, of Greater Glasgow's Divisional Rape Investigation Unit, said: "The inquiry team are continuing to study a large amount of CCTV footage from in and around that area. "I would appeal to anyone who was in the area of Holm Street between 1am and 1.30am on Saturday 26 September. In particular, I would urge the occupants of two 4x4-type vehicles that were seen in Holm Street between 1am to 1.30am to come forward to police, as they may have unwittingly witnessed something vital to this investigation. "I am also keen to trace a man and woman who spoke to the victim within McDonalds in Jamaica Street on Saturday morning shortly before police attended. "The woman we wish to trace is described as white, late teens to early 20s with shoulder-length dark hair. She was wearing a light-coloured blouse with a red or pink check, dark trousers and carrying a black bag with white straps. "The man with her is described as white and around the same age with short fair hair. He was wearing a black T-shirt with a white collar, grey jacket and dark-coloured trousers and trainers."
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Leaked video and photos appear to show Google's Nexus 5 smartphone Even more information appears to have been leaked regarding Google's next smartphone, the Nexus 5. This time, it's come in the form of a YouTube video and photos posted to the Google+ social networking site. Last week, a leaked smartphone manual supposedly revealed the technical specifications of the forthcoming Nexus 5. Now, we appear to have been given a pretty good idea of what Google's smartphone will look like when it is released. A 7 minute YouTube video emerged over the weekend which shows somebody giving an overview of what appears to be a pre-production Nexus 5. The video, entitled "gn5 hands on," provides a detailed look at the phone's exterior, the homescreen, web browsing and a number of other features. A video is also played on the phone which, if the previously leaked manual is to be believed, showcases the Nexus 5"s 1080p screen. More recently, as was pointed out by androidandme.com, Google+ user Anton Kuznetsov uploaded four photos which seem to show the Nexus 5. The photos, which are captioned "#Nexus5 - From Russia with Love:)," show a smartphone from four different angles, most notably from the back where the word "Nexus" can be seen. Google has not yet confirmed a release date for the Nexus 5, although rumours are circulating that it will be before the end of this month.
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I did some experimenting and found that for that New York City, I get sunrise azimuth of 119 degrees on/around December 6 and January 12. Those may be off by a day or so. Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Got my astronomical terminology confused. I meant to say that the two dates given straddle the summer solstice, not the equinox. So the article is actually wrong. I'll dig around on the USNO site, and fix it. Thanks for the info. uFu
error: "On May 28 and July 12 the sunrise and sunset are aligned with the street grid lines, so that the sun is visible at the horizon from street level." This statement is still incorrect. The sun may be visible on the said dates only when setting in the west. The corresponding rising dates in the east would be around the winter solstice (approx. 6-months from the setting dates), since the 'east-west' street grid points to the southeast. The sun does not rise in the southeast during May and July. I don't have the exact dates, but a cursory calculation for the said setting dates seems accurate. I will remove the word sunrise from the article, but it would be nice if someone with the proper calculation software could add the correct rise dates. J. Crocker
Okay, it's taken me a year, but here's what I've got. According to this page, the approximate deviation of Manhattan avenues from true north is +28.9. By the foregoing discussion, that gives us a sunrise azimuth of 118.9, and a sunset azimuth of 298.9. Using a little trial-and-error here to determine when the sun's altitude is zero when its azimuth equals these values, I get dates for 2006 of Jan 11 and Dec 2 for the sunrise, and May 25 and Jul 17 for the sunset. That should be accurate to within one minute and 1/10 of a degree. uFu
Article should mention that the island was bought from a neighboring tribe, and not the ones Manhattan belonged to (The Choctaws). == Photo arrangement ==
Anyone like the new photo arrangement? I myself was looking at getting the Times Square one full right, but server was acting up, so I gave up. Now I see somebody put all photos at top. I hope everyone likes what I did - there are no more large gaps in the text caused by the photos, and I made them all the same width for a more professional look. I like the fact that there are a lot of great photos in the article, but this can cause weird layout issues. Paradiso
On my screen (1600x1200), ALL the photos are up top and the first paragraph is squeezed into 8% of the screen width on the left. After that there are no more photos. Maybe try putting them all in one table no wider than the widest jpg
I fixed it for me - photos were NOT inside table before
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" | all the islands or parts thereof situated within the aforedescribed bounds. :(ADC - New York City Administrative Code, Title 2, "Boundaries of the City" )
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== Demographics ==
I've heard that although Manhattan has 1M people residential, it has 30M employees working there. Does anyone have the facts to back that up, as I think it would be nice in the article. Additionally, Brooklyn is described as "it would be the 4th largest city," and I'd like to see a comparison like that
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Zandperl (talk • contribs)
== Uptown/downtown ==
In Manhattan, uptown means north and downtown means south
Not quite. Manhattan has a concept of "north on the grid" (of streets), which is different from due north (or magnetic north, for that matter). As the map shows, Manhattan is a long, narrow island; most streets are laid out parallel or perpendicular to the long sides of the island. Going northeast along a long street is called going "north on the grid" (or just "north", more commonly). Uptown means north on the grid, and downtown means south on the grid. —msh210
Technically, Msh210, you're right. But, seriously, who thinks "north" in Manhattan means due north? == Etymology? ==
I was under the impression that manhattan's etymology came from a corruption of the word Manahachtanienk
Of course, noone really knows the correct etymology. | 1,008 | null | null | 648,053,110 | 2015-02-20T15:56:30 | Manhattan/Archive 1 | 2,015 |
However, I shouldn't worry; one of the Tenets of Wikipedia is assume good faith, so if your edits are sound and not vandalism, then the chances are no one will go looking to see what you did in the past. Also, the edit history you are worried about is under an IP address; if you look at your contribution history, you will only see the edits you did since you created your account, and this will continue to be the case as long as you are logged in. Yes, an administrator could find out what you did in the past if they do a bit of digging, but if your contributions are fine from here on, then there will be no cause for them to do so, so you can consider yourself starting with a clean slate. Happy editing!!! Stephen! Coming...
== Another Concern ==
Mr. Stephen, prior to editing as Lev369, I vandalized pages of Tia, Tamera, TV ratings, Cartoon Network, without a user name. Please tell the administrators at RCN Corp. AND Wikipedia I'm sorry and that I learned my lesson. Please! I'm asking and begging you! May God bless you! Please delete my past week negative vandalism contributions immediately! God bless you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lev369 (talk • contribs)
As an administrator, I accept you apologies. As for me apologising on your behalf to RCN Corp administrators, that is really something only you can do. As I explained above, your old edits are history, and provided that you don't vandalise any more, that is not something that is likely to cause you any problems. There really is no ned to keep apologising. Just put it all behind you and move on. Stephen! Coming...
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All right then, Mr. Stephen! I understand. Take care of yourself, your family, and friends, and each other. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lev369 (talk • contribs)
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== Generally, I'm concerned..... ==
...about 202.47.69.212. I see that he is making abusive behaviour on our talk pages here, but really, when he puts that unsourced material into Kidzania Jakarta about their security bracelets, I wouldn't think this as abusive behaviour. This is not WP:VANDALISM as I speak, but more of an unsourced material only. Please talk with the one that reverted his edits. Regards,
I have dropped a note on the editor's page about using edit summaries, and I have also dropped a note on the anon editor's page about their abusive behaviour. Where you think an editor did something wrong, like not using the correct edit summary, there is nothing wrong with you having a quick word with them; sometimes going directly to them rather than going via a third party is more effective, and less likely to annoy the editor. There is the risk that the editor could see that he is being "snitched" on, and get cross in the process. I'm not saying this is going to be the case here, but you might want to consider that should ever the need arise in the future. Stephen! Coming...
Well, what about the Kidzania Jakarta edit? The one reverting it considered it as vandalism, however, as I have told him about the IP's innocence, it was just a simple mistake, rather than vandalizing the page. I haven't reverted the edit, as it is original research, and does not add anything of value to the article. As I said before, I did make a comment to the reverting editor about use of editing summaries. Whilst the summary may not have been the best, the text did need to be removed. Not all good faith edits should be kept. Stephen! Coming... Yes, I know that. And according to the concern, the absence of any reference makes it as the only reason of why it had to be reverted. It's not vandalism, as you said. Sounds like we are both in agreement then. | 1,012 | null | null | 332,069,108 | 2009-12-16T16:42:41 | Sjb72/Archive 3 | 2,015 |
The St. Louis Blues are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis Blues may also refer to:
St. Louis Blues (1929 film), a two-reel short directed by Dudley Murphy
St. Louis Blues (1939 film), a film directed by Raoul Walsh
St. Louis Blues (1958 film), a feature film
St. Louis Blues (album), a 1958 album by Nat King Cole
St. Louis blues (music), a type of blues music
"St. Louis Blues" (song), a blues tune and song by W. C. Handy, published in 1914
St. Louis Blues, a defunct American football team that played the 1934 season in the American Football League (1934)
St. Louis Jr. Blues, a Junior A ice hockey team in Affton, Missouri
St. Louis Blues (Australian Rules Football Club), an amateur Australian rules football club, named after the Carlton Blues from Melbourne, Australia | 205 | null | null | 648,252,370 | 2015-02-21T23:44:56 | St. Louis Blues (disambiguation) | 2,015 |
Nigerian Stock Exchange Joins World Federation The Nigerian Stock Exchange says it's become a full member of the World Federation of Exchanges just as it prepares to woo Asian fund managers. It's taken three years for the West African exchange to win approval based on proper regulation by bodies including the Securities and Exchange Commission of Nigeria, the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Central Securities Clearing System. CEO Oscar Onyema said Tuesday's development aides the Nigerian exchange's integration with global financial markets. The exchange's head of strategy, Yvonne Emordi, says it sets the tone for the exchange's December tour to introduce the market to Asian fund managers investing in frontier and emerging markets. It comes the year Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, rebased its economy to overtake South Africa as the largest on the continent.
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On the mission-critical Canadian economy issue of resource development, businesses need to re-engineer the way they plan and communicates major resource projects. Businesses design innovation needs to embrace the software of policy-process applications as much as the hardware of technology. The sooner industry - with government - figure this out, the healthier both our environmental and economic bottom lines will be.
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'Lost Boys' Actor Takes Custody Battle to LA Court
May 8, 2014 - Jason Patric calls today the most important day of his life. The 1980s teen heartthrob -- who rose to fame in the movie "The Lost Boys" -- went to a Los Angeles courtroom this morning to make an appeal in a fight to be recognized as the father of a 4-year-old boy, Gus. Patric and his ex-girlfriend, Danielle Schreiber, conceived Gus through in-vitro fertilization. Their on-again, off-again relationship has now become a high-profile custody dispute. Schreiber said Patric never signed a birth certificate, that he was a sperm donor -- and therefore had no parental rights. In a statement to ABC News, Schreiber said Patric offered to donate sperm after the two broke up âunder the express conditionâ that it be kept secret and âthat he would not be a father to or have any obligations, rights or responsibilities for my child.â A judge agreed, barring Patric from seeing Gus. But Patric said he's been a dad from day one. His ammunition includes forms he signed at the sperm clinic promising "an intent to parent." He is seeking full custody. Patric continues thinking about the last time he saw Gus. "Sixty-three weeks ago," he said. "I said, 'It's OK. I'll see you tomorrow.' I've never seen him again." Schreiber declined an interview request, but according to her lawyer, "We are spending our time preparing for the appellate argument. That is where we are going to use our ammunition."
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World's smallest apple will go on sale in Marks and Spencer stores after golf-ball sized 'tiddly pomme' was found by luck Super-sweet miniature apple size of a golf ball to be sold from Monday Grower found the tiny variety by chance on a walk around his orchards Winnie-the-Pooh-inspired 'Tiddly Pomme' was idea of Facebook fans By Abigail Frymann
The tiniest apple on the high street will go on sale on Monday having been discovered by chance. The apple being marketed as Tiddly Pomme has been snapped up exclusively by Marks & Spencer. The retailer hopes the super-sweet apple, a miniature version of the Royal Gala variety, will especially appeal to children. At 42mm in diameter the apples are the same size as a golf ball. A pack of six will cost £1.49 and two of the apples count as one of your five a day. Grand entrance: M&S announced their new product's name to Facebook fans who had sent in ideas as diverse as Mini-apple-is and Red Dwarf M&S buyer Shazad Rehman said: 'The Tiddly Pomme is perfect for kids. Our customers like to try new fruit and we're sure it will be a real hit. Don't be fooled by its appearance, what it lacks in size, it more than makes up for in flavour.' Made for tiny tastebuds: M&S hopes the Tiddly Pomme will get kids eating their five-a-day Consultant David Cranwell happened upon the 42mm-diameter fruits on a routine walk around his orchards in New Zealand. If the tiny fruits sell well, M&S, which buys the fruit from Empire World Trade Fruit, will plant its own Tiddly Pommes in Britain. The name Tiddly Pomme - a nod to the classic Winnie the Pooh rhyme 'Tiddly Pom' by AA Milne - was chosen from more than 6,500 suggestions put forward by fans on Facebook. M&S admitted they had been struggling to find a good name for the product. From the bumper crop of suggestions from Facebook fans the team picked five, which went to a poll. Tiddly Pomme was the clear winner ahead of Petite Pomme, Little Munch, Red Dwarf and Apple-Teeny. Other ideas not in the shortlist included Pip Squeak (off-limits because it has already been trademarked), Mini-apple-is and Pink Ladette. Mini-apple: the Tiddly Pomme is only 42mm across, the same as a golf ball Share or comment on this article
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BBC News - Nora Ephron remembered at star-packed memorial
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Franco was to rule the country with an iron grip for 36 years between 1939 and 1975 and survived the fall of Fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany after the Second World War. His regime had remained neutral throughout the conflict. He effectively ruled Spain as a dictator from 1939 until his death, and brutally oppressed political opponents during that period, although the precise numbers of those who died or disappeared as a consequence of his policies is unknown. Share or comment on this article
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Juarez, Mexico - Murder Capital of the World - CBS News Drug violence is out of control in Mexico. Thursday, President Felipe Calderon suggested prosecutors and judges aren't doing enough to bring criminals to justice. Calderon himself has come under criticism. Since he declared war on the cartels in 2006, 28,000 people have died. This year alone, more than 7,000 have died. The violence has taken a new turn. CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen reports journalists are the new targets in Mexico's drug war. A cameraman in Juarez barely escaped a grenade attack. Back in his newsroom, Juarez news director Edgar Roman has a new job description. He wants to "preserve the lives of the people out there reporting, covering stories. We don't want to be heroes." Those involved in news coverage in Juarez have a saying that's also a warning: a journalist can stay alive sometimes - based on what they don't report. "You have to censor yourself in a way that you're not going to get in trouble," Roman said. Almost a dozen journalists have been killed this year. Recently, four journalists were kidnapped, until their TV outlet broadcast a message dictated by one of the cartels. Many are concerned that stories are now being hushed up by terrified reporters. Before the drug war started in 2006, Americans were advised to avoid border areas. Now, Americans are being warned away from all of Mexico, especially the northern third of the country. Some now fear that Mexico is spinning out of control. Does the violence mean the drug cartels are running scared? "As terrible as it is, it could be a step forward," said Andrew Selee, Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute. "We're seeing the cartels for the first time, fearing the government, fearing the rule of law in Mexico." This drug war is fought with American weapons for the American market. Of the 75,000 guns seized, 80 percent came from the U.S. They're used to fight over an estimated $40 billion drug business - virtually all for the U.S. Think of it this way - $40 billion is nearly as much revenue that Pepsi collected last year. When Mexico's President Felipe Calderon came to Juarez, he met Luz Maria Davila, whose two sons were killed. Her only children Marcos and Jose were at a party for the Double A baseball team. Gunmen thought the party was for a cartel gang also known as Double A, and killed 13 people - mostly teenagers. She said she spoke to Calderon, because she still hopes "for justice." But Juarez is seeing escalation of violence - a car bomb was recently used to hit paramedics trying to save a life. Paramedic Nancy Paz Mares was hit by shrapnel. She said the person who did it "has no heart." Paramedic Philip Caldera still has dizziness from his head injuries. He called it an attack like 9/11. "They just wanted to kill many people," he said. Juarez has become the murder capital of the world, with 2,600 dead last year. The death toll could be higher this year. It's on track to hit 3,000. Many Mexicans feel that their country is in the midst of chaos that could break it apart - all so Americans can get their fix. More About the Violence in Mexico
Mexican Journalists Protest Cartel Attacks
Mexico's Drug War Adopts Al Qaeda Tactics
Drug War Violence Escalates
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For example, a square kilometre is 平方公里 píngfāng gōnglǐ. ==== Macau area units ====
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These units are used to measure cereal grains, among other things. In imperial times, the physical standard for these was the jialiang. | 458 | null | null | 680,756,956 | 2015-09-13T00:05:10 | Chinese units of measurement | 2,015 |
British military gets behind French effort to bring stability to CAR LONDON, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Friday his government is supporting a French-led effort to help bring stability to the Central African Republic. The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Thursday authorizing the African Union and French military to respond to an escalating crisis in CAR. "We are determined to play our part in helping to address the violence," Hague said in a statement Friday. "We have therefore agreed with the government of France that we will help move French equipment to CAR by means of a U.K. C17 transport aircraft." The French air force said Friday it was operating under the U.N. mandate to support an African-led peacekeeping mission in CAR. It said a C17 transport left Friday to transport military equipment to Bangui. It's the first of three airlifts to help support AU troops in their effort to stabilize CAR. The French military statement Friday said CAR, a former colony of France, has descended into chaos since the Seleka rebel coalition, a Sunni group, toppled the government in March. This has lead to "tit-for-tat sectarian violence with the Christian majority," the military statement said. The European Union, in a separate statement, said it endorsed an AU request for $68 million to help support the African-led mission in CAR. At least 120 people were killed in Bangui amid fighting between rival Muslim and Christian militias Thursday.
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Atsuko Kudo, the London brand leading the latex revolution When Kate Moss and Kim Kardashian want to spice up their look they call upon Atsuko Kudo for figure-hugging rubber. Isn't it about time us mere mortals did the same?
If ever there was a week where latex was oozing out from every pore of a celebrity's body - be it from Gigi Hadid's neck in the new Pirelli calendar; Kim Kardashian's voluptuous derrière Down Under (we mean in Australia) and Kate Moss's lithe frame - then this has been it. The ringleader of this tight'n'shiny rubber revolution? Atsuko Kudo, a small couture brand operating from the rather less glistening neighbourhood that is the Holloway Road in North London. When I called Atusko Kudo's brand director Simon Hoare to talk about his company's recent public triumphs, he revealed that things over at the brand's HQ had been "rather hectic" since reality TV star Kardashian was photographed plugging her latest fragrance in Melbourne wearing the brand's blush-hued pencil skirt and matching bra top. "Kim really wanted to come to the store the other week but she couldn't make it so we did a fitting at her hotel" explains Hoare, who counts Lady Gaga, Kate Moss and Dita Von Teese amongst his celebrity customers. Of his famous customer's figure he remarks: "her shape is so feminine, almost to the extreme, and when she wears latex that is so self-evident that the whole thing becomes all about that female shape in every possible way." Did he have to make Kim's skirt from scratch to account for her other-worldly proportions? "There is often a bit of a tweak for almost anyone, it really depends on the garment," he replies diplomatically, detailing how as a predominantly made-to-measure operation, all clients who order in store are fitted to ensure that every purchase fits like a glove (while those who order online might be asked to submit extra measurements via email). Atsuko Kudo fan Kim Kardashian on the red carpet. Photos: Getty/ Rex It was Lady Gaga, who after seeing Steven Meisel's 2008 Vogue Italia shoot of Eva Mendes clad in very little but one of Kudo's corsets (below), forged a relationship with the London brand and brought awareness of latex to the masses. But it's Ms Kardashian who is "putting it out there as daywear" in Hoare's view, and drawing in a new clientele as opposed to mere observers. "That is something that we've always done here" he says of the more wearable, off-the-peg creations. "We've always had pencil skirts and always had nice jackets." Eva Mendes in Italian Vogue Lady Gaga wore a custom-made Atsuko Kudo dress in blood red when she met HM the Queen at the 2009 Royal Variety Awards, an act which garnered headlines around the world. Perhaps perversely, the one celebrity that designer Atsuko would love to the dress is the Monarch herself. "To make her a really nice suit, like the sort of suits she wears, that would be the pinnacle of having made something cross [Latex as a mainstream material] completely" says Hoare on behalf of the label's creative brain. Lady Gaga meeting Queen Elizabeth II in 2009. Photo: PA Kate Moss has also been known to spice up her wardrobe with a peppering of latex - this week she celebrated businessman David Tang's birthday at the Dorchester Hotel wearing Atsuko Kudo's little black Cheongsam dress. But celebrities aside, there's no such thing as a 'typical' customer for the company. "It's literally every type of person from so many surprising areas of life and occupation and geography" reveals Hoare. Kate Moss in Atsuko Kudo's Cheongsam dress, out in London on November 18. Photo: Splash He admits that the fabric is "not practical or sensible at all" but an edgy and unique alternative for very special moments. "It's like when you want to put rocket fuel on a particular moment in your life, whether that's walking out in front of flash photographers or a private occasion." He adds how: "It's almost impossible to not like yourself in a pencil skirt. It's got that elegance, that smooth line, the shine" and that Atsuko's mantra is that she just wants every woman to feel "feminine, beautiful and strong." Kate Moss wearing a green Atsuko Kudo lingerie set in Ibiza in the summer. Picture: kimkardashian/Instagram | 978 | 362,066,583,055,674,240 | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Police and MI5'ready for new terror powers'
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German Economist: Fear to Dog Investors for Years Investors around the world have retreated from risk before. But this time is different. So says Arne Holzhausen, a senior economist at Allianz, an insurer based in Munich. He says what's keeping people from returning to taking chances with their money is not just a fear of loss, but a mistrust of the financial system. His prediction: Investors will remain cautious for several years to come. Depending on your view, Holzhausen is qualified either to understand this new cautious world, or to exaggerate its impact. A German, he shares with his countrymen a reluctance to gamble with money even in the best of times. He also has seen the damage when the appetite for risk swings from one extreme to the other: He lived and studied in Japan in 1989-1990 when overconfident investors pushed stock prices to a record, then in 1994-1995 after many had sold at a loss and the economy had entered a two-decade slump. In an interview, Holzhausen, 46, explained the psychological "scarring" that has kept people from buying stocks in the past five years, how living in Japan during its boom and bust shaped his views, why Germany is not the model economy widely assumed, and why he, like many Germans, has stayed away from stocks. Excerpts below have been edited for clarity and length: AP: Some economists talk about "scarring" from the financial crisis. What do they mean by that term? Holzhausen: If you have a bad experience in your young, formative years, you don't easily forget. In the beginning of the (last) decade, there was the tech bubble, then came the financial crisis. The generations in their 30s and 40s will keep cautious. It's not so much about value. People are deeply skeptical about the fairness of financial markets - heads the banks win, tails you lose. AP: People have been burned before, but they always come back. The '70s were terrible for investors, yet they ended up buying stocks the next decade, and borrowed more and spent. Holzhausen: After the oil shock of the 1970s, I don't think there was such mistrust. That was seen as an external shock. (Now) people think something is rotten in the financial system. People see financial markets as a casino. When I started (as an economist) in the '80s, the mood was you have to buy stocks. You heard it even in China, "To get rich is glorious." Now, people don't feel that anymore. People want to get as much distance as possible from the financial system. They want to be in control of their financial matters. AP: How much longer do you think households will continue to spend slowly, sell stocks and shun debt? Is it five years? Ten years? Holzhausen: That's hard to predict, but look at the Japanese: They have not been in the mood (to spend and invest) for more than two decades. That might be an extreme case, but with low growth in the foreseeable future (in Europe) and a rapidly aging society, the revival of animal spirits is certainly not around the corner. Five years at least. AP: In the U.S., investors are starting to inch back into stocks. The Japanese stock market is up 45 percent in nine months. Some households there are buying again, too. Holzhausen: There is some movement on the margins. People are repositioning their portfolios to try to take advantage of recent equity booms. But overall, the stance is very cautious. AP: What about in Europe?
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Anderson could leave Manchester United on a free transfer in January The 26-year-old is out of contract next summer but the club could allow him to make a move in the transfer window, with clubs in his native Brazil reported to be interested. According to the Daily Mail, Gremio and Flamengo are leading the race for Anderson, who has made just five Premier League appearances since the start of last season; he spent the second half of last season on loan at Fiorentina, where he failed to win a regular first-team place. The Serie A club opted to not take up an option to buy him in the summer. Bought for £20million in 2007, Anderson made a good start to his Old Trafford career before injuries, fitness and weight issues started to plague him. Former club Gremio are believed to be in pole position for his signature, and hope United will waive a nominal fee for his transfer.
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Indian rupee sinks to fresh record low The Indian rupee fell below Rs65 to the US dollar in intraday trading on Thursday, as minutes from the US Federal Reserve's July meeting confirmed expectations that it could begin tapering its quantitative easing programme by the end of the year. Since May, when talk of the Fed reeling in its asset purchase programme began, money has been drawn out of emerging markets. India, with its unsustainable current account deficit, has been affected in particular. More On this story On this topic IN Currencies "Everything is to do with the Fed decision," said Sonal Varma, an economist at Nomura, explaining the sharp depreciation of the rupee. "Not just the announcement last night [Wednesday] but the move since May has been driven by tapering expectations." The Fed minutes, published on Wednesday, did not provide any details on when the tapering might begin, though most officials were "broadly comfortable" with plans to begin reeling in the stimulus package. The rupee extended a run of record lows, hitting Rs65.6 to the dollar in morning trading. Meanwhile, equity markets gained with the benchmark Sensex index up 2.3 per cent at 18,312.94 by mid-afternoon. "Even if you talk about the past month or so, most of the outflows on the FII [foreign institutional investment] front took place on the debt segment," said Anubhuti Sahay, an economist at Standard Chartered, explaining there is little direct linkage between FII flows from equity markets and the depreciation of the rupee. Investor sentiment in India has been hit by recent policy actions, which have sent mixed signals to the market. The Reserve Bank of India has announced a series of new measures aimed at stemming the rupee's decline, but restrictive capital controls announced last week have been taken as a signal of desperation. After raising short-term rates in July in an attempt to restrict speculative trading, the central bank announced a new set of measures on Tuesday aimed at easing pressure on long-term yields to ensure the availability of credit in relevant sectors. "The RBI has done everything to support the rupee," Moses Harding, of Lakshmi Vilas Bank, told local television. "But given the weak domestic fundamentals the effect was nothing." Minutes from an RBI advisory committee meeting released on Wednesday added to the negative outlook in Asia's third-largest economy, highlighting slowing domestic activity and weak industrial production. The minutes of the July 24 meeting pointed to the large current account deficit and pressure on the rupee as the "immediate concern that needs to be addressed." The minutes also indicated that some members of the committee felt the depreciation of the rupee should be allowed, to help Indian exports gain competitiveness. The RBI said the international investment position - the gap between external assets and liabilities - had risen by half in the past two years and that the current account deficit was "high and unsustainable." The central bank will be in a tight spot next month when it meets to make a decision on monetary policy. While tightening policy would strangle growth in India's floundering economy, loosening policy risks stoking inflation. Analysts at Lombard Street Research suggest that, with recent policy actions proving inadequate and the necessary structural reforms unlikely given the forthcoming elections, policy makers may be "forced into an abrupt and aggressive monetary tightening cycle." Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2013. You may share using our article tools.
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Francine Prose - Author of twenty works of fiction, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Yes Salman Rushdie - Satanic Verses author and fatwa survivor has no qualms over recognising Charlie Hebdo: "It is quite right that PEN should honour their sacrifice and condemn their murder without these disgusting "buts."" Maureen Freely - President of English PEN, author of Enlightenment, exploration of the persecution of writers in Turkey and translator for novelist Orhan Pamuk, who was prosecuted for insulting Turkishness. Tom Stoppard - Playwright who examined persecution under Communist regimes will attend PEN Gala and receive special award for artistic achievement and defense of creative expression from actress Glenn Close.
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37B US military spaceplane set for third flight
| 12 | 852,123,418,173,381,800 | 2012-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Video shows US capture of embassy bombings suspect Abu Anas al-Liby in Tripoli It took less than a minute... Video obtained by The Washington Post newspaper apparently shows the moment the United States captured one of its most wanted terror suspects, striking deep in the heart of the Libyan capital Tripoli. The security camera footage is said to show Abu Anas al-Liby being grabbed from a car outside his house, thrown into a white van and driven away last October. The alleged senior al Qaeda militant is now awaiting trial in New York. He has denied involvement in the deadly bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Some 224 people were killed in the blasts. Following his abduction, al-Liby was initially kept on board a US Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea for questioning. He was later taken to the United States to face charges when his health began deteriorating.
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Auctions best housing market guide: RBA AUCTION prices are a better guide to the housing market than prices resulting from private sales, a research discussion paper from the RBA says. THE paper, by David Genesove of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and James Hansen of the RBA's economic research department, does not represent the central bank's official view. Even so, such papers can give some insight into the things the RBA thinks are important. This one was based on price data from Australian Property Monitors for the Sydney and Melbourne housing markets. And it suggests the RBA, which is known to be concerned about upward pressure on housing prices at the moment, will be watching auction prices intently - more intently than it watches prices based on private treaty sales. Genesove and Hansen set out to find whether distinguishing between sales based on the selling method could help in both forecasting housing prices and understanding price trends. "We find evidence to suggest that average prices of dwellings sold at auction are informative for forecasting growth in average private-treaty prices and average sales prices overall," they said. They found that current auction prices were not as strongly correlated with prices from the immediate past, much less so than private treaty prices. In other words, current private treaty prices are more influenced by where prices were last month, while auction prices are more influenced by which way they are going. This result, they said, "suggests that auction prices incorporate new information more quickly than private-treaty." In contrast, their study found no evidence that prices achieved through private sales were much help at all.
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Crocothemis saxicolor is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, possibly Liberia, and possibly Sierra Leone. Its natural [are subtropical or tropical moist lowland | 61 | null | null | 655,126,999 | 2015-04-06T02:18:39 | Crocothemis saxicolor | 2,015 |
US to adopt Brent as oil reference price The US government's energy analysis body has abandoned home-produced crude and embraced a North Sea rival for its reference oil price. The move by the Energy Information Administration to adopt Brent crude in its annual energy outlook instead of West Texas Intermediate is the latest acknowledgment that resurgent domestic production will have lasting effects on prices. More On this topic IN Commodities The agency, an independent division of the US Department of Energy, said it made the switch because retail prices of fuels such as petrol and diesel now follow Brent more closely than WTI. "This change was made to better reflect the price refineries pay for imported light, sweet crude oil and takes into account the divergence of WTI prices from those of globally traded benchmark crudes such as Brent," the outlook said. The price of WTI has lagged behind Brent since late 2010 as Canada and US states such as North Dakota and Texas increase output rapidly. Production has "overwhelmed the transportation infrastructure needed to move crude" from Oklahoma, the delivery point for benchmark WTI futures, to global markets, the EIA said. Brent also has problems, including declining production in the North Sea. But traders have migrated to the benchmark, with Brent futures volumes on the ICE Futures Europe exchange up 12 per cent in the year to date and options on Brent futures up more than 300 per cent. The S&P GSCI, the commodity index most followed by investors, will add weight to Brent and reduce WTI exposure next year. In futures markets on Thursday, ICE January Brent was $107.17 per barrel, down $1.82. Nymex January WTI sold for $85.87, down $1.97. The two have traded at a difference of more than $20 since October. The EIA forecast domestic crude oil production would continue to grow at an average annual rate of 234,000 barrels per day, peaking at 7.5m b/d in 2019 from 5.7m last year. Onshore fields in US shale and other "tight oil" formations will feed most of the growth, the agency said. Despite this growth, the EIA expects the WTI discount to eventually narrow, averaging about $9 per barrel in 2013 and 2014 and shrinking to about $2 after 2020. Brent prices should hit a bottom of less than $96 per barrel in 2015, then slowly rise "as growing demand leads to the development of more costly resources," the EIA said. The annual energy outlook first used WTI as a reference price in 2008, the EIA said. Agency forecasters previously referenced generic import prices to refiners in their models. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2012. You may share using our article tools.
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Islamists kill 17 tourists in Tunisia How nihilistic is this Islamist barbarism that tourists are murdered as they admire Islamic civilisation? NINETEEN people have been killed after a shooting attack at a Tunisian museum with two gunmen taking hostages before they were shot dead. Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid said that 21 people had died, including the two gunmen. The seventeen tourists who died were from Italy, Poland, Germany and Spain. They died alongside a Tunisian security officer and a Tunisian cleaning woman... Mohamed Ali Aroui, an Interior Ministry spokesman who detailed the deaths at the Bardo Museum in Tunis, called the attackers Islamists in remarks on national radio.
An Australian is believed to be among the dead. Julian Burnside might care to revise his opinion.
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==See also==
Climate of North Carolina
Geography of North Carolina
Hazard mitigation in the Outer Banks
List of United States hurricanes
List of wettest known tropical cyclones in North Carolina
List of Atlantic hurricanes
==References==
North Carolina
North Carolina
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GM Fires 15 Workers as CEO Calls Report Into Recall "Brutally Tough"
Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, unveiled today the results of an internal investigation into the carmaker's handling of ignition switch problems, calling the report "brutally tough" and "deeply troubling." "I hate sharing this with you," said Barra, who in January became the first woman to run one of Detroit's big three car companies. "Repeatedly, individuals failed to disclose critical pieces of information that could have fundamentally changed the lives of those impacted by a faulty ignition switch." Related: GM is target of multiple probes over ignition recall.
Watch: CEO apologizes to victims" families after recalls.
Watch: 3 secrets you didn't know about Mary Barra. In February, GM announced a recall of all 1.6 million cars from model years 2003-07. According to depositions, GM engineers knew there was a problem with the ignition 10 years ago. And new evidence shows problems were flagged even earlier in 1999 with the engineer who designed the faulty switch. The potentially fatal flaw in certain older GM cars has been linked to at least 13 deaths. As a result of what GM termed "a pattern of incompetence and neglect," GM fired 15 employees - including senior executives, Barra announced today. Five others were disciplined. The investigation found no signs of a cover-up and cleared Barra of any wrongdoing or knowledge of the issues, a point she'd maintained since the investigation started. "There is a specific group that goes through and looks at when there's an incident," she told ABC News in a previous interview. "I was never a part of that process on this issue." Sen. Richard Blumenthal blasted the report, though, saying "I don't trust GM to investigate itself. This report is the result of the best investigation that GM itself could buy." Steve Berman, the attorney representing GM owners in a class-action suit, called the report "a cynical attempt at masking the truth." "GM CEO Mary Barra seems to think that a public display of investigatory self-flagellation will somehow mollify or distract the public regarding what we believe is a much more insidious reality - that GM had full knowledge of the defects much earlier, and wantonly ignored the issue," Berman said in a statement. Barra also announced today the creation of a victim's compensation program for those who lost loved ones or suffered serious physical injuries. GM still faces five separate investigations, including one by the Justice Department, which experts said could lead to a fine similar to the $1.2 billion settlement paid by Toyota for its botched recall four years ago. ABC News" Rebecca Jarvis contributed to this report. SHOWS: World News
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Mr Miliband's error is most glaring, the Labour leader having abandoned the centre ground that Mr Blair took such pains to capture. Wedded to Labour's statist tradition, he has abandoned the Blairite public-service reforms so utterly that they are now popularly attributed to the ruling Tories. By bashing banks and energy companies, he has lost the love of business upon which New Labour's seminal claim to economic competence was founded. Thereby he has achieved a measure of party unity; but Mr Blair would view that as a rotten measure of political success. To win, he would always put Labour noses out of joint. He seemed to enjoy it. Atonement for Tony It is Mr Cameron, however, who fares worse by comparison with Mr Bliar (as the Tories once slurred their nemesis). That is, first, because his erstwhile effort to modernise his party was directly analogous to Mr Blair's. And his failure to effect anything like the New Labour makeover, as signalled by the Tories" enduring feuding over the European Union and other right-wing shibboleths, is all the more conspicuous for it. His other big comparative failure, in foreign policy, is related: Mr Cameron's need to placate his party has led him to promise a referendum on Britain's EU membership that he does not want and perhaps could not win. It is also hard to grasp Mr Cameron's view of Britain's place in the world. His focus on trade - shown by the caravan of footballers and tea growers he recently took to Beijing - is meant to be pragmatic. Yet it can seem demeaning and unambitious. That, for all the blunders and damage they have done, could never be said of Mr Blair's peculiarly audacious, globe-trotting leadership.
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