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Quabbin Reservoir

The Quabbin Reservoir is the largest inland body of water in Massachusetts, United States, and was built between 1930 and 1939. Along with the Wachusett Reservoir, it is the primary water supply for Boston, 65 mi to the east, and 40 other cities and towns in Greater Boston. The Quabbin also supplies water to three towns west of the reservoir and acts as backup supply for three others. By 1989, it supplied water for 2.5 million people, about 40% of the state's population at the time. It has an aggregate capacity of 412 e9USgal and an area of 38.6 square miles (99.9 km2).

Structures and water flow
Quabbin Reservoir water flows to the Wachusett Reservoir through the Quabbin Aqueduct. The Quabbin watershed is managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, while the water supply system is operated by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. The Winsor Dam and the Goodnough Dike form the reservoir from impoundments of the three branches of the Swift River. The Quabbin Reservoir is part of the Chicopee River Watershed, which in turn feeds the Connecticut River.

The Quabbin Spillway, which follows part of Quabbin Hill Road in Belchertown, allows water to bypass the Winsor Dam and join the Swift River when the reservoir is full.

In 1947, the Massachusetts Legislature authorized the construction of the Chicopee Valley Aqueduct to deliver Quabbin water to three communities in Western Massachusetts: Chicopee, South Hadley, and Wilbraham. In 1951, with the Quabbin-Wachusett system sufficient to meet foreseeable needs, the Cochituate Aqueduct was abandoned, and the Framingham Reservoir system was placed on emergency stand-by. The present Lake Cochituate is the so-called Framingham Reservoir and now serves as a major swimming and boating resource but is no longer part of the potable water supply.

Demand for water exceeds local supplies
Metropolitan Boston's demands for fresh water began to outstrip its local supplies in the early part of the nineteenth century. Many possible sources of water were explored, including groundwater and rivers, but none were considered adequate in quantity and cleanliness to meet the needs of the rapidly growing city. In 1848, after several years of controversy, the Massachusetts General Court (the official name of the state legislature) authorized the construction of the Cochituate Aqueduct to bring water to Boston from Lake Cochituate in Wayland and Natick.

This established three important policies, which remain in force today:
 * 1) Public, rather than private, ownership of the public water supply system.
 * 2) Use of upland reservoirs, with gravity-fed rather than pumped supply systems.
 * 3) Watershed protection, rather than filtration, as the primary mechanism of ensuring wholesome supplies.

By 1875, with demand again on the verge of exceeding supply, the Boston Water Board was established to take over the operations of the Cochituate Water Board, construct five new reservoirs on the Sudbury River in Framingham, Massachusetts, and a new Sudbury Aqueduct to deliver that water to the city, which was completed in 1878.

Recommendation for establishment and related construction
In 1893, the Massachusetts Board of Health issued a report analyzing population and water-use trends, and recommended the creation of a Metropolitan Water District, serving several suburban communities in addition to Boston, and the construction of two new reservoirs: one on the Nashua River northeast of Worcester, and one in the Swift River Valley.

The General Court acted to establish the Metropolitan Water District, including 26 communities within ten miles (16 km) of the Massachusetts State House, later in 1895. The Wachusett Reservoir was completed in 1908. The Board of Health study had anticipated that Swift River water would be required by 1915, but this prediction had proven overly pessimistic. The introduction of mandatory water metering in Water District communities, and other efforts to reduce waste and inefficient uses, made it possible to delay construction of new water sources until the 1930s.

Frank E. Winsor was chief engineer for the Metropolitan Water District from 1926 until his death in 1939. He was closely involved in the design and construction of Winsor Dam, Goodnough Dike and the Quabbin Reservoir. Winsor Dam is named for him. He had previously been chief engineer for the building of the Scituate Reservoir in Rhode Island.

A 1922 study officially endorsed the Swift River Valley as the next extension of the water system and created the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), now the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority (MWRA), to oversee the construction and maintain the system after its completion. In 1926, the Ware River Act was passed, starting construction on the first stage of the project, a 12-mile long tunnel connecting Wachusett Reservoir with the Ware River. This is called the Ware River Diversion. During the 1930s, this tunnel was extended to the Swift River. The complete tunnel is now known as the Quabbin Aqueduct.

Opposition
Although the project was enthusiastically supported by lawmakers in the Boston area, it was opposed by residents of the affected towns. The state of Connecticut sued Massachusetts, claiming waters that were rightfully meant to flow into the Connecticut River, and subsequently through their state, were being illegally diverted. The lawsuit was unsuccessful, but Massachusetts was still bound by discharge minimums set under the regulatory authority of the Secretary of War over navigable waters. Specifically, the Swift River needed to maintain a 20 million gallon per day flow downriver from the dam.

Reservoir formed
Before the reservoir's construction, there was a hill in Enfield called Quabbin Hill and a lake in Greenwich called Quabbin Lake. These were from the Nipmuc word meaning "place of many waters" or "meeting of many waters", and became the basis for naming the new reservoir. The Quabbin was formed by inundating the Swift River Valley, a drainage basin lying entirely within the state, by damming the river and a col, through which Beaver Brook would have otherwise provided another outlet for its water. When construction on the dam began in the mid-1930s, the Swift River was redirected from its riverbed through a diversion tunnel. On August 14, 1939, that tunnel was sealed with rock. Over the next seven years, the waters of the Quabbin Reservoir slowly rose behind the newly completed Winsor Dam, an earth-filled structure 2640 ft long, rising 170 ft above the riverbed, and the slightly smaller Goodnough Dike. The water gradually submerged the roads that had linked the towns. It swallowed all but the peaks of about 60 hills and mountains, transforming Prescott Ridge into Prescott Peninsula. The Quabbin Reservoir was full, for the first time, in June 1946.

In 1941, the land that would become the Prescott Peninsula became the Quabbin Reservoir Precision Bombing and Gunnery Range. The range was used by Army Air Forces and later US Air Force planes from both Hanscom Army Air Field and Westover Army Air Field from 1941 through 1951. It was also used for practice landings. In the late 2000s the site was surveyed by state authorities and the federal Formerly Used Defense Sites program for potential unexploded ordnance or other contamination in the area.

Towns disincorporated
The Quabbin's creation required the flooding, and thus the disincorporation, in April 1938, of four towns: Dana (located in Worcester County), Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott (all located in Hampshire County). The land remaining from the disincorporated towns was added to surrounding municipalities, including Belchertown, Pelham, New Salem, Petersham, Hardwick and Ware. One additional town on the reservoir is Shutesbury, in Franklin County. Because of New Salem's annexation of the Prescott Peninsula, a large wedge of land shifted from Hampshire County to Franklin County. Today, the majority of the reservoir lies in either New Salem or Petersham.

Of the land used to make the dam, about 60,000 acres were purchased and the rest was seized by eminent domain in 1938. The town of Dana voted to voluntarily give up their land to the project. Around 2,500 residents lost their homes as part of the flooding.

In addition, thirty-six miles of the Boston and Albany Railroad's Athol Branch, the so-called "Rabbit Line", were abandoned (originally the Springfield, Athol and Northeastern Railroad). Route 21, formerly reaching Athol, was truncated to the south side of the reservoir, and new roads—now US 202 and Route 32A—were built, respectively, on the western and eastern side of the reservoir. The designation of Route 109 was removed in 1933 from the road once running from Pittsfield to West Brookfield and leading into Enfield Centre from the southeast; and a different road southwest of Boston received that designation.

The buildings in the towns flooded by the reservoir were removed. Some cellar holes were left intact while others, chiefly in Prescott and below the flow line, were filled in. Old roads that once led to the flooded towns can be followed to the water's edge. Not all elements of the towns were destroyed, however. Town memorials and cemeteries in the four towns were moved to Quabbin Park Cemetery, located on Route 9 in Ware, just off the Quabbin's lands. Many other public buildings were moved intact to other locations. For example, the Prescott First Congregational Church was moved to South Hadley. The North Prescott Methodist Episcopal Church was moved to Orange in 1949, and then to New Salem in 1985 where it forms part of the building complex of the Swift River Valley Historical Society. The former Town Hall of Prescott now sits off of Route 32 in Petersham.

Three student housing facilities at Hampshire College in Amherst are named after the discontinued towns of Greenwich, Prescott, and Enfield. In addition, Hampshire College named another facility on its campus Dana House, after the other discontinued town of Dana.

Four residence halls at the nearby Eagle Hill School are also named for the four towns: Greenwich, Prescott, Dana, and Enfield.

Watershed public access and recreation
To protect the water supply from the threats from unrestricted motorized vehicle use, most areas around the reservoir are publicly accessible only by foot, with limited parking available at some of the surrounding gates.

Large portions of Dana are on higher ground, and its remains, predominantly cellar holes, as well as the former town center (where a historic stone marker was placed) can be visited.

Much of Prescott is above water on what is now known as the Prescott Peninsula. However, Prescott cannot be visited most of the year due to state restrictions, although there is an annual tour of the town conducted by the Swift River Valley Historical Society. A few houses and roads exist which were once part of North Prescott (now New Salem), and there is a town line marker just north of the gates, indicating the former town line for Prescott. Cellar holes have been filled near the center of what was once Prescott to accommodate the former Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory, once operated by the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

There is a visitor center south of the reservoir, as well as an observation tower, and Enfield Lookout. This area—called Quabbin Park—is accessible by car from the south using State Route 9. The Park is a popular spot for hiking and other outdoor activities. This area was formerly part of the town of Enfield, which was annexed by Belchertown

Fishing is allowed in designated areas in the northern portions of the reservoir. Three boat launch areas are available, and to prevent spread of aquatic invasive species private boats must be cleaned before being permitted on the Reservoir. DCR provides a number of rental boats as well. Current Massachusetts state record lake trout (25 lb 7 oz) and walleye (11 lb 0 oz) were caught in the Quabbin.

More complete information regarding access rules and maps of Quabbin can be found on DCR's official public access website.

Natural resources and forest management
This large block of forested land supports a great diversity of wildlife, and has been the focus for the re-establishment of several species in Massachusetts. Bald eagles, loons, moose, deer, coyotes, black bears, foxes, and bobcats share the habitat, among others. A proposed plan to establish a colony of endangered timber rattlesnakes to Mount Zion Island on the Quabbin was suspended indefinitely in 2017 after public opposition.

DWSP's Watershed Forestry page provides general information regarding the application of forest management at Quabbin and other drinking water supply watersheds.

Popular culture

 * H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Colour Out of Space" is set in the valley before it was flooded for the reservoir. His fictional town of Dunwich in "The Dunwich Horror", written in 1928, is partially based on the town of Greenwich (before reservoir plans were made).
 * William Weld's novel Stillwater is set in the valley while the reservoir is under construction.
 * Both the film Dreamcatcher and the Stephen King novel upon which it was based have scenes set at the Quabbin Reservoir.
 * In Jane Langton's mystery novel, Emily Dickinson is Dead, the drowned villages and the reservoir have a dark role to play.
 * Jane Yolen's picture book, Letting Swift River Go, is about the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir from the perspective of a young girl who grew up in the valley.
 * During his 2020 Massachusetts Democratic primary campaign for U.S. Senate, former U.S. Representative Joe Kennedy III accused his rival, Sen. Ed Markey, of ignoring the towns of Dana, Prescott, and Enfield, which were disincorporated more than eighty years earlier.
 * The Puma Blues, a black and white comic book series by Stephen Murphy and Michael Zulli, takes place in an alternate early 21st century and involves a colony of flying manta rays living within the freshwater reservoir.
 * Heather Graham Pozzessere's book Dark Rites, from her Krewe of Hunters series, takes place largely around the reservoir.
 * Derek B. Miller's book How to Find Your Way in the Dark, includes mention of the flooding that eliminated the drowned villages.
 * In the film Mother/Android, the Quabbin Reservoir is mentioned several times as the characters navigate through a post-apocalyptic Massachusetts.
 * Western Massachusetts band Rapture of the Deep released an EP titled "Under Quabbin" in 1986. The album cover features a historical photo of a house in the town of Enfield.  The lyrics of the first track, "Madame Nothing," include references to the creation of the reservoir and individuals who lived in the "drowned towns."

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IRAF

IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility) is a collection of software written at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) geared towards the reduction of astronomical images and spectra in pixel array form. This is primarily data taken from imaging array detectors such as CCDs. It is available for all major operating systems for mainframes and desktop computers. IRAF was designed cross-platform, supporting VMS and UNIX-like operating systems. Use on Microsoft Windows was made possible by Cygwin in earlier versions, and can be today done with the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Today, it is primarily used on macOS and Linux.

IRAF commands (known as tasks) are organized into package structures. Additional packages may be added to IRAF. Packages may contain other packages. There are many packages available by NOAO and external developers often focusing on a particular branch of research or facility.

Functionality available in IRAF includes the calibration of the fluxes and positions of astronomical objects within an image, compensation for sensitivity variations between detector pixels, combination of multiple images or measurement of the redshifts of absorption or emission lines in a spectrum.

While IRAF is still very popular among astronomers, institutional development and maintenance was stopped. IRAF is now maintained as community software.

History
The IRAF project started in fall 1981 at Kitt Peak National Observatory. In 1982, a preliminary design and the first version of the Command Language (CL) were completed. The IRAF Group was founded. Designer of the IRAF system and chief programmer was Doug Tody. In 1983, Space Telescope Science Institute selected IRAF as the environment for their SDAS data analysis system and ported the system to VMS. The first internal IRAF release was in 1984. After a limited distribution of a few outside sites the first public release was 1987.

In the middle of the 1990s, the "Open IRAF" project was started to address the problems that were seen at that time. This included language bindings, a way to use IRAF components without the full IRAF environment, new data types and dynamically loadable user code. This project was never completed.

At the end of the 1990s, the IRAF development slowed down considerably, as the system was considered mature. The user support was transferred to a Web forum in 2005 and new development of the core system was officially decreased to a very low level. However, voluntary work of the IRAF developers continued and they distributed some unofficial intermediary versions.

From 2006 to 2009, a first effort was made to port IRAF to 64 bit at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science Japan. While this effort did not evolve into a new official IRAF version, it contributed significant portions to the 64-bit port by NOAO.

NOAO resumed development efforts in 2007, porting the system to 64 bit and adding Virtual Observatory capabilities to it. This phase ended in 2013 with the release of version 2.16.1.

In 2017, the source code was transferred to GitHub. In an effort to package the IRAF software for Debian, it was cleaned up from the remaining non-free source code and is maintained solely by the community since then. After a few pre-releases, version 2.17 was released in early 2022.

2023, NOIRLab (successor of NOAO) resumed some development and created their own release 2.18 with the scope limited to support the legacy Gemini data reduction pipeline. The relevant changes were later merged into the community release 2.18.

Licensing
The licensing of IRAF generally follows the MIT license scheme. Older versions contained some non-free software. In particular, the NCAR graphics code restricted re-distribution of IRAF before it was removed in version 2.16. Also, old versions used code taken from the Numerical Recipes book under a different license. This code was removed or replaced with Open Source in versions after 2.16.1. This allowed the distribution of IRAF packages in mainstream Linux distributions like Debian or Ubuntu.

System design
Four basic components make up the run-time IRAF system:

Only the HSI is system dependent. All other components are portable by the use of the functions provided by the HSI. This way, porting to a new system requires only changes in this component. However, the initial design was implicitly based on the universal use of 32-bit data types and therefore the port to 64 bit required major efforts not only in the HSI but in all components of the system.
 * The Applications Packages are a structured collection of portable tasks for scientific data reduction and analysis, but also for system utilities.
 * The Command Language (CL) is the default interactive user interface and is also used as scripting language for tasks in the application packages.
 * The Virtual Operation System (VOS) provides a portable interface for the application tasks. It is modeled after the Unix system functions, but with an API for the IRAF specific Subset Preprocessor language (SPP).
 * The Host System Interface (HSI) is the kernel providing an interface between the host system and the functions of the VOS. It also provides tools necessary for bootstrapping the system from source. The SPP compiler is also part of the HSI.

Application packages
Application Packages are recursively structured in subpackages and tasks. They can be divided into two classes: general system and basic dataprocessing utilities, and packages specific to astronomical data reduction and analysis. The tasks are dominantly written in SPP and CL.

System packages
The system packages are located in the base package of IRAF and provide tools for the CL, useful operating system utilities, and basic scientific utilities, f.e. for image processing:

 * dataio: Data format conversion (FITS, IRAF image format etc.)
 * images: General bitmap image processing and display
 * lists: List processing
 * plot: Vector graphics plotting utilities
 * softools: Software development and system maintenance tools
 * system: System utilities
 * utilities: Miscellaneous utilities, including nttools to handle tables.

Optical astronomy packages
The noao packages are used for the analysis of optical astronomy data. Most of these tasks are general, but the imred package also contains data reduction tasks for specific instruments. Some of the important packages are:

 * imred: Image reductions package, containing both general tasks for astronomical data reduction and for specific KPNO instruments
 * artdata: Artificial data generation package. May generate artificial catalogs, 2D and 2D spectra, create images from artificial stars, galaxies, noise and cosmic rays etc. for testing purposes.
 * astrometry: Astrometry package to obtain astrometric coordinates for objects in stellar fields
 * digiphot: Digital stellar photometry package
 * onedspec: One dimensional spectral data reduction and analysis package. One important task in this package is splot, a graphical tool for the analysis of spectra.
 * twodspec: Two dimensional spectral reduction and analysis package, the same operations for two-dimensional spectra (longslit, multispec)
 * surfphot: Galaxy isophotal analysis package
 * astcat: Astronomical catalog and surveys access package

External packages
One strength of IRAF was the existence of various external packages, which resolved specific problems or implemented specialized data reduction pipelines. Among the packages are

 * fitsutil: Utilities for single and multiple extension FITS files
 * sptable: IRAF package for tabular spectra
 * ctio: Tools for the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
 * stsdas: Software system from Space Telescope Science Institute for calibrating and analyzing data from the Hubble Space Telescope. The support of selected tasks from the stsdas package is continued in the st4gem package. The original tables package from STSci is now included as utilities.nttables in the system packages.
 * stecf: IRAF tasks developed at the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility
 * rvsao: Radial Velocity Package by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
 * wcstools: Image World Coordinate System Utilities by Jessica Mink
 * aXe: Spectral Extraction and Visualization software
 * gemini: Data reduction pipeline for the Gemini Observatory

Many of these packages are however not maintained anymore. Porting to 64 bit also required significant effort and not all external packages were ported and therefore only usable in a 32-bit environment.

User-defined tasks
IRAF allows users to write their own tasks in two main ways. One is by writing non-compiled procedure (Command Language, CL) scripts. The second is through compiled subset pre-processor (SPP) programs. Tutorial documents exist for both methods.

Command language
The Command Language (CL), serves as a command and runtime supportive interface between the user at his computer terminal and the application programs he is executing. The user types his commands to the CL and it does whatever task and file manipulations are necessary to carry out the commands. In later versions, the original CL was extended to ECL, which has an editable command line as its main advantage. A version that enabled direct access to the Virtual Observatory (VOCL) was developed too.

The CL primarily serves as a shell and organizes the work with the system and the applications. There are three types of tasks the CL can execute: native tasks, which are part of compiled IRAF executables, scripts (CL tasks which are tasks written in CL), and foreign tasks, external programs or scripts that are executed by the CL. For each task, a parameter file may exist. It contains a description of each of the parameters used by the task that should be known and managed by the CL.

Here is a simple Hello World script in CL: CL scripts have usually the suffix, which may cause conflicts with Common Lisp code files.

Subset preprocessor language
The subset preprocessor language (SPP) implements a subset of the IRAF preprocessor language that was planned in the early days of IRAF. The SPP language is based on the Ratfor language. The lexical form, operators, and control flow constructs are identical to those provided by Ratfor. The major differences are the data types, the form of a procedure, the addition of inline strings and character constants, the use of square brackets for arrays, and the task statement. The i/o facilities provided are quite different.

The xc program, provided with IRAF, translates SPP programs into Fortran 66, and from there with f2c into C code.

The preprocessor is complemented with mkpkg, a make like build automation tool, generic, a tool to translate generic types into type dependent source code, and xyacc, a modified yacc to produce SPP output.

Here is a simple Hello World program in SPP: SPP programs have usually the suffix, those which need to be preprocessed with the generic tool have.

Supplementary software
A full IRAF working environment usually requires two other applications: an extended xterm window with a graphics windows (called xgterm and distributed in a separate x11iraf package) and an image display program referred to as an "image server". The two most popular image servers are SAOImageDS9 (by SAO) and ximtool (NOAO, also distributed in the x11iraf package).

As an alternative of xgterm and the Command Language, the Python package PyRAF can be used. PyRAF is able to translate CL scripts into Python scripts. It also provides a graphics window (based on Tk or on Matplotlib). As command shell, either the Python or IPython command shell can be used, or a special mode resembling much of the look and feel of the CL command shell.

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J. R. Clynes

John Robert Clynes (27 March 1869 – 23 October 1949) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 35 years, and as Leader of the Labour Party (1921–1922), led the party in its breakthrough at the 1922 general election.

He was the first Englishman to serve as leader of the Labour Party.

Early life
The son of an Irish labourer named Patrick Clynes, he was born in Oldham, Lancashire, and began working in a local cotton mill when he was ten years old. Aged sixteen, he wrote a series of articles about child labour in the textile industry, and the following year he helped form the Piercers' Union. He was mainly self-educated, although he went to night school after his day's work in the mill. His first book was a dictionary and then, by careful saving of coppers, he bought a Bible, William Shakespeare's plays, and Francis Bacon's essays. Later in life, he would amaze colleagues in meetings and in parliamentary debates by quoting verbatim from the Bible, Shakespeare, John Milton and John Ruskin. He married Mary Elizabeth Harper, a mill worker, in 1893.

Trade union and political involvement
In 1892, Clynes became an organiser for the Lancashire Gasworkers' Union and came in contact with the Fabian Society. Having joined the Independent Labour Party, he attended the 1900 conference where the Labour Representation Committee was formed; this committee soon afterwards became the Labour Party.

Clynes stood for the new party in the 1906 general election and was elected to Parliament for Manchester North East, becoming one of Labour's bright stars. In 1910, he became the party's deputy chairman.

Parliamentary career
During the First World War, Clynes was a supporter of British military involvement (in which he differed from Ramsay MacDonald), and, in 1917, became Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Food Control in the Lloyd George coalition government. The next year, he was appointed Minister of Food Control and, at the 1918 general election, he was returned to Parliament for the Manchester Platting constituency.

In August 1917, three months before the Balfour Declaration, the Labour Party issued a statement in support of a Jewish state in Palestine. Clynes spoke in favor of a Jewish state.

Clynes became leader of the party in 1921 and led it through its major breakthrough in the 1922 general election. Before that election, Labour only had fifty-two seats in Parliament but, as a result of the election, Labour's total number of seats rose to 142. He was held in considerable respect and affection in the Labour Party and, although lacking the charisma of MacDonald, was a wily operator who believed all resources available should be used to advance the material of the working classes.

MacDonald had resigned as Labour leader in 1914, due to his wartime pacifism, and at the 1918 general election, he lost his seat. He did not return to the House of Commons for another four years. By that stage, MacDonald's pacifism had been forgiven. When the occupant of the Labour leadership had to be decided on through a vote of Labour parliamentarians, MacDonald narrowly defeated Clynes. Clynes was a critic of government policy towards the Irish population in the years after 1918, and attacked 'a recurring system of coercion' which had left Ireland "more angry and embittered . . . than ever'

Governmental office
When MacDonald became Prime Minister he made Clynes the party's leader in the Commons until the government was defeated in 1924. During the second MacDonald government of 1929–1931, Clynes served as Home Secretary. In that role, Clynes gained literary prominence when he explained in the Commons his refusal to grant a visa to the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, then living in exile in Turkey, who had been invited by the Independent Labour Party to give a lecture in Britain. Clynes had then been immortalised by the scathing criticism of his concept of the right to asylum, voiced by Trotsky in the last chapter of his autobiography My Life, entitled "The planet without visa".

In 1931, Clynes sided with Arthur Henderson and George Lansbury, against MacDonald's support for austerity measures to deal with the Great Depression. Clynes split with MacDonald when the latter left Labour to form a National Government. In the 1931 election, Clynes was one of the casualties, losing his Manchester Platting seat. Nevertheless, he regained this constituency in 1935, and then remained in the House of Commons until his retirement ten years later, at the 1945 general election.

Retirement and death
After retiring, Clynes was living in very straitened circumstances, with no other income than trade union pension of £6 per week. This pension debarred him from the Commons Ex-Members Fund. Doctors' and nursing fees in respect of his invalid wife had hit him heavily. MPs opened a fund to help and raised about £1,000. Thus, after a lifetime spent in advancing the material conditions of the people, he died in relative poverty in October 1949. His wife died a month later.

Honours

 * He was sworn in as a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1918, giving him the honorific title "The Right Honourable" for life.
 * He was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Oldham on 9 January 1946.
 * He received the Honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) from the University of Durham and the University of Oxford.
 * John Clynes Court, a social housing development in Putney, south west London, is named after him.

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David A. Dodge

David Allison Dodge (born June 8, 1943) is a Canadian economist. He served as Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2001 to 2008.

Early life
Dodge was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1943. He attended Ridley College, a private boarding school in St. Catharines (and second alumnus to become Bank Governor), and graduated from Queen's University with an honours degree in economics. He received his Ph.D in economics from Princeton University in 1972 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "The structure of earnings of Canadian accountants, engineers and scientists and the implications for returns to investment in university education."

Career
He was Assistant Professor of Economics at Queen's University, Associate Professor of Canadian Studies and International Economics at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Senior Fellow in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of British Columbia, and visiting professor in the Department of Economics at Simon Fraser University. He has also served as Director of the International Economics Program of the Institute for Research on Public Policy.

Canadian Politics
Dodge served in the senior ranks of the Canadian federal government from 1992 to January 2001—one month before his appointment as Governor of the Bank of Canada.

Deputy Minister of Finance
He was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance in 1992. In the 1996 book Double Vision, Edward Greenspon and Anthony Wilson-Smith describe in detail the role which Dodge played in reviving Canada's economy by working closely with Finance Minister Paul Martin to eliminate the federal budget's deficit spending.

Deputy Minister of Health
In 1998, Dodge was appointed the Deputy Minister of Health. While Deputy, Dodge's role in founding the Winnipeg National Microbiology Laboratory was commended as critically important by laboratory director-general Frank Plummer.

Bank of Canada
In 2001, Dodge was appointed the Governor of the Bank of Canada. His appointment was controversial as the Bank of Canada traditionally promotes from within, helping to avoid the perception of politicizing of the central bank. During Dodge's term, annual inflation stayed close to the Bank of Canada's target of 2 percent, and the Canadian economy avoided any recessions. In 2008, Dodge retired from the Bank of Canada, and was replaced by Mark Carney.

Following his exit from the Bank, Dodge joined the Canadian law firm Bennett Jones as a senior advisor.

Chancellor of Queen's University
Dodge was elected as the 13th chancellor of Queen's University on May 2, 2008, succeeding A. Charles Baillie. The appointment was effective July 1, 2008, though Dodge was only officially installed later that year, on October 30. As his first three-year term drew to a close, Dodge's re-appointment was unanimously endorsed by the Queen's University Council, and Dodge served until his retirement at the end of his second-term on June 30, 2014. He was subsequently appointed chancellor emeritus by the University Council, an honorary title he still holds today.

Dodge was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in October, 2009.

He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2007.

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Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
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 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Featured Picture Candidates
Hi Boarder,

Sorry to oppose your [Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mackerel sky over Orlando, FL|recent nominate]] on WP:FPC. On the other hand, I felt that your photo was heading in the right direction, in that it wasn't an obvious shot and definately illustrated the subject. So if you had any other pictures that you were pleased with, they could be useful on the right page. -- Solipsist 01:29, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Bobber2 and Ed, Edd n Eddy
Howdy, You seem to have put a lot of excellent work into this article, so I figured I'd bring this up with you. As I'm sure you've noticed, Bobber2 has been creating some highly questionable episode articles. I stumbled on this by a notice on the Cleanup page. I've left a comment on the articles Talk page mentioning this, but the guy keeps erasing the comment. Serious violation of Wikiquette. I've left notice of this on his talk page, too, but I'm starting to doubt that he reads it. Maybe you could contact him and kind of take him in hand and help him improve his work. He doesn't seem to take me seriously. Thanks Soundguy99 17:23, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your compliment. I've also tried to talk to Bobber2 at his talk page.  I guess he doesn't read it, so I've sent him an email that includes links to Manual of Style, Policies and Guidelines, Neutral point of view, Civility, and What Wikipedia is not.  Hopefully he'll read the email and the issue can be resolved.—Quickbreak 20:55, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Our pal Bobber2 is at it again; check out Eddy (Ed, Edd n Eddy). WTF is that ??? Also look at his user page. Has he replied to your email? Soundguy99 00:59, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Wow. That's just whacked.  And, no, Bobber2 hasn't replied to my email, unfortunately.—Quickbreak 14:18, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * well, one of Bobber2's articles just got put up on VfD by the administrator RickK. (The article is George Clooney (movie character) which appears to be connected with Team America: World Police which seems to be one of Bobber2's other obsessions.)  I shot RickK a comment about Bobber2 on his talk page.  Maybe you should do the same so he knows there's more than one person who's noticed a problem.  Soundguy99 02:51, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I'll leave a message on his talk page sometime today. Unfortunately, I'm kinda busy today....—Quickbreak 13:45, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

See what Bobber2 did to George Clooney (movie character). He moved it and deleted the VfD header without discussion. RickK 23:08, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

Yah, I noticed the Bobber1 thing a couple of days ago. Somewhere on the Administrators' noticeboard RickK posted something about Bobber2 and I added a heads-up about the name change to that post. We'll see how this develops. . . . Soundguy99 04:04, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

more BobberFun
Ok, I'm starting to lose my patience here. . . Earlier today I put another "shape up" message onto User talk:Bobber1. (I mean, more politely, of course.) His count of bizarre and useless edits keeps rising, and he's also operated as User:63.147.240.11. Other administrators besides RickK have begun to notice this. See Avast Ye Eds. If I don't see a meaningful response by Sunday night, I'm gonna post something on Village pump (miscellaneous) and see if we can collect other editors who've found him a problem to participate in trying to clue him in. If I don't see a significant change a few days after that, I'm gonna start up a Request for Comment and start the official wheels in motion to either get this guy to straighten out or go somewhere else. I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd keep any eye out for this, as apparently an RFC requires at least two editors to have the same problem with one user. (The ironic thing here is that almost all of his edits are to stuff (including Ed, Edd n Eddy) that I really know nothing about and don't have much intereest in. So the guy could be useful if he'd just learn how to edit properly.  I guess willful ignorance just rubs me the wrong way.)  I'll keep you posted. Thanks, Soundguy99 21:40, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry for never responding. My PC got TROJAN'd (::looks around::  Yes, it's running Windows) last Monday.—Quickbreak 18:30, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Urk. Hope everything's OK for you. Bobber update: User:Mjb discovered goofy edits done thru 63.147.240.11 and 63.147.240.12, went investigating. He thinks those IPs are proxies for a Texas school district, and Bobber or Bobber-style edits have dropped off considerably over the last few days. So hopefully the kid doesn't have much access to a computer over the summer, and maybe he'll lose interest in Wikipedia by the time he gets back to the school computers. If you see any further activity, let me know and I'll try to help clean it up. I'm not gonna pursue any public or formal notices until or unless the massive bad editing starts up again. Thanks. Soundguy99 16:52, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Well, at least he's putting the Hitchhiker silliness in Talk space and not directly in the article. . . . . . although I think he did try to put some "Hitchhiker translation" in some other article and got shot down pretty quick. That's what I think he's doing - rewriting the article in some imaginary language from "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy." I've got his various User pages on my "Watch" list and every couple of days I spot-check some of his edits to see what he's up to. He's actually not quite as obnoxious as he used to be (maybe I scared him) and he has slowed down some, so I guess I've regained my patience. But if you see anything else especially weird, or he starts making horrible edits like mad to "E,E&E" or anywhere else you see, definitely let me know. As far as I'm concerned, he's on parole, and another fit of bad behavior and I will RFC him. In my posts above, I didn't mean you should stop posting to me about Bobber1/2, I just meant that I can't necessarily do much to clean up after him, unless he fucks up really obviously. If he added "Eddy walks around with his finger up his nose all day" I wouldn't have the slightest idea if it was true or not. But no need to stop posting Bobberstuff on my talk page. Soundguy99 05:22, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

As far as other Bobber-favorites go, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (movie) is another favorite, and several anime shows on Cartoon Network. Just click "User contributions" in the box on the left when you're at his various User pages and you can see what he's been up to. Speaking of which, I think I'll go check right now. . . . . Soundguy99 11:10, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Your edit summaries
A reminder when reverting the Ed, Edd n Eddy articles: Please by civil and always explain your reverts Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:45, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I know I haven't been exactly quiet in the summaries. Bobber's been doing this forever, though, and it's really getting on my nerves.  He doesn't respond to emails or comments on talk pages.  But, yeah, I'll take off the CAPS LOCK.—Quickbreak 17:39, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

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Fair use rationale for Image:AudioAdrenalineLift.jpg
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Fair use rationale for Image:AudioAdrenalineLiveBootleg.jpg
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Fair use rationale for Image:AudioAdrenalineSomeKindofZombie.jpg
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Fair use rationale for Image:AudioAdrenalineUnderdog.jpg
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Fair use rationale for Image:AudioAdrenalineWorldwide.jpg
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Redirect of Ramahanukwanzmas
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Orphaned non-free media (File:My Way logo.png)
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Fair use rationale for File:SimCity main menu.png
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Fair use rationale for File:EB Games logo.png
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Nomination of Saturday Rock Action for deletion
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File source problem with File:PC-BSD logo.png
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File:PC-BSD logo.png missing description details
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Nomination of 2000 A.D.D. for deletion
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Proposed deletion of Back in the Shootin' Match

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Proposed deletion of Don't Stop a Rockin'

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ArbCom elections are now open!
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For the Ed, By the Ed listed at Redirects for discussion
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