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Vern Riffe

Vernal G. Riffe Jr. (June 26, 1925 – July 31, 1997) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. Riffe served Ohio House of Representatives for 36 years and was the longest serving speaker of that institution, holding it for 20 years.

Life and political career
Riffe was a moderate Democrat, and a strong Speaker, even bringing Republican members of the House under his sway by threatening to fund the campaigns of their Democratic opponents for re-election.

Riffe, who hailed from the impoverished Appalachian Region of southeastern Ohio, fought hard to bring money for development to his corner of the state. His efforts resulted in the creation of Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, sometimes referred to as "Vern Riffe U." He also brought funding to southern Ohio for the building of a major highway, State Route 32, disparaged as the "Highway to Nowhere," which starts in the countryside near Athens, Ohio, in the east and winds its way westward across Southern Ohio, finally ending in rural Clermont County east of Cincinnati. At the time of its construction it traversed no major population centers, stopping short of both Cincinnati and Athens. Today, it is referred to as the Appalachian Highway or the James A. Rhodes Appalachian Highway.

Riffe was honored by several state agencies in Ohio. The Vernal Riffe Chair, a professorship in government at Ohio State University was named after him. Ohio State's Biological Sciences and Pharmacy Library is housed in the Vernal G. Riffe Building. The Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts, located across High Street from the Ohio Statehouse in Downtown Columbus, provides office space for the Governor of Ohio, members of the Ohio House of Representatives and many state agencies. The Vern Riffe Center for the Arts in Portsmouth is located at Shawnee State University.

Riffe served as a member of the Ohio House for 36 years, from 1959 to 1995 and served as speaker from 1975 until 1994. Because of his power to raise funds, Riffe's departure from the political scene was a major financial blow to the Ohio Democratic Party.

Riffe's wife, Thelma L Riffe, is also deceased (August 4, 2010). Both are buried at Memorial Burial Park in Wheelersburg, Ohio.

Buildings named after
The Vern Riffe Center for the Arts is located on the Campus of Shawnee State; the Vern Riffe School located in Portsmouth, Ohio, and Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts is located in Columbus, Ohio.

Autobiography
An autobiographical book, Whatever's Fair, co-written by Cliff Treyens, a former Columbus Dispatch writer, was published in the spring of 2007 and celebrated the life and career of Riffe. A gathering of family, friends, and former political colleagues was held the day before Riffe's birthday at the Portsmouth Welcome Center to introduce the book.

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Isn't the 2nd paragraph (Some have called... extremely subjective ? 82.41.76.204 19:59, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The entire article is "extremely subjective". No one who knows anything about the history of the cinema would take it seriously.

OK, so this article says that Sex, lies, and videotape "almost ruined the careers of the stars that participated in it", and the article for that film says it "boosted the careers of Soderbergh and the four major cast members." One or both of these statements is wrong or POV. Tverbeek 14:03, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Partial list of films showing nude or underwear scenes
The partial list of films showing nude or underwear scenes does not belong here. Eroticism and nudity aren't the same thing.

In response to User:AntonioMartin's edit summary "put list back; a list is good because it can help parents choose which films to let their children watch or not": The list is (and always will be) woefully incomplete. This article is not the place for it anyway; if someone wants to know about the content of a film before their kids see it, and they are looking around Wikipedia for it, their first thought will not be to look for the article "Eroticism in film." If parents want to know if films are appropriate for their children or not, there are much better online sources, like Screen It, among others.

If anyone insists that this list should stay in Wikipedia, it should be split off into its own article. Tregoweth 15:46, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)

Tregoweth: Do you know what an encyclopedia is? It is an information way. That's why the list should be included in the article, which, by the way, is precisely about that. It IS a good way to maintain parents informed more or less of what is recommendable or not for children to watch. I have a six year old girl in my house and I appreciate any place where such a list is posted.

I want to kindly ask you that next time you have something to tell me, please post it at my talk page.

Thank you and God bless you.

Sincerely yours, "Antonio Max Martin"

The title of this article is "eroticism in film", not "films with erotic content" (and certainly not "films containing nudity"). That means its focus should be the eroticism, not the specific films. The only reasonable purpose of a list of films in an article of this sort is to provide examples to illustrate the content of the article. The fact that the person who started it labeled it a "partial list" suggests that he may have been thinking of it that way. Unfortunately the list is very haphazard, with little consistency in terms of which films are included or not, and in most cases little or no explanation of why. I think no list is better than a bad list, especially if people are going to try to use it as some kind of guide for parents, for which it's woefully inadequate and probably misleading.

If I were writing an article about, say, TV shows about police officers, I might list a bunch of noteworthy examples... but I wouldn't try to create a list of all shows that law enforcement officers appear in, so that it could be used by people who wanted to avoid seeing cops on TV. That would miss the point of the article. I also think it'd be doomed to failure (for that purpose). But if someone wants to create a list of that sort, they should go ahead and create list of TV Shows with Police Officers or list of Movies with Nude or Underwear Scenes, which would at least be objective, and wouldn't confuse "eroticism in film" with "nudity or underwear in film". Meanwhile, this article should focus on describing how eroticism is handled in cinema, citing examples only to the extent that they support the points made in the article. Tverbeek 23:39, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Is this article for real? V V 13:19, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Sigh. Is it encyclopedic? Is is a credit to Wikipedia? The article perhaps is if it is done NPOV characterizing the subject fairly including the important POV that the subject is a problem. That is to say, "eroticism in films is a problem." See WP:NPOV if in doubt. I doubt the list of films is important. Is is bound to be way too long, and it is questionable why a "partial" list is chosen. The idea of "maintain parents informed more or less of what is recommendable or not for children to watch" doesn't work if the list isn't complete. Parents should use other sources, like Focus on the Family's Plugged In or (gasp) the ratings system. In my family if it isn't ancient or rated G, it is suspect. Tom - Talk 17:20, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I think the list is worthless. It has only a tangential connection to the topic, in that eroticism may (or may not) involve nudity and nudity may (or may not) be erotic. And I can't discern any criteria regarding why certain movies were listed on there, other than those may just be the only films that the author had seen. Finally, I don't think it is at all a valid goal for wikipedia to try and construct a list that would "warn" parents of "inappropriate content," because the values involved are inherently POV and we simply don't have the responsibility to try and provide that service for parents. I think that the article (which is pretty lousy right now) should properly discuss the reaction of certain elements in society to eroticism in film, through criticism, censorship, boycotts, etc., but should not provide a guide of what films some parents may not want their children to see (because remember, breasts cause blindness). The day that wikipedia starts pandering to social conservatives based on some clumsy notion of "protecting" children is the day that I stop contributing. Postdlf 22:12, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

"(a couple of panty scenes)" Mmm-hmm. That's encyclopædic, baby! —[[User:MikeX|MikeX (Talk)]] 15:50, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Very interesting articles. I say make another list for partial nudity. As well as 'eroticism' is highly vague, it should perhaps be called nudity, and another list for sexuality/'eroticism' with some films being in multiple categories. --ShaunMacPherson 02:16, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The list should go. Instead (if you really want something like this), make 'films with nudity' and 'films people in visible underwear' categories (though I doubt there'll be consensus for having that last category. But you can try). --fvw 01:37, 2004 Oct 15 (UTC)
 * Ick. I don't think we should have categories of either.  List article of the nudity films, maybe.  But categories?  Nope.  Postdlf 02:11, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree. Tom - Talk 02:50, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Feminism
"Many erotically charged films have been produced in the Philippines, much to the chagrin of feminists in that country."

"Many feminists view eroticism and/or sex in film as exploitive of women, because women are usually the ones that are shown erotically or as targets of erotic desire. This is similar to feminist critiques of western art throughout history—that it treats women as mere subjects of a male gaze. This is not a universal view, however; see sex-positive feminism."

Does this mean that a feminist either denounces all erotic/sexual content or discards the thought of "the male gaze"? This assumption seems problematic to me. The quotation on the subject on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_feminism is from 20 years ago and I'm doubtful that it's representative to all strains of feminism, not to mention all feminists, anyway.

Cinematoraphy and acting
Wouldn't this article be more relelvant and encyclopaedic if it included discussion of techniques used and challenges in acting, setting and filming sex scenes? Unfortunately I'm neither an actor or a film-maker so I can't provide any real input to this article, but I found it quite light and un-interesting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.230.207.167 (talk) 08:10, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Mention of India
I don't get why there has to be a special mention about Indian movies. They don't have any sex, even remotely. Period. This article is not about attitudes of sex in films. I am removing it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.75.201.5 (talk) 09:53, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Scream Reference (Sidney Prescott)
I am pretty certain that Sidney didn't have sex with Billy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.36.214.99 (talk) 16:20, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

TV section way outdated
It would appear the TV section relates to the state of television prior to about the year 2002. Anyone who has watched ABC, HBO, Netflix, etc. in recent years - and also soap operas - will know that the expression of sexuality has become more frequent and explicit in recent years, even in televised programming supposedly aimed at younger viewers and on mainstream television. Definitely needs an overhaul and updating. 68.146.52.234 (talk) 00:23, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

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When the Hebrew name is ascertained, this can be looked up in the Jewish Encyclopedia. Wetman 20:00, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I assume you mean this... Tomer TALK  14:46, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Merge?
I created an overview article at Jewish bereavement (horrible title, I know, see that page's Talk). Since this article isn't so long, and a bit is already repeated, it might do well to be merged.

— < T A L K JNDRLINE T A L K >     22:32, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Good idea. I don't think this article can get much longer and the other article seems like a fuller overview of the topic. Just leave the re-direct. --YUL89YYZ 23:04, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

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Baileyville

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Bainville

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User:Ghitis

Jacob Ghitis, M.D. Born in 1928 in Colombia, living in Israel. Professor of Medicine, retired. Scientist, discoverer of the Folate Binding Protein, which is required for the entrance of folic acid to cells. Main intellectual interests: Education, Theoretical Physics and Modern Philosophy.

Su sobrino, llamado Derek Wieland Ghitis, vive en una pequeña y penosa casa encima de un árbol. Vive ahí por su gran admiración por los arboles. A partir de este curioso personaje se han creado numerosos cuentos. El más conocido es muy conocido entre los chilenos y los grandes admiradores de arboles. La leyenda del Ghitis. La leyenda cuenta que los árboles lo criaron desde hace más de 3000 años. El Ghitis, como también llamado actualmente como Campanita (Tinkerbell) por su gran similitud a la conocida hada de dibujos animados, ahora tiene increíbles pero ciertos dones como tener la habilidad de comunicarse a los árboles y plantas, hacer que las plantes actúen cuando el lo desee, y hasta tener relaciones sexuales con ellas. Pero lamentablemente el Ghitis se volvió un enfermo sexual con las plantas Y los arboles lo tuvieron que rechazar y botrlo del bosque de las hadas. El Ghitis, no teniendo nada más que hacer, se dedicó a jugar con la consola PS3 (siempre jugando juegos sobre plantas). Ahora, pasó de ser un hombre árbol sediento de sexo, a un enfermo mental y vicio de los juegos. Su madre, Karina, trata a diario parar su vicio, pero no puede caminar como las demás personas, debido a una enfermedad conocida como culastripofósis, que consiste en un constante agrandamiento de nalgas y impedimento de hacer las necesiades defecarias. Luego de esto EL GHITIS, paso un momento de debilidad mental y llego al punto de tratar de cometer suicidio con una galleta de soda, intentando cortarse las venas de la parte inferior de la muñeca. También, trato de suicidarse drogandose con psatillas de Panadol, lo que ocasiono daños irreparables en su cerebro. A pesar de su defecto físico y mental el Dr. Ghitis logro cosnegir pareja y a la edad de 20 se caso con Maria Fe Aguayo y su matrimonio fue consagrado por el nombre de Mafitis. Después de 32 años de matrimonio feliz, el Ghitis empezó a tener relaciones sexuales, no con su pareja Mafitis, sino con la menor de edad, Carolina Pow-Sang.

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Talk:Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms

Definition
Why are we defining 'jobs' to mean only nonfarm payrolls instead of total employment (i.e., all jobs)? Tim Shell

Something isn't right here. I think the jobs data has some unit problems. Example: FDR's "start jobs" number is 34,480 and the footnote to this column says "in millions." This seems unlikely. Perhaps the start and end jobs columns are measured in thousands? alodyne

The Department of Labor website has stats going back to 1939. Where were the job stats prior to 1939 cited from.

The statement by the author regarding the section - Controversial Bush Tax Cuts by numbers - doesn't make sense. The author states: From December 2002 with 133952 thousand jobs to December 2007 with 146211 thousand jobs there was one of the biggest growth of jobs in US history. In 5 years there was 12,3 mil jobs "created".

However, the chart clearly shows that only 6.1 million jobs were created during Bush's entire administration. I don't know if the author's statement is correct or if the chart is correct but one of them is obviously wrong. According to the chart, more total jobs were created during Carter's FOUR years (10.3 M) than the 6.1 M during Bush's EIGHT years. 03:05, 4 December 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdug (talk • contribs)

 * There's no citation anyway, and the math doesn't even add up. 146211 - 133952 does not = 123000 no matter how many decibal places each number has. The grammar and punctuation are both pretty sad too. I think it should be treated as vandalism or perhaps a meddling 6 year old. 98.236.191.219 (talk) 16:42, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

RE: This tells all. "...meddling 6 year old..." Funny. You are probably 6 year old, because 7 year old would know how to subtract two numbers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.16.253.154 (talk) 17:39, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

In the first chart, "Total Jobs added (millions)" divided by "Months in Office" multiplied by 1,000 = "Jobs added per month (avg. in thousands)". The math works for Carter, Reagan, G. H. W. Bush. Clinton, and G. W. Bush. It does not work for Obama and Trump. For Obama, the chart says 130, the calculation is 120. For Trump, the chart says -67, the calculation is -61. This needs to be fixed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bpvogel1969 (talk • contribs) 03:30, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
 * for the purposes of jobs calculations, each new president starts in Feb, not Jan, because the Jan BLS surveys are completed while the outgoing president is still in office. Trump was in office 48 months, not 47, and his average was -56, while Obama's was +121. I will fix those. soibangla (talk) 03:53, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

NPOV Section - "2001 and 2003 Tax Cuts by the numbers"
Note: The author changed the title of this section from it's previous title of "The Controversial Bush Tax Cuts", but has failed to address (and shows no inclination of doing so) the fundamental points of the NPOV challenge as outlined below. Therefore, I believe it's reasonable to keep the NPOV challenge in place. The author who added this section clearly cherry-picked a range of dates to state a maximum number of jobs were created - conveniently ending in the year 2007, before a 3 Million job loss in 2008. The bias seems obvious and apparent to me.

The main title of this page implies a granularity of "Presidential Term", therefore I believe it is inconsistent to be stating ANY conclusions on this page that don't conform with that granularity, i.e. ending a computation in 2007. That of course would make the statement in this section redundant as the jobs creation during the G.W. Bush years are already covered in the section above. Therefore, this section serves as nothing but political commentary and should be removed in my opinion.

The author's only defense to selecting a subset of years rather than address job creation during the *entire* time frame the tax cuts have been in effect or even during the *complete* G.W. Bush term, is their assertion that effects of tax cuts "expire" after 5 years. The author once again provides no authoritative cite for this claim. Such an arbitrary claim also seems to run contradictory to the statutory time frame of the tax cuts themselves, as the tax cuts were authorized for a much longer period than 5 years - and indeed an on going effort is being made to make them *permanent*. Clearly, the author's assertion that the effects of these tax cuts "ran out" in 2007 is not consistent with the views of those in Congress who enacted them, nor the ones who are lobbying for their permanence.

Furthermore, if the subject is the "Bush Tax Cuts", it belongs on it's own page where the author can provide authoritative and non-controversial references that establish a definite linkage between tax cuts and employment, and the topic can be expanded fully and appropriately with a neutral point of view.

The author acknowledges that this subject is controversial in the very title that they selected, THAT alone should raise serious doubt as to whether it belongs on Wikipedia at all. Even if it should be deemed acceptable, it certainly deserves a more thorough treatment than an author selecting a narrow subset of dates and then declaring broad politically based conclusions from that.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Davinci56 (talk • contribs) 08:15, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

 * Section deleted as per the arguments here and below. Brendtron5000 (talk) 02:35, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

NPOV Section - "The Controversial Bush Tax Cuts" REPLY
What is biased? Math does not make any sense? "BUSH tax cuts" were actually enacted in 2001 and 2003. SO starting to calculate its effect from Dec 2002 is not biased. It can be discussed if more fair would be Jun 2002 or Jun 2003, but the impact would not be significant. And measuring its impact for 5 years is cherry-picking? Why? After 5 years any effect of tax change will disappear. Actually measuring it over the longer period is biased. In 5 years there were so many changes in tax laws around the world (e.g. in EU with tax changes from progressive rates up to 39% to 15% flat tax in many countries), that it is surprising, that the effects of such "tax cuts" did not run out of steam sooner. Explanation of the math for people who have trouble with math: Jobs Dec 2007-Jobs Dec 2002 = "Jobs Created" so 146211000-133952000=12259000 which is above mentioned 12,3 mil jobs. Everybody talks about this subject without the actual knowledge. So I do not think, that this section explaining with numbers heavily discussed subject does not belong to this article. It can be erased in 10 years, when such subject connected with "jobs creation" is no longer hot. I do understand, that some people hate numbers if they are not saying what their own political agenda broadcasts. Numbers are very rarely biased! AND i am not concluding anything, just stating the facts. People who are stating that facts are biased do not know what they are talking about.

But you are right about one thing, there is nothing controversial about the tax cuts. Some people call them "controversial Bush..." or even "tax cuts for the rich" etc. It is just bogus. We do not call tax cuts made by Kennedy "controversial Kennedy tax cuts" nor other presidents. Nor are the tax cuts from after 9/11 tax cuts for rich. BTW the tax rate for the rich was reduced less than for the poor, so if somebody would like to call it a name, more factually correct would be "the tax cuts for the poor". Interesting eh?

One more thing, if we are talking controversial, than really controversial is measuring "jobs created" because it does not include people who start their own small business and are not "employed" any more. I hope that the conclusion, that lower tax rates promote new business is quite clear even to the crazy spinners. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.16.253.154 (talk) 18:01, 5 December 2010 (UTC) --108.16.253.154 (talk) 01:24, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Don't know if the starting numbers are accurate but the arithmetic is OK. 146,211,000 - 133,952,000 = 12,259,000, rounds to 12.3 million. A 12.3 million increase over a five year period is compatible with a 6.1 million increase over 8 years IF there was a total job loss of 6 million before and after this glorious 5 year period. However, the conclusion that the 12 mil job gain can be ascribed to the tax cuts is not logical. If there really was such an increase, it was at least partly due to recovery from a recession. This would have happened with or without an tax cut. Further, we saw big job loss at the end of the Bush term. Any effect of the tax cuts didn't last. David C9 (talk) 14:33, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

I meant to add that taxes were increased in the first couple of years of the Clinton term. Jobs increased by 26.3 million. To use 108.16.253.154's logic, I hope that the conclusion, that higher tax rates promote job creation is quite clear even to the crazy spinners. Post hoc, propter hoc arguments are not logically valid. David C9 (talk) 14:58, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

 * Several points:

 * I agree with the above comment that ascribing 100% of the job gains under Bush to his tax cuts is not logically sound. Some number of jobs would likely have been created with or without the tax cuts. Since this is not mentioned and no attempt is made to correct for jobs that would have been created anyway, I say that this section is either not NPOV or is just wrong.

 * The statement "After 5 years any effect of tax change will disappear" should be backed up with a reference from a reputable economist. Why not four or six years?

 * I also dispute that this section should be included in this article at all. I suggest that if it must be somewhere it should be in Bush Tax Cuts. This page is raw statistics with no qualifiers. The tax cuts section here is highly qualified with no justification of parameters.

 * If you cannot say why five years is the cutoff for the effect of tax cuts and if you do not have the knowledge of economics to separate the effect of the tax cuts from normal growth, this section must be deleted. I will do so in a couple of days if no response is made.Brendtron5000 (talk) 01:15, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

 * There are dozens of other factors that affect job growth. Population growth for example, or in this past decade, the huge growth in self-employed people who are not included in job growth figures.. As for the tax cuts, there is no consensus on how long their effects last, but the initial "shock" value of the cuts fades away in less than 5 years, probably closer to only 2 or 3. Even better, there is no way to know how much stronger growth is under tax cuts versus normal growth. All we can do is project averages.. I do agree, that the section should be removed, it is covered on the Bush tax cuts page.--FrankieG123 (talk) 03:46, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

I really don't think this entire wiki page is valid or sound and is more someone's opinion rather than facts. Here's an example: "Moreover, according to the United States Constitution, the United States Congress is responsible for government spending and thus, regardless of Presidential advocacy, bears constitutional responsibility for such things as spending and tax policy that have enormous effects upon the economy." Sure, there is truth to that, but the author leaves out a very improvident fact, that the President can Veto anything he wants. So the responsibility is always shared, veto or not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dwdallam (talk • contribs) 23:56, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

The table is confusing
By including both the fiscal and annual numbers, the chart is very confusing. I'd suggest using only the fiscal year.

I think most people understand what is a fiscal year and why that is the only relevant data here. A short mention of what is a fiscal year might be helpful, even so. Calan (talk) 15:19, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

I like access to both fiscal and annual numbers at a glance like this. You can reference by administration year and accounting year. I hope to see this become more detailed. I would love to have a link expand the data to show the four fiscal or administrative years - then even further to by month. I like the numbers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.95.17.204 (talk) 02:03, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

 * Really! It's not clear if you are saying that the number of jobs was say 133,631 but then it turned out to be really 129,784 or if it was 133,631 PLUS 129,784. CarolMooreDC 🗽 17:29, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

The columns with numbers in them do not sort correctly, either ascending or descending; only columns 1 and 2 sort correctly in ascending or descending order. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.72.94 (talk) 18:28, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Make that ' only columns 1, 2 and 3 sort correctly '. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.72.94 (talk) 18:30, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

There should be either a correction or footnote/explanation for the 455,000 jobs added between Nixon/Ford's ending jobs and Carter's beginning jobs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.173.63.168 (talk) 17:31, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Chart under Controversy section
The chart in the Controversy section should be removed as it is not objective and rather appears biased towards President Obama. jrn0074 —Preceding undated comment added 22:30, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

 * How so? It shows factual data based upon the BLS statistics.69.243.45.181 (talk) 22:49, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

 * See section below. CarolMooreDC 🗽 17:31, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

The chart does not reflect the numbers in the table. The chart shows basically very little growth since 2009, where as the table show more than 3 million net jobs created. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertswilliams (talk • contribs) 18:31, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Whole article is original research- somebody AfD it
Per my tag. I don't have time or energy (unless somebody gets my gander up :-) but should thought I'd opine. CarolMooreDC 🗽 17:29, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Can someone break out Private Sector versus Public sector job creation??
Can someone break out Private Sector versus Public sector job creation??

Interesting that GW Bush had no private sector positive job creation, and that expansion came from expansion of government jobs only. At least needs to be checked from official data.

Can someone add in why more jobs created under democratic presidents?
Can someone add in why more jobs created under democratic presidents?

Research is clear that more jobs are created by democratic Presidents. But can we add in why? Is this known, yet. Is it luck or judgement? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.152.9.30 (talk) 23:59, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

can someone add in Private sector job creation, not just total jobs?
Can someone add in Private sector job creation, not just total jobs?

Otherwise President GW Bush jobs record looks too strong - private sector job creation is much weaker?

Total jobs includes government jobs - and data shows that there was large expansion of government in terms of costs and employment under President GW Bush.

Washington Post Methodology
Washington Post is using a February to February computation. Their article says that Barack Obama added 12.503 million jobs. To get that figure: FRED Payems Feb 2009: 133.312 million FRED Payems Feb 2016: 145.815 million Difference: 12.503, cited in WaPo

If you count February 2009 as period 0, Feb 2020 is period 96, which seems right (i.e., 96 periods of job changes).Farcaster (talk) 20:56, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

numbers are fun
it has been asserted that Biden's job creation has been due only to recovery of jobs lost during the pandemic and that this doesn't count as "real" job creation, and Trump's job creation was better

private sector employment peaked in Feb 2020, then plummeted, then regained that peak in Apr 2022

during the 22 months since Apr 2022, private sector employment has increased 47% more than during the 22 months leading to the Feb 2020 peak

I encourage others to have fun with numbers. one might also find that private job creation during Trump's first three years was considerably lower than during Obama's last three years. just sayin' is all. soibangla (talk) 06:23, 27 March 2024 (UTC)


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Rohtang Pass

Rohtang Pass (Rohtang , lit: རོ་ (Ro)- corpse(s), ཐང་། (thang)- plain/field  ) is a high mountain pass (elevation 13058 ft) on the eastern end of the Pir Panjal Range of the Himalayas around 51 km from Manali in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It connects the Kullu Valley with the Lahaul and Spiti Valleys of Himachal Pradesh, India.

Geography
The pass provides a natural divide between the Kullu Valley with a primarily sanatani culture (in the south), and the arid high-altitude Lahaul and Spiti valleys with a Buddhist culture (in the north). The pass lies on the watershed between the Chenab and Beas basins. On the southern side of this pass, the Beas River emerges from underground and flows southward and on its northern side, the Chandra River (flows from the eastern Himalayas), a source stream of the river Chenab, flows westward.

Overview
The pass is open from May to November. It is not particularly high or difficult to cross on foot by Himalayan standards, but it has a well-deserved reputation for being dangerous because of unpredictable snowstorms and blizzards.

This pass is an ancient trade route between the people on either side of Pir Panjal. There are many other passes in Lahaul and Spiti which have specific names (Kunzam La, Baralacha La, etc.). This is suggestive of the fact that this must have been the oldest and most frequented pass in the region, or the fact that it is the main pass leading from one cultural region to another, quite different one, to the north. The name Rohtang comes from Persian/ Farsi words Ruh+ Tang which means pile of dead bodies.

The former National Highway 21 (NH 21, now numbered NH 3), the road through the Kullu Valley, terminates at Manali. The road northwards over the Rohtang Pass to Keylong in Lahaul and Spiti district and on to Leh in Ladakh is not a national highway. Nonetheless, the Leh-Manali Highway has become very busy during the summer months as an alternate military route since the Kargil Conflict in 1999. Traffic jams are common as military vehicles, trucks, and goods carriers try to navigate the tight roads and rough terrain, compounded by snow and ice at certain points and the large number of tourist vehicles.

Several episodes of the History Channel's Ice Road Truckers series spinoff IRT Deadliest Roads dealt with truckers crossing the Rohtang Pass to deliver supplies. With increase in Traffic at Rohtang Valley, environmentalists fear its impact on the fragile mountain ecology. A rise in average temperature, and the consequent melting of glaciers, are also issues of severe concern.

Latest News
Sometimes travelling to Rohtang Pass is difficult. Therefore, the government is stressing on setting up a ropeway between Kothi village which is in Manali and Rohtang Pass. The NGT (National Green Tribunal) has asked the state government of Himachal Pradesh to complete all the formalities to start a ropeway. With the coming of a ropeway, we can reduce carbon emission from vehicles. Heavy snowfall blocks the road in winter and a ropeway will be very useful.

Road tunnel under the Pass
As the pass gets blocked by snow and the road over the pass closes from November to May rendering Lahaul and Spiti districts north of the pass inaccessible, a need was felt to build a tunnel under the pass. The project was announced by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 3 June 2000. The work was started by BRO on 6 May 2002. The foundation stone of the project was laid on 28 June 2010 by Sonia Gandhi in her capacity as the Chairperson of National Advisory Council. The road tunnel called Atal Tunnel has been excavated and became operational on 3 October 2020 after formal inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It obviates the need to travel over the Rohtang Pass. While it takes 4 to 6 hours to ascend, negotiate and descend the Rohtang Pass, travel through the Rohtang Tunnel takes only about 30 minutes.

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Bald Head Island

 * Bald Head Island may refer to:

 * Bald Head Island, North Carolina
 * Bald Head Island (Lake Ontario), part of Weller's Bay, a protected wildlife area in Ontario

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Air and Space Campaign Medal

The Air and Space Campaign Medal (ASCM) is an award of the United States Air Force and United States Space Force which was first created on April 24, 2002 by order of Secretary of the Air Force James G. Roche. The ASCM may be awarded to members of the USAF and USSF who, after March 24, 1999, supported a significant U.S. military operation designated by the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force as qualifying for the ASCM.

Eligibility
To be eligible for the Air and Space Campaign Medal a service member must perform direct support of a military operation for at least thirty consecutive days or for sixty non-consecutive days. "Direct support" is defined as deploying in support of an ASCM approved operation inside the geographic area of combat which historically were deployed forward. This includes, but is not limited to, sortie generation, intelligence, surveillance, targeting, etc. Squadron Commanders may determine other functions that meet the intent of this award.

Members who provided direct support for 30 consecutive or 60 nonconsecutive days to one of these operations inside of the geographic area of combat qualify for the ASCM.

The Air and Space Campaign Medal is only authorized for Air Force personnel and is prohibited for issuance if another campaign or service medal has already been received for the operation in question. Additional awards are denoted by service stars.

Qualifying Operations

 * Operation Allied Force 24 March 1999 – 10 June 1999
 * Operation Joint Guardian 11 June 1999 – Date to be Determined (DTBD)
 * Operation Allied Harbour 4 April 1999 – 1 September 1999
 * Operation Sustain Hope/Shining Hope 4 April 1999 – 10 July 1999
 * Operation Noble Anvil 24 March 1999 – 20 July 1999
 * Kosovo Task Force Hawk 5 April 1999 – 24 June 1999
 * Kosovo Task Force Saber 31 March 1999 – 8 July 1999
 * Kosovo Task Force Falcon 11 June 1999 – DTBD
 * Kosovo Task Force Hunter 1 April 1999 – 1 November 1999
 * Operation Odyssey Dawn 26 February 2011 – 31 October 2011
 * Operation Unified Protector 26 February 2011 – 31 October 2011

Operations related to the Global War on Terrorism (to include Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom) are not eligible for the ASCM.

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Hal Chase

Harold Homer Chase (February 13, 1883 – May 18, 1947), nicknamed "Prince Hal", was an American professional baseball first baseman and manager in Major League Baseball, widely viewed as the best fielder at his position. During his career, he played for the New York Highlanders (1905–1913), Chicago White Sox (1913–1914), Buffalo Blues (1914–1915), Cincinnati Reds (1916–1918), and New York Giants (1919).

Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson named Chase the best first baseman ever, and contemporary reports described his glovework as outstanding. He is sometimes considered the first true star of the franchise that would eventually become the New York Yankees. In 1981, 62 years after his last major league game, baseball historians Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included him in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time.

Despite being an excellent hitter and his reputation as a peerless defensive player, Chase's legacy was tainted by a litany of corruption. He allegedly gambled on baseball games, and also engaged in suspicious play in order to throw games in which he played. He was also indicted as an early conspirator in the 1919 Black Sox scandal but was acquitted. He was informally banned from the majors late in the 1919 season, and formally banned in the aftermath of the Black Sox scandal.

Career
Chase attended Santa Clara College, where he played baseball. He signed his first contract with the Los Angeles Angels of the Class-A Pacific Coast League in 1904. The New York Highlanders selected Chase from Los Angeles in the 1904 Rule 5 draft on October 4, 1904.

Chase joined the Highlanders in 1905, and held out during March 1907, threatening to sign with the outlaw California League if the Highlanders did not increase his salary to $4,000. Though he agreed to join the Highlanders in April 1907, he also insisted on playing in the California League during the winter. After the Highlanders fired manager Clark Griffith during the 1908 season, Chase held out and insisted he would not play for new manager Kid Elberfeld. Chase loved playing in the off season in California leagues, which he did nearly every year. And nearly every year, as the major league season approached, Chase looked for a way to remain playing in California. The National Commission ruled that any player who continued in the California league would be suspended from the leagues. Chase continued to play under a pseudonym, Hal Schultz, even as other players returned. Because of the power of the National Agreement and insufficient finances of leagues and teams in California, Chase predictably returned to his major league team and was reinstated in 1908.

He left the team again and returned to the California League in September of the 1908 season. Chase reportedly had been angry that Kid Elberfeld was hired over him to manage the team. He claimed that the Yankees’ management had fed a negative story about him to a local newspaper. He played out the rest of the season and paid a fine to get reinstated for the 1909 season.

Late in the 1910 season, Chase took over as player-manager from George Stallings. Stallings alleged that Chase was “laying down” in games, ostensibly with the goal of replacing Stallings as manager as the team's fortunes sank. He informed the team that he would resign if Chase was not released. In September, Stallings was called to a meeting with Yankees management where he was fired as manager in favor of Chase. In 1911, he managed the team to a 76–76 record and quit as manager following the season.

He signed a three-year contract with the Yankees before the 1913 season, but his hitting fell off that season, hitting only .221. Chase had battled injuries that impaired his play. Frank Chance stated that he worried that Chase was "laying down." Chance clarified that he was referring to the question whether Chase would put forth the effort necessary to overcome the current slump. These factors combined led the team to field offers for the player. On June 1, 1913, Yankees traded him to the Chicago White Sox for Babe Borton and Rollie Zeider.

Before the 1914 season, Chase jumped from the White Sox to the Buffalo Blues of the Federal League. White Sox owner Charles Comiskey filed an injunction to prevent Chase from playing citing a violation of the reserve clause. Chase challenged the injunction in court and won, becoming one of the only players to successfully challenge the reserve clause. The ensuing animosity between Comiskey and Chase would effectively permanently bar Chase from playing again in the American League.

Later career and gambling allegations
Following a spell in the short-lived Federal League, he went to the Reds. In 1916, Chase led the NL with a .339 batting average.

In 1918, his career in Cincinnati ended after his manager, Christy Mathewson, accused him of “indifferent playing”, or betting on baseball and throwing games. Mathewson suspended him indefinitely. Pitcher Jimmy Ring accused Chase of attempting to bribe him in the 1917 season, Chase offered him $50 ($0 in current dollar terms) to throw a game against the Giants. Even though Ring refused the team lost the game and Chase paid Ring the money. After Ring reported the incident, Greasy Neale accused Chase of saying that he bragged about winning $500 after a Reds loss and later advised Neale to wager on the Reds before a game.

Before the 1919 season, the N.L. President John Heydler held a hearing on Chase. While he found that Chase “did not take baseball or anything else seriously”, he determined that the charges against Chase were general and unsubstantiated and found him not guilty. The league president noted that in one game where Chase was accused of betting against Cincinnati, he hit a home run to put his team ahead.

Despite the exoneration, the Reds wanted no part of Chase, and arranged a trade with the New York Giants for Walter Holke and Bill Rariden. The deal was held up by Reds president August Herrmann because Chase sued the club for back pay from his suspension. The Giants agreed to settle the matter with Chase and the trade went through on February 19, 1919.

Before the 1920 season, former player Lee Magee, who later sued the Chicago Cubs for allegedly “blackballing” him from baseball, threatened to release the names of players who had thrown games. One of these players was Chase, with whom Magee played in Cincinnati. Magee charged that he and Chase had wagered $500 against Cincinnati on a game against the Boston Braves. Cincinnati won that game with Magee scoring the winning run. The National League president dismissed Magee's claims in that they were based on claims during the 1918 season that he had already ruled were unsubstantiated. The Cubs responded that Magee had confessed to wagering on his own team's game. Magee admitted to this but thought that he was betting on Cincinnati and that Chase told him after the game that they lost the wager. On June 9, 1920, a jury found in favor of the Cubs.

In September 1919, Chase and Heinie Zimmerman were dropped from the Giants lineup. In 1920, the league revealed that the Giants had released Chase and Zimmerman on Heydler's orders when Magee confessed to Heydler behind closed doors. Since no American League team would sign him, he was effectively blackballed from the major leagues.

Out of organized baseball
In 1920, while playing for the minor Mission League, he allegedly attempted to bribe Spider Baum, a pitcher for the Salt Lake City Bees of the Pacific Coast League, to lose a game to the Los Angeles Angels. It turned out to be one of the last games he played in organized baseball. After an investigation by the league, he was barred from the Pacific Coast League and the Mission Baseball League. Babe Borton, for whom Chase was traded in 1913, was also suspended in the scandal.

In late 1920, pitcher Rube Benton accused Chase and Heinie Zimmerman of attempting to bring him $800 to throw a game when the three played for the Giants. As part of his accusation, he charged that Chase informed him that the White Sox would lose the first two games of the 1919 World Series and would lose the series. He also testified that Chase communicated with Bill Burns, one of the key figures in the Black Sox scandal and that Chase won $40,000 (equivalent to $ million in ) betting on the series.

In October of that year, a Chicago grand jury indicted him for his role in the Black Sox Scandal, alleging that he brought the idea of throwing the World Series to Abe Attell (Heinie Zimmerman was also indicted). California refused extradition because of an incorrectly issued arrest warrant. Chase and the other accused players were acquitted on August 2, 1921.

Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis later declared that any players who had been involved in throwing games would be banned from baseball, which could have included Chase; however Judge Landis never formally ruled on Chase. But based on Chase's long-term pattern of gambling and his role in the Black Sox Scandal, Landis' declaration after the Black Sox trial is seen as formalizing Chase's ban. Regardless, his career was effectively over by the time Landis was appointed. In his only formal hearing on the matter, National League president John Heydler found him not guilty.

Chase was recruited and hired by the Nogales Internationals to play first base and manage the club for the 1923 season. Chase played for a team in Williams, Arizona, playing games in other mining towns such as Jerome. In early March 1925, newspapers reported that Chase was negotiating with the President of Mexico to become the commissioner of a new Mexican Baseball League.

For a time, Chase was player-manager of an outlaw team in Douglas, Arizona that included banned Black Sox players Buck Weaver, Chick Gandil and Lefty Williams. It was part of a league run by S.L.A. Marshall, who later said that Chase admitted to throwing a game. A few months later, he tore both Achilles tendons in a car accident. He later drifted to Mexico, where in 1925 he began making plans to organize a professional league. When American League president Ban Johnson got word of it, however, he pressured Mexican authorities to deport Chase.

Despite his unsavory past, Chase received a certain amount of National Baseball Hall of Fame support early in its history. During the inaugural Hall of Fame balloting of 1936, Chase garnered 11 votes and was named on 4.9% of the ballots. This total was more votes than 18 future Hall of Famers including such greats as Connie Mack, Rube Marquard, Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown, Charlie Gehringer, and John McGraw as well as the banned Shoeless Joe Jackson. In 1937, he received 18 votes (9%) which was more than 32 future Hall of Famers. Chase was dropped from the ballot following the 1937 vote. He never received the 75 percent support required for enshrinement, largely due to an informal agreement among the Hall of Fame voters that those deemed to have been banned from baseball should be ineligible for consideration.

Chase spent the rest of his life drifting between Arizona and his native California, working numerous low-paying jobs. Later in life, he expressed considerable remorse for betting on baseball. He lived with his sister in Williams, California and died in a Colusa, California hospital at the age of 64.

Chase defensively
In his day, Hal Chase was almost universally considered one of the best fielders in the game — not just at first base, but at any position, even compared to catchers and middle infielders. In his Historical Baseball Abstract, Bill James quotes a poem entitled "You Can't Escape 'Em":

Sometimes a raw recruit in spring is not a pitching find;

He has not Walter Johnson's wing, nor Matty's wonderous mind.

He does not act like Harold Chase upon the fielding job,

But you may find in such a case, he hits like Tyrus Cobb.

Douglas Dewey and Nicholas Acocella's book on Chase, The Black Prince Of Baseball, talks about Chase's defensive abilities at length. He apparently made many spectacular plays that burnished his reputation as a glove wizard, but also committed 402 errors at first in just ten seasons, making his career fielding average only .980, four points below average for the period (since Chase was known to throw games, it's impossible to know how many of these misplays were intentional).

A more recent work by Bill James, Win Shares, suggested Chase was only a C-grade defensive player at first base. According to analyst Sean Smith of Baseball-Reference.com, Chase was below average defensively, costing his teams 65 runs versus an average first baseman.

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Cycling team

A cycling team is a group of cyclists who join a team or are acquired and train together to compete in bicycle races whether amateur or professional – and the supporting personnel. Cycling teams are most important in road bicycle racing, which is a team sport, but collaboration between team members is also important in track cycling and cyclo-cross.

Composition
While riders form the core of a team, a top team also has personnel who support the racing and training. These include There are also officers for sponsorship, marketing, and communication.
 * A manager, who oversees the team's commitments, sponsorships, and general operations.
 * Directeurs sportifs, who travel to races and dictate the racing strategy. In bigger teams they often drive team cars and have radio contact with the riders.
 * Coaches, who direct the team's training.
 * Doctors are responsible for riders' well-being and often make sure the riders meet regulations such as those related to doping.
 * Therapists, who assist the coaches.
 * Soigneurs, who are assistants responsible for feeding, clothing, massaging, and escorting riders; from the French for "one who provides care."
 * Mechanics, who are responsible for the team's equipment.

Levels of commitment
There are different levels of commitment between the riders and the team. Amateur teams range from a collection of riders who identify themselves as a team to those who provide riders with equipment and money. A top-level professional team is registered with the Union Cycliste Internationale, which enforces rules and a points system for professional competition.

Road cycling
Team members have different specializations. Climbing specialists grind away on hard inclines; sprinters save their energy for sprints for points and position; time trialists keep speed high over great distances.

Each team has a leader and captain, generally reckoned as the team's most experienced rider. The leaders have the most media exposure and the best chance of winning races. The rest of the team's members are domestiques, or secondary riders, who shield the leader from opponents and deliver food and drinks to him. However, any team member is allowed to go for a stage win.

In one-day races, one or several leaders are chosen according to demands of the race. In stage races, teams focus on different goals. For example, during the 2005 Tour de France teams such as Discovery Channel or T-Mobile focused on the general classification while other teams tried to win stages or one of the other classifications. In the 2004 Tour de France, helped Richard Virenque win the mountains classification while  helped Robbie McEwen win the points classification. Smaller teams may simply get riders into a long breakaway to get coverage on television. Most professional teams have 10-20 riders.

Teams are generally sponsored in exchange for advertising on clothing and other endorsements. Sponsorship ranges from small businesses to international companies.

The Tour de France between 1930 and the late 1950s was for national teams which carried no prominent commercial advertising.

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Talk:Honolulu Star-Bulletin

I don't get what the thing aboutn "only morning newspaper owned by Gannett nationwide" means. Not only is USA Today a morning paper, but so is The Tennessean and The Jackson Sun and that's just in my immediate era. Could it mean and is it supposed to say that the Star-Bulletin was the only afternoon paper owned by Gannett? They owned the old afternoon Nashville Banner in the 1970's and ditched it in favor of The Tennessean precisely because it was an afternoon paper.

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Hi RNG, what did my redirect break? --MarSch 2 July 2005 11:35 (UTC)

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List of years in comics

This page indexes the individual year in comics pages. Each year is annotated with significant events as reference points.

2010s - 2000s - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s - Pre-1930s

Pre-1930s

 * Before 1900s in comics
 * 1900s in comics - debut: Happy Hooligan, Little Jimmy, Little Nemo in Slumberland
 * 1910s in comics - debut: Krazy Kat, Polly and Her Pals
 * 1920s in comics - debut: The Adventures of Tintin, Little Orphan Annie, Skippy, Rupert Bear, Popeye

1930s

 * 1930 in comics - debut: Blondie, Scorchy Smith, Quick et Flupke; debut as comic strip: Mickey Mouse
 * 1931 in comics - debut: The Little King, Dick Tracy, Norakuro
 * 1932 in comics - debut: Alley Oop, Jane, Conan the Barbarian; debut as comic strip: Silly Symphony
 * 1933 in comics - debut: Dickie Dare, Brick Bradford
 * 1934 in comics - debut: Li'l Abner, Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, Secret Agent X-9, Terry and the Pirates, Sally the Sleuth; appearance: Snuffy Smith in Barney Google; published: Le Journal de Mickey; Establishment of DC Comics
 * 1935 in comics - debut: Hejji, King of the Royal Mounted, Barney Baxter; published: New Fun Comics #1, New Comics #1
 * 1936 in comics - debut: Jo, Zette et Jocko, The Phantom, The Clock, Big Chief Wahoo
 * 1937 in comics - debut: Prince Valiant, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Abbie an' Slats, Torchy Brown; debut as comic strip: Donald Duck, Desperate Dan; published: Detective Comics #1 The Dandy #1
 * 1938 in comics - debut: Spirou, Tif, The Addams Family, Superman; published: Le Journal de Spirou, Action Comics #1, The Beano #1
 * 1939 in comics - debut: Batman; published: Superman #1 (reprints from Action Comics); Establishment of Marvel Comics

1940s

 * 1940 in comics - debut: Green Lantern, Flash, Robin, Joker, Catwoman, The Spirit, Lady Luck, Mr. Mystic, Willie and Joe, Brenda Starr, Reporter, Daredevil (Lev Gleason Publications), Captain Marvel later named Shazam; published: Flash Comics #1
 * 1941 in comics - debut: Penguin, Sad Sack, Jean Valhardi, Plastic Man, Captain America, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Gordo; appearance: Pogo Possum in Animal Comics; published: Captain America Comics #1
 * 1942 in comics - debut: Two-Face, The Pie-face Prince of Pretzelburg, Archie Comics
 * 1943 in comics - debut: Garth, Claire Voyant, Male Call, Buz Sawyer
 * 1944 in comics - debut: Johnny Hazard
 * 1945 in comics - debut: Suske en Wiske; published: Vaillant #1
 * 1946 in comics - debut: Lucky Luke, Blake et Mortimer, Rip Kirby; published: Tintin magazine #1
 * 1947 in comics - debut: Steve Canyon, Black Canary, Johan
 * 1948 in comics - debut: Riddler, Alix, Tex Willer, Pogo
 * 1949 in comics - debut:

1950s

 * 1950 in comics - debut: Peanuts, Dan Dare, Captain Pugwash, It Rhymes with Lust
 * 1951 in comics - debut: Dennis the Menace (U.S. comic strip)
 * 1952 in comics - debut: Astro Boy; appearance: Marsupilami in Spirou et Fantasio; published: Mad #1
 * 1953 in comics - debut: El Sargento Kirk
 * 1954 in comics - debut: Moomin, Marmaduke, Jerry Spring; published: Misterix #1
 * 1955 in comics - debut: Modeste et Pompon, Martian Manhunter, Ric Hochet
 * 1956 in comics - debut: The Flash, ushering in the Silver Age of Comics
 * 1957 in comics - debut: Gaston Lagaffe, El Eternauta, Ernie Pike; published: Hora Cero #1
 * 1958 in comics - debut: B.C., Oumpah-pah, Mort & Phil, Rick O'Shay; debut as comic strip: James Bond; appearance: Les Schtroumpfs in Johan et Pirlouit
 * 1959 in comics - debut: Clifton, Boule et Bill, Supergirl, Astérix, Monica's Gang; published: Pilote magazine #1

1960s

 * 1960 in comics - debut: Justice League
 * 1961 in comics - debut: Fantastic Four #1, Spy vs. Spy, Batgirl
 * 1962 in comics - debut: Mort Cinder, Iznogoud, Spider-Man, Hulk, Thor, Little Annie Fanny, Valiant, Diabolik
 * 1963 in comics - debut: Achille Talon, Blueberry, Modesty Blaise, X-Men, The Avengers, Doctor Strange, Iron Man; published: The Amazing Spider-Man #1;
 * 1964 in comics - debut: Mafalda, The Wizard of Id, Zatanna, Black Widow, Teen Titans
 * 1965 in comics - debut: Philémon; appearance: Valentina in Neutron; published: Linus
 * 1966 in comics - debut: Black Panther
 * 1967 in comics - debut: Corto Maltese, Valérian and Laureline, Luc Orient; published: Sgt. Kirk #1
 * 1968 in comics - debut: Maxmagnus, Cubitus, His Name Is... Savage; published: Shonen Jump #1
 * 1969 in comics - debut: Alan Ford, Doraemon; published: Charlie Mensuel #1, Pif gadget #1 (from Vaillant); Čtyřlístek

1970s

 * 1970 in comics - debut: Doonesbury, Natacha, Yoko Tsuno
 * 1971 in comics - debut: Blackmark
 * 1972 in comics - debut: Superdupont, Maus; published: L'Écho des Savannes #1, Wimmen's Comix #1
 * 1973 in comics - debut: Le Génie des alpages, Heathcliff
 * 1974 in comics - debut: Hello Kitty, Herman, Star Reach
 * 1975 in comics - published: Métal Hurlant #1, Fluide Glacial #1, Circus #1
 * 1976 in comics - debut: Adèle Blanc-Sec, American Splendor, Footrot Flats, published: Action #1
 * 1977 in comics - debut: Cerebus the Aardvark, Ms. Marvel, Judge Dredd, Shoe, Idées noires; published: Le Trombone Illustré #1, Heavy Metal #1, 2000 AD
 * 1978 in comics - published: (A SUIVRE) #1; debut: The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, Garfield, A Contract with God
 * 1979 in comics - debut: Jeremiah

1980s

 * 1980 in comics - debut: Bloom County, She-Hulk, Starfire, Cyborg, The Far Side, Raw
 * 1981 in comics - debut: Thrud the Barbarian, Torpedo
 * 1982 in comics - debut: Camelot 3000 (first Maxi-series)
 * 1983 in comics - published: Metropol #1
 * 1984 in comics - debut: Dragon Ball, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 * 1985 in comics - debut: Calvin and Hobbes
 * 1986 in comics - debut: Watchmen, Dylan Dog, V for Vendetta, The Tick
 * 1987 in comics - debut: Titeuf, Super Commando Dhruva
 * 1988 in comics - debut: The Sandman, Piranha Club
 * 1989 in comics - debut: Outland, Ghost in the Shell

1990s

 * 1990 in comics - debut:
 * 1991 in comics - debut: Ballard Street, Bone, Deadpool
 * 1992 in comics - debut: Non Sequitur, Sailor Moon, Spawn, Bloodshot
 * 1993 in comics - debut: Hellboy; appearance: Harley Quinn, Static
 * 1994 in comics - debut: Mallard Fillmore, Marvels; first webcomics (NetBoy, Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan)
 * 1995 in comics - debut: Astro City, Over the Hedge
 * 1996 in comics - debut: Birds of Prey, Keyhole, Yu-Gi-Oh!
 * 1997 in comics - debut: One Piece, Hellsing, Naruto; published: BoDoï #1
 * 1998 in comics - debut:
 * 1999 in comics - debut: Get Fuzzy, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Goon

2000s

 * 2000 in comics - debut:
 * 2001 in comics - debut: Pearls Before Swine
 * 2002 in comics - debut: Invincible
 * 2003 in comics - debut: Opus, Death Note, Wanted, The Walking Dead
 * 2004 in comics - debut: Lucky Star, Scott Pilgrim
 * 2005 in comics - debut: Cyanide and Happiness
 * 2006 in comics - debut: Lackadaisy
 * 2007 in comics - debut: Hark! A Vagrant
 * 2008 in comics - debut: Kick-Ass, Locke & Key
 * 2009 in comics - debut: Attack on Titan, Simon's Cat

2010s

 * 2010 in comics - debut: Hilda, Pusheen, Superior
 * 2011 in comics - debut:
 * 2012 in comics - debut: Nimona
 * 2013 in comics - debut:
 * 2014 in comics - debut: My Hero Academia, Gudetama
 * 2015 in comics - debut:
 * 2016 in comics - debut:
 * 2017 in comics - debut:
 * 2018 in comics - debut: Tap Dance Killer
 * 2019 in comics - debut:

2020s

 * 2020 in comics
 * 2021 in comics
 * 2022 in comics
 * 2023 in comics

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Wound Medal (Vietnam)

The Republic of Vietnam Wound Medal (Chiến-Thương Bội-Tinh) was a military decoration of South Vietnam first created in 1953. The medal was the South Vietnamese equivalent of the United States military's Purple Heart, and was awarded to any personnel of the South Vietnamese military who, while engaged in armed combat with enemies of the Republic of Vietnam, were either wounded or killed in action.

During the Vietnam War, the Wound Medal was often issued to Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) personnel for combat wounds received fighting the forces of North Vietnam or the Vietcong. The medal was seldom bestowed upon members of allied militaries such as the United States military and then only if the allied soldier in question was attached and under the direct command of a South Vietnamese unit. For service members of the United States military, the Wound Medal is not authorized for wear on a military uniform.

With the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, the Wound Medal became obsolete.

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Strongarm

Strongarm may refer to:

 * StrongARM, a RISC microprocessor created by Digital Equipment Corporation
 * Strongarm (band), a hardcore band from Florida
 * Strongarm, a beer produced in England since 1955 by Camerons Brewery
 * Strongarm (Masters of the Universe), a fictional character from the Masters of the Universe franchise
 * Strongarm (Transformers), several fictional characters from the Transformers robot superhero franchise (both male and female).

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Flag of Devon

The Flag of Devon, properly St Petroc's Cross, is the flag of the English county of Devon. It is dedicated to Saint Petroc, a local saint with numerous dedications throughout Devon. It is notable for its creation through two web-based polls.

History
The subject of a Devonian flag was raised by the county’s contingent of scouts to the 20th World Scout Jamboree in an interview on BBC Radio Devon in 2002. The scouts were unaware of a Devon flag and wondered if any listeners knew of a flag for the county. BBC Radio Devon took up the search for a flag for Devon and asked the public to send in designs.

The flag was created in 2003 after a vote in two polls run by the BBC Devon website, the winning design taking 49% of the votes cast. The design was created by student Ryan Sealey.

The Devon Flag is made of three colours — green (Pantone 348), black and white. Although the flag is relatively young, its colours are those traditionally identified with Devon (e.g. the colours of its Rugby Union team, Exeter University and Plymouth Argyle F.C.). In 1816, Lord Exmouth flew a dark green flag with white circles at the Bombardment of Algiers (now on view at the Teign Valley Museum ). The green represents the colour of the rolling and lush Devon hills, the black represents the high and windswept moors (Dartmoor and Exmoor) and the white represents both the salt spray of Devon's two coastlines and the China Clay industry (and mining in general).

Since its launch in 2003, the Devon Flag has gained popularity, and in October 2006 it gained "official" recognition when Devon County Council raised the flag outside County Hall.

In April 2004, a resident of Ottery St Mary in East Devon was threatened with legal action for flying the Devon flag in his back garden, as he required planning permission to fly non-national flags. Subsequently the then Minister for Housing, Keith Hill, said local authorities can officially "turn a blind eye" to the practice of flying the county flag from poles.

Devon Ensign

First flown in 2003, the Devon Regatta Ensign (designed by Kevin Pyne) adds a Union flag into the Canton of the Devon Flag. This flag is described as for use at regatta, high days and holidays, weddings, and burials at sea.

Flying the Devon Flag
The Devon Flag Group have suggested the following dates as days when it is appropriate for the Devon flag to be flown. Most of them are either the days of local events or the feast days of Devon's saints. It is also flown outside of these days, especially in rural towns.

 * 4 January - St Rumon of Tavistock and Romansleigh
 * 7 January - St Brannock of Braunton
 * 5 March - St Piran, patron saint of tin miners
 * 12 March - Paul Aurelian, brother of St Sidwell
 * 7 April - St Brannock, as celebrated in Exeter
 * 1 May - Saint Walpurga of Devon
 * May Bank Holiday, Anniversary of first time Devon Flag Flown at World Gig Championship 2003, Isles of Scilly
 * May/June - Devon County Show
 * 3 June - St Kevin
 * 4 June - St Petroc
 * 5 June - St Boniface of Crediton, Patron Saint of Devon
 * 6 June - St Gudwal, hermit of Devon
 * 17 June - St Nectan, patron of Hartland
 * 21/22 June - Midsummer's day
 * 26 June - St Brannock - another feast day
 * 5 July - Exeter Lammas Fair
 * 8 July - St Urith of Chittlehampton
 * 13 July - St Juthware
 * 30 July - Anniversary of battle against Spanish Armada
 * 1 August - St Sidwell, Patron Saint of Exeter
 * 10 August - St Geraint Last King of Dumnonia
 * 30 August - St Rumon
 * 26 September - Anniversary of Sir Francis Drake's Circumnavigation of the World
 * 2 November - St Cumgar
 * 5 November - St Kea
 * 7 November - St Congar
 * 8 December - St Budoc (St Budeaux) of Plymouth
 * 12 December - St Corentin
 * 16 December - Saint Judicael, King of Domnonée
 * 21/22 December - Midwinter
 * 31 Dec to 6 Jan - New Year's Eve to Twelfth Night

Controversy
The creation of the flag drew criticism from Cornish nationalists, who accused it online of being an attempt to "hijack" their culture.

Bob Burns, who started the discussion over a flag for Devon, cited the visibility of the Cornish Flag as one of his reasons "Devonians are only too aware of the ubiquitous Cornish Flag, which can often be seen in the form of car bumper stickers, on vehicles entering Devon from Cornwall."

Dr Mark Stoyle, a Devon historian, noted that "People are quite aware in Devon that the Cornish make political capital by claiming to be different". He also suggested that the new-found sense of Devonian identity was a backlash against incoming "city-dwellers settling in the South West".

The decision to dedicate the flag to St Petroc was not without controversy as the saint is equally popular in neighbouring Cornwall, but it was decided that as Devon's 27 church dedications to Saint Petroc far outweighs the 6 dedications in Cornwall, and furthermore that the Devon villages named after the Saint, such as Petrockstowe and Newton St Petroc, gave the county a strong claim to the saint, as Cornwall had already selected Saint Piran as their patron saint many years previously.

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