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Process-based management

Process-based management is a management approach that views a business as a collection of processes, managed to achieve a desired result. Processes are managed and improved by the organisation for the purpose of achieving its vision, mission and core values. A clear correlation between processes and vision supports the company in planning strategies, structuring business and using sufficient resources to achieve long-term success.

From a process perspective, an organisation regards its business as a system of vision-achieving vertical processes rather than specific activities and tasks of individual functions. The system is not a method or tool for a particular process, but a holistic approach to manage all of an organisation's processes. To manage processes effectively the organisation must have an effective team network and full knowledge of their vision.

The general management system focuses on specific work-knowledge and direct solutions for cost and budget; on the other hand, process based management applies these financial measurements but in an operational way considering how each performance affects the company as an amalgam of different processes. As a result of recent advances in technology and increased international competition, more companies aim for better methods of grouping and integrating organisational activities.

Vision, mission and values
Vision, mission and core values are three crucial factors to manage an organisation from a process perspective. Considering the vision, mission and values as a direction of their business, an organisation can build their corporate strategy and determine the processes they will take into account. As a result, the organisation obtains strengths and competitiveness among other companies.

First, the vision is an aspirational purpose what the organisation would like to achieve in the long run. The vision leads the company to challenge various tasks and develop its own business strategy. In other words, the organisation considers vision as a motivation to build a business structure, determine strategic plans and manage human resources. Therefore, the company carries out vision-achieving operations as their primary goals.

Mission is a fundamental purpose of a company that remains unchanged over time. The mission provides a guidance for decision making and gives a path to successful results. For instance, mission is different from a vision in that mission is a something to be achieved whereas a vision is something to be aimed for achievement.

Core values are principles that help companies to determine whether their actions and decisions are right or wrong. Values are essential to making decisions and sustaining the company's long-term success.

Advantages

 * Documenting a process provides a clear guideline of how organisation improves their processes and performances over time.
 * Process based management measures the full set of activities in one business. For instance, it focuses on internal processes such as customer satisfaction, quality of product and security as well as financial results including revenues, profits, costs, and budget.
 * Understanding of the correlations between business processes avoids taking wrong decisions. It reduces costs, time and resources wasting on unnecessary things.
 * Analysing the processes, an organisation will be able to predict sources of hazard and choose right decisions.
 * The system protects intellectual capital of the organisation. Monitoring the development of processes, the organisation can analyse risks and its weakness.
 * Focusing on continuous improvement and customer’s requirements, the organisation improves customer services which deliver value to its customers.
 * Evaluating the process assures the results a company expecting to obtain.
 * Process based management is an integration of both input and output in business process. It controls personnel, technical and financial resources in a holistic viewpoint.
 * The organisation can improve IT system that reduces unnecessary complexity and improves the quality of performance measurement.
 * Analysing processes and implementing new objects if required, the organisation deal with fast changes in demand.

Documenting the process
To manage its business from a process based perspective, an organisation requires to understand what defines the process and which activities they consist of.

A business consists of different departments in charge of specific jobs or functions. Therefore, the processes support these managerial sectors and transform successful outputs. Then a process team performs a set of sequential tasks to analyse whether the organisation delivers useful outputs to the customers.

Basically, processes are built by information that indicates the current state of company and research data such as customer satisfaction. The information includes customer-based agreement, management documentation, purchasing manuals and flow charts. For instance, the flow chart is a useful information in order to control the flow of processes and list several steps and activities in detail.

Analysing process performance
Analysed and clarified processes are allowed to implement on the actual business. Then, an organisation monitors its business and improves the overall stage of process.

To evaluate the sequence of process, measurement is an essential element that shows results of process performance with numerical and comparative data. In other words, organisations obtain a relevant analysis using the measurements that can be shown as graphical representations such as pie charts, bar charts, cause-and-effect analysis, and gap analysis.

Many organisations highly depend on data and visual analysis processed by information system. For this reason, organisation must obtain accurate analysis based on exact data and must be cautious for mistaken output that impacts whole process of their business.

As a result, the measurements help the company to analyse current state of performance and give guidance for the firm’s sustainable improvements.

Implementing improvements
Having designed the processes of management system and analysed the performances using useful measurements, the final step is how to improve the system and maintain its effectiveness. Therefore, implementing the improvements is a key activity to examine the processes and improve the flow of the management system.

An organisation determines which part of processes must be improved and modified. It analyses how each process influences a set of activities and applies the improvements to some parts of system. The purpose of implementation is to operate its business strategically and to deliver sufficient resources. In effect, the process based management results in outputs that satisfy their customers and develop the business itself.

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Current project: Alternative hip hop, albums and artists. Updated on a sporadic basis.

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Aerial Common Sensor

The Lockheed Martin Aerial Common Sensor (ACS) platform was a reconnaissance aircraft airframe project for the United States Army (US Army) and United States Navy (US Navy). The aircraft would have been able to detect troop movements, intercept enemy communications and radar transmissions, and communicate with other aircraft. It would have had synthetic aperture radar, electro-optical and infrared detection instrumentation. The program was cancelled on January 12, 2006.

The Army intended to acquire 34 units, with a further 19 going to the Navy. The initial contract, awarded on August 3, 2004, was valued at $79 million, but total contract value through 2010 would have been $879 million. Beyond that, the total program cost was to reach $7 billion, with only 20–30% going to the platform vendor. The ACS would have replaced three existing Army and Navy platforms—the de Havilland Canada RC-7 ARL, Beechcraft RC-12, Beechcraft RU-21 Guardrail, and Lockheed EP-3E Aries II. Testing was to begin in 2006, and full-rate production would have begun in 2009. While the US Army was fully committed, the US Navy did not and may instead opt for a modified version of the P-8 Poseidon.

The Lockheed Martin entry beat a consortium of Northrop Grumman and Gulfstream Aerospace, using the Gulfstream G450 platform. The competing entry attempted to play up nationalist sympathies, and give the impression of a security risk by using a Brazilian airframe, provided by EMBRAER, using their more affordable, reliable, and cost effective (the latter two being questioned) EMBRAER ERJ 145 platform — Gulfstream's airframe did have longer range and could fly at higher altitudes but the acquisition and operational costs (main requirements of DoD for ACS platform) of ERJ 145 were considered much more attractive. Both electronics packages were equivalent and had no major influence in this decision. It was later decided that the ERJ 145 would not suffice due to weight constraints, and thus, while Lockheed was to retain the system integrator role, the Army attempted to re-bid platform entry among several larger aircraft.

EMBRAER were to produce the first five airframes in Brazil (based upon the commercial ERJ 145), while final assembly on following units would have taken place in Jacksonville, Florida, to satisfy Department of Defense workshare requirements. Electronics integration will be conducted by Lockheed Martin at an unannounced site.

Lockheed has faced criticism from the United States Department of Defense (DoD), and specifically, the US Army, for not being able to properly forecast weight issues with the system. The Army claimed in an August 11, 2005 article in The Wall Street Journal that Lockheed could potentially lose the contract if they did not resolve the issue.

ACS was cancelled on January 12, 2006. The Department of Defense paid a contract termination fee of $200 million, nearly all of which was passed on to subcontractors such as Argon ST, Harris Corporation, and L-3 Communications. Most Lockheed Martin and Army personnel were reassigned to other projects.

On November 2, 2006 the US Army revealed it has plans to revive the ACS program in 2009, and conducted an Industry Day in mid-October. The Army continues to envision the ACS program as capable of meeting US Navy ISR needs for a replacement of the EP-3E Aries II.

Boeing pitched a modified version of the Boeing P-8 Poseidon to fill the ACS role.

The ACS project has since been superseded by EMARSS, based on a smaller aircraft.

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Lao Airlines

Lao Airlines State Enterprise (Lao: ລັດວິສາຫະກິດການບິນລາວ; Thai: รัฐวิสาหกิจการบินลาว) is the national airline of Laos, headquartered in Vientiane. It operates domestic and international services to countries such as Cambodia, China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. Its main operating base is Wattay International Airport in Vientiane. It is subordinate to the Ministry of Public Works and Transport.

History
In September 1976, the company was formed from the merger of two existing airlines namely, Royal Air Lao and Lao Air Lines. The company became Lao Aviation in 1979.

In 2000, a joint venture with China Yunnan Airlines and the Lao government was formed which re-nationalized Lao Aviation.

The A320s are the first jet aircraft to be purchased by Lao Airlines and feature a two-class layout seating 126 passengers in the main cabin and 16 in Business Class, and they are powered by CFM International CFM56 engines.

Destinations
, Lao Airlines serves a total of 23 destinations in Asia.

Codeshare agreements
Lao Airlines has codeshare agreements with the following airlines:

 * Cambodia Angkor Air
 * Thai Airways International
 * Vietnam Airlines

Fleet
, Lao Airlines operates the following aircraft:

Livery
Lao Airlines aircraft feature an frangipani insignia on their vertical stabilizers. The Frangipani is an official national flower of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The words "Lao Airlines" are colored in blue.

Accidents and incidents

 * On 1 September 1979, a Lao Aviation Antonov An-26 (registration RDPL-34037) force-landed in a corn field at Ban Mai, Thailand, due to fuel exhaustion after the pilot became disorientated in heavy rain; all 74 passengers and crew survived, but the aircraft was substantially damaged; the aircraft was repaired and flown back to Vientiane on 31 January 1980 where it was written off after crashing on landing.
 * On 22 April 1990, a Lao Aviation Antonov An-24RV (registration RDPL-34008) overshot the runway at Luang Namtha Airport after an aborted takeoff; the aircraft collided with a building, killing one; all three on the aircraft survived.
 * On 13 December 1993, a Lao Aviation Harbin Y-12-II (registration RDPL-34117) crashed on approach to Phonesavanh Airport after clipping trees in fog, killing all 18 on board.
 * On 25 May 1998, a Lao Aviation Yakovlev Yak-40 (registration RDPL-34001) crashed in the jungle in heavy rain near Long Tieng, Xiangkhouang Province, killing all 26 on board. The aircraft was carrying a Vietnamese military delegation from Vientiane to Xiangkhouang.
 * On 19 October 2000, Lao Aviation Flight 703, a Harbin Y-12-II (registration RDPL-34130), crashed into mountainous terrain in bad weather while on approach to Sam Neua Airport en route from Vientiane; eight of 17 on board died.
 * On 14 February 2002, Flight 702, a Harbin Y-12-II (registration RDPL-34118) crashed on the runway while taking off from Sam Neua Airport due to a wind gust; all 15 on board survived, but the aircraft was written off; the engines were sent to Singapore to be rebuilt, the fuselage was cut up and sent to Vietnam for scrap metal.
 * On 16 October 2013, Flight 301, an ATR 72-600 (registration RDPL-34233) twin turboprop carrying 44 passengers and 5 crew, crashed into the Mekong River, at about 16:00 local time; all 49 on board died. The aircraft was flying from Vientiane to Pakse in Champasak Province in southern Laos, and was attempting to land in bad weather associated with Typhoon Nari.

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Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/CVA

While i have not reviewed other cases to confirm this, IMO the term "Applicable policies" is intended to label citations (i.e., links) offered by the user initiating the RfC, of specific established policies of WP which the initiator maintains have been violated by the disputed behavior.

(By that means, those commenting would be )
 * presented with a more clearly stated case,
 * focused on the question "does this behavior violate a specific policy?", and
 * saved the wasted effort of each one "doing the 'legal' research" that the initiator ideally should do something like halfway through the dispute.

IMO, the initiator should use the

markup to strike thru the remedies sought, and, following them, add links to the policies that are applicable to the behavior complained against.

Clearly one of the policies in question is
 * three revert rule

I happen to keep a link
 * * The Three-revert Guideline

at a place among my bookmarks where i can find it in 30 seconds, so i offer it here. (By getting its name wrong, the rudimentary citation previously offered arguably mistates the policy's status, the avoidance of which is IMO one of the purposes of expecting citations.)

There aren't many lawyers here, and more to the point, i doubt anyone is sure how to become a WP-lawyer. IMO that puts the burden on those involved in a RfC dispute to help us along by getting their briefs in order.

I can't promise to follow thru on the whole of this process, but i will watch these two pages and read what develops next. --Jerzy(t) 19:39, 2004 Aug 3 (UTC)

 * Apparently CVA decided to ignore both this thread and the Talk:Partisan page. Any suggestions as to what can be done about it? [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 22:48, Aug 5, 2004 (UTC)

 * Does anyone know what to do if a user whose behaviour is disputed denies to take part in the process ? [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 08:47, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

Ok, since User:CVA decided to ignore both this page, Talk:Partisan and his own talk page, I think I'll give up. The only thing I could do right now is to ask for this user to be banned - which I'd rather avoid. Let's hope CVA grew up now and won't engage in similar conflicts in the future. Also, I believe that he now understands that racism is not what wikipedia needs. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 10:58, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)

The good news is the hope for an end to this (for me) distressing apparent attempt to intimidate CVA from defending his well-reasoned position (which, whether correct or not, clearly offended no one but a small and explicitly recruited cadre of apparent nationalists). It featured
 * the ridiculously false charge of violating
 * The Three-revert Guideline
 * (emphasis added),

The bad news is that even now, and whether intended or not, personal insults are being expressed: The pattern suggests to me that each of this cadre labors under at least one of these en:WP-shortcomings: I don't know whether these observations can be useful to them. --Jerzy(t) 18:46, 2004 Sep 2 (UTC)
 * persistance in misnaming that as a "rule" despite correction, and
 * a drumbeat of "racism" accusations where in fact not even ethnic disparagement was evidenced.
 * "Let's hope CVA grew up now"
 * "... he now understands that racism is not what wikipedia needs", which is an understanding that would affect the behavior of racists and no one else.
 * trying to work in English without sufficient skill in comprehending it, or
 * barriers to simultaneously satisfying NPoV and personal commitments.

Jerzy, why "well-reasoned" ? He asked for sources and quotes, he got them. He was asked to define what he means by "wide partisan movements" and he hadn't answered. I don't know whether he has well-reasoned position, because he is refusing to discuss. He clearly didn;t know that Poland was declared by Germans territory endangered by partisan warfare. [quote] Probably the heaviest Partisan activity took place in an 80 kilometre stretch between Vilna and the Pripet marshes, by bands of Jewish Partisans. Yes, the Germans occasionally sent companies to fight them, but, they had no need or desire to occupy marshes. All credible histories and reports estimate the actual number of armed resisters at probably no better then 10%. None of the above constitutes anything like an Army, however many people were living in the wilds and whatever their intentions. In real terms, it didn?t happen. [/quote]

Which is of course false, since Germans did employ additional divisions to fight partisans, and it's ridiculous that from all partiasan groups which acted in that area (by no way the heaviest partisan activity region) he mentioned THE SMALLEST group as THE LARGEST.

Second, about revert war: he reverted few times the page: maybe not three times a day, but still he reverted without any discussion.

Third, about racist: let me quote him: [quote]Unfortunately we can?t find anyone with the time to provide you with an education. All your exaggerated claims quote Polish sources which is to be expected and is quite typical for Poles. The Polish sources are typically exaggerated, selective, and, predictably, exceptionally bias in favour of Poland. i.e. everything they ever did had to be the best or the greatest and/or the world owes them a great debt? [/quote]

While maybe not exaclty racist, i would say that this words are quite strongly suggesting the prejudiced person. I must add that his words were before finally irritated Halibutt made remark about CVA growing up, and IIRC after (but correct me) CVA vandalised Halibutt's page.

Szopen 11:04, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * Without going into too much detail, what I wanted was to force CVA to cooperate and appologize for the remarks quoted above by Szopen. Neither of these was achieved which is a bad thing, but the Partisan matter was solved from a third-person perspective and that I find highly plausible. Contrary to what has been said here, the opinions of CVA were not well-reasoned since he failed to provide us any sources (education, as he put it). They were well-defended by means of a revert war, which is a completely different case.

 * Whether the three-revert thing is a rule or a guideline does not realy matter here: reverting a page without explaining the changes when asked is a no-no. This should be avoided at all costs since it only leads to conflicts. I was hoping that there is some way to show that to CVA. Apparently there is none since CVA stated clearly that he won't cooperate. Let's just hope he won't engage in any further revert activities.

 * My "growing up" remark was not intended to offend anyone and I'm sorry if it did. What I was trying to say is that most wikipedians pass a period of "barbarity" at the beginning of their career here on wikipedia. The same applies to me myself, I engaged in various conflict before I was taught what are the rules and how to explain my edits. In this sense I hope that the "barbarity" period for CVA is over and he will focus on the (really valuable) activities (like the great pages related to SOE he's been working on lately).

 * Finally, the whole case was not about offense (well, except for the "Poles are wrong because they are Poles" case), it was about the non-constructive way CVA behaved. As to your other remarks: perhaps trying to work in English without sufficient skill in comprehending it is my case since I do not realy understand the explicitly recruited cadre of apparent nationalists thing. But I guess it would be better if we left it that way, without explaining that remark.

 * Anyway, the case is closed now. It can be moved to the archives and let's hope it stays there. I hope the rest of my problems with CVA can be solved by means of mediation by Bcorr. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 11:42, Sep 3, 2004 (UTC)

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CCL Industries

CCL Industries Inc. is an American-Canadian company founded in 1951. It describes itself as the world's largest label maker. It is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and is an S&P/TSX 60 Component. CCL consists of five divisions – CCL Label, CCL Container, Avery, Checkpoint, and Innovia. It has 154 manufacturing facilities in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa operated by approximately 20,000 employees.

History
CCL was founded in 1951 as Connecticut Chemicals (Canada) Limited. In 1979, the name was changed to CCL Industries. It originally focused on custom manufacturing for the Canadian consumer products industry. Starting in the 1980s, it expanded into labels and other packaging, and also expanded internationally into the United States and the United Kingdom. It went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1980. In the 2000s, it started shifting away from custom manufacturing and towards labels and packaging; in 2005, it sold its custom manufacturing business to KCP Income Fund for $256 million. In 2006, it sold its interest in ColepCCP, a European custom manufacturing joint venture with Portuguese company RAR, for $140 million. In 2013, it acquired Avery for $500 million from Avery Dennison, its biggest acquisition to that time. In 2015, it bought Worldmark, a British labelling company specializing in labels for the technology sector, for $255 million. In 2016, it acquired Checkpoint Systems for $422 million. In December 2016, CCL acquired Innovia Films Ltd, a British specialty films company, for $1.13 billion Canadian Dollars. In 2017, it joined the S&P/TSX 60.

Business
CCL provides labels and packaging products to various markets, including consumer product, healthcare, and industrial companies. Specific markets served include the home product, personal care, food & beverage, pharmaceutical, apparel, industrial chemical, automotive, and electronics markets. As of 2016, 5% of sales were in Canada, 46% were in the United States, 7% were in Latin America, 28% were in Europe, and the other 14% were in Asia-Pacific and Africa.

CCL Label
CCL's Label business is its largest business segment; contributing approximately 63% to CCL's total sales as of 2016. The Label Division provides package decorating solutions and specialty label applications for global customers. CCL Label is one of the world's largest converters of pressure-sensitive and film materials. The company produces a wide range of labelling products including expanded content, 2-ply, WashOff, Shrink Sleeves, RFID and promotional pieces.

CCL Container
Container business contributes approximately 6% to CCL's total sales and is a manufacturer of aluminum cans and beverage bottles in North America.

Avery
Contributing approximately 20% to CCL's total sales, Avery was acquired from Avery Dennison in 2013 and supplies media for use in digital printers.

Checkpoint Systems
Acquired in 2016, Checkpoint contributes approximately 11% of CCL's total sales. It provides loss-prevention and inventory management labelling for clothing retailers.

Innovia Films Ltd
Acquired in December 2016, Innovia manufactures specialty films for packaging, labelling, graphic arts and industrial products.

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David Foreman

William David Foreman (October 18, 1946 – September 19, 2022) was an American advocate for the conservation of wild lands and wildlife. He was a co-founder of three organizations: Earth First!, the Wildlands Project, and the Rewilding Institute. A prominent member of the radical environmentalism movement beginning in the 1980s, his advocacy and actions shifted in the early 1990s into collaborations with professionals in the field of conservation biology.

Early life and education
William David Foreman was born on October 18, 1946, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His father was a United States Air Force sergeant and later an air traffic controller. Foreman attended San Antonio Junior College before transferring to the University of New Mexico, from which he graduated in 1967 with a degree in history.

Early career
In his early life he was active in conservative politics, campaigning for Barry Goldwater and forming the Young Americans for Freedom conservative youth chapter on his junior college campus. In 1968, Foreman joined the U.S. Marine Corps' Marine Officer Candidates School in Quantico, Virginia, and received an undesirable discharge after 61 days. He then worked as a teacher at a Zuni Indian reservation in New Mexico, where he also worked as a farrier.

The Wilderness Society
Between 1973 and 1980, he worked for The Wilderness Society as Southwest Regional Representative in New Mexico and the Director of Wilderness Affairs in Washington, D.C.

Earth First!
In April 1980, Foreman and friends Howie Wolke, Ron Kezar, Bart Koehler, and Mike Roselle took a week-long hiking trip in the Pinacate Desert. It was during this trip that Foreman is believed to have coined the phrase "Earth First!" The movement that subsequently bore that name was inspired, in some part, by the writings of Edward Abbey, author of the novel The Monkeywrench Gang. The group used direct action tactics, and in contrast with the cautious lobbying efforts of the established environmental organizations, "monkeywrenching"—industrial sabotage traditionally associated with labor struggles—would become the chief tactic of the Earth First! movement in the 1980s. The Earth First! Journal, which grew out of the Earth First! newsletter, was edited by Foreman. In its first issue, Foreman set out the organization's goals: "We will not make political compromises. Let the other outfits do that. EARTH FIRST will set forth the pure, hard-line, radical position of those who believe in the Earth first." Some mainstream environmentalists and others accused Foreman of promoting eco-terrorism.

In 1990, Foreman was one of five people arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation following operation THERMCON, in which FBI agents infiltrated an Arizona Earth First! group, encouraging them to sabotage a powerline feeding a water pumping station. While Foreman had no direct role in the attempted sabotage, he ultimately pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for handing two copies of Ecodefense to an FBI informant, and received a suspended sentence.

By the late 1980s, Earth First! had split into two ideological factions; Foreman and others adhered to a biocentrist view characterized by "apocalyptic biodiversity" but were increasingly challenged by a "millenarianist social justice faction" influenced by the movement's Northern California-based members, including Roselle (who was based in Berkeley) and Judi Bari (of Mendocino County). After less than a decade, Foreman left Earth First!, disillusioned by the changing character of the organization. Foreman described himself "a redneck for the environment" and objected to the left-wing, social justice-oriented approach of younger environmental activists who had joined the group. Foreman and his wife, Nancy Morton, publicly split with Earth First! in 1990, writing in a letter at the time that the group had taken on an "overtly counterculture/anti-establishment style" influenced by the group's California wing. Roselle, in turn, denounced Foreman as "an unrepentant right-wing thug."

After leaving Earth First!
After leaving Earth First!, Foreman co-founded the Wildlands Network in 1991. The group aimed to establish a network of protected wilderness areas across North America. In 2003, Foreman later created a think tank, the Rewilding Institute. The New Mexico-based institute promoted policy proposals for long-term land conservation.

From 1996 to 1998, he served on the Sierra Club's board of directors, but departed after the organization rejected his proposed policy on restrictive immigration.

Controversy
In a 1986 interview, Foreman said the United States should not provide aid for the Ethiopia famine and hunger crisis, but rather, "let nature seek its own balance." He later clarified his position, stating, "I have serious doubts and nagging questions about conventional 'humanitarian' foreign aid responses to the increasing problem of famine in the Third World. That is what I was trying to get at in my comments on famine in Ethiopia. In my oft-quoted remark about famine in Ethiopia, however, I failed to clearly make this point. Indeed, I implied through my sloppy, off-the-cuff remark that famine was purely a biological question of too many people and too few resources, completely unrelated to social organization, economic exploitation, or international relations. I also implied that the best possible social response was for us to do nothing, offer no assistance of any kind, and to just let the hungry starve. I very much regret the way I phrased these comments. Standing by themselves, out of context, they sound truly cold hearted."

Foreman was criticized for his anti-immigration statements, such as when he said, “letting the USA be an overflow valve for problems in Latin America is not solving a thing. It’s just putting more pressure on the resources we have in the USA." He later sought to clarify his statements by saying, "While I still believe that massive and unlimited immigration into any country is a serious problem, I do not support beefing up the Border Patrol and the other agencies that try to keep Latin Americans out of this country. I do not think that this is a realistic or ethical response to the underlying problem." He went on to say, "While I agree that the population question can be approached in narrow, racist, and fascistic ways, I strenuously reject the idea that any and all ecologically-grounded concerns about human overpopulation are racist and fascist. Is it racist and fascist, for example, to propose making birth control methods and devices, including the French abortion pill and sterilization, freely available to any woman or man in the world who desires them?"

Some of the goals of the Wildlands Network have been characterized as "lofty scientific ideals" since it could take 100 years to realize some outcomes. Its founders, including Foreman, replied that they "did not want to compete with existing conservation groups. They wanted to create a framework those groups could work within and a clearinghouse for information and science."

Personal life and death
Foreman formerly lived in Tucson, Arizona. He married Debbie Sease in 1976; they subsequently divorced. He married Nancy Morton in 1986, and she died in 2021.

Foreman died in Albuquerque on September 19, 2022, from interstitial lung disease at the age of 75. He remained active in environmentalist causes until his death.

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CCL

CCL may refer to:

Brands, enterprises, and organizations

 * Cable Consortium of Liberia
 * Canadian Congress of Labour, a Canadian trade union federation
 * Carnival Corporation & plc, stock ticker symbol for the parent company of Carnival Cruise Line
 * Carnival Cruise Line
 * Caribbean Congress of Labour
 * CCL Industries Inc., a Toronto, Ontario-based company
 * Central Coalfields
 * Christian Copyright Licensing International, a company that sells copyrighted works for use in worship services
 * Citizens' Climate Lobby, an international environmental group seeking to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy using carbon pricing
 * Commonwealth Countries League, a civil society organization
 * Couple to Couple League, an international organization teaching natural family planning
 * Center for Civil Liberties (human rights organization), a Ukrainian human rights organization

Computing and technology

 * Cerner CCL (Cerner Command Language), a SQL-like programming language developed by Cerner Corporation
 * Clozure CL, a Common Lisp implementation
 * Communications Controller for Linux, an IBM networking software product
 * Concise Command Language (CCL), a DEC command line interpreter for PDP-8, 10, 11

Educational institutions and libraries

 * Christ College of Law, Bangalore, India
 * Christchurch City Libraries, New Zealand
 * Chung Chi Library, a university library of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
 * Cross Campus Library, the former name of Yale University's Bass Library

Laws and regulations

 * Climate Change Levy, a tax on energy delivered to non-domestic consumers in the United Kingdom
 * Code of Canon Law (disambiguation), the law of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church
 * Commerce Control List, a short name for Supplement No 1 to Part 774 of the US Export Administration Regulations
 * Concealed Carry License, the ability to carry a concealed weapon in some states of the US
 * Contaminant candidate list, a regulatory process for protecting drinking water in the United States
 * Creative Commons License, a set of public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work

Science and mathematics

 * CC chemokine ligand
 * Computational Chemistry List
 * Conjugacy class, a mathematical concept in group theory
 * Connected Component Labeling, an algorithmic application of graph theory
 * Convective condensation level
 * Copper-clad laminates, key materials for making printed circuit boards (PCBs)
 * Corneal collagen cross-linking, also known as CCL

Sports

 * CAF Champions League, an annual African club football (soccer) competition
 * California Collegiate League, a US amateur baseball league featuring collegiate players on summer assignment
 * Catholic Central League, a high school athletic conference in the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association
 * Celebrity Cricket League, a cricket tournament in India between teams representing regional film industries of India
 * Chicago Catholic League, a high school athletic conference in Illinois
 * China Chess League
 * Citrus Coast League, a high school athletic conference in California
 * Coastal Canyon League, a high school athletic conference in California
 * Collegiate Champions League, a basketball league in the Philippines
 * Colorado Cricket League
 * Combined Counties Football League, a football league in England
 * CONCACAF Champions League, a former annual North, Central American and Caribbean club football (soccer) competition, since rebranded to CONCACAF Champions Cup.

Other uses

 * 250, in Roman numerals
 * Chatham County Line, an American bluegrass musical group
 * ChristChurch London, an evangelical Christian church in London, UK
 * Circle MRT line, in Singapore
 * Chinchilla Airport, IATA airport code "CCL"

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Bell housing

Bellhousing (aka bell-housing or bell) is a colloquial term for the component that aligns and connects the transmission of a vehicle to its engine, and which covers and protects the flywheel/clutch or flexplate/torque converter. It derives its name from the bell-like shape that those internal components necessitate. The starter motor may mount to it, and it may support clutch and/or shifter linkage.

A Bellhousing may be a separate housing bolted to the gearbox, or it may be an integral portion of the transmission housing, particularly with front wheel drive transmissions. An integral bell has a front bolt pattern that matches the engine to which it will be paired, and a divorced bell additionally has a rear bolt pattern that matches the gearbox to which it will be paired. The use of different bellhousings on a transmission allows the same transmission to be used on multiple engines in multiple applications.

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Courts Act 1971

The Courts Act 1971 (c. 23) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the purpose of which was to reform and modernise the courts system of England and Wales, as well as effectively separating the business of the criminal and civil courts.

It established the Crown Court, introduced the posts of circuit judge and recorder, and abolished various local courts across the country. Many of its provisions have since been repealed by the Senior Courts Act 1981, but the essential structure described in the act is still in place.

The first part of the act concerns the new Crown Court. It is established as part of the Supreme Court of Judicature, replacing courts of assize and quarter sessions. The appellate jurisdiction of these courts is transferred, and the new court given exclusive jurisdiction in "trial on indictment". It is described as a "superior court of record" for England and Wales. This section has now been superseded by the Senior Courts Act 1981.

History
Report of the Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions (Sessional Papers, House of Commons, Cmnd 4153, 1966–69, XXVIII, 433) was published in 1969 and chaired by Dr. Beeching. The Act was based on most of the report recommendations.

The courts abolished by this act are: The officers of these courts were generally eligible to become circuit judges.
 * all assize courts
 * all quarter sessions
 * The Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster (merged with the High Court)
 * The Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Durham and Sadberge (merged with the High Court)
 * The Mayor's and City of London Court (a new county court is established with the same name)
 * The Tolzey and Pie Poudre Courts of the City and County of Bristol
 * The Liverpool Court of Passage
 * The Norwich Guildhall Court
 * The Court of Record for the Hundred of Salford

The post of circuit judge is introduced in the second part of the Act. They sit in the Crown Court and county courts, are appointed by the monarch on the Lord Chancellor's advice, and retire at the age of 72 (this has now been changed to 70 by the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993). The Lord Chancellor may also sack a circuit judge on the grounds of "incapacity or misbehaviour". Judges are to have a salary and pension, and must take an oath of office. The act also introduces part-time Crown Court judges, known as recorders—also appointed by the Lord Chancellor. (Since the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, appointing judges has been reformed and is now done by the Judicial Appointments Commission in England and Wales, and equivalent bodies in Scotland and Northern Ireland.)

The fourth part of the Courts Act governs the selection of juries and related rules; it has since been repealed by the Juries Act 1974. Most of the remainder of the Act is about other miscellaneous administrative provisions relating to appointments, payment, and accommodation; these have almost all been repealed by the Supreme Court Act and other justice legislation.

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George Weiss (baseball)

George Martin Weiss (June 23, 1894 – August 13, 1972) was an American professional baseball executive. Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971, Weiss was one of the Major Leagues' most successful farm system directors and general managers during his 29-year-long tenure with the New York Yankees.

Working as the head of the Yankees' player-development system from 1932 to 1947, he established it as one of the two best in the game, helping the "Bronx Bombers" win nine American League (AL) pennants and eight World Series championships over 16 seasons. Then, during Weiss' 13 full years as the Yankees' general manager from October 1947 to October 1960, the team won ten AL pennants and seven more World Series titles, compiling a regular-season winning percentage of .622 (1,243–756). He later became the first club president of the New York Mets from 1961 to 1966 after that expansion franchise was formed.

Early life and career
Weiss was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and attended Yale University for a year before dropping out to help run his family's grocery store. In 1915, at age 20, he founded the New Haven MaxFeds in the independent Colonial League, an "outlaw" minor league associated with the Federal League. In 1919, Weiss borrowed $5,000 to acquire the New Haven franchise in the established Class A Eastern League; his team was immediately nicknamed the Weissmen by local baseball writers. He operated the New Haven club, eventually nicknamed the Profs in tribute to Yale, for a decade; it won three league championships between 1920 and 1928. In 1930, Weiss took over the front office of the Baltimore Orioles of the Class AA International League for two seasons.

Farm system director
In 1932, at 37, he was hired by Yankees' owner Jacob Ruppert and general manager Ed Barrow to build up the club's farm system, a concept that had been pioneered in the National League by the St. Louis Cardinals and was the linchpin of the Cardinals' dominance of the senior circuit. Weiss grew the Yankee system from four farm teams in 1931 to 16 by 1939; then, after a four-year retrenchment caused by World War II, to 20 by. Headed by the Yanks' longtime top affiliates, the Newark Bears and Kansas City Blues, it churned out many of the players who would lead the Bombers to 15 world championships through, including skeins of four (1936–39) and five (1949–53) straight World Series triumphs. The Weiss farm system produced three Hall of Famers—Yogi Berra, Joe Gordon and Phil Rizzuto (Joe DiMaggio was acquired directly from the independently owned San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League)—as well as longtime stalwarts such as Hank Bauer, Tiny Bonham, Hank Borowy, Bobby Brown, Spud Chandler, Jerry Coleman, Charlie Keller, Johnny Murphy, Joe Page, Vic Raschi and Red Rolfe. The 1937 Bears (third) and 1939 Blues (12th) have been ranked among the top dozen clubs in minor-league history.

Weiss was retained and named a club vice president by the Yankees' new ownership triumvirate, Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping and Del Webb, when they purchased the team in early 1945. He then served under the new owners for three full seasons, as World War II ended and baseball entered a postwar boom.

As both club president and general manager, MacPhail was the dominant figure in the Yankees' postwar hierarchy. On October 6, 1947, hours after the Yankees won the seventh and deciding game of the 1947 World Series, MacPhail—a notorious drinker with a combustible temper —unexpectedly announced his resignation from both front-office posts during the victory festivities. In a drunken state, he confronted several officials at the celebration, including both Weiss and Topping. Weiss was sitting at a banquet table with his wife when MacPhail loudly and abruptly fired him as the Yankees' farm system director. Topping, upon being berated by MacPhail, grabbed him, escorted him to a nearby room, and calmed him down, while Webb, who had witnessed MacPhail's tantrum, assured Weiss he would remain with the team. The outburst ended MacPhail's baseball career. The next day, October 7, Topping and Webb bought out his one-third share in the Yankees, and promoted Weiss to vice president and general manager.

General manager
Although Topping succeeded MacPhail as club president, for all intents and purposes, Weiss became the operating head of the franchise; Topping and Webb largely left day-to-day operations in Weiss's hands. In his first major trade as general manager, in February 1948, he acquired left-handed pitcher Eddie Lopat from the Chicago White Sox for three players, including former starting catcher Aaron Robinson; Lopat would win 113 games for the Yanks in his 7 $1⁄2$ years in the Bronx. After the Yankees finished third, Weiss fired manager Bucky Harris and replaced him with veteran former National League skipper Casey Stengel. The 58-year-old Stengel had never produced a first-division team in nine attempts as manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves. But in the 12 years from 1949 through 1960, the Weiss-Stengel tandem would win ten AL pennants and seven world titles (1949–53; 1956; 1958). Even when their five-season run as world champions ended in, the Yankees won 103 regular-season games (to finish second, by eight lengths, to the Cleveland Indians).

The Yankee farm system produced two more Hall of Famers early in Weiss's GM tenure, Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle, and continued to contribute key members of their 1950s teams. When it began to falter somewhat in mid-decade, Weiss swung a series of multiplayer trades with second-division teams, first with the Baltimore Orioles and then, frequently, with the Kansas City Athletics, to keep the Bombers at the forefront of their league. These transactions netted the Yankees top players such as Bob Turley, Don Larsen, Bobby Shantz, Art Ditmar, Ryne Duren, Ralph Terry, Clete Boyer and Héctor López. But they also began to struggle in World Series play, losing to Brooklyn in 1955 and the Milwaukee Braves in 1957. In, they won only 79 of 154 games and fell all the way to third, behind the White Sox and Indians. It was the only season during Weiss's time as general manager in which the Bombers failed to win at least 92 games.

He responded by acquiring outfielder Roger Maris from Kansas City in a seven-player transaction in December 1959. A 25-year-old budding star, Maris would win back-to-back American League Most Valuable Player Awards in and  and, in the latter year, smash 61 home runs in his record-setting chase of Babe Ruth's single-season mark. But by the 1961 season, Weiss was gone from the Yankees' front office. After Maris helped the 1960 club return to the top of the American League standings, they were again defeated in that year's World Series, this time by the Pittsburgh Pirates. In the days following the World Series, both Stengel and Weiss were forced into retirement. A longtime assistant, Roy Hamey, succeeded Weiss as general manager. The Yankees then won four more pennants in succession, along with the 1961 and 1962 World Series.

New York Mets
Weiss and Stengel both ended up with the Mets, set to return National League baseball to New York City in 1962, four seasons after the departure of the Dodgers and New York Giants for California. Weiss was named president and de facto general manager of the Mets in March 1961, and Stengel followed as manager in 1962. In the expansion draft, Weiss selected a roster composed largely of veterans who had played for and against the last New York editions of the Dodgers and Giants, including Gil Hodges, Roger Craig, Don Zimmer, Gus Bell, Ed Bouchee and Hobie Landrith. He supplemented these drafted players by acquiring former Brooklyn stars Duke Snider, Charlie Neal, Clem Labine and Billy Loes, and veterans Richie Ashburn, Frank Thomas, Gene Woodling and ex-Yankee prospect Marv Throneberry—among many others—during and.

The on-field results were historically poor. The 1962 Mets put up the worst record (40–120) in recent MLB history, and the 1963, 1964 and 1965 teams lost 111, 109 and 112 games. The Met farm system was slow to contribute useful players; by Opening Day 1966, it had yielded Cleon Jones, Ed Kranepool, Tug McGraw, Ron Swoboda and Bud Harrelson, but only Jones and Kranepool saw service before 1965. Weiss also passed on Reggie Jackson in the 1966 Major League Baseball Draft, instead selecting Steve Chilcott.

In his five seasons as general manager, the Mets escaped last place in the National League only in Weiss's last year. They compiled a composite record of 260–547 (.322). He retired at age 72 on November 14, 1966, and was succeeded by former Cardinal GM Bing Devine. But despite their poor play, the Mets established a dedicated fan base from their first season in existence, and when they left the dilapidated Polo Grounds for their new home, Shea Stadium, in 1964 they outdrew the pennant-winning Yankees, 1.73 to 1.3 million fans. They would dominate New York baseball attendance until 1976, when their American League rivals moved into a renovated Yankee Stadium and won the pennant.

Later life and legacy
Weiss was named The Sporting News' Executive of the Year in 1950, 1951, 1952, and 1960. In 1971, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, one of seven selected for that year's honor. All of the inductees had been selected by the Veterans Committee; no players were elected through the regular voting process of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

Weiss died in Greenwich, Connecticut, at age 78 in 1972. Stengel lamented his death, saying, "George's death is a tough thing on baseball. He was successful and great and capable in every way, shape and form. He wasn't a terrific mixer but George sure knew how to pick men. Why, you can't stay in baseball that long by pulling players out of an icebox." Yogi Berra said that Weiss could be difficult to deal with, but he praised the emotion that Weiss brought to the game as well as his understanding of the importance of scouting. He was inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame in 1982.

With the debut of Elston Howard on April 14, 1955, the Yankees became the sixth of the eight American League teams—and the last of New York City's three big-league clubs—to break the baseball color line. According to the book Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee, Weiss at a cocktail party stated loudly that "he would never allow a black man to wear a Yankee uniform." The Yankees farm system had in place a policy preventing black players from reaching the major league club, according to the book. Howard, the first African-American Yankee, was switched from an outfielder to a catcher, the position at which it would be least likely to break into the major league club, given Berra's presence.

Conflicting opinions have since been expressed about the reasons behind the Yankees' relative tardiness in integrating their playing roster. In their 2016 book, George Weiss: Architect of the Golden Age Yankees, authors Burton A. and Benita W. Boxerman devote a full chapter to the issue and explore some of the motivations that have been attributed to Weiss, both during and after his career. They write:

"Even though the delay in integrating the Yankees was likely a combination of factors including financial success, outstanding performance, unproductive scouts, and possibly the owners' bias against Negroes, it was Weiss, the chief decision-maker in the system, who was held responsible for the lack of a black Yankee. Did deep personal bigotries drive his decisions to delay integrating the Yankees as long as he could? Writers such as Roger Kahn and David Halberstam called him vicious and unable to empathize with any players, especially Negroes. It seemed a much more probable scenario that Weiss's true reason ... was pretty much what he declared when he was asked point-blank why there were no black Yankees: namely, that he was determined to choose a black player who would fit the 'Yankee mould.'"

On a contrary note, Steve Goldman, writing in the SBNation Yankee community Pinstripe Alley in April 2013, said that Weiss:

"... clung to the excuse of so many clubs: We're not going to promote just anyone to the majors because they happen to be black; we're holding out for someone special ... By that standard, of course, only the black Babe Ruth or Lou Gehrig was going to get the call."

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User:JohnArmagh/Concise List of Roman Emperors

The Principate/Claudian Dynasty

Theodosian Dynasty
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Western Empire
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Eastern Empire
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Gallic Empire 260 to 274
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Britannic Empire 286 to 297
continuation: see list of Barbarian kings of Italy

Eastern Empire

 * Arcadius (395 - 408)
 * Theodosius II (408 - 450)
 * Marcian (450 - 457)
 * Leo I (457 - 474)
 * Leo II (474)
 * Zeno (474 - 491)
 * Basiliscus (475 - 476)
 * Zeno (restored) (476 - 491)

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Jules-Paul Tardivel

Jules-Paul Tardivel (2 September 1851 – 24 April 1905) was an American–Québécois writer and a significant promoter of Quebec nationalism.

Tardivel was born in Covington, Kentucky, and sent to Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, for his classical education in the French language. Despite learning French only in his late teens, he became a tireless promoter of French Quebec and detractor of anglicisms.

In July 1874 Tardivel began work in Quebec City on Le Canadien, another paper dedicated to the interests of the Conservative Party. In the 1880s, he founded La Verité, a weekly newspaper extolling his religious, political and social beliefs. Perennial topics included conspiracy theories (typically aimed at Freemasons, socialists, communists, freethinkers, or any combination thereof), conservative Roman Catholic dogma, the domination of Quebec by English Canada, and the subversive effects of the Boy Scout movement. It survived his death, under the editorship of his son,until it ceased publication circa 1920.

In the 1890s, he wrote a futuristic roman à clef about Canadian politics called Pour la Patrie (translated into English the 1970s as For My Country). In it, he accused John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada, of being a Freemason who conspired with the devil to oppress Quebec and to crush the French language.

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User:Nmagedman

Nmagedman is a yeshiva bochur in the Old City of Yerushalayim who is currently debating whether being a wikipedian is just too much bitul Torah.

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Hayduke Lives!

Hayduke Lives!, written in 1989 by Edward Abbey, is the sequel to the popular book The Monkey Wrench Gang. It was published posthumously in 1990 in a mildly unfinished state, as Abbey did not complete revision prior to his death. Thus, the book retains much of its author's unrefined musings.

The Monkey Wrench Gang and Hayduke Lives! have been reprinted numerous times due to their popularity.

Summary
Hayduke Lives! picks up several years after the (literal) cliffhanger and escape from the posse at the end of the previous book. It chronicles George Washington Hayduke's return to the deserts of southern Utah and northern Arizona, where he continues the sabotage initiated in The Monkey Wrench Gang under numerous aliases, such as The Green Baron, and Fred Goodsell. The enigmatic "Kemosabe" (a hero from Abbey's first novel, The Brave Cowboy) also makes a reappearance, coming to the aid of Hayduke after his escape from the posse.

For a grand finale, Abbey reunites Hayduke with the outlaw-heroes of The Monkey Wrench Gang as they plan the destruction the world's largest walking dragline excavator (giant earth mover, also called GEM or Goliath, used for surface mining) while combating a greed-ridden Mormon Bishop in another attempt to save the American Southwest from development. The narrative shifts numerous times between characters neglected by the previous book, including Bishop Love, the wives of Seldom Seen Smith and the FBI agents sent to end the sabotage.

Earth First!
While The Monkey Wrench Gang inspired the creation of the movement Earth First!, the latter is cited in Hayduke Lives! (notably in chapters 12, 24 and 27).

In Hayduke Lives!, the people active for Earth First! wear t-shirts and banners with slogans such as:

• No compromise in defense of Mother Earth!

• We stand for what we stand on!

• American wilderness: love it or leave it alone!

• Goliath go home!

• See one grand canyon you've seen them all!

• BLM means bad luck, mother!

• Caution: land rapers at work!

• Save our canyons: SOC it to the BLM!

• Nuke pukes eat carnotite!

• Radiations is good for who?

• Down with empire, up with spring!

• Guns, god, guts and grass, that's what made America great!

• More elk, less cows!

• Back to the Pleistocene

• Dream back the bison, sing back the swan

• Eschew surplusage

• Hunt cows, not bears

• Hunters: did a cow get your elk?

• Malthus was right

• Muir power to you

• Nature bats last

• Rednecks for wilderness

• Neanderthal and proud of it!

• Pay your rent: work for the Earth

• Walt says: resist much, obey little

• Think globally ... act locally

• Subvert the dominant paradigm

• Hayduke lives!

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User:JohnArmagh/List of Roman Emperors

This is a list of Roman Emperors with the dates they controlled the Roman Empire.

(Note that, contrary to popular belief, Julius Caesar was never Emperor (princeps), although he was named dictator for life in 45 BC (but was not the first Roman to hold that title) and was regarded as such by Roman historians. On the other hand, the name Caesar became the family name of the first dynasty and was effectively treated as a title, a practice which continued throughout the Empire. Similarly, Suetonius wrote of The Twelve Caesars (including the Flavians) so some sense of continuity was evidently felt.)

For the worship of the Roman Emperor as a god, see imperial cult.

For a simplified list see: Concise List of Roman Emperors

italics: claimant who cannot be conisdered to have ruled or held power over part of the empire only

bold italics: nickname by which the individual is commonly known

The Principate/Claudian Dynasty

Theodosian Dynasty
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Western Empire
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Eastern Empire
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Gallic Empire 260 to 274
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Britannic Empire 286 to 297
For continuation, see:- list of Barbarian kings of Italy

Eastern Empire

 * Arcadius (395 - 408)
 * Theodosius II (408 - 450)
 * Marcian (450 - 457)
 * Leo I (457 - 474)
 * Leo II (474)
 * Zeno (474 - 491)
 * Basiliscus (475 - 476)
 * Zeno (restored) (476 - 491)

continuation: see list of Byzantine Emperors

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E. J. Lennox

Edward James Lennox (September 12, 1854 – April 15, 1933) was a Toronto-based architect who designed several of the city's most notable landmarks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Old City Hall and Casa Loma. He designed over 70 buildings in the city of Toronto.

Life and career
The son of Irish immigrants, he studied at the Mechanics' Institute in Toronto, where he finished first in his class. Upon graduation in 1874, he apprenticed with architect William Irving for five years. He then formed a partnership with fellow architect William Frederick McCaw, before forming his own firm in 1881.

He quickly became one of the most successful architects in Toronto. He rose to the top of his profession when he won the contract for Toronto City Hall in 1886. His caricature can be seen carved in stone on the facade of Old City Hall—he's the one with the handlebar moustache.

Many of his buildings were designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, and he was one of the most important figures in bringing that style to Toronto. His creative prowess in the Romanesque Revival style was especially important in The Annex neighbourhood, where Lennox designed the Lewis Lukes House at 37 Madison Avenue in the mid-1880s, pioneering the Annex House. This style of house is indigenous to Toronto, and it blends elements of Romanesque with that of Queen Anne style.

Later in his life, he served as commissioner of the Toronto Transit Commission from 1923 to 1929.

Legacy
A small residential street called E.J. Lennox Way is named for him in Unionville, Ontario, behind the former Unionville Congregational Church.

His son Edgar Edward Lennox was also an architect, as well as brother Charles David Lennox, who worked with E. J. Lennox from 1887 to 1915.

Susan M. Lennox great grand daughter of Charles David Lennox and great great niece of E. J. Lennox also an Architect. Graduate of University of Toronto 1992 Bachelor of Architecture. Co-Founder of Lennox Architects Limited Huntsville Ontario with Susana Marques.

External

 * E. J. Lennox fonds, Archives of Ontario
 * E. J. Lennox fonds, Archives of Ontario

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Daylight (EP)

Daylight is an EP by American hip hop artist Aesop Rock. It was released via Definitive Jux on February 5, 2002. It is also the title of a single from his 2001 album, Labor Days. The song is included on the EP, along with a reworking entitled "Night Light".

Critical reception
In 2015, Daylight was ranked at number 68 on Fact's "100 Best Indie Hip-Hop Records of All Time" list.

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Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins

Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins is the first of three experimental albums released by John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Apple Records. It was the result of an all-night session of musical experimentation with Yoko in John's home studio at Kenwood, while his wife, Cynthia Lennon, was on holiday in Greece. Lennon and Ono's 1968 debut recording is known not only for its avant-garde content, but also for its cover, which shows the couple naked. This made the album controversial to both the public and the parent record company EMI, which refused to distribute it. In an attempt to avoid controversy, the LP record was sold in a brown paper bag, and distributed by Track and Tetragrammaton in the United Kingdom and the United States respectively. Two Virgins, while failing to chart in the UK, reached number 124 in the US. The album was followed six months later by Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions.

Background
John Lennon met Yoko Ono in November 1966 at the Indica Gallery in London after he received an invitation from its owner, John Dunbar, to preview an exhibition by an obscure Japanese artist. Lennon described the exhibition as "positive" and kept in touch with Ono. Two years later, Cynthia Lennon, feeling miserable and increasingly distanced from her husband, decided to go on holiday to Greece with her friends Jenny Boyd and Magic Alex. Whilst on his own, Lennon called Ono and invited her over for the night. The genesis of the album came about when Yoko expressed an interest in John's avant-garde home recordings after he had asked "Do you want to hear some of the things I've been playing around at in my studio?" Lennon then played her some of his tapes which consisted of comedy recordings and electronic sounds, both of which he knew the other Beatles would not allow on their albums. After hearing the tapes, Ono insisted that they make their own recording. Cynthia returned home unexpectedly the next day to find them sitting cross-legged on the floor in matching white robes, staring into each other's eyes.

The Unfinished Music series was an attempt by the pair to keep a record of their life together. With Ono's Grapefruit in mind, they had imagined that the sound was not etched into the vinyl's grooves but was meant to be created by the listener's mind. Lennon described Unfinished Music as "saying whatever you want it to say. It is just us expressing ourselves like a child does, you know, however he feels like then. What we're saying is make your own music. This is Unfinished Music."

Recording
The recordings that ended up on the album consisted largely of tape loops, playing while Lennon tried out different instruments (piano, organ, drums) and sound effects (including reverb, delay and distortion), changed tapes and played other recordings, and conversed with Ono, who vocalised ad-lib in response to the sounds. Both of them had experience in avant-garde music: Ono had staged various multimedia events in New York during the early 1960s, and Lennon had worked on audio experimentation in the Beatles. Lennon's longtime friend Peter Shotton recalled later in his memoir that many of the loops heard on the album were made by John and himself in the days before the recording. Lennon recorded directly to two-track stereophonic, but much of the source material was monophonic. The song "Together", written by George Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson, can be heard playing in the background.

Shortly after the release of the Two Virgins, John stated in an interview that he believed the album "can change people", as others "have changed my head, just with their records." He then claimed "that's what Yoko and my singing is, to change it like that". Lennon talked about making the album and Ono's influence on him, in an interview in 1980 with Playboy's David Sheff: "Well, after Yoko and I met, I didn't realize I was in love with her. I was still thinking it was an artistic collaboration, as it were – producer and artist, right? ... My ex-wife was away ... and Yoko came to visit me. ... instead of making love, we went upstairs and made tapes. I had this room full of different tapes where I would write and make strange loops and things like that for the Beatles' stuff. So we made a tape all night. She was doing her funny voices and I was pushing all different buttons on my tape recorder and getting sound effects. And then as the sun rose we made love and that was Two Virgins." This was John's first recording project that did not feature any help from the other Beatles; parts of the album were reminiscent of later editions of the Beatles' Christmas flexi recordings.

Cover
Lennon and Ono used a time-delay camera, which was set up by Tony Bramwell, to take nude photographs of themselves for the album's cover: these were taken at 34 Montagu Square, in early October 1968. Lennon explained that they "were both a bit embarrassed when we peeled off for the picture, so I took it myself with a delayed action shutter." The front cover showed them frontally nude while the rear cover showed them nude from behind. John's idea was to have the nude shot for the front album cover. Neil Aspinall recalled that Lennon gave the roll of film to an Apple employee called Jeremy, with instructions to develop the photographs. Jeremy claimed that the pictures were "mind-blowing"; Aspinall wryly observed that "Everything was always 'mind-blowing' to Jeremy" and then went on to say "but – just that one time – he was actually right. He couldn't believe it."

The cover provoked an outrage, prompting distributors to sell the album in a plain brown wrapper. Quotes from Genesis Chapter 2, chosen by Derek Taylor, were placed on the back of the brown bag. The album's title arose from the couple's feeling that they were "two innocents, lost in a world gone mad", and because after making the recording, the pair consummated their relationship. Lennon said that the cover "just seemed natural for us. We're all naked really." Ono viewed the cover as a significant declaration: "I was in the artistic community, where a painter did a thing about rolling a naked woman with blue paint on her body on a canvas; ... that was going on at the time. The only difference was that we were going to stand together, which I thought was very interesting ... it was just standing straight. I liked that concept." The album was regarded by some authorities as being obscene and copies were impounded in several jurisdictions (including 30,000 copies in New Jersey in January 1969). Lennon commented that the uproar seemed to have less to do with the explicit nudity, and more to do with the fact that the pair were rather unattractive; he described it later as a picture of "two slightly overweight ex-junkies".

Release and aftermath
Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins was released by Apple Records in the US in electronically rechanneled stereo on 11 November 1968, and in the UK in mono and electronically rechanneled for stereo on 29 November 1968. The mono version was available only in the UK by mail order. The album was distributed by Track Records in the UK and Tetragrammaton Records in the US after EMI refused to produce the cover or sleeve to the record, unless it was changed. EMI, however, pressed the record in Britain, while the album cover was printed by Technik. Apple employee Jack Oliver got around the sleeve packing problem by hiring several Apple scruffs to package the album into sleeves "in the basement of the old Apple shop".

It took Lennon six months to persuade his fellow band members to agree to the release of the album, and despite not approving of the front cover, Paul McCartney was asked to provide a note for it which read: "When two great Saints meet, it is a humbling experience. The long battles to prove he was a Saint." In the UK, McCartney's quote and the album title were placed on its back cover. Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins failed to chart in the UK (and only 5,000 British copies were ever pressed), but managed to reach number 124 in the US, after 25,000 copies were sold. Several months after its release, Capitol gave away promotional blank picture disc copies of the album to its employees.

The cover art was changed for each of the album's three 8-track issues: Tetragrammaton/Ampex Tapes replaced the front cover with the back cover; North America Leisure Corp (NAL) reinstated the original front cover, and General Recorded Tape (GRT) released the 8-track with a paper sheet sleeve. The album was re-issued (albeit unlicensed and unauthorized) in the US during the 1970s and 1980s. One edition on the Rock Classics label, which was released in January 1993, claimed to be distributed by Tetragrammaton (which was defunct by 1970) and not mastered from the original tape, but was merely transferred from a copy of the record with audible surface noise. The fake-stereo mix of the album was officially re-issued on Rykodisc on 3 June 1997, under the observation of Ono, with an additional bonus track—"Give Peace a Chance"'s B-side "Remember Love". This edition of the album is slightly edited; it is missing about 30 seconds of audio from the end of the second side, as well as a few seconds from the start of side two. Several unauthorized versions of the album, cassette tape and compact disc also exist.

Critics and the public abhorred the album. Actress Sissy Spacek, using the pseudonym Rainbo, recorded the song "John, You Went Too Far This Time" in response to the album's cover. In a retrospective assessment, William Ruhlmann of AllMusic remarked that it was "not unlike what you might get if you turned on a tape recorder for a random half-hour in your home", calling the music "naked". More favourable, Pitchfork reviewer Seth Colter Walls considered the album the "fascinating" product "of a first date", while noting "it has plenty of competition" with other Fluxus-inspired sound artefacts from the era. He also wrote that "Revolution 9", created by Lennon and Ono with George Harrison, is a "much tighter" sound collage than Two Virgins.

John and Yoko went on to release a further two related recordings: Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions and the Wedding Album.

The album was reissued on LP, CD, and digitally by Secretly Canadian on 11 November 2016. The LP was a brand-new remaster of the unedited fake-stereo mix. The CD was identical to the Rykodisc CD edition.

Track listing
All selections by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, except where noted.

 * Side one
 * 1) "Two Virgins Side One": – 14:14
 * 2) *"Two Virgins No. 1"
 * 3) *"Together" performed by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, vocalist: Tony Craig (George "Buddy" DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson)
 * 4) *"Two Virgins No. 2"
 * 5) *"Two Virgins No. 3"
 * 6) *"Two Virgins No. 4"
 * 7) *"Two Virgins No. 5"

 * Side two
 * 1) "Two Virgins Side Two": – 15:13
 * 2) *"Two Virgins No. 6"
 * 3) *"Hushabye Hushabye" ("I'd Love to Fall Asleep and Wake Up in My Mammy's Arms" performed by Fred Douglas and his orchestra) (Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young, Fred E. Ahlert)
 * 4) *"Two Virgins No. 7"
 * 5) *"Two Virgins No. 8"
 * 6) *"Two Virgins No. 9"
 * 7) *"Two Virgins No. 10"

 * Bonus track
 * 1) "Remember Love" (Ono) – 4:05

Personnel

 * John Lennon – vocals, spoken dialogue, screaming, piano, organ, mellotron, percussion, guitars, various instruments, tape loops, sound effects
 * Yoko Ono – vocals, spoken dialogue, screaming, piano, percussion, various instruments, tape loops, sound effects
 * Pete Shotton – tape loops

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Bazooka Tooth

Bazooka Tooth is the fourth studio album by American hip hop artist Aesop Rock. It was released on Definitive Jux in 2003.

Critical reception
Bazooka Tooth received generally favorable reviews from critics. Metacritic gave the album a score of 74 out of 100, based on 16 reviews.

Rollie Pemberton of Pitchfork called Bazooka Tooth "another strong outing from one of underground hip-hop's most talented, thanks in no small part to its unprecedented wealth of lyrical depth and individual production style." Thomas Quinlan of Exclaim! commented that "Aesop drops abstract poetry, heartfelt stories and new millennial b-boyisms in his gruff monotone flow." Francis Henville of Stylus Magazine noted that "the beats feel somewhat restrained, lethargic and lazy" and "they are perfectly suited to Aesop's limpid down-tempo rhymes."

Meanwhile, John Bush of AllMusic felt that Bazooka Tooth lacks "the catchy, sample-driven flavor" of Labor Days. David Morris of PopMatters gave the album an unfavorable review and said, "Bazooka Tooth is almost a textbook example of what happens when a previously struggling artist gets a handful of success".

In 2013, Danny Brown named it one of his 25 favorite albums.

Personnel
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

 * El-P – executive producer
 * Nasa – engineering, mixing (all tracks)
 * Spence Boogie – assistant engineer (all tracks)
 * Tippy – mastering engineer (all tracks)
 * DJ Cip One – scratches (1–3, 6)
 * DJ paWL – scratches (9)
 * Jer – pots and pans (1)
 * Cannibal Ox – additional vocals
 * S.A. Smash – additional vocals
 * Party Fun Action Committee – additional vocals
 * Murs – additional vocals
 * Tomer Hanuka – illustrations
 * Dan Ezra Lang – design and logos
 * Ben Colen – photos
 * Jesse Ferguson – product manager

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Blair Hull

Blair Hull (born September 3, 1942) is an American businessman, investor, and Democratic politician.

Hull founded Hull Trading Company in 1985 and served as the firm's Chairman and chief executive officer before selling it to Goldman Sachs in 1999 for $531 million. The company, which leveraged technological innovations and quantitative models, was one of the world's premier market-making firms, trading on 28 exchanges in nine countries. Hull went on to found Hull Investments, LLC in 1999 which serves as a family office for three generations of the Hull family, and acts as parent company to a number of financial entities. In 2009, Hull founded Ketchum Trading, LLC, a proprietary trading firm that traded and provided liquidity in futures, options, cash equities and exchange-traded funds. And in 2013, Hull created Hull Tactical Asset Allocation, LLC. HTAA operates an actively managed ETF and utilizes advanced algorithms as well as macro and technical indicators to anticipate future market returns.

Trader Monthly recognized him for having executed one of "The 40 Greatest Trades of All Time" and Worth Magazine named him one of "Wall Street’s 25 Smartest Players." Hull has also been honored by The Options Industry Council as the 2014 recipient of the Joseph W. Sullivan Options Industry Achievement Award" in recognition of his outstanding lifetime contributions to the growth and integrity of the U.S. options market.

A longtime political activist and donor, Blair Hull sought the Illinois Democratic Party nomination as candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2004 as a champion of universal healthcare and efficiency in government. Barack Obama ultimately won that primary. Blair Hull remains active in the political arena as both an activist and donor. Hull is married to Cynthia Cranmer Erb, and is father to four adult children: Kristin, Megan, Jeff, and Courtney.

Early years
Blair Hull was born in 1942, the son of Marson Hull and Jean Matlock Hull, and raised in Los Gatos, California—near what would later be called Silicon Valley. After completing high school, Hull went to work on the assembly line of a cannery factory to help support his family, ultimately joining Union Local 679 and earning himself a union card by the age of 19.

During the Vietnam buildup, Hull served six years in the United States Army. After reaching the rank of lieutenant and completing his military service, Blair Hull turned to the classroom, teaching high school level math and physics before becoming a student again himself and going on to higher education with the GI Bill, as his father had done before him.

He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, his MBA from Santa Clara University and graduated from the Harvard Owner/President Management Program.

While working full-time at a manufacturing company, Hull tested his mathematical and analytical skills at the blackjack tables in Las Vegas, where he proved to be a skilled and disciplined player. Hull took his accumulated winnings to the Pacific Stock Exchange, then to the Chicago financial exchanges. Once there, he established himself as a pioneer in the trading industry, revolutionizing the financial markets through the use of innovative models and state-of-the-art technology.

As Founder of Hull Trading Company, Blair Hull built a business from scratch in Illinois, created hundreds of jobs, and grew his company into one of the most successful trading firms in the country.

Blackjack
In 2022, Blair Hull was inducted into the Blackjack Hall of Fame, an organization that honors the greatest blackjack experts, authors and professional players in history. Hull was a big player in Al Francesco’s blackjack team in the mid-’70s, is responsible for the Hall of Fame’s success in forming its own 501-C3 Charitable Foundation, and is also the recipient of the first “Ed Thorp Lifetime Achievement Award.”

Trained in mathematics and computer science, Blair Hull first applied his skills and training to advantage play in blackjack, and then went on to develop an empirical model independent of Black–Scholes to use on the financial markets. Throughout the 1970s, Hull honed his system on the casino floors. As one of the “Big Players” on Al Francesco’s storied blackjack team, Blair beat the odds, or rather, beat the house by shifting the edge in his favor. By utilizing mathematical systems - first Edward O. Thorp's 10 Count Card system, and later Lawrence Revere's Advanced Point Count system - Hull and a team of skilled card players were able to determine when they gained an advantage over the dealer, and how best to bet to exploit that advantage. They consistently turned a profit, and their story is outlined in the book "The Big Player" by Ken Uston.
 * "When Hull played blackjack, he saw it not as a risk-taking endeavor but rather “a clear financial opportunity that other people did not see.” With the right system, blackjack became a positive-expectation game: Statistically speaking, Hull had to win (over the long haul at least). Similarly, he would have been loath to enter the options market without what he perceived as an advantage. At the Pacific Exchange, Hull’s equivalent to card counting was the exploitation of his computer-generated theoretical-value sheets. Based on an option-pricing model of Hull’s own invention (similar to the Black–Scholes model, though he was unaware of their work at the time), the sheets told him what each option was truly worth at a particular stock price—and he would buy or sell accordingly to exploit the spread. The system worked." –MBA Jungle

Hull left the blackjack tables with $25,000 and took his winnings to the markets—first leasing a seat on the Pacific Stock Exchange, then starting a firm on the Chicago financial exchanges.

Hull Trading Company
Blair Hull founded Hull Trading Company in 1985 and served as the firm's chairman and CEO.
 * Hull Trading Company 1985–1999

The company was a global leader in the application of computer technology to listed derivatives trading. Hull developed a proprietary and large scale reliable distributed system architecture, providing automatic real-time pricing, risk management, market making and interconnection with automated options, futures and stock exchanges as they became available. Hull's massively scalable software technology was deployed to cover both domestic and international markets as electronic, on-line exchanges became available, while innovative hand-held computer technology was employed at exchanges still requiring execution by floor traders.

 * "The trading room at Hull headquarters looks like NASA mission control. Powerful workstations process streams of financial data, flashing advice to the handhelds carried by Hull traders at the CBOE and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). Different workstations track the firm's risk profile, sending handheld-equipped traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange instructions about how to use futures contracts to hedge trades being made at the CBOE and the CBOT.
 * The goal of this remarkable technological firepower is simple: not to take big risks but to find sure things. Hull's computers search the markets for temporary price imperfections, devise transactions to profit from the imperfections, and hedge those bets to protect against other risks. It's a lot like blackjack. "All you need is a mathematical advantage and the controls to ensure that you stay in the game," Hull argues. "Everything else takes care of itself." –Fast Compa

The firm grew to over 250 employees including financial engineers, physicists, almost 100 software engineers and computer support staff. At its peak, Hull Trading Company moved nearly a quarter of the entire daily market volume on some markets, executed over 7% of the index options traded in the United States, 3% of the equity options, and 1% of all shares traded daily on the New York Stock Exchange.
 * "His computers trade stocks faster than the human eye can see them scroll on a screen. The system is designed to predict patterns that will unfold in the market over periods as short as two minutes. In a business that isn't normally modest about its technological savvy, Hull and his automated trading shop are the envy of Wall Street's top firms." – Worth Magazine

In 1999, Blair Hull sold his company to Goldman Sachs for $531 million.

Hull Investments, LLC
Hull Investments, LLC was founded in 1999 following the sale of Hull Trading Group to Goldman Sachs for $531 million. Today, Hull Investments, LLC serves as the family office for three generations of the Hull family, and acts as parent company to a number of financial entities including Hull Tactical Asset Allocation, LLC.
 * Hull Investments, LLC 1999–Current

Ketchum Trading, LLC
Blair Hull founded Ketchum Trading, LLC in 2009 and served as its chairman until 2018. Ketchum Trading was a privately held, proprietary trading firm, based in Chicago, Illinois. Driven by algorithms and technology, this proprietary trading firm made markets and traded in futures, options, cash equities and exchange-traded funds.
 * Ketchum Trading, LLC 2009–2018

Hull Tactical Asset Allocation, LLC
HTAA, LLC is a SEC registered investment advisor that was founded in 2013. HTAA, LLC is an independent, privately owned firm focused on quantitative asset management and long-term capital management. HTAA, LLC serves as an advisor to ETFs, and utilizes advanced algorithms and macro and technical indicators to anticipate future market returns.
 * Hull Tactical Asset Allocation, LLC 2013–Current

Advocacy
Blair Hull is an outspoken supporter of a woman's right to choose. He has served on the national foundation board of NARAL Pro-Choice America, and has been actively involved with Planned Parenthood, Emily's List, and Voters for Choice. In Illinois, Hull has been recognized by the Illinois General Assembly for his lifelong advocacy and dedication to protecting the rights of all women, and has been honored as a Lifetime Activist by Personal PAC, Illinois' largest and most influential pro-choice organization. Blair Hull, along with his daughter, also played a critical role in the landmark Supreme Court decision surrounding Title IX, Cohen vs. Brown University which leveled the playing field for women in sports. Hull served on the board of the Women's Sports Foundation, and he endowed the first Chair in Women's Studies at his alma mater, University of California, Santa Barbara Blair Hull is a strong voice in favor of gay rights and greater equality. He has been an outspoken advocate in favor of the repeal of the military's ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy; has supported the strengthening of hate crimes legislation; and has pushed for passage of ENDA and repeal of DOMA. Hull has also been a generous supporter of the Human Rights Campaign, Equality Illinois, Lambda Legal Defense Fund, and Test Positive Aware Network. Blair Hull has been a longtime financial supporter of Democratic causes and candidates across the country campaigning for a wide range of local, state, and national offices.
 * Women's Reproductive Health, Gender Equity
 * LGBT causes
 * Donor

2004 U.S. Senate race
Blair Hull ran in the 2004 Illinois Democratic Primary to be the party's United States Senate nominee. The Senate seat had been vacated by retiring Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald. Hull's candidacy brought a unique background to the crowded Democratic field.

 * "...As a former high school teacher, union worker, and board member of NARAL, [Hull] appeals to important Democratic constituencies; as the lone veteran in the field, he can oppose the war in Iraq unquestioned. His unusual life story, too, sets Hull apart from the drab lawyers, state representatives, and political scions who normally pursue office in Illinois." – Atlantic Monthly

Hull was unique among the candidate field: he was an Army veteran, had been a card-carrying union member, had taught students as a high school math teacher, and was a successful businessman who had built a business and created jobs in Illinois. During the campaign, Hull railed against the corporate special interests and their influence in Washington. He advocated universal healthcare, greater efficiency in government, campaign finance reform, and re-importation of prescription drugs.

Hull garnered nationwide attention for inviting scores of prescription-drug dependent senior citizens aboard his campaign buses to travel across the US/ Canada border into Windsor, Ontario where they could purchase their medications at dramatically lower prices. The trips served to focus media attention on the rising costs of American healthcare, and to frame the debate as the campaign moved forward.

Hull largely self-funded his campaign for Senate, spending $29 million of his own money on the race. His early start, compelling profile, considerable fortune, and heavy campaign advertising on television ensured that Hull led the crowded Democratic field for much of the primary race. While Hull topped the polls till the final weeks of the campaign, Barack Obama succeeded in winning the election. Blair Hull finished third. Hull's numbers dropped late in the race following allegations of marital issues. Hull held the record on the most money self-funded by a candidate in a U.S. Senate primary election until 2024, when U.S. representative David Trone gave his campaign over $40 million during the primary of the 2024 United States Senate election in Maryland. Hull remains active in Democratic politics, both as an activist and a donor.

Academic publications
"A Practitioner's Defense of Return Predictability" by Blair Hull and Xiao Qiao, May 26, 2015

"Return Predictability and Market-Timing: A One-Month Model" by Blair Hull, Xiao Qiao, and Petra Bakosova, October 10, 2017

"Seasonal Effects and Other Anomalies" by Blair Hull, Petra Bakosova and Alexander Kment, April 28, 2018

"Option Pricing Via Breakeven Volatility" by Blair Hull, Along Li and Xiao Qiao, October 11, 2021

Hull Family Foundation
Blair Hull and his four adult children partnered to create the Hull Family Foundation in 1999. The Hull Family Foundation seeks to promote social justice and believes education is a key factor in initiating change. The Foundation also supports art and culture, as well as efforts to promote and maintain healthy, sustainable ecosystems. From 2007 to 2011 the Hull endowment transitioned from a traditional investment portfolio into one of the country's first 100% mission impact invested portfolios.

Board Membership
Blair Hull has served on the board of directors of the Chicago Board Options Exchange from 1988 to 1990, the Board of the Options Clearing Corporation from 1992 to 1998, and BARRA, Inc. from 1992 to 2004. He formerly served on the Foundation Board of directors for NARAL and the board of directors of Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Blair Hull is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of California Santa Barbara Foundation and in 1998 he endowed the first Chair in Women's Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Hull is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, and the Union League Club of Chicago.

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United States Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds

The U.S. Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds was a committee of the United States Senate from 1883 until 1946. It was preceded by the United States Congress Joint Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and succeeded by the United States Senate Committee on Public Works.

Committee Chairpersons

 * 1883–1887: William Mahone (RA/R-VA)
 * 1887–1893: Leland Stanford (R-CA)
 * 1893–1895: George Vest (D-MO)
 * 1895–1899: Matthew S. Quay (R-PA)
 * 1899–1905: Charles W. Fairbanks (R-IN)
 * 1905–1911: Nathan Scott (R-WV)
 * 1911–1913: George Sutherland (R-UT)
 * 1913–1918: Claude A. Swanson (D-VA)
 * 1918–1919: James A. Reed (D-MO)
 * 1919–1926: Bert M. Fernald (R-ME)
 * 1926–1927: Irvine L. Lenroot (R-WI)
 * 1927–1933: Henry W. Keyes (R-NH)
 * 1933–1942: Tom Connally (D-TX)
 * 1942–1945: Francis Maloney (D-CT)
 * 1945–1946: Charles O. Andrews (D-FL)


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Labor Days

Labor Days is the third studio album by American hip hop artist Aesop Rock. It was released by Definitive Jux on September 18, 2001. It is a concept album about work. The album's production was handled by Aesop Rock, Blockhead, and Omega One.

"Labor" was featured on the soundtrack of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4.

Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Labor Days received an average score of 92 based on 5 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

In 2010, Rhapsody included it on its "10 Best Albums by White Rappers" list. In 2015, Fact placed it at number 17 on its "100 Best Indie Hip-Hop Records of All Time" list.

Track listing
Note: Track 5, "No Regrets", is sometimes stylized as "No rEgrets".

Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.

 * Aesop Rock – vocals, production (1, 6, 9, 10), recording
 * Illogic – vocals (6)
 * C-Rayz Walz – vocals (11)
 * Blockhead – production (2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14)
 * Omega One – production (8), turntables
 * Cryptic One – mixing
 * Emily Lazar – mastering
 * Dan Ezra Lang – art direction, design
 * Owen Brozman – illustration
 * Ben Colen – photography

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ConjuChem

ConjuChem Biotechnologies Inc. is a medical biotechnology company located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada which is credited with inventing the experimental peptide hormone CJC-1295.

It employs 45 people, 90% of whom are in research and development.

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List of fictional countries on the Earth

This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere as we know it – as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.


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