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Malcolm Macdonald

Malcolm Ian Macdonald (born 7 January 1950) is an English former professional footballer, manager and media figure. Nicknamed "Supermac", Macdonald was a quick, powerfully built and prolific goalscorer. He played for Fulham, Luton Town, Newcastle United, Arsenal and England. Macdonald is Newcastle's fifth-highest goalscorer of all time. He was top scorer in the English First Division with Newcastle in 1975 and with Arsenal in 1977.

Early years and Fulham
Born in Finlay Street, Fulham, Macdonald attended the same school (Sloane Grammar school on Hortensia Rd in Chelsea) as former Genesis and GTR guitarist Steve Hackett. Macdonald started his career as a full back before switching to centre forward. He started his career at Barnet. After playing for non-league side Tonbridge, his schoolboy hero Bobby Robson paid £1,000 to sign him for Fulham in 1968 just after their relegation from the Football League First Division.

Luton Town
A year later, Macdonald moved to Luton Town. At Luton he scored 58 times in 101 matches.

Newcastle United
Newcastle United manager Joe Harvey signed Macdonald for £180,000 in the summer of 1971. He made an immediate impact by scoring a hat-trick on his home debut against Liverpool. It was in this game that MacDonald earned the nickname "Supermac", which came from a chant by the Newcastle fans to the tune of "Superstar" from Jesus Christ Superstar, namely, "Supermac, superstar, how many goals have you scored so far?"

In his first season Newcastle were bottom of the table on 30 October 1971 after Everton handed them their fifth consecutive defeat of the season. That match was the Newcastle debut of Tony Green. With Green and Macdonald teaming up effectively up front for Newcastle, the team prospered, with an unbeaten run of five wins and two draws, climbing up the table. They finished the league eleventh, with Macdonald scoring 30 goals in 52 games in his first season to be Newcastle's top scorer in 1972. He top scored again in 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1976. He was also the First Division's top scorer for that 1975–76 season.

Macdonald scored twice, defeating Burnley in the 1973–74 FA Cup semi-final. In the 1974 FA Cup final, Newcastle lost 3–0 to Liverpool.

Macdonald set up an equalising goal for Alan Gowling in the 1976 League Cup final at Wembley, but Newcastle went on to lose 2–1 to Manchester City.

Arsenal
Macdonald left Newcastle for Arsenal in 1976, for an unusual fee of £333,333.34. In December 1976, he scored a hat-trick for his new club against Newcastle in a 5–3 win at Highbury. He was the club's top scorer for two consecutive seasons and was the top scorer for the First Division in 1977. Macdonald, at the time not fully fit, got to the FA Cup final of 1978 after scoring twice in the semi-final against Orient at Stamford Bridge. He earned a runners-up medal in the final after a 1–0 defeat to Ipswich Town. At the start of the 1978–79 season, he suffered a knee injury in a League Cup match against Rotherham, an injury from which he was unable to completely recover.

South Melbourne Hellas
After completing the English First Division season with Arsenal, Macdonald was lured to Australia in 1977 to play for South Melbourne Hellas in the National Soccer League.

He played three games during the middle of the 1977 National Soccer League season, scoring on his debut against West Adelaide, playing at home against Brisbane Lions and most notably scoring twice against St George (who fielded former Arsenal star Charlie George), which drew a capacity crowd to Middle Park, providing a rare high point to an otherwise poor season for Hellas.

Djurgården
Macdonald spent a couple of months in Sweden with Djurgården, after which he announced his retirement from playing at the premature age of 29 in August 1979. In his footballing career, Macdonald scored a total of 193 goals.

International career
While at Newcastle, he made his England debut against Wales at Wembley Stadium. Macdonald was on the England scoresheet for the first time in a friendly 2–0 win over then World Champions West Germany.

On 16 April 1975, in a European Championship qualifier also held at Wembley Stadium, Macdonald scored all five goals in a 5–0 victory for England against Cyprus equalling the record for the most goals scored in a single game by an England player. This feat has not been repeated since by any English footballer. Although three pre-war players, Howard Vaughton, Steve Bloomer and Willie Hall, had previously scored five for England, Macdonald was the first, and remains the only, player to do so in a competitive international. His feat spawned the newspaper headline "SuperMac 5, Cyprus 0".

In total he played 14 times for England scoring six goals.

Managerial career
After retirement from playing, Macdonald returned to Fulham as a manager in 1980. His time at Craven Cottage was initially successful, with promotion to the Second Division being achieved in 1982.

In the 1982–83 season, they appeared certainties for promotion to the First Division for the majority of the season, but a slump in the later stages of the season allowed their lead to wither away and they finished 4th. The following season began as a struggle before a second half turnaround saw them into mid-table safety, with Macdonald, even before the season's end leaving the club in April 1984.

He returned to management at Huddersfield Town in 1987, but his time in charge proved unfruitful as the side were relegated from the Second Division in dismal fashion, including a 10–1 defeat to Manchester City.

, Macdonald is the president of North Shields F.C.

Media career
Macdonald appeared on the TV show Superstars in 1975, where he ran 100m in 10.9 seconds.

Macdonald worked extensively for Real Radio North East, presenting, firstly in 2000, the Legends Football Phone-In, alongside Bernie Slaven and Micky Horswill. At the end of the 2011–12 season the programme was axed from Real Radio and then made its way upon Star Radio North East, so continuing in a similar format until 2014. Macdonald also presented an interview series for the Century Radio Network titled Upfront With Malcolm Macdonald, in which he talked to famous players such as Ian Wright, Joe Royle and Peter Beardsley among others.

He also writes a regular column for the retro football magazine Backpass.

In 2011, Macdonald was strongly critical of Newcastle United's decision to change their stadium name from St James' Park to the Sports Direct Arena. Macdonald said: "It seems antagonistic. It's not only part of the football club's heritage, but part of the heritage of the city."

Outside football
After a failed business venture and divorcing his second wife, he struggled with the aftermath of his injury. Macdonald said that the pain from his long-standing knee injury led to an increasing dependence on alcohol. He eventually gave up drinking in 1997.

Macdonald is married to Carol, the former wife of Brian Johnson.

International

 * Scores and results list England's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Macdonald goal.

Honours
Newcastle United
 * FA Cup runner-up: 1973–74
 * Football League Cup runner-up: 1975–76

Arsenal
 * FA Cup runner-up: 1977–78

Individual
 * Football League First Division top scorer: 1975, 1977
 * PFA Team of the Year: 1974
 * Newcastle United Hall of Fame
 * Football League 100 Legends

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Malcolm MacDonald

Malcolm John MacDonald (17 August 1901 – 11 January 1981) was a British politician and diplomat. He was initially a Labour Member of Parliament (MP), but in 1931 followed his father Ramsay MacDonald in breaking with the party and joining the National Government. He was consequently expelled from the Labour Party. MacDonald was a government minister during the Second World War and was later Governor of Kenya.

Early life
MacDonald was born to future Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and Margaret MacDonald. Like his father, he was born in Lossiemouth, Moray. He was educated at Bedales School and Queen's College, Oxford. MacDonald was a successful member of his college debating team and in 1924 embarked on a debating tour of the United States and Australia.

Early career
MacDonald was first elected to Parliament for Bassetlaw in the 1929 general election and proved to be a "loyal" son, in contrast to Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin's son Oliver who was also elected a Labour MP. In 1931, the Labour government broke up and MacDonald's father formed the National Government, with representatives drawn from all political parties. Very few Labour members supported it, however, and so Malcolm was appointed to a junior ministerial post as Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

When the Labour MPs met to discuss the formation of the government, Malcolm was the only person to speak in favour of his father's actions and to vote against a condemnatory resolution.

MacDonald held his seat in the 1931 general election as a National Labour candidate, and he continued to build up a reputation as a highly competent minister. When his father retired as prime minister in 1935, Stanley Baldwin as the successor appointed Malcolm to the Cabinet for the first time as Secretary of State for the Colonies. MacDonald senior at the same time became Lord President of the Council, and they became only the third father and son to sit together in the same Cabinet.

In the 1935 general election, which was held that autumn, MacDonald narrowly lost his seat. After some discussion, Baldwin decided to retain him in government but to move him to the post of Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs in a direct swap with James Henry Thomas, who had created problems with some Dominion governments.

In February, MacDonald stood for Parliament in a by-election at Ross and Cromarty. The election proved chaotic, as the local Conservative & Unionist Association declined to support him, unlike the local National Liberals, and instead adopted as its candidate Randolph Churchill, the son of Winston Churchill, who had emerged as a prominent Conservative critic of the government.

However, MacDonald won the by-election and returned to Parliament. MacDonald retained his position after Baldwin's and MacDonald's final retirements in 1937. With the new prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, MacDonald set about negotiating a new set of agreements with the Irish Free State to resolve disputes over trade, compensation and the Treaty Ports which the United Kingdom still retained. Although the issue of Northern Ireland could not be agreed, all other matters were settled, and MacDonald won many plaudits.

Palestine
In May 1938, Chamberlain moved him back to the Colonial Office, a move that was now seen as a promotion because of the increased prominence of the position, given the situation in the British Mandate of Palestine. In October, the new Dominions Secretary, Lord Stanley, died; given that this was a sensitive period for the work of the Dominions Office, and an experienced pair of hands was required for the post, MacDonald was appointed to succeed him, in addition to the post he already held. In January, he relinquished the Dominions Office.

In 1939, MacDonald oversaw and introduced the so-called MacDonald White Paper which aimed at the creation of a unified state in Palestine, with controls on Jewish immigration. The White Paper argued that since over 450,000 Jews had been settled in the Mandate, the terms of the Balfour Declaration had now been met and that an independent Jewish state should not be established. When the White Paper was debated in Parliament on 22–23 May 1939, many politicians objected to its central recommendations. Winston Churchill noted, '"After the period of five years no further Jewish immigration will be permitted unless the Arabs of Palestine are prepared to acquiesce in it". Now, there is the breach; there is the violation of the pledge; there is the abandonment of the Balfour Declaration; there is the end of the vision, of the hope, of the dream.' The League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission held that the White Paper was in conflict with the terms of the Mandate that had been put forth.

The outbreak of the Second World War suspended any further deliberations. It has been suggested that MacDonald and Chamberlain took that course of action in order to ensure that the situation in Palestine did not develop into a situation like that of Ireland in which two evenly-matched communities engaged in a bitter ethnic conflict during a world war.

With anti-Semitism rampant in Europe, MacDonald vainly sought to find new settlements. The White Paper was bitterly opposed by the Jews in Palestine as well as by many supporting the National Government in Britain. When it was voted on in Parliament, many government supporters such as Churchill abstained or voted against the proposals, including some Cabinet Ministers.

Opponents of the White Paper pointed out that Jews were suffering from oppression by the Nazi regimes in Germany and Austria but, given that most states, including the United States and Canada, did not accept Jewish refugees, had nowhere other than Palestine to which to emigrate. In a UK Parliamentary debate, David Lloyd George called the White Paper "an act of perfidy."

In a leader, the Manchester Guardian called it "a death sentence on tens of thousands of Central European Jews", and the Liberal MP James Rothschild stated during the parliamentary debate that "for the majority of the Jews who go to Palestine it is a question of migration or of physical extinction".

Ireland
In May 1940, Chamberlain fell and Winston Churchill formed an all-party coalition, bringing the Labour Party into the National Government for the first time. There was some speculation that their hostility might result in MacDonald being amongst the ministers dropped to make way for them (as happened to Earl de la Warr, the other National Labour minister) but instead MacDonald was retained and became Minister of Health. In June 1940, he was sent to Dublin for a series of meetings with Éamon de Valera for which he was authorised to offer the end of the Partition of Ireland if the Free State would enter the war on the Allied side. De Valera declined the offer, instead trying to persuade MacDonald to authorise sale of small arms and artillery to Ireland. The British government refused, fearing that any weapons supplied to Ireland would be captured and swell the German army following a successful Nazi invasion.

Canada
The following year his career took a different turn when he was appointed High Commissioner to Canada. Initially special legislation was passed to allow him to retain his seat in Parliament, but in 1945 the National Labour Organisation dissolved itself and MacDonald decided to retire from British politics.

Southeast Asia
After his term in Canada ended in 1946, MacDonald moved on to serve in other Imperial posts based in Singapore: as Governor-General of British territories in Southeast Asia from 1946 to 1948 and then Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia covering regional affairs as well during the communist insurrection. MacDonald's expansive duties as Commissioner-General included co-ordinating British defence policy in the region, controlling British intelligence activities, and conducting both formal and informal diplomacy with regional heads of state such as Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. MacDonald was a popular appointment to Singapore, becoming a well-known member of the art and antiques circles and participating in social activities such as the China Society of Singapore. In his honour, the MacDonald House building was constructed in 1949 in Singapore and named after him. He served as Chancellor of the University of Malaya from 1949 to 1961. He also served as High Commissioner to India from 1955 to 1960.

Later career
He served as co-chairman of the Laos Conference from 1961 to 1962, as the last Governor of Kenya Colony and the only Governor-General of Kenya between 1963 and 1964.

MacDonald received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1973.

In his later years, he served as Chancellor of the University of Durham from 1971 to 1980.

Personal life
MacDonald was a keen ornithologist and, in 1934, published the book Bird Watching at Lossiemouth privately. It was, as he noted, in a brief foreword, an expanded version of a paper he read to the London Morayshire Club one evening in the autumn of 1933.

While High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Canada, MacDonald undertook two extensive journeys, in a Grumman Goose, from Ottawa to the far northwest of Canada. He was accompanied by three senior Government officials, in August 1942 and March 1943. He chronicled the trips in a book, Down North (Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1943). The trips covered remote areas of Alberta, the Northwest Territories, the Yukon and British Columbia, going as far north as Aklavik. MacDonald's book gives a perspective of the history, geography and peoples of Canada's northwest.

MacDonald was a prolific art collector in a range of genres, most notably Chinese ceramics. He sold and donated art collections to museums across the world. His Chinese ceramic collections comprise a total of over 500 pieces with a chronological span of 2000 BCE to circa 1940 CE and incorporating representative examples of most styles of domestic and export ceramic wares. These collections are today split between the Durham University Oriental Museum, the Museum of Asian Art, Kuala Lumpur and the NUS Museum in Singapore.

In December 1946, he married Audrey Marjorie Fellowes Rowley, a Canadian war widow. They had one child, daughter Fiona (married to Bob McElwain). MacDonald also adopted his wife's two children from her first marriage, Bill and Jane Rowley. Joseph Burkholder Smith, CIA agent in Singapore, recounted that MacDonald's flirtations with Chinese women caused Rowley to decamp back to Canada.

Death
MacDonald spent the last eleven years of his life at Raspit Hill, near Ightham in Kent. In 1981 at his home, when he went outside on a frosty night to make sure that his greenhouse was closed, he suffered a heart attack and died on 11 January 1981 at the age of 79. He was buried at his family plot at Spynie Cemetery, Morayshire in Scotland.

On 9 May 2015, his widow Audrey died of natural causes in Ottawa at the age of 99 years old, three weeks before her 100th birthday.

Writings
As a young man, MacDonald aspired to be a novelist but did not succeed in publishing any of his writings of fiction. He wrote a number of articles for British and Canadian newspapers in the 1920s, including a series describing his travels in Japan, China and Korea in 1929. Following the assumption of his diplomatic career in 1941, MacDonald began writing factual accounts of the people, places and wildlife he encountered. He authored the following published works:

 * Down North (1943: a description of his travels as High Commissioner to Canada)
 * Birds of Brewery Creek (1947: a bird-watching diary regarded by US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles as one of the best books on the subject of North American ornithology)
 * Borneo People (1956: an account of MacDonald's friendship with the Dayak peoples of Borneo including Iban leader Temenggong Koh Anak Jubang)
 * Angkor (1958: one of the first English-language and systematically photographed guides to the Cambodian temple complex at Angkor Wat)
 * Birds in My Indian Garden (1960: containing many black-and-white images)
 * Birds in the Sun (1962: a guide to the birds of South Asia, with colour photography by MacDonald's friend Christina Loke)
 * Treasure of Kenya (1965: another collaboration with Christina Loke which aimed to attract support amongst a British audience for wildlife conservation in Kenya. This book attracted the gratitude of the Kenyan government for MacDonald's ecological commitment)
 * People and Places (1969: an anecdotal autobiography)
 * Titans and Others (1972: MacDonald's reflections on his friendships or associations with some of the key figures of the twentieth century, including Jomo Kenyatta and Norodom Sihanouk)
 * Inside China (1980: partly an introductory history of China, but more an account of his travels through China between the 1920s and 1970s)
 * The Pleasures and Pains of Collecting (2018: MacDonald's memoir as an art collector, rejected by his publisher in his lifetime but published posthumously by the Friends of the Oriental Museum, Durham University, and illustrating key objects from MacDonald's art collections)
 * Constant Surprise (unpublished autobiography – held at Durham University Library Archives)

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Jim Peters (politician)

James Leonard Peters (born 1937) is a New Zealand educator and politician. Born in Kawakawa, he is of Ngāti Wai and Clan McInnes descent.

He went to school at Whananaki Primary and Wesley College in Auckland. Further education followed at the University of Auckland (BA in History and Political Studies) and Auckland Teachers Training College (Diploma of Teaching).

He is a member of the New Zealand First party, which is led by his younger brother Winston Peters. Jim Peters entered Parliament as a list MP in the 2002 election, having previously served as the Chairperson on the Northland Regional Council. Before entering politics he was a high school teacher. Formerly he was HOD History, Geography and Social Studies at Mount Albert Grammar School. From 1987 to mid-2002 he was Principal of Northland College in Kaikohe. He lost his list seat in the 2005 election after New Zealand First's share of the party vote declined from its 2002 result. He was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Maori) of the University of Auckland in 2006.

In February 2008 he could have re-entered Parliament as a New Zealand First list MP after the resignation of Brian Donnelly, but stood aside in favour of Dail Jones.

In the 2008 New Year Honours, Peters was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to local-body affairs, education, and the community.

Three members of his family, the others being his brothers Ian Peters and Winston Peters, have been Members of Parliament in New Zealand. Another brother, Ron Peters, stood for New Zealand First in Hobson in 1993, coming third; and for Northland in 1996, coming second.

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Talk:Mail and wire fraud

Why crime beyond underlying fraud?
What's the intent behind making this an extra crime beyond the underlying fraud itself? -- 84.57.69.121 09:55, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Yes, European law systems can do without any of this, and I don't think anyone feels it is needed at all. Why have US lawmakers introduced this? (and why is it still there?) --Anvilaquarius (talk) 15:03, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * It makes the fraudulent activity a federal crime rather than a state crime. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 19:20, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

Cover-all?
I have a different question, it seems that I've seen many times where wire fraud IS the crime in and of itself charged to a person, in fact, it is the main thing charged to all kinds of white collar crimes. Like a sort of cover-all. What gives?

"limit further use of this loophole"?
The article says Congress promptly amended the copyright law to limit further use of this loophole.

It's unclear what this mean. Did Congress act to prevent prosecutors from charging wire fraud when no underlying fraud could be proven? Or did it act to prevent defendants from claiming that they could not be charged under wire fraud when no underlying fraud could be proven? -- Dan Griscom (talk) 01:40, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

 * The No Electronic Theft Act (NET) made reproduction of copyrighted material a criminal offense without regard to whether the accused received a financial benefit if the retail value of the reproduced copyrighted materials exceeds $1000.00. 17 U.S.C. § 506(a)(2)(1997). The article seems to focus exclusively on wire fraud as it relates to copyright infringement. Aren't readers looking for a more general discussion? Eudemis (talk) 02:25, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

 * I'm searching for a reference that this law is sometimes used as an elastic clause where no other law seems to fit. See the critical art enseble case. Maybe that was meant by the use of the word loophole in the article? --Panoramedia (talk) 21:12, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

German language link
The Link to the German language article points to "Überweisungsbetrug", which has very little to do with wire fraud (it is in fact a specific term for defrauding money using forged transfer orders). To the best of my knowledge there is no "wire fraud" statute in Germany or other German speaking countries. I think, this link should be removed. Mikadokratie (talk) 08:40, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Indeed. Wire fraud != Bank transfer fraud

This article is about committing fraud using electronic communication. This is not the same as committing fraud by bank transfer. For this reason, I am removing the interwikilink to Überweisungsbetrug. -- Dynam1te3 (talk) 12:36, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Is This a Sentence?
The clump of words that begins, "According to Neder v. United States..." is not a sentence. At least not a sentence that can be clearly understood. Could it be that the comma near the end needs to be moved? My knowledge of the law and legal punctuation is lacking. Can someone help here? Rainbow-five (talk) 19:19, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

an example of wire fraud?
http://www.causes.com/causes/14561-save-the-baltic-sea ostensibly asking money for the Baltic sea, yet actually gathering cash for the US WWF to do work on tigers, whales (of which there are none in the Baltic Sea) etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.113.96.60 (talk) 09:43, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

US-centric rubbish
The main entry for mail fraud redirects here, even though this article is blatantly about just one country and not mail fraud in general. The main entry should be a list of scams, much like list of confidence tricks, Internet fraud and telemarketing fraud. K7L (talk) 17:01, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

I looked at the history of this article and it looked like a good page before. I wonder who did all this Homeless Canadian (talk) 18:06, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

It happened when someone decided to merge mail fraud and wire fraud and did a terrible job at it. I might fix it later. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/457372093 Homeless Canadian (talk) 18:10, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

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I've just done a little bit for Auckland so far. Thoughts on how much details we should go into? Listing every candidate in every election will take a lot of space but will be complete. Perhaps only winning candidates for non-mayoral votes (and only the top few there) ?

 * I think the article should mention mayoral contests and notable councillors, for the sake of space. And it would be nice to make an attempt at cleaning the article up before nominations for this year's elections close (late July). Kripto 02:50, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

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Pinova

'Pinova' is a German apple cultivar. It was created in 1965 at the Institut für Obstforschung of Dresden–Pillnitz in Saxony which at that time was in the German Democratic Republic. After Germany was re-united in 1990, the rights to the cultivar passed to the Free State of Saxony.

'Pinova' is a hybrid between 'Clivia' and 'Golden Delicious'. 'Clivia' is a hybrid of 'Geheimrat Dr. Oldenburg' and 'Cox's Orange Pippin'. 'Pinova' may also be called 'Corail', Piñata® or 'Sonata'.

Characteristics
'Pinova' has a high fruit yield, with little tendency towards biennial bearing; it has good resistance to scab and is a good pollenizer for many varieties. The fruit stores well. It is juicy and crisp, and has some of the taste of Cox's, the coloration of Oldenburg and the shape of 'Golden Delicious'. The fruit is picked early in October.

'Pinova' is planted commercially in Europe. In the United States it is patented, and may be sold under the brand-name "Piñata".

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Fennoscandia

Fennoscandia (Finnish, Swedish and Fennoskandia; Фенноскандия), or the Fennoscandian Peninsula, is a peninsula in Europe which includes the Scandinavian and Kola peninsulas, mainland Finland, and Karelia. Administratively, this roughly encompasses the mainlands of Finland, Norway and Sweden, as well as Murmansk Oblast, much of the Republic of Karelia, and parts of northern Leningrad Oblast in Russia.

Its name comes from the Latin words Fennia (Finland) and Scandia (Scandinavia). The term was first used by the Finnish geologist Wilhelm Ramsay in 1898.

Geologically, the area is distinct because its bedrock is Archean granite and gneiss with very little limestone, in contrast to adjacent areas in Europe.

The similar term Fenno-Scandinavia is sometimes used for Fennoscandia. Both terms are sometimes used in English to refer to a cultural or political grouping of Finland with Sweden, Norway and Denmark (the latter country is closely connected culturally and politically, but is not part of the Fennoscandian Peninsula), which is a subset of the Nordic countries.

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User:Sasha Kopf

Sasha Niobe Oakling Woodsia Kopf, Esq., has mostly contributed to articles about tapirs, including the Malayan Tapir and the Mountain Tapir, and articles about ancient Greek plays, including The Bacchae, and The Trojan Women. She has also worked on the article on the Blue Scholars and started the articles on Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazousae, Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Helen, Alcestis, Electra, and the U.S. Supreme Court case Geduldig v. Aiello.

She has added images to the page on Celtic knots, including [[media:Sasha_Kopf%27s_Celtic_knot_ring.jpg|this one]] and [[media:Celtic knot two-part circle horizontal.jpg|this one]].

Ms. Kopf is a civil rights attorney in Boston, Massachusetts, and earned her juris doctor from Northeastern University School of Law in 2009.

Ms. Kopf was born in Northampton, Massachusetts and spent several years living in Seattle, Washington (the Eastlake neighborhood) before returning to the east coast in 2006. She now resides in the Boston area with Michael Boyle. Her parents are Linda Kopf and Silas Kopf.

She graduated from Princeton University in 2002 where she majored in English with a concentration in theater and a minor in spelling (Program 6). Between college and law school, she worked extensively with the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker-based peace and social justice organization.

Ms. Kopf loves animals, sewing, reading, writing, and rioting. She also holds the title of Miss America in Perpetuity.

External Link
Tapir Type, Sasha Kopf's website

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Matt Robson

Matthew Peter Robson (born 5 January 1950) is a New Zealand politician. He was deputy leader of the Progressive Party, and served in the Parliament from 1996 to 2005, first as a member of the Alliance, then as a Progressive.

Early life
Robson was born in Brisbane, Australia. He attained an MA (Hons) in Political Studies and later studied law, and worked both as a lawyer and a teacher. He also spent three years in the Netherlands as a technical editor.

Robson was originally a member of the Labour Party, holding several positions within the party organisation. In 1981 he became chairman of Labour's electorate committee and was campaign manager to Colin Moyle in the seat at the  before resigning as chairman and from the party itself in 1989, taking almost 300 members with him. He was deeply opposed to the neo-liberal economic policies of Roger Douglas, the Labour Party's Minister of Finance, and when Jim Anderton, a Labour MP, quit the party, Robson followed him. Robson was heavily involved in the establishment of Anderton's NewLabour Party (NLP), which later became the core of the Alliance. He was NLP spokesperson for industrial relations and immigration. He contested the electorate for NewLabour in the. At the 1992 local-body elections he put himself forward as a candidate for the Maungakiekie ward of the Auckland City Council. Standing as an Alliance candidate (the NLP was a component party of the Alliance) he was unsuccessful.

In December 1992, following the Wellington Central by-election, Robson was designated NLP spokesperson for defence to replace Keith Locke whom Anderton considered too left-wing. Later he was the Alliance candidate for in the. In 1994 when Anderton briefly resigned as Alliance leader, and co-deputy leader Sandra Lee was temporarily elevated to the leadership, Robson was elected her temporary replacement co-deputy leader beating Democrats leader John Wright for the position. He also became acting president of NewLabour during Anderton's absence between May and August 1995.

Member of Parliament
Robson was elected to Parliament as an Alliance list MP in the, and again in the , having stood in , and coming in third place at both elections. In the Labour-Alliance coalition government (1999–2002), Robson was Minister of Corrections, Minister for Courts, Minister for Land Information, and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs (with responsibility for foreign aid). Towards the end of 1999, however, the Alliance began to collapse, with a rift opening between the party organisation and its parliamentary leadership. In this dispute, Robson sided with the parliamentary leader, Anderton. When Anderton finally left the Alliance and established the Progressive Coalition (later renamed as the Progressive Party), Robson followed him and became the new party's deputy leader. In the, the Progressives only won 1.7% of the vote. However, Anderton easily held onto his seat, allowing Robson (standing in, where he came fifth), as the 2nd-ranked person on the Progressive list, to return to Parliament. However, the Progressives' strength was considerably weaker compared to that of the Alliance in 1999, so Robson lost his cabinet posts.

Robson has a relatively high public profile, compared to the size of his party, and is known for his views on foreign affairs and justice. Along with the Green Party's Keith Locke, Robson campaigned on behalf of detained asylum-seeker Ahmed Zaoui. In 2002, Robson introduced a Private Member's bill providing for four weeks of paid annual leave for all workers, a proposal that the Labour Party initially opposed. Robson's legislation, however, ultimately forced Labour to either vote in favour of the bill or risk alienating its trade union supporters, who vociferously advocated it. The legislation was passed into law with Labour's support and took effect in 2007. Robson also introduced legislation to raise the minimum alcohol purchasing age to 20, and in Parliament espoused policies to combat drug and alcohol abuse.

In the, the Progressive vote collapsed further, and this time was not enough for Robson to remain in Parliament. He returned to practising law. In the he was again a candidate in, but did poorly, finishing fifth, with 2.22% of the vote. The Progressives received just under one percent of the party vote, not enough for Robson to be returned to Parliament. At the 2009 Mount Albert by-election Robson campaigned for Labour candidate David Shearer.

On 14 July 2022, Robson had the rare distinction of appearing twice, in positions 47 and 72, in the list of politicians, academics, activists promoting Russian propaganda published by the Ukraine Government.

Personal life
Despite having achieved high political office in New Zealand, Robson did not become a naturalised citizen until 2000. Under the terms of New Zealand's Electoral Act 1993, anyone permanently resident before August 1975 has the right to vote and stand for election.

Robson is married to Petronella Townsend who was an influential organisational figure in the Alliance and Progressive parties. At the she was a Progressive list candidate and stood in the seat of.

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User:Steve Miller~enwiki

Aloha! If you would like to contact me, you could. Please send an email to SteveMillerBlues(at )aol.com.

Articles I have edited or I do have thoughts on are:
 * Declaration...[].
 * Talk:Instrument
 * Otto von Guericke
 * Talk Atmospheric Pressure
 * Talk Rhythm []
 * Otto Gericke video link added []
 * library (computer science)
 * Bernoulli's Principle
 * Switching of Intake-manifold Length (Flight Simulator); always be trained
 * Pearl Drummers Forum
 * University of Science and Technology Beijing
 * Document_Object_Model
 * General Tso's Chicken (17:04, 20 January 2007 (UTC) )
 * Floating Point (12:52, 23 October 2007 (UTC) )

 * [] (Tafelbrötchen )
 * [] (Mercedes-Benz Lkw )
 * [] (Mercedes-Benz Lkw )

 * Berlin (English )
 * Berlin (Deutsch )
 * still discussing
 * another sample

 * Start Me Up|

 * Lincoln Town Car|

 * Jefferson, Thomas third President of the United States
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCM, BCM, in automotive electronics added

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User talk:Barnaby dawson/deleted messages

After the first section was posted User:AmyNelson deleted the material posted along with other posts on her talk page. I then left the second message. This second message was also deleted from her talk page.

Hello Amy Nelson
Hello, I've seen you around doing some good work. I'm glad you've become a wikipedian partly because the more the merrier but also because wikipedia needs to strive to eliminate bias and the comment on Baby transport above (and the articles you've created) show that you are helping to fill in some neglected topics. I'd like to give you a couple of hints to help you along your way:

 * I think that you are listing too many articles for deletion. For instance: Adolfas Mekas (Do you know that this person is not notable? - From the text it seems that this person has directed films so is not completely non-notable), Palmerston forts (This article is a stub but stubs can grow and you shouldn't delete articles just because they are stubs), Medtronic Incorporated (This article is biased but is about a notable entity (a fortune 500 company) and should be left as a stub for others to expand (I've removed the POV from it)).
 * You should note that pages should be only earmarked for deletion(take a look) if there is no other sensible course of action to take on them. Remember most articles started as stubs.  That's not to say that there aren't ever good candidates for deletion Votes for deletion/Killing a scottish person within the walls of canterbury, England, with a bow if they are wearing a kilt is a good example.
 * Secondly it is not good etiquette to delete comments on your own user page. This is because some people have deleted complaints about their own behaviour on wikipedia and people think that any complaints/comments should be out in the open.  It is safer to archive the comments on a sub page of your user page.  This stops them making your user page too bloated but allows people who want to see past comments to do so without having to use the page history (which is clumsy for this purpose).  Of course the comments on your page were not complaints but the point still stands.

Sorry to be so negative here (but hey everyones new once). Do keep up the good work on creating new articles. Just be less trigger happy with the delete tag. Barnaby dawson 09:27, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Deleting comments on your talk page
I should point out the wikipage Avoiding common mistakes. This page is essentially a list of rules that others expect you to abide by. The second to last rule is relevent to talk pages. While it's not the case that you can never delete material from your user page it is not considered acceptable to do so to new comments. I wouldn't worry too much about undeleting the comments you have already deleted but I would ask respectfully that you refrain from deleting any further comments (especially those critical of yourself). If you continue to delete critical comments on this page you may find that others take offense in which case they may try to get you banned. Barnaby dawson 10:18, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)


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Category talk:Writers from California

Old discussion of proper contents of this category
I removed Manuel Castells from this list, because

(1) he is a resident of California, but doesn't seem to identify himself as Californian,

(2) and more important: I doubt the usefulness of a list of writers by place that takes everyone into who is located there, may s/he write fiction or science, may s/he live there his/her life long or only stay for a while, and, especially, may s/he write about California or not. In a category "California writers" I would expect writers writing about California (like Ursula K. Le Guin and Kim Stanley Robinson), not residents of California.

-- till we ☼ ☽ | Talk 10:15, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * In regards to #2 above, when it comes to occupational categories for places, it refers to people who hail from and/or identify with that place regardless of the actual profession. For example, the category "California scientists" would obviously not be just scientists who study California related topics (eg the ecosystems of California).  It would be scientists who are from California.  Likewise, the category "American writers" refers to writers who are from America, and no about writers who write about America.

 * Thus your suggested definition doesn't comply with the standard meanings of similar categories. "California writers" refers to anyone who is both a writer AND from California, either by virute of being born there or by living there a considerable portion of time.

 * Also, please note that place based categories aren't exclusive. For example, a writer who is born and raised in Alabama but who spends the remainder of his life in California could be placed under both Alabama writers AND California writers.  There's nothing preventing people from appearing in multiple categories of that type. Dugwiki 20:40, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

 * P.S. I also should point out that Category:Calfornia writers is also a subcategory of Category:California people by occupation, which is further indication that it is writers who live(d) in California. Dugwiki 20:50, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Dugwiki and completely disagree that the point of these pages should be to list writers who write about the state. Virtually every printed bibliography or anthology of writers with a geographic arrangement is based on the residency of the authors. See: With a few exceptions, these sources are all listing authors who lived in the state. I think, if anything, there should be separate Wikipedia articles for "Literature about California," "Literature about Texas," etc. If we base these states lists on literature about, then some states will have little to include. Or perhaps an author writes one book about California, but most of her other works are about outer space. Does that qualify her for inclusion more than an author who lived their whole life in California, but never wrote explicitly about it. I think some period of residency is the only logical way to organize these state lists. Steven.Harris (T 02:21, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The Mississippi Writers Page (look at Appendix A)
 * James B Lloyd. Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1981.
 * Thomas Daniel Young. Tennessee Writers. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981.
 * Carol Smallwood. Michigan Authors. Hillsdale, MI: Hillsdale Educational Publishers, 1993.

Individuals to include in this category
Of course, no list like this one can be complete, but the omissions that jump out at me on a first reading are Bret Harte (who resided in California while he wrote about it), John Muir and Robinson Jeffers (who spent their adult lives in California). 71.32.65.13 07:21, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I just added Harte and Jeffers. Muir had been taken care of already. It seems that some additional subcategories would be appropriate due to the length of this list, but I like the idea of Harte being categorized with California instead of San Francisco or some other location, since he wrote about many Califoornia locales.--Hjal (talk) 18:35, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

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Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California which specializes in seed stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private companies across technology sectors. the firm had approximately US$85 billion in assets under management.

Sequoia is an umbrella brand for three different venture entities: one focused on the United States and Europe, another on India and Southeast Asia, and a third on China.

Notable successful investments made by the firm include Apple, ByteDance, and Cisco.

History
Sequoia was founded by Don Valentine in 1972 in Menlo Park, California, at a time when the state's venture capital industry was just beginning to develop.

Sequoia formed its first venture capital fund in 1974, and was an early investor in Atari the next year. In 1978, Sequoia became one of the first investors in Apple. Partners Doug Leone and Michael Moritz assumed leadership of the firm in 1996.

In 1999, Sequoia established a dedicated investment fund for Israeli startups. In 2005, Sequoia Capital China was established, later followed by Sequoia Capital India.

In 2012, Moritz took a step back from the day-to-day operations of the firm. Leone became Global Managing Partner. Jim Goetz led Sequoia's US business from 2012 until 2017, when he was succeeded by Roelof Botha.

In 2016, Sequoia hired Jess Lee, making her the first female investing partner in the United States in the firm's history.

In 2019, it was the most active VC fund company in India.

In March 2020, Sequoia announced it would hire Luciana Lixandru as its first partner based in Europe.

In October 2021, Sequoia announced it would implement a new fund structure for its U.S. and European business that would allow it to remain involved with companies after their public market debuts.

In March 2022, The Information reported that Sequoia Capital China was raising an $8 billion fund to invest in Chinese tech companies.

Following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in March 2023, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation had backstopped Sequoia's $1billion in deposits in the bank.

In June 2023, Sequoia announced plans to break up into three entities citing complications running a decentralized global investment business in the middle of geopolitical tensions. Following the separation, expected to complete by March 2024, the Chinese business led by Neil Shen would be called HongShan ("sequoia" in Mandarin) and the Indian and Southeast Asia arm would be named Peak XV Partners. The U.S. and Europe unit would retain the Sequoia name. In July 2023, Sequoia announced to cut one-third of its talent staff as part of an organizational restructuring. In October 2023, the United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party announced a probe into Sequoia Capital's investments in China.

As of at least 2024, Sequoia is the largest investor in China's consumer internet sector. It has often used a strategy of investing in several competitors in the same sector and then later pushing for their consolidation. According to Chinese media, Sequoia was one of the major influences in mergers between Meituan and Dianping, between Uber China and Didi, and between VShop and Lefenghui.

Investments
Sequoia Capital is structured as a limited liability company. Investors, referred to as limited partners, contribute money to a fund that the firm's general partners then invest in business ventures. Its limited partners have primarily been university endowments, charitable foundations, and other large institutions.

Sequoia specializes in seed stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private technology companies, including those in the clean tech, consumer internet, crypto, financial services, healthcare, mobile, and robotics sectors. The firm has been often recognized for its strong track record of early investments. The firm has also distinguished itself from other top venture capital firms by diversifying its investments and not just focusing on U.S. early-stage venture capital.

Sequoia is an umbrella brand for three different venture entities: one focused on the U.S. and Europe, another on India and Southeast Asia, and a third on China. Following the June 2023 announcement to make the three entities independent, from 2024 the ventures would no longer share investors or profits.

A notable opportunity missed by Sequoia was the failure to invest in Facebook in its early days c. 2005; John Naughton suggested that this failure led to "fear of missing out" and may have contributed to Sequoia's investing heavily in FTX in 2022, prior to its collapse in 2023.

In 2019, Sequoia made more new seed-stage investments than Series A deals. That same year, Hurun Research Institute identified Sequoia as the world's top unicorn investor, noting it had invested in one in five of all private companies valued at $1 billion or more.

In July 2021, Sequoia published a piece about "the Latin American startup opportunity" that signaled it would increase its focus there.

In October 2021, Sequoia announced the Sequoia Capital Fund, a new fund structure for its U.S. and European business. The fund structure is unique for VC funds as they are typically funds with a 10-year fund cycle instead of an open-ended evergreen fund. The Sequoia fund will no longer need to sell or distribute stock as in the usual VC fund cycle. Instead, limited partners who want liquidity can pull money out of the fund. Sequoia also announced it would become a RIA which would allow the firm more flexibility in its investments.

In February 2022, Sequoia raised a $600 million Sequoia Crypto Fund. As one of the first sub-funds of Sequoia Capital Fund, the crypto fund will mainly invest in cryptocurrencies traded on third-party exchanges.

In June 2022, Sequoia announced that it had raised $2.85 billion in additional funds to invest in India and Southeast Asia. The amount of funds raised is also the largest to date for the company in both India and Southeast Asia.

In June 2023, the firm led a Seed round funding of $5.7 million for Defense startup, Mach Industries.

In July 2023, it reduced the size of its cryptocurrency fund from $585 million to $200 million, and shifted focus to young start-ups after an industry crash.

In 2023, Sequoia launched its Open Source Fellowship to fund up to three open source developers annually via a equity-free fellowship.

In July 2024, the firm led a Series B funding round funding of $77M million for Fireworks AI.

Investment in FTX
Sequoia Capital along with other notable venture capital investors made an investment in the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, founded by Sam Bankman-Fried. Sequoia was very enthusiastic about FTX, and published an article which was a glowing tribute to Bankman-Fried (since deleted) on its website on 22 September 2022.

FTX failed in 2023, with about $8 billion of investors' money missing, and Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud. The value of Sequoia's investment in FTX was ultimately written down to $0; it is estimated that they lost $214 million on their investment. The company released a notice to investors, stating that their stake in FTX represented a small amount of their investment portfolio. They also removed the profile of Bankman-Fried from their website.

Programs and partnerships
In 2009, Sequoia launched its scout program, which functions as an individual investor network that provides founders and other individuals with capital to invest in promising early-stage startups. Sequoia Scouts have invested in over 1,000 companies. Sequoia was the first venture capital firm to offer a scout program, and the model has since been emulated by others in the industry.

In December 2020, Sequoia expanded the scout program to Europe.

In 2021, Sequoia partnered on the BLCK VC Scout Network to provide training and education to current and aspiring Black scouts.

In March 2022, Sequoia launched Arc, a structured program in which participants receive $1 million in funding to work with Sequoia partners in both London and Silicon Valley.

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Eastern University (United States)

Eastern University (EU) is a private Christian university in the St. Davids, Pennsylvania area, with additional locations in Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The university offers undergraduate, graduate, and seminary programs. Eastern University is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA and has an interdenominational student body, faculty and administration.

History
The university has its origins in the foundation of Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1925 in Philadelphia by six Conservative Baptist pastors from the American Baptist Publication Society. In 1932, a collegiate department was founded. The school became a separate institution in 1952 and moved to its present St. Davids location, taking the name Eastern Baptist College. In 1972, it was renamed Eastern College. In 2001, the Pennsylvania Department of Education granted the institution university status and it was renamed Eastern University. In 2004, the institution's Board voted to acquire its previous parent institution and Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary became a subsidiary of Eastern University. The following year, the seminary changed its name to Palmer Theological Seminary in honor of its longest serving president, Gordon Palmer (1936–48).

Campus
The main campus is on 114 acres just west of Philadelphia. It is specifically in Radnor Township. It has a St. Davids postal address, but is outside of (though adjacent to) the St. Davids census-designated place.

It was originally a private estate, named Walmarthon, which was owned by leather tanning businessman Charles S. Walton. The size of the campus has expanded through purchases of surrounding buildings and land. The original buildings on campus were designed by locally renowned architect David Knickerbacker Boyd, in the Mediterranean style.

Warner Memorial Library is housed in the Harold Howard Center. The Mazie Hall African American History Room contains books and memorabilia from a local educator. The Edison Room houses several drawings and artifacts which belonged to Thomas Edison.

The Bradstreet Observatory consists of twin 14.5-foot diameter domes that house 16” diameter Meade LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes. This addition to Eastern’s facilities created opportunities for astronomical work and research done on campus.

In addition to the main campus in St. Davids, Eastern has additional sites in Pennsylvania: Center City, Philadelphia; City Avenue, Philadelphia; and Harrisburg.

Academics
Eastern University offers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees in more than 100 areas of study. The university also offers undergraduate, graduate and noncredit certificates. Academic programs at the institution are housed in seven schools:

 * College of Arts and Humanities
 * College of Business and Leadership
 * College of Education
 * College of Health and Sciences
 * Palmer Theological Seminary
 * Templeton Honors College
 * Esperanza College

Accreditation
Eastern University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Several programs are also accredited:

 * Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP)
 * Association of Theological Schools in the U.S. and Canada
 * Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs
 * Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education
 * Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
 * Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) for the Baccalaureate Major in Social Work
 * Master’s in Psychology and Counseling Accreditation Council (MPCAC)
 * Association for Behavior Analysis International (Verified Course Sequence for Board Certified Behavior Analysts)
 * American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

Student media
The Waltonian is Eastern University’s student-run newspaper. It is published monthly, and covers university, national, and international news.

Inklings is Eastern University's student-run literary magazine. It is published annually and features poetry, short stories, and photography.

Eastern is the magazine of Eastern University. It serves as a connection between the campus community of students, faculty, staff and administration and its alumni, trustees, friends, donors, parents and neighbors.

Athletics
The school's sports teams are called the Eagles and are Division III members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Eastern University joined the Middle Atlantic Conferences (commonly referred to as the MAC) in 2008.

Sports include men's and women's soccer, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's volleyball, men's and women's lacrosse, men's baseball, women's field hockey, women's softball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's golf, and cross country. Eastern began fielding a football team in 2022 as an NCAA Division III independent and will begin playing in the MAC in 2023.

In 2002, senior Andrea Collesidis broke an NCAA scoring record for women's lacrosse.

Alumni

 * Morgan Hikaru Aiken, professional basketball player
 * Imani Barbarin, writer and disability rights activist
 * Tony Campolo, sociologist and pastor
 * Shane Claiborne, author, prominent figure in New Monasticism movement, founder of The Simple Way
 * Carolivia Herron, scholar of African-American Judaica
 * Willie J. Hill Jr., bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church
 * Doug Mastriano, politician and retired military officer
 * Jamie Moffett, film director, producer, and social activist
 * Richard Muenz, actor and singer
 * Marvin Rees, mayor of Bristol, England
 * Brandon 'Scoop B' Robinson, sports writer, radio host, television personality most notably with CBS Sports Radio
 * Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative
 * Regina Young, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Faculty

 * Phillip Cary, philosophy professor, philosopher, Augustine scholar, and author
 * Peter Enns, history of religions professor, scholar, author
 * Wilson Goode, professor emeritus and former mayor of Philadelphia
 * Christopher Hall, emeritus professor, Episcopalian theologian
 * Ron Sider, professor, activist, author, and founder/president emeritus of Evangelicals for Social Action

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